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REPUStlCAN. PROD I BITOHT .
:. TARIFF. , " 7"-"
ihe all grab platform of the Mo-
Unoto be feared by all toilers. It is
the most pronounced declaration yet
given that the Republican party be
'jocg body and bones (it has no soul)
kud gristle to the Money Devil and
Monopoly, it is a bid for square
declaration of eternal hostility to all.
!tai lifting, all tax equalizing, all
surplus reduction, except by extrava-
and waste. It is
t-anoi
shameless sell out.
the 'most
to Trusts and
of in the
It
Mo-;
Combination ever heard
world. .'' .. 1
It is olain. direct, uneauivooal.
? ' - i
is against the people.
oly. : It is against the! poor; it is
the rich. It is in favor of free
iks and free "chaws" and free
kes, ; but it declares I squarely
jliiHt touching one oent of the
it crushing tax on the poor man's
Ls-anes of life. - And that is Ret
disgraced
aid, World, ' and perhaps other; pa
pers and the .Philadelphia Record
have been , . from time; ' to '" time
hunting , the i miners of Pennsyl
vania, and they, have ; brought
to : light r . a ; great deal - of
suffering, poverty and . desperation.
There is no doubt of the ead-eotfdi-
uon or . ine laoormg people in
sections of Highly Proteoted Penn
sylvama. JThe Philadelphia Record
publishes a letter written from Gal
litzin, Penn., dated 11th September,
1888. We" oopy enough to ' show
there is a sad condition of - affairs
among the bread-winners: - ?
; . "The Master Workman of the local as
sembly of theKniht8 of Labor at Gal
iitzin declared to-day that it. is a difficult
matter for a miner in this region who has a
family to keep out of the poor-house, and
said that the figures collected for the past
few months . of the net earnings of the
wage-workers in and about the mines here
show that they do not average a day.
.When some one asked how the miners
would be affected bythe November elec
tion . the Master Workman, remarked:
They have got us too low now to hurt us .
whichever way it goes. The protected
workmen : here ' could not earn - less
and - keep body and soul ' togeth
er Gallitzin . is in the Sixth bitu
minous coal district, which embraces Cam
bria, Blair' Huntingdon and Bedford coun
ties, and a part of Clearfield county, i The
condition of labor in this county only dif
fers from that in the Clearfield and Baech
Creek regions in being a Bhade more des
perate. - Laborers paid better
than miners. In ,1887, according to the
official reports furnished to the Inspectors
of the mines, there were 8,841 ,881 tons of
coai mmea ny 4.4HU miners. These miners
received the gross sum of $1,502,621, from
which at least 8 cents a ton for expenses
must be deducted to exhibit their net earn
ings, which amounted to $1,403,880, or an
average of $313 a year. This is ust $1 a
day. It is a striking fact that in the bitu
minous coal regions the laborers and coke
drawera are better paid than the miners,
who are in more danger in the mines, and
wno do the Bkiued work." -
Ed.
ilioinisru in 1888. A
it .1
A must vicious party !
t a Prohibitory party. It is so
rLay for Protection, thai it actnal-
auounts to Prohibition, The able
liouisville Courier-Journal says : '
-'The iron men of Pennsylvania, of
hom Chairman Jones and Charioteer Car
negie are fit representatives, are to rest un
disturbed ia their privilege to add $17 a
ton to the price of steel rails, whenever in
4heir judgment the market will bear it, and
A LETTER AND COKiniBNT,
.' - fl .- - - :
I Sept. 19tb. 1888
Morning star. . i
: DEAR SIR. I
- As a con8Cienciou8 man, as a reliable and
trustworthy writer and Editorol a leading
paper do you not commit an unpardanable
sin in continually publishing as af act that
Dockery is infavor of paying the Special
Tax bondsTYou know he is not, or ought
to if you have investigated his record
enough to speak of it stall. It is notorious
that Holden and his friends had Dockery
defeated for Coneres in 1872 right in your
county of New Hanover becausehe (Doc
ery) announced his oposition toHoldens ad
ministration ,and particularly his financial
S)licy .No special tax bonds ever entered
ockery's pocket to be returned a little in
advance of the BHlf fraud commission.
For sake of TRUTH and your own repu
tation call a halt or publish the whole truth.
It is unfair and wrong to accuse one' man
falsely and protect the guilty one.
Yours for !
TRUTH.
The above, printed preoisely as it
likiji privileges are to be continued ia every I 0ame, is before our readers. It1 was
tiraticb of industry. 8uch a revision I . . . , T. ,
qf the tariff laws as will tend to check im
borta of such articles as are -produced by
ciur people,' means an advance in the tariff
so as to prohibit such imports as steel rails,
woollen clothes, machinery,! cotton ties,
cotton bagging, so as to give the Northern
capitalists a monopoly of the market.
I ''Take, for instance, cotton goods; the
tariff ranges from 85 to 50 per cent., and
our imports for 1835 amounted to $27,242,
512 The Republicans would advance the
duty so as to prevent these -importations
and secure to the manufacturers of New
England greater profits at the cost of the
American consumer. l-T'-The
total imports of flax, hemp, Jute
and corresponding textiles amounted in the
Sumo year to $32,686,413; the average duty
was 27.75 per cent. ; the revenue was- $9,
069,716."; I
j "Instead of putting Jute butts.sieal grass,
jate yarns, bags and bagging; etc., on t e
rrce list, and thus furnishing at a low price
these articles to a multitude Of consumers,
the Republicans propose to advance exist
ing tariff taxesio anoint which prohibits
tjuch importation, giving the American
Capitalists control of the American market
tit the expense of the American consumer."
You can go through; the long list
and find that the application of the
declaration of the platform of Mo
ijiooly and Greed will practically
amount to prohibition. Their policy
as declared in plain English amounts
io a prohibition of foreign importa-
tion. It means that the American
capitalists shall have exclusive con
trol and that fifty-nine millions shall
grind in the mills of the Philistines
without any possible hope of relief.
not written but printed. It has no
"Innal Viahitat irtn " and t.hnrn m nn
responsible . "name" accompanying.
