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pxt SStefelg 3 tar. FUBLISHBD AT . y ;,LMlNGrON, N.C, AT ; ' A V EAR. IN ADVANCE.- ,1.00 88833888388888883 asss888jgfjgf sqjuow SI 88S33S88888S8S3SS S383S88S83S888883 88888888888888888 82888888282888883 8888885828888888 qjaow I 82886882288888888 88888888888888888 Id U w L...: S S S : ivtereJ at the Post Office t WUmtgton, N. C, M WITH V..Vtm. I SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The iubscription price of the Weekly Star ia as Sinele Copy 1 year, postage paid.... ...... .11 w 8 " A months " M ... ...... ....... 60 u " 3 months " ................ SO WEAVEE OW MONETr So far in his speeches delivered ia this State Gen. Weaver has confined himself mainly to the discussion of the money and transportation ques tions. He says the country needs more money, which will be pretty generally conceded, and then he goes on to argue that the only way the rmintrv can get more money is through the Third party and by voting for Geni Weaver, as it is use less, he says, "to expect either of the old parties to espouse this new is sue." - Gen. Weaver takes it for granted, that the people whom he .addresses are intensely ignorant upon this question when he talks in this stvle. In the. first place it is not a "new issue," for the Dem ocratic party has not only advocated it but secured a very large increase in the volume of currency when it re monetized silver (which the Repub licans had demonetized), and there by added $400,000,000 to the volume of currency, the increase still being continued at the rate pt $50,000,000 a year.. It saved and kept in circu lation $300,000,000 of greenbacks which the Republicans would have destroyed as they had been doing up to the time the destroying process was stopped. Thus fully $700,000,- 000 was added to the volume of cur rency which would not be in circula tion now if it had not been for the Democratic party. He conceals the fact that the plat form adopted by the Democratic "TNattonarCoa vention at Chicago con' tains a plank which demands the -re peal of the ten per cent, tax on the circulation of btate banks ot issue so that State banks may be established and thus give the peo ple all the money they need for the transaction of business, and in a vol urae that may be expanded or con tracted as the business needs may suggest. ; ' " - If Gen. Weaver had said it is use less to look to the Republican par ty to espouse this issue he would - have spoken the truth, for that party is tied to the National banks, and is stubbornly opposed, not only to any other system, but to any material in crease in the volume, of currency, but when he couples the Democratic party with the Republican party in this he simply misrepresents the Democratic party and makes a dec laration for which there is not a par ticle of foundation. THE BANK ISSUE. The Republican managers- have tried to dodge the Force bill issue, and feeling that they are losing ground on the Tariff issue they are trying to bring the bapk question to the front and make a leading issue out of that. Mr. Harrison did it in his letter of acceptance and so did James G. Blaine in that "ringing letter which he wrote shortly before the election in Maine. As to its being an issue they are right, and they are right as to its being an important issue, for it is, with the exception of tie Force bill and the tariff, the most important issue now before the people. Messrs. Harrison and Blaine speaking for themselves and as representatives of the Republican party bring this issue to the front now not so much because they are specially in terested it as because they hope by doing so to divert attention from the tariff and the Force bill," the two ab sorbing questions, and also to make some political capital in those States where the ", National Banks are numerous, where : money -. is abundant and where there is, conse quently, little or no necessity for the establishment of any more, or any other kind of banks. . The Republican campaign mana gers are now preparing a circular for distribution throughout the country attacking that plank in the Dem ocratic platform which demands the rePeal of the ten per cent, tax on the circulation of State Banks jof issue. It Is said that they hve beenr furnished e material - for this document by hankers in the East who are interest- ed in keeping up the presentrfinan- cial system and in preventing the stablishment of any other which ould make money more plentiful, aid their less. N : ; ' ' ; - r The difference between the Demo - atic and the Repoblican -parties is VOL. XXIII. Strikingly shown in this instance, if In none other." The, Democratic party, inTits endeavors , to befriend the people and speedily give them the currency needed business demands of to meet the the country, favors the establishment of State banks in addition to -the National Banks as ,the speediest and most effective way to accomplish it. The Democratic party speaks for ; the people the .farmer, the mechanic, the laborer, the merchant; for all who live by their labor or who may find it necessary to borrow money to meet thejr obligations or ; conduct their business. It did not consult Wall street, nor voice the Wishes of Wall street when it put that plank in ks platform, . notwithstanding that the Third party orators and Third party organs iterate and reiterate, a lot of idiotic stuff about the Demo cratic party being the creature of Wall street, &c It is not to the in terest of Wall street that State banks should be established. When the Wall street power want ed a party to"voice its sentiments on that question it knew where to go, and went right straight to the Re publican party and picked out its two leading representative men to utter the first deliverance; first Mr. Harrison, next James G. Blaine, and next the Republican