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Intelligent people who take an in terest In public affairs know that the expenditures of this Government have increased enormously, within lie past thirty years ; but there-are few who realize the . full extent; of this increase until the: figures of the past three and the preceding decades are presented for comparison The expenditures for the past fiscal year aggregated .the enormous sum of $TSS,(!00,000,of which $317,500,000 was forthe maintenance of the public service proper and for the payment ' of pensions. ' '.; iThe report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows what the expenses ofj the Government were tor each decade since the foundation of the Government, to the present timend they tell the tale of extravagance in latter years that' it would be impos sible for language to exaggerate. "We find these figures reproduced in a te number of the .New "York Commercial Bulletin, from which we cl p them because of the story they tell and because they will be valua ble for reference. The figures- of : expenditure for each decade, with the population as reported ; by the census of each, decade are given as follows:, I Year Expenditures. Population. 1S0J ..... & $1,919,600 3.900,000 .180) .... -. 7.411,000 5,300,000 1S10 .... . ; 5.311,000 7,200,000 1920 . . ... 13,134,000 9,600,000 1S30 ...... 13,229,000 12,800,000 1841) ...... 24,139,000 17000,000 150 . . 37,105.000 - 23,100,000 1300 5. 60,056,000 31,400.000 1470 ...... 104,421,000 88,500,000 l3?) ...... 169.090,000 ' 50,100,000 lh) ...... . . 261,000,000 63,000.000 . By fiscal years since 1890 the expendi tures have been as follows: ' ; Year Expenditures. 11 1S8-3 1883 i34 : m j7 .. . lass .... 1389 1890 ............... 1891 $177,100,000 186,900,000 206,200,000 189.500.000 208,800,000 191.900,000 220,100,000 214,900,000 240,900,000 261,600,000 317,500,000 The expenditures on account of pen sions play a very important part in the record of recent years. Until the civil war the expenditures on, this account had only once exceeded $4,000,000. The pension payments in 1860 were $1,100, 000; in 1870, $28,300,000; in 1880, $56, 700,000, and since that year they have been as follows: ! Year Pensions. 1881 . . . . . ...... . . . .$ 50.000.000 1882 ...... . . ... . 61,300,000 1883 66,000,000 1884 ........... 55,400,000 1885 56,100,000 1880. .. 63,400,000 1887 ..................... 75,000,000 1838 80.200,000 1889 87,600,000' 1800 106,900,000 11891 . . ............. 124.400,000 I The expenditures on this account doubled, between 1870 and 1880, and have again doubled since the latter year, and will be still larger for the year .just begun. ; . ... . ("Two or three times previous to bS'Jl the expenditures showed, an ap parently unaccountable increase, running in 1847 up to $50,000,000, hut dropping, and not reaching that figure again until 1854. In 185C they reached $0000,000 and in 1858 STO,000,000, the highest figure reached before the war. This was one of the strong points made by the Republican press and speakers against Mr. Buchanan's administra tion, which was arraigned for gross extravagance in spending what was then regarded as the monstrous sum pf $70,000,000. But that was an (exceptional year, for two years later, the last of ' Buchanan's administra tion, the expenditures, which covered Everything, were only $60,056,000, 'ess than one-fifth of what they are now, although the population is but slightly over double. ' .. .. It will be noticed in scanning jthese figures that the expenditures for the maintenance of the govern jniental service outside of pensions and other claims has" been constantly increasing and in late years with amazing rapidity. Of course as the country grows and ' the population jincreases we must naturally look for I some increase; but the increase ior some years lias been - put f all proportion to the in crease of population. If we divide the figures we find that the j per capita expense for the past fiscal year was. about six dollars for every man, woman aud child, compared, with less than two dollars in 1860. !n other words it now costs the peo ple three times as much per capita to support the Government as it did then. The only way this can be ac- VOL. XXII. wuUttu tui is un ine grouna ot un- bridled extravagance, which entirely ignores reason - and economy,-the climax of which was reached when the Billion Dollar Congress put on the finishing touch. . ' ; !; ; WE1C0ME, (THE STATE GUAED. ; Every State should be proud of her citizen soldiery. North" Carolina 'is proud of hers, for they have never failed to do her honor, , nor to prove trusty when occasion presented for a test of devotion. : ' - . ; From the different portions of the State',:the West,;the East, the Center come to this encampment high-spirited and chivalrous: young men to study in peace the art of war, and equip themselves for active service should the summons come. There, in the cheerfully submitted to dis cipline of the camp, they will fit themselves for the more rugged life of the soldier in the field should the clarion call thenvto pitch their tents there, and if it should they will re spond with the same patriotic, cheer ful acquiescence thatthey now enter the mimic field at Wrightsville. I To. these encampments, coupled with tne inborn high and emulous spirit of our -soldier boys, is doubt less due the distinction they have won for soldierly bearing, when abroad they have