North Carolina Newspapers

-f ' : Y i : ' '. t it i- e,. I V WILLIAM H, BBEAED, r . Editor and Proprietor. - WILMINGTON, N. C. 1 f FklDAY, October 2, 1891. 557- In writing to change yonr addraj tyiafi give former direction aa well aa full P"?"6""": yon wish your peper to be tent hereof te& ;UpletToo do both changes can not be made. t s v ' ' tST NoUces of Marriage or Death, TributerofRe--apect, Resolutiona ot Thanks, &c, are charged for aa ordinary advertisements, but only hall I ratea when pai for strictly in advance. At thij rate 60 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Ueaur ... t3T" Remittances must be made by Check, Draft' Posttl Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmar ten will register letten when desired. ' Only suchiremittancei will be at the risk of the " Specimen copies forwaroeo wnen oeairen.- THE INCOKE TAX. ' There seems to be some confusion ; of ideas in-the popular mind as to ' , th6 meaning; and scope of the in come tax, which asi a revenue pro- ducer is proving a failure if not a farce. Opinions vary very much, notwithstanding State Treasurer . Bain's interpretation of the meaning; of the act, as to what should or should not be given in as "net in come," some holding that "all in come above; the expenses absolutely necessary for conducting- a man's business andjsupporting his family," should' be listed,: others that only "what remains after these expenses 'are deducted" is taxable, while others hold that "nfoney saved and invest ed in taxable property should not be : listed as income."! We think : the first of these have struck the intent of the law which was to tax a man's clear profit af ter the cost of conducting " his business and supporting his fami ly is deducted, but a question might arise as to what are "absolutely ' necessary expenses." One jnay be 1 a poor manager and therefore spend much more in conducting his busi t ness than a more thrifty man would - In the same business, and another be : a free liver and spend twice as much " ijis his more economical neighbor, so the question of expenses must be 1 left to the conscience of the'yister, I and that's where the weak spot of ..the present income tax act is. -The intent of Ihe law undoubtedly : -as that the net profits, free of in-j ' umbrance '.of any kind, free from y leqiands of any kind, after reasonnJ ; :-.ble deduction for suppprt of fami-j ;. should be taxed; but when the j l-islature made the amount to be deducted for expenses of business 1 and family optional it destroyed the ! effect and left but little "income." . Whether the income saved and in vested on taxable property should belisted depends on whether it had i paid any tax as income before being , ' so invested. The savings that are 5 invested inj taxable property pay tax from the time they are so invest i f ed and would, if taxed as income, -;Rf&W,r 4HfilatSei'of rehe constitution prohibiting the taxing of incomes, (from property otherwise . ; taxed. Under the previous acts there was little ground -for misunder .; standing, for they allowed $1,000 for expenses of business" and of family (which practically meant for support ; of fam jy) and taxed as income all ' over that amount. When the last Legislature struck out . the $1,000 exemption it probably did more than 'it . meant, and it became nec essary for the State Treasurer to ex plain that it 'was not the income but the nit income, as provided for Jin the Machinery Act, , which must be listed. His, construction , of "net fSjncome": made every citizen the t,ju,tJ2r-f' his income and hence the confusion that followed. . - The constitutional prohibition of -taxing incomes derived from proper ty already taxed, coupled with the latitudinousi exemption now allowed, practically makes the income tax law .. a;' nullity, and about the only purpose jfnow serves is to show how few people there are in . North Carolina who are earning anything more than ? i their necessary expenses, if the small -: number of names on the tax lists as income-possessors and the large num ! ber that are! not beanv indication. If it was intended to raise revenue it is as it stands now a signal failure, and if it was not intended to raise ; revenue it should be repealed, for the : only purposie itjiow serves is to show how little cash the people of this "" ate have j laid up to their credit, 'I iie showing is not good enough to 1. bi? desirable. - : ', ; "' : ; : While the 'constitution in section : 3, article 5 empiBwers the Legisla . ture-to levy an income : tai, and in the same clause limits the Legisla ture toMevying the tax only on such incomes as are not : derived from some business or . property! already taxed, ait Income tax in this State will never amount to much, for there Js but little money in the State that . ' don't come from sources that are i taxed. As to -the equity of it, it will hardly be questioned that money ' which escapes taxation in r other X ways should.pay it in this way, but T it pays so little that the utility or !; expediency ot continuing it may - very well bequestioned. . Practically speaking the limita tions on the; law, and the xee inter ,; pretation of "net income" by Treas ; urer. Bain, allowing the lister to de duct the expenses of 1 his business and his household, renders the act a nullity as a revenue raiser, and strikes only- tjhe man who Jias an in i come from 'sources not taxed, who is thrifty enough to save something .'out. of it over and above his "ex . penses," or the man who has more . conscience than the' average ' tax lister. i . - " , - t A FOOL 0E AJFBAUD. i ' The farmers of Washington coun i ty, Ohio, never knew how" well 'off 149 out of 150 of them and 149 out of 150 of all the other farmers In .this country are, and how thankful ,they should be that it fell to their fortun ate lot to be farmers until Col. Rob ert E. Doan, a Republican member of Congress, who resides in Clinton county, told them. te - had been studying up 'on the f arming business, comparing it with the other callings in which men are engaged and gave the result of his investigations as follows: , Thirty-nine out fit everyforty- law yers, sixty-one oat