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Gold mijies and silver mines are ire a source - of vealth, but the country which has ;jqld mines and silver mines how ever abundant their yield, which, has no manufactures, but is compelled tl buy what it heeds tions, will see the trom otner na product of th mines'pass into their hands to enrich them and remain poor itself; Spain iv.-one time owned the richest mines " . - - .. i i i iii. ihc world. England had under the s n lace of her sea-girt isle coal, iro (.id copper and tirij. She utilize t'iose, 'turned her attention to manu4 l ectures and became the-richest and ihjist powerful nation on the face of the earth, while Spam Lon'ce prbud and . . -- f!'.;b in gold and si vef, now ranks i'uong the poorest and most insig 'n'tficaist. . ' ' As an illustration nearer home 'l.'ie New England States, the wealthiest section o this country with :but few advantages and but lit 1 1 o to attract, with fi 'iKiorcrxlimate, dri (uring from sheer a poor soil and i .:. r yen into manu peciessity if not f.M ii inclination, furr ishes thej capi cnlerprises of ! .! for the greates tr country, is.virtuti ily the owner of i;'L it Western cities ai ! millions'- of th and of millions grain-growing i( ; es of the fert Ic f AVest She hills C'lukln't raise on er souiess 'tnuiieh to eat, but sjie Had the to 'Smiis rind the !.;ii!iis and the enterpijise, ii ;uiu fact u re everything fjrom r!t.ien toothpick, or1. wooden j(H'.iivit to a. jum bo locomotive. ;Vii!i water-power and steam she ;tiifiu.-(l her humniii la wheels and in;!, i'il the money of i -i- . other sections UiiJ-i lier coffers. Sh ri'.n i listed sway in th c has not the un- s line that she LHIUl have iU( hau tor other sections have en- .turwl the field wliichi was once almost ; i'M'Jnsively hers,' and are prdvihgpo- ent competitors, lioiiih, which in the Li . . . . cspecially the past decade' has , rested a large .port ion of her trade . finiV, heir in one of tlustries, the ma.nnf; her leading i no cture "df cotton I . w iiar. uivcrsnicci manuiaciuring is l M . I. . a. .1 T f ' t r i.Mi''m " .I'' 1 I . . it!. I to a country or section ofl country I I'uwi-'.-.-ified ugricultufe isjto the agri- culiural country or section. . That .( t . i . : . t . i : 1 k.,hiiii ui bctiiuii is i.iie iiiobt hi- i y-,lim itu u uuu on iiic auuii-csi. way i to wealth which raises thej greatest varieiy of marketable products, and' cntiies nearest supplying tjie wants ot tne consumerat home and abroad ao agricultural country or sectio ever acquired perrnanent prosperity I from the one crop . system, and but fc'v men, and these men of rare tact and ability, ever became rich by fol lowing it for the reason that the uij- certainties attending, and the mis haps to one crop may destroy the i profits 'of several. ' .j ; :' The planters of the South have ..... :. ! ; rajseu witnin the past live years i y2,(i()O,000,000 worth of cotton Yliere is the money? Gone to pa for -the cost of cultivating' the cot : ton, for manufactured " articles o ; necessity on the farm and in th ; liousehold, and for supplies If or man , una siocic. which were not raised upon the plantation. Much of it i went to the grain-griwers and stock raisers of the West ; for bread and ! meat. In addition to this the Sout I raised millions of bushels of corn wheat and oats, but none for mar f ket, and not enough to supply ' th "pine uemanu. i here is improvei Wnt in this respect, however, fo the South is gradually irpwin ut of the one-crop syste and is realizing the fact, tha to accumulate arid reap ; th largest benefit there must be diver s'ty of production upon :the farm , Sorae farmers act upon this principle. "nd as a rule they are the fnost pros P; srous and independent of the tiller: f the soil Ihere are many things whfc . . i m the aggregate wbuld brihg in good deal of money to Sbutherr ,'irmers. SUClvas sorrrhnm horrio'e .5l, woof hops, nuts to th growth of which th e bouth is well adapted. To these the Manu facturer's Record ' of last week add: v.idnDerry, which is la .very PrbfitriMo :-u: L : ii. J . -wv. V.1UU, yiciuiny iXl : II1C r m -w- . i . i -. . . ... l i ii j n . 1 : : i : n ; - r r. 1 l 1 r : : : ! " 1 r" : m raie oi uu Dusneis to tne ,acre on lands well adapted to them. They are worth $5 a bushel. We know of nothing else that is grown in this country that will yield $1,000 n acre. The Hecord is surprised, con sidering the luxuriance with which this berry grows in the South, especi ally in the boggy sections of eastern North Carolina, that it has received no attention. It would take . more than twenty-five average! acres! of L. T AAA J . land to produce cotton enough equal in value one good! acre to Of cranberries, which require practically no cultivation and about the only cost of which is rnarketing.i With intensive for pickinsr and and diversified agriculture there is no telling what the future : or the wealth-producing powers of the Southern farm may be. These point the way to independence and to fortune for the' Southern farmer. F STATE TOPICS, Th e Tarboro Southerner . says th at the number of fine cattle in that county is being increased every year by additional purchases of thorough breds, as fine stock is found to pay. There is no doubt about that, for it has been fully demonstrated by .the success of those who! have given fine stock their attention The first cost of a thoroughbred is something more than of a thoroughbred costs than the scrub, and scrub but; the po more to raise when it is raised one has I something nrArtK rolci'nnr something in which there is not only pleasure to look at but profit in keeping. I There are