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The Weekly Star; I orrRUSHKO AT ,1 ILMINGTON, N . C ., ,1,00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. ,SSSsiS8SSS888s V . SSSSS888SSSSg '' , - - - 1 , 48288SSSS88SSS8SSS 8S8gS888SS838888S saSpSSSSSSS88S8a--VoDgSa222S8SS5S 0)8.4 r. S8S8S88SS38 ofc,3ro:2n2SlSSci3i 2: ::i i;'uterei) at the Post Office at Wilmington, N. C, ' I an Se-ond Claw Matter. i k- ' i I suiiscmrTioN fricfu I Vir' subscription, price of the WEEH.t Star i-- s' follows : - j - i :v-k' Copy 1 year, postage paid, $1.00 - i ' o months ' .60 " ' " 3 mmithf " :;i:bmik'T wd cr rov txs. A gfinletnin writes to know i. t i the "Direct Tax" jthat is being ltcuted and acted upon in the Senate.' In 1801. when the war was beginning, the U. S. Congress levied a direct tax upon the States. It it ! I ' now proposed to return the tax. jThe tax was paid by toe Northern States "entirtly. It is (opposed by flume meo in tbe North because it is I ' ' l 1 unfair to those States that ,have urns into the Union since 1861. Tbe S.'Uth has been released from li e payment of the tax. Senator V.uice introduced an amendment to return to the South the tax collected on cotton by an act passed in 1862. He hoi is that the 'direct tax on cotton oubt to pe refund t (1 iS Will ' ;e 1 upon as the jdirect tax the North, for, said he :i 4';s equally a hardship." He thought if "oue tax is refunded, that the other should be also.' With hiai a;r ed, we think, all the South ern tfi'iia'.ors who had any thing to. ( i. S.-nator George: held "that the; tax W i g npop a raw I product of! lam!, and not in its manufactured 8 at all, wa in effect a tax upon l.i,.i. Being a tax on land, it was a iii ,i e ux under the Constitution o jt!i IL.h.d "St it which could onl 1,-vied in uur-uaace of that provi i-iii of the C nititution which re i ii i direct taxrfs to be apportioned a u i.g the Siiitt-n aoorditig to their fe.i nl population." , j The amendment was defeated by The fill a vote of 46 to 16. returar ing the tirect tax to the Northern States pissrd the Senate,.! The House will "prohibly rej-ct it. The weight of argument is in favor of refunding .both taxes. CVnainly asj much can be paid in favor of the cotton tax as in favor of the direct ;tax. Both were wrorgin principle, we may be lieve. 'The &L tnphis Appeal i, per h i - c;rrt ct in cayii g ibis: j 4 The Cit'on iii ws an ioiquitious mti.suie. pun of the infernal machinery of tit"ii-ti iiction, rit-vuted without reference to -bD'i in i p'D defiance if lh- : constitution,; a n! -ti fin ct d id pursuauCf of no imp ai nb'e rupM-.ti bedevil and degrade 8 000 000 i; iii riii' ot. iDlutiri.ius and iiberty-lov-; i'rd p- fpie to the d'-p'ba of adject poverty,;' m.'i i.n" i.nrhkuit iheir spirit 10 administer Utir polincil lid's in the States tlj'-ir folLtis bad founded " ; ! : i : I ! The point as to coffee is this. The tax was taken off by the United States and then Brazil at once put a. tax on every pound of coffee that wa exported from that country. This .! -prevented the people of the United States. from receiving benefit fromi coffee being put on the free list. B izil, and not tbe people of the Utiiied States, got the benefit of the t". ' ' ' . .1! ' .if In the cise of q iinitie it was' dif ferent, hat rit-cesKary jijdrugwas put on i he free lit and competition from Europe with American mafia factories immediately reduced the price immensely, ; XK.N VI Oil . liHI ON US AMD THE . TARIFF. II ;'!- Many persons will attach force to the utterance of a man with a title who wonld regard it otherwise with indifference. A man holding a place may be regarded as a lineal descend ant of Solomon, whereas he would be- quite overlooked if "he were a plain c.tizen. In other words, people aire impressed by the glamour of office aud not by the weight of reason ior the cumulation of facts and evidences. There are people who believe in the it fallibility of a deliverance from some officeholder because "Hon." or "Gov." or some other prefix is ttuek to his cognomen. Speaking :.6f -Senator Edmunds's late written p!ea for Protection, the New York Times directs attention to that per eot's "calm Senatorial confidence in tho infallibility of 'the' Senatorial mind quite independent of the petty requirements of logic and candor.' That confessedly ablest of Repub lican Senators in his argument for a High Tariff, in Harper's Magaztnei 'snows that in its. last analysis but vt ry little that is sound and tenable and truo can b nrgedj in behalf of a principle that is unjust to the many and that has been pronounced by. a Republican Supreme Court of the t. nited States to be unconstitutional. Mr, Edmunds actually! resort! to an illustration to justify ode ot his po- i t . . v . m - . ma m m . w m mm . i. nn... .. "-bb. mm r -m mt m m m m m , t i. , t VOL. XIX. ( ; I j WILMINGTON; N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1888. j I T j NO. 13 Bitions that has been often exposed in almost every newspaper opposing Protection. The Stab has takes a part in it and long ago. The want of candor on the part of Senator Ed munds is deplorable. Let us copy from the Tinea, a great paper in Mr.Eimunda's own party in the past, bat now a supporter of President Cleveland. That paper says: i "When Mr. Edmunds undertakes, to prove tbat the abolition of -duties does not lower prcea by citing the course of the coffee market after tbe repeal of the duty in 1872. we hardly like to determine whether be u ignorant of the fact tbat an export duty was immediately placed on coffee, or wnetber, kuowiog'tbe fact, be couceala it. It is not probable ihtt tbe Senator would de ibertey do an act so silly as well as so dishonorable as the latter, and it is almott as improbable tbat he could have avoided learning tbo fact. We are tempted to con clude that be has made up his paper on ibit poim as he might make up an argu meot before a court on tbe facts supplied in bis brixf. witbout verification of and with out a sease of responsibility for them But to that case, w bo furnished tbe briet? Whoever it was, the Senator has good cause for complain' More cru 1 betrayal tit a confldioit and innopeot old statesman was never perpetrated J Nor is tbe Cue of tea, cited by the Senator, any stronger He Bhows that tea bad fallen within six mnntbs of tbe repeal. He ought to have known tbat.wbile the average price of all imported tea in 1872 was 84 6 