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WILLIAM H. BEEN ABB, 1 I Editor rind Proprietor. ' i WILMINGTON, N, C. Friday, - May 1, 1891. I W In writing to change yon- addrea alniajifiv fgrmtr direction mm well as full particular as where yoa wish your pvper to be sent hereafter. Unless yon do both changes can not be made. jy Notices of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Re lapact, Resolutions of Thanks, &c, are charged for as .ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for strictly in advance. I At this rate 60 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death, i fW Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters will register letters when desired. ' fV Only such remittances will be at the risk of the .publisher. j j . ! t3T"" Specimen copies forwarded when desired. A STATE llfi. BA1LB0ADS ' I I The " geographical situation of North Carolina Ind her peculiar for mation, strechitg a distance of four hundred andfiftyUwo mUes from East to West, will mai'e her in the near f u ture one of the I greatest if not the greatest railroad: State in the South. There is no StateJ in the South now where there are jso many new roads projected or , where there is more progress being njade in the construc tion of njew road's, nor is there any - other State, North or South, where projected roads receive more encou ragement from jocal capitalists or from the communities through which they are projected. But aside from this she is so situated geographically as to make her necessarily the high i way for roads running, from the I North -Atlantic sea-bdard to the South or Southwest, fpr with two chains' of mountains cjn the north railroad - builder mus either go north of these artd wind around them to get -South or come south of them to find j a way, and if they come South they must,' pass inrougn tne - . . . territory of this State. So also must j j road Northwest seeking Sou from- the least Atlan-i tic seaports pass .tory.. through' her tern- She has now "a half dozen'roads, parts of great North j. and South trunk lines, running clear through her territory, all !cpf which have other roads connecting with them as sepa rate lines or brarphes, nd theindi catioris are that tefore' many years the number of these through lines will be doubled. Therj are at least : four now projected, onej of which is partially constructed and another of which is said to be uner contract, work -upon whith is shortly to be commenced. The first bf these, the Roanoke and Southern, now com- j pleted from Wins ton to Martinsville, Va., will within a year or so be ; completed to Roanoke, where it will make its' connections North, and where in the nea future it will con nect with the' 'Baltimore and Ohio system by the extension; of the Val ley road from jstauntan down to - Roanoke." A 'ccjuple of years will also see it extended Sot thward from .Winston probablj to Monroe, where it will; make Southerr connection , with the Raleighi and Augusta road passing across Piedmont North Car , olina, giving it an 5ther great through line North and South and a,, com peting one with he Richmond and Danville, which has heretofore had in that section unlisputed sway. ; ' The other is the j Cincinnati and Cape Fear road, to run from . Cin--.. cinnati, Ohio, its objective point be ing Southport, i l'tliis State. . The first of these imes points to, the i Northeast, the other to! the North west, both 'of which pass. through ' sorrfe territory rich in varied re sources, which has had little or no railroad advantages tj The first will pass through a rich mineral region, splendidly timbered. 4 watered and fertile, all the way from ! the Virginia line to Monroe, with all 1 the advantages for the establishment of manufacturing industries that any bisection of the country ; j can claim; iton ore in abundance, stone in abundance for building purposes, t- timber of different kinds' in abund- , c ance, water powers unlimited, and I cotton in aounaance tor an tne cot S - , - j) i," . ; - tonmills that may be started. Pass inthrough the center of the Dan galley coal field,jj and j he Stokes county iron deposits it opens up a - section which will .in all j probability become in the near, future ' creat iron manufacturing s tion. Another -portion of the same section is penetrated by! the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley road, which has already stimulated the iron :n dustry by laying the foundation of a large iron and steel plant, at Greens i . - - i i i boro, which it is said will be soon followed by another at Winston, the resmt oi uie iacnies onerea Dy tne construction of ihe Rpanoke and Southern through jthe iron and coal .field of Stokes and the Dan river. . The Cincinnati jand Cape Fear will embrace a system of roads, with lines running to Georgetown and Charles: ton onthe South, another to Salis. bury on the Norjji, the main line Northwest, and passing ; through the Bludge Ridge or i a linej surveyed through Brevard and Transylvania counties into East Tennessee and thence on to Knoxville. This will make as near an air line as possible from Knoxville and one of the short- test to deep water on the coast. If this ; scheme be. ca rped out as contemplated it will exert immense influence in the development of a large section ofEastern and Centra! North Carolina bV belts of territory opening up large wherel there are now Dut iew raairoaa lacuities, in addition to whic Southport a harb i it. may make or "of very consid erable importance1. The Northwest is seeking Southern seaports, the Northeast is seeking Southern com merce, and to get either by the shortest, most practicable and cheap est routes they must pass through North Carolina. She must become, the -great railroad highway of the South. t i . - i : A tfrw r n n cqtti ri rrif i iter rAuui La auiuuiibbu i - . '.. i . , i - -. .. i ...... ... i . . - v .a h. . . - SOUTHERN HARBORS. With the prospect of the establish ment of reciprocity with the coun tries South of the United States, our Southern harbors will become an im portant factor in building. up the South as a great commercial section. There are twenty or more, of these harbors, some of which are now among the best in the world, and all of which may