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rUBL.SHBD at . f I I l"TT II II - . I . .. A 1 - ' 7 WILMINGTON. N. C, AT - ': $1 ,00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. 88888888888888888 88888888883888888 8SSS888S888iii8i8 SSa8889S8aSSg838 88888888888888888 tqinopi 9 SHJuow.8 1 . a a . M m w T. rs . : a ' a iqiuoji 1 82888888282888888 ujuopi t faaMitioNai 8SS83S538S888SS83 82886882888888888 88888888888888888 1aaAV I i a as ie s t ao e o ee - 10 a .. ... ., -.-. h at o 10 d t 00 e o w ce w U o a, Filtered t the Ppt Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, . , Second Clan Matter.l .SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. 1 he subscription price of the Weekly Star is a Sinvk Copy 1 year, postage paid.. " f 6 months " ' " S months " " .. SI 06 . : 00 . rao WILL BLAINE BE IN IT 1 j There is a report from' Washing- ton, td Blaine the effect- that a party of boomers recently visited Washington for the purpose, of get 1 ting Mr. Blaine's consent to the use of his name as a Presidential candi date, in1 1892. He met them gra ciously and in reply to their request. after hesitating for some time, said he could not consent to enter the taee against President ;Hxnsonl But he said it in such a way that, his frie.nds left him feeling that while Blaine could not announce hiipself as a candidate they were at liberty to boom him in ithcir own way, which they proposed,to do. 'Blaine's'-position' is a somewhat peculiar one. As far as leadership, statesmanship, personal magnetism and personal popularity go he over shadows Harrison in every , particu lar. He has ten devoted followers td Harrison's pne,; and yet because 6 occupies a place iii the cabinet he has to play second fiddle to Harri son and swallow his aspirations and throttle his ambition lest he give offense to the envious, ambitious rflan whom he made President. Harrison knows, as the whole coun try.knows, that Blaine is by "long odds the most conspicuous figure in the. Republican party, that he is the oiily man in it who possesses - the elements of leadership to an eminent dejjree, that if a poll.of the Repub lican party were taken as to the choice for the nomination , for the Presidency as between Harrison and Blaine, Blaine jwould get ten votes to Harrison's two. Wherever the test has been made of the Republi can members of Legislatures this has been about the proportion, and yet Harrison has he adamantjne cheek to; expect Blaine to . tuck himself away, and leave the field all to him. In iact he hasj substantially said, if ' not in so many, words, that he don't expect any member of his cabinet to listen to any. suggestion of a nomina tion, remarks! which would apply! duly to Mr. Blline as there wasj, as he knew, no othet member of his cabi4 net figuring inUha.t role or liable in : any way to a re-no ination i - The suspicion has gone abroad, which seems-to be pretty well founded,- that Harrison has become in- i - j - i , tensely jealous of; Blaine's pop i ularity as evidenced by the re peated and numerous expres sions of popular opinion and has on more thar one occasion man ifested this ii a striking way. It ' first became apparent when Blaine struck upon t ie reciprocity idea to save the Republican partyJrom the ' wreck which he saw was inevitable i if it went before the country on the McKinley tariff without any 'redeem ing feature. The idea took with the Republican masses who gave Blaine the credit for it, although the scheme uia not originate witn mm. But h hadthe sagacity to utilize it and try to work at in as a part of the policy of the Republican party, as an offset to .the increased tariff rates proposed by the McKinley bill, which he made no ' secret of con demning. While McKinley & Co. louna it necessary, to accept reciprocity in favor of which public sentiment was so pro nounced, they . so manipulated it as to give Blaine the least advant age -from it and to put it in the power of Mr. Harrison to declare when and where it should go into operation. Harrison, Reed and Mc v Kinley were determined that he! "should reap the smallest possible; ; amount of prestige and glory, from his reciprocity, which in a modified form they have incorporated intothei McKinley monstrosity. But the most striking evidence of! this ' jealousy was ! exhibited when Mr. Harrison interrupted negotia tions for rcipr'ocity with Canada and , snubbed both Blaine and the Cana Qian cbmmission by telling them that , they would have to postpone the; conference agreed upon, for which the commission had come by appointment to Washington, until his -return from his swinging around the circle. Thi? wa.s a surprise to both Blaine, and : the commission, neither of whom anticipated such a capricious bitch as that. The commission was highly incensed, Bliine was mortified and has been chafing over it ever since. ' He couldn't resent it without an open rupture iwith 'the administra- ' ,. -. ' ' - . , . - - - - ' ' , ..... !".--::. :::,:.:,.- . :: , ,. ... ... 