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REED S WHIP.
Reed cracked his wlhip but it was
not to tig enough to reach all of the-
iSenators .and those that it did not
; roach are not afraid! of its crack.
;fn this whip-in "game his ring
.manager was Congressman J. J.
' I'.eklcn, of New York!, who' is Chair
man of the Republican Congressional
r A iimmittee
In his capacity as chair-
ni .Reed found him
a convenient
iI:k.1 a willing instrument to play the
vaip-in game on the Senators. Be
i.jving in the. power of the press,'in a
i.id as 'well as in a good cause, Chair
iiiun Uelden, doubtles after rubbing
":'uses with the Autocriit from Maine,
iiiii '' ;a lot of circulars printed
!uul mailed to the Republican edit
rs of the country urgin them to
;.:irk ttp the force bill, and flay the
iv'.-publican Senators who refused to
support the movement to change the
.rules' of the Senate so 'that debate
might be cut off wher the majority
" saw fit and thusimake it ah easy mat
ter to rush the force bill through a la
-the original style in, which it was
one in Tom Reed's circus.) , L
l ' i I. : ' "
"This Mi Relden i just ; the kind
f a tool that Reed can. turn to easy
Account, for, like Reed, he is en-
i tjirely devoid of S ririciple and
hates the Democratic party as
much as he lacks princiiple,' which
iii saying a good deal. He is a
, dll uted imitation of " Boss ; Quay,
. ijiade lots of money as a member of
the old New York canal ring, and
never forgive Samuel , J. Tilden
" for smashing . the "ring I to - pieces
'.''when he became Golvernor of the
'; itatc. , InlS8G he was j nominated
:.f-
r Conq;rcss, but1 the
disgust at
his
nomiioation was so great
that thou-
-rtands of Republicarls
refused . to
vote for him. . But as
he is ricTi and
ubtless understands that essen-
ial accomplishment in the 'Republi-
n' candidate.
how
to- "put his
do the most
ihiiney wnere it
would
ioii;" he was elected.
Tint it seems that the 'Republican
iitia'-Hights of-the fourth estate did
iW; rjish with the unanimous alacri
ty jior. catch on to the force bill idea
Avitlt-that. nimble . agi ity he and the
autocrat hoped"' hey would, if their
memories were joggpd, at least it
(li)ii't seem so. for very few of the
Republican editors' have responded
,t' tne circular of Mr,
Belden.-
If the Republican
editors as a
h:y had caught on to the appeal.. of
Mr. Uel'den. instead of dropping it
n to their waste-basket, as many of
hem (14, and lent their co-op-ration
; to Tom in the whip-in
vork which he and his man Bel-
; . ...... .!'
len had in hand, it is possible
tliat enough Republican Sena
tors might have een whipped
in to ensure the success of this pet
scheme of the great! autocrat from
Maine. But they didn't and the
onsequeiice is the scheme for chang
n g the Senate rules hangs fire and
I'.: Reed is both a disappointed and
n. disgusted statesman.
The indications now are that Mr
Reed may carry his disgust with him
;cvcn unto the day o
adjournment if
lot, longer.
i
7 he Senate stand
Is '4tJ Republicans
to 'S, Democrats. It
will take 43V
votes; to effect a change; of the rules,
four less than their full strength.
I'.ut there are at lerst six or seven
of the Republican Senators who have
expressed their disapproval of turn
ing the Senate intola gag rule annex
of the House, for the sdle purpose of
carrying a measure in which : they
nave no' personal and ivery little if
any political interest, j ' ' . .
Among these are Senator Evarts,
vyJio when5the force bill Was attempt
f 1 m 1875 denounced.! it scathingly
in i speech at'Codpersi Institute in
New York; Senator Edmunds, who
said referring to the closure of de-
;late under the Htiuse irules, "there
should be one House m this country
where there is freedom of debate";
Senator jTeller, wh6 "Couldn't speak
Patiently" of the Rted methods; .Sen
"('". anerman, wtio m tne caucus
vigorously attacked the proposition
lo change the rules Seriator Wolcott
who agrees with lis dollieague, Sen
Ator Teller.. Wheri the Iforc hill
"More Congress in 5 Senator Dawes,
,Jl Massachusetts,! who was
lhe 1 louse, voted agalinst
then in
it, and
senator Far well.-
of Illinois, who
, was also then in th
f
K6
use, absent-
el himself withd
nt hfinor naired
Senator Hawley's paper, the. Hart-
mi L"ro,it, takek stiiong position
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against it, as unconstitutional, which
indicates how Mr.L Hawley
about it. Senator Fryej of iMaine: is
the close friend of Secretary Blaine,
who is known to be strongly opposed
to it. There are j othersj besides
these who are not saying much, but
when it comes to revolutionizing the
Senate to accommodate
Reed and Dass one of his
autocfat
pet mfa-
- . i j j: ;
mous schemes, they jwilt have some
thing to say; and they'll say it. Our
opinion is that the
funct, and that T.
force bill
is de
a very
Reed, is
much disappointed
and
disgusted
statesman.
MINOR MENTION.
The "original package"
question
had the floor in the House Friday.
The statesmen seeml to be pretty
considerably mixedj up on it, and
don't seem to be agreed as to what
shall constitute under the decision
of the .Supreme Court an "original
package." Mr. Adams, of Illinois,
was in favor, of defining U as a1 case
cdntainingVnot less tharji a dozen bot
tles or a cask containing
not less
than five gallons.!
the "little brown j
This eliminates
M.I
ug" which has
been run pretty extensively in some
prohibition. States and localities.
