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rUBtflSHED AT ! LMIN0TON. n. c, w AT- $1.00 A YEA ft, IN ADVANCE. 1 r : 883S883S8S8SS38SS I 88188888888888888 883SS88S888is8il8 sqiuopi g 33S82i$S8 88888888888838888 8888888283888883 strjaoj S 8888888888888883 ! 8SS8S38S888S88S38 ioiat-coonioioeoi 88838888888888888 09 lO - 00 0 1H OS K3 i w o ! . a, (A a i Entered at the Pose Office atfWilmtgton, N. C, as . Second Class Matter.! , SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription pace of the "Weekly Star is as follows : , , - I Single Copy 1 year, postage paid...... $1 00 " , " H mnnthi " ml 6 months S months act A REPUBLICAN PLUT0CBACY. ' The object of all governments byi whatever nam tney may De cauea. ' monarchic or republican, should be to promote the well-being, comfort! S i , I and happiness of its people, and the government which best does that best fulfils Us ii the. most ev mission. Where wealth nly distributed among its' people, toe least extremes of wealth and the least extremes or poverty, there are the tiappiestJ there the most manly people and there . 'the government whicH comes nearest being ' .'what God Al Ml jiighty intended Governments should be. l! A just gov :rnment crimination Between makes no -dis its people, butJ treats all alike, makes laws that sub ject all alike. protect all alike and hold al! to a like responsibility. A " Government which is run for a class or by a class is simply a class des pbtvsm. It may be a mild one and the people may seem to, De tree under v., but . despotism, fjr it is none the less the people hold, their property and their liberty subject td '- ttie interests or caprice of the class y tint governs T Until the year 18G1 the Govern rrient of the United States came as rtear filling the ideal of a perfect popu Jar governm ent as any that had ever been devise by the genius of man. It is true there was a difference in the financial circumstances of its citit- . . ... .. j tns, some Deing ncn, otners poor ut there were up to that period few: ery rich citizens and comparatively - r peaking few very poor ones, and neither the wealth or the one nor ; the povertjf of the other was the re suit of governmental interference nor . of governmental policies. Then there was Ao such thing as goverri mental paternalism, save that wide, . broad-spirited paternalism which ex ; tended over all, embraced all, and with solicitous care sought to do tbJe l.est for all. The Democracy that was has Deen . 'transformed into the Plutoracy thM is. where the few rule for the fe v instead qf the many for the man The ford of the Democracy remains, hut its lifje, its spirit, is gone. The man with the almighty dollar is the; power that rules, and the ballot - that wasjthe pride and glory of the ! sovereign citizen, is becoming, if it has riot already- become, A ghastly moekervL It has ceased to be men agajnt nfen, principles against priij ciples, brut money against manhood, in whicft the money of the class th rules cjr aspires to rule is pitted against the manhood and the ballots ofthe jeople over whom they seek to rule -Isn't this true? No candid, horiefct ho rkn.ows the-political and m,ari legisla ive history of this country fr thd past thirty years can deny it. it a fact patent to the world Isn' that t e managers of the Republican campaigns never think of opening a campaign without an immense cor ruption fund to draw from? They naakej no secret of thrs That's not what they oall it, but that's what lit is, a corruption fund to buy Voters, and with bought votes to jout-num-ber and overcome the unpurchasable yotefs. ,- ' ;. . if . ' This was unknown in our politics untiu introduced and cultivated oy the managers of the Republican par ty. litis an outgrowth of the so calldd protective tariff system, asid the governmental paternalism of to , day and has deepened its j roots and gro irn stronger and stronger every day Now the expenditure of large sunjs of montfy has become, so cora- motf that it has ceased to attract at teniion, and a campaign fund of mil lions excites less attention or less re mark than a campaign fund of a few hundreds would have done thirty yeah ago. Then, even if it had been desjred, it would have been implac "caoie to secure large: campaign .-funds, because there was no "pro .teelecT" class, no class" especially in tertsted to draw upon for a fund, and a11 themonty raised, if any was rail eth; to pay current expenses of a campaign, was contributed by candi dates and their friends who took an tt-ve interest and desired the puc- ss of the party which favored the ; Principles which they believed essen- ai to good government. vt so now, The dominant party M thousands of "protected m'anu- fan4.. tt . . - -. . L . -vi.uies whn havp mart( mt Imne r VOL. XXI; out of the tariff laws passed) for their benefit to draw princely sums from; it has an army of 100,000, in round numbers, j of Federal 'officeholders and place holders to levy assess ments upon; it has a little jarmy of pension agents interested in pension legislation to draw contributions from; it has the land grant railroads which hold by fraudulent legislation and fraudulent connivance of the party in power, millions of acres of the public domain to draw from, and others interested in perpetuating the class rule willing to contribute their portion of the money do it. J necessary to Thus these colossal campaign funds are raised at every important election thus the voice! of the peo- pie is stifled, their wi! 1 aenea, me Plutocracy triumphs ; and rules through; the minions it sends to Con gress to obey its commands . and le- gislate as it dictates. - This is the kind of government we have to-day, and the Ikind we will have until the betrayed people arise in the majesty of their mann ood and restore the government of pie. . 