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WILMINGTON, N. C.
Friday, -
Jane 3, 1892.
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A GAME 07 DUPLICITY.
We have never had any doubt that
the soldier-pay resolution in the St.
Louis platform was-a part of the
platform as adopted and that it was
as much intended to be a part of the
platform as any plank in itl Deny
ing that it was a part of the plat
form, slipping it out and remodeling
the platform with the plank pulled
- but were after thoughts that did not
occur to the platform builders until
they saw that the thing wasn't taking
down in Dixie, when they revised
their work, eliminated .that plank
and gave out that it was 'simply a
resolution expressive of the senti
ment which prevailed In the confer
ence on that question,
i We have contended that if this
were true . the Third Party was as
logically bound by that resolution,
if it was simply a resolution, as it
would ' have Deen if it j was a
plank in the platform. In
proof: that it was a pan
of the platform, and so considered by
the conference which adopted it, we
produced some time ago some ex
tracts from a letter of Congressman
Moses, an Alliance man, of Georgia,
to the Southern Alliance Farmer, who
was present at the conference when
the. platform was adopted. He quo
ted letters from Mr. Powderly, Presi
dent of the Knights of Labor, and
from Miss Frances Willard, who was
there, showing that they considered
it a, part of the platform. They were
both in the conference when the vote
was taken.
But the third party engineers are
playing a game of duplicity about this
thing, at least the men who are try
ing to sprout a third party in the
South are, which is shown by the fol
lowing two letters, which we find in
the Charlotte Observer, clipped from
the Westmoreland, Kansas, He
corder. The editor of that paper
had learned that the third party
boosters in the South were denying
that the soldier resolution was apart
of the platform and concluded that
he would satisfy himself and remove
' any doubts that might exist upon
that point. He therefore wrpte two
letters to Col. Potk making! the in
quiry, one of which he had posted at
Goldsboro, N. C, and the other, ask
ing . identically the same question,
from the town in which he lived in
Kansas. The letter, mailed ai Golds
boro was answered by the Colonel
himself and reads as follows :
Washington, D. C, April ei 1892.
" Mr. Will T. Hill, Goldsboro, N. C:
My Dear Sir" and Bro.: Replying
to yours of the 21st ult., I beg to assure
you that there is no clause in our plat
form for pensioning Union soldiers. It
never has been there. It is not one of
'..Tour demands. Leading Democratic pa-
; pers all over the country acknowledge
; their inability to meet our issues when
they have to resort to such villainous
i and wilful misrepresentation and lying.
i To show you to what great lengths they
will go in this direction, the Atlanta
Journal, a few days ago in a long edi
torial, charged directly and absolutely
that the pension clause and woman's
; suffrage clause were both in our plat
form. On their part it seems that the
campaign is to be one of evasion, mis
representation, personal abuse and down
right lying. If they can afford i we
can. Just simply assert in reply to these
charges that they are lies from beginning
'; to end.
AThe desperation of their cause could
not be more fully demonstrated than by
the cowaidly and unmanly methods they
have adopted. (
i But the people are going to be heard.
I pray God that they may have the man
liness and loyalty to stand unflinchingly
by our principles. Write me and keep
me informed as to the situation! in your
section of the State. Would have writ
tea earlier but for the enormous amount
off work in my office.
Yours truly and fraternally,!
; L. L. Polk,
V President N. F.'A. and I. U.
The letter mailed at Westmoreland
was referred to Dr. McLalllnj editor
of theTopeka Advocate, a third party
organ, for answer, who replied thus:
w Topeka, Kansas, May J 1892.
Mr, M. J. MeKee, Westmoreland, Kan.
, E?AR SlR Your letter of April 27,
1892, to Col. Polk, Washington, D. C.
has been referred to me for reply; In
answer I will say; I was secretary'bf the
. committee on platform in the St. Louis
convention. Thi resolution relating to
the payment.of the difference between
the value of the money in which the
-soldiers were paid and gold- was intro-
' duced by a Confederate soldier from
v Texas, and was unanimously adopted,
every Southern as well as Northern del
egate voting for it, just as it appears in
all the reform papers in the Country.
There is no question about this1. I act
ed as secretary during the whole session
of the committee on demands, and
know whereof I speak. I
Yours truly,!
S.McLallin,
Col. Polk was chairman jof that
.convention. He ought toj know
what was done. Dr. McLalHn was
. secretary of the committee ( on de
mands. He ought to know what
was done. Either one must be right;
both can't be mistaken. Whether
either is right or either wrong some
body is playing a miserable game of
deceit, in this thing. Col. Polk and
his third party co-laborers, knowing
better, are making a deliberate effort
to dupe their following in the South
or the Northern Third party engi
neers, knowing better, are making a
deliberate effort to dupe the, ex-sol
diers to get their votes. But the Kan
sas engineers are not doing that.
They stand by the record. Dr. Mc
Lallin says , he knows what
he is talking about, and doubtless
does. The deception attempted is on
this side of the line from which the
kick against that plank was made,
and where the necessity is for the
deception. They couldn't say the
matter had not come before the con
ference, because it was heralded by
wire as a part of the proceedings, and
the only thing left to be done to get
out of it was .to "resort to the thin
subterfuge of pretending that it was
simply a resolution that amounted to
nothing more than a mere expression
of sentiment. .
If Southern men who are appealed
to to join this third party fraud want
any stronger proof that somebody is
being humbugged and that they are
the somebody, they must be exceed
ingly dull of perception and exceed
ingly gullible. Less conclusive evi-;
dence than has been furnished on this
question would convict a man in
dicted for murder.
