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ROBBING: OURSELVES.
rua southern people are
people are wide
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cake and progic&aivc. m auine
tt
jino-s but in some inings iney are as
indasabat.- I hey nave got oT
some of the ruts but they are as
. pupf anrl in cnmA
veti deeper than they were in ante-
;llum times. ' j
few days ago we wrote, an arti
cle giving -some ot tne reasons wny
hooey is scarce m the bouth, and
Lhy the-cotton planters after having
aisedand sold siuce the war arxmt $8-
i)0,000.000 worth-of cotton are little
fetter off than they were twenty-five
ears ago and why the- tobacco
Inters after having.raised hundreds
I millions of dollars worth of to
acco are little better off to-day
inn they were twenty-five years
?o. We found one reason for this
the miserable, j ughandle, sectional
lolicy of, the Lrovernment which.
Ueeze.s annually from .the South-
u people through tariff tribute, and
Lternar revenue, millions of dollars
lobe expended in the North. Other
lasons we found in the shiftless
:onrse pursued by the Southern peb-
!e in paying millions of dollars an-
lially for fire insurance, life insur-
bce.and for hundreds tf things which
fcald be and should be made at
lome. While this drain goes on
;rough the discriminating legisla
3a of the Congress of the United
kateson.the one side and by the
pf-robbing cCurse pursued, by the
pttthern people on the other, money
ways will be scarce in the South,
pwever much nature may smile
t?on her and howevver. large her
pps may be. .
Here we are living Jn one of the
chest and most favored sections
letweertthe two poles, a land whose
;od-tibbed hills are filled with mln-
lrals, whose surface is covered with
mht fin act f c- -v t- tha .'-n f 5
" "wwi JL Liiv, v.vy u bi
lent,, whose soil ts teemins: with
ertility, a soil that will grow any
fc that is good for man to eat
phhything that is good for him to
Far.'. And vet this land so blessed.
b capable of producing enough to
and clothe fen times its pres
et population does not j.roduce
fcough to feed those that are now in
tnot becanse it can't, but because
stupid, self-robbing policy has been
arsued which : has prevented the
iltivators of -the soil from trying
preferring rather to depend on
ae Western granaries and slaughter
;ns for their bread and meat.
Millions of dollars are paid an-
iually by the planters and farmers
f the South for Western flour, while
Southern millers ipay thousands upon
wusands of dollars annually r for
estern wheat and, corn to grind
Ho flour and meal to feed vthe
armers, who could but will pot try
o raise it, although they live in one
the best wheat-growing and corn-
growing countries in the .world
bullions of dollars
or dirty, heavy, greasy bacon, which
fas been tumbled about from pack
ag house to car, from car to dray,
romuray to storehouse, handled,
ramped upon, sat; upon and spit
pon by
idnroaa Hands and drav
Pen.
oeiore it is bought- and
ooked
to make an indigestible
lin
mner for . the m,n
t
. , " nuu Luvs
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auu eais it in preference to
aismg and havine nice clean meat
pome, which he could do if he
F'fo't harbor the stupfd idea that
uc oest thin? to do
0I and tohacco to get the , money
r "ay that western fat and mirt his
pmach with it. .
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"one the people of the countrv.
rallbuttoo many of them,- are
n the fat pork of the West, the
reoPle of the towns and cities are
r iaror i rj .
ed meets f rom the same quarter.
uPon the canned vegetables and
. ot the Middle . and New Eng
. u tes. WliArt UAtM,,- AtlrJncnn
the SnntW r
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Sa.i w v.,
P'u mat oncnfthP
-gns which met his gaze was the
' es of empty cans, dumped around
- "JWnS M.L .J 1 tl-
s from which so many Southern
f -fie get thpi'r VoH rM!n(r TTara
I where miiiun '-r j- n
...vua ui uuudis auuuauy
l0r Which tV.o ,4-U- f-r
doll s have worked hard, every
, 'ar of which could ' h fcnt at
Kdo th'S Sdf robbinS System was
VOL. XXII.
TOO MUCH COTTON.
Cotton has been going down since
last fall until now it is lower than it
has been, we are told, "at any time
since 1854. There are several : rea
sons for this which have a director
indirect bearing upon the price of
cotton, such as the tariff, which ham
pers trade with foreign countries:
dull times,, with many idle or Doorlv-
piid workmen, who . are thus com
pelled to exercise . the most rigid
economy in their purchases; a scarci
ty of money, which makes it difficult
for the merchant to collect his bills
compelling him to contract and limit
the stocks he buys. ? . v
- But there is another reason, which
is at the verv root f th trnnW -
with which the cotton planters them
selves have to do,, and which they
have' within their own control if they
would with anything like " timtoiimity
resolve to control it. -
It is this: Year after year the
acreage for cotton growing in the
South has been increased and th
product proportionately increased
until it has doubled itself in the past
thirty years. This, too, while Egypt
furnished her usual supplies, and
new territory was being opened
in India and in the Russian
dominions for the cultivation
of cotton. The result has been
over-production and an over
stocked market, more cotton than
consumers. That some of the olan
ters have begun to realize this is
shown by the action taken last
spring by some of the sub-Alliances
in Georgia and Alabama to reduce
the acreage of cotton and to turn
their attention to the raising of some
thing besides cotton. -
When the manufacturers get an
uncomfortably large surplus on hand
they come together, talk the mat
ter over and asrree to limit the
output of their factories until
the surplus has been disposed of.
