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J IT WAS A MISTAKE. I
; When the State Senate voted, in
spite of the recommendation of the
committee, against the acceptance of
the proposition made by the Wil
mingtoiid and Weldon Railroad Cora
j pany, it made a mistake, the result of
which is that the State loses much
and gains! nothing. As the matter
stands now and as long as the origi
nal jeharter is in operation the road
is absolutely exempt from taxation
and the Legislature has no power to
repeal or j annul the . charter. I he
Company, under its vested rights by1
virtue of the contract entered into
with it by the State, is absolute mas
ter of the situation, and can , be re
quired to do nothing in the way of
' paying tax. jit may! voluntarily
waiver its right to exemption'
but it cannot be. forced to surren
der it. -. ;.;-. . .. ; ; 1.
. This it offers to do on certain con-'
ditions, conditions by which, if ac
cepted, the State would for ten years
repeive twenty thousand dollars a
year jtaxes which it does, not now re
ceive, and after that thirty thousand
dollars a year,! a clear gain of $200,
000' in ten years, a gain of $500,000
in twenty years, when it would not
otherwise be ntitled to a cent, and
by the acceptance of which it could
j not be any worse off than it is now.
i This is notla matter of sentiment,'
; nor is it, as some Senator asserted,
- a matter of principle. It is simply a
; matter of dollars and cents, where a
company stands on its chartered
right, as any company or any indir
vidual would do under like circum
stances," but agrees to j waive that
right for , certain consideration
f which the State can grant if it sees
. fit..' ,-r j. ' ')
One of the Senators declared that
he would insist on all or nothing. If
it was right, for this company to be
exempt, he declared, it might be exr
empt, if not, it should pay what was
demanded of j it. But it is exempt,
and exempt by the highest authority
known to the State, that is by the
solemn action of the State itself,
knowingly, considerately, .wilfully
and deliberately entered into fifty
eight years ago, by its acknowledged
representatives when they granted
the charter, and when in their pa
triotic endeavor to encourage an
enterprise which they felt would
have an inestimable influence in
promoting the development and
prosperity of a large section of the
State, granted this concession of
perpetual exemption 'from taxa
tion. In these fifty-height years
this right has never been success
fully contested. The only question
that could be raised is as to the policy
concessions. But,
it is too late to do that now, It was
deemed wise and
was done by men
judicious when it
who had the goodj
ot the State. at heart, and they were
the constituted Judges. ) There is nd
question as to the right, lor that has
been decided by the highest tribunal
of our own State, and also by the
highest judical tribunal of the United
States. Popular- opinion to which
reference was made in this debate
can neither make nor unmake estab-
lished law. j Th Senator who" in
sisted that he would I have all or
nothing was influenced in our opinion
rather by his own zeal for the side
which he espoused than by cool, de-
lUberate judgment; i I
under s charter tne company is
not onlyexemptj from taxation, but
has the right to build branch roads,;
and make connections with - other
roads, but the capital stock is Hm-i
ited to .$2,500,000. which was per
haps considered a large sum of
money fifty-eight years ago. It asks
now to be - allowed to increase its
capital stock to $10,000,000, to buy
roads and to consolidate.
This was bne objection made to it
hy Senator pellamy. But this does
not necessarily mean the exemption
of $10,000,000 of stock, from taxa
tion if the increase might be made by
"legitimate watering." There would
still be but jthe original $2,500,000,
the balance being watered stock,
which wouldn't leave the State any
the worse for it than she is, and unless
t to be assumed that the gain of the
Caterers would be her loss. It
to'ght! or might not lease rolling
tock from construction companies.
All roads : which may run short on
rolling stock jdo that more or less;
P companies generally prefer to
VOL. XXII.
own their own rolling stock, which
is cheaper than leasing, and there is
no reason to suppose that this road
would be an exception,"
This is a day of railroad consoli
dation. Under favoring legislation
the Richmond & Danville company
nas Decome a great power m this
State, and practically the owner of
the North Carolina Central, the.
North Western, the Western North
Carolina, -and a half dozen . shorter
lines, which it holds by lease, in
some cases virtually a gift. The
amount of tax it pays is a mere trifle
compared with the properties it has
become possessed of and the profits
it reaps, while its policy is to stran .
gle, if it can,' every railroad enter
prise proposed which -might possibly
become its competitor. Yet that
company has done much to develop
Central and Western North Carolina,
because in. doing so it was foster
ing its own interests. If a liberal
policy were pursued towards the Wil
mington & Weldon road" it might
result in combinations culminating
in a system which would do for
Eastern North Carolina what the R.
& D. system has done for Western
North Carolina. This would be a;
grand stroke by - -which the State
would gain a hundred fold all the
imaginary loss sustained by it.
-Viewing the situation from our
standpoint, while no questioning
the motives of the Senators who
opposed this proposition, we think
they took a one-sided view of it and
that the Senate made a big mistake
when it refused to accept it.'
MXrTOR MEUTION.
The Western papers have had a'
good deal to say abont Jerry Simp
son, the "sockless statesman," as
they called him, who was elected to
Congress in Kansas last fall. But he
is neither sockless nor brainless. He
has opinions and his liberality is
broad enough to take in the country.
