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V 1' ' Mk ttfteMij But -TUBLISHED AT- WILMINGTON, N. C $1iOO A.YEAR.IN ADVANCE.' 88888888888888888 SS8g888SS85SSSSgg 88881888888888888 88888888888888888 88883888888888888 8SS888SS8SSSSSSSS 8888S858S2888SS8S 8888888838888888 88888888888888888 Entered at the Post Office at Wilmington, N. p., as ! second Class Matter. J : SUBSCRIPTION PRICE The subscription price of the Weekly Star is as follows : I ,. I I SingleXopy 1 year, postage paid. . . j $1 00 - 60 ! 3 months " ' f '. FOREIGN- DENIGRATION. The question of foreign immlgraj tlon is' beginning to attract attention nd invite discussion in the press and sewhere. It is becoming a serious ijjiiesf ion, especially to tne large cities raid more especially to the cities on r . ' . . 1 . Lhe- sea-board where these immi y rants land. . ;-, It has been the policy of this gOVi tjrnmeiviL to encourage immigration. or with Vie vast unpeopled ; domain hat stretcNed out between the tw (iceans, there was room tor tne mi ons that canle or might .come,?, and hose of; the millions who came and ought them, founds lands awaiting hem at prices which they could read ity p,ay,,;and they bought them arid iHiilt their homes upon them, arjd be came more prosperous anu inuepeia lent thap; they bad ever been in thejir - - - . ive, orj man tney couia ever j nope o 6'c in their native countries. iThiis iv ere the Western States and 'terri- o'riesT which- have since I become States,, so rapidly developed, Jevefy bae of which shows a very large prjo- p'U'tion tf the foreign element: . . There is scarcely a city in the Northern States where they are riot numerous and an important factor in business and in politics!, too. They have helped to build the cities and they lake an active hand in the gov ernment of them. They have helped to build up the country and tpey take anj active hand in the govern- ;nent of that. - ' j . ' I here was never any objection to . i ' ' l I . . - v.ie immigrant nor to his exercising all the native the e'pl rights and privileges of the born citizen except during emeral existence of the Native Xmerican party which died and was oth- succeeded later by the Know i.ig party, which after a brie exis- tence received its death i blow from llenryj A, Wise, of 'Virginia, j Neither lived Ions:' because neither was in accbrcj with the libera American people. ! spirit Of the J:i the earlier years, ; and until ss of a the within, a few years back the c iiiim igrants that camp were main a- thrifty, superior, desirable ;!ass of people. They came bf their own volition - to I make their homes! here, and most ot them were possessed of more or less meansj ' l ney were able to tajke care of themselves. But there hajrbeen a chang; in this respect and while there, are still many of the better and desirable class coming, there j ire also reat numbers of an ielenr.ent, of i " 7 11 ; whom their native countries 'are glad to get; rid, and whorwouldj not be 1 ' 1 ! I ' 1 welcomed by any other country,' nor perhaps tolerated by, any otr er. than the United States. ! - ' I J The socialistic, communistic and nihilistic cranks of Europejjiinableto carry ut their chaotic tjieories therej found a free, open arid jinviting figld in this country, where tjiey cjould ag itate ad proclaim their doctrmes, un der th freedom of speech accorded to all, with "none to molest or make them afraid.- They find in the kindred el ements in our large cities abundance. .of material to work upon J and the consequence is the organization of numerous 'societies, politically, so cially, industrially arid! morally an , tagonistic to the sentiments, meth i'ods and habits of thought of our people,- dangerous organizations be cause founded on lawlessness, actua ted by a lawless spirit 'and obedient to Taw only where the! power e'xists to coerce obediencej and sometimes, to demonstrate that I this power does really exist, hanging; has been neces- sary in some of the cities where these organizations exist and are most! aggressive and; defiant In addition to -these there are among the immigrants- these days a largej number of the. pauper class, .. some of whom are arbleby sacrificing vhat little plunder ihe'y may have. hcn -possessed :ofj to scrape- up .money enough to piy their passage acR)ss the ocean, being influenced to ajine by he overdrawn representa tions of steamship agents and others who I persuade theiln that I once on the shores their future prosperity and fortune are 'assured. - The same gamtj js played on therri thit is play ed 'upon the negro! dupes, jfrom this otatej ..by immigration agents from Mississippi and lother f I Southern States, who make the dupes believe lhat J in the States' they iare enticed to'they will find! eldorados where "taking dollars is .'as easy i as falling j- . , M, j a s j - - 'I jj 1 ,. ' I jj. '-j ' ' . ij-il " V-' vou xxi. There is another class, paupers in every sense of the word, Whose pas sage is paid to this country by soci eties and interested parties in other countries to" escape the expense of caring for them in the almshouses over there, it being cheaper to ship them than to care for them. When tthese are discovered they! are, under our immigration laws, sent back. But there are comparatively few sent back. , All of these classes bring up in the cities and add ' largely to the dependent or vicious elements of so ciety, and become a burden, an an noyance and a heavy tax one way "or another on the communities upon which they fasten themselves, ji To these classes there is an ob jection, which is becoming more sharply defined every day, with a demand for more searching and rigid laws to prevent their ' being dumped in such numbers upon our shores. It is the sentiment of .self-protection asserting itself as it is natural and right that it should. STATE TOPICS. Governor Waterman, of California, is taking time by the forelock, and has issued a proclamation to the peo ple of his State! to make contribu- .... i . - tions to the State's exhibit at ithe World's Fair, so that it may be i credit to the State. The presump tion is that every State will have an exhibit there, for every State should havd We are particularly anxious