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r ti iiA!&rcuui ;swlu. FUBLISHXD AT i ' I . :AT j o0 aYEAR. IN ADVANCE. 88SS888888888S883 S?Sg88858g8SSg 88888888888888888 "88888888888888888 $8888888888888888 82888888S82888883 8888883823883888 82835888288888888 !l.tt.8 88888888888888888 r M t OB at JO Jj JO g gj g t s i 3 s s s j at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, lDterrf Second Clas. Matter.l . I i SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. -A.A The subscription price of the Weekly Star is aa STcopy 1 year postage paid., ,. " 6 months : " 3 months " " -.. .$1 00 . ' 60 . 80 I0B.PEDO VS. IEON CLAD. tv- ci'nkmiy of the two iron-clad X I'V o r ships ill the harbor of Valparaiso, Chili by the' torpedo gunboat Almi- rante' Lynch, is- an event in which other maritime nations are interested in as well as Chili. 1 he two ' ships that were sunk were fine vessels, one of them,- the Huascar, ranking among the most formidable iron clads in the world, bne was cap tured by jthe Chilians - in the war with Perif and has since been the pride of khe Chilian navy. These wssels both went over to the insur gents' and they carried terror ' into thr coast towns because there was nothing which the government could cemmand that dared to meet them until that 750-toh torpedo gunboat went'out, threw some torpedoes under them and sent them both to the bot tom, and not only them but a couple hundred men who were on board of them, .j j l' ' A ' -' ..: ; There hasTbeen a gooddeal of ex perimenting done'with torpedoes and a good .deal of speculation as to their powers of destruction on an iron fleet,5 but this is the first practi cal demonstration in actual warfare of the , power of the torpedo versus the irori-clad. '. There;! has also been a great deal of experimenting to compound ex plosives that would cause the great est amount of destruction, with some remarkable results. - Dynamite is the ordinary explosive used in the torpedo in the tests so far made, but otner explosives nave Deeninventea in this country and abroad to which in destructive power it is said dyna- aite bears no comparison. Inventors have also been at work on torpedo guns. The most terrific thing of this kind, so far tested is the one invented by tan army officer, a I lieutenant, of which two or three remarkable tests were made at.. Fort Hamilton, on Long Island. With this gup he threw tubes charged with dynamite a distance of a mile at floating objects placed in the water s targets with' marvelous re sults, j He not only dropped his tubes close enough to the target ,for all pra ctical purposes, but : the ex plosior beneath the surface threw columr s of water a hundred feet into the ainand actually threw the mud and stones from the bottom, of "?the bay high up into theair. , No vessel at which one of these tubes Was rtirowri could possibly stay on top of the water. ' '- '1 '. Inventors have also been at work on submarine tOmedo boats with suth results as to give ground for the belief that the torpedo submarine boat (problem will be successfully mastered. Boats have been con structed that could remain under the water for several hours and be guid ed at the will of those in charge (two or threenren), raised to the surface, lowered to any depth, or propelled in any i ndirection. A Spanish captain constructed one of these boats with which he says he can stay under the water ten or twelve hours. , With the practical demonstration of the power of 'this Chilian torpedo gun-boat, in blowing up two formida- ble, lron-clad ships, with the progress ma for pe in the construr.tinn of, run throwing dynamite tubes a long dis ance with the accuracy of ordi- nary balls, and with the progress I that has been made in the construe won ot an effective submarine tor Peao boat, it may be asked,: what do the great iron-clads with their oonster guns amount to, when they .un aebiown out of the water as wsily as a wooden tub could be. How long would a fleet of that kind stay afloat in American waters ? Not forty-eight hours. Not one ship would ever get close enough to one i our towns to throw a shot into it j Other nations so far have been do '"g the exberimentinc with costlv armored ships, (floating for-' tresses) and this Government has ee'i looking on and getting the nefit of their experience without costing much. The probabilities are that the fate of those two iron-clads !n Chili .will lead to another depar turf naval architecture, from which as a feature the monster neavy.gun iron-clad will be omitted, a- useless and 'entirely too expen :s'v: for a mere ornament. The yphip of the future is to be the" H that the Government of the vya States is building the swift- VOL. XXII. running, iron-ciaa cruiser, armored to resist the ordinary missies of war, with speed enough to run down any thing it wants to run down or nln away from anything it can't handle. These are to be the war ships ot the future. The Chilian torpedo inci dents will 'relegate the iron-cased floating fortresses. V '-, THE LESSON OF EXPERIENCE. ; ... .1-1 The campaign of education has been progressing in this country, and the people have learned much about the things they didn't know, and many of them have been educated out of the. errors into which they had been led by the ; quack states men in whom they trusted. In the West this educating process has , been carried on on a more extensive scale than in other sections of the country, and witn very notable re sults, one evidence of, which is the phenomenal Democratic j majority that will sit in the lower! House of the 52d Congress. A' : M ' ' !1 But while the" educational work has