7: 5 . .. . ' . , . the war in 1812. and VOL. XXII. tion, which would have , ' arrayed against him the army of Harrison's officeholders. He. was too shrewd to do that. But since then ; he ; has had less indisposition to antagonize Harrison's nomination if it can be done without seeming to be instru mental in it himself. In other words hie now feels. justified in putting him self :"in the hands of his friends" with out saying so in so many words, and letting them manipulate the wires according to their own judgment, with, probably, an occasional hint in a quiet way from him. And then; if his nomination be regarded as es sential to party success," of course, he will accept it, unless he comes to the conclusion in the meantime that there is no use in any Republican ac ceptirig it. With this proviso, it may be concluded that, if Blaine was out, he is now in it. MINOR MENTION. There is trouble before England in India. sEnglish troops have been massacred in the Manipur-Kobat in surrection, which is not yet quelled, -and in addition to this the cable dis patches of Friday report an uprising in Benares, caused by the tearing down of a Hindoo temple to provide a site for new water works. .There is nothing that will stir .these people to resistance quicker or excite them to the same degree of. intensity as trampling upon their religious feel ings or prejudices, and when it is re membered that there Jafe over 200,- 000,000 of them it is easily seen that handling them is no easy , matter. The ereat Sepov rebellion which. led by the fearless Nina Sahib, cost England so many lives and so much money was caused by even smaller thing than the pulling down of a temple, it was simply the requiring the Hindoo soldiers to bite off the greased end of their cart ridges, tasting grease being against some of their religious tenets. The army officers sneered at this and the Sepoy rebellion was the result. One of the great dangers to England is that the spirit of revolt . will be fanned by Russia, which will not be slow to take advantage of such an opportunity to cripple England, and get a foot hold in India, which she has long desired. It may be that with the prospect of a tangle with Germany and Austria, she may deem it the part of prudence not to show her hand too openly, while giving the insurrectionists all the under hand support she can. r . There is not much doubt that it is the'purposeof Blame's friends to pre sent his name in the, next National Republican - Convention, nor much nor much doubt on their part that he will accept the nomination if ten dered, notwithstanding the oft-rej peated declaration that he is not a candidate. Men who are close enough fo be presumed to know what they are talking about, unhesitatingly say that he will be in the race, and are how actively engaged in ; booming him. A significant article from the pen of Mr. John Russell Young re cently appeared: in the New York Tress going T to show that. Blaine's nomination was necessary for the par ty, that he was the only man in it ca pable of leading it, and the only man with whom it had the slightest hope of winning. Although Blaine cannot while a member of the cabinet, an tagonize Harrison, the programme is said to be that he will resign from the cabinet next year, announce him self a candidate and then take a swing 'round the circle a let HarfiT" sok. If the latter gentleman fan cies that he will . have a walk-over for the nomination he will find him self mistaken. We hope Harrison will get the nomination,- for we re gard Blaine as by long odds the strongest man in . the Republican party and by far the most dangerous man for the Democratic party to en counter. ,. - . -. . . ' r ' . .The- opponents of the re-election of Senator Call, of Florida, have caught on to that "Western bribery trick to beat him. In the Legisla ture of Nebraska and some other Western States last winter when bal lots were being taken for United States Senator, some virtuous mem ber. who was very anxious to beat the other fellow, would arise and de clare that he had been approached by some one and offered j some cash to vote for the man on the pther side, the object of which of course, was to cast odium upon! the candi date irr whose interest the alleged bribery was attempted. The trick was too well understood out thereto pan out successfully, and the Florida anti-Call solons should not have been so fresh as to have resorted to it after it have Droved such a fizzle. The distinguished and virtuous Mr. Whitehurst who said m the caucus Thursday night that one! McClelland had told him that it would be worth $500 to. him to vote for Call, but he wasn't sure it was intended for bribe, should at least have angled with the tempter long enough to have satisfied himself that his virtue was reallv beinsr assaulted before he raised a racket and tried to cast re flections on the honesty of Call and I'II " At I T- I ' ' ' ' --TNi- - " I SPIRITS.TURPCftfriNE.-';...: A n M, , WW M H HA J i AY: kY !l AY IHf &?l5KSa .-JU U. M l V V 11 VI II VI H II 1 II 7 HI i M VU and three monthslHe his followers. He was a bungler and i evidently" a new hand at that Aind of a came. Call and his friends umped on it with both feet right tnere and disowned any .. connection- whatever ' with the alleged $500 man. '.. ' ":-'':- Ik President Harrison wrote a letter to the Western-Southern Commercial Congress at Kansas City, in which tie said: "If you want cheap gup- plies a near-at-hand market is a de sideratum, because it r avoids trans portation charges and many hand ings." This is .some more of the home market"; stuff that the high tariffites have been humbugging their dupes with for so many years. We have had this high protection tariff, getting higher and higher, for thirty years, and yet these cure-all home markets have not materialized in the West, and where thev have materialized, they have not proved worth a continental to the farmer. They've got them in New England, in New York, in New Tersev. in Pennsylvania, all highly protected manufacturing States, and yet in all of these agriculture has been on the constant decline for some years, and in a number' of them thousands of farms have been abandoned, simply because the farmers who cultivated them couldn't, with all their home markets, live on them and keep their, heads above water. The home mar ket is a good thing as far as it goes but the farmer who depends upon it will soon