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L. J J PUBLISHED AT-i WilLMINGTON $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE, 88888888888888888 StSSS88SgSgg' 88888888888888888 8888888S,8888888H8 sqiuoj g smuopi j u ti- a. w M M' w SB ' i o 7, .a H PS 88888883883883888 8S888.S8S28S88S888 S88S8S5882888S888 eo s t w m d t od 8S88S888S88888888 88883888888388883 co to co o o 6 ift d naaAv i T I .I- ITJt T 1 WX V" W o i- 6 -rOD O i-i 1 Kntcrtd at the Post Office it Wilmington, N. C, as Second Ctas Matter. J i SUBSCRIPTION 'PRICEL The subscription price of the Weekly Star is a Single Copy 1 year, postage paid 1 il " " M m,,r,ll. " ,1" 1 I Inllows $1 00 60 30 0 months 8 months A DAZED PARTY. Neyer in the history of the Repub sr.an party was it in a more uazea ondition than now. lit seems to be ,oundering about in a bewi dered jyvav, without one directing spirit, ith a'dozen or more second or third ate men ambitious to lead butf withr lut the brains or tie sjtantlin'g jbefore he people to si ve t hem the first ele ments of leadership. They all seem to be pulling for themselves each ne trying torun tlie party and every .1 . - w Wic of them running it! into the frotiud. It is a party to-day with I- . r I . ! ijt a head, without a policy or with- Jill llUliebLV IIS JTICMUClll. IS IlUl.llS . . .. T . . . . I 1. .. I ...... J - , - . eader. He is a 1 erq figurehead for vhom the -would-be leaders! have no respect, a man who has added noth v.g to the strength of his party since ;e has become Pesi(leut, but taken very much from it 1 here never was a time when the iuu'tv was- more sqrely in need of iuior, of ; some pighbrained;' bold r - '1 ill i-.ia'n who could take it and ffive it il iVution. for there never was .a time - . I l ; v . . vhcn thpsigns o popular dissatis fiction were so many, and the dtS' ',.si'tion.-in : inc -iv toublican States to rbel so manifest wvatler with it. That's wnat s ine Its Represental ives jn i Congress i,vc rccklessly.i one . on and pur s if.l policies in direct antagonism to the best interests! of i the pountry at :gc, and especiilly of J the farmers for I their daily nd others who labor ;ead, -who have alnd osa confidence! in ire cuttina loose i it in portenteous numbers. It holds its followers in ;h:1, unquestioning mass as it once Tid., but feels" the power slipping from its 'erasp andi its following ''rowiny: dailv less Hence its dozen Dr. move seconu amu imruirate unois riive bugun to play a litt game of demagogue, each lucthdd, with the t'!i2 desertions, of one. after liis own hope 'of checking brei-erit ng further t- ;s, and ot w hat the p.'irty has already lost Congress is to-day the headquar- tt.rs of demagogues and t he incuba- ting place of som e of the most ab- ii:'ird, : wild-cat legislation taat ever entered the heads of med laying ''claim': to even he semblance of tatesmanship. I Therel is frantic rush to placate the discontented, not r ihrino ahniit reform of te alusfis whiqh led to the disconterit, : to retrace slteps err. "ln.?Lv taken, and institute, a;n honest arid a broad gajagej polic), but to humbug the discontented by meas ures for relief tha "and impracticablel as they well know they are. ' There are two elements essential to the success of t! he party which they nre pTaying for especially;; one the soldier, the other the farmer.! The former they are bidding for with the wildest and most extravagant pen sion propositions ever conceived in a legislative bod' measures which if passed will maki i . i .- ' . a dram upon tne treasury ot man; millions annually for the next half century and will foot up an aggregate of nearly twice the cost of the civil war, and this not out of regard for the.soldier but for the soldier's Vote, without which the party would! corhe up "missing on the day of election. They have pretty safe thinj on this as it can be done by tapping the treasury and thev have votes enough to tap it. But how to clamp the tarmer is not so easv. ! How to -run a tariff system which robs ihe farmer and at the same time devise a system with in the law which will hold if it should be brought to the jest; in the courts, which will give Jhini relief enable him to cancel his mortgages and get on his feet asrain iJ not so easy. The McKinley bill tnes to .humbug him with a ridiculous protection on farm products, which ire riot imported, ' and again with la bounty on sugar, not so much for the Southern plan- ter as for the sorgum and Western Republican I while. no less' thaji fouii ! wild cat schemes have takeri the shape of bills to corlyi ert the Government into a big banWn house to supply farmers with cheap money, schemes absurd thai itf seelns incredible that th ttrey courd have originated in the brains of sensible k men. t any of A. 1 ....1 mese bills were passed there tlr.,.l .1.. . n I "uiun i De, money ei nough in the treasury to mei:t tie first draw on it, and there wouldn't be money enough - r vol. xxi. .:.. . ; -:;' -1. coined arid printed in! jthe United! States to run the bank for three months. But the demagogues were neither thinking "of nod caring for this. Their object was to conciliate the disgusted farmers and tide the' old party over another presidential! election. But the farmers are not as easily humbugged, nowaf ter the ex perience which they have had, as the Republican "statesmen" think they are. ! i ! ' 1 3 I J MINOR MENTION. j Several times during the present session of Congress '' attention' has been called to .the number of vacant seats while' measures of importance were being discussed,! especially i the Senate. I During- the discussion of the Blair bill this was frequently the case, and Mr. Blair won ' con siderable distinction by the irrepresj sible determination with which he argued day after day. and -quoted labored statistics-to empty" chairs. -During the argument jjof the M on -tana Senatorship easels, . it was so too, and on one occasion Senator Pugh called i attention to, (the fact that there were only two out of the forty-five Republican !Senators pres ent to listen to his argument. They were finally ; found and brought in from the lounging places, and Mr, Pugh resumed his speech. On an other