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I V The Mtelily Jftar. I'UIILISHBD AI- " i ! " WILMINGTON, N. C, AT $1.00 A YEAR; IN ADVANCE. 88888888888888888 88888888888888888 siiuoj 9 88888888888888888 88888888888888888 88888888288888888 S888888828888883 8888S888838888888 88888888888888888 U 0, KiiTTri-cl at the Post Office at Wilmington, N.C, as Second Clam Matter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. ; The subscription price of the 'Weekly Star is as follows : . j - Single Copy 1 year, postage paid. ............. $1 W " . " 6 months " " . " " 3 months " " 80 A PERT17TENT QUESTION. Mr. James G.' Blaine has been do ing some very interesting talking and writing latclycntirely too much for the comfort of Messrs. Harrison, Reed, McKinlcy cf al. We have re ferred to his two letters written to Senator Frye in advocacy of his re riimcity proposition, in which he exploded the "home market" delu sion and inferentially knocked the props from under the whole high protection structure When he de clared that opening up new markets for the sale of "American j products was the "highest order? of protec ti.m." That is. good, lievel-headed business sense and it is jood, Ievel lioaded, sound Democracy,: as far as tin: tariff goes. It has takejn Mr. Blaine twenty-five years to leirn it or at ii-a-t to acknowledge lit but he seems to have learned it at last Having been converted he is 'now striking out to do some missionary work among the beiiigatcd states men of his own party wpo are still in the darkness, from which he has . eiTwrged. ' - j j ' '.:. When Mr. Blaine dcili crately 'de clares that opening upi njew markets in .other countries for jjthe sale of 'American products is the "highest order of protection," it lis logically . an abindonment of t il j theory of pritection by a high tariff, jfor if these markets were oneried and this rdcr of protectjon secured, ivi'iiicr o lip ;e would no longer flbe an excuse fin- nor defence of high fariff protec ii lion, which can only be justified, if it car. be justified at all, oiji the .ground of necessity, to preserve.and . foster home industries. j V This is identically thi;same posi tion that the Democrat j$ party has taken all along on tjlils question, namely, that it was jiotj high .pro tective tariff that our manufacturers need to insure them success ant! per manence, i but more markets -where tlie products of our fields and shops would find purchasers for the surplus over and above vhat thl home TOar k'et demanded,, while jlhe working men, in whom tbc high tariff builders -i;ni to take such a fraternal inter est, !y' needed protectijon to the ex tent of the difference In the wages 'p ii'l in the fld countries and in-this. Mr. I'.initie fought this as a destruc tive pr'ipositi7n and fatil menace to our ''infant industries'i which had 'still to be coddled anjd bottle-fed to keep them alive. What then to him was folly I or worse, boding destruction tp our; in dustries is now the "higfiest order of protection.'- We congratulate this eminent champion of protection on - his conversion and the! country on the good that may eventually come from it. ; v I . In his second better Mr. Blaine touches upon, a subject to which his party is alsd committed and in which the American people are interested the ship subsidy rpicstion 4n which he p.sks Senator Frye a pertenent ' question ' which shows that he has no confidence in - subsidies as a means of building up our merchant marine while the high tariff stands in the way las ran' obsta cle f We quote the paagraphj con taining the question with which he concludes his second better to Sena tor l-'rye. He says: j j j - '- "You have recently reciEived congrat ulations in which I cordially join on carrying the Shipping bills through the. Senate.. Do you not think that a; line of Ships generously aided by the govern- mcnt will have a better prospect or pro fit and for permanence if we .can give them outward cargoes frqm the IJnited Statcsnd not confine them to inward cargoes fom Latin America?" Here he is again, while professing l he in favor of subsidies, putting himself on Democratic ground and justifying the position1' of the bemo- cratic . Senators who! opposed the subsidy bills when they were! under - consideration in the Senate. They then took the position' that while the Krh tariff existed to restrict trade dna put the American . trader and manufacturer 1 at a j disad vantage in . attcmptinie competi with the trader and j manu facturer of those European countries where they were not so harnpered wasu wilful and" a useless waste of money, that while subsidies might b,'Hd up ships they could net build ul commerce to keep the shipf afloat, the only wav to do that was to take off the unnecessary restrictions lum commerce, and I thus give our "ucrs and manufacturers a fair r . . .. . a ,i mm m m mt l i- m, mm m mm i mmm . m m-mm m mm 1 m mi -fc. m k -..mm:. m mm mm jmmr i . i, i j i t m . ,. j r i- i i mm mmm -i j , -i - m m m m m m . , i .mm i - mm 'mm - mm, w m .r. , m m, mr - m -m. m ... a - - m m ' m m . . r i - i i .. . i ?S . - I ' ' . - - -:-U. - - "j-jl , Vi .