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' THE WElTEKti PARIHER.
Agriculture in the Western States
ia depressed. There is a widespread
feeling of diaaQnteat-among the'f ar
intra hofiod themselves deeply m
debt, their lands heavily, mortgaged
and do apparent prpspeot at the
pricts received for farm products of
ever working their way out. This
-accounts in a great measure for the
feeling of unrest that prevails in
some sections of the West and the
disposition of so many to breakup
and try their fortunes in the newly
opened territories. It is true that as
a general thing the prices of the pro
ducts of the Western farm are such
as not to be remunerative to the far
mer, to pay him reasonably for his
time, labor and capital invested in
implements, Btock and farm.
There are several reasons for this,
but two,especially, which are mighty
factors in the situation.
The first is the law of demand and
supply. There will never be a mar
ket for a product of any kind until
there is a demand for it. There never
will be a high price for any kind of
product while the supply exceeds the
demand. When'there are many pro
ducers and few consumers, much pro
duction and a limited consumption,
prices will run low and it is not the
fault of the consumer if they do. As
men always do when they can, re
; gardless of the size of their purses,
tbey buy when they can buy cheap
est and where they can buy cheap
est. How many farmers are there in
this country, North or South, East or
West, who ever think of this
when they . plow their acres
'or plant their crops? How
many of them ever take the trouble
to inform themselves as to the prob
able 'demand for the staple crops, or
- whether there is an increased acreage
of any of the particular crops in
-which they are interested? " These
are questions which can be approxi
mately answered, and which every
- farmer should know who would farm
with intelligent system, "such as men
eDgaged in other industries who suc
ceed pursue. If the manufacturers
of the country had no regard for the
V law of supply and demand, and did
not keep an eye on the output of the
plants of others as well as their own,
tbey would work themselves into
bankruptcy in a very little while. To
guard against this . the man
ufactories hold up when the
market becomes overstocked until
. tne surplus is worked off. But the
farmer tian't do this He can't quit
planting to work off his surplus, and
if he could there is no oneto work it
off oc. If he raises a thousand bush-
els of wheat when there ia only a de
- STATE TOPIC.
Periodically we hear of Northern
parties proposing to purchase swamp
lands in this State for which they of
fer a nominal price. There is never
money enough involved in these of
fers to make them worthy of seri
ous consideration.. Of oourse they
do not offer to purchase any that are
not susceptible of .drainage, ' and
from which they do not ezpeot to
realize a very large profit when
drained. As a general thing there is
merchantable timber enough in these
swamps to pay a hundred fold the
prioe offered. If the State will turn
attention' to .this matter and utilize
her convict labor in draining the
swamps, she oan instead of throwing
them away for a trifle turn them to
valuable nnnrnrnt RTnV, rinalu.B hutrft-
some results from themj
Mr. J. T. Patrick, Gen. Supt.
State Fair, is authorized to state that
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad offers
a premium of $100 to papers located
on its line, which between this date
and the date of the next State Fair,
shall publish a special article show
ing the advantages of their section;
At least ten papers must present
such articles. .The article must oc
cupy the greater portion of the pa
per devoted to reading matter, usual
size, and a special edition of 10,000
oopies will be required for distribu
tion under the direction of the State
Immigration Bureau.
There are 180 students in atten
dance at the State University this
year, , which is an increase in the
number as compared with the same
period last year. We are pleased at
thie evidence of growing popularity
in our State University, in which
every citizen of the State should feel
an interest, and at- whose success be
should be delighted. There is a great
future before our University, but to
attain it will require the encourage
ment and support of thej people of
North Carolina, for whefee benefit it
was established and for whose bene
fit it exists. '
lied with him beoause they dreaded
giving offence to that portion of the
soldier element who backed Tanner,'
beoause he showed a disposition and
seemed determinod to shovel out the
dollars in the '-- treasury broadcast
among them. .'But even with this
dread staring them in the face pub
lic sentiment proved mightier then
the" dread of the pension bene
ficiaries, and they did what they
should have done several months ago.'
The removal of Tanner, and the
deference at last shown by Mr. Har
rison to the voioe of the people, is a
recognition of the influence of the
Democratic and independent press of
this country.: For a loDg time these
were the only papers which protested
against Tanner's peculiar methods
and management of the pension bu
reau. He was not only defended,
but endorsed and eulogized by the
Republican papers, which denounced
the criticisms of the Democratic
rB as sjmplyroaatiopf -prty
Tanoor. But the Democratic papers
were sustained by facts, and the in
vestigation whioh their charges were
Instrumental in oausing corroborated
their allegations, and established the
fact that Mr. Tanner was not fit for
the rosition which he occupied. But
even then his partisan journals stood
by him, defending and applauding
him while he was under investiga
tion. It was not until within the
past few weeks that any Republican
D3Der was found that ventured to
criticise his methods or oomment on
his vagaries.
Had the Democratic papers been
silent, had they not kept a close eye
on Tanner and his peculiar ways of
doing business and exposed them as
they did Tanner would have re
mained undisturbed in his office, the
surplus smashing business would
have gone on, and the treasury rob
bed of millions that will now be
saved to the people,,f or his successor,
whoever he may be, will not be apt
to follow in the path that he marked
out. His removal is a boon to the
people of this country but they owe
it not to Mr. Harrison but to the
Democratic and Independent press
thrnnah whose exDosures it was
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brought about, and forced upon th
President.
havoc with many of the summer re
sorts, sweeping i-away both houses
and cottages and " completely sub
merging some. ; it is too eany yei to
estimate the amount of damage done;
for particulars have not been received
from 'some point exposed to the
storm, but the aggregate of destruc
tion will be very large. Shipping at
sea and at anchor suffered heavily
too, in addition to whioh there was a
oss as far as heard from of about
forty lives.
