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The Weekly Star. PUBLISHED AT IVILNINGTON, N.O., AT fl.OO A YBAB, IN ADVANCE. I gsssssssssgssssss ssssssssssssissss sssssssssssssssss 8SS8SS8SS8SSSSS8S " 8SS8So83S8S88SSSS " 88S8SS8S8S888S88S " SS88gS8SS88888888 SS3S8S8SS8S8SS888 - ' : a - ' . - ' i g: 1 : s : s : : : : : s : j : o n - I lilereJ at the Post Office atTWilmlngton, N. C, as Second Class Matter.l SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Weekly Star is as follows : 1 Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, $1.00 " " 6 month " .60 " 3monthi " " .30 SAVINGS BANKS. The organization of Savings Banks is quite a new thing in the South, began within the past few years, if we except South Carolina, where-it is said they have been in operation for the past ten years in the city of Charleston. In 1886 they were established in Maryland and Delaware, and later in North Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana. The number of depositors and amount of deposits have increased annually, until the latter will reach in the aggregate twelve millions, of dollars, and probably more. In the other Southern States no effort Has yet been made in that direction, but the indications are that in a short while no Southern State will be without them. They will prove, when in sufficient numbers and sol idly established, very effective agenoies in the upbuilding of our industries, especially in the frituna ivhera oanitoT a nrl hanVinn ta- ., do cilities are limited. There are many "of what are called the small indus- j - .1 1 . 1 t . - . 1 tries, tuougu tney are migmy in ineir influences and results, whioh would be put into operation in North Caro lina by good men who can command some capital, but not enough, if mo ney could be secured at a low rate of interest. If the money which is held in small Bums in the hands, or the stockings, as the phrase goes, of the people in town and country, idle and yielding no return, were deposit ed in the savings banks, it would ease up money matters, put the idle mo ney in circulation, and help on the industrial enterprises that are held in check for want of money. We have in our mind's eye now one little town, full of life and energy, , where 125,000 a week are paid as waves to emnlovea in . the tobacco factories alone, nine-tenths of which are spent before the next week's wages are earned. If the surplus earnings of these wage workers, over and above what they need to pur chase the necessaries of life, were de posited and made available for in vestment they wound furnish capital enough to start other new industries which would give employment to many people and add materially to the general prosperity. There is one savings bank there started within a year, where the deposits though not large, are on the increase monthly. There is not a town of any impor tance in North Carolina where there is not an opening for one savings Dans at least, 11 not more. 11 inese banks were made the places of de posit for the money lying idle in small sums, or the money wasted or spent in dissipation, it would amount in the aggregate to several millions, which judiciously invested, would give an impetus to industrial enter prises that would soon add millions more to the wealth of the State, and offer a field for employment to thou sands of industrious people now ' struggling to earn a comfortable liv ing. Some one has said that the great churches of the world have been built with the pennies of the poor, and so have some of the great indus tries of , this country been built with the pennies and dimes of the ' poor, gathered into the vaults of these banks and sent out again to put the wheels of industry and en terprise in motion. Thinking progressive people in every community in the State should talk for these banks and encourage the people to deposit ; their surplus earnings in them. Little things are the seeds from which great things sometimes grow. The increase of these banks in the. States where a few years ago they were never thought of is a gratifying sign of the growing thrift and thoughtf ulness of our people and shows that they are not heedless witnesses of the econonv id methods of other people who have prospered by these methods. The wife of Mr. Halford, Private Secretary of the President, was on a train near Johnstown when the flood happened, and received much assis tanoe from the colored sleeping-oar porter. Mr. II. rewarded him by giving him a government place. No thing like being generous when you have a government to draw on. 7 VOL. XX. 8TATK TOPICS. The Asheville Citizen referring to the meeting of the North Carolina Frnit Growers' Association, remarks that the time is too early for West ern North Carolina fruit growers to participate to advantage, as much of the best frnit of that section of the State does ; not mature until later." This is true. -The exhibit made by the Association . is really an exhibit of the early fruits and hence must be held as early as it is. Western North Carolina is famous for fine apples and vege tables, and central North Carolina for fine apples and late peaches. If a seoond fair was held at some cen tral point, it would make an exhibit worth seeing, and would show what North Carolina can do as a producer of fine fruits and vegetables of keep ing properties. Since' Raleigh haB responded so promptly to the requirements of the trustees as a condition' of the re moval of Trinity College, it may be considered settled that it will be moved to Raleigh, unless the ques tion of removal be re-considered. In the event of removal the inquiry naturally follows, what disposition is to be made of the College grounds and buildings ? There are spaoions grounds with substantial, attractive and roomy buildings in good condi tion, located in a high, healthy, beautiful and fertile oountry, and easy of acoess, within a couple miles of the North Carolina railroad and with the railroad to Asheboro, which. will shortly be extended further south to connect with other roads, running