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I - The project of j Scflators Butle - and Morgan for the . deportation of the negroes of the: South to -Africa f does not meet J with favor (in the South, wliere it might be supposed! by some that it would be cordially endorse nor "at the North, where ' no one expected it would be De-' portaiion Hn the fray proposed! by; Senator' Dutler is-simDlv itmDrlctica-' i l)le, evei ii desirable, and if under-! taken would be a useless waste of money, for when the $5,000,000, whicli he asks fpr,r had beep ex pend ed, oa the presumption, that.tlie ciol- o-ed people (took 'advantage of it, the number shipped to Africa Would not make a perceptible difference jin the colored population of the South, and as far as settling the ract problem goes it wpuld not make a beginning. In tiie South where Senators Mor-j gaivand Butler are known iieither their sincerity nor .he motijYes wh actuate them are called intcf quesr ti.ii, friit their proposition i regarded by thoughtful people as unfortunate because ( is liable to j miscojnstjruc tion and for the further reason that it U-:inriting the agitation of a ques tion the settlement of which vill be retarded by agitation. All thie legis- tioii irv the world would nevejr settle satijifactorily a question like ijhisJ It 5s one of these questions whidih jtime and circumstances will settle and by method with which legislation;1 has nothingand can hare nothing to do. The negro himself will take a rnore active part and be more instrumental in the settlement L of it : than the . t . .. i . 1 i . i white man and she will do it! peace ably; a ad vol untarily. That there is a race prejudice in the Sauth no candid nan will denyJ It. is not confined to the white raceJ for the negroes have therrjprjudices not only against white people Dut against mixed bloods of ; their own race. But race prejudice does not necessarily; imply race conflict in which. one race is hankering for the scalp of the other. ' The rjacej con flict shows itself onlv where the vah cendiary;: partisan makesj Jlis'jinflU ence felt, and where the negroes have been made to believe that some grea wrong has been perpetrated upon them and that other great wrongs are contemplated, For . years ied effort of it j was the stud the leader! ot the Republican party j North Ur d Sout to make the negroes believe that i was the purpose of the white people of the South if the Democratic! part ever got back into power .tp reduce them to slavery again, an' thus by playing upon their fears btjiilt jup an antagonism based upon falsehood But this antagonism was not against the Southern white man as iuch, nor as! such,1 against the former master but against the men who contemJ plated, as they were told, reducing them to slavery again: There never was any troubfe between white Re publicans of the South, I some of whom-owned slaves, and the negroes although, as a matter of fact, the negroes' received ! f;wer fa-jj vors or benefits from them than they didj from tieir' old masters who were Democrats, and there never was any trouble between1 the negroes and the white- Demo crats which" was nof inspired "and which could1 not, be traced toj some designing or malicious partisan who laid the foundation of it, ana even pen rup- nd then if seldom came to an jture unless there was some pretty loose bad whiskey laying around somewhere in the neighborhood. This gives proof of the J assertiop which we have made that ace preju dice does not .necessarily imply race conflict ! or there is as much or even more prejudice .against the negro amongst the white Republicans of the South than there is amongst the white Democrats and- yet they pull together, the colored brother do ing the voting and the white brother holding the offices, when the colored brother's yote is strong enough to win them, and raking in the emolu ments. . If there, were i any real grounds for conflict . it ought to w be between the negroes and the white Republicans, who j make the negroes do the voting while they appropriate tne spoils of office, and ignores in the division the negroes whose votes did the work. ; . While there may be, owing to local causes, local Clashes' occasionally between white men and black men, there is no M 1 1 ! ' .1 ' ' ' ' ' 1 ', . ' .' " 1 " . "" ' ': ' ' r. ' 1 . VOL. XXI. Such thing in the South as a race Conflict in a general' sense, although Radical politicians have been doing nd art now doing their level, best to create it. - REPUBLICAN STATESMEN. The Republican 'statesmen j of tp- day as they appear in the" halls of the National legislature I and . else where, will take their place; when they are duly measured .and sized ilp py impartial judges among the col jossal frauds of the age. I . Both branches of Congress are controlled y a Republican majority, the exe cutive chair is filled by a Republican President. He has been in ! omce nearly eleven j months, and within that time the only thing he has be come conspicuous for, is his disre gard of his former declarations in fa vor of civil service reform his alert ness in providing offices for kinsmein, his ability "In disgHstiag his fellow: partisans, and in his success in gat ing up a racket between himself and the spoils 1 grabbing Republican Senators as to . who should have the say so fin the distribu tion of the spoils, i If President Harrison has distinguished himseir for anything els, except the hand pe took in the Montana conspiracy, the Dudley blocks-of-five infamy, his Sunday excursions i in Wanamakdr's yacht, and shooting the colored brother Wooten's pig in Virginia we riave failed to discover it. Anything else that he has done or said in, his capacity as President has been done at the suggestion or.command of the party leaders, or as the echo of their dictation. He