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-PCrM She SJXMiIa j&ar, PUBLISHED AT ' ' Wilmington; n. c, $1.00 A YEAR. I N- ADVANC E. ' 88888888838888888 i,,0w 81 833g388gggggSjgggg ' 183S8S8iis8iIisSSS r ' S8S8ssss88sssiisi $ - i 88888888888888888 !j 82888888S8S888888 J:: 888S8SS8888888888. I ij : 82888882288888888 5 ;j " 88888888888888888 W a u , cr" " " -.-- j; U3 Entt-rl at the Post Office at Wflmtgton, N. C, as Second Class Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The subscription price of the Weekly Star is as (oliows: . - ... Sinele Copy l year, postage paia., i uu 6 months 3 months 60 80 VERY IMPORTANT Duringlhe past two months bills ha.ve been mailed to about sixteen hundred subscribers to the Weekly Sta. 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 vvHi read this notice,' and that he will forward the amountdue us at once. ; . . It is unjust to the proprietor to read his newspaper without paying for it fully as much so as tor the proprietor of the paper to eat the farmer's chickens and eggs and then fail or refuse to remunerate him. We thank those of our subscribers who have paid as, and trust this ap peal will not be lost on those who have not paid. ' OUT AND Iff report Hob. J. In his Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture, re ferring to j the depression in the agricultural industry incidentally ailudes to the tariff as a factor of no !importance and while he does not charge it With being the cause of all the trouble be reminds his farmer friends that when we so legislate as to keep put the products of other countries we legislate to keep in the products of our own. That is briefly stated, bnt it is well and truthfully stated. In these two words out and in, in the connection in which they come, is- he essence and the logical outcome; of the whole tariff system. The higher tariff the less trade be tween nations, the less the produc tion, because the. smaller the demand i , and the i consumption. The lower the tariff he greater the trade be- tweerrrrations, the greater the pro duction because the greater the de mand and consumption. The j manufacturing nation that does not j-aise foodstuffs enough to feed itsjown people and must import them gets them from countries which will take! in exchange for them Its manufactures, while the agricultural country which does not manufacture enough to meet the wants of its peo ple will seek the markets where these agricultural products can be readily exchanged for the manufactured goodsj it needs. That's what makes the trade of nations, what makes the commerce of nations, and every ob stacle thrown in the way of the free exchange of products is an obstacle in the way of trade," commerce and production, and correspondingly im pairs the prosperity of the farmer, the manufacturer, the producer of raw materials, the shipper, the men who build ships and the men who sail them. If any one class in an agricultural country like the United States suffers more than another- by the policy which keep3 out the products of other nations, and keeps in ours, It is the farmers whose products constituteJ78 per cent, of the total exports of this country. There are 30,000,000 of people depend :nt upon agriculture to the 3,000,000 that are dependent upon manufactures, ana yet we so legislate as to keep out the manufac tures of other countries for the ben efit not of the 3,000,000, but of the very small number of men who give them employment, and keep in the products of the farms upon which the 30,000,000 live. With all the restrictions upon trade, the products of the farms furnish more, than three-fourths of our volume of exports, but this yields but little profit to the men who till the soil, because they are handicap ped by restrictions that compel them to trade at a disadvantage, and get rid of their surplus at any price that may be offered. - I In this country we have usually a surplus of abont 100,000,000 bush els of wheat which must find a mar ket, if it find it at .all, on the other side of the ocean. We have a sur plus of corn which is fed to hogs and cattle and shipped in the form of pork and beef. If the markets of the world were free and open this surplus of grain and meat would be jn constant and growing demand, because - then European nations would find it to their interest to buy them when it could pay for them in products of their own, as they now do to some extents and do with other nations which now furnish a consid erable portion of foodstuff supplies r VOL. XXV. which -were once almost exclusively furnished by the farmers of this Ucountrv. . '.