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run rmrp at- WILMINGTON, 11.00 A YEAR. I N ADVANCE. 88888888888888888 88883888888888888 8883S888S883isis8 " 88888888888888881. ' 83888888882888888 8S8888S8888888S88 waa S tssSS&?8SSS8S8 . 8SS8S8S22S8S3S888 , 88888888888888888 l o j 'j Is s a s' s s a a 1 a a -I 5" . : - ' ' . ; .. i ii m v - i t , V: J ":- "-' -K : - ,sj ' . .J I;: spihits.turpentine. I - -t V II M : . . 1 1 F . ' Z L . - ft. - ' . ' i vl"'- .Entered at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, as Second Clan Matter.l SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Weekly Star U a follows: t SI 00 j... eo 1 months " " 80 Single Copy 1 year, postage paid. . H MMItht " VOL. XXIV. WILMINGTON, N. Q., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1893. NO. 17 party of the people and the constitu tion has been called in toj rectifiy the wrongs done and bring us back as near as practicable to the land marks from which we departed when it went . out and the party of the "irrepressible conflict" came in. Here begins the power, and with it the re sponsibility and the opportunity, which, if wisely exercised, bravely met and fully appreciated, the Dem ocratic party will remain in power for the next generation, or longer. But to do this and-meet public ex pectation and endorsement there must be unity in councils and unity in action. Too much tenacity to one and destroys, genuine Americanism. When a man cultivates a loudness for European dress it does not take him long to become fond of Euro pean manners and to become more of a European in his way of thinking and acting than an American. As people - have grown .Wealthy in this country within the past generation there has been a growing disposition to put on aristocratic airs and draw exclusive lines in social life,' and we have numerous instances of families who would not have many years to go back to find the ancestral work shop, paying large' sums of money for fictitious coats of arms to put rienltnre mav be , an -ahl .man. and I Col Comfort for Soma Office-Booker. have a knowledge-in a general way f The Washington correspondent of the of the needs of the industry ; over RichniondZA.says : . , which he presides, he is not supposed 1 ! '.fr1 e leaamg. noteis are crowaea to be familiar with the conditions in the South, which are," perhaps," only fully understood by those jwho live in the South and have the advantage. rof personal observation and exper rience. Southern farm interests are of vast importance and they should have an able representative in the Department of Agriculture. ' It seems that the banks of the North and -West have pretty; good stocks of sold on hand, judging issue in which this or that sec'ion j -upon their shoddy family escutcheons J from the amounts they, are .offering 0UE OPPOaTTJNITY., With power' comes responsibility, and witrwpower also, comes opportu nity. It takes wisdom sometimes to exercise the power to fitly meet the responsibility and to realize and grasp the opportunity. For the first time in thirty-two years, the party under whose respective administra tions the-Republic became great and extended her domain from ocean to i. - - ocean is again, in full control of the Government, and again in a position to declare 'the policies by which the Repufjlic shall be governed. . Bui tu govern well is not as easy a task no as it was forty years ago. for tiie conditions are much changed, and tnere are complications to be confronted, and factors to be handled that did not exist in the body politic then'. The fact is that save in form of government the Republic has tin dergoue an almost complete reyolu tion1 within the past generation, and k was 'Mity by the most resolute and persistent ng.iung indi. even some 01 the formsTwere preserved. Four years pf internecine strife when thej law of the bayonet took precedence of the civil law, witji the serhi nfartial legislation which for a fei" veil's followed, so thoroughly un'der:niiied the civil law as to prac tically '.iuliify it. The constitution of; the United States was ignored and bTTxt-d up, and the law of the land b-cLme ihe inspiration of party necessity. What the party in power wanted to do it did and then . made llie laws to justify it. States that were torj three quarters of a century sovereign in their sphere were ignored and absorbed in the central ized system which recognized no State laws nor State authority which con flicted with the will or the purposes of the centralized power. It took years ot hard, pesistent contention to recover even partial recognition ojf State sovereignty. It has not been fully recovered yet. ; Thirty years ago there Were no such financial problems to confront as we have to-day, some of them the direct and some of . them the indirect outgrowth of these four years- of in ternecine strife". There were United States Bank issues which became national and for a time exciting, there were questions as to the currency, but there were no questions involv ing the whole financial system of the Government as there are now. Then there was no question about the coinage of silver, for every man who had a pound ot silver could have it coined and get Its full value in silver dollars for jt. i 'then there was no question about greenbacks, arid their redemption, for there were no greenbacks. Then there was no question as to what the principal and interest of the public debt should be paid in, for it was: small and was payable in any lawful money of the United States. ' A silver coin was as good as a gold coin, except for those who wanted to may be interested more than another must not be cherished to mar the harmony or create dissension where unify is . necessary to preserve what we have won. Among ourselves con cessions should be made when we cannot obtain what we desire with out arraying