is" not the leader of his party. He is a negative rfot a positive character. He follows where others lead. He had the opportuni ty to make great reputation and a name for himself, but lacked the genius to see and grasp it, lacked the moral courage to step out of the beaten sectional party rut, and beeame a piper instead ; of a living, looming reality. -He is not esentially a bad man, he is simply a machine Presi dent run by the party machine, a man who confounds obedience t party dictates with patriotism, - an the schemes 6f the party manipula tors with statesmanship. In this, however, he is a typical Republican of to-day, There is no living man who could look down from the galleries of either House of Congress and point out a Republican representative who can lay just claim tov the reputation of statesman,) or rise above a ; party dead level in discussing any j of -the issued in which the American people are interested. . This may, seem to; be unfair and the inspiration of political prejudice, but ; it! is not. The scope of effort and their tellectual statecraft seems to be to retain party ascend-- ancy and to this every consideration of the public! weal is subordinated. ' The Senate has become conspicu ous for its lack of brains, the place of which has been taken by plethoric purses. In what estimate must a Dody be held by the honestly dis posed, Intelligent. American whose leading lights are such men as rat tie-brain. ' narrow-minded, section- gauged, vindictive Ingalls, whose chief distinction lies in his venomous disposition and in his djarrhcea of caustic speech; bellowing Bill' Chan dler, crafnk Blair aud pettifogger Ed munds ? Edmuftds is the recognized leader, one of the master brains, did in years, old .in service, , old statecraft. a central fi gure. in and a. representative Republican, who had achieved reputation for ability and indivituality, j And yet he was not above sacrificing what ever of reputation he might "have had for honesty by flying to the rescue of the Republican District Attorney in indiana,who in defiance and contempt of the law shielded a friend of the president who had bribed voters, on which charge papers had been issued for his arrest, and defeating a resolu tion of inquiry into the conduct of that attorney. In doing so he came own from the pedestal of Senator td he plane of the partisan pettifogger o defend a culpritwho dared not go nto court to defend himsejf, and in- imate that the letter was forged hich Dudley had - been defied -time nd again to go into court and say it was- not hisf writing. Edmunds did this not , for Dud uey; but to prevent the exposure of the methods by which 'i Harrison was elected, thus subordinating his duty as a Senator to his subserviency to party, the partisan7 towering above the patriot and the statesman.. j Edmunds is" a typical Republican .Senator, ' The House is a Republican mob, j with ; Reed the ringleader. Their jwork in-hand now is to strangle by arbitrary despotism, the opposition ?of the Democratic minority till they j unseat the seventeen Democrats whose seats are contested, and put I in their places seventeen .Republicans who claim the seatg, thvis giving them a larger majority to enable them to perpetrate their, devilment ' with more success. When this is. done the partisan statesmen will be in i position ; for more of the ! particular ; kind ' of work which they have in hand. STATE TOPICS. ; ' We are glad to learn from the, Ra leigh Can that the A. & M. College is appreciated by the farmers of the State, every seat in " the class room having been taken. Arrangements are now being made .for -additional accommodation. . . This is one of the institutions in which not only the farmers are interested but the people of all the State, and it should meet with 1 every encouragement. ; Wtfile other industries re being developed agriculture must be for many years, and probably always will be the main industry of the State, and the better it is understood and the j more intel ligently it is pursued the greater ' the prosperity of the State will be. that (college will become at some day one of the srreat' and cherished mstitu iiuiis ox me oluic. . ; j - tr Charlotte has eone to work : in t earnest to secure thTldcatfdffblrr Lutheran Seminary. Ai ! committee appointed at 'aj meeting- held Friday bight to select subscriptions is actfye- ly at work. The sum to be raised is $20,000,' r $11000 of which has been pledged,! and ;the committee hope without much ! trouble to raise j the remaining $9,000, which will move the location of the Seminary. I We like to note the interest taken by bur people in educational institutions. Two Polish j factions had a riot in a cemetery in Pennsylvania theothe.r day over the burial of a corpse, in- which stones and clubs were used and thirty or more men bonged pp. The only one. who didn't take an ac tive hand in the row was the corpse, which was turned over and rolled out on the ground. The I Republican press does not, refer to this a.s, an illustration of the lack j of Civilizing influences in that good Republican State. A big trust on the cigarette has been organized under a New Jersey charter embracing all the leading cigarette .manufacturers of the country. It may end in' smoke, but if it will raise the pricel of this little life-sapper ancj brain-jdestj;oyer so that the small boy can't reach it, we will strain bur conscience and -say a good word for it, If it is a trust. A writer! who had been probably painting things' too red, has discov ered that "riches take wings and fly away," and touchingly asks, "is there nothing secure ' nothing certain in this world ?" j Yes, dear! despon dent fellow, yes. Death, taxes, the grip, and Ingalls periodic eruptions. It is said that :Murat declined to marry Missaldwell