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.nOUBTACTS FOB THE FARRIERS.
IE the Republican platform isjcar
ricl ont the imports will be greatly
i . .
ncjd. They declare that they
favor
higher Tariff that 'fwill
to check imports." This means
t in
hibitory Tariff, a genuine bhi- I
a W
ness yaii. our. w nison, trom wnom I
H-p qncted yesterday, sayB in IBel-
foriTs Magazine:
"The Republican party demands that our
imnnrls shall cease: that the farmer shall
bum his surplus grain for fuel, and kill
Hud burn his surplus meat for a fertilizer.
1 1, has succeeded in past years In almost
.rint?ifij tbis about by placing such a heavy
line upon the purchase of what the farmer
v i-l.ed lo buy abroad with his surplus-that
cmiN'I not, pay it, and therefore could not
t : ii his turplus; and. by thus preventing
v"- . rations and keeping that surplus at
h ti.k; lac ltcpuoiican party bas kept down
: u ef Eii that the farmer has been forced
i -s i it h loss in the home market, Jin
. :(-! r! to sell at all. for his foraicn market
j. s (iloted making up the year's expenses
i. inorigage. " ' is tne KeDUbli-
c irr farmt-r blind, that he cannot see who
And tthat is responsible for his hard times?
H w hej not know that the greater the
.n; unt of our importations, the greater
the iJemicd will be upon him for grain and
trie t i h which to pay for them? ( la he
s fetupti! that be does not know 'that a
great inert-ase ia such a demand upon bim
niPfiEs hia prosperity, and that a great de-
c- an teucU fis the ltepubltcan party favors
i...: art- lila ruin?'' j
tj ;e is scarcely doubt that if the
ir p.rff; of the last twenty-keven
a ; not existed, ana it tne
!:-r uow laritt bad been in
( ;traiion ill through the years' since
1S46, bat the products of the farm
era of Ibis country would have) been
double what they have been.
1
o: farmers themselves would have
brci! i-b stimulated by their sales in
die readymarkets of the world that
il: would have produced double
w'tnt they have produced. Restrict
mg importation has cut on: the
f iriijrh markela to a verv srreat ex-
n, land hence farmers have been
01)11;
iit to employ less
j jes grain, &c.
labor and
iiw i
t is impossible to take
in the
hi
niner of this change. Instead
of i
xrioiting $523,073,798 of farm
; 1 10
luulf", there would have been ex-
d 1 .000.000.000. This would
m r c rt iim r I tt rrt onr 1 1 i Avaw
employment to
l V t U ClUIVJ IU , l' W I V V VI J
and every idler. This would
ncreased greatly the purchas
rAwer of the people. Thisi
would
in reasod tho demand for shoes,
liVJ
k clothing, &o. Not only this,
With a Low Tariff the clothing,
likfcts, &c , would have been very
mulch cheaper and the comforts of
1
!1 would have been verv much in
oroiastd. i
A jligh Tariff
"checks importa-
lion.
It also stops exportati
on to a
very great extent. 1 bis lessens pro
duction. This lessens the demand
i or labor, l bis makes men idlers
ami tramps. This lessens the returns
of tho farm. This makes clothing
and common necessaries high. This
deprives the laboring classes of their
com forts. The farm hand 'goes to
the Protected mill and grinds at pau
per prices. 1 he mill owner rolls in
wealth. Carnegie receives $5,000 from
- his feteet works daily, while his em
ployed working men sweat and half
starve, t
i We jrive an instructive, ijllusjira
liye paragraph from Mr. Willson.
Itesays:; j
'In 1380 the 49 sugar refiners of this
.rrjuLtry received from the people of the
Waited States $155,484,915 for sugar jthat
COUld havfl hppn hniiffht In frratm mnrb-AtJi
'r 1100.312,847,-an advance of $55, 172,-
vuo over normal prohts. The 43 firms em
Ployed 5,857 wdrkmen, to whom 'they paid
$2,875,032 in wages, or 5 per cent of the
blackmail paid by the people) to the 49
firms. L.st year the blackmail paid the
, 49 Arms was over $30,000,000. 1 and their
workmen struck against a decrease in
wages snd were beaten. What 'protec-
"?u' did the tariff afford . these work
men?" I , - j
The Tariff is far highe in 1888
man it was in 1866. the year after
'hje great war. This is a great shame
i it. is a great burden. It is a won-
dlr that it does not create a revolu-
. i M'' i -
tior;. The people are ignorant or
they would not suffer tho; curse to
continue and to increase. The Chi
cago platform demands higher taxa
tion more checking of imports a
higher Chinese Wall. The ignorance
of tax-payers is the chief bulwark of
Monopoly. Blaine is building- on
I-. . - . i l.
111 at. leach the people tne curse
and burden of Protection.
iet us give one more instructive
paragraph from Mr. Willson.l lie
aays: i '
I ("Year, by year the Republican party has
Continued In "rhptr tmnnrta nt siip.h Ar
ticles (of foreign pauper labor) as could be
Produced by our people," and to force
oore and more of our workmen into their
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production and into competition with for
eign paupers. The competition of our
paupers lor every workman in a protected
industry is a public pauper, supported at
the public expense bv a blackmail tax naid
to his employer has had its effect abroad
and lowered the pittance naid the comoet-
insr foreign pauper. ; In time this will low- ,
er the wage of the American pauper, f or
competition in work means lower wages.
Th. A m 1 v
the Republican tariff for protection last
year to an export of $523,073,798. Did he
receive foreign pauper made goods of this
value in exchange T Yes; but before he
received them he was compelled to pay a
fine of over $200,000,000. so that he should
not be able to dispose of them at profit in
competition with the American manufact
urers of .European pauper products. This
nne represents the profit he was unjustly
roDDea oi-on me transaction."
