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--- " ... . .. ... ....... ... . V,.-..... .- : '. ." . . .-f -.- I J-( :',-. V. : ;.-.v-....ri... ;.. .';-..' '.:, '., -.... -vi ... 1 I t .1 .N. it Up W 51 ! 1 M II PI fr-H! "f'l.'- .. I 3 S ft? ' :' 1 i Site Wteehhj gtuv. WILLIAM H. BEBITABD, Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. C. FRIDAY, September 8, 1892. rf in writing to change yonr addrcat alwaytpx formtr directional well m full particulars aa iwhere yon wish yoar ppet to be tent hereafter. Unleaiyoa do both change can not be made. ) m m t.j .f i noth TribatM of Re- pect, Relationi o Thanks, &c.. li" JrAi2T lrtimr.nti. but only half rate wnenpal fot toicUy In advance. 'At M cenu mu pay for a ainvple announcement of Marriage or Death- tW Remittances must be mad; by Check, Draft, Potltll Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters will register letters when desired. Only such remittances will be at the risk of the ' publisher. fj- Spacimen copies forwarded when desired. VEET IMPORTANT. During the past two months bills have been mailed to about sixteen hundred subscribers to the Weekly Star. The aggregate amount due on these bills was very large, but the aggregate amount thus far paid is comparatively small. ' It is hoped every subscriber in ar rears will read this notice, and that he will forward the amount due us at once. . "7 J It is unjust to the proprietor to read his newspaper without paying for it fully as much soas for the proprietor of thepapr to eat the farmer's chickens and eggs and then fail or refuse td remunerate him. We thank' those of our subscribers who have paid us, and trust this ap peal will not be lost ; on those who have not paid. -. - . HERE ARE ALL THE REQUISITES. There never, was a country the farmers of which became rich, as a class, out of its agricultural pro ducts, and yet it is the products of the fields which make most of the commerce of the world and most of the wealth of nations. There are reasons for this, reasous which have always operated and will always con tinue to operate. The farmer has to take his chances on the seasons, on the weather on the rainfall, on storms, on insects, &c, -.while the crops are growing, and then he has to take his chances on -the market when the crop is harvested and put upon the market. ' There is not now, never has been, nor ever will be more food produced out of the earth than the world needs, but unfortunately the major ity of the human family is too poor to buy as much food, the right kind of food, as they ought to have, and that makes the surplus in some of the food producing countries when there is a surplus. Out of the 1,400-, 000,000 of people on this earth there are 1,000,000,000 who live on what ' Americans would starve to death on. But as the world must be fed,' there always must be a demand for food, and. therefore the food grower can always depend upon finding a market for a part, at least, of what he raises, , and if he was In. a condition to Jix his own prices could become rich, in time, instead of letting others be come rich off of the product; of bis labor. This can never be, because it would require organization and concert of action by and between millions of people, whose condition will not permit such organization or concert of action, it they were practi cable, among so many. While t&e South is the best farm ing section in this country and while the future of. farming is brighter for the South than for any other section of the country she Is fortunately not dependent altogether on her farms as some sections are nor upon her manufactories and shops as some others are nor upon her commerce as others are. She has within her borders the possibilities not only of a great agricultural but also of a great .manufacturing and a great commercial section. She has the requisites of success in all these. She can raise as much, and by proper effort more grain per acre than the sections which depend al most exclusively upon grain. - She can raise more fruit per acre, and of more numerous varieties, than any of the fruit-growing sections. She has a practical monopoly of tobacco growing, and an absolute monopoly of cotton-growing, neither of which can be taken away from her. When the day comes that di versified farming becomes general in stead of the exception, and the plan tation raises all the foodstuffs that those who live on or depend upon it need, then the cotton crop will be come a "money crop" and the plan- a. 11 . . ier win prosper as ne never pros pered before. For her manufactories she has boundless forests, embracing nearly all the useful or ornamental woods; y coaLand iron areas extending from one boundary to the other, of inex haustible abundance and within such close proximity to each other as to be utilized at a very low cost and furnish material and fuel for manu factories that could supply the needs of tne world. ; one has the water power or the cheap fuel to; run the factories to spin and weave her cotton crop, out of the spinning and weaving of which some other sections have grown rich. j She has minerals needed in the .arts found r nowhere else in such abundance, and with these marvel lous quarries of useful and ornament al stones, which will be used in rear mg magnificent structures in her own cities and also become a source of large income. For her commerce she has bme of 'the finest harbors on the Atlantic seaboard, harbors nearer to the great - eraln" distributing 1 centres of the West than any of the North Atlantic harbors are. With these harbors open fqr Western products there would be several hundred miles of transportation by land and sea saved to the Western shippers, and, conse quently a reduction in the cost of transportation that would amount in the aggregate to millions of dollars annually. j. With all theseadvantages of cli mate, soil, variety and value of pro ducts; with the abundance of crude material for manufactories ' of many kinds, with the cheap fuel and nu meroes waterpowers to operate them; witha sea front of vast stretch, and numerous superb harbors, in some of which the merchant marine of the world could find anchorage, is there any reason to doubt that there isa grand destiny before this favored section? The progress she has thus far made, and it is marvellous, is but a step in the direction of the achieve ments she