been carried on ; more earnestly and systematically in the West than in other sections, this is not the only section where its effects have been felt,-for in all sections its! influence, has been felt more or less. Even New England which was at onetime such a worshipper at the shrine of the protection idol, has learned some thing from it, but'learned something, too, in the instructive I but costly school of experience. There for many years the protective tariff was an ac cepted dogma of political faith by aa overwhelming majority of the peo ple, and they had no patience with and questioned the patriotism of the man who differed from 'them and refused to accept that dogma. The manufacturers who were benefitted by.it were its zealous advocates and defenders and the farmers upon whom it levied -tribute were per suaded to believe, and in j their un sophisticated innocence did believe, that the tribute they paid would re sult in building up their home mar kets, creating a demand for the pro ducts of 'their farms, giving them better prices and also enhancing the value of their farms, thus not only returning them the tribute . they paid but enriching themJ jThey be lieved this and year after year un- qaestioningly marched to the ballot boxes and deposited their ballots for the men who advocated a high pro tective tariff and more of it, and felt if thev were doing themselves and their country good service, j j For a time the manufacturers flourished, but the farmers in I the midst of all these "home markets" from which they -were led to expect so mucn, aia not nounsn. iney not oajy did not flourish but they did the very reverse, they got poor, and grew poorer, until they by tens and hundreds and thousands had to abandon the farms whicli they could not sell and seek a livelihood at other callings.; To-day in that high ly protected section pt the country there are thousands of abandoned farms almost within sight of the "home markets." Sonai of them have found tenants in the Canadian immigrants who have been enticed by the-low rental" or low purchase price asked, while ineffectual at tempts have been made to colonize them with imported Polos. ' j . So much fOr protection to : the farmer. But the farmer j is not the only sufferer. Even the manufac turers who for awhile! flourished, when they had no competition at home have since begun to reap the results of too much ! j protection, They are suffering now for the want of free raw material to enable them to hold their own with manufac tories which are more favorably situated, and as they can't get the free raw material whichj they need, manv factories are closing their doors, or moving to more favored sections. j The Boston Advertiser, an organ of the protectionists, takes occasion from time to time to lecture the farm ers of New England on the decay of agriculture in that section, assuming that it is to be attributed to the bad methods among the farmers. The Massachusetts Plowman resents ; the : C 4.UA -frtj-.-I-ir ornrin and while admitting the fact, that the farming interest in New England is in decay, as evidenced by the number of abandoned farms, re minds the Advertiser that the per centage of abandoned manufacturing establishments is greater than the percentage of abandoned farms, -and this not only among the cotton '. and woolen mills but in other industries. In three towns, it pays, within twentv . miles of Worcester" where : ... i twenty years ago there were eigh teen boot and shoe factories if the Advertiser could now find but four Scores of cotton and ! woolen mills have been closed, the result of com petition with he mills which jhave sprung up in the South, and; the high tariff on raw materials which they can't afford to pay , but which thev could before thev! had South ern competition to contend with. So also' does the iron industry suffer from the same cause,! and many of them will have to close their H doors in the near future unless they can get freeraw materials. New England has learned some thing about the tariff but ' she; has learned it after many years and in me cosuy scnooi of mtter experi ence.-' ' - !. :' Wy.;; MEIOE MENTION. J The position of Secretary Foster is not an enviable one: With available funds in the Treasury amounting to about $12,000,000, he has to meet the current expenses of the Govern ment, pensions and other maturing obligations. He professes not to feel uneasy and hopes to make arrange ments to meet all claims as they are presented, but how he is going to do this he has not. yet revealed. -The customs receipts have fallen off to the amount of several millions in the past quarter and the Government will lose about $16,000,000 by the repeal of the tobacco dealers' li cense tax, which went into effect Fri day last. He intimates that "on ; a pinch, " as he expresses it, he could draw on the $100,000,000 reserve fund for the redemption of Govern ment Treasury notes, but he has no more right to tamper with that trust fund than he' has to take the money appropriated to run the Post- office Department, or to maintain the Army'and theNavy. There is n$ law to authorize the use of thaf fund for any' other purpose than the purpose for which it was intended and he has no I right to touch a dollar of it. By doing so to save the -Government's credit, as he expresses it, he would injure its credit more than, the would help it by destroying public confidence in the Government's trust funds to meet the bonds if puts upon the market. Secretary Foster may have succeeded pretty well as a country storekeeper before - he launched ; out into politics, in which he succeeded pretty well, too, butnn