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WILLIAU E. BEENABD, ' Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, August 14, 1891. . f" In writing to change your address always give former directum as well ai full particulars as where you wish your pper to be sent hereafter. Unless you do both changes can not be made. ': V& 'NoticeSiOt Marriage or Death, Tributes of Re spect, Resolutions of Thanks, &c., are charged for as ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for strictly in advance. At this rate 60 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. W Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters, will register letters when desired. PS1" Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. j "' . o , -57 Specimen copies forwarded when desired. ; AN ABSURD PLATFOBJL . ' T'here is an old saying that it f- takes all kinds oflpeople to make a world, and if the convention of the People's Party, of r Ohio, which - met .last week ja't Springfield, be a fair 'sample it may truly be said that it takes all ; kinds of peeple except sensible people to make the Peo - pie's Party, It would be utterly im ' 'possible fprj any body of men not -drawn from the lunatic asylums to 'get together and draft a platform, as Irrational, absurd, and impossible . las the ptatlorm this convention then and there' adopted. - . ' In a platform embracing eighteen demands jit would be almost im , possible to: avoid- putting' in some thing defensible, .but there . is so much bad, 'absurd .and impossible in this one that the little good there is :n it is so completely overshadowed ' that it is scarcely perceptible, " 1 If the People's Party, of Buckeye lorn, as voiced , by its creators at y Springfielldj, be approximately repre . entative of the People's Party which B:o. Pfeffer, Sister Lease, jerry Simpson ci a I afe7 orating for and trying to Jauncnpon the; country, that party willbe a candidate for ;? sympathy before it gets well; under ' way. --- - ;,?y The first seven clauses demand ; respectively that the form of muni-y j cipal government shall not be chang rj ed without the consent of the people; .' the forfeiture of the charter of the Standard Oil Company for violating, as alleged, its charter; the enactment of a law to prohibit all forms of gambling in futures in agricultural : or mechanical products-; the election of U. S. Senators by the vote of the people; the rigid enforcement of laws : against the adulteration or counter feiting of food; free school books in the public schools -and compulsory ; education'; the prohibition of child labor under fourteen years of age. --The fifth clause, if thev should j t- . : succeed m working it into the plat form of the National People's Party, isSone in which the Southern cotton raisers may be interested, for a very large quantity of "the cotton seed oil now made is used as an ' admixture mand like this is "simply the- culmi nation ; of the absurdities, for no trading nation in the world ever did or ever will do business on a cash basis, because no nation ever want ed to'and couldn't it it would. If I money in this country, were plentiful enough to do business on a cash basis, it would be the cheapest and most worthless commodity in it. A man with his pockets full of Mont gomery county rocks or of Chicago dirt Vould be better off than with, his .p.ockets full of money that ex isted in such abundance. The . next - four clauses declare respectively for free coinage of sil ver ; against the extravagance that collects $500,000,000 a year from the people for Government expenses; against the alien ownership of lands; for a graduated income tax, and then in the next they strike a brand new way, for this country, of settling the liquor question, by de manding that the Government run the liquor : business, and supply drinkers with their liquor at cost, as jthey propose to have the Govern ment possess the railroads, steam boats, telegraphs, &c, and give the service of these at cost. Thev didn't forget to declare for unlimit ed suffrage for white and black, male and female, and for liberal pensions for the soldiers of the "late war." "Taking it all in all, with the. good, and the bad, this platform is the queerest jumble we have ever seen, arid for an illustration of the quintessence of the ridiculous and idiotic, stands jvithout a peerj in any political platform that we have ever read. and run down the price. The re duction of acreage- by agreement and standing honestly by the agree ment is practicable. It is not likely the- proposition would be agreed to by all, but it might be by enough to accomplish the object in view, a re duction of the product to about 5, 000,000 bales which would pay as well as an 8,000,000 crop, and could by bet ter culture be raised on half the land. It is estimated than there are this year 28,000,000 of acres under cotton and the figures show that on the average it takes three and a half acres to produce a bale of ; cotton. There is no money in that, even with cotton at what is ; considered a fair .price. It is too much land and too much work for the cotton, and too little money fpr the land and the work. Even if cotton brought a reasonable price there ought to be a reduction of acreage and better cul ture to get more but of the acre and save laborj but reduction of acreage and of product, must come before prosperity can come to cotton planters. STATE TOPICS. - Tobacco has taken permanent root In Eastern North Carolina, and the indications are that in the near future tobacco culture will not sim ply be one of the leading crops, but the leading crop." Having ; demon strated the success of, the crop as a money making onej .the next - thing in order will be to establish in the counties or vicinity of where the tobacco is grown, good home mar kets, 'which will not be dependent upon other markets or upon buyers from other sections. This can be done not by warehouses alone for the sale of