occasion the Senate had to suspend business tor want ot a quorum until a number of the Sena tors got through devouring a j big salmon that one ! of I the California Senators had invited- them to feast upon. Friday, when a land forfeiture case from; Florida was under con- sideration floor, Mr. and Blair Mr Call had the called attention to the number , of j vacant seats, brought in fifty-six when a call of the Senators from the loung ing rooms j Mr. Call resumed his re marks and hadn't been talking long when he found that: he was talking to vacant peats again, ! whereupon he maoe some quite appropriate re marks. - Whether there was a lay-out of another Columbia river salmon is not stated, but there; was evidently some stronger I attraction outside than the Florida and business in side, which involved the rights ot a great many people! ! A few days ago Mr. Chandler t introduced a revolu tionary resolution in the Senate to cut off debate and kuthorize the pre siding officer to count a quorum a la Reed when there was riot a quo object of the rum voting, the resolution being, Mr. Chandler said, "to facilitate the transaction of the public business." j .He should now couple with his resolution another i i i ' requiring Senators to (spend at least as much time in the Senate chamber during business hours as they do in the lounging places. This - might have a tendency to facilitate an in telligent transaction of the public business, and check a disregard of propriety and inattention to duty whieh has become scandalously no torious. ; I In the discussion of the clause in the Legislative Appropriation bill .. . reference to the pay of the Civil Ser vice Commission in the House of Representatives Friday. Mr. Cum- j r mings,- of New amendment to "actual" instead York, pffered an he effect that" the of the "necessary travelling'expenses of the Commis sion should be paid, and gave as; a reason, that he found under the bills rendered by the jCommission, amoijig tne travelling expenses, sucn items as "lemonade," f'ale'jand "gin." The lemonade is, doubtless, all right, but we think there pmstj be some and " mis- take about the: " ale and "gin. If was probably . giner ale, which the tellow 'who hxed up the bill, who haci likely been taking some of it; got mixed up with ale and gin. The commission probably got this idea from the United States Senate, where the lemonade and ginger ale figurej very largely among the monthly bills which Uncle Sam is called upon to cash. They con cluded that if these shoothing and invigorating fluids were conducive to the health of the Senators and "necessary" they would also be con ducive to the health, and conse quently to the efficiency of the Cpm- sion, and therefore quite "necessary," and at the same time "actual," J for we don't see how jthe Commission could guzzle lemonade, ale and gin- or ginger ale, without actually doing it unless they did it by proxy, some thing which in Such cases is rarely done. Mr. Cuirimings, who is j evi dently aiming t6 destroy the com mission by depriving it of the "neces- sarv" beverages, has in this . case, it j - - . i . . seems to us, offered an amendment which wears the hue of a distinction without a difference One of the strong points made by thf nrotectionists to popularize and secure the votes of the workingmen for protection was that it will enable employers to jpay higher wags to American workmen, i In the interest of the American workman the contract laboif act was passed to pro hibit the importation under contract (from Europe, to take " " i j , - -,1 the place of American workmen when they demanded higher wages E than the protected employers sw fit to pay. That .law arid has been con now stantly "evaded is being evaded as has been clearly dejmori strated to a Congressional committee appointed to make; an' investigation which is now - in (progress at Castle Garden, in New York. They have elicited evidence enough to jshow that through agents in Europe these protected employers can get arid do . . 1l il. 1 " . t . eer. an me worKmen tnev wane irom Europe, and that thousands of work men are : sent oyer through ithese agents, who are now at work iknder contracts made i before they were zeal shipped to- this country. The . which the protected employers show for the welfare of the American workman is really touching. Count SegardiJ an Italian gentle man, has come u and scooped up named Cooper, has some cash. with his little- title fascinating w idow, of "Milwaukee who FORCED TO WED. A Sensational Affair at Fernandina, Fla. The Lady in th Case a Former Eesi- A telegram in the Savannah Ndws of Friday last gives the following account of a sensational affair in Fernandina, Florida. .The lany menti6ned--Mrs. Thorpe and her father, Col. prink, , have many friends in Wilmingtojn, but so far as ! could be learned yesterday none of them couid give any further in formation in regard to the matter. A gentleman who. is Well acquainted with Col. brjnk s family, says Mrs. Thorpe, passed through J Wilmington on an Atlantic Coast Line train bound iNorth last Thursday night. I The following is the account as pub lished in the AVztfj.- Fernandina, Fla., April 2'4. In this city, at the residence of the groom, yesterday morning, Mrs. Thorpe, daugh ter ot Tol. h.. K. Brink, lormeriy ot Wilmington, N. 1 C, was married to George. R. Hubby, a member pf the City Council and agent for the Mallory steamsnip line, f , Mrs, lhorpe says that during a ride yesterday morning with Mr. Hubby, he -drew a pistol and threatened to! shoot her if she did not at once consent to be married to him, and after obliging her to consent, he said he would shott her at the altar if she made any resistance or refused to go on with the cerdmony. He then drove ito his residence on Seventh street, and sent for Rev. Mr. Cross to come and unite them. Mr. Cross Went as requested, and was met by Mr. i Hubby, j who handed him a license in due form, which Mr. Cross examined, and hading correct, he pro- ceeaed with the ceremony. During this time Mrs. 1 horpe sat on a lounge with her I head resting on - her hand and apparently in deep meditation, but she stood up at" the request of Mr. Cross