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7 eh MM PUBLISHED AT " wii:mington. N. C, jf.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. S8S888888888888S8 88888888888888888 8S88SSSS8S8S88iis 8888888888888888 3888888888888888 S8888S88SS888888 $288K8I8SS88888888 88388888888888888 -,h n ao o t cd e e jj oo jj gj gj gj 1 a 14 Id u a. : ; : : : nTItthe Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, ; ' lKtl .t 'econd claM Matter.-, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Xt subtcription price of the Weekly Star is as .-' 3 months . .- HOW ia BUILD TOWNS ; This is a day of booms. Booms are a Western invention, and , have been worked more or less through cut the West where: they have built more imaginary towns than one could shake a stick at in thirty days, i'l'hey have helped to build some :rcal towns, too, but this was when ithe towns had something more than booms to build upon, The boom is lall right when it has something sub stantial behind it, but when it hasn't iuenera41y ends in a: collapse, a big burst where more or less people jst hurt, and that makes every body cautious and suspicious and hiir.ts the towns which have something bet ter behind them than mere .booms. For this reason people who desire jhe prosperity of the State, perma--Dent and well-grounded prosperity, should not encourage booms unless they, have something solid under them. ' -.' '. ''. . ' ' . .:; ; The boom hasn't struck North Carolina yet, and there are no indi cations that it will, something on which North Carolina! is to be con gratulated. The nearest approach to it is the Land Improvement Compa nies which have been j organized in many towns, and which, if properly managed, may be made the'instru nonts of the advancement and pros perity of the towns where they ope rate, but, if not wisely managed may do incalculable harm.' A 'forced growth, with nothing to sustain it, must result in a collapse. It is an easy thing for a number of shrewd, energetic men, with 'capital at their command, to 'purchase -suburban tracts, divide the land off into blocks, run streets j through it, build an imposing hotel with, an imposing name, lay off parks, ave nue's, drives, &c, on paper, di Vwle the blocks up into lots, ad vertise liberally, then get. up cheap excursions, give a big! barbecue, put the bis up at auction and knock them down at money enough to pay forjour or ,five acres at original pur chase price. That's selling lots and making lots of money for the little syndicate, but it isn't building up 'ie town by a long sight. Thisis beginning (at the wrong ad. If these syndicates had con-: Jolof money enough to erect fae ries, machine shops, &c, to give ork to the- people whom they in T:te to buy their lots, they would beginning at the i right end and Jyingthe foundation for continued pwth and prosperity. These need not necessarily be large industries Quiring much capital, but what are d ''small" industries, to which le locality may be adapted, which ma7 be maintained without a large tlay of money, and .which may be come self-sustaining and profitable. weralsmaU" industries,, employ es a proportionate .number of ; peo ple and a proportionate amount of apital are better for a town than one large industry, ' because they employ a variety of j labor and re luire a variety of raw material, thus benefitting a greater number of people. -j M.ccusDoro , started out on the fight track when shei organized the ftee and ron works which will give oymentto a larre nnmher of piled workmen, and will doubtless aQ 10 lne establishment of numer ic other kindred industries. The rpective establishment of these ' and iron works has done more Pve an imnulsft tn artivitv inspire confidence in the future ' that tOWtl tkir, , A-- 1 A , anf an forty volumes of "write- would do.' i land imnrovmp.nt rnmnanies Fegood enough nc for ; the Rn they are not run for mpre rmr. fOSeS Of SnPrill!tin nnA nrtian tVio ' Ject is not to make credulous teo- Py b'lsr monpv For ffiM r nrnnprtv r?oti i,' . r t , j r which fictitious value has. been T "tCause thpu intrniioa mnrfArn mPrnt La ' . . auu , ana&cu tx pi kj- f ic-5sie snirit TOK!K Deen awakened without 'i but tnw- U PlKd bv in' -J. ea affective in promoting the a- growth L 7 of the towns In which they are Sch We'nfurth. Bas il the Rockford, . 111., s playing the role of rSlah : D i Wears a fiftv dollar suit of qjoojt I I VOL. XXII. A MONEY COMBINE. The money kings of the East are combining and the -farmers ot the w csi are to De heir victims. O vet $bO,000,QOO in gold has been export ed from this country within this year, there being an unusual demand for gold, especially from Russia. which is hoarding jit 'to meet, it is said, some indebtedness which short ly matures. This large exportation,' or course, makes money 'in this country that much the scarcer and harder to get, and makes it that -much the more difficult for Western farmers who have mortgages to meet, to meet them even if they. nave something to sell. l neir misfortune is that these mortgages are held by the men who control this volume of outgoing gold. Owing, to the poor crops of last year most of the farmers who have given mortgages will be com pelled to ask for an extension of time until this year's crop comes into market. They will have to ask the extension from the men who are manipulating this gold movement, ' It is said that anticipating the re quests for an extension of time they have' formed combines not to grant extensions unless upon a gold basis, . the result of which will be that the farmer who, for in stance, has given a $1,000 mortgage! will be compelled to payethe holder of the mortgage $1,000 in gold, or