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-5 !l ' FOfcUSHBD AT .. WILMINGTON. N. C; "j AT i-'j . ; $1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. ' S88SS88SS88838S8S 'i"'ww 8t 83i8g888Sg83ggggg I : 88888888888888888 - 88888888888388888 nnoK8 .33BK8g95B8a6gg8a - - 88888888888888888 82888888882888888 - 88888858828888888 8S88888S288888888 aA 8 "-3a333338aSSS8 88888888888888888 3l33AV I i-"awoot-ooco.m jsggjgj a. '' o :- " ' "J , :::: s ,5" .' - .j. . . f - -ht-h-ht-ohCScSc : :. a 4 f Entered at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, as . . Second Class Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Weekly Star is as follows : ' . -I ' ' j J Sinile Copy 1 year, postage paid.!.. SI 00 " " 6 months " " 60 I" ""' " Smenths " " 30 MORE TRUTH THAN P0ETKY, - - The demoralization in official life which has grown to such monstrous " proportions in this country is not the growth ot a year nor two years,.nor ten, but of a generation. It began jft the throes of the civil war, andVin "'the whirl and excitement and the general looseness !of j those times spread until it permeated , every branch of the .Government service; The public servant who was not more or less affected by it was made out of different stuff from the ordi- nary mortal. The spirit of specula tion stalked abroad, ; and the desire to become speedily rich became -almost universal, rich, not by honest effort, but by short and questionable methods. There was crookedness iii. Washington, -crookedness in the army, crookedness everywhere. Men who were poor came to the surface with large fortunes, and no one ever llhought of inquiring how they were secured, for it was generally under stood that there was stealing in some way, either stealing from the Gov ernment or some ;orie else. .... A considerable amount of this stealing was done, under', forms of law. and the thieves with their ill gotten wealth stalked through the land vitntheir heads as high or higher than If they had earned every dollar of it honestly. s Gen. Rush C. Hawkins has an ar ticle in the June number of the North American -Review in whiph he ' treats this subject at considerable .length to show that the spirit of ra pine and plunder which took its start during the civil war 'has .been spreading ever since until the pub lic has become so demoralized that it admires the man of millions re gardless of how he, gbt them, which is really a matter of no considera tion as long as he;has the millions. ; He cites several cases which came inder his own observation of fla grant plundering . of the Govern'-, jnent by army contractors, one a case of a large quantity ofshoes which had been delivered to hi.rri for the use of the soldiers, the soles of irhich were filled with shavings cov ered with a thin piece of sole leather which wouldn't stand a day's wear. He also cites the case of two old hulks which were sold to the Gov ernment for $050,000 in opposition to the protests of prominent officials, which within four months were put up at; auction tp be sold and couldn't eommarid a higher bid than $35,000. i It is a! part of the; history of the times that cotton stealing when the army struck the cotton States was teduced to a fine art, and that it be came part of the business of the sol diers, to guard cotton thieves, who divided the plunder with the officers in charge and the politicians at Washington who ' gbt them "per mits" and secured them military protection. y - " Stock stealing from Southern plantations was another of the in dustries of the timesand some of the best"stock in the West to-day are the iprogeny-of those confiscated horses and cattle. . .. He expresses the opinion that if it nadn t been for this wholesale plunder of the Government carried on during the war and connived at by incompetent and dishonest offi cials the cost of conducting the war would have been one-third less than ilt was, and he is probably right. L He then takes up the land grants to railroads, the money loaned them, "ie thefts of the public lands and public timber, the star route frauds, Plundering of Indians, etc., by which jinany of the colossal fortunes which we now read about were made, wt., with all this Gen. Hawkins jtas scarcely cut through the i crust. He mio-ht have shown 1 W wealth, most of it gotten by cwSpked methods, dominated con ventions, elections, and legislation, .dictating the policy which It desired to see, and how even to-day, men of dollars can walk into our legislative halls, State and national, and secure almost any legislation they wish, from a prohibitory tariff to a swin ging charter, however much the People may protest against it. That was strikingly illustrated in the Bil lion Dollar Congress, which . 'showed Jojre talent for plundering the Treasury than' any other legislative body ever assembled in this or anv i other country, ( , ' 1 1 I ' I ' ' 1 " 1 '- " ' '' "" " " ' " : ' ' '- - " ' " " ' '": " ' ' ' ': ' ' VOL. XXII. ) WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1891.1 NO. 30 STATE TOPICS. -In the election of Prof. Winston, for President of University to succeed Battle, the trustees have jGeo. T. he State resident oubtless done well, much better than if they had gone outside and picked .up some man of some political promi--nence, but without real qualifications for the position. Mr. .Winston is a teacher by professioil, a fine scholar, young, vigorous,! energetic and enthusiastic,. just the kind of a man who is wanted for the position to .which he has been called. Those who know him best say that he is not only a thorough scholar, but a man of fine organizing and adminis trative ability, of resource, and