That's business sense. If the same
business methods prevailed on the
farm that do in the factory and in
the shops, (and they should prevail
on the farm as much so as in the
factory or the shop) there would be
less acreage and seldom, if ever,'
overproduction. If the acreage' of
cotton land in the South were re
duced one third, and the product to
6,000,000 from 8,000,000 bales, the
planters would get "more money for
the G,0j00,000 than they do for the.
8,000,000, have that much less ex
pense to incur in its cultivation, that
much less labor for themselves, and
that much more land to devote ''vto
the cultivation of something else. '
It may be said that it isn't practi
cable to do this. It might not have
been a few years ago, but it is now.
The farmers of the JSouth are or
ganized, through the Alliance and
kindred organizations, as they never
were before," they have more papers
as means of communication with.
each other, than they ever had be
fore and show more disposition to
upity of action than they ever did
before. ' Through these agencies it is
not only practicable, but a compara
tively easy matter to have an under
standing among most of the farmers
as to the acreage ot any particular
crop they plant. There are very few
farmers who on a proper presenta
tion of the advantages of limiting
or reducing . the acreage of what
.they consider their money crops
would not be convinced that it was
to their interest to: do it, and who
would not agree to do so. Some
might not havemental vision enough
to see it and fall in but they would
be few in number compared with
those that would.
Here is a line that the Alliance
miirht work on with advantage and
by doing so point out one of the
ways by which the cotton" planters
of the South might vastly benefit
themselves. When this is done cot
ton which has tumbled so low will
climb ud again till it' reaches and
stays at a figure that will -pay the
planter for his -lime, and labor, which
it don't do now.
unroii mention.
It is hard for the McKinley organs
to keep up with the tin-plate fakes
they invent; The New York Tribune
has had to take water two or three
times recentlv. and admit that it
madcstatements in reference to the
tin-plate production which were, not
supported by the facts. On the 21st
of May the Cleveland, O.. Leader,
one of McKinley's organs, publish
ed an editorial in which it said that
"it was reported that the mills now
in working order in this coun-
trv were turning .out. tin at
the rate of 60,000 tons a year,'
which would, be- 1,200,000 boxes.
On the 9th of this month seemingly
oblivious of this 60,000 ton state
ment, it remarked in another leading
editorial that "no protectionist ex
pected that large quantities of tin-
plate would be turned out until after
the new tariff went into effect. What
they expected was that arrangements
would be made for the maufactufe,
which has been done. Small quanti
ties have been made and sent Over
the country as samples." There is a
sudden and a big falling off. here
from 60,000 tons to "small quanti
ties." A careful search has revealed
only two establishments which have
made even "small quantities,' one of
them the Neidringhaus shop in St.
Muis and the other the Norton
Brothers establishement in Chicago,
tne t former - of which - employs one
man and - three bovs. The Norton
Brothers haven't built a factory yet.
and decline to say when they will be
able to make enough for their own
tin ' can demands. These tin plate
iatirs ought to have better memo
ries or go out of business. ;
3k
The North American Commercial
ompany which has leased from
Company which has leased fromTfatrnv no im'tli o I
this Government the privilege to kfll
-
w-tni
seais on tne seal grounds in ' the
Behring sea, has a $550,000 griev
ance, and has served notice on the
acting Secretary of the treasury that
u win put m a bill tor that amount
of damages, claiming to have been
inilird thot mnxt. t ..i 1
entered into between this Govern-
lutm. auu vxreai xruam to put a
stop to seal killing during the breed
ing season. Logically the company
seems to occupy the vantage
ground, for if Behring sea, out
side of the three 'mile lirmt-
IS an open sea,, as contended by
Ureat Britain but -denied by the
United States, then these two Gov
ciuiAcncs nave no : ngnt to assume
the power, without consulting other
maritime nations, to close it or exer
cise any special jurisdiction over it,
ctuu ii, on tne otner nana, it is a
1 ! r . i . . . . ..
closed sea under the dominion of the
United States then it asks how can
the United States, simply to accom
modate England, violate a contract
entered into with the company. It
will be remembered that Secretary
Blaine pigeonholed the propositions
made by Lord Salisbury early last
spnnglo put a stop for a time to the
seal killiner which proposition Mr.
Harrison after his return from his
tour accepted, and which has now
been agreed upon by both Govern
- a
ments. Mr. Walter Pbelps, the chief
manipulator and counsel for the
company, is an lnitmate friend of
Secretary Blaine, who it has been
hinted is a sort of silent partner. It
is said also that Russell Harrison is
in the service of the company in
some capacity. They are all, as f at
as known, good, loyal Republicans.
