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hc IBlccMy Jtar. WILLIAM H . jB B EN ABB, Editor and Fijoprietor. i WILMINGTON, N. C.5 Friday, March 27, 1891 ' FST" In writing to change yotn- address alwaytgive former direction as well as full particulars as where you wish your pper to be sent hereafter. Unless yon do both changes can not be made,. ; r Notices of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Re spect', Resolutions of Thanks, Ac, are charged for as "ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for strictly in advance. At this rate 69 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. t3T" Remittances must be made by "Check, Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Fostmas- ters will register letters when desired. fW Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. I ! . 3F Specimen copies forwarded when desired. - r ; I V A MODEL PLATFORM. 1 In view of the fact that the silver question is becoming one of the ; looming questions in our' politics, on I which Democrats held different ' views, some being m favor of free ' coinage, and others against U,! it be ? comes necessary that cool I heads shall direct and the spirit of tolera ' tion shall prevail if we expect to win against a shrewd, bold and well . disciplined enemy.' , ) ! r It is very likely that in the next Democratic National' Convention there, will be delegates from those secjjons of the country which take special interest in the I suyer coinage question who ;'will en-: question deavor to incorporate free jcoin 'age as one of they planks .: of the platform to be adooted which would be a great mistake, j for it ; would debar from the list'f of , candi dates forthe nomination for the Pre sidency and Vice Presidency all but ; avowed free coinage men and would make this the issue looming above i tariff reform and everything else. ; All . Democrats are united on the i cardinal, principles of the party, and i' there should not be injected into the I platform on which all Democrats are I expected to stand any non-essential : on which they might not all stand, i and which might therefore become a cause of dissension and of j weak ness.? .'- . ' t . It will therefore behoove tne' plat-- ' form-makers in the next convention ! to be exceedingly cautious and t i show that spirit of toleration which re- i cognizes every uemocrac wno strug ! gles for the 1 maintenance of those great principles on whicti Democracy i is. founded,. -in comparison with which the number of dollars to be t issifed or the kmd of dollars sink into insignificance. . . , ,j Great discoveries are sometimes ' made by accident and wise utter-" ' knees sometimes come from unex pected quarters. If we were .going to look for some model platform- builders pit would hardly j go out into a-Western Territory to look for them, but we find in a late (number county, Utah Territory, which is a - . model in its way, the essential parts of which are as follows: I ,iTll T-v ' . . . ine Lemocrar.ie nartv tin rfa - cardinal principal of its faith, that the people of each locality, township, county, municipality, and State shall govern, their own local concerns in their own way, subject only to the limitations of me vonsutuuon witnout any i interfer . ence bv 9.T1V extraneous rwartT . "Second Freedom from class leeis- lauon, Dy wnicn one class or any indi vidual shall have- any advantage over another in his or their vocation, calling, vi uusihcm, or m me pursuit oi happi ness. i "Third That each individual shall nave tne largest individual liberty con sistent with order and justice, a liberty which shall be unvexed by sumptuary "Fourth We are against all inter ference by the Church with the affairs of State, or of the State with the affairs of the Church. 'I.n tengusfge of the Constitution Of the United States, we are unalterably opposed to any 'law respecting an estnh- lishment of religion, or which shall pro hibit the free exercise thereof.' j But in respect thereof there shall be universal toleration. u' nif't A Federal Government which shall give a firm and vigorous manage ment of. those great domestic and inter national concerns which belong to the whole body of the nation. . "Sixth Inasmuch as there are many persons who hold to the foregoing prin ciples of the party, and are. therefore, ; Democrats, but who hold with their fellow-Democrats differing views on such economic questions as bimetallism, cur rency, protection and free trade, we re cognize all those as being of the Demo cratic iaith who believe in and adhere to the. principles enunciated in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth declara tions herein before set out." j Here is a platform the spirit of which can be commended to Demo crats everywhere, a platform which embraces all the essential principles of Democracy while it shows the broadest toleration in non-essentials. giving in a section where silver and gold mining are among the leading industries and sources of income, the probabilities are that nine out of ten of these Weber; county Demo crats are in favor of the free and un restricted coinage' of silver, but they, with thousands of other Demo crats throughout the country, don't believe in making this a test of "party fealty nor of injecting it 'into the party platform to become a source of discord and dissension." j . It will-be well if the delegates to the National Convention, ! and the Democracy of the country ' at large, be inspired by the level-headed sense and the broad spirit of unity and patriotic toleration that characterizes this model Western platform. r Soma, of the Republican papers of Illinois, having asserted that Gen. Palmer got the votes of the two F. M.B.A. which elected him to the benate by making certain pledges to them, Gen. Palmer and the two men aforesaid, emphatically deny that he made any pledge of any kind. The Republican organs , should reform ..and make a pledge against lying, but tthey will not. ' , 1 ANOTHEB, HISTORIC FIGURE j GONE. . When Gen. Joseph E Johnston was summoned away another of the great military captains of the age passed from time to eternity. He