- There is no country in the world which can compete with this country in the production of foodstuffs, al though it is said that in Argentina wheat can be grown for considerably less per bushel, but that is because much of the land upon which wheat is; now grown there is virgin spHr Labor is cheaper -there but that is offset by the labor-saving machiney at the command of the American 'wheat grower. ',. .'" ..: "-. : ; v And so with cotton, three-fourths of which we export.; There, is no cotton-growing country in the world that can. compete with us in that. Other countries may have cheaper labor, but they lack the genius to fully master the; cotton plant, which- the American cultivator is learning more and more about every year, and which he more thoroughly understands than any other cotton grower In the world. Improved ma chinery and intelligent comprehen sion of the business of production have given him advantages that more than offset the cheap labor of other countries, -i! ..,-" All the American farmer requires, whether he raise cotton, grain or meat, to take care of himself and hold his own against the competi tion of the world is an open highway and an unobstructed entry into the markets of the world' with the pro ducts of his fields or pastures. Give him that and within the' next decade the volume that he contributes to the exports of the country will in crease fifty per cent., and this indus try will rise triumphant from the de pression under which it has been suf fering ever since the keep out and keep in policy become the policy of so-called American statesmanship. This would mean, not only pros perity to the American farmer, but a revival of American commerce, car-j ried in American bottoms as it was; before the keep out keep in policy! destroyed our merchant marine and furled our flag on the high seas. It would open up our ship yards, give employment to thousands of ship builders, and to thousands of men to . s f man xne snips mat core our com;- merce. It would give us a return of the golden era of American commerce which prevailed from 1846 under the Walker tariff until the keep out keep in policy was inaugurated in 1861. i HOW TO DO IT. In an editorial a few days ago we called attention to the growing de sire in the West to learn more about the South, and the crowing dispdsi tion among Western farmers to seek homes in the South. We cave sdme SOI of. the reasons in that1 article for his awakened interest . and referred to some of the methods j adopted to. im part the desired information and to induce immigration Southward, men tioning especially the efforts made by the -Illinois Central Railroad, which had met w'th much success in disposing of its lands and locating people alone its lines south of the Ohio.- ! I - Other Southern roads in Georgia, i Alabama and other States, prompted, nerhaDS. bv the cood results of the course pursaed by the Illinois Cen- trai. nave given cneap excursion rates with ample time for the excur siomsts to travel around, make ob servations and learn something about the country they visited, the result of which has been the sale of many tracts of land and the secur ing of many - good, thrifty, sub stantial people as , citizens. These are simply the pioneers who are blazing the way for,jOthers to "follow. And others will follow. Every set tler in the South from other sections or other countries who succeeds is a living advertisement of the induce ments offered for others to come, just as the success of the first immi grants who came from across the seas was instrumental in Dringing the millions that followed. We are not among those who jbe lieve that an. immense volume of im migration by sudden and continuous influx is one of the most desirable things. There may be too touch of a good thing even, if it gets beyond control of intelligent and judicious management. In seeking immigra tion we should desire only that kind which has in it the elements of good. citizenship and a kind that will read ily comprehend our intentions and assimilate with our people. In other words, we want people who if thy come to North Carolina will become North Carolinians, or if to Georgia, Georgians, people who will thor oughly Identify themselves with the State and community in which they cast their Jot. j There are some for eign countries from which we wouldn't take a batch of immigrants if they came with a letter of introduc tion from the hieh muck-a-muck that ruled over them, Decause we ao not like the way they are morally and mentally constructed, and there are some "portions of our o wn country to which we would give the preference over. others in seeking immigrants, because while all may have com mendable traits, the people of some sections have more in them in com itt n ii 1 1 Mi mon with our own . people, would more readily I assimilate with them, and, more speedily make' themselves. at home, without assuming the pre rogative to run the ranch', and dictate jusi how it should be managed. ' -' It will be time enough to look for European immigration in any con siderable I numbers when lines of direct transportation have been per- manently established between South- I ern and European ports, when efforts in f that direction, if desired, might be pursued with some system and with more satisfactory results than tHey can be now. The efforts should now be directed to the group of six or eight States East and West of the Mississippi Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Wiscon sin, in any one of which it would not be difficult j by well directed and systematic effort to secure large colonies of sturdy, thrifty people. .Of course this presupposes organi zation either within or without the co-operation pt tne states tor wnicn the immigration was sought.' -The first requisite! would be ample tracts )f land, well adapted to cultivation, teirh