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PS j ; : : X HE W EEKLY bTAK. - :. . : :) - ' "88888888888888811 -trVT' yTTTi ' ' . ' i " . . '. ' ' N ' , 88888888888888888 88888888888888888 SS883S88SSS8S888S f!It I 888888S8828888888 888288888888 88888888888888888 ip'AV t i ! S ! : S - - - ti I - ,-. e eo m o t- oo o h jo jj a TTatltbe Post Office t Wllmtgton, N. "ered Second Class Matter.! C, as En:t SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. bscifiption price of the "Weekly Star Is aa i ;j $1 00 . 60 . 80 3 months " " A NEW BANKING SYSTEM. Ttjs pretty generally - conceded that there is need in iiis country .(for inrniise in the voluiiie of curren- rv to mJet the demands of business, and various plans have been suggest ed to that end. I The Farmers' Alliance, in its "reso lutions khown as the Ocala platform, 'demands -'that the volume be in creased to at least a per capita of 50, which would jbe a little over 'double the present per capita, and about th per capita in France. This I would, of course, j necessitate the issuing ot a great deal or paper money, if the volume were to be in creased soon because the annual out-1 put of our gold, and silver mines would supply but a small part of the aggregate increased. The aqvocates of the free and ur limited coinage of silver demand It for the same reason; but even this would nqlt make a very material ip- crease in tne volume over wnat is under the present silver supplied purchase! and silver coinage acts. CoacediiJg the necessity for more moneyTn circulation, to effect this some system must be devised' of keeping the money : among the peo ple for whose benefit it is made, for if it-tontinues to be drawn to wards the money centers as it has been for years and now is under the financial land tariff systems in opera- tion,- and: the internal revenue sys- tem, the money will go that way if the volume were maHe four times as large as ijt is. ! Secretary Foster contends that there is more monejy in circulation now than; there ever was, and dou ble as mjich per capita as there was in lSGO, There is in round num bers $2,000,000,000 of money in the country, Mr. Foster says, in "circula lion," but it is not in circulationL for over half of it is locked up in the I I 4 ''' Government vaults and in the vaults oithe Eastern money ' kings, as it always will be, whatever the volume, under present governmental policies, which draw the money from circum ference jto center. - At least until these policies be - changed, some other banking system in place of or in addition to the National bank system must be established to sup ply the jneeded currency, and one With elasticity enough to provide for suchexpansion as may be from time to time found necessary. ' To meet this it has been advocated that Congress repeal the ten per cent, tax on circulation of ' State banks ot issue, which would lead to the establishment of local banks which would supply all thecurrency lLiA ..1 '- - t- a. 1 J I for which. there might be a demand in the sections i in which they were located, jas they dtd before the estab merit of the national bank system The objection urged jto the old $tate bank system was that their paper was not sufficiently secured and that therefore they did not have that im plicit confidence of the public which all banks should have, to answer fully the purposes of their creation, Michael D. Hatter, a Democratic member of Congress from the ,15th - Ohio District, who has been study ing upon this subject more or less for the past twelve years, has pre pared a plan which, in addition to the national bank system, wiljl, we believes- supply the country with the necessary amount of sound currency He gives his views upon it in the October number of the. Forum, the plan embracing the seven following v Propositions as the main points 1 1. The list ot bonds acceptable as se curity for circulating notes- should be . enlarged; so as-to include State, county, city and railroad bonds upon the; fol lowing conditions: . I - i 1 (a) All bonds thus rendered avail ible must be registered, and the princi pal must be payable in jjold of the presenr standard of weight and fine 'hess . - i . . (b) All such hnnris must have been listed for at least five years prior to their deposit as security for circulation upon at least one stock exchange located in the United States having a population rvi ouu.uuo or more. - , . . .;" No bond which ' has been in de- - lor non-payment of interest, or ; ich has sold on -any stock exchange ; below par within five years, or which has sold on any stock exchange at less than a premium of five per cenf. above par within the year of its proposed !de Posit as a security for circulation, shall - be accented under this law.. ; I (d) No State bond representing a "per -apua aeDt oi over two aoiiars lor each oi its citizens, no county bond reores- ', anting a per capiu debt of over four wiiars, ana no city bond representing a Per capita debt of over eight dollars, wall be accepted as security for bank notes. ! ' ' " . (e) AU railroad bonds deposited must be secured by mortcaces. and nnn Viaii be of the form known as trust or ' de benture bonds. - : ; : x (0 No bank shall have more than 20 per cent of its bonds on denosit . of th S Jany ne ?tV mnty. 7 or g) wnenever any bond upon deposit under this law shall sell upon any stock exchange upon which it is listed lor a period ot thirty days at an average price of less than 105 the comptroller of the currency shall reauire it tn h re placed by a bond fully meeting the re qirementsof this law. v. (h.l Whenever any railroad which has been paying dividends at the time its bonds were accepted as security for the circulating notes of any bank, ceases to pay regular dividends, the comptroller of the currency shall