campaign com mittee, which is to speak soon through the document to which we have referred. The National Bank ers, the protected manufacturers and the Pension agents own the Repub lican party, and never fail to get what they demand from it, so now when there is a popular demand for more money, and the Democratic party suggests a way by which it may be accomplished without resort ing to any methods of questionable expediency or constitutionality, the Republican party, true to its in stincts, at once becomes the ready and willing tool of the money power to resist it and defeat the measure proposed in thev interest of the peo ple. The Democratic party speaks for the money earners and the money borrowers, versus the money owners and the money lenders. Isn't the difference between the two parties strikingly shown in this? The one, the Democratic party, stands as it always does, for the peo ple ; the other, the Republican party, as it always does, aligns itself with the money power, champions it, and makes its cause the party's-cause. is there any man with sense enough to go in out of the rain, who can't see which party is in sympathy with the people on this question? and that the Democratic party is rith the people on tfie money ques tion, as it is on the tantt question, the pension question and all other questions where abuse has taken root and where reformjs demanded? MDJ0E MEHTIOa. The Third party orators in the South pronounce "the. Force, bill a mere bugaboo conjured up to scare people into the support of the Dem ocratic party and declare that it is not an issue in this campaign. They say that in spite ot the fact that the platform adopted at Minneapolis en dorses the Force bill, that President Harrison was, an is an ardent sup porter of it, '- and that Tom .Reed, Senator Hoar and numerous sther Republican leaders insist that it must be nushed. and that it is to-day a live topic of discussion on " the 'Re I ' publican stump North and South The negroes are standing by the Re publican party because they are told and believe that a Force bill will be passed if the Republicans elect their President and 'secure a majority in the next House of Representatives. Some of the negro leaders are des perately in earnest jn the demand for it, in which they have been egged on and encouraged by such firebrands as A. W. Tourgee, Fred . Douglass, Col. Sheoard of the New York Mail and Express, 'and others. A meet- mg of the Afro-American Press As a. - sociation was. held this week at Phil adelphia. Among the speeches made was one by ji negro named, Mitchell, who presided over the meeting, in which he said the editofSjthenassem bled should make "a declaration of independence here to-day; there should be no more cowards among the negroes of the South, : but that they would fight it out there with the ballot or, if necessary, with the bullet." This, of course, is mere blus ter, but it shows how much in earn- the negroes have become and how thov ham hen encouraged in - their aggressive assertion by the incendi ary teachings of -the Force bill ad vocates. The Third party man "who doesn't see that the Force bill is an issue must be very ' blind or pitiably stupid. - " ' ' . - Mrs. Lease, the female part of the Weaver-Lease combination, . seems to be the most taking and conspicu ous feature in4t. This is, perhaps, because she appears' in female cos- I tume, is a better speaker than Wea- I ver and lets' her tongue wag more I freelv and boldlv.' She isn't as much. 1 cf a ooHtician and lacks the discre- 1 tibn of the male half of thecombi- I natipn. In herspeeches in Georgia I HE she thanked od that the Third par ty had "obliterated distinctions of race, sex and' color." .: In her speech at Raleigh, Thursday, she declared that.the -Third - party proposed to "treat all men, black and white, alike," giving, from force of habit, doubtless, the black precedence. It proposed, she said, "to establish a. system ' of - fraternity .' and . jus tice : between all ' men." It must be remembered that Mrs. ; Lease got her political training- and launcnea oat as a , political "re former" and evangelist in "bleeding Kansas," which gave to the world John Brown, whose "soul is still marching on,? and Jerry, Simpson and Senator Peffer, old times negro equality Radicals," now .Third party luminaries. Mrs. Lease was . not talking for "justice" for - the negro, but for, Vfraternity," equality and for-the wiping out of all distinction politically " and otherwise between the black man and the white man. The negroes who crowded around her as she spoke took it in and were wild In their applause. Mrs. Lease deserves credit for her candor. " The Third party must logically be just what she says it must be unless it proposes to humbug the negro as the Republican party has done. : North Carolinians abroad do not forget their old mother State, a fact which is eloquently illustrated by the interest which native North Carolin ians in business in the city of Balti more are taking in our pending elec tion. They have raised by subscrip tion among themselves $1,236.49, which they bave forwarded to Chair man Simmons, ; to help . defray the campaign expenses,- in addition to which they have expended about $30 for political documents which they have sent for distribution in this State. In forwarding this money they make an urgent and eloquent appeal to North Caroliniaos-at home to do their full . duty u prevent North, Carolina becoming a victim of Republican rule and Republican des potism, an appeal which will surely not be made in vain. . The National Watchman says the Georgia Democrats want to murder Tom Watson, and now Ignatius Don nelly rises to remark that the Repub lican party managers in that State are plotting his murder. Verily the Third party rousicators have a rough time of it whtn they go around thus