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The Weekly Star. WM. H. BEBNABD, Editor and Prop'r. ' WTLMING TON, N. C. Fbepay, Mat 10, 1889. vnn writing to oaanire "your Faddresa, alwayt stye former direction as well as full particulars as where you wish your paper to De sep uoremwr. Unless you do both changes can not be made. , HTTJotloes of Marriage or Death. TWbntesof Beapeot, Resolutions of Thanks, &o., are ohawd foV as ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for strictly in advance. At OJs rate GO oents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. t3rBemlttanoea must be made bj 'CheokDraft- postal Jftoney uraer or negiuwjreu masters will register letters when desired. HT Only suoh remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. tafSpecImen copies forwarded, when desired MOST WORrHlLY DONE. When North Carolina goes from brat ions, she is the tail end of the show. Bat when on Her own heath, she celebratea some achievement of the paet, she does it well and with frond and uplifted head. The Stab congratulates Judge Sohenok upon the splendid suocess that has attend edhis patriotic and well direoted efforts in vindicating the men of 1781, who perilled all at the "hard foughten field" of Guilford Court House. It felioitates Senator Vance on his smoothly flowing, thoughtful and impressi re address. It congrat ulates the Thirteen States in the persons of the young and handsome girls upon their patriotism in doing - honor to so important an historic - event. We compliment all 'true, loyal North Carolinians who were present in sharing in the cer emonies commemorative of one of the great 'epochal points in Americau history. We hope the anticipations of the inspirer of the whole move ment, Judge Schenck, will be realized in the vast attendance in 1801, when commanded at Guilford C. H. and gave Cornwallis such a hotly contest ed fight and made it in faot a victory for the Americans, will be unveiled, - and that North Carolina will be pres ent in the persons of her fair daugh ters and State-loving sons from the . sounding sea to the hills of the Dan and from Lake Drummond to where the lofty mountains of Black Range lift their towering peaks to the skies and receive the earliest kisses of the creeping dawn. North Caro linians, throw aside yonr in difference and cultivating a nobler passion for Statehood come up to the help of the patriotic and devoted sons and daughters of the dear old State,and henceforth resolve that jus tice shall be done though the heavens fall and that in civic days her name shall be respected. Let the history of the deeds of the men of the past be recorded by competent hands. Let the facts that glorify North Carolina be blazoned so that Prejudice and Falsehood shall slink away and Slan der shall hide himself in the dark caves of death among the reptiles that creep and hiss and sting. PROTECTION IN THE BOOTH. The New York Graphic is quot ing Southern Protection papers and others that claim to be the genuine Democratic article to prove that the South is becoming rapidly "in favor of the Protection principle as a Go vernmental policy." The Stab is not quoted to prove this error, nor will it be so quoted. The Graphic Is misled. The true 'Democracy of the South are united in'an eternal antagonism to a Protective Tariff 'i 1 " 3 i I The Democracy in 1892, will be as strong for Tariff-Reform as it was in 1876, when the whole Democracy rallied under the Reform flag of Til- den, and gained a , splendid victory. The very papers that denounce with such shameful truculence and ingrat itude Cleveland, Carlisle, Mills, and all of the brainy and earnest Demo- . crats in the House will be tooting for Tariff Reform in 1892, or they will be training with the Radicals. There will be nothing else to do. What can the Democrats do but stand by the people and Bland np bravely for lower taxes and the ra zeeing of the giant War Tariff in tne next Presidential campaign ? If the Democratic party, as such,should fail the people in that supreme hour and unite with Radicalism in doing " a V v-v wdm toe wopwc says is going on in the South among the Demo crats rapidly leaning "in favor of the Protective principle as a Govern mental policy then as sure as prin ciples remain and find exponents, the - Democracy will split, and a genuine Democratic party will be fonnd that shall uphold State Rights, Low Taxes, a Tariff based upon a low schedule, in which all luxuries will - be taxed and the various necessaries of life will either be put upon the free list, or will be taxed at the least minimum say President Washing- ton's Tariff of eight per cent. The taxes on luxuries will continue as a oarainai principle so lone? as mm- m . " . . mere are 48,uuo,ooo of annual in- terest to raise on the war debt and 9380,000,000 or more of pensions to 'be raised eaoh year for the Yankee soldiers. The ""Solid South" will quiokly dissolve when Protection is urged among Democrats as the "principle'' to compose "a Govern mental policy." Papers that de nonnoe Mills and Carlisle and .Cleve land can then fight on the side of Protection and free oigars, &o as" their distinctive "principle" if .they o .elect. If the division should occur Car- Kale. Cleveland. Cox. . Jams, . tne Breokinridges and the other brainy leaders will be found on the side of the people and low taxes. r -f ; r; ' y JUDGE GEOBGB. W. Blliwui , Years ago the Stab had occasion to discuss the propriety or rearing a monument in memory of Judge Brooks, of Elizabeth City. We knew him personally well. He never visited Wilmington without" calling at our office. We have had several- interesting conversations with mm. The last one we held was the occa sion of drawing from him - a state ment as to his political principles. It was not many months before his death, and it was the last time we ever saw him. He said this in Bub- stance, and almost in woras: "i have read the Stab with interest. I have carefully read all you have said of parties of the formation of the Constitution and its proper construc tion. While I respect your opinions, I cannot agree with yon. I have studied the organic law, and I do not aooept your theory of interpretation. I am a Republican from conviction, and I agree with the Republican constitutional theory. But I cannot and will not vote for a corrupt, bad man for office, knowing him to be such, although he is a Republican. I have refused to vote for bad men and I will not again support such." These were the words of a pure, modest, upright J udge, and we hon ored him in our heart as he spoke his calm, well considered words. His action corresponded we think with his declarations. He