antagonisms within our own lines and imperilling results that are of more general importance than others upon which there is the most danger of contention. To govern well and fulfil the mission entrusted to us we must show that as. a party we can govern ourselves. If we do that the future is ours. i board, and preferred the gold as the more convenient coin for tha,t pur pose. - t Then the population was not di vided into conflicting classes as it is now the baneful outgrowth of the wretched legislation of the past three decades. ..... ' - Ttien there were no great corpor ations, mighty factors in politics as they have since become, dictating the policies of the Government and electing their attorneys to look after their interests in both Houses of Con gress. . I Then the manufacturers were not the especial wards of the law makers, and tariffs were not framed for their especial benefit. f Then there was ho great army of pensioners knocking at the doors of the United States Treasury demand ing j the last dollar, which the law makers were afraid to refuse, be cause the pensioners had votes which could make and unmake law makers. ".. ' Then there was' ho negro suffrage and none of the vexing complica tions which have since arisen from that source. ' J . .These are some of the things which the parties which governed then did not have to confront, which - they have to confront now, and every one of them makes the task of governing well just that much more difficult. y ; I ' The . people have called " a halt, a new era has dawned, and the A BIG DRAHI. 1 This year will be, perhaps, the first in our history when the number of American visitors to Europe will be approached, by the number of Euro pean visitors to this country, or when there will be anything of a compari son between the amount of foreign money spent in this, country -and the American money spent in Europe. The World's Fair will draw a great many Europeans hither, and ! will very likely reduce the number of American tourists abroad,' and thus considerable money will be brought into the country and considerable will be prevented from going out, by ooth of which we will be the gainers. It would be fortunate if we could have some drawing attraction every year to bring about such results, for this annual sea-crossing by so many Americans, is a very costly business to this country. ; j Ocean travel .has been so sys temized, the time between this coun try and Europe made so short, and travel in the superbly appointed steamers so pleasant and so cheap; that a trip to Europe ;is no more thought of now than a trip from New York to St. Paul would be. and by many it is preferred as the pleas- anter of the two. ; It is made inside of a week and with regularity and punctuality of ferry boats in the time of departure and arrival. A trip to Europe has now become as fashionable as visits to the summer resorts, and people of small means vie with the people of larger means in keeping up with the fashion, which is one that costs this country a big round sum every year, and - is one of the causes of the scarcity of money complained of. It is estimated that Americans who go abroad spend annually in Europe $100,000,000.- This is the amount spent now, but as the number. f tourists increases, of course the ag gregate amount of mdney spent will be increased. Nearly every j dollar of this goes there to stay, for but little of it comes back, and it takes that a long time to get back. ; While this country suffers by -tak ing so much money out of a money supply which is too small, there are evil results from it in other ways. It is said that Worth, the fashionable dress maker of Paris, did a business last year of $1,200,000, and that his best customers are Americans. .He makes few1 dresses that cost less than $200, and many that cost two or three times as much. He charges for style and his customers, especially American customers, who are very easy to deal with, very liberal payers and very easily gulled, have to pay for the style. The money spent with Worth is money that would be spent with our own dress-makers it these gorgeously arrayed ladies did not prefer to patronize him. Fashionable gentlemen who go abroad have most of their: clothing made in London and Paris, and bring back supplies to last them until they feel like making another trip. We forget what the sum so expended is estimated at, but it is very large, and it is that much money taken out of the pockets of American toilers," who would "other wise make the clothes for these fashionable gentlemen. Thus Ameri can workwomen and -workmen . are deprived of labor which goes to French workwomen and to English workmen. Our American manufacturers of cloths, &c, suffer by it, for they would supply the goods that are re quired to fill these . orders if the orders were made In this country, American ' wool - growers suffer be cause they would supply the wool required to make the woollen goods It does not take Ions: for all the American individuality inherited- by such people to ooze out of them, and there are probablynhousands of them to-day who would welcome a change of government which would draw the lines between the classes and make, their contact with people jot fewer dollars more difficult. " I Going abroad is all right for those who can afford it, and goto lear something of the world and of the manners and customs of other peo ples. As a . part of the education that every man and woman should have who can get it it is good' but there isn't one in a hundred who goes who is inspired by this motive, or any motive but to comply wjith a fashion which finds a larger number of slaves every year, who go, scatter their money abroad, and return hav ing nothing to show for it but the clothes and knick-knacks, for wh'ich the Secretary of the Treasury in ex change for small Treasury