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'gU tmesis fem ' rumuSHKD AT . " - . . . WILMINGTON, N. C $1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. S888S8888888SS883 ; 8888S8i88iiiis883 " A 8838888888888888 I888888888SS8SS888 " 88888888282888883 won t f gsssaasssaasa " 88888aS8828888888 82886882288888888 : 88888888888888888 1 . - . M I .- . , o . . 5 !'- ' .. - . ; - . I Entered at the Past Office at WOmtgton, N. C, as Second Clan Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Weekly 8 tax is aa .follows : bingle L.opy 1 year, postage pata............,...ai w 8 months HB ttonths 80 HELPING THE FAEMEE. . ' - - The Democratic party has never made special claim to being the friend of the farmer any more than the friend of the toiling millions of other industrial callings. As between -honest industries it does not make hypocritical pretence of being the especial champion of one because, it happens to be numerically stronger than another. It discriminates against none, but labors for the betterment of all by advocating legislation which "WITl be for the beqefit of all without showing preference for any equal, just and honest legislation, legtsia tion that imposes tio onerous bur dens upon any but' would lift from any and all the onerous burdens im posed by others. It is the party of the people, of all the people without reference to Class, calling or station in life. But it has demonstrated its friend ship for the farmer within the past couple of weeks in. Congress not bjf hollow profession or loud-sound- ing phrases, but by acts which if they are permitted by a Republican Sen ate and a Republican President to become laws will save the farmers ot this country, but especially the Soub, millions of dollars annually, which they now pay in forced and unjust tribute to the favored beneficiaries of iniquitous and oppressive laws passed under the false pretence ot building up American industries. The bill placing cotton bagging and the materials out of which it is made, with the ' amendments includ ing cotton-ties and ' material used in the manufacture of cotton ties, cotton gins and parts of cotton gins, prac tically removes ail tariff taxes from every thing used in the preparation of cotton for the market after it has been picked This will be a big load lifted from the shoulders of cotton planters, amounting 'to -millions of dollars in the aggregate which, if the bill' becomes a law, will remain in the pockets of the planters instead of going North as heretofore into the money vaujts of ' Northern manufacturers- The- South .will be that much the richer land the cotton crop worth just that much the more to the men who raise it. - The bill removing the tariff from wool, which it was pretended was im posed jn the interest of farmers, will be worth millions to the farmers of the South- who r raise but little wool for market, and to the farmers of the whole country, to whom the wool tariff was an injury instead of a ben efit. There isn't one farmer in ten in the North or West who raises wool for market, and eight out , of these ten grow such a small quantity that the benefit, if ; there were benefit, trom the protective tantt, was so small as to be insignificant, so that all the 1 farmers, those who grow no wool, and those who grow a little, were taxed and heavily taxed for the alleged benefit of the few who give their attention to the growing of wool. . . .' , . rha small wool-grower got a so called protection, which amounted to perhaps two or three dollars, and pStft for it ten dollars in the enhanced cost of the woollen clothes which he . bought, or of the shoddy which was . palmed off on! him for wool if he could not afford to. pay the price asked for genuine woollen goods. . Taking off the tariff from wool may somewhat affect the business of a few men who engage in wool growing as a. specialty, but the prob abilities are that it will benefit even those by making a better demand at home for the .; wool they grow. It may also somewhat affect certain men in the West who give special at tention to the raising of fine sheep, . which they sell to farmers at fancy prices, but it will be money in the pockets of other persons, amounting in the aggregate to a very large sum, and money in the pockets of millions of other toilers amounting in the aggregate to many millions more. It means better clothing for all, - more wool and less shoddy, cheaper clothing, even if cheap cloth ing does make a cheap man, as Beni Harrison said. Setter clothing means better protected bodies, more com? . fort4ind beiter health. Following these the tariff will be ' reduced on tin-plate, which "will give the people relief at least from the ex tra $7,000,000 imposed by the -Mc Kinley act, which they are now pay- ing to foster some imaginary tin VOL. XXIII, plate factories which are to be some time in the distant future erected in this country.. It may seem trifling to talk about: the additional; cost of dinner pails 1 tin pahs, coffee pots. &c, but yet the aggregate of all these runs up into a vast sum ? to be taken out of the pockets of farmers and other toilers for their daily bread to enrich a favored few who have been pampered and coddled by jug handled legislation for years. .. . -.v In doing all this; and more, which intends to do,"- theJDemocratic it party incurs and expects the enmity and resentment of those whose reve nues ' will be, cut down ; by -it. - j realizes this, but it realizes also that it has a duty to perform to the peo ple regardless of the howls, threats or antagonisms that may be aroused among the 'men who . have waxed strong and -. fat on the' substance drawn from the people by unjust and oppressive legislation. ? ; : MAJORITY RULE. When charged with the design of. attempting to, - capture the State Democratic Convention and force upon it the St: Louis platform asnhe platform of the Democratic party of North Carolina, - some of ithe third party men say, "Well4 why isn't that all right?" "Hasn't the majority the right to rule?" While admitting that