be made good with a reasonable expenditure of money. There . is not one of them that WQuld not repay in one way or an other in time a! thousand fold as much as would be required to put it in good condition. ' As trie Mississippi river is the natural Outlet f or all the vast region Jying between the Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountains, so should the South Atlantic and the Gulf ports be the shipping points for the same region, and so they will be when the sections interested make their power felt in Congress, which appropriates the money for river and harbpr im provements, as they will in the. not distant future. ' Ji discussing, in.the Forum, South western commerce and Gulf harbors, U. S. Senator W. P. Frye, of Maine, presents some . interesting facts and figures, to show the importance of these harbors to the commerce of the country, and the results attained in some of" them by even a small amount of improvement at a com paratively, insignificant expenditure of money. He selects Tampa Bay in Florida as one illustration. Goods coming from Cuba, Central America, South America and Mexico, pass out pf the ,Gulf and Carribean sea, through the Florida reefs, enter the Atlantic ocean, and pass by way of Cape Hatterason to New York, the great distributing point, which adds immensely to the cost of the goods in freight charged over such a long distance, in high insurance on account of the perils of Hatter,as, not to count the loss of vessels ajid cargoes and . perishable goods. It was stated ate Committee $265,000,000 pass annually before the Sen on Commerce that worth of goods to and fro over this route, $165,000,000 of which are consumed, handled and manufac tured west of the eastern boundary ofjOhio, and every bit of this ought to enter this country 6r leave it through Tampa Bay, and woujd if it were Drooerlv inmroved. j i .. . j J i I Something has been done in the way of improvement, how much we don't know, but the United States mail is now carried by way of Tampa to tuba from New York, Chicago and St. Louis in 66 hours when be fore it took 324 hours, within; a few hours of five times as long, j This shows the time saved by the shorter distance . travelled, and shows, also,., that the cost of transportation on goods shipped that way must be considerably less. As results of the improvement done and the increased business in consequence the popula tion of the town has increased in five years from 1,200 to 10,000. It is estimated that the domestic products of this country last f year, natural and manufactured, were worth $25,000,000,000. What pro portion of this came from that sec tion of the country that might seek foreign outlet or inlet, through the South Atlantic or Gulf ports is not known, but when it is stated that the river commerce of Cincinnati alone amounts to $50,000,000 we can realize that j the aggregate of the numerous distributing points ! must run up into many thousands of mil lions. With this immense internal commerce some conception may be formed of the business that will pass through the Southern ports when the improvements will have suffi- ciently adapted them to all the re quirements of commerce. (The harbor of Brunswick, Gal, Senator Frye. refers to as another striking proof of what improvement will do. In 1880 when the work of improvement began on it there was allow water a. depth of only nine feet on the shoals in front of the city Now the depth by the construction of a training wall and by dredging is fifteen feet, the total cost of all the work' done up to 1889, amounting to -only $162,000. The result has been a remarkable increase of commerce, and with it an increase of population from 3,000 in 1880 to 12,000 in 1890, ani increase of taxable values from $1,300,000 to $6,000,000. The trade in naval stores, which began in 1875, amounted to $1,000,000 in 1889. Lumber shipments increased in the same period from 37,000,000 feet to 100,000,000. j In '84-'85 cotton ship ments amounted to 4,000 , bales, which increased in 89-'90 to 200,000. These are but two, illustrations of many that might be given to show what improvements may do in de veloping the commerce of our South era ports, whose export and import business is increasing annually at remarkable rate, notwithstanding the little that has been done in the way of improving them. The er ports from the Southern ports, in cluding Baltimore, for the eight months ending February 28 of this year, amounted to $256,208,651 as compared with $242,704,335 for the corresponding ' period of last year, showing an increase of $13,504,316; From the rest of the country within the same time the exports amounted to $366,111,742 as compared with 368,407,134 for tile corresponding period ot last year, -showing a de crease ' of $2,295.392. : :" While; the South'gained $13,504,310, the rest of the country lost $2,295,392. These figures speak for , themselves and show that the exports of the Southern ports may not only soon equal the exports of the other ports .but ex ceed them, as their, business must be largely increased both for export and import whn closer commercial relations are formed with the coun tries south of us and our harbors are so improved as to give safe and free passage to the ships bearing the pro ducts of those and other countries. MTJT0S MENTION. Senator John H. Reagan, of Tex as, has resigned his seat in the U. S. Senate to accept the chairmanship of the State Railroad Commission. As there had been no intimations of his intention to resign it came as a surprise. His term would have ex pired in 1893. Gov. Hogg has ap pointed as his successor Mr. Horace Chilton, President of the State Sen ate, a lawyer of much ability and one of the first orators in the State, who is about thirty-five years old, and who, it is predicted, . will " make his mark in .the Senate. This ap pointment will probably throw a wet blanket on Hon. Roger Q. Mills' as pirations to succeed to Mr. Reagan's seat, for it is said that once in the Senate Mr Chilton will take such high rank, will secure such strong foothold that Mills can't oust him. He is a na tive "of Texas. His father, who served two terms in Congress, one as a Rep resentative from Kentucky, the other as a Representative from Ala bama, was killed in battle during the war, leaving his son to support mother and sister. He entered a printing office and worked himself up from the position of "devil" un til he mastered the business, and became the owner of a country paper with which he supported his mother and educated his sister. While editing this paper he read law and passed the bar. He has since accumulated a fortune. With the exception of the position he holds in the Legislature he has never held any public office. 