cents, in 1886 it was only 19 6 cents " j THE N. C. 1NSANB AHYCTJiTI A RE MINISCENCE. : ' A copy of the annual report of the Superintendent of the North Caro lina Insane Asylum for 1887, has been reoeived. It makes a favorable showing. Dr. Grissom says: j "I am gratified to be able to say that in no jear of iis existence has this Institution accomplished more satisfactory results in the successful treatment of its patients and tbe extent of nec ssary improvements and repairs judiciously made upon tbe build ings and premises and furtheeaoitary cum fort of tbofce entrusted to our care." Since the Asylum was opened on the 22nd of February, 1856, there have been 1,892 admissions. Of tbe discharged 1,600 S03 were considered cured, 335 as improved and 501 died. At tbe beginning of the year there were 248, and npon this basis tbe ap propriation was made. Tbe daily average was 273. The admissions during this year have been 74 in number and the discharges 30. There have been sent home cured 17, 2 im proved, 2 unimproved, and not in sane, 1. j Tbe total expenses were $64,137 09, which shows excellent management. This is an average of 51 cents for each patient each day. This is exclusive- of repairs. Dr. Frank T. Fuller, the able and efficient First Assistant Physician, Has tieeu eicK for months, and a leave of absence has been granted. He ; would be a great loss to the Asylum. The noble and rarely gifted phil anthropist, Miss Dorothea L. Dix, who caused the Asylum to be erect ed, and whose death occurred at Trenton, New Jersey, in July 1887, aged 90 years, receives a merited and tasteful tribute from Dr. Gris r-- I 1 'it Bum. one was lcaeeu a nooie woman one of the n6blest of tbe world, and North Carolina should have her portrait painted fortho parlors of tbe Asylum, that unborn generations may see the lineaments of the bane f actress and friend of suffering hu manity, lit. Unssom says oi ner: For more than half a century she stood in the vanguard of humanity, working va liantly aud unceasingly for the stricken in- sane. Difficulty never stopped ner, his- taoce never wearied ber. opposition never daunted her.' refusal never subdued her. pleasure never tempted her. ease never hii-nri her. fame never attracted her Her o jrc's were the wretched insane htr fle d was the world ner tnougnt was me rener of the i-ufleUDg ber success was their re dempMoti, and her crown shall be tbe aift of Him like whom she 'went about doing good.' f la ber bait century or unparaneiea labors sbe gli led like an angel of mere) tbroub the dark portals of the pris ms and penitenliarits and poor bouses oi al most every State from tbe Atlantic to the irns-Mississippi. N'r were her la bors cooOned adme to ber own country. STJeeven crossed tbe ocean, into foreign lands, to repeat tbe story of a crusade, at oner more auring in us inception bdq ei ftctive in its results than any enrolled in the annals of time Tbe beautiful story of ber visit to Scotland, the investigations of tbe sufferings of tbtir insane, tbe want ot svmnatbv of the representative of tbe Crown ber consequent visit to the fremier oi ng- laud, ber story to him or her renun in Scotland, his summons of tbe Lord Lieu tenant to his presence and the apology be was com pel le' fl'n make together with the recognition bv 'Parliament or ner great ser vices, the concluding address of a member of tbe House of Lords, in these words, to wit : Mv Lords, to our great mortification and humiliation tbe sufferings of a part of the dependent classes of this empire have --been brought to our notice by a foreigner ! f . . . . , . i J . i : ana tnis loreiener an American i mu iuib a woman! and this woman a dissentekl All this constitutes an episode perhaps uhpar alleled in history." We are glad it ia in our power to .add something to this well deserved tribute of veneration and affection Miss Dix visited Raleigh in the win ter of 1848. She began the good work then that resulted in the ereo tion of the first Asylum for the In sane. . Judge Robert B. Gilliam, of Oxford, was the Speaker of the House, and Hon. Calvin Graves, of Caswell, was Speaker of the Senate. The first appropriation bill' was de feated looking to the erection of an Asylum. Mrs. Dobbin, wife of Hon. James C. Dobbin, of Fayette ville, afterwards Secretary of the Navy, was verv sick in Raleigh. Her husband was a member of the House ot Commons. On her death-bed she expressed to Miss Diz ber deep grat itude for the teuder care and atten tion that noble woman had given her in her own illness, and almost with her dying breath begged her gifted husband to repay her. owi dabt of gratitude f -lliu Dix; by aatfcr II 1 II II IT J 1 ll-ll II ii ' - II ? V . V 1 II 1 A IlTV faithful effort to baas the Asvlum bill. . Almost as soon as the last sad services of interment, were ended Mr. Dobbin entered the House elad in the deepest , mourning - and broken with sorrow.' He entered at once upon the fulfilment of his duty he owed to the pious i dead and the afflicted living. '; Feeling keenly his own bereavement and cherishing sympathy for the woes of others, sus tained by the profound sympathy that moved - every bosom, he re deemed nobly his last promise to a dy ing wife, by a speech which made a great impression at the time, and tbe tradition of which has descended to this generation as one of the few great speeches ever heard within the noble pile erected for the purposes of State legislation. It was a speeoh of great and singular pathos and beauty and swept the' heart strings of all who listened, evoking the music of eympathy and as the grand corresponding views, old harper in Scott's of tbe Last Minstrel" immortal "Lay swept the chords of his wondrons in strument. Perhaps in all the records of North Carolina eloquence there has been nothing nobler, more mov ing, more pathetic, able to the orator. All was favor His own nature was moved to . its very depths. His heart was softened and made tender by a distressing bereavement. Grati tude to Miss Dix, deep sympathy for tbe smitten of God, a yearning de sire to help (the j unfortunate, all moved the gifted and generous N orth Carolinian in the depths of his heaving soul, and he rose to the great demands of the occasion and the height of the argument and produced an oration rarely equalled in the halls of deliberation. All opposi tion disappeared under the power of the pathetic and eloquent pleader and tbe bill passed