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hK - The Weekly Star. PUBLISHED AT fflLBINOIOS, N . C ., ' AT jl.00 A YEAIt, IH ADVANCE. ISSSSSSSSS8S3SSSS SSS3SS3SS8SS83SS3 8SSS338383S883SS8 33SSSSSSSSSSS83SS S28S88S8S8SSSSSSS oi m e ' gj g? s K SSSS qinore i 8888888S8S8S8S888 gggggSSSSSSSSSSS S8SS88888 ggg88S8S88888S888 o ;. - s 5 s s i s S 5 s s s s s s rnn'cred at the Post Office atlWllmlngton, N. C, as Second Class Matter J . "SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. I Tho subscription price of the Weeklt Star is as follows i I; Single Copy l year, postage paid, f 1.00 " o months - .eu " 3 monthi " " .SO Villi TARIFF IN THE SENATE. ' When we were reading the out-j line report of Senator Sherman's speech ; we thought this; how speciousand how deceptive! It is just that kind of talk that will de-t ceive people who have not Btudiedj the Tariff and know but little of the history of parties, their promises and their acts. It is the artful talk of a cunning', unscrupulous politician. Ho essays to make a case against the President, and yet the fact glaring startling,, impressive remains that the Treasury of the United States is overflowing with moneys taken from the people by taxation and that the surplus is accumulating at the rate of 120,000,000 a year. Mr. Sherj man cannot get over so serious a fact as that. He may bring what ever charges he may please against the shortcomings and siua of omis sion of the Democracy but there re mains the great tax upon the energies and pockets of the people, and when there is no real use for the money. He -proposes to get rid of the surplus in the old Republican way -by extravagant and wasteful outlay. His panacea is to pay out unler the Blair bill millions wrung from tEe people by taxes; to rob the Treasury of still greater millions un der the form of a pension law, thus compelling the South to help take care not only of the men who fought them, but of the bummers and bounty-j ampers and frauds. ;j j Mr. Sherman thinks the true policy is to depend upon competition among home producers. The quinine business will beautifully illustrate this. Under the great tax levied , upon this absolute necessity the poor man's friend there were but three quinine factories in the United States, and the three were all con trolled by one Philadelphia house. Mark that. Here we have Sherman's ideaprecisely. Rely upon home com petition. But does not every man of sense know ; that railroads, tele graphic lines, combinations of all kinds, business of many: sorts, all pool their issues and fix prices to their own advantage? Nay, is it not known that there are all manner ot so-called "Trusts," by which the people are cheated and oppressed? Arenot the Northern papers filled with accounts of these villainous "Trusts" that are engines of robbery and rascality ? j The three quinine factories made the drug and it was sold as high as $3.50 wholesale . by the ounce. We .have known it to sell in Wilmington for $5 an ounce. The thirteen foreign lactones were shut out, according to the I Sherman idea for he sas "he preferred a policy of" re ducing prices by home com petition . rather than by foreign competition," and they could not sell the drng in the American market. The result is known. The home competition simply meant home monopoly, 'that was all. Quinine can now be bought for 50 cents an ounce wholesale. It has been down to 35 cents, we think. j What brought this about? ''Home oompetititiori," think you ? Not a bit of it. It was "foreign competi tion" bo distasteful to the Sherman tribe that proved the poor man's friend ' and -help. As Boon as the Tariff on quinine was removed he price fell rapidly. It soon could; be bought at one-fourth the old price. But the Republican croakers swore it would ruin the business and de oy the "home" product. ' jj, ' So far from this, there are ten new factories in operation in. this country thirteen in alL The quantity of flnimne made is very, much greater than it was under the high Tariff Jounty. It is "foreign competition" tfcat has done the work; for the la borers of the country and relieved them of the wrongs of monopoly and "trusts." ! Senator Voorhees made an excel tont speech on the Tariff .While his P06itioo was eminently sensible and just, he said some excellent things that will do to remember. For in stance, of the High Tariff he said : "It was a crime national ;in its propor tions, gigantic in its strength, omnipresent ' "3 visitation and brutal in its rapacity." A good motto for a transparency. Again the Indianian said: f ! TP- VOL. XIX. "There was in the Republican press and among Republican politicians a determined, persistent and brazen campaign of menda city on this subject, and field work of the Republican party, day by day, morning, noon and night, until the frosts of next November came to wither and blast alike their falsehoods and their hopes." j ( Here Is a warning, but it will fall on sealed ears. He warned against the shallow and insincere cry of the monopolists and their political instru ments,the all-devouring demagogues, and said that their resistance of Dem ocratic efforts to readjust and reduce the Tariff was "only made to divert public attention from the evil designs and schemes of plunder of which they were the victims.? Pointing to the feculence and vice of the times and the dashing effrontery of plutocrats and nabobs Mr. Voorhees said: "In the present age of swollen pretence, of shallow aristocracy and of gilded vulgar ity, the splendid utterances of the Presi dent's message fell on the minds of the peo nle as a token, as a promise of relief, reform and redemption from one who had never broken a pledge or forgotten public duty. The President had declared for the lowly and oppressed"; i -j- I "A brazen campaign of mendacity" is good. Of the manufacturers of that portion of them who in their al mighty greed and their deadened sense of right and justice were still clamoring for the oppression of the many for their peculiar and sole ben efit the able Senator said; "If it were once clearly understood that manufacturers as a class demanded that thev be enriched by . means of fraudulent- taxes, thai they accept the guidance of the leaders of the Republican party and Join in their "praise, then, indeed, perils would en viron the manufacturing interests of the country such as were never known before." It is the galled jade that winces. Itjis,because the pressure of truth, as set forth by the President, is felt so keenly that monopoly cries out. Its unseemly Inst; its comorant and un satisfying appetite ; its towering, "unjust, selfisbjaverweening avarice" are in danger and the inflated capital ists and their flexible and accommo dating instruments