its equivalent in other currency, sil ver or paper." When the silver coinage bill comes up for discussion or when the sub ject becomes a theme of discussion before Congress takes it into con sideration, they will take advantage of these large exportations of gold to raise the price of gold and thus try to scare Congressmen into op position to the free coinage bill. They may, perhaps, by the time the extended mortgages fall due raise the price of gold twenty-five or thirty per cent, so that the farmer who owes them $1,000 will be com pelled to raise $1,000 in gold to pay up or $1,250 in silver or paper money to do it. When the farmer hauls his grain or pork to market he will find the prices fixed on the high standard gold basis so that instead of receiv- a dollar a bushel for his wheat he will get seventy-five cents and so proportionally on everything else he has to sell, although he receives his pay in silver or paper. It will take 1,250 bushels of wheat, worth a dol lar a" bushel in silver or paper, to pay off that $1,000 debt. . That's the combine. It has two objects in view, one of which is to squeeze some more money out of the farmers of the West who are in their debt and in their power, also; the other is to arouse opposition to the free coinage of silver by exciting the fears of the Eastern Representatives and making it appear that the pas sage of a free coinage bill will put gold up or send.it out of the country and thus create disturbance in the monetary system of the country. They are determined to defeat free coinage of silver if within their power, for every silver dollar coined makes the demand just that much the less for the gold which they con trol. I The Chicago Inter-Ocean, Repub lican, warns them that if they pro ceed with this combine and refuse to errant extension of time to the hard-pressed farmers they will in vite retaliatory measures, and will make the farmers and thousands of others who will be won to sympathy by. this thumb-screw course solid not only for free coinage but for un- which by making silver abundant will, it says, relegate gold as a cir culating medium, and then the gold bug combiners will come to grief. MTJT0E MENTION. Maj. Burke, of Louisiana, at one time owner of the New Orleans Times-Democraty State Treasurer, and one of the most prominent and respected men in the State, defaulted for several hundred thousand dollars, and before the defalcation was dis covered went to Europe. He was in London when the discovery -was made, and wrote home that he would return and explain everything Satis factorily and make good any deh- clency. which might appear, when pressing business which then de tained him permitted him to leave London. His business in London it seems was to organize a stock com pany to wdrk some supposed to be rich gold claims in Honduras to whicn he had secured a right by patents from the Government of Honduras, secured through its President, Brogan, whose friendship he won while the latter was visiting the New Orleans Exposition, of which Maj. Burke was director general, Burke has been heard from frequent ly. .nd was reported to be a big Injun ; and cutting a wide swath in Honduras. The last report from him. however. reDresents him to be in a state of collapse and his big company bursted. He had an idea that the bed of a certain river was filled with gold washed from the hills, and he spent about $1,000,000 wife's fortune in changing the course of this river, -which was a big job; employing several hundred men for. a year or more. When it was done they didn't find gold enough in it to plug a tooth. : . ' " The baccarat discussion grows in England, and as it grows the Prince of Wales finds himself eettlnc into deeper and hotter water. He seems to have been stung by the intima tion that he divulged the secret of the gaming table and emphatically denies it, but he does not seem to be worried over the fact that he vio- lated army regulations by gambling with a subaltern officer, and condo- I hing an offence which would , expel that officer from the army if known, by pledging to keep it secret. This is the feature of the case which is going to prove the most serious to him,foras Sir Wm. Cumming has been dismissed from the army, his friends who already say that the jury was packed to convict him, will inquire by what system of justice or right the Prince of Wales, Gen. Owen Williams and Lord Courtney (mas ter of Her Majesty s buck hounds,) are allowed to remain, when they not only violated army regulations by gambling with a subaltern officer but also by pledging secrecy con doned an offence, the penalty of which is expulsion from the army. This issue can't be dodged, for notice has been served in the House of Commons that the War Department will be asked to tell next Monday what action it will take, which means mar. u is expected to taKe some action. i Senator Quay and President Har- rison have had their conference and it is said have come to an under standing by virtue of which Harri son will get the Pennsylvania dele gation in the Convention if Blaine is out of the. race. It is understood that the condition is that Harrison is to make certain appointments in Pennsylvania in which Quay is inter ested, and if he complies with this part of the bargain then Quay will use his influence to secure him the delegation, with the proviso, how-; ever, that Pennsylvania is first for Blaine, and will cast its first vote for him if he should be a candidate. This seems to have been satisfactory to Mr.. Harrison who assured Mr. Quay that in due time Secretary Blaine's unavailability would be pub licly demonstrated. This is a somewhat ambiguous phrase as it