As an illustration of his mode of
thought and style of speech we quote
the following extract from a speech
belivered by him at a meeting of the
Citizens' Alliance at Washington a
few days ago:
"The Republicans "he said, "had lived
on sectional bate for a longtime; the
party was no longer tne party ot grand
ideas. -At the last election the Repub
licans baa tried to save tnemselves in
Kansas by bringing up dead issues. They
had wrung the bloody shirt in the Kan
sas campaign until there was not another
drop in it. They had appealed to the
old soldiers to stand by the old party,
but conditions had changed since the
Alliance told the Kansas soldier that he
would get to be as much a slave as the
blacks he had fought to save if he did
not guard his independence. The black
slavery was but a primitive slavery; the
verv essence of slavery was that of toil
without reward, when the results of their
labor was taken from them without any
return.
"We saw that this sectional strife was
kept alive for political purposes. We.
came to see that the question of loyalty
or disloyalty was a mere matter of where
one was born. If I had been born in the
South. I would probably have been a
rebel and have felt it my patriotic duty
to fignt for the cause of the Confedera
cy. Sp it might have been with any of
us. We determined to till up tne bloody
chasm, and we started by throwing In-
ealls into it. bouth Carolina followed
with Wade Hampton, and we will fill
the chasm if we have to throw in all the
old leaders who strive to keep sectional
strife alive.
Mr. Simpsom is not altogether
familiar with the record of Senator
Hampton, nor with the reasons
which caused his defeat for re-ehc
tion. There was no Senator in Con
gress who was less influenced by
sectionalism; and he was defeated
simply because he refused to comply
with certain demands that the Alii--
ance made upon him.
Gov. Hill, of New York, has
brought down upon himself the sharp
criticism of some of the New York
papers which are opposed to him on
account of his refusal to, surrender
on the requisition of the hold-over
Governor of Connecticut an escaped
horse thief. Gov. Hill refused to
recognize the requisition on the
ground that Buleklejr, the hold-over
Governor, was not' the legal Gov
ernor of that State. He might have
surrendered the horse thief If he had
seen fit, but we don't see how with
due respect tp the office which he
holds, he could have done otherwise
than he did. Mr. Bulekley is
not the legally recognized Gov
ernor of Connecticut; one branch
of the Leeislature has refused
to receive any messages from
him and denies his representatives
the privileges of the floor. If Gov.
Hill had recognized a requisition
from a citizen of Connecticut whom
the State does not acknowledge as
Governor, might he not with equal
justice and propriety recognize a re
quisition made upon him for fugi
tives from justice by any other pri
vate citizen of that State ? Before he
can officially recognize the Governor
of another State he must know that
'in i th. Governor, so declared I in
accordance with law, which the hold
over Bulkeley, who makes the requi
sition, has not been,
j Senator Walcott, Republican, of
Coloredo, Whose manly independence
.
(did much to help the Democrats j to
r choke off the gag rule and Force
bill, seems to have been making a
study of the Senate with the follow
ing result: 'I have seen a good
many aggregations and types of hn-
man nature, but this is the most in
teresting body of men I ever; came
in contact with. ; Now, take those
old fellows on the other side of the
chamber, the Democrats from the
South. They are old foeies. everr
one of them, sectional as hades, mean
as the devil about aDDroDriations and
all that sort of thing, and yet so in
fernally honest and rotten poor that
it makes one proud to take" them by
the hand. Now, on the other side of
the chamber but I must not forget:
the requirements of senatorial cour
tesy." .-,
The latest reports from Chili are
to the effect, that the insurgents are
out of ammunition. If the atroci
ties attributed to them be true, the
merciless slaughter of helpless wck
men and children, it is to be hoped
that they will continue out of ammu
nition.
When police inspector Byrnes, of
New York, declined the mark of dis
tinction tendered him bv Kin?
Humbert, the Italian Consul at New
York got mad about it. Perhaps he
don't realize the full proportions of
a New York chief inspector of po
lice, the - "finest" body of locust
wielders on the continent."
THE DIRECT TAX.
Honeys to be Beimbuned by the States
, to Persons "or Their Heirs Who Paid
Taxes to the General Government Un
der the Lkw of 1861.
Col. E. D. Hall, of this city, has re
ceived from Senator Ransom a copy of
the "Direct Tax" bill, as it passed Con
gress; entitled "An act to credit and
pay to the several States and Territories
and the District of Columbia, all
moneys collected under the Direct Tax,
levied by Act of Congress; approved
August 5th, 1861."
Col. Hall is of the opinion that at
least $35,000 is payable under this law to
citizens of New Hanover or their legal
representatives. He has, be says, writ
ten to Hon. Alfred Rowland, our Rep
resentative in Congress, asking for a
copy of the list of persons in New Han
over from whom the tax was collected.
The money is to be reimbursed by the
States to such of their citizens as paid
it ; section third of the, Act providing
'that where the sums, or any part there
of, credited to any State, Territory, or
the District of Columbia, have been col
lected by the United States from theciti-
zens or inhabitants thereof, or any other
person, either directly or by sale of pro
perty, such sums shall be held in trust
by such State or territory for
the benefit of those persons from
whom they were collected, ! or
t legal gprnativea. . l AH
claims under the trust hereby created
shall be filed with the Governor of the
State within six years next after the
passage of the act. and all claims not so
filed shall be forever barred and the
money attributable thereto shall belong
to such State." It is further provided,
that any sum or sums of money received
into the Treasury of the United States
for the sale ol lands, bid in for taxes Jn
any State under the direct' tax law,
passed by act ot Congress, August 5th,
1861, in excess of the tax assessed there
on, shall be paid to the owners of the
land so bid in and resold, or to their
legal heirs or representatives.