the majority has Ihe right to rule when the majority demonstrates the fact that it is the majority -in the way prescribed by law,-we deny that majority-antagonistic to a party has a right to go into a party con vention, in the face of the traditions, usages, written or unwritten law of the party, and claim the right to dominate it by virtue of superior numbers, especially when it goes in with a pre-determination not to abide by " the action of that convention if', it should ; prove to be contrary to its wishes. ;No man has a right to sit in a Democratic. or n a Republican or in any other party convention as a delegate, -claiming a right to participate in its proceedings, who does not recognize the usages which govern such conventions, and who will not abide by its. regularly expressed decisions. When the em issary of another party goes into such convention and undertakes to force it over into his camp, and to put it under his leaders, be exhibits an ef frontery and a cheek that are simply colossal. ' 7 . J But suppose we concede, for the sake of argument, that the majority has a right to rule, regardless of pre scribed rules or regulations, let us see where this k will carry the third party champions, and even tually carry ' this part of the American Republic.- Carry it out and there could be no such thing as a party convention proper it a mob saw fit to take possession of it, for all a few bold men need do would be to rush in their squads, secure the majority, declare that the majority has the right to rule, submit' their own platform cut and dried before, turn the whole thing into a burlesque and declare it carried. . This is what the -majority rule means according to the claims l et these third party leaders or their dupes. No man who carries the third party platform in his hand and demands its endorsement by a Dem ocratic convention has any more right to present himself as a delegate in a Democratic convention than one of Mr, Harrison's Republican revenue officers who last Thursday met to wrangle and elect delegates to the Minneapolis Convention would have to claim recognition as a delegate. The Democratic is one party? the Re publican party another, and the third party, or as it chooses to inappropri ately call itself, the People's party,, is another.- They don't mix, and the adherent of one has no more busi ness in the councils of the other than he would have at a meeting of Pre sident Harrison's Cabinet. . " " - ' When President Butler issued his circular, to the Alliance lecturers, calling for a conference of one or. more alliance men from each county to meet him in Raleigh , the day be fore the State Convention meets, and directing that but one restriction be put upon them, -namely that " they must not, under 'any circum stances recede from the St. Louis platform, the third "party platform, he showed an assurance, and a lack of regard for Democratic usages that would be amazing if it were not his purpose to capture the conven tion and tie the Democratic party of North Carolina to the hind axle of the third party wagon That onld be a grand stroke of '.'majority ruleV about as grand as the assurance that inspires it is gigantic. . - But suppose that this thing worked out and ; the majority rule proved such a success as ; to - capture the Convention and commit it to the third party - platform, to be honest and consistent '; they must carry this majority, rule must " carry ; it quence. There Eastern North - further ; they to its logical se- are. counties in -: Carolina - where the colored voters are numerically stronger than the whites. , Wby,then snouian t these ''majority rule men bow before these colored citizens in JDLlld the county and district . conventions, and let them do the nominating of the officers ; and representatives ? And why not "vote for them when nominated ? ' - If the. majority ' has a right to rule regardless of all other considerations t why not -lave the black-and-tan fraternization without any more ado and let these "majority- rulers" who have been voting with the white man's party ever since the war humbly acknowledge that they were in. error or were perpetrating i fraud and make , atonement 'for it henceforth by not voting . for whites men but by voting' for the ignored polored brother, whom they now by their words if not by their - acts rec ognize as a tau-neagea political equal and comrade in the war against the Democratic party.?. JTbat's what : it amounts to, no more, no less. Un der this demagogic, hypocritical i plea for Vmajority rule," what would become of North Carolina, what of J South Carolina and what of Mississ ippi," in both of which the colored contingents outnumber the whites? What a glorious thing this modern ized "majority " rule" would be for these States. MD10B, JEEHTI0N. The House of Representatives isn t taking much stock in Senator Vest's 'bill- to' restrict - the public building business, for twenty-three bills for that, purpose went upon the calendar Friday, and it wasn't much of a day for business either. An ex amination of these bills shows that seven were for buildings in the South and sixteen for buildings in other sections. The towns mentioned are all towns ot respectable pretensions, but the probabilities are that in eight out of ten of these buildings can be secured for the use Intended at a reasonable rental, . and hence there is really no necessity for the erection of new ones. If there were a surplus in the treasury for which there was no use this would be as good a way to dispose of it as any, but there isn't any surplus and isn't likely to' be for some time to come. ATa r KaIiawsi ir c?lr i ftrt 1 Arriol tion, but economy is a good thins: for Congress to follow up . in public buildings as well as in other matters. Some of the Republican members of the House of Representatives are having 6ome sport-and are at the same time emphasizing the absurdity ot allowing members to incorporate extracts of unreasonable length into their speeches, as referred to by Mr. Burrows last Thursday. The mem bers