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Por Governor:
ELI AS CARR.
of Edgecombe.
For Lieutenant-Governor:
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110 IT DOESN'T.
" We clip the following from the last
issue f the Progressive Farmer, and
may
remark that
it is as poor at
guessingas it is atj predicting:
"Tlic Wilmington Star advises the
people i drop all financial legislation
forth.; present and do what? It does
not ext! iin what. All we can guess
13 thai it wants them to act the fool
once mot, vote for Cleveland and
Blaine, or whoever the plutocrats of
both parti s hoose to put up. This is
stranyc advice. It admits that the op
ponents ht fre: coinage and that means
oppv.eiHs of all financial legislation
hold ilvj balance of power. It further
admits tii t a large majority of the peo
ple of tlic United States favor financial
reform-. Now whw U it not just as
practical
tfr this
larste majority, to
hold the balance of
do it if tht'v mean
power? They can
business, and whip
out the aold bujjs on the first round.'
The Star does
not "advise the
financial legisla
people to ' drop all
tion for the present," and it does not
want them to vote
for Cleveland and
Blaine but wants
them , to vote for
Cleveland or any
other Democrat
who may be nominated at Chicago,"
if Cleveland shou'
If the writer of
we quote had reaJ
d not be.
the extract which
as carefully as he
should have read
the article upon
which he comments, he would have
seeti that we were discussing the free
coinage question, and that we advised
the people not to make that a para
mount issue in the coming campaign,
but to subordinat ; it to greater and
more vital issues, ssues that must be
. . ' 1 . . .
met ana settled belore free coinage
can amount to anything if it were an
established fact.
But the Star has
never "advised the people to drotvall
financiai legislation for the present.
. On the contrary it has advocated the
repeal of the tax jn the circulation
of State banks Of issue, and the
establishment of a system of banks
by the people which would give the
desired expansion of. the currency
and give ten times the relief that
the free coinage, of silver would
it every ounce taken from our
and would at j the same time
take the coinage question" out of
politics as there would no longer be
cause for the agitlation. If the writer I
in the Progressive Farmer didn't
V.catch on to our meaning, it was pro
bably not because he couldn't, but
.because he didn't want to.
1 here is such a thing as sense in
politics, and such a thing as non
sense. The man of sense always
reaches out for the possible and
l practicable, and does not waste his ef
forts on the impossible, especially
when by doing so he runs the risk of
losing all that his former efforts
had won and other things that he
had been struggling for for years,
and was in (a fair way ot
winning. 'The coinage ques-
tion is not
principle, it is
a Question of
a question of dol
lars and cents which is controlled by
the interests of ihdividnals. localities
.. j ' .
ui sections, it is simpiy a question
of expediency, whether it is better
to agitate the coinage of silver and
lose sight of more vital questions, or
subordinate that to the more vital.
We believe it should be subordinated
and precedence given to those- ques
tions which now'have a more direct
bearing upon the prosperity of the
country at large and of alt the peo
ple, regardless of class or of sec
tion. ' . -. '..:
In comparison with tariff reform
the free coinage ,of silver, is a cipher.
wouidn t add, u every ounce
taken from ourl mines were coined,
a dollar a head to the vol
ume of currency, while the tariff
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VOL. XXIII.
costs every man, woman and; child
in the United States at least ten dol
lars a year paid in needless tribute
on the . increased cost of tariff pro
tected articles consumed. " How
much relief would . free coinage give
to people thus burdened ? Z - v ;
Tariff reform can never come, free
coinage or any other financial meas
ures with relief in them can never
come, economical, non-piunaering
government can never come until
the Republican party is defeated,
routed and crushed. While it exists
as a political' factor it is an obstacle
in the way of all these and of all
other reforms. The South is parti
cularly interested in this not
only because she is a heavy tribute
payer, and is discriminated fearfully
against in the tariff legislation, but
because while the Republican party
exists she may at any time, when it
gets in full possession of power, be
come the victim of proscription and
persecution, as she was when . that
party had full sway, and therefore
we say that,; the Southern man who
would, to carry out visionary and
impossible schemes, contribute di
rectly or indirectly to prolonging the
life of that" party is deficient in sense
or patriotism, or both.
When the Republican party is
dead and beyond the power of resur
rection then these economic ques
tions on which Democrats may differ
in opinion may be taken up and dis
cussed without inviting disaster or
courting calamity, which the men
who would now make free Coinage a
paramount issue are doing.
HOW TO EXPAND IT.
.There are two measures in which
the American people have a vital in
terest, and which if enacted into law
would do more to relieve the "de
pressed industries, help the farmer,
and the toilers generally and put the
country on the highway to pros
perity than any two measures
that have ever been proposed or
thought of.
One of these has become an issue
in our politics, and party lines are
drawn on it, but the other, as impor
tant as it is, seems to have become
tangled up ,by the contentions
of men who have run to
wild . and impracticable extremes
in the endeavor to accomplish what
might be accomplished in - a
much rribre effective wav by a much
shorter and more practicable meth
od. ' ' ' , ,
t)ne of these is tariff reform, sub
stituting for the present oppressive.
plundering and ruinous protective
system a tariff for revenue only. If
this were done there would be an
end to this exorbitant tribute paying,
and the money the workers earn
would remain in their own pockets
instead of going into the pockets of
a comparatively small number of
perspns in whose interest the pro
tective tariff legislation was enacted.