It is one of those miserable anony
mous letters that no honest or brave
man Bbould ever send. Cowards and
assassins resort to nameless letters
and to stabbing in the dark. A man
that will take advantage of an anony
mous signature to wound or to as
sault a person is a scoundrel and cow
ard at heart. -.That is the plain Eng
lish of it. But this remark need not
apply to the above. The man iwho
Bent it would have done himself
more credit if he bad signed his
name and given his place of resi
dence. It came through the, mail,
but the postmark we could not deci
pher. If the Stab has injured ,Col.
Dockery - in ' any way it does not
know it. How can we trust the
statement of a writer who is ashamed
or afraid . to sign his name to his
statements. j
We know nothing of the matter
between Hojden and Dockery. j We
ha always understood that Holden
and Dbokery were a regular pair of
Siamese twins as to the reconstruc
tion times. It will be probably news
to fbrov. Holden and to Dockery'a
Democratic neighbors that he J was
against Holden and the Radical party
in the dark days of 1869 70. j
v This anonymous letter-printer
would have us believe upon his un
supported statement that Dockery
had no hand in the outrages perpe
trated by the Radicals when in pow
er. Holden was the leader. Without
him there would not have been much
The condition of the laboring class I of a Radical party in this State. He
in some parts of Pennsylvania is very J bossed the machine literally, tie was
the Warwick of tne oorrups era,
alive." And
campaign, j We have seen it stated
many . times in Demooratio prints
. hat he was in favor of paying them.
We remember that one exohange re
ported him as referring to the Bonds
as "your bonds," and our reoolleo
tion is that he. was represented as
favoring ' their; payment. - If he is
not in favor of paying any pptrt of
them let him come out over his own
signature and say so, and the Stab
will oopy it jand will not in that event
repeat that he favors their payment.
; . North Carolina tax-payers are very
particularly concerned in this Special
Tax Bonds matter. If they .are to
be paid they will bankrupt the State.
If they are paid it will take many
tens of millions to meet the obliga
tion. It is known that the Republi
can candidate ff or : the Vice : Presi
dency is aj large " owner ' of l; these
bonds, and that he has sited the State
for their recovery in the TJ. S. .Fed
eral Court, j We have seen it stated
that his suit is for $9,000,000. A " .
These are the bonds that the
thieves and scoundrels and bummers
of 1868-'70 issued.! CoL Saunders
says: ; j',' - X
"Conceived in Bin and brought forth in
Iniquity, the history of the bonds is too
weu Known to need repeating here. Bur
flee it to say : j The people of North Caro
lina, laughing to scorn the claim of the
carpet-baggers to pledge the faith and
credit of the State to anything that was
not to be enforced by Federal bayonets, re
pealed the laws, so-called, authorizing the
issue of the bonds, and by a formal ordi
nance, duly ratified at the polls and incor
porated into the Constitution of the State,
forbade them to be paid.
It must be remembered that Bond
is the J udge to try the case.' There is
not an honest North Carolinian prob
ably living who has any confidence in
Bond's integrity or fairness, or who
would trust him for a minute in any
matter in which the interests of the
people of North Carolina were in
volved. Col. Saunders asks: .
"Suppose Mr. Morton should become
Vice-President and Mr. Harrison President
of these United States, who knows how
soon the Supreme Court of the United
States will be 'watered to carry this suit
in favor of Mr. Morton? The millions he
would make out of it would be a big thing
to re-imburse him for his present cam
paign expenses and to create future cam
paign funds for I the Radical party. It
will not do to -say that Radical Presidents
will not 'water' the Supreme Court to suit
their own views, for that very thing has
been done, and a Radical President did it.
It must be remembered, too, that during
the next administration there will be an
unusually large number of vacancies on
the Supreme Court bench to be filled in all
human probability, j If Harrison be Presi
dent he will fill them. Think you Morton
will have no influence in - the matter, or
that he will not use it with an eve to bis
own interest? ! The man who does think so
ia assuredly very 'green,"
Now Mortonj is very rich. He is
interested in Dockery'a election. If
North Carolina; would only go Radi
cal then perchance Morton would be
Vice President.! Boodle helps in an
election. If any' boodle is used by
the Rads in North Carolina it will
probably come from Morton's "barl."
Now that might aid Dockery no lit
he. Dockery,! if elected, might
aid Morton. So you see they can
help each other.
But if Dookery is opposed to pay
ing one dollar of the infamous Spe
cial Tax Bonds let him come out over
his own hand to that effeot and the
Stab will not' do injustice to the
shade-farmer of the. roaring Pee Dee.
remember, ; had "been tin justly ban
ished. He had been an exile for more
.than a year when ihe Senate was one
day discussing his ' return, v On that
day Bsop was. performing the lead
ing onaraoter in : AndromacM.', jHe
'was very partial to the distinguished
exile,! for he had trained him in elo-1
cutionl if f'With alt the Jprce of , his
consummate ' art he threw into An
dromaohe's lament for her absent fa
ther his Swn feelings ; for Cicero.''
(Rev.:W. 'Z.tjCoUirie) The timei
the place, the play, the very words
were bighly fitting. As the auditors
sat intently watching the unfolding
of the dramajr:.and the great actor
Executive the very man' who -Jin
June, 18)6, before. the ; National Ho
tel, '; pronounoed that eloquent : and
magnetic speeoh on Vance's nomina
tion. Judge Eowle will be "elected,
we must nope, by a. larger majority
even'; than V anoe -received. If tie
Democrats do their duty and work
faithfully until the 6th of . November
and then all turn , out and go to the
potts and vote, the majority of Judge
I Fowle will not be; less than 20,000.
