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J 1 X ' - v. T'i.ii.'ii""'!' ' - y - UBLISKKD AT wilm: GTON, N. C, $1 .00 A Y EA R. IN ADVANCE. UBLISHKD AT I NGT01 88338838888888333 - " sssssssiiiiislsas ; 3S88SS88888ii"S8S' i ; 88888 8 888 8 8888 88 ipuows 2sgssss;?5;Si8S2S " 823838 332 88 8 88888 3333333888888888 i"o-sS3S2J:28gSSS8SS : 8833888838388888 : . i 8333SS3888S388S588 ' -Vim l Jmeoiot-o'-e5 jmggjg v.-.;. i. 2 s " ! - Sjssssssss s s .hi . : & Entered at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, as j Second Class Matter.l SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Tht subscription price o! the "Weekly Star is as ' fellaws: I- . - ' Single Copjrl year, postage acid...,;. . ."....., .$1 00 " " 6 months " 'M j.. ...... .t..... 60 3 months 80; CALLING A HALT. Gen. Henry W. Slocum has an ar tide on the pension question in the January' number of the Forum, in which Tie presents some suggestive facts and figures, to show how the pension jabuse has grown in the past' twenty jive years, and not only that it shou-ld stop growing, but that the work "ojf cutting down the pension rolls should begin now. , ' To show how rapidly the pension list has grown and what colossal pro portions it has attained, he calls at tention to the fact that the 'number of pensioners has increased from 85, 986 in 1865, to 676,160 in 1891, while the amount paid in pensions has in creased from $8,525,153 in 1865, to $118,548,959 for the past fiscal year. But it don't end here. Gen. Raum has been for some time turning out certificates at the rate of 30-000 a month and hopes by rushing work to adjudicate the 350,000 claims pend ing in the pension bureau within the present : fiscal year. This will run the list up to 976,160. But it don't stop here, for Com missioner Raum says there are still living of men who served in the war 1,208, 70r9,- and if all should file claims for pensions it would add 222.549, to the 976,kCO which Gnr Raum Vex pects to! bring the list up to by th? end of the preent fiscal year. It is a somewhat striking fact that out ul the 1,208 709 enlisted men who are still' liyiing there are only 232,549 who are: not drawing pensions or who have not filed claims for pen sions. But if Raum and the pension agents be given time enough, they will doubtless get these in. To show how the pension appro priations of this country tower above thjse of the leading countries of Eu rope, Gen.,Slocom calls attention to the fact; that the annual pensions granted by Great Britian, including the pay of the general officers, the retired pay and the appropriations tions for the militia, yeomanry, and volunteers amount in the aggregate to $25,1)00,000. , f, : This year France pays for military ana navai pensions s?4J,oo The Empire of Germany pays for jnilitary and invalid pensions 13, 283,000. : Austria pays $12,245,000. All of these combined, including Russia, are les than the amount paid by the United States annually. The total amount paid in pensions up to the beginning of the war was $46,082,000, very considerably less than one-half of what is now paid and less than one-third of what must be paid every year if .the 227,547 surviving soldiers who have not yet filed claims for pensions, do so and have their claims allowed. The total amount of pensions paid up to date to the60,670 pensioners of the war of ,1812 was $36,310,000, and to the pensioners of the Mexican war $13,000,000. Gen. Slocum calls at tention to the fact that Gen. Jackson, believing that frauds were being prac ticed under the pension laws passed after the war of 1812, recommended in his message to Congress in 1834 that an investigation be made as to the circumstances and the claims of every person drawing a pension, and that payments .of all pensions be sus pended until reports from such inves tigations could be received; If a sim ilar investigation were instituted now what a mighty lopping off there might be of the pension rolls. ' Pensions are supposed to be paid : to men who are in need of assist ance and who are incapacitated by physical or- mental disability from supporting- themselves. But .under -the present pension laws, and the rulings of the pension bureau, which is ru principally by pension agents, HVPrU TTlOn Ufhn AtTAr ny-v-A aM;rn.M whether he served only thirtys-days, or four jee.rs, or didn't see service at 1 All U1JUC1 niJ IlIlT Mil L III 4 claim. Of those now drawing pen sions some served one month, some two, some three and others longer - periods, while a great many were mustered in just before the war closed and saw no active service. But they draw pensions all the same. Here is where the glaring injustice is in:it. It puts the man who saw no service upon an equal footing with' the man who served through the war. This is neither recogniz ing merit nor doing the fair thing by - the real veteran, who went into tBe oci vice voluntarily and from patri 1 VOL. XXIII. otic motives, and , who did not go in because he thought he might be drafted if he didn't, ror for the boun ty offered by the Government and State, the latter of which had a great deal to. do with stimulating enlist-: ments in the latter years of the war, when a trip down into "Dixie had ceased to be regarded as a little ex cursion at the expense of the Govern ment. - - !' ' I S0TJTHEEN PE0QEESS IN 1891. This week's issue of the Baltimore Manufacturers' Recard contains an interesting and elaborate review of the South's progress last year in commerce, industry and agriculture, from which we glean the foljowihg. The review embraces ; fourteen States : Maryland, Virginia, North Florida, Alabama