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The aggregate amount due on these bills was very large, but the aggregate amount thus far paid is comparatively small. : 7, It is hoped every subscriber in ar rears will read this notice, and that he wiil forward the amount due us at once. . , It is unjust to the proprietor to read his newspaper without paying for it fully as much so as for the proprietor of the paper to eat the farmer's chickens and eggs and then fail or refuse to remunerate him. Ye thank those of our subscribers who have paid us, and trusty this ap peal will not be lost on those who have not paid. THE NEW DEPARTURE. - For thirty years this Government has been run in the interest of cer tain classes and not in the 'Merest of the American people as a whole. The men who by shrewd devices, fraud and'sometimes violence have held possession of the Government in whole or in part, for a generation and in that time had absolute con trol of legislation, were not men who believed that Governments like ours should seek the greatest good for the greatest number, but the greatest good to the smallest number, and they acted on the principle that the people, that is the mass of the peo ple, might be taxed to an unlimited extent for- the benefit of a favored few. . I" " That was the theory upon which the so called protective tariff, a tariff in which. protection was the prime consideration, and revenue a - mere incidental, (if it fieurechat all) was constructed. Jt was a theory based on false premises and carried out in fraud, trickery and hypocrisy. Af ter they had given their favorites protection on their own account, and increased it from time to time until thejr got ashamed to ask for any more on their own account, they re sorted to the fraudulent . pretence that they desired protection more oo account of their workmen than on account of themselves, and that is the plea now. : In his speeches in the Ohio cam paign Governor McKinley, whom they are now booming for the Presi dency, appealed to the men who work in the protected industries and asked what was to become of them - if the protection their employers had was withdrawn and a "free trade" policy adopted. He knew very well ' when he talked thus that there was no more likelihood of'free tradej'than there was of the farmers of Ohio growing oranges instead of wheat and corn, but he knew he could fool .the-, workmen that way as he had fooled them before and as they had been fooled ever since the protection for protection's sake era had been en tered upon. There is nothing logical in protec tion for protection's sake. To be logical such protection should be given by prohibitory laws, and the .protective tax should be so high as to absolutely prevent th,e importation of goods that would compete with American manufactures. This would have been carrying, it pretty far but it would have been consis tent, honesFand logical. The theory of taxing tor protection with jt ve nue as an incidental was ridiculous, because ltdidn't protect. It simply enabled manufacturers of goods, few of which were imported, to put up prices, while the kind of goods that the rich bought and on which there was comparatively little protective tax continued to come in as usual because they found purchasers who .wanted them and would have them. . These classes of goods the Ameri can manufacturers, with all their Protection, did not attempt to make, because ' they could make more money manufacturing different grades of goods for which there ..was a ready demand and for which they "could get-.tbetr own prices, because by the tariff laws they were protected from comDetition. An article for instance, on which they would have a fair profit if sold for one dollar, but upon which there was a fifty per duty, they put up to $1.45, to keep it a little under the price of the Euro' pean article with - the duty attached, VOL. XXV. and ' thus made forty-five cents by protection! They had their profit on the cost of the goods with the forty five cents in- addition. - Purchasers had to pay it because, they couldn't help themselves and they had to buy the American article because that was somewhat cheaper than the imported article. Of course we axe here speak ing of the masses of the, people, who are forced- to practice economy in their purchases and not of the rich, with whom the price, of the " goods thy fancy is no consideration. . . It would have been cheaper for the American people when the protec tion era was entered upon to i have taxed themselves to build manufac tories and make presents of them to men to run them, than to stand the annual taxation to which they have been subjected for the past thirty yearsto keep up the "infant indus tries:""- ; - .7 : ' " r--j- Much has been said about iron and steel industries and . woollen in dustries. These seem to have' been special pets of the protection states men, but each has cost the people ot this country more money in the tax they have paid for protection than would have built all the woollen mills and all the iron and steel mills in the country. The McKinley bill cost the users of woollen goods $176 000,000 a year more than they cost before it or would cost without it, while the Government derived but an insignificant revenue, com pared with the enhanced cost7" Mr. David A. Wells, of Connecticut, one of the most thorough tariff stu dents in this country, shows that in ten years the American purchasers of iron and steel have paid to the man ufacturers '$560,000,000, from which the Government I derived no benefit. i This was sixty-five per cent, more than the cost of all the iron and steel plants in the country, including the capital employed in running them. If this isn't plunder, what is it ? ' ' But- we have taken a new depar ture, or will when the new tariff bill takes the ptace of the McKinley bill, a departure in which the interests of the people was consulted, and in which the voice of the people was beard. There is to be no more pro tection for . protection's