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WHERE THE WEALTH IS.
An effort is being made to stave
off tariff legislation under the pre
tence that if anything is done to dis
turb the present tariff manufacturers
mill Iia thMmn intn enrh a crarp nf
uncertaintyvand uneasiness that they
will reduce the number of their work
men, and move with" the greatest
r eaution until that question is settled
and they can see iust what they have
to "expect in the jway of protection
and be able to form some opinions
as to what they have to face. j
There are some Democrats who
are influenced by these representa
tions, and are advising the go-slow
course. They would probably be wil
ling to indefinitely postpone! tariff
reform and forget that the Demo
cratic platform says anything about
it or that two campaigns, both suc
cessful, were waged upon it.
Republicans in and out of ! Con
gress have been trying to create the
impression that the present financial
troubles are mainly due to the ap
prehensions of radical tariff legisla
tion, and that the Sherman act (for
the repeal of which, however, Re
publican Congressmen voted with re
markable uaanimity) played a very
insignificant pattj It Is to be expect
ed that they would talk that way, for
there is both bluff and politics in it,
but it was not to be expected that
Democrats would agree with i them.
The go-slow pressure comes, as
might be expected, from the manu
facturers who have been , growing
rich out of the favoring legislation
which they have had so long. ; They
do not want to 'see any change, be
cause they know they have a good
thing and want to hold , on to it as
long as they can.J. At the end of an-
other hundred years their industries
would be, as far as protection goes,
quite as mucti "imams as they are
now, and as dependent upon protec
tion pap as they are now. !
As this is a matter of dollars in
which patriotism figures very little
one way or the other, we do not
know that they are so much to blame,
for they have been pampered so
much and so long by the Govern
ment they have come to look upon
protection as a right! and not as a
favor granted for a presumably lim
ited period. j j . j
The legislation which is j honest
anchjust, is the legislation which aims
at promoting the welfare of the
people as a whole and not of any
special class, and especially of any
one class, at the expense of other
classes, or of one section at the ex
pense of other sections. , As s
matter of fact in ; natural ad
vantages, ' and productive resources,
that portion, of the United States
lying north of the Potomac , and east
of the. Alleghanies is the poorest
section within the bounds of the Re
- public, the land as a general thing
being below the average in fertility,
There are fertile valleys, and lands
made rich by industry and care, but
these are the exception. There are
also a few of those. States rich in
iron and coal, but as a whole they
bear no comparison to other sections
of the country, Speaking of this
Governor Fishback, of Arkansas, in
a letter to the New York World says:
"The census shows that Nebraska,
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana are fifty-eight times as large
as Massachusetts and have seven times
as many people; yet, within the past ten
years Massachusetts has grown in wealth
ten millions more than all nine of these
great States combined. Pennsylvania
has grown twelve millions more than
twelve of these great States. New York
has grown six millions more than fifteen
combined. '
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VOL. XXIV.
"The nine industrial States of the
Northeast own .one-half ot the wealth of
the entire country. This wealth has
been drained from the consumers of the
South and West, making these States
the debtor States and the Northeastern
States the creditors."
The question arises, how did these
nine States manage to get possession
of most of the wealth of the nation ?
Their people are not any more .In
telligent, thrifty, energetic or ' indus
trious than therpeople of other sec
tions, and their lands, at least in
some portions, were so poor that the
people went to manufacturing from
necessity because they couldn't live
without it.. .But they have become
rich, are becoming richer every year,
have more money in the banks of a
few of them ; than, all of the agri
cultural States combined, - while
the agricultural States where manu-.
facturing has not been introduced to
an appreciable extent, ar poorer
now than they were ten years ago
How did these States which have be
come rich, become so? Out of whom
did the money come that made them
rich? Not out of foreign nations, for
they export but little, less than $90,
000,000 a year all combined. They
have become rich out of our own
people, out ofi the farmers of the
West and the-South, and of the wage
earners of-the country, from the
heavy tribute imposed upon them by
discriminating, iniquitous tariff,
which transteis the earnings of the
thousands into the pockets of the fa
vored few. I I
The Democratic party is pledged
against that iniquity,- and the sooner
it gets about redeeming that pledge
the better it will be for the country
and, for the Democratic party.
MINOR MENTIOL'.
