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m a Q W s . y ' J-PUBLISHED AT ' WIliMINGTON, N. C, i "' at " d1 AH A VCAD IM tnVAM - IT 88888888888888888 agS88,88S2sgS8I 88838888888888888 I J - 88888888888888888 SSS33S9SSSS33SS38 'inuo; WWp 88888888888888888 'WW 8 88888888S8S8888S3 o fl i- eo ft- a S8888SSS82888SS88 83888888888888883 88888888888888888 is it si Entered it the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. Second Class Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION' PRICE. The subscription price of theWeekly Star is as follows Single ??py 1 vear. nostaffe naid ....$1 00 6 months " " ... 8 months " " ... 80 DEARER LIVING. j Thje Republican" campaign orators and Republican, editors should have held ja paign some joint caucus before the cam- opened-and have agreed on line of defence' for the Mc tariff so that they could talk without contradicting: each Kinley on i orb erf ; selves, the bi and making: asses of th em Mr. McKinley, the father 6f 1, admits that it increases prices J somewhat, but pooh poohs hat by .savins: that we do not want cheap gQOdS. ' , ! j- j nas B, Reed, who, next to i nu McKinley, took the greatest interest a fofcjng this monstrosity through he Hduse, started out on his stump- nsr tour bv- admitting: that it would increase prices, but when he got out West he took another tack and said that Jit would not increase prices.; j J I 1 lie1 VlllcagU J nicr-iicun ucuita that it increases. . prices, asserting that j American- manufacturers can manufacture goods as cheaply as -European manufacturers can and sen , tnem as cneapiy. : dui mey don't do it.) . ' ; . ' ? they don't seem to realize while ! asserting this'that they are furnish ing 6ne of the strongest; arguments j against the system which they dej ifend. : -i . . V :- U It is singular that men of ordinary 'sense wpuld; deny' the increase, of " prices when manufacturers ,and lm- porters were sending out circulars by the thousand to their customers adv sing them that prices would be I advanced,, and giving as a reason therefor the-increased rates of duty i imposed oy tne Aiciviniey larui uu j mariuLuctured goods or on the mate-; riaH which enter into their manufac- 1 - ture true i Whether these" 'reasons be 1 -i . Or not the fact is that prices. havfe been raised on everything at fectbd directly or indirectly by thej new - tariff, and that manufacturers) dealers 'have been prompt to pu'tj themselves in a position to reap al the benefits that? the j tariff givei them - 1 '.-'!' ':---rM 1,hte worst thing about it is that lhe,iriereas4 of price falls heaviest on he poor man who is least able to as a rule, the duties ini- bear it, for, posed on hese classes of goods which the oor buy aiid use, are h'iir 1 tout OB all proportion 10 iuc higher grades of goods purchased and used b the rich. This is one of ihfe striking characteristics of this laW and ruris all through it If the framers of the bill had . ! started out with the deliberate pur- pose to make its burden as heavy is possible ori the poor man and as Hght as possible on the rich majn thay would not have succeeded one iotk better than they did 1 it is safe to 'say that under tie operations bf this law the expense pt taknSg card of a family by a popr nran! or one in moderate circunn r 1 , ; - i stances will be from twenty-five to thirty .per dent greater than.it. was before this bill became the law. , following statement of the difference -r . -i ' . f" I an the cost ot clothing tor a . tamuy consisting if father, mother and one son wuiJgite some idea ot wnat tne increased expense .will be for a family of three. Of course every ad- dijtitional qhild adds something: to the relative cost Old orice. Oside garment of : wqo1 for Women i.. $15 .00 Boys' overcoat...:.... A 5 00 Men's suspe'nders. ..... ) 25 Ujnderwear 6 00, Cotton dress (rhateral) . . ; 1 00 Waterproof j..,. I 6 00 Woollen drssj at 20cts. per yard ... 2 00 Same at $1 per yard... - i 10 00 Suit of clothes for man. 20 00 Suit of clothes for man, 10 t!0 Suit of clothes for boy ; 5 00 Suit of clothes for boy. ! 10 00 Overcoat for man. I 15 00 Totals , $105 25 $13(5 1Q There is surely no extravagance in their outfits, and nothing in them that could, be very well dispensed With for.ordimary comfcrt, and yet costs that family of three thirty dollars more than the same outfit would have cost before this law Went mto ettecc and at least three times as much as the same" quantity) and quality of goods would cost if it. bad not been for the high-tariff policy of the Republican party,; Take a f am- ly of five or six and estimate from -his the ncreased cost and we can orm some idea 6i the additional tribute imposed on fhe head of a fa.rn.-J VOL. XXI. ily in the item of clothing alone. But the increased cost is not con fined to clothing, for the 'same is true of blankets, carpets, cutlery. glassware, stoneware, jfurniture, can bed good's, and numerous; other things necessary in the household. The probabilities are that when; the additional expenses are summed up it will be found that it costs the head of a family from fifty to sixty j per cent, more to provide for his house hold now than it did jthree months ago. and all on account of the in creased jates in "this J new law for which there is no more reason j nor justification'than'there "would be tor levying a head tax direct on every the coqn try for the benefit of turers. ; i the manufac- The tariff boomers may deny that it increases the costjjof 'living, but every one who goesXintoastore to- buy a bill of goods jsl soon thbr oughly convincedof.theeontrary, NOT THE SOLE ISSUE. James G. Blaine is a shrewd man, i a pretty longheaded politician, and considerable "of Vdemagogue withal. In taking his position in represent ing or misrepresenting, the position of theparty'towhich'he is opposed, he has aboutasmuchjirinciple and as little conscienceastheXaverage Republican leader. ThereMsjicj rflan in America who has-more misrepre sented