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: - PUBLISHED AT . ; .r, WILMINGTON, N. C, -'"-- .- '' X -- " i7 . AT . . ... $1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE.7 88S883SS888SSS8SS 8SSS88S888S888888 8S8888'888888888 liuojM a 88888888888888888 88831888883888883 883SJSS88888888S8 8888888388888888 88888888888888888 w u ! a. 3s s s s s s s s ::.):!' I Entered at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, as Second Class Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the "Weekly Btar Isas fellows: Single Copy 1 year, postage paid.. ............. .$1 00 " " 6 months " "' 60 " S months " " 80 A CHEERY VIEW. Mr.F. E. Thurber, of the house of the Thurber, Whyland Company, ".T T r 1 . .L!-1. At .. 1 'CYt I DTK., UUCb UUl L1I111K luai Hit South has any occasion to have the blues if the price of cotton has got nearer the bed-rock than it has been at any time before in half a century. He is one of those hopeful, philoso phical temperaments that can see in a seeming calamity what may be a blessing iti disguise. In a conversation a few days ago with the edityrof the St. Louis Inter Shite Grocer, on the present depres sion -oi business in the South, he held that the Southern people had ho .cause for discouragement in that, for the South" was today, all in an, uic must (jiuiuisiug , sec tion of the Union, and had ;made. moce progress within the' past decade than any other sec tion of the country. In illustration of this he cited the vast development of the iron manufacturing industry, the cottun manufacturing industry, and other industries, in a section which was then almost exclusively an agricultural seglion, whose chief and about whose only money crop was cotton. She has to-day numer ous sources of income which did not exist then, or if they did exist, were so insignificant as to be scarcely worthy of notice in the commercial world. Her timber interests have become immense and are growing annually; her phosphate beds, then scarcely important enough to attract attention, have now become worth many millions to the two States of South Carolina and Florida. Her su jar, .nee and tobacco are worth many millions annually, her fruit and vegetabie-growing industries have iucreased amazingly, bringing thous ands of dollars to the one. they brought then, her fruit canneries are mulrml vino- anrl other Kmirree nf in. r.j...0 - - - - come annuallv increksino in number and in magnitude to contribute their share to the general prosperity. And with all this the increase in her rail road mileage has been such as to give her outlet to many markets which ten years ago she could not reach, and her farmers are becoming more inde pendent by raising every year more wheat, corn, meat and other sup plies that they had been in the habit of buying from the West. His ver bal sketch of the South concludes thus: "N i other Section of the country has such resources as tlie South, and be cause they have been blessed with too 6ii a crop of cotton, and prices have de clined to a p unt which is generally con sidered . un'enumerative, some people see n to think that- the bottom is going to drop ouTof the South, when, in lact it may be a positive benefit to them. It will doubtless lea to a further diversi fying of her crops and th j study of eco nomical production of her great staple, but if the South iiad to make cotton for cost from this time forward, sh would still have jnter elements 01 prosperity as the result of reasonable effort than any : other section of the United States. "This is the. result of her range of climate and the nutural resources of her fluids, forests and mines." These are the views of an obser-' vant business man of New York city, who has large business transactions with the South and has had xportu-- nity to study her closely and note the progress she has made. He speaks from a business standpoint and as a business man, and gives the reasons upon which he bases his - views. In discussing the condition of the Southern farmer we have contended in these columns that the South as a farming country is superior" to the North or the West, for two reasons; one, the more genial climate, giving longer-seasons for work and for the preparation of the .soil before the planting of the seed, longer seasons for growth and maturity arid har. vesting; the other, fie great variety of crops which can be grown that cannot be grown in the North ex tensively enough, if at all, to be come of marketable importance Qeorgia, North Carolina and South Carolina could put into market more peaches, plums.cherries, blackberries, strawberries, &c, than the whole West could produce. Georgia could gorge the markets of the North and West with melons before thcNorth em or Western melon''got a good start at growing. Ten years from now the Southern farms and orchards will not only supply the early 'mar kets of the North and West, but, her canneries will supply the people of the North and of the West with a . 1 ME W EE KJL i . i5TAR. y " VOL. XXIII. large part of the canned .fruits and vegetables which they will use, whereas the South now buys from the North the larger part of these which she uses. ' xxx , . . One observation which Mr. Thur ber makes is worthy of .attention, when he says the low jmce of cotton this year may lead to a still greater diversification of crops, and thus prove-' a blessing. ' If it does that, which it doubtless will, for there are very assuring indications of that already, a new day will have dawned upon the Southern farmer, for then the South will be the grandest agri cultural section on this . hemisphere, a land of plenty and aland of wealth, of marvelous production and bound less capacity. X BETTER NOW THAN LATER. For years there have been two Dem ocratic factions in New York, strive fng for the control of the party,and pretty.