require said bank to substitute other bonds of the charac ter called for bv this law, - IIJ Any president, vice president, man ager; secretary, treasurer, auditor or other officer of any interstate railroad, (any of whose bonds are on deposit un der this law), who shall. knowinelv is- sue,j or permit to be issued, any false statement 01 me earnings, expenses or condition of said railroad, shall be 'Con sidered guilty of a felony, and be sub ject to trial in any Court of the United States, and if found guilty, shall be sen tenced to imprisonment at" hard labor fot a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years, and may be fined in addition, at the discretion of the Court, in any sum not exceeding $100,000. III. In lieu of all other United States taxes, each bank shall pay in the usual manner a semi-annual tax of 1 per cent. (2 per cent, per annum) upon the aver age amount of itgrfiotes in circulation. - IV. The present United States tax UDOn the Circulation of State hnnlre jShall cease, provided such notes are secured in precisely the same manner as national bank notes, by bonds deposited with the auditor or treasurer of the State; and provided, also, that the State in which said bank is located shall guarantee the payment of its. circulating notes, siace oanics snail pay tne - same taxes on their notes, and in the same manner, as national banks: w V. The amount ot the notes issued by any State bank shall be under the control ot the State in which it is locat ed, and nothing ' in this law shall re strict the circulating notes of any bank to 90 per cent of the capital paid in; but no DanK snail issue notes in excess of 90 per cent, of the par value of the bonds deposited by it to secure the payment of said notes. VI. State banks shall not be compell ed to redeem their notes anywhere but at tneir own counters. VII. All State bank notes issued un der this law to be like national bank notes, redeemable in United States legal tender coin or notes. He does not claim that this is the best system that can be devised, but claims that it is the best that has been devised and that while it will supply an ample volumes of cur rency, that currency will be even better secured than the national bank notes, in addition to which he contends that it. will, if adopted, settle the currency question, settle it satisfactorily, and for all time Out an end to the agitation within and out side of the halls of Congress. v TREATING IT AS A FARCE When Mr. Cleveland ran for the Presidency in 1884 he was supported and voted for by thousands of Re publican civil service reformers, be cause his record on that question was good. and. they believed he would carry it out if elected to the Presidency. He was elected, and while many Democrats thought .that he put a strained construction on the language and intent of the law in carrying it out, many of these Republicans, who had voted for him in 1884, voted against him in 1888, because they believed he didn't go far enough, and failed to car rv out the law as rigidly as they insisted it should be car ried out. Thus he estranged and lost supporters among Democrats who con demned him for going too far and among his Republican or rather independent supporters who condemned and turned from him be- cause he didn't 20 far enough. In stead of voting for him they voted for Ben j. Harrison who talked very nicely about civil service reform, and had a record when in the Senate as a civil service reformer, one -of the most notable speeches he delivered being a vigorous arraignment of Presi dent Cleveland for some act which he, (Mr. Harrison,) claimed to be a violation of the civil service rules. They voted for "him and he was elected, but they, have been decid edly more disappointed in him than thev were in his predecessor. The- fact is that he has not only failed to keep his own promises and the promises of the platform upon which Tie was elected, but has treated the civil service law as a farce from the beginning while pretending to carry it but and to desire its extension and thorough establishment. This has been demonstrated several times and is being practically and strikingly illustrated .now. The civil service law forbids the levying of political assessments on Government officers or employes, or the soliciting of: money for political purposes In any of th Departments, In defiance of this prohibition, polit ical clubs or "State Associations," as they were called, composed of Gov ernment employes, were organized In Washington, and when the next cam paign opened they levied assess ments, which they called "contribu tions," as formerly. Complaint was made against Mr. Elam, president of the Virginia Association, who-held a position income of the Departments, The case was brought to the atten tion of the Civil Service Com mission, and the promise made that Mr.' klam and others who had open ly violated dnd contemned the jaw should be proceeded against and if guilty pay the penalty. -Nobody believed this, and to this day not an other step has been taken to vindi cate the v law and Messrs. F.Tam to Co. still occupy their snug .berths under Mr. Harrison's nose and draw their salaries as usual, enjoying the fun of the civil service farce. . Now that same thing is going on again. rhe Government employes from Ohio and New York,: and doubtless oiher States, are Called UDoil for f "contributions" with a request to remit "promptly." Of Course thev know that n hlarV list is kept, on which the name of the employe applied to who fails to re spond "liberally and promptly" , is recorded for future reference and they know, too, -what that .means. There isn't a Government emnlove 1 j n any of the Departments at Wash ington who would dare to refuse to "contribute liberally" in response to these gentle reminders - It is said that President Harrison has set them an example by con tributing his check, for $5,000 to help his brethren in New York, an example which they will, of course, have no reasonable excuse for not following with a liberal contribution in proportion to their salaries. Of course this contribution by Mr. Har rison is purely voluntary. But' his contribution and the contribution of the Government place holders are of entirely different sorts. One is the contribution made as ; an investment in politics and form choice, the Other is the contribution which the waylaid traveller makes when the highwayman puts a pistol to his nose and urges him to "contribute liberally.'