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-PUBLISHED AT WILMINGTO Nj $1.00 A YEAR, tj ADVANCE 88888888888888888 shjuoW g; TtrtlHW1--H-tQIM 88888888888888883 HaoK 9 88888888888888888 SSSSSSS5ESSSSe38S8 88888888888888881 b A :. 8 v .' 0 fc M M M H PS W t fi '! -sinaow Z 82888888282888888 qiaopi t 88888858828888888 PM. 8 09 lO fc A -i 00 - 00 8S88S88S8S8888888 888888S88S8388S88 o a, Entered at the. Post Office at Wilmington, N. C, k econa Liass Alatter.J i I SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. I The subscription price of the "Weekl y Star is is follows : j I I Single Copy 1 year, postage paid ....... , , ... .1 .. $1 W " " " 6 months " " ...J J... 60 I " " 8months " 1" J...J... K A FACTORY OF STATES. i TheNew York Sun aptly calls the 51st Congress a factory of S tates. It started .out with the! full d termina tion to admit into the Union 'every territory which asked to come 11 which had established the fact! that there were Republican votes eiioug! in it to elect a Legislature and thus ensure the election of two Rebubl can United States ! Senators. This was the qualification,, and 1 the sole qualification for admission. No Dem ocratic territory , need apply. J i Idaho was a Democratic territory and applied at' the same tme that : the two Dakotas, Washington and Montana did. isut she then had a; 'Democratic delegate in (Congress, j and she was sent, to until that. Democratic itv was overcome. I Since :he reajr. major- hen the . .T " . . . I ' I decision of the Supreme Court sus taining the constitutionality if the Edmund's law disfranchising the Mormons in the territory, Has Jgivem the Republicans a 'majoptyj sle knocks at the door! and is elqomed. Wvoming comes with her. Netf Mex ico, which also knocked at jthe door when they did, was indiscreet enough . to elect a Democratic delegate and has the doorlammed in her face: I . The two Dakotas, Washington, Montana, Idaho and' Wyoming give .the Republicans twelve Senators, seven Congressmen and (unless po litically revolutionized in the imeah time) nineteen electoral votes ! Here is the secret of the eagerness to admit them and iot the gunseemiy haste with which they were taken in fn fours and twos. It walTa bold political gjame,th;tt captured eight Senators, five JRepr iy sentatives, and thirteen J elector il votes at one dash, and f ouij Senato rs two Representatives, and I six ele toral votes at another. It is not every party that could do Ithat, nor every- party that ; would I be; bo d enough and unscrupulous enough l.o attempt it. j But -they have done it It was done bythe sold vote of the.Repub licans in Congress, except in one in stance, we believe, when the Republi cans voted with the Democrats in opposition. The Republicans of the Middle and Eastern States ! help ed the scheme and gave their votes for it. The -.time will come when they will pay the penalty, and realize the fact that they helped to shape the clubs to batter j their own heads. j The relative strength of the par ties in all of the newStates is close, the Republican majority so small that.it may. at any time be reversed. The increase ofj population may within the next few years, if there were no other causes to operate, en tirely change theij political complex-i ion, and it is not an improbable thing at all that before the term's of the present Senators expire.a major ity of them if not all will be found in the Democratic column.,, J Then will come, or even before that, the retri bution. V The sympathy of these new States is naturally with the other Western States . whose interests and I theirs are in many respects identical. The West is gradually but surely break- ing away from the East and looking v to the South for fellowship in com- mercial, financial, litical 4uestions- economic and pp On some of the issues of the day, which will be still greater issues in the future, the East and West are as far apart as the an tipodes. On such questidns1 as tne currency, the coiage of silver, im provements of rivers, and harbors, sundry features of the tariff and other things they are at lrreconcila- ble variance now and still "more so as these become more prominent will be questions and. are i brought to thejront by the discus sions which thev will evoke, i Ihese twelVe votes in the Senate may then be used for a purpose (far! differ ent from the calculations of the Eastern gentlemen,' who showed such ardent partisan zeal iin making them. There will then be sorhe howling done over this thing,: and it will not be done by the South,, which honestly tried:to prevent this great folly and this great fraud A glance at the figures of pop ulation of these new States and some of the 'more " populous ok er States shows with striking force the : monstrosity of this colossal fraud These six new States cast at their 7 vol. xii.i last : elections' 246,923 votes, j and liave, based upon these figures, presumably a population t in round figures of , 1,000,000. :New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, : Illi nois, Indiana and Missouri j cast in the last election 4,96,451 votes, and have a" population of about 25,000,000. The least of these six States more than doubles the en tire voting population of the six new States combined, f The vote of the greatest, .New York,' is more than five times as large as the voting pop ulation of all of; them combined, while the population of the six oth , er States. ; is twenty-five times as great as the population of the six new, ones, and yet jhese little .manu factured boroughs walk into the Sen ate with as many jSenators as these great populous States. Twelve brand new Senators with less than 250000 votes all "told." j -"hat a ' burlesque, what a bald face; fraud these conspi