by an overwhelm ing vote. This interesting incident hastened by several years the move ment in our State in behalf of tbe in sane. : - j ' There is another incident in the life of tbe 'great and good Dorothea Dix that illustrates the power of good over evil. We aro under ob- ligations to Dr. Grissom for tt, who reoeived it from her friend Dr, Reid, and which was confirmed by her in a correspondence with Dr. Grissom some few j years ago. We quote (rata ft Drivate letter to us from Dr. G. of a few! days since: "Travelling in a stage coach iu tbe Southwest many years ago, as nigbt was approaching npon a lonely road, fenrs Were ix pressed by a passenger of a repetition of etaee-robrery which bad occurred in tbat vicinity. Ibe tew passengers were in great trepidation. Soon tbe stage was halted by a highwayman, who demanded tbT money, miss Dix calmly addressed 'UJ How much do you want siir """' "is off in the dark, the highwwnn repueo: None fromi you i mud-1' 1 uave beard that voice; before ' one bad doubtiees passed through some prison where the felon had been cotfined. God works through his ministering angels." Dr. Grissom also refers to a mat ter of a delicate character, that it i i . . - . may not be improper to publish now that the good woman and benefac tress "has fallen on sleep." It will reveal the promptings I of her most coble career, and tbe hidden springs of her devotion through a long life to the service of the insane and af flicted. It was indeed a sad event that senii the generous, loving heart out on its mission of sympathy and benevoleace. Dr. Grissom says: When! quite young, educated, wealthy and accomplished she was a belle in Bos ton society ana became oetrointa to a promising young man who became insane before their marriage and was sent to an asvlum. I Sbe Quitted the fashionable cir cles and devoted her whole time, life and fortune to the amelioration ot the suffer ings of tbe! insane She was the most in tellectual woman I ever met." The Stab can perform no better labor or ! devote its columns to no more touching theme than to thus bring out the reminiscences of one of the noblest and most generous of God's redeemed children. North Carolin ians should never forget the memory of Dorothea L, Dix a Northern wo man whose heart was bounded neither by States nor nationalities. "Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in tbe dust." The wool men slipped up badly when they got the bigh tax put npon it in 1867. It was prophecied at the time that the tax wonld in tbe end injure wool production, and it has turned out so. The wool crop has steadily diminished nnder tbe Higb Tariff and tbe manufacturers have been greatly injured also by it. The statistics heretofore published in the Stab dearly showed this. The tax failed just where it was hoped it would j do great things. And yet the wool growers are still clamoring and infatuated. They are slow to learn. Green fellowB from the South in search of "green goods" are meeting with a proper fate they are being victimized by the rascals and sharp ers in the Northern oities. The fel lows who sell and the fellows who buy are all tarred with the same stick, and should receive the same punish ment at tbe hands of tbe law. No one but a scoundrel wilfhave any thing! to do with so-called "green goods. Prince Bismarck declined to re ceive a visit from Lord Randolph Ck.re.lll B was "ntt at km.w i ne political slate makers here are busy, and -1 have heard of two or three State tickets tbat could sweep the State." From Mr DanieC UtUr from WathingUin in the Raleioh Chronitte. It does look as if Washington po liticians and their henchmen are try ing to dictate to tbe people of North Carolina and to run the State poli tics to suit themselves. The people are not asleep. Men are not sent to Congress to control the State policy or politios. j Bill Arp carries a level head and brains in it. j He has this to say of the Blair bill: ( "The people respect moral courage and Mr. Cleveland has got it I hope he will veto that Blair bill We have got enough of foreign education now. I dm'l want tbe government to educate my children. I want to have a voice in choosing my own teachers I want my children to feel and to know thaU ; they are dependent upon their father for education " When tbe war came the Northern members of Congress united in increasing the Tariff ratps. ', Why? Because they said more money must be raised. And tbe increase of the rates did increase the amount of the revenue. One fact is worth a mil lion theories. . ' During the Low Tariff period 1850 60 - tbe increase in the value of farms was $3,273,469,581. This was for ten years. During tbe High Tariff period -from 1860 to 1880 as tbe census shows, the increase was $3,639,051,769. Bat ibis was for twenty years. The latest concerning the Crown Prince i that Prof. Virchow says "that tha disease is probably not cancer, but perichondritis, which is jast as fatal, only slower." There is no comfort in this. At his death Chancellor Meli was 74 years tdd. He Georgia. was a native of 'arollna Braeb. In view of the largely increased river travel last season, tbe Messrs. Harper and tbe New Hanover Tran sit Company will put on a fast and comfortable side-wheel boat to serve all points on tbe lower Cape Fear, in addition to the Passport. The selec tion of the new boat will be made from two Chesapeake boats, two Del aware boats and a Harlem speeder; all very fast and reliable light-draft craft. The gentlemen interested say that they have not entertained any proposition to charter a boat of less speed than fourteen miles an hour,and are determined to put on the staunch est ana swirtes uuair tun ir" w run on North Carolina tcrB- f As far as theP'aZori is concerned.no credential? re required. Capt. John Harpp- take the boys and girls &vj sick babies under his wing on tbe side-wheeler, and is nnder bonds to make tbe beach in forty-five minutes and Southport in one hour and fifty minutes. Captain Snell will take tbe wheel on tnei rassport. rne scneanie will give two trips to Southport daily and as many as necessary to the Beach and will be varied by an occa sional trip outside. Capt. John Harper gives due notice tbat if any man has red clay on his boots and a blue jeans suit, he will carry him for nothing, provided it can be shown clearly after a judicial investigation before Chief Justice Freeman that the man has no money and never had any, as the Captain is determined to bring our op-country friends to Wilmington and must carry passengers. Foreign Export xratvrday. Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son cleared the German barque Marianne for Ghent, Belgium, with 1,556 bales of cotton, weighing 727,753 pounds and valued at $72,800. Also, the Norwegian brig Emanuel, for Liverpool, Eng., with 2,355 barrels of tar, valued at $2,950. Also, the German barque Nordpol, for London. Eng.. with 3,633 barrels of rosin, valued at $3,550. Osl of roal. On Priday last the Revenue cutter Co' fax, Japtain J. B. Moore, while cruising of Ocracoke Inlet, discovered the British steamship Maduro, bound from Galveston via Norfolk for Liv erpool, at ; anchor and out of coal. Cantain Moore offered to tow the steamer into Beaufort and. this be ing declined, to give sufficient coal to enable her to get into a harbor. Both offers were politely . declined; the mate, who was in charge, stating that the captain had gone ashore to go np the ooast and telegraph to Nor folk for a supply of fuel, and had left strict orders to decline all tenders of assistance possibly fearing claims for salvage. Captain Moore assured the mate that there would be no claims made for any service rendered, but that of ficer again refused, preferring doubt less to obev orders if he broke the owners. The cutter went into Ocracoke Friday night and spoke the steamer again Saturday morning, but all ten ders were once more courteously de clined. The steamship was a large one, of about 1600 tons burthen.loaded with cotton. iDOrraalnaj romoaerce of tbe Port. The continued growth of the com merce of Wilmington is shown by the increased receipts at the Custom House of this port during the year closed January 1st, 1888, as compared with those of the previous year; the receipts from all sources in 1886 be ing $24,060.01, while in 1887 they were $49,980.21 an increase of $5,920.30, or over ten per cent. An increase is also shown in vessels documented at this port; the number in 1886 being fifty-two, and inl87, tarty-three. ; ': - 1 ".' V SSUAttlt 1 m . n WM K mi Am Kleottaa Oraerem on tb Qmeatln r Babaerlptioo tb rape -JFear A ' "Vaitoy ; Vllnlncta, V Ootlow tt Eftat Carolina Railroad.' The Board of Aldermen met in ad journed se-sion yesterday afternoon at S o'clock. -Present, Mayor Fowlerr and Aldermen Dudley, Flsbblate, Pearsall, Ricaud, King, Rice, Samp son, Walker and Price. ! The Mayor called the Board to or der, and at his request the clerk read a communication from the Board of Audit and Finance concurring in the actionof the Board of Aldermen at their last meeting in the matter of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail road. ; i At the conclusion of the reading,, the Mayor asked the pleasure of the Board. Aldurman Ricaud submitted a re port rom the special committee to whom was referred the application of the Wilmington, Onslow Ss East Caro lina Railroad Company, as follows: The committee appointed o con sider and examine the letter of ap plication of the W., O. & E. C. R. R. Co.. and the accompanying petition asking for the submission to the qualified voters ot the oity of the ques tion of a subscription by tbe city to said company in the sum of $100,000 respectfully report. 1 That the charter of said railroad company and tbe amendatory act of the Legislature pertaining thereto, make it mandatory on this Board to order an election on the question of subscription whenever one-fifth of the qualified voters of the oity shall petition therefor; that tbe commit tee have carefully examined and scru tinized the petition accompanying the application of tbe said railroad company and find tbat the same con tains the n&mes of more than eleven hundred qualified voters of the city, which is nach more than one-fifth of the qualified voters of the city as required by law. Your committee therefore ' respectfully recommend tbat an e'eotion be called submitting the question of subscription to said railroad in the sum of $100,000 to the voiers of the city, agreeably to said application and the terms of the charter vf said company. The com mittee f irther recommend that in the event of tbe subscription being rati fied at the election, the proposition of tbe railroad company to place the bonds in escrow, to be paid out pro rata as the work progresses mile by mile, b accepted, with the right on tbe part of the city to pay Baid sub scription in cash in lieu ot bonds. Aldeman Ricaud said that he de sired to state for the information of the Board that the charter of the railroad company provided that if bonds vers issued they should bear six per aent. , interest, and the com mittee thought that the city could place iti bonds at a lower rate of in terest, and effect a considerable sa ving by paying the cash instead of bonds. After a brief discussion of -the mat ter, Alderman Price moved tbe adop tion of the report of the committee, -and the motion Koine seconded it was w-. ty the Board ana carried. Aiaerman jrisbbiato ..u i . mi t tee appointed to make the neces sary arrangements for an election were ready to report, and that they bad decided it best, to save expense. to have tbe election for both schemes at one time. He repudiated the idea of the friends of tbe Onslowroad de siring to tack it on to the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley project, and thought that if two elections were held, at different times, both wonld be defeat ed. The cry was started by enemies of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley road, who hoped by this means to prevent persons from voting. I The ordinance providing for the election was then read by Mr. Cutlar, city attorney, by whom it was pre pared. It provides that the registra tion books shall be opened on, tbe 13th day of February at the usual places, tbe election to take place on the first day of March, 1888; proper advertisement and notice to be given bv the Mavor. The ordinance also r - names the registrars and poll holders, and requires the election to be held under the registration taken for the election in March, 1887. Separate ballot boxes sha!l be provided for receiving the ballots npon each question. The ballots must contain, upon the one question, "Wilmington, Onslow & East Carolina Railroad Company Subscription;" or, ; "Wil min&rton. Onslow & East Carolina Railroad Company No Subscrip tion;" and upon