by its doors. We suppose that this property could be purchased at a reasonable price, and if so why would it cot answer admirably for the pro posed Soldier's Home ? If the move ment to establish this Home should be successful, which we trust it will be, here is a Home already built, which can probably be secured for ess money than it would take to erect buildings and lay out grounds that would compare with the build ings and grounds of Trinity College. HOW PROTECTION PROTECTS. Whatever the policy or history of the Republican party of the past may have been it is now planted squarely and fairly on the cornerstone of pro tection, high tariff protection, to American industries. We were told before the election and this is the plea on which they went before the American people that without such protection our industrial system would collapse, the owners of the re spective industries be bankrupted' and the workmen be reduced to beg gary. It is somewhat surprising, then, to see in a paper like the Phila delphia Press, a rank protection or gan, a paragraph like the following: "Inventions, labor-saving machinery and the quality of the manufactures have con tributed to place this country in a position, regarding all staple articles of manufacture, in which it has little to fear from foreign competition in the markets of the world." This is identically the position taken by Democrats in discussing the Mills bill, that there was no need of the protection demanded by the man facturers, tha'i they were or ought to be amply able to hold the field against foreign competition with the incidental protection a tariff for re venue would give them. Democratic speakers in and out of Congress, and Democratic writers maintained that even if it were conceded that a pro- tective tariff for protection's sake were constitutional and defensible, it was not necessary and consequently such unnecessary taxation was un just to the people upon whom it was levied. In support of this position, they used this very idea and sub stantially ' the same language here quoted from this high tariff organ. The Press would have been the last paper in the world to have admitted anything of this kind to its columns when the Mills bill was under discussion, and it is somewhat surprising that it haB the candor to do so now, being still as it is a Republican and high tariff organ in good standing. But it will not be in good standing long if it continues on this line. As the election is over, however, it can afford to be truthful and candid in these matters and indulge in a wider liberty of speech. - The views that some editors hold are governed, to a great extent, by party emergencies and the offices at Htako. The declar ation of the Press is true, and was as true years ago and last year, when L made by Democrats, as it is now.' With improved machinery and in telligent, skilled labor the American manufacturer can bid defiance to the world, and if relieved from the in cubus of this high tariff falsely called a protective tariff could diB tance'in the race of competition the manufactures of any nation on earth. We were told in the last Presiden tial campaign, as we were also told in campaigns preceding it, that the protective tariff was intended not only for the protection of the manu facturer but also of the American workman and the American farmer, 1- n and yet we find, following,' almost directly on the heels of Harrison's eleotion a reduction' of wages in j the protected establishments and within the past two months before the new administration had got fairly started we nna mr. Andrew Carnegie, Mr, Blaine's special friend, who derives an income of $1,500,000 a year from the protective tariff, cutting down the wages of his employes from twenty to fifty per cent. The owners of ooal mines are also protected, and yet we learn from the Indianapolis papers that in one' coun ty of the coal district of Indiana there are thousands of people who' lived by labor in the mines in a starv ing condition, and who have to be fed by the bounty of others more fa vored by fortune than they. This is in Harrison's own State, and doubtless many of these men voted for him under the delusive impres sion that their condition would be bettered by the protective system, of which he was and is the representa tive. -To-day they are dependent on charity for the bread which keeps life in them,their wives and children. That is protecting the working man with a vengeanoe. It was to benefit the farmer also, and yet we are told officially by State Assessor Wood, of New York, that the out look for the New Tork farmer is very dismal, and that farming land in that State, one of the most denser ly populated and wealthy States in the Union, is constantly depreciating in value, as is also the case through out New England and some of the Western States, while the farmers of Michigan are proteoted to the extent of receiving five cents a bushel for their potatoes. What a tremendous fraud this so-called protection is ? Rumors of impending war come from Vienna, Russia being one of the principals. This looks ominous for the poor telegraph operator and night editor who will have to wrestle with the dispatches. These rumors start from a reported plot at Bel grade to dethrone the young King Alexander and put Pete Karageorge- vitch in his place. This came will do for a small-sized sample of some of the jaw-breakers the boys will have to tackle if the racket should begin. . As an evidence of the progress of Christianizing Africa, a traveller states that on one Sabbath he saw two steamers land one missionary ana 50,000 cases of gin at an African port. From, this it would seem that it is virgin territory for something besides missionaries. The tastes of the denizens of the dark continent must have changed. It used to be missionaries and New England rum. The North Carolina Press Asso ciation will meet in 17th annual convention at Lenoir, Caldwell county, July 17 th. It is probable that an excursion to Asheville will be arranged for, so