ring plotters played on the other States to secure twelve Senators, so balled, to hold the. power they felt slipping away from their, grasp. The' like was never seen before and never. will be again.; j i : A STUPENDOUS FRAUD. ESThe Republican tariff tinkers never thought of remodelling; : the tariff until they were whipped inpo it by public sentiment and then when they undertook it itj it was not with the view to lessen -the burdens of which the people complained, but . to humbug the people and to placate, the men who demanded still 'more protection for many of the numerous industries which were already pro tected. ' ; ; j ' j; ' For nearly thirty years they have been building up the infant indus tries7' with a highj protective itariff, higher on Jmany things now than it ever was, and still the "infant indus tries," which it seems never! out grow their infancy, cry out for more protection than ever. After all the nursing and coddling and spoon feeding for thirty years trie ir.fants haven't yet . got ' strong enough to stand alone. If at the'end of :hirty yeats they are still infants that need to be nursed: tow long will it be, un der the present nourishing system of protection, before they are. able to walk?''. ; ! i4 :. v. p :. The McKinley Committee when it took the tariff matter iri hand seems to have devoted itself first to quiet ing jthe wailing of these infants and next to humbugging the people by making thejn believe there woi Id be a great reduction of the tariff (3 uties, andj at the same, time delude the far mers by pretending to. give them protection onv their farm products. In all these respects the bill as draft ed by the majority of the committee is "ah unmitigated fraud and shows that McKinley and his co-tinkers didn't know what they were doing,or that ey were knowingly perpetrat ing a fraud. j When the first bill wa put in shape and its substance given to the public Mri McKinley estimated that the revenue would De reduced aDOUt $60,000,000. This bill raised such a racket that the committee decided to revise it and the result was another bill which Mr. McKinley thinks will make a reduction of $20,000,000; which, it may be -remarked,! is a pretty heavy tumble from $6(i,000, OuO in a. few - weeks. " This ;is, o course, after estimating the increased revenue from - imports on which the tariff has been raised, making the net reduction1 $20,000,000. ! ; Now a treasury expert who has been put to work to figure up and estimate the results gives it as his conclusion that there will not be any reduction at all, but an increase of $12,000,000. -This treasury expert is more apt to -be correct than Mr. McKinley and his co-laborers on the committee who seem to have! been floundering along from the begin ning in a confused and tangled way. undoing or trying, to undo one day what they did the day before, when some protected interest pleaded or raised the war whoop, j ; There is a cut of $27,000,000 on sugar; the tree list will mate a re duction of about j $6,000,000, and other reductions will foot up some where about $5,000,000, $38,000,000 in all, so that it the treasury man's figures are -right these $38,000,000 will be made up, which added ;o the $12,000,000 will give a! revenue of $50,000,000, which will come out of the people in some way, and be levied on those things which are used by the greatest . number of people, such as wool and woollen goods, hemp, flax, earthenware, glassware, tin-plates, &c, in all of which the tariff taxes have been increased, This means that the people will pay if the McKinley fraud should! pass, $50,000,000 more of tariff taxes than they did before Mr. McKinley and his co-tinkers undertook thej work of remodelline the tariff and iof re- r v; - i ducing the revenue. ? The most shameful feature j about this fraud, Is the pretended protec tion it offers to the farmer, n the increase of the duties imposed upon farm products. The total amount of imports of agricultural products last year was $56,636,385, of which nearly $18,000,000 was in ippica H fruits and nuts, and nearly $14,000, 000 in tobacco, - in the former -of which our farmers are not 'interested at all, and in the latter j only a lim ited number who grow a certain kind of tobacco, so that the total amount T of imports upon which "protection is given in which the farmers generally are interested, would not foot up more than $25,000,000, as compared in round numbers with $600,000,000 6f exports. l.For the ridiculous pro tection thev get on these $25,000,000 and oi imports, they will have to pay ten fold in the increased taxes if the the bill as ; manipulated by McKin ly & Co. passes. .? "MTJtrOR MENTION. There seems to be a lack of har- mony among the Republican Sena tors as to the powerof the Senate to go behind the returns to decide as to whether the! Democratic or Republi can claimants are entitled !to seats in i , 'I the Senate. Mr. Evarts held Friday that the Senate had no right to re vise the returns Of the territorial can vassing board and that this was "the proposition of the constitution, of the safety of the Senate, and of the States." Mr. Evarts is regarded as the: great legal and constitutional Iu- minarr on the Republican side of the Senate, and they held him in re serve to bring up the rear' and close up any gaps that his Republican col- t ' 1 1 1 . f i 1 n leagues mignt; nave icii open Mr. Hoar, Spooner and other Republi- 1 . .. t . .4 ' cans, nowever, argued tnat tne Ke- publican candidates for the Legisla ture from Silver Bow county were elected because there were in one of the . precincts 134 votes cast by aliens," which gave the" Democratic candidates a majority, ! but which were thrown out by the Republican board, j They go behind the returns, where Senator Evarts declares they have ho right tor go, to find justification for th icanvassing board for throwing out votes and de claring the minority candidates elected. After this constitutional opinion by Mr. Evarts it would be interesting to have his opinion on the right of the House pf Represen- tatives to go behind thei returns in the Congressional districts, unseat Democrats and put Republicans in their places, as they are doing; There seems to be, if Mr. Evarts be correct, and Reed and his gang cor-J rect, one kind of a constitution foij Jhe' Senate I and another for the House, or an India-rubber one, that stretches to suit- , r :-.