-, .., VOL. XXI. showing in the contest with their European rivals who now have and always will have a monopoly of the trade of the Central and South American countries while the present high tariff remains"" to handicap American enterprise. This is identi cally the position that Mr. Blaine takes in the pertinent jj question he here asks Senator Frye. -; j . J A commerce that brings every thing in and carries I nothing out isn't much of a commerce to brag about, and a merchant; marine that comes in loaded and goes'out empty don't do much to earn the subsidies that are lavished upon it. But that's what it will do and must do, while stupid high tariff restrictions prevent it from doing anything else. MINOR MENTIOB. Senator Plumb1, of Kansas," talked out in meeting Fpiday, and told some plain truths, not very pleasant for his Republicancollegues to hear, in discussing the chinaware schedule. As an illustration of the exorbitant increase of tariff j-ates proposed, he reaj a letter from a merchant doing business in St. Joseph, Mo., and At chison, Kansas, consignment of stating that on a crockery; received that day he had paid custom duties of $16 56, the tariff on which under the McKinley bill would be $57 12, and under the pending bill $31 32, an increase of " over three fold the present, rate on 6ne,: and near ly double on the other!; This after nearly thirty years of protection. If this increase was necessary when may the American people hope to see our chinaware industry self-sustaining) Mr. Plumb ; did not .enter tain the idea that what be said would have any effect in influencing the action of the majority: in the Senate, for it had been determined to pass the bill substantially as it came from the committee, the cohorts of pro tection being too strong; and their in fluence over the majority in the Senate too great: to be successfully resisted. It . was a battle between the unprotected and, s Jfar as the majority goes, the unrepresented people on one side and the mighty and imperious manufacturer on the other, in which the manufacturer got everything he demanded, the people nothing. His Republican colleagues must have squirmed under! this ex coriation, but they voted solid all the same. This speech! will add an- i , . .if.1'1 . : '.'. Other chapter to the interesting tariff literature for the Democrats in the coming campaign. The tools of Boss Reed got their resolution before the Senate Friday, instructing the Committee on Rules, to report within1 four days, some plan JTot limiting debate, which means the introduction of jthe gag in the Senate. It was proper that for the presenta tion of this resolution they selected Bore Blair, the great and unapproach able crank of the Senate. There is something also of the . humorous in this proceeding when we see Blarr, with a six day speech oh his educa tional bill, delivered to empty chains and a vacant gallery, moving to limit debate. If the gag had been in force then where would Blair have been Can it be that he has abandoned his educational bore and his other bores and that he never expects to make any more speeches, that he proposes to chop himself off in this way? If so even the gagt odious and indefensible as it is, would; not be I without its compensation. r i Senator McPherson, of New Jerr sey, showed his consistency Friday by offering amendments for a re duction of the tariff oil earthenware, fire-brick, &c, in New Jersey, argely manufactured He is a Democrat, who believes in protection, but not in excessive protection, for which there is no need, and the only effect of. which is stillifurther to enrich the protected manufacturer at the ex pense of the purchaser. In offering these amendments he j said that the manufacturers jof his State were satisfied with the present duties, and did not ask for' an increase of rates. His motions; however, were lost "by the usual party vote," with the ex ception of Senators Plumb, of Kan sas, and Paddock, of Nebraska, who voted with the Democrats. ' Boss Reed has lost 'control over his. gang in the House, and is unable to keep enough ;of them in Washing ton to make a quorum.!! A press dis patch informs us that the list of ab sentees is daily j growing larger, in spite of Reed's efforts to keep them together. The jboss and his - man Cannon are very much distressed at this and the latter gives notice that he will introduce a resolution revok ing all leaves of absence, to bring the truants in. j With! bossism, law less legislation, gag . 'rules, plunder ing the treasury, and this : wholesale absenteeism what a nice ' figure Reed's gang is putting: The Republican statesmen in the Senate are pretty solid: against hav ing their names recorded in the Journal tor nori appearance at roll call. They don't want their consti tuents to know how they are dodg ing about. . I i ..- ,!- : YiIF7V ! A ; TTTT T TT - r-:.; sO rm a ttw -.. ;:- : ij - Y:y Mi mj r i - k aa - - STATE TOPICS. There is in circulation an anony mous paper viciously attacking Gov ernor Fowle, Judge Clark, Col. A. B. Andrews and Mr. Spier Whitaker, wnom it charges with having formed a combination by whjch Judge Fowle was nominated for the Governorship, in consideration ot ! : which Judge Clark was to be. appointed on the Supreme Court Bench, it being then apparent, Chief Justice Smith's health being very bad, that ja vacancy must occur in the near future. .'This is the" -sum and substance of the attack which has nothing stronger tp stand upon than innuendo and the inferrential allegations of the writer, who ' evidently has no love for any of the four gen tlemen mentioned. The only object of this circular at the present time1 must be to. throw odium upon Judge Clark, and prevent his nomination, but charges of this kind, tlie respon sibility for which the author shirks, are not apt to have much; influence. Generally speaking J darts ot this kind prove to be boomerangs" The circular is written with? Vim, and proves1 one thing, if nothing else, and that is that the author has a good deal of acid in his make-up, and that he heartily hates the men he tries to stab; in this underhand i way. The Washington. Star remarks that Mr. Blaine, forced out of the Cjabinet, would be the most popular Republican in the ranks of his party. A. fact They have! no , notion of forcing him out, but ;he may find it agreeable and convenient by and