herds in this State which would delight they eye of any lover of fine stock, andi we ' i ' IT that the number are glad to know steadily increases'. The Oxford Day says that; al though many houses have been built in that town for the past ,few years and this year a vacant house can't be found ;in the town. This is true of many other towns in ! the State, probably of all the towns sit uated on lines of railroads, which are well located for business. Our towns are all growing, the tendency of the population being that way. there are in Building and many ot our towns I joan Associations I which are proving advantageous, and through which" a great stiraulus has been given to building. These might be supplemented by the or ganization of building associations, organized simply for the purpose of iiuu3, if,tJr ,f- J aispose oi the nouses, at a reasona- i ble advance on the cost of construc tion, and then supply j nice, fcom fortable, attractive houses at aj lessi figure than such houses could be built fori by parties desiring them Ry.building many X under the same management the 1' ost of construc- tion wou mum. d be reduced to the mini- We are glad to see the interest which .is being manifested in) the district and county ; fairs whicn, are to De neiu tnrougnpui ine cuate inis fall. From all the indications which we see and the reports of the State papers, we think; the fairs as a gen i . i - ;n i n erai uung win uc uiiusuaiiy mis ycai, auu win puuw ujj iui the respective sections lb which they will be held. It is a good sign to see the 'people' taking so much in terest in these local fairs, which ex ert a good influence, and one which extends j beyond the immediate i they ! are neighborhood in whic' held." We believe in fairs of all kinds, including the fair sex, for they are educators to, noble exertion. and, stimulators When a spirit of emulation is aroused on the farm it always results -in whole community directly benefitted. good, and the as directly jor in- If you owe for subscription jto the Weekly Star why Idon't you pay it? Is it fair to subscribe to a paper, read it regularly for one on more years, and then pay no attention to a bill when receivedj? i The Antl-Lqttery bill having been signed by the President is now.alaw. It is regarded as a death-blow; to the lottery business. It forbids carrying in the mails or delivery of any print ed written circular or letter concern ing lotteries, any lists pf drawings, money checks, postal notes or money orders, for the j purchase of tickets, the carrying in the mails of any newspaper,, pamphlei:, circulation or publication of 'any description con- taining any advertisement or a list of prizes of any lottery j It forbids any person from mailing or jcausing to be mailed any such mattef, and. it fur thermore provides that proceedings for the violation of this law may be instituted either at; the place or at any place where it may be de livered to the person addressed. At any time during the past few months have you received a bill ' for subscription to the ! Weekl Star? If so, and you haye hot already paid the amount, do so jat once. It is wrong to read a paper without pay ing for it. ;; , v .REV. SAM JONES. safe in the , fold. Didn't that, man I .r -,: v- CRIMINAL COURT- . , . Borne of His Pungent Sayings! at Bound Lake and Lynonburg. ' - , The Lynchburg, Va., Alrera reports the following as among the! latest say- ings of the Rev. San Jones aj the meet ings now m progress ini that fiityr I'm sometimes asked if I don't think : a dancing church member ! can eoto heaven. Oh, yes. - J think Some of you dancers will get there; -but itiwill be un- der the clause that makes special provi-i sion for idiots. j f ' 1 Often Sam Tones is criticized for his; bad grammar. Well, I do splatterdash tne thing some; but j it s like the dillcr- The slug is rough and uneVeL but when tion. The bird shofi is nice and smootW and shiny, but it dqn't hurt big game a bit. Fact Is, I'm sc-rry for a preacher that can't get there (only thn ugh gram mar. I've lone ways more respect for a sa4 loon-keener than for a dandtne master The saloon-keeper is only after my boy "while the damnable old hook-nosed dancing-master is after mjT girl. You will hear a lot of old fools right liarA I n till. tAmn c o i A DanaiKfltf rAAnlo JNow, if you want to get into good sof ciety loin our church. . Kut why cion you keep right along and tell it all ? Why don t you tell them: "ft you want to go to hell come arid go loqg with us.? A fashionable wnle-supper is simply an ante-room to a saloon AtRound Lake. N. Mrl Jones coal- eluded his summer! eneacement last week. The New York Sun Quotes him, as saying there: To be a Christian you mujst be a prof- hibitionist. I don't mean a third party man; but you must be a man that is aerainst evervthine that favors whiskcv an in favor of everything that isaga'inst it. lo this some; oi thej preachers shouted "Amen," when Jonefe said: "If you say 'amen to that you can never vote the Republican ;ticket again." 