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..ttlMINIj 1 ujn, w. u., . i V : - Y .1 7 , V Ml A 1 - , --'-7 sSs - ' -JL.OJG V V SMaSSAj I OTilK, ... 88888888888888888 npiwW S 8888888S8S8888883 8S3S8S88SSS88888S fSS888S8S8SS8S88 . - SS88S8822S888! 888 88888888883888588 8 M 10 e so e h w 10 s 13 . . r at to 10 co i ao a o- o t to TZZa at the Post Office at Wflmtgion, N. C, as j Second Class Matter. m. SUBSCRIPT ION K'KIUfc. Tht iuMcnP,iott pnca o th "Weekly BtM is aa i. rki-1 vear. oosrae paid. .$100 00 Smontht " " " . ao TAHITI1 REFORM, HOT SILVER. Hoa. Roser Q. Mills, of Texas, who spoke in. Mansfield, Ohio, last ;nr1av. tocK. tne. position tnat tariff reform was the vital question before trie peopie.ui mis country, i 'it froo cilvpr rntnan c XT- ana mi"- 41 -v w...6V w . McKiiley and John Sherman would imtp the voters of Ohio believe. He I said .1 ad spoken, written and voted for free coinage, but compared . with ' tariff reform it was a. minor question.' He went on to show that there has been coined since 18t8 $945,0pO,QOO of gold and silver, that under (he present law $60,000,000 of silver (certificates are issued annu- aily-fcir circulation, and that free coinage would add only $10,000,000" or$l?.000,000 a year to the circula- tiofl, w crease ;ich would not sufficiently m the volume of currency to make ii, the leading issue in our po litical j contests or place it above tariff reform, without which there could be no real and lasting pros perity in tnis country, however large the volume of currency might be. It is not the insufficiency of money, he contends, from which the coun try suffers, but the merciless plunder to -which the people are subjected, which robs them of their earnings to enrich the favored few, through an exorbitant tariff which increases the price of! what the people have to buy and at the same time decreases the price of! what they have to sell4 It has been estimated that the in crease Co the people or this country , in the jirice of home-made and im ported manufactures in consequence ofthe tariff aggregates $G00,000,OOOj or about $10 per capital Mr. Mills goes farther and . estimates it at 1400,000,000 ..; ' " We believe in free coinage; so does ir. Aims Deaeve in iree coinage, and so do a majority of the Demo crats of! Ohio believe in free coinage, arid so do a majority of the Demo crats in the United States believe in free coinage, and we believe if a vote irere taken on that question pure andrsimpie, a majority of the Re publicans in the United States would be in favor of it; but with this tax of 1,400,000,000, as Mr. Mills esti mates, of with the smaller sum of 000,000,000 as estimated by others, annually imposed upon and squeezed I it.. t -L.i r I out of consumers for the benefit of the protected manufacturers, how long would it be before they would absorb the bulk of the circulating medium increased by these $10,000,- 000 or $12,000,000 a year as they have been absorbing it for years? They can do it the more rapidly now because their capacity to absorb has been increased by the increase in the pro tectivel tariff from an average of for t r :.,.. ,.,. K.nf or about thirty-three per cent. Where ! they gobbled two dollars under ; the old tarjiff, they now gobble- three. Where! the people Ipaid two dollars tribute, thev 'now oav three, where the people as a whole paid $G00, ' 000,00j0, (leaving Out of considera tion Mr. Mills' higher -estimate); they now pay' $900,000,000." How long, ; we aslii, would it take to swallow, all we additional silver that -" would . or coma.be coined if we had tree coin age to ' The morrow?, IV':, e is a. stringency, oi money; . ' . . r therq is no doubt about that. Ihere is not enoutrhof it either iritne West or in the South to meet the de mands! of trade; not enough in the West to handle promptly the mov- grain croc nor in the South to . - i - -- - i handle; the cotton crop. . What has become of the $945,000, 000 of gold and silver that has been ' coined since 1878, and of the 60,- ' 000,000 of silver certificates which have been issued annually since the present silver purchase law went into effect ? The West has not got it. The South has not got it. More than tmis, Secretary Faster with his Treasury figures shows that there is more money in existence (but not in tirculation, as he alleges) than there has been at anytime since 1860, with , a per cabita circulation double as inuch as there was then. And again it' might be asked where is all this money and why so much complaint of scarcity in the South and in the West?1 -,. - ' The answer is that through , the protective tariff which taxes the people for thebenefit of the indus tries of a particular section of the country, and through the internal revenue system, this money -has Villi A A II .::y..; .- ' . . . . : . : .'--"i ' r.-:-- - - . ...... . . -. ........ ... , . . : r " ucen urawn to ttxe money centers, lpcked up in the Government vaults and the vaults of the Eastern banks. When Western or Southern banks need more , money than they have at command they must go to the Eastern- banks for it, r and thus It will be hile this high" tariff sys tem prevails to levy tribute upon thj people and filch from them their earnings for the benefit of manufac turers, mainly in the East, wh have been the special objects of legisla tive favoHtism for a generation. Be fore the equilibrium can be restored and the people look for reliefthat will be lasting this plundering! Ex hausting, monstrous system must be v.uauScu, iree stiver coinage or no J 1 1 ; r a iree suver coinage, and until that is Jon6 f ree coinage will not' give the I rciiei sougnt. : MIirOB MENTI0H. The high tariff advocates act on the presumption that the people are simpletous who Can be fooled with any sort of chatter. Senator Alli- . ., . . .. i.. uu' Ui tV 7 , g to P' . r"-.