It is said that some of the Repub-
lcans in Montana, Colorado, and
other States of the West propose to
switch off from the Republican party
and go in for.a low tariff to retaliate
on the Eastern Republicans for the
part they took in "the House on the
repe'al of the Sherman act. As these
have been . heretofore Republican
ates they jhave, reason to feel
wrath at the party which, to keep
them in the Republican party, passed
the Sherman act and then by an al
most solid vote went for its repeal
and against every proposition for the
coinage of silver on any ratio. A
majority of the Democrats voted for
the Bland Allison act, but 113 Re
publicans voted against it, showing
that the only friends that silver had,
with a few exceptions of Western Re
publicans, are in the Democratic
party. We are not surprised that they
feel they have been badly used by the
Republicans who played that act for
the politics that was in it, and
then wenl dead against it when
there seemed to be more to be gained
bv that course, than by standing by
and defending their own work. The
desertion was the more offensive be
cause nearly 1 every Republican in
Congress who spoke upon it and
favored the repeal declared that he
did not believe the Sherman act was
responsible for the present financial
trouble, which were, they said, due
to a lack of confidence in the Dem
ocratic party and to the fears of
Democratic manipulation of the
tariff. The ! Democrats who voted
for its repeal were consistent because
the Democrats in Congress solidly
opposed to it in 1890, and have never
since endorsed it, in National Con
vention characterized it as a "cow
ardly makeshift" and pledged the
party to its repeal, but the Republi
cans who passed it, played mum on
it in their platform, and then after it
had served its" purpose treacherously
turued against it.' The' Silver State
Republicans have good reason to feel
like kicking out of the traces. '
Thursday cholera, Asiatic cholera,
was reported in an English seaport
town, and also in a Scotch seaport,
brought there, by vessels from Ger
man ports. Yesterday there was
one fatal case and another probable
case reported in Jersey City, where
there wasn't the slightest apprehen
sion or suspicion of its presence. It
must have been brought into Jersey
City by some of the passengers or
crews of some vessel which doubt
less "passed quarantine with a clean
bill ot health. This shows that
however vigilant the health author
ities may be,1 cases' not sufficiently
developed to .; attract attention may
elude them, i The presence of the
disease in Jersey City does not
necessarily mean that it will spread,
but the fact that it has made its ap
pearance where it was not seriously
thought ofj is calculated... to , cause
some uneasiness and emphasizes the
necessity of increased vigilance. . As
a distributing center, if it should get
a foothold, there are few places that
would be more dangerous than Jer
sey City, for that is- practically the
terminus and the ; starting point of
the railway system of the United
States, from which trains, run in all
directions. The recognition of : this
fact will, doubtless, redouble the
efforts to stamp it out and prevent it
from getting a foothold there, but,
in the meantime, the prudent thing
for other cities brought close to Jer
sey City by rail to do is to put them
selves in the ; best possible sanitary
condition, for cleanliness is the best
safeguard when cholera or other epi
demic diseases are in the air.I ;:
Senator Vance made
a strong
speech Friday Jn opposition: to the
unconditional repeal of the purchas
ing clause of the Sherman act, in pur
opinion, the strongest that has. been
made in the Senate on that side of
the question,"". He commanded the
attention of the Senate, as he always
does when he speaks, and he never
speaks simply for the sake of speak-
ng. He contended that
the uncon
ditional passage of the- repeal bill,
although it pledged the j country to
bi-mettalism" (as the platforms of
both the Democratic and Republican
parties had already done) without
any provision for the" coinage of sil
ver meant the end : of silver money
for this generation, by which we sup
pose he meant the end of silver coin
age, and it cannot be disputed that
he had good grounds for! the asser
tion in the vote cast in j the House
of Representatives on the coinage
propositions, in the declarations of
some of the leading members of the
House in their speeches, I and in the
comments of the anti-coinage papers
after the result was announced. ,
They get things down fine in the
U.. S. Treasury sometimes. The
receipt of Treasurer Morgan to the
outgoing Treasurer was for millions,
thousands, hundreds of dollars and
seventy-eight and two-third cents. It
took considerable figuring to get that
two-thirds, but it had to come.
This reminds us of an instance in
which the Government used up about
$4.50 worth of stationery to get a
quartermaster to account for a mis
sing cent Uncle Sam may some
times squander a good deal of cash,
but when it comes to settling up ac-
counts, he
insists
on an even bal-
ance. -
Entomologists tell us that the
mosquito is a very useful insect be
cause it. forages in the; swamps and
eats up lots of stuff that would
otherwise become ; putrid and poison
the atmosphere. If that's so there
are a good many mosquitoes that
don't know their business or what
they were invented for, that don't go
into the swamps at all but persist in
hanging about towns and the habita
tions of men, carousing all night and
feeding on live people.!
That story about the cancerous
growth which necessitated the cut
ting of President Cleveland s jaw
bone, - as published under naming
head-lines by the Philadelphia Press,
has had the stuffing knocked out of
by Dr. Bryant, the President's physi
cian, and by Dr. Hasbrouch, who as-J
sisted in the operation, and says it
consisted simply in the removal of
two molars which had seen their xbest
days and "occasionally- gave Mr.
Cleveland annoyance. )
St. Louis foot pads
are sportive
cusses. iney held
up a yonng
society man the other
only relieved him o
inight and not
his pocket
change, &c, but also of his clothes,
and then tied him to
a staple in a
wall in full glare of an
electric light.
In this predicament he was discov
ered by a street car conductor, who
generously lent him a
scoot home in.
waterproof to
In addition to the other demands
on Siam to which - Siam " submitted,
France now demands that Siam dis
miss the Danish officers in her army.
It is a little remarkable that France
didn't demand the disbandment of
the army, or at least ttat French of
ficers shbuld be substituted for the
Danish officers dismissed.
Storm Damage in Qeorgia. '
The Savannah News says: "Anything
like an accurate estimate of the loss of
property is yet impossible. Those who
give estimates ot damages necessarily
differ widely. It is pretty safe to say the
whole damage done to all kinds of pro
perty in Savannah, along the river and
in territory tributary to the city, amounts
to much more than $1,000,000. '
"No estimate can be made of the dam
age to the cotton crop I in - the counties
visited by the storm, nor of the damage
done to the pine trees in the turpentine
districts. . .
