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THE SILVER GTJESTI0N.
Whether the silver coinage ques
tion be a prominent one in the next
residential campaign or not it is a
qjiestton tnat will not down until
itjSs settled one way or the other,
ifbere are two elements which figure
irif;t on each side; on the free coin
age side there arc the men of the
silver-producing States, who are in
terested injsilver and wish to give it
tle additional value that would . be
imparled by unlimited coinage, and
those who are not, interested in silver,
bt who believe there is not suffi
cient money in circulation to meet
the demands of' business,, and who,
" tnerefore, favor free and unlimited
coinage to increase the volume of
currency. . '
) 'Yhile the silver men of, the silver
producing f States may be actuated
simply by the desire to add to the
value of the silver metal in their
present or prospective possession,
those who support free and unlimit
ed coinage on the ground ot a defi
ciency of money are honest in that
belief and1 will be as persistent in
the demand for. more j as the miners
of the silver States are.
i? On the other hand, opposing it are
the money powers who have com-
imandof large-capital, the interest
from which forms the! chief income
V'. c the owners, and those who have
teen taught to believe that such an
: addition to the volume of currency
jjs would follow free and unlimited
Coinage would result in a general
. Unbalancing of values, depreciation of
i silver, the; retiring of gold, inflation
! 'of prices!' and a general derange-
; rnent ji business; These people are
; sis honest in that belief as the mass
i oi advocates of free coinage are in the
Relief of the reverse of all this.
A The people of the Central and
Eastern States have, regardless of
' .. . . i .
political affiliations, oeen pretty
largely ana pretty easily trainea to
fhe belief that there is no necessity
or the coinage of more silver than
s now provided by law, nor for even
hat much, because these are the
jmoney centers and interest generally
Irates low to borrowers whose credit
,.ind security are satisfactory to the
'iaoney. lenders, lhere money can
f.
ie borrowed easily at six per cent.
i.nd frequently as low as three per
jcent. per annum, while in the West
iiia boutn, irom wnicn money is
grained j through Governmental
S agencies land policies, the interest
icent.
per annum, and! even at these
grates it can't be always obtained.
'It is very ;difficult to persuade a man
. jjwho needs money to ' meet pressing
obligations, who has to pay interest
f!at these rates, if he can get the
j,money at all, that there is money
; lenough in circulation, and that more
silver means disaster
i Secretary Foster may produce
.figures, Arranged after recently in
jyented Treasury methods; to show
. "jthat there is more money, per capita,
lin circulation now than there ever
iwas, and jnearly twice as much ( as
ithere was in 1860, : when the
country jwas prosperous. That is
about the . same kind and about
I'
WflQ ' SPnc5hl fio-iirinir ae n'nttin'tr
the aggregate wealth of the country
at $60,000,000,000 and the per capita
at $1,000, when the majority of , the
people never saw $1,000 together in
their lives. The per capita figuring
like the per cent racket in statistical
calculations looks very nice in print
ibut as a matter of fact they are both
ij very deceptive and great humbugs.
When Mr. Foster was makin? his
-j yci tdpiii taiwiuakiuns uu ine money
t "in actual circulation" he was count
jing all the money outside of the
l United States depositories, the half
r and will not get into actual circula
jtion unless the people who need it
Sjcan put op the required security and
v VrJ t"v ait ui.iiHcicsvucuiauucu.'
There as another thing that .Secre-
jjtary Foster didn't take into calcula-
iition when he1 was figuring on this per
j-capita, and showing that there is
S nearly twice as much money "in ac
Htual circulation" now as there was in
1860, and that is the circulation of
sthe State banks which supplied the
j I people with a sufficiency of currency
f vhich was retired when the National
nk systemwas established, and
te banks circulation was taxed
. of existence. - Then, too, there
t vis
no Govermental machinery such
protective tariffs, or internal re-
jj uiue toi draw the money to the Cen
tral. and Eastern States, as there is
j;now, and no pension and other de
ll vices for distributing four-fifths of
y the money paid out by the
fluent iu uig uui lucru ScCtlOa
n IN! n.l . .
jcountry as there isnow. With these
; facts in, view, Secretary Foster's
figuring and the , contention of the
i money powers tbat there is sufficient
money for the business needs of the
fjcountry will fail to convince andstill
i the free and unlimited coinage of
'silver will continue to be a question
fthat will not down at their bidding.
MIUOE MBNTIOW,
' In a letter to Gen.7V. F. Enochs,
member of Congress for the 12th
Ohio district, who wrote . for infor
mation in reference to the delay in
the settlement of pension claims,
Commissioner Raum , gives some
facts which show what an immense
machine the Pension Bureau has be
come; On the 1st of July, he says,
there were 523,737 , claimants ; who
have never been pensioned prosecut
ingxlaims before the bureau, and
there were pending in the' shape of
claims for increase of pensions and
duplicate claims under different laws
395,689 cases, making a total of
929,426 claims pending. During last
year the Department received 154,
817 communications from members
of Congress making inqAiry in re
gard to the status of certain claims,
at the rate of over 500 a day. In
addition to these there were received
from claimants, their friends and at
torneys, 1,170,660 communications,
making inquiry as to -the status of
claims, at the rate of 3,800 per day.
The receipt of all these was acknow
ledged. Claims are now being acted
upon at the rate of about 3,000 a
month and Gen. Raum hopes to be
able to turn out 350,000 certificates
during the present fiscal "year, which.
will be an increase of -100,000 over
last year. But this will not dispose
of more than one third of the j cases
pending and ' still they continue to
come in. Gen., Raum gives the
soothing information, however, that
he thinks money enough has been
appropriated to' meet the demands
for this year, without creating a
deficiency.