- l can afford to pay their proportion of the tariff for the protection of Ameri- J can manufacturers, because they are making money raising corn. 'And then he shows them how they are making money raising corn. Land, he says, worth $30 an acre will pro duce to the acre corn worth- $8.95. Putting the cost of producing it at f5.55 per , acre (which - is be low the cost) it will leave a profit - of $2.40 per ' acre or 11$ per cent on the value of the land, so that the farmer who plants 100 acres, say, of corn will find him self when his crop is sold wallowing in wealth with the princely amount of $340 in his pocket. This is, ac cording tp this Senatorial high tariff orator, the profit on 100 acres. He didn't, however, figure up' for. the corn-raiser how much he would get out of this for his time, and how much of it he would have left after paying f6r the groceries, the cloth ing, boots and shoes, &c, for himself and family, his taxes,' incidental ex penses, ore, all of which - have to come out of te $340. If that far mer has some children to educate he will have to., do itin the district school, if there is one within reach of him, and if he as any little mortgage to lift the probabilities are that it will be pretty musty before it is lifted. From the cable dispatches it looks as if the understanding between the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany to act jointly for the protection of their citizens resident in China is bringing the go-slow Chinese Government to its senses. It now offers specified sums of money in, compensation . for the loss of life and property in the districts in which these outrages have been committed. In addition to this it is reported that four leaders have been executed, twenty-one ban shed, and that five mandarins have" been adjudged r:t: a .i . remiss in failing to take measures to preserve order and willbe punished. Whether all this was before or after this joint agreement was made known,' is hot stated. The interest which the Chi nese Government so suddenly evinces in the protection of foreign residents is not inspired so much by a sense of what is due to them, as to the fear that retaliatory action by these pow ers will encourage the rebellious movement now planing and gather ing strength against the present dy nasty, and which threatens its over throw. That is a matter, however, which concerns the present dynasty more than foreign powers, whdse first consideration should be to pro tect their own people. John Bull is thriity. He always has an eye to busipess. The British Minister to China seems to be a pos itive, matter of fact, determined sort of man who believes that the right man to make the Chinese govern- ment move with proper celerity in the protection of the lives and prop erty of foreign residents in China is for the foreign powers to take retal iatory measures for the protection ot their people. While deprecating and protesting against the tardiness with which the Chinese Government acts in the promulgation of its edicts he draws the comforting assurance (and here is where he shows the John Bull eye to business) that not withstanding the . present choatic state of affairs the ; ultimate result will be the extension of British trade in districts now closed. , It will be orettv safe to say' that the thrifty Britain will not fail to to take ad vantage of its opportunities. A Republican newspaper corre spondent has discovered anotner "richest vein of tin ore in the world.", With the number of tin ore mines that are being discovered, and the number of tin-plate factories the Republican editors are ' building there is no reason why this shouldn't soon be a tin-plated country.'., :r - . Mr,"Thos.,J. Jackson, of. the railway mail service, was one of the visitors at the Star office last night. - THE BIRD LAW. The Old Law' With, the Amendmenta " . .Adopted by the Last Iiegislattire. There are hundreds of true sports men in North Carolina who would like to see the game laws rigidly enforced. lne matter is, therefore, referred to again in the Star "lor Rreatercertainty' astfte lawyers say. The . law, Section 834 of the Code, is as follows: -. . "No person shall kill or shoot, trao or net any ' partridges, quail, doves, robins, lark,, mocking birds, or wild tur keys, between thei first day of April and the fifteenth day off October of each year; and the person 90 offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not exceeding ten dollars for each offence." ThU section was ameflded by the last Legislature by striking out the words first 'day of April and fifteenth day of October and substituting therefor the words "fifteenth day of March and first day pf November, There Is no excuse,; therefore, for not understanding that it is unlawful to shoot., trap or net any of the birds named between the fifteenth day of " March of November. and the ; first day The penalty : for law is a maximum Violation of this fine of And it ten 'dollars for, each offence' should mot be 1 forgotten that every bird Trilled iconstitutes aseparate j offence. So. the law-breaker who goes luc "C1U son?c nne aay Deiorevtne first of November!; "just to practice" bis "pups." and bags ten partridges, may have to pay onls hundred dollars in fines, which would certainly, make hia birds "corne a leetle high. J' fHi"c, wiupuscu i ui mpicw sovereigns saouia legalize tne shooting of mockjing bird v the lavorite song-bird of the South, at any. season, is one or tnose ireaKS tnat no leilow can ever explain. FINE WEATHER FOR CROPS. Cotton . Opening jEapidly and Picking QeneralBepoft of the Weather Crop : Bulletin. The reports of correspondents of the Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin issued by the North Carolina Experiment Station and State Weather Service, for the week ending Friday,. Sept. 25th, 1891, show that the weather, during the past week has been remarkably fine; No rain fell any where, and evfry day was bright and warm. The excess in temperature for the week averaged over 6 degrees, the deficiency in precipitation about 1.80 inches. Cotton is opening rapidly and picking has become general. The leaves are beginning to fall, enab ling the sun to reach the bolls and ripen jthem. The . crop is from three to jfive weeks late. The weather has been excellent for harvest ing work of all kinds. Rain is needed to enable farmers to prepare land for wheat and oats, of which a larger quan tity than usual will be seeded this year. The' prospects aire for continued warm weather. no frost p heioef-pfohabl next i weeK.Tmr-pru5dut wnauion oi crops is as follows: V Eastern District Cotton 72, corn 83, tobacco 82. Central District Cotton 72, corn 88, tobacco 79. .i i Western District Cotton 74, corn 91, tobacco 85. For the,. State tobacco 82. (110 50 counties.) V - - ; -Cotton 73,' corn 87, reports, representing CONSERVATIVE OPINIONS. y . Season of Activity Predicted for the South Speculation the Only Digturl Factor. ' The Philadelphia Record, , a thorough ly reliable and conservative paper, thinks that "in all branches of trade there is promise "of a busy Season, and prelimin ary signs of "activity may already be noted in many commercial quarters. The tendency toward advanced prices, however, is impeded by a doubt of the ability of financial managers to carry on extensive speculation,.while at the same time undertaking 10 supply the funds for the ready and rapid movement . of the crops." "' j Mr. Henry Cleti s is of opinion that "perhaps the only danger lies in the usual tendency of speculative move ments to rush from one extreme to an other and therety quickly exhaust themselves." j . The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record makes the prediction 'that during the latter part of this year there win be in creased activity throughout the South, followed in 1892 ty still better times; with heavy investments of outside money in railroadi in mineral and tim-'-ber properties and in manufacturing en terprises. - All in all, there is a cheerful outlook. PITT COURT. OeorKe Dudley Sentenced to Be Hanged December 4 Judge Connor. Special Star Telegram. ' Greenville, N. C, Sept. 26th. George Dudley, murderer of Red mond Blow, was convicted, at this term of Pitt Superior j: Court,: and to-day Judge Connor sentenced him to7 -.hang on December 4th. The ', killing was over a ten-cent card game.' The mur derer was arrested! near Richmond, Va., by officer May, of Wilson, who received one hundred'dollars reward offered, by the Governor. Judge Connor is receiving much praise here and is pronounced without a superior on the bench of the Mate. PROGRESS AT ROCKY MOUNT- S6ectal Sar Correspondence. Rocky Mt., Sept. 26, 1891. Onward and upward is now the or der of the day. Notwithstanding those n6w under headway, ten more contracts have been , let out; for new residences. Progress in improvements is slow and steady, but sure, j The greatest - draw back to a more rapid improvement is the want ot capital. We are travelling along slowly and steadily, but we are getting there, tieavy lODacco saics daily in each of the (three) warehouses and prices good. ! - ; ' - ' Mr.' D. W. Hobbs, of Clinton, was among the visitors in " town yester-. day. - ; I: ' :-- ':- - i : -i- Mr.' , S.'; W Troublefietd,v of Rocky Point, is in the city on a short visit. KILLED HIS WIFE AND CHILD. urUOT Dy manner ear jmt Tr . . j A horrible brutal double murder, was committed in Onslow county last week, wuc uvuiiin. oi wnicn npwever, are i r'T'"" "T to OD: namTrr T: five a a jl. in ia:M f 4 if n eb - v neat a-yimT"sr ar seat, and his victims were his own wife uu imant cairn, wnom ne Kuiea intne most fiendish manner jy stampingup on J auu Kicking inem to aeatn. :.jno cause for the murder is stated. : - : The couple had been married about I two years: the wife's maiden name bein Alice Walton. - -1 i . , ' Lewis was arrested shortlvaftj?!" com., f mitting the murder, and was committed I a . . . . . .. io await inai at tne next term or the Superior Court for Onslow county. There was: the Star's informant says, strong talk of lynching Lewis, but better counsel finally prevailed. " Bates to Southern Exposition at Ealeigh I aom xioixn. Carolina Jfolnts, vi At- Untie Coast Idne. ' , , . Tickets sold September! 29th to No- i veraber 80th; limited to December 3rd, 1891, at the rate of three and a half cents per mile for the round trip. Rate from Wilmington $5.15, including admission to the Exposition. . -;. ! .: ' Tickets sold on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays of each week, commenc ing September 29th, and : ending Nc- vember 2ftth 1801 limitA mvv. dav- at the rate of abont one cent per mile travelled. Rate from Wilmington &3.80, including admission to the Ex position. . From Virginia and South Carolina points: - .