gone as represen tatives of this State. " On several occasions in other States when thrown in line of march their masterly movement, cleverness of execution and excellent discipline have attracted such attention as to win highest tribute from spectators and the press. This was flattering to them, and gratifying as it ; was honorable to the State which sent them oat confidently, watched them with pride and fondly welcomed tnem Dacx. as tney nave done so they will continue to do credit to themselves and honor to her. as sucn, and because they are such," Wilmington gives them a cor dial greeting as they come with steady step arid fife and drum, a wel come not inspired simply by her in nate spirit of hospitality, nor be cause they have shown her the pre: f erence by selecting her neighbor hood as . their favorite camping ground, but because she, in common with the rest of the State, is proud of them and feels honored by their pre sence. " . - " She trusts that their sojourn at Camp Fowle will prove, . as she is sure it will, both a delightful and a profitable one to them, and that when the Encampment closes and the soldier boys return to their homes the recollections that each may carry with him may be so pleasant that they will be as glad to return next year as Wilmington will be to welcome them back again.' OUR VIRGINIA GUESTS. . As sons of the Mother of States and of Statesmen, and as representa tives of the Old Dominion, Wilming ton crreets the First Regiment of Virginia and gives it cordial wel come, welcome not only for herself but for North Carolina whose hon ored guests they are. Thev come not as strangers, for there is -no State to which North Carolina is bound by closer ties than Virginia, and no State with whose' people her people have so freely intermingled. The imaginary line which' divides the common wealths does not divide their people, who always have been on close terms of friendship which 1 has grown stronger with the passingjears and with 'the memory of those days when Virginia's and North Carolina's boys in gray camped together, marched together, and shoulder to shoulder, fought, together, land together laid down their lives on fields where battles were lost or won, under the leadership of one of 1 the greatest of soldiers, and grandest of men. the immortal Virginian, Robt. E. Lee. These are memories, but they are memories which bind the living closer together as inheritors of a common fame won tn those days of fiery ordeal, and not the less illus trious because it was not crowned with victory in the end. ' ! YBut that was nearly a generation ago and thousands of those who narticirjated in those scenes have tr ., passed the picket lines, crossed the river and entered the great camping, ground on the other side The boys of that time are the men of to-dav. but thev arei the same 9f ' . ,T Virginians, and the same North Carolinians, inspired by the same patriotic impulses, and bound to gether by the same fraternal attach ment that united their sires a gene ration ago. l- One of the pleasantest anticipa tions to our boys in coming to the encampment this year was the meet ing with the soldiers of Virginia's most distinguished regiment, and the social intercourse with them which they would enjoy during the days of the encampment, and we are sure that nothing will afford them more pleasure than contributing to the pleasure' ot their Virginia friends and in seeing that they have a Tight royal time during their stay at Camp Fowle. Wilmington, which 'greets them now, : hopes that their visit and their sojourn' may be - as pleasant as their brightest fancies could make them, and .that " when they ' break camp to return to their, historic city on the James, they may not ; love Virginia less but North Carolina more...;- ." 'Y. 'o.. THE SUGAR BOUNTY GRAB; it might : seem hke partisan mis representation to charge : that the McKinlej tariff as a whole is a job put up in the interest of .certain classes" as . against the masses, but that is exactly what it is. There is not a single clause in it that don't favor the rich at the expense of the poor. This is what makes it so mon strous. It robs the poor of the little they have to still further enrich the rich, who Tiave' been made rich by legislation that favored .them and plundered others. Y When this bill was under discus sion in "Longress Mr. McKinley thought he would try to win some popularity for his party by putting sugar on the free-list, and it was done. But under pretence of pro tecting the sugar growing industry of our States' after it came into com petition -Hfith the free sugar of the islands, itl was decided to give the i-1 . .... .. sugar planters ot this country a bounty of two cents a pound. The Government got about $60,000,000 in income trom tne tariu on sugar, which was wiped out and in place of it the Government will pay a bounty of about $10,000,000 to rich sugar growers. . The sugar bounty, like a great many other clauses in this monstrous bill, is a fraud pure and simple, for under the provisions and require ments ot the law the small planters cannot come in for the bounty. The act requires that the sugar made to be entitled to the bounty shall be 90 per cent, saccharine, and the small planters cannot afford to put in the machinery necessary to make sugar which will come up to that standard. The consequence is that they will have to make their sugar in the old way and do without the bounty while the rich planters can put in the machinery, if they have not al ready got it, and get the bounty. On less than 200 acres it will not pay to put in the necessary expensive ma chinery. 