MississTpi,- Lou- ici.n, Tt Arkansas Trnnpssee. West Virginia, and Kentucky. The assessed value of property in these was in 1890; $4,493,596,536, in 1891 it was $4,816,396,896.. , . The exports from twentyfour Southern ports for the eleven months ending Nov. 30, 1891, aggregated $296,557,510 as compared with $268,293,243 for the corresponding period of 1890. ;. The production of pig iron "was 1,- 212,039 tons, as comparedwith 1, 953,459 for 1890, a slight'falling off, but not to compare with the decline in some of the other iron-producing sections of the country. The decline for the country at large for the first six months of 1891 was 1,422,697 net tons. But there "Was a revival of ac tivity in the latter half Ot the year, nearly recovering the decline, so that the estimated output will not be more than 10 per cent, less than that of 1890. . The coal product was 21.570,000 gross tons, as compared with 15,840,- 454 gross tons in 1889, as reported by the census. ;( The product of wheat in 1891 was 59,477,000 bushels, as compared with 43,245.000 bushels in 1890.' Of corn, 568,343,000 bushels, as against 450,652,000 bushels in 1890. The crop of cane sugar in Louisi ana, Texas and Florida was 420,560,- 000 pounds, as against 305,766,27 1 in 1890. Rice product 134,000,000 pounds as against 132,000,000 for the pre vious year. I There was a decrease in the num ber of cattle for? some unexplained reason, the total for 1891 as report ed by the U. S. Department of Ag riculture being 1'6,469,377j as com pared wi'h 16,641,187 for 1890. But the increase for the whole country was only "93,332 head, whereas the the increase in 1890 over 1889 was 2,476,865 head. f The cotton crop according to he figures of the itfew Orleans:, Cotton Exchange was 8652,597 bales, an increase of "1,341,275 bales over the crop of 1889-90. The exports of cotton were 5,778, 822 bales as compared with 4,900, 440 the previous season. The acreage in cotton was 19,469, 617 acres as compared with 19,080, 275 acres the previous year. The Southern fenills consumed up to August 3 1st 6(14,661 bales as com pared with "546,845 for the previous year. ' In 1890. there were 336 mills, of which seven have been since burned. Twenty new .mills have been built, and "several consolidated, making the total number; at the end of August 340. Of these 277 old and 10 new mills were in operation. " The number of spindles in opera tion was 1,674,690 as comparedwith 1,423,327 jn 1890. There were 51 new national banks established, with a capital of $4, 510.000. , ; - There were 3,241 new manufac turine enterprises established, as compared with 3,917 for 1890, show ing a decline, but not in greater pro portion than in other parts of the country, for financial disturbances throughout the world, . and the stringency of money for a great portion of the year checked the establishment of industrial ; enter prises everywhere. The new railroad mileage laid was 1,740 miles'. The gross earnings of 46 South ern and Southwestern railroads for eleven months of 1891,"toDecember 1st, were $131,682,817, as comoared with $126,726,057 for the corres ponding period of 1890,Ja gain of 3.9 per cent. t This on the whole is a pretty fair showing, for it mustjbe remembered that last year was a very discoura ging one, for never before since cot ton has been cotton, so to speak, has it so tumbled in price and got so, provokingly and disgustingly low. It is not often that cotton falls below the average cost of production, but it did so at times lastjjyear. This was pretty rough on the . planters, but if it results in calling a halt inthe one crop programme, and in reducing the cotton acreage, it will be one ot the best things that ever happened the South and will be worth millions to the planters in coming years. There is one gratifying feature In this exhibit which is the increase in the corn and wheat crop, it a - pro portionate increase in these be made J tor the next few years, oar planters will soon reach a condition" of: inde pendence in that line, and if with this,' there, be a reasonable reduction in the production of cotton, they" 1 will' soon get on their feet, and realize the fact that farming, that is farming on business principles and by meth od, not by chance, can be made to -pay, and can be made .to pay better in the South than in any other sec tion of this country. The South can be and should be a greater wheat producer in proportion to; the acres under wheat culture, than the West, and some of these days when wheat culture receives the attention it. should receive she will be. Cotton producer as she is, when she"6ecomes the grain and grass producer which Neouli be. she will be? the ago- 4UU " MINOR MEBTIOK r B. W. Perkins, ex-M. C, of Kan sas, gets possession, by appointment, of the late Senator Plumb's Senato rial shoes. The only way we can account for the appointment is that Gov. Humphrey worried by the im portunities ot the candidates, and I anxious to get the job off his hands dropped all their names into a hat, shut his eyes and drew, and Perkins' name came out of the hat He may be as well qualified for the place as the other applicants, but if he is they must have been a sorry set. He is an extreme partisan.a pension boomer from long taw, and a man whose idea of statesmanship is to take a whack at the South- every time he gets a chance. If we are not mistaken he is the same statesman who had a hankering for Ingalls' shoes, and who gained some notorie ty pending the election of Ingalls successor by writing a conndential letter to the President of the Kansas Farmers' Alliance intimating