will record within the next generation.) - , PAUPER LABOR. The protected American manufac turer ought to be ashamed to ac knowledge that he cannot compete with the "pauper -labor" of Europe. But it is not the pauper labor of Eu rope that he is afraid of. That is not what he wants protection for; ! it is to keep out foreign goods, to pre vent foreign competition and thus enable him to put his own price upon his goods ad" compel the American consumer to pay it or buy foreign goods with the duty added to the foreign cost, j When the McKinley bill was un der consideration by the committee on Ways and Means some of the manufacturers who had a hearing be fore the Committee asserted that they did not want the increased pro tection proposed for themselves but for their workmen, and that they could not pay the wages that American workmen ought to have without such protection That was another! cheat, for in the first place the difference between the wages of the American and the Eu ropean workman is so small that it is out of all proportion to the pro tection given, and in the next place the wages of the American workman, considering the amount, and charac ter ot the work he does, are really lower than the wages of the average European laborer, in the average in dustries of lEurope with which our industries would have to compete. Under Iow ; tariffs and high tariffs the wages of workmen have always been higher in this country than in Europe. This is true not only of the protected, but of the unprotected Jn dustries and funs clear through the list down to the most common or menial employments. The common laborer, the farm-hand and the house servant received twice or three times the wages ! paid in Europe for the same kind of service. This was one of the great incentives, as it still is, ot tne large immigration ot waere- earners from Europe, which has been going on, in greater or less volume, for half a centurv. These facts explode the pretence that the higher, wages of workmen employed in the protected industries of this country are the result of a high tariff.; These wages would be just as high and possibly higher if the manufacturers had no protection at all : There are reasons, and very good reasons, why the American manufac turers ought to be able to compete with the manufacturers of any coun try in the world in most of the in dustries. - II When countries have specialties and produce the raw material for the manufacturer of these, as China and France do silk, it is not to be expect ed that American manufacturers Could compete with them; but these are the exceptions, for in the great majority of industries the foreign manufacturers would have no. such advantage. J We have an abundance of the crude material necessary in all the industries and at a lower cost than they can be produced in any other country. ! I tIT w we nave more inventive genius among our people than any country in the world and as a result more labor-saving machinery not-only for the manufacture of the finished ar ticles but for the production of the crude material out of which they are made. We have the most intelligent and efficient workmen in the world to manage this ; machinery, the best ed ucaiea worKmen, (witn the excep - r - . . a tion, perhaps, of Germany and Ja J -A 9 1. pan i, eaucaiea Dotn in Drain and hand. i We have the most progressive, en ergetic and resourceful business men in the worlds men who shrink from no undertaking however great, or turn from no industry however small, if there be a promise of reward in either, and yet we are told that al these must have,1 Governmental cod dling to enable the manufacturer to 3 hold his i own against the "pau per labor" j of Europe, a great ' portion of which depends upon American farmers for the bread they eat, while many of the manufacto ries in which they work depend upon American fields, mines and forests for the crude material that gives work to the wheels they turn and the hands' they employ. We contend that if at the end of a century of more or less protection American manufacturers, with all the advantages they have of raw mate rial, intelligentlabor, labor-saving machinery the best in the world and the most of it, . genius to invent, with skill to construct and adapt, en terprise, energy; and. skill, and all this backed, by large capital and un- imited credit, still need Govern mental nursing, then they have had a hundred years protection and fos-; tering in vain and . it is" time to try ess protection and more business common sense, m - . A ; According to the Washington cor respondent of the Baltimore Sun, the atest poll of the Senate gives 47 Senators for the Voorhees bill, 30 against, 3 doubtful, with a disposi-; tion to vote for it, and 5 doubttui,; with a disposition to vote against it.; According to this statement repeal has two votes morethan necessary; if all the 30 and the doubtful voted the other way. - j One of the methods adopted in England of getting rid of vagrants to send them to a.-"iome in Canada, which home is a distributing agency whence they' are forwarded to different Darts of. the United Statesr THE KEARSARGE AND NANTUCKET On the War to Wilmington from Nor- i folk, Virginia. ; A Press i dispatch to the star,- re ceived last night, says : I'The United States steamer Kearsarge and the old monitor Nantucket, the vessels that had so; thrilling an expe rience off Cape Hatteras during last week's hurricane, left the Norfolk Navy. Yard Tuesday for Wilmington, N. Ci where the Kearsar will be utilized for four days by the North Carolina Naval Reserves, and the Nantucket turned over to the authorities of that State for permanent use of the Reserves. The damage to .the Nantucket has been re paired and the little vessel is now in good condition for sfa service." Lieut. Geo. L. Morton of the Naval Reserves, received S telegram from Ad' iutant Gen. Cameron, N. C. S. G., Ra leigh, last night, as follows: "The Secretary of jthe Navy wires that the ships sailed yesterday. Wrote you this morning. RIVER ANf) MARINE. An Unknown Derelict Towed into South- - J po rt. The tug Blanche towed into South- port a day or two ago, a large vessel found floating, bottom up, off the bar at the mouth of the Cape rear river. The derelict was put on the beach near the coal dock at Soutbport, by the Blanche. An effort Will be made to put the vessel on her keel