Bnt to bring this desired end about
you must labor and organize and
vote. "
oame to the following words he ut-,
tered them - with an emphasis, a di
rectness, a- eignificancy, ' that seized
the Roman ' multitude ' and " stirred
them to the prof oundest depths of
their natures; v:':v""; 'f; ifiU:
;".. xi :-.?: - . .' , r. ' ;
"Who" with a constant mind upheld the
.-State. t. .. --. - - .
Stood on the people's side in . perilous
r: . times, ; 3. - ii
Ne'er wrecked of his own life, nor spared
himself. ; - : .-.Jr.-H .
i.-- nrt CoUin$'$ Translation.
.UV v.:.-" ;!.-' . ;, , I ,
- He : was : applauded - to the echo,
loud cheers went up, he was made to
repeat the applauded passage on, the
instant, when, with the versatility of
genius and the art of a consummate
actor, he added three other lines that
belong to . another character in the
piay: v; I 'y'1': : !
"Best of all friends in direst strait of
warP ii.---- -u.s. ;v j ', -:.:
and then pointing "to the nobles,
knights and commons, as they sat in
their respective seats in the crowded
rows before him," his own jvoioe
broken with ; the grief that then
wrung his heart as he thought of the
banished ' and wronged Cicero, his
pupil and friend, he exclaimed j
"And you you let him live a banished
man . ; 'if!
See him driven forth and hunted from your
gates." v'j... :
The declamation, the unexpected
rendering of a passage that applied
so pointedly to all, swept over the
audience like electricity they broke
out into the wildest, applause, whilst
tears of sympathy for the exiled Ro
man ran" down their cheeks. Cicero
was re-called. !"
And now, as the preachers would
Bay, a few words by way of applica
tion. Just before Judge Fowle
spoke, Gov. Vance had addressed
the very large audience. . He jhad
told them of his banishment, from
office as Governor, when the victori
ous armies of the United States came
to the capital' city. He told i them
how he had maintained justice, j up
held and defended' the rights of j the
- But reader, do not envy the good
fortune of Gov. Vance in 1876. Take
to divine philosophy and poetry and
agriculture rather. : But do not b a
shade farmer like that "horny-hand
ed son of toil." the man of the rum-
' . . .. - i
bling, tumbling Pee Dee, who is" said
io be a failure. Read Alexander
PepeV Epistle and feel happy and
; contented when you read ' " " '
' -. i ...;.... -. ' . - - - i
"And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels
Than Cesar with a Senate at his heels " j
There may be pleasure in politics
and in the "fat things". of office, but
not being in that ' way we give no
opinion. Certes iX, often happens in
this "land of the free and home of
the brave" that
"The post of honor is the private statioi
' Pi
n,',
Manufacturer . Warner, of New
York city,a twenty years Republican,
has left the Republican party. : fie
shows up a "Trust" that he says
"robbed and bullied" and whioh his
party "fostered and protected." Ho
supports the Mills bill and denounces
the foul "conspiracy for extortion
and robbery."
THE
ACME MANUFACTUR
ING COMPANY,
They are the friends of
pools and conspiracies.
the
Trusts and
They are
instruments of Money Power
Shall such
If
and insatiate Monopoly,
a party be restored to
power 7
the Americans allow it they deserve
to I sweat
Devil henceforth.
and . toil for
HOW
the Money
LaBOB' I? A BBS Iff PBOTBO
1KD PENKSY1VVAICIA,
distressing indeed.. Labor in fact is
desnerate and it cannot be ground I "killing and making
anv lower in that favored reeion of yet Oliver Dockery, tne stauncness
Wotection. without absoiately reduc-
the whole laboring population to
a condition of befereary. I In Cambria
ounty the state of affairs is repre-
ented as simply a most piuaoie sou
orJrowf ul one. Sober, industrious
eople are actually scheming to keep
ut of the voor house. The whole
bobntry is flooded wUb foreign pau
per labor, and the natives are being
gradually driven out and made to
jgive place to the cheap Hungarian
labor, who. Bave money at $125 a
year. "I "
j This is one of the beauties of a
ill eh Tariff. The rich aire made im
the honest, " faithf a), sober home
iworkingman is foredd to give place
goes the Chicago platform of more
taxation and a Higher Tariff inj this
year of grace 1888, and hates lawyers
ani white men, always preferring to
vote for negroes for office to such
this Oliver Dookery is held up as be
ing so opposed "by Holden and his
friends" - that they "had" him f'de
feated for Congress in 1872." Hol
den may or may not have done this.
We do not believe the statement. It
is very lame and impotent in 1888,
twenty years after, to get up a plea
that Dockery and Holden were not
in the dark, eyu
Snch
as
" SAfctrXAGUNDI. -
Possibly thei most extraordinary
because the most many-sided genius
that has ever lived was Michael An
gelo. - He was a great architect, a
great painter, a great sculptor and a
great poet, j His poetical works are
not well known j to many English
readers. .He was born in A. D.
1475, ia Italy, f He wrote sublimely
at times, and yet ho could indulge in
airy and musical madrigals and son
nets. He ea8 a j very genuine poet,
although to write verse with him was
more of a relaxation and literary ex
ercise than ja life-work. Iu one of
his latest poems (Madrigal XCVIII)
he writes: '. J ;i
"Love, may I be forgiven, .
For that I bear such envy of the dead!
Confounded and subdued, '
My soul is fearful for herself, and cowers:
Lord, in the latest hours, -Around
me let thy pitying arms be thrown 1
Teach me thy will; defend me from mine
'. own," I; : ' ' ; 4 '- --'.r
In one of j his letters this magnifi
cently endowed Italian thus wrote of
art: j j ., ,-" ,
"True art ii noble and pious, through
the spirit in which it works. For those
who understand, nothing can make the
soul so pure as the labor to produce some
thing perfect; for God is perfection, and
who seeks perfection seeks theJDivine.