It would leave the money the peo
ple earn in their own . pockets,
and also prevent the flow
of the circulating medium
to the centers where it is locked up
and where it remains until it be
comes the interest ot the money
kings to unlock it and turn it loose
again.
The other is the financial question
involving several schemes, some of
which are possible and practicable,
some not, but, strange to say, the
most practicable, most effective and
least objectionable of all is the. least
thought of and the least discussed.
This is because the men with hob
bies of their own have made sucn a
noise that they have diverted atten
tion "from it and got the people to
debating sub-treasuries, silver coin
age, the issue of stacks of treasury
notes Sec, to supply the desired vol
ume of currency, which th6 people
would supply themselves with if the
more eflective and practicable way
were adopted which is simply putt
ing the monetary system back where
it was up to the time when the Re
publican financiers destroyed it to
give the national banks a monopoly
of the- money of the country. Re
peal the ten per cent, tax on the cir
culation, of State banks of issue,
which was imposed to crush State
tanks, and that is all that Congress
would have to do. The people of
the States would attend to the rest
and supply themselves with all the
money they needed as they did prior
to the advent of the Republican par
ty, with .its money-monopolizing,
currency-contracting legislation
With State banks established there
would be no further clamoring for
sub-treasuries, no further clamoring
for the issuing of stacks of treasury
notes by the Government, and no
real necessity for the free coinage of
silver, for the people would then
have it in their v power to supply
themselves with all the currency
they needed in their business and
would be entirely independent of the
Federal Government and each State
or section could establish such . sys
tem as would best meet their wants
without consulting the interest or
convenience of any - other State or
section. Then the farmer, or me
chanic or store-keeDer could make
his land or whatever other property
he might have available when he
wanted to' borrow money, which he
cannot do . now tinder the present
monetary system, and this is why
money, although there are millions
upon millions of it locked up in
Eastern vaults, is scarce, and not
within the reach of the people who
need it the most, v This is one of the
principal reasons of the "'hard times"
and the low price of farm products;
the money of the country is centered
in certain sections,' and not distri
bu ted nor ; available as " it . should
be to perform the full functions ot
money. This is why the farmers of
the South and of the West have to
pay such exorbitant rates of interest
for the use of the money they need
to meet their necessities
We believe as firmly as we believe
that the continent upon which we
live lies between two oceans that the
restoration of the Stale banks is the
triue and only solution of the financial
problem which the effort is now be
ing made to solve in so many dif
ferent ways, some of which are im
possible or Impracticable, others of
which would solve it -only partially.
The State bank covers the ground
and it is the only system that does.
MIX0B MEIfTIOS.
'That's all right," is the latest
utterance, according to the Washing
ton dispatches, from Hon. James G.
Blaine, on the Presidential question.
When approached by a representa
tive of the Associated Press who in
formed him that the wires were at
his service if he had anything to
communicate, that was all he bad to
say. He said it pleasantly, as if he
felt assured that it was all ; right.
He was coming out of the White
House at . the time where he had
been chatting, doubtless, with his
chief, on recent developments as an
nounced by wire from Minneapolis,
where the clans have been gathering
for several days, and where ; the
atmosphere about the respective
headquarters is becoming quite warm.
Blaine and Harrison may understand
each other, and possibly do, while the
adherents of each do not, and it is pos
sible that there may be an under
standing between them that either
will get out of the other's way when
the-sentiment of the convention is so
fully, expressed as to show beyond
doubt which is the choice of the
party. Several months ago, when
Blaine was looming up as a candi
date the friends of Harrison said
there was such an understanding be
tween them, and this may have been
renewed since the revival of the
Blaine boom. This is the only way
in which the continued friendly rela
tions (if they are friendly) between
the President and the secretary can
be accounted for. Without such an
understanding it "would be exceed
ingly difficult for the gentleman from
Maine to play the role he is playing
without an open rupture.
There ha& been some doubt ex
pressed as to whether the Republi
can, party managers in this State
will put a ticket for State officers in
the field, but there is no longer much
room to doubt that now. The last
issue of the Greensboro North. State,
the leading Republican paper in the
State, declares that no one has been
authorized to say that no ticket will
be put in the field, and intimates
pretty . plainly that while there are
some men in the party who recom
mend the passive course they are not
the. representative men nor the men
who shape party action. Supplemen
tary to this it throws out in a sepa
rate paragraph a little feeler as fol
lows: Hnw would an indeoendent State
ticket strike the average voter ? Don't
all speak at once.
The obiect of this, doubtless, is
not so much to draw out Republicans
as to get an expression of views
from that element which the North
State says in a leading editorial are
dissatisfied with the work of
the Democratic State Conven
tion and the ticket nominated.
If an independent ticket were put in
the field it would be to all intents
and purposes a Republican ticket and
would depend upon Republican
votes for its main support.