-' In their eagerness to make some more Kepuoucan senators and Kep resentativesj the Republican solons in Washington are not j influenced by such small matters as population: When they I want a few Senators and Representatives they' go out and lug in some more territories,) if they happen to be of the right political complexion.! The four new States admitted and the two territories to be .a3mitted have riot population all combined, to equal New York or Pennsylvania, and yet they will give the Republican party twelve Sena tors 'against two from either of these States. Wyoming hasn't more j than 80,000 population but she will walk in with two Senators, Idaho not more than 100,000, and she will walk in with two more. They took Nevada in for the same reason thaf-they are taking these frontier settlements in now, to get a couple of Senators,' and for ten years her population has been dwindling down, the mining camps having been de serted, until it now numbers, no more than 35,000. But she has her two Senators all the same. What a ri- diculous farce this whole business is It is now pretty well settled that there i will be ? no World's Fair at Chicago before 1833 to celebrate the discovery of America by Columbus, but the senate Committee tavors in i'i the meantime the celebration of the event withj an international naval display in. "New York harbor, another at Hampton Rhodes, and a civic dis 'play in Washington some time in the spring preceding the opening of the Fair. The Government is expected, Of course, to appropriate liberally to these shows, which may amuse the people who care to see them. If Congress had taken a sensible view of this question, had riot wasted the time it did in haggling over the place to locate it, and had decided in favorj of Washington where it was originally intended by the suggest ers o the World's Fair that it shouid be held, it would be held at the time contemplated, would be a grand offer of which the country would' be proud, and there would have been none , of that disgusting wrangling over it be tween rival cities. j ' j " I ' V ' ! Already some of the manufacturers are beginning to take advantage of the proposed new tariff bill to cut down the wages and getjmorework out of their employes. The Hart ford Carpet Manufacturing Company has reduced the pay of its operatives and increased the hours of work from' fifty-four to sixty per week giving as a- reason the - proposed increase of duty on carpet wools, They expect to pay the extra duty EEE3 WILMINGTON,' N. FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1890. and get evenjby taking it out of their i workmen in reduced wages and extra time. The high tariff is a big thing for the workman. - STATE TOPICS. . " , . - j ' Asheville is coming to thefont as city of hotels. Notwithstanding the fact that she has some, very fine hotels already, she ' lacks hotel ac commodations. Others are -to be built. J. H. Inman, President of the Richmond and Danvjlle Railroad Company favors building one to cost $250,000 arid will submit the matter and urge it upon the board of mana gers. Asheville is becoming a favor ite resort of Northern and Western people, many of whom were unable during the past winter to find ac commodation in the hotels and had to go to Florida. Congressman Phelanl, by telegraph, informed Hon John M. Fleming, a Knoxvilte editor, that hewas a "liar, a coward and a scouncel," and that he would meet him at Knoxvillej to "arrange preliminaries " The editor thought this such a good joke, that ne puDiisneo it in nis paper anu men took his pencil, sharpened it and tattooed Mr. Phelan, Until , that gen tleman did not know whether he Ought to laugh at himself until he was sick, or go out and hire a mule to kick him into the middle of next week for making himself so ridicu lous. ; - '! A fellow who rolled a big ball fropi Washington to Indianapolis du-; ring the campaign of 1888, and j left it at the President's hbuse as an evi- I , : dence of the stock he took in the grandson of his grandfather, is now workinsr on the streets or Washing ton after vainly trying1 to get an ap pointment for his ball rolling. Mr. Harrison concluded he could find fools enough to put into office with out picking up such colossal speci mens as this. The Emperor William, who is de sirous of ; showing his good will to this country, has ordered that great consideration shall be shown to the American Riflemen wiio go over to take part in the corr ing Schutzen fest. If the Kiser really loves this country arid desires to make himself solid with it, let him recognize the American hog. Southwest Kansas J is rejoicing in copious rams, putting an eno to a a protracted drought. The people downbelow along the Mississippi,who are being drowned out, do not enter into the joyful spirit of the South west Kansas people. Gen: Greely does the best he cari,' but it is right hard for him to please everybody. ; The Speaker of the House of Commons knows hoV to squeeze out on a pinch. A woman reporter tried to gain admission to the Press gallery and. the case was referred to him. He