-much the same elements are arrayecl againsTf each other to-day as were arrayed iir 1884 when the effort was made in the National Demo cratic Convention to defeat the nom ination of Grover Cleveland. The State Convention was called for the 22nd inst., to select four delegates at large to the National Convention in June as much, perhaps, to prevent the nomination of Cleveland as to endeavor to secure the nomination of Hill. - - It is riot surprising that there are two factions in the : Democratic party of a great State like New York, especially while it is a pivotal State and its thirty-six electoral votes are the mighty factor they are in deciding results, for "this gives the State a national importance that no other one State possesses, and conse quently gives the, faction that can ;ontrol it a mighty influence in con trolling the administration of the Government, its policies and its pat ronage. . ' ' k Factions are found to-a greater or less extent in both parties of all the States, Dut are the more noticeable in the larger States where the game to play for is a bigger game. The unanimity with which the Democrats of both factions rallied to the support of Roswell P.. Flower in the last State - election gave ground for the hope that they had come to gether and would be found moving shoulder to shoulder: to meet the enemy in tne coming presidential campaign. This hope was strength ened whf-n Gov. Hill and Grover Cleveland were seen upon the same platform, both warmly advocating the election .of Tammany's candi dates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. It was even thought that David B. Hill had become sat isfied with his seat in the Senate, and that he had set aside his Presi dential aspirations for the time be ing, .and 'would be found warmly supporting the nomination of Cleve land: The events of the past few weeks, the calling of the convention for the 22d, and the contention that has sprung up over that, has effectually dispelled this delusion, and con clusively shows that Senator Hill, instead of being out of the race, is in " it, and in it his full length. The question that now con- concerns Democrats within and out side of New York is whether this con tention is to end with the National Convention, or be carried into the political arena afterwards, and wreak vengeance -there for the disappoint ments experienced elsewhere. It is unfortunate that this conten tion came; but if it had to come, it is better that it come how than later, and better that the rival candidates if there be -rival candidates, be thor oughly discussed before the National Convention meets, than in the Na tional Convention and afterwards. If there is material division of sentiment among the Democracy of that State as to its most popular, and available candidate, it is well for the Democracy of the country to know it, for then it can judge of the respective strength of those whose names may be pre sented and decide whether it may be advisable to nominate any of these or some one who is not mixed up in the complications with either of the factions, but whom both might wil lingly support. And this may .and possibly will be the outcome of this New York tangle. As the outlook now is,.- Senator Hill has not only not, improved his prospects for a nomination,' but has materially lessened them by the ac tive part he has taken in this prema ture convention movement. His ap parent eagerness for ihe nomination, his etiort to forestall public sen timent by a - convention called and : - manipulated by his friends. the personal interest he has taken ?n it, and the further fact that he has abandoned his seat in the Sen ate to go to Albany and spend weeks in shaping matters for the control of his convention all have had a ten dency to lessen him very much in the estimation of people who be lieve that there are certain proprie ties which should.be observed by all candidates for high and honorable position," especially for - such an ex alted office as chief magistrate - of the United States. He has thus arrayed against himself a powerful element, in his -own State and. the opinion is gaining ground that this antagonism is so strong that he could not carrv New York if nominated. MINOR MENTION. Three of the New York Congress men have declared war: upon tne cigarette, and will mdeavor to crush it by heavy taxation. ' Making"' war on the cigarette is all right, we. are that kind of a warrior ourself, but the Congressional arena isn't exactly the right place to conduct the cam paign, and taxation isn't exactly: the right kind of weapon to use. . And besides that Congress has enough to engage its attentionwithout fooling -wrth-the;igarette. The cigarette is undoubtedly a great nuisance, and it is undoubtedly also responsible for much ruined health and not - a little oss of life, but if Congress makes up its mind to u-ndertake to abate -all the nuisances, and all the things injurious to health and life it may as well make up its mind to remain in Washington from the beginning of one term to the beginning of the next. The same reasons urged as a justifi-; cation for interfering with the manu facture of the cigarette, for the pur pose, of abolishing it, hold good for interference with the manufacture of cigars, smoking . tobacco,, chewing tobacco, spirituous beverages, and other things which are in common use, ana which sjme contend are de structive of; health and life. The trouble is when this kind of legisla tion is begun there is no telling where it will end. it is the offshoot of the centralizing and. paternal ideas in government which have made such progress in recent years. We think the man who engages in the manufacture or sale ; pt the cigarette needs a good deal