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FALL INTO LINE.
The issue is mide and I the contfcst
has ljieguii which is to decide vie-
i ther North Carolina is to remain tiu-
der a government of the people, lor
the people and by th-e people, or piss
into the hands and under the domb
ion of a gang of revenue bummers
and mercenary tricksters, who are
f striving for dominion,not that North
Carolina niay be benefitted; but that
they may put money intoi their purses
and live without honest labor. ;
G'njing the leader of the Republi
can party of the. State credit for ave
rage intelligence;, they are men who
have (neither principle nor care auiht
for the peace, prosperity; honor or
glory of North Carolina. iThey "would
see 1 er sovereignty" destroyed, i he'
manhood of her sons crushed and her
people reduced to a condition of vas
salage, that they might prosper, live
at ease,.make money.'and re.vel in the
luxuries that her degradation purchased.--
,;;-!, I ' j' ' il
TV ere may be', and doubtless are,
in the ranks of tliat parly men, white
and black, who honestly bclieve.they
oughfc to be there, but they are both
therdbecause they are laboring
under a delusion. Niiu
out of
ten
of the white! men in the State who
belongto that barty belong to it on
acco
int of the! prejudice they. bad
agai
hst the Democratic party, which
they
believe! brought; on the war, to
whid
h they, as Union men, were op-
. poseu
This will be found to be so
intl
can
ose counties where the Republi
xirty polls! its strongest white
votd
in the northern tiers of cdun
'ties
from the tentral part of Sthe
State extending westward into the
mountain counties. If you were to
ask many .of tnese men who have
voted the Republican ticket ever
since the war, vhen they did vote,
why they did s, they would tell you
that they did so, not because they
likdd the Republican party; but be
cause they ; disliked the Democratic
party, the prejudice against which is
ingrained in them.
i
e know why it'is. that the color
ed
sui
men, witn ucn tew
exceptions,
missivelv obey the
dictates of
thd
white bossejs. They labor uhder
mistaken' belief that! they owe a
thd
debt of gratitude to the Republican
1 l
ty, and that when they are vot
pai
to put (heir self-constituted
leaders and bosses into power they
are discharging that debt.; I nese
r.
mistaken
!e men governed by
whil
ara unfounded
rejudice and these
mistaken colored men governed bjt
anj equally unfounded sense' grati
tude, compose the ranks of this
party. For these we should fee
pity rather than resentment. ;
But the leaders; there is no. ex
te mating plek for them; neither
the ingrained; prejudice of -their
wmite nor the jinnocent credulity of
their black followers.' . j
jNo apology jcan.be made for men
wijth intelligence enough to asp'ire to
the leadership even of a party like
that, who, in the broad light of day,
in a State where peace and law arid
order and good feeling reigned, to
promote their own .mercenary
schemes or petty ambitions, would
invite federal fcjtce-to enter the
Stlate, trample! upon her sovereignty,
ar d destroy the liberties of'their fel
low citizens, j
That is precisely what these self
seeking tricksters and plotters did
w ien they sent word by the resolu
tions adopted in their so-called State
convention at: Raleigh to the Reed
gang of conspirators in Washington,
that they were in favor of the
Lodge Force bill, to take the
elections out of the hands of
the people ; and put them into
the hands : of irresponsible parti
1 s;.n marshals, and other tools nomi
nated to do the dirty work of the
.rjarty manag'ers and conspirators
Woo hatched out this infamous meas-
i& No honest, manly citizen of
forth Carolina could ever give, his
ssent or sign his name to resolu-
ions like those. The conception of
measure like that was a disgrace
jo Lodge, Reed and the. other con
spirators, though the South had
nothing to expect from them, but the
Acceptance and commendation of
pUch a measure hv men in whric
veins flowed ; North Carolina blood
and from whom she had a right? to
,v . i . -.- .
uemana at least . respect, stamps
them with infaniy which should be
Branded on their foreheads that all
VOL. XXI.
honest, State-loving men might know
them as recreants and) oul casts and
shun them as they would the crawl
ing reptile with poison in ts bead.
These are the men who rule the
Republican party of North Caro
lina, who have . named the tools
whom they want elected to office, and
who hope through thess tools to
govern the State and inaugurate the
rale of riot and rapine, unlder the in
ternal revenue bummer principally.
These are the men whom I the De
mocracy of North Carolina must
meet in conflict and beat ar be beat
en by them. In such a cc ntest there
snouia oe no lukewarmness, no
doubt, no hesitation, no indifference.
There is but; one place for every
Democrat, every true son of North
Carolina with! red blood in riis veins,
and that is in line doing his full duty
for the protection, honor, prosperity
and glory I of North Carolina,
"Heaven's blessings attend i her,"
and from thieves arid plotters and
tnimmers defend her.- -
BUNCO STEERERS.
