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WILIIAMH. BBBUAD,
Editor and Proprietor. r n-
WILMINGTONj N. d
.Friday,
August 11,
1892.
W In writing to change yonr ddresi almajrsrivt
formtr direction M well u fuU particulars where
yon wish yonr jwper to be tent hereafter. Unlesi jron
tar Moticea of Marriage or jwui. x V""r VJV.
tpect, Rewlutiona ot-Thanka, &c., cedfOT a
ordinary advertisement., but only hal Mratoi when pud
for atrictly in advance. At thiy rate 60 cent will pay
for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death.
tr Remittances mnst be made by Check, Draft,
Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas
ters will register letters when desired. I !
pw- Only tnch remittances will be at the risk of the
publisher. , i y :
Specimen copies forwarded when desired.
VERY IMPORTANT.
nnrinc the oast two months bills
c . .
have been mailed to about sixteen
hundred subscribers to the Weekly
Star. The aggregate amount due
on these bills was very large, but the
aggregate amount thus far paid is
- comparatively small. ' .
It is hoped every subsctiber in ar
rears will read this notice, and! that
he will forward the amount due ius at
. once. . -' --c j
It is unjust, to the proprietor to
;read his newspaper without piying
' for it fully as much so as fqr 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-
Deal will not be lost on those; who
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"have not paid. I
THE IMMIGRATION aUESTION.
When the agitation of the Chinese
Immigration question began in (Cali
fornia some years ago it was looked
upon simply as an outburst of the
"sand-lotters." headed by Dennis
Kearney, the San Francisco dray
man. Their hostility to the Chipa
man arose from the fact that he was
a competitor in the labor ma rket,
and as he lived cheaply so he qould
work cheaply and for less wages than
the workmen of any other nationality
could. This was the fact, a jfact,
however, in which there was but little
interest taken outside of the jmen
who were materially . affected by it.
But the agitation continued, people
generally began to take more interest
in it until it became a leading issue
on the Pacific slope, worked lits way
into the national- arena and into
Congress, resulting in the passage of
restrictive immigration laws, Icvilmi
nating in the famous, or as Set ator
John Sherman calls it, the infamous
Geary exclusion act. !
People. living in sections where the
Chinese do not enter as a factor into
the economic or labor question! are
apt to regard the feeling of these Pa
cific States people as an expression
of unreasoning race prejudice, and
the legislation . resulting from it as
cruelly ' prescriptive, but it is not.
With these people this question,. the
agitation of which was first begun
by laborers, many of whom were
themselves immigrants, has become
one of vital importance, a question
of self-preservation. There Is jlittU
in the Mongolian to draw the Amer
ican to him, and little in the Ameri
can in Mongolian eyes, to draw
to the American. There is no
pathy between the two races.
him
sym
and there never will be, until men are
made over again, and endowed with
different natures from these they how
possess. ;.,'..
The condition which confronted
the Pacific States was one of self
preservation. With a country genial
in climate, fertile in soil, and : rich in
mineral wealth, there was everything
to attract the Chinese to it. A vast
empire'with its 400,000,006' of peo
ple, some of the districts so densely
populated that extraordinary efforts
were - necessary to provide food
enough, even of the few kinds they
use, to keep them from starving;
would naturally turn out an immense
horde of emigrants, andf there, is
little doubt that if hostility had not
been aroused against them on the
Pacific, the number now would bear
no comparison to the number that
would be there, and it would be only
a question of time when the Mongo
lion might outnumber the Caucasian
in the States on the Pacific. For
tunately for the people of those
States but few of the Chinese
desired to become citizens and few
of the courts cared to make citizens
of those that did, and hence as a1 po
litical factor they never figured,which
was fortunate for the people and also
for them, for we can very weir im
agine what the feeling against the
Chinese would be if they wielded the
ballot and became a political factor.
The Chinese may not go, and the
tenacity with which they cling shows
that they have little notion of going,
but there is one thing pretty certain
and that is that there will be no
great immigration of Chinese to this
country in the future unless they
steal in.
We refer to this question because
in the near future it will take a wider
scope and embrace more than the
Mongolian, for there are multitudes
of immigrants coming to this country
quite as undesirable as the Chinese,
which have in them elements almost
as unassimilable with the people of
' this country as the Chinese, j
While there are among the, annual
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innux or immigrants many of a good
and desirable class, the number of
these has hot kept pace with the in
crease in the number of the undesi
rable element that has come and con
tinues to come notwithstanding the
efforts to keep them out. A very
large percentage of these can neither
read nor write, have a very low or
der of moral development and are
fit for ; nothing but the commonest
kind of labor. They have not the
means to buy land whereon to make
homes fof themselves, and can find
employment only where they an be
worked in'gangs, as in the mines, or
must remain in the cities to pick up
their living the best way they can,
and become in many cases charges
on the communities, either as crimi
nals or ' as objects of "charity,' in
which' they now very "largely Jigure.
This question cannot much longer
escape the attention of the American
people, but must command serious
consideration, for it is one in which
not only the present generation Is
vitally interested, but coming gen
erations even more.
A MILLION STEAL.
When Corporal Tanner was Com
missioner of Pensions it became pub
lic in some way that thirty-two em
ployes in the Pension office had
their pensions re-rated by themselves
but with the knowledge and ap
proval of Commissioner Tanner,some
drawing twice and some three
times the amount of pension money
they drew before their pensions were
re-rated, i . - :
This led to a resolution of. inquiry
by Congress and thereupon Secre
tary tfoble i instigated an : in
vestigation to learn the facts.