the position, wjfctheDemo--cratic - party on the 'tariff question Mhan.he. He made a speech at Can ton, Ohio, last Saturday, which opened thus : j j j j j - "The contest that is now waging for membershiD of the next Congress is not properly a contest between the Repub lican and Democratic parties. It is a contest between protectionifts and free traders. There are a few free- traders among the Republicans; and there are many protectionists among me demo crats. It is a contest tnat goes to jne root of the matter as to national pros perity, and on that issue we should set tle the question in favorj of home mar kets, good "wages, ana souna prosper- ity". . I- 1 ' I Mi. I There, are two motives In this de claration, which is very cunningly phrased. ' The.first,twhile lt.may hot I m. A ma a mirfanrocont tflP I seem iu uc su, k iv uiioisKiv. v 1 position of the'Democratic party; on the tariff question, by represent ng I the issue to oe tree traae versus pro- tection, when free trade is not the is- sue at all, though lUnay Decome so 4 the Republican party insists upon I 1 L . . ' I keepmg up its;high1Bta.ntf extortion. The Democratic partyjis the only or anized nartv!in oDDOsition". .to the r j m aai m - - Republican party, with its McKin ley tariff, and consequently thisfree trade allusion was intended'for it, .though he did not call it by name. And yet there isn't amongall the men in America who represent and sneak for the Democratic party a 1 j r single one who plants himself j upon free trade ground, so that free trade versus protection is; not the issue. The issue as far as the tariff ques- goes, is between just and reasonable tariff taxation and extortion and robbery. j There is no representative Demo crat to-dav who has ventured as far in the difection'of free!trade as Mr. which meant'absolute free trade with those South "and Central American coun tries whichTadmitted American products free. I The second ;is to make thisth e ls- sue and thus divert attention from several other issues; on which the Republican, party stands arraigned, eSwouldTrather not have discussed. The first ofithesejs'the'Force'bill, to wliich he-isj'opposedbut which has the hearty support of many of the acknowleigedlea(iers of thd Re- Dublican partV. among them Mc- Kinley, theanXwhose interests nc Weill IU KJLliu lu spcaK auu ir uuoi. guest I he was while there. This Force bill is an issue; one in compar- ' , . J , . i . I i ;cc ison witn wnicn ine larui issue is small i because the tariff involves only dollars and cents while the the Force bill involves liberty and life of the! Republic. Mr. Blaine i ...... i. u. would like to keep; it in tne back ground, but Thos. B.I Reed, who'khas been swinging "round the circle out West don't propose to have -j it rele gated and wants it distinctly i under stood that it is an issue, not only an issue but the issue. I He substantially declares thit the Republicanj party ii entitle to the negro vote jof the South, thajj it can't get it without the Force bill, and that therefore the Republican party must pass the Force bill Mr. ' McKinley, whose guest Mr. Blaine was while in Ohio, told Gen. !. I ! Hill that the Republicans would pass this bill in the" next . 1 J session pt Con- I gress, and Senator Edmunds some- time ago said the same. They regard it as an issue and one which they will not permit; to be buried out Jof i sight. As important a matter as the tariff is .it lis insignificant; in comparison with this scheme to put the ballot box in control of a political party whose appointees under the provisions of that act could elect or defeat whom soever thev chose. With such a law I in force elections would become a J ' - ! I . . . mere farce unless where they might be turned, into tragedies, when the milita be sent to enforce it. rvHU2ht lnrr -it- II 1 1 Mr. Blainef can't overshadow this issue with his improvised, trumped- up, humbug- free trade issue, - for other leaders in his party worit Jet him do it, even .' if : the Democrats were silent. With them it is not only an issue but the issue upon which are based their hopes of. success ji'ri their efforts to keep the Republican party alive. N0 BLOOD-SUCKERS. When the E.nglish and German iron men visited - Birmingham, Ala bama, Capt. Joseph F. Johnston de livered an address of welcome from which we clip the following' para graph. : - Representine, as we do. industries that have scarcely been stripped Of their swaddling clothes, vet I can sav to our 11 lends irom abroad that there are few here who think we need any protection except that given us by God and pature. We would have no Chinese wall to shut. us in or Out from the world. We are "ready to strip ourselves to the skin and battle on equal terms with all competi tors. We favor a reciprocity not con fined to sugar and hides and tobacco, or to any latitude, but as broad as our skies and as genial as the mellow rays of our bouthern sun. We may be infant in dustries, but we do not wish to suck the Jife-blood of any honorable pursuit or grow fat at the expense ot any class. We want fair trade, fair opportunity, fair wages for our labor and fair returns for our investments." I ! ! In what striking contrast this is to the whining appeals for more pro tection from manufacturers ;-. on the other side of the, line who have had protection for more than a qudrter of a century, and who have grown j rich while they have whined. ! If there is any portion ; of the United States where manufacturers could ask for protection as. "infant industries," that portion is Alabama and that place Birmingham, jwhere, as Captain Johnson puts it ;the in dustries are yet scarcely stripped of their swaddling clothes, but who ever heard of Alabama iron; men, or iron men from any other part of the South, or any other manufacturers of the South, going to Washington to appeal for protection to jtheir in dustries? - ! ! They have not done this for sev eral reasons. They don't feel that tijey neetj any naore protection than .1 st . t - 1 . 