of this Congress who have done this have simply followed a usage which has prevailed heretofore, but age does not lend respectability to this expensive and absurd abuse, and because it has existed is no reason why it should be encouraged . and perpetuated. It seems '.now that several Republican Congressmen have hatched up a little plan by which with privilege to' print they will have printed voluminous extracts from Republican and high tariff pa pers which will make the Record , in which they appear a very . hefty and as a congressional Kecord a very ludicrous publication.Jf this results in forcing the House to take sensible action in this matter these Republi can Congressmen will benefit the public while they have their fun. , : , : ' 'XT-. ,a . . j The public has .become so accuse tomed to reading war rumors from Europe that but very little attention- is paid to them, but the latest from St. Petersburg indicate that the Rus sian Government is. preparing for a forward move. For some time she has been mobilizing troops on the fron tier, in which movement she has been closely watched by Germany, bal loons being successfully used for that purpose, and now it seems that she has effected arrangements by which she will have control of all the rail ways and steamboats for the move ment of Jroops and supplies when me oraer to move isv-eiven.-...ii mis and the determination to punish any "one who may send information abroad as to matters which the Gov- emment-rffinks should be kept secret don't mean that ; there is : trouble brewing and ' not far .off, It don't mean anything. The clash of arms which for some time' has been inevi table cannot be much longer delayed, whether itbe precipitated by the Czar or by the Kaiser, who are watch ing each other with a. sleepless vigi lance and but waiting the opportune moment to strike. Mr. Cleveland said in a letter to a friend in Tennessee recently 'that he had "freauent misgivings as i to the wisdom of the Democratic'; party again putting him in ; nomination. Some of the anti-Cleveland papers are quoting this as a confession ot weak ness, and giving it as a reason - why he should not be nominated. . It is no confession of weakness' at alt but simply an exhibition of disinterested candor and moral courage to admit a suspected weakness. It""" shows thkt Cleveland puts the suceess of the Democratic party before honors to himsejf', and instead of weakening him this stronger. letter should T make him WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDfB1892k Cotton Bedon Bulletin. ' - - The cotton region observations of the Weather Bureau began yesterday, the 15tb, and will continue to November 80th. Greensboro, N. C, Has been es tablished as a sub-station of the Wil mington section in place of Wadesboro. discontlnued. The maximam and min imum temperatore and rainfall, for the twenty-four'hourt ending. 6 p. m. each day, will be v bulletined -for each sub-, station,', with the averages for "the: sec tion. Also, the averages ' from - other sections of the cotton belt. - The bulletin reports minimum terar peratures yesterday in this district rang ing from 40 degrees atGoldsboro to 69 at Greensboro, and the average minimum for districts in the cotton belt ranging from 40 degrees for Little Rock and Memphis to 50 for Galveston. The rain-.: fall yesterday in the cotton belt was con fined to the Charleston and WilmjnjSon districts. NEW HANOVER ALLIANCE. Qoutorly Ueetlng Held at Uyrtla Grove Sound. The New - Hanover county Alliance met last Thursday, at Mr. G, W,. Rogers' landing on' Myrtle j Grove Sound. A large crowd assembled; including many young' ladies and children. ' During the forenoon dinner was served on a long table spread in the grove. It was, filled with an abundance of everything good to eat that the country could afford oyster stews, piping hot," fish frying and coffee boiling. . After the dinner the 1 young ioiks aancea ; to tne music ot a i gooa string band tnat naa been engaged for the occasion,; and , the members of the Alliance held their regular quarterly meeting at the residence of Mr. Rogers. The proceedings of the meeting were not made public. - .V.-' -V--i'vi--'. POLK AND THE THIRD PARTY.- " ' The Tenor lof Hia Speeoh st an AllUnoo Meeting in lOMweU. ': ,-'r-:: A special dispatch of April 14tb to the Richmond Times says : . ' Manv Danville oeoDle went to Yan- ceyville, in Caswell county, to-day to at tend the big Alliance . meeting there. Notwithstanding the rainy weather . a large crowd was in attendance. Col. L. L. folic was the leading attraction, and he made a. long speech.. His address was not abusive but earnest, and while he did not in express terms declare for the Third party, the tendency of -the speech was in that direction. He. said he was not there to discuss the merits of the Third party on this occasion, but he was ready and willing to discuss them If any one look issue with them. He de clared that he would not vote for Cleve land or Hill or any of their kind, for he regarded them as the pliant tools of wall street and the money power. The large audience seemed to be in sympathy with Polk, and cheered him to the echo. Demoeratio Primaries. I The ; County Democratic Executive Committee met last night at the -City Hall; Mr. W. P. Oldham chairman, and Mr. Wm. Ulrich, Jr., secretary. On motion, the chairman was re quested to call the Democratic voters of the different wards and townships to meet April 26th. 1892, to elect delegates to the County Democratic Convention, and 'executive, committeemen. The ward meetings will be held at the usual places at 8.80 p. m. and the township meetings at 13 o'clock noon. Lonlaiana Planters Act. The rice planters of Louisiana are fighting vigorously against the milling trust. , At a recent meeting of the plant ers and farmers of Acadia parish, the following was signed by the largest and best planters, who, it is said, can easily pay the amount named as it is needed: Resolved. That we, ' the undersigned farmers and . planters in the parish of Acadia, fully endorse