the leaf, but by the establishment of manufactories Jor the manufacture of the leaf; Ware houses : do well enough as far as they go, but warehouses with facto ries will : fill the bill and ensure a home market for the tobacco raiser, and one upon which he can count for ready sales and the best prices. MINOR MENTION. with lard, which being much cheap er has cut down to very- small pro portions Ji comparatively, what is known as the "pure bog lard busi ness." Cincinnati is considerable of i a-hog. and hog's lard; town and it :;' would bej just in its hand to secure a I little-legislation against the use of I cotton seedi oil-as a mixture with ( lard. That was tried last session of . Congress by the Conger bill, but failed. With Congressmen elected on a platform like this they might ; stand a better showing. ' The eighth clause demands the i abolition if contract prison' . labor, ! and declares for equal rights for all i and special privileges to none, and I yet Senator Pfeffer is going .around as an evangelist of the People's Par j -ty demanding that . the Government '"-hall issue several hundred millions :f dollars; and turn, it over' to the armors who may ask for it at a ; ;ocrley nominal interest while the ."chanip or other laborer or busi es man, who may need money aite as 'badly as the, farmer, is left I , out in the cold and '.can't come in i for a nickel. ' Is that; exemplifying ' the declaration of "equal rights for all and special privileges to none." The ninth clause demands 'that taxation, national, State , and munici. pal, shajl not be used to .build up in terest at the expense of another. JThis has the: right ring in it, but Why ' didn't they face the music and come :: out squarely and say what they pro '.bably meant, that the high protec tive tariff to enrich-manufacturers .out of the tribute levied, upon the i people shall be so modified as to bring it; within the pale of reason and conscience ? .But as this is a "Peo ple's Party," which wants the votes (of all kinds of people, the platform .builders1 feared, perhaps, that they might antagonize some of the work , men employed in the protected in dustries, and therefore played cau jtiously,:and whipped the devil around the stump. i The tenth clause favors the wloinp- t out of the national blanks, the issu ing of money direct by the Govern, ment in volume sufficient to do the , business of the country on a Cash basis, and lending it to the people at -; two perj cent, on land or other ample security. This is the delirium of financial insanity. There isn't money enough1 in the world to do the busi ness of the people of the United . States on a "cash basis." It would take $500,000,000 to move the wheat ( crop alone of the country this year, as much more to move the - corn , pop, a coupl.e hundred millions to Jhiove the-meat supplies, three hun dred millions to move the cot ton Crop, forty or fifty - mii , Iions to move the sugar crop, j-and the Lord only knows how much I would be needed to keep the wheels running in other- industries. A de- THE REMEDY IN THEIB, OWN ."HANDS. ,' , We have in these columns devoted considerable attention to the cotton question, because while cotton is the principal crop of the South, not only the cotton planters themselves "but nearly every one else ; is directly or inatrectiy interested m it, for the prosperity of this Southern country, or at least that portion of it where the cotton is grown, is dependent upon it." If the crop pays the plant ers . have money, and everything goes well-; if it don't pay they have no money and everything goes wrong. Cotton is lower than it has been in thirty-five or forty, years, with a prospect of going lower still, because the markets' of the world are overstocked. 'The eight mil lion bales, in round numbers, raised in this country, with what is raised in other counties, is more than the mills of the world can work profit ably, and they don't want any more than they can work profitably if they got it for nothing. .To the manufacturer the margin of the profit per yard over the cost of the. rarw material," and of manufac ture is exeeedinglymall, the'eompe tition being so great, and it is only by working a iarge quantity that the amount earned becomes Iarge enough ta!pay a. reasonable interest on1 the investment. We speak here of th? cotton mills of the world at large. The mills of the South are an exception because they have advantages in being near the cotton fields and in other re spects, which other mills do not have, and they can run at a good prpfit when other mills run at a very small profit. : . . As yet Southern mills work but a very small proportion of the crop, raised, and the South yet buys mil lions ot yards of cotton goods for which she pays the manufacturer's and dealer's profits out of the raw cotton she sold at a low price. LThe time will be when the South will quit that foolishness, and - manufacture not only all needed for home use, but to ship and supply the demands of Other sections. When that time comes there will be more certainty of reason able profit in cotton culture because there will be a larger and a reliable home market for it. But ;"that time is still too remote to preserf? a sunlit vista to the planter who grows cotton and tries to make ends meet at present prices. In the meantime the farmer must not delude himself with the hope that anybody is going .to help him but himself, nor put his dependence on legislative enactments to raise the price of any thing he has to sell the. ucimai point ot a cent. The only legislation he ought to ask or expect is legislation to relieve him from some, if not all, ofjthe onerous bur dens that have been ! imposed iupon him by unjustly i discrimi nating legislation i in the interest of certain favored ones "who stood in with and footed campaign expenses and election bills for ; the party in power. If they got this they' could, with such measures as they i might take for their own