as prospective martyrs with their lives in their hands. But they continue to get outside of-three meals a day, as usual. When,Weaver looked on the mar shals of the crowd that escorted him to the place of speaking at Raleigh, with their anti-trust cotton bagging regalia and corn-shucks pinned on their coat lapels, he exclaimed: "Solomon; in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these." No, verily, he was not. 1 bat was, pro bably, one of Weaver's, little jokes. As one of the results of the quar antine squabble between the New York and the National authorities. New York claims that Sandy Hook belongs to her instead of Uncle Sam who has been, lodging claim . to it, and has been trying to hook it, so to speak. Weaver spent much of his time on the stand in Raleigh telling ot his stumping tour, and what a fair pros pect the Third party had. The sum and substance of his horoscope was, that he felt pretty Sure ot Colorado and Nevada, v : ' ' Chris. Magee, the Pennsylvania. Republican manipulator, w ho went down to Alabama to "harmonize' the hair-pulling Republican factions says that State will urely go for Harrison. It will "go for him" in the. usual able-bodied style. Gen. Weaver dilates freely upon the cordial recep tion he has had in all the Southern States he has visited -except Georgia. This disposes of the allegation that there is'"no free speech in the South." Mrs. Lease says Gen. Weaver was egged at Macon, Ga., by the "son of a sneak i thief." Now Mrs. Lease cannot hold the Democrats of Ma con responsible for an egg shied by the son of a sneak thief. Mrs. : Lease announces in her soeeches that she is a lawyer. and r . - - that she practices in the. higher and lower courts. She is practicing m the lower courts now,' and she is get: ting down pretty low too.- t The Norfolk Virginian thinks that Mrs. Lease ought to be at home in Kansas "mending her husband's trousers" instead ot galavanting amnnri t.h rountrv. WhV. man she wears the trousers., -., - Jtaaonboro and Harnett - Mai. Wm. M. Robbins will address the people of Masonboro township, Oc tober' 12th, and of Harnett township October 13th. Maj. Robbins is one . of the finest stump speakers in the State, and should attract large crowds at both of these appointments, If every Democrat will carry a well stocked lunch basket it will add to the pleasure of the meetings.- WSEEJLT WILMINGTON, N.1C.; FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1892. -They'll Born the Wind.--" ' i The Weldon News, 'referring to the two improved locomotive, engines re cently purchased for . their fast trains by the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad Company, which can make seventy-five miles an hour, says: "These locomo tives are known as four cylinder Vauclair compound locomotives.:- - One ol them passed through .here last wsek Iof- one Of the. Southern roads. It - took the 'Shoo-fly' to Wilmington, and on the run made a mile m fifty-five seconds. This locomotive has four cylinders two high pressure Inches, and two 'low pressure, 16 inches; J" The stroke istwen- ty-four inches, and there are eight driv ing t wheels five feet eight inches In diameter. The truck wheels are wrought iron,' and are also Vulclairs patent,' It is said ' that one of these Vauclair loco motives, with six : feet drivers, has made a mile ia 89 seconds, or at the rate of J ninety-two mues an nour. Funeral of the Iate "W. N. Jaoobft. The funeral of the late W. N. . Jacobs took nlace vcstfriiav mnrninir at 10 o'clock from Grace M. E. Church South.1 1 Rev. Mr. Norman, the " pastor of the church, conducted the solemn and im pressive services, assisted by Rev. Mr. Swindell. The attendance at the funeral is said to have been the largest ever seen on a similar occasion at Grace Church. Besides the relatives and numerous friends of the family,, there were several organizations of which the deceased was a member, including Cape Pear Lodge No. 2. Wilmington Lodeie 'No. 189. and Campbell Encampment' No. 1, I. O. O. F Stonewall Lodge No. 1, . Knights of PythiasfEyota Tribe ot Red Men, and St. John s Lodge of Masons. The. pall bearers were Messrs. W. W.. Hodges, Geo. G. Lewis, J. W. Fleet, J. T. Riley. Victor Zoeller and Sam 1 Davis. Superior Court. The case of lolm L. Wescott vs. Hes ter J. Craig suit to obtain possession of property belonging to Mrs. . Craig and sold to plaintiff by lohn C Davis be gun Friday last, , was concluded yester day, the jury returning a verdict for the defendant, Mrs. ' Craig. Counsel - for plaintiff gave notice that the case would be carried on appeal to the Supreme Court. :..." . A recess was taken by the court at 5 p. m. until 10 o ciock to-morrow morn ing. Col. Staples, of Winston, counsel for E. L. Hawks in the case of I. H. Bar nard vs. E. L. Hawks, made a motion to dissolve the attachment on shares of stock oi defendant in the Wilmington Street Railway Co. Argument on the motion will be heard to-morrow. . The Zjealie Accident. Concerning the accident to Mr. Tbos. Leslie, advance agent of George Wil son's minstrels, at Florence, the Times has this to say : "The evidence taken by the railroad authorities is that he had been drinking heavily. He came in to 23, and is thought to have registered' at the Central Hotel and returned to the depot. He must have laid down between the track and the eating house. The shifting engine was backing the Co lumbia coaches around the, z, with a flagman on the end. but on the curve side, and did not see the man. His right arm was cut off near the shoulder. He was taken, when found, into the waiting room and physicians sent for. As soon as practicable he was taken back to the hotel and the crushed arm amputated. The K. 8. Schedule. ' - ' rr - -: Under the new schedule which goes into effect on the Carolina Central to morrow, Capt. Tom Alderman will