The most, widely advertised man
in America up to Thursday, when be
stepped down and out, was Corporal
Tanner. There was probably not a
man or woman in the United Stages
who reads the papers or talks with
those who do read them, who has
not read or heard about him. He
rose rapidly and came down with a
suddenness (hat perhaps surprised
even- himself , , Henceforth he will
cease to be a national issue and will
be looked upon, when looked upon at
all, only as a dismal wreck of a man
once mighty in his own estimation, a
fearful example of how quickly a
small man with few brains can play
himself out and get baok to the ob
scure level from whioh he came,
when he puts on autocratic airs.
W. K. Vanderbilt's French cook,
who was getting $6,000 a year- got
disgusted and returned to Paris be
cause his boss didn't show .sufficient
appreciation of his artistic efforts,
and would dispatch in twenty min
utes a dinner which a Frenchman
would revel in for three hours . is
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been
to
The New York Press has
canvassing the Congressmen as
The Raleigh News- Observer speaks
in high terms of Dr. Wood, of Hali
fax county, who has been elected Su
perintendent of the Raleigh Insane
Asylum to succeed Dr. Griasom. He
is an eminent physician in whose
election those who know him best say
the Institution and the people are to
be congratulated. It also speaks in
complimentary terms of Mr. W. S
Chad wick, who has been elected to
the Presidency of the Atlantic &
North Carolina railroad. He is a sac
cessf ul business man, doing a ' mer
chandising business at Beaufort. He
served for four years as tone of the
directors under the administration of-
Mr. Bryan, and is fortyone years of
age.
Rev. Dr. Robey, who has been for
several days hovering between life
and death, was called from labor to
rest yesterday, at his home in Golds
boro, where he was dearly beloved
As a faithful and zealous minister of
the Methodist Church, he was well
known throughout the State. He
was a man of positive views, of ac
tive brain, and would make his im
press felt on any body with which he
was connected, but he was a worker
in the Lord's vineyard, not for him
self but for others, and gave the la
bors of his life that others might be
blest. He has gone to his reward.
their opinions on the advisability of
increasing the number of Congress
men under the next census, or of in
creasing the ratio of representation.
A majority of those answering
favor the latter.
A Boston man has invented a new
system of keeping time by which
veesels save the time lost in making
long voyages. Now if he will invent
a system by whioh the man who has
to run to catch the train will never
lose any time he will reduce the ave
rage stock of profanity considerably.
Gen. Boulanger's wife, from whom
ia the heyday of his glory he sought
a separation, to which she consented,
still thinks of him kindly and hopes
to be able to "shelter him in his old
age." This looks very much like
piling up coals of fire on Mr. Boulan
ger's dome.
PCBLIO SKNTIiTIBNT.
, No one man in this country can
successfully defy public sentiment.
He may seem to do so for.awbileand
succeed, but public sentiment when
aroused always triumphs in the end
and triumphs signally. This is illus
trated in the case of Corporal Tan
ner. Comparatively an obscure man
he was suddenly promoted to a
height, very high for him, and he
was immediately taken with a very
pronounoed.case of the bighead. The
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mand for eight hundred be has not -largess ininga auuuu iu uuo u u, sgaiDBt accidents at some time in es-
estimation were iu lenem tu ojd-
laiNOtt MENTION.
The great fire in Antwerp and the
destruction of life and property
caused by the explosion in the cart
ridge faotory, calls attention to the
carelessness of governments in per
mitting the carrying on of such dan
gerous establishments in the heart of
cities. The owner of that faotory
j -may be held accountable for the of
fence known as "homicide by im
prudence," a French law in force in
Belgium and other. continental coun
tries, but if prosecuted and punished
under this law, that will not restore
the lives lost nor property destroyed.
No amount of prudence by the pro
prietor is an absolute 6afe-guard
only the two hundred bushels lett
on his hands, but he receives less for
the eight hundred sold than if the
extra two hundred bushels had not
hpen raised, for the surplus has the
effect of depreciating the value of the
amount in actual demand.
And yet the farmers of the West
go on from year to year sowing their
millions of acres of grain and. reap
ing their hundreds of millions of
bushels, regardless of whether they
can find a remunerative market for it
or not. The result is low prices,
bard times and ' depression with
them. ,
The second reason is that thoup
sands of these Western farmers have
been blindly voting and are still vot
ing for a vicious tariff system whioh
contracts their market, whioh practi
cally closes the ports of the world
and compels the farmer to sell his
products in the home, market where
the demand bears no proportion to
the supply. The same tariff laws
fastened on him by. his own' vote,
which cnt bim off from the markets
of the world and' compel hiin, to dis
pose of his products in an over
stocked market, at such prices as he
may get, compel him to buy the ar
ticles that he needs from men protec-
ed his name, and the most important
man m Harrison's administration was
Mr. Tanner He bad an idea that no
man who bad ever been in that
office before understood how
to run it or why it was
established. He was impressed
with an idea that he had a particu
lar mission to perform, which was to
take care of the soldiers and divide
out. among them as much money as
he could rake out of the treasury
On that principle he aoted, and if he
had had fnll swing and his ideas were
enacted into laws it would have ta-
6en three times the present appropri
ations to have met the requirements
for pensions. His absorbing egotism
made bim defiant of criticism and
indifferent to friendly remonstrance.