that if he was elected he would turn over a year's s'alary to be used as the afore said President McGrath thought best. He made that proposition, he said, because he didn-t have any ready cash. This letter by accident fell into the hands of another man by the same name, and thus was made pub lic. The exposure created consider able racket in Kansas at the time and put President McGrath to a good deal of trouble to convince the Alli ance men that he was not bidding for bribes. The Senatorial fight in Ohio be tween the Sherman and Foraker fac tions is waxing hot. It is said that it is a nip and tuck race so far, all of the members of the Legisla ture having announced a' prefertnee for one or the other, except about a dozen, who are non-committal. If these dozen would break silence and say where they stood the agony would be over, but they continue provokingly dumb. Already there hve been charges of bribery by Foraker's friends, who allege that ne man at least has been offered $5,000 to vote for Sherman. Perhaps this may account for the silence of the dozen non-committed mem bers, who may be waiting till the excitement gets up and the bidding runs high. We in cline to the opinion that Sherman is on top, and will be on top at the end. We are strengthen ed in this opinion by these charges of alleged bribery, and by the com plaints of Foraker's friends at the Administration for sending Govern ment officers into the State to work for Sherman. They condemn it, and justly so, as an outrage, that the Administration should meddle in a State affair like that, but these same gentlemen thought it was all right last fall when the Administration was sending gangs of Government officials into the State to electioneei for the Republican ticket, in a pure- ly "State affair." It isn't always pleasant for men to swallow their own nostrums. Germany has a new shell which is a terror if what it is said be true. One of them exploded near a company would kill the entire company, and a single battery could annihilate a whole division. It is said that it would be almost certain death to be in ', a radius of nine hundred feet of one of the shells when it exploded. There is no fun fooling around where things like that light. Charles Griffin, of Toledo, must be a Republican of some note. .He is the man to whom it.is said an offer of $5,000 was made to vote for Sher man. V If he had been an ordinary, common Republican, the figures would not have been put so high. Men in New Jersey do not seem to be very anxious to marry.; A farmer advertised a short while ago that he would give a ten-acre farmt $300 in cash and a team of horses to the man who would marry his daughter, and up to lasf accounts he bad re ceived only 5,000 offers. Chicago Ought to be a' good town for the soap business. She burns 8,000,000 tons of soft coal annually, and the smokiest soft coal in America. Weekly WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1892. WILMINGTON STREET-RAILWAY. Th Now Ownen in Possesnqn Their Plans lor the Future New Building to be Erected The Water Street Track, Eta; Mr. J. H. Barnard, General " Manager of the Electric Street Railway Syndicate, was interviewed by a Star reporter last night inj regard to the transfer of the road and equipments, and the plans and specifications of building the line, and gave the following information: 3 . C t The road was' turned over to Mr. Barnard last night at 13 'o'clock, with all. its equipments; . that the present I officers and employes" would be retained until the night of the 23rd of January when the final payment is to be made and new officers elected. Be fore leaving New York Mr, Barnard pre pared specifications for the steam plant and asked for bids. The t general arrangements of the station have been decided upon and as soon as a location is selected the architects will come and complete plans and specifications and ask for bids plans in general contemplate a two-" I story brick building, 68 feet long by 45 feet wide, in the loft of which will be located the engines and -generators and the upper floor will contain the office of the company. On one side of this build ing will be the boiler and firerooms of brick, antl around them the car sheds and repair shops. Mr. Barnard will be joined id a few days by some of his associates and the general j location of the routes of the, 'line selected. As soon as this is done the specifications in ac cordance will be prepared and con tracts for building track - and lines given out. - . The survey of the Water street line is already well in hand and should be com pleted in a lew days. In this, much special work mustjbe decided upon and arranged for, so it is difficult to say just how long it will be before ground will be broken, but when once begun it will be pushed forward with all speed. "The specifications for the car bodies are now being decided upon, and the contracts for these will be shortly let. The first order will, of course, be for open car3 to meet the summer travel and later will be added the closed cars tor the winter months, the open cars will be the large 8-seated ones. 26 feet over all, seating forty passengers. The closed cars will be the standard 16-feet cars. All will be of first-class man ufacture in every respect, fin ished with hard woods, and well and handsomely painted. Mr. Barnard says that he hopes the people of Wilmington will bear with him for the next fouf months as the horses now used are in very bad condition; but he will make the best time possible with them until the electric plant is finished and that it would hot justify the syndicate to