These are days of great enter-
prises, i ne latest is a proposed snip
railway between lakes Huron and
m - . . a
Ontario, the object being to divert
the commerce of the lakes seaward
through the St. Lawrence river. We
gather the following in reference to
it from the New York Commercial
Bulletin:
Advices from Montreal state that a
scheme has been launched by a num
ber of .prominent Canadian capitalists
to connect the Georgian Bay and Lake
Ontario by a mammoth ship railway.
Mr. E. L. Corthell, an engineer of Chica
go, who was associated with Capt. Eads
in the construction oi tne lenuamepec
shin railwav across the Isthmus of Pana
ma, has been consulted by the promoters,
and ' has given his opinion that the
scheme is thoroughly practical. Mr.
Corthell has mst returned ; trom : a
thorough inspection ofthe proposed route
along the small divide between tne two
bodies of water from near Collinwood,
on Georgian Bay, and the neigb.berb.ood
of Toronto, on Lake Ontario, a distance
of aboat sixty-six miles. He expresses
the - ooinion that there could not be
found anywhere a strip of country better
adaoted in easy grades lor a natural
route. v ,
The roadbed will be fifty feet wide and
will have six parallel steel tracks. The
original estimate of cost of the work was
Weekly
WILMINGTON, N. C,
The Engineer's Inspection has con
vinced him that the sum will be ample
to construct and put in operation a ship
railway between tnese two points to car
ry vessels up to 5,000 tons burden. The
building of the road he is convinced
would compel the enlargement of the
lower canals. It is utterly impossible.
he says, to provide for the enormous
commerce of the lakes by any possible
enlargement of the Erie Canal, and the
best and cheaoest route to the seaboard
is by the St, Lawrence River router of
which the ship railway will be an essen
tial part. The scheme-it is believed.
will be heartily supported by the North
west and the Western States. A com
pany known as the Hurontano Ship;
Railway Company has been organized to
undertake the project, and several of the
promoters will shortly leave for England
to interest bnglish capitalists in it, -
This is but pne ot. a half dozen or
more of great schemes - which have
been recently proposed,' the object
being 1 to i expedite '- and " cheapen
transportation, the greater numberif
not all, of which may eventually be
carried out.
A singular accident occurred at
Niagara gorge a; few days ago. ; A
German boy was dumping garbage
into it" when his ' horse became .un
ruly and began backing. The boy,
frightened,' pulled on the lines when
horse; cart and driver went over into
the gorge together. The horse and
cart fell a distance of two hundred
feet, lighting on the rocks below, the
horse being, of course, killed and the
cart mashed into splinters. The boy
couldn't be seen and it was thought
that he fell into the stream and was
carried over the falls. But after
three hours search he was found sit
ting on a ledge of rock eighty feet
below the place where he went over,
crying but uninjured. He was caught
in the branches of a tree which
broke the fall and saved his life.
wm. J. Hurley, a Brooklyn man
aged 72 years , had gotten over, his
fondness for candy, but he married a
young girl' who hadn't. As he didn't
ante up on the candy she dropped
him but before doing so she dropped
htm a line informing him that she
was going where she could get all
candy she wanted.
A WILMINGTONIAN'S INVENTION.
An Improved Steam Engine Governor In-
Tented by Mr, K. J. MeTJhenny.
The last number of the Scientific
American gives an illustration and de
scription of an improved steam engine
governor, invented and patented by Mr.
Richard J. Mcllhenny, of this city, who
has quite a genius for mechanics. A
governor which is positive in ope
ration, and designed . to admit steam
quickly and in proper proportion to
overcome the resistance of any load car
ried, as well as. to shut off the steam and
prevent undue increase of speed after
release of the load is shown.
The technical description would not be
understood by. the general reader without
reference to the illustration, which is too
large for the columns of the Star.
Briefly stated, the equalizing valve is
provided with an auxiliary valve, which
permits the steam to escape from above
the valve at the time the engine cuts off
and steam is expanding. By this im
provement the initial pressure in the
engine cylinder operates a piston which
controls the movement of the steam in
let valve. The cylinder of the governor
is preferably isteam-jacketed, and the
governor is intended to be set on top of
the engine cylinder. The device is de
signed to be equally applicable to high
or low pressure, stationary or marine
engines.
Bad for Bivers and Harbors.
A special dispatch from Washington,
says: "lne mends ot tne Kiver ana
Harbor bill are becoming somewhat
anxious as to its late. At present . it
stands on the House Calendar with the
Senate amendments pending. Should
it again, as according to rules it must
do, run the gauntlet of the Committee
of the Whole, the time of its final pas
sage would be wholly problematical, as
every amendment would be subject to
further amendment, and its enemies
could take advantage of the present de
pleted condition of the House to post
pone its passage. Confronted with this
condition the advocates of the measure
have decided to ask tne House to sus
pend the rules on Monday and to non
concur in tne senate amendment and
to agree to a conference.. As this will
require a two-thirds vote the Committee
on Rivers and Harbors are using means
to make sure that every friend of the
bill shall be present on that day.'
The Season at Carolina Beach. -
The season at Carolina Beach may be
said to have fairly opened and much
earlier than heretofore.' The hotel
Oceanic has seventeen boarders most
of them from the up-country and num
bers of others are expected next week.
In a short time all the cottages along
the silvery sands will be filled with sum
mer residents, and the restless surf will
be snorting with bathers from morn till
dewy eve.
