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Second Class Matter .1 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. pa lubacriptjon price of the "Weekly Star is as ...... t. .....$100 .... 60 80 ' J 3 month( BLAINE MUST TALK ' Since1 Secretary Blaine's return to bis post m uasningion j-nig canui- daCydrthe Presidency is agam ber coming a subject of animated; dis cussion and matters are coming to that point when he can no longer re- maiti jiilenfl but must speak, out ana thnJ. who have been urging his nomination have been content with tte ihdiredt assurance of his friends hn were suooosed td be in a posi- tionio-i speak for him that he would not aecime the nomination if ten then again it has been equal emphasis on the dered, and said with other' side Harrison that Mr. Blaine and Mr. understood each other, were on the most amicable and con fidential terms, and that when the proper t:rm came Mr. Blaine would publicly announce: that he could not bit a candidate, but was fieartily- in avor of the nomination of Mr. larrison. ;v Whether this was much credited or lot, it has given rise to the suspi cion among some of the Blaine sup porters that there may possibly be some understanding between him ind Harrison by which he, about the time the convention meets, -will. with draw and try to turn his following bver to Harrison, but it is said that there are a good many of the follow ing who will not be turned over, and that these will insist shortly after the result of the elections next week is known on having an unequivocal an nouncement one way or the other torn Mr, Blaine as to whether he is a candidate or not, so that they may shape their;' course accordingly. If he declines1: to enter the race, they wan't td know it. ' ; But if no pressure of this kihcTbe brought to bear Mr. Blaine will find it necessary to let b!is friends know how; he stands, that is, if he is any idea of entering the race against Harrison. - His friends must know this to act intelligently and with method, for while there is any doubt as to his candidacy not work with the same they' can ispint nor with the same effect as when they felt tneir work would count and their man could be relied upon, I Aside from, thier personal popular -ityr Mr. Harrison having control of so much patronage has a decided advantage when it comes to manip ulating the party machine -in the iv.v.i.ivcioiai.es. ixe tnus nais a decided advantage in securing dele gations pledged to him for favors granted or favors expected, and it will be on-such delegations packed uyreaerai omce holders.! that he will mainly depend : for his success, wtiereas, if the delegations were made up. without, official manipulation, siaine would probably beat himi two to one. : The Southern States do riot Send mmY Republican electors to the electoral colleges, but they send a Pretty strong force to the Republi- ron t.- 1 . i vuuvciiuuu ctuu tncii i otes coun't iust as much as a cor- r?onding number of votes from c sta which elect. Republican Electors.,, j is no longer a question wnetner Mr. Harrison is work tor afe-nomination, for it is jwell . noiStl that he is doing his level best ,n direction and that his friends are now ajt work doing what they wa to "fik" the South for him. : His "ends- admit this and say he is mak U1S more headway than Blaine or Biaine s friends imaerineJ' in the South the men that Blaine have to depend upoa will be the "'sgruntled who failed to get office rora Harrison, and who will ther ' fn.. , . i ' . 'U1C oe lor 4 Blaine or any one to eat Harrison. The racket has be gun innthis State by. the revival of le Raleigh Signal, in whicbf Loge "arris raises Harrison's name up at "e oe ! fnr !l 8Q9. "&en the. North State is removed to I eigh, as it will be shortly, as the , oi trie other side it will prooa 7 float Blaine's pame. But Blaine's riends will have to do some hustling aid inves t, it may be some, cash to Prevent Harrison's strikers' i from locking the ' delegations .1 from uixie, With doubt fair that play l there is 'lLie doubt that he could beaj arrigon. two to one, for Harrison i& Dot Popular with the white Republi-. cans of the South, whie the colored 0nes do not go wild with enthusiasm at the mention of his name. . ; With Harrison squarely in the , , r : - VOL. XXII. nug ic wwi oecorae a necessity for the man who contests the - nomin ation with- him to declare himself, and so Mr. Blaine must shortly h 5 : a. ii t 1 He will be compelled to do so for Mr. Harrison will demand it if he remains in the cabinet, and his friends will also demand it, and de mand it in a way that he must an swer in plain, unmistakable English. If Andrew Cargenie wanted do the right thing he should have' paid the tariff tax on . that Scotch whiskey he sent to President Harrison, and not have sent it to Mr. Erhardt whom be supposed to be the collector of customs for New York, expecting thus to get it through duty free, but toerein ciunie Castle he does not keep posted, or he would know who the-eollector is. The blunder cost the President $54; . for Mr. Erhardt paid the tax like a man; and then sent the Scotch spirits oh to Ben jamin, who of course had to refund the taxT It is said that the friends of Presi dent Harrison and Judge Gresham, in Indiana, have compt,i the latter. agreeing to support Harrison this time if the former will back Gresham ,ml896. I w. ww. . wunungxon's welcome Week Captures tne City and Extends its Conquest all Over This State and Down in South. Carolina. l ne time . has now arrived for angiocizmg the big week Wilming ton is going to offer her friends near and far away. Her motto will remain the same, Chairete-pantes. which interpreted signifies, "welcome all with joy," and that is exactly what will be done during Wilmington's Wel come Week. Everybody will be wel come to come and behold