of every sixty-two bankers, ninety-two out of every ninety three merchants, eighty-seven out , of every eighty-eight manufacturers and capitalists, and nmetv-mne out of every one hundred in all other . professions and trades die in . poverty and bank ruptcy, while on the other hand 149 out of every 150 farmers die surrounded with wealth, comfort and plenty. - According to the report of the meeting this rich ' effusion "produced a profound silence.' Well, we should think it did, for the farmers who listened to it doubtless sat there with their mouths open in astonishment, wondering what kind of a lunatic that was talking to them, or why they hadn't themselves discovered that they were the most fortunate people in this whole world, and that they had struck-upon the daisy in dustry and were' following it all their lives without knowing it, and that although they might scuffle along and find it pretty rough at" times, raising wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, cattle, hogs, sheep &x, &c, to get the money , to pay, the little debts they might occasionally contract, and ' the sixty per cent, tariff tribute to keep the protected man ufacturers out of the poor house, they still had the satisfaction of knowing that 149 out of 150 of them were going to die (no matter how they lived) "surrounded with wealth, comfort and plenty." They never, might have thought 'this, however, if Col. Doan hadn't kindly taken the trouble to investigate it and told them so. If it hadn't been for this they might have gone on discontented, growling and grum bling and imagined themselves on the ragged edge, just as they had been doing, until Col. Doan turned , on his calcium lights and exhibited the panorama in all its vivid reality, with the happy farmer sitting over there under his own vine and fig tree (this is an improvised fig tree, however, as the nearest thing to the fig out in that country is the Buckeye persimmon) "surrounded with wealth, comfort and . plenty," while the lawyers, bankers' merchants, manufacturers, capitalists, and all the other trades and professions are scrambling along, imagining that they are scooping things, but really meander- the poor house, so to speak, where they finally wind up and die. If Col. Doan is not already a farmer as well as; a Colonel, a Con gressman and an investigator, and he don't go right straignt and buy a ! patch of land somewhere, in New England, for instance, where he could make his pick from some of the thousands of abandoned farms, we . will be compelled to consider him an eighteen carat idiot or a twenty-four carat fraud. We very much incline to the opinion that he is the latter and took the people who listened to him for the former. " If Col. Doan had told his hearers that a majority of the people in - the various callings fail to attain great wealth he would have told them the truth, and if he had said that the money which very many of them made finally' passed out of their pos session and they died poor he would have been simply telling the story of human failure, more frequently illustrated in this speculative country, where the "almighty" but elusive dol lar is so eagerly pursued, than in any other, but when he asserted that 99 out of a hundred men in all the other callings die in poverty while 149 out of 150 farmers die wealthy, and that in a State, , too, with over $200,000,000 of mort gaged arms, we don't know which to rank first, the idiotic nonsense, in the statement, if the man was in earnest, or the amazing cheek .which would have so pre sumed on the credulity of an ordin arily intelligent people. ' If some of those farmers to whom he talked this nonsense had asked jhim how it was, if farming was such a favored calling, that the farmers of this country owed to the men of Other callings, principally capitalists who, are heading for the dark grounds of poverty over $2,000,000, 000, how would he have answered them? If he were asked how in the great farming State of Kansas, with :its rich lands, the farmers owed mortgages to the amount of $355,000,000 mainly to Eastern capitalists, "andall contracted with in the past high tariff twen ty five years, how would he account jfor it? And if some one then had asked him how and how soon the farmers of this country 'Were going to pay up the $2,000,000,000 they pwe to others, and revel in the wealth that he says is theirs, .what would he have sajd? r There are in Ohic, as there are in other States wealthy farmers, who have become so by farming and by the increased valuation. of their lands in consequence' of the building of railroads, increased population, etc., but they are - the 'exception, not the rule. The calling of the f armerwhen It is wisely pursued, while it' offers no Xf avenue to speedy or great wealth, is about as sure a road j to jiltimate competenoe as any and s one of the most independent of all ballings, but lot a man to seriously J say , in ; the presence of intelligent people, with the statistics of the progress and con dition oi the country which are made bv the Government every, ten years, that nearly 'every other falling is a failure and leads to poverty and that only the farmer succeeds! and reaches wealth comfort, and plenty , is too ridiculously absurd. . - MINOR MEHTIOJT. ' Ex U. S. Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, Is m some ;respects a. singularly.unfortunate man.. In the Senate be never could " do anything because he had established the rep utation of being an intolerable bore, andevery time he rose to speak " on one of his hobbies there was a break for the cloak rooms,' which generally left hirn speaking to the presiding officer and vacant chairs Thus as a Senator he became a conspicuous failure. When he was appointed Minister to China some anti-Chinese speeches which he delivered in the Senate were brought to the attention of the Chinese Government, which, therefore, declined to receive him as Minister. Afterwards hiss name was mentioned for the missionj to Russia, whereupon the New York Sun re produced extracts from a speech whicn he had delivered, bit terly . denunciatory ' of the Russian Government, which would have caused his rejection by that Government -if jhe had been appointed. ' Now hts name is mentioned as the probable! successor of Commissioner of Pensions, Raum, whose place, it is rumored, will soon become vacant, and this same Sun like an avenging Nemesis; pursues him and shows his unfitness for that position by citing a case and pro ducing the proof where he sued a widow 67 years of age, and got judgment! for $100.31, fpr-alleged services ten years before in procur ing a pension, (her son,) her only support, having been' killed in the War,) when he had rendered no ser vice whatever, and all that was done was done through a pension agent residing in Concord, to turned the papers over. whom he He e6t writ of execution against! her little $500 farm, all she had in the world, in 1880, for services alleged to have been rendered in 1871, but didn't enforce the writ because he was 'then a candidate for the U. S. Sena torship, and feared, public sentiment. The Sun produces this as an illustra tion of this man's interest in the soldier, of whom he sow claims to be a friend. at -,.-. Henry Clews, of New York, has iness outlook and its bearing upon stocks, &c. After a brief survey of the situation in the stock market, he draws a pretty bright horoscope as follows : But the one great fact remains that of all nations on the earth we are this year most wonderfully favored in respect to the products of the soil. With assured lenty at home and scarcity abroad the arming classes of the United States have before them a period of prosperity to which they have long been strangers. Not only the railroads and business in terests generally will benefit directly from large and paying crops, but in an other respect, so far not fullt appreci ated, will they receive advantage. .The 'farmers of the northwest have fr years beea overridden with debt; and the discontent thus prompted lhas been at the bottom of all the injurious currency and anti-railroad agitations. If the estimate that our wheat, icorn, oat and cotton crops will prove worth $2,000,000,000, and there is nolreason to doubt these figures, it is safe to assert that hundreds ot millions of farm mort gages will be paid off. in par ot full, Lenders have had such unpleasant ex periences with this sort of security that they will be glad to regain their money; and borrowers win be equally j eager to escape the heavy ihteresi charges which swamped hard earned savings. Con tentment will "N succeed, discontent amongst the farmers, and we shall hear less of the crazy currency and silver agitations, which have held capital in fear and trembling the last few years. For the farmers' alliance there will be ho further use whatever; and, we may also hope for more decent treatment of railroad interests from the various State legislatures. On the other hand, the capital released from farm mortgages must find investment somewhere; and this, as already said, is a point often overlooked in estimating the future de mand for stocks. Such influences as these are at the bottom of the present movement, -and account for " the stub bornness with which the publii is hold ing fast to stocks." ! Much of the capital released from farm mortgages here referred to as seeking investment somewhere will doubtless, turn Southward wherelf will find employment in the building of railroads, opening pf mines, es tablishing of manufactories, iron mills and other industries," and thus" the South will gain by the great grain crop of the West and be a sharer in the general prosperity. ' The platform adopted by the De mocracy of Massachusetts n Jheir State Convention Tuesday leaves no doubt a6 to how the Democrats of that State stand on the issues of the day. Outside of State issues it de mands a repeal of , the provlsionsaof the Mckinley, tariff which jnprease the rates ot duty, and the enactment of a genuine measure of tariff reform, arraigns the Republican administra tion forits contempt for and open violations of the civil service law; It -favors the bi-metalism which makes no . distinction " between gold - and silver,! and so pa per currency . redeemable efr silver, at the option in gold of the holder, but not at the discretion of the U. S. Treasurer. "It opposes free and unlimited coinage of silver ex cept upon international "agreement as to standard ofjvalue which sim ply means that the coin of Jthe United States shall be the coin not only of the United States, but a coinj of the world recognized at . tts face value everywhere. This sounds 'nice and would be nice if attainable. A uni versal coin like a universal language would be a good thing; but it is. something the drafters of this plank of the . platform will neyec - see. The nations : of the ; "world, will no . . more . harmonize upon the money question than they will upon a universal language, for while gold is the favorite coin of some, silver is of others, and so will continue to be. Although we do not agree with : the Democrats of Massachusetts in their uncompromising, declared ' opposi tion to free and unlimited coinage, we commend their candor, We al ways like to know just where to find friend or foe. ' After all, this is not so much a question of party as of section, and a man may be- a' very good Democrat, whether he be for or against free coinage of either, silver or gold. On sectional and not.' on party lines" it will1 be eventually fought and settled, if settled at all. . - Leprosy is spreading so fast in the island of Jamaica that it threatens to exterminate the entire population. OCTOBER WEATHER. Condition that are Likely to Prevail Dui- :.' ins the Present Month.": The following will probably be the weather conditions here during the month of . October. The data is fur nished by Mr. F. : P. Chaffee, Weather Bureau Observer, and is based on the records of observations at this place during October for the past twenty" years, Rain occurs most often . on the 1st, 5th, 11th. 12th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d, 26th, 27th. 80th and 81st. The greatest daily rainfall for any October Was 4.51 inches on the 11th, in 1885. We usually have it slightly warmer between "the 2d and 