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Whether he meant this or only said it ta in fluence those Senators who were in favor of it to resist tljie postpone- ment we do not know, but we be lieve he meant it and that he now re gards "that measure as practically . dead. . They could have passed it ad this Sossioit-as well as in December if it wore noJfor the fact that without a change of rules the Democratic Senators could talk it to ' death, and it was the reluctance of the Senators to change the rules which resul :ed in its postponement tills December, 'which prevented an indefinite pro- tr.tctioii of the tariff debate vrhich I they were anxious to bring to a close. ; There are Senatorsj who would "vote sooner for a change of rules to secure the passage of the TarifF bill, - than To secure the passage of the Foive bill, to which they have a strong' aversion, as shown by the re soluteness with which they, resisted the pressure to take it up.- There will be less incentive to take it up 1 next winter than there is now, and we believe there will be less disposi tion to do so. There will be less ex cuse to undertake to change the rules of the Senate for the especial purpose of pasiing that bill than there was to change them to pass th Tariff bill, and the other . meas urcs wjiich were, before the Senate, and the only reason and justification .urged for the proposed change of rules was to facilitate the transac tion f- such business as was then pending before ihe Senate, th.e prin cipal nit which was the Tariff bill. : It is; not to be presumed, that the Senatej which hesitated and showed such reluctance to change the usages which had always prevailed in that body to secure the passage of meas ures to which the majority of the Senators had committed-themselves would willingly do so to secure the passage of one measure j on which there is far from being unity in the Senate and on which tjiere is a great diversity of sentiment among the thinking, conservative men within and outside of Congress. The change of rules would be absolutely neces sary to enable them to pass it for withoufrr gag rule to suppress de bate, thei Democratic Senators would talk on it till the 4tK of ftfarch "when the olst Qpngress would die with it. The. next House of Repr:senta tives will in all probability be 'Dem ocratic: If it should be, the pur- pose in taking up sucn a bill in the face of such a verditjjt rendered by the people at the polte would te so manifest that only very silly or very desperate man would under! ake it. If the people should return a ma jority of Republicans ftef the abomi nable record this. Congress has made they would feel so securely intrench ed in power that they would no long er regard sucn a measure as neces sary ior party successs, and they wouljluietly give it the go by. .' It -is not a matter of principal , at all but simply of expediency, and by that they will be governed entirely, "There was a silent influence at work to prevent its enactment at this session, and that same influence will make itself felt ; to preventits passage if it should be revived at the short session. It is the! dollars that Northern men have jinvested in Southern enterprises whic i j made themselves felt in the resolution of Senator Quay, whic h staved off ac tion on it in spite of the frantic efforts! of Reed, Lodge, Hoar, Spooner & Co. . It is said that Pennsylvania capi- talists Jiave $50,000,000 invested in Southern enterDrises. , Other North-1 w"n and Western capitalists have many j. millions more . invested. Senators Quay, Cameron, Hearst and other Senators have considera- ble mterests in the South, and so has James G. Blaine, who, it is said, had a good deal to do with the introduc- Hon of Ouav's resolution and the - - Chanare in th nrncrammA, Tlf(nr next December several more millions 'll be invested, for every day brings more Northern capital Southward. 1 he neonle don't want it. the bus- "less men don't want it, every day it Is Postponed the less they will want t, and we think the Senators who VOL. XXI. have agreed to take up the measure in December will be fully convinced of this before ? they, undertake to pass it. - :- - "i- ' -'- I It is admitted that the Weekly Star is a cheap paper at one dollar per year, but the- impression that prevails with some of its subscribers that it can be published, and mailed free of postage, f or nothing is errone ous. , ,'v ; - PBOTECTING THE FARMER. The Republican statesmen have exhibited a remarkable amount of interest in the farmer since the as sembling of the Fifty-first Congress, an amount of interest never before exhibited. , There is a striking con nection between this suddenly de veloped interest and the vigorous kicking- the Western farmer has been doing, which may p'ossibly account for what would , otherwise be ninac countable. The gentlemen who en gineer the Republican party realize the fact ''that they would be in a somewhat lonely condition . at elec tion time without the farmer's vote, and hence the interest, the new born love that fills them for the rural den izen.) . j ..... . : j For a- quarter of a century they have been taxing the farmer to death for the benefit of a handful of man- ufacturers, coal and iron syndicates, &c, and every time they touched the tariff under pretense of revising it it was to increase the tariff duties and to impose heavier burdens upon the farmer, who got nothing in return. For the' sake of i appearances and at the same