The following is given by the Raleigh
News and Observer as the copy of a re
ceipt given a citizen of Wake county
who paid the Direct Tax, viz :
RECEIPT FOR U. S. DIRECT TAXES.
No. 1911.
This is to certify that, has this
dav paid to the undersigned the sum ot
$87.80, that being the amount in full for
taxes, interest and costs, charged under
the act of Congress entitled "An act for
the collection f direct taxes in the in
surrectionary districts and for other
purposes, approved June 7, looa, upon
the following tract of land, situated in
the county joi Wake and State of North
Carolina, and described as ioiiows :
Witness my hand at Raleigh, this 7th
day of August, A. D. 1865.
ti. SEARS,
; Commissioner.
The U. S. Government however has
a record of all persons from whom the
tax was collected and the amount.
THE LEGISLATURE. j
The sickness of one of. the Star's
special correspondents at Raleigh has
curtailed its reports of Legislative pro
ceedings. Only one bill of general importance
passed the House vesterday--to appro
priate $1,000 to complete the Governor's
mansion.
In the Senate the bill to re-charter
the Petersburg railroad extending the
charter for two years was discussed.
Mr. Turner favored the bill. Mr. Wilcox
opposed it. Mr. Turner was willing to
join hands with the House and grant
the charter for two years. The bill went
over till to-day.
Xbrports Foreign.
Norwegian barque Nioie cleared yes
terday for London, Eng., with cargo of
4,880 barrels rosin, valued at $5,957.
Vessel; by Heide & Co., cargo, by Wil
liams & Murchison.
Norwegian barque Kalstad cleared
for Bowleg, Scotland, with cargo of
4,126 barrels rosin, valued at $6,007.47.
Vessel by J. T. Riley & Co., cargo by
Jno. W. Bolles. .
Brig Richard 7. Green cleared for
Port-au-Prince, Hayti, with cargo of
252,869 teet lumber, valued at $4,203.29.
Vessel by Geo. Harriss, Son & Co., car
go by S. & W. H. Northrop.
A Wew Cigarette Machine.
A ; telegram to the Star, from Fav-
etteville, says that "Mr, J. B. Underwood
of that place has scored asignal victory
in the invention of the only strictly au
tomatic self-feeding cigarette machine
in the world, which has just been tested
by an expert and found to be capable of
making one hundred and hlty tnousana
cigarettes per day. The machine is a
marvel of simplicity and destined to re
volutionize the cigarette manufacturing
world." 4
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WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, MARCfl 13, 1891.
SEABOARD AIR LINE.
- Inspecting Their Bew Railroad.
President John M. Robinson, Vice
President R. Curzon Hoffman and
Director Louis McLane, ' of the Sea
board and Roanoke railroad, have gone
on a trip to inspect the Georgia South
ern ana fionda railroad, which was
lately acquired from the Macon Con
struction Company. They will be join
ed n the way to Georgia by other
stockholders of the Seaboard and Roan
oke and Raleigh and Gaston- railroads.
The officers and directors of thetSeorgia
Southern and fTorida Railroad Com
pany ratified the agreement br -contract
made by President Willis B. Sparks, of ,
the Macon Construction Company, for
the transfer of the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad to the Seaboard and
Roanoke system. Macon Construction
Company stock sold in that! city last
Thursday at the rate of $40,000 a share.
The par value is $10,000, butadvanced
under the influence of the"- sale of the
Georgia Southern and Florida railroad
to the Seaboard and Roanoke. Hold
ers of the stock in the Macon Company
claim that it will advance to $75,000 a
share.
Commissioner of Navigation Bates
has issued a circular to collectors of cus
toms relating to an act of Congress, ap
proved february 21, which is of great
importance to vessel owners and mas
ters. The penalties will not be opera
tive until after 81st of December, and
with such a margin (11 may escape them.
in addition to tne lormer requirements
of the law, that the name of a j vessel be
painted on the stern in white, j yellow or
gilt letters not less than three ; inches in
length, the new law requires that the
name shall be painted on both bows in
letters not less than four inches in length.
The law requires, also, that the
draught of every registered vessel
shall be marked upon the stern and
stern-post, in English feet or decimeters,
in either Arabic or Roman numerals. The
bottom of each numeral shall indicate
the draught to that line. It further pro
vides that the owner, agent or master
of every inspected sea-going! steam or
sail vessel shall indicate the draught of
water at which he shall deem! his vessel
safe to be loaded for the trade she is en
gaged in; which limit as indicated shall
be stated in the: vessel's certificate of in
spection, and it shall ' be unlawful for
such vessel to be loaded deeper than
stated in such certificate.
The Sugar Market.
Free raw sugar will be an importation
on April 1, and a' heavy advance in price
this month and a sugar famine was
feared in consequence. Mr Henry O.
Havemeyer say on the subiect.
"There is no danger ot a sugar famine.
With the exception of Havemeyer &
biavr ui th, siiirar , renners m the
United States have given 4.
oonds, and are working the raw sugars
in bonds according to the regulations of
the Treasury Department. 1 hese bond
ed sugars can be withdrawn during
March by paying rates of duty similar to
the amount of the drawback formerly al
lowed on exportations. Under those
rates cranulated sucar would cost for
March consumption 7 Scents. The same I
sugar for April has been sold at Ai cts. r
It is an advantage to the, consumers.