The bosses of the Republican
party in this State are mere bunco
steerers who try to jrope peoplq in
and swindle them out of their votes
by; promising to give them something'
in return when they .'have nothing to
give and don't expect to give any
thing. As (the bunco steerer perpe
trates a fraud upon his confiding vie-;:
tim so these green goodii politicians
perpetrate a fraud upon the people
who are credulous enough to trust to
their promises, arid be roped in.
i The VegUlar professic nal steerer
has cheek, jfor cheek is ; i necessary
part of his pficlc inj trade, the rest
being saw-dust or some other
fraud, but he ' has no more
cheek than
these brass-headed
bosses who nave the
coil effrontery
to stand up
and ask the people of
North Carolina,: after the experience
they have had, to turn the govern
ment of North Carolina over to
them, and gjve themja whack at the
substance wfhich has - been accumu
laled under honest Democratic ad
ministration; since the grand loot
ing era of the two Renublican ad
ministrations which i preceded, dur
ing which brief period the Republi
can party achieved the uncontested
reputation of being thi unrivalled
plunderer of the age. -
j Those were glorious
tr ieves, bummers j and
days for I
political
mountebanks. ! ' ;
Thev were festive davs in Raleiffh.
too. the like of which will never be
lOOKea upon again wnuq worm car
ina remains wnuej i:
They were days of revelry and
rint whpn InnQf mPn and frail fe
males made merry over I the plunder
stolen from,' the people. j
I They wrire days of luxury arid
splendor, when helcl-hard, statesmein
wore diamonds, and gj and equipa
ges rolled through the streets of
Raleigh, the admiration of visiting
constituents who never saw their
representatives on wheels before.
Wc will venture the remark that
there were more diamonds sold in
Raleigh during the first Republican
ddrninistraiion thai in the preceding
twenty years or more, and that there
were more begemmed lnw makers of
that administration w
th
brilliant
decoration if nor. with
brilliant
brains than in any five legisla
tures before or since, ihey hadja
weakness for diamonds, especially
the sable statesmen, an d particularly
for diamonds that didnf 1 1 cost them
anything but votes!
j There yras a certain diamond
dealer of this State who (carried his
stock, some times
amountinp- in
Value (selling value) to
several thous-
and dollars, in his
packets. ' When
he made his purchases
the next thing
he "made Was a bee
lini for Raleigh
where his best
customer was
a certain financier who had intimate
relations with divers solons. This
financier was a liberal purchaser, be
cause he found use for his purchases,
and generally put them where they
would "d6 the
most good." He
I very convenient
found diamond
things to have, and wnen he wanted
to show his special esteem for a so
lqn whose; vote migr t be useful, he
presented him with a diamond, not
always of the purest water nor the
most costly, but always the most
showy, especially when attractively
set, an art of which this dealer was a
master. '!''
These diamonds,
glittering evi-
dences of bartered votes, disappear
ed, many; of them over the green
cloth table, their wearers disappear
ed, the legislature which they
strutted (in disappeared too, and
the bribers "! - and the devil
took a' rest. The solons disappeared
from-the haunts which knew them
and the legislative chambers which
they turned into a vote market,
but they are not forgotten, for they
left mementoes to be remembered
bv. in a plundered treasury, in a col
ossal public debt and in a record of
oppressive legislation and brazen
dishonesty which has never been ap
proached much less equalled, by
any other legislature that ever met
upon this continent.
It takes cheek.! adiman tine cheek,
for the bunco steerers of to-day, the
legitimate heirs and representatives I
of those departed worthies,! to aski
the people of North Carolina to if or-;
get all this and entrust power to
themi to put them into a position
to re-enact as much as thev. dare of
the-deviltrv of these infamouslv
luciuurauie uays. i ne sensipie peo
ple of North Carolina, with memories
still
fresh, do not propose to
be
buncoed in that style. - A man may
be fooled once with a
clever
1;rick
and a cunning operator
that's
his
misfortune, but if he is fooled twice I
it is
man
his own fault, j I he
sensible
is never caught twice
by
the
same old trick, played j by the same
kind
of a juggler. The! gme
the
play
bund
o steerers are trying to
now
is the same old game
fthat was
played before by the original bunco
r
menj
i
NO
PLACE
FOIL A SOUTHERN
MAN.
We have never yet heard a Sc
outh-
era white man give a good
rcason
for
belonging to the j Republican
party
No Southern white
..... . i i -J
man can
give
one. At tne close ot
th war I
there were some white men ; in the
South, of more or. less 'prominence,
of respectable antecedents, who
allied ' themselves with ihat
party
from
they
prudential motives,' because
thought that the best thing the
Southern people could do t
save
what they could of the wreck
f war
wasj while accepting the terms jot
surrender also to 'acknowledge alle
giance to the Republican party, go
wit
h it. arid thus avert harsh meas-
If
ed to." Then, when the Republipan
party was triumphant, its leaders
flushed with victory, exultant, and
some of theni vindictive, prpscrip
lion; prosecution,
disfranchisement,
confiscation, and
other modes of
punishment of Southern men who
had borne arms for the
South
in the
conflict were hinted at
and
appre-
henlded by some.
It was, professed-
ly at least, in consequence of this
rlfer to J
thai
some of the
men we
embraced the Republican party and
undertook the work of building it up
among the white people :of the South,
a work in which they did not meet
with much success, 1 becaus-e j the
terrhs imposed carried with them an
amount of degradation and abase
ment which thesetf-resDectinsr. hieh-
spirited soutnern people, aecimea to
submit to. They scorned the expe-
j?.J ..I m. i j t. .J :i ii
uiency ma; wouiu uumuiait iiicir
manhood, and refused to "behd the
pregnant hinges pf the knee" even
to placate the victorious foe,
There was another class of iSouth-
era white men who were opposed to
the war, who had: no sympathy with
it during the struggle, and who join
ed the Republican party out ot an-
tipathy to the Democratic party
i i r -
That was the only reason any of
them could ever give for joining it.