- Tickets sold on Tuesdays and Wed nesdays in each week, commencing September 29th" and ending November 25th, 1891, limited to December 3rd, 1891, at the rate of three arid a half cents per mile for the round trip. Fifty cents added to above rates for admission coupon. Tickets not good for return passage unless stamped by agent at the Exposition grounds. - Quick Work. t . Cornelius Bloodworth, a negro, com mitted a theft yesterday morning about 3 o clock, was arrested and the case in vestigated at the Mayor's Court and by the grand jury, and he was then arraign ed in the Criminal Court and sentenced to the penitentiary all of which, was done in about twelve - hours. The offi cer who made the arrest was a witness at the Mayor's Court and the Criminal Court, and, also, a member of the grand jury that found "a true bill." In another instance, of a fight or af- K..t menttjQnt -hours, th eL 1)7 1 tried at -a Justices Court, ana Tciav case was also in the Criminal Court, after being I passed upon by the grand juty, The Murder of Simeon Conoley. A' correspondent of the Star at Rockingham writes: "Millard F. Moore, of Antioch, Robe son county, who was one ot the parties arresTed as being accessory to the mur der of Simeon Conoley last Spring and who was discharged because there was no evidence in any way connecting' him with the affair, was in town to-day ... at his usual avocation, trading stock, and it has been reported that he had fled the State, but be wants the people to know that he will be on hand at Robeson court in October at the trial of D. A. McDougald." ZTaval Stores Stocks. Stocks of naval stores at the ports at the close of the week are reported as follows: Spirits turpentine New York, 1,052 casks; Wilmington 2,075; Savannah, 22,851; Charleston, 1,072. Total, 26,65,0 casks. . Rosin New York '25,080 bbls; Wil mington, 40,699; Savannah, 79,848; Char leston, 13,216. Total, 158.34S barrels. Tar New York,, 526 barrels; Wil mington, 1,995.'" Total, 2,521 barrels. The meld Editor Accepts. . -, Mr. S. E. Ottaway, of Onslow county, was a visitor at the Star office yester day. He invited our field editor to come down and take a bear hunt with him, which the f. e. will be sure to do as soon as the temperature takes a tumble. Mr. Ottaway seems to think no more of killing a bear than the average Wil mington sportsman does of slaughter ing a marsh hen. Mr. Ottaway may look out for us in November. The Oyster Iiaw, : The attention of the Star has been called to the fact that chapter 838 of the jLaws of 1891, regulating the taking of oysters from State lands, as well as the creating of oyster lands in the State, does not apply to Onslow county. - Hence, the interests of the New River Oyster Company and others interested in oyster culture on New River, are not affected by. whatever1 the Goyernor may; do in the premises.' " -' - -'A ' " ' Assignment of CoL Hedrick , . . Announcement of the assignment of Col. Jno. T. Hedirck. drv eroods" dealer of this city, was received with profound reeret bv the Colonel's many - friends here . The amount of assets and liabili ties is not stated; but there are no pre ferred creditors. The difficulty of mafc ing collections, with the prolonged sick ness of Col. . Hedrick, durine which-he has been totally incapacitated for busi- ness,were probably the causes of the as signment, ; The Star P.P. was very much gratified to : receive a visit yesterday from bis bid friend, John D. Souther .laid, of Kenansville, and was glad . to see him m so much better health .man he was some years ago. Representative J. T; Kerr was a visitor at the Star office, yesterday. Mr. Kerr is not only a good- legislator. but an excellent farmer. MHTTPC A A VLWi ;-ir,.-,;---jiv';?-- fecp- 1 - - ' -: ' -v i-ia :.n(I.J ATll : t-t-T: "ww w, f toFv snbscnbers rwliose SttbSCrtptiOllS haV6 tlir Tf ia nf 1 BLarav m-aavai. at - aa mm m v aaa aaaaa. bllt ft SilllDlO TBCIIieSt I ::t jr ,- "T- I i - - - . . . I tliaX tUl "WI10 ET6 lH t tUS I rears for the STAR mQ .k . 'ti , , , v Ul . lip Willi V, Ul UlUUb ramUfatiAA - "We 8,re 8eHdiHi? OTlt I e tT -I..D111S. H0W.'-.ft'' t6WeaCfl,. C weeK), and it yon re- ueive one piease give lb VOUX attention. the burg aw reunion. A Largo Attendance Addresses by Gov. Holt, Col. Hall and OoL Taylor, and : the Ziadiea, "God Bless Them." The reunion of ex-Confederate Vte- rans at Burgaw yesterday, was a grand success. The programme was carried out as arranged, and all expressed them selves as well pleased. There were pre sent about one thousand, among whom were a large number of ladies who added . much -.. to -- the pleasure and enjoyment ' of the occasion. The Second Regiment Band, of this city, went up on the Wilmington & Wel- don R. R. on the 9 o'clock train and con tributed largely towards' making the re union an overwhelming success. Many were the words of praise and good wishes lavished on our boys by the "Old Vets" and ladies, especially by . the lat ter; and it is safe to say that Wilming ton and Burgaw are 1ound to gether by closer Ties than . ever - be fore. The band on arrival matched to the Court House, where Col. E.D. Hall read the programme, and thence to Croom's hotel, where the procession was formed in the order as published in the Star., The procession started on its line ot march through the prin cipal streets of the town to the public square where a stand had been erected in the grove for the accommodation of the speakers. .Rev. Colin Shaw opened the exercises with a very fervent prayer, and was fol lowed by Col. Hall, who, in a very neat and happily worded speech introduced Gov. Holt. The -speech of the', Gover nor was forcible, and was well received by his hearers, who showed their appre- rtycheers. ! At i o ciock a sum tizmg dinner was spread by the ladies on tables built for the purpose. This part of. the programme needs, special mention, as the tables "fairly groaned" nder the heavy v load of good things. and the quantity and variety of edibles vhich were produced from the: baskets were certainly surprising, and especially gratifying to those whose good, fortune had permitted them to receive the hospitality of the graceful and fair daughters of Pender. ;. h i Shortly after dinner Col. Jno. D. a i Taylor made a