Inflated by the applause of the bene
ficiaries of his vagarieB he overesti
mated his v own importance and
thought himself so safely intrenched
that he could defy public sentiment
with impunity and raid the treasury
at will. He made no concealment of
this in . his self-glorifying public
speeches, which had much to do
with the abrupt termination of Mb
erratic career. -The
President and Seoretary No
ble both moved very slowly before
tablUhmenta of this kind, where hun
dreds of men are employed in man
ipulating explosive oompoubds which
are liable to explosion from the
slightest causes. Establishments
where inflammable or explosive ma
terials are manufactured, should not
be allowed by lajv within cities.where
they are a standing menace, but
should be kept at a reasonable dis
tance, where', if acoidents occur,
great destruction of life and confla
grations need not necessarily follow.
Naval Store. '
.Receipts of naval stores at this port
for the crop year to September 13th, as
compared with receipts to same time
last year are as follows: Spirits tur
pentine, 87,312 casks; last year, 37.
232. Rosin, 95,486 barrels; last year,
99,921. Tar, 23,675 barrels; last year,
21,486. Crude turpentine, 10,327 bar
rels; last year, 10,710. .
Stocks yesterday as compared with
same date last year were as follows:
Spirits turpentine, 7,968 casks; rosin
39,476 barrels; tar, 1,079 barrels; crude
turpentine, 669 barrels. Last year-
Spirits turpentine, 7,626 casks; rosin,
79,453 barrels; tar, 2,011 barrels; crude
turpentine, 581 barrels.
C. F, 4c T. V. Kallroa
v The iron bridge over Black river.
built for the C. P. Ss Y. V. railroad,
by the PhcBritx Bridge Co. of Pennsyl
vania, was completed last Wednes- J
day. It spans the river near Union
Bridse. in Sampson county, about
twenty-five miles above Point Cas
well, and is said to be a magnificent
structure.
The trestle over Moore's Creek is
also completed and the iron laid
about fourteen miles from Wilming
ton. m m'm
A press dispatch from New York
reports the arrival at the quarantine
station thereof the pilot boat David
Carll, with the captain and crew oi
eleven men of the Overman barque
ErDfit. The barque bailed from Wil
mington, ?f. C, and when, off Barne
gat was stove in by heavy seas. The
David Carll tried to tow her in, but
Bhortly after getting a, line to her the
barque capsized. The Etna, cleared
from this pott August 26th last with
a cargo of lumber for Villa Constita
cion, shipped by E. Kidder's Son. r
Confederate Veteran' Association
Mr. Julian S. Carr. President of the
State Confederate Veterans Associa
tion, has issued a card calling atten
tion to the .following resolutions
adopted at the meeting of the Exe
cutive Committee held In Raleigh
&.ugu8t29tb1 viz: T " :
Resolved '1st,' That the first annual
meeting of the Confederate Veterans'
Association . be held ; in Raleigh on
September 25th, and that the Presi
dent be. and is hereby authorized and
requested to call the same, and that
the. representatives at said meeting
will consist of the President of eaeh
County Association or his authorized
proxy, and any representatives who
may be present from any counties
Where no organizations have been ef
fected. Each county will be entitled
to one representative.
Resolved 2d, That the transporta
tion lines in the State be, and are
hereby requested to grant free trans.
portation to one delegate from each
county to and from his county.
nesolvea, oa, ra&z a copy ot mese
proceedings be transmitted . to the.
press of the State with a request 'to
puDiisn ano nonocanoriauy.
"In obedience to the above resolu
tions, I. hereby notify the County
Confederate Veterans' Association in
eountiifs where organizations have
not been had, that the first annual
meeting of the County ' Confederate
Veterans' Association of North Caro
lina will assemble in Raleigh, Sep
tember 25th, 1889, at 10 o'cloek a. m.
This meeting will take into considera
tion every matter pertaining to the
county and State -associations, pro
viding for a more thorough organiza
tion and plans for assisting the indi
gent soldiers of the Stste who require
our aid and support "
Afeoot Sea Uata
A gentleman interested in the item
that appeared in the Stab recently
concerning the market value of the
sea oats-crop says the root never dies,
and crop after crop is raised without
the least cultivation. The cold
weather, nor droughts, nor rains, nor
storms ever retard its growth or cut
off the crop. It is as sure as the tide.
When not cut the plant dies down in
winter and comes out in spring It
grows rapidly, but does not mature
before August, when it begins to get
the gold on it. By the middle of
August it begins to get as yellow as
field oats at harvest time, and it is
then ready to be reaped and packed
. .-a 1 a Jl
away, it is not orasn, ana uoeo uu
break like oat straw. The heads re
main intact and the stem is elastic
and tongh. . After packing away a
box full of it a few days it looks as if
it had been pressed and it is very
pretty. It does not grow in Europe.
and along the South Atlantic Coast is
the only place where it is inowa.
Comprwui at work. v
The cotton compresses got up steam
yesterday and began the work of the
season, which, by the way, promises
to be an unusually active and busy
one for both the Wilmiugton and
Champion Compress Companies. At
the latter only.the new press was in
operation, but this was sufficient to
give a score Of men and boys busy em
ployment.
Nearly all tfleeotton handled was
clothed in jute bagging;but there were
.some bales covered with pine fibre,
and a few with cotton covering. The
m . J.
pressmen seemed to maae no uia -tinotion,
however, and gave the cot
ton ' covered bales just as tight a
squeeze as the others; all passed
through the same ordeal and all stood
it equally well After a bale is press
ed to a thickness of eight or twelve
Jnches and tied with eight iron bands,
it would seem to be a matter of in
i difference as to what it is covered
with.
