North Carolina Newspapers

The Weekly Star. ' "TTBLISHKD AT WILMINGTON, N, C., AX fl.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 8888S838888888S88 SS8S8SS8S8sisssS ,,uoiet 88888888888888888 '-Mi-ooK 8.8SSSS88888S8S88 w w s 3S3SS8SS83gSS8SS8 tm "saaassaaasaas mm 8.SS8SS88S88S8888S' 888888S8888888888 HBB88 I" - ' . . a . o '. s o is """"""sasssaaa Entered at the Post Office atrwumtngton. N. 0. aa Second Class Matter.l SUBSCRIPTION- PRICE. Tho subscription price of the Weekly Star is as follows Single Copy 1 year, postage paid, " " 6 months " " ' " 8 monthi " " fl.OO .60 .30 !TI vrAKKIV 1 OK AN." We 88j from some of our State excbiuge that thero in a disposition among the white people of some counties to move westward, under the impre-isioa doubles th.it the West presents many, opportunities to earn si) oisy li via lj and mike money not found at hone. Aa a rale these peo ple hve bat little knowledge of the section they desire to move to, and form their opinions from highly col ored representations which they have heard, either from people who are poorly informed or from persons who have a motive ia encouraging the -migratory spirit. The West and the Southwest have their advantages and their attractions, bat they have their disadvantages, too, and he who expects to find in either a paradise, where a living can be made or a com petence accumulated without energy and hard work will find himself sadly mistaken. The man who succeed a, uaiees he is favored by some nnasual stroke of fortune, or 13 possessed of eorue peculiar talent which dis tinguishes him aud brings him suo ces, must work anywhere. The shiftless man will fail in the best land under tho "sue; the thrifty, thinking, energetic and industrious man will succeed almost anywhere. In the early days of California when gold mining was the chief, and about the only industry, American miners went along, prospected for the gold-bearing earth, dug it up, washed it out in their rocking washer?, worked pat the claim and moved to new fields. Fol lowing them came the China man who washed over the dirt which the American miner had al ready handled and got about as much gold out of it as the first digger did. He had the patience and the indus try which the other man lacked, and he woiked the dirt thoroughly, which the other man did not do, and gath ered in the gold which the other man who dag it oat left behind him. We cite this as an illustration, to ehow that industry has its reward and will Gnd it even in fields which the leBB industrious have abandoned. - We know of instances in this State where men have beoome indepen dent, and have a comfortable annual income from farms which other men abandoned and sold because they could not, as they thought, make a living upon them, when the only rea son was that they failed to use the brain power and muscle power which would have assured them'pros perity. With what we know of North Carolina and other eeotions of this great country, it is oar honest con viction that there is no portion of it whiob, in the long run, will yield bet er returns and Barer compensation to intelligent, persevering industry than this, and that there is nowhere a more inviting field to the energet 10 worker than in North Carolina. The virgin lands of the West may be a little more fertile, and for a few years yield larger crops, but they soon wear .out and then they mast be fertilized or their owner will be come a pauper. There the winters are long and rigorous, the spring short, the summer hot, and the farmer is run to his utmost to plant and harvest bis crops before the winter blasts come again. This is the routine year after year. It is "work, work, all work, until winter comes, when he is housed up and can do nothing but market the crop whiob he has raised, generally at a . price which poorly pays him for the toil which be has poiio through. There are few far intra who accumulate much money by raising wheat, corn and oats, the sta ple crops of the West, and that's about all they try to raise, .or can raise with suocess. As between the West and the South, and as between any Western State and North Caro lina, if we expected to make our liv ing upon the farm, we would give North Carolina the preference by long odds. ' - Some people say that Uncle Jerry Rusk, of the Agricultural Uepart ment, is no farmer. Bat thoy never saw him ran a lawn-mower, or ride on a load of hay. If they had they would never doubt any more. V VOL. XX. STATE TOriOS. , The Charlotte Newa states that the farmers of Mecklenburg county are much disappointed at the outcome of the ootton crop, which promised so well, but whioh was severely injured by the recent frosts. When the frost came the fields were filled with young bolls and blooms, all of whioh were "killed. Another reason for the shortness of the crop, is. .that the plants grew to an nnasual height, bat did not f rait as well as the smaller plants do. The 'growth went into the stalk and leaf to the detriment of the lint. The frost did considera ble damage also in other counties. We are rejoiced to learn that the meeting of the State Association of Veterans at Raleigh has resulted in a decision to establish a Soldier's Home, and that the generous offer of Col. J. M. Heck, of the tender of his hotel building at Ridgeway, to which reference was made in these columns yesterday, was accepted. Now that it has been deoided to have the Home, and that thebailding has been furnished, the movement should be pushed until a sufficient earn of money is raised and assured to make it euch a Home as North Carolina may point to with pride. s The San ford Express, speaking of tobacco culture in Moore oounty, says that a few years ago experiments were made by a number of farmers, but tthe culture was abandoned by most of theiu because they were too impatient to learn the art of curing it properly. It mentions the names of Beveral,however,whohad the perse veranoe to stick to show what oan be