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We ;nc- rc m the ire among those who believe ent election was the first step tleparture which will anchor States which have- l.'eretofoije epubli'cao permanently in the 'tuyiY I ratic partvf, provided the 52d does.no disappoint public Cl't htton. it that Congress act iid well and demonstrate that sufficient j:ontrol over itself lias lcient statesmanship to make ij which will stand the test of criticism, tylassachusetts, ampshire and Connecticut, in t, may-be safely! counted upon r , IV loya Aocrati states, wnue minois, idiana Wjsconsin, Michigan, ml Minnesota, in t)ie West, ed on with reason- ;nav a kO PC LOU" able -a uranee..: . 'Hi re were two tilings, asiue iruui the u rc amounts of money which ,t,r'.ni m'-inatrfr; r.ould colll- :t!ic .i which l"""" tq every important election, tnaulcu tne. Kcpuuncau paiiy to rot which L'iCCtiu other . 111 il its 110KI on muse oiaics roke awaj from it in the late l. a me was seciioudiisin, .nc fche tariff. The former ' the ans never let drop, racing u. I ... -; inent feature ot the popuia' JlSCU.5: even i ions m an nanonai tamwois , p to the last, whert they did '.heir b tst to . revive it. l hey rang 'the .sdlid South" "Southern br,iga- ;;ers pry eic. in an us iiaugcs, ui&- r,g a good many well-meaning peo- ;ile up liiere believe that there was somet Snuth ing '.'really: terrible in the sqlid nd that the Southern "bria- i crs were svu-i fiiaivuui yu. .ttw lgtoiit with nostue mteni. . inou- anustt tuese -peopie .khcw uuwijujj ,f the South save what 'they, learned from he partisan newspapers which they read, the. I average editor j of 'which didn't fcnpwmuch more than inev'tliu. and from the stump-speak ers, rahwe interest and-intent was to misrepresent the; South. .. ' fha Farmers' movement, however, tlese people to thinking: ! for tlves Vhcther they hadn't been t.'iems! humb kged', and to listen to another. class If -men. Thecampaignof.edu-' cation 'was-', inaugurated "and did its. i . - pTot only in educating the pea w :-e up to the: peculiarities of the vepuliftcan high protective tariff, but alM. in destirovintr to a ereat ex- tct tfe feelinm' of sectionalism be- use a: drew trie farmers of different ectiop tocreth'er and united them J .bonds of common'ihterest. i. iiiy pemocratic and were at one me as solidlv so as North Carolina to- ay. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin! on a fair test of the sentintents of their people, are Dem ocratip, and th'ey have been kept out of fhiU'cmocratic party in recent years by false issues, a liberal use of rconej, and the colored vote, which' i .. tie Kfcnublican nartv managers have alwayk been able to control. These facts, added to the further fact that fhey i-ere so gerrymandered by the 'cpuLTican Legislatures as to make it an ;asy matter for that party to rttaii- control of the Legislatures, lus :ontrolhng the election of Uni ted Slates Senators and of a'majority ('jjnressrnen, explain why the KepUblif.nn lnrt,r j, i v.i . jiiny una uccn dUlC lJ: rttai vp0vct in those States so long. li. , ,i . ' ''M uiat bower once broken it will be e.lceeilin'rWi ,i;fti.i .iJK V - ... j , ;ma mis may be done but Yj0 no Reasonable probability' of H, hpir Republican party ckse, and entered the Demo'cra-1 tic ik... e i "iiy uor cause. There is no rcasdn why they should abandon iI)emrtrr.nti mrf . i I'm IV rtllU 1CLU111 - -fVi- T)ariV WniCh aftpr mature 'Jtraticn they abandoned. They have confe to .understand too well re i f'"" 4u"ulvu me ta- , y t Jt' LU uv ,eu asiray on lUeS lines nnv Innmr . :-Tu.,.-ii, .. the Demor.ratif nnrtw fnr r. th L 7 "vmwuii uduy iut ict i . 1 M oppressive taxation and for , I J " Tho Ur J I the Party.: ---w '"iivii nil, XVtpUUllVOll refused to give, and if the 52nd nfrefs gives these, or makes an . hon qst effort. fail thr Pfbjican Senate, the Democracy """Vopnt confidentlv on thft sun. .Jortjofj those States in the future un- ui ls! relief from oppression comes and fhese reforms are accomplished - ' I The. Criminal Court convenes I 'mprrow morning. ' ;: 1 ME : WEEK: BTAR. VOL. XXI. PRESIDENTIAL SPECITLATIONS. The result of the late election not only' retired divers Republican con gressional aspirants but also knock, ed the pins from under 'several Presi dential aspirants. . If Mr. Harrison entertained any second term dreams it "has effect ually - put an end to them, for he stands no more chance! of a nomina tion than his private secretary does. He probably recognizes this by this time if it had not occurred to him before. - When Tom Reed succeeded in having himself re-elected he returned to Washington very puch inflated and his man Boutelle and othei sycophants began to boom him lust ily. As soon as Congress adjourned he started out on his stumping tour ostensibly to help the Republican candidates but in reality to exhibit and advertise himself." He was full of the? pomp and circumstance of a little elevation then, he swelled and strutted, and met the charges against himself and his gang with levity and burlesque. -Crowds rushed to see and to osity as a ' ' trick to the hear him from curi- they would to see elephant chestnuts or listen of a , well he took this as advertised clown, and ah evidence of great popularity and. felt sure that his boom was growing right along.. He felt so until there turns came in when I instead of a great big flourishing boom his eyes rested on a little, mildewed, shriv elled nondescript which bore no re semblance to anything in the heavens above, in the earth below, nor in the waters under the earth. The big, self-satisfied two hundred and thirty pounds of flesh and bones and ego tism suddenly collapsed and the in flated autocrat