in a few days. She is apparently' about 250 or 300 tons burthen. Capt. S. W. Skinner has contracted to float the barque Bcmita, blown ashore near Deep Water point during the storm last week. The Wilmington towed up to the city from Southport last jevening, the schoon er D. I. Hazard, fiomi Georgetown, S, C, to New York, damaged in the big; blow on the coast. THE RICiE CROP. Iioss by- the Storm Estimated at Two Thirds In Georgia ind South Carolina. ine damage to the rice crop in Georeia and South Carolina is estimated by the Savannah News at $400,000. One of its correspondents confirms this esti mate and says: The young rice oh nearly every one of the plantations is a total loss, all of it having been killed by salt water. Neither did the rice that had been cut escape. It was nearly all carried away by the water which filled the fields. I estimate, and I think it is pretty accurate, that I nearly a third of the crop had been cut. About a third of the crop was young rice, having been put in the ground early in June. That leaves only one-third of the crop rice in the fields, and that is practically all that was not entirely ruined by the storm.' If anything, I think the loss is a little more than two-thirds, and that it will reach, in figures, nearly $4U0,000 as stated if! not quite. Superior Court. The Superior Court for New Hanover county will convene in this city Mon daythe 25th inst., fudge Bryan presid ing. Jurors for the term were drawn yesterday as follows: First week A. R. Etheridge, E. F. Woodrow, D. McEachern, J. E Smith, A. P. Yopp, M. F. Beasley, Sam! Far- row, H. R.-Kuhl, F. Rulfs, Jr., Hans A. Kure, W. B. Copper, I. B. Rhodes, O. P. Cazaux, W. jv. Savage, Clayton Giles,. L. Simon, J. A. Temple, IT. E- Sprunt. Second week Jno, H. McDougall, Wm. Watters, W. H. Hardwick, Thos. N. Southerland, Elijah Hardison, W. T. Rodgers, Saml Blake, E. VanLaerJ C. G Southerland, E. G.-King, Irving Black- man, D. L. Gore, M. T. Merritt. George, Ganzer, W. C. Monroe, W. W. Roberts, Geo, H. Brown, J.jB. T. Sandlin. The Storm at Georgetown, S. C. A correspondent of the Charleston, S. C. News writes; that paper: The storm was the most severe since 1854. The loss in the city to property, etc., will amount to about $10,000, a small portion of! which is covered by cyclone insurance. Only six lives lost in the county so far as we can learn; all neeroes. The destruction to the tur pentine interest of this and adjacent counties is very great. A week ago we had a magnificent rice crop, and every one preparing to harvest. , xo-aay it is hard to tell what the harvest will be. Some estimate 50 per cent, of crops in jured, a few think worse than this, while others are disposed to look at it in a. brighter light, and tnmic tne damage will not be more than 25 per cent., which loss will be more than made up by the difference in price. j Tax Matters in New Hanover County. The tax book for the county recently- compiled and computed by Col. J. G. Burr, the tax lister, show some remark ably close and accurate work in the cal culations. I f The total real and personal property listed amounts ' to $8,263,719. The total amount of taxes is $78,134.17. Included in this amount! is the poll tax, $3,640.19. u naer the return ol the Kailroad Com mission $893,885 of railroad and steam boat property jis listed for taxation. In- fcumes usted acereeate 199.755. j The books have been turned 'over to we bheriff forf collection of taxes. John Hardin, Druggist, mends Johnson Oriental Soap for all recom- otttip diseases. , Try it. f; THE NAVAL STORES TRADE Prices Advafioing Ten Per Cent, of the .Turpentine j Trees in Georgia and South Caroliv. Destroyed The 8itu xtion in Savannah. , v.? -Spirits turpentine advanced yesterday In this market one cent per gallon and closed firm at 25 cents. " The advance in price is due probably to the destruction of the pine forests of Georgia and South Carolina by 'the recent terrible storm. The bavannah News says that the naval stores business in that State was practically suspended last week. ' . rj- " Reports from the section just west of Savannah traversed by the Sam and Central railroads 'show that the opera tors will lose about ten per cent, of the boxes by the blowing down of their trees. This means a loss of ten per cent, of the crop that would have been made from now on if the storm had not occurred. Mr. John Rr Young has received reports from several operators in that section, and they all state the damages to the boxes at about the same figure, ten per cent. - . Reports from along the Savannah, Florida and Western -railway from Sa vannah as far asj jesup, indicate that the damage to the cop has been about the same as from the other section, but the other side of esup the damage .has been comparatively slight, and further on there has been hone at all, as that-was out of the path pf the storm, in south Carolina the navai stores business is not quite so extensive as it Is in Georgia, but the storm increased in intensity as it left this section, and re ports from over! the river show that prac tically nothing at all is left of the turpen tine trees, in that btate, or. rather, in the southern . rjortic-n of it. The operators over there consider their forests almost a total loss and their business is practi cally suspended. Trees were blown down everywhere, ana In some places suns -were blown awav. The operators m that State probably suffered worse than those of any other section. Mr. Edward Mash, of the hrm ot rat terson, Downing & Co., New York, will be in the city -to-day to look after the matter of straightenine up the differ ences, so far as his firm is concerned, with regard to! the immense quantities of the unidentified rosin which is now lying on the wharves of the Central and the Savannahi Florida and Western railway companies. This firm owns probably more than 60 per cent, of the 137,000 barrels of rosin-on these two wharves, and 'the question of making some arrangement in order to get at this rosin for shipment is a very im portant one to them. It is very probable that the factors and the buyers will arrive at some con clusion to-day with regard to this rosin and spirits, so that it can be made avail able for shipment. Several of the plans, as already stated in the Morning News, proposed, hav0 been rejected either by one side or the other, but neither can afford