decided that there was no law to exclude her, but as there was no law to admit her she would have to stay out. . . Senator Hoar thinks the "Sunday newspaper the greatest curse of mod ern times." Well, maybe they are, but it is a sort of nip-and-tuck be tween them and such mouthy hypo crites as Hoar, who while sanctimo niously denouncing Sunday newspa pers considers it orthodox to steal a State. It is said that Secretary Blaine is not in favor of sending Billy Mahone as Consul General to Paris. The French are not in the best of humor over the proposed increase of tariff on silk, and Mr. Blaine thinks send ing Mahone over there would be pil ing it on them too heavy. It takes six bushels of corn in Kansas to pay for a dollar a year paper, and as the farmers heed their corn for fuel they have to give up their papers. ; 1 INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING CO. Now at Work on an Order for One Mil lion Dishes What the Installment Flan "Will Do, ; The Industrial Manufacturing Com pany are now at work on an order, for one million butter dishes. This will do right well for a single order, and looks very like business, The Company are receiving enquiries from Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Geor gia and other States, and samples have beeA sent in response to these enquiries. In anticipation of the brisk work ahead, additional machinery has been ordered The additional six hundred shares re cently authorized by the stockholders has all been taken, and the cash receipts of the Company entirely outside of re-. ceiptsfrom sale of its products, are now three hundred dollars per week; and this large aggregate is made up from pay ments of twenty-five cents per share per week. What an argument in favor of the instalment plan, Rosin for England, The British barque Trossachs sailed from Southport yesterday for Hull, Eng land, with a cargo of 3,001 barrels rosin and 2,200 barrels tar, valued at $7,800, and shipped by Messrs. Paterson, Down ing & Co. I ""! -v The Norwegian barque Leif Erikson cleared for London, yesterday, with 5,676 barrels of rosin, valued at $7, 885. Vessel by C. P. Mebane and cargo by Williams & Murchison ONE Of THE FLOOD SUFFERERS- The Sad Story of a Colored Exoduster-JHis Wife and Five Children Drowned with a Number of Others from "Wilmington - Pitiable Condition of the Survivors. John Evans, of this city, who went out with a party of exodusters last Novem ber to Washington - County, Miss., re turned, home last night and gives a de plorable account of -the sufferings of the colored people who went from this State to Mississippi. . Evans was with a party of thirty who wereon a raft that was wrecked on Bogue river last jFriday near the Sun flower river, when tjwelve of the party were washed off and . drowned. The others were saved by means of a skiff attached to the raft All of the drowned were "from this city, and six of them were members , of Evans family his wife,j Donah, twO daughters, Rachel and Emma, and three sons, Benjamin, Gil more and William. Two members of Henderson Myer's family his wife and grand-daughter were also drowned. Besides these, were Isaiah Boston's wife; Susan Weston, i her daughter Hester, and her son John Henry; all of Wilming ton. ! (': The party were on the raft about twenty-four hours, and had drifted sixty miles in that time. They were on Jonas Goodman's plantation, on Bogue Creek, and were driven from their homes Jby the overflow. f Evans says that hundreds of our peo- pie are in that county, and may have been drowned; the sufferings of the sur vivors are truly distressing. Besides himself, Only one member of Tsvans' family was saved an infant about a year old with which he swam out when the raft was wrecked. Vicksburg, he says, is full of refugees; many colored people from North Caro lina being among the number. All are anxious to return but have no means to do sq. i RECOGNITION OF SERVICES. Testimonial from the Insurance Company of North America to Officers and Crew of the TJ". S. Steamer Colfax. j Some thirty days ago the Italian barque Antonino, bound from Sicily to Wilmington, was dismasted off the coast during a heavy gale. Happily the U, S. revenue steamer Colfax hove in sight, and giving a cable o the disabled vessel, towed her to a point Of safety. ' I The Insurance Company of North America of Philadelphia, insurers of the cargo of the Antonino, in recognition of the efficient service of the steamer Col fax directed their Wilmington agent to present to the officers and crew of the Colfax a check for $200, which is thus handsomely acknowledged by Captain Moore: '.;. -: ' '. U, $. Reveneu Steamer Colfax, I ' , Wilmington, N. C, April 9, 1890. Coll f. W. Atkinson, Agent Insurance Company of North America, of Phila delphia, Pa. I i ? ! Dear Sir : ! I have the honor to ac knowledge the receipt of a j check for two hundred dollars ($200), Which has been presented through you by the In surance Cxmpany pt Worth America of Philadelphia to the officers and crew ot the Colfax in recognition of the assis tance rendered on the 11th ultimo to the Italian barquentine Antonino. j It is very gratifying to know that our services in this matter are appreciated, and in behalf of the officers and crew of the Colfax I beg to tender sincere thanks to yourself and to the company you represent. j 1 he sum named has been distributed pro rata, as is the custom in such cases. With the assurance that we are al ways ready and willing to render what ever aid may be in our power to vessels in distress. ; i I remain, with the highest regard. Very truly yours. j J. IT. Moore. I Captain U. S. R. M. commanding Colfax. MAXTON, N. C. A Manufacturing Company "With a Capital Stockof $100,O00. Thexstockholders