But whatever reasonjany Southern
white man may have had for uniting
himself with it then, there is no long
er any reason why he should Remain I
" l": t. .t .1.1 J m. "i ' . .r I
in u, wny ne snouiu not come out oi
it, as jLeonidas J. Moore, Major W.
A.I Guthrie, Francis 1 D. Winston,
Neill McKay and others have re-
cently done. '
While pretending to be national,
that,party was never anything else
than Sectional, and has become more
and more so, until the present time,
when its sectionalism is so apparent
that he would be
the1
veriest idiot
r. .
who could fair tO; realize it.
The leaders of! that party,!
the so-
called.statesmenJ in all their
legisla-
tion by which the respective sections
are affected, act I upori the principle
that the Southern States are in the
Union for taxation only, and legis
late accordingly. Their whole pro-
tectivesystem from its inception to
the present day, bas be'en a gigantic
scheme of discrimination' I against
the South, never more strikingly
riianifested than under the new tariff
law which went into effect on the 6th
inst. ! There is not a protected ar-
'ticle which the Southern people do
! . i i
not make, but which they have to buy
(from Northern manufacturers upon
which the tariff has not been in
creased, sometimes double or treble
and when reduction was made, it was
mainly upon articles largely used by
the Northern or Western! people; and
when articles of home production
were put upon the free list or redueed,
it was those raised by the Southern
people. Favori was shown to the
Northern farmers by reducing the tax
on binding twine, while, without the
shadow of reason or excuse, they
unblushingly discriminate; against
the Southern planter by increasing
frorci 100 to 15Q per icept. th; tax on
cotton ties, and so 6nJ to a! greater
or less extent, throughout the entire
list of taxable articles. ' When len
iency is shown, where discrimination
can be made, it is to those! on the
other side of the line; where an
other twist is given to the vice, it is
for ! those upon this side of the
line. .-I. j - .. . " j" I j
i This was shown up and exposed
so fully by Senator Vance; and other
Southern Senators in nhe discussion
in the Senate jthat ! the other side
didn't even attempt to deny nor de
fend it, for they couldn't, land they
knew they couldn't.
! WILMINGTON j N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1890.
Where does all this unjust tribute
imposed
outjh, -the mil-
upon the
lions which she has
paid annually,
go to? To still further enrich North-
era manhfacturers, and stil
turther
impoverish her.
Where do the millions bo! that she
cohtribu,testo pay the enormous pen
I . - r . .
sion bills that are assuming such ?i-
gantic proportions! To the soldiers
rn if"-oe I
amongst whom oVet $1 000,000,000
- - t i i 1 . .
have been distributed since
the war.
'of the
Where do nine-tentns
moneys appropriated for rivers and
harbors go to ? Td tlie jNorthern
and Western States.
-Where is the great bulk of the
$200,00'
i,000, which they propose to
expend
in building keatoast f ortifi-
casions,
to go to ? To the! Northern
and Pacific States.
Where are the millions; of subsi
dies which they propose to expend
to establish a mere lint marine,. to. go
to? To Northern ship yards and
ship owners.
Where do the millions paid by the
Southern people id internal revenue
go to?
To WashingtonL t6 be locked
up in the vaults -until they are ready
to pay it out for circulation on the
other side of the line. Very little of
it ever finds its way back Iiere.
Who gets the cmurapts for feed
ing, clothing and furnishing supplies
to the- army and navy? Northern
men. r -'
Seven-eighths ofi the revenue col
lected py tne uovernment are ex
pended in the North. What she
pays in duties, internal taxes,. &c,
comes back to her in some shape,
while not one dollar in ten which the
South pays ever comes back to her.
Is it any wonder that money is
....
scarce
n the South, and that. South-
era farmers have
to paddle hard to
keep their heads above water,; while
this draining process goes on ?
Isn't! the Southern man who sup
ports the party which does this thing
standinlg in his oWd light and. help
mg to impoverish
himself as well as
his seclion by voting o perpetuate
the policy which
results in the
impoverishment ?
What excuse
or reason can a
Southern white man give for remain- I
ing in and aiding
and abetting such
that wouldn't be
a party XMone
equally as valid
arid plausible for
robbing his neigh
bor
or setting his
house on fire.
WATCHING FO
3
OAST STORMS.
How the Surf Indicates the Coming of a
- I Jilow. I -
The pilot chart of the hydrographic
office for October contains some inter
esting information.
jThcf severe storms
of last month are plotted, with the re
cord of the direction
and force of the
wind, j This feature
is supplemented
with a barometer diagram of the largest
storm, Jthat of Aug. T.
A graphic representation is given on
the chart proper of the wind circulation,
as indicated by reports
from vessels in
the track of the hurricane.