may refet to Blaine s health or to something else, but with this under standing they struck a trade and thatis they way the matter stands now. mm The Prohibitionists of Iowa have put a State ticket in the field and adopted a platfotm, the four leading points of .which are a declaration in iavpr o?the equality of gold, silver and oaoer monev. for the Australian ballbt, for. woman suffrage, and for the suppression of the liquor traffic. The money plank was doubtless put in to catch the vote of the farmers, but whether this be so or not, it is a good plank, for there is no good rea son why one piece of money should not be the equivalent of another ot the same denomination when both have the stamp of the Government which gives them a money value, nor is there any reason why the Govern ment should discriminate against one kind of money it makes in favor of: another. Church festival ice-cream isn t necessarily worse than any other kind of ice-cream, but danger lurks in the big ice-cream freezer all the time. The last place where it got in its work was at a church festival in Bloomington, 111., a couple of days ago, where about a hundred persons were poisoned by the cream, some of them dangerously so. Better let ice-cream that you ain't well ac auainted with and red circus lemon- ade ajone. As the cash on hand of the Portu gese Government is running pretty low the .statesmen are thinking of raising the wind by selling, some of her colonies. Ip view of our dilapi dated treasury this might be a hint. We haven't any colonies but we have several pocket borough States that might be traded off to some body. " That English coachman whom Mr. Eustis, of Washington, imported, has given the authorities the slip and is now roaming at large in parts un known. The authorities are non plussed, for while there was law to prevent him from landing, there is no provision, for catching him and sendinir him back after he has got away. . . r . i ii Tt LCA Til scnweiniunn, inc. jvgt&iwu, Messiah freak, says he will send a olague and a deluge on Kansas City because it didn't take kindly to the branch heaven he proposed to start We don't know about the nlao-ne hut a deluge might be a real the Capitol Will be finished in a day or entertains no warm teeiing towards tne piague, u it would so, and no doubt full instructions will Prince of Wales, but toe papers general- benefit to the town as it wumu i Governor next week as ly refrain from harsh criticism of the familiarize the what with water. inhabitants some- 'l M. I " ----- . EEK! WILMINGTON, N. C, ;It isn't safe to steal a locomotive in California, not near as safe as it is' to steal a whole railroad, but it isn't classed among the; high crimes. A; fellow in Sacramento,, who eloped wfth two, but didn't get off far enough to escape being caught, was Sentenced ' to two years' ' imprison ment, one year for each locomotive! jjacob Bonnetf,1 secretary of some building societies in Baltimore, robbed them of $100,000, which he spent in lottery gambling, and then committed suicide. If he had de cided to commit suicide"- before he J.Sot away with the $100,000 his cOn- nomg aupes mtgnt have more thor oughly appreciated his thoughtful- ness. ' " . ' - - Among the, immigrants arrived in this country last month were .13,468 Italian, 3,000 more than came - from Germany'and 5,497 more than came from Ireland. 1 Death of Mm. K. L. Gardiner. Mrs. Minnie Lou Gardiner, who died Thursday the 14th inst., at the residence ol her brother, Dr. W. D. McMillan at Magnolia, N. C, was Ithe youngest daughter of the late Dugald McMillan. of Pender county, and widow of the late H. S. Gardiner, who perished in Greeley s Arctic expedition in 1884. She was 31 years of age,! and postmis tress at Magnolia up to the time of her death. ').' . Diooose of East Carolina Consent to the Consecration of Rev. Phillips Brooks. The Standing Committee of the Dio cese of East Carolina, at a meeting held last evening, gave consent to the conse cration of the Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., as Bishop of the Diocese of Massa chusetts. The members of the com mitteeRev. Jas. C. Huske, D. D., Rev. Jas. Carmichael. D. D.. Rev. Robert Strange, Dr. A. J. DeRosset, Mr. Geo. H. Roberts were all present. Crops in Brunswick. 1 " The Southport Leader reports the crop situation in Brunswick as follows: Phcenix Weather cool with plenty of rain; peanuts unusually , good; corn fine; potatoes backward; i rice fair; gar dens splendid. Work retarded by freshet in river. ! Shallotte Crops fair, though cot ton is small, caused by! cold. Apples are falling from the trees; and it seems that very few can mature. The Matthewmann Homicide. Mayor Ricaud yesterday received a telegram from Mr. Thos. A. Skidmore. Brooklyn, N. Y., employer ol Mr. Mat thewmann, who was killed in this city last Monday evening by Robt. H. Trask. The telegram reads as follows: Brooklyn. N. Y., June 11th, " Hon, Mayor, City of Wilmington, N. C: Thanks for allowing my man to come home. He will be at trial as requested by you. Thank the citizens for their warm sympathy towards the widow. I will see that she wants for nothing. Thos. A. Skidmore. The "man ' referred toj in the telegram is Mr. Myers, in Skjdmore's employ. He was with Matthewmann 'when the latter was shot, and is wanted as a State's witness when the Criminal Court meets. Commencement at Trinity College. Mr. Fred. Harper, son of Capt. Thos. Haper of this city, was among the grad uates at Trinity College Commence ment. The class competed for the Wiley Gray medal, given by Mr. R. T. Gray, of Raleigh, for the best oration by a member of the graduating class, the oratory and literary mei it to