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Many subscribers are i'rf arrears, and some pf them pay no attention "whatever to requests to' pay what is honestly due us. With this class our patience is nearly exhausted, and in a short time we shall begin .to cut them off, as we cannot afford to publish a papet for nothing and pay the post age too. i . SENSE AND NONSENSE. , The Boston Journal of Commerce , quotes the following .from theMan chester, England, Textile Recorder with the remark that "there is a good . deal of sense in it." ! ' I : '!'" :-. ' ' "The manufacturers of the. northern states in Ameria are beiKinning to ex perience much the same sort of feeling which English cotton 1 manufacturers have had toward the growth of Indian cotton spinning. The whole of the spindles in the southern states are a mere traction of those in the north, but are sufficient to cause the owners of the latter considerable trepidation. A fifty tour FVftur law is being suggested in Massachusetts, and already suggestions of removal to the southern states are being made." 5 "We venture, to- express an opinion that in all this there is a spice of foolish ' panic; The capacity of the Southern mills is at present, and is likely to be for some years, very limited, being confined to the coarser counts which can be readily spun by the labor available. The organization and skill necessary for the proper manufacture of (he better classes of goods! cannot be cultivated like a weed, but require as much careful treat ment for many years as it does to pro duce the better grades of cotton ttsetf. , "That the project of bringing the mills near the, cotton, fields has in it something at once romantic and appa rently practical may be granted, hut the temperature! of a cotton -growing dis trict is not necessarily the best adapted for cotton spinning. The amount which is saved by proximity to the raw mate rial is not necessarily an Unmixed ad vantage, and there are many cases which can be cited to show this. A selection often wantsto be made, and this is sometimes a difficult thing If only the material from a particular section is at hand. At any rate there is no doubt that the transfer of the manufacturing from tbe Northern to the Southern States will take a long time, but that in the intcrimi Northern "spinners , will find it necessary to alter their methods so as to produce finer yarns, leaving the coarser qualities to their Southern com- pstitors. There some sense in this, but there.; is more nonsense, vhich the writer would not have exhibited if he had given as much study to cot ton manufacturing and its progress in the South as he should have given The New England manufacturers have not; become suddenly alarmed at the j present or prospective j com petition of Southern mills, for. they have fully comprehended what that now is and may be in the future, and although their' interest may ,cause them to j magnify the danger, they are' in a better position to judge of the situation, than the gentleman on thej other side of the water, who shows that be doesn t know hall as much about it as he should know. TwentyVfive years ago New Eng- land spinners taiicea ana tnougnt about the South pretty much as this English writer does now, but they have learned better since and dis covered that they quite underrated Southern industry and enterprise, and had. very erroneous notions about the Southern climate, as unspited to the finer grades of cotton spinning, When the South began to turn at tention ito cotton manufacturing on a larger scale than in her' previous history it caused little concern among the spinners of New England because they took if, for granted that the coarser eoods would prove a match for Southern effort! and for Southern skill. -The rapid advance made, by , the Southern mills from the coarser to finer grades soon dispelled this delu sion, and when Southern mills began " to jlay down certain lines of goods at their own doors -cheaper than' they could make them, they realized the fait that they had a competitor to .deal with whose , enterprise, ; perse verance and skill could not be ignored. . The old-time fallacy about the humidity of the Southern atmosphere being an insuperable ob stacle to fine work, which was ac cepted, as many theories are, without test, was exploded and dismissed by the New England millers, although it still seems to be entertained by the tanchester editor. There is nothing ing the Southern climate to prevent the manufacture of the finest ; goods woven from cdtton, and if this were true of any particular section the fact retaains that there is as much variety of climate within the territory embraced by . the South as there i$ in anv territory of eaual area '., ti i i w am . . k . - - 1 " : . ni i i i v i w i ; mi m i j m a m r 1 i i iwiii . . t , a t .. - on the - face :of the globe. The climate - of mountainous o Northern difference; in the the elevated '. or ands of the Central South, and that of the Coast or Gulf region, Winter or Summer, is as great as the differencevtetween the climate of England and Italy, and yet there are " extremes . of heat or cold in neither. ! In the Piedmont region, where cotton manufacturing has made its t greatest progress, while the atmosphere xontains mois ture enough, itns not laden to excess nor enough of "it to rust the finest machinery or injure the finest thread. It is "-sot the climate? but other con ditions which have prevented the Soutb up to this time becoming a competitor ot New England mills in the finest grades of goods. The Re cord is right 1 in thinking that it will be arlong time - before the! New England mills : are moved ' to the cotton fields, but nobody in this country expects that to happen very soon, for the reason 'that it takes' a good deal of money to' establish plants to- make the finest grades of goods, and to abandon the plants they have in New England, would be to sacrifice a great deal of property, which they will not do while they can keep the millsjainning at even a small profit. ! . , I But