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WILLIAM H. BEBNABD, , Editor and Proprietor. 1 WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, - T - April 14, 1892. . la writing to change your address mlmayt give fcrmtr direction as well as lull particulars as where yon wish your pvper to be seat hereafter. Unless yon do both changes can not be made. Notices of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Re spect, Resolutions of Thanks, &c, are charged for as ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for strictly (a advance. At this rate 60 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters will register letters when desired. PT Only such remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. . j ty Specimen copies forwarded when desired.. ' I STUPENDOUS FIGUEES. " It is onlyj within the past few years that the pension enormity has begun to command the serious attention of the American people. As long as the expenditures could be defended on the ground of necessity,1 patriotism or gratitude, there was little objec tion made even by those who con sidered the figures unreasonably large, but when the pension agents and their pliant tools, or scheming politicians combined and converted the system into one of shameless plunder, then patience ceased to be a virtue and the plundered ; people began to protest. ; There are few, even among those who keep pretty well posted on the current juestions of discussion, who comprehend the full magnitude of the pension enormity or realize how much, the people have paid, and iwill still be required to pay jf Ae present plundering system be continued as the system of the future. -One reason for this is that the taxes to pay pensions are collected, Indirectly, as the tariff taxes. The person who pays a dollar and a half for an article which He knows he could buy for a dollar jf there were no tariff duty on it realizes that he is paying a tribute of fifty cents to some one, j but it does not occur to him that a large portion of the fifty cents,' about one-third, goes towards paying his part of the pension money. If these taxesjffere levied direct and every citizen 'was called upon annu ally to put his hand into his pocket and Jshell out the cash there would have been long before now a mighty protest against it and. the pensions would have never reached the enormous-figures of $166,000,6QO a year. And this is not the maximum by a'good dealfor it is admitted by those who are familiar with the workings of the pension bureau, that the expenditures will within the neit couple of: years reach $200,006,000, unless some close pruning be done in the meantime. ' j. j 'Figures! tell the story better than words. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston, a tion, and ! writer of national reputa- one who cannot be sus pected of being influenced by preju dice in his treatment of this subject, has recently published in the Boston Globe a statement of the past and prospective cost of pensions to this country His estimates are based on I reliable statistics of expenditures already made while the prospective expenditures are approximations based on premises that would be re cognized! as reasonable in making . calculations for the future. He sums it up briefly thus: . Pensions to June 80, 1892, ' i. . as stated by Represents- U ' tive O'Neil ..$ 1,550,000,009 Pension roll and trust pay ments June 30, 1892, to ' Dec. 81, 1892, about... 250,000,000 $ 1,800,000,000 Names on roll Dec. 81, 1892, about 1,275,000. If . all were soldiers of 25 to 26 at j time of enlist ment, j they will then average 60. ,On that, basis by life tables we should have to . pay about!,......' ... 2,000,000,000 $ 8,800,000,000 Expenditures for war pur poses, seven years of war and reconstruction, Probable cost of war in money to the South . . . 4,000,000,000 2,000,000,000 ,810,000,000,000 . 2,000,000,000 Interest in all, about. . Price of liberty, about .$12,000,000,00t Here we have, by the time the pen sion roll will have been exhausted,the stupendous sum of $3,800,000,000, but a couple millions less than it cost to wage the war against the South. Is there any sane man who supposes the American people would ever have consented to Such a burden as that if the taxes to( pay it were levied directly? . Taking the present population as a mean between the population of the country at the close! of the war and what it will be when the last dollar of these $3,800,000,000 is paid, the share of each' man, woman and child would be about $61, the share of each family about $300. Of this sum -each -family has already' paid about $150, Now suppose the1 present Indirect system of collecting this money was changed, and the tax was collected "directly, how long would this system last? Only . long enough to enable the people to de . mand its repeal, and for- Concress . when assembled, to abolish it. ; The blistering shame of this colos sal fraud is that not one in a score of those who have received ' and will receive their share of this money has the shadow of a just claim to it. Not one in a score of them ever thought of a pension until the pen sion agents and politicians who were playing for votes worked up the scheme of plunder. There isn't one in a 6core of them who share the loot dis tributed, who would have the cheek to demand a pension as something due to them. There are thousands of men drawing pensions who " never shot a gun, thousands who never saw a Confederate army or got - within hostile lines or saw a Confederate uniform. These are the kind of sol diers who have drawn the larger part of the "$2,000,000,000 which have already been paid and of the $1,800,000,000 which are still to be paid if the present -programme be carried out. , f - Is it any wonder that the American peoplje are becoming restive under this burden and that respectable sol diers are becoming ashamed of this monstrous fraud perpetrated in their name and are uniting with the peo ple in demanding reform of this plundering system ? The wonder is that the demand didn't come long ago, before the plunder had reached its present enormous proportions. TARIFF BEFORM. When General Hancock was run ning for the Presidency and an effort was made to find out how he stood upon the tariff