1 ltie j0a ot nature nas. given in ine ample resources with which ! he has blessed the South, and if they did nee(j lt they are fr0m princilple op- posed to playing the game of blood- sucker. or levying tribute upon other , industries to promote their 6Wn suc- cess Thev believe that in indus- try which cannot stand b its own efforts and upon its own merits is not worth protecting. As men endowed with penetration they know they must have more than the "home market" to take Jier products off her hands and hence her manufacturers are opposed to the Chinese wall, which protection builds up to keep them out; of the markets of the world.; THey want to see the gates thrown open and are willing to take their chances in competition with the world! satisfied that they can hold their own iand are willin? to take the consequences f failure f they fail. It is a demonstrated fact that the South can make iron cheaper ; than England can and it is also! a well established fact that she can; make it for fr0m two to five dollars a ton less than the iron makers "on the other side of the Ohio ' Can, a fact which has been amply proven by the addi tional fact that, bouthern pig iron has- been laid down in Pittsburg, Philadelphia and other Northern cities for less money than the home furnaces could turn it out. They do not need protection, and if there were no such thing, if the Northern protected manufacturers had to depend upon the legitimate profits of their business inside of ten years the iron makers of he South would have , 1 f .1 a monopoly i Ol tne iron business, and in tht South the centre of that jindustry 1 would be. which it will ibe in the near future, anyway. It is the ex orbitant protection which Me North ern iron workers have and; Have had that gives them their great profits and enables them to hold j.he lead in th iron industry. By favoring leg islation they have grown strong and rich and can withstand a j great deal of opposition without seeming to be much hurt They have grown rich and ; strong by sucking the blood of other indus tries which our Southern jifon men manfully decline to do I to their honor be it said. If protection was out of the way, the ports of - the world thrown "open, and commerce unrestricted, how the South would. stride on to supremacy as the great iron producer of the world, a posi- tion which she destined to attain in the not distant future. If she were j not obstructed by this so-lcalled pro tective tariff system whij:h ; throws millions of tribute into the coffers of Northern mannflcturers attain it all the sooner. she would London, Nov. 1. This is! the semi annual settling day at thfc Bank of England and consequently a holiday on the stock Exchange. At the closing races at the Alabama State Fair yesterday. Belle! Archer, a I three-vear old belonging to Major Oyer J-J-- "t ti-.::ii. T-T..J L ':u :. ton. of Nashville, trotted a mile in 2.22k, which is. the fastest1 time made . i JT i u' : '. ; tut LUIS year uv any imcc-yc4i j uiu 111 iuc United btates. WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, AN IMPORTANT SALE. Ex-Lieut.-Gov. Stedman Buys "Oakland Inn." The Asheville Daily Citizen of Thurs day says: "A few years ago" the 'Oak land Inn in Victoria,, was built by A. and R. U. Garrett,- who opened it as a hotel. The hotel was run for one season and the building was afterward used for school purposes under the name of the Oakland Institute. V 'A trade Cwas closed to-day . whereby ex-Lieut.-Gpv. Charles M. Stedman, ot Wilmington, becomes the owner of the property. The price paid , was $102,500. "Mr. Stedman. has leased the build ing and grounds to New York parties, who witl refit the inn and open it as a sanitarium, which will - be the finest in America. Dr.. Neefus. who will have" charge, has lately been connected with the 'Dansville Sanitarium in New York: he is a most experienced and eminent physician, and isthoJQUghly up 6n the times. . The house will be elegantly and comfortably furnished. Two elevators will be run to accommodate the guests. and a most complete system of all kinds of baths will be put in. 'The class of people that the sani tarium will bring to Ashville will be the wealthy, who will add to the , ever in creasing prosperity of the city ' "The sanitarium will be opened on the 5th of December." Death of t)r. Gilbert B. Tennent. We regret to chronicle the death in our midst of Dr. Gilbert B. Tennent, of Asheville, N. C, He had been suffering for several months with an intractable disease of the stomach, and had been in this city at the home of his cousin, E. S. Tennent, Esq., f orjtwo weeksand not withstanding everything was done for his relief, death ended his suffering at 7.45 p. m. yesterday. He wassurround- ed by his mother, his brother and other relatives, who ministered to him in last moments. His remains will his be taken to train. Asheville on this morning's The Peanut Crop. A dispatch from Norfolk Va., says enough of the Virginia peanut crop haS4 been gathered to furnish the estimate that 3,000,000 bushels will be dug this season. This estimate is so enormous that there has been almost a panic in the peanut market. Friday, in Norfolk, which is the largest peanut distributor in the country ,-the nuts, sold as low as three and a quarteti cents a pound, it is rumored that a trust composed of the cleaning factories in the principal cities has been formed and has taken charge of the market. SUNDAY SELECTIONS. ,1- No man can get'religion enough to keep him pure in bad company. Whenever ; we admit a doubt the bank of heaven immediately closes. If we have little grace we "shall do but little good, but if; we are filled with all the fullness of God, we shall exert a vast influence upon the interests of men. Dr. Peck. . ! A thing to be thankful for is that God so sifts our prayers that only the right ones are answered. If all the foolish ones were answered, we would have unspeakable suffering. Anon. It