of pray ing for, but for all that the cigarette is not a fit subject for Congressional onslaughts. - - ... According to the official report, the number of immigrants arrived in this country in 1891 was 590,666, which was only exceeded in three previous years; in 1880 when it'reach- 593,703, in 1881, when the number was 720,045, and in 1882, when the top notch was reached with 730,349. The principal cause o the. large immi gration last year, was the scarcity of food in some of the European coun tries from which a very large pro portion of the immigrants came. In other countries where threatening starvation was not the moving pow er, war talk had its influence, as it always has. With : these two causes, the merciless persecu tion of the Tews in Russia has driven many thousands of these people to seek homes in this and in other countries. The probabilities are that the immigration will be im mense this year too, for with 14,000 000 of people in the famine-suffering area in Russia, thousands of whom have not a mouthful to eat but what is given to them, it is reasonable to suppose that as many as can will seek a country where the conditions of life are more favorable, and the industrious toiler has a better show ing in the struggle for existence. Many of thei immigrants who came last year, when they have gotten a foothold, as those who came before them have done, will .help 'their friends who remain behind to follow, and thus the tide will continue to flow next year, arid probably for several years to come. Between short crops, famine and impending war, life in many countries of Europe is not a joy to' the man of toil. ; : Money is scarce in the South and in the West, although the West is getting easier with the money re ceived for grain exported, but, ac cording to Dun's report for the past week, money inj;he East fs "only too abundant" and was quoted at call at 2, 1 and 1 per cent., which' goes to show that the money of the country is practically under key . and con trolled in the East. There is a rea son for this, and that reason is not to be found in any superior capacity the people of the East have over the people of the South or of the West" to make money. It " is not in the people. It. is in the Governmental policies which give one section an advantage over other sections, and make one sec tion tributary to the wealth of . an other section. The Government looks after, fosters and discriminates in favor of manufacturing industries upon which the East mainly relies and from which it has made its im mense wealth. Money makes money, and thus these Eastern - favorites of the Government whose great for tunes grew out of the protective tar iff have added to them by getting control of the great enterprises .. of the country, I becoming the; money lenders, and ' with the combinations they have made the money lords of the land. They don't want any ex pansion of; the currency. : - ' .That Chicago' boy ?who bit off his father's nose, now knows more about the inside of the Chicago lock-up than he ever knew. , ; WILMINGTON, N. 0.vPRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, .-.The Americans are not parsimo nious when it comes to house build ing. The American Contractor in a review ; of . the- building operations , - - . . -. .- . ast year in twenty-seven cities and towns shows a total in these of: 66,- 622 erected at an estimated cost of $255,000,000," an average of $3,825 for each I building. ; There were-in New York 2,827 built-at an average cost of $20,000 each. The average cost m Boston, where there were ,847 built, was $8,650. In Chicago, where there were , 11,805 built, the average was $4,500, and-rn Philadel phia which boilt 6,991, ' the average was $2,8507". Buildings cost more in" New York than in the other cities because the limited room and the high price of ground necessitates high buildings.-: . - , . The grip . is being followed in It Vienna by a disease more deadly. is something between the grip and the cholera. : -Or INCENDIARY ATTEMPT. Mr. H. Xi. FennelTs Carriage an4 Harneaa I I 8tora Set on Fire. ' . I :- I- . - - . - An attempt was made Friday night to burn Mr. H. L. Fennell's carriage and harness stbre on South Front street be tween Dock and Market; but, happily, the attempt was unsuccessful, only a smaty. portion of the stock being dam aged by the fire, which was apparently kindled with the purpose of destroying the whole building: if not the entire block. It-srems to .have gone out of its own accord, and it was not until half- past nine o'clock yesterday morning that Mr. 'Fennel! and some of his em ployes discovered that an attempt had been made to burn him out. Then it was found that some one had entered the place through the rear door on the alley, had gone up-stairs to the second floor and set fire t j a lot of buggy shafts and wheels! stored in a room at the back of the ibuildtng. Three sets oi shafts were burned through in places, and the paper wrappings had been burned from a large number of other shafts and some buggy wheels. The damage will not exceed three hundred dollars, and is covered by insurance. The store occupied by Mr. Fennell is 190 feet! in depth, and the fire was in a room at least 150 feet from the from of the building, and so enclosed with iron shutters and brick walls that a fire kin dled in it would not be likely to be dis covered from outside until it had en veloped, th whole place in flames. " . !A SNEAK THEIF Found Concealed in ft Store on North - Water Street. - Mr. C. H. Thompson, a clerfc in Mr. WX J. Penny's store on North Water street, last evening, found on going up stairs id the store, that a Jot of clothing and dry goods had been moved from counters and placed in a window which opens on a shed in the rear of the store. suspecting mat some one! was. concealed in the place for the purpose of robbery, he told Mr. E. N. Penny bis suspicions and the latter called in police officer Mc- Clammy and began a search for the in truder.; . . I;' ., They found the darkey under a table upstairs, but the fellow was too quick for them and got away. Mr. Penny struck at the fellow with a gun as he ran down stairs, and Mr. Thompson struck him with a ! stick as he ran out of the door. The policeman and a crowd ot people on the street chased the negro up North j Water as far as Mulberry street', where he made his escape from bis pursuers. He was last seen as he jumped! the fence enclosing the C. F. & Y. V. depot. The Steam Tach Oneida..