NSOME FACTS AND FIGURES.
Mr. J. S. Williams, of Richmond,
recently delivered an- address before
the Commercial Club of Nashville,
Tenn., in which he presented some
interesting facts and figures to show
how the South, notwithstanding the
depression on the cotton growing in
dustry, was progressing and prosper
ing. The low price of cotton, and
the scarcity of money caused in part
by the financial embarrassments of
European banks . which supplied
much of the money which was in
vested in Southern enterprises, has
somewhat retarted development but
yet she is making progress that will
compare favorably, with the most
progressive sections of the country.
Notwithstanding the low price of
cotton the business failures are few
er in 1892 than they were in 1891,
while in the East and West there is
an increase, and the assets as com
pared with the liabilities were 61 per
cent., against 51 per cent, in the rest
of the country. The increase per
capita of wealth in the decade be
tween 1880 and 1890 was double as
much as it was in the East and cen
tral Western States. The national
banks increased three-fold. The
capital of other banks was doubled.
The railroad mileage has more than
doubled, being 43,000 miles now,
against 20,000 miles ten years ago.
Passenger carrying has increased
nearly four-fold, and freight two and
a half times.
In 1881 the railroads carried
7,300,000 passengers, in 1889 35,
500,000. They carried in 1880
20,300,000 tons of freight, and in
1890 70,000,000 tons. j, -
While the increase of population
was mainly in the towns and cities
there was a great increase in the
productive output of the farms, so
that practically the same number of
people who in 1880 grew 5,400,000
bales of cotton and 250,000,000
bushels of corn, produced in 1891
nearly 9,000,000 bales of cotton and
500,000,000 bushels of corn, in ad
dition to which theyj more than
doubled their wheat, oats, grass,
fruit and truck crops.
In 1891 the average price of corn
in the South was 57 cents a bushel
against 37 cents in the West, wheat
averaged 99 cents against 82 cents in
the West, oats 50 cents against 28
cents, potatoes 70 cents against 30
cents.
In point of indebtedness the South
is much more favorably situated than
the West, the mortgage indebtedness
on- the farms bearing no comparison
to- the mortgage" indebtedness of the
West. Taking two States to illus
trate, he points out. that while
the assessed -value of property
in Tennessee was $282,000,000, the
mortgage indebtedness was $40,000,
000, while in Kansas on a total as
sessed valuation of 348,000,000, there
was a mortgage indebtedness of
$243;000,000. The per capita indebt
edness in Tennessee was $23, in Kan
sas $170.
While the State and county in
debtedness in the South has largely
decreased, the town and city indebt
edness has increased since 1880 about
25 per cent., but the growth of the
towns and cities has been such that
the indebtedness per capita has de
creased 12 per cent., while the town
and city credit has so improved that
they can now borrow money at five
per cent., where they had to pay ten
per cent, ten years ago. In many of
the cities in this State, at least, the
city bonds are considered such a de
sirable investment, that they are in
demand at a premium of five or six
per cent. - ,
Since 1880 the increase in cotton
spindles has been over 300 per cent,
with a proportionate increase in the
woolen industry. There is as much
cottorr manufactured in the South
now as there was in the whole coun
try in 1866. She produces more pig
iron now than the whole country
produced in 1870. . The lumber in
dustry his increased immensely and
must continue to increase as the for
ests of the. North' and West, which
for years have furnished the supplies,
disappear which they are doing very
rapidly and. have done entirely in
some sections. There are untold
millions in the forests of the South
if they be judiciously dealt with.
These facts are a conclusive an
swer to the Republican politicians
on the other side of the line who la
bor to show that the white people of
the South spend most of their time
in pursuing and oppressing the black.
for the double reason that they are
black and as a general . thipg vote
the Republican ticket It is an an
swer also, to that new school of pol
iticians which have recently come to
the surface and propose to cure al
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rh ills that mortal flesh is heir-to
through the instrumentality of a
third party.
The progress of the South within
the past two decades is attributable
to the fact that the best elements of
the Southern people stood solidly to
gether to preserve government ofin
telligence, honesty; and respectabil
ity, and thus put their States on a
good footing which commanded con
fidence in their stability, i These ad
vocates of a new departure are la
boring to break that solidity and as a
result shake confidence in the stabil
ity of the Southand thus throw ob
stacles in the way of her continued
progress. They are: inviting their
credulous dupes to follow a course
Which will lead if successful not only
to the detriment of the South but to
their detriment, for they-must share
any misfortune that may befall her.
unroB, MENTION.