"The cotton has been hurt badly, and
from some reports received, it is pretty
sate to say that twenty-hve per cent, oi
the pine trees in the naval stores dis
tricts have been blown down."
Wreck News.
The crew
of the wrecked German
barque Wurstrow were brought up to
the city yesterday on the Wilmington
from Southport and were quartered at
the Seamen's Home, under the direction
of the Geaman Imperial Consul here, E.
Peschau, Esq. . .1 .
Capt. Jos. W. Price, harbor master of
the : port of Wilmington, Capt S. W
Skinner, and Capt U gland, master of the
Norwegian barque Bonita, went up the
Sound yesterday : to Queen's Inlet to
hold a survey on the Norwegian barque
Najarden, stranded at that place.
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pVTLMEON
DISASTERS TOiSHIPPING. r3
8ohooner Enchantress Ashore Near Cape .
Jj'ear Water-logged "- Schooner Jennie
L- Thomas Frrins-Fan - Light-Ship All
Reports of disasters to shipping by the
storm of last Sunday and Monday are
still coming in. . ' . . j ' :;
Weather Bureau observer Dorman, at
Southport,epbrted yesterday morning
that the three-masted schooner nchant-
ress, of NewYork, Capt Frank RoUent,
with a cargo" : of ' railroad ties;' has
gone ashore twenty-five miles south of
Cape Fear, with deck load, boat, cabin
and forecastle carried away. . The crew
were three days without ; food or water.
The mate was washed., overboard Sun-
Aav niorht and the. rantam iniure.d. v.'" I
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Alscv that the three-masted schooner
Jennie Thomas, of. Savannah, -from Sa
vannah to Baltimore, Capt. A. T. Young,
with a cargo of lumber, is water-Ioeged
and anchored twenty-five miles south of
Cape Fear. No lives were lost. , V'
The Schooner. Three Sisters, which
went ashore Monday' night near Corn
Cake Inlet, was pulled off by the tug
Alex. " Tones and towed into South-
port, ; arriving j there at 12 o'clock
yesterday. She is in bad ' con
dition,: water-logged, and cannot be
hetd by her - anchors. The tug ' ones
placed her on the shoal in order to keep
her straight. I j-
Assistant engineer Win. Harvey, of
the Frymg-pan lightship, arrived at
Southport yesterday morning on the tug
Jones. He had one pf his fingers broken
by being thrown into the engine during
the hurricane Monday,
lightship all right, aSd
board well.
He reports the
everybody on
MORE WRECKS REPORTED
An Abandoned Barque Towed Into8ontb-
port' by a British Steamer Vessels
- Wrecked Near Shallotte Wreckers
Itooting the Barque
Queen's Inlet.
stranded . Near
The British! Steamer
Eric, from
Hampton Roads, arrived at South-
port . yesterday morning at 11.30
o'clock, having in tow the abandon
. 1 ....
ed Norwegian barque Linda, which
the steamer picked up at sea last
Thursday, sixty miles south of Frying-
pan light-ship. ; The captain put a crew
on board the oarque. He reports Hav
ing seen two abandoned schooners, lum
ber-laden, near the place where he found
the Linda.
The tug Alex. Jones has gone, down
the coast to assist two schooners reported
dismasted and anchored off the bar near
Georgetown, b. C ;
Mr. R..W. McKeithan
writing .from
Supply, Brunwick county, to -Mr.
D. L. Gore, of Wilmington, says
that four large vessels
were wrecked
between Shallotte and Cape Fear. The
crews of the two vessels which went
ashore on Long Beach were saved, with
the exception of one man. Long
Beach Is between the mouth of Shallotte
river and Lockwqod's Folly.
The master of the Norwegian barque
Najarden, strandednear Queen's Inlet
not far from Wrightsville, was in the
city yesterday to consult with Mr.
Heide, the Norwegian Consul, in re
gard to saving the ; valuable cargo
of mahogany.' He complains that
that wreckers have looted the vessel of
everything of value that they could
carry away.
The schooner ennte 1 nomas, pre
viously reported anchored two miles
south of Cape Fear, in a waterlogged
condition, arrived at Southport at 12 m.
yesterday. i j
A SERIOUS MATTER.
Arrest of a number of Persona Charged
with Ijootlng the Stranded Norwegian
Barque Najarden All the Defendants
Bound Over to the Criminal Court,
Deputy Sheriffs King and Sheehan
were busy Friday and a part of yester
day serving warrants on persons
charged with looting the stranded Nor
wegian barque Najarden, on the beach
near Queen's Inlet, some six miles be
low Wrightsville. . " -
The persons arrested were Jno. Pettit
O. F. Corbett las. A.s Hewlett, J. P.
Walton (whites), and David Jfoiles, Jos.
Pickett and Jno. Sidbury (colored. A
portion of the property taken from
the vessel the captain s instruments,
cabin ; furniture, clothing and other
articles was recovered by the officers.