Attention
is particularly called! to
the
belt ot m-
tcnsihed trade winds, in which, as a
vessel !advatices, it experiences strong
trades
with heavy
squalls.- Although
the trade may remain
steady in direc-
tion, warning is given,
as it fresh-
ens, to mariners
not to at-
tempt to run before
the : vind and
cross the track of the
storm when the ba-
rometer had fallen
deCidedly without
any shift of wind
The region of this
insensified belt is so wide that if any at
tempt is made to run, tne chances are, as
the hydrographer puts it, "ten to one'
that worse weather will be encountered
than if the vessel lay to ,
Another important point is the rela
tively small core or heirt of the hurri
cane in the trooics. The ' hurricane
there 'is like a torr ado. und its avoidance
is of ! first consideration. The hydro-
graphic office has of lajte paid much at
tention to the subject of ocean storms,
and the benefit of its Service is already
appreciated. j '
An! attempt was ' made to secure a
station at Bermuda when telegraph-
ic communication was established
i
between that island and the con
tinent. Reports from that locality
were expected M to indicate the
presence of storms in the Atlantic, and
to serve as a means to warn vessels
about to sail. Failing to secure this
important serviceL a simpler method has
been adopted, and he current chart em-
braces the featun
for the first time.
A record is to be1
kept of the action of
the surf along the
coast. Reports last
month have been
tabulated, and are
found to have a val
ue as a natural prog
nostic of ocean weather. The life sav-
ing service will co-operate in this work,
and last month's data domes from these
stations. A diagram is given of the surf
i Hi'
late ;in August previdus to the great
hurricane. It represents the height of
the waves along the coast between Nan
tucket and Hatteras. It is seen that
the surf clearly indicated the presence
of the hurricane iwo or three days in
advance, as there were no winds along
the Icoast to cause it The ice in the .
North Atlantic has about disappeared.
There are two ot three derelicts in the
track of ocean steamers.
m
TheW., O. & E. C. B.
Capt. Whiting, General Manager of
the Onslow railroad, who-has returned
from a visit to Newbern, reports that
the jtrack-layers will rach Jacksonville
early in. JNovember, only some ; ten or
twelve miles remaining to complete the
roari to that place (-fifty miles from
Wilmington. When 1 Jacksonville is
reached the road Is to be pushed on to
Newbern as rapidly as possible. Trains
i i i
are now running regu
arly every day to
the Golden place, which is thirty-two.
miles distant from W
lmington.
' For the Star.x
HIS LAST BATTLE! -
Mr. John, D. Evans, a veteran of the
late Confederate Army, after a long and
lingering sickness of pulmonary con
sumption, died at his home at Magnolia,
Duplin county, on the morning of Sept.
22d,',1890, in the fifty-first of his age.
He entered the Confederate Army at
beginning of the wars
and continued
the time in
t.- "
Company K, 66th N. C. regiment, at
tached to Kirkland's famous fighting
brigade, and was engaged in many ol
the hard fought battles that deluged the
soil of Virginia with blood. When his
regiment was ddeed back to North
Carolina he j came with it, and fought
nis last oattie at iientonville. At the
termination Of the war he. returned to
his home at Magnolia, where he lemain-
ea until death called him away. Like a
good soldier he wa? brave in battle, and
like a true soldier, he was tender, sym
pathetic and kindly hearted in times ot
peace.f Hisiwife, to: whom he was mar
ried about six years ago. survives him.
His father, f now j38 years of age, a
married. sister and one brother; Mr. W.
McEvans, ol this city also survive him.
He bore th sufferings of a tedious ;ill
ness with pious resignation and Chris
tian fortitude, and rhen the dread sum-
mandate and fell sweetly asleep in the
arms of lesus, his Redeemer. heace to
his ashes.
An Incendiary Attempt Frustrated.
A correspondent
of the Star, writing
from LaGranare,
Lenoir county, says:
"Friday night this place came very near
being laid in ashes. J. D. Sumerlin was
caught in the act of pouring kerosene
..v i . ... ....
oil on some very combustiDie material in
a shed adjoining his store. After he
had poured the oil, he told a negro,
now is your time; dpply the match to it.
The negro gave Sijmerlin away, telling
some citizens that f they would watch
they could catch him. He was caught
in the act, and is jnow in the lock-up,
ready to be taken tb Kinston jail. His
object was the insurance money; the in
surance being $80j0 on $250 worth of
goods. The. citizens will reward the
negro by giving him $100, or more."
Eev. C. Ii. Arnold. .
Rev. C. L. Arnold, rector of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church, has definitely deter
mined uon leaving Wilmington. He
will accept the charge of St. Stephen's
Church; in Goldsboro, and will make
that city his headquarters, engaging in
mission work as well as in parish work.
He will therefore remain in the diocese
of East Carolina
His charge of St.
Paul's, in this city, will terminate No
vember 1st, very ipuch to the regret of
his parishoners and other friends in the
community.
i
Eastern Baptist Association.
There was a large attendance at the
sessions of the Eastern Baptist Associa
tion, held at RilSy's Church this week.
Rev. Dr. Pritchard-and Rev. R. E. Peele
and several laymen from this city were
in attendance, as jwas also Rev. Dr. C.
Durham, Corresponding Secretary of
the State Mission Board, who , added
much to the enjoyment of the occasion.
County Democratic Ticket.
At a meeting of the County Demo
cratic Executive Committee last night
Mr. J. T. Kerr, of j. Cape Fear township,
was nominated to fill the vacancy on the
Legislative tiCKCtJ and Mr. M. G. Chad-
wick was nominated for Constable of
Gape Fear townsblip n place of Mr. L T.
Kerr rcigned.
Cotto Belt Bulletin.