- '- The steam yacht Oneida which ar rived Thursday evening (as mentioned in the Star) was towed from her an chorage at the foot of Orange street up to the railroad wharves. ' The btatement in the Southport Lea der that, the Oneida is owned by Mr. H. M. Flagler, that he was coming to Wil mington to meet her, that Grover Cleve land would be with him, and that a large hunting! party and a big frolic would take place, was incorrect. 1 he yacht is the property of Mr." F. H. Benedict, of Vew- York, who is expected here next week with a party of friends. Thev will be the guests while here of Mr. Pembroke Jones. I After their Visit to Mr. Tones, Mr. Benedict and party will embark on the Oneida for a trip to Cuba, taking with them as guests from this city Mr. H. Walters, Mr. Pembroke Jones and Mr. Fred. Kidder. The National ESxpreas. ' "X-"X The iNews says: "Charlotte stock. holders of the old National Express Company have - already contributed about 440,000 in "blood money," to the agent of that concern, and now the un welcome news comes that they are to be called upon for a still further , assess ment. JThis time it ia a 50 per cent, as sessment. That means that the stocfc holders will have to shell .out just as much again as they have already done. Some of this stock was held in XWil mington, but the amount was never large enough to seriously embarrass the holders; Another Argument. Planters will do well to take warning irom the following which comes from Birmingham. Alabama -;; It . the over production of cotton is going to run the producers crazy, it will be well for them to see that the next crop is a small one. This looks serious "Farmers in this section are desper ate over the low price oi cotton. - farm er Shall, of Coffee county, on . learning last Tuesday that cotton was stilt de clining,! set his crop on fare and then committed suicide by jumping over a John Williams a farmer; living at Limestone, took his seed cotton to Athens to sell, but ' because the price offered was so low be drove to the cen tre of the bridge crossing Elk river and dumped his load overboard. The staple is lower ' than for forty- seven years past. - x . . ; . SENSIBLE: COTTON TALK. jr. Another Bir Crop iaMado Cotton W1U Sell at Five Cent in New York.: : , A prominent cotton factor of Savan nah talks thus plainly about the cotton situation: . , ' "An increase of 500,000 bales-last year and a decrease pf 2. cents in price, an other- increase of " 1,000,000 bales this year and another decrease of 2 cents in the price... An increase of 1,500,000 in. the supply and a decrease of 4 cents in the price in two years. - - "Following the conclusion, it there is a similar increase in the crop next year cotton will sell at 5 cents in New York. It will not need an increase of the crop to do that evem X If the crop is as . large this yeart"and another yearssurplus is added to this year's surplus, cotton will sell at 5 cents anyway. We have raised more - cotton man tne world can con sume- There is another, thing.- The continent raised a small food crop last year, and all their money is going for grain. .Consequently ' the pebble - of Europe are buying tess- cotton goods and the market is dull.'"" . ; What should the farmers plant next year? the question was asked. "Plant anything, was the replvT" Bet ter plant nothing at all than to raise cot ton at 6 cents and sell it for 5." The idea that the Crop must be cut down is generally prevalent. This is likely -to - be accomplished in another way than" by resolutions passed at farm ers conventions and Alliance meetings. On account of the low prices and the bad condition of the farmers generally, the fertilizer men are cutting down their sales from 25 to 50 per cent, under last years sales. 1 he merchant who pur chased 100 tons last vear on credit will do well to get 50 or 60 tons on the same conditions this year. The merchants. too, are cutting their credit accounts in the same ratio. i " The colored farmer has cone to the wall with a vengeance. - On account of the good crops and fair prices of the previous years, every negro who could buy an old mule orf time and get some body to run him went to raistjig cotton on his own hook and the white farmers were not aoie to - get lacor. i ne majority of them have failed tojpay their bills, and the merchants and land owners have been the sufferers. This year the negro farmer will find it hard to get either land or credit. These: things should make some reduction of the crop. . The probability is, though, that this years crop will be large enough. together with the surplus from last year's crop, to keep the price down. BANK OF NEW HANOVER. Annnal Meeting of Stockholders Elec tion of Offloers, Etc The stockholdersef the Bank of New Hanover held their annual meeting yes terday, at their banking house' in this city. Mr. . S. Martin was called to the chair, and Mr. M. S. Willard was made secretary. The committee appointed to ascertain the number of stockholders present an nounced that 3,291 shares of stock were represented in person and 4.470 shares by proxy, outot a total of 12,000 shares. The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and the annual report of the operations of the bank for the year was presented. An election for directors for the -en suing year resulted in the re-election,. unanimously of the old board, viz: Messrs. W. I. Gore, Clayton Giles, G. W. Williams, Isaac Bates, Donald MacRae, James A. Leak, H. Vollers, F. Rheinstein,.