North Carolina Newspapers

EVIDENCES OE PROGRESS. There is perhaps no Southern WILLIAM H. BBBUABD, WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, June 19,1891. PfT" la writing to change your address lwajsgvc farmer directional weU as full particular! as iwhere you wish your pper to be sent hereafter. Unless you do both changes can not be made. . CP" Notices' of Marriage or Death, Tributes of fRe spJcX Resolutions of Thanks, &c, JZcl?l ordinary dvertisernentsvbut only l"" tot strictly in advance, At inn fr.,), for a simple announcement of Mamage or Death. Remittances must De maoj r-2 PdS Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters will register letters when desired. J CT Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. .. JST" specimen copies forwarded when desired. TO BOOM BLAINE. That is an interesting report that .... - t A, comes fromi maianapoiis auuui. mV secret meeting of prominent Repub- t i.1 ' iA L&tr on limine wnn irarriercLi . iu tuvu. organization to support Blaine for the Presidency. This is interesting because it follows so dose upon the neeis 01 me repuiucu wuwww tween President Harrison and Sena tor Quay a few days ago, in which it was stated that a compact had been entered into between them in pursu ance ot which Harrison was to make certain appointments :in xcuuajri- - u:Ht MiMi.hqH on i n rprp;r , vania flu wuiui vuajr uau 7 in return for which Quay was to put un a delegation for Harrison in the that Blaine was not in the ; eveui ring. TViA !n4-orcrino- fpature of thlS re- A lib IUbVVtffcl"fc - w - port taken in connection with the more, recent announcement ,of this i Indianapolis meeting was the assur- to-day witn tne ivu" Jance given Mr. Quay by Mr. Harri son that" in due time the unavaila- ; bility of Mr. Blaine as a presidential- LcUluluaLG wuuiu p""""'; ; . strated. -' - -When the question was asked . Mr. Conger, ot Ohio, one of the leading figures in this Indianapolis meeting, Untlia. in tho arrant Mr Tilaine - . . ; t were nominated if he would accept .' t 1 a 1 A. ..4.V.,a.vas4 ne replied mat ne was not uuiuuumu to speak for Mr. Blaine, but he was positive in the assurance that there ; would be no embarrassing letters to i; narnlkrzf" his friends, i . In (this . connection it will be re- membered that it has been stated from! time to'time, a dozen times or j , . . . morel auu ill uccuijr cvcijr iioi.iiv. by' friends of the President, that Mr. ! Blairie would shortly publish a letter j announcing that he was not a candi- ; rlatp i for the Presidencv and that he ) , i wnniHnnt- and rmilrl not accent the . j in af newspaper ;of which Russell '.!' ITnrrScnn son nf Eeniamin. is half ; -owner, went so far as to say that Mr. Blaine had no Presidential aspira- i i and could not be without the viola- ;i tion of a tacit, if riot an expressed 'I ; pledge, and a breach oi faith with '; the President. ; : ,:But although this letter has been frequently predicted it has failed so V far to put in an appearance, and now ' ? we have the assurance of a friend ot ; Mr. Blaine, who, talks nue a. man man who knew what he was talking ahrnt that no letter will be written i to embarrass i the free action . of Blaine's triends who are working for hisTJomination. j .;:" Tiere were very few who knew e who ever believed that he .State which has within the pastuar ter of a century made more substan- tial progress tnan JNonn wtomw, but it would never be discovered if it depended upon the amount of boasting or the parade made over it. T..not Klonrino- ij nne of the aC- XlUllip-. comDlishments in which her peopic have not made much progress and it is something for which they don't show much inclination, not as much, thev should show. But North Carolina is getting therein her own quiet, matter of fact way all the same, trumpet or no trumpet. . Among the evidences of progress, of which there are many, there are thre'.e which at first sight strike the observer who views North Carolina now and twenty-five years ago. These are the increase irT the num ber and in the mileage of the rail roads, the increase in the number and productive capacity of her cot ton mills and the rapid growth of her towns and cities, their improve ment and the varied industries which have sprung up within them. ) We have frequently when discours ing on the future of this State ex pressed the belief that she would some day be the greatest railroad State in the South, if not in the Union, with more railway mileage to the square mile of territory than on ntVior Rtatp in the South. The dHJ - . more we reflect on the progress of railway building in the past twenty- five years, the progress at present, and compare the North Carolina of Carolina ot con- hiiri, repudiated the sentiments ex pressed in the published interview. Grosvenor crawfished, and said he didn't mean it, that he was mts tmoted. &c, ' ; whereupon the Wash ington Star went for him - and showed that he read the interview oe rmhlisheri in the Star and i - endorsed it to other newspaper cor respondents, who called to see him nhont it before thev sent it o their papers. The I result -is that Gen. Grosvenor comes down and out be cause his "usefulness as immigration rnmmiesioner is impaired," and he "he don't want to hurt his party,' which is the true reason why he comes down and out, very much to tho relief nf the President and the Secretary, who gladly accept his "re signation," which doubtless they nintAri f Tiev wDuld like to nave. STATE TOPICS, The Tarboro Southerner pertinent ly asks if this section of the State is not the "golden belt for tobacco," It has cone through the census re port on the " tobacco crop of last year, and while it finds that the aver age price throughout the State was 14 cents a pound, the average price in i Nash county was 23 cents, in Edgecombe 23, in Pitt 19. These would probably be a fair sample of the other Eastern counties where tobacco is grown. In this connec tion it may be said jalso