This is. a rooming iquestion in j; the
States of Iowa and Kansas, where
the right is now claimed, under the
'original package' decision- of: the
Supreme Court, to open bars and
yend liquors in spite of State prohi
bition or local prohibition
which, to say the'least of it, is
laws
is a vio-
lent stretch of the
meaning of that
decision. The object
of
the pro-
posed bill is to define how far a State
may go in regulating the liquor traf
fic with citizens of other States.
j ' : j
Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, stated
his position pretty plainly Friday in
His-remarks on the resolution intro-
) - : . I II I .
duced by Mr. Allison j the day before
providing for limitin debate on
amendments to the Appropriation
bills. He said that ff.j the resolution
applred only to amendments already
offered, as Mr. Allison saic. it'did, he
had no objection, but if it applied to
amendments not yet off ered it was
another thing. This leaves no doubt
i i ii-
as to where .Mr. Edmunds
stands on
the' advo
the scheme suggested I by
cates of the force bill to change the
-' . ) i . i i-
rules of the Senate so that the ma-
, , i- i. i i : r i . v. .
jonty when they: may desire can
limit debate on any question coming
has : been done
under the Change of rules in I the
House. Mr! Allison's resolution ap
plies only to the appropriation bills,
and only to amendments proposed to
these, but even here IjMr. Edmunds
insists upon limiting the scope of the
resolution to, specified amendments
then before the Senate.
Mr. Lodge, the author of the force
bill, estimates that it wilfcost $10,-
000,000 to carry it out, a
pretty big
price'for the people of this country
to pay for machinery to enable j the
Republican plotters in Congress to
capture a few more sets. I And this,
too, at a time when the surplus has
been wiped clean out,! and there is a
certain deficit of not less than $100,t
000,000, as ; a result,) of the wild,
reckless and criminal legislation of
this Congress. - The $10,000,000
will be to the Republican conspira
tors a smalj consideration if in re
turn they can carry districts enough
to jgive thm control of the next
House. And then, again, the mcjiney
will be spent in the family for it
will go into the pockets of Republi
can appointees and party topis, ex
cept such portion as may be filch
ed and devoted 16 ! campaign pur
poses by the bosses that run. the
machine. j
1 9k
Out of the sixteen contested elec
tion cases so far decided by the
House Committee on Elections they
have stolen ten .seats, with two sfill
remaining, oie or both of which they
probably will steal. ; They left six
seats to the Democrats, doubtless
because they thought it j would look
too much like a one-sided business
to gobble them all, and besides that
they didn't need all. j The claims on
which these jsix seats were held were
not a whit better than the claims of
the ten whicji were 'stolen, majorities'
of many thousands i being reversed:
and majorities given to
the Repub
lican contestants simply because the
vote cast for them Was not in pro
portion to the colored vote of their
respective I districts. 1 This is the
rule upon which these cases were del
cided. ' These ten stolen seats have
cost the . people of
States at last $150,000.
the United
We are under obligations to Sena1
tor Culiorrij of Illinois, for a pamj
phlet on this Mississippi and its forty?
four navigable tributaries, printed
by order of the Senate. . It gives
much valuable information in refer--ence
to that great j stream and its
tributaries and the commerce of the
territory drained by them.
The proposition to connect Amer
ica with Asjaby rail by means of a
railroad bridge across Behring straits
has been revived. ' It is said that a
syndicate,- in which there are several
Americans have received valuable
concessions from ! the Russian Gov
ernment for this purpose.
I HIGHWAYMEN AGAIN. ! THE HIGHWAYMEN. ' MURDERED BY HIGHWAYMEN, j j - WASHINGTON NEWS. BURNED TO DEATH.
Attempt to Stop Parties on the Turnpike
: a Short Bis tan oe From the City.
Another bold attempt by a supposed
highwayman was reported yesterday, in
broad daylight and near the place where
it is supposed Mr. Nathan Fails was
murdered. . - y . ; : . . - .
Mr. John Fails, a son of the murdered
man, who lives in the city, after his
father's funeral yesterday -morning at
Masonboro, engaged Mr. Frank Beasley
to bring himself, his wife and two small
children to the city, in Mr, Beasley's cart.
The party left Masonboro at 2 o'clock,
Mr. B. driving; they came up the turnpike
and about three o'clock, when they had
passed the railroad crossing and just
before! they reached the Mineral Spring,
they were hailed by a man partly con
cealed
in the bushes on the right-hand
side of the road, who cried out "Halt
there!? twice, . and the ' third and
last time. "Halt, or I'll fire!" Mr.
Beasely, however, put whip to the
horse and drove on as rapidly as he
could, and soon reached the city.
Mr. Fails says that they saw only one
man, standing in a thicket of gall-berry
bushes a few yards from the road. They
could see the man's head and that he
was colored, but the rest of his person
was concealed by the bushes.
j Mr. Beasley left the citv in the after
noon to return to Masonboro; but took
another road. S
ROBBERS IN THE COUNTRY.
A. Section Master's House on the W. &
W. Road Plundered.
The robbers who have been depredat
ing around town are extending their field
f operations. Yesterday morning Mr.
