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I ". rUBUSMBD AT -' - , WILMINGTON, N. C, AT fc1 flf) A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. 88888888888888883 888SI88888888888S maoH gl smuopi g 88888888888888888 18888888888888888 8g888888lSS888888 88888Se?88S8888888 82SSt '882888888888 g 88888888888888888 1A T u in S S era io o r- ao o j eo jj o I Entered at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, as . , . Second Class Matter.! I - , SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. I The subscription price of the Weekly Star is as Single Copy 1 year, postage paid X " 6 months " " 60 " " 8 months " ' 80 STATE BANKS- 1 '' v Senator Vance sometime ago in troduced a bill in'the Senate to re peal the law imposing a ten per cent, tax on the circulation of State tanks of issue. A bill for the same pur pose had been previously introduced in the House by Hon. J. S. Hender son, of the Seventh district of this State. If either of these bills pass it will open the way to the establish ment of State banks, which will sup ply the peoplejvith a volume ot cur rency ample for the demands of bus iness, and will enable people who need money to borrow it on better terms than they can now. Representative M. D. Harter, of Ohio,a practical banker,and a business man interested in various industries, haafter ten or twelve years of obser vation' and study on the subject of banks, drafted a bill providing for a uniform system which provides all the guarantees for safety and enables the banks to issue any amount of money, based upon the security pro vided for, that the business demands of the communities in which they may be established may require. One,of the principal defects in the present financiaFsystem is that there is no provision made for an expan- sio i of.the currency as occasion may require and hence there is at times ruinous stringency when money is most needed and at other times a superabundance of money at the money centers when it goes begging even at a nominal rate of interest. Some sections have an over abun dance while other sections suffer for want of money to transact the ordi nary business. It will be remember- ed that last fall when the movement of the wheat crop began it was block ed in the start for want of money to handle it, as the buyers had to de pend upon the Eastern banks to get a supply to meet the demands upon them. It was some time before the necessary arrangements ould be ef fected, and in the meantime the buy ers had to hold back, the marketing was delayed, and when the grain could be moved, it was rushed in so rapidly that there were not cars enough to move it as fast as it was delivered and a freight blockade was the result. '- f There is no telling how much money the grain i buyers as well as the farmers lost; by this drag. If there had been good, strong home banks, based upon the elastic plan contemplated by Mr. Harter, there would have been ! no sudh clog as this for want of money to keep the crops moving. They would have moved right along and coming in early and withoutj interruption the railroads would have been able to i ... - handle them without the delay which involved not only1 vexatious incon venience to farmers, who needed the money to meet their necessities, but in many cases serious loss. There has been much talk of , the per capita circulation of the country, - and we are told by Treasury officials that the per capita circulation is now a fraction over twenty-four dol lars. Secretary Foster asserts that this is a larger per capita circulation than the country ever had before and the money lenders assert that it is enough to meet all the demands of business, and yet there are large sec tions of this country to-day where there is not money enough iu circula tion to meet the ordinary demands of business and where it cannot be pro: cured, if procured at all, without paying usurious rates of interest, or exorbitant discounts. The per capita estimate is on paper. The money on which it is based is not in circula tion. The greater part of it is locked up in Eastern . money vaults from which it comes forth only on tempt ing inducements. But, aside from this, the most astute financiers have never yet established what sufficient per capita circulation is, fuppostng tne , money to be in actual circulation. That de pends upon several things, such as the volume of. business done, the methods of doihgUbuslness, how muc is dene on a cash basis, how much on time, the facilities for exchange," etc. England, the greatest commercial na tion in the world, has about one-half the per capita circulation that we are . said to have, while France has twice as much, a fact which may account for the prosperity of the French peo ple and the ease and rapidity with which they respond to the calls for VOL. XXIIL loans by the Government, however large they may be. It would be: exceedingiyj difficult in this country, however it might be in others, to establish a per capita standard, because-the development of this country and of its business industries is so rapid, and the spirit of enterprise so bold that there is no comparison between this and any other country, and therefore the vol ume of circulation which at some times or seasons might seem to oe sufficient to answer the purposes, at other times and seasons would be totally inadequate to the demands. This is why, to keep pace with the industrial growth and progressive spirit of our people, a financial sys tem is necessary which has a propor tionate elasticity in it, which can be provided for only by a system of State banks which, with the National banks and the coin of the Govern ment, will fill the