the grand spectacles that will be displayed for the delight and edification of visitors to the 'city during the first week of December. JLhink of it ! More than a hundred .gorgeous floats in a kaledioscopic pro cession, reaching nearly two miles and exhibiting- the multifarious industries and', business of this metropolitan city by the sea. This alone will well repay a visit. ..Then there will be music, ea lore. pyrotechnics of dazzling" solen- aor, awigntiui tous aown tne river, and what not. Every one who comes will rejoice over it to the end of a length ened existence; and every one who suf fers the privation of absence will have missed a glorious oasis in the opportuni ties of a life time, and will never cease to repine over tne lost chance never to be regained. " "i There has been no diminution of ardor in home-workers, and each indi vidual of every committee .works with an enthusiasm born ol already con quered success. That's right. ,"Faint heart never won fair ? lady," or any thing else worth going in quest of. Work, work,H during the short time be tween now and the first week in De cember, and it will tell with . a thousand tongues the ioyous story of white- winged success. v The Finance Committee will meet at the City Hall Monday night, and every j member is earnestly besought to be present to transact important business. And all -the committees are expected to-meet up-stairs in City mil Monaay night. ' - . ' : I' ' . How the Old Darkey Killed the Buck. There were two fane bucks adorning a stall in the Front street market yester day. One of them had four prongs to his antlers and was truly lovely m his graceful and symmetrical, proportions. His skin will be stuffed and, will be a unique and distinguishing feature in the grand parade during"Wilmington Welcome Week. An old colored man of Scott's Hill brought these deer down with his old muzzle-loader and he related the partic ulars of his hunt to a Star reporter alter "this fashion: "Yer see I wuz er standin' out dere sorter 'nine er little clump uv bushes j er waitin nrhen de fust thine I knowed I he-eard de dogs er trailin Dutiful, an t . . t j : r - J ' dey wuz er coram to rds me. rretty ou. oev music oi ue uugs yi. sweeter, an' closer an' closer, an' my heart got ter iumpin, then: I he-eard sumfin er tearin' thro' de bushe3 ker- jump, ker-jump. Then (let me have your stick) I laid my olegun. as never lauea me, urter my shoulder an scunt my eye down the barrel. Well, when I seed datbuck he were my meat. When I fifw hf wai icroin' so fast he rolled twenty-five yards, I allways fetches 'cm boss Then he smole a wide, deep smile with high skinned teeth Was the Child Strangled. A white child, evidently just born, was found in a candle box, burried in Hilton Grove, by officers C. E. Woods orA I f". Rorneman vesterdav at 10 o'clock ' ' , i A little boy, Theodore Schrader, m- tormed the officers that a box contain ing some, offensive matter was burried there, and upon digging the slight " covering of - earth f rom the box the astounding-discovery was made that it contained the body of a newly born Babe, with no clothing exr cepting . a jiece of white cloth pinned around tt. Decomposition was consiu- .rahlw advanced, but marks of some thing, like a string we're plainly discern ohio nn the neck, as if the child had been strangled. - - - .Coroner T,C Walton was at once no tified and held"an inquest, but no clue leading to the criminality of any. one waa rtisvwered ! nor J indeed, was the birth, death or burial of any child in the neitrhhnrhood unaccounted for. So tar the whole affair is an impenetrable mys J tery. 4L JljLJDj Vox Polittoal Pelf.' A STAR reporter Interviewed 'Collec tor John C. Dancy yesterday with re- Kuu to the true inwarrtnp of th Thursday night meetings The Collec tpr is of the best type of his race in in telligence and morals andymuch more conservative than most- Of. his leaders. from his talk it was gathered that the purpose of the colored men is to enforce recognition of their race irr -the distri bution of offices, , proportionately with their rate. If this is done, the handful of white Republican voters will be sad ly left. They have not gone back on any Republican measure, but are tired of lieing wood-hewers and water-draw ers ipr the white leaders. If any Democrat entertains an idea that the Republican yoke is calline ineir necKs, it might as - well be dis missed. Thev are as solid for. th R. publican ticket as a rock wall and this lesson should be taken to. hrt - hr Democratswith third party preclivities. Notwithstanding white Democrats do so large a preponderance of the tax pay ing ana tne colored people do so much hostile voting, yet they are not satisfied with their share of the -school fund.' Take such counties as New Han over and Edgecombe where the colored cfiildren outnumber the whites, yet the scnooi lund, is allotted acrordina tr. numbers, while the money is largely de rived from the pockets'of white tax-pay 23 ers. The views expreased at the meet ing must have the effect of unifying and solidifying the whites, . reported. Suicide of Mr. Barnes, Cashier of the Bank of Marlborough, S. C The following particulars of the sui cide of Mr. J. H. Barnes, cashier of the Bank of Marlborough, 'at Bennettsville, S. C Wednesday night, were given to a Star reporter yesterday Wednesday night Mr. Barnes seemed depressed and told his wife he intended to destroy- his life. She becoming alarmed hurried to a neighbor for as sistance, but when X they returned the bloody body of Mr. Barnes was found lying on the floor with a recently discharged pistol lying near. He had placed the muzzle of the weapon in his mouth and sent the ball. up through his brain, killing. himself al most instantly. All his accounts were perfectly straight, and it is conjectured that trou bles