of the Maxton Manufacturing Company, at a meeting held April 10th, elected the following officers, viz: J. C. McCaskill, President; lohn Leach, Vice President; and E. F. McRae, Secretary and Treasurer. j The object of the meeting was ex plained to be the formation of a com pany to establish general manufacturing industries in Maxton. The enterprise met with hearty support, afld the com pany was soon organized with a limited stock of $100,000. It was decided that 10 per cent, of the capital stock sub scribed be ' paid in next Saturday evening, j The meeting was very enthu siastic and harmonious and everybody is in fine spirits at the little town's fu ture outlook. I Spirits on a Boom in Savannah. The News, of April 9th, says: Turpentine appears "to be on a boom, much like cleaned rice was last weeK, There was a sharp advance of a cent a barrel yesterday. Une buyer was una ble to buy fifty barrels yesterday, al though he made the rounds of the Bay, The best he could do was to buy twenty parrels at 38 cents. and last night Morning News reporter was present when the gentleman engaged thirty barrels to arrive this morning at 38 cents, a figure which it is believed spirits will reach to-day. The scarcity of tur pentine is said to account tor the rise. The Naval Stores Movement. j Receipts of naval stores from April 1st to April 11th, as compared with re ceipts for .the same time last year , as posted at the Produce Exchange, are as follows: Spirits turpentine, 483 casks; last year, 594. Rosiri,vJ2,617 barrels; last year, 7,106. Tar, 2,655 barrels; last year, 5,147. Crude turpentine, 330 barrels; last year, 117. ! Stocks at this port as compared with stocks at same date last year, are: Spirits turpentine, 934 casks; last, year, 444. Rosin, 15,907 barrels; last year, 77, 235. Tar, 3,315 barrels; last year, 8,418 Crude turpentine, 1,270 barrels; last year, -568. : .Jj . .- I The little flat-bottomed 18-inch draft side-wheel U. S. steamer H. G. IVright wentout of Gornake Inlet yes. terday morning about 11 a. m. and came in at Wrightsville about 3 p. m. She goes up to Topsail Inlet by the inside route to-morrow or Monday. . and from there she will go outside to Bear Inlet and inside to New Berne. Star WASH I NGTON N EWS. Meeting of the Ways and Means Commit teeThe Tariff Bill to be Beported to the House on Monday Next The Case of the Old Dominion : Bepublican Iieague for Violating the Civil Service Law Army Officers Court Martialed Bepub lican Caucus on tke Silver Coinage Pro blem. . j ' ! I '' ' Washington, April 10. According to the arrangement made when the Tar iff bill was laid before the Ways and Means Committee,1 by the Republican members; ten days ago, it wasealled up forfinal disposition, sol far as the com mittee is concerned, this morning. With out reading the long bill a ' direct vote was taken upon, the question of report ing it to the House with favorable re commendation, just as it stands. The result was that the report was ordered by a party vote. Chairman McKinley aesirea to make a report to the Mouse at Once, but as Mr. Carlisle stated that he had not quite completed the report of ihe minority, and desired a few davs time, an understanding was reached that tne Dm should be reported to the House on iMonday next. The! committee will have another meeting n that day and will endeavor to adopt ! the programme for debate iri the House. P ! Washington, April 10. Two days' notice secured a full attendance for the ceusus of Republican Representa tives to-night. The object of the call; as announced by Representative Ding ley; of Maine, who presided, was ar rangement of the order of business for the remainder of the session, but it soon transpired that the silver problem was of such engrossing interest as to throw other matters in the background. The subject was broached by chair man Conger, ot the Coinage Committee, who recently reported the modified Windom bill. He explained in detail the provisions . of the bill, noted the changes that had been made in Secreta ry Windom's original plan by the Com mittee, and gave tne reasons lor making them. He believed that the measure was strong and calculated to meet the public demand for a j more liberal sup ply of money. It was j highly expedient that the Republicans should agree upon some measure of this kind so as to pre sent an united front when the subject came up for discussioii in the House. A teature ot the debate was the re markable strength of the free coinage men, and as an Eastern member ex pressed it, the Housed is apparently re strained from passing a free coinage bill only from fear of a Presidential veto. The caucus lasted until 11 o'clock, and all of the time was consumed in discussion of the silver question. McKinley and Can non taking a prominent part in it; the former championing jthe House Com mittee bill, and the latter showing a de cided leaning toward the compromise between the two views, represented by the House and Senate propositions. No attempt was made to take a direct vote upon -any proposition except the one which was adopted providing for the ap pointment of a committee of sixteen, to include Kepublican j members ot the Coinage Committee, Which is to consid er the entire subject. Washington, April 10. In the case of the Old Dominion Republican League, against the officers of j which action has been instituted in the courts ot this Lhs-v trict for violation of jthe United States Civil Service lawi it has been determined to! waive all further proceedings, and to admit the statement of fact On the part of the defendant, C. N. Newton, Presi dent of the League, i in order that the same may be passed! upon in n higher court and final decision had in the su preme Court of the United