We must follow this up with other
facts for the farmers. They should
understand this great, undying, most
important question, of indirect taxa
tion under the Tariff. Strange to
say, as we learn from good authority,
there are a few Democratic farmers
who will vote for Dockery because
he is a farmer. And yet this candi
date of Radicalism is a High Protec
tionist the worst enemy on this
green earth that the farmer has. If
they understood the Tariff and knew
how it ; taxes the farmers and cuts
short their income they would rather
a yellow fever camp than sup-
f"kouou a puuuvisu. aieiuupeg
pie light. Light is what they need.
They are ia darkness.
THE PLUCKING OP THE FARRIERS
If the farmers are oppressed the
eountry cannot flourish. They are
the true basis of a country's pros
perity. It is their solemn duty to
inform themselves if they are really
oppressed by the Republican War
Tax. The Stab has been trying to
help make this plain. It continues
the good work to-day.
Are the farmers injured by the
Tariff? , We think we have clearly
established that they are, but let us
have line upon line, and line upon
line.
Everybody knows that when crops
are excellent and prices are high that
the arteries of business feel at once
the effect and the whole country
thrives and rejoices. This is true.
It is then extremely important that
legislation shall help the farmers and
in no way retard or oppress them.
A legislator who will vote for a
law that wrongs or oppresses the
farmers, the true source of all real
prosperity, deserves to be ducked in
the Potomao and made to wear tho
foolVoap for a life-time. Ho ought
to be 6et to work at mauling rails or
pecking rocks.' The prosperity of
the farmers is the real condition of a
nations prosperity, ine area in
terests of the country depend upon
agriculture. He is a very ignorant
fellow who does not know that the
country was saved from financial
ruin in 1880-81, by the relief af
forded by the farmers. It was the
unprotected portion of the country
that kept the factories going and
started up tho idle furnaces.
No country in history ever flour
ished after agriculture had ceased to
be fostered. Mark that. It is ig
norance or corruption that induces
legislators to combine against the
farmers. j
The farmers are affected at every
turn by Protection. It is impossible
to protect breadstuffs and provisions.
It has not been done and cannot be
done. What then. The farmers of
the United States must sell their
surplus at the prices prevailing in
the foreign markets and no Ameri
can Tariff can alter it in the; least.
Mr. Lieb says: j
"Under the Protective Tariff the Illinois
farmer haB to give about the same quantity
of wheat and bacon for a ton of Pennsyl
vania iron that ho would for a ton of Eng
lish iron, with this difference, that in the
latter case, the fifty - per cent tax would go
into the United States Treasury, while in
the former, the fifty per cent protection
goes into the pocket of the Pennsylvania
Iron-master."
So Illinois must pay whether the
custom house l is in New York or on
her own borders. It must pay 50 per
tent, more for all the iron it needs
than it would nave to pay "if per
mitted to exchange the wheat and
- provisions, not needed at home, with
the people who need them but have
a surplus of iron to sell." Mark
that.
Mr. Lieb makes this plain. He
takes a Chicago packer. lie takes
1500 barrels of pork to Philadelphia
to exchange for steel rails. The
price of pork is $13.34 per barrel.
Pennsylvania steel rails are $28 a ton.
The exchange would get the packer
714 tons of Pennsylvania rails. That
is clear. Now what? The packer
learns that there are 1,000 tons of
steel rails on an English ship in the
river. The captain offers to take
$20 oash or to exchange for Ameri
can pork at market rates. But a U.S.
Custom House officer says you shall
not do this unless the captain pays a
tax of 50 per cent, on the rails. This
puts the English rails at once at $30
two dollars a ton higher than the
Pennsvlvania rails. This is bad. - It
prevents the Illinois packer from sell
ing and buying to hjs own advan
tage.
Now he has lost a great deal
more than tho two dollars a ton the
difference between the English and
Pennsylvania rails, with the tax of
$10 added. The loss is very much
We turn to Mr. Lieb. He
says: - ... 1.
"Instead of 1.000 tons which, but tar Oa
interference of the Government, he might
have had for bis fifteen hundred barrels of
pork he only receives 724 tons, or a clear
loss for our Illinois man of $5,720. Had
this amount gone into the United Treasury
our Illinois friend might have consoled
himself with the thought that this sum
would be expended for the public benefit,
and that he accordingly had performed a
patriotic act."
But so far from j this the $5,720
went into the pockets of Carnegie
or some other selfish, bloated Pltf
tocrat with an iron; mill.
We will give you more on this
line. The farmers must understand
how they are robbed. If the farmer
naa gone to .nay iron or steel in
stead of the pork packer and had
paid in wheat his loss would have
been the same. ; Ha would have got
but 714 tons of rails-when he ought
to have had 1,000 tons, and his loss
would have been $5,720. The actual
tax on steel rails is not $10 but $17
a ton.- ! ; -
THE ADDRESS BEFORE THE AL
LIANCE.
r 1 '
The meeting of the State Farmers'
Alliance at Kaleigh, is an event of
interest. . Fifty-two counties were
represented and . some 40,000 farm
ers. We have glanced over Presi
dent Alexander's opening address
that appears An the' News- Observer.
It strikes us as a well prepared,
thoughtful document. How much
it will contribute towards settling
the questions that more particularly
concern the farmers remains to be
seen. He did not touch npon the
most important question of all, un
less we overlooked it. We mean the
effect of a High Protective Tariff
upon the farming interests. The
Stab, for three consecutive issues,
has tried to throw light on this Borne
what obscured point. We were in
hopes that President Alexander
would grapple with this subject and
tell the Alliance just how the farm
ers were bled, oppressed, plucked
and bamboozled by the infamous
Radioal Tariff. .
He gave a dark picture of the
farming interests of the State, which
is in harmony with facts and with
what the Stab has often presented.
The farmers are. not prospering and
will not prosper so long as they pay
from 10 to 30 per cent, interest,
mortgage tneir farms and growing
crops, and are taxed heavily under a
high War Tariff. It is well enough
to look at facts as they are.
Mr, Alexander j proposes better
farming a more thorough tillage of
land. Quit trying to make a living
on poor or worn lout land. Enrich
all you cultivate. He evidently looks
to manufactures to help, farming.