both the capital and the skill requisite to the establishment and operation of such plants in "the South will be forthcoming in time, when the South is ready for them and has covered the field with the lines of goods which her looms are now turn ing out, in the manufacture of which there has ; been marvellous progress, and in sorae of which she can com pete with the product of the looms of any other section or country. l he man - who imagines that the South, will be content with manu facturing the-"coarser goods," as the Record suggests, does not fully I un derstand ; the situation, nor j the progress which the South has already made (even with her limited capital) in the production of the finer goods, progress which has snown what Southern vim and skill can do. and which has contributed not -a little to the apprehensions of New England spinners, ' that ' the day of their ascendency in the manufacturing siness lis shorter ihan they imagined It was a few years ago. They may "alter their methods',. and. thus lengthen their lease, but they cannot alter the irrevocable decree that the cotton mills must eventually come to tbe cotton fields. j We are sending out bills for, sub- scnption to the Weekly Star, Many subscribers are in arrears, ; and some of them pay no attention whatever to requests to pay what is honestly clue us. jWith this class our patience is nearly j exhausted; and in a J short time we shall begin to cut them off, as we cannot afford to publish a paper for nothing and pay the post age too. t v ; '-- THE INaXJISITORIAL OBJECTION, If the tariff be reformed so as to give substantial relief to the people, and keep the pledges made by the Democratic party, It will be ineces- sary to provide tor the raising ot revenue to make up the deficiency which will be caused by such; reduc tion. Several plans have been sug gested for this,1 such as an ' increase in the. tax on spirits,1 a tax on sugar, tea, .and coffee, and a tax on in comes, the last of which could be made ' to yield more revenue than either or all ot the others combined. So far te income tax suggestion, as the others also are, is only looked upon as a contingency and as such is discussed. The members of -Congress who have thas far been inter viewed upon it, as a general thing are very cautious about committing themselves, until some definite scheme be proposed, and they can form some opinion as to its breadth and scope. If it be presented to Congress it will be as a necessity, and if it pass Congress it will pass on that ground, not because it is liked, but because it is necessary. Judging, however, from the warmth with which some of the papers which are opposed to it assail it, they are evidently under the impression that an income tax bill will be presented to- Congress, : and that there is a chance of its passing, and so they are loading , for it '- and firing ait now. The opposition at the present time comes mainly, from the East, from the section where there are the largest : number of incomes in pro portion to population that would be affected by a , law touching incomes jover $5,000. The argument that is most frequently urged against it by these is that it is an "inquisitorial" tax, and therefore oppressive, that it is "a discriminating" tax, and there fore undemocratic. " .There is no foundation for either of these assertions jehich couldn't furnish equally as good ground for opposition to any , other direct tax. It is inquisitorial but no more so than Any other system of direct taxation. Is it. any more inquisitorial ' than the internal revenue system? Is an -income tax imposed by the Federal Government any more inquisitorial than an income tax imposed by 'a State? All direct taxation is simply an income tax in another form, that is a tax i on the things" from which the income is derived instead of on the income itself. Of both the latteris the fairer and should be the least ob jectionable because it taxes only , the net profits arising from, the sources of income and leaves the - sources aloneJ Under the other system values, very often values only on paper, are taxed,' whether they be productive or not, and sometimes the non-productive pay a higher tax than the pro ductive. : In point of fairness the in-" come tax has, everything in its favor, and the, very .discrimination that is complained of is in its fairness, be cause it imposes, the burden on the shoulders that are best able to bear it, and on-the man who derives the greatest; benefits' 'from the Govern -ment for whose benefit he ' is called upon to contribute, not in proportion to his property, much of which may be nOn-broductive, but in proportion to the benefit he .derives from that property, in . whatever shape 'if may be.' : p'-K ": ; .-v It . is alleged by - some of the Re publican organs which found no fault with it when it was first passed as a Republican-measure,' that it would be in its effect a sectional tax and by far the larger part of it would fall upon the North where the larger- incomes are.HL:,:v'j..v;:K "V;'M Did thev ever find fault with the protective tariff on this gicmnd which for .years has imposed heavy tribute on the people of the South and the West for the benefit of Eastern' manufacturers, who have be come rich out of this tribute and now complain .at the proposition to require them to pay a tax on the in come derived from it? v Was there , ever any complaint made of the pension system as sec tional when nine-tenths of the money expended in pensions was distribut ed in the North, although the South paid her proportion of it right along? This kind of sectionalism: didn't hurt'them, but it took ' hundreds of milions of dollars out of the hard earnings of the people of the South and put them info the pockets of the section which has been favored by Federal legislation ever since the war.'; j '." '.! 