1 here are in Louisiana a4U sugar plantations, but out of these only 600 applications have been made for the bounty, and some of these will not be entitled to the bounty, be cause the sugar made up on them will not come up to the require ments. Of the applications filed there are thirty-six which will receive $50,000 or more each, aggregating $2,833,- 420 bounty. There are thirty-two which will received from $25,000 to $50,000 each, or an aggregate of $1,725,000, making sixty-eight ap plicants who will get an aggregate of $4,558,120, or near half the boun ty paid to all, the others averaging about . $9,000 each. If the 600 applicants who haye . filed their claims got an equal portion they would get $15,000 each out of of the treasury, a clear gain or gift, which of itself would make a hand some profit on one year's crop of an average plantation, mere is one of these applicants, a stock com pany, which will get $240,000, an other a foreign countess who will get $210,000, another $150,000, an other $120,000, and two more $100. 000 each. There .are seventeen more which average from $90,000 down to $50,000, and eleven coming in for $50,000 each. While the sugar bounty holds out sugar growing for the rich man will a paying business in Louisiana, and they will proceed to take in the plantations of the smaller planters who cannot compete with them nor make the same grade of sugar that they can. In that, as in everything else the McKinley tariff touches, the poor man must go the rear and let the rich man take everything in sight. - MINOR MENTION. A New York correspondent of the Baltimore Sun quotes an intimate friend of Gov. Hill as saying that Gov. Hill has not the remotest idea of antagonizing Mr. Cleveland, but will do all he can to help him. This friend savs Gov. Hill is satisfied with the U. S, Senatorship and that he has now no Presidential aspira tions, and that while there are tiiu and Cleveland factions in the State thev will harmonize before the National Convention meets and will send a solid delegation for Cleveland. This "friend" may be about as well informed and reliable as the numer ous "friends" who figure in the in terviews and reports these days but there is enough likelihood in what he says to givjt credibility. Gov. Hill has been so trusted and honored by the Democracy of his State that it would show a lack of appreciation, if not ingratitude, to force himself upon it for higher honors in the face of an opposition that he himself must re cognize and should, under the cir cumstances, respect. With his Sena torship he can afford to wait, for he WILMINGTON, N. C., is yet in the prime of life, and with bis popularity with the Democracy throughout, the country,- especially while New York , is a pivotal State with thirty-six electoral - votes, he will always beY-in line for the Presidency, but not now, because the popular eye is on Cleveland. Y Y With the Y rapid '; transportation given by railroads, several of which have put on special " melon trains,; the growing of. watermelons has be come a great industry ' in Georgia, the crop this year being the largest and best ever raised. - Shipments are made in all directions, as far North east as Boston and Northwest a? Kansas. City and Minneapolis. Y Up to the beginning of - the -past week between 7,000 and 8,000 car-loads had been shipped out of the State. The Northeastern market was over stocked, and while before this the shippers got fair prices - and did welL ; later the prices fell so low that in some instances they did riot pay the freight. As a result oi this the growers will make ar rangements by the time the next crop comes on to extend the market Westward, into the interior towns of those States which have good rail road service. An effort will also be made to find a market in England, the first experiment being made by ! a melon grower near Macon, who last week shipped from New York to London a small lot, the av erage weight of which was forty pounds. The largest, which weighed forty-seven pounds, was sent to the purveyor for the Queen's table, with the compliments of the grower, for the Queen to sample. If this lot takes well larger shipments will be made next year. ' STATE TOPICS. In answer to the question, "Does Sheep Raising Pay," the Chatham Record of last week produces some facts and figures, which show pretty conclusively that it does. A Mr. Teague, of that county, in 1890 purchased six sheep for which he paid $5.25. In the spring following he sheared the sheep and got $5 worth of wool, within twenty-five cents of what the sheep cost him. In August he sheared the lambs and got wool enough to make 16 yards of nice jeans. This spring's shear ing gave him 28 yards of jeans, and in August he will shear wool enough to make him four good blankets. He lost two sheep, killed three and has fifteen left. He fed his sheep on cotton seed and straw. Putting the cost of feed with purchase price at $25.25. the transaction pans out in the figures of the Record as fol lows : "First, $5 cash for first shear ing, 16 yards of fine jeans, the low est retail price of which would be not less than bo cents a yard, or $10.40; next shearing, 28 yards splendid jeans, worth, say, $18.20; two pair fine blankets, say $5 a pair, $10, aud 15 head of sheep at 87 cents each ;(price