True painting is only a copy of the perfec
tion of God, a shadow of the brush with
which He paints. Only a quickened un
derstanding, however, can feel wherein the
difficulty lies. And therefore is true art
so rare, and so few who attain to it. . Art
belongs to no country, but descends from
heaven. It is to us, however, that art has
come. Nowhere' are there such relics of
the old glory. I believe that with us true
art will perish.'
brethren together
mfinlir rxA rftnldlir rlrtW. while daVS Of XtaaiCai QOBIUmu.
j rj T i - .!.:
a statement is ramer - bum, ,
the boys would say. With Rad
icals "Truth" is mistaken for er
ror, and black is preferred to white.
to cheap panper labjor from .beyond
seas. ;i
There is protection for the rich
.Monopolist against foreign competi-
hod, Dai mere ia no prokeoiiuu ior
the honest American toiler, lie must
live on $125 a year like the ' dirty
Hungarian, or go out and! starve.
If you think this is overdrawn you
are mistaken. The New i York Her
Twiarv "the niercrer party," as
be oalls it, and votes the "nigger"
ticket when he gets a chanoe. j j ; ; ;
As to Dookery'a favoring the pay
ment of the Speoial Tar bonds, we
have this to say: :'.':
' We oannot knoto what J bis views
are, not having heard vhim injthe
Some weeks ago in our impressions
of Judge Fowle's speech in Raleigh
in 1876, on the night of the nomina
tion of Gov Vanoe, we made at the
close a classical ref errenoe. . It will
be in order now in this random lite
rary chat to take up the referenoe to
Cicero and Esbp and give it a direc
tion not probably anticipated- It
may serve to refresh our classical
readers and not be devoid of enter
tainment to readers generally. We
reproduoe in tfanslalion. the lines
that werel recited " . by JSsop
With so much dramatio power,' and
give the occasion. . Cioero, you will
people, and had heard the plea' of
the distressed and afflicted. Now
Gov. Vance, i
"Who with a constant mind upheld the
- State, !-; ' - " - I 1 -Btood
on the people's side in perilous times,"
had never ;been recalled from his
banishment; by those who "drove"
him "forth" and "hunted" him ''from
your gates," but a . grateful . and ap
preciative peope did recall him. j He
who was the .'-" . j ;..
"Best of all friends in direst strait of war"
to the wives and children of the sol
diers who were at the front, and Who
would have been fobdless and friend
less without his wise , foresight and
merciful ministrations, was not j for
gotten by . the "people, for he was
elected over Settle by over 13,000
majority. The people of North Car
olina Bhowed that they were ; not in
sensible to worth or ungrateful; for
great services so faithfully rendered.
They remembered with high satis
faction what Governor Vance did in
"perilous times" and "in direst strait
of war" how he withstood the mili
tary when they threatened to i throt
tle the civil authorities how he
maintained his honor and hisj man
hood under every trial, vicissitude,
temptation and assault they demand
ed, in a voice like that of the j temp
est when it will not be still, that Zeb
ulon B. Vance be at once recalled
from his enforced banishment. It
was done after a very severe contest.
Judgd Settle showed high qualities as
a debater, and with a desperate
cause , be made a , desperate fight.
Settle is game looking, good looking,
a man of ability,' no doubt. But the
people did.not.want Captain Settle
to govern. ' They knew his reoord.
They knew he . was like Colonel
Dookery, identified with the bread
and butter bummers and the bung
drivers and revennestampers of the
mountains, who so oppressed and out
raged the people by their severities
and . abuses of ' law and privileges.
They knew that he was the very spe-
oial friend of Grant, who in turnYwas
the devoted champion and friendof
Belknap, Robeson "and some thou
sands of the national blood-suckers.
They knew how the Captain, j like
Colonel Dockery had been in close
association with the bayonet 'fellows
of Reconstruction's dark daysland
they meant to see that at last justice
was done and that Vanoe - was re
called.' They did this ' and i North
Carolina stood forth, "redeemed, re
generated and disenthralled." '- The
I people called and Vance, like a true.
son, answered. In November the peo
ple will call to the high office of Chief
Tb iriannfaetare ol Pine Flfere Cot
ton Bagel ns Commenced Tne
Factory to Ran Day and IUgnt-i-A
Formidable Rival of Jute.
The Acme Manufacturing Compa
ny, at the earnest solicitation of the
farmers in this State and other States,
have decided to commence the man
ufacture of cotton bagging imme
diately. New machinery has been
purchased to facilitate the making of
this bagging, and the busy hum jpf
the factory is heard which is turning
out the fabric that is so eagerly de
manded by the farming population'
The pine fibre bagging has been
tested by fire and compress, and tes
timonials of its excellence have been
received from the Produce Exchange
and the Compress Co., and the Insur
ance companies are perfeetly willing
to take fire risks on it.. I
This bagging is destined to be a
most formidable rival of jute, and
from every indication it seems that! it
will take like wildfire. Mr. Wa Lat
imer, the president of the Acme Com
pany, with his characteristic vim and
enterprise, has determined to spare
no expense to perfect every arrange
ment for the manufacture of a bag
ging which will recommend itself by
its merits alone. Below are published
certificates which speak for them'
selves: : j
WlLMHTGTOJr, N. C, Sept 20, 1888
To Whom it May Concern:
We the undersigned. Fire Insurance
Agents and Marine Underwriters,
have carefully examined and have
seen tested the Pine Fibre Cotton
Bagging manufactured by the Acme
Manufacturing Co. (limited) of this
city, and, satisfied that it is equal; if
not superior to jute for covering cot
ton, will not hesitate to take fire
risks on cotton wrapped in it. j
Signed, Atkinson &Manning, Ml S
Willard, Northrop, Hodges & Taylor,
Smith & Boatwright.
Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 19, '88j.