The Republicans are hedging on
the. jsilver - question by declaring
openly or substantially for the free
coinage of American silver. ' The
Pennsylvania Republican convention
declared for the coinage of American
silver, while the New York conven
tion declares that the Act of July 14,
1890, provides- . for the purchase of
the silver product of , the American
mines. By American mines they
mean the mines of this country,
although the' word would cover as
well the mines of other portions of
this continent. 'As a matter of fact
the law of July 14, 1890, calls for the
purchase of more silver bull
ion "than can be secured for
coinage purposes from the
mines of this country. According
to the Director of the Mintthe pro
duct! of our mines last year was
54,500,000 onnces, '3,791,598 of which
were used in the .arts, leaving 45,
708,403 for coinage purposes. The
act of July requires the U. S. Treas
urer to purchase 4,500,000 ounces a
month, which would be within 500,
000 ounces of the toal product of the
mines of this country. Deducting
from this the amount used in the
arts it would leave a shortage of
over 8,000,000 ounces a year to be
purchased from foreign countries, so
that the declaration of. these Repub-.
lican conventions in favor of the
coinage of American silver practical
ly does not amount to much, but if
construed closely would reduce
rather than increase the coinage.
- I - '
, There seems to have been some
methodical lying done about the re
ported seizure of the Island of Mity-
lent by the British, which turns out
to be a fake. It was not, however,
simply a delusion or a scare, for the
several dispatches coming from dif
ferent sources show too much method
for that. Itmay possibly have been
started, as some think, to influence
the stock and other4 markets, and
again it may have been started as a
feeler of European sentiment, or per
haps as a hint to Turkey and Russia
of what might be't done in an emer
gency. Fake or no fake, the inci
dent is not without significance. The
fact that a division of the British
fleet is manoeuvring in that particu
lar locality at this particular time,
and the further fact that a landing
had been made, even . by a party of
pic-nicing officers, without going
'through the formality of saying any
thing about it, are not without sig
nificance either. What was alleged
to have been done, it is shown could
be done on short notice. .
STATE TOPICS.
The Lenoir Topic in speaking of
some of the crop yields in that
"vicinity, says one farmer raised a
thousand bushels of Oats, some of
the land yielding $s much as seven
ty-five bushels tcfthe acre. After
harvesting this crop he cut a crop of
crab i grass from.' the same laud,
which he considers as valuable as
the oat crop. A gardener in Lenoir
raised an immense 'crop of "Irish
potatoes,, the average size of which
Was very large, some of them weigh
ing as much as. two pounds and, a
half.: In view of the fact that the
soil of our State produces grain and
vegetables so well and so abundant
ly it may seem strange , that we im
port so much grain, flour, &c, from
other States, and that we depend aP
most exclusively on other States- for
the Irish potatoes consumed in our
cities and towns!; In the fall . and
winter it is almost impossible to find
e Govern- a home-grown Irish potato for sale 3? feet-will be com
c vjyvcru . r . - plcted, and then business will be lively
ion of the m tne town ,stores anI the people when the numerous buyers plant them-
wno use mem Duy inose tnat are
shipped from the North and pay for
1- 1 A 1 - . . . if .
them about two dollars a bushel,
when just as good, if not better, can
be raised in any part of North Caro
lina: Col. Cockenll's new paper the
Morning Advertiser, is the brightest
of the New York dallies.
People were generally under the
-impression that there was- only one
Benjamin Harrison in this country,
but there are two. The other one
lives in Indianapolis, too, Butfthere
is only one Russell Harrison. ;
The snath manufacturers of ' thisk
country are reported to have forned
a trust, and now if the Farmers'
Alliance don't go for this trust and
snat(c)h it baldheaded it may be
asked what the Alliance is here for.
SEPTEMBER STORMS.
The Latest Fredioted by roster Ought to
Be on the Way.
Prof. Foster's latest storm waveougEt
to have, left the Pacific coast Monday, if
it didn't. - If it is a well regulated storm
it ought to be here about Friday. Prof.
Foster says it will be at its greatest
force in the Eastern States about Sept.
17 or 18, and that it will make a record
more than an ordinary storm. De
structive frosts will follow in the North
ern States, and will reach much farther
south than is usual for the time of year.
This storm wave, Foster says, and the
one following, it will be what is popularly
termed equinoctial storms, as they will
occur when the earth is near its equi
noctial. Not the greatest storms of the
year, but notable weather events, were
. . . r 1 11 111 v.
Calculated lor septemrjer, anu ue wm ire
greatly surprised not to see long ac
counts in the newspapers, with display
heads, relating notable weatner events.
Various Crops. r '"
. Mr. W. F. Williams, wbo returned
Monday night from Rutherfordton and
Chimney Rock, says the corn crop in
the fertile valleys of that section is mag
nificent in appearance and immense in
Quantity. East of Charlotte the crop is
good, though not equal to that further
West. The cotton crop is'short, but the
fine weather of the past few days has
made the outlook much more
favorable. Mr. Williams says that
when he went up the road last Satur
day the cotton fields were almost ji solid
green; but when he returned Monday
thev were white with open bolls, and
hundreds of men, women and children
could be seen picking out the -staple.
Among other curiosities seen by some
of Mr. Williams' companions were scores
of handsome, rosy-cheeked, finely-formed
girjs. Mr. Williams did not see them,
of course. '
Goldsboro Fair. -
TheJFair at Goldsboro opened Tues
day and yesterday it was in "full swing."
: The Argus says the race course is
absolutely perfect the finest in the
South, so all the noted stock men say,
and the trials pf speed thereon, both in
running and trotting races, are oing to
eclipse all former contests and will give
the thousands of visitors something to
get excited over, wave their hats, um
brellas, pocket handkerchiefs, and cheer
to the echo. Yes, there are some fine
horses there speeded and blooded ani
mals things of beauty and perfect
poems of action as they spin round the
track, and the races are going to be well
filled and the purses worth the contests.