that North Carolina have an exhibit and a good one.1 At the Atlanta Ex position several j years ago, she had the finest exhibit of minerals, the finest in quality and the . greatest in variety on the ground. It at tracted universal attention. For syth county I had the finest exhibit of agricultural products of any other one county represented. And yet this exhibit was hurriedly gotten up, and was composed main ly of voluntary : contributions. With a systematic and well directed effort this State could make an exhibit at Chicago that wbuld eclipse anything on the grounds, and bring North Carolina resources before hundreds of " thousands of people native and foreign. If Governor Fowle officially called the attentfori of our people to this matter, as j Governor Waterman has done, "it might expedite the work and add very much to the extent and value of the exhibit. Speaker Reed's friends in" Con gress are evidently "doing their own counting." . Turpin, Democrat, from Georgia, had by the returns a ma jority of 13,153. ; The majority of the Committee on Elections did their own counting j and gave McDuffie, his Republican contestant, a ma jority of 4,481. What's the use of election bills when they can do their own counting in this style? ' California don't do much in the snow line, but, when she does, she does it well; There is now twenty feet on a dead level at Bucks Branch in Plumas county. A Judge who was visiting a friendNhadtb go down a stairs with thirty-two steps to get into his house. V Jay Gould has a morbid dread of dying poor some of these days. A man who feels that way is poor al ready, if he had stacks of millions. MONUMENT TO COL. L. C. JONES. Late . Superintendent of the Carolina Cen tral Bailroad Company. . t," The Charlotte Chronicle says that Wallace Durham'of that place has com menced work on the monument to be erected to the late Col. L. C.( Jones . by the officers and employes of the C. C. railroad. The; monument will be of Mooresville granite, and will be ten feet six inches from base to apex. The base is four feet square. , The following is the inscription to be engraved upon it: , "Leonidas Campbell Jones, Born in Richmond ' Died in Wilmington 18301889 , A tribute from the officers and em ployes of the Carolina Central Railroad ."1 u: i. : A " umpciiiy , iu lucii laic aupciiiitciiuctiL, The monument will be erected at Col Jones' grave at Buffalo church near Jonesboro, and will cost $500. , Sixth District. . i Mr. Jas. A. Lockhartj Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of the Sixth Congressional district, has called a meeting of the committee at Rockingham on June 4th, to select a time and place for holding the conven tion for Congress. Mayor F. B. Mc Dowell is the member from Charlotte The following is the full committee Brunswick, G. W. McKeithan; Colum bus, Pearson Ellis; New Hanover, J. I Macks; Robeson, W. S. Norment; Rich mnnrl. W. H. Neal: Anson. T. A. Lock- Unr. ITnlnn 14.11 AH-imc- SfnnlvJ S. J. Uaibf i -J ' - Pemberton, Mecklenburg, J. Brevard McUoweli; AaDarrus, ur. is., o. ioung Carolina Beach. I The season at : Carolina Beach opens with promising auspices. The. magnifi cent excursion steamer Sylvan Grove i makiner dailv trios to this popular re sort, leavinff Wilmineton at 9.30 a. '. m anH 2 30 n. m.. and the Passtort will be ready to go on the 1 line in a few days!. The hotel will be opened on or aDoui the 20th inst. Many rooms nave ai .aoriir Jw(n pneraced. Caot. J. W! Har oer announces reduced rate tickets for v e-l at th nfnce on season visiwi a - - fZrmif. The low rate o..j-.. ..n.nH'nnn 2J5 rents for the I . ,. .nrn i r o nmira rpn. - V ;-'b-l ' REV. SAM P. JONES. Rev, Dr. Pntchard'S Impression of the Ianeelist He Don't Like his Style. Iii the last issue of Charity and Chil dren, a paper published at; the Baptist Orphanage at Thomas ville. Rev. Dr. T. H. Pritchard, of this'cityi expresses his opinion of Rev, Sam.-Jones as follows: I must confess that I have been reallv pained in reading the sermons of this very celebrated Methodist preacher re cently delivered m Charlotte, JN.C iney abound in wit and humor, it. is true; but the iwit is exceedingly coarse and the hurhor olten low .and vulgar, unbecom ineja Christian ministers in any circle, and in my humble judgment, a gross and grevious desecration ,ot the pulpit. I stunt that Mr.- Jones has rare powers as an orator; that he often preaches the gospel with wonderful plainness and ef- iect, and 1 hope that he does good; Dut thefe can be no question with all right thinking people that he, is degrading his i sacred calling and doing a vast amount of harm by using language which, m the nature of things, must demoralize society I am no prude, as every one acquainted ' with ' me knows, nor have I any prejudice against Mr Jones as a Methodist, or an evan gelist; but as a public journalist and a Christian minister, i teei Dound to pro test against his manners in the pulpit. N a matter what a man s gilts may be there can be no excuse or apology for hisibeincr a blackguard or a bully in the jiul'pit, and it really seems to be a reflec tion m this age and country that such a vulgarian is tolerated by decent people. I have heard that the cause ot religion had been set back for years in some to'ns where he had been, and if his sermons in Charlotte are a fair speci men of his work, I am prepared to be lieve it. He seems to make immense use of feam Jones in his preaching; but the Bible plays a very msignihcant part in hid performances. i ! What a contrast between this man and Mr. R. G. Pearson, in style, in spirit and matter. Elijah the Tishbite and John the Baptist were not bolder or braver in denouncing sin than Mri Pearson, but there was no vulgarity i and smutty at- tefnpts at wit in his preaching. jThey say that the rude, rough thinsg he says do not seem so bad when you hear him, but for the life; of me, I cannot see how a man's manner of saying a low and dirty thing can make it anything else than filthy and impure. Depend upon it, every religious ex citement is not a revival of religion, and 1 hereby publicly express my want ot confidence in Sam Jones' converts. lit there is any place; on earth irom which