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t .!-. ii- WILLIAM H. BEBUAaD, 1 " Editor and Proprietor. ;. " . , WILMINGTON, N.X. Friday, i July 1892. nr jo writing to change your addiett o7tMUUgive Vrr direction as well a full particular! i m where yon wish your pwper to be Bent hereafter. Unlen you do both ca&nxes can not be made. IT Notice of Marriage ot Death, Tribute! of ipect, Reaolutiona of Thanki, &c, are chailitJ ordinary advertiiemtnti, bat only hiUf ratei when pad for Rrirtly in advance. At this rate M cent! wiU pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or ieatn. iar Remittance, nrastbe made by J Portal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmar ten will register letters when desired. - Cr each renUttaiwm be at thereof the publisher, -i ' . Pf Specimen copies forwarded when desired. - i VERY IMPORTANT. . Paring the past two months, bills have been mailed to about sixteen hundred subscribers to the Weekly Star. The aggregate amount due on 'these bills was very large, but the 1 aggregate amount thus far paid is " comparatively small. . It is hoped every subscriber in ar rears will read this notice, and that he will forward the amount due us at ' once. ' ! A ' . It is unjust to the proprietor to read his newspaper without paying for it fully as much so as for the proprietor of - the paper to eat the farmer's chickens and eggs and then fail or refuse to remunerate him. We thank those of our subscribers who have paid us, and trust this ap peal wili jiot be lost on those who have not paid. j "" ' BETTER METHODS NEEDED. There is much talk in the country now about the stringency in the . money market, and all the ills that 4he business interests of the country are suffering from are attributed to that That there is great financial stringency there is no doubt, and that this: has proved disastrous to some industries, and seriously de pressed dthers is also true, but our" troubles ante-date this present dis turbance! of the money ; market. There has been blundering by the Government in its methods, and blundering by the people in their methods! ' The Government has been run as a partisan attachment, under narrow, contracted policies, inspired by a handful jof selfish men who looked j after their own interests, which in the eyes Of the time-serving states men they kept in power were para mount to the interests of the great 1 mass of the people. ' j One of these policies was the high tariff wall they built up around this country which practically cut It off from the world of trade and con fined it to trading with itself. That was the great humbug "home mar ket" idea that the high-tariffites played on so much to fool the peo ple they ; were legislating to rob. There has been an increase in na tional wealth, as there always will be in a country with room for new en terprises and for expansion, because r io a .-young' and growing country real estate , will naturally- increase in value with the development of the country and the growth of cities. But while much of this increase is real, much of it is fictitious and ex ists only on paper. Some classes of our people have become very rich, but they have become so at the ex pense of other classes who earned the money which the favored classes " got oui of them by virtue of the pe-1 culiar legislation to which we have referred. .' " . j Under these one-sided policies the toilers jof the country have suffered but the tillers of the soil have suf fered nost. They are the first to feel, and the last to be relieved from the effects of blundering legislation and the first to feel and the last to be relieved from the effects of dis turbances in the money ' market This is an agricultural country. The bulk oi its home and foreign com merce consists of farm products in some shape. Let money become scarce and farm products feel It im- mediately in reduced prices and tem porarily curtailed demand, and the farmer can't help himself, because he cannot,; like the manufacturer, shut up-sbop for a time, or lock up his output until prices become satis factory. He can't afford to do that for the individual stock of the farmer . is limited ; he has current demands upon It and obligations which must be met out of it, and he has to' sell, though at figures that bring him ' no profit and may not pay the cost of production. - v, I Sixty cents a bushel for wheat, which cannot be raised for less than fifty j cents, is the quoted price now in the Western markets, while in some sections it is down to fifty cents, and farmers find it better to feed their hogs with it than to sell .lf-i r: , 'V; ,va This is the situation. The farmer - suffers and he can't help it, because he can neither control the markets of the world nor the volume of cur rency. With sensible, business like . methods which would ' encourage rather than repress trade with . other food-purchasing countries, and with a broad-gauge financial system which would supply the country with an - ample volume of :. currency ; which . would not be a constant subject of , Congressional debate, and at the - mercy of combinations formed to. control it and expand or contract" as their interests may., suggest, .. there would be a different state of .affairs, and the farmer might count on some compensation for his labor. If this depression was a new thing it might be attributed to the present ......... ....... - . .. ' l'..... tL' " I WILMINGTON MONEY MARKET. I ' THE "A. C. L. TAKES A HAND.