time to humbug the farmer into the' belief that he. too, was re ceiving j some of their paternal care and distinguished consideration they gave him a "so-called protective tariff on certain farm products which ben efits the farmer Of this country about as much as it does the rice growers in the valley of the Nile. When the farmers began to or ganize for united action the tariff was one of ; the things which early called for their consideration, and among the first j meetings they held resolutions were passed demanding equal protection! for the products of the farm .to that given to the pro ducts of other industries. When the McKinley monstrosity was brought into existence its authors knew they couldn't keep their pledges to the protected monoplists and increase the tariff duties as they Wanted to increase them unless they gave the farmer some more j "protection,' without seeing a very heavy dust raised, and hence they increased the duties on the products of the farm already "protected, and then con gratulated themselves that they had humbugged the farmers, and the farmers on the big things which they had done for him. This was one of the most shameful pieces of political claptrap and deception in this whole monstrous creation. To show how illusory and what an arrant fraud this so-called protection to the farmer is we qtiotealist of the leading exports and imports of farm products from the statement of the Treasury. Department for the twelve months ending June 30, 1890. Some of the leading exports were as fol lows': Breadstuffs. . . . . . . Provisions..; ...... $154,925;717 186,264,506 Live stock. ......... ...... 33.638,128 Raw cotton i ..... . . . . . . 250,968,792 5,416,852 . 21.479,556 Vegetables and fruits. . Kaw tobacco. . . ...... Total. .$602,693,551 jThis was over 80 per cent, of the total exports of the country for the ' year. In other words, the farmers who are so heavily taxed to build up other industries in addition to supply ing the home market did over 80 per cent, of the foreign trade of the coun try, their exports' amounting in the aggregate to over $600,000,000?, Now compare -the list of imports as furnished by the j Treasury Depart ment for the same period and see what a humbug this protection is. , They are: ' Breadstuffs.. ..... .... . . Live stock. Flax and hemp.. ........ .$ 6,034,272 , 3,270,277 , 9,529,977 Tropical fruits and nuts.. , 13,878,801 Leaf-tobacco.. . . . .i , 17,605,663 . 4,455,354 1,053,616 . 3,530,631 Vegetables.. . . Hops.. . ... . . . Seeds.. . .J.J. : Tptal. ....$59,360,591 y ....... i Less than .$60,000,000 imports against over $600,000,000 exports, not bne-tenth. When this list is inspected the. fraud becomes still more apparent- In the breadstuff is included nearly $6,000,000 worth of Canadian barley I which is not imported as a breadstuff I but to make beer, for the double rea- son that our home farmers do not I tryc to raise barley enough to meet I the demand, and for the additional I reason that the Canadian barley is bet- j ter suited for beer-making purposes 1 than the barley our farmers raise. It is not cultivated by one farmer in a I dozen. The present duty is 10 cents I a bushel, which it is Drooosed to in- I ' t I rriss to 25 cents, to ffive our farm- I ers more" protection on . what they I raise but a small quantity of, and I which wouldn't answer the purpose I for which it is imDOrted if thev raised a hundred times as much. The next item is live stock, most of which consists of blooded stock, imported for , the especial j benefit of the farmer and stock raiser. - The next Is flax and hemp, -which are grown as articles of trade in but a few States, which do not raise enough to supply the home demand.. The next, and the second largest item, is tropical fruits land nuts, which are grown in but two States, and but few of these are raised in these two States. ' :.'! I ' . j ' 'ri The next is leaf tobacco, used in jar making, but a small quant,tyj r.mintrv.! I of which is grown in this jr, . and that confined" to a very small area. It is imported because the kind required for the trade cannot be successfully grown in this cOun-l try... :, ,-.,-'!; The next is composed mainly ofj potatoes, 'cabbages, &c, puch it is; cheaper to import from Europe and Canada than pay the railroad freight on them from the West. ' The next is hops, which are raised by very few farmers, and not in any thing like sufficient quantity to meet the demandl The next is seedsimported for the the especial use of farmers, because our farmers do not give the attention? to seed growing which they should.' Much of these also are improved and new seeds imported irprn xoreign countries, a considerable (quantity of. which is bought by our own Govern ment for distribution imong the farmers. ; .--j.. : ! : Deduct from this list the value of the things which are nol raised in thisl country !-and woich cannot be successfully raised toj meet the home demand and this aggregate of im ports would be reduced to- about $10,000,000, (oraboutjone1 sixtieth of the exports,) on which there is pro tection and this too oh products which are not generally grown by our farmers, and only ia a fewStates. What arrant fraud this kvhole busi- ... 