If he will study the true sources of
information he wil
of importance can
find that no help
come that way so
long as a War Tariff grinds. This
is so, and we have proved it within
a few days. We cannot go into it
again here. Some markets will never
make the farmers of the South
thrive. Mark that. You must have
the open markets of the world.
He has something to say of rail
roads and commissions. They trans
port products for a great deal less in
1888, than they did thirty years ago
when the State was in a good condi
tion. The Stab will not favor any
plan that robs the States of power
and centralizes power in Washing
ton. The people must regard with
suspicion any proposition that looks
to Increasing the power and patron
age of the Federal Government. We
make this remark because Mr. Alex
ander says:
"But I see no need of the government
having as much patronage then as now
Organize a transportation department and
postomce department by enlisting men lor
life or a term of years, and not allow them
to vote. The army and navy are so organ
ized and no one hears of trouble about pa
tronage in either, or their interfering in any
way with elections."
The farmers are the hope of the
country and they will not advance
their own interests, secure pros
perity, or perpetuate free institu
tions by making the Federal Govern
ment stronger. Mr. Alexander has
good deal to say of the 'banks.
What North Carolina needs and
should have is, two-fold.
: First, a larger circulating medium,
and
Second, money, at low rates at
not more than 6 per cent.
The Raleigh News- Observer thus
refers to Mr, Alexander's remarks on
the banking system:
"What Capt Alexander savs of the na
tional bank system and of the currency is
admirably said, except that he has inad
vertently fallen into an error as to the con
traction of the currency. The greatest
amount or national bans currency ever
outstanding was $362,000,000 in 1882: on
November 1, 1881 the amount was $315,
000,000 and the amount outstanding in
the hands of the people August 1, 1888.
was fZ4a.4SS.073. so the reduction is only
$113,000,000 from the highest point, in
1882,- and $70,000,000 since Cleveland
came in.
"The amount of 'available money in the
Treasury vaults on July 1 was only $43,-
oou.uuu; so mat me enure withdrawal or
currency in three years has been only $113.
000,000. On the other hand, however. In
the same period there have been large addi
tions to the currency in the shape of coin
and or gold and silver ceruacates, aggrega
ting $233,000,000; so that the volume of
the money in the hands of the people is
many millions more to-day than ever be
fore. Capt. Alexander is in error.
"There has been no contraction of the
currency. Since Cleveland's administra
tion began the absolute increase in money
in the hands of the people has been $120,
000,000. Instead of there having been such
heavier.
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24; 1888.
a contraction of the currency as Capt. Al 1
exanaer indicates, ine currency bas been,
up to the present time, continually ex
panding.
It is gratifying to see North Caro
linians responding to the call of Go
vernor Scales to contribute money to
place headstones at the graves of
1,780 North Carolina dead buried in
Hollywood . Cemetery, Richmond,
Ya. It ought! to be done. It will
take a good deal of money to do it.
This reminds us
dollar we must
that we have one
return to a gentle
man . wno sent it to erect a monu
ment to that ablest and best equip
ped of North Carolina editors, the
late Maj. Peter M. Hale. That was
all we received. , All Carolina had
but one dollar a beggarly sum, to
give to the erection of a monument
in memory of one of the truest, no
blest, ablest of North Carolinians of
the last thirty j years. How unap
preciative ! Sad enough.
We notice a very interesting state
ment in the public prints concerning'
the Bishop of London. He preached
a farewell sermon in Westminster
Abbey. He professed to have been
converted, saying:
'He had been a diimilarv ofa church.
which was the cburch of the rich, and not
cnnrcQ of tne poor. He had mixed in so
ciety with men and women whom Christ
would have denounced as bitterly as he de
nounced tne scribes and Pharisees men
and women with whom no decent
workingmen would allow their wives and
daughters to associate. Little by little he
had awakened to the fact that he and his
class had neglected the poor, and had kept
Daca ineir nire by mud. tie bad decided
to begin a new life, give up the pleasures
or society, ani taae bis place aa a man
among min. He bad counted the cost.
On the following day he proposed, he said.
to preacb to the poor or London in Tra
falgar square, and if the police arrested
him he would have the consolation of
knowing that Jesus Christ would be treated
in the same way if ho should attempt to
enter Westminster Abbey."
RUSSELL'S "SAVAGES'
ine ikicKera' convention "We are
ine Republican Parij" A Connty
Ticket Nominated.
t
The so-called; "Independent Re
publicans" "Judge Russell's Sav
ages," as they style themselves met
in. Convention yesterday at noon, in
the County Court House. There were
about one hundred colored voters
present, one-third of the number be
ing delegates from the various wards
and townships. The meeting was
harmonious and orderly. It was or
ganized by calling' James A. Lowrey
to the chair and apoointins U. H.
Richardson and J. B. Robinson
secretaries.
On motion of Geo. W. Price, a com
mittooto roonmmonfl nominations for
county officers was appointed, con
stituted as follows: Geo. W. Price,
cnairman; Jas. is. Robinson, secre
tary; U. S. Richardson, Georga Pear
man, J. C. Smith, S. J. Washington
V. C. Long, -Geo. Sadgwar, Wm. H.
Waddell, Wm. McClammy, M. Sid-
bury. "I i
The committee retired for consul
tation, and returning in about ten
minutes, reported the following nom
inations, which were approved by the
Convention, viz :
Sheriff Harding Johnson.
County Treasurer Elijah Hewlett.
Register of Deeds Jos. . Samp
son, i
Coroner P. C. Sadgwar.
Constable--Washington Howe.
House of Representatives Wm. H,
Waddell and Jno. O. Nixon. I
Speeches were then in, order and J.
O. Nixon, Geo. W. Price, W. H.
Waddell- and perhaps others ad
dressed the meeting. Judge Russell,
Manning and the Court House ring
was the theme of all. Waddell urged
his hearers'not to hunt for the man
who had the most dollars, and Price,
in one of his lofty flights said: "Rus
sell with his eloquence, Manning with
his bag of money, cannot swerve us
from our purpose." He nela up a
circular printed on blue paper
and addressed ! "to the colored peo
ple of New Hanover county," de
nouncing "Lowrey, Price & Co.," and
said, "If I had a cross-eyed, knock
kneed, three-year old son who
couldn't get up a better document
than that, I would send him to Bar-
num for exhibition as a monstrosity'?