'In 1882 he was a candidate for Congress against ex-Gov. Hubbard, in the district now represented by Kilgore of the famous boot. After a contest , in which over a thousand ballots were cast, both withdrew.and a dark horse was nominated. He . is a Democrat as straight as a shingle. From the interest which the peo ple of Birmingham, Ala., have taken in the case of Mrs. Martin, tried there for the murder of her brother-in-law, Ed. Martin, and the rejoicing with which they received the ver dict of "not guilty," it is evident that they thought she did a meritori ous act when she emptied the con tents of her revolver into him and removed ' him. It was the story, somewhat romantic, of a wronged wonjan stung to desperation, wreak ing vengeance on a bad man, which won their sympathy and made them her friends. Her victim had seduced her about ten years ago, abandoned her, and cruelly drove her to a life of sin and shame. As an inmate of a house of the fallen she met a brother of the man who had wrought ner ruin, who married her, ignorant of his brother's former relations with her. With him she led an honest and, irreproachable life, and they seem to have got along hap pily until her betrayer finding that she had married his brother, pur sued i her with malice, laid traps to ensnare her, to give grounds for the divorce which he urged his brother to seek. Hearing this, stung to desperation, she came from Annis ton, we believe, where she lived, to Birmingham, called oh him and shot him. She was arrested and admitted the killing. When her story became known and believed public sympathy went to her at once, and from the time she told the tale of her wrongs, the efforts she had made to return to the paths of . virtue and how, like an evil-plotting spirit, the "villain still pursued her," acquittal was a foregone conclusion. With this ver dict it goes out to the world that an Alabama jury does not consider it murder when a woman kills the viper that stings, her. The Body Not Found. Capt. Edgar Williams, of the steam tug Marie, went down to Southport yesterday and dragged the river-all day endeavonng to recover the body of Mr. Nathan Harker, drowned from the tag Laurence Tuesday evening. Up to the time of the steamer Wilmington's departure from bouth port for Wilming ton the searchers had not succeeded in recovering the body. The New TorTr. Produce Market. G. S. Palmer, commission merchant, New York, telegraphs the Star pricer yesteraay as toilows: "t ancy straw berries firm at 25 to 30 cents per ouart: medium 20 cent. Peas, $2.00 to $3.00 per crate. Asparagus, $1.50 to $2.50.' nasi s as ' ! . Electrle Bitters. This remertv is hemmitiff so nrTT known and so popular as to need no special mention, aii wno nave used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise.-rA purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do alLsfhat is claimed. Electric Bitters will ure all diseases of the Liver anri ViAnim remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and uuici ; uica,i.iiia VrCiuou uy impure blood. Will , drive Malaria from the fivstAm onri nrwrpnt as vpll aa .m a11 Malarial fevers. For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Elec tric Bitters Entire satisfaction guar anteed, or money refunded. Price 50 rent anrl 1 flfl rvr hnttle at CnscnT V Bellamy's Wholesale and Retail Drug UNCLSAM'S PQ5TOFFICE, How to Mail Xettera aad Transact Other . Bnalneiw.' ! "j: The following suggestions have re cently been sent out by' the Department in Washington to which public attention is called - - ' j : Do not tender money so mutilated as to be uncurrent, or more than 25 cents ;in copper or nickel coin. j r- "f I 'Do not' tender checks or drafts m pay ment of postage stamps, money orders, box rents, etc or any money except that which ts legal tender and national banknotes. v - ' "V j v v Postage "stamps are not exchange able. Spoiled or misdirected stamped envelopes, when in a whole condition, may be redeemed at the face value of the stamps thereon, in postage sumps or postal cards. Postal cards are not redeemable. ' ' ." ' i,l Do not ask credit lor stamps or money orders. Count your change before leav ing the Window. : . j i' Register all - valuable " letters.- Send your money bv " money order. Money and valuables should never be sent jm the ordinary mail. ' j " y - .... The public will find it greatly" to their convenience to deposit in bank for col lection money . orders payable at the main Postoffice; as payees of the same, unless known, must be identified. j Put your name in full and address upon the upper left hand corner of all matter mailed by yoa. Upojn the cor ner of envelopes furnished by hotels di rect what disposal shall be made of letters and packages undelivered. ' Address all mail matter plainly and fully. Give name of , postoffice, county and State in full, street and house num ber or postoffice box number Postal employees are forbidden by law to make out applications for money orders; to either address "or seal a reg istered letter, to place its contents therein, or to affix postage stamps. j Caution to senders of foreign letters: Make the address legible and complete, giving -name of the country in full as well as that of the town of postoffice. Do not use flimsy envelope, they are likely to be torn or destroyed in long journeys. Avoid the use of sealing wax. It often causes letters to adhere to eac;h other, and the addresses are! sometimes destroyed in the attempt to separate them. See that postage sumps are not so affixed as to cause the covers of ar ticles to adhere to the articles them selves, thus sealing the packages and subjecting them to letter rates on de livery. STEAMER WILMINGTON. The New Excursion Boat for Carolina Beach.