question; whether he favored protection or not, he an swered by replying that the tariff was "largely a local question," and right there the protectionists loaded their guns and went foe him. They didn't propose to let a man who believed that the tariff was "a local question" be elected to the Presidency if they could beat him, and they did, for they put boodle in that campaign, as they have done in every election since, to secure the defeat of the candidates who were not in full fel lowship with them. . j But he was right. The tariff is practically, if not theoretically, a local question. The tariff list and the votes of Congressmen show this. You find one section, sometimes one State and sometimes a portion of a State, fighting hard for; a high tariff on some artificial .or. natural product in which it is largely interested, to protect1 it from foreign) competition, and practically give that section a monopoly of it in the home market. Politics doesn't seem to have much to do with this matter, for when it comes to the pocket in matters of legislation there is a good deal of human nature in most folks, and self ishness gets on top. The excuse is, "they all do it." If protection, they say, is to be the order of the day and one section is given protection on certain things which jit desires to have protected, then another section should have protection on such things as it wants protected. This is what has made the tariff a difficult question to handle, and un der the modern dispensation always easier to increase than to reduce the duties. When one industry of one section got an increase of duty, on its productions other industries of other sections were quick to follow and demand increase on theirs, and thus it went, until every j section and nearly every industry figured in the tariff schedules and each about as much as it could. j It was the local interests combinr iaS through selfishness which gave the tariff whatever of national char acter it may have.- A; tariff for revenue only is national, because its aim is to benefit the nation as a .whole, regardless of any section, or any class, or any industry,' and duties are imposed with an eye to revenue, the duty being imposed on those im ports and in such proportions as will yield the largest amount of revenue; but a tariff' with protection as its leading feature never can be national in the true sense. " - j j j This is one of the difficulties that will confront the tariff reformers when Congress enters upon j that work. The selfishness that begat the high protection which the favored few have enjoyed so long, will jnake itself active to prevent a reduction that would materially lessen ' their profits, or endanger their monopoly of the home market,and as the pro tected -industries of one section work to prevent a deep cut in their .protective duties, the protected in-! dustries of other sections, will do likewise, each struggling for itself and all pulling together practically to have as little reduction as possi ble. They realize the fact that, the majority of the American people have become tired of paying tribute sim ply for their benefit, and hence look for and accept tariff reform as in evitable, and yielding to the inevita ble as a matter of necessity they will simply exert their effort's to prevent the reform from reforming too much. The iron maker will protest that a deep cut will -ruin him, the wool weaver will do likewise, so will the glass maker and others who have reaped the harvest under high pro tection; and, each will have its repre sentatives in Congress and in .the lobby to plead for it. and save it from the apprehended - "wreck." They will, because they can't, help themsel ves, accept a reduction in the rates of duties,-the only question being how low the reduction may go. Sprue.; tariff reformers f think an average rate of about 25 per; cent., considering the necessities of reve nue would be about the right figure. The protectionists call f this "free trade." The Mills bill gave about 45 per cent. and the protectionists called that "free trade." If it were proposed to let the average rate, now be 55 per cent, this would be charac terized as "free trade." Free trade is a sort of perpetual nightmare with some protectionists, and they see it in every reform, however sl'ght, that may be proposed. j j And yet it is a question whether under certain conditions, if it were practicable, free trade would not be better for the country at large and for the now protected industries, than a high protective tariff. Of j:ourse one necessity, and an absolute one, would be a me'rehant marine td carry bur products to the markets jof the world, as Great Britain's merchant marine does hers. England is the greatest trader in the world and the ' richest nation, "because the greatest and most successful trader. A. wise statesmanship, which had an eye to business, fostered her commerce and encouraged the building-of! ships, and that sea-girt hive of human in dustry sent its ships over every sea and into every port with the products of its industry, and brought back in return the coin or the valuable pro ducts of. other lands. That' what made England great, rich and pow erful. She didn't become so by a compulsory system of trading with herself, j and swapping one product for another, but by selling her pro ducts to other nations and getting pay for them in cash or in something which to her was the equivalent of cash. That's how England became "mistress of the seas." Why can't we learn something from the teaching of others anJ fol low in the paths that lead to pros perity and wealth? What we want is to encourage commerce as manufac turing has been encouraged, not by subsidies and bounties, but by taking off the restrictions which have ruined our merchant marine and given Eng land practically the rsohopoly of the seas. With our carriers of the jdeep restored and multiplied, there would be little excuse for, and little talk of protection for protection's sake MINOR MENTION. A few days ago we referred to the reports sent out from Washington in reference to the dissatisfaction ex pressed by Secretaries Carlisle and Gresham at the restraint put upon them by the President : in the matter of appointments to positions in jheir respective