When the investigation was con
cluded he reported ' to Congress
that the thirty-two cases referred, to
ad been illegally re-rated, tnat he
had demanded , the resignation of
sixteen of the re-rated employes,
and had ordered the rescinding of
the increased pensions allowed to the
other sixteen. i
Each of these cases was examined
in detail on orders from Secretary
Noble and there was not a single one
of them that was not a clear viola
tion of the law, so officially pro
nounced by Secretary Noble and by
Assistant Secretary Bussey, who con
ducted the examinations. In each
case Assistant Secretary Bussey
wrote to Commissioner Tanner, ex
pressing surprise that the pensions
should have been re-rated, going so
far in some of his notes as to inti
mate that Tanner should have known
better, and ordering that these re
rated men be; put back where they
were before they were re-rated. That
was the way that episode ended for
the time and was finally lost sight of
as it was supposed that the instruc
tions of Secretary Noble had been
obeyed. ' ' vj! r ' -..
SJnce Commissioner Lochren has
begun some ! i investigations on his
own account it has, been discovered
,that while Assistant Secretary Bussey
was writing his opinions of the law
and. taking Tanner to task for so
flagrantly violating it, Tanner was
running the business in his own
style and letting Assistant Secretary
Bussey hunt up the law I and write
notes without paying a" particle of
attention to them. j
When Tanner went out and Raum
came in these notes, among other
papers, were turned over to him and
by him tumbled into drawers sup
posed to be receptacles for private
papers, as they had been by Tanner,
and there they remained until raked
out by Commissioner Lochren, the
supposed rescinded pensions' having
been paid right along as if there had
been no instructions to the contrary.
Raum knew the facts in the case
as well as Tanner did, but kept the
facts within the Pension j Office and
the papers in his private drawers.
When Assistant Secretary Bussey
learned the facts as to the way in
which his instructions had been
ignored by Tanner and Raum,' he is
said to have' been quite indignant,
forgetful of the fact that both Tan
ner and RaUm considered themselves
much more important! individuals
than! Assistant Secretary Bussey.
But there is a sequel to this story,
for it seems that the ignoring of
Bussey's instructions npt only kept
the increased pensions of these
re-rated employes running, but
also ! kept running the pensions
in ! four thousand other I cases
which had been re-rated on the same
grounds and ; quite as illegally." If
the pensions to the employes had
been rescinded then these four
thousand would have to be treated
likewise, and as Tanner had put
them on he proposed to keep them
on, which he did, and all together
they have drawn about $1,000;000 to
which they had no semblance of
claim. ' j ; :.. r, j
As this was a piece of management
under a Republican administration
Assistant Secretary Bussey is trying
to relieve Tanner and Raum from
the responsibility by now pretending
that the orders were not "officially
promulgated" by Secretary Noble,
although Secretary Noble had re
ported to Congress that he had
ordered the .dismissal of sixteen of
the re-ratersyand that the re-rated
pensions of the others be rescinded.
The presumption is that Mr. Tanner
and Gen. Raum 1 didn't know what
Secretary Noble was writing about,
and what all that racket1, in Congress
ana an tnat taiK j in the; newspapers
was about. Secretary! Bussey was
sending his opinions to Mr. Tanner,
but of course Mr. Tanner thought he
was only writing for fun, and that
these notes were not "official" at all
Secretary Noble and Assistant Sec
retary Bussey forgot to put the
stamp and seal on them, put them in
a big envelope with "officially pro
mulgated" written in big letters and
sena tnem to Tanner.. Assistant Sec-
etary Bussey thinks that lets Tan
ner and Raum out, but if it does, it
squeezes Bussey and Noble in. ; In
the meantime the Government has
been swindled out of$l,000,000f "
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
The President's message,; which
appeared in' the Star yesterday, is
as elear.and as forcible a statement
of the reasons why the law'for the
purchase of silver bullion by the
Government should be repealed as
any that has been or possibly could
be made. He assumes that it is the
main, if not the sole cause of the
financial disturbance from which the
country has been suffering for some
time, and that, therefore, there' is an
imperative necessity for its uncon
ditional repeal.
v His views on this question were so
well known, that it : was, gener
ally understood . that he would
take this position, and the
only curiosity that existed was
as to what he might recommend
in connection with it and what, he
might have to say qn the question of
silver coinage, which it has been ap
parent for some time would be" prq
posed in Congress as a substitute, or
one-of the substitutes, for the Sher
man act. He does not touch directly
on this, but . the references he makes
to it clearly indicate that he is op
posed to free coinage until othet na
tions show a more friendly disposi
tion to silver. In other words, the
policy of this country must accord
with the policy of other leading
countries of the world on this sub
ject. In this he makes the issue
square with the advocates of silver
coinage, and does it with his charac
teristic boldness. i V
While a majority of the Democrats
in both branches of Congress will
agree with him on the necessity for
the repeal of the Sherman act, there
are many Democrats in and out of
Congress who believe and will insist
that silver should have a recognized
place in the monetary system of this
country, and that its coinage under
certain conditions and in a fair ratio
is both-wise and" necessary. " There
are hosts of Democrats who believe
this who have no interest whatever
in silver bullion, and cannot there
fore be suspected of being actuated
by selfish motives.
There is no questioning the
.honesty and sincerity of the Presi-
dentein the position he takes, for It
is consistent with his record, and
neither is there any question of the
honesty and sincerity of the great ma
jority of those who take the opposite
view on the coinage question. It is
too much to expect thatjthe end will
be reached without a hard struggle
which will in all probability result in
-compromise after all, in which
nearly all the legislation on this sub
ject has heretofore ended.
