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The Weekly Star. MTBUSHED AT , , . rt (ill NO TO; N. C, ,. AT ., ilt00 A YE All, IN ADVANCE. SSS8SSSSSSSSSSSSS quow ft SSSS88S8SS8888S83 8SS8SS888SS888888 siljaoH 88888388888888388 sciJUOK S 8S888S88S8S888888 888888888S888888S 88882882288888888 niseja, c If 88888888888888888 t : : : i : : s js n si V 2 'SSSSSSSS til! ;ered at the Post Offloe atCWTbnlnarton. N. C, as Seoond Claw Matter J . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. , TV subscription price of the Whexxt TAIt 15"liS follows 'angle Copy 1 year, postage paid, 1.00 " " 6 months ' .60 m " a mnntht . 3 month! " 80 7HE CHOP OBIXOOK-FiaURBS. Wo sympathize with all farmers .who are now suffering from disap-; pointed hopes because of blasted crop?. The news from the large, tobacco area of North Carolina is of a dispiriting character. The crop of tobacco has been cat off proba bly one fourth throughout the forty or fifty counties that oultivate it pore or lees. In some of the best Ubacco sections the crop is damaged to the extent of one-third,' and now and then we see the figures placed as high as one-half in certain neighborhood-'. This will of course be a great 1S4 to the farmers, certainly to thi,;3 who are the worst sufferers. It miy be that as the recent killing frost wis so general throughout the tobao oirejion the price'of the weed will In much eahiDcod because of the cer.enl injury to tho crop. We have k v) pr:a?f to ran high in a short crop, ani the "rosnltgwas that while many individual farmers suffered maah lo s that was never recovered, the whi-i of farraoTS received as much m in? a- they would have dona with fi!i crop. .; i .-' Taera is one drawback to such an expectancy nov. The production of tobacco for somo years has been noessive. Mora of tin weed was gron than the consumption de minieJ. There U still on hand a gjoldeal of tho orop b! 1837, we miy suppose. The manufacturers as a class may have some consider able stock on hand. If these two filiations are sustaiuai by. facts, it miy turn out that leal of , the new; crop will b3 worked, or the prices' miy ba kepi do vuto s joi? extent' Bat ba this as it may, muy farmers are sufferer, and they at least will feeTthe los for yeari to come, for it will pu raaDy of them behind, and it will ba hard to catch pp. . f The cotton planters have not been favored. We suppose the cotton crop at tho best in North Caro lioa will ba , one-foarth short of a full crop of what it would hive bean with propitious BeaT jnsthoughoutv This of course is a very ssrious matter. Sj mny growl tn of cotton are heavily handicapped with debts, and mortgages that the loss of one crop or a part of a mar ket crop is extremely embarrassing; With good, open weather from now until the middle of December the yield would be muoh batter and the more relief would be given. We mnst hope for the best. It is a very important truth that prosperity of any country de pends upon the prosperity of the far ner. .Within a few days one of the best of our Judges said to us, "The practice of the law is very poor now. There is but little litiga tion, and this is the case all over the Stete. Tne people are simply too poor to go to law. They are so em barrassed they are not able to pay fees even for ordinary legal writ ings." . ; " . j There is-less prosperity among the farmers, of the whole United States 'n 1888, than there was ten or twenty or thirty or forty years ago. While there is a great manufacturing np heval in the- South the farming in terests by far the most important w Buffering. This is true and the formers themselves know it to be so. The most prosperous period of faming in tne United States was from 1850 to 860. We give some li8tructive figures to which we in--T'te the attention of our farming friends: -; :; agriccltubal paospEMTY (as per census ) --, ," Rate per cent. '1ainotal agricultural wealth, of.increase. $3 967.843.630 ESS 7,980,493.083 101 HS 11,124,958.748 89 . 1880........ 12,104,081,441 - Low taxation ndV agricultural P'osperity went hand in hand, let is give also the general prosperity Recording to the oensus of the j United States: . : Rate percent iitn Total national wealth - of increase. : SS 7.135,780,228 . .. SS5 16.159.616,068 : - 128 SS" 80.068,518.507 87 im 48,64000,000 48 j Manufactures also grew more on Jw the Low . Tariff thao under the H'gb. Tariff, Here aire the figures "nn the census: . Hie Weekly Stae:. ' VOL. XIX. ,-!;;, : WILMINGTON: N.: Ol" FRIDAY. OHTORTCR 19 Iftftft l xrr.Kn MAOTFACTTJKIKG PB08PBBITT(ftB Der CeDSUfil Total'fe&itiof manufactures f ' ' , produced in following Rate per cent.' censusyesrs. : - t of Increase. 1800. ...... ...f 1,019,108.616 , 1860. ...... . . 1,885.881676 1870. ..... . . . 4.233.825.442 1880. ........ 5,869,579,191 75 124 27- ' i : UVIRG ON CLAllS. . ; There was an Ednoational Com mittee raised in the Senate, of which crank Blair (of Federal . Sohool Teaching notoriety) was Chairman. The Committee found some very in teresting cases, and the testimony taken is fall of suggestions and ed ification. Senator Harris, of Ten nessee, last June made a speech in which he referred at length to this testimony. . We wish we had the space to copy a column of the evi dence taken by this Blair Commit tee". Mr. Harris tells the Kepubli can ' Senators that . while they:, are bemoaning the wretohednees of for5 eign labor they will find nearer home startling .revelations of distress, 'of. PPrerty,ofc.:ppovage':4..tW ooplefl a good deal of the testimony, to sustain what ; he said. Front a mule ': spinner's testimony we make room, for the. following. ; His name is Thomas O'Donnell, he was from Fall River, Mass..' and had been jin the United States four years: s ; My children get along very well in sum mer time, on account of not having to buy fuel or shoes or one thing and another. I I earn $1.50 a day and caa't afford to pay very big house rent. I pay $1 60 a week rent, which comes to about $6 a month. - 1 have a brother who has four children besides his wife and himself. All he earns is $1.50 a day. He works in the iron works at Fall Rivtr. Ho only works about nine months. out of twelve. There is generally about three months of stop page, taking the year right through, and his wife and his family all have to be sup potted for a year out of the wages of nine months ftl.fiO a dav far ttlno nmrln of the twelve to support six of .them. It uues do nana 10 reason mat tnose cnildren and he himself can have natural food or be naturally dressed. His children aie often sick aad be has to call in doctor. "Q. What do you do with the clamst "A. We eat them. I don't get them to sell, but just to eat, for the family. That is the way my brother lives, too, mostly. He lives close by us. "Q. How many live in that way down there? -"j-- - ! . . I could not count them, thev are so numerous. 