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They didn't all wait Miaf long, for "sonic of them,' antici-, .vitiii!? the passage of either the De. njUnt bill of the Senate tir the wire bill of the House; iook time . the lorelock and proceeded to fiiin' i'p business in' advance, t 'dt coiitent with the ordinary tfroils of advertising: and drum ug by circulars, letters, eve, some them. adopted '.a- new and a very Votive method in '.imitation of the . ip V.ei.ic specialists of the medical if t , eye and ear scientists ind tooth iiiipulators. They sent agents out rough those -sections ,of the coun , .: where there was ah inv ; business, who "duly a W'tigb l he. local papers ; oild bcrin Graball. for iri' ting field mounced had thev .tance, pn fo.rinin d.iv vviirri1 t4u3rntfri1 bp t'o i'.id at tiie Hustler.. 'Mouse, or no.vhcre else, for -a given number ,d iy,s asul , where : they wou;ld be I'neased to : see old soldier i and v nig soldiers,;, soldier widows, daughters, ' sons,; wives, cousins, pension hi. us, etc., who had anj k i tfriTs past, present . or prospective . r-.j would be glad to furnish them. information t'iey might; be il'sirous of, and;, 'post, v.-; to proceed to the m on i . them i such et thev -vere need of ling, . free gratis and fW nothing is ..lo speak, or v.-ords to that effect.. :;.' :o.urse this was a meije face face" advertising scheme, tiie pen: l hustlers naturally counting on illll: as (li.'jiit a cohsiderable nber ot these wlio might seek jtiieir counsel. . : . ' Part of the business of thesejadver ! j -?:; was to induce men to ariply or ; unions, wheti.er.they came'.vithin sl!.'ving how. 'easily; .a case rniayjbe ri nie out which would ho fl gbod lin i! . the numerou:; and vari ed pension !. i i.iiciii:-; and rulings with in. the past U'..;. years. ! 'i'M V; .Vhot'htr method was the circular Uid claim agents organs, 'which were s'-wt but by the sackful daily from VM-Miirigtoii.- When the distributing !"rie in Washington, was overtasked express j to t!!l-V sacks full by 'ii.- ( ifies and towns , for which they '' -re intended, where' Lhey j Were 'turn 0,1 over 'to the Iogal postoffilces (.r'disCriTMition' and delivery.- j ' j . One of the hustlers was Pension ;cnt 'Lemon, a brother-in-law) of '"rpoTtrr Tanner, who not only bad t'MT rig!aof way when 't'anner was Commissioner, liut has kaum ; in a sliiig, and seems also to have a pretty ii.;;jit 'grip on Postmaster General ) Hna'maker, who permits him, iri yio I at ion of law, to send stacks bf his printed circulars and papers through ti.e mails, thesc papers contaiiiing printed matter on the wrappers .! for li(!dcn by the post.allaws.: This Le sion has become : (piite wealthy turougii ins pension work and-'pjrprh lses to become a millionaire jit is probably one of His circn.1 ars, uiiich liave been sent out. broadcast over the West,, to which the Cleve land 'lain IJcalcr refers as fufnish i'lg some interesting and suggestive information.-" This circular winter iiijorrns the soldiers thit he ias a f;.jnsion boomer from away back bc- gi ining the agitation of certain; bills n lsH, since which t me hell has he-eil boostintr this npih;inn , . . a ---- t (j,."- "Kht along, and raking im, though M did not say this, the ducats for "vin;.eii in tne meantime In ht$ cir ,;iilar he makes the generous offkr to t'.lO IVni,w. 1 -1. 1'T1 1 1 I. , -: - "v.ijapciby wiuen wiu nein nim ' loom his business, to give them 'c-third of the ten doll ar fee w hich '.r'-ts for making Land putttn of 'rougli an application. This s in Ui nature of a little bribe tq the editors who will help h im beat the (1 'vernmciit out of a pension, asdie "lertakcs to get a pensioti for I'Vcry man who 'ever cirried a jmus- et or Wcnt near enough to an army Rule's heels to run the fisk of: fcein ?tr-:e(l. Iktween the drcularS an ")c newspaper men. i,f they bite at nis hait, he will doubtl ess work up a JlrHinshinrr business There are hundred these agents !'n!m!nin UP business, and of cLrse win persuade thousandsofl men U rievcr' thought ofj applying for ; pc"s,on to apply, and from the cx- C(1,nSiX liberal way in' which the I " ' - 1 - ii - - -v. -v. . ... I 1 v J - VI IV I ... , - - A - - YOL.XXI. bill reads ninety-nine out of a hun dred of those who apply will get their pensions. In the meantima the pension hustlers will reap a rich har vest, and the taxpayers will foot the bill for untold millions. : I IT DON'T TAKE. As might be expected the; boycott suggestion of the Atlanta Constitu tion meets with very little favor from tlje Southern press or from Southern business men. Giving the writer in tile Constitution credit for sincerity in what he wrote, although wei doubt it Very much, it is Bard 'to understand how a thoughtful man should jhave rnaqe sucn a11 egFegious uiuuucr uu suggested a tiling so ausuru auu im practicable if not impossible as that. It was a suggestion born of thought lebs impulse and not of sound judg mpnt. Impulse is iiever a good guide, especially in' time of excitement w len '' great ! issues are involved aid when cool judgment and level heided sense are more necessary than ever. Dollars and cents are n.ot governed by impulse. They reisoh, they : keep their head, and that's vvhy this jabsurd proposition meets ; with Iso little countenance fr4 m the business men of the South. lJut after hll ;it may have been only a muit ot trie Constitution, wnicn Gejv. Gordon! in a thoughtless mo me nt caught at, took to be in earnest and endorseq. la - f it was intended foB a bluff only it was som ewhat be- lated. The time to have played it was when the infamous bill was before the House when thefe would liayc been tinie to have wcjrked up public sentiment against itj j As it is r i 1 ; i - . such '.a bluff; would not affect the Sematorsior Representative;s:who fa voi such la measure, for they too are playing a; bluff game and don't mind threats of that kind any more; than they do the weather forecasts' of Ge leral Greely. They are not inter ested , in trade, nir . thinking of the effect. of that! bill on trade, or its cost in dollars and cents. They are after seats in Congress, votes in the electoral collerre. nower : that's1 what . , ; ill jthep are playing for. : j ! .. 