buy new horses at this late hour. Georgia Turpentine Operators. The Goldsboro Argus says there are evidently some emmissaries from the tur pentine operators ot South Carolina and Georgia in these parts in disguise, or "in the brush," hiring darkeys, contrary to the recent Legislature's enactment on this matter. It behooves city and county officials to be most vigilant in watching for and prompt in arresting such parties. If they must come into th State and vicinity and hire away from our farmers the ablest hands thev have, let them pay the tax required by law for such operations. That law means something, and should be most rigidly enforced. f ROM THE STATE CAPITAL. MATTERS OF GENERAL AND LOCAL INTEREST. Dr - Eugene 8. Grissom Said to be In saneCity Officials to Attend the Launching of the Cruiser Ealeigh La Grippe The Funding Act A. and M, College, Etc. i btar Correspondence. - i ' - Kaleigh, n. C, Jan. 2. ihere is a sad rumor here this morning, which is said to be well authenticated, that Dr. Eugene Grissom is now an inmate under treatement in the insane asylum at Denver, Colorado. It was definitely determined by the Board of Aldermen last night to send a delegation headed by Mayor Badger to attend the launching ot the cruiser Raleigh, which, it is announced, will take place about the 15th of February. Notwithstanding the prevalence of the. h-rippe the health report shows there were only twenty-five deaths here dur ing the month of December, and many of these were aged persons. There were several cases of tyohoid -fever ' and diphtheria, but they Were mild. The custom ot New Year s calls re ceived a perfect quietus yesterday. They were few in number -and lacked the clat that used to prevail in the days gone by. In fact, it has almost become "a custom more honored in the breach than in observance." It is probable that some: time early in the present year Treasurer Bain ..will issue a special circular relative to the Funding Act. 1 he time will expire .on the 1st of July, 1892, and there are still a large number of bonds afloat... The Treasurer says he has used every effort to find out the names of holders, with out success. ; He is somewhavin doubt as toi whether the next General Assem bly will extend the time, but he is de sirous ot giving as wide publicity to tne matter as possible so that there may be no excuse on the part ot holders. The remains of Lieut. Perrin Busbee arrived here yesterday afternoon, and the funeral took place from the First Presbyterian Church this morning at 10.80 o'clock. There was a large attend ance and much expression of sorrow at his untimely end. The Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege will open for the spring and sum mer session next Tuesday,-with about' ten hundred and thirty students, lhe new dormitories have been put in good shape, and much useful machinery added in the mechanical department. The internal revenue receipts -for the month of December in this district were $77,620.11. Your correspondent is able to say,, upon what should be considered as good authority, that the idea of establishing a daily paper here in .the interest of the Alliance has been abandoned. NOTICE. This is intended only for subscriber! whose subscriptions have ex- Tlirpd It 1 Tintr A-ntX r- 1 DUt a aimTJle TenneSt - I that all who are in ar rears for the &?AB will favor us with a prompt remittance. -. WO ar6 Sending OUt I DlilS ' nOW (a feW eaCh think so, otherwise "prices would "ad - m vancc. England and the Continent are We Alt). a.Tin - IT Vmi TA- stocking up at low prices, and if the ' i w I ppiVA fiTip TIlPDCfA OriTTA it I 1 .-v- . - . - I our attention. MOUNT AIRY. A Disastrous Fire- Losses Over a Hundred Thousand Dollars The Insurance, Etc. Special Star Telegram. Mount Airy. N. C, Jan. 1. The t . - - year ninety-two started out with this progressive young city in flames. At 2 o'cl-Kk this morning fire started un der J V. Mitchell's general merchandise store and swept all before it the mag nificent Blue Ridge Inn, with her hun dred rooms, was soon enveloped in flames that were unconquerable. They would not be .stopped in their course until the Mt. Airy Hotel, the Blue Ridge Inn, six stores, offices, &c, were entirely destroyed. Guests in the hotels could escape with nothing but their lives, and the whole splendid block is lost. At one time it was thought another block across the street would go, but by heroic fighting the flumes were beaten back, though every business house in the block was damaged. The loss is over a hundred thousand dollars, as follows: Blue Ridge Inn, $50, 000. with $25,000 insurance; Mt. Airy Hotel, $8,000, with sufficient insurance; W. Mitchell. $2,500, with full insurance; W. E. Merritt, $8,000, with probably $4,- 000 insurance; W. F. Bynuro & Co.. $3. 