- '
If the verdict of the jury in the
hat trimmincr case of Meyer and
Dickinson ' against the Government,
rendered in the U. S. Court af Phil-
delphia Friday, is sustained by. the ,
Supreme Court it means that the
Government will have to refund be
t ween twenty and thirty millions of
dollars, the difference between the
20 per cent which the hat trimming
importers claimed was . the amount
of duty whicb should have been col
lected and the 50 per cent: which
they were required to pay. As the
Supreme Court has sustained similar
decisions of lower courts it is more
than likely that it will sustain this,
which stands substantially on the
same ground. As a matter of law it
may be all right, and the verdict a
correct one; but there is no equity in
it, for this money would go not to
the people who really paid the duty,
but to the importers, who paid it,
added it to the pricel o the goods
when sold, and got it-back from the
purchasers. It is a clear make of be
tween twenty and thirty millions for
them. Brother Wanamaker; the dis
tinguished patriot who presides over
the mail bags is one of them.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean, Rep.,
which has got tired of New England
money lenders sneering at the West
and putting on airs, reminds the
bean principality that there are sin
gle ! counties in Iowa and Kansas
which raise more corn than all of
New England, and New. 'England
has to acknowledge the corn. But
New Englanders are not utterly self
ish. They don't care how much corn
Iowa and Kansas counties raise, and
freely give' them all the honors at
tached thereto, if while raising so
much corn they will also raise the
cash to pay off the mortgages lock
ed up in New England safes.
Commenting on the fact that Ken
tucky boys took first and second
honors at West Point this year, the
Chicago Inter-Ocean, Rep., remarks
"they raise blooded stock in the
blue grass country. -'V They do, for
a fact, and when the loyal Republi
cans in Harlan and other counties
get down their shot-guns and go for
each other they raise hades, also.
A hot wave swept through the
North the other day that sent the
mercury booming up, and ."fried the
fat" out of the sovereigns irrespec
tive Of party. About the same time
a cold wave from the Columbus con
vention struck Mr. Harrison and
sent a shiver down his spinal column,
and he at once bolted, off to Cape
May to brace up. -
Governor Campbell, of Ohio be
lieves that to make the secrballot
law effective against Jwibery it
should be accompanied by a com
pulsory voting law. That wouldn't
heln Ohio much. It isn't too little
voting, it is too much voting -under
the persuasive influence of two dol
lar hill that is the matter;, with
Ohio. ' . .
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TRUCK FARMING.
The Development of the Industry in North j
Carolina.
The New York Sun in a long article
on the development of truck farming in
the South, mentions the Trucker's As
sociation of Eastern Carolina and lheir;
convention "held at Mount Olive, N. CJ
The proceedings, the Sun says indicate
that the growers of that section, though j
late comers in the field, are progressive I
men, and the rear rank is not their I j
place. They discussed drainage, culti
vation, and fertilization scientifically;
and practically, and freely gave to each
other the benefits of individual experi
ence. The man whose berry crop was
especially fine told, the Convention
just how he had taken care of the
ground and the plants. The man
who had the biggest success with aspar-
agus kept back no single detail of his
methods of cultivation. - He even pre
sented the figures of his account with
the asparagus field. It showed the
astonishing result of a net profit of $300
per acre. The debit side included every ;
cent s worth of labor and manure put;
upon the crop, the interest charged on
the land investment, the taxes paid, and
the expense of gathering and trans
porting, the crop and of the commis
sions. The : credit side contained the
figures of the handsome market returns.
Among the growers assembled in the.l
Mount Ulive Convention were the
oioneers of the truckin&r industry in
that field, J, S. Westbrook, one of "The
w estbrooks ot Mount Olive, and Dr.
Potter, of Rocky Point, N. C.
Mr. H. M. Emerson, of Wilmington,
the assistant General Freight and Pas
senger Agent of the Atlantic Coast
Line, was also an interested partici
pant in the meetings of the Convention.
The relations between the truck farm
ers and the transportation companies
are different from those of Western and
Southern staple farmers, as is indicated
by the talk of the Grange and Alliance
people. There 'seems to be an inter
dependence of interests and a partner
ship of effort for mutual benefit. The
train dispatcher's office at Wilmington
is a place where everything is known
about the cars and their contents from
the more Southern points. Here the
refrieerator cars are re-iced. I
Along the Wilmington and Weldon
road there are SOO acres of strawberry
fields between Wilmington and Golds-
boro, and about 400 acres of truck.
Large quantities of. whortleberries that
grow wild are also shipped from that
section. ' The value of the truck and
berry crop is about $500,000. The ship
ments are 70,000 boxes and almost 20,-
000 barrels. Considerable attention has
be?n directed to grape growing in
this district lately, and good results are
expected in a year or two. .
Excursion to Butherfordton.
An excursion will be given on the
20th of June from Wilmington to Ruth-
erfordton by E. W. Dedmund, under
the auspices of Bladen Street M. E.
Church. The excursionists will return
July 3d. The fare for the round trip
from this city will be only j $3. This
gives an opportunity to every one to
get a view of the mountains and enjoy
the delightful atmosphere. Ruther-
fordton has recently assumed, new busi
ness activity and win be worth seeing.
There will be two days to spend there
and in the surrounding country-.
Stocks of Naval Stores at the Ports.
Stocks of naval stores at the leading
ports yesterday, are reported as follows:
Spirits turpentine Wilmington, 2,-
044 casks; New York, 606; j Savannah,
7,224. Total, 9,874 casks.
Rosin WHmirigton, 17;987 barrels;
New York, 17,253; Savannah, 41,530.
Total, 76,770 barrels.