!. Mr. Harrison does the former and endorses and encour ages the latter, while he hypocriti cally pretends to favor the Civil Service law. . mSOB. MEUTI01T. In some of the Northern States the colored citizens are beginning to do 'some thinking for themselves. and are manifesting a disposition to break the shackles that have bound them to the Republican party. In New York city they are organizing Democratic clubs, the leader in the movement being one of the wealth iest and most influential colored men in the city, named Downing. In Pennsylvania they haye a "colored State Democratic League, which held a' convention in Pittsburg last Tuesday, thirty-five clubs from vari ous parts of the State being repre seated. At the conclusion of the business an address was issued to the colored voters of the State urg ing them to organize and to support the Democratic party, "which stands for pure, clean and honest politics. That they have begun to see through the beauties of the protective tariff is shown by the following extract from the address: . "The State of Pennsylvania, with all her vast industrial interests from which the negro is excluded, is the cradle of protectionism, in view 01 iuc iact mat a great majority of the Afro-Americans dwelling in the State are consumers and not producers, we favOr such reform in the tariff as will reduce the necessaries of life to the lowest possible minimum We appeal to the Afro-American voters to oppose a protective tariff which only protects a few at the expense of the many." This applies with even more force to the colored voters of the South than it does to the colored voters of Pennsylvania, for some of the color ed men in that State may get em ployment from some of these pro tected establishments, but in the South they don't, and are dependent upon them in no . way, and yet, strange to say, they have been ever since their enfranchisement voting almost solidly to tax themselves and impose heavy burdens upon them selves for the benefit of industries, nearly all of which exist in other sections of the country. Green-B. Raum, Commissioner of Pensions, demands the dismissal of 1 three clerks in the Pension office on the ground that they are conspiring for his removal from office and are writing and circulating false reports about the management of the office, It so happens that these three clerks are the men who made the charges of misconduct against Raum's son in consequence of which he was de barred from acting as pension at tornev before the department, and . . one of his tools who was in collu sion with him was dismissed from the service. Now after the guilt of young Raum has been , es tablished beyond question, and no one doubts it. his father has the cheek to ask for the dismissal of the three men who uncovered him on the ground that they are conspiring against himself and that their con tinued presence impairs the discip line and efficiency of the office. He intimates that either they must go or he will, so it remains now to be seen whether Secretary Noble wil stand bv them or chdp their heads off to placate the refrigerator man, A Colorado genius has invented a gallows that dispenses with the ser vices of a hangman, and makes the man" to be hanged his own execu tioner. By his own weight he springs the trap, which- throws him three feet into the air. WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1891. THE WEATHER BUREAU. A Now Departure Weather and Temper ature Signals to be Displayed Every Day. Weather and temperature signals will be displayed from the flag pole on the building of Messrs. Geo. R. French & Son, beginning to-morrow, Oct. 5th. - This is a new feature- of the U. S. Weather Bureau, by which the official torecasts . from Washineton. D. C. for the State of North Carolina, will be signalled to the surrounding country. . ; Mr. F. P. Chaffee, in charge of the ocal office, informs us that the Bureau decided not to display these sienals from his office, from fear of having I them confused with the storm signals, hence the co-operation f the above mentioned firm. - , , ; THE FLAGS TO BE USED ARE, - Noi I. Square white, indicates clear or fair. : v . No. 2. Square blue, indicates rain or -snow. - - No. 3. White and blue two Darallel I bars) indicates local rains. XT 4 T-lf- 1 .. ' . - - I perature- irian8ie-,naicaies iem- No. 5. White, -with black cente r, in dicates cold wave. INTERPRETATION OF DISPLAYS. No-1, alone, indicates fair weather. stationary temperature. - no. a, alone, indicates rain or snow (as the case may be), stationary tem perature. No 8, alone, indicates local rains, sta tionary temperature. JNo. 1. with No. 4 above it. indicates fair weather; warmer. No. 1, with No. 4 below it, indicates fair weather; colder. No. 2, with No. 4 above it, indicates warmer weather, rain, etc. -; No. 2, with No. 4 below it, indicates colder weather, rain, etc. No. 3, with No. 4 above it, indicates warmer weather, with local rains. No. 8, with No. 4 below it, indicates .colder weather, with local rains. No. l.'With No. 5 above it, indicates fair weather, cold