that while the average price is higher more tobacco can be raised to the acre in this section of the State than in any other, and for the reason that it is not subject to risks from late frpsts in spring or early frosts in tan it; is a much surer crop in the East than in COTTON IN NORTH CAROLINA. ; I LATE WASHINGTON NEWS U. S. APPELLATE COURT. They will take care ot him, noweyer, .other rtions of the state. It will by giving him something else wnen be m years before in much of the East tobacco will lead cotton as a farm product. Blai : WOU was ing 4 - , - it i la write sucn a tetter, even ii uc hot thinking seriously of enter-, the race, for I Blaine is one of those politicians who keeps his eye even ten vears ago the more firmed we are in that belief. With rugged highlands along most of her northern border, swelling into mountains as you go westward, the great through railway lines coming southwest must get south of these to find a practicable way to the South western country which they seek. Covering the territory between the Blue Ridge and the sea she must necessarily become the highway for all through lines of railway running North and South on this side of the mountain ranges. There is no choice about it, for the only other practica ble way is north of these towering barriers. Trom an opposite direction the Western t systems of roads seeking outlets by South Atlantic seaports will be compelled more of less to use her territory asta highway and thus get the shortest and most practi cable routes from the West to the South Atlantic seaboard. There are three or four roads now under con sideration or construction pointing this way, all pf which will be built in the near future. As one-system will pass through in a southwesterly direction the other will pass through in a southeasterly direction,giving not simply parallel lines but lines in en tirely differentdirections, thus devel oping more territory and presenting better facilities for transportation for the different sections of the State than any number of parallel roads could present. v . ... It is generally, though not always the case, that where railroads cross each other towns spring up. Rail road centers make large and flour ishing towns. These two reasons, even if there were no railroad enterprise among our people, would eventually make North Carolina a great railroad State: But our people have railroad the racket about his "foreign pro vince" speech subsides. . ' The Harrison Republicans are trying to break the significance of that anti-Harrison meeting at Indian apolis last week by saying that its real purpose was not so much to boom Blaine, Gresham or Alger as it . was to "squeeze" Harrison One of tViem in Washington savs when the " " O appropriations by the : last Con gress become available on the 1st of July there will be a good many contracts to be given out by the Departments and a good many fat pickings in Washington, some nf which these Blaine boomers want, and they have taken this course to make Harrison shell out nnrl nnrr.hase their silence. This shows a pretty low estimate of Mr. Harrison all around, by his oppo nents, if true, as alleged, that their purpose in meeting was to force Harrison to buy them off and by his friends who tacitly admit by the sug gestion that he is in the market as a purchaser. Doubtless some of them could be bought off but that was not the inspiring motive of the meeting. If Mr. Harrison thought so he would feel much more comfortable over it than he probably does. , Sevill Schofield, Son & Co., of Philadelphia, is another added to the long list of failures of wool manufactures.' This was one of the most reliable firms in Philadelphia, the senior member having been en gaged in manufacturing at Mana yunk since 1857. Their total lia bilities are $800,0.00. They attrib ute their failure to the McKinley tariff which , they at first supposed would help their business. A reac tion set in in business which was brisk for a short time after the passage of the bill, when there was no demand for the high price protected goods which they manu factured at high cost and then the trouble began which resulted in a final collapse of a house which had been in business and weathered the financial storms of thirty-three years. Score one more for the Mc Kinley tariff. THE DAVIS MONUMENT. Subscription Lists to be Opened To-day at the Produce Exchange, j -. Under the auspices of the Executive 'Committee of the Confederate yete- rans Association of New Hanover county, subscription lists will be opened at the Troduce Exchange to-day, for funds to aid in the erection of a monu ment to Jefferson .Davis, j The committee will also canvass the city to give citizens an opportunity to contri bute to this patriotic work. Any amount, however small,wfll be cheerfully received; the idea being that the monument shall be the spontaneous offering of the peope of the South, and to this end subscription lists will be op ened to-day in nearly every townj and village in the South. Mr. John W. Childers, of Nashville, president of the committeot the South ern Press Association charged with the management of the movement, says that contributions will be received up to June 80th, at which time the committee; will meet in Atlanta, Ga., "to look over the reports from the various bodies and to take steps for the erection of the monument as early as practicable. Several cities are now engaged in competing for the location off the monument. One of the new South boom cities will make a proposition to; take whatevet funds the committee may se cure and to supplement that with any amount the committee may designate if the monument will be built there. The committee will take care that the monu ment shall not fall into the hands of any advertising boomers. It will be erected on soil peculiarly appropriate for its location. There are several such locations." A Deoreaie in AeFlantin Oene - rally Late "Boat 8tand lYOmmercial