of a domestic charaeter induced the suicide. Mr. Barnes was a man of high charac ter and a most exemplary citizen, and intelligence of his suicide Jlell on the public ear like a thunder-clap from a cloudless sky. V Cutting into the Windpipe of a Child for a Coffee-Bean. ; p ; Mr. G. B. Lee, of Rocky Point, brought his child, Robert, two years old, down yesterday evening to have a coffee-bean extracted that ; the little fel low had accidentally swallowed and that had lodged in his windpipe! Im mediately upon arrival the child was carried to the office of Dr. Wood by his father and uncle, B. C Barden. Dr. Wood called in Drs. Love, Thomas. B urban k . and Jewett to assist in the delicate operation. Chloroform was administer ed to the child and an incision made iust over ancVfinto the wind pipe. Then they probed up into the mouth and down as far as possible without :i. finding the coffee-bean. The child was under . the operation oyer two hours -when he was taken to the button Honse,, accompanied by Dr. Jewett. - ' - :" What the doctors" "will do to-day is not known. . lhe cnuq was in a stupor at a late hour last nightj. Bound To Be In It. I The Star stated yesterday that every business of respectable' proportions was bound to be in the parade with its float. Not one can afford to get left, and sure enough, not one intends to be left, if the court is acduainted with her own identity. r .,; . . . . . It was suggested yesterday that the stevedores, who represent an important function of business life at this season, should be represented in the parade, as thev alwavs are in other seaport towns. i ne loiiowine aaun.ioiia.1 ui ma ucmutvi in their names to thf committee yester day, announcing ther intention to have their business noats in tne paraae : F. A. Newbury, Carolina insurance Comoanv. M. S. JWillard. Paterson, I nnmn Downinir & Co.. Tide Water Uii co.,- T. J. Gore. Geo. L. Morton, B. 1 . Keith, Jr.. Braddv & Gavlord, Southerland Carriace Repository, and I . C atout, contractor. t Criminal court Jurors. " The Board of CoUnty Commissioners have drawn the following jurors for the Criminal Court to begin the- 16th No vember: W. B. Canady, A. S. Holden, I os. S. Mitahell, W. M. Hohn, Seth Walton. A. C. Penton, T. W. Costin. Jas. D. McClammy, Hiram Southerland, W. F, Alexander, Jesse Craig, Jr., w. r.mmwell. Tohn A. Hewlett. J. B.- Wil liams, J. C. Stewart, jas. E.- Willson, R. T. Strickland. Thomas Starkey, J S. Bordeaux, Cornelius Boney, Thomas J, Burnett, James Nolan, John Entee, G. G. R. Holt, Andrew Blair, G. W. Yopp, H. H. Woebse. C. F. W. Bissenger, T. P rhfmman. D. F. Klein. G. A. War ren. E. W. Coooer. T.T. Combs, A R. Padrick. The Child "Whose Wind-Pipe was Cut No Better. ' v t 1 Little Robert, the two-year old son of Mr. G. B. Lee, of Rocky Point, whose wind-pipe was cut into by Dr. Thos. F. Wood tor the purpose of extricating a rnffee-bean that the child had swal lowed, an account" of which was given in the Star, was no better ; last "nilrht. The child was lying on its back when the reporter visited it,- with the. ghastly wound in its tnroat, into wnicn a rubber tube had been inserted, through which it was breathing with a splutter na aound that was exceedingly affect incr to hear. The child swallowed a little coffee yesterday morftig which seemed to revive it somewhat, but it soon relapsed into an almost death-like stupor. ; Recovery appeared qouDtiui last night. The mother was summoned bv telecraoh and arrived in the morning at the Sutton House where the father and child are staying. The not yet been found, bean, has t . EEK1 WILMINGTON, C., FRlt)At, NOVEMBER 7, THE" CHAIRETE-PANTES- The Great Boom BoometK With Marvel lous Virility, and a Great Success Will Cap the Occasion.' Everybody j is catching on . and the thing is as catching as kissing. Every business of any importance will be rep- presented in the parade, and it will be a remarkable , showing of ' Wilming ton s ; various and . varied indus tries. It - will be a. " wonderful revelation to the citizens themselves and WeU'calculated to imbrue them with a more exalted pride of their city. - The parade alone will be well worth coming miles to behold, not to speak of the numerous attractions otherwise pro vided. . ' All the committees have gone earn estly to work in" their special lines ojf duty. The Finance Committee was not idle yesterday and report favorable pro gress, v 1 he various chairmen of com mittees met vesterdav in the office of Capt. J. H. Sharp and appointed several sub-committees as follows: Invitation Benj. Bell, R. T. Jones, Walker Taylor, C. H. Robinson, T. D. Meares, H.V. Collins, J. C. Chase, I. J. Fowler." . Lights and Transportation Thos. C. James. D. MacRae, Jr., H. A. Whiting, W.H. Green, J. R. Turrentine, F. W. Kerchner. O. Hicks, M. T. Corbett, O. M. Fillyaw, W. R. Kenan. Speaking T. D. Meares, J. H. Sharp, H. M. Emerson, Benjamin Bell, Roger Moore. : , Firemen's Parade M. Newman, H. L. Fennell, E.' G. Parmele, Ed. Daniels. J. G. Oldenbuttle. W. C. VonGlahn. ' The selection of men for the commit tees has been made with an eye to the pecuh'ar appropriateness of the individ ual for the place assigned him. There are no dead-heads, or block-heads in the play. - - Visitors may be assured of the biggest spectacle ever " attempted within the confines of the Old North State, and every visitor willhave frittered much of his life away fruitlessly unless he brings his wife and children and induces his uncles, cousins, aunts and neighbors to convoy theirs thither. As the various spectacular glories are jput in ship-shape, the Star wili . impart the secret in the strictest confidence to its thousands of readers r Just wait for the Chairete-pantes. How It Takes. Chairete-pantes Why, what does it mean ? was the great and momentous question that agitated the city from cen tre to circumference , yesterday. One fellow wanted to know if it had any thing to do with charity pants. Another observed that it had given him decided symptoms of lockjaw. " - - I But the best yet comes from the wharf. A well , known business man had ordered a somnolent colored man. -who was loading' a vessel for him, to 'wake up and get a move on him," all in vain, tiis snau-UKe locomotion was not accelerated. Finally, losing patience, he caught the colored man by the scuft of the neck and stormed into his ear, "Why don t you move out. you blanked chairete-pantes, you?' The darkey moved and hadn t stopped at this writing last night. Chairete-pantes moves things; and please permit that to linger in memo ries. .