slang, vulgarity and blackguard ing ought to be excluded, it is the pul pit, and to listen to such a harangue as Sam Jones delivered in Charlotte last Sunday seems to me to be a desecration df the Sabbath. I sincerely hope he won't come to Wilmington in my day. COUNTY MATTERS. Justices of the Peace to Meet Monday, June 2nd, and Elect & Board of Com missioners. On the first Monday of next "month, une 2nd, the Justices (of the Peace for kew Hanover will meet to elect a Board !f Commissioners for ; the county, to erve for the next two years. The law nder which the Commissioners are chosen is as follows: ;j ! Section 711. The justices of the peace for each county; on the first Mon day in June, one thousand eight hun dred and eighty-four, and on the first Monday in June every two years there after, shall assemble at the Court House of their respective counties, and a ma jority ; being present,! shall proceed to the election of not less than three nor more than five persons, to be chosen from the body of the county, who shall be styled the Board of Commissioners for the county of and shall hold their offices for two years from the date of their qualification, and until their successors shall be elected and qualihed. They shall be qualified by taking the oath ol olhce belorej the cierK ot tne Supreme Court, or some judge or justice of the peace, and the; Register of Deeds shall be exojjicio- clerk of the Board of Commissioners. ; L; Section 717 of the laws of North Car olina provides for; art annual meeting, also, of the Justices of the county. Sec. 717. For the proper discharge of their duties, the Justices of the Peace shall meet annually with the Board of Commissioners on the first Monday in June, unless theyj shall be pftener con vened by the Board of Commissioners, which is empowered to call together the Justicesof the Peac not oftener than once inthree months. For attending such meeting ,the Justices of the Peace shall repeive no compensation; but they shall keep a record of their meetings. The Register of Deeds shall be ex officio the clerk of the ustices ot the reace, and he shall receive such compensation for his service as; the Board ot Commis sioners shSll provide. The "Wilson Short Cut. The Fayetteville Observer says: "The engineer corps !of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, Mr. Latta in command, arrived here on Monday evening last, and it is their design to commence work immediately on the southern extension of the Wilson & Fay etteville branch bf the great Coast Line system. Their Objective point will be Rowland, with a totaf distance of about forty miles to complete the Southern through connections; . and, after some finishing up of the location of the line, we may expect j grading and construc tion to commence in earnest." Saw Mill Burned, .' . A fire yesterday at Spout Springs, on theC. F, & Y. V. railroad, about 17 miles above Fayetteville, destroyed the extensive saw mill belonging to Mr. W, J. McDiarmid, together with a large quantity of lumber and eight box cars loaded with lumber . for Northern mar kets. The fire i broke out about mid night. The cause is unknown. Eev. Sam Jones to Visit Wilmington. . Mr. J. M. Forshee yesterday received a telegram from Rev. Sam Jones in re ply to the invitation extended to him to visit Wilmington. Mr. Jones has con sented to pome, and will be here at such date as may be determined upon here after. . - - '- - r Sixth Judicial District. i The Executive Committee of the Sixth Judicial ! District assembled yes terday at noon in the Gregory House at Goldsbord to appoint a time and place for holding the Judicial j Convention Several places were suggested, and it was decided to hold the convention in Kinston on Wednesday, the 7th of July next. ; . :rr-:' 1 Mr. Jacob S. Allen has been awarded the contract for i building the county poor house. ! . Weekly WILMINGTON, N. C, A COOL SUMMER. Predictions of the Signal Service Men. The cool change yesterday was doubt less a surprise to nearly Fevery one. The observer in charge of the Signal office- here says it was the after-effect of the storm which- moved across the country ; two ' days ago; as the area , of highly , rarified atmos phere of the storm centre created what , might meteorologically speaking be termed a partial vacuum off the North Atlantic coast, into which .the denser pool air of the, northwest a swept with a flank movement to the south. V As will be seen from the cotton-belt reports the minimum temperature was very low in the Western part of -the State and Charlotte reported frost. The Signal Service also predicts frost this morning for the Western part of the. State. The warmest weather of last year occurred on May 11th, when the maxi mum temperature was 97, but with sin gular variety, the average for the first eight days of last May was only 63", while the average for the same period this month is 70, though the average for yesterday alone was 10 below normal. ' L The observer here claims that the average temperature and rainfall will in long cycles of time: always balance up with their respective normals. For an illustration of this we have only to look back to last year's record. We had an unusually cool and wet spring and, summer, and by October 31st the deficiency of temperature amounted to 431 and the excess of rainfall to four inches.