1 We can7t say that we are particu larly; enamored of an income tax, but we insist that it is the fairest sys tem of taxation, until its opponents produce some stronger argument against it than this inquisitorial ob jection - i ' - "Read the Star's great ofler ot joksin this paper. Readers of the Weekly r Star can 'secure these standard .novels by sending two of the coupons and ten cents in silver or stamps. Read the advertisement for full particulars. Republican organs have the cheek to ask, "why has the Sherman act not ! been repealed?" Why simply because the Republicans who passed it didn't want it to be repealed, but concluded that it would be cute politics to let it hang over to worry the Democrats when they got into power. With all the gadding that Senator Sherman got he couldn't be driven ito move for its repeal, which he promised to do. and Senator Hill had to do it. ' We are send:ng out bills for sub scription to the Weekly Str., Many subscribers are in arrears, and some of them pay no attention whatever to requests to pay what is honestly due us. With this class our patience is nearly exhausted, and in a short time we shall begin to -cut them off, as wet cannot afford to publish a papier tor nothing and pay the post age too. - It is, said that Ella Wheeler Wil cox who also builds poetry, has in yented a dress which has no buttons, hooks or eyes, strings or any other fastenings. But mother Eve got the start of her on that a long time ago If Ella will invent' a collar that will button itself or hustle around and find the elusive button when it skips, it winbe something novel, and en title her to the plaudits of suffering masculinity. v ;, Read the Star's great offer of books in this paper. Readers of the Weekly Star can secure, these standard novels by sending two" of the' coupons and ten cents in silver or stamps. Read the advertisement for full particulars. - A SaisT Order. A lady at Florence, 5. C sends an order I tor twelve of the, Star coupon novels, and invokes the aid ; of the Muses" through four stanzas of verse. The first and last stanzas are as follows: v My dear Mr. "Star," i As I live so far, I disliked to write so many times. j i So, I thought it better, . i : To send in one letter, The coupons I'd saved, and the dimes. ,- . - ; . .;-; . i The -Star" is a -dandy," -So newsy and handy, And is cordially welcomed each morning .!.' by me, . - ,. ;-- ' I prize it most dearly, 1 t And remain yours, sincerely, Mrs. J'. L. Barringer, Florence, S. C Register of Deeds.Haar has is sued marriage licenses the past week to one white and .three colored couples. : ; CAN IT BE DONE? It . la Offiolallr Announced that Cotton JJaa Be Produced in Texaa at Cost of i Two to Four Cents Per Found. -f Texas Agricultural and -Experiment Sta tion that Will excite . interest, surprise, and some doubt, too, among producers. factors and manufacturers of cotton. , A synopsis of the bulletin'is given by. the Galveston News: . ' ' . '-i "From actual experiments it appears that cotton can ' be r produced, hand picked, at a cost of 4.09 cents a pound, and machine picked at S.12 .cents a pound. -These are the lowest figures given. " Other experiments are approxi mately as cheap. These; experiments were not ideal in the sense that condi tions were selected. They were the actual experiences oi practical farmers in Texas. The cost included rent of land and pay of all labor r from planting to marketing. The significance of- this is tremendous. If the cotton planters of Texas could or would adopt- a sys tem bringing cost as low as S cents; a pound, it is plain that they would soon solve the problem of Southern agricul ture. The cheapest cotton noted in the bulletin was produced on land that had already grown a crop of peas. In another place the larmer, Mr. W. A. Clark,; of Bell county, exhibits his intensive system of farming by which with peas followed by cotton, he made a net. profit of f 83.45 an acre, it is to be observed, too, that this profit was made not without but with fertilizer, and the fertilizer is charged' up in the expense. I be best farmers in the State use all the fertilizer they can rake and scrape to aid them in the production of their crops. Andhis has been proved to he a navinor investment. Yes. it navs a "hundred fold, at least.: If Mr. Jeff Wellborn could raise cotton at a cost of 2.12 cents per pound and he did it-j-on post-oak upland what could be done on the rich river bottoms? ' What could others do? When the Cunningham cot ton picker, whidf Mr. Wellburn used, or some other? comes into general use throughout the State, and other im proved machinery, and farmers have learned to raise what they want to con- sume instead of paying out their money for nearly everything that goes on to their tables and even into tbe mouths of their beasts, the millennium in cotton raising will have arrived, and not before. The secret in cheap cotton raising, other things being equal, lies in doing as mflch of the work as one and his family can do themselves, and in not drawing on a gro cery too heavily, particularly when hired labor is to be ted, Taking this view of the matter, no one cdn doubt that in time when the cotton harvester comes' into use cotton may generally be raised in Texas during favorable seasons for even Jess than 2 cents per pound.- But sup posing it should cost 3 or even 4 cents, there is still money in cotton, and always will be." ' -i I i ' ' 1 : 11 I It is probably true that in certain parts of Texas cotton may be ' grown more Cheaply than elsewhere in the South, but it may well be doubted if it can be pro duced, even when picked by .machinery, for the minimum cost given above. But, if it can, there are other States that can produce it for 2 to 3 cents per' pound. North Carolina, however, is not one of these btates, and when the day of two cent cotton comes, our people will have to turn their attention to other crops. COMMON SENSE VIEWS. Men Should Not Take Counsel of Their Fears Instead of Being Guided by Their Oood pdgment. ':; . In reviewing financial affairs, the New York Financial Chronicle gives expres sion to the following suggestive observ ations: "Confidence in Stock Exchange values is at a low ebb. "Prices have fur ther declined, and it almost seems