5th. followed by several days of cool weather, then warm er about the 10th and 11th, followed by a cold wave between the 15th and 18th and 'again between the 23d and 26th, warmer on the 27th and 28th; the month ending with another cool change, The highest temperature in October, was 92 in 1884; the least, 85 in 1887. Cloudless days average about one In every four. Northeast is the prevailing wind, which blows at an average rate of five miles per hour The maximum, hourly wind velocity, for any October, was 47 miles from ihe west, on the 6th, in 1873. :: " ' More Information Wanted. Tovell Marston, of Houston, Texas, writes to ask, "Do" you know anybody in your city by the name of Maberry B. (jrey, or any of his heirs. If so. please inform me of them. If you don't know, please turn this over to the Wilmington Star. Maberry B. Grey .lived near Wilmington some forty or, fifty years ago." : . : '' , ' - ' Morning Star, wants the name of some good reliable insurance company of North Carolina. It really seems as if Wilmington ought to have a Bureau of Information. Belifdona Awakening In Pender. A correspondent of the Star writes that the meeting at Burgaw has begun well-height additions to the church. Rev. Wm. Jenkins preaches to a . full house morning and evening. The meeting at Riley's Creek closed with fifty additions to the church. Rev. Wm. Swain, the pastor, preached. r The Oyster Law. As the Star stated, months ago, the oyster law does not include Masonboro, Wrightsville or Topsail Sounds. The old women and men and the boys and girls can go right along, as ' they have heretofore done, and pick up the oysters by the peck or bushel without fear of molestation.. f . f- Mr. L. L. "Mallard, a prominent merchant of Wallace, N. C., wasin the city, yesterday on business. - Capt. 'George Shannonhouse, for fifteen years conductor on the Caro lina Central, has resigned and will open a furniture house in Monroe. ; Mr. J. H. Biggerstaff, of WeT don, has taken charge of the Atlantic Coast Line restaurant in place of Mr. Parker who is off for a few weeks. The wife of Geo. H. Gilligan, who was sentenced to twelve .' years in the State Penitentiary for bigamy, is in the city on a visit to her erring husband. His brother is also here. Mr. A. B. Nichols, of Nichols; S. C, and Messrs. A: F. Powell, A. C. Thompson, of Vineland all subscribers to the Daily Star were in the city yesterday, registered at The Orton. t . The - Star, congratulates j its young friends J. D. Bellamy, Jr., Jri, Albert S. Williams and L. A. Blue on the privilege of appending to their re spective names the familiar words "Eter nally ; at Law." Let an alias capias issue, Mr. Clerk. -::''..: .'. ;. Appointment Wilmington Jlstrlet-p Fonrtn Qaarterly Sleetlns. Grace Church, Oct. 8 and 4. Robeson circuit, at Hopewell, Oct. 10 and 11. ; Bladen circuit, at Windsor, Oct. 14 and 15. . . : Brunswick mission, at New Hope, Oct. 17 and 18. Clinton ' circuit, at Johnson, Oct.v 24 and 25. : Scott's Hill circuit, at Union, Oct? 28 and 29. Cokesbury circuit, at Cokesbury, Oct. 81 and Nov. 1. Sampson circuit, at Hall's Nov. 2 and 8. V Southport, Nov. 5. - - ... . : - Brunswick circuit, at Zion, Nov. 7 and 8. - - - . - v Bladen Street Station, - Nov. 8, at night. . v - - : Whiteville Circuit at'Cerro Gordo, Nov. 13 and 18. . . - Waccamaw circuit, at Old Dock, Nov. 14 and 15. : ,r - .-i-- Market Street, Nov; 18. :.". ' f Kenansyille circuit, at Charity, Nov. iv ana xu. - - ... . Magnolia circuit. It Trinity, Nov. 21 and 22. - :: ; ;; - ... . . Local preachers and trustees" are ex pected to have their reports ready. . - j r - F. D. Swindell, P, E. GREAT 13 CHARLOTTE. 1 An Artillery Oompany Organised to Form Part of toe Naval Beserve of the TTnited states. ; , . -. ' ; - Thft Citizens of Charlotte have taken the initiative for North- jCaoltna In a matter that some of the seaport towns of the State might just as well have, un dertaken months ago, and has organized an artillery company that will form part. of the naval militia" of the States? as au thorized by act of the last Congress, for the purpose ' of . training men in the handling of heavy guns now used bn war-ships of "the y, S. Navy. Such companies have been formed in some of the coast ? towns of ; New England and there was some talk last winter of the formation of a company at Newbern J and one at Southport in this State;- but nothing came of it in - either instance, and the city of Charlotte now bears the distinguished honor of haying the Only artillery company in the State, and can besides brag -of being the only inland town in the country from Maine to the Rio Grande that can boast of a naval militia. . .'. : . . - . . ' . '"- - Under the act of Congress referred to, one or more vessels of the Navy wilL be fitted as training ships, and for a few weeks each summer will be stationed at towns where such companfes have been formed, receive them on board, and give the men careful instruction in all the duties A the service. '. r How they will manage to get . one of these war-ships to Charlotte is hard to conceive; but this is a problem for the Navy Department to struggle with, and it will doubtless be readily solved.and in a manner satisfactory to all concerned. It was, perhaps, never contemplated by the framers of the law that inland towns would furnish companies for the naval "reserve, but the fact that Char lotte, hundreds of miles from the ocean, has done so, is suggestive. It is the country boy, who has never seen a sheet of jwater .broader than his neighbor's mill-pond whose mind is filled with the "poetry of the sea" its grandeur and beauty; whose first declamatory ex ercise was "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck," and who can tell you " ' all about Nelson at Trafalgar and Perrys victory on Lake Champlain, who would make almost any reasonable sacrifice of time and money to have it to say that he had trodden the deck of a real-war ship and helped to load and fire the big guns, besides being initiated into the art of "splicing the main brace, and sundry other tricks ahd devices peculiar to life on ship-board. And af ter all a modern war-ship with