1 m so glad that don t preach like other preachers; and I'm so glad that whenever any one pise tries; to preach like I do he makes an ass ofiiimself." ) Most preachers could learh from the old darkey down South, whosaid: 'My sermon will be divided into three parts -de text, de subject matter, and the arousements; and seeing it ii so warm, I 1t . . I L J wen leave on me nrsi two pans an take to the arousemints.' " "I ve never said a yulgar tiding in tqe pulpit, never. When a hore has sore spots on him he thinks a ciirrycomb is vulgar, but when hej is sound he likes it. The dog barks and whines at the moon, but the moon shines on; and so your uncle Jones is going tb let lolks scold and hewl.iand he will try to iust shine right on. the homes of this country are tne key to success, or to lailurc. And as many homes have been turnjed over o woriauncss ana lonyj ing to the devil." j multitudes aregp- A man will paw a dollar a day to nave h;s horse trained arigjht, and be careful to have it sheltered from evety danger; but we let our children come lip as they will. 1 "The thing now most to be dreaded in your home is yeliow-backca litera ture' "Dont let bad children 1 into your vard. even if their parents are rich You say I don t preach tne uospei ; rmfr rti iwai caiiI irAii tMiBrlr t Irnntv the liospel if you should meet itcom ingaown tneroaa. Nine-tcnths of the old people are af ter the dollars, andj nine-tchths of the young are after a good timet, and it is hard to tell which are trie biggest fools;" "If God loves everybody, then will not everybody be saved?1 No; for love neyer saved anybody. If it did, riot another mother s son would ever go to a drunK- ard's grave." A man gives hi wite $ofj to buy a new dress, and she needs it; Dut sne takes the money to buy cojal and pay rent for some poor womanj. sne nas more religion thanjone who rides to a missionary meeting in a $Gf)0 carriage and then pays her monthly subscription of lOcents. It takes two things to make a Christian; first, to realize that God loves you, and second, for you to pitch in and J .n. L ; ',. I love oou an you ta.ii. God never forces a crown upon any body who doesn't want it; if He did, the rascal would eo and sen it tne nrsc chance he cot." i The happiest lellows in the world are the ministers.! linen, turningjio those on the platform.) True, you don't get very big salaries but you get all vou are worth, t If a man begins to give lioerauy, folks becrin to think he is losing his mind." :.')"." j - Extracts from Ono of His Sorinona Deliv ered in Lynchbu. - Did you ever think how far a bad boy must go to alienate the affections of a mother? I point! you. to the saddest face and most piteous voice pn eartlw Where is my wandering boy to-night?' A mother's love! If sbe has five boys and four of them ase preachers and the fifth a vagabond arid a scarhp, she loves the mean boy bestj, You may say what you please about the preachers; but begin to abuse the scarrip and she'll halt you on the spotj And why ? The L I - . four are strong and do not need her sympathy; the one is. weak and she loves him most because he most needs her love. I said to my wife some time ago: Laura. I believe vou loved me better ? , . when I was a good-for-nothffrig old vag abond than, you do' now.' 'Well, sup- ; pose I did, old fellow,' was her reply, 'vou heeded it worse I then. Now vou can tote your own ! that God . loves the skillet! I repeat, wandering belter ; than the good man. Now lyou will say: ! 'Pshaw! Tones; that can't be so!' If it isn't so, and I can't prove ik, I'll take it back and beg your J pardon. And I'm going to prove it by the book. A man had an hundred sheep and one of them went astrav." leavincr ninetvf-nine safe in J the f0id. The man in a fret says: 'Well, no business to be tramping off.' Is that what happened? No, The man said; Well. IH go a little way and see if I can find the sheep,, doing which, and "failing to find the sheep, he saidi: 'I won t searcn any more, duj return to tne hat w Isn't that what the good book skys? No. The man 'goeth into the moun tains, and seeketh that Which is gone ! astray,' and keeps up the search until he nnas it. Ana tnen aoes ne ump on ii and light in to abusing it!? No. Does he kick and cuff, and riound it as he drives it back to the lojdf jno, tenderly lifts it up, trembling fatigued, footsore and hungry, He and: and and placing it gently against his breast, bears it back lovingly to where . - Ii Ml. .... . . . ' . . ... ... 1 i - 1 I '--.it he had left - the ninety and nine TT safe in the . fold. Didn't that, man love that, lost (lamb better, than all the rest? -' My, my! 1 Talk: about God, who M my father and my mother, not loving) a lost soul! 1 ask again, how bad does a boy have to . be before his mother quits loving him? ' I have , seen a mother as she! followed her wayward boy on, and dn and ;on, to the very brinlff. hell, arid when the son made his final leap frbm that, mother's arms; she took his pOor body and buried it, and wpuld goj to his grave and water the cold sod with her tears. O. how that mother's j heart clung to that way ward boy! : I haye seen the wife when every friend in; the world had forsaken tier uusuauu ana an manKina uau scoffed him away from their presence-j- when he would tome- home drunk, arid debauched, and ruined, his precious wife wbufd mdet him at the front gatfe, and help him lipj.the steps, and help hifti into the room!, and carry him' to the bed and-puHj off his' muddy shoes, and bathe his fevered face, and imprint the kiss of love) and fidelity upon his dissipated cheek. O, why did wife do that? i Why did! mother do that? Itjs iust a little of the nature of God poured into that mother's heart and that wife's ' heart that makes them cling so,. . Several times during the sermon the evangelist digressed and pitched int;o the church menjibers and officials who voted) against; prohibition. He de nounced them as sn many hypocrites who had teken position with all the mean and disreputable characters in town. Such remarks seemed to meet witn tne approval of the udience, as they were applauded every time. The preacher again promised o be hereto lead the next fight againgt the saloons. REGISTRATION LAW. The following synopsis of the new law providing jfor the registration of voters prepared for the