as if all hope of recovery had been given up, and the market had entirely lost its power ot recuperation as if every one believed the only end in sight was the utter extinction of all value. The ral lies have been fitful and short-lived. and after each reaction prices have touched ! a lower depth. Of course operators for a decline' are 5n part responsible , lor tbe extreme depres r sion which prevails. At (a time like the present, when confidence is so deeply disturbed, it is easy enough to bring about a decline a mere- sugges tion of possible trouble answers the purpose, for people are ready to lend their ear to any tale, no matter how ridiculous or ill-founded. Asj a conse quence the best and strongest share in the discredit attaching to the weakest. For the moment men are taking coun sel of their fears, instead of being guid ed by their good judgment.) What is needed now more than anything else is a return - to common sense views, a discrimination between the. good and the bad, between investments that have value and those that are without value.' Because a few properties have been mismanaged it does not follow that the whole oody oi railroad corporations is tainted in the same way; because there have been some bank failures we must not imagine that all the banks are in danger of insolvency; because business-disasters have under the existing strain and pressure become rather numerous, we are not lustmed in assuming that , our entire; mercantile trade is in an unsound state; and because efforts to repeal the silver law have heretofore failed, we must not give, up hope that the remedy will! yet be ap olied. and before it is too late. We are now paying tne penalty lor some or our follies, but if we only heed the lesson the future will not be doubtful. This is a young country and our powers of re cuperation are marvelous." ( ; . . ) - ' ' . " WILSON COURT. A Negro Bavisber Convloted and Sen tenced to be Hanged S Murder Trial. Special Star Correspondence 1 r Wilson, N.C June 10, 1898. -The trial of Drake, the negro rapist, was concluded yesterday, and although he. Was ably defended by. Messrs.. C. B. Aycock and Yarboro, who endeavored to prove mistaken identity, the jury after a short discussion of the - facts, re turned a verdict of guilty, and this morn ing. Drake was sentenced to be hanged July 21st, 1893.- This will be the first hanging that has occurred in Wilson county in thirty years, - , ; J - The white man Amerson, wno Kiuea Frank Howard a few months ago. was re quired to give a bond of ; $2,500 for his appearance at the next term of Wilson superior ixurt, and tnree . oonosmen iustified at once, and he was released. According to hear-say i evidence, tne finding of the Court will probably be justifiable homicide, as he was On two . a mi occasions assaulted dv nowara. xac defendant will plead self-defence. P. S. Counsel tor defendant Drake have filed an . appeal to (,the Supreme Court on exceptions. .J, RALEIGH NEWS" BUDGET. I K ... r i m V VERDICTOF NOT GUIUTYrN THE CASE OF E. F. MOORE. ' Mr. Bonus's Looture at the A. & M. Col- lege John B. Hampton's Death Hew : Cotton Ftotory- No Demand ; for EealJ Estate Slate Fair The New Hotel. SpecialK Star Correspondence --' I - Raleigh," N. G, June 10. Those who attended the exercises at thej Agricultural and 'Mechanical Col lege last night speak in the highest terms of Mr. H. E. Bonitz, of Wilming ton whose , lecture on "Cranks and Fdols" brought down the house." A weH known literary critic here, accords lOjMr. Bonitz great merit and; predicts for him a most successful career should he press his humorous traits as a pro- fe&sion " WATTERSON will lecture. 3A letter has been received from Henrv Watterson announcing thatjie, will cer tainly be on hand to deliver - his' lecture at the A. and M. College the coming commencement, if no unforeseen Tcir- cumstances shall prevent. - ' 1 " ' JNO. S. HAMPTON. John S. Hampton, one of the most Widelv knowrf Drinters in North Caro lina, died afthnnsane asylnm, in this dity, late yesterday afternoon. He was i nativej of Rowan county, but had been, except at short intervals, a resident of jhiscitjf since about 1861.1 His health nd mind gave way to such an extent cw v ecus aiuL.c an iu caqse nis iransier o tbe asyium. He leaves a numerous amily in very moderate circumstances. J COTTON FACTORIES. " . Three cotton factories are jiow m uccessful. operation here. I A fourth is under contract, aid the stock for a fifth has so far been secured that an eligible site is being looked after. The main source of congratulation in the matter is, that they are owned and controlled by our own people, who are wonderfully waking up to the fact that well con ducted industries pay better than-the old chronic investments ia mortgages, "j REAL ESTATE MARKET, j The transfers of real estate here are almost at a standstill, and the register of deeds says he has very little .to do now in the way of recording- in com parison wjth former years.The depression in the land market is apparent on all sides. This was clearly evidenced by the recent sale of the Morehead-Smith property, which the commissioners have almost wholly refused to confirm. Another sale will be ordered in tbe Fall when; it is .hoped the returns of the crops! m3y bring forth better times. ' : STATE FAIR. - i , " Aside from the .drawbacks to the fair caused j by the dilatory action of the roads in the matter of rates; is the un certainty in regard to theatricals and exhibitions generally at the usual time. The I managers, both of the new opera house and Metropolitan Hall, are in re ceipt of proposals for Fair weekr but, of course, j these are dependent upon the action of the Executive Committee relative to holding the exhibition. ! "j OTHER MATTERS. ! Propositions for lease of the new hotel hve already been received. -The building, with the exception of finishing interior; touches, will be ready in the course of a few weeksr" -: A. DJ Jones, our Consul to Shanghai, will leave the city next Monday for Washington, where he will receive his final instructions. Tbe j Mayor has lust issued a most stringent order against depositing the trash and sweepings of stores in the streets. A force of police has been de tailed to look after and report all such violations. Our sanitary regulations were never in a more satisfactory condi tin or the health of the city better at this season. . It is understood that District Attorney Cooke Will tender his resignation soon after tbe present' term of the court, Marshal Hill will probably wait the turn ot events. r . f events. if . v. In the .F S. DISTRICT COURT. Federal Court this morning the case of E. F. Moore was resumed, Geo. H. Snow malting the opening speech for defendant. He was followed by the District Attorney and his assist ant, for the prosecution, which closed the argument. . j Ij &.T. MOORE ACQUITTED. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, June 10. In the case of E. F. Moore, of Fayetteville, tried in the UL STf Court, the Judge's charge was favorable to the defendant. , The ver- diet of. the jury was "not guilty Counts. . , il on all The Cutting Affray. j Cato Littleton and his for whose arrest warrani brother - David warrants were issued Friday night for assaulting Jas. Jordan and cutting the latter with a knife (as told in the Star) were arraigned before Justice McGowan yesterday." The evi dence showed that Cato was the assail ant; and David endeavored to restrain him1, Cato JLittleton was required to give bond innhe sum of $50 for his ap pearance at the criminal court and in default was sent to jail. David Little ton was released from arrest. Let It Circulate. Don't - hide vour mOnev in an old old stocking; and if you owe your neigh bor five dollars pay it. Then he can pay somebody else that five dollars, and thus the money is kept in circulation and trade improved. If every debtor in Wilmington who can pay would pay, there would be a marked improvement in business. 4 ' A High Honor to ja Worthy Wilming- tonian. . . A telegram received in this city yes terday j from Milwaukee stated that Marsden Bellamy, Esq., of Wilmington, was elected, unanimously. Supreme Dic tator1 of the Supreme Lodge, knights ot Honor, now in session in Milwaukee. The officers a salaried one and is said to bej worth $4,000 a year. Inspootoa of Steamboats. The Charleston News and Courier svs the board of designators yesterday se lected W, H. Gannon to be inspector of hulU of the third district. The other two candidates stood quite as creditable examinations.-but ,the position was awarded on the experience and known ability ot Capt. txannon. ' , "I have read five of them, and enjoyed them very much," writes Miss Louise Sutton, of La Grange, in refer- encd to the Star coupon novels; She has ordered another supply. ' ' - Mr. Charles J. Mitchell, an nounces that he will continue the grain. milling: and peanut business formerly, conducted by B, FMitchell & Son. The firm name will be a. t. Mitcneu co. THE WORLLyS FAIR To be Closed on Sundays Opinions of the - ' . Judges. Bt TelegTaph to ths Morning Star. i Chicago, June 8, In the injunction suit brought by the United States to re strain the local directory trom opening the World's Fair gates Sunday, Judge Woods announced this morning that he and his associates failed to agree on cer tain points, and that each would formu late his ideas in individual ODinion. Judge Wood's individual opinion is that an injunction must issue and the' gates De closed, judges enkins and Cross- cup have not yet made known their opinions. - ' - . ; Judge lenkins , agrees with Tudee Wood on the main point in the World's t air injunction proceeding, and also de cides that the injunction must issue and the Fair be closed Sunday. - Judge Crosscup holds that it -may,, be kept open. . ., . ; '-. - ' Judge "Woods announced that each member of tbe Court would deliver his -own opinion. - "It is a matter of regret that we have not had time to reduce our decision to writing," said he, "and each one of us will speak for himself." In brief Judge Woods held that the Gov ernment was in absolute possession of Jackson Park and had the right to make whatever rule it pleased concern ing the management of the . Fair: that the Sunday closing rule had not been lawfully repealed, and that it was the duty of the' court to grant the relief prayed for by the -District Attor ney. He believed that an injunction should be issued. In the course of i his address Judge Woods said, "There is a claim that a local corporation tendered the Park to the United States, but the aeience preiers a iormai denial, it is a qnestion to be decided by Congress. "There is nothing in the act of Congress to override, the laws of any State. The general proposition is that when! the government takes possession of grounds within a state, the laws of that State continue to have-force only through the united state authorities. The same was true at the Centennial. It is true that the .Government has no right to : i ' l Tii: ' . t . i comroi pants in Illinois unless iney i are tendered to. and accepted by Congress. congress would nave no control over Lincoln Park. It has at Jackson Park, for that has been tendered. My con clusion on that point is then that Con gress has the right to regulate proceedings on those grounds. What has Congress done in respect to bunday closing ? My conclusion is. Congress bad the power to make regulations concern ing that question. March 3, 1893 the Government voted (2,500,000 to the Fair on condition that if the gift was accepted the fair was to be closed on the first day of the week, j In other words, if I the money was taken, the Commission (it does say directors), was to-adopt a rule closing tbe gates on bundav. thus recog nizing or establishing the right of the Commission to make this rule. There was an acceptance, and the rule; was adopted, and in my opinion it has never been repealed. - When Judge urosscup concluded his opinion, favoring Sunday opening, Attorney Edwin Walker, counsel for tbe Directory, gave notice that an appeal would be taken. The motion will be heard to-morroW at 9.30 o'clock. - If the supersedeas Is granted, the Fair! will remain open on Sundays until the Court of Appeals finally passes on the cases. MORE CROAKERS. They Are All Around What a Boston, Pa- per Says of Them. . "A feeling of despondency is just now permeating the leading centres of busi ness," says the Boston Journal of Com merce, "and the chronic pessimists who, in the whole course of their existence have never predicted anything else than disaster, are airing their Cassandra-like propensities with such success that they have demoralized the business community.