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V s ... si V - PUBLISHED AT- WILMINGTON, N. C, AT- $1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. 88S88SS888888S8SS 8888888I88S8S8S88 sqjnopi g 888S888888888888S 88888888888888888 -sqjaoft 8 8S888888S8S88888S 888888S88S8888888 8S88SSS2288888883 88S88888888888SJ8S h et co iq o t- m ot o h oo m W o a. Ui s cr ci I Entered at the Post Office at Wilmtgton, N. C, as Second Class Matter.l " SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Weekly Star is as follows: M Single Copy 1 year, postage paid .$1 00 . " mnnlli. " " 60 6 months 3 months 30 VERY IMPORTANT. During the past two months bills have been mailed to about sixteer 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, i It is hoped every, subscriber in ar rears will read this notice, and that he will forward the amount due us at once. v ' :l '; . It4s unjust to the proprietor to read his newspaper without paying for itfully 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 as, and trust this ap peal will not be lost on those who have not paid. WHERE THE TROUBLE IS. We have contended in these col umns and still contend that the op position to the free coinage of silver does not arise so much from hostil ity to the silver doHar as from hos tility to an increase in the volume of the-currency on the part of those who control the bulk of .the currency. They do not wish to see any addi tion to the volume of the currency which they cannot control. If the proposition were made to let the aa tional banks issue two dollars for the one dollar of bonds they owned they would noLobject for that would be their money and they would manipu late it and make profit out of it, but if the proposition were rhaJe to double the amount ojsilver coined, in any ratio equal to or above the present, or to issue two legal tender notes to the one issued or to authorize State banks, to is sue an amount equal to the national bank circulation, they would forth with discover that the country was about to be flooded with money, that we would be ruined, and that every thing would go to the demnition. bow-wows quicker than greased lightning would bore a'hole through a slabroof. " They never yet missed an opportu nity to take advantage of circum stances and emergencies to promote their own interests and gain another advantage, and hence. ' we see them taking advantage of i the present stringency to secure the passage of a law empowering them to issue notes to the face value of the Government bonds interest-bearing . bonds which they have deposited or may deposit as security for circulation. And all the time they have been tell ing us tnee is money enough in cir culation, really more than there was profitable use for and consequently there was no necessity for issuing any more or for icoining any more silver. We never believed that theie was money enough in the country, do not believe it now, and hence we favored when it was first proposed and now favor the passage of Sena tor Voorhees' bill to allow the na tional banks to issue notes to the full face value of the bonds they de posit. We favored it for the addi tional reasons that with the bonds at and above par they were ample . guarantee of the; notes issued on them to their full face value, and be cause we wanted to see $19,000,000 (which would be! the ten per cent, increase on the bonds now held by the Government) added to the volume of the currency. -There is not a holder of a Govern- . ment bond, or of a Government obli gation of . any kind, who is not opposed to the coinage of any more silver on any ratio, and who does not want to see silver practically de monetized, for that is what reducing our money system to a gold basis " means. . It means "that the silver dollars shall be placed on a par with paper dollars, and be redeemable, -the same as the paper dollars, in gold. .1. ' - These are the ! two factors which , are moving together in the effort to prevent any increase in the volume of the currency, or any action that would firmly establish fTTe silver dollar as an essential part of our monetary system. They, with very rare exceptions, do not admit this, but the actions and declarations1 of some of them proclaim it in language that cannot be misunderstood. They say that VOL. XXIV. the only real use for silver is for subsidiary coin. There is about $77,000,000 of subsidiary coin in ex istence, and so much of that comes repeatedly back into the Treasury that they don't know what to do with it. This me'ans that they con sider $77,000,000 enough, or too much, subsidiary coin, and as there is no use for the silver dollars there fore $77,000,000 of silver is enough, all told, or more than enough. They forget that 'there. Isn't a dollar "of silver coined that isn't represented by a Treasury note or certificate, which takes the place in circulation of that silver dollar, i ' It is the position of this class of opponents of i silver which gives ground for the fear that silver 'may be demonetized and that embarrasses the settlement of the financial ques tion. If they took their position squarely on trie Democratic platform and while demanding the repeal of the Sherman act as a "cowardly makeshift" unequivocally declared for the full recognition of silver as a- constitutlonal money metal, there would be less ground for apprehen sion as to their ultimate purposes, and little or no opposition to the re peal of the Sherman act, which i is not in favor with Democrats and never was. Let it be understood that silver is to have fair play, and Congress will make short woork I of Sherman's "cowardly makeshift.'