becausehefound that she didn't have absolute control of her fortune, j He probably discov-. ered also that she didn't have ab solute control pf her temper, but that wouldn't have made so much differ ence if her! cash had been available. There are seventeen men in the U. i t. S. Senate ! whose aggregate wealth foots up $80,000,000. But they are just as prompt at drawing their sal aries, their allowance of stationery, pocket knives, etc., fas their poor colleagues who can't put on million aire airs'. ' I i.1 -;(.. i f !..': John Vanderbilt, a cousin of the late Commodore, died last Tuesday in New Jersey, of the- grip, at the age of eighty-two. living catching fish. He made his His cousin, the Commodore, made his living and got rich watering stock Robert H Garret, of 1 Baltimore, whose condition some time ago was reported to be so much ipiproved, is how said to be as helpless as an in fant, and only kept out cif a lunatic asylum by the clinging devotion of his wife. Ml -. t ! I Prince Albert Victor,) who has been sent to India till that London I . . I j i scandal blows over,, recently opened a hospital jlat Lucknow. ! Opening hospitals is about the best use that princes can be put to these days. The Wrecked British Barque. ; Parties who came tip om Southport yesterday afternoon, report that i the British barque San Antonio, ashore at the mouth of Cape Fear river, had broken in two, and that the crew of the vessel tad nearly finished the work ; of stripping the wreck pf jail that it was possible to save. The San Antonio registered 497 tons, and was built about twenty-three years ago. j Capt. Troop, the master, was part owner ot the vessel which was not insured., i '! -'.- j Excitement at Iiong Creek. . ' i A gentleman .from - the Xong Creek section of (Pender county, in the city yesterday,! says that community was no little excited the past week at the discovery that ! a white infant a few days old, had been left at the ! house of a col-! ored woman hear Long Creek. The wo-1 man refused to surrender the foundling. and legal measures were to be taken to compel her to turn it over to the county authorities. ; m '"'" ; ' ' . A Seaman Hurt. ; j '.';- " v- Oneof the men of the crew of the" British steamship MrfuZio,while. at work! yesterday j on a - scaffold around the! smokestack of the vessel, accidentally fell to the deck a distance of about twenty feet, jThe injured man was sent to the City Hospital. He had a severe cut on the head and two fingers dislo cated; but no bones were broken, and the doctors thought he would be all right in .a few days, '.i . . . ic- WILMIN(xTON,K. C, (FRIDAY; JANUARY 31, J WESTERN UNION'S COMPETITOR, 2- : .;; . J;-n;.j .v-"y;"i "C The Postal Telegraph Oompftny OpenU; I " Offloe The First MessageOver Jthe Wow r ; Idne.' ' Tv: . ' -fc!44 f The Pdstal Telegraph Company opjei- ed its Office for business last evening arjd the first message; came ovef the wirs from Fayetteville at 7.30 o'clock. It was taken by Mr. F. A.' Andrews, the "elec- trician sent out from Newi York to ;.ajr f range and fit up i the" office:! The niea- I sage was ?is follows: ' ';' j ' I , Fayetteville, N. C. Jan. 25,1890 Tq Cot. F, W. Kerchner Wilmington, AT. C. .. ' , . , : j . !1 Fayetteville extends rthe right-hand pf fellowship over the new wires; barring the grippe. Answer. " ? - 'i ii : Wharton J. Green: j The, following reply ' jwaS , sent; fiye ' I minutes later: . r '. ::;, .. I : T- 'i? -A Wilmington. N. C.L an. 25, 1890. To Hon: Wharton : 7. Gr, en, F&yetie ville, N. C. ; fi Wilmington welcomes 'the new enter' prise, ; and congratulates , Fayetteville. on its close connection with fthe seaside city. Tell Fayetteville we give them the grip of good fellowship! ' .' " -4' ' i : : - t" -F;W. Kerchner BJcUmoniLJ Fjw obtained at 8.43. and with New York that :direct at 9 p. m.. and business to r oint was sent direct.' - j The new company's lines include j a commercial submarine cable, known asi the Mackav-Bennett cable, and its5 in land lines are being extended through Outthe North, Northwest and. Soath, following Statfr roads, ' and not the railroads. j- ' : .1 ; ' ' ' -.1 Sneakinff of i the new line as J the rival of the Western Union" in that city, the Savannah Jezus says: jThe opening of the new office, it is predicted, wltf ije sult in a general reduction of rates both local and foreign." There must ; be! a mistake abouthat. So I far as can be ascertained here it does ,not appear that there will be any cutting of-rates. On, the contrary, shrewd guessers say that the Postal ahdj the Western Union will charge identically the same rates, both on commercial! business and newspaper specials. This seems to', be the present outlook. What the future may bring forth is, of course, an unknown quantity. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Proceedings of the Meeting of the Zxeen tire Council! ;:.";.--! " The following is a synopsis of the pro ceedings of the meeting of the Execu tive Council of the Chamber of Com merce, held last Thursday, as furnished for publication yesterday by the Secre tary. Col. Jnro.jL. Cantwell. ; ! 