1 If it was cot bluff, however, but said, andf intended to be taken in downright earnest, how matiy stores would be open in the city iof Atlan- to (or any other Southern city) thir- . i . If,... . 1 -"V : - 1 ! . , iy uays aiter tne oig ooycoti was duly inaugurated? How many rail road trains a day would be ru nning into and ont" of her union (jlepot? How many of her merchants Clerks J- i would be: sitting up whittling pine shingles, or paring their finger nails while waitintr for these Southern manufactories to ; materialize and multiply to supply the goods that northern- manufactories had been supplying? Atlanta is pretty considerable of a town, in fact 'tis a husller, chock full of vim and go. She likes to be called the Chicago of the South, but our opin ion is that before that boycott was sixty days old, if it lived that long. Gov. Gordon's' cow could find prttty good grazing on Peach Tree i - - i t street. i . With the South and her twenty millions of people buying no goods from the ; northern manufactories what's the Southern cotton planter going to do with the cotton he was .1 nlthe habit of selling to Northern manufacturers to weave! into cloth I '..... f !. L to clothe the great majority ot the Southern people -tintil South ern mill enough had been erected to do the weaving? j England would furnish a! market for itll you think? ! T - . . For some doubtless, as she does now, but hot for all. j And then how about the price when there was only one bidder instead of two, the Amer can mill owner being retired because the boycott tookfrom him his best 1 ' " - - - : " JL" 1 I - customer, the South? ith no com petitor couldn't the English! manu facturer fix the price for himself, and then how would the Southern cotton planter fare? If he finds himself walking on pretty rough now and complaining, with ground reason, Ojf'the hard times, he would be walk ing on broken bottles then and com plaining of no times at all. j For dryin-r up Southern towns and turning Southern farms out to grass and weeds the boycott Would , prove ati eminent sucGess antloneof the cf the biggest thin'gs invented. But that's not the kind of a thing, force bill or no force bill, that the' South ern people are looking for this year. The Constitution -might j demonstrate its beauties and j practicability and experiment in a small way by boycot ting the Northern typ founders, paper mills, ink manufactories and the associated press dispatches and see how it would pan out. ) An imaginativeeontetriporary says perhaps the reason why ITom Reed wears a sash is jbecause his front elevation esembls a bay 'window. This is not the reason. It is because the sash j keeps him tdgether and makes him bold and brave. - There ; is too much assassination talk by Mr.. Tillman in South Caro- ma, There is no danger of anybody being assassinated down there, but the men who indulge in that kind of talk are assassinating the reputation of their'State. '' : 1 ME 1 : " 1 ' - ' . ; ! -4 1 : - ' -:: !" "!-- sx MINOR MENTION. The pension agents are waking up the Grand Army, which has be gun to protest against the action of congress in ' allowing the pension agents a tee ot igiu in each case un der the Dependent Pension Act. In a memorial presented in the Senate, Friday, from Headquarters Grand Army! Post, by Senator Blair, the memorialists expressed their abhor rence, in which abhorrence Senator Blair fully" concurred. The Army Posts caught on to this from seeing some of the numerous! circulars which are being sent out by pension agents offering editors j who help them J boom the business one-third the fee and others offering half, and they naturally conclude that if these agents can afford to give away one third or one-half the fee, the fee is unnecessarily large. The Army Posts don't $eem to have grasped the fact that the pension agents were,. among. the mjost active in booming these pension bills, and that while they were doing so they had jin eye on business and managed to get a clause inserted allowing them this $10 fee, and also providing that it be paid by j.he appli the pension officer out of cant's pension before the pensrba was paid, j The object of this was to se cure the fee and make the Collection more prompt and easy. The grand army jof pension agents knew what they were doing when they ing such paternal interest in the men who 'saved the Union." Boss Reed thanked God that the House of. Representatives kvas "not a cieuperative body. I ni$ was in tended for a sneer at the Senate. But while the Senate is not under the boss rule or gag rule fby which ... k the House is run, and there is more individuality and independence of thought and action there,! it might be questioned whether it is a "delib erative body" in the trie sense. When Mr. Voorhees opener the de bate on the tariff bill Monday there were hot a dozen. Republican Sena tors present to hear hire. When Senato. Vance had the floor on it, J-r day, during most of the time were only live present. Voor there hees and Vance are conceded to be two of the ablest men in J the Senate, and the Jfact that they have to talk to empty chairs' on ' the Republican' side, indicates either that the Repub lican Senators" take no interest