that the knights of the scissors, paste-pot and pencil may" have an opportunity to take in the capital city of skyland. The North Carolina boys came out with flying colors at Princeton Col lege, N. J., this year. Out of eight medals awarded five were taken by North Carolina students, all alumni of Davidson College, whioh speaks well for the boys and also for Davidson College. The Farmers' Inter-State Associa tion, of which Col. L. L. Polk, editor of the Progresive Farmer, is Presi dent, will meet at Montgomery, Ala., August 20th. A Brooklyn Sensation. There was a great deal of excite ment among the colored people of Brooklyn last week, over the mys terious movements of a large rock that has been a landmark . for a century or less near the corner of Ninth and Swann streets. The rock got tired, probably, of being half im bedded in dirty sand and used as a resting place . for every Idle darkey that came along, and actually started to crawl oway at least this is the story told. It had moved but a few feet, how ever, before the discovery was made that it was "on the go," and the fact was soon noised -abroad, resulting in hundreds of frightened and excited colored people flocking to the place to see the moving rock. A woman living in the neighborhood avowed that she saw it moving and that it emitted a sound like running water. This was enough to start a half dozen others, each of whom made the same statement, and the excitement was considerably heightened when it was found one morning that the rock had actually disappeared arid conld not be found any wnere in the neighbor hood. -.. Confederate Veteran, CoL E. D. Hall, of this city, has been authorized and designated to is sue a call for a meeting of Oonfeder ate veterans for the purpose of "or ganizing a County Confederate Vete rans' Association, in accordance with the circular of instruction issued by Julian S. Carr, Esq, President of the State Association. The meeting for New Hanover county will be held In the courtroom at the City Hall at 12 o'clock noon, 'July 4th. At this meet ing a President, Vice President. Se cretary and -Executive Committee of five will be eleeted. WILMINGTON, N. C., Death oMr Bnnett. . -. Dr. W, T. Ennett died at his resi dence in this city at twenty minutes past 8 o'clock'yeBterday morning, af-' ter a "painful ; illness of about two months, whioh culminated in soften ing of the brain. Dr. Ennett re moved to this city with his ' family, from Pender -county a few months ago. He was a native Of Onslow coun ty, and about fifty years of age. ' He W8S a gallant - Confederate ' soldier, serving throughout " the war ! in the Third North Carolina In fantry, and at Appomattox, as major of the regiment, was in com mand of the brigade to which it was attached. He was severely wounded in the hip in one of the battles in Virginia. At the close of the war he studied medicine. Graduated at the Medical College in Baltimore, and soon after entered upon the practice of his profession in Pender county, where he enjoyed a large practice ub to the time of his removal to this city. Dr. Ennett leaves a wife and three children, and his death is sincerely mourned by hosts of friends who speak of him in warmest terms of affection and admiration of his noble charac ter. He was a member of the Episco- yal Church, and his funeral is an nounced to take place from St. Paul's at 10 o'clock this morning. The New Hanover Board of Health, of which the deceased was a member, met yesterday and adopted the fol lowing: We. the New Hanover Board of Health and Wilmington Medical So ciety, in meeting assembled, having just received the sad tidings of the deatn of our esteemed mend and brother, Dr. W. T. Ennett, desire to put on record this testimonial of his memory. Always steadfast in his love to his native State, he gave the flower of his life to her service, receiving in the course of that arduous duty wounds and the impress of disease which ended his career while he was just in his prime. it is especially sad to record tne Eainf ul episode of the final fatal low to his health. While on the journey to preside over the Medical society of JNortn Carolina as its cruet officer, at the meeting in Elizabeth City, he received a burn which for many weeks taxed his vital powers until it culminated in death. As a soldier, a citizen, a physician. he filled the measure of his duty, and we here offer this tribute of friendship and love to his bereaved iamiiy. Wilmington, JN. C June 14, 1889. Pound Drowned The body of a colored woman, ap parently about middle-age, was found yesterday morning in a small creek near CoL Roger Moore's brickyard, about four miles from the city. The body was discovered floating in the stream by two colored women, who gave information of the ghastly find to Mr. Miller, foreman at the brick yard, who at once notified Coro oner Jacobs. The Coroner sum moned a jury and held an inquest over the remains at the place whore they were found. The body had been in the water some time, apparently. John Jones, a colored man living in the neighborhood, testified that he saw a woman passing' through the brick yard about 7 o'clock last Sun day afternoon. The woman was a stranger, and he inquired her name, which she said was Sarah. She ask ed the way to Market street 'and he directed her and she left. Robert Willey, a colored boy, testi fied that he met a woman that looked like deceased about 9 o'clock Saturday morning last, near the Poor House. She told him her name was Nancy Foy, and asked Robert if he knew Aunt Betsey Nixon, and upon his telling her that he did, asked him to tell Betsey to come to the Poor House and take her away. There were no other persons present who could give information as to the deceased, and the jury, upon the foregoing tes timony rendered a verdict that the woman, supposed to be Abbie Foy, or Crazy Sarah," from the county Poor House, came to her death by acci dental drowning. The coroner gave an order for the interment of the body and it was buried! in Oak Grove Cem etery at