, MINOR MENTION.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas,
says:, t-ome wnat may witn tne
finances, Texas will "reap the grand
est crops she ever produced, and
while having plenty to eat of home
production, will demand cash for her
two million bales of cotton,", Texas
is to be congratulated on this roseate
outlook, even if it should be some
what exaggerated. The part on
which she is to be especially con
gratulated is on the announcement
that she has '-plenty to eat of home
production." The State that has
plenty to eat of home production,
doesn't owe much and can command
cash for what she has to sell can
stand a good deal of financial racket
and still be happy. Having plenty to
eat of home I production is the true
secret of thorough independence, for
people so situated and out of debt,
can get along with very little money:
and can enjoy their three square
meals a day until the monetary skies
brighten, while the people who
haven't enough to eat of home pro
duction have to scuffle around, sacri
fice what they raise to get it, and
grin and bear it j because they can't
do anything else. - Texas is a great
State, and ion the showing of this
Dallas dispatch she is very much to
be envied.
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jnow ana tnen some one dods up
with what he supposes to be a brand
new solution of the race problem.
A Mr. Graves, of Georgia, comes to
the front and gravely proposes the
removal of the negroes to Arizona,1
which he thinks would be a good
place for the establishment of an
Anglo-African State. That's not
new. v The idea is as old as the dis
cussion of the race problem. We
have heard suggestions of this kind,
deportation to Africa, colonization in
this country and in Mexico, number
less and varied, and yet the colored
denizen is here and here he' will stay
until he finds some place which will
suit mm Detter ana wnicn he can
reacn easy witnout tramping, or
working his way. The race problem
is one of those problems, perplexing
as it may seem and as much trouble
as.it may give people who bother
their heads about it, which will in
time settle itself in accordance with
the imperative Jaws of nature. As
surely as the river flows toward the
sea so will the negro drift toward the
sun and eventually find his resting
place in tne lands where perpetual
warmth and perpetual growth make
living easy. This movement will be
slow but It will go on all the same.
Dr. Frederick Brown, LL. D.,
Jackson, Tenn.i does not stand
well as he did a short while ago for
the reason that he, inspired by an un
lawful love of lucre, had been en
gaged in swindling confiding people
by running an agency for collecting
bogus British claims, for which he is
now under arrest.
Recommend Johnson's Magnetic Oil
ior rneumatism. - neuralgia; sprains,
bruises, lame back, it quickly relieves
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Proceed inge of the Kegular Monthly Meet
ing Held Yeatorday. -The
Board of Commissioners of New
Hanover County met yesterday in regu
ar session. All the members of the
Board were present; Chairman H. A.
Bagg presiding. v
Treasurer Montgomery submitted his
report for the month of July, showing a
balance on hand to the credit of the
general fund . amounting to $2,071.95;
educational fund,$16.089.02; special fund.
$1,237.93. and surrendered coupons as
paid out of special fund to amount ot
$1,070.
Register of Deeds Jno. Haar, Jr., sub
mitted report- showing eight marriage
licenses issued during tbe month and
exhibited receipts therefor,
A resolution was adopted tnat it tne
auditor of the W. & W. R. R. and W.,
C. & A. R. R. shall fail to report the
number of miles of said road in this
county during this .month, that , the
chairman be authorized to employ a
competent engineer to ascertain the
number of miles of track the said roads
have in this county. i
On motion, the Board donated $25 to
the Ladies' Benevolent Society for the
relief of out-door poor. i
On motion. Commissioner Worth was
authorized to order 18.000 brick, as per
sample, for sidewalk around the new
court house. i
On motion of Commissioner Ste
venson, Dr. . u, bnepero was
elected county' physician at a salary
of $750 per annum; the election to
date from " the time he was elected
superintendent of health, and making
his salary in all, as superintendent of
health and county physician, $1,500 per
annum. -
In the matter of the bond of the county
treasurer, on motion of -Commissioner
Stevenson, the chairman was authorized
to appoint a committee, with himself as
chairman, to inquire into the legality of
the treasurer and other county officers
giving their bonds in guaranty compa
nies, and the character of the said com
pany or companies, and Teport at tne
next monthly meeting of the board. The
chair appointed as said committee Com
missioners J. C. Stevenson and B. G
Worth. -
On motion, the Board took a recess
until Tuesday, the 8th inst., at 2.30 p. m.
Degrees Conferred. -
Information was received in Wilming
ton yesterday that tbe trustees of the
University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.,
have conferred the degree of Doctor of
Divinity on Rev. William 'Wetmore, of
Lincolnton, N. G; Rev. Robert B. Dranei
of Edenton, N. C, and Rev. Van Winder
Shields, of Jacksonville, Fla.
Jurors for Criminal Court-
The following is the list of citizens to
be summoned as jurors for the Criminal
Court of New Hanover, to convene on
the third Monday in September next.
viz : W. W. Yopp. N. Paul. M. L. Win
ner, C C. Williamson, Geo. A. Bishop,
J. Z. Mills, Chas. Grissom. T. J j Pratt,
W. P. Price, Jno. Farrow. R. M. Mcln-
tire, R. W. Wallace, E. N. Edens. G. F.
Quinn, Chas. Thompson, H. H. Woebse,
las. T. Howard, S. Behrends, T. G. Nor
wood, J. S. Barnes, E. H. Batson.W. J.
Beach, W7H. Walker, Hammond,
Jake Solky, W. E. Springer, J. D.