the steps taken by the rice receivers of the city , of New Orleans; that we will give them our sup port to their efforts, and thereby pledge ourselves to subscribe the sum of $50,000 toward building an independent rice mill in the city of New Orleans." FIRST NATIONAL BANK . Statement from Beoeiver Robinson. . W. S. O'B. Robinson, receiver of the First National Bank . who has been in charge for three months,has just finished his first quarterly report, which he for warded to the Comptroller of the Cur rency a lew days ago. tie nas been re quested by the Comptroller to prepare' all necessary schedules of the first divi dead which will be paid as soon as sche dules and checks are prepared. The di vidend will be 15 per cent, on all claims proved up to the 31st of March.l892,and will doubtless be ready in course of the next few weeks. Notice will be given through the local press when everything is ready for the dividend. : Evangelist Fife. --- " - Evangelist File, who conducted meet ings here with Rev. Mr. Needham, will begin a series of meetings in Newbern on May 8th, as will be seen from the follow- 4-ing clipping from the Newbern Journal ' "A letter was received in this city last night from Evangelist Fife, stating that he will begin his meeting here on Sun day, May 8th. He proposes soon to ship his tent here in which the meeting will beheld. It will accommodate 2.600 or 8,000 people." - . . - Evangelist Lee, who held a series of meetings last year at Fifth Street: M. E. Church, of this city, is in Newbern now. Naval 8tores Beoelpts. rXV-.'i-X ' Receipts of naval stores, at this port, for the first half of April, as compared with receipts for the same time last sea? son, are reported at the; Produce Ex change as . follows: Spirits turpentine, 1,087 casks, . against 1,185 ' last year, Rosin,' 8,703 barrels, against . 18.88& Tar. 2.578 barrels, against 5,123: - Crude turpentine, 190, against 56i; - , Wilmlncton'e Cotton Beceipte. " The receipts of cotton yesterday were 129 bales; for the same day last year, 56, Receipts for the Week ended yester day were 898 against 836 bales, the cor responding week, last year.. , . ? Receipts for the crop year, to April 15th, 15573 bales; receipts to same date last season, ,184,641 decrease, 129,862 ..bales. ,.: , -r J - THEiRElLlCANS STATE CONVENTION IN SESSION. AT RALEIGH. . Great Gathering of Beremie Officials and' Poet Kaatere BCott and Baree Fao- tions righ ting Coalition Overturee Ex peoted from the Ihird.PartT. Sfieciql Siaf1 Correspondence Raleigh, N. C. April 14, 1892. The Republican State Convention assembled at. noon to-day. in Metropolitan r Hall. The attendance was large, and, while the colored element '. predominates, .: there seems jto be a fuller representation bf whites rthaa nsuaL These latter TJare made up to a great extent of revenue officials, -po3t 'masters &ci, with a few outsiders, mainly aspirants in their res pective counties, s - , , - ' . It is understood that, the chief busi ness, of the body -will be the appoint? ment of delezates-aularge to the M neapolis Convention, and the Te-orean- ization of the State Committee. As re gards the latter matter a most terrific fight is in progress between the Mott and Eaves factions, with . some symp toms tnat ootn win be niscaraea ana- a new executive regime instituted.: Jonn Nichols is still here, and seems to be the cniel tugleman; He . was yes terday appointed a district delegate to the National Convention, but his friends assert that this empty honor will be but stepping-stone to a nomination for Governor when the convention meets for . that purpose later on. . - l. s n .. roe endorsement ot- Harrison is a foregone conclusion, and the ' delegates chosen will be instructed for him. The matter of a nomination for Con gress trom this district is "still at sea;" l be. irrepressible -John Williamson is earnest for an endorsement on his pro posal to set pay lor the "niggers, but the scheme don't work. .- It is the "chat that the party is lying in wait tor a coalition overture from the Third Party craze, and, it is. even hint ed that the "trick", has -been worked up almost to consummation. Ot this, how ever, your deponent can only quote current rumor. .Differences are almost irreconcilable,! and it may be -that the Convention will not terminate its busi ness before-to-morrow. - : ' Br Telegraph to the Moraine Star. : RaleighN. C, April 14. The State Republican Convention met here to-day at noon and was called to order by John B. Eaves, Chairman of the State Exeat tive Committee. . In addressing the con vention, Mr. Eaves referred to the Alli ance defection movement in the Demo cratic ranks and predicted that the Re publican party would give the Democrats a close contest in the State in the coming campaign. ' At the conclusion of his ad dress Mr. Eaves- announced as tempo rary chairman of the convention James ti. roung. colored, collector ot the port of Wilmington, who took the chair and addressed, the convention. Nearly all the counties in the State Tire represeted in the convention, v - Mr. V. b. Lusk, of Asbevule, was chosen permanent chairman, and after a stormy scene the following delegates were elected to the Minneapolis Conven tion: Congressman- H. P. Cheatham, E. A. White. J. C. Pritcbell and John C. Dancy (colored). All are for Harrison, and the - Alliances in the convention were unanimous in favor of his renomt- nation. : -. SUIT FOR INSURANCE MONEY. A New Chapter; to be Added to the Fa- : mona HoDongald Oaae. t - FayetteviUe Observer, Proceedings ' Against " the New York Life Insurance ) Company have been in stituted by the family or administrator of Simeon Conoley, deceased, for the collection of a policy for $5,000 on the life of the murdered man. We have it upon good authority that the Insurance Company will strenuously contest the payment of this policy and fight it to the last aitch even to the extent of a rehearsal of all the testimony in this celebrated case before another court, at which time it is expected that other tes timony will be