fair tranenArtarmn fa.ll?fic hv ail or water, and .within reasonable distance of marketing points. The next would be that this land could be gotten at a fair price and on easy terms for such as might de sire to buy partly on credit. The next thing to be done would be to advertise the section in which these lands were located among the people where the immigrants were sought. The easiest, cheapest and most effective way to do this would be to send an intelligent man of good ad dress, and of , ready speech, one who possessed full knowledge of the sec tion about which be was to speak. familiar with the character of its soil, its products, timper, mineral re sources, water supplies, climate, &c, and let him deliver addresses in the rural districts at a season of the year when the farmers had plenty of time .to bear him. We do not mean spread eagle oratory, but plain, matter-of- fact discourses as if he was talking to a class and delivering a lecture for its instruction; not drumming for immigrants but telling those people what there is in the section he speaks for, what j it has to offer the industrious man, and what the in dustrious man could do and bow he .could live if he went there. This with such well compiled printed mat ter as he should be supplied with to furnish those who might desire it, would put those people to thinking and some of them to moving. There is a fine field for this kind of educating ;work now in Western V" - i . a r : i all3t"' WUC1C "yci.cu from Ptractpd droughts have made farming a hopeless calling. There are thirty-nine counties, which four years ago contained a population ;of 200,000, which has been reduced within those four years to 143,000, 57,000 having abandoned that . sec tion to seek homes elsewhere. ; In favoring seasons it is a good grain country, but recently the droughts have been frequent, and this year, on nearly 1,00U,000 . acres sown in wheat, the yield was not a peck to the acre, not over a fifth of the seed sown. The indications are that that whole section will be eventually abandoned, because to farm with any reasonable degree of certainty irrigation ; will be necessary, ' and there are not the sources of water supply to make a system of irriga tion practicable. It wouldn't be a difficult matter to persuade many of these people to turn Southward, if the South and its inducements were properly presented to them. President Hatch, of the Honolulu annexation club, expresses the opin ion that President Cleveland has no more right to undo what President Harrison did than he has undo what President Lincoln did. He isn't try ing to undo what Mr. Harrison did for Mr. Harrison didn't finish up the job. Mr. Cleveland wants to get it Into shape to do it right.' Thomas Howard a one-legged Chicago man, couldn't stand the idea of. "rich people eating turkey while poor people eat crow," and expressed his sentiments by smashing in five big plate-glass windows in a furniture store. That didn't give him turkey but it got him free board and lodging in jail. . Deer Killed In the Biver. Friday about 10 o'clock a. m as (the steamer Wilmington reached a point a short distance - below Big Island, Capt. Harper and crew discovered a deer swim ming rapidly across the. river, ine steamer .was immediately headed for the game, but iust before coming within gun shot she ran aground and the deer pro ceeded on its natatorial excursion. But the fates were against it. It was seen by Capt. Sam. Skinner and his men. who were working on some flats near the shore, and several embryo -hunters gave chase in a small boat. - The unfortunate deer was intercepted and slain. As Capt. Sam will claim the credit any way, it may as well be said that he played the part of the "Deer slayer." It was hot an "antlered monarch,"- but a gentle doe. John Harper, was presented with a "quarter" presumably, for the distin guished part he played in running his boat aground in order that Sam might get the shot. . , WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22 ' A MELANCHOLY SPORTSMAN "Editor Harris Discourses on tho Par tridge The Outlook Qloomy, and He Becomes a "Knight of the' Baeful Coun tenance." Brother Wade Harris, editor of the Charlotte Nous, 4s an old-time lover of dog and gun, and like the field editor of the Star, endeavors to keep his readers posted in all matters pertaining to field sports. In a recent issue of his paper the old hunter gives vent to his feelings in this rnelandboly strain The partridge, the famous same bird of this section, is rapidly disappearing. in a lew years, at jtne present rate, a covey anywhere will be a rarity. , AH the sportsmen agree that the birds are scarcer now than they have ever been. Where five coveys could- be found four years ago the hunter thinks he is doing well to find one now. The shot-gun is the main cause of the depletion, aided by trappers, netters, pot hunters and oawKs. i nere is more gunning in tne fields about here now than ever known. The northern sportsmen are 'working every coifnty. At the present rate it will soon be good-bye to the partridge. 