Kail-way Companies.
The Raleigh Chronicle of yesterday
says: "lne railway commission yester
day issued a notice to all the. rail way
companies in the State that they must
either lower the steps of their passenger
cars or else build platforms which will
place passengers nearer the cars. There
are many complaints that the steps . are
too high." M "
Wool-Gathering to 8ome Purpose.
Mr. Elisha Walton, of Jacksonville?
N. C, (an old subscriber to the Star by
the way) says that he sheared from his
flock, at one shearing, eleven and a half
sounds of wooL : The sheen was 14
months and 18 days old. . .
: Mr. J. A. ForneyduvaLof Halls-
boro, who has been a subscriber to the
Star for twenty years, called to xenew
his subscription yesterday.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1892.
v BURGLARS LAST MJGHT.
Tne Residence of Mr. J. "W. Ferdew En
teredTwo Gold Watches and a Sam
of Money Taken.. ' j vrr'V'
Last nighbout- half-past 1 o'clock
burglars effected an entrance into the re
sidence of Mri J. W. Perdew, on North
Seventh street. After ' entering the
sleeping apartments of Mr. Perdew and
and his son, Mr. ; Herbert Perdew, and
securing their valuable gold watches and
a sum of money, the burglars opened
the door to toe sleeping apartment of
Mr. Perdew's; daughter, ' Miss' Minnie,
but seeing a bright light in the room the
robber slammed the door and beat a
hasty retreati The noise aroused the
young lady, .who called her father, and
then it was that they discoyered their
loss. . I '
Cotton Compress at Hamlet.
A correspondent of the Star - writing
from Hamlet, N. C, says; ,
The Seaboard Air Line system .have
purchased, fourteen acres of land here,
on which they propose building a cotton
com press. Superintendent Moncure, of
the C. C; and Superintendent Smith, of
the R. A. A.I line, are here with two
Northern men (machinists), making a
survey of the premises and selecting a
suitable spot to place the plant.' Their
intuitions are to select a spot and go
right to work, and make all arrangements
necessary to have the plant in operation
by the Fall. Rumor has it that the
plant is now in Norfolk awaiting ship
ment. - Tne site is beautifully and con
veniently situated on a hill at the curve
on the R. & A. road as yon leave Hamlet
for Raleigh.
This enterprise will wake up the old
place from its lethargy and may give
rise to some other developments.
"The Devil's Own Luck."
The Charlotte" Observer says of the
electric cars in that city :
The 4 C's have had the "devil's own
luck lately with the cars. The motors
have burned out on several of the cars.
and as soon as one gets repaired another
gets disabled. On occasions of big
crowds as yesterday something is sure
to occur to disable one or more' of the
cars, which loaor the other cars down
almost beyond the point of endurance
to those who are on board. The crowds
carried on the cars on extra occasions at
the park are simply tremendous. It is a
great pity for the comfort of all parties
that a more general patronage could not
be bad, so as. to warrant the company
having more cars.
Naval Stores Receipts.
Receipts of naval stores at Wilming
ton for the first two months of the
naval stores year, beginning April 1st,
1892, as compared with receipts for the
same months last year, are as follows:
Spirits turpentine, 9,544 casks; last year.
8,429. Rosin,
35.303
21,585
barrels;
barrels;
last year,
last year,
47,975. Tar.
10,316. Crude turpentine, 2,153 barrels';
last year 2,942;
U. S. CIRCUIT COURT
Yesterday's
Proceedings Before
Judge
. "Nathan QoS.
The U. S. Circuit Court convened
here yesterday, by appointment, with
Judge Nathanj Goff on the bench.
n-u- f i i . t
X UC oCwii ilAW WdS U191 Lct&Cll
up, and petition of Simon W, Sanders,
tor habeas corpus, was argued tor peti
tioner by D. L. Russell, Esq., who sub
mitted a brief of Alfred Russell, of
Detroit, Mich. Jno. D. Bellamy, Jr.
Esq., argued the case for the State of
North Carolina, and obtained leave to
file a brief within two weeks,
In the case of W. S. O'B. Robinson.
receiver of the First National Bank of
Wilmington, vs. B. F. Mitchell & Son,
for foreclosure of mortgage,, decree was
signed ordering sale of property.
Case of Minnie E. Bogart vs. W. ,H.
Alderman and Alice Alderman, for
foreclosure of mortgage. Decree issued
ordering sale. I
The injunction case of bank receiver
Rnhinsnn v. The Cltv ot Wilmincrton
will be heard next week in Raleigh be
fore Judge Seymour, .
Judge Goff; left last night lor Balti
more, Md, put expects to return
some time next month and hear some
equity cases.
POLIT CS IN BRUNSWICK.
Third Party Men to Hold a Convention
on the 11th Inst. . ,
j Supply, N. C., June 2d.
Editor Wilmington Slar. .
Dear Sir: I have been informed the
Third party fellows will hold a conven
tion in this county on the 11th inst., for
the purpose of electing delegates to the
Congressional Convention to be held in
Rockingham N. C on the 16th of
Tune. Also, to decide whether or., not
to run a third ticket in this county. If
they do: decide to put out the third
ticket, - it : will tickle the Repub
licans out of their boots for
theV fthe Republican) and everybody
else, with common mule sense, know
that that trick will play high, low, jack
and the game for them. That's the
only chance for the Rads. in old Bruns
wick, and we trust that that move may
be killed out of existence on the 11th of
this month, j .