- ' - - CHAIRETE-PANTES. The "Ball Bolls on Gathering Accretions as it Goes 'Will be- a Grand Suc cess of Boundless Area. Lingual apparatus was ' resting easier yesterday as Chairete-Pantes became more familiar to the popular palate., All became possessed with : the most commendable ambition to build up to the unique and pitching nomenclature. Several seemed to think at first the ap pellation' of the infant should be simpler and more pronounceable to un Greek tongues, but when the virility of the remarkably precocious kid was Con sidered and the name., began to fit rounder in the moutb, and be expec torated with greater facility, all appeared to acquiesce. , Now, shoulders to the wheel, every body. Get the elbow-touch and the cadence of the lock-step and march right on to success over every superin cumbent obstacle. Wilmington - can do it, and she must and will do it. "United, we stand; divided, we Jail," applies to every worthy endeaVor that demands" concert of action. Re member the. fable of' the bundle of twigs. While bound together they were irrefragible; separated, they were easily broken. But the grandeur of this occa sion, with tne iar-reacning prospective benefits, bespeaks no internal bickering. All will make a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether. The following is the Committee on Lights and Transparences, not "trans portation," as was published yesterday : Thos: C. Tames. D. MacRae, Jr., H. A. Whiting, W. H. Green, . R Turren tine. F-W. Kerchner, O. Hicks, M. J. Corbett. O.' M. Fillyaw, and W. R. Kenan. This is the Reception committee that was appointed yesterday: ' Mayor1 A. G. Ricand, chairman; Hon. Geo. Davis, Hon. A. M. Waddell, D. B. Cutlar, Col. John D. Taylor, Dr. A. J. DeRosset , F. A. Newbury, Col. Roger Moore, James Sprunt, M. Bellamy, J. J Macks, P. B. Manning, B. F. Mitchell, Col. E. D. Hall, F.- H. Stedman, Geo. L. Martin, G. Z. French, E. P. Coving ton, C. W. Worth, E. S.x Martin, W. A. Riach, B. F. Hall, Geo. Harnss, M. Cronly, J. B. Kenley, Donl McRae, W. A. French, Isaac Bates, A. Weill, E. S. Lattimer, Norwood Gips, H. . - M. Bowden, T. D. Meares, B.-H. J. Ahnns, W.. ,G. Elliott, W. L. Smith, J. T. Harper. E. Peschau, DuButz Poisson, J. H. Taylor, T. C. James, J. L. Dudley, Washington Catlett. J. R. Nolan, 3f - R. Williams, M. M Katz. J. A Springer, Ed. Borden, T. . H. Sharp, M. C S. Nobles, Carl W. Polvogt, W. H. North rop, W. P. Oldham, A. M. Baldwin, M. A. Willard,- Wm. Gilchrist, - Jas. H. Chadbourn, Geo. W. Kidder, N. B. Rankin, E. Ltlly,,CoL John L. Cantwell, Capt. Jos. Price, H. Villers, W. R. Ken an, C. E. Borden, Wi C Whitehead, M. J. Hyer, J. G. Wright, H. -C-vMcQueen, J, H. Durham, Geo. Rountree, Louis H. Belden, ' Capt. J. ;. C. " Lewis, J. - A. M. Baldwin, Sol Bear, W. J. Gore. :; : - NOTICE. This is intended only for subscribers whose subscriptions have ex pired. It is not a dun, but a Simple reQUeSt I that all who are in ar- aa fA 4U OTIT) nll I faVOr US With a UrOmUt I remittance. We are sending out bills now (a few each week), and if ou re- xieive one please give it your attention. -Mr. J. T. Lamb, of Cronly, visit ed, his mercantile friends yesterday. . Mr. N.. E. Hard wick, of Lois, S. C, is visiting the city on business. Mr J. W. Carter,' of Maxton, was engaged yesterday with the job bers. ' Mr. W. M. Crookshank, of Greenville, S. G., was in the city yester day. :- ' Mr. A. M. Williams, of Phoenix, was busy with the wholesale dealers yesterday. T. H. Batson, of Stump Sound, had a fine deer at Front street Market yesterday.; ' ; jMr. -J. D. Currie, of Glaikton, was replenishing his stock in the whole sale stores yesterday. - '- Mr. L. R, Parson, a prominent peanut merchant of Onslow county, was in the city yesterday. Messrs. O. B..Wightman, of Fay-. etteville. and C. H. Smith, cf South- port, arrived in the city yesterday. . Mr. M. C. Guthrie, of South port, is in this city renewing his stock of goods. Mr. W. M. Murrill, of Jackson ville, Onslow county, is visiting the city wholesalers. ' ' . Mr. J. M. Benton, of Evergreen, Columbus county was replenishing his stock yesterday. Mr. J. B. Harrellson, of Cerro Gordo, the treasurer of Columbus, is a visitor in the city. Mr. J. W. Dixon, of Lake Wac- camaw, was busy with the wholesale merchants yesterday. Mr. W. R. Fountain, of Lanier, Duplin county, was in the city yester day on business with job merchants. Dr. Frank B. Ullery, President of the Brunswick, Western & Southern R. R.t and Capt, H. H. Dougherty. General Manager, went down to South- port yesterday morning. A new schedule goes into effect on lhe Wilmington, Onslow & East Carolina Railroad to-day, trains leaving Wilmington for Jacksonville at 9 a.