'A fellow feeling makes , ns wondrous kind," and we can sympathize with our old friend in his melancholy musings. But we doubt if "the shot-gun is the main cause of depletion." True enough,' the; '.'pot-hunters, netters,. -trappers and hawks" get in their deadly work; but the hogs, the nest-robbers and the foxes should be added to the enemies that beset the. noblest game bird ot the South. And chief among these we place the wily Reynard, who, alone of all the de stroyers of the partridge, pounces upon his prey in their roosting-places at night. And, as is generally known, a covey of these birds when they have retired for the night, form a circle not exceeding eight to twelve inches in diameter, thus making them helpless victims to the rily fox. - It may be doubted if the inroads of the Northern sportsmen are yet an im portant factor in the destruction of the partridge, though they are working to that end in the Charlotte, Concord and High Point sections of the .State. It is the old, old story : j "The Assyrians came down like a wolf on the fold, j And their cohorts Were gleaming with purple and gold, J So it is with our Northern friends. They have plenty of money; the finest hammerless breech-loaders; the most gorgeous field toggery; and dogs with pedigrees, as Uncle Ned Glavin would say, "four times as long as my arm." But the despised pot-hunter, with his rusty muzzle-loader, can take the field side by side with the average Nimrod from khe North and bag four birds to his one. Nevertheless, it is probably true that the partridge is disappearing in certain sections of the State, and nothing but stringent laws, rigidly enforced, can be relied on to check the destruction of, the birds. And to the enactment and en forcement of such laws all true sports men should lend their aid. TURPENTINE AND ROSIN. Tne Home Market for These Product De pressed hj Dullness In Various Xndus- ' tries. ! . j The Boston Commercial Bulletin, com- menting upon the low prices for spirits turpentine and rosins, says : The prospects for the Winter trade fa turpentine has not been so poor for years. The fines on which it depends are in a very 'dull condition. Piano manuiacturers are doing very little and have been this way for some months, and moreover the prospects are! verv poor for any improvement in trade before next Spring. The business depresiion also cuts deeply into the furniture and carriage trades. About the only j hope ful outlook is in interior finish which, however, is not as great as it has been in past years. . . What the rosin trade has been locally in the past season can best be judged by the paper and soap business, l he me dium and lowest grades have had: an un usually limited market all because of tle poor state of paper manufacturing which consumes the greater part of those grades of rosins brought here. Prices have not been driven down so low, how. ever, as one might expect and this may be attributed to a light crop.. Last Win ter was so severely felt in the South that the' sap from the trees did not run until quite late, and whereas we should have received rosin along in May it did not come to hand in any quantities until Inly. i . Another rather curious coincidence was the course of the soap market, which takes the greater part of the pale rosins. Last Winter, when tallow advanced to such a high figure, jobbers laid in larj supplies of soap, which, in connectic with the great tailing on in general bust- ness later, made it very - dull for soap makers throughout the year. While paper mills as a rule confine themselves to using the medium and lower grades of rosins, a few situated in Hoiyoke, Lawrence and JJaiton use I. H. and N. pales in the manufacture of fine writing paper. Lately the report has been received from the South that the medium and low grades are being held for 10c and 15c. per barrel advance over last month's price, and there is also a stronger feeling in pales, but as this is the time when the market usually im proves, it is not at all surprising, parti cularly as the crop of either kind is not plentitul. 1 Newborn's Subscription of 850,000 to the "W. N. & N. B. B. The City Council of Newbern last Thursday directed the delivery of fifty thousand dollars of municipal bonds which the city subscribed by election three years ago, to the East Carolina Land and Railway Company (now merged into the -Wilmington, Newbern and Norfolk Railroad Co.), said bonds to be - delivered when the railroad was completed to the city. The railway company gave in exchange for these bonds, stock in the East Carolina Land and Railway Co. to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, par value. I A Dredge Burned. The suction dredge' Woodbury took fire at the Government wharf at South port, ; about : 12.30 o'clock . yesterday morning. She was towed to Battery Island by the tug Italian, of the Harper fleet, where she sank in nine feet water. Her deck and upper works were de stroyed, and her machinery very much damaged. The fire was accidental, and there was no insurance. : r The shipment of clams to North ern markets has stopped, for the present at least. Dealers say there is no profit in the business. . ' A REMARKABLE 3 CARGO , Of Cotton Stowed on tne. British Steamer j ,x Ormesby for Liverpool. -The "Champion" Cotton Compress is evidently not a misnomer, as is shown in yesterday's clearance by