Steljes, W. M. Hankins, E. Piner, A. N.
Biggs. D. M. Millen, C. H. Schulken. B.
F. Turlington, G. G. Lewis, Geo. W.
Penny, Thos. . Ramsay.
Death of Capt. B. B. Sunn.
Information was received here yester
day by telegraph of the death of Capt.
B. R. Dunn, engineer of roadway of the
Atlantic Coast Line. He died -at Glen
Lyn, Va., at 4.30 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon, and the funeral will take place
there to-morrow afternoon.
Capt. Dunn had been sick for about two
years with consumption. He was born
in Albemarle county, Va and was about
forty-five years of age. ' His wife was a
Miss Adair, of Virginia, and she and
her children survive tbe devoted husband
and father. As a mark of respect to
his memory, the Coast Line building
has been draped in mourning, arid the
officials sent telegrams of condolence to
the family last night.
Strength and Health.
If you are not feeling strong and
healthy, try Electric i Bitters. If "Lai
Grippe" has left you weak and weary,
use Electric Bitters. This remedy acts
directly on i-iver, stomach and Kid
neys, gently aiding those organs to per
form their functions. If you are afflict
ed witn oick Headache, you will find
speedy and permanent relief by taking
Electric Bitters. One tnal will convince!
vou that this is the remedv vou need
Large bottles only 50c, at R. R. Bsx4
lamy s Drug btore. ; j t
Board1 of Medical Examiners.
A special mid-summer meeting of the
North Carolina State Board of Medical
Examiners is in session at the Ham
mocks. The meeting is for the purpose
of examining applications! for license
which have been received since the last
meeting of the Board.
. The meeting organized yesterday with
President W. H. Whitehead, M. D., o
Rocky Mount, in the chair, land Dr. L
J. Picot, of Littleton, secretary. The
members of the Board are Doctors Geo,
W. Long, of Graham, R. S;. Young, of
Concord, Geo. W. Thomas, ol Wilming
ton, Julian M. Baker, of Tarboro, and H.
B. Weaver, of Asheyille. f
The regular routine of business was
gone through with yesterday, when the
meeting adjourned until this morning,
Best and Health to mother and Child.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for over fifty years by millions
ot mothers tor their children while teeth
ing, with perfect success. It soothes the
child, softens the -gums, allays all pain;
cures wind colic, and is the best remedy
for diarrhoea, bold by druggists in
every part cf the world. Be sure and
ask for "Mrs. Wmslow s Sootbine Svruoi'
and take h" jther kind. . Twenty-five
cents a bott.e. . t
Lieut. M. R. Peterson, U. Si A
the city spending a part of his furlough,
His mother, Mrs. Ml C. Peterson, of
Clinton, accompanies him. ;
. Maj. W. A. Johnson, of Clinton,
is here making arrangements for his re
moval shortly to Wilmington, where he
will engage in business, on Market
street. . -. i- -.; 'J-
Inflamed itching, burning, crusty and
scaly skin and scalp of infants soothed
and cured by Johnson's Oriental Soap.
Sold by . H. Harpin. ,
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The Board BevUlng tne Tax Ust for 1893.
The Board of . Commissioners met
yesterday, in accordance with Section
24 of the Machinery Act, to consider as
sessments on real " estate .whereon
changes have been made by improve
ments, or destruction or- removal of
buildings since 1892. '
The law in relation thereto says : :
"Each list-taker shall correct any par'
eel of real property on which any struc
ture of over one hundred dollars in
value . may have been erected, or on
which any structure of the like value
shaH have been destroyed, agreeably to
the return made in accordance with the
provisions of this act." And further,
1 "Tbe assessment when made shall be
in force during the four years preceding
a re-assessment, or until altered as pro
vided bythis act by reason of structures
erected or destroyed."
The valuation of real estate of A. D.
Wessell was reduced from $9,600 to
$9,500. " . - " '
Valuation ; of James C. Stevenson's
property in block 151 was reduced from
$6,000 to $3,600; the. amount of reduc
tion being the actual damage the prop
erty sustained by fire in May last as al
lowed by appraisers. v
BUSINESS FAILURE.
Assignment of B. M. Melntlre, Dry Goods
Sealer, With Freferenoes for $T,
S07.02. The assignment of Mr. R. M. Mc-
lntire, retail dry goods dealer on Front
Street, was recorded in the office of the
County Register. The total liabilities are
about $$4,000, including indebtedness to
the Bank of New Hanover, of between
sixteen and seventeen thousand dollars.
The assignee is Mr. Wm. M. Cummlng,
feal estate ; agent. The preferences
amount to $7,397.02 as lollows :
First Class D. G.'Worth, $108; W. &
Sloan, N. Y., $22.50; Seligner & New
man, Baltimore, $19.95; Johnson, Boyd
fc Co., Baltimore, $39.63; Wright Bros.
Philadelphia, $11.30; Sharpless Bros.,
jPbiladelphia, $23.72; Strawbridge &
Clothier, Philadelphia, $40.50; Sperry &
Neal. New York. $36.00; W. G. Heath-
jcock & Co., New York. $69.65. Weill,
Haskell & Co., New York, $69.00; Han
taan & Dowling, New York, $86.29; Jay
C. Wimple Co., New-York, $93.90; Mills
& Gib. New York. $89.63; Teft, Weller &
Co.. New York, $57.75; W. M.Cumming,
Wilmington, $225; E. S. Tennent, treas
urer, $100, less credit of $7.50; Mrs. Jas.