4' i I ness is. v ... . i If you owe for subscription to the; Weekly Star whv don't vou pay it? t r . i : i A n nor read it regularly for one or more; vears. and then nav no attention to a bill when received? ! STATE TOPICS. There seems to be considerable; excitement in Greensboro over the; prospect of finding ; oil in paying; quantities in a well which is now be ing sunk about a mile southeast of, that city. It is said that oil shows; visibly on the surface of the watery found in the well when the work of digging" is resumed in the mornings,! and experts from the Pennsylvania oil regions say the indications i are favorable, and the probabilities are that deep sinking will show that the oil is there. At last accounts the; well had been sunk about thirty feet by digging, and arrangements were being made to continue by boring The test may show 'oil at that place! (we trust it will); oi it may not, but we have long entertained the opin-J ion that oil does exist in North Car4 olina, in the Dan valley or south of it, and we confidently believe thai some day it will be struck. - The colored delegates in the Re publican State Convention at Raleigh em tn hav huAa crnnd deal to say, which was quite proper, for they are the party, and some of them ex-j pressed their sentiments pretty freely: about the white bosses, which was nuite nroner trih. Thev jrot the " . . r r 1 . . , whifp rnntincrpnt nn ;thp. hin when they sprung the question of nomn nating a colored man ior permanent chairman, but finally magnanimously compromtseo Dy tne selection oi a colored man for temporary chair-j man. The white contingent eouion t .. ! . . . . stand a colored cnairman except in a small dose, so to speak. As they have gone through the formality of a . f ' t t . ! noldinga convention ano putting up a couple of figure heads to see therri knocked down thejr; can now retire and resignedly await the knocking down process. . ; The oil well riear Greensbord ' : seems to be the point of attraction : - i . for the denizens of that town, who frequent it daily! in considerable numbers to watch the work of sink ing progress and to j note incidents! There seems to be no doubt about the presence of the oil, the onlyques tion being the quantity in may be found. - The Workman says it can be seen, tasted,smelt aad felt. which "ought to settle the fact as to its presence. It seems that it : was first discovered I in running a ! ditch, the ing that workmen the odor : complain, ot i the oil made them sick.! The earth iss 5o saturated with it that it is lubricator for machinery, cussing "the subject the u5ed as a in aisr Workman sup-orests that the citizens of Greens; T- boro should at once take tte matter in hand and raise the funds neces sary to bore a well deep enough to , make the proper test, and demon strate whether the oil is there in pay ing quantities or not This, is a good suggestion and as the whole towo would be benefitted if oil were struck the enterprising cifizens of jthat place could easilv raise the small amount it would require to make the test at once. Events are constantly occur Wilmington,1 nvc., Friday, September 5, ing in this State which demonstrate the necessity of a geological survey. How long have you been reading the Weekly Star without paying for 'it ? This question is not in paid in tended for those who advance. ."!' Ji.1:'" have What mischief is old man Ed The munds contemplating now? concurrent resolution, introduced by him Fridav. that! When Congress ad- journ Septembet) & th it will .be to re- - -1 T ,! ' j-:t .nnTPne iNovemoer nun means ucvii- meat of some sort. With the tariff bill passed .and the appropriation bills disposed of there is nothing in sight that would Ull for this speedy re-assembling, before the regular time io December. Tljiey may show their hands, however, when the resolution comes up for consideration, when we may learn what this last move on the checker board; means. There is so much" trickery' going on these days in both wings of the "Capitol," that it is hard to keep up with the Repub ican statesmen. The Weekly! Star, each issue containing nearly thirty columns of reading matter, jis mailed, postage paid, for less than two cents a copy. And still'some people seem to think it entirelv honest to read it without paying for it. j The Republican Senators sat square down on the proposition to put salt on the free list Friday. They should not do this. They will need plenty of salt when the remains are stirredi up next fall. At any time during the past few months have vou received a bill for subscription to j the Weekly Star? If'so, and you have-not already paid the amount, do 'so at once. It is ong to read a paper without pay ing foe it. ; I CAROLINA BEACH. Sojourner Bids Farewell to that. Delight I ful Besort. Editor Star : The season at this delightful resort will soon close, and the scenes which have afforded so much pleasure to hundreds and thousands of visitors and sojourners will be left saddened, andthemourn ful sounds of the; rolling surf will re echo across the! heaving bosom of the mighty deep, the requiem of de parting memories. Hearts that have so-long been pulsating with joyous enthusiasm o'er the joys incident to a life on the shell-bedecked shores of Carolina Beach, will be saddened by thei saddest of all words as friends and sweethearts separate and clasp ing hands say ''Good Bye" ; and me-' thinks the one great sentiment that will pervade the hearts of all will in those beautiful words, "God be with you till we meet again." j ' Pleasant indeed have been the six weeks your correspondent has spent among tne clever and nospitaDie people from your lovely city who have resided here during the season, and if they had jail- formally agreed