and madel the response bf the Episcopal ceremony without any sign of disturbance till after the ring was1 to be placed on her finger, when she fainted. Mr. Hubby placed his arm arourid her, and adjusting the! ring, laid her on the lounge, and then told Mr. Cross that the marriage was against the wishes! of her parents, Col. and Mrs. E. R. Brinkl Soon after the ceremony Mr. Hubbv went over to the Egmont Hotel and informed Mr. and Mrs. Brink of the affair. I.ater in the day, while Mr. Hubby was away, Mrs. Thorpe succeeded in getting trom the house and reaching the jrooms Of her parents, when She informed them of the means taken to induce her to mar ry Mr.: Hubby. I She was then! seized with mental and physical prostration. necessitating medical attention to be given her. Last night, an application was made to County Judge bchuyler for a peace warrant against Mr. Hubby, but nothing further has been done in the matter up to to-night. Mrs. Thorpe remains with her parents at the Egmont hotel, and Mr. Hubby makes no public explanation 01 the matter. . 1 he whole attair is very singular, in as much as the parties had been much together and public opinion was that af fairs would terminate in a much more satisfactory manner. Mrs. Thorpe came here to reside with her parents several years ago, in her early widowhood, and her frendliness with Mr. Hubby has been through being much in his society by a residence at the same hotel dur ing that time. CoL Brink, her father. is confined to his room as the result of an accidental tall. He was formerly postmaster of Wilmington, N. C, and lately secretary land treasurer of the Creosote, Lumber and Construction Company of this! city' but he resigned the position several weeks ago. I : to ; IN THE LOUISIANA SWAMP. Wilmington Darkey's Experience in the Mississippi Lowlands. The! following" is a copy of a letter from a colored man of this city who went off with a party of exodusters a few months ago: j ; : Epps Store, La., April 13, 1890. . Mri. Lizzie Lamb Dear Wife: 1 am in good health land trust you are the same. 1 1 wish to tell you the truth about the people who came out here from Wilmington. Myself, Fannie Harris, Mary j Eliza Nifwkirk, Sarah McNeil, Frank: Johnson and wife, are all living in hearing of each! other and can visit at night.) But we jare living in low swamA land and the whole place is covered with water,! which makes it very hard to want at night at besi. The water is up so high until we have to pass from planta tion to plantation in wagons. :We!are on Mr. John P. Richardson's farm, i artd f rorril what we can learn it is the last place in Louisiana. And you tell the people hot to listen to what that squashvheadedl Rideout says in respect to our people coming out here to farm on Mr. John P. Kichardsons plantation. , It is true in many places they pay ( more for labor on farms down here than the people in North Carolina, but they charge so much more for groceries and clothing buti here, until it is much bet ter in North Carolina. I do not wish to see any of ouripeople come out here. The wages being paid are as follows r Women 50 j cents per day or $10 per monthr meh, 75 cents per day or $15 per months But in each case they have to pay their board out of what is paid to them. Therefore, considering what we have to pay for groceries, you may be able to tell the balance. . T am. as ever, your affectionate hus band, j, j ' IRenard Lamb. Shooting at Jied Banks. Information! was brought to this city a deputy sheriff of : Robe- yesterday that! son county, while an arrest at Red attempting to make Banks was forced to shoot the man, who was supposed to be fatally hurt. I The man shot is a f'Croa- tan" and was resisting arrest. "i 5.. i . . . . i WILMINGTON, N. C, NEW HANOVER FARMERS. A Meeting Held Testerday in Behalf of a County Alliance, i J. 'A meeting of! farmers of New Han over county was held yesterday after noon in the City Hall.X Some thirty or more were present, representing all the townships except Cape Fear.' The ob ject of the meeting was to urge the for mation of a Cpunty Alliance. There are two sub-alliances in the county one in Harnett and the other in Cape Fearw but to! form a County "Alliance five sub-alliances are required. The meeting was aqdressed by Prof. B. F. Grady, or Duplin, Mr. T. J. Armstrong and Mr. Luke McClammy, of Pender, and Mr. Hill Fj King of Onslow county. All made earnest appeals to the farmers of New Hanover to unite for j their own welfare and protection, and to'; assist their brother farmers in other .parts of the State and the country in their ef- forts for the improvement of the condi tion of the tillets of the soil. Kiver and Harbor Appropriations. Capt. W. H. Bixby, V. S. engineer in charge of the river and harbor improve ments in thisj district, says that the inti mation that he opposed the opening of the route from: Swansboro to New River is a mistake. Capt. Bixby says that he not only recommended $43,000 expenditure on this routd, put also wrote two special letters to Maj. j McClammy fn January and February to quote the above recom mendations, and to ask his special con sideration of this special route, The official, report of recpmmertda tions for appropriations for 1890 con- tains this item : "For waterwiay between New River ;and Swansboro,) necessary to complete, $43,000; recommended for this year, $20,000." NAVAL STORES. Comparative; Statement of, Receipts and Stocks at this Port Receipts of j naval stores at this port from April 1st (the beginning of the crop year) . to April 25th, as compared with receipts for the same beriod last vear, are as follows : Spirits turpentine, 1,977 casks; last last last 539 year, l,4Uy. i Kosin, 31.U88 barrels; year, 18.887.1 Tar, G,257 barrels; year, 7,792. Crude turpentine, barrels; last Vear, 416. ' . The stocks at this port, as compared wjth stocks at same date last year, are as follows : j : ;:' f ' i Spirits turpentine, 1,433 casks; last year, 303. Rosin, 15,248 barrels; last year, 62,474. Tar, j 5,281 barrels; ' last year, 5,473. Crude turpentine, 1,257 barrels; last year, 284.; Memorial Dai The Fayettif ville Obsczncr, speaking of Memorial Day, says: They