sake,' or rather no more plunder for the bene fit of a tew barons made rich by law in return for the fcfnds they contrib uted so liberally for campaign ex penses and to -carry elections. There is to te no more of that unless the people in the future turn fool, again and undo the good work the Demo cratic tariff reformers are now doing. THE FRAUD OF WOOL PROTEC TION. 1 . i Wool is one of the articles that the protective tariff builders seemed to take under their especial care, and now that it is to - be placed on the free list there is much ado, and the protection organs and oracles pro claim that the wool growing indus try in this country will be ruined, With the experience of the wool growers of this country, within the past twenty years, they ought to be willing to take the chances any way, for they certainly could not be much worse on under tree wool than un der taxed wool We will not say that the low prices of wool which have ruled for some time are altogether the result of the tariff on foreign wools, but that has bad much to do with it, for while tbe home product of wool has increased considerably, so has the amount im ported notwithstanding the high duty imposed to : act as a prohibitive in the interest of home grown wool, Our home growers put upon the mar ket in 1873 158,000,000 pounds of wool, and this year have 333,000,000 pounds. The clip ot 1873 was worth $96,600,000 while j the clip of this year is worth only $96,570,000, or $30,000 less than j the clip of 1873, Where do the benefits of protection come in here? - 7 The following table which we clip- from the New York Journal of Com ntfrfe anef Commercial Bulletin shows the home production (in millions of pounds) and thei imports, with' the price per pound- (the price of Ohio wool, such as is used in making clbthing.) lor the past twenty years, from 1873 to 1893 inclusive Product (in ! Importa'ns, Prices. Years, millions of lbs) lbs. cents. 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1880 1890 1891 1892 1893 .-.,158 - ! 85,496,049 70 58 ......170 -ri 42,939.541 ......181 i 54,901,760 65 ......192 44,642,836 48 ......200 v 42.171,192 46 .....208 48,449,078 44 ......211 89.005.155 85 .......233 - 128,131,747 50 ......240 .1 55.964,236 47 ......272. ; 67,861.744 '44 . . . .290 y 70,575,478 ' 40 800 78,850.851 40 .... 7.808 70.596.170 84 802 129.084.958 85 ...285 114.038.030 83 I . !269 118.558.T53 81 .... 265 126.487,929 - 84 ...276 105,481.285 83 . . ...285 129,808,648 83 333 148,670,652 80 ,833 168.433.836 29 Nntwithstandinc the fact that in all these years we have had a pro tective tariff on wool, the price has hn constantly declining and tbe imports increasing in spite of-the in crease of duty fromtime to .time, While this increase of duty has not liepf foreign wools out, nor Increased .the price of home grown wools, it has made the buyers of woolen goods pay a higher price for manufactured goods than they would have bad to pay without it, rwhile it has-stimulated the shoddy industry and thus materially injured the wool-growing industry. There are certain kinds of wool which our ; manufacturers re quire to mix with our native wools in certain lines' of goods, and these. theywill buy; whether the tariff on them be low or high, but the tariff being high is just that much of ah obstacle in their . way ; in . trying to compete with manufacturers inother countries. ;There is - where the tariff on wool ' hurts the Ameri can wool-erower. for if there was no . tariff "7 on; "7 imported goods the American manufacturer would be placed on the same footing as his English competitor the one he en-; counters m every market, " including his home market, and would be in a condition to extend his trade into other countries where he cannot now make an impression j With the in creased product of our mills, is tt re sult of the - cheapening of goods Jto purchases there would be a greater demand for American wool, with a fair prospect of better prices, but whether Jhe prices improved or not the averag; American rool grower would save enough by free wool In the cost of the. woollen goods.be buys to moire than match the money realized from the clip of the average flock. .. -7-.- . 77 ,,- 7': 7. .-;; While the wool product of the country is a valuable and f an im portant one, and one in the prosperity of which every one is more or less represented, for woollen garments fro at least a portion of the year are necessary lb comfort if not to health,' still in a pecuniary way the mass of farmers are but little interested in it and cannot therefore be seriously concerned about protection wool. There are thousands of . farms on which a sheep is not to be found, and thousands of others where there may be a few stragglers which wander around and pick up their I living the best way they can,1 receiving little or attention. There are thousands of other farms where small flocks are kept to furnish wool for the clothing of the family, and,' mutton occasion ally for the family or the butcher, but the wool grower is not looked to as a money-bringer,. and is not grown with that view.' The number of men in terested in the flocks kept for wool purposes, with the number they em ploy, is comparatively small, and tbe greatest of these will be found in the States of the far West and South west, where land is cheap; pasturage -abundant, and the cost of feeding and caring for small, compared with the cost in the older States where land is dear, pasturage limited, and the cost of feedine and caring for much higher. While there may be profit in the former in wool-growing even at a low pf ice, Jthe prlce must be very high to make it profitable in the lat ter. - This is why the increase of flocks has been in these Western and Southwestern States, while the nam ber of sheep, has diminished in the older States. As the profit to the manufacturer depends upon the cost of the raw material, so does the pro fit tp the wopl-grower depend upon the cost of grass and corn, (if he feed corn) which are ihe raw materials