Fa weather prevailed yesterday in
the OOtton belt, the only rain reported
being slight showers, in the Galveston
and New Orleans districts. The average
maximum temperature in the Wilming
ton district ranged from 74 at Charlotte
and Wadesboro to 82 at Wilmington
land Raleigh, aijid 84 at Cheraw and
Florence.: The lowest minimum tem
perature was at Wadesboro, 42.
Ticket Auditor for the Seaboard Air-Line.
circular from General Manager
C. Windor, announces that Mr.
Jno.
Thos. H. Wrightj has been appointed
Ticket Auditor of all the roads of the
Seaboard Air-Line svstem. "embracing
the- Seaboard &j Roanoke, Roanoke &
larf reiver, jxaieign ot uasion, uuruaiu
& Northern,. Raleigh & Augusta Airj
Line, Carolina Central, and Georgia ; &
Northern, with office at Wilmington, N.
C. jThis appointment took effect on the
Seaboard & Rofinoke and Roanoke j &
Taf River roads on October, 1st., Mi.
Wright having filled the position of
Ticket Auditor for the other Companies
lor several years past.
CHICAGO REVIEW.
Fluctuations in Prices of Grain and Pro-
- visions.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Chicago. Cict. 10. Wheat The
market was weaker, lower, and consider
ably unsettled.) It opened 1M1C
lower than yesterday s closing hgures.
and continued irregular with steady de
cline until the close, which was
36. lower than yesterday. There was
heavy pressure to sell, but the demand
'active. ; -'.-if
Corn At the opening there was a
general scramble to unload. Lower
prices were the rule on all futuees, the
market opening with a loss of 1 Jlc;
fluctuated, became weak, and closed
with a decline of lc. i i
,Oats The weakness, in wheat arid
corn, and fair offerings produced a weak
feeling, and opening sales were at
Hc decline. A rally of Jc follow
ed the depression, but it did not hold,
and prices receded to opening figures,
the market closing steadier. ! j
I Mess pork Fair trading was reported.
It opened at 15c decline, advanced 5c,
butj later receded 57KC' and closed
quiet and steady at inside figures.
I4rd Trading was moderate at 25c
lower, and closed quiet at inside figures.
i Short rib sides Fair business was
transacted. Aj little more pressure to
sell resulted in a decline of 710c on
deferred deliveries and the market
closed quiet at inside figures.
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... The census Returns give Baltimore
population of 434,151, an increase
101,838, or 30.65 per cent. i
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LAGRANGE, N. C.
TAR:
JUSTICE MILLER.
His Death Momentarily Expected Tele
gram from Ex-President Cleveland.
" By Telegraph to the Morning Star. :
Washington, Oct. 11. At 10 o'clock
to-night Justice Miller's death was mo
mentarily expected. ; ' '
i j He has been sinking slowly but surely
all day; his breath has grown shorter
and shorter until it seems that each
must be his last. S ! 'i i
j "Chief Justice Fuller to-day received a
telegram from ex-President Cleveland
expressive of his grief at the news of
Justice Miller's illness, and the incident
recalled the fact that between the ex
President and Justice Miller there has
been for some years a feeling of mutual
admiration and warm personal friend
ship. The telegram is as follows: j
I "Chief Justice Fuller I am exceedingly
grieyed by the report of justice Miller's
illness. Please let me know his condi
tion and convey to him if you can my
fervent hope for his speedy recovery. ,
. ' Griover Cleveland.'
Washington, Oct. 1112:30 a m.
ustice Miller is' alive and that is all.
His death is expected at any moment.
ie grows weaker and weaker. ,
THE PRESIDENT.
Arrival at St. Louis Hearty
Greetings
! Extended Him., ;
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
St. Louis, October 11. A special
train bearing President Harrison and
arty arrived here at 9 o'clock this
morning amid the booming of cannon
and the cheers of an immense-crowd
assembled to welcome the Chief Magis
trate. The President wasfj escorted: to
the Southern Hotel, ! thence to the
Merchants' Exchange, and ! from there
to the Fair Grounds, and everywhere
the procession moved the plauditsr of
the multitude were hearty and long
continue.
THE COLORED BROTHER.
Decision of the Supreme Court Belative to
His Bights in Public Places.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Lansing, Mich., Oct. 11. The Su
areme Court has rendered a very im-i
bortant opinion affecting the rights of
colored people in public j places. One
Ferguson, colored, with a friend, entered
a restuarant in the district, ot which a
man named Gies was proprietor. Seat
ing themselves at a table a waiter in
formed them that they could not be
waited on at that table, but if they would
take a seat at one which he designated,
they would served. I his they re
fused, demanding service at the table at
which they were sitting. The proprietor
admitted : the .discrimination between
white and black people, and claimed
that he had , a right to make such dis
crimination. The plaintiff brought suit
m Wayne ' Circuit Court, for damages,
was defeated, and appealed to the Su
preme Court. The judgment is reversed,
and a new trial ordered.! The Court
holds that a colored man is a citizen
under the constitution, and cannot be
discriminated against in public places,
and says the only question that should
have been considered in the lower court
was the one of damages,
THE POWDER EXPLOSION.