F. Thigpen. section master on the
ilmington & Weldon Railroad, left the
ouse he occurjied on the line of the
j-oad, about four miles from the city, and
On his return an houror two afterwards
found" the door of the house broken open
nd that the thief or thieves had enter
ed his room and carried ' of a watch
chain, several shirts and other light
articles. They entered, also, a room
occupied by Mr. Ivey Bowen, at the
Same place, and took a bunch of keys
and other articles from the pockets of
his clothing. The place where these
robberies occurred is known as Wrights
boro, and is not : far from the scene of
'' I '' 1
jprevious robberies. " They were no
doubt perpetrated by the same gang of
hieves. 'I "
Mr. Cowan, of Castle Hayne, was in
he city yesterday and reported that his
house had been entered at night recent
ly rby a negro; but some members of the
household were aroused and the robber
jwas driven off before had a chance to
steal anything! f
Death of Lieut. John XT. Rhodes.
Some of the Northern papers contain
a brief "announcement of the death of
First Lieut. John U. Rhodes, of the rev
enue marine service, at Algiers, La., last
Wednesday evening. Mr. Rhodes had
been in the service for seventeen years,
and he received the thanks of Congress
and the Secretary of the Treasury and
was advanced by the President twenty-
one numbers for particularly gallant con
duct at the wreck of the steamer City of
Columbus off Gay Head, Mass., in Janu
ary, 1884. .
Lieut. Rhodes was once an officer of
the revenue cutter Colfax, and while sta
tioned here married a daughter of Mr.
G. W. Hardwicke. one of the attaches of
the Star. He was tne recipient of many
testimonials for gallant conduct on the
occasion above alluded to, among them
a handsome gold medal presented by the
Germans of this city. He was a native
of Connecticut and about forty years of
age. - '" -m -
The Fails Murder. " - i
Mayor Fowler wrote to Governor
Fowle last Friday, asking if the State
authorities would not offer a reward for
the capture of the murderer! of Mr.
Nathan Fails.' Yesterday he received a
telegram irom his Excellency as follows:
"The law does not allow the Governor
to offer a reward except where the crim
inal is known. Am sorry that I cannot
do as you request." ' i
Assaulted on the Sound.
Persons who came up from the Ham
mocks last night reported that Capt
Gillican, master of one of the jsharpies
there, was attacked between Wrights
ville and Bradley's Creek about ten
o'clock by a strange negro. In jthe scuf
fle that ensued the white man's shin
was torn off his person, but he managed
to get away and returned to the Ham
mocks, mm j ' 1
A train of box cars on the Oris
low railroad brought a number, of peor
pie to the city from Scott's Hill and
other places on the bound. I he run
was made in thirty1 minutes. It is re
ported that a passenger coach will be
put on the road this week. "-.
The turpentine distillery of
Messrs. Culbreth j& Odom, at Moss
Neck, Robeson county, was destroyed
by lire 1 hursday.
VANCE ENDORSED!
State Line Alliance, No.-lil34,
Gibson's Station! N. C, July 19.
Editor Star: Whereas we regret
to see in a recent publication in the Pro
gressive Farmer the criticism of Senator
Vance's letter address to President Can
expressing - his views on the Sub-Treas
ury bin. tse it - '
Resolved, ist. That we the members
of the State Line Alliance No. jl34 do
iully endorse the ! sentiments expressed
by our cnampion leaaer. senator z. t$,
Vance. Be it - 1
Resolved, 2d, That we will notj aid or
support any candidate who will riot work
for the re-election of Senator Vance.
Further, we notice an editorial (none of
the Republican papers commenting on
the farmers' organization, and joyously
predicting dissensions in the Democratic
ranks through the Farmer's Alliance."
We feel confident that the Democratic
ranks will grow stronger and not be in
the least weakened by tne tarmers or
conization, as is now predicted bv some
of the over joyed Republicans. This or
ganization does not aim to cause any
divisions or dissension in the Democratic
ranks, for from it their aim is unity,
The State Line Alliance, No. 1134
Where is the Sheriff? Gross Neglect of the
Unties of His Office. .
And now the inquiry suggests itself :
What is the Sheriff of New Hanover
county doing to bring to -justice the
band of- negro highwaymen . who have
been so terrorizing the people? Where
is the Sheriff? And where has he been
for several months? If he had been at
his post and proper efforts had been
made, this band of negro highwaymen
might have been exterminated long
ago. But ; they ' have been . per
mitted to cruelly, "assault and
rob the farmers of this county without
hindrance, and now their bloody work
has culminated in the robbery and mur
der of a weak and . inoffensive old man
on one of the most public roads of the;
county.- . - " - y.
The blood of old man Fails cries
aloud for vengeance. Let the voice of
the people be heard. If the Sheriff of
New Hanover county has degenerated
into a nonentity, let the county
Commissioners, who are men of energy
and courage, meet ifi special session
and devise means for ridding the coun
ty of the villains who have inaugurated
a carnival of blood almost in the shadow
of the Sheriff's office. S
Unless prompt action is taken by the
civil authorities, the farmers of New
Hanover will organize for their own pro
tection. They will be compelled to do
it, or take their lives in their hands
every time they come to Wilmington,
and are supposed to be returning with
money in their pockets,
P. S. Since the foregoing was writ
ten the County Commissioners have of
fered a reward of two hundred and fifty
dollars for the arrestf the murderer or
murderers and sufficient evidence to
convict. 1 his is, - perhaps, the best the
Commissioners can do under, the cir
cumstances; but if we had a Sheriff who
attended to his business, there would be
no necessity for offering a reward.
THE FAILS MURDER.
Coroner's Inquest The Verdict Ho Clue
to the Murderer Signs of the Tragedy
on the Turnpike.