adduced to fasten the crime on McDougald, who. for the pres ent, is residing in Laurinburg and en gaged in the furniture and undertaking business at that place, l hose who kdok him best say he shares to-day bnt little of the pleasures wd pastimes he once enioy- ed with bis many friends, and leads a life of almost utter seclusion, rarely ever leaving his place Zof business except when going back and lortn to bis meals. To a close observer- the. Inroads made. upon his constitution by the dreadful suspeuse and- strain upon his physical and mental powers during his long con finement jn. laiL ana the trial in this city, is perceptible, though to all ; ot this must be added the fact that he has suffered among other: things a violent attack of la grippe, from the effects of which he has hardly recovered. As to the final result of the suit for the insur ance money, etc.. we do not care to ven ture a prediction thus early in the fight; suffice it to say the public will , watch the proceedings with more or . less anx iety. - iJoth sides present practically an unbroken fronts and the fight will no doubt be a '.'fight to the hilt:", McDoug ald, or the family of Conoley, with the verdict of the Cumberland fury at their back, while the Insurance Company al leges to have developed new and impor tant testimony in its behau. with tne next chapter, therefore, ot -tbis noteo case the public! may reasonably antici pate some startling developments. Death of Dr. llarable. Vj Rev. B. F. Marable, l. D., an able preacher and one of the most popular ministers ' in Wilmington Presbytery, died yesterday at the residence of Dr. Daniel Mc Graham in Wallace, Duplin county: Dr. Marable had charge of the Presbyterian, churches at Clinton and MtTDlive. He j was about 53 years of age.:. For twenty years past he had suf fered with some pulmonary trouble. - Suicide in Aneon County. Intelligence was received here yester day that Mr. Walter S. Little, a promi nent citizen of Anson county, had com-; mitted suicide by shooting himself with a pistol, at his home in Ansbnville, last. Thursday morning. He was -a son of the late Wm, Little, and was 45 years of age.- He had been suffering with the grip for sometime, and it is supposed his mind was affected. He was one of the most prominent men in the county, and greatly "esteemed. : He -leaves an estate of about $30,000. Hall and Wind. I A heavy bail storm is reported as having', occurred. Thursday night along the line of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad. In Bladen 'county there war a cvclone which levelled trees and blew down some outhouses. . - ; ; SrflWWPSiai , fsBWsslsBiBsWs'BWss " . . . : -. --' " . 1 . . . . . . t "Tr - Star WASHINGTON GOSSIP. . ; The House Committee and Public Build ing Bill-The International Baval Be- view to be Held in. 1893. jImV By Telegraph to the Morning Star.-..; .. - Washington. April lis. The House Committee ton Public; Buildings to-day completely negatived the supposition that in pursurnce of . an . economical policy .the construction of new public buildings was to be very much restricted, for it presented - favorable reports unon twenty-three bills authorizing the con struction ot new buildings, as well -as upon two bills' allowing increases of the: original appropriations S The bills re ported were as follows: At Cumber land, Md.; Anniston. Ala.; : Hastings, Neb.; Gardner. Mc; Newport News, Va.: Laredo, Tex.; Brunswick, Ga.; JolietJ lit.; Spokane alls. Wash.; Ann Arbor Mich.; Boise City, Idaho: Helena. -Mon tana; -Durham, N. Q: Massillon, Ohio; Gallipolisi Ohiop- Suspension - Bridge, N.'Y.; Brockton, Mass.; Bedford Oty, Va Cheyenne, Wyoming; Waterbury, Conn.; Clinton. Iowa; Providence. R. I.. and Nashua, N. H. -Also increasing the limit of the cost of the buildings at Pat- erson, N. J and Kansas City, M04 also ior tne saie 01 tne 01a custom house at Louisville, Ky. All of the bills were jlaced on the Calendar. ' . i 7. ine 'nouse elections committee to day decided to hear arguments May 8, m the Alabama convested electron case of McDuffie vs. Turpin. ; : : 5 , Alter conierence with various parties interested in the -great international Naval review, to be :beld in .Hampton roads and New York! harbor in April. 189J, Senator John W. Daniel, 61 Vir ginia, will on Monday introduce in the senate an; amendment to the -naval ap propriation bill, appropriating $300,000 for expenses of said review and enter tainment of official guests of the nation. wno will accompany , the foreign fleets. The president will,- as directed bv the existing law, extend-to foreign nations a formal invitation to participate in the re- view as soon as Congress provides the ne cessary appropriation, - it is believed by friends, ot the movement that many of the Presidents of American Republics and the reigning sovereigns of several European nations, will come with their fleets, it is particularly desired that the King and Queen of Italy, the native land of Columbus, and the Queen . Re gent of Spain, which country supported the discoverers four hundred years ago, should participate in the ceremonies. Although the proceedings of the House to-day were without interest, and would not occupy more than two or three pages ot the Kecord, the probabili ties are that the Record to-morrow will be a volumniOus one. Mr. Milliken. bf .Maine, will , publish the brachure on Plymouth Rock to McKinley." which will use up about ten pages. Mr. Dol- liver; of Iowa, has filed' for publication a series of articles from the New York Tribune anent the Roswell G. Harr com munications. Mr, Smith will print (if he has time to collate them) a member of editorials and letters in the American Economist and several other members of the Republican side will by printing ex traneous matter emphasize 1 and bring into public prominence the action of the of the House yesterday, which declared in substance that under leave to print members may make of the Congression al Record the medium of advertising. - THE MERCILESS FLOOD. Appalling Soenea. of BeatrunUon in issippi