6
Six Buckets Full of Fragments of Human
! ; Flesh. j
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Wilmington, Del., ! Oct. 11. The
remains of the scattered victims of the
Dupont powder explosion, so tar as
gathered up by the searchers, have been
prepared for interment. Six buckets
full of human fragments represented all
that could be lound of the bodies of six
men. Portions of these fragments were
identified by adherent clothing and
otherwise. ! A piece ot a man's face was
identified by its black moustache as be
longing to j Martin Dolan, and a hand
with missing thumb as belonging to
John Newell. This hand was thrown
nearly two rniles by the force of the ex
plosion, falling at the feet of an aston
ished farmer. I
The mass of remains has been assorted
into four portions and placed in four
coffins. One coffin contains what is left
of the bodies of John and Michael
Hueilher and John Harrigan. In the
others are the remains of John Newell,
James Dolan and Martin Dolan respect
ively. Of the injured,! Daniel Harkins
and Patrick Gilsen are still very low, but
with chances in favor of their recovery.
A MONSTER.
Death of a Man Weighing Four Hundred
Pounds He Predicts: the Time of his
Death. ! j j
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Sumner, III., October 11. William
Peters, of Lukin township, died Friday
morning. He was without doubt the
largest man in the county, his weight
being four hundred pounds. On Thurs-!
day he requested the undertaker to or
der a coffin for him, saying be was go
ing to die! at 6 o clock a. m. on fnday;
that there were no coffins large enough
for him here, and one wculd have to be
made. The undertaker at once ordered
one, and it came on the midnight train.
It was one of the largest ever sent out.
Within twenty iminutes of the time he
predicted he expired, ; J '
FALL- OF A BRIDGE.
Six Persons on Horseback Precipitated
Forty Feet Five of Them Injured, Two
Fatally. . j . '
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Charleston, W. Va., Oct. 11.-4-
While six persons were passing over ' an
unfinished bridge, near Webster Springs,
the structure gave way and all were
precipitated into the Elk river, forty
feet below. Five of the six persons were
wounded, two fatally.
POLITICAL Ppl NTS, :
The touch of the Republican
party withers and blasts. Evidence.
trade and surplus. Cleveland Plain
Dealer, JJem. i
The amount of money that will
co into McKinley s district for the pur
chase of his election wil) be large enough
to pay off almost any county debt in the
btate. Jtiartjvra Y imes, Dent.
Five cents per dozen will not shut
out all our eggs from the United btates
There will come times when the Ameri
cans will have to imporjt Canadian eggs
and pay the new duty, whether they like
it or not. umaon vntj trjee press.
Congressman McjKinley jwill be
re-elected if boodle can do the work.
Though we assume his purpose to be
honest, he has been tool valuable a man
for the trusts and ; monopolists ; to lose;
from Congress, and many ot them have
made his cause their own, which means
-we all know what.-4-tVa. Observer.
. Dem. : i
NO. 48
JAPAN AND CHINA.
Two Thousand Japanese Going to Mexico
Big Profits in Silver by' a Chinese
Bank Capture and Execution 'of Pirates
J-A Merchant Vessel's Crew Massacred
by Pirates. ' ' i j' j '. j
j Bjr Telegraph to the Morning Star.
San Francisco, Oct. 11 j Japanese
advices state that there is a movement on
foot to plant a colony of Japanese in
Mexico. A Mr. Vogel, representing a
coidnyof Mexico; has been in -Japan
trying to induce the government to ac
cede to his scheme. He has received
some official sanction,) and 'expects to
send over jtwo thousand laborers before
the end of the month, at wages of sixty
to seventy cents per day. (
; tninese advices state that there has
been great gambling in silver in Hong
rvong, ana tne nong rvong ;ano Shang
hai bank is said to have made millions
out of the deal. When Mexican dollars
were valued at 84 cents, and before the
silver bill was passed by the United States
Congress, the Bank purchased all of the
Mexican dollars it could eet. and when
the silver bill became a law the value of
the. Mexican dollar took a jump and the
bank sold all it had at 95 cents. Before
the deal the bank's shares were quoted
at $125; since they" have been almost un
purchaseable .at $226. t!
The last time the revenue cruiser Lang
Fong came in, says an Amoy paper, she
reported having seen, betwen Foo Chow
and here, a large pirate iunk firing at a
peaceful trader.; A gunboat was sent
out by the, authorities and shortly after
ward returned with eleven prisoners who
had been Captured from a piratical craft.
On the 2d inst inst. all of these men were
beheaded.ji One of them went raving
mad and refused to kneel before the ex
ecutioner, so the latter had to take "pot
shots" at him, and eventually decapi
tated him; in slices. lt is rumored that
about one hundred pirates came down
to the execution to tryXand effect a res
cue, but I the large number of troops
present ettectuaiiy overawed them.
; News has just come inof a frightful
atrocity committed by a pirate craft,
having seized a trading junk, and mas
sacred in cold blood the whole crew of
thirty-nine men. j
TRAIN ROBBERY.
Masked Men Secure Express Money Pack-
: ages on a Bail way in Kansas.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Fort Scott, OctJ 11. At midnight
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger .
train was robbed, near.Schell City, Mo.
As the train was slowing up to take
water, the engine was mounted from
each side by masked robbers, who com
pelled the engineer to dismount and
knock at I the express door for admit
tance, the messenger threw out the
money package. It was not heavy
money. The train robbers were evi
dently novices. I , !