by tj step out, after he has made some more pertiment remarks on their tariff bungling. j Bore Blair in introducing his reso lution in the Senate, Friday, calling: for the gag,, informed the Senate that he was not the'Bt. Peter of the Republican party. jAltogether un necessary. Nobody fkver isuspected tym of being anything else than the great and original crank, j Senator Plumb wants to know if "the time was ever coming when the American people wpuld get some benefit from . the establishment of I i home industries." Mr. Plumb should not ask such impertinent questions. They are highly offensive to the bosses who are running his party. A thrifty Republican postmaster in Wyoming concluded he would in crease his income by charging five cents for two cent stamps. But that was a little more speculation than Jc-hn Wanamaker could stand and he bounced him. . ! A Financial Panic; ' The enterprising 'Squire who recent ly inaugurated a new departure in crim inal jurisprudence, has1 ordered his name stricken from the list of subscribers to the Star, because the Star mildly in quired if there were any authority for i holding a Magistrate's! Court in the County Jail, and then answered its own question by quoting from the Constitu tion of North Carolina, which declares ! that "all. Courts shall be open." ; jComing in the midst of the "dull sea-; son," this unexpected blow has cast a deep, dark shadow of impenetra-; ble gloom over the financial de-i partment of the Star; diminishing its revenue twelve .cents per week, and bringing to view the awful possibility of a j'busted" exchequer next Saturday un less its friends rush nobly to the rescue of its imperilled pay-roll. ! I "Farewell. Brother Crawford !" Good bye, 'Squire! You have acted without reflection; lor you surely did not realize the immensity of the damage you were inflicting on a mild-mannered newspaper when you withdrew from the bank ac count of The Morning Star your plethoric contribution of twelve cents per week. . !Oh! how sad. Boo-hoo-oo-o6! Bryan Gaston. j j Bryan Gaston is still ccoljng his heels in the city prison. ; Yesterday Mr. Zj Cbstin appeared before Mayor I Fowler and testified to seeing a man resembling Bryan Gaston on the turnpike a week before the Fails murder. The man had a pistol and his behavior was auspicious. He j passed Costin and in a few minutes j the latter heard a pistol shot. When he reached; the toll house he found Mrs.JPatton very much alarmed at the actions of the he-f gro,' and she prevailed upon j Mr. Costin to remain until Mr. Patton arrived. While Mr. Costin was at the toll house, the negro came back; and went down the road towards the city, and was met by Mr. Patton and others, j j In the afternoon a1 colored woman named Elsie Miller and her son Winslow Miller appeared at the City Hall and identified Gaston as j a man who had followed them on the road about four miles from town, but made no threaten-i ing demonstration; he " had his coat thrown over his shoulder and a pistol protruaing irom his pocket, xuavai stores jror juurope. j. j Messrs. Robinson & King cleared yes terday the Norwegian barque Frey for Cork or Falmouth for orders, with a cargo of 1607 casks of spirits turpentine, meas uring 82,539 gallons and valued at $34,' Mo. :-'.;. ! ! ' 1-K . . ': j Messrs. Paterson, Downing $ Co, cleared the Norwegian barque Living stone for London, Eng., with 1,000 bar- -els rosin and 2,027 casks spirits turpen :ine, valued at $40,771. L j The ;British barquentine Lydiq, which -. grounded off Battery Island shoals last Friday, floated at 0.80 p. m that day, and proceeded to sea yester day morning. I WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 190. THE FAILS MURDER. A Preliminary Investigation in the Case " i". ' ' 4 Suspect. 1 t Jv preliminary 1 investigation into the case of a colored J man named Maynard, arrested some days ago by the county authorities on suspicion of complicity in the murder of yesterday in the Nathan. Fails, was held 'County Jail, before R. H J Bunting, I. P and in the .presence of Col. B. R. Moore, Solicitor of the Criminal Court. There were, besides, three ojr four persons from the Sound, supposed to have been present as wit nesses, but what testimony was given or whether they could furnish any evidence bearing on the case or not was a close secret, j One of l he witnesses Jno. A. Barker-j who wan brought tip-from, the workhouse said he ; had been sum moned jto testify is to a pistol he had re paired for Maynard. He said that the pistol in question, however, was a big old-fashioned thing that carried a ball much larger than the one " that killed Mr. Fails. " ' : " , Suspicion was directed to . Maynard because! it WJis known that he trad been a tenant of Fails' and had been driven off by the deceased, who accused him of .killing his hogs. . This goes to show that the county detectives are working upon the theory that Fails was killed out of revengj! and not by an- ordinary high usiymua for his money. ! THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE. Its Proposed Extension "to Augusta, Oa. The Augusta Chronicle mentions the arrival in that city ot General Manager Harry Walters, of the Atlantic Coast Line, accompanied by Col. Warren "Elliot, President of the Wilmington & Weldon railroacl, and Col. Fleming Gardner, Chief Engineer of the Coast Line, for the purpose-of making ar rangements with i he authorities of that city for the riy;ht af way and a depot site for the Sprop- tsed extension of rhe At lantic Cnal Lir. to Augusta. "Our pLms." said Mr. WalLers "con templati: rcacliin 'Augusta fiom Man chester. S.C., a small- town the other side of Orangeburg;. It is known as the Manhattan & Augusta railroad and leaves tne Wilmington, Columbia & Au