did not always support Republican candidates. The truth it, no honest, upright, self-respecting man ought ever to vote for vicious and venal candidates just be cause they take possession of conven tions and secure nominations. The only way to secure good nominations is for true, honest, moral men to re fuse to support bad men. Oh, for the time when no party will dare to put in nomination evil, corrupt men, whose HveB are an offense to public decency. In the saddest, gloomiest days that North Carolina ever saw Judge Brooks came to the rescue of the people. The story is too long for rehearsal here. To understand the grandeur of his judicial act you must acquaint yourself precisely with the condition of North Carolina at the lime he came forward to rescue some of the noblest men of the State from the clutches of the Tyrant and to make law onoe more supreme. It was a day of h umiliation and sorrow 'and disgrace. It was .when the pure juiist, with manly and resolved cour age, stepped into the arena, that the Mgs of the Law once more covered the oitizen. The other Judges had cowed be fore the Tyrant. The people were prostrate under his iron-heel. It is a thousand wonders that the whole State had notrisen in one simul taneous act and throttled the Tyrant and his bloody myrmidons. Judge Brooks richly deserves at the hands of a free and grateful peo ple a monument nay, a statue, to tell future generations of his nobility of character and the splendor of that deed when be lifted the outraged majesty of Law from the dust in which tyranny had trampied it, and enthroned it once more among the violated people. The man who was weak and craven in the crucial hour, and said with plastic submission "The Judiciary is exhausted" has been honored by tne xar or tne state with a monu ment. The man who stood bravely in the breach and saved the beet of men from a felon's cell, and it mav be from a felon's doom, and pushed Ty ranny from its stool, lies neglected, with no monumental stone to attest a people's gratitude; with no statue to perpetuate the lineaments of a va liant, .' upright, conscientious Judge who ''poised the cause in justice's .equal scales," and shielded Liberty when being assassinated in the very house of its professed friends. Shall this continue? We hope not. 1 be Wilson Mirror discusses the propusea movement to at least per form a duty that should be impera- A. .. . tive. We copy what our friend says, and it is to be hoped that all who I revere virtue and, honor . character and applaud duty well done in an hour of severe trial, will unite in pushing on the effort to successful consummation. Tbe Mirror savs: "The Stab will receive thecontribntinna. Tbe step is fitting, timely and. appropri ate, it suouia De crowned with success. its foundation stones are everlasting grati tude. A monument of marble should rise high in the air, and tell to generations yet unborn how one jurist, amid the wildest storm of terrorism that ever appalled the hearts of men, proved that he was indeed the blesEed paladium of bis country's lib erties, and fearlessly Interposed the shield oi ine taw to peat Dack tne mailed hand of despotism that threatened to plunge bis people into ruin. And as tbe rock-ribbed cobpi nuns oacK tne maaiy rushing waves oi tne storm swept ocean and makes its wildest billows break in harmless surav at its impervious base, so this invulnerable and right mailed champion and defender of I his people's liberty raised his eegis of pro - " ppea tne waves oi oppression buu irjruBUJT Ul Were BUTglUg IB Wildest commotion before him. Tea. let the mnn ument be erected, and let everv natriot and every liberty-loving citizen and law-respecting man in North Carolina contribute a dollar to aid in an undertaking- which is to commemorate virtues that glistened in the darkness of usurpation and despotism as brightly as starbeams amid the shadows of me nignt.' Only a dollar is asked, bat if any one is prompted by a sense of admi ration and gratitude to give $10, tioo, or tl,000, all the i better, and the sooner the needed work-will be done. We may. at another dav. re- prodnee Mrs. Speneer clear, ani - mated and" truthful account of the troublous days of 1869, and then yon will tne better -understand and appre ciate the nobility and bravery of the incorruptible Jurist we would honor. NORTH 1AROLINA NVTBS. There is an error in the list of 25 regiments which : will be corrected soon. It appears from'a.later letter from Capt. W. R. Bond; that we misread or misapprehended his letter and the list. So until corrected 'do not attach importance to the list as published. He said, and this is what we figured upon: "You will see that North Carolina has ten .out of the 25 regiments, which is a glorious show ing." In a few days we will publish the list as it ehould be. Even so late as last Monday's issue the New York Times refers to Gov. Scales as "representing" North Caro lina at the Centennial. This is re markable in so carefully edited and well informed a paper. Gov. Fpwle has been Governor for nearly four months. "; It is well enough to give some of the facts as stated by Col. William F. Fox in his reoent book entitled 'Regimental Losses in the War." North Carolina led. This is no news to us, but it will be news to the out side world, and a stern rebuke to persistent slanderers. As condensed lb facts in part are as follows: . 'North Carolina killed. 14.522; Virginia, 5. 828 ; South Carolina, 9.187; Georgia, 5, 552 ; Mississippi, 5.807. .North Carolina also lea the list in the number that died of wounds, and 20.602 of her sons died of disease to 6.947 Virginians. The sons of other States did more talking:, but North Carolina evi dently did far the moat fighting. Her mil itary population in 1861 was 115.869, but she furnished 125.000 men to the Confede rate cauee." Let the ink elingers quit misrepre senting the facts of history. Old Ben Butler charged in a din ner speech that Admiral Porter was coward in the war. The Admiral replies and says Butler was drunk or he would never have attacked him. He publishes some official documents in self-defence. Old Ben reiterates his charges. New York army and navy officers have come to Porter's defence. Gen. Burns says old Ben was a traitor. Old Cump Sherman has discovered that Cockeyea has " good reooid." Porter says as reported in the World: 'He is the only man I have heard of who could outlive the contempt of the whole nation who could always run away in time of war and yet flourish. I came very near thiashicg him when he was Military Governor of New Orleans, and 1 am sorry I didn't do it." i- . Th e guillotine man in the Post- office Department has chopped off so many heads within two or three weeks, he is actually unable ; to tell how many. 