Kansas Citv. Ott. li Last night
as tne south oound passenger and ex
press train on the Missouri. Kansas and
Texas Railroad pulled up to the Osage
river water tank, one mile south of
Schell City, Mo., four stalwart men arm
ed with shot guns and revolvers, jump
ed on the cab of the engine, covered the
engineer and fireman, and ordered them
to dismount. As soon as the train stop
ped the'col o ed porter stepped off to
take a iook alter the air brakes and was
promptly covered with a revolver by
one of ; the bandits, j The fireman
and porter were Quartered behind
the train and guarded lest they
should arouse the passengers. The
engineer; was ; marched; to the door
of the express car and compelled to call
the messenger to the open door. The
messenger, recognizing the engineers
voice, opened the door and was prompt
ly covered by a' revolver and ordered to
hand over his money. He replied the
train did not carry any money and that
he did not have any j himself. The rob
bers seemed to be satisfied that he told
the truth, and without entering the car
allowed ; the train to proceed. When
the train arrived here the messenger
handed to the local agent the money
packages he had, showing there was np
robbery.. ; ! .
COTTON.
The New Tork Sun's Report of the Market
Yesterday Crop Statistics of the New
Orleans Exchange.! j
B v Telegraph to the Morning Star.
: - . i . i !
New York. Oct. 11. The Sun's
review of the totton market to-day says:
Cotton futures opened ; at 1 point ad
vance, closing unchanged on near
months and 1 point decline on late
months and steady! The market opened
stronger because considerable short in
terest was made yesterday in expecta
tion of a sharp decline in Liverpool un
der the influence ot the bureau report,
but that market was better sustained
than was expected and there was some
buying to cover contracts. When this
demand had been ! supplied the market
weakened, but there, was finally a rally
and the close was well up to the best
figures of the day. The weather to-day
was generally very favorable to the crop
prospects. Keceipts at the ports lor
ahe comihg week are estimated at 812,-
000 bales, bpot cotton easier and tairly
active for home consumption. Middling
uplands 10c; do gulf 10 9-16c.
New Orleans, October 11. The
crop statement from September 1st to
October 10th, inclusive, is as toiiows:
Port receipts 1,121,899 bales, against
942,622; overland to mills and Canada
59,596 bales, against 141,112; interior
stocks in excess of September 1st 90,080
bales, against 109,897; Southern mills'
takincs 60,708 bales,!; against 60,260;
amount of crop brought into sight du
ring the forty-three days 1,332,261 bales,
against! 1,153,891; Northern spinners'
takings and Canada overland 207,080
bales, against 187,517; increase of stocks
at the ports and twenty-nine leading in
terior Southern markets during the week
102,093 bales, against 130,610; stocks at
ports and interior towns are now 17,123
bales larger than they' were at this date
last season. ;
The 'movement includes 5,000 bales
received at Pensacola,! Fla., and started
for Great Britain October 9th.
hLECTRIC SPARKS.
South Carolina s population is re
ported as 1,147,61; an increase of 151,-1
584, or 1.523 per cen;. f
Accordiug to the census, the popula
tion of Asheville. N. C. is 10.433; an in
crease of 7,817; per cent. 298.81. Raleigh,
12,798; increase, 3,533; per cent. 5.ij.
The colored Odd Fellows, who have
been in session in Atlanta for several
davs. completed their! labors yesterday,
after selecting Washington as the next
place ot meeting. ; j
Wm. H. Schrieber.i who robbed the
First National Bank of Columbus, Ind.,
of $300,000 and fled to Canada, and who
was decoyed to Detroit, arrested and
brought back, has been sentenced to
twelve years in prison auu a uuc oi $uvv.
SPIRIlSjTUKPENTINE.
Henderson Gold Leaf: -. A good
deal of real estate changed hands Mon
day. It consisted of both town and
country property.
Salem Press I
commence work on
F. H. Fries will
his canal at Lewis
Falls,on the Mayo fiver, in Rockingham
county, to run water to the large facto-i
ries. he intends building there. y !
Henderson
our editorial page
Tomahawk: Since
was printed we are
sorry to learn that
the condition of Mr.
Rogers, candidate for Congress from this
district, is such that there is no hope of
Vila malrinrr a airaie" s
his making a cavass
Greensboro
Patriot Mr. Mon
roe Whittington,
of the ! police forcel
handed us a second growth of black
berries this morning. They are very
fine, and the bush bore enough to make
pies for the family yesterday and to-dayi
Red Springs Farmer and Scottish
Chief : A young negro fellow named
Preston. Davis, (better known as
'Shorty" in these parts), who has been
'doing about Red Springs for several
months past, was captured on Friday
afternoon last, by Constable Leslie Nor
ment, and carried back to Marion, b. Ci
where he had escaped ia.il. f '
Concord Standard : . Lawyer
Crowell showed us some fine specimens
of slate rock from j Stanly county. The
pieces were perfectly straight and as
smooth as glass. Specimens have been
sent to the geologist at Washington,
and the slate has been pronounced the
nnest ever exhibited in that orhce lor
roofing purposes.: The vein is forty-feet
wide and has been traced over half a
mile. -" ' I !
Raleigh' Visitor: While Mrs. L.
C. Neal was on her way home last night
about 9 o'clock, in , company with her
daughter, a lady (about 18 years old. and
Mrs. Caudle, a negro man seized the arm
of the young lady as they passed the
corner of East Hargettand Swain street.