The inquest held by Coroner Jacobs
on the body ot the murdered man,
Nathan Fails, did not throw any addi
tional light on the tragedy. A verdict
was rendered that "the deceased came
to his de'ath from a pistol shot wound
inflicted by some one unknown to the
jury. l he Dail was tound ana extract
ed. It is a pistol ball, calibre 32;
it struck Mr. Fails on the back of
the head near the top, and ranging
downwards, lodged under the skin near
the inner corner of the right eye. The
pistol was held close to Mr. Fails' head
as is shown by the powder marks on his
hat. A fact that confirms the theory
that the murdered man was asleep in
his cart when the fatal shot was fired.
The road passed over by Mr. Fails the
night of the murder was thoroughly
searched yesterday by his sons and sev
eral friends of the family. They found
evidences of the tragedy at Edin's bridge
on the turnpike about half a mile this
side ot the second toll-house, a distance
of about two and a half miles from town.
Several spots of blood were discovered
on the planks of the bridge, and near
the roadway the searchers found a small
pocket-flask full ot whiskey, which was
recognized as one carried by Mr. Fails.
Some of the dried blood was scraped up,
and will be examined to determine if it
is human blood or not. 1
Chief Deputy Shaw says: "I
want to say that Sheriff Manning's ab
sence does not in any way impair the
efficiency of this office for the execution
ot process," &c. This is decidedly rough
on Manning. Come home. Stephing,
and pitch your Quartermaster's tent
near the Mineral Spring, j
The County Commissioners
offer a reward of $250 for the arrest
with evidence to convict of the murder
er of Nathan Fails. -.
Gen. Manning decided some
time ago not to again become a candi
date for Sheriff. This may partially ac
count for his neglect ot Mthe duties of
his office.
Mayor Fowler has written to
Gov. Fowle, asking that a reward be
offered by the State for the murderer of
Mr. Nathan Fails.
Murdered, on the public high
way, for seven dollars! Is hanging too
good for the murderer or not? -
Why not abolish the office of
Sheriff in New Hanover countv?
THE STATE GUARD.
Probability That Col. Anthony Will Re-
sign.
The Charlotte News of yesterday con
tains the following;.
Some supposed that when Gov. Fowle
issued the order lor the Hornet's Nest
Riflemen to go into encampment at
Wrightsville with . the First Regiment
instead ol waiting lor the August en
campment that the trouble was ended,
but it has to all appearance just begun.
The probabilities are that Col. . 1 . An
thony will resign, and with him, as a
matter ot coarse, will be tendered tne
resignation of his staff.
A News reporter called on Col. An
thony to-day, and he said that he had
as ,yet received no communication
from the Governor, and until he did
he could not say what "course
he would pursue. "I do not see
though," he said, "how I could consist
ently continue to serve." Col. An
thony's action will depend altogether on
the character of the communication
which -he may receive from the Gov
ernor.
It was decided this year to divide the
State encampment, the First and Third
regiments to. go into camp in July, and
the Second and Fourth in August. The
Hornet's Nest belong to the Fourth,
The members of the Hornet's nest found
that they could not attend the encamp
ment in August and petitioned the Gov
ernor to either let the company with
draw from the State Guard, or go into
camp m July.
The application was made out at Col:
Anthony's suggestion. Col. Anthony
marked it disapproved and it was tor-
warded to the Governor, who endorsed
it over the disapproval of the Colonel
That is what has caused the threatened
trouble.
An Inoffensive Citizen Assaulted, Killed
and Bobbed on the Highway Near th4
The community was shocked yesterj
day morning by intelligence received ot
the murder of Mr. Nathan Fails, art
aged and inoffensive white man' whd
lived with his- family on Masonboro
Sound, a "few miles from Wilmington!
Mr. George Alford, a neighbor,
was the first to discover the body.
He passed Mr. Fails' place about
daylight yesterday morning! on his way
to his fishing boat, and seeing the miile
and cart standing at the gate, looked
into the cart and saw the body of the mur
dered man Mr. Fails' family were called
up and a messenger was at once sent t6
the city to notify the county authorities,
Coroner "Jacobs went out and sum
moned a jury and made an examina-
tion of the bodv. It was found that Mr.
Fails had been shot in the top of the
head it is 'supposed while he was
asleep, with his head resting on the side
of the cart. iHis pockets had been ri
fled, and one! pocket of his pants had
been cut out and the other turned m
side out. The murderer ' it is supposed,
robbed the bpdy of some seven or eight
dollars in money. . : j
Mr. Fails came to the city Wednesday
afternoon with a cart-load of fish to sell.
He had, his family say, four dollars
with him, and it is known that he sold
his fish for three dollars. It was late in
the afternoon when the unfortunate
man left for home, and frOm I all indi
cations he was murdered and robbed be
tween eight and nine o'clock just beyond
the city limits. I j
Mr. Peter Mohr says Mr. Fails pass
ed his : store, corner of Market and
Twelfth streets, on his way to the
Sound, at ten minutes past eight o'clock.
The keeper pf the first toll-house saw-
Mr. Fails pass a little after 8 o clock.
and Mr. Patton, the keeper at the second
toll house, thinks it "was about 9 o'clock
when he passed there. He was hailed,
but gave no answer, and it was supposed
that he was asleep. He was seen in the
cart, in a half-recumbent position with
his right arm thrown over the right
roit corner of the cart. ' jj
Mr. Patton says that yesterday morn
ing he found traces of blood along the
roadway for about two hundred yards,
between the second mile-post and Mr.
Tom . Edensi place. In all probability
the man was murdered near this point.