'Rah for Civil Service Reform. In spite of the law the heads are still rolling daily in the saw dust. What miserable frauds those Civil Service Reformers be!- ! ' The Danville Register is partial to Col. Richard F. Beirne, editor of the Richmond State, for Governor. Why not? The Register says of him: 'In the first place he is a sound Demo. crat, with pronounced principles and the courage of hia convictions. He is also a manor brilliant, mind, is thoroughly ac quainted with the needs of the people and above all is is a bigb-toned, houorable gen tleman, ot spotless character and unques tioned integrity." Tourgee is paid to abuse the South in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. If the North knew this fellow as North Ca rolina knows him hia censure would be regarded as an evidence of merit on the part of those against whom he shoots his poisoned arrows. Smart and tricky is this son of the North. Oeeau View Railroad. The managers of the" Ocean View railroad are busily engaged In get ting everything ready for the excur sion season which will open shortly. Tbe locomotive for the road arrived nere yesterday, ana win go down as soon as unloaded from the car on which it arrived. It Id guaranteed to pull six excursion cars. Mr. Lawther, who has had many year's experience, will be the engineer. Prices for tsoatbera Fruits an Veae- tablte. A telegram to tbe Star, from Q. S. Palmer, commission merchant, New York, saysrj New York, May 8. North Carol! napeas are nrm, and sold to day. prime, at $1.50 per half barrel crate, The outlook is favorable. Strawbem " "ss cento per quart Messrs. Pancoast & Griffiths, 122 Dock street, Philadelphia, report May 8 th. Strawberries from Florida are abont done ;tbe Carolinas are Short. There fore, prices bave stiffened dd nnder tne increasing demand of this warm weather. Choice cabbage and green Deans are in good aemana ana steady, peas are cleaning np at the decline noted, and fresh receipts are steady. we quote: prime sound strawberries per quart. 2585o. cabbasre Der barrel. $2.002.75; beans per box l 252.00; peas per ddi. crate i.uurai.DU: per t ddi. crate oosac. Anotber Beid In tbe Baakel. Mr. Ed G. Topp, of this city, postal route agent between Wilmington and Jacksonville, has been removed, and Henry Hall, the colored magistrate who dispensed justice in the First 1 wara OI imB "y.&as been appointed 1 the place. Mr. Yopp made an ex cellent record, and was removed for no other reason than being a Democrat. because of his A' Life Preserver thrown to VOU in the sea of trnnhlna that threatens to engulf you ladies In its dan' ger-iraUKbl .Waves. SO to tnaafe. anil nn that will float you over their threatening wu pwinn aaieiy, is iouna In Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. You make a dangerous mistake if you do not seize and make use Of it. if yen are afflicted with any of those distressing ailments De- cuiiar to your sex, styled "female comi piainta," ior is a guaranteed cure for eacu ana every ui oi we kind. Thp nnlv Tnftritn.lnA until hv rim nrrlat. mj t I tive guarantee from the mannfaRtnr, nt 1 Sdf ffpaS SKff" virKinlamiilMry laartise. Mr. Jos. BjAnderson, chairman of the Semi-Centennial Executive Com mittee of the Society f of Alumni of the Virginia Military Institute, : has issued a circular whloh has reached an Alumnus : resident in this , city.. This circular is an earnest appeal to every matriculate of the V. M. L now j living that be will strenuously en- ; deavor to lend his presence to the interesting occasion of "the" Semi centennial Anniversary of their cherished alma mater, and partici pate in the jubilee that it is believed will mark a memorable epoch in the history of an institution .famous both in war and in peaoe. She, through her i Society , of Alumni,,; affec tionately calls , upon all -her sons, widely scattered though they be, to come back to the old home on this oyous oooasion and bask again amid the ever hallowed scenes of the "Anld lang syn." As there are many ma triculates and not a few alumni of the Virginia 'Military Institute who en tered from this State, this appeal ad dresses itself specially to them. The days fixed for the celebration are the 8rd and 4th July proximo.- Eaoh ma triculate should address the chair man, stating his intention, that a re ply may reach him, giving program me, and stating reduced rates secured from railroads. Address Jos. B. An derson, chairman, postofflee box 312, BiohmondTVa. . , . V- .1 Tbe Local Spoilt, . v - "Thimrais workln' In the Repub lican camp, and information;reoeived here yesterday leaves little room to doubt that Foreman Foster will hard ly have time to warm his official seat before the cruel hand of fate will knock him higher than: the most alti tudinons of kites. There seems to be some doubt abont Lockey's ability to hold his grip on the sweet and seduc tive flesh-pots, and it is ominously given out that he will "remain for the present," There is good reason to believe, too, that Superintendent Post's head will soon be handed in on a charger, though only in a politico-metaphorical sense, of course. The coming man for this position is Mr. W. H. Chad- bourn, who is likely to be appointed before the close of the present week; and to make things as uncomfortable as possible for Clerk Lockey, it Is darkly hinted that the new Superin tendent will be permitted to select both Foreman and Clerk. This is a Republican fight all through, and there's no end to the cyclone of compliments with which the air is filled. There is no news concerning the Custom House appointments, for Collector, but Enos, is ''running with a curled tail," and his friends claim that he will once more "sit at the re ceipt of customs" in the "good old way." Bob. Jefleraon Davla to Vlalt Favatte- ville: A telegram . from Fayetteville says that ex-President Jefferson Da vis has accepted the invitation ex tended him by the committee ap pointed in mass meeting there re cently to be present at the Centen nial anniversary of the adoption by North Carolina of the Federal Con stitution which was ratified in that oily November 21st, 1789. The Fayetteville Observer will to-day publish the correspondence between tbe committee and Mr. uavis. in his reply, Mr. Davis says that be accepts tbe invitation to be present, bnt desires that the task of orator of the day be assigned to some one else, in view of his great age and many infirmities. Honalcltf wtt Crooiy A fatal stabbiDg affair is reported as having taken place yesterday morning between two white boys at Cronly, in Columbus county, on tbe