Goldsboro Dispatch by a lawyer of that town, and to which we make two important addi tions, will be found useful both to regis trars and voters:! j 1. First there 'must be a new registra tion of voters,. thk; County Commission- . ers having so on: ered. . , '; , shall, give, and the 2. The voter registration books shall Show, as near lie age. occupation, place of birth and place of residence, and also the full name ofj the voter, and ih case of removal, the township or county from which ;he has removed. The registration books shall be kept open for registration from sunrise to sunset each day, except Sundays, from the 20th day of September to the 21th (lay of 9rtober 1890 inclusive. and no registration will be allowed after the last named j day, unless the voter shall have becoihc qualified, by becom ing oi age, since the closing of the rcgistiiation hooks, as above provided. 4. On Saturday, October 25, 1S90, it shall be the duty of the registrars and judged ol election to attend at the poll ing places ol their townships, or pre cinct. With the registration books, from 9 a. m till o p. m., when and where the registration books shall be open to the inspection of the) voters, and objections to voters shall j then be: made, and the word challenged"' noted on the books. and a time and place before election day shall be appointed to hear such chal lenges upon giving notice to the person challenged. But such challenges may be made at any time. . All male persons, twenty-one years old and upwards, (not being idiots (r lunatics, or having been convicted pi an inlamous I jenme committed al ter Jahuarv lJ 1877. and not hav ing been legally! restored to rights pf citizenship) born in the United States, or who have! been legally naturalized, who Shall ' have resided in the State twelve months! next preceding the. election and 90 davs in the county in whichi he proposes to vote, shall, be en titled to vote. : i The residence of a married man shall be where his family resides, and that of a single man where he boardsand sleeps. and should he stay in one precinct and board; in another, his residence shall be where! he sleeps. And if an elector has previously been Tcaistcred in any ward, precinct or town, shm in the county, ne shall not be allowed to register acain, until he pro cures a certificate o fthe register of the former township, ward or precinct, that he has rcmovedj Irom the same, and that his name has been erased from the reg istration books pf said; ward, township or precinct. ! I Arid the identity of any person claim ing a iright to b? registered in any pre cinct of the same county by virtue ol ciir-H Jvrlifirpri- with thn nerson thprpin nameu, siiciu ueiptuveu uy mc udiii iui L'.l t II i. u.. u .u f the claimants' and, when required by the registrar, by the oath of at least one other! elector, j 1 6. ,Every person who shall present himself for registration shall state under oath how long he has continuously re sided; in this State and in the county in which he offers to vote; whether he is an alien or native born; when hebecomes twenty-one years of age; whether mar ried pr single, and where or witn wnom he resides. Upon the request ot any elector, the registrar shall require tle annlicant to prove his iderititv or aee and residence by! such testimory, under oath, as may be satisiactory to tne regis trar. How long ha!ve youf been reading the WEEKtV Star without paying for it? This question is not in tended for those who "have paid in advance. Ii Tiio RTiftniA nf thin AlWhamA. "Parmer. ; Col Livingston, the Farmers Alliance leader, of Georgia, opposes the gigantic warehouse scheme of the Alabama far mers, so that advances from Liverpool could be seenred. It has been reported that offers have already come from Eu- rope to advance $32 a bale, and when asked; about the plan, Col. Livingston said j'The advance of $32 a bale on cot- ton would of cduf-se be a very desirable thing ;for the farmers, and would relieve the stringency of the money market, as about. $64,000,000! would at once come to our j people. But the scheme is im practicable. The only thing that will relieve the stringency is the shipment of cotton to Europe and the return of money to this country." . His advice to the farmers is: j'Put' your cotton in the , hands, of your merchant if you are in- debtcd to him; not to be sold, but as a security debt, ahi let him draw on the :.:t -- -i- The Register . of ; Deeds issued five marriage licenses the past week; twd' for white and three for -colored ' couples. A Verdict of 001117 in the Perjury Cso ; The Maynor-Fails Murder Case Con tinued to the November Term. ' The jury in the Barker perjury came into Court at half-past five o'clock yesterday afternoon and returned a ver dict of "Guilty? with recommendation to the mercy of the Court." The defen dant Jno. A. Barker was in the Court room at the time, but none of his attor neys was present. The Court did Apt pronounce judgment. - . j i The jury were out 27 hours. It is said that during the forenoon yesterday they sent a communication to! fhe Court stating that they stood nine for convicton and three lor acquittal j -. .nd that it was impossible to come to an agreement; but no attention was paic to the communication, and in the aft er noon, finding that arrangements ) lad been made to give them supper, : ind that they would be detained anbtier "night, an agreement was reached. , J in the. case of Charles Maynor. the colored man in the County jail indicted for the murder of Nathan Fails, the so licitor asked j for a continuance for the State until the November term, 1890, on the ground that W. A. Berry, the del ec tive, and an