to do their utmost to enhance the pleasure of one another, more plea sure could not j have been evolved from their effort. j" While I would not be guilty of any invidious distinction, I may be par doned for a personal allusion to those who have ; contributed most to the enjoyment of sojourners and visitors. Amoiig them are Mrs. Isaac Bates, the popular wife of the Presir dent of the New Hanover Transit Company; Mrs. j Victor Grajnger, so vivacious and happy; Mrs. C. G, Southerland and 1 her two charming daughters, and Ithe'kind and courte ous families of Messrs. A. D. Brown;, J. C. Stevenson, Jas. W. Collins and I r: A. Newbury .1 ; . j To the social pleasure derived f association with the above mar j r;e(j ladies, those from the up-coun- try would not'fail to add the kindly remembrance we ; cherish of the in numerable courtesies extended to ward us by the! different officials of the Transit Company, and especially by the clever j and accommodating Captains of the; Passport and Sylvan Grove, and the good old representa tive of the "ould counthry" who occu pies the irksome double-dutied pos ition of Superiritendeut of the Beach and conductor of the "fast express train" from the Beach to the Cape Fear river. He possesses in large degree that cleverness so character istic; of his countrymen, and,-is al ways disposed to oblige and please, discharging his duty with faithful ness and efficiency. The management of the New Hanover Transit Company well de serve the success they have attained, and !we hope the stupendous difficul ties which they have had to encoun ter in the past) have all been sur mounted, and that their effort in fu- turei to make Carolina Beach the most desirable summer resort in the State, may I b e amply rewarded, Captain "John Harper as he is his ; most familiarly called by intimate friends, by his courteous bearing toward all who come in con tact with him, and by his kindly dis position to promote the pleasure ot. all ; who patronize his enterprise, manifest at all times and under al circumstances,1 has won for himselt golden opinions, not only along the seacoast, but far back in the interior of the State his name and reputation are known from the mountains to the seashore, ind we predict for him and the enterprising gentlemen whom he represents largely increased patronage from the up-country aur; ing the summer of 1891 f With heartfelt gratitude toward the Captain and his- company, and toward all'our neighbors for their kindly treatment, we sadly bid them all an affectionate good-bye! . Yours truly, : A Sojourner SUDDEN DEATH. , Oapt. 32.' jr. Pennypaoker, Collector of the Port, Carried Off by Heart Disease. Capt. E. J. Pennypacker, Collector of Customs at this port died suddenly last night in his room at the" Orton House of heart disease. Mr. Walter Small- bpnes and Mr". G. Z. French were in the room at the time, but the attack, was so sudden and violent that death ensued before anything could be done for his reliei , Capt; Pennypacker had : been a resi-l dent of Wilmington for many years, arid! was closely identified with its business interests. He was an officer in the cav-i airy branch of the Federal service dur-! ing the war, was wounded in the fight! at HagerstOwn, Md.. just after the bat- tie of Gettysburg, and later, partici-j pated in the assault on and cap-! ture of Fort Fisher below Wilmington He came to Wilmington in 1866, and" for a time was engaged in the lumber business, having a saw mill just north! of the Messrs. Chadbourn's mill on the river. Afterwards, in connection with; the late Capt.' D. R.". Marchison. he established the ! first cotton compress used in Wilmington, and has since been closely ! identified with this industry in this - city, being at the time of his death President of the Wilmington Compress ' and Warehouse Company. He was Collector of the Port during President Arthur's admin istration, and was re-appoirited to the position upon the election of President Harrison. i - Capt. Pennypacker was about 54 years of age, was a native of Pennsylvania, and unmarried. His remains will be taken to Phcenixville, Pa., to-mor- row for interi ment, accompanied by Mr. Geo, I Ji bourn and Deputy Collector Taylor, Capt. Pennypacker had many warm friends in Wilmington who deeply and smcerely deplore bis death. AN ANCIENT CRAFT. Bevealed by Dredging Operation Near the Champion Compress. J Some interesting operations are going on near the Champion Compress docks, where Capt. Edgar Williams with his new Hercules wrecking boat is engaged in removing an obstruction in the river a short distance west of the pier of the Compress. In water about eighteen feet deep at low tide an old hulk was found imbedded in the mud. A diver who went down found one edge of the hulk ex posed which he judged to be about forty feet long. . With the aid of dynamite a; good portion of the wreck has been torn up and brought to the surface; some fifteen or twenty pieces of planking and timber have been taken out. Some of the planking, which is of oak about two inches in thickness is in a good state of preservation, while the timbers not so well preserved appear to be maple Or poplar. All the timbers are fastened with wooden pins, only two small iron bolts being found in the lot, " . j ; Comparatively light charges of dyna mite are used in the work, just suffi cient to loosen the timbers not strong enough even to kill the catfish, some Of which are thrown up by nearly every blast. I What