paid for first lot) $13,121, making $56.72, a profit of $31.47 on an original investment of $5.25, which does not include the three sheep killed for mutton. But some people seem to think it pays better to raise cur dogs than sheep. CURRENT COMMENT. Secretary Foster's new style of book-keeping may cover up the. facts, but it cannot change them. A juggled balance-sheet will not put one more dollar into the empty trea sury. Chicago Man, JJem. Hayti and its chronic condi tion of disorder seems to suggest an answer to the question whether the black race can govern kself without the interposition of the white man. It would be an improvement if the race of Soulouques and Hippolytes were replaced by some white fellows. -N. Y. Advertiser, JJem. Speaking of those Welsh tin plate workers and the need of them in this country so greatly, that man ufacturers are ottering them double wages to come, what are we going to do about that contract labor law? Does it apply to tin plate workers as well as to 'ricksha men, English coachmen, singers, preachers,. &cj To be improving as fast as some people declare Mr. Blaine to be, it takes him a terrible time to get back to Washington from a few days' visit to New York, begun more than a month ago.- It is a pity that the distinguished r gentleman is not likely to return to his post of duty, but it is a fact that he is not. The Republican exhibition of 1892 will have to proceed without its greatest attraction. Norfolk Landmark,JJem. POLITICAL "POINTS. "Democratic and mugwump lies. -That is Mr. Quay's concise and and convenient way of dismissing the charges brought against him It is not, JJem. The re-election of Senators Walthall and George is assured in Mis sissippi The fact is apparent that the farmers of Mtssippi are opposed to a third party, opposed to the Ocala plat form, opposed to the sub-treasury ano in favor of the Democratic party. Augusta Chronicle, JJem. - Republican newspapers are , not having much trouble convincing them selves that the tariff ought to be a side issue next year. Past experience has taught them that it makes a lot of trou ble when it gets to knocking around in a campaign. They are not to blame for dodging if they can. It certainly has few hopeful prospects for them. But the democrats intend to see that the issue is kept in full view right along. savannah Jvews, JJem. -- ffl FRIDAY, JIJLY 24, 1891 FARMERS' ALLIANCE Fiosio at Cypress Lake, on tho Onslow Bailroad. J11I7 25th. "The county Alliances of New Han ver,. Pender and Onslow will hold their annual basket picnic lit Cypress Lake, Onslow county, on the 25th inst. Speak ers from the three counties will be pres- :A special train will leave Wilmington at 8:30 a. m. on the W., O. & E. C. R. R. stopping at all. intermediate stations to accommodate those who wish to attend. The. fare from Wikninsrton -will be 75 cents forthe round trip.- '-, . Cypres3lLake is one of the prettiest" sheets of water in this section of the State; and, as there are but very few Wilmington people who have seen it, this will afford a good opportunity for tlise who wish a day's outing to take advantage of the reduced rates; The farmers expect to have a fish-fry on the ground. Sonthport Items. The Leader says : . An important sale of city property recently made is the house and lot corner Bay and Rhett streets, with water skirt. The property was owned by Mr. W. T. Daggett, of Wilmington, and was purchased by Mrs. Maria A. Meigs, of " Painesville, Ohio. Consideration said to be $5,500. It is expected that one week from to morrow an excursion will be given to Wilmington by the Cape Fear Cornet Band and' the. South port Base Ball Club. The proceeds, if any, will be for the beneht of the band. The South- port Base Ball Club have challenged the Wilmington team and a good game ot Dan is promised. NEWS OF THE RAILROADS. A Mysterious Gathering of Freight and Passenger Agents Yesterday. Charleston News and Courier. i6th It is rarely that so many railway officials are seen in 'the city together, especially so many heads of the same departments on different railroads, as were here yesterday. Nothing was known of the intention of the visiting officials until ' during the day, when a meeting was held at the Charleston Hotel, at which the following freight and passenger, agents were present: H. M. Emerson, of the Atlantic Coast Line. S. B. Pickens, of the South Carolina Railway. E. P. McSwmey, of the Charleston and Savannah Railway. V. Card well, of the Richmond and Danville Road. W.T.Craig, of the Port Royal and Western Carolina Road. General Manager T. H. Averill, Of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Rail road. Several of the members present at the meeting were seen and said that a num ber of important matters were taken up for consideration, and that nothing of public importance had been agreed upon. Considerable business of inter est to the railroads only was transacted Get to Work. The Columbia Stale gives prominence to the first prosecution and conviction, under the statutory laws of South Caro lina, by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in that city. Wilmington has a similar Society, com posed ot excellent material, and it is- hoped that the members may follow the example of their South Carolina neigh bors. It will be as "easy as dirt to find violators of the law here. A Big Blow at Golds boro. A young cyclone struck the southern edge of Goldsboro about 4 o'clock yes terday