with independence enough to! have opin ions of his own, and courage enough to act upon them. These are some of the characteristics jwhich ' com mended him so highly to the board of trustees and gave hito the unani mous vote for the Presidency which he received. ! SOME GOOD ADVICE. In his article in the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record, to which we have heretofore referred, Mr. Ed ward Atkinson, of Boston, calls at tention to two points on which he thinks it advisable to" warn the South ern people, because failure to note tnem may prove to b6 a serious mat ter. One refers - to industrial mat ters, the other to ourjtowns. Speaking of the. former, he says the South's great danger is in the very abundance of her natural wealth, which is j calculated to inspire over-confidence and lead to the opinion tpat ' this abun dance necessarily means suc cess m the industries that may spring out pf her resources. , In his opinion this may prove a great mis take, and may possibly lead to dis aster to those who 'do not move with their eyes wide open. New England has become a great and successful manufacturing sec tion, because having no great natural resources, and a naturally poor soil, the people were forced to become manufacturers, and to suc ceed they were compelled to study economy of production and the sav ing pt waste in I their methods of work. This and the low cost of freightage resulting from effective railway - systems! and water trans portation, have j enabled the New England States to forge to the front and take the place they hold among the manufacturing sections of the world. The South with all her marvelous resources will have to study and learn economy of production, to save the cent and the fraction of a cent on each pound or each yard. Speaking on this "point he says:' The aspect of these great mountains, pervaded with coal and iron and covered with timber, rather scared myself and my friends. ' We were afraid that if we had to develop them we should find that we were not: now endowed with the kind of sanguine and hopeful energy re quired for such work, because we had been so long occupied in pursuits which depend either on the saving of the waste or upor the right treatment of the secondary product of their profit, f : , We hope, however, that our Southern friends will soon put aside the mistaken idea that they piay thrive by a transfer of the industrial establishments of the far away East to the sunny South. The natural resources of the plateau and a disability wich .may for a long time stand in the way of the arts on which success depends upon the saving of a fraction of a cent on each pound or each yard, and in which a very large capital must be expended, but constantly main tained in Order to set one man or woman at work. . I . Again, in .he lowlands and the fiver bottoms of the cotton States the profits of agriculture, when pursued with the method and skill which are absolutely necessary to success in the manufactur ing and mechanic arts, will take up the time and attention of the men who would have been forced to become man ufacturers of mechanics had the lived in New England. M Fortunately the greatest diversity of industry must ol -necessity exist m a tree communityof any considerable size, even if it does not contain a single great factory or workshop that would attract attention. What has been the makine of I Atlanta? Has it not been the establishment of all the lesser arts which must of necessity exist in a city which is the center of trade for a pros- oerous agricultural section? It is the local traffic and not the lone haul that brines nrosoerity to the railroad; and it is the supply of the multiform but lesser wants of a neighborhood that brings the steadiest pccupation and the highest rate of wages to those who perform the least conspicuous, but, perhaps, the most important service for their immediate neighbors! -Even in the arts which are conducted in the great workshop and the big fac torv. success denends not onlv uoon the capital and skill of the individual found ers and managers, but also upon all the surroundings and auxiliaries which seem to have but little connection with them. ! I It is not to $ the great industries alone which the South must look but to the many "small" industries which give employment, to many people and build up manufacturing centers with an intelligent class of workmen Iron alone, however successful the manufacture of it may prove; cot ton alone, however successful its manufacture may prove, or tobacco alone, however successful its manu facture may prove will not do this, for each of these employ but one kind of labor and inspires but one train of thought. They are well enough as far as they go but they are only a part of the great industna scheme which must be adopted to en sure the full measure of Recess. I Fm -TT1TT - rN . ' " spirits turpentinetV II II II iV M n 1 U 7 W r :AVimi A ir New Berne Tournali Mr . W. I r u ' . . II J 1 II J 1 y i I NN ' 1 A U Another point to which he calls attention is the numerous land im provement, companies which have been organized in nearly every town of towns of little or no importance, nearly all of speculative character. which buy land for little money, divide it up into lots and sell it for a good deal of money. This is not, he says, what the Southern towns want. What theV want is comnamVs w hich will buy land and sell it on long time to persons of moderate means, to encourage them " to build homes and become substantial fac tors in the development and pros-i perity of the communties in which they live. MINOS MENTION. Within the past ten years the pop! ulation of Ireland has f allen off 453J 667, which reduces the population of the island now to 4,706,162, about half what it was half a century ago. Here i& a striking illustration of the evils of misgovernmeht, and pf lanld- ordism. Ireland is one of the most fertile countries in Europe, capable ot sustaining a population four tinies as large as its present population, but much of the land has been taken from cultivation and converted into game ranges for the pleasure of wealthy landlords, (whose ancestors stole it from the riehtful owners who have their homes in England, collecting the rents" through the agents who have no more feeling or sympathy for the struggling tenant than, a wolf has I for lamb. The rental that some of these tenants have to pay would buy farm in some portions of this country.