bill. . . ' IT MAY BE NEITHER. The Democratic State Convention which meets to-morrow at Albany, New York, will be Watched with in terest,. because upoait may depend the election of the next President of the United States. It is understood to be, and there is ho doubt about that now, assembled in the interest of Senator Hill, who for the past three weeks has been in Albany look ing after it and conferring with his friends who have been working up the State for him. The onljr interest the friends of Mr. Cleveland have taken m it was to protest against it and to give no tice that if it was held another convention would be called and another delegation chosen to go to the Democratic National Con vention and contest the claim of the delegation chosen to-mor row to seats. lois means mat there will be two rival delegations from that State, not' only from the State at large." but from each district- in the State, to contend for recogni tion by the National Convention. As the - matter stands now, the" friends of Senator Hill have some advantage, because the convention which meets to-morrow was called in the usual way,by the regular author ity, the State committee, the only irregularity about it being the time for which it was called, which was a couple of months earlfer than custo mary. . It is charged that there was delib- herate design in this and that it was done for the especial purpose of enabling Senator Hill's friends who were actively at work and organized to control the convention and make it appear to the country that he was the choice of the Democracy of New York, but they cannot allege that the conven tion was not regularly called. We don't see how, under the cir cumstances, the committee on cre dentials , could refuse to recognize the Hill delegates, nor how the con' vention could refuse to seat them.and this would, of course, give the State to Hill. The result of this would be a divided party in New York, and a divided party means the loss of that State to the Democratic nominee unless he be one who is m no way mrxed up with either of the ( con tending factions. Cleveland might possibly be elect ed without New York, but Hill could not be. Whatever the relative strength of these two gentlemen may be in that State, there is not much room to doubt that Cleveland is a stronger man than Hill in the Democratic party outside of New York. He has the advantage of Hill in being better known, in having been tried, and in having met popular ex-, pectation. This strength is not founded so much in devotion to the man, (as in the Republican party in the case of Blaine, whose personal following would stand by him against any candidate), but because it is believed that Cleveland can draw the heaviest upon the independent, non-partisan vote of New York and of other States and therefore poll a heavier , vote than any other Demo :rat who might be nominated. It is this which gives him his remarkable strength' with, Democrats., who don't care about the personality of the can didate but who do 'care for the.suc- cess of tne party, l nev aon t De lieve that Cleveland is any better Democrat than Hill or other gentle men whose names nave oeen men tioned in connection with the Presi dential nomination, and they laugh at the assertion of his opponents that he is unpopular, because they know that when : he ran in 1888, although defeated, be received over five hundred thousand more votes than he did in 1884, when he was elected, and nearly one hun dred thousand more votes "than the man who defeated him. But with all this, they' realize the fact that with strife in the party in New York he would run- great risk of losing the State, and so would Senator Hill, When the Convention comes to de cide on Which of these two contend ing factions to recognize, the major ity of the delegates, who take little interest in New York's political sqcab- I bles, may pursue what they deem the H safest course, refuse to be influenced by either faction, and nominate a man. who is not mixed up with either of them, which will f give New York Democrats, if they are working for the party and not for a man or a sen timent; no excuse to kick out of the traces, as they came very near doing in 1884, and did do in 1888. It may be neither Hill nor Cleveland, but some other man; and that, under the circumstances, may be all the better for the Democratic party. MINOR MENTION. There is a great deal of exaggera tion in the assertions and predictions of the anti-free coinage men as to the disastrous effect that free coinage would have i upon this country, as there is a goqd deal of exaggeration in the assertions and predictions tol its advocates as to the beneficial in fluence it would have. These same gloomy predictions were made when silver was retoonetized and they were made by the jvery same men who are making them! now. They don't fear the free coinage of silver so much as they do the expansion of the volume of currency which would result from it. It is to their interest to keep the volume of currency down, for. thus they are better" able to control it and make it more profitable to them Scarce money isjlear money; abundant money is what they call "cheap" money, and "cheap" money is what they don't want. The more people there are scrambling for a dollar the more the dollar-owner can get for it. . Blut;free coinage wouldn't result in such j an extraordinary! ex pansion of the ! currency after all, for the product jof the American mines is only about (jO.000,000 ounces a year, and seven or eight millions of these are needed ijn he arts, so that prac tically free coinage wouldn't give us much more coin than we have untler the present coinage act, so we