Yesterday the accused parties appeared
before; Mr. Alexander, ! a magistrate of
New Hanover county, at Scott's
Hill, for a preliminary examina
tion. Hewlett and Walton waived
examination and were placed under
$500 bond each for appearance at the
next term of the Criminal Court The
bonds of the others defendants was fixed
at $200 each, and all of them furnished
bail with the exception of David' Foiles,
who was committed to jail. ,
The case is one that is likely to be
placed in the United States Court Sec
tion 5358 of the Laws of the United
States recites, that "every person who
plunders, steals or destroys any money,
goods, merchandise or other effects
from or belonging to any vessel in dis
tress, or wrecked, lost, stranded, or cast
away upon the sea, or upon any reef,
shoal, bank, or rocks of the sea, or in
any other place within the admiralty and
maritime jurisdiction of the United
States '" shall be punished
by a fine of not more than five thou
sand dollars and imprisoned at hard
labor not more than ten years." '
W., H.SN.B. B.
The Newbern Journal say that ground
was broken there Friday for the depot
building of the W...N. & N. R. R.
As near as. can be judged, the running
Of regular trains will commence about
the tenth. At first only a passenger
train will be run; but a mixed freight
and passenger train will follow-as speed
ily as the needful preparation can be
made lor it : ,
Brig Onolaska cleared yesterday
for Barbadoes, with 829,089 feet lumber,
valued at $4,945, shipped by Mr. E. Kid
der's Son.
TH E LIFE-SAVERS.
Good work of the. Crews and Citizens of
Southport During the Beeent Storm In
Saving The Lives of -Imperilled Sea-
men. f
The invaluable aid rendered by mem
bers ot the life-saving service of the Cape
Fear section and -citizens of 'Southport
and the heroism exhibited by them in
their efforts to - rescue the crews of
wrecked vessels during the recent terrible
storm on the coast can hardly be over-
estimated." : - " ;
On Monday morning the water-logged
tbree-masted schooner Three Sistersvna
sighted from the Cape Fear Life-Saving
station, and danger signals were made
by Capt. C - Wr- Watts to the schooner.
to let go anchors: ': that he (the
captain) t would render assistance
as soon-.'as possible. ' The life-'
saving crew not being on duty he went
to' Southport,' about " seven miles from
tie station,, in a small boat, and there
collected snch of the life-saving crew as
he could find Messrs. Sam'l Brink- !
man, SamT Newton, Thomas St.
George, Jno. C. Price. Crawford
Watts, Wesley Smith (colored), Mose
Stephney - .. (colored) and ' volunteer
citizens of Southport Messrs. Robeit
Weeks and Jos. Newton. Capt. Watts
then procured a large row-boat at South-
port and proceeded with the crew to
Oak I Island Lite saving station. Here
he left the row-boat and got Capt. Dun
bar Davis, master of the station, with
his boat and apparatus. Capt Davis,
taking command of the crew, proceeded
to the rescue of the people on the Three
Sisters, in the face of the terrible gale.
They were six or seven hours in reach
ing Com-cake Inlet Then they . had to
leave the boat and walk five miles
to Cape . Fear Station, where they
obtained the : boat and apparatus be
long!
ng to that station, in charge of Capt.
Watts. It was then 5 o'clock in the
morning of Tuesday, but undeterred by
their laborious progress, having been
out . fifteen j hours in the storm,
they launched the life-boat, and
after an hour's struggle with the
wind and the Waves reached the wrecked
schooner and took the worn-out and ex
hausted men from the rigging, where
they had --been since Monday morn
ing,! when the captain and mate
were washed overboard and drowned.
un their way to shore tney bad to use
the drag attached to the life-boat to
keep their little craft from upsetting,
The boat filled with water four times,
but being a self-bailer soon freed itself.
Altogether, there were thirteen men in
the boat They reached Southport
about 10 a. m Tuesday.
Upon their arrival at Southport, they
saw distress signals flying at Oak Island
Station, two miles distant, and without
delay answered the call. They
found - the j schooner, .-Hate. -E Giff',
ord and the German brig Wustrow
eight miles west of the station,
showing signals of distress. The gale
was still raging and the sea so high that
it was found, impracticable to use the
boat The life-apparatus and gun were
therefore placed on a cart and hauled by
hand through the deep sand and storm
eight miles. They arrived on the beach
opposite the Gifford at 7 o'clock in the
evening, and. at once proceeded to use
the apparatus. The life-line was fired
from the gun. It lodged across the jib-
boom of the schooner, but the
crew were unable to find it.
and the - life-savers remained on the
beach all night When day broke the
crew discovered the life-line, which they
made fast and then hauled the breeches-
buoy aboard, by means of which the cieW
of the schooner were all safely landSd,
and subsequently brought to Southport,
Throughout all this trying experience
-worn-out with fatigue, the hard row
ing and the sixteen-mile tramp over the
beach, dragging the heavy apparatus,
and: drenched with rain, they were
without food or drink; but : none
of them faltered or . complained
They were engaged in the noblest efforts
that men can make for their fellow-men,
and were ready to dare all and sacrifice
even life itself in their behalf.
It must be remembered- that the life-
saving crews are not on duty during the
summer months, their term of service
beginning September 1st and continuing
until May 1st, and that their services
were voluntarily given.
It is strange that the Government,
knowing that the worst storms on the
South Atlantic coast occur during Au
gust does not at least extend the term
of the life-saving crews to coyer this
month. They should, indeed, be on duty
throughout the year. -
The men from the brig Wustrow were
assisted ashore bv a citizen of Bruns
wick whose name is unknown. He was
on the beach and waded into the'surf to
meet the men as thrown up by the waves
and assisted them to a place of safety.