tackling such a big job as running the financial Department of this Government, right on the heels of Tom Reed's Billion dollar Congress he ought to so slow ana sees counsel ot tne wise. ! " : : B. P. Hutchinson, "Old Hutch," as he was familiarly known in Chicago, Where for years he had been the king of the grain market, is king no more. He has got to the end of his rope and may possibly end his days jn an insane asylum. A short while ago he .was rated to be worth all the way from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000, but for some time he has been in vesting so recklessly and losing so heavily that his friends began .to fear that he j was becoming mentally unbalanced and he was persuaded to make over some of his property to his family.. This he did out of the million or so that hadn't gone by the board. A few days ago he suddenly left the city, without any previous intimation, when inquiry developed the fact that he had bought a ticket for Pensa- cola Fla. He was" found at Evans ville, Ind. His case is another strik iag illustration of n th e reverses of fortune and how quickly the man of millions may tumble from his height to the level of the scrambling crowd below, whose fortunes it was once in his power to make and unmake, - Frank Leslie' s Illustrated Newspa per, which is partly .owned, and edito rially controlled by Russell B. Har rison, son of Benjamin, has been for some time engaged in the interest ing occupation of booming (indirect ly) President Harrison for a second term, and relegating Mr. Blaine as a possible candidate for the Presiden- cy. A snort wnue ago it pupnsnea -an article "on the best authority1 giving President Harrison credit for the fhm stand which this Govern ment had taken ;l iri the affair with Italy, which was a backhanded swipe at Blaine, to whom the public was giving the credit in that matter. This it followed up a few days ago with another article asserting that Mr. Blaine could not possibly be come a candidate for the nomination and could not consent to the use of his name in that; connection, plainly intimating that when Mr. Blaine ac cepted a place in the Cabinet that he thereby obligated himself to play second fiddle to Mr. Harrison, and under no circumstances come in the way of that gentleman's ambition Perhaps , this article is inspired by the "best authority," too. But whether or not it is evident that Harrison & Son intend to run Blaine off the track if they can do it. Senator Butler, backed by the South Carolina J Press Association, has started a movement to erect a monument to the women'of the Con federacy. 'If any women in the world deserve a , monument it is the women of the Confederacy, who in that memorable ' struggle showed a- devotion, a self-sacrificing unselfish ness and heroic pluck never before eaualled by any women on the face of the earth. 1 B'rayer Shepard, of the New York Mail ana express, may live to attain a great age. La Nature records the' case of an "ass in France which lived to the age of 106 years, j V V . 1 A Jl A WILMINGTpN, N; C, THE BLUE ANP THE GRAY. Southern Troops Wor Blue Uniforms at the Beginning of Mis War. V- Two gentlemen, conversing yesterday about the State Guard's adoption of the regulation blue uniform! and the feeling ' evoked thereat in some'quaiters, one of them remarked: "It s a fact, neverthe less, that when the war began most of the Southern troops C wore) the blue and the Yankees' wore the gray. At the first fight in Virginia the battle of Bethel, on the 10th day of June, 1861 when the IFederal General Butler with about 0,000 troops attacked and was signally i defeated by the First North Carolina; infantry, the. Richmond Howitzers and ' one or two j local militia companies, numbering j alto- companies, gether about ; 1,6001 men iunder command of Gen. Magruder very.' near all of the ten companies of the North Carolina regiment were uniformed in bluer the two Fayetteville c wercxertainlv.' " And Col. " D. .Hi Hill. commanding the regiment, acting iinder iiic impression mat inc r eaerai iroups i were also dressed in blue, caused strips I of White cloth to be issued to the men of his command ' with instructions! that they were to be tied on the left arms of the men as a mark to distinguish them from the soldiers of the enemy. When the affair was: over and Butler was in rapid retreat toward Hampton. Va., the jNorth Carolina boys found much to their asfbnishment that all the dead of the enemy in their front wore light gray uniforms, with the exception of a red-legged zouave; and an officer. Ma j. Winthrop, whose body was dressed in blue." DEEP SEA FISHING. Pointers for Our IiOcal Fishermen That. May ; Bring Wealth! to Their Coffers The Fish Commissiqn ' avers that the creat shelf of the Atlantic irom the northern limits of the banks southward to and beyond the capes of Virginia; are aswarm with fishes, excellent for food, that are unknown to our domestic mar kets, simply for the reason that no prac ticable method has hitherto been applied for their capture. j , British fishermen engaged in deep sea fishings have forj some time been using what is called a f 'beam trawl." j By means of it not only as a large catch of fish secured, but also a great variety. The trawl is merely an immense net in the a pocket, j seventy-five fe long, spread under "bjy a stick of wood, whichi goes on runners like a sled in order that the net can be hauled over the bottom easily. It' is weighted with lead, and being dragged close to or. on the bottom oi the sea, it scoops in all j that class: of fish like soles and flounders, that hug the bottom. The schooner Mary