Mr. Harrison and his Secretary of
the Treasury are showing considera
ble shrewdness in their manipulation
of the monetary congress which it is
proposed to hold to consider the
coinage question. They are playing
that for all it is worth to help Harri
son at Minneapolis, by creating the
mpression that he is "really anxious
for the free .coinage of silver when
an agreement may be had with the
other leading commercial nations as
to the standard of value. It will be
remembered that some time ago a
resolution was introduced in the
Senate asking the President to trans
mit to the Senate the correspondence
that had- taken place between this
Government and other Governments
on that subject, to which, at the
suggestion of Senator Sherman, a
proviso was added, "if the President
did not deem it incompatible with
the public interest" He did so deem
it and the correspondence wasn't
sent. It has been given out from
time to time that the matter was
progressing nicely, ana secretary
Foster, in the expression of his views,
to which- we referred yesterday, gave
the country to understand that it had
progressed so far that it might be
now considered assured. Now we
are told by Washington dispatches
that at least eight European Govern
ments have accepted the President's
invitation to participate in it, and
that he might possibly communicate
with Congress on the subject in a
few days. If he has correspondence
he is timing the business of present
ing it right on the eve of the meet
ing of the Minneapolis convention
when his friends can make a great
hurrah over it and there will not be
time to discuss the correspondence
and see whether it really amounts to
anything. If he doesn't give the
correspondence to Congress he has
caused the announcement to be
made that, the monetary conference
is practically settled and his friends
will play that among the silver men
for all it is worth. This is a matter
of more importance to Mr. Harrison
at this time than the monetary con
gress. '
The Syracuse, N. Y., Democratic
Convention which- was held Tuesday
was conducted with admirable judg
ment and showed no disposition
whatever to perpetuate factional
feeling. While it put Itself on record
as protesting against the February
Convention in forcible but at the
same time as moderate language as
could be expected,' it showed its de
sire for the success of the party by
affirming the nominations for electors
made by the February Convention,
and also by pledging its support and
the support of its constituents to the
nominee of the Chicago Conven
tion, whoever he might be." This
practically! makes the Democratic
party of New York solid for trie ticket
nominated; at Chicago, as Senator
Hill and j other Tammany leaders
have pledged those for whom
they spoke to the nominees
of that convention, and Senator Hill
went even further, and pledged the
electoral vote of New York.' The
convention selected delegates to the
Chicago convention who were in
structed to act as a unit We do not
think, however, that it is the purpose
of this delegation to do anything
more than to make a formal demand
for recognition, the main object be
ing to have the delegation there as
representatives of Mr. Cleveland, to
show that he has a powerful support
in his own State, to offset the repre
sentations to the contrary. It is for
the moral effect it may have on del
egauons trom other states more
than anything else. On the whole
the Syracuse convention did very
well, and we think the Democracy
of New York and of the country at
large is to be congratulated on the
good temper shown and the conser
vative spirit that controlled it.
Mr. Niedrlnghaus, the tin man of
St Louis, is building a new town
near that city and is puzzled over
the name he will give it. A contem
porary wants to know what's the
matter with Tinville. That would
be as much of a fraud as Niedrlng
haus' tin works. Let him 'dub it
Niedringhausville and thus perpetu
ate his name and fame. It may not
be euphonious but it will be pon
derous. f i ..- ':. ' - "
Congressman Simpson has denied
the report that he was not going to
be a candidate for re-election next
falL This is an . altogether super
fluous denial. Jerry never earned
$5,000 a year easier in his life or had
more fun while he was doing it. He
will stick to that job while there is
any grip in him. He knows when he
has a gooa tning. ;
THE EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT.
An Old Veteran and Constant Beader of
the Star Indulges in JBeminiseenoei.
" PlREWAY. N. C, May 27.
Editor Weekly Star, Wilmington, N. C.
Diar Sir: Please find enclosed $3,
subscription renewed till the 8d of July,.
1893. I have been a constant reader of
the Star nearly twenty years. May it
live long and may I live to read it an
other score of years. ',:rU:i.
It lust occurs to me that just thirty
years ago to-day the Eighteenth North
Carolina Regiment had its first fight at
Hanover C H Va., in which the Con
federacy lost some of its best, and
bravest men.- I wonder - bow many of
the old veterans will think of it to-day.
There were three companies from Wil
mington in the Eighteenth Kegiment
campanies A, I and G. The names of
Barry, Woster. James, wiinamss Dixie.
Mcintosh. Tilly. -. Jacobi, " Cornelson,
Schulken, Roper and scores ot others are
fresh in my memory and always will be.
Many were the nights that 1 have walked
post with John D. Barry, who afterwards
became ixuonei oi tne regiment. r
Yours truly,
' W. J. Lay.
POSTAL REGULATIONS.
Folnta for the Publio Belating to liettenr,
, Lock Boxes, etc
A new code of regulations concerning
postoffices has recently been 'issued by
Postmaster General Wanamaker.
One of the rules reads as follows:
"When a letter has been deposited in a
postoffice for mailing the writer may,
upon identifying the same to the. satis
faction of the postmaster, withdraw 1t
from the postoffice, but if the stamp
thereon has been cancelled it "cannot be
remailed without the prepayment of
postage anew thereon,"
Another regulation is : "A postoffice
box rented by a society or association is
not available for the use of individual
members of such society or association.
except the officers thereof when ad
dressed in their official capacity." And
another, which is this: "In the event
that the holder of a lock box forgets to
bring his key the postmaster should, up
on application, . deliver his mail to him;
but such mail must not be delivered by
the postmaster to any one other than
the holder of the box, except upon his
written order."
The value of the above rule will be
readily appreciated when it is consider
ed that it was made with the intention
of preventing employees, discharged
without the cognizance- of the depart
ment from obtaining ; possession of im
portant matter. i
A rule regarding the box laws is im
portant. A landlord; cannot have his
tenant's letters placed in his postoffice
box for delivery. The use of a box in a
postoffice is confined to "one family.
firm or corporation." j
Another of the new rules will effec
tually prevent a man or his friends for
htm doing any incidental or impromptu
advertising via the medium of Brother
John Wanamaker's portfolio.
"Mail matter," says the rule, "upon
which an indefinite address is written or
printed,' such as 'The Leading Vegeta
ble Dealer," or 'Any Intelligent Farmer,'
is not deliverable."
