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pcj'aaiccMijSlMr. I : I PUBLISHED AT . WILMINGTON, N. C; . " I -at . v. : . $1.00 AIYEAR.IN ADVANCE. 88888888888888888 l Li ! I 88SSS8888S88S8388 8888S888888lliii' SSa8SS3S!!?S3S8g8S8 S4H.0W 8 88888888888888888 8S88888SS88SS8383 'Mtnofti t 88888SS88S8888S88 S$8SS8S3SSSS8SS3 8 8 8 8S888888138S88 W o in Entered at the l'ost Office at Wilmington, N,C, bccoml Ulass Blatter. J .;. . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, f- i - . i The nuWnption price of the Weekly Star is as follows : . I I Single Copy 1 year, postage pakl.......l..,,....$t 00 n montns . . " A months " " 30 IRON PRODUCTION, Last week's Baltimore 'Manufac turers' Record contains an interesting article on American iron production, In 1SS0, based on figures in the an nual statistical report of the-Ameri can Ironj and'Steel Association. The nterestihg statement to Southern people in this report is t hat within jhe. past five years the South has more-thin doubted her output of pig ron, finishing.' in 1889, 1,566,792 Wiis, agiinst 713,835 in 1885. - In commenting upon t lis the re- I . : ' continued wrt says that the bouth ier progress in this industry in 1SS9 iv ith even more noticeable results r ; . i - than in preceding years, Alabama passing in that year to the third place in the list of pig iron produ cing States; being surpassed by only . jPennsylvatvia and Ohio, ''An the pro- hiction of rolled iron Virginia leads :.U the Southern States, while West Virginia rolls nearly all the j steel that is dolled so.uth of thb Potomac and Ohio' rivers. ; Of the total pro- lu'.lioii of nig iron m the I whole 8,516,070 tons in1 .1889, the f.ountrv South produced 18.21 per cent, as compare d with 15.70 of the 4,530,- 8;9 tons produced in 1885l ( Her on' put for last )-ear was nearly one- the iotal product Of the whole country. , ' .Statistics arc not given of the out- put' of it-on ore in the several States, onlv that of several mines being re I ' I ' 1 corded, but all of these, except one, sIikw a 'considerable percentage of increasd over 1888. r And yet the iron deposits of the iith" ave been scarcely- tapped. le part i untoucneci, as i compared with that into which the pick has heen drivenis as the mountain to the mole-hill. Ther$ is not a State solithof the Ohio and Potomac rivers! that does i not anotinu uv iron to a greater or L'ss. extent, several of t hem being .most prodi gaily favored' n this re ohly four Virginia, in which r.nect. and vet . there are of them, Virginia, West " Alabama and Tennessee tli is iiicj ustry may -ha said to have . fair -start; . bud still they made loubled the product in 1 five ; years shows that capitalists who have invested in our iron J properties are not . remark only pushing business with able industry and energy, but also shbwft that thev have confidence in the future of the South as able to hold her own and forge to the front in that industry. flic ull measure of this achieve ment looms 'up when we rea ize that the iron mining and irons; making in- dustry are scarcely ten years old in the South, and that preyions to that but little in tha't line was attempted in the Southern Slates. ; Dur war the Confederate Govern any ot ing the ment established some works in Vir ginia and at Cranberry in this State, but these were 'only to manufacture articles for war purpose; ; and were Tim as specialties in a 1 imiied way. liy:hie State, previous ti the war, a f(-w mines were worked at odd times, to a. small extent, and the iron smelt ed to supply local demand,- but that vvas al . It .might be said Uhat all the iron used in the South was made in the North or imported from Kng land. This is so to a. large extent yet, but the. day is notj far distant when levery pound ot iron or steei, i which i the! South uses in wjiatever ;1. hape t may be moulded br turned out rom.the engine that draws the speeds i!ng trVin to the padjckj on the hen roost, will be made in the South. It is only a question of time and not one" w hich is more improbable than that the South which teft years ago produced little or no pig iron, to-day produces one-fifth of 'the entire out put of1 the whole country. j ' Th increased demand for iron shows that there is no J danger, for "some years, at least, of this j industry heiiigj overdone,. Iron i$J rapidly tak-1 ing the place of wood, stone and brick,! in the4 construction of build ings, boats, bridges, etc!, and as lum ber becomes scarcer iron wtiich is be coming cheaper is rapidly taking its place and is now used in many ways when e not many years ago lumber the case to a was used. This will.be still larger extent in the future. Iron . 's the metal of the world, and the , Sotttlj is the iron territory of the .world. ' The day is coming) even at the present rate of progress, when s'ie will stand inrivallel ,as the iron and steel making region of the i -world. 7. VOL. XXI. MUT0R MENTION. The negroes of Baltimore j had an emancipation celebration Monday night in which there were some note worthy and sensible speeches made. Isaac Meyers, President of the meet ing said: "It is the negro's duty to think for himself. The time has come when he shall not be subser vent to any politician. His;: politics should not be determined by his skin, he should stand side by side, and vote with the white man. If he can not do that his enfranchisement is a failure." Henry Stockbridge who followejlhim said that in this would be found the true solution of the race problem, of which there had been so many attempts at so lution. He advised colored peo ple to "think for themselves in business, religious, home and political affairs."; Rev. -P. H. Braxton -said that "the Republican party did not free the slave from love of him, but from necessity. In God's infinite wisdom the time had come for the abolition of slavery and He simply used the Republican par ty to accomplish that end.j It was the duty of the colored people to de vote themselves zealously to. indus trial pursuits and thus labor for the advancement of their material pros perity." - He continued: ; "No man freed us. We freed our selves.. I "have