1 suppose there are 1.000 down thero. i "Q A thousand that lire on $150 a year.- ! "A. They live ou less. t "Q Less than lhalT "A. Yes; they live on less than I do." He said that they did not get work regularly and did. not earn really more that $150 a year. A very bad witness for the beauties of Protection Democratic stock is rapidly rising n the (Northern market. Look at Newark. Then look at the confi dence with which the members of the Democratic Executive Commit tee express themselves. Some sev enteen of them have recently met in New York, and they are absolutely united and confident j in the certain triumph of thet Democrats. They are so confident that they are even talkiog that New York may not! be necessary to ekct Cleveland, the report were encouraging. N. Y. Times S3ye: ; '.J';-;-' All The ' At the meeting of the Democratic Na tional Committee yesterday all the members were sattsfled from the reports made to them that Michigan , U already sure zor Cleveland and ThurmsD, .and that, if the current toward Democracy in Illinois keeps flowing on at its present rate until election that 8tate will cast its vote for Cleveland and Tburman too. Michigan casts 13 elec toral votes and Illinois 83 enough with Indians, added to the 153 votes which are conceded to be sure for Cleveland, to give the Democracy the national election. "Every one of these gentlemen t was pleased with the prospect of being able to carry the national election without New York. They have no doubt that New York will go Democratic, and will not re lax an effort to have it go, not only Demo cratic, but Democratic by a large plurality . Richmond, Va., is preparing for a big Democratic mass meeting on the 24th of Ootober. Sundry big poli ticians are billed, among them Sena tor Vance and Representative ' Ran dall. We suppose "our Zeb' is in vited to speak good sound Demo cratic Low Tariff doctrine tbj the Virginia Low Tariff men, who are in the minority; while Mr. Randall wil talk Monopoly and set forth " the beauties and glories of a High Chi nesse Wall of the Pennsylvanian pattern, to the admiring Protection ists "ranged around." jl ' In Washington two widows of Confederate soldiers have clerkships. This moves some poor Foraker of a fellow to'snarl at this allowing" of Southern women to earn their bread. This moves the Richmond Christian Advocate to say in turn: j j "The .United States pays in pensions yearly to , the widows of Federal soldiers and to the soldiers eighty millions of dol lars. And yet there are wretches howling for the dismissal of these two toiling women. Statesmanship is honorable, but partisan politics is often vile a mixture of venality, hypocrisy and hatred." &ov. Scales denies squarely that negroes have been appointed magis trates by the State Democratic Gov ernment.' HesayB: ! "I feel safe In saying that there isinota negro Justice of the peace holding a com-, mission in North Carolina, unless he was appointed and commissioned by a Republi can clerk of the court. They have the right to appoint under certain circumstan ces and have appointed some negroes. As Governor. I have never appointed any but white mea." - '.. Another Radical falsehood nailed. Senator Gorman predicts a Demo cratic ain ; in r New York city of 25,000. In union there is strength. HeaLthe split among the Democrats about the Mayoralty and then pre dict. , .-"--.!' The Washington Post. Independ ent with Republican leanings, . 'says; ' "Judge Thurmans argument in the Uni ted Bt&tes Supreme Court yesterday proved that tu mental faculties j were as vigorous as ever. His voice was firm and strong,' and he presented the case of 'the govern ment against (he Bell Telephone Company in a masterly manner. "J r r i . ' - . '""'; ' '' r , There are many ways to bulldoze voters j and te'.Nortliern Radidals know: well how to do it. . The Boston .-Port tells this: ; u, : . . ; ., 4' TarME reform manufacturers in Oonnec ticut. after their views get into print, re ceive abusive letters from many quarters ran is saiq to be a. campaign ol tntellecti, The Englysh Attorney General and Sir Henry James have thrown up thi? br5f8 and deserted the London Times in its' suit ', against Parnell. That paper has no cause. ;The Par nell defence fund has reached $35, 000, we arejgyatified to chronicle. . J We are sorry that the pluoky Dur ham people had such bad weather; Thefr ; exhibit 'i' said to' hare teen 'Si cepitibnallyv . c;6mplete , and excel lent. But they had a big crowdj . RAJLliROAD XOTE8. Wht U Said laCharleatoa avnont U New OombliULUoB It VTIU . Bart : rtfn Help .VliinlnKtB. The annual meeting of the "Three Cs" Railroad Company was held in Charleston Thursday, and the news paper people took advantage of the occasion to see what could be pump ed out of CoL RJA- Johnson, General Manager of the road, concerning the new and important , traffic arrange ments outlined in the Star of yes terday. Here 1st the result, as given by the News and Courier: CoL Johnson refused to say any thing upon the ; subject, but it was learned from an entirely trustworthy source that several' interviews '' had been held between the officials of both systems as i well as the officials of the South Carolina Railroad Com pany in regard to the proposed con nection of ) the two BVBtems, which will also include the South Carolina road. These meetings were for the Purpose of arranging a basis for traffic rates. It lis known that