Tar Wilmington, 3,416 barrels; New
York. 756. Total, 4,172 barrels,
Cattle Overboard.
While a drove of cattle frpm Bladen
county were being ferried across the'
river at Market street ; dock yesterday
afternoon, nine of them jumped out of
the ferry, flat into the river. The tide'
was running out and the cattle were
swept down stream, but all were finally
rescued. Three of them were saved
by sailors on a barque lying at a wharf
on the west side of the river who put
out in a boat, fastened ropes to the horns
of the annimals and towed them ashore.
The Industrial Works.
Mr. Trabue Barksdalet general man
ager of the industrial Manufacturing
Company, " has returned , from New
York, where he made a contract to de
liver 240,000 grocers' butter dishes per
week until the first of September next,
when there will probably be an increase
of the order. This will require an out
put of 40,000 of. these; dishes per day
giving employment- to a .number of
people. . : - ' ..
Beoeipts of Naval Stores.
Receipts of naval stores at this port
from April 1st to June 19th, as compared
with receipts for the same period last
year are as follows: Spirits turpentine,
13,247 casks; last year, 15,540. . Rosin,
60,485 barrels; last year, 65,812. Tar,
11,306 - barrels; last year. 14,214. Crude
turpentine, 8,787 barrels; last year, 8,448,
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1891.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
The Grand IiOdge of "STorth Carolina in
Session at Charlotte. '
The Charlotte Chronicle says the 21st
annual session of ' the Grand Lodge K.
of P. was held in that city Wednesday
last and was attended by knljjhts from
all over the State; There were two
business sessions.- one in the forenoon,
the other that nighC ' After the session
vi nidi uiguk. Aim uic ixaaiuu
of the night the Lodge adjourned to
the Central Hotel where an "elegant
nuKuucicu kuc visikyi uicui-
ren y Rathbone, the local lodge.
the scene was one of brilliancy and en-
.joyment.
The toasts of the evening were as fol-
lnors- We1mm":W R Dnwd- "Ctnr
Order W. S. Cook, G. C. "Grand
iaxiuc, i , u. jyieares, r x. v. ! :ao
Ideal Kniffht " Mr. Harkftr
v Among the visitors -h
Thos. Di
Meares,vP. G. C. W."S. Cook, G. C; C.
Ti' Kpnhnsr fi ' C '.' - W R HarVpr (i
P.; Jno. L. Dudley, G.'K. R. and S.; Jno.
Ward, G. M. of E.; C B. Skipper, G. M.
of A W. W. Wilson, G. I. G.; C. E.
Holton, G. O. G.; W.T. Hollowell, S.K.
N. C. S. G-. Appointment. -
Mr. Frank L. Meares, of the reserved
corps, W. L. I., having been tendered
the appointment of Assistant Inspector
General of the N. C. State Guard, with
the rank of Captain, has accepted
the same. 'The appointment has been
confirmed by the Governor, and Capt.
Meares will at; once enter upon the
discharge of the duties pertaining to the
office. Mr. Meares served as an active
member of the W. L. I. for seven years,
from the rfnks to Captain, and has since
been on the reserved corps, ever ready
to respond to the call for duty. His
appointment will gratify his many
friends and give pleasure to his old
comrades of the Guard. -
Up-Country People and the Seashore.
To enable up-country people to spend
Sunday at the sea-shore, the Atlantic
Coast Line will sell, commencing I June
27th, round trip tickets from Wilming
ton Columbia and Augusta railroad
stations, east of Sumter, and from I Wil
mington and Weldon railroad stations
to Wnghtsville and Carolina Beach, at
one first class fare the round trip. Tick
ets will be sold only on Saturdays; good
to return until the following Monday.
The Seaboard Air Line has placed on
sale on the line of the Carolina. Central
railroad, special rate tickets to Carolina
Beach and Wrightsville, to be sold at
one first class fare for the round trip
These tickets will be sold on Saturdays
and Sundays only and will be good to
return only on first train leaving WH-:
mington on Monday. ,
Fourth of July at Greensboro.
The Star has received an invitation
to attend the celebration of the Fourth
of July at the Guilford Battle Ground
by the people of Greensboro. Hon.
Kemp P. Battle will deliver an oration
on the life and seryices of Gen. Jethro
Sumner, of N. C, and there will be civic
and military displays and other public
festivities. Hon. Jno. A. Gilmer is
chairman of the committee on invita
tions -
.For the Davis Monument.
The Ladies' Memorial Association
having appropriated one hundred dol
lars to the Davis . Monument Fund,
would be pleased to have the amount
augmented by subscriptions (in any
amount) from ladies .who are not
members of the Association.
Those desiring to subscribe are request
ed to hand the amount of their subscrip
tion to Mrs. K. DeR. Meares, Treasurer,
or to Mrs. John 1 . Hedrick, President .
First Cotton Blooms.
The mail from Maxton, Robeson
county, brought the Star yesterday two
cotton blooms, sent by Messrs. Carter &
Weatherby, who say the blooms were
plucked from a twenty-five acre field of
Mr. A. J. Nottingham, two miles irom
Maxton; one bloom on the 18th and the
other on the 19th inst. Messrs. Carter
& Weatherby say that crops both cot
ton and corn are doing well in that
vicinity. ;
The Increase in Cotton Beceipts. i
Cotton receipts at Wilmington for the
week ended yesterday are 265 bales; the
same week last year 14 bales. Receipts
for the crop year to June 19, are bullitin
ed at 189,096 bales; to same date last
year; 132,672 an increase of 56,424
bales.