be taken in to consideration. There were ; twelve contestants and the prize was awarded by the committee to Mr. W. B. Lee, of Durham. The correspondent of the Raleigh News and Observer says: "The most graceful orator of the; day was Mr. Fred. Harper, of Wilmington, whose delivery was the most faultless we have ever heard, and many were of opinion that he should have been i awarded the medal, and part of the committee it is understood were of the same opinion. An Honor Worthily Bestowed. North Carolina College, at Mount Pleasant, N. C, has conferred the de gree of Doctor of Divinity upon Rev. F. W. E. Peschau, Pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church of this city. Kev. Mr. Ujx, Wesiaent ot tne Board of Trustees, writes that it was unanimously conferred jby the Board and the Faculty of the iCollege. It is an honor most worthily bestowed, and is exceedinelv ! gratifying to the manv friends of the reverend gentlemen in this cityj Mr. Peschau is a man of scholarly attainments, and vears aeo received the degree ot A. M from one of the first j colleges in the land. I Grand Alliance Mass Meetings, The Star is requested to state that a grand Alliance mass meeting will be held at Goldsboro on Saturday, the 27th of this month. Senator Peffer, of Kansas. President Polk and other prominent speakers, will be present This meeting is for the eastern section of the State. Another meeting will be held in Charlotte on Wednesday, the 26th day of August. Hon. Thos. E. Watson, of Georgia, will attend the meeting at Goldsboro. Doctors of Divinity. - Among the degrees conferred - by Trinity College were the following: Doctor of Divinity Rev. R. N. Price, editor of .the Western North Carolina Methodist; Rev. F. T. Swindell, Presid mcr Elder of the Wilmington district, and Rev. W. A. Moore, pastor of Hay Street Methodist Church, of Fayette- ville. The Direct Tax Befund. I The Raleigh Visitor says: We learn that copying of the stubs of the receipts for direct taxes by the young ladies at i given to how those entitled to the money may receive it. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1891.1 the pringe of Wales. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS DISTURBED BY i THF fiin liTinN nc ACCAiee Sir William . Gordon Cummina and His Bride Germany's Tariff on Grain The $rnption of Vesuvius. j " By Cable to the Morning Star. J ;LONDON.:' June 13. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge came tot town this morning on, it is said, im portant business.;; The.- Prince of Wales leaves London this afternoon in order toj be present at the Royal picnic to-day at! Virgin Water. It is generally under stood the Prince's flying visit is connect ed with the baccarat scandal. The Prince of Wales, who- at first was dis posed to treat the baccarat matter light ly; has now awakened to the seriousness of his position. The London ' correspondent of the Leeds Mercury says he has good reason to state that Hon, Edward Stanhope Secretary of State for War, will apolo gize. Monday next in the House of Com mons on behalf of the Prince of Wales for the share the latter took in condon ing the conduct of Sir William Gordon Camming at Tranby Croft in Septem- Der last. - London, Tune 13. Sir William Gor don Cumming and his bride received what is generally known as a royal wel come upon their arrival at Forres, Scot land, near which burgh Altyre, the Baronet's estate, is situated. The bride and bridegroom were welcomed by the frovost of Torres at the head of the municipal authorities and neighbors. The town was decorated with flaes. flowers and bunting, and on their wav to Altyre,JSir William and Lady Gordon humming passed beneath several hand some floral arches. The newly married couple were enthusiastically cheered by the inhabitants of Forres and its neigh borhood, who had gathered from many miles around, in order to show their sympathy with them. " London, June 13. It is currently re ported that Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, who presided at the trial ot the Cumming scandal suit, will take official notice ot the charge made by Sir William Gordon Cumming, the substance of which is that the verdict of the iury would have been entirely different had it not been for the parti ality for defendants which the Lord Chief Justice showed in his summing uf5 and charge to the jury. Edinburgh, Tune 13. The Scottish Leader to-day says that at the time of the financial crisis known as the Ar gentine or Baring Brothers' crisis, several financiers who had loaned large sums of money to the Prince of Wales were obliged to ask for return of their money. These sudden demands put the Prince ot Wales in a serious fix for a time, until Arthur Wilson, at whose house the now world-famous games of baccarat were played, came to the assistance of the heir apparent and lent him one million dollars, with which the Prince paid back some of the money loaned him by other financiers. Copyright 1891 by the N. Y. Associated Press. Berlin, June 13. Undaunted by the overwhelming majority which support ed Chancellor Von Caprivi On the cereal question in the Landtag, members of the Freisininge party last evening held a last meeting at which the party leaders, amid fervid acclamations, an nounced their intention of prosecuting more vigorously than ever the anti- grain duties law agitation. The figures published by the, Liberal press, showing that stores of ce teals in Germany were nearly exhausted, elicited official statis tics, given in to-day's issue of the Reich- sanseiger, which aim to prove that the gram harvest ol.leau was not short, but on the contrary was better than that of. 1889, being equal to