don't see- anything to be scared at. There j is j not much danger of other countries rushing their silver bullion to tljiis country to be coined, for they all) with the exception, per haps, of Mexico, need all the bullion they have aiid if the deporting pro- cess began tney would very soon take steps tjo check and prevent it. It is not surprising that tree coinage meets with jfavor among the farmers of the country, for they believe that it would result in great benefit to them. In so far as it might make money somewhat easier to get, and by making j it more plentiful wOuld make the prices of farm product? higher, it would, but for all that this would be but a temporary gain, for while the present tariff system exists to draw the money of the country to the centers it would not be long before the1 additional silver coined would be drawn out of the hands of the people and accumulate in the manufacturing centers as it always has been absorbing doing under this money tariff system. Mr. Harter, Democrat, of Ohio seems to have assumed the role ot leader of the anti-silver coinage men in the House of Representatives, while Mr. Bland, Democrat, of Mi-s souri, leads the free coinage column. But the debate, if it may be dignified by that name, betweeen these gen tlemen Thursday and Friday sug gests the; propriety of their hold ing a private conference and mu tuallv obligating themselves not to indulge in quite so much irrele vant discussion. They are both good Democrats but neither of them has the right to speak by authority for the Democratic party and de clare where; it stands upon this Question; or that, and neither j of them has the right to put them selves up to be catechised by Republi cans and answer not for themselves, but for the Democratic party. Their answers may be all right or they may not be, but the questions are asked for a purpose! aDd -he answers may be misconstrued or distorted, as they doubtless'wiH be, to subserve parti san ends. If the Democrats ml the House don't see the propriety of refraining from these irrelevant and sometimes ridiculous discussions the Speaker, or r the Speaker pro tern, should promptly and firmly nip them in the bud.- i The impression prevails in Wash ington that the anti-option bill in' troduced by Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, will be set aside on the ground that . it embraces revenue pro visions which the senate has no power to originate, i ne tact is that the witnesses who have been heard pro and con on that question have got the, law-makers so bewil dered that they are in doubt whether they had better ; tackle the "bulls" and "bears" lor not, or if they do how far it may be advisable and safe to go. If the Senate bill be set aside the bill of Hon. S. B. Alexander, of this district, may be pushed in the that is a more sweep- House, and tng measure, by far, than; Senator Washburn's bill. It may pass the House; although it is doubtful, but it would probably hang up in the Sen ate, which was glad to find a pre text to get out of facing the Wash- I burn bill. Weekly "8 WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, A French journalist who has been nvestigating the subject says there are not: less than 4,000 women annu ally arrested, in Paris for shop-lifting. -The number of titled Jadies umong these kleptomaniacs is remarkable. Among those recently arrested were a Russian princess, a French count ess, an Jbinglisn duchess and tne daughter of a reigning sovereign. Of course these thieves of high degree, are not carried to the lock-mp, the stolen articles being promptly paid . for. i " ' ' "The Father of his . Country' whose birthday will be celebrated to-morrow," was a Southern gentle; man, but this is no reason why Re publicans, who seem to have for gotten i that this country ever did have a "father,' should not joitTwith eoodVpatriotic Democrats in cele brating; it. A good way for them to celebrate will be to pay more respect to the memory of George Washing ton and his co-patriots, and quit their foolishness. - Gen. Clarkson has been ordered to Asheville, to try to shake out "some rheumatism which he has in him; It is to bej hoped that the tonic proper ties of Asheville's climate may not only drive out his rheumatism, but hat the moral elements in which he may.be immersed! may also work some of the bad politics out of him. This would be a big advertisement 'or Asheville. I Some of the McKinley organs are bragging about the success , of the McKinley tariff in forcing European manufacturers to pull up their plants and come to this country. Well, if a high tariff has this effect, why not make the tariff prohibitory absolute- y and make 'em all pull up stakes and come overt It is said that Blaine's choice for the Republican nomination for the Presidency is Robert Lincoln. The most conspicuous thing about Robert Lincoln is the name he inherited. THE ENCAMPMENT. There Should Be One 'Permanent En- campmeni Let the Question Be Defi nitely Son led. There will doubtless be some vigorous kicking against' the plan to divide the State Guard encampment so as to make it reach from the seashore to the moun tains. It is admitted that Wilmington has done much to make all previous en campments at Wrightsville pleasant to the troops; and the grounds for the per manent; camp can be made in a few years all that the most exacting co aid desire. " If two regiments can be taken to Asheville next Summer because their camp expenses will be paid by the peo ple of that town, all of the regiments may be! taken to some other town the year following, it similar inducements are offered. The whole question should be - defin itely settled by the next