manner of vessel it is and how many scores perhaps hundreds of years it has been sleeping in the mud at the bottom of the Cape Fear river, who can tell? I AT THE COMPRESSES. Everything Beady for "Work A Busy Season Expected. I Wilmington's receipts of cotton yes terday were 492 bales. The season opens early and lively, and the busy, work attendant upon the handling of the crop" is expected to begin with the coming week. The cotton compresses, with their great warehouses and exten sive wharves, ace cleared and. ready for action, and; it is expected that the Champion .Compress will be put in full operation in a few days, and the Wil- mington.Compress will be also ready for active business. At the Champion yesterday workmen were engaged stringing the wires and putting in electric lights all over the building incandescent lights in the warehouses, omces and compress de partments, and an arc light on the pier taking the places of the gas lights heretofore used. ' A Busy Season Ahead. There is a fine prospect for a large In crease in the business of Wilmington this Season. Within the last year there have been built three new and impor tant railroads to Wilmington or to con nect with her railroad system the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley, the Wilming ton, Onslow & East Carolina, and the- G. C. & N. railroad from the town of Monroe on, the Carolina Central into one of the most important and produc tive sections of South Carolina. These railroads have already added largely to the business of Wilmington, but khe number of buyers and the amount of trade which thev will contribute to 'her markets will be many times larger wjhen the crops are harvested. The bTAR has . ii many readers throughout this new terri tory, as well as in other portions of Nrth and South Carolina, and merchants and others who have goods to- sell jjwill find its advertising columns the best and surest way to make the advantages arid inducements they can offer known to the people who have money to spend and wish to lay it out to the best I ad vantage. Eighth Congressional District. A special dispatch to. the Star from Lenoir, N. C, says Col. W. H. H. Cowles was renominated for Congress by! the Detriocratic Convention at 1.30 o'clock vesterdav 'morning, on the one hun dred and fortv-seventh ballot. The vote was Cowles. 134: Bowen. 114; Gra ham, 16. M . PeoDle who intimate that IMa- hone will be likely to gain another posi tion in Virginia politics, arfe unaware how closely Virginians watch Mahone. Richmond Ittnes, Uem. , j 1890. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING; Heroio Besone of Two ladies at Wrighta- ille by Tonne Men. from "Wilmington. - Two ladies had a very narrow escape from drowning while bathing in the surf on Wrightsville beachj yesterday after noon, and only the courage and heroism displayed by Mr. Thos. M. Webb and several other young men who went to his assistance,, saved them from a watery grave. j ";-"'' :.YYY. The ladies were Mrs. J. T. Hayes, whose husband keeps the Atlas House. near, the pavilion at Ocean View, and her sister. Miss Irene Jackson. Both are good swimmers, but they were caught in the undertow; and carried out beyond the outer shoal and into deep water before their cries for help I were heard. No one else was in the surf, but Mr. Thomas M. Webb of this city, w"ho had just come out and was in the bath house changing his clothes, heard their cries arid ran to their assistance. He picked up a life-preserver on the beach, and first reaching Miss Jackson, pur it on her and swam with her to the shore; and then,, seeing that no one had gone - to the assistance of 1 Mrs. Hayes, plunged again into . the sea and swam out to her. Mrs. Hayes had become completely exhausted," had lost consciousness and sank beneath the waves iust as Mr. Webb reached her, only the skirt of her bathing dress be ing visible. Catching ! the skirt, Mr.; Webb succeeded in getting Mrs. Hayes' head above the water, but was himself so exhausted with j the exertion that he was forced to . relin quish his hold upon her. Mr. E. E. Turlington, Manager of the Ocean View Hotel, who had followed Mr.! Webb, having first thrown off his coat and shoes on the beach, fortunately reached them just as Mrs. Hayes was again sinking beneath the waves. He caught her and was swimming wjth her to shoal water when he was met by Mr! C. J. Terrell, who also had plunged into the water after partially divesting him4 self of his clothing, and with lits assist ance Mrs. Hayes was brought safely to shore. Y i Mrs. Hayes was unconscious for some time after she was rescued from the waves, and Miss Jackson was prostrated, but both ladies revived under the care ful and prompt attention they received. Mr. Webb, Mr. Turlington and Mr. Tert rell were all very much exhausted by their exertions. COTTON RECEIPTS End of the Season of 1889-' 90 Guesses at the Figures. The cotton season of 1889-'90 ended last night. As reported by Col. Jno. L. Cantwell, Secretary of the Wilming ton Produce Exchange, the total receipts for the crop year at this port are 184,916 bales; as against receipts the previous year of 152,299 A difference of 19,400 bales. The domestic exports the past year were 20,721 bales; foreign, 112,149 total 132,870 bales. The stock at this port is 2,160 bales. The following are the guesses as to the receipts, made several days ago at the Produce Exchange and published at the time in the Star. Capt. John T. Ran kin's guess came nearest to the figures; W. R. Kenan.; 134,000 bales; B. G. Empie, 134,122; John H. Darnel, 133.