TH.K VKSI HSU lALt. -
Kxentve Preparations at Fayettrvlllo
. for the Celebration in November
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Special Sur Telegram. :
Faybtmvillb, N. C . Sept- 12 The
interest in the approaching centennial here,
in November increases every day.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the
various committees in charge and the citi
zens con jointly was held here this after
noon, and everything and "everybody re
solved to put their shoulder to the wheel
hereafter to make the centennial the grand
est event history has recorded south of Ma
son and Dixon's line. The finance commit
tee made a repoiW 'and f either liiue r mo
ney will be Spared to make every feature a
success..-.. , . ; ,
t ' The' " announcement that ex President
Davis will surely bo here has had the grati.
lying effect of redoubling the energies of
the people and stirring the country from
centre to circumference. The railroads
will give the low rate of one cent per mile
each way, atd tickets will be on eale Nov.
18th, good to retura until the 27th. "
Lieut. Col. W. 8. Cook" has received a
letter from Gov, Fowle, tendering the com
mittee on Military the free use of four
hundred tents for quartering the military,
which offer was duly accepted.
Extensive preparations will also te made
for quartering the old ex Confederate vet
erans iu a body. .
Among the many attractions will be the
Governors of the thirteen original States,
and their s'.bff officer, while the twenty
five hundred dollar fireworks dUplay, on
the night of the 2lst, will te by far the
grandebt pyrotechnic display ever witness
ed south of New York .iity.
After an enthusiastic discuaoion of other
topics germane to the occasion, tb.3 meeting
adjourned to meet next Thursday after
noon, at which time the chief marshal for
the occasion wiil be chosen.
Floreooe, S. C,
new industry.
, is moving for a
In several of. the
Northern counties of South Carolina
tobacco culture has made considera
ble progress within the past few
years, but the planters have not bad
the advantage of a ready and con
venient home market. 1 bis, ot
course, has been an. obstacle in the
way of a moro extended culture.
To obviate this difficulty there is a
movement on foot to establish a to
bacco faotory ,in Florence, which
seems to be meeting with success. If
the people of that section are desir
ous of encouraging tobacco culture
and making it one of the permanent
industries of the farm, they are pur
suing the right oourse. That's the
way to do it, by giving the tobacco
Capt. Kuhlmann, of the German
steamer Rhein, which arrived on the
12th at Baltimore, reports that on the
morning of the 11th, 10 miles north
east of Currituck, passed a three
masted schooner rigged vessed sunk
in 13 fathoms of water, apparently a
small steamer. Only a part of the
masts were above water. The head
of the foremast and mainmast were
broken off. The signal halyard truck
of the mizzenma8t was in position.
Considerable wreckage was in the
vicinity. '
Wllllamslon First Bale.
A correspondent writes the Stab,
Sept. 13th: The first bale of new cot
ton was brought to town to-day by
Wm. W. Green, of Cross-roads. It
weighed 506 pounds and was bought
by Biggs & Davenport, at 10 cents per
pound, and was shipped to NorfolK,
Va. V " ' ' .:'
tati hir tVia sama lawf). and who fix
their own prices on the articles they the final step was taken of asking tor growerB ahome market.
have to sell. When the yvestern ms resignation. j -
farmers realize how they have been ly and acted reluctantly in drawing
duped by the advocates of the perni- the lines on Tanner, which they had
clous protective tariff system.and how to do or become responsible for his
it has operated to contract their mar- actions. Neither their own reput:
w. a Ana, nriflM. thAv' will tion nor the party which they repre-
kVUO BUU BVVJI f -J j I - - -
a ti,W hva ftiamaAlvrtA to I Bented oould stand that, lhey aai-
i a i nil i w n liiau sjuvw auawvw
The storm which swept the North
Atlantic coast within the past week
and whioh raged with unabated fury
for several days, was one of the most
yiolent and disastrous experienced
within half a century. It played
Cabarrus county Pair.
The Stab acknowledges the receipt
of an invitation to attend the Second
Annual fair of the Cabarrus County
Agricultural and Mechanical Associ
ation, whicb will be held at Concord
on the 1st, 2d, 8d and 4th of October.
Mr. H. C. McAllister is president and
Mr. H. T. J. Lucas secretary of the
Association.
Tne Cotton Convention at New vrleana.
' -'' The convention of cotton ; ex
changes to consider the difference of
tare in cotton bale covering, met in
New Orleans last Wednesday, with
delegates present representing all the
leading exchanges, commissioners of
agriculture from several Southern
States and representatives of the
Farmers' Alliance. After a long dis
riBsion on a motion that all the cot
ton in American markets be sold at
net weight, the following resolution
was finally adopted:
Resolved, That on and after Octo
ber 1, 1889, all cotton Bball be sold at
net weight, allowing 24 pounds off
the gross weight for tare on jute cov
ered bales and sixteen pounds off for
tare on cotton covered bales; cotton
covering to be of the standard weigns
of three-quarters of a pound tp the
yard.
New York, Natchez, Memphis, St.
Louis and Meridian voted aye, sub
ject to ratification by their ex
changes, as they did not feel that
their credentials justified them in
pledging their exchanges. " The Far
mers' Alliance people said the reso
lution would be ratified, as they
would only send cotton to points
where the tare was in operation.