Carolina Central railroad about eigh teen miles from this city. All that could be learned of the unfortunate occurrence is that the two boys John Cook, aged about seventeen years, and Willie Mason, aged fifteen engaged in an altercation, during which Mason used his knife, stabbing Cook in the lower part of the body, and inflicting a fatal wound. Young Cook was taken to his home near the village in a carriage, and died shortly afterwards. A Naw Towa. Shepard. on Sonth river, in Samp son county, about eleven miles from Fayetteville, has started on a "boom,'' so a subscriber to the Stab writes. It is on the line of the C. F. & Y. V. ex tension, and a depot is to be built there and a town laid off, which it is proposed to call "Autry." The place is bound to come to the front. The location is very healthy, with good water, and tbe surrounding country is a splendid iarmlng section. Anoiber Plnnr. The guillotine is still being worked merrily by the Civil Service Reform Administration. - Mr. George . Z Frenoh has been appointed Post master of this city. Mr. French cul tivates a bad brand of politics, but he has the honesty and capacity to make a good Officer, and there is little doubt that his administration of the affairs of the post-office will give satisfaction. A Great Synod. t The Charlotte News says: "The State Synod of the Evangel! cal Lutheran Church, in session at St. John's Church, near Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus county, is one of the most largely attended ever held in this State. The opening sermon Sunday morning was preaonea by Kev. Chas. Rose, and the erowd was so great that the church could not be&rln to hold alL An overflow meeting was conse quently neia." The Signal Service observer at Southport telegraphed to the obser ver here, yesterday evening: "Capt. Adkins reports the American schoon er Mary A. Morse, from Darien to Bath, outside the bar leakimr. She took pilot to come in, bnt afterwards discharged him and prooeded on her way. JNo further particulars known. as the pilot has not returned at 6 P.m." - Tbelr Bnslbaaa Booming. rrobably no one thing has caused such a general revival of trade at Robert R. Bellamv'a Whnlaula &nt T?ooil TWi- 8 tore as their giving away to then- custo- iuwid wi mi many ires inai DOtues OI ut. King s New Disooverv for Consumntion. Their trade Is simply enormous in this very vaiuaue article, from the fact that it always cures and- never disappoints. Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Group. and all throat and lung diseases quickly cured. ' You can test it before -buying by getting a trial bottle free, large size $ Avery uutue warraniea. Proeeeaince - Regular Rlontbir . - - -r. ., . ... ...... i . The regular monthly meeting of the Board of County . Commissioners was held yesterday afternoon. Chair man H. A. Bagg presiding. - The County Treasurer's monthly re ! port, showing a balance on hand of 39,859 91, was received and ordered filed. Tbe Register of Deeds submitted his monthly report of receipts from marriage libenses,amonntingto $11 88, and the same , was . received and or dered filed. - "7 The Board ordered a levy 61 taxes nnder . schedules A, B and : C, the same as the State levy. The sched ules are as heretofore, with the ex ception that the retail liquor license is : increased to two hundred dollars (for State and county), and the cost of a marriage license is increased from two to three dollars. . ' The (annual reports of the Board of Managers and the Surgeon in charge of the City Hospital, for the year ended December 81st. 1888, were submitted. The managers say the hospital is now firmly established, and . growing in favor, "and we feel gratified to know the past year has been the most suc cessful of Its existence, as the receipts show, being $669.61, while for 1887 they were $383.63. And we feel con fident that had we been able to build and furnish a ward with proper con veniencesifor pay, patients 'the re ceipts wpold have been three times as large; but the amount appropriated for that purpose we found insufficient. If we can get an additional appro priation to complete this important work we feel the time is not far dis tant when . the institution will be, probably," self -sustaining and a pride and an ornament to the city. Dr. Lane in his report says: 'I have been unremitting during the year In my efforts to increase our pay patient fund, with the result showing 62 pay patients and over $600 in re ceipts. On several occasions I was embarrassed for room, and at presen have more in the hospital than the number of rooms appropriated for patiens.' " In closing their report, the Board speak in high terms of the manage ment of the hospital by Dr. Lane, and of his skill, care and attention to those nnder his charge, and the suc cess that has attended his surgical operations. The Board urge that a small addi tional appropriation be made, to en sure the completion of the pay pa tients' ward. The total expenditures for the year were: for construction of building for colored ward, $1,224 14: current ex penses, $3,737 39. The report was received and order ed spread upon the minutes Roderick MaeBae was appointed special surveyor to survey beaoh lands of H.D.Marshall, of Harnett town ship. Tbe Star "Got Tktn," The address of Senator Vance de livered at the Guilford battle-ground, Saturday, was printed in full in the Stab of Sunday. "Has ever such en ferprise been exhibited before by any other, paper in this section?" Well, yes, numerously. But it may be of i terest to state how the "enter prise" of the Stab was severely tested in this case. On Friday, about o'clock p. m.. a Stab man, with that energetic and enterprising stride peculiar to stab men, and "never exhibited before toy any other" news paper man "in this section," capered nimbly, up to the post-office, where he found a letter from Charlotte, and accompanying the letter nicely print ed proof slips of the Senator's address So, the Stab printers had from a lit tle after 3 o'clock Friday afternoon until Sunday morning to put the ad dress in type. "Has ever such?" Yes. And "Twas ever thus, too. Rcnnklleaa Prlsae. Mr. Jas. F. Post, Superintendent reoeived instructions yesterday from the Treasury Department to discon tinue, on receipt of letter, the present "contingent force" at work on the pnblic building This means the dis placement of Capt. B. H. Beery Foreman, and Mr. Walker Meares as Clerk. Henry E. Foster is appointed to succeed Capt. Beery, and Mr. O. P, Lockey to succeed Mr. Meares. The pay of the Foreman is $5.00 and that of the Clerk $4.00 per day, Sundays excepted in both cases. These are nice plums for Lockey and Foster, Tbm ABftoInMBaata. , Much surprise is expressed here among Republicans as well as Dem ocrats, .at the appointment of Henry E. Foster to the position of Foreman of the public building; and it is whis pered that he will retain the place but a short time. ' His appointment reads "for the present month," which Is the eustomary form in such cases; but there are those who seem to know what they are talking about who confidently assert that . Foster will be removed before the June apples are decked in their crimson hue. It is stated by Republicans here that Foster's appointment is the result of misrepresentations made to the Treasury Department, which when corrected, as they will be, will bring abont his speedy removal. 