Coroner Jacobs, returned to the city
during the forenoon, and on the sug
gestion of Col. Moore, Solicitor of the
Criminal Court, engaged Dr. Burkank
to accompany him to Masonboro and
make an autopsy upon the body of the
murdered man and search for the ball
that caused jhis death. The Doctor afid
the Coroner returned in the evening,
having accomplished their task. j
It is believed that the murder jwas
perpetrated I by some of the colored
highwaymen who have .been lurking on
the outskirts of the city for some
time past; whose depredations have
caused no little alarm to country peo
ple, and whose continued presence hjas
been a reproach to the county
authorities.
Mr. Fails was aTxmt seventy years
of age, a good-natured, harmless old
man, smallj of stature and of slight
build. He was well known to most of
the residents of the city, having for
many years
past frequented the market
places, selling fish, oysters, robins, etc.
Several suspicious characters all
negroes have been seen recently lurk
ing in the neighborhood of the Mineral
Spring, and it is surmised that some jof
them may have committed the murder
and robbery. It is known that two or
three escaped penitentiary convicts
have been in the vicinity of the city for
the past two months. The man Crews,
whose capture was attempted by Depu
ty Sheriff Elder . and a posse two dys
ago, is of the number,
Stopped on Little Bridge,
Andrew Laspere, a colored man, who
makes a business of gathering medicinal
roots and .herbs around the city, but
who lives in Rocky Point, reported! at
police headquarters last night that j he
had been stopped at Little Bridge, about
10 o'clock p. m.. by four white rrien
whom he took to be foreigners.
They asked him what he had,
and upon! finding that he had no
money, told him he couldn't cross, and
threatened! to throw him into the crek
- r v i
ii he ventured to do so. Laspeyre con-
eluded, under the circumstances, to
turn to the : city, and wait "till
re-
ithe
clouds roll by."
Seventh Judicial Distict. .
The Democratic Convention of jthe
Seventh Judicial district, which met: at
Laurinburg Wednesday unanimously
endorsed Judge McRae's course onj the
Superior Court bench and strongly re
commended him for an Associate Jus
ticeship of the Supreme Court, j
The following executive committee
was elected for the ensuing two years
Cumberland, N. A. Sinclair; AnsotJ, ( R
E. Little;
wick, Dr,
Bladen, C. N. McLean; Bruns
W. G. Curtis.; Columbui H
B. Short,j
Moore T. J. Shaw; Richnjond,
J. W. Co
Neill.
e, Robeson;
Thomas A
Mc-
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1 here was a rush among
ihe
truckers and fishermen yesterday after
noon to sell out and start homej early.
They were all making their arrange
ments to be -home by sundown. And
they were right, too. M
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Wilmington was in; a state
of
feverish excitement yesterday ove the
horrible I murder of " Mr. Fails. The
Sheriff of the county, now junketing in
Maine, was the subject of general con
demnation. . " ! j J
rom his sylvan iretreatj in
Maine, High Sheriff Manning ought to
issue a proclamation commanding the
negro highwaymen of 1 New Hanover
county to disperse. Of course,! they'd
do it. : - ! T
President and Secretary Halford Gone to I
Cape May The Census of ' New York as j
iteportea oy Superintendent -Porter. I
X1T . f-..T-.T., - T.1- Hi - Tl T-l ; I -
Aaioiv. ju.y, xi. x uc i-resi-
dent and Private" Sprrptarv Hnlfnrrl Wt I
nere ar. o.io p. m. lor vpe May. i ney
will return Tuesday. L, "
Superintendent Porter, of the Census
Office, to-day completed the official
rough count of the population" of the
city of New York. The result shows a
populafion of l,5i3,501, which is an inn
crease ot about 25.4 per cent, during the!
last decade The population according
to the census of 1880, was 1,200,299 an
crease of 28 per cent. The increase
from 1860 to 1870 was 17 per cent The!
Superintendent of the Census states that
this is the first and only estimate of the
population of New York which has been
.made by the Census Bureau officials. Iff
the decade ended 1880 New York hacr
added territory. In the last decade it
added nothing,: so the growth is about
the same. - i
Washington, July 18. The House
Committee on Elections to-day decided
two more contested cases in favor of
the Republican contestants. They were
the Florida case of Goodrich vsj
iJUUOCk decision in taVOr Of Goodrich I
and the west Virginia case ot Mc-
Ginnisvs. Aldergon decision in favor
Of McGinniS. This makes a total bf
BI&I.CC11 tiises ueciueu uv mc commur.ee
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this session ten" decisions being in
Javor of Republicans and six in favor of
sitting uemocrattc members. lnere
are left undisposed of but two cases
those of Eaton vs. Phelan, from Ten
nessee, and Clayton vs. Breckinridge,
trom Arkansas. i
A meeting of the Republican mem
bers of the Senate Committee on Privi
leges and Elections was held to-day to
consider the provisions of the Federal
than two hours. The members of the
iituiuu uuit i. uc session laaieu more I
committee: refuse to say anything re- I
soecting the oroceedtnsrs. It is said bv I
Senators not members of the commit-I
tee ! that it is their understanding that I
the committee will make vrey considera-I
ble chance in the Lodsre bill. and reduce
its length materially.
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Washington, July 19. The Repub
lican members of the Senate Committee
on Privileges and Elections to-day re
sumed the consideration of the Federal
Election bill. They were also in session
last night. 1 he reason for this some
what unusual devotion business is said to
be due to a desire to complete the prepa
ration of the measure, to be. submitted
.to the caucus early next week.
ROBBERS'"wOrK.