Bapid Blseof the Water. - - Tackson,. Miss., April 14. Yester day's report from the flood-stricken re gions confirmed all. heretofore said, and as the waters in the Tombigbee : and its tributaries recede," the destruction is more fully realized. Deputy sheriff Crocker, of Lee county, was here and informed your correspondent that he was a passenger on the first Mobile and Ohio train that crossed the Tombigbee river in eight days, f At that point a half mile ot track has been washed out and carried a mile, where it lodged against trees. Capt. Crocker -says the published reports do not give qalf an idea of the wreck and ruin to be seen in Lowndes, Clay and Monroe counties. Houses, fences and bridges are all gone. Thousands of dead horses, mules, cattle hogs, sheep, poultry and the body of an occasional negro can be i seen in every district. The Warrior river, in Alabama, just across the line, raised forty-seven feet in four hoursr I jv ;.- 1 He relates many incidences of person al suffering among negroes, with whom these bottoms are thickly settled, 'and upon whom the mad torrents desended with terrible furry, wiping homes and familesoutof existence. The city of Columbia is feeding five hundred refu gees,' but telegraphs Gov. Stone that they doubt the wisdom of asking Gov ernment aid, though they would like to haye a few hundred tents ot shelter. The water is falling off in the Yazoo and Big Black rivers in the i western portion Of the State, and danger of an immediate serious overflow there is about over, ana. trains are running. Fearful rain storms prevailed Wednesday night, lhe wea ther yesterday, was clear and bright and aououcss iuc worse is over.. I TRAIN ROBBERS, Knights of the Iron Boad Hold Up a Train and Capture - the ' Bxpresa Package .Passengers Unmolested, j j : NEW Orleans, April 15. lhe pas senger train on the f Illinois Central which reached here last night, was held up 77 miles from the city and every valuable express package taken, i When the train reached Hammond station a man sprang on the engine and scrambled to the cab. Covering the engineer with his pistol, he compelled him to stop. Two men then emerged from the under growth along side ot the track and joined the other man. The engineer and fire men were used by the robbers as a par leying party, and instructed to go to the express car, and order the messenger to open his car which was complied with entrance into tne car which bears the treasures of the Express Company as well as that of Uncle Sam, was then effected by the robbers, and the safe emptied ot its contents, .i Having com pleted their work the men disappeared in the darkness, leaving the : mails and passengers undisturbed. Superintendent Fisher, of the Express Company, said the amount carried off by the-tratn rob bers would hardly exeded $3,000, in his opinion. - - - ! TEN N ESS eVm I N ERS. Serious Trouble Apprehended at Coal Creek Pay-day with Troops and Miners .A. Crisis in the Situation. - By Telegraph to the Morning Star, Knoxvillk. TennI April 16. The trouble at Coal Creek ; continues. The firine on the troops by miners has pro bably brought the long ...impending crisis.- The Camp Anderson Telegraph operator, " Maddox, is missing. A hint was dropped by miners some days ago that the troops and convicts would nave to go "when the leaves come out,"-: All the miners nave quit work, and yester day were seen conversing excitedly in groups. The mines pay oft to-day ana the troops win also get their monthly al lowances. This means a lively time for miners, and the troops fear another con fliet. V. .si-r r-"-'I.. -h -. :rrji - N0.22 . WASHINGTON GOSSIP. . -. TariiT Literature to Be Published in the fBeeord'-The. BoyetBoekweU ? Con tested Election Case a Subject of Gen eral Interest in the House of Bepreaentaw bvee. : ... ; v-. . T - : 3TTkraph totaa Uanlag StarJ ' "... Washington April J6. "The tariff riddle," a' copy nght'parophlet written- by a former attachee of the Chicago Tribune, will be published in the' eon- gressional circulating library (the Record) to-morrow. , It will be published, at the request of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts; Mr. Loud, ot California, evidently be lieves that some author is competent to give information on the ' subject of the "continued reduction 10 prices, and Will insert in the Record a long dissertation on that subject. -Other publications will be duly noticed...''' s - : ,.- The Noyes-Rockwell election contest has now displaced almost all other topics. of general interest in the House of Re presentatives. 7 Mr. Rockwell is worfc tng -earnestly - for. - himself and . has the. .. assistance : of a "considerable number V of his party associates. Mr. O'Ferrall. - of Virginia, and other members of the election committee are at work on the other side. There is hardly any question that Rockwill has gained strength during-the last week, and there are . numbers of Democratic members who expressed the opinion that he will retain his seat. There was some talk to the effect ' that a consider able number of Democrats would refrain from voting , and - would . in this way break a quorum and prevent, the unseat ing ot Rockwellbut a number of Dem ocrats who will support Rockwell , have -discountenanced any movement of the sort. All indications point to an inter esting fight when the case, is taken ud. Chairman O'Ferrall said to-day that he had given ; notice of his intention to bring the case up on Tuesday, and that ne expected to do so wbetner the Naval bill is out of way or not, Mr. O'Ferrall rather expects that the question' of con sideration will be raised against the mo tion "and that it will be antagonized with an appropriation bill. This move indi rectly would make an issue against the report of the majority of the Elections Committee. Members of the Elections Committee will - very generally make speeches on the case, and Mr. Lockwood. of New York, one of the committee, speaking for the nays, will meet Mr. Fel lows, of New York, who will support Rockwell. One rather significant