-m. and 3 p, m except on Saturday and Sunday, when trains leave as per "pub lished schedule. The appointment of Mr. E. D, Kyle as General Freight and Passenger Agent of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Road is announced. Mr. Kyle is a brother of Mr. W. E. Kyle, of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Road, The position of General Freight and Passenger. Agent of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Road was filled by the late Col. S. B. Pickens up to the time of his death. Heavy Gales. . Edward Kussell, mate of the British steamer Garland, loading at the Cham pion Compress dock, reports heavy gales and seas on her voyage to this port. She left West Harthpyol on the 3rd of October, and on Sunday night a hard blow came up and grew wore Mon day, the gale increasing in violence and continuing until the 14th. During this time the sails were shattered to shreds, and the seas were high and heavy. Fri day. 23rd October, it was especially squally and the seas threatened every thing on board and at 9 a. m. a sectihn of the main shaft broke. ihis was spliced, again broke and was patched up and the rest of the . trip was made "dead slow." . The Garland did not reach this port until last Tuesday, and her sail still show the marks of her rough voyage. THIRD PARTY SCHEMERS- Col.Polk'8 Political Speech at a Parmer's - Meeting at KLizabeth City, K". C. Norfolk. Va., October 29. Col. L. L. Polk, President of the Farmers' Alliance, in speaking at . Elizabeth City to-day, said in part: "I have known farmers to leave their crops -knee-high in grass to go to the court house and tor hours sit in a hot room to hear a pot-house politician speak and tell them to stick to the party. They stick and the dance of death goes on.- After election day," the speaker said, "all is darkness down - here. What ot the night? j The answer comes, 'all is well. plow on.' They talk about failures; the Alliance is as full of politics as an egg is iuu ot meat, xes, sir, we are into politics ; and in there to stay. They talk about, party. What is party ? It is a nice little collar with a chain, t don't care who is nominated. I will vote as I please. Who has a pat ent right on politics ? Itdeperded on whether either party recognized the far mers as the balance of power whether there would bea third party. The people have arisen in their might and. assert that they have the right to help rule this country, and they are going to do it. Mr. Polk then advocated the sub-trea sury bill, and when he called tor pledges to support It nearly every hand went up. He said eighteen States were pledged to his scheme. Star.. 1 " r V - - P 1891. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. Baptist Convention Beauty of the Coun try Kapid GrowtH--of Asheville. v . r Star Correspondence Thirty-five years ago the Baptists West of the Blue Ridge became tired - of the difficulty presented by the mountains in meeting their brethren in the East, 'and formed the Western Baptist Conven tion. From, feeble beginnings it has grown to be a body of considerable mag nitude, controlling twenty counties and numoenng aooui ou.uvu uiciuucis, It had a spirited session this year in I Wavnesville, Haywood county, and dis I tuaocu - uic usual wpiw wi imaoiuuo, ucatiop, Sunday Schools, &c. One whole Uay waa given iu j uuouu VAfuw;t catedat Hendersonville, a mixed school,: presided over by Dr. R. H. Lewis, and prosperous but unfortunately in debt, like many other colleges - iu their early history." It is an almost universal expres sion that the people of the South have to be taught that a college cannot live with out an endowment, ; They start a col- lege,, erect buildings at heavy .expense- ana expect me scuuui . lu uiuk.c muuey enough to pay the instructors and wipe out the debt contracted foi the build ings, which is a most unreasonable ex pectation as history has shown, jud son College owes about ' $8,000 after a nara struggle u menus luougui euuugu had been secured to pay it out of debt. Another enterprise that claimed tne attention - of the convention was the Asheville Baptist, edited by the Rev. . J. A. Speight. 1 he brethren -rallied to the support of the paper and it is now believed that it will prosper. . A very enterprising and successlul school is one at Mars i Hill conducted Mr. T; M. Hufham, son of Dr. J. D. Huf ham, Still a third is taught by the Rev. Mr. Hoard, at' Hamburg; I think in Transylvania county. All are doing well. Havwood is one ot the most lertue counties m the state. I 1 don t think l ever saw finer corn grown than now stands in the fields of its rich valleys, aiwjthis part oi the State is certainly a magnificent country, while they tell me that the land and scenery is even finer as you go west. The land boom through this section has lulled somewhat, but the old- proverb "dirt cheap ' must j apply anywhere in this country, for land is worth from fifty to a Hundred dollars an acre anywhere within four or five miles from the towns and villages of this 1 section. About Asheville lots bring fabulous prices, and houses rent for a third more,, it not twice as much as they 1 do in - Wilming ton. Asheville used to be a cheap place to live in, but the great influx of Tich Northern people and the immense num ber of visitors winter and summer, especially in winter, make all food sup plies high. " . i . 