The lover and clandestinely inclined
correspondent is also headed off in the
following sententious manner:
"Letters addressed to A. B.,' or other
initials or fictitious names, in care of a
letter carrier at a free delivery office, are
not deliverable and should be treated as
improperly addressed mail matter."
EnichU of Prjthia.
Mr. E. F. Djurand, brigadier general of
the uniform rank Knights of Pythias of
Connecticut and supreme representative
ot that State, visited Clarendon Lodge
No. 2. K. of P last evening; and gave
them a talk on the beauties of the Order
and especially on the uniform rank) He
said that it the unilorm rank is larger
by fifteen thousand than the reg
ular army of "the United States.
There was a large attendance of mem
bers, and all were deeply interested in
the remarks of Mr. Durand. From in
dications it is not unlikely that a division
of the uniform rank will be formed at an
early date.
The annual encampment of the uni
form rank K. of P. will be held this
summer at Kansas City, Mo.
Accident to the Croatan.-
The Clyde steamer . Croatan. which
arrived here yesterday from New York,
swung out from her berth last night
about 8 o'clock, for Georgetown, S. C
The tide was running out, and when the
steamer reached the middle of the
stream her starboard engine tan
ed to work, she drifted with
the tide and crashed into a
wharf on the west side o( the river, bow
on, breaking her awning stanchions and
carrying away the flag-pole. The
steamer then made for,her wharf, but
ran into a raft of timber on the east side
of the river, near Springer's coal yard
She hacked off from this obstruction
andi reached the steamship wharves
where she was' made fast and the work
of getting her engines in order was be
gun. ; '.: - '
For the Chicago Convention.
The Charlotte Observer (whose editor
is one of the delegates) saysr "Arrange
ments are now making for the trans
portation of the North Carolina dele
gates and alternates to the Chicago
convention,' and for quarters for t them
while there. One or two Pullman cars
will be chartered from Washington, and
the North Carolinians will gather in that
city about Saturday, June 18th, and
leave Sunday, 19th, reaching Chicago
Monday morning the day before the
convention assembles. It may be that
the cars will be chartered for the round
trip and the party will live in them
while in 'Chicago. So far as is known
all of the delegates from this State will
attend, and it is known that many of the
alternates will." J
Barque Fortuna Abandoned. '.
A dispatch from London, Eng., May
27, reports: Steamer Montana (Br.),
Forsyth, from Philadelphia for London,
passed Prawle Point to-day, signalled
that she had on board the crew of barque
Fortuna (Ger.), Wacbowski, from Wil
mington, N. C, for Wolgast, who had
abandoned their vessel at sea. She ex
perienced tempestuous weather during
the voyage, and was so badly strained
and otherwise damaged that she began
leaking badly,' and was ' in imminent
danger of sinking when the crew were
rescued.
Spot cotton steady in New York at
7 7-16 cents for middling, and firm in
Wilmington at 7J cents. J
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
Col. X. D. Hall ' Appointed Major General
if :- of the H. C. Division. - '
A short time ago Col. E. D. Hall re
ceived a letter from Gen. George Nor
man, of New Orleans. Adjutant General
of the United Confederate Veterans' As
sociation, stating that he had recom-
mendedCoL Hall to . Gen. Jno. , B.
Gordon,- for appointment as . Major
General of the North Carolina Division.
Replying to this letter CoL Hall wrote
that he would prefer that; the Executive
Committee: of . the : Nrth Carolina
Veterans' Association should make the
selections Subsequently a letter was
received by Col. Hall from Gen. Gordon,
in which the latter stated
that it would
be his pleasure to appoint him, but he
deferred to - Col. 1 Hall's wishes in the
matter. . :
The selection of Major General of the
N. C. Division was therefore left to the
ExecutivcCoramtUee of the N. C. As
sociation and this committee has chosen
Col. Hall, as will be seen by the follow-
ing: . - -j I . ;
N. C. Soldiers Home;
Raleigh, N, C, May 27.
Col. E. D. Hall, Wilmington. N. C-
My Dear Colonel: At a meeting of
the Executive Committee of our State
Association held to-day, you were unani
mously endorsed as the choice for
Major General of the C. Division
United Confederate Veterans. -.
I am glad to hear the prospect for bur
encampment is so good. The inmates
of the Home are looking; forward to it
with much pleasure.
With very best wishes, 1 am, yours
truly, J W. CJStronach.
CONSOLIOAT
The Norfolk, Wilmington ' & Charleston
Bailroad Companies.
The Charleston News and Courier has
this about the consolidation of what is
the Norfolk, Wilmington, and Charles
ton Railroad Companies, viz:
A meeting of the stockholders ot the
South Carolina Land Company was held
Saturday, and the capital stock of the
company was increased to $1,000,000.
All of the members of the Land Com
pany are more or less interested in the
building of the Norfolk, Wilmington
and Charleston railroad.) and the an
nouncement was made at the meeting
that the three Norfolk, Wilmington and
Charleston Railroad Companies now
operating in Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina, have just been con
solidated. Persons familiar with the
matter will remember that there has for
some time past been in existence a cor
poration bearing the name of the Nor
folk. Wilmington and Charleston Rail
road Company. ' Though they were
separate and distinct organizations,
operating in the several States of Vir
ginia, North Cardlina and South Caro
lina, they were working in coniunction
with one another, with ! the common
purpose of constructing a bee line rail
road between Charleston and Northern
points, and it was always understood
that at the proper moment a consolida
tion of them would be made. The ex
pected consolidation was perfected last
week, and a notification of the same has
been filed with the Secretaries of State
of the different States through which'
the road is to pass,
A Sad Accident. I
Mr. Neill Simon, formerly engineer at
Messrs. Boney & Harper's steam grist
mill in this city, met with a sad accident
last Sunday which resulted in his death.