Legislature. A permanent location! should be selected and improved from vear to year. If the appropriation ! is too small, let it be increased, j Whatever the necessary cost, the State Guard must be main- tained on a creditable footing. That North i Carolina cannot dispense with this powerful conservator of the peace has been already demonstrated. . Certainly, there lis no place in the State better suited to the purposes of a permanent encampment than Wrights ville. The test has been made, and in point of health and every other requisite that fact has been established beyond all doubt. But all uncertainty should be removed by the action of the next Legislature. If this section of the State is not entitled to the encampment on the ground of merit, let it be located elsewhere. Better this than the present indefinite plan under which the brigade may be ordered into camp at one, two 'or four points ' in the State instead of being restricted, as it should be, to one permanent Jpcation. Fishing at Morehead. ' A correspondent of the Star writes of other great catches of fish by seining in deep water off Morehead. Thirteen of the boats brought in last Thursday 83,- 836 pounds of trout and 23,870 croakers about two-thirds of the entire catch. On the day following the catch was very nearly as large as that of Thursday. The Newbern foumal speaking of the fishing at Morehead says: We are told that Mr. John Lewis, of Morehead, went out with two boats and four men to manage them.'and at one time dropping his net caught enough to fill both boats over 8150 worth. Another instance was cited of four Beaufort boys, two of them sons of Mr.' Elijah Lewis, and two of them sons ot Mr.-Arch Mason, who went out and in one time letting down their net caught as many as their boat could hold; They pulled the net right in without stopping to take the nsn out ot it until tney reacn ed the wharfand were back in two hours from the time they left it with fifty-five dollars worth of trout. Forty or fifty boats were out, and as a rule! as soon as they hauled in the first net full thev had no room for anv more. and in some instances would have to make, their way back with dispatch in order to retain an tney nad caught ana yet keep from sinking. Bailroad Business Improving. In the past ten days, says the Char lotte News, there !has been a very de cided improvement in railroad business. both j passenger and freight. : During January there were some days when there! were no freight trains' at all, and passenger conductors ' had lonesome trips. But the reaction has set in and there: is something like the old time activity in freights, while the passenger trains are comfortably filled. Mr. Burt Eddy, representing ' the Vaughan Seed Company, of Chicago was a visitor at the Star office yester day, i - . - ABOUT GLASS WORKS- The Augusta Plant Doing Well--Why . Hot One for Wilmingtonf Wj -Would glass works pay a fair profit on the necessary , investment of capital in Wilmington? The Star has no data for estimating the cost, but it learns that there is no scarcity of sand in and around Wilmington, and that some of it is specially adapted to the manufac ture of glass. In any event it will do -no harm to read and think over the fol lowing: ' President Miller, of the Augusta Glass Works, gives the astonishing informa tion that there is not a glass works in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississipoi or Louisiana, and only one other in Georgia, and that one in Atlanta, inoperative at the present time on account of fire. He says the Augusta works have practically the ex clusive command of the Southern field. He says that he sells to all the : States named, and his patronage is growing rapidly. The $25,000 recently added to the capital was to be used to extend the territory. President Miller is going him self within a few days to New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana to intro duce his goods and says he expects large sales. All tne territory covered at pres- ent by the Augusta Glass Works. says if resident Miller, have lormally bought entirely from tne East. There are the brightest hopes ahead for the Augusta Glass Works. Presi dent Miller and the men at the works say that the Augusta sand is positively the best in the South, if not as good as there is in the whole country. Its pro duct is without a flaw, but it is as clear as the best ice, COTTON IN ROBESON. Indications that tne Acreage Will be Considerably Beduoed This Tear. A commission merchant of Wilming ton who has just returned from a visit to his "constituents" in Robeson county, says tharfrom all he could see and hear during his trip he is inclined to believe that there will be a considerable reduction of the cotton acre age "In that county this season. He mentioned as an illustration, old Jim Robinson and his wife "Car'line," an industrious colored couple, who by dint of hard work and saving are the happy owners of a snug little farm on which they raised corn and peas and potatoes and "sich," and always had plenty of meat in the smoke-house and eggs and chickens to sell. Bat "Jim is one of these specerlative niggers," his wife said, and early last spring, as he sat toast ing his shinsand smoking bis pipe before a big fire in their cabin, he told his wife that he was "gwine" to plant all cotton. I'll make big money," said Jim, and 'long in the fall, when we go to town, I'll buy you a silk dress." This tickled the old woman mightily, and she went to work more energetically than ever, to assist in making and gathering that cotton 4ll wurk m yjjelf a'most f j death, said old "Car'line," "and bless your soul', all I got outen that crap was a piece of