departments. We expressed the opinion at the time that tjhere was no foundation for these reports which, if they have any foundation at all, are built on the veriest gossip, a sample of which is furnished by the correspondent of the New York Herald, who quotes a lady who had seen Mrs. Carlisle to ask her tc use her influence in securing, her a place in the Treasury, as saying that Mrs. Carlisle replied: "Mr. Carlisle has no places, except those with very small salaries attached, at his dis posal. All appointments are made at the White House. In fact I may say that John is nothing more than one of the President's clerks. If it were to be done again, I can assure you John would remain in I the Senate." Mrs. Carlisle has the repu tation of being a lady of fine sense, but if she talked in the style here attributed to her she is no longer entitled to that reputation. - Possibly she might have told the lady who sought her assistance that she re gretted being unable to assist herr and that really the places that might be obtainable were too small to! be worth her seeking, an easy way they sometimes have in Washington' of letting down a person who wants something and can't get it, but she didn't go so. far as to talk "about "John" in the way quoted. It she did John would have .more causej to disapprove of'it than Mr. Cleveland, for it puts him in a position humiliating to comport with his sense of self-respect and manly independ ence. John G. Carlisle is too big a man to play clerk to Mr. Cleveland or any other man, and if he feels as he is here represented as feeling jhe would do himself and the State of Kentucky credit by resigning the Treasury portfolio and going back: to the practice or law. But 'there isn't anything in it. Mrs. Carlisle doesn't put her brains to sleep and turn her tongue Joose. The newspaper men of Pittsburg who are being prosecuted under some musty old statute for issuing Sunday papers are, going to feed the prose cutors With their own hash, and have combined to have the law enforced against running street cars, cabs, carriages and in fact everything that involves manual or brjite labor. As some of the principal howlers against Sunday papers are large stockholders in the street car lines, the newspaper men propose to see how a turn all round will work. Admiral Whitney, who is td marry that Japanese girl in Honolulu, is not the pioneer in Japanese annexa tion. The new Minister to Japan got me start or mm. When he was Secretary of Legation at Tokio, Mr. Dun married .a Japanese lady, who died three years ago. A beautiful daughter survives her, who is now at school in New York, but will accom pany her father to Japan and preside over his household. Chicago beef-packers, to buck up to the leather 'combine, propose to establish tanneries near Chicago, but the combine says the tanneries will have to go to the bark. The packer men think the tanners are only barking to scare them off. '-.'. A lieader. . Since its first introduction. Electric Bitters has gained rapidly -in popular favor, until now it is clearly in the lead among pure medicinal tonics and altera tives containing nothing which permits its use as a beverage or intoxicant, it is recognized as the best and purest medicine for all r ailments of Stomach, Liver or Kidneys. It will cure Sick Headache, Indigestion, Constipation, and . drive Malaria from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed with each bot tle or : the money will be refunded. Price 50c per bottle. Sold by R. R. Bellamy, Druggist. f SULLIVAN STILL SOAKED. The Han from Boston Fall t Greensboro Almost a Bow. H A Greensboro correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says : While the north-bound train , was standing at the depot to-day, Jno. L. Sullivan, of the "Man from Boston Com pany," was discovered in the second- class car, ; in his . usual condition of drunken stupor, A crowd collected and the big brute began to abuse the crowd, calling them "damned Tar Heels."- A young man from rlaw Kiver still runner angered the pugilist by referring to Cor bett. . This directed the abuse to the young man, who drew a ' knife and threatened to disembowel Sullivan. This made the latter furious and he rushed back into the first-class car and procured himself a knife and would have gotten into a fight with the Tar Heel but for the presence of a policeman. The Tor Job T. Wllion. The report, in the Richmond Dispatch, that the tug fob T. Wilson, said to have left City Point with a dredge for Wil mington in tow, was probably lost, is not credited by Mr. C P. E, Burgwyn, owner of the tug. In response to an in quiry from a reporter of the Richmond State, Col. Burgwyn replied that he did not think there was any foundation whatever for the story. He said the tug was lying in the harbor at Ocracoke, ten miles from Hatteras, and was not towing the dredge Valentine. The Hotel Oceanic. . The New j Hanover Transit Com pany will "tote their own skillet" at the Hotel ; Oceanic this season that is to say, the hotel win not De leasea. cut all visitors to Carolina Beach will be glad to hear that Mrs. W. E. Mayo will be in charge of the important depart ment which supplies the "inner man." Her well known experience and skill as a caterer is a guarantee that all who stop at the "Oceanic" will be , well pleased both as to quantity and quality of food. Shad by the Thousand. ! What do the fishermen around Wil mington think of this: Dr. W. R. Capeheart at one haul at his fishery on the Albemarle Sound caught 6,583 shad. The largest siugie haul that he has made in over twenty years. Henry W. Evans, who runs a 100-yard seine on the Cashie, at one haul caught 485 shad, 2,500 pounds of rock and 9,000 herrings. An Amusing Incident. The Charlotte Observer irelates the following: An amusing incident occurred at Tryon Street Baptist church Sunday night. Rev. Dr. Pritcbard was preach ing on bampson, and as be was com ing in on the home-stretch of a very able sermon, after rounding up several heads, he spoke of Sampson s faith. "And now," said the speaker, finisbirfgip this head,! "let us pray" here he paused for a moment before' going on j to say, "for such faith," when, to his surprise, the congregation dropped on their knees in the pause, and tell to praying. Ibe doctor