will be fortunate who have an opportunity Of participating in the Me morial services at Wilmington on! the 10th of May, and of hearing: the Oration of Hon. Chas. M. Stedman, one" of the most scholarly and eloquent of the j dis tinguished public men of Noith Caroli na. His theme will be: "The Life of Gen. McRae land the Battle of ; Reams Station." It: would be impossible to narrate the stirring incidents of the last without recounting the brilliant j ser vices and paying tribute to the conspic uous bravery ,ot the gallant commander of the corps Of sharpshooters on that hard-fought field Capt. W. E. Kyle, of this city. Children's Day- ' ' Sunday, the 18th day of May, is the Children's Dav in the Methodist Episco- Church South, and the Methodist Sabbath schools of this city are prepar ing for its observance. An order of ex ercises, which is a programme of eight pages, containing the best songs, with' words and music in full, responsive read ings and recitations, statement of the object of the dav. etc.. mav be had of the Sunday school agent at the M. E. Pub lishing House, Nashville, Tenn.: Doran, Wright & Co. I . A press telegram to the Star from New York city says of this firm, which until recently had an office in Wilming ton : '' ! ; ", ' Doran, Wright & Co., one of the largest bucket shops in existence, with branches all over the country, suspended payment to-jday. Neither of the part ners is in. thq city, and the cashier states that one is 'hi Europe and the other out of town. At the office of the company the employed stated that no one there had any authority to speak on the j mat ter. . '. i Reduced Bates for Richmond. AIL the railroads will issue special tickets to i Richmond for the unveiling of the Lee: monument on the 29th prox. Tickets fof the round trip will be sold for the pried of one first-class farel Mil itary companies traveling together in uniform and perfect organizations of Confederate: veterans of twenty-five or more will I fiave special rates. Tickets will be on sale on the 25th of May. Awai-ded the Life-Saving Medftl. f A telegram from Washington to Jthe Star says that "The Secretary Of the Treasury has awarded a gold Life-Sav ing Medal, pf the first class, to Richard F. Warren, of Wilmington, N. C, 'for extreme and heroic daring' in rescui Miss Carrie Maffitt from the surf at Wrightsville Beach. N. C, in June last." Cotton Receipts, etc. I Receipts, of cotton at this port for the crop year to April 2oth are 152.042 bales, against receipts last year) to the same datej ot 151,215 bales; showing a decrease of 19,573 bales. The stock at this port is 4,337, against 1,532 bales at same date last year. ; Stocks of Naval Stores. Stocks pf naval stores at the ports April 25th are reported as follows : Spirits turpentine Wilmington, 1,433 casks; Nevir York; 504; Savannah, 6,329; Charlestbii, 884. Total, 9,150 casks. Rosin Wilmington, 15,248 barrels.; New York, 10,433; Savannah, f 41,728 ; Charleston, 18,069. Total, 85,478 bar rels.' .1 1 I 1 , i: . . Tar Wilmington. 5,281 barrels ; New York, 2,430. Total, 7,711 barrels. There is, very little I Warmth in the mitten which the rejected lover re ceives. Rome benunel. ., K..LY FRIDAY,MAY 2, 1890. WASH I NGTON N EWS. Call for a Meeting of the Republican Ex- : i ecutivo Committee. j Washington, April 24. It is ah nounced by authority here to-night hat a call will be issued to-morrow fori a meeting of the executive committee jbf the Republican National Committee, ito be held in Washington WednesdavL May 7th. The members of the Comj mittee are: M. S. Quay, of Pennsylvaf nia; J. S. Clarkson. of Iowa; W. W. Dudt ley, of Indiana, J. M. Hayhes, of Maine Samuel Fessenden, of Connecticut; Garrett A. Hobart, of New Jersey; J. ;Si Fassett, of New York: A. L. Conger, !of Ohio; Geo. R. Davis, of Illinois; and ML H. Drey, i of California. There is lone vacancy caused by the death of Colonel txoodloe, ot Kentucky. ' Washington, April 25. At a special meeting pf the House Committee pa Coinage, Weights and Measures to-day Chairmaii Conger was authorized iby a strict party vote to offer the Silver bill agreed upon in caucus Wednesday night in place of the modified Windom buyer bill, already reported by the committee, when the latter is taken up for conside ration m the House. j L L Washington, April 2 6. A caucus o Republican Senators was held this morn ing to consider the Silver situation. The committee which met the committee of the House Republicans, and agreed to the form of the bilver bill, reported the' result of ;their work, whereupon a dis cussion ejnsued that was not- completed when the) hour for the opening of the benate arrived. A recess was then taKen until 3 o clock, it is said - there was a great variety of views expressed by Sen ators, but the friends of the measure agreed upon by the two committees 'are confident that it will be adopted by the caucus. U. S. COURTS IN FLORIDA Alleged Obstruction to Process of Cotirts Proclamation from the Presidents j I ! I Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, April 26.The follow ing correspondence was maae public to-day: : . .. ( j ; Executive Mansion, April :24. ) To tlu Attorney General: Sir I have had frequent occasion during j the last six inonths to confer with you! in reference to obstructions offered in jthe intiesl of Leon, Gadsden, Madison and Jefferson, in the State of Florida, to the I execution of process of the Courts of the United States. It is not necessary to say more of the situation than that officers of the United States are not suffered freely to exercise! their lawful : Junctions. 