- : - j As announced in the STAR, the ex- J j cursion steamer Wilmington, unaer command of Capt. John Harper, at rived here yesterday morning at iu o ciock. and was greeted by the blowing of all the steam whistles along shore. She came up with her colors flying and passed in review before crowds of 'peo ple gathered on the wharves land at the docks and then returned to the wharf at Capt. Skinner's shipyard, j j To-day, the Wilmington will begin her career on the Cape Fear river, tak ing the place of the steamer! Passport, which will be hauled up for repairs and repainting. The Wilmington will run the Passport's schedule to South ort, besides stopping for traffic at Carolina Beach on the wav down and bo. After this, she will run regularly to Carolina Beach, making three trips each dayj ' ' The new boat is fast, bf tight draft. with greater accommodations for 'pas sengers than the Grove. Shef has three decks, with two roomy and handsome saloons, a wide gang-way on each deck, fitted with seats and an open! hurricane deck which is also fitted with 'seats. She is a fine, comfortable boat of good speed, and will no doubt prove a great favorite with the excursion-going, peo ple ot the city and the outside public. THE FORGERY CASE. The Man Wanted Said to Have Disap peared From Chapel Hill. A telegram was received in this yesterday morning from the Chie city : of Police at Chapel Hill stating that j the young man W. C. Ayers, who is wanted here for passing a forged check for $125 on Mr. B. F. Penny as reported iri the Star had disappeared from Chapel Hill during the night and that his present whereabouts were unknown.! It is sup posed that Ayers was told that a war- rant for his arrest had been that officers were Coming to him. , ' . i issued; and 'apprehend Ayers is said to be a young man of good family; residing at Nichols, S. C. and great surprise is expressed that he that with which he is charged. H it is said, a medical student at University. the State PENDER COUNTY, The Immigration Movement Success of the Strawberry Growers, j Interest increases in the desire to have a generous response to the call for an immigration convention in Burgaw next Monday. j Such has been the success of the strawberry growers this season that a $5,000 joint stock company, with crops at Rocky Point, Burgaw and Washington, under one general South mana- ger, with a New York office for the dis posal of their berries, is now under con sideration ATTENTION. northern Born Settlers in North. Carolina. By authority vested in rne by the isonventiou of .Northern Settlers, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, in Novem ber. 1886. I herebv call on all those ner. sons of Northern birth now residing in North Carolina who are interested in the development of the resonrires inf trii State to assemble in convention iin the city oi Raleigh, N. C, on the 27th day of May next to take such steps as may uc mougni aavisaDie towards co-oper atins? with the Southern Inter-State Im migration Bureau in calling a conven tion of all the settlers in the; Southern Mates. I I Geo. Z. French, late President ' Northern Settlers" Convention. A SAW MILL H RE. Wilson's Mill on the Central Bailroad of South Carolina Burned Lose $30,000 Ho Insurance. Special Star Telegram.1 Wilson's Mill, S. C, April Fire at Wilson's Mill, on the Central R. R. of South Carolina, destroyed one large planing mill, about 750,000 feet of dressed lumber, and side tracks leading -1 Ml 1 - - l A. AOk n iu iuc mm. xoeioss is aooui $av,uuu; no insurance. The property is owned by inos. Wilson or io Mr. Geo. Z. French, late Presl dent of the Northern Settlers' Conven tion, has issued a call to persons of Northern birth in the State to! assemble in convention in the city of Raleigh' on iue nn oi may next. A FORGED CHECK- A Merchant of Wilmington Swindled Out " of $M5 ; . A- young man who said he : was from South Carolina and on his way to Chapel Hill, in this State, was in this city last week and succeeded in playing a sharp trick on Mr. B. F. Penny, by which the latter was swindled out of a hundred dollars or more in cool cash, . : , -- The young man gave . his name as Ayers. He arrived here the latter part of the week and stopped at the Sutton House. -During the: forenoon of the day f his arrival he visited the Bank of New Hanover and asked to have cashed a check for $125 purporting to have been drawn by a well-known firm in! Charleston, S. C The officers of the bank, however, . refused 'to cash the check without city endorsement, and the young man took his departure, go ing to the clothing store of Mr. B. F. Penny, on Market street, where he pur chased some articles of clothing and tendered the check in payment. Mr. Penny having reason to believe that the check was all right accepted it and gave the young man $106 in good money, and the latter soon after left town. The check was sent to Charleston, S. C, for collection, and there it was at once declared to be a forgery. Col. Hall, Chief of Police, yesterday telegraphed Chief ot Police E. S. Mer ritt, of Chapel Hill, asking if W. C. Ayers was there and if ; he could get him. The answer was that he was there and could be had. The .proper papers were issued for his arrest and were forwarded last night. . A SAD ACCIDENT. . Mr. Nathan Harker, Mate of the Tuff Marie, Drowned at Southport. Information was received at the Sig nal office in this city last night from Southport, that Mr. Nathan D. Harker, mate of the steam tug Marie, was drowned in the Cape Fear river near that place yesterday evening at 5.15 o'clock. No particulars of the sad acci dent were obtained beyond the fact that the unfortunate man "was pulled over board by a rope." Mr. Harker's family, consisting of his wife and two children. reside in this city, on Fifth between Queen and Wooster setrets. Last June one of Mr. Harker's chil dren a boy about seven years of age was drowned by falling into the river from the wharf at the Cham pioii Com press. Capt. Williams, of the steam tng Marie, who called at the Star office last night, says Mr. Harker left here yes terday morning at 4 o'clock in charge of the tug Laurence with the Diamond Steamboat and Wrecking Co.'s steam hoister Hercules in tow, to recover some lost anchors off Southport. He arrived therein the afternoon. It is supposed that he got caught in the hawser when dropping the anchor. His body was not recovered. ' - Capt. Williams, with the tug Marie, will leave for Southport this morning at 4 o'clock wirh appliances for dragging the river, and will make every effort, to recover the body. Mr. Harker was an industrious hard working man, and held in the highest esteem by his employers and all who knew him. Last Sunday he attended with his fellow members of Orien Lodge, I. O. O. F.. the anniversary exercises held at Fifth Street M. E. Church. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. A Flagman's Fall from a Train on the W., C. & A. B. S. Mr. L. M. Kibler, flagman on freight train No. 208 on the W. C.& A. R. R., yesterday morning accidentally fell from the caboose of the tram near Sturgeon Creek, about six miles from Wilmington and was severely hurt. Mr. Kibler says that after the train passed Brink ley's on its way to Wilmington, he went to the side door of the caboose and sat down for a tew minutes, and when he got up lost his balance and fell out of the door. He was not missed until the signal was given to put on brakes for Navassa station. As soon as it was ascertained that Mr. Kibler was not on the train, the railroad officials or dered an extra train to be sent out to search for him. In the meantime, however, a negro man, who fouud Mr. Kibler lying near the track, brought him in an ox-cart to Navassa, from whence he was taken to Wilmington on the extra train, and sent to the City Hospi tal. He was found to be painfully bruised but not seriously hurt, and last night was removed from the hospital to his home on North Front street. 5 The train from which Mr. Kibler fell was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour, and his escape from death was a miraculous one. A WANDERING BUOY. Picked TJp by the BeTenue Steamer Col fax Off Shallotte Inlet, i A correspondent of the Star writing from Southport, says: "The United Sutes Revenue steamer Colfax, while cruising Monday to the southward of Shallotte Inlet, picked up, adrift, a third class nun buoy, painted red and having about eight fathoms tf chain attached, and brought it into Southport. This is supposed to be the watch-buoy for the S. E. Point Whistling-buoy, Frying Pan Shoals, and has been missing from its place for some time. It would be inter esting to know where the wanderer' has been since it broke adrift and how it escaped being seen and reported, for it must have been for a great portion -of the time in the track ot vessels bound into Southport. Its position when pick ed up, about three miles S. IS. E E, of Tubb's Inlet, shows that the currents along this part of the coast' set mainly towards the westward.' A press dispatch to the Star last night says the steamer Matthew Bed lintton,itom New Orleans, arrived at Liverpool Saturday with five of the crew of the Norwegian barque Niobe, from Wilmington. N. C, for London, aban doned at sea April 12th, in lat. 88 north, long 50 west. When abandoned the Niobe had lost her rudder and was leak ing.' The remainder of her crew were taken off by an unknown Norwegian vessel. .. ; 1 Poor, pretty, little, blue-eyed baby ! How he coughs! Why don't his mother give him a dose of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup? i Upon a fair trial I find Salvation Oil the best cure for rheumatism I have ever known. It gives relief more quickly and always does its work. Joshua Zimmerman, t WetheredviUe, Md, WASHINGTON NEWS. Crosier San Franoisoo TTnlted .States Su preme Court The ' Bearing Sea Case and the Xotter? Cases Again Post poned.'. '. -i -i'iS:'- '-' - ; - Br Telegraph to the Morning Star, J Washington, D. C, April 37. The cruiser San Francisco arrived at Payla Pou yesterday-enroute " to , Chili. The cruiser is maintaining her reputation as a speedy vesseL She has been fourteen day at sea since.she left San Francisco, and in that time has covered over 4,500 miles. She has yet to sail 1,700 miles to reach her destination; and there is no doubt that she will cover the entire dis tance 5,200 miles in twenty days, as the Navy Department expected. ? y- The Supreme Court to-day ; formally postponed the Sayward Behring Sea case until the second Monday of the ext October Term. ; . ! . In the Supreme Court to-day Lhiel Justice Fuller directed that the indict ment be quashed inthe case of ohn C. Ball and Robert E. Bentwell, convicted in the U. S. Court for the Eastern Dis trict of Texas, of the murder of William T. Box.. It is supposed the murder was committed in Indian Territory, but neither the time nor place of the killing was set out in the indictment, and . the Court holds that it 'was therefore de fectiveT The effect of the order is to set the prisoners free. ' f Attorneys for- the publishers of the jNew Orleans StaJes and Mobile Register, and the Louisiana Lottery Company, to-daf made a vigorous effort to pre vent the postponement of argument in the cases against newspaper publishers for violation of the anti-lottery act, for bidding the circulation through the mails of publications containing lottery advertisements. The -Court was veiy much disinclined to hear the case at this time, ' owing to the. illness oT Justice" Bradley. J. C. Carter, of New York, made request that the dasesgo on as originally ordered. He called attention to the position in which the postpone ment would leave his clients newspa pers with lottery advertisements being excluded absolutely from the mails pending the decision. Under tbe circumstances he thought it his duty to call the attention of the Court to the importance of an early decision. If the act were unconstitutional it was a most oppressive restriction, which should be removed. They were not unmindful of the possibility of the Court being equal ly divided and re-argument necessary, but thought it should be argued now; nevertheless, the Chief Justice was dis inclined to grant the request, and final ly said the court would retire for con sultation, which it immediately did. -j Government counsel are indifferent as to immediate argument or postpone ment, and offered no suggestions to the Court. K When the justices returned the Chief Justice announced postponement of the cases until the second Monday of next October. p Washington. April 28.