the other question, "Cape Fear Sc Yadkin Valley Rail road Companv Subscription" or "Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail road Company No Subscription." Mr. Ricaud suggested that it would be better to have two boxes with the name of one railroad on each box, and not on the tickets. After some discussion of this mat ter, Alderman King moved the adop tion of the ordinance. Alderman Pearsall suggested tbat it would be better to have the elec tions on separate days. Alderman Ricaud said that if the eleotions ' were held on sepa rate davs the two roads, or the friends - of the two ! roads, would fight each other. He did not like to see the city subjected ! to the expense of two elections, resulting in the defeat of both enterprises. He criticised the Board of Audit and Fi nance for desiring to hold the elec tions on separate days, and then ob jecting to the expenditure of five hundred dollars for the expense of one election. f The ordinance as read was then adopted. i: Alderman Pearsall, from the . com mittee on Streets and Wharves, said tbat they were not ready to submit a report on the application of the Sea- coast railroad for right of way, etc, There beine no other business for consideration the Board adjourned. Tb Ball at Dnolta Bom The ball eiven at Duplin Roads last Friday nteht by Messrs. B R. Graham and S. W. Clements, Jr. was largely attended and greatly enjoyed. The dancing was kept up until half-past five o'clock yesterday- morning. Messrs. W. P. Moore and Toe. Moats WASUIAGiOy. Iitcht-tfoBM off ( ape Hatters Noaa laatloa Coanrtned-TioaBlesoane Na- . val Question Seuiea-spoooer Bill to Reieaiata Telegraph. Washingtoh Jan. 6 Senator Ran som was this mornicg authorized by the Commerce Committee to report favorably the bill providing for the construction of a five hundred thousacd dollars light-bouse tiff Cape Hatter as. Tbe Senate has confirmed the uomma tions of Martin V Montgomery, Associate Justice of the 8up erne Couit, District of Columbia, and John Blair Hoge, U 8 At torney, District of Columbia. The President 1 to-day issued an order directing tbe relief of Major Wm. Ludlow, corps of engineers, as Engineer Commis sioner of the District of Columbia, and de tailing Mai. Charles W. Raymond, corps of engineers, now on duty in this city, to suc ceed him. Tbe Secretary of the Navy to-day settled a troublesome question ' in regard to gun boat No 2 (the Petrel), now being con structed at Baltimore by the Columbia Iron Works The contract prtce for this vessel was $247,000, and tbe time for her comple tion expired December 23d last Tbe work of construction has been very much delayed and the vessel is now carcely more toan one-tenth completed. The con tractors are subject to a penalty of $35 a day for six months after the expiration of the eight fixed for tbe completion of tbe vessel. After six months the penalty is gradually increased for each day's delay, until at the end of two years it amount to $300 per day. In view of these increasing forfeits the question arose as to the pro priety of making tha ten per cent, payment usually allowed for such work, when it is one-tenth completed Tbe Secretary as certained that there was no risk involved in making tbe first payment, and to-day directed tbat it j be made. It is expected tbat tbe contractors will ask to have the contract time extended, in order to be re lieved or accruing penalties.but to far thev have not done 60 A bill was introduced in the Senate to- day by Mr. Spooner, of Wisconsin, to regulate commerce carried ou by telegraph. It places the business of telegraphing so far as regards tbe traffic between two or more States, under control of the Inter-; State Commerce Commission, which is given extensive and clearly denned powers to control tariffs.' redress grievances. &c. Senator Gorman, from the Committee ool Commerce, reported favorably to day a bil( to appropriate SoUlHW for a first class light-sbtp and steam fog signal off False Cape, Va. j Wasbikotoh, Jan. 27. A party oi naval officers, including Eugineer-in-Chicf aieiviiie, Ubiel naval Constructor Wilson. and Chief Engineer Devaiin. left Wafthicgv ton this afternoon for Richmond, Va , io examine the ; Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works, in order to ascertain their facilities for building machinery for the use of tbe navy; particularly machinery and boilers for the armored battle-fehio Texas," building at Norfolk. 8enalor Butler, of South Carolina, and Represen tative Wise, of Virginia, accompanied the party. Tbe visit w-a made upon invita tion of Gov. Lee. j Improvement in Speaker Carlisle's health still continues. This morning be aud Mrs. Carlisle and the Speaker's niece. Miss Queen, left (his city for Baltimore, where tbey took the revenue cutter for Fortress Monroe. Tbey will probably gene ten cays or two wetKs Yesterday Bishop Keana. of Richmond. rector of the Catholic University, and Mr. Baldwin, or ttainmore, arcaittci. bad a conference with Wm Forsyth, surveyor of the uisiriet, in rererence to tbe location! of the University buildings, on tbe Middleion property, near Brook s btation, on tbe B. & O R R . about a mile and a half be- Ypnihantv limits The result was that Mr Forsyth was directed to IhS louaaailonfranu" iWnale"Meininfly for the commencement of tbe excavation for tbe foundation in March. This action, it is said, settles the question of the loca tion of the University. i f Tbe aicident to tbe steel beams of . the cruisor Charleston, now ouiiumg at pan Fraocisco. is a matter of considerable anxiety to the naval officials, in this city. A small seotlon or one oi tbe iracturea beams baa been received at the Department, and shows plainly tbat tbe crack was Ot a most decided character, extending almost entirely through the beam. It is now learned tbat the four fractured deck beams which were said to have been welded and worked into tbe vessel have been removed, as the result of an inquiry into their fitness for use which has been made by the De partment This inquiry, which is still in progress, has developed facta which have given rise to grave apprehensions concern' ing the cbaracter and quality or the steel already worked into tbe hull of the Charles ton, and further developments are awaited with anxiety. I Tbe secretary of the riavy has baa tne case of Pay Inspector 8tevenson under con S deration for several days, and will, an nounce bis action thereon to morrow or earlv next week. It is kuown that collu sions are unfavorable to Stevenson and also to several other officers who were impli cated. The Secretary is said to be very much displeased at the situation of affairs iii cer tain departments ot the yard as developed bv tbe investigation, and will.it la; pre dicted, take prompt measures to bring tbe Senders to punishment. It is rumored at the Navy Department to day that several of tbe omcers are to be court-mariiaieu-i WASHraeTOH. Jan. 27. The Commerce Committee of the House has decided to re port back Mr. Anderson s resolution pro viding for Congressional inquiry into the Reading strike, with a recommendation tbat the whole subiect be referred to tbe Inter-State Commerce Commission. 