- I THE NEW DISPENSATION . ( TJANY T.IVES TOST J I strihgency, but it is not Agriculture has been more-or less, depressea for twenty years, and at the end of these twenty years the mass of far mers have very little , to "show for their toil. : While the public policies to which we have alluded had much to do in causing this depression, the defective methods pursued upon the farm have done- their part in con tributing to it There has been too much running in . the old ruts with farmers all over the country, North and South, too much of the one-crop system, with defective methods in that. Farmers North and South cul tivate (although this Is hardly the right word) too much land and do double the work in getting from two acres what they could get from one with better methods, Wheat is the staple upon which ! the Western far mer relies for money, as the Southern planter does on cotton. The average yield of wheat per acre is less than twelve ; bushels. It should ; be at least twenty-five, and it will re quire twenty-five to pay the farmer who raises it It takes more labor and it costs more to raise the twelve bushels than it would with better methods to raise, twenty-five. So with cotton, the average yield of which is less than a -half, about a third, of a bale to the acre. There should be a bale . to the acre, to pay the planter who raises it It takes more labor and costs more to raise one bale under present methods than it would to raise three with better methods. Twenty-five bushels ; of wheat and a bale of cotton to the acre are both within reach if the farmer and planter would resolve to have them and cultivate with that view. When the farmer adopts the motto of less land and better culture he will be entering on the path that means less work and worry and more profit to him, even "if the financial world should get tangled up. A BRIGHT FUTURE. For the past twenty years Ameri can agriculture has been depressed, from several causes. Partly, and mainly, from policies pursued by the Government : and partly from methods pursued upon the farm. This has had a tendency, to discour age farmers, make them dissatisfied with their calling, and has driven thousands from the country to the towns to live where they think they can live better and easier and have more enjoyment in life. But the time is coming when this depression will cease, and the calling of the farmer be one of the best in this country. Even now with all the disadvantages it has had to contend against, in the blundering public policies which have prevailed, there are farmers who have not only held their own but prospered, because they were shrewd, thinking men who got out of the old ruts and managed their business well. These are the exceptions, because the good mana ger is the exception. - There is no department, of h.uman industry in which good management shows bet ter or produces better results than than that of the farm. But there are causes operating which will eventually make the in dustry of the farm the most profit able in proportion to the labor and capital employed in this country. The young man who follows farming now, and will stick to it, and resolve to give not only his hands but his brains to It and study it will discover that he has chosen one of the best of callings. i The great staple crops-of this country, which the world must have, are wheat, corn, oats, cotton and wool. Of course there are others which figure more or less extensively, but these are, either in their primary or secondary form, the material of commerce and constitute the food and clothing of the human family. The area in which each of these can be produced is fixed by na ture and. limited by irrevocable laws. Each must have a soil adapted to its growth and each requires a certain temperature to perfect it Wheat cannot be grown in regions where the heat of the sun is continuous and extreme because it shrivels the grain before it matures. So of oats. Corn will not mature where the sunshine is not sufficient and warm enough to harden the grain and drv out the moisture in it. uotton requires a warm sun, and a : climate practically fe from frosts between the planting and harvesting season. It must have warmth and sunshine. The sheep can thrive only where the climatic conditions favor the growth of grass, which feeds the flocks and also the cattle that fatten on the hillsides and in the valleys. "America is now the granary of the world, and the South . supplies the bulk of the fleecy staple that makes the cotton garments worn and the material used in the household. The nations must continue to draw upon America for the i foodstuffs and the cotton which they need and cannot raise. The population of the world increases annually, so that there must be,' save in exceptional years, an increased demand for the pro- ducts of the American farm, a de mand which will . grow, greater as more liberal and wiser trade policies prevail. But in addition to this in crease of population abroad, which will make more mouths to 'feed and bodies to clothe, the American peo ple will seek new highways of com merce to reach remote nations which they now have to reach by circuitous routes, and consequently v have but little trade with them. ; There' will be a shipway or shipways cut through the Isthmus and a gateway opened 'between the two great oceans, and there will . be markets with 800,000,000 of people for the products 'of the-American , farm in primary or secondary form. Some of-these countnes are now so densely" populated that with all their productive skill, quickened by neces sity, hunger is-the lot of many, and the murder of children is resorted to to prevent too great increase of the mouths to be fed. A .A- ;v "1- In addition to this the population of. our own.; country, the best fed, best livers and most liberal buyers in the world, is increasing at the rate of a million a year, while the produc tive area or food stuffs and clothing material does not keep pace with the increase of population. -We do not mean by this that the productivi capacity of j the farming lands has been reached, for it has not, but the limit as to j area has been almost reached. The result of this natur ally and logically will be that every year millions more people must be fed from virtually the same area, and the result of this must be ready sale and good prices.