He went to New York a. few days ago
to bring out a tug-boat for the I. P. P. P.
Co., of this city, whose j. works are
situated on Smith's creekj near Hilton.
He left New York last Saturday with the
tug-boat and stopped at I Bordentown,
N. J., Sunday, where the steam-pipe
of the engine burst and Mr. Simon
was scalded so badly that he died that
night in a hospital ; at Bordentown. A
telegram to this effect was received here
yesterday. -
Mr. Simon was a married man, and
about 32 years of age. Besides his wife
he leaves two small children. His . re
mains will be brought here for interment.
.Wilmington Compress and Warehouse
Company. ' . j
The annual meeting of stockholders
of the Wilmington Compress and Ware
house Company was held yesterday at
noon, at the Bank of New Hanover.
The usual reports were read after which
directors for the j ensuing year were
elected, as follows! Messrs. G.W.Wil
liams, Jno. W. Atkinson! D. MacRae,
H. A. Burr. I. Bates, W.jW. Pusey, J.
H. Chadbourn, H. G. Smallbones.
A meeting of the new board of Direc
tors was I subsequently held at which
Mr. H. G. Smallbones was elected pres
ident of the company and Mr. Walter
Smallbones secretary and treasurer.
Baptist Association.:
Among those who returned last even
ing from attending the Southern Union
Convention of the Eastern Baptist
Church, which met Friday, the 27th
inst., at Salem Baptist Church near
Sneed's Ferry, Onslow county, were
Rev. M. C. Walton Rev.jS. D. Swain,
Rev. J. T. Jenkins land Mr. J. R. Mar
shall. All concede that it was one of the
most pleasant meetings held by the As
sociation. It was ta session three days,
and during that time religious subjects
were taken up and discussed by the
different preachers in attendance. Du
ring the meeting Rev. J. H. Dobson, of
Onslow county, was ordained. The
presbytery who ordained him- were Rev.
S-Uj Swain, Revi'J. TJ Wooten and
Rev. M. C Walton. Th meeting ad
journed Sunday night j
ROCKY MOUNT.
Bapid Progress in Improvements by the
Atlantic Coast I4ne.
J Special Star Correspondence.
Rocky Mr, May 30, 1892. The ex
cavation of the ground for the railroad
shops is progressing radidly. A' great
Quantity Of dirt is being moved by the
convicts, filling in : ravines, &c One of
the continued improvements is the till
ing in dirt, levelling West Railroad
street with the railroad. This filling in
commenced this evening and in a day or
two the street from larboro street to
the hotel will be level., Other improve
ments are going on and before long the
work on a one hundred thousand dollars
machine shop will commence not in
cluding round bouse and other buildings.
The railroad autnorities are very Kind
in favoring the town with this super
flous dirt to raise . streets. &c, and all
such favors are highly appreciated by
our citizens. . t j
The shooner Norman, which ar
rived here some months ago in distress,
was sold, and has since been repaired,
was cleared yesterday for Mayaguez,
P. R., with a cargo of lumber, shipped by
E. Kidder's Son.
- The Democraticj Executive
Committee for this . Congressional dis
trict will meet next Tuesday at Rock.
ingham, to appoint; time 'and place for
holding the Congressional Convention.
GEN. A. P. HILL. ,
Unveiling; of a Monument at Kiohmond to
'";:' a Great Soldier Xiarge Attendance..
-,.- '.'j; By Telegraph to the Morning Star. : .,- v
',. Richmond. Va May SO. The mon
ument to the memory of Gen. A. P.
Hill, of Confederate, iame, was unveiled
here to-day with impressive ceremonies:
The section of the city through which
the procession passed, which consisted
of military and - Confederate, veteran
camps from various parts, of the State,
was partially decorated with. National,
State and Confederate colors. The long
line, which was about half an hour pass
ing a given point, was heartily cheered
through the route. While the demon
stration was not as large by any means
as that on the occasion of the unveiling
of the Lee monument, it was sufficient
to make the event a memorable one to
all who participated in it,, or had the
pleasure of witnessing it. In the city
business generally was suspended. The
streets along which the . procession
moved were filled with people, and as
the line got beyond the corporate limits
ot the city, vehicles of every description
crowded the road leading to the monu
ment site, which is at the intersection of
Hermitage road and Loburnum avenue,
about a mile and a half from the city,
overlooking the spot at which Gen. Hill
assumed command of his Irst brigade,
and subsequently of his light division
and in close proximity to the point at
which with that division he brought on
the "Sfiveri Days' Fight." Also within
less than a mile of the Exposition
grounds, famous during the .war
as Camp Hill. State and local milithry
preceded the veterans who followed in
this order President of Pegram bat
talion and aides and associations, com
mander of the Grand Camp Confederate
Veteran's department of Virginia and
staff, eleven camps Confederate veterans
from different parts of Virginia, the old
13th Virginia Infantry, ex-Confederate
Soldiers and Sailors Association, Society
of the Army and Navy of the Confed
erate States, Richmond Light Infantry
Blue3 Association, Old First Virginia
Regiments Association, R. E. Lee Camp
Sons of Veterans. R. E. Chew Camp
Sons of Veterans. The City Council in
carriages followed in rear of the Veteran
organizations; Hollywood Memorial As
sociation in carriages in rear of the City
Council.