afternoon, and levelled some thirty telegraph poles. No other dam age was reported. The telegraph ser vice over the Western Union wires was interrupted for a time, only one wire being in working order, but later an other wire was available, and the line men were expected to have everything in order by this morning. Can't So Without It. One of the most distinguished physi cians ot the Mate who, after being a subscriber to the Daily Star continu ously for twelve years discontinued it in June, now writes as follows: GdLDSBORO, N. C, July 15, '81. "Please send me the Daily Star un til further notice. I will remit in a few days. I cannot longer do without the best paper in rsorth Carolina. "Very truly yours, MisenheimeAhead. Brother Kure, of Carolina Beach, will have to retire now and bear his mis fortune with becoming dignity. Engin eer Misenheimer, of the Carolina Central, is the man that has "done up" Hans. He reports having seen a young tiger at Seven-Mile Bay, about 30 miles from Wilmington. "Three cheers and a tiger for Misenheimer, and a funeral dirge for 'poor Hans by , ProL Guy Wright's band. No flowers. The tiger takes the bear every time. A One-Wheel Cycle, A one-wheel cycled eight feet high, that a greenhorn can learn to ride in a minute, and then write his name in the dust with it in fifteen feet of space, not to mention a speed capacity of two miles in sixty seconds on a good track, is something that is likely to astonish the bicycle riders of Wilmington ere long, The Springfield, Mass., Republican says that it is the invention which Victor Beranger, of ; Worcester, editor of Le Currier de Worcester, claims to have produced after two years of hard work. v Last week, he says, his brother in Montreal rode the phenomenon seventy- three miles in one hour on an ordinary highway. Greensboro Record'. There is but One town in the south where there is not a land fever, and that place is James town, Guilford county, where all its citizens are ' happy and content and won t even "swap land. ; This town has a river front of several miles, with large manufacturing . interests, yet not a land sale has taken place there in years, ; ex cept by administrators or executors and as the last person to die there was D9 years old such legal sales seldom occur. : THE STEAMER HENRIETTA. Old Times on the Cape; Fear Beminis- ; : cenoes of the Steamer Henrietta. Our old friend Major Bob Orrell, a veteran, but now letired, steamboatman of the" Cape - Fear, contributes to the Fayetteville Observer the, following remf iniscences. of the steamer Henrietta which will be read with interest by many of the old citizens of Wilmington. . The Henrietta was built, I think, from traditional information, in 1814, and was geared to work with cog-wheels like a mill. On reaching abrupt points on the river like Blennan, Elbow, Pull, Cove, and occasionally Big and Little Sugar Loaf, she had to be dropped around with aline.. ' - j :-y v - In 1820 Capt. Benj. . Rush, a practical machinist, who came here from Phila delphia, changed her gearing to a chain motion, and subsequently to a connecting-rod and crank motion, which enabled her to stear around the points. -J She had no upper - deck at first, and her cabin was set down in the hold, like those on the flats of the present: day. with a ca pacity for carrying six or eight passen gers, bne musv have run during ner river life at. least 1,500,000 miles, and earned for her owners about $1,500,000. She was very much improved by Messrs. Hall & Johnson, both in appearance and speed. . , . . . On one occasion, while I bad charge a managing agent of the line, I ran the Henrietta against the Chatham, both carrying passengers, and l promised mine that they should be in Wilming ton ahead of the other, boat, which had about fifteen minutes the start. I left the wharf at exactly 6 o'clock a. m., and my passengers were up town in Wilmington at 4:31) in the afternoon, I made but two stops,! for wood, and beat the Chatham by two hours. The latter was keel-bottomed, and when loaded was very last. J I ran the Henrietta up to Averasboro the first boat ever to go up that high- took off her smoke-stack to pass under Clarendon brtdge,took along along three flats, and brought back b,400 barrels ot rosin; nearly all of it for the late A. A. McKetban. While 1 was agent ot the line the Henrietta towed up the 'Hen Rush, a very large flat, with 4,500 bushels of rock alum salt and 50 hogsheads of molasses for the late Chas. 1. Haich, and ' 46 hogsheads for the late E;V. Wilkins. What would you think Of one of our merchants in . these days buying at one! time 4,500 bushels of rock alum salt (the lumps of which were in size from a marble to a walnut)? I have had the Henrietta, with the Ben Rush in tow, to come up loaded with measurement goods; and, although I owned a four-horsa wagon and a dray, and got my share of the other drays, it would take me two weeks to discharge the freight, which amounted to about $1,500. E. W.jWilkins's freight Bills would be S700 or $800, as Mai. A. 1. O'Hanlon knows, as he audited the bills and r. forwarded the goods. - Mr. Wilk ins, loaded wagons daily lor Salisbury, Greensboro, Salem, Charlotte, Kaleigh, Statesville, Wilkesboio,! Hillsboro and Wentworth. I Capt. Doyle O'Hanlon also owned a line of boats, and was doing a large buriness. All these things show that we had business here before the North Carolina Railroad was built The Star might give some interest ing incidents