'j 't. v There were present, bt the Council, Col. F. W. Kerchner, President of the, Cllanjber, Mr.) H...C, McQueen, Mr. E. Peschan, Mr. D. MacRae, Mr. George Harriss and Mr. Jas. Hi Chadbourn. In the matter of the Government tel egraph line , between Wilmington and Southport, the following was adopted: ; ResoIved,Bax. whereas it is reported that the Government telegraph line irom Wilmington to. soutnport is to De sold, or discontinued, it is the Sense and desire of thi commercial community, that the Honorable, the Secretary of War, be respectfully requested to con tinue the line as it now lis, as it is . be lieved that if sold to private parties it would not be self-sustaining; and our Senators and Representatives are re quested to use, their influence in this behalt. , . , t ; i- . , ir On motion! the .following were ap pointed delegates to the) National Con vention of the National Boatd of Trade, at Washington, b. C. Feb, 6th, 1890, via: Donald ; MacRae, r. C-McQueen, EduarJ Peschau, Geo. Harriss, F. jW. Kerchneri And it was resolved, fur ther. "That; we heartily approve and endorse the objects and purposes pf the National Board of Trade." .; . ,3 j j The following resolutipns in relation to the public! building were also adopted! T Resolved, That our Senators and Rep resentatives be requested to urge the further appropriation of $150,000 to ien arge the public building now in course of construction in s (this city, j or to build an additional structure Suitable to the wants of the -public service; as the present building is totally inadequate to subply the offices needed. l ' : ' j 1 r; t : Resolved, That -we fully appreciate: the. services ot senator jmu w. Kansom and Representatives A. Rowland and CJ W. McClanimy, and would respectfully i ask a continuance of their good work in' our behalf.. .';: : ' j RIVER AND MARINE; The Damage to the Schooner Hartha Brit- ' ish Barque San Antonio a. Total Loss, ine scnooner Martna wnicn was run into and damaged while at anchor -at Southport hy the schooner Lteds,, as pre viously reported, was towed up to i the city yesterday. ,'Itis .estimated that it will cost $500 to repair the Martha. Cap tain Cramner, master of the Leeds, offer ed to pay half of this amount if the pilots would pay the remainder; but this the latter have nou yet agreed to 'do. One of the pilots, in referring to the statement in the Star that the pilot On the Leeds was in charge of j ;the vessel, sjiid; "It is true that the schooner Leeds was in charge of the pilot, whd was at the wheel! at the time of the collision;' but the pilot was misled by the mate, who was forward, and called to the pilot to port the helm, which the latter did! and the collision occurred. Had the pilot been allowed to keeppn his course, .as he intended to do, the accident would not have happened." i All hbpe. pf saving the British barque San Antonio, aground at the mouth of the Cape Fear river, has been abandon ed. : The ; Signal Service observer at Southport telegraphed yesterday morn ing to the station here, that the vessel was still ashore and is a total loss, j The master and crew were engaged in strip ping her of everything that -could be saved; ' -. .- . .White Shad in Market. ; - - : Some eight or ten "white shad -not the first of the j season in this market, however were on sale at Messrs. W. E. Davis & Son's fish-packing' house! yes terday afternoon. They were fine large fish and priced at $2.00 per pair.; From .indications, the season for these fish will open earlier this year, in the Cape Fear. and fishermen are all busy getting j their boats and nets in order with expecta tions of a good bussness. , -. Collision at Southport. , - . - S ' The Signal Service observer at South-' pore " telegraphed to the observer: here yesterday as follows: "The little two masted -American " schooner Martha, bound from Charleston to New Berne with' a cargo of phosphate rock was -rim into about 1 o'clock this a.- m.; while lying at anchor in the harbor here, , by xne American scnoonery. nowett jjeeas, bound ouV Both masts and the' bjow Sprit "of the Martha were "knocked off, and her ' yawl cut in twa 'The 'ie lost her boat,' but was not damaged her self."' -' ''''"- ; W i ' Capt. Crahmer, master of the schooner Leeds, came up to the city yesterday afternoon. His vessel! he said, at 'the time of the accident was in control of the pilots who was at the wheel. The matter will undergo examination before the Commissioners pi Navigation, knd the blame fixed where it belongs! ' i .Cross-Ties Burned. j .-- A Between 800 and. 110H) cross-ties : be longing to the Wilmington, Onslp & East .Carolina Railway were destroyed by fir Wednesday night , lasU The ties burSe with Jtwo-or,,thjee.. thousand more were piled along the road a iew miles from the city bear the Seacoast railroad; crossing. The woods are. all afire in that sectioni as far as the Mason boro turnpike on the east and the Mar tindale place, on the south, covering many square miles of territory. ' Naval Stores Receipts, Etc. ;- - , Receipts of nayal stores at this port for the crop year from April 1st to January 24th as compared with: re ceipts for the same time last year, are as follows: Spirits turpentine,, 61,317 casks; last year, 58,804. : ,. Rosin, 208,338 barrels; last year, ' 194,826. . Tar; 51.917 barrels; last . year, 45,035. L jCnide turpentine, 17,473 barrels; last year,; 19,316. t Y Stocks here, as pompared with stocks at same date last year, are: . Spirits tur pentine, 3,754 casks; last year, 1,671. Rosin, 39,363 barrels; last year, 85,808. Tar, 4,315 barrels; last year, 3,805. Crude turpentine, 1,668 barrels; last year, 433. Naval Btoros for England. Messrs.. , PatersonJ .Downing & Co. cleared the Norwegian i barque Respit yesterday, for London, with 3,507 -"bar rels of rosin and .623 casks spirits tur pentine, valued at $14,227. Messrs. Robinson & King cleared the German barque Antares, for Hull, with 1,750 barrels tar, 2,165 barrels rosin ,and 250 casks spirits turpentine, valued "at $10,827 92. j.