in politics curse Cleveland with a mighty uproar as the Ephesians blasted Paul with their maledictions: -j " Moreover ye i see and j hear, that not alone at Ephesus, ! but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people. So that not only this, our craft, is in danger to be set at naught: but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnifi cence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth." ' GOOD IF TKCEJ We hope j the Louisville Courier- Journal is correct in what it says of Mr. Randall, the marplot of Democ racy in the past. It is known to all who have knowledge of Congres sional doings that he has been a very consistent and obdurate op poser of all attempts to reduce and reform the burdensome, immoral, unequal War Tariff. He has been, however, clothed with great powers by Speak er Carlisle by placing him at the head of the great Appropriations Committee. It was a big error to do this, we ' have , never doubted. Ad miring Speaker Carlisle no little we have had and can have no sympathy with each fa timeserving act. He has again repeated the same act by reappointing Mr. Randall. Now we hope the Courier' Journal is correct insaying: .j ... j "But, notwithstanding Mr. Randall's somewhat ostentatious disavowal of having entered into any agreement with the lead ers of the party to which he professes to be long a disavowal creditable neither to his discernment nor loyalty it can be stated .on positive authority, that, from the begin ning of the session, he has talked both to the President and to Mr. Carlise like a Democrat who wants to do his duty. On this point we shall see what we shall see. One thing is certain, Mr. Randall can no loDger masquerade as a Democrat, wnilst serving the Republicans and kniting the Democrats." , . j If Randall will no longer act with the Republican in fighting all Dem ocratic efforts to reduce taxation and readjust the Tariff system, but will in good faith co operate with the moderate but honest Reformers, his appointment to tbe important Chair manship may be overlooked by an oppressed people.' Bat if Randall should continue his old game, then the Speaker should be held to a stern accountability. Unless he had as surances from Randall that he would no longer . play the disgraceful roll of traitor on the Democratic stage, his selection of the Pennsylvanian Protectionist was without excuse or justification.! As the Courier Jour nal sayB, shall see." " We shall see what we The willingness of the ; Atlantic Coast Line to run weekly excursions to Wilmington at half fare is very gratifying, shows a kind and oblig ing spirit, and must be of very gen uine benefit to the trade. We hope the results will be in every way sat isfactory, and to that end it is expect ed that the people living along the line will avail themselves of the low rates to visit our city. Other towns have been signally benefited by ar rangements of the kind referred to, and we trnst the increase of travel shall be eo marked as to encourage the Atlantic Coast Line to extend the time of - experiment indefinitely. l he cheap rates will begin on 19th mst. Prank Holman, formerly A. T. o . . ' '. . ... Stewart's "confidential man," died a pauper in Cincinnati recently. LJ J n nj . That radical exponent of des perate' and dilapidated Republican ism, the New York Tribune, is I growing madj over the prospeot of the confirmation of Secretary Lamar by the votes of members of its party. The truth is the opposition to Mr., Lamar is sectional; and disgraceful. It is the last card in the hands of the tricksters. They have no other. is sue but a war upon the South. Put out forever the fires of sectional an tagonism: and hatred and it would be plain to all that the dying Republi can party is a nuisance that stinks in its decomposition. The. Tribune rants and fumes and scolds and ling. Here is a sample or so of its at tempted bulldozing of the supposed friendly Republican Senators: . "Now we want to say a few plain words to these gentlemen. They are members of the majority in the only remaining Repub lican stronghold Are they prepared to say by their votes that tbe principles oi tne party to which they have repeatedly given their 8dhersion are mere buncombe? Now Mr. Lamar owes all the prominence he has had for ten years to this crime, to which he is a knowing accessory, both be fore and after the fact, if not one of the principals. Mr. Lamar was made United States Senator by tbe midnight whipping of negroes, by assassinations both of whites and blacks, by astounding frauds upon tbe ballot box. If he goes upon the Su preme Court bench, it will be. because men were lashed and butchered, and ballot boxes were stuffed to make Mississippi a Democratic State." ; Gen. I. R. Trimble, who died in Baltimore a few days ago, was 86 years old. He commanded a North Carolina brigade at Gettysburg and b as given in writing a hih estimate of its courage and devotion. Tele grams of condolence were received from leading Southerners, including Secretary Bayard and Senator Hamp ton. The honorary pall-bearers in cluded nearly all the leading ex Confederate Generals now living. He was a native of Virginia and a graduate ot West Point. AfBalti inore dispatch says: "His most canspicuous.work during the war was, the following: The erection of the batteries that closed the Potomac River in .1861; tho taking of Manassas, which Stonewall Jackson called the most brilliant achievement that had come under his no tice during the war; the command of the Stonewall Division, to which, he succeeded after Jackson's promotion; the command of the Valley of Virginia, and the com mand of Pender's ; Division on Pickett's right at Gettysburg, where in the third day's fight he lost a leg and was captured." Edwin Booth is by common con sent the greatest living American actor. He is a man of culture and ability. He wrote to the New York Christian Union: "I never permit my wife or daughter to attend the theatre without: previously ascer taining the character of the play." Here is a lesson for all parents. I Gen. Wheeler is the only man in the,Hou8eof military education a West Pointer and he is not on the Committee on Military Affairs. A rebel is not to be trusted, you know. Gunning Accident. Capt. James Wells, who has charge of Messrs. W. E. Davis & Son's fishery on Zeke's Island, was seriously wound ed last Thursday while groining. Mr. Willie Mayo, writing from the "Rocks," in giving an account of the accident, says that himself and Capt. Wells went gunning for ducks, and returned about sundown to Zeke's Is land. Mr. Mayo left to get a lantern, leaving his gun with Mr. Wells lean ing against the outside of the house nearthe door. When he had gone about two hundred yards he heard