always voted the Repub lican ticket, but God knows how I will vote hereafter. The moment, the col ored man begins to think for himself he is cried down. He has been the tool yes, the slave of the Republican party. The Republicans propose to protect their interest, no matter who suffers. Our national goverment goes into a forr eien country to protect one man while hundreds are suffering at its capital. So, I say lose all sight of the national gov ernment you can in your own State. I don't say the Democratic party though it has good men it has offered us any thing, but any party offering the colored man privileges now denied should be supported. A foreigner can be- em ployed at the City Hall but a colored man cannot even drive a city cart. There is a color question in every ohurCh as the colored churches testify by then existence. The attempt ot Senator I n- galls to defend the negro was the worst blow the race received for twenty years. The South is the home of the colored man, and there are his white friends. Go North and try to enter a train and you will realize the truth of what I say. The negro is free nowhere, but in the lan guage of ) Fred. Douglass, 'Let him alone.' " ' ' There is a good deal of good hard sense in this, and it is based upon facts, too. .-When, the negroes, espe cially those of the South, begin to think this way, feel this way and act this way they will have entered upon the road that leads to true freedom and. to independence? The refusal of the Supreme Court of the United States to grant the writ of error in the case of Kemmler, thie wife murderer, under sentence of death by electricity in the State of New York, efids the proceedings as far as the courts go. .The Court holds that the death penalty by elec tricity, as provided for by the laws of New York, is neither a "cruel" nor "unusual" mode of punishment in the legal sense of that phrase, and hence it does not come within the scope of the 14th amendment .under which the application for the writ was made. This has been a remark able case all through. Kemmler was convicted about two years ago of the murder of his wife, the murder being marked by peculiar atrocity, and was sentenced to death by electricity, the first man so sentenced under the new law providing that mode of death in place of hanging. Then that class ofj people who seem to be so consti tuted that all their sympathy goes out to the convicted murderer, be gan to' move in his behalf, declaring that the death penalty by electricity was cruel and barbarous. . They feed lawyers and had the case car ried from one court to another, re sulting in several stays of execution It is said that at an: early stage of the proceedings; the Westinghouse electric motor company took an active interest' in trying to prevent the execution, for fear that the use, of the motor in capital punishment would create a prejudice against it, and affect its sales. Thus from maudlin sympathy in the first in stance,! and from sympathy and in terest combined in the second, miserable wretch, with neither friends nor money, had , his case carried through all the courts ot. the State, up to the Supreme Court of the United States, his execution stayed several times, the last time when the hour had been set, the jury to wit ness the execution summoned, every thing in readiness and the man himself accepting his fate, apparently ready to meet it, and every recourse known teethe law exhausted to save his life With this final decision of the Court of last resort the State law will take its course and Kemmler will pay the penalty that the savage brute should have paid long ago. - ' ! Rev. E. E. Jacksonj colored, who moved to Hartford, Conn., couldn't L rent a house, such as he: would live i'4, because people up there would nt live in a house which had been occupied by colored people, and for that reason house owners declined to rent to them. !w But there is no pre judice against the negro in Hart fordwhile he remains in the South. AKING THE GENSUS. ENUMERATORS APPOINTED FOR THIS i DISTRICT. j ' ; The-,; "Work to Begin the First Monday in June The Questions to be Asked Penalty for Refusal to Answer, i i I . TJie supervisor for this district, Mr, C, if. tockey, has received the list, of enumerators as appointed by the Super intendent of Census, Washington, D. C... an q was busy yesterday mailing certin catfs to the appointees," one hundred and forty-six in all, as follows: . . .... . . New Hanover Wilmington First Wrd4-G. Jarvis powen, Jn. W. Gallo way. John S. W. Eagles, John H. Brown, John C. Williams. SecondfWard L, G- jpherrv. Third Ward Miss Cora S. Bafdeh." Fourth Ward- Miss Kate L. Caraway. Fifth Ward Charles W. Ncjrwood, George W. Robinson,( John J. HiU.V Cape Fear Township Luke Grdyp Harnett John "A. Holt; Mason- boib and Federal Point Wm. McLau- rirei .-- ; :."';. ' '. iiladen Jno. S. Cain, Monroe Hes ter Bruce M.i Roberts, Alex. McDom aid) Robt. Li Bryan, Jas. K. Melvin, Alfred Atkinson, Daniel Leonard, Jno. J. Bright, Rufus Register, Jno. Newell, Daniel M. Sutton, Wm. T. Pridgen. . fjrunswick Silas I. King,. Wm. H. Woodward, ' SamT P. Swain, Jas. C. Brpoks, Dan'l R. Walker. f ' Columbus Eli M. Powell, Ino. W. Sfuliing. J. J. C. Gore,. Jno. Register, IMhel P. Strickland. Tno. W. Jacobs. Jnb. A. Maultsby, Jno. A. .Wright, Jas. Ki Fields, Armistead McL. Moore, Al- berti D. Lewis. umberland Jno. C. Currie, Hector M Pate, Simon Goodwin, Warren Gir- ve Allan A. McCaskill. Jas. M. Jessup, C. Blocker, Miss Ethel Wicker. Jn W) M. Monroe, Malc.bm N. Monroe, Wn:-jW. McDugald. ' Rob. 1 M. Qrrell, ThTos. H. Williams. ; ' . : uplin Harold E. Blackmore, Rich ard W. Boyette, Kinsey Jones, Hendcr- soa Jones, Jonn i. Maxwell, L-atayette SiifFithj. Parker . D. Robbins, Caleb D. Bridham. Scott Stanford Franciscus H. Ki4stiir, Sickles O. Beaman, Abraham RilMiddleton. IlarnettDavid Harrington, John MLepd, Charles Rich, Geoj W. Turner, Allen B. Godwin, Fred. H. Thomas, Dyican Darroch, Robt. L. Greenc Cor neous Hodges. jloore David S. Barrett, Dan'l C. B. Burns,! Kenneth C. Burns, Jno. Godfrey, MijKinnon, Thos. HbrnCr, os. M. Alfx. Crook, Thad. D. McLean, Jno W. Jas. L. Currie, Dan'l H. Cox, Kelly JbfK. Perry, Chas. W. Foushee.