important witness, was lot present. The case was ordered contin- ontn .1 ued. Dennis Home, the colored man tried and acquitted at the last term of Court. I for highway robbery, and convicted at the presens term of assault and battery On a colored farmer named Alex. Moore was sentenced to aj f ne of $25 and costs. i Other sentences imposed were :he following: j; ; ; Caesar Hall, convicted of assault ! with a deadly weapon; judgment suspended upon payment of costs. . Jacob Joslyn and Simon Holmes, Colored, chicken thieves; twelve months in the State pententiary. Archie 4 McLean, colored, larceny; twelve months in the State penitenti ary. Stephen H. Anderson, colored, lar ceny; twelve months in the penitentiary. David Hawkins and Jos. Harris, ' col ored; affray, i Verdict, guilty. Harris sentenced Jto six months in County work house, and Hawkins fined $25 arid costs. I j Julia Ann McBryde colored, sub mitted to a charge of larceny, and judg ment was suspended on payment of costs. j Maggie Parker, colored, larceny, sub mitted. Judgment suspended on pay ment of costs, ' ' Carl Mulah, Chas. Miller, Hansen Gaul and Gustav Fuller, four seamen charged with larceny, of clothing from another sailor at Mrs. Bry son's sailor boarding house. Verdict, not guity as to Gaul; the other three guilty with recommendation to mercy. Judgment suspended on payment of costs. Messrs. M. Bellamy, McClam- my ana iviarsnau appeared as counsel for the defendants. i Rachel Wilder alias Laura Conner, colored; larceny of $20 in money from Mrs. Isabella ; Lamb. The jury found the prisoner guilty" without leaving jthe box, and the Court sentenced her to twelve months in the State penitentiary. Wm. Gordon, charged with disorderly conduct, was sentenced .to twelve mouths inibe county work house, i At the opening of the Court yester day morning;at 10 o'clock, the casb of John A. Barker, convicted of perjury, came up. and a motion for a new trial was argued in behalf of the defendant by Mr. A. G. Ricaud and Judge Ti. L. Russell, attorneys for Barker. The Court overruled the motion and sen tenced Barker to pay a fine of $300 knd be imprisoned in the State penitentiary for six months. Defendant's counsel thereupon appealed the ease to jthe Supreme Court, and bond in the surri of $800 was given for the appearance of the defendant at the January term of, the Criminal Court. j The following is the record made of the case: "A motion for a new trial is made by the defendant's counsel on the following grounds: : First. For error in over-ruling tljie plea of former jeopa dy. 2d. For error; in refusing to abate the bill of indictment after it was admitted by the State! that when the bill ofj in dictment was found there were only eleven members of the grand present, thef twelfth grand juror be ing excused by the foreman the grand i jury- on account of of his being a brother-in-law of the prose cutrix. ' .3d. For error in rulings on the evidence to which the defendant ex cepted. 5thj For error in refusing to consider the affidavit of- C. P. Lockfey, who was a witness for the State in he trial of the case offered by the defen dant, setting: forth what his testimony was upon the trial which affidavit was offered after! the verdict and upon the motion for a new trial. ;Rule discharged; motion for a new trial over-ruled. I "The defendant moves to arrest judg ment. Motion denied. Judgment prayed for. The defendant is fined $300 and he is sentenced to imprisonment for six months in the State penitentiary. The defendant is required to give a bond ot SoUU lor his appearance at tne j; uary term of this Court." In the afternoon, the case of the I State vs. Wm.jStewart, colored, charged I with assault and battery with a deadly weapon, was tried, uetenaant was found guilty, and' sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in the State pen- .itentiary. . At five o'clock the Court took a recess until Monday inorning. It is admitted that the Week Star is a pheap paper at one dollar per year, jbtit . the impression that prevails with some of its subscribers that it cani be pnblished, and mailed free of postage, for nothing is errone ous. ' ' j Possibly the Vermont defecti n was caused by Reed's colonizing the voters in Maine. Fhil. Ittnes.Jna. THE RICE CROP. -Damage Not so Great aa Beported. The reports now from the Savannah river planters and also from those on the Ogeechee are not so gloomy as they -were, and the damage is smaller than was formerly estimated, This, says the Savannah Morning News ol yesterday, is usually the case every season after! a bad spell of weather. The greatest danger to the growing rice during the continuous . rains of the last two weeks was that of its becoming over ripe, and thereby losing in its value by reason of its poor grading, as well as the . additional cost of gathering it. When rice becomes over-ripe it becomes chalky in the grain and falls over and breaks off the stock j at the top, or iu other words hangs down heavily, so that the Jlaborer who Is cut ting and gathering into the stacks can not cut it so rapidly as he could were the plant straight up and down; so that it entails longer time and great labor and consequently more pay. The fears of its being over-ripe were well ground-' ed, but not to the extent or percentage of last week's estimates. . It is now thought that the damage over ripeness will probably be 1 to per cent.; the very conservative, say per cent. by 15 10 THE NEW GRAND SIRE. Sketch of One of North Carolina's Favorite Sons "Who Will be Elevated to the Highest Position. Topeka (Ka.) Capital. Hon. Charles M. Busbee, elected I Grand Sire of the Sovereign i Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., of the world, is a na tive of North Carolina, and lives ! in Raleigh, in the house built by his grand father in 1816. He is' 44 years of age. and is the yOungest Grand Sire ever elected Mr. Busbee is a lawyer of the promi nent and well known law firm ofReade, Busbee & Busbee of Raleigh, and every prominent man in his State can testify I to his worthiness. : I He has been a member of both branches of the North Carolina Legisla ture, but abandoned politics to practice his profession, when the road to nation al prominence lav unobstructed before him preferring the name .of a brilliant lawyer to that of a prominent poutician He is now a member of the "commis sion to fund the public debt" of his State. When the shadow ol war rested j pn our country. Mr. Busbee, then- a mere boy, left college and entered the Cori federate army. He was captured, and spent a year in prison, when he was ex changed, and was with General Lee; on that memorable day at Appomatox, when the Confederacy went out of ex istence forever. There is now a no more loyal and patriotic man in the United States, and his speeches ring with noble thoughts in his devotion to our indis soluble union. As a presiding officer Mr. Busbee has lew equals-, and every member oi tne Sovereign Grand Lodge can testify to his fairness and ability. He has been identified with Odd Fellowship since 1870, and entered the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Atlanta in 1874, and has at tended every session since. He was elected Deputy Giand Sire at Los Angeles, California, in 1888. NAVAL STORES. Comparative Satement of Receipts Stocks at this Fort. and Receipts of naval stores at this port for the crop year from April 1st September 19 as compared with receipts for the same period in 1889, are as fol lows: 1 I Spirits turpentine, 42,742 casks; ! last year, 88,434. ' Rosin, 169,603 barrels; last year, 093. ' Tar, 24,023 barrels ; last, year, 99,- 703. i Crude turpentine, 10,688 barrels;; last year, 10,688. "We are Getting There." Receipts of cotton yesterday were 3,262 bales the largest for one day this season, so far, and swelling the aggre gate since the beginning of the crop year September 1st to 27,698 bales, an in crease as compared, with last year, of 20,850 bales, the receipts to the same date last season being 6,849 bales. Wil mington is going ahead of its neighbors in the ratio of increase this year. Char leston is congratulating herself upon an increase of something less than 4,000 bales for the week iust passed; the in crease here for the same perid was near ly 8,000 bales. VESUVIUSBELCHING. Streams of Ziava Flowing Down its Side. London Daily News; j We learn from our Naples corres pondent that the 'stream of lava flow ing down the sputheastern ; side of Vesuvius advances slowly and ma jestically, and it is a beautiful spec tacle from' the recently instituted ob servatory of Valle di Pompeii. It is now not far from the vineyards bf Boscoreali, and it is already being discussed whether, in case of danger to the cultivated land, it could not be deviated into an immense ravine near situated near its course. ! A party of gentleman visited the moun tain from the observatory and found that the mouth from which the lava issues is about 500 square meters in circumference. It is inaccessible, be ing surrounded by deep ravines and precipitous rocks, some of-, which are frequently detached, and . roll down the mountain side. .', It was not pos sible to approach nearer to the river of lava than seventy feet, the heat being unbearable. j Thanks be to ; God-; there is something beyond the philosophy of the men who see no providence, know no Saviour, and trust-no God. Where philosophy sits down baffled, faith gets ud and goes to work; and when man is helpless, God is a present help in every time of need. Christtan. j i '-.-. For the Star. . Zeb Vance was the Moses of North Carolina in 1876, land is now the Joshua of the American working people, and the Progressive Farmer would do well to take due ; notice -and govern itself ac- rnrrlino'lv. I I H. D.i Murrill, Lecturer, Middle Sound (New Hanover county) Alliance, No. 2,106. I NO. 45 COTTON CROP statement; Authorities 1 Aaron that T-jast Immense. . Season's I - .. -Crop was The cotton crop statement for the year 1889f90, as made' up by Alfred B. Shepperson, the statistician of the New York. Cotton ; Exchange, has just been Received. Mr, Shepperson makes the total of the American crop 7,297,117 bales, averaging 498.14 pounds to the bale, against a crop of 6,939,284 bales, averaging 497.06 for; the previous season. . He says that the spinning quality of the last crop was about 3 per cent, bet ter than that of the previous season, and that if this is taken into consid eration it will make last year's crop fully equal to 7,500,000 bates of he same weight and quality as the crop of 1888-'89. i It shows that the overland move ment was smaller than the two. pre vious years, while there was a very large and increased consumption j by Southern I mills, and of the latter, Georgia has regained considerable of what she lost the previous year, showing up the consumption by Georgia mills to be greater than ever before. The South Carolina mills head the list with Georgia a very close second. The takings by northern i spinners was slightly Jess than the year previous. " ANOTHER , AUTHORITY. In the last issue of the Financial Chronicle it gives the totals of American crop of cotton, as made up by them for the year 1889-90, show ing the crop to have been 7,313;73G bales, averaging- 496.13 Dounds oer pale, agamst 6,935,083 bales, aver aging 4Urbi pounds per Dale loq tne previous year. In its summing of the crop and its marketing, there are a great many facts and j figures of interest about cotton and and cotton fabrics. It shows that spindles have increased year by year, and especially id the South. It states that manufacturing however, in the. south has beeni un satisfactory, from the fact that; the kind of goods that the South is rhost 1 1 J : .1 I 1 . 