F. Chishalm.lbXon of j Gloucester, Capt. Beadford, made the first experiment with a beam trawl imported from Eng land. She returned to Gloucester on March 30 with an Immense catch of cod, haddock and hallibut captured in the trawl, besides 5000 lemon soles, which sold for four cents apiece whole sale. J The captain threw overboardi an immense quantities of soles because he did not know that jthey were salable. His trawl net came lip time after time so overloaded with fish that the great est difficulty was experienced in getting them to the surface. So' great were the catches that it took as much as nine hours to fetch the trawl on board,, so that most of the fish ! were too badly in jured to be saved. THE RICE CROP. Planters Say Eveythinn is in Good Shape. Rice planters along the Cape Fear speak encouragingly of the outlook for the coming season, j and if they are as fortunate as they were last year wll be very; well satisfied. Reports from South Carolina are that the recent cool spell has somewhat re tarded the growth of the rice crop. ( The crops are looking fvery well, yet they are a little late.1 The farmers along the (Combahee did not plant their rice until about the 25th. It takes from a week to twelve days for the rice to comenp. ... .'; . The Colored Orator on Temperance. The Greenville, S.'C. News says: The Rev. I. C. Price lectured at Ferguson's hall last Thursday night on "Temper ance." The reputation of the orator and7 his lecture Tuesday night' sui- ficed to draw a large audience, which followed the speaker's every word with interest. In his two lectures the speak er has given his race some wholesome advtce. .He has told them not to be ashamed that they are negroes and the more "kinky their hair the prouder thev should be. i A number ot the most intelligent white people have heard both lectures, The strongest praise, spooken jot the negro orator yesterday were by the him white people. They listened to with wrapt attention. The Pension Board, j ; Under an amendment to the Pen sion law made by the recent Legislature an advisory board j Was created in each ennntv. to consist of five ex-Confed erates 'who served in the war between the States, to act in connection with the county board which consists jof the commissioners and; the clerk of the Su perior Court in determining the merits of applicants for pensions. The follow ing are the advisory board as appointed for this county : . Col. E. D. Hall, chair- man. Col. W. L. DeRosset, Capt.! T. C. Lewis, Capt. Chas. L. Cowles and Lieut, i TA. Shepard. ' , ' Wilmington and the G. C. & TS. E. ; The Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroad is now open for business to Elberton, Ga., . which- place is now in direct connection with Wilmington via the Carolina Central railroad ! from Monroe, N. C. The following new sta tions on the Km. C At JN . have been established, viz: : Watts, S. C, 141 miles from Monroe; Hardmont, Ga., 155 miles; Middleton, Ga., 159 miles. Elberton is 105 miles from Monroe. 1 KLY FRIDAY, MAY 8, 18dl. This is intended only for ; subscribers whose subscriptions have ex pired. It is not a dun, but a simple request that all who are in ar rears for the STAR will vor mwith a prompt remittance. We are sending; out bills now (a few each week), and if : you re- CGiVG OUB pl6BS6 fiV6 it ... J Mill .cttbCilllUlii Bishop Watson at FayetteTille. The Fayetteville Observer, says: Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern North Carolina, made his annual visitation here last week. He addressed a large congregation at St. John's Episcopal Church on Sunday morning, and at the conclusion oi the services 28 novitiates grouped themselves about the chancel rail for confirmation. There were 7 con firmations at Rockfish; and S at St. Joseph's Church (colored) in this citj 43 in alt, which gratifyinely shows the progress and vitality of the Church.' 'The Best Judge in the State." ' The Mecklenburg: Times says : "Tak ing Judge Meares up one side and down the other, he is about the best Judge j in the State. As often as he has held court in this county, we have never heard an adverse criticism passed upon him by a citizen or member ot the bar. The man who does any mischief and gets cleared in' Judge Meares' court has to hoe a rough row of stumps. Death of Mr. Henry W. Bradley. Mr. Henry W. Bradley, whose death in Alameda, California, is announced elsewhere in the star, was lormeny a citizen of Wilmington brother of Messrs. James, Charles and Kicnara Bradley. He removed to California some forty years ago, and has since; re sided in that State. His wife a sister of Mr. DuBnitz Cutlar, of this city and three sons and a daughter survive him. Beeeipts of Naval Stores. j Receipts of naval stores at this port for the first month of the ! present crop year as compared with j receipts for the same month last year are as follows: spirits turpentine, 2,661 casks; last year, 3,817. Rosin, 24,917 barrels; last year, 24,297. Tar, 7,148 batrels; last year, 8,185; Crude turpentine, 1,107 barrels; last year,;749 Cotton Movement at Wilmington. Receipts of cotton for the crop year to May 1st, at this port, amount to 185,- 966 bales, against 132,502 to same date last year an increase of 53,464 bales. The receipts for the month of April were 3,318 bales, against 127 the same month last year. The stock at this port is. 7,610 bales, against 3,768 at same date last year. -John Neeley, Samuel Sands jand Wm. Curtis, all colored, arrived at Norfolk, Va., Friday night. The men are from the abandoned three-masted schooner Myer G. Sergeant, oi down East. They say the .Sergeant, which was bound irom