gusta railroad at Sumter, then down to the Santec river and through to Orange burg and to Augus ta, passing abouta mile from Aiken. The iroad has been, sur veyed and is graded for most of its length. At present an angle is des cribed going to Wilmington. This will be j cut jiff and e saving of sixty-) wo miles result. I SERIOUS AFFRAY IN GREENfSBORO Between! Two Toung Painters Said to be From Wilminon One Man Fatally jHurti . The Greensboro Times gives an ac- count of a fight in that town last Thurs- day between two ,'oung painters Tom James who came to Wilmington a short Pleasjints and Josj Greensboro fron; time ago Pleasants inflicting wounds upon James from which it is probable thfe latter will j die. The quarrel board bill. James was oyer becoming exasperated at some remark made by Pleasants, seized a piece of scantling. and struck him a murderous blpw, knocking lnm down. As Pleas ants got jup he drew a barlow knife and rushing upon James bean cutting him to! pieces. One thrust of the knife en tered the chest and penetrated the lung. Numerous wounds were inflicted on the sides arffl abdomen. Aftcr ihe cutting Pleasants walked up street and told officer Whittincton that he had cut a man badly, in self-defence, and wanted to surrender him self after! the man had been attended to. V hittington -went to see after the wpunded man and Pleasants walked around to the Mayor's office and waited until hci returned. He was lodged in jail- ! . j Pleasants says that as he arose after beincr knocked down with the piece of scantling, James rushed upon him with aidrawn knife and inflicted an Ugly cut on his hand. He shows a wound on the i hand, and his head and arm are badly bfuised Where James hit him. ? NAVAL STORES. Comparative Statement of Boceipts and Stocks at this Port. The monthly statement of the move ment in naval stores at the port of Wil mington shows a large increase in re ceipts for the present crop year, begin ning April 1st, as compared with the same mbnths in 1889, as follows: j Spirits turpentine, 30,279 casks; last year, 25952. Rosin, 108,037 barrels; last year. 74232. Tar.j 16,804 barrels; last year, 16,098. Crude turpentine, 7,054 barrels; last year, 6,847. j The stocks at this port, August 1st, as compared with stocks at same date last year, are as follows! Spirits turpentine, 8,415r casks; last year, 3,680. Rosin, 4704 barrels; last year 40,268. 1855. Tar, 5,572 barrels; last year, Crude turpentine, 891 barrels; list year, 663 Trains on the C, ! By the new Fear &! Yadkin schedule on the Cape Valley railroad, which will go into effect August 4th, the portTi bound train, No. ton daily except 1:. will leave Wilming- Sunday at 8.45 a. m.. arrive at Fayetteville 12.25 p. m. and at Mt, Airy, 8.25 p, m. The 'southbound .train, No, 2, dai! y except Sunday, will leave Mount Airy at 6.00 a. m., arrive at Fayetteville 1.50 p. m . leave Fayette :ville at 2.15 and arrive at Wilmington at '5.45 p. m SEVEN DISTRICT. Democratic Congressional Convention at Salisbury. " A special dispatch to the Star from Salisbury says that the Democratic Con gressional Convention for the Seventh District met in that place yesterday. pon. John Henderson, ot . Kowan, , was nominated on the first ballot. The vote was: Henderson, 145; Leazer, of Iredell, 125. Mr. Bradshaw, of Randolph, was permanent Chairman of the Convention F. &T. V. H. B. - - N BRYAN GASTON More Developments Identdfled as the Highwayman Who Attacked Mail Car- rier Capps His Confession Supposed Connection With the Fails Murder. j With each day's, developments the be lief strengthens that Bryan Gaston, alias Ed. Phifer, is the murderer of Nathan Fails. But there is nothing to connect him with the crime beyond ' the i fact that he is known to be a desperate crim inal, who has by his own confession -attacked people on the highway, that he was knownto have had in his possession a 32-calibre pistol, and that he stoutly denies that he has ever been on the turnpike -road, where Fails was mur dered, while . it is certain that he was seen on the road before' and after the murder by several persons. .' f 1 , Yesterday he was again brought be fore the Mayor and interrogated. Manly Capps, the mail carrier, who was at tacked by a highwayman on the 17t?h of! June ; last,": was . present and identi- Mca tiastoii as the ian who stop-? ped him . and Mr. Kcdar Bryan oh the ? day mentioned and attempted to rob them. Mr. Capps, said that he! and Mr. Bryan i were walking behind their cart, on the Newbernroad. in Pen der county, about twenty-two miles from Wilmington, and overtook a ne4 gro whom he recognized to be the !pris-i oner. That the man demanded thei money, and Mr. Bryan drew a pistol and attempted to shoot the negroi, but the pistol tailed to fire, and that they both then ran , to the cart and ; the man fired at them with a pistol. Gaston at first denied that he was the man- who attacked them, but upon further ques tioning he admitted that he fired at them, alleging as a reason ;that they had attempted to shoot him. j ' j A colored woman named Hagar Cromartie, gave some importaut; evidence. She had peen hunted up by the police, who found her at a house in a section of the city beyond the Carolina Central railroad; known as "Dross Ncck,"s and peopled altogether by negroes. She produced a ragged blue cloth coat and a pair of checked pants which she said Gaston had chanced at her house for the suit he is now wearing, shortly, after the Fails murder. She also told the Mayor thatj Gaston, while handling his pistol in hei? house, had accidentally discharged it! and that the ball striking the chimney rolled to the floor and was picked up and put on the mantel. ! She was sent with an officer to search for it and ii was found and