notes. While there was talk of issuing bonds they kept ' the gold locked up and made no offers, although the supply of free gold in the 'Treasury was be ing whittled down pretty small. The reason assigned for the tenders now is the need of small bills to meet the demands of the market occasioned by the movement of the crops since the weather has moderated. This may be true but it is just as likely that they are turning the gold loose because there is nothing to be gained, by holding it and they can as they say find more ready use' for bills of the smaller denominations. In busi ness transactions gold ' is a sort of ornamental money anyway. they shelled out their money ifreely. Export duties are not allowable in this country, but if they Were it would be a good thing ii a duty of about $500 a head could be imposed on about eight out of ten of these European tourists. - - I - BTJjrOS MEXTI08. The pensions this year will amount in round numbers to about $67,000, 000, which would be something over $2.50 per capita, estimating tfie popu lation of the country at 62000,000: North Carolina's proportionj of this is $4,000,000." According tcj the re ports of the pension office North Carolina had on the pensioii list on the 31st of last December 3,769 pen sioners.; The year before that she had 3,461, who received 4n aggre gate of $495,178, or about $144 each. Thisyear, estimating the individual pensioners in the same proportion the amount that comes jto North Carolina will be about $593,530 as compared with the $4,000,000 she pays. By far the larger number of pensioners from this State are negroes who were enlisted during the war to fill up the deficient quo tas of some of the Newf England States, which paid bounties which the negro recruits received! who were then credited to the States which paid the bounties. ' Massachusetts, which was red hot for war, gadabout 12j000 colored troops recruited with in "the Federal lines in tie South credited to her, while her loyal sons remained at home and did their fight ing with their jaws and at long range with the colored contingent which was bought and paid for. - Of course the South does "not expect pensions to come this way, and there is no complaint on this score, j but she does object to paying out the enor mous sum that is annually j exacted to pay pensions, three-fourths of which are fraudulent. Senator Smith, of New Jersey, is nearly seven feet tall. A man with such a reach as that ought to "get there" some time. i a practical way has . A new and been found of fighting trusts, which, as far as it has gone, has proved more 1 1 effective than all the laws passed (but not enforced) and all the clamor . against them. Some time ago the Whiskey Trust putpp the price of whiskey. The wholesale dealers kicked against this, land as the Trust paid little attention to the kicking the dealers got together, or ganized, subscribed a big sum of "money and resolved to put pp dis tilleries and make their own whiskey. This was a turn the Trust J didn't anticipate, and the result was that whiskey came down about as sud denly as it went up. More recently the big tanners of the country or ganized a Trust to buy up and run the tanneries, and run up thej price of leather. Taking the hint, per haps from the action of the whole sale liquor dealers, the boot and shoe manufacturers and others who use leather largely, have resolved J that if the Trust undertakes to carry out its programme, they will establish tan neries and make their own leather. If this succeeds as well as thej move ment of the liquor dealers did, other interests which are affected by Trusts can follow suit, and probably will. As the Secretary of Agriculture is a Western man, coming from, a great agricultural section, as was iproper, the assistant Secretary should come from the South, the other great agri cultural section. There are good Y. M. C A. CONVENTION To ba Held at Winston-Salem Early in April. ': '.'.- Charlotte. N, C, March 8, 1803. To the Young Men's Christian Asso ciations and Evaneelical Churches -of North Carolina: Dear Brethren: For the seventeenth time we shall meet in annual convention, this year at Winston-Salem, on April 6th to 9th. The first session will be held Thursday, the 6th, at 8 p. m. . An attractive list of live subjects has been arranged and several eminent speakers have signified their intention to be present and participate. A detailed programme will soon be made public but we at this time name the following speakers: -j Rev. R.J. McBryde, D. D., of Lex ineton,Va.,Rector Lee Memorial church. R. E. Michaels, Richmond. Va Gen eral Secretary Railroad Y. M. C. A. H. P. Andersen and F. S. Brockman, of Atlanta. Ga., Secretaries of the Inter national Committee." W. A. Wynne; Roanoke, Va., General Secretary Y. M. C. A. ' W. P. Fife. Charlotte N. C, Evange list. - i Rev. Thomas Hume, D. D Chapel Hill: and others of our State." The singing will be in charge of Rev. Arthur J. Smith, of New York, one of the most effective gospel singers of the country. - The good citizens of Winston-Salem send hearty greetings and extend their fullest hospitality. . Reduced rates have been secured on the railroads as per tariff rate No. 4. Local Agents will give further particulars. As the number of delegates is un limited we urge each Association to send as many as possible of their best men. Especially do we urge this upon the colleges and schools, for from their ranks must come many ot the leaders in our work. j All pastors of evangelical churches are heartily invited to meet, with us. From towns where there is no Associa tion we ask them especially to come and bring with them young jnen who may be interested in our work. For further information write to the State Secretaries, L. A. Coulter, Char lotte, and W. R. Gales, Greensboro, N. C. Brothers, let us make the intervening