1 was in Asheville a year ago, and can see marked improvement in many di rections. I should udge that there are at least a hundred fine ; residences going uo there at this time thev are buildine a fine City Hall and Market House ; the Baptists are building the largest church in the: State, and the city has appropria ted $600,000 for street improvements that looks a little like progress, lhe Kenilwotrh, said to' be more magnificent than the Battery Park Hotel, is in full blast, and ; Mr. George Vanderbilt js spending several millions of dollars in the erection ot hiS; massive and supero palace; the like ot which is hardly to be seen in the whole country. Major Kingbow s school has started off well, and the Female college is full to overflowing, ! J udging from the style -of buildings they; have erected for their public schools, and the character of then- school commissioners, one of the most active of whom is Dr. MiHard, a -native 1 of Sampson county, one might suppose that they have an excel lent system of public instruction in this the most progressive city of North Car olina. ' I - '-. : 1 , -i -- - Asheville was a revelation to me. Years agd I knew ; it, but I had no con ception of the extent land splendor of its development, it is .next to Bir mingham, Ala., of all the cities I have seen making the most rapid progress. DIDYMUS. THE RICE MARKET. Promising Outlook for Factors and '! j - farmers....' Dan Talmage's Sons, in their circular of October 26, say of the rice market : Domestic During past two : weeks there has been a marked enlargement of demand and fractional advances are being obtained on all styles. The as sortment is much improved. Relative values between the different grades are now fairly established and ; qualities can be had at prices to suit the wants of any class 'of trade from common to fancy. Reports from producing sections South , are not as. favorable as at the opening of the crop. The late or June plantings are yielding at the thresher and the pounder much less thahj the earlier cuttings, and although the Crop will bea large one,, yet it will fall far, short ot the amount required for consumption from now until the new crop is reached (September, 1892). Planters are in good shape financially, Tandj have not been obliged to force sales ..i.t - a a j . ,i i On khe contrary, appreciating somewhat the value of their ; product, they have adopted the wise policy of feeding the demand, without unduly pressing sales. Oreign Ail kinds are in active re quest, with Japan in the lead. Prices are reasonable and quality excellent. which accounts lor the large inquiry at the present time in the face of the new crop domestic. Advices from abroad uniformly point to a hardening of val- ures in the near luture, as repleted stocks can only be replenished at much higher cost. We would call attention to the tact that after the 1st of January the market al most invariably advances and planters whor are able to hold until that time will isecure orices which will undoubted ly more than recompense them for the cost of carrying. The market this year is under the planters, control and by ju diciously feeding the demand they will be able to get full value for their product until it is aH marketed, which should be done at good prices. v A Case to be Tried tin the TJ. S. Court ".- ; Next Week. I J : The FayettevUIe Observer of yesterday "says: ' - - United States Deputy Marshal E. P. rowers was here this week summoning other witnesses tn the case of Mr. E. F. Moore and the defunct Peoples Nation al Bank, which comes off in the Feder al Court at Wilmington next week. Ad ditional counsel has been employed, so we are told, and new "developments in this matter may be "looked for; in the near future. Fasten on the guilty man or men the cause j ot the failure of the People's Bank and make him or them pay the full penalty o the law, is the Observer's motto. - At - Fergus Falls, Minn., a regular blizzard is raging, and the ground is covered with snow. . - - NO. 51 - TjHE EXPOSITION. Fitzsimmonsi of : Greensboro, ins the ' Bicycle Baoe Death. , of . the Victim of the Balloon Accident, Special Star Telegram. Raleigh,' N. C., Oct. 29. The five mile bicycle race otr jthe . Exposition grounds thw afternoon,) between Fitz- simmons of Greensboro, j and Wynne of Kaleigh, was won by fitzsimmons. Time, 19 minutes, 4 seconds. Wynne's time was 19 . minutesj 20 seconds. Wynne fell on the second -round, and was unable to catch up. j ,rx;.,p i The colored man injured in the , fall from the balloon yesterday died this afternoon of internal injuries. WICKH AM 'S MONUM ENT. J Unveiled Yesterday at Richmond, "Va., in ' the Presence of Thousands of People. .-i - " Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. ...:: ' Richmond; Va., Oct 29. The city is-fiHed-th&- morning -rth strangers, in cluding Confederate Veterans and mili- tary organizations from various portions ol the State, drawn together to unite in a demonstration in honor of Brig. Gen. William Carter; .Wickham, a bronze statue of whom was unveiled at noon. The procession consisted of five divi sions. Carriages with invited guests, veteran calvalrymen mounted, vete ran cavalrymen dismounted, and Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad employes, white and colored. These were escorted to Monroe Park, w,here the monument stands, by - volunteer infantry, cavalry and arillery forces of the State; while thousands who filled the streets along the route of march', rent . the air with cheers. ; On arrival at !the monument reveille was sounded by the old brigade bugler. : Hon. ohn Callahan announced Governor McKinney as the presiding officer. Prayer was onerea by.' Kev. J. H. Hepburn followed by music by the Soldiers Home Band, j of Hampton. Hon. John Callahan presented - the statue to the city of Richmond. Mayor Elyson accepted , it on -behalf of the -city. The statue was then unveiled by William " Carter Wickham Ken- shaw, . grandson of ; the general. fudge.: B. W. Lafcy, ot the Supreme Court,; introduced Gen, Fitz Lee, who delivered the joration at the conclusion of which a military salute was fired. j : 1 ; xThe bronze figure is seven feet high. It represents Gen. Wickham in full uni form ot a Brigadier Generat of Cavalry booted and spurred. . The pedestal of granite is feet' highl " On the ob verse of the die is the insenptioa "Wickham, Soldier, Statesman, Patriot, Friend; presented to the city of Rich mond by comrades in the Confederate army and employes lof the Chesa peake and Ohio - Railway." On the reverse side is the narae.l "William Car ter Wickham," with date of . birth and death. - N -; -: ' ' . . TWELVE LIVES LOST. St. Louis,' October S9. A private dispatch just received j here, says the steamer Oliver Bierne. used here- as an excursion boat during the summer and as a cotton carrier on the lower Missis sippi in the fall and winter, was burned at Wilkins Bend, tweljve miles from Vicksburg, this morning. Twelve lives are reported lost. j ahe hre was discovered- in cotton in the hold early this morning and the flames spread so rapidlyj that many of row escape. The dead are the daughter Of J. D.' Adams, of Omaha, Mrs. Fra- zer s nurse, five cabin boys,! and two col ored chamber-maids. 