and Financial Chron icU. of New York, in reference to the condition of the growing cotton in North Carolina, .says: -The wet weather in the early spring delayed plowing, so u nlantinrr nnerationS did SnOt .be- come active until after the 20th of April, and in a number of localities lit tie was done until towards the last o the month; hence while in some dis tricts seeding had been completed by the middle of May. in others it was not finished until about the first of June. As an average the season was about ten rtavs later than last year. "Throughout almost the whole of May these conditions appear to have exerted an unfavorable influence. From various causes seed has rotted in the ground, or failed to come up, and as a consequence a much greater amount of re-planting than usual has been done. As the foregoing serves to indicate, the stand is not good. Much of the late planted seed was not above ground on May 31. Late advices by telegraph cover reports of more satisfactory weather conditions, and the expectation of considerable improvement. The dry weather which retarded the growth of cotton has acted in like manner on Advices from the CruHier Charleston ana Her Prie-Silver Purohases-Tennes-Tobaoco , StaUstioa-Tho BehriMC .. Sea Agreement jrith Great Britain Signed The President's Proclamation Issued. Washington. June 15. -The agree- SPIKITS TURPLNTlNh. Greensboro Workman ' Horticultural Society ot North r ,. he will hold its Ninth Annual Fair i n.a Art r nA 4f-h qnr1 KU . Illie wif wis wav. -su avtiu uiu UcLyS Of A Fos fact. 15. An . omciai cablegram from Admiral McCann, at Iquiqe,Chni,tothe Secretary ot the l?avy. lannounces that the ; Iteta- sailed ..TliL f th Charleston at 9 o'clock Saturday night for San t Uiego. California. It is not probable that she wiU be forced, as her machinery is in bad shape, so that it is expected that a month wiU De occupies m WT W Theamount of silver offered for sale to the Treasury department to-day was i 459.000 ounces, and the amount pur chased 329y000 ounces. ThArnsiis omce to-aav mauc uuu- lic the tobacco statistics of Tennessee. The total number of planters m the State during the census year was 16.624; total area devoted to tobacco, ki'a71 arres: total product, 36,868,395 pounds, ana me vaiuc ui y-v producers is estimated on the basis ot actuallales, $1,841,464. . tv, Momr TVnartment has been aa- .s.mA nt tho nrocrrpss and necessities of nigvu v. r n . not a Wilmington to Weldon; all ,n the r? ' fields, where they can make more n T n than they can on the road. As the 67 pays 414 per month, the farm - T &iet JUce runcr - - u in th(, "rv""- the; Supreme Court of the unitea dar a d &mm For the District of Maryland, .Virginia - and North Caroiina-Pormally Organiz ed by Chief Justice Fuller. , ; By Telegraph to the Morning Star. - Richmond, Va., June ine unit- Tarboro Southerner- w t h ratf Circuit court room was crowd- I ' ' . c.. " vv - J- H thia mornincwith distinguished law- 1 ,A, VT,;o um Z or tw0 MllUUlf I m-m . I nLU lilltVV fV 1 1 1 IT I I IHIIv . ; : RoVrrincr I onH ritizena to Witness the imposing I c: ' ' w. 1 oxes, mpnt for a Cioscu, sovu 1 j . . . , - !..,, I uiuiuiuiu. itAiu mdi mere ii mem.iui ... - . 1 I .Am-nwa incident to the maugura- 1 ,1 i,r ,"cre is c r,a siirned this morning, uy 1" nnm. uauu " W, acting Secretery of State Wharton and prisini the district of Maryland, Vir Sir Tulian Pauncefote, and the President nia West Virginia, and North Caro- J . . . ...:rr that I i!- 4 ' ... .' .l'-. issued a proclamation - - rh! ei tustice duller nf thtt Sunreme Court of the .TT , , T..j u. v, t unnii rt I oncora -standard: A nr. . Maryland, and J. J.J acsson, 01 v csl wa me coUntv Vireinia, and took their seats upon the line, north of here, there is to be se bench.! Meanwhile the vast audience, perhaps the prettiest oak in North Ca? had arisen to . its feet. The three dig- olma. It is eighteen feet m circumfe nitanes previous to oemg seaea uuwcu -vwjeetthe to the assemoiy. ; The i Chief Justice then arose and said, "We have met to organize the Appellate Court of the United States." He then briefly and clearly defined the duties bt the new court and said the or- . . - . I 1 J j . i : v e. n ...t. M n,o n j nil wfiii 11 m a nirinrio iv vrrir i in n UCI WUltU lie uau .. 1 , vuaiiubbv. i uj v.1 L)T) rtrne j inArrn Taolrcrtn tn I 1 i,.:u.-.j 1 . r'uS' preside Over the new court until a judge past few days. Mr. David Norma should be elected. The Chief Justice awell known citizen of Mecklenbunl then announced the appointment of county, died at his home in Paw cre2 Henry T. Maloney, of Maryland, Clerk township, at 6 o'clock yesterdav of the Court, and ex-Judge Thomas b. I noon, at the age of 4 7 years.' - xh" Atkins, of Richmond, as Marshal; both I tax assessors of Charlotte townshin Dy tne niei limps go oui in pcneci symmetry .n,Z HistancA of thirtv fppt Tu "luugri th. thick ioliage not :i particle of sunlit reaches. Mr. Blackwdder thinks it IZ years old, and would not take a moiT tain for it. n" , Charlotte Neius: The crass and weeds, and the fields, conse- I tne case and orders are now 4n prepara- tion lOr ine immcuiaic uisoi.vu f - baely two naval vessels from San Fran cisco to Alaska, where they will assist the three revenue cutters in the task of driving off poaching sealing vessels. The agreement authorizes United States vessels to seize offending British vessels, which, however, are to be turned over to British authorities tor tnai, ana this feature ot the agreement is expected to prove of great value in the pressing emergency that is held to exist of clear ing out the law-breaking vessels before irreparable damage has been done to the seal fisheries. nnentlv. ' are fairlv clean.; The. con servative tendency heretofore noted continues, and while there have been changes up and down in various dis tricts the decrease in the area under cotton in the State is not large; we esti mate it at 2 percent. Commercial sorts have been more largely used, in some instances displacing the home-made varieties. "The acreage of cotton in North Car olina is given as follows: 1890-91, 1,038, 000; 1889-90, 1,038,000; 1888-89. 