given tq ; the Mayor. It was! a 32-calibre ball! the size of the bullet that killed Mr. Fails! As stated Gaston denied stoutly that he! had ever been on the Wright'sville turn4 pike, except to cross it on one occasion near the Mineral spring; but there were; witnesses present at the examination yesterday who jswOre positively that they had seen; him on the road. Robert Bowcns. colored, saw Gaston near the Mineral Spring a few days be fore the murder of Mr, Fails. Mr Pat ton, who keeps the second toll house,! testified that he saw a negro repeatedly on the road whom he recognized as the prisoner. There; were others who tcstj- ficd to seeing a man resembling the pris oner on the pike.; among them J. Walton and Frank Todd, of Masonboro, who testified that a few days before the Fails murder, just after dark, a negro resem bling Gaston passed them on the road to the Sound with a pistol in his hand. Mr. A. J. Yopp and Mr.W. D. Burkhi- mer met a colored man on the turnpike who resembled Gaston, the night that Mr. Fails was murdered, but it was too dark for them to be able to identify the prisoner as the man. COMMUNICATED. THE FAILS MURDER. Great interest and much excitement have been created in this community growing out of the recent murder of Nathan Fails. On day before yesterday an adjourned examination of the facts found to be connected with the homi cide was concluded before R. H. Bunt ing, Esq., and the judgment of the Mag istrate's Court was to the effect that the prisoner Charles! Maynor be held for the action of the grand jury at the next term of the Criminal Court, and that in the meantime he be committed to prison without bail until then, r The facts connected with the homi cide have been brought to light, after a pattern, quiet, ana (as sucn mvesuga tions should be conducted) as secretly as possible. The-public did not know what was going on, and every movement was carefully kept from publication in the newspapers or otherwise, so that : the witnesses themselves, nor eyen the offi cers engaged in the investigation, did not come to the knowledge of what each other knew, until the chain of circum stances was put together before the com mitting magistrate. j ' ij These proceedings were set on loot by Solicitor Moore eight hours after the homicide was made known.- The Sheriff's officers under the direction of Mr. Shaw, aided by a detective from a Northern city, have quietly and persis tently worked the case? up under the general direction of the iSolicitor, until the result above mentioned has been ac complished, i 4 ' Ihe murderer oi Nathan rails is known; he is in prison and the neces sary evidence to convict him of the crime is in the possession of the proper omcer who will not disclose it until the proper times arrives. IThis may be stated, however, that the leaden- missile that killed Nathan Fails was not such a pistol ball as is known as a thirty-two calibre. -. - . : .1 : -j . , ; "WTio Stole the Sheep P j ; Complaint was lodged at police head qaarters yesterday, by Mr. Jno. F. Gar- .rell, that a sheep, dressed and prepared for market, had . been stolen from 1 slaughter , house. Upon information given-a search warrant was issued, and the missing mutton was found by police officers at the house of Emanuel Trues- dale, colored. on Tenth and Bladen sir ets. : Truesdale affirmed that a col ored man had brought the meat to his house and asked him to cook a part pi it. He gave the name df the man and! a - - - . 1 t i - . ..... rr J warrant was issueu ior mis arrest, i rues- dale being locked up in the meantime to await an investigation. El'. . . . . . I I WASHINGTON NEWS. Mr. Blair on his Motion for the Adoption of the Previous Question Bule The Ar kansas Contested Election Case. ' ! - ' .-. . By Telegraph to the Morninx Star. ' - Washington, August 1. Senator Blair, in speaking of his resolution in troduced this morning, instructing the Committee on Rules to report a fule to limit debate by the "operation of the previous question, ' or some : other method, said that he believed it ! to be the opinion! of a' majority of Republican Senators that the time had arrived foi the adoption of a rulc.by which debate might be controlled. He would not ad mit, however, that he was acting by direcf tion of a caucus. He was not, he said, the bt. l'eterof that party, that body by whom what was bound in the caucus should . be loosed in the Senate. : and what was': loosed in the caucus should be loosed in the Senate. He said that it was apparent that not one of the twenty-five important measures on the calendar could be passed without a change-of the rule as proposed in this resolution.-: .--' i The House Committee 'on Elections to-day made another ineffectual : effort to" dispose of the oendincr Clavton- Breckinridye Arkansas election case. There was not a sufficient number of Republican members in the city to make up a quorum. So the Democrats refused to help the majority out Of the delemma, and by remaining in the hall of the House, leaving j Representative Maish present to watch the: pro ceedings in the i committee, i pre-!- vented the attendance j ot a quorum. Chairman Rowell will make an effort to secure an attendance of the Republi can aDsentees at the next meeting to dispose of the case. The report 6t the majority has been prepared and submit ted to the minority for its guidance in making its report, but it has not been formally adopted. Its conclusion is, in brief, that frauds and violence prevailed in the district to an extent sufficient to warrant the committee in declaring that Mr. Breckenridge was not legally elected and is not entitled to his seat. ! DISASTROUS FIRE. Thirty -eight ; Houses in a. Mining Town Burned Loss $100,000. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. .. Pittsburg, - July 31. Af, 3 o'clock this afternoon fire broke out in the Hun garian .settlement , in the east end of Braddock, an iron town nine miles up the Monongahela river, and thirty-eight houses were: consumed. Among them were some dozen brick residences owned by Americans, but the others were frame houses of two stories and occupied by Hungarian laborers. The thirty-eight houses contained one hundred and twenty-five families; embracing four hun dred people. Ihe names were confined to two acres of closely packed buildings. ihe loss is $100,000, chiefly on buildings, as the foreigners saved everything of value. The fire was started by a JHun garian woman who, finding her bed in fested with vermin, carried it out into an alley and set fire to it and everything else within two squares. FATAL AFFRAY. One Man Killed and the Other Seriously j Wounded. i By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New Orleans, July 31. The Pica yune s ureenwood, Miss., special says: Our city was thrown into great excite ment to-dy by the firing of fifteen or twenty sFfots'near the Delta Bank.! - On reaching the: spot Walter Stoddard was found lying on the : sidewalk dead, and D. MoneyJ a prominent planter, and brother of ex-Congressman - Money, was sitting on the curbstone, shot in one leg and a flesh wound in the othcr-4both shots below the knee. The trouble grew out of charges of corruption made against the city government, and illus trated by a local artist. , THE BAY DISASTER. Fourteen Deaths Known to Have Besult- II. od. ' j' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Baltimore, July 31. The work of dredging i the Patapsco river iii the neighborhood of Fort Carroll, for bodies drowned by the collision on Monday night off the excursion steamer Louise and the Norfolk steamer Virginia, was continued to-day. Two additional bodies were recovered in the forenoon, Willie Hawse and Maggie Eller, a boy and girl. The latter belonged to Washing ton. All of the missing are now account ed for. The number of deaths now colli- known to have resulted from the sion is fourteen. HOMICIDE IN RALEIGH. i A Negro Desperado Killed by a Police- man. j By Telegraph to the Morning Star, j Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 2. This af ternoon a .negro named Julian jJones had a difficulty with a white man on the principal business street, and knocked him down. PolicemanjHogue called on! William Utley, a well, known newspaper man, to assist in quelling the disturbanceJ Jones knocked Utley down, and in a scuffle with Hogue got his club and was about, to use it when the officer drew a pistol and fired three times at Jones in quick succession, the last 'shot proving fatal. One shot struck a clerk in a neighboring store in the leg. Some feel-, mg was exhibited among the negroes at the killing ot Jones. . ! Savannah's Naval Stores Market, i ' The Savannah News of Saturday says: The spirits turpentine market seems to be rather weak. ' During the last thece days there has been .a decline of X cent. A count of the stock was made yesterday, and it was found that the actual stock on hand was only 14,170 casks. This included yesterday's receipts and made !; a discrepancy be tween the actual and the running count, the actual stock being 4,380 casks less. The error, however, had no visible effect on the market, as after the clos ing call sales were made at one-half cent less than the price bulletined' at 4 o'clock. There are orders still for turpentine, notwithstanding the fact that the July "shorts , have about all covered their contracts. It is believed the weakness of the market, is due to the scarcity of spot ireight room tor direct ports. i nere is some demand tor "spot ves sels, but none are to be - had, and it is said that this lack of vessels, will con tinue during August. The rosin market is stiffer, and prices all around have advanced very materi ally.; Kosin is considered good proper ty just now. The receipts of both spir its turpentine and rosin have thus far kept up well. The outward movement has been very good so far, and there has been no banking up oi stocks. !! ' -'" h ... ' -1 AN ENGINEERING FEAT; Difficulties Attending the Construction of " : -' & Bailroad.- Baltimore American. one oi tne most nimcult and in- teresting pieces of railroad construe tion imaginable ijs on the line ol the Ohio Valley railrjoad, from Beiaire south along thd west bank off the Ohio to Marietta. Just after leaving Bellaire high Iriljs extend alongf the river a distance cjf twenty milesJ and for fully half this) distance there (is no bottom land whatever, the slope of the hills originally extending tight into the water, andj now only being separated by a beach a few , yards wide, occupied try the county foad. In excavating for this road in years gone by1, solid ledges of limestone and sandstone rock, the former underneath the latter and rest ing on a vein of coalj were discovered and in some p acts these ledges form a solid cliff twenty to I: forty feet high. I To make a bed for the new railroad, the!' engineers ran their line parallel with the the line of the grade county road, comin'g j riht on top ot the coal yemj underlying iue strata oi stanej. i ne result is that every foot of roadbed has to te blasted out of the solid cliff, and an immense amount "pf labor is in volved. The eajrtji is first cleared away from the top f the cliff, and a line of holes drilled down to the level of the coal vein, and ias far back from the edge of the cliff as the width of- the roadbed required. Then these holes j ajre charged, and from five to twenty of them "shot" at once. Immense masses ;of rock being hurled intp the river. By one blast, fired Friday, . mass of rock