advancement, "tote their own skillet" and ! scuffle along for themselves. i In discussing this question we have . maintained that the cotton planters are, if they will be, masters of the situation, and can do in their own interest what no legislation can do for them, however friendly the legislators may be or however much they may desire to aid the in dustry of the farm. To this end we have urged a reduction of acreage, diversified agriculture, and the estab lishment of cotton factories by the planters to work up the cptton and get not simply the price of the raw cotton but the profit there may be in the cotton converted into 'finished forms. This would keep ait! home a great quantity of the cotton which now goes abroad to glut the market I The advance sheets i of Poor's JRailway Manual present some in teresting facts and figures as to the railways in this country. The capi tal nominally or actually invested, funded and unfunded debts, amounts to $10,122,639,900, nearly twice as 'much as it was ten years ago. The mileage . has reached 166,817 miles, an increase of 5,498 miles in the past year. The cost of roads has in creased from $58,274 in 1889 to $59,638 in 1890. The gross earnings for the past year amount to 11 per jcent., the net earnings to less than 3 per cent. The number of pas sengers carried was 520,439,082, for which the companies received $273, 664,439, or a little over 52 cnts each.: The freight carried amounted to 701, 334,438 tons, for which the com panies received $740,374,844 or a little over a dollar a ton. Consider ing the vast amount of business done, and the bona fide capital in vested, if we put it at one half the nominal capital, less than three and a half per cent, net earnings shows that the railroad business as a whole ,is not a bonanza in this country, j While a few of the roads may make handsome earnings, the majority of them do not clear, enough to pay a fair interest on the capital invested. But some of the modern statesmen ;and financiers, who seem to think that the railroads are coining money out of the people, want the Govern ment to buy and run them, a job of which the Government would soon get pretty sick if it undertook it, and of which the people would be pretty sick long before they had paid in taxes the $10,122,639,900 which the roads are valued at. Figures are good things to enlighten people and explode visionary or insane theories. The New York iVw,Rep.; has the cheek to lecture David B. Hill on the "broken political pledges." If all the broken pledges of the Press party could be gathered up there would be enough to stock a first class junk shop. "-- , RAILROAD NOTES. The Fast Mail on the AU&ntio Coast Iiine . The rajetterrflle Short Out. -? The Weldon, N, C, correspondent of the Richmond Times says: The report which was current a short time ago that the fast mail, tram ; over the Atlantic Coast Line would soon be discontinued seems to be without foundation, - A gentleman wefj informed in this matter, by virtue of his official connection with the-road, informed your correspondent the sole reason why the Postbffice De- Eartment ever considered the advisa ility of discontinuing this mail service was i. that the : depleted Treasurey de manded the curtailment of every possi ble expense. There is no truth in the report that the Richmond and Danvlle system had underbid the Atlantic Coast Line. The train will be run until Con gress meets. The department has . re duced the subsidy to the Coast Line by one-third, and showed a disposition to make a still further reduction, but has not yet done so. It is reported here now that the Coast Lin! will not begin to run its through trains over the Fayetteville short-cut in two years. It was at one time expected that the connecting link of road would be completed this month, -but owing to the scarcity uf labor the work is almost at a standstill. : SUDDEN DEATH Steamer A Providence, R. I., retired busi ness man rashly undertook to ' dem onstrate that the McKinley tariff was a good thing and ended by commit ting suicide. THE STATE FAIR. There is too much fooling with the press these days by Legislatures, and sometimes by Judges, to prevent them from publishing y legitimate news, an illustration of which is fur nished in the law passed by the Leg islature of New York prohibiting the 'papers from publishing anything but the mere announcement of the fact of the execution of condemned crim inals. This law was purposely vio lated by every leading paper ia New York city, with the exception o the Tribune, when the four men were re cently executed in Sing Sing prison, and as all the offenders in the' city, but singular to say, none outside the city, were indicted, the constitution ality of the law will be tested. It was passed in deference to the senti ment that the publication of the de tails of executions is demoralizing, and the motive was doubtless good, but'earried to its logical" conclusion it would justify the passage of a law prohibiting the publication of reports of horse races, prize fights, divorce trials, murder trials, Iynchings and dozens of other things that are just as demoralizing. A case has just been settled by the Supreme Court of Montana which sat down upon one of the inferior court judges for ordering the arrest of an editor for publishing an opinion expressed ;by some one that a certain case could not be impartially tried in a certain pounty, the Supreme Court holding the proper, way tor a court to be above contempt was by fearlessly and impartially administering ' the law and not by attempting to gag editors and throttle the press. There may be some distinction but there is not much fun in being a mayor or a councilman in Kansas city, Kansas, while there are such men at John B. Scraggs and such mobs lying around loose as reported in the press dispatches yesterday. The purchase of an electric light plant for $340,000 they evidently considered too serious a matter to make light of and in place of sus pending . judgment until the afore said mayor and councilmen could be heard . from they counciled amongst themselves in a wild, breezy, impetuous way and concluded that ine Desc tning to do to suspend the proceedings of the board of council men would be to summarily suspend in the mad air the whole kit, mayor and all, which humane " resolve seems to have been defeated by the impromptu adjournment to parts unknown of the city fathers." This rs not the most commendable, digni fied and orderly way of entering pro tests, but it is energetic and empha tic, and will probably prove effectual in preventing municipal deals that the denizens don't endorse. To be Held in Balelgh October Next The Premium last, Eta. The premium list for the State Fair, to be held at Raleigh, October 18th to 16th, during the Southern Exposition, has been received. .'