So, Mr. Editor, I will close by saying,
brethren and friends, Democrats and
Alliance men, take my advice.and stick,
stick together, and victory will be ours.
. DEMOCRAT.
liow Prices of Naval Stores.
Like the Cotton farmers the turpen
tine manufacturers are suffering irom
low prices, resulting from over-produc
tion ; and the outlook for them, almost
at the beginning of the season, is not at
all reassuring. Prices ol all articles of
naval stores have declined steadily since
the 'first of April, and apparently the
end is not yet In sight.
As compared with prices last year
at this 7 time there is a decline of
cents per gallon in spirits turpentine,
27 cents per barrel on common rosin, 15
cents per barrel on tar, and 40 and 60
cents per barrel on crude turpentine.
' Stocks at Wilmington yesterday were
Spirits turpentine, 2,787 casks ; rosin.
18,314 barrels; tar, 6,920 barrels ; crude
turpentine, 1,987 barrels.
Death of a Methodist Minister.
A telegram to the Star last night
from Shelby N. C announces the death
at that place Friday of Rev. Dr. J. W.
North, of the N. C Conference, aged 64
years. His 'funeral took place at Shel
by yesterday. - -
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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
JL Profound Sensation Canssd frv Seem.
i-'yp tary Blaine's Resignation.
" Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. "
Washington, June 4. The news of
the resignation of Blaine created a pro
found sensation at the CaoitoL- The
Senate was not in session, but the House
was. The effect of the receDtion of the
Associated Press bulletin, announcing
the event,' was magical. The . telegram
was read by the Speaker and by Repre
sentative Dingley, and almost instantly
the news spread. oyer the hall like a
wave of sound.; Within two minutes the
space in front of the desk was filled by a
throng of representatives, struggling to
get a glimpse of the bit of yellow paper,
which was suatched from one hand to
another. .
Secretary Blaine s resignation was
taken to the White House by his private
secretary, Mr. . .uent. who placed- it
into the hands of the President. This
was a little before 1 o'clock and
within fifteen minutes after it was writ
ten. : Soon afteri reading it the Presi
dent retired to the East room, and held
his usual Saturday afternoon reception
to - the oublic. There were -about-
two hundred people present-not one of
whom as he sbook the President s hands
could have told from his cool and eol
lected manner that an vthine unusual
had happened. . Indeed, officials of the
mansipa said the President really
seemed to be in better spirits than usual.
and made felicitous replies to the greet
ings oi some of his visitors. The recen-
tion over, the President returned to his
Iibrarv and" addressed the. letter-to Mr.
Blaine, accepting his resignation. This
was given to Private Secretary Halford,
with instructions that it be delivered at
once, and Mr. Halford' thereupon took
it over to Mr. tsiaine s house and placed
it in bis hands. : The whole transaction
did not consume more than an hour's
time.. '
The Secretary remained at the De
partment until 1.15 o'clock arranging
some private papers. While he was
doing this one of the messengers laid
an official document before him for his
signature. He told him to take it away,
remarking quieuy, ri am no longer sec
retary of State." .
It is said that this was the first inti
mation that he had given any of his offi
cial assistants ot bis resignation.
Mews ot tslaines resignation spread
through the city , like wild-fire and was
the sole topic ot conversation in all
quarters. The White House was the
objective point for the President's
friends who naturally were anxious to
learn the facts in the case, and
the President had hardly finished
nis luncneon wnen tne was vis
ited by Secretaries Elkins. Rusk. No
ble, Foster and Attorney-General Miller.
During the informal conference that fol
lowed the President calmly. -told his
Cabinet what had happened, and sug
gested in tne interest ol harmony and
good taste, that they make no public
comments whatever on the situation.
Therefore, the Cabinet officials refused
positively to talk for publication on the
subject. Secretary Tracy and Post
master General Wanamaker are not in
city, the former being in New York and
the latter in Philadelphia.
Uunng the afternoon the President
sent word to the State Department that
he desired to see Assistant Secretary
Wharton. That gentleman going to the
White House the President informed
him briefly of Blaine's resignation, and
that he desired him to act as Secretary
oi state- ior tne present.
FOR THE USUAL CRIMfc.
A Negro taken From Jail and Lynohed by
a Mob at Port Jervis, N". "ST.
By tele -raph to the Morning Star.
Port Jervis, N. Y June 2. A ne
gro named .. Bob Jackson outraged a
young white girl named Lena McMahon
on the outskirts of this village to-day in
the presence of a number of
young girls and of two young
negroes who were kept at bay
by Jackson's revolver. The girl's in
juries will probably kill herA . Jackson
fled but was pursued and captured nine
miles from ; Port Jervis and brought
Dack. Jackson confessed the crime and
implicated William Foley, a white man.
wbo be claimed was in a conspiracy to
rum Miss McMahon. folev has been
paying attention to the girl, con
trary to the wishes of her parents.