1 his condition ot things cannot be longer tolerated. I You will, therefore, instruct U. S. Marshal Weeks, as soon as he is qualified, t6 pro ceed at I once to execute such writs of arrest "as may be placed in his hands. If he apprehends resistance he will em ploy such civil posse ' as. may 1 seem adequate to discourage resistance or overcome it. He should proceed wn the calmness and moderation which should always attend a public officer in the execution of his duty, and at j the same tirrie with firmness and courage that will impress the lawless 1 with j a wholesome sense of the danger and futility bf resistance. I I I i you win assure oincers oi tneiawana those who have foolishly set the law at defiance; that every resource i lodged with the executive by the constitution and laws will, as necessity arises, be em ployed. Very respectf nlly, i ' ! j Benj. Har-riSon. Department of Justice, April 26, 1890. Weeks, U. S. Marshal, Jatlcson- Ron. j: villc. fla.: -i .;-- Sir You have doubtless ere this re ceived rour commission as United States Marshal for the northern district of Florida. For several months past it has been reported that in certain 'Coun ties in your district warrants of jarrest issued by the United States Courts have not been executed because of resistance, actual and threatened, by those sought to be arrested and their partisans; This state of things cannot: and' will not . be longer tolerated.: i In letter from the President, of which I enclose a copy, speaks for itself.-; j You will at once proceed upon the lines indi cated in that letter, and will report promptlv.any. attempts to interfere with you in the discharge of your duties. I am informed that recently, ini some places,, a marshal, seeking to serve writs in ordinary civil cases, has been refused ordinary accommodations, such as horse hire, hotel entertainment, etc., to ena ble such service to be performed. By such means officers of the government can be: put to great inconvenience, but cannot and will not be prevented from executing the process of the court The means can and will be found tor j trans porting1 and subsisting government offi cers wherever it is necessary for them to ro in order to arrest and bring into court offenders against the law, i j Very respectfully, ' I W. II. H. Miller. Attorney General. A TEXAS DELUGE, j Heavy ! and , Continued Bains A j Cloud. burst at Gainesville Crops Buined and Other Losses Large.' By Telegraph to the Morning Star St. txuis, April 25. A special from Gainesville, Texas, says it has beenrain- ... i --v tU A ing almost consianuy suite iaot wj.uuuciy night, land at 8 o clock last night a cloud burst struck the city, lasting four hours, deluging the town and country to the depth iof several feet. The water: ran in great rivers through the streets, in many places! three feet deep. A small creeK left its banks and swept away numerous small dwellings. The fire alarm founded at 11 1 o'clock, and the department and hundreds of oeoole turned out and helped in rescuing families . residing on the ldwlands along the creek. The loss to propeity will run up into the thou sands. The whole countrv is deluged, and crops are certainly ruined. The Galves ton & Kansas Citv Santa be train is water-bound six miles south of Gaines ville, and the passengers were rescued in boats FOREIGN NEWS. Stanley Leaves Brussels for England. . j . ByCable to the Morning Star. Brussels, April 26. Henry M. Stan ley left this city on his way to j England at 1S.30 o'clock this morning. Many persons had assembled to witness the departure of Mr. Stanley, and warmly cheered him as his train left the station. Mr. Stanley will arrive at Dover this af ternoon. Despite the fact that a drench ing rain is falling at that place, a large crowd has already assembled there awaiting his arrival. ' : j London. April 26. The workmen in the slate quarries at Festiniog, j Merione- shire, Wales, have strucfc tor an advance 01 wages, i i TAR THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD: PICTURE OF ' DEVASTATION ' - . DESOLATION AND Hundreds of Lives in ' J eopardy Many- Saved by Rescuing ; Steamers More Levees Gone The Loss Incalculable.; By Telegraph to the Morning Star. j . New Orleans, April 24. A special to the Daily States from Bayou Sara, La., says relief steamer Dacotah, reached Bayou Sara landing yesterday evening. She has made a trip to Pointe Coupee and has come back to Bayou Sara. Her arrival was a God-send to the people, whose lives are m jeopardy, for she has not only saved an incalculable amount of property, but a goodly number of lives. '. t ' : - The real condition! of things in the overflowed district is iust coming to light. No pen is equal to the task of picturing the devastation of the country or the desolation I of the people. The entire front of Ppinte Coupee is un der water. More of the levee has gone. The water back of the levee is so deep now that ' hundreds of ; lives are m . leopardy. t Small stretches of the levee are, still standing, and crowded with men, women and children, side3 by side, with horses, mules and cows. In an olcf raised gin house five hundred negroes were found huddled together. Their condition was pitiable. 1 hey were afraid of their lives and were piteously begging toj be taken to some place of safety; ; I 1 he crevasse at Allendale will over flow thirty of the finest plantations on the river. It will reach the Teche coun try several' days in advance of the Mor gansea water, and Col. Rivers says when tnis water joins with the Morgansea it will flood the entire Atchafalava. La Fourche and Teche counties. The dam age is incalculable, and the distress in the overflowed districts cannot be told. The Texas and Pacific boat, E. B. Wheelock, succeeded yesterday in sav ing two hundred people from: the back country around. Morgansea. Later Ruin and desolation meets the eye on every side in Ponte Coupee l'arish. lhe destruction is complete. Not a plantation is left above the water, not a levee unbroken, while hundreds of families are homeless. Thousands of heads of stock have been drowned, and from meagre reports received from the interior it is quite probable human life has been sacrificed tp the flood. standing on the deck of the relief boat Dacotah; as she passed down within fifty yards of the flooded district last even ing, the full extent qf the disaster could be seen. Grouping together on little knolls between the broken levees, through which : the I water rushed with ungovernable fury, were scores of people, both white i and colored. some with babies in arms, while others had dogs secured by cords. Many of them had nothing else injthe world except the clothes they had on; their backs. When ever the Dacotah discovered a scene like this, a stage