000, with $1,800 insurance; Wallis & Long. $8,000, fairly covered; W. A. Rob- bins & Co., $i.5'J0, with $2,000 insurance; J. D. Smith, $15,000, fully covered. Other damages amounted to over' $10, 000. and are fully covered. All will be rebuilt at once, and Mount Airy will pontine on the hustle. THE fV & G. RAILROAD TAX. The Commissioners Decide and the ' Bail- way Takes an Appeal. The Raleigh Chronicle ol yesterday says: "lhe Board ot Count commis sioners were in session again yesterday considering the Raleigh and Gaston Railway tax case, involving some $40,- 000. The commissioners settled it so far as they are concerned by deciding that the railroad should pay tax on prop erty valued by them at $1,724,200, as' not exempt from taxation under the charter of the road. They decided that the Louisburg road and several other properties, such as engines, &c, were exempt from taxation under the char ter. Mai. Hinsdale, counsel lor the railwav. gave notice of an appeal to the Supe ior court, where the case will be tried. He stated that when the court fixed the amount of taxes legally due the road would pay it willingly and cheerfully." A Costly Prescription. . Before a Brooklyn jury the other day a local druggist named Avery was sued on a claim for $10,000 damages by custo mer Price, who charged that his wife had been given corrosive sublimate in stead of chloral, in a prescription by Avery's clerk, and then she administer ed it to the plaintiff with results that nearly proved fatal. As the substituted drug is a deadly poison he would proba bly have died but for vomiting it up. For all this misery he was awarded $4,000. The Savannah .Mew says it was certainly a righteous verdi.t. No man who doesn't thoroughly know his busi ness should ever be allowed to handle deadly drugs.x Those who claim to un derstand such affairs should be held strictly accountable for errors which are altogether too dangerous. The First HationaL Mr. W. S. O B. Robinson, the newly appointed receiver for the First National Bank, informed a Star reporter last night that the bank was put in bis charge yesterday morning and that he was en gaged all day in having the assets of the bank turned over to him and that all of the cash on hand has been packed up and would be shipped to the Comptroller at" Washington, Mr. Edward b. Lacy, and that Mr. Cicero Burruss and Mr. Wra. K. Walker had been retained to assist him in his worKTj MOUNT AIRY. A Conjpany Organized to .Rebuild the Burnt District. Special Star Telegram Mount Airy. Jan. 2. Hardly had the great fire ceased which on yesteiday swept over a hundred thousand dollars worth of property into ashes the Blue Ridge Inn, Mouut 1 Airy Hotel and a block of stores when the citizens - of this progressive young city held a meet ing to organize a company for rebuild ing. 3 To-night great enthusiasm pre vailed and stock is being subscribed for. An elegant summer and winter resort hotel, latest style. lke unto the Battery Park of Asheville, is to be built immediately- : -:'; '. . ' Mr. E. Hewlett, County Treas urer, hasjbeen sick and .confined to his home on Masonboro Sound': for the last few days. v Stab 'COTTON FACTS AND FIGURES. Yesterday" being a holiday in the New York and New Orleans cotton mar kets, there were no sales of futures or other transactions in cotton reported. The receipts of cotton at Wilming ton for the month of December are 27,- 850 bales, againsts receipts of 18.V79 for the same' month last year. Receipts for the crop year-to January 1st are 133, 905 against 145,692 bales to same date last year a difference of 11.797 bales. '. ft sl. 7. xr:. Augusta Chronicle: ' Middling cot ton in Augusta on the 1st t of October was 8 1-16. 'it is now 7 1-16. These prices are ruinous to our farmers. Even it the rnarket goes up, with two-thirds j of the crop out of - their hands, spinners and speculators will be the great gainers. We believe the crop in Georgia and cron should be 8.000.000 hales or Ipss. European operators would be the gain- ers. -.The salvation of the South is to plant less cotton and more grain. "; Augusta Chronicle: The South must : find the remedy and apcly ; it. The Augusta convention is called to control the cotton acreage. Unless this is d?ne and the world is convinced of the determination of the Southern planters to raise less cotton, no- pes simist can exaggerate the deplorable financial distress of the South jiext year. With cotton below the cost of production, and with the visible supply of the world 1,125,000 bales greater than for the same time last year, prompt steps and decisive action must be taken by planter, merchants and factors to convince the cotton purchasing world that .the cotton acreage for next acreage for next year will be reduced from ten to fifteen per cent. Mr. W. M. Seuter, a cotton mer chant of St.-Louis, says: "The planters of the South are raising too much cot ton. They ought to diversify their crops, raise less cotton, more corn, and more live stock. They would do well to allow a portion of their land, to he fallow for a time. It will do the soil good to rest ; or it mjght be utilized in pasturing stock." The . production of cotton ought to be decreased at least 25 percent. I think the cotton mer chants of the country will soon take steps tb urge upon the planters, through the medium of the press, the necessity of turning theii land to other uses be sides , the raising of . cotton. At 7J cents it does not' pay the planner. Last year at this time the price was 8 cents, and during the "panic,' or depress sion, rather, it ,only dropped to cents. I think cotton factors ought to unite in an appeal to the common 'enseof the planter not to raise that wh ch does not command its value in tae market or a price that will yield him a profit on his investment of land, laoor, and material The deplorable condition of the cotton market is just now causing a great deal of speculation and discussion as to the cause and re.nedy. D. C. Ball, Secretary of the George Taylor Com mission Company, Louisville, Ky., says on this subject: "The present low price is to be attributed to the enormous re ceipts, which show so great an excess over those of last year, when the crop of last year was one .ot the largest ever raised. Last year, after this time, 30 per cent, of the cotton came in sight. whereas this year the season has been a phenomenal one for forwarding the crop, there being practically nothing to