taking in the situation, with his natural astuteness took the cue, and led the prayer, bringing his sermon to a close before he intended or expected to. The occurrence was so ludicrous a one that preacher as well as people could hardly repress their laughter until the hnal benediction, ibe doctor will be careful hereafter, not to make too long a pause when inviting his congregation to pray for any of the cardinal virtues. MAS0NB0E0 SCHOOL. A Schoolboy' Account of the Close of the Session A Beach Party and a Dinner. j j For the Star. After spending five months happily together at school under our good and noble teacher, Mr. L P. Herring, the time, to the sorrow of all the scholars, came when we must close. As generally this is a sad time among students, we proposed to break up in. a way that would be pleasant for all. Some pro posed to have a beach party, others to have a candy stew, but a majority favored the lormer. In a group of twenty-nine we marched to the water. There being only five boys experienced enough to help carry the boats, we were obliged to crowd into two boats some "on top, some "in bottom" but this added ! only to ibe pleasure of the trip. Off to the beach we go! Arrived at the beach, all mmpoutand begin running around ; some playing in the water, 1 some in the sand. Some of the boys got Mr. Herring by the feet and dragged him Over the hills. This was fun for the boys, but not much for the man.; By this time something within seem to cry dinner ! dinner ! ! We went to the house and fixed a big table, and the girls just spread it with good things- pies. : cakes, chicken, turkey, and all kinds of meats. 1 tell you, it was good. The day was spent very pleasantly indeed. We all get aboard and started for home. To make everything pass off nicely, of course, the tide must be low, and we boys must roll up our trousers and got overboard. At last we are here, and such a pleasant walk home I If j you want a good time come to Masonboro. ! THE FIRE AT ATKINS. What a Passenger Said About It-But the j Estimate of Loss It an Brror, The Columbia State has the following concerning the recent fire, at Atkins, S, C, but the extent of the ; loss . ($75,000) is very mucn exaggerated, Messrs. Kan kin & Bridgers placing it at $32,000 with insurance lor $12,000 : j ; - ; A passenger who came in on the At lantic Coast Line yesterday morning in describing the destruction by fire of the large saw mill at Atkins, which occurred Saturday, about fifteen miles east of Sum ter, said : "It was the grandest and most appalling sight I have ever witnessed. The flames leaped hundreds of feet in the air, and literally licked up thousands of feet of lumber that j was in the yards. "The atmosphere ! was I affected for .miles around, so great was the volume of the flames and the intensity of the heat "The fire started early Saturday and did not stop until ft hadjdestroyed every thing in its-reach, ij "The Coast Line lost two freight cars and three hundred leet of track. "The North and South Carolina Rail road lost eight freight cars and several hundred feet of track. "The mill was the oroDertv of Messrs. Rankin & Bridges, and was. the largest in the btate. i bey lose about $75,000, $35,000 in lumber and $40,000 in the plant. Capt. Freeland of the Coast Line is surely a hustler, jj He had the three hundred feet of destroyed track replaced and in good shape by 6 o'clock this morning. Me en oi ail proiessions ana iraaes. min isters, lawyers, merchants and mechanics unite in indorsing Dr. , Bull's Cough Syrup, the old reliable cure for all bron chial and pulmonary troubles as the best household remedy in the market. t All diseases of the1 skin jcured; and lost complexion restored by Johnson's Oriental Soap. Sold at John H. Har din's, Druggist. WILMINGTON PRODUCE' EXCHANGE. Annual Meetin Beport'of the President The Trade Situation Business the Past Tear. : The 20th annual meeting of the Wil mington Produce '.Exchange was held yesterday at noon. j " ' . The meeting was called to order by the President, Mr. Wm. Caldef. ; r The report of the secretary and treas urer. Col. Jno. L. Cantwell, was received and ordered on file. . ..'j The President read his report as fol lows: r Gentlemen of the Produce Exchange . The past year has been marked by no occurrence of unusual importance to the business interests represented on this Exchange, and at its close I have with one exception, no new suggestions to make, as required by our laws. . r The general trade of our city has been crood in some branches considerably larger and more satisfactory, than last year and it is noticeable that the feel- (ne of uncertainty and despondency then prevailing everywhere has been largely dispelled, and a more hopeful view of the future engendered. jOurj country, it is believed, is entering upon a new era, in which, under more equitable laws to be enacted, the rights and interests of all will be more fully protected, inequal ities adjusted,' and' contentment . and happiness follow more closely upon the practice ot industry ana irugailty. The report of your Secretary and Treasurer will inform you fully as to the operations of the exchange.- ' Notwithstanding a greatly reduced cotton crop in sections tributary to this port, our receipts here have i exceeded those of last year, being 163,510, against 160,267 bales. But for the stoppage of mills in the consuming countries, and the consequent sudden falling Off : in de mand, it is believed that our receipts and exports here would have shown an increase of twenty-five per cent.: and the prices obtained in this market have been uniformly as high as at i any At lantic port, and often higher, indicating that, under ordinary circumstances, our facilities for handling this great staple, and the enterprise of our merchants, will attract and control a yearly increas ing traffic in it. , I During the current crop year the movement of cotton to April 1st, shows that receipts at all the ports have de creased 30 per cent: At New Orleans, 39 per cent.; bavannah, 21 per cent.; Charleston. 40 per cent.; Norfolk, 49 per cent.;, while receipts at Wilmington have increased 1 per cent. . j The receipts here of naval stores have been: Spirits of turpentinej 57.536 against 58,999 casks last year ; rosin, 261, 894 bbls. against 294.520 bbls.; j tar, 67, 142, against 68,798; crude turpentine, 14. 