short address which was well delivered ana repiete witn reminiscences of the war. During the remarks of the different speakers the old veterans paid close attention and their eloquence seemed to vividly bring back old scenes and experiences and many an eye was dimmed with tears. Both before and i after the exercises of the day the old veterans exchanged friendly greetings and spoke of the days past and gone. -It was indeed affecting to see them grasp , each other; by the hand and with tears and tremulous voices recall old times. - 1 1 " At the conclusion of the. speeches the Veterans' Association held a meeting in the Court House, and after roll-call ad journed to meet Thursday before the fourth Sunday of this month. At this meeting they will 'decide when and where to hold the next reunion. . ' The Second Regiment Band returned to the city last night, ,reaehing here on the 6 o'clock train. The Governor and other visitors also left for their homes yesterday evening. Thus closed a most enjoyable occasion and every one departed for their homes wishing for the speedy return of the time for the next reunion. Too much Cannot be said for those who labored so hard - to make this reunion a success. Among those deserving special mention are the ladies who graced the "occasion ; with their presence and prepared "such a splendid "dinner, the committee who arranged the programme and saw. that it was properly observed, and last," but not least, our own Second Regiment Band' which discoursed such sweet music at intervals during the day. Mr. E. W. Kerr, of Clinton, on ac-.-. . .. - . .... count ot missing ranroaa connection. 'was unable to reach Burgaw in time to deliver an address as announced. ' "N. The First Oottdu Steamer. British steamship Strathyre, Alexan der, cleared yesterday for Bremen, Ger many, with" 4,820 bales cotton, weighing 2,449,144 pounds and valued at$192,800. Cargo and ; vessel by Messrs. Alex. Sprunt & Son. j . The first - steamer last year was the Picton, which was also cleared by Messrs.' Sprunt & Son, on the 18th of September, for Liverpool, ! She was fol lowed " by the Carn Brea September 23d, and Xht'Amoor and Camiola on the 24th. ; Mr. Archie Toon, a prominent farmer of Whiteville, N C, was a wel come visitor at the Star office yester day. J " ' ' : : Col. E. W. Fonville, of Duck Creek, Onslow county, was in the city jesterday. He . reports crops except cotton in fine condition. , COTTON FACT8 AND FIGURES. . m . K - : .t- From Chester, S. U to ; Norfolk, va., tne freight on cotton is" 47 cents per hundred pounds; From Chester to Wilmington, 33 cents; or 70 cents per bale of 600 pounds in favbr of Wilming- SesWd the cotton to mature very , rapidly. The fields are urhite nnv nnrf nir!rfno." yin niD. and marketing are going ahead very last, l he experience of our farm- very fast. The exderii ers year by which, they sufferejjUsd heavily , m holding their cotton,, has caused them to give up all thought of holding this year, and the crop wilt come upon the market as soon as the bales leave the gin-house. .- The generally ! fair, warm weather which has prevailed throughout the cotton belt for nearly three weeks is largely responsible for the heavy move- mem oi tne crop, ui late tne , days nave been very warm with r cool nights. The hot . day, are causing the cotton Doiis.to open oeiore, they are luUy ma tured, while the cool nierhts cause shed ding of the growing bolls. The effect of tne not days and cool nights, if long continuea, wm oe to considerably short en the crop. - i Augusta Chronicle'. In spite of fair weather and tremendous: receipts, the cotton market climbs steadily upward. Bears are disgusted, and even the sellers, with bullish proclivities, are somewhat amazed at the strength of the market-. I asked a factor last night how he ac counted for the rise in prices in the face of the big receipts and fair weather, and his reply was that it would puzzle the smartest man in the business to tell. Cotton is a fool and frequently does just what you are convinced it will not do. New Orleans, SepC 25. The crop statement from September 1 to September 24, inclusive, is as follows : ; Port receipts 504,762 bales, against 546,056 last year; overland to mills and Canada 24,194, against 20.541; interior stock in excess of beptember 1 52,371, against 52,239; Southern mill takings 41,529, against 41,529; amount of crop brought into sight during twenty-five days ot deptember 622,856, against 630,- 865; amount ot crop brought into sight for week 856,300, against 245,163. I t Cotton advices from Gadsden, Ala., state : "The weather has been exceed ingly favorable for the growth, jand ma turity of .cotton. The recent rains have caused the young fruit on the early plant to grow large and mature well. The . early plant is very well fruited, large and healthy. The late plant is now aomg much better than the early. The plant has been so much stimulated by the favorable weather the past week that it would now be very bard to dam age it by dry weather. With favorable weather we may yet see as large a crop as tnat ot last year." , , The New York Herald says'. "Bulls maintain that the crop is fully 1,000,000 bales smaller than that of last year and that the large receipts at the ports do not disprove this,' as the bears them selves claim that there are 500,000 bales of the old crop held back,' though the artmn rAAti1 that th epaenn 1Q in manv I some contend that the season is in many respects like that of 1884. when the mar ket was sold down sharply . through a disbelief in reports of N damage to the crop. The decline in September and October of that year they recall was suc- - 1 . J 1 J f J.J 1 1 ceeaea uy a ucciueu auvance wucu wc damage