An Engineer and a Fireman of a Train
Attacked with Hammers, ' and a Colli
sion the Result The Engineer Dies of
his Injuries.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Van Wert. Ohio, July 19. A bold
attempt at train robbery was made here
late last night'pn the Cincinnati, Jack
soft & Michigan Railway. Three men
boarded the engine of the nOrth-baund
passenger, near Enterprise, Ohio, and
attacked engineer Vandevender and his
fireman with hammers and coupling
pins, knocking both senseless. They
did not succeed in stopping the tram.
owing probably to the plucky fight made
by the men employed on the tram,
and jumped off before they reached
Van Wert. The engineer and fireman were
botb lying senseless in the cab bf the
locomotive, and the train which should
have stopped at Van Wert rushed through
the yard at a rate of twenty-five miles
an hour. Here it collided with a switch
engine, and engineer Vandevender was
found dead in the wreck. The fireman is
still unconscious, and it cannot be learned
whether the engineer was killed by the
jobbers or in the collision.; None of the
passengers were seriously injured.
THE FISHERIES DISPUTE.
No Instructions to British Cruisers to
Protect Vessels from Seizure in Behring
Sea.
B v Telegraph to the Morning Srat.
Victoria, B. C. Tuly 18.-H. M. S.
Warsprite, flagship of the North Pacific
squadron, with Rear Admiral Hoetham
aboard, arrived here yesterday. The
Admiral stated emphatically that he
had as yet received no instructions to
send any of the fleet to the north to
protect, British vessels irom seizure by
American cutters, or to retake any that
might be seized in Behring Sea. Ad
miral Hoetham said he could hardly see
how the United States could establish a
tenable claim to close! Behring Sea, and
thought that Canadian interests must
win in the diplomatic fight progressing.
Had England any intention of sending
one of the fleet to Behring Sea this year.
to prevent the seizure ot schooners Hy
ing the English flag, it was presumed
that orders would; have come long ago.
Now, if one did go, it : would be practi
cally too late in the season to accom
plish the end aimed at. He certainly
should make no move in the matter
without ample iustructions so to do.
TRAGIC AFFAIR.
Two Brothers Killed by a Young Man in
Georgia A Mule Trade the Cause of the
Difficulty.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Savannah, Ga.. July 18. A - special
to the Morning News says that at' Guy-
ton, yesterday, R. G. Norton, Jr., son of
a physician of this city, shot and killed
two brothers, named Willie and John
BinJ, Wednesday. Young .Norton and
Willie Bird traded mules yesterday.
Willie Bird, accompanied by his brother
Tohn, went to Norton's place to get him
to trade back. Norton refused, and
John Bird, drawing his pistol, told his
brother Willie to break open the stable
door! and recover his mule. At this
nn:f ,TMinr Ttnn ettnt tliA Pirle flAnH
point young Norton shot the Birds dead.
Norton has tied.
ALABAMA
Homicide in Bibb County The Abscond
ing 10yor of Cedar Keys.
: Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. J
Montgomery, July 19. W. W. Cot-
trell, of Cedar Keys, Fla.,j who recently
created a sensation there,: was arrested
in Lowndes county. Ala., to-day, by U.
S, Marshal Walker. He came to! this
city with some of his friends and prompt
ly gave bond. i' .
- Cottrell formerly lived ' a short dis
tance from here, and his father was
once a member of Congress from this
State, i . - j i
Birmingham, July 19.-Bart Thrasher
is a notorious moonshiner .and escaped
convict of Bibb county. Last night de
tectives Morgan and Patton undertook
to arrest Bart, and killed a man whom
they supposed to be the outlaw. It
proved to be Bart's father, however, who
was standing guard over tne rancne.
Fire tn Quebec-Five Persons Perish
the Flames and Possibly Others.
By Telegraph to the Mominjr Star. -
QUEBEC. Julv 17. At 2 o'clock this
:-.. . :.' .
. i morning nre oroice out in the Dar-room
owned bv Delamore & Oullet. on St.
Joseph street. The flames ! made such
rapid progress that soon the whole
building was j ablaze. The lire brigade
quickly answered the alarm, tyhich, how
ever, was a little late in being turned in.
On arriving 'at the conflagration the
firemen worked with energy in preser
ving the surrounding buildings, not
aware that the occupants of the upper
part of the burning house Were roast
ing, and it was only after the names had
been extinguished; that they came upon
a family of five persons who had been
burned, to death. The family consisted
of Pierre Mirandas, his wife and three
children, recently! returned from the
United States, intending to settle in
their native city. !It. is thought others
perished in the flames, as Mirandas had
several lodgers from the eountry. ; -
FLORIDA LYNCHING.
A Negro Kavisher
Captured jand Hanged
Near FOrt White.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Jacksonville, Fla., Julv 18. A
Fort White special to the Times-Union
savs. a neo-rO nampfl Grppn tarksnn wno
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lynched there yesterday by neighbors of
Mrs. Robert Prlchard, a- white woman
whom he had outraged. The woman's
husband killed Joe McBray several
weeks ago, and has not vet been ar
rested, and Jackson went to Mrs. Prich
ard's house last Monday and told her
that her husband was concealed in the
woods near by. He succeeded in decoy
ing ner io tne piace aucgeo tne - sinic
-and there seized her and threw her to
the ground. She fought like atigerj but
" v.m. uu. uutm. mm. o "Kti , uu
Jackson choked and beat her till she be
came exhausted j and then outraged
ner. ne nea into
the forest, and
when the
woman recovered suffi
arouse the neighbors a
ciently to
mob started in pursuit of " the brute,
mey ran him down Wednesday night
un..u. u:j :- if o':i.i j
UlUUgllL 111111 1I1LO 1V11S. 1 I lIldl U 5 JJIC-
sence for identification yesterday, .and
last night hung him to a tree near the
railroad ditch at Hertong, His body
was then riddled with bullets, and when
the east-bobnd passenger i train l came
through this morning it was still hang
ing! there. , 1 here is great ; excitement,
and . none of Jackson's friends dare to
cut the body down. j
BAD BLOOD !