Col. J. B. Peck, the general manager, Mr. Ji H. Averill, the , superintendent, and CoL S.j B. Pickens, the general freight agent of the South Carolina road went up on a special car over 'the Three C's road to Catawba Junc tion yesterday, where they were to meet Mr. John - M. Robinson, the president, Major John M. Winder, the general manager, : and Traffic Manager Clark, of the Seaboard system, for the purpose, it is said, of eomplettng the negotiations which have been in progress for some time. It is claimed that under the new ar rangement with the Seaboard sy-tem the interest of the Three C's Road will lie to ! the ports to the north of Charleston, and it is not improbable that much of the cotton which was expected to come to this port over the Three C's System will be directed to Wilmington or Norfolk or Baltimore. It is also intimated that cotton which has' heretofore been brought to Oharleston from Augusta jd inter mediate points by the South Carolina Railway will, under its agreement with the Three C's Road and the Sea board system, now be shipped from Augusta to B ranch ville, thence to Camden over the South Carolina Ralway, and thence to Catawba Junc tion on the Three C's Road, from which point it will be distributed to its destination at either of the three termini of the Seaboard system. In a word,if the arrangements between the three roads or systems of roads men tioned are completed Charleston will no longer be the terminus of the South Carolina Road. Under its agreement with the Three C's Road and the Sea board system, it: will obtain what it has never ; had in the past, free and uninterrupted connection with the Northern markets. The. rail connection between the Three ,Cs 1 Road and the teaboard system at Catawba Junction has al ready been made. Extensive ware houses and other buildings are being erected at that point for . the accom modation of the bnsiness of the lines. It is said that the terminal facilities of the Seaboard system at Norfolk and Baltimore are sufficient for the handling of all the new business that will go to this line by the new combi nation. . ,:) t Better than jrnte. The Augusta Chronicle of yesterday says: "Messrs. Pope & Fleming have received some cotton packed in pine straw made by the Acme Pine Straw Mills, In Wilmington, N. C. Quite a number of cotton men viewed the cotton that was packed in the pine straw bagging,! and they all pro nounced it to be .the superior of jute bagging. It is prettier, takes ink a great deal betterf and is cheaper than jute bagging. Messrs. Foster & Doughty had some of the pine 'straw packed cotton out at their compress yesterday,! and it stood the compress ing just as well as the jute bagging. All agree that the pine straw bagging is just the substitute for the jute, but fear that it cannot be furnished in time for the farmers to use it for this season's crop.1 It is true the Company cannot sup ply the demand this season, but next season they; will turn out the bagging in lots of a hundred thousand yards. , The j "Regular" Republican Convention met at the Court House yesterday morning, Gen. S. H. Man ning being elected chairman and T. C. Miller; (col.) secretary. The following rticket was elected by ac clamation: Sheriff, S. H. Manning; Treasurer, Elijah Hewlett; Register of Deeds, J . E. Sampson (col.); Coro ner, D. J, Jacobs (col.); Constable. R. F. Holmes (coL) Legislature, John Hollo way j and Valentine Howe (co1)l The national Republican ticket, the State ticket, and C.'P. Lockey tot Congress were endorsed. - A Wlimlnctoa Branch. Messrs. R, Gr. 1 Dun & Co. have- det oidedto establish in this city, at an early day,' a. branch of their well known commercial agensy. It will be the first agency they have established in North Carolina, and will probably be the only one for. some- time' to come. ;7 All . the . reports, , giving, the commercial rating of every business man in the State, will be made up here and fprwarded.to. the general' agency in Baltimore. It will be quite a convenience to our merchants. CAPTURED. Onleer Tarllngton Paint ailr Wonal- cd trhii AUcmpttnr to Arrest m i--'eapaweiWer.r iS;!- Last night, about 8-30 o'clock, po lice' "detective J$i' P. Turlington was sho and paihf ullyjwonnded by a ne gro named Frank Lomax.' These are. the facts in regard .to it. '' - U Information was received from Mr. J, D. Currie, of Clarkton that recent ly his store had been robbed and also several other stores at Clarktonjand that; a negro named " Frank' Lomax. bad been traced walking to Wilming-! ton with, somebundles. Mr. Currie described "the negro, '; and mv jj E. Hill, quarantine officer at 'Hilton bridge, reported that he had halted a negro at 10 o'clock Friday night com ing over the bridge into the city with a satchel and several bundles., i After this the Mayor instructed Mr. Tur lington, with the assistance lot Mr. Wm. Sheehan, to look out for the man. - :,. " l Messrs. , Turlington : and . Sheehan,! commenced ;-searoh last night in Paddy's Hollow about 8 o'clock j They nrst went to Mrs. Bryson's .and find ing no trace of him there, went to Mrs. Williamson's, a sailor boarding house, near by, and there saw a man in the dance hall sitting in the cor ner with a negro woman named Mem ber Hankins. .. As soon as Turlington and Sheehan went in. the two negros went out, followed by the two officers. The man and woman were stopped by them - at the mill of Messrs.: Bony & Harper, and Lomax was asked how long he had been here, and he said "three years,' and. he was now work--! ing at the Champion Compress. Mr. Turlington told him he wished to . speak to ' him, k and ' Lo max said "wait- a minute." The man then walked five or ten steps towards the woman as if to hand her some money, and when ho reached .heri broke into a run. Tur- lington and Sheehan running1 after him and the woman following. As he got near the Champion Compress Sheehan caught hold of his coat tail. and he turned and snapped a pistol in Sheehan's face, breaking loose from him. He then turned and fired at Turlington, striking him in the face under the cheekbone. Sheehan again grabbed him by the coat tail and the two