Jackson was placed in the village lock
up and a large crowd, gathered outside.
some person raised the cry "lynch, him.
and it was promptly done. The village
police were powerless to protect him. The
noose was adjusted about his neck and be
was strung up to a neighboring tree
in the presence of a howling mob of over
one thousand people. For over an hour
the body hung suspended from the tree.
where it was viewed by crowds of peo
ple. Jackson was about 23 years of age
and had resided in Port Jervis about
a year. : nis parents live in raterson,
N. J.
I-LORIDA TRAIN ROBBERS.
ie of the Gang Denies .That Be was
Tortured to Make Him Confess.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning Stat. .
Orlando, Fla., June 2. W. H.
Futch, one of the ring leadars in the
Monroe Junction express robbery and
murder, and the first man of the gang to
be arrested, has made the following
sworn statement for publication : It is
dated "In Orange County Jail, June 1st;
1892," and he says: "It has come to my
knowledge that various . newspapers
throughout the United States published
a false report relating to my treatment
by county officials namely, that I have
been submitted to torture by them in or
der to compel me to make a confession
of my part in the recent train tragedy
near sanford, b la. 1 nereny certify .under
oath that I was not handled, roughly
or in any way mistreated. No personal
violence was inflicted on me; on the con
trary, I was kindly, humanely and gen
tlemanly treated. Further, no threats,
unkind words or threatening acts
towards me were used by officers,
guards or any other person or persons
whomsoever, further, l pronounce tne
authority for any such reports as an un
founded lie.
The statement is signed by Futch, in
the presence of three witnesses, repu
table and respected citizens of Orlando,
and is sworn to before M. K. Marks,
notary public. - :
PEOPLE'S PARTY.
Proposition for a Fusion with the Demo-
. . cratio Party in Kansas. ,
: . By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ,
Kansas City, Tune 4. Terms of
agreement: looking to a fusion of the
Democratic and feopie s party in Kan
sas were made public to-day. The agree
ment provides that the Democrats be
given the candidates in two of the seven
Congressional districts, the Congress
man at large, Attorney-uenerai, ana
Judge of; the Supreme Court. AH the
otber nominations on tne (congressional,
state and Electoral tickets were con
ceded to tb,e People's party.
NO. 29
BLAINE AND HARRISON.
The Secretary -of State's . Baaianation
Tendered and Promptly Aoeepted by the
President. '
By (Telegraph to the Morning Star.. '
Washington, June 4. The following
correspondence explains itself ;
Department of State. Washing
ton, June 4, 1892.12:45 P. M.To the
President . I respectfully beg leave to
submit fay resignation of the office of
Secretary of State of the Ueited States,
to woich I was appointed by yon on the
nttn ot Marcn, 188, The condition of
iudiic business in the Department of
tate justifies me m reauesting that mv
resignation may be accepted immediate
ly, l nave the honor to be very respect
fully, ydur obedient servant.
,.7-1 : , ; ; Tames G. Blaine. ;
"To which the President replied, as
follows a -... : . ' a- -
Executive Mansion. Washington.
June 4th. 1892. To the Secretary of
State: Your letter of this date tender
ing your resignation of the office of
Secretary of State of the United States
has been received. ..The terms in which
you staWp your desires are such as to
leave mejno choice but to accede to your
wishes at once. Your resignation is
therefore accepted: '
. very respectfully, yours,
- ( ; Benj. Harrison.
The Washington agent of the Asso
ciated Press called at Mr. Blaine's resi
dence shortly after- the correspondence
liad been! made public end asked him if
ne would; not supplement it with an ex
planationl Blaine smilincrlv but de
liberately replied : The "correspondence
explains itself, and I have not a word to
add to it,-.'
The President was next called noon
and asked if he was willing to . say any
thing in regard to it. His response,
though made with entire courtesy of
tone and knanner, was equally emphatic.
"nothing (whatever."
Both the President and Mr. Blaine
were seenringly in excellent spirits and
each of them, after declining to say any
thing for) publication about the great
event ot tne day or its effects upon the
situation at Minneapolis, turned the con
versation! to other topics with marked
composure. Mr. tsiaine s appearance
and man iter of tone and voice, however,
were especially noticeable as indicative
of a feeling of great relief and satisfac
tion which made him even buoyantly
cheerful. 1
So far as can be learned, the resigna
tion vojlunteerd . by Blame to-day
had not feeen preceded by any notice or
intimation to the President that it
might be expected. Blaine had seen
the President only once this week,
when was during his half hour's atten
dance at a Cabinet meeting yesterday,
which hej made a report concerning his
conference with the Canadian Commis
sion, andL returned to the State Depart
ment, lne resignation appeared, there
fore, to have been determined upon
very suddenly ; but for a long time
there have been various iacts known to
a close observer in Washington as a sort
of "opei secret" which warrant thai
oenei tnat tne resignation, though un
doubtedly precipitated by occurrences of
very recent date.had its origin a long while
ago and In causes essentially personal
rather than political. These causes may
be brieflyf summarized as incompotabili
ties of temperament, developed and em
phasized at times by impatient disagree
ments over public questions, such as the
management of the war-threatening dif
ficulty with Chili; invidious comparisons
and comments on the part of injudicious
friends concerning the credit : due to
either forj enactment and execution of
the reciprocity project and the general
conduct of foreign affairs of this govern
ment, including the management ot the
Behririer Sea controversy and lack of
cordial relations between their respec
tive lamiuies. inese causes bad un
doubtedly created a feeling of constraint
in the personal relations of the Presi
dent and the Secret&l y of State' months
before the. writing - of the letter in
which Blaine declared that he was
not a candidate for the Presidential
nomination, and recent publications au
thorized by various members of the
Cabinet concerning Blaine and the
Presidency. The closely following other
published i statement attributed to a
member of the President's family,, and
to some bf his close political friends,
regarding the Secretary's physical and
mental condition, etc are understood
to have made him feel that longer con
tinuance in President Harrison's Cabi
net wouldbe intolerable .to him, wholly
irrespective of any questions of right or
duty to accept the Republican nomina
tion for the Presidency if tendered him.