1. i largely pruuucmg is me Kinu inai is suffering greatly from overproduc tion, and that, taken as a wholej the manufacturing industry of the cot ton States is more unsatisfactory, and it has been the prevailing j ten dency for several years. It claims, however, that the cotton industry is as firmly and permanently establish ed at the south as it is at any other nianufacturing center in the world, ana is certain to aeveiop. A PERTINENT INQUIRY i - If It is Right in Massachusetts, why not i in jJiissiBsippir N. K,! Commdrcial Advertiser, Mr. N. P. Brown, a democrat of Mississippi, observes of the state convention: "The incorporation of the educational qualifying clause in the new constitution was, I admit, for the main purpose of disfranchis ing the great majority of the blacks. By it about 120,000 negroes will be debarred from voting, and between 10,000 and 15,000 whites." Upon which the Lowell Morning Mail re- marks: i'By such statements the democrats of that state are convict ed out of their own mouth." But what of the reckless and cruel dis franchisement of the illiterate yoter in Massachusetts? Does the Morn ing Mail hold that the adoption of of such seclusions from popular, elec tions, which practically had i sole reference to the foreign-born' citi zens, "convicted the Massachusetts republicans "out of their I own mouth!"! - ! LARGEST IN THE WORLD. A Boso Bush in Mobile Which ia Said to Beat the World. Philadelphia Times. The largest rose bush in the world is probably that which adorns the residence of Dr. L,. B. Matthews, Mobile, Ala. It was planted in 1813 by the doctor's father when a young man, ana is green ana nourisning after its eighty-seven years of sum mer's heat and winter's snow. Its branches 'bave entirely covered the house and extend to the surrounding trees, so that' when it is in bloom it forms a perfect bower of roses. Its trunk for! 'upward of five feeti from the ground ' is nearly a foot m. cir cumference, and it has beep esti mated that if growing as one contin uous vine its branches would exceed a mile in length. During the past spring three and a half bushels ot roses were gather ed from it in one week, while'hen shedding j petals' in the autumn the ground about it is white with its fragrant snow. Jt is of the variety known as! the cluster musk rose. TWINKLINGS. No vice goes alone except ad vice, which is always a loan. Drake's Magazine. I ; He There is one thing I'd lik to know. I ' She What's that? He What do you girls say when your collar button slips down the back of your neck? Life. Emma We saw a sea serpent from the hotel I was at. Bertha Huh! That's nothing. There were two young men at the hotel where I spent my vacation. Boston Herald. Dignified Stranger (at stand) Which of these papers! news- is the most highly respectable? j Newsman This one, I guess; body buys it. N, Y. Weekly. 1 No- Gent 'Potr my honor, mldame, I should hardly have known you; you have altered so much. Lady (archly) For the better the worse?! or for Gent Ah ! madame, you could only change for the better. Journal Amusant. Mistress (during a heated term) "Get dinner to-day on the gasoline stove, Bridget. i Bridget "Plaze, mum, I didthry, but th stove wint out. ; Mistress-'Try again, then.' Bridget" Y is, mum, but it s not come back yit. It wint out t'rough th' roof." New York Weekly? Ol, IClCl-r-lou nr Lm u. . wi, very good little boy on earth, and now you enter to your reward. : Bov Spirit Can I have a tin horn and a drum and a horse fiddle ? "Oh, no. but you can have a harp and a crown. I I 1 "I wish i I'd been bad.' Street & Smith's, i - Concord Times: Mr. I R. J! Cook has struck it I too. He- brought us in some gold orer this week he has been getting out on his place. He has gone tq a aeptn ot six leet, and the vein ,.contth.uei?, -"" " s ' ' 'i : ;XshJrille Citizen ; Only thir teen pn Miners are confined in the countv jail at the present tirrie. Twelve of th.e number are county prisoners and one s a state prisoner. The jailer says that ii is tne smallest number he has had in two years. Durham The arrange- ments for a free mail delivery in our city have been perfected and the system will be put in operation November first; that is proviaea tne town; commissioners will make it possible by numbering the houses which is yet to be done, f ' Concord Statidard : Cabarrus ' county has 239 insolvents; TO of these are white and 163 are colored, i That is a good showing for the prosperity of our county, wnen we consider the popula tion we have. Some counties in the State have as many as five hundred. Rockingham Rocket : The Messrs. Mclntyre. after diggine verv assiduously for more gold coin at the spot where they found five pieces, near Morrison Hill, in this county, met with quite a success one day last week. They unearthed twenty orj more pieces similar to those found before, and in addition a heavy gold ring. i Burgaw Herhld: H. Li Alder man killed three turkeys at one shot in his pea field on Moore's creek.