had live to see many of the chief actois inf the great drama of 61-64, with whom . he fought and against whom he I fought, fall before the reaper. ; He saw Lee, Grant, Sheri dan, Davis, . Sherman, Porter and others nass awav. One of his last - - - . , acts betore contracting the cold which hastened his death, was at tendingjthe funeral of General' Sher man, his great antagonist, whose march to jthe sea he had so gal lantly but unsuccessfully resist ed, between whom and him there had been a life long friendship which had not been marred by the conflict of arms or the bitterness of war. -; He hac distinguished himself in three wars. As a young man in the Florida war, later in the Mexican war, in both of which the wounds he bore attested his valor and his dash, and in the war between the States, where he won his imperishable fame and where he engraved his name among the first of the great captains of the age. It is useless to speculate on what might haye been if the Confederacy had had in the latter years of the war the men to meet - the great ar mies that rwere hurled against it, but when Grant started on his march to Richmond and Sherman on his march to the sea, the Confederacy was re duced to a shell and all the skill of its great chieftains could do was.tb re tard the final collapsef which it could not prevent. This they did, and while battling with overwhelming numbers displayed a valor and a skill which gave them rank among the first captains of the age and won the admiration of their antagonists and of the world. This is attested by the marked consideration with which Grant treated Lee and Sher man-Johnston, and the liberal terms of surrender granted by each of the victorious Generals to his vanquished opponent.! Grant and Sherman, the two great looming military figures on that side have passed away; Lee and John ston, the two great looming military figures on. this side have passed away. They led in a lost cause where human, oower could not avail, but led grandly and while immortal izing themselves shed a lustre of glory on their country that time can never dim! Full of honors and full of years (Joseph E. Johnston, the great son of Virginia, at the age of 82, has crossed the river to join the immortal host on the other side. MINOR MENTION. The Patent Office is one of the in- ton, to many the most interesting Department. April 8th it will enter Upon its second century. Its mar vellous growth and the increase in 'the number of patents annually is sued give; some idea of the inventive genius of'the American people. In 1790 three patents were granted; in 1890, 26,292. For the first twelve years one clerk did all the work; now the ; nearly six . hundred em ployed cannot keep ' up with it, and as a consequence applicants must some times wait for months for patents which should be issued in as many weeks. Of course where there are so many patents annually issued embracing all imaginable de vices, it is no small, task for the ex aminers J to go . through and find whether' some dew invention has not been anticipated by some other in vention on which a patent had been granted,!, or whether some of the claims may not conflict with the claims in others. With the inade quate force, the Jexaminations made are hasty and frequently imperfect, resulting in conflicts and sometimes in expensive suits for infringement which would have been avoided if the proper investigations and exam inations bad been made before pat ents were issued. The Patent Office is about the only department of the Government which is not only self- auaLaumig out nas money to its credit, and this being the case there is no reason why it should not have ample room to meet its requirements and a sufficient clerical fnrr up wun ns work. The inventors of the country who pay half a million orso a year into that department. and are frequently put to great de lay, loss, cost and inconvenience by its inability to keep up with the work are entitled to this. It was humorously suggested when the Governor of New York present- cu ine ciaim ot that State for the amount of direct tax to be ref traded under act of Congress, that a suffi cient portion of . it be applied to the juuaing ot the monument to Gen. Grant, which humorous suggestion was seriously taken and has been since warmly urged by citizens of New York. The organ of the col- . - - orea people of Boston ar1v.-.fe . that the amount due the State of Massachusetts be expended in the establishment and support of indus trial schools. Other suggestions as to its use have been made- in other States. Under the refunding act this money, is paid back to the respective States to held in trust and paid back to those who paid it, if they make ap plication within six years, after which the amount remaining on hand unclaimed reverts to the State. It is a trusUund and no State can apply it otherwise than provided in : . ' 1. - ; : .. . -J' the act without violating the trust. The money does not belong ; to the States; it belongs to . the t people, or their, legal representatives', who paid the v tax. If there be any State which paid, the State's proportion out of the general fund, that is a different matter. In that case, of course, the State would have con- trol of the money refunded and I could properly make such disposi tion of it as it saw fit, There may be others, but there is certainly one level-headed represen tative in the -Missouri State Legisla ture, Mr. Lane, who represents one of the St. Louis districts. He has a bill before the Legislature providing for the employment of the peniten tiary convicts on the public roads and contemplating a grand system oi turnpiKcs ior tne state, tne nisi of which shall be a boulevard from St. Louis to Kansas City. Two ob jects are to be accomplished by this, first in, giving the State a good sys tem of highways; second, in settling the question of . the employment of the States convicts without in terfering 4 with honest labor, ' a question- which has for years given rise to more or less discussion in the Northern States, and has fre quently entered as a factor in politi cal contests. But aside