the report of a gun, but paid no at tention to the'matter. ' After securing the lantern he returned and found his gun lying on the beach with both hammers broken off, and Mr. Wells seriously wounded in the left thigh, with the flesh torn from the bone and bleeding profusely. Mr. Wells stated to Mayo that as he opened the door, the gun fell and both barrels were discharged, with the result as above stated. I The wounded man was brought up to the city on the Louise yesterday and taken to his home, where he re ceived the necessary surgical atten tion. Attempt at Suicide. j Julia Potter, a young white woman employed at the cotton factory, at tempted to commit suicide yesterday morning by taking laudanum. She had a quarrel with her cousin, Lizzie Potter, who lives with her in a small house on Front street near Dawson, and early in the morning drove her cousin out of the house and threw a hatchet at her. After this Julia left the house and went to Mr. R. J. Price's store on the corner of Queen and Front streets, where, she bought a small bottle of laudanum, and at Mr. A. B. Cook's store on Front and Castle purchased another bottle of the deadly drug. She swallowed the contents of the two bottles in the presence of some colored people . and announced her determination to kill herself. Several physicians were called to see the woman, but sh per sisted in refusing to take an antidote or allowing other remedies to be ad ministered, and last night it was an open question whether she would re cover or succumb to the effects of the laudanum. The bottles she bought contained about six drachms each. Cotton for Europe. Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son cleared the German luarque Oberburgermeister von Winter yesterday for Bremen, with 2,236 bal.es cotton, weighing 1, 032,294 pound sand valued at $103,- 230.: i i j ; :; -., ; Also, the tsrennan barque Bertha, for Liverpool, with 1,823 bales of cot-i ton, weighing; 854,824 pounds and valued at, $85, '500. w eeely WILMINGTON, N. C.1, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1888. A Row in the Coorl Hogit, Yesterday afternoon about half-past six o'clock people on Princess . street in the vicinity of the Court House were startled by a loud noise as -of some one tumbling down the stair way from the Commissioners' room. On inquiry, it was found that a diffi culty had j ust taken place in that room between Mr. C. P. Lockey, a member of the bar,' and Col. B R. Moore, Solicitor of the 'Criminal Court, during which Mr.. Lockey struck Col. Moore in the face with his fist, cutting hia lower lip slightly, and had then hurriedly left the room on Col. Moore's seizing a hatchet which was lying conveniently near. The affair grew out of remarks made during the trial of George San ders, colored, for perjury. Sanders is one of the men arrested at W. H. Howe's place when it was raided by the police a few weeks ago, and was charged with having perjured him self at the investigation before Mayor Fowler. During the trial yesterday afternoon Mr.' Lockey, counsel for Sanders, said manufactured the ' Mayor, that testimony, was by the Solicitor and when the Solicitor called Mr. Lockey a liar. The latter said that he would settle that matter outside the court room, and after the adjournment met Col. Moore in the commissioners' room, where the diffi culty took place, as stated above. ! Tbe Value of Foreign Coins. The Director of the Mint has esti mated the values of the standard coins of the various nations of the world, proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury on Jan. 1. As here tofore the values of the gold coins have been ascertained by comparing the amount of pure gold in such coins with the amount in the gold dollar of the United States, and in countries of the double standard the silver coins have been given the same val uation aS the gold coins; the values ot the silver coins of countries hav ing a silver standard have been reck oned at the market value of the pure silver contained in such coins, based on the price of silver in London for the three months ended Dec. 24. The -average price of silver for this period, with exchange at par, was $096,645 per ounce fine, a decline from the same period of the last year of 3.89-100 eents per ounee fine. This occasioned reductions in the val uations of the following coins from January 1, 1888: The Florin of Austria from$0 35 9 to $0 34.5; the Boliviano of Bolivia from $0 72.7 to $0 69.9; the sucre of Ecuador from $0 72.7 to $0 69.9; the rupee of India from $0346 to $0 32.2; the silver yen of Japan from $0 78.4 to $0 75.3; the dollar of Mexico from $0 79 to $6 75.9; the sol of Peru from $0 72.7 to $0 69.9; the ruble of Russia from $0 58.2 to $0 55 9; the mahbub of Tripoli from $0 65.6 to $0 63' the peso of the United States of Col umbia from $0 72.7 to $0 69.9; the boli var of Venezuela from $0 19.3 to $0 14. Heretofore Venezuela has had the double standard, but by the law of May 27j 1887, silver was made the standard of value. The director has also estimated the value of monetary units of .the Central American States, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, the silver peso, the value given it be ing $069.9. Excursion Rate to Wilmington. The Atlantic Coast Line has com plied with the request of the Cham ber of Commerce and Produce Ex-, change if this city, presented through Mr. B. F. Hall and Mr. Wm. Calder, representatives of these two bodies, and will try the experiment for thirty days of Selling tickets from all local points to Wilmington and return for one first class fare, good for twenty four hours, beginning Thursday, Jan. 19th, and on every Thursday thereafter up to and including Feb. 9th. : Mr. T. M. Emerson, General Pas senger Agent, in his letter to Messrs. Hall and Calder says: Gentlemen: Referring to the peti tion of merchants of Wilmington pre sented by you asking that railroads centering at this point grant excur sion rates to Wilmington on one day of each week, from points on their lines, at one first class fare for the round trip; the same having been sub mitted to our management, j. am directed to sav. that, owing to the fact that, such excursion rates will necessarily be extended to other trade centers, we are doubtful as to the benefits that will accrue either to your merchants or to ourselves: yet desiring at all times to do what we consistently can to meet the wishes of our patrons and aid in the develop ment, of your city, we are willing to give your proposition a trial for a period, say of 30 days, and to this end we will, commencing Thursday, Jan. 19th, 1888, and continuing eaeh Thursday, to and including Thurs day, February 9th, 1888, sell tickets to Wilmington and return at one first