was Swung out and the stricken ones taken; aboard. Equally as sad a scene was the poor cattle standing in the water, actually starving. Many of them had not tasted food in days. Their gaunt forms contrasted strangely with their surroundings! The Dacotah was unable to handle tattle yesterday, but to-day her boiler-deck is a first-class stock pen. I I A family by the name Luke, residing several miles ; above Bayou Sara, were rescued; this morning. There were fif teen people in the family, Monday morning they were prosperous, being owners ot a' large plantation, a well- equipped store, and over one hundred head ot stock, lo-day nothing remains above the water but the eaves ot their re sidences. Crevasses sixty feet wide broke directly in front ot the house at noon on Monday, and the! family had a lively time to reach the levee before six feet of water covered the i place. The crevasse is now 400 feet wide. 1 here are hun dreds of such tales to be told. The Dacotah is a busy boat to-day, After discharging-her lumber and other material at C-randi Jiay, she proceeded directly to Old river and rescued 200 head ot cattle that had been in the swamp for four Idays. Coming down stock and people were picked up every where, and when jthe Dacotah reached Bayou Sara she h.d 1,000 head of cattle and nearly 500 people on board. They were landed and the boat immediately left oh the return ivoyage. The Dacotah is doing excellent work, and not only is she blessed on every side, but the cor poration which sent her as well. Major Martin Glinn, president of the police iury accompanies the boat on her errands of mefcy. At (jrand hsay last night, men were'- busily engaged lin an effort to hold Paten Dyke, an immense earthwork that protects ten large plantations in lower Pointe Coupee from flood.. It rained all day yesterday and last night, but the river is falling. The worst has come in Pointe Cou pee, and the people are resigned. It was a bitter fight all found, but the river got the best of it. 3 Mayor C-hnn last night received a check for $500 frjom the police iury of Terreboune Parish for the benefit of the sufferers. J New Orleans, April 24. U. S. En gineer Douglass telegraphs that Pointe Pleasant levee, Tensas Parish, gave way this morning. Pointe Pleasant is thirty- two miles below Vicksburg, and the levee is one of the most important on the Tensas front, j . Baton RoucE; La., April 25. Both ends of the Montinez crevasse below this place have been secured, and a de termined effort! will be made to close it. The water i is rapidly filling the country to the rear end. It made its aopearauce in j Shannon's canal this morning. It is Isaid all his place will go under, even it tne break is closed. The north-bound Mississippi Valley tram, due here at noon yesterday, reach ed here at 3 o'clock last night. The tracks of this road will be submerged David Dewalll president of the police jury, has two hundred and fifty acres of cane under! watjer and seventy-hve out. The people of West Baton Rouge are as fast as possible bringing their stock and cattle over to the hills for safety Only the highest places" in West Baton Rouge will escape the ovemow. 1 he 1 ex as 1 x racuic . wimpany s steamer Wheelock, that, has been doing relief work around Morganza, has ar rived. Her commander, Capt J Scovell, savs: "We werit as high as the mouth of the Red river in' search of i all that needed assistance; and brought down a few people and stock. Some we landed at; Bayou Sara and some here. The steamer Henry Parks proceeded ! down the Atchafalaya river to see if any assistance was needed there. So far as Lean see there is no need for any further relief boat. The people re fuse to leaye their homes. I saw Cap tain Ktngsman Wednesday evening; he expressed the opinion that the end of the Morganza cut can be protected Tuesday and Wednesday Captain Kings man and others were devoting all their energies to a Very important work of saving life and i property. So far there has been no loss of life reported and the 25 damage thus far in the overflowed sec tions at and in the vicinity of Morganza has been confined almost exclusively to the crops in the field." - ViCKSBURG, Miss.. April 25, The river is now higher than at any time within the past 28 years. j New Orleans, April 26. The Ttmes- Democrat's Bayou Sara special says: Yesterday morning an early start was made from the crevasses up the river. The day Was a beautiful one, and the trip, though somewhat arduous at times, has been much less so than was expect ed, and the trip has been far from an unpleasant one. Whfle there: are no less thani ten crevasses in the Point Coupee levee front, there are two that so completely overshadow the others in magnitude and importance, that the other eight seem hardly worth men tioning, though each, fwhen seen by itself, makes a very striking pic ture. Starting from Bayou Sara the first crevasse on the opposite side of the river is about a mile below town, "ort the Taylor place. It, broke early Monday ! morning. . It is a very moderate! sizedlevee and the break . is some two hundred feet wide. The next is a smaller break in the Taylor place. abput half a mile up the river. About four hundred yards further up the river is another break on the Pecan place; then comes a long stretch of unbroken levees, but about six miles further up the river is the Fanny Riche crevasse, which is of a more formidable character than those below it. ' Here the volume of water is some six feet deep, and over four hundred feet wide. The current is very Swift, and sends a roaring, ragged looking cataract .through the bridge and tearing through a grove of pecans and live oaks that stand just behind the levee. The back water spreads out in a vast lake that touches the swamps and meets the Atchafalaya overflow. There are many houses and cabins. standing in the path of the flood, but as yet few, if any, have been washed away. How far ihe water from this break has been instrumental in flooding the country, it is impossible to determine, for it is assumed that even had the low levee been held, the water from the upper break would have been here by this tune, and the flooding of