- And then, too, will come smaller farms, better farm ing, less labor, more profit, and-great prosperity for the American farmer. . -unroR MENTION. When the question of the annexa tion of Hawaii was sprung, it had the ear-marks of a conspiracy upon it The suddenness and the ease with which the Queen was deposed and packed off to her farm in the country, shows the organization of the conspirators, who had no regard whatever for the wishes of the mass of the people in what they did. They counted- on the co-operation of Min ister Stevens and they got it They counted on his aid to deceive the American people as to the sentiment tor annexation r and they got that Had Mr. Harrison been re-elected and aRepublican Congress to back him, Hawaii would have been an nexed without going through the formality of ascertaining the wishes of the peopleTbf the Islands. That game was blocked by the defeat of Harrison j and the annexation scheme was hung up and came to ; grief. Mr. Charles Nord hoff, who was sent to Hawaii by the New York Herald, learned enough to get at the bottom of what he un hesitatingly pronounces a conspiracy started by men interested in growing sugar, whose object was to get the bounty on - sugar grown - under the McKinley law. Charles Spreckels, the largest sugar grower on the Islands, refused to go into it because he believed that the McKinley law would be repealed and the bounty go with it But the others proceeded in their programme for if they could hold, the Government whether annex ation succeeded or not with the large exports from the Islands there was a fine chance to make money, while they made laws and ran the machine. -Thfv have never, while claiming that the natives were in favor of annexation, proposed sub mitting it to a vote, and have never shown any disposition to accept the standing invitation of the natives to put it to a vote. . . - ' . One of the cheekiest and most graceless utterances ever made in a deliberative assembly was that made by Wm. Broderick, Tuesday, in the British House of Commons during the debate on the Home Rule bill, when he characterized the Irish members as "impecunious and gar rulous." Taunting the Irish people with their poverty comes with gross inappropriateness from the represen tative of a government which seven centuries ago inaugurated a system of wholesale plunder of Ireland, un til she was robbed of everything worth stealing, and has followed up on the same line ever since. Unerd British rule, oppression and plunder ing one of the most prosperous and enlightened of - European countries was reduced to penury, and the na tive became an alien and an outcast in the land of his fathers. Others who are ignorant of the long and cruel ordeal through which the Irish people have passed may taunt them with poverty, but it-comes with ex ceedingly bad grace from a man standing on the floor of the Com mons, and speaking as a representa tive of an English constituency. : When President Cleveland .ap points a successor on the Supreme Court Bench to the -late Justice Blatchford, the Court will stand polit ically five Republicans to four Dem ocrats. Justice Field, who has been on the bench for thirty years, is the oldest of the Judges. There have been reports from time to time, that he contemplated retiring, i But it he does, another Democrat will succeed him, sothat the Court will , still re main five Republicans to four Dem ocrats. There is not much proba bility of these figures being changed for some fimelunless death should invade the circle, and remove 'some of the Republican Judges, an event not anticipated and, of course; not desired. Guaranteed Gore. '- -v We authorize our advertised dnifcist to sell Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition. If vou ; are afflirtH with a Cough, Cold or any Lung, Throat iuesi irouDie, ana win use this reme dy as directed, giving it a fair trial, and experience no benefit you mayTe turn the bottle and have vour motier refunded. We could not : make this offer, did we not know that Dr. King's New Discovery could be telied on. It never disappoints. Trial bottles free at R. R. Bellamy's Drug Store. Large size 50c and 1.00,- - Money it Tight, But It Can be Borrowed Here, m Elaewlxero, on Good Security. That "'money is tight and collections glow," is true of Wilmington as it is of every city in the' country." But it Is an exaggeration to say that money cannot be borrowed in this city.- There are two banks and one firm of bankers,' viz: The Atlantic .National Bank, the Wil mington Savings and i rust company, itnd-;.- Williams & Murchison, bank ers "and Start feels Vsure that loans for reasonable amounts,! and for ..- reasonable i periods, can pe : nego tiated with either, provided the security offered is satisfactory. : A gentleman, speaking of this matter a day or two ago, said to a -Star representative : "Oh! certainly,- you can borrow. money here on United States' bonds as collateral to the extent of half their value." But this, too, was an exaggerated view. Money can j be borrowed in Wilmington on' other ' security k than bonds : of any kind.' What the banks and bankers want, first of all, is ample secu rity. ,That being arranged, money ; can be obtained, and to a much greater ex tent, too, than those who have not tried to negotiate loans seem to imagine.; - -No. it is a mistake to suppose that money (and a good deal of it) cannot be borrowed here at eight per cent interest on good security, , , And right . here, though somewhat in the nature of a di gression, the Star will venture the pre diction that six months from , to-day there will be an easier money market in Wilmington than has existed here for a number of years. The grounds ot this prediction cannot be stated in this ar ticle, but may be referred to more fully hereafter. HE CAME NEAR DROWNING Mater Tom Osborae'e Esoepe He Waded out into Deep Water in the Pool, and : Would Have Drowned But for Mr. Thoa. : Webb. -1. ;,' --' ' , Charlolte Observer I The Observer came near having a dis tressing accident to ' chronicle this morning. :?)' ' ,..! "4' Yesterday . afternoon, the swimming pool was open as usual at the park, and among a number of boys who went in . T f 1 . e . . ' was master 10m vsoorne, son 01 Aiior--ney General Osborne. For some time he remained with the other boys in shallow water, but being of a venture some disposition, and knowing no such; word as fear, he waded out into water over his head and before his companions missed mm or knew 01 bis danger, be bad. twice sunk. Mr.. Thomas Webb,1 the " noted swimmer, who has on four previous occasions saved persons from drowning and for which he wears a gold medal from the United States Life Saving Station, was on the bank. He saw the boy as he came to the surface the second time, and realizing the alarm ing situation, pulled on bis coat and plunged in, reaching the boy just in time to catch him as he was going down the third time. Tom crabbed him around the neck and pulled him down, but Mr. Webb managed to loosen the boy s hold and get bim on bis back, and so swam out with him. - . inose who witnessed tne anair were ereatly alarmed, but knowing Mr. Webb's bravery and skill, they felt that he would reach the boy ere it was too late. Tom was taken home in a very much exhausted condition. 