1 - - -, 1 ' the peo- PLOTTING FOR P0WEE. The 51st Congress spent most of the ten months it was in session in plotting and carrying ; out the sole purpose of which perpetuate'thejrule of; the schemes was to Republic can party. There was not a meas- ure of any importance from the Republican side broposed of either House which partisanship. The House was not inspired by : . rules were changed and the Sneaker vested" with 1 auto- cratic power, easily to enable tpemthe to carry butXthe more measures which, they contemplated, and to guard against accidents or contingencies which might possibly pur i a tne power ot tne uemocrauc v . i. ... T T , .. I measures they decided upon tne grand larceny by which nine , Demo I cratic seats were seized a id eight Republicans put into them, the other being leftSvacant because the Re publican who'claimed ttjwas"dead. These preliminaries arranged the conspirators found themselves in shape to carry out the rest of the programme without fear df serious interference, and they carried it out with a coolness and deliberation as amazing as.it 'was unprecedented. While the Keed gang were en gaged in constructing a Tariff bill to meet the approbation of the manu facturers, who furnish so much of the money to elect Republican Con gressmen and Republican Presidents; Pension bill to meet the j approba- tion of the pension agents, who also contribute freely, and secure the sol dier vote; a Force bill to turn elec tions into a mockery and put them into the hands of a few parti- sari tools appointed by partisan Judges, and other j measures of a partisan character, the grave and dignified Republican Sena tors in the other end of the Capitol were engaged in converting sparsely settled western territories into States to ensure a Republican majority in the Senate for an' indefinite j period, and additional Republican: votes , in the next Electoral College, which with the newfraudulent kpportion- ment bill which they have agreed upon and intend to pass will ! for put the them in pretty good tnrri next Presidential election. Virginia was partitioned and West! Virginia was admitted into the' Union during the. war; Nevada, Col orado and Nebraska, the two former of which at the time they were ad mitted were a mere aggregation of mining camps, were also admitted to increase the Republican strength in Congress- but there was nothing half so scandalous hj the ad mission of these as there was in j the admission oif the last six territories, for which there is neither defense nor apology. With the ex ception of South Dakota there was not one of them which ha d j popula tion enough jto entitle it, under the apportionment for the States, to one member of Congress, butJ they each came, prancing in with two Senators and one Representative, except South Dakota, which' came bouncing in I with twoi Twelve Republican Senators and seven Republican Representatives added toi the list of the gang who Were plotting for power. Nineteen1 Republican votes secured for the next Electoral Col lege to cast their; votes for the Re nubliean candidates I for President ' -i and Vice President, and the people. I 1 help defeat j It there were proof wa,nted of the partisan scheming by which these territories were .admitted it is fur . l-j T,A,i. or, v. UlbllCU 111 lUC WSC VI, iua' j oriiing, to which the docys were opened, and in the case of New Mex ico -and Oregon, upon which the doors were kept closed. The Mor mons in Idaho were! chiefly Demo prats. The Mormons! jn Wyoming Republicans. The Mormons in Ida ho were disfranchised' under the Ed munds act, which made i the territory Republican. The Mormons in Wyo ming were not"disfranciised. Wyo ming, although with a population of only a little over 60,000. was prompt- ft ly admitted, while Idaho with a pop ulation! of 80,000 and something more Jwas kept out until the Demo cratic Mormon vote was suppressed and the territory became Republi can, 'Then she was admitted with that ratine ceremony, which con sisted of some formal speeches ind a formal vote. Arizona knocked at the door, but it remained closed. Arizona was Democratic,' and had committed the unpardonable offence or electing a Democratic Legisla ture.!) . -. ' r- j :.:; Newj Mexico knocked hard at the door but it remained closed as Hf every body had gone from j home. New i Mexico was Democratic, but New Mexico which wanted to get in and couldn't had as much popula tion asj Wyoming and Idaho com binedf jwhich just tapped at the door, were ! cordially . welcomed and in vited tp come in and make them selves at home. i r ';i: The Governor of Arizona in a plea for admission says that if admitted Arizona can be safely counted upon as a Republican State. If the Re publican Statesmen becom satisfied of this the door will be thrbwn'open to her the next time she knocks and New j Mexico can remain ;out soli tary and alone, until she concludes to turn Republican and be admitted. Thus the work of the conspirators was accomplished and States, Sena tors arid Representatives manufac tured to hold party ascendency in the Senate and House, to help con trol the Electoral College and per petuate4 the power of the Republi can party regardless of the popular verdict at the ballot 'box. ' . THE REED-LODGE ALLIES. The Lodge Force bill is one of the most j-infamous measures ever pro posed in the American Congress. It ic msA fkon