xagoon, Mexico, to New York with a cargo of mahogany, became water-logged off Hatteras, March 31st, and was abandoned. The crew of five, consisting of Frederick A. Davis, master, John Neeley, Samuel Sands, Geo. W. Topping and William Curtis, were rescued by the 'schooner H. E. Thompson ; and carried to Neuver to, Cuba, from whence they were taken to Fortress Monroe, landing there Thursday. The captain and one, Top ping, went direct to New York. Union School House to be Bebnilt. The School Committee of District No. 2, met yesterday and awarded the con tract for building the new Union School house to Mr. Tames F. Post, who will begin work to-morrow. The new build ing will be substantially like the one re cently -burned, and will be ready for occupancy by the first of next Sep tember. Fayetteville to Have Water-Works. The Fayetteville Observer ' says "that at a special meeting of the town com missioners last Friday night the propo sition of the National Supply and Guar antee Company an English syndicate to put in water-works at Fayetteville, was accepted, the same to cost between forty and fifty-five thousand dollars.1 GOLD AND SILVER. Exports and Imports at M"ew York the , Past Week. , By Telegraph to the Morning Star New York, April 2. Exports of spe cie from the port of New York during the week amounted to 41653.629, of which $4,570,770 was gold and (82,859 silver. Of the total exports, $4,350,000 in gold and $62,600 in silver went to Europe, and $222,777 in gold and $20, 259 in silver to South American and West Indian points. imoorts ol soecie for the oast week amounted to $18,099, of which $7,042 was gold and $11,057 silver, f Salisbury Truth: The Dunn's Mountain Granite Quarry, owned by a corps of gentlemen in Salisbury, is about to be sold to a Washington syndicate. Another quarry on the same mountain has been leased by the company to a syndicate to be worked at the sum of $5,000 per year. - - We regret to state that Mr. John I. Shaver met with a serious accideat on last Saturday, get ting his lee broken in two places-: Mr. Shaver was doing a humane act of help ing a man and his horses out of a hard pull, when the accident occurred. NOTICE TAR. WASHINGTON NEWS. Foreign News papers with Lottery Advert tisementa The Public Debt. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . Washington, April 30. Some time ago the postal! authorities caused the Pretit Journal ixA other French jour nals to be excluded -from the United States on the! ground that they con tained lottery advertisements. Minis ter Roustan called the matter to the at tention of the; Department, of State, and after hearing his presentation, Sec retary tilaine took the necessary steps, and to-day advised the French Minister as follows : VTbe Postmaster General has given instructions to postmasters at all seaport cities to deliver all foreign newspapers (including French,of course) that do not contain advertisements of any regularly organized and well known lottery schemes. Newspapers contain ing advertisments ot premium govern ment and municipal bonds are not dis turbed." . j ; The reservation above noted, - will, it is believed, "meet the case of the com plaining newspapers. , . ,- - : l here will be no change made by the Treasury Department at present in ihe form in which the public debt state ment is issued, nor of the statement showing the assets and liabilities of the government. ' Secretary Foster said this afternoon that the whole financial ques tion will be J held in 'abeyance until President Harrison's return to the city. it is expected that the public debt statement to be issued to-morrow will show a decrease in the public debt of somewhat over a million dollars. 1 his small decreasel is said at the Department to be due in part to large payments that have been made on account of the direct tax fund, the tobacco tax rebate and other matters. ; .. Washington, D. C, May 1. The Treasury Department to-day made the first purchase of silver for the present month. The amount offered was 729,- 000 onunces, df which , 175,000 ounces were purchased at 97.698.4. secretary. roster, in speaking to an Association Press reporter to-day con cerning financial matters, said that in his opinion the Government would be able to take care of all its obligations, and that in addition to $236,000,000 of bonds already retired by this admin istration, it.would, in his opinion, add & considerable amount in the two years that remains.; Concerning the $100,- 000,000 legal tender redemption fund in the Treasury, the secretary said he did not expect that any condition of affairs would arise which, would make it nec essary for the Government to touch it. He intimated, however, that this fund might be used without legislative action in case of .absolute necessity, to prevent any discredit to Uovernment obliga tions. ! The first of the steps contemplated by secretary r oster for getting the subsid iary coin now: in the Treasury into cir culation was taken to-day, when the fol lowing notice, signed by United States Treasurer Nebeker, was prepared at the Treasury Department and will be sent to banks throughout the United States: "1 he coinage of standard silver dollars authorized by the act of February 28, 1878. having been discontinued by the act of July 14th, 1890, the Treasurer finds it inconvenient to furnish them otherwise than in the redemption of sil ver certificates or Treasury notes, but will forward silver half-dollars, quarter- dollars and dimes to any address, free of cost for transportation by express, in sums of $200 or more, or by registered mail in packages of $70, in exchange for any other kind of money deposited in the Treasury or any suh-treasury or de pository bank. Remittances for this purpose will be received by the Treasu rer and assistant treasurer in the form of -drafts on any bank or banker in Washington, New York, Boston, Phila delphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, or San Francisco. MILLIONS OF CATERPILLARS. Along the Line of the Carolina Central Near Iitunberton Bails and Cross-ties Covered, and Difficulty Experienced in Getting Trains Through. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Charlotte, N. C, May 2. The Carolina Central trainmen have been having a peculiar experience with cater pillars for foar or five days past, and it is something unheard of in the railroad history of this State. Just east of Lum berton is what is known as the Big Swamp, and ! the railroad goes through it on trestle work,- broken here and there in solid portions of the swamp by embankments of earth. Last Tuesday an army of caterpillars began moving out of the swamp, and when they reach ed the streams over which the tres tles carry - the rails they mass ed on the railroad and proceed' ed to cross on the trestle. The rails and ties were covered inches deep with the moving mass and the first train that encountered them was brought to a dead stand-still, the driving-wheels of the engine slipping around as if they had been thoroughly oiled. The engineer exhausted the contents of his sand-box before he got through the swamp: and reached a clear stretch of track. It was thought that this trip would be the end of the caterpillar trouble, but the very next day the train encountered another army of caterpillars crossing the ties and had the same . difficulty, Charlotte-bound passenger trains yes terday had a similar experience., and a passenger says the scene was some thing truly wonderful. .Rails and cross ties of the trestle were actually covered from sight by the masses of caterpillars, and the ground and swamp on each side of the track were littered with mashed fragments of millions of caterpillars from the wheels of passing trains, and from this mass an unendurable stench arose. j Where the caterpillars came from is not known. Farmers on this side of the swamp express no uneasiness for the safety of their crops so long as the advancing army persists in using the trestles.as its means of getting across streams, for none of them have got half way across before a train -would come along and convert them into fertilizer. FUNERAL OF GEN. LONG At Charlottesville, Virginia, Attended by Thousands. I By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Charlottesville, May 2. The fu neral of Gen. A. L. Long was held at 11 o'clock to-day. All business was sus pended. The funeral was attended by thousands. Tohn Bowie Camp of Con federate Veterans and the Monticello Guards conducted the bsequies. The funeral discourse was delivered by Dr. Hankel, of Christ Church. Gen. Long was given a military burial, with a salute of eleven guns by the artillery, in honor of his rank . of Brigadier-General, and three volleys - over his grave by the Monticello Guard. Many distinguished persons attended. NO. 25 "JACK THE RIPPER." i f THE CRIMINAL. The New York Police Claim to Have the Murderer of the Woman Carrie Brown in Custody. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New ; York, April SO. Inspector Byrnes has at last fastened the crime for the murder of Carrie Brown. The murderer is "Frenchy No. 1," who was arrested. Friday night, less than twenty four hours after " committing the crime, and who has been under lock and key ever since. On the night the murder was committed "Frenchy No. 1" occupied room , 83 in the Fourth. Ward hotel, with a woman by the name of Mary Ann Lopez. The room across the hall from this was oc cupied by the-woman Brown and her unknown companion, rrom informa tion in possession. of the police, it ap pears that the murdered woman s com panion had left her some time before 1 o'clock Friday morning; Frenchy No. lhad been at one time a lover of the old woman, but for some reason had be come insanely jealous of her. He heard her companion leave the room, and shortly j afterwards he got up and leav ing his I room-mate, Mary Ann Lopez, asleep, Crossed the hall and deliberately strangled and then disembowelled his victim.! This is the story of the police. It is substantiated . by the following facts: When Frenchy No. 1" had completed nis . muraerous worK ne recrossea me hall and entered room No 33, and in that room he left evidences of his guilt. When the police made their investiga tion, traces of blood were to be found on every side. The only chair the room contained was covered with blood, smeared over it from the clothes the murderer wore, he having sat down upon it when he entered the room. The bed-clothes were found to be covered with blood, the murderer some time during the night having thrown him self upon the bed. His stockings (he hav ing removed his shoes to do bis bloody work) were soaked with blood, and his clothing was also covered with blood. On the walls and curtains of the little room, many small spots of blood were found, the man having evidently enter ed the room with his: hands reeking with blood and in his desire to remove it he had shaken and snapped his hands and fingers, thus liebrally distributing it around the room. When the fellow was arrested and Inspector Brynes examined his hands and finger nails, the latter he carefuly scraped and found plan and distinctjtraces of human blood. To posi tively ! establish the fact, the scrapings and dirt found under the nails were submitted to chemical