find himself oh the ragged edge and, like so many of the farmers of the New England . and middle States, looking for some other em ployment to earn a living. STATE TOPICS. The Rockingham Rocket, speaking of a handsome piece of furniture made out of native china wood by a furniture manufacturer of that to n, calls attention to the excellence of the native woods of that section for the manufacture of fine furniture. There is no section of the world which presents within the same area as many varieties of beautiful woods or this purpose as can be found in the forest growth of this State, such as the bird's-eye maple, the twisted walnut, the curled hickory, the per simmon and other varieties, - which are very pretty when worked separ ately or in combination with other woods, and polish like marble. Some of these days, when the full value of this timber is' appreciated furniture factories will be numerous in North Carolina. West Virginia burglars sometimes pursue their avocation under discou raging circumstances. Three of them recently paid a nocturnal visit to a house in the town of Raleigh theo nly occupant of which at the time was a young lady. When the leader had succeeded in reaching the window and was scrambling through his head came in sudden contact with an axe in the hands of the young lady, and he retired head over heels to the sidewalk, and his companions also precipitately retired4 without waiting for further developments. Before King Humbert decides to send any Of his ships over to pepper New Orleans he should masticate the suggestion made by an Englishman to the War Department, that when the fleet puts in an appearance off the mouth of the Mississippi the aforesaid mouth be filled full of oil and fire set to it, and thus give the Italians a warm reception. It is not often that an Englishman warms up, but when he does warm up he warms up good. Balfour olavs the accordion. We knew there was something the mat A j ter with Balfour, but we didn't know until this fact was revealed what it was. CAROLINA BEACH. The Excursion Season A New and Mag nificent Steamer Purchased to Bun on' this Koute. f!ant. Harrier, who went North a few days ago to select a steamer to run the summer schedule between Wilmington 1 A nnrl Carolina Beach, has purchased a boat admirably . suited to the purpose. and will brine it here in a few days. A gentleman at Philadelphia fur nishes the Star with the followr incr brief description of the new steamer. She is named the Wilmington and has been running as an excursion boat between Philadelphia, Chester and Wilmington, Delaware. Is an iron pro peller, 130 feet long, 23 feet 6 inch beam and draws six feet six inches. Has two compound engines, 14 by 17 and 26 by 17, with Scotch boiler, and m every respect is just as good as . new. She has three decks, with saloons on main and upper decks, with ample passenger accommodations. Has run on a route, daily, 130 miles, at a speed of 15 miles all through, and can make easily sixteen miles per hour when desired. She is a steady, excellent sea-going boat. ' . . The Messrs Hinton, proprietors of the Purcell House, have leased the hotel at Carolina Beach, with the bathing and other privileges pertaining thereto, and under their management an excellent service may be confidently expected by th natrons of this favorite resort the i coming season. t . W7 ,T W " oO r II 1 A Tk -GreensboroJ WILMINGTON, N. C., NOTICE. This is intended only for subscribers whose subscriptions have ex- uired. It is not a dun. but a simple rst xnai aiiwno are in jar rears for the STAB will iavor us witn a prompt remittance. We are sending but bills now (a few j each week), and iff y on re ceive one please give it your attention; The Late Judge bant-well. Tudge Edward Cantwell, whose death at St. Simons Island, Ga., was an the nounced in the Star, served the Mexican war. At the breaking out of the late war he was acting Adju :ant General to Gov. Ellis and issued the order to the military companies here to take possession of Forts -Caswell land Johnson, He was a private in the Wil mington Light Infantry at FortjCaswell and was the first captain of that com pany when it was organized in 1856. He was afterwards Lieutenant Colonel of the Second N. C. Infantry and was military governor of Norfolk, Va1. Lkter he was Lieutenant Colonel of Ferret ee's N- C. Cavalry. He was twice capt ired and confined as a prisoner at Johnson's Island. Like his' brother'. Col. ohn L. Cantwell, of this' city, he was exempt lrom military duty and pott, were vol- unteers in the service. Bogus Silver Dollars. A laree number of counterfeit silver dollars are said to be in circulation throughout the South and .West. The dollar is a perfect one, being ,only i ff a trifle in weight and ring, j The coui iter feiters are experts, as their work s of the most delicate kind, j The bogus coins are; nothing but shells of the genuine. They are filled with some other metal to give the coin the desired weight. The silver is drawn out in a powdered form through a minute hole in the milled edge!. The work is very laborious, but it is claimed that 30 cents worth of silver can be re moved. A metal of some' kind is DOur- ed into the small hole, which is almost too small for detection. BeeeipU of Naval Stores. Receipts of naval stores at this port since the beginning of the crop year April 1st to April 17th-j-as compared with receipts to the correspondii :g jdate last year are as follows: Spirits turpen tine, 1,135 casks; last year! 1,158, Rosin, 18,886 barrels; last ' year" 16,930.: Tar, 5,159 barrels; last year.j 4,034.1 Crude turpentine, 561 barrels; last year, EDGECOMBE. Rocky Mount Tobacco Market, Rocky Mount, N. C, April 17. The