- It is the landlord who is represented in Parliament and not the people of Ireland, and hence the laws are made. -arid administer ed in the interest of the land lord who could always count on the constable and the soldiers, if Neces sary, to help him collect his rents or to eject the tenant who could not or would not pay. In the oppressive laws and the monstrous landlordism are to be found the cause of the de population of one of the most natu rally favored lands in Europe, which under? good, humane government would be, instead of a land otj misery and starvation, a land of abundance and prosperity. , - Major McKinley has, among other requirements of the Republican poli tician, the cheek of an arriiy mule, and he acts on the assumption that the American people are a sjet of un mitigated asses. He answers the criticisms on the extravagant pen sion legislation of the last jbongress, oi wnicn ne was a conspicuous pari, by saying that the people have no more money to pay now than they did in 1867, for as the pensions have increased the public debi has been proportionately decreasedj In 1867, he says, the pensions were $20,936.- 000, the interest" of the public debt $143,781,000, making for both $164, 156,000. For next year he es timates the pensions at $125, 000,000 " ( about $25,000,000 be low the mark, and the interest at $27,000,000, making $162,000,000. This patriot seems to think . that as the people pay off the public debt and reduce the interest thereon they ought to take the money! thus saved and turn it over to the ex-soldiers and the gang of pension sharks who have been ljving upon and getting rich out of them, and that they should not r complain at being taxed for the benefit of the soldier and the pension shark, Jwhich" means if it means anything, that if Mr. Mc Kinley and his crowd are to remain. on top this government is to be rurf and the people taxed to keep up the pension steal which has grown to such enormous proportions. Notwithstanding the increased duty imposed on imported . carpets by the- McKinley tariff the imports for the first five months of this year are almost three times as great as for the ; corresponding period of last year. The reason of this is that the English carpet . makers can ship to this country and undersell the American carpet maker in spite of the tariff which was increased to! "protect" the American carpet mak er when the duty, was increased on carpet wools. By this increase, of duty and decisions on classification the East India wool which costs the English carpet maker less than 20 cents a pound costs the American importer from 35 to 36 cents, which more i than - offsets the increased tariff on carpets. . The result is that the American carpet maker is injur ed by a protective tariff which does not help the American wool grower because the quality of wool which is needed to compete with the Eng lish carpet maker is . not grown m this country. .--..! . Tt is . somewhat remarkable that while under British rule the popula tion of Ireland ' has fallen off 'over ten per cent, in the past ten years, the population of India has in creased over ten per cent., which shows, if it shows anything,- that England governs India better than she governs Ireland. The census aken in February shows a popula tion of 220.500.600 directly 'under British rulej and 65,509,000 more who are only indirectly under it. an urease of 26,000,000 since 1881, vhen the last census was taken. In some portions the increase has been pearly 25 per cent., and in some par ticular districts as much as fifty per cent. It is remarkable that Ireland is the worst governed portion of the British Empire. i " STATE TOPICS. The Durham Sun says' that Eliza Utley, the .woman who has been at work on the streets and imprisoned in the guard house, was given hjef iberty on condition that she, would eave the community and never re turn. It is not stated whether she accepted the condition or not, but as she does "not seem to haver beeft particularly infatuated with wdrking on the streets or lodging in the guard house, the presumption is she did. We don't know anything about Eliza, who may be either a very bad or a very unfortunate woman, of whom Durham was very ' glad to get rid, but what moral right had the authorities of Durham to banish this woman, whom they found a nuis ance, and force her upon their neighbors, thus compelling them to assume the burden which they them selves cast off? The Durham authori ties have done what has been re peatedly done in other towns and counties in North Carolina, but in doing so they did some thing -for ' which there is' no shadow of moral right or justifica tion. Every State and every com munity should take care of its own criminals or unfortunates jand not turn them over on the people of other States or other communities. Bishop