1,028. 000; 1887-88, 1,028,000; 1886-87. 1,082.- 000; 1885-86, 1.093,000; and then comes the following interesting figures: Acre age 1890, 1.038,180; estimated decrease for 1891, 2 per cent.; acres 1891, 1,017,-417." Cotton Region Bulletin. High temperature prevailed yester day in the Wilmington district of the cotton belt. The maximum reported was 100 degrees at Florence, 102 at Cheraw, 96 at Raleigh, Lumberton, Weldon aud Goldsboro, 92 at Charlotte, and 90 at Wilmington, Wadesboroand Newbern. The average maximum for the district was 95 degrees. Newbern was the bnly station in the district that reported iain. The rainfall in other (districts of the cot ton belt was heavy; Memphis and New Orleans each 1.14 inches. reporting an average of pn the political vane and governs I enterprise to a great degree, which himself accordingly. He is one of the patriots, too, 1 who never wants any thing which he thinks he can't get. If he ever had any ijiea of writing such a letter the persistency with which Mr. Harrison's friends have beeh circulating these reports, either tp iiiduce him to write it or to make his friends believe! that he didn't want and would not accept a nomi nation, followed by the nonchalance with whifch Mr. Harrison took to himself whatever of credit there might be in the reciprocity scheme which Blaine had worked up, fol lowed by the bluff manner in which he took the Behring sea business in - to his own hands! would cause a change of resolution in that res pect: hence those who had their doubts, about his intention to write such a letter will find no difficulty in believing Mr.'; Conger's assertion that; no letter to "paralyze" his .friends will be written. Another interesting feature of this meeting is that it was held in Mr. . Harrison's State and in Mr. Harri son's own home city, where he ought to te .strong if he is strong anywhere, and where his friends ought to rally 'around him with as much if not more . enthusiasm- than they do anywhere else. That ; a meeting of this kind 'should have been held in Indiana and is shown by the fact that out of the $12,000,000 or more of railroad pro perty in this State,- that being the Valuation of her 3,000 miles of railway with equipment, all but about two and a half millions is owned by North Carolinians, a show ing which we do not believe can be made by any other Southern State, and by but few, it any, Northern States. The half dozen roads of twenty-five years ago, have increased to sixty, and the mileage of less than 500 to 3000 miles, nearly all the work of her own people. And yet they haven't done any trumpet blowing about it. Who that thinks of these things will doubt that North Carolina is destined to be a great railroad State ? The Woman Inventor is the title of a new weekly publication just started at Washington, the object of which is to show what woman has done and is doing in the field of invention. One fact we learn from it, to which Senator Daniel of Virginia called attention in his tribute to "Indus trial Women" before the Patent Centennial Congress, is that the first patent granted to a native born woman in this country was issued to Jena S. Goodman, of Florida. Mrs, Charlotte Smith, the editor of the Woman Inventor, the first publica tion of the kind in this country, is also a Southern woman. MINOR MENTION. The Woman Inventor says that as but three per cent, of the patents granted to women are granted to single women, it is proof that marri age does not interfere with woman's inventive genius. It don't interfere with .man's inventive genius, either, but rather stimulates it. Lots of married men develop a remarkable genius for - inventing reasons for staying out late of nights, a talent which was never called into play be fore marriage. Steamer Murchison from JFayetteville. The Steamer D. Murchison, Capt. Tomlinson, from Fayetteville, arrived last night, with the following passengers, viz: J. D. McNeil, and wife, Fayetteville, f or Carolina Beach; ex-Sheriff Wi J. Sutton, Bladen; J. M.Wescott, South- port; H. H. Barnhill. D. F. Nicholson, Mrs. B. McGill. Miss Janie Wilkerson, Mrs. W. H. Sikes, J. H. Register, Mrs. Leonard, Bladen county. ' The Murchison' s freight list compris ed 100 casks spirits turpentine, 232 bbls. rosin, 2Q cases tar. Hattersa Lighthouse. The latest information in regard to this project is that the steamer Jupiter, under charter of Anderson & Barr, con tractors, for the erection of the light house at Hatteras, is in Norfolk, being repaired preparatory to towing the Iron caisson, now in that harbor, to Hatteras for use in the construction of the light house. She will leave with it in! the course of the next two weeks. The Bice Crop. Dan Talmage's Sons, New York,! re port the rice croo in North Carolina as much behind that of any year of j the decade. More than halt was not seeded until the present month. Acreage along the rivers is about the same as last yean upland considerably larger. The.out come is likely to be 300,000 bushels! ' MILITARY AT WILSON. The W. IV. I. nd Other Companies of the State Guard Present Address by Senator Banaom Dinner Dress Par ade, Etc The Wilmington Light Infantry, un der command of Capt. W. R. Kenan, with the Second Regiment Band, left here yesterday morning at 9 o'clock by tram on the W. & W. railroad .for Wil son, to take part in the ceremonies at tepding the laying of the foundation of the monument to be erected at that place to commemorate the Confederate dead. They were accompanied by Col. W. C Jones, Second Regiment, and members of his staff. ; , On the way up they were joined at Goldsboro by the Sampson Light In fantry and the Goldsboro Rifles, and ar rived at Wilson at 1 o'clock p. m. Upon debarking from the train the three companies were received by