ran into vacant lot,Turlington, notwithstanding his wounds, bravely following and trying to catch hold of himJ Lomax stumbled and fell and Turlington caught hold of him and he and Sheehan wrenched the pis tol from, his hand, Turlington then becoming very weak I from the loss of blood which was stream ing from his face, assistance was called for and two policemen, Collins and j Moore, ran to their aid, and Collins clubbed him one time to pre vent bis escape. He was then cap tured, taken to the City Hall and put in the gnardraem In irons: . Member Hawkins was also arrested and put in the guard house. Turlington walked to the City HaU and ; Dr. Potter, City Physician, was immediately summoned, and then Turlington was removed to his mother's house on Third street, be tween Red Cross and Walnut. Dr. Potter says the ball struck the left cheek about the most prominent part and ranged, he thinks, the best he could determine with probe and otherwise, very slightly downward and lodged just under the left- ear. under the muscles in that region. If the ball had been aimed a little high er, it would have been muoh ! more serious. He (the doctor) is under the impression the ball maybeeome in- cysted and give very little or no trouble, if it does not, it might cause an abscess or sloughing, and thereby disengage itself from the place in which it is lodged. . The doctor thinks there is ho real danger, and Drs. Love and McDonald who. -were called in by Dr. Potter, are likewise of this opinion. ! A Stab reporter called to see Mr. Turlington late last night andl f onnd him resting comfortably, A seareh warrant for Member Haw- kin's house was placed in the j hands of Mr. Wm. Sheehan. He went to the house, which is in Loyd's! alley, between Second and Third and Har- net and Brunswick streets, and found a box of cigars, pants, calico, hats, vest, ooats, shirts, cuffs, pooket-book, pistol and a pair of gloves. Nearly all of these articles were quite new. There seems to be no doubt that Lomax escaped from Goldsboro jail several months ago, when he was shot by the sheriff and wounded in the hip. for he was examined last night and ar wound found in the hip. The bullet could be fait under the skin j yet he denied ever being shot. It is riot im probable that he has been implicated In the recent robberies here. There was also found on the person! of Lo-1 max two knives, a silver watch, lot of cheap Jewelry and twelve cents in money. . j -' . j. . - I The pistol Lomax used last night was a. 88-ealibre Smith & Wesson make, and all the barrels were: loaded except the one he had recently dis charged. lomax is a most desperate charac ter, as was shown last night, and wag determined, if possible, not to be ta ken. Strange as it may seenvjneither Turlington nor Shehan were armed. They did hot even have a club. In wardOargoea. The arrival of the British steam ' ships Dartmore and GdboorL r both bringing cargoes of salt, iron J cotton ties, crockery, &c., is worthy of spe cial mention. It fact it is something 'for Wilmington to be proud o& There Is no trouble about ' furnishing the outward cargo. It is the inward car-' go, that is to be looked, after So long as ships come into out port in bal last, we cannot lay:,. claim to being in the highest sense a prosperous sea port. We must hav-e cargoes both ways, and it is a real j Measure to an nounce that this good 'work has be 1 gun. :: . I RAILROAD NOTES. Railroad Rumors and Realities Im- j yortant Jrrame Arrangements j Be tween the G. O. and N. and the Threa Ca Rallrada-tUmlnsTton Intar eated. CoL JR. A. Johnson, General Man ager, and severat.other 'officials' of the Charlestons Cineinnati and Chicago Railroad, h spent several days w in Columbia this week, and the corres pondent of the Charleston News land Courier at that point discovered that they wererdiscussing something of in terest;', Here. is a part' of .'.what be says: -' ' ' '"' ' ' ': V'.v;.' l "While nothing has been obtained from CoL Johnson,lt is rumored and the. rumbr comes ' from 'a'" quarter where the7 actions' of CoL Johnson should be known, that the object of the meeting in. this, city was to make arrangements for a big deal with' the Robinson system,1 known as the Sea board Airline. Alt is stated In sup-" port ol this surmise that at the Ca tawba Junction, a few miles south of Rock HllL.Where the Georgia, Caro lina and Northern Railroad makes connection with rthe tvThree I C's, preparationsare 'being made j1 for a larger . exchange , of business between .these two roads. iThe Georgia, Carolina and Northern is a branch of theSeaboard Air Line, and has just been completed from Monroe,'N.'Ty., to Catawba Junction, At Monroe it connects with the Caro lina Central, which runs direct to Wilmington,'. and at Hamlet connects with. the mainjLline.'of ithe system running to Norfolk and Baltimore. It is claimed that this will give a new and "connecting line from Augusta, Columbia and Charleston to Wil mington, Norfolk and Baltimore, but it is also claimed that if the above mentioned 'deal' is effected it will draw much of Charleston's cotton now going over the South Carolina Road and take it over the new line to the other porta It is understood further that the management of the Three C's is not pleased with the manner in whichlthe wealthy men of Charleston have ignored' this trunk line, and that they wish to seeksome other 'seaport town.'" I Well, the Star takes pleasure in announcing that, the rumors of the Charleston correspondent have beentransformed into j re alities. From information received, there seems to be no doubt that at a conference held in Chester, .Thurs day, traffic arrangements were made by the two roads, asforeshadowed in the Columbia correspondence; and Wilmington is to be again congratu lated on the splendid opportunities presented to her merchants and. fac tors by the Georgia, Carolina and Northern and its friendly connection, the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chi cago, better known as the "Three CPs." ' I - Thejenterprisino; business 'men of Wilmington should enter this new field at once. The inducements are attractive; and, with proper