One of the interesting features of
the meeting was a speech by Presi
dent Livingston, of the Farmers'
Alliance of Georgia, who was elected
spokesman by the Alliance delega
tions. He made a strong ' appeal in
behalf of the resolution as a measure
of justice to the farmers, and said
that the Alliances ware getting
stronger, and would soon cease to
beg, and would take what was unde
niably theirs. Encouraging: cotton
bagging 'manufacture would leave
several million dollars in the South
annually. England would object to
it at first, but would soon accept the
situation. '"'""'
- The administration of the Bu
reau Veritas has lust published, the
list of marine disasters reported dur
ing the month of July, 1889, concern
ing all flags: Sailing vessels 9 Amer
ican. 20 British, 1 Chilean, 3 Danish,
8 French, 8 German, 1 Italian, Nor
wegian, 1 Russian. Total 53. In this
number are included 3 vessels miss
ing. Steamers 2 American. 3 British,
2 Chilian, 1 Spanish, 1 French. To-
tal. '''- ' -
The. many friends of - Rev. Mr,
nnhoT ato crreatlv distressed to
JT. C. IX SAX tS ASYLUM.
Election of Superintendent Kte.
Special to the Morning Star.
RalbIoh, September 18. The Board of
Directors of the Insane Asylum met to day
and tie ted Dr. W. R. Wood; of Scotland
Neck, Superintendent. Dr. J. R. Pearsl!,
of Fnyttttville, ws elected assistant physi
cian. It was decided that the term of the
steward, Crawford, should be continued
until March Lezt.
The selections by the Board give genera
satisfaction here. .
xjew xattK.
A millionaire. Tool Rlannfaetarer of
Brooklyn Bitot Dead In nls Office by
a Mendicant German.
By Telegraph to tbe Hornintc Star.
I Nbw Yobk. 8ept. 13. F. W. Gesmeir,
millionaire tool manufacturer of Brooklyn,
sat in his office at No 39 John street, at 11
o'click this morning, talking to bis super
intendent, C. F. Koister, when tbe office
door opened and Christian Deyhle, an old
man with whom Qe&swein had some troub
le recently over a patent suit entered.
Deyhle requested private interviuw with
Gesswein. Mr. K tester stepped into an
adloining office As soon as Eoester left
the office Deyhle demanded $f00
from Mr. Gesswein. Mr. Gesswein
politely Tefused to give him any
money. Deyale replied: "I am an old
man. You have beaten me in my pa'ent
case. 1 must nave money to enter we w.u
en'a Honra in Philadelphia. IT you uo
not give it to ms I will kill me," and before
Gesswein could arise from his chair
Deyhle drew a 83-caiibrc revolver from bis
pocket aud fired one shot, which passed
through Gesswein'a heart. Beslanitered to
his feet and screamed for help, then fell to.
the floor and died before an amsuiance
could be summoned.
When Eoester heard tbe shot fired he
rushed to the door in time to intercept
Deyhle, who attempted to run down etnir.
and handed him over to officer While, of
the first precinct. .
Christian Deyhle is a mean, ineioificant
looking German, wUh full, straggling
beard, and apparently over sixty years of
age. When searched at Old Slip police
station a few scraps of iron, a matchbox
and a few cents in change were found in
his pants, and a revolver was taken from
his coat.
MK. .COX'S FUXiCHAL.
Bain Poor In Torrent bnt Xmmeneo
roved ftraent
Nbw Yobk, September 18 Long before
10 o'clock this morning, the hour set for
the funeral of tbe late Samuel 8ullivan
Cox, the First Presbyterian Church, corner
of Fifth avenue and Twelfth Btreet, began
to fill with illustrious mourners and the
admirers of the dead slateFtnan from the
humbler walks of life. Rain poured in
torrents the whole morning, and a nasty
wind prevailed, but these inconveniences
did not keep the crowds away. Before the
services begen the church ws filled, and
it,was necessary to close the doflrs leaving
many people outside on the sidewalk.
PERILOUS VOYAGE.
A. steamer Bneoooter tbe tuorm and
ha a Rough Tlmr,
Wilmington, Del.. September 18. The
few York and Savannah iine steamer
Chattahoochie, bound for New York, is at
Newcastle for coal and provisions. She
encountered a heavy stoim at sea, was
blown out of her course, and went to
L8wes. Her trip was so prolonged that
her fuel and provisions were very low. and
she ran up1 to New Castle for supplies.
She reached that port just aa the- supplies
sheyeded bad been exbaueleJ. There were
thirty passengers abonrd, many of whom
started by train for New York this morn
ing. m
FATAL. FOLLY
WASIIIXGIOX.
Penalon Commlaalonar Tanner Ten
der nlar Ueelanation, whtcb la
Promptly accepted by tba President
Hie Probable successor.
Wa83ington, Sept. 18 The following
is Commissioner Tanner's leiitr of resigna
tion and President Harrison's reply there
to : - --'., ; , -
Dbfabtmbht oi? Ibtbhiib,
BOBBATJ OF PaNxIOKB, .
Washington. D C, Sept. 12. 1889.
To the Pre ident .'The differences which
exist between the Secretary of the In
terior , and myself, as to the policy
to be pursued in the administration
of the Pension Bureau, have reach
ed a stage ' which threatens . to embar
rass you to an extent which I feel I should
not call upon you to suffer, and as the in
vesligaiion.ialo' the affairs of the Bureau
baa been completed, and I ara asaurod both,
by yourself and th Secretary of the Inte
rior contains no reflection on my integrity
as an individual or as aa an officer, I here
with place my resignation in your hands,
to take effect at your pleasure, to the end
that you may be relieved bf any further em
barrassment in the matter.