The Manufacturing Situation.
J'. The Boston Commercial Bulletin says:
: The cotton goods business is steadily
growing and there is a decidedly better
feeling among manufacturers in- spite of
the improving tone in the market for
the raw material and the upward ten
dency of that staple. The excellent or
ders now being received by the . jobbers,
especially in the West, are encouraging,
and the mills running on staple goods
have the prospect of continued good
business, as orders are coming in - freely.
Three new mills are reported to be
erected, and additions . will be made to
several established plants.
There is an improved feeling to note
at Fall River. The price of print cloths
has been advanced slightly, and some
optimists predict that the tide has turned
and that insttad of piling up, goods
will begin to decrease.
Wanted The Heirs gf Patrick TTaher.
The following is a copy of a letter re
ceived by a gentlemen of this city and
given to the Star for publication:
Houston, Tex., Sept. 9, 1891.
Dear Sir: I am in search of the
heirs of Patrick Usher, and 1 have some
valuable news for them; and if you know
anybody in your city by that name
please inform me. He lived in the
neighborhood of Wilmington before the
war. If you don't know anybody there
who is an heir or who could refer me to
the heirs, please turn this' over to a
newspaper, and oblige a little boy 14
years $1 age. '
lOOELL MARSTON,
No. 50, Main street, Houston, Tex.
"Tarboro sends Greetings to
the Tobacco World" is the legend on a
neat folder sent out by the Tobacco
Association of that city, coupled with
the announcement that on "September
23rd, 1891, Tarboro will take the first
step toward establishing the leading
market of East Carolina." The Star
acknowledges the receipt of an , invita
tion to attend the opening festivities. -
A TOBACCO TOWN:
Kocky Mount on a Boom A Lively Trade
in Leaf Tobacco Many Bayers on the:
Market Hew Buildings Going TTp.
Special Star Correspondence
Rocky Mount, September 16. -Still
they come. New tobacco buyers
arrive on every tram to attend the mam
moth sales ot tobacco which take place
every day. The three warehouses yes
terday had fine- breaks, -or sales, andJ
prices ranged high. The farmers were
jubilant over their sales and went home
rejoicing. The buyers are specially
pleased with "Rocky Mount as a tobacco
market and say the " leaf is, so far su
perior to anything they ever saw. They
are determined to have the leaf, and
wUl pay the farmer full value for his
weed. It was verified yesterday, and
every day's sales are running high.
Twenty-five buyers are on the market
and when October opens and tobacco
comes in more freely, there will be from
thirty to thirty-five buyers on the mar
ket. Building prize houses' is now the
oraer oi the day. , ... -
Seven prizejhouses are completed and
several more under way. -The "fourth
selves and be in readiness to gratify the
farmer. -
. Last season over four million pounds
were sold, and this -season it will reach
from eight to ten million pounds. ; -
To show the prosperity of the place,
sixty thousand dollars worth of build
ings are going up and under contract.
Mr. James Battle, of , Nichols,
S. C, an old subscriber to the Daily
Star, spent yesterday in our city.
SOUTHPORT--AGITATED
On the Question of Bemoval of the County
Seat of Brunrwiok. -r- - '
Quite an interesting meeting was held
Monday, niht at the court house in
Southport pursuant to a call of the
Board of County Commissioners, to con
sider the question of the removal of the
county seat from Southport to some
more central location. " Before allowing
the people to vote upon the question
of removal, the "Act of 1891 requires
the place to be voted tor to be -agreed,
upon and designated, at a joint meeting
of the Board of Magistrates and Coun
ty Commissioners. At this meeting,
three of the five County Commission
ers, refused to attend and : participate,
after a committee of the Board of Mag
istrates had waited upon, and requested
their attendance. The Magistrates and
the two Commissioners met ; and pro
ceeded tavote on the location, notwith
standing the absence of a majority-of
the Commissioners, and . designated the
place to be voted for as a point near
Lockwood's Folly bridge. The County
Commissioners claim that the action of
this meeting was illegal, as a majority
of their body did "not concuf. ; Much
feeling is manifested and litigation is
threatened, lawyers having been em
ployed already to carry the matter Into
the courts. . , :
BRUNSWICK SUPERIOR COURT.
The Business of the Term Concluded Yes
terday. Brunswick Superior Court concluded
its business yesterday, and will adjourn
sine die to-day. A good many criminal
cases were disposed of but altogether
the docket was light. The only case of
interest was one of burglary in which
the prisoner submitted to ayerdict of
burglary in the second degree and
was sentenced to -twenty years
in the penitentiary. There were
several cases of retailing liquor - without
license selling botanic bitters" 1
which all the defendants were- ac
quitted. , y '.' " .
Daniel Lee, colored, charged with
larceny, was also acquitted.
The only civil case tried, was that of
Priscilla Pans vs.-George Paris, colored,
for divorce, A decree was granted.
The members of the Wilmington bar
in attendance were Messrs. John D.
Bellamy, Jr., Sol Weill, Iredell Meares
and P. B. Manning, with J. B.Schulken
Esq., of Whiteville. ' .
J udge Mclver will discharge the grand
jury , to-day. Solicitor Frank McNeill
came up to the city yesterday, on his
way home.
.- . RAILROAD NOTES.
An order has been entered author
izing the receiver of the South Carolina
Railroad to pay the coupons of October,
1890, on the first consolidated mortgage
bonds, together with interest on the
coupons to date of payment,
.A new method of ventilating rail
road carriages and preventing dust from
entering with the - air has appeared in
France. The more quickly the train
moves the more rapidly the apasatus
works. The air is made to traverse a
receptacle containing water, which cools
it and relieves it of dust, after which it
goes through another filtering before
entering the carriage, i
The1 Bishopville Railroad Co. will
apply to the next South Carolina Legis
lature' for authority to extend its rail
road in a general northerly or- north
westerly -direction as far as the North
Carolina State line; also from Atkins in
a south or southeasterly direction to
some point on the South Carolina or
Jthe Central railroad of South Carolina.