- Nature soon asserted itself and the warm dry weather that followed had by January 1st reduced the deficiency of temperature to 108 and the excess of rainfall had decreased to only 1 inches. Now a new start was made, January 1st, trom which time to th"is date, we have piled up an excess of 530 in tem perature and there isj a deficiency of nearly 9 inches of rain to be accounted for.' . I"'-. According- to the theory advanced above, we are to have a cool and rainy summer. The result Iwill be watched with interest, ' for if it proves true, the science of meteorology scores another victory. THE BOY MURDERER. Avery Butler Sentenced to be Hanged on " ' July 11th. The boy Avery Butler, who shot and killed his father near Clinton, N. C, a short time ago and whose trial took place this week, has been sentenced to be hanged on the 11th of July next. The Caucasian savs: "Upon the recommen dation of the jury that the sentence be commuted to twenty years in the penitentiary, the Judge and Solici tor will ask the Governor for clemency, as the boy wafe convicted only on cir cumstantial evidence, j He is 16 years of age, but looks not older that 10 years. It is said that the jury, before leaving the box, stood ten for conviction and two for;acquittal. It is also rumored that his mother urged him to commit the mur der, she being tfred of her husband, who was in the habit of spending his idle hours in the company of other women. The boy intended to make a clean breast of the whole affair while on the stand, but the Judge overruled it." NAVAL STORES. Comparative Statement . of Beceipts and Stocks at this Port. Receipts of naval stores at this port from April 1st (the beginning of the crop year) to May 9th, as compared with receipts for the same period last year, are as follows ; J : - j Spirits turpentine, j 4,192 casks; last year, 3,447. Rosin, 30,414 barrels; last year, 24,401. Tar, 10,240 barrels; last year, 9,328. Crude; turpentine; 993 barrels; last year, 1,082. Stocks at this port May 9th, as compared with stocks at same date last season are as follows: Spirits turpentine, 1,347 casks; last year, 1.0G2. Rosin, 10,468 barrels; last year, 50,737. Tar, 8,317 barrels; last year. 5, 875. Crude turpentine, 1,211 barrels; last year. 320. " SOUTH CAROLINA. A Murderer Hanged at Union The Lex. mgton Lynching Case. ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star, Columbia, May 9, A Special to the Daily Register saysi ' Win. Davis, col ored, was hanged at Union to-day for the murder of Susie Fernandes. Davis left a confession. He states that while talking with Susie . Fernandes they got into a quarrel. He attempted to choke her and she screamed. He again chocked her and then cut her throat. I At the coroner's inquest Davis said that on the night of the murder he was in Susie Fernandes' room with four men. He was ordered to go to the well and get a bueket .of water, which he did, and when he pnt the bucket down the other men seized Susie and holding her head over the bucket cxt her throat. All the parties were arrested, but were discharged at the trial. In his confes sion Davis asks the forgiveness ot those whom he endeavored to implicate to shield himselt, and attributes his crime to whiskey and gambling. He met his fate firmly and expressed willingness to die, and said he was ready to meet his God. Affidavits and counter-affidavits are being made in the Lexington lynching case. Graham, the lawyer, at wnose in stance the Governor respited Willie Leaphart, was arrested yesterday on the charge of having assisted in forging the papers upon which the respite was pro cured. He gave bonds. Several parties, named by sheriff Craft, of Lexington, as havine. according to his Deiiet, been im plicated in the killing bf Leaphart, have Been arrested on warrants, sworn out oy Attorney General Karle, who went over to Lexington for the j purpose. One of the men under arrest F. C. Caugh man and who boasts of his complicity in the affair, has had the hardihood to threaten to swear out a warrant of ar rest against Governor Richardson ; as accessory before the fact, on account of his withholding affidavits upon .tne strength ot which respite was granted The State Ihas determined, if possible, to procure an indictment of the lynchers. - FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1890. Aft OLD-TIME DARKEY. Uncle . Cresar The Bepresentative of i a Class Bapidly Passing Away. ! ; Just twenty-two years ago to-day I bought a plantation on a Southern river. I was on the point of saying that with this property I aiso bought an old negro named "Caesar," but the war was over and there was no more trade in slaves. But bid Caesar I is and was my hero. Perhaps sixty year sold, he limped along, aided by an old hickory stick with: a bent handle, which had become slick and greasy with age. Always upon his back he carried an old sack, with the ends tied with a leather band, enabling him to sling it across his shoulders. In this bag or sack he carried part of an ' old saw a hammer with one claw broken L off, a iack-knife. a lump of assafcedita, a few peach kernels, some strings ' and a fish hook or two. He complained ot rheumatism, tnat some "pusson had put a spell on him, and that his legs! were full of small snakes which if he rould get clear of, he would be all right. Under the wil lows Qverhanging the river, he kept a small batteau, and near by fastened to a pple. a nsh -basket, shaped something like ; a cornucopia; it was baited, with bread and assafcedita, arid captured many a catfish and sucker. It was a horn of subsistance if not of plenty jto my old friend. ! Caesar was, however, often pinched by hunger and for want of tobacco, but never complained oi it; tnougn nis breakfast was a crust, his dinner a- ques tion and his supper a regret, he was never known to beg -much less to steal. His house was a mile trom the river, and daily he trudged to visit his fish- trap, and if he found his batteau not tied exactly as he left it he thought his luck was gone. : On the way he would stop to rest, and when seated on some convenient log or stump, if the weather was cloudy he gave a series ot blows, something like those of the porpois- to blow up a rain, as he said, or to indi cate its approach.! He was a sort ot portable nce-beater, but he never "extortioned" on his : cus tomers; a tea cup full of clean rice being his toll no more no less and his work was always well done. In big jobs! of work where many hands were employed J it was his delight to be called in to 'boss"i the work. He had excellent ideas of leyer power, and his great' name-sake never felt grander when ordering his tenth legion to clear the field than did my bid Caesar as he would say, "get away men, let me rig my Sampson up thar, and that 'thing gwine to move; you hear me!'" Go by the kitchen, old man, and tell the cook to give you some dinner,! was an invitation pftener refused than accepted; and when it was, he always paid j for it in some way. A new "broom-straw" broom, nicely made (for the Missus, or an hour's