The stock at this port is 4,688 bales.
against 429 at same date last year..
GOVERNMENT FINANCES.
The Treasurer's Statement Showing the
Situation to Date.
By Telegraph to-the Morning Star.
Washington, June 20. The Treas
urer's statement issued this morning.
but bearing date of the 18th instant,
shows an over-draft ot $634,733, against
which there are $23,287,167 on deposit
in national banks, and $20,199,040 in
fractional silver. The apparent deficit
is $100,000 less than appeared in yester
day's statement. The ? following state
ment was prepared in the Secretary's
office as showing the actual situation to
date:
Available cash balance June 1st, ex
clusive of deposits in national banks,
510,138,473; receipts to une jsutn, $zo,
072,260; total, $30,210,260. Payments
to 20th (including $18,312,155 for pen
sions) $26,771,800, leaving an available
balance, June 20th,of $438,934.
V CHILI'S WAR.
Bevolt Among President Balmaeeda's
'Troops Part of them Marching to Join
.the Insurgents. :
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Iquique, via Galveston, June 20.
It has been learned that a revolt has
taken' place among President Balma-
ceda's troops at Coqnimbo, and that the
insurgents killed lour of their omcers.
Eight hundred men are said to be march
ing to Caldera to join the ranks of the
Congressional party. v
It has also been learned that the in
surgent war ship Esmeralda destroyed
the wharf and railroad at Lobos Island,
thereby preventing shipments of guano
by f resident tsalmaceda. l he Esmer
alda is expected to arrive at Iquique on
Monday. - 1 v -
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP;
GOVERNMENT'S FINANCIAL
MENT.
STATED
A Defloienoy of 600,000 in the Treasury
- Instead of the Usual Balance Appo in t
. ments to Commissions in the Army from
Washington, June 18. The Treas
urer's statement. Issued to-day, shows
that the cash balance is $44,415,000, of
which $22,029,000 is on deposit with na
tional banks and $20,250,000" is in frac
tional silver, deducting which items the
net cash balance is but $1,235,000,-which
is the lowest ' figure yet reached. It is
said that the Treasurer's statement to
be issued to-morrow will show a deficit
of $600,000 instead of-the usual net cash
balance, This is the first time this has
occurred since the present form of
statement was adopted by Treasurer Jor
dan. In making this calculation, however,-
no account' - is taken, of
$22,000,000 on deposit in national banks
and $20,000,000 fractional silver in; the
Treasury. Expenditures r so far. this
month have been $8,188,864 in excess of
the entire revenues of the Government
during the same period, amounting to
$18,221,852. These were exceeded by
pension payments alone, which amount
ed to $18,312,155.
Treasury officials say. thaf expendi
tures during the remainder of the month
will be light and that receipts will be
sufficiently heavy to overcome the pres
ent excess of expenditures, and leave a
small surplus for the next month.' These
same officials say that the Treasurer's
statement to-morrow will not i include
receipts during the past two days and
that if it did an actual surplus ! of $2,
000,000 would be shown instead of a de
ficiency. "
A meeting of the Cabinet will be held
on the 26th inst. for the purpose of con
sidering the financial situation, especial
ly with reference to the extension of the
4 per cent, loan, and the continued
coinage of silver after the 1st prox.
The President and Secretary Foster
have arranged to be in Washington next
Thursday. Secretary Foster, in his
speech written for delivery at the Ohio
Republican Convention, paid particular
attention to the silver question and made
a special point in regard to coinage, call
ing attention to the fact that after July
1st next it will be discretionary with the
Secretary of the Treasury whether silver
coinage shall be continued or not. A
great many suggestions have been offer
ed to the Secretaiy on this particular
feature, indicating strong sentiment
against suspending silyer coinage on the
date named and it is within the range
of probability that coinage will be con
tinued after July 1st for a while at least
Washington, June 18. 1 he names
of nineteen men appointed to commis
sions in the army from civil life are
made public. Among them are the
following from the Southern States,
with the colleges at which military in
struction has been imparted to them by
army officers: Lawrence E. Baker, Ala
bama, Alabama Polytechnic Institute;
John T. Manier, Mississippi, Agricultu
ral College of Mississippi; H. L. Mc
Corkee, Tennessee, University of Ten
nessee. Six of the appointees are sons
or army omcers, and seven, ot whom
three are army officers sons, are now
attached to the National Guard in their
respective States. f '
Washington, June 19. The North
American Commercial Company by its
attorney, has filed with the acting Secre
tary of the Treasury, a protest against
the action of the United States govern
ment in preventing that company from
taking the number of seals stipulated in
its contract. The company presents a
claim for four hundred thousand dollars
loss, sustained by reason of being com
pelled to stop taking seals on July 20 of
last year, when only one-third of the
contract number of seals had DeentaRen
The company also gives notice that it
will claim from the United States reim
bursement for loss sustained during 1891
through operation of the modus vivendi
with England, recently promulgated by
the President. An . additional claim of
$150,000 is- presented for expenditures
which the company has made - in pro
viding for maintenance and education
at the islands of St. George and St. Paul;
which expenditures were imposed upon
the company under the terms of its con
tract with the united states. .