Turner, colored, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, expressed his surprise in a. sermon in Brooklyn that ; so many colored men were hankering for white skins, and said that one sister was so anxious for a white skin that she told him that she would be willing to be skinned if the skinning would give her a white skin. Foolish peo ple. A black man or a woman with white skin wouldn't be a whit more respectable than a white man with black principles. They had better be content with the skin their creator put'on them and try to do credit to it rather than hanker for a skin that wouldn't fit t$em if they had it. We have a considerable assortment of boy preachers They range all the way up fromf 10 to 78 years, which is the age of Rev. J. H. Jones, of Ohio, who is as far as known the oldest "boy preacher" in active ser vice. I A fellow who wis anxious to leave New York .jumped out of a fifth - story window, but lit on a clothes line, which broke the fall and? the clothesline, too, and also baffled the man in his effort to leave New York by. that route. t THROWN OUT OF.COURT. The Case Against the New Hanover Can vassing Board Dismissed by the TJ. S. Court at Baleigh. A telegram was received last night by Mr. George Rountree, from Messrs. A, M. Waddell and Marsden Bellamy, of counsel for defendants in the New Hanover election case, in the U. S, Court at Raleigh, stating that a verdict for defendants had, been returned by the jury in the Warren County election case and that the New I Hanover case had been dismissed. The news was received here with much gratification by the members of the Canvassing Board and their friends, Judge D. L. Russell was the prosecut ing attorney in the icase from Warren county, and was also active in the pros ecution of the case against the New Hanover Board of Canvassers. , It was a bad defeat for him. . The New Han over case was much, stronger for the defendants than (the lease from Warren county, because the Su perior Court of North Carolina had already decided that the action of our board of canvassers was strictly in accordance with the law. The prosecution was a malicious one, and it is believed was brought simply for the purpose of annoying the defend ants' and, perhaps, intimidating others from doing their duty hereafter." "NOT A TRUE BILL." Is the Be turn Made by the! Grand Jury t in the Fayetteville Bank Case. The . Raleisrh News and Observer of yesterday says: I The grand iury of the United States Court who have for a day; or two past been examining witnesses in the case of the defunct feople s Hants oi fayette ville, with reference particularly tp the cashier, Mr. iunah f . Mcore, yesterday evening made return tp the cpurt that after a thorough investigation they had failed to find a true bill against Mr, Mopre, and upon motion of Col. Fuller, of cpunsel lor Mr. Moore,; ne was ais charged: hi' '"' The case has created much interest and a number of people have been here the oast week from Fayetteville as wit nesses before the! grand jury. Mr. Moore himself has been here tor ten A - 1 . . . . t uajro. The F. M. at Iolesville. A correspondent writes from Liles- ville. N. C. complains of the Post Mas ter at that place, who, the j correspond ent, says; frequently neglects to deliver mail, allowing letters and papers to re main in the office there several days before delivering them. f . NOTICE. This is intended only or 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 favor us with a prompt remittance. N 1 We are sending out bills now (a feweach week), and if y ou re ceive one please give' it your attention. SEVERE STORM. A Bis Blow Reports of Damage by Wind and Hail. The fag end of a big storm struck Wilmington about five o'clock yesterday afternoon. It came hurriedly from the north alter a bright clear day and caught many people on the streets. The wind seemed to come from all. directions, and raised blinding clouds of dust that fill ed the air and made it a matter of im possibility for one to see objects across the street. The wind was followed by rain that soon laid the dust and cooled the atmosphere. I The storm did no damage around town beyond blowing down a few jtrees, one of which levelled the telephone wires near Parsley's mill. There was a heavy wind storm along the line of the W. & W. Railroads this side of Goldsboro, but no reports of damage. . j The storm extended along the line of the Carolina Central Railroad, and the C. F. & Y. V. At Fayetteville, wind and hail broke many window glass, tore down awnings and levelled trees and telegraph poles. The Postal Company's wires went down during the afternoon. Inside Water-Way. The Columbia, S. C, correspondent of the Charleston News and. Courier, says: . . Capt. Daggett, of Horry, is in the city to-day. He has the contracts for doing a great deal of the United States government work between the Wacca- maw river and the proposed connection with Cape Fear river, which, when, com plete, will give an inside route from Cape Cod to the St. John's. The route proposed is through j uniper Creek twenty miles, Briar Bay nine miles, -and thence through Town Creek to the Cape rear river. Ihe value of this connec tion needs no comment. Capt. Daggett also says that phosphates of high grade are found in the Waccamaw, and he be lieves that this is an indication that de posits in large and valuable quantities will be discovered, Crops in Brunswick. The Southport Leader says: "From private information gathered from all parts of the' county, the Leader can make the following report: Cottpn backward and not equal to the same ime last year, except one report in Smithville township. Corn, backward, but good, injured