from this, as a proposition from a business and a progressive standpoint, it is full of merit. There is no a State in this Union which has such a system of highways as it should have, and none that has roads, even the best, that will compare with the roads of France, Germaay or England. By using he convict labor, as Mr. Lane proposes in Missouri, there is not one of them. which could not' have within two de cades a magnificent system of high ways penetrating the State in all di rections. STATE TOPICS. We do not believe it was the in tention of the Legislature to tax all incomes, without exception, includ ing the pay of the house servant or day laborer with the salaries of men who receive over $1,000 a year, but if the Machinery act is to be con strued as it reads that's what it did. and every one ho receives compen sation large or small for service ren dered to another,- or from property not taxed, vyll have to pay a tax of one-half of one per cent. Hereto fore there was an exemption of all salaries under '$1,000, that being the amount exempted as living expenses. - Under the new law as it reads there is no exemption. If this was the intention of the Leg islature it is an outrage; if it was not the intention this fact should be as certained, . an extra session of the Legislature ; called, and the law is that if this matter were brought before the courts they would Dut a rational construction on the intent of the Legislature and decide accord ingly. Mayor Gleason, of Long Island City, is a reformer from long taw. xi . 1 . . . . "c iccuujr suppressea a circus in his town because it didn't come up to the requirements of a good show. ourae oi ine aentzens of that town some time ago brought sundry cnarges against Gleason, as Mayor, and tried to suppress him, but it seems there is solid matter enough in mm yet to sit down on a whole ? ' - - circus. Tramps on the rampage who learn now tne enraged denizens in the Vicinity of Shelbyville, Indiana. dressed up that tramp a few days ago will be apt to give that section a wide berth in their mea There is an unusual amount of sickness in a portion of Pottsville. Pa., attributed to polluted drinkinc- water, resulting from defective sew erage. CLARENDON WATER WORKS- Improvements to be Hade in the Service -a Btand-Pipe at Fifth and Market streets. ; It was learned yesterday by a Star reporter that extensive improvements win oe made in the plant of the Clarerf don Water Works Comoanv at an parlw aate. is is .stated that thu rmn. will extend their twelve-inch ' main down Fourth street, from Red Cross to Church street, and will make uicrauons in tnir niru.nrc- fr -j - rem. as soon as the material can be procured; and, . also, will remove the stand-pipe now at Hilton to the inter section of Market and Fifth streets, a location proposed some time aeo. and wuiwu win insure aDundant water- pressure in all parts of the city: ExDorta Foreign. ocnooner rditn R, Seward cleared yesterday for Santiago-de-Cuba, with cargo of 23,590 feet creosoted and 178.- 035 feet uncreosoted lumber, valuer! at $3,308.77. Cargo by S. & W. H. Nor throp, and vessel by Geo. Harriss, Son The Norwegian barque Alert, clearer! ior Bowling, Scotland, with cargo of Darreis rosin, valued at $7,715. Cargo by Paterson, Downing & Co.; vessel Dy U P. Mebane. The Weldon correspondent of tne Richmond Dispatch speaks thus pieasantiy ot Mr. Harry Walters. General Manager ot the Atlantic Coast Line: "Mr. Walters, while a Baltimorean bv i ., .. ... . -j oiixn, is a inorough Worth Carolinian in sentiment and by identification. His interests here in the 'Old North State are so closely allied with the best inter ests of her people that they claim Mr. Walters as one of their very own. He has done much for the prosperity of cT.ern iaroJina. all of which is dulv appreciated." NOTICE. This is intended only for subscribers whose subscriptions have ez- pir6(i. It iS TJlbt & dllll, but , a simple request that all who are in ar rears for the STAR will favor us with a prompt remittance; We are sending out bills now (a few each Week), and if OU Te- ceive one please give it your attention. THE DEMOCRATS WIN. JOHN D. TAYLOR, CLERK. The Supreme Court Affirms the Decision of the Superior Court. ' Special Star Tel egr tm. Raleigh. N. C... March 24. In the election case of VanAmringe vs. Tay lor, the Supreme Court affirms the judg ment of the Court below. In the opinion, the Court say. substantially, the Supe rior Court instructed the jury that if Thomas was registrar de facto, the elec tion would hence be valid, but said fur ther, "if you find from the evidence that Cowan continued to act as t registrar!, employed Thomas as clerk to assist hitu and Thomas fraudulently obtained pos session ot the books, and assumed to act as registrar, he was an intruder, and in consequence the election held by . hiiq and his appointees was void, and your. answer should be no." This is the prin cipal ground of assignment of error. The evidence tended to prove that Cowan was duly appointed to be' regis-; trar; that he accepted the office, and acted as such until the day of election ; that he did not resign; that he did not appoint Thomas registrar; that Thomas sirnplv acted as clerk; that Thomas fraudulently got the registration books under the false prom ise to return them; that he did not re turn them; that he assumed to be regis trar and acted as such; that he appoint ed two judges of election, who, with the two judges regularly appointed, co-operated with him in holding the election. The evidence fully warranted the in structions, if it was correct in point of law. ' ' After considering the question, of of ficers de facto and de jure, the Court say: "When Thomas obtained from Cowan the registration b oks, fraudu lently, under promise to return the same and assumed to act as registrar, he was simply . an intruder and he had no authority and he could perform no law ful official act as such, and the elec tion which he and the supposed judges his apppointees held, was void. The evidence went to prove and the jury found, that Thomas was a naked intruder, with no conditions that rendered