recognized the har rowing fact that a(l his bright hopes were suddenly snuffed out, and the biggest , future - bef!re him was to be one of ninety-odd small men in one corner of the House of Repre sentatives, where he had ruled with the imperiousness of an autocrat and the -uncouthness of a prize-fighter. No tornado ever more effectually flattened a field of wheat than this Democratic tornado laid ' out the bopm of the voung man from Maine. The length, breadth and depth of his - disappointment must be immense. Another gentlemanj whose ambi tion received a very severe set back was Mr Wra. McKinley, Jr., the man who .sired and gave his name to the monstrosity which open ed' the floodgates: and caused the cataclysm in which he and the g. o. p. were submerged. He had Presi dential aspirations, too, and this is the reason why he fathered that monstrous- tariff bill and accepted a nomination in a district which was heavilv Democratic and in which the chances were decidedly against He counted on making him- selt solid with the manutacturers Dy the service wnicn ne rendered tnem, and by carrying his district, a Demo cratic one, demonstrate hi great Dower and popularity. He made a determined fight for k and liberally supplied as was with money contrib uted by the manufacturers he came very near winning. But the over whelming popular condemnation of his bill and his close identification with it have laid him out and put a quietus on his Presidential aspira tions. He was Reed's most nimble and ready coadjutor and both go over the falls together in the same boat. General Alger, of Michigan, has been nursing his pet hope for some time, and was placing his reliance on the backing which he would get from the G. A. R., for which he has been playing strong.. Hence he fa vored not only all the extravagant pension legislation which had been enacted, but all that was contem plated. The soldiers heretofore have been a mighty factor in our politics, and he, reasoning from the past, nat-. urallv concluded thev would be again, isut ne did not anticipate the mighty Democratic tidal wave which reached suchsproportions that the soldiers' vote dwindled into in significance, a tidal wave which swept even his own State of Michi gan. With the soldier vote reduced to impotency and his own State wheeled into tne uemocrauc comma Gen. Alger's chances no longer ap- pear to him glowing with the bright ness of the morning sunbeams, nor with the radiant hue of the bow of promise. Gen. Alger can pack up what is left of his boom and stow it away. He has a Hbar'l", but it will not put him in the White House. Mr. Allison, of Iowa, also had his backers, but he proved false to the nennlf ' a:hd regardless of his own i i j --o declarations, when he sustained the -. . .... -r i j i l. : 1 f Mckinley Dm. . tie pieageu niuiscn before his re-election' to support a tariff bill in conformity with the "altered circumstances of the times and the demands of the people." He forgot all this after his election and both defended and voted for the Mc Kinley bill. Had he stood by his promises and the people, with his recognized ability, clean record, and high standing with his party he would loom up a conspicuous figure ;v I1'-i? i'l'j'v.v" ' 'j'";,- ''''-;,:ti now among the ruins. t .. - . '. ' ,11 1 , 1 But they have some Presidential timber left, J. G, Blaine, of Maine, and Senator Preston B. Plumb nf Kansas, both Of whom were opposed to the McKinley bill, and gaye warn ing of the disaster, that would fol low its adoption. Blaine condemned it as stupid folly, while Plumb man fully endeavored to rodify its most objectionable features, and failing in that. : !bravelv and consiste.ntlv voted against it. His State was lost to the Republican party, but he was in sympathy with and espoused the cause of those who carried it. The loss of the State to the high tariff ites was his . vindication and his tri umph. He and Blaine are to-day the strongest men in the party and about the only availaljle Presidential timber it has. il PRESIDENT-MAKING. While,since the recent election, the Republican machine-managers are anxiously enquiring who- can lead them out of the wilderness, the Democratic press ! are naming the man who, according to the opinions of the respective editors, is to lead the Democratic hosts. The fact that public sentiment seems to have been pretty well made up . on this subject narrows the field of selection and makes naming the candidate: a com paratively easy task. While there is no scarcity of men in the Democratic party qualified to fill such a position acceptably, expe diency confines the choice of the can didate to the State of New York. whose electoral vote is, or has been, necessary to the election of the Dem ocratic candidate. For some reason it has been assumed jthat it was ne cessary to nominate, a citizen of New York. This nominated Seymour,- Greeley, Tilden, Hancock, and Cleve land twice. ! . Following up these precedents and still influenced by the same assump tion the choice is still narrowed down to that State, and to two citizens of that State, Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill. Like all positive men who aspire to getting above the dead level, each of these has strong friends and strong enemies, and these strong friends and strong enemies command a fol lowing too powerful to be despised. In 1880 when Cleveland's name went before the Democratic National Convention, it was, as far as national politics went, a new name, but he went before it with the prestige of having carried New York, in the gu bernatorial contest, by a phenomenal majority, and this, in spite of the stubborn resistance of the Tammany forces, gave him the nomination. He