A railroad doing business in South
Carolina will in a few days apply to the
controller for a rebate of jts taxes as
fixed by the State Board of Equiliza
tlon; This is the first move that any of
the railroads have made, and it may be
the keynote to the action of a good
many of the others. The petition is
now being prepared, and as soon as it is
completed jt will be presented to the
controller, l bis privilege is given Dy
jaw, and the controller may comply or
not, as he sees fit.
The reported troubles of the Rich
mond Terminal have very naturally
caused some uneasiness among those
interested in the welfare of the company
in Georgia and South Carolina. In an
interview published in the Savannah
Times, General Manager Green says :
"The fact of the -Richmond Terminal
Company going into the hands of a re
receiver would not in any manner affect
the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company nor any of . its leases or con
trolled lines. The Central Railroad is
leased to the Georgia Pacific and that
road In turn is leased by the Richmond
and Danville, which company practical
ly guarantees both the other lines. "So
you see," he continued, "unless the
Richmond and Danville Company
should become insolvent, the Central is
all right."
"In, what condition is the Richmond
and Danville now?" The Times man
asked. ' "
"First-class, first-class," Mr. Green re
plied. "Why, you can't buy its stock
now for 150."
Rochester, N. Y Sept. 14. The
best record for a long-distance run! in
the history of railroading was made to
day by a special train of three Wagner
cars from New York to Buffalo. The
train left New York at 7.36 a. inland ar
rived in. Buffalo at 2.56 p. m., covering
the distance in 4.40 minutes or 4.26
minutes exclusive of stops. This time
of seven hours and twenty minutes in
cludes stops. The first was at ' Albany,
where engines were changed and two
minutes lost. At Syracuse three min
utes more were consumed in another
change. The most serious delay occur
red at t airport, a town about ten miles
east of here,' where betrain was stop
ped nine minutes by a hot journal. Word
was sent from Fairport to this city to
have another engine in readiness to take
them to Buffalo. This Was not needed,
and the train dashed through the Cen
tral Station in this city without stop and
running at the rate of a mile a minute
or over. This was at 1,40 p. m. From
this point to Buffalo the run was made
without incident in 67 minutes, a dis
tance of sixty-nine miles. The fastest
mile was made in 48 seconds. ,
FATAL FALL.
Horrible Death, of Jas. Harrington,
in
Fayetteville Yesterday.
A special dispatch to the Star from
Fayetteville, N. C-, Sept. 16th, say :
"Jas. Harrington, Esq..' of Cameron,
N. C . a prominent stock dealer, and
former resident of Fayetteville, Was In
stantly killed thjs morning about ,4
o'clock, by falling from a window on
the fourth floor of the Lafayette, hotel
to the pavement below. His neck was
broken and his brains dashed out , on
the pavement." , .
..... MIIWPA v-
The GaiveBton's Arrival to Tako the Place
of the Colfax. ,
" 1 ".The U. S. reven ue steamer Galveston,
whose arrival at Southport Was reported
several days ago, came up-to the city
yesterday morning. J; As heretofore- jan
nounced in the .Star, she will remain
oft this station Until the revenue steamer
Colfax, now undergoing repairs at Balti
more, is again ready for service,1 which
will be probably " about the middle of
October. -; . " . "
; ! The' Galveston i is a brand new ship,
and the voyage hCre from Baltimore via
Washington, D. C, was her initial trip.
She is a propeller, with twin screws,and is
considerably larger than the Colfax.zad
her machinery, fittings,- furniture, etc,
are all first-class. The Captain's : cabin;
and the "officers quarters are luxuriously
furnished and fitted' with everything to
add to the comfort of the occupants.-
i Capt. Munger, the Commander of the
Galveston, is well known in Wilmington,
having been on this station before, and
yesterday he was the recipient of ; many
congratulations from old friends who
were rejoiced to meet him. The other
officers of the Galveston are First Lieut.
David A. Hall. Second Lieut. T. T. Sill,
Third. Lieut. S. M.-Landrey, Chief En
gineer F W. H. Whitaker, First As
sistant Engineer W. T.v PhillipsSecond
Assistant Engineer H. O. Slayton, Pilot
E. H. Cranmer. . .-
Chief Engineer Whitaker, Assistant
Engineer Phillips, and Pilot Cranmer
have also served on this station and
have many warm friends in Wilming
ton.. v.. ' Nj;. '.'
Awhalf-past 4 o'clock in the afternoon
the Galveston left her wharf and steamed
down to Southport. .
Whistle Sianala. J
The N. C State Weather Service has
adopted, besides the flag signals for dis
seminating the daily i weather - and tem
perature forecasts, cold wave and frost
warnings, a system of whistle signals,
which have been operated very success
fully in other States, especially Missouri.
The forecasts are sent at government
expense to mill and foundry men, and a
certain time is fixed, say twelve noon,
fOr the mill and foundry men to give the
signals which can be heard over a con
siderable .distance. The warning signal
to attract attention should be a long
blast of from fifteen to twenty seconds
du! atidn. After this warning - signal
has been sounded, long blasts (of from
four to six seconds duration) re
fer to weather, and short, blasts jCof
from one to three seconds dura
tion) refer to temperature; those
for weather , should . be sounded first.
One long blast indicates' fair weather;
Two long blasts, rain or snow; three
long blasts, local rains; one short blast,
lower temperature; two short blasts,
higher temperature; three short blasts,
a coldwave. By combining these sig
nals any forecast can be indicated.