the Rocky Mount Light Infantry and the Wilson Light Infantry, under command of Lt. Col. Tno. !j7 Bruton. Col. Jones took command5 of the battalion, with Lt. DuVal French as adjutant, and the com mand then marched to the hall, where the visiting military were served with an elegant dinner prepared by the ladies of Wilson, and which was heartily en joyed by all. After dinner the battalion marched to a tobacco warehouse, where a laige number of people estimated at thirty-Gve-hundred had assembled. The ceremonies opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Carmichael, of Wilmington, after which Senator Ransom was intro duced and addressed the assemblage in an eloquent speech of about one hour in length. The Second Regiment Band played some of their best seclections, and after the benediction had been pronounced and the assemblage dismissed, the bat talion was again formed, marched through some of the streets ot the town, and held a dress parade at the railroad depot at 6.15 o'clock. Before taking the train for home the W. L. I. fired three volleys of musketry. The. weather was decidedly warm, probably the hottest day of the season in Wilson, but for all this the boys en joyed the trip, and fully appreciated the kind hospitality of the warm-hearted citizens of Wilson, the ladies especially, who did everything in their power for the comfort and pleasure of the visitors. The W. L. I. and the Bind arrived safely last night on the 9.55 train, and were dismissed at the armory. THE THIRD PARTY. Twenty-Five Sub-Alliances In Kansas Re pudiate the Movement. hicago, III., June 15. A Top Kan., special says: Returns received by the Alliance Executive Committee from sub-Alliances which were asked to pass judgment on the work done by the Cin cinnati Convention, are far from encour aging to the People's party politicians. It is known that twenty-five sub-Alliances have repudiated the Third Party movement; fifteen of these have reported to the State Alliance and ten to the Re publican" Central Committee. The Clouds County Alliance adopted the following resolution: Whereas, The South was not repre sented in the Cincinnati Convention, and whereas, we believe a third party will disrupt the" Republican party to the benefit of the Democractic party; there fore ! Be it resolved, that we abandon the third party to return to our past affilia tion. ; ' These resolutions, it is said, have a double signification because Uoud coun ty is the home of Senator Wheeler, the only Alliance member of the Senate; and has always been considered the People's party stronghold. RICHMOND, VA. of whom were sworn a Justice. Assistant District Attorney was then sworn in by the new Clerk, after which some thirty lawyers were admitted to practice. - During the course of the proceedings Justice Fuller announced that the next meeting of the Court will be held in Richmond the first Tuesday, after the first Monday in February next. "The Court," said the distinguished jurist, had at one time considered the advisa bility of meeting again in October, but it did hot believe the new members of the Bench to be selected by the Presi dent would be chosen by that time. In view of this fact, and the further fact that there would hardly be any business of importance to be disposed of by Oc tober; the Court had concluded to name February as the time for its next sitting. The three judges were all attired in black' eowns, showing white shirt fronts. Judge Robert W. : Hughes, who ac companied the three justices from the conference room tq the court room, took : a seat to the left of the bench, with members of the bar. During the morning a reception com mittee from the bar of the City made a formal call on Chief Justice Fuller, and invited him to a receptioh in his honor at the Westmoreland Club to-night. He had previously acknowledged the invitation and its acceptance by wire fromj Chicago. WASHINGTON NEWS. The 'New Federal Court of Appeals Cases in the State Courts. Richmond. Va., Tune 15. Chief justice Fuller, of the Supreme Court of the United States, arrived iii the city this evening, accompanied by Judge J. J. Jackson, of West Virginia. Justice Fuller will open the new Federal Court of Appeals here to-morrow. In the Circuit Court to-day the suit of the city of Richmond against execu tors and securities of the late Aylett R. Woodson, who at the time of his death was collector to the city, was tried. The amount involved is over $50,000. The case of Lewis Booker, the in surance agent, charged with the embez zlement of several hundred thousand dollars belonging to the Hannewinkel estate, was continued in the Hustings Court to-day until July 13th- Booker was bailed in $20,000. General Grosvenor, ot Ohio, is another victim of too much mouth. He was appointed chairman of the Immigration Commission which was to visit Europe to gather informa tion in reference to the undesirable class of emigrants who are shipped to this country, and feeling the im portance of his position he concluded he would ventilate his views on the immigration question, which he did some time ago through an interview in the Washington Star, which in jlndianapojis is significant, to. say I was copied by many papers in the least, and .Benjamin They utilize the convict brigands in Turkey. They have recently turned fifty out of prison to run down the gentleman who gobbled up those Berlin bankers and held them for ransom. As Anastace is an accomplished, captivating sort of a fellow the probabilities are that the ex-brigs will find his society and airy mode of life so congenial that they will forget what they came for if they should rup up with him. the least, and Benjamin Harrison will be apt to realize its full signifi North and West, in that in terview he commented freely on the evils ot unrestricted immigration and incidentally illustrated by refer ing to the State of Wisconsin as "al most a foreign province." Mr. Grosvenor who is a Republican from away back hasn't a very high regard for Wisconsin, which kicked out of the Republican traces at the last election, the Germans and Scandi navians who had been previously voting with the Republican party An American named Hofting got going over to the Democrat away, a few days; ago, with one of -party on the school question the Monte Carlo tiger resorts to the issue. This "foreign province" ex tune of 230,000 francs. Although he pression made the .Republican lead played boozey, he was frank enough ers of that State red hot, because to j say he didn't want all'their money they had not entirely abandoned the and got away with his 230,000 pile hope of winning back the foreign of French lucre on the next train for kickers. They went for Grosvenor. "Paris.