- Onslow Marquis L. Ward, Jos. D. Cjigletoh, Thad. Barber, David J. San dets, lAug. C. Huggins. ender George F.Walker, James H. Chlvin, John A. Jones, Richard Eagle. Jjn W. Westbrook, Luke W. McKoy, Win. E. Cowan. Owen B. Garriss, D. . dfibett. . ,' ' !. Richmond George R. Ballard, Jas. T. QlappeJl, Jno.- T. Cameron, Andrew J. Butler, Wm. W. Napier, James P. Mc- Walter P. Evans, D. O. Cameron, El sha C. Terry, Wm, II. Quick, obeson Wm. H. Clendenning, Jno. SvlLewis, ' Thos. B. Russell, Alva Law- wm. u. uxenaine, Lewis j. Law Thos. A. Norment Jr., Arthur A. ford, Alex. D. McLeod, Neill T. MtArthur, Wm. J. Curpie,! Wm. G. Mc Lean, Rowland A. Hedgepeth, Adam C. Ijfidgers, Ihaa lvey, tdmuna L.. r-nu- Mfs-M . . .-' jpampson William E. Herring, vv. . lierritt, Fred. F. Newton, John E. Fow ler, Rev. C. P. lerome, D, P. Dameron, s. J. Wilson, George W, Highsmith, WmL S. Jackson, John L, Autry, Wm. J. Fisher, Daniel A. Cooper, lohn Home, dscir J. Peterson, James H. Robinson. Tie following are the questions to be asitea Christian name in full.. y Whether a soldier, sailor or ma- during the civil war. (United States cjr Confederate), or widow of such per- n 3. Relationship to head of family. Whether white, black, mulatto, 4 uadraon, octoroon, Chinese, Japanese Indian. Sex. Age at recent birthday , If under 1 fear of age in months. Whether -6ngle. married, widowed, !r divorced. - '-!!: 8 Whether married during the cen-us- year (June 1, 1889, to May 31, 1890.) 9, Mother of how many (children, and lumber of these children living. I This mauiry is to be made concern- infflall women who are or have been 'married, including those widowed or di vorced'. I' 10. Place of birth. M 11. 12. 13. 14. Place of birth of father. Place of birth of mother. Number of years iu United States. Whether natura izpn. 7 15. Whether naturalization papers haye been taken out. IO. Profession, trade or occupation 17. Months unemployed during cen- tfsus year (June l, issu, to ivray ai, ;'18!)0.) : ! : -i S. AttpnHnnrc! at school (in months) during the census year (June 1, 1889, to May 31, 1890.) ,19. Able to read. -20. Able to write: 21. Able to speak English. If not, the language or dialect spoken ?2. Whether suffering from acute or chronic disease, with name of disease and length of time afflicted f a person is suffering from acute or chronic disease so as to be unable to at tehd to ordinary Dusiness or duties, give the name ot the disease and the lengtn of time that it has lasted. . 23. Whether defective in mind, sight hearing, or speech, or whether crippled maimed or detormed, with name ot de feet. : ' ! i! ',.".-' Jf a person is mentally br physically defective, state the nature of the defect. 24. Whether a prisoner, convict.home.- less child or pauper. 95.' Is the home you live is hired, or is lit owned by the head or by a member of the family! 1 1 ?6. If owned by head br member of family, is the home" free from mortgage k .-, .':. ! 27. If the head of family is a farmer, is the farm which he cultivates hired, or is it bwned by him br by a member of his familv? ! i . 1 . ; 28. If bwned bv head or membet bf familv. is the farm free from debt? r It is nbt within the chbice of any in- hnhitantrof the Uuited i States whether he will or will not communicate the in WEEKLY WILMINGTON, N. C, formation required by the census law. By the 15th section of the Act approved March 1, 1889, it is provided: . " That each and every person . more than 20 years of age, belonging to any family residing in any enumeration dis trict or sub-division, and in case of the absence of the heads and other members of any such family, then any representa tive of such family shall be and each of them hereby is required, if thereto re quested by the superintendent, super visor, or enumerator, to render a true account to the best of his or her knowl edge of every person belonging to such family in the various particulars required by law, and whoever shall willfully fail or refuse shall be guilty bf a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hun dred dollars." I ' CRIMINAL COURT. A Few Cases Disposed of Testerday -Ke- port of the Grand Jury. In the Criminal Court yesterday the following cases were disposed oU'-x'yK I . Richard Cooperj" convicted of assault and battery, was fined $20 and costs. T James Evans, charged with assault and battery. Not guilty. ! The case of Jno. L. Barker, charged with-slander, was nol. grossed. The grand jury made their usual visit to the jail and ' county poor house and submitted the following report : J We have examined the county jail and find it clean and in good sanitary condi tion and the premises well cared, for. Also, we have visited the county poor house and house of correction and find that the temporary buildings are not sufficient to accommodate the inmates, and we respectfully recommend the erec tion 'at once of a temporary building, say 15x30 feet, for the better accotnmo dation of the inmates. We find-that the superintendent is discharging his duty as well as possible under existing cir cumstances and that the 'food is ample and well prepared. ' Signed A. J . GRADY, 1-ore n. The grand and petit juries were dis charged for the term and the court in the afternoon took a recess until 10 a. m. to-day, when a few cost cases will be called. Death of Mr. John MacRao. Mr. John MacRae died in this city last night after an illness of some five weeks of typhoid fever. He was a na tive of Fayetteville, N. C, but had been a resident of Wilmington since the war, and for years past had been in the ser vice of the Carolina Central Railroad Co., at its office m this city. His brother, Judge James C. MacRae of Fayetteville, who was called to the city several days 3, has been constant in attendance upon him and was with him when he died. Mr. John MacRae was about fifty years of age and unmarried. He was a man of unblemished character, kind-hearted and generous, and was greatly beloved by his family and friends, who were un remitting in their care and attention during his illness. j SHE SAVED THE TRAIN. A Brave Young