indi cation of the gam by Rockwell is the fact that nearly all the Democrats who have thus far paired on the case have paired on the side of Rockwell. Mr. Cook, of Alabama, who made the minority report,1 said late this afternoon that so far as he was aware, the minority would not at tempt to prevent its consideration. "All we ask is a fair bearing and vote," said he. "We will neitherantagonize consid eration nor filibuster." v: RICHMOND AND WEST POINT A Statement by Two Members of the Be- . organisation Committee. Br Telegraph to the Horning Star. New York, April" 16. A good deal of comment was caused to-day by a statement authorized by H. C, - Fahens tock and Fred. H.Tapfen,two members bf the Richmond ot West Point Reor ganization "Committee, in which it is stated the committee, has not had a meeting in two weeks, and that the wording of the advertisement of the committee is wrong in regard to the de posits Of underlying securities, this ad vertisement says "underlying securities to a large amount have been deposited uuuu luc puiu ui icvHjauwciiivju. lire; say they have investigated the matter and find that the total deposit of bonds of the East Tennessee, Richmond Sc. Danville, and Virginia Midland roads amount to only $313,000. This action by Fahenstock and Tappen is looked on as a positive indication that the prepared pian is a ianure, and a new plan is ex pected to be put out by them at an ear iy day. , GEORGIA CONVICTS ' - Mutiny and Befuae to Work Starvation to be Besorted to to Bnbdne Them j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Chattanooga April 16. The State of Georgia has leased a number of con victs to the Chattapoochee Brick Com pany, who are using them on the con struction of the Chikamauga and Dur ham Kailway. This morning 130 con victs in camp No. 9 at base of , Lookout Mountain, mutinied fourteen miles from Chickamauga, and refused to go.to work. uuardstotbe number of sixteen.. bred over their heads, subdued and placed them m irons. ' A short time ago Capt. A. J. Day : was discharged-because he was consided too lenient and very negle- gent, Capt. 1. n. Agerton was placed in command. To this the convicts ob- iected, as he was known to them as a strict disciplinarian. The men still re fuse to go to work and the plan of starv ing them . into submission will be adopted. . - tir -- - . A special to the limes trom the scene of the convict trouble says that all is quiet. The prisoners are in the stock ade and well guarded. Col. Jones, prin cipal warden ot the state penitentiary, is on his way to camp, accompanied by S. F. Parrett, agent for the lessees. , No further trouble is anticipated. Ot the 130 convicts, all are colored but three. THE KEELEY CURE.' A Young Han Who Had Tried it Twioe ' Attempts Suicide. r - Bt Telegraph to the Morning Star. , St. Louis, April 16. Henry Lee, son of prominent banker at Wheeling, W. Aa and nephew of Gen. Fltzhugh Lee, of Virginia, attempted suicide here last evening, at the Hotel Barnum, by swallowing three ounces ot laudanum, He is expected to die. He is a "gradu ate of two Keeley institutes at Blair, Neb., and Leavenworth, Kansas, and he has been often heard to say he would give much if he had never tried the cure. , He is 28 years old. and has been a bard drinker, and for that reason sought the cure. His reasons for at tempting suicide are not known, though letters were left by him in the hands of friends, who refuse to divulge contents a new"railroad. Preliminary Surrey Began- on a . Line from Chattanooga to Srarorrille, Ind. - ' Bt Telegraph to the Morning Star. Chattanooga, April 26. A prelimi nary survey was begun on the Chatta nooga, Chicago & Kentucky railroad, a proposed line : from Chattanooga to Evansville, Indiana, via McMinnviHe, Teno and Bowling Green, Ky. . The Droorietors assert, that money arrange ments have been made in England, and that work will commence at once at this end of the lines, opening up the lm mense coal fields of Walden's Ridge. !i Baron Fava has received orders to re turn to his post! at tjhe Italian Legation in washrngton.!..:-;'.;---; v-.. ; SPIRITS TURPENTINE. Ralergh - News and Observeri News reached here last night that heav hail storm passed over 'Henderson late yesterday evening. The hailstones were very large and fell in bucketfulls. . . ' Raleigh Visitor-. : We hear that a fatal disease of a very peculiar nature is raging among the horses in Warren county and some parts of; Vance, Sev eral gentlemen have ; lost valuable- ani- . : mals. The disease resembles epizootic-X A(fl.wtin L T 1 - I . ... 0vu..nuak, mg o,uiiuua rciusine to car. become weak and die apparently with out pain. ;. 'sfxP-lj; VxZk:' -.:c - Rocky . Mount Argonaut: , The whole town has sone through a hour! r of measles, but it has disappeared; it has -become epidemic at the - Falls and a. large number are down with it. - .. . Un Monday morning R. W. Dallas, of ! Reidsville; who has been encased in the tobacco business in Wilson ior the past two years, while crossing the railroad track in front of the post office, was run . over by the shifting engine and instantly killed, the wheels of the engine passing over his body, t Mr. Dallas was about 7fX. " years old. He "was visiting Mr. Green -' with a view to engaging in the tobacco business here. He was buried in the c cemetery hereon .Tuesday.:; .'