accomplished with the "weed" in that county. t One farmer sold the pro duct of four acres for $400; one the product of three acres for $370; one the product of three acres for $300, and another the prod not of one acre for $120, an average of over $100 to the acre. Here is a return that no other orop grown in North Carolina will make, and which beats cotton at 10 cents a pound 'clean out of sight. We may add that these figures are rarely equalled in the Piedmont to bacco belt. In Nash, Wilson, Edge- combe, Duplin and other eastern counties, the success of tobacco cul ture has been established beyond question. With the new processes of curing the leaf which have been introduced within late year, this work is not so difficult or laborious as it was under the old methods, and any man of ordinary intelligence oan easily master it. FOU WHO8K BENEFIT) The main issue between the Demi ooratio and the Republican parties as they stand before the people to day, is a high protective tariff for protec tion simply as advocated by the lat ter, and a tariff for revenue with in oidental protection as advocated by the former. There are other issues, but this is the leading one and the one upon which the attention of the people is most centered. The high tariff policy of the Republican party was originally a war tariff, designed for the purpose of raising revenues to enable the Government to meet the exigencies of war and the large expenditures incident thereto, but when the war ceased and there was no longer need of a war tariff for war purposes it was continued under another name, the deceptive one of a "protective" tariff. It has been per petuated for a generation with slight modifications, and now it might be asked whom does it protect, and for whoBe benefit does it exist? We are told that it protects and fosters certain industries which de velop the resources of the country thus enriching it and contributing to the general prosperity. There was a time when this might have been true, in the early days of the Republic, when manufactories were few, the population small, and capital limit ed. Then perhaps it might have been good policy for the Gov ernment to give a helping hand to t-Btablish industries that would make us independent of other countries, and help support them by a bonus of this kind in their early struggles until they were able to Lake care of themselves. This was the motive that inspired the first pro tective tariff acts, which were mode rate in their amount of tariff tax im posed compared with; the protective tax now levied at the end of 3 century, when thfc'Mnfatit" manufactories have groVn old, and rich enough and pow erf nl enough not only to take care of themselves but to elect Presidents, U. S. Senators and Representatives, and dictate the polioy of the govern' ment. Instead of fostering the industries of the country it has bred and fostered on; oligarohy, which has grown exacting and imperious, and assumes that the Government be longs to it and should be ran in its particular interest. In every cam paign it makes the issue, and haB won by its audacity and through the wealth which it has acquired from the tribute laid npon the people and 1- tamed into its treasure vaults by the legislative enactments whiob its insatiable greed inspired. ' It has grown riob, while the peo ple, the tribute payers, have grown poor. ., Immense fortunes, fabulous some of them, have been accumu lated by the favored, few, while the great mass of thepeople, the toilers whose musole, brains . and labor produce ' the wealth of the coun try, are becoming correspondingly poorer and poorer every year. This assertion, we know, would be dispu ted by the protection champions, who woujd produce figures to show that the country is growing richer every year and the average wealth of the people greater. To show this they figure np the value of real es tate, the increase in personal proper ty, &o., as evidences of increased wealth, when the fact is they are not evidences of increased wealth at all, but simply of possessions to which certain values are attached, whioh are useless only as a basis of credit. The man who owns a farm which' produces twenty bushels of wheat to the aore is really no richer because his land is valued and assessed at twenty dollars an acre, than the man who has a farm valued at ten dol lars an acre which also produces twenty bushels of wheat to the acre Unless the land is on the market and a purchaser to buy it, the- ten dollar an aore man is as well eff aa the twenty dollar an acre man because tho one produces as much money bringing commodity as the other, and yields as much income, whioh is the true test of value. It is only the productive . property that yields wealth, the other is merely a repre sentative of wealth in certain con tingences, that is when it changes bands and is convertible into money. As a matter of fact, a fact which is becoming more apparent every year, the great industrial classes of this country, outside of the proteoted in dustries, are poorer to-day than they were ten or twenty years ago, and yet, strange to say, thousands of them have been voting year after year to perpetuate a tariff mon strosity which has plundered and impoverished them, under, the pre tense of benefitting them. They were foolish enough to believe t, but some of them are beginning to get their eyes open, and to see as they never saw before, and are be ginning to understand why they have to toil, sweat and scuffle along to make ends meet, while the protected monopolist for whom they voted rides in a fine carnage, wears fine clothes, lives high, drinks fine wine, and demands more protection. An exchange which has been giving its attention to the electric wires in New York, declares that they kill people without warning, and kill them dead. We wouldn't give a continental for an electric wire which wouldn't kill its man good dead when it. went into the killing business. A an