r. mora Alot;nr. K 11 Tf u . ,. passed it will be the beginning of a new reconstruction -era for the South, with all the horrorsthat that implies. The men who are urging its passage are intensely partisan, intensely sec tional. They have neither kindly feeling nor toleration for the South, and if they could to-day they would subject her.to conditions that would make the Southern States mere colo nial dependencies, in which the white men who didn't acknowledge alle giance! to the . - Republican-, party would Stand no. more show for polit ical recognition than a cat in hades without claws. With the experience which, they have; had since the. failure of their first I reconstruction schemes they could go about it better and give the Vice the twists which they didn't deem necessary then, and they would do it, too. Their failure to capture the South, and their loss of power in the North has made them ' desperate, and they would do. more now, go further and, dare; more than- they would twenty- five years ago, even before the smoke had well cleared from the battle fields and men had not yet cooled from the heat of deadly strife. There were partisans, intense : partisans in Congress then, there were vindic tive men and good haters then,, but in magnanimity and manliness they towered above the spiteful pigmies who have succeeded them arid now hold their seats as giants do above dwarfs. : The leaders on the Republican side lof Congress now are great in nothing but their colossal meanness and deviltry. They never show to such-superlative excellence as when plotting to do something disreputa ble oi to steal the rights of those who differ from them politically. The animus of the Force bill, which ! t it is; hypocritically pretended is to ensure a "free ballot and a fair count" was shown by Speaker Reed in his Pittsburg speech, wlen he de clared that matters would never be satisfactorily adjusted until the Re publican party could "do its own registering its own counting and its own Certification," which means that it should have absolute I control of the ballot box, and the party despot ism; which the Lodge bill aims at become an assured fact, In a speech in Boston just after the adjournment of Congress, Hen- rv Cabot Lodge, the ( author of the bill, gave expression to his Dentup feelings, and f a further insight into the animus which in spired him in ; the preparation and advocacy of. the diabolical bill, in the following utterance "We are entering on a struggle with which that over the tariff or silver is as nothing. There is no calumny and no slander which our opponents, and espe cially those who lie coiled at the feet of their bouthern masters, win not invent, no resistance they will not make ; but whether weas . individuals tall or suc- cced at this moment, the ultimate tri :-..1vr.,r T ft .ic roic olr. the scarred battle-flag which carried us to victory over slavery and secession, and; whatever our personal fate may be, U 1111 'I 13 iui j j v ua uigv. uuiii we may rest in absolute confidence that the labor to which we now put our hands will not be in vain lithis was the father of the Force bill talking. He was making special reference to it. He maintained in Congress that it was a qatioual bill, applicable to all sections and in rio way intended to affect the South more than any other : section of the country. Whence, then, this mail- r ' I '. : , -k i; WILMINGTON J' N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, cious allusion to ''Southern masters' and those who "lie coiled at their feet?', whatever that f means. "The ultimate triumph is j surely ours.'- Whose? The advocates of the Force bill who, like He'pry l.Gabot' Lodge,' aYe fighting the "Southern masters.' Then he took a f resn start, a frond whiff of air, expanded-jii's lungs and bawled out: "Let us' raise ' again the scarred battle flag wh?ch carried us to victory over sla irery arid seces sion." That means the Force bill. must be passed : first, the "scarred battle flag" then raised and the war of hate and maligni y . inaugurated against the white people of the South, who don't .vdrship in th'e Republican Joss hoise. Pass the Force bill,1 raise-the 'iearred battle start John on, start-th Brown's soul marching' crusade and smite Southern Democrat the haughty- p and thigh andj make him acknowledge alle giance to them or bite the ddst. This is precisely wraat this Force bill means, and 'this IS what that partisan Radical gancr Lusk, Eaves & Co., who met in that Raleigh con-: this bill are They are ventfon and endorsed inviting them to do simply the allies and tools of the the conspirators who concocted that bill, echo their voice and would gladly to-day see North Carolina under Federal bayonets, if by Fed eral bayonets they and win the power are contending. pould triumph fbr which they What sort of a soul must be iu the North Carolinian whb has no more love of State nor State pride than that? If materialized regiment of such -might hold a dress parade on a Din head. 1 hat s th e gang that have the brazen cheek to ask the people of North Carolina to turn the State'over to them. MINOR MENTION U. S. Senator .Bd tier, of South Carolina, has been Kilter-viewed on the Haskell movement and has ex pressed his unequivocal opposition to it. He holds that the is the Democratic ticket, nominated by the legally constituted Demo cratic Convention, speaking for the Democratic party of the State, and for it and sup- as such he will vote port: it, as it is the puty of every other Democrat do. Senator Butler is right, and doubtless ex- presses the sentiments