- J. W. Atkinson, E. B. Borden. At a subsequent meeting of the Board of Directors the old officers were re elected, as follows: President Isaac Bates. X. . Vice Presi lent Geo. W. Williams. Cashier Wm. L. Smith. The Steam .Yacht Oneida. The steam yacht Unetda arrived in harbor yesterday and came up to the city last evening.anchoring in the stream at the foot of Orange street. The Southport Leader of yesterday contains the following in reference to this yacht and the purpose of her visit to Wilmington, viz: The pilots received a telegram last evening irom Mr. XMorwooa ones, oi Wilmington. N.C, asking that a pilot be at the bar to meet the steam yacht Oneida, belonging to Mr. Flagler, of the Standard Oil Company, who is on his way to Wilmington to join the hunting party, of which ex-President Grover Cleveland is to be the distinguished guest. The party will include a number ot Wilmingtonians, and they wm do some deer driving in Brunswick county dur ing the next lew days. Narrow Escapes from Drowning. Capt. Walter Taft tell into the river at the foot of Dock street yesterday morning, as he was getting aboard of his boat from the wharf. Capt. Taft had on a heavy overcoat and rubber boots, and would probably have had a slim chance for escaping with his. life but for the timely help of two colored men on a lighter, who grasped Capt. Taft by the collar of his coat and pulled him out of the water. . Last evening about6 o'clock an acci dent of a similar nature occurred near the foot of Orange street. Little Joe Linder, the eight-year old son of Mr. G, W. Linder, while getting on the wharf near Davis' fish-house, from a sharpie' lying alongside, tumbled overboard into the river. He would undoubtedly have drowned,- but for a colored boy on the wharf, who caught young Linder as he came to the surface and managed to get him on the wharf and out of danger. Failure at Shelby. X - A special dispatch to the Star from Shelby says :.-T. D. Bridges, a dry goods merchant, has made an assignment to J. L. Suttle. Liabilities about $10,000; assets $5,000. and preferences about $4,000. Raleigh . Lhronicu : It is - a great pleasure to the friends of Mr. Frank H. Stedman. of Wilmington, to -have him here. He is the first Demo cratic sheriff New' Hanover has had tor many years, and he is a thoroughly capable officer. . . - ; - . Friday night is thought to be entitled to the distinction of being "the coldest of the season." It was freezing cold, for a fact. . 1892. MARYLAND LEGISLATURE. Ke solution Urging Congress to Deal With - tae Subject of Tariff Reform.-- Annapolis. Md Feb. 11. By a vote of 78 to 3. the ; House of Delegates to day adopted with an amendment, in the form of an added resolution, the resolu tion offered by Mr. .Laird, of Montgom ery county, a week ago. in regard to the tariff. TheX"original resolution and amendment adopted-to-day areas fol lows: ; - . ? Resolved. That it is the sense of this House that the House of- Representa tives of the United States' now under control of the Democratic party, should. deal with the: subject of tariff reform J whether by general bill - or ; other wise, upon - the broad ' lines marked oat by President Cleveland's message of- December, 1887, arrtj he Mills bill, in order that the party may enter upon the great contest of 1892 with a definite policy, which will con vince the country that it does not mean to take any backward step and that its faith in the common sense and con science of the people is unshaken; and be it further ; . - 1 - - . "Resolved, That in dealing with tariff retorm this riouse has entire Confidence in the judgment and ability of the bena- rs and representatives in Congress from Maryland, whose views are known to be m accord with the true Demo cratic sentiment of this country." . - Mi FAMINE AND PESTILENCE. Terrible Suffering in Russia Famine and Disease Slaying . Thousands. London, Feb. 12. A . dispatch from Penza, the capital of the GovernrSent of that name, in the southwestern part of what is known as Great Russia, is pub lished in the Chronicle to-day. The dis patch says the ' thermometer registered 5S degrees below aero, and terrible suf fering existed among the peasants. - A number of men were frozen to. death on the high-roads, and so intenseley cold is it that birds drop dead from the trees in which they have sought shelter None of the children in Penza are allowed to go! to school. A quantity - of grain for the famine sufferers arrived at Penza, but it is impossible to distribute - it among the peasants in the surrounding country owing to the fact that nearly all horses have been killed for-food or sold to procure money with twhich to buy the necessities of life. Five thousand horses have been killed in j jfenza alone. It is estimated that several million, draught animals have been killed throughout the Empire since autumn. Typhus fever, Small-pox and diphtheria are decimating the inhabi tants around Penza. Two hundred of the peasants have died from the diseases. The dispatch adds that tn the Govern ments ot bamaua, Saratov and.Niini Movgorod the conditions are far worse than in Penza. In these three govern ments thousands of peasants have fallen victims to hunger, typhus and other epidemic diseases. In the Governments of Charkov and Kazan typhus fever is especially terrible ib its ravages. The inhabitants are dying on by hundreds; whole