- 999; J. R. Turrentine. 134,011; W. J. Bergen. 134,150; J. F. McNair, 134,333; John L. Cantwell, 134.126; John T. Rankin, 134,900; T. S. Bagley, 136,050; E. Lilly. 133,700; L. McL., 135,000; Joseph Price. 133,800; Chas. H. Robinson, 134,- 360; E. J. Jeffries, 133,200; Wm. Calder, 133,820; D.McEachern, 134,970; W. B. Cooper. 134.800; R,W. Hicks. 133,459c; H. C. McQueen, 134,220. The Collectorship. The vacancy in the Custom House created by the death of the lamented Pennypacker, is now the centre of at traction among the Republican office seekers. There are divers and sundry patriots who would like to "sit at the receipt of custom," and there will be no difficulty in finding a self-abnegating fellow who will accept. Among those "mentioned" for the po sition are W. H. Chadbourn, W. P. Canaday, SjH. Manning, E. R. Brink, G. Z. French, .Stacey VanAmringe and John E. Taylor, the present Deputy Col lector. There is also a "dark horse," and he bears the formidable name of "Le gion. What may be the result it is not easy fo foresee. The position ought to be filled promptly, but the fight tor the spoils may delay the appointment thirty or sixty days. "H - Exports Foreign. The brig ameo cleared yesterday for Petite Goave, Hayti, with cargo of 175,- 912 feet of lumber, valued at $2,269.25 I and shipped by Messrs. S. W. H. Northrop. ;Also, the schooner W. F. Green, for Port-au-Prince, Hayti, with cargo consisting of 168,668 feet of lum ber, 12 barrels tar, 12 barrels pitch and 3 casks spirits turpentine, shipped by Messrs. S. & W. H. Northrop and valued at $2,479. ! j Y Bladen county Democratic Con vention will be held Sept. 6. J Cumberland County Agricul tural Society hold their next Fair No vember 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th. It will be a good one, as usual. Mr. B. F. Hall and Mr. James Sprunt returned yesterday from Sara toga. . They report v Rev, Dr. Hoge, D. D., as slowly recovering from his severe sickness! Glorious little Maxtori will hold an Agricultural, Industrial and ; Live Stock Fair October 20th, 2lst and 22nd Murphy McNair is president, and Dr. J, D. Croom secretary,. Y VY-Y F. L. Bond, a well known citizen of Tarboro, N. C, left his bed and house on Thursday night last, undressed, and not returning an unavailing searcn ; was made for him. His mind was thought to be unsettled. His body was found in Tar river, twenty miles below Tar- borcy yesterday. - NO. 42 FROM RALEIGH. - Bepublican State Conventions Congres sional Nominations. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Raleigh, N. C August 28. The Republican State Conventions met to day, many prominent Republican lead ers being present. The bitter contest be tween John B. Eaves ancjl Dr. J. J.; Mott, leaders of the two factions' in the west ern part of the State, was reconciled, y baves, chairman of the State Com mittee, called the Convention to order and named Smith (colored), ex-Minister to Liberia, , as temporary president. Addresses were made by Eaves, J. C. Prichard Charles A. Cook. C. F. Mc Kesson ; and others, j Nearly every county is represented, but the Com mittee on Credentials has not vet re ported. 1 - ..lhe Republican Congressional Con vention of the Fourth djistrict reassem bled this morning and nominated Alex ander Mclvor. for Congress. Mclvoris a member of the Alliance, and was Su perintendent-of Public Instruction in 1872. ' D. P. Meacham, Independent Alliance Democrat, - announced ihimself also a candidate agaiast B, H. Bun n, the Dem ocratic nominee. . j . C. H. Moore, colored. Was nominated by the Convention of) Colored Men against J. M. Brower, Republican, and R. H. Williams, Democrat, in the Fifth district. I P. C. Thomas announces himself as an Independent Republican Alliance In dustrial Union candidate against lohn S. Henderson, in the Seventh district. Claude De Bernard has been renomi- :iated by the Republican Executive Committee in the First district for Con- j'gress against; W. O'B. pranch, Demo-. wit. no convention win oe canea. There was a contest over the perma nent chairmanship of the. Convention between A. E. Holton, ivhite, and John L. Leary, colored. Holton was chosen. The platform adopted it in part as follows: . First. The principles pf the party as expressed in the platforrji of 1888, and endorsing Harrison's administration, are reamrmed, Second. The present Congress is thanked for the enactment of the Silver bill which has relieved the financial dis tress of the people. . Y Third. The action of the senate in failing to pass the Blair bill is deplored and the passage of some such bill is urged. fourth. The passage of the State elec- tfon law by the Legislature of 1889 is denounced as framed arid intended . to enable politicians by fraud and trickery to thwart the honest will of the people. Fifth. Syfnpathy is texpressed with farmers in their effortjs to throw off the yoke of Bourbonism, which has kept them in political servitude as hewers of wood and drawers of water lor aristo cratic leaders of the Democratic party. Sixth. Free elections are demanded; voters to cast their ballots as they see fit; to have their ballots honestly count ed, i The platform concludes: "The Dem ocratic party having instituted a system ot fraud through the medium ot btate laws, this convention favors such legis lation as may be enacted by Congress as wm secure a iree vote, a iair count ana an