There can be no sugar famine if consu
mers are willing to pay 1 cents a pound
for sugar this month as against 6 cts.
a pound at the same time last year. The
Havemeyer & Elder Company will give
bonds next week. Contracts entered in
to during last year prevented the com-
pany from giving bonds when the other
buiupiiuica uiu. j
Good News from Orerthe Be.
Many, no doubt, will remember the
sad and touching death o' the hand
some wife of Capt. Thorsen, who died
on board of her husband's ship, the
Rosenberg, while it was in mid-stream at
Southporfready to cross the ocean, in
the month of December. She was an
unusually fine lady, ot a high order of
intelligence and devotedly pious. About
two weeks before she died : a little son
was born to her, who was baptized by
Rev. F. W. E. Pesckau, pastor of St.
Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church,
of our city, who also administered the
Holy Communion to her a few days
prior to her death and buried her from
the Lutheran Church after her death.
Although it was mid-winter. Captain
Thornsen preferred to take his young
infant son with him and sailed to Lon
don, which city he reached in twenty-
three days. On '. February 12th , he
reached his home, in the city of Sta-
vanger. Norway, a place bt 80,000 in
habitants, and delivered his young child
over to the parents of his young and
beautiful wife who lies buried in our
midst.' and the parents, in a letter to
one of our citizens, writes that the child
was in eood health and fine condition
much to the joy of all. This will be
good and welcome news to the many
who became interested in the captain in
his severe loss and affliction whilst in
our midst.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS-
As Apportioned by the Senate Branch of
the State Legislature.
1. Beaufort, Camden, Carteret, Cho
wan, Currituck, Dare, Gates. Hertford,
Hyde, Martin, Pamlico, Pasquotank,Per-
auimans. Pitt, lvrreii, Washington.
2. Bertie. Edgecombe,: Greene, Hali
fax, Lenoir, Vance, Northampton, War
ren, Wilson and Wayne.
8. -Bladen. Cumberland, Duplin,
Craven, Harnett, Jones, Moore, Onslow
and Sampson. 1 I
4. Chatham, Durham.Franklin, John
ston. Nash. Orange and Wake. -
5. Alamance. Caswell, Granville, Guil
ford, Person, Randolph,! Rockingham
and Stokes. !
6. Anson, Brunswick, Columbus,
Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Pender,
Richmond. Robeson and Union.
7. Alexander, Cabarrus, Davidson,
Davie, Forsyth, Iredell,! Montgomery,
Rowan. Stanlv. Surrv and Yadkin.
8. Alleghany, Ashe, Burke, Caldwell,
Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln,
Witchell. Wautauga and Wilkes.
9. Buncombe. Cherokee. Clay, Gra
ham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson,
McDowell. Macon. Madison, Polk, Ruth
erford, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey.
Nineteen members represented the
Illinois joint assembly yesterday. One
hallotwaS taken, with the following re
sult: - Palmer, 14; ; Streeter, 4,- Ogles
by.l. -
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
The ColleRA at Xonroe, IT. C, Destroyed
by Tire-Two of the Students Perish
in the Flames Another Boy Seriously
Burned. . ' j
Intelligence was received here yester
day, from Monroe, Nv'C of the com
plete destruction by fire at an early
hour yesterday morning of ProL An
drew's school building at that place, and
the burning to death of two of the stu
dentsone named Pemberton, from Lit
tle Rock, Ark and the other, Bost.
from Cabarrus county, N. C. Another
boy, named Rhodes, from Darlington, S.
C, was badlyburned, but it is thought'
he will recover. : " I
Particulars of the sad occurrence are
rather meagre. The fire was discovered
about -4 o'clock. It broke out in the
upper part of the' building, and it is
supposed was caused by a defective
chimney. The three boys were asleep
in rooms on the--third floor. One of
them Rhodes ran through the fire
and made J bis escape from the
building; but was seriously burned,,
as stated. I Young Pemberton, ! it
is thought, was not awakened and was
burned in his bed. The other lad who
lost his life -young . Bost tried to es
cape but must have been overcome and
-suffocated by the dense volume of smoke
before he could reach an . exit. Their
charred remains were found in the ruins
after the fire.
Our informant says that one of the
two boys burned to death received a
letter from his mother just the day be
fore, expressing her anxiety to see him
and saying that she could hardly wait
for him to come home. !
A telegram last night gives further
particulars of the fire. The students
of the school were aroused as. soon as
possible, but it was too late to save the
building, and two unfortunate young
men Thomas E. Pemberton, of Little
Rock, Ark., and Albert Bost, of Bost's
Mill, N. C, perished in the flames. At
the first alarm the young ladies who
roomed on the ground floor made their
escape. The young men roomed on
the third floor, and when the alarm
reached them, means of escape were pari
tially cut off and the building was filled
with smoke and flames. Albert Bost and
A. C. Rhodes were in a room together;
Albert awakened first and discovering
the fire, awoke Rhodes. In trying ta
escape Albert started for the west en
trance, which was in the part of the
building where the fire originated. He
was suffocated by smoke, overcome by
heat, and went down with the building
Young Rhodes sought the east entrance
and managed to escape after being se
verely burned about the neck, head and
arms. '
Thomas Pemberton was not seen at
all, and his remains were found on the
wire springs of his bed, leading to the
-tu. TU
head arms, and legs of the bodies were
burned off, leaving a mass of charred
flesh. t
The building was completely destroyed
together with the school fnrniture, four
pianos and the library, ine origin 01
the fire
is not known. The loss
is
$15,000.