exeontioner, otherwise it would be a dead failure. H. G. Gregg, who was once Gen-. Sheridan's Private Secretary, later a government clerk, and afterwards a newspaper man, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for horse stealing. The fact that he had been a government clerk accounts for the demoralization which the newspaper reformatory failed to overcome. - A Dtllr Tbrongb Prtlikt on tbe Caro lina Central. For eome time past it has been in contemplation by the managers of the Carolina Central railroad to put a daily local freight train on the road, each way, between Wilmington and Charlotte, and is now announced that these trains will be put on at an early day to accommodate the increasing traffic on the road. - The merchants of this city and people all along the line of the road will be greatly con' venienced by the arrangement. Low Water. . The Cape Fear river is low, steam- boatmen reporting only about two and-a-half feet on the shoals. The Fayetteville steamers are delayed in consequence, and unable to keep up their regular schedule. The steamer D. Murchison due here Friday, did not arrive until yesterday at 4 a m., and the steamer A. P. Hurt arrived at 2 p. m. Both boats left in the af ternoon on the return trip to Fay' ettevllle. Cotton for Liverpool, The British steamship Thurston cleared yesterday for Liverpool, Eng., with a cargo of 5,907 bales of cotton, shipp d by Messrs. Williams & Mur chison, weighing 2,930,583 pounds and valued at $300,364. The Thurston's cargo was taken on board at the Wil mington Compress. She. registers 1,247 tons net and carries 2, 350 pounds or nearly five bales to the ton. The average weight of bales is over 495 ponnas. Capt. Kemble, of the steamship Iroquois, at Charleston from New York, reports: On 17th ins t, 28 miles southeast of Body Island, in 15 fathoms water, passed a wreck stand ing upon end, bow out of water about 80 feet, bowsprit standing with short gasket stops hanging, 'bowsprits out lumber loaded. Hull painted black, bottom brown; several sheets of Iron sainted red at water line. Ap parently but a short time, in this con ditlon. very dangerous to naviga tion. WeeMly Star. WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, Steamer Ptonver. Advices from Norfolk, Va., yester- day, confirm reports of the total loss of the steamer Pioneer and cargo. The Virginian of yesterday says: The tug C. TV. Morse returned Friday afternoon from Ocracoke, where she has been to the assistance of the Clyde Line steamer Pioneer. The Morse put out of the Capes Tuesday evening in the teeth of a fifty mile ' an -hour blow, and when she returned yesterday had her pilot-house badly stove in, and was damaged in other ways. Capt. Anderson says that the Pioneer has gone to pieces, and her cargo is scat tered over the ocean. A telegram was received here yes terday from Mr. GvW. Linder, of this city, a passenger on the Pioneer. It was sent .from Beaufort, N. C, and stated that he had just arrived from Ocracoke, but would be unable to reach home before Monday. The train from Beaufort had left before his arrival and there would be no outgoing train until that day. . Ttie Pioneer is said to have been In sured for $50 000. She had a miscel laneous cargo, principally for mer chants of this city, the tot al value of whioh could not be less than $50,000, Over half of this is probably covered by insurance. Mr. B. F. Perry leaves here to-day for the scene of the wreck, as average adjuster, to look after the interests of the uninsured , his list embracing the following and representing an amount that approximates $15,000, viz: Messrs Brunhild, Simon & Co., H C. Evans, S. A. Schloss & Co., .Ino. L Boat wright, Charles F. Browne, M. J. Heyer, F. A. Newberry, W. J. Penny. G. W. Penny & Co.. W. T Daggett. R. M. Mclntire, McNair & Pearsall, Hans A. Kure, King & Montgomery, Hall & Pearsall, R. W. Hicks, Ches nutt & Barrentine, I. Shrier. The latest information received here yesterday was by letter from Beaufort, that the steamer was break ing np and the cargo washing ashore., Carolina Central. Railroad. At the annual meeting of stock holders of the Carolina Central Rail road Company held last week in New York city, the old Board of Directors was re-elected as follows: John M. Ro neon, R. C. Hoffman, S. Whedbee and J. L. Minis, of Baltimore; R. S. Tucker and John C. Winder, of Raleigh; Isaac Bates, of Wilmington; D. W. Oates, of Char- lotte; W. W. Chamberlain, of Ports mouth, and C. Goddard and Dr. C. H. Roberts, of New York. At a meeting of the Board, held subsequently, Col. John M. Robin son was re-elected President, Mr. R. Hoffman Vice President, and Capt. John H. Sharp Secretary and Treasurer. Of the 11,800 shares of stock issued 11,790 Bhares were represented in per son and by proxy. The total earnings of the road, from all sources, for the. fiscal year .ending June 30, 1889, were $568,599.17; the operating expenses for the same period were $394,483 94; fixed charges, which includes taxes, $161,893.22. The net earnings therefore for the year, were $12,222.01. Improvements have been made to the road and equipments at an ex pense of $51,901.11. The roadbed and property steadily improve in condi tion. ' The next 'annual meeting will be held in New York on the first Thurs day after the first Tuesday in Octo ber, 1890. The Plooetr k i otai wr cli. A telegram received from New York last night by Mr. H. G. Small bones, agent of the Clyde Steamship Co., was given to the press for publi cation. It stated simply that the tug sent to the Pioneer, stranded at Ocra coke Inlet, had returned to Norfolk, and reported the vessel and cargo a total loss. No other information than the above was received here yesterday. No tidings of the passengers andcrew have been received beyond the fact that they were saved although Mr. Gt. W. Linder and master Elmer Myers, the ten-year old son of Mrs. George Myers, of Wilmington, were among the former. It is sup posed that the