families stricken by the disease have died, not a single member recover ing, l he records show that in tne vicinity ot Penza 17,986 persons, men, women and children, are daily led by charity. LYNCHED. Negro Lynched! at Roanoke, Va, Attempted Assault. ; for Roanoke, Va., February 12. Will Lavender, the colored man who attempt ed an assault on Alice Perry, a white girl, Monday night, was taken from the officers about 1 o'clock this morning and hanged to a tree. He was captured near the city about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and - taken to the Station house; be was removed from there to a policeman's house about 8 o clock- He confessed to a Times reporter that he was the man who committed the assault. A mob of one hundred and fifty people searched the city over, and finally lo cated the man. He was guarded by three officers, who would not let the party in the house. They broke open the door and took him from the officers. The negro was carried to the river and hanged to a tree. He made a lull con fession. The, crowd was very orderly, ana no uring was muuigeu in. I r- : 1 . l s : TEXAS POLITICS. The Sub-Treasury Farmer's Alliance and ! the State Democratic Committee. Dallas. Texas, Feb. 11. The State meeting of the Sub-Treasury Farmer's Alliance Democrats' to - the number of 2o0. in session here', took . action in re gard to the recent ruling by the. Chair man of the State Democratic Commit tee, practically reading such Democrats out ot the party, i he resolutions adopted are in effect the same as the Ocala demands, also denouncing the present State administration and op posing the repeal of the alien land law. Then the "Jeffersonian Democratic Party" of Texas was organized, with a full set of State officers. The Conven tion then adjourned. i -LYNCHING FOILED. Escape of -a Negro . from a' Mob at Roan- j X '- oke, Va. Roanoke. Va., Feb. 11. Will Laven der, a negro who attempted an assault on a white girl named Alice Perry, Monday night, was caught to-day. A mob or ganized to-night to take him from the station house, but officers let him out by a back window and secreted him. Par ties are searching for him and great ex citement prevails. If caught he will be lynched.' . ., . , - t -r ELECTRIC SPARK5. The Republican State Executive Com mittee of Tennessee has issued a call tor the State 'Convention to assemble at Nashville May 4th, to select delegates for Minneapolis, and nominate a candi date for Governor. An Emporia, Kaqs., dispatch says It has developed here that the Farmer's Alliance delegates of the Fourth Con gressional district have been instructed to oppose the - sub-treasury scheme at the St. Louis Convention. XX y Mrs. Gregory, a widow'was making soap at Weltare, S. C, yesterday, when her clothing caught fire . Mrs. Gregory's sister went to her assistance, and both ladies were burned to death. Mrs. Gregory leaves three children, and her sister leaves six. . .--- :: -p:-f:. At a Station on the Western North Carolina railroad, a few miles west of Asheville, yesterday, three children were playing on the track in front of an approaching freight train'; their mother ran out to rescue them, and the mother and one child were ground to pieces the other two children were maimed. NO. H WASHINGTON NEWS. 8ilvr Men - Working in the. Interest of the. Free Coinage Bill, With Bat Poor Shaw for Suooess. " s ; . , . t By Telegraph to the Morning StarX - WASHINGTON Feb. 13. Silver men at noon had secured about 112 names to their petition asking that the Silver bill be made the ; speciaKorder ; in the House. : & large number of members are absent from the House, and for this reason there are a great many members to whom the petition . has- not yet been ; presented.; None but Demo crats! who it 's believed will .... vote for free coinage, are being asked to sign. About .fifteen, of those to whom -the petitiorrhas been handed, have declined to ignr on one ground or another. Some have said that they thought it was giving undue prominence to the silver issue,i&nd making it paramount to the tariff! question, and others that thev thought it might embarrass the Speaker. ine suiver men say that notwithstanding statements to the contrary they are con- hdent ot their ability to secure consider ation for the bill. . They are determined to put every man in the House on record. on the Question"" With this ob ject, if any disposition should be made apparent to prevent a vote ,. on the bill,, they will move its passage under suspen sion of the rules when an opportunity of fers. This, however, will not be attempted except as a last resort, ibis is a senti ment jamong many members of the House,,' including some' unquestioned free coinage men, in favor of an early reporrjof .the tariff bill from the iWays and Means Committee, and of . keeping mem oeiore tne country so as to prevent giving undue prominence to the hsilver question. It is not their purpose, they state, to antagonize sil ver, but to save, tariff bills- on the cal endar so that they can also be made the special order aDout tne same time as the silver bill; the latter, of course to have tpe right of way as a prior measure in the prder of report to the House. TH EY ARE AFTER H1M7 X A Morj Seeking to Lynch a Negro at , -for Assaulting a Montgomery, Ala. White Woman. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Montgomery, feb. 13. ihe negro Wm. Webb, captured last night for rape vi iuisviuiup auvub ch vv ic. au was identified by her this morning. Her husband identified the pistol in the ne gro's possession as one the latter grab bed out of a trunk and used to make Mrs. Crump' comply with his wishes. Crump said the pistol lock had rubber m it in place of a spring, and opening the lock the rubber was found. The ne gro had; tried to conceal the pistol. When cars. Crump identified him the officers instead ot bringing him back to lail, went on into the country with him to Waynesville, out of harm's way. Large!, crowds of people are in the streets about the jail now, awaiting the return pt Webb ; but growing weary, have concluded possibly that the.officers have seqreted him in police headquar ters, and have gone there to search.