class fare; tickets to be good only on local trains, or such other trains as may be specially designated, and to be good to return only within 24 hours from time issued. These tickets to be sold from all stations on the W. C. & A. Railroad, to and including Florence; from stations Cheraw & Darlington and Cheraw & Salisbury Railread, to. and including Wades boro; and from points on the Wil mington & Weldon Railroad (main line) to and ineluding Halifax; sta tions on the Scotland Neck Branch, Nashville Branch, Tarboro Branch, Midland North Carolina and Clinton Branch. Trusting that the experiment will result satisfactorily to all concerned, lam, Very respectfully yours, T. M. Emerson, Gen'l Passenger Agent. Tne Land of Flowers. The Raleigh News and, Observer says! : " V ' "The Stab is right in saying 'there are more flowers in Wilmington and five miles around that are native than be found in all Florida. The land of flowers is here, and not near the Gulf.' Botanists are of the opinion, we believe, that a greater variety of plants native to the region are to be found within a radius of five miles about Wilmington than in any other area of similar extent known." Fourth street bridge is not near completion (as was reported) not by a long shot, and the probabilities are that it will be several weeks before it is finished and opened to travel. I , FOREIGN. Troubles In Ireland-Heavy Failure. By Cable to ths Morning Star.' Dublin, Jan. 5 Trouble has been caused at Kilysart County Clare, over tbe refusal of turf dealers to furnish the po lice with supplies. The police, on beiag re fused, forcibly seized what they needed. Members of the National League took part with the dealers in resisting the police, and there was a lively ecrimmage which re sumed in a victory for the police and tho capture of the turf dealera. At National League meetings through out Ireland, the reductions of judicial rents announced by the Land Commission have been declared insufficient. The Mitcbellstown Board of Guardians, Mande ville presiding, ha9 adopted a resolution declaring mat it has no confidence in tbe Laud Commission. The vote reflscta the opinion of other boards. Paris. Jan. 5. It is renorted that the failure said to have occurred this morning was that of M. Caltimboch, an extensive speculator in copper shares, whose liabilities are said to be 15,000.000 francs. London, Jan. 6. A telegram from tho Russian frontier states that eight Nihilista, including the Cossack Techeraoff, who were condemned to death for making an attempt uspn the life of the Czir duriDg his vteit t'-. the Don Cossack country, were hanged iV"'.. Petersburg January 2nd London, Jan. 6 The body of Archie McNeil, who went to France to report' the Santh-Kilraia prizi tight for tbe London Sportsman, and who bad been mieaicg since, has been found ou the beach at Bou logne. There were distinct marks ou Mc Neil'd throat showing that he had been strangled. He bad. when last seen, coin. Back of EagUnd notes, and a watch, a!i of which were missing when' his body was found, and several five pound notes which he was known to Lave in hia possession, when he left London have been ctehed at the Bank of England. Dublin, January 6. Mr. GilhooIy.M P., failed to put in an appearance wbea his case was culled at the fourth sitting of the Schull Court to-day, and the case was therefore adjonraed. Tbe Nationalist demonstration at Birr to-day was attended by 6.000 persons, and several members of Parliament were pre sent. Tbe meeting announced to be held at Dromore, which was proclaimed by the Government, was not held. Three meetings were held outside the town, tiie police not interfering ' Cork January 6 Captain Plunkett has informed tbe magistrate that Canon O'Ma honey refused the police access to the three girls wjjo it u alleged were assaulted by Roberta, tbe governor of tbe -county jail. Inquiries in the ca?e have therefore been stoppsd. Roberts haa been advised to prose cute Canon O'Mahoney. Berlin. Jan, 7. A calm, which official and diplomatic circles know to be decep tive, prevails for tbe moment. The Austrian and Russian governments have each anxious assurances of peace assurances to which nobody attaches the slightest importance Tbe only uctual chance ii the situation tending toward paase u the active resumption of negotia tions between Count Kalnoky, Austrian Foreign Minister, and Prince Labonoff, Russian Ambassador at Vienna, for settle ment of tbe balance of power in the Bal- kin peninsular. This mitigates the crisis and removes danger of war, at least for the present. But it does not modify any of the essential differences between tbe two governments. Negotiations are expected by both sides to end in an exact definition of the respective demands, such as hereto fore has not existed and from which may be obtained a valid excuse for war. According to a semi-official dispatch' re ceived from'Vienna to-night, Prince Laban- off has opened tbe diplomatic campaign by proposing as tne nrat step toward an en tttnte, thbfremoval cf Prince Ferdinand from lbs throne of Bulgaria under joint mandate of the Powers; the election of a new Prince by a new Sobranje. and the re appointment of Russian officers to the Bul garian' army. The proposal specifies that the new Prince must be a member of the orthodox Greek Church, and the. Sobranje so elected as to enable Kussia to recognize it as being legally constituted. In the meantime the Foreign office here holds aloof from negotiations, wnich are recognized as feelers by Russia toward other demands, The Czar's Ministers already know that Count Kalnoky will not admit that the Berlin treaty gives Russia any special right to interfere in Bulgaria. I hey know, also, that it is impossible to obtain from the Powers a joint mandate on these points Russia will next raise a new question on Austrian retention of Bosnia and Herze govina. These provinces were occupied under a purely temporary title, but are now practic&lly annexed Austria will be called upon to evacuate them, and it is probable that the question of their future administration will be referred to a confer ence of lbs Powers. An ostensible casus belli, it is anticipated, will arie over Austria's refusal to divide the Balkans. The tones of St. Petersburg diplomacy tend to a protected exchange of views. thus assisting the plans of Russian strate gists, who are unwilling to risk war until the summer. No time would be given to Russia to complete her preparations if Bismark had a free hand; but divisions within tbe Imperial family, increasing weakness of the Emperor, and renewed activity of the anti-Bismarkian course, are the influences which combine to enfeeble and retard the development of German policy. Only the determination