of every pa triotic, cool-headed South Car- olinian. The leaders in " this men Haskell movement !may be above reproach, and may stand well with their fellow-citizens, as Judge Haskell un kioubtedly does, but in this rapvemen : they were gov erednotby1 cool, saber judgment, but by passion and prejudice. There dj men in South Carolina who do not jlike Mr. Till man, and disapprove 6f the methods he resorted to to sec hire the nomina- tion, who opposed h rn until they saw that he had a majority of the con vention with him, w i . ip now support, ajce the good of nim, Decause tney p the btate; above thelri own opinions or feelings. They fought him while it was only a fight against him and not against South Carolina. Party organization is necessary everywhere, it is especially so in the South, im peratively so in ' a S ate situated as South Carolina is. very good Dem- ocrat should stand uy the organ iza- tion. lb Gen. Milton S. Lift cfield, one of the greatest scoundrels that ever roamed sn these nastures; who was a grand mdgul during regime in this State the Republican and sfot out of it' with j about S3, 000,000 of the special tax bonds, went to Florida and sojourned there for some years, is now in the tombs: in New York city, on a charge of extorting money from a woman whose son was under indictment for murder. He, with another man who was in complicity with him, was arrested. His pal gave bail, but irig unable to r ;tr1pn1l h. fhrnish it was locked up. The offense is a . serious one, ana the penalty, if proven, is ten years in the peniten- tiary. Jtf or some years L.ntieneia, who seems to have gone through his stolen plunder, has been leading a precarious life in Gotham, 'living by his wits m picking up soft snaps when they tall in h sr way. 1 his is not the first time has been in the tombs, i A year or sq ago he was ar rested and 1'ocked up for some, time for debt, Milton S. cut a .wide swarth while he was in this State and not only got away with $3,000,000 of but with goodly special tax bonds. sums : that be hap borrowed from confiding friends. Cheers for Grovel Cleveland are not often heard in a Republican mass-meet ing, but they rang dut in Music Hall in Boston, in answer fco Uncle Ijeorge Hoars abuse. It was perhaps rather impolite to the orator, but they did the Dusiness anu ne discreetly, swucneu on on anothertoplc. jJifrtam Zun. . The Farmers' Alliance, in its pecu liar way, is seeking and demanding just what the Democratic party has been en deavoring to accomplish during all these years, should it ever !get control ol the national Government, House, Senate and Presidency, which it has not se cured. , Democrac r and the Alliance, therefore, should huye no differences as to men, since their principals and pur- poscs arc me sa.me.j yfjroiasuoro strgus. FEARFUL GYGLONE ! A PORTION OF ROBESON COUNTY - DEVASTATED. Buildinca -Demolished One Man Killed and Several Persons Injured A Saw ' Mai Buined Presbyterian ' Church at Floral College Damaged. ' Advices came over the wires of the Carolina Central Railroad Company yesterday afternoon that a fearful cyclone passed two miles north of Max ton about 4 o'clock p. m., blowing down every house in its path. Passengers who came in on the even ing train on the Carolina Central knew nothing of the cyclone, but reported a very heavy rain, with much thunder and lightning. j Last night, howeyer, a special dispatch from a correspondent of the Star at Maxtoh was received, giving further par ticulars of the disastrous cyclone, The correspondent says that it passed just west of Maxton about'4T o'clock in the afternoon; its direction' was nearly north. Fortunately its track was nof wide. At Floral College, the ; belfry of the Presbyterainf Church was demolished, the beautiful grove was ruined, a house occupied by colored people was blown down and three col ored children were injured one serious ly, if not fatally. McKinnon's sawmill was demolished; and orie man there was seriously injured. At Hasty, a small town on the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley railroad, about eight miles from Maxton and twelve miles from Bennettsville, S. C, four tenement houses occupied by colored people were blown down and- one col ored man is reported killed and several persons injured. Trees and iences in the track of the storm were levelled with the ground. While Mr. W. H". Chadbourn is feeding the colored voters on honeyed phrases, let some of them ask him if he ever voted for a single colored man for a political office; and if so, when and for whom? i TH NEW TARIFF. Prices of All Kinds of Goods to be Ad vanced. Many of the merchants of Wilming ton have received circulars from North ern houses in which buyers are notified that prices were expected to rise, or would be advanced a certain percentage on dates varying from the 15th of Octo ber to the 1st of December, on account of the McKinlev tariff. Of some classes of goods there are now large stocks on vii hand, and until these ! lines are-reduced there will be no appreciable advance in prices. i The hardware business has been very decidedly affected by the jnew tariff. Cutlery, guns and tin plate have all gone up very considerably. As an in stance, a wholesale iman said pocket knives which formerly cost S4.5U a dozen are now worth 6.00. In the cheaper grades of goods prices have ad vanced 25 per cent. The effect upon the'general dry goods market will probably be of most inter est. Circulars are being daily received giving notice that this or the other kind of goods have gone up iO, 15 or 25 per cent. Plushes and