The colunSn which moved at 11 o'clock
reached the monument about 1 o'clock,
when Major Thos. A, Brander called
the vast assemblage to order. Prayer
was offered, after which J. William
Jones introduced the orator of the dav.
Gen. Jas. A. Walker, who succeeded
Gen. Jackson in the command of the
Stonewall brigade.
At the conclusion or Gen. Walker's
address, which was received with
many signs of approval by the- vast
audience, which frequently broke into
uproarious applause, Miss Virginia Pres
ton Meems, grand-daughter of Col.
Wm. P. Palmer, Gen. Hill's Chief of
Staff, pulled the cord and the likeness
in bronze of Gen. Ambrose Powell Hill
was exposed to the gaze of expectant
thousands. A salute was fired by the
infantry and artillery, and the exercises
closed amid a scene of great enthusiasm.
The inscriptions on the monument are
as follows:
South front "A. P. Hill; born in
Culpepcr county, Va., November 9,
1825; killed before Petersburg April 2,
1865." West front "Lieut.-General and
Commander Third Corps. Army North
ern Virginia." East front "Erected by
Pegram Battalion and his Comrades of
the Army of Northern Virginia."
AT GRANT'S TOMB.
Col. chas. Marshall's Oration The Monu
ment Fund Completed.
New York, May 30. The fund for
the Grant monument has been com
pleted. That was the announcement
made amid the cheers of a multitude at
memorial day exercises this afternoon
in front of the tomb of General Grant.
The crowd was a very large one. The
following was the order of exercises :
Hymn, "America," by the choir and
audience; Ritual of the Grand Army of
the Republic, Commander Thos. W.
Topham; anthem, "Give Unto the
Lord, O ye Mighty," by the choir;
prayer, Rev. Mason Gallagher, Chaplain
U. S. Grant Post ; Ritual, Commander
Topham ; oration. General Horace
Porter of the staff of General Grant :
Ritual, by officer of the day and
Post Commander; -5 anthem, "In
the Silent Tomb," by the choir;
oration, Col. Chas. Marshall, of the staff
of Gen. Lee; anthem, "Blessed are the
nations," by the choir; benediction; taps;
national salute by the vessels of the
United States navy; doxology by the
choir and audienc.
The principal oration was delivered by
Col. Chas. Marshall, who was Chief of
Staff to Gen. Lee, the Confederate com
mander. Among other things he said:
"It is not easy to express the thoughts
that the scene before me inspires in my
mind, and in the mind of every man
who understands the full meaning of
this occasion. Men who were arrayed
against each other in deadly strife are
now met together to do honor to the
memory of one who led one part of this
audience to complete and absolute vic
tory over the other; yet in the hearts of
the victors there is no feeling of
triumph and in the hearts of the
vanquished there is no bitterness,
no humiliation." After referring
to the bitterness of the conflict and the
fact that the combatants so quickly dis
persed at the end of the war. he said:
"No such peace as our peace ever to!
lowed immediately upon such a war as
our war. The exhausted South was
completely at the mercy of the victorious
North, and yet the sound of the last gun
had scarcely died away, when not only
peace, out peace and good will were
re-established and victors and van
quished took up the work of repairing
the damages of the war and advancing
the common welfare of the whole coun
try, as if the old relations social, com
mercial and political between the peo
ple 01 the two sections, had never been
disturbed. , .
In speaking of General Grant the
orator remarked : "Great as were his
achievements in war, I think his crown
me glorv was that of peacemaker, and
that to him belongs the blessing promised
to peacemakers.
Crowds visited the tomb throughout
tne day and many most handsome noral
offerings, including one from President
Harrison, were deposited upon it.
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THE THIRD PARTY.
The
Alabama Section Organized at Bir-
mingham Yesterday. .
By Telegraph to the Morning; Star. .
Birmingham, Ala., May 80. State
Labor Conference met in Birmingham
this morning. It was called by Presi
dent A. Adams of the Farmers' Alli
ance, toonsider the St. Louis platform.
and was composed of delegates from the
Alliance and other labor organizations.
Forty-seven counties were represented
by about fifty-five delegates. President
Adams in his opening speech, expressly
declared that the conference would have
nothing to do with politics one way or
the other. After completing an organi
zation, the St. Louis platform - was dis
cussed and adopted with practical unan
imity, and the conference adjourned.
A mass meeting was then held by many
of the delegates, as individuals, presided
over oy j. c. Manning, editor of the
Alabama Reformer, State organ of the
People s party, and engineered by Geo.
T. Gaither, a member of the National
Executive Committee of the People s
party for Alabama. . The mass, meeting
completed the State organization for
that party by the election of an Execu
tive Committee.
The People's party may be said to be in
full blast in Alabama. Most of those
who participated in its organization to
day have heretofore been Democrats,
though there was a goodly sprinkling of
independents.
A NEGRO MOB,
Hunting ior Section Boss Henderson, of
Greenland, Ha., Dispersed by a Sheriffs
Deputy.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning; Star.
Jacksonville, Fla May 81. De
puty sheriff Williams and a posse of ten
went out to Greenland last night to sup
press a negro uprising there. Early last
week section boss Henderson, of Green
land, a small station on the St. Augus
tine road, shot and killed a negro work
man under him it is claimed in self-
defence, as there were three of them
fighting him at the time. Henderson,
who is a white man, fled. Since then
the negroes have been searching for
him, and under pretext that they be
lieved he was concealed in his own bouse,
they set an armed guard about it and
refused to let Mrs. Henderson and
her two children go out.. There are only
a few white neighbors, while the negroes
number 200 or 800. For four days the
Henderson family has been living in
constant terror, and it was only to-day
that word was sent here for help.