cultiva tion, the harvest will J be abundant. Wilmington is so .much nearer j this new territory than Norfolk or Balti more that she should legitimately control a very large proportion of its trade; and this she will do if she hold aloft her banner ..with TPluok, Energy and Determination" mblazoned on its folds. The Star has frequently reminded the merchants of this city to be on the lookout forithe trade of the ;sec tion traversed -hy the GeorgIa,;.Car olina and Northern, and now that the traffic arrangements have Ibeen completed with the "Three C's," the reminder becomes doubly important. P. S It is encouraging to note, since the foregoing was written, that Wilmington yesterday received four car-loads of cotton from the line of the "Three C's" via the Georgia, Carolina and Northern and Carolina Central Railroads. ! Now. let the work go bravely on. ; l Bl order at Donoho, 8. C. A correspondent from Judson, S. C, under the date of October 10th, writes that on Tuesday evening the farm of Dr. A. McLean, at Donoho, Marion county, S. C, was the scene of a cold-blooded murder, andthat Hector HoRae shot and killed his half brother, Luke McRae, both col ored. A woman is supposed to be the cause of the trouble.1 Hector, as soon as he shot his brother took jto thd woods and has not been caught up with since. 'm''m'' Oxford Orphan Aaylnm. We cheerfully comply with" the re quest made of the secular and re ligious press of the State to extend notice of the proposition to take up the usual collection on Thanksgiving Day wherever religious services are held for the benefit of the Oxford Or phan Asylum. There are now at this institution 241 children who are be ing clothed, fed, educated and fitted ior useiuiuess, sou a uuenu vuuwivu tion should be raised on the approach ing Thanksgiving Day, as aid could not oe given to a moie wortny uujeou From Jacksonville. The following letter was received yesterday: ' " r"'"' i jACKSOITVILrjH, Fla., Oct. 9. Tothe Morning 8tar,Wflmington, N.C.i Dear Sir: I am directed by the Executive Committee of the J above (Auxiliary) - Association to acknow- of the 29th nit., through J. J. DanieL and enclosing express to the amount of $297.91 for the Jacksonville relief fund; also tnat tne same nas oeen placed to your credit. . With best thanks I have the honor to be yours very truly, - Jambs M. : Jtaibijb, . uorresponamg oeorosarjr. Remarks. $22 turned oyer as per instruction. We are very grateful for your generous assistance. cat in Twain. '- A sneolal last night to the STAR from Rocky Mount says that as the "Shoo -Fly1 ' came in ; last night to Fremont from . Goldsboro It ran over a white man named Stephen Davis, cutting him in twain. The man was suDDoaedto have been drunk. His home was in Wilson county. RORBINS AND 8TRUDW1CK, Grand Democratic Rally-Torch Light Procession, Fir Workend Great Enth Balaam. ,' .; ."; ' 'j '; ..f f Notwithstanding the' cold weather that chilled to' the marrow, a very large and enthusiastic audience greeted last night thosejehampions of Democracy, the Hon. Wm. M. Bobbins ("and Mr. . . Frederick Nash Strudwick, elector at large, and were entertained for "two hours with facts that instructed 'and eloquenoe that inspired.' The Young Men's Democratic Club of New Hanover county, in full uni form, their route illuminated by their new lanterns, formed at their head quarters and, headed by the GeK mania Cornet Band, Ifmarched to the Orton House, where, amidst the firing of rocketsand inspiring musio, they were joined by the speak ers, whom they escorted to the Opera' HoUse, in front of which the speaking was to take place;-" : i l 'V--i-t' - John D ..Bellamy, Esq!, chairman of the County Executive Committee, in troduced the speakers in words pecu liarly fitting and complimentary, and commanded the applause of his auditors. . Mr. Bobbins was the' first to address the audience, and for an hour and a half, he entertained them in a speech full of strength, facts and figures. OwJngHo severe cold, from which he was'greatly suf fering, he did not rise to the . height of that oratory with which he is gift ed. But his speech was replete with interest, information and instruction, and commanded the earnest atten tion of hls.audlence to the close. He confined his attention to national is suesthe position of the Republican party with reference to the South the tariff and trusts, all of which he handledn a masterly manner. Mr. Robbins was followed by Mr. Strudwick in a speech short but elo quentrich in thought and inspiring intone. It was a 'little 'gem, and a graceful closingto an 'enthusiastic Democratic rally. j As Mr. Robbins treated national issues, so Mr. Strudwick devoted him self to State politics, "and the words of each fell upon attentive ears, and will do much to arouse the Democrats of the Cape Fear section to the im portance of the pending contest. Tha Shelay Barbecue. V A special telegram to the $tar gives the following particulars of the Democratic barbecue fat1, Shelby! yes terday: ! ) "Heavy rains fell throughout this county yesterday and to-day, inter fering j greatly with the Democratic barbecue. Despitelthis, a large'crowd heard Lieutenant-Governor Stedman in the Court House. He spoke an hour anda half and; was received with great '.applause. YAfter.thanking the people of Cleveland county for their devotion to nim when a candi date before the iafifc; State conven tion, he compared the condition of the State under Republican rule with De mocratic rule, and demolished Re publican claims forsupport on the ground that they were the friends of education.! He explained their finan ciering before the present! system of county government was adopted and their denial of the writ oijiabeas cor pus. He gloriously eulogized Fowle for his courage in maintaining the civil authority. Taking up the tariff, he explained .itin a masterly way, making its'principles clear to'all pre sent. He concluded with tributes to our candidateslon the National and State j tickets. The distinguished speaker was accorded an ovation, and made a great impression on our peo ple. He is more popular than ever, is in splendid condition, and; is