work in vthe garden, he insisted upon giving in turn for this hospitality. A lew sweet crackers put him-always in good and talking humor, and many a day under their inspiration, he told the stories of his youth. nd was lull ot praggadocia in spea it ing of his old owners. They werej no 'poor buckras, r out "big quality peo ple." . " -1 i btrange to say, so laithlul a creature; one so just and self-denying, made no profession of religion. He held that the person who "gophered him" must take off the spell before he could think of his eternal welfare. "Too mUch'flict ed" he would say, when asked if he did not desire to make his peace with his Maker. He once had a wife, but "they took her out 'to; Georgia" and he never heard of her and he seemed entirely cal lou's to Cupid's darts, though he had re gard for his personal appearance; his hair was. plaited in as long pieces as the nature of the case would admit, and tied at the ends with white cotton strings. He was one darkey who did not claim ownership of a hog. His farmingoper ations consisted in the cultivation pf ja small potatpe f patch and some gdurd vines, the sojil farther from the shanty being the richer. j He could (always supply you with ; a long-handled gourd, and in fruit season a nice peach, it being remarkable how fruit trees flourished for him. In poli tics he was Republican usually. lie said to a gentleman who had been apan- j.-j... i i i i i- . ,1 -,3 uiuaxc lur iegi&icuivc uuuuis, wiiu iicuiucu him a piece of tobacco. "Thank you, boss, but if you had offered me tobacco 'fore de 'election I. should not haye taken it." I j j But the March winds, hard alike On poor old men and half-starved cattle. were too much for him and old unqle Caesar "hung up de fiddle and de bow" and went to the land "where all good darkeys go.r ! r" This writer, early in that month, re ceived a letter from him. It was written apparently with the juice of polk berries on a leaf toijn from a memorandum book. It read thusj being written fairly legible: "Dear SiV I am very bad off, please send me one. bunch of raisins and a quart of good coru whiskey by the boat, bend bill to the merchant at the landing and I will pay him. "Yours till death, I M Cesar." : Not long and the news camel that my hero had departed this life. Peace to his ashes to the rheumatic link! that binds us to the past! Soon all like! hi will have crossed the river, and a genera tion or two will mark other characters in their day and time, and the old plan tation darkey must live in our . southern songs tmly, and the little bit of 'hiptory which will record the short and simple annals of these meet and lowly fehes of the old South. Cupid; KENTUCKY. I A Hot Contest for the Late Senator Beck's ." I " Place. Frankfort, May 9'. The solemni ties of the burial for Kentucky's dead Senator were! not ended when a hot contest for the succession began. John G. Carlisle, who attended the remains as a member of the Kentucky delegation in Congress, while he kept closely to Jiis room yesterday, had many callers and he openly announced that he was d can didate. The headquarters for him and McCreary have been established at the hotel,- and the list now contains the names of Carlisle, McCrearv, Judge Wm Lindsley, ex-Congressman W. J. Stone and Proctor Knott. A caucus has not been called and it will not be held before Monday night. Gen eral opinion is that the contest will be a long one, although it is generally con ceded that Mr. Carlisle and Mr, Creary will lead the list. Mo ANOTHER DEFAULTER. f The City National Bank of Albany, N. T.. Bobbed f $50,000 by the Bookkeeper. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. i Albany, Mav 10. A defalcation in the City (National Bank, amounting to nearly $50,000, has been traced $4 Geo. P.' Whitney, individual bookkeeper.; who managed it through an over-draft system in collusion with a prominent Albany firm. An effort has been made among Whitney s-friends to settle theialtair, He had been in the bank for years and occupied a high social position. I Stock speculation was the cause. Star 1 1 i WASHINGTON NEWS. Another Bepublican Senatorial Caucus on. the Silver Bill No Agreement Beached. Washington, May 8. The Republi can Senatorial Caucus this morning was quite largely attended. The Silver ques tion was again the subject of discussion ano again no agreement was reached. The Silver men refuse to accept and sup port a bill containing a clause which Will permit the redemption of purchase notes by bullion under any condition. iAs one of them expressed it. "We re fuse, to give away the money, value of silver, planting ourselves squarely jupon the i platform';; i of party. If !any Republican Senators want to toetray , the party, it will not be the iisilver men.; benator; Jones, who has been expected to open the debate on the bill, when it came up in the Senate, is in New York. I He was telegraphed to yesterday by his colleague, benator btewart. In his answer benator rones did not fix any time for liis return, and stated that he ( would make his speech When he came back. It is said he will be here Saturday morning. Washington, May 9. Another meet-' ing of the Republican Senatorial Caucus was held to-day, at which the Silver question was again under consideration. It is said that-the only1 proposition .dis cussed was one making a full legal ten der of the notes issued for the purchase of bullion,! the bullion redemption clause having been abandoned by those who advocated itJ The Caucus was at tended by aboit two-thirds of the Re publican benators, and while the majori ty were in favor of making the notes of full legal tender, it was decided to postpone formal action of the proposi tion until another time, when there shall be a full attendance. It is said that a number of the friends of the legal tender idea were not present to-dav, and that on a full vote! the majority in its favor will be even larger than it was this morn- Various Senators, representing both sides of the question, while declining to talk of the proceedings ; of the caucus, united in saying that a desire for agree ment upon, the measure was more mani fest than for some days past, and they ex pressed the opinion