- It contains a long list ot valuablepremiums on agricul tural crops produced in North' Carolina. For instance, forty dollars is to be awarded tor best cotton; five dollars on best packed bale; seventy dollars on best tobacco; about fifty dollars on corn; iorxy-nve aoiiars on wheat; same on oats; aboat twenty-five dollars on rye; forty-five dollars on field peas; seven teen dollars on ground peas; forty-five on hay; forty dollars' on grass seeds; best ten founds of flax five dollars. There are also splendid premiums on horses, cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry. Nearly two hundred dollarVare offered on fruits; fourteen dollars on dhed fruits; five dollars on a five pound home made cheese; five dollars on best tel pounds of hard home made soap; three dollars on best gallon of home made soap, the winning soap and winning cheese to be given to the North Carolina Soldiers' Home; six dollars for best five pounds of starch made from corn or wheat; three dollars On best two hams; three dollars on best ten pounds of beef; ten dollars on hive of bees showing bees working by having glass in the side of the gum; ten dollars for best ten pounds of butter; three dollars for best gallon of sorghum syrup or molasses; two dollars on best dozen heads of broom corn. Premiums worth more than fifty dollars are -offered on the best bushel of Irish potatoes; two dollars on best dozen stalks of sorghum or molasses cane. All who make exhibits at the State Fair of articles that can be used at the North Carolina Soldiers' Home; are urged to aid the old soldiers by making donations. ANOTHER STORM WAVE. Prof. the foster Says It Will Precede Hottest Spell of the Season. Prof. Foster is but with another storm wave. This one is to start, according to his predictions, from the Pacific coast about the 16th, cross the Rocky Alleghany valley from the 17th to 19th, and reach the Atlantic coast about the 20th. The regular movement of these mid summer storm waves from the --west to east, he says, will not be so manifest to casual observers as were those of the spring months. The rains and other effects will ' develop only in isolated localties and will appear more as chance and irregular disturbances than the effects of regular storm waves. This storm wave will inaugurate the hottest period of the summer, and bring the finest corn and cotton weather of the season, l he weather will not be set tied, but changeable from 16th to 22d, after which it will be more uniformly warm and dry. FARMERS' ALLIANCE. The State Convention at Morehead Presi dent's Caw's AddMss-Col. L. L. Polk. The North Carolina Convention of the Farmers' Alliance at Morehead was aiienaea py aeiegates representing ninety-two counties. :, . President Elias Carr presided, and in his annual address reviewed the history of the State organization, advocated minor changes in the State constitution, outlined the policy of the organization, and closed with a strong presentation of the duty of members. The. report of the State .Secretary shows a membership of over one hun dred thousand. President Polk delivered a public ad dress in the Atlantic Hotel. It was a powerful speech, and one of the hap piest efforts of his life. Colonel Polk left yesterday morning for Maryland, to attend the State Farm ers' f Alliance Convention in session there. The Aooident to Sr. Blizzard and Wife. Dr. Blizzard and wife, of Bladen wuuijr, wuu were tnrown out ot a buggy last Wednesday by the horse they were driving running away, "(as told in the Star at the time) were both severely hurt, but it was thought that they would soon recover from the injuries they received. It has since been reported, however, that the doctor and his wife were much worse, and i uesaay last their son. Mr. W. A. Bliz- zardrof this city, was called to their bedside, and left at once to be with them. - "What Will the Harvest BeP" , A leading cotton merchant in this city received the following dispatch frm a prominent cotton broker m New; York city, viz; ': y " .New York, Aug. 12. Galveston News makes the acreage ten per cent, larger and the condition 15 per cent, better than last vear's cotton rmn in Texas, . r Ot Capt. B. H. Tomlinson of the j Cape Fear. Ma j. T. D. Love received a telegram from Fayetteville yesterday morning announcing the death in that city very suddenly on Monday night, of Capt. R. H. Tomlinson, well known in this city as the, master of the steamer Cape Fear. His death is said to have result ed from congestion of the lungs. Capt. Tomlinson 's wife and three children who were spending the summer at Car olina Beacb-were at once informed of the distressing event, and came up to this city and left for Fayetteville by train on the C F. & Y. V. railroad yes terdny afternoon. Capt. Tomlinson had been suffering for some months past with rheumatism, and had not been running regularly on the steamer Cape Fear recently. He was about 33 years of ago, a native of Fayettevillerand enjoyed the respect and esteem of a large circle of acquaint ances, and the warm friendship of many who deeply sympathise with