Some fellow sung out in the hall,
J ohn Holloway done it I"
After the speaking, which lasted
two or three hours, the Convention
got down to business again, and a re
solution endorsing "Protection" and
Dockery and Harrison was adopted
with applause.
The chair announced as the com
mittee to wait upon the nominees
and inform them of the exalted honor
awaiting them, Geo. W. Priee, Prince
Nixon, J. H. Jackson.
A resolution was adopted that the
executive committee meet after the
Convention to fill any vacancies that
may occur on the ticket.
On motion of Geo. W. Price, a call
was made for a preacher, and Rev.
J. H. Dorsey ordering the Convention
to rise, dismissed the members with
a benediction.
Three rousing cheers were then
given for the Convention, at the call
of Geo. W. Price, and three more for
the "Savages," when the meeting dis
persed. I
After the Convention representa
tives from the wards and townships
met and organized the County Execu
tive Committee, as follows: Geo. W.
Price, chairman; Jas. B. Robinson,
secretary; J. C. Smith, reporter; Jno.
Pleasants, Ed. Thomas, J. W. Mc
Clammy, V. C. Long,-Jas. Sadgwar,
Jas. Lowrey, M. Sidbury, J. O. Nixon,
W. H. Waddell, Prince Nixon, Wm.
Wooten, Saml Bennett
It was announced that the Execu
tive Committee will meet Thursday
at 8 p. m., at Geo. W. Price's auction
room in Brooklyn.
E. C. Sadgwar having declined tho
nomination ior uoroner. Jno., !U.
Smith was named for the position
ana put upon tne ncKec
No more Sunday Tram.
At a meeting of the Directors of the
Wilmington Seacoast Railroad Co.,
held on the 15th Inst., Mr. Wm. Lati
mer, President, resigning the chair to
Mr. W. H. Chadbourn, Vice Presi
dent, offered the following resolu
tions:
Whereas. Bv a maioritv . vote of
the Directors of the Wilmington Sea-
coast Kauroad Co. it was resolved, as
a practical test of the views held by
saia majority of tne directors, mat
Sunday trains should be run over the
Wilmington Seacoast Railroad for a
certain number - of oundays; and,
whereas, said certain number of Sun
days duriner which trains have been
run over, the said road have passed,
now, therefore, be it
i&esoivea, Tnat in order to give a
similar and fair practical test to -the
views held by the minority of the
directors npon the question, (but not
in any manner deciding upon tne
merits of the question involved)
no trains will be run over the Wil
mington Seacoast Railroad on Sun
day, from and after Sunday tne lutn
inst., up to the next annual election
for directors and officers of tne
said railroad company .
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted. So, those of our citizens
who desire to spend Sunday at the
Hammocks, must make up their
minds to go down Saturday evening,
and come back Monday morning,
bright and early, if necessary.
Accident on the W., C. ds A. Road.
A freight train on the Wilmington,
Columbia & Augusta railroad ran into
the rear end of the north-bound pas
senger train; about two miles south
of Nichols Depot, S. C, at 5:45 a. m.
yesterday. The Pullman sleeper
Neva, of the passenger train, was tel
escoped by the locomotive of the
freight train, but only one passenger
Mr. Alvin Hart was injured,
and he continued on his- journey.
The sleeper was so badly damaged
that it could not be brought to the
city.
On the freight train there were four
colored tramps, who were stealing a
ride. Two of them, names unknown,
were killed. They were lying asleep
under some lumber in one of the cars
and were killed by the lumber falling
upon them. Another of the tramps,
Moses Scott, got one of his legs cut off
in the accident and the fourth, Calvin
McKoy, of Sumter, S. C, was severely
injured about the lower part
of the body. The engineer of
the freight train jumped into a clump
of bushes, but was not injured be
yond a few scratches; the fireman was
slightly injured and the conductor
escaped unhurt. The locomotive of
this train was smashed and eight
cars loaded with lumber were wrecked
The accident, it is said, took place
on a heavy grade, and was caused by
the brakes failing to stop the freight
train in time to prevent a collision
As soon as intelligence of the disas
ter was rcceivea liere tue railroad au
thorities sent out a relief train with
Drs. Love and Wood on board to ren
der assistance to the wounded, and
also ordered a relief train to be sent
from Florence. The track was soon
cleared and the wounded were
brought to this city in the afternoon,
The negro tramps Scott and McKoy
were sent to the City Hospital, but
the latter desiring to be taken
to his. home at Sumter was brought
back to the depot, and taken home
last night.
A Black Cat's SknU-Bone.
Since a "nigger wid a rabbit foot
was kotched at some of nis mean
ness and Mayor Fowler gin him
twenty dollars or thirty days on
the chain gang," old Simon says, the
darkies have lost faith in the virtue
of a graveyard rabbit's left hind
foot; and now their confidence in
that other talisman a black cat's
skull-bone is likely to be shattered
Yesterday afternoon, William Nutt,
a colored, man living on sseconu.
street near ; Castle, was arrested
for disorderly conduct. When
threatened with arrest by a
policeman unless he indulged
with more moderation in violent and
unseemly language, William, re
membering no doubt the well polished
skull-bone in his breeches pocket,
boldly defied all the powers of the
law to touch him. Nor did he quail
when the mild .mannered officer gent
ly gathered him in. No doubt he ex
pected to be wafted out of sight in a
jiffy by some old witch rldixtg on a
broom, or see the officer felled "by some
invisible force that would, leave
Madam Steen's performance in
the shade. But the conjure didn't
work. When Williams was searched
at the guard house, the skull-bone
was found and taken from him. to
gether with a miscellaneous collec
tionl of f unnv-lookine packages of
rags, pieces of the root of some plant,
and a well-used pack of playing
cards.