NEW RIVER OYSTER CO.
Meeting of Stockholders-Election of Offi
cersGetting; Beady for Operations.
A meeting of the New River Oyster
Company was held yesterday afternoon
ind steps were taken for immediately
commencing operations under the char
ter which they have just procured from
the Legislature. I
A board of directors was elected as
follows: Messrs. Berry Gleaves, F. W.
Kerchner, Iredell Meares, T. D. Meares,
J. H. Sharp, J. L. Boatwright, J. R.
Kenly. of Wilmington; J. A. Mattocks,
of Onslow county; Maj. R. S. Tucker,
of Raleigh. . I
The following officers were chosen for
the ensuing term: Berry Gleaves, Pre
sident; R. S. Tucker, Vice President; A.
J. Howell, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer.-
Iredell Meares, Attorney.
The company owns about 350 acres of
oyster grounds on Stone's Bay, Onslow
county, and its capital stock is $75,000.
They propose to erect a canning factory
at Stone's Bay to can not only oysters
but such fruits and vegetables as may
be available, and to begin business at
once, a sufficient number of shares
having already been subscribed for.
The . remaining shares will be
offered to the public at fifty dollars per
share to be paid in monthly instalments,
The company has a fine field for work,
and n doubt jwill make the undertak
ing a great success.
Death of a Former, Besident of Wilming
ton.
Mr. Reed M. Foster, a brother of Maj.
F. W. Foster, of this city, died yester
day at his home in East Canton, Brad
ford county, Pa., in the 40th year of his
age. - l
-Mr. Foster resided in Wilmington,
about eight years, and was well known
to many of our citizens. He had charge
.of the general delivery in the postoffice
under Postmaster Brink, and made
manv friends through his kind and
obliging disposition, who will sincerely
regret to learn of his death. . He left
Wilmington in 1879, and has since re
sided in Canton where he owned and
managed a dairy farm.
Major Foster, who received the sad
intelligence of his brother's death yes
terday afternoon, left on last night's train
to attend the funeral, which 'will take
place Saturday.
Island Beach Hotel.
Mr. Will Hinton. of Goldsboro, pro-i
prietor qf the Arlington-Gregory; hotel
at that place. ' has leased .the Island
Beach hotel at the Hammocks. It is
stated that he wit make a number of
notable improvements at the Hammocks:
Among these will be a large addition to
the hotel building, giving one hundred
more rooms; a large ball room, 50x75
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teet, and a tneatre. tie wiu, aiso, m con
nection with the hotel, establish a pony
livery stable on the beach for the accom
modation of visitors.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
XTommations that Tailed to Beceive Con
firmation by the Senate.
Washington, March 5. The follow
ing nominations faded to receive the
confirmation of the Senate: Tames H.
Beatty, U. S. District Judge of Illinois;
Louis Desmarais, Coiner of the Mint at
New Orleans; Tames H. Youne. Collec
tor of Customs for the -District of Wil
mington, N.C.; Thomas E. Oglesgarde,
register 01 tne iana umce at Minot;
Postmasters G. E. Norris, Brighton,
N. Y.; G. W. Fewree, Edgar, Neb.; John
Clinton, Brownsville. Tenn.: Tames Hill.
Vicksburg, Miss., J. M. McLaughlin,
Lynchburg. Va. ? ! .
in the case ol Beatty the nomination
was resisted by the Idaho Senators on
the ground that Beatty was an active
partisan of the Claggett faction, which
sought to invalidate the election of Sen
ator-elect Lmbose, and finally Senator
rarwell, a warm friend of Dubois, caused
the failure of the nomination, by the de
mand that it lie over for a day, which
carried it over to March 4th.
1 Young's - nomination was bitterly
fought by a faction of his own party.
which sent a delegation here to oppose
it. In the case of Hill, a colored man
nominated for postmaster at Vicksburg,
Democratic opposition managed to . de
lay action long enough to cause failure
of the nomination.
It is said at the White House that no
more appointments will be made until
after the President's return, from his
hunting trip to Benpies, Md., next week.
it is also said that the : President does
not regard an extra session of the
Senate necessary for consideration of
recently provided for judicial appoint
ments. .
Washington, March 6. The amount
of silver offered for, sale to the Treasury
Department to-day was 1,026,000 ounces
and the amount purchased 276,000
ounces at 98.2598.80.
Secretary Blaine said this morning
that he had nothing to say with regard
to tne Canadian election except that
there seemed to be an. impression in
some quarters that President Harrison's
administration was : interested in the
election. "As a matter of fact," he
said, "the administration is utterly in
different as to the result. None of the
members of the Cabinet took any in
terest in the matter and cared less about
it than the Canadians usually do about
our elections."
Secretary Proctor issued a general
order this afternoon authorizing enlist
ment in the army ot not more than
2,000 Indians. I
The President and party have post
poned their departure lor a ducking "ex
pedition in Maryland waters until Mon
day next. They will not be away from
the capital more than three days.
Washington, March 7. Attorney
General Miller has informed the Secre
tary of the Treasury that the alleged ill-
treatment of Hungarian laborers em
ployed in the construction of a railroad
near Pocahontas, Va., is a matter for
State supervision only, there being no
United States law covering such case.