Forecasts and cold wave or frost
warnings will be sent free to a limited
number of mill owners or foundry men
who should make application to the di
rector of the North Carolina State
Weather Service at Raleigh, N. C for
the telegraphic forecasts. ,
1- :
-;. 18 THIS OJIE OF THE TRPMPS.
For Whom $10,000 Beward ts Offered by
the Richmond and Danville Company.
The Petersburg, (Va.,) correspondent
of the Richmond Dispatch of. yesterday
says: 4
There was an arrest here to-day of a
white tramp who claims to be -from Bal
timore, about which some interest at
taches: He gives his name as Thomas
Jones, and the charge against him is the
acknowledged one of larceny. He went
into the pump-house in the yard of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad and stole
a bottle of whiskey and some clothing
belonging to a negro named Roland, and
subsequently had the impudence to in
vite the man whom he naa roDoea to
take a drink pf bis own whiskey.
When taken to the station house and
searched there were found upon the
prisoner's person several visiting cards
bearing the name of Colonel Benehan
Cameron, who narrowly escaped death
by the recent terrible accident near
Statesville, N. C; also several of the
metal window fastenings which were
taken from one of the Broken cars of
the wrecked train. When asked how
he came into possession of these articles
Jones said he was in the vicinity of
Statesville when the wreck occurred,
and that the cards of Colonel Cameron
and the window fastenings were given
to him as "mementoes" of the terrible
accident. Alter he was put in jail the
mm refused to talk any more the mat
ter.. He also had other articles about
him which caused suspicion.
European War Newav,
1 The war-like news from Europe yes
terdaythe reported seizure of a port
on the island of Mitylene, near the Dar
danelles, by Great B ritain was an ab
sorbing subject of . conversation on
'Change and around town. It caused a
decided drop in the cotton market 'at
New York.
' The island on which the seizure was
made is in the Egean sea, and is sixty
miles from the Dardanelles, Tt has a
population of about 40,000; is covered
with pine forest and is traversed with a
mountain range 3,000 feet in height. ' It
has several good harbors. The land is
fertile and produces cotton, oil, turpen
tine and fruits. . . - i
We Think Not. " ; 1.
The Charlotte News learns that it is
very probable the -office of the Train
Master of the Carolina Central Railroad
will be removed to Charlotte. There,
has been some talk of this sort, and also
in- regard to the remWal of the Super
intendent's office; but we do not look
for any such change; It Ts not likely
that the Carolina Central people will
Jake everything away from Wilmington.
A, Brunswick County Wild Cat.
A big wild cat the size of a setter
dog and as fierce 4s a circular saw in
motion was brought to" town yesterday
by an old darkey named Jeff Asher Hy
ing near Mount? Misery. The cat was
caught in a steel-trap, and its hind Jegs
were badly lacerated. It was purchased
by a young gentleman whois the happy
owner of a rattlesnake and other: rare
live stock. ? : - ' . i
A Very Old Age.
nTSpe
A gentleman from render county,
tells the Star, of the death of Mrs. An
nie Devane, aged 99 years 11 months and
six days. She died ne&r Harrell's Store
on Black river, on Saturday, Sept. 5th.
Of a large family of children all prece
ded her to the grave save, one Mrs,
Melvin, a married daughter. . . i -
A NEW RtVtNUt W i ' -
COTTON FACT3 ANDIFIGURES.
---The New York - Journal of Com
merce estimates the . cotton crop on the
Rt.ah trooDSon the island of Mitylene
near the' Dardanelles, excited j consider
able interest on 'Change, and around
town yesterday. ... j
Augusta. Georgia. Accounts from
the crops are less favorable, the past
continuous rains having materially dam
aged cotton. V There are also; reports of
rust, shedding and light fruitage of late
cotton coming from a number of pomts.
Picking is progressing and pew cotton
comes in freely. , It has rained heavily
on one day of the week, : - "ji ' .
r v Dallas, Texas. Rain is needed
every where very badly, but it is "almost
too late to benefit cotton. -The damage,
however, is greatly exaggerated, the
beincr full of sensational re-
nnrta pstimatinorthe crop at from thirty
to sixty per cent.
, . . c -
less than last year,
This is sheer nonsense, out it is quuc
"
probable that the yield may prove to be
ten per cent, less than last season, aijd
even fifteen per cent, does not look un
reasonable. More than this appears as
yet absurd. ' . -
Columbia. S.. C Sept. 12. The
weekly crop bulletin for the State says
the estimate of an injury of 25 per cent,
is fully verified by correspondents,, and
as it has rained yesterday, and is still
raining, it is more than probable that
the estimate of the injury will be in
creased. , The prospect for an ordinary
average yield will be gloomy indeed,
and the crop will be a short one with the
most favorable seasons for the remain-deirof-the
month- I
Charlotte 'v News Farmers who
were in the city to-day report that open
bolls ofcotton are to be seen here and
there in the fields. It is very probable
that Mecklenburg's first new bale will
come to the market -before the. present
week is ended. V
New York Bulletin Ptint Cloths.
The market for-'printing cloths is
strong, and business in 64x4s has been
reported to-day at 8c per yard; no change
being made in 56x60s. Whatever may
be the prevailing opinion here on the
question of possible labor troubles, ad
vices from Fall River say that "strike
talk" is predominant there. j
Augusta Chronicle: "Cotton is a
fool, and the more you know about Jt
the more you don't know," was the
unique and paradoxical declaration of a
dealer xa 'Change yesterday. There
is a great difference of opinion about
the size of the growing crop, and a
prominent factor offered to bet another
yesterday that he could not guess
within 300,000 bales of what the next
crop would be.,
Atlanta, Sept. 12. Rain fell all
day yesterday. Its effect was very dam
aging. While the pickers' strike is
doubtful, the talk of it has demoralized
labor. The negroes are excited and
holding meetings to such an extent that
in Lee and Burke counties the pickets
pu- in only about half timei Many
com plaints of damage by rust and cate;-.
pillars are received, but cotton is com
ing into market thus far much , superior
to the average last year crop. George
W. Truitt. one of the largest planters in .
the State, estimates the shortage at 33
per cent. ?f
Augusta Chronicle. '
There - are several factors that will
enter into determining .the size of the
crop the rust the worms and continued
rains; but, most of all, the early or late
coming of frost. An early c frost will
greatly reduce the yield, while a frost
deferred untir November will mean an
other crop of more than eight million
bales. The guessers on 'Change yester
day varied a million bales in their esti
mates on the crop, running all the way
from 7,250.000 to 8,250,000 bales.