in this 'question, vital as it is in impor tance toj the whole people, or that the debate is a mere formality, and that jthe passage of the bill has al ready been decided in caucus. It is true kheic speeches may be jread in the Congressional Record when they are: printed, but it is very aoubtful whethcrithe Senators who wouldn't sit a id listen to them would take the time to read them. A deliberative body hears both sides of a question, and jtheivdecides with the best lights before it. That is not what the ma jority in the Senate is doing. Ir the;discussion of the tariff bill in the Senate Friday, Senator! Plumb, of Kansas, one of the few Republi can Senators who seeni to be in favdV of tariff reform, and jto hold thac tariff rates should pot be in reason, Creased without some gopd asked a question, and his failure to get an answer to it shows how the i- - . -i j majority in the Senate are flpunder- ng ,in the dark and how jlittle they know about the effect of jwhat they propose to do. His question was sensible, business-like ortie,' one with marrow in it. He want- ed j to know . of Committee which i the pinance had prepared the 'bill, what they believed the effect of the bill, if passed, would be on the revenues of the government and not one of them could give him the desired information, and et they e prepared a bill and propose to it through on a partisan vote, the nav I run effect of which on the reyenuesof the government they can't venture, when asked, an opinion upon. If this isn't the essence, of stupidity, we'd like to know what:it is. If these 'Senators . . i were agents for a corporation and transacted its business in that sense- ess, shiftless way, the last one of them would be bounced before they could say Jack Robinson. I . , V 1 ' v. . :! ! t is said that Autocrat Reed, Mr. MtpKinley and the gang which Irain with them are furious at Blaine's criticism of the McKinley bill, which they say will do great damage to the party in the, coming campaign. No wdnder they are furious, Tori Blaine's exposures ot the weakness, stupidity and hypocrisy of that Measure has put them, on the defensive and com pelled them not only to combat the arguments of Democrats but to meet th earraignment of a high priest !o th ;ir own party who has more influ ence with the masses in the Republi can party and a stronger following than any of them. Blaine; has the cojurage of his convictions' and the candor to utter themeven when by so doing he endorses? the position taken- by Democrats that the Mc Kinley tariff is a monstrosity and a fraud, and that where it pretends to be in the interest of ; the American farmer, it is a cheat of the highest order. EEKLY i , WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1890 THE ALLEGED HIGHWAYMAN. J . Denrua Horn Acquitted of the Charge ,of Bobbing Alonzo Millis and Convicted of Assault and Battery on Alex Moore. ;The trial of Dennis Horn, colored, on two indictments one for highway rob- Dery ana tne other tor assault and bat- tery--occupied the greater part ot the wiiie,oi me criminal ourt yesteraay The two cases were tried befpre different juries, and resulted in an acquittal on the charge of highway robbery and con viction of assault and battery. Col. B. R. Moore, Solicitor, conducted the prosecution, and Col. A. M. Waddell, attorney for the W. O. & E. C R. R Co i appeareo as counsel lor the pris- onet AJonzo Millis, a white farmer, the Complainant, testified that the fcjbbery luuif. pidLc iuoul o o ciock. in inc alter noon of the 19thxf June last, on the road from Wilmington to Northeast . Ferry, about six and a half miles from the city Heiidentified the prisoner as a man who overtook him on the road, and walked by the side of witness' cart, with a club injjjs hand made'of a piece of scantling. Mijl is suspected the man of some evil design, and took his money out of his pociket and put it in the bottom of the cart. As soon as he did this the man jumped into the cart, seized the money and jumped out again. Just then two men came out of the bushes in a threat ening manner, and prisoner said to them, "don't strike him, I've got the' money." The prisoner war. also identified by other witnesses for the State. Mr. lack- son, who lives on'the road, four miles from the city, testified that on the day mentioned Millis stopped at a well in front of Jackson's house about 2 o'clock Went out to speak to Millis and saw the prisoner drinking water at the well. After drinking he went up the road ahead of Millis. Was positive that the prisoner was tiie man. A colored woman living near Jack son's place, saw Millis, Jackson and a coloK.ll iiia:s at the well on the day and at tne iir.ie mentioned, aud to the best of her knowledge the prisoner was the man. Another witness for the State, Mr. Harrcll, testified that he was on his way to the city in a cart and met Millis in the road, a colored man walking by the cart. He' swore oositivelv that the prisoner was that man. It was claimed by the defence that the prisoner on the day on which the rob bery is alleged to Lave occurred, was at work on the V. O. & E. C. railroad, at Scott's Hill. Mr. W. B. Goodwin, track layer on the road, said he was at work on the IDth of June with the prisoner, twenty-one miles from Wilmington; prisoner worked all day, and was paid for a full day's work. Mr. Brockman, track engineer on the road, testified that he was certain that the Drisoner was at work on the 19th of June. Anthony Brown, colored, worked with prisoner; and testified that prisoner went to work on the 19th of June and worked three hours, laying track, when they knocked off. The case was given to the jury in the afternoon, and a verdict of not guilty was returned. ... ' The