855, against 13,924. j The exports of lumber have been 29, 026,414 feet, against 26,115,927 feet last year. The fact that cholera still lingers in the European countries with which we have a direct trade, warns us that we should spare no efforts to prepare an ef fective quarantine at the mouth of the Cape r ear river. 1 need hardly remind you of the deplorable results that would follow its introduction into our City, and from thence into the interior.! Com merce would first feel its blighting ef fects, and, realizing this, your Exchange sent an able committee before the Legis Iature to supplement the exertions of the Quarantine Board in the endeavor to obtain an appropriation for building an efficient modern disinfecting station. To the efforts of urs. Thomas and Burbank is largely due the success ot that! appeal, but the fulfillment of the design is de layed by a requirement that, in the judg ment ot the executive, the danger must be imminent belore the outlay is made At the National Conference of the State Boards of Health held in New York last week it was declared by a unanimous vote that it is imperatively necessary that all ports be put as rapidly as possible in condition to deal promptly 'and effectually with vessels, persons and baggage from infected or suspected ports or places, and it is thought that this will determine the Board of Health of North Carolina to advise the Governor to make available the appropriation of $20,000 as provided by the Legislature, l o be lorearmea wouia seem the part of wisdom in such matters, and I deem it important that this Exchange should use itsMnnuence to induce the immediate building of the quarantine station.,1 The work of the government! engi neers on our river and harbor has de veloped no new line. Their efforts have been directed to creating and maintaining an 18-foot channel from the city to the open sea at mean low water, and for this purpose it is con tempiated to secure a new and more powerful suction dredge Your Board of Managers has recently created a Committee on Manufactures with a view to -suggesting and encour aging the establishment of new tnanu facturuig enterprises here, believing that we only need an intelligent initiative to set the wheels ot industry in motion in new and profitable directions. In this connection, 1 would commend to your attention the prospectus Lot the Wilmington ana west mates naviga tion Company. 'The facts and sugges tions there set forth are not new, but are dormant, and should be energized,' That we are on the shortest route from the great Northwest to the West Indies by already completed rail routes has long been known, but, as stated in said pros pectus, it has so far been impossible to procure the co-operation of the neces sary railroad lines, ; And this brings me to the matter of exceptional interest to which I alluded in my opening remarks. This port -is seriously discriminated against In the matter of inward rates of freight on cer tain .Western products by rail. we are refused as favorable rates as other coast points, and are 'thus Cut off from a large distributive trade that legitimately belongs to us. We do not ask lower rates than our competitors, but we do insist that we should have equal advantages. 1 Acting on the information and advice of the Committee on Railroad Freights, your Board of Managers recently in vited the Inter-State Commerce;. Com mission, then sitting in Charleston, to visit our city and hold a Court in I which we could .present our complaints'. The Commission replied that their engage ments were such that they could; not, at present, name a day when they could Come here. I ' earnestly suggest that you continue the agitation thus .begun Asuccessmi prosecution ot sucn en deavors would be of immense advantage to our trade, and will warrant a! liberal expenditure of time and money, Germane to this subject is the very de moralized condition of the mail and pas senger service on the principal railroad lines terminating here. So irregular has it long been that our business and the oublic convenience is seriously affected. The standing notice at the postoffice for months past has been "Southern (or Northern) mail late. Reported to' ar rive ," anywhere from one! to five hours behind time; and this information is naraiy more tnan a "report,; giving very uncertain intimation of the actual time of amval. ' j ltoiten requires two days to receive and fill orders from points within ten to fiftymiles of this market. The whole trav eling public is 'also greatly inconvenien ced. One never can count on the hour of his arrival or departure, either at ternmi- nals or way stations, and our commercial travelers are subjected to serious loss of time and money. The lines leading westwardly have lately improved their service, ana now promise better connec tions and quicker dispatch to North and South bound passengers although by more circuitous routes than the more direct lines. The latter seem to be sac rificing their local business tor the sake ot their through traffic. I sngeest that you endeavor to bring such influences to bear 'as will induce the railroad authorities to make such schedules as they can run with regu larity, and that will serve as some guide to the public. - l he Legislature at its last session so modified the merchants' license tax as to leave it in a much more satisfactory shape than heretofore, and the attorneys engaged in the suits to test the law have, consequently, withdrawn their appeal to the United States Court. , The . Homestead law.' and the laws governing assignments remain practi cally unchanged, but they were promi nently before the Legislature ana tne Deoole. and the oublic mind is being gradually educated to their baneful ef fects. The continuation ot the agitation against them" is well worthy your atten tion as leading to results that cannot fail to advance the "well, being and' good name of all our people. 