is not the gift, but the giv ing, which is most precious and helpful. It is not the succor, but the sympathy and intelligence and gentle humanity with which it is offered, that cheers the very soiil of the poor and the weary and the dying. ' When Dr. Mason Good was on his deathbed he said, "I have taken what unfortunately the generality of Chris tians too must take. I have taken the middle walk of Christianity. I have en deavored to live up to its duties and doctrines, but ' I have lived below the privileges,' When God intends to fill a soul he first makes it empty; when he in tends to enrich a soul he first make's it poor ; when he intends to exalt a soul he makes it humble ; when ne intends to save a soul he first makes it sensible of its own miseries, wants, and nothing ness. Flavel. Death, to the Christian, so far from being the ending of life, is rather life beginning. It is not losing, but gain ing; not parting, but rather arriving. In terpreted by the revelations and prom ises, death, to one who nas tne grace 01 God in his heart, and heaven in imme chrfstW go forth in diate DrosDect. is a glorious hour, The I i t e A 1 .1 t I to a wona 01 mystery anu uariiiicss, w WUH.II lie u uu "v ..v. go to be where Christ is, and to dwell with him torever. "Our judgments are inspired by our acts, more than our acts by our judgment," says a witty , French writer. It our conduct grows lax in one matter or another, our opinions as to the evil of such a course are pretty sure to weaken, but. if we are led to confess the right of an opposite course, we are not so sure to change our conduct accord ingly. Our own ludgments in matters affecting our personal conduct are not to be depended on, in comparison witn the judgments oi a wise ana disinterest ed counselor. tt. Clay virumouu. HowMittle we know of our own i - faults or our own virtues! ;We are con tinually misjudging ourselves as to our attainments and our duties; through our indulged haLits of thought and action If we were asked to name one ot our chief faults we should be very likely to name some ' personal quality which is ... ... r , 1 most to our credit, wnuetne iauic wnicn is our chief one we should be counting a virtue. It we stop to think ot it, we shall see that this is- the way with other persons; then why not with ourselves? H. Clay T rumbulL Reuben McBrayer, chairman tf the Democratic Congressional Executive Committee for this district, receives en couraging reports from several of the connties In the district every day. These reports say tnat tne people are greatly aroused and that thd:-' Democrats are hard at work with bright prospects. Asheville Citizen. , j The next Legislature redistricts the Congressional Districts of North Caro lina, and, by gerrymander, the State will lose certainly half, probably three fourths, of her Congressmen and this means endorsement of Speaker Reed and of the odious. Force bill and of the stabs of Northern Congressmen, during the present Congress. 4 at bouthern in- qustries.j-7cr nrontcie, THE OLD CIDER W. E. PENNEY. I allers have said 'nd I sav it vit. That if I could be young agin ; Fur fifteen minutes, I'dmake a bee line Tu the old mill hidden by tangled vine, Where the apples .were piled in heaps around, Red.'yaller nd strealced, all over the ground. Nd the old sleepy hoss went round 'nd 'round, . . . ' Nd drew the wheel that the aooles - ground. . Straight fur that old cider mill I would .'- start, ; , With light bare feet 'nd a lighter heart. With a smilin' face in an old straw hat. Nd hum-made britches, 'nd all o' that, Nd when I got thar I would talce a oeeD. Tu see if Cider Mill John was asleep. . Then if he was I'd go hunting around, , Till a good, big, long rye straw I found. Then I'd straddle a bar'l 'nd quick begin Tu fill right up with juice to my chin, With the straw a sorter connecting link 'Twixt it 'nd me, nd I railly think That the happiest boy you ever saw Would be at the end of that rye straw. So long as the power o' suction stood The strain 'nd the cider tasted good. As old as I am I can shet my eyes JNd see the yaller jackets nd flies A-swarmin' around the juicy cheese JNd bungholes, dnnktn as much as they please; can see the rich, sweet cider flow From under the press tu the tub below, 'Nd streamin' up tu my old nose Comes the smell a cider mill only knows. You may tell about your fine old crow, Your sham pane, sherry, nd so nd so, 'Nd anything else from the press or still, But gimme the iuice from that old mill. With a straw 'nd a small boy's suction power, Nd appetite fur a quarter of 'n hour, Nd I will forego forevermore All lickers known on this airthly shore. POLITICAL "POINTS. " The tariff is a tax and the "Re publican Administration has inrceased the taxes. Will the American ass bear his burden without a kick? Fort Worth Gazette, Dent. rWhen a! political party perpe trates so great a piece of rascality as the McKinley bill, it ought to be careful to make no bluuders in getting"itthrough. - Louisville Courier-Journal,-Dem. MOney is pouredSoutilike water n McKinley 's district in Ohio to save the Congressman 'if possible. Mr. Blaine and pretty much all the other "headlights have been flashing their wisdom i on the hitherto obscure dis trict. Result: Close vote, chances in or of I Mr. Warwick, Democrat. Hartford Times, Dem. Conscious that they have done nothing; to commend their party to popular favor, the Republican leaders rely on j the power of the Government machinery to perpetuate their rule. Hence the Census Bureau is to be made an agency for accomplishing the dirtiest piece of : partisan work that has ever been known in this country. St, Paul Globe, Dem. PERSONAL. Emin Pasha's real name is Eduard Schuitzier. . Baroness Margarethe . von Silienkreutz has joined the Salvation Army in tJerlin.Mbhe is beautiful and only 30 years old. Antonio de Navarro, the hus band of ; Mary Anderson, has just come into a legacy of $350,000. left him by the late Francis Dykers, of New York. Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, is a daring horseman, and keeps twelve horses ! He rides like a cowboy, and knows every foot of ground around Washington. He has been held up three times this summer for fast driving. Rev. John Jasper of "the sun do move" fame is opposed to women in the pulpit. He says: "It was never ordained of God for woman to preach. God gave man the law to govern the world, and woman is only his helpmate." Miss Alice Longfellow, a daugh ter of the poet, has become an expert amateur photographer, and has taken a number of especially fine storm pictures at points along the Massachusetts coast, to illustrate a book of sea songs soon to be issued. It is said that Senator Ingalls never signs a note nor gives a mort gage, fie planks down the cash lor .everything he gets, whether it costs 20 cents or 20,000. , It is claimed that he can put his hand on more ready money than any man in Kansas. Among'a class of twenty-four admitted to the bar by the Iowa Su preme Court the other day was Miss Lily Kostomlatsky,- who passed a re markablygood examination. She is the second.) woman admitted bythe Iowa bupreme Court, and will at once begin practice. TWINKLINGS. "I saw a screwdriver the other! day that weighed 2,000 pounds." "U come on. "Honest." "Where was it?" "In the -engine room on an ocean steamer.' Packet. Prima Donna (proudly) If thatj is the ; Prince of Wales at the door, tell him that the queen of the operatic stage has no desire to associate with mere princes. Maid-i-lt is not the fnnce, maaam; it is a soap-manufacturer. "Oh! admit him. Oooa Afews. Crusty (reading his oaper) declare! here is a man up in Michigan who while out hunting mistook another man tor a Dear ana snor mm. 1 can 1 for the life of me see how he could have made isuch a mistake. Mrs! . Crusty (spitefully) Humph! Can t you? Well, 1 can! Chicago Man. Mis. BarganWWhat are you woiryin' about this morning? Mr.i Bargan I need some new clothes and.a'watch, and I can't make up my mind whether to get the clothes at a store ;where they give away watches, or to buy the- watch at a store where theys give away clothes. Good Isews. , ! Easterner I am looking for man -named Smarth, who came here from our section some years ago. , j Westerner Look along among those palaces ion New street. He has proba bly made a fortune by this time. j Easterner He had money when he came here. I Westerner O! Look into the poor house. New York Weekly. I A young couple on their honey njiaon are dallying languidly with grapes at desert. . ' i1 j She (archly) And you don't find it tjresome all along with me? You are quite sure you don't want to go back to your bachelor life again! ::' i f He (earnestly) Quite, my darling. Do you know iiiyou were to die to-night I'd get married again to-morrow morn ing. Texas Sifting. . , x ! Star 1890. PERILS OF THE SEA. THE LATE DISASTER OFF BARNEGAT. An -Unlucky Schooner More Survivors of the m wo Ijost Vessels A" Graphic De scription of the Fatal Collision, i By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . Point PjLeasant, Ni j., Nov. 1. Spars bf the wrecked steamer Vizcaya can be plainly seen from the shore. The steamer lies directly in the line of ocean travel, and is! a dangerous obstruction to navigation. She lies about ten miles from shore, The; schooner, although full ol waterj still floats, and during the night drifted a considerable distance to the eastward. ! ' Fall River, Mass.,; Nov. i. The- schooner, Cornelius Hargrave, f which collided with the steamer Vizcaya off Barnegat, is owned here. She is a four master of 1.4D0 tons. She cost $65,000, and was launched at Camden, Maine, in September. 1890." She lost her anchor as she was putting out of Camden har bor on her first trip, and was delayed a week . in .consequence, j on her farst voyage she struck a floating wreck off the Jersey toast and " was damaged $6,000. On the next" trip she lost a portion of hier rigging in a gale, and later got stuck in the mud in the Somerset coal docks. On this trip she was blown out to sea befor she cargoed in Philadelphia. She had; just won out her losses when the disaster occurred. New York!, November' 1. The pilot boat Charles H. Marshall Np 8, anchor ed off Tompkinsville, L.! L, this morn ing, having on board five sailors of the Spanish ship Vizcaya, and the second mate of the Cornelius Hargrave. 1 he pilot boat picked them up five mils south of the seene of the disaster, at seven o'clock yesterday morning. Mate Walker, who is an intelligent young Yankee; gave to a reporter who boarded the Marshall, a graphic and de tailed account'of the disaster. He said: "I had just; then finished supper and came . on deck a few minutes before seven o'clock, Thursday'evening. I saw the Vizcaya about three miles off. Her green lights shone on the port side. I did not feel the least bit i uneasy as our lights were burning and must have been plainly visible to thote pn board the Spaniard. We were sailing at the rate of about eight knots an hour and neared the bpanish ship rapidly. 1 turned a flare light to show hinf that a sailing vessel was near, but he held on his way and I began to think, that we might strike him or he us, if one of us did not al ter our course. Captain Allen and brst mate Henrv P. Heran were below and I was in charge of the deck, finally I called the captaip. When he came on deck he looked at the cloud 01 ; canvas on the Spanish steamship and then at our sails, all of which were set. f We can clear him, I guess,' he said, and we held on Our way. I watched the two vessels drawing nearer, and finally ventured, 'I think we will strike them, Captain.' Yes, by we will! Hard-a-port! Hard- a-port!' he shouted, but it was too late. Like a race horse over vessel darted lor- ward. We struck the Vizcaya amidships and I hope to God 1 "may never be a witness of anothersuch scene. The Har grave tore a great big hole in the Span iard's side. I saw our 'bowsprit sweep