his family in their sad bereavement. ' SUDDEN DEATH. Chief Engineer Pavie of the Fire Depart ment of Newborn. Special Star Telegram.1 NEWBERNfN. C, August 11. E. N. Pavie, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of this city, a prominent contractor and builder, was found dead in his bed this morning.' Mr. Pavie was in his usual good health up to Sun day. On Monday he was complaining and went to a physician, who apprehend ed no serious trouble; but on Tuesday morning he was found in his bed a life less corpse. Fatty degeneration of the heart was the disease which took him off so suddenly. He had hosts of friends in this community and his death casts a gloom over the whole city. ,He was a native of New York and came down here during the war. His wife had pre ceded him to the better world, and he leaves no children but an adoDted daughter and an aged mother here, who are prostrated in grief. South Carolina's Bice Crop. . From the Charleston News and Courier'. A gentleman who has some thing to do with rice said yesterday that he had conversed with three or four rice planters, men who plant on Cooper, Combahee and Pon-Pon rivers, and who in all usually raise each season about seventy thousand bushele of tough rice, and was surprised to learn from ttiem that notwithstanding it is a fact thai the growing crop of Carolina rice is in an extremely healthy condition, the yield per acre is by them and their neighbors also expected to be, and is sure to be, a light one, below the aver age. hey mention that the fields do not present a thick and velvety appear ance when looked down on, but instead the water now turned on the fields shows through the growing rice. All interested have been expecting a large crop, and this information leads him to tear a disappointment. Last crop was short, and this may prove no larger. MUTINY IN WAKE JAIL. tf Terrific Conflict . ; Between: a Deputy : Sheriff, Jailer and a Negro Prisoner . Excitement in Baleigh- ti ' Special Star Correspondence Raleigh, August 10. A bold . and cleverly contrived ' at tempt at escape was made in the Wake county jail on Sunday, and a well-laid scheme frustrated after a bloody, fight with one of the prisoners; a ynegro named Willoughby, who had been put up in default of bail for getting the pass book of Mr. P. Linehan and pro curing a quantity of grain and forage from Latta & Wyatt thereon, y y r Mr. Mr H. Brown, deputy sheriff and jailor went into the lail as usual bunday morning to give the prisoners their breakfast. There are seven prisoners in the jail. He has allowed them to leave their cells and go in the corridor around the cages for exercise. He had the . rations brought in by Mr.. Wm. Leary, steward, and placed in an end cell, and ordered the prisoners in their cells preparatory to giving ; them break fast. There was a pile of blankets and clothing in the corridor and Willoughby had concealed himself un derneath this pile. After the lever had been- closed and locked; Willoughby sprang up. Mr. Brown j turned and caught him by the collar and attempted to put him in his cell, f Willoughby snatched the bunch of keys out of Mr. Brown's hand and dealt him a stunning blow on the head with them. Heathen ran to the lever and tried to oush it oacK, out lound it locked and so he could not get bis confederates out to assist him. He then made for the door. By this time Mr. Brown had sufficiently recovered to renew the fight and caught Willoughby again. This time Wil loughby pounded him in the face and knocked him down stairs. Mr. Leary then came to his assistance and caught Willoughby and the latter at once be gan to batter him with the" keys, each oi wniqn weigns aoout a pound. Mr. Leary ,s little son was on the outside ot the door of the jail wher e his lather had placed him and made him lock the door on the outside, The negro went to this door and told the child if he did not open the door he would "kill both the damned men in side. - The bov. however.- instead of doing this had the presence of mind to .run for help, and an officer, Mr. Thomp son, ui me ponce iorce, responded and came to the rescue. , Sheriff Page was out of town at the time, at his home in Morrisville, about 14 miles trom herebut he was at once sent for and came in in the afternoon. Mr. Brown is a man of about 70 years old and Mr. Leary a one-legged Con federate veteran: The? wounds of. Mr. Brown are in the face and on the head his hand is split between the , little and third finger and the negro bit his first finger nearly ' off. Mr. Leary's injuries are in the head and back and side. Both are seriously injured, but are doing better to-day, but suffering much from soreness. This fight Was going on for filteen minutes before the arrival of the officer and there was much excitement created when the facts became known. season s now growing Distressing Accident. Down in the Stump Sound section. last Saturday a most unfortunate acci dent occurred, resulting in the death of the, infant child of Mr. Willoughby Hansley. It seems that Mrs. Hansley, ine mother of the child, was compelled to leave it for a short time in the house by itself, and to keep it from tumbling out of doors or getting into mis chief secured it with a cord, one ena oi wnich was tied around the infant's waist and the other end to a bed-post. On returning to the house Mrs. Hansley was horrified to find her Child was strangled to death with the Cord, that in some wav haH hwm j vwv-vav wrapped tightly around its neck. OUT OF THE WHOLE CLOTH. A Story About an Alleged Marriage of Wilmington Parties. A Weldon dispatch to the Richmond Times says : A few days ago in Wil mington considerable indignation was raised by the announcement of the mar riage of T. J. Phillips to Ada Bonds, a girl under twelve years of age. It is alleged that the groom under threats of killing the child's father and burning his dwelling, induced her to go to a neignDoring town and marry him, a license