The ladies screamed when the scoun
drel turned her loose and fled. This is
the third time that a . like outrage has
been perpetrated in our midst, near the
same locality. ! . i
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Goldsboro Argus: To give
give some idea of the insufficient num
ber Of cotton pickers, we heard a suc
cessful farmer remark yesterday, that i
with tair weather, two more weeks
would be required for him to pick over
his cotton the first time. I -The Re
publicans seem to be stirred up some
what oyer the political situation in this
county. Many of them do not like the
way things are running. lhe way
that cotton is rushing into market
indicate that Wayne will make the
largest crop it has made in many years,
and many farmers say that it will.
Nashville Argonaut : Gray Sills,
son of J. G. Silis, Esq., of this place, se
cured the appointment to West Point,
at the competitive examination held
in Raleigh recently. Mr. B. H. Ves-
ter, a valuable and highly esteemed citi
zen of Cooper s towhship, died on the
27th ult.. aced 65 vears. Mr. Vester was
Vt one time Superintendent of public
instruction ot the countyi 1 homas
W.XHarns. of Panacea bprings, Hahlax
county, one of the purest men we ever ,
knew, and with whom Our acquaintance
extended more than a third of a century,
died a, few days ago, at the age of 83
years. . i' i -j
Monroe Register; Mr. W. P.
Plyler, of Mt. Prospect, has been for
two years experimenting with ribbon
sugar cane, and; has demonstrated that
it can be successfully grown in this
section. He brought into our office
Monday a fine stalk of this cane, and
told us that he had twelve large stalks,
which grew from one joint. The cane
does not produce seed, but grows from
the joints of the old stalk, which is left
lying on the ground, covered, of course,
during the winter. Mr. fiyier says
sugar cane grows luxuriantly here, if
planted in rich, loamy land, and that it
will yield twice as much syrup as the
old sorghum cane. - I
h Louisburg Times: Mr. L E.
Tharrington, a well known and respect
ed citizen of Freeman township, died
one day last week. He jwas at one time
a county commissioner i of this county,
and was about 68 years of age. Dr.
K. King is in receipt ot letters irom
the United States Patent Office grant
ing him a patent on a hogshead machine.
. Parties who have seen the model of the
machine are' of the opinion that it will
turn out forty hogsheads per day. It is
simple in construction, not requiring an
experienced cooper to operate it. A
joint stock company will will be lorm
ed and a factory opened at this place as
soon as arrangements can be made.
Tarboro Southerner: Capt. W.
J. Rogers, Democratic candidate for
Congress in this district, writes a letter
to a gentleman of this place, in which he
states that he has written to Y. T. Or-
mond, of Green county, withdrawing
from the contest on account of physical
disability, 'Capt. Rogers says that he
has been sick for the last five weeks and
the symptoms 'of his affliction are not fa-
voraDle to improvement, ana ne ieeis
that he must withdraw and give some
one else an opportunity to enter the
race. As yet nothing has been
learned of the! whereabouts of the negro
who committed the brutal murder at
Aulander, last Saturday night. His
name was Freeman and from the scars
on his face he
could be easily reedgniz-
ied.
' !
Daily . Mr. Lev .
Winston !
Padgett, a farmer living near Friedberg,
this county, captured a large terrapin on
his place a tew days ago ana. upon ex
amination, j fbund the . initials of his
brother's name "Alex. Padgett,'! and
dated "1854." cut on the bottom shell.
This would indicate that this terrapin
has been here." -The thiefi that
has been committing numerous thefts in
and around Walnut Cove of late was
arrested yesterday. ! Our informant
could not givp us the negro's name, bnt
said that he was an ex-convict. A good
deal of the goods stolen were found in
the possession of Sue and MolIiejHam,
two white women ot that town. 1 ne
women were I released by giving a bond
of $100 for their appearance at court.
The negro is ptill in custody and was to
be tried again this evening for another
offence. j
Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligen'
cer: Kegistrars irom every section oi
"the county say
that the negroes re all
registering, but that Democrats seem to
be indifferent! on the subiect.
Morven is coming to the front as a cot
ton market. There were weighed there
during September 1,235 bales.!
Died, in btanly . county, alter a linger
ing illness, on; last Monday, Mr. E. F.
Avitt, agea osj years. uunng mc
month of : September, this vearJ there
were sold in Wadesboro 2,952 bales of
cotton. For the same month last year
only 690 bales were received here.! -From
every section of this and sur
rounding counties reports say that
never before has so much open cotton
been seen in the fields at! one time. It
is almost impossibly in many sections to
get the "necessary labor j to gather it.
Late lastj Saturday afternoon, Mr.
Allman Bosworth, of Stanly county, was
instantly killed by ! having his head
caught between the ! lever of a cane mill
and an upright post, used in the con-r
struction of ;the mill, i Mr; Bosworth
was repairing some part of the machinery
which was out of ' order, his head being
near the posi, when the lever came
around and caught his head and pressed
it against the! post, i crushing the back
part of it and killing him instsntlv. Mr.
Bosworth was about 75 years old.
Merchants and business men generally,
say that collections are better up to this
time than ever before. The farmrrs give
evidence of a determination to het out
of debt, and stay out. ! ,