railroad books atrthis plate show a daily shipment of twenty thousand pounds of tobacco since the last of August, making over four and a half million pounds sold. The Eagle warehouse jnas paid out over $200,000. and the Farmers' warehouse has paid out $150,000 to the farmers within a radius of j eighteen miles. The farmers fchaye realized ithe fact that thev eet better prices for tobacco here than any place infthe State. R. K. Cotton, of Falkland, fitt county, sold to-day ten thousand pounds land realized, including a lot of trash, pver $800 for the lot. He has fifteen or twentv thousand pounds more which he will briner to this market.! Preparations are being made for the erection of five or six more large hoiises-f-brick and wood besides two or three factories for nluc and smokinc. The warehouse men are lubuant, and say they are going " ----- ? . . i . to handle ten million pounds the corning season. Prices continue high, notwith standing what is said to the contrary. THE LATE GEN. JNO. Ri COOKE. Resolutions Adopted by the New Han- r over Veterans' Association. New Hanover County Confederate Veterans' Association, Wilmington, N. G., Aprii 13. Another hero of our ''lost cause" has passed over the river" to join the mighty host of his comrades who have gone before, and we feel j called on by ties of friendship thus severed, to lay upon the freshly made grave where rest the ashes of John R. Co)oke a tribute of love, friendship and esteem. General Cooke was peculiarly endear ed to North Carolinian! i front having been associated with Ji orth f Carolina trooosfrom first to last of our heroic struggle for liberty. ' I - i As captain ot artuieryj ne served un der General Holmes, on the Potomac; transferred with that command! to North Carolina early in 1862, and upon the re organization of the twelye months regi- ments, ne navmg maae so many menus, was elected Colonel of the 27th, with which he served with distinction until his services were, in pah, recognized by further promotion. , ft ) -, His firmness of character, unflinching bravery and devotion I to thel interests and comfort of every man in his com mand, coupled with extreme gentleness in the enforcement of I necessary disci pline, made him beloved by every indi vidual. Stricken down in the midst of a use ful career, in the full bloom of man hood, his death should be a striking les son to his surviving comrades, and re mind them that they, too, must soon 10m that innumeraoie. tniong; lei us hooe and trust, in a petter iana. To his stricken widow and I children we tender our heartfelt sympathy, and commend them to the keeping of the Almighty Father, whp has promised protection to the widow and fatherless. K.V. )U. MALL, 1 Late Col. 46th, N. C Troops. Wm. L. DeRosset, i laie IsOi. ora . is.- iiu y . it - C. F. COWLES, Late Capt. Co. B, 51st N. C. Troops. committee. . . r r : : : - 1 FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1891. FUNERAL OF COL.1. A. GRAY. At Greensboro Yesterday An Immense - - Crowd Present. The funeral of Colonel Julius A. Gray took place yesterday at Greensboro, and was one of the largest ever seen in that city. . i ' A special car left Wilmington yester day morning at half-past 5 o'clock with the following gentlemen qn board : U. M. Robinson, L. S. Belden, C. D. T& Stevens. T. Waddell H. C. McQueen, H. G. Smallbones, John H. Currie, T. D.'Love, J. W. Martinis, G. F. & P. agent of the Onslow Railroad, Geo. Harrjss. O. A. Wiggins, R. W. Hicks, F. H. Stedmarx. T. C.-Tames." Stores at different points along the line were draped in mourning to show the estimation in which Col. Gray was held. . : - - . A large Crowd of ladies and gentle men got on the train at Fayetteville, and also a delegation from Bennetts- vtlle; so that-when the. train reached Greensboro at 1 o'clock there were six passenger coaches crowded. A large crowd assembled at the resi dence of the deceased at half-past two o'clock, and thence the body was con veyed to the Methodist church, the Presbyterian church having been re cently torn down to give place to a more commodious building. The following was the order of the procession as it left the residence; Pastor's carriage, carriage for honor ary pall bearers, carriage for active pall bearers, hearse, carriage for family and relative, bank officers, railroad officers and employees, visiting organizations. military, chamber of commerce, frater nities, carriages of citizens. The funeral services were conducted Dy tne Kev. j. ri. bmitn, who paid a glowing tribute to Greensboro's de parted citizen.. After this, the body was conveyed to Green Hill Cemetery, attended by an immense concourse or people. The floral decorations were magnificent, and loving hands placed them tenderly around the grave. The active pall bearers were W. E. Kyle, E. J. Lilly, R. W. Bidgood, M. S. Sherwood, H. L. Fry, T. C. Worth, W. H. McFarland, C. D. Bettbow, and in additionto them were the following hon orary pall bearers: J. D. Williams, A. M. Waddell, J. C. McRae, D. D. McCall, J. H. Eure, Wm. Black, Knox Living ston, C S. McCall, W. A. Lash, D. W. C. Benbow, R. T. Gray, Winston Ful ton. W. A. Moore, CP. Stokes, J. Wil cox Brown. J. M. Odell, G. Will Arm- field, Jno. A. Gilmer, R. M. Sloan. All of the business houses in the city were closed, and many public buildings were draped in mourning. Evidence of sorrow was seen everywhere, and there were none who did not deeply regret the death of this most honored citizen. THE TRUCK TRADE. The - Season Fairly Open Special All- Rail Accommodation and Low Bates Over the A. C. L. The trucking season has commenced and farmers in the Wilmington section report tneir crops generally good in condition. From the outlook now