- Of course the cotton market has not escaped, and the local misanthropes are - quite enjoying the condition of misery into which the market has fallen. Under the circumstances it requires a very strong effort to resist the prevail ing tendency toward hopeless despon dency. Nevertheless, we venture t state that there is no jurisdiction for the bearish sentiment" which, at present dominates the market, and we have no hesitation in saying that for the re mainder of tbe season the statistical de velopments and the trade evolutions will, on balance, be in the direction of increasing ' strength and advancing values. The enormous reduction irr the production ot yarns and goods, repre sented by the protracted stoppage' of machinery in Lancashire, has cleared off the surplus stocks in the leading depots of tbe 'world, while the slow, state of business, incidental to the constant de cline in values, has caused spinners in both America and Europe to run down their surplus stocks of the raw material to a much smaller compass than for many years past, at this period of tbe season. The deliveries henceforth will, therefore, be larger than the correspond' ingweriod of last year, and with dimin ishing visible stocks confidence will gradually revive. .(;'. Some Crack Bhooting. i .The Observer gives the following ac count of some good shooting in Char lotte in which Col. J. T. Anthony, well known ra Wilmington, was the victor By a score of 49 but ot a possible 50, the handsome china set which the gun club won at Knoxville as the second na tional trophy, became the individual property of Col. J. T. Anthony yester- daay afternoons l he shoot was con ducted under the rapid firing rules, semi exnert. the score being as follows : Anthony, 4a; hSrem, br 44; cresweu, 44; Justice. 44; Howell, 42; Todd, 42; Dodge, 41; Andrews, 41; Brem, Jr., 40; Stokes, 40. i The china was formally, presented to Col. 'Anthgny on the return to the city by Mr. W. H. Justice, who, to make the prize complete, added a handsome game carving knife andfork, which he couldn't be regarded as altogether unselnsa in 'donating, as the club intends to enjoy both the china and the carving set at a bird supper Col. Anthony is down for when the season opens. The number of Sta coupon novels ordered up to yesterday is 2,736. This isn t so bad. - - .; GOVERNOR'S APPOINTMENTS. v - i, T. A. Jones to be Judge of the- Criminal Court of Asbemie. ?' Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, June 10. The Gov ernor appointed T. A. Jones, Asheville, . Judge of the Criminal Court of that city, and Eugene G. Carter solicitor. ; . A requisition has been issued on. the Governor of Virginia for the rendition of Jordan Lindsay, guilty of assaulting an officer in Greensboro with a deadly weapon. - - - A TERRIBLE - DISASTER, THE COLLAPSE OF i A GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN WASHINGTON.. ' Fall of tbe Old Ford Theatre Over 600 People In tne Building f-Twenty-One Persons Killed and Many Others Injarjedi List of be Dead None of the Victims From tbe South ' - B Telegraph to the Morrung Star. Washington, p. CJune 9. -Another tragedy,' less 'national in character but involving the loss of many more lives and . much more' human .'suffering, has stained the walls of the old Ford's Theatre, Washington, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated! by T. Wilkes Booth in April, 1865, and the horrors of the scene were by no means lessened by the knowledge that a blunder-purely in this case almost "worse than crime" had caused the death of from twenty to thirty persons at least, and inflicted in- juries upon nity or sixty more. : : Evidence as :i found in the official records appear conclusive that' as long ago as 1885 this building, which the Government purchased after Lincoln's .assassination, and used as an army museum, i was Officially I proclaimed by Congress an unsafe depository for even inanimate skeletons, mummies and books of the -Army Medical Mu seum, for which a safer place of storage was provided by act of Congress. But notwithstanding the fact that in the public press, and in Congress also, con tinued attention was called to the bulg ing walls of the! building, and its dark ness and general unsuitableness and un safetiness, it continued to be used for the daily employment of five hundred clerks of tbe Pension Record division of the war Urnce. With refinement of dis crimination, however, I between what could be replaced and what could not be so easily supplied, while the clerks were trusted in the unsale building, the origi nal records were retained in the substan tial, fire-proof War Department building proper. io the comforting official as surance is given that while thirty clerks may have been killed." the pension records are all saved and uninjured. The building collapsed in the midst of an ill judged effort to remedy! some of its de fects. :.". !! :. il r The moral of the disaster if there is anv is emnhasized bv! the fact th there are known to be at least two great Governments buildings'! the - printing office and the Winder building annex of the, War Department (tach containing many more employes than were caged in the Ford's theatre death trap, which are in an equally dangerous, condition. The hour pi the. disaster was very shortly after the departments had settled down lor the davs work. Workmen" whose operations under the building were : the immediate cause of the catastrophe, had been tinkering upon it for two hours or more; mmf an hour earlier and: few lives would, have been lost. II . ! 