concerning the J?anny Lutterloh, another old-time boat and some decidedly amusing facts concern ing the little Orrell, of both of which the editor is cognizant, but cannot spare the necessary space just now. Senator Ransom will deliver an address to the Confederate Veterans at Wrightsville on the 80th inst. Mr. Saml. R. Chihnis, who has many friends in Wilmington, is said to be seriously sick at his home in Bruns wick county. The Wilson company can tell ot the most ferocious eater in camp. They report one of their men eatingjatfive dif ferent times in coming from Wilson to Wilmington. The schooner i Lula Everett cleared yesterday for Monte.. Christi, San Domingo, with 140,235 feet of lum ber, valued at $1,905.84. Vessel by Geo. Hafriss. Son & CoJ cargo by S. & W. H. Northrop, All the ladies of Wilmington will be invited to join with the Ladle's Memorial Association in providing re freshments for the Confederate pen sioners who will go into camp at Wrightsville on the 29th inst. No doubt there will be a hearty response One company came near losing supper by a contrary inule and a water melon cart. The mule became obstinate and insisted on becoming entangled in the supper table. It was only after much pulling that the table was saved. Gov. Holtf has commissioned Geo. W. Meares as Captain of Company G, Fourth Regiment; J. N. Craig as Captain of Company I, Third Regiment, and J. N. Gibbons,! First Lieutenant, and E. S. Blackwell, Second Lieutenant Of the latter company. The Y. M. C. A. tent is, as last year, a prominent feature at Camp Fowle. It is supplied with writing materials and plenty of choice reading matter, so that the soldiers can pass their leisure time in reading the literature of the day or in writing to friends at home. There are three very youthful mu sicians in camp, and they are good ones, too Eugene Graham and Frank Rogers, drummers in the Hornet's Nest Rifles, and J. S. Grandison, of Durham, who performs j on the piccolo in the Second : Regiment Band. Neither are over 16 years old. CHARGED WITH MURDER. The Head Waiter at the Island Beach Hotel Arrested. A colored man named Chas. Watkins alias S. G. Williams, was arrested last night at Island Beach Hotel, on a warrant charging him with the murder of his wife, Susie Watkins, in "April last, at Salem, Va. The arrest was made by police officers j Turlington and Green, under direction of Chief of Police , Hall, on information received by the Chief from Salem.' Va. Watkins made no resistance, and admitted that he was the man wanted. He was brought to town and lodged in the County jail to await requisition from the Virginia authorities. : - NO. 36 NEW STEAMSHIP LINE. ' Organized by English Ship Owners and the Norfolk & Western Eailroaa. : . Bv TeleKnpbto the MornisK Star. Baltimore, July 10. The Manufac turers Record of this week will make the announcement that prominent New York shipping men interested inlhe steamship business, in connection with English, ship owners and the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, have or ganized the North American Transport Company, somewhat on the order of the Atlantic Transport . Line, organized in tsaltimore a tew years ago, which has such an iormdus shipping trade from Haiti more, and which now runs a number of regular 'line steamers from here to British and continental ports. -The North American Transportation Com pany will have othces in New York, London, Newcastleon-1 yne, West Jlartlepool and Norfolk. " Its steamers will run from Norfolk to Liverpool,. London, Bremen,; and other ports as fast as business can be developed. The service will be operated in connection witlrthe Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, whose support under an ar rangement made with them, is fully as sured to the steamship lines. This road, whose , enormous increase ol traffic during the last decade is one of the wonders Of. American rail roading, has just completed and equip ped a fust class line in connection with the Louisville, & Nashville Railroad Cbmpany to the JWest 'and Southwest, thus enabling it, in conjunction with its existing connections with other lines to the South and Southwest, to rank with the trunk lines of the country. In addition to its large cotton export, it will-now control traffic in miscellaneous cargo, thus making it an important feeder to ocean steamships. A chapter'of'accidents. !! .... . : . .- Resulting in Five Deaths in a Pennsyl- l vania Town. J By Telegraph to tBe Morning Star. Pittsburg, Pa., July 16. The fol lowing chapter of accidents came from Rankin Station, near Braddock: Yes terday morning David Bell, aged 29 years, employed at the Carrie Furnace, and boarder at the house of Chas. Mc- Grattin, left for his work. He did no return to supper, and at 7 o'clock last evening his naked body was found floating in the -Monongahela river. He had been drinking hard of late and it is not known wbether he was accidentally drowned while swimming or committed suicide. Two hours later a lamp exploded in the McGrattin dwelling and two of his children Robert and Charles aged 7 and j 10 years respectively, who were sleeping at the time, were burned up with the house. This morning about -iay light, Harry Rowe and Peter Knee, who boarded with McGrattin, went to the ruins to look for some of their effects. While searching in the debris a brick chimney fell on them, almost instantly killing Rowe and fatally injuring Knee. The men were about 30 years of