inter fere with its movement, and thus it is claimed that trom SO to 87K per cent, ol the crop is already in the market. At present there are larae stocks, not only in the larger interior markets, but in the great speculative centres as well, partic ularly New York and Liverpool, bome factors are inclined to the belieHhatthe holding of large stocks in New York is not a scrarce of weakness, but of strength, because if this cotton is held there as an investment by the factors ot New York, who really control the market, they will make it a point to see that they get a profit out.of it. I know that the majon ty of the cotton merchants will scout this idea as arank heresy, but the ma j jrity is not always in the right.' Col. Thos. P. Branch, of Augusta. says the cotton factors and banks are as much to blame for the overproduction of cotton as the farmers. He says that the planter incurs at the outset too great a debt in pitching his crop and that he is too often "encouraged to undertake an outlay which most probably will prove unremunerative, simply because .the factors stand ready to make cash ad vances to him based upon his crop of cotton and not upon any' other crop, The result of such a policy is that the "money of the factors and the banks is locked up in advances to the farmers and that the whole business and commer cial public feel the '; stringency : of the money market because the farmers, the factors and the banks have put all their eggs in one basset, i In my opinion, says Col, Branch, "it is useless to at tempt to lessen the production of cotton by resolutions of planters' Alliances or cotton exchanges. 1 he thing tor eacn factor in the city of Augusta to do is to determine for himself that,Jie will not advance for the year 1892 to any plan ter more than one-half what be did in 1891. That at once compels the planter to use his labor and mules for other crops or for other purposes. That will turn loose one-half the .. money : that would have been tied up in advances to planters and make it available to other industries and enterprises. In short, instead of the cotton exchanges trying to remedy . the "present . system of false farming, they should apply themselves to correcting the false system ot -cotton factorage, and in that way the product of cotton wilbe lessened and profitable enterprises be fostered and multiplied Homicide in Sampson. :. Last: Friday morning at Clinton, N. C, in a difficulty between two colored men Sam Wilson and Sam Matthews the latter was shot through the head by Wilson. The murderer made his escape. Sheriff Spell, of Sampson, tele graphed Chief of Police Hallrgiving a description of Wilson, and ; a man who gave his name as Bryaut. but whose ap- pearance answered to the descrip tion given, was arrested here. Sher iff Spell came on to secure the prisoner, but on arrival found that the man arrested was not Wilson. Later yesterday,1 a telegram was received by Col. Hall from R. H. Halliday, coroner of Sampson, saying that Wilson had been arrested and placed in jaiL NO. 8 MEXICAN REVOLUTIONISTS. u. 8. Troopa Conoantrattnc to ' Flent O&TM'a Band Gen. Garoia, of the Mexi can Army, Murdered by His Troop." i " By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ' New Orleans. December 81. The Times-Democrafs San- Antonio special says; In the district of the Garza dis turbance, there are now some 200 U. S. troops and thirteen Texas. Rangers. They are scattered but will be concen trated with the force of Capt. Bourke. ITTL . " ... . ' w nen massea tne troops will attack Garza, who is said to be encamped near Jfopena, with 250 men. The loca itv is far from a telegraph station, and the en gagement may have been yesterday. I he only news received by Gen. S, tan ley was to the foregoing effect, and came from luc uiutcr commanding at rort rung gold during Bourke Vabsence. The murder of Gen. Lorenzo Garcia by his troops and their flight into Texas to join Garza has been confirmed. The killing occurred at Mier. The number of deserters is not known. f Later Brig. Gen: Stanley feels cer tain that an action took place yesterday between Garza and U. S. regulars. Montery, Mex., December -81. News was received here late last rileht that tren. lorenzo Oarcia. in command of troops in the field in the northern part ot Mexico, with headquarters at Mier. had been murdered by his command, and that the entire force, numbering several hundred men under his imme diate command, had gone over to the side of the revolution isis, crossing over into xexas in a body at a point between Koma and (arrizo. Private soldiers in the Mexican army are nearly all con victed criminals, who. instead of being given a term in prison are sentenced to serve with the military. They are des perate characters, and are nearly all secret sympathizers of the revolution ary movement. - Gen. Garcia was one of the most prominent and efficient offi cers in the Mexican army, and his death at tne present time is a serious blow to the government. Gov. Reies has been in constant telegraphic communication with President Diaz all day, but the na ture of his dispatches .are not known. Gov. Keies, of the State of Nuva Leon, and military authorities, here are much disturbed over the situation on' the trontier. 