' We, the undersigned cotton factors
and members of the Produce Ex
change of Wilmington. N. C. have
seen and examined the pine fibre bag
ging manufactured by the Acme Man
ufacturing Co. of this city. The same
having been tested here, both by fire
and compress, we are satisfied that it
is equally as good as jute bagging for
baling cotton.
Signed McNair Sc Pearsall, O Fen
nell. Worth & Worth, D L Gore,
A H Greene, r Woody & Currie, Wil
liams & Murohiaon, Thos F Bagleyi E
Lilly, Hall & Pearsall, S P McNair.l R
W Hicks, Calder Bros, F W Kerchner,
O O Covington & Co. 1
Wot Yellow Fevar. ; -'-.
- The case of yellow fever reported a
few days ago by Dr. Walter C. Mur
phy, of jj Pender county, turns out to
be hemorrhagic malarial fever. The
case was investigated by Dr. Wm. J.
Love, who has had experience in the
treatment of yellow fever and.is be
sides one of the foremost physicians
in the State. - The substance of his
report is embodied In the following
communication received yesterday
from Dr. Wood, Secretary of the State
Board of Health: . - , -
N. C. Board of Health, )
I Secretary's Office, J- '
Wilmington, N. C, Sept. 20, 1888. J
Editor Star: Dear Sir At the re-
Suest of the North Carolina Board of
Lealth.lDr. Wm. J. Love visited the
patient reported to surgeon uenerai
Hamilton as a probable case of yellow
fever. He found him ten miles from
BurgawVtn an insalubrious locality,
recovering from what is known as
hemorrhagic malarial fever. He had
been nowhere in an infected region,
t Respectfully yours,
: : K Thos. F. Wood, M. D., ;
! i Seo'y N. C. Board of Health.
a The Chronicle of yesterday, says: ;
Last evening a Chronicle reporter
met a traveler who was direct from
Hendersonville, where the Jackson
ville refugees 1 are quartered. He re
ported tnat f tnings - nave quietea
down very considerably at Hender
sonville, and that the feeling among
both the refugees and citizens is now
mucn easier, i - .
"No new cases have been develop
ed,: and better still, ''said the traveler;
"all the sick are improving,' with
chances in favor of their ultimate
recovery. Of the nine fever patients
four-are convalescing and five have
shown I signs of steady improvement.
The fever has! been confined entirely
to the ranks of the refugees, and
since the cases have been improving
so well t a general feeling of relief is
experienced, and all feel that the
worst at Hendersonville is over. The
citizens do not fear that the disease
will find a foothold in the town.
Southern manufacturers.
The Southerd Plaid Manufacturers'
Association was in session in Char
lotte las Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Chronicle says an immense
amount of business was transacted.
' The price of goods as ordered at the
last meeting, was, by a unanimous
vote, . sustained and continued until
January 1st. J next. Curtailment of
one-third of the productions, as pro
vided for at the last meeting, was
also continued to January 1st. Eyery
determination was manifested on the
'part of each and every member to
sustain the market and protect the
manufacturers and their employes.
'I:
WASHINGTON.
Accident to Hr. Jno. IV
The Belief Fnnd.
The following letters are in acknow
ledgment of the contributions re
ceived and forwarded from the Star
office, amounting to $508.82, on the
15th inst. : ? : " J ;
W. H. Bernard, Esq., Wilmington :
DeabSir Let me thank you for
your kind letter of the 15th, and for
the remittance, whioh reached me by
express this morning, i The amount
will be duly acknowledged by the
chairman of our finance committee.
We appreciate and are most grateful
for the sympathy of your people and
its practical expression. Believe me,
. Faithfully yours, j
J. J. DaNTEJj.
JacksonyxlIiK Aux. Sanitary Abs't'h,
- jACKSOimiiiiE, Sept. 18, 1888.
To Mr. TP. 27. Bernard, Wilmington,
iV. C: . . - j
Dear Sir : I am directed by the
"Executive Committee of the above
Association to acknowledge receipt
of your esteemed favor of the 15th
inst., through fJCol. Daniel,' and en
closing cash to the amount of $508.33
for the ' Jacksonville - Relief Fund,
contributions through the MoBHXCfa
Star.-"-" , -
With best thanks, I have the honor
to be, yours very truly, -r-,
Jambs M. Fairlie, Cor. Secret'y.
For ttae Fenltentlary.
" At the term of the Criminal Court
which closed yesterday twelye per
sons all colored convicted of lar
ceny, Lwere sentenced to imprison
ment in tne State penitentiary, fas
follows: Mary Ann Barnes, 3 years;
Mary E. Corbett, -2 years; Wm. Hen
ry, 4 years; Joe Johnson, 4 years ;Thos.
Jefferson, 4 years; Henry Mack 4
years; John McMillan 2 years f Julius
Sanders, one year: Walter Williams,
3 years; T. G. Walker, 4 years; Daniel
watson, a years.
Tne Fatal
Holmes. I
A correspondent gives the follow
ing account of the unfortunate acci
dent through which the late Mr. Jno.
L. Holmes lost his life:
The party, consisting of Mr.Holm.es,
Mrs. Holmes, their daughters Misses
Sadie and Eliza, Mrs. Wright and her
two children, Mrs. R. D. Holmes, Mr,
J. Dobbin Holmes, and a colored man
as driver, started Tuesday morning
in a heavy, strong "wagon drawn by
two mules, to drive fromMcAboy to
Saluda. The party had driven some
distance on the road' when, going
down a slight decline, the driver
slipped forward, the reins slackened
and the mules began to trot. They
were checked, but in pulling back
the breast-chain slipped and the
wagontongue dropped. This fright
ened the mules and they ran. Mr.
Dobbin Holmes seized the reins and
kept the team in the road, but in go
ing around a curve his father was
thrown out, and striking his head on
a large rock he was instantly
killed.1 A few yards further on Miss
Sallie Jones was also thrown out, but
fortvnately received no serious in
jury, although bruised and cut on the
head, i Mr. Dobbin Holmes managed
to stop the runaway team shortly af
terwards, and returning to the place
where his father was thrown out,
found him lying dead.