forty feet long by eighteen feet deep was : loosened in one; mass. When the 'rock ljias been removed, the coal is excavated, and a "fill of earth made on which to lay the rails. DRILLING FOR HONEY. A Mine of it Struck! at a Depth of Eighty- I five Feet. ' Boston Transcript. A successful bqring for homey has been made in Noith! Tennessee. For many years swarms f bees have been noticed by boatmen) on Fox Bluff, on the Cumberland River, near I Frank lin, Ky. The bit if jis 170 feet high, and the river's channel runs drrectly under it. The bees have been ob served about a tiig fissure near the centre of the bluff j and the opening could not be readhed from above or below without danger of being stung to aeatn. as tije bees haa never been robbed, it was believed a large amount of honey was stored in the cliff. Recently a well-borer visited was at once im the the bluff, and pressed with the idea that he could reach the j wonc erf ul honey store house with, his drill. After some coaxing, hi persuaded a I nnniber'of farmers to undergo the expense, and a three inch holle was bored from the top of the bliiff.j At a depth of eighty-five; feet the j drill 'struck the honey. Barrels and tubs py the score were filled and carried off to neighboring farms, and the syndicate nas sent to J-,ouisyiiie tor more re ceptacles, j J j YOU TAKE IT. The Last Joke the Great Joker. Joseph Jefferson!, in his autobio graphy in the forthcoming August Century, relates what was probably the last joke of Artemus Ward. When the famous wit lay dying in Southampton he wa!s attended bv his devoted friend, 'Tom Robertson, the ftngnsn piaywrigptj wno wa: aisq a friend of Jefferson. 1 "Tust before Ward's death.'f writes Mr. Jefferson, "Rbbertson poured out some medicine in a glass and offered it to his friend. I : "Ward said, 'My dear Tom, I can't take that dreadful stuff.' " 'Come, come,' said Robertson, urging him to swallow the nauseous drug, 'there s a dear follow; do now, for my sake; yon know I Would do anything for you," 1. " 'Would you?'f said Ward, feebly stretching out his hand to grjasp his friend s, perhaps) for the last time. - -i wouia inaeeaj saia rvODiertson " 'Then you take it.' said Ward. The humorist died a few hours after ward." ! k ' sunday"lections. Many persdns are afraid of their trials. It would hie wiser to fear their mercies. ' i j Beauty, unaccompanied by vir tue, is a flower without perfume.-HVtw the French The greatest happiness which we can feel in this hfej is that ot com- forting others. 1 : " ' Sometimes, to iunkindness and injustice, silence may be softer than even the soft away wrath. answer which turneth Beyond all other extravagances of folly is that of expecting; or wishing to live in a great number ot hearts.- John Foster. Leave not pff praying to God for either praying will; make thee leave off sinning, or continuing in sin will make thee desist from! pray'mg.Fulier, The happiness jot the- human race in this world: does not consist in our being devoid of passions, put in our learning to command them. From the French When men see in us the hand the heart, and the love bf Christ, they will believe in the brotherhood oi men hi and the fatherhood of God. rBishop wnippie. It vie could only live as Well as we wish, what happy! and prosperous lives we would have. " But doing is very mucn more auncuit tnan- desiring and resolving., -v. J : 2 joq nas given iman two eyes if he lose one he hath another. But man hath only onle soul: if he lose that the loss can never be made up again Chrysostom. I j I Never be aTrai3 of criticism or ridicule; always remember that opposi tion and calumrfyjare often the brightest tribute that vice and lolly can pay to virtue and wisdom. Never suffer the social interests. of. the church to interfere with the spiritual. The church is not a club; it is an avenue ot Divine grace, an agent tor service. Aavunce r l J5PIRITO TIIDDCNfTIMC " Lincolnton: Courier'. Deputy .- u : rr wmi. ..... . . J siitruu miner now nas eignt Doarders at his establishment,! (the jail), three white and two colored, f 1; i . Asheville Tournal: - Dr. K S Inman and f. A. Dick crot into a nu.irrf! last night while in a ball room in the village of Turnp-ke, this county. J, A." Dick was seriously cut. -receivinc threo wounds. i i Statesville Landmark ; Mr. Abraham Moses died at his residence. corner of Water and Mulberry streets, last Thursday about 1 1 o'clock. He had been confined to his iroom about three weeks and death was due to pneumonia occurring in typhoid fever. Mr. Moses was 33 years of age and came to States ville in 1874 direct from Germany. Charlotte News; The question as ta' removing the consolidated shops of the Richmond & Danville Railroad Company to Charlotte! is nractirallv set tled at last. Charlotte pets thf shrriQ Parties who came in from P Creek township vesterdav brought news of a serious shooting .affair in that sec tion, in which Mr. Chas. Cox. Mr. Jas. Hinson and a tramp were involved. The tramp was chased and ishot at twice and Mr. Hinson was shot in the mouth. Carthage Bladl: Croos seem to be fine everywhere. All alons the linn of the railroads from here to j Clinton the prospects for an abundant harvest of both cotton and corn are vcrv nromis- ing, and the farmers are wearing a broad grin. It was feaijed by many that the recent wet spell : Would materially damage the cotton crop, but we have interviewed quite a n unber of farmers on the subjectj and th general opinion is that the crop has bebn iniured but lit tle, if at all. : . - : ! Durham Sun: One loiin Rea son, colored, who for some time past has had charge of the books, moneys, etc.. of one of the colored chuk-ches in Durham, was recently called upon for a statement of the affairs of