prisoner (Horn) was then put upon trial lor assault and battery on Alex. Moore, a colored farmer, who was attacked on the road on his way home from the city on the 25th of June, by a colored man, whose object was supposed to be robbery, and who struck Moore with a club, but was frightened off by Moore's cries for help. Six witnesses swore most positively that Horn was the man seen on the road near the place where the robbery occurred, and Moore also was positive that prisoner was the man who assaulted him. The prisoner's defence, as in the first case, was an alibi, and the same wit nesses testified in his behalf that he was at work on the railroad on the 25th day of June. In this case, however, the prisoner was found guilty, the jury bringing in a verdict at night after Court had adjourned. A Hew Enterprise. The manufacturing establishment re cently erected on Smith's Creek, near the city, and about which there was so miuch mystery no one outside .of the proprietors knowing for what purpose it was intended it is learned on good au thority is for the manufacture of oil and other products from pine wood by de structive distillation the same as man ufactured at the Carolina Oil and Creo sote Works, but with different appa ratus. The plant, it is said, will cost from twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars. All the proprietors are North- crn men. One of the Bobbers Captured. Last Fall Mayor Fowler issued a war rant for the arrest of Bryan Gaston, a Colored man charged with larceny in Brunswick county and burglary in Ons low. Gaston was arrested and sent to pnslow. where he was tried and con victed, but subsequently made his es cape. Information was furnished Mayor Fowler some time ago that Gas ton, after his' escape, had com mitted another burglary, and was bn his way to Wilmington. He was seen peveral times in (the country outside of the city, and a few days ago information was given-at the City Hall that he had broken into a house in Brunswick and stolen a gun and other articles. Police pfficers were sent to arrest him at the ferry, but he avoided jthe officers and crossed the river to the city on a lighter, with a gun and bundle in his possession. Yesterday afternoon Gaston was pointed out by the lighterman to officer Grant, in Brooklyn, who arrested and brought him to the City .Hall. The prisoner was questioned by "Mayor Fowler as to where he gbt the gun, and said that he took it out of the house in jBrunswick; that the door was unlocked jand he went in and got it. He wouldn't tell what he had in the bundle, nor what he did with it. i Childhood shows the man as mormncr shonrc tfif rtau Mfltnti H - THIRD DISTRICT. B. IV Grady Nominated by the - Demo cratic Congressional Convention. I" the Democratic Congressional Convention at Clinton. at six o'clock yesterday morning, Mr, B. F. Grady, of uupim county, was nominated on , the 1 1 'Jth ballot. The vote was as follows Irraffly, .....211 Mclamrny, . ... 126 Aycpclcj . .. 9 On one of the ballots Dr. Cyrus iuompspn, oi unsiow, received 104 votes, within 10 votes of nomination. I ' FOURTH DISTRICT. Bunn Nominated by the Democratic Con .- I . vention. j A special dispatch to the Star from Durham, N. C, says that, in the Demo cratic Convention held there yesterday, B. H. Bunn, of Nash county, was re nominated for Congressman on the first ballot. W. F. Stroud was his only onpo nent. -The vote resulted: Bunn, 281; Stroud 111. The nomination was made unanimous. . -The Conyention was enthusiastic anl narmonious throughout. Resolutions endorsing Senator Vance were adopted. CRIMINAL COURT. A Verdict of Guilty in the Slander CasoJ The greater part of yesterday's ses sion of the Criminal Court was occu pied with; the trial of John L. Barker, indicted under the statute making it a criminal offence punishable by fine or imprisonment to slander a woman. The complainant in the case was Miss S. J Gardiner, Barker's divorced wife, who was imarriied to him in 1882 and from whom he obtained a divorce some years later. The case was ably argued by Solicitor B. R. Moore and Marsden Bellamy, Esq., for the State, and Herbert McClammy and Mr. Rountree for the defence. It was given! to the jury fate in the after noon arid ;a verdict was soon returned, finding the defendant guilty as charged in the bill: of indictment. The prisoner's counsel gave notice that a motion for a new trial would.be made. The Court then took a recess until this morning. I TIMMONSVILLE, S-C. Fatal Boiler Explosion Cotton Crops. A correspondent of the Star writes from Timmonsville, S. C, July 23d, that the boiler of the saw mill "j belonging to Wm. Atkinson, situated between that place and Cartersville exploded last Wednesday, killing Norman Phillips and scalding a young brother of Mr. Atkinson so seriously thati Dr. Palmer says, he cannot live. The. cause of the explosion is attributed td carelessness on the part of the fireman Cotton still keeps in a fine growing condition and in some sections needs rain. On light lands it will begin to open in a few days, and by the 15th of August it will be ready to gather." j . THIRP DISTRICT CONVENTION. The Highest Votes Beceived by the Candi dates, j As a matter of interest to some of the readers of the Star, below is given a list of the candidates balloted for and the highest vote , each received, at the Convention .in Clinton. In many in stances the vote was merely compli mentary, the persons not being aspirants for Congressional honors: C. W. McClammy, Pender 147 W. J. Green, Cumberland 146 C. B. Aycock, Wayne. . . .;. 141 C. W. Thompson,)nslow .164 Ii. b . Grady, Duplin 201 R. L. White, Bladen ; 56 H. E. Faison, Sampson . . .;. 