He says that he has, however, called the
attention of the State authorities to the
reported outrages and has also instruct
the United States Attorney for that dis
trict to assist in an investigation of the
matter.: - r
TEXAS FARMERS. -
The Alliance in That State Said to be
Badly Demoralized.
Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. r
St. Louis, March 7. Dispatches from
Texas announce that the Farmers' Alli
ance in that State is in a badly demoral
ized condition. Macune, a noted Alli
ance leader, is in Dallas, and will remain
there for a month or six weeks. Ma
cune's presence created no little sur
prise, as many members of the .Alliance
had threatened to mob him if he ever
entered the State.
The truth is all is not harmony in the
Alliance camp. There are two factions,
each trying to down tne otner; one
a remnant of the old Granger organiza
tion, headed by farmer Bill Shaw, ot the
Texas Farmer, favoring a Railway
Commision, whose members shall
be appointees; the Other , wing.
headed by the Mercury " crowd,
wanted a commissioner elective and
State funds invested in railroad bonds.
It is understood that McCune is
there to patch up a treaty of peace be
tween the factions. Alliance members
of the Legislature have issued a circular
denouncing Coleman, editor of the Mer
cury, as a Northern importation sent
to Texas to dictate to the people. Cole
man says a maionty of the Democrats
of Texas belong to the Alliance. He
proposes to have something to say in dic
tating the policy of the paper, or the
biggest political row in the history 01
Texas politics will taice place.
NEW ORLEANS, j
The Henessey Murder Trial Mayor
Shakespeare Threatened with Assassi
nation. - j
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
New Orleans, March 7. Coroner
Lemonnier reported ,to Judge Baker
this morning that Politz is not insane,
but his mental condition is affected by
fear and loss of hope. John G. Flynn.
attorney, has been appointed to defend
Politz. At 11 o'clock the Court took a
recess until 1 p. m. Dunng fhe recess
Politz again lost his mental control, and
is raving in the sheriff's office, where
four deputies are holding him down on
a lounge, while his friends are endeavor
ing to oaciry him. I
Mayor bhakespeare nas received an
anonymous letter threatening mm witn
assassination in case any of the accused
Sicilians now on trial for the Henessey
murder are convicted. i-
The Stalerlezrns that during the pro
cess of empannelhng the jurors tor the
Henessey case several talesmen were ap
proached with money to render a ver
dict of acquittal in ' case they were ac
cepted as jurors.
A WHEELING TRAGEDY.
Two Prominent Physicians Engage in
Street Affray One of Them Killed.
' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. .
Wheeling. W. Va., March 7. Dr.
Geo.-Baird, a prominent physician and
ex-mayor of this city, was shot twice
and killed by Dr. George J Garrison,
an equally prominent physician, mem
ber of the State Board of Health, and
formerly citv health officer. -They had
been enemies for a long time. This
morning thev met on Fourth street.
No one knew how the fight started, but
it is supposed that Baird made an oiten-
I sive remark to Lrarnson. , 1 ne latter
I drew his revolver -and fired twice, send-.
drew his revolver and fired twice, send
ing one ball into Baird's right ear and
another into his left eye. Baird stag
gered back and fell dead. Garrison was
immediately arrested.
NO. 17
f APPROPRIATIONS.
Approximate Statement of Aggregate
Amounts Voted by the Iisst Congress.
Washington,' March 5.--The follow
ing is an approximate statement of the
appropriations made at both sessions of
the Fifty-first Congress, prepared by the
Clerk of the Senate Committee on Ap
propriations: Amount of j regular bills,
including deficiences and miscellaneous
appropriations for the first session, $361,-700,000.-
Amount of regular bills, in
cluding deficiencies and miscellaneous
appropriations for .second session, $405,
000,000. The permanent appropriations
for the first session, about $101,000,000.
and permanent appropriations' for 1892,
estimated, $122,000,000. This makes a
a grand total of $989,7000,000.
Senator Allison expects to have a
detailed and positive statement of these
appropriations completed in a few days.
Mr. Sayres, of Texas, the leader of
the Democratic "minority on the House
Appropriations Committee, has pre
pared a statement of appropriations
during the 51st Congress as compared
with appropriations during the. 60th
Congress, which shows that the total
appropriations made during the Con
gress just closed were $1,006,270,471,
against $817,963,859 during the preceding
Congress. These amounts include per
manent annual appropriations. The
total appropriations for the first session
of the 50th Congress were $422,626,343
and for the second session $395,337,516,
and of the first session of the 51st Con
gress $464,442,510, and for I the second
session $541,827,961 ; to which Sayres
estimates $800,000 should be added for
various small items. j
DELUDED NEGROES.
Pitiful Condition Of Colored Settlers
in Oklahoma Small-pox Broken Out
Among Becent Arrivals.
St. Louis, March 5. A special from
Oklahoma City says: .
The xace question is assuming a seri
ous phase in Oklahoma Territory, and
the continued agitation which the sub
ject is raising is more than likely to re
sult in a collision between whites and
blacks. When the territory was thrown
open to settlement, a large number of
negroes settled in Guthrie, but their
coming excited no serious . comment.
During the last six weeks,' however,
negroes from the South have swarmed
into Oklahoma by hundreds, in response
to inducements thrown out in a glitter
ing prospectus, which was scattered
broadcast in communities thickly set
tled by the blacks. The main mover in
this grand colonization scheme is said
to be E. P. McCabe, ex-Auditor of the
State of Kansas, in conjunction witn
two white men; 160 acres ot ground
were purchased nine miles north of
Guthrie and a mythical town laid out.