time a period of prayer for a blessing on the Convention, on ourselves and the young men of the State. ' . Yours in Christian love. G.B. Hanna, Chairman State Committee. North Carolina Appointments and. Disap pointments, j- The Washington correspondent of the Richmond, Va., Times says : t It is virtually conceded that the North Carolina positions for the Eastern dis trict will go as follows : - District Attorney. Charles B. Aycock, of Goldsboro; United States Marshal, the drummers' candidate, O. . Carroll, of Raleigh, and Collector of Internal Revenue, F. M. Simmons. -The col lectorship of the port of Wilmington is a subject of contention between Messrs. F. W. Kerchner and W. R. Ktenan. and both are recommended by a host of staunch admirers. -The appointment of Mr. Collins as Consul-General to London has blasted the hopes of. Editor Hale, of the Fay etteville Observer, but it . is not unlikely that he may , be otherwise tendered a position commensurate with his talents. The appointment of Judge Gray to the Mexican mission drops out of line quite a long list of aspirants. Virginia fails in this case to enjoy the success of Mr. Basil B. Gordon, and North Carolina re grets the perished ambitions of two of her ex-Congressmen, Messrs. Robbins and Green. : with aspirants for positions and friends ot the candidates, and this state of things will likely continue for many months. Virginia and 1 North Carolina furnish about as large a . contingent as any States of the same population, j The report is freely circulated that Mr. Cleveland is opposed, . except in rare instances, to putting back in office'the men who held places, under htm dOring the last admin istration, . Senator Mills and Secretary Carlisle have made statements to this effect, and there appears to be a good deal ol truth in the ireport. One reason assigned for such a policy- is that Mr. "Cleveland does- not believe in giving the plums to the same set of men all their lives. He inclines, it is said, to the belief that there should be a new deal, generally speaking. 'If this policy is to be carried out it will cause a feeling of sadness in the! hearts of many of thi Vitainia and North. Carolina as pirants, ior the er-office-holders under the former Cleveland; administration are nearly all candidates for re-appointment. - j I ' The Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Odserveri says ; ... General "Bob" Vance came to-day to take a hand in jthe collectors' . fight. Among other arrivals are Messrs. Hale, ot the FayetteviIle;0&Ww; Pegram and Zimmerman, of Charlotte; Cowan, of Brunswick; Blair, 6i Montgomery; Cai raway, of Lenoirj Kerchner, Oldham, Strange, ot Wilmington; Tosephus Daniels, of Raleigh; W. F. Burbank, of Winston all looking out for themselves or friends. j Mr. W. P. Oldham savs he has a powerful endorsement for the Wilming ton postofhee. The other candidates, wbo have not been here, are Col. Oscar G. Parsley and Mir. Geo. Morton. The name of Mr. I. W. Jackson, oi the Messenger, has been ' mentioned, ap parently without authority. Ex-editor Cowan wants something lika a chiefship of; division. Jim Leach is after an auditorship. Stone Cowan, of Brunswick, wishes his old place as in spector of revenue, and George Bella my, finding the marshalship pre-empted, would like a Treasury place. James Ke nan, of Duplin, admitting Simmons' ap pointment as collector, asks for a chief ship of division, and Hardy Hicks, form erly of Wilmington and Duplin, seeks from Virginia either to be a doorKeeper at the White House or chief of a de partment division. Josephus Daniels says he has accomplished two or three things he came cor and goes home to night. Alliance j Lecturer Bell may be in the marshal contest or some otner, it is said. N. C. STATE GUARD. Its New Adjutant General Will Infuse Benewed Iiile into the ganlaatlon. Members of tne -W.j L. I. and others in Wilmington interested in the State Guard will be glad to know that Adju tant General Cameron as the Raleigh News and Observer jsays is already showing his mettle and proving to the State Guard the real pride and interest which he feels jin them. For notv only has he succeeded in organizing and es tablishing a permanent and well ar ranged . office jin the Capitol, to be known and recognized for all time to come as the Adjutant General's office, in which will be kept all the archives and records of that important depart ment, but he also succeeded in securing from the late General Assembly a com plete revocation of alt the old and obso lete militia laws of the State and the en actment of a new codified and amended law brief and comprehensive in its fea tures, under which, even with the limited SENATE IN SESSION. . Iiee Mantle, of Montana. Presents His Cre- den tiala-Various ' ' Matters Discussed . An Executive Session Held. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. .Washington, ; March "... 9. Immedi ately, after the reading of Monday's Journal the credentials of W. Xee Man tle, appointed by the Governor of Mon tana as Senator from that State in place of Saunders, were presented by . Mr. Teller and read. . - ; ' ' ' Mr. Vance asked Mr. Teller what was proposed to be done with those creden tials. ..'"'