! NEARING THE END. i ! The darkest,, Jiour is just before the dawn. We think we have nearly passed the darkest hour in the night of gloom through which we have been groping ourway and soon will see the dawning of the better, brighter day. t We will give some of our reasons for this belief. i i There is nothing radically wrong with this country or with its people. The- intelligent, conservative, patri otic element rules and will continue torule, and that element will shape the policies which are to control the destinies of the Republic. i i Trlere is no people in tUe-world who take the same practical, common-sense view of questions affect ing their material prosperity as the American people, and none who will come together sooner when it be comes apparent that there is nothing to be gained by longer pulling against each other. ;, There is no people in the world which bows more submissively to the will of the majority as expressed in the way provided for such expres sion, or accepts with more resigna tion the inevitable, although i they fought it with stern resolve and grim, determination. , i As an evidence of this foreigners have remarked the good nature dis played in the discussion of exciting questions, over which people less accustomed ito self-government would come to blows. There is a notable instance of this in the dis cussion of the silver question, on which the lines are very tightly drawn, but in the decision of which, however decided, the people will quietly if not cheerfully acquiesce. This is a country of compromises, because the conservative, intelligent, patriotic element make their voice heard when compromise becomes necessary. Compromise never failed but once, thirty-two years ago,; and it would not have failed then i if the conservative elements of both j sec tions had had thirty days more, time to have' got together and made their voice heard.; This conservative; ele ment is the one which will map out the lines on which the present ques tion of contention will be eventual!; settled. ; ! i There are two great parties in this country struggling, one to hold, the other to recover the mastery lost, and other young, but snappy and as sertive party i watching both iand ready to take advantage of the mis takes ot eitner. circumstances are such that the representatives otxhe Republican party in Congress must help the representatives of the Dem ocraticr party to straighten out the tangle into which their Republican predecessors got the country. They will do" this because they can't help themselves, and will then try to claim the credit for the good done The Democratic party can't afford to close this extra session of Congress without settling in some, way the question they were called together to settle. They may debate and con tend about conditions and details, but they must do something, and that something must be a settlement either temporary or final, and how ever much they may diner on cer tain matters, they will pome together on the essentials. The country ex pects this, and they are not going to disappoint public expectation, ; for that would be to forfeit public con fidence, r ' 1 'I i The stringency from which the country has been suffering isi not becausexthe money has been d& stroyed, or . become worthless but because it has been withdrawn from circulation by the banks or by depos itors whose confidence in the banks became shaken. , There is more money by nearly $60,000,000 in the country now than there was when this financial stringency began. The money which was withdrawn from the banks and the channels of trade will soon begin to show itself again and as it does the suspended banks w'il resume and suspended industries be revived. ' Capitalists who have called in theirj money, and people who have, with drawn their money from the -banks - - i .... have been waiting and watching to see what Congress is going to do, and when they see what Congress .does, whether its action meets with l conclude that there is nothing to be gained by waiting longer," "and .lljie hoarded money will come.out and; go into the channels of trade, and business ' will begin to pick up right along. Bank- ers don't want to let millijons lie idle in their vaults earning nothing,' when there is demand for "money on all sides, especially after. all that was to be accomplished by hoarding it has been accomplished. They know the grain crops and the cotton crops must be moved, for on tljie moving of these our commerce depends, in the success of which they are as much interested as the men who raise the grain or the cotton. These are some of our reasons for believing that we have nearly reached (the turning -point. MINOR MENTION. Commercially speaking the West is beginning to discover that it is more closely identified with the South than with the East, and that the natural route for the export of Western products is by Southern waterways and southern ports, as the shorter and cheaper way to for eign i countries. This is thereason for the movement which has been on foot for some time to ejffect arrange ments by which Western products could be thus shipped Abroad. There is one serious obstacle in the way, which it will take work and capital to remove. To cheapen freights and reauce me cost to ipe minimum, there must be regular lines of steam ers plying between-southern and European ports, and tot establish and maintain these there mjist be cargoes both ways, there mustibe imports as well ; as exports, and the ship that goes out loaded with grain, meat and other Western or Southern products must come back loaded. Efforts are being made in that direction now, with hopeful signs of success. If the two distinguished gentlemen from New York, David B. Hill in the Senate, and Daniel E Sickles in the Democracy of House, speak for the New York, it is pretty considerably mixed on the silver question.