him registrar de facto. The electors had notice that Cowan was the lawful registrar. Therefwas no notice that truder; they did so in their own wrong; they ought not to have gone through an empty form, that hac no legal effect. The relator could readily, as he did.Dut in all evidence and avail himself before the iury. He was not necessarily preju diced by it, nor Ooes it appear he was. The other exceptions are without merit. SOLD AT AUCTION. Sale of the Messenger Forty-five Hun- dred Dollars the Price Paid. In accordance with the provisions of a deed of trust for ten thousand dollars. and after due notice by advertisement, the sale of the Messenger took place yes terday at noon at the Court House door, Messrs. Cronly & Morris being the auc tioneers. Theie was a larcre attendance. but the bidders were "Like angel visits, few and far between." After explaining that v the sale would be for cash and without reserve, the stentorian voice of Mr. M. Cronly caught the attention of the crowd as he sane out: How much am I offered?" "One thousand dollars." "was the response made, by a young and popular dealer in the fleecy staple. "Four thousand dol lars." said Mr. Sol. C. Weill, as agent for Mr. Pembroke Jones. Other small bids were made until forty-five hundred dollars was reached, at which price the property was "knocked down" to Mr. Pembroke Jones. The sale according to official an nouncement; includes all and singular the estate, property and assets of every nature, kind and description, of the said company, including the plant, machine ry, job office outfit, printing presses, and appertenances, forms, stands, type, stock of paper, materials, fixtures, fur niture, safe, Associated Press franchise, contracts for printing, subscription lists, choses in action, book accounts, debts, claims and demands and the good will belonging, or appertaining, to the busi ness and office. Editor Jones is now in Florida, and until his return nothing reliable will probably be known in outside circles concerning the tuture of the paper. At .u. . ? : . i wuUUUUK tuum oe learned yester- day except that instructions had been given to continue its publication. There are many reports, connecting various parties with the purchase; but from the best information attainable the new deal has not yet assumed any definite shape. The Haohinery Aot. The Raleigh News and Observer savs: 'Treasurer Bain has issued a circular stating some of the changes in the Machinery Act, which provides for a new assessment of property this vear The taxes amount to 43 cents, as fol lows: General purposes 25 cents. school tax 15, pensions 3. This allows but 23 cents to the counties, while many of the counties in the State are now levying special taxes." The Morning star. An enlargement of the Star and many other improvements are in con templation, though they may not be made in full before the close of the present volume. In the mean time, its readers may rely on a live vigorous and . progressive management. "In the bneht lexicon of" the 'there is no such word as fail." ANEW COURT. HOUSE, v The County Commissioners Empowered to Purchase' Bite on the Corner of ' Third and Prinoess Streets for $10, 000. r, i;-:,-v- .; . . . s A joint meeting of the Board of Mag istrates and Board of Commissioners of New Hanover county was held yester day at the I Court House. Present: Commissioners H.- A- Bagg,- Jas. A: Montgomery, E. " L. Pearce, Roger Moore, B.: G. Worth, and Justices D." Cash well, A. David, W. M. Poisson, D. McEchearn.W. W. Harriss, Jno. L. Cant well. Walker Meares, Martin Newman, H. McL Green, Jno. - J.- Fowler, Jno. Cowan, E. D. Hall f M. F. Cas tm, L, W. McLaurin. J G. Oldenbuttel. W. Mc. Evans, RB. Clowe. O. Fennell, Jr., Jno. H. Daniel, J. E: Sampson. Geo. L. Morton. R. H. Bunting, J. D. H. Klander, - of ,.Wilmington township; Heniy Taylor, Federal Point; R. E. Heide, R. S. Montford, Masonboro; J. Macomber. E. W. Manning Harnett; J. T. Kerr, Cape Fear. Dr. W. W. Harms, chairman of the Board of Magistrates, presided.' and Mr. Jno. Haar. Jr., was secretary. The chairman stated that the object of the meeting was to take into consid eration the; purchase of a site for, and the erection of a new court, house. ; Mr. H. A. Bagg, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners, stated that the State Legislature had empowered the Board of Commissioners to issue bonds to the amount of $50,000 for. the pur pose stated, and that the Board had re ceived propositions offering the lot on the southeast corner of Third and Prin cess streets belonging to Col. Jno. W. Atkinson, at $',000. and the lot adjoin ing, on Princess street, extending to the county jail lot, the property of Mrs. Ful ton, for $4,000. The lou have a r frontage of 115 feet on Princess street, and 165 feet on Third street. . ' ' justice Jno. H. Daniel offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Commissioners of New Hanover county are hereby em powered and instructed to purchase the property offered by Col. Atkinson and Mrs. Fulton, at a sum not. to exceed $10,000. Alter some explanations, on motion of Justice H. M. L. Green, the resolu tion was unanimously adopted. A resolution empowering the Com mission crs to formulate plans for the new Court House and report to the Chairman of the Board of Magistrates when they are ready to submit them. was also adopted. The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the Chairman. ITouching Incident in the Lutheran Church The Lutheran Church was crowded from end to end last Sunday night at the English services, to witness the con fession of faith of a class of eighteen catchumens. The eighteen children made confession of their holy faith in an earnest, intelligent and impressive manner. After seventeen of them had performed their high and holy duty, a touching incident, that is perhaps un paralleled in our city's history, occurred when Miss Josephine Boecher, an almost speechless and deaf child, gave expres sion to her faith in God. In the letters and signs of the dumb alphabet she - - J 5-w in i ii - - was not only profoundly touching, but moved many to tears. Her