. . j v Mr. Teller replied that he wished.the credentials to be laid on the table, to be referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections when that committee shall have been formed. He did not propose to ask the Senate to take any action on them now, as he understood there were several other credentials of like character to be passed upon, involv ing a question of law which would have to be decided. , ' Mr. Vance That is satisfactory to this House. ' The: credentials were therefore laid upon the table. - - : - On motion of Mr. Gray, it was or dered that when the Senate adjourned to-day it be to meet Monday. Mr. Mitchell introduced a joint resolu tion to amend the Constitution so as to provide for the election of U. b. Sena tors by the votes of qualified electors of the State. Mr. Manderspn 'asked that the resolu tion be allowed to he on the table with out any order as to reference to commit tee until the question shall be deter mined whether at the extraordinary ses sion, which was for Executive purposes, any attempt would be made to perform legislative business. Mr, Mitchell said that he was willing to have that course taken. . Pending discussion of the question of receiving bills or joint resolutions, re quiring the action of both Houses at a session like the present one of the Sen ate. Mr. Dolph offered another which he wished to have received if the others should be. v It was- on calling upon the President of the United States to take such measures as he may deem neces sary to consummate the agreement be tween the Government of Spain and the United States for relief of Antonio Moro, naturalized citizen of the United States. Mr Manderson offered a reso lution declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that at this extraordinary session the business transacted should be con fined to executive matters, and matters requiring action of the Senate. ! Mr. Cockrell objected to immediate consideration of the resolution and it was ordered to be printed and to lie over. Mr. Hale offered a substitute for Mr. Manderson's resolution, declaring that "no Legislative business shall be received or enterteaned at the present session ot the Senate.'' He subsequently modified it by inserting the words "Ex cept treaties." Finally the whole mat ter went over until the next meeting of the Senate. ! After some remarks by Mr. Call on the subject of his resolution as to public lands in Florida, the Senate proceeded to executive business, and at one o'clock adjourned until noon Monday next. NEGRO SQUATTERS On Land Near Newborn Show Beststance to Threatened Ejectment. Br Tetezraph to the Morning Star. Raleigh, March 11. Jas. A. Bryan, of Newbern, having sued for and re ceived the right to the possession of lands on which Tames City, opposite Newbern, is located on the other side of Trent river, where several thousand negroes live, who took possession during the war. attempted a few days ago to have some of the occupants ejected. senate committees:; The Uemooratio Canons MaicinK Fair Fro- v i-f -V areas in Its Work, By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . Washington, 11. The committee of the Democratic caucus which has for the past week been, dealing with the troubles . over the problem of revising the committees of the Senate and as signing chairmanships to j proper mem bers, thisi afternoon at 4 o'clock practi cally finished its work. Mr. Gorman thinks that a party caucus cannot be held earlier than Tuesday and ) it is not im probable that on that morning the com mittee will make its final report. The committee declines to give out any in formation relative to thef results oil fts numerous conferences, bat it Is known that there has been no violent fractures of the tradition of the Senate by which the ranking minority! Senator be comes chairman. Mnnylchanges have, however, been made jnecessary, as one of. the. members of jpe committee said, by leason Jjlentranee'into the Sen ate of new Democratic members from Northern States. A glance at the com mittee list of the last Senate shows how difficult it has been to frmg about re sults satisfactory to all. There are forty standing committees of ihe Senate and out of this number the tanking Demo crat entitled to the chairmanship in thirty-one of the committees comes from the Southern" States, and but nine from the North. In the Senate com mittees the same preponderance from the South is seen, there being eight from that section and bkt one from the North. The election J ot Democratic Senators from Wisconsin, New York. North Dakota, Wyoming and California, has compelled the committee to make the shitting of membership and in a num ber of cases of chairmanships, so as to give these new members and other men from the North their fair share of gqod places. Of course in this large list ot Southern ranking members, the name of some Senator appears in many cases on various committees, members from that part of the country having served in the Senate many years. Despite all this, however, it is understood that there has been very little variation from the, usages of the Senate iri making appoint ments of chairmen tal important com mittees of the Senate, although the gen eral make up of the committee appears to have very materially changed. & The I committee will hold another meeting Monday morning, and go over the revised list and njake such correc tions as may be necessary. It any nom inations are sent to the Senate Monday they will be received and laid over until the committees havel been fully reor ganized, and this wiljj not, the Caucus Committee thinks, b4 earlier than the miqdle of the week. ! COL. STREATER - -4 , Denies the Statement that North Carolina Troops ; at the Inauguration Threatened to Clean Oat a Pennsylvania Begiment. ; Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, Perjjn.,' March 9. Col. Streater, of the Tenth Regiment N. G. P., arrived home to-day from Washing ton, D. C In an interview he stated that he was not alarmed in regard to the charges made against him. He is preparing charges of insubordina tion against Capt. Brazier and others of the State Fencibles, which will be for warded to Gen. Snowden. He also1 said that the statement made in regard to the lUorth Carolina troops offering to "help clean .out" the Tenth regiment must be incorrect, as one of the Captains of the Carolina troops witnessed the whole af fair, and pledged his command to assist the Tenth regiment tin case a fight oc