- Secretary Foster, who appointed ,cance. . if Mr. Blaine is not in the race somebody is badly f ooled, and some of his friends are doing a large anjount of superfluous talking and useless work. They are not simple- . tons enough to be doing all this un advisedly nor withoutjenowing what , they are doing or why" they are do ing it. ' i A The Prince of Wales is on the ragged edge bad. The people don't like that thin dodge of Hon. Edward Stanhope, to get him out of the baccarat scrape, and are saying so pretty emphatically. And the Welsh men don't want God to bless him, either, for they hissed the other day when the band tooted "God Bless the Prince of Wales." An Ohio preacher who has retired for two years to the penitentiary for burglary, says he expects to re sume business, preaching, not burg larizing when his term expires. It is hard to . repress the Ohio man when he feels he has a mission and fills up with it WllmlOKton'Dlstrlct Third Quarter ly Meeting. j Bladen Circuit. Bethel, June 20 and 21. j - Fifth Street, June 27 and 28. j Scott's Hill Circuit, Herring's, July 4 and 5. ! Southport District Conference, July 11 and 12. i Elizabeth Circuit, Singletary's, July -18 and 19. i Robeson Circuit, Asbury, July! 25 and 26. . ! Carver's Creek, Hebron, Julyj 29 and 30. j Grace Church, August 1 and 2. l: Cokesbury, McNatt's, August 8 and 9. Brunswick Mission, Cedar Bay Au gust 12. Brunswick Circuit, Shallote Camp, August 13. Samson, Andrew's Circuit, August 15 and 16. i Bladen Street Circuit, August 25. ) Clinton Circuit, Goshen, August 22 and 23. i Market Street, August 27. ! . Kenansville Circuit, Richland, August 29 and 30. : Magnolia Circuit, Bryants, September 2 and 3. j Whitesville Circuit, Fair Bluff, Sep tember 5 and 6. j Waccamaw Circuit, Shiloh, September 7 and 8. i F. D. SWINdELL, P. E,t Read advertisement ot ottefburn . Lithia Water in this paper. -'Unequaled for Dyspepsia and all diseases of kid ney and bladder. Price within reach of ill. '. t SPAEKLHrCr CATAWBA SPBTETQS. - Health seekers should go to b park ling Catawba ; Springs. Beautifully located, in Catawba county, 1,000 feet above sea-level, at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains. Scenery magnificent. Waters possess medicinal properties ot the highest order. Board only $30.00 per month. Keaa advertisement in this paper, and write Dr. E. O. Elliott & Son, proprietors, for descriptive pam phlets, f SUN SPOTS. Signs that a Tremendous Convulsion is Occurring on the Solar Globe. Astronomers say there is a big group of spots coming into sight around the edge of the sun. Their appearance is very formidable. The bright surface of the solar globe seems to have been torn and broken through in a wonderful manner. All around the black spots the glowing surface . is heaped up into vast mountainous elevations that shine much brighter than the. surrounding parts of the sun. It needs but a glance to see that a tremendous convulsion is occurring there. Enormous masses of vaporized matter, including metals turned into clouds by heat, are being hurled tens of thousands of miles high. In a few ; days the ro tation of the sun will have brought this disturbed region near the centre of the disk. It will be worth watching, for daily and Jiourly marvel lous changes will take place there, the explosions may become weaker, and the spots gradually disappear, or there may be a far greater outburst that will shat ter the brilliant shell of the sun over millions of square miles. The New York Sun, commenting on the above says "If, in the mean time, great storms and tornadoes occur on the earth, they will no doubt be ascribed to the influence of this disturbance on the sun, but nobody should jump to the conclusion that the solar explosions really do produce storms. If it can be proved that electricity, is an important element in the generation of tornadoes, then the storm producing influence of sun spots will probably be admitted by rrfany men of science who doubt it at present, for the earth always responds with a magnetic thrill tto the convul sions that shake its mighty juler in the sky." DAVIS MONUMENT. Bulletin from Gen. Gordon Funds to be Baised June 18th. 'r Atlanta, Ga., June 15. Gen. John B. Gordon, Commander of the United Confederate Veterans' Association, has issued the following bulletin: Headouarters United Confederate Vet erans' AssociationAtlanta, Ga., June 15 1891. Brother Confederates: Whatever funds may be raised through your efforts on Thursday, the 18th, for the proposed monument to Jefferson Davis, can be de posited in local banks, there to remain until required by the proper authorities hereafter. Fraternally yours, J. B. Gordon, Comd'g United Confederate Veterans. A SAD TRAGEDY. Bev. P. D. Lee, of Vireinia, Bolls His Son and Himself in a Pit of Insanity. . Alexandria, June 15. Rev. Frank D. Lee, son of the late Cassius F. Lee residing in the vicinity of the Theologi cal Seminary, in Fairfax county, in a spell of temporary aberration of mind yesterday, put an end to the, life of his only son, aged nine years, to whom he was devotedly attached, and then com mitted suicide with a pistol. The deed was not discovered until about noon to day, when suspicion having been excited, the house, which was securely fastened from within, was, broken open and the two bodies found lying upon a bed in such man-, ner as to develop the facts given.