B. Huggins, $450; Morris Bear
Bros., $3.96; Jackson & Bell, $28.16;
Josh T. James. $16.72; T. G.
Pickett, $19 80; no. Mclntire, $36.00;
Howard & Moss, N. Y., $34.15; Henry
Rice, N. Y.. $21.95. I
Second, class Hodges Bros., Balti
more, $1,096.60; E. S. . Jaffray & Co.,
New York, $656.01, Dunham, Buckley &
Co., New York, $661.94; Jos. Wild &
Co-New York, $784.07. j Oleberman &
Demereich. j New York. $195.50; R. L.
Williams, Wilmington, $344.40; Sweet
sen, Pembrook & Co., New York,
$116.96; Lee Tweedy & Co., New York,
$451.57; Jno. D. Cutten & Co., New
York. $213.59; Arnold. Constable & Co.
New York, $178.13; Mrs. Catherine Ful
ton, rent of store. J$235,.
BAPTIST MEETINGS 1
In Progress at the Tabernacle Near
Teaehey's Great Interest Manifested.
j Teachey's, N. C, Aug. 8:
Editor Wilmington Star On Satur
day last quite a number from Wilming
ton and vicinity came up on the mail to
Teachey's for the purpose of attending
the Tabernacle meetings, four miles in
the country from this place. We were
met by ample conveyance and conveyed
to our destination, where we were re
ceived heartily. '
i We had choir practice on Saturday,
and oa Sunday tbe meeting began, al
though it was very rainy and wet under
loot, yet the good people just poured
out and we had a good time. !
! We are having two services a day now;
one in the morning and one at night.
They are well attended. But tbe kind
ness of the good people doesn't stop
there, out they mst fill their tables full
of good things for us.
i I believe this meeting will result in
great good for a large scope of territory,
as some of the people come several
miles to hear our good brother Jenkins.
Last night at least forty persons mani
fested an interest in the meeting. The
hospitality of this people and the money
and labor they nave expended fully dem
onstrate that they are trying to do some
thing for their God and their fellow man.
! Jbe thirty minutes' praise service will
be conducted this morning by our good
brother Carroll, who is known not only
DyTiis height, but by bis thorough con
secration and devotion to God's service.
! Everybody Is looking for a tremen
dous crowd and a glorious revival to
day. Long may the blessings -Of God
rest on this people. K. H. Hewlett,
COTTON FACTS AND FIGURES-
Net receipts of cotton here yester
day 4 bales; same day last year, 3 bales.
I Futures closed in New York at a
small advance; August, 7.48; September,
?.53; October, 7.64; November, 7.74; De
cember, 7.84; January, 7.94;' February,
8.03; March. 8.12.
! United States Weather Crop Bulletin
for the week ended August 7 : There
has been too much rain for cotton in
portions of Alabama and Mississippi,
but in South Carolina and 'Texas, ex
cept in the southwest portion, the crop
has greatly improved. Cotton-picking
is now progressing in Georgia and Flor
ida, and will begin in Louisiana and Ala
bama in a few days. Generally through
out the cotton regionwith the excep
tion of portions of Tennessee and Mis
sissippi and in extreme southern Texas,
there were abundant rains, and in some
portion of the Carolinas, Georgia, 'Ala
bama, and eastern lexas the rainfall
was very heavy.
Sled at Bowland.
A correspondent of the Star writing
from Rowland, Robeson county, N. C.
says: "The friends of Mrs. W. Mi
Jdarker, of this place, formerly a Miss
Gore, livng in the Sound section,, will
be pained to learn of her death on last
Sunday, of malarial fever." - . . i'
The Truck Trade. - ' '
: Palmer, Rivenburg & Co. report prices
in New York yesterday as follows : T" j
Watermelons, fancy,' large, 2025c;
medium, 1518c; grapes, Delaware, car
riers, $2.008.00; Niagara, $1.002.00;
Ives, $1.001.50; sweet potatoes, prime,
red, $3.504.00.
i congratulations. ': !
Mr. W. L. Dewoody. Pine Bluff. Ark.,
writes: "Allow, me to congratulate you
upon the large sale of your Hughe?'
Tonic and the general satisfaction it has
given." - j
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A Novel Sabatltute For th Silkworm's :
Product wad What It May Mean.
The fact that the United States has
not achieved a striking; success in the .
attempts which, have been made to
introduce silkworm, culture in this
country is practically admitted to-
4ay.: A few scattered efforts have
shown some indications of suecess,
but for the most part the silkworm
finds fault with his food or the cli
mate. Perhaps because of the ap
parent impossibility of producing a
large supply of raw bilk tne Ameri
can manufactures or znaz aracie
have not fairly equaled those' of
France, except within a few very re
cent years. Toa&y it can be said,
however, that I Maine produces as
fine an article of "broad" silk goods
as any French manufaVstniring center
can show, if impartial judges are to
be believed. The American ribbons
also are practically as good as those
imported from France. The Ameri
can and French manufacturers buy
much of their raw silk in the same
market, and the Americans are using
as good machinery and as skilled la
bor as their French competitors em
ploy.