1 thank vou. gentlemen, lor. your courtesy during ' my- term of office, and bespeak for my successor & nice Kinaiy consideration. William C alder. Mr. J. C. Stevenson moved that the President's report be spread upon the minutes and the recommendations therein be referred to the new board of managers and the appropriate commit tees, especially as to freight discrimina tion and passenger and mail service. The motion was unanimously carried. On motion of Mr. Jno. K. Turrentine it was resolved that it is the opinion ot this Exchange that the introduction pf cholera is now imminent and that his Excellency, the Governor of the. State, be requested to order that the appropri ation for the building of the quarantine station be made available. On motion of Mr. H. G. Smallbones, it was ordered that the Board of Man agers be authorized to use $150 of the surplus fund toward paying the indebt edness of the Exchange. On motion of Mr. G. J. Boney it was resolved that the President be author ized to invite Messrs. T. Carpenter, Sol. Haas, T. M. Emerson and O. V, Smith, of the Associated Railways, and Mr., W. E. Kyle, of the C. F. & Y. V. R. R., to be present in person or by proxy to dis cuss the matter ot freight discrimina tions, ori Tuesday, April 25th, 1893, at the rooms of the Exchange, and that when this meeting adjourn, it adjourn to meet at 11 a. m. on that day. On motion, it was ordered that the President be requested to write to Mr. Soloman, President of the S. R. R. and S. S. Association, astting that he name a day after April 25th, when a committee from thi3 Exchange can obtain an inter view as to the matter of freight discrimi nations. On motion of Mr. W. H. Sprunt, the thanks of the Exchange were returned to the retiring officers by a rising vote. On motion, the meeting adjourned to April 25th, at 11 a. m. The election for officers for the ensu ing year resulted as follows, viz ; President W. H. Sprunt. ; Vice President G. J. Boney. Secretary and Treasurer John L Cantwell. Board of Managers f. W. Worth, W. N. Harriss, P. Pearsall. R. W. Hicks, D. MeEachern. Inspectors of Elections W. A. Mar tin, J.'K. Williams, H. L. Voilers. The other committees are appointive and will be named by the President at the next meeting. The Savannah Plan. Savannah has a "Merchants' Week Association," something like Wilming ton s Welcome Week organization, but the Savannah people have what they call 'May Week every year. This year it begins May 9th and continues four days. The plan is to send out invitations to merchants, planters and others, with the following explanation : "The festivities and all entertainment being tendered you complimentary by the merchants of Savannah.- Present this at headquarters, Bull and Liberty streets (under De Soto hotel) for badge and tickets, entitling guests to all privileges." So, it will be seen : that the merchants of Savannah not only invite their friends to visit them, but pay their bills for four days. And, no doubt, it proves a profitable in vestment, as it is to be presumed that only those who are likely to be buyers are invited. The Habeas Corpus Case, The two prisoners from Richmond county Alex. Mclntyre, white, and Eli Morrison, colored charged with mur der, (whose arrival in this city. Saturday night was mentioned in the Star) were taken to Southport yesterday by Sheriff Smith, of Richmond, on a writ of habeas corpus returnable to Judge Whitaker, now holding court in Brunswick. After hearing some, of the evidence Judge Whitaker, on account of the absence ot some of the witnesses, continued the hearing until next Monday in Raleigh bberilf bra it n brought the prisoners back to the city and they were lodged in jail here. The Saw Mill Fire, The loss by the burning of Messrs, Rankin & Bridgers' saw mill, at Atkins, S. C, last Saturday (reported in Sun day's Star), is estimated at $32,000, The entire plant was destroyed, with quantity of lumber. There was insur ance on the property for $12,500, with agencies in this city, Visiting Officials of the 5T. C. S. Q, 'J Adjutant-General F. H. Cameron Gen. W. G. Lewis, Chief Engineer; Col J. F. Bruton, of the Second Regiment N. C S. G., and Lieut. T. W. Jones, U S. A., went down yesterday" to visit and inspect Camp Holt. They were accom panied by Assistant Adjutant-Gen. W, R. Kenan, Assistant Quarter Master- General E. W. Manning, Lieut. Col. W. Taylor, Admtant W. H. Northrop, and Capt. Jno. H. Daniel. After inspecting the encampment grounds and partaking of an oyster roast they returned to the city, and were present last night at an informal reception held in their honor at the armory of the W. L. I. and at which were present besides the Light Infantry, the Naval Reserves and the Second Regiment band. i . - Adjutant-General Cameron will make public the result ot his visit to Camp Holt through bis official report to Gov. Carr, commander-in-chief of the State Guard. ! . We are pleased to announce that John H. ; Hardin, our enterprising druggist, has secured the agency for the Japanese Pile Cure; a most wonderful discovery for the Cure of Piles of every kind, which he will sell with a writteu guarantee to refund the money if it does not cure. It is said to be a specific for that terrible and dangerous disease. Get a free sample and try it, t .WASHINGTON NEWS. - The President Back at the White House ; Oreaham'a Prlvat Secretary.. By Telegraph to the Morniox Star. ' Washington, Aprd 10. -President Cleveland, Secretary Gesham and Sen ator White, of Louisiana, returned from Wilmington, Del., at 10.42 this morning. Secretary Carlisle has appointed Her man VanLenden, editor of the Paducah, Ky.,' Standard, his private secretary. Mr.' Venden is 80 years of fage, a native of K.entucicy, ana was appointed on the re commendation of Congressman Stone. Washington, April 11. The Presi dent to-day sent the following nomina tions to the Senate: Edward H. Strabel, Third Assistant Secretary of State, vice William M. Grinnell, resigned; Daniel N. Morgan, J - Connecticut, Treasurer of the United States! vice Enos H.. Nebeker, resigned; Conrad N. Jordan, New York, Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York city, vice Ellis H. Roberts, resigned; Daniel M. Browning, Illinois, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Frank C. Armstrong, Washington, D- C, Assistant Commis sioner of Indian Affairs, r The Senate Committee on Finance to day ordered a favorable report on all nominations before . including that of kckels, lor Comptroller ot the Currency. Washington, April 