some by dry weather and cool nights. Ground peas, good crop and doing well in all sections, Rice, prospects excellent. Vegetables all good. Shelby. A special dispatch to the Star last night from Shelby says the Shelby Im provement Company closed a contract yesterday with the Garrett Hydraulic Motor Co., of S. G, to bring sulphur water from a famous spring to the court house square in Shelby the water to be flowing in town by the 15th of July, This means a fifty-thousand dollar hotel. Hail and Wind in Robeson. There was a terrible storm of wind and hail yesterday afternoon in Robe son county on the line of the Carolina Central railroad, about sixty miles from Wilmington. Some of the hailstones were two , inches in diameter. Crops were greatly damaged, and trees were blown down in all directions Storm at Whiteville The storm of Thursday last at White- ville, Columbus county, was quite severe, The wind blew with great force, unroof ing a saw mill and levelling trees, fences, etc. Some of the workmen in the saw mill had a narrow escape. The storm was accompanied by hail. It struck Whiteville about five o'clock in the after noon. THURSDAY'S STORM., The Town of Benson Swept by a Hurri cane A Church Blown - Down and Other Buildings Damaged. Special Star Correspondence. Benson, Johnston - Co., Tune 5. The people of the little town pf Benson and vicinity on. the Wilson' & Fayette yille "Short Cut" were badly shocked yesterday evening about 4 p'clock by terrific hurricane, which passed through this section. , It came from the North west and moved with great velocity bringing with it a dense cloud of dust, : which rendered it almost as impossible to see any distance as if it had been mid night. It lasted only a few minutes, but in its fury did considerable damage, Scores of trees were blown up by the roots and twisted off. fences scattered, and several of the largest business houses in our town were badly shaken and some of them careened. The Bap tist church building here, which was not completed, is wholly prostrated. It is almost a total loss, as it is thought but little of the timbers can be used in re building a substantial house. But we bow in humble submission to the hand oi rrovidence He will direct lor our better. So far as we can learn there is but little damage done other than through this section. WASHINGTON NEWS. A Clerkjin taelDead Letter Office Caught Bobbinglthe Mails. . v By Telegraph to the Morning Star Washington, June 4. For several weeks past it has been suspected by the Chief of the Dead Letter Bureau of the Postoffice Department that some one in his omce was stealing money en closures. It was discovered that one of the letter-openers made much less re turns of money found in letters than his associates. The case was reported to the Chief , Postoffice Inspector three or four days ago. Inspectors Smithax and Troy were detail ed to cp-pperate with Mr. Leibhardt, Superintendent pf the Dead Letter Umce, and the result was that to-day Arthur V. Sayles was arrested with eight letters in his possession, two Pi which were test letters used by 'the in spectors and contained marked money. Sayles confessed his' guilt. At lunch lime, it is said, bayles went to the Cen tral National Bank and paid two small nptes with money he had taken from letters this morning. Two marked five dollar notes were found in . the bank, and one of the bank ofheers identified Sayles as the one who paid the marked notes to the bank. Sayles was appoint ed March 27, 1889, by certification from the Civil Service Commission. It is determined that between April 1st and May 3d he has stolen about $200, and it is estimated that he has taken at least $1,000. Investigation may show that he has taken more than that amount. 1 Washington, June 6. The Post- office Department has completed re adjustment of salaries of first-class post masters, to take effect July 1st next. The total number of first-class officers is 128 a net increase of 14 during the year. 1 he aggregate of salaries oi the 128 first-class postmasters is $450,600 an increase of $41,500 as compared with July 1st, 1890. The net increase of gross receipts which occurred at first-? class offices for the year ended March 31, 1891, is stated at $2,846,247. From a table showing increase or de crease of revenue by cities and post- masters' salaries, the following is ex tracted: Birmingham, Ala,, postmaster's sal ary for the coming year, $3,200; in creased receipts the past year, $8,094, Mobile, Ala., salary, $3,100; increased receipts, $2,910. Jacksonville, Fla., salary, $3,100; increased receipts, $2,572. Atlanta, salary, $3,500; increased re ceipts, $23,883. Augusta. Ga., salary, $3,100; increased receipts, $4,711. Ma con, Ga., salary, $3,100; increased re ceipts, $7,033. savannah, salary, $3,300; increased receipts, $6,910. Lynchburg, Va., salary, $3,000; increased receipts, $7,565. Norfolk, Va., salary. $3,200; in creased receipts, $8,363. Richmond, salary,! $3,500; decreased receipts, $2,730. Cities which show greatest increase of receipts are Washington, D. C, $103, 020; Chicago, $398,265; Boston, $125,- 126. Cities showing decrease are South Bend, Ind, $3,252, Wichita, Kansas, $1,561; New Orleans, La., $27,585; Bangor, Maine, $15,858; Richmond, Va., $2,730, and Lowell, Mass., $2,192. CHILIAN STEAMER ITATA. Turned over to a IT. S. War Ship at Iqui- que Arrival of the the TJ. S. Cruiser Charleston-The Steamer to be Bought Back! to San Diego. Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. Iquique, Chili, via Galveston, une 4. The steamship Itata arrived here this morning, from Tocapila, and has been delivered over to the Ameri can war ship now here. The Charleston is expected to arrive here to-day from Arica. , Panama, via Galveston, Texas, June 4. Ihe Chilian insurgent war ship Esmeralda has just arrived here. Iquique, via Galveston, Texas, June 4. The U. S- war ship Charleston arrived here at noon to-day. The itata has handed over to the American war ship to which she sur rendered all the arms she took on board off San Diego. These consist of five thousand rifles. Washington, Tune 4. There can be little doubt that the Navy Department has received some assurance of the sur render of the Itata, but officials will not say so.. Even now, when the supposed exigencies of the pursuit, which seemed to require so much secrecy at every step, have disappeared, through the end of the chase and surrender of the (tata, official red tape encircles every com munication between the Department and naval officials in Chili, so that nothing can be learned officially respecting the situation, btill, it pan be stated that Admiral McCann is expected to send the Itata back to the United States. probably under convoy of one of his cruisers, as soon as she can coal and prepare for the return trip. She will be delivered to the U. S. Cpurt Officers at" San Diego, and proceedings against her for violation pf the neutrality laws will be resumed at the port where they were interrupted by the unlawful depar ture of the steamship, and the respon sible parties will, if they appear, also be called upon to answer additional charges Of contempt of court in running away while under injunction. Washington, June 4, midnight.- The Navy Department received official information to-night of the peaceful surrender of the Chilian insurgent steamer Itata at Iquique to-day. TERRIFIC STORM. HAIL STONES AS BIG AS GOOSE EGGS: i Great Damage to Buildings and Crops in j Ohio and Indiana. Laporte, June 4. A terrific hurri cane and hail - storm struck this place last evening. Reports are coming in showing great damage throughout this section.- There is hardly a merchant in this city whose stock is not damaged, King and Fieldes Company's . woolen warehouse roof was blown off, and $40,- 000 worth of flannels were soaked. The Quaker Church was unroofed and the new city hall badly damaged and seve ral store-frpnts blpwn in. Liffin. O., June 4. The most disas trous hail storm that ever occurred in this section passed over Clyde, seventeen miles north east oi here yesterday. Many of the hail stones were as large as goose eggs. Many windows were broK en, trees blown down, telegraph poles broken and wires- torn down. Great damage was done to fruits and vegeta bles. THE PRETTIEST GIRL. Presented With a Silver Cup at Bocking- I - ham. ."" j Special Star Telegram.! Rockingham, June 6. At the Gill l nomas Musical Entertainment, given at the Academy Hall here last evening; Miss Fannie McDonald was voted the prettiest and most popular young lady in town, and was presented with a hand some silver cup. . TRADE NOT VERY ACTIVE. DUN'S REVIEW OF BUSINESS FOR THE ; WEEK. The Out-go of Gold Continues and Causes Some Hesitation, but Money Markets are Generally Easy Fine Crop Pros pects' Give Encouragement Everywhere ; By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, June 5. While the hesi tation in business has not ceased and decided activity is hardly to be expect ed npw, until after the clpse pf the fiscal year, it continues to be a matter of sur prise and congratulation that the money markets and trade have been so well sustained in spite of heavy exports of cold. As have been anticipated, exports . do not cease,, though the Bank of Eng- I, .land has reduced its rate, indicating that no further emergency is apprehend ed there, and leading financiers have predicted that the gold movement would cease'. Exports ot products are indeed larger than a year ago, with not much difference in imports, but the excess of imports was very large at this time last year. Some salesj .-'of stock on foreign account also appear, and it is hardly to be expected that the outgo of gold will entirely cease until the heavy crop movement begins. - The New York money market has been easy, rates on call dropping from d to 3 per cent., with heavy receipts from the interior. Reports from other cities show that money is tighter at bt. Louis, tight at Nashville, firmer . at New Orleans and Pittsburg, in hardly adequate supply at Cleveland, not stringent, but affected by distrust on account of city finances at Philadelphia, .firmer at Bos ton, in good demand in Chicago and Milwaukee, but with supply for all legi timate needs and easy at all other points reporting. Hade is not very active, but almost every where hopeful, lixposures of official and banking misconduct at Philadelphia tend to make business in active. in the .Northwest continuous rains have made the prospect unsurpassed, Throughout the West and South fine crop prospects give encouragement; al most the only complaint now coming from New Orleans of drought in ad joining regions. At Nashville a heavy dry goods fail ure causes some depression, and 'there is no improvement at Memphis. New Orleans reports trade dull, cotton in fair demand, sugar active, molasses and rice quiet and lower. At Savannah trade improves and at Jacksonville it is quite active. In the great industries there is better demand for iron as yet without change in prices, bales ol some cotton goods are recorded at lowest prices ever made. Wool moves slowly, but the yield at the west gives better prospects, in bread- stuffs decline continues. In. general the approach of harvest, which is expected to be most bountiful has its natural effect on prices and trade is but little