having been obtained by mis representation.' After the marriage was performed the couple returned home to meet the wrath of the outraged parents of the girl. A warrant ; was issued against Phillips and he was put under band to answer the charge of abduc tion, at the next of the court. The girl was lurneaover 10 ner parents. So far as can be learned, there is no truth in the above story. A Safe Investment. Is one which is guaranteed to bring you satisfactory results, or in case of failure a return of purchase nrice. Dn this safe plan you can buy from our ad vertised druggist a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. It is guaranteed to bring relief in every case, wnen usea lor any anection of Throat, Lungs or Chest, such as Consumption, Inflamation of Lungs, Bronchitis, As thama, Wooping Cough, Croup, etc., etc. It is pleasant and agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can always be depended upon. lnal bottles tree at R. R. Bellamy's Drugstore. f CRIMINAL COURT JURORS. The Ijist for the September Term as Drawn Yesterday. The County Commissioners at their meeting yesterday drew the jurors for the September term of' the Criminal Court as follows: H. L. Vollers. Mich ael Griffin, S., J. Jones, Geo. . F. Alder man, S. . Sternberger, Jr., Jno. H. Brewer, S. W. Noble, Thos. M. Gardner, J. D. Bell, W. M. Poisson, S. A. Schloss, Chas. Craig, Jr., M. B. Shrier, R, F. Ronan, Hbsea Shepherd, W. D. Rhodes, Sol. J. Jones, Jno. L. Breckenridge. J. T. Kerr, W. S. Ellis, J. W. Vass, J. T. Sholar. Wm. Melton, Jno. Shehan, Jr., A. M. Wilson. Wm.Costin. T. R C. H. Schulken, S. W. Skinner. Kobt: Green. . A Handsome Gift to the University. The Raleigh News and Observer of Sunday says: . "At the meeting of the Board of" Trustees of the University yesterday, President Winston informed the Board that he had received from Mr. D. G. Worth, of Wilmington, a p n ot $500, to remodel the Chapel. Pru dent Winston also stated that the Un versity has pressing need for $1,000 to build an infirmary; for $500 to complete the Athletic and Gymnastic Equip ment, and for $500 to equip the Biologi cal .Department. Suicide of a Colored Woman. 'a absolute colored woman named Lucy Moore, committed suicide Sun day morning last by taking laudanum at a house in Strauss' Alley over in orooKiyn. i ne reason assigned by some ot the woman s acquaintances was that the man she had been living witn had abandoned her. i esteroay atternoon people in th neighborhood reported at the Citv Hall that the body of the woman was lying in the house and that po arrangements had been made to bury it. TheJ matter was thereupon brought to the attention of the County Commissioners and or ders were issued for the burial of the body. Raval Stores Stocks. Stocks of naval stores at the ports at the close of the week are reported as follows: ,. Spirits turpentine NeW York, 1,( casks; Wilmington, 5,195; Savannah, 30,073; Charleston, 3,108. Total, 30,065 casks. Rosin New York, 19,631, bbls; Wil mington, 18,000; Savannah, 51,639; Char leston, 8.928. Total, 98,198 barrels. lar wew York, 343 barrels; Wil mington, 2,075. Total, 2,418 barrels, CONDITION OF COTTON. It is Practically the Same as Xiaat Month Crop Generally Late State At erases. Etc . , By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ; Washington, Aug. '10. August re turns to the Department of Agriculture make the ' condition of cotton 88.9 for the whole breadth practically the same as last month. Improvement during ther month has been confined to sec tions of South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi and Arkansas. In other portions of the cotton belt there has been a decline in condition. There was excess of rainfall during the whole" month over the whole breadth, except in Louisiana, Florida -and the greater part of Texas, and this excess of moisture was, as- a rule, ac companied by temperature below nor-' mal. The last week of the month was characterized by further excess of rain, but accompanied by heat conditions above normal. But if this combination of meteorological conditions wrought injury the return was made too earlv to indicate it. y , . The crop is quite generally late, especially in the Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States; the plant small, and on ac count ot the drought at the season of planting and the excess of rain later, wmcn delayed working out, the stand is imperfect over considerable areas. In the I Carolinas heavy rain of the month caused some sheddiner of bolls and failure of the olant to fruit well. In Georgia and Alabama some improve ment is noted, though the dropping off of forms j has followed local excess f moisture.! The plant is small and la.te," but is fruiting well. The crop in Mississippi is late but making good growth, with favorable weather, and taking on forms lapidly. , Louisana returns are variable. Some damage from local drought, but more from excess of rain in some sections. The plant has made too much growth to the injury of the bottom crop, The decline in Texas is mainly the result of drought, though rains at the close of the month may have been sufficient to prevent permanent injury. The presence of the caterpillar and boll worm is barelv noted in a few States; only one State Texas reports them from more than one county, ex4 w-.. . ... wuac wui lua are noiea in two counties. " . ; State averages are; Virginia 81; North Carolina. 75; South Carolina, 83;- Geor gia, 86; Florida, 94; Alabama. 89; Mis sissippi, 93i Louisiana. 90; Texas, 92; Ar kansas, 95; Tennessee, 82. -The fact that the crop is decidedly late over almost the entire breadth ' makes the season during August of vi tal importance. The first week of the month shows a continuance of the cool weather that marked July with rainfall above the nominal over a larger portion of the cotton belt. SPIKITS TURPENTINE. . Charlotte News: A joint J ingof the Order of Railroad rv Jmeet andlBrothohood of . LocomotiT8 eers is, to be held in Charlotte on t"' Sunday in this month. It t?u lhe 5th 'fi meeting of the kind ever e m the State. er held - Concord Standard: Mr M v .has a gray mule that has ' v'Is with tonsilitis. Last, week his ,f' ng and neck was so badly swollen th?," could not get it to the trronn ?1 he not say whether it was was it wa . c,!i experience or good commnn "8C. "id but that mule got to the grass V," . 