Lady of Greensboro. . A young lady of Greensboro, one of the students at the Female College in that place. with rare presence of mind pre vented what might have been a serious "smash-up" on the C. F. & Y. V. rail road on Tuesday last. Three or four box-cars had been left standing on the main track near the siding close to the College, and the train for Mount Airy was rapidly approaching in that direc tion. The young lady mentioned Miss Alderman seeing that a collision was inevitable unless the train was stopped, snatched a red shawl from one of her companions, ana witn tnis improvised danger signal" waved the train down in time to prevent a collision. i It is said that officers and employes ftf the road have united in preparations for a. fitting testimonial to be presented to the young lady, in recognition of" the forethought and , timely action that saved the train from disaster. ! Death of Maj. W. L. Young. The sad intelligence ' was received here last night that Maj. W. L. Young, a real estate agent of this city, died yes terday at 4 p. m. at the residence of his brother, in Apex, Wake county. His remains, it is understood, will be inter red to-day at Cary. , Maj. Young left here a few weeks ago, accompanied by his devoted wile, to seek recuperation from an' attack .of pneumonia, which' had left him greatly prostrated. He was a man of varied attainments and great information, par ticularly on subjects pertaining to the Cape Fear section. During the war he was stationed at Wilmington, and con structed an elaborate system of fortifica tions around the city. He was greatly interested in and had given much of his time and means to the investigation and development of the agricultural and mineral resources of. this section of the State. " , ' Intelligence of his death will be re ceived with sorrow by many friends. Who held him in the highest apprecia tion and esteem. The Eioa Market. The Savannah News prints the fol lowing, which may be of interest to rice planters and merchants here: ; . The rice market is very strong just at present, and there is little or no stock to be had of clean rice. By June 1st there will remain in the mills only about 13,000 bushels of rough rice, which when milled, will make something like 1,200 barrels of "clean." This will be about all the available stock ; to supply the demand until the new crop arrives, except, of course, the small amounts of rough that usually come to the market late in the season. The sales on Tues day were heavy: 1,050 barrels were pur chased by W. G. Morrel from one hold ing. This is said to be the; largest sin gle sale or purchase in this market in long time, and netted some $16,000, The rice will be shipped to ( Charleston and New York. It is believed that prices cannot go up any higher, as they are now on a par with the prices of foreign rice, and any further advance in the domestic grain, will offer an induce ment to traders to deal in the imported article. : 1 It is hard work to be good. After the average man has put in about half a day trying at it he feels like laying off indefinitely. Ketdsville Keview. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 190. THE PRESBYTERIANS SOUTHERN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ASHEVILLE. AT Foreign Missions Reports of Committees The Temperance Question, Etc, By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ASHEVILLE, May 21. In the Presby terian General Assembly to-day the report of the Committee on Foreign Missions was read by Rev. C. R.- Hemp hill, chairman, apd yas considered by sections. The . first section proposed to transfer the -ministers' fund from the Clergy's Friendly Society to the Presby terian ministers' fund of Philadelphia, and was adopted. The next section, an nuities to families, was adopted. lhe third resolution was an overture from Columbia Presbytery, recommend ing the publication of a mission paper for children. The committee recommended that the first number each month of the Children's Friend be given up to this purpose. Adopted, j . 1 he fourth section was an overture from Columbia Presbytery, recommend ing the training; of young women for foreign missionary work. Adopted, f Other recommendations adopted were as follows: That churches shall pay this comingyear $115,000 at least for foreign, missionary wont; tnattne executive Committee be authorized to commission four additional rmen to missionary wbrk in the Congo Free State; that the question ot the duty ot enlisting in . foreign mis sion helds be impressed on- clergymen and theological students; that women be appointed to canvass each congregation for subscriptions; to the Missionary, and that cub rates for that paper be main tained; that all Sabbath Schools be en couraged to takej part in the Children's Day exercises oni the 1st Sunday in J une, and that the Assembly cordially com mend officers and members of the Exe cutive Committee for their zeal and en ergy. . i ; i . . i . 1 he report of the committee was then adopted as a whole. "j Kev. VV. M. btevens spoke on r oreign Missions, and was followed by-1 RevJ C. K. Hemphill, Rev. J. W. Allen and Dr. W.T.Thompson. Col. J.J. Wade ad. dressed the Assembly on the circulation of Church papers. i I lhe report of the Committee on Bills and Overtures was read. The first sec tion was on the Peace Memorial, intro duced a few days ago by Dr. Campbell. The committee submitted both majority and minority reports: The majorityjre port favored the adoption of Dr. Camp bell s paper, and filling of blanks in. the Committee of Correspondence witji oth er Christian churches, with the names of Reverends Wm. A, Campbell. D. D.. Moses D. Hoge, - D. D., and Marshall Gilliam. Thev furthermore recommend ed that Rev. Wm. Aj Campbell, D. D., and Rev. M. D. Hoge. D. D., be appoint ed delegates to the Assembly in the! in terest of the peace contemplated in 1891, but tnat this Assembly does not by this appointment of delegates commit itself n advance , to any measure that this Peace Congrees may adopt. ' lhe minority report regarded it as un wise for the Assembly,rthe highest cburt of the Church, to take any action in