Messrs. Alex ander Sprunt & Son of the British' I steamer-Ormesby, 1828 tons register, for Liverpool, with 10,044 bales of cotton, weighing 4,827,507 pounds and ' valued at $374,131. There was no special at tempt made to break the record in' this case, as both presses, were hard pushed to keep three steamers going at the same time. - ' . U:-i:?.y' This cargo has put -the Champion Compress ; "out of sight" ahead of all- competitors, being 2641 pounds to the ion register. - . captain Murquest re marked that he thought for a day or two. past , from the extraordinary cargo coming on board that the cotton bad been passing through the bottom of the ship, but he expressed himself as highly pleased with the stowing, not the slightest damage having been done to the vesseJ Tbe Ormesby took 8,189 bales from the Champion Compress last sea son which was the best cargo she had ever taken," and the same . vessel was loaded about two months ago in Savan nah for Bremen with 8,376 bales of cot ton, weighing 4,249,280 pounds, being not quite 3,825 pounds to the ton regis ter, against 2,641 already noted. The present cargo of 10,044 bales has only the usual seven bands and each bale was stowed separately. The usual cargo space only was taken and no coal bunker space used; the entire cargo was stowed under deck. This extraordinary increase is attributed to improved ma chinery and efficient workmen. NAVASSA GUANO COMPANY. Annual Meeting of Stockholders Offloers Elected A Six Per Cent. Dividend De- elared. - . The stockholders of the Navassa Guano Company held their annual meet ing yesterday at the office of the com pany in this city. Reports of officers were I submitted and discussed, after which an election for directors was held, and the following were chosen: Messrs, John H. Fowler, F. L. Graffiin and P. P. Duncan, of Baltimore; D. G. Worth, G. W. Kidder, C. . Borden and D. MacRae of Wilmington. j At a meeting of the new Board, held subsequently, the following officers for the ensuing year were elected : President D. G. Worth. Manager. Secretary and , Treasurer- D. MacRae. j Superintendent C. E. Borden. Executive and Finance Committee D. G. Worth, G.- W. Kidder and C. E. Borden, with the Treasurer as advisorv member. 1 j ' A j dividend of 6 per tent, was de clared.' -- ' - ; In the afternoon the directors visited and inspected the company's works and complimented the Superintendent highly for the excellent and efficient condition in which they found the plant. - Assignment; j Messrs. A. G. Hankins & Co., retail grocers, on North Second street be- tween Market and Princess streets, made an assignment yesterday for the benefit ot their creditors, lbe as signee is Mr. T. D. Wood. Assets and iiaonities not statea; out are not large. . i -. . . . i j . i i The preferred creditors are: West &; Co., $40.50; Holmes & Watters, $141.84; M. J. Heyer, $29 90; Boney & Harper. $54.40; NcNair & Pearsall. $19.47; Stevenson1 & Taylor, $100.47; Armour Packing Co., $55.23; Milling Co., $43.64; J National Rice S. McEachern, $12.00. M. Bellamy,' Esq., is attorney. No Flstorioals for Minors. ! As the holidays are near at hand, the committee on pistoncals beg leave to submit the following from the code : The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact : - Sfec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or firm know ingly to sell or otter for sale, give or in any way dispose of to a minor any pistol or pistol-cartridges, brass knucks, bowie knife, dirk, loaded cane, or sung snot. Sec. 2. That any person, corporation or firm violating this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction for each and every offence shall be fined or imprisoned, one or both, in the dis cretion 01 the court. Can't Blow It Oat. A Baltimore genius has invented a philanthropic gas burner, designed to save the lives of the inexperienced rus tics who stop at hotels and extinguish the gas with their breaths. He calls it the "Hayseed Gas Burner." and says that the harder one blows at it, the more stubbornly the light refuses to go out. If by any chance an exceptionally strong pair of lungs succeeds in extinguishing it, it is automatically relighted at once. This burner will J probably prove the despair of many an unlucky farmer; who will try to blow it out in vain. The Colleotorahip. The Washington correspondent of the Richmond Times, of yesterday, says : i The action of the Secretary of the Treasury in calling for the resignations of several collectors of customs at vari ous points indicates that the President has determined to give some attention to that branch of the service, whose af fairs are still administered at a great many important points by incumbents unfriendly to the administration, and as Petersburg. Va.. was disposed of yester day, the people of North Carolina ear nestly hope that the port of Wilmington will be considered at an eany date. Carolina Central at Charlotte. . j Carolina Central passengers have 1. noted a great improvement, in the ac commodations at the passenger station in this citv. savs the Charlotte News. Chief among them is the waiting room exclusively for i ladies. The waiting rooms for men and the general public are fitted up equally as well as the ladies waiting room, and are eqaaay conveni ent to the ticket seller. - The Carolina Central affords the best accommodations of any railroad in the city, though the Richmond & Danville has the finest building. The train yard at the Car olina Central is fenced in and that is a great improvement, r K i f ri " - - - v- MR j jit - 1893. 