The protest concludes with this para
graph: "It it may be assumed, as Eng
land has asserted and this Government
has denied, that the eastern portion of
Behring sea is not marine territory of
the United States, but high seas, the
company resnectf ully submits that
it is not competent for Great Bri
tain and the United States alone
or for any other two governments to de
termine who shall be permitted to navi
gate these waters, or to prohibit fishing
or the taking of seals on the high seas;
and the Company respectfully points out
to the honorable secretary ot the l rea-
sury that its rights have been overlooked
by said agreement between the two gov
ernments in that it deprives the lessee
of taking seals which it is authorized to
take by law and its contract with the
United States, thereby inflicting a se
vere loss upon said Company, in order
to obtain the consent of England to arbi
trate the question as to 4he right of
Canadian poachers to destroy the seal
industry by pelagic sealing.
Washington, June : 20. Director
Leach, of the Mint Bureau, made the
following statement this afternoon on
the subject of silver: "The price of sil
ver to-day is $1.01," fine ounce, an ad
vance of three or four cents over the
price at which silver has brought for sev
eral months. I bought largely Wednes
day and Friday because I believed from,
indications that the price of silver was
going up and that it was to the interest
of the Government to get its quota of
four and a half million ounces a month
at the lowest possible figure. While it
is believed that considerable silver rep
resented by certificates on the New
York Stock Exchange is held on foreign
account, the visible stock, that is, stock
that is for sale, has decreased and offers
to the Government have fallen off largely,
For this and other reasons it is. thought
that the present advance is largely a
natural one, with strong probabilities
that it will be permanent and progres
sive. Government purchases are evi
dently making a decided impression on
the price. If the wheat crop of India
should be as large as reported, it would
necessitate increased shipments of silver
to pay for it, and this would have a ten
dency to increase the value of white
metal. The Secretary has not decided
yet whether he will continue the coinage
of silver dollars' alter the 1st proximo,
but will make a decision in that matter
promptly on his return to Washington
next weeic. . I
Exports of specie from the port of
New York during the week! amount to
$2,751,698, of which $2,620,601 was in
gold and $131,097 in silver.
Sherman Brooks was i hanged at
Louisville, Ga.,. yesterday , for the mur
der ol another negro namea veiiey.
The. execution was in public, but with
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THE DAVIS MONUMENT.
Popular Movement in Savannah in aid
of the Fund Be solutions " Adopted ty
Citizens of Blohmond Va.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Savannah, Ga., June 18 A citizen's
meeting was held here to-day, and
plans formed by which" Savannah will
take a prominent part in the movement
to erect a u monument to Jefferson
Davis. Over fifty organizations mili
tary and civic some of ' them among
the most ancient -ana nonorea in tne
South were represented. The meeting
was -called by the Mayor of the city,
who presided. Col.- Charles Olinstead,
presented resolutions pledging the -cooperation
of Savannah. Speeches were
made by representative citizens, ana a
plan was adopted whereby ; various or
ganizations of the city will open sub
scription lists to the monument iuna.
Newspapers win also open lists, ana a
committee of 500 citizens will be ap
pointed to canvass for funds. : Women
of Savannah have volunteered to aid in
the movement. The Mayor will open a
bank- account known as the "Jefferson
Davis monument fund, to which all
subscriptions will be credited. Great
enthusiasm has been aroused here, and
efforts will be made to place Sannanah
in the front rank of southern cities
eager to honor the memory of the Presi
dent of the Confederacy.
Richmond, Va., June 18. A meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce and
Davis Monument Association was held
this evening, at which the following
preamble and resolutions, prepared by
Mayor tllyson and uen. feyton w lse,
were unanimously adopted: , "
"lhe Chamber of Commerce ot
Richmond, Va., in meeting on the 18th
of June, 1891, to concert with com
mittees of the South a plan to ' erect a'
monument to Jefferson Davis, late
President of the Confederate States,
and representing, for this purpose the
people of Richmond, which was once
the Capital of those States. and the
home ot Jefferson Davis, doth resolve,
First. That inication of the place of
final sepulture is one thing lacking to
procure a monument to the memory of
our illustrious chieftain, such as will
alike benefit his great fame and be ex
pressive ot the love of those who so
gladly followed him in his patriotic and
self-sacrificing career.
Second.' That a committee -be ap
pointed to at once communicate in per-
senior oinerwise wun ivirs. jenersun
Davis, and represent to her the ad
vantages which would accoure from an
immediate prosecution of the work
which the people of the South have
shvwn so entire a disposition to take to
their hearts.
Three. That as Richmond was the
place where the fame of Jefferson Davis,
as he is known in the civilized world to
day,; was won, and as in accordance with
all custom and all appropriateness,
monuments are reared to the heads
of great nations at the seats of their
governments, so Richmond should be
the place where these remains shall be
guarded, and where this monument
shall rise to tell the world of its loss of
the man and of its gain of an example.
i1 our. That should Mrs. Davis deem
it proper to consign. the beloved remains
to this people, she can do so with su
preme confidence that every promise
made in the resolutions ol the mass
meeting in the official declaration of
thei council, and fn the edicts of the
Legislature of Virginia (all of which have
been communicated to her), will
be I redeemed, and that nowhere
could these remains be more ten
derly treated than among those who
were not only his fellow citizens in the
bond of the Confederate States, but
were his townsmen and townswomen,
daily shiarng in a peculiar and exclu
sive sense his joys and sorrows, which
attached to the fortunes of those States.