to le matters run on in this way much longer, as the rosin Is needed for shipment. They will probably arrange to draw on the unidentified rosin and spirits after that which can be identified is exhausted, I and then give bond to make good any losses which may accrue therefrom, each paying their pro rata of such loss. So far as the naval stores on the wharves is concerned, the business dur ing the past week has been at an entire standstill, and it has been impossible to do anything whatever. The delay caused by the differences between the railroads and the naval stores men has been re sponsible for this. There have been a few shipments; ot new goods, however, which have been received since the storm. Outside of this the naval stores business at this port has been stagnant for the past week. - WRECKED VESSELS. Three of the- Sufferers by the Storm Towed Up to the City. Three of the vessels damaged in the late storm that have been since lying at Southport were brought up to the city yesterday. The Norwegian barque Linda loaded with mahogany and found abandoned at sea by the British steamer Eric was towed up by the tug Marie, and turned over to the British consul, Mr.James Sprunt. The Linda is. a complete wreck, with bulwarks smashed, masts gone, and full of water. Her cargo of mahogany is worth proba bly $20,000. She was from Minititlan, Mexico, but where bound is. unknown. It is supposed that her crew were taken on the wreclc by some passing vessel. The three-masted schooner Three Sistsxs, from Savannah for Philadelphi with a cargo of lumber, was towed up by one of Capt. Harper's tugs and placed at a wharf on the west side of the' river, nearly opposite Front street market house, where ! she is discharging , cargo. She is full of water and her main-mast is gone. Her master, Capt. Simmons, was washed overboard and drowned in the storm. The schooner Harry and Grace Rey nolds, Capt. Mills, from Charleston for New .York with a cargo of phosphates, was also towed up to the city, ana piacea at a wharf on the west side of the river; her main and mizzen-masts were carried away, and she suffered other damage, but is not leaking. - . "I , THE COAST LINE SHORT CUT. Bin 1'orces at Work on the Grading to Denmark Interesting Notes. The Columbia, S. C, State says: The Coast Line Extension from the terminus of one of the present branches of the system- across to Denmark, will soon be a reality. This extension is be ing built in order to give the Coast Line a new short cut for its through vesti- buled trains from the North to Florida, which now go by way of Charleston. The securing of the South Bound road by the South Florida and Peninsular, and the building of its short line be tween Savannah and Jacksonville, to gether with its deal with the R. & D. to bring its fast vestibuled express trains through via the quick route, caused the Coast Line to build this short cut. The original intention was to use the South Bound tracic zrom Denmark by virtue of an agreement with the S. F. & P. peo ple. It now seems that the Coast Line people are contemplating the erection of their own line to the South. A corps of surveyors left Denmark looking over a possible route via Miuen, o-a., a few days ago. f The Coast Line people now have a full force of laborers hard at work on the grading of the extension from Den-' mark back. The grading is completed, into Denmark. ; Back towards the con necting points squads are grading on every half mile. A good deal of trestle and bridge work has to be done, and it is thought that it will be December be fore Cpast Line trains will run through Denmark. Seven and One-half Grose Sold In ' One Tear. Dr. M. M, Croom, Dardanelles Ark., says: "l sold during the year seven and one-half gross of Hughes Tonic for chills and fever, and could have sold more had I not run out several times. It is the leadinsr Tonic in this conntrv. ouu uiways wiu uc ouia uy Drug gists. - - f COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. KegnUr Monthly Jleeting-Jsoutine Jrro- eeedings-jAddress in Behalf of the Am ' soeiated Charities of Wilmington by be , Bev. Hobert Strange. .' . . The Board of Commissioners ot New Hanover county met yesterday in regu lar session, Chairman H. A. Bagg pre sided.- V-i-- ;v.-'JYv" County Treasurer ; Montgomery sub-" mittedT his report., showing a balance due treasurer out of the general fund, $1,108.37; balance on hand to the credit of the educational fund, $15,597.66; spe cial fund. $1,237.93. Register of Deeds Haar reported ten marriage licenses issued during the month of August. Rev. Mr. Strange appeared before the Board in behalf of the out-door poor, and presented an address to the Board as fol lows:' rv:j: ; ' . .' " ''; r To the Board of County Commissioners: GENTLEMEN-r-The executive commit tee of the Board of Directors of the As sociated Charities of Wilmington appeal to you for commendation and assistance in their new way ot doing the old work that has been ever dear to the heart of man. . . ": -.- - All who have had experience in the work of caring for the poor in this city have felt dissatisfied at -the work done, and with the methods Of organization, the object of which is to uni to regu late antfto develop the' work of caring for and elevating the poor ot the city. We have now different societies and agencies doing this work, i. e the Board of Commissioners, the Ladies Benevo lent Society, the King's Daughters," and; the societies of the different churches. Their charity often crosses each other's; lines; and sometimes the work ot the one; interferes with that of the" other, i We think this work can be better done by concentrating upon one strong central! organization, as broad as citizenship itself, embracing every church in its ranks, resting for its success upon the good will and co-operation of the whole community, so we have called this or ganization the Associated Charities of Wilmington. We have entrusted its ad ministration to a Board of Directors, consisting of one minister each from the different Christian churches, the Jewish Rabbi, three physicians and five business men. ' . Our Board of Directors are Dr. Hoge, Dr. Bernheim, Dr. Mendelssohn, Father Dennis, Rev. Messrs. Oliver. Norman, Strange, Drs. Thomas, Hodges, Bullock, Messrs. Roger Moore, J. Catevenson, W. rl. Sprunt, DuBrutz Cutlar. f. ts Manning. The Board of Directors are