of Austria can now precipitate war. If the Kalnaky government is too timid to cut short nego tiations and demand a reason for the con centration of Russian troops on the frontier, Russia can select ber time for a ruDture. Meanwhile, despite semi-official assurances to the contrary, war prepara tions nrogresB on either side. The Warsaw arsenal is working day and night. At Kovno more extensive earthworks and detached forts are being constructed, and the defences of Ivangernel are being armed with heavv guns. Cracow papers report that tbe Russiaas are erecting a bridge at the iunction of the Lau with the Vistula, and are forming there also a cavalry GunD. Thev alto renort that four thou sand ambulance beds were distributed last week along the stations on the Vistula line: that the Military Intelligence Bureau has been established at fetor eoff. and tbat valuable pictures and art treasures in the Imperial residence in Po land are being removed to the interior of Russia. Another strong column of troops has been concentrated in the Lubin district, Another division of cavalry has left Kisch eneff and a division of grenadiers has gone from Riza. Both divisions are bound for Poland. - The total force of Russians in Warsaw. Wilma and Kieff districts, accord ing to military estimates, reaches 325,000 men with 750 guns. Cavalry regiments stationed immedately on the frontier are beine euonlied with rations on same scale as during an actual campaign. The cost to the Russian treasury is also equal to the war cost. Everything points to the con clusion that the Czar means to enforce his terms, if not bv dlolomacv. by war. The attitude of England in the event of hostilities, wiil be one of friendly neutral itv. This fact is known to the Berlin For- eien Office. No overtures have ever been made bv the German government for En gland's cooperation in the triple alliance. Pakis, Jan. 7. It is reporteJ here that tbe condition of tbe Emperor of Germany ia ouite serious. It is said that be is con fined to his bed and has had several faint ing spells. Dublin, Jan. 7. The appeal of Wilfred Riant has cone aeainst him. He was con victed and sentenced to two months' im prisonment for violation of the Crimes act in addressing a proclaimed meeting at Woodford. The justice who heard the appeal declared that though Blunt had not nr.ted wiselv he had shown no cowardice. A special from Douglas, Wis., says the Mnverinfe hnnk assicrned vesterdav. The cause is said to be an inability to collect outstanding debts. Assets are said not to cover liabilities. The institution was largely patronized by cattle men. : TAR ' ' - -i I WAHniNfnox. Tbe Light lioose Board and Keeper dell of Cape Henry Th Tlioebe Carltsle Contested Etrcilou Case. . By Telesrrapli to the Horning star. Washington, Jan. 6. Acting Secretary Thompson has addressed a letter to the Chairman of tbe Lteht House Board iu re gard to the case of Keeper O lell, of Cape Henry Light Station, in which he gays: "The department has received aud :ousid- ered the report of the Board of Light House' officers convened to consider and report on the case of M. L Odell, keeper of Cape' Henry Light, against whom various charges bad been made. It appears from this reporc tbat this board ot officers found these charges to be unfounded in fact, and rec- ommend tbat this matter receive no further: consideration. The department, after caref ful consideration of tbe matter, approves! this .report, dismisses the charge nd ref turns the papers in the case to take their proper place in the archives of the Light House Boad- i It is stated at tbe department that this case has assumed the importance of a polit ical issue in Virginia, and almost the entire Democratic influence of the State has been Invoked to secure jlhe removal o the light keeper in question, rne department, in acting in opposition to this pressure, dceires to have it stated that Odell is a good and efficient officer, aid will not be removed simply on account of his politics. I Washington, Jan. 6 At the contiiiuJ- tlon of the hearing in the Phoebe-Carlisle case before tbe House Committee on Elec tions, counsel for Tboebe said that it was a fact that returns oi six outlying coun ties were withheld for five days, and Car lisle had publicly confessed that he was die feated. You do not attach any impoitunce this point?" suggested Hurd. "No, 1 iust mention it, replied Sypher. "Hayes, 1 think, confessed defeat ht first," said Hurd. Yes, replied Sypher, and 1 think ie ought to ha?e stuck to it." Counsel said that iu seven oi the eight precincts of Carroll county the poll books were written, signed, and certified, as all names, in one,handwrun. ana it was evident that all of them must have been written after the election by one man, jas he could not have been in all the precincls at once on election day. He next read the affidavit of John ' J. Pierce, in support bf his statement In this paper Pierce tells that the signatures on the poll books were in one hand a "peculiar hand while the signatures of election officers to their oaths were in duTerent hand writings. I Counsel said that Carlisle had failed Dt election through neglect In some pre cincts no tickets were printed until three o'clock, and there was virtually no election held in some precincls. In one cac only three nudges voted, two for Carlisle and one for Thoebe. In Boone county 200 votes weie cast on election day, but the returns finally showed 567 votes. In Carroll county there was practically no election. He could show that the voters had failed to go to the polls on eiec tion day. but when they found that Carlisle bad been defeated they voted next day.. Not only was this the case in Carroll county, but aleo in every one of the out lying counties. Counsel quoted ironi ine statement toy J. J. Blakely, who was, he eatd, a promt nent Democrat and an attorney of Coving ton, to tbe effect that twenty-four names appeared to have been added to one ot i'ue poll books after the signatures of the judges had been affixed- counsel then said he would state something which ibe had no affidavits to support, but which could be proved by witnesses. After the election seven of Carlisle's friends met 1 in conference at tbe Federal building' to dn deavor to save Carlisle. They sent for a gentleman a prominent and honorable gentleman Col. R W. Nelson. They told him ! that uarusie naa ceen defeated, and they wanted him to confer with them to devise some means of chang ing the result. Thereupon Col. Nelson took his hat and left, declaring tbat if they were up to anything of that sort they mutt count him ont. "Carlisle dare not contra dict this gentleman, :' said Sypher; "hb is a Democrat, and truly a gentleman of as high standing as