punch the tickets between Charlotte and Rutherfordton, Capts. Bowden, Beery and Welsh will have charge of the night trains between Wilmington and Char lotte, while Cap Billy Hall will "do the local freight between Wilmington and Laurinburg. There will be no Sun day trains as was thought probable at one time, and George. Welsh's grass hopper train will have to be provided with an electric plant In order to guar antee a "fair count. ' For the State Fair. The Atlantic Coast Line, announces special rates to Raleigh, on account of the State Fair, October 18th to 21st: Round trip tickets including one ad mission to the Fair will be on sale Octo ber 17th to 21st. at the following rates: Wilmington $3.80, Burgaw $2.80, . Mag nolia 2 40, Faisons $2.15, Dudley $1.75, Fayetteville, $3.10. Rowland $3.20. Rocky Mount$2.25. Tarboro, - $2.50, Whitevtlle $4.30, Chadbourn, $4.40, and other points in proportion. Convioted of Manslaughter. Charles and Will. Barringer were tried at Florence, b. C; this week for. the murder of W. J: Tolbert, and, after about an hour's deliberation the jury re turned a verdict of guilty of manslaugh ter against both. Counsel for , the de fendants gave notice of a motion for a new trial. The jrial attracted a great deal of attention. The young Barringers have a good many acquaintances in Wil mington. Mr. Morton's Competitor. The Republican convention for the Senatorial district composed of New Hanover and Brunswick counties met in this city yesterday and nominated W. J, Groves (white) ot New Hanover.for State Sentor. The convention met in the office of Mr.- C. P. Lockey, who was made chairman,' with B. J. Waters (col ored) of Brunswick, secretary. The Maxton Fair. . The Border Exposition ot the Caro linas will open at Maxton ; October 26th and-close -October 28th. This , is one of the most popular of the North Carolina' fairs, and indications .now point to one of the most; successful ever held. Mr. McNair is President and Col. E. F, McRae Secretary; both men of in telligence and energy. , They have the f 7-- -. " ,-- - Star's best wishes for a grand time. 1 It will be a tight race between. Gore and Groves for the . Senate and it is hard to guess who will get 'the smaller vote. Morton will beat' both of them combined by a good majority. CANADAY-S CHECKERED CAREER. j Some Further Particulars concerning His Checkered Career Hit Suicide Xtot a Surprise. ; In the following,- from the Philadel phia Times, some additional' particulars are given concerning the late . W. P." Canaday which have appeared in no other paper we have seen : i Another note was left by the, suicide, said to have been addressed to a Miss Moore, which: note the police have and will not make public until the inquest. Miss Moore is a young lady of excellent family " and good . reputation, whom Colonel Canaday knew in North Caro lina,. She is a -daughter of Judge Moore, foe many years n the' bench pf one of the higher State Courts in North Caro lina, and is living here with; ber sister, whose husband is assistant -curator of -the National Museum. , " , jColonel Canaday was a Confederate soldier and came into publiclife with the advent of Mahone "and . Riddleberger, from Virgtma. He was the Southern manager of Senator Sherman for some years prior to that, period, and was chosen Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate upon iiic earnest solicitation 01 mr. oner- man. He was a close political friend of Manone ana KiaaieDerger tor some time, and then they became enemies. It was he who took charge of Riddleberger at one time when the latter arose in an intoxicated condition and insisted upon speaking on the floor of the . Senate. Kiddleberger threatened to ktll Colonel Canaday for his interference, and never forgave him. .Canaday' trouble with Mahone grew out of business relations. Mahone was one of the Senatorial pool which invested largely in creosote works at Wilmington, N. C, jnanaged by Can aday, and which made a dismal failure. The mismanagement of Canaday. refer red to by the senator as "dishonesty, was the direct cause of Colonel Cana day 's retirement as Sergeant-at-Arms. During The campaigns of 1880 and -1884 Col' (; C-naday almost carried North Caro vote in convention in his pockei ;.He cast it solid for Senator Sbernidii. : I After the campaign of 1854 he began to lose cast with his own people, : and finally lost all political prestige. When he returned to private life here and opened an office for law practice in the executive department and before Con gress be bad lost all political power. - Nearly all of the old senatorial friends he once had had deserted him except John Sherman. When Colonel Canaday left, the Senate's employ he owed quite a number of ' individual d'rtits, 'borrowed money," to employes of the Senate, and his creditors there added their mite to his rapid decline in public lavor. The Colonel became al most an outcast. He bad little practice. seemed despondent . and was by many sincerely pitied." : - His suicide to-day, while shocking, was not a surprise. His public career was checkered, and yet it was not with out redeeming features. He was a stead fast friend, but unfortunate in his calcu lations. He was energetic and pains taking, everybody here Knew him, and at one time there were few men in Wash ington who wielded more power. He was a great admirer of Senator John J. Ingalls. of Kansas, and it is probable that up' to his last hour there were few men who would have gone farther to have done him a personal kindness than the great orator from the grasshopper btate. AGRICULTURAL FAIRS To be Held at Various Points in the Bute this Fall. The following is a list of the fairs and the places at which they will be held in various counties in this State during the Fall: . Alamance Fair Association, October 12, 13. 