But perhaps William didn't procure
his skull-bone in the regular way
The charm, old Simon says, ."will not
work onless you ketch a black tom
cat on a dark night and bile him
alive in a pot of sdap grease. If you
do dat, you will have the best sort
luck and never get kotched."
New cotton.
The first bale of cotton of the new
crop was received here yesterday by"
Messrs. Worth & Worth, from Mr,
D. McLendon, Timmonsyille, S. C.
It graded low middling and was
bought by Messrs. Alex. Sprunt &
Son at eleven cents per pound.
The first bale last year was also
shipped ? by Mr. McLendon, received
by the Messrs. Worth, and bought
by Messrs. Sprunt & Son. It was re
ceived on the 17th, of August one
day earlier than the bale this year.
Naval Stores.
The receipts of naval stores at this
port from April 1st to August' 18th, as
compared with receipts for 2 same
time last year are as follows : Spirits
turpentine, 30,758 ca&ks, against 36,
756 last year; rosin, 87,074 barrels
against 132,670 last year; tar, 16,918
barrels, against 18,022 last year; crude
turpentine, 7,995 barrels, against 13,-
443 last year.
MARINE DISASTER.
Over Two Bnndred Lives Loat Steam
ship Gleser Sank In Collision with
the ThlnsvalJa.
New Yobk, Aug. 16. The steamship
Areland, Capt. Aibers, from Hamburg,
August 5th, via Havre the 7th, with
merchandise and 113 cabin and 455 steer
age passengers, arrived to day, and reports
that on August 14th. thirty miles south of
Sable Island,! at noon, saw the Danish
steamer Thingvalla, from Copenhagen for
New York, with signals of distress. The
Thingvalla had collided on the 14th at 4 a.
m , with the steamer Gleser of the same
line, from New York, August 11th, for
Copenhagen.- The Giescr eank in about
five minutes. Fourteen passengers and
seventeen of the crew, among them Capt.
Mailer, are saved. Seventy-two passengers
and thirty-two of the crew were lost. The
steamer Areland brought 455 passengers
from the Thingvalla and those saved from
the steamer Giescr. to New York. The
Thingvalla will endeavor to reach Hali
fax, N. S.
New Yobk, August 16. ThcGeiaer left
this port AuguBt lltb, bound for Stettin.
The Thingvalla was on her way to this city,
and was adverliaed to ieavo here August
25. A very heavy sea and denes fog were
experienced through tho night and early
morning of August 14th. it is said that
an object could not be distinguished fifty
feat away by reason of the fog.
btories diner as to where the liability
lies, if not due wholly to the fog and heavy
sea, but the Thingvalla struck the Geiser
on the starboard side amidships. The boats
quickly recoiled, and within five minutes
the Geiser sank. The crew of tho Thing
valla did all they could to save the Geiser's
crew and passengers, while still in doubt
whether the Thingvalla was not danger
ously disabled, but owing to the heavy sea
only thirty-one were saved . No other ves
sel was near at the time. The Wieland. on
her way to this port, was one hundred
miles away. At 11.30 o'clock on the morn
ing of the 14th the Wieland was sighted,
and signs of distress were made by the
Thingvalla, and the transfer of passengers
began. The -ea was then very heavy, but
no mishaps occurred in tbe transfer of pas
sengers, i
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Collision of Trains Near Chicago A
Number of Persons Injured.
Chicago. August 16. A serious colli
sion is reported on the Illinois Central Rail-
road at South- Lawn, nity miles south of
this city, this morning. The Illinois Cen
tral passenger train, bound for Chicago,
came in collision with a freight train, and
it is reported that many persons were killed
and injured. I'hysicians were called for
from Chicago and a relief train has been
sent to the scene of the disaster.
At the offices of the Illinois Central the
assistant superintendent said there was no
loss of life, so far as he had been advised
by the tram men at the wreck, though he
believed there were some persons seriously
injured. The accident, he said, occurred
in this way. , adoui o o ciock tne Cincin
nati passenger train of the Illinois Central,
at 6-45 a. m , ran into a freight train of
the Grand Trunk, at South Lawn, about
fifty miles from the city. As soon as in
telligence of the disaster reached the city
the master mechanic of the railroad started
for the scene on a special wrecking train.
It is now Btated two postal clerks and
three passengers were badly hurt, and all
others escaped injury, i
Chicago, August 16 There were over
two hundred passengers on the Illinois
Central train and their escape was simply
miraculous. For rods around the scene of
the wreck demolished freight and paB-
senger cars are piled up on every side. Re-
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net corps were seni aown oy uum rnn mw
nois Central and Grand Trunk railroads.
A dozen engines and wrecking crews were
put to work clearing up the wreck. Seven
people were loiurea, more or less, tnougn
none are fatally hurt. The victims are as
follows: Anderson Cobb, porter of sleeper;
Thomas Spane, baggage "master; Mr.
Plane and his wife; John Crous, fireman;
W. B. Land, passenger; J. H. Sullivan,
porter; John Frazier, porter. The only
man whose injuries the doctors fear will
nrove fatal is John uroua. nreman. no
jumped from the engine and alighted on
. , . . . : i u : r, nMAiM
DIB amu, irnuiurjug urn b&uii. uu wmp
was almost entirely torn off. A chair car
on the Illinois Central was used as a hos
pital and the tracks were cleared, when the
wounded were orougnt to tne cuy anu
placed in the hospital.
The accident was caused oy ine engine
of tbe passenger train becoming unmanage
able from derangement of machinery, and
the engineer was unable to stop before
reaching the crossing.Iwhich was occupied
bv the Grand Trunk freight train, ine
Grand Trunk train had the right of way.
A JDOUHLE TRAGEDY.
Policemen HI ordered by a Tonga.