of which the wool is made. The figures which we quote above, show at a glance what a great fraud protection to wool has been. r The financial Value of a moustache has now a chance of being decided bv a New Tersev! court!. A man who was hired as a coachman on condi tion that he shave off his moustache, was bounced after a few days ser vice; 'and has jsued (for damages, alleging that he has sustained serious injury by. the loss of his imposing moustache, which gave him a striking appearance and a good send off when hunting for a job, " r A KEEN KANINE. Kommonly KUed Karioua Kanrae Snnk-Hs Iiovea a Xdttla Wbiakey. The field editor of tbe Star makes haste to credit the annexed dog tail to the Savannah News: i i " A prominent city official, who is fond of huntine, owns a very fine Irish setter. The doe has peculiar : ways, however, and possesses an education equal, if not superior to frot. juentry s wonaermi ca nines. -7 -- 7 The Savannah dog evinces symptoms nf a "fit" whenever bis master prepares to eo out for a day's hunt; and the only remedy which will revive him is a drink of whiskey. His owner is a uooa lempiar ana never indulges himself, but he is com pelled to Indulge: his dog, and therefore KCepS a lllllC uu uauu w nins uia uug soirits. On one . occasion, while shooting quail out on j the Ogeechee road, the - citv official noticed his setter actlntr as if it were in great pain, He oaid no attention to the game and refused to work. Thinking the dog bad been bitten by a snake, be brought out the flask which contained the remedy for "snake bite." but found it emntv. Somebody had removed the cork and allowed tbe contents to run out. Tbe dog! looked at the empty bottle and recovered immediately. It was another one of his fits. All the whiskey being gone, the setter did not hunt as lively as usual, and very soon tbe sportsman also became tired and returned to the city with but very few birds. Ever since' the last occurrence in the nndi. there is a sufficient auaatity of a favorite brand' carried for "man and beast." WIPIDSON REVIVING BUSINESS CONFIDENCE. There May Be do Hope of a "Boom," bat Judications Pout to Better Timea. - This, from the New York Herald, in reference to the recent larte sale of dry goods at auction in that city, is practical and conservative : When staple goods in large amounts are forced on the market at auction the range of prices obtained is a fair indica tion of the situation in that line of busi ness.- And when, as in the " case of Wednesday's sale, dry goods "are; thus sold the result is a .good barometer by which to judge the geceral condition of trade. - ' X X::X X: ;7 -"17-' it is understood that this sale was brought about by mills that had worked up large lines of materials and needed money. It was widely advertised and attracted buyers from all over this conti nent. Owing to the uncertainty of business men concerning the: Silver bill there seems to have been a marked unwilling ness on the psrt of retail merchants to buy goods during the past three or four months. .Naturally the stocKs - id the hands of manufacturers increased while the retailers' supplies have been running down.' . '.' j-.. This seems to account for the good prices obtained in Wednesday s sale. Public confidence has evidently been considerably restored, since at a similar sale in August, whea- only one million five hundred thousand dollars was the sum realized, the prices were much lower than they were on Wedsesday. when the total was .one million eight hundred thousand dollars. 7 : I There may be no hope of a "boom," but the indications point to better times. THE COTTON DIFFERENTIAL. Tbe 8outh Atlantia Porta Do Hot Like y: ' the Change. j The matter of the removal of the dif ferential freight rate on cotton to the South Atlantic ports, which is said to have been done by the Southern Rail way and bteamsnip Association at a meeting held in New York, is exciting discussion among the commercial bodies of these ports and they will make a de termined effort to have the usual rates maintained. ! ' The Savannah Cotton Exchange will take the matter in hand and endeavor to I preserve the I differential rates in force, as the removal of them works a manifest injustice to the ports on tbe South Atlantic seaboard. It has been noticed for some time past, says the Savannah Morning News, that Norfolk has been getting more than its usual share of tbe product, at this, season of the year, and this announcement from New York that the differential has been partially removed by the Association, seems to account for it. Tbe Commer cial bodies of the South Atlantic ports are not gome to submit to this discrimi nation if there is any way out of it, but if there is not they may have to put up 'ith ! it as best they can. They will make a determined effort, however, to see that the Southern ports have the same' advantages as the Northern ones, and that tbey get their full share of tbe product.. f- ' The Thompaon Orphanaxe. Tbe Board of Managers of the, Thomp son Orphange met in Charlotte Friday. Bishops Lyman and Cheshire, Revs. E. A. Osborne and W. R. Wetmdre, T. F. Payne, Esq., of Alma, and Mr. W. A. Smithof Anson, were present, j The ob ject of the meeting was to discuss.the question of adding to the present build ing. ; The donation of $2,500 from St. John's Guild, of Raleigh, was accepted, and will be used for repairing j and im proving. A resolution was adopted that a suitable tablet be erected in the build ing indicating the 'origin of the fund which is known as the Bishop Atkinson Memorial Cot Fund. Another resolution was passed that this fund should -be pre served in case of any change in regard to the character of the present institu tion. The C. F. ft 7. V. B. B. The Mount Airy correspondent of the Charlotte O&rmvr says a report is cur- tent there that Maj. Turner Morehead, who has been in Europe several months. has effected a sale of the Cape' Fear & YadkinValley Railroad to a syndicate of English capitalists. A gentleman of this city who is