1 The Honse Committee on Elections to- dav disposed of the Indiana contested elec tion case, bv order in e a report to the House, declaring the seal vacant, on the ground that Mr. White (the sitting member), is in eligible, while Mr. Iiowry, the contestant, did not have a maloritv of tbe votes cast. Tbe sdootion ot tbe report by me tiouae would necessitate another election in tne Sixth Indiana district. On a motion to de dare Mr. Lowry entitled to the seat, ! every member of the committee except oar. tiouK, of Tennessee, who was absent, voted in the negative. The succeeding motion, to de clare that Mr. White is not entitled to the seat, was supported by all of the I Dem ocrats, while Messrs. Rowell. Cooper, Ly man, Johnson, (lnd.), ana ijooge votea no. Tbe Republicans will present a minority renort declaring Mr. White entitled to his seat. .1 CALIFORNIA. Two Carman Kill am Old Clttxsn mnu mlm wire To Murderer Lynched. RantaAjina. Jan. S7 C. B Hitch. cock, an old citizen, ana nis wire, were murdered Monday ntgnt oy two merman named Ausnlag ana ueiaex. ana tne mur derers were hanged by vigilanta last night. Hitchcock had sold his I arm to Ausniag. and tha deed was acknowledged and tbe monev naid Monday. Ausnlag and ueiser accompanied Hitchcock and his wife home nnd that ntgnt muraerea tne coupie sa buried them Their disappearance awaken ed tbe suspicions of the neighbors, wno made a search, round the Domes ana Bum- cient evidence to convince them that Aush- laz and Deiker bad planned everytning be forehand, so they stiung them np to a tree and they were still banging this evening. FL.OR1DA. . Hew York Forr Captnrd In Jack sonville, j I Jacksonville, January ST--George Haywood Carpenter, absconding president and Treasurer of tbe Brookside Knitting Company, the Waahburne SaWcylic Manu facturing Company, ana oioer corpora tions in the citv of New York, who ha Immi living in this city since .Novem ber nnder an assumed name, was arrested toHlay at the instance of some of inspector Rvrne's detectives, ne is cnariea wnu havins forced bills of lading and ware house receipts to the amount of forty thou- aMdeUatS. NXSJCS TO mi. THE QRKA1 SNOW ST OHM So Slao or Abatement la Weaterm New Sort Paaaeoaer Train mill Stock la Snow Drift Detail ot tbo Trouble. ' I j Bv Telecraph to tha Horn but Star.) WASBIBOTOS. Jan. 28 Dispatches in. night are again loaded with details of tbe trouble occasioned by the sold weather, snow and wind in all territories from a north' and south line, through the micdle Of Pennsylvania and New York to tbe northeastern British provinces. West of jhat line, while the weather is cold and lenty or enow and winds prevail, tbey ave not been severe enough to cause rail- oads to suspend operations, or obliterate ural landmarks. The storm this after noon has undone about all that had hw n dune to open communication in eastern Pennsylvania, i New York and New Eng land. The Jefferson branch ot the Erie jRailroad from 8uquehaona to Carbon dale, Penn., has been abandoned for two Klavs and several The Carbondale and Honesdale gravity road is also blockaded. The worst places are along the mountains. The Bangor & Portland, and Lehigh & u-vw..uuuw i.iimjouo. WUkUU IUU W lue slate regions of Pennsylvania, remain blocked with drifts. The main line of the Heading Railroad, between Philadelphia ouu neau;uK,i nas oeen Kent OOt-n and T 1 : . . . trains have made reasonably good time. ana tbe Pennsylvania seems to have had but little trouble on its main line, but there is scarcely a branch road in tbat part of Pennsylvania that is clear. KeDorta from Reading to-nicht indiote tbat the snow storm has been tbe worst for over twenty-five years, and the railroads nave never experienced more terrible times. in JNeW York matters are about theaama. On the Wallkill Vallev Railroad, near wrr 1 1 ; tv : t a . ..." nr au&ui vuiage, tne snow is oiled ud in cuts to the depth of fifteen feet. The last passenger tram to get to tbat village arrived mere inursaav evening, and has reauiiced mere ever since, i ne Ulster couutv ex press, on the New York, Susquehanna & western Railroad, which left Middletnwn Thursday morning, bad reached Union- vule, thirteen miles distant, this afternoon. and a relief train sent that evening had made only eight miles. i in Massachusetts, at Great Barrio ton an oraer was issued this morning that no trains would be run on the Masshchsetts branch of the Housatonic road until fnrtber orders. There is a drift two miles south of Great Barrington, eighty rods long and fifteen feet deep. A dispatch from High land Jjignt, Mass., says no clear water can be seen in Cape Cod Bay, and it prophecies that to night will freeze the bay solid from Liong roint to Barnstable .Light. j Aububh. N. Y.. Jan. S3. The storm shows no signs of abatement in this section. Hotels here and at Canajoharie are crowded with snow-bound guests, and there is but little prospect; of their being able to con tinue their journey for some days. Eleven passenger trains are stuck in drifts within fifty miles of this city. A snow plow with five engines has been sent out by the New XoiK ueatral Kailroad. but its labors are useless, as the wind drifts the snow back on tbe track as soon as it passes Snow in cuts near Cato is over thirty feet deep. If USSiA AMA UST&IA . War Deemed Inevitable Both Pow er Watcblug for a Ctiane to Strike Troop Still malBs on the Bor der. I Bbblhi. . Jan. 28. Herr Von Tizea's statement in tbe Lower House of tbo Hun garian Diet to-day was anxiously awaited here. It has confirmed the couviction that war between Austria and Russia is accent ed by both sides as inevitable. The Pre mier s