honest count." . ! Hon. Chas. Price, at present United States District Attorney, was nominated for Chief Justice, and W. T. Faircloth for Associate Justice: lohn B. Eaves was elected Chairman of the State Exe cutive Committee. THE STRAIGHT0UTS. Besolntions Adopted by the Conference at Columbia. Charleston News and Courier. Whereas, a Convention of the Demo cratic party of this State, assembled in the City of Columbia on the 13th inst., pursuant to a call of the executive com mittee ot the party "ior the sole exclu sive purpose ot; .determining whether the delegates to the State Nominating Gonvention, to be held in the City of Columbia on September 10, or there after, should be elected by primary or convention and for no other purpose whatsoever; and whereas, the said Con vention, when organized, proceeded to adopt a new constitution, involving radical changes in the fundamental law of the party, and to elect a new State executive committee iiiereuuuer against the earnest protest of a number of its members whose loyaltv to the party is beyond question; and whereas, titty-nine delegates from the counties of Beaufort, Charleston, Georgetown, Kichiana ana Sumter, alter solemnly protesting against such action and vainly imploring the majority to pause in their usurpation ot power, were finally impelled by a sense duty to their constituncies to withdraw from the Convention, being unwilling by their acquiscences to commit s those whom they represented to a precedent so dangerous: and whereas, this unauthorized exercise of power by the majority of said Con vention caused confusion in regard to the organic law of the party and the executive committee ot the same, which threatens to increase the unfortunate differences prevelant and to produce still rurther division; And whereas, it is the deliberate judg ment of this Conference that the action of said Convention in these respects was not Only unwise and unnecessary, but illegal, null and voia, ana we tnereiore recognizelthel constitution unaer wnicn said Convention assembled as being still of binding force and authority, and the then existing executive committeeas be ing still the rightful head ot the party; And whereas, in the anomalous social and political conditions now obtaining in bouth l Carolina, which render the continued supremacy of the white race in the control and administration of the Government a consideration of para' mount importance, to which the interests of individuals and factions should be unhesitatingly subordinated, . we regard the "restoration of political harmony among our people as a high necessity and cherish the hope that this may be consummated through the exercise of mutual forbearance inspired by the broadest patriotism; i And whereas, while condemning the leaders of said majority and reprobating their methods we entertain only feelings of kindness towards ourj fellow-Demo crats who are supporting them; - And whereas, the contest made dur ing the present campaign! has been con ducted with a view to its final decision in and by the September Convention: Therefore, be it resolveds Is That this Conference of Democrats hereby puts on record its solemn and J will be secured, and the company guar .nv..fA nmtaet snminet Via Il1ora1 and I antpps not to ask for anvthincr else. usuroatorv action of the majority oi said Convention as instigated by its leaders, and condemn as unpatriotic the intemperate and violent metnoas oisaia I delegates who withdrew from said Con 2. That the course of the majority ot ventinn. 1n refusing to concur in or sub mit to its illegal proceedings, is hereby approved. Y A ooet's plume is at one end of civilization and a policeman's club at the , other. Chicago utooe. ; Asheville Citizen i Some wealthy parties from Charleston and Savannah are negotiating with Otis A. Miller forr diock at bkyiand bpnngs on which they will build a large hotel ready for next season. , - Danbtrry Reporter We have ' just learned that a man in this county has mortgaged his property to get,. money to help pay for building a church. not to pay a cnurch debt but for build- - ing a new one. . - .Chadbourn Times: Croos in this section have fallen bff some during the past few weeks ; :otton will be at least one fourth lightejr than was pre dicted a month ago; orn will not be injured to any great extent. ; Winston Daily. 1A ncero named ' Gos .Wilson, who was arrested here Tuesday night, is w'antid in Reidsville upon the charge of cutting a white boy in that town several months ago. An officer is here ftom Reidsville to-dav and will leave with Gus on the evening train ior ivocKingnam jan,, - Scotland Neck Democrat : We learn from Capt. R. C Whitaker, that the extension of the Scotland Neck and Greenville road is being pushed rapidjys towards Kinston. It will reach Kinston by the 15th of September, and trains will then run throuch recularlv from - Greensboro Workman : Dock Watson, who was tried in court here - yesterday afternoon- and this morning .