1 There were 475 persOns, mostly Gov ernment clerks', employed in the building. and nearly all! of these were at work when the building fellJ Excavation for an electric light plant Was being made! the cellar ot the structure a three-sto affair and, according to the best info mation obtainable, thfc workmen ; thi: morning had dug beneath the founda tion supports in Jront j!of the building, weakening them to such an extent that. the walls gave: way before they could be lacked.. . - ; '.! - . i ! I This explanation of the cause for the accident is the only one advanced, but it seems somewhat strange, in view of the fact that the top floor gave way first. Men who were in tbe .building say the crash came without warning. i hose on tne top floor were suddenly precipitated to the floor below, and the weight of falling timbers andj furniture carried the second and first floors with : it. Fortu nately only the forward half of the floors gave way. 1 he outer edges of the floors and the near; parti of the structure re mained intact, l he walls did not fall. The news that the building had fallen,' spread with lightning-like rapidity,, andj soon Tenth street and adiacent thorough fares were crowded with people. Within an nour the news was known all Over Washington, and hundreds of anxious relatives and, friends! swarmed to the vicinity -of the old j theatre. Women appealed anxiously 'to every bystander for information about-some particular person, while men came with tears id their eyes and imploringly: besought policemen to let them through the police lines,! that they might 1 obtain some knowledge of jj their friends an 1 relatives. ' ' - ;. The general fire alarm was turned a few minutes after the crash,,1 and then' all the ambulances in the city were sum moned. As. quickly a$ possible the police , and i firemen forrned a I rescue brigade, and! ready bands; assisted them to take out the killed and wounded. In less than j an hour ; about 25 people had been taken put, and every few minutes thereafter some still form! would be borne on stretchers from the building fouce and army amouiances, cabs, cart riages and vehicles oft every descripcion were pressed into service j for taking: away the dead and injured, f All hospi-j tals in the city were utilized in caring; for the injured, and scores of physicians voluntered their services for the workji j The Commissioners of the District or Columbia took possession ot the build-j ing and vicinity in person. Col. Corbini Assistant ASjutaht-General of the Army; -was sent by; Major-General Schofield to represent the War Department,- and; to decide if it I was necessary to call out troops.. Owing to the excellent police regulations tbe rescuers were not hin dered in their work by' the anxious crowds, and it was not long before the debris had been cleared away to such ah extent that the work Of rescue could be Carried on without hinderance. Both the military and naval authorities took: prompt action. Gen Schofield ordered j two troops of cayalrV from Fort Myers, j just across the river, and two companies! of infantry from the Arsenal, to -the; scene of disaster. The Secretary of thej Navy ordered out all, the naval medical? officers stationed here, and also opened! Naval Hospital to receive the injuiedj The commandant at the Navy Yard" was ordered to render all the assistance inf his power. jEyery hospital in the city was called into requisition. Ambulances carriages and other vehicles filled with; wounded were quickly traversing th city in every direction. ; f ; The total casualties as near as can ascertained at thi writing, are as tolh lows: -Twenty-one dead bodies are at the Morgue and the; Emergency Hosn pital. - four more persons are reporte whfeame! ? I fused with those of the victims dead, whose names were probably- coi or the identity ' confused 'with some ' -of thi bodies through physical resemblance, Two persons whose names were i eluded in the earlieflistof victims take! from the rums, escaped uninjured. The number of the minred re is about fifty, but many others who wee able to proceed to their . homes, were hurt more or less badly. t t -1 .t " : - . I When the crash came there were supi JWsvU VJ 1U LUC UUilVUU) V UCIifi 13 messengers. 20 laborers a total 41 534-persons. : ".,y. '-;-',-;'-V-i :V . f I persons. . . . '. : .", n In the list of the injuredjthere atf none from Southern States. HKITSJURPENTINE. R- Smithfield Herald:. The many friends of - Mrs. J. Walter Matt were flastlSunday morning. , Kr. j-,., j : ; . -I rl- Charlotte" Is -r mMs A. Brem, one of the "most f tstimable ladSes of Charlotte, died at this residence of Mr. D. P. Hutchinson, at 1M o'clock V ;I this; morning.. She was 65 yeari f age- Winston Sentinel: j The little c aughterof Dr. L. G; Hant.lofi Yadkin county, found a portion jof fa carrier - pigeon near the spring hOuse) on the Doctor s place a few days ago.; E On the left foot was a ring showing that it was sent bv a man named Wnllnr nnrt th pigeon was en route for Washington city , wnen it was captured and kjued by a hawk. , J m -f of jMay a mad dog bit some! 'cattle and nogs Deionging to Messrs. . p. White. D. . Y.j White and M. F.White, of Bear Creek township,: and last week thwe .of the, t cattle went mad and had toibe killed. ,' The dog belonged to Mrs. Robinson, of auer uuy, ana -was snot pyi Mr. d. y. W!hite. - : : ' : : I f , , Mt. Airy News' : IL carrier- ; pigeon was caught by Oscar j Sides the other day in his mother's yard. It had oh its wings "Dr. C M. Buckey, 927 M -street, Washington, D. C"i Dr. Buckey 4 " was written to and he replied that the bird had been liberated at Statesville and -wits on a direct route to Washington but it! was to cloudy for it to mike the trip. The pigeon was turned loose-here Tues- tl t- Concord 'Standard! liearlv four years ago Mr, Joseph Misenheimer, now . deceased, while ploughing 6x a bottom, lost a fine silver watch. ' He made dili- gent search for it, bat without success,. : Thei same, ground has been ploughed four times or more, but the watch could not be seen. The: other diy Mr. Fink Misenheimer, a , son of tfe deceased; pjoughed up the treasureahd at a place least expected. 