12. The Demo cratic Senators held a caucus this morn ing, and . decided there should be no investigation of the Roach case at this session. The resolution of the Repub licans:: will therefore remain unacted upon when the Senate adjourns. The Republicans j will naturally antagonize this proceeding, but it does not appear how they can do so with any hope of success, for the reason! that an adjourn ment can be effected as soon as the President notifies the .Senate he has no further communication to send. The caucus decided to investigate the claims made by waddy to , the seat held by Martin. It was announced to the caucus that the President would complete the business he has for the Senate by ; the end of the week; and! it is believed the senate win adjourn tne nrst ot next wees at latest. ; 'i ' j i ; Josephus Daniels, fof Raleigh, N. C, has been selected by secretary Hoke Smith as Appointment Clerk of the In terior Department, vike A. C. Tanner re signed. Mr.' Daniels is thirty years on age, ana was elected btate Printer of North Carolina four tjmes consecutively. He is a lawyer by profession, but has never practiced, having been editor and publisher since his seventeenth vear. He succeeded Walter H.l Page, now editor ot the fiorum, as editor of the btate Chronicle, and sold that paper one year ago. He then established the North Carolinian at Kaieighi. Among the nominations sent to the Senate to-day by the President were the following : Postmasters Conway C. Flameseer Yicksburgj Miss.; Robert G. Wright. Waynesboro, Va.; Richard Adams, Kadford, Va.1 Charles E. Thomas, of South Carolina, has been appointed Confidential Clerk to the Commissioner of Railroads, vtce Wu Hs A. Taylor, resigned. It isnnderstood that the President has tendered the Chief Justiceship of the new Court of Appeals for the District of Co lumbia to Martin F Morris, a leading lawyer of this city. Mr. Morris has ac cepted the position, according to report, and has been in consultation with the President in the past) few day concern ing the selection of t wo other Judges of the court. X he delay in the appoint ment ot Judges has been occasioned by the inability of Mr. Cleveland to decide whether he shall appoint all the mem bers of the court from the District-of Columbia or whether he shall select outsiders. This question will be settled before to-morrow, when the President will nominate the thrtee men selected. : France had. the honor to-day of being the second country whose Representa tive was formally received by the United states in the capacity of ambassador. Yesterday Sir Julian) Pauncefote pre sented his credentials to the President and was formally acknowledged in the title and prerogatives of the highest rank in the diplomatic service, and to-day M. Patenotre, the French minister, was likewise racetved. ; : ELECTION IN F-AYETTEVILLE. On the Question of Sustaining the Graded Schools by Taxation The Measure De- - - feated by the NeKro,Vote, Special Star Correspondence Fayetteville, n C, April 11. The recent General Assembly authorized the town of Fayetteville jto submit the ques tion of sustaining the graded schools by taxation to the citizens of the com munity.! Accordingly an election was held to-day, resulting in the defeat of the proposition by a vote of 426 to 193.; -Considerable interest was mani fested by both sdes, but the ne groes voted in almost solid pha lanx against it, and the majority of the non-tax-payersl c the town did likewise, while the yote of the property owners and the more intelligent classes of the community as about equally di vided. ! The matterlhas been discussed some, but not to that extent to en lighten the populace as to the great ben efit to be derived from the system to all classes; and the great majority through blind ignorance voted to prevent any further taxation of ur community. It is true that we are burdened by taxation, but we are also burdened with illiteracy, and the latter is largely pre dominant; and it was astonishing to see poor men, who have not a dollar of real estate, and yet have five or six children, go to the polls and vote "ho school." when the total .amount they would be required to . pay j under the system proposed : would I have been , fifty cents a year (on the poll) for the education of their whole families. The negroes opposed it on the ground that their education was not dependent on the fund thujs raised that their school fund was Ample, being derived from the State Educational fund, and from Northern appropriations and that they did not propose to pay 50 cents per capita on the poll for the education of the white racel This, I will say by way. of parenthesis, is a matter for the consideration of 6ur future legislators, and one from whif h the white race may derive some profit, -i The result of to-day's election practi cally kills the graded school of this community.-' ; I : !' ' . ' i . A "Well Merited Word. 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It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box! For sale by Robert R. Bellamy, Wholesale and Retail Drug- gists. ; ! SPIRITS TlPENTiTE" i-Goldsboro Ar?u The no fields in this vicinity fare white with bloom and rich with Premise of abun dant crops, provided ho late frost comes to kill the early fruitage M j Salisbury Heralck Mr. Tohn Lentz, who had been Iconfined to his bed f with consumption1 C for several months, died at his home in Brooklyn i at 12 o'clock Saturday night. He was about 83 years of age. 1 1 1 Shelby Review; It is said that about 1,500 tons of fertilizers have been sold at Shelby this season. The election on the license question was held . Saturday and passed off quietly. The vote was a pretty full-jone, 281 ballots oeing cast, ine result was: License, 147; no license, 143; majority fot license, 13. Some days ago (Cicero Harris, colored, was "fooling'' afqund a horse at -Henrietta and the horse ' kicked him. Harris had -an open knife in his hand . and the horse's heels struck the hand, driving the knife blade ino the negro's eye bail, destroying the1 Sight. Newbern Journal On Sunday night about 8 o'clock the i bouse of Tom Jones, colored, living onj Messrs. Wat son & Daniels' land i near Riverdale. caught fire and was completely burned, together with its contents