rn and carried New York again, but by a majority as phenom enally small as his majority for Governor was phenomenally large. Again in 1888 he was nomi nated, and this time, while David. Bennett Hill carried the State by a good maioritv. Mr. Cleveland lost it by a majority almost as large, and thereby lost the Presidency for a second term. We recall these facts because it is more than likely that thev will figure more or less in the j - 0 contentions when the. next Demo cratic convention meets, and Cleve land's friends and Hill's friends be gin to rally their forces, as these are the only two names that will be men tioned in anything more than a mere complimentary way. After the late electibn, and when it became an assured fact that the Democrats had carried the Legisla ture, the friends of Cleveland thought. thev mifrht now escape from the j 0 - . impending conflict between these n al candidates bv naminer Gov. Hill for the United States Senate to sue ceed Mr. Evarts, but his friends thought they smelt a long tailed mouse in the trap and didn't propose to have it called Hill. Accordingly it has been authoritatively announced tbat Mr. Hill will not accept the United States Senatorship if tender ed him. but will be a candidate for the Presidency. v This means that Mr. Hill will make a test of strength with Cleveland, and that the New York delegation will come into the convention divided and red-eyed as it did before. If the convention were held now the Tammany opposition to Cleve land would be more aggressive and much stronger t(han it -was six years ago, for he cautiously refrained from becoming involved in the late muni cipal muddle and taking sides for or against Tammany, whose cause Gov. Hill boldly espoused. Whether his action is better or worse for Cleveland, or better s or worse for Hill is one of the mysterious prob lems that cannot yet be deciphered But whether or riot it intensifies the opposition of the Tammany leaders to Cleveland and will make the con test while it lasts a hot one, although we think that Hill will be distanced before he gets one third around. Whatever the sentiment in New York may be the sentiment of the Democracy of the country at large is now " arid has been for Cleveland. Outside of New York, if the conven tion were held now, he would carry five-sixths of the delegations and; divide the remainder.' But possibly in the time which intervenes .before WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2lj holding the convention the friends of the Governor bv active efforts may bring some,? recruits to their standard from other States and lend some variety to the proceedings after the : balloting begins. The indica tibns are that they are working in this line now, and that they propose to follow it up. vigorously until the convention meets and does its work". And when it does; however spirited Jhe- contest may be, Grover Cleve- and will be named as the standard bearer of the. Democracy;;, . , -.,.' , PERSONAL. t Dr. Siegbert Tarrash, the win ner; ot the recent inrernational chess tournament at Manchester, and by vir tue of his victory: chess champion of the wunu. js a vjerman pnysician put twenty-eight years of ;age. -' - Emperor William has sent t- his humble little godson in Heligoland the first child; and German recruit born there since the cession of the island to Germanya gold mug, bearing his majesty s portrait on it. - Lieut. Fisk's idea of forming a corps or battalion of electricians, who shall be regularly drilled and made available for active service; in case of war, has been most enthusiastically re-. ceived by the electricians of New York. Gen. Von Kaltenbo'rn Stachan. the new German Minister of War, served on the eeneral staff in the; Austrian, French wars and ! is extremely popular with his fellow officers. - A description of Will Carleton. the popular poet; says he looks more like a soldier than like a poet, as he is tall, broad-shouldered, handsome and always nicely dressed. i 1 Baron Hi rsch's coreligionists have little sympathy for his present thirst for greatness, as they attribute the prevail ing anti-isemitic movement in Vienna, vyhich gains ground every day, to his fi nancial and social imprudence, James A. Seacord, of New Ro- chelle, N. Y, is carrying a watch that keeps good time.ias it has, he says, ever since it was brpught over from England aou years ago. It s queer that a move ment tnat has been coing all that time isn't gone by this time. - The young Viscount Belgrave, grandson of the Duke of Westminster, if he lives to inherit his patrimony, will be the richest man in the world. By the time he- attains his majority his income will amount to between $10,000 and $20,000 a day. George M. Pullman, the palace car man, does not believe in rich men buying seats in the Unite States Senate. Mr. Pullman spends much time in Washington, where he is recognized as the real Senator from Illinois, and no one has ever accused him of paying a cent for the privilege. There was born in-Wabash, In diana, a few days ago, "to the wife of 1' rank btone, a baby weighing exactly one and a half pounds. The Infant, a girl, is perfectly formed in every re spect, and is buf six inches in length, while its head will ht easily into an or dinary teacup." j Rhoda Broughton, the novelist, is a gray-haired, bright-eyed, profoundly intelligent-looking woman, and lives )fr ith her sister in one of the. picturesque old houses in Oxford; her age is 50, and she has been novel-writing for twenty three years, during which period she has turned out only ten novels. Sir Augustus Paget has" got himself in trouble by absenting himself from his post in 'Vienna during the re cent visit of the Prince of