N. Y. Com. Bulletin.
The report as to cotton is also sur
prising. Recent accounts from certain
quarters indicated that this crop had
sustained great injury; but, for reasons
given by us on the 10th instant, those
reports were exposed to the suspicion
tof great exaggeration. The government
report places the condition September
1st only 6.2 points lower than it was last
year at the same time; and that figure
may perhaps be regarded as harmoniz
ing with the best trade opinion on the
subject. The current Southern esti
mates of the yield this year range
around 7,250,000 bales; but that, figure
must be regarded as put forth in behalf
of speculative interests, and, if the gov
ernment reports are fairly accurate, the
yield must be much-larger.
Augusta Chronicle: ' I saw a num
ber of bales sampled yesterday in a
leading warehouse, and in several of
them the cotton was badly mixed. ' The
farmers have been frequently advised
against this in the Chronicle, and they
are doing themselves a great injustice
to put poor cotton in a bale with good
cotton. Instead of averaging up the
bale and working off the poor cotton at
a better price, they cause their good
cotton to lose in value. Cotton is class
ed by the lowest grade in the bale, and
where a farmer puts 100 pounds 7 cents
totton with 400 pounds of 8 cents cot
ton, instead of working off his 100
pounds at the higher price, be causes
the 400 pounds to go at the lower price.
Farmers should remember this.
... Savannah News r The receipts of
cotton at the ports yesterday proved a
considerable surprise to the cotton men
and a big point in favor of the bears.
The receipts at Savannah were 9,837
bales, against 7,753 bales the same day
last year. While this would have caused
remark, it was still . more remarkable
when the reports shewed the. total re
ceipts at all ports for the day to hae
been . 38,411 bales, against 87,507 last
year. In the face of the unusually fa
vorable cr6p conditions and. heavy early
movement of last year this was some
what of a surprise. The - market went
off immediately. The prices upon good
"grades from low; middling to. middling
fair declined of " a cent during the
day; ca'used .by the reports of the heavy
receipts and the decline of the . New
York market from the same cause. If
this keeps up the market will go down
with a tumble. '
- The Liverpool Post after reviewing
the recent advance, says:
"There is no mystery at all aboit the
movement. . The market has advanced
d per pound, . not because of any
change in the facts of the case, but be
cause prices had by successful bearing
and a mistaken diagnosis of the situa
tion been forced too low. - Those who
i have had sufficient wisdom to orasn tVi
I fea condition ot aitairs, and who have
aiso naa sumcient strength of mind to
resist the plausible blandishments of
lssmist writers, have done well, but the
victims well, they have done badly
and h is to be hoped that they will
profit by their experience. As to the
probable course ot the market for the
immediate future, it is only natural to
look for a reaction. After a gigantic
business and a sharp advance, there
always comes a slackened demand and
an easing off in values. ' -
.-. " u Te Ktn-Mii rnort at
DaSISOJurcMww i .. ,t i 1A . rkffio rvf tV. I
RICHMOND TERMINAL.
aaiam of the Comsany at Work on
Plan to Extend its Floating Debt.
- r t "by Telegraph to the Morning Str.
floating debt but at the end of the day
it was stated that nothing definite had
been ' accomplished. Among those
present at the meeting of the Executive
committee were George J. Gould, John
H. Inroan, Abram b. Hewitt,; John a.
T?Mtrnrfrrri and Samuel Thomas. ;
It was reported after tfie meeting that
notice had.been receiveatnai $o,uuu,vuu
could be counted on at once u tnecom-mitiee-should
aeree upon a plan to ex
tend the floatinir debts of the various
mmDanies in the system, similar to that
adopted by the .Union Pacific company.
,rresiaent - inman . says u. u"
hat io ono.ooo collateral trust notes
mill h issuer! imaranteed by the Rich
mond Terminal company, each of the
allied companies depositing collateral
to secure its own floating debt.
It is WBcially stated that the floating
ht of the Richmond Terminal com-
nanv is 4530.000: the Georgia Central.
$3,800,000; Richmond and Danville, $3,-
200,000, and East Tennessee,
SMOKELESS POWDER.
Important Besulta of Experiments Made
by the TJ. 8. Maval Ordnance Bureau,.
Washington, Sept. 14. At Newport
torpedo station the ; Naval Ordnance
Bureau is conducting a set of progres
sive experiments upon various formulas
for smokeless powder. . Now. is is be
believed that the ideal powder for small
arms has been obtained,, as a velocity of
-2,180 feet per second .has been given a
rifle ball with low pressure of 11.9 tons
in the towder chamber. The new pow
der is safe, cheab and convenient. - with
gun cotton as its base, gives remarkably
regular results, and as it has been de
veloped by naval officers the Govern
ment will not have to pay a royalty
its' use. N . . '
for
The Ordnance Bureau of the navy
has secured some remarkable results
from the recent trial of the new six-inch
rifled gun built at the Washington nayy
yard. This gun is probably the longest
piece of its bore yet undertaken, being
forty calibre in length or twenty feet m
ternal length, and has just thrown its
projectile 2,180 feet in one second with
out exceeding fifteen tons pressure to
the square inch in the chamber. This
type has resulted so well that it will be
used for the armament of the "twin crui
sers known as cruisers 12 and 13, now.