'j. nere is opposition, too, among leading Republicans, to Lockey; and it is believed a strong effort will be made to retire him, though it does not appear that his personal charac ter is involved The first oargo of steel rails for this end of the .Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley railroad arrived here yester day on the schooner M. A. Bonsall, and is being discharged at the Caro lina Central wharves,from whenoe the rails will be taken over the Northeast river to the place where these roads will cross, and where track laying',it is said will begin in a few days. An other cargo of rails Is expected short ly to be used in laying track begin ning at the Point Peter wharves. ; Baeklra's Araiea saive . Thb Bbst BaTiVB hi the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi tively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Robxbt R. Bellamy, wholesale and retail druggists. t . GRKES PILL E, Deaaoerate Carry tbe municipal Elae- Special to the Morning Star. : OBVSBVnVLB." N. D ' Mm ft Th nmn-. ocrata swept Greenville overwhelmingly in the election to-day.-' There was opposition in only one ward, by art independent com- a. ' a tl.l . Dinauoo, -wuicd sot oeatenoaaiy. . WASHINGTON, N, C. Daelaea In Favor of Wblakey. ISpeoIal to the Morning Star. WASHmeTOH, May 6. In the election to-day the '-wets" carried it by fifty-eight majority. - , WASHINGTON. Decision m tbe Court of IClatnu la . Favor ot tbe state of deorcia. W ASHureron. Mav 6. The Court of I uuuun tu-uBj bbto juugemeni ior foOfDOO in favor of the State of Georgia, In its suit against the United 8tatcs to recover money advanced to the government during the re voluttonary war. The money had been withheld from the State by accounting of ficers of the treasury as a set-off to money due the government under the direct tax rn-i J j j . . AnH 1 law. The Court held that as the State of Georgia had never assumed the direct tax, there was no obligation on her part to pay the same, and that therefore the off -set had been wrongfully made. Washihstok, May 7. The President to day appointed fifty-nine postmasters, among them the following from the South ern States: Robert. L. Houston. Birming ham, Fla., vice M. B. Throckmorton, de ceased; Dallas tt. Smith, Opelika, Ala., Vice R. A. Mitchell, resigned; William A. Wood, Gainesville, Ga, vice William D. Whellehel, commission expired; Jesse F. Owen, Sweetwater, Tenn., vice John S. Yearwood, commission expired: George 2. French, Wilmington, N. O , vice Oscar G. Jfarsley, removed; Julius o. Fortune, Shel by. N. 0., vice Ben. E. Logan, removed. Tbe President made the following ap pointments -also: Arthur L. Thomas, of Salt Lake City, Utah, to be Governor of Utah; Elijah Sells, of Salt Lake City, to be Secretary of Utah: Ellis Worth Dagzett. of Utah Territory, to be Surveyor General of Utah. The President this evening appointed Frank W. Palmer, of Illinois, to be Public Printer: Theodore Roosevelt, of .New York. and Hugh S. Thompson, of South Carolina, to be Civil service Commissioners. Washington, May 8. The War De partment has lust completed and published allotments oi f4UU,UU0 appropriated by uooerees ror the eauinment or militia. The allotments are based on the representa tion or Hia tea In Congress, and in the case of territories about to become States tbe apportionments show the amounts to which they will be entitled after this has occurred, The distribution of the appropriation will be as in part as follows: Alabama, $9,492: Louisiana $7,594. Mis siesippi $8,543, Missouri $15,188. New York $34,173. North Carolina $10,441, Ohio $21,833. Pennsylvania $28,478. South Carolina $8,543, Texas $12,340, Vir ginia $11,891. . Regulations provide that requisitions for militia supplies must be made by Governors or tne states and territories direct to the Secretary of War. m JOHNS II OFKINti HOSPITAL, Tbe Largest and Most Blebly En dowed la tbe World Formal Open, lac Baiatkobb, Ms., May 7. Johns Hop kins Hospital, the largest, most richly endowed and completely equipped institu tion of the kind in the world, was formally opened this morning in tbe presence of distinguished officials of the nation. State and city, and members of the medical pro fession from many parts ot the country. Francis T. King, President of the Board of Trustees, made tbe opening address. welcoming the visitors. In the course of his remarks be said: "When I tell you that these seventeen buildings have been constructed and furnished, and these four teen and a halt acres enclosed and beauti fled,as you see them to-day, not only with out taking a dollar irom the principal placed in the hands of the trustees, but witn actual increase or the endowment oy lacucious investments oi the sum oiislla. 000, I think it may be Justly ..claimed that the trustees have not failed in this part of heir autv. Prof. Paul C Gillman, president of the Johns Hopkins College, followed, and spoke of the benevolence of Mr. Hopkins. "Time," he said, "may efface the person ality of our founder, as it has effaced the personality of Mr. Rabers, founder of St. Bartholomew's; but the beneficence of Johns Hopkins will last for centuries, and gratitude will cherish the memory of his broad views, bis great liberality, his wise and beneficent purposes." He outlined the systems upon which the hospital will be conducted, and predicted great benefits to humanity from it. . Got. Jackson then declared tbe hospital open to the people, and the visitors in spected the hospital. NEW ORLEANS. Iaapoalas Cereaaoalee at tbe Roman Catbolle CatbedraL By Telegraph to the Morning- star Nbw Oklkars, May 8. The Roman Catholic Cathedral was crowded this morn ing upon the occasion of the conferring of the ir allium upon Arcnnisnop Janssen by Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore. At half- past 9 o'clock tbe procession left the Arch Episcopal residence in the followinaorder Acolytes, State priests. Cardinal