the expense of the county. Abbie Foy, the drowned woman, was the wife of a colored stevedore, Hugh Foy, of this city. She had been crazy for some time past and an in mate of the county Poor House. Tbo Brunswick Poisoning Case Bryant Carroll, , the young white man who was arrested the latter part of last March in Brunswick county for the murder of his wife, is still in jail at Southport, and will be tried for his life, in all probability, at the September term of the Superior Court, over which Judge Shipp will preside. A statement of the case was published in the Stab at the time. Carroll was suspected of having pois oned his wife with something con tained in a bottle of wine, part of which he induced her to drink, when she died about fifteen min utes afterwards. The woman's stomach and the bot tle containing what remained of the wine, have since been subjected to analysis, which resulted in finding arsenic, strychnine and prussio acid, both in the wine and the stomach of the deceased. As usual, there is an other woman in the case, to whom Carroll desired to be married after he had been placed in jail; but the Coun ty Commissioners refused to allow him to - have even an interview with the woman, who is at large and is not charged with complicity in the murder Funeral of the Lata Drt Ennett. The funeral of the late Dr. W. T. Ennett took place yesterday morning at 10 o'clock from St. Paul's Church, the services being conducted by the Rector of St. Paul's, Rev. O. I. Arnold, assisted by Rev. Robert Strange of St. James'. The remains were interred In Oakdale Cemetery, and the pall bearers were CoL W. L. DeRossett, Mr. DuB. Cutlar, Capt. John Cowan, Dr. F. W. Potter, Dr. J. H. Durham, Dr. Geo. G. Thomas and Capt R. W. Price. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1889. YoCterf ajr at Wrictatavuie. There1 was a yery large number of people at Wrightville yesterday who Bhaokaiids--so to speak with old ocean ffr, the first time, and pleasant indeed jwas the greeting. The visi tors frctai M 'Airy and along the line of the ja'F. & T. V, R, R. arrived at the beieh about four hundred strong, and wfthOut any mishap to mar the pleasure of the trip. The" excursion ists, after breakfasting on the appe tising and tempting viands served at the ' various hotels'" and res taurants, spent the greater portion of the ; day in strolling, bathing, swinging," etc,, all seeming to enjoy the occasion to the utmost. -Many, no doubt, who had .in imagination, pictured the, ."raging deep," found their imaginative chromos fading into Insignificance as they faced the genuine, Vand-painted, Raphaelian originaLand gazed in amazement and awe-struck? wonder on the "vasty deep." ' ." The beach, shells, and in fact every thing connected with .the sea shore, came in for a share of the excursion ists' , scrutiny. There would .have been a; scarcity of "shells by the shore" but for the fact that the shell factory has been putting in full time for some years past; how ever, Wilmington's new-found ac quaintances will' carry to their homes many souvenirs of their visit to the sia, which, it is hoped, will serve to induce them and their "cousins and their aunts" and as many of the up-country citizens as want to have a genuine tip-top good time to come again and that very soon. The excursionists were brought . up to the city about 6 o'clock yesterday evening, and stopped at the various hotels for the night, and to-day will take in the city and Carolina Beach. Wilmingtonians will find the visi tors to be a clever and genial people, and it is an opportunity that should be grasped to form an acquaintance that will be lasting, and result in much good financially and socially to all concerned. Tbi Encampment. General Orders No. 4 from Head quarters of the First Brigade, N. C. State Guard, make formal announce ment that the encampment will be held at Camp Latimer, commencing Tuesday evening, July 9th, and clos ing on Thursday, J uly 18th. All regi ments and companies composing the Brigade, together with all general field and staff officers and officers of the general staff, will appear at Camp Latimer in heavy marching order on Tuesday evening, July 9th, and imme diately upon arrival report to the Adjutant General for duty. The Camp will be under the command pf Brigadier General W. H. Anthony, and will be formally opened with ap propriate ceremonies at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, July 10th. Each regiment will have its own camp, camp guards and guard lines, but the several camps will be loca ted upon the same ground, in close proximity to each other. During this encampment, the Scotland Neck Mounted Riflemen will be temporari ly attached to the Second Regiment, Col. W. C. Jones commanding. The movement of each company or de tachment will be directed by general or special order, to be issued here" after. Adjutant Generai Glenn calls special attention to the fact that companies must attend with, at least thirty men, rank and file. The Commander-in-Chief expresses the hope that each company will appear with full ranks, and to this end he earnest - ly requests employers of members of the State Guard to give the necessary leaves of absence, as non-attendance of any company embraced in this order may lead to the disbandment of such company, Oar Upacountry Visitors The excursionists from Mount Airy and other places along the line of tne Cape Fear & Vadkin Valley railroad, left for home yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. From all accounts they had a "fine time" while here aad many expressed themselves as de lighted with the trip. A great many of the visitors went down to Carolina Beach yesterday, returning on the Sylvan Orove at 2 o'clock. They one and all, throughout their stay here, conducted themselves in a quiet, gentlemanly manner, and made a good impression on every body. Although there were about five hundred here, there was no drunkenness, no rowdyism, and if there was any disturbance anywhere in the city during their stay, we have yet