the crops of early vegetables will be larger than they were last season. The At lantic Coast Despatch the all-rail route of the Atlantic Coast Line and the Pennsylvania Railroad has made every arrangement for rapid handling and speedy transportation ot tne im mense shipments that pass over this route. The new rates will take effect to-day, from Charleston, S. C, and will be the same as last year's rates, from all points on the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta and Wilmington & Weldon railroads. The usual fast rate schedule has been arranged, and an agent of the California Fruit Transportation Company was in town a few days aeo. with whom ar rangements were made to run their re frigerator cars on the Atlantic Coast Line for shipments ot fruits and vege tables. - Commander G. H. Rockwell. U. S. N.,commanding the U. S. ship Yantic,rt- ports in regard to wrecks on the North Carolina coast which he was commis sioned to destroy: That the sunken wreck of the schooner Dudley Farlin, about 24 miles N. E. of Bodie Island, is not to be found. , He cruised in search of it for three days, while furnished with the latest information regarding its location. This, together with the fact that quantities of floating wreckage were passed by him in that vicinity, leads to the conclusion that the wreck has broken up during the heavy weather lately prevailing. The same conclusion maybe arrived at as regards the two wrecks off Cape Lookout. ; On March 30th careful search during very favora ble weather failed to reveal so much as a break or swirl of the water by which the whereabouts of the Aberlady Bay or Glenrath might be known. The wreck of the schooner Mollie . Saunders was located and marked by a buoy, March 31st, as stated, but the weather was too rough to blow her up at that time. . The steamer Borinquen, ashore about nine miles north of Ocracoke Inlet, had about ten feet of water in the hold April 6th, but was expected to come off. We ran across a strange wreck off the South Carolina coast and made a prac tical danger buoy of it. It is 16 feet above water. The location of the sig nal is latitude 37.32, longitude 75.02. COTTON RECEIPTS. An Increase of 2,103 . Bales Over Last Season. Receipts of cotton for the crop year (from September 1st to April 17th) are 184,641 bales, J against ; 132,538 to the corresponding date last year, showing an increase of 52,103 bales. The re ceipts for the week ended yesterday are 826. bales, against - 26 bales the cor responding week last year. The stock at this port is 7,278 bales, against 5,316 at the same date last year. ' - NO. 23 THE ITALIAN AFFAIR. PREMIER RUDINI ON NOTE. MR. BLAINE'S The Italian Government Persists in its Demand for Punishment .of the Lynchers and Indemnity for the Slain. By Cable to the .Morning Star. Rome,- April 16. The reply of Secre tary Blaine received attention in the Chamber of - Deputies to-day. Ques tions in regard to it were raised by vari ous members. I Premier Di Rudini, in replying said that the Italian government had not yet received Mr. Blaine's note. He was not prepared to make a definite .state ment to the Chamber of the views and purposes Of the Cabinet until the note had been officially received and care fully read and considered. However, he would say that Italy could not ad mit that the diplomatic incident was closed until the United States had acknowledged the duty ot delivering the guilty parties over j to justice, and had acknowledged 'the further du ty of indemnify ing1 families of. the victims who were I Italian subjects. Italy could not admit ' that the United States Government had no responsi bility for acts committed within the ju risdiction of individual States. This phase of the present complication was. in bis opinion, one which interested not only Italy, but all the governments of the civilized world. He felt confident, however, that the matter would be set tled without creating! political difficul ties between Italy and America. But he could not refrain from expressing a feeling of regret that the government of a country so highly civilized as the United States should not . fulfill the duties of justice and morality. In conclusion. Rudini gave expres sion to the hope that! notwithstanding the occurrence of some incidents which were greatly to be regretted in the con troversy i between Italy and America, means ot conciliation honorable to both countries would be found. The Premier's words were listened to with close attention, land when he re sumed his seat the whole Chamber, ir respective of parties, cheered vigorously. Rome, April 16. In political circles some disappointment is expressed with Blame s reply to Kudini. It is charac terized as "vague" and "inconclusive," and as insisting merely en the status quo London, April 16. The Globe and St James Gazette agree in the opinion that Blaine's note is an able State paper. The Times this morning says: "We sympathize with the people of the United States in their determination not to allow vile social diseases like the Mafia to take root. -It is only just to remind our kinsfolk, however, that they displayed very little indignation when practices akin to the Mafia were em ployed here by Irish-American ex tremists. ' Rome, April 17. The Messages to day says that Blaine's reply to Rudini's last note evinces the great desire of Blaine to elude the demands of the Italian Government and to escape from indemnifying the families of the men lynched at New Orleans and to refrain from acceding to I the Italian Govern ment's right to interfere in the New Orleans affair. I The Pofiolo Romano says that in view of the tenor of Blaine's answer to Rudini it is difficult to form any idea as to how