The accident occurred about two
miles from Saluda, and many kind
friends there and at Tryon City and
McAbby did all they' could to assist
the family in their trouble and dis-
tress. j-. - j
From Hendersonvtlle.
The Charlotte Chronicle of yester
day says: j
Hendersonville's yellow fever scare
is about over. Nearly all the refugees
have left that place and all the pa
tients, excent the two who died and
one yet in the hospital, have been
discharged. .
fH There is but one case of fever at
Hendersonville now. The disease was
confined strictly to the refugees, and
not a case developed after the second
day at Hendersonville. There were
altogether ten cases; two proved fatal,
seven have entirely recovered and
there is now one confined in the hos-
pitalJ In a day or two this patient;
will be discharged, and Henderson
ville will be herself again.
A speoial dispatch to the Chronicle
from i Hendersonville last night con
firms this news, and adds that the re
fugees are leaving that place rapidly,
their paroles having expired. By the
first of next! week, all except a few
who desire to stay there for a while
will begone.
What the Chairman on Enrolled Dills!
' has to Say Kelatlve to the Status of
the Chinese Exclusion. Bill Bulina
, of Secretary Fatrcblld Concerning;
the Reimportation of Jute BagelDg.
j By Telegraph to the Horning Star .
- Washington, September 20. Represen
tative .ruigore. acting chairman of thi
House " Committee on Enrolled Bill?, was1
to-day informed of the action of the Senate
in tabling Mr. Edmunds motion to delay
transmission of the Chinese bill to the
House. He said that the bill was in his
possession, duly enrolled and signed.. He
could not say when he would deliver it to
the President, but he should probably fol
low; his usual course in this case. About
once in a week or ten days he had been in
the habit of calling upon the 1 resident to
deliver such bills as had been enrolled and
signed, and but for Mr. Edmunds' ac
tion taken.- yesterday the bill would:
have been delivered to the Paesident at 5
o'clock in the afternoon. - Mr. Kilgore ad
ded, that he had not consulted with any
one; in reference to the matter, and what
ever he did was upon his own volition and!
responsibility, Bills had been held by the
Committee on Enrolled Bills for a month
after their passage before being transmitted
to the President. He did not mean to ssy
Uhat this bill would be delayed any such
length of timo, but merely cited the fact to
show what might be done without viola-!
ting precedents. He bad heard that Repre
sentative Morrow, of California, was about!
to introduce a resolution requiring the com
mittee to deliver the bill immediatuly to the
President, but sueh a resolution, in his
opinion, would not give any additional
-force to the requirements of the rules.
: Washington. Sept. 20. Secretary Fair
child has informed a merchant of Savan
nah, Ga , that inasmuch as ordinary jute
bagging, manufactured in this country,
exported as covering cotton in the bale and
returned as second-hand bagging would
probably fail, when so returned to be in
the same or even substantially the same
condition as when exported. Such bag
ging could not be exempt from duty under
the only provision in the free list (T. I. P,
191) applicable to articles of the growth, i
produce and manufacture of tho United
States, other than casks, barrels, carboys,
bags and other vessels. The Secretary
adds, however, that any waste bagging to
be used in making and fit only to be con
verted into paper and unfit for any other
manufacture is free under the provision
f T. I. 9541 for naoer stock. ' He also says
that bagging for cotton not coming under!
any of the above cited provisions is subject
to a duty of 1 cents per pound, if valued
at seven cents or less per square yard and
to a duty of three cents per pound f valued
at over seven cents per square yard. -
Washinotoh, Sept 21. Representative
Kilgore, acting chairman of the House
Committee on Enrolled Bills, called on the
President this morning, and presented to
. 1 ni -til 1
mm tne uninese JCixciusion dui.
The President to-day nominated John G
Park hurst nt Minhieran. to be Eavov Ex
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of!
the United States to Belgium, and Walter!
C. Newberry postmaster at Chicago, vice
8. C. Judd resigned. He also withdrew!
the nomination of John Fitzcatrick to be
U. S. Marshal for the Eastern District of!
Louisiana. i -
: The President has received official infor
mation of the refusal of the Chinese gov
ernment to ratify the amended treaty.
' Washington. S nt 21. It is now set
tied that the launching of the cruiser Balti
more at Philadelphia, will not take place
until the end of next week, on account of;
the delay in the alteration of her ground
ways. I .
Orders havo been issued to have the
United States ship Boston, now at the New
York Navy Yard, put in readiness for sea
service in a few days. The vessel is under
secret orders to proceed to the West Indies
on a diplomatic mission, the precise char-j
acter of which cannot now be ascertained.
It is believed, however, to have some con4
nection with the Presidential election
which takes place in Hayti on the lOtt
proximo.
Washihgton, Sept. 22. A special meet
in g of the House Committee on Appropri
ations has been called for Monday mom-f-
ing, to consider the Senate big making an
appropriation of $100,000 fori the relief of
sufferers by yellow fever in the South. j
Washington, September 22.. The Re-
publican Senators held a caucus to-day
which lasted from eleven a. m. till half
past two o'clock this afternoon, and about
which they are more than ordinarily re
ticent. It is Riven out that the Territorial
bills are to be restored to the head or tne
calendar for immediate consideration after
the appropriation bills are disposed of, and
that Senator Sherman's trust bill is to fol
low. It is also said, on authority, that the
tariff adjournment question and everything
else in the range of immediate legislative
nrobabilitv. were'discussed, and that no
decision was reached.
FOREIGN.
The Sensation Caused by the Publica
tion of Emperor Frederick's Diary.
CJETrifffct 1888 by the N. T. Associated Press.