1-he movement of troops through here from the .ower part of the Kepublic during the last five days has been very great and transportation facil ities of the - Mexican national road have been insufficient to accommodate tbe heavy demand made upon it by the gov ernment, lhe garrison here has rushed all of its available troops to Nueva Laredo, from which place they are dis tributed along the right bank of the Kio Grande. - TOBACCO CULTURE. The Centus Bureau Gives Statistic! as to Production in the TJ&ited States. Washington, D-. C, Dec." 31. The census bureau to-day issued a bulletin giving statistics of the tobacco produc tion in the United btates in the year 1889 by counties and also "for conven ience of comparison with those- for the years 1879, 1809 and 1859 as they appear in the reports of the tenth, ninth and eighth censuses. The report for 1889 is based on returns of census enumerators, supplemented by an extensive corres pondence and by investigations in the held, .tobacco is produced to a greater or less extent, says the bulletin, m 42 States and territories, the only non-pro ducing States being Idaho, Nevada, Rhode Island and Wyoming and the non-producing territories Oklahoma and Utah. The entire crop of the country amounted in 1889 to 488,255,- 896 pounds, the number of planters be ing 205,862, and the area devoted to tobacco culture, exclusive of counties cultivating less than one acre, 692,990 acres. . FIRE AT CLARKSV1LLE. A Destructive Conflagration Nashville Called on for Aid If ot so Bad After All. By Telegraph to tie Morning Star. Nashville. Tenn Jan. l, A mes sage just received trom tiarKsviue, Tenn.. says: The Franklin House and several other buildings are on fire and the whole town is threatened. Nash ville has been called on for aid and will send engines. 2:20 A. M. A second message from Clarksville says the fire is spreading rapidly. The whole town seems doomed. A etrAnn nrinrl ie hlosvincr . Nashville. Tenn. Tan. 1. A special from Clarksville, Tenn., says the fire there about 2.30 o clock this morn ing was not near So disastrious as first reported. The three-story brick build- me ot M. L. Myrcs, a notion and gene ral store known as "The Fair," the old Planter's hotel occupied by several, col ored family, arid McGee Bro.s dry goods, were burned out. . At one time it was thought that, sev eral blocks must go, and Nashville was telegraphed to for aid, but the fire was soon under control, and the request was withdrawn. The loss and insurance are not given. FIRE AT; NASHVILLE. 1 I A Destructive Conflagration Raging Iioas Over $1,000,000, with the Flames Still Spreading. i Br Telegraph to the Monn&x Star. - . Nashville, Tenn., January 2. One of the most destructive conflagrations ever known in the' South began in this city to-night. The loss at 10 p. m., after the flames had been in progress three hours, reached fully $1,000,000, with the fire yet raging. Several lives were report ed lost, and help had been wired for from Louisville and Chattanooga. A strong wind is blowing and makes the outcome terrible to anticipate. The fire broke out in the block between Church and Union and Cherry and College streets, and it mowed its way steadily towards the Western i Union Telegraph Com pany s omce, 'located at the corner ol College and Church streets. At 11 p. m. the tire was directly in rear of the W. U. ofhee. The heat was so intense and the situation so threaten ing, that operators long before had aban doned their instruments and vacated the building. " A NEGRO POISONER. George Best Kills His Wife and Two ; Children. ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Richmond, Va., Dec. 81. A Dispatch special from Newberri, N. C.j says; Geo. Best (negro) was arrested here to-day on the Charge of poisoning' his wife and two children. The former is dead and the children will die. He! used .rough on rats" in flour, which was made "into bread and partaken of bythe family; General Montgomery C MeigS. U. S. Engineer Corps. . retired, died yesterday morning oi - grip at . nis residence in Washington. D. C v .--,, -- :, S PI R ITSJU R PljNT I N 7 Raleigrf Visitor: tynfil of Po lice Heartt retnrjped from New York last evening havingfTcnarge the negro Ernest Jones, who made his escape from the jail here sometime since. - ' -i i . - Goldsboro Ahgus: We regret to chronicle that while driving on the road " with her" son-in-law, Mr. McN. Buie, last Saturday, Mrs. H. L. Bizzell was throw from the buggy by the mule's taking sudden fright and .running away, and . was painfully if not seriously in- -jured. Mr. Buie also, we are sorry to Know, was right oadly injured. Carthage Blade: Deputy Col lector ; S. Mr-Jones "captured two one horse wagons one horse and one mule and three barrels of crooked whiskey near Southern Pines last Saturday night. A, white man named Joh n T. Harrington and a negro had a diffi culty near Sanford last Friday evening. in which Harrington was badly slashed up with a knife. The negro escaped.- Harrington will probably recover. He lives near Aberdeen. Smithfield Herald: Mrs. Bailey, an old lady 73 years of age, who lives about a mile from town died Monday laom the eltects ot the grip. James Iredell Godwin, Jr., aged. 25 years, died Sunday morning at 5 o'clock, at the residence of his father, Mr. Iredell God win, who lives about six miles from Smithfield. Yesterday a negro preacher, named Sam Privett, was placed in jail for stealing cotton in 0 Neal s township. He was tried be fore Kerney Eason, J. P., and in default 01 bail was brought here to jail. f Raleip Visitor: The grippe-has its firm hold on our community. There . is little or no abatement. In some cases -entire families are down with it. It seems to resoect no. age, color or condi tion ot life. On vJauijday night a well-known colored man nan.td Jack" Norwood was killed by a train on the R. & G. Railroad about eight miles r north of this city. An inquest was held. at which it was developed that