-r, V'' !: Committed "Without Ball. ' I i Wm. Myers, colored, charged with ar son, whose case was investigated by Col. E. D.; Hall. J. P., last Wednesday after noon as reported in the Star was yes terday sent to jail witihout bail, by di rection of the Magistrate, to await the action of the Criminal.; Court for this county which will meet m - March nfJfwhoXlpea ,to his imimtnsi . . . ... i ,:": . Arson is a capital felony under the laws of North Carolina. ' 0 j ! The Wilson Affray. ! ; ' . ' A correspondent requests that the following statement be 'published in re gard to the affray at; Wilson: "Mr. Branch called Mr Barnes a liar, and Mr. j Barnes did not strike him after knocking him through the window. Mr. Stfirrett was called an infamous scoun drel by Mr. Branch before he gave him a blow." Cotton fieoeipts. -... p; Receipts of cotton at this port for the week ended yesterday' are 3,115 bales, against receipts of 2,751' for the corres ponding week last year an increase of 864 bales. Receipts from September 1st to January ; 24th; are 121,160 bales, against 138,249 to! the same date last year, showing a decrease! of 17,094 bales. The stock at this port is 15,260 bales, against 7,115 at same date last year, British Barque San Antonio. The British barque ! San Antonio, which struck on the bar at the mouth of the Cape Fear river two days ago, was reported yesterday afternoon as: in the same position and full of water. The wrecking party thatwent to f the t assis tance of thevessel Wednesday . with steam pumps, didnot put the pumps aboard, deeming that it: was Impossible to save the ship. From all accounts there is no doubt that the barque will prove a total loss, The Shipping in Fort. The port of Wilmington is crowded with vessels, the largest number seen here at one time fh many days. There are two steamships one British and one Amer ican; twenty-six barques and three brigs British, Norwegian, German, Italian, Swedish and American; and fourteen schooners-r American and British. Mak ing the total .45 vessels, as enumerated above, and not Including tugs, :, river steamers . and coasting vessels of less than 65 tons. ; The Town of Tomahawki "Tomahawk" is the name of a station on the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail road, between Wilmington and Fayette ville, which was accidentally overlooked when other stations were mentioned in the STAR a few days ago. - It is in Samp son county,, forty .miles from this -city and forty-two miles from Fayetteville. The place for the ..depot was selected" a few days since, and town lots were laid off. A new store. and a. residence is be ing built at the place. . Trains on the C F. & Y. V. railroad pass Tomahawk at 8.05 p, m., going west, and at 1.15 p. m going east. Bonds all Delivered. The last instalment of the $150,000 of bonds subscribed by the city , of Wil mington to ' the. Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley . Railroad was delivered to the officers of the company last Wednesday by Mr. W. A. Willsoai, city treasured. The amount was $24,000, for which 240 shares of stock of the railroad company was received by the city. . Messrs. Jno. D. Williams, D. M Williams, Alex, Bass, Tr and Maj. J, Li Robinson, of New:' York city, are at the Orton' plantation "on a gunning ex pedition. ,. . i , j . 1890. MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN FRANKLIN COUNTY, N. C. - . "Well-to-do Farmer Shot and -Killed .'.'''iv-v;'''!'eM,,OI'V,--. , . ; ; " ,Raleigh, N. Ci' Jan423. A special to the News & Observer from Louisbuig, gives an account, oi a sensational , mur der in Franklin county night before last., Ransome Gill, a well-to do farmeri living about three miles from Franklin ton, was a juror in court , and was going home from Louisburg in his buggy late in the evening, . when he was mysteri ously shot He was found next day six miles from Louisburg with a bullet-hole through his head. " His horse was found unhitched and tied about three hundred yards away. Gill was found lying on his face with his overcoat on and bom hands in. his pockets. The ball had apparently Robbery was evidenUy not the object of the murder, as uul had some money on hi person when found.! The affair is enveloDed. in profound mystery.; j APALAGHICOLA RIOTERS. Arrest , of ' Eingleaders Troops on : the -Ground and Citizens Under Anns. .-! Apalachicola, Fla, January 23.' The Marianna Rifles arrived last night, thirty-seven strong. Guards were post ed : throughout .the town, and every white man not on , duty slept with arms within reach. Thirty-five ringleaders of the negro strikers were arrested to-day, but the chief one, Sanches V. Thomas, cannbt be found. One negro Was shot to-day while fleeing from arrest. 1 he trial of some of the prisoners commenced this afternoon Intenseex citement prevails among, both whites and blacks. " Negro women are violent in denunciation of the4- action of ; the whites," and are thronging the streets. The citizens are worn-out with fatigue, but feel confident that the situation can be mastered. :"-'v I ' . It is srenerallV believed that the arrest "of the ringleaders will have a! quieting enect, put some think the negroes will attempt tp make further trouble to-night. lhel whites are well prepared, ;and this fact, it is hopedwill have a restraining influence upon' the negroes. . ADAM FOR EPAIjJ G N r ' - The Veteran Showman Dies of Pneumo nia Leaves a Fortune of $1,000,000 to his Wife and Son. Philadelphia January 23. Adam Forepaugh, the veteran circus manager, died last night at his residence in this cityj Mr. Forepaugh had been ailing for some time past. He was attacked a week or two ago with the prevailing in fluenza epidemic, which three or four day$ ago developed into pneumonia. Mr. i forepaugh was Originally a butcher, but many years ago he embarked in the circus business, in which he was very successful, getting together 1 a most extensive circus and menagerie, with which he amassed a fortune whieh is estimated at more than $1,000,000. i He was a large . real estate owner. Mr. Forepaugh was sixty-eight years old. -tie i Ie leaves "i ";Vfe.and one son, Adam?4 - y . 10- ...