analysis. From the time the man was arrested but lit tle could be learned from him. He has made a few statements, hut all have been so very contradictory, that little the police have been able to make but use ot them. TENNSSEE LYNCHING. A Negro Who Shot a Policeman Hanged by a Mob. ; By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Franklin, April 30. The city was crowded with negroes yesterday, the occasion being the performance of a ten-cent circus. One of the negroes Jim Taylor became very troublesome and shot a policeman, Charles Cook, who was trying to arrest him. He was afterwards lodged in jail. About 10 o'clock last night a well organized mob of men attacked the jail, overpowered the sheriff, took the keys from him and quietly carried the negro down a side street to a covered bridge and hung him up to a cross-beam. All ; was done in an orderly manner under a recognized leader. The negroe's body was then riddled with bullets and left banging. The mob then quietly dispersed. Most of . them were on horseback, and no one knows who they were. it has since been learned that in- the fight the negro also shot one of the circus men. The negroe's attack on policeman Cook was peculiarly atro cious, as he had him down face down wardand then caught hold of his shoulder and shot him in the back of the neck. It was a miracle that the ball happened to miss a vital part. The negro was found when caught to have two j pistols and a large dirk on his person. AN OLD CITIZEN, Archibald Andrews Aged 107 Tears, Died Near Hillsboro Yesterday. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Raleigh. N. C, April 30. Archi bald Andrews, the oldest man in North Carolina, died near Hillsboro. Wednes day; aged 107 years. He leaves a broth er Henry now over 100 years old. They were- born near Hillsboro; were farmers and temperate; both were great hunters. Henry after he was ninety years old caught in a winter season over ninety possums by night hunting. Archibald walked seven miles to vote for Cleveland. A FORGER CAUGHT. Dr. B. C. Ooodwyn, Alias E. C. Hoston, Arrested at Cincinnati, j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Cincinnati, May 1. Dr. R. C. Good- wyn, alias R. C. Hoston, was arrested yesterday by two private detectives. They had suspected the man and had followed him to the railroad office and were outside watching when he reached up to adjust a window hanging and thus exposed his tatooed wrist. He sternly resented the insult ot arrest, but when he was taken to the office by the detec tives he confessed that he was the man whom they were seeking. The charge made against him is that ot forging, checks. A request to look out for him came April 27th, ; from A. M. Brown well, Richmond, Va., The specific charge against him. is 'forging a. check upon J. P. Kickman, ot Jriendersonvilie; N. G, which was cashed by the State Bank of Commerce at that place. Dr. Goodwyn is an Englishman, '5 years old, of fine appearance and well educated. - His bogus checks were dis covered in February last, and he fled, being traced to many points from which it is inferred that be must nave obtained thousands of dollars : in this way. He admitted the Rickman forgery, and said in' explanation that his allowance from England had been cut off by his mother when she heard of his marriage to Miss Babcock, of Syracuse, N. Y. In signing his name to an agreement -to waive requisition, he wrote Royston C. H. Goodwyn and said that it was the first time he had signed his right name since February 14, 1891. A Clebuirne, Texas, special says a cot ton compress was burned yesterday to gether with 700 bales of cotton. The fire was started by a spark from a passing locomotive. Loss $60,000; partly insured. PIRITS TURPENTINE. Morganton Herald: On Tues- " ay evening the steam shingle mills of Mr. T. A. Seals at Bridgewater were completely destroyed by fire. About $500 worth of shingles and blocks were " destroyed and the entire loss was, we understand, between $1,500 and $2,000. Salisbury Watchman: In 1886 . only 77.559 pounds of manufactured cotton goods were shipped from Salis- T .. T . ...... - AARf AOO 1 . I teen times more than in .1886. This is - a crratitvinor tatrnnt. and better still - the fact that by next year more than two millions pounds will be shipped by the several cotton mills here. Asheville Citizen: The large -; granite slab to be used as a mail plat form in rear of the Government build ing was brought up to town last night by a freight car over the street railway. The slab came from Winnsboro, S. G, is 11J6 leet in length, 6 feet 8 inches in width, and weighs 9,500 pounds. : FlHorar Frwmiin. whrt nra inr n lnnir time employed in the Western Union 'A. office in Asheville was brought home last night from Knoxville, where he had been employed for several months. Freeman is suffering -from insanity, vj. : 1 .1 l cigarettes He will probably be sent to th Morganton Asylum. Raleigh News and Observer: Gov. Holt yesterday appointed I. R. Hays a notary , public in Chatham county. Yesterday Mr. E. B. En gelhard and Mr. Alex. McPheeters. Jr., were out on Walnut creek, and as thev were walking along the path Mr. Engel hard discovered a rattlesnake in the middle of the path, all coiled up and ready to strike, and within a foot of thesru- Calling out to his companion to . jump he jumped, and so did Mr. Mc Pheeters, while the snake sprung his rattle. Having gotten out of the way they shot ten times and killed the rep tile. It was a rattlesnake, five feet and a half long. Near by they found a snake nest with eggs in it, which they de stroyed. It was a narrow escape for one of the young