statement was given in a carefully poised speech, professing peace, but brealh- llUUi XCSItU, UUCICU lUHJi UnLlLfliai n iuu iv a 1UI sale freely, but the effect of tbe Piemier's speech will not be fully seen till the open ing of business on Monday. Private advices from Vienna state tbat diplomatic negotiations recently opened be ween Prince Labanoff, Russian Ambas sador to Austria, and Count Kanoky, have been abandoned 1 he condition of affairs now existing between the two governments is simply that each is lying in wait for the nrst chance to strike. Reports received at the War Office from agents on the Polish frontier intimate a re newal of activity among Russian troops Difficulties in tbe way of transporting troops are remedied. The Commissariat has been improved and disease among troops is decreasing. In tbe Provinces of Yolbynia and Podolia, military requi sitions for- grain and forage are causing a dearth of provisions amoog tbe people At Kremeneta eight great magaines are being built. They will be surrounded by forincationi. At Doubno, accomodations have been ordered for 80.000 trooos. At Luck, between Doubno and Vladimir Walinski, a new camp is being constructed. which will hold 30,000 troops. These pre paratione would stem to indicate an in tention of invading Galicia. The Austrian war officials suspect tbat the real object in view is the invasion of Bulgaria, and that tbe aim of the Czar's strategy is to entrap Austria intocndicg the bulk of j her forces into Galicia, while tbe real coup is delivered in the Balkan peninsular. ! The interviews ' which Stourdza, of tbe R umanian Cabinet, had at Vienna ad Fried richsohne, have result ed in an entente eordiale. If Russia enters Roumania,! Austria will hold the step to be a earns belli. Stourdz is understood to have obtained from Bismarck assurance that the Rouma nian territory would be enlarged in tbe event of defeat of Russia. Rumor credits Stoudza with susgestirK a solution of tbe Bulgarian problem by the extension of Roumania to tbe Eean sea, with Salodca as the capital. This project would receive no countenance from Austria, as she too. has designs for the final extension of her territorv to Saloniet Toe smews of war nave been oouiuea by the Russian treasury by a loan arranged in Amsterdam, the amount of which is said to be 45.000.000 pounds sterling Herr Van Tiisa has concluded negotiations with the Frankfort Rothschilds for a loan of 29,000.000 florins. FOREIGN. A demonstration by IrUb. Feasant. Dublin, Jan 28 Upon tbe arrival of Fathers McFadden and Blane at Dun- fanaeby a thousand peasants armed with sticks gathered on tbe bill sides in military order. The crowd tried to enter the town. but were prevented by the military. Tbe eheenng of the prisoners by the mob was deafening. The trial to-day at Eooia. of Mr. Jo seph L Cox. member of Parliament, who was charged with addressing tne proclaim ed branches of the National League, re sulted in a verdict of guilty. Mr. Cox was sentenced to four mouths' imprisonment. with hard labor. He took an appeal, and was admitted to bail, but on leaving tbe court house be was again arrested. The new charge against him is that he was guilty of a breach of the Crimes act in ad dressing tbe tenants at bUiaysan. ELECTRIC SPARKS. The jury in the tally sheet forgery cases at Indianapolis, lod., nas convicted uorry and Berbamer ana acquitted mamer. - The eclipse of the moon was observed at Washington. D 0.. under the most favor able conditions, and the Naval Observatory secured valuable observations. . The Secretary of the Treasury has desig. nated the First National Bank of Ashe- ville. N C . a depository of public moneys He has decided not to aaa to me number of these denotiitories except in cases where it is of advantage to aisoursiag omcers. The weekly statement of the i Associated Banks shows tbe following changes: ltd serve increase $3,844,350; loans incrense $1 800.200; specie inciease $3,198,700; legal . . m . mir J . i tenders Decrease sos.oou; aeposiia in crease t3. 199.400: circulation decrease $24,700. The banks now hold $28,258,845 In excess of the 2o per cent. rule. w a.. . it ouiaii Tiuage, out u nas two papers; one called tbe Signboard, and tbo other tbe Jtnterprtte. weenvuie Reflector: Mr. J. . E. Clark's new steamer Alpha, made a trip -to this place and Tarboro last week, having pn board a large cargo of kalnit, It is a large, Laadsome steamer. Monroe kouirer-Exvresa: Mr. , W. C. Ritch, cf Vance about 1,800 gallonsgof very fine sorghum the past season. The nroducti ,111 of tint cane will soon come to be a stanle nrnn with our farmers. Thu Greenville Reflector. oi;e of the most highly esteemed Eastern con temporaries, has entered upon its seventh year. It is a staunch Democratic paper, and deserves well at the hands of tbe oeo- - pie among whom it circulates. It will be impteved during the year. Hickory JPress: EH Tavlni- Jr., living three miles east of Connelly Springs raised an aero of tobacco on com mon ridge land, tbat gave him $100, clear of all expenses, as the result of bis labor. Aiast week a party ot young nun went : rabbit hunting; among them were Melanc- tbon Seita and Fielding Biker. Tbe parly divided,, one part on each side of a small branch; a rabbit started up between them. and Baker discovering it prepared to shoot; some one of the parly epoke to bim, ne stopped ana teen Drought up his gun again and fired, bitting 8caz, who was in line on the other aide of tbe branch, and peppering him from the ribs to the knees ' Lenoir Topic:' Last night two men of this county went to the hi.uae of Thomas Absher, and,- k necking him up. were admitted. Tuey were drinkirg and had a jug of whiskey or brandy with tbem. mr. ADSDer aranx witn tbem, and they gave an old man named Sweet, bo Idiotic old fellow who lived at Mr. Absher 'e, some of the spirits. Tbey insisted on his drinking, and plied him with it, and he continued to drink a good deal of the l quorv although Blr. Absher remonstrated with bim and advised him to stop. After awhile Sweet became insensible and re mained in that condition until he died next -day at four o'clock in the afternoon. It ia charged that, not content with filling the old fellow up with more liquor than he ought to have taken, the men doctored his draughts by chewing tobacco ami spitting tho juice into it. Wilson Advance: A number of friends of Rev. P. D Gold and wife as sembled