Wales. It is hinted that he left to avoid entertaining Baron Hirsh, the Hebrew capitalist, who was one ot the Princes party, as ne feared did he do so he would be boy cotted by the proud Austrian nobility alterward. i The Swiss painter, Amandee Baudit, has died at Bordeaux. He was born in Geneva in 1829, bedame a pupil of Diday, and from 1850 to 1886 lived mostly in Pans. ! He first exhibited at the Salon in 1852. Several of his pic tures were bought by the ministry of fine arts, and presented to different museums, Tennyson contemplates' a sea voyage tor his health. Baby King Alfonso of Spain has a private income of $1,000,000 a year. Wm. Thorne, of Goshen, Ind was reprimanded in church, and felt so cut up about it that he committed sui cide. Count von Moltke's eyesight has become affected from reading every line of the thousands of congratulatory mes sages he received upon his birthday. Gen. N. Pj Banks and wite are spending a few days in Portland, Me during the engagement of their daugh ter, Miss Maude; tsanks,, at tne Portland theater. Castelar has written to the Span ish oanersto deny the rumors of his en eacement to Mme."Ratazzi. He savs he is a fitter subject for an interment than for a marriage, j 5 " Mr. T-ennant has taken refuge uoon his ranch! in Texas from the mi portunities of officious people who per secuted him with attentions because he is Stanley's brother-in-law. The election is over. Let Democrats and Reoublicans now ioin hands in building up our waste places and fur nishing honorable and lucrative employ ment to our deserving poor laborers. Hender son Tonahawk. It has been ascertained that but seven lone "radikils" j will decorate the State Senate this winter. As there ought to be two of the minority on every com mittee, these poor fellows will certainly be worked to death.--J?aM?A News and . Observer. While it will require a few days more to ascertain definitely the views of every member of both houses ot the tjenerai Assembly of North Carolina on the question of United States Senator, the complexion of that body is sufficiently known already to render the re-election of Vance certain. It is doubtful that any other name will be submitted to the J T- , - .77- yir caucus. f ayeiievuie uascrver. A I certain well-to-do Moore county man every time he gets on a spree re paints his house. He has repainted it a half dozen' times add the color is not always red. The last time he painted the window frames and door frames in black and the whole building how wears an aspect, of deep mourning. He is a cood Democrat and the last act cannot ? . r r r 7 77 x be accounted lOT.oanjora express. i It appears from Secretary Rusk's, report; that the foreign pau pers are buying more American cattle. Uncle Terry ought not to encourage that sort of thing. Let us buy and sell all our cattle in our own home market, and be true to the great principles underlying the high tariff. Louiwille: Courier-Jour nal, vem. j , CUMBERLAND FAIR. A -Gratifying Suocesa Hope UQla Display Farmers' Hall Trotting; and Banning Races. , Special Star Report. Fayettevhlle, N. C Nov. 14, 1890. The Cumberland County Fair is. as .regards the exhibition, a very gratifying success. Th'e inauspicious weather has greatly diminished the attendance from an roints. Your correspondent has been a reporter of Cumberland Agricul tural, Mechanical and Industrial Expo sitions for many years, and, without ex aggeration, can; put the display of 1890 as, perhaps, witih the exception of fruits, .the best in the history of the Society. The Hope Mills Manufacturing Com pany occupies with its various manufac tured products a large space in the cen tral building. Its exhibit has been ar ranged with rare skill and faultless taste, and forms the cynosure of all eyes. Farmers' Hall has the appearance of an exposition of a country teeming with "the earth s tatness . 1 he grain, cotton, vegetables, etc, surpass all past exper iences, i he entries ot live stock are per cent, greater in number than those of last year, and in quality attest the fact that the. farmers of the Cape Fear section are greatly improving their horses, mules and cattle. Only one department shows a dimu- nution in the number ot entries over preceding years Floral Hall; and here the laaies have atoned lor the come parative paucity of their offerings by the quality ot then displays.. Un yesterday a good entertainment was furnished on the race course, both in running and trotting. Mai. McKethan, the ethcient treasur er of the Cumberland County Agricul tural Society, says that the gate receipts were greater than those of 1888, but less than those of 1889. Of course the Cen tennial last year swelled the crowd to immense proportions. Ihe Hi Henry Minstrels played to an immense audience last night, in Wil liams' Hall. ROCKY -MOUNT FAIR: A Great Success Thousands Present Fine Displays of " Home Products of All Descriptions. Special 6 tar Report.! Rocky . mount, Nov. 14.To-day (Friday) the fa:r closed. A large num ber of entries were made, and in the agricultural department the exhibit though small, was good. Farmers be ing busy housing their crops did not give it any attention, hence the small display. Floral Hall was handsomely decorated with the fine display of numerous kinds of needlework. The hall was a marvel of beauty, being represented by various kinds of handiwork of the ladies of Hal ifax and Edgecombe counties. A large quantity of home made work of the farm, such as cloth, carpets, &c, and last but not least, an elegant display of crazy quilts, all kinds of embroidery and many other articles too numerous to mention. ' The stock department was thinly re presented, but good what there was of it. 1 he poultry was good, as usual, as Nash has a reputation for fine chickens, as well as brandy. In the tobacco line a finer display was never exhibited anywhere. 