But whatever may have been the genesis
or: immediately Impelling cause of
Blaine's resignation, -to-day there seems
to be not doubt whatever among his
friends io this city that by it he has
placed himself in a position of readiness
to accept he nomination.
One effect of Blaine's resignation is
the sudden termination of the confer
ence betwben himself and Gen. Foster
on one Side and the British Minister
and Canadian Commissioners Foster
and Bowell on the other, looking to
readjustment oi ditterences between tne
United states and Canada, growing out
of i discriminating tolls imposed, on
American; vessels passing through the
Wellahd and St. Lawrence canals. This
conference began at the State Depart
ment yestjerday, and was resumed this
morning. Taday's session, however,
did not last more than an hour, and it is
understood was brought to an abrupt
termination by Blaine s unexpected
statement that it was useless to continue
present negotiations for the reason that
he was about to sever his relations
with the tSovernment. is saidjurther
that this announcement was a great sur
prise to tne other members ot the con
ference. At any rate, the' deliberations
were brought to a sudden close, and the
Canadian Commissioners were passen
gers on the afternoon train, bound
for the Dominion capital. Persons
who saw them . at their hotel prior
to their departure say that' they
were in a very unpleasant frame of mind,
and were quite free in stating that they
had not been fairly treated by the Ad
ministration. Blaine's letter . to the
President! is - dated "June 4th, : 12.45
p. ' m." lit therefore must have been
written almost directly after the British
jviluisicr lauu uia wuucics uau iciu
Blaine's office, which had been used as
the council chamber, and it was but
fifteen minutes later when he instructed
his private secretary to take it over to
the White; House. , , i
THE PpRT- JLRVIS- OUTRAGE.
Arrest of the White Man Chanced With
Complicity In the Crime.
. B Telegraph to tie Morning Star.
Port JiRvis. N. Y., Tune 8.P. J.
Foley, the! young Irishman suspected of
complicity! in the outrage for which a
negro was lynched yesterday was ar
rested to-day and it took all tne force
the authorities could muster to save
him from lynching long enough to smug
gle him on a train for transfer to Goshen
jail. It is charged that he incited the
negro to tike act and invited the girl to
take a walk and left her at a place agreed
upon with the negro. He was seen in
his company only a few minutes before
the outrage at the spot where the deed
was committed. -
. SPIRITS TURPENTINE
: , Goldsboro Argus: The-death
of Miss Henrietta .Wood, 63 years of
age. occurred at her home in this city
on John street,: Wednesday evening, af
ter a decline and patiently borne illness
of many months. . . vj -..
3 ' Greensboro Workman'. The
trial of Charlesj Blackburn was finished
last night about 15 minutes to 11 o'clock
when the iury brought in a verdict of
guilty of murder as charged in the bill
of indictment. " i
Winston Sentinel j The Wilkes
boro Chronicle says : Mr. G. M. Foster,
of Miller's Creek, is confident that he
has about completed a wheel or machine
that will fun by perpetual motion. He
has been working and experimenting
with the wheel for three years and thinks
that at last lie has accomplished his ob
iect. ne win apply lor a patent upon
his
discovery. Dr. Samuel Martin, of
msion, invented a similar macnine a
few years (ago and the "old thing"
worked satisfactorily. The Doctor has -already
applied for a patent and he is .
confident of securing it. ' . .
- Sanford Axpress: One year ago
the wife of Henderson Browdy (col.)
died. About the same time Frank Mc
Iver (col.) died leaving a widow. Their
funerals were preached on last Sunday.
Henderson; Browdy and the widow Mc
Iver will be married on next Sunday.
-Deputy Collector S. M. Jones cap
tured and destroyed a one hundred gal
lon blockade whiskey still between Mer
ry Oaks and New Hill on last Monday.
He destroyed about 25,000 thousand gal
Ions of beerw Two men were seen run- -ning
from the still. He recognized one .
of them. This is one of the biggest -hauls
Mr. Jones has ever made.
Stanly News: A young cyclone
visited our section Sunday eve. Some
few trees were blown down in this place,
and two miles above here. Mr. Lindsay
Lowder sustained considerable damage
to property. Some two or three little
buildings and his barn shelter, near his -residence,
were blown down, f The storm
Is reported as having beed severe in that :
section. Judy Burn's was placed in
jail here Tuesday. Some time ago she
and Alex. Whitley -left the county to
gether for the West. , Whitley was -acused
of the murder of D. B. Tucker,
and the return of Judy Burris at this
juncture gave rise to suspicion, and the
charges made against her places her in
peculiarly close circumstances..