LouisvfLiK, August 16. Number 98
LaCrosse istreet, a house which has been
notorious for the crimes committed in it,
and for the vice it bas fostered lor years,
was the BCene at 2 o'clock this morning of
a horrible double tragedy. Police officers
Joseph Rosenbern and James w. Jones,
while attempting to make an arrest, were
both stabbed to death by Charles Dilger,
formerly a private policeman and watch
man at tho Buckingham theatre, and a gen
eral bad character about town, omcer
Jones was stabbed in the forehead, tbe
knife penetrating the skull to the brain, ana
inithe Heart, lie was ueaa oeiore ower
officers reached the scene. Officer Rosen
berg was stabbed through the temple, and
was dying wnen iounu. uiiger was own
ing his mistress and the officers, attracted
bv her cries, broke in the house and at
tempted to arrest ine iougnf wna iuu iaiai
result cited. The murderer was jailed.
GREEN BACKERS,
Call for a National convention to
meet at Cincinnati.
(Bv SelegraDhto the Mornlnu star.
Washington, August 16. George O.
Jones, i Chairman of the National Com
mittee of the Greenback party, has issued a
noil fnr a National Convention of the
National Greenback party at Cincinnati,
Wednesday, Sept. 12th, next, to nominate
candidates for President and Vice
President of the United States, and to take
such further action as maybe deemed
necessary to preserve the name and or
ganization, and to keep before the people
ke great principles on which that party
was originally founded. The call is two
oehimns long. In its concluding para
graph it says the chief reason for calling
the Convention at Cincinnati is because all
railroads will sell tickets to that city and
return at about half rates during the con
tinuance of the Centennial .Exposition,
which llasts until uecemner nexi. mi.
Jones iinvites correspondence wnn nimseii
at the Biggs House, Washington, D. C.
Tffffi TARIFF QUESTION,
Blaine oe Invited to Olsenss tbe Is
sne with Speaker Carlisle.
Washington, August 17. The S(ar
of this evening has the following:
"A proposition is under consideration by
the Democratic campaign managers to ar
range for a joint discussion of the tariff
question by Speaker Carlisle and Mr.Blaine.
it is proposed to challenge Mr. Blame to
eet Mr. Carlisle and dispute the question
ia alternate speeches m the twelve princi
pal cities of the Union six to be named
fry Mr; Blaine and six by Mr. Carlisle. The
opinions of a number of prominent Demo
.eratie Congressmen as to the advisability of
jBnch a course have been asked, and there is
wary general concirreuw
L Greensboro Patriot: Fifty con-;
riots were sent from the penitentiary at
: Btaleieh yesterday to work on the Wil
i aington extension of the Cape Fear and
radkia Valley Railroad, near Fayetteville.
' Near Fayetteville, day before yester-f
di VT. Clinton Culbreth was playing with an
ol loaded pistol, when the weapon was
c. wdentally discharged, the ball entering
the yef Culbreth's little brother, inflict
ingaataliejuries. j
NO. 42
THE SUNKEN OKISER.
Corrected List of the Lives Lost
Pathetic Storv of a Husband whose
Wife was Among the Tlctlma.
New Yobk, August 17 Capt. Muller,
of tbe ill-fated steamer Geiser, gives a cor
rected list of the lost at 105. Tbe Geiser
carried 93 passengers and a crew of 43.
Of the passengers fourteen were saved, and
of the crew seventeen. This makes tbe list
of lost, 79 passengers, 26 crew.
Peter Julias Jorgensen. second officer
of the Geiser, says: "The only explana
tion I can give is that it was raining like
h 1; the i first officer was on the bridge,
and the third officer was down on the deck
taking soundings when the crash came '
Chicago. Aug. 17. Martin Schuasa, a
Scandinavian, whose wife was lost on the
Geiser, was found by a reporter this morn
ing at his home. On the announcement of
the sad news the bereaved husband burst
into tears and anxiously enquired for the
particulars. "We were married five years
'ago.f he Said, brushing aside bis tears, "at
Christiana, Norway, her home. Her father
is a Lutheran minister of that city. Eight
days after the wedding we started for Chi
cago. 8he was going to visit her home for
the first time since then. She had a premon
ition that she would not reach her home,
and talked of waiting until the next steam
er. II insisted that she should go on this, to
avoid the fall storms I wish I had not. I
dreamed last night that the vessel she was
on had sunk. 8ho was the best swimmer
in the Christiana natitorium, but I can't
glean much hope from that, for a woman
in the ocean waves is but a feather. I still
hope she: may be saved. She wrote me a
letter from New York, full of hapoy
thoughts. Miss Soulberg, of this city, was
on the Geiser with her. She, too, I sup
pose is lost."
New York, August 17. Capt Muller,
of the Geiser, filed his . report of the col
lision with the Danish consul this after
noon. Nothing further will be done in
the matter until the report of the captain of
the Thingvalla is filed. Investigation will
be held by the courts in Copenhagen, and
not here, as at first determined. Survivors
of the crew, and such of the passengers as
wish, will leave to-moirow by the Sla
vonia. j
The estimated loss on the vessel is $350,
000 and the loss on cargo about $120,000.
The insurance is not yet fully known.
The company, it is said, will as fer as in
their power, indemnify the survivors.
WASHINGTON.
Government Expenditures and Re.
celpts-Carllsle Ready to flleet Rlalne
In Debate.
Br Telegraph to the Xornlng Star.
Washington, August 18. It is hinted
about the Capitol to-day that some statis
tics have been collected which have already
given rise to much uneasiness among tariff
reformers, and are calculated to create a
sensation if officially published. It is said
that these statistics will show that the
revenues of the Government for the cur
rent year will exceed the expenditures con
templated by the various bills making ap
propriations by not more than thirteen
million dollars. As several of tbe bills car
rying large appropriations, although passed
by the House, have not yet gotten beyond its
control.it is said to be possible.now that at"
tention has been drawn to the matter, that
they will be heavily cut or allowed to die
without becoming laws, in order to reduce
the prospective large expenditures to figures
approaching what had been accepted at the
beginning of the session as fair estimates.
Speaker Carlisle says he will meet Mr.
Blaine in a joint debate on the tariff ques
tion if) the National Committee considers
such a step desirable.
Rev. Father Doonan, S.- J., who has
been stationed at Georgetown University
since 1875, and has served as its president
for the past six years, has been succeeded
by Rev. Father J. Haven Richards, 8. J.,
who finished his studies recently at Wood
stock, Md. Father Doonan will go to New
York to the College of St. Francis Xavier.