or where the matter will end.. WI LD TALK. Babid Utterances of the Italian Organ in New . York on the Blaine-Budini Cor respondence, j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, April 18, 'Eco D 'Italia this morning prints the following: "No one after the slaughter at New Orleans doubted that the murderers would be allowed to walk.freely about the streets. No one thought, however, that from the Cabinet at Washington would have been sent out such stupid and dishonest pleas attempting to save the murderers from the hands of the hangman. An honest and civilized nation would not have allowed the blood-thirsty mob to attack the j prison and murder the prisoners, land -should such a thing have happened through the care lessness of the authorities a civilized na tion would have prosecuted and pun ished the guilty1 parties. Before giving satisfaction to Italy the United States ought to give it to themselves. The murderer triumphs and hnds an advocate in Secretary Blaine, and the civilization of America so often boasted of has proven to be a bluff a humbug. A government which approves such a course betrays its own country, and calls upon the civi lized nations to send their guns to teach it how international and rights should be respected. La qrippe Swells the Mortality in New York City Decimating; the Indians in the North west. ' ) . By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, April 18. The mortality for the twenty-four hours ending at noon was 181; total for the week 1,347 the largest number for any week this year. Of the last day's deaths 20 were from gnnpe and complications, lhe total number of deaths from grippe to date is 356 1 North Yakima, Wash., April 18. La grippe is . rapidly ; decimating the Indians in this vicinity. : At White Bluffs nine' died in one day, and at Moses and Yakima reservations the death rate is large. It is not so much the disease as the treatment that causes the great mortality when afflicted Indians go into sweat boxes and then jump into cold streams of watej which -causes pneumonia. - A FRIGHTFUL WLRECK. Six Postal Clerks and Two Engineers Killed in a Collision on the Lake Shore Railroad. By Telegraph ta the Morning Star. Cleveland, April 18. A frightful wreck occurred on the Lake Shore Rail road at Kifton Station, about forty miles west of Cleveland, early this evening, in which six postal clerks and two engi neers were killed. The fast mail, No. 14, bound east, collided with No. 2, the Toledo Express, just as the latter train was about to pull on the siding to let the fast mail- pass. The fast mail was running at full speed and the force of the collision was so great that both en gines, three mail cars and one baggage car were completely wrecked. T. C Clarke, of Riceville, Buncombe county, killed a sheep this week and sold him in Asheville for $8.58. Nine pounds of tallow were taken from the carcass worth 36 cents; before slaughter ing, the sheep was sheared and- five pounds of wool gotten which sold for $1.67; the skin was worth 25 cents, making a total of $10.86. And yet there are many people who raise more dogs than sheep. Asnevtue Ltttzen. WASHINGTON NEWS. National Banks Attorney General Miller's Condition Collapse of Stairways at Vice President Morton's New Hotel. '...! By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, April 17, The Comp troller of the Currency has declared an eighth dividend of 3 per cent, in favor of creditors of the Exchange National Bank of Norfolk, Va., making in all 63 per cent, on claims proved, amount ing to $2,892,219, and a first dividend of 15 per cent, in favor of creditors of the First National Bank of Sheffield, Ala.. on claims proved, amounting to $61,078. The condition ot Attorney General Miller continues to improve, but owing to his illness the Sayward Behring Sea sealers case which was to have been argued in the U. S. Supreme Court next Monday will be further postponed one week, the Attorney General desiring to take part in the argument. Postpone ment will also be asked during the ill ness of the Attorney General in the cases of proprietors of the New Orleans States and Mobile Kegister test suits involving the validity of the recent anti- lottery act. Washington, April 17. Without warning or notice a iarge part of the heavy fire-proof . landings connected with: the stairways of Stoneham'Vice President Morton's fine new hotel, dropped this afternoon from the fifth floor to the basement. Great consterna tion was created among the people in the house, but by good fortune no one was upon the landings at the time of the accident, and no person was hurt. Workmen were'iackmg up a misplaced girder that formed part of the support of the sixth floor. The iack rested on the stair hallway of the fifth floor, and that was too weak to bear the extra strain, and the mass of tiling, concrete and timber dropped on, the floor below, carrying it to the next, and so on until the ground was reached. , - Washington, April 18. Prospective large payments on account of pensions and public works and maturing bonds and the rather low ebb of receipts, with resulting possibilities of disappearance of the surplus, is evidently causing.some uneasiness among financial affairs of the Treasury Department. . If means can be devised to put in circulation subsidiary silver, some degree of relief is expected, but Secretary Foster has in view also another measure to ease the situation, though he has as yet not reached deter mination in the matter. this plan concerns the 4J per cent, bonds, amounting to fifty million dollars, which mature next September. The Secretary believes that the National Banks which hold $23,000,000 of these bonds would be glad to retain them