-. . air., circus property. THE POPE. The Rumor of his Death Entirely Un foundedHe is in Excellent Health. Rome, Jan. 23. The rumor widely current yesterday that the Pope had suddenly died, proves to have been en tirely unfounded. His health is admir able, and at the very time the rumor was gaining in strength in passing from mouth to fmouth through the 'city, His Holi ness was giving spscial audience to a number of prominent prelates. TROUBLE IN THE G. A. R. Caused by Colored Delegates to the 23ncampment at Augusta, Oa. -Augusta, Ga., January 24. The de partmental encampment of the G. A. R-. was held in Augusta to-day, at the head quarters of ' Augusta; Post No. 2. Charleston, Savannah,! Macon, Atlanta anji Tallapoosa Posts Tjfere represented. Colored delegates from Beaufort and Savannah claimed admission to the en campment from colored Posts Which they represented. The Committee on Credentials .submitted majority arid minority reportsthe: former against and the latter m favor ot seating ; the colored delegates. The maiority report recommended the formation of separate encampments for colored Posts. I he minority report was adapted by a vote of 18 to 4, whereupon, I. D. . Craw ford, Commander; H. Burns, adjutant, 1 1 T T " 1 f ! 1T ana .rniiip neiuensier, representing c, J. Jones, Post No, 6, of Macon, with drew from the encampment, under in structions of their Posts. Augusta Post will give a banquet to the encampment to-night, to. which colored delegates are not invited. i : HANGING IN ALABAMA. Exeoutlon of Green Braxton for the Mur- j. -j ' der of Lewis Pugh. ; By Telegraph to the Morning Sw Montgomery, January 24. Green Braxton, negro, was hanged inthecoun ty jail here to-day, for the j murder of Lewis Pugh, an aged white farmer m thiscountv. in Mav of last vear. The drop was sprung before the blackcap had been put on, and deputy sheriff Charles ftr farKer mk witn tne negro,: The deputy sheriff waS painfully hurt by the tall to the iron floor. . Lewis Pugh, who was murdered, was a well-to-do farmer, and was murdered for his money. He was assassinated at his home in the southern part of the coun ty, being shot down inhis bed-room. Alit-j tie grandson, who was with him, was also shot, but recovered irom his: wounds. and was the main witness in the trial SOUTH CAROLINA TRAGEDY.! A Furious Woman Kills, her Husband for ! Losing a Fair of Shoes, and Then .. Attempts Suicide. '; ' - i By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ! Columbia, . S. C, January 25. A Daily Register special from Abbeville says: A. N. Nelson was shot and killed by his wife," who! then attempted suicide by shooting herself in the head. She is still alive,, but in a critical condition, Their five-year old boy saw the tragedy, which resulted from a trivial cause. i Nelson had bought j his wife , a pair of shoes and lost them On the -way home; while under the influence ; of Uauorj His wife sent him back to hunt for them, and upon his rtura unsuccessful, she killed him in. her rage. v t i The coroner's jury rendered a verdict of death at the hands ot unknown par ties,, the evidence being meagre, but the woman admits the killing. The weapon used was a shot-gun. I NO., 12 ; WASHINGTON. 'II Another Dividend for Creditors of the Er change Bank of Norfolk Be pctrt of . the House Committee on Elections.! Washington, Jan. 23. The Comp- troller of the Currency has declared, the sixth dividend of five per cent, in favor pi creanors. oi tnet exenange na tional ; Bank of Norfolk, " Va making in all fifty per " cent, on claims recorded, amounting to $2,893,21 9 ; i ; j ; , 1 he majority report of the House com mittee oh Elections was submitted in the House to-day in the contested case of Smith vs. Jackson, from the Fourth 'dis trict 6f West, Virginia. Jackson ;ob tained the Governor s certificate and now holds the seat, both 6f which were con tested by Smith, who claims that he was entitled to the seat in the first instance, according to the votes legally casti ; The! report says that it is very plain to the committee that the contestant was elected upon the face of the returns, and therefore -entitled to a certificate from the Governor. The report .then elabo rately! and in great 'detail reviews the testimony submitted, and in conchisiori asserts that Smith was"' duly elected and is entiuea to meeat . . - MrJ Crisp will probably submit the re port of the minority-the latter part of this week. . f i' -: . .-.;.." ---' Washington; - fanuarv 24.-J-The' House Elections Committee was in ses sion' only five minutes to-day, and did not attempt to.' pass upon the West Virginia contest Jf Atkinson vs. Pen dleton, which had been set down for final disposition. The case of Smith vs. Jackson, which has already been report ed to the House, jwill be called up for consideration by that body next Wed nesday, if the committee can secure the floorj Next , week will be devoted bv the ebmmittee to Rearing arguments in the contested election cases of Mudd vs. Compton (5th Maryland), arid Threet vs. Clark (1st Alabama.) '.. 1 ' . Washington, January 24. The De mocratic members of the House were in caucus for two hours to-pight, with Mr. rioiman in the chair, i he subject "tinder discussion was the; new code of rules now in course of preparation by the Con mittee on Rules. I ! i ( ' Mr. Carlisle, the Democratic member of that committee, explained in detail the nature' of the principal changes pro posed to be made in the old code, and briefly stated "those that were particu larly! objectionable to the Democratic minority. ; - - : ' . lhere was a long discussion over) the proposed changes,, which failed to result in uie aavancement oi any practical scheme for amelioration of the repug nant features of the new rules. Then the contested election cases were! talked overj and Mr. Crisp told of the purpose of the Republicans to jcall :the first of the West Virginta cases, was cenerallv aerreed