CHICAGO.
Tbe Latest Novelty in tbe Criminal
Record A Case of Leproay.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Chicago, August 18 The latest novelty
ia the phicago criminal record is a trio of
female sand-baggers. Early this morning
Minnie Daley, a noted pickpocket and
shoplifter, and wife of an expert burglar,
accompanied by two other women well
known to the police, stopped a well dress
ed gentleman in front of the Brevoort
Houte, on Madison street, and attempted
to rob him Two of the women seized
him while the third struck him several
times in the face with brass knuckles.
The man shouted for help and an . officer
heard j him and went to bis rescue.
At sight of the officer a cab driver
put two of the women into his
cab and started away at a rapid
pace. Minnie 'Daley made her escape
through an alley. The officer followed the
cab and ordered the driver to stop, but he
refused. The officer finally got into a
buggy and caught the cab. The women
and the driver were placed under arrest,
and on the way to the station the women
offered the officer $100 to allow them to go
free, but it was refused.
j Chicago, Augiut 18. August Johnson,
a Dane, came to the county hospital Thurs
day to consult the doctors about a loath
some; skin disease from which he was
suffering. After a careful examination the
; physicians decided that the patient was
suffering from tubeicular leprosy. He
was placed in an isolated compartment of
the contagious ward.
I TRAIN ROBBERS.
Attempt to Rob a Train on tbe Union
. Pacific Road.
Bv Telegraph to the Kornlne Htar.
EtL Louis, August 18. A special from
Cheyenne, Wyoming, says: An attempt
was made at 2 o'clock this morning by
masked men, to rob the Union Pacific easti
bound joverland passenger train. At Dana
station, near Rawhngs, three masked men
covered the engineer with revolvers and
compelled him to throw up his hands.
Brakeman Frank Tinman grappiea wun
one of the robbers, the express messenger
came to the rescue, and the robbers were
nut to flieht after, thirty or forty shots had
been exchanged. Fireman Nash and brake
man Tillman were seriously wounded; the
former shot in the hip and arm and the lab
ter in the side. One robber was dropped,
but ( was carried off by his pals. The
sherifl of Corbin county, with a posse, is in
pursuit.
LYNCHING.
A Negro Killed by masked mentor In-
! salting; a Tonne Iadr
j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. i
APALAcmcoLA, Fla., AuguBt 18. A
lynching took place at Ocheeshee, Calhoun
county, Wednesday. Nash Griffin, a ne-!
gro, wrote an insulting note to a young
white laay auss ikimmie unmn. duo
showed the note to some white men, who
caught Griffin and gave bim one hundred
lashes and ordered him to leave tbe county.
He did not go, when forty mssked men
caught and shot bim to death. . No arrests
have been maae.
MARIS E DISASTRE.
A Norwegian Steamer Wrecked crew
- 8aved. j
I By Telegraph to UieMornlnK Star.
Halifax, N. 8., August 18. The
Norwegian steamer Liberta ran on White
Island, off Ecurn Becum, last night, and is
total wreck. The crew were saved and
have reached the main land. The Liberta
was from New York, bound to Stettin.
No particulars of the disaster nave been
received, further than that the ship's bot
tom was crushed in and her cargo is being
washed out. i
Greensboro North State: The
question of dividing Rockingham county
ia beine discussed. It is nroDosed to make
Reidaville and Madison the county seats
calling one countRockingham and the
other Reid. " !
110,000 pounds of farmers1 tobacco were
sold yesterday. To-day there are over
1.000,000 pounds on the warehouse floors.
Preces are booming, farmers rejoicing.-
Mr. Eldridgo tells us that tho Demo
cratic outlook in Davidson is encouraging.!
"w Norfolk Virginian : Raleigh
dots: Robert Leeson Porter, who for some
days has been searched for so carefully, WHS
brought here this morning. A valuable'
may was saved from a rubbish pile jeetcx
day. It was Prof. Olmstead's geoloRithl
map of North Carolina, made in 1825 tor
the State Board of Agriculture. It is note-!
worthy that this State was very early iu the.
matter of a geological survey. The mrp is
well preserved and is verv handsomely i
drawn. Its accuracy is likewise remarka
ble. There are yet no hopes that this
State will make a display at tbe Virginia
Exposition. I
Tn -ii r t .
-r-r ayeiieviiie uournai: it grieves
us to chronicle tho untimely death, from
cholera morbus, of Esquire I. W. Godwin,
a prominent citizen, magistrate and post
master at Godwin station . Wc learn that
the Hope Mills Manufacturing Company
have succeeded in purchasing the Murphy
water site a few miles below the city, wnd
will at once commence ihe construct ion of
a factory for manufacturing a kind of cloth
known as ducking. This company is ft ho
same that own the factory at Hope Mills
and are building the $150,000 mill b-(v
the big Rock fish. The amount invefU A m
cotton factories in Cumberland county Will
approximate $350,000.
Graham Gleaner : A one -legged
Confederate soldier, a son of Ala
mance, during the past season, nitx'.e 47
10 fingered grain cradles and had.no com -
piaini except in one instance rnut) is
doing well. His name is C. A. Tickle hod
he : lives near McLan6ville. Two
young white men, Lee Jordan and Sam
Smith, were arrested at Bcllcmoiit last
week for passing bills of the defunt Meck
lenburg Bank, were tried, convicted sind
bound over to Court. Jordan is ia fail,
failing to give bond. They were do
ing a thriving business. - The Miane
ola Manufacturing Company at Gibsonville
has been incorporated with a capital stock
of $40,000. Messrs. .Ii. and J A. David- '
son, C. H. Fisher and J. W. Pago nm tho
incorporators. We understand they (ex
pect to add 1,000 spindles. Heretofore
they have woven only. I
Kaleigh Visitor: A j meeting
yf the Horticultural Society wab held 'yes
terday afternoon at the Mayor's office, j and
among other business, had their annual
election of officers. The following wero
chosen: President J. Van Lindley ; Vice
President, iB. P. Williamson Secretary,
S. Otho Wilson; Treasurer, J. A. Line
back. Vice President First District: IGeo.