1 his dis play satisfies the people that this section cannot be beaten. The racing was much better than usual, and there was : more of it both running and trotting. Ihe best ieature ot the occasion was the exclusion ot gamblers; they were prohibited on the grounds and on the streets, hence, none to defraud the inno cent of their money. Thursday was the biggest day. The town had more people than ever seen by the oldest citizen in it at one time. From six-to seven thousand were on the ground aiid as many on the streets, mak ing twelve thousand. Financially the fair was a big success. Ihursdays gate receipts showed over four thousand tickets, besides a large amount received at the gate. The net proceeds' will be from twenty-five cired to three thousand dollars. hun- NEW ENTERPRISE. A Stock Company to Develop the Oyster Industry in Onslow. Several gentlemen of this city, in con junction with citizens of Onslow county living near Stone's Bay, contemplate the formation of a stock company for the purpose of developing the oyster induS' try at that place. The Bay is said to abound in oysters equal to any brought to this market, and the develop' ment of the industry which is con templated cannot but redound to the benefit of the business interests of Wilmington. The plan of the com pany, it is learned, will soon be given to the public. , Stone's Bay, by the way, is said to be one of the most beautiful sheets of water in Eastern Carolina, and may yet be a rival. as a watering place, of many seaside lesorts. In the win ter season it is described as somethinsofa "hunter's paradise," its broad waters being covered with my riads of wild fowl and affording splen did sport fof visitors. The opening up of the country be twecn Wilmington and New River by the Onslow Railroad will no doubt lead to the development of the varied inter ests of that section, not the least of which are its fisheries and the immense oyster beds of contiguous waters. Official Canvass.: The board of canvs sser for . the 12th Senatorial district Sheriff Manning of New Hanover and Sheriff Johnson of Pender countv met yesterday at the court house in this city and declared the result of the recent election: That Jno. D. Bellamy, Jr., received 2,012 votes in New Hanover county and 1,118 in Pender; Robt. M. Croom 1,993 in New Hanover and 914 in Pender, and W. H. McLaurin 47 votes in New Han over. Total Bellamy, 3,130; Croom, 2,907. . Mr. Linehan, who has the con tract for stone work at the Government building, in fixing the curbing, etc., of the yard, is receiving the stone and will commence work pext week to carry out his contract. 1890. THE BAPTISTS- NORTH CAROLINA STATE CONVEN- .:! tion. . .; " '.. ::'-:.; Addresses ' on State Missions Minister ial Education Wake Forest College, Etc.' ; : j - --'"' bHELBY, Nov. 13. Ihe . morning session was chiefly devoted to the sub ject of State missions. ! Elaborate and eloquent addresses were 'made by Rev. Messrs. W, R. Gwathmey, W. A. Pool, T. E. Skinner, J. D. I Huffman, Thomas Hume and C. Durham. Mr. Gwathmey showed how the rapid growth of the denomination in tho State .was due to this work, fifty-two new churches having been organized by the missionaries ) of this Board during the past year, the Whole .number of additions to the churches aggregating about ten thous and. " Mr. Pool read some interesting ex tracts from the records of a session of the Yadkin Association, held with Eaton's church, Davie county, one hun dred years ago, and written with a pen, instead of printed with type, the secre tary sending one copy to each constitu ent church. Dr. Skinner gave a number of amus ing and affecting anecdotes of the trials and experience of the fathers of the connection in the earlier years of its history. Dr. Hume, in chaste and classical English, spoke in the most charming style of the simplicity and beauty of the distinguishing tenets of the Baptists, adapting themselves to the tastes and wants of the common people; while Dr. Durham showed by many striking illustrations how the State work was foundation work, affecting directly the interests of foreign missions, Sunday schools and education, and th whole discussion was closed with a collection of $1,028 58 to meet the deficit ot the Board. It was then determined to work next year on a basis of $16,520 for State Missions, the estimate of last year being $15,000. A resolution, introduced by Kev. J. A. Taylor, of Warrenton, was then passed, asking the churches to lend their pas tors to the Strte Mission for a week or ten days to do mission work in destitute helds, at such times as may De conve nient during the coming year. After considerable discussion, partici pated in by N. B. Broughton, Dr, Hut- ham, Dr. Durham and others, it was asrreed to appoint a special secretary to give greater efficiency to the work of bunday schools and coloortage. NIGHT SESSION. The Convention had no afternoon session and the night session was given to Ministerial Education. This Board is located at Wake JForest College, and its object is to aid young men preparing for the gospel ministry. The report states that among the two hundred students at waKe forest aoi letre. sixtv exoect to preach, and forty of these sixty are aided by this Board. The theory of the Baptists is that no man should enter the ministry except ne De called of God to that work, and that the Church of which he is a ! rmhcr-rnus'js determine the qu ition of h:s fitness oye that wo .k, and must give him a heaJdk endorsement before the Board- will tarjt Ihlm as a beneficiary. If