Gibbons escorted by Archbishop Janssen: Bishon Durice. of Natchitoches: Bishop Keane. of Wheeling: Bev. Father Keeling, represent ing Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati; Father Magillicuddy. of Wheeling; Father . Wheelan, of Baltimore; Fathers Boland and juangbein, or Hew York; meats and Aco lytes. Upon arrival at the Cathedral solemn Pontifical mass was celebrated, and at its conclusion the Archbishop was in vested with the Pallium with the usual im posing ceremony. A sermon in French was delivered by Bishop Durier and one in En glish by Bishop Eeane. This evening there will be a meeting of the visiting Bishops and Priests for the purpose of selecting the date for the consecration of Rev. Father Hesslio, of St. Michaels, as Bishop of Nat chez. The requisite Papal bulls arrived on Thursday last, x NEW JERSEY. Preparations at Hlaabetb to Entertain Gov. Oordoa, of Georgia. By Telegraph to the Horning Star, Elizabeth, May 8. Gov. John B. Gor don, of Georgia, is to be the guests of the city to-morrow evening, and preparations are being made to give him a worthy recep tion. The Veterans Zouave Corps will pa rade in lull uniiorm in his honor. When the General was informed of this intention of the Veterans, he said that nothing in his whole career had touched - him more than tbe cordial greetings he had received du ring his present visit to the North at tbe hands of the Grand Army Veterans. Such acts, he thought, would have great influ ence in removing the impression widely prevalent in the South, that the Grand Army was bent on fostering a spirit of an tagonism to the couth, lie had long known this to be a mistaken notion, and he was doing his best to make that fact clear to the Southern people. VIRGINIA, A J all Delivery at Norfolk. Br Telegraph to the Horning Star. Nobfolx, May 8. There was a Jail de livery nere mis morning. Denner i Barnes, who is under indictment for the forgery of a check for $25. and F. W. Small, who la also under indictment for the forgery of checks to the amount of. a little less than $100 on two parties, made their escape. Barnes played the Young Men's Christian Association racket, and Small put himself up as a Catholic priest. Barnes sawed through a bar in his cell with a knue wmcn had been hacked like a saw. He then released Small from hia call to the same corridor, and' together they dug a hole through the Jail wall and escaped into the police station yard. Barnes scaled the wall of the station house yard, but Small was seen by a policeman just as he was getting over, and was hauled back. Barnes has not been captured yet Read advertisement; of Otterburn Lithia Water in this paper. Unequalled for Dys pepsia and all diseases of kidney and blad der. Price within reach of all. Tbe Sanaoan ooafereaeo Boalaaaiat Hoski seareHed Tbe Iioadon fltoap Work Destroyed fty Fire Opening; of tbe Universal Bxpoaltlon la Parle Tbe City Filled wltb . Vlaltoro-Tbe Gay Capital Decked ; Oat. la tbe Brlcneat Colors President Caraot makes tbe Opealag Address, etc, etc. - . Be Cable to the Horning Star. BBBLnr. May 5. The committee of the Samoan Conference has been directed to examine and report upon means for estab lishing order in Samoa,' and adequate Star an tees for the maintenance of peaee, j eluding the question of a king. Paris. May 5. The1 houses of sixteen members of the Boulangist party, at NeuiW ly, hav been searched by the police. . : jjOHnoN, jnay o. me soap worsa ox David and William Gibbs, in Hanover Court. Milton street, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is 100,000. Copyright 1889:nv-tfhe:K. T. Associated ITeai Paris, May 6. At 2 o'clock this after noon, surrounded oy his Ministers ana many distinguished guests, rTesident uar' not stood nnder the great dome of the Ex position -building formally to declare it open. The preliminaries had been auspi cious. The ceremonial at Versailles yes terday, while not of the first importance, was dignified and discreet. The military -display, which was inferior to many I have seen in Pans, was wisely curtailed to give visitors an opportunity to see the charms of tbe most beautiful Bpot in Europe, whose natural loveliness is overmatched by its historical associtlons in which romance and tragedy are so strangely commingled. The speeches by the President and others were characterized alike by tact and taste. Every- where the demonstrations were unaualined. If discontent prevailed it remained awsy irom Versailles, ana nas np to una time, at least, uttered no sound and given no sign. The talismanic spell of thrift solves what ever of political rancor may seek vent under . other circumstances. The President's cortege arrived at the Exposition grounds escorted by a brilliant corps oi cuirassiers, whose breastplates and helmets flashed back the pleasant May day sun. The crystal tones ot the great clocks struck two, the trumpets poured forth their strains, and the entire assembly under the dome arose to its feet. It was a spectacle worth remembering. The free scenic nation has supplied during the centuries of its monarchy many gorgeous spectacles for artists to preserve, for poets to chant, and philosophers to discuss, but at no time since the days of the great Louis were liberty, moral power and beauty and democracy so picturesquely harmonized as at this mo ment. Conceive a great nircle formed un der a dome, suggestive of St. Paul's decora tions, reaching to the apex, noble in sym bolism and illusion, the art of litera ture of all countries noted by ingenious and graceful devices, . the names of the world's greatest emblazoned in golfi letters, various emblems ot civili zation arranged pictorially upon segments of arches, and a colossal frieze extending entirely arouna the Dase oi the dome, com posed of a magnificent processional, na tional types oi. all races bearing ap propriate onerings. iseneath this lumi nous and rich roof are hundreds of arm chairs, single chairs and benches, all in gold upholstering, with arms in crimson brocade or velvet, and the dais arrranged with heavy red drapery for the President and his train. Extending in lines of parallelogram, with an endless vista through the palace of fine arts, are places all in red velvet lor the Senators and .Deputies, Judges, Heads of Departments of great Councils. French Academy, Institute of France, Clergy, and civil functionaries, The surprise of the day was the presence of all the diplomatic representatives now in Paris. While their governments declined to permit them officially to assist in the open ing of the Exposition, personal good-will, and Doasiblv ornate euriositv. have over come the prohibition, and they were