But for him some of them at least would
have lost their lives.
" I THE SCHOONER CATAWAMTEAK,
with a cargo of sugar, from Macaris for
New York, ' disabled in the hurricane,
came up to the city yesterday. Capt
Rowe, master -of the' schooner, re
ports that previous to their arfival at
Southport the crew had been forty-eight
hours without food or crater. During
the storm the lazarette hatch was
mg over the stern of the vessel. He
caught it, and as soon as he could get a
man put of the rigging, he, with the
man's assistance, secured the hatch by
spiking it down. -
The second officer of the vessel was
lashed f o the wheel, where herhad one
leg fractured, and was badly bruised,
which left the master without asssist-
ance. r::- r'i';j;v.
Capt Richards, master of the schr.
Battt'e L. Sheets, savsthat he and his
crew were without food or water from
Saturday noon until their., arrival at
Southport Wednesday afternoon.
i "Mr. W. J. Toomer has been ap
pointed cashier of the Atlantic National
Bank in place of Mr. H. W. Howard,
who resigned. Mr. Toomer has been
book-keeper in the bank lor some
months past Mr. Howard, who has
filled the position of cashier most ac
ceptably, proposes to take a trip out
West . :
THE. GREAT STORM i
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE
DE-
-: ; VASTATION. ,l
Over - Five Hundred Lives lost on
the
.Sea-Islands The Cotton Crop Serioaaly
Damaged Disasters to Shipping Missing
Steamships, i v yr-r-J
- ..-' By Telegraph to the Morning Star,
Columbia, S. C, Aug, 81. Accounts
continue to come in of general havoc by
Sunday's storm. Thousands of valua
ble timber trees have been blown down,
crops washed away, and the rivers fare
full of flotsam ana jetsam of the djsas
aster. Advices from the sea coast jmay
be summed up in the following extracts
irom to-day s Charleston papers:
l ne long-stapie cotton crop has
met
with a serious injury, and the estimates
are that where in former years Charles
ton received . 10,000 bales - of sea-island
cotton, this year she will do well to get
3,000 bales. That is the' situation in a
nut-shell as viewed yesterday by those
who are in the best position to do I anv
talking. The reports indicate that! the
sea-islands met with the - heaviest dam
age, while the uplands fared somewhat
better. j
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ment, gives me lonowmg story oi the
effects of the storm in the low country:
He had just arrived from WalterborO and
stated that from Bischoff's place on the
.disto river, to lacksonboro, two negroes
floated the whole distance on the top of.
their shanty, and reported that all the
negroes on the place in the lowlands had
been drowned; in all about 100 men and
women and children. They relate a ter
rible experience and -furthermore state
that all of the dwellings are totally de
stroyed and the place in abject desola
tion. - . . ' I M
At Waterboro. Mr Robinson said.
many of the houses had been completely
washed from their foundations out into
the streets and all the rice fields are
overflowed. l
The steamboat Pilot Boy, familiar to
every sdul on the inland route between
the cities of ' Charleston and Savannah,
has been stranded and more or less in
jured. The pilot fleet of the harbor is
wrecked or stranded. The phosphate
works which are located on the banks of
the neighboring river are in little better
condition. . - ?.
Port Royal, lying on a tongue of land
further down, the Beaufort river j must
have been even more exposed to the
fury of the tempest. The place is prac
tically in ruins. Its water front is de
stroyed and great damage has been done
to its buildings. The great loss Of life
which resulted from the storm on every
shore of the islands, is greatest here, or
else it I has been more authentically
stated. ( Thirty odd negroes were! found
dead on the beach, and the number was
expected to be largely increased j "before
the death roll was finally dosed. It is
needless to add that the crops were
injured j terribly. Fifty per. cent loss
would probably not be too large an esti
mate to make, r
Several gentlemen from this city, who
were in Port Royal or Beaufort during
the hurricane, returned to Charleston
yesterday on the first train which came
into the city over the Charleston a
Savannah Railroad., They report that
the loss of life and the destruction of
property at those places and the neigh
boring sea ; islands nave beenj leartui.
The death roll had already risen to
thirty odd persons, among whom was
numbered Dr. Ellis, the newly appointed
quarantine officer for the port. Paris
Island, 'where the U, S. dry-docks
are building, and which stands between
the Broad and' Beaufort rivers, was
swept by the cyclones. The ! fatality
which has pursued the Government im
provements since their inception found
its culmination on Sunday night - The
injury could not be '- accurately cal
culated. . ! i
Beaufort, the prettiest island town in
the Carolinas, is terribly damaged, not
withstanding the fact that it stands six.
miles up the Beaufort river. Many of
the residences in the town were badly
damaged and the wharves are nearly or
quite destroyed.
l he experience oi tapt wniteiy ana
his wile and family ot ten children on
Castle Jinckney on the night of the
storm was a terrible one. The wind blew
the store houses to pieces, and blew away
all the" ship chandlers stores and his
dwelling was so exposed that it was seen
to be dangerous to remain in it. I He and
his family sought shelter irom the mry
of the tempest to the leeward of the fort,
and with his children he stood lout the
storm with occasional waves breaking
over the helpless family. Three of the
littleones were from six months to three
years of age, and stood it like the old
ones, without a whimper.