0ut down and eating all jn his reacr" then getting up and changing n nd tion and again lying down. pSl- . Raleigh News and Obssr Trinity College, through President well, has just received notice of th J" nation of a collection for the m " consisting of 500 specimens of AmPw m' and other woods and 1 HO specimono n invertebrates, labelled, in slchohol ,i ready for shipment. These soedm d are the gift of a friend to the Em V the second collection Trinity hash ed this year. The one just receiS " valued at pot less than five hundred do? Newton Enterrise: There was a horrible accident in ci- Monbocottf factory one day this wecic. A hank t yarn wound around the arm of a vcL aaugnter or Mr. l.a. Litten, pot cau in the machinery and drew her in ffl was soon horribly mangled, hii n's bmK arms and both legs broken, and died It a very short time from her injuries - There never was such a corn CroD in this county asthe one now frrowir. all over the county. There hs bec just enough tain to suit the uplan j 3nH not enough to injure the bottom. WASHINGTON NEWS. i i Contract for Heavy Guns Awarded Fred Douglass' Eeslfcnation. , Washington, Aug. 10. Acting ,Sec rctary of War Grant to-day . approved the recommendation of the Board of Ordinance and Fortification that the contract for 100 high power guns .be given to the Bethlehem Iron Co., of South Bethlehem, Pa. The aggregate amount of the money involved in the contract is $3,580,373. Fred Douglas' resignation as minis ter to Hayti, is dated July 30. He gives no reason for resigning. dueltcTthe death. Fatal Shooting Affray Between a White Man and a Negro in Mississippi. Memphis, Aug. 10. A desperate duel to the death tooif place Saturday even ing at Norfolk Landing, Miss., 28 miles' below Memphis, news of which reached this city late last night. The principals were D. B. Wall, a vonho man fmm Williamson countv. Tenn.. who was Em ployed as manager of R. H. .ham'e plantation, and a negro named Reed, who had been working on the place. Wall and Reed had a dispute about the length of time the necro had worked. and failing to agree Reed left the store. carrying a shot-gun which he tried to hide trom Wall. The latter secured a revolver and started after the negro, but "e emergea irom the store the negro ?hot him in the right side, making a arje hole. Wall was mortally wound ed, but he was game. He emptied his -evolver at the negro, then reloaded and was preparing to fire again , when he fell dead. The negro went to the earth at the same instant, one of the balls from Wall's pistol having passed through his body. Wall was only 23 years old, and unmarried. The negro is about 20 years old. His wound isre garded as m "tal. BILL ARPS NEPHEW Murders Two Men About a Yoke of Steers. ' Atlanta, Ga., August 10. Hezekiah Arp, nephew of the original Bill Arp, shot two men to death near the State line in Fannin countwesterriaw a held a claim against Wm. Bramlet, who was about to leave the State, and bad a yoke of steers attached. This nror1nrri a quarrel, and Arp shot Bramlet through the heart. Bramlet's brother tktn tot a hand in the row, and was shot through , i-, vjjriug m iuc wouna. Arp De longs to one of the leading families ; this section. . i The P. I. I,, i. The Fayetteville Independent. Light Infantry are going into camp at the seaside on or about the 20th inst Whether they will go to Carolina Beach ITT t - . or wrigntsviue had , not been de cided up to yesterday. The company have had pressing invitations to visit both places, and will be heartily wel comed wherever they decide to go. NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. State Convention at Saratoga in Septem- , ber-The Ticket. , By Telegraph to the Morning Star New York, Aug. 12. The Demo cratic State Committee met at 10 o'clock this morning at the Hoffman House. It was decided that the State Convention' shall be held in Saratoga September 15. The general sentiment of the. commit teemen present was that the ticket se lected would be: For Governs- T?. well Pt Flower, of Watertown; for Lieu tenant Governor, Wm. F. Sheehan. of euaalo; for Secretary of State, Frank Kice. Of Cananrlaioma- trr- t . it J,hn ,iley' of Pittsburg; forTrea! arer,! Elliott Danforth, ofliainbridgE tor Attornev General SiWn -wr:-r' Tf.pfIbany; &r EnrieV E. Sweet, me county Democr&cv mmmi F!irere y no m?ans nthusiastic for r lower, and several nf t,A . - "vw cAuresspn vujuiw&i liih i i . ri ni ti tiAaii much more available candidate. be a Wew Cotton. Mr. H. M. McDonald, of LaGranee N. C., sends the Star from that place, by mail, an open cotton boll, which he' says was plucked August 8,1891, from tne tarm of John L. Phelps, who ex pects to have a bale ready for shipment auun. Mr. W. A. H. Davis, of Claren don, N. C; called at the Star office yesterday and reports crops in his sec tion m fine condition, especially corn. , Alex. Hocut, of Waddell's Fe--ry, is in the city. He is onlv U " j v Advice to Jflotners. soothing Syrup ha ho ..., u T mothers forTheirchn7 dren while teething a turbed at ' 5 L "t" aiS" o v . "IU oroiten ot your with pain of suffenne and Cutting Teeth? once and get abot- old.and weighs one Hows that for Bladen countv? pounds. was Mr. A. B. Clemmons, of Supply, 1 nrnl r f lOUUI office yesterday. at the Star rest " so send at ue ot "Mrs. Winslow's' Wh; c for Children Teething. Its vlue lfteCalCUble- wiU reliee P05 uttle sufferer immediate! nJri Kt & Tthers' r,here is no misake duout it. It cures rwritan. j rhcea regulates the Stomach and Bowels, cures Wind Colic, softens tie Gums r