to hear of it. It was, as a friend says, "a bulging big crowd," and all of them spent money with our Wil mington merchants. Their visit has given great satisfaction, the Stab is pleased to learn, both to the visitors and bur citizens, and the former are so well pleased that they .intend to come again in August next. Crops Looking; Wall. A gentleman who has just returned from a trip over the Carolina Cen tralroad, gives gratifying accounts of the crop prospects in that part of the State. There have been good rains, he says, from Laurinburgto Ruther- fordton, crops are looking well, and the farmers are in fine spirits. Admiralty Daemon. " Judge Seymour,before whom the li bel case of T." J. Harper and others vs. the British steamer Gaboon was tried In the United States Court last May, has given his decision, awarding $1,500 salvage, besides $192 which con testants admitted was due under con tract and for advances; making the total amount $1,692. The Gaboon, it will be remembered,' got aground on the bar at the mouth of the Cape Fear rivAr while comlnar into this nort.and was libelled for $10,000 by the sal vors. --; ' i Mr. W. A. Carley, who was Jrillad bv a fall from a scaffold In this citv last Thursday, was buried in. Columbla,S. O., ton- Friday, by the Columbia Association oi survivors. - HOREIQN MISSIONS A.GA.IN. To the Editor of the Morning Star: Dbab Sir: I have careful! v read the Rev. Mr. Sprunt's letter in your issue- of yesterday. From his well known, high Christian character, and from the esteem in which he is held by those who know him, we can reaoiiy accept nis statement, that he was "far from casting any reflection upon any branch of the Christian Church." With such a spirit we do not charge him. We fully believe his statement, that that was not his purpose. But with the motive we have nothing to do. We regret that any improper animus snouid. nave been charged against him by any one. And we are sorry that so joyful an occasion as that on whioh his sermon was preached should have to be fol lowed by this correspondence. Per sonally l nave no reeling in tne mat ter, and have bad none. The only motive that induced me to appear in the public press in the matter was a sense of duty to my own Church. We were, though not intentionally so. pat in a wrong attitude before the public in reference xo an important phase of Christian work. The broth er's letter confirms the fact that he was not misunderstood by us, and by those who reported the statements to us, as to the effect on the minds of tne bearers, and especially tnose wno were not familiar with our methods. The natural and only logical con clusion that could have been drawn from his remarks was, that we as a Church in North Carolina, were doing nothing for missions. Take the line of argument of his sermon as given in his letter as the proof. He tells us that "the subject of the sermon was to show that propagandism is an es sential characteric of the Church and of every member of the Church. This proposition is contained in the injunction of the Apostle Paul when he says: Your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. After speaking of this proposition, the point was made, that although the other parts of the armor of the Christian warrior had been in a great measure accepted by the Church, the part specified by the text had been generally well nigh neglected." As a proof of this statement the speaker referred to the 600,000,000 of our race who have not heard the Gos pel of Peace. Then, to bring the mat ter nearer home to his hearers, the churches in North Carolina were re ferred to, and the evidence of their neelect to heed the admonition of the Apostle was found in the small nam bers or tneir representatives in tne foreign field. The force of the argument was that the number of representatives was the measure of their heed to the injunction ot the Apostle. The smaller the number, tne less tney nad needed it; tne less they were carrying out the aggressive feature of the gospel. The Presbyte rian Church in N..C with 23,000 com municants had three missionaries in the foreign field That measured their heed to the injunction. The Baptist, with 160,000 had sent twelve. That was the measure of their heed. The Methodist, with 87,000, had none; that was the measure to their heed. As the Methodist had no represen tative, they by the very force of the speaker's argument were en tirely neglecting the injunction. In other words, we are doing nothing for foreign missions This could be the only natural impression made upon the minds of his hearers Now, if the Methodists in North Carolina were managing their mis sion work like the other churches referred to, the argument would have been a loeical one, and fair to us. and we could have no grounds of objection. 5ut our metnods are d li ferent from all the others, and hence we could not be put in the compar ative list with fairness to us. The otherCb.urcb.es select their own missionaries, and support them, and the number they send is the measure of their fidelity to the Apostolic in junction. But the North Carolina Methodists do not select their own representa tives in the foreign work. The Mis sion Board of the M. E. Church, South, acting for the Church as a whole, does that. None of our. missionaries are sent out by our annual conference in its own capaci ty. The Church through the Mission Board sends them and the Church at large supports them. All our contri butions for foreign missions are paid only to the treasuier of the Mission Board, and paid out not in the name of the conferences but of the Church. Now, with this method ;of missionary operation, the number of men who go to a foreign field from any given con ference is in no wise the standard of the work done by that conference, for these very men may have to be supported by other conferences. One conference furnishes the men, the other the means. Now, to take the number of personal representatives as the standard of i fidelity, hinder these circumstances to put the Meth odist