the : average bar vest of the last ten years. The figures are admittedly based on rough compu tations.. They show that, the crop of 1890 yielded 2,839,000 tons of wheat, and 5,877,000 tons of rye, against 2,372,- 413 tons of wheat and 5,363,426 tons of rye in the preceding year, and an aver age ot 2,479,uou tons ot wheat and 5,702,000 tons of rye for the past de cade. The potato crop ot 1890 amount ed to 233,200,000 tons, against an an nual average of 230,884,000 tons forthe past 'ten years. (The ton in these statistics signifies 1,000 kilmogrames, or 1,977 pounds. Allowing that the figures of the Reich sanzeiger are accurate, the fact remains that the high price of bread presses heavily upon the working classes, who while feeling pinched fail to understand the arguments of the Minister that the temporary abolition oi the taritt would not relieve the existing distress. The declarations made by Chan cellor Von Caprivi that crops in Ger many are in better condition than is' generally supposed, have been contradicted by reliable reportsfrom sev eral quarters of the Empire, received by telegraph to-day. These reports are to the effect that in Western Prussia severe cold weather and night frosts during the current week have ruined crops. - A cold wave appears to nave extended over siiesia, saxony, Bavaria and Moravia. Telegrams from Trema announce that there has been a heavy fall of snow in the bastern Alps cover ing the plains ot btyra. Ihe prospect that the weather will blast every pro mise of favorable crops is already dis- turbine official circles. It is understood that Chancellor Von Caprivi, becoming dissatisfied with the reports upon which he had based assertions made during the debate in the lower house of the Prussian Diet, has actually asked cus torn officials and other functionaries to furnish a fresh statement. In the mean time, memorials from Norwich, Ham burg, Dresden and other centres reach the chancellorie, protesting the neces sity ot a reduction of the tar in on erain. 1 he session ot the .Landtag will be brought to a close next .week, when Liberal members ot that body will then carry the agitation into the country dis tricts, Military and social circles are equally amazed at the revelations regarding the condition of society in England. Ihe admission that the Prince of Wales has been involved in a gambling scandal is the principal topic of conversation. At all military casinos and clubs the action of the Prince in the affair is emphatically condemned. It is impossible, it is stated, to conceive of a high Prussian officer condoning the offence ; of cheat ing at cards or of screening a person who had been found guilty of such an act, and no instance is known in the army where .an officer has parleyed publicly or privately regarding a similar charge. The newspaper press draw com parisons between the habits of the Prince of Wales and those of Emperor William. whose strong condemnation of gambling in the German army greatly assisted to check the practice of playing for high stakes. ; :.':.:.-.;' The Emperor, it has long been known,! conduct of the heir apparent to the Eng lish throne. TAR. TOBACCO COUNTIES. Census Statistics for TTorth ' Carolina, Showing Acreage, Production and Value cf Crop. ! Washington, June 11. The Cen is Office to-day gaVe out the to bacco statistics of North Carolina, com piled by Prof. Thomas Conrad, under direction of John : Hyde,1 special agent id" charge of the Division of Agricul ture.,--! ' .M:,: '....:.- The total number of planters in the State during the year was 27,250; total area devoted to tobacco, 97,077 acres; total product, 86,375,258 pounds; and the value of crop to producers, esti mated on the basis of actual sales, $5,-- .175,833. The following are figures ot counties, excluding those producing less than 2,000 pounds each : . Counties. Acres. Pounds, Value. $108,590 6,900 : 445 , 225,665 12,045 r 7,730 304,295 2,280 56,160 - 415 955 101,395 74,350 150 166,200 10,800 213,773 153,935 722,675 706 117,137 14,788 287 137,775 3,050 23,168 2,500 3,106 325 675 2,000 370 Alamance, .' Alexander,. . Ashe, 3,028 901,932 151 54,774 14 3,080 3,049 1,482,688 160 . 83,816 137 55,516 8,567 2,510,699 . 41 1,640 1,173 345,466 15 2,140 31 6,105 .1,703, 694,480 2,593 668,616 6 2,100 3,658 1,274,544 119 51,420 4,119 1,607.323 2,263 859,015 11,183 4,170,071 24 6,650 2,517 918,728 Buncombe, , Burke,. . . . . Caldwell,' . . '. Caswell. .:. Catawba, . . . Chatham,. . , Cherokee, . . Clay,.... ... Davidson, . . Davie, Duplin, . . . . Durham, .. Edgecombe, forsythe, .. Franklin.. . Granville. Greene, ...... Guilford,. . . . . Halifax Harnett, ...... 274 93,714 6 1,707 61 447 54 60 6 9 46 9 2,339 861,096 22,486 199,758 25,211 26,365 3,000 4,460 16,319 3,695 Haywood Henderson, . . Iredell,. Tackson, ...... Johnston, Lenoir, Lincoln McDowell.... Macon, ...... Madison, .... 4,749 2,168,823 123 44,488 116 45,838 1,823 782,713 18 5,879 2,411 732,508 5 2486 7,100 2,327,201 70 27,104 11 5,461 146 60,180 322,502 Mitchell Moore,. . ...... Nash, .... Northampton . Orange 4,805 6,445 170,630 505 82,040 Jrender Person.. ...... Pitt Polk Randolph 110 323,713 5,175 985 8,800 780 489,972 22,075 1,225 RobesonJ... 48 10,500 Rockingham . . 10,688 4,189,416 Rowan. 390 187,724 Rutherford.... 37 10,740 Sampson '. 19 ! 7,655 Stanly 15 i 6,200 Stokes 7,774 3,119,289 Surry ........ 3,437 1,429,025 Swain 93 47,543 Transylvania.. 19 6,569 Vance 4,9791979.079 Wake..' 1,378 , 479,585 Warren 2,153 846,150 Wautauga . ... . 23 4,540 1,040 462 422,663 187,775 5,657 860 329,713 85,175 103,230 605 Wayne 330 Wilkes 59 Wilson 483 Yadkin i. 1.004 Yancy..' 315 112,010 17,322 232,966 373,672 139.464 9.447 15.570 1,910 40,792 48,055 16,735 . 