high seas and rough weather have prevented their leaving the banks on which the life-saving station is situated, for Beaufort, N C, some sixty miles distant, which is the nearest point they could reach on the mainland, and this distance would probably have to be traversed in open boats. The Klco Bird - An ornitholigis', writing about the rice birds, whose toothsome savor still lingers on the palate, says: The birds breed in the Northern meadows, lay' ing five or six eggs of a purplish white, blotched with purple stains and brown spotted at the larger end of the egg. The eggs are laid in artifl cjial nests of withered grass. After the breeding season is over the birds be gin to migrate southward, reaching the- Southern rice fields with uner ring instinct about the time the first plantings of rice are in milk, toward the middle or third week in August, and remain about a month, when thus continue farther south, going to Mex ico, BouthAmer ie Cuba and Jamai ca in time to work on late rice plant ings, and next they ravage the seeds of thelguinea grass, becoming so fat that they are given the name of 'but ter birds ' In the North they are known as reed birds, so that with their ornitho logical name of bobolink they are known by five different names bob olink, rice bird, reed bird and butter bird, and on their appearance here in spring they are called 'May birds.' Senator Sherman, in his speech. assured the Pan-American delegates that the war was over. If they had struck h oraker in one of , his cam-, paign raids they would not have be lieved it, withont some such assur ance as this. OCTOBER 25, Steamer Plo Mr. - There were many inquiries' yester Lday at the office of the Clyde Steam ship Company in this city, for infor mation concerning the steamer Pio neer, ashorebff Ocracoke Inlet; but the agent of the company was with out intelligence. AH that is known is that the steamer went ashore Mon day night and that the f passengers and crew were saved. A Baltimore telegram of the 15th says the vessel and cargo are ' probably a total loss. The Norfolk papers report that on Tuesday wrecking tugs went to the assistance of the stranded vessel, but on that day there was a terrific blow along the coast and the government telegraph lines tojHatteras were bl jwi down. A telegramfroi Beaufort, N. C, on Wednesday reported a gale from the .northwest, and that pilots were unable , to go out owing to a., heavy'ground swell, . ' A dispatch fromNorfolk'dated the 16th says : A howling northwest gale swept over this section last night, and to.dayi thai gravOTMininnt trlngrnph line has blown down between Capes Henry and Hatteras, which accounts for no information being received to -day from the steamer Pioneer, of the Clyde line, ashore at Ocracoke Inlet, twenty miles below Cape Henry. The powerful tug C. W. Morse and a wrecking tug of the Merritt company have gone to her assistance. Tbe R1C3 Crop. A "Farmer," writing tbe Star from Mount Olive, Wayne county, N. C, says: 1 have noticed the article in the Stab on the short rice crop south of us, and it leads me to say that I have ust concluded the job of finishing mine, and I find the measure t wo- thirds of what 1 had estimated when cutting it. And I learn from others, all around the country, that the rice, as the cotton crop, is full one third short of the calculation one" month ago. The grain is hard, dry and ex cellent, as far as it goes, and will be held for one dollar this season." rape Fer VidKlo Valley. Says the Raleigh News and Obser- verr "The construction of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley "railroad has so satisfactorily progressed that President Gray proposes to celebrate the new year by running bis cars from Mt. Airy into Wilmington. Thirty years ago we remember standing be fore the map in the hospitable resi dence of our friend R. K. Bryan, at Scott's Hill, and he then developed to us the projected lines in the State. At the conclusion he traced substan. tially what he termed the great line from Wilmington np the Cape Fear to Greensboro and west. It was the path of the present C. F. & Y. V. That road, tie said, will have to be built And now, after three decades, we are to witness the realization of his prophecy, based on the natural wants of our people. It is a great State work, and we hope it will accomplish its purposes not merely in promoting the prosperity of the people living in the counties through which it passes, but also in drawing into the folds of a closer union the eastern and western sec tions of our State. We hope to see our commonwealth so united in the bonds of trade and unified by inter course that our people shall have but a single aspiration,' a single policy, a comxon prosperity." Carolina Bice IQlMlus Conapanr The Goldsboro Argus says: "The genial and everywhere popular man ager of the Carolina Rice Milling Co., Mr. Pembroke Jones, of Wilmington, was in the city yesterday, completing arrangements for the opening of their rice mills here for the season. The mills here will open up for the sea son's run next week, and Mr. Jones tells us that his company, as we sta ted at the time of their purchase of the mills here last spring, intend to make their mills here headquarters for rice throughout this section of the State, where the farmers may always sell their oommoa ity at the ruling market price. To this end these mills stand- ready to pay the same prices for tbe commo dity that Charleston 'is now offering, which places Goldsboro at once abreast of the leading rice market of America. This is giving our farmer friends advantages never "before en joyed by them. Moreover, Mr. Jones reiterates his former published state ment in these columns, that planters who wish it can have their rice milled at the Goldsboro mills on toll." Naval Storea. The receipts of naval stores at this portf or the crop year to Oct. 18th, as compared with receipts to same time last year are bulletined as follows at the