age, and single. Dr. Cope, who was called to at tend Peter Knee, was driving home this morning when his horse ran away and wrecked the vehicle. The doctor was thrown out and iniurcd so badly that he may die. Peter Knee died about 10 o'clock this morning, making five deaths so far. LUMBER DEALERS. Mill Men of Alabama, Mississippi and ; Florida to Boduoo Production. ! By Telegraph to the Morning Stat Birmingham, July 16. The Yellow Pine Lumber Association of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida met here to day, with most of the delegates from Alabama. Thosei present with great unanimity reported the condition of trade as flat and production has been generally curtailed. After much argu ment on the reduction of prices, it was finally resolved unanimously to allow for the next sixty days a reduction of ten per cent. from the price list now in effect. The ! necessity for a reduction was charged to the small consumption, large stocks and. tight money in the great markets. The Association will meet again on the third Thursday in Septem ber. 1 FORT MONROE MURDhR. Young Haines Arraigned for Killing His Companion Hannegan. j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Fort Monroe, Va., July 16. The court charged with the trial of young Haines forthe murder of his companion, Hannegan, called the case at 11 o clock to-day. Motion for postponement was argued two hours and was overruled. The court then adjourned until three o clock. Judge Nelson, of Indiana, has arrived and will take part in the prosecution. When the court reassembled, Hon. Tno. Goode, of counsel for the defence presented an affidavit from the prisoner setting forth that three or four witnesses, one a soldier from the garrison, dis charged since the shooting, were not present, and praying for postponement of the case until the August term. This produced a war of words between coun sel, on both sides, which lasted about two hours, when Judge Peek overruled the motion and adjourned the court un til 10 o clock to-morrow. BANK FAILURE. The First National Bank of Falatka, Fla., Suspends Payment Liabilities $200,000. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . Palatka, July 17. The First Na tional Bank of Palatka suspended pay ment to-day, owing to a heavy run made upon it and its inability to make temporary loans in New York. - This run was due to the recent failure ot the Lake City Bank, W. J. Winegan'Presi- deht of the Palatka bank, having been involved to some extent in the Lake City failure. This impaired confidence in the Jfalatka bank and the run on it has been heavy for a week or "ten days. The liabilities are about $200,000 and the assets will undoubtedly reach that figure, but cannot be realized on imme diately at their full value. The capital stock is $150,000. ELECTRIC SPARK5 , A telegram from Spencer, Ind., says that fifty men entered the jail at that place and lynched Frank Dice, awaiting trial for murder. Samuel G. Tupper, a prominent insur ance man and for many years president of the Charleston, S. C, Chamber of Commerce, died there yesterday, aged seventy-four years, The following is the estimate pre pared by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, of the annual cost of the sugar bounty provision ot the McKinley -iiff bill: Cane sugar, $10,800,000; beet sugar, $584,2UU; sorgnum sugar, jou.uuu; maple sugar, $150,000. Total, $11,-134,200. rSPIKITS WENTINtv--: Goldsboro Argus: ' Mr. Bad". -Miller, one. of the employes : at the ';: Goldsboro Furniturer Factory and . a , skilled workman,, had the misfortune to.. get three fingers badly cut in one of the machines Wednesday afternoon. ; i i-King's Mountain Newsi Albert Jones, coloredwhile delirious with fever " Sunday night escaped his nurse, jumped rfrom the window and ran like a deer. - When found he had run against a tree,, receiving probably fatal injuries.1 - ." Salisbury Watchman'. Dirihasf been thrown for the erection of a second . ' factory by the Salisbury Cotton Mills Company. The factory is fronting the first one and will be the same width, but three hundred feet long, one hundred ;' feet longer than the other. .,; - Charlotte News: Miss Lizzie Burke, a popular young lady of Salis bury, died m that town ? Wednesday "f night, after a brief . illness. . Mr; Thomas O. Godsey died at the residence ; of Dr. Ed. Caldwell, in Huntersville, yesterday." Mr. Godsey was 98 years of. age, and was a soldier in the Mexican . war. His life, was an eventful one. The Richmond & Danville RauV road has completed the Western North Carolina to Murphy, the county seat of .! Cherokee, the extreme western county i. of North Carolina, and trains are now : running to that point. Charlotte Chronicle: The Wades-y- boro cotton mills have ordered their .