embroideries have all advanced from 15 to 25 per cent. since the passage of the McKinley bill. Woollen goods and all grades of cash meres have advanced several cents per yard. ' Goods formerly worth 54 cents are now quoted as being worth 58 cents. The advance on woollens is from 5 to 16 per cent.. In other lines more than that. Imported fine I goods show the greatest increase in prices. Hosiery has received a heavy blow. British half-hose, formerly quoted at $1.50, arc now billed at $2.05. Pearl buttons, in apparently insignifi cant line of goods, have been doubled in price, The clgarbuslness has been already affected. The prices of ail the finer grades of goods have been ad vanced. Domestic gbods have been ad vanced about 20 per cent. Liquors have -gone-' up about 25 per cent, on account of the increased tariff. Clothing on account of the increase in the price of woollen and cotton goo'ds will have to be advanced. Linen will advance 15 per cent. Crockery and glassware are 5 per j cent, higher than they were a month ago. Papr and blank books go up from 15 to 20 per cent. , Rubper bands are ad vanced 10 per ' cent. Letter-copying books, 2o per cent, The Collectorship. . And still no news from Washington about the Collectorship. And it is more than probable that, the "white bosses" will have no news to give out until after the election. They are "dead against" Young, of course; and it may be that they will finally be "dead ' against" Taylor. Wouldn't it be funny if one of the "white bosses" got the place, after all?' The poor farmers of New Han over county will not forgetthat Mr. W. H. Chadbourn, while a member of the Legislature voted ior the no-fence law. The Encampment Grounds. Mayor Fowler yesterday signed a deed granting the State the power to remove buildings it may erect on the Encamp ment grounds at Wrightsville, in the event that the land, should " cease to be used for the purpose for which it was given to the State that is for the an nual encampment of the State, Guard. In this event, under the provisions of the deed, the land reverts to the city of Wilmington, for a public park. The Democrat who fails to reg ister and vote this time will regret it as long as he lives. Spirits turpentine sold yesterday at 37 cents per gallon, a slight ad- vance on previous quotations. TAR 189f). JUSTICE MILLER. Imposing Ceremonies' at the Funeral of the Dead Jurist. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Keokuk, Ia., October 18. The fune ral of Justice Miller here to-dav was marked by imposing ceremonies. The funeral train was met on its arrival by the military organizations I and ; several thousand citizens. I I The body was borne to the Federal building, where it lay m state and was viewed by a great throng, j The whole cityj was in mourning garb, public and pnyate buildings being draped in black. ine tuneral services were held in the Unitarian Church, of which the dead jurist was a member, and the small building-was entirely inadequate for the needs of the occasion. i KENTUCKY. The! Republicans Elect the Mayor of .Cot inKton and a Majority of the Council A Long Contest Over a Homination'tn Fal mouth. I i j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Cincinnati. Oct.; 18. The official recount of the votes in Covington, made in tne contest ot Mr. Schiffer, Demo cratic candidate for Mavnr ran1f-orJ in 1 , -- ; j . , i r j w - J J Thomas. Reniihlinan ranrliHato anA olcn "Vf'sj" luticdscu iuajoni.y,ior ivir. i revealed that another Republican was elected to the Council, makine that body stand six Republicans and four democrats. i The Falmouth, Ky., Democratic Con gressional Convention has proceeded to the three hundred and twenty-fifth bal lot, with no nomination. Hallams, rtvlrAn . ,4 T T 1 1 rtc i y . I iv.n.tua auu tcnv aa.u uau o&y9 votes, FURNITURE WORKERS. They Adopt Resolutions Relative to the Manner of Working in the Future. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Indianapolis. Ind.. October 18. The Furniture Workers of America have DaSSed a resolution HfHarinor that it shall be the duty of the Executive Board to have an understandino- with ine croinernooa ot Caroenters. bv which the Furniture Workers shall sup-I porf tne carpenters in case of a strike, ; I and vice versa. It was decided that henceforth each local Union shall fix the minimum ! wages to be j paid in every shop, and that annually a report shall be sub-i mitted t to the Executive Board, of; wages paid, etc ! All local Unions were; instructed to oppose the contract and piece work systems and not to work under these systems if it could possibly be J avoided. Action was also f taken which will not allow members of "the Union to work for sub-contractorsJ Members of thej Union were also pro- hibited from working in shops where the! piece work system is inaugurated after tms time. i , i- i COTTON "fvIO VEM ENT. Statement of theTSTew OrleansICotton Ex. change, i By Telegraph to the Morning Star. !New Orleans. October 18. The cot- I ntm r ""t'o , irum. JCP?lucr f Port receipts 1,428,013 bales, against l.zp.lbljast year; overland to mills and Canada 83,326 bales, against 63,739 baie? last year. Inter iorstocks in'excess ofiSeptember lstj 140,047 bales, against! 151,854 bales last year. Southern mill takings! 73,644 bales, against 73.1S6 bales IastTyear. Amount of crop brought into sight duHng"the;47;days"l,725,030bales.gainst 1,507,850 bales last year, i Northern Jspinners takings and Can ada overland 261,892 bales, agajinst 232. 