-rAttorney General Miller this afternoon' received the report of District Attorney Grant, at New Orleans, on the killing of the Italians in the parish prison there last months He immediately sent the re port to Secretary Blaine, for whose use he said ithad been obtained. The Sec retary refused to give the report out for circulation, or to indicate iri any way the nature of its contents. Washington, April 28. The Chinese Government has notified the Govern ment of the Uitned States, through the Department of State, of its unwillng ness to receive Henry W. Blair as ur Minister to China. If Washington, April 28. An acci dent by which four persons were killed and several injured occurred this after- noon at 4.10 o clock on the Metropoli tan Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, about one mile from Gaithers burg, Md. Engineer Curtis Elliott, of the express, engineer Henry Graff, fireman Murphy, of the freight, and postal clerk S. G. Burdett were killed. Postal clerk Peacock and fireman M. G. Miller, of the express, were seriously injured. None of the passengers were dangerously hurt. j Washington, April 29. A repre sentative of the Associated Press this mo'rning called at the Chinese legation here, and had an interview with Minis ter Yen in regard to the, disinclination of his Government to receive Senator Blair as the accredited representative of the United States. Mr. Yen said, through an intepreter, that he had received a cablegram from the Chinese foreign office, which he was instructed to lay before Secretary Blaine without delay, expressing unwillingness of the Emperor to receive Blair. Other than this Mr. Yen had received no in structions, written or otherwise, from his government on the subject. The exact language of the cablegram, or whether the reasons for this action were given, Mr. Yen declines to state. Person ally he had a very high opinion of Blair; he had met him several times, and had always found him to be a very courteous gentleman. ' At the time Senator Blair was nominated Minister to China Mr. Yen was irf Peru, to which government he is also representative of China, and did not return to the United States un til early in the present month. He had never had occasion to ascertain what had been Senator Blair's attitude toward China or Chinese residents in this coun try and not until his return had the Senator's utterances on the Chinese question, as reported in the Congres sional records, been .brought to his at tention. The Minister conveyed the impression that he had simply stated the facts to his Government and aside from that had not sought to influence its decision either favorably to the Senator or un favorably. . This action of the Chinese authorities has not created the least excitement here, as it had been anticipated by many from the first. The proceeding is not a very unusual one and cannot be con strued as indicating unfriendly feeling toward this Government. J "JACK THE RIPPER." Arrest of a Man Supposed to be the Mur derer of the Woman Butchered in the " ' East Elver Hotel, Mew. York, jf By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Jersey City,; N. J., April 29. At noon to-day, the police of this city ar rested a man supposed to be an Algerian sailor and took him to police headquar ters. Chief of Police Murphy said that there was no doubt that the man Ms the one wanted by Inspector Byrnes, of New York, for the murder of Carrie Brown,-, at the East River hotel. In spector Byrnes .was notified of . the ar rest, and was requested to send officers to Jersey City to identify the prisoner.. The man arrested is known, as "Frenchy No. 2.'' He is a boss cattle driver on tramp cattle ships, and was ar rested in London, England, and im prisoned several weeks, but the authori ties there were unable to identify him as "Jack the Ripper." He is a cousin of tbe man arrested in New York and known as "Frenchy No. 1." SPAKKIiTJIO CATAWBA SPBXWQS. Health seekers should go to bpark ling Catawba Springs. Beautifully located, m Catawba county, 1,000 feet above sea-level, at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. Scenery magnificent. Waters possess medicinal properties of the highest order. Board only $30.00 per month. Read advertisement in this paper, and write Dr. E. O. Elliott & phletsPr0Pnctr8' for descriptive para- 3 . Diaappearanoe'of S. W. Cdvlnffton and $9,800 from a Bank in Missouri. . f Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. - ST. Louis, April 27.-Captain W. H. Covington; cashier of the Farmeraand Traders' Bank, of Montgomery City, Mo.,! has disappeared, and citizens of whether he is responsibleipr the myste nous shortage of $9,800 in the i bank s accounts, or whether the loss of money hS so preyed upon him that it has un- balanced nis minu. .""VlT I.L noon Cant. Covington hisephew closed and locked the bank, and . went to dinner.: as was, their ; custom. When they returned they noticed nothing -out of the way, but at the closing hour, when the cash was balanced up. $9,800 was found An investigation disclosed the fact that h hank window has.been broken open a Annr was scratched as ana tne vauit uw r ; though it had been tampered without . . hart nrt hppn not been the IOCK, strange w T1 A. ntOVfihal broken. The town marshal was ? noti fied, but not the slightest due could be found. Captain Covington was nearly distracted, and came to St. Louis. Upon his arrival here he reported the robbery to the police authorities. After telling all he knew he departed, promising to return later in the day, but since his first call he has not been seen. His brother arrived here yesterday, and u tnr t-rto - missino man IS OblOU&w "w , J ' . - acllVC oCdlw vi n now in progress, but so far he has not . . . i fn . nti rnntiKytnn tins Deen locaieu. wpwm vuiiuj-, been well and favorably known among a large circle of business and social ac quaintarices in this city. Advices from Montgomery City this morning state that the bank has closed its doors, owing to the uncertainty as to the bank's condition. j LAWLESS SOLDIERS. The IiTnehinR at Walla Walla An Al leged Plot to Kill Policemen and Gam blers, r ' ' ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Walla