Produce Exchange: Spirits tur pentine, 43,439 casks; last year, 44 631. Rosin, 112,090 barrels; last year, 115,213. Tar, 39,801 barrels; last year, 26,214. Crude turpentine, 12,135 bar rels; last year, 13,238. Stocks yesterday, as compared witta same date last year were as roiiows Spirits turpentine, 3,747 casks; rosin, 37,491 barrels; tar, 3,309 barrels; crude turpentine, 765 barrels. ' Last year Spirits turpentine, 5,803 casks; rosin, 93,178 barrels; tar, 1,976 barrels; crude turpentine, 448 barrels. A telegram from Beaufort, N. C, October 16th says: Two large three masted . schooners are llying off and on outside, apparently in distress Under Cape Lookout a large steam ship is visible, also showing signs of distress. A brisk gale has been blow ing from the northwest ever since Monday. Pilots cannot get out ow ing to a heavy ground swell, two at tempts to do bo having failed. Cotton Reeelnta . : Receipts of cotton for the week ended yesterday are 13,100 bales, and for the corresponding week last year, 9,252. From September 1st to October 18th the total receipts are 42,31V bales, as against 35,9955 bales ior the corres ponding time last year. The stock at this port is 20,182 bales at same date last year, 14,050. 1889. 'IHtS STATU tAltt BaUIgh y-l 6.0OO Persona on tbe Groacd -laterc.tinx froa;ranaen.. Special to !hr Morning Star. Raleigh; N.C . Oct. 17 The weather to-day is most delightful.- At least sixteen thousand persons .attended the Fair grounds.. All aspee that thete is no prcces dent for the great eucci es tbnt has attended tbe exhibition. Tea lay vf&s generally re garded as "Raleigh day," aud at 12 m. all the public buildings, backs, etons and workshops were closed, acd thousands went out. The programme as an inter esting as well as exciting one, consisting of a meeting of the Farmers' Stste Institute, trial tests of machinery, paruf'e of horses and cattle, tnd Oxford Orphan Afjlum concerts. N awa-rda of premiums bo far have been made. Several irouiua: matches Cook place, some of which exhibited un usual good pred. No a.cide&t occurred and the uimost good order Waa 'reserved. All the 8:de-Ebows were crowded during the day, especially the performances of the Cherokee ludmca..- who teem - to be the ureat sensaiiou of the eiblbition. Tho Secrelerj of tbe AgncuHuisi Socie ty Kaj e the receipts so far me cot only sat isfactory, but beyond expectation. The hotels, boardirg heuses and sir ets to night are crowded lo tbtiruiaiost caps-city, presenting a-ecene never bcfoie wuuossed in Raleigh. Should tte weather continuq, fair a very large attendance U anticipated on the grounds to morrow. Tbe sale of articles, tuih as fruit, &o., will be on Sa turday Much Dia!sc is bestowed on Messrs Patrick, Wiisiip, Packard, and otters, for their mp.cageineQt ot odiirs. A ssiggesiicn i suait that ttie prices of admission be reduced Suiutflaj, so as to give all a cUaccr-, bat no definite decision has been made. Kaleiqh. Oct. 18 The weather to-day is beautiful, and the attendance at the Fair grounds is t&timted at 1 etwec-u three and four thousand. The prog: asme con- sis ert of the foltowing : Indian bull name, test of farming machinery, foci mces at distance of one hundred and &f,y yards, contest belweiQ schools, .and m-tay amuse ments of a comical character. The foot races wtro noa by Dinie :s, of Trinity Col lege. . The work of awarding premiums was going on during lib; day. bat it u impossi' ble to learn any thing detinue n regard to the awards to nuh. Toe crowd has lu n jed out in the city. Mot t of the visitors leave- ('u-uik tha night. Perfect oidir hss pi availed ail iha wtek. The Fair has proved a great financial BucceBP. To morrow will bo malnh- devoted to the sale atid removal of the exhibits, ninny of which are to be seut to the Fair la Gaids bjro. The Indians left thibfterr.oon. J CHICAGO. Sensational Jtorj Ktlatlreto Plan for Rcolng tbe CroulM Sia.pecwa. By Telegraph to the M ornln Star. Chicago, Oct. 19 The Daily News prints a sensational story this morning, al leging that a desperate plot has btea dis covered, having for its object tho rescue oy force, from JuJ;e McUonuell s Uour-.nia day next week, of Martin Burke and Dan iel Coublin. the Crontn sunic's now awaiting trial with O'Suilivaa, iicj.'ga asd Kudz. i Tbe plot which the News ascribes lo the the Clans-Na-Gael, it says was got up in the interest of Coughlin and Buike only, for the reason that they are. the two men who must be saved at a'l hsz trds, in order to prevent their confessing aud implicating men tvnese ticcag are laoutht to be worth much more to the claua." Elaborate preparations have been taken by tho buthorities topreveut any turprue . ROAS TED A LI V F. Horrible murder or a While iriaa by I Necrora By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Mobile, Ala , O jt 19 A special to the Register trom Greenville, Ala., savs: E&tly. this morniag a quarrel between a negro and a youug whiuv man named Roberts, connected witb Burke a horse show, re sulted in tiie negrj pouring gasoline over Konerts; another negro, touched . on toa fluid with a lighted lamp, and in an insUct Roberts was eeveloped in fiimes. Ha ran wildly up and down the main street of the town, but there was no one awke and he was literally roasted alive When discov ered he was in a critical condition, and medical aid was given. Ono of the negroes has been arrested; the other escaped. BARF A HD COLLKGF. Tbe Senior Class Elects a Colored Man as Class jBr.tor by a Substantial ma jority. I By Telegraph to the Vornln? Star. B06TON. Oct. 19. The senior class of Haivard College has elected Clement Gar rett Morgan, a colored mar, as class orator, The election waB hotly contested, but Mor gan received a substantial majority, abotil 270 men voting. : He entered tbe college with little means, and during his Fresh man year worked in odd hours in a barber shop. Since then his rank as a student has brought him beneficiary money from the college. Last year, as competitor for the Boylt-ton prize, be carried bis auditors by storm and won the first place. COTTON ST A TEM ENT. Total Net Receipts of Cotton at Al ports Mnce Sept. 1st, 1889. S? TeieKrapa to the Horning sua. New York, Oct. 18 The following are the total net receipts of ootton at all tbe norts since September 1. loov: Galveston, 263,454 hales; New Orleans, 889 979 bales; Mobile, 67 015 Dales; Savannah, 291,838 bales: Charleston, 109.915 bales; Wilming ton. 41.650 bales; Norfolk, 74 593 bales; Baltimore, 8 088 bales; New York, 6,600 bales: Boston. 