379 bales last year. I i Increase of stock at 29 leading interior Sduthern'markets during the week 106,- 5i bales, against 101,317 bales last year. i ne stocks at ports and interior towns ar now 22,057 bales larger than they were at this date last season. SOUTH DAKOTA. Great Suffering Among the People From failure of Crops Appeals for Help. j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Chicago, Oct. 18. The Mayor has received a lengthy appeal from Haugh- Brown county, South Dakota, signed by A. C Bartlett, 1 J. H. Lewis, E. M. Piper, James Johnston and B. Ciimmings. These men represent the, towns ot oreenheld and Brainard. Ihey say the crops ot Brown county have been a failure during the past three years and the people are- absolutely without lood, luel or clothing, and asks thMayor to appeal for aid in their behalf Mayor Cregier will receive subscriptions of !either money, clothing or provisions, and have them sent to the commutes named in the letter. OHIO LEGISLATURE. . !' " ' The House Befuses to Pass the Senate Compromise Bill. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Columbus, Ohio, October 18. The House this ! morning, after a stormy Session, refused to pass the Senate Compromise bill giving the Governor power to remove members of the Cin cinnati Board ot Improvements, and providing for a new Board with an eliection next April. The vote stood 52 yeas to 53 nays. Fifty-eight votes are required to pass the bill, aome ol the Hamilton county members voted against the measure. COTTON. Total Visible Supply, Heceipts and Crop in SigLt. j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York. Oct. 18. Total visible supply of cotton for the whole world 1,- 876,533 bales, of which 1,886,033 bales are American, j against 1,627,864 and 11285,664 respectively last year; receipts df cotton this week at all interior towns 178,140 bales; receipts at plantations 347,710 bales; crop in sight 1,631,924 bales. STEAMER DAMAGED. The City of Maoon and Nedjed in Colli sion at Savannah The Latter Disabled. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. j Savannah, Ga.. Oct. 18. -The steamer City of Macon, for Boston, and heBritish steamshipNedjedforLiverpool while on their way to sea this morning, (collided in the Savannah' river below the city, and the Nedjed was badly dam aged, she was struck about tne tore jrigging, carrying away the main rail and bulkheads, also plates and other parts. She "now lies anchored , aground at Venus Point, with five feet ten inches of water in her hold, and pumps just able to keep her at that depth. A survey was ordered and the vessel sent back to the city to discharge her cargo for fur ther examination. " There was appar ently no damage to the City of Macon, and she proceeded on her voyage. NO. 49 NEW ORLEANS DAGOS. A SECRET ORDER OF ASSASSINS. Mayor Shakespeare BTotified that Her "Will be the Next Victim Leading Italians Arrested A Committee of Fifty Citizens Appointed to Investigate the Conspira By Telegraph to thfr Morning Star. ; New Orleans, Oct. 13. Joseph Ma- qhecaand other leading Italians, against whom." affidavits were made yesterday, after the shooting alnd partial confession of Scapida, were arrested this morning, charged with being accessories to the murder or Hennessy. At a special meet ing of the Council at noon, Mayor Shakespeare's message was read, de nouncing the murder of Hennessy by Scafida through hired assassins, declar ing that terrible secret orders are exist ing in New Oi leans, and that in this in stance the Chief of Police was assassi nated for doing his duty in enforcing the American law; that any citizen perform- : ! ui -i. . ing j ins uuuy or unuer any circum stances creating the enmity of those men are liable to the dread sentence of death be.ing passed on them and carried n..- K.. r-rt: u I uui uy ctaacioaiiia, yvuvj u l v Uic iiuLiiiug, I say notnmg, Know nothing; that some 1 leading Italians are at the head of these orders, while others, more peacefully in cunea and not belonging thereto, are blackmailed and threatened with death. or obliged to leave the city, if they do not comply; that this state of affairs has gone on long enough and must be stop ped. Ihe council is called on to take the initiative ctric- tn Hri7 if nprpeco rir . ... . .n - ' these people irom the United btates. Councilman B.ittin offered a resolu tion, which was adopted, that the Mayor appoint a committee of fifty or more, if he deems proper, to thoroughly investi Up ines,e secret oraers, ana report. . .1 . x 1 . Atoneocloek to-day the Mayor re- I ccivcu .a. uiiiiiiuiiivcLLiuu iiotiiyiiii; mm that he will be the next victim, Mayor bhakespeare says that this will not deter him from doing his duty. He appointed a committee of fifty to hunt out the vendetta, and the members are to meet in the Council Chamber to- night. New Orleans, Oct. 18. The meet ing of the committee of fifty to-night was secret, but the committee an nounced that it would pursue the inves tigation to the end, bring the murderer's chiel to justice, and break up the Italian assassination league in this city. One thousand dollars was raised on the spot, and by next week the committee ex pect to" have fifty thousand dollars to assist in the work. ! The ship Eliosia is coming up next week with seven hundred Italian emi grants on board. Ihe Mayor inter viewed tne custom house authorities, and as a result they will go down to meet the ship, and unless the emigrants can satisfy the officers that they are de sirable, financially and morally, they will not be allowed to land. Joe Macheca, who was arrested to-day, has heretofore been considered a promi nent Italian, above murderous plots