14 and 15. Burlington; North Carolina State Fair, October 18, 19, 20. and 21, Raleigh; Cumberland county Agricultural Society, October 11, 12, 13 and 14, Fayetteville: Piedmont Alliance I. M. Fair , Association, Oc tober 4,1 5, 6 and 7, - Salisbury; Rutherford Fair Association. 1 Oc tober, Rutherfordton, Warren county Agricultural Fair, October. 19, 20 and 21., Warrenton; Burke County Fair Association, October 11, 12, ,13 and 14, Morganton; Edenton Agri cultural and Fish Fair. October 25, 26, 27 and 28, Edenton; Clinton County Ag ricultural Fair, November, Clinton; Bor der Exposition of the Carolinas, Octo ber 26, 27 and 28, Maxton; Albemarle Park Association. October 3, 4, 5 and 6, Elizabeth City; Rocky Mount Fair As sociation, November 9, 10 and 11, Rocky Mount; Catawba Agricultural and In dustrial Association September 27, 28, 29 and 30. Newton. Cap'. Ak zander Home How Things Look in Kubeson. '. " Capt. S. B. Alexander arrived at his home in Charlotte Tuesday night from Robeson county, of which he and Mr. Sol. C. Weill, of Wilmington, have just completed a thorough canvass. Capt. Alexander, the . Observer says, speaks hopefully of the situation in that section." Hs says things looked dark when he and Mr. Weill began work, but there has been a marked improvement within the past four weeks; the Demo cracrats have waked up and are working with might and mam; the lukewarm are getting "hotter" in the Democratic cause, and altogether he thinks ! Robe son will be found on the right side when the general roll is called. On the 10th of next month Capt. Alexander and Mr. Weill will begin a canvass of Rich mond county and all the counties beyond there Schooner Lorenzo Xioat. The small coasting schooner Lorenzo, Capt. Moore, plyingbetween Wilming ton and Tar Landing on New river, in Onslow county, sprung a leak while on. her trip from Wilmington Tuesday last, and sunk in New river. She bad a quantity of merchandise on board. which, with the vessel, is reported to be. a complete loss. The Lorenzo is owned by Col. S. B. Taylor, of Catherine Lake CTavassa Guano Company. v : At a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Navassa Guano Com pany, held at their office yesterday Mr. David G. Worth was unanimously elect ed President pro tempore, . to fill the vacancy caused by the death of ; the late Donald MacRae. ! - Look herev Teff. i Blackburn ! Your trap must have caught the cholera instead of a rabbit. . TAR WEAVER AT ROCKY MOUNT. About Three Thousand People Asaembled to Sear Him Democrat s, Republicans and NeKroea Mra.liease Breaks Down A Fair Showing Given the Speakers. Special Star Correspondence. " :!w Rocky Mount, bept. 30. Weaver, the Third party candidate for President, came in this morning on the Shoo-fly from Weldon.' -There was a large crowd In town to hear him, the majority of whom were DemocratsRepublicansand negroes. . Several, adjoining counties are represented in the Third party. - - A little before ; 12 o'clock the crowd began to wind their way to the fair grounds, where a stand was erected and from which place Weaver: aelivered his speech. It was undoubtedly the largest gathering of his party ever spoken to in this State, being as it were right in the not-oea ot tne l bird party element. ine uemocrats are more charitable. than they, for they were put in strong force) and paid . close attention and gave him a fair showjngand hearing. - Mr. Morton came down on the train with Weaver with his Tennessee affi davits, but as Weaver made no allusion to . them, the affidavits i were not pro duced. .-. : . After Weaver closed, his auondam friend, Mrs. Lease, led off. Her remarks were clearly memorized and being thrown off her guard she lost the con nection and had to take $er seat, mak ing no argument whateu&V-Neither dis cussed the' mam issues of the day. the theme with Weaver being mostly "money." ; He quoted a good deal of scripture and calling on the Lord's name made . it sacreligous. ; Some ne groes said he was preaching a good sermon and wanted church. '',r 'i to ' know - his The hatred of Democrats is so bitter that the Third party men would not at tend .(the leaders) yesterday to hear Genl Ransom at Battleboro. who made to my certain knowledge- converts of an old gentleman and his four or five boys, and many others. If they would hear the Democrats speak there would be many more conversions; but they' won t. The gods first make mad whom they destroy. They are do ing so now, and next November will tell tbem a doleful tale. The crowd was estimated at about 3,000, and everything passed off quietly, the Third partyites being highly elated with their day s proceedings. J. HOMESTEAD TROUBLES Warrants Issued for the Arrest ot Strikers on the Charge of Treason. " Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. Pittsburg, Pa , October 1. Nothing done since first trouble at Homestead, except possibly the attempt on the life of H. C. Frick, has caused more talk than the act of Chief Justice Paxson in issuing warrants for the arrest of thirty three Homestead men charged with treason, : - .