Open Knives and iOther Weapons Figure
at a South Carolina Meeting.
The Tillman and Anti-Tillmanites
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had a meeting at Marion,; S. C, last
Thursday, r which came jvery near
proving an ugly! affair. We clip the
following account of it from the re
port in the Augusta, Ga., Chronicle:
"With the exception- of one inci
dent it was one'of the quietest and
best ordered meetings yet held. This
incident occured during Capt. Till
man's speech, land came near pre
cipitating (bloodshed. For several
minutes the sitation was thrilling in
the extrenie. ! It has been a custom
of Captain Tillman in ! all of his
speeches to reflect severely on ; the
Charleston ffeius and Courter. In
the course) of his remarks he paid
his usual Compliments to that jour
nal, referring; to it as 'that infamous,
lying sheet, which continually mis
represented him by lying' headlines
and otherwise. . i
"Following
a statement of this
kind to-day he
told his audience , to
watch this iheeting and watch the
report of it in the News and Courier,
and observe the difference.
The meeting was being reported
for the News and Courier by. Mr.
Shirley C. Hiighson, one of the staff
members of ; that paper. 'He was
seated at the same table with the
Chronicle correspondent, and as soon
as Capt. Tillman made this remark
Mr. Hughson sprang to his feet and
said: 'Capt. i Tillman, if i you mean
to say, sirj that I have misrepresent
ed you, you are an infernal liar ,and
the truth is not in you.' ' i
The two men were Within five
feet of each other, and the eyes of
both sparkled with anger and resent
ment. Capt.: Tillman turned around
and faced the newspaper j man, mak
ing some remark which was drown
ed by the noise. They stood glaring
at each other for a moment or more,
and in the meantime the crowd be
gan to sway with excitement.-
"A chorus of voices said: 'rut
him off the stand!' 'Put him off the
stand!' and there was a wild rush
made for! the platform. Col. Earle,
Gen. Bonham iand other J friends on
the platform advanced and planted
themselves at the side of Mr. Hugh
son, while a score or more bf Anti
Tillman men crowded on to the stage
with opeh knives and other weap
ons of offence. Again and again the
cry rangjout : 'Put himi off!' ' put
him off!' 'put him off!'
in obedience to the command
three or four policemen with drawn
clubs climbed on the banisters of the
platform, and started towards : Mr.
Hughson, who stood with one hand
in his hip pocket and defied them to
put-tneir nanas on mm.
"Mr. jHughson in the! meantime
was completely surronnded by his
friends and the policejmen were
forced back j to the ground. The
platfornj literally tremble under the
weight and strain, and evelry moment
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between! twenty or thirty tnen
'Captj. sTillman appealed to his
friends to' keep quiet, but the only
thing that prevented a row of the
most serious nature was that the
candidates ahd others blockaded the
passage! to jthe stand, atjid thereby
prevented the friends of Capt. 1 ill
man from mounting it
"When thq excitement jwas at its
height several of the candidates ap
proached Mr. 'Hughson and com
mended! his action, while lie received
an ovation at the hands o
m'li J . J . 11
the Anti-
l uiman mei generally
he ! statement that 70 per
cent, of the! students at the State
JJniversity ae poor boys, who are
there through rigid economy prac
ticed at honie, is a high j tribute to
Georgii thrift. Every One of these
boys has been taught eairly in life
the sure road to success. -Savannah
News Dem.
.Raleigh Chronicle: Mr. P. M.
Wilson, Commissioner of Immigration
for North Carolina, has resigned, i The
office Is now vacant. The resignation -was
tendered at the, lastmeeting of the
Agricultural Board." His successor will
doubtless be elected at the next meeting
oi mat Dooy.
Charlotte News Esquirei Tohn
P. Hunter and Mr. J. R. Wallace have
taken the contract to supply an English
syndicate with a Jlarge quantity of ash
timber. The contract alls for ash lum-,
ber 2x12 and 22 feet long, clear ot knots.
The contractors get $30 pet thousand
feet and the lumber is shipped direct to
New York, thence' by steamer to Europe.
Lincoln Courier Mr. :Ed James
has a nursery of i young walnut sprouts
in his yard near the depot from walnuts
planted On last Christmas day. Re
freshing showers have been falling
throughout the greater portion of this
county, and our farmers can be seen
with pleasing smiles on their; faces. The
prospects for a big cotton crop are better
than they have
past.
been
for
many
years
Raleigh
News'
and
Observer:
The residence ofj Mr. W. G. Allen near
the county work house was , totally de
stroyed Dy nre yesterday, l he contla
gation was very sudden, and total. Mrs.
Allen was sick jin the house but was
safely removed. I Mr. John Y. Mac
rae had on exhibition at his ndrug store
yesterday a curious bird which ornit
tholpgists will j have j to puzzle their
brains to classify. It was captured near
Apex by Mr. George Long, and seems to
be half wild and half domestic: It is
nearly as large as a turkey, but has
feathers like a guinea. Its feet are like
a chicken's and its head is jvery much
like a turkey's. It also makes a sound
like a guinea. , i "
Charlotte "Chrojikle : Fifty-two
persons were received into the member
ship of the Second Presbyterian Church
Sunday, twenty-nine of whom were re
ceived on examination and twenty-three
by certificate. There was a severe
thunder storm at McAdenville Sunday
afternoon. A bolt of lightning struck a
tree in tree in front of the store there
and run down on the railroad track 250
yards, when it jumped the track and
passed through a hall of a house close by.