1 Mr. Webb was much commended for his prompt action, which was the means of saving the boy s lite. i i Mr. Webb is a native of Wilmington, He was awarded a medal for "heroic daring" in saving a lady from drowning at Ocean View, two or three yeats ago. THE STAR'S BOOK OFFERS Two Great OfEnre Standard Books at : One-Third Their Value. ' The following are among the authors of books in the lists given i in the two advertisements to be found elsewhere in the Star: . Ik. Marvel (Donald C ! Mitchell). Lord Macaulay, J. M. Barrie, Mrs. GaskelL Mrs. Shelley, C M. Yonge, Charles Lamb, - W. M. Thack eray, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, George Eliot Bulwer Lyt- ton, Rosa Nouchette Cary, Alexander Dumas, Miss Mulock, Jules Verne, Char lotte Braeme, Nathaniel Hawthorne,' Walter Scott Miss Braddon, Rider Hag gard, Mrs. Henry Wood, "The Duchess," Captain Marry at. There are two-series of books, de scribed in separate advertisements. Of the first series, one coupon and ten cents will pay for three books; and of the second series, one coupon and ten cents will secure one book. : Read the adver tisements for full explanations. More Good Books. i ! Special attention is called to the new book offer (second series) made by the Star. These books are by the best authors, and are from large clean v type, bound in strong paper covers, and are supplied at little more than one-third the retail ' price. ; Send one coupon ana ten cents tor eacn book or dered of this series, and give full title of I dooic in every case, bee advertisement or fuller particulars. A large Alligator. A colored man had the skin, feet and jaw bones of an ; alligator at Market street . dock yesterday afternoon. The man said that the saurian was shot and killed by a gentleman from the city, on Northeast river, about four miles from Wilmington, and that it was a monster in size, measuring eleven feet in length. The Hew national Bank. . The committee canvassing for sub scriptions, to the new national bank which it is proposed to establish in Wil mington, had do report to make yester day beyond the fact that they had re ceived subscriptions from a number of persons, and believed that: they would succeed in tne undertaking.: j Savannah ship brokers are t work early for cotton freights, having placed two charters for early September clearances. The Star would gladly an nounce a similar movement in Wilming ton of the J'early bird." " h The summer population of Carolina Beach now' numbers three hundred, at night - Many of these at tend to business during the day in town, but they are clad when they hear the steamer Wilmington at o p. ra. ; ,K i T Sure to Regulate the Bowel. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has oeen used tor over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teeth ing, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the sums, allays all pain: cures wind colic, and is the best remedy ior aiarrncea. bold "by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's boothing Syrun.' and take n 5 rther kind. Twenty-five The AUantie Ooaat Una Joins in the Fight in South Carolina. --The Atlantic Coast, Line people have fallen into line and in connection with the other inter-State roads will fight the Evans liquor law of South Carolina so far as it relates to the transportation of liquors - from points' beyond to points within the State. "" - . . '- - - A circular has been issued and for warded to agents of-the Coast Line in South Carolina" in which they are en joined not to aid or abet, knowingly, any person in ,tbe sale ot any intoxicating liquors, or in procuring the same for sale. In violation of the law. But in the same circular agents are instructed, that shpments coming from points outside the . State of South Carolina .-will .be transported and delivered as heretofore. And just here is where "Bung Starter Tillman' will declare that the Evans law is violated. . . 7 The Columbia State thus tersely com ments on the action of the Atlantic Coast tine: . - " ; , The ' Atlantic Coast Line' has joined .the Richmond and Danville in declaring that it will not regard that feature of the law prohibiting shipments of liquor from other States to consumers in South Car olina. The Atlantic Coast Line is an important factor in inter-State transpor tation... Its management is conservative and peculiarly indisposed to controversy with the State authorities. The fact that it has taken precisely the same course as the. 4 Richmond and Danville, indicates its confidence that the law, in the re spect it is disregarded.' will not stand the test of the courts. - It proves another thingthat the fight is not made on the ground of a United States receivership, for the Coast Line is a solvent system. CoL B. U. Moore Seriously Biok. CoL .B. R. Moore. Solicitor of the Criminal Court of New Hanover county. is seriously sick at his plantation - on Topsail Sound, near Scott's Hill. He was taken sick Saturday night with a severe hemorrhage of the lungs. Mrs. Moore, who was in the city," was tele graphed for on- Saturday night and was told to bring a physician with her. At 2 o'clock she left in company with Dr. J. C. Shepard and arrived there after daylight A telegram received in i Wilmington yesterday stated that Col. Moore's con dition - had slightly improved and the chances for his recovery were more favorable. . The first bale of cotton of the crop of 1893-94 was received at Houston, Texas, June 80, from San Diego, Daval county. Last year the first new bale reached Houston on July 11, and in 1891 the earliest arrival was : on July 6, both f coming irom Duval county. The . Liverpool Post of June 24 says: The improved state of business in Man chester is on a sound basis, and. it cannot be doubted that the spindles and looms of Lancashire will be kept folly a work for some months to come As the stocks" of -.