- In the Senate last Friday Mri Hill proclaim- ed in favor of the free coinage of sil r ratio, while ver, on a just and fai about the same time in the House Gen. Sickles declared that the coun- try didn't need any more silver. Two representative men couldn't be very well much further apart than this, and the difference is the more re markable in that up to the time of the nomination of Mf. Cleveland Gen. Sickles was bitterly hostile to mm. and an araent cnampion oi 1 m k e David B. Hill. Whether they speak for the " Democratic party of New York or which of them speaks for it, isoneofthe Questions .which must be developed by subsequent events. Treasury officials at Washington are reported to betaking a hopeful view of the situatiort. Bank failures, they say. have almost ceased, and ot the $63,000,000 net gold which went out of the country $25,000,000 has come back, and is now helping to. move the crops. J There is talk but in Kansas ot dividing that bleeding' sovereignty in to two .States. The movement is by the i fellows in Western Kansas who want to get away ftom the Simpsons, Leases, l&c. Wouldn't that be rough on the one-half that had to hold up that crowd? The general impression seems to be that! the cotton crop this year will be raised cheaper than in any preced ing year, on account of more eco nomical methods and better manage ment An Idle Eumor. A sensational report was started yes terday by some malicious person that a yellow fever patient from Brunswick, Ga., was in the city. An investigation was at once made by the police authori ses, and the report was found to be false. I The ' facts I are, that a man named William Holly, arrived here several days ago from Brunswick, Ga. having succeeded in "flanking" the in spectors guarding the approaches to the city. The police found him at the house of MrJ Skipper, oh North Third street, in Brooklyn, and Isent him out of town. He was not sick, 4nd claimed to have left Brunswick four iweeks azo; but as his coming into the city was plainly a viola tion of the quarantine regulations he was ordered to depart. . l)r. Prttohard. Rev Rev. T. H. Pritchard, D. D., in a note to the Star from Society Hill. S. C. says: Mv work here will be done bv Satur day and I shall then return to Charlotte; Have had fine meetings, both In Dar lington and here.l Crops are good in this section; it the conditions continue favor able for a month the cotton crop will be phenomenal. Have an engagement for a deer drive to-morrow. Weekly WILMINGTON; N; C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1893. NAVAL RESERVES. Tne Monitor Nantucket In 'Tow. oi tbe 'Kearaarge En Route to ; Wilmington Arrangements for aXJruise Next Week. A Press dispatch to the Star an nounces that the U. a.steamer Kear sar?e lelt New York yesterday (iti day) morning with the monitor Nan tucket :e in tow. The Nantucket is to be stationed permanently st Wil- mingtc for the use of the North Caro lina Naval Reserves. Unless -delayed By the storm reported by the Weather Bureau and forced to seek a harbor, the Kearsarge, with, her charge, will proba- bly Teach Soutbport Monday. It is expected that during next week the Naval Reserves of this State will take their cruise. ' The details of this cannot be definitely learned : until the arrival of the Kearsarge, but it is proba ble both versels will anchor off -South-port, where they will be joined by .the Reserves, who will be quartered on board the Nantucket. From her, they, each day, Will go on the Kearsarge for drill and targat practice with the great guns at sea, returning to the Nantucket in the evening. Under this arrange ment every opportunity will be ailowed for drill and the sleeping accommodation will be much better than on board the Kearsarge. i . A great deaL of, interest is being ex pressed, at the coming of the historic Kearsarge, which is about the last of a type of cruisers that for many years were models of their class and many will probably avail themselves of an oppor tunity to visit her during her stay in these waters. -; in order that arrangements necessary can be made intelligently, Lieuts. Jno. H, Barnard and W. A. Dick, commanding. request that every member of the Third and Fourth divisions will, to-day, give notification to the secretary of his division whether or not he can arrange to go on tne cruise next week. The Charlotte Observer of yesterday says that Lieutenant Commanding J. Frank Wilkes has official orders to have the First Division Naval Reserves ready to move at a day's notice to Wilmington, there to go on board the U. S. steamer Kearsarge for a four days practice cruise. The division will go with three ofheers and thirty men. Adjutant J. W. Zimmerman and Master-at-Arms F. P. Smith will accompany the division. The Kearsarge is a bark-rigged steam ship, 500 feet long, 33-foot beam and has 4 9-inch, 2 8-inch and ; 1 60-pounder guns in main battery, and 3 20-pounders, 1 3-inch and 1 Oatlmg gun in secondary battery. The Kearsarge will be remembered by all Southerners as the vessel that sunk the famous Confederate cruiser Alabama. At the Navy Yard Museum is the origi nal stern post of the Kearsarge, with an unexploded shell, fired from the Ala bama, imbedded in it, - Had the shell exploded, the Confederacy would not have lest the Alabama, and our Keserves would be preparing for work on another of Uncle Sam s vessels. A DiatreesinR Accident. Mattie Miller, twelve years old, was snot by her brother carl Miller, nine years of age, yesterday about noon, near the residence of their mother, Mrs. Annie J. Miller, corner of Fourth and Ann streets, lbe weapon used was a parlor rifle, and as usual in such cases it was supposed that it was not loaded. The boy playfully pointed the rifle at his sister and told her he was going to shoot, She was about 150 feet from him in the street and turned her back to him as he fired. The ball struck her in the back near the left shoulder, making a painful wound; bnt it is not considered a serious one by the physicians Drs. Shepard and Storm who were called to attend the child. They probed for the ball but could not find it. I An Unfortunate Schooner. The schooner Norman, Capt. McCoy, hence for Barbadoes, and thirty days out, put in at Antigua, W. I., in distress, Aug. 24. Capt. McCoy telegraphed to the owners here, Messrs. Geo. Harriss, Son & Co.. from Antigua as follows: "Arrived here, badly damaged by a hur ricane. The vessel is full of water. A survey has been held, i The cargo will have to be discharged." ' The Norman was crushed in the ice in Delaware Bay last winter, and was re paired and refitted at considerable cost to her owneft. She then came to Wil mington and sailed hence on her present voyage. Died Near Boston, Mass. Mrs. H. J. Clark, who, with her hus band and son, left the city for a visit to the North a few days ago, died near Bos ton, Mass.. on Wednesday the 23rd inst. Her health had not been good for some time past but it was hoped that a hange of climate and the care and attention ot her old family physician would prove beneficial, but it! was of no avail. She ' was a member of; Grace M. . church of this city. Death of Miss Iioula Woody. Miss Loula Clyde Woody, aged 18 years, daughter pf Mr. Jno. D. Woody, died yesterday morning at the residence of her father on Greenville Sound, after an illness of only eight days. She was a lovely and accomplished young woman, and her sad arid untimely death is deeply deplored by many friends and associates in mis community, iuc iu- . . ;J Tl . neral services will take place this after noon at 4 o'clock, from the First Bap tist Church, and! the interment will be in Oakdale Cemetery. Timely Words. . The Memphis Commercial says . "A recent authority makes a statement re - .... - garding cholera which .cannot have too wi4e a circulation. It is, he says, a 'filth disease of a specific character, carried by dirty people to dirty places, and there spread by the use of - dirty water. With pure water, air and soil, and pure habits cholera need not be feared by any nation or any individual.' The bearing ot these remarks lies in the application of them. MempnKraas pure air, tne most nygienic water in the world: now let us have clean streets, clean alleys, clean cellars. clean cisterns, clean vards, a sweet- smelling, wholesome city, and there will truly be no danger of cholera or yellow fever. If the sanitary force is not large enough make it larger." The bearing of all these remarks lies in their general application. Circulate them. SAVED FROM DROWSING. Heroio Action of a Voting Iiady In Res cuing a Companion from a Watery Grave. v Special Star- Correspondence. Point Caswell', N. C, Aug. 21. Editor Star On the afternoon of the 18th there was quite a sensation in the neighborhood ot Gailand, Sampson county, caused , by the very narrow escape from drowning of Miss Nannie Cromartie, of Tallahassee, Fla;, but who Bladen county now proudly claims as one of her most charming and accom plished daughters. It seems that while on a visit to friends in that place she, in company with about a dozen other young ladies (among whom were two of her cousins, Miss Annie Cromartie and Miss Janie Cromartie,) and some few elderly ladies, went to a favorite bathing resort on South river, where there is a long, clean sand beach, and the water for some distance is very shallow; but after commencing to deepen it drops off very suddenly to a depth of about nine or ten leet. The young folks were m the habit of going to the upper end of thi? beach, and putting on life-preservers made ot lumper wood, would float down the beach in the . shallow water with the current, to a landmark on the shore nearly opposite the deep water line, and then dropping off the life-preserver would wade out to shore, and walk up the beach and come down as before. On this occasion, Miss Nannie, not being used to the beach, and not know ing exactly where to turn back, and not being observed by her friends in time for warning,, floated past the danger line, and when she dropped her life preserver she went entirely-under water. When she came to the surface the first time she called for help, not knowing how to swim: but none of her friends could swim either, with the exception ot Miss Janie Cromartie, who was at that time at the upper end of the beach a distance of about three hundreds yards. Hearing the cry lor help passed up the beach by her terror-stricken friends, she swam straight to shore, and ran with all her strength down the beach to the point nearest her drowning friend and without stopping for a moment to con sider the peril that her own life would be in, jumped right in and swam to the spot where Miss Nannie was last seen, and succeeded in getting to the place just in time to eaten her as she rose lor the third time. But being so nearly exhaust ed from the run and swim that she had just taken, Miss Nannie proved almost a match lor her in strengh, and they both went under.- Fortunately Miss Janie had presence of mind to shove from the bottom with her feet toward the shore, and thus, succeeded in shortening the distance to land by several yards, when they both came- to the surface closely embraced. Then Miss Ja nie caught breath before going under the water again. She repeated her first movement, and this time when they came to the surface they were near enough to get help from the shore by some ot the ladies on the hill handing them a pole and drawing them out a most fortunate thing, as they were nearly drowned, and for-some time the restora tion ot Miss Nannie to life again seemed doubtful. Fortunately some of the el derly ladies who accompanied them to the river, understood the treatment re quired lor drowning people, and set to work to restore her. In a short while she was able to be moved to a neighbor's house near there, wnere she very soon recovered. Miss lame certainly showed great courage. and presence of mind, and is at present the heroine of that section, which title she justly deserves. Une of the elderly ladies who wit nessed the scene, is now bitterly opposed to the young ladies going bathing in the river any more, and says that while she is in favor of the girls bathing as often as they please from this time, hence forth and forever, they must go surf bathing in a tub, where there will to a certain extent be less danger of drown ing. We don t know how this resolution suits the girls, but to us it seems much safer, to say the least, and on that ground meets with our heartiest approval. 