W. Sanderlin; second district, Enoch
Wadsworth; third district, Col. Wl J.
Greene i fourth district, G. Sbellem;i fifth
district, Geo. K. Faust; sixth district. S.'
W. Noble; eeventh district, N. W. Craft;
eighth district, Dr. R. D. Beall ; ninth dis
trict, R. M. Furman. Executive Commit--
tee: E. W. Lineback, J. Van Lindley, A.
B. Williams, B. P. Williamson, y. C.
Royster. Committee on Native FruitP: P.
W. Johnson , J. 8. Ragsdale. Wm. Mur
dock. Col. J. M. Heck, C. B. Edwards.
Committee on Foreign Fruits: J. W.
Cole, J. W. Perry.
Charlotte Chronicle: The Car
olina Central trains yesterday carried 4,123
passengers between Charlotte and Mount
Holly, and it should be a matter of great
gratification to the management of that road
that not the slightest accident occurred.
At a meeting of the subscribers to tho
Pineville cotton mills, held yesterday, at
which three hundred shares were repre
sented, jan organization' was effected by
electing the following board of directors:
John W. Miller, W. K Younts, W. L.
Fisher, jl. J. Roane, J. H. Elms, T. B.
Meacham, 3. W. Smith, T. Rankin John
W. Morrow, George H. Howie. t Yes
terday was the second day of the Mount
Holly fair, and a big day it was. The trains
emptied! thousands into the grounds, and
every public road leading into the place
was thronged with vehicles of all (kinds.
There were several speeches on agri
culture in the arbor yesterday. Mri Wil
liams, master of tbe State Grange,; spoke
and denounced trusts. Col. Julian Allen,
of Iredell j Prof. H. T. J. Ludwig. bf Ca
barrus, and Mr. R. A. Grier, of Mecklen
burg, made speeches. Tho torchlight pro
cession at Mt. Holly last night was nearly
two miles long. It was a grand success.:
Raleigh News-Observer. We
hear that Dr. William B. Phillips has after
very great labor landed tho last section of
the monument to Dr. Mitchell by the side
of the grave on Mitchell. For most of tho
way the sections, the heaviest weighing
140 pounds, were carried on men's shoul
ders. The lightest piece weighs 70 pounds.
Fourteen men were employed and the job
was entirely successful. Dr. Phillips has
much improved the way to the top of the
mountain and will soon have a path cut
from the too to tbe falls, where Dr.
Mitchell lost his life. We learn with
pleasure that our candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, Col. Holt is still improving
slowly; it is true, but still improving,
though not yet able to move about much.
He left his home Monday for the Buffalo
Llthia Springs, Va., for the benefit of his
health.! i The North Carolina! Horti
cultural Society held a meeting yesterday
afternoon at the Mayor's office, President
J. Vandley in the chair. The fruit
fair is in full blast. It is said tol be tho
finest collection of fruits ever seen in North
Carolina. j !
Weldon News: Cotton is fruit
ing rapidly and unless something jhappens
to retard its growth a full crop will be
made. - On Thursday morning last the
body of a white man waa found lying be
side the railroad track of Halifax,. The
coroner was notified and a Jury investiga
ted the case, developing the fact that the
man had been seen around tho place for a
day or two and that the day before his body
was round ne was Been waiaing aiong mo
track and when addressed could only repay
in a whisper. Northampton notes:
We regret to learn that crops in the vicinity
of Rich Square, the best farming section in
the county are very poor. No rain has fal
len in that section since June. A
young man by the name of Emmet, from
Fayetteville, accidentally fell from the ex
cursion train, from that place about one
mile west of this place, about 10 o'clock on
the night of the 9th inst. He was severely
bruised about the hips, legs and feet, and
was rendered unconscious by the fall and
lay in that condition until he was found by
Mr. W. T. Jones early Friday morning,
who brought him to Seaboard, where his
wounds were examined and dressed by Dr.
M. R. Stephenson. The young! man was
perfectly Bober, but missed his tooting in
passing from one car to another. !
- Raleigh News-Observer: Mai.
Bingham at the first of last session offered
1 M. Din.liain'a Hsttlfcnl tf fllA
a scholarship at Bingham's School to the
best scholar in the uaieign uraaeu dcdooi.
A few days ago Prof. Moses informed Vo
liner Lambe that he was entitled to the
scholarship, and sent him a letter to Major
Bingham to that effect A private
telegram received here yesterday evening
stated that ten thousand people attended the
farmers' encamnment at Mt. Holly yester
day, and that Senator Ransom made one of
the finest speeches of his life yesterday
afternoon, creating great enthusiasm.
With the opening of the doors yester
day morning at 10 o'clock the beautiful
display of fruits and flowers presented a
scene of renewed freshness and pleasing
effect after having been rearranged before
the doors were opened. At 830 o'clock
the premium list was read, after j which the
auction sale took place and the beautiful
exhibit was sold off to the eager buyers.
The fair was a brilliant success through
out. State svELiiE, N. CM August
16. Two assignments which have been in
embryo since Saturday and Tuesday re
spectively have finally been consummated
and published to-day, viz : J. B. Connelly,
Clerk oi tne Superior uoun, nas assignea
for about thirty thousand dollars liability,
both official and private: assets not suffi
cient to cover his indedtedness. The as
signment was brought by security debts and
unfortunate investments. W. B. Douglass
& Co., general merchants, assigned for
seven thousand dollars; assets nearly about
the same. m - - j
Mr. Broughton is a prohibitionist. So
are we. Were the ' question submitted to -the
people at the proper time) and in the
proper way we should do all we could for
its success. It is purely a moral question
and is, therefore, one which must necessa-"
rily look for success at the hands- of the
heat element of the white neoole. That ele
ment in in tha Democratic DartV. and from
that nartv the Prohibitionists ! must draw
their strength. Rockingham Rocket.
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