- Lee was a man of superior ability and culti vation, was a graduate of the University of Virginia and of the Theological Sem inary and for several years exercised ac ceptably bis ministry in the Episcopal Church. He was subsequently com pelled to give it up On account of ill- health, and since 1886 has been living in retirement on Seminary hill. CLOUD-BURST. A Tennessee Town Almost Destroyed by the Plood. By Telegraph to the Morning Star Cincinnati, June 16. A Knoxville, Tenn., special says: At Newmanville, Greene county, Saturday, a cloud-burst did great damage. The place is remote from railroad and telegraph but in formation comes to-day of the calamity. The fall of water was something terrific, and the small creek became a raging river, one hundred yards wide. The storehouse, residence and outbuildings oi i. jn. King were swept away, the flood coming so quickly i he did hot have time to even close his store doors. The postofnee was kept in his store, and eveiything was lost. An iron safe, weighing 1.500 pounds, was carried one-fourth ofa mile by the force of the water. A number of other houses were carried away, and all the crops along the creek bottom lands destroyed. The water came down so fast that the people barely had time to flee to the Ridge, and it this had not been near there would nave Deen serious loss of life. Consid erable stock was drowned, but no life was lost so far as reported. The proper ty damage will amount to a large sumj Explosion and Fire on the TJ. S. Steamer Philadelphia Gen. Grosvenor Beslgns his' : Position on the Immigration Com mission. J By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, June 16. The Nav Department is informed that the explo sion (yesterday on the U. S. steamer Philadelphia at the New' York Navy Yard was caused by a machinist who wen into the hold to look after a dy namo which was not working, carrying an open light near a tank of turpentine. The; fire which followed the explosion was extinguished by flcodirfg the com partment, which resulted ,in damaging a quantity of stores. Washington, June 16. The followr ing dispatch from General Grosvenor, chairman of the Immigration Commis sion to visit Europe was received this evening by Secretary Foster, dated Columbus, Ohio, June 15th. Fearing that (assaults upon me by certain of the press and misrepresenta tion, will impair it not destroy my use fulness in the Immigration Commission, I respectfully tender my resignation. I cannot afford to hold the office to the iniurv of my party. Let my resignation take effect at the pleasure of the depart ment. . ' The resignation will be accepted to morrow. Secretary Foster said that the manly course of General Grosvenor was highly appreciated by the President and; himself. The Secretary will give General Grosvenor another position of equal rank and responsibility, thus testi fying to his confidence in the General and his application of the high stand he has taken. Washington, June 17. Secretary Noble returned to his department to day!. The Secretary states that there is absolutely no foundation for the rumors of his contemplated resignation. The President has been working ua usually-hard since his return from the Pacific coast and is thoroughily tired out. He therefore decided to take a short vacation and will accompany Mrs, Harrison and his grand children to their summer home at Cape May Point to morrow. The President will return to Washington next Thursday, in time for the regular meeting of the cabinet. ; There are so many important matters claiming his personal attention lust now, that it win De lm possible for him to remain away from Washington for any considerable time until they have been disposed of. He will, however, run down to Cape May for a few days' rest whenever the state of public business will permit, and later in the season expects to be able to re main, there continuously for two or three weeks. The Department of State has received no news of any attempt upon the life of President riyppolite, ot riayti. As there is constant communication by cable be tween Hayti and San Domingo and the United States, there is no doubt that any such event as the assassination of the Haytien President would be prompt ly known here. The rumor was brought here Dy a vessel arriving in' JNew York. The steamer Columbia, which arrived at New York on the 10th instant, had among her passengers a young Russian, Alexander Gregorovitch. who passed the immigrant -inspectors and was al lowed to land. He reached Washing ton a few days ago, and excited suspi cion Dy trying to see tne president at an unreasonable hour; for the purpose of "helping him run the government." He was subjected to a medical examination and pronounced insane. The case was referred to the Treasury Department, and Assistant Secretary Nettleton gave instructions for the return of the man to Russia at the expense of the steamer that brought him over. that so far as they have gone, the indi cations are that the real estate assess" ment alone in this township, will show an increase of $500,000 over the assess, ment also shows a large increase. death by accidental self-shooting is r portea to us irom wanmam township W.I. VyUAUi a yvjuuK man auuui adVMi of age, had been out hunting cows Sat urday and returned to Mr. Sidney John son's home in the evening. He had a gun witn mm, ana in placing n behind the door tne nammer came in contact with the wall in such a way as to cause an explosion. The whole load entered the young man's throat and passed out at the top oi nis neaa, Killing him in- stantly. i Lumberton Kobesoman ; The weather lust now is all that the farmer? could wish, but it is powerless to improve the poor stands of cotton and corn, of 'l which an complain. it becomes our sad duty