1,183 Other counties, 31 Totals 97,077 36,375,258 5175,833 ALABAMA TRAGEDIES. A Son of Ex-Congressman Shelly Fatally Shot A Lad Instantly Killed at a Saw Mill. Birmingham, June 11. At Selma last night, McConnell Shelly, son of ex- Congressman G. M. Shelly, went into a saloon with a friend, Sumter Leak, Jr., and told the saloon-keeper, B. F. Burch, to send a dispatch for him. He had been Informed that the i telegraph office was there, but 13urch.supposed that Shelly was joking and refeired him toa man sitting near as an operator, bhelly found that he had been joked, and being in liquor, he and his companion lericea on their coats and proposed to whip the bar-keeper. Burch went out and returned with a rifle, and ordered them out of his house. ;j They advanced on him, Shelly armed with a Tiammer. and Burch fired, the ball striking Shelly just Deiow tne nipple, bhelly will prob ably die. , . Near Warrior.yesterday, Jno. Thomas, a seventeen-year old lad, working at a saw-mill, slipped and tell across a circn lar saw in motion. His body was cut clean in two. i free'coinage. The Committee Claim Votes Enough to Carry it Through the Next Congress. Washington, June i 11. A meeting of the free coinage silver committee. which was to have been held in Wash ington ou the 18th inst., will take place on the same date at' the Hoffman House in JNew York instead, i They will meet at 10 o'clock in the morning and take up tne consideration ; ot tree coinage where they lelt it at the last meeting. l ne proposition tor a; compromise on the coinage of products of American mines is not regarded favorably by the committee aud they say they will have nothing but tree coinage in the fullest sense of the term, and claim to have enough votes to carry it through the next Congress. AUGUSTA'S EXPOSITION. Ex-President Cleveland Invited to At tend. New York, June 11. Messrs. Walsh, Branch and Cowles,, of Augusta, Ga., called on Mr. Cleveland on board- the steamer Puritan this afternoon, just be fore her departure for Fall River, Massa chusetts, and extended to him and Mrs. Cleveland fan invitation to visit the Augusta Exposition next November, Mr. Cleveland greeted the delegation cordially, and promised to give an answer at an early day. The steamer was crowded with passengers, but few of whom knew of the presence of Mr. ueveiana. , HOMICIDE AT FORT MONROE. Eaward A. Hannegon Killed by Thorn ton C. Haines. Fort Monroe, Va June 12. Ed ward A. Hannegan, a young man from Washington, was shot and killed this evening by Thornton C. Haines, son of Colonel Peter C. Haines, of the engineer corps of the army. . The two young men came here from Washington a few days ago, and were rooming to gether. They went out " rowing this evening and got into a quarrel when Haines shot - Hannegan through the heart. The body has been Carried to the hospital to await the action ot the coroner. . Haines .went to Col. Frank, post commander, and surrendered him self. He claims the shooting was done in self-defence. . ; The exports of specie during the week amounted to $603,047, of which $535,972 was in gold, and $67,075 in silver, NO. 31 LATE WASHINGTON NEWS. Silver Purchases Green Goods Men Son- tenoed Telegraphers at the Bat. Washington, June 12. The amount of silver offered for sale to-day was 893,500 ounces, and "the amount pur chased 343,500 ounces, at 9898.15c. A telegram received at the Postoffice Department to-day announces that at their trial at Raleigh, N. C, June 11, W- iH. Robinson, Frank J.-Reid and Joseph I. Ellington, who, it was charged, were conducting a thriving "green goods game" at Clayton, Princeton and Lemay, N. C, were convicted ana sen tenced as follows: Robinson and Keid each 18 months in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio; Ellington's sentence suspended, in view of mitigating cir cumstances that is, Demg a uxi or ine others and upon plea of guilty being made, one-third of the costs was im posed, amounting to $102. Robinson is aid to have been an old onenaer, tie was arrested at Areola, ' N. C, -over a year ago and convicted, but sentence wa$ suspended during good behavior; but it seems he could not resist tne temoation to violate the law. The count of cash in the vaults of the Treasury, consequent on the recent change in the ofhee ot 1 reasuref , has so far resulted in the discovery of a discrepancy ot one aonar. i nis is missing from a bag of silver in a vault containing nearly S70,ouu,uuo. i ne Dag broke open by its own weight ana ae- cayjof the canvas, and its contents were scattered among other Dags in tne vault. It contained 1,000 silver dollars, all but one of which were found, and that one will probably turn up before the examination of the vault is con cluded. Otherwise, ex-Treasurer Hus ton will have to make it good. A dozen telegraphers, trom the west ern Union office, this citv. leave here to-nieht for Lvnchburer. to play a game of base ball with the telegraphers of that city to-morrow afternoon. A FEARFUL WRECK. Twenty-five Cars Thrown Into a Eavine Three Men Killed and Others In jured. Altoona. Pa.. Tune 12. While comin? down the mountain irom Lloydsville to Bellwood, on the Penn svlvania & Northwestern railroad last midnight, a heavy coal train got beyond control and dashing down the grade at a fearful rate of speed, was piled up and smashed into kindling wood at a curve on the side of a deep ravine about three miles north of Bellwood. An engine and twenty-five cars load ed with coal lav piled up in a ! mass of broken wood and twisted iron at the bottom of the ravine and among the debris were the bodies oti the conductor, engineer and one brakeman, with