: Very respectfully, yours,
Jakes Tannkk, Comm'r. '
Executive Mansion.
-Washington, September 12in, 1889.
Hon. James Tanner, Com. of Pensions
Dear Sir: Your letter tendering your re
signation of the office of Commissioner of
Pensions has been received, and your resig
nation is accepted, to take effect on the ap
pointment and qualification of your suc
cessor. I do not think it necessary in this
correspondence to discuss tbe causes which
have led to the present attitude of affairs in
the Pension Office. You have been kindly
and fully advised of my views upon most
of these matters. It gives me pleasure to
add that, so far as I am advised, .your hon
esty has not at any time been called iu
question, and I beg to renew the expres
sion of myrpereonal good will.
Very truly yours,
Ben J. Habrtson.
Washington, September 12 Thomas
H. Gordon has been appointed postmaster
at Newport News, Va., vice Edwin Phil
lips, removed.
Gossip as to Pension Commissioner Tan
ner's successor is now engaging all atten
tion. To-day exCongres9man William
Warner, of Missouri, ex Commander-in-Chief
of the G. A. R , is believed to be the
most likely to be appointed. He is said to
have left Kansas City in response to a tele
graphic summons to meet the Secretary of
the Interior.
The other candidates are ex-pension
ai-ent Poole, of Syracuse, New York. Gen.
Charles E. Brown, of Cincinnati, and Gen.
Powell, of Illinois.
The impression of yesterday that Tanner
would be provided for in some way by the
administration still prevails, but just where
cannot be learned, if indeed it baa been de
cided. A Western paper published a state
ment that he would enter upon tbe prnctice
of tbe law after leavin tbe fension Ufflce,
but a close friend of tbe Corporal's says
that is entirely gratuitous. It is said to
day that Gen. Alger did not telegraph to
Tanner advising him to resiKO. If he ex
pressed any view at all upon the matter it
was verbally and to a third party. Gov.
Foraker's position is also said to have been
misrepresented by yesterday's reports. To
day's information on the subject is to the
effect that he not only did not advice Tan
ner not to resin g but gave him advice di
rectly to the contrary.
Washington, Sept, 13. About 10
o'clock to-night a freight and a passenger
train collided on tbe ballimore A Potomac
r-.ilroad tunue!, near the Navy Yard,
Washington, and lea or a dozen lives were
lost.
Washington. Sept. 14. 1 a. m. Later
reports lessen considerably the extent, of
tbe disaster only one man, engineer Jami
son, of the passenger train was su ed,
and he by escaping steam. Tbe
fieight car got eff the track and
blockaded the eouth-bound track of tbe
Baltimore & Potomac road, north ot East
ern Branch trestle. The local pavenger
train, due hete from Baltimore at 8.80, had
switched to the Dorth-bound track to come
into the city, and was coming in at a Lih
speed, when Just at the northern end of the
tunnel it met a freight train which
was Btarting from the city. I be engine
was wrecked, and a number of passengers
were shaken up, but none seriously ipjured,
nor can it be learned that there was moro
than one serious casualty.
Washington, Sept. 14 An application
was recently made to the Treasury Depart
ment for permtBaion to import and wiih -draw
for consumption, snuff and smoking
tobacco in packages of 1 16, t i and t
kilogrammes, and it has been denied on
the ground that under the Internal revenue
law no imported manufactured tobacco can
enter into consumption in this country
otherwise than in legal packages. The ap
plicant states that packages containing
snuff and tobacco, in Quantities as above
stated, have been passed at the custom
houses of Boston and Cleveland, Ohio. In
tegard to this point he was informed that
the irregular practice referred to has occur
red at the port of Cleveland only, and that
tbe collector at that port has been instruct
ed to discontinue such practice.
KG. Haywood, of North Carolina, has
been appointed chief of tbe Junieiary Di
vision of the First Comptroller's office,
vice J. A. Johnson, resigned.
The President left here for Deer Park
by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at 11 20
this morning. Before leaving be appointed
Charles S. Johnson, of Nebraska, as Uni
ted States attorney for the district of
Wm Warner, of Missouri, had another
long interview with the Secretary of the
Interior to-day, and afterwards, in compa
ny with the Secretary, called on the Pre
sident. Secretary Noble said to day that
he hid no desire either to suppress or to
make pubi c the report of the commission
that investigated the affairs of tbe Pension
Office. -
The commissioners to-day abandoned
their quarters in the Pension Office, and
will return on Monday next to their duties
in the Interior Department. 8mce finishing
their difficult report, several days ago, tbe
commissioners, it is understood, bavu been
engaged in making a special investigation,
and their report was delivered to Secretary
Noble to-day. .
A rumor is current that the President left
at the White House an appointment already
sin tied for Wm. Warner to be Commissioner
or Peneion'8, and that it awaits his acceptance.
MISSOURI.
learn of his death, whioh occurred
yesterday moaning at GoldsborO,"
Horrible Death of Victim of n Prac-
. tieal Joke.
Tbot, N. Y., Sept 13. John Gordan,
in the employ of the Lake George Paper
and Pulp Company at Ticonderoga, fell
asleep near the macmnery. iwo leuow
workman, it is said planned to scare him.
They tied a rope about his feet and threw
it over a shaft making 135 revolutions a
minute. They couia not cut tne rope m
time and Qordo'n was killed, his body oe
ing horribly mutilated. One of the perpe
trates of. the jke lost his reason from
shock. , '
. IOWA.