Carlisle. . Counsel next tooK up an amaavit oy the contestant, to the effect that Carlisle s f riends had corrupted his (Tboebe e) attor ney, and induced mm to aoandon tne case and suppress tbe testimony. In the course of the general statement of transactions Sypher said i that they had been given the name of a man who bad purchased attor ney Wood, and if their informant told the truth that man was a relative of Carlisle. The price named for Wood was $250. "He sold cheap," added counsel. I Touching Carlisle a refusal to join mm in taking testimony, sypher remarked, He did not dare meet me. He dare hot now go into tbat district and take testi mony " 1 Thcebe'a affidavit was next read, where he accuses Wood of delaying the taking of testimony and with telling him (Thoebe) that there might be money in it for both of them if he would withdraw tbe contest. Sypher declared that there was enough evidence in his brief to warrant the gqm mittee in seating his client; but if it did not think so certainly there was at least sufficient ground for the reopening of case. ; - the The Speaker of the House, he said. was the third officer in rank in this-country. But he was not big enough! to occupy that seat upon a fraudulent title, nor waa the Democratic party strong enough to maintain him in that position. It Carlisle is an honest man, ana l think he is," said Sypher, "he will come down out of his seat and ask for the ap pointment of a committee to go to Ken tucky and search the case With what is be (Carlisle) here before tbe committee? Nothing, not even cartificate of election. Either he knows that he has no case or be is going to throw himself upon the mercy of the court. He has trifled with tbe jcase since the beginning. He trifled with his election, or he would have been elected." In conclusion, he warned committee that it was known to those interested that both of the old parties had been coquetting with the Industrial party both seeking its totes for the next campaign, and the committee could not afford to refuse to investigate the claims of this working man (Thoebe) in the face of tbe disclosures he had made to the committee. I : The contestant (Thoebe) was next allow. ed to make a ten minutes' statement to tbe committee; He said he was born in the same county with the speaker, fortythree years ago. After the election be had told Wood that it he baa not enough votes ne did not want the seat; he would not rely unon technicalities, and if Carlisle bad one more vote than he had he ought to take the seat. Soon f after the election inquiry was generally neara unon the streets of Covington, "cannot something be done for Carlisle ?" In one county witness was miormea that ne naa received thirty-five votes, but in a few days, when Wood went down there, he was in formed that no votes had been cast for him . It was sometime in July when Wood, referring to witness case, said, I don t know what can be done about it."; This, to witness' mind, looked as if he wanted to let me down easy; to let me know my case was gone. Wood also told max on several occasions that money could be made out of the case. Other persons had told him the same thing. Two Democratic workers, one of them witness' brother-in- law, had called unon him and - had re marked that if he would not push the case he could make money out of it, ana a thou sand dollars was a good thing to have. If the case were reopened it would be found that he was elected by 600 majority. When he had left the factory on Wednesday, of 300 employes, there had not been a man that had not said that he knew Thoebe was elected, but that it was no good ; that the Democrats were in the majority in the HouBe and would not give him; a seat as Birainst such a man as Carlisle. He (Thoebe) had been a strong Democrat, but for the last three or four years naa oeen an inaepen dent. If the committee refused to reopen the case, workingmen would say: "Had Thoebe been a Democrat, or had he been a lawyer, they would have listened: to him." NO. 10 Let the committee ahow the toiling millions either that Thoebe was elected or not elect ed. Tbat was all thev asked. They wanttri fair play. If .the case was decided HgHinbt. him, he would go back to his factory and wora-, dm isisnincantly) he would not .uit voting. - i Cooper "If things are as vou bv. what is the use of voting ?" j Tboebe "That is what I say." The committee at this point took a recess for half an hour. After the recess Tbocbe's counsel cited precedents to justify tbe com mittee in reopening the case They pre sented a resolution that the papers in the case be printed and referred to a select committee of seven members, to be charged wun tne investigation ot tbe conduct of tbe late Congressional election in the Sixth Dis trict of Kentucky. lhe committee then went into secret ses sion, the proceedings of which were con- nnea to tne reading of several of the affida vits, and without an attempt to come to an agreement upon the propositions submit! ed by Thoebe's counsel, the committee ad journed until to-morrow, when some action ia likely. j Washington, Jan. 7. The Eleclior.s Committee of the House met at coon to day in secret session. Further considera tion of the Thcsbe-Carlisle case - was post-" poned until Saturday next, in order to 'give Mr. Carlisle an opportunity to reply, if be so desired, to the affidavits presented yes terday by the contestant. There wa" no discussion of the proposition submitted hy Mr. Sypher yesterday. The attorneys in the other contested election cases will be notified to appear before the committee next Friday, to set dates for hearing argu ments in their cases. The session of tbe committee lasted about half an hour. Washington, Jan. 7. Several of the most important Committees of the House organized yesterday and to-day, and some of them expect to be ready to report busi ness for the House on Mondav. if the nl of Committees is made. The Committee on Banking and Currency appointed a sub committee, consisting of Lander, of Illi nois, Schneider, of West Virginia. Din glery, of Maine, Weber, of New York, and Chairman Wilkins, to which was referred the bill of the Comptroller of Currency for the reorganization of the National Banking System. The Committee on Territories adopted a rule providing that hereafter all delegations desiring to appear before the Committee shall submit their views and ciaims in writing, and not orally as has been the practice. Oa Monday a special meeting will be held to hear the delegation headed by Governor Robs, of New Mex ico, which will urge upon Congress some speedy legislation for final adjudication of Spanish and Mexican Land Claims in New Mexico. The following letter was laid before the House Committee on Elections