Miss Gip Brantley, who was sitting in
the door-way was seriously shocked.
She was knocked senseless. The
Paris distillery at Forest City was cap
tured recently, with five hundred gallons
of whiskey and all the; fixtures, j Every
thing was seized and locked up -by spe
cial lagent Davis, of Hendersonville.
; Monroe Enquirer; There is an
evident upward tendency in real estate
values in and around Monroe. Many a
promising boom has been nipped in the
bud by owners pf real estate holding it
at too high prices. - There is prac
tically no opposition : in Monroe to the
issuing of 20,000 of town bonds for
electric lights and street improvements.
-Mr. Jacob Helms, aged 30 years,
died at the residency of his father-in-law,
Mr. Charles BroWn, of East Monroe
township, on last Saturday, With typhoid
fever. The cqn'sus taker for this
township (Mr. J. V. Hasty) ( reports that
he has discovered fqur centenarians
Mr. Wm. Taylor (who lives jwith his son,;
Mr. John Taylor, three nitles east Of
Monroe), who claims to be 117; Woods
Brooks, colored. 104; Fannie Brooks,
colored, 100, and Knotts.lcolored, 104.-
; Asheville Journal; In the
Register's office to-day a deed was re
corded conveying va acres ot ; land in
and adjoining V ictoria, a suburb of
Asheville, ! to the Oakland j Land Com
pany, by R. U. Garrett, the considera-.
tion being one hundred thousand dol
lars. Register Mackey says this is the
largest ifinancial operation ever I record
ed in his office, i - - While depu
ty sheriff Hampton as in Henderson-
ville securing the
arrest ot Charles
Walker on a warrant;
for an! assault with
a! deadly weapon, committed in Ashe
ville on one Squirely Anderson, he-
espied Dan Collins,! colored, who was
wanted for robbing a lady at Biltmore
of a valise containing a jgold watch,
clothing and other valuables. The offi
cer secured both men and returned to
Asheville. They passed a) preliminary
examination before! Esquire iMalone,
who held them for trial at the Criminal
Court I j I
Franklin Press?. Mrs. John
Straw, of Briartown. j Macon county, is in
her 29th year, and is the mother of four
teen children, and has never had twins,
George Reid shot and killed Cal
houn McCoy, in Wautauga, about five
miles from town last Saturday, l he
parties had some old grudge Between
them, and met in the road near Mr.
Chas. Kinsland s, and after jtalking for a
while parted with the understanding
that the difference between' them was
settled and dropped. After Reid had
ridden about live steps away McLoy
drew his revolver and commenced firing,
striking Keid s horse, and alter three or
four shots the ; horse fell dead. Reid
returned the fire, shooting' three times
before the horse fell and once afterward,
the last shot penetrating McCoy's shoul
der and lungs, from the effects ot which
he died in a tew minutes. Keid came in
Monday and surrendered t himself and
gave bond for his appearance for pre- -liminary
trial on the 22d inst. (
Morgantpn Heraldi The wheat
threshers are abroad in the land and .
wheat is turning out iust about as bad .
as was expected. The yield; will scarcely
average half a crop, and we hear of some
farmers who have not more than made
their seed. - The owners of the Du-
navant cotton mill are seriously consid
ering the question of doubling the size
of their mill building and putting in
more than twice the amount ot ma
chinery they now have. Mr, W.
W. McConnaughey has sold his property
in East Morganton to Messrs. W. H.
and Z. T. Corpening for $3,000. There
are 23 acres of land trfet cost Mr. McCon
naughey about $450 a few years ago.
esquire osepn nunrpr miorms us
that the widoW laynes, who lives on,
Linville river in this county, has a young
.chicken with three well developed legs,
one of which it pulls up oat of the way
when walking, j A telephone line
from the town of : Linville i to Cranberry
is being constructed and the poles have
already been placed. Thee is now an
excellent graded road connecting the
two points, and! the Linville Improve
ment Company has bought a $1250 Con
cord stage coach which will be run daily
over this line. Which is already becoming
popular. j I ' -. j :
Lenoir Topic. Lightning struck
a tree in Mr. A.V, Miller'$ front yard,
one day last week, and scattered splin
ters and bark all over Mrs Miller, who
was sitting on the piazza..' ' One of
Jasper Craig's little' boys stepped on a
rattle-snake a few! days ago, and fortu
nately was not bitten, the . snake was
killed and measured over four feet.
The threshing machines afe out at work
but not in. such ! numbers as in good
wheat years. There is plenty of straw
and a scant average of a half a crop of
grain. The proprietors of Green
Park, formerly knpwn as Green Hill, near
Blowing Rock,! are doing; much to
beautify and develop that: charming
place by building! fine, broad and well
graded roads oypr it arid jopening up
fine views in eveHr direction.!! r Car
oline Hartley, who lately died, has cre
ated something hi a sensation by telling
the neighbors that there isa great treas
nre of several thousand dollars in gold
hidden in an old house place near where
she lives on the, Mulberryfroad and sev
eral persons have been digging for it.
She claims that jthe gold; was given to
her while- she was in Tennessee during
the war and that part of ijt was given to
her for safe keeping by het- master, the
late Levi -Hartley and. that she can't
find the' place where she i hid it, Evi
dently she is losing her mind.
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