ma king votes all along the lines.1? An Idle Rumor. A very silly rumor has been cur rent in Raleigh that the Acme Manu facturing jCompany had sold its plant to the Jute-Bagging Trastllt isTiard- ly necessary to say that .there is no foundation whatever for this report. On the contrary, Mr. William Lati mer, the'.President of the Acme Com pany is now in New York making ar rangements to greatly increase the facilities of the factory for the man ufacture of pine-fibre bagging. Oh! no.. The Acme people don't train with the Jute Trust. They will make their own bagging; and, besides supplying the farmers with a considerable quantity this- season, will be pre pared to fill veryflarge orders in time for the next cotton crop. A Bralteman Killed on the Carolina -Central:! ear .Rockingham by Falla Ins-eir Train. A colored brakeman on the freight train train on the Carolina Central Railroad named George King, was killed yesterday near Ledbetter's Mills, which is three miles west of Rockingham. King attempted to go from! thi shanty car to the engine while the train was lin motion and fell between two Clamber cars ana was run over and killed immediately. The accident occurred between 11 and 12 o'clock yesterday morning and an inquest was held over the body at Rockingham. King lived at Laurin burg and was about twenty-two years old. . ipson Danaoerau. , There will be a graml Democratic mass meeting at Clinton, October 20. Among . the attractions will be an old-fashioned barbecue. It is desi gn ed to make this one ofthe biggest po litical demonstrations ever gotten up In the State. The speakers have not yet been announced, but among those Invited If Mr. Thos. W. Strange, who expects to be present. Sampson county is thoroughly aroused and will 1 7 poll her full Democratic strength on the 6th of 'November. For simon-purelDemocracy and big I bine huckleberries. "Samnsonl God bless ye,1' can't be surpassed. At HE RAILWAY HORROR, particular of tha Wholesale Stanch- iter la Pennsylvania Terrible Scenes SaSTerlna- and Tortnre Between .Mxiy . and Saventyj Paraona Killed and a LarttNamktr Injared. j Br Telegraph to the Xornlnjt Star. j Wilkesbabbb. Pa., October 11. About 10 o'clock last night a dreadful accident on the Lehigh Valley Railroad was rumor ed to have taken place, and further reports said that the wrecked train was a section of an excursion train returning from Hszleton. Nearly six thousand Luzerne and Lacka wanna people bad goue tneie, and no one knew just who had returned Tbe rail road officials were mute-, they knew noth ing. G.adually the stories took a terrible form. It leaked out that Superintendent Mitchell and others had gone down the road on a epeelil engine; thsa a private telegram arrived saying that thu accident had occurred at Mud Run, one feet ion- of the excursion train running into another, and forty persons reported killed. Every means was taken to get information,-but all to no purpose. The New Jersey Central train finally brought news to the effect that eighty persons were killed, and the excite ment grew the mora There were seventy eightcars from Wilkeabarre to Hszleton, the number of passengers being about 5,600. The sections ; were all crowded to suffoca tion, furnishing conditions for terrible loss of life in case of a wreck. Throughout the night the depot was thronged by hundreds of persons suffering untold agony over un certainty. Many persons after waiting during tho long weary hours from 10 to 3 in the morning, took the southbound train, which passed here at 810. and went to the scene of the appalling disaster. It was there learned that the third section of the excur sion train -had. stood on the track, a few hundred yards from Mud Run, waiting for the section ahead to get out of tbe way. A fitgmaii, some say, bad been sent back, with a lantern to guard the train from the rear. Suddenly the : passengers on the rear plat form saw a train approach at the highest rate of speed. Several of these passengers who saw the danger lumped and escaped. In an instant the flash of a headlight illu mined the interior of the ill fated rear car. There was a frightful crash, and the engine plunged her full length into the crowded mass of humanity. Tbe shock drove the' rear car through the next one for two-thirds of its length, and the eecond car was forced into the third. Not a single person escaped from the rear car. Tbe se cond car was crowded with maimed and bleeding bodies, and the third car had but few passengers who escaped unin jured, but the terror stricken passengers of both trains made their way out of the can, and on going to the telescoped engine and cars, where the full horror of the terrible disaster dawned upon them, the shattered engine was pour ing forth streams of scalding steam and water which hid from their eyes tha fullest measure of tbe horrible scene, while its hissinz sound deadened the shrieks and groans of those imprisoned in the wreck. Ghastly white faces peered into the win dows, to be greeted, by faces far more ghastly. Some of tbe dead sat pinioned in their seats, erect as in life, staring open eyed, as if aware of the horrible surround ings. I i As the steam and smoke cleared from tbe rear car its awful sights were revealed. Timbers were crushed and wrenched, while on all sides hung mangled bodies and limbs. A few bodies, which were not mangled, were burned and scalded by steam, and lit tle remained in tha car which bore human semblance. I ! When the shock of the first crash had in a measure subsided, the uninjured began to do what could be done for their un fortunate companions, A few light tools on the train were calied into requisition, but proved feeble instruments indeed In the meantime the windows of the cars were mashed in, brave men en tered and released those least hurt ot least entangled, tin one car they found John Lynch, of Wilkesbarre, hanging from the roof by one leg. His cries brought friends, who, to relieve his suffering, stood upon the wreckage and held his weight upon the! backs until he was released from his ter rible position. A young lady was found caught by the lower limbs . One of her limbs