103 Marion Butler, Sam p'sonX 30 D. H. McLean, Harnett, .i 88 D. E. Mclver, Moore. 105 Dark Horse ? or Colt P Warsaw, N. C., July 25.. Editor Morning Star, Wilmington. N. C: Permit me through your paper to say, that you are in error as to B. F. Grady being a dark horse for Congress. If you will examine the published vote you will find that Mr. Grady was placed in nom ination along with other candidates and redeived support on each ballot cast. It was well known in Duplin and Sampson that he was a candidate, and to some ex tent in other counties of the district. And as to him refusing to sign the demands pf the Alliance, we have never heard of any demands being presented to him or either of the candidates, in this district. All' who know Mr. Grady will repose in him such confidence as will require no pledge of him to do his whole duty for all classes or professions. H. L. Stevens, i All right. We are willing to "com p.' as our friend lawyer Stevens would say, by expressing the opinion that if Mr. Grady were hot a "dark horse'" he proved himself a "powerful" large and speedy colt. Editor Star. Third Congressional District. The following is the Executive Com mittee of the Third Congressional Dis trict as appointed at the recent Conven tion at Clinton: ! Bladen R. S. White. Cumberland Z, W. Whitehead. Duplin S. B. Newton; j . Harnett .T. J. Swann. Moore D. E. Mclver. j Onslow Dr. Cyrus W. Thompson. Pender T.J.Armstrong. Sampson W. S. Thompson, Wayne F. A. Daniels. Knocked Down and Bobbed. Police Sergeant Bender, while making his rounds last night, found a colored man at a negro lodging house on Water street, who said he had beeu stopped near Parsley & Wiggins' mill, coming from Meares' Bluff, last night, by five or six men, who knocked him down and robbed him of four dollars in money. The man gave his name to the Sergeant as Mack Taylor. ! j A devoted Christian was in the' habit of saying: "I am so busy thanking God for his mercies that I really have no; time to spare for any complaints.'? The more we thank uod the more occasions- we shall see for doing so. JrfiV " : 1 j SRimfs TERPENTINE. 1 1W7 1 M ; II TV I-' Asheville CA I I . 1 . I ' II' IJ ' rr. .. j . ' 1 "SV II . II ;. cM.ur.ias oucreu a 'IV V II "TYV . I ; itne apprehension ot Kl ; w m i . . i m - a lit t i ixirnrv ie rn rrmrt mifh i m m la m. v. i a i . m: 1 . -1.' ;-. - , : - ' . . . -. , ,. . . .6 1 - ;' 7--::' : :;;: . .' ' i5f' WASHINGTON NEWS. Special Census Agente The Biv6r and I. Harbor Bill The Federal Eleotiori Bill. f By Telegraph to the NJorning Star. i jWashington, July 24. The . follow ing have been appointed special census agents to collect 'statistics sof manufac tu-es: Anderson L. Stipe, Winston, N Qi Henry M. Roberts, Asheville, N. C At a meeting of the Senate CommittTee pr Commerce ' to-day the I question of . having a time fixed for considera tidn of the' River and Harbor bill was discussed. The members of the tnm mittee were all anxious that it should be taken up at the earliest practicable day in pursuance to numerous requests that nave come to tnem irom their constitu ems, anu otiiers - asKinsj lor action on 1 1 -1 1 . 1 ,. r ... iiie um mat wonts lor which appro7 priations are maae tnerem may be orose cujt;ed. Chairman Frye was authorized to consult with Mr. Aldrich, of the Fi nice Committee, in charge of the Tariff bill, and arrange for prompt con- : .1 m. : r . i r , t . s ... oiuciutiun oi tne Kiver ana riarDor bill. Washington. July 24. It is under- stooa mat Mr. bpooner and Mr. Hoar, of 'the Senate Committee on Privileges ana Elections, who have been charged byj their Republican colleagues with the wotk .ot revising the Lodge Election bin, have finished their draft of the measure ana sent it to the printer. Copies will be submitted to-morrow to their Republican colleagues on the com mittee for their examination and sug gestions. Nothing is definitely known refpecting tne changes made by Messrs, sjiooncr and Hoar, save that the bill has been materially reduced in size. Pp to the present time there have been received at the Pension Bureau abbut 326,500 applications for pensions unjder the act of June 27, 1890. It is nqlt expected, however, that any of these caes will he 'reached in the ordinary course of adjudication for some time ycjt, owing to the pressing need of addi tional clerical force. Washington, July 25. The Clayton vs Breckinridge (Arkansas) electipn case, under discussion, was : resumed to day by the House Committee on Elec tions. Mr. Lacey, chairman of the sub committee which examined the matter, made a statement of the results of the election in different counties, as shown Dy testimony taken, which statement was ordered to be printed for the use of the committee. Probably the case will bd disposed of at the next meeting. line House committee on Invalid Pensions to-day ordered a favorable re port upon the bill granting a pension of Sj.uuu per annum to the widow of the late Gen. Geo. B. McCleilan. ANOTHER DEADLY CYCLONE. Terrible Destruction m South Lawrence, pSIass.