Church, not only at a disadvan tage . as compared with oth ers, but also to place her in a false light before the public, for by the list that was used to prove the neglect of the inspired direction, though we might, as a Church, pay more than all the rest of the churches put together, and be supporting more men in the foreign field, yet be cause they were chosen from other conferences we get no credit, .but must appear as entirely heedless of tnis duty, xnis is wny i nave oojecs ed, and why I have written. I wish to have our work understood, that is all. I fully concur with Rev. Mr. Sprunt, that t&is part of the Church's work is neglected The world ought to-day be sitting at the feet of Christ, and loyally calling him "Lord." And it would have done so if the Churchhad done her duty W. D, SwraDELij. Wilmington, June 13th, 1889. HA.ru. Rnmors of a!Ranewai of tne War U, 8. Steamer Kearsaga Ordered to tba Island. By Telegraph, to the Horning Star. Washington: June 13. All applica- . ' . . . I a.A rtaatmant fA !nffrmB. tion respecting a cablegram received yes- ,aAtT rrm FTavH urn mot with noint. roiuojr blank refusal, officials even declining to ma&e a negative Buicmeui iam u km nothing alarming in the news. Secretary Tracy, however, was willing to say that tbe dispatch did not reveai the existence of jAnnn.Mta ntatn nf uffnira nt TTfivti. tint B UBUtt.UMo avian. " - -- - -J anollu r pfflcer, who bad seen the cable gram, hinted mat it tola oi-ienewea ngni huisDAn tho footinna nn the Taland. Commodore Ramsage, ot the New York V.nl hari lnno nrivntA intnrvinw with the Secretary of the Navy this morn ing. Secretary Tracy has ordered the Kear aage to proceed at once to Hayti. She will carry Rear Admiral Geraldrae, It was the original intention to send the Boston on this mission, and she could make the trip in about half tbe time that will be taken by the Kearsage, but the latter has been sub- aflfntaA WonoA tlio Rtatsin in tvh Tl i ca It known as a "fever ship," and it would be nvzaraoua to again expose ner u jrcuuw lever. Durham Tobacco Plant: A cen tieman informed as this morning that he had not yet received a registered letter mailed at Wilmington on the 28th of May. An AnAnnrAfrinff rnmmpnturv linon Harri nn'. iwin mail tmnta. The Jule Carr Loan Home Fund has begun a good work in tne . community taai ui provuuag homes for our people at reasonable prices on long time. NO. 33 p. m. c. jr. First Day's Procaadlncs af tbe Con vention or tne lviin.lnr.ton District at max ton. ' Special Star Telegram. Maxtor, N. C, June 14. The first Con vention of the Wilminnlon District, Y. M. C. A., met to-day, and was called to order by E. P. McRae, of Maxton. After devo tional exercises the address of welcome was delivered by Mr. Wm. Black, and was re sponded to by Mr. L. A. Coulter, State Secretary. v On motion of Mr. J. M. Busoy, Mr. Wm. Black was made temporary chairman, and T. G. By man, of Wilmington, temporary secretary. The "Pastor's Relation to the Associa tion," was ably discussed by Rev. Dr. Prllcbard. An interesting paper was read by L. A. Coulter, 8tate Sectretary, on "How can we obtain the most benefit from the Associa tion." A number of answers were ulven by various members. The following committee on permanent organization was appointed: G. M. Busey, E. P. McRae. W. 8. Prior, Rev. G. W. MacMillan, Dr. N. M. Culbretb, to report to-morrow morning. - Much interest and enthusiasm has already manifested itself, a large crowd being pre sent. Thirty-five delegates were enrolled. and several more will come in to-nitjht and to-morrow. WASHINGTON. Appo-ntaaenta by tbe Presldent-RIr. Blatna and tba Samoa Affair. Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, June 13. The President to-day appointed to be collector of cus toms. T. Jefferson Janett. for the district of Petersburg, Va. ; Robert timaUs, for the district oi twaurort, b. c. There Is the highest authority for the statement, that there is - no foundation wnatever, lor the story published in New York this afternoon, that Secretary Blaine had ordered the American Commissioners to withdraw from the Bamoan Conference unless more concessions aie made Nego tiations at Berlin, it is said, are proceeaiog in perfect harmony. Washington. June 14. Information has been received at the State Department that the Samoan treaty was officially ratified tnis morning at Berlin. The announce ment was made at a Cabinet meeting by Secretary Blaine, and it was agreed that it was eminently satisfactory to our govern ment in its final shape. Little additional information could be gleaned at the State Department respect ing tne treaty. Indeed, it was not possible to learn whether tbe paper drawn up is re garded at the department as the treaty, and this rather important point is to be left un settled . If it is the treaty, the department cannot divulge the nature of the paper just signed until it k acted upon bv the Senate, but if it is regarded as an international agreement, information as to its contents can and will be made public. It is known that the matter has been a sub ject at "iiHcuesion in tbe Department within a few i1hs p&at, Oill.