well posted in regard to the C. F.l & Y. V. railroad, told the Star last night that tbe.above report was true, so far as the sale of the road is concerned;! but that the purchasers of 'the property are not yet known. It may be safely stated, however, he added, that they have no connection with any rival line of road, and that Wilmington will be benefitted by the sale: j Grist Mill Accident at Elkton. A correspondent of the Star writing from Elkton. N. C, November 80, says: This afternoon while the prist mill of Mr. J. M. smith was in operation the ballast from the top rock burst, causing several persons to barely escape death. Mr. bmith, himself, received several slight injuries, and John W. White, a prominent colored citizen of this place was seriously injured on the j head and right arm. The damage to the ma chinery is estimated at one hundred dol lars. . FIRE AT MAGNOLIA. O. W. Brinkley'a Store Burned The Loas and Insurance. I 7 .Star Correspondence Magnolia, N. C, Nov. 80. Mr. G. W. Brinkley's store and stock of goods were destroyed by fire this morning about one o'clock. A total loss. It is supposed the store was robbed and set on fire. Loss $4,000; insured! for $1,800. FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT. Magnolia, N. C Dec 1. Mr. G. W, Brinkley's store and. entire stock of mer chandise were destroyed by fire about I o'clock yesterday morning. Supposed to the work of an incendiary as there had been no fire in the store since early in the morning the day before, and when first seen the rear end was burning, while the stove ! was about middle way the building. Signs of a window broken open were found and the fire burning inside the buildine. Store and stock' valued at $3,500; insured to the amount oL $1,500. The safe containing books, accounts, etc., was saved. It was a dose call to other stores and dwellings near by but no damage was done them. f - : Stories that London, Eng., is in an anarchist scare ! and that the ministers now have special police protection, have been started, but they are false, so a London telegram says. : DECEMBER 8, NEWBERN CONDENSED. Compilation from the Hew Directory Dif ferent Branches of Bnsinea Fire De partment and Water Sjatem Popula- .tion 8,526. . ' -The Star has received a copy of the business directory of . Newbern recently compiled by Messrs- Hatchctt & Wat son. It is nicely .gotten up, printed in good style, and will no doubt prove .a great convenience. It gives the popula tion of Newbern as 8,526, according to a police, census taken in September, 1893. In its classification of business the directory credits Newbern with three" banks eight 'barbers, twelve boarding houses,' eight butchers, three carriage makers eight clothiers,' twelve cotton brokers, six commission merj&ants, nine contractors and carpenters, nine drug gists, eight dry goods houses, six dealers in fish. and oysters, twenty grocers, six teen general merchants, six hardware houses, five jewellers, four livery stables, five milliners, fourteen saloons, four tail ors, twenty lawyers (three of them col ored), six 'insurance- agents' and three dentists. ! ' ' " 7 The fire department consists of two volunteer steam fire engine companies, the "Atlantic," of which W. D. Barring ton . is foreman, and the "Newbern," commanded by J. W. Moore. There are two two-horse hose carriages with a total of 2.500 feet of hose. . . " The water system consists of ten deep artesian weLs, with pumps having a. ca pacity of two million gallons a day, which may be doubled when necessary by using additional boiler capacity al ready provided. ..The standpipe is one hundred and twenty feet high, and six teen feet in diameter. There are seventy-five double-nozzle hydrants, con nected with seven and one-half miles of iron pipe; from six to twelve inches in diameter, -7 There are other features" of interest outlined in the directory to which the Star would like to refer, but .which want ot space compels us to omit. Tbe directory is for sale in Wilming ton by C W. Yates. M. S. Heinsberger. W. L. DeRosset and C M. Harris. Price $1.25 per copy. i REV. THOMAS ATKINSON Has Resigned His Charge-In Fayetteville and Accepted a Call to Baltimore. The Baltimore 5.has tbe lollowing concerning Rev. Thomas Atkinson: "Rev. Thomas Atkinson, rector of St. John's Church, Fayetteville. N. C, has accepted a call to the rectorship of St. Barnabas Church, Baltimore, recently resigned by Rev. Joseph Fletcher. -Mr. Atkinson will enter upon his new charge on the fist of January next, upon the termination of the incumbency of the present rector. Mr. Atkinson is a native of Baltimore and formerly had a mission charge at Canton, from which be re moved about six years ago to his present church I in North Carolina. He is a grandson of the late Bishop Atkinson, of North Carolina, who was rector of old St. Peter's Church, in this city, and af terward of . Grace Church. The new rector ot St. Barnabas is a son of Dr. Robert; Atkinson, of Baltimore, formerly a warden and vestryman of St. Barna bas." I Mr. Atkinson is a nephew of Col. John Wilder Atkinson, of this city. He is a young man of exceptionally fine capaci ty and one of the most thoroughly equipped of the young members of the Episcopal ministry. . May Qlut the Market. The Savannah News expresses the fear that the large shipments of oranges now being made from that city may glut the Eastern markets. ' Last week something over 200,000 boxes of oranges left savan nah for Baltimore, New York and other points by rail and steamer. Averaging 150 oranges to ne box, which is a small estimate, the week's shipments will throw 31,000,000 oranges into the East ern markets. TbeiVAcxsays tbe Christ mas trade may keep up tbe sales for some time, but at that rate there will be a heavier excess of the fruit above the demand than has been created by the glutting of the watermelon market in past seasons. The crop is estimated at 5,000,000 boxes.: Appointments by Collector Simmons. Collector F. M. Simmons yesterday, . savs the Kaietgn