-' for the killing of Bob Edwell, colored, in the base ball row between the Gra ham and Greensboro colored nines in June, was acquitted, j Watson, is the negro that gave a bond worth half a mil lion for his appearance! at court. Greensboro Patriot. Mr: Tno. . B. Taylor, was stricken with paral- ysis some days ago, and died at his resi dence near Vandalia, this countv. late' iresterday evening. Mr. C. D. bacco here-to-day, for. an average of twenty dollars per cwt. The plants were set out just sixtyseven days ago. Rockingham Rocket : The usual cry of shore crops is heard. That is to say, the cotton crop is not what it was thought, a month agog jthat it would be; still it will be a good average crbp-- much better than last year. Af large . meteor passed over the southeastern part of town last Sunday night, bril-i liantly illuminating the whole heavens." It struck the earth somewhere in this vicinity. II - Fayetteville Observer1:. It has been officially stated that work is to be gin on the southern ; extension of the ' Wilson Short Cut R. R. as soon as the right ot way can be secured and the con tract awarded. At a recent meet ing of the Executive Committee of the Cumberland County Agricultural So ciety, November 11, 12, 13 and 14 were agreed upon as the dates for holding the Cumberland Fair this year. Germanton Times: The pros pects for a fine tobacco crop in Stokes rmnri7 ot-A Kftftir t-Vi i -Via.. Ytr..t Kaa in ten years. We were informed by a prominent member of the Pepper Mining co., ot uanbury. that thev had just sold a batch of ten iron mines to some bnglish, New ; York and North Carolina parties for $50,000. These mines are all near Danbury. The com pany have thirty mines yet unsold. Scotland Keck Democrat: There have been various opinions' expressed as to the crop prospects in this section. 1 he heavy rams that lel last week caused many of the forms to fall from the cotton, and some have been of the opinion that no more fell off than was needed; that the stalks were too heavily ladened with forms to bear up all in full boll." Others have thought tfiat more forms have been lost than is necessary for the protection of the stalk. If there are no more heavy sheds a full crop will De gathered. . j j ' : Asheville Citizen: John Weaver, colored, was arrested this morning by deputy sheriff Jones, on a warrant charg ing him with stealing a watch from J. J. AVorlev. Wpnvpr wns irivpn a fiparinrr before Squire Israel, and bound over to the next term of the criminal court. In' default of bail he was locked up. As a train of flat cars loaded with logs switching yesterday on the Murphy branch jif the W. N. C. road this side of Balsam, a cow was run over and the shock threwa-colored man named Bob Connelly between the cars in such , a way as to badly mangle one of his legs, it was reported here this atternoon that the man was dead. 1 Statesville.ZwMfr37-: During the recent term of the Superior Court here the shentt got out of a lurv and called eight lawyers, two horse iockevs and two farmers into the box , to try a case. Strange to say thev found no point upon which to; disagree and ar rived at a verdict,.in a. very short time. It was a divorse case and Mai. H. Bing ham, the foreman of the jury, stopped the progress of the case to inform the counsel conducting it that he had not E roved the two years' residence required y law. The ommission was supplied and the case progressed to a satisfactory conclusion. Thp nnmhpr nf ranrs in-the court house last Saturday after noon was variously estimated from 75 to 250. Winston Daily: Winston is soon to have a sewerage system, At the last meeting of our City i Board of Aldermen the committee appointed recently to confer with the Salem Board, reported that an agreement had been made with our sister town for the establishment of a system of swerage fon.both towns up on the basis ot the agreement entered into between the two towns in 1887. -A negro man Iwent into the ' resi dence of Mr. M. Martin on Fourth street about 5 o'clock yesterday evening and hid himself in the j sitting room. .The family were all absent from home with the exception of bne daughter, who heard a pistol fire in the house. The young lady began making search for the person who fared the shot. She ran into the sitting room and found it full of smoke from the discharge of a pistol. She next went to ' the parlor door, but finding it locked, she - went into- the yard, when she saw the face of a negro who was peeping ouC at the window. The alarm was given, but by the time e crowd had gathered around the housa the negro had disappeared. , - Charlotte News: Messrs. Wal lace and Hunter, who have been getting an order for ash wbod, for an English shipbuilding firm, yesterday made a shipment direct for Europe of 13,000 feet of the finest ash lumber that can be cut in the world. This is only a portion of their order. Other shipments will be made in a few days. The timber was cut from Mecklenburg and Cabarrus woods. An enthusiastic meeting in the interests of the Roanoke & South ern road was held at Enochville Rowan county. At this meeting, it-was agreed between the otnciais ot tne road and tne land owners along the propdsed route, that all the help the road wanted was the right of way. The right of way was secured for the company from Salisbury to within a few miles of Charlotte. It is believed that the; entire right of way antees not to ask for anything else. The National Express octopus is still reaching out its tentacles- for more vic tims. ' Despite of Dick, flesh and Bond, j has squeezed thousands out of Char lotte people and 1 now it is- after some that first escaped it. The case of Glenn, trustee, vs. Harvey Orr. is being tried in the Superior Court to-day. If Mr. Orr loses, and his friends hope .that no such luck will befall him, it will cost him about $5,000. , Out of all the Na tional Express victims, Sumner, of Salis--bury, is the' only one that has eluded the clutches of the octoou . i