that a satisfactory conclusion of the matter would be ar rived at. SOUTH CAROLINA LYNCHING. A New Phase of the Lexington Case XT. S. Marshal Miller Arrested for Per jury. Charleston, May 8. The Lexing ton lynching case assumed an entirely and unexpected phase to-day. Yesterday W. j. Miller was ar Lexington county and jail on the charge . of was on his affidavit that rested in lodged in penury. It the Governor reprieved Willie Leap hart, who was lynched On Monday night at Lexington. Miller swore that Rosa Cannon had said that Leaphart did not assault her or attempt; to assault her; that her mother, brother and father did not believe she had been assaulted, and that ; he believed that she had been persuaded by certain persons to state that the negro had committed an assault in order to convict him. It was upon this affidavit and other corrobora ting statements that Leaphart was re prieved. lo-day U. b. Marshal Cun ningham applied to Judge Simo'hton, in the U. S. Court, for a writ of habeas corpus to take the mafter lrom the custody of the State officials and bring him before the Court. 1 he petition is based upon the fact that Miller is a Deputy U . S. Marshal, and was engaged in serving certain processes issued by U. S. Commissioner Banskett, at Columbia, where he was arrested by the State authorities on the charge of perjury. Miller will be brought before Judge Simonton - to-morrow. . Marshal Cunningham says Miller is fearful of being lynched. SOUTHERN BAPTISTS. Convention at Fort Worth, Texas Offi cers Elected Reports from Committees. Etc.- j ' r . j Fort Worth, May 9. The Southern Baptist Convention met in its forty-sixth annual session here this morning. Pre sident Jonathan Haralson, of Selma, Ai abama, was in the chain Seven hundred delegatet were present from Alabama, Arkansas, Indian Territory, District of Columbia, Maryland, j Mississippi, Mis souri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee. Texas and Virginia. j The following officers were elected : President Hon. Jonathan Haralson, of belma, Ala. (re-elected). Vice Presidents Dr. J. B. Haw thorne, ' Georgia; Dr. J. L. McCurry, Virginia; Dr. F. H. Kertoot, Kentucky, and Rev. L. B. Ely, Missouri. Secretaries Rev. Lansing Burrows, D. D.. Augnsta, Georgia, and Rev. Wm, Fuller, D. D., of Baltimore, (re-elected) Treasurer Geo. W. Morton, of Louis ville, Ky., (re-elected). ; ' The Home Missionary Board report ed for the! past year, 270 Missionaries among the native white population; 30 Missionaries among the toreign popu lation; 4.477 baptisms; organized during year, 26T churehes; bunday schools in stituted, 336; churches built, 84; total receipts, $171,000. expenditures $170,000. The foreign Mission board reported for the past year 37 stations oc cupied with 116 out stations, 78 mission aries, 409 baptisms, 29 schools with 675 scholars; receipts $186,800; all debts paid. ; Various "committees were appointed. Dr. J. W. Carter, of Raleigh, N. C, preached the annual sermon to-night. A delayed train with 200 delegates from Missouri came ; in this morning, while another train with 250 delegates is waterbound m Arkansas. Second Day's Session of the Convention i at Fort Worth, Texas. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Fort Worth, May 10. Rev. J. L. Burrows, of Virginia, 'opened the sec ond day's session of the Southern Bap tist Convention jvith devotional exer cises. ; Committees were appointed as follows; On resolutions; on hopeful views of work; on the vice president's report, on the treasurer's report; on Pa pal missions; on ragan missions. j . , The sum of $16,000 was raised i to swell the endowment fund of the South ern Baptist Theological Seminary s at Louisville. ' ! Rev. J. S; Felix, of Virginia, reported on missions among the white people. A recess was then taken. j In the U. S. District Court at Charles ton, S. C, Judge Simonton refused to transfer the case of U. S. Marshal Miller, charged with forgery in connection with the Lexington lynching, from the State to the U. b. Court, t. r The Senate has confirmed the nomi nation of G: G. bmith, postmaster at Hickory, N: C, and Mrs." H. L. Smith- son, postmaster at Pulaski, Tennessee, NO. 27 M. E. CHURCH SOUTH St. Louis. May Sy The Methodist Episcopal Conference met again this morning with a full attendance. About an hour and a half was consumed in calling and perfecting the roll. When completed showed that there are 147 clerical and; 146 lay delegates present, Several unimportant committees were then appointed. r i i The quadrennial report of the Board of Missions was submitted by Rev. J. G. Johns. It shows that four years ago there was a (debt Of $100,000, which has been reduced to $14,000. j : J The report as to the Mexican Mission, which shows an apparent falling off in members from 1,978 to 2,633. is ex plained to be due to the increased care in preparing the report. ' - .. 1 Some of the special committees were then appointed. The report of the Book Committee to the Conference on the operations of the Publishing jHouse at JNashville, lenn., contains the following : I "Un the 31st day of March, 1890, the House had outstanding of ! its four per cent, bonds '$10,575, and this was all the debt it owed. Against this it had a sink ing fund, made up of good bonds, to the amount of $10,745. The House had oft deposit to its creditj subject to its check, $22,685. All the publications of - the House arej more than self-supporting, with the single exception of the Quar terly Review, and that has resulted in a pecuniary loss of $1,270 to the House. We believe that notwithstanding this loss.it has j been a great benefit to the public, and confidently believe that its publication should be continued. " I he ChrisUan Advocate is not meet ing with the circulation it should have, and which its connectional relations de mand. 1 . I . . "The outstanding indebtedness of the Publishing jHouse amounts to $167,791. This is too large, but could not readily be avoided by reason of the fact that sales ot the hymn book swelled the amount largely in latter months of this quadrennium. j The committee ordered all accounts over two years old, and up on which nothing had been paid during that