men, at least. . Weldon News. Ex-Governor P. H. Bell, of Texas, how living at Little- " ton, was very recently pensioned by the State of Texas and granted twelve hundred and eighty acres of land in recognition of his services to thai: State in its war of independence. He was the first governor of Texas alter it became a member of the American Union, and bears now wounds received at San Ja cinto and other hard fought battles. He is now about seventy years of age, but of good health and likes to talk about his success in the Lone Star State. The Rev. W. B. Morton, who sometime since tendered his resignation as pastor of the Baptist church here to take ef fect the first of July, at the earnest and unanimous solicitation of his congrega tion has reconsidered his resignation and will remain here. Statesville Landmark: Proba bly the finest cow in Dr. J. J. Mott's herd of Jerseys, a 6-gallon-a-day cow, got to a lot of white lead one day last , week, ate it and died. Mr. J. C. , Frost now has his newly patented to bacco caser ready for use and tobacco men pronounce it a success. Un- less some disaster overtakes it yet, the apple crop this year will be a full one. There will be a good many peaches, though probably not as many nor as good ones as some people expect. A monster rock, of Winnsboro, S. C, granite has been laid down this week in the rear of the new United States court house jand postoffice. It is to be the mailing platform, upon which the ' mails are to be loaded and unloaded to and from the mail wagon, and is 12 feet 2 inches long, 8 feet 5 inches wide, 8 inches thick, measures 68 58-216 cubic feet and weighs 11,264 5-16 pounds. Asheville Citizen: Will Barnett, who was shot by Charles Lominac at Emma, Saturday night, is reported by his physician, Dr. E. C. Starnes, as be ing slightly improved. His condition f ives some hope , of a recovery. ames Hess, charged with assisting in the burglaring of Owens & Jenkins' store on South Main street, was cap tured yesterday near theYancey county line, fourteen miles north of Asheville. Mr. Will Frank, formerly foreman ot the Citizen office, started yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, with Miss Maggie Murdock, to that young lady's home, just west of the city limits. The couple were walking over the track of the Western N. C. R. R. While on the trestle just below' the junction, the rumbling of a train was heard, and looking back the couple were horrified to see a freight train bearing down on them. The only means of crossing the trestle is by a single plank laid 'across the ties in the centre of the track. The couple started to run for the end of the trestle. Just at this moment Miss Mur doch tripped and fell on the ties. But she sprang to her feet before Mr. Frank could assist her and kept on the run for life. They reach the end of the trestle and sprang to the side track just as a heavy freight train dashed by. . Greenville Reflector: All around; we hear of farmers decreasing cotton acreage, and we are not the least bit sorry about it. They simply cannot afford to raise cotton at present prices, hence will, turn their attention more to tobacco, peanuts and other crops. -There was a pitiful spectacle on our streets Monday. It was a little, boy eleven years ot age, Kobert Hudson by name. Whose body showed that he had been severely beaten. An examination disclosed large bruises upon his back, thigh, left arm and leg. He' charged Mr. Lawrence Carr, of Farmville town-, ship, with whom he had been living for nearly three months, with having in flicted such inhuman punishment upon him. A warrant was issued for Mr. Carr and yesterday morning the case was heard before Esquire T. W. Smith. On the witness stand the boy said he was a native of Surry county, his parents were dead, and for three years he stayed in the Oxford Orphan Asylum, then 'came to live with Mr. Carr. He said that on last Wednesday Mr. Carr beat him, using a buggy' spoke, a piece of plow handle and a piece of plank with which to in flict the blows, and that a goose was also held to his face and made to bite him on the cheek. After hearing the testi mony the defendant was placed under $200 bond for his appearance at the Su perior Court. Chatham Record: Mrs. John Hearne, of New Hope township, - died very suddenly on last Tuesday, She S. Petty and was in her usual good health when she arose Tuesday morn- but died very suddenly about breakfast time. She was nearly eighty years old. The largest fish ever seen in Chat ham was caught last week in Deep .river near Lockville. The idea . of catching a fish that weighed 153 pounds seems almost increditable, and yet that is what was done by some of our county- men. They were seining for shad when they caught a tremendous sturgeon that weighed 153 pounds and was seven feet long. It struggled so violently that B. G. Womble, Esq., knocked it in the head with an axe and killed it be fore it could be brought to land. Every week we hear of mad dogs, and they seem to be getting too numer ous for comfort or satety. un last Sat urday Mr. James Gilliam, who resides near this place, was fiercely attacked by one and narrowly escaped being severe ly bitten. ' It was astrange dog, and it attacked Mr. Gilliam so suddenly that ne naa no ume io get any wcapuu iv defend himself with. It sprang upon his breast three times, and each time he knocked it down with his fist, and after being knocked down the third time it ran off, and as it passed Mrs. Gilliam it sprang at her, but she repulsed it with a hoe.
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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