The fury of the winds and waves was
so great that some huge masses of iron
used for hoiding buoys and weighing 4,-
500 pounds: were moved from their
places and roiled about the beach. Some
great anchors, weighing tiom 4.500 to
6,000 pounds, were thrown about the
place like so much timber. The place is
a complete ruin, and in spite of it all,
Capt Whitely and his brave family are
still on the castle and are holding the
fort.
The missing steamer Seminole, about
which so much anxiety was felt steamed
into the harbor yesterday morning with
scarcely a scratch on her. She! and her
passengers escaped from the horrors
of the storm which swept the coast
When the "Seminole" met the hurricane
she was off the mouth of the St John's
river, and was preparing to head in for
the entrance. Her officers appreciated
the situation at a glance, and! making
out to seaward lor a considerable dis
tance, turned the vessel s nose into
the eve of the cyclone and cast out their
anchors. - I
The caDtain said she breasted the wa
ter like a duck during the long hours of
the storm, and was not injured in the
least when it naa subsided. -
As soon as the wind had
lulled, he turned her into the St John s
' river and made his dock in Jacksonville in
perfect safety. His return was unevent
ful except of the evidences pf the storm
which was witnessed at several points,
The little watering place which stands at
the mouth of the bt John s river was a
perfect wreck, and all along the banks of
the stream damage was apparent
The passengers did not think that the
coast of Florida had sustained. nearly so
much loss as that ot south Carolina,
Inquiry at the Clyde Line offices
elicited little information regarding the
other missing steamer, the Yeamasee,
further than the bare statement that she
had left her dock in New York Saturday
afternoon. Even her passenger list is
unknown. She should have arrived in
Charleston at 7 o clock on the . morning
of the 29th, making her forty-eight
hours over due. The officials of the
company, while naturally-anxious to have
some intelligence ot the vessel s crew ana
passengers are not alarmed tor her satety,
They do not think the delay necessarily
alarming. Even if the Yeamaseeonissed.
the brunt of the storm snej must navel
had weather bad enough to throw heri
far behind time.
The Italian bark Vinceno GalatolaJ
which left this port for Hamburg on the
16th, was abandoned at sea off Hatteras
on the 24th. - Her sails had been blown
away, and her - foretopmast
was gonej
NO. 44
and she. was otherwise disabled," when
fortunately the whaling, schooner Hattie
b.. smith, Capt. Bourne, which had also
suffered damage, came alongside and
gallantly rescued the crew of the bark. .
Washington, Aug. 81. The Charles
ton News and Courier ot the 80th, re
ceived here by mail, says : ."There has
not been the faintest tick of a telegraph
nstrument in this city since about 3
o'clock on Sunday afternoon. What is
still more discouraging, there is nothing
to indicate that we shall be able to com
municate with the outside world for two
or three days, or possibly a week."
I he News and Lourter incidentally re
marks that this edition of the paper was
set up by candle light; that "the avail
able j: supply, of candles was exhausted
about 2 a. m., which necessitated the
leaving out of four columns of news
about the cyclone." : - ; ;
liaads, -"tne outlook last night was
very; cheerful for a city without either
gas or electric light, . telegraph or tele
phone. But Charleston has wresled with
and overcome difficulties much more se
rious than this one. Charleston may be
depended upon to 'get there.' "
savannah- GA Aug. 31. lacob
Paulsen left this morning for Coffin
Point. S. C. to brinor the survivors of
the . wrecked steamship City of Savan
nah J here. Reports of the disastrous
work of the storm are still coming in.
The entire coast is strewn with wreck
age debris, and vessels are high and dry
in exposed harbors. " The bark Clara E.
McGilvery, Bull River, S. C... loaded
with phosphate, was torn from her moor
ings' and dashed upon the shore.
ine beach and inlets are hlled with
wrecks oi small craft. Dr. William
Dnncan and C. H. Cunningham, who
have been missing since the storm, have
been heard from and are upon their way
to the city. : v. s
Beaufort, N. C, Aug. 81. The cap
tain ot the bark Anna is .nere with all
nis crew, i hey turned the vessel over
to the tug-boat men for .salvage. The
schooner AnnaT. Ebner is anchored
under Point Lookout in a safe harbor.
She is making 1200 strokes per hour
with her pumps; has lost anchor and
chain and split mainsail.
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 31. Receiver
Averill of the Port Royal & Augusta
road, wires the Orwir& ""to-night that
the! loss of life on the sea-islands of
South Carolina far exceeds anything yet
reported, and will not fall far short of six
hundred. Great destitution exists
among the seven thousand remaining in
naoitants, and urgent appeal is made for
aid in the shape of provisions, crops and
provisions having been entirely de
stroyed. I
Savannah, August 31. The tug that
went to Coffin Point, near St. Helena
ight-house, to bring back the women
and children wrecked on the steamer
City of Savannah was expected to return
by 6 p. m., but had not arrived here at
lu p. m. -. . .. 1
j A great many dead animals that were
drowned in the storm are floating down
the river. About 8 p.m. the body of a
little girl about 8 years old floated down.
it is not yet known whether black or
white. It is reported this evening that
twenty-four bodies floated up on the
lower end of Hutchison island near
Screven's ferry. The report is not yet
verified and cannot be verified to-night.
It is considered doubtful.