to the crop became manifest." ' The Augusta Chronicle: On a rea sonable supposition from what is picked up day by day from people who make the cotton, aand ought to know its pros pects and condition, we do not think the crop of 1891-92 will exceed, Including all the old cotton which will be market ed on every good advance.7,500,00 bales. Just here we will remind the public that cotton is lower than it has been since the war; that the consumption is equal to the demand and is about equal to the production; that the product last year was below the average in gradejthat the Continent have been buying sparing ly;that trade is moderately good.andlast but not least,th growing crop will prove to be the smallest one made since 1886. RAILROAD NOTES. The total income of the South Carolina Railway for the year ending June 80t 1891, .summarized from : its monthly reports, was tl.681,502, an in crease over the previous year of $260,- 740-percentage of Increase 18.85 per cent. v ; Of late there has been great com petition among the engineers oft the C. C & A. road in making the run from Charlotte to Columbia a distance of 110 miles. Some very speedy runs have been the result, and Engineer Alexan der recently broke the record with a run of two hours and fifty-three min utes, making twenty-five stops. Super intendent Dodson hasput a quietus on this competition and has issued a bulle tin to the master of trains giving in structions that .the run must not be made in less than three hours and ten minutes. - - ' i .. " I Mr. Berner has introduced an im- portant bill In the Georgia Legislature, "to authorize proceedings against cer tain corporations," etc It is made the duty of the railroad commission,- with the aid of the attorney general, to in stitute proceedings against any railroad company or other corporation now ex empt from taxation for any violation of its charter, heretofore or hereafter com mitted and said corporation may re lieve itself of all penalties for said vio lations by filing with the Secretary : of State consent in writing to submit to taxation, and when rsaid consent Is so filed it shall constitute and be an amend ment to the charters of all said corpora tions to the extent of subjecting them to taxation tor all purposes. It was stated yesterday on railroad authority, says the Columbia , Register y that the . Richmond ' and Danville and South Bound people had entered into arrangement for the entrance. of the South Bound trains into Columbia, The details so far as could be learned, -were that the bouth - Bound Koad was to meet Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta track about two miles from its junction with the bouth Carolina ail way. The Augusta and Danville company is to erect a station at the bouthlBound junc tion, providing it with an operator, and undertake to direct the running ot the South Bound trains into and out of the Union depot, jior the present the South Bound agents will use the old Colum bia and Greenville 1 freight depot for freight traffic. It was also stated that similar facilities and rights of way had been awarded the South Bound Rail way at the Savannah end by the Rich mond and Danville authorities NO. 46 GOVERNMENT .FINANCES. Cash Balance in the Treasury Beceipta Daring the Month-4-Bond Bedemp- tions, &o. ! : ic'j N'Vxx.' '.' : By Telegraph to the Morning Star. " Washington, September 24. The net cash balance in the iTreasury to-day is $43,745,458. Of this amount $17,270, 802 is subsidiary silver coin; $13,699,228 js . deposited in national bank deposi tories, and $374,835 is minor coin and fractional currency. - ; , . Receipts of the leovernment thus far during the month f rom jcustoms," inter nal revenue, etc- have exceeded ex penditures, (aside from j redemption of bonds), by $2,800,000 in round numbers. - The per cent bonds at the Treas ury Department to-dav for continuance as '2 per cents, amounted to $26,000, makine the total thus I far continued $20,996,850. The 4K per cent, bonds received at the Department to-dav for redemption aggregated $65,400. . Re demption at the New York sub-treas ury yesterday aggregated $41,500. mak ing the total redemption! to date $16. 729,450. There is yet outstanding $9,142,900 of the 4U per cent, loan which has not yet :leen continued or redeemed. ' There remain s only five official, days in which any of these bonds will be redeemed for continuance per cent., as the Secretary , has eriven notice that the time will expire on the 30th inst. " . . The Government deposits in National bank depositaries have never been re duced to $18,699,228. j - , ; ' Secretary Foster does not contem plate any immediate further , reduction other than what will take place as. the result of the recent Call on certain banks and the entire abolition of other deposi taries in some of the towns where there were more than was deemed necessary. The' total " amount of Government holdings in National banks will thus be brought down to about $12,000,000. FEARFUL PANIC. In a Crowded Colored Church. Th reo v Persona Fatally Injured and Many Se riously Hurt. . By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . . . , Jacksonville, , FlaJ Sept. 24.- Just before 12 o'clock last night a panic oc curred in Harmony Baptist Church, (colored), during which one woman was killed, three others received fatal iniu-' lies, and about twenty people were seri ously crushed and bruised. The church stands on West . State street, near- the outskirts of the city, and an 'all night revival meeting was being held there. suddenly the gaslights began to flicker badly, owing to somesjdefect ; in the pipes. The audience was made up of nearly five hundred negroes, all under more or less religious . excitement. The flicker of lights at once appealed to the superstition of the worshippers as a supernatural visitation. A deacon arose to leave and the whole audience then arose to their feet. The lights went out entirely. One frenzied wor shipper . shouted, s Judgment, Judg ment!" at which the crowd became, wild with fear. A grand rush was made for the narrow door. There ! were cries of "murder! "fire! and somebody yelled ttJM :..! Xt . 