curred. . - " - Raleigh News and Observer The Board, of Public Buildings and Grounds of the State have unanimously re-elected Capt. C. M. Roberts Superin tendent of Public Buildings and Grounds. Capt. Roberts has held this position for the past ten ; years, l I 'Asheville Citizen: That well i known precinct called Cripple Creek, which has lately been rather quiet, was the scene ot a cutting affair last night. Minnie -Largin, . colored, who claimed that Addie Hawkins, also colored, owed her two dollars, called on the Hawkins woman and attacked her with a knife, stabbing her in the neck, the knife enter ing in danerous proximity to the jugular . Vein. The wound bled freely, but is not " believed to be dangerous. ; I Lincolnton Courier'. A few weeks ago, February 21st, Buncombe Brother ton, a boy aged 14 years, of Catawba Springs township, was attending a "chopping," and a tree in falling struck dim on the head, fracturing his skull. The back part of his skull was mashed in, and at first it was thought he was fatally wounded. Dr. W. S. Davidson ' Was called in and a piece of skull-was Siken out and the wound properly ressed. - The young man, to the sur prise of all. is getting well. I i Statesville Landmark'. Mr. L. C. Mitchem, architect, of Statesville, has cbmpleted the plans of the Mooresville . dotton Mill. The building will be 160x80. " 44 The $100,000 capital stock of the cptton mill naB. au Deen auuscriDea ior apd there is a demand for more. Appli cation was madefor$5,000,worth of stock after the $100,000 -limit was reached. The Acme Corundum and Mining Company are fitting up the building for njerly used by the Statesville Plow Com pany with a crusher and other machinery necessary for carrying on their business. The company shipped a car load of ore list week. J Henderson Gold Leaf'. Mr. David Grissom, a well known young farmer, died at his home near town Sun day night last of consumption. ibursday last at Bullock s store. Gran- . ille county, while the school boys were -laying ball, a most unfortunate accident :urred resulting in the death of a boy named jimmie h-vans. He was stand ing behind another boy. Lip. Hilliard, who let the bat fly back striking young Ifyans on the head breaking his skull in s horrible manner. The boy lived in an . unconscious cpndition until Saturday when he died. He was about 13 years qM and son of Mr. John W. Evans. . If Charlotte News : The new btilding of Erskine College, at Due Tfest, was damaged to the extent of several thousand dollars, last night, .by te falling of an iron beam. Denson, of Washington City, was the architect, and fie building cost $45,000. The walls had been I completed, .the roof was on and e)hly the interior of the building re gained to be finished. Preparations lad been made to occupy the building g a short time, but the accident will ireak up these plans. What caused the team to fall is not yet known here. The Governor yesterday appointed Mr. P. Ai Tompkins, of Mecklenburg county, 4 trustee of the North Carolina College Agriculture ana Mecnanic Arts, vice on. S. B. Alexander, resigned. . resources at iiheir command, the State Such resistance was made that the . - ....I Vi Anff Hpctstpri from PTPrntinor the writ. Guard can move forward with redoubled zeal and efficiency. I The troops are already beginning to teel the firm but fostering hand of their old friend and instructor. I. The Trucking Reason, j The trucking season in Eastern Caro lina, opens up well and promises to be a profitable onej. In the Newbern section, the Journal jsays: Spinach shipments are increasing, cabbages which were injured somewhat by the great cold oi January are coming out nicely, peas are green and flourishing, and potato plant ing has kept ihe truckers busy for a week past.' ('. ' Around Cfaarlestoh and points further south the Jeuis and Courier says the frost of Saturday did considerable dam age, especially to the strawberry, lettuce and pea crops. ; Cabbages have also suf fered some, but as a rule potatoes are not yet above ground. The few planted in January Were cut down to the ground. The heaviest losers by the frost are the strawberry growers They would have been shipping berries freely by the 15th instant, but the frost has destroyed their first crop and no shipments of any im- sheriff. desisted from executing the writ. A Marge number, however, have been paying rents to Bryan, and the resist ance was chiefly instigated by some white store-keepers. It is said that a peaceable settlement will be made by the payment of nominal rents. No collision is now anticipated. : COTTON CONVENTION. Seduction Cotton-growera Advised as to of Acreage. By Telegraph to the Homing Star. Austin, Texas, March 11. The State Cotton Acreage Convention met here yesterday. Among the most im portant things done was the appoint ing of a' commfttee, consisting of one member from each Congressional Dis trict, to draw up a suitable form oi ad Sanford Express : The farmers f&y that the oat crop of Moore county Sill oe almost a complete iaiiure. mere not half a stand, as the freezes last If inter killed them out. A few nights ago a negro was Ku Kluxed in Chatham county by a party of disguised Ihen, He was severely flogged and thrown into the baptizing pool of Lystra Baptist church, near Rigsbee's Store. If- Mahy car loads Of fine long leaf pine lumber from the large sawmills of iputhern Moore county are being ship-: fled over the Seaboard Air Line daily to llorthern cities for building purposes. The saw milling business in Moore' bounty is anJmraense thing and if kept jp a few years longer as it has been for pie past five years the timber will almost entirely be destroyed, iet the destruc tion of timber cease for a while and use" frjiore stone of which there is an inex- '. liaustible supply in the red hills of Moore ijounty for building-purposes. Brown