1A number of roustabouts are also . missing. The Bierne left here about a Week ago and carried 708 bales of cotton ;and 100 tons of other freight. She '.wad one of the finest and largest boats p n the fiver. " New Orleans, Octi 20. The Pic ayune's Milliken's Bend special, via Tal- lula. says the boat and cargo are a total loss. She had about eighty deck and about twenty caDin passengers.- It is difficult to ascertain the loss of lives, the several reports differing as to the exact number, i he following are known to nave Deen among mose who per ished. Mrs. Waddell, a!n elderly lady, of New Orleans; Sam Eustricken, son ,of the clerk: two daughters of Dr. Wor rell, of Baton Rouge; chambermaid, and, daughter ofi-Mrs. Adams, of Omaha; the barber, second cooked pantryman. five cabin boys and two f white" levee la borers. The passengers and crew lost everything they had in; the way, of cloth ing and baggage, mariv leaving the f burning boat in their night clothes and bare feeti ' There were squite a number of narrow escapes. Capt. Thorwegan was the last to leave the Iboat, having to slide down a guy rod from the upper deck. Pilot Massie made his escape bv passing the flames toj the stern of the boat and jumping into; the river. He was severely burned! The mate dis played his bravery by i letting himself down by a rope, holding- a little girl by her clothing. I ! fThe bodies of the pantrymad and" baker and chambermaid) have been re covered.' r 1 The crew and passengers all left for Vicksburg by the steamer Sheffield this evening with the exception of Mrs. bra zier and child. Mrs. Dr. Worrell and L. M. Howe 1, whose injuries are too se vere to permit their travelling iust vet. l he ooat iiaa lanqea at Kose Hill and Milltkenj 's landing toj, tike" twenty-nine bales of udicaui nullum n.i o. vitLiieir (x vci., of this place, and after landing, loaded this cotton, 'dropped down a couple of hundred yards and tied ap for the night. The, firej broke out after nearly- every one had retired for the night, and spread with suth rapidity thai ; the engineer was unaole to turn on the hose. The Ashley Co. had about 500 bales of cotton on the landing only a short distance! above, which narrowly escaped burning' from falling cinders. ' v . VICKSBURG, MISSJ, October 29. A special j says that at ; Greenville the mate had some trouble with rousters. many of them quitting work, . after 1 which the mate hired levee men, paying them 2 cents per houri Th?s enraged the negroes, who made a few threats against the mate and boat. " At 3.30 in the morning cotton in the deck room was discovered on fire, and the boat was a mass pf flames in a short time, t very enort was made to save the lives of those onboard, but is is feared- the death list will reach twelve or more. The yawl was lowered to pick up those who could he reached in the river.. It was about the' only hope of saving many who; were compelled to jump mio ine river. . s JTHE MOTZ TRIAL Shelby, N. C, October 81. In the Motz case to-day the "defence offered corroborative testimony and. proof of gooa cnaracter. ot the! prisoners and witnesses. The. defence will probably ciose on Monday, and the case get to tne lurv dv l hursaav or vnnav. Huh. lie sentimemf is strongly inMavor of the il . v ' '" - S 1 SPIRHS TURPENTl Henderson Gold Zea: Mr. TpoX M.' Barnes, one of HendersowCs oldestj and most highly respected citizens at his home in this place at 0 80 o'clock : . Wednesday morning, aged . ea years. His death was .totally unexpected and , his friend, were surprised at the an- nouncement.' He was. on the" streets last Saturday apparently as well as usu- , J , al. .'-"-.'.'.'' i '-.'?" ' - 1 " -1 Clintoff Caucasian: Mr. Warren Johnson has placed in our office two-; -stales of cotton a little over eight feet - . Ull.A It is the "Carolina Pride" long staple. The bolls are very large and the lint is very fine and pretty. ' The cotton . v - will sell for from one to one and a half : ; cents more per pound than the ordinary 'y . variety, He used no guano but simply v manured -the land with a mixture ot swamp and stable manure. .. -i- Greensboro -Workman : Parties .:-.;:;" coming in lrom Morganton yesterday f t tell of the sad death, of Mrs Clarke, 1 of ; " " Burke county, a feW days ago. ' She at- tended a circus in Morganton, and '?: thoughtlessly got too near the bear who lumpea at ner ana scratcnea ner . pain- , v fully. Irwas not thought the accident was fatal, but the scratch -was more se- ; - ' v rious than was supposed, aud . she died -from the effects. It is supposed by some . that she neglected the scratch, and that her death came from neglect.' . j. Charlotte News: -Fhebe Aik- ens, a colored woman who lives on the, " " farm ot Mr. John H. Howie;' at Crofts, . on the A. T.. & O. road, a few miles from Charlotte, lost her cabin jby fire at 11 o clock yesterday morning. At the time the fire started her three children ... were in the cabin. . Two of them were burned to death, and the third was sp badly burned that there is but little, chance of its recovery. The woman had gone out to the cotton field, leaving the three children at home. J ' , - Scotland Neck. Democrat: Mr. x a V. W. Land, of Whitakers, had ordered ; " a bushel of pecan nuts to