Red Springs Comet: Mrs. May
nard, wife of Mrs. Charlie Maynard, died
in this place on Tuesday evening after a
brief illness.) She left and infant only a
day old. i- The recent rain have been
of immense value to the farmers. Oats
are very fine and the yield will be large
cotton and corn are looking well. Mr.
McMillan shipped the first new crop of
Irish potatoes from this place on Mon
day last. They were the early rose va
Jity and well grown. They were shipped
to Washington. ; A merchant of
our town received an order that read
this way: "Dere sir: Pies send me 4
pounds of cofe and sum te. My wife
had a boy last night, also 10 pounds of
cheese and a rat trap. . He wayed 1
pounds, and a hatchet and nails. "
. ; . Tarboro Southerner : Almost
every county in this district has a candi
date for Conoress to present to the
Democratic! Ronvention. Well, Edge
combe will! not be greedy. With the
candidate for Governor she is content.
: A correspondent writes: In travel
in& from Tarboro to Nashville via Bat
tleboro, it is noticed that the Nash
county farmers have the appearance of
more prosperity and life in their farm
ing operations than the Edgecombe far
mers. There are some mammoth to
bacco houses through the section from
- Battleboro to Nashville. . Some small
farmst ave buildings on them that must
have cost as much to build them as the
Air: . i . i
farms would have sold for when the
people commenced raising tobacco. I
learn that some of the farmers who
were in debt seven years ago have done
their building and made other improve
ments, and now have small amounts of
money ahead.
Raleigh Chronicle: There are in
the freshman class at the Agricultural
and Mechanical College 56 students, in
the sophomore class 83, and in the junior
class 21; in all 110. The bed-spring
factory here now turns out ten bed
springs daily, and ( has a capacity of
thirty. The machinery, simple, yet in-r
genious, is the invention of Mr. Purefoy,
the manager. One cotton factory
makes two and . now factories make
three, and here is where a bit of good
news comes in. There: is to be a third
factory, and the location will be. along- .
side the railway north of th hosiery yarn
mill. There is a new phase of the
C D. Unchurch matter. Col. A. W.
Shaffer, who has been regarded as the
"backbone" of the trustees, and who it
was said would have the "bag to hold;"
in other words, to pay out some $16,000,
is said to have no 'property. Yesterday
the sheriff's people laid off his home
stead. He has paid two or three of the
earlier claims, it is learned, but some
$12,000 is yet outstanding.
W Charlotte News: W. M. Smith,
secretary, and C. B. Smith, the engi
neer of the Concord Southern railroad,
have just inspected a proposed route of
their line leading from Concord to
Wadesboro by Mt, Pleasant, Big Lick,
and Ansonville. We are informed that
in each township along the line they
not only found a satisfactory route but
had such assistance offered the company
as twill in all probability insure the plac
ing in the field a full force of engineers
for active work. Inasmuch as promi
nent citizens, have ! agreed to take up .
this road from Concord and extend
it to Salisbury it will beyond any
doubt, if built, be the South
ern terminus ' of the R. & S.
. Professor Frank Zelno, the young
and daring aeronaut, came near losing
his life yesterday afternoon. At 7 o'clock
a high wind blew . up and at 8 o'clock
when the ropes were let loose, the bal
loon shot upward like a flash, and after
?iing 2,000 feet it commenced , to drop,
be wind was blowing the balloon down.
and the young aeronuat, looked upward
and saw his danger, cut his parachute
loose in about. 800 feet of the ground,
the wind blew it over and it failed to ,
open and he fell 50 feet like a stone. He
hit the ground with a thud and was un
scious for several hours but is better this
morning. . ,.: -j., f y-.y.r
j Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer:'
Oats are now being harvested, and
the yield is very satisfactory to the
farmers. ' It there is any such thing
as a Third party organization in this
county, we have . been unable to locate
it, after diligent : search. The7 white
people of Anson are still: true to the
grand old Democratic party. The
hard times that are prevailing now' are
not without mitigating Circumstances,
as for instance the fact that not a bushel
of; corn has been shipped into this
market this year. There was enough
corn made in the county last year forall
domestic uses, and .the prospect .is that
much more will be raised this year than
will be' needed for borne consumption.
A- white woman; who - gave. . her
name as Laura Harris, and who said
that' she was on her way from Alabama
to Cheraw, claims that a negro attempted
to assault her in the waiting room at the
depot on Wednesday night of last week,
sometime after 12 and before 5 o'clock.
The woman arrived at Wadesboro on.
Wednesday night and expected to take
the 5.40 a. m. train the next morning
for Cheraw. Several negroes were ar
rested on suspicion' and taken befon
her, bat she failed to identify, any of
them and they were all released. . She
was alone in the waiting room at the
time, but her screams aroused a gentle
man who was sleepingin a coach on the
Cheraw & Salisbury Railroad, nearby.
but before he could reach her the negro
had fled. - ,
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