along her deck, and a man in gold but tons and a peaked cap, wnom 1 toot to be the captain, was knocked off the bridge. Then the vessels swung slowly about until almost side by side, and for a fraction of a second there was the sol emn hush ot death. Then a chorus of agonizing human cries burst forth. Men and women darted hither and thither on the big steamship's decks, and soon I heard the souud of their leet as they iumped down on our ! decks. They thought that with us they would and safety; but, alas, our ship was as sorely wounded as their own, 'A moment after the crash I caught a glimpse ot Captain Aliens lace as he stood ' immovable j under the light of the binnacle! lamp. His face was white, even to the lipss Then as he heard the! panic-stricken people dropping on our deck, he shout ed to me: "Walker, keep them back. Let's save our own crew first. To the boats, men, to the boats!" He himself, with a broadaxe, cut awav the fasten ings of the longboat and jumped in. The first mate and three of our crew followed him. Meantime I was fighting a gang of Spaniards, who were bent on getting to our boats. Suddenly I look ed around and saw that Allen had shoved off with his four companions. The boat would easily have carried sixteen. I jumped into the rigging and shouted, 'Captain, you are not going to desert your second mate, are you? For Ood s sake come back. rie shout ed something in reply. What it was I don't know, but I saw him waving his hand in fare well, and : I knew j the coward had made off, leaving the rest of his crew to perish .miserably. There were ten ot us on the Hargrave, all told. For a moment I did not know what to do. I saw my comrades mounting the rig ging with a crowd of Spaniards at their heels and felt the schooner sinking, and fearing she would be submerged, masts and all, I grabbed a big gang plank and jumped overboard with it. I went un der the water, and when I arose to the surface again the men were jumping off the schooner into .the water all around me. Finally I counted thirteen of these Spanish men clinging to the gang plank with me. One was a gentle-faced Span ish lad, about sixteen years old. The sea was auite calm, but there was a heavy, long, swell. We were all sitting astride of the gang plank. Suddenly an extra heavy sea turned our frail raft bottom up, and we all went over it. Down into the water I went, feeling arms and legs kicking all about me. i When I got to the surface again I climbed back on the plank, and then one by one the others came back until 1 counted seven, a minute later another big wave washed us all over again. When I got back to the gang plank there were only five of us all told. Une ot them was the hand some Spanish lad. He could speak a little English and he had great nerve Our chances are mighty thin, he said to me. I acauiesced. and he continued 'Everv time the old gang plank turns over I grow weaker aim weaker. I don't think I can last mucn longer, -wen, 1 guess we have all got to! go,' I told him .'but let us hold on as I long as we can Whn me crn under hold vour breath don't swallow salt water).' 'I don't know how long l ean live, but 1 will live as inner aa I ran1 thf nnnr lad rc.turnfcd s. : . 7 " . - smiling sweetly, ana a lew minutes later his head feu larward on the board tried to work my way up to him, but before I could reach; him. he gave a great choking sob and; rolled over into the deep. He seemed to sink like lead There were only four ' of us left. could see that the others could not last long. They were in the water, hanging to the gang plank with their nanas ana arms, too exhausted to) climb astraddle of it. Their heads lav on the boardand only forjthe convulsive tightening of. their arms when tne sea wasnea over them J would have thought theylwere dead. One by one they slipped quietly off and were drowned, I I was left alone before 9 o'clock. The moon arose about that time, and' you "cannot imagine the NO. 51 terrible feeling of fear and despair ihat took possession of me. I had to battle with myself all the time to keep from giving up and sliding away into eternity. On all sides of me the raost intense quiet reigned; While at first there was an endly chorus of screams and prayers for help, there was now nothing but silence, and I felt that my mind was going. I would have gone crazy, bue I suddenly saw the light at Barnegat flashing, and to keep mv mind occupied I begin to paddle with my hands in the direction of it. Occasionally a dead body would slip by me in the cold water, lace up, in the brilliant light of the ! moon. My lower limbs were warm in the water, but my body was freezing from the bit ter winds. Every now and then I would be . washed overboard. ' Be hind me I could see the masts of the sunken vessels, with a few dark forms clinging to the spars. I paddled and paddled away, and finally realized that 1 was drifting .out to sea, and not making an inch toward Barnegat. Twice I saw an ocean steamer, but they were miles away. Nevertheless : I screamed again and again.j lor help, Then 1 saw some sailing vessels, but they also were too. far off to hear my feeble cries. "Night passed slowly and I gave up all hoe. About 4 o'clock in the morn itag I heard a feeble cry t my right and saw th glittering eyes and kewhiskered face of a Spaniard in the water. He had a raft of spars, a little better than mine, and I swam over to him. He could speak no English and I could speak ho Spaaisk, but we! sjhook hands in the water thsre and felt that we would die together. He had. been washed off his raft. I helped ! him on it again, and tho climbed on myself. Philadelphia1, November al. First mate Henry Perring, of the ill-fated senboner Cornelius Hargrave and six of her crew, together with six of the crew of the schooner's victim, the Spanish steamer Vizcaya,; arrived here at 6.35 this tvening from Lewes. Del. Capt. John J. Allen, master of the ! Cornelius Harrrare, and Harry Allen, the schooner's cook,. remained aboard"?the Sarah L. Davis, the vessel that picked the shipwrecked men up, and they will not arrive here until to-morrow. Mate Perring was interviewed upon' the subject of the disaster, and he tells substantially the i same story as mate Walker, up to the time of taking to the boats. Perring says nothing to im pute cowardice or abandonment on the part of Captain Allen, and says that he (Perring) himself suggest ed to the captain that it was time to take the boats, as he felt the schooner sinking under hint. At this time he had lost sight of Walker, who had been ordere.d to keep the Spaniards back from taking" possession of the boats. Perring relates this incident: Among the Spaniards who jumped on board the schooner trom the steamer. 