Jthat the inten tion of the Republicans is to unseat as many Democrats and : seat! as many; Republicans as will give them a fair working : majority, iand insure a quorum, in order to force through the rules. Although no formal resolution was adopted, it was a matter of understanding among the Democratic members when the caucus adionrned that this Republican plan should be re sisted to the utmost, and that the mino rity should exercise all of its constitu tional rights to prevent its sufctessj In othr words, the determination us to fight the rules legitimately when obnox ious sections are reached, and to refrain votng and leav6 the House without a quorum if an attempt is made to unseat Democratic members before the rules are adopted. j The Senate committee on ... Naval Affairs held a meeting to-day, at which after considerable discnssion the com mittee decided uoon the oolicv which will govern it during this Conjgress in the work of building up' the navy. I his is, m Dnet, that a great line of battleships like the English ship' Ben- bow should be constructed at onceJ Mr, Chandler and Mr. McPhersOn, however, are1 not in accord with the decision reached", and minority and majority re ports will be submitted to the Senate. "the hostility of the German press to the Samoan treaty, is still outspoken (comments of the leading conservative papers and also !of leading liberal papers in periin nave peen capped 10 in is city. OCEAN PI PERILS. German Steamers, Arrived at New York,- Beport Unprecedented Heavy Wea- , ther. New York, January 25. The steamer California (Ger), which arrived jto-day from Hamburg, reports heavy westerly gales . and tremendously high seas throughout her j voyage. On January 17j latitude 45; longitude 50, took a hurricane and stopped the engine and hove to under small sails. Oil was used and saved everything about the decks from being washed away. ! On December 19 burst the steam pipe and was obliged to return to Queenstbwn for repairs. The chief engineer, third engineer and storekeeper were I badlv scalded. Captj Baur says the weather this voyage was the worst he ever ex perienced in his ninety-four voyages to tne westward, The steamer Rhaetia, (German), Vo gelgesing, frorh Hamburg, reports ex ceptionally heavy weather. ,'.On January I7tn tne decks were almost constantly covered with water, and the ship! would not answer herhelm. Oil was used for twelve hours with great effect; On January 22nd she put into Halifax for coal. it; THE WORLD'S FAIR Another Lively Debate, in the House Oom- , ! mittee. ' ; . Washington; Jan. 25. There was another protracted I struggle jin-. the House Committee on the World's Fair toj-day, out of which the New York party came victorious. The battle be gan as soon as the sub-committee re ported to the full committee, that it did. npt recommend ! either proposition re ferred to it, and asked permission to frame a bill providing for a fair in 1892, arid leaving the question of its site for future settlement. This was finally adopted after a lively discussion. ! Mr. Hill has signified an intention to introduce in. the House a resolutiori providing for a: selection of the j site by Daiiot, and instructing the committee, which he will ask to have increased to thirteen members, to report within three days.- : - - !!'? !-: ; EARTHQUAKE. Heavy Shock at Bellfoot Lake, Tenn. The . ; People Greatly ! Frightened . Cairo, life;, J: an. 25. The officers of the steamer Citv ol Baton Rouge, pass ing up last evening ' reports a shock of earthouake at Belfoot Lake Tenn.; at 8 o'clock yesterday - morning. A vertible panic ensued among the in habitants of the localit y.who have not for gotten the results of the great earthquake of many years ago, when New Madrid and much of the adjacent territory sunk beneath the , Mississippi, -.--: e xitaae: uiea. on t last.' at his home, fmir miles West 'of here. Mr Rhert rtaurenn aged about 30. . On the 15th inst. ur. Colin Bethune. of Kevse.r. nimd r was found.dead in the road nearkeyser, -and heart disease is thought to have beent the icause of his death.1, A' party of Northern men passed through iie re . iure weeK en route to trie gold mines in the upper end of the countv. ' where they contemplate : purchasing property.' I Raleigh JVews - and ' Observer: Yesterday morning a negro by the name ot James tsurch had made an attempt to enter-the private residence of . Mr. Kreo. w. Johnson, who resides on South cast street, and was engaging in other deviltry. The police were notified and officer W. W. Willis was sent to capture the rascal.'" The" negro attempted to escape and was pursued by the officer and several boys and was captured, He naa served a term of five years in ; the penitentiary for " larceny, i The number of cases of "la grippe" is some thing astonishing. The complaint has not taken any serious form, however, and there i$ no cause for alarm. ' . Durham .Sun: Judge Armfield received a telegram this morning, con veying the sad intelligence of the death at her home in Statesville, of Miss Car rie Bell Cowles, the betrothed of the Judge's youngest son, Mr. J. B. Arm field. - Mr. J. P. Parrish is the jrard. coupler of the R. - &, D.: railroad at this place. This' morning about half-past nine o'clock he was engaged; in his du ties, and when attempting tp. couple a very long train on the west iside of the depot, near the water tank, his right foot was caugnt petween the guard rail and the track, and before he could extricate it, the backing freight; cars jcame upon him, and two of the truck wheels passed over his body, and coriimencing : at the hip, literally ground that leg and por tion of his body to a pulp. I .; ' Wadesboro Messenger- intelli gencer : l? rom all reports there is more pork in Anson county this year than has been any year since the