439 bales; Newport News. 1,945 bales t Philadelphia, 1,474 bales; West oint. 68 057 bales: Brunswick, 24 213 bales. Total 1,293.230 bales. SA FANNAB. Cotton Fire on tbe Steamsblp Carlton. By Telegraph to the Morning 8ur, Savannah. October 17. The fire which broke out this morning in the Bjifish Rteioif-hip 1 Carlton, '-iohODK cotton for Liverpool, has been -extinguished. ; It is believed that the vessel is undamaged. The lire was confined to the farward compart ment, in which were eight hundred to one thousand bales.. The work of removing the cotton was begun, but tbe extent of the damage Has not yet been ascertainea. ' ELECTRIC SPARKS. A Jackson, Miss., telegram says the Re publican mate .Executive uommitiee rorm- ally withdrew their State ticket, and have issued an address explaining their reasons torso doing. BillMattoon. the oldest moonshiner In Southwestern Kentucky, has been captured by revenue officers in Tennessee, who have been seeking for him . for the past twentynve years. ,1 Congressman W. C. Whitthorne, of the 7th Tennessee district, and at one time chairman of the Committee on - Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives, is lying at the point of deatn at his nouee in Columbia, Tenn. NO. 51 - . WASHINGTON. A Uutsllon Between lb Treasury Oe ; partusant aod tba Expr.ss Compa nies. By Telegraph to tba Mornlnit Star. Wabhtngton. Oct 17 The refusal of tbe TJ. S. Eiprtms Company to tbip notes Of small uenominatiuud from Wasnington to banks throughout the country at less than regular rates, has practically slopped the iisue of small notes. Heretofore these shipments were maae at the rale agreed upon by the Express Company in its con ti act for transportation of government mo ney. These rates are very much less than regular rates, and permitted tbe distribu tion of small notes to points in ail parts of the country where tbey were in great de mand at comparatively slight cat The Company now holds, however, that these notts having been practically nutchased from the government by private Aim, are no longer 'government mouev. Shin- menu are made by tbe United Slates Trea surer upon reoeipt of the.regular certificate of deposit at the ub-Treaeurv in New York. An issue has now been raided be- tweeu Treasury officials and the Express company as to whether tbe latter is not compelled to carry these notes under the prescribed rales in their contract for trans portation of government funds. The for mer hold that the notes are government money witbin the meaning of tbe contract until they- have-actually been received by ine nans ior wntcn tnev are intended. The Express Company holdi that notes cease to be government money from the tune the equivalent deposit is mado with tbe Assist ant Treasurer. In order to settle the ques tion Secretary Windom has called upon tbe Solicitor of the Treasury for an opinion as to the rights of the government in the mat. ter. The impression nrevails that the So licitor will decide that tbe Express Com pany is bound to treat these shipments as government property. District Commissioners to-day appointed Georsre Hazleton, formerly Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin, to be Attorney for tbe District of Columbia, to succeed D. Q. Riddes, who recently re signed to take effect the first of December next. m Washington. Oct. 18 The Simpson dry dock, at the Norfolk navy yard, which was opened September 19th. waa formally accepted to-day by Commodore White, Chief of L )cks and Yards The dock was the government $4 957,875 Acting becretarv iiatcheller to day di rected tbe suspension of work on construct ing the court house and postoffice at Sa vannah until it can ba ascertained whether Congress will authorize the selection of another site and increase the limit of cost of both site and building The present site was selected m January, 1888, but is re garded as unsuitable for the purpose. Tbe hunt of cost is $200,000. and U notconsid- ed sumcient. The acting tiucretarv also took similar action in reeard to the pro posed public building at States ville, N. C, because of representation by the Mayor. aldermen and merchants of lhat city, that the site selected by the laet administration is unsatisfactory to the business communis Washington. Oct. 19. The PrssidenP to-day appointed Gen. Greeu B. Raum, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions. - Gen. Kauai appeared at the Pension Office this morning,- and after taking the oath of office was presented to the chief of the division and other omccis Gen. Raum will enter uoon the discbarae of his official duties on Monday morning." The Pret'cmt to-day appointed Com- rcodore Frar.c's M. Ramsay Chtef i f the Bjrea'i of N-ivtaauoa of tlio Navy De partment, GEORGIA Cot. Hits aod Party at AllaTuta. tiy Telegraph to ' the Morning fetai. Atlanta, October 17. This was a day of tenoiiog and reception with Gov. Hill acd his party. The Governor rcee early and was entertained by Gov. Gordon at breakfast. At noou he and others of his par ty were driven to the Capitol, where a special session ol the Legislature had been con vent d. Gov. Hiil was introduced by Gov. Gordon. Gov. Hill spoke briefly about the good feeling between the Northern and Southern States. Roswe.ll P. Flower had a good word for New York bs tbe place for the World's Fair. Chancellor Pierson, ex-Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson and Adjutant General Porter made short speeches, after which there was a general hand-shaking. At 2 o clocK tbe Capital City Ciub ten d;je i the party a recapii u. At 4 o'clock iho Irish Amencana gave Gen. Collins a bar quet. Gov. Hill. Gov. Gordon and all the visitors were thcie. The feature of the bar quet was the frequent allusion to Giv. Hili as the right man for tho Democratic nomination lor President. SOUTH DAKOTA. Tbe Legislature Votes for V. 8. Sena- ' tors. j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ; Pie ere. 8 D. Oct. 17: The Legisla ture met in both branches yesterday and voted for United States Senators. In the Bouse the vote stood : For R. T. Petti- grew, 108; Bartlett Trip, 14; Moody, 107; M. H. Day, 14. In tbe Senate Pettigrew got 21 to Tripp's 4, and Moody 41 to 4 for Day. The Legislature in joint session will formally ratify the action of both branches and adjourn until January. ; Minneapolis, Sept. 17. A special from nerre, B. I)., says: The Legislature met in joint session at nnon, and proceeded to canvass the vote for U. S. Senators. They declared Moody and Pettigrew senators with rousing cheers. Tba bodv then adlourncu to meet tu Janu ary. Eigerton s rnenns to day commenced an active canvass for his appointment to tba U. a. Judgeship. SM AL.I,- VOX. A Last Krle Island a Regular Pest House All Points are Quarantined Aa.lust It. Chicago, October 17. A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says: Mayor Hunt.of Ban dusky, Ohio, telegraphed the State Board of Health In regard lo the small-pox rav ages at Pelee Island, the famous fishing re tort in Lake Erie. The dispatch fiajs the wildest excitement ex etp, over one hundred cases cf small-pox having developed theie witbiu tbe last four days. The island has about ono thousand population, every one of whom it ia feared will contract the disease. All avenues of escape from the place have been closed by tbe American and Canadian authorities. Every one of the entire group of L'ike Erie islands, in cluding Put-iu-Bay, North Bats, Middle Base. Kelleya and others have quarantined against Pelee. and the Canadian authorities have quarantined the main land against the island, which has become a vast isolated pest house. Dr. Probot, secretary of the State Board, has sent instructions and has taken vigorous steps to prevent the disease from spreading. ; HAY It. Nkw Yobk. Oct. ,18. The Atlas Line steamship Athos arrived here -to-day from Hajtieo ports, the voyage was a tern' postuous cue. Oa September 15 and 16 i northeast sale was encountered with i heavy sea running, . This state ot things lasted for forty honrs, during which every thing movable was swept irom ine uecas, The vessel, however, sustained no serious damsge. . The' Athos was at Port-au-Prince 8ep tember 21st, and brings intelligence that Hipolyte at that time was busily engaged in arranging for the Preudealial election. Hipolyte expects that be will be the unan imous cnoice or ine people, i ne eiecuon takes pktce this month; - A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch, says parti culars of tbe railroad wreck at confluence. Pa., yesterday afteinoon.are meagre: The accident occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio branch railroad between Confluence and Oakland. AJgondola car of angle bars lumped the track and caused the wreck:. Four workmen are known to have been killed, and probably fifteen others injured. )irits Turpentine. arrenton Gazette: The conn ance has rented the large hall in the Fair was held, and will make Ihisplaco their headquarters for icceiving and distributing supplies, &c. Raleigh Call: Raleigh will have another fair next week. It will be the an nual exhibit of the North Carolina Colored Industrial Association aod will be held at Cnmp Ruasell. It will be opened by Gov Fowle. Among the attractions there will bo a colored female brass band and a mili tary company of colored girls. .. Oxford Ledger: We are in formed by a man from Woodworth that James M. Caudle, the' man alleged to have aided in the killing of Lee Wilson, near Williamsboro last month, has given himself up. Nothing has been heard from Newby, and it is presumed he has made good his escape.' .. .. Washington Gazette: Last week tbe wheel of a double horse, wagon with 148 green rails on it, ran over the bead of a three-year old son of John Hodges, and scarcely hurt him. He miss ed only two meals in consequence of the -accident. A remarkable escape. The same boy at one time fell into a well, and when found was floating on tbe water. His mother went down the well and brought him safely out. . .' Concord Standard: Several of our business men are talking about the es tablisment of a foundrv. The nnlv nnul. ble difficulty in the way is probably the lo cation. The receipts of cotton fall short aa-compared to those of last year. This Is explained in several ways. Proba bly the best reason is the lateness of the crop. Tho fine Jersey bull that Mr. George Lore bought of J. 8. Harris died last week. It was brought to town on cir cus day by some "coons," and it is thought they were so anxious to see the circus 'rade tbe streets that the animal was driven too fast and died from the effects of the race. Chatham Record: Mr J. C. Goodwin, a son of Mr. Wiley Goodwin, of New Hope township, has been appointed.' nnnntv Rtlirinnt nt. t.hn Rt.atn A irrinntt.nri t Colkge. A son of Dr. S. Jfi. Teaguo, of Bcur Creek township, met with a horri j o - ble death one day last week. He was at work art Mr. Eii Brewer's cane mill, and bv some accident was caught between the sweep or beam and the frame and was at once crushed to death. Some time last month, a mad dog came to the yard of Mr. B. F. Thomas, near Lockville, during his absence, and his wife, fearing it might bile some of the children, shot and killed it with a gun, being the first time that she had ever shot a gun, Henderson Gold Leaf: As stated last week, Mr. Pearson's meeting in UartlaPiinn