wave. No. 2, with No. 5 above it, indicates wet weather, cold wave. Note: (1) The absence of the tem perature signal indicates that the tem perature will remain stationary. (2) When , No. 5. is displayed the No. 4 is always omitted. When No.. 5 is dis played the temperature is expected to fall to 42 degrees or lower, and is usu ally ordered at least twenty-four hours in advance oi tne cold wave, wnen displayed on poles the signals should be read downward from the top. It would be a good idea lor readers ot the . Star to preserve the above for reference. ALL ABOUT RICE. A Talk with One of the Talmages-The Outlook for the Season. The American Grocer for September 30 prints an interview with John Tal- mage, in which that gentleman is made to deliver himself as follows in refer ence to the rice outlook : "This year has .been; an exception. With a slight diminution in the volume, the movement has been, and is to-day manifold, ahead of previous years. This applies more especially to foreign rice. Our bouthern houses report gooa de mand, scarcely so large as -last year; most of the planters are busy harvest ing and will not thresh; the crops coming forward are the first plant ings, and fine. Again, tne movement there is checked because "planters are learning that they can control the market. A Louisiana planter recently remarked : 'We have passed the fool age and propose in future to have full re turn for our labor. My crop and that of every well-to-do friend will be held un til after the holidays. . Last season 1 got nearly 20 per cent, more than in pre vious years when I rushed rough for ward. You see they are catching on. as the boys say.'and have proved the truth of the old adage, 'Patient waiting no loss,' but sure gain. , Again, it is well known that the crop as usual is short of requirements, and for this reason the prices of foreign ought to indicate the fair value ot domestic. First-class for eign would cost to import 45c, and our home product ot equal grade ougi to command as much. For the Kaleigh. Exposition. The Fore & Foster Sash and Blind Manufacturing Co. are arranging an ex hibit tor the Exposition at Raleigh a map of North Carolina in wood, repre senting each county by specimens of its greatest growth of timber. They solicit the co-operation of persons interested; and will be glad to receive sample blocks of wood peculiar to the various counties in the State.. Virginia Peanut Crop. A Norfolk correspondent of the Rich mond Dispatch says: "The vines brought here are said to show that the. peanut crop of this year will be a third less than the crop of last year.. The dealers say there are six to eight hundred thousand bushels of old peanuts in Virginia alone to go over ar larger amount than ever known before." . , . The Burgaw Revival. Rev. R. E. Peele writes the Star that Rev. Mr. Jenkins preached to a large congregation at Burgaw Wednesday night. Eight were added to the church and there were .besides a number of pro fessions. Rev. Mr..' Swain baptized seventeen persons this (Thursday) morning and others await the ordinance. Mr. Eugene G: HarrelJ has been appointed adjutant general of the State Guard, to succeed Col. Fred A. Olds, who has resigned. Two Interments, both adults, in Oakdale the past week, pone in Belle vue and two, one adult and one child, in Pine Forest (colored) cemetery. Mr. E. D. Thompson, formerly sta tioned at Beaufort, N. C, has been ap pointed in place of the late 'Henry Ba con, to be assistant engineer on the gov ernment work on the" lower Cape Fear river and bar. , . , ' ' - Superintendent Porter says that Southport City, N. C, according to the official count of the return! made under the present census, has a population of 1,207. - -r -ny . - : ; 1 v German barque WilheltninaPust -Evans, cleared yesterday for Newcastle on Tyne, with 3,649 barrels rosin, valued at $5,386.60, shipped by Messrs. Pater on, Downing & Co, NOTICE. This is intended only for subscribers whose ir a i- "' " " I SILDSCriptlOnS have eX- nia1 - T-f 4a ttt4- n A-w I o -v DUt SL Simple rOQ neSt . - I Uaat ail WnO are Ul ar- I rears for the STAB will . . I faVOT US:With a prOHipt a a - , , - I iviUibtaubd , I We are sending out bills now (a few each Txnaolrl o-nrl it nn J WCCJW mi J UU j nflllTA fITl A Til A 91 fi A OntTA if. - -IT A A J- - jqui atienxion. REV. SAM JONES- The Evangelist Summoned Before a Geor gia Grand Jtiry. A dispatch from Rome, Ga.,.Sept. 29th. says: Two subpoenas, calling upon the Kev. am (ones and 9am small to ap pear before the grand jury now in ses sion for Floyd county were issued to-" day or yesterday. Judge Maddox in his charge suggested that any one who knew so much as Sam Tones might im part his knowledge to the jury. The jury took him at his word and the two Sams must appear. That the source of Mr. Jones' information may not be want- mg.several of the leading members of the Aietnooist cnurcn irom whom it is sup posed the evangelist obtained it are also subpoenaed to appear. It will be a live ly time. Those whose ways are dark and whose deeds are evil may well tremble-at the prospect. If all the charges brought by Sam Jones during his last stay in Rome are true then Floyd county must rent houses for criminals. Whether Sam Jones knows or guesses at what he says, is what the jury intends to find out. MAIL CLERKS' SWIFT WORK. 100,000 Pieces of Man Handled in Twelve Hours by Four Clerks. Some idea of the immense business done in a postal car may be had from a ; trip of what is known as the Wilming ton and Jacksonville railroad postoffice one car with four clerks running from Wilmington, N. C, to Jacksonville, Fla a distance of 500 miles. Last Friday night the crew handled 253 sacks of newspapers and 756 pack ages ot letters. A sack of newspapers averages 125 single packages, and 75 letters are estimated for each bundle. 