1 saw one man whom I have since learned by the papers was the purser, clasping two bags of gold in his hands and begging our sailors to save him and the money. They tpld hint to throw it overboard, but he refused andjWent down with the bags in his hands. . CRUISER PHILADELPHIA. The Trial .Trio Shows a Number of Minor Defects. : Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, Nov. 1. The new steel cruiser Philadelphia returned this morn ing from a 48 hours trial at sea. The cruiser has been accepted by the govern ment, but this final trial was prescribed in the builder's contract for the purpose ot testing her seagoing qualities and dis covering any latent weakness in con struction which ; it may have de veloped.. To remedy these; $35,000 has beenretained by the government from the contract price. The tests are, in the- main, satisfactory, althbugh the board finds room for improvement in varibus minor details. Three j gun car riages were disabled. Owing to the foul condition of the cruiser s bottom no trial of speed over a measured course was made, but it is believed when the bearings are worked ismooth and the re sistance of stiff machinery over come, her speed will be greater than that shown in the preliminary trial. The trial was under the supervision of a special board appointed by Secretary Tracy, of which j Rear Admiral L. A. Kimberly is president. On ilhursdav two rounds, at a high elevation and ex treme train forward and aft, Were fired from each gun of the main battery. The blast shattered the glass in) the sky lights and damaged two cutters, lhe deck and gun plate lorms stood the severe strain well, but defects were developed in the) carriages three twelvetinch rifles, Which will probably disable them, rriday morn ing preparations were made Jor speed acd turning trials, f uu steam power was used, with j 123 pounds of steam, and making 95 revolutions to the minute, the cruiser's helm w&i put hard to starboard. She described a circle in six minutes and three seconds. -Under the same conditions, with pjort helm, the time "was five minutes and thirty-three seconds, heeled With starboard helm she three de of rees. and with port eight The reaso lor this remarkable performance ii yet to be explained. X he severest test to which the cruiser was subjected was reversing engines while running at full speed. 1 he pecu liar type of her engines enabled the ves sel to perform the test satisfactorily and successfully. The time from going full speed ahead until headway was checked was one minute and fifty seconds; CHICAGO REVIEW Fluctuations in prices of Grain and Pro, j visions. j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Chicago, Nov. 1. Wheat-j-Katfcer a quiet feeling prevailed, which was steady and firm, but each advance was met with moderate selling, chiefly credited to St, Louis parties, vfho it is still claimed are quite largely short. The opening was about 3sc higher than yesterday's clos ing, eased off jc, rallied Jc.iand closed about Jsc lower for December and yhc lower lor May than yesterday. Cable advices were again indicative of strength. I Corn Fair trading within moderate range, with feeling firm. Operations were mainly local, with strength due to the buying of a large trade. First trades were at &c advancej declined slightly and then advanced c, fluctu ated -some within narrow ;range, and closed with c gain. j- Oats were qtfiet and steadier, The price for May advanced c, but yielded slightly, and closed steady, j Mess pork-UTrading wasr moderate' prices ruled 7 j10c higherj and closed steady at medium .figures, j . Lard Trading was moderate. Prices ruled 2J5c higher, and closed steady at about outside figures. j Short rib sides Fairly active trade was reported.) Prices ruled 25c higher, and the market closed strong. The pilot boat Phanto mof South port, has been sold to some of the pilots of Charleston. S. C. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. . Winston Daily: Mr. Jeff Burton informs' us that he has gathered : the ' second crop bf pears from one tree this fall. Raleigh Visitor-. The shipment of cotton from Raleigh to foreign ports, so far this season; have been over 12,000 bales. , . Asheboro Courier .- Asheboro . is o:i a steady boom. New buildings are being erected and our population is steadily increasing. Washington Gazette: The Gov-; ernment having ordered a survey of our Port with a view of dredging out the channel, the prospects for making this 0 Port of entrv. Raleigh Chronicle: It transoires that the delay in the matter of building the proposed union depot has been for good purposes, and it is probable that everything is so arranged that .work will begin fn this city, on the handsomest depot structure in the South in a few days. Lincoln Courier: The little 4 year old girl of Mr. Ellis Avery who lives a few miles from Lincolnton, was burnt to death last Tuesday. The little girl was in the house alone at the time and by some means her clothes caught fire. She lived only a short while after wards. . Goldsboro Argus; There ara evidences of improvement on every hand in Goldsboro, and the future of the city was never brighter. Mr. Arnold Borden has just housed from two acres of grounp 675 bushels of sweet