-- It is also rumored that another crowd are trying to go down the railroad to Mo bile in hppe of intercepting the officers with the prisoner. ihe negro is iust out ot the peniten tiary, wljere he had served ten years for a similar! offence. . The officers will have great trouble to prevent a lynching. DEALING" FUTURES. Further Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Repre sentatives. Bvj Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington. Feb. 13. The House Committee on Agriculture waited a half hour to-day for President Lavenisse of the New! Orleans Cotton Exchange to put in art appearance, and then adjourn ed the anti-options hearing until Mon day morning. Vice-President Goss, of thff New York Cotton Exchange, while the committee was waiting, said that the Exchange had some time ago received requests from the Gotten Growers Association ot lex- as, asking the Exchange to deal in wool the same as it did in cotton. The re quest said : wool-growers were in the hands ot a few men and ,. wanted wool 'Futures " dealt in on the Exchange so as to give them a wider market, tie mentioned this as another indica tion of the. advantages of a system of dealing in futures, and as an evidence' also that producers were not- not all of them at all events clamoring for abolition of the system of "futures" on the theory that it is detrimental to them. . - - Mr. Long, of lexas, asked it the re quest was from individual sheep men or Irom an association. - He did not think an association had been, organized, though attempts had been made to form an organization. , - Mr. Gqss said he would produce the request. ! He had not changed his mind -with the matter, and when he recollect ed it, while waiting on the committee, he thought he would call attention to the request. . FI1RE AT NORFOLK. Street Car Stables and Eighty Horses Burned Loss $35,000. - By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Norfolk, February 13.The stables of the Norfolk City Railroad were burned to-night, with about eighty horses, in 'addition to a large amount of forage. The stables were frame struc tures, and situated just outside city, in the suburbs known as Hunters ville. The overthrowing of a .lantern started the. fire and the buildings being old and very dry, burned rapidly. Filty three horses were saved from the burn ing stables: by employes before they were forced to desist on account of the flames The total loss is about $35,000; about three-fourths covered by insurance. The scene of the fire was outside the limits covered by the Fire Department, though part of the department went to the nre. Owing to lack of water supply nothing could be I done towards stopping the flames and they burned themselves out. The company was able to keep up its schedule by getting . extra horses from the i Subutban and City; railway. No cars were burned, - . : X BANK OFFICERS INDICTED. President 1 and Cashier of ' a Tennessee v. i Bank Indicted for Fraud. - By Telegraph lo the Morning Star. Chicago, Feb. 13. A special from Jackson, Ten n., says :: The grand jury has found true bills against N. 5. White and J. W.Thens, president and cashier of the defunct bank of Madison, which suspended September, 1890. The in dictment Charges them with : knowinly. unlawfully : and , lelonepuwy receiving money, knowing the insolvency of the bank justfbefere the assignment. : ;-;- The cash balance"irTthe-Treasury is only $28,490,947, which is the smallest amount for many years. , , nenaerson uout jar-- vhfiirrht that Oa.a Mtiar iucis ui tuts sccuuh win gu in more bread and bacon this year than t) have been doing. - As a result there be a considerable reduction in the a) age planted in tobacco and cotton Durham Sun: K Mr. Har Hughes, ex-sheriff of Orange corf' living near Cedar Grove, died last fL. from a complication, so our informant says, of grip and pneumonia. '.Visage is supposed to be about 70 years.1- -ti Mator w, A. Guthrie, besides beinc an . able and astute lawyer, is also an inven- tor.; He has turned his attention to th$ . smoothness of. railroad tracks, and has ' invented a new and useful improvement in railway joints. "Letters patent were granted him " on, Tuesday , last by the -, United States Patent Office. ; : Mount Holly 'JVewst- Col. Ruck- er, of New York, who has just been to the two places, informs us that stock companies have been organized at Kings Mountain and Gastonta. and will imme- '. d lately commence the erection of a cot ton lactory at each of the above named places.1 -- Mr. Jfohn Johnson, of Paw Creek, was accidentally killed last Satur- ' day afternoon while out hunting. The hammer of , his gun caught on a fence, discharging the load into his side. He was killed almost instantly, " speakine Only once after being shot. Deceased ' was 25 years old. bmithfield Herald:- Rev.vJohn- F. Ellington, of Clayton, died Tuesdav evening at 10 o'clock, in the 88th year of his age. Alford, Boylon, a col ored man. who died at Wilson Mills February 7th, was born September 7 th, 1786. He lived to be 105 years old, and was able to do good work uutil he was . -100 veara olrl.vr ... ThjM- sr mitirnn. . pings of mica m two or three places in this countvahat we have heard of. As ' there haveoewjvjjo investigations made, -we do not know ofStiie extent We learh that in one place onficjsffer2P ed by the late Simeon Barbour in ' Cleveland township, there