norred homespun and a piece of checks. I told Jim if he planted all cotton agin I'd quit him, and I wouldn't ask for any divorcement either." BULL FROGS AND RABBITS- The Experience of a Frog Hunter With a Babbit Annex. John Fisher, the well known colored frog hunter, accompanied by a young man from Clinton, made a "drive" on the "Thornbury" place, about three miles up Northeast river, Thursday, and came back loaded with "game." He slaughtered .26 bull-frogs and 29 rabbits. John can't use dogs to advantage in hunting lrogs, but when be gets up a combination hunt he carries a full complement of "curs of low degree." But he claims to be a better dog on rabbits than any of the quadrupedal canines; and after taking a good look at John and hearing htm talk, this reporter Was fully pre pared to believe what he said. John says he finds ready sale for his rabbits at twenty cents each, and for the frog "leggums" at ten cents per pair. At these prices, the day's hunt footed up $8.40, which was moderately "bully' for the dusky Nimrod. The Star reporter who was working his news pump on John was surprised to learn that some people bought not onlv the hind-legs but "went the whole" frog. paving five cents additional for this priv ilege. These epicures claim that a bull frog stew, for the very select few, adds much to the menu. Memorial Bay at Newborn- The Newbern ournal: says that Col. Wharton J. Green, of Fayetteville, has been chosen as orator for Memorial Day, May 10th, and; that the observances of the day will be in a great measure com memorative of the late General Robert Ransom, a sketch of whose life and ser vices will form part of Colonel Wharton Oreens address. A committee ol six young ladies, daughters ot . true ana tried Confederate soldiers, will have in special charge the decoration of General Ransom's grave, the wreaths for which they will carry in the procession. The Association ot Lonlederate veterans will be asked to take part in the ceremo nies as an organization, and to secure representations from the Associations of other counties: and all members of General Ransom's first command, the 1st North Carolina Cavalry, now sur viving, are particularly invited to be present and to participate. Gunpowder Bill. Gunpowder Bill dropped (metaphori cally) into the magazine department of the Star yesterday and hung up his cartridge bag. "What's up," asked the nitro-glycerine ' editor, "going hunting to-morrow?" "No. I don't hunt Sun days, but I'm going Monday,' and it always takes me two days to make pre parations for a big punt." "Going West?" "No. I'm going East to Green ville Sound, where the robins are so thick that you can kill 'em with rocks.' "Then, you don't carry any gun?" "Yes I do. There's where the Sound comes in, don't you see?" This was so awful funny that the nitro-glycerine. editor ex ploded with laughter. HP A ID) 1892. ; . THE FAST MAIU. The Latest from Second Assistant Post- - : master General Bell. - The Augusta Chronicle prints the fol- lowing telegram from its special corres pondent at Washington under date' of Feb. 16: Certain statements having been pub lished to. the effect that the fast mail service in the South would be discon tinued at the' end of the" fiscal vear. i which may have caused concern among those- interested, . your correspondent called on Second Assistant Postmaster General Bell, to-day, for the facts. He said, in substance, that the Department had not taken the trouble to establish a fast mail service with the intention of abandoning it in future, i THE ONLY CHANGE CONTEMPLATED said Mr. Bell, is with respect to the spe cial compensation given to the Coast Line system, which has been receiving the same compensation allowed to other roads, and a bonus of $300,000 per an num in addition. We are now readjust ing the compensation of the rail service to take effect the 1st of next July. We shall increase the ordinary compensa tion i not less tnan . twenty per cent., which will make the compensation of the subsidized roads after July lst,lully as mucn as when tney received the ad ditional bonus. The department has not made any recommendation lor the discontinuance of the ordinary service on any of the Southern lines, but it has not asked for the special facility allow ance for the next fiscal year.' as it does not believe there exists a necessity for the 1 continuance of a i preferential method whereby a limited number of railroads will be paid both ordinary and special compensation, while others per forming the same character of service can be allowed only the compensation authorized by the statutes ! for ordinary transportation. The practice for special (acuity allowance, Mr. Bell says, has been: a source of constant annoyance, and from the;d1ate of its inauguration in 1879, it was understood to be only tem porary, to last until the growth of the mail service would admit of its abandon ment. ! i V 4 ' This special" allowance has increased to such an extent that it . exceeds what the ordinary and special compensation were together ten years ago. lhe de partment is solicitous to render the ser vice as efficient as possible and secure the co-operation of roads running North and South, so as to obtain bettter ser vice in the future. Extra and special facility allowances have been discontin ued throughout the country. This has not been done, however, to reduce the compensation of the railroads, but be cause of the phenomenal growth ' and expansion of the mail service and the consequent increase in the j ordinary compensation. ! A NEW NATIONAL BANK. To beOrganized Ma-eh First 'Bubscrip- tion Lists to be Opened at Once. A meeting of subscribers to the capi tal stock of the new National bank that it is proposed to establish in Wilming ton was held last evening at The Orton. The committee appointed at the pre vious meeting to make a preliminary canvass reported that something over a hundred thousand dollars hail been sub scribed.; ,! . ! It was decided to organize the bank on the first day of March next, and in the meantime the committee was author ized and requested to open subscription lists immediately in different j places in the city, in order to give all citizens an opportunity to subscribe,! and to give duel notice by advertisement of the places where these lists, can be found said lists to show the amount already subscribed and the names of all subscri bers. ' ', !