1 bus four men between 10 o clock at night and noon the next day handled 98,325 single pieces of mail Or nearly 25,000 pieces for each of the crew. This work is in addition to exchang ing pouches, at most of the local stations on the run. The State of Florida re ceived 104 sacks 01 the total newspaper mail on this trip, showing that the Floridians read the newspapers. One cleric in the service has run dur ing the month ten trips, covering 5,000 miles, and handling 1,559 sacks of news paper mail, or 194,875 pieces, and has made but twenty errors in the whole work. Such a record demonstrates the efficiency of the service and the hard work attached to it. Hebrew Holidays. This evening at sundown Rosh Hos hanah, the Heprew new year, begins. The year, according to Jewish chrono logists, is 5632 from the beginning of the creation ot the world, as described in Genesis. This is the Day of Blowing the Trumpet, the Day of Memorial. All Is raelites will attend evening and morn ing the synagogue, and abstain from business for twenty-four hours. The or thodox Israelites observe the first day, rand besides continue a ten days of peni tence, ending on October 12th, the great Day of Atonement; New year s greet ings with the Hebrews for next Saturday are in order, just as they are on Janu ary 1st. - The Day of Atonement is a fast day, on which total abstinence from liquid and solid food is observed.' As on new year's the exercises at the synagogue are very impressive, with the difference that on this occasion the services are con tinued through the day without inter mission. ' Seven days thereafter is the Feast of Tabernacle, commemorating the resi dence of the Israelites in the wilderness. This feast lasts eight days. The first day and the last are celebrated as high holi days, the intermediate days as half holi days. The orthodox observe the day fol lowing eacn ot these days as much as they do the others. October 25th, the last of the festal season, is celebrated as the "Rejoicing of the Law. THE NEW GOLDEN BELT. Greenville's ' First Tobacco Break First Bales at $10 a Pound. Special Star, Telegram -Greenville, N. C, Oct. 1st. Greenville makes a grand stride for ward to-'day in her first tobacco break. It will take three days to sell all the to bacco here. Buyers are numerous and prices are running high. Col." Suggs took the lead, selling at 110 a pound. The Reflector sold the next highest at $5.50. Pitt and the new- golden belt will lead the world. Naval Stores Receipts. Receipts of $aval stores at Wilming ton from the beginning of the crop year April 1st to October 1st as com pared with receipts for the same months last year are as follows : : Spirits turpentine, 37,741 casks; last year, 44.864. Rosin, 146,637 barrels; last year, 183.013. , Tar, 24,608 barrels; last year25,775. Crude turpentine, 10,065 barrels; last year, 10,935. - - v, Messrs. C. P. Parker and J. F. Parker, of Bladen county, were among the visitors here yesterday. COTTON FACTS AMD FIGURES. Kinston, N. G item: The cotton stalks now begin to bear the "sere and yellow leaf;" which causes j cotton ; to open faster. - Many, bales are brought here every day, and brings , 9 cents for the best. 1 A.couun growers cunvenuon win beheld at Atlanta. Ga., October 9th. i A cotton growers' convention will Questions to be considered) relate to the reductioQ of acreage ol dotton, the handling, classification and j selling of cotton, etc Exporters, manufacturers and factors are invited to attend. i-Jawake county c. nonnnt writes rorarnintr thn a corres- 4n rapid work of-the army worm' in ravenous iuc tuiwn. 11 ucKiw, ue say a montn a?o. but the bulk of the damacre has been done in the past five. days. The leaves have been so eaten? that they look like skeletons, only the frame work remaining. - The result . is that the small and recently formed bolls at the top do nOt grow, The loss to what is known as the- top crop is said by some farmers in this section, where the worm is reported, to be 25 j per cent. very seldom nas tnere oeen a year so trying for cotton. One of the Savannah, Ga., cotton factors is reported in the News of that city, as saying that a financial crisis is threatened if the -wharf laborers strike is prolonged any length of time. Large amounts of money have been advanced by the cotton and naval stores men ' to the producers. Under a normal state of affairs cotton would be coming in now at the rate of 7,000 bales a day. or to the value of $2,000,000 a week, and the fac tors would be able to realize on it all that they needed to meet their obliga tions. The same is true of those in the naval stores ! business. Money is at present difficult to secure, and if the strike continues there will be serious embarrassment. j - Atlanta Journal: There is no doubt that the cotton crop : of Middle Georgia has been very materially dam aged by the late and . stijl 1 prevailing drouth. The prospect for a fair crop is not nearly so good as it appeared to be a few weeks since. Along the route of the Georgia Midland ' Railroad the up land crops look parched and exhausted. The leaves have the reddish hue indi cative of decay, and the plant is stunted in growth. This is especially the case in sandy soils. The crops on the bot tom lands present a greener, fresher and more vigorous appearance, but are not yet white with the fleecy staple, ready for the pickers, lheir "top crop will certainly be cut short by an early frost, which people generally are expecting. Charleston Ngws aad Courier: The main topic of conversation for the last few days has been the very material shortage of the crop for this State as reported from the interior,' and specula tions upon its probable effect upon prices. Mr. John Cart, the popular