ptone - mates a beautiful house which ill stand for ages. -r- Gastonia Gazette: The Misses sHenderson, near Crowder's Creek, slaughters of the late William Hender son, still own a mule which has been the , Iproperty of the family for forty years or . Ituore, She is a small mouse-colored iftnimal, and has always worn her mane, land tail short like a horse. Maj. C. Q. 5 l sr . . t 1 l ast, has been iden-i F1 'ul u l 2 V, , , who committed a Poie 88 iar oat"' AQams says mat wnen nc w.as a uiuc jfellow at school he is quite sure pe saw the mule working to a iwagon then. She is still lively and hearty for. a mule of her- years, but she does not do much work. Miss Martha Serves, a maiden lady living near Mr, Ed. Wbitesides, Sr., was found dead about 8 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. She was lying by the road side not far from her home. Coroner Lewis was summoned by telegraph and impanelled a jury to hold an inquest. Dr. C E. Adams made a post mortem examination and it was agreed that death was caused by heart failure. Nashville. March 10. A dispatch!! ! a t, from Winchester! Teniw the home offl at the Swaananoa yesterday afternoon at with the murder of at Lincoln SOUTH CAROLINA MURDERERS Oscar Johnson, Charged with Killing Mr. and! Mrs. Twitmai Don Carlos Sen tenced to be Hanged in April. Charleston, S, Johnson, charged Mr. and Mrs. Twitman, ville, on Saturday trued as the man murder in Augusta, Ga., in - 1891, and who was sent to .the State lunatic asylum onjjthe plea of insanity and escaped thence in December, last. He is still in jail here, and the inquest has been adjourned until Monday. , Don Carlos, colored, convicted of murder and who Ippealed, was to-day sentenced to be hanged April 12th. Gov. "KNEW llf WAS A LIE." Torney Not ai Bad Off as Reported I Going to Naahrille. . By Telegraph to the Morning Star. dress to the farmers of -.Texas and the I Gov.Turney, says the Governor is greatlyf j o'clock that one of the guests, W. H - m.i i c . - m.i I 1 a .l: . i ir .l . i 1 1 rvnM ti4 nsr lvn rinwn rinrincr tine portance will now weeks to come. be made for three needed, and American silk growers I and sufficient reasons for" this, for suffer because they would snpply the silk required to make the silk goods used.-, y :.;:- t): But more than this, it encourages an extravagance and an aping ot Eu ropean ways which is, not healthy while there are many points in com mon, and many interests so common between these two agricultural sec tions, there are some points land in terest which have nothing ; in com mon, and while the Secretary of Ag- . TURPENTINE MEN. ' Convention at Waycross, Ga. Efforts to Deorease Production. TVi tiirruntinf HititW nf Georcia land Alabama met in convention last Thursdav at Wavcross." Ga. Reports from various subassociations show that the cutting of new boxes for the season of 1893 did not exceed 50 per cent, within the association and the prices laid down by the general association are De ing strictly adhered to. . The question of tanking spirits tur pentine by the Savannah, Florida and Western railwav was discussed, and the lollowing resolution offered by A; Pridgen was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That this association heartily approves the movement in progress by the Savannah, Florida and Western rail road for the erection of tanks in Savan nah for the purpose of storing spirits turpentine, and believe the same will prove beneficial to the Industry, and that the operators connectea witn tne asso ciation will give all possible patronage to the same, and that a copy ot this reso lution be sent to the officials of .the Plant system. . Shipping Notes. j, f The British schooner Myrtle , Mn Capt. Gould, from Havana for this port, went ashore yesterday at 10.80 a. m:, on Battery Island shoals at the mouth of the Cape Fear river. The tug ones ' pulled her off the shoals about I o'clock p. . m., without any damage being sustained, and- the schooner shortly afterwards anchored at: the quarantine station. .. Another British! schooner (supposed to be the Bertha , with a cargo of molasses, from Cardenas,) arrived at Southport quarantine station about 4 o'clock inthe afternoon, Fatal Accident. Jos. bweat, a colored boy about eighteen years old, of this city, was fa tally injured near Burgaw last Thurs day night. He was "stealing a ride" on the trucks of one of the cars of No. 48 train on the W. & W. railroad, and as the train pulled out from Burgaw fell on the track. Both of his legs-were cut off above jthe knees and he died a few hours afterwards.! He was attended by physicians! summoned by the railroad authoritiei but their efforts to save his life were unavailing. His remains were brought to Wilmington yesterday and turned over to his relatives for burial. The bov's-familv sav that he ran away from home in company with two colored. ooys. . I .-i South on the subject of decreasing the cotton acreage. Reports were adduced showing the immense surplus crop, and farmers urged to turn their attention more to other ptoducts. The commit tees report advise that no change be made in this year's acreage, in consider ation of the lateness of the season, and recommends further that Texas cotton growers take no concerted action in the matter of reducing the cotton acreage until the convention of the whole, cotton-growing world - has met and taken action in the matter. j After a long and windy session yester day, lasting far into last night, the Cot ton Acreage Convention concluded its business this morning by appointing del egates from each Senatorial District, to be appointed by the totton (convention, and two delegates from each county to be appointed by the County Judge, to attend the Cotton Convention at New Orleans next month. No positive steps were taken, but all farmers were re quested to reduce their cotton