assisted in ; their management and are guided largely in their distribution of charity by a Board of Lady superintendents. each of which has charge of one of the ten districts in which the city is di vided. Our superintendents are Mrs, Roger Moore, Mrs. H. C. Daniel, Miss Fannv Williams. Mrs. C C. Brown. Mrs. Joseph Watters, Mrs. Josh T. Tames, Mrs. K. N. bweet, Mrs. Carrie Morton, Mrs. A. Shrier, Miss L. P. Way. Modern philanthropy calls indiscrimi nate charity a nurse, it increases pau perism and saps the independence of the worthy poor. Nowhere more than in the administration ot charity do we need a wiser discretion or a more thor ough investigation. To meet these needs we have divided the city into ten! districts, in each ot which lady superintendent works, assisted by from " ten to twenty visitors, and one of the Board of Direc tors is assigned to each district, to give the ladies his counsel and assis tance, whenever called for. . bach visitor is to have in charge from one to five families. She becomes the friend of her charges, visiting them constantly, giving them sympathy and advice, learning all about their needs and their hopes. She herself gives no physical charity, except in cases of urgent necessity. Persons needing continuous help, lasting through months or years, must have their cases examined and decided upon by the ex ecutive committee of the Board of Di rectors. To make the work of investigation more complete and to expedite the gen eral administration of the association. we shall open an office at a convenient place, where a paid secretary shall be found every day during the hours of business. She shall .keep a record of every case helped, and a brief history of the case as far as can be learned. She shall act as the secretary of the Board of Directors and the executive committee. and shall keep the minutes of their pro ceedings. All applications for help can be sent to this office and referred to the proper district for investigation. j SAMPLE CASE. Mrs. X professing to be in great dis tress goes to Mr. B's. office and asks for assistance. ; Mr. B replies: '! can give you nothing. I do all my charity through the Associated Charities. Go to the sec retary's office, state to him your case, and I know you will be helped if you de serve to be. Mrs. X goes to the secre tary. The secretary asks her place of residence and then examines the district chart to find out the superintendent of the district in which the applicant lives, Mrs. Ji. is sent to the superintendent. who, with the help of the visitor in Mrs, X s block, makes careful investigation. If the story of distress is true, and the need urgent, an order signed .by the su perintendent is honored by the secre tary, and the necessity is relieved. If Mrs. ,X needs more help, her case comes before the executive committee at their next weekly meeting, and they decide upon the amount, kind and length of as sistance. ' ; After we have ben at work for a year, we hope to have the city so thoroughly canvassed and the people so well-known, that no worthy person will have to go out ot her dwelling to make her wants known and get the relief needed.: If all our citizens will co-operate and refer to our secretary all applicants for charity at their homes or offices, street begeing in Wilmington will be a thing of the past. for the means with which to carry on this great work, we rely upon member ship fees, contributions from those inter ested in our object and method, collec tions in the different churches on the last Sunday in October, which we hope to make forever the "Chanty bunday for Wilmington, and lastly upon appro priations from, the Board of County Commissioners, the custodians by law of the county poor. We come before your honorable body to-day; nrst, to lay our plan before you and to get your endorsement, to ask you to question and examine it, and tell us whether or no in your judgment it wil work. ' I - i j Secondly, to beg the privilege and offer to shoulder the responsibility of be' ing your almoners in. caring for the white out-door poor of the county within the limits oi i tne city, we oeneve we can do. the work better than you can because we have provided for the pro- V i - .! per investigation, wnicn you ousy men have not time to give. or that pur pose we ask! for an appropriation of money. We ask for only three-quarters of the amount you appropriated for that purpose last year; for we believe that we can save you tnat much bv careful in vestigation. jWe ask you to honor the orders ot our executive, committee each month to that amount. i In conclusion, gentlemen, we beg leave to state thet we are not starting a thing entirely new to this country, and that we do not feel that we are in any sense leading a forlorn hope. Other cities have been working for years along the lines we have laid before you. They nave wrougnt out a lair measure of sue cess, and have accomplished much good wnat tney nave done we think we can do. I j The experiences of other cities in this country and Europe justifies us in think ing that the' number of . out-door'oor can be much reduced. ' . J) h The opinion of such experts as h.iy, KVIIopc and Shaw srives a basis to Our hope that pauperism -itself will yield largely to firmness, patience, earnestness and sympathy. - . ; : . , Very respectfully, r A . : v Robert Strange, -P. H. Hoge. Roger Moore, - V. C Stevenson, ,.;. H. Sprunt, - Executive Committee Commissioner Stevenson offered the follow, whiclrwas adopted without dis-j cussion, viz : Whereas, an organization known as as the Associated Charities of Wilming-j ton have exhibited to the Board of Com-i missioner their constitution and by-laws for the government of the same, and we find that the organization is so consti tuted as to be able ' to investigate thoroughly all- applications . from whites for charity from the countyi and whereas, we find that this organization consists of members of all white churches in the city, and its, officers are trustworthy' and charitable1 citizens, therefore, be it " i. Resolved. That all of the present and future white beneficiaries ol the out-door poor fund be referred to this organiza tion for investigation, and that or ders of the - secretary or this so ciety, countersigned by the president, be honored by the treasurer to the amount of $125.00 per month; the said orders to be issued by the clerk of the board and signed by the chairman, m the same manner as -heretofore. Resolved, That this resolution shall be in force until ordered otherwise. Col. Jas. G. Burr, tax lister, exhibited and turned over to the Board the tax books for 1893. Sheriff F.