time, to be deducted.; This amount ed to $27,897; thus leaving the balance due the House, $139,893.1 It must not be understood, however, that this $27, 897 is regarded now as absolutely lost, though much of it is so regarded." Mr. McMiller and others- asked that the discipline be amended so as to for bid the signing of petitions for sale on licenses by (members. The subject was referred to !the; Committee on Temper ance. t ' T. T. Duncan, of Tennessee, for him self and others, introduced a long pre amble and jresolution, the substance of which was icondemhation of taking such diversionsj as cannot.; be used in the name of the I Lord Tesus." The resolution also mentioned the fact that t;he j address of the Bishops called attention to the increase of worldlinesS; and Mr. Duncan named as worldly diversions to be" condemned, theatre going, dancing, card-playing and the liKje," which were iindulged in oy memDers oi the church and remained unnoticed hy many pastors.. After an' animated debate and. defeat of motions1, to refer, to postpone, to table, etc., it was iadopted by a large majority., This matter being decided another was brought up at oncei which led to a long discussion and affects the entire laity of thd Church. j - Kev. C. Kelly, of uallatin, Tenn., in troduced a; resolution to make laymen eligible for service on all committees. There was Sa question as to the right of laymen to iit upon either the Committee on Episcopacy or the j Committee on Appeals, aad upon this a debate arose. St. Louis; May 9. This is the third day's session of the General Conference of the Methodist Church South. After the- religioiis exercises the . report of the Board of Church Extension was submit ted by David Norton, Secretary.. It shows the iotal receipts of the Board for the past foijir years were $109,887, and disbursements $109,304, leaving a cash balance pd hand of $684. The report says: u nuer our organic act is, auxil iary boards, one in each annual confer ence, have peen organized. Much val uable work has been - done by them in the matter jof securing information as to the local welfare of their territories; and in aiding the; general board to decide the merits bf places asking help of it. Immediately : after the passage' of the amendment by the last General Confer ence to the! constitution, by which the woman's department of our work was created, miss Lucinaa b.i Helen was elected secretary; she entered promptly on her work and has prosecuted it with great vigorand success. The standing committees reported that they had organized, and a call for memorials Was begun. Memorials from the Northwest Texas Conference called for sundry Changes in the discipline; one featurq being prohibition ot licens ing of women to preach. The proceedings were intempted by Bishop Granberry, who" introduced to the Conference . Rev. David J Waller, Secretary of the British Wesleyah Conference- ! and Wes- leyan Educational Department Train ing College; Westminster, London, England, Ithe first delegate sent to General Cdnfeience of the M. E. Church South from' another Conference. He expressed satisfaction in the completion of -his journey, and said on some future occasion he would-lay before the Con ference th message he brings. He then took a seit on the platform with the Bishops, and business proceeded. THE LEE STATUE. i Preparation at Richmond for a Great Gathering From All Points of the South. ; By "elegraph to the Morning Star. a Richmond, VaJ May 9. The indica tions are that the attendance of military and veteran organizations at the unveil ing of the1 equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee, on" May 29th, will surpass any former gathering in this city. Arrange ments have ! been nearly perfected Tor the attendance and care of the military, All railroads in the South have agreed to issue commutation tickets at the rate of one cent per mile. The military will be quartered in the Exposition build ing, while the Veterans will be enter tained in the city.!" All soldiers will be fed gratis; Soldiers from States outside of Virginia, who have already signified their intention of being present, will come from Maryland, West Virginia, North' Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas Various colleges throughout the State, such as William and Mary, Washington Lee University, Virginia, Military Insti tute, and (the University 'of) Virginia, will have delegations in the line. After tie ceremonies of the day are over the military will be given a dinner at the Exposition grounds. General Joseoh E. Johnson has con sented to unveil the e iuestrian statue of General Robt. E. Lee,-May 29th. A Montgomery, Ala. dispatch says Philadelphia capitalists will commence immediately the construction of a mil lion dollar cottqn factory there. IRPENTINh. -New Rem JnurnnlS '.. Sunerin- tendent Diirsaid-T&sterday that the pre-. sent shipments of truck over the Atlan-' lie and Nnrh PoriKna t Pailmarl ar small compared with the shipments of corresponding date last year. Last year at this time of the season, : shipments of iour to six tnousana pacKages were or ing made, while it is four; to six hun dred now. '.;'-. . I ' : i " Red Springs Farmer and Scot tish Cheif: Mr. Andrew I Evans, well- known in this community, died in Gault, Canada on the . 28th of April, aged 81 years. Deceased was a native of Scot land, but has spent the greater part of nis lire in America. He resided for a short time prior to his death in Fay- : etteville,' N. C, but ' returned to his former home in Canada,: during the past year. - ; ' . j ; - : . - .1 Newton Enterprises Farmers re port that their cotton js coming up well and that there will be very little replant7 . ing this spring. ' Corn also is coming up finely and . growing off rapidly. , V There is universal complaint about' the appearance of wheat. It now has the rust and it aoDears that it was lmureri both by the fly and by frost. The out- K-aieign iveius ana uoserver: - The. $850,000 of seven per cent first mort -gage bonds of the Western- North Caro- ina railroad which fell due May 1st are being naid off this week at the Citizens' , Hank. 7 At the Wake County Cat- ';; Tie rixnimt. Mav lfltn next. 1 hnrsrlav Caoti B. P. Williamson will exhibit fif- - teen or twenty head ot high class stan- dard breed trotting and roadster horsesv. ' . consisting of colts, mares and stallions. Asheville Citizen: Hiram Lind-0 sey. a 16-year old boy, working, at the .' mriuiure iaciory, -jumper irom.8, ruov- . recpivoA a nprvniis short! Hi vaaa tin ried into Webb s store, where Dr.' Whit- ' tington examined him apd "pronounced it a concussion of . the nervous system.' . Nothing serious is. apprehended. The boy was in a dazed condition fof some : j lime r1 , j ., lvionroe jnquir erf express: ine jr 7r 1 7 . - rw-ti - farmers report better stands bf cotton than they had the first: week, in June last year. - - Mr. D. A. Sinclair, who uvea miies east oi xown, died on last Friday night.'