potatoes and the majority . of them were as fine Jasjhave "ever been raised anywhere: and Mr. W. F. Kor negay has iust housed from an acre and a quarter, 430 bushels. ' Morganton Herald: Most of the wheat has been sown. The Black Mountains were covered! with snow Tuesday morning. Oujr elo quent townsman, C. F. McKesson, who was converted during the Fife Meetings in Morganton a month ago, has been to Blacksburg, S. C, assisting Mr. Fife in a big revival meeting there. Re turns from the various precincts in Burke county show that there has!been a heavy registration, and we may expect a big vote to be polled next Tuesday ."j! i " Rockingham Rocket: Mr. W. K. ' Covington, an honored citizen of our county, died at his home near town on the 23d inst., aged about 60 years. Mr. .parks happen, ol Williamson township, died on last Sunday of Bright's J : 1 , m , it uisease, anu was puriea on jvionuay. ne lost an arm in the Confederate service. He was a faithful soldier and many an old comrade will be grieved to Rear of his death. He was not far from fifty years of age. ; Goldsboro Argus: At length we are'to have the pleasure of chronicling that ; Kev. c. Li. Arnold, who recently gave so satislactory and successful a mission in bt. Stephen s Episcopal Church in this city, during which he won the hearts of 1 the congregation and many others besides, has formally ac cepted the rectorship of this parish1, and will-preach his first sermon as such in the above church at the 11 o'clock ser vice on Sunday. " .. . Wilsonlwzw.-JHWilson county has about one thousand registered ma jority of white people. Last Fri day, at the giu of Mr. Mark Braswell, near Whitakers, a negro man named 4 illll 11111 IIU CL1 111 "ullUllllVU ailU terribly lacerated. We learn that Mr. V. W. Land, of. Whitakers, planted 150 acres in peanuts this year, from which he will harvest 10,000 bushels. From 75 to 100 buseels per acre is the yield in the neighborhood'of Whitakers this year. ! 4 Goldsboro Headlight : . Mr. Harper Williams, the oldest citizen of Duplin county, and perhaps in this sec tion, died at the home of his son, Mr. Wm. H. Williams, Saturday morning at 7 o clock. After a long and suffer ing illness for nearly five years, Mr. Sam. R. Privett, quietly breathed his last Saturday noon, at the home of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Privett, in the nineteenth year of his age. " j, Monroe Register: Mrs. Susan Bruner, mother of our townsman. Mr. C. W, Bruner, died at' her home in Wadesboro last Thursday night, the 32d, aged 64. There are registered in Monroe township 731 voters. Of these 583 are whites and 148 colored. Mrs. Helen Stillwell, nearly 78 years of age, living near Stout, has picked our 1,300 pounds of cotton this season. . Crops are yielding even bettrr than it was'thought a few weeks ago that they would. The great difficulty is in getting them gathered. The same force of hands that cultivated the crops, in many instance, cannot gather them. Raleigh News and Observer : Yesterday was a sad day at the Agricul tural and Mechanical College. At 10.45 o'clock on night before last, Mr. Arthur Green Smith, of Johnston county, one of the brightest students bt the college, died of congestion of the brain. - Mr. Smith was twenty-two years of age. ? News reached here yesterday that Mrs. Mary Medlin was badly bitten by a mad dog near Apex.fShe was attacked by; the dog, and her face and hands were terribly lacerated by his teeth. Mrs. Medlin succeeded in getting control of the dog, and choked him to the ground, and seizing an axe she severed Jhis head from'his body. ; i Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer : Our farmers are happy good cot ton crops and plenty of money, Last Thursday night some miscreant en tered the post-office at this place through a back window, and after going through the monev drawer and the one where Mr. McRae, the postmaster, kept his private papers,! made his escape. There was only five dollars in the mo ney drawer, and this was overlooked by the burglar and was found by the post master next morning, .Mr. MCKae says the only thing he can miss from the of fice is the key for unlocking the leather mail pouches. Raleigh Chronicle: The Chron icle has repons of a murder in Johnston county which occurred on Saturday. Two men became involved in a row near Bentonsville, and J some very harsh Words and language were used. One of the men left the place and secreted him self near the roadside. Soon after, the second party left the place, taking the. same road, and as he was passing by the hiding place of the first man who left, he was shot and . instantly killed. The names of the parties are not not reported. Henderson Times: On Wed-; nesday ot last week, Col. Joseph Liv ingston died very suddenly at his home two miles West iof - Hendersonville, Heart disease was the cause of his ... V. ..... . . . . . . J T " - cently returned from a fifteen-months tour in the West, says he has seen noth ing that will compare with Henderson ville as a shipping point for cabbage and other farm -products. It is estimated that "five million pounds will be shipped this season of cabbage alone. Asheville Citizen: Jas Snyder was stabbed in the right breast by Mack Brooks at Looper's store, five miles west of Asheville, yesterday afternoon. The wound, which was inflicted with a pocket knife, was examined by Dr. H. L. Baird, of this city. He pronounces it serious but not fatal. Brooks was ar rested by deputy sheriff F. M Jones and lodged in jail here. . The resi dence of J. D. Brevard, six miles east of Asheville and near Long's station, was destroyed by fire this morning about daybreak. The grand jury in the criminal court this morning returned a true bill against William F. Boyd for the murder of Dr. Rogers, near Alex ander's, some time ago. The case will probably be called to-morrow. r
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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