-fMany Buildings Entirely Swept jA.way and Other Damage Done Six Lives Lost $nd Thirty-five Injured tvcr One Hundred Thousand Dollars' Worth of Property Destroyed. Ey Telegraph to the Manins Star. Lawrence, Mass., July 26 A cy one of great power struck South Law rence, about two miles front here, about o'clock this morning. The storm first struck Springfield street, and trav elled thence to Salem.street, devastating at section twenty rods'wide. It is esti mated that one hundred bnildincs Were leveled by the storm. One man is known to have been killed outright by a falling building, and the injured are now re ported as numbering fifty or sixty. Fire has broken out in a number of places in the ruins and the entire depart ment is at work extinguistiingthe flames. I Maldkn, Mass., July 20 The first train from Lawrence since the reported disaster arrived here at noon. The conductor states that the tornado struck South Lawrence about i five hundred rods from the South Lawrence denot of the Bostph & Maine railroad. Its path Pf destruction extends to the overhead bridge on the Boston & Maine tracks, between -South Lawrence and North Andover. In South Lawrence seventv- ve houses were shattered. The roof pf the new Catholic Church was carried away, and the switch-box of the Boston Maine road was blown five hundred eet. carrying with it a railroad employe, whose name i? not known onH killinrr iiim instantly. On the east side of the tracks, toward North Andover, a grove of large trees, ften to fifteen acres in extent, were blown flat by the wind, and fifteen houses are jrcported wrecked in North Andover. The loss of life, from the present source of information.'is placed at from niteen to twenty, and the number in jured, it is said, must reach one hundred and fatty. The railroad property has not been damaged, and communication by train is unbroken, while the wires are more or less blown down. , Springfield street, where the cyclone struck, contained a great many of the handsomest residence of the town. The work of the tornado on this street was clear cut, and after it had passed but three houses of all between Blanch- ard and South Union streets were left standing. AH Of the others on both sides of the street were either mowed completely down or partially demolish ed, and twenty people were injured on this street alone. The windows of St. Patrick's Church were blowji in. Trees, chimneys, signs, fences and roofs were torn away, outside of the path of the storm, while in its direct route every thing was laid flat. 5 ! . Boston, July 26, 12.50 p. m. The first news of the cyclone direct from Lawrence has Must been received by telephone message. It confirms the ex tent of the disaster as first reported. ine aestruction wasconnnea wholly to South Lawrence. Ninety wooden dwell ings were destroyed, six lives were! lost and thirty-five persons injured. One hundred and ten thousand dollars worth of property was destroyed and five hundred people rendered homeless. New York, July 26 The following comes direct from Lawrence bv tele phone: . j A terrible cyclone struck Lawrence shortly after 9 a. m., causing great dam age and loss of life. Heavy rainj was tailing, and suddenly a black cloud de scended upon South Lawrence, tearing trees up by the roots, over-turning houses and causing frightful ' havoc. Over one hundred houses on Spring- neia, saiem ana fortiana streets were wrecked. Six . people were killed . out right and thirty injured FATAL SHOOTING At a Farmers Alliance Picnic in Georgia. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Savannah, Ga., July 25. John P. Harris, U. S. deputy marshal, and John Cleary were fatally shot at a Farmers' Alliance picnic at Oliver Ga. The shoot ing was the result of a quarrel over family affairs. Cleary and his father both shot Harris, who returned the hre, fatally wounding young Cleary. The father started to ride off, but was captured by the sheriff. He had three revolvers on his person and all had been emptied. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. VU 1 "- i I -1' ' A House m Savannah Pilled with Sleep mg inmates, Blown to Pieces Three Persons Killed and a Number Severely : Injured Cause: of the Explosion t " ' Mystery. ;. ; ;..';' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Savannah, Ga.', "July 24. W. J Bullard's boarding house, a three-stbry. brick dwelling. Nd. 203 Congress street, was blown up at) 1j20 o'clock this morn ing. Three persons were killed and six injured, two of whom'will .probably die. There were thirteen people in the house. The explbsion shattered the walls, which collapsed in an instant. and fell a mass; of occupants in the Three were hurled ruins. Most of the house were asleep, from their beds, and either buried Under the falling debris or thrown on top of it. The killed are Mrs. W. J. Bullard, and Lockley.andGus. Robie. The wounded are J-no. Roberts, right ankle fractured and concussion of the brain from the shock; L. J. Tate, contrision of face and chest; Meldon HavLwood, colored, shoul der dislocated and bruised; Edward A. Rimes, slightly bruised; Sam King, col ored, badly injured about the body. The first persPn (taken out of the ruins wis L..J. Tate, collector for the Citizens' Bank, who was sleeping on the second floor and was pinjned down by falling timbers. A few minutes later the man gled body of Mrs Bullard as found eight feet under a pile of bricks, beneath the room where she , was sleeointr. Robic's body was' taken tout at three o'clock. Robie j came here from New York about a month ago j and was em ployed by the I McDonough Company as scrollman. The body of Lockleywas found about four o'clock. ; It was the last taken out of the building. Mr. Bullard, wh was sleeping with his wife, had a !marvel)ou$ escape, and received but few slight tiruises. Mrs. Bullard was dead when taken out. She was fearfully crushed. j . The cause of the explosipn is a mys tery. There are mdiny rumors of an ugly nature, but nobod will take the respon sibility of making! a dirett statement. Qne man insinuated that tjicre had been a row in the housd toward jthe end of a jollification in which the inmates had been indulging, j Lamps were used in stead of gas, and St is saijd that there was no meter in the house, though it was supplied with'gas pip:: throughout. Most people therefore arc unable to see how the explosion could have been caused by gas. """ The fallen