11 -1 j ; r - -. ; , trampled the weak and rushed out over their prostrate bodies. Many jumped from windows and were injured in. the . lall and by broken glass. The panic lasted fifteen or twenty minutes, , and when - "the building was lighted up again over a dozen people .ay bruised and bleeding on the floor. . Jne girl Maggie Clark aed 16, wa, dead..,. Medical aid was summoned and the injured soon had their wounds dressed. 1At least three were fatally injured. 1 i, Ihe accident attracted nearly two thousand people to 'th neighborhood and quiet was not restored till morning. DEATH DEALING SENTENCE. TEN NEGRO MEN SENTENCED TO BE HANGED AJfc IiauronB, B. C, on the Twenty-Third Day of October Next fori the Murder of & Colored Man'. -Charleston, S; C, Sept. 25. The most death dealing sentence in the an nals of this State, except in cases of in surrection, was passed at Laurens to day, ten negro men being sentenced to be hanged for the murder of another negro. I he charge was Conspiracy and murder, borne months ago Jim Young, Monroe : Young, Henderson Young, Allen Young, John Atkinson, Life At kinson, John Adams, . Perry Adams and . Jack Williams,, all colored; having - some cause of quarrel against 1 bornton Nance' also colored, arranged a plan to take has life and car ried it out successfully. At this term of Laurens Court they were all convicted. Motion-was made for a new trial, but it was refused and ' Judge Hudson sen tenced the whole- ten to I be hanged on October 23d next. 1 ' At the same term of Court. Ike Kin- yard, colored, was convicted of the mur der of Samuel G. Oxe, a white man, and was sentenced to be hanged October 16th thus making eleven negroes sen tenced to death at these bloody assizes. FIRE AT SAVANNAH. One ofthe Finest Buildings in the City . Burned The Losses and Insurance; By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Savannah, Sept. 25.t-G. Guicken- hemmer& Son's six story wholesale gro cery and liquor building and its en tire stocK, were Durnea jto-nignt. ine building was one of the finest in the city, and was gutted. The total loss will be $375,000 to S450i)00. with esti mated $200,000 insurance on stock ; and $40,000 on building. - f 5 ... v - : t The fire is burning herjceiy and halt a dozen adjoining buildings have caught, MURDER AND LYNCHING. A White Man Fatally Shot by a Kegr -m ..t at Asheville. " .. 1 Asheville, Ni C., September 25. Fred. Tyler, white, engineer on the W. N. C R. R., and Hezekiah Rankin, col ored, got into an altercation at the round house last night. Tyler struck Rankin with a -lump of coal. Rankin ran off and gorpistol, and coming back fired at Tyler, striking him i the abdomen. A crowd of railroad men caught Rankin and taking him across the river hanged him to a tree. . Tyler will die. : , - Rev. Howard Macqueary, who a few days since resigned from thepriesthood of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Cleveland, Ohio, pending his sentence of temporary suspension on the charges of heresy, last evening was formally de posed by Bishop Leonard at Trinity Cathedral just alter the close ot even- . A ' - 1 ....... l .. . ipg proyer service; r: 1 , Asheville Mountawf-fftime Jour- naiy.The Asheville postoffice, costing $100,000, now nearing completion, will, with probably one exception, be the finest in the old North State. The building is 94x104, and 104 feet high to the top of the tower. The foundations extend 20 feet below the. basement floor, and is brick with concrete bottom, while the basement walls are three feet thick, faced with Wadesboro," N. C, browns stonei - -; :v-' - Statesville Zanmark s Mr. O: Witter applied to the County Commis- ' sioners at their meeting on the 17th for a license to retail liquor in Statesville. and the license being refused, made ap plication to Judge Armheldfor a writ of mandamus against the commissioners. The Judge issued- an alternative writ. returnable : at Statesville October 2d, commanding the commissioners to issue the license as applied for or appear and show cause why they refused to'do so. -r Newbern Journals -. Mr. Cyrus who lives in . Jones county, six miles south of . Maysville, took a trip in On slow county last week for his own satis faction to see what was being done towards building the railroad: He found a force of hands, . mules and carts hard at work grading the places that', had been passed by between Jacksonville -and Maysville on the first time" going over the road grading, found the people along the line hopeful in regard to the i future prosecution of the work, and was assured by Mr. Hinton, one of the men in charge, of the certainty of its being . built right on to Newbern. .'Mr. Josh Gaskins, brother of Mr. Wm. Gas kins, of this city, died last Saturday ,-the 19th inst., at his residence near Grants boro," after a brief illness. .; He, was 62, years of age. . .- ."".'"f "..? - Ruthcrfordton Banner: .One day last week a plan was organized and --arrangements made by some parties-in f pit county, whereby it was expected that a quantity of cash would be pro cured without doing any honest labor. : In pursuance of the plan, a horse and wagon was stolen from Esq.