duces Inflammation, and nVpoZ' energy to the rni- ?. '::. e stPf"ma"pt1 ?. one of oWwt and IJnirS C Pcians and nurses in the United Sutes, and is for sale by all drug gists throughout the - world. Prices twenty-five cents a bottle, f Be sureTnd ior "MRS. WIK?Ihb'(. .. w MuuiniHU ask Sysup " Shelby Aurora: We saw in town Saturday a valuable and lar-v piece 20x21 of mica, weighing nineteen pounds, taken from a block weichinp fifty pounds from the W. W.Green mine,, five miles Northwest of Shelhu iricssra. j. vv. ivi organ ana jos. Blanton With one laborer dug it from the mica mine only eight feet below the surface They were hunting mica not quite one week and the output amply compensat ed them, for mica is worth, several dol lars per pound according to size and quantity. Cleveland county has pro. duced the largest mica sheets! in North Carolina and our vems are generally n the surfarta. ' Raleigh News and Observer - At -the recent Tobacco Association at Morehead City the following-officers were elected : President, John S. Lock hart, of Durham; Vice Presidents I R Gaskill of Tarboro; R. P. Watkins! of Asheville; J. P. Taylor, of Henderson Secretary and Treasurer, G. E. Webb' of Winston. Governor Holt hav ing been advised of the Dougald, the Richmond county mur derer, in Oregon, yesterday, sent a te gram to Gov. Pennoyer. of Oregon, ask ing him to hold McDougald till the agent sent for him could arrive there Gov. Pennoyer replied by wire that Mc Dougald would be held and an officer is now on the way with a requisition for him. n . i Maxton Union: Mr. Peter Mc Corraack, near Alfordsville, c"ied last Tuesday night, aged about 72 years. Deputy Marshal Graham arrested one Henry Lewis, , colored, last Thursday, tor the larceny of two chickens in this county some eight months ago. When approached by the officer he drew his knife and showed fight, and it took the persuasive eloquence of a blow over the head to subdue him. He was, however, finally overoowered. securely bound, and sentfto jail at Luraberton.-. Since his ar rest it has been ascertained that he is an escaped convict, having escaped from the ' chain gang while at work on the rail road, and he is a very desperate charac ter. He will probably go back to the pen. Hickory Press and Carolinian: Little Harry Browder, seven-year old son of Mr. N. C. Browder, while playing upon me narrow gauge track last Mon- "o.jr, iwa suulk uy an incoming tram. The engineer did not see the, iittle fel low on thetrack, and knew nothing of the accident until he saw a hat leave the front of the engine. The train was im mediately stopped, and. the boy was found unconscious upon the "cow catcher." Fortunately the train was running at a fair speed, which caused the little fellow to be thrown upon the engine, instead of being crushed be neath the wheels, which would have been the case had the cars been moving slowly. The boy. upon beino; taken home and cared for soon revived, and with the exception of losing a few teeth and sustaining several bad bruises, no damage resulted. Charlotte Chronicle: A most cowardly and brutal murder is reported to have taken place Friday -afternoon at Fish Dam, a station 65 miles from Mon roe, on the G. C. & N. road. The vic tim of the assassin was Mr. Lewis, a young man about 18 years old and sta tion agent there.- Lewis was at the depot office attending to his business as "sual when the first train passed after 12 O Clock, but whe n tliA iiAYt train J came he was wanted and could not be found. The office door was locked, but was broken open and to the astonish ment of everybody the agent was found in there, dead. An investigation re- vcaiea me iact that he had been shot in the back of the head with, a pistol and the ball ranged upward and produced death instantly. A close search was made and no pistol or weapon of any kind could be found in the room. The door had been locked and the key was gone, revealing the fact that he did not commit suicide as some at first thought. Mo motive can be given for the murder, unless it was done with the intention of getting money. About half an hour u0re -J"H'n8 is supposed to have taken place two negroes were seen talk ing to the deceased, but from then till the time he was found ne one seems to know what was going on or who was there. Mt: Holly News: The three- . year-old of Walter McConnell of Lucia ' was burned to death last Thursday. -He was left in the house alone by his mother for a few moments and when she returned the little fellow was in a cri-SP; On the 21st of July Mr. D. H. McKeown and four sons were in the fields hoeing cotton when the lightning struck a persimmon tree near them. AH were shocked; and Mr. McKeown 's eld est son, Mobley, had his hat knocked from his head. None of them were- seriously injured. . Mr. C. L Hutchison is o'n the eve of realizing a ; grand fortune from some ot his red hills within the corporate limits of Mt. Holly. Not long since Mr. L. R Welsh, our section master, picked up a Eiece of ore in the railroad cut,' west of laine street on Mr. H's land, that con tained free goia. A vein has been dis covered and is now being "prospected." - Many . of the newspapers "now a days" are publishing the phenomenal birth of triplets, and of large numerous broods born to Barents: but it is re served for Gaston to reach up and pluck the "persimmon ' from the topmost branch. Mrs. Thomas Suggs, daughter, of the late Caleb Lineberger, of this county, several years ago gave birth to triplets, and within twelve months gave birth again to twins, making five chil dren born to her "liege lord" within less fhan a year. She subsequently gav . birth to twins again. - It is said that one of the officials ot Gaston coun ty so far forgot himself as to receive, and even demand, a fee of fifty; cents for at- . taching the seal of the : county to a pass of a maimed Confederate soldier, to en able him to attend the reunion of of-maimed Confederates at Wrights- ville.