- .. ; This is the first time that the charge ot treason has been brought in any State lor acts arising from a strike or labor trouble, and it is the talk among a great many that it certafnly is proper that the great industrial btate of Pennsylvania should re first to; settle this question 4as to whether armed resistance to the law is treason. All Judges of the Supreme Court now present in the city consulted over the Cases yesterday in tneir cham ber in the court house. - District At torneys Burleigh and B. C Knox were sent for and held a long consultation with the Chief Justices, after which the Justices again consulted and then Dis trict Attorneys Burlegh and Knox were instructed by the Chietj Justice to pre pare information and County detective Beltzbover ordered by the Chief Justice to make information, and the Chief Jus tice signed the warrants1 for thearrest of the accused - The most novel part of the cases will be their subsequent disposition. The Chief Justice will hear the application for bail, and before the cases go to the grand jnry, he will call that body before him and deliver to it the special charge on treason, fully defining the crime and commenting on the cases. Should true puis oe iouna proceeaing never seen De fore will occur. Chief Tustice Paxson Is ex'officio Judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and will sit ia that court for Alleghany county and try the cases, This will, indeed be a hovel and hereto fore unknown thing, and will attract the attention of the world and make the cases, by reaspn of - their peculiar cir cumstances, of world-wide notoriety. Brennan & Cox, attorney s for the strikers, are highly indignant over what they term persecutions of the defend ants, and made some very uncomph mentory remarks about the cases and those engaged in prosecuting then). They-claim to have no fear about the outcome and say it will not be possible to make treason out of the acts of the advisory committee. Thev hinted long contemplated suits for treason against the Car n erne neoole would now be Dush ed. O'Donnell, Cretchen and Clifford, three of the accused; are now in iail. making nine already under arrest. It is expected that more arrests will follow, POLITICAL excitement; Republicans Don't Want the Australian ' " Ballot System. -.';-"; By Telegraph to the Homing Stat. Indianapolis, Oct.1 1. Excitement has been created in local political circles by the development of a plan to mollify the Australian ballot law, although the expected decision of he Supreme Court declaring the legislative apportionment' of 1885 unconstitutional, has not been made yet. It is said that as soon asjthe court decides the apportionment act void, suit will be filed to - set aside the Australian ballot on the ground that the Legislature of 1889, by which the law was enacted and which was elected under the apportionment of 1985, was an - illegal body under tne courts decision. . it tne aportionment suit now pending related only to the act of 1891, no such question could be raised, for no legislature- had been elected under its provisions. - But three sessions of the ' legislature were held under the act of 1885, and - if these were unconstitutional bodies, every act which they passed can be nullified. V ELECTRIC SPARKS. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin to day finally passed upon the recent ap portionment act, and declared it uncon stitutional. An extra session of the Leg islature will be called. A Liverpool dispatch says: A recount of the stock of cotton here shows the total to be 1,099,820 bales, of which 937,468 are American, instead of 1,124,- 000, and 938,000, respectively, as previ ously reported. A Norfolk.' Va.,- dispatch says Gen. James B. Weaver and Mrs. Lease spoke there yesterday afternoon. A small crowd was present, com posed mainly of Democrats. The speaker was listened to attentively and treated with the ut most courtesy. NO. 46 STATE POLITICS. -Settle is in a fix. It he favors the Force bill the whites will be against mm. . lo oppose it is to Dut the blacks against him. If he straddles it he will catch it from both sides. In , the mean time your Uncle Baldy is , whooping up things, and the people are rallying to nis standard. Keidsville Weetly. Henderson and Holton ' had a joint discussion at the court bouse last night.;, Henderson made a splendid speech and was loudly and frequently applauded Holton made an appeal to the colored people, and advocated squarely the Force bill with all its at tendant horrors. Concord Times. An Alliance lodge . in Yadkin County held a meeting one night re cently for the purpose of resolving itself into a Ihird party lodge. After takinc the census it was ascertained that only two Democrats belonged to the lodge. Thereupon it was resolved to adjourn till after the election. StatesviUt Land mark. ;- , . . - - i Dr. Hardy, the gentleman who nominated Exum for Governor and sub sequently withdrew from thex Third party, now states that his reason for withdrawing was the "information he bad that the leaders ot the movement were to receive $50,000 if they.succeeded in placing North Carolina in the' Harri son column." Raleigh Chronicle. The Third party has so thinned down "that you- can , hardly hear them grunt. From some cause they have got remarkably quiet, but the ring-leaders are ousn-wnacking and working on the siy. it is early m the campaign for such work, but possibly this is the way they propose to conduct tneir entire cam paign. Maxton Union and Scottish Chief. ' The Third party held a meeting Friday at Tilghman's X Roads, in this township. ' We are informed that there were about forty, white men and seventy- five negroes present. The speakers were CapL U,. A. Thorne. Hon. W. E. Bowers. Messrs.:Tbad. Bowers and Geo. 