its pon derous breech-loaders, its dynamite guns, its intricate machinery, would, be as great an object of wonder and amaze ment to an ordinary salt-water sailor, as to jthe greenest country boy living. At all events. Charlotte has "taken the cake," and a newspaper paragraph' informs the public that Adjutant Gen eral Glenn of the N. C. State Guard, has returned to Raleigh from Washing ton, D. C. where he made arrangements for the equipment of the Gharlotte ar tillery as a, company of the naval re serve. It will be armed with Gatling guns, and the small arms will be the -Hotchkiss rifle as used in the navy. The company will have seventy-five officers "j -" -v. iuu. ; itts commanded by Stuart W. Cramer, a graduate of the Nval Academy. Tke Peanut Crop. A leading commission house of Nor folk has issued a circular, based on in formation received from its correspon dents, from which the following extract is made: r , 7 ("The peanut situation, as to the growing crop, can be briefly summed up in the following statement: that with no disaster to happen to it from now, it will be about half as large as last year's", which we will also consider putting it at three-quarters of an average crop. This, wie believe, warrants us in hoping for better prices than we have been having. We do not expect these higher prices, though, till the first shipments of damp and inferior stock are over, nor till the distributing merchants throughout the country can be brought to realize the crop is a short one. These causes may iw t nmc rower prices, out we ao not think they will remain down long." Assignment of Btr. Will Hunter. ! ne iroiasuoro jirgus makes an nouncement of the failure of Mr. Will Hunter, proprietor of the Hotel Gre ory in that place, and late of the Island beach. Hotel at the Hammocks. The Argus adds: . j " ! He has made an nssinrrivnnt tn Ulr Johnt F. Southerland for the benefit of nis creditors. For two years Mr. Hun ter has been more or less dissatisfied with the hotel incumbrances he! had m. Uiled upon himself here by the merging ot mc Ariingion-uregory, Out his con tracts were such that be could i not re lieve himself until finallv ho miHo.tho above transfer in order to get to a basis oi cenainty.. Me hopes to-pay his en tire indebtedness in full. i The Payetteville Postmasterslus. j A report reached Fayetteville, by telegraph from; -Washington City, yes terday, that George W. Scurlock, a col ored man, had been, or would be, ap pointed Postmaster of that townj to suc ceed D. F. Wemyss. whose remcval was recently; recommended by his bonds men. George is a nephew of o d man Bjob Scurlock, of Wilmington. ; , Chance on the' Carolina Central. j Capt. Harry P. Tohpson succeeds Capt. George Shannonhouse is conduc tor of the Seaboard Air Line's fast train between Charlotte and Raleigh Capt D. K. F. Everett succeeds Capt. John son on the run between Charlotte and Wilmington. -; f . i For -the Star. - A LIVELY SCENE, j ; Mr. Editor: We werenn New River a few days ago and beheld a lively scene. Small boats, canoes, sharpies and! scows, going in various directions! snowing evidences of a general "hustling;" so to speak. Upon inquiry we were itold by a citizen that all 'these craft were en gaged in taking small oysters from the lower part of the river to Stone's Bay at a cost of. from three' to five cents per bushel, and that in two years they Would grow to make from three i to five bushels for every one planted; that they would theft be worth from 65 to 80 cents on the landing. - This shows a profit of from 1700 to 2000 per cent, in two years. Was ever such profit heard oj before in any business that was -safe and legiti mate? v What are the business men of the State doing that they do -not inves tigate this wonderful field of profit? - - 1 Engineer. COTTON FACT3 AND FIGURES. , - Cotton closed firm at an advance of an eighth in the Wilmington raarci. yesterday. Sales were maae on a bi ot 8 cents for middling. - ' " - Reports of damage, to the cotton crop are very conflicting, 'No one pre dicts a crop of more than 8,000,000 bales.-and-frdm this maximum the estimates raneedown to 750,000 bales.- Unoer these circumstances it will Require some tall guessing to : come very near the actual production. ; The Star s guess is 7.600.000 bales. -,:., i 5 : " From Bennettsville, S. C: - The weather is" splendid - for gathering the cotton crop, and ft 1 Is being placed In the market as rapidly as possible, though the receipts are more than htty ijrr.v iar : vear. ' The croo is at - leastJ twenty-five per cent: off lrom last year's crop, and labor is very scarcand un- satisiactory. tnougn i.ncrc w mnrcrt fif action- in the direction of . a strike, pa the part of the cotton pickers. '-New York Journal of Commerce. Orders - for replenishments in cot ton goods were more moderate in size tlven two weeks ago, and buying is on a hand to mouth .basis. It ts , not' to be inferred from this, however, that trade is light. On the contrary, in popular staples and - specialities ;:" demand is greater - than . the - supply. ; Al though jobbers are covering only im mediate wants; the movement amounts to a good 'business in . the j directions referred to, and customers are constant ly pressing agents for the goods bought. New York Bulletin: The market is still evidently inclined to respond to ball ish sentiment. . Crop advices are cer tainly no worse, yet it is doubtful if any improvement is shown that would tend, to increase the magnitude of the yield, and there is lessjpressure to sell from the South, while the very large receipts are attributed in part to marketing the re mainder of the old crop, and in part to dry weather hastening ; maturity and affording easy facilities for hauling from plantations and shipping. - Messrs. Hul. r ontame at Co.. in their cotton crop report for. the Mem phis district,- just issued, say: The weather during September has been unfavorable for cotton.1 During the early portion cool nights prevailed, fol lowed within the past two weeks by ex cessive warm, dry weather, unprecedent ed for this season, and the result has been serious damage to the plant. The rool weather retarded