Valnable Bore Killed In a Trouin
Baca and Hie Driver Serlonely in
jored.
TVrraTTATTR - Rent. 14 At the Jackson
county fair yesterday, at Maquoka, an acci
dent in the 2 80 trotting race resulted in the
rioath nf MiOrfiiror Bov. one of the trotters.
and probable fatal injury to Bert Smith,
his driver. A Clinton horse and McGregor
Boy got off ahead, the latter in tne ieau.
At the first turn the former tried to take
the pole from McGregor. The wheels of the
sulkies interlocked, and both horses and
their drivers were thrown to tne grounu.
McGregor Boy's neck was broken, and he
died instantly. Bert Smith, his driver,
had his arm broken and was internally in
jured. McGregor Boy was owned oy sar.
MoAdams, of Prophetstown, TJL, and was
valued at f 8,000.
New Berne Journal: The corn
planted on the land where Irish potatoes
were raised last spring is doing well. - '
Threatened Kaee War Growing ont cf
tba Employment of Necroea by a
Farmer A Venn a Lsr k-llled by
nan who waaRefnaed ItOdKias ana
Villain Probably lynched. .
Chicago, Sept.' 13. A dispatch from
Cairo, Ills., says:
The.e are symptoms of a race war In
Missouri, at Dexter, forty-two miles from
hete. The people in that Beotion have for
years excluded all negroes from among
mem. . A. enort time apu a luou uauiou
Williams settled on a farm near here and
engaged a dosen negnej to wurfe for bim.
Fifty armed white men waited
upon him this week and - told him he
must get rid of tba negroes. He said they
might kill him first. The armed men re
turned to town wtere they circulated a pa
per pledging the signers to stand by the
regulators, About five hundred men
signed the paper. About fifty men side
with Williams, aaoag them a hardware
merchant! who has imported Winchesters
and ammunition sufficient to arm his Bide.
.Further trouble is expected. , v;
Chicago, September 13. A dispatch
from Springfield, Mo., says: ' - --
Jno. Davis appeared at the residence of
Andy Savage, at Stratford, Wednesday
morning, and on teing refused lodging
fired five shots, one of which killed Miss
Savage instantly. Davis was captured,
and at bis preliminary examination yester
day the father of the murdered woman at
tempted to kill him. ' The prisoner was
then placed in a wagon and started for this
city. They should have arrived at 6 p. m ,
but had not .reached here at midnight. It
is believed Davis has been lynched.
Mirror; Some tobacco
son county sold in Henderson
last week at eighty cents a pound. -
The trustees have secured the services of a
first-class educator, and will open the
academy about the first of October for
boys.
Aeheville Citizen: Work on the
Patton avenue extension of theelectrlu rail
way will begin about the 23d inst., provided :
the 80,000 feet of lumber already oon-
. . -.1 . :M Jl! nn.n.4 K. .V... limn
irwwu 1UK IB UCUVCICU UJ uuiD,
The electric railway people, with their
usual enterprise and consideration for the
convenience and comfort of their patrons. -have
fitted up a waiting room for ladies at '
8t Patton avenue. Mr. J. H. Woody
has reeeived.the contract to build four new
freight cars for the Electric Street Railway
Co. of this city. . Tbey will be constructed
On the same general plan as the one now iu
use by tbe company, and will be speedily
finished and placed in operation.
Raleigh JVewa- Observer: Hon.
Z. B. Vance speaks at . the Murf reesboro
fair November 6th. Letters of in-
quiry continue to pour in daily at the Imi
gration and Agricultural offices from cx-
North Carolinians who wish to attend Ihn
reunion at the fair. Governor Fowle
has appointed commissioners from this
State to the American Forestrv Congress,
which meets in Philadelphia October 15th.
Tbe appointees are Wm. lieall, ot Murphy,
Col. John D. Cameron, of Aeheville, .
Donald McRae, of Wilmington,. Dennis
Simmons, of Martin, W. D, Pruden, of
Eden ton, A. F. Page, of Aberdeen, J A.
Long, of Roxboro, Jno. Robinson, of Ra-" 4 ,
leigh. Robert L. Steele, of Rockingham,
and Prof. Jos. A. Holmes, of Chapel Hill.
Clinton -Caucasian: Mr. Clifton
has received his commission as postmaster -atthisplac?
and will take charge Monday
next. The Sampson county fair for. '
1839 is a certainty. It will be held on the
4th, 6th and 6tL of December next.
District Deputy Grand Master Wade, of
Dunn, will organize a lodge of tbe LOO.
F., ln Clinton on next Monday, the 16th v
inst., with 27 members. The revival
at the Baptist church, under the manage-'
ment ot Rev. O. B. Meeks. the pastor,
continues this week. So far there has been
fifteen or sixteen confessions and Beven ad
ditions to the church. Baptising wilt take
place next Sunday. "Several horses
have lately died with blind staggers. Dr.
J. A. Stevens tells us that the so called
staggers is - caused by horses being left iu
pastures all night where they eat spider
webbing on the grass .
Raleigh News- Observer'. Died,
in this city at midnight on Monday, tbe
9th inst., Julia, the daughter of William
H. Borden, of Goldsboro, and wife of B 8.
Jerman. Ma j. Finger informs us that
Teachers' County Institutes will be held
this month as follows: Prof. C. D. Mc
Iver will hold Institutes in Davidson on the
16tb, Rockingham 23d, Randolph 30th.