13. TB m m AT WILSON. New Railroad Ticket Office Death ol Mr. B. J. Cobb. Star Correspondence ; Wilson, August 24 The new railroad ticket office at Wilson was opened to-day for business, It is a very handsome building, orna mental as well as useful, and every con venience for the benefit and comfort for the passengers has been consulted Every department is complete, especially that for ladies. Passengers while wait ing for trains find it very convenient to -step across the street and dine' at Ward's Hotel, right at the depot. 1 Another good citizen gone. Mr. B. J Cobb died this morning, leaving a wife and several children to mourn their sad loss. J. A LETTER OF GRATITUDE. He - Owes It All to the Ladles. It is customary that when one is in a strange country on a business or pleas ure trip, and the people especially the ladies see to their enjoyment, or one's property is being destroyed by fire and by the assistance oi his neighDors and friendshi3 property is saved and perhaps his life, 1 say it is customery to show in some way our appreciation. But words cannot express the deep feeling of grati tude in my heart; it is beyond descrip tion for me to express from the depths of my heart the gratitude I owe to the ladies of Wilmington. I was a stranger and they came to see me. I invested my hard-earned dollars and they re turned them unto me. I was in trouble and they relieved the burden, hence I say there is a debt of gratitude hanging over me which 1 learl cannot repay My cup of rejoicing is full to overflow' ing, and to show the ladies that 1 am grateful to them for the success I have had in this city 1 will reduce the price of my finest silks and dress goods to 90c on the dollar of what they cost in the great City oi Boulevards. 1 am proud to say that it Is not Bfe Ike's financial condition i that makes him reduce the price of these' eoods: that .every dollar he has in stock is paid for and that his easy conscience and success he has at taine,d proves to him that the oniy suc cessful man is he who sells for cash. ; At the suggestion oi Big. ise, tne ladies promptly came to his assistance this week- at the Husk & Draper stand to organize the society to prevent their husbands and sons from running down onr city, but as we were overrun with business it was impossible lor us to complete the organization; and it is earnestly hoped that tney win return this week with as many of their friends as possible. And we suggest we make the one who snves the society the most suitable x name a handsome present Ladies, this is a meeting of great lm portance, and you should, bring every dollar you possibly can to make the meeting interesting. SPARKLING CATAWBA. Guests Coming and Going A' Dearth of Beaux Many lady Visitors. i Special' Star Correspondence.' i t Guests still come and go. Among the new arrivals are Mrs. Dr. T. C. - - - Hiden, of Richmond, Va., and her daughter, Mrs. Edward Wilkinson, of Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Hiden is well remembered in Wilmington, her hus band having served ' as oastor of the First Baptist Church seven years. She made numerous inquiries of vour cor respondent aDout tnends and acquaint"! ances mere. !.,.. There is a dearth of beaux iust now. Any nice young man who wants to go where a hearty welcome awaits him will find this the place. . A guest, who is a lady of taste and culture, remarked that she seldom met a crowd which was so universally amia ble and good looking. Of course each appropriates a portion of the compli ment. J. here are some very pretty ladies here., but all agree that Mrs. B.'B. Pope, of Jacksonville, Fla., is the prettiest. She is so sweet and pleasant,' however, that the young ladies are not a bit jeal ous of her advantage in that particular. i The swimming - pool is a point of in terest, especially tor the boys. Four of the ladies walked to the river, three miles distant, and returned before din ner this was a simple morning cousti! tutionai and shows the bracing effects of their stay here. One of them was about sixty years of age. Three others, ac companied by a gentleman, walked to Hickory one moraine eicht miles. Those desiring to become accomplished in the art of pedestrianism had better come up. Your correspondent notes with re gret that the time of departure is at hand. These rests along the journey ot life reveal to us thejfeeautiful side tne brightness of the pattern we are weaving in the web of life it is as though we but caught a glimpse and then -we must needs take up the work again where we left off, and watch the threads that they do not become tangled. s "Weaving, surely weaving, bach lor himself his fate: i We cannot know how the bright side looks, TTT 1 , . . If i we can uniy waicn ana wan. Everything possible has been done for our comfort and we can recommend most heartily Dr. Elliot and Mr. Frank as landlords who have the pleasure of their guests in constant consideration.' Bun Over by a Hand Car. "i Newbern fournalt August 26 : Mr. N. Hillburn, of Brunswick county, a section master of the W., N. & N. R. R., met with a sad accident yesterday morn ing a mile or two from the city. He was seated on the front part of a hand car which was moving at a rapid rate and his foot hanging too low struck a cross-tie or some other obstruction and pitched him forward. The car was upon him before he could recover himself and inflicted severe injuries, the worst being the breaking of his left leg below the knee a compound comminuted fracture. In the upper fracture the bone protruded through the flesh an inch, or two. Besides he was badly bruised about the side and cut at one place on the head. ; He com plained also of internal hurting about the stomach and chest. Mr. Hillburn was taken to Mrs. Eliza Smith's board ing house, on Queen street, and the in jured limb set by Dr. Leinster Duffy, assisted by Mr. Levi Cohen, a; Newbern medical student of the State University. Everything in the way of medical atten tion and nursing is being done for him that can be, but the break is a bad one, and a tedious time is no doubt ahead of the poor fellow. Mr. Hillburn is a young man without family, but his parents are still living. WASHINGTON NEWS. Prevailing Impression as to the Action of Congress on the Silver Question. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ' Washington, Aug. 26. The prevail ing impression as to the probable action ol the two Houses hnds expression as follows: i' "The vote on the Wilson i repeal bill will be taken on Monday in the House, and the silver purchase clause of the! bherman law, as lar as that body is con-i cerned, will be wiped out of existence.' The bill will then go to the Senate; where it will be referred to the "Finance Committee, which will promptly pigeon hole it. The Senate will go right straight along talking silver, as it has been doing for several days. It will do this for two weeks, and probably longer, be' fore the final vote will be taken. The bill which will be passed will be the Voorhees bill, not the Wilson bill from the House, which will slumber quietly in the room of the Finance Committee. Then the Voojhees bill will go over to the House. There it will, doubtless be acted on with little delay, though there may be another Hood ot oratory, be cause as there is some difference be4 tween the Senate and House measures; the silver men may insist on some talkj If there is a prospect ol a contest, how-! ever, cloture win te speeuuy applied and the bill will be passed and will then be ready for the President s signature. The Voorhees bill only differs from the Wilson bill in making a declaration lift favrr rl hl.mptalliem. I e A SHIPWRECKED CREW Besoued Off Cape Henry and Landed at Lambert's Point, Va. By Telegraph to 'the Monflng Star. f Norfolk. Va.. August 25. The steamship Aros, Capt. Cole, has landed at Lambert's Point the shipwrecked crew of the schooner Thomas P. ball wrecked off Cape Henry in the burn cane Wednesday night. The Thomas P. Ball, with a cargo of mahogany, was caught about 30 miles E. S. Ei ; of Cape Henry by the hurricane Wednes' day. The gale increased through f the day, and by 6 p. m. was blowing a hum cane. Nearly all the sails were blown away. The deck-load shifted, and striking against the bulwarks, opened her seams to leeward, making her i leak badly. She filled in two hours,' find about 10.80 turned over to leeward,! fall ing onjhef beam ends and turning! bot torn up. But after her deck load floated off she righted and the men who had been sitting on her bottom, clambered into her rigging. At daybreak ThurS' day morning they hoisted signals. I At 8 p. m. the English tramp steamer Earn forth siehted them and took them off The men lost everything, even to their clothes they had taken oil to lighten them in case of having to swim for life so that sum of them arrived here bare foot and bareheaded. The crew of the Ball numbered seven all told, and all were saved. . I , .- . . " ! Yesterday moraine a I Baltimore land Ohio freight train was derailed at Bktek Lick, near Newark, Ohio. The engine and several cars were piled up in a huge mass of wreckage. ireman b. c. btOne burner, oi Newark, was terribly scalded and will die. Curley Mitchell, who; was on the engine at the time, was crushed to death. m1 NO. 43 I. FEARFUi STORM. THE ST. THOMAS Hl5tRICANE STRIKES NEW YORK. Great Damage in the Sty and Along the Coast Vessels "Wrecked . and a Number of Lives Lost. . faf By Telegraph to tfe Morning Star. New York, Aug. ?SL A heavy gale with rain in torrents jstruck this vicinity last flight, giving noneof the usual warn ings!, The weather Was very sultry up to jiboat 11 o'clock Then a slight breeze sprung up anCithin ten minutes t fall fledged cyclone was blowinc. bringing with it a deuge of rain that made a new record. tv5 There were nearly Jour inches of rain fall on the "record for September 22nd and 1 23rd, 1882, butllist night's rainfall exceeded four inches.! .Cellars and base ments on West andjiouth streets (the it fronts) were flooded and much damage to goods stored was caused. Tres all over the c$ were uprooted or stripped of their branches. Central Park suffered heavily, in tMis way. Brooklyn alsoj suffered greatly in Prospect Park andj on the shaded greets. Yachts, row boats and small cr&ff of. all kinds were driven ashore by the hundreds in neigh- Dorjng waters. I tt$re was an extraor dinarily high tide, asd as both shores of Long Island Sound and the South shore of Long Island are jotted with harbors filled with pleasure crafts, the loss is very heavy. $i ihere is a very small loss of life re ported. The greatest ' calamity to life wasatAsbury Park, N. J., where the fishing, schooner Mary L. Kelly, of New York, was blown asimre and wrecked in front of the town. ?. The captain, mate, steward and one sa$or were drowned. The steward was drowned in his galley. Seven members of the ciew were saved by three guests and the proprietor of the Columbian hotel, who were out on the ich in the stormy 1 hey were W. Har vey Jones, the proprietor, Walter and Malcolm Dickinsoa. of Pbiladelohia. and a Mr. Laird, of Albany. Thev saw the wreck and securing ropes threw them irom tne Doard walk to the vessel. One man was" rescued through the efforts of norace w. tsoararaan, aged 14 years; ol lmaen, wno succeeded in throwing a rope to. him. The loss at Asburv Park wl reach $30,000, and as much more at Ocean Grove. I I The tug-boat General Humphrev. .in he service of the Government, is sunk at! Atlantic Highlands. Her crew. was rescued only a few minutes before she foundered. ; Long Island, for its entire leneth.'' sunerea neaviiy on the shore as well as on tne