It is therefore worthy of note at.
this the best period of American
silk manufacture so far -that a meth
od of making pflfr threads from wood
pulp is heing brought to a practical
stage. The method made its first
public appearance at the Paris expo
sition of 1889, where it at once at
tracted attention. At that time, how
ever, it was imperfect if not absolute
ly dangerous. Since that date the
improvements in the original meth
od have been noticeable, and the re
vised process is now employed at
Besancon, -where the silk is being
manufactured. The material em
ployed is nothing more than the
"wood pulp" which is already used
so largely in paper making. After
being crushed the pulp is dried in an
' oven and afterward immersed in a
nitrorsulphuric acid mixture. i
The pulp is then thoroughly washed
in water and is finally dried in alco
hol. The resultant product is put
into a mixture of practically pure
alcohol and ether until a "collodi
on" is formed not noticeably differ
ent from that used for photographic
films. After the collodion is pre
pared it is forced through a filter
and is then forced into a long tube,
in the side of which are hundreds of
spigots with a very minute outlet. .
The collodion issues from the spigots
in thin, sticky threads, i which are
afterward washed by ammonia and
water. This washing takes the solu
ble ether and alcohol from the colo
dion, which immediately grows hard
er and tough and in about every re
spect as brilliant and as strong as silk
thread. The resultant threads are
spun together in strands of six and
are then ready for weaving. , .
When the Chardonnet process was
first exhibited, one very strong J ob
jection to the textiles woven from
the new "silk ' lay in tne great in
flammability of sucha texture. The
original combustibility was at the
rate of two centimeters a second,
and it was claimed with much jus
tice that goods of such a nature
could not be and ought not to be
used for purposes of dress. The ad
dition of ammonia to the water bath
in which the collodion thread was
washed served to do away with the
'objection Still again it was found
that the pressure on the collodion
tube was not equal throughout, some
of the threads snapping off before
they were put into the final bath.
It is announced that this fault has
been corrected under the revised
process, and if this announcement is
authentic the new method of produc
ing silk without silkworms will at
tract the notice of American rflanu
facturers. Boston Advertiser. . ;
Strange Coincidences.. -
Not so longvsince a stowaway was
found dead under the main hatch
of one of the National line of steam
ers. He had concealed himself be
fore the steamer left Liverpool and
died of suffocation. Curiously enougn
in his pocket was found a novel en
titled "Doomed on the-Deep." i An
other singular coincidence happened,
in America. A pleasure party were
overturned and drowned on the Hud
son river. Just before the accident
they had been feinging "Lost In the
Wreck." More recently a person was
charged with abstracting a book from
one of Messrs. Smith's .bookstalls,
and when arrested two volumes were
found in his possession, one of which
was entitled "Found Out." Boston
Traveller. v j
Economy In Municipal Control.
An inquiry directed to 29 small
cities from Maine to Texas7 having
their electric street lamps provided1
and maintained by private corpora
tions, shows that the average annual
cost per lamp to the cities is $106.01.
A similar inquiry directed to 23 small
cities that own and run their own
electric street lamps shows that the
average annual cost per lamp to those
cities is $63.04. In the latter case sev
eral of the cities obtain considerable
income from lamps supplied to pri
vate persons. New York Sun.
He'U Get It FlaaUy.
Totting You needn't worry about
that debt of Flicker's. He'll pay it
when he dijs.
, Dimling I don't see how. v
Totting Well, the poet says, "He
who dies pays all debts." Truth. "
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Dispensary Law Alleged to be in
Confllot Willi tbe Inter-State Commerce
Iiaw. ".
By Telegraph to the Moraine Stat. '
Greenville, 5l C, August 8. Ap
plication was made here this evening be
fore tbe United States Court for habeas
corpus to the sheriff of Edgefield county
for production of an agent of the Rich
mond & Danville Railroad arrested for
violating the dispensary law. Claim is
made that the agent was arrested while
engaged in Inter-State Commerce 'and
Under protection of that law. This will
bring up the question whether the dis
pensary laws of I this State conflict with
the Interstate Commerce law, squarely
before the United States courts.
. 2,228,672. -
These figures represent the number of
bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery- for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which
were sold in the United States from
March, 91 to March, '92. Two Million,
Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight
Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventy
Two bottles sold in . one year, and each
'and every bottle was sold on a positive
guarantee that money would be refunded
if satisfactory results did not follow its
use. The secret of its success is plain.
It never disappoints.-and can always be
"depended on as the very best remedy
for Coughs, Colds, etc Price 50c. and
$1.00. At R.R. Bellamy's Drugstore, t
Carious Identification.
"Men are often identified in-queer
ways," said Morris McPortland of
Philadelphia. "Some are known as
brothers or sons of distinguished or
prominent men, some as the hus
bands of well known women. There's
the Count Bozeta fewer people will
talk about- him as such than will
point him out as Mme. Modjeska's
husband. . Here you have Abraham
Gould, who is better known, I think,
as Jay Gould's brother than by his
own name. Trifles too, are often
associated with people and: are used
in recalling them to memory. The
butter and egg man is rarely ever
known in a household by his sur
name, or prsenomen either, for that
matter ; so, too, the milkman, the
coalman and so on. . I ..... l -
. "A most curious case, though, has
been known in our town for years. It
is a man of affairs wjio is spoken "of
and remembered only by a single cir
cumstance. His father, too, is re
called in the same connection. They
lived in a big house on a fashionable
street, and the father, even when the
son was well grown, refused to give
his son the use of a latchkey. . Since
then, when any one mentions the
father, they say atj,the clubs and else
where, 'Oh, that was the old fellow
who Yfouldn't give" his son a latch
key,and when the son is mentioned
they say, Wasn't it his father who
wouldn't give him a latchkey?' And
that is all they say about them."
St. Louis Globe-Democrat I
Unhappy Foreign Ministers. i . ..