the case, but expressed the fullest sympathy with the object ot Dr. Campbell s paper. lhe petition irom the Anti-Lottery League was next taken up. and the re commendation was made for the Assem bly to take action against lotteries, j Dr. bhearer read the report of the! Ju dicial Committee on the appeal of Rev. D. P. P. Robinson, from the decision of the Assembly of 1887. Mr. Robinson was a minister; of the Presbytery, of Mecklenburg, and charges were preferred against him by his wife. The Synod of North Carolina found against him, land he appealed to the Assembly of 1887. There he was suspended, and in 1889 he was restored to the ministry, but with out the right of communion. Mr. Rob inson appealed on the ground thal the actions of the preceding Assemblies weje inconsistent, f he committee, in an elab orate paper, admitted as much, and re commended that Mr. Robinson be re stored to the foil rights and privileges of the ministry. Adopted. . I With regard to jthe overture asking co-operation with census enumerators, the report stated! that the entire request was not recommended, but e only ! that stated Clerks ot fresbytenes should be asked to co-operate. Adopted.. Dr. Davies, of the Committee on Theo logical Seminaries,! submitted a report. The report stated that the condition of the different institutions was gratifying. At school at Union there were seventy students; Columbia Theological Semi nary had twentyfffve matriculated dur ing the past year. The Institute for Colored Ministers had twenty-nine stu dents,. all doing !good work. Adopted, lhe report of the committee on, for eign correspondence was read and, with amendment, i adopted as a whole. A motion was made by Dr. Scottj that Dr. W. A. Campbell bear in person a letter to the Irish Jubilee, at Belfast, next July, Ordered. W. W. Cox moved to suspend the rules and j-econsider the action of the Assemby on thi paper op Temperance, submitted by the icommSttee. Carried. Mr. Cox moved to reconsider the vote. Adopted! j Mr. Cox then offered a resolution to refer the matter to a special committee, who shall present a more succinct state1 ment of the: question. Mr. Cox: said that the action of the Assembly had been misconstrued, even by some of the members ot tae Assembly. 1 he Assem bly should go on record, he thought, as unmistakably favoring temperance re- form. Rev. W. A. Alexander offered a sub stitute that t!ie thanks of this Assembly be. extended to the special committee for earnest work in this matter, and that no further action ibe taken on it, and that this Assembly affirms the deliver ance of previous Assemblies on I tem perance. I: ; Rev. George Summer did not think the Assembiv should reconsider the former action. j - Rev. Mr. Alexander s substitute was adopted. j f The report of the Committee oil Sys tematic Beneficence showed the fpllow ing amounts to j have been expended during the oast year for different pur poses: Home Missions: $03,000; Evan gelical Work, $48,000; Invalid Fund $12,157; Foreign Missions, $77,000; Edu cation, $32,000; Publication, $su.uu,u, ana for Tuscaloosa summary $5,225. Adopted The report of the Auditing Cominittee was presented and adopted. T Rev. Mr. Flournoy submitted a reso lution asking that a committee be ap pointed to crepare papers on such sub jects as the "love of money," "Christian givers and worldly amusements," and that copies be sent to ministers with the request that sermons be preached on those topics. The question was liberally discussed, and when Rev. Dr. Hemphill rose and remarked that as long! as he was in the ouloit i he would preach on those subiects from a sense of duty, and that he did not consider that anybody had to tell him how or when to ;do it, and that the Assembiv was constantly lowering itself in not onlv the- eyes of Presbvterians but of ministers by such acts as the one! proposed. The resolution was tabled. TAB; ! The report i of the" Committee on Secretaries was submitted, as was the re- grt of the Committee on the Revised icectoryof Worship. The latter ad vised that no change be made. -Adopted. The leport of the Committee on Col ored Evangelical .Work recommended the appointment of a field secretary. Adopted. . i i ( " Asheville, May 22. In the Presby terian General j Assembly the report of th Standing Committee! on Publication was considered seriatim.! It was adopted after striking out a ! clause recommend. in that the report bf the committee be printed at the same office as the regular proceedings, f j , An overture was read from Atlanta Presbytery asking the Assembly to con sider the subject of psalmody, with a view to supplying the Church with new hymn books better adapted to the use of churches than the present one. The committee recommended that the over ture be declined. ! : j ; , It was recommended j that no books, tracts or other literaturd should be pub lished by the committee which have not been examined by at least two of the ex aminers and approved by a majority of the committee; i ! '! j ! The report of the Standing Commit tee on Education was j also considered seriatim. A portion was adopted at once. That part reebmmending that $25,000 be raised to aid in the educatibn .of young ministers; called out several speeches, but was finally adopted. The report of the committee, was then adopt ed as a whole. ! ! ; j . ; The report of the Committee on Sab-' bath Schools, -showing j their gratifying condition, was read and adopted. The report on systematic beneficence was read, and answers j to a number of overtures, being part of this report, ask ing for the repeal of thd present schedule of collections, and reebmmending that collections be taken: up during the months named for causes specified. Two sections were adopted. The third section, which was considered too broad for the Assembly to endorse was drop ped, when the time carne for the adop tion of the report as a whole. Dr. Davies earnestly opposed it oil the ground that it Was revolutionary and that it was op posed to the Directory of Worship, and Dr. Shearer seconded him on the ground that the adoption,of the report would put Presbyterians on a level with