was quickly released, but the other could not be freed, and an unfortunately misdirected blow of an axe severed it from her body. She heroically bora her torture, and taking out her gold watch she banded it to an acquaintance as a gift to a friend at.home; she was put on board one of the trains and given all possible care, but she could not survive her terrible injuries, and died in the arms of friends on board the car. ! To free the bodies in the rear car trainmen attached a locomotive to tbe the wrecked engine and started to pull it from the wreck. The first movement of the shattered wreck brought from the wounded such awful cries of distress that surround ing friends ordered the engineer to desist on pain of his life. They did not wish to see the mangled forms still further muti lated. ; The nasseneers gave many different ac- ounts of the Drobablo cause of the acci dent, some attributing it to the negligence of the flagman in not going beck with a red light. Others say the fourth section, which ran into the third had no air-brakes. After receipt of the news confirming the worst fears the scenes at the depot were heartrending indeed. Several hundred persons assembled . as the report spread that a train was approaching. Then a rush was made for the platform. It was learned a little later that no wounded were on board. As the train drew up it was found to contain many from Pleasant Valley and Winook, who had left dead friends behind. Aa they alighted and met acquaintances their shrieks and wails were pitiful to hear. One young woman moaned that her latner anu sisier were ueau; an other a brothei, and so it went. The crowd became wild with excitement. Gradually the facts narrated above were gleaned from the more composed. A sad incident was the presence on tne platform of Michael Whalen, of Pleasant valley. ! Up and down he wandered, ques tioning each one as to his two boys, I aged respectively twelve and fourteen years, Finally one of the passengers remembered that one of the boys was hurt. The strong man groaned. The informant hurried away and told a reporter that he thought both boys were dead, the report getting abroad in a second. I A special train of three cars, in charge of Dr. W. Tremmer, of White Haven, ar rived here at 5 o'clock this morning from the wreck, with twenty-four injured i per sons. They were placed in the care of Dr. W. G. Weaver, of this city, who accompa nied them to the city hospital. Dr, Trem mer reports that many of the inlured are badly burned by steam from the engine. The killed as far as learned, number forty nine, and the injured twenty-two. WnvKBSBAsaB, Oct. 11. Nine additional names are given out of bodies from last night's wreck, which have been identified. Two of the injured brought here died to day in the hospital, and five or six more are likely to die. The list of identified dead now foot up sixty-one. The number of injured is surprisingly small in propor tion to tne total cssuaiue, uiauj it hoinir rannrted killed than inlured. There still remain a number of unidentified bodies. WASHINGTON. Circular ef tha Traasswrar Relative to :, Bond offerings, : By Telegraph to the Morning Star. : Washingtoh, Oct. H.-rfcting Secre tary Thompson to-day issued the follow- Notice is hereby given that, until kher wise ordered, the Secretary will not accept offerings of bonds that are held aa security for National -Bank' circulation. Offers already accepted are lounu to inciuae bonds so deposited to an amount which exhausts the three million limit for the month of October, and will nearly or quite absorb that Tor wovemoer, h tne nanaa uo hantti fmm Ootnhpr withdrawals are! will ing to lose the interest between this time and November 1st. - . Spirits Turpentine. -!-'- Davidson College has 92 stu dents . I Durham Recorder : A large, number of the surviving members of the Sisth N. C. Regiment met this morning at Webb & Kramer's factory. The told sol diers were addressed by Col. Tate. Col. Atery and MaJ. York. The rain just knocked the spots out of the bunting. The red and the blue mingled in oi e mass and spoilt the looks of our fine decorations. Oxford put six car-loads of people in Dor bam this morning. Hurrah for Oxford I J Winston Daily : Between 8 and 9 o'clock this a . m. Mrs. N. T Wat kins left her house to go to that of a color ed! woman near by. While on her we; a large tree was blown across the road. It is supposed that a limb Btruck Mrs. W. about the neck and shoulders, her injuries resulting in instants death. - Her remans will be . carried to Mt. Carme), Halifax county, Va , on to-morrow morning's train. Mt. Carmel is tbe former residence of Mr. Watkins and several of their children are buried there. Raleigh News-Obserer: A Bl- ... ore gentleman said yesterday thai he had ver seen anything North or ttouih to sur 88 tho Durham expoiioD. Tha Gover nor's Guard won the first prize in the com petitive drill and the Reideville Light In fantry the second. Aeheville. Oct 10. The Holston Conference, after seven days' labor, closed its sixty-fifth session last night. Rev. A. .W. Curtis was tried, con--victed and expelled from tbe mioUiry and membership of tbcM. E Church South fot dishonest practices. The tetiiimeoiB -for the year were announced last night by - " the Bishop, after which tbe Conference ad journed. The session has iiouu pU-neauT, -harmonious and successful in it work. NeJvBern Journal: As evi dence that New Bern is a place for -vintcr sportsmen, we note that Mr. James lit noes ley, of the Craven County Guu Club, went v out early yesterday morning up Treat river and returned about 9 a ra with thirty dulcis, Jones county dots: Crops arc riting rapidly housed and are better than fur years past. Cotton is not turning but so well as expected. Mr. Lewis Fonville killed a rattler last week that had 16 rattles. Mr. E. W. O RUgs killed one with 13 rattles that came very near biting him and his whole family. They nil got after the snake which turned -on them and ran them all in the house, and it ibey bad" not shut the door it is supposed no one would have known whit bccsuie o the , family. . Concord Times: The Lutheran parsonage is now near completion, and will be ready for occupancy in about a week. . 