tnatnritv and : the excessive warm spell has" forced the premature opening of bolls, aud, in many localities has parched the cotton. Two hundred and fourteen of our cor respondents report the condition less favorable than last year, due to these causes. The effect on the crop is shown by the large in cfiease of damage sustained.' . In our re port of last month the estimate of in jury to the crop was 7 per cent. These figures are revised by our correspondents which now place the damage at 20 per cent. Alabama estimated the damage at 27 per cent, Mississippi at 2g Jj per cent- Arkansas at 26 m ' per cent, and Tennessee at 24 per cent. Of our 310 correspondents only ten report no dam age to their , crops; the , remaining 300 report damage of from 10 to 50 per cent. The estimated yield of this dis trict, which last month equalled that of last year.has also been revised and is now given at 18 per cent. less. The estimate by States is as follows: Mississippi, 20 per cent, less; Alabama, 19 per cent, less; Tennessee. 19 oerxent. : less; Arkansas, - per cent. less. - J The following is a summary of the view of the crop correspondents for warded to the South Carolina Weather Bureau from a number of counties in that State: Union County "Have had an opportunity of'seeing , many crops. Cotton seriously injured, and will be at least 25 per cent. . below an average, Mcuana county "it is aimcuit to. say how much the cotton crop has been damaged. I made last year 703 bales of cotton. I am almost sure that my crop "will not yield over 800 bales. My corn is nne. Uarmveu County "The coiion is past reaeraption. i ne stalk is universally dead, and no top crop at all Seventy-five per cent is open, picking is pogressinsr rapidly, and cotton is being markerea as last as ginned. With good weather, crops will be gathered by Nov. 1st." Edgefield County "Cotton on low grounds has been benefitted by the J . - VTa m m . ary weainer, , upianas ; nave been in- iuied a good deal, and the cotton has lost from shedding and the forced opening of immature bolls. Late cot ton will make a; poor yield. Crop lost since last report 20' per cent." ; Marl- boro County "The heavy rains in Au gust and eight days ' in September showed eight and one-half inches of rain, which put a finale on cotton on sandy lands. The favorable weather of September or an early frost will make out mue ainerence, as : tnere are no young cotton bolls to make.;, ar(ine- ton County. "The -hot dry weather of the last ten days has caused cotton to open rapidly,' and increased the port receipts abnormally. In many fields cotton is nearly all open. The staple is aDove normal.: - ine crop is all ot 83 percent, short of last year." i Late advices to the Commercial and Financial Chronicle are as follows: -i Shreveport, Louisiana Cotton cannot be benefitted by rain; the top crop has been badly injured by the dry spell. The week s rainfall has been seven hun dredths of an inch, oni one day. Mont- Zomory, Alabama, The weather has been hot and dry all the week, and cot ton is being picked and marketed rap idly. The crop, however, is reported short. No- rain has fallen the past twelve days. Auburn,Alabama-CoXon is practically made, and the yield will oe small compared with last year. -All other crops are doing well. There has been rain all the " week.' siugusia, ua. Accounts continue un favorable. Present conditions point to a falling off of from twenty-five to thir ty per cent, from the prospects of three weens ago. mere has been no rain. Picking is making good progress and cotton is coming in freely. Helena, Ar kansas. mere has not been enough rain to lay the dust since the 22d of August, ana none at all the past two 1 tlLlI . wccks. run crops are drying up. Cot- ion is opening rapiaiy, and except in iuw iciuus ip nearly an open. Memphis, Tenn. -The weather has been hot and dry all the week; no rain since Septem ber 10, The drought has caused cotton to open rapidly and to shed forms and small bolls on uplands. ,;The outlook in bottoms and for late cotton has improved Dallas, Texas. Dm: weather has been dry all the week. Many sections of the btate have had equinoctialrains which seem, to have done no harm 'fil cept interrupting picking. Despite the increased acreage of six to seven oer i auuere to my estimate nf tv,4 fifteen to twenty oer rent loo. v. of last year inclining towards the lat ter figure.' In man v snnta xrr e State, not confined to aVp3Si districts, the corn crop is aVVry rSoJ theseSicr: likewise very poor-boTh retulunfrom ?he same cause-deficient moistufe a t Saturday Uifcht BTo Damage Heported. "V Bt TelesTapn to Ue Morning Star. St, Lows, September 27; -Buildings here facing north and south were visibly affected by an earthquake shock last night 'Watchmen in sevetal highjbuild ings,say they became alarmed anjl made all baste to reach the ground. At one newspaper office the composltori, who were on the fifth floor, left theiq cases and - rushed panic-stricken down the stairways and into the street. Through out; the. whole: city the police jreport that people rushed from their houses in great alarm. No serious damage .has been reported as yet. :' . T. i Decatur, ILLS., Sept. 27.- Ant earth quake shock was felt here at 11 o'clock last night.. Dozens . of : families 1 in all parts of the town , were - awaked. I They thought there was a storm till, they saw the sky clear. ' Some felt their houses tremble fully hall a minute. ; jjsere is much excitement, though no damage has been reported. . " . ! . . ' Jacksonville, Ills.,, Sept. K 27. About 11 o'clock last" night this )town was shaken by an earthquake which was noticeable - for. four distinct shocks, each of which lasted several seconds. No damage was done, but people were somewhat alarmed, many being I.awak- ened from sleep. ' RIOTOUS NEGROES. End of the Trouble at Mariana, A itVaftBas A. White Man, Waylaid and Mux- i dered. "-"". '"'. 