the church. It is said that? John refused to make any state ment, and actually destroyed tlie books; whereupon an aetionws brought against him by the authorities of the church. John was arraigned before 'yirc j. A. McManncn, and bound in the sum . of $50.00 for his appearance at the next term of the Superior Court. - I Winston ! Dailyj The colored folks have another excursion billed This one is announced to run from Win ston to Wilmington bn August 25th. . A ...u - :..u .: i. A wuiit luctii wuu iivcs nis name as George W. Fine was arrested in South fork township last night upon the charge of creating considerable jdisturb ance in that neighborhood. Fine claims to have escaped from the Mortganton Insane Asylum nine days ago. Whether his words are true or not his actions are strongly indicative of i & lunatic. He is now in jail and at times breaks out with his silly preaching, songs, etc. ) Durham Globe: Yesterday Squire C. B. Green united in marriage, in Oak Grove township, Mr., Lemuel B, Hudson, ot the tender age of seventy five years, and Miss Emiline Anderson aged fifty-five years. Mr. Hudson was so weak that he had : to sit jwhile the ceremony was performed. h A gen tleman on the train this niorniner in formed us that the continued rains were . proving very disastrous in the Raleigh section. Coming as it did in the verv flush of the shipment of grapes, the wet Season has caused them fo rot, and what promised to be a golden harvest will prove almost an utter failure. Greensboro Patriot: As Ruby Glascock, the 12-year-old daughter of Mr, J. T. Glascock, of South Greens boro, was standing by kn open wm.dow last Sunday afternoon she heard a hiss ing noise above her head. She paid no attention to it and a few minutes later she turned from the i window.' As she moved awav she struck , the window shade with her head, and a venomous snake, known as sprcadinsr adder, fell from the folds of the shade to the floor at her feet and struck j-t her. Members of the family heard he( scream and ran ' into tne room and ouickly killed the snake, which was an unusually large ! one, How the snake came to be in the window, nobody has yet been able to discover. f : Rockingham Rocket: Messrs. W. R. HaWkins and Wm. Harrison have invented a water cooler which will probably proye a bonanza for them. It is an arrangement which, bv the use of certain chemicals, Ordinary well or spring. water may be reduced 10 to 12 degrees in a few minutes. In other words, their, process will quickly reduce the temperature of any water to 50 de grees, which is as cold as it ought to be drunk, A patent has been applied for. The colored people are preparing . to build a church. -j The streams in -K;c ; n : ,i . i . . - una . . ov.t-i.iMu aic (-imaiucicim v . avvuitcil from the continued rains, and it is fear-' ed that crops on bottoms and lowlands have been damaged byl overflows. Mr. W. R. Hawkins informs us that a telephone exchange is soon to be estab lished in our town. The requisite num ber of subscribers has already been se cured, but others may join the ex change. I I -r- Weldon Neits: On Thursday last a company was. organized here which will at once begin the manufac ture of brick on a very extensive scale. Capt.- Day has sweet potatoes that will measure ten inches round and six inches long. Some of our farmers say this will be the biggest crop that has been made since 1840. Mr. H. Walters, general manager of the Atlan tic Coast Line, announces that the sur vey has been completed for the exten sion of trip SrotlanH N-lr arifl flronn- ville branch of the road to Washington, N, C, and the ; right I of way for con- el'Vi,.,!... ,-Via linn ..rtll I . . ...' auuiin lui. nut. vim ia; Dut-ujcu ell once. The work on the large mill is still in. progress. The carpenters are busy and the company has begun to ex cavate for the foundation. The ma chinery . will be put in as the mill is built. - The capacity of the mill will be 2)00 bushels of com a day. Besides the mill the company is also at work On a grain elevator. . It will be three stories high, and contain four iron bins with a capacity of 12,500 bushels of giain each. The grain will be taken direct from the carried to the mill by machinery as it may be needed. . : ! . j Greensboro Patriot: At last the mystery surrounding the. disappearance of Shinall from the neighborhood ot Mt. Airy has been cleared up, and: Percy Fry has been vindicated and discharged. At the preliminary trial of Percy Fry, being charged with the murder of Shinall, who had mysteriously disappeared from the neighborhood of Mt. Airy some days ago, the evidence all went to corroborate the story told by Mr. Fry. . It was clearly proven that the blood on the floor, bul- pit and window of Oak Grove Church came from wounds inflicted with a knife upon Joe Tilley by Fry. The evidence showed that Fry and Tilley became in volved in a fight over a- game of cards played in the church, and that during the fight Fry cut Tilley with a knife. Tilley and Shinall, fearing prosecution for desecrating the church, fled, Tilley going to Pulaski City and Shinall - to the mines in Carroll county; Va Fry was promptly acquitted and discharged. r A thirteen-year: old son of Rev. Wm. Philips, a well known Baptist min ister, who lives three ; miles from Mount Airy, accidentally shot and killed him self yesterday. He was alone with the younger children of the house and took down a gun for the purpose, it is sup posed, otcleaning it. : The gun was dis charged and the entire load entered the breast of the lad, tearing his heart to pieces. The .father was at work a short distance away and heard the report of the gun. He hurried to the house and found the remains of his son just out side of the door. 1 !' " ... .- . i