Berlin, Sept. 22. The publication of
the Emperor Frederick's diary is every
where recognized as an event of the great
est national importance. Official and po
litical circles, however, that are intimately
versed in the innermost history oi tne con
struction of the German umpire, nave Deen lBreely 8Ubmersd
astounded by the publication, wnust tne i f aiifax -t ia stated
The state Fair.
The State Fair ill begin October
16th and last! four days. The list of
entries will lbs fuller than ever, the
Secretary says, and there will be the
largest show of fine horses and cattle
ever made in the State. The races
will be an attraction to many, and a
band of Cherokee Indians will play a
great game of ball. There will De dis
tinguished speakers in attendance at
the meeting of farmers and much that
will interest and instruct visitors.
The railroad rate is "only one cent a
mile.' T- a'm m -- .
Oottosn -
The return of fair weather is marked
by renewed activity in the cotton
patch, and increased receipts at all
the ports. The movement here shows
receipts for the week of 2,419 bales,
against 12,507 for the corresponding
-week last year. Receipts Bince Sep
tember 1st are only 4,275 bales, againix
26,620 for the sume time last year. Tha
stock at this port is 1,715 bales.
The Wilmington & Weldon
Railroad Company announce that
three and a half per cent, interest on
the certificates of indebtedness of the
company will be paid October i,si,
1888.
vhnla German neonle are stirred
vnrv denths bv the revelations which show
the real greatness of the deceased Emperor
Frederick, his influence in creating the
Empire, and bis noble acts for its future.
Extracts f-om the diary were communis
eaten to the Deutsche BemdschaM through
the Baden statesman. Baron Roggenbach,
who was long an intimate friend of the
late Emperor, and was much with him
during his illness at San Remo. Baron
Roggenbach, it seems, had the assent of the
Empress to. the publication of the extracts,
but neither Biemsrck nor ihe preetnt Em
peror William was consulted. It is, there
fore thought probable that the publication
will'have some startling results as affecting
the personages concerned in the revelations.
It is significant that the North German Qa
eette (Bismarck's organ) has not yet men-.
Honed the diary. The ' National Zeitung
complainB of the indiscretion of the publi
cation as shown in the selection of passages,
and says it was obviously not intended by
Emperor Fredeiick that they should ever
be made public. It instances therevelation
that at Versailles mere was mucu irww
between the Emperor (then Crown Prince)
and Bismarck over the declaration of the
existence of the German Empire: that Bis
marck drafted a letter in which the King of
Bavaria is made to appear as having re
luctantly invited King William of Prussia
to assume the Imperial dignity, and that in
October of 1870 Bismarck informed the
Grand Duke of Baden of his determination
to wage a persistent war against the Pa
al doctrine of "Infallibility," and to
otherwise assail the influence of
the Catholic church in Germany. It
is argued that the disclosure of the
aatare of this last revelation is alike
wanton and impudent, and wi'l tond to
revive the slumbering fires of Culture
kaup again, and to direct the rage of the
Clericals against Bismarck as the sole ori
gin of the policy of repression of Catholics.
Another of these indiscreet revelationsis
-ta- nut to be the statement oi tne
deceased Emperor, that during negotiations
Fayetteville Journal: We iha .
morning learned of the death of Mr. W. B. -Lee
at his horns in Sampson county, about
six miles from Dunn. . - : r, .
New jJJern Journal: John S.
Long, Esq., has returned from a visit to
Baltimore. He fell in with the literary
men of that city while there and visited
several of their institutions of learning. His -fame
as a lecturer bad gone before him and -he
was pressed into service on several occa
sions, and appointments were made for hitn
extending beyond the time of his visit .
Raleigh item in Norfolk Ttr - - "
ginian: It is now learned that the judicial '
investigation showed no foundation for the
charge against a Baptist preacher ia this
county, south of Raleigh, that he had out
raged his neice. The matter created a great ,
deal of talk here, and it was said that tbe
evidence would be convincing. Some peo
ple now say they believe blackmail was attempted.-'-
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Lenoir Topic. A little eon 'of ,
Mr. Thos. J. Kerley's happened to a bad
accident last-Friday. He was playing
around Mr. W. C. Newland's house, on
which! father was working, and fell some
four or five feet, breakin g both of his arms. ,
Near the Piedmont wagon works at - -Hickory,
are a number of teals ia which
the Seventh-Day Advenlists of this section -are
camping out and. holding a camp
meeting, presided over by the Rev Mr.
Rees. l A number of citizens of Caldwell,
subscribers to that faith, have been iu at- '
tendance.
Charlotte Democrat: When all
four cotton factories get in operation iu Ibis
citv, the demand for cottou for tbeirmu
alone should be sufficient to keep up tbe
price to a right figure, and largely in
crease tho demand. The three new
cotton factories being erected in Charlotte
will be in working order, it is Baid, by, the
latter rart of the year. Tbe gentlemen en
gaged I in this good work deserve much
credit.! The Charlotte Observer has
been transferred by Col. C. R Jones to the
Charlotte Observer Publishing .Co.,". with
Mr. C. F. King manager. Tbe Company
propose to make it aJlrtt-clasa evening pa
per. It is conducted by practical printers,
and we wish them much interest. "
Raleigh Visitor: Late jester-'
day evening the Grand Secretary, B. II.
Woodell, received from Grand Representa
tive C. B. Edwards, who is attendance upou -. -tho
Sovereign Grand Lodge, I.O. O.F.,
at Los Angeles, Cal., a telegram announc
ing the election of Grand Representative C.