--', machinery for a 4,000 spindle mill. - ; Tno. Manns, a white man, living in the ' Phifers beyond the C C. depot, had a : ; leg cut off by a shifting engine last u; nieht as 10.80 o'clock. The engine was -v. starting round the "Y," when the en- gineer saw a man stagger on the track just in front of the engine. In a moment the engine struck him and his body was y : knocked off the track, his leg was caught under the wheels and cut entirely off. The man was intoxicated, which ac- -counted for his walking on the track in front of the engine. He narrowly es caped being run over by the. train at the same place several nights since. Fayetteville Observer: - Very warm is the sympathy of the whole community for the sorrowing family of . Capt. D. Jones in the ""affliction which -has so heavily fallen upon the house hold in the death of the daughter, Miss ; Alice Jones, aged but 21 years. Mr. O'Hara, sawyer at trrennamyer, ; McClure & Co.'s saw mill, this city, was caught in the belting of the machinery Tuesday morning and thrown with ter rific force against a circular saw, inflict ing a frightful wound on Mr. O'Hara 's head. He was painfully injured other wise, though at last accounts was rest ing as well as could be expected. Our last account yesterday afternoon was that Mr. O'Hara was holding out re markably well, though his recovery is exceedingly doubtful. Rockingham Rocket: i here is a boy in the county jail that is not over eight years of age and very likely younger. His name is "Bud" Mc Laurin, and together with his brother George, is incarcerated on the com plaint of breaking into an old colored man's house in Wolf Pit township. At the examination of applicants for , public school certificates, held last week, there were 27 applicants 6 white and 21 colored. Of the certificates issued to whites, one was first grade; three were second and one was third. One white applicant was rejected. Of the certificates issued to colored teachers, one was first grade; nine were second gaade, and three were third grade. Eight colored applicants were rejected; Rocky Mount Argonaut: While in Wilson the other day we were shown a large specimen of fine hematite ore, which was taken from an immense out cropping near the line of Wilson and Nash counties. We have never heard of hematite in that particular part of the State; the government reports mention limonite ores being found in that sec tion. One of our most prominent business men who is also engaged in raising tobacco, says that two weeks ago he would have given anybody $200 to take his trrop off his hands and pay all expenses. Yesterday he said he would not take a thousand dollars for the crop. A difference of $1,200 in two weeks, on a small crop, is doing pretty well. We expect the way tobacco is coming out he will not take $2,000 for it in two weeks more. Washington Progress: We were pained to hear Of the death of Mr. H. F. Hancock on Friday morning last, who was one of our most estimable cit izens; aged about 74 years. : Mr. J. ' B. Archbell, of Chocowinity, planted 2 1-5 acres in potatoes this year. He raised 280 barrels, from which he' real- ; ized, net, $584. It is currently re ported here that the Jamesville & Wash ington railroad has been sold : to the Suffolk & Carolina Railroad Company, . while we have no official information, . yet it is believed to be true. ' It is thought that the Suffolk & Carolina will be extended from Montroes to James--villc and the T. & W. put in good order . , and extended via Vanceboro to New 1 Berne to connect with the road which is being built-from that place to Wilming ton. .Raleigh News and Observer: , The big steel car plant of which men tion was made a few days ago is being actively canvassed, and the indications now are that there will be something definite to announce in connection with it in a short while. A hotel is be ing built at the exposition grounds for the accommodation of the crowd which will be in attendance. Work has been begun on a building 40 by 40 and two stories high. It will contain fifty-six rooms for sleeping apartments for the ' accommodation of the visitors at night, . There will be some fine bicycle riding at the coming exposition and ar rangements are now on foot to that end. A quarter of a mile bicycle board 'track is being constructed at the grounds and some good performances during the ei position may be expected. Statesville Landmark: Garland, the little son of Mr. G. M. -Foard, of Olin, was choked about six weeks, and last Sunday week he coughed up a chicken bone and died after much suf fering the Tuesday following. He was ' one year and five days old. The public is familiar with the fact that dur- -ing the war John Allen Smith, of Cabarrus, a private in the First Regi ment of North Carolina cavalry, saved the life of Col. W. H. H. Cowles, now Congressman from the eighth district. Ever since Col. Cowles has held Smith in grateful remembrance, and time and again sent him some substantial token . of his. gratitude. Two years ago last January Smith died, and as the last ser-" vice which he could render him. Col. Cowles is having a monument - erected to his memory. The monument will be a very handsome one when finished. . . Shelby Aurora: Murphy, the county seat of Cherokee county, near the Georgia line, is jubilant over the : railroad crossing the Hiwassee river and . its advent to their mountain town. Here it connects with the Marietta and North Georgia. . Murphy, with its marble and other mineral wealth in close proximity is destined to be a live, large town. Martin Earle, of Boiling Springs, who has been an invalid and unable to walk for four years, was suddenly cured of his -infirmities one day this week. While , sitting in his house with three plugs of tobacco in his hard, a mad dog rushed into the room. Mr. Earle suddenly re-' covering-his old-time vigor dealt the dog a heavy blow with the tobacco, knocking it down. He then picked up ' a chair and struck at the dog again, and . walking across the room to the door, kicked it down the steps. The mad dog did for him what all the medicine he had taken for four years failed to do made him walk. r- V- J t V I A'- i