-UI-, win inn opinions are entitled to weight, will n..t t mpt to give a formal detlrmifin nt -ho sllt-rcnce between the treaty and the agreement. Un officially, however, it is said that an aeree- ment concerns private rights only, while the treaty relates to the public welfare. In support of this definition it is said that a few years ago an arrangement was made with the Spanish government for settle ment ot a number of privi claims. This was not sent to the Senate, and was re garded as an agreement, although the State Department did not eecnpe adverse criti cism at the time for withholding it. In the present case, however, tbe best opinion inclines to the belief that the ar rangent made is a treaty which must be submitted to tbe Senate for ratification, and that the State Department is inclined to this view is patent from the fact that offi cials refuse to say anything of tho under standing reached. . Tbe President this afternoon appointed S, W. Cramer to he aeeayer and melter at the U. 8. Assay office at Charlotte, N. C. Washington, June 14. The agreement between England. Germany and tbe United States on the Samoan affair was signed at Berlin at S o'clock in the afternoon. It will not be made public until cod firmed by the Senate. While it is called an agreement by officers of the State Department, Walker Blaine said this evening that he thought it would undoubtedly require ratification by the Senate. If the instrument signed were one regulating the conduct of two countries towards each other, as for instance between tbe United States and Samoa, it would pro perly be designated as a treaty, but where the instrument signed is to shape the con duct of three governmenss towards a fourth party (Samoa) it is held that its proper nomenclature is an agreement. At the same time, as it is a matter affecting tbe foreign policy of the United States it is said that it will need ratification by tbe Senate, and that therefore it cannot be made public prior to hciion by the Senate. The agreement was cordially approved by all the members of the Conference and by their respective governments. Washington, June 15. The President and Secretaries Blaine and Windom went down the Potomac river this morning in Postmaster General Wanamaker's yacht, Restless. The vessel will go down as far as Chesapeake Hay and lie at anchoi du ring Sunday, and return to Washington Monday. The President to-day made tbe follow ing appointments to bo Consuls-General: Joseph A Leonard, of Minnesota, at Shang hai; Wakefield G. Prye, of Maine, at Hali fax; Zicbary T. Queeney, of Indiana, at Constantinople; Oliver H. Dockery. of North Carolina, at Rio de Janeiro; Oliver H. Simons, of Colorado, at St Petersburg; Geo. W. Uoostvolt, of Pennsylvania, con sul at Btussels; Levi W. Browu, of Ohio, consul at Glasgow. A TOBACCO TRUST Wbleb Takes In AU tba mannfac . torrs In tba Country. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . St. Louis, June 13. The latest is a trust of $25,000,000, which takes in all the plug tobacco manufacturers in tbe United States. Their scheme is claimed to be one of self-protection. All manufac turers will sell out to one company, and then take stock to the valuation of thetr plant. Leggett & Myers and Drumtnond & Co . of this city, and P. Lorrtllard, of New York, are at the head of the affair. HAYTI. Latent feom tba Beat of War, By Telegraph to the Homing Star. Washington. June 15. The Haytian legation here bas received this noon tbe following cable from the Secretary of War at Port-au-Prince: ' "PorUaH-Prince, June li.Haytien Consul, New York: The situation is good. Re do its of Nordist ( Hippolite's) successes false. Perfect tranquility reigns In the west and south.. All our lines are efficient ly guarded." NEW TORK. Exports and Impoita ot Spaele. Bt Telegraph to the Horning Star. Nkw Yobx, June 15. Exports of specie lsa wwvrt nf Naw Vnrlc rinrtnff thn UVUI M.W w. " - D week amounted to $4,675,493, of which $4,530,343 was in gold, and $145,150 in sil ver. - All the silver and $4,661,923 in gold went to Europe, and $185,571 in gold went to South America. Of the gold shipped to Europe, $4,513,273 went to Prance. Im ports 01 specie tor iub weea amounted o $84,855. of which $35,294 was in gold, and V,001 surer, Spirits Turpentine. Tarboro Southerner: The turn out yesterday for drill by the members of the Book and Ladder Co. was full.. .The only ones left was the Dublin. . - Tarboro Southerner: Bv tho fall the Cotton Seed Oil Mills will be in operation. - The right spirit has been en listed. Mr. Prempert, a first class barber, from Wilmington, has located at Rocky Mount, and will receive a liberal patronage. Capt. Powell declares he ' will capture the confectionery with the Guards at the encampment. The Souther ner wages its devil's cuff buttons, our boys will get there. The Guards are on a boom, and it now looks as if the company will carry to the encampment ten or twelve more men than last year. Good I But boys, as you increase in numbers let there be a corresponding improvement in drilling. - Lumberton Robesonian: Dys entery is stfd to-be raging in the Alforda- -ville section. Alex. Stubbs, son of Mr. Wm. Stubbs. died from its effects last week. A most interesting and gras cious revival of religion is in progress in the Presbyterian church of this town. The iron has been laid on the southern end of the Maxton, Alma & Rowland Railroad, and trains will be run over it this, week. The Cotton Seed Oil Mills were en-"" larged last year, and now they are to be enlarged again. It has been a very suc cessful industry. Fayetteville ia the place for an enterprising man to start a military school. Our citizens will aid 'a movement of this kind, and the arsenal grounds is a beautiful location. Goldsboro Headlight: Since some of the wheat has been harvested and some of it threshed, it has been found to be not quite so good as it was thought to be while standing in the field. Quite a severe lightning and thunder storm visited the Pikeville and Fremont sections Mon day evening at about 7 o'clock, doing con siderable damage to the growing crops. Lightning struck the residence ot Dr. J. E. Person, tearing off ths weather-board-ing and damaging the chimney to no little extent At Pikeville it struck a green pine tree, which was burned to the ground. The Young Men's Christian Association of this city, have begun the publication of a monthly paper, Our Young Mm, at the low subscription price of 35 cents a year. Clinton Caucasian: "Sampson Blues" are beginning to make their appear- ance on this market, and the New Yorker will soon be gladdened by their appearance at the metropolis. The closing exer cises of Ingold Academy took place on Friday, the 7th inst. Between three and four hundred of the good people of the surrounding country assembled at the academy to hear the literary address, which was delivered by Senator S. W. Kerr, of Clinton. Four