1 j'-"1 -; ;-h':: . . - By Telegraph to the Morulas' Star.j . ' , Littlk, Rock, Ark., Sept. 27.1 Late reports received from Mariana ' say the trouble between cotton pickers near there culminated in a riot, resulting in several negroes being killed and a num ber wounded. The sheriff of the county quelled the disturbance and has the leaders in custody. The riot grew out of the strike inaugurated by a number of pickers who demanded 75 cents per hundred pounds an increase of 25 cents, r The planters refused their de mands, and the dissatisfied negroes at once struck, and their places were im mediately filled by others ' The strikers became angered at these proceedings and endeavored to prevail on the work ing negroes to quit. Being ref usee a gen eral fight ensued women, men and children participating with hoes, sticks. knives and' revolvers. It is reported that two were killed outright. , ST. Louis, September 28. A special from Mariana, Ark., -says: William Miller, superintendent of J. F. Frank, who started Saturday heavily armed to join the sheriff's posse in pursuit of the fleeing murderers engaged in Friday's riot, was waylaid and murdered It is learned that the insurrection was the outcome of the organization de manding one dollar per hundred for cotton picking. . Two 'negroes made incendiary remarks upon the streets Saturday, and a meeting was held in tne southwestern part of the county tnat night. Its purpose is not known but streets usually thronged with color ed teen Sunday presented a desolate appearance., j WASHINGTON INEWS. A Temporaj Suspension of Payments at the XT. B. .Treasury Beoeipts and Ex penditures in September. By Telegraph to the Morning Start. .i I Washington, Sept. 30. An accident to the lock of the inner door! of the vault in the cash . room of the U. b. Treasury caused a temporary suspension of payments in that office this morning. jl ne vault is opened at y o clock every HTJusmess day, out there was a hitch this morning and it resisted all efforts to open it. It contained about $18,000,000 in loose funds necessary to the transac tion of current business of the Depart ment. When nearly an hour had been spent in vain enorts, to move tne re fractory door, and creditors In the outer office were increasing in numbers and importuning, a new comer took hold of the door knob and by vigorous- shaking accidentally brought the combinations mtpeir proper places and the trouble was at an end. In the meantime a tele gram had been sent to a lock jexpert in Philadelphia to come to Washington at once and the lreasurer had about con eluded to resort to the hitherto sacred funds in the reserve vault. What made the matter worse was. that demands on the Treasurer this morning iwere un usually large. , " Washington, September 80. Re ceipts of the government since Seotem ter 1st amount to $28,385,000; being an excess or45B7,ouo over ordinary ex penditures during the same time. Ad ditional payment of $18,000,000 during the same time on account of ibond re demption, however, makes the rnet loss in cash for the month about $14,000, 000. Net cash balance in the Treasury to-oay, inclusive ot iractionai silver and deposits in national banks, is stated at 342,000,000. , ; WHARF LABORERS STRIKE. About Twelve Hundred Savannah.' Men Idle at Savannah. Ga., Sebt. 29. There is little change in the wharf laborers strike since last night.' About twelve; hundred men are out. The strikers aire quiet ana are Keeping away irom tne 'wharves They say they do not propose to inter- mitli n m T 1 T T ." uuh-uuiuu iucu uut union men will not be allowed to work. Three ships of the New York anc Boston lines are lying at .the wharves waiting to iuau ana umoao. BLOWN AWAY. Pennington's, Air Ship Carried Off By a - .' .Wind Storm. St. Louis, Sept. 29. Pennington's air snip, wnicn was unoer a tent at) the Fair grounds, in readiness for a trial to be made Friday, when the athletic sports wm oe in progress, was cauebt un bv a storm which passed over the cijty yester- uay aiwraoon ana was oiown away. As no trace ortne snip has been fou ound, it is supposed that it was destroyed. The snip cost $zu,uuu. JLa Grippe Again. Uunng the eoidemir. of U rwn m A - aauLu last-season Dr. King's New Discovery provea to oe the best remedy. Re- wris irom tne many who used it con firm -io - .. u only quickly relieved, but the disease Maau . W19 SUtlCUlCUL. ' J IlPV VAfAVlAf ten. uu uau aiter results.! WWast r tO OriVA Ilio nn.4 s, I . J , 4tuEujr -xnai iana we gumce mat you will - be satisfi With results, or th nnn-hu. A-i mi V- . . " I--.VUCUV Will be refunded. It has no : equal in La Gnppe, or any Throat, Chest br Lung Trouble. Trial bottle tTM i w rT Bellamv's Drug Store. Large bottles! 50c. and $1.00. i - . i j. 4 Happy Boouerar, Wm. Timrnons lnd., writes : "Electric Bitters has done more for me than all othr ia7 combined, for that bad feeling arising from. Kidney and Liver troublei" John i-eslie, farmer and storlrman- u i place, says: "Find ElertnV mUZ u -the best Kidney and Liver raedicine jumjf U1C iuce a new: man' J. W Oardner, hardware merrliant d... says : Electric Bitters Is just the thing for a man who is all run down and dont care whether he lives op dies r h fnnnA iitZ i,r1tA' 8 appetite, 'md felt like he had a new lease on life. Only ooc, ajwttle at Robert R. Bellamy's f Felt at Towns in WJssouri and Illinois SPIRITS TURPENTInT v Oxford Day: The Lassiter, Sr., died to-day at th )V- Utes nast nnn n tJ t f "., aner an six days. j. illnei Charlotte Jews: An negro man leaped from the nf , ' bound train 0Q thfi Ajf Uarlo terday near Central, and was kffij y?" was stealing a ride and was i'Ht tne pumpers between the mail ft a the tender. The conductor .and car and the netro. v,:!116"! th off. v The train was goinrled speed. The nepro'a iwb- j a fcirt of bones in hi& body were brokPnUllbtt Lumberton Robesonian- u R. Mi N. Stephens.