If Dr. Duncan and C M. Cunningham,
thought to have been lost on Wolf
Island, where they were hunting, and
for whom a rescuing party was sent, are
all right. Dr. Duncan came to the city
With the rescuing party: Cunningham
remained to look after a wrecked boat
II ! Augusta, August 31. A special from
xeamasse, near fort Koyai, s. c, says
the facts are worse than reported. Sir
hundred are dead; two millions loss on
property. 1
Every one of the ! fifteen or twenty
islands lying around Port Royal and
Beaufort are steeped in sorrow. On
every door knob there is a bunch ot
crape and on everyi hill-side there are
fresh-made graves, some already filled.
while others are awaiting the bodies
that will be deposited in them just as
soon as some body can be found to do
the kind, Christian act of shovel
ling the dirt upon the coffin. The
beaches, the undergrowth, the trees
and shrubbery, the marshes and the
inlets are turning up new dead bodies
every time an investigation is made. Of
the many disasters and devastations
which have visited jhis section of the
country, hone have been half as horrible
as those which came Sunday. Already
more than 200 bodies have been found,
and those who are at all posted about
the country and the habits of the people
In the storm-visited sections are confi
dent in their prediction that the death-
roll will run as high as 500. Some of the
people, and they are among the best
people oHhis section of the State, even
place the loss at more than one thous
and. There has not been an hour of
any day since the early hours of Monday
morning that a dead body has not been
found at some point on one of the many
islands. As the waters recede and the
people move deeper into the wreckage
gathered by the storm the ghastly pic
tures are uncovered. So frequent are
the discoveries that the finding of a
Single body attracts no attention at all. It
takes the discovery of at leastatlump of
haij-dQ?en or more to induce the people
to show any feelings whatever.' It is
around Beaufort and Port- Royal that
the death rate was the greatest, but in
neither ot the : towns were many lives
lost At Beaufort, only, coffins were
bought to supply the local demand,
while fort Koyai got on even lighter.
Around the two towns there is a com
plete chain of islands, and it was upon
these that the black angel of death hov
jered for hours Sunday night leaving in
his path sorrow and desolation.
THREE MEN HANGED.
One for Murder and Two for Arson, at
Laurens, 8. C.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Laurens. S. C, Sept. 1. John Fer
guson, Wade Cannon, and George Bow
ers, all colored, were hanged at one
o'clock to-day in an out-building of the
county jail yard, r erguson was con
victed of wife-murder at the last court,
and Cannon and Bowers of arson. Fer
guson was neatly dressed,' and walked
with a sprightly step to the scaffold, ac
knowledged his guilt and said he was
ready to die. Cannon and Bowers pro
tested their innocence to the last, stating
that their former confession was made
through fear. A colored minister held
devotions at the gallows. -'
. WARM "w! RELETS.
A hurricane passed over the Azores'
on August 28th. Two vessels were
wrecked in the harbor of Fayal and four
teen houses were destroyed in the town.
At Tlerra three vessels were wrecked
and twenty-eight houses were destroyed.
Five persons were killed. ,
The British steamer Legislator, from
Liverpool for New Orleans, put in at
Nassau, N. P., with the American bark,
E W. Stelsan, from New York for Ha
vana, in tow. The bark encountered a
severe hurricane during the passage and
was leaking badly. . Three men were
washed overboard, and the captain and
six men deserted the vessel at sea. The
second mate and six of the crew remained
on board. - ,i s : - ;.: - :
Newbern Journal; : Mr. -W. A.
White died &t his residence, in this city
Thursday morning, of malarial fever,- v
alter an illness of three weeks duration,
in the 27th year of his age, J ' - - ...
Sanford Exfiressx The crops in
this section are said to be finer than for
years. ; Cotton is not so very large but"
is well formed and is heavily boiled. It r
is now opening in places and 'is earlier .
than for some years. Corn is excellent.
especially late corn. , r -
warremon necora: eaton Wil
liams, colored, -a well digger, one day
this week, while in the bottom of a well .
at Dr. Fleming's, had a rock to fall from" '
the wailing at the top of the well and -strike
him on the head. It stunned him'
for awhile, but he was soon all right ,
There can be no doubt about the thick- '
nessof Eaton's skull. - . -
Scotland Neck Democrat: MfT
G. W. Ryan has one acre in com which
he planted or 100 bushels, and had it
not been lor the destructive winds which
have repeatedly injured it we believe he
would have got it - It is the finest up
land corn we have seen. A number of
gentlemen looked at it a few days ago
and said they thought he would get 75
bushels from the acre. ;
Winston Ssntinal: Officer Pfohl
received a letter this morning from the
Mayor of Radford, Va, stating that a . -negro
who gave his name as James Gra
hanK alias Jim Greer, had been arrested -"
there on suspicion of feeing George . ,. .