packed car loads of truck left this point last Tuesday. This amount hast left on one day several times within tbe past two weeks. The Carolina Veneer Works are turning out a nice lot of crates, caskets, etc. The C. V. W. crate is meeting with considerable favor among shippers and receivers. Selma Reporter: Indications are that we will have excellent crops throughout this section. The abundant showers and rainfall gives all vegetation a. healthy send off. The main trouble seems to be to keep the grass from getting ahead of tbe crops. Saturday morning as the north bound passenger train on the Wilson Short Cut reached the 19th mile post, between Godwins and Dunn stations, the engineer discovered an obstruction up on the track abou two hundred yards ahead of the engine. The air brakes were ap plied and the train stopped in time to avoid a wreck, the only damage being to the cow catcher, which was badly broken up. The obstruction consisted of a piece of timber 3i feet long and about 13 inches square. We learn that this is not the first attempt to wreck trains on this road. Asheville Citizen: Asheville . . j Ann. tm . . .1 T . nas contriouiea f oo4.su to iub jonnsiown sufferers. . In the office of the Register of Deeds for Buncombe county, yesterday morning, there was recorded a deed from P. F. Patton and wife to Charles Mc Namee, of New York, conveying -to the latter, "Patton's Farm," for eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars probably the largest amount ever expressed in a single deed that has been registered in Buncombe. The property was purchased by Mr. Mc Namee for millionaire George Vanderbilt, of New York. Hilliard Goodson, a white man from Ivy township, charged 'with and arraiiraerl for the larcenv of an nx belonging to one of his neighbors, was con victed and sent to the penitentiary for two years. We are glad to note that Col. J. T. Anthony, or the Jfourtn Kortn caro-i lina Regiment, has tendered to Major J. G. Martin the position of. Lieutenant-Colonel Of bis regiment, vice Lieutenant-Colonel Childs resigned. We congratulate this fine regiment upon the fact that the tender has been accepted. Kaleigh JYews- Observer : Ihe result of many attempts to locate a cotton factory In Raleigh has reached a success ful termination. Capital stock amounting to $100,000 is subscribed, and a committee are deliberating upon a site. A new enterprise has been put into active opera tion by private means wholly, which bids feir to become a great industry. We refer tn thn Pillar and Vineirar Works renentlv purchased by Mr. W. M. Russ. These n v t. n w. An. MAfr-ik ItMAh D r M Aa ciders, apple' and white wine vinegars. Of the eight medals awarded at Princeton College, New Jersey, this year, five of them were won by North Carolina boys, all alumni of Davidson College. Good for North Carolina. Reports from various sections of this county con cerning the cotton crops are most favora ble. John Freeman, a notorionsly bad negro, was arraigned yesterday morn ing for assaulting and resisting an officer who was endeavoring to arrest him. He was armed with an axe and knife, and re peatedly threatened to cut tbe officer if he laid hands on him. Freeman was sent to Jail in default of $100 bond for his appear ance at September term of Superior Court. 'Goldsboro Argus: There is a mass meeting of the colored Baptists of the State now being held in this city, which is attended by representatives of two State Conventions, three Sunday School Con ventions and one Foreign Mission Con vention; representing in all 250,000 com municants. The meeting will be addressed this afternoon by Rev. J. 8. Dill, pastor of the Goldsboro Baptist Church. The meeting is held at the 1st colored Baptist Church. Our young friend and townsman Mr. Geo. Howell, who carried off the honors in the competitive examina tion for West Point U. 8. Military school some months ago for this Congressional district, left last night to report at that re nowned institution on the Hudson. Absolute consternation is about the meet expressive way to describe the feeling that prevailed among the trackers in this city yesterday morning when those telegrams came in announcing that the bottom had. fallen out of the northern market on beans and to ship no more of the crop. The largest one day shipment of track ever made from Goldsboro by local trackers was sent forward last Monday, and, pitiful to relate, it is now feared that the entire ship ment, owing to the reported panic on the Northern markets, will result in entire loss and a serious loss, at that. Statesville Landmark: The second monthly meeting of the Statesville Chamber of Commerce was held in their chamber Tuesday evening, June 11th with very gratifying results, there being present a large number of earnest, interested mem bers, imbued with the spirit of enterprise and improvement of our city. - The wheat harvest is in active progress this week. It has been the largest crop harvest ed in Iredell in twenty years. States ville Council of the Royal Arcanum, at its meeting Monday night donated $25 to the survivors of the JohnBtown flood who are members of this order. There were two councils of the Royal Arcanum in Johns town.. Many of their members were de stroyed or burned to death and about 100 surviving members are homeless. Rev. Frank Shemll, colored, a citizen or Belmont, and porter for Messrs. Clarke & Meyer, made arrangements last Sunday to take his life but was interfered with. Do mestic infelicity is supposed to have been at the bottom of his purpose. Capt. P. R. Carlton, with his wife and two chil dren in the top buggy with him, was out riding, last Saturday afternoon, the horse shied and ran the buggy into a tree, upset ting it and throwing its occupants out. A gash was cut in Mrs. Carlton's head and she was quite painfully bruised; the skin was scraped off a part of the left side of Capt. Carlton's face; the children were not hurt.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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