--' 1' ' Mr. T- W. Norwood, of j Greenville, S. G, was present at the meeting last night. He said to a Star reporter that he , thought that the opportunity for ! safe and profitable banking judiciously managed, was more favor able In Wilmington than any point in the South, and therefore he had sold his interest in the bank he formerly managed, which was paying good divi dends, in order to invest here. He said also that managers of two of the largest banks in Charleston have subscribed for stock in the newbank. i Oxford Land Improvement Co. Stockholders of the Oxford Land Im provement Company, resident in Wil mington, held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the office of Mr. W. M. Cumming, There were; fifteen stock holders present. Mai. Walker Taylor, who was sent to Oxford to j represent Wilmington stockholders at the annual meeting of the company,! made report. and a committee was appointed to con fer with the officers of the I company, looking to the best interests of the stockholders here. Messrs.1 Walker Taylor, John D. Bellamy, Jr., and J. W Jackson constitute the committee. Steamer Benefactor. i " " The steamer Benefactor which got aground on the west side of the river Wednesday afternoon while on her way out, V (as reported in the star), was floated soon after .the tide began to rise about 9.30 o'clock that evening, and pro ceeded on her trip to Georgetown, S. C, The vessel sustained no injury and no damage was done beyond 1 knocking down some of the piling around the Messrs. Northrop's timber pen. Peanuts. i i There has been a considerable ad vance in tie price of peanuts recently. of which farmers who had any on hand to seH have not been slow to take ad vantage. Farmers' stock, quoted a few days ago at 35 to 50 cents per bushel, is selling now at 50 to 55 cents. Naval Stores Beoeipts. Receipts of naval stores at this port for the crop year, beginning April 1st, to February 19th, as compared with.re ceipts to the same, date last year, are as follows : Spirits ..- turpentine, 55,976 casks; last year, 64,413. j Rosin, 255.654 barrels; last year, 816,836. Tar, 56,435 barrels; last yearf-. 53,048. Crude tur pentine, 13,281 barrels; last vear, 17,139 The Rockingham Spirtt of the South says : "The Wilmington Star continues to occupy its position as pre eminently the best SJaily newspaper pub lished in the State." Horse sense 1 7" 1 NO. 15 WASHINGTON GOSSIP, Speaker Crisn Quite Unwell A Proposi , tion to" Belegata the Silver Question to the 'Bear Until After thai Presidential Election Movement to Secure Election of Senators by the People, s .By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington.Fcd. 18. Speaker Crisp was feeling quite unwell to-day and left the Capitol very early. His friends are urging him jo leave the city and take a few days rest, but he is reluctant to do so. The anti-free coinage men have again come forward with a demand for a cau cus to relegate the silver question to the rear until after the Presidential election. A petition for a caucus to be held Thurs day next was to-day circulated in the House by Messrs. Harter, of Ohio, Hoar, of Massachusets, and other pronounced opponents of free coinage; Promoters of the call express the fullest confidence in securing xhe requisite number of sig natures to force a caucus. - The movement to secure election of Senators by direct vote of the people is making substantial progress. The bill introduced in the Senate by Mr. Mitch ell proposing a constitutional amend ment to secure this object, was referred by the-Senate Committee on Privil eges and Elections to a sub-committee, composed of the author of the bill and Senators Chandler and Turpie. Alter considering the measure for some time, sub-committee this morning authorized the' bill to be favorably reported to the full committee. It is expected that the bill and an elaborate report accompany ing it, will come up for consideration be fore the full committee next week; Its fate cannot be predicted, although it is known that the chairman, Senator Tel ler, has always been an advocate of the proposition, s VIRGINIANS LEGISLATURE. Bill to Settle the State Debt Passed by Both Houses A Bill to Abolish Compul sory Pilotage Adversely Beported. - By Telegraph to the Morning Star. "Richmond, Va., Feb. 18.The House of Delegates to-day passed the Senate State Debt bill, with amendments. The most important amendment was one placing the Sinking Fund Commission ers on an equal footing with the Olcott Committee in funding. The bill pro vides that the rate of interest shall not exceed 3J per i cent. The amendment provides that ifj the Olcotte Committee fund at a lower: rate, the Sinking Fund Commissioners; shall do likewise. A companion measure to the debt bill, one retiring $2,500,000 of tax receiv able coupon bonds, held by educational institutions and issuing therefor 6 per cent, certificates, was passed in the Sen ate to-day. The bill permits the State to redeem these certificates at pleasure. Retirement of these bonds will remove the last vistige of the old tax receivable Coupon bonds, known as "cut-worms of the treasury." e Richmond, fa., Feb. is;- A big fight with eminent counsel on both sides, was concluded to-night before the legislative committee, over the bill to abolish com pulsory pilotage in this State. It was unanimously decided to report a bill with an adverse recommendation. FARMERS' BORDER ALLIANCE. Proposition to Bet TJp an Independent Organisation. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Danville, Va., February 18. At a meeting here tp-day of the Farmers' Border Alliance, a resolution was intro duced to separate from the Order and set up an independent organization. It i 1 .(... . I .. la claimed mat iuc interests 01 larmcrs in the tobacco belt are not identical with the interests of farmers elsewhere. The resolution was lost, but its advocates say it will eventually! be adopted. The Border Alliance is the largest and most influential Alliance in Virginia and North Carolina.! NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. - I- -!' Distriot Conventions Elect Delegates to the State. Convention. k By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Troy, N. Y., Feb. 20. The anti-Hill Democrats of the Fourth district of Albany county,! held a convention at West Troy to-day, and elected delegates to the State Convention. Hill Democrats at Cohoes to-day elected delegates instructed for Hill. 1 he Democratic Convention oi the Second Assembly district of Saratoga county, at Hadtley, to-day chose Hill delegates to the State Convention. J amaica, L. SI.. February 20. The Democratic Convention for the Second Assembly District of Queens County, held here this afternoon, elected a solid Hill delegation to the State Convention. FATAL AFFRAY. . J. H. Poole Cut to Pieces in .a Fight with Will Fowler and Ed. Martin, Near Greenville, 8. C. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. .Columbia. S. C, Feb. 20. A special to the Register from Greenville, S. C, says a fatal cutting affray occurred at Fountain Inn, sixteen miles below this place this afternoon. Will Fowler, Ed Martin aud J. H. Poole, be came engaged in a quarrel which re sulted in Pool being cut to pieces. A messenger was sent for Sheriff Gil reath requesting, himi to arrest Fowler and Martin. The Sheriff left at once for the scene of trouble. Fowler , says he will resist arrest, and trouble is feared, as Sheriff Gilreath is game and will make the attempt to effect his arrest if he can be found. The parties are all connected by marriage and the row is the outcome of a family teud. RAILROAD WRECK. Collision of Freight Trains on the Norfolk and Western Bailroad One man Kilta and Four- Others. "Very Seriously In jured. ' : .'; ..':'- : : By Telegraph to the Morning Star : ' ; Richmond, Va., Feb. 20. A through train collided with a local freight this morning at a point three and a half miles west of Petersburg, on the Norfolk and Western railroad. The engines came head to head on a curve and the crash was terrific. A man who was stealing a ride was killed, and another is missing. Four persons, including the engineer and fireman of the through freight were bad ly injured. The engineer and fireman of the local freight saved themselves by jumping. The engines and a large num ber of gondolas and lreight cars are a complete wreck. A great ice gorge, which has caused feelings of apprehension along the Allegheny nver, from East Brady to Emlenton, a distance of tweety miles, for nearly a week, broke at . 2 o'clock yesterday morning and by daylight all passed put. ; rs SPIKITS TURPENTINE. Charlotte Chronicle: Yesterday Tom McKensie : was painfully hurt : at the artesian well. ' While oiling the " machinery his fool caught in something. ' and he was' thrown on the belt, and from there 'against the engine. Fortu nately the engine stopped just then, or he might have received fatal injuries. face burned nis snouiaer was oaaiy wreched and his Morganton Herald: Mr. C A. McGimpseyrof Upper Creek township, -has a genuine curiosity that old John ivooinson wouia nave paia a good price for. It is a pig, now just budding into shoathood, which, in addition to the ap- pendages and appurtenances of the ordi-' ' nary pig, has a horn an inch in length jn the center of its forehead. This horn . we are informed, is in shape and appear ance like a cow's horn. Tarboro Southerner : J. H. Johnson this morning made an assign ment for the benefit of his creditors. About two months ago he encumbered part of his property to secure certain debts and with that arrangement he ex- pected to be - able to go along, but his collections were slow and to protect his other creditors, he this morning con veyed all his property to Paul Jones, Esq., in special trust. Mr. Johnson's assets are $9,000 and his liabilities $7,000. . n-J Hillsboro Observer '. - Died at home, about six miles west of Hillsboro, on Tuesday night, February 16th, at 10 o'clock, Mr. Thomas McCracken, aged 98 yeairs and 7 days. George Jones, who lived with Wt M. Ward, in Cedar Grove township, was accidentally shot, , it is claimed, with a pistol in the hands of James Hayes, another colored man, on Sunday, February 7th, and died on 1 the 17th inst. . Both were drunk at the time of the sbpoting. Washington Progress : We re- v gret to hear of the death of Major Thos. Tuten, of Edwards' Mill. He died of Bright's disease, perhaps complicated with la grippe, at the ripe old age of , about 69 years. Mrs. Sallie Cutler, grand-mother of our townsman, T, E. Cutler, Esq., died Tuesday, a few . miles from town. Had she lived until March 4th, she would