he or his fnenf. are able tp support him while a student he will not be aided by the Board, bu if he is poor, his board is paid; but noth ing else is provided, save, perhaps, his books. His clothing and incidental ex penses must be provided for by his own enorts. No student receives more tnan a little over a hundred dollars and many not more than i half that ; amount. Students tor the ministry of any denomination, are not charged tuition at Wake r orest and the sons ot minis ters pay no tuition fees. There are sixty students lor the misnistry there now, and probably the sons iof ministers number twenty more, so here are eighty young men who pay no tuition lees, w men at $60 each would make the large sum of ,800 the college! is giving tothe e-d nomination in the way of gratuitous ed ucation -a far larger sum than the State is giving at i Chapel Hill to indi gent voung men. I Prof. Carlyle, who is the Secretary ot the Board of Education, made a good speech: he was followed: by Rev. W, L. Wight, ot Reidsville, in a capital talk. though a little too long, re, in turn, was succeeded by: Auditor banderiini in his usual happy style, and lastly, Prof. N. T. Robinson, of the Seminary at Louisville, took up a collection; of several hundred dollars for the support of students at the seminar. -f :.- I. ' . - Third Day's Proceedings Educational and Benevolent Institutions Wake -Forest Endowment -Foreign Missions Sunday School Convention, Etc. Spcciall Star Report. Shelby, Nov. I 14: After the usual devotional exercises of half an hour, the resolution of Mr. j. H. Mills, looking to the establishment of an1 institution for the education of feeble-minded children was considered. The- committee: to whom the matter had been referred, Drs. Taylor, Hufham, and Hon. Wm. A. Graham, did not deem it wise at fchis time for the Baptists to project such an institution, but expressed a sense of the public need ofsach'a school and the desire that the State, or some combina tion of benevolent mn, should estab-lish-one. It is greatly to the credit of Mr. Mills that he has been so useful in this direction. He it was who first pro posed in the Grand Lodge of the Masons to found ; the Orphanage at Ox ford and he -undertook the enterprise before the btate had made any appropriation for its maintenance, and when the Grand Lodge had given it .only $500. for nine years he success fully ran that Orphanage, and when the Baptists originated their Asylum he was called to the head of it, where he has wisely served his denomination for five years. ' Mr. Mills explained that ne di(i not mean that the school he suggested should be a Baptist affair. A tract of land had been offered him by a gentle man at Pine Bluff, on the railroad from Raleigh 'to Hamlet, and other persons had spoken to him of their desire to give to such an institution; and his idea was to appoint, l or rather nominate, a number ot good men -from different de nominations and some of no church who might act as trustees to receive this property and arrange for the founding of such a scnooi at an eany day. uen Robert Vance ! and J. b. Carr were among those he named, though these are all-your reporter can recollect. Dr. Pritchard said he was glad the matter had been mentioned, for it was another feather in the cap of the Bap tists of the State. They had originated the first denominational college--they NO. 1 53 had the first religious paper, and they had founded the first church orphanage. It was not deemed expedient to mention any names, especially as several of these gentlemen are not Baptists; but trie en terprise was Commended as worthy, THE ENDOWMENT OF WAKE FORREST COLLEGE. As said in a former article, this col lege has $155,000 of well invested en dowment, but because of the large num ber of beneficiary students about 80 out of 200 and also because many poor young men give notes for their tuition, the expenses of the college are greater than the increase last year by $3,300. Dr. C. E. Taylor wishes to make the col lege self-supporting as well as to increase the number of professors, and hence he is trying, to raise the endowment to at least $200,000. He made an extended and earnest and really eloquent speech. parts ot which anected the audience to tears. He said that six hundred preachers had been educated at Wake forest, be sides a large number of very useful lay men that they had a lovely campus ot twenty acres, enclosed with a stone wall, lour large buildings well adapted to col lege purposes, eleven professors, j two hundred students, sixty of them j now promising young preachers, and that the Baptists must get- ready for five hun dred students they were coming-(-and that in the -near future, he hoped. He told us how in a time of great trial when he had tailed to secure help from! any one North, and when it seemed all had been done in North Carolina that could be dohe, to raise a conditional endow ment, he remembered that some one had given him the name of Mr. J. A. Bost- wick, of New York.. He wrote Mr, B. asking for an interview. Mri B. replied that he was very busv and could not see him, but to write him the istate of the case and he would consider it. Dr. Taylor wrote ahrief letter he wrote it the second time he wrote ill the third time, so as to condense and not take the time of a busy man to read a long letter, and then he got down on his knees and spread the letter before the Lord and asked Him to open the heart of Mr. Bostwick. That letter brought by return mail a check for .$10,000. 