water. A number of vessels in New York harbor were in collision during the storm, but none were sunk. During the height of the storm policeman found the body of a dead man lying in a peddlers wagon on Whipple Street; Brooklyn. The wagon was failed with water, and the body was floating around. He had gone to sleep there. ' ! The Boston mails were six hours late in arriving in this city to-day. The de lay was occasioned by a washout on the New York New Haven Kauroad at Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The mails from other places were from one to two hours late on account of last night's rain. - The damage to Coney Island resorts will undoubtedly reach far into the hun dred thousands. From North Point on the westerly end of the island to Point Breeze, on the extreme east, the beach Is full of wreckage, and a scene of dis aster is presented which tells the stqry of the terrible night far better than any words. The Marine Railway, uunning to Manhattan Beach, is totally washed out, shutting off this section of the island from communication with the west end. The Brighton Beach Hotel 'grounds are wrecked and the lawn walks are completely gone. ! The tide swept up to the electric railway tracks on Sea breeze avenue, nearly an eighth of a mile from the low water mark. At West Brighton rows of bathing houses were torn from their foundation and distribu ted along the beach and carried out to sea. bmalh buildings were overturned and there was a general wrecking of shanties, sheds, merry-go-rounds and other apparatus used to amuse the crowds that visit the island, i Manhattan Beach escaped -more se rious damage than other parts of the island. Nearly all the guests deserted Brighton Beach Hotel this morning, ter rified by their experience last night. Neighboring towns in New jersey all suffered In the same manner as did Long island. . ' i MURDER ANO syjctDE, A Ghastly Double Tragedy at Baltimore. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Baltimore, August 26. A ghastly double tragedy was enacted in North east Baltimore this morning. George E. Reed, a Belgian-block paver, residing on Spring alley, cut his wife's throat from ear to ear and then drew the bloody razor across his own throat. The woman! was dead when discov ered lying in the gutter in front of her residence. Keed was still alive, but died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 6.30 o'clock this morning. The eleven-year-old son of the couple, John Keed, said he was lying on a lounge in the front room of the house and his mother was sitting in a rocking chair when his lather entered in an in toxicated condition. iThe boy was sent after some milk by his father, but find' ing the store closed, returned home. As he reached i the house, he said, his mother came running out i with her throat cut and blood dropping over her Clothing, and leu into the gutter in iront of the bouse, s His father, he said was in the front room with a razor in his hand. The boy says he ran and struck his father on the head with the pitcher and broke it. His lather then ranrctat and gashed his mother's throat again. Run ning through the house into the yard the man plunged the razor into his neck. Reed had been out of work for three weeks and had been on a spree most of that time. A box of "rough on rats,1 found in his pocket, led to the belief that the man intended to poison his entire family. The couple had been married about 14 years and five children are left orphans by the brutal tragedy. By some it is stated that Reed's motive was jealousy, inflamed by drink, and that he had threatened several times to kill his wife". I Rocky Mount Argonaut : We are sorry to announce .the sad news of the death, at her home at Gold Rock, of typhoid fever, of Miss Ellis Edwards, daughter of Mr. Phil. Edwards, and sis ter of our townsman, Mr. Geo. Ld wards, of the firm of Hates & Edwards. Miss Edwards died on the 18th, attheage of i ( years. , A special from Oxford. N. C, says J. C Cooper, head of the banking honse ot J. C. Cooper & sons., died there yes terday aged 77 years. - SPIRITS TUJf ENT1NL and some others think (that Dorsey Austin & Rucker who were killed bv the shifting engine at Kerr street cross- . ing nere on the Slgt'juiy, are frequent , visitors to . the scene Of their death. Many, have asserted that thev have seen . their ghosts there after night. A gentle- ; man imorms us that Messrs. Frank Bar-T ber and policeman Mahalev were curious to know the facts and went there for the purpose of ascertaining them. They . ' saw something or heard something on the spot, and fear getting the better of . them, they took to their heels with all speed, not looking to the right nor to the left and taking no precaution as to what was in front, they soon collided with a freight car and were badly bruised. They Weldon News'. While looking -at Squire Evans' crop several days ago, which is very fine and promising, we stumbled upon a stalk of cotton as black as ink. It is about waist high and loaded with fruit, which is black like the stems and foliage of the plant. Save in . color it has the appearance of other cot ton, and has the same velvety feeling to the touch. If the plant is a hybrid, it may develop a black lint, which would be both valuable apd curious. Several days ago Mr. W. W. Jenkins, section -master between Weldon and Halifax, killed a horn snake. It was three feet long. The horn wasthree ' -inches in length, and is now in the possession of .Mr. David H. Day. This species of snake is rare, and should have been exhibited as a matter of general interest; The horn begins where the tail stops, and is said to resemble the long, keen spur of a rooster. Wilkesboro Chronicle y On last, Thursday week, near Hall's Mills. Mrs. Malinda Brown, wife of Noah Brown, went to sow turnip seeds some- distance from the house, and while there was stricken down with something like heart disease. This was about 10 o'clock, and - it was in the afternoon beore she was carried to the house. It was expected that she could not live, and many of her friends and relatives gathered in. But she lingered on till the Wednesday following getting per fectly helpless, having to be rubbed with camphor most of the time to keep her alive. Late Wednesday afternoon she revived and began talking and shout- -' ing, and asked to be baptized. Those around her tried to persuade her to wait till she got better, but she refused and got up of her own accord and walked to the creek, two hundred yards away, and was baptized into the Primitive Baptist Churo Elder Wm. Hall officiating. She . is now recovering very fast and it is said she is very happy woman. Charlotte Observer: The sor ghum "crop" will not flow as freely this year as last, the cane throughout this i section being not so good. Last year ; there was a superabundance of cane and : an over supply of molasses, several thous ands of gallons being made at numbers : of mills hereabouts. Christian Sci- entists, or folks who believe in the faith : cure, are evidently not a few throughout the length and breadth ot this immedi- section, judging from the numbers who make their pilgrimages to Charlotte to have the mad-stone applied. Almost daily application is made to Dr. O'Don-' ogue for the use of the stone, -the -patients coming from the remotest parts Of this State' and Souto Carolina. There were two applicants for the stone Tues day, as mentioned in yesterday's paper, and two yesterday, the latter being Miss Nannie Steel, of Mooresville, who was bitten on the hand, and Mr. W. L. Hor tpn, of Union county. The stone was . applied by "Dr." Tommie Reid, and ad-' ' hered.'. - Henderson Ledger: Mr. George Renn, a prosperous farmer in Person county, did not keep his money in the bank, but kept It at home, doubtless thinking it was safer there. While off at his church last Saturday some thief pillagedNhis house and "drew" $400 ol his bard earned cash, atrange to say the thief was generous enough to divide with Mr. Renn; as only the paper money was stolen. He had $800 in all, $400 of it being gold and silver. but the com was left unmolested. Six years ago in Robinson county, Texas, an old man of sixty years, named Wheehs, shot and killed a neighbor of ' his. It is said the murder was cold blooded and premeditated, Wheelis hid ing in ambush and shooting his victim as he approached. The mnrderer fled and the authorities have been trying to effect his capture ever since. Recently he was located at Aurora, near .Wash ington, N. C, and yesterday afternoon the sheriff of Robinson county passed through Hendersdh with the old man in custody, taking him back to Texas to . answer in the Courts ot the State betore a jury of his peers to the charge of mur der. Wheelis was not tied or hand cuffed, having given his word of honor to the sheriff that he would give him no trouble, and cheerfully accompany him back to Texas. He went originally from Tennessee, and has been in hiding for six years. Charlotte News: A trade, by which the Monroe Enquirer passed from the editorship of W. J, Boylen to Mr. E. C. Ashcraft, of Monroe, was effected yes terday. Mr. Ashcraft is a young man, well educated and in every way well equipped for his work. It is not known what Mr. Boylen will do, but it is not supposed that he will remain out of jour nalism. At the cotton platform this morning a News reporter found cot ton weigher Withers and his assistant, . Sam, engaged in picking and .repacking eleven bales of cotton. The cotton had been sold by a Soth Carolina firm to aj mill at Jamestown, in this State, and had beenreiected because -every bale of it smelled strongly of the odor of goat, and was therefore unfit to be run through the mill. It appears that the cotton had been held by a South Carolina farmer for better prices, and in the meantime the farmer s goats made a resting place on it. The cotton had to be picked and re packed, as if it had aeen burned over. It took out two bales of the lot to cover the extra expense, including freight and drayage. In every bale or so, the was an evacuation almost to the heart, showing where the goats had been going for des sert. . ' i Goldsboro Headlight: After a short but painful illness, Mrs. William Hollingsworth quietly breathed her last Sunday morning at 1 o'clock at her resi- ' dence in the Webbtown section, in the 22d year of her age. An altercation, caused by 'too much cider, took place near Seven Springs Saturday evening, between John Moses and William Smith, both colored, which resulted in Smith hitting Moses two licks on the held with a club, making two ugly gashes. Moses, who was the instigator of the trouble, is . now in a critical condition, his left side being paralyzed and his skull partly frac tured. Smith was brought here Monday night and lodged in jail. Both are mere boys, Smith being 18, and -Moses only. 16 years of age. They are .both, residents of New Hope township. ' Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, Milford Mitchell and Albert Edgerton, while returning home from Fremont in an intoxicated condition, and passing ; the residence of Mr. B. F. Scott, they shot a dog belonging to Mr. Scott, who j mounted his . mule and went in pursuit i ot his offenders with a shot-gun. When i overtaken, Mr. Scott asked Mitchell who shot his dog, and without any re- sponse the latter shot at Mr. Scott,, the i first shot taking effect in ' his mule's breast, and the second in his thigh. Mitchell jumped from his buggy and fled through the ' woods, leaving his companion to look out for self. ' Mr. Scott arrested Edgerton, carried him to i Freemont, where he was tried before a .j magistrate and bound over to court in the sum of $500. . Mitchell is still at i large.;- M J m ' -''l !.! ', -j mi u 'y A -' -I ? ten t !( .-.1
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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