as the basis of circulation if permitted to do so, even at reduced rate of interest. It is regarded as feasible, perhaps, to float these bonds at 2 per cent, l he Secretary hnds pre cedent for the plan in the action of .Sec retary Windom, who, when Secretary in 1801, kept out-standing a large amount of 5 and 6 per cent, bonds at a large re duction of interest by consent of bond holders. Congress, at its last session, passed an act increasing the salaries of Judges of District Courts of the United States to $5,000 per annum, the act to take effect immediately. There was, however, no appropriation made to pay this increase for the four months then remaining ot the fiscal year. There are about sixty six of these judges, most of whom re ceive a salary of $3,500, and some of them have been writing to the first comptroller's office of the Treasury De partment wanting to know why they have not been allowed the increase pro vided for by law. The office has notified them of the oversight of Congress in the matter. THE GALLOWS. Walker Brown Hanged at Laurens, S. C. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Columbia, April 17. A special to the I Register, from Laurens, says : Walker Brown was hanged in the jail yard here to-day for the murder of Noah Kamage last October. 1 he drop tell at 11.05 a. m., and in thirty minutes life was extinct. The sacrament was admin istered to crown just belore his execu tion. He protested his innocence to the last, saying that if he killed Ramage it was by accident. A detachment of the Laurens Guard was on hand to keep bacK the crowd. Perry Gray who was to have hanged to-day for the murder of John Fuller, has been respited by Governor Tillman till May 15th, to allow time for examin ation of a petition for commutation of his sentence. A BAD ACCIDENT. Thirteen Cars and Three Engines De stroyedThree Men Killed and Two Badly Hurt. ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Baltimore, April 16, A freight train of thirteen cars and three engines on the Maryland Central railroad broke through a trestle this morning at Falls- ton, near this city. Nine men were on the tram. Three were killed and two badly injured. The others had time to lump and escaped. lhe cars were quickly in a blaze, and were burned. Only one body was recovered from the wreck; two were burned up. The tres tle is a short one, and was thought to be ! strongly built and braced. Too heavy a train is the present assigned cause of the breaking down of the bridge. The bed of the stream where the wreck occurred is a mass of rock. MARINE DISASTER. A British Steamer Sunk in Collision- -All ! on Board Saved. I By Cable to the Morning Star. London, April: 16. The Dutch steamer P. Coland, Capt. Deyries, from New York for Amsterdam, was in col lision in the channel last night with the British steamer Glamorgan, bound from Antwerp for Cardiff. The weather was clear and calm and they saw each others lights distinctly before they struck, lhe Glamorgan, struck pn her broadside, was cut nearly in two and sank. The steamers were firmly locKed together until the Glamorgan filled. The Gla morgan had thirty passengers on board including two ladies and a number of children. They were rescued with diffi culty, clad only in their night dresses. The P. Coland arrived in Dover Roads, badly damaged. Premier Rudini's remarks in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on Wed nesday were to the effect that the Italian Government would decline to admit the irresponsibility of the United States to ward the single States composing the American Union, and that the New Orleans lynching concerned the wnole civilized world. That is the finest argu ment vet against the indiscriminate im migration that , nows in increased vol umes to our shores. We are likely to have international disturbances it our immigration laws are not revised. Charlotte Chronicle. tecord James Fos- funty, ilied last Sat ced aVe of 104 years wa3 a soldier of in many respects was a remarkable man. r- An ingen ious tramp was in the city yesterday, and was making artificial roses with his knife that would almost defy detection at a distance oi ten feet. He cut them from turnips and beets, and placed the rose upon a sprig of evergreen, making : ' a pretty buttonhole bouquet. - . Asheville Citizen: Col. Thad Coleman, with a corps , of engineers is t now in the field surveying the route of the Atlanta, Asheville and Baltimore Railway from Asheville to Weaverville, i a distance of eight miles. Levelling and making the location of the road will be- !. gin to-morrow. Reports from Ivey, ; Reems Creek and Flat Creek in which . townships and Asheville, the election; ort the issuing of $200,000 in bonds for the construction of this line from Ashe- L ville to the Madison county line, is to , be held on May 25, are very encoura- -girig-and there is said to be no opposi- tion to the proposition. " Raleigh News and Observer'. , Mr. Allen Maynard, father of our towns? ' man, Mr. E. P. Maynard, died at his , home near Morrisville yesterday, at the age of about 70 years. Gov. Holt yesterday offered a reward of $100 for ; John Stowe, the murderer of William f White, in Rowan county. The ' colored assistant engineer, Jim Brown, ; at the Raleigh- Cotton Factory, met I with a serious accident while at work ' yesterday. In some way his arm got lastened in the belting and was terri bly torn and mangled, so that it had to,' be amputated. j ' Charlotte Chronicle: At 1.30 o'clock this morning Mrs. Rufus W. Johnson suddenly and unexpectedly died. lhree attempts were made by burglars Wednesday night to enter the dwelling of Capt. Jones on North Graham street. They were fired at each time, and were