humble look ot mingled faith and true devotion. ner raised and motioning speechless hands, imploringly rendering the Lord's Prayer, was indeed a touching sight She also wrote Scripture passages, etc., faultlessly. She is the daughter of our good fellow townsman. J. Boechler, Sr. The Killing of Mr. ICoSween. Further particulars of the killing of Mr. Hector McSween, on the North eastern railroad, near Florence. S. C-. have been received. He was walking by tne siae or the track, and when the train was in about fiftv feet nf Mr McSween. (who was deaf and could not bear at all) he stepped from the side to the middle of the track. Just as ne did so ,the rear car or caboose of the train struck him. knocking him down, and ran over him. He was fearfully man gled, so much so that he was beyond re cognition except by the clothes and watch that he wore. After beinrf struck by the train he was dragged about 100 feet. The tram was running about ten miles an hour. The engind came on to Florence and Drought the (sad news. Coroner S. F. Burch was nbtified and carried to the -."-. nc ptaceu me remains in a rough coffin and brought them to Flor ence. An injquest was held and the fol lowing was the verdidt : "That he came to his death by being? run over bv .a work train on thej Northeastern railroad by accident." Government Inspeotor of Marine Boilers. A board vfill meet in Charleston, S. C. to-morrowtp recommend a man for the position of U. S. inspector of boilers for this district, in place of Mr. O'Keefe, the j. late inspector. The Charleston News and Courter says: "The board will consistjof District Inspector John w. uast, ofi Norfolk, Collector Thomas B. Johnstoi, and United States District Judge Charles H. Simonton. The po- smut, iu uc mica is quite a good one, and there ill nrnhahlv ru a 1 r j uui- per ot applicants. . Alexander Wilson, Richard C Maeill and William R,,m0 it is understood, will be applicants for tlwj place. Mr. O'Keeie is still in charge of iffairs, and will remain in office until his. successor is appointed and qualifies." Stocks of Naval Stores at the Ports. Stocks 6f naval stores at the ports at the! close of last week are reported as fol lows: . Spirits turpentine Wilmington, 3,- 473 casks; Mew York. 2,384; Charleston, 121; bavanhah, 2,700. Total, 8,678 casks. Kosin Wilmington, 38,914, barrels; Nejw York, 18.831; Charleston. 10.840; Sayannah.l 38.878. Total, 107.461 barrels. Tar Wilmington,, 10,020rbarrels; New York, 1,642. Total. 11.662 barrels. : Killed on the Bail.' Mr. Wnj. McSween, engineer on the W. & W. R. k., received a telegram last mght that his brother, Mn Hector Mc- aween, who resides at Florence, S. C, was run Over on the North-Eastern R. R. about nine miles south of Florence. The deceased was verv deaf, but it mnM not be Ieirned whether this had any connection with the accident. a. r,nL , ; i . tictjlars were received, - l WASHINGTON NEVVS Senator Blair Accepts the Chinese Mis- sion HarirMartlnsiOasBaeotlonCaseai Before the supreme ww ; IVial Treneli Snoliationi ClaijSU A' Col- i ored Delegation Calioa toPBiaent.fc Washington, March 23.- Ex-Senator Blair has accepted the Chinese mission, and has arranged to sail from San Fran fcisco for the "Flowery Kingdom" on the first .of. May, s He. has already jeeoejved his instructions from ' the Secretary of State.- - "j '"; ' ' ' j " " . V:'' " ' The case of Harrv Martin.' the" young man arrested Saturday night for break ing into the White House, went over in the Police Court to-day on account of the sickness of the defendant. i The 1 Supreme Court of the Un ited States' to-day-decided the case of the United States vs. Clark Brewer et.aU which comes here on certificate of .di vision of opinion among the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United State for the western: district ot, Ten nessee. ' Brewer; and others were elec tion officers and ": were ' indicted under the Federal statute for refusing or neglecting af t,er elections to open ballot boxes at the place i where the election was held and for failing to read ' aloud the names ot voters, these being the re quirements Of the law of Tennessee. The indictment did not allege fraud or intent to commit fraud, nor that the election was affected by the action of Brewer and his colleagues. The lower court submitted eight questions as to the va lidity of the indictment., ?The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Brewer holds that the indictment was bad. aud answers five of the questions in favor of the election officers, and . does not an swer the remaining questions. In the Criminal Court ; this morning Chas. E. Kincaid pleaded not guilty, to an indictment for the murder ot ex-Congressman Taulbee. The work of pro curing a jury then proceeded with a measure of success, seven having been obtained before the noon recess. In the afternoon the jury box was filled, and then the work of challenging : began. Under the District law the District is en titled to five and the defence twenty per emptory challenges.-. After one chal lenge by the government and two by the defence, without completing the forma tion of thejurythe Court adjourned- In the Court of Claims to-day. an order was issued for, the Clerk of the court to certify to the Treasury Department to the ; validity of certain of the French spoliation claims for pay ment of which f an appropriation of more than a million of dollars was made by Congiess at the last session. It is re quired in law that1 those claims that have been adjudicated by the court can be paid by the Treasury; but it shall be necessary for the claimant to make certificate in court to. the effect that he is an administrator of the. heirs of the original sufferer; In a dozen or so cases reported to the Department this morn ing this formality has been complied with. . . - Secretary Foster today announced that the policy of the Treasury Department, begun by Assistant Secretary Nettleton, in exercising the discretion - vested in the Secretary of Treasury , by act of March 3, 1891, to decline to furnish gold bars in exchange for gold coins for shipment would be adhered to and