3 'Hie; WASHINGTON NEWS i f! ff Resignation of Hold-Overs in thelTreaaury Department. Called for -7 Dominations confirmed by the Senate Opposition to the Nomination ot JatSfte Simauton as Circuit Judge. '. j, ""jijjjj . Washington. Dec. 14. rVmmis- sioner Lyman, of the Civil Service Com mission; has resigned as President; of the commission, but not as .commissioner, and has been succeeded j in th I Presi dency by Commissioner Proctor J Lyman will continue as a member of the com lssion.Ti;r .C; Secretary Carlisle to-day. bv direction of the President, called for the; jresigna tions of twenty-four occupants of Presi dential positions in the,. Treasury De partment service, j ' :'iljf v.'- They are as follows: O. C. Bosbyshell. superintendent of mint, - Philadelphia; Jos. C Biglin, assistant aDoraiser. New York; Charles F. Kimball, appraiser, De troit, Michigan; Eben F. Rand, appraiser, Portland. Maine; W. H. Alexander, sur veyor customs, Omaha; H. C. McArthur, .surveyor customs, Lincoln, Neb.; John . Kidgeway, surveyor custordSj Phila delphia; Amor-Smith, Jr surveyor cus toms, Cincinnati; Milton Weilder. col lector of internan .revenue,! District of Oregon; John Ingle, supervising in spector of steam vessels. Evansville, lnd.; Thomas J. Powers, navalj officer, Philadelphia; Theo. B. Willis, naval offi cer, New York; E, R. Gunbyj icbllector customs, Beaufort, S. C.j T. Hi Deveaux. collector customs. Brunswick, .Ga.: Rob't Hancock, I r.. collector customs. Newbern. N. C; T. Jeffersohj jarret, collector customs, Petersburg, Va.; Thomas V.. Cooper, collector icustoms. fhiladelphia; Wm. J. Hopperi! collector customs, Pathamboy, N. J.; John Price, collector customs, Somers Point, N. J.; Franklin B. Gpss, collector i icustoms; Barnstable, Mass.; John HJ Cozzens. collector customs, Newport, R. 1; John m. muey. surveyor customs, j Albany N. Y., John Fehrenbatch, supervising inspector of steam vesssls, Cincinnati. Secretary Carlisle s report will, it is stated semi-officially.be sent to Congress on next Tuesday. A :. I ftj Secretary Hoke Smith, of the Interior Department, has returned to. the city. All the members of the Cabinet are now here except Postmaster General; Bissell. They ridicule reports started of an in tended disruptlen of the Cabinet.) The Senate has confirmed the" follow ing nominations: Charles WJ Dabnev. Jr., of Tennessee, to be Assistant Secre tary of Agriculture; Commodore, Francis Ramsay, to be chief of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department: iMarcel- lus L. Davis, of Arkansas, U. S Consul at Meridia, Mex.; John R. Proctor, of Kentucky, to be Civil Services commis sioner; Eugene T. Chamberlain, pf New York. Commissioner ot Navigation :Mae- gie Moore, postmaster, Yorkville, S. C. There are some indications? that the nomination of Judge Simonton, of South Carolina, to succeed fudge Bond as Cir cuit Judge, will meet with opposition. It is rumored that tne iulmanite members of the delegation in Congress disavow all responsibility for the nomination and may resist confirmation on account of decisions rendered by Judge;! Simonton in whiskey cases under the new dispen sary law. : - r j The expected message from the Presi dent upon Hawaiian affairs was hot sent to Congress to-day. Washington, ;Dec l5.- About dozen or fifteen ot- those Democratic Representatives who think industries in their sections have been rath 'unfavor ably treated in the preparation of the new tariff bill held a conference to-day to talk matters over and agree upon some plan by which they j! can secure amendments to the proposed, ariff law in the interest of their several sections. The meeting was informal and was de voted to a general discussion of the sec tions of the bill which have been made public . All of those present bad some grievance and no special attention was given to any one item Or schedule. Each member told in a general way j the effect the proposed changes; would! have on those interests here presented, and it was decided to pool issues; stand to gether and help one another las much as possible When the measure i was dis cussed in the House land fybtes on its provisions taken. While this agreement was made and a general understanding as to procedure agreed upon, the dis satisfied members could not tell exactly what they would ask; as the bill has not been officially reported yet and is still subject to change by the .'Committee There is, moreover, i still jap possibility that before reporting the! measure to the House the committee may consider the suggestions made by some of the dissatisfied brethren; and grant their requests. ' In case this! js done, the necessity of combining to openly oppose the measure will be done s away with. The hope of such concessions by the committee, however, is rather faint. Before the bill is brought up in the House there will be a Democratic cau cus, at which it will be discpssed. This