to record the death of Mrs. Ellen French, the devoted and faithfui wife of Col. W. F. French of this town, which occurred last Saturday about n o'clock. Sheriff Pitman captured Wayne Hill on Wednesday; he was a refugee from justice, being charged with murder committed in Mississippi. Two hundred dollars reward was offered for his apprehension and delivery at Winoa, Miss., where he is wanted. , , tannage xfiaac: irop pros pects are far Irom the brightest. The continued wet weather has caused about one half of the early peaches. q rot, and has likewise seriously damaged the grape crop. Mr. C. P, Jenkins showed us on yesterday the oldest pocket knife we have ever! seen. On the blade the date, "17G0," is distinctly stamped. It was found about three weeks ago by Mr. Jenkins' little daugh ter, on his lot, which he says was used as a camp-grouna a hundred years or more ago. The knife is of the barlow pattern and is badly worn. It was doubtless used by some of the pioneer settlers ot Moore county. Raleigh News and . Obscncr; Yesterday morning Judge T. C. Fuller appeared in the United Mates Circuit Court before Judge Augustus S. Sey mour, and exhibited his commission from the President of the United States, appointing him Associate Justice of the Court of Private Land claims, qualified bv taking the oaths of office adminis tered bv ludge Seymour. Late ! ' Aflvtce to SEomerm. V or Over Fifty Years Mrs. Winslow's soothing Syrup has been used by millions of mothers for their chil dren while teething. Are you dis- iiuucu ai nignt ana DroKen ot your icbi qy a sick cniia suuenng and crying With nain of Cuttino- Ttli If f so send at once and get a' bot- ue oi. "Mrs. wmsiowls soothing Sy rup lor Chudren leething. Its value is incalculable. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about it. It cures Dysentery and Diar rhoea, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Colio, softens the Gums, re duces Inflammation, and gives tone and energy to the urtini nntmn Vf Winslow's Soothing Syrup" for children i teething is pleasant to the taste and is toe prescription of one of the oldest and best female physicians and nurses in the United States, and is for sale by all drug gists throughout the world. Price twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing i StTRTTP " t yesterday evening a colored man named Nicholson, who works on the Raleigh & Gaston shifting engine, was knocked off a box car by a telegraph wire wnne on a moving freight tram near tne ware house. He fell between two dox cars and was run over by the cars, both legs being terribly mangled. At latest ac counts he was alive, but it was thought he could not possibly live but a short while. Asheville Citizen: L. C. Shuey has bought the rock quarry just north of Pearson's bridge, on the French Broad river, from W. B. Troy. Mr. Shuey has an order from Vanderbilt to deliver twenty car loads ;of crushed stone each day, to be used at the wall at the tennis court and at the espianaae The depot at Montford Park will soon be under wav. It is to be located iust north of the Pearson bridge, on the. west side ot the frencn croau a. Capt. V. E. McBee, of the Kichmonaa Danville tcauroaa, is at wortt wium w force of hands excavating, and as soon as this is finished work on the structure will be begun. Before George Van derbilt made his purchase of Biltimorc, the revenue derived from freights at that depot by the Richmond & Danville Railroad amounted to go.uw p Mr. Vanderdilfs freights alone now average $6,000 per month. Hon Richmond Pearson r says there were many of those bugs on his peaches, b they have all disappeared, and . tne peaches are so thick that the trees ait already bending under their load, an will have to be thinned or his trees wm be crushed and broken to pieces. . Augustus Kuykenhall, white, was ar rested this morning by Detective lea ver's men while acting as watch fori pal, who was plundering a fre'ght. near the passenger depot. He was taP before Justice Summey, where it w shown that he had assisted his friendo the promise of a bunch of bananas it w scheme succeeded. But the arrival" the officers frightened Kuykendai" partner, who took to his heels, i" thefts from cars in the freight yard w been going on for some time. The j tice committed Kuykendall to f default of bail in the sum of $500. - Newton Enterprise: MessR Shuford and Lynch sent off a lump gold from their mine this week tow Charlotte mint that weighs exactly o pound. The prospect gets hetter deeper tney go into tne grouuu. - . Northern exnerts were here this" looking at it and were well Plea.d 1 the looks of things, f ui morning about ten ociock flonk was found sitting upng' bed and paralyzed. She was put on a 1 '6 " ,..,k arm chair, cnmnletelv and ncif" - V. . -Iff doctor sent for. It was seen at " that her case was hopeless. She spoke, moved a muscle or seemci conscious after she was stricken o and died about four p. m. Up w . of the stroke Monday flw"n as well as ever aiiujj been busily engaged in hotf, duties. She was sixty-three years There was a case before 5qu D. Shuford recently which nin--. time she was tice. suit was Drougni ag"';;,,. mmistratrix to collect a note ( u. ouuiora recenwy wmtu n .'cofr the publication of an administrator 25fi by her father, on whose estate sn fendant set up the defense that aej was not made within the time Preeof by law (twelve months from the publication of notice). But this i for the production of suchanoti proof that it had been pubhshe0 1 . weeks in some newspaper m . n9. This could not be done because t tice had never been published, ' if. justice of the peace properly gav J ft( ment for the plaintiff. To avoia ' for publication such notices a. je stuck up in writing at the court on a tree by the roadside. uDies are all right as far as they D" nty pa a duplicate is published in a cou per they are not worth the papp. i are written on. This case fu'n(Jer warning to other auminisu";-ecutors. n