Glowing descriptions of Langston City
were industriously circulated by said
agents, generally preachers, and the ig
norant blacks of Arkansas and Alabama
eagerly invested their small savings in
"the promised land." ,
A gentleman who arrived to-day from
Guthrie describes the , situation there as
something pitiful. Negroes, he said, are
arriving by hundreds j and in a
condition that is little worse
than destitute. They are encamped
about Santa Fe depot and their suffer
kflfidolno't'h'e pangs'of hunger,' are in
tense ; but the worst feature, and par
ticularly the one that has aroused
Guthrie newspapers to a realization ofi
the situation, is the fact that new arri-j
vals have brought small-pox with them.
The people of Guthrie at first suppress
ed the fact that the disease existed for
fear the town would be injured ; but
since it is found that small-pox is
spreading the newspapers have come
out and openly declared in lavor ot in
stituting quarantine against the blacks.
NEW ORLEANS.
The Man Accused of the Murder of the
Chief of Police.
New ; "Orleans, March 6. When
Politz was brought into Court this
morning his face was blanched, and he
looked like a badly frightened man.
He was taken into a private office of the
sheriff's, where he fell j into a furious
rage, waving his hands in the air and
beating his breast. "Mamma, mamma,
my wife, my wife, he screamed, and
then threw himself violently on a lounge
and cried. He lay . there for a long
time, while two deputies tried vainly to
pacify him and cheer him up. sud
denly . he iumped up again and
once more tore his hair and pieaaea ior
mercy, then he began to act use a
raving maniac, and- required the com
bined efforts of two deputies to prevent
him from doing himself harm, tie then
made a rush for a window and attempt
ed to throw himself out, ' but was held
and finally overpowered by the officers
and securely, handcuffed. It is said
that Politz's mind is giving away to the
great strain he has been under and that
he is unable to control himselt.
IN A HOLE.
The
Senate Gets Advantage of the House
In the Kansas Legislature.
Bt Telegraph to the Morning Star.
TOPEKA, March 7. The Senate has
the House in a "hole," and proposes to
make use of its advantage. At noon to
day sixty days of the session for which
the Legislature receives pay expired.
The Senate last night organized as a
Cnnrr. of Imneachment for the trial of
Judge Bodkin of the Sixth Judi
cial District and until i tne u)un is
dissolved Senators, will each receive
their regular salary of $3 per day. They
do not care how long school Keeps,
while the patriotism ; of Representatives
will be tested by their being obliged to
serve unreauited.
The senate will proDamy use its ad
vantage by killing the bill providing
a wholesale reduction of the salaries of
county officers, the Elder mortgage and
Baird tax bins, and otner radical meas
ures. I
A CHECK RAISER.
Over $4,000 Carried Off by an Employe
of a 'Pittsburg Firm.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star..
Pittsburg, Pa., March 7. A. S.
Hodgson, for 25 years a trusted employe
of Jutte & Co.,. coal operators, raised a
check on the Central Bank to-day from
$42 to $4,200. The cash was paid over
without question, and Hodgson took
the first train out Of the city. He
raised a check yesterday from $25 to
$2,500, and got the money, but the firm
discovered the fraudulent transaction
before he had time to leave the city,
Upon being confronted with the evi
dence of his crime; he confessed and
returned the. money. On account of his
Irmcr service the matter was not pressed,
and this morning he took advantage of
his emolvers leniency and raised tne
second check.; I v
Official information received at the
London foreign office shows that vellow
fever is increasing in Brazil.
Raleigh New and Observer :
The passenger train on the Chapel Hill
j- road bound for University Station yes-.
terday alternoon jumped tire track about
a mile this side of Chapel Hill, and both
the baggage and passenger cars turned
over roiled down an embankment, con- '
ductor Smith and the fireman are re- i
ported as slightly injered. . ' .
- Winston Sentinel: Information
reached here this morning of a sad acci
dent which happened at Elbaville, Davie .
county, Monday afternoon. Mr. Con
rad Myers, in company with a neighbor, 1
was out in the woods cutting ; down a 1
tree, and as the same was falling it struck
a large dead limb on another tree. In
order to get out of the way of the falling
limb Mr, Myers unfortunate jumped un
der the tree, which fell across 'him,'
breaking his back, from the effects ol
which he died last night.
Statesville Landmark : Wood .
is getting to be wood with town people
Pal ings and fence posts are doing duty
for fuel and the weather-boarding will
go next. There is much .sickness
incident to the season and the -state of
the weather, in boh town and country.
It takes the form of colds, grip and kin- -dred
affections, and there is more or less
pneumonia mixed in with it. A good
many people are laid up and many who
are going about are feeling bad enough
to be. - " i v
Charlotte Chronicle'. The Chron
tele takes up its pen, with a sigh, to re
cord that the Charlotte Institute, which
was established 65 years ago and has - v
since that time been a source of strength
and honor to the city, is to be closed,
and in all probability forever, as an insti
tution of learning to the city. One
of the largest turkeys ever seen in the
city was one which was at the express
office yesterday. It was a bronze gob
bler, very tall, and weighed 50 pounds.
It was from Shelbyville, Ky., to L. R.
Kidds, in this State.