build ing was i three-story tenement, built In the French-flat style, and lace north and soutl the two top floors being used, as sleeping npart ments. j THE FORCE BILL A Protest Against Its Enactment From Business Men of Atlanta, Ga. Ey Telegraph to the Morning Star. Atlanta, Ga., July 24.4-Pursuant to call of ex-Governor Bullock President of the Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta's business men met to-day trU-take action and protest against the Force bill Mayor g was Glenn presided, and the thoroughly representative : about 500 being present., j. The principal speech whs made byi ex-Congressman A. J. Hammond, whof urged that a ; strong, d fcniified pro-i wast test be entered;, but that now not the time tolgo further. ine iouowmg resolutions were unani-i mously adopted; Whereas, a measure known as the: Force Bill, sanctioned by the' Housei w pending in the Senate of the United States. is regarded by us as inju rious to the whole country and is in tended to uphold Federal elections byi bayonet rule; and, whereas, we look with! alarm upon the; passage of a measure! that must inevitably estrange sections, f oppress and humiliate ioyalj people, and! disturb the harniony that njow exists in!, the commercial il relations ot the North! and South; andj whereas, we believe it! to be contrary to the spirit of our or-i ganic law and the institutions of our go- vernment, to place Federal, elections! under the entire control of a par-? tisan , administration and its fol- lowers; and, whereas, tjhe South J under the constitution and laws of the i land is entitled toj some rights of local self-government! and home ijnle enjoyed bv anv other section of the conntrv: therefore, as loyal citizens oi the Union,' standing by the Constitution of ourf lureiamers, we j uo earnestly enter ouv most solemn protest againstlthe passasre of the Force bill now before the Senate and we do resolve, ' j First, That we ask the co-opera tion of the business interests of thd North and of all patriotic Americans in directing their influence against such measure; "second, we call upon the true friends of good government every? where to unite iwith us in this peaceful effort to save the government of thfc people, by the people and for the pctfplie umy mrucu intu a partisan des potism, i . THE FORCE BILL. I--.'' The Democrats of Kansas City Make to. Hi i ( Strong Protest Against the; Passage of the Federal Election Bill. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Kansas Citv, Mo.. July 26. At a mass meeting of Democrats last evening the following resolutions wpre adopted: Resolved, By the Democrats if Kansas City a cosmopolitan city em bracing in its ranks both efc-Union-anfl ex-Confederate j soldiers a city having business relations with all sections f country, Northj.jEast, SoutH and jWest-l- that in the interest of peace and gOop will, business j prosperity both sent and past, and in the ture, ' we condemn .nd deprec cate the passage of ; what is knowjn as the Federal Election bill now. pend ing in Congress. As this cty is entirely cosmopolitan, neither alliedf to the" North nor South, we believe it will be for the best interest of the whole country that no laws be enacted whichj will stir tip Strife and engender scctipnal feelirjg; and we denounce the attejmpt to pis this bill as a deliberate blowtothe liber ties of the people and theilr inalienable right to elect their own representatives. FATAL AFFRAY. Two Men Shoot Each Othei! to Death Asheville. i By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Asheville, N. C, July 26. A shoot ing anray occurrea nerc last night, in iT-.- . . .1 bar-room, in which John Milster. bai keeper, was instantly killed, and Phili Mclntyre, a butcher, received a shot i the breast from! which he died this morn ing. Milster's body was riddled wit bullets, an investigation disclosing eight holes. Milster was from iSpartanburd. C, and was a single man. Mclntire was married and leaves a ; tamily. J woman is supposed to have been the cause of the difficulty. zen: I he Gov- ?ward of $200 for kbert L. Mc Peters ie murder of L. W. Cody iiVT4adison nty. The rela- tives of the mu an offer an ad- rjditional reward of $1 Morganton Herald: An English company, with an abundance of capital. is reported as operating a gold mine on Ithe head waters of Wilson's creek, in Caldwell county. A large stamp mill has been put in and another will be pur chased. It is rumored that the runners are "striking it rich." ! :( . Winston Daily. We j were relia bly informed this morninc that trains will be whizzing by Winston-Salem from trreensboro to Wilkesboro irt a few weeks. The 7th of August is the day now selected for the Richmond & Dan ville Railroad Company ta put on sepa rate passenger and freight trains onthe apove route. ; Raleigh News and Observer Gov. Fowle has retained Messrs. Battle ; and Mordecai on behalf of the Statue, land will test by an appeal to the Su- f preme Court Judge Whitaker's decision that he had no right to hold Rocking ham Superior Court. He has also re quested Solicitor Settle to take, an ap peal ion behalf of the State if Judge Whitiaker makes a' similarl decision in the case of Stokes court. j Wilkesboro Chronicle; The first steam engine which ever ran in the town of Wilkesboro was started last week at the brick works of Smoak & Hackett, in West Wikesborp. - The rock spoken of last weekj which slid frpm Greenstreet Mountain, measured on the surface about thirty feet square and about eight feet thick, ' It cleaned out all the timber in its route, qutting down trees three feet in diameter and over. The sound it -made was heard to Trap. Hill, some three or four miles away. -,' '(. j Franklin Press: Mr. J. W. Quiscnbury has left a beautiful speci men of manganese orp at our office, which he found on his land a few miles fjom town," and thinks tlje bed;; arc extensive and valuable, j Mr. Bartlett S.'Dills was before. Commissioner Cunningham last Saturday on a chargeof selling and removing spirituous liquors and was bound over to the Federal Court in a bond of $200. ! Geo. Reid,- charged with killing Calhoun McCoy, waived ex amination in the: magistrates court last Tuesday and gjave bond for I appearancp at the next term of the Superior Court in the sura of $2,000. f Durham j Sun : On; Saturday evening last at Pittsboro, Chas. Har den, a white man; got into a. difficulty with a negro bv . the name of Alex. Moore, and killed him. The- plea of Harden is that; he did it in self defense. He has been b6und over to! court in a bond of $500. -j Mr. J. B. Cole, living near O Kelly s Church, in Durham coun ty, lost his life yesterday from an acci dent. He was trim m i nc some trpos standing upon a ladder, according to the best information we could get. The lad der tell, throwing him to the ground. He was struck on the back of the head by the ladder pr a rock. The accident occurred about 9 o'clock yesterday morning and he died about 2 o'clock in the afternoon..! . I Charlotte News: Last Saturday afternoon a man, woman and child reg istered at one pf the Charlotte hotels as "J. A. Kirkmani wife and child. High Point, N. C." jWhcn Kirkman called to settle Monday, he lacked twenty cents of having enough to pay his bill, and the hotel kept his trunk. He went Off with the womah and child and found a boarding house. , Mr. Taylor of High Point, arrived here. He announced that Mrs. Kirkman'' was his wife, and had run on with the man. After hunting about for a time he found his wife and child at a boarding house. Kirkman had skipped. Taylor went to the hotel, redeemed the trunk, and j with his wife and child went to the depot to wait for the evening train to take them back to High Point. The woman was very hum ble and sorrowful. ; j Kinston press: Messrs. Louis Einstein and jj F. Taylor contemplate starting a paper box factory to make boxes for hosiery and other purposes. The crops in this and adjoining counties are the; finest for several years, and for which jwe all should feel pro foundly thankful. The farmers arc jail in good heart. Mr. J, B. Cum mings is shipping large i quantities of huckleberries toj the Northern markets. We alsof" noticej that he is shipping a large number ofj chickens j North. -Mr. Ri P. Murphy, of Jones county, tells us that a chickep that was hatched last March has' laid tight eggs and is now setting. This is remarkaUy quick. Mr. Murphy says the chicken looks to be only about half grown. -I A colored boy, living on Mr. Jno. Aldridgc's place, about one mile from Kinston, was kick ed by a horse while trying to drive him in the stable lastj Monday evening? from tne enects oi wnicn ne died lucsday mqjrning. j i j. Raleigh JVe7cs ana Odscrz'cr: It i reported that Mr. Kirby Smith, of ' Goldsboro, has instituted a suit for $10, 000 damages against the I president and trustees of the University for false im prisonment. Last June! a year ago, it will be remembered, some of the boys' at the University commencement in dulged in a little escapade and painted the Caldwell monument in the campus, Mr-. Smith Was arrested on suspicion and held in custody: several hours the next day. It is understood that he ciaims now that the charges have never been pressed against .him; that he is innocent, and ' that the guilty parties have been found put ahd have npt been prosecuted. He claims $10,000 damages for false impri sonment and has instituted suit. There Was somej lively kicking here yes terday! about tjiat census estimate and nobody could be seen who was satisfied with it. It is unreasonable to suppose that the increase in trie pity's population for the last ten years hat been so little as indicated bv the figures. In 1880 it was 9f265. That it is n more than 10,500 now very few people will believe. Statesville landmark : The coi ner stone of thej Lutheran Church was laid last Saturday. j-Caisar Hall, an old colored man. dropped dead in the colored Presbyterian Church at Beth any Monday night, while attending re ligious exercises. Miss Cora Watts, daughter of ex-Shcriff T. A. Watts, of Shiloh township, was bjittcn by a spider last Thursday and for awhile her life was despaired of. i Dr. J. F.j Long was called in and succeeded in cpunteracting the effects of the ppison and the young lady is about well hgain. U Mrs. Sabry Gaither, who hjis.been ljiving for a year : or two with herj sister, Mrs. R, L. Stimp son, of Turncrsburg tovrnship, dropped dead in the yrd last Saturday morn ing, ine threshers were at the place and there was the usua bustle on such occasions. While hurrying about, Mrs. Gaither dropped unnoticed at the corner of the hojuse and died: She was about 75 years of age. While wheat threshing! was in progress on the farm ofj Mr. James Hewitt, in Catawba county, abou four miles up the river front Catawba Stationj near the Island ford, last Friday afternoon. "sw""B atiuR. t iKisiuimun tree near a straw stack ahd instantly killed Robt. T 1 1 IT.; l- t , Leui auu nenry uoiiCK, two young men who were underj the tree, and knocked down eleven other persons who were standing near by. Of those KnocKea aown Alonzp Holler and a colored boy named Rbscman were so badly injured that it is thought impossi ble for them Jto reco er, though they were liviflg; but unconscious at last re port. Gerard Bolick, father of Henry, was on the straw stack at the time, -and was knocked to the ground and the clothing nearly all torn from the body.