Duueung.
ANOTHER OUTRAGE.
A White. Woman in Union County, S. C,
Assaulted by a Negro.
ColumbiaL S. C, Sept. 14. A special
to the Register from Union Springs, S:
C, says a negro named Bob Woodson,
yesterday committed an assault on Mrs.
Jackson Powell, living at the alms
house, three miles from here. She was
alone in the! house and the brute ac
complished his purpose, before her
screams brought her husband to the
scene. The negro knocked the old man
down and escaped. A warrant has been
sworn out for his arrest, and a large
party is scouring the woods for him,
and if he is caught they will not wait
for a trial. Woodson is a notorious
character, and if caught will make the
seventh negro lynched in this section
for this offence. .
FATAL SHOOTING.
Wm. McKeo jEilled by a Constable Near
Charlotte, IT, C.
Charlotte, N. C,
Sept. 14. Wil-
liam McKeej a young white man of
Clear Creek township,this county, was
this morning shot and instantly
killed by j Constable Phillips. A
bell was stolen from the church over
a year ago add had been found in Mc
Kee's possession. Constable Phillips
went to McKe's house with a warrant
for his-arresL The constable claims
that McKee resisted: and that he shot
him in self-dejfence. The bullet entered
McKee 's backj, killing him- instantly. .
ANOTHER jEXPRESS ROBBERY.
$2,560 Taken rom a Car on the Missouri,
TTannftj & Texas Eailroad.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
St. Louis! jseptember 16. A dispatch
from Muskogee, I. TH says: The Mis
souri, Kansas j& Texas south-bound pas
senger train yas held up and the ex
press car robbjed at 9.80 last night, four
miles north of wagoner, l he roDDers
covered the train officials with their pis
tols, and two of their number entered
the express car.: They ordered the ex
press man to open the large steel safe;
which he was unable to do, and it took
considerable arguing before he could
convince the robbers of bis utter inabil
ity to comply. They thereupon dumped
the small iron chest, which contained
$2,560. out of the express car door, broke
it open and took the entire amount.
They made no attempt to trouble the
passengers, and there was but one shot
fired. The robbers were masked witH
red flannel, and after completing the
job took to the woods with their bootv,
Officers have left Muskogee in pursuit
ot the roDDers.-
MASS. REPUBLICANS.
State Convention at Boston C. H. Allen,
of Lowell, Nominated for Governor.
? By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Boston, Sept. 16.--The Republican
State Convention met here to-day. The
report of the Committee on Credentials
was presented and agreed to. Ex-Gov,
Long then presented to the Convention
the name ot w. W. Crapo, of New Bed
ford, as candidate for Governor, and
Gen. Coggswell, of Salem, presented the
nameot cnaries H. AUen, ot Lowell.
The platform was presented and
adopted. A committee of tellers was
appointed and balloting for a "candidate
for Governor occupied the time until
2.25, when a recess was taken until 8 p.
rn to allow tellers time to count the
ballots.
A a f t. m
' nx o.io me result was announced as
follows: Total number of votes cast
1,231; necessary to a choice 616. Caoo
had
ot, Alien via, w. ti. Hale 1.
Henry Cabot Lodge 1, Frank Green-
halge 1. Allen's nomination was then
made unanimous.
a ROBBERS CAPTURED.
The Two Men "Who. Held TJp the Central
B. B. Train Near Savannah, Ga,
By Telegraph to the Morning Stat.
Savannah, Ga Sept. 16. A special
to the Morning 'News from Madison,
Fla says:, The 'robbers who held up
the.Central Railroad train five miles
irom bavannah last Friday night, were
captured at Mosely Hillr seventeen miles
irom Madison,, at 4.30 o clock this morn
ing, after a sharp resistance, bv a detec
tive's posse. They will reach Savannah
to-morrow, ;
Baeeklnt Arante Salve.
i he Dejt balve in the world tor UU
Bruises, bores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum
Fever, Sores, vTetters, Chapped Hands
wuuoiains,uorns. and all Skin itruptioni
sum positively cures f lies o no pay is
required. It is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction; or morey refunded. Price
6 eents per box. Fo; sale by Robert
R. Bellamy, Wholesale and Retail Drug
gists. , i
SPIRITS TURPENTINh.
Greensboro Workman-
latest front the bedside of Auditor,
- .uiiuiLiun snows but
after a protracted illness, which she bn
with truA Vi t-io-:nM. . r'"
Bettie J. Ellerbe. wife of John r v rs-
be, Esq., and daughter of the late Wn'
nam.D. voie, isq., aged about 50 year
Dave Leak and Louis Steele t v
colored men of this place, became in
volved in a quarrel one day this week
wnicn resuuea in ixuis hittire Dave
the head with? the handle of a grubbine
noe, Dreasmg ir.e skuu in two placed
The doctors say that it may prove fatal'
IUII 19 111 JCIH.
rr- Raleigh News and Observe.
Conductor - Seitzer, of the Hillsboro
street car line, received a very severe
shock from an Hectric wire Sunday '
night. The trolly pole jumped the
wire, and Mr. Seitzer went up on the
car to readjust it. He caught hold of
the pole.; and his Jtand came in contact
wun me copper wire, wnicn runs down
into" the ; car. This would not have
burnt him, however, if he not acciden
tally touched a telephone wire about
the same time, lius "grounded" him
in the parlance of t lectricians, and he
received a severe sb-ck knocking him
almost senseless, ft p-hs at first feareri
that the shock was fatal, but he soon
revivea, ana ine omy injury sustained
3 . J I
was he severe burning of his hands.