all un officially present. Here, there, and every where is seen the broad red ribbon of the Legion of Honor, and the cross of the same distinction. The uenerals. scarred and feeble, are assisted to their places by the young omcers. Hoary veterans occupy the front row of chairs near the dais, some of them on crutches, survivors of many wars. After the Marsellaise had been played by a chorus oi men a voices, admirably bal anced and of delightful quality, Premier l iraru delivered the opening speech. President Carnot then arose to read his speech. His peroration Is delivered with considerable earnestness; every word is safe, prudent, plausible and generous. The President can never be held to be an orator, but his essay was worthy of the day in its breadth and sympathy of outlook. It was a well proportioned treatment of sev eral thsmes which had a structural place In it. its; statesmanlike deliverance, and more than once the felicity of its sentences. awoke the assemblage into an united de monstration of enthusiasm. It was several minutes before the President was permitted to take his seat. The musical programme was then at once proceeded with. The President descended from the dais and walked - down the main aisle of the gallery lot fine arts towards the centre. where he touched several electric buttons. In a moment tbe fountains of the Exposi tion were pouring their streams to uni versal sunshine, and the (Treat space of the machinery palace was in motion. The 800,000 or 400,000 people outside and in side cheered, and every portion of the grounds of the Universal Exposition of 1889 is open, The exhibitors nnmber 80. 000. To-night Paris is ablaze with illu ruinations. No vehicles are permitted in tne streets. T he city is the people's. ILLINOIS. Nearly all tbe Coal mines Closed Hor rible Treatment of Iaaaatee of tbo Borne for Iaearablea. Bphihg Vallbt, May 7. At a meeting held here yesterday about seven thousand miners in this district manifested their desire to resist a reduction of wages. ani succeeded in getting the men who work ed the machines in the middle vein to quit work. The mines here are now completely closed down, as well aa those of La Salle, Braidwood, Streator, Ogleeby, Peru, and la fact most ail ine mines in this district, owing to the Blight demand for coal during we past winter. Chicago, May 7. A bill was filed in the Circuit Court by a number of prominent citizens this morning, asking for the ap- ? ointment of a receiver of the Home for ncurables, and an injunction to restrain the managers of the Home from removing the books. The bill furthermore asks for the removal of President H. N. Higginbo tham and Caroline 8. Barlow, matron of the institution, from their - positions for gross violation of tbe trust imposed in them. It is claimed that helpless inmates have been frightfully abused and tortured. Thirty cases are cited, some of them too horrible for belief. They are charged with causing tbe death of some patients. The case pro mises to be one of the most noted ever tried uOook county. - - JFATA.L FIRE. Five Persons Borned to Deatb In Westchester, N. T., and Two Severe ly Kajared. Westchkstkb, N. Y., May 7. The dwelling house of Watson Bownes was destroyed by fire about half-past one o'clock this morning, and five persons burned to death. The household consisted of Watson Bownes, his wife, his mother, Mrs. T. B. Bownes, and two'children and two ser vants. Just how the fire started is not known, but it is supposed that a lamp which was left burning in the hail exploded and started tbe flames. When Mr. Bownes was awakened by the crackling of the flames, the fire had already gained great head way, and the house was filled with smoke. Mr. Bownes Immediately gave the alarm and then started to carry his wife into the open air. In doing this he was severely burned about the feet and body, and Mrs. Bownes was also burned about the head, neck and shoulders. -While Bownes was rescuing his wife he could plainly hear the cries of agony from his mother and his two children, who were sleeping with their grandmother, but he was unable to save tbem, and they perished. The two chil dren were aged three ond five years. Kate Dunn, a servant, and her sister Annie, who came to visit her last night, also perished, A Oars or bo Fay ... Is guaranteed to those who use Dr . Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for catarrh in the head, or for bronchial or throat afiee tions, or consumption (which la lung scro fula), if taken in time and given a fair trial. Maneff prcmpOit returned If It does not cure. Newborn Journal : Sev0 sons were added to tbe membership of JUL. Jfi. unurcn in this city on Bond ay m ning. Just now there is consider" depression among truckers because crin ace off, and expectations are not realized Greenville Reflector: Last week the editor received a telegram from a Chin man who is looking into the proBpecu nJ flraan villa BP a annA nl,no n . . ,. l a launuii - ocuuui nuue IHfcag the cakb. ne nas lost two eyes mis tP&r- J still has a good one left. He bss broken his glass eye and had to have another put in. 7"" Raleigh Calk There is not. whiskey shop in Tyrrell county, N. C The prison of tbe county is empty, and there was not a State case on the docket nt .k. last court. Rutherford county mrt contribution to the penitentiary k;. morningsent in seven convicts in one satca. jnr. j . B. uarr. President the Confederate Veteran's Association of North Carolina has issued a call for tw body to meet in this city at 10 a. m. on th. 10th Inst. Acting Governor Hokthig morning-issued an order permitting the Gordon Rifles, of Bennetts ville, 8. 0., to enter the State on May 10th. They will attend the Memorial Day exercises in Fav- etteville. Washington correspondents say that the chances of Mr. John Nichols for Public Printer are brightening that he has a strong backing from all parts of the country; that he has been influential in all the postofflee changes In this section. Raleigh News' Observer : The Governor yesterday set tbe day'for the exe cution of J. 8. McMahan, of Macon coun ty, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged, and also David Bell, of Madison county, convicted of rape and sentenced to be hantred. Both appealed to the Supreme Court and Judgment was affirmed. - They day or execution of both was set for June 7th. The factor of interest in Raleigh's Dienmai election yesterday was tbe question of amending the city charter so as to issue one hundred thousand dollars of bonds for- the purpose of constructing a system of sewerage and paving the streets. Total registration, 1,867; vote for amend ment. 7U1; necessary for