1 . i(. j --4 Charlotte News: A -jgenuine cu riosity in this part Of the f, country was -brought to light yesterday afternoon, when, a party of boys found a coot's nest ji a patch of bullrushes, at; Murray's old brickyard near the Air Line junction. The nest contained eleven! egg$. They are not quite as large as j guinea eggs. She coot is a coast bird and it is an odd rcumstance to find one Of them nesting . if this part of the country Southport Leader', The death or: Mr. J. Arthur nnner, one ot the old est residents of Southportj took place on Thursday of last week. Mr. Pinnef had been ailing lor some time, and was 79 years old. Several I of the small trading schooners have lately been en- near here to Wilmington, tin be used on the i streets of that city, I About forty thousand bushels have been taken. Rice prospects from the; kipper end of the county are very fine. jjj-U Monroe Enquirer-iM.x. C.' W. Mullis died at his "home New Salem township, oa the 31st ultLjafter a short illness with pneumonia, laged about 85 years. The blackberry crop, which at first was thought to be' a failure, promises to be a bountiful One, A great many of the briars were - killed by . the Id weather last winter! 'but In our opinion the crop will be; fully as large as it would have been ha!d none of the briars been killed, for the berries will be arger and better by having mere room d sunshine. ' :4 -1 Greensboro " Recc ty: Here is other loud call for a sduntv convict System. Eli Richardson J who was. con- cted oi a misdemeanor last week tn. rt. was hired out to a farmer. Mr. pus Voss, to work out his fine. Eli went home with him but the wprk did not suit him and he left, coming back to the jail jlfst night where he said lie had rather .remain than work. Therfe is no law to keep him on Voss farm. There is nothing to do but feedj himand the unty loots the bill. '1 - Warrenton Recordi With 265,- 0 acres of land in the tebuntv. all of hich is capable of being cultivated and Wch, if properly cultivated, would be ry productive, we have a white popu lation of only 5,880. While there is i Scarcity of money in the! country, the condition of our peoplejsf better than it ks been for many years. Our market fa now, and has been for some time fully npplied with good home! (cured bacon, which we have not knownilo be the case, tef ore in years. We are gradually learn jig and will get there after? awhile. . Jj . Charlotte '-Oise'rw$: 'B$Tglzi&'.. It ere at work on AldermanjOeorgcHaH's fc'lace, near the city, Tuesday night. The jiouses oi Messrs. r, i. r reeiana, . i. poyte, L. A. Adams anJ. L. Pen- friingerr who live on they place, were : Entered, and from the last ffamed $15 in fiiohey was stolen. The mbyiey was in iMr. Penninger's pants, his pants ; ftre under his head, jrjts wife was ,, groused by a noise, and wde Rer hus iand, who fired three timesjit the fleeing Ifobber. At the other houses entered, ao money was obtained, plthough the clothing of the inmates wpl taken out nd searched. I Ii x ' i J C.harlntt nhserner: I iMiss Sallie V ash died atiorae in Hilli&oro Sunday t the advanced age ot f. Deceased as a relative of Capt. Fred Nash and- pt. C. Withers poon, ot fis city. She as principal ol the taraous in ash ot bllock bchool, for half it century one he leading schools of the! Country. - reen Henderson, a well-pnown colored olitical hish fiver, who went from here o Washington, securing place under . he last Administration iftfthe Treasury epartment, has felt thei edge of Mr. . lisle s axe. rlis omciaa neaa is on. IA letter was found on file in the De- Jpartment, which Henderson penned isome time back. When ttte Secretary of :he Treasury came across it, he was not ong in making the writer place vacant. Hence Barnes, the rigro who shot Mr. Walter Smith at Pirfyjlle Monday kfternoort whde the lattertwas trying to larrest him, was captured yesterday morn ling about day-light In a cibin 6n Mr. J. K. Miner s place, ty yonstaDie L,. m. Grierandtwoof Mr. Sftith's brothers. ; He was foundasleep with the pistol he took from Mr. Smith did two knives t under his head. He made no resistance ; and was brought here aria lodged in the Tombs. . ijj Statesville Landm irk: Emanuel Stikeleaher, aged, about 20 years met with an accident at Gilbert's saw mill, , near Amity, ' in CharnperBbuTg town ship, last Friday alterndon, that caused his death about six htiurs afterward. Stikeleather was in theM employ of the : ' owners of the mill anil had been"enr r gaged in cutting timbe in the woods, ; On; the afternoon in cMiestion he was put to work bearing 'OS lumber from the ' mill. 'He was j anused to the ; work and rather awkwtrd at it, and about 3 o'clock his ifsot slipped or ' caught on the carriage of the ' mill and he was 'pulled iut against the saw, which 1 struck hisf left leg just above the knee, cuttingclear through the bone and leaving th leg dangling by a strip of flesh andf muscle. , .The flesh , was also torn loo four or five inches up his thigh and the bone ex posed.' The fingers of is right hand were cut, but ho other portion of his.; body was injured. One oghose present .grasped him. when he tell f&t was unable to get him entirely clear ofthe saw. Had it struck him in the position in which he , first fell it would have gonM through his body. But the work alreJgy done was sufficient to cause death. She poor fel low's body fell down ! amdpg the saw dust and his mutilated leg as covered with it. v '. r'. J --v : '" A Chitaon rflsnatch IttVS: Chief t.i cnii. t.. iuii iMtiiv of oro- . jiBuwfuuii",", "STTu 4 I ceedings, and ithe j Fair be f open -f. ? 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The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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June 16, 1893, edition 1
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