unsuccessful in carrying oct their plans. Wm. S. Peters, of York county, S. C, was bitten in ten daces Wednesday night bv a mad doc! He encountered the dog in the road and - it immediately attacked him. He came on to Charlotte Wednesday night to have the mad stone applied. - j -T- Goldsboro Argus: The dam-; agesuit of Dr. Kirby Smith vs. Hon.! Kemp V. Battle, for unwarranted arrest under the charge of having painted the . Caldwell monument at Chapel Hill red, on the University centennial, of which charge Dr. Smith was exonerated at the time, resulted in-'a "hung jury" and a mistrial, the jury having taken the case Wednesday evening and remained con- tinuously together in consultation until yesterday at noon, when the above was taken. We were informed yes terday by Mr. Noah Rouseof the drown ing of three negro men by the upsetting of a boat at the mouth of Bear Creek where it empties into Neuse river. There were four men in the boat, all colored and only one saved himself by swimming ashore. The other three could not swim. Washington Gazette: Capt. Toe Smith had a narrow escape at Moss' mill Tuesday. . His pants were entirely torn off by the machinery, and he was considerably- bruised. We learn that the old-fashioned itch is prevalent in the country. It seems to have ori- ginated in the timber camps. The amount of building is constantly increas ing in Washington. There are now about twenty-five new residences going on to completion. ; Twelve new houses being built at Blount's Creek; one to have ten rooms. A large steam saw mill, a store, and a church which supports a preacher, and a number ot houses are already there. Mr. J. T. Winfield's steam 1 saw mill at Vance boro, was burnt last Tuesday night week by some fiendish incendiary. The loss was $4,000, with only $1,500 insur ance. ' . !, Jonesboro Leader; Mr Ben Thomas, of Cape tear township, this county, says that a few days ago he found a hen nest under his barn. He took 77 eggs therefrom and carried them to the house. He then went back and got 30 more. The celebrated btutts postomce robbery case from Carthage was disposed of at the Federal court in Greensboro last week. Stutts was acquitted. Public opinion in this county is very much divided on the question. There is some mystery about the matter that has not yet been solved. 1 he mails were rifled, that is certain. Even private letters, mailed in Jones-. boro to parties in Carthage, about the time of the robbery, have never been delivered. What did the finding of those broken packages of mail matter in Will Stutt s trunk signify? Did some one else put them there to throw sus picion on him?. Charlotte News: The amount of money subscribed by voluntary con tribution for the benefit of the widow and children of John B. Mocca, and col lected by G. A. Panella and A. Vita, up to last night was $183.40. Subscriptions are still received and the sum will scarcely stop short of a round $200. It has developed that two negroes were shot in the scrimmage last Sunday night. Une ot them, who lives near the old fair grounds, had a hole bored clear through the fleshy part of his body. The other was only slightly wounded. The case of Mr. J. P. Ardrey, son ofcState Senator Ardrey, who killed a tenant named Thomas Morris, on his farm near Pineville, about three months ago, was disposed of in the Criminal Court this morning. Mr. Ardrey sub mitted to manslaughter, and Judge Meares imposed a fine of $100 upon him. The fine was paid and the case was cancelled on the Court docket. -Asheville Citizen: The careless ness of a conductor and engineer on the Asheville and Spartanburg railroad yes terday was the cause of an accident. And a terrible accident it was. too, caus--ing the death of two men, if not a larger number. This morning early, the ground in front of the court house was noticed to be oroicen out witn ouS ot peculiar shape. They had arrived dur ing the night and were making them selves thoroughly at home. The bugs , i . i are ugiy loosing imngs, in snape a cross between a tobacco fly and a locust, f our long legs adorn the body, while a pair of crab-like claws project outward from the head. 1 he eyes are as large as peas and of a decidedly red color. The bugs can travel almost as easily on their oacKs as in the natural way. The things are al most human so far as their breathing goes, tor every respiration can De ae--tected by a close observer. . Altogether, the bugs have a most unpleasant iook. Charlotte News: New evidence is daily accumulating against Henry Brabham, the slayer of the Italian, John B. Mocca, and the case is now much stronger against him than it was at first. " One witness has been found who saw Brabham drop the coupling pin from his pocket. This occurred near Mocca's ' store. Another witness, a railroad man, .-, has been found, who was in Mocca's store ten minutes belore tne muraer, and who says there was then another negro in the store with Brabham. The body of a white male child was found in the well on the premises of Mr. R. E. Young, corner of B and 5th streets, about two o'clock this after noon. The child was a finely developed one and was thrown into the well when newly born, as it was" clearly indicated. Its body was entirely barren of clothing, but a rag was wrapped around its chest. Mr. Young's family had been noticing a bad taste about the water for several days, and to-dav Mr. Young engaged a "couple ot laborers to clean out the well. The first thing brought up was the body of the child. It bad evidently been in the well for two weeks or more. There is no clew. , 'tf'-'li'l ;5 mi WAV m , : I i ..; Mi : I."
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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