Walla, Wash., Apnl 26. Great excitement still prevails over the lynching ot Hunt last night by soldiers. Col. jComptoh, commanding the fort, has promised Judge Upton he would lend all the aid in his power to ferret out the guilty parties and that only mis conception of the gravity of the situa tion prevented his taking more active steps to prevent trouble. Col. Compton stigmatized the action of the mob as a disgrace to himself, his officers, the troops and the entire' army. -The grand jury has been summoned to inquire into the tragedy. The prose cuting attorney to-day telegraphed the Secretary of War the details of the tragedy, with a statement that the au thorities were unable to protect them selves against the lawless soldiers, and asked that immediate action be taken, Last evening the sheriff and prosecu ting j attorney received what they re garded as authentic information, that a plot had been laid by the soldiers to kill policemen James and Morse, two gam blers, T. J. Holibroke and Benjamin Taylor, and to demolish two gambling houses. When the facts were commu nicated to Col. Compton he issued an order that no enlisted men be allowed out of the post until further orders, and that a check roll call be made every hour throughout the night until the dan ger of further mob violence is passed. Over one hundred special guards are on duty ready to repel any attack by the soldiers. - . MEMORIAL SERVICES AtBichmond Va., in Hon. of Gen. Jos. E. ? ; Johnston. ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Richmond, April 26. Memorial ser vices in honor of Gen. Joseph E. John ston were held here this evening in Mozart Academy. - The building was crowded. . Gov. McKinney occupied a private box. Lee Camp Confederate Veterans, under whose auspices the ser vices were held and Pickett Corps were in uniform. Col.' A. W. Archer presided. Rev. Wm. E. Judkins and Rev. W. W. Landrum conducted the religious services. Rev. S. A. Goodwin, orator of the occasion, delivered an eloquent address on the life of Gen. Johnston. He dwelt especially on the campaign of Johnston before Sherman, ard said: "The world has yet to produce a bolder or braver army than that which followed Johnston from Dalton to Atlanta. Their zeal never faltered nor did their courage fail. They struck the last blow of the Confederacy." Brief remarks were also made by Revs, s Landrum, Parr and Ray. The vast audience sang several familiar hymns. - CONFEDERATE REUNION. Survivors of Hampton's Calvary Brigade at Augusta, Georgia Oration, Etc. Augusta, April 27. The Confeder ate Survivors Association of Augusta gave an ovation to-day to General Wade Hampton and survivors ot his old bri gade, after a separation of twenty-six years. The First North Carolina, the First South Carolina, Phillips Georgia Legion, Jeff Davis Legion, and the Cobb Region composed the Brigade. Survivors lrdm each regiment partici pated in the reunion and memorial services were held and addresses were delivered by Generals Hampton, Wheel er, Butler, Young and Capers, Mayor Barker and Major Butler, commandant of the U. S. Arsenal. The - memorial address was delivered by Pleasant A. Stovall," editor of the Augusta Chronicle. A conspicuous feature in the line of march was the drum corps, composed of survivors of the Brigade. Business was suspended and the day was ob served as a holiday. A VIRGINIA TRAGEDY. A Son of Hon. P. 8. Wise Shoots Himself While Driving with a Young Lady. ; Lexington, Va., April 27. David Wise, son of Hon. P. S. Wise, of Buena Vista, while out driving yesterday after noon near Buena Vista, with a young lady; recklessly pulled out a pistol and began firing at some trees. After ex hausting all but one cartridge he play fully turned and pointed the pistol at the young lady's head. She protested, when in a spirit of bravado he turned it on himself and exclaimed, "What would people say should it go off." Hardly had he finished the sentence when the pistol exploded, the ball pierced his brain and death was instantaneous. THE MARTIN TRIAL. A Verdict of Hot Guilty in the Murder Case Beoeived With Great Bejoioing by the People of Birmingham. '. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. m Birmingham, Ala., April 28. The jury in the Martin murder case was out only a few minutes this afternoon and returded a verdict of not guilty. The town went wild; people cheered and hats were passed around on the streets and several thousand dollars were raised for her. Mrs. Martin lives in Birming ham and is for the present a guest of the best people in the city. Bncien's Arnica salve. The best Salve m the world tor Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, J? ?ore Te"ers, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,Corns. and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay is required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price K eents per box. For sale by Robert R. Bellamy, Wholesale and Retail Drug gists, :; J Asheville Citizen: Th a shooting affray at the little?1 ' Emma, near Asheville, Saturda " About ' nine o'clock Saturdal "t Will Barnett and Charles Ln5 kk came Involved in a difficulty Tlnac W. who is only about 20 years olri-niilla; out a revolver and" fired at Bam ,pu,1l bullet struck him in the abdnm - f, . ""Omen. ... was extracted irom the back crest of the hip, "earth, : Raleigh Chronicle: of Directors of the North CamiT 2ar3 road met in the Governor's office day afternoon at 5 o'clock The estcr" of Gen. Hoke, who was recently 1 1' to serve as President of the road ce'ed Gov. Holt, was announced an Knnrrl. after . transacting 1 an th business, then went into the electUtillt another gentleman. Mr. W. F r1 01 gay, of Goldsboro, was elected '-J?-employes of the yjtrious railways atU' don, some 250 in number, have e lished a reading room there, lantic Coast Line has sent a $100 rW for tne reaaing room. - gov fw M. Holt vesterdav TardcmA-ri ""i Berrier. of Davidson count serving out a term ot twelve month!" thi nenitentiarv for lar.