almost all semblance to humanity crushed out ol them. - The other train hands escaped with their lives, but all were more or less injured. The track is torn up and blockaded for a long distance, and passengers are be mg transferred by way ot Alton ant Cresson. The accident is supposed to have been caused bv wet rails and the air brakes refusing to work proper! v. It has been impossible to learn the names of ah the killed and injured men. CHINESE OUTRAGES. Attacks Upon Christian'Missions Mission aries Compelled to Flee for Their Lives. LONDON, June 12. Dispatches from Shanghai announce fresh excesses upon the part of the anti-European element in, the population of China. Attacks upon Christian missions in the interior continue. In one case Chinese troops sent to repress the rioters aided them and made matters still worse. More serious rioting has occurred at Takatang. where lady missionaries were compelled to! flee for their lives. The ladies ar rived at Kin Kiang, one of the treaty ports on the Kiang river. There is great excitement among Chinese in the vicinity of Lake Poyang, near ' Kin Kiang. several missionary establish ments have been looted and burned by riotous Chinese. AN IMPORTANT SUIT Settled in a Peculiar "Way in the u. S. Court at Charlotte. By Telegraph to the Morning Star Charlotte, June 13. An important case being tried in the Federal Court in this city which involves thousands of dollars was settled in' a peculiar way. The Bonsack Machine Co. is suing Duke & Sons for about $25,000 which the former says the latter owes as roy alty for the use of the Bonsack cigarette machine in their cigarette factory. Duke & Sons admit that they owe that amount under their contract, but say that by rea son ot the violation of contract by the Bonsack Company, the latter company owes them $250,000.. It seems that be fore the invention of the Bonsack machines all cigarettes were rolled by hand. This machint, however, takes the tobacco and paper and turns out a complete cigarette, without the aid of the hands. Defendant claims that un der its contract with the Bonsack Ma chine Company it was to have the use of the machine for eleven per cent, less money than any other cigarette com pany. It claims in this suit, however, that plaintiff from the first vio lated this contract, and allowed other companies to use its machines at the same or smaller prices than was charged the defendant company, and it is for this violation oi contract on tne part of plaintiff that; defendant looks to recover by its counter claim. On ac count of the mysterious disappearance of one of the jurors a mistrial was de clared this morning. The case was then compromised to the entire satis faction of both parties. The absent juror was found this afternoon in the woods, crazy. INSANITY AND MURDER. A Horrible Affair near Scottsboro, Ala, Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. Birmingham, Ala., June 13. A spec ial from Scottsboro to the A?e-Herald tells a horrible story. This morning Mr. and Mrs. Allen ' Young, who . live near the Tennessee river, started to the field to plant corn. Nothing was heard of them until iust before noon, when their ten year old daughter started to the field with ainner lor her lather, un the way she found the corpse of her mother lying by the path with a horri ble cash on her forehead, seemingly made bv a rock. Her husband could nowhere be found. The last seen of him was by a boy . who saw him in the woods some time alter tne aeea, skiu niner hark from a hickory sapling. He WAS. nresumablv.preparineto hang him rpH. He has been known to be mentally unbalanced, but.it had never taken the form of enmitv towards his wife, with whom he lived on the most pleasant terms. SPIRITS TURPENTINE. J Asheville Citizen: Over eight : hundred thousand dollars worth of im provements now under way in Ashe ville, not considering the big hotels, or federal building. Lexington JJispatch: An eiec- tion was held at Thomasville, Friday, to ; appropriate $20,000 to the Girls' Train ing bchool." should it be located there, and was carried unanimously. ; Hillsboro Observer:. .Mir. A. J. Gordon, a farmer living west of town, says snakes are plentiful in . his neigh- : borhood. He killed two black snakes in his chicken house, one having swal- lowed a frying-size chicken. . Durham Sun: A gentleman in- j formed a Sun reporter yesterday even- i ing that a gentleman of Chatham . ; county has at last solved the problem bf ! perpetual motion and is coming to Lmr- , ham to exhibit his machine.- He was expected here yesterday, but did not arrive. ..".' "t . '! TJnliorh Visitor: Tohn H. Brvan. 0 - j , J r ftq died recently in Rio Janeiro, Bra zif, where he has resided for many yars. Mr. Bryan was a son of the late Hon. ohn H. Bryan, of .this city, and was for a long time prior to, and during the war, teller of the old bank of the State of North Carolina. . s . Concord Standard: . ' Don't i: whip Satan around the stump." .Better . face the situation. The crops are sadly : unpromising. The. stand is extremely poor; the cotton is dying and the grass ! is just as thick as theTiair on a setter's ! back. The water yes, water, has drowned no little. The wheat crop is bad to what was expected. The .situa tion is serious. 