- the raw material at the mills are known to be very : moderate in extent the weekly takings by spinners from this port will henceforth be fully equal to a maximum rate of consumption; it is expected also that the demand for export will be on a more liberal scale than usual. Upset In the Blver. A skiff sailing up the river from South it yesterday morning was capsized in a squall ot wind about seven miles below the city. The persons in the boat. Mr. M. T. Craig. Mr. L..J. Popper, and lad named Frank Williams, got on the bottom of the overturned boat and were soon afterwards .rescued by the steamer Wilmington. - I - , A SAW Mitt ACCIDENT. Mr. Bell. Sawyer at Chadbourn'a Mfll, Seriously Hurt His Iieft Iz Broken. Mr. McL. Bell, sawyer at Messrs. Jas. H. Chadbourn & Co.'s saw mill, was severely injured yesterday morning while at work in the mill, by a large stick of timber accidentally falling from the "carrier." The" heavy log struck Mr. BelL breaking one of his legs and Inflicting painful braises on his body. The wounded man was at once removed to his home, on Harnett street It was found that both bones of his left leg near the ankle were' broken. Dr. Schonwald set the broken limb, and at last accounts the sufferer was doing as well as could be expected. r: The accident caused also some dam age to the machinery of the mill. MOUNT AIRY NEWS, A Chapter of Aondente Superintendent Woodruffe of the Granite Quarries Tatal ly Injured A Buna way Cave-In on the C.T.4T. V.B. B. L " Special Star Telegram.' Motjnt Airy, July 11. This has been a dav of accidents that will lone be remembered . in the ' history of our young city. This morning, horsemen coming from the granite quarries, set the : town in fever heat by announcing that Superintendent Woodruffe had been killed by a stone falling on his head. ' A general exodus to the quarries took place and it was found that he was not dead, bnt lingering in unconscious ness. They were doing , some ; heavy blasting there this morning and Super intendent Woodruffe ran a ; hundred yards from the blast into some bushes, He shaded his ; eyes with his hands in order to watch for stones, but the 'sun blinded him. A heavy stone, which, was coming down for about , a hundred and : ; fifty feet " struck his arm and then vthe top f his bead, carry ing; him to the ground. The stone broke his arm, mashed his fingers' into a jelly and crashed his skull. , Telegrams were at once sent to Greensboro, and bis father, Mr. Thomas Woodruffe, his family, and two physicians came up 90 a special. - He is still - lingering, but al hopes are gone. lie was a young man and greatly beloved., - - i. . Two persons were going to the quarry when their horse got scared and dashed down the street, throwing them out and tearing . the buggy into a : thousand pieces; the cushioned seat was. the only whole piece left.' -r '.'.: . McKmney's high cut on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad; about three' miles from here, caved in this afternoon ana the. regular freight and passenger; and Mr. Wood ruffe's special, are all blockaded, We have heard of no injury to any one up to now. . ., ; - Johnson's Oriental Soap is far supe rior to all the other so-called medicinal soaps for beautifying the complexion. Ot Xiiquors in South Carolina Trouhle Brewina; All Around ' for " the Boss Bar-BIeeper and Hia Iiientenanta, . The Charleston. News - and Courier gives the - following : interesting news concerning . the dispensary muddle m South Carolina: - - - I The plot of the dispensary drama has thickened - with - remarkable -" rapidity within the last, few days, and the future is, prolific with promises of other de velopments which will keep the public interest at fever heat. The first, as it was the .most important, event since the law went into effect, was the decision of Judge Hudson- in .the Darlington' case. While many lawyers and laymen- took the views ofthe matter which Judge Hudson has recorded himself as holding. it was not generally thought that the decision reached in the Darlington case would be so far-reaching in. its signi-' ncance. ?, '.y--:. i ' The main question at issue for the mo ment was : thought to have . been the! number of signatures which were - at tached to the petition!' and as the Bench of the State has given indications which eaa to tne Deuet tnat it was not over-i anxious to grapple with the constitution ality of the law,- some people thought that Judge Hudson might with propriety nave decided tnecase before him with-; out entering at length into the more far reaching issues involved directly and in cidentally. He is, however, a man who is not prone to dodeing issues, and the present ' instance will Jend additional emphasis to , the statement. He has made the issue, which the hqnor men have wanted to see before the courts, and they consequently are not only highly elated over it but are also enthusiastic in their comments upon bis course. The several days which have elapsed since it was: rendered have not served to dampen the ardor of the discussion aroused by the decision. :-' ' - :':-ri Speculation is rife as to what will be the next step taken. No one entertains doubt but that the matter will find itself into the State Supreme Court in a very short time on an appeal ; and . what will be tne verdict of the. learned mem-; berS of that Bench when they come to! review Judge-Hudson's action is the question around which centres their uni verfal interest just at present. The host are well divided on the matter. ' Persons who hold that the "Supreme Court has placed itself on record as of the opinion that the law is constitutional of course are loud) in their predictions that the lower Court will be over-ruled, while those who think that the Supreme Bench have not placed themselves on record touching the issues as they were decided by Judge Hudson at Darlington are equally confident that .the appeal will serve only to confirm the Darlington de cision. . A! reporter for the News and Courier consulted more than one eminent lawyer yesterday with a view to obtaining the best forecast lor.the future of the case. It was the general opinion that a new set of issues have been raised, none of