Five. That the President, of this
Chamber be requested to at once
formulate and cause to be execut
ed a planior collections for the purpose
of a monument to Jefferson Davis, and
that these collections be turned over to
the Jefferson Davis Monumeut Associa
tion; chartered by the State of Virginia.
should it be determined to erect the
monument here, and to appropriate par
ties should it be decided, to erect it else
where. '
Mayor Ellyson said when the matter
was agitated some eighteen months ago
the (committee in charge of subscrip
tions within a few days raised $4,000
for this purpose and had not Mrs. Davis
announced that she considered it inex
pedient for her to decide where the re
mains should be permanently interred,
within a year, he said, he was quite sure
that as much as $20,000 could have Been
secured for the construction of the mon
ument within a very short while. The
speaker was heartily in favor of begin
ning the work of soliciting subscriptions
again with renewed vigor, and was san
guine in his expectations of the manner
in which the people of .Kichmond will
again respond to the call for assistance.
The following committee was appoint
ed to wait upon and confer with Mrs.
Davis: Gen. Jos. R. Anderson, Hon. J
Taylor Ellyson, Gen. Peyton Wise,
Judge George L. Christian and Col.
John B. Cary.
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Collections of the Fiscal Tear Showing an
I Increase.
j By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Washington, June 20. Collections
of internal revenue during the first
eleven months of the fiscal year ending
July 1 next, are $131,887,407 an in
crease ot $l,265,94 over receipts during
the corresponding period of the previous
fiscal year. Receipts by items :were as
follows : r spirits, $7o,ioo,u decrease,
$416,449; tobacco, $30,295,067 decrease,
$749,786; fermented liquors, $25,258,608
increase, $2,097,890; oleomargarine,
$992,746 increase, $234,299; miscella
neous, $240,783 increase, $9,95. - Ag
gregate receipts for May, 1891, were
4,183,533 less than for May, 1890.
Commissioner Mason says that the de
crease on spirits, fermented liquors and
oleomargarine, is due almost entirely to
the fart that the act of October 1. 1890,
changed the date of the beginning of
the special tax year, from May 1st to
July 1st, and that the decrease on tobac
co is due to repeal by the same act of
all special taxes relating to tobacco. In
his opinion the receipts from spirits and
fermented liquors will be unusually large
during the month of July by reason of
the change referred to.
YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED.
Her Mangled Body Found on a Bailroad
Track at Columbia, S. C.
By 'Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Columbia, S. C, June 20. The body
of Jane Merritt, a young white woman,
was found on the track at the Char
lotte, Columbia & Augusta R. R., at
Washington street crossing early this
morning. Her head was crushed be-
Jond . recognition by car wheels. She
ad been an invalid inmate of the alms-
bouse, and was heard to say she would
commit suicide rather than return.
The coroners jury has rendered a
verdict that Jane Merritt was killed by
some unknown person and her body
placed on the track. -
SP1KITS.TURPEN7INE.
-- Red Springs ' Farmer and Scot- '
tish Chief'. Haywood Bohan, coL who i.
escaped from the chain gang here about -a
month ago, fearing his capture ur
rendered himself to keeper. - J. T. Britt
last Tuesday. : He is now in chains and
working on the public roads. ; .: iV
" - Wilson Advancev - Arthur Cox, '
colored, was run over by a train on the
W. & W road last Saturday night, about v
a mile from Wilson, and fatally injured.
His wounds were . attended to by Dr.
J. G. Pennington, who did all that was
possible for his comfort. He died Tues- ''
day. i
. Scotland Neck Democrats ; The
ground was broken Monday for the netf
military school - Mr. Allen is superin
tending the work in person, and will use
all possible effort to have the buildings
ready by the first of September. -The
crops in this immediate vicinity are
not at all encouraging. Farmers say
that' the crops, are much behind last"
year, and even as much behind.- as in
1889. However, -the . very favorable
weather during thB past week has done
much for them, and the farmers are
more hopeful. Along the road to Kin
ston, we observed last week that the
crops in Pitt and Lenoir are ahead of
the crops of Halifax and Martin counties.-
We observed,, too, considerable
quantities of wheat in those counties. '
Lenoir Topic, The air is full
of rumors about proposed new railroads ,
crossing the mountains in the vicinity of
Lenoir. Wheat harvest in upon
us and the crop is good. The Rus
siah Jew purchase is about twenty-five
miles from Lenoir, in the .heart of the
mountains on the waters of Wilson's -Creek.
' The settlement, if .it should be
made, would necessitate the building of
a railroad from Lenoir via that point to
Linvilie. President Frank a Strat-
ton, of the Greensboro & Johnson City
Railroad Company, rode over the route .
of the proposed railroad from Hampton,
Tenn., to Patterson last week with a
party and was very mnch pleased with .
the prospect for an easy average grade.