and movements among his lellow-countryi men, but since his arrest some damaging evidence has been developed. Ladies owning the shanty where the assassins are supposed to have plotted and gathered, identified Macheca as the man who rented the place irom them and paid a month's rent in advance. Several other parties also say they followed Macheca on the night of the murder. He and Matrangos, also sup posed to be a leader in the affair, were eating supper while the shooting was going on. They remained together un til 4 o'clock in the morning, having a good time, and when they parted, Ma checa said: "Boys I've done a good thing. I'm only sorry he was not killed at the first fire. : A NEGRO RAVISH ER. Hanged to a Tree and Biddled with Bul- 1 lets. By Telegraph to th Morning Star. Macon. Ga.; Oct. I8.f-Willie Single ton, (colored), aged about 2a years, was lynched in the outskirts of the city at a late hour last night on tor attempted as sault on a young lady, the daughter of a prominent citizen of Macon. several weeks ago the yoang lady, who had been away from- nome, was ex pected ' to 1 arrive by the eleven o clock tram that night at the city central depot, where members of the family went to meet her. Instead of that she came in by theh.ast lennessee road, whose depot is on the opposite side of town, bhe was Dlaced by a policeman. to whom she applied for directions, in a cab driven by Willie bingleton. Ihe : negro did not drive directly to the young lady s home.i but took her by a round about road, and in a lonely spot made a vfolent assault upon her. He then left her at her own house in an exhausted condition and disappeared. A few days ago bmgleton .was arrest ed at Eufala, Ala., and the officer start ed with him for Macon, but when a few miles from the city an armed party stopped the train and took the prisoner. Last r ight the negro was taken belore his victim and fully .identified. The mob then took him 1 to the woods, where the assault had been committed, and hanging him to a tree, riddled his body with bullets and lett it swinging, with a placard bearing the inscription, !Uur women are protected; they must and shall be sate. I All present took an oath not to reveal the name of the young lady. To-day the coroner held an inquest over the dead body of Singleton. The jury returned a verdict that he came to his death at the hands ol a person or persons unknown to the jury. BANK STATEMENT, Eeport of the Changes During the .Fast Week. - By Telegraph to the Morning: Star. New York, Oct. 18. Weekly state ment of associated banks show the fol lowing changes: Reserve decrease, $3,504,550; ! loans decrease, $710,400, specie' decrease, $4,737,700; legal ten der - increase, $427,iuu; deposits decrease $3,224,600; circulation decrease $2,500. The banks now hold $349,- 220 less than requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. Charlotte Chronicle: News reached here to-day - of a horrible tragedy in Alleghany county. A man named Dixon discovered his wite m un due intimacy with Marshall Halsey, and shot Halsey. Halsey s brother, 1 uesday sought revenge, but was also killed by Dixon, ihe people ot the community declare that thev will keen Dixon from the law. j Rev. R. C. Miller, of Sardis, was here yesterday on his return from btatesville. Mr. Miller says tne farmers are extremelv busy, and that the crops are Unusually fine all through thin section, several ladies oi me neiguuor hood have gone into the cotton fields to earn monev for fbreiern missions, ana thev exoress themselves as pleased with the occupation. - Almost me uusicst men in Charlotte now, are tne Duiiaers and contractors, The former have more contracts in hand than they can comnlete for some time, as all the car-i nenters are dusy, anu : u s .uiuusi im possible to get one now.. . SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Goldsboro Argus: The sudden death of Mr. W. Henry Creech occurred in this city yesterday afternoon of heart disease; Asheville Journal: Th'e ag gregate valuation of taxable property of Buncombe is $8,012,295. In 18S0 it was only $2,748,867.- Ot this total Asheville township returns $5,864,452. i ! Conoovd Standard: We learn of the death of Mrs. Frances Howell, who lived near Locust Level, Stanley . coun ty, which occurred on the llth instant. Mrs. Howell was an aeed ladv. beiner 83 years old. New Berne Tonrnal : A trip in the country enables us to rebort the ! crop prospects as being fine. Several I larmers in the Core Creek neighbor hood told us that they had the best crop il . . 1 1 1 1 . . F inai iney naa naa in ten years. 1 his in cludes the entire crop cotton, corn, fodder, hay and potatoes. Louisburg-7Vz: The bebDle- of Hayesville, Sandy Creek, Gold Mine ' and Cedar Rock townships held elec tions on Wednesday upon the question of 'snhsrrihinor srnrlr tn th UnHsrann JNashvule Railroad. We learn that all the townships named except Cedar ----------o kock voted against tne railroad. Winston Daily: The I Winston- Salem Land and Investment Company was organized to-day. Its capital stock was placed -at $250,000 and represents English, Mew York, Philadelphia, Rich mond, -Roanoke. New Berne, Golds boro, Kinston, Wilmington, Raleigh, Greensboro and Winston-Salem money. Raleigh Chronicle: Raleigh has done some lively cotton shipping during' hppn maHp tn Franr I Rprmsnir Rnecia , , wm.m . auu uc imcu jvmguum. . i negro man was brought in from the countr yesterday and jailed for house-breakirigi He was a tough character,! for he was vicious, bareheaded and had to be hand cuffed to be controlled. I. Charlotte News: Mr. William S. Steward, owner of Stewart's mill.near the city, died this morning , after a long and painful illness. Mr. " James A. Washum, a citizen of Caldwell s, this county, went out about one hour before daylight this morning to feed his hogs. About 7 o'clock he was found dead1, ly ing beside the pen. He had been cbm rjlainimr of heart disease . for several :,, it i o,, w mn,U. years, cause of his death, Monroe Register: (A! sufficient number of names have been secured to organize an endowment rank of Knights ot fythias and the charter or this rank is expected in a lew days. Ihe cprn crop was probably never better in Union! county than it is this year." The cotton crop is also good; better than it was thought a few weeks ago that it; would! be. On last Thursday evening. near Bilesville, in Stanly county, Mrj las. A. Kussell, ot this county,- was thrown from his buggy and received in-j ternal injuries from which he died on Saturday at 12 o clock. Statesville Landmark: Mrs E E. Lewis died .at her home on Centre street at an early hour last FHday niornl ing, in the 7Zd year ot her age. - j There is a growing sentiment heire in favor of the organization of a cptton company, on the same plan as that of the tobacco company to insure full prices at all times for cotton, and! a ret liable market. There is a yellow jacket's nest on the farm of Mr. Williani Johnston, near Mooresville, which s es timated to be three feet in diamter and fourteen inches high. Nobody ha$ had enough curiosity to go up to it to meas ure it with rule or tape line, but it is the best judgment of those who have sur veyed it from a safe distance that itiis at . Charlotte Chronicle: TheTraini- ing School at the Graded School opened j yesterday afternoon with the large and encouraging number of 20. i JVbout 10 o clock last night lm Harvey, the engineer, died suddenly. He had been in poor health several weeks, but not . ill in bed; yesterday he was walking about, He retired last night, andi after lying abed awhile, he got up, and shortly after died. The cotton season has been opened but little over a month, and yet there have been 23,500 bales of cotton compressed at the Charlotte compress on the cotton platform. This is more than one-third of the entire amount compressed during the whole of I last season. Winston Daily: A tobacco man . says that Winston will have nearly a third more houses for handling tobacco next year. : Mr. W. L. Horne re turned from Grensboro last night, where he was summoned as a witness at , the Federal court in the case of !W. F. Stutts. who was to have been tried yes terday upon the charge of robbing the mails in July, while assistant postmaster at Carthage. Stutts decided that the evidence was too strong against him and on Monday night, after borrowing a few dollars Irom mends in oreensboro, ne shipped for parts unknown, ; leaving his bondsmen with the bag to , hold to the tune of $1,000. j . -Shelby Aurora: A neat and at tractive church forthe colored Baptisis m northeastern part of bhelby is hear ing completion. Ihe 8 C s Kai road which has been laboring under financial embarrassments for several months is, we are glad to hear, better equipped .with money and is paying its contrac tors and operatives with more prompt ness. Steel rails sufficient to lay the eight remaining miles of track f from Broad River to Marion are on hand, out track-laying is temporarily suspended at -Broad River, awaiting the completion of the bridge there. As soon as this bridge- is finished, track-laying will be resumed, and it is thought that the road will reach Marion by November 15th. 1 his will give us a new route to Asheville and the West. - I Chatham Record: Chatham can boast of at least two I persons who are over ninety years old, and yet are st well preserved in body and mind that , they go about their daily duties as if they were many' years younger.) By) a singular coincidence! they were Dotn born in the same month of the same " year in May, 1798 and will be ninety three years old next May. One of them -, is Mrs. Candace Smith, who lives lour or five miles northwest of this place. A few days ago a neighbor, in passing, saw her at the spring scrubbing and wash- ' ing ciomcs as viguiuuaiy -any wumau thirtv vears vounper.l The other! is Mr. Jordan Tysor, of Oakland townshjp, who intended coming here to court lastweeK but was too busy at work on his iarmj to spare the time. I j Dallas Eagle John W. Bald win, charged with the murder of Wm. Johnston, submitted to manslaughter. and was sentenced to 18 months in t"e penitentiary. The judge toolc into con sideration the circumstances of Bald win's family, who depend upon him jfor support, and made the sentence as light ' as he could consistently do. I f-A deaf and dumb negro named John Mc Alister, who lived near here, wai struck by the Narrow Gauge mail trainj,- just on this side of the river, Wednesday even ing of last week and died last Thursday evening. The negro was a very bright , fellow, and could read and write better than the ordinary negroes whocjin hear. Mrs. S. A. Wolff received a tlelegraro Saturday evening stating that her bro ther had been killed Friday by an or-, gan falling on him while working in a ireight house in tnariesion. ne iwas 14 years of age. ! 1 Lee Mauney, ' who was tried and found guilty of shoot ing into houses with malicious intent to kill Dr. Howell, up at Cherry vflle,, was sentenced to eierhteen months i in the penitentiary, but has appealed.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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