to-dy. Hon. C. F. Crisp, Chairman Committee on Elections. Dear Sir: I learn from the proceedings of your committee that an ap plication has been made by counsel for tbe contestant to reopen the cse and allow ad ditional testimony to be taken, and as I have had time only to glance hastily at tbe affidavits filed in support of tbia request, I beg leave to suggest that it would be proper not to decide the matter finally until 1 can have reasonable opportunity to ex amine the papers and if necessary file affidavits. So f&r as the affidavits charge or intimate any improper conduct upon my part in reference to tbe election, either be fore or after it was held, I am ready now to contradict them in the most positive manner, by my own affidavit, but there are other things in the papers of which I can not have personal knowledge, and which if left unanswered, might produce an enor mous impression upon the minds of tbe committee. Please present this note to the committee. I will, of courss, be entirely satisfied with any course the committee may cboose to take, but it seems to me that under the circumstances I ought to have an opportunity to carefully examine the papers and take such steps as may be thought proper before the application now pendingis disDosed of. Very respectfully, j J. G. Carlisle. THE GRAIN CROPS. Report of Acreage, Product and Val ne as Famished by Department or Agri culture. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, Jan. 7. Estimates of the acreage, product and value of corn, wheat and oats, for each State and Territory, has been prepared for publication by the statis tician of the Department of Agriculture. The area of corn harvested, excluding abandoned pr worthless acreage, is 72,000, 000 acres in round numbers; product 1,476, 000.000 bushels; value, $646,000,000. Area of wheat, 37,400,000 acres; product. 1,456.000,000 bushels; value, $309,000,000. Area in oats nearly 26,000,000 acres; product, 659,000,000 bushels; value, $200, 000,000. Reports of winter wheat do not show much decrease of area. In Texas there is a considerable increase, and a slight in crease in some other States. The average decline appears to be between one and two per cent. In Kentucky 97, Ohio 99, Mich igan 98, Indiana 100, Illinois 93, Missouri 99, Kansas 93. The condition is 'affected somewhat by the dryness of the seed bed in dietricts that suffered from drought, delay ing seeding, germination and growth La ter rains greatly improved the situation. The average ot condition is 95, ranging in principal States from 90 to 98. The condition of winter rye coincides very cliSsely with that of wheat. MASSACHUSETTS Remarkable Prosperity of tbe Cotton Mills Weavers Demand Return to Old Wages as per Agreement. Fall Riyer, Jan. 7. The rematkably prosperous showing made for the last year by the cotton mills in this city, has stimu lated the weavers to renewed activity in de manding that the 13 per cent, taken from their wages in 1884 be relumed to them. It is stated that at a conference of the spin- nerean.d manufacturers' committees, held a year ago, an agreement was made that when prints reacnea 3c per yard wages would be advanced 7 per cent., and when they reached 8Jc. the remaining 6 percent, would be granted. They have now reached the latter figure.and Secretary Howard, of the Spinners' Union, wrote a letter to Secretary RounBeville, of the Board of Trade, in the early part of the week, asking for a fulfilment of the man ufacturers' promise. It is understood that no answer has yet been received by Mr. Howard, and to-day be issued a call for a meeting of the spinners, to be held next Tuesday night. GEORGIA. " j Collision of Freight Trains-Big Smash- up Two Car Loads ot Horses Burned. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Chicago, Jan. 7. A special from Thorn-! aaville, Ga,. says : The North and South bound freight trains, on tne eavannah, Florida and Western Railroad, between Thomasville and Albany, collided ye ttr day near Weigs, fifteen miles above this city. Both- trains were running thirty miles an hour. Tbe engine and several cars were demolished. Two car loads of horses were burned. All of tho trainmen escaped with but slight bruises. The acci? dent was caused by one of the trains run ning off schedule time. BOILER EXPLOSION At Jonesboro, N. C One in an Killed and Two men Seriously Injured. Raleigh, IN. C. Jan. 5. A special to the News and Observer says that the boiler at Worthie & Sons', mills, in Jonesboro. burst this Wternoon, instantly killing Richard Mclvor, colored, fireman, and se riously injuring Henry Dark and Peter Mclvor. The fireman had chained the safety valve down to prevent . the los3 cf steam, and filled the furnace full of pine knots. He was blown through a house, a distance of seventy-nve feet, and his body was torn into fragments. The loss ofpjop- erty is about $2,000. Spirits Turp Of the thirty-eight revolutionary soiaicrM who r pensions from tbe Government. Carolina is credited with five. ,Win8ton Daily: There wa a petition presented to our county commis sioners on Tueeday. signed by eighty -runt citizens, asking tbat an election be cxlk.l k " submit to the qualified voters of Wiumou township the question of Issuing for Un building of the Roanoke fc Southern Rail road ; $100,000 in bonds. Tbe commis sioners granted said putition and mdeted " that the election he; held on the 18tb of February. Hendersonvillo 2ximes: Nicon mining continues active at the Green river , mines. Willie Birring, a jour.g man who is an employe at tbe Fow'.cs jWce, near ! Flat Rock, ia order to starlit tho neighborhood with tbe loudeU report of Christmas gun in tbat neighbciaod, put in 1 too much powder and lead; the barret r bunted, and hi hand and arm were tciri- i b'.y lacerated. Sugeous amputated the Ki m just below the elbow. f Raleigh Progressive Farmer: We note with great pleasure the evidences of renewed vitality in the order of Patrons of Husbandry in our State, as we evioced it in its annual meeting in Tarlxro. It is a noble order, and among its member crc to be found some of the firmest und most' i substantial farmers cf tbe State We re joice in the success and prosperity of any organization which has for its 'tratd h- ject the amcloriation of the condition of the farmers of the country. -j-Durham Recorder: Tritiky Methodist Sunday School ccn'ributcd du ring 1887 $524 16 for sohool purpo.ca. -The revenue receipts iu Durham du ring 1887 were $485,3SS 66. This is only on the tobacco sold. Mr. C. M. Hol- den has returned from Caswell count; . In two weeks he killed 514 partridges -The Supreme Couu says that Lncian Rowo, colored, mrst hang for hnrglsffalng lad nouse or sit. a. a. leaxioo. i4.,ie Baptist Conference, tost