Orango October 7th. Prof. E. A. Alder
man wiil hold institutes at Stanly 9th,
Montgomery 16ih, Anson 23d, Union 80th,
Graham October 7th. The institutes are
conducted with an especial view to the in
struction of the country school teachers.
The State Board of Education met
yesterday. The principal business which
employed the attention of the Board was a
proposition of a New York firm to pur
chase the Hyde Park and other swamp
lands belonging to the public Echool fund.
They offered 15 cents per acre, with pay
ments in one, two and three years, the bid
conditioned on 90 days' time being allowed
for the examination of tbe titles and lands.
The proposition was, however, declined by
the Board, and they also declined to set a
price on the lands, since tbe maps and
charts have not been completed, and tbey
arc not yet prepared to offer them for sale.
Jonesboro Leader: Jim . Rose,
colortd, was arrested again Monday for al
leged threats against life and properly, aud
required to find bond in $100 to keep the
peace for six months. The colored
population, to a certain extent, appear to
be "on a tear" among themselves. Fights
Bssaults and resistance to officers are the
general charges. Hearing of the court
house fire Mr. J. T. Brooks stated that
he would give 200,000 brick and fifty
acres of land for the purpose of its re
building, provided it was done in Jones
boro. As a direct result of the pro
tracted meeting at the M. E. church in
Jonesboro there have been six baptisms,
thirty professions of religion and teen
accessions to the church on profession. -
Mr. N. J. Neal brought to this office
last week a stalk of crab grass seven feet in
length from root to tip. This graBa is said
to make most excellent hay if cut at tbe
right time and properly cured. The -
Jonesboro Cotton Mills.have been running
.i .ill irv n1nAw . I. T: ft-
CTtJl J UlUCE UlgUl-Mil IU V Wirt.' ,
October 1st it is expected tbey will run
every night They are taking off about
6,000 pounds of yarn per week, using three -
bales ot cotton per day. Jim Rose, a
colored boy about 17 years old. was ar
rested oyer a week ago and broke out of
tbe guard bouse., He has been shying
around town ever since and last Saturday
noon town marshal Masemore captured
him after a struggle, and landed him again
in durance.
Charlotte News: Capt. Harrison
Watts, who with Mr. B. R Smitb.of Char
lotte, owns the old Lineberger mills.in Gsb
ton county, this morning received a tele
gram from Mr. Smith, stating that one of
tbe mills was burned to the ground at one
o'clock this morning. The property is said
to have been insured for $51,000. Mr.
Toy Ray, a young man who was well
known in Charlotte as a horse drover, was
killed in a railroad wreck in Illinois last
Saturday night. His body passed through
Charlotte last night on tbe way to Rock
Hill' where it will be buried. The next
meeting ot the North Carolina Presbyte
rian Synod will be held in Charlotte, be
ginning on October 8. There are in the
Synod 136 churches, 8nd from three hun
dred and fifty to four hundred delegates are
expected and their reception provided for. .
The Charlotte factories are still boom
ing along, and there is increasing prosperi
ty at each of tbe four mills. The directors
of the Victor Mills yesterday instructed its
president to buy one thousand five hundred
additional spindles, and the extra machine
ry will be ordered at once. This will giva.
the Victor a total of twelve thousand spin
dlea, LTwo moLths ago George Ander
son and another colored man got into a
fight at Beaver Dam, Union county, and iu
the fight Anderson was bitten on his thumb.
No attention was paid to the wound at the
time, but a week or two afterwards, inflam
mation set in and Anderson soon became
helpless. He war sent to tbe county poor
house at Monroe, and on Monday last, it
became necessary to amputate his arm, as a
last resort. Even now it is feared that the
negro's lite cannot be saved, as he is in a
critical condition.
Stateaville Landmark: Mr. T.
M. Stikeleather, of Tornersburg township,
has this season taken 102 gallons of honey,
1,123 pounds from seven stands. Rev.
YV . A. fOOl, Oi lenoir, uao uecu vuucu
the pastorate of the Baptist Church of this
place. He has not yet given his answer.
The children of Mr. John Maxwell.
of Chambetsburg township, some days ago
had fire to a hollow log, and hearing- a
movement in it, ran and told their father.
He went to it and found in it a copper
head snsKe with fifteen young, all of
which he killed. The question as to .
whether the sweet potato can be hybriaizea
haB been fully answered iu a case iu the
patch of Mr. G. L. Eller, of Shiloh town
ship. A potato which he has exhibited at
this office is on one side distinctly a yellow
eastern yam and on the other just as dis
tinctly our ordinary red yam. It is not a
case of two potatoes of different varieties
grown together but a clear case of
two varieties combined in one potato,
Mr, Lee Morrow, who will run hie
cotton gin in town again this season, Mono
day ordered 500 yards of the bagging made
by tbe American Pine Fibre Company, of
Wilmington, for the use of his customers.
He has also ordered a number of sugar
sacks; such as were used to some extent by
our farmers last season. He says he cannot
even get samples, of tbe cotton bagging
which is being made for baling cotton Tbe
supply of this material is far below tbe de
mand, our iarmers win use jut auytuing
they can get this season for baling cotton
except jute. A mule of Mr. Thomas
Summers, of Olin township, died on the
5lh inst,, at the age of 83 yesrs. A mule
belonging to tbe family ot the late John
8. Patterson, of tbe same township, was
82 years old ia March and last Sunday
week one of the ladies of the family rode it
to the Quarterly meeting at Snow Creek. It
is described as Vpeart" mule yet. As for
the Summers mule it never did know that
it waB old.' It was "peart" enough to run
away with the plow more than once last
summer.
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