- Markham, and aftet breaking open the storehouse Mr. John Garrison's safe - was loaded onto the wagon and driven to a secure Spot where it could be broken into with out interruption. The safe was robbed of a hundred or two of dollars and three or four watches. In a day or two some of the money wasf spent and very soon identified. Also the watches were seen on the person of some colored dudes. Result: Five negroes in Polk county jail, and warrants in the hands of the Sheriff for the arrest of three white men who are supposed to have been connected with the theft. y -.. Greenville Reflector:1. We hear that Mr. E. N. Hatton accidentally shot himself one evening last week He and - Mr, Thos. Langley went to Chicod creek to hunt squirrels and set nets. About dark Mr; Hatton went into an . old camp house and started to set his fun down when it slipped through a ole in the floor, the hammer striking a timber and discharging the whole-load which gave him a severe flesh wound in the side. Quite a stir was made in Williamston during court week. One of the county officers not" returning home as soon as . his wife thought he should she went to hunt him and found him with another . county officer and -several lawyers in a gambling saloon. She quietly asked her husband if he did not think it would be better for them to be at . home with : their children. Turning to another man she Inquired if fie did not have a wife at home; he re- ylied"Yes." "Then you had better be at home with her." - -. Raleigh Chronicle (Fayetteville -dispatch, 21st): Maj. John B. Broad- -foot, commandant of the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry, returned from Raleigh to-day where he received from the State Treasurer a Check for . $250 being the appropriation made by -the last Legislature for our company. The announcement of this : fact at the : with cheers wUfcii ieiiiiiiuca-tww , die.rs of the rebel yells which commenc- -ed at the battle of Bethel where this company made a glorious record for -Southern manhood, having ; borne the brunt of "the . heroic charge made; by Maj. Winthrop of the . Federal army, ' and lasted until Appomatox soqnded -the death -knell of Southern hopes. -The F. L. L. . I. can boast of as. good soldiers as ever shouldered the musket or drew the sword, and the ; muster roll of the; company for almost a century . past has called the names, of some of -North Crrolina's, yea, many of North Carolina's, most . prominent . citizens. . Work on the $25,000 armory of the . . company will soOn be commenced, and ; when completed will be a showy build ing in the now already attractive blocks .; in the old and hospitable town of Fay-1 etteville. Winston Sentinel :.'' A negro " named Mack Reed was arrested hereto- day upon a warrant from the sheriff of Randolph county, charging him "with stealing a horse in that county a lew days ago. Mack vows that he did not . commit the theft; that he traded his horse to a white man for a mule, with the understanding that if the mule did not prove all O. K. the trade was not to be valid. . The mule was a kicker, as well as a failure all around, Mack Bays, and in accordance with the trade he took the mule back to the man's house, and. finding no one at home, he took - his horse from the pasture and left the mule in his stead. We were in formed to-day of the particulars of the killing of a young man on the railroad near Rural Hall last Saturday night. The accident occurred on the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley road,- one mile and a , half this side of Germanton,, shortly after dark on the above named night. His head was crushed, but no one heard of the accident until the body was lound on the track Sunday morning by Mr. Aug. Kider. The name of the unfortu nate man was Frank Sapp. son of Mr. -Benj. Sapp, an industrious old 'farmer who lives dear Rnral Hall. Young Sapp ' went to Germanton Saturday and left there in the afternoon very much intoxicated.'- ; ' - --' '. ":' " -. i Red Springs Farmer and Scot tish Chief: Miss Dian McCallum - died at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Mc Lean, in this county, on Sunday last. . aged 78 years. yThe cotton crop -will not come up to the figures published.-- There is no top crop and the yield will not exceed that of last year. The crop of corn and tomatoes will be enor mous. 1 he grading on tne snort Cut between Fayetteville and Rowland is completed, and as soon as the brid- ges and trestling are done the iron will be laidand the great line of transporta tion from the North to the South will be opened - to the world. The ... number of people in this section .who have attained the age df eighty years .' is astonishing. Several have gone over one hundred years. One reached the age of one hundred and eight. Names and - records can " be furnished to the . doubting - Thomases. The number of squirrels in the woods around Red Springs is immense. Fox squirrels have made their appear ance also. Ducks are abundant, ajjd we predict that, pigeons will appear in due season to feed on the vast acorn mast.-. Charles Oxendine, a ; well-to-do Croatan, was - accidentally Kinea near Wakulla, a few days since. The tackle ' used in hoisting cotton in the gin-house fell upon him, fracturing his skull so that he died after a few hours' suffering. A new railway from Laurinburg to Mill Prong' is being projected, and if this thing don't stop soon our county will be Cut up by railways. We have five railroads witnin our ; borders now, : and a sixth' approaching Lumberton from ee Bluff. ' A railroad connecting Laurinburg with Mill Prong will pass through a fine .'timbered section, and peopled by thrifty farmers. ' r mi: j. . ' t ? i ... ': f i i ' : i , - t t. II
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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