BigbOftivy G V. Boslick, riiCoueord io the church in Durham. Re M ygrnduate of Wake Forest College. :' " -,,'' t Clintou Caueatiant List Snn day evening, about sunset, the startling cry of fire was heard-opoD tbe streets The carriage sheps of Mr. J. R. Beatcan, Just on the western edge of the business portion of the town, on Fayetteville street, wei on fire. When first discovered the fire bad just broken out. in the southwestern cor ner of the building. It bad been raining during the evenintr. and at tbe time a heavy rain was falling. All attempts to save the shops were evidently vain The damago will not exceed $1,000 on which there waa no insurance. The fire must have been the work of an incendiary. Charlotte Chronicle : An ao count was given in the Chronicle a few days ago, of the lynching at Central on the Air Line Road, of a half witted white man named Gooden by a mob of negroes. All the negroes except Knox have been captur ed. As to tbe guilt of the unfortunate victim opinions are about equally divided It is by no means certain that he commited the crime for which he suffered summarily. i According to contract President 8. McD. Tate has begun grading on the Southern and Western Air Line Railroad which route begins at Shelby and termi nates at Cranberry ai-d Virginia line. Mr. E. J. Page has sold the Gaston Gazette to Messrs. J. T. Bighnm & Co , who as sume entire control and management of that paper. Mr. J. T. Brgtium is to bo the editor. Raleigh $Tews-Observer : Gov. Scales was one of the honorary pill-bearers at the funeral of the late Gen. Trimble in Baltimore, Wednesday. A tew com pany was organized in this city yesterday, and was at once incorporated as tho Ral eigh Lighting, Heating and Power Com pany. Dr. J. rt. Uuggan, frofessorr Chemistry at Wake Forest College, is lying at the point of deaths Mr. James Mc- Gehee, of Granville county, has just suited down one twenty-five months old bog, weighing 650 pounds dressed, and yielding twent-five gallons of lard. Rev. G. S, Williams, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, in Nashville, Tenn ., who was r6- . cently called to th5 pastorate of the Bap tist Tabernacle in this city, has written to the board of deacons announcing his ac , ceptance of the call. He will reach here on the 10th inst. The matter of forming a new county with Dunn as the county seat is' being considerably discussed in Harnett county , in the vicinity of Dunn. A big row occurred the day be fore Christmas at Woolen's. The Gastonia Gazette says: Bill Williams commenced tbe trouble by knocking down a negro named Newton Lockbart, who was at work near a grocery and whom he attemptd to run off, but failing in this he pulled his pistol and shot Lockhart, the ball penetrating and passing through the fleshy part of hia leg. His next move was to strike a young man named Edward Long with a hammer and td make himself otherwise a terror to the crowd. A messenger was sent, for Con stable White to come and stop tbe disturb ance, but before bis arrival the crowd had bounced Williams, given him a good beat' ing and run him away. Shortly after tbe arrival of Constable White, Williams, his wife and a negro woman all armed with shotguns returned and formed a line across the road. An attempt was made to arrest them when Williams fired, whereupon followed a general disturbance of shotguns abd pistols, and when the smoko cleared away it was found that Constablo White's leg was filled with shot, A. M. Rhyne was shot in the leg, and a colored boy wsb shot but not badly hurt. Williams was hit tbree times and one of the women was slightly wounded. Williams was captured, taken before Justice Kiser and bound over to court, being taken to jail Sunday morning. He ia badly wounded, but will probably re cover. I Charlotte Chronicle: Col. Row land told parties on the train that he con sidered himself a well man, and that he never felt better in his life. John Murphy died in Salisbury last Sunday from the effects of a pistol ehot wound in his head, received last Friday night. Mr. David M. Vance, who was formerly connected with the press of this city, but who has been reporting for New Orleans papers for several years past, had a rough and tumble affair in tbat city a few days ago. We understand tbat he fully sus tained his reputation. Our report of tbe Sffair is that during the progress of a ward jeeting a difficulty occurred between Mr. P. M. Vance, of the Daily States, and Mr. J. G. McMahon, of the Evening News, who was to be one of the orators of the evening. Mr. Vance was seated at the table repott ing Mr. Booth's speech when he was ap proached by Mr. McMahon, who is report ed to have said : "If you report me to night as you did in the third ward I will make it a personal matter." Mr. Vance, half rising from his seat, responded by saying: "Why don't you make it a personal matter now." After exchanging a few words more Mr. Vance struck Mr, McMa hon in the face. A number of gentlemen, anxious to prevent a difficulty, tried to separate the combatants, while certain un known parties made an attack on Mr. Vance, who, however, defended himself with good effect. The police put in an ap pearance at this stage of the prcceedings and placed Mr. Vance under arrest. Sub sequently Mr. McMahon called on Mr. Vance and apologized. Mr. Vance ac cepted the apology and peace was restored. On yesterday morning at 11 o'clock a horae drawing a spring wagon became frighten ed in the vicinity of St. John's Hospital, and dashed blindly and furiously up Fay etteville street, no one being in the wagon, which for most of the time kept clear of -the ground. Near tbe Hotel Florence tbe runaway horse overtook Gov. Scales' car riage, in which Mrs. Scales was seated. The runaway dashed against the carriage with such force as to turn it completely over on the side, throwing Mrs. Scales violently into the top and virtually impri soning her. The pluck and preeence of mind of Mrs. Scales' driver probably pre vented a very serious if not fatal accident. She was utterly helpless herself, being en tangled in the top and curtains of the car riage as it lay on the side, but she was soon released by the driver who held on to the horses and tore away the curtains at the same time so that Mrs. Scales could get, out. When released, she found that tho was not at all hurt. Jonesboro. N. C. Jan. 5. This afkrnoon at 2.40 o'clock the boiler burst at K. M. Worthy & Son' mills, two miles from this place, instantly killing Richard Mclver. colored, and fatal ly injuring Henry Dark, the sawyer, and ' Peter Mclver, one of the hands. viMd or Worth 3 J ll -'A -'3 "hi t - - 1 ."A V I iK if ! ! 54 m 'A - ,- . 1 i 't;i 5 1 ' 1
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