jews-uoserver, an nounced the following appointments Division Deputies, J. A. Thomas of Franklin and S. P. Arrington ot Nash with the territory of Nash, Franklin and Granville to be divided between them. General Storekeeper and Gauger, ex- Sheriff Charles i Powell, of Johnston. Division Deputies, John Daniels of Halifax, Henry P. Dortch of Wayne, Geo. W- Suggs of Greene. ! UEWBEEN NOTES, f Thanksgiving . Day Church. Services Su perior Court Base Ball Visitors to Wilmington. ! Star Correspondence Newbern. N. C, Deal, 1893. Yesterday, the day set apart, by the National and -State chief magistrates, in accord with statuatory requirement, for a legal holiday and Thauksgiving Day, the weather was the acme of Indian Summer in this favored climate, and Sonne's most pleasant zephyrs . yielded the medal to Autumn's.more superb soft sunlight. - Services were held in the churches here, all of which were well attended, Rev. Mr. George, of the Episcopal church, at the morning service, preached a strong sermon on the duty of observing the day, both from a civil and religious stand- coint. It is much regretted by tne netier class of people here that while this and other ministers of the Gospel, together with Christian ladies and gentlemen, were in tne nouses ot joa rendering thanks to him for blessings received, and at the same time paying obedience to tbe leecal order of the. President and Governor, that the Superior Court, with judge Bynum on the bench, opened for business and tried cases, in disregard of civic and ecclesiastical precedent, till counsel availed themselves of the privi lages Conferred by , the proclamations and blocked the court. There was a game of base ball at the Fair Grounds yesterday evening,between married and single mens' clubs, for the benefit of the Y. M. C AJ The young sters won the eame and possibly a few side bets. ; Quite a number of our people have been to Wilmington this week, and a great many more will go next week when the "welcome" will possibly be more spectacular, but hardly more cor dial than has already oeen extenaea. All are. enthusiastic in enconiums of the W.. N. & N. R. R. P. Hatchett. 1893, WASHINGTON NEWS. ; What the Treasury Debt Statement Will Show Points in the Annual He port ot the Secretary of War Internal Bevexrae: Taxes Discussed hy Demooratio Mem-t bera of the Waya and Means Committee' Petitions for an Increase of Tax on Whiskey Trial of the Cruiser Hew York Top-heavy Condition of the Gunboat Iffatihlaa. , - . ; . ;-- ' - :'f,-h?: f : ' By Telegraph to t& Morning Star. Washington, Nov29. The Tre; ury aent statement will be issued on Friday next. It will show, a cash loss for November of about.S5,500,000,f leay ing the balance on December 1st 'about 196,500,000. The expenditures for the) month exceeded the receipts by $6,500, 000, the latter only reaching $24,000,0001 i For the first five months of the present fiscal year the expenditures j have ex ceeded the receipts by $34,000,000 or at the rate of nearly: $7,000,000 a month! which if kept up will make the net de ficit at the end 6f next June $80,000,0091 The annual report of the Secretary of War gives the usual review of thecdndi- wuu auu u.iaiiuu3 kjl cue array aua in addition is devoted, especially to the progress of the works on the seacoast defences. - r I r ., ; j; I .7 1 Secretary Lamont says that it may be assumed that Indian warfare is practi cally at an end in theUnited States; that demands for tbe employment of the army to preserve, order within the States must become infrequent, as State au thority, on'which that obligation propf erly rests, demonstrates its r complete ability to discharge it, and that; in con sequence, the gradual concentration of the army on the seacoast and the fron tiers is prescribed by the conditions of the times. Any considerable increase in the; numbers of the army would not meet with popular favor and is not suggested by any; contingency, immediate or re mote; but the work of fortification at thirteen ot our large seaports, already; begun or projected lor the near luture. renders the conversion of a portion of the infantry to the artillery arm, a man-f uest necessity ot the period directly:- ahead of us. The total strength of the army on Sep-' temberSO, 1893, was 2,144 officers and 25,778 enlisted men. For various causes, discharges purchased, desertion, etc., the army lost u,406 enlisted men : during the year, and gained 9,074 recruits. 7 j ( jj An increase in the number ot cadets al the West Point Military Academy to meet the demands of higher and more general military instruction is .suggested lor an early day in the luture. I Is ( ine latest returns report an organizeo militia ot 112,597 in the States, of whom in round numbers 6,000 are in tbe artil lery arm, maintained by thirty-four States, and 5,000 in the cavalry, main tained by twenty-four States. Requests for the co-operation and assistance Of the Federal Government in the equip ment and instruction of the militia late greater than ever in times of peace and are the index ot an intelligent interest in the national military : growth land progress.. i. , . . Ii l J Mr. McMillan s sub-committee ot tne Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee on internal taxes) was in session two hours at the Capitol this afternoon. At 3 o'clock all the Demo cratic members of the committee had a conference. Mr. McMillan submitted the data which he had received from the Treasury Department and Census Office, touching the question of an income tax. While the committee was formally dis cussing the proposition. Secretary Cap lisle was announced. He remained - in the committee room about 20 minutes. After his departure, the committee! con tinued, its session with closed doors until 5 o'clock. Tbe day's session was devoted solely to the consideration of the propo sition to tax incomes.- The members of the committe stated that they had hot considered whiskey, but only the better nlan of lmnosmsr a tax on incomes. I To-night the Democratic members ot . "-- . . 