1 Mr. Bostwick has since given the college $6,000, ad now proposes to givt one dollar for every two that is raised by the friends ot the college up to SaO.000. His proposition. closes March 1st. 11891, and Dr. Taylor hopes to get from $30,000 to $40,000 in North Carolina by j that time, so as to make Wake Forest self sustaining. . ! . Addressee were also made by Kev.W.R. Gwathmey, Dr. Durham and Dr. PHtch- ard, when a subscription of about $3,400 was raised. Very many of those-present had already contributed. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. I omitted to state in my report of yes terday s proceedings that it was agreed to cpII a bunday bchool Convention in Kaleigh next April, with a view to the permanent establishment of such a body. MASS MEETING ON FOREIGN MISSIONS. At night an immense concourse of people were addressed by Dr. T. P Bell, one of the secretaries of the Board at Richmond on Foreign Missions, for fifty minutes, and a magnificent effort it was, He was followed by Mr. HicksonJ once a missionary in China; also, by Rev. C. A. Woodson, of Durham, bv Dr. lavlor and Drs. Durham and Pritchard. It-was one of the best missionary meetings known in the history ot the Convention, and the interest rose to the high-iwater mark last night. Dr. Taylor said there were three young men at the college who expected to go to the foreign held, and one young lady in the church there who had offer ed herself for that work to Dr. Bell. The N. C. Baptists have now thirty-one men and women in the foreign! field. They are perhaps not giving as: much money relatively as some other denom inations, but they are giving very; many more laborers. Ihe next Convention was invited to meet in Wilmington, but will go to the labernacle Church of Raleigh, and Dr. l. Hune, the golden mouthed orator. will preach the sermon, which wil be. on l uesday instead of Wednesday night as heretofore. Reporter Deputies Appointed. Sheriff-elect Stedman has appointed Mr. John L. Dudley Chief Deputy. This is the position now held by Mr. W. H. Shaw under Sheriff Manning. Mr. Dud ley is an excellent book-keeper nd ac countant, and will make a faithful and efficient officer. Mr. Henry Haar, Jr., who graduated recently with high honors at the Tiles- ton Normal School, and who is a young man of fine character, will assist Mr. John Haar, Jr., in the office of of Deeds. Register Personal. The Star has added a bright young man to. its staff in the person of JohnG. Marshall wlio will begin his new work December 1. . Johnnie is a mere youth, but he is full of the stuff of which news paper men are made, and he will be: heard from before he is old enough to vote. Among other duties he' will pick up local items, and our friends, who may meet him will oblige us by aiding him in this work. SUNDAY SELECTIONS. You profess to be a Christian and to be living for the world j to come. But in which of the worlds are you lay ing up the most treasures j It is easv in the world to live afterthe world's opinion; but I the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness! the Inde pendence of solitude. Emerson. Sorrow itself is not o hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no haf ml do ter rify us more than men in! steel with bloody purposes. T. B. Aldrich. Many of our opportunities must be lost to us; it is impossible! for-us to be alert enough to profit by them all. But part of our training is to look for them, and our success will depend on the use we make of them. j Ye cannot serve God and mam mon, but it is possible to serve God with mammon. The trouble with some persons is that they .become" slaves of mammon instead of bringing it. into subjection to themselves and making it aid them tn readering service unto God. A man may have large worldly success, and none of the Success which Christ requires. No true iudgment can be formed by Cutward appearances, for these often, like the shell, of a nut, may seem indicative ot a sound condition. but on cracking it no kernel is found within. Chresttan Inquirer. There is a great want about all Christians who have not suffered. Some flowers must be broken or bruised be fore they emit any fragrance. All the wounds of Christ sent out sweetness: the sorrows of Christians do the same. To me there is something sacred and sweet in suffering; it is much akin to the "Man of borrows. Purvis. Mrs. A. L, King, of Louisburg, died Wednesday morning at Henderson, where she had gone to visit-relatives. - Goldsboro Argus -. The Golds- boro Furniture Factory is now lighted 1 by electricity, and Id running night and day to meet its orders, which are con stantly" coming in from all quarters. ; Concord Times: A great deaf of coal is being bought by Concord" peo- " pie. They say it is cheaper than wood.7 The sweet potato .crop is simply . immense and the price is accordingly low. . . . Jonesboro Leader: We heard the other day of a man in the country ' who stopped work because his employer did not have anything to pay hi m with. - except money. He wanted coffee and tobacco. - . welder gave us a potato of a horrible1- shape. If it were straight it would be: ' nearly three feet long, but it is doubled, twisted, " jointed, plaited, tangled and conglomerated. - Greensboro - Warkman : A revi val is in progress at Brown- Summit un- ; der the1 pastoral charge, of Rev. R. H. - Wills, v Up to Wednesday night, when : Rev. Si W.