- Hi S ted man having ex hibited receipts from the treasurex, of the State' and the county treasurer, it was ordered that the tax books for 1893 be turned over to him for-the collection of taxes. ' .1 The chairman reported that the stockade at the county home had been blown down by the recent storm, i On motion, the chairman and Com missioner E. L. Pearce were authorized to have the necessary repairs made or a new stockade erected. j . Op motion, J. T. Riley was awarded the contract for furnishing brick for a sidewalk around the new court house, at $21.00 per 1.000, delivered in j Wil mington. - . p I County Treasurer Montgomery asked if the Board would accept as security on his bond to be renewed the first week in December next, the New York Fidel Uy and Casualty Company. j I After brief discussion a motion: was made by Commissioner Stevenson; and adopted, that the Board wili accept a bond from Treasurer Montgomery for fou.uuu, in some reliable indemnity com pany. j . j The Board commenced the revision of the jury list for the ensuing year, and at 5.30 p. m. took a recess until Wednes day, at 2.30- p. m. WRECK REPORTS. Brigantine H. T. Green Returned to South- port in Distress The Barque Ha jar den Condemned. i ; ! ! j Weather Observer Dorman, at South port, telegraphed last night at 8.30 o'clock that the American brigantine Richard T. Green, Capt. Moore, from Wilmington August 23d, for Port-au-Prince, witha cargo oi lumoer, returned to soup port last night in a disabled condition, i Her main-boom and mainsail were lost. : The dispatch added that "particulars as to the disaster to the Green will be sent as soon as received in the morning. A survey was held Saturday on the stranded Norwegian barque Najarden (as mentioned in the Star). The sur veyors found that the vessel's keel was broken and she was otherwise so badly injured that it was necessary to condemn her; and this report was made to the Norwegian Consul, Mr. Heide. 1 The sheriff's officers went down to rWrightsville yesterday to serve warrants on other parties (besides those men tioned in the Star of Sunday) charged with plundering the harque Najarden. In the afternoon they came up to the city with a cart-load of sails and other plunder taken from the vessel and re covered by the officers, which was stored in the court house, The dismasted schooner Three Sisters was reported yesterday as on the way up to the city. BOARD OF HEALTH. A Superintendent of Health for New Hanover County Sleeted. The biennial meeting of the Board of Health of New Hanover county was held yesterday at the Court House, fori the purpose of electing a superintendent of health. There were present Chairman Bagg. of the County Commissioners, acting Mayor Harriss, on behalf of the city, and Surveyor McRee; these, with the practising physicians in the county, constituting by law the Board of Health. Every physician in theCOunty, nineteen in number, was present. These were DrsAnderson, Love, Bellamy, Thomas, Burbank, Shepard, Bullock, Hall, Stokes, Pigford, Storm, Hodges, Jewett, McDonald, - Schonwald, Russell and Harriss, Mask and Reynolds, the two last named being colored. - Mr. Bagg was called to the chair and Dr. Shepard was made secretary. - An election was gone into forSuperinten dent of Health. Dr. Bellamy nominated Dr. Shepard and Dr. Anderson nominated- Dr. Jewett. The first' ballot re sulted as follows : Shepard 10, Jewett 11, Stokes 1. As a majority of all the votes cast was necessary to an election, a second ballot. was had, which resulted as follows : Shepard 10, Jewett 12. Dr. Tewettwas thereupon declared elected. A discussion on inland quarantine then took-place, and finally, on motion pf Dr. Hodges, the present quarantine regulations were ordered continued. The meeting then adjourned. - All Free. j Those who have used Dr. King's New Discovery know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try it Free. Call on the advertised Drue- gist and get a Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name and address to H. E. Buck len & Co., Chicago, and get a sample' box of Dr. King's New Life Pills Free, as well as a copy of Ouide to Health and; Household Instructor, " Free. All of which is guaranteed to do you good 'and,1 cost you nothing at R. R. Bellamy's! Drugstore. j f BucBUen Arnica Salve. The best balve m the world lor Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum! Fever, Sores, Tetters, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Piles or no pay is required.. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 85 cents per box. For sale bv Robert R. Bellamy, Wholesale and Retail Drug. CHARLESTON STILL ALIVE. The Grand Old "City by the Sea" Beady for Business : Asaln Sending; Car-loads of Supplies to Sufferers by the Storm. " ; B? Telegraph to the Morning Star. Charleston, Si C. Sept. 4. Charles ton wishes to announce to the worldjthat she ' is ready for business again. A sufficient number of wharves have been repaired to accommodate all ships in port, and all railroads are runnings trains on regular schedules. Telegraph com munication has been restored to all parts of the country, electric lighting and tele phonic service are working without a break, and the streets have been cleared of all wreck of the storm. -The city health officers say that the community is remarkably free from sickness and the streets have assumed the usual appear ances of the heavy Fall months." Every body is at work. There are no unem ployed here except those who will not work. Merchants speak cheerfully of the situation and prospects, and the re covery from the paralysis of the storm has been as quick and thorough as the destruction. i Labor Day was spent here in hard work. A committee was appointed tor relieving . the sufferers on the Sea Islands, and are pushing work - with splendid results. Dispatches from Beau fort "to-day announce the arrival ol the first trajn load of provisions and say now grateiui tne nungry were ior naries- ton s generosity. The committee have another train load of provisions ready for shipment to-morrow and to-day a car load of clothing and bedding was con tributed by the people of Charleston. There will be other carloads in a day or two for . shipment. Everybody in Charleston has gone to work in earnest. Subscriptions to-night in money, provis ions; and clothing aggregate about $5, 000, 'and the canvassing is still going on. To-day Mayor Aicken received an offer Of a carload of clothing from the mayor of (Kansas City. Other offers of aid from distant places and from points in this State have been received and have all been accepted and yet what has come and what is on the way is only a drop in the5 bucket . There are from 6.000 to 10, 000 people without anythiug to eat or to wear.i The destitution is absolute and stories from the sea-islands are most puiiui. I GUILTY OF CONTEMPT. IS!! f - Oner ; of Gov. Tillman's Constables Sent to 'Jail by Judge SimontoD, of the TJ. 8. Court. ! jji Bv Telegraph to the Moraine Star. Charleston, Sept. 5.