and successful buyer for Knoop, Frerichs & Co., was at the Exchange for the first time in many days, having come down for the day on important business. He is just from the northwestern section of the State.having been through York and its adjacent Counties during the past three weeks. ! It was with difficulty that he could be persuaded to discuss the outlook for the crop in this State, and what he finally said was not of the most encouraging nature. He says that the prospect for a good cotton crop tnis season was decidedly blue. That it would fall fully 25 per cent, short of the original estimates, and might fall even lower than that. - The Southpoit Leader says: The efforts to remove the wreck in the Se ward channel at the bar 'by trying to catch it with chains and dragging it out has failed, and it will probably have to be blown up. This wreck which is to be removed is the remains of a Federal blockade cruiser which was on duty off the Cape Fear bar, It was the regular habit of this boat during the war to take up its position at night across the bar, and leave early in the morning. One night through some mischance the boat grounded and for fear of being captured at daylight, the vessel lying under the guns of ' Fort : Caswell, the crew aban doned and blew the vessel up. This took place a few months before the capture of Fort Fisher. ' DOG IN THE MANGER. Mr. Editor: We notice a commu nication in your issue of the 30th ult., from "Engineer," alluding to the won derful, yes, the unprecedented profits in the oyster culture in New river, which reminds us of the fact that our last Legislature was virtually forced to pass a bill, (chapter 11, Laws of 1891) allow ing the expenditure of . $15,000 in secur ing gun-boats, and employing tne mili tary of the State with power to use shot and shell to drivdrom our waters the enterprise and capital coming from other States to utilize and develop this wonderful industry.. In the face of all this it is surprising that such a field of proht should lie at tne very door ot tne great mart of North Carolina, untouch ed by our capitalists. How long will this State of lethargy continue? CITIZEN. WEEKLY WEATHER CROP BULLETIN- For the "Week Ending Friday. October 1st, 1891. -The reports of correspondents of the Weekly Weather Crops Bulletin issued by the North Carolina Experiment Sta tion and State Weather Service, for the week ending Friday, October 1st, 1891.. show no improvement in the condition of cotton. The early part of the week continued warm and dry, the latter part has been cloudy and cooler with occa sional rains, which have been beneficial to small grains and- potatoes, etc., but haye retarded opening and picking of cotton, especially in the Eastern dis trict. There have been some complaints that the hot ' weather of last month forced open immature bolls. The final condition of : cotton must be placed as low as 73 per cent, if not lower. Many farmers have finished curing tobacco. The yield may be considered on the average good in quality and color. Final condition 83 per cent. Seeding of wheat is in progress this weelc i - V Mote. ine next bulletin issued will be the last for this season. AU corres pondents are : requested to send one more report. . - Miss Daisy. Keathly returned yesterday' from visiting friends and rel atives in Bladen County. -; NO. 47 WASHINGTON EWS. A Circular to Customs Officers Concern- Ins tne . loading of Cotton Ships The Publio Debt Statement fpr September. : Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star..' ' -'Washington, Oct. l.-j-The Secretary of the Treasury has issuejd a circular to customs officers in regard to the pack ing: of cotton on shi ps. It enbodies the re sult of investigation of thej fire in the cot ton cargo on the British steamship City of Richmond in Tune lastl conducted by the British Government and declares that the frequency of fires- on ships car rying cotton is in a great measure owing to the loose condition M packing of bales. The circular quotes laws bearing on the subject, and 'enjoins' on customs officers the importance of enforcing strict compliance therewitjh. j ' WASHiNGTON,Oct.l'. Tbe debt state ment made to-day shows that during September the interest bearing debt has decreased $26,837,759.50 of which amount $7,515,520 is composed of four and a half per cent. bOndsj upon which interest has -ceased, bull which have not been presented either for extension at 2 per cent, or, redemption, and are now transferred to the honj-interest bear ing debt account. The , ;otal interest bearing debt account outstanding is now $585,024,720. j . The total debt, including certificates and treasury notes, is $1,534,142,251. 61. . Cash in the -treasury $792,668, 209.89. Net debt $792,474,941.71: net cash balance in treasury $44,987,968.61 ;gold cirtificates outstand ing $140,784,049; silver I certificates $324,936,559; currency certificates, $19, 835,000; Treasury notes of 1890, bullion notes $64,251,748. ; j The cash balance in thefTreasury has decreased during the month ; $15,286, 426.45. The bonded debt, has decreased $17,989,180. I The amount of 4J per cent, bonds held in trust by the Treasurer for na ional banks as security fpr circulation at the close of business, Sept, 30th, 1891, is $258,900. These bonds are the property Of fourteen banks, located in ten different States.' As they are no longer'available for the purpose stated they will have to be replaced with inter est bearing bonds. INTER-STATE EXPOSITION Baleigh. Ablaze "With Enthusiasm The City Gaily Decorated Speeches by Gov, Holt and Others Address by Octavus Cohen, of Charleston, 8, " By TeIegraphto the Morning Star. Raleigh, N. C, Oct. l.j-The South ern Inter-State Exposition opened here this morning. The city is decorated, and flags are