Broadnax, who stands charged with the ,
murder ot a man named Roner. in Leaks-
ville, N. C, a few months ago. The ne
gro in custody answers the description
of the man wanteg. ,
Chatham Record; After a pro-
tractecTsickness Mr. William F. Foushee
died at his place on last Friday, in the '
68th year of bis age. He was one of
Chatham's most prominent and popular '
citizens. One night last week the
barn and stable of Mr. J. A. Gilliland, of
Matthews township, were destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at tl.500,
with no insurance. The fire is thought -
to have been of incendiary origin. . "
Charlotte News: The farmers
in the city to-day reported that the crops
were damaged considerably by Monday's
storm.' The cotton was whipped to
pieces, and many ot the bolls knocked
off, but the crop will be more than or
dinary, because there never was a year '
when every stalk was so loaded 'with
fruit The corn, and especially late com,
is badly damaged. The late corn is down
on the vground and can't mature well,
while the early planted corn is matured,
and will hardly suffer much from the
wet Meadows are damaged more than
any other crop, the grass that is on them
now being almost ruined.
IjzmmbmzExcfiange: On Friday
morning about three o'clock the Metho
dist church was set on fire and before
the fire company could muster their force
the flames had made such headway that
it was impossible to control them. The
church had just been repaired at a cost
of $750 and it was a beautiful structure.
It was insured for $1,500 but the loss is
not halt covered. It is very unpleasant ,
to be compelled to publish to the world
that even the house of God is not safe in
Laurinburg and it is inconceivable how-
posoned a heart must be his who . laid .
this church in ashes. . The Parsonage.
just in the rear of the church was saved
by the heroic efforts ot the tire company.
Raleigh News and Observer:
The Railroad Commission yesterday dis
posed of the following business: Nor
folk & Southern Railroad Company to
the Railroad Commission. This was an
application to exempt the telegraph line ,
between Plymouth and Bell Haven irom
circular No. 25 of the Commission, de
scribing joint rates for different lines.
Application was denied. Atlantic Coast
Line to the Railroad Commission. This
was a petition asking -for special rate
on meal from Washington j to Golds
boro under the sixth section) of the act
creating the Railroad Commission. Pe
tition iwas allowed. Wilmington Seacoast
Kaiiroaa company to tne Kanroao com
mission, l his was an application to re- .
duce the assessment made by the Rail
road Commission for taxation. The ap
plication was denied. Laurel River &
Hot. Springs Railway Company to the
Railroad Commission. This was an ap
plication to exempt the property of this
Company from assessment while its road
is being . constructed. Application was -
denied.
Weldon News: " A "white man
was here Saturday exhibiting a, colored
one on the streets whose attractions con
sisted in his being able to untie himself.
No matter how tied, he could extricate
himself with ease and dispatch. -He was
both deaf and dumb. Friday about
9 o'clock, John Burwell, liviug near the -
fair urounds, was robbed ot his ciotnes
and shoes on the public highway, by two
ex-convicts only just liberated. .Word
was sent to Weldon to be on the look
out for the thieves, and in a short time
both were arrested, a man and boy, In
the confusion the man broke and was
chased to the river but not caught.
A requisition was made on the State
farm for Mr. Studivant and his hounds,
but he could find no trace of the thief"
after he took to the water. However, ;
late in "the evening, several gentlemen ,
who chanced to be up the canal, saw the
negro soon after he emerged from the
river; wet and dripping, about a half a
mile i above where he entered. . Not -knowing
their powers he was not appre- 1
hended, but walked quietly up the road.
Saturday morning be was arrested near
town, at a house where he applied for
something to eat Mayor Gooch, after
hearing the evidence, committed him to
the county jail to await the action of the ,
grand jury in November. The boy was
discharged, ,
Charlotte Observer: Fount Hiatt.
a big mulatto, made a brutal attack
Tuesday upon his wife, Lydia Thomp
son, in Greensboro. Hiatt went to the
shanty where his wife was at work wash
ing clothes. Her back being turned .
towards him she did not notice his en
trance until he said, "Lyd, I have come
to kill you," and at once grabbed her by
her throat and commenced stabbing her.
She was covered with cuts on head and
shoulders. There were nine cuts alto
gether. The physicians ini attendance
on her took out three pieces oi. ner
skull this . afternoon and there ft no
probability of her recovery.; Hiatt im
mediately gave himself up 'to the auv
thorities, and stated that he hoped he
had killed her. His intention was to
get a pistol and shoot his wife and then
kill himself, out tailing to ao tnis ne
borrowed a common pocket-knife with
which he did the work. Hiatt and his
wife have not lived together for a num
ber of years, as Hiatt was so trifling she
would not allow him around. He had
threatened her life before,' but had failed ,
up to this time to accomplish his purpose,
It was all a mistake. Mr. Money's
telegram misled Charlptte gunners, and
they in turn misled the people,- Col.
Anthony did not win the championship
of the United States, that honor being '
carried off by J. W. Conner, ot Knox-;
ville, by a record of 98 out of 100. Col. ,
Anthony won the Peter Cartridge Com
pany trophy, a silver cup, his score be
ing 47 out of 50. The cup is to be con
tested for yearly, the moneyed advant
age in winning it being hat the year
following the winner is entitled to 40
per cent of the , entrance money. Col.
Anthony and Mr. Todd made about 90
per cent each during the shoot. i ' '
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A Jacksonville dispatch says there is
no yellow fever in Florida. The State
has a clean bill of health. A dispatch
from State Health Officer Porter says
that the sickness of Newman, at Port
Tampa, announced on the 29th as yellow
fever, is not really, yellow lever as re-
Birted. as a subsequent diagnosis shows,
e has since declared all restrictions off
and people may go to Port Tampa and
come at will. . v v, .- : v.
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