-On August 1 Q B, Swann, one of Gov. Tjllman's dis- pensarv constables, seized a barrel of whiskey n Custody of the , South Caro linaj Railway, this city. When the seiz urejwas made Swann showed no author ity from either the consignee or con signor of the goods nor did he produce any? warrant by virtue of which the search and seizure were made. When questions as to his authority were asked he produced his. commission -as consta ble of the State.' Swann was. taken be fore J-idge Simonton in the U. S. Cir cuit j Court on petition to Show cause whyjbe should not be attached for con tempt; j He admitted at the hearing that his cause was of his motion and that h.e seized: the goods without, formality of a warrant. , In his decision just filed Judge Simonton holds that Swann was guil'.y of art outrageous violation of the law and declares that no search and seizures of property ! can be made without due pro cess b( law. He adjudges Swann guilty of contempt &court and he be impris oned, in Charlem county jail until he returps these goods to the custody l the receiver of the railroads, and when the goods have been so returned that he suffer; a further imprisonment in the county fail for three months and until he pays the cost of the proceedings. iiwi -r : NORTH CAROLINA CROPS. II! A Depreciation of 25 j Per Cent, in the 'Prospects. . Raleigh, September 5. The forecast of the crop returns ofj the North Caro lina Agricultural Department for Sep tember shows a depreciation cf-prospects of 25 per cent, from the August re port. This is caused by the fearful cyclone that passed over the State last week; iThe damage was done by severe wind and floods. Tobacco suffered more than a4y other crop; corn and cotton also were greatly damaged. The section beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains suffered very little, while the Piedmont sectionj was , the greatest loser. The prospedts in some sections are deplor able, WHITE GIRLS ABDUCTED. Kept in JCaptlvity and Horribly Treated by I I a Brutal Negro. By Telegraph to the Morning Stat. Sav'aWnah, Sept. I 6. Great excite ment i& reported at Stokes' Still, on Seventeen mile creek Coffee countv. A large number of citizens armed are scouring! the country for a brutal negro reported! to have two white girls in cap tivity who are being horribly treated by him. Yesterday one of them escaped and made her way to the house of a widow woman and told her story. She said she and her sister had been stolen from their parents by the negro and were forced toi beg for him" and submit to his wishes.! jThe negro entered the widow's house, recaptured the girl, and after beating her, cruelly forced her to accom pany him by threatening to kill her. Blood-hounds have been secured and every effort is being made to find the girls and bapture the pegro. E. Nulty. of St. Paul, Minn., writes "Was confined to bed for three weeks doctors fcduld do me no good; Japanese Pile Cure! entirely cured me." Sold by John H, Hardin, Druggist. n - KENTUCKY DESPERADOES, Two Policemen Shoot Eaoh Other Andy - Johnson Axain on the War-Path. By jrelegraph to the Morning Star. LouisVjrLLE, September 6. A special from Hokinsville. Ky., says: 'Robert West andjWill Davis both members of the police force, settled an old feud this morning with a pistol duel to the death. Davis fired first and West promptly re turned jitj. They were within arms reach. At the same instant both fired a second time. Davis 'sank to the plat form; West reeled and fell. He expired in four minutes. The bullet had passed through his heart. Davis was placed in a carriage and taken to his house, where he still i lives, but cannot long survive. The bullet from West's pistol entered the neht side." ' "-Anrfty fnhnwin. th who joined the church and was thought to nave reformed, is again on the war path. Advices from Dillons station. Rock Castle county, say Johnson went to that place -Monday,-accompanied by several of his followers, poured coal oil over William Dillon's saw mill and set fire to the building. He threatened to shoot afly man who interfered and watched the fire until everything was consumed. I -i Children Xee thing. - Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teeth ing, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain; cures wipd colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. - Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take o other kind. Twenty-five cents a bott.e. - f t SP1KITS TURPENTINE. - Newbern Journal: Mr. G. W Roberts, one of the most exclusively known and best liked citizen of Ports mouth, N. C, died on the night of Thursday, August 81st. aired seventw-six years. Raleigh News -and Observer Yesterday was a field day with Messrs Whiting Bros, in shipping grapes. Thev filled orders for grapes to go to Connec ticut, Virginia, Georgia and Chicago, and they also filled several local orders. Winston Sentinel ; A negro named Hubbard Hayes got into a diffi culty with a white man in Blumtown yesterday. The latter used a baseball bat with fearful effect on the colored man's head. Hayes is not expected to live. The white man has not been ar rested. ; Wilkesboro News: Last Tues day while Mrs. Jas. Holbrook, of Trap hill, was riding in an ox wagon, they became frightened and ran away, throw-' ing her out. She was mortally wounded and died m about two hours. Col. J. Geo. Finley, who traveled over the county a great deal .last week, says that there afe