will Knvi thn lent Dun4nn ninkt lAttUUUIOUU TT At A UCglU IUU ItMb kJULAUCajT UlgUa) in this month, instead of November 6th as formerly announced. Col. Burgwyn'a plug and smoking tobacco factory building is very nearly finished. It is under roof and only the windows remain to' be put in and the finishing touches given to the In side. It is a splendid building. The two men who were yesterday convicted) of breaking into Lehman's store and stealing goods some time ago, escaped from the guard as they were being taken back to" jail from tbe court house. Ten years at iiard labor in the penitentiary stared them is the face and an effort to escape was worth the making. Greensboro Workman: There have been fresh discoveries of gold near Troy, Montgomery county, and something of a boom has been awakened. The pre cious metal rouno is generally on or near the sui lace. The people of Asheboio eay that the presence ot tbe railroad in that town has awakened an interest far beyond what any one could nave supposed, and business has received a wonderful impetus. The taw mills in the country neighbor hoods are supplying vast quantities of good lumber at low prices. The good old county of Randolph sends up as one of her exhibits at tbe Stale Fair Mr. Frank Red ding, whose stature is 6 feet 9 inches. When walking through a train the bell rope strikes him about the collar. Mi. Redding has a sister, a cultured and attractive young lady or fine manners and exceptionally good conversational powers, whose height is 6 feet 1 inch. Wilson Advance: Wilson will have a tobacco warehouse next year. Tobacco is a paying crop such it has proved this year. A cegro by the name oi John soya was Killed by me tram near Gary s burg, we see from the Weldon News. He went to sleep on the track. Capt. Cal vin Barnes sold part of his crop of tobacco in Oxford last week, superin tending the sales in person. The tobacco was just about a fair average of the entire crop of -Capt. Barnes, and we suppose is an index as to wnat ne ;wiu realize. The tobacco was made by tenants, realizing as followa : Une lot of 445 pounds netted 2685: one lot of 860 pounds netted S218: one lotot 890 pounds netted $114; one lot or 897 pounds netted f212; one lot of 440 pounds netted $75. These were parts of tbe crops ot tbe various tenants of capt. Barnes. The entire amount sold averaged nearly 80 cents per pound, which will make the profit a very handsome sum. Statesville Landmark: Mai. E. L. Vaughn died of consumption at his home at Sparta, Alleghany county, Thurs day last, the 10th inst. He was a lawyer of ability and bad several times represented his county in the legislature. Tbere is a decided bouyancy in Statesville real es tate. PriceB are better and the demand greater than for two or three years past. Vacantjjhouses are rapidly filling up, until hardly any remain for rent, populatiou is increasing and the feeling is better every way. We understand that there are 600 hands at work on tbe Winston-Wilkes- boro railroad in Wilkes county and that the construction of the depot at Wilkesboro has been begun this week. It is to be lo cated on the opposite Bide ot the river from town. The distillers of this district who have been assessed for back taxee un der the allegation that they have been run ning with tubs which were over size, are taking Bteps to secure an abatement of tbe order of assessment until they can lay their side of the case before the department at Washington. . . Charlotte News: The jury in tbe case of Sampson Heath, charged with burglarizing the house of Osborne Rose borough, returned a verdict of guilty of burglary. The grand jury has return ed true bills for burglary against Monroe Cathey and Bill Alexander. Ten bills for larceny have been returned. The grand jury is still at work on the burglary cases. Mrs. Anna Jarrett, wife ot Edward Jarrett, aged 20 years and 5 months, died in this city last night, at 10 o'clock, of consumption. Three convicts made a break yesterday afternoon and got away from the chain gang. Their names ate: Will Lentile, white, and Major Henderson and Alex. Work, colored. They escaped from the convict camp on the Providence road. Hector Wallace, one of the oldest colored men in the city, died yester-r day afternoon. Hector was an old time slave, and was a notably faithful servant. The latter years of his life were spent in the employ of Mr. M. P. Pegram. When he died Mr. Pegram supplied a handsome casket for his body, and sent bis carriage to the funeral to-day. That's the way the white people treat the good old darkies. Lenoir Topic: That Blowing Rock Encampment next August is a great scheme. What do the Caldwell Veterans say to "chipping in" and making a big thing out of it? The new Baptist Church at Moravian Falls will be dedicated on Sunday, October 20th. Rev. W. R. Gwaltney will preach the dedication ser mon. At a church meeting held Sa turday at Lower Creek Baptist Church, Rev. W. A. Pool presented his resignation as pastor of that church, to take effect De cember 1st, which was reluctantly accept ed. One night last week one of the piiDUUciB ui jail iciv lug ucw ui u duiuiu- lant, and unlocking the door of his cell, walked out and went np to that land of spirits, Freedman, and got a gallon and a half of whtskey. As the prisoner keeps a considerable amount of money, three or four hundred dollars in jail with him, he secured a big, old pistol for the purpose ot protecting bis money from robbers. Armed with his pitol and his demijohn, he went back to jail and locked himself in. The next day the sheriff took the pistol and what ; whiskey was left away from him. Jailor Tom Shell was moving and left the corridor door unlocked. 'The door of the cell, In which the prisoner was confined had a padlock on it and he pokod his hand through the hole in the door where he re ceived his rations and unlocked the pad lock with a key that he bad. He went down stairs and jumped out of tbe lowet windows,. -