flying. Manly public and private buildings are displaying bunt ing. I " A military and civic pjrocession was formed in the city and marched to the Exposition grounds in jthe suBurbs. There is great enthusiasm in the city, and an immense crowd in the streets. The opening speech was! delivered by Thomas M Holt, Governor of fhe State. The address of welcome 4as delivered by Major Badger, and Wasfresponded to by Kev. Dr. I. I. Hall. Tnis was lol lowed by an address onfthe real new South by Octavius Cohen, editor pf the Charleston World, ARKANSAS' EX-TREASURER. Examination 8ho-w8 a Shortage of $138,' , 000, Covering Woodruff's Term Ten Tears. Bv Telegraph to the Moriing Star. Chicago, Oct. ' 17 A Little Rock says ; The special from State board which has been five months making set tlement with ex-Treasurer IW. E. Wood ruff, has completed its labor. Report shows a shortage of $138,000, but says there are $10,000 of assets jm which the ex-Treasurer may have equities. The definite shortage which must without doubt be paid by the bondsmen, is $37, 000, but, the Court may! decide that nearly the entire amount of $138,000 must be paid this too inj addition to $63,000 paid by bondsmenin February last. The shortage disclosfed by this re port covers the entire period of Wood- run s time of omce ten years The Governor will instruct the At torney General to enter suit at once against the sureties for theldeficit.. COTTON PICKERS STRIKE. Facts Concerning the Recent Iiynohing of - Uine Negro Rioters in fAxkansas. By Telegraph to the Mordang Star. . ' New Orleans, Oct. 2I A Helena, Ark. special says: There las been con siderable excitement here over warfare in the county caused by 1 body of im ported cotton pickers incit: ng negroes to a general strike for higher wages, which, has culminated in a rio u Yesterday Deputies Frank White and Jesse Hodges, who have been! with Sheriff Derrick the last few days, ferrived in the city and report as follows! .. Wednesday afternoon tey succeeded m locating thirteen of th worst of the rioting negroes in a cajiebrakc near Cat's Island. The" negrbes had been trying to work their way o President's Island, and tnence to Mempnis. 1 ne sheriff's posse called Upbn them to surrender and give up tneir arms. 1 he negroes answered by a valley of shots and made a dash to escape. Two were killed, two escaped anq nine were captured. ' These, negroes were! disarm ed and given in charge of deputies Mills and Hodges, who star :ed with them to Mariana, the county seat. A few miles back of Hackley'i landing the deputies found themselves and prisoners surrounded by a crowd of masked men, mounted and armed. They demanded the prisoners at the hands of the depu ties, and as they outnum ered the de puties two to one, took :harge of the prisoners, marched them into a thicket and .hung them. It is believed that most of the negroes were from Mem phis. . -:"'' i ". Among the killed is Ben Patterson, who is known a "crap shooter" and all around negro gambler and who organ ized the strike in behalf pf the cotton pickers who annually go from Memphis to the bottoms. The balance had noth ing to do with the disturbance what ever. It remains to be seen whether the trouble is entirely drcr, although the general impression s that it is; that the death of Pattersctn settles it. rat Aitorney-uenerai Muter - nas ap pointed . W. D. Frazer Assistant U. S, Attorney in the two districts of Missis sippi, vice Montgomery,- removed. " Exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to $600, 600, all ' silver. Imports of - specie amounted to $5,640,684. of which $5, 638,334 was gold, and $2,850 julver. : The Supreme Court of Alabama yes- .terday - tendered an opinion reserving the decision of the lower (pourt and sus taining Gov. Jones' appointment of Hec tor Lane as Commissioner of Agricul ture, 1 his puts out K. t i K.OU0. Wilson Advance At least fifty. dwelling houses could be rented here at present, -notwithstanding the fact that probably that many have been built this -year. - " Fayettevillef Observer : - 'Fay- . ettevtlle Presbytery - meets at - Dunn " next Wednesday, the 7th inst. Revi P. A. Law authorizes us to say that the railroads have all agreed to give re- ; duced rates to delegates attending this meeting. from an accounts the Greensboro Steel and Iron Works mean business. - The Huske Hardware House -oi this city having received an order a . few days since ' for one hundred thou sand shingles to be shipped at once. , ' ' Mecklenburg . Times : While -W. H. Cathy and his family, of this city, were seated around the supper table last Friday night, they were frightened 1 al most out of their wits by their little dog coming tearing-through the house pre ceded by a copper head snake four feet , in length. The snake ran into the par lor, then out id the yard, and returned to the sitting room. . It sought refuge ' r under a bed where the little dog cap- tured his prey and soon choked the lite , out of it. -;ry,rf.l "'"'' a -u:il- ".j.--.-. -ui ; yti lins and Charley Johnston, two young colored men. were down at Lane's, and . to keep up the circulation indulged in a . little game ot "five-up," This game is a ' 1 ! tt 1 mnM ifitArtfflfinir 4-tlon HnminnpQ - 'Degame" waxed hot and an opprobri-, bus epithet' was exchanged. Collins Struck Johnston across the cranium with a stick, and Johnston returned the com- ' pliment by drawing a knife from his pocket and giving Collins several slashes with the instrument. One cut was made ; on Collins' neck, under the right ear,-'" and extending about four inches. There was another savage cut across Collins -head. Johnston tried to escape after the cutting, but was caught by Dan Henderson, overseer of the city chain gang, on Valley street. He was, placed in jail. , 'V.