'T j the committee met at secretary Car lisle's home for another conference. The Secretary is understood to be unfriendly to the proposition to tax individual in comes and it is still probable that! the solution of the matter will be a compro mise which will impose the tax mainly on legacies and corporations. This pro position is supported by the conservative members of tbe Democratic majority- Wilson, Turner, Montgomery, Stevens and Cochran. m l it There is no suggestion of teciproclty in the new Tariff bill, although it has been said in some quarters that ! that matter has been left hanging in the air. If there is anything in the bill as it now stands that savors of reciprocity, it will not be there when the bill becomes a law," said Chairman Wilson to-day.; By reciprocity I mean, he continued, 'that power invested in the f resident unaer the McKinley act to regulate tariffs by proclamation. Such a policy will be cast out of the House, root and branch, i Every train that now reaches Washing' ton brings with it numerous letters and petitions addressed to the Ways and Means committee, urging it to increase the tax on whiskey to $1.50 a gallon.; It appears that the religious and temper ance bodies throughout the country haye taken up the subject, the activity being especially noticeable among! the Presbyterians. M 1 m The trial board for the final inspection and trial ot the cruiser New York! has been appointed to meet on board the ship at Mew York December ntnj jtear Admiral George Belknap is chairman The recent inspection of tbe gunboat Machtas shows that her , top-heavy con dition is more serious than was at fiist supposed. It is said now that the meta centric height of the cruiser is only three inches and that her stability is much less than at first stated. It is believed that all of her five-inch side armor will be re moved and her ' battery j somewhat lightened to bring , the ship i to a proper stiffness. Tons of cemer have to be placed in her bottom: and some of the weights shifted to bring her meta-centre to the proper point! Is The efficiency of the ship will be seriously affected. The removal of her side armor will tend to lessen her ; draft, butt this will be overcome by the cement in her bottom. As she has no double bottom the usual resort in cases of "crankiness' of filling them with water cannot be adopted in the case'of the Machiasj A statement prepared at the office of Internal Revenue shows that the coiiec tions from that source for the first four months of the fiscal year 1894, July, Au gust, September and October, were $49, 435,005, a decreased of $6,823,015, as compared with the first four months of the fiscal year of 1893. The principal item of decrease has been spirits, $4,809, 082. Tobacco. $2,077,801. The receipts for October last were $1,808,872 less than for October, 1892, being a decrease of $978,223 on spirits, $248,418 on tobacco. Washington, Dec 2. Assistant Sec retary Hamlin and Mr. Comstock, chief of the customs division, spent most of to-day in carefully .examining!; from a practical administrative standpoint the administrative custom of the new; tariff bill. A number of ambigious clauses have been found. When these! experts in custom matters conclude their labors the House Ways rod Means Committee will be giyen the benefit of their research and the bill be so amendad as tar make blear and positive provisions and clauses, which now, in some cases at least, are Susceptible of varied construction, f A call for relief has been issued, by the District of Columbia Auxiliary Red Cross Association! in behalf of the suf ferers by .flood in the Sea Islands along the South Carolina coast. Miss Barton, President eff the; Red Cross, has been working among these people for several months, ' and her accounts of the destitu tion which sparesj none of the 89,000 in habitants are pathetic.' Committees sent to the huts and temporary places of shelter on the Sea Islands, to ascertain the number of the destitute and the ex act condition "andj needs of families, re ported to Miss Birton that it often hap pened that they could not gain admis sion, but could, only communicate through a creyice because the persons within were naked. ; - The finalsettlement of the question of supplying the Government with postal cards has been temporarily postponed by the appointment of a commission by Postmaster-General Bissell to go to Castleton, N. Y., and make a thorough St of the card paper being offered by ntractor Wpolworth. The com mission 7 will", also investigate and decide upon any other matters that may seem to them . pertinent to the subject in hand. Postmaster Gen eral Bissell is considering a proposition from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which is a branch of the Treas ury Department for the Bureau to do this work instead of letting it upon con tract to the owest bidder. Several Democratic Congressmen from the West and South are credited with the intention to oppose the plan of giving the work to the Bureau, and to carry their opposi tion to the floor of the House if re monstrance wjth - Postmaster General Bissel and Secretary Carlisle is ineffec tual. I. R. Proctbt. Kentucky, the new Civil Service Commissioner, took the oath of office to-day and assumed the duties of his position. vfor the first time since 1860 the House can resume consideration of un finished business immediately on meet ing. Up to and including tbe second session of the! last Congress the Fifty second the rules of the House pro vided that six days must elapse before the unfinished business of the previous session couldj be taken up. Tbe rule was an old one and its inconsistency was -brought to light at the beginning of the second session ot last Congress by Mr. Kilgore, of Texas. The House tried to take up an unfinished measure, but Mr. Kilgore made the point that six days must elapse before the matter could come up under the rules. He carried his point, but the Committee on Rules the next day reported a resolution.which was