How pinched our diplomatic agents
are was well illustrated in Mr. Low
ell's time.' A rich American, proud
of his country and wishing to leave
a monument to bis liberality and pa
triotism, decided to purchase a fitting
legation house in London for the
American minister, but Mr. Lowell
begged him not to carry out his gen
erous intention, during his; term of
office, for the cost of maintaining
such a house jwould have been nearly
three times -bis salary. Mr. LincobY
lived becomingly but modestly dur
ing his tenure of the English mission,
but he recently stated to a friend that
his annual expenditure was $35,000,
-or just double his salary. t
What the j expenditure of an em
bassy will be depends on "the means
of the embassador, but if our embas
sador to London or to Paris were to
be paid a salary equal to that of the
president he would not be able to do
more than return the official courte
sies of the country to which he was
accredited and of his fellow members
of the corps. All of this means that
an American embassador who has no
private fortune will be unhappy, and
unhappy men cannot successfully
transact business; Harper's Weekly.
A Delicate Operation.
An artisan about 30 years of age
some five years ago fell and severely
injured his right arm. It was op
erated on at the tune, and the result
proved that either the surgeon by mis
adventure had divided the1 nerve r
it had been torn in the fall. Atll
events the injured arm jnever re
covered its former appearance, but
wasted and became quite useless, j It
was a serious misfortune to a work
ingman, and it was decided to open
up the arm and explore, with the re
sult, as first surmised, that the nerve
was found to be partially divided.
Two fresh ends were made, and a
live rabbit having been obtained it
was rendered unconscious, skinned,
and the -two sciatic nerves j were ex
tracted and stitched to the two ends
of the divided nerve in the man's
arm. - The wound was then stitched
up and the patient placed in bed. The
result is most favorable. The man
has perfect power in the right arm,
which is rapidly regaining the origi
nal bulk, and he is now able to follow
his employment. London Cor. Edin
burgh Dispatch. - - 1
T . Some Wonderful Egyptian Relics.
The Abbott collection hi the rooms
of the New Historical society is prob
ably the richest in Egyptian relics,
especially those which point to scenes
and persons of the Bible,! of any in
the United States, if not in the world.
Here may be seen the signet ringpf
Cheops, the builder of thej great pyr
amid; the gold necklace and ear
rings of Menes, the first pharoahf of
Egypt and earliest king (known to
history, the ornament being not less
than 4,664 years old. In the same col
lection one may see some-bf the very
bricks that the children of Israel
made during the Egyptian captivity,
and the armor of Shjshak, who took
Jerusalem from Rehoboam. St. Lou
is Republic.
"She" an American Woman.
, An exchange prints the fact that
the first Mrs. Rider Haggard was; a
Miss Carroll of Baltimore. She was
divorced from the English novelist
and is now living on the Pacific coast
with a third husband. A further bit
of information is that this initial
Mrs. Haggard, nee Carroll, is the
original of the writer's remarkable
creation the terrible and ageless
beawty. ! 'She who must be obeyed"
is an American woman I
It Wouldn't Pay
"The company ought to charge by
weight," said the cross conductor
the 300-pound passenger who pushed
into a crowded car. - . j j '
JTf it did," replied the latter, "ii
would owe me $1 every time I ride
on the line for the wait I have tc
suffer before the icar comes along. 'j
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
YELLOW FEVER.
Two Cases Developed in the City of Pen-
. ..' - sacola. J ' '
By Telegraph to the Morning Stat.
Mobile, August 9.---X report from
the health officer of Pensacola that two
cases of yellow fever had , developed in
Hhe city of Pensacola, received to-night,
has caused the Mayor of Mobile to issue
a proclamation that no person or bag
gage from Pensacola shall be admitted
to Mobile from that date to December
1st. unless the quarantine is sooner re
voked. The cases .in Pensacola have
been thoroughly isolated and the bag
gage and clothing belonging to the sick
have been burned. ' i
Pensacola,"' Fla., August 9. The
Escambia county Board of Health issued
the following official paper : i
"The Board of Health regrets to an
nounce that two deaths occurred in this
city that of Rev. F. C. Waite and
Ellen Wood both pronounced yellow
fever. The houses have been isolated,
bedding and clothing destroyed and all
necessary precautions taken to prevent
the spread of the same. The public will be
notified immediately if any new cases
develop, and. at present we see no use
for undue alarm. ; i f
. (Signed) Rob't W. Hargis. M. D.,
President Board of Health.
Attest, D. G. Brent, Secretary.
This created almost a panic, and : at
least 1,500 people will leave the city by
to-niguts train.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Lenoir Topie: Die.d, at her
home four or five miles northwest of
Lenoir, on last Suhday morning, Mrs. G.
W. Holloway. aged about 51 years. Mrs.
Holloway had been sick on a few days.
Washington Prom wtHa
county has perhaps the finest corn crop
that it has had foiji ysars. It has been
said of it that it raises corn enough to
supply the State.f andi while we think
mis is an over estimate, yei it raises a
very large amount 1 1 I i
I 1 J ' J 1 I I ' i -
Lumberton0Aw3!: Novem
ber 1, 2, 3 and 4 rare the dates fiaed for
the Cumberland iiFair this year. - This
old established institution has always
been very popuiar with our people, and
no doubt will be pargely attended this
year. The prospects lare good for a
large and successful exhibit in all de
partments, and , tbe management have
offered some valuable!-and useful pre
miums this year, j J ! ' ,
Durham Su): VVJ H. Thompson,
who runs a job printing office in this;
city, has agenuin merschaum pipe that
is nearly a hundred years old. It is in
splendid condition now,; and would ex
cite the envy of Jojversj tof the pipe. It
was first owned by DrJ Wm. F. Hender
son, of Granville, father of Baldy Hen-'
derson, of Yanceyyiile Dr. Henderson
and Daniel Webster were great friends,
and on one occasion! when they were
both in Richmond together, the Doctor
bought thisDirje.