Williams and bis posse found nearly
300 armed negroes riding and walking
about the village and threatening vio
lence to the Hendersons or to hold them
as ransom until the death of their negro
comrade had been avenged. The posse
soon scattered them and made some ar
rests. Williams has the names of the
ringleaders, and they will probably be
indicted. Henderson's family was re
moved by the deputy to the house ot
relations in South Jacksonville.
FLORIDA DEMOCRATS.
The State Convention in Session at
Tampa Alliancemen Present in Strong
Force Contesting Delegations Cause
Trouble.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Tampa, Fla., June 1. Over one hun
dred Alliancemen, attended a caucus
last night and many more arrived to
day. A prominent member of the Or
der said at 11 o'clock to-day that the
strength of the Alliance inthe Conven
tion will be two hundred and at the
least calculation 175. The convention
will undoubtedly make some conces
sions to.them in the matter of the Ocala
demands.
The convention was called to order at
noon by S. M. Sparkman, chairman of
the First District Committee. At the
conclusion of the roli-call (which in
cluded only one set of delegates from con
testing counties)the resolution to exclude
contesting delegations after' action on
the report of the Credentials Committee
was declared out of order by the chair.
An appeal was taken. Debate on the
appeal lasted an hour and a half and was
hot throughout. To sustain thes chair
meant exclusion of only one set of Duval
county delegates; to over-rule him, meant
exclusion of both, till the right to seats
could be decided by the convention.
There were dozens of speakers. At 2
o'clock a vote was taken and the chair
was sustained by a vote of 237 to 178.
On this roll-call the regular delegation
from Duval was permitted to vote.
After this, John H. McKere, of Jack
son county, was made temporary chair
man a triumph for the Mitchell men
and a set-back-temporarily at least to
the contesting delegates from Duval
county.
At 2.30 the convention adjourned
till 8 p.m.
At 8 p. m. the Convention reassem
bled and f ully two thousand people con
gregated outside of the wigwam to hear
the proceedings, which 'promised o be
extremely exciting, and all were disap
pointed. The Committee oh Credentials an
nounced that it was not ready to report,
and the Convention adjourned till 9 a. m.
Thursday. j
PEOPLE'S PARTY.
Slim Attendance at the Convention
in
Ocala, Fla.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Ocala, Fla., June 1. The people's
party met here in State Convention to
day with a very light attendance. Aside
from the appointment of two or three
committees, nothing was done in the
way of business. The convention is ap
parently awaiting the action of the State
Democratic Convention, in the matter
of adopting the St Louis platform.
STATE UNIVERSITY.
A Grand Ball Many Distinguished Visi
torsAddresses, Etc
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Raleigh, N. C June 1. The grand
ball ot the class of '92 of the University
of North Carolina is in progress to
night. Many distinguished persons are
present from this and other States. Ad
dresses were made to-day by Hon. Har
ris Trylor, of Mobile, Ala.; Frank Car
ter. Mebane, valedictorian of the class.
The degree of L. L, D. was conferred
on Hon. William Coleman, ex-Attorney
oenerai ot the state.
CENTRAL AMERICA.
'.Revolution in Honduras A Battle with
Much Iioss of Life.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star,
New York. May 81. The purser of
the steamer Miranda which arrived here
is morning from Central American
ports reports that a revolution had
broken out at Purto Cortiz, Honduras,
Gen. Berner with-an armed force from
Oautemala attacked the city and cap
tured it after a hard fight with much loss
of life and damage to property.
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SPIRITS ; TURPENTINE.
Raleigh Chronicle: ; There are.
now forty veterans at the soldiers' home
here. There are nowonlv about
140 convicts inside the oenitentiarv
There was yesterday another phase
in the suits against Littman & rn
whose assignment has already been
noted, and against whom Saturday there
were suits in claim and delivery. The
suits yesterday were for fraud, and were
brought by H. C Claflin & Co.,of New
York, and two or three other firms
Littmann was arrested. The bond wa
fixed at $4,000.
Rockingham Spirit of the South'
Our market is well supplied with Ger
man Carp from the fisheries on Pee Dee '
river- Some of them weigh as much as
20 pounds. Mr. George Cole, aged
77 years, died at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. Beck on Randolph street in
this town Monday last, 23rd inst. Mr.
Cole had been in bad health and help
less for a long time, and his death was
not unexpected. Died, at her hnm
at Poplar Hill. Anson county, last Sat
urday morning, aist inst.. from the ef
fects of the grip, Mrs. Ellen S. Bowman.
wife of Mr, Thomas Bowman and daugh
ter 01 tne late 101. Joseph White, aged
about 69 years.
High Point Enterprise: Some
time ago several .of our well-to-do citi
zens went down to a certain piece of
property to locate a factory. While
they were standing around in a group
discussing the situation a rabbit iumped
up out ot tne grass and ran round and
round in the circle. One of the eentle-
men remarked: "Well it is all settled it
we don t kill the rabbit. Our luck is
gone. With sticks and rocks the war
began but the rabbit escaped Wc
don't know whether the rabbit had
anything to do with it or not, but some
thing happened soon after which forced
the gentlemen to abandon the scheme.