at their residence laat Monday nigbt to offer their congratulations on tbe twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. Tbe callers took with them or sent on be fore some present of silver. A Mr. Bass who lived about three or four miles from Nashville, committed suicide one day last week, we learn. He went in the house a&hortwhile before his dead body was found, and asked his wife if the boys bad brought the wsod in tbe house. He then passed into another room from wbich di rection bis wife shortly afterwards beard the sound of some one falling to tbe floor. Sbe went in and, to ber horror, saw his body lying on tbe floor with bis throat cut from ear to ear and the blood (jushiog from the ghastly wound inflicted by bis own hand . A razor was the weapon used. Weldon News; We are pained to learn that Dr. J. B. Hall's little son. Stuart, of Scotland Neck, while pulling out a drawer pulled the safe over on him. broBEing his thigh lust above tbe knee. We regret to uote that Mr. James Hodges, of Bdgecombe, has been forced to make an assigument for the benefit of the creditors of E. B. Hodges & Co., of Tar boro. He was tbe "Co." Mr. Hodges had by bard labor and economy saved $25,000 by farming, -i Premium No. 80, awarded by the Slate Agricultural Stciely for tbe largest yield of corn upon one acre of land, was $50 in gold, and was donated by the Raleigh oil mill and fertilizer com pany to H. B. Bagweli, of Garner, in Wake county. The experiment of Mr. Bagwell is reliable, showing bow seventy-six bush els of corn have beeo raised to tho acre in that section. Kaleigh News- Observer: Among the enterprises on the tapis for Raleigh is a new gas company, which will be organized this week by Julius Lewis, Esq Tbe roads leading into the city are cow practU cally impassable. So long as this" is the rose. iu!. so long will business be dull. proving tne roads i layror raisuu, convicted of larceny in Sampson county in 1888, and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary, has been refused pardon Crawford Walters, convicted in Columbus county in 1887 of slander of an innocent woman; sentenced to twelve months im prisonment and a fine of $1,000. An ap peal was taken to tne supreme uourt, whicn decided tbat both penalties were not legal. and Walters was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, credit being given for four months already served up to that time. He has cow served nine months and tbe remainder was commuted to a fine of $25, it being shown ! that longer imprison ment would ruin the health ot the prisoner. Chapbll Hixl. January 24 The address by Professor Joseph A. Holmes to night before tbe Mitchell Scientific Society', on tbe Life and Cbaracter of tbe late Prof. W. C. Kerr, was a production of extraordi nary merit. - Moohesvtlle. January 25. To-day while iJ. A. Jamison, living three miles east of Mooresville, was engaged in topping a tree in his yard, was knocked off by tbe falling top and killed instantly. Raleieh iVto-Observer: Judge Clark, who is holding court in Rocking ham county this week, has just fined two jurors $40 each for being late in attendance at court. A i prominent puonsning house in New York yesterday sent to Secre tary B. G. Harreil, of the N. C. Teachers' Assembly, a check for $100, as a contribu tion for the building of the new assembly ball at Morehead City. Une of tbe most important meetings ever held in' the interest of tbe city is called for to-night at the Mayor's office. The purpose is to con sider the establishing of a cotton factory in Raleigh. .Tbe most important station between Clarksville and Oxford is Stovall, formally called Sassafras Fork, and is tbe natural trading centre of a considerable territory, being tea miles from Oxford, fif teen miles from Clarksville and sixteen miles from Benderson Quite a little village with two churches, stores, plow foundry, wood-shop and a number of residences has grown up at this place and promises to be come of much importance in tbe near future. -The report of a sensational occurrence comes from the county of Chatham and was talked on the streets here yesterday. A few davs since, at one of the public schools of the county, wbich is largely at tended by pupils ranging in age from seven to twenty years, the teacher called up a small boy with the evident intention of ad ministering a dose oi iimoer mrcn as a cure for shortcomings on tbe part of the pupil. "Young America's" antipathy to such proceedings rose and he resisted tbe teacher with all his power, tie was sud denly reinforced in a very effective manner by a grown young lady pupil, an aunt oi tbe boy, who rose from her seat, whip ped out a pistol from somewhere and opened a fusilade on the teacher. The "Dominie" quickly suspended operations and rushed for the door and succeeded in getting out without damage, but a subse auent inspection showed tbat a bullet had bored a suggestive-looking hole in his coat-tail. Recess was unofficially given for tbe remainder of the day. From a Fair Bluff correspondent of January 28ih: Mr. B. A Anderson made sn assignment to-day to Mr. Octave Hicks of Wilming ton. Rumored liabilities $9,000. He has preferred creditors. We have no particulars. LouiSBCBO. i N. C, Jan. 28 --Notwithstanding court is in session here and tbe crowd in town, there was a general jail delivery here last night, resulting in the escape of the five prisoners who were con fined therein, four of whom were under, sentence to the penitentiary. Hxn dbbsos, N. C , Jan. 26 "Young's Row." on the railroad, one hundred yards in length, was burned last night. Eight store bouses, several small buildings, wooden; old. Messrs D, E. and R. E Young, four houses, $3 000; J. W. Vaughan, two bouses $2 000; G. B. & S. R Hairis, one hrne, $1 000; Cbas. Burnett, one honst, $1,000; W. W. Young, one house, $1,000; no insurance A. E. Rosenbush. groceries, $250; A ML Jordan, groceries. $300; Roy aler & Gregory.! colored, groceries, $100; W. H. Cook, colored, barber shop; Moses Peace, colored, restaurant; F. R, Tucker, -colored, groceries; Allen Perry, colored, barbershop; Adam Reavis, colored, res taurant; 8yd. Davis, colored, butcher; 8. 8. Whitten, saloon, from $5 to $30. The fire caught from a stovepipe in Mosea Peace's restaurant at 10.60 p. m. Tbe block will be rebuilt to the beueit of the town. iuuu in a very vouoff wia verv
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