Maxtoa Union: Son:e of the
rntton nlanters of South Carolina ,-
taking off cotton pickers f y the score
from this section. ,we arc informed
that three wagon loads of colored peo-
nie were taken lrom tne neero churrn
fast Sunday night to the cotton fields of
South Carolina. 11 this thing continues
what are our farmers to do for pickers?
It should be stopped. A gentle
man brought into our office on Monday
a stalk of crab-grass which measured
six teet ana ten' incnes in ncieht. It
town whose, we will not say; he was
not an Alliance farmer, however. ;And
yet some people say that grass cannot
be profitably raised in this section, An
acre of that grass would yield a long
shot better profit than an acre of cotton
at 7 cents per pound.
Goldsboro Headlight: Yester
day afternoon at 13:20 o'clock Mr. Will
E. Humphrey expired very suddenly in
the postofficeUuilding caused by a hem
orrhage of the lungs. He was at the
time in the postojfice getting his mail
when all at once a flow of blood began
to gush from his mouth and nose, and
before they could make him comforta
ble on a bed in the rear-of the postoffice
he was dead., Mr. Humphrey was in
the 38th year of his age and well known
throughout this and the adjoining
States as a polite and attentive hotel
Clerk, in which capacity he served faith
fully the McAdoo and Benbow Hotels;
at Greensboro, the Atlantic Hotel, at
Morehead. and more recently the Greg
ory Hotel here. The horribly mu
tilated body of an unknown colored
man who, presumably, was run over by
a passing train of the W. . & W. R. R.,
Sunday night, was found on the railroad
track, nine miles south irom this city,
early Monday morning.
Lenpir Topic :, A couple of old
maiden ladies, the Misses Bowman,
residents on Mulberry, having died
within the last year, left among their
effects some pieces of dress goods bought
at the old Fairfield store that were car
ried all during the war without being
made up and a set of cups and saucers;
bought at the same place, that had
never been used nor even washed.
Mr. L. P. Henkel has a "model farm"
near Lenoir, upon forty acres of which
he has raised, this year, 1,000 bushels of
oats, raising on some ot the land as
much as seventy-five bushels to the acre.
Mr. Henkel is now mowing from the
same land a crop of crab grass hay that
he considers worth as much to him as
the oat crop. Mr. Sidney Thompson,
aged about 73 years, aiea at nis resi
dence on upper Lower Creek Sunday
afternoon about sundown, and was
buried at the Henry Steele graveyard
tflVHUBJ . j
stricken with paralysis on Thursday
morning. '
r Tarboro Southerner: R. H.
Rowe is another trucker who shipped
potatoes to Brown & McMahon, Phila
delphia, Hcsent three barrels of pick
ed potatoes large and smooth. These
netted thirty-three cents, eleven cents a
barrel. The barrels cost Mr. Rowe ten
cents a piece, so nine cents was the
money which lodged in his pocket.
t Enfield is now enjoying a highly
seasoned sensation; A widower has de
parted with the wife of another man.
W. L. Alley is sl watch maker by profes
sion. For some time he had been dis-
i i r . t r r-
piaying a pencnam iot ine wiie ui tau
ter Carlisle, & most worthy citizen. Of
course the gossips went over all this,
but last week when, both were missing
their tongues went as never before.
Mrs. Carlisle is a young woman of about
25, with a charming figure. She carried
away the one child ot her marriage.
The husband has been trying to find
the runaways, not that he would bring
the erring woman back, but to get his
child. His inquiries so far have proven
fruitless. -
Gastonia Gazette: Quite a sen
sation was created on our streets last
Monday morning by two snakes, a cop-
girhead and king snake, which Mr.
obert Craig found coiled around each
other near his home and brought up
street. They were turned loose on the
sidewalk, in front of the bank where a
continual battle was . kept up between
them until the copperhead was exhaust
ed and he was pronounced beaten. Af
ter the fight was over the copperhead
was killed but the king snake is still
alive and in possession of john Moore.
'- Last Saturday afternoon the child
ren of Mr. Ci R. Starnes went out into
the woods near their home for the pur
pose of shooting a dog. Being very
sympathetic, they concluded to have
prayers before the execution of their
favorite. Kneeling down they were led
in oraver bv Mac Starnes. the oldest
son in the family. When about half
through, they were startled by a report
from a gun in the hands of Hope Starnes
and a cry from little five year old Mor-
' - - U Kill
row oiarnes, wno was sirucit oy iuc.""
from the gun. The ball entered his Jeg
from the back just above the knee, rang
ing downward. The doctors have as
yet been unable to- locate the ball and
have not succeeded in extracting it.
Kings Mountain News: We are
infnrm(H thar a lur Have arm A narlV
Revenue officers raided the distillery
Mr. W. R. Forbes, near town. It is al
leged that they found a barrel of
stamped .whiskey in his smokehouse.
This was seized and deposited in h'5
warehouse and his distillery suspended
On Wednesdaynight unknown persons
broke into the warehouse and stole wn
barrels of whiskey. . poc RudisiH.
the colored bully who was struck over
the head by John Connor with a stick m
wood on Monday night of last week.
died .Sunday night. Wednesday
m6rnine while Mrs. G. W. Cornwellffas
drawing a bucket of water, the puW
ceased to work and sne couia njaw
get the bucket up nordown. On inves
tigating she found that a large snaw
had become fastened in the pulley.
Cornwall was sent for and dispatcneo
the snake. Mr. Sumpter Ratterl
who lives on B iff alo, . brought us some
specimen bolls of a new kind of cotton
which he is raising. It is known as
Truitt. Mr.Rattereehas three-fourtM;
of an acre of the cotton and Mr. r
Hernden, also has a patch. The cotton
presents a fine appearance in the wj
the plant being tall and loaded :w
bolls. We have before us some oi
ungrown bolls that are as large as n
eggs.
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