-pn.r s1 K ' -lueasiesam raging all around us, m town and oT try. Corn is now Si. 00 a bushel l this market. Unfortunately ffe Farmers are finishing up their niam" Wheat is growing rapidly and nev looked more promising at this season d the vear. We have never hf seen apple treejuso full of bloom, aj indications Doint to thp la - rwi iruu I UUU wc uavs ua.u iu y.aia4ii iniSCQUm. xuc vuuy ui ure man tuned Oi th. McLin's creek trestle, two miles - J Wa Iaa Tl j "wia siue oi vydLdvYua, M.3L x uuisQay alter noon, was pui oh ai mcKory and an effort made by the railroad people to nna out wuu iic was, uui io no avail ir.v.j- i i : i .L . . in ououy. kucw mm, ctuu me conclusion was that he was a tramp. He was buried by the railroad people Friday. Greensboro Record: Some. pert robbers entered the store of Griffin & Trogdon, at Staley, Wednesday night and robbed them of some $6,000 in cash and several valuable papers and checks, Theserobbers were old hands at the Dusiness. Mr. unmn, wno came tn last night, says the tool with which they bored through the safe cut the iron as nicely as if it had been wood. The hole was bored near the iock, the bolt back-s ed and the door -opened, and the safe rifled of its contents. Three suspicions looking young men were in Staley Wed nesday, but the direction they went from there is unknown. The Bart ley gold mine near Jamestown is owned and operated now by Mr. Eggerton. Three shafts have been sunk and the outlook is fine. It is estimated by men of sound judgment that the ores art . . I Vr fre . - wortn $,uuu per ton. ana it is easy to mine ana not aimcuit to separate, Greensboro Workman: Mr. 0. R. Cox, the President of the Cedar Falls Manufacturing Company, was here on Friday last, and returned home in the evening of the same day, taking with him six or seven thousand dollars in money with which to pay off the em ployes of the factory. After supper Mr. Cox remarked to his son, Fletcher, thai he was afraid to keep the money in the house all night, and that he wanted him, Fletcher, to take the money to the store and put it in the iron sate. Ac cordingly Fletcher went up to the store, a distance of some 250 yards, but as he opened the front door Nof the counting room in which the sate stood, a burglar jumped through a back window and escaped. Upon . examination it was found that the burglar or burglars had been at work on the safe, and soon would have effected an entrance had there been no interruption. Greensboro Record: Several fine cows have recently died very sud denly in Winston-Salem. No cause has been assigned, but the Record would suggest that where cows are allowed to graze in the yards the euonymus should be cut down. This plant is a deadly poinson!, and cattle will eat it. How many manufacturing establishments there are in Greensboro we do not re member at present! but eleven smoke stacks are visible from a point on South Elmtstreet. All are running on lull time, and ' behind with orders embracing foundries, sash and blind factories, saw-mills, ice factories, grist mills, cotton factories, tobacco factories, knitting mills, hosiery mills, &c, Phcebe Wheeler, the aged mother of Dempsey Wheeler, who was so severe ly injured by jumping trom the C. F.4 Y. V. train a short while ago, is now in jail, and pronounced a hopeless maniac Her son Dempsey was a young man of sober, industrious habits, and upon him his mother leaned almost exclusively for support in her declining years. When she saw her son prostrate ani unconscious, with little hope of recovery, she broke down in spirit and her mind gave way under the shock, and she now languishes in jail, because the Morgan ton Asylum is full. Lexington Dispatch : Present indications point to a fine wheat har vest. A well informed man informs the Dispatch that the condition of the crop could hardly be better than it is. Mining business is booming in Mont gomery county. Mr. W. K. Dickens came up from the Morotauk mine last Saturday and reported that a ten stamp equipment is being erected and that it will be in running order in about a month. The ore is free gold, nd enough has been taken out to keep the stamp mill ' running six months. This is one of the best known and most pro ductive mines in North Carolina. It about 11 miles southeast of Lexington and the same distance south of Thomas ville. It has been in operation at inter vals -more than a dozen years. The ore is known as argentiferous galena, and contains gold, silver, lead and zinc. The veins are large and the ore is very rich. After a suspension of a few years on ac count of litigation, operations were re sumed last August under the manage ment of Superintendent J. J. Lead and were continued until thfcllth inst, when work was stopped ternprarily. A great quantity of ore has been brought to the surface and there is enough on hand now to keep the smelting works busy for some time. The ore is reduced at the works at Thomasville, where the gold, silver and lead are separated, the zinc being saved for treatment at some future time. r Charlotte News: The Metho dist congregation at Burlington fof merly Company shops) yesterday wit nessed the somewhat startling sigh'0' the pastor dropping to the pulpit floof and expiring while in the midst of his sermon. The rame of the pastor was Rev. R. R. Ricks. He had about half finished his sermon when he suddenly ceased talking, turned pale, and sunk down behind the pulpit. Some of the male members of the congregation who occupied front seats, hastened to his as sistance, but he was dead when they picked him up. Heart disease is be lieved to have been the cause of bis death. Mr. Ricks was prominent in the Methodist ministry of the State. The board of county commission ers of Mecklenburg has been disposing of the new issue of Mecklenburg's $300 000 6's at a rapid rate. Up to Saturday evening $195,000 of the new bonds baa been sold. Blair & Co., of New Yor took $100,000 at 100. Mr. R. E. Coch rane, of Charlotte, made purchasesto the amount of $65,000 at the same : fig ures. Other lots of five and ten thou sand were sold, all for 102. The com missioners have bids sufficient to taKe up the entire issue and by to-morrow the last of the bonds will have been sold, -r- It is expected that the elec trid street cars will be in operation on May 20th. In that event, Charlotte will have a big 20th May celebration. Si.-,; y .-;i-'',v. ' i!
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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