States. Newton, who is not a Government offi cer, and who is charged with violation of the Civil bervice law by soliciting contributions of Government employes for campaign purposes, will test ithe right, under the Civil Service law, to so licit such contributions by one not iin the employment of the Government, and also test the question whether the send ing of a letter bysuch one to a C-overn- ment employee and delivered on his desk, is solicitation forbidden by the twelfth section of the Civil Service law, and, if it is solicitation, whether that law is consistent with the Constitution of the United States. Newton's case is important, as it in volves personal rights as well as grave Constitutional questions. Col. W. b. Sims of Virginia, A K. "Brown of Wash ington, and A. Worth bpates of Balti more, have been retained as counsel for Newton. It is expected that W. W. Dudlev of Washineton. and Representa tive riouk of lennessee, will be asso ciated with them in the case. First Lieut, T. V. S. Paddock, Fifth Cavalry, was recently tried by court martial at Fort Lavenworth, Kansas, on the charge of" having duplicated his pay accounts.j The record of proceedings and findings in the; Case has been acted upon by reviewing officers of the War Department, and the case has been submittedto the President. It is assum-- ed from this action that the court found the officer guilty, and sentenced him to dismissal from the service, as otherwise the President would not be called upon to act.-1 - ..lil''- i ' - I The court martial which tried Lieut, Steel, at Chicagoi for conduct ,Unbecom? ,ing an officer and gentleman, in striking private Ueii f, Wild, found mm guury and sehtencrd him to be reprimanded and to be confined within the limits of his post for three months. The pro ceedings and findings of the court have been approved, j Washington,! April 11. The Senate Quadro-Centenniajt Committee met this morning, and ordered the World's Fair bill to be reported with some amend ments, one of which is the Daniel pro position in a somewhat emaseulated form. ,1 he committee, at the sugges tion of Senator Griy, modified the pro vision with respect to the President be ing satisfied of the bona fide character of the Chicago subscriptions, by making it read that he ' shall be satisfied of the "responsible character" of the subscrip tions before inviting foreign nations to participate. The Daniel amendment was modified t so as to provide that some time; in the spring, the date not particularized, before the time for the opening of the Exposition, there shall be an International Naval display in New York harbor and Hamp ton Roads, and ' a! civic celebration m WicViinnrtrn at thf timp nf the riprtira- tion of the statue ! proposed to Colum bus. There is no appropriation made in the bill for these celebrations, this being left for Congress to provide some time in the future. The Chicago men agreed to these amendments, in the hope that it would facilitate the bill's passage, but had them so modified as not to interfere with or detract in any wav from the I opening at Chicago, A sub-committee, consisting of Senators Hiscock. Hawley and Daniel, was appointed to make the bill conform to the expression of the wishes of the Committee and to draw up a report, At the suggestion' of Senator Farwell, Senator Hawley was selected as the manager of the bill on the floor. j An interesting hearing was had' this I..--.'." .;'-' -."! NO. 23 morning by the House Committee on Agriculture upon Mr. Butterworth's bill to . prevent dealings ' in options and futures., Delegates were present from the New York Produce and Cotton Exchanges, the Chicago Board of Trade, and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, all to protest against the passage of the bill, which has already been recom mended by the Committee, j; 4 - . Washington, " April 12. Secretary Tracy to-day signed the final acceptance of the torpedo boat Cushing, recently built by Herreschaff, for this govern- menti and authorized the payment of the $40,000 still due the contractor: The Postoffice Department has been notified of the arrest at McCool. Miss.. of Jim Johnson, A. S. Rowell and Bob. Bowie, charged with being concerned in shooting at postal clerk Blevins. some weeks ago, while on duty in his car. Of ficers are in pursuit of b rank bcalbor ough, who is said to have been one of the party. Blevins is a colored man, and the attack upon him is believed to have been due to this fact. A CORNER IN PORK. Excitement Occasioned by the Bapid Bise in the Chicago Market Beports of a Cor ner by New York Parties. ! By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Columbus, Ga., April-12. Consider able excitement was occasioned here to day among patrons of bucket shops by the unexpected rise in pork. The mar ket opened at $11.45 per barrel, and sev eral heavy sales were made. At half past 10 o'clock prices had jumped to $15, and the market was reported buoy ant. This sent several speculators seven to ten thousand ' dollars ahead, and the excitement was intense. Shortly after 11 o'clock a telegram was received from Chicago Stating that the deal was a put-. up job for a purpose, and all trades made this morning were cancelled. The mar ket closed at 13.25, which is believed to be genuine, though the belief prevails that bogus quotations were given out by ine vnicago ooara oi i raae to narass bucket shops. Considerable feeling ex ists here over the matter, especially among those who scooped the profits. CHICAGO, April 12. When trade opened in pork the wildest excitement prevailed, the crowd waking up to the fact that the market was cornered. For some months past the Sawyer-Wallace clique of New York, it is generally sup posed, have been buying