and three smalrchildren, whom :jthe parents had locked up when they went; off to church. The fire was not discovered in time to render any assistance, jthpugh two wo men got close enough toj hear their crie before death came. Wt are informed that the father says there was no fire in the room except a lamp which- was left burning. . j j ; ( Durham Globe: ;Mrs. R. E. Lyon, whose death was reported here Saturday, and whose life since that time has hung in the balances, passed away yesterday evening at 7 o'clock, in New York, where she bad gor e for treatment several weeks back. rj- Last night Thomas; Marsh. Eugene' Toler and " Stephen Jones attacked A. Wade, all colored, and held Wade bp. They took a dollar from his pocket. In doing so. Wade pulled his knife,! find Jones tried to wrench it from his bands, inflicting a severe wound, from which Wade bled freelyj "At trial this morning 'Squire Angier bound the three oyer in the sum of (100 to appear at Court. the crowd is in jail. . j Charlotte- News Mr. J. M. Barnhardt, a prominent farmer of Meck lenburg, died at his home, near Hunts ville, at 7 o'clock this morning. ; His ill ness was very brief. M-jMiss Fannie Bryan, a sister to Messrs: George V. and Ben K. Bryan, of Charlotte, died at her home in Newbero at 7.30 o'clock last Sunday night. She had been sick -for sometime. A fpurteen-year; old son of Mr. J. W. McLaughlin, a former resident of Mecklenburg, j jwas killed on the big red hill near the jdepot in Con cord last Saturday evening. The boy and his father were j thrown from a wagonand the wheels ! passed over the boy, cutting open bis breast and tearing his lungs apart. i 1 - Carthage Bladex Carpenters'are going right ahead on iMills planing mills and dry kilns, there will be three or four buildings besides lumber shed, etc. . The plant will cover about four acres of ground, and it is expected to be in operation in about a month. - At Cameron last Wednesday pight was one of the most disastrous railroad wrecks ever experienced by the! R. & A. rail road. An extra freight! ij train going north . ran into an open switch just .op posite the depot and collided with some . cars standing on the sidf track. E'ght cars were completely jwrecked the engine was dismantled and turned over on its side. The engineer! and fireman, who did not desert the engine, miracul ously escaped7 uninjured.jiiaThe loss to the railroad was up in the thousands, and all because of the carelessness ol the switchman. '. j j j Winston Sentinel: This morning about 9 o'clock Sheriff R.iM. McArthur started for the house of a .negro named William Johnson, about four miles north of the city, for the purpose Of searching for some bacon that had 1 been stolen. When he reached the house' the sheriff - went in and told the negro his business, whereupon he asked to be allowed to go out and tie his horse. Mr. McArthur consented, but told Johnson that he would go with him. Upon reaching the yard he said he wanted to go back and get his hat. but when he entered the building he immediately v seized a shot gun and fired at the officer, and so close was the range that Mr. McArthur's face j was scorched by powder.' Johnson im ! mediately fled. Notwithstanding the sheriff fired at him several times and followed in hot pursuit for ouite a dis tance, the negro escaped. ijtM Raleigh Neivs and pbserver: Mai. John Devereux passed away yes terday at 1 o'clock p. nu at his home, near this city, after a protracted illness. j Mr, John R.' Upchurch continues to improve slowly and it is now hoped that he will eventually recover, though he will in all probability be cbrifined to his room for several weeks' M The Colorado beetle or potato bug j has ap peared in this city in great r)umbers, much to the surprise of many gardeners, who believed the- seventy of the past winter had exterminated this j increasing pesL Adose ofparis green jjs said to "do them good." The reports from the farmers all over the State, now on file in the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture show that there has been a large increase during the past i year in the amount of hog meat iised, indicating that the farmers are turning their atten tion more toward .making their own meat. I Hi j LSmithfield Herald: The peo ple of the Clayton section held ;an elec tion on the no fence question on the 21st ot March and the no fence men were j successful. They will ijoin the Wake county fence. We learn that fires in the woods did considerable damage in the county last Saturday. Mr. Merrill Olive, who lives about six mies west of Smithfield, we learn, lost everything he had by fire. The'; woods caught fire near bis bouse and lfae wind dwelling and set fire to the fodder and that fired his dwelling and everything he naa was Durnea except nis muic vt I learn ij that every panel ; ofjj fence around nis larm was Durncy?; On Sunday 1 night burglars ! entered the store of Mr. B. R. Hood and robbed his safe of all its contents consisting of some over $300 in cash and many . valu able notes and mortgages. The notes and mortgages were found Monday morning on a; lot near the store where the robbers threw them away. I They were evidently professional burglars as they opened his safe without damaging itj Mrs. M. A. Hood's safe was also in the office with Mr. Hood's and this they could not open by working the combina tion and they drilled a hole, some 5 inches deep into the door and Cut the lock of the combination and entered it. There was no money in it except six dollars in one dollar gold pieces.jwhich they did not find, and several thousand dollars In Confederate bills, and some notes and mortgages, which they left on top ot the safe. '! Guaranteed Core, We authorize our advertised druggist to sell Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colas, upon this condition. If you are afflicted with a Cough, Cold or any Lung, Throat ort Chest trouble, and will use this reme dy I as directed, giving ; it a firj trial, and experience no benefit, you may re turn the bottle and have yournioney 'refunded. We could not make this offer, did we not kndw that Drj. 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The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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