paying one hundred
dollars for it. I
Warrtntort Record: We are sorry
to learn of the death of Ossian Hawkins,
Jr., which occurred last! night. He was
about 21 years sold. Our county
after.j this will be independent of the
world for something to: eat. There will
be ah abundance made at home and old
Warren, having abandoned her former
practice of making cotton and tobacco
to.buy everything else with, has entered
upon a new era of prosperity, and we
have no doubt will soon regain the pre
eminence she once enioyed among the
counties of the State, j '
Raleigh - fflrws. and W rr
vcr:
A curiosity was seen here yeste
It
was a lour legged chicken,
brought in by A. . Dement
ii was
arber
and Johnson s stablesj i The
en had
four rwell developed ilegs an
used all
four i in locomotion. I A
man by the namef of I rColonel
colored
Lewis,"
Hender
was killed on the railroad near
son on Thursday night. He was trying
to riae without a ticket on the train and
in seeking to get between two cars ap
pears to have missed his hold and fallen
on the track; His body was cut in two
by the train. Hejbelonged m Raleigh
and i was doubtless seeking to return
home. iJ
- Concord Standard : Sometime
last April a man died in Randolph very
mysteriously, and; here is a report from
Randleman that tells a tale: Ezekiel,
Stewart. Oscar, jLassiter and Elizabeth
Owen were lodged .in j jail at Asheboro,
N. C, last night for the alleged murder
of Romulus Oweri, at Cedar Grove, this
county, about the first week in April.
There were two investigations by the
coroner, whose jjujry returned a verdict
that the deceased: came to his death by
the'above named parties, without stating
the means by which the same was ac
complished, lit iS thi; opinion, however,
in that section that he! war suffocated in
a smokehouse, thouglij nothing is known.
Charlotte JVeics: There is a
good eal of typhoid l fever repotted
from . the country, j I Yesterday
morning at 9 o'clock the wife of Mr.
Richard Lee Alexander died at their
home in Huntersyille, after a long and
terrible struggle with
fever.
She j was about forty
years old.
The Board bfj bounty Commissioners
today called th! magistrates to meet
on August 22nd, for j the purpose of
considering the proposition to build
an asylum Ifor. the i insane of
Mecklenburg. . j $uqi! j an-" institution
bas! become arc Absolute necessity.
! A nefcro woman named Beckie Wfl-
son was found drowned in; a creek be
tween the farms of I Messrs. M. M.'
Yandleand .enis fprter. ihe coroner
empaneled a jury;
and proceeded to ih-
vestigate the case.
There was nothing
to attach suspicion tb;
anyone, and the
jury after hearing
a statement made by
Dr. Ardrey to the effect that he had'
been treating the woman for heart dis
ease, returned a vferdict stating their be
lief that the woman came to her death
from natural causes. jj
ChaHott iwc'if: Mr. Joseph
McLaughlin, one of the most highly es
teemed citizens! di Charlotte, died at his
home in this city, at315 o'clock this
alternoon, after; a long! illness. Mr. Mc
Laughlin was fnjjhish7jl.yearf : The
two counterfeiters, Kennedy and Honey
cutt, who have bgen operating in Union,
Anson and- Montgomery counties, seem
to be pretty hard toj pitch, and yet they
are very boldj. Lastj week Honeycutt
went oyer near1 Monroe and put his mill
to grinding. For a few days the people
in that locality did hot feel the financial
stringency, because Hpneycutt got a nice
little amount distributed. Several of the
"spekers ' .were I uffj before 'Squire Mc
Manus charged With passing counterfeit
money. But ji could not be proven
that they knew anything about the
worthlessness of the coin and they
were ? turned loose. I j Mr. Frank
Ferris and : .family ! returned Ihome
yesterday fromjl Chicago, 111., where
they have been jfof -several weeks,
taking in the sights of the World's Fair.
When they weint into their house on
North Graham street, just across from
the Presbyteriafl Church, they were sur
prised to find a part of the floor torn, up,
many "pieces pf furniture broken, and
one bed and bedstead completely shat
tered to pieces.! Lightning had stiuck"
the house and, caused the wreckage.
The bed clothing had ignited, but the
fire smOulderedj;an(ldied out.
- Oreat Kejolrlits !
Men, women and children come daily
flying to WilmifigtOoon the fast mail to
see the great! Wonder of the nineteenth
century. ; SuGh; an opportunity has never
presented itself t i them, hence they
grasp it in everjr direction. Our people
show their appreciation by such tremen
dous crowds jpaking frequent visits,
knowing the fact that had Davis, 'of
Charlotte. brlClaflin, of New York,
purchased this itremendous stock of the
assignee of jHuske & Draper, that it
would have been moved to some other
city. The people must remember that
not only they have an opportunity of
buying goods cheaper than ever before,
but they get better goods, and also have
an opportunity of seeing Big Ike, the
great bankrupt' dealer. Delays are dan
gerous.. Procrastination ;is a thief of
time, and while the opportunity presents
itself, no doubt every well-regulated man,
woman and child will take hold. Have
you told your Neighbor? Have you sent
word to your j friend? A word to the
wise is sufficient. Ui r f -j-
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: -j - 'iiRAElGEt N. C.
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