better crops in the "State of Wilkes." on an average, that there has been for years, and we agree with him. .; Smithfield Herald: Two boys, rfenry and Milton Barnes, cousins, were playing with a gun at Averasboro, Har nett county, last Saturday morning when Milton pointed the gun at Henry and asked the owner of the gun, a Mr. Lucas, if it was loaded but before he re ceived a reply the gun was discharged and the whole load went into Henry's right breast passing through the lung. The boy is still alive but in a critical condition. Asheville Citizen: J. C. Cuitis, esq., of Upper Hominy, tells the Citizen that in ;one portion of that township there is a veritable plague of grasshop pers. On the farm of J. Hugh Miller the work of the hoppers is most noticea ble. About a half acre -ot corn was in their track and every blade in the patch was stripped from the stalks, and in many instances the shucks were eaten off the ears. When not at work the grasshop pers repose in the weeds and thev are present in such numbers aS to bear the weeds to the ground. Salisbury Herald: Adam Wright and Pink Rinehardt, two negroos em ployed as train hands on the Western railroad, became in volved in a quarrel at the freight depot this morning, and Rinehardt was severely cut with a pocket knife. The wound is in the right side, one and a halt inches long, and the knife severed the fifth rib and penetrated through to the hollow. After the difficulty Wright attempted to run away, but was caught about a mile be low town by officer Geo. F. Eagle, and is in the lock-up awaiting trial. Charlotte 'News: A new gold find has been made on the Surface Hill. It is several hundred yards from the old 1 pits ana issaia to De- very ncn. a Airu nevior iouna a goia stuaaea rocK tnat was worth $85, The place is being worked at a great profit. Constable McGinnis arrested a young negro named Adam Love, in Crab Orchard, this morning, and took him to No. 10 town ship in Cabarrus county, which is the scene of numerous escapades of the prisoner in his palmier days. He broke into the storehouse of Mr. P. B. Bost, at Flows, and stole- a good lot of dry goods and groceries. He afterward ran away with another negro's wife and they both lived here in Charlotte until re cently, when, finding the officers had them spotted, skipped out. Jonesboro Journal: As we an nounced Saturday morning, the Egypt coal mines have shut down. President Hennessey says: "We have decided to shut down for thirty days. It is impose sible to collect bills for the 'coal sold. We can easily sell all our output. Wd have always paid our help promptly, and do not wish to depart from that ru'e., The coal outlook at our mines .is better than ever before. We have nearly com pleted and will have in use within sixtv. days a hoisting engine with a capacity of 1,000 tons in ten hours. The quality and quantity of the coal improve as we go down. The depth of the mjne now is 800 feet. Competent mining engineers, after long and careful examination, say that we have 12.000,000 tons of coal. This is based on present openings and the spe cific gravity of coal, as furnished by State Chemist Battle.". JNewton nnierprtse: mere are still some small burglars loose in the town. On Sunday night the Sheriff's office was broken open and his desk rifled, but they did not succeed in get ting anything. The house of Mr. Frank Jarrett and Quince Yount were also en tered but they did not secure anything at either place. The dried fruit trade is a big thing in Newton nowadays. Wagons stand round as thick on the streets as during the cotton times and the farmers and their families find it mighty convenient to have a load of dried fruit,. n to sell at this dull season, even if the r once is low. The fruit crop in Catawba will bring new dresses and innumerable I househnld conveniences into more homes this year than either the wheat or the corn crop, and will not fall much behind the cotton crop in this respect. This is considered the woman's crop, and they know how to make it buy twice as many things &s the men could get out of it. 7 - v. . Charlotte News: Considerable .gold mining is now being- done near rlows. in Cabarrus county. The works are all paying very well. The far mers say there were neveras many par tridges as now. The last cold winter kept the hunters from killing so many of them and the summer has been nice and dry for the young ones to be raised. Among other valuable attainments, the English Sparrow has learned to pick cotton. The great number of the birds and the amount they pick to make them a winter bed, cause a great loss. Mr. Bob McDonald has a fine field of cotton which was opening nicely before the rain and the Sparrows picked it as fast as . it opened. Since that time it has been learned that the birds are dam aging the crop in other localities. . Yesterday evening about 5 o'clock . policemen Orr and Earnhardt ran across a chap that thev have been looking for a good while. He was Bob Burton who shot another negro named Teff Melvin, in a row on CodyVrow, in this city. Burton made his escape and could not be found. He said he had been to Phila delphia and New York, but came back here on Thursday and was soon picked up. The negro he shot recovered. VIRGINIA PROHIBITIONISTS. State Convention Col." J. B. Miller Nomi nated for Governor. Br Telegraph to the Morning Star. ' Richmond, Va , Sept. 6. The Prohi bition State Convention met here this smorning-at the Young Men's Christian Association hall. About sixty delegates were present, including one colored man. Speeches were made by L. A. and P. H. Cutler, of Amelia. Major D. Hum phrey of Norfolk, named Col. T. R. Mil ler ,Qf Pulaski county, for Governor and -he was nominated by acclamation. The Prohibition ticket was completed this evening by the nomination of John S. Tyler, of Accomac ' county, for Lieutenant-Governor, and W. B.JCagley, of Wytheville, for Attorney-General, with out opposition. . The convention ad journed sine die. ' When Nature Needs assistance it may be best to ren der it promptly, but one should remem ber to use even the most perfect reme dies only when needed. The best and most simple and gentle remedy is the Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the Cal fornia Fig Syrup Co. ! r w "7 - .
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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