'H. Skin ner. Dr. Oreen. chairman of the Dem ocratic Executive Committee, asked for a division of time for Capt. Day, but if wasreiused. Welaon IVews. - CiW. BelL late secretary of the People's party convention, says: "I am frank to confess that I was disgusted with the convention and do hereby withdraw from the People s party and come back to the old Democratic party soul and body, and will work, and vote for the success of the entire ticket from constable up to Grover Cleveland. Marion Free Lance. " - Red Springs township failed for want of material to have the Third party convention and send delegates to the county . convention. Mr. Daniel Mc- JLeod, a self-appointed delegate, was on hand, and when the voting time came cast five votes, representing 125 voters. wben there were not more than five Third party . voters in the township. Kea springs Comet. ' Col. Lon J. Moore, of Newbern, will at an early day take the field for Cleveland and the State ticket. The Colonel, .until recently, has affiliated with the Republican, party, but the Force bill, urged by the Republicans, and the wild silver scheme put out by the so-called Third party, were pills that no man could swaliow and at the same time love the country that gave him birth. Rauisfi News and Observer. ; Our farmers are awakening to the fact that they must stand up like men for the protection of their rights as citizens as well as their homes, and the news from each township in the county growsbetter each day, Some of our good citizens who have been counted tor the Third party, cannot get the consent of their minds to follow Dr. Dalby into the Republican party and turn our gov ernment over to Radical misrule. They are coming about in numbers. Oxford Ledger. - AshevtlIe, N. C, Sept. 29. This has been aj grand day for Democ racy in Buncombe. T. G. Field, the Third party candidate for . Vice President. spoke in the-court house. By actual count there were only eight Third party people in the house, only three of whom were lormerly Democrats, cutler was present, but failed to remain to hear (jlenn. - -In introducing Field, But ler incidently mentioned the name,of Cleveland and the applause was so deaf ening and prolonged that Butler with difficulty continued.- The only persons who gave Butler any attention were a few insignificant Republicans. Raleigh News and Observer. While in Winston last Saturday Dr. Exum' it seems, talked to several gentlemen on the political situation. When asked about bis coming down the Doctor said it was a benefit to the Dem crats tor him to run: that were he to pull out from the race his party would at once put up another candidate Who in all probability would poll more votes than he could ever hope to. A citizen who has known known bxum for several years says he don t know of but two striking features about the Doctor, une fs that he has made a success in his farming pursuits; nd the other' that he is ahne ludge -oi a horse and is ever ready for a trade. . The man who gets ahead ol him on the latter, says our in formant, will have to get up before day, wtnston sentinel. , v Marion, N. C, Sept. 26. Glenn and -Butler spoke to a: crowded court house to-day. : The- Third party put out its full county strength, about twenty. Glenn spoke for-an hour and a half, and completely annihilated Butler and his crowd. He was bold, fearless. aggressive, eloquent and Convincing, Butler winced beneath the sledge-hammer blows that were plied thick and fast upon him. No better speech has been made - here in ; years. He V forced Butler to abandon r his . position on the tariff, his . government owner ship of railroads, and made him take water on tne money question, outier consumed forty minutes in trying to ex plain his - inconsistent, record.: His reasons satisfied no one, not even his own party friends. - Butler's speech, was a flat failure, and made a poor impres sion on all. - Butler seemed sullen and ill at ease. ;Mr. N. -J. Hodge, of Milburnie, has left the Republican party, and has ioined the Democratic party, He has always heretofore voted the straight : - Republican ticket. Raleigh News and Observer. - , ' i KENTUCKY TOBACCO" Crop Prospects More JEnoouxaginaT After '. the Late Bains. V - Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. LOUISVILLE, K.Y., Oct; 1. lhe Crop report ot the State Commission of Ag-riculture-f or the month of September says: Late rains have brought reason able development of many crops of to-. bacco from which poor and unsatisfac tory returns were expected. . Returns from portions of the state known as the Burley district, show a percentage of about seventy-five, and taking the State as a whole, show a percentage of eighty- eight, . which includes the Burley dis trict." This is the general average of all tobacco. , SPIRITS . TURPENTINE, t . - Raleigh 7 News and; Observer'. W. H. Jernigan, Co. I, 26th N.;C; regi-' ment. died at the Soldiers' Home at 10 . o'clock Wednesday night. ! V - ' Concord '"Standard i Old ' Mr. Sloop,: 84 years of, age, attended - the speaking at Glass's on Wednesday. He -has been a Democrat since his first vote in 1832, for Hickory Tackson. and knows a good thing when he sees it. ' . : . .. . "Newbern Toumal : Mr. Isaiah Wood, an old and respected citizen, died ' at his residence in this city yesterday morning, aged 70 years. - He was a ha- tive of Jone&county, but he spent a good portion oi ms me in runstont afterwards moving to Newbern. v.S ' , -Maxton Union and Scottish Chief-. Mr. Archie Smith killed a monster eagle near Lumber Bridge a few days ago. It, measured seven feet from tip to tip of " wings. A. McDougald. a young T man. from Columbia, S. C (now visit ing in Laurinburg) is no slouch of a - . sprinter. Last Friday he ran from Lau- ' rinburg to Maxton. a distance of seven ' miles, in 45 minutes. . . - Red Springs Cometv The far mers are busy gathering their cotton and saving their oea-vine hav. Laree Quan tities of the latter will be made around ' here this year.. Mr. William Cono- x- ley, a respected citizen who lived near Shannon, dropped . dead last Saturday morning. He had gone out to his horse ' lot about daylight and was found shortly afterwards with life extinct. Supposed ' to be apoplexy. a Mr. Conoley was aged , about B0 years. - , ; - Salisbury Herald ; . We were showri this morning an ear of corn and - the tassel of a stalk raised by Mr. M. C Keinhardt, of bold Hill township, which was rather extraordinary. The grains are each incased in a seperate shuck.- while the whole is covered with a shuck ' like a common ear. The. tassel is also - full of -small grains, each in a case or shuck. The grains on both the ear and tassel are incased much- like grains of 1 wheat, only the small shuck is appar entiy mucn iignter than cnan. Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligen cer: dome miscreant fired three shots from a shot-gun, into the residence of Mr. w. f . Teal, who lives about. three miles from town, on the Camden road; last Saturday - night. Several of the shot penetrated one of the windows of Mr. Teal s house, but did no further damage. The shots were fired about 10 o'clock, Mr. Teal having just retired for the night. Uncle Mike Edwards, one of the best known colored men ia. the county, died here last Thursday, about 85 years of age. Uncle Mike has aiway been a Democrat from principle, having voted that ticket every election since the war. He was buried at the ex pense of the Democratic club of Wades boro township. ' Charlotte News: The Franklyn (Ky.) Favorite notes the death at that place, September. 21st, of Rev. J. M. M. Caldwell, a native of this county. Mr. Caldwell was 81 years old. There is a prospect of a new industry being developed near Statesville in corundum mining. A Mr. Collins has leased the R. B. Joyner lands near town and is opening up a shait. tie is. nnding nne ore in good quantities. One day last week he took out a lump of good ore weighing 20 odd .pounds. The supply is thought to: be abundant. Mr. William Todd, familiarly known as "Uncle Billy," died yesterday, aged 94 years and six months. His mind was perfectly clear and unimpaired by age up to the time he was stricken down; he was as active as a man of 40. . He never used a stick, but ' walked erect, and quickly. - ; Shelby Aurora: The serenity of Mooresboro was disturbed Tuesday night by a loud explosion, but no one at ., first knew the cause or motive until next morningi : T. D. Scruggs' safe in the Masonic building at Mooresboro, was blown open by gun powder or dyna mite, and $650 in cash stolen from Jas. . Beason, a cotton buyer for Heath Cot ton Company, of Charlotte, also notes, mortgages and other papers belonging to T. D. Scruggs. Entrance was gained . into the Jno. Martin store in the Ma sonic building by a window, then the safe door-knob was broken off, a hole was drilled and the door blown open, then the robber or robbers rifled the " safe and went off happy with their booty. A track of about number 8 foot was left, but no money. Kinston Free Press: Henry Daniels, a negro, who says he is from Nasheville, and who has been working in the Dover saw mills, got very badly beaten Tuesday night, and is now rest ing in jail here, after having his injuries : attended to by Dr. C B. Woodley, There are various reports about the way the negro received his injuries, but the most probable is that he stopped . with another negro, a ' railroad - section hand, wholives in a hut near the rail road, about a mile and a half from Kin- - ston, towards Falling Creek, to spend - thenignt, and that about 11 o'clock, thinking the other negro, his host,- was asleep, was asleep, he left. The oth er negro was not asleep, however, ana on finding that Daniels had taken 'his clothes along, followed him and beat him with an old gun barrel. Une ot Daniels arms was broken and he was cut in sev- -eral other places, it is thought with the -tube of the gun barrel. Another ac count is that Daniels says he was set upon by a white man and two negroes, but that is a very improbable taie. . Charlotte Observer : This beau tiful weather is making cotton roll in right lively. The fields are white, the cotton in this entire section being re- - ported fully open. All hands are busy picking, and just as fast as the cotton can be gotten out of the fields and through the gins, it is brought in and put on the market. , ine larroers are in -a hurry to get the benefit of the present' , price. There was a slight freight . wreck on the Air Line, hear Toccoa, Tuesday night. -Several freight -cars collided, and mashed things up consider- - ably.' .Two tramps were the only per sons '- hurt. -. They were stealing rides and were in one of the cars, which was ... run into. ' Both were white men, one named Yomb, hailing from this place, the other Liddell, from Norcross, Ga. -Yomb was only slightly hurt, and was brought to Charlotte last evening. Lid dell was fatally injured and taken home. .- Gen Rufus Barringer introduced cuttings from vines bearing the James grape in this' county; some - time' ago and these grapes are now on the Charlotte market, They are of extraor dinary size and delightful flavor. The James is" distinctly a North. Carolina ' grape, having originated in Pitt county, and has taken the premium at whatever exposition or fair exhibited. It is black and not infrequently measures 1J . inch in circumference. . The vines are very prolific and in Pitt county last season averaged Z pounds per square yard, -. equal to 17,150 pounds per acre. Atten tion is given these grapes in these Col umns because is is strictly a North Car olina product in addition to : being a grape of almost unparalleled excellence. Mr. B. D. Duckworth's httleS-year old daughter, Ollie, is laid up with a badly swollen foot, the effects of a snake-' bite received Tuesday evening. She was , in the yard playing. It was just before dark, and in running she stepped into a little hole in the yard and fell down. As she fell she felt something sting her on the foot. She jumped up, and as she did so she -saw a' large snake just ready to spring at her. She screamed to her mother that a snake had bitter her, and called to her to come quickly. Before Mrs. Duckworth got there the snake dis- -appeared.- Soon, after being, bitten the child's foot began swelling, and yester- day was causing her considerable . pain. From her description ot the snake, it is supposed to have been a copperhead. V; - i
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