embarrassed by specu lative movement. Failures of the week number 211; for the corresponding week of last year the figures were 179. A SILVER" SYNDICATE. European Financiers Buying Up all the Available Supply in this Country. I By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . New York, June 6. The evening Sun says: For several days past there has been an animated trade in silver bullion certificates upon the Stock Ex change. The price, however, has ruled steady around 98 cents per ounce, and has seemed, in Wall street parlance, to haye been pegged at that figure. It was remarked on Wall street this mofning, that a large French syndicate has been formed to purchase this entire stock ot silver. The syndicate, it was said, was repre sented in this country by the banking house of Heidelbach, jckelheimer- & CoL of 29 William street. The head of the syndicate in Europe is thought to be jthe house of 1 horsch Ar Co., of Vienna. It is said that Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co., hold about 3,000,000 ounces of stock represented by -receipts of the Mercantile Trust Company, which last night were 5,436,553 ounces. As the needs of the syndicate, which pro poses to purchase about 5,000,000 ounces are not yet filled, the silver will not as yet be withdrawn from the Mercantile Trust Company. If this were done shortness is the supply would become at one apparent, and the price would ad vance rapidly. . The plan of the syndicate seems to be about as follows: It is thought that the stc-ek of silver held in New York repre sents a large part ol the whole floating supply. Last year England held a large stock of silver, but it has since been sent to Japan, India and China. The whole production of this country ! is used up by the Government in meeting its legal requirements for coinage and by the arts. Hence, if Europe needs any more silver, the syndicate controll ing practically the larger part of the floating supply will be in a position to dictate the price at which it will part with it. Moreover, as election time ap proaches, it is thought that the West will renew the silver agitation, and that another effort will be made at the next Congress to put through a free coinage bill, iilver went up to $1.20 last year on expectation ot free coinage, and it the bill should become a law this year, it i will undoubtedly go to that , figure again. ; - j Ihe third point the syndicate is said to be calculating upon is that recent and present troubles in Europe will force the gold standard countries to adopt a bi-metalic standard. During the Baring panic in November last the Bank of England, the greatest financial institution in the world, was forced to become a borrower from the bank of France of 3,000,000 pounds. The Bank of France was able to advance this sum only on account pf its ability through" its charter to pay out silver as well as gold when its notes are present, ed for payment. ; . U. S. COURT AT RALEIGH. Verdict of XTOt Guilty in the "Warren County Election Case The New Han over Case Dismissed. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Raleigh, N. C, June 6. In the United States Circuit Cpurt, the Cpunty Canvassing Board of Warren county were'indicted for throwing out the re turns of one township in the last Con gressional election. On the trial to-day the jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. Indictment against the Board ot New Hanover county ot a similar nature, was nolle pressed by the U. S. District At- torney. The steamer Taramung, which- left NeW Castle, N. S. W., May 30, bound for Melbourne, at which port she was due to arrive June 2d, has not been heard from since she left New Castle. and fears are entertained that she has foundered during a gale off Cape Gabo. - New Berne Tournali Mr. Wt Dunn dug586 barrels of potatoes fror less than five acres of ground,Vand the? were not his best ones either. commenced digging some that are yield ing at the rate ot 140 barrels to the acre. Charlotte News: All the old issue ot SoUO.uuu county bonds have been redeemed except $2,800. County Treasurer McClintock is ready to take up these on presentation. The date for the payment of interest on these old bonds ceased on the 13th of last May. Mr. Z. Bennick, who lives near the Victpr cpttpn mills, has been very badly bothered by roughs in the past few weeks. One night about three weeks ago some parties visited the stable on his lot and cruelly tortured a mule with pocket knives. They slashed the mule's hide in all directions, and after making some of the cuts they caught the hide and tore it loose from the flesh of the suffering animal. Mr. Bennick also has a hcrse, and last night the roughs again paid him a visit. This time they shot the horse in the legs. Mr. hsennick has an idea Who the guilty parties are.