these plantations has only been a ques tion of a few days at the furthest. As it is the whole river from a point below Taylor's to the old river, if not now un der water, will be so soon. A great deal of stock has been taken out, but much more must be ; removed or lost in a very short time. About three miles up the river from the Fanny Riche crevasse comes a small break On the Stonewall place. The crevasse is about six or seven feet deep and 150 feet wide. Morganza proper is about five miles still further up the river, but it was not Morganza break that caused the panic when Mr. Glynne. telegraphed that Morganza had I hat break was in what is known as the New Texas landing levee system, and is a very formidable one, but about half a mile further up the river than what is now the 'great crevasse of Point Coupee front, lhe crevasse at this new Mor ganza is about 15,300 feet wide, carrying inland over 150,000 cubic feet ot water per second. This upper break, which was first of the big ones, is about 700 feet wide, and fourteen feet deep. This break is right in the path of the great Morganza crevasse, that has now be come a feature of the State history, and the batture between it and the bank of the river distinctly shows the path of the destructive flood at that time. New Orleans, April 26. The Times- Democrat's Bavou Sara SDecial. referrinar to the great Morganza crevasse, says:. Here the water of the river is only about a foot or less below the crown of the le vee, which at the break was twenty-six feet high with a base ot over two hun dred feet, The break is now some fifteen hundred feet wide, and is caving off at the lower end at the rate of three hun dred feet in twenty-four hours. Capt. Kingman estimated the discharge through this crevasse at over 150,000 cubic feet per second, and as his calcu lation was based on a breach a little over twelve hundred feet wide, it -can readily be understood how rapidly the discharge is increasing. 1 he average cost ot this levee was $10 per running foot, so that ot the present rate the lower end, is wasting away at the rate of $3,000 per day. 1 Every effort will be used to protect what remains of Morganza with as lit tle delay as possible. The stories- of suffering and danger and loss of life in this overflowed dis trict are, to say the least, premature. That a financial calamity, has fallen upon this splendid section 01 Louisiana is un fortunately too true, but the attempt to color it with tragedy is manifestly ab surd thus far. Some stock have been drowned, and it is impossible to say how serious the loss of stock may be in the interior, but even now there are many who will not take the trouble to have their1 stock removed GEORGIA. Confederate Memorial Day at Atlanta A Great Gathering of Veterans Imposing Ceremonies. "By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Atlanta, April 26. Probably never before since the war has there been such a gathering ot Confederate veterans as was here to take part in the memorial day exercises to-day. The special at traction was the - presence of a Targe number of ex-Confederate Generals. Among those were Jos. E. Johnston and Kirby Smith, two of the three full Generals Beauregard having been com pelled to decline at the last minnte; Ma jor Geri. P. M. B. Young, Brig. Gen. 1 lge Anderson, L.. I . uathreu, K. J . Henderson, Holtzclaw, Lawton, Bell, Robertson, Sorrell, Vance, M. J. Wright, W. b.! Walker and others. Hon, J . C. C. Black, of Augusta, was orator of the day. The exercises consisted of the lay ing of the corner-stone for the Confed erate Veterans" Home, by Grand Master Davidson, of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. These exer cises , were . attended " by visiting Generals and veterans. At 3 o clock the oration of Mr. Black was delivered in DeGives' Opera House. From here the procession of veterans from all parts of Georgia and four - other States, military companies and carriages con taining Generals and members of the Soldiers' Memorial Association, march ed to Oakland Cemetery, .where the graves of the Confederate dead were strewn with flowers. The ceremonies here were brief. A special incident of the day was the wildly enthusiastic reception given General Johnston by his old soldiers. When his carriage first appeared : there was a shout, and probably 5,000 veterans crowded around to see "Old Joe." He and General Kirby Smith were in the same carriage. The old soldiers cut the horses loose and dragged the carriage up and down for several blocks, which r were crowded with veterans. There were many touching incidents during that ride, illustrating the deep love of the old soldiers for their great leader. 1 .1 NO. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Weldon Neivr.- There has been : a great deal of tobacco planted in Hali- -fax and Northampton counties this year. , We are reliably : informed that the North Carolina lumber company, now engaged in business at Tillery,; recently purchased of Mr. J R. Tillery a lot of land adjoining the town for the site of a " hotel. ' It is the company's intention to erect at an early day a hotel of fifty rooms.- Il i , : - Lincoln Courier: Some of our farmers say that the wheat is becoming to come out for thfe last few days, and the fears referred to last . week as to a -bad crop are partly dispelled, though there is still complaint on account of some rust. " The Presbyterians of Lincolnton have purchased the corner- lot on which is now located the brick ' store which formerly belonged to the ' t hiter estate. . lhey propose to build a handsome church in thenear future. -.Charlotte Chronicle: One of - the old landmarks of historic . Mecklen- burg was burned Monday evening. It was a house near Tuckaseege Ford, and about nine miles from Charlotte. Corn wallis, during his! campaign through North Carolina, in the Revolutionary war, camped with his army neat Tucka seege Ford, and occupied the house on the hill on this side of he river. It was on this same campaign that Cornwallis passed through Charlotte. - Chadbourn Wews: There ire large -flocks of strange birds in this community eating the apple bloom. We think they must be the English sparrow, the birds resemble the common sparrow. we saw quite a curiosity a few days ago at Mr. John Enzor's in Horry County, s. c It has a head somewhat resembling that of an owl and there is not the slightest sign of eyes where they ought to be, It is a great curiosity and the family would not part with it lor anything. . - Goldsboro I Headlight i. There are at present 916: children attending our graded schools 308 in the white , and 408 in the colored. There is a small bull yearling in Indian Springs township which is j a terror in that sec tion. It attacks groups of people, scat ters them in every direction, and defies all deadly weapons. 