adopted, rePeali)g . the six days clause. The present rules of the House were accordingly framed so as to allow business to go ahead as if no recess or adjournment had taken place. The Senate calendar is full of busi ness. There are fifty-six bills, seven miscellaneous documents and one reso lution awaiting action, and there are a- number of other measures lying on the calendar subject to call. Not much headway will! be made in the Senate, at least until after the Christmas holiday. Tbe most important on the calendar- is Senate bill No. 453, introduced by Mr. Voorbees August 15 and referred to the Committee qn Finance, which provides for the increase of national bank circu lation up to the par value of the bonds deposited to secure such circulation. It is doubttul whether or not.thls bill will be called up again. Mr. Voorhees stated this afternoqn that he would take no steps in regard to any matters before his committee until there had been a meet ing of the committee, and this meeting will be held Tuesday morning at tbe usual hour of 11 o'clock. , An early subject for discussion will be the proposed changes in tbe rules which the long debate on the! Silver bill caused to be brought to the prominent attention of the Senate and the country, There-are eighteen amendments now pending be fore the Committee? on Kules, and the committee will meet at the earliest prac ticable moment. The great majority of these amendments are! in the direction of cloture and iany report; made by this com mittee recommending cloture will be the signal for the opening of a prolonged and hot debate. . In the House, Wednesday, Republi can Oates. of Alabama; will call up the Bankruptcy bill (which was under con sideration ftt the conclusion of the first session as unfinished business.) General debate on this measure has lasted some time, and Mr. Oates will ask that it close in two dayfs. Afterwards, amendments will be in order and debate under the five-minute rule will! begin. Mr. Oates hopes to bring the measure to a vote in eight or ten days, lie thinks it will pass and he will endeavor to have it voted on before other measures ot more urgency get the attention of the House. i he ways ana Means committee are anxious to get the tariff bill up as soon as possible, and expect to do so before tbe holiday recess. All other measures will then retire in the House and give the tariff the right of way, Chairman sayres,;oi the Appropriation Committee, will have two or three ap propriation bills ready for the House to act uponiby the end of the first week's session, but be win not otter tbem lor consideration if he sees that they will in any way antagonize the "all important" question ot revising existing taritt laws, He informed Speaker Crisp to-day that the Sundry Ciyil and Fortification bills are complete. The House Calendar contains some forty public bills land ..about fifty of a private character, Mr. Bland who how contests with Mr. Holmani the right to be called the old est member of the House, will endeavor to brinsj up the silver question at the earliest day. A majority of the Com mittee on Coinage, Weights and Meas ures, of; which he is Chairman, is in favor of free Coinage and will report favorably a bill toj re-enact the Coinage law of 1837. But the silver question cannot come up in the House until the Tariff bill is dis posed Of. . . WHOLESALE" POISONING, By a NTegro at Fort Deposit, Alabama, By Telegraph to the Moraine Star. Montgomery, Ala., Dec 2. A whole sale poisoning is reported from Port Deposit; to-night. On Thanksgiving Day a negro by the name of Nathan Lamb, alias Selders, had a grudge against Mr. FL-i M. Searcy. : proprietor of the Houston House, and placed some '"rough on rats on tne turkey alter it naa been put on the table of the guests. Those who ate of it were suddenly taken sick. Next day the negro put some pf the poison in the drinking water and uoon some of tbe beef-steak.- l be re sult was the poisoning of Mr. Searcy, his wile and daughter. Miss McQueen and several drummers, two of . whom came near dying. . The negro has con' fessedland lynching is talked of very much. ... At some time during the session and as early as possible. Mr. Wheeler, of Ala bama. iCbairman ot tne House commit tee onlTerntories, will ask the House to consider the advisability pf admitting to the Uion as States, Arizona, New Mex ico and Utah. 7 ; ; . .-.,-- : - .. .-v.- StatestHle 7 XLandmark : 7Thec Long island cotton Mills, situated at Monho, Catiwba countv. have' recentlv 7 compietea ar new mill. The building is. oi briciftstwo stories, 62x120, with a one-- siory lapper room, 40x70. and a one story boiler room, 20x30 7 New machin ery has been bought for the mill and its capacity has been increased 1,000 spin dles.."-:'---.'. , .- .- ...' . . : Goldsboro Headfchtf Dr. W. S." Walker, of Saulston township, who re- - centry sold 24 bales of cotton here in one day, attributes his success to the kind of seed he uses. 1 For each bale was con sumed 1.231 pounds of seed cotton, re- suiting in an average of 522 nounda of . lint. The entire lot. which brought to' Dr. Walker a round check for 941.24. was made by his tenants. Clinton Democrat : Mr. T. R. Newkirk, of Franklin township, lost his residence by fire on Monday of last week. it was a large and handsome count residence, builtiin the golden era of the South before the war and originally cost something more than $5,000. It had been insured for thirty years up to two ' years ago when the policy was allowed v to expire. The loss to Mr. Newkirk of his home and furniture will approximate nearly $4,000. ' - Fayetteville Dbservcr; Chief of Police Flowers captured near this city Monday Dennis Parker, a colored man charged with stealing harness from Mur dock Maxwell, who lives oyer the river', and also with breaking in a section house on tde Atlantic Coast Line about three weeks ago. The negro's person was adorned with several articles of apparel belonging to the section masteri He was talfpn hfar Mr W T") dostor nrVm commmea aim to jan ro await trial at tbe next term of the Superior Court. Charlotte .News:. Charles and Will O'Neill were arrested to-day for stealing horses from Messrs. S. W. and A. Y. Tedder, of Chesterfield county, -S. C The police captured them in Ber ryhill township. " The receipts of . cotton at Charlotte for September. 