-, Rev. O. Miller closed a successful revival of religion at Union 1 Chapel on Lone creek, Pender county, on the 12th inst. lhirty-nve penitents were immersed, and eight . restored! to fellowship. Some of our enterprising citizens are going pretty extensively into the truck business next season. , Red Springs Scottish Chief: Real estate maintains a steady and sure increase in value, as it has done ever since the-town got out; from under the shadow of the big oaks several years ago. - The business outlook for Red Springs has never been more favorable than it promises to be this season. With the most bountiful corn, pea and potato crop already made throughout this sec tion of country, tributary to Red Springs, and with an average cotton crop which has been grown with less ex pense to the farmer than in several .years, together with a good price for the staple, there is every reason for-looking on the bright side of the case. r ayetteville Observer: The Fay- etteville Graded School opened Monday with two hundred and twenty-five pupils answering to the roll-call, compared with about two hundred and hlteen last year. Lick Lovett, a well-known colored man, was set upon and badld beaten, near the Carver place on, the oly western flank Koad, by a negro named Farmer, last Saturday evening. ; His in juries are serious. y Two young men Pate and McLeod. who were in the city last Saturday, became engaged in a bit ter altercation; On the way home (afl persons concerned jliving southeast ol . the town) the quarrel was renewed another one of the McLeods and a' young Carver becoming involved which culminated in! a fight, in which both Carver and one of the McLeods were badly but with knives. Tarboro Southernor: The new Baptist church is being slated. It is be ginning to look handsome. - There will be a big tall on in the cotton crop if there is much more rain. . . More fine cattle is. bought by the stock 'raisers every year and stock raising wAT be one of the chief sources of revenue ' with many. It pays handsomely, p A farmer told .the reporter that owing to the excessive rains, cotton had begun to sprout in the bolls, .-j- There is a stalk of cotton of last year's crop on jthe farm of Mrs. L. M. Sugg that has large full grown bolls on it that will soonj mature. Charlotte News : A deplorable accident occurred at the gin house and saw mill of Mr, Hugh Boyce, at Sardis church, in Sharon township, this morn ing. The boiler exploded, and Will Boyce, a son of Mi;. Hugh Boyce, was instantly killed, three men were badly hurt, and the engine house was shat tered to atoms, -i The recent duel in Montgomery, Ala., in whieh Glenn Duskin and a man hamed Tutfpin were killed, deserves more than passing no- 1 tice, as Duskin is a North Carolina man. He was a son of George M. Duskint of Orange county, who married a; daughter of Tyre Glenn, of Yadkin county. Raleigh Chronicle: Farmers are busy picking out cotton, and have been much retarded by the late daily rams. The fields are perfectly white) with the staple, and it is feared too much wet weather will damage the crop. It is difficult to get hands enough to pick it , out as rapidly as it is opening. I Yes terday s. proceedings inquirenao de lu natico were heard before judge p. D. Up church and a jury upon the condition of Mr. Will 1. Kogers, ot this city. He was decided to be a subject worthy of a guar dian, and Mr. J. M. Broughton was ap pointed as such guardian. Mr. Rogers has been a great sufferer from rheuma matism, which having reached his brain, totally unfitted him for his business affairs. At ona. time he was a large dealer in horses arid mules in this city. Asheville Journal; General Clingman and Coli J. I. Cameron have returned from Watch Knob, and say that the so-called moking mountains is nothing more than condensation ot the escaping air of jthe fissures meeting . the external air atj a dinerent tempera ture. Joe Cunningham and Joe Suddreth quarreled in the pool room of Glen Rock hotel between 11 and 12 last night, and Cunningham assaulted Suddreth with a billiard cue. Sud dreth is teported to be in a critical con dition. '- - Last night about 11 o'clock, while a couple of young men were in tneir room over tne store oi Bostic Bros. & Wright, No. 11 Court place, they heard a peculiar sound re sembling the vigorous gnawing of rats, but altogether too loud for such a cause. They instinctively ran down stairs, and just as they reached the main floor there was a crash and the wnoie rear wan oi the building came tumbling down, fall ing outward, fortunately. Wo one was injured. Wadesboro Messenger-Intclli- gencer: Mrs. Annie vrawiora, wne ot Hon. Daniel Crawford, died at her home in Crewsville. Ala., ion the 11th inst., in the 75th year of her age. Mrs. craw was McNeill, and ford s maiden name she was a native of Columbus county, this State. Her husband,' Hon, Daniel Crawford, is a brother of Esq. H, A. Crawford, of Wadesboro. Mr. Crawford left this section over 60 years ago, and has been a very prominent citizen ot his adopted State. - During the thun der storm of last Sunday night the curb ing and cover ovef Mr. W. J. Corn wall's well was struck by lightning and completely demolished. The bolt which demolished the well cover -struck his chicken house, about twelve yards dis tant, almost wrecking it. Now the strange thing about all this is that large oak trees stood directly over both the well and the chicken house, but were not in the least damaged, and the ques tion is, how did the electricity reach them without first striking the trees? There were several chickens roosting in one of the trees, and next morning one of them was found oh the cround dead. There were no marks on it and it is supposed that it was! killed bv ttie terri" ble shock, Furnetnite Why do you "have that miserable little dude hanging around you all the time? j Mademoiselle Kiquer I cannot well help, Et ess my son. Puck. i 1 . i. it' .! h, r . .1-..- I- m if ' 1