up pork, and when business started in this morning there was no May pork for sale under $12.75. As the closing price yesterday was $11.45, this was "a mighty big bulge, but there was "worse and more of it" later. It kept advancing 5c or nwe at a time, and before the close of me first hour was selling at $15.25. ; As is usually the case when prices are at that rate verv little was sold, but there was tremendous excitement, and the pit was crowded with, traders and spectators. ily pork showed a similar advance. and lard and ribs were somewhat highert Mccormick & Co., representatives of the New York clique, were" again prom inent as buyers otjuly pork, and Ar mour, Hutchinson, Poole & Baldwin were also buyers. Later in the morn ing the Hutchinson s men bid $15.75 for July pork, which was an advance of more than $4 per barrel over last night's clos ing prices. It was apparent the clique was after some big shorts, most of the orders coming from New Yoik to Hut chinson. As no regular pork can be made until October, the clique has control of all the months up to that time. Subsequently uly pork was offered at $12.55. and it ooked as though some big short had been run in, for orders were numerous and there were no bids. It was said that one house called margins for $300, 000 on provisions. A good many of the board, however, attributed the squeeze to Armour. They say that the Sawyer Wallace clique-transferred the deal to him, when they found they were unable to carry it through, and that he is now the master-hand. - Hatley & Swift were large buyers of lard, and Armour bought ribs, while T. J. Ryan & Co. bought 4, 000.000 pounds of May and July ribs. NEW SOUTH WALES. Extensive Floods Many Fatalities and "Great Destruction of Property. . By Telegraph, to the Morning Star. San Francisco, April 12. The steamer Mariposa, which arrived to-day twenty-four days from , Sydney and seven, from Honolulu, brings the; fol lowing advices. Extensive floods have done great, damage in New South Wales and at Queensland A large part of Brisbane was in undated, the wharves submerged and railroad traffic stopped. Hundreds of families are homeless and many fa talities are reported. Grafton, Single ton, West Maitland, and other towns are flooded. Many losses of life and great destruction of property are re ported from interior points.- At last ac counts the floods were subsiding. V RAILROAD STRIKE. Conductors and Brakesmen on the Mobile and Ohio Still Out. By Telegraph to the" Morning Star, - j " St.' Louis, April 12. The strike of conductors and brakesmen on the St. Louis division of the Mobile & Ohio road continues. Only one freight train has passed over the road since last Mon day, and that was operated by the Su perintendent and Train-master Brown The strikers say that General Manager Clark conceded part of their demands Tuseday, but later went baek and yes terday notified the men "to return to day. The men declined to do this, but hold themselves in readiness to accept the compromise rate. 1 he strikers torn mittee has received telegrams from Cairo and Mobile, asking it to stand firm and fear nothing. The strikejrs are quiet and peaceful. LLECTRIC SPARKS. ' Mrs. Fannie S. Williams has been ap pointed to twostmaster at Lexington, Rube Smith, of Lamar county,; Ala., was yesterday, at Waynesville. Miss., convicted of train robbery. He will get more than ten years sentence. gf Wakefield W. Price, aged 16, died of meningitis at Salisbury b riday midnight. The doctor said the sickness would not lecessarily have been fatal had Price not been addicted to cigarette smoking. The Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train on its run from Trenton to Cam den was wrecked at Bordertown, N. J., yesterday afternoon, and engineer Geo. Kerr, of Trenton, was killed, the engine being thrown over upon him. No Other persons were injured. . ! One disheartening thing about these Western cyclones is that as yet they have shown no disposi tion to take the mortgages with them. Phil. Itmes, Ind. SPIRITS TURPENTINL . . -' -v 1 !.'.l :, . Raleigh NeK'S & Observer : The State Convention of the W. C. T. U., of North Carolina, will be held at Concord ' July 16th, 17th. ; 18th and 19th. Miss Frances E. Willard, the noted temper- ance advocate of Illinois, will be in at tendance. 1 some evidence oi tne numoer of visitors in Asheville during March may be found . in the fact that 16.5D0 telegraphic messages were handled in. the. Western Union office here during that month. Only - 6,000 were ' handled in March of last year. Raleigh Chronicle: The Chron icle has found by inquiring, that' there is a strong sentiment and preference for locating the Baptist Female TJollege somewhere near the centre of the city. The idea of having such institutions in the suburbs of a. town is; regarded by some as unprogressive. - jj - - Tarboro Southerner Miss Julia Archibald, of Washington yesterday, ac cidentally shot herself through the head, the bullet coming out at the bacl. She -. died this morning from the effects of the wound. The accident was only made ' known by a neighbor hearing: her screams, who ran in the house, finding the fair young victim lying prostrate on the floor.- She was unable to tallc when found. x j - Durham Sun - ; In the c:ise of William Killebrew ancl Martha.- Ann : ' Woodard, charged with (being implica ted in Saturday night's Homicide, which was in progress yesterday as we went to -press, the defendants were discharged, the evidence not being sufficient to con- vict, Mintus Chandler isi held for the killing.. 