? .Weldon ; JVews: ' Mrs. Martha Gotten, an aged : and highly respected ady of Scotland Neck, died at her X home in that olace on Frirlav nio-ht fcxst She was seventy years old. - Mr. Ji J. Allen, a prominent Republican politician of Northampton county, and an ex-member or the Sute Legislature, died at his home in that countv last : week of paralysis, within, a few hours - after he was stricken down. In the case of Dred Francis and Jack Jor dan, theTtwo negroes sentenced to be hung for committing rape ih Northamp ton county, and appealed to the Su- ' preme Court, that tribunal decided that there was error, and ordered a new triaU J A motion was made at the present term of Northampton Superior Court to re move the trial to Warren county. ; -Charlotte News : LastSunday morning Charles Atkins, a man forty- two years old who lives in the , north western portion of Rutherford county,, was drunk and became enraged at his ' nineteen year old son, who had also : been imbibing oft and freely of new corn whiskey. The boy left home in the fore noon but upon receiving a message from hjs father to return, came back in the evening, whereupon Atkins so beat him witn a chair and kicked him merciless ly. The boy escaped from his grasp and ' ran, and when being closely pursued, seized a stone with which he fractured ; his father's skull, causing congestion of the brain, from which Charles Atkins died on Monday night. The boy fled: immediately after the fight and has not been captured. . - Greenville Reflector: On Sun day night, just -before 0 o'clock, J.J. Moore, a white man confined in the jail, died in his cell. He had been sick- more than, a week, and realizing that his con dition was becoming dangerous, sheriff Tucker on Saturday wrote to Gov. Holt. setting forth the circumstances and pe-s titioned for the pardon of the prisoner. ine uovernor telegraphed Monday morning to the Sheriff that the pardon had been mailed and that Moore could be released at once, but death had al ready released him. Sheriff Tucker had the body shrouded and moved to one room of the Court House immediately alter aeatn. Monday tne remains were taken home for burial. Mr.' Moore was serving a three months' sentence from January term of Pitt Superior CouH for ; . assault with deadly weapon. He was . about 43 years old, and was post master of Farmville. His wife and a few friends were with him when he died. ; Charlotte Observer'. The 20th of - Mav celebration' and the musical festivals i have got confounded somewhat, it; -being reported in various parts of the' State that the former has fallen through fort lack of a sufficient guarantee. This is a big mistake. The 20th celebration is a dead certainty, and to that end thebusi- - ness men of Charlotte are working mightily. The committes are meeting almost nightly, and everything points to . the biggest celebration on the 20th the city has ever known.' Let everybody . come and enjoy the many attractive fea tures of the celebration. Mr. Rich- . ard Capps, of Steel Creek died in this city last evening, at the advanced age of 81 years. Mr. Capps was a witness in the Boyd-Youngblood case on trial yes terday. While in the midst of his testi mony in the court house he was sud denly taken ill and had to be carried out. He was taken into the. sheriff's ; office, and was afterwards moved to Mr. - R. P. Chapman s office, where, although ' given every medical attention, he died at 7 o clock. Heart disease was said to be the cause of his death. It was brought on by the excitement of the trial. Mr. Capps was apparently in his usual good - . health when he drove into the city yes terday morning. I ? . v: Monroe Enquirer; The cold snap of Saturday and Sunday was very severe upon the fruit. The reports that have reached us indicate that it ' has about all been killed. ' Some apples mar have escaped, but not a great many. Irish potatoes, beans, peas and other . garden .truck, also suffered severely. , Mr. Uriah Walters, who lives in the Euto neighborhood of this county,. is Another one of our Union county - farmers who has his corn crib and smoke house at home. Mr. Walters is 65 years old, and has been married 86 years. He has never bought but 200 pounds of -flour and 12 bushels of corn in his life, and not a pound of meat. He has nearly always had , a surplus of these articles for sale to his neighbors who raise all ? cotton. ' - Willis Miller, a South ' Carolina darkey, is 10 years old, 6 feet inches in height and weighs 165 pounds. Willis' . arms are extremely long. Extending - them out he measures from tip to tip of : his index fingers 7 feet. Keachingup, . he measures from the end of his fingers ' to the ground 8 feet 8 inches. .-. . Mr. Jack Ramsay is 65 or 70 years old, -and lives eighteen miles east of Monroe. Notwithstanding the tact-that he has lived in this county all ot his life, he has ' never yet paid a visit to Monroe." -; Goldsdoro .Headlight: :. Deputy Collector - Grimsley, on Friday night, . . raided the illicit distillery, of W. H. ,c Creel, of Sampson . county, ' near the ' Wayne line, and put the operator to : flight, : All the implements were broken " . up, and the "moonshine whiskey ' : was made to moisten the ground. 7. The finest lot of home raised cows," six in v number, ever seen in this ssction, were exhibited on our ' streets yesterday : morning by Mr. T. B. Parker, of Fork township, who has justly . earned . the reputation . of being the . champion stock raiser in this section. Two brothers named William and ' John McMillan, colored, while under the . influence of liquor, fought desperately r at the former's home in "Little Wash ington" Monday evening. Everything in and about the house was demolished even the cooking utensils didn't escape the wreck. -A colored woman named Ella Coor, living in Brogden township, loaded a piece of cheese with arsenic to " kill some animal that was troubling her chickens at night. With the extreme ' caution that characterizes the average ; darky, she left it where her four-year- . old child got hold of-- it Tuesday, j Medical aid was - called in , and by hard work the child's life, was saved. , A young colored man named War rick Braswell, who about two years ago, ' near Fremont, killed Doll Coley, colored, -without provocation; and-immediately after made his escape, has just been dis- . covered at a Norfolk hotel where he is employed as a waiter, under an assumed name. Sheriff Grant telegraphed yester-. "day to the Norfolk authorities ordering his arrest, and will at once- secure the requisition papers. ".j 'xf.J-.t'; 4 v. w i '-Mr. "1. ... t- Vi : - n i:J'? ' '.-'i.i' 'i ' V - : "t .:.-' :yv.jji;
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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