Norwood bad fallen asleep on the track, while waiting for some of, his family. No . blame is attached to the railroad. , Lenoir Topic: Mrs. Martha Powell, wife of Mr, Joseph T. Powell, died at her home near Lenoir, Monday evening, Dec. 21st, in the 64th year of her age. Mrs. Lovill. wife of ex State benatpr Edward F. Lovill, of Boone, Watauga county, died Christ mas nieht. Mr. William Shell, son of Mr. Tipton Shell, 6T Little River, had the misfortune to have one of his hands sawed off by a circular saw last week. He went beneath the saw to clean out the sawdust carrier when his hand hit. the saw. It was amputated at the wrist. - Monroe Enquirer: Died, in Monroe township, Mrs. Bettie Tomber lin, wife of W. J. Tomberlin, aged 27 years. On Saturday - night ' last about 6 o'clock. Jack Stewart, George and Bill Presley got into a row in . White's bar-room and were thrown out of the back door by Mr. White. The Fresleys then attacked Stewart and while they had him down Stewart stab bed George in the bowels, producing a. serious wound. The wounded man taken to his home in the southern part of the town. His condition we learn was as . favorable as could be expected, and the chances are that he will recover. Stew- , art was arrested and lodged in jail to await the result of Presley's injury. Charlotte News: Mr. H. C. Ec- cles. of the Central Hotel to-day received an addition to nis pocket souvenirs. It is a button of tin, and was presented to him by Prof. J. C. Horton, ofvthe King's Mountain Tin Mining Co. Heretofore, this company has confined itself solely to taking out tin ore. Wow the com pany is reducing the ore, and the result shows tin. The lump of tin presented to Mr. Eccles represents the 'first pure tin produced from the soil of North Carolina! t Bill Rhyne, one of the convicts at the county stockade, got his left hand caught m the cogs of the rock crusher. Two fingers were ground to pieces. The injured hand was dressed by Dr. Wilder. About the time the doctor got through with his job, he was called upon to- attend another convict, whose foot had been crushed under the wheels of a rock car. Weldon News: Mr. - Jesse A. Powers died at his residence in this place on Thursday eveningi last. He , had been in the railway service for near ly forty years. Mr. Sanford Pep- per, an oia ana nigntiy respeciea citizen of this county, died at bis home about two: miles from town on Tuesday. Mrs. Louisa Cheek, wife of Mr. F. J. Ceek, died at her husband's residence in this place Tuesday, at one o'clock. after an illness of two. weeks with the grippe. She was in the 66th year of her age. The grippe is no respector of persons, and has visited the peniten tiary stockades and cells as the State farms in this and Northampton counties. On the farms near here forty cases have been reported though none of them have proved fatal. At Caledonia a large number of convicts have succumbed to it and eight deaths have been the re sult. . Mount Holly News: On Tues day night, 15th inst.. Charlie Adams.the young son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M.. - bhives, met with a horrible accident, that subsequently resulted in his death. Mr. Shives was chatting pleasantly to his wife, when Charley came up and wanted to know how many presidents there had been of these United States. His father told htm to take the lamp .and go into another room and bring him . Blum s alamanac. Charlie qid as he was bid and was returning when all were startled by a report as of a gun Tand Charlie rushed into the room enveloped in flames the lamp had exploded. His -father bravely sprang to him and fought the flames. A quilt was thrown over him with which he ; extinguished the flames, but not before Charlie was so badly burned that he died three days after, notwithstanding everything possi ble was done to save him ; five gallons of linseed bit were used. Mr. Shives' hands were so badly burned in trying to extinguish the flames" that it was feared he would lose them, but we are giaa to state that they are getting well rapidly. Charlotte Chronicle : Wister Tate, Mayor of Mdrganton, was killed in a peculiar manner Xmas day. The day before Christmas a man who was' drunic was put in tne guara-uouse. When he got sober on the next day he was released, and in the afternoon, while the little boys were firing crackers, he put a dynamite cartridge under Mr. Tate's office, and when it.expldded Mr. Tate was seriously injured and the front part of the house was damaged. Mr. Tate was removed to hi$ house and ied on the same night. Mr. Tate was, an attorney-at-law, oa years oi age. The latest information we have is thai the murderer is still at large. It is the first- use that a murderer in this State has made of dynamite. Parties coming in from Lenoir yes terday brought news of a disastrous fire which occurred there Wednesday. Three dwellings and one store were burned. No insurance. Capt. Jim Thomas, conductor on the C. C. & A. Railroad narrowly escaped death .Wednesday night. He was standing on the rear end of the caboose car. going into Augusta. It was necessary to apply the air brakes suddenly, and in dping so the cars were brought to so sudden a stop that he was thrown from, the platform on to the track. The engineer backed . slightly, and the wheels of -the car were' just touching Capt. Thomas' shoulder as he lay ' across the rail, - when the tram stopped. A few .inches more and the wheel would have gone, across, his shoulder and chest. He was badly bruised up by the fall and is now at,hiSt mother's in Augusta. v. T - - I y
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