Asheville Gazette: It will be
remembered that two brothers. Will and
Tom Whitson, of Mitchell county, were
arraigned about six months ago for the
murder ot rut J3yrd, who was a partner
of theirs in a store. The case rfesalted
in mistrial. The case created much
interest at that time. This week they
were they put on trial again and both
convicted of murder in the first degree.
The difficulty grew out of a quarrel over
some money which the Whitsons accused
tJyrd of stealing from the firm. Thev
shot him down in cold blood and made
their escape to Tennessee, where they
remained nearly ten years.before being
arrested.
Henderson Gold Leaf : A phe
nomenon in the flower kingdom is a ger
anium of three years growth, raised by
Mrs. Henry ferry. It has twenty-six
stems, upon each of which is from fif
teen to twenty petals. On twenty-five
of these the flower petals were white,
and on the twenty-sixth stem there were
sixteen red flowers and one white.
correspondent writing from Falkland,
hitt county, N. C, under date of Satur
day May 21st, says: A dreadful whirl
wind passed through Cotton Dale farm
near this place which did much damage
to all growing crops, followed by hail
and rain. The wind blew down houses.
unroofed barnes, uprooted trees and car
ried timbers and fruit trees a distance of
several hundred yards.
Goldsborol Argus: The death of:
Mr. Richard Raynor, one of the oldest
citizens of our county, occurred at his
home in Grantham township Sunday
just from old age. The old gentleman
bad been quite feeble for some years and
on Saturday afternoon he said he felt
sleepy and lay down to take a nap arid
waked no more. At their home
near this city, on Sunday last, Mr. J. D.
Denmark, better and more familiarly
known as "Aunt Joe." and his estimable
wife, celebrated the 48th anniversary of
their marriage by a family dinner, at
which there were fifty-eight children and
grandchildren present. The absent ones
numbered nineteen. It is with sin
cere regret that we chronicle this morn
ing the death of Mr. Will O. Collier, son
ol the late Col. George W. Collier and a
brother of our esteemed townsman Capt.
J. C." Collier, which occurred at his home
on his farm near old Everittsville, Satur?
day night, in the 40th year ot his age.
Lenoir Topic : The Lutheran
Church near Mr. S. M. Whitener's, on
Little River, was dedicated last Sunday.
On Monday Albert Harper, colored,
who was hit on the head with a club on
Sunday by Andy Powell, was said not
to be in his right mind. Blood issued.
trom his ears and nose. Andy Powell
is reported as missing. - The Wilson
Lumber Company keeps its mills at Le
noir busy getting out all sorts of lumber
that are in demand. One of the latest
enterprises is the manufacture of goods
boxes, which are gotten Out by the
thousand and shipped North, South,
East and West in shape to be. quickly
and easily put together by the con
signees. ; Last week in making ex
cavations for Mr. W. H. Cloyd's new
building, on the corner of East Main
street and Public Square, some of the
workmen found about Z feet below
the surface a human tooth and two
bones, one of them having the appear
ance of being a bone of a human foot
and the other a portion of a human
breast bone. Dr. Sjiainhbur says-they
appear to bim to have been in the
ground at least 100 years.
Shelby Review: Dr. J. R. Os
borne, desirous of beating the record
made by Col. D. M. Baker as a chicken
hatcher, built an incubator. He put 103
eggs into it, turned on the heat and
awaited results. Out of the 103 eggs he
got one chicken and several dollars'
worth of experience. On Tuesday -
Mr. John C. Bridge, son of Rev. E. J.
Bridges, of Lattimore's, was arrested
and brought before U. S. Commissioner.
J. H. McBrayer, charged with a violation
of the postal laws, the specific charge
being that he received and opened a
letter that was directed to another man.
Last week we noted the robbery of
the distillery warehouse of Wm. Wray,
near Kings Mountain, and the arrest of
William Wray, Dave Harmon, Dave
Maybury aridt John Costner. The re
venue officers have been hard at work
ever since looking for the stolen liquor.
They have so far succeeded in finding,
buried in the ground and under brush
heaps, eight barrels, leaving three bar
rels yet to find. Wray, Harmon, May
bury and Costner are still in jail in de
fault of bond, and the evidence that they
themselves robbed the warehouse to
keep from paying the taxes, seems to be
growing stronger.
Tarboro Southerner: Mrs. W.
B. Harper, of Whitakers, was found
dead in bed Saturday morning by her litr
tie daughter who was sleeping with her.
She retired Friday night well. Af-
ter the sub-Alliance at Lawrence ad
journed Saturday a third party meeting
was held to appoint delegates to the
third party county convention which is
to meet here on 10th. About twenty
were present, and all were declared del
egates to the county convention. It was
resolved to vote for no man who did
not stand squarely upon the St, Louis'
platform. A white man, Henry
Whitehurst, and a negro, Willis Brown,
Saturday at Conestoe, had an altercation
over playing a banjo, and came .
to blows. The darkey had a
stick which Whitehurst wrested
from him and as it was done the negro
cut his face laying open his jaw from
temple to chin.. As soon as the cutting
was done he retreated. Whitehurst then
shot, him with a pistol, striking the leg
near the knee. Brown ran off. A bro
ther of Whitehurst, William, mounted a
horse and pursued him. He came up
with him about a mile and a half from
town hiding in a ditch. He fired at
Brown who at once surrendered. Brown
was taken back to Conetoe, where he
and Whitehurst were both bound over
to answer at Court. Whitehurst gave
bond for his appearance. Brown so far
has been unable to do so and is in jail.