'The Woodard wol ian was again put in jail. She is bound over to court under another warrant. . Asheville Citizen: A workman named Couch died yesterday at Mr. Pressly's, about six miles south of the city. He had been sick about two weeks Yesterday morning he was supposed to be better, and it being such .a' warm day, ventured Out into the open air. Some time -afterward, when the rain began to fall and he did not return, his 'friends in the house went out to look for him. He was found in a fence corner near the house dead. j Fayetteville Observer: Th Man chester mills, among the most important of the industries of Cumberland county and this section, have been purchased by Mr. F. W. Thornton, one of the most prominent business men of this city, and Mr. J. F. Clarke, no less well-known at Manchester, who will put fifty additional looms into the mill, equip the "plant" the most improved machinery, and gen erally devote to the enterprise their best energies and most judicious manage ment, i s Statesville LanJmarrk: Mr. Jim Fisher,, of Davidson township, and a boy, were riding along the road in 'a wagon luesday of last week, when they met a dog which jumped up and bit the horse on the dose. This made the horse frantic and he started ion, a furious runaway. The boy jumped out but Mr. lusher, an old man, could do nothing but sit still until thrown ' out with the wagon bed on top of him. Blood ran from his nose and ears, and -though no bones were broken the old man was awfully shaken up and there is doubt about his ever getting over the accident Rockingham Rocket: ' Captain Everett, the President, informs us that about $5,000 worth of new machinery has recently been put in at Great Falls factory. Died, March 31st, near Alfordsville, N. . C, after a protracted illness, Mrs. Susan C. McCallum, aged 53 years. Mrs. J. D. Yates died at" her home, in Wolf township, on Satur day last, of consumption. She was 25 years of age, "Billy Barlow," a child of Mary Deaton, was poisoned last week by swallowing.some wild jessamine, and died in about an hour. He lived at Osborne and was five or six years old. Winston Daily: Winston facto ries will all be in full blast in a few days. Hands are pouring in and the city is buzzing with its business. lust as we go to press a tremendous hailstorm passed over our city. Uuite a large quantity of hail fell, sopie of which was nearly as large as bird ecrsrs. Itoi. J. L. LuUiow informs us that th track laying on the street railway will beenn- the latter part of this week. The rails have been distributed on .Main street from the academy square to the court house, and from the court house on Fourth street to the graded school. The cross-ties are being placed along the route as rapicyy as possible, jj Scotland Neck Democrat: . Mr. John Whitehead narrowly escaped be ing killed in Halifax Tuesday, lie at tempted to step upon a moviiiy train and was thrown between the train and plat form. His head was cut and was miss ed very little by the "car wheel. - Died, at his residence near Dawson's X Roads, on the morning of the 27th ot March, of a long, lingering disease, which he bore with Christiiyi fortitude1, Mr. McAdins in the 47thf year ol his age. About fifty negroes left this place yesterday for Louisiana. There was a little excitement at the depot over the agent who was taking Ithem away. The people informed him that they did not wish labor disturbed at this season. He will probably not return; Kinstou Free fress: i Several of our farmers will plant tobacco. Mr. Al bert Rountree will plant about twenty acres; Mr. Shade Jackson, twelve acres Mr. B. W.'Canady, five or six acres; Mr. R. I. Sutton, one or two acres. So licitor Allen tells us that the most imK portant case disposed Of on Ithe criminal docket at Onslow court last week was a serious affray, in which the deadly wea pons used were a gun, knives, a pistol and a sapling about five feet long and the size of a man's leg, which resulted in the shooting of one man-ajtid badly in juring another, all of which originated from a controversy between neighbors as to whether one's dog nad treed a 'possum or a cat up the other's gate-post. Four of the parties were convicted. jreensooio ivorrn piaic: inie patent drop Curtain, invented by John L.' Baker, to which reference was made in this paper several weeks ago, will be the means of securing a fortune for that gentleman. He has , bien offered $25,000 by one party fbr ithe right Of twenty-three states, and 10,000 by an other for seven States. Greeni- boro is to have a telephone exchange and a fire alarm. Also a free letter de livery system, and the houses are to be numbered. The proposition to change the names of Elm and Market streets is being discussed. -,Wm. Pritchett, one of the oldest citizens of Greensboro, died on Sunday last, j He was born in Guilford county, and has resided in and near this place during the 74 years o his life. He was a brother of Esq. J. A Pritchett. " Scotland Neck Democrat: A few nights ago a colored man on Mr. Norfleet Smith's farm attempted to enter a woman's house when she had told him to stay out. He-forced his way through by knocking the door down with an axe, whereupon the woman took the axe from the man and dealt him several blows in his face with the edge. It was thought that he was dead. , A cart was brought, to carry him home; but it was found when Dr. McDowell was called in that his wounds were not likely to prov fatal. : Little George j Bryan, five years old, son of Mr. G. W. Bryan, the clever operator at this place, is perhaps the youngest Operator on record in this country, On last Monday we dropped into the telegraph ofhec and saw little George send a message over the ' wires to the agent at Noose Nest, who re peated the message. This was proof that the little fellow had sent it coracctly. We doubt whether it can be beaten in the United States. We have yet to hear of a younger, at any rate.