will afford those who j wish changes made an opportunity .to! present their views and get the sense; of their col leagues regarding the proposed changes. If matters should go against the protes tors in caucus, they will meet again and agree upon a more definite,: plan of ac tion. The meeting to-day was called at a moment's notice, and it is said many members who would have joined the op position were away. I f I ! wnat is caiiea a -onierence 01 tne Bi-metallic : League" opened a three day's private session in the offices of Gen. A.J. Warner in this city to-day. Between twentv and thirtv prominent silverites were present; jincluding Mor ton Frewan, the I British bi-metalist. Capt. Kolb, of Alabama!; and General Fields, of Virginia. Chairman Warner stated that the proceedings would be secret until their termination, when a statement would be given put for publi cation. im ii r The chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the exports of cotton from! tne unucu oiaica uuuug nuc uiuinu ut November 1893, amounted to 479,731,- 078 pounds, valued at $38,775,868. and in! November, lijaa, ov,ovj,vvt pounas, valued at 838,441,837. l During the three months ended No vember 30, 1893. 921,279.830 pounds were; exported, valued at $74,901,727, and dur ing the corresponding period ot the pr ceding year 907,902,040 jjpounds, value at $72,520,195. IE. Washington, Dec To. Mr. Holmani the Chairman of the Democratic Caul cus Committee, said to-day that the cau . . . . 1 ' CT 1 J I 1 B ! 1 S CUS 10 consider tne larm oiii,wouia prot bably be postponed Until after the holii day recess. The revised bill has not bee a printed and laid before the members yet ana ne minus taai u ougni to oc caret fully studied by them before it is con! sidered in caucus. iH - Mr. Holman thought' it would be be ter to postpone the! caucus until tb members had gone home and talked with their constituents, so that they couli more intelligently represent tbeirwishes. when the bill came before the caucus. He added moreover j that a quorum of the House would not : be present after to-day, and that it would not be well to caucus upon so important a subject as NO. 7 the tariff until all or nearly all the Demi ocratic members were in the city.': -- - so much ot. the time ot the Demos cratic members of the - Ways and Mean- Committee is occupied in hearing the complaints, of the aepresentativeS of the interests affected by the bill that it is difficult to say when the remaining partf of the measure the internal revenues-will be completed and laid before the full committee.'. Mr. MrMillan the chaifman-of the sub-committee, having tne internal schedules in charge, has been-hoping to finish this work by Tues day f next, but the chances are greatly agaist it. Several ' members ) of the committee in anticipation of -the ad journment for the holidays next Thurs day.lare likely to leave the city; within the text forty-eight hours, or by Tues day evening at the latest. : There is a fair presumption, therefore, that the un completed parts of the bill will not be finished nntil after the holiday recess. - Mi. McMilun said to-day that the sub committee have already reported their conclusions to the Democratic members of the full committee on cigarettes. playing cards and inheritances. The tax on cigarettes has been increased, to $1.50f per thousand.:. On playing cards a tax eft six cents is imposed. Upon in heritances the committee suggests two rates! a maximum rate on lneritances descending to collateral branches of a lamiuy. atra a minimum rate where the inheritance is direct. The proposed rate was lief t ODen bv the sub-committee and has pot been determined by the Juil Democratic majority. j Mil McMillin said to-dav : "The de ficit J caused by the Wilson tariff bill I will be. in round numbers, about $62,000,000. I do not think our necessities will demand more than from) $40,000,000 to $45,000,000. We can save a great many millions by insti tuting a system of rigid economy in our national expenditures, and no incon siderable amount will result from an in creased importation consequent upon the flush times -and the reduced custom rates. Every penny of this money can be iaised, from an income tax. So greafjy has the country developed in population and wealth that an individual income tax exempting incomes of $4,000 and less, at one-half the rate charged on all incomes when the law was formerly in fprce. will net the United States a corresponding income an income large enopgh to supply all deficiencies. . We canjpbtain all the money we need from thisj source without doing any one an injustice. I hear the same views to-day tha I did several months ago, when I wrote a paper on this subject that was published in a well-known Eastern masr- azife. I then made the argument that a legacy tax never makes its exactments until the party who worked for the money no longer needs it, until one is to gei it who never earned it. The legacy tast, is in ray opinion, is the fairest of all tax, and I personally have no hesitation in paying that 1 am equally favorable to a tpx on individual income and corpora tions. I A BIG FAILURE.! The Crane Iron Company of Philadelphia Makes an