amendment, 670. The Board of Aldermen as elected stands fourteen Democrats and three Republicans as follows: Democrats Latta. Sneilino- Wilder,. Bagwell, Womble, Honey cntt. Cowper, Lee, Grimes, Ward, Holding, Horton, Leach. Lumsden. ReDublicans Bowes, Harris, Bobineon. M. Quad in Detroit Free Press: Charlotte, like all other towns in North Carolina, baa a history running back to the revolution and beyond. It was for many years called Mecklenburg, It was here that the declaration ot Independence was horn. More than a year before the Old Liberty beil at Philadelphia sent forth the glad tid ings of revolution the people of North Car olina were in revolt and a declaration full of fight had been signed in convention at Mecklenburg. The town has had many and strange rulers and witnessed many and queer changes. When the Confederates evacuated Norfolk the navy yard was mov ed to Charlotte, being the only case record ed in history where a navy yard was estab lished in a town several hundred miles from water deep enough to float a ship. And Charlotte is to keep on growing and adding ' to the list of her industries. She offers free sites and other encouragement to maaufac 1 11 rp.ru anil in hnnnd tt win nn tk. i;.. - I wvwwu wv ... WJUCS. HUG, The country about is one of tbe finest lo calities south of tbe Ohio Biver for the farmer, and Charlotte bas got the push and vim which wi'l double her industries and population within the next five years. Norfolk Landmark: News from Elizabeth Citvs The Society of Pasquotank Confederate Veterans have decided to hold a grand reunion on Memorial Day, and if possible gather together every oldier now living in the First Congressional District. A committee was appointed to make ar rangements for a big dinner. There are sixty-five names on the rolls of the society, the grand object of which is to aid in build ing a home for indigent comrades. Capt. J. W. Smith, of the schooner Addie Henry, reached here yesterday morning and reports having found floating in Albemarle Sound, about a mile southeast of Pasquo tank light, a drowned white man. Capt. Smith said he sent his crew off and had the body tied to a net stake. It is supposed the man la Fred Gaskel, lost off the schooner Susan Caroline during the storm of April 7th. Three negroes named Thomas Mullen, Timothy Taylor and Riley Griffin, were brought here from Newland township Saturday night and put in jail, charged with assaulting a white boy, named Frank Albertson, on the public road. The men had a hearing befor Justice Temple and failed to give the required bond. Charlotte News: Population of the city proper, exclusive of suburbs, is: Whites, male, 8,225; female, 3,556. Col ored, male, 2,188; female, 2,641. Both races, male, 5,413; female, 6,197. Total, 11,610. The population of the . suburb brings the entire population up to twelve thousand six hundred and ten. Rev. A. G. McManaway sailed for' home yes terday. He is expected to arrive here in time for the Southern Baptist Convention. The cold wave which is now travel ling across the country struck our city last night, and at daylight there was frost, while the thermometer at the signal station registered 87 9 deyrees. The frost on the uplands was light, but in the lowlands it was of tbe variety known as "killing." The board of civil service examiners will hold a civil service-examination at the mint In Charlotte on May 7th. : There was a destructive fire in Shelby last night, as we learn from passengers who came in on the Carolina Central train this morning. The fire destroyed the, buildings occupied by the Southern Empress Company; J. B. Babbington, stationer and printer, and Bostio, Bros. & Wright, general merchants. The origin of the fire is believed to have been incendiary. Wadesboro Messenger : Vol. Oliver Dockery passed through Wades boro last Tuesday on his way to Washing ton City. While here he was besieged by a throng of local small fry politicians, hun gry for office. We learn that there is a movement on foot amongst the negroes ot Morven to have Capt. Hardin, the present efficient postmaster at that place, removed and one of their own color, by name Pink ' Dockery, appointed in his place. There is a well on the old Adam Clark place in Lilesville township, this county, tbat has peculiarities that the people living in tbe neighborhood would like to have explained by some eompetent authority. This well is 40 feet deep, and up to the time of the earthquake in 1886, always had (winter and nmmnrl uvn faat nf trrA wat I. It T had never been known to go dry, but on the morning after the earthquake it didn't have a drop of water in it, and. since that time in dry seasons the well has been per fectly dryt but during wet spells it gets so full that it sometimes runs over. The well has been known to be full of water at night and the next day found perfectly empty. It is a walled well and no surface water runs into it Who can explain this phenome na? Pat Bennett, a young colored man belonging to Capt. Jowera gravel train crew, had one of his feet badly crushed early last Monday morning at the Carolina Central depot Charlott News': Mr. S. L. Leary, the architect who went to Rutber fordton last week to draw plans for a sew hotel there, has returned to the city. I He says that the new hotel is to be a fine one. It will cost ten thousand dollars. It will be a frame structure, three stories high and will contain 40 rooms for guests. The location is a oeautif ul one,' in the centre of the town, the lot upon which the hotel will be built being 208x400 feet. The hotel will have a spacious lawn around it The build ing will be completed and ready for guests by the latter part of August It is with regret we announce the death of Major L. G. Heilig, which occurred at his home in Mt Pleasant suddenly on the evening of May 4th. Major Heilig was widely known and esteemed, and was a staunch supporter of the Lutheran church. Mr. James L. Todd, a son of Won. Todd, Esq of this city, died at the home of his father, at 5. 55 o'clock yesterday morning, after an Illness that had lasted since the lat ter part of last December. The young man was in his 28rd year, and went to the grave with the calm resignation of a true and sin cere Christian. The Lenoir Topio is bragging about a mill somewhere in the western part of the State, that is 100 years old. . Wi dnnt Ilk. tn. m-lra tia TWy! feel small, but we've got a mill that is calculated to make the Topic wilt It is on the Con rad homestead, in Forsyth county, and has been In active operation for the past two hundred years. It is still being operated aa a mill.
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