- of Grari,, V us some of the finest trr.mM ' ro saw last Saturday. They are cui. ever from a snecies whirh county-The vines are inprPat'. ujwuauiu will De tne M... r' exhibit a stalk of corn which Fl ears on it, all of which except two good sized, art Newbern Journal, The; of building and general improvement Newbern this year surpasses all m cords and it is still increasing J. b. Brittle, foreman of Mrr , Sheelky's plaining mills, met w'ith misfortune yesterday morning of u his foot so badly mangled by the l" knives of a plaining machine that? notation of thfl front holf .1 . al- 1v rendered necessary. . Mr. : - ui man.Tiaa crrowinor in hie t,r,rj mental bean known as the FU rida 11" The seed ; were brought to him f!r Florida by his daughter, Mrs iff Howard. Some of the pods are ov foot long and two inches wide. vL! fully ripe they are varnished and m cnmson-color. v Lenoir, Topic-. The fall haT crop is good and yet Lenoir. imp hay. -John Pitts, sentenced C week to twenty-one months' imprisnr ment in the county iad for slanderine an innocent woman, made his esca from jailer Hoke iust after dark Sunday. On Friday Mr. J. WeslM Shell and Mrs. "Elizabeth Stallings were married. Mr. Shell is 72 and MaSy is 70. .There is a speck of romance cod nected with this marriage. Mr. Shell was a widower, having bees twice mar ried before, aud Mrs. Shell was tht widow of the late John Stallings, who lived in Lenoir for many years, and moved to Illinois after the war. bhe is a sister of Mr. Richard Bush. Fifty, one years ago J. W. Shell and Elizabeth Bush-were engaged to be married, but tne course oi true love am not run smootn. wow tney are married. r.MAA.. TT 77.- ll. r. uuiusuui u J3. cuuugar. i ne re port of an infanticide committed yester day by a colored woman upon her net- lv-born babv. ieaches us from Tm;-.. . "UIOU Springs township just as we so to nresi A new postoffice. has just been estab lished in New Hope township. Us name is Elroy and will be supplied with a tri weekly mail from tne (joldsboro post office on Monday, Wednesday and Fri day. A horrible accident occurred Friday in Stoney Creek township. That afternoon at 3 o'clock Mr. Willouehbv Sauls, while going into his barn wherein i : ... . a large quantity oi seen cotton was stored, discovered , his five-year-old daughter Mary with her head and a por tion of her body in a two-foot hole in the cotton dead. It seems that the girt imitated her brother William, aged 12 years, in digging the hole and while the latter went to the house she deep ened the cavity and stuck her head in it, but owing to the heavy pressure of the cotton from all sides was unable to draw her head out and thus smothered to death. Charlotte Chronicle : , A col ored school down in Sharon was almost stopped last week by all the students with one or two exceptions, getting sick. Two of them died and the matter began to look serious. It is thought the epi demic was caused . by drinking water from an old well that had not had the proper attention. Nearly all the cases developed into typhoid fever. Ro- land Morton was in the city yesterday, and wanted to get tne proper proceed ings- begun to punish one Chas. Lee, of York county, S. C. He said that Lee went to his brother's house, four miles from Concord, and went into: his stable, brought out his horse and mounted. His brother asked Lee to explain his conduct, and the explanation that was given was for Morton to attend to his own business, or he (Lee) would fix him: Morton then stepped up and took hold of the bridle reins, and Lee drew his revolver and told him to let go or he would kill him. Morton let the reins drop and Lee started off. After he had ridden only a few . steps, be turned and again presented his pistol and said, "1 have a good notion to kill you anyway," and then without any further ceremony Lee rode away and has not been heard from since. Raleigh News and Observer. There - were twenty-five happy young men in Raleigh yesterday when the Su preme Court examinations closed. They were the successful applicants who had stood the examination and obtained their license to practice law. They are as follows: V. S. Bryant,' Mecklenburg; K. Bryan, Duplin; J. D. Bellamy, Jr, Jr., New Hanover; L. A. Blue, New Hanover; S. C. Bragaw, Beaufort; R. A. Crowell, Stanly; M. R. Eure, Gates; A.' L. Gregory, Chowan; J. F. Hendren, Forsyth; W. C. Hammer, Randolph; Henry Johnston. Edgecombe; W. M. Little, Richmond; H. W. Lewis. Bertie; A. W. McLean, Robeson; L. P. McGehee, Wake; W. S. Roberson, Orange; A. S. Williams, New Hanover; C.A. Webb, Warren; J. B. Pannill. Rockingham;' W. H. Yarborough, Jr., Franklin; G. A. Frick. Cleveland; D. B. Henderson, Mecklenburg; J. H. Baker. Jr., Edge combe; W. P., Andrews, Union; C. M. Yeates, Hertford.- M. A. Smith, of Auburn, Wake county, has a cow which had three calves -at once. Two of his neighbors have one cow each, which have givep. birth to two calves each. , Charlotte Chronicle: John P. Morris,, of Providence, was on the street yesterday. He is now eighty years old, and looks as hearty as most men do at fifty. This family is noted for Irving to extreme old age. " Mr. Mor ris has a brother who is now eighty three years old and up to a few months ago be could ride a horse, or play a game of base ball with as much alacrity as a boy of eighteen summers. --- Yesterday morning before day Mr. Ful ler, who lives on Church street, between Seventh and ' Eighth, was aroused by buwc uncommon noise aDOUt nis yard.. He went out to investigate, ana i .i artine as if they were at home. They had nis nuggy roueo irom under the snea. -his horse brought nnt onH rpsdv to put tut. uuuic vo. jvir. ruiier ocm. bullets after the negroes' retreating fig" ur9 aa than 4!on.Ar, J.A ; Via HarkneSS- ho K.:ji w n nut Last Thursday while Mr. Alen- Ha fU I.... v . . f nfl his viw, a vuciiiuiic ueei man,. wio -r way to Charlotte with a vicious bull, tM animal got down at Mr. Phillip Ricb house and could not be induced to get m . A i A .. . j.:.n in the PTOTind and th chain na the Steers horns tied securely "to it.i Alexander left the steer there, after engaging Mr. Rich's services to bring it town Friday- Tn T- , . . Vrin&V nutuuir. iicn went aown uu the infuriated steer, made a desperate . 1 . . ... . eti-in- uasa at mm ana tne neavy cnam -r ped like a piece of chalk. Then tne race was between Mr. Rich and nis bullship. Seeing he would be caugnf Mr Ruti ! himo-if into a smau hollow. The animal stood over tow and pawed him a few times ana nvv-- Vila-. . olnthinor from hlS DOaY- When he examined more closely ne i on u's 1UUBU 3CVCIB1 Ugljf 9UU9 ""- - body, and he was horribly bruised. - v f.-':'-