1 The collection at the Methodist church last Sunday morning was for the yellow fever sufferers, and amounted to $14 j There are now 1.S01 Alliances in the State- That meaua that theie are now 60,000 members of this order in tho v State, as the average, membership of theBe sub-alliances is fifty. - Wo learn that Rev. R. W. Petrea, who was formerly pas tor of St. John's Lutheran Church, indltis county, but who went to Murphy eboro, III., last September to take charge of a church there, will return Mo his native State about November 1st, and take charge' of Mt. Hermon, Cold Water and Prosperi ty churches. - Mt. Airy Neves'. The apple crop is short and prices of - the fruit long. But good apples ought to be worth 60 or 60 cents per bushel. Jesse Gentry, son of Wm. Gentry, Clerk of the Superior Court of Ashe county, while out hunting in company with another boy accidentally shot himself . through the heart, expiring immediately. As he fell he exclaimed, "Lord have mercy on me." On Fri day morning, Sept. 28th, Mr. C. M. Short lost a barn of fine tobacco by fire. Tho . fire was not discovered until it was too late to extinguish - it. This loss falls very heavily on Mr. Short, as he had only one barn in which to cure his crop and has several barns yet to cure.- The total loss is between $200 and $300. I Charlotte Chronicle: Geo. W. Dellinger, of Lincoln county, was arraign ed before Esquire Maxwell yesterday, on the charge of disposing of property that was mortgaged to Mr. J, A. Hevenor. He was bound over to appear before Judge Meares. Gen. R. Barringer returned yesterday from Concord, and reports the fair a great success. Four thousand tickets were taken in at the gates on Wednesday. The soldiers' reunion was the largest ever held in the State. There were 700 old veterans in line, some of them being from Rowan and Stanly contiea. The exhibits in all the vsrious lines were full and of an excellent character. A Western North Carolina and an A., T. and O. freight train collided at Statesville yeBterday morning. TheA.,T. and O. tram bad not cleared . the main line when the Western North Carolina train struck it. Both engines were demaged, the front of the A., T. and O engine being torn to pieces. A cylinder -head was knocked from the Western North Carolina engine and other damage done. , No one was hurt. j - Charlotte Chronicle: Brax Ar chibald, a blight young man who was for merly engaged In the composing rooms of this office, died at his home in Concord last Sunday from an attack of diphtheria. Summary of the manufacturing enterprises of Charlotte shows that there is now in vested in machinery In Charlotte $1,600, 000. These different enterprises disburse over $5,000 every Saturday in wages to the workingmen. The Cabarrus county fair opened at Concord yesterday with a large attendance and a fine line ot exhibits, There was a little misunderstanding yesterday afternoon between Mr. F. A. McNinch. a leading Republican, and Mr. R. H. Morse, the Prohibition cham pion, which subsequently cost them $6.65 each in a magistrate's court. Will Weddington, John Weddlngton and Sam Reed, all colored, were arraigned at the bar of the Criminal Court yesterday, upon the' charge of murder. They are . charged with the killing of polieeman Price, in Monroe, and the case was moved to Charlotte for trial. A big row oo-" jcurred last Sunday at the Rock Creek camp-meeting, near Lenoir, in which halt a dozen men were wounded, two of them fatally. The row occurred about one-half a mile from the grounds and created great excitement, for it was no ordinary fleht. it was a pitched battle between the Jenkins and Bumgarner clans, and they had it hot and heavy. Rocks, sticks and knives were freely used and the spirit of the fight ! HAnmnri tn be "Lav on. MCUUH." .Every man engaged in the fight was more or lesB battered, but John and Lewis Jenkins were the worst sufferers. The skull of one of tbe Jenkinses was fractured, and both men are fatally injured. An old grudge between the parties was the cause of the row. These two last items show bow correct . the Judges are when they say crime is de creasing. Stab. Charlotte Chronicle : News reached the city yesterday of an unfortu nate affair which occurred in Salisbury last Tuesday night, in the shooting of Mr. W. H. Overman by his brother-in-law, Mr. O. R. Van Wyck. Mr Van Wyck had been drinking and Mr. Overman was taking him home, when he dropped slight ly behind Mr. Overman, drew a pistol and shot him in the head. Thehullet did not enter the skull, but ranged upward, pass ing between the skin and skull, and came out on top of bis head. Tbe skull, how ever, was fractured by the bullet. Ms. Overman's injury is very painful and serious. He is one of the most prominent citizens of Salisbury. Frank Bran don, who lives In Biver Bend township, Gaston county, went home drunk last Sat urday evening. He had been drinking ' heavily for some time, and his conduct was such that his wife fled from .the dwelling and spent the night in the smoke house. In fact, her fear of his vio lence was so great that she re mained hidden until Sunday evening, when the desperate man was arrested. He arose Sunday morning, and seeing his sister-in-law. Miss Belle Ryburn, a most esti mable lady, preparing breakfast, made a most brutal and savage atiacx upon ner without any provocation. He knocked her down three times, and then kinked her in the face, making frightful gashes to dress and sew up which a physician had to be called in. Sunday afternoon, W. 8. Rut lege, a justice of the peace, issued a war rant of arrest and Brandon cursed the offi cers furiously. He made an attack upon W. A. Howell, who accompanied the officers, but when Mr. Howell drove his foot into the desperado's tomsch, the arrest wss easily made. He was taken to Dallas jail Monday night. These two brutal outrages show how true It la that crime Is decreasing. Sta.1 r, :4 I -4 1 ' t' i ii !! iTn i .l-.nr A lattkna1
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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