. He; was about 75 ' years ot age. , r.ltie reports from , . the farmers indicate that the wheat and - oatcrops will; be light, and that the prospects lor corn and cotton never was brighter at this season. -The oldest marked grave in this section probably is at an old family burying ground about a mile northeast of Matthews.- Tt is tThf grave of WiHiam BakerL who died Oct. 27th, 1761, aged 65 yeari. - ; I. Statesville Landmark: States- ' : i 1 i. as sne never ; Knew betore. Wherever men are assembled they are talking fac tories and real estate. A number of new projects are in process of formation and everybody's thoughts are turned toward industrial development. G. "Mirhnls : and John Rosseau, both colored, became involved in a row m I Westmoreland's bar-room Saturday night. They stepped put on the street and commenced active operations when Rosseau pulled out his i Knne (.tor a wonder it was not a razor) ana staDDea fsiicnois in tne back, about i me ugiii. auuuiucr uiaue, ana siasnea across nis arm, cutting a considerable gash. -!!'. i. ' " - Washington Gazette: Some time since anerin fioages received informa tion from Mississippi that men bearing the description as given 6f Adams and JNewton, the fugitives from justice, sup posed to have ; been implicated in the killing of Cox at Blount's Creek, were lurking in the vicinity of Holly Springs.. When our sheriff arrived, Newton had' fled, and it ; was decided not' to take ' Adams, thinking Newton might return. Proper steps were taken to notify Sher iff Hodges of any fnrther developments. It appears that Newton smelled the rat, and never returned. A day or two since a message was received here that Adams had been jailed. It is now expected that he will be i brought j to Raleigh an d thence to this place in the custody of" ' Sheriff Hodges. j j "',' , Charlotte JVcws: Mr. j Clay Barkley, a .prominent! and well tb do farmer, was drowned in the Catawba river at Robinson's ferry, in Iredell county, yesterday. Mr Barkley drove to the ferry in his buggy, and in some manner the horse, buggy and man all went overboard and were swept down the stream. It has! been pratically demonstrated that the granite of Iredell, county is of a quality not to be surpassed by that of any quarry yet developed in the South. For some; time past Iredell granite has been worked by marble men, ' and its superior quality quickly attracted attention. The result is what might have been expected. A party of capi talists from the North nave bought a, quarry and are arranging to do a great wholesale business in granite. The works will be in Iredell county and the neaaquarxers in nanoTxe. Asheville Journal: Mr. Perry Gaston, a prominent farmer living west of the city on Hominy, and well and favorably known in Asheville, died sud denly at his home last evening. Yes- -terday he was in the city enjoying the best of health, and made arrangements ments with a party of friends to go on a fishing excursion to-day. He returned 1 ' - . 1- 1 . . 1 - . 1 . . r. io nis larm m ine evening aqa ate a hearty supper with his familyr At about 9 o'clock he walked oht in the yard and when nearthe numn suddenlv fell tn the. ground. Assistance was immediately at -and, but before he could be carried intn Virtues Via nroe AanA 'TI-ia s.oi,ca . . w.. .v nod C&U. 1 U U1U9U of his death was heart disease. He was 60 years old; The general conven tion of the Presbyterian churchwill be held in this city commencing Mlr)t 15th. The members of the Presbyte- rian church here are busily engaged ar ranging for the accommodation and en- leixaiment oi ine delegates. saddest accidents that has startled this community for sometime, was the mang ling of the body of Conductor Joseph Ross, of this city, under the cars at Spartanburg, S. C, junction, early yes terday morning. Mr. Ross was in charge of No. 21, the north-bound freight tram on the Air Line road. At Spartanburg, . the usual amount of shifting was to be done, and Mr. Ross was looking after the work.' He was on the top of some cars which were to be moved, whea the cars connected with the shifting ; engine struck them. The jar caused him to lose his foothold, and he wc thrown be tween the cars, and was dragged two car-lengths by his clothes, and then drawn under the wheels of the qars and his body crushedMnto three pieces. Mrs. Dorcas N. Ross, wife of the late Dr. F. M.' Ross, died Tuesday night at 11 o'clock, at the residence of her son-in-law, Chas. Henderson, six miles from here, - on the ' Statesville . road. Mrs. Ross was j seventy-three years old. A negro named Andrews had his head severely bruised yesterday by an other negro 'named Jordan, on J. H. Henderson's farm about five'miles from the city: Andrews says that Jordan threw a rock at him, striking him on the back part of the head and knocking him down.. Jordan then secured another rock and proceeded to make a jelly of all of Andrews' head that was susceptible of thus being reduced, Andrews' injuries are very severe, but "his life is not con-. sidered to be in danger. As soon as " Jordan had - completed his work on his victim's head he cleared , out. ; Both the negroes uvea on Mr. tienaerson s iarm. Hannibal Price the new Hay tian minister at Washington, has only' recently returned from exile ; in the Is thmus of Panama, Where President Sal omon sent him. SPIRI1 on a log. round tnp nave uu j
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