Methodists and other churches. , The report favored the issuing of licenses to preach to men hot regularly educated for the work, This was contested ground, and the Assembly prolonged its session halt an hour to discuss it. At the end of that time the vote was taken on its adoption and it; was lost. lhe Committee on Bills and Over tures submitted reports. The first over turewas one from Greenville Presby tery, asking that the Constitution be amended so that elders and deacons be required to take 'ah examination on Church doctrines and rules before they could be ordained. The committee re commended that this; overture be dock eted and spread on the minutes to come up before the next J Assembly. After some discussion the recommendation was accepted. S lhe. report of the Committee on Narrative was read by Dr. Jacobs. It stated that sixty-eight Presbyteries had submitted reports and they were based only.on partial reports from churches. Not more than 30 per cent, of the churches had made any report what ever. This failure ! to report was- to be regretted.; The I. state of ; things from Presbyteries heard from were, however, . highly satisfactory. It was estimated that not more than four-fifths of the population were professed Chris tians. One hundred years ago.it was one to twenty-five. The Sunday news paper was denounced. Contributions m different churches were spoken of as satisfactory. The report was adopted, and the Committee was discharged. Dr. Campbell, from the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, read, a letter to be sent to the; Reformed Church bf America, acknowledging receiDt of d letter from the delegate appointed by the Reformed Church to bear greetings to this Assembly. The Assembly would send no delegate this - year, but assured the Reformed Church of their unabated interest and joy at the tokens of divine favor, and at the prosperity with which they have been blessed. lhe report; of the Committee on the Sabbath was brought up and adopted. .The last clause refers to Sunday newspa pers as encouraging evil. 1 hey .flood the land with pernicious literature, and church members were asked not to coun tenance them in any way. i Rev. Dr. White, ot Texas, introduced a resolution asking for the appointment bf a chair of Bible study in the 1 heolo- gical Seminary, and Dr. Hemphill intro duced one asking; that the salary for 1890 for John W. Dabney, recently de ceased missionary to Brazil, be appro priated for his lamily. Adopted. Asheville, May 24. In the South ern Presbyterian General Assembly to- jday - a paper touching the proposed Peace Congress was taken up. It was moved that i the minority report of the committee, which I approves church ac tion on the paper be adopted, instead of the majority report not favoring such action. After considerable discussion the report was adopted. ! The special committee on evangeliza tion of the colored race recommended the organization ; of colored Sunday Schools and the appointment of a field missionary who shall labor for their evangelization. Dr. btillman, superintendent ot lus- caloosa Colored Seminary, was sure that evangelization ,of; the colored people would settle the race problem. When they were induced to give up their su perstitions and embrace true religion. there would no longer be a race prob lem. The results already achieved in dicated the importance of the work, The speaker believed .the colored peo ple were as susceptible of improvement as any people on earth. The Assembly should help educate colored ministers to preach to their people. G. H. Fleming, chairman of the Com mittee on Evangelization of the Colored Race, said Northern preachers had been tried among the liegroes, and they had failed to do the good hoped for. The report of the standing committee on the Revised Directory of Worship recommended, first, that the question of revision he postponed Indefinitely; second, the striking out of chapter 10 of the Revised Directory of Worship, The report was adapted, Col. J. 'J Wade offered a resolution of thanks to the citizens of Asheville for their bountiful and elegant hospitality, Adopted bv a rising vote. Mr. Holt, of Selma, Ala., offered a resolution commending the work of sea men s chaplains. Adopted. The Moderator stated that the clerk reported no further business before the bodv. Devotional exercises louowea. and the Moderator 'pronounced the benediction, dissolved the Assembly, and called the next year's Assembly to meet in the First Presbyterian church at Birmingham. Ala., on the third Thurs day in May. ; . . I- - ; - ; " Talk up your own town, and extol the virtues of your own community, but remember that jNortn Carolina is enti tied to the devotion ot all her sons. New Berne Journal, i NO. 29 TH E LEE STATU E. Arrangements for the Unveiling Ceremo niesThe Programme of Exercises, i Richmond, Va., . May 20. Besides uniformed troops from many Southern States who have signified their intention of being present at the unveiling of the equestrian statue of. General Lee, many veteran organizations will be in line from Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas'. :: ;'- ; ! While orders in regsrd to the parade and programme of exercises have not yet been issued, it is understood that uniformed troops and veterans will be given a position in line in the order in which the btates seceded. This will put South Carolina first. Uniformed troops will be under the command of Brigadier General C. J. ! Anderson, ' of Virginia. It has been determined to have vocal and instrumental music at the unveiling of the statue. The hymn, "How Firm a oundation," will be sung by the ..vast assemblage, with a full hrass brand ac companiment, i '; A private telegram received here from New York announces the arrival in that city from Europe of Miss Mary Lee, the eldest daughter of the late General R. r.. uec , M. E. CHURCH SOUTH. Proceedings of the General Conference. at St. Iiouis. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. St. Louis, May 22. In the General Conference of the Methodist Church this morning, the report of the Commit tee on Missions was taken up again and a long debate ensued on the paragraph in it recommending the appointment of three Secretaries of Missions. There is but one now employed. There was a good deal of opposition to this, and an effort was made to comproniisc on two. but the recommendation ot the report finally carried; and Missions will have three secretaries hereafter. The Conference then received Rev. ohn Shafer, of Kansas City, who came on a fraternal mission. He gave a re view of the history of the African Church in this eountry, suggested that missibnaries whb wbUld accbmplish the greatest good in Africa were negroes, and asked the aid and support of ths Methodist Church to send men to the Dark Continent to work for the cause o Christ. ; St. Louis, ! May 23. Bishop Hay- good, the newly consecrated Bishop, presided over the General Conference of the M. iL. Church bouth this morning. After religious exercises, and adoption of a memorial' on the death o Rev. Nathan Scarettj, of Kansas City, the regular order was suspended to allow the consideration of a committee report recommendingthat the Board ot Church Extension establish a system ot mutual insurance for churches. This led to a long debate, ij DAMAGING STORM. Great Loss Sustained in Portions of Ken tucky and "West Virginia. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Cincinnati, May 24. Several coun ties of Kentucky and some of the more southern counties of West Virginia were swept last night by a tornado. The heat air day was oppressive in the extreme, and a number of prostrations are re ported. About 6 o'clock the southern skies became suddenly overcast with a blue black cloud of an omineus appear ance, and the play of lightning and peal? of thunder were appalling. j . . Keports from Mount bterhng, fans, Lexington, Maysville, Nicholasville, Cynthiana, Corinth and other points are to the effect that a dangerous storm raged. At Nicholasville thousands of dollars worth of damage was done. In Harrison county the tobacco crop was almost entirely ruined and the loss will reach a great sum; , At Guyandottej W. va., the road lead ing to the ferry is washed away, to gether with; a portion of the front streets and a dozen building lots. -It will cost $25,000 to repair the damage. T he telephone line to Cythiana, Ky., went down at 9 o'clock, in the midst of the terrific storm at that place, which is seventy-four miles inland, showipg that the storm was of a wide extent. All of the steamboats on the river were com pelled to go to shore. At Benson's Mrs. riubbell was dan gerously hurt and four houses blown down. Some men, arriving at 9 o'clock on the Louisville & Queen road, say they passed through bne of the mbst furious storms they ever saw. lrees were twisted and torn in all directions, the streams were bank full, and they believe many lives were lost. Lexington tells of a storm ot 'unusual violence. Indefinite reports from Somer set, Richmond, Woodruff and other points, tell of great damage to farmers property, but no loss of lif e. i EARTHQUAKE. . Billings, Mont., Seriously Stricken Two Buildings Thrown Down and other Dam age Done, j ' . . By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Billings' May 24. At an early hour yesterday a very severe earthquake shock was felt all over this county, There were two separate visitations The inhabitants were considerably alarmed, but the disturbance was not repeated. Iwo brick houses were shaken down and cousiderable glass shattered. ! Pictures and bric-a-brac suffered cbrrespondingly. A dance was in progress at the hotel, and the severity of the shock tfoored several dancers and left the party in fright. SPEAKER REED'S MOTHER, Dies Unexpectedly at her Home near Portland, Me. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, May 24 Speaker Reed received a telegram announcing the death of his ; mother this !mbrning, at Deering, a suburb of Portland, Me. She has been in failing health for some time, but a fatal termination of her'ill jiess was not expected so soon. The Speaker starts for home to-morrow. ELECTRIC SPARKS. A Saratoga, N. Y., dispatch says plan for the appointment of a Revision Committee passed the Presbyterian Gen eral Assembly unanimously by a rising vote yesterday morning. M The equestrian statue of General Lee was placed in position on the monument yesterday. I Gov; McKinney says there will be no singing during the , unveiling ceremonies. Texas will be represented in the parade by a military company. New York! May. 24. Total visible supply of cotton for the whole world 2,- 137,436 bales, of whicn j,34Z,530 bales are American, against 1,974,193 ; and 1,279,493 respectively last year; receipts at all interior ; towns 4,oi bales; re ceipts at plantations 7,787 bales;; crop in sight 7,048,oiK Dales. ' j ' r SPRITS TURPENTINE. k Mo ganton Herald ;We are in formed that a magnificent; deposit of asbestos has been discovered in the South Mountains near Morgantbn. mere is more work going on in Mor4 ganton this season than ever before in its history. Every laboring man in the town who wants to work has more than! heean do. . "' " i1' -. Washmgtdn. Gazettew An old! cblbred man sailing dbwn 1 1 the river, caught a large turtle and placed him in the boat, and tied him to the bottom. In! a moment of forgetfulness he slipped too near the amphibian and a piece of the old man's heel, the size of a silver dollar, was bitten out, whereupon he was so in furiated that he sawed off: the turtle's head. . ) ij " - Oxford Ledger: Roxboro is coming to the front, and at no slow pace, ' There are twenty-eight .new buildings ir eourse of erection, ,and many more in contemplation. Mr. Nat Moore, bl Dutchville township is 84 years old and is hale and hearty. He is' certainly re markably well preserved as he plows every day and steps along with the al acraty of a man of 40. ; jj . Red Springs Farmer and Scot tish Chj'cf: As the season advances the crop prospeet brightens. The weather has been, exceptionally gopd, season: just right. - -Work on the Presbyte rian Church is nearly completed, Th : tower is finished and inside work nearly so.. The Church is commodious, anc when done will be