- i Fayetteville Observer'. The first spike on the Short-Cut extension of the A. C. L. south was driven here Monday afternoon in the presence of' quite a number of our people.. About five miles of the road-bed at this end of the line are ready for the rails, with equally as many miles at the Rowland end. Ihe entire work is progressing very nicely. Circumstances have recently en- . abled us to see something of the pro gress made in farm work in the upper Cape Fear and Pee Dee sections; and, while it cannot be denied that crops all through are exceptionally backward, We can no reason for fear that the harvests will not turn out all light if good luck is our portion during the coming seasons. Corn, though small, looks hardy, and cotton, where a regular stand has been secured, is doing very well, in some places small grain is remarkably fine far above the average I Charlotte Chronicle: Subscript tions to the stock of the new gingham mill, which has been spoken of at length in the Chronicle, two weeks ago, has mounted up to about $100,000. Amos Caldwell, who was sentenced in April, 1888, to six years in the peniten tiary, has been pardoned by the Gover nor. Mrs. Eliza Tane Cathey, wife pf Wm. Cathey, of Berryhill township, died Monday, in her 79th year, rier death occurred on her husband's 84th birthday. They had been married six ty-two years. ; Rev. J. T. Bagwell, who has been located on the Matthews circuit for a year past, has been released to accept the call to the Methodist church ''at Shelby. Mr. Bagwell will move wih his family to Shelby next Wednesday. Farmers in from Paw Creek yesterday report that the c&tton in that part of the country is dying.. The cause is attributed to the wet weather, and scalding by the present hot weather. ; Roanoke News: Sunday after noon a heavy hail-storm visited a sec tion of country about four miles from town, destroying the entire crops of Messrs. Summerell, Garner and Keetei. so that they will have to plant again. The damage did not extend further. The work of improving the naviga tion of Roanoke river by the U. S. government still goes on, although the high water of the past few weeks has prevented any progress lately, The . channel has been deepened so that there is 4 feet of water in the river to Wel don in the driest seasons of the year. -In the Littleton section there is a negro who claims tolae a prophet and . goes about the country preaching. He says he has the power of .healing the siek, giving sight to the blind and cast ing out devils. He says he has cast nine devils out of his wife. He has but little following, but some of the more ignorant believes in him. Others think he is crazy. - Mpnrpe Rnquirer-Register: Mrl Lewis Kriminger, after an illness pf" about eight days, died at his residence in East Mpnrpe pn last Saturday mprn- ing.: - Mr. Edmund Jerome, son ot M r. fiber A. J erome, of this county, died . in the city of Chicagp about three weeks agp, with typhoid fever. The re mains were forwarded and reached here after four days. They had been em balmed and were well preserved. A buzzard with a bell tied around its neck was seen flying over Monroe Sun day morning between 9 and 10 o clock. it new around ior some time near enough for the bell to be seen distinctly and then made a straight shoot northward. The ringing- of the bell attracted the attention of ex- Sheriff Hasty's family, who first saw it. - A difficulty occured at Potter s, in this county, one day last week in, which, a young man named Dunn was shot by - Mr. William Stephenson. The difn-, culty, as we learn, originated about a mule belonging to Mi. Stephenson, which Dunn had been working. Some words passed, and Mr. Stephenson went into his house and got his gun. Dunn - gathered up some rocks, got behind a tree and began throwing at Mr. Steph enson. -After throwing four stones he reached out from behind the tree to get another, and as he did so Mr. Stephen son fired on him, one shot taking effect in the face and several in the shoulder. The wounds, though painful, were not serious. Greenville Reflector: Whatever ' may be the prospects of the cotton crop, tobacco planters are jubilant over the outlook lor that crop, bome ot tnem say it will be their dependence this . year. A colored man by the name of Joe Baker living in Beaver Dam township, afer removing three barrels of corn from a barn, destroyed 61 rats on last Saturday, and it wasn't a fair day for rats either. un Monday Mr. H. F. Keel brought us the measure ment of a tobacco plant from his patch that was 22 Inches high and 83 inches across. He has several acres that will . come nearly up to this plant, on an average. An-accidental shooting occurred five miles north ot Greenville Tuesday morning , of last week. - Mr. Samuel Dudley, son of Mr. S. A. Dud ley, wanted to clean a pistol and sent a young colored man in the house for it. He took the pistol and elected all the balls, as he thought, but while snapping it a moment later there was a report and a ball struck the cplored man, pass ing through his arm under the shoulder blade and lodging m the DacK. Dr., O'Hagan traced the ball and cut it put. On Mpnday night pi last weeK abput 8 p'clpck the village Pt Grimes land was thrown intp the greatest ex citement it ever experienced. Mr. W. G. Stokes, postmaster of this place, while returning from his supper was shot by some one who was concealed in the bushes near where he come into the road. He was struck by one glancing shot which did not cause any seridus wound. Three shot passed through his shirt and five through his vest. There were traces of four shot on a . small oat on the opppsite side pf the road. After the gun fired he asked who it was that had shot him, and the villain ran off. Mr. Stokes had a gun in his hand which he was carrying to the store, and tried tp return the shpt, but was prevented by the bushes. Ihursday morning there were steps taken tp find put who it was. The place was examined and a track was found which was made bya run down shoe, Ed. Telfer, a colored boy, was suspicioned and a warrant was taken out before J. J. Laughinghouse, Esq., and Constable W. P. Buck with help made the arrest. A shoe was . . ..i . tound under tne Doy s iauiers nouse which fitted the track. He was brought to trial and evidence was such that he was bound over to Court. ; The bond was one thousand dollars, which he could not give and was sent to jail. . 1 AC 11 "!tl : ,4 ' m T i: I- I' I '-li i I.- f . t f lit1 u J u ,(-! "V. i,V I! i 1 - , t 1