have been 101 years old. On last Thursday, Mr. Allen Hud-'- son, who was logging for Tilghman's mill, while attempting to extricate a pine . tree which had lodged as he felled it, was struck by the rebound and killed. His collar bone and neck were broken. ' Smithfield Herald: We regret to learn of the death ot Mrs. G. R. Britt, which sad event occurred on Monday at ' her home near Bentonsville. She was a sufferer from consumption. Mr. J. H. Stanley, an industrious farmer of In- . gram's township, says that he has a goose on his farm that was setting when Sherman's army passed through here in 1865. She is fat and seemingly as young as any goose, but by the trials and tribu- t lations she has encountered is minus one foot. Last Friday morning the store building of Bagley Brothers, of Bagley, N. C, was burned. The entire stock of goods and postoffice fixtures were burned. Loss about $2,000; insu rance $1,400. It was doubtless the work of a malicious person. " " Raleigh Visitor : A gentleman this morning gave us the particulars of a singular accident that occurred at Hills boro last Saturday ! night. A young son of Mr. Jos. A. Harris was passing along the street near the Presbyterian Church when he noticed a fire in the cemetery attached to the premises. It seemed to be the grass on fire and but little'tttten- 1 tion was paid to it at the time. On going further up the street, however, a fire was discovered on the sidewalk op- k. posite the Methodist Church. On in vestigation it was found that a ybung negro man was discovered with his clothing burned off and his body so in jured that he died; the next afternoon. He never spoke after being found, and the manner in which he took fire could nqt be found out, although an inquest was held. The negro was a strong, htealthy young man .which excludes the - i idea that he had fallen into the fire from a fit or other physical affliction. It was a singular accident. ' Shelby Review. Rutherfordton has still another sensation following close upon the heels of the Lege scan dal. ; Some nights ago J. H. Myers, a livery stable owner, skipped out after malting uvcr 1113 property to nis wiie. Myers and his family came to Ruther fordton about -a year ago from Savan nan, ana Myers bought the R. B. Clarke stables, giving in part payment for it a one thousand dollar bill. Now it seems that Myers, whose real name is Kehr, is wanted in Missouri for stealing $30,000 from an express company and an estate, of which later he was guardian. He was tracked to Savannah and thence to Ruth erfordton, He discovered the presence of detectives and made his escape at night. A bloody tragedy was;enacted at Three County Corners last Sunday. Jock Brackett stabbed John Pollard through the, heart, killing him instantly. Mr. E, M. Eskridge informs us that a large gray wolf was killed near John Yarborough's in the neighborhood ' of Waco Sunday night. Seven loads of shot were fired into it before it was killed. It had gone into Mr. Yarbor ough's yard, caught one of his dogs by the neck and was making off with it when killed. Some time ago a mammoth hickory, tree was cut on Sam Harrill's land, four or five miles. North of town. The tree turned out 1,300 leet of lumber. One branch, or limb, of "the tree made two cuts each twelve feet long and each squaring thirteen inches. , Charlotte Chronicle: The new. convent to be built- at Belmont by the Sisters of Wilmington will be exclu sively for girls. An architect from Rich mond is there now; making estimates of plans. The reporter was shown yes terday an unusually rich specimen of gold ore from the Monarch Gold Mine, five miles from Rutherfordton, and judg ing from the specimen a fortune, is in store for the owners. The Chief of Police yesterday, captured an old five dollar bill of the Bank of Mecklenburg which had been passed on a Charlotte man.- - It seems that there is a good deal of counterfeit and bogus money floating around Charlotte, i The Oliver Oil Mill, as has been1 stated heretofore, is running its full capacity day and night. The cotton seed 4 meal is mostly con sumed in this State and South Carolina, and is sent off in shipments varying from one hundred to five hundred tons. The drug stores report a heavy in crease in prescriptions lately. In the last month one drug store alone put up 843 prescriptions in a week. And yet Charlotte is very healthy, the mortuary report having' been very small in the last few months. I Considering the .Reason of year the amount of plowing Ve is very tar below the average year. ut all that has been done has been in sowing oats, The oats that were , in many sections, a -sowed last fall are; complete failure, This is attributable to. the dry winter and cold winds. The oats on low, damp bottom lands are pretty fair. The clover does not look very healthy, and the wheat is only' "middling." Added .to all of this may be seen . many broad ' fields white with cotton that has- . never been picked." Some farmers say;. the pres ent price will not pay for tne picking. . Monday night a negro who said he was ' from Asheville, dropped, into the confectionery store of Mrs. John B. Mec ca, on West Trade street, arid, bought' five cents worth ofj candy. vIn payment for it he offered her a twenty-dollar bill to take her change out ot She gave him the proper change and then he left. Mrs.' Mocca thought, nothing more about the matter until yesterday morning when she ' discovered that the bill had been "raised" on her, and was only a two-dollar bill. The" changing had not been very cleverly done, but the rascal's vic tim did not notice it in time to save her self. . j rMr. !
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