which were involved in the decision rendered by Judge Simonton or that of the State supreme Court. . The case will come up again purely on its merits, and will not be biased in any way by what has already been done and said about "It. While opinions differed as to what would be the final result there was but one opin ion expressed regarding one phase of the matter. It was conceded on all sides that Judge Hudson's decision goes to the root of the matter, and that the re sult: of the appeal will virtually be i final. A 8erious Charge. I- .' v:' j: V.:' : The Winston correspondent of the Richmond Times gives the following: Fire broke out in a furniture store here! last night but was extinguished be fore much damage was done. Upon in vestigation, it was learned that froprie tor T. A. Dance was insured for four times the value of the . stock. He was brought before 'Acting Mayor ;Webb shortly after the fire on suspicion Of be ing guilty of arson. Dance made several conflicting statements and was seat to jail. At the preliminary trial this after noon I strong circumstantial evidence was I brought out The prisoner was sent back to jail in default of five hun dred dollars bond,, to await the next term of court. Dance came to Winston several months ago from Danville, Va where he was at one time a member of the city council. ij j A Voudoo Doctor Sent to Jan. John Howard, an old colored man, who: has been dosing darkies with roots and herbs for various ailments,: fixing up "conjure" bags ior the bedevilment of country coons and their city cousins, was! arrested yesterday charged, with practicing as a "1 physician without license. The case was removed' upon affidavit from Justice Bunting's Court to justice Jno. J. Fowler for investiga tion. ' Howard was required to ' give bond in the -sum of fifty dollars for his appearance at the approaching term i of the Criminal Court and in default was committed to jail. ' BANK-OF NEW HANOVER. Argument . Conoluded Judge W hi taker Withholds His Decision. 1 Special Star Telegram. f f Raleigh, July 12. Argument in the case of State Treasurer Tate versus the Bank of New Hanover at Wilmington. was concluded to-day. Judge Whitaker holds the matter under consideration and his decision will be announced, probably, in a day or so, - ;-M'fj Cj; ; The points involve the question of the exclusive right of State Treasurer Tate to bring action . to have receivers ap pointed for the banks and also the ques tion as to whether ornot the "Bank of New Hanover and the Bank of Wades boro are separate institutions, i BANK OF NEw'hANOVER. : Proceeding at Balelgh Before Judge Whlu : aker on the Claim of the State Treasurer : that the Superior Court forJWake County i Only Has Jurisdiction in the Matter. , - Special Star Telegram. i i j J Raleigh, N. C July 11. Proceed ings in the case of the State Treasurer vs. The Bank of New : Hanover before Judge Whitaker of the Superior Court lor Wake county, began at 5 o'clock this evening with argument for plaintiff by . ri. ttusbee, fcsq. Mr. Busbee was fol lowed by George Rountree, Esq., coun sel for Mr. Junius Davis, receiver of the bank of New Hanover at Wilmington At 7.85 o'clock a recess was taken by the Court until 8.80 D.m. when argument was resumed by counsel, Mr. Eugene S. Martin addressing the Court for the de fendants. He was followed by Mr. J. A. Lockhart. counsel ior - air. .ueatc, re cently appointed receiver for the branch bank at wadesooro. non. k. i . tstn nett assignee of the bank of . Wades boro, was speaking when the Court took a recess until v o ciocic a. m. to-morrow The True lAxatlTe Principle r Of the plants used in manufacturing the pleasant remeay, syrup oi f tgs, nas a permanently beneficial effect on ' the human system, while the cheap vegeta ble extracts and mineral RnlntinnnJ nan. ally sold as medicines, are permanently injurious. Being, well informed, you will use the true - wmelw rnlw Mann. factured by the California Fig Syrup. DISASTROUS FIRE AT THE COLUMBIAN ' -V EXPOSITION. I Xjarge Cold-storage Warehouse Burned fourteen Firemen Among the Killed Moner Iiou'Over Hair a Million Dollars. Br Tdegcapk tha MonUng'Star. ' Chicago, July 10.-Fire iras discov ered in the tower, of a big" cold-storage warehouse near the Sixty-fourth street entrance of the World's Fair at 1.50 p. m.' , While a large number" of firemen were on the dome of the building, 'the flames burst out below - them and. they were iorCed to jump to the roof below.' a distance of about one hundred feet X few minutes later the tower felt upon the roof, crushing it in and carrying into the burning building a large number of firemen, dead and aHve. Among those carried dOwn by the, tower, were some who had come upon the roof to help their companions who had fallen - or lumped from the dome. This all happened in sight of twenty or thirty thousand visitors to the 'fair. The excitement amohgnhehi jwas inde scribable. No accurate estimate of the loss of life or money is as yet possible. Wildly exaggerated stories as to the ex tent of the loss have gone aboard, v Fire Marshal Murray reports fourteen firemen Kinea tnat two or three) painters 'at work in the tower could not i possibly have escaped and that several Columbian Guards who joined in the effort to ex tinguish the fire at its first appearance. lost their -lives. 