M. Busbee, of this city, to tho office of
Deputy Grand Sire, the second highest
office within the gift of that great order. '
The eastern bound train on tbe N. C.
railroad, when near Walnut creek bridge.
this (Thursday) afternoon, ran over and in
stantly killed a colored woman named Har
riet Bobbitt. The woman attempted tov
cross the roed within a few feet of the en
gine when she was struck. She was appa
rently about forty years old:
. Charlotte ChronicU: !A rail
road movement of. considerable interest to
the people of the western part of the State
has been revived with the incorporation of -the
Chattanooga, Cleveland . and Murphy
road. The following officers were
chosen under the rights conferred by the
charter: President, Ed. Watkins; Vice
President, H. E. Col ton ; Secretary and -Treasurer,
W. G. McAdoo. Immediately
after the election of officers, a committee
was appointed to solicit a subscription of
$50,000 from Cleveland. Parties who
were in the city yesterday from Hickory,
report that the 'Democratic celebration at
that place Wednesday night was a splendid
affair. Speeches were made by Senator
Ransom, Dr. Sandelin and Mr. Lee S.
Overman. The torchlight precession was
fully one mile long, and Mr. Hall carried
the biggest banner of any body in tbe erowd,
Greensboro Workman: Gov.
Scales has written, to Mr. W. W. Fuller, of
Durham, accepting the invitation to open
the Durham Exposition on the 10th day of
October, as we learn from the Daily Plant.
We are encouraged to note the generos- '
ity of the Wilmington people in contribut
ing to the yellow fever sufferers. Mr.
John Wharton, near Gibson ville in this
county, is 91 years of age, and can get
about quite pleasantly, occasionally attend
ing church and sometimes visiting Greens
boro. We yet have some old men among
us. Mr. Wharton shocked wheat on his
84th birthday. The Wilmington i8ar
ot September 19th credits to the Greens- ,
boro Workman, erroneously, an excellently
well written paragraph, under the head of
-'Our State Contemporaries." The former
part, in which is expressed an opinion of .
the editor of the Stab, we heartily endorse. .
The remainder well, that is out of the -Workman's
line. 1 Thanks, and beg pardon.
We are Indebted to our good friend of the
Patriot for the kind reference Stab.
Raleigh - News-Observer: In. a
general way we stated the other day that
all the manufacturers of plaids in this State
belonged to the Dlaid association. That
was too sweeping. Col. Steele and repre-
sentatives of a good many other mills do
not belong to the association, Col. Holt is
not a member either. The attorneys ,
of Cross and White state that they are all
ready to proceed with the trial of the cases
next week, and as solicitor Argo intends to
try the cases without any delay, there seems
to be no reason why they should not pro
ceed in regular order, Thursday, Septem
ber the 27th, has been set as the day on
which the first case will come up. A
correspondent from Chapel Hill tells us
that the paper of Dr.Weekson Blackboard
read at the last meeting of the N.CHistor-,
ical Society was of especial interest. After
attaining the degree of Ph. D. by a two
years' post-graduate course at our Univer
sity he now goes to jonns nopains univer
sity in order to extend Mb studies in hia
specialty, viz:' English and History. He is
a man of excellent promise.
Roanoke river rose to a height of 87 feet
above its normal tide and the corn fields
along its banks, where the finest corn bot-.
toms in tne mate are to oe iouna, am
In the neighborhood
. . . i ui uuuw w -.
tO meir I in um flplrU twnntv feet above the
tops of the corn. Reports come from ,
Randolph county that corn lands on Stanly
creek have for days been totally sub
merged, and the corn is rotton and utterly
worthless, Yadkin river was. the highest
last week ever known and news was re-
ceived yesterday that it was again rising
and had almost reached the high-water
mark of last week. Great destruction has
been, done along its banks. The Cape
Fear rose fifty feet at Fayetteville last
week, and is said to be rapidly rising again.
Heavy damage is reported from Caswell
county, and the corn crops along the
Neuse river are reported to be totally
mined.
i FOR BRAVE MEN.
Proposed Belief for the Telegraphers
i in Jacksonville.
CBy Telegraph to the Morning Star.l v
New York, September 22. The World
of to-day, referring to the telegraphic force
at Jacksonville, iria., says: "If it were not
for the work of these heroes, who, on
meagre pay, are fighting as bravely as ever .
a soldier fought at the front, the country
would hear nothing of the stricken city,
and ; hundreds of refugees could learn
nothing - of the fate of friends and rela
tives left behind." The World proposes to
raise a special fund for the brave workers -nt
thn mrem in the nest-ridden district.
This will be known as the Telegraphers1
Yellow Fever Fund, and any contribution
thereto will be promptly forwarded to the
heroes, to help their sick and bury their
dead. The World heads the list with a eub- .
scription of one hundred dollars.
TENNESSEE.
A 830,000 Fire at Bristol. "
Bv Telesranh to the Morning Star.
LvTffmr-nraa. Sent. 22. A Bristol special
to the Advtnce says a fire here last night
totallv destroyed the business houses of F.
tt: 7t fhn Rfilffians. Theirs said he
wnnld favor the scheme if it implied
Tt i. !.. i 1 u-aHiiA 'una
union oi iaigiuui
diarv does no state the reason foraban-
donmentoi tne pioiwoi, -people
will accurately surmise that Bis
marck's project to create a Franco-Belgian
monarchy implied the disruption of France
into several States, and the acquisition by
Belgium of the Northern Provinces. The
project is certain of revival if France
Should be crushed in the coming war. j
1ThesMeridIan, Miss., Newt has sus
ponded, owing to the yellow fever panic.
The proprietors, however, expect shortly to
jesurae publication.
Tina TtawAii A On., and tbe dwellings of J.
G. Bondmant and Robert HilL The loss is
about $30,000; insurance aoout io,ww.
The ladies formed in line and passed buck
ets of water, while a number ot men stood ;
Idly by. The origin of the fire is not known
but it 1S SUPpOSeu vu ue buuiuoumu.
I . At the Newton .Fair last week
there was a grand torchlight procession.
Afbr the nrocession the immense crowd
gathered in the court house yard, where
seats had been prepared for the ladies and
a stand erected, to listen to a speech to be
delivered by Hon. M, W. Ransom, wnicn
wasoneofthe grandest speeches we ever
heard. Lenoir Topic. -
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