the necessary -instructions ,. to that .effect were issued by the Director of the Mint. The application of the Governor of Missouri for the refund of . the direct tax contributed by that State, amount ing to $646,958, iwas filed' at the Treas ery Department to-day; Washington, March 23, The Balti more Committe of the Afro-American Press Association called upon the Pres ident to-day and presented an address to him on the state of the. country. The President, in response, said; that so far as a position on the World's Fair Commission was concerned, there were no vacancies, and if i one were to occur factowugiirAhs. iyi thing, and a proper man was presented, he would make the appointment. ' Speaking with reference to the re quest that a colored man be appointed to the Bench, the President asked if the delegation had a man who was thor oughly versed in the law and had arrived af that eminence in prac tice which would entitle him to an appointment as Circuit judge. Pre sent the name of a good man. said the President, and I will give it that con sideration which its importance com mands. When the committee told the Presi dent that there were a number of that class of men among the race whose names would be presented to him with endorsement of the bar of the State at which they practiced, "he advised that their names be sent in and he promised to considerthem impartially. ; The interview was very cordial and p easant, tne President inviting the committee to call again, and thanking the negro press association for its kind ly remembrances of h fairly by the race. Washington, March 24JThe Trea sury department to-day issued a warrant for $646,a58 in favor of the Governor of Missouri on account of the Direct Tax collections. It was placed in the hands of Representative J T, Heard, who is acting as the duly authorized agent of the Governor in the matter. The President to-day appointed Ivory G- Kimball, of the 'District, of P.nliim bia, to be United States judge of the Police Court of the District of Colum bia, to act until the end of the next ses sion oi the United States Senate. This appointment is made under the provi sions of the Local Police Court inm Act, approved March 3, 1891, and is sig nificant inasmuch as it inritVaiW v.o the President feels authorized to fill a newly cieated DresidentUl nffir dnr;n the recess of Congress. While the ad ditional Circuit 'Court Tudone this category, it is not regarded as like- iy mat tnese appointments will be made for several months yet. It is the purpose of tBe Naw Denarr- ment to have Admiral? Brown in mand of the Pacific station, transfer hie flag from the Charleston to the more suitable cruiser San . Frannsro unH t dispatch that vessel to Chili, at the earliest possible day. Both vessels are now at Mare Island, California, and the San Francisco, it is expected, will be ready to sail within two weeks. If. should be need for-another vul ;n Chilian waters the Charleston will fol low the San Francisco within a fort night. When 'Ad miral Rrown he will relieve Admiral McCann. who win reiom nis station with his flagship, the Pensacola. PL - TN . t inc Lepanment ot State will not take further action in the matter of the iew wneans tragedy until the Italian Minister makes some further communi. cation upon the subject. He has cabled the substance of Gov. Nichols' letter . to his Government and the imnncciVn the State Department is that he will await the action of the New Orleans courts before making further represen tations to the State Department. The first payment under the rer-Pn appropriation act, making provision for the settlement of the French claims, was made by the Secretary of the Treasury to-day. . It was in favor of Mary.Ann Smith, administratrix of the estate of John Smith. Jr., anri 9n.A,,...j to $13,519. - .i , ' . " " The Secretary of the TreaRnnr paid the Indians' share of th JL refund, amounting to 7o iaa Secretary Foster -has suatainAri thi action of the SuDeriornr "7 lul the Wrrr1 Mint at Philadelphia in ref Tn cept for coinage a siltn- h:l .. " I by Merrick and Morse, of Colorado, for "e t"1? testing the legality of the Tory's silver policy. Intbis'he fol- asm. jijiaAUm lur j retary Windom. vncu Luc nm'MMf Mt.hi k. c I w NEW ORLEANS LYMGH1NG GOV. NICHOLS' REPLY TO 8ECRE- TARY BLAINE. A Plain - Statement or im rwa ana the Course Pursued by the Authori . ties . of -lionlslann. ... j, - - - -; v -1 " - ' . By Telraph to die. Morning Star..? (. . Washington, March 24Sccretaiy Blain received letter--froi'Governor Nichols of Louisiana, this imorning in regard to the. recent killing of the eleven Italians in the jail at New j Orleans, of which the following is a copy: ; , ' . "Executive Department, ' J - r "State ok Lousii an a, "New Orleans,. March 21, 1891. "Hon. Jas. G. Blaine, Secretary of State, Washington, . C: J , .. "Dear Sir: At a late hour on the 15th inst. I'-YeCefved" a "dispatch from vou - havine . reference tc the : forcible breaking, on the 14th of this month, of the jail in this city, aad the killing of eleven persons confined therein under inaiciments iuuau tu wc viiuuuu uio trict Court for the parish of New Or leans. ' : -- ' f , "You stated . to me that it had been reDresented to the President by the Minister of Italy, accredited to the Gov ernment of the i United States, that among the killed on that occasion were Italy. . The telegram disclosed appre hension on the part of the minister, evi dently shared in by the" President, that the disturbance was a continuous and swelling disturbance which might in volve Italian - subjects in New Orleans. ,1 have reasons to believe that the hope expressed by the President that 1 would co-operate with him in maintaining the obligations of the United States towards Italian subjects who might be within the perils of excitement, and that fur ther violence and bloodshed might be Prevented, wan based upon that belief, he President further expressed the hope' that all of the parties might be promptly brought to justice. i "On the 16th, I wired;that there was no excitement in the city at that time, and that I saw no reason for anticipating .further trouble. I also stated that the action taken was directed against parti cular individuals, and that the race or nationality of the parties did not eater as a factor in the disturbance. A week has passed since the date of my dis patch, and the opinion then entertained as to the termination of the trouble has proved to have been well founded. The men killed, as 1 - nave stated, were confined in the prison under indictment found in the Criminal District Court for the parish' of New Orleans. The sheriff has made his return of the' facts to the courts, and the judge thereof has charged the grand jury now in session In regard to the matter, and the whole subject is, I assume, now under invest! gation by that body. I am satisfied that most of the peisons killed were Ameri can citizens, but it is probable that two or three were Italian subjects. "I have the honor to be, very respect fully. ' i . . Francis L Nichols." : Secretary Blaine has sent a copy of the letter to Baror fava Italian Min ister. L .'.'. .,,..-.' LYNCH LAW. Horrible Treatment of a Tramp in In dianaA Negro Bavisher Hanged in Ala : bama. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Shelbyville, March 24. A tramp named Phil. Dougherty yesterday en tered a number of houses where men happened to be away, demanding that hot coffee and dinner be furnished him. He abused the women whenever they refused to comply. R. D. Flaitz heard ' wiics uy ior neip, ana geixing a re volver, started after Dougherty. He placed Dougherty under arrest just as he had kicked down the door of the house of Mrs. Ensminger. Last night a mob of over five hundred men surrounded the jail where he was locked up and demanded the- prisoner. The sheriff refused, but as the officer was taking the prisoner through a back alley he was seized by the mob who took him to a bridge . where a rope was placed around the tramp's neck. Some mem bers of the mob begged that his life might be spared and the lash was sub stituted. About, thirty persons were provided with cowhides and each one ojied the lash across the man's almost bare back. - He begged for his life, and every stroke seemed to bring a fresh gush of blood until his shoes were filled. Finally he was cut down almost exhaust ed but with life enough to hobble off. ; ' Birmingham, Ala., March 24. The lynching; of John- Dances, colored, at Columbiana, about three o'clock this morning, was the sequel to his attempt several months, ago to outrage - Mrs. Breeston Botts, a highly repected white woman, in Shelby countv. A bodv of armed men went to the house of Jailor Slaughter and forced him to unlock the jail cell. They then took Dances to the woods, half a mile from town, and hung him, .The jailor. Deputy SherifSmith, and A. Mv Elliott, who came to the resc ie, were forced to go along and see the hanging. About. 200 men, in all, participated in the lynching. j GROVER CLEVELAND. A Letter to the Tariff Heform league of , ilNDiANAPOLis, March 23. Ex-President .Cleveland has written a letter to the Indiana Tariff Reform League de clining to" be present at the League's annual meeting. The full text of the letter is not given out 'for publication. . - - a. but the closing paragraphs are made public They are as follows: -You , will . not, I hone, think it amiss ili , suggest the necessity of push mg with more vigor than' ever the doctrine Of your - organiza tion. I believe that the theories, and practices which tariff reform antagon izes are responsible for many if not all or.-tne evus wmch afflict our people.' If there is a scarcity of the circulating me dium, is not the experiment worth try ing, as a remedy, of leaving monev in ine nanas- oi the neoni an4 for their use. which is needlessly -"r--" viu Liicui uuuer me pretext of necessary taxation ? .If the farmer's lot is a hard one in his discouraging strug gle for better rewards of his toil, are the prices Of his products to be improved by a policy which hampers trade in his best markets and invites the competition of dangerous rivals?. Whether some other means of relief may appear necessa- sh,nc rer tlv 6 frmer's Present hard- !?.,iAb?1,ve.' the Principle of tariff icwrm promises most important aid in their satisfaction; and that continued and earnest advocacy of this principle is essential to the lightening of the bur dens of our countrymen. 'Hoping that your organization may continue to be one of great usefulness and encouragement, I am yours verv respectfully. . . , .- 3 ' Grover Cleveland. SFABlTinra CATAWBA BPHTWOB iinttea;Seers huM go to Spark ling Catawba Sorinc: Ri.,t1rv,iK Sonne's' - TMtitifliw IX" iea - "V Catawba county. 1.000 fi Catawba county. 1.000 fet K?Zl h of the Blue Wat 7- . ,",I8I"ncent. W aterS DOSSess mMtiVinal . . VUlLfl.lllS. pef monr &fT 0nly -130-00 SL9 - 5 advertisement in this rnp - " r . e.. m j. h iiAf Jfr proptitxon,-ior- descripUve pam- SPIRITS; TURPENTINE. Oxford Ztey: Waverlv wu food, the colored boy who shot Peitn loss, another colored youth, Saturn morning, was captured about a mile anJ a half from town by Constable tv ,? Crews the same evening. Waverly the gun went off accidentally. He S iut m juk ' rciwu g wound Was sv k that it was thought at first he rouiri - recover, uui wc w sua in tne land of th living and getting along nicely. e Maxton Union : Mr. Wm t, - Morning of our town has fr,,,, L. : carved mahogahy chairs that were onr. the property of Commodore d They are considerably over one hundrZi years old, but in good state of rr.J5 tion. They were a present to Mr. Mnr!" rng s grandmother by Mrs. Commodor. this townsbip was found dead in herC on the morning of March lGth. Sh -.aaiv nf near 80 years old and as she hart v. wwuub uajrs, it was 1 t sup. posea sne aiea oi apoplexy. - New Berne Journal: A ti. gram received in the city brings the sart intelligence of an accident that enri the life of Mr. John R. Cobb, at SaluS iu i lie western pan oi tne atate P( was running an engine on the Ash'eviiu and Spartanburg railroad, and in at tempting to step from his engine to an other while in motion, he slipped, feii" was run over and received other in'iuri about 10 o'clock: Mr. Cobb was about 25 years of age. He was the son of Dr R. G. Cobb, of Cobbton, this county. Raleigh Visitor: The inspectors report the sale of fertilizers much larger than expected this season, and a num. ber of new brands are on the market It is thought that the receipts from th new ; tonnage taxwill exceed the est',, mates. Orders were issued yester day for the admission of fourteen more patients in the State Hospital here, that number having been discharged as cured. There are now 250 patients in' the institution, while thirty are outside on probation. There about one hundred harmless incurable who could be re. turned to their respective counties if the latter had proper accommodations for them. Charlotte Chronicle: The per sonal effects and belongings of the late Thos. J. Simrill, of Steel Creek, were sold at public auction last Thursday One of the articles put up for sale was a wash pot. which sold for $5. The pot was an ordinary one. which could have been bought for $1.65 anywhere. It was run up by two negroes who commenced bidding against each other, until it was finally knocked down to one of them for $5. The directors of the Literary and Library Association held a meetiiie Thursday night and elected Mrs. B. L Dewey Librarian. The protracted meeting at B. Street Chapel, which have been conducted by Rev. R. A. Bowman, concluded Friday night. The church was filled to its utmost and there were thirty-five conversions at the conclusion of the service . Smithfield Herald: Mad dogs are quite prevalent now in several pans of the State. Chief of Police Dickens killed one on the streets Monday. This makes three or four mad dogs that have been killed here in the last three or four months. The call made last week for a meeting toforganize 'a knitting fac tory was responded to by a good many of our citizens and we feel now no hesi tancy in saying that the knitting mills will ennn hi in nrvArotin . f"V! 4 J. Heath, one of the most scientific and enterprising farmers in the county, has had quite a peculiar phenomenon among his cattle. He had a very large ox wnicn Decame violently mad, stamp ing and hooking at every thing that came in his way and was son dangerous that he had to kill him. He also had a young heifer and a yearling to go mad and had to be killed. He cannot ac count for it unless they had been bitten Dy a rabid dos;. They showed every sign of madness and the ox was very dangerous. Oxford Day: We learn upon authority.which we deem to be un doubted, that a large smooking tobacco factory is to be erected as speedily as posible on the property of the Oxford Land, Improvement and Manufacturing Company. - This morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, a colored boy twelve or thirteen years of age, rented a snot gun irom J. f. Edwards bard- ware store, and started out on a bird hunt. Opposite Thomas White's resi dence on Main street, he met another colored boy of about his own age. named Pelton Moss, and stooped to speak to him. They talked a few min utes wnen waverly was seen to point n is gun at feiton. ine weapon was discharged, Pelton fell and Waverly, throwing his gun down, took to his heels. A crowd soon ran to where the wounded boy lay. and it was found that the charge had entered his right shoulder, tearing it terribly. The wound is a serious one and Pelton will proba- Diyaie. wnetber the shooting was ac cidental or purposely done is not known. Waverly has not yet been captured. Raleigh News and Obsemt; Gov. Fowle yesterday reappointed the luiiuwiiig notaries puonc: r. A. sum ming, Buncombe Jcounty; O. S- Hayes, KODeson county; Josiah Nicholson, Per quimans county. A petition is be ing circulated asking that an election on tne question ot local option be held m this city, in June. The last election held was in June, 1889. Information is asked us by Mr. S, M. Preston, of Seat tle, about Mr. Robert ,Whitehurst,- who in 1H47 was a tutor in the Raleigh . tary Academy. He was in 1856 in mer cantile life in Wilmineton or New Berne. - . One of the most fiendish crimes ever committed in this city came to light here Sunday morning. Some villain went to the stables of Frank Brooks, colored, who drives a hack with a double team in the city, and who lives out towaras Brooklyn, and having satu rated his two horses and his carriage with kerosene, set fire to them. The stable is not far from Brooks' house, and he was awakened by the stamps and pawing of the horses. He went out to the stable, but when he opened the door was driven back bv the smoke and fire. One of the horses was fatally Durned. and the other was so terribly burned that he is ruined. Charlotte ChrnnM,- Toha Campbell, -colored, was found dead in his bed vesterdav His wife woke up and called h nm to get up. To her horror she found that he was dead, and that she had been steeping with a corpse. Deceased was 60 years old, and was well known. A colored boy named Sam Severs living on 'Squirj cvua piace, at aeversville, naa ou finger cut entirely off yesterday morn- mifana tnree other fintrprs a mostcui oft. 5n Ping kindling wood and the cegro laid his hand on the wood iust as wuMtAi ijr. vr.i in i ii- win wi7t lijwk boy hand on the wood iust as the axe descended. "Baldy" Harris, better known as "Old Baldy." who for fifteen or twenty years drove the Cen tral Hotel omnibus, died yesterday morning at his home in Log Town. "Baldy was about 75 years old and was only deposed from his lofty seat on the Tus after he became too infirm-to drive. Lee Martin, a white convict, escaped from the guards yesterday morning, but w recaptured an hour or so aterwai by the use of the bloodhounds. '. Robert Vanderberg, a young man of of this city, was painfully hurt Sunday afternoon in attempting to jump on the outgoing R. & D. passenger train, at the Fifth street crossing. Mr. Vanderberg caught on to the railing of the platform with but one had, as the train passed him; his hand was wrenched loose, and he was thrown a distance of fifteen to twenty feet. A deep gash was cut in h head, and he was otherwise painfully hurt. r1 tl
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