'The money: loss will probably exceed half a million dollars. The cold . storage archouse - was des troyed. "Its dimensions were 180 by 55 feet. It had a massive tower running to an altitude of 260 feet. The place was outfitted with a complete apparatus for the manufacture of ice, cold storage, etc.. and was on the ground as an exhibit. The artificial ice rink in the top story bad just been completed and the place was usually thronged with sight-seers. THE LYNCHED NEGRO. Capture and. Confession Of an Accomplice in the Crime Another Lynching Froba hie People of Bard well Preparing to Quiet the Negroes. j ' Ur Telegraph to the Montins Stu. . Paducah, Ky., July 11. Mayor D. A." Yeiser, of this city, received a tele gram late yesterday afternoon ' from Slaughter Linthicum, Mayor of Bard- well, asking for the loan of one hundred Winchester rifles and .240 rounds of ammunition. He stated that their little city was threatened with serious trouble, the negro population having risen up in indignation over the hanging and burn ing ot a. J. Miller there fnday A large crowd of people from this city has gone to the scene. : - " J Bardwell. Ky., July 11. A" num ber of the most active workers in the capture and lynching of S. J. Miller got together yesterday and prepared a state ment which will be given to the public to-day. It establishes the guilt of Miller beyond all question. Beginning 'with the trail at the place of the murder it was kept up to the Dupeyster field. several miles away, where the negro was shot at on the afternoon of the murder. Thi same trail wan fnnnri -rn r.hi.. nthr side of the river. Gordon J the fisherman who rowed the negro over the river, knowing that upon his jword the man could live or die, swore positively he was the man. Mrs. Bradley saw the man pass her house, which is on the trail followed the- morning of the murder. She saw the man here, and says he is the same man she saw pass her house. There is much more evidence against Miller and , every one is satisfied the right man was hanged. I Cairo, III., JuTy ll.-i-News was re ceived here last night that a colored man had been arrested at Milan, Tenn., who is found to have been an accom plice of Miller lynched at- Bardwell, Ky., last Friday. The man arrested is said to have been not only a partner in the crime, but is the one that actually committed the murder of the Ray sis ters. The sheriff ot Bardwell, Ky has been notified, and if he proves to be the man claimed another J lynching is in prospect. A passenger conductor on the Illinois Central, who brings the news of the arrest, says the man fought desperately, but when finally overpow ered admitted that he t murdered the girls, and that Miller knew it - and re lused. to divulge it 1. v -; ' A YELLOW FEYER SHIP ' At Delaware Breakwater' from Pernam buco, BraaU A Fearful Epidemic . Re ported at Santos. Philadelphia, July 11. The British schooner Mystery, Capt. Elliott, manned only by a crew of four men, exhausted and worn out from overwork, put into Delaware Breakwater to-day with her colors at half-mast. The other four members of her crew had succumbed to yellow lever, which broke Out on board when the vessel was 1,000 miles distant from land or medical attention. The vessel is being fumigated. She is from PernambucO, Brazil, i i 1 Washington. July It The State De partment officials are puzzled over the report broug bt by the captain of the brig Odovilla from Santos, Brazil, of the fearful epidemic of yellow, fever there for months past. . Such reports as have been received from consular Officers this year make no mention ot the epidemic. One of these reports was made by Con sul . Berry on March 3d A last, and it contained news of the . death of Henry C. . .Wadsworth, whom the Consul described as secretary of the Consulate, but who was really a clerk employed by the Consul. Since that date nothing has been heard from Consul Berry, either by the Department or by his family, who have"been making vain inquiries. ; The fact that the Odl villa was obliged to sail without Consu lar certificates, is taken as an indication that the Consul has died or has fled the place. A successor to his place, was named June 28th last, in the, person of Henry C Smith, a colored citizen of Alabama, but he has not yet gone to his post - :".'-; . CLEVELAND. ""' ; - Hia Health Improving To Remain Quiet " - for Some. Time. By Telegraph to the Morning Star, "i'A Buzzard's Bay June 12. The Presi dent decided ; not to accompany Joe Jefferson on a fishing trip to Peter's Point in Sandwich, this morning. At 9 o'clock, accompanied by .SecreUry La mont and Dr. Bryant, he drove over to Bourne, where the party met Mr. feffer son and his son, at the junction of the Sandwich road. After a few moment's conversation. Secretary Lamont and Dr. Bryant jumped In Mr. Jefferson's car riage and were soon on their way to the fishing grounds. ! The President rode leisurely back to Gray Gables, where he will remain until be is ready for bis next drive. c----i- N I : v--s;:" -Aj - - This has really been a home-like day ior the fresidant at uray Gables. Col. Lamont and Dr. Bryant were on a fish ing trip and the President spent the en tire day with his immediate family and sister, Mrs. Hoyt AMr. Cleveland did not even ride over for his mail. . . The Beat amd the Cheapest, Mr. E. H. Mitcham, Rosetta,. Ky. writes . "Have jbeen : selling Hughes' x ontc ior years, it is tne best . and cheapest remedy!' for chills and fevers, curing several cases with, one bottle. Hughes Cough i Syrup is a splendid remedy. They are honest and valuable SPIRITS j jTURfM . . , t Durham 'Globed jDied,- yester day at the home' of her $oh-in-law, Mr. Adolphus Hall, fiye miles from Durham, Mrs. Hinton Ellisj, about jBO years of age. Salisbury; JIerald I'j Mrs. Mary A. Bruner, widow of tbePjlate Mr. J. J. Bruner, died at! her home yesterday afternoon about; r 1 o'clock. She had been in feeble health fort i the past year and had been confined tot her bed for eight months. - : ; rjj, v Z ",':-: Lenoir Topic : It is reported that a railroad will be built from Patter son to connect,! with-the! Caldwelhand . Northern railroad about the Setzer cut. We are not able (to say whether or not this will be done but there is talk, aad a goouiueai oi iu too, that this road will De built . . f : ; -i-IMh,: , - - Norwood Duncan Tucker! Vidette: JEIenry Ross, and Irerias Ehrd. who were in jail jatj Albemarle , for various crimes, took advantage fofj the iailor while all were j off Dic-nicih? TuMriaw and when he ( went up toifeed them at dinner they knocked himl M aown and made their escape, Cohcof i I Times: M Hutz Kiz- ziah. of Forest Hill, bas a qow that takes the cake; We learn that he has given as much as eighteen quarts four and a half callons-aa single milking. Dur ing the month of June she gave 150 gallons of milk,- or an average of five gallons a day, and from this milk 41 pounds of butter were made.: : 'Iuis some of the counties of the State tare boasting of large trees, it will probably not be out of place for the, Times to mention one in Franklin. It (is on oak ad stands on . the Eaton place a few miles