-;'f- Chatham Record'. On last Fri day Mr. Irby Philips died very "sudden- .. ly near the residence of his son-in-law, ' Mr, W. N. Straughan, about four miles from here. ' After breakfast on that day he went to a field, a short distance from , the house, to pick peas', and when his grand children went to call him to din- ner, they found him sitting in a corner of the fence perfectly dead. Heart fail ure is supposed to haye caused his death. The deceased was 74 years old. : On last Thursday; near the Chat ham and Moore county line, at the saw mill oj G. W. Raines, there was a. pow der explosion tint killed a man named Kimball, and wounded Mr. Raines so badly that he is expected to die.' Mr. . B. B. Brown and a negro were also bad ly, hurl. The powder was in a keg in the blacksmith shop and was ignited bwspranks from a piece of iron that was being welded for a wagon tire k - . Monroe Register : We hear , it rumored that President F ries told the big Charlotte delegation that went down to the railroad meeting at Roanoke that . one little obstacle in the way of build ing the road to Charlotte was that the estimates submitted by their engineers who made the recent survey showed that it would cost $300,000 more to , build the road to Charlotte than -to Monroe. The many friends of Mr. J.Wash Laney, who lives near Wesley Chapel church in Sandy Ridge town ship will regret to learn that he has be come deranged. It was noticed about two weeks ago that he was ' not right, and he has been gradually growing . i worse until now it is thought The is j hopelessly insane. Mr. Laney' has for 1 a long time been a very religious man, and intense thought upon this subject, it is believed, has brought on his present condition. , . . Hendersonville Times: A bold robbery was committed at Tryon City last Thursday night, which will beyond a doubt increase the'number of convicts in the State, prison. The facts, ! as we get them, are these: Some time during the night some live or six men went to the store of 'Mr. T." T. Ballenger, and breaking into it, took his safe, with the aid of a horse and wagon which they had stolen, to a point some three or -four hundred yards from his store, where they broke into it with sledge hammers and robbed it of its contents. Sixty dollars in money and three watches .were secured by the robbers, j The watches which had some trinkets! upon them, were found upon the persons of the thieves and recovered when the cap ture of the men took place. The cap tured parties are in jail at Columbus, -and the evidence against them seems to . be conclusive. The other party who . was concerned in the robbery is still at large. ' . ' . . Rocky Mount Argonaut: The railroads still continue to rush building material into Rocky Mount. - Our sid ings are full of . cars 'unloading ; brick lumber, &c, and still twice as many Duuaings are projected ana will De duiii, as are now going up. We learn with regret that a pack house belong ing to Mr.-W. M. York, of Hilliardston, was destroyed by fire yesterdayl The . loss was heavy as there were about 20,000 pounds of tobacco in the house. The tobacco was insured for $1,500 and the house for $750. The tobacco was worth from $2,500 to $3,000, and the house $1,000, making the loss to Mr. York from $1,250 to $1,750. -4- The past week has been a very favorable one for crops. Tobacco in this vicinity Is all in, and although not so good as was hoped for, is much better than in other ' parts of the State. Cotton is opening rapidly, and the staple is very fine. A fair crop will be made in this section if not injured by the frost, but as the crop is about five weeks late, there is some danger of the late cotton being caught. ' Sweet potatoes ' will make a full crop,, while peanuts will be short. . f . Statesville Landmark : Mr. J. E. ' Cochrane has started up a singular en- terprise: the manufacture of walking canes from: the remnants of cars de stroyed in the recent wreck. He has made about forty thus far, and can sell them faster than he can ' make them. Mr. ; Moses Lackey, of Sharpes-. burg township, while plowing recently, turned up a lot of snakes, and going to work, killed nineteen of them. In the same field, while plowing, a year ago, he killed nineteen or more. Mr. Lackey has such great luck raising snakes that iv uuco accui . a puy uiak were: is nu sub-Treasury warehouse in; which he ean deposit them and draw eighty per cent of their value. - - It is useless to undertake to conceal longer what every body about here now well knows:- that detectives have been operating all through this section ever since the wreck of August 27th. Last week they arrested a young white man, Elmore Cloning er. of Crossing, Catawba county, and he was put in jail at Newton, but it was decided there, as our Newton! letter states, that the Catawba magistrates had no jurisdiction, and Cloninger was brought here 1 Monday night and, put in jail. He is a discharged employe of the road and . is alleged to have uttered threats. Last eyening after sunset a colored boy, Robert Cochrane, who is in the employ of Messrs. Phifer & Co., went into the basement of their store to draw some gasoline, and struck a match to see how the filling of the vessel, into which he was drawing it, was progress ing. .? Instantly the gasoline blazed up, and the boy ran up into the street in a sheet of name. The fire on him was extinguished without much damage to his clothing or injury to his person, but . meantime the gasoline was still running from the barrel and was blazing on the floor. Prompt action put out the blaze, but it is a world's wonder that it did not communicate to the barrel and cause an explosion and a great fire. -
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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