1892, were 1,754 bales; for October, 1892, 7,749 bale, and for November, 1892, 3,346 bales; a total for the three months of 12,849 bales. The receipts for the same months this year are: September, 1461; October. " 3.804, and November, 4,574; a total of 9,899. This makes a shortage this year under last of 2,950 bales. Smithfield Herald: ' The trial of W, E. Stafford for administering drugs- to his wife, thereby causing her death, last Friday was completed ia one day. The jury returned a verdict of not . guilty at 7.30 o'clock in the evening, having been out only about thirty min utes. W. E. Raiford, who was in jail here for making and passing coun terfeit money, was taken to Raleigh by a deputy United States marshal Sunday. He was tried and convicted in the fed eral Court there Tuesday and sentenced - to eighteen months in the Columbus.' Ohio, penitentiary. The man -named 1 Harrison; who was arrested with him, was acquitted. Winston World: Last night, thirty-five sacks of meal, of one hundred pounds each, were stolen from a wagon under tbe shed at Fries' mill, in Salem. Thirty-five hundred pounds of meal at one clip is a pretty big haul. A man by the name ot Chaplin, who lives in Yadkin county, near East Bend, was -here to-day with his little boy, about four years old, who had been terribly bitten by a mad dog. The child's face was terribly lacerated, and the poor lit tle thing was suffering greatly from the . terrible wounds. Mr. Chaplin was look ing for a mad stone to apply to the wounds, but at last accounts had not succeeded in finding one. Lenoir- Topic: The Wilson Lum ber Company is doing a big business now. Besides shipping lumber, and for cutting which they have at work for them four or five saw mills, they have a big run on packing cases goods boxes and tbeir business is on the increase, lbey have built up a good trade on this one. item and it keeps them busy to keep up with orders. Not long since they received an order for one thousand fold- ! ing boards. And all their orders are, from the South none of them being from the North. They ship about, two car loads ot packing cases each week. They employ a large number of hands and the Dummy runs day and night de livering lumber. The monthly pay roll - is about one thousand dollars. This is . a big thing for Caldwell. Lumberton Robesonian : The frequency of robberies is such as to cause ? people to be on the alert and prepared to defend their lives or their property. The county is full of tramps, as well as of others who work, starve or steal. The robbing of Mr. McMillan recalls the per- -. petration of the outrages by tbe JLowery gang. Mr. Marker writes that he is in formed the amount of money stolen was $400, and that it was found be tween the mattresses of his bed. Mr. N. A. Mclntyre, of Shannon, tells of several petty robberies in upper Robe son. Mr. Noah Cashwell was robbed of $17 in money besides other .things; Mr. hS. Ausley s store was entered and a pairot shoes and a razor stolen. The person who robbed Mr. Ausley has been apprehended and committed to jail. Greensboro Record; A "thief gained an entrance into the store of J, M. Hendrix & Co. the other night through tbe cellar, taking away about $15 in small change left in . the money drawer. Iron bars were placed over the windows, but they were too wide apart and a slim man could easily get between them. T. C Hall, claiming to rep resent a building and loan association at Norfolk, Va., has been here for a few days . selling sharesh One gentleman who paid him money concluded alter the transaction to look into It. He thereupon telegraphed to tbe house, re ceiving a reply that Hall was not an ac credited agent. Last night he was ar rested and held for trial in a bond ot $200 for his appearance this afternoon. -Being . unable to give the bond he was sent to jail. Hall, we understand, claims that he can show his authority and that be has been and is still the lawful agent of the concern. -The whole amount paid to him here is very small, not exceeding $15 or $20. Charlotte Observer: Yesterday James Ferguson,' son of Engineer Fergu son, of the Air Line road, was accident ally shot while while out hunting and badly wounded. The hammer of the gun struck a stump, discharging the weapon. The load took effect in bis breast. The wound is a serious one. After being shot, Mr. Ferguson walked two miles back to town. Two miles from Gastonia live Mr. Wm. Summey and family. . Near them live C P.Hoyle. Yesterday the latter attempted to play the Jesse James act,- and there came very near bejng several lives lost there for. Jo. Hoyle, it seems, while under the influence of whiskey, went to Mr. Summey's and not finding anyone in the house, went to the kitchen. -. Mr; Summey, his wife and son, Craig, were in there. Hoyle walked in.pistol in hand, and flourishing it in the air, asked if they knew anything about Jesse James. He told then he (Hoyle) was a robber and desperado, and was going to kill them. He knocked old man Summey down, then knocked his wile down twice. Craig Summey, the son, aged about 18 years, got up to goto his mother's as sistance, when Hoyle covered him with the pistol and threatened to shoot him it he interfered. Young Summey ran out of the kitchen into the house, got his gun, and coming back, opened . fire on Hoyle. One load took effect in his hip. making a bad wound, but one not necessarily serious. Young Summey immediately notified the officers at Gas tonia of the shooting. Hoyle was placed in the calaboose, and later taken to Dal las and, jailed. Summey was not-ar-Vested., - , . '. I .; 17 n i7 IX L 4X 1 mm '- ;;t7? --1 . !. - : .- -..": if !-! ; .-7v , ';: k -. 1 ' 8. , , ' 'J v : -. -: I .' it.