A surveying party under Chief Engineer
Henry E. Colton started out last week .
from Hampton and will come in this di
rection. ) ; . "'
Rocky Mount Argonaut: A
bed of miocene or shell marl lies be-
tween Rocky Mount and the river. Its 1
extent is not known, as there has been
no developments to amount to any
thing." It is known to be fifteen feet n
thickness where pits have been sunk,
and as they have never gone through
the deposit its depth is not known. This
quality of marl is very valuable and will
undoubtedly help greatly in adding to
the riches of this wonderfully rich coun
try. The warm dry weather of the
past week has "greatly improved the
crops. Everything in this vicinity looks
well, except cotton and it is coming out
everyday. The tobacco crop -is look
ing very encouraging and promises to
be another bonanza year . for -tobacco
farmers. - The scuppernong vines
are absolutely loaded with grapes. -
Oxford Ledger-. On Friday last,
near Buchanan, a negro child was found
by Messrs. Jas. and Abb Sandford, buried
under some dry leaves and rotten wood.
One Nancy Jones gave the clue to the
search by informing Mr. James Sand- '
ford's daughter that Emma O'Bryant, a
negro woman in the neighborhood, had
given birth to a child, and it was suspi
cioned that she had made way with it.
A search enabled them to find it as sta
ted above, with a stout rag string tied
around its neck, and other signs of vio
lence, caused by the hands ot its inhu
man mother. She was arrested.
The trial for attempted- rape by by Dr.
H. A. Nash on the person of Miss Susie
Goss some weeks ago came off at Lyon's
on Saturday last before t Squires W. T. .
Adams, M. L. Coley and E.. E. Lyon on
a State warrant. The trial lasted from
11 o'clock a. m. until 7 p. m. Four wit
nesses were examined .on the part of the,
State. Dr. Nash, offering no testimony,
was bound over in the sum of $5,000 for
his appearance at Granville Superior
Court, which convenes ujy 27th.
Statesville Landmark: A dissolute
white woman of the name of Shoemak
er, who lives .about a. mile and a half
south of town, was shot from ambush
while standing on her porch last Thurs
day night engaged in conversation with
some visitors. The gun was loaded
with shot and the woman caught a con
siderable part of the charge in an arm
and leg. A man in north Iredell
(name forgotten by the informant)
climbed a tree in his yard a few days
ago to take his bees, and in sawing off
the limb on which they were settled he
so shook it that the bees "let go" the
limb and the whole sward settled on the
man and went to work on him. Dr. J.
E. King stayed by him all night and
saved his life with difficulty. The
farmers are in the midst of wheat har
vest this week and the crop is turning
out quite well it will be at least an
average crop. The . warm days and
nights are bringing the cotton and com.
out of the kinks but they are wofully
over-run by the grass, and the farmers,
can't get to it on account of having to
save their wheat. Tobacco is really the
only crop that is in good shape.
Fayetteville Observer: ' Since
our last issue the plans and arrange
ments for rebuilding the cotton-seed
oil mills here have all materialized, and
work on the new plant will begin in a
few days. The order for the new ma
chinery has been placed and calls for a
twenty-ton plant. Mr. . John Un-
derwoqd and his associates have sub
scribed the necessary amount to and
organized a joint stock company, in this
city for owning and operating a steam
laundry. The order has been placed
for the machinery which will
be shipped in a few few days and
placed in position without delay.
News has been received here of the
recent death, from la grippe, of Mr. Geo.
A. Downing, a native of this county,'
whowent from this section to Alabama
a few years ago, and removed thence to
Silverton, Oregon his place of resi-,
dence when he died. A number of (
the merchants of Fayetteville. met in the'
market house here last Thursday to hear
the report of the canvassing committee,
appointed at a former meeting to ascer- -tain
what amount the Fayetteville mer
chants would contribute to a suit to be
brought for testing the merchants' purchase-tax.
The report showed a sub
scription of about $130, and Mr. F. R.
Rose was appointed to represent Fay
etteville on the advisory committee.
Asheville Citizen: Letters of
incorporation have been issued by Su
perior Court Clerk Cathey to the Na
tional Building and Loan Company of
Asheville. The capital stock is $1,000,-000,-with
the privilege of increasing to -$25,000,000.
There came hear be
ing a riot at the passenger depot this
afternoon about 3.10 O'clock. . A large
crowd of negroes had gathered at the
depot to see the departure of the excur
sion train for Greenville. Two negro
men, drunk, became boisterous, and a
telephone call was sent up to police
headquarters asking for two officers.
Later a second call was made. Officers
Gudger and Triplett went down first.
When they got there, they found an
enormous negress, Mary Miller by name,
who resides on Water street, cursing and
raising a row generally. When they ar
rested her she fought like a tigress. A
number of negro men put their hands on
their pistols, and for moment things had
a somewhat blueish cast. Just at this
juncture, however, several employes of
the railroad company were summoned,
and Mary was bundled into a wagon.
But as Mary weighs 400 pounds, the ve
hicle broke down, and Mary had to be
transferred to another wagon. The wo
man was. brought up town, screaming
and cursing, and lodged in the county
jail. The arrival of the reserve squad of
roundsmen put a stop to what promised
to be a serious riot. .
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