acreage for 1803. BRITISH STEAM ER WRECKED. The Wells City Ashore' at Seabright, N. J. Iiife-Saving Crews . Eesouing Pas sengers. ' v 1 ; By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ; New York, March 11 The British steamer Wells City, Capt. Savage, of the Bristol City Line, which sailed from Bristol February 21st, and Swansea the 23d, went ashore in a dense fog broad side on at Seabright, N. J., at 7 o'clock this evening. Both the life-saving crews of Monmouth Beach and Seabright are at work at her, and the rescue of pas sengers and crew is being made by means of the breeches buoys. A heavy sea is running, . with wind from the southeast. . . ' ; improved this morning.and if the weather continues favorable will be in Nashville next week. A gentleman called on the Governor last night and informed him of the report circulated in this city that he was dead. Gov. Turney replied that be had heard of the! report, and added: "I knew it was a lie fas soon as 1 heard it.T Knowing ones say that the Governor has at no time been in a dangerous con dition, but has been confined with rheuj- all right in a few JMGED. matism, and Willi be days. , A MURDERER HM . i - ExeoutionoY Sherman Arin Cherokee County,? Alabama. ' . By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Montgomery! 'March 10. Sherman Arp, convicted of !the murder of Wm. Fogue, near i,eaar Biun, ineroKee county; was executed at sunrise this morning. On the scaffold be reiterated his confession (that Burkholter and Leath, notorious moonshiners, forced him to kill Pdgue because the latter secured indictment against them for the illicit sale of whiskey. The murder was one of the most cold-blooded ever com mitted in the State. The early hour of the execution Was fixed by presiding ludee Folley to prevent trouble. VThe murderer died game. . ' Mr. G. Z. jFrench, postmaster, has framed a sample of each Columbian stamp, from one' cent to five " dollars. They are on exhibition and can be seen by anyone! on applicationjat the general delivery window.; A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch says that Representative Greenlee, Republican, yesterday introduced in the House an amendment to the Australian Ballot bill, which prohibits the appointment as election judges of members of the party which had "fused" with another party at a previous election. The proposition was carried by a vote of 88 to 6 and the senate concurred, ine ropuiists sup ported the measure. The object of the amendment is aimed at the Democrats. RIDDLED WITH BULLETS. A Negro Killed at Birmmnham, Alabama. .' , ; By Telegraph to the Morning Stat. ; Birmingham! March 10. At the Shelby Iron Works this morning, John McLanahan.'a drunken negro, shot and killed R. M. Hillard, the foreman, be cause Hillard discharged him. When his arrest was attempted, McLanahan shot at his pursuer and fled. He was met by W. A. Wilburn, an engineer, who demanded his surrender. Both opened fire and McLanahan was riddled with bullets. . U'v j l- .-.') A Boston dispatch says : There is no change in the estimated loss and in surance by Thursday's fire. Loss four and a half million dollars; a little over a million in buildings and the remainder in; stock, r This is covered by insurance within $400jbo0 of the total loss. Only three persons are known to have lost their lives. The injured will number more than a score, ; ., t - - , . ? ' I - ' Cooper, had not been down during the day, and he was called up, Repeated raps on the locked door received no an swer, and the door was forced. When the room was entered the body of the guest was found on his bed, perfectly rigid, he having been dead for some time. Mr. Cooper's death was caused by heart-disease, following an attack of rheumatism. The dead man was about 45 years of age and had been in the saloon business at Middlesboro. The body was taken to Blair & McDowell's undertaking rooms, where it is being held until his relatives ' are heard from. a About 11 o'clock Sunday night the family of James Buttrick were disturbed by a noise on the front porch of ; their residence in West Asheville. They paid little attention to the racket, thinking it was a dog fight. . Yesterday morning, however, they found their dog dead, its body bearing no marks of violence ex cept that its ribs were crushed in. An examination of the ground about the house reveled tracks which gave unmis takable evidence that the premises had been visited by a bear, by which animal the dog had been killed. ' Wadesboro Intelligencer: Mr. Geo. K. Martin, who lived on Dr. W. J. McLendon's plantation, four miles from town, died yesterday aiternoon unaer rather peculiar circumstances. . For sev eral months Mr. Martin had shown signs of mental aberration on the subiect of religion, and last Monday he left home and stayed away a considerable time. On his return he refused outright to give any information as to where he had been or 'What he had been doing. On Tuesday he again disappeared and search was made for him. He was tound in the barn lying on a pile of fodder, ap parently in a stupefied condition. He was roused up and carried to the house, after which he seemed to improve some. On yesterday morning Mr. Martin did not get up and it was discovered that he was speechless and entirely insensible. Drs. Ashe and McLendon were sent for, but they could do nothing foe the relief Of the UnlOrtUnaiC man, nuu ue uieu Min ing the day. The doctors think it more than likely that Mr. Martin poisoned himself, as no trace of disease could be discovered. -It is reported that the body of young Smith, who was drowned in Rocky river about two weeks ago. was found at the mouth of the river, about fifteen miles below where he ;waa drowned last Friday, i; ..'.f: :
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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