' -Roanoke Beacon'. All the pris
oners confined in the jail, six in number.
one white and five colored, made their
escape on Saturday night last. The
white man is insane and on getting out
went to his home in the lower part of t
the county . where he was captured on
Monday by Sheriff Blount and brought
back. At this writing the negroes have
not been caught, though every effort is
being made. The Sheriff thinks the
prisoners were aided in breaking jail by '
some one outside. . "
Greensboro Record: The lead
ing nurserymen say the peach trees will
generally be in bloom by the 15th if the
weather does not get any colder, and
fears are entertained of a killing frost on
next lull moon 25th instant. Mr.
W. L. Kirkman breathed his; last at 8 .
o'clock last night. For many years he
has been one of the leading citizens of
Guildford county.' Dr. Jos. A. Mc
Lean was in the city to-day on bis way -
to Salisbury, where he goes to meet his
daughter, Miss Julia, who has been eight
years under treatment in the Morganton
Asylum, r We are glad to know that she
returns entirely cured of her malady.
Concord Times; Mr; Brantly
Saunders lives down in No. 8 township,
and it is safe fb say that the combined
weights of the members will aggregate
more than any other lamuy in North
Carolina. He and his wife together
weigh 490 pounds; four sons weigh 670
pounds, and . four daughters pull the
scales to 815. News has been re
ceived hereof more gold excitement in
Montgomery county. Tebe Saunders--
the man who found such big chunks Of
the precious metal down there some
months ago, is again the lucky fellow.
He was prospecting on the Brunnell hill,
and unearthed a piece of gold that "
weighe 11 pounds on his rusty steel
yards. . Tebe is working the place for
all it is worth. '
r-osiiiH'-a7trrrf -asr Vt - - mrrrmmr-''
nearly three thousand bales ot cotton'
sold On this' market this season, and
Durham makes no pretension of being a
cotton market. -Mr. Southern, father
of both of J. W. Gentry's wives, came
down yesterday. He tried to induce
Mrs. Gentry No. 1 to return home with
him, but she refused to go, stating that
she intended to remain near her hus
band. The surveyors in charge of
tC. Michie, began surveying the Belt
ine Railroad yesterday mornina and
are progressing nicety wiin mcir wwa.
The road begins at the junction of the
D. & N. and O. &C. roads and crosses
the L. & D. at Hamlin's Crossing, about
one and three-fourth miles from town.
This, railroad is being constructed by
the Mutual Land and Manufacturing
Company. .
Lehoifi Topic: Mr. Sharpe, of
Granite, cut one of bis legs so badly
lately that he will have to have It ampu
tated. An alleged . mad-dog be
longing to Mr. J. C. Coffey, ot Mulberry,
went -on a raid last weeK ana pit a mare
belonging to Mr. Gamewell Houck, a
hog and another dog. ine aog was
mrsued but escaped. Robert Hol
oway, Esq., died at his residence at
Mulberry bunday morning, 01 pneumo
nia. Mr. Holloway was one of the wor
thiest of our old citizens, belonging to
one of the original Revolutionary fami
lies of the country. He was mhisBSd -
year.' Mrs. Polly Slough died at
the residence of her grandson, Charles
Stallings, Esq., a few miles southeast ot
Lenoir, on Monday of last week, and was
buried at Collyer's Cemetery on Tues-
day. Mrs. plough was in her 102d year.
and had been a consistent memper 01
the Lutheran Church for 65 years.
Asheville Citizen: The planing
mills belonging to T, L. Clayton, two
miles west of Asheville, on the Leicester
road, were totally destroyed by fire yes
terday evening, between 6 and 7 o'clock.
Shortly after the workmen leit tne
building smoke was seen issuing from it,
and the alarm waa given, but no appli
ances for subduing the flames being at
hand, they spread with great rapidity.
and in a few minutes the whole build- '
ing was in a roaring blaze. A few
hundred dallars' worth of doors and
window frames was all that was saved.
The loss will foot up near $8,000, with no
insurance. Another new town ana
another big hotel! Messrs. "Crapo and
Gonzales have purchased the. Stevens
homestead, four miles souths of Ashe
ville, on the Asheville and Spartanburg
road, and are going to improve it on a
large scale. A new town has been laid
off, and a number of lots have already
been sold. The new town is to De can
ed Bueha Vista. A depot is now under
construction.. These gentlemen will
also build a first-class hotel containing
100 rooms.
Weldon News: Mrs. W. W.
Long, formerly Miss bailie Mason, died
at the residence of her father, Hon. T.
W. Mason, in Northampton county last
Thursday morning, aged about 80 years.
Henry Williams, the negro who
more than a year ago stoie a pair 01
mules and a lot of cotton from Mr. Ed.
Shields, of Scotland Neck, and escaped
from Tom Fields while being carried
through the county to Scotland Neck,
has been captured and safely landed in
Halifax jail. There is a tendency
as we increase in importance, for every
thing to get on a genuine "boom." The
hens not only make nests in trees, but
ducks have commenced to lav large eggs,
Yesterday Mrs. J, T. Evans sent us up
several eggs fully as large as goose eggs,
laid by ordinary yard ducks. These eggs
weighed four ounces each. A syn
dicate of capitalists have purchased the
farms of the late Col. I. B. Zoilicoffer '
and Mr. Sandford Pepper. The price
paid for these lands was $4,700 for the
former and $3,500 for the latter. These
lands are west of Weldon on the Ra
leigh and Gaston Railroad, and the com
pany making the purchase is to be here
after incorporated as the West Weldon
Land and Improvement Company.
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