1 he other day he was shot at and laid out for dead, when all at once he came to life again and chased his would-be murderers for about two miles. The animal belongs to Mr. John Williams. ! Henderson ! 'Gold Leaf; Work upon the farms is being actively pushed during the present fine Weather, and as a consequence but few farmers are to be seen in town. There is bht little com plaint of lack of labor, and every one who is at all inclined to work can find plenty to do. i Horses grow to a pretty ripe -old age in this section as well as human beings. We recall tke age of three at this time. Mr. J. Y. - Landis has one 33 years old; Mr. Sam Perdue one 30, and Mr. A. E. Fuller One 30 odd. There may be others as old or older. !h I 1 1 : ' Greensboro North State: Sites for manufacturing purposes will be given away by the North Carolina Steel and Iron Company. Twenty-six prisoners are confined in the county jail, this number includes twelve. United States prisoners and j six Rock ingham county prisoners. 1 An ex hibition of woods, ores, minerals, etc., is to be prepared and kept in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of illustrating to strangers what this section! of country contains ' and, produces. This organization is proving a most useful one. ,: Winston Daily: Mrs. Emma Ebert. wife of Mr. Charles Ebert, drop ped dead vesterday evening at her home on the farm of Dr.iH. T. Bahnson, about - one mile south of Salem.!; The Davis Military School will be removed from LaGrange to Winston, li The mat ter was consummated last night, and to day Colonel Daviej is looking at the sites which have been tendered wherenpon to erect the institution. In speak ing of the survey of the R. & D.'s new . line from Danville to Winston the Reg ister says that it is still the belief of those in Danville, who are in a position to know, that the above road will cer tainly be built. : I j Salem Press: Forsyth county Alliance endorsed the holding of a grand rally at Greensboro in July. A mare belonging toMr. bmanuel Naong gave birth to twin colts recently, one of which is a horse arid the other a mule colt, all lively. - James Galijmore, the oldest citizen m Dayidson .county, of Emmon'sjtownship, died "on the 11th inst. He would have been 100 years old next August. "-1- The sixyear old son of Mrs. Branson ; Younts, of Davidson county, committed suicide ! by burning . himself to death, jj He crawled into a large box of broom straw and deliber ately set it on fire. He was so badly burned that he lived only a few hours. Asheville , Democrat: Mr. S. Walker, postmaster at Crabtree; brought us on Tuesday a fine specimen of mag netic iron ore from a bed which- has been recently discovered ion the mill tract place of Mr. W. C. Hill, on Fines' Creek, in Haywood county. 1 he indi cations are that . there is an abundant supply of ore. -i A company with a ' . 1 f P-1 Xrt 1 1 J i . capital 01 jiou,uuv nas Deen organizeu 10 build a standard guage railroad trom the Western North Carolina depot, up Southside avenue and Valley street, across College and Woodfin, down the valley to .the branch - crossing North Main to Pearson s bridge on the t rench Broad. The length of the line will be five miles. j j Statesville Landmark: In the house of Dr. l. W. Hill, on Davie ave rfue, is an old-fashioned clock which has not run for years and j the running weight of which; is off. Last Saturday, while everything jwas stilt and without being moyed thereunto by any cause or pretence whatsoever, the old thing up and struck one, so as to be heard all over the house, j ijThe truth Of this state ment Js beyond question, but what made the clock ! strike is something for " the wise to explain. j The colored people of this vicinity are agitating the matter of holding a mass meeting here some time in May, similar to those re cently held at other points in the State, for the purpose of denouncing the Re- . publican 'party, j Uncle Aleck Carson, who seems to be engineering the move ment, says the f Republicans have been using the negro's hands to pull chest nuts out of the fire long enough. Raleigh' Ncivs and Observer: Much interest is manifested in the for mation of a Land and I Improvement Company, and already several letters of inquiry have reached those in charge of the scheme concerning our goad tobac co lands. r Col. W. A. Turk receiv ed a telegram yesterday morning an nouncing the death of his father. "Mr Rudolph Turk, at , his home at Mosey Creek, Augusta county, Virginia. ' The robbery of ! Messrs. Norris & Car ter's store, by the two : negro employes, Cannon Lewis and Nelson Hines, looms up into bigger proportions every hour. Quantities of goods are constantly being recovered, and going in the store'yester day we saw a pile of merchandise of almost every conceivable j variety which had .been recovered ; and . which was valued at $500. As will be remem bered Mr. Walter R. Henry, counsel for Cross and White, made an applica tion a few weeks ago before Judge Sey-, mour, of the I United States District Court at New Berne, for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of Charles E. Cross. The point made by) Mr.. Henry was based upon the -agreement made by Mr. Busbee, in Canada, Which agreement Mr. Henry has desired to test. Judge Seymour refused to grant the writ on the ground that the agreement was, un authorized by the treaty and totally in valid. i ! . U' 1 1 f i 1 1 ) V H M K ri. n n 1 ( if ; ' v t ... 1 ,r: I't i' : : , ti if w
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