plant. Nick Foreman, a colored man cutting in the shingle swamps near Tillery, wps . , Jtillgd Monday by a falling tree. One tree had lodged and when the, tree sup porting it was cut the lodged tree fell -v across the man's neck ahd broke it. --r- We had a talk with Mr. William Hodges v recently, and he told us that! he would ' not realize this year more than half as much from his tobacco crop as he-did last year from the same landf ' - - - 1 Raleigh News and Observer : v Mrs. George James, wife of Mr. . George ; " lames, one oi tne cotton mini employes .i at Burlington, on Wednesday stepped out of her door and fell over a wheel- , barrow of coal with such I force as to - . break some of her ribs i and also some - blood vessels, which caused her to ex- I pire within two hours. : r-Mr. Walker . ' b Hunter, of Lnlield, Halifax county, N, C, has invented and has now in oper- ation a new .cotton press for baling cot ton' without screw or irgnA except spikes and nails.' Rapid, safe, sure, automatic, cheap to construct, and: different from anything before the public can be easi ly adjusted to . horse, steam or hand power. 1 . I N Monroe Enquirer'. Mr." John H. Weir's barn,.: at his old . place, in ; Jackson township, "was destroyed by fire last Sunday afternoon. It ' is sup posed to have been the work' of an in cendiary. -C. H, sehorn had a brood ot chickens hatched in the spring and six months from the date they were hatched they began laying, and one of them is now sitting on a nest of eggs of her own. Mr. Marion button , sent v us a pear a few days ago which weighed between seventeen and eighteen ounces; Since the aboye was written we have been presented by RevJ A. T. Latta with a pear which grew on a tree in his yard in this place which J weighed nine- : teen ounces! . m . Smithfield Herald: Our color- ed friends are making a considerable effort to build churches just now. The. j Metuodist are Duuainga large cnurcn . and the Baptist are soliciting aid to j erect a church three miles west from town. A few days ago C. K. Caw- s thorn, of Selma, Johnston couuty, who had been working in Raleigh, , went i away and left his family. . It is supposed j he went on with another woman. Chief j of Police Heart notified the authorities I: to look out for himand . last night he . received ,a telegram from Chattanooga i stating that Cawthorn had been arrest- I ed." The cotton crop is much u.. shorter in the county than the farmers thought when they first commenced to i - gather it. We learn that the yield of j lint is exceptionally good this season. Some gins turning out 42 pounds-of lint to the 100" pounds in the seed. Our . buyers say that they have never seen finer staple, and that nearly all of it will grade middling. Elizabeth City Economist: The big blues,",the voracious cormorants of i the deep, have made their appearance in small schools on the sea coast ol Dare-' and Pamlico counties, and the dwellers there can take respite from shot-guns and oysters. They are regarded as the advance guard of the great army of blue - hsh that bring so much happiness and money to the adventurous plowmen ot the deep. -r-. A respectable looktng young man calling himself Keno l.ban- derson, was in. townsome days last: week and acted so strangely as to indi- r cate dementia and he was at length placed under the surveilance of the po-. lice, and from letters on his person, he had left his parents in r Hawksburg, Mass., and wandered off against the so licitations of his mother to return home. Mayor Glover has communicated with . his' mother in Hawksburg. by telegram. Goldsboro Headlight An un- ktiown negro tramp dropped dead . in the '"Great Eastern" Thursday and was buried by the city authorities Friday. We were told yesterday that a cerr tain country merchant of this county took a mortgage recently on ten hens, . twenty little chicks and a rooster to se cure a debt upon a neighbor. . Last" bunday a large crowd of colored people assembled at a church located about three miles from Princeton, on the Wayne county line, for the purpose of - having a camp -meeting, but they fell out and a general fight ensued with pocket knives as weapons. . No one was killed but several were wounded. Agntluian from Mt. .Olive who was in the city yesterday reported to us a. hom icide which took place in Duplin county, about ten miles from Mt. Olive Sunday evening, in which a white deaf mute " named Sum merlin " was killed by his wife's ; two brothers, named Rogers. Domestic troubles between Summerlin j and his wife was the cause of the homi-, cide. , , ,' -C Weldon News: Mr. W. H. Har rison, a' prominent ' and -well-known farmer and merchant, who lives about ' eight miles from town, met with a pain ful accident on Thursday of last week. He was superintending the-ginning of cotton in his gin house, and in attempt ing to brush away the motes-from lone of his gins his arm was caught by i the saws and badly cut from the elbow down. His thumb was cut entirely off, We learn that the North Carolina Lumber Company, which . recently pur chased a large tract of land.-and.the town of Tillery will in a short time dou ble the capacity of their plant, andi will also erect one hundred houses in the ; town. - The Board of Penitentiary Directors went nown to the Caledonia -farms on Thursday, and after examin ing them leased ' them for ten years. These farms are the property ot Mr. B. A'. , Pope, of this place, and Dr. J. R. :, Pope and Mr. Henry Futrell.of Scotland Neck, They aggregate fifty-nine hun dred acres, some of which is subject to overflow and some of which is swamp and woodland. ..The- annual rental is $3,350, and the option of purchase fixes "the price at $8.50 and $9 per acre. ' I' - - !
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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