comfortable' and at tractive. : The Methodist Churcl ' will be an exceedingly pretty structure when completed T Cbncbrd -Standard: Mr. W. A Smith brought in some specimens or gold ore from Billy Best's gold mine . It is among the finest wej have eve -seen; it surpasses nine-tenths. Mrj, Smith has leased it, and mbst probably the mine will be worked, but to what extent we are yet unable to Say. There is a shaft already put down to the depth ot 38 feet; the vein is from two to thre .feet in width, and improves in value the 'deeper the shaft is dug. I Germarrton Times: win Surry county, on the farm of D- H. White on Mitchell's river, is a . j tree which measures 13 feet and 4 inches in cirj cumference. The tree is of the weep ing willow species. There was 4 heavy snowstorm in Watauga county last Wednesday. Thursday morning the mountains were white with snow. There was also a lively snowstorm in the Elk-Park section of Mitchell county. It is an occurrence very unusual in May, j Rockingham Spirit of Y the South Died, in this vicinity, on Monday last, after a protracted illness of dropsy, Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, reliGt of the late Solomon Morgan, aged 76 j years. John Leak, a one-arm colored man who has served a term in the State peniten tiary for larceny, has been lodged in jail in default of $200 bail to answer to the charge of assaulting Mrs. William Allen, on Randolph street, in the fore part of last Monday night. He caught the lady by the arm whilst she and her daughter were returning home from down street where they had been making some pur chases of merchandise, and jit is thought that his purpose was robbery. 1 - Asheville Citizen: Mr. Joseph A. Branner, a well known citizen bf Asheville, died at his home1 on the Col lege campus at 7.25 last! night. L. There was a rumor on the streets to-day to the effect that J. H. Inman, president of the Richmond and Danville railroad is negotiating for the Spears property, in Northeast Asheville, for a site for his $250,000 hotel. There are i 100 acres .bf the land. Waddy Ward, a colored youth, was committed to jail this morn ing for tarceny. About two weeks ago he was given a package of silk, valued at $9, by II. Redwood & Co. to delivter to a customer. The package did not reach "its destination. When arrested Ward said he had taken the package to his mother at Greenville, S. C. -Lenoir Topic: Mr. Lansing Deal, who died in Watauga on the 4th of May was 74 years old. The rust on wheat has hot made any progress in a week and the general verdict is ; that in that time the crop has improved in appear ance. The turnpike from the Wa tauga Hotel to Blowing Rock properj is to be made twenty feet wide. - Mrs. Polly Decker, aged 90, mother of Elka- nah and Elish Decker, died last Friday, and was buried at Collier's on Sunday. -Everybody who has been to the Bee Mountain Mining Company's plant and seen the immense amount bf machinery that they are placing down, says that the company, is doing a good work tor the county. The immense quartz crushej- is a great thing for the county and is the only one west of Union county. Own ers of mining lands can carry their quartz to the Bee Mountain Company by the ton and have it chished and thereby tell how rich in gold it is. j I Greensboro Workman: The crop of wheat and oats in this county will hardly be an average one,! Many farm ers complain .of not having a stand. The cause is generally attributed to insects, wnich injured it during the warm win ter weather. Dr. ). G. Gordon, of Winston, stepped into the; jewelry estab lishment of Mr. W. B.j Farrar some days ago, and left his watch for repairs. A memorandum with the watch states that the time-keeper itself is 500 years old, and the man himself claims to be 100 years old, having been born in 1790. His father, Basil Gordon; he says, was born in Edinburgh. Scotland. Dr. Gor don, we understand, is but slightly gray and does not appear at all decrepit. He claims to have fought in the war of 1812, and toliave been a surgeon in Ithe army of the Confederacy. The watch is a curious affair, the works being painted red, and having fiery red jewels. Asheville Tournal : Revenue Agent E. C." Murrow and General Depu ty A. C. Patterson, with a posse of nine men,' made a raid early Sunday morning on moonshiners in the southern partof Burke cbunty and captured five large blockade" distilleries. The stills were destroyed together with 150 gallons of whiskey and 8,00 gallons of beer. One" "blcjekader" was captured, but managed to escape. Shots were fired but no one was injured. It; is at .least twenty years since wolves ventured as close to Asheville as within ten miles. Yester day one made its appearance seven miles from here, on the Swannanoa rivcr.j and was killed by Mr. John Hemphill, whose sheep have been the victims of his wolf ship for some time. It measured six feet six inches from tip to tip, and the skull and skin were brought to town. ; His tusks were "over an inch in length, j Asheville Citizen: . J. Gudger, one of the best known residents of Western North Carolina, died at his home on Sandy Mush, Madison county, this morning at 2 o'clock, of diabetes. He was 74 years old and the father of Hon. A. H. Gudger and Mrs. W; W. Rollins, of this city, and J. M. Gudger, of Marshall. The Morristown and Cumberland Gap Railroad, of which Col. J. G. Martin, of this city, is Presi dent, is an assured fact. Col. Martin has written that grading will be com menced in June, all the necessary capi tal having been subscribed, besides the handsome subscriptions voted by Mor- ristown, Grainger and Hamblin coun ties. The contract has been let for the building of the Asheville and Bristol Railroad. The line is to be fifty miles long, and will run from Asheville towards Bristol, Tenn. The work is to be begun August 1,; 1890. and must be completed by March 1, 1892. One hun dred miles of the French Broad Valley Railroad have also been let to contract to be begun June 20,' 1890, and finished bv December L 18911 Tames Raymond, of New York, is the .contractor fpr both roads. ' ;0
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