is a good deal of it, and ; it is possible that under the earth it could be found, in paying quan- . tities. ' ' ; . Salisbury Watchman: Mr. Tohn M Morgan showed us on Tuesday a hew water filter, of which he is the in ventor. : It is connected with the pipe in the office of the water company, where he is employed. It is ah ingenious de vice about two leet high by one-hall foot in diameter. He turned the faucet and drew us a glass of as clear water as we ever drank, tor comparison, another' glass of water was drawn from a pipe coming directly from the main, and when set beside the first it very . much resembled cider. Then by turning an other screw the filter was cleared of all the mud that had accumulated; Mr. Morgan has taken out a caveat on his invention, and will have the filters manufactured and put on the market. Shelby Review.' We regret to learn of the death, at Earl, Monday, of Dr. Charles Austell after a short, illness of pneumonia. Mr. James D. Bridges, dry goods merchant, made an assignment yesterday. His liabilities are estimated at $11,000, with assets es timated at $7,000. Last Sunday John Jeffries, foreman of W. HThomp- km s saw mills at tselwood, was careless ly handling what he thought to be an unloaded pistol. The weapon was dis- - charged, the ball crashing through his band inflicting a serious wound. Major H. F. Schenck, of Cleveland . Mills, is negotiating with the Southern and Western Air Line people with a view to the building of a railroad from Cleveland Mills to this place. The gra ding has been done and the road can be finished and equipped, at comparatively little cost. ' Last week Hon. T. J. Webb, of Gtdney & Webb, representing the : stockholders of the Forest City Mills, went before Judge W. A. Hoke in chambers at Lincolnton, and asked for an order restraining the creditors of the mills from levying on the property until the matter of a receiver can be decided. Judge Hoke granted the order. , Goldsboro Headlight : .The as signment of Mr. Geo. W. - Sugg is an nounced from Snow Hill. The liabilities are estimated at $9,000 with assets suffi cient to cover. After a short illness with grip, Mrs: Wm. Woodard, wife of Elder Woodard, and mother ot Mrs. Chas. B. Aycock, of this city, died at - home near Wilson on Saturday. Ihe Hebrew congregation have bought of Messrs. H. Weil & Bros, the desirable and commodious residence nw occu pied b Rev. J. L. Mayerburg as a per manent . parsonage, for $1,800, the amount realized' from their recent Fair. After making many converts to the Society ot Friends in Pikeville township i . , . . , . . . , r- during nis revival oi two weeKs, rvev. David bampson, of England, has opened a protracted meeting at Rhodes School House, Brogden township. -An oil- tongued sharper, giving his name as A. L. Jones, managed to pass bogus checks on several merchants here on Friday. Among his reported victims are Mr. Dock smith and Ed. E. Warrick, the former bewailing the loss of $10, while the latter got off with only $5. When last heard from the forger was heading for Wilmington. X, Charlotte Chronicle: Since the railroad has been built through Stanly county several rock quarries have been opened up, and the rock is' being ship ped to all parts of the country, ihe slate quarries of Stanly are doubtless as fane as any in the country. farties coming in from Monroe yesterday alter- noon report that a little child of Presid ing Elder Iyer s was poisoned about 3 o'clock in, the afternoon by a dose of Fowler s solution of arsenic out ot a bottle which it found about the house. The phild was in a critical condition when the train left Monroe. Mr. J. G. Hood, of Davidson, yesterday showed the reporter a fiddle made in 1742, which be purchased recently trom . an old man near . Davidson. The fiddle must have been' very costly in its day, for it is made of beautifully polished wood, orndmenterf twith various inlaid designs. Mr, Jeff. D. McAnulty, a plain and honest farmer of Cabarrus county, has just completed a new cotton gin that is destined to eclipse even Whitney's most extravagant " dreams. It is a double saw gin that is, a fortyrsaw gin of old style would be an eighty-saw gin in McAnulty's im proved. The saws are crescent shaped, and dress themselves with each revolu tion they make. The feeder is entirely dif ferent from anything ever given to the world before. Instead of feeding from the top the cotton ' reaches the saws from the bottom, and all sand, gravel, nails and matches are allowed to. fall down with the seed instead of passing viver the. saws, with the preat -dancer ot fire that necessarily attends. The new . invention has been put into the hands . of Smith Bros, gin manufacturers, of j Birmingham, Ala., and - a patent has i been applied for. G. W. Belk was at Monroe yesterday and employed his time in making himself as much of a nuisance as possible. He had a big pistol in : a belt buckled around his body and walked over and . against every person he happened to come in contact with. Finally he ran up against B. C Moore in a very insulting manner. A. M, Moore, a brother of B. C,--as near by. Moore said ; something to Belk, and Belk repled with several shots from his pistol. A. M. Moore went to his brother's assistance, and a row between the three ensued. They fought until parties from around town gathered in and separated them. When the smoke of battle had cleared away it was dis covered that both of the Moore bothers had been seriously shot, one in the side near the heart and the other in the fore head. In the melee one of the Moores managed to get the pistol from Belk hand, and beat him over the head with it. so that he is hurt about as badly as the men who were shot with it. . . -i
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