war,! and if it is .not spoiled by the warm weather, our people will at least have meat and-hom iny if they do not have plethoric pocket- books. Anson's big hog was killed last Thursday, and the other counties in the State can take a back seat. The hog belonged to Mr. Tas. R. Moore, of the Madra neighborhood, and weighed 812 pounds gross, and 740 pounds net. It was only two years old, and! those who saw it say it was as big as a horse. Some one left a jbynamite cartridge at the house of Hanna Lyde, a colored woman living near town the! other day, and ' last Saturday she concluded she would investigate its contents. Accord ingly she began picking it with a hair pin, when ' it exploded, ' lacerating her hands so badly that Dr. Ed. S. Ashe found it necessary to amputate j three fingers on one hand and one finger on the other. . . ' , Fayetteville Observer: . The Fayetteville Cotton Mill is-now running day and night, by steam -and by water. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the county Sunday School Association on Monday, it was decided to hold the county Convention on Tuesday, February 1.8th, in Fayette ville. ' A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Fayetteville & Aber deen railroad is called to meet in this city Wednesday next, the 20th inst., for the purpose" of taking steps looking to the building of. said road. r Mr. Lauchhn bhaws grist mill and cotton gill, iUUlLtU ill. LUC Vlllllliy Ul JL. L cLUi were destroyed by nre last b nday night at midnight. The loss will run up into the thousands, though partly covered by insurance. 1 he origin ot the hre is unknown. Great improvements have recently been made in the gas works. The buildings have been en larged, and the capacity of the plant about doubled, witlJhe addition of new and improved mShitffefy. I Chatham Record : Nearly every man you meet is an applicant for the position of census enumerator. Mr. Hiram M. Paul, from the northern part of Maine, has spent a few days here examining the land around here with a view of purchasing and . locating. The lumber kilri at Mr.! Nooe's mill was accidentally burned on last Tuesday, destroying ten thousand feet of flooring' and ceiling (that was drying therein. Mr. Edgar L. Haughton is making preparations to build a large flouring and grist mill, at this placed to be run by a thirty-five horse-power steam engine. Uur former countyman. Hon. John M. Moring, who . removed to Durham about ten years ago, will return to this place next Tuesday and f practice law1 here. For the first time since Cha tham county was organized, in 1770, one of her citizens has been made a Judge, That honor was conferred ,by. Governor Fowle. on Thursday of last week,, upon our townsman, Thomas j Brown Wo mack, who was then appointed Judge of ' this (the fifth) judicial distriet. j Raleigh News and Observer ' The finishing touches was added to the sewer system yesterday. -- Fertilizer license was issued to Wijcox & Gibbs " Guano Company, of .Charleston,! S. C to sell their "Truck Farmers', Special Guano" biand. The I fact has now come to light that the present winter is not an unprecedented one. There was a phenomenally mild winter seventy three i'years ago, equally! mild as th present one. The regular term! of the Superior Court begins on the first Monday in February, j which . falls on the;8d. The. examination of ap plicants for license to j practice law ' will be held on Friday, Jan. 81st. -We regret to hear that Mf, L. H. Adams . . who has been for many years one of our most prominent and successful business men, having invested . his means very largely in real estate' and, being called upon to make some heavy payments which he.,could not con viently meet, made an assignment of his property on yesterday for the, benefit of his creditors. His real estate alone in the city of Ra- -leigh cost him arid' is worth twice as much as his indebtedness. ;W. H. Pace, Esq., is the trustee and the amount of the liabilities is about $35,000; value of property conveyed about $70,000. j: Charlotte Chronicle: The reve nue officers have made two seizures in Gaston county. On Saturday, the still of Alonzo Rhyne was seized, and 'on Monday that of a man named Forbiss A telegram was received here yes- terday announcing the death of Mriu Alexander, wife of Capt. S.' B. AlexatW der. Mrs. Alexander died yesterday at the residence of her father B. J; Perry, in Franklin county. The telegram only bore the sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. Alexander, and gave no! further particulars. Mrs. M, J. j Morrow died Tuesday night at 11 o'clock, at her residence No. 210 South Myers street. . Mrs. Morrow was a daughter of Gov. William Hawkins, of this State, and wife of the late Maj. Benjamin Morrow. She was 72 yeais of age, " j having ; been ' born at Warrenton in 1818, Mrs."Mor row died of pneumonia, and from the effects of her recent fall. She leaves -two children, H." C. Morrow and.Mnr. Matilda Williamson, widow o'f the ate Dr. Robert Williamson.' J - - The emi gration agents have been doing their work in , this section quietly, but effec- , tively, during the last lew weeks.1. Wil- -liam Alexander has charge of the field, . with ! headquarters in this city. He jis assisted by John Henderson, colored."' who told a Chronicle reporter yesterday that he had already secured 22 colored families from the country ardund Char lotte.; Two white men, Messrs. Ferral and Cb.istenberry, are also engaged f n. i working up Mecklenburg and Cabarrus. ! counties. The emigrants from this., section expect to start on pr before the 10th of February, and it is probable that ' Quite a number will finally yield to the eloquence oi tne agents.; k !
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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