1 Greensboro Record: The Steel and Iron Company have given the con tract lor the brick and also for the stone to , be used in the construction of its furnace, and the C. F. &;Y. V. only awaits the right of way to begin laying its track through the cemetery' grounds, to the Steel Works. This will be given probably to-morrov when the absent commissioners return to sign the papers. Red Springs Farmer and Scot tish Chief: A very destructive hail storm visited the section of the county around Pates, ten miles south of Red Springs, Friday afternoon of last week. The storm came .very suddenly from the northwest, accompanied by a gale of wind. Mr. - R. W. Livermore had a large field of very fine cotton completely ruined by the hail. The crops of James i Oxendine and of others in the neigh- I borhood were also badly damaged. 5 King's Mountain News: A ne- gro employed by Mr. C. M. Stewart, i near Fancy, went into the barn Wednes day and picked up an armful of fodder, i In the fodder was a huge copperhead snake, which lell : out of his arms upon , his foot and crawled off. Tffe learn ; that a destructive hail, storm swept ' through portions of Lincoln and Ca tawba counties Thursday evening of last week, destroying all the crops upon which it fell. The hail stones were as ; large as walnuts. ! - Hickory Press and Carolinian: j Mrs. Catharine Whitener, widow of ) Daniel B.- Whitener, died at the resi- i dence of her son Frank, on Jacob's : Fork in this county, on Wednesday, the 1 3d inst., at the ripe old age of 101 years, j ; 9 months and 2 days-. This remarkable old lady was born September 1st, 1789, ; was married June 3d, 1815, and was ; buried June 4th, 1891. Her son says she was never bed sick, never had a ' physician and : never took a dose 6f . "drug store medicine" in all her life. ; i Raleigh Chronicle: Delia An derson, a colored girl of 14 years, about: a month since was, holding a large brass pin in her mouth, when it slipped down, her throat and lodged in her windpipe.! Her parents did not think much of it,j and neglected it from day to day. The! girl gradually grew thinner and thinner,1 and they finally took her to a doctor The operation of tracheotomy was per-j formed, but the pin could not be found. In some way or other, though, it must have been dislodged by the operation, as since then the girl has begun to improve and commenced to regain, her flesh right away. She still has the pin, however.. -- Statesville Landmark: Some of the wheat has already been harvested, and a good deal of oats cut. Wheat still promises, well; winter oats are good,; and spring oats very poor. A severe hail-storm passed over parts of Cool Spring and Chambersburg town-, ships last Friday afternoon. A reliable gentleman who lives in the track of the storm says thehail stones were as large as tin cups, and some of them refused upon actual test, to go into the mouth of a goblet. The stones where they were largest did not fall thick, and thus the damage to crops was not as great as it would otherwise have been. In lower Chambersburg and just over the Rowan line, however, there was great damage to wheat, and some crops were practi cally ruined. . Carthage Blade: On last Satur day Mr. Wm. Monroe, living near Cameron, met a most horrible death. He went in the lot where his stallion was confined, when the vicious horse sprang upon him and stamped and bit aim until he was almost dead. His abdomen was chewed to a perfect lob lolly. He lived until Sunday. Ben. Turner and Moses Cross who were Alec Gal- breth, at Mills' saw-mill in Greenwood week, before last, were captured last week. At the preliminary hearing be fore the magistrate, Cross was liberated tor lack ot evidence against him, but Turner was committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury at August - Court. It is said that the evidence against Turner is very strong. . Fayetteville Observer: A move ment is on foot and fast materializing into the organization of a .joint stock company here, the object of which is to rebuild the cotton seed oil mills de stroyed by fire last year. Parties from that vicinity inform us that a hur ricane, assuming almost the deadly pro portions of a cyclone, passed over Beri- ' son last Thursday evening, leaving wholesale destruction in its path. Trees were uprooted and others twisted off and carried a distance of several feet, laid waste and houses shaken from their foundations, while the Baptist church, -now nearing completion, was totally de molished and the timbers scattered to the four winds of the earth. Footprints of the terrible blow have been discerned in Sampson, and at this place the wind and rain were terrific. . Lenoir Topic: Talking about old baskets, Mr. N. A. Powell owns one made of straw by-his grandfather in 1810, from which he sows wheat every fall. The Lenoir-Linville railroad has been graded for a distauce of seven, miles from Lenoir, and cross-ties are be ing got out all along, the line. Wheat is in the main good and is ripen ing. A little will be cut this week, a good deal next week, and by the week after harvest will be full upon us. It is reported that old Jim Harvey the "Governor" who lives near town, has fallen heir to a pile of money by the death of a relative at Jonesbpro, Tenn. TheVe seems to be no doubt that the Governor, who is in very poor circum stances, would be well taken care of by his relatives if he would return to Ten nessee. He really wants to go, but his excuse for not going is that he is afraid of the dangers of the journey. A postal card bearing the 1 fol lowing superscription was received in the city a few days ago: "Postmaster Auburn, Please Deliver to Some Aufser or Cheefee Police of N. Y." Itcoh-. tained the startling announcement that a reward of $15 would be paid for the conviction of a man and the return of a horse and buggy stolen from a person in Cortland county. Auburn Advertiser. -4 : ...-' at 54 I!-. Ml The tailors bank on him. f the eomoanvs monev and nls i V
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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