from Louis burg, and its dimensions are! as follows : It is 29 feet around about 3 ieet from the ground; at the ground it is 88 feet -around.' . At noon its shade is 122 feet . across, and its 'shade measures 336 feet around. j a -ij i : A; ; , Shelby! j Review: Farmers are said to be disappointed at the"Ui-out" of the wheat that has been threed so far this year, The turn-out ) is at least 25 per cent, less than was expected. Some days ago Mrs. Gejorge Pruitt, who" lives j hear Pattersoii's Springs, found one; of her bens and a partridge setting onj jtbe same nestll The nest contained j nine hen's eggs! ! and, three partridge ! eggs. Mr. R. Hamnck, who lives about four miles from Shelby, says that; be has a hen that layed the eggs, set pn them and hatched a brood of -chickens in a nest she built for herself in the fork of a tree twenty: feet above the ground. ,f Mr. Hamrick never dis covered the hen's nest until he was at tracted by the racket made by the hen trying to get her brood to the ground. Carthage Blade-. Recently, a gentleman at j Kernersville had) a mule stolen. Circulars giving . description, etc, and offering a reward 9! $25 were sent here ; last Thursday, j -pn Friday Sheriff -Currid located the mule at John L. Moody's, where it had; been carried by a man giving his name: as Williams. Deputy Sheriff W. A. Curfie went to Moody's .Friday and .brought the ras cal in that night On the way here Williams,; who was hand-cuffed, jumped out of j the I buggy and ( attempted to escape, but failed. He will be v sent - back to Kernersville! for . trial. Some gentlemen who formerly resided at Troy think the man Williams is from Montgomery county, ' and that Williams is an assumed name, his real name being Charlie Pepper, who ' is m desperate rascal. ; i ' a '.j j -: ; . Charlotte" Netis: Chief of po lice Mason now has three confessed bur glars in the city prison, and ts confident that be has the entire gang that has been operating in Charlotte. The' ringleader. , a negro named Chas. McLaughlin, was caught yesterday. Justice D. G. Maxwell this evening issued- warrants for the arrest; of Martin Hiftson, - Will Esthridge, Charley Lemmonds and John Mullis for; ! their part in the inhuman -whipping of the boy Julius' Mjuilis." It is reported that the boy is in a icHtical con dition, and his life has about; been des paired of. A colored rhan named John Grainger; was bi ought to town to day from Derita. He had khot at his wife and had made threats to kU her, whether or not she wanted t4 be killed. He was arraigned before Esquire Max well, who sent bim tcuail in default of a $50 peace bond. On the trialj Grainger' admitted all and said he wasn't sorry for' for it that ; he meant to kl 1 her. and she deserved to be killed. I I Winston Sentinel: Twoi brothers by the name of, Vipman were killed and their sister ! was stunned! by light ning on Saturday four miles west of Winston. One of the boys was 13-ahd the other 17 years old. They ;vere work ing Saturday afternoon in 1 a meadow with their father about one mile beyond the Springs. Seeing a storm Coming up, the father told his children, two sons and a daughter, to go under a large tree near the edge of the meadow until the rain was over. They ; went, but ust as the oldest son leaned i up againstl the tree a keen flash of lightning camt down its trunk, thereby killing the twe sons and stunning their sister. The yo ingest son was about three teet from the, tree, who is about 6 years old, stood about six feet away, ihe lather was horrified when he went out to the tree and ilfound the three children lying on the ground. He He thought at i first that they were all dead. The daughter soon regained con sciousness and is now thought! to be out of danger.r;:i;;!:T-i::,-i:.-. j jji . ., Newbern Jonrnal: A small boy named Moses Barker was shot in the fleshy part pf the forearm yesterday by a little darky i about ten years of age named John Henry Wells, peing the same hard little case who assisSed in the two store burglaries recently! On Broad street and who was previously j detected hiding himself away in another store, evidently for the purpose of j robbery. He has been under arrest three times and yet he has hot reached ten! years of age and is so small that on One of the occasions ' he escaped from the police station cells through an airj hole. He was let out of jail Under a bond n Tues day the 4th inst, and in one hour's time charges were made against him for hav ing just stolen a bicycle. , Thi was on Tuesday and now on Friday he has shot a boy, though fortunately the wound is not a very bad one.;" The shootjng seems to have been done in pure wantonness. It is said that he simply Called out. ook out, I'm going to shoot Vou," and fired away. : He then ran and) escaped and has not yet been re-arrested. . . Whiteville Star : On last Tues day night, shortly after 9 o'clocfk, several pistol shots were heard in the heighbor- nooa ot souls', bwamp Bridge, nean Vmeland, and a little later word reached the depot that! & man had been shot Sheriff McPhaulJaccompanied by several! Others, hastened, to the scene,' and at the south endpf the! bridge found Archief Ward, about fifteen years old, son of MrA Kelly Ward, iir the last agonies ot death? be having been shot, through ihe fore-?! head by some party or parties as yet un-. known. The services" of DrJ Harrell were! immediatelyf secured and every-p thing possible was done, but to nog avail, and about 11 o'clock be dieda never having regained consciousness immediately after) death the body wa: removed to Vineland and Coroner Sas- ser notified, and on Wednesday morn ing he empannelled the following jury to unravel the mystery connected with this sad case. (The Coroner's j jury as-p sembled again Friday morning at -10 o'clock, ; and proceeded to lexaminef? several witnesses. iThe evidence-as givenj l in justified the i jury in placing the fol-if lowing young men in jail to await fur-J ther examination:? -' Charles Stewart, sonBg of Georsre Stewart. . Tesse Duncan, son fit 1?nKrt rtnnu f rarMfoll rtiian xnni ccais a Dott.e, . - - . , j 3oia oy j; n. hardiit, f remedies, bold by Druggists. ' t Of Pinkney Duncan. 1 1 n 3
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