- Coe came away, who had Deen ataing in tne meeting, mere naa Deen six conversions and six accessions. btanly Observer; Ihe sites foi Railroad have been located. At Biles- , ville the depot will be west of the village, ; near the academv: at Albemarle, on Mrs. ? Lilly's land, northwest of and near the f Lutheran church, and at Norwood on the land of M. L. Barnhardt, west of the . village. AH of these sites are well chosen. Statesville Landmark: Under the eaves of the Methodist Church is a favorite resort for English sparrows, and people were interested a few days ago in seeing one of these birds hanging by a string from the eaves of the church, dead, dead, dead. Its fellows went in and out and chattered and fought and made merrybut none of them cut the' HmH Hi rH Hrrn Thf miACtirm i e urlu ther it committed suicide or was hanged as a malefactor. . A tew mornings ago Mr. W. H. H. Gregory made a mis take in administering a tonic prepara- ' tion to one of his children, a little girl'", aged 5 years, and poured out instead of the tonic, from a bottle which sat - next to it on the mantel-piece, a table- : spoonful of carbolic acid. Not more ' than n rlrrT or two tonrhn thf irhilrl s mouth when she discharged it with an exclamation of pain, and it was then dis- . covered that a horrible tragedy had been narrnw v avprtpn I ht rhiln s month was painfully burned by the drop or two of the acid that touched it. Concord Standard; While hun- ing for deer just across the county line recently, a party of hunters killed a man's colt. A man scared up the colt .1 from where it was lying down resting, and the others thinking it wa a deer shot it down. There will be nothing done with the party or either one of not do it, and does not know who did. Goldsboro Headlight Never before in the history of Goldsboro has : wood been so scarce. Yet the "woods are full of it" in a half mile of the city. . Wlfile boring a hole in a pipe stem ; by means of a wire on Sunday r--"'" ' Mr. M. d. Herring, of Indian ' townsnip accioentiy ran tne wir -a": : his hand, which may result dcata at any moment as blood poisO:. hv set in. Oxford Day: Rev. Jo. R:r-;i- has accepted the call to the Presbyte rian Church in Oxford, and will remove here with his family next Thursday. -When the extension to South Ox ford is completed, the Richmond & Danville's track will form three-fourths of a circle around Oxford. It will be easy enough at some future day to build the other, one-fourth, and Alo! and be hold, we will have a belt line! Charlotte Chronicle: Superin tendent Graham, of the Graded Schools, ' has secured an accomplished graduate of the St. Louis Manual Training " School, who has several years successful expe- riAnrA in tparhinnr manual traininor tr take charge of the manual training de- partment introduced, in the Graded School. Tohn Roddey, of Rock Hill, was unfortunate enough Monday to have his fine thoroughbred racer killed. The horse, while hitched to his cart, be came frightened, and in running away ran against a pole and killed itself. The horse had a record of 2:40. and was a beautiful animal. Mr. Roddey valued it at $500 and over. - Lilizabeth City Jbconomist: Big blue fish have returned to our coast and the fishermen are happy. The bankers are reaping a rich harvest. The coast of Dare is the best place in the world tp make a living, but a man develops claws like a sandfiddler. The canning - tactory at fan in s shipyard is to be a permanent establishment for this sec tion. After the oyster season is over it will can the vegetatble products of this Vicinity. It will enable our truckers to turn many a perishable vegetable into an honest penny. Jerry Wilcox, aged 17 years, son of James Wilcox, raised a crop of cotton in balem town-. u. . C A AA 1 I two acres of ground, with his own labor. That is about two bales to the acre and is proof ot what intensive and phicky farming and good manuring can do. Charlotte Chronicle: Thomas- ville Orphan Asylum has now 127 chil dren under its charge; 67 of these are girls, and 60 boys. The Orphanage is divided into five families, with 25 chil dren in each family. Each family has. its own matron and teachers. . Dick Moore, the eleven year old son of Rich ard Moore, had his leg broken just above the ankle yesterday, while wrestling with another boy at, recess, at, 'the Graded School. Sanford Express : There is not a white Republican in Sand Hills town ship. It is reported that there is much cotton in the fields and hands are very scarce. Much or the staple will be lost. Capt. H. L. Fry, chief engi neer of the C. F. & Y. V. Railroad and his assistants are here this week survey ing a line from that road to the brown- stone quarry. Postmaster Make peace broke down the steps ot the C. f . & Y. V. mail car, while getting off it on Monday and narrowly escaped being ground under the wheels. Rockingham Rocket: Mr. H. C; Dockery has the greatest curiosity in the way of a sweet potato that we ever saw. It is an almost perfect figure of a child except that it has no arms. The neck, body and legs are almost as per fedt in every detail as if carved from- wood. A little son of J. A. IngramJ Esq., near Bostick's MillSrlhis county, fell from a tree one day. last week and dislocated and fractured his left arm at the elbow joint. He was brought here for treatment, but owing to the location and nature of the injury our physicians could do but little for the sufferer. i Chatham Record: Prof. Holmes with a number of the students from the University-passed through here yester day, on a tour of inspection of the coal U&HJ3 . " lt,VI .1. W WM..bJ. ' Mr. McBane, of Hadley township, has a genuine Democratic . peafowl. About six months ago; strayed off and hatt hot been seen since, until the morn- .ing after the election (when the Demo crats were rejoicing over their great vic tory) it made its appearance, strutting as proudly and looking as vain as only a peafowl can. William Stedman, Esq., died at Marshall, Texas, oh last Th ursday, aged 68 years. He was born and reared at this place, but moved to Texas in 1851, where he became one of the leading lawyers of that State. Louisburg Times-. rV". -
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