Assignment, By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Philadelphia, December 15. The Crane Iron Company, incorporated, has rnjade an assignment for the benefit of its creditors to Robert t. Kennedy, of this cifty, and Leonard Peckitt, of Catasau qa, Pa. The deed, which is dated De- mber 14th, was filed to-day and it was ade in pursuance of a resolution adopted by the Board of Managers on November 28tb, empowering the officers ti make the assignment and appointing af special conynittee to select the as signees and determine whether the deed spould be delivered and recorded. The committee selected the assignees and re ported that the assignment be made, as in the best interest of the incorpora tion. It was accordingly executed. The principal office of the Company is in Philadelphia, and the plant- which has an annual capacity of 115.000 tons, is at Catasauqua. Pa. j The Company has a paid up capital of f 1,500.000, and a funded debt of $448,- qoo. I It is understood that efforts to revive tjhe Company in the existing j state of the iron trade will not be made. 1 and that it will be auietiy liquidated. The plant at Catasauqua has been shut down for three eeks, with the exception of one fur rlace. The works employ when running full, from 600 to 800 bands, j JRobt, F. Kennedy, one of the'assig ees, is a director of the Crane Iron Com rjany, and is President of the Logan Iron ana oicei vuiupany. id auuiuun tu its 4wn furnaces, the Crane Company leased the Macuneie furnace, making the an nual capacity 133,000 tons. ! i The products of the works have been igh grade foundry, open hearth and Bessemer pig iron. A PENSION FRAUD. taura Ann Hug-gins Sentenced to Five Tears' Hard .Labor and Fined $2,000. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Noreolk, Va., Dec 16. In the fUnited States Court here to-day Laura ! A TJ A -I XT.U. trn jconvicted of pension fraud, was sen tenced to five years at hard labor in the Albany penitentiary and to pay a fine ot f $2,000. This woman's pension history is as follows: " I In 1867, as the widow of Samuel Gregory (who was killed at the battle of Deep Bottom), she applied for a pension, Nine days after she filed the claim she married Wilson Reid. I Two years afterwnrds the ciaim was allowed and she - drew the pension which was dated back to 1864, in which year Gregory was killed. I Being mar ried to Keid debarred her lrom legally drawing this pension. The fraud was discovered in 1876 when she was drop ped. Reid was sent to the penitentiary and it is not known what became of. him. In 1880 or 1881, she married Hug- gins, who also died. In 1889 she made application again as the widow of Uregory and drew the pension the second time from 1004 to the date ot her mar riage with Huggins. - GREAT FLOOD AT BUFFALO. Five Hundred Houses Inundated and 2,500 People Homeless. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Buffalo, N. Y Dec 17. The great est flood that has struck South Buffalo in a score of years occurred last night and this morning. Swelled by the heavy rain and thaw of the past twenty- four hours. Buffalo Creek overflowed its banks and flooded five square miles of territory in that section, lbe magni tude of the disaster can scarcely be : ap preciated as yet, Five hundred houses. have been- inundated and 2,500 people rendered homeless.) It is impossibleat this time to accu rately estimate the loss in property and streets, but it will certainly exceed S100.- 000. Every family in the district will suffer a loss. . - The freshet also .- did considerable damage to ahippingn the harbor. SPIKITS TURPEHTlfTt I 1 m ft - 9m . v J a - -- Vh T . . Salisbury Truth: Miss Pat tie Cox. aged about" 82 years,lied in! this city last Sunday. y Lexington Despatch: Mrs.Eliz abeth Barrow died suddenly at Thomas ville last week. She was about 80 years old. - Hillsboro Observer: . Died near University Station on Sunday,1 Novem ber 26tb, 1893, Mrs. Louisa Crabtree, wife of Sidney Crabtree, aged 67 years. :' Gastonia Gazette; A party of colored people consisting of men, women i and children, in fact whole ; families, -numbering about fifty in all, left Gastonia Tuesday night for Russellvilte. Atk. Newton Enterprise: The distil lery of F. P. Rhyer, Gaston county, was seized last week and 48 barrels of- whis key shipped to Charlotte, that of J. S. Carpenter near Cherry ville was also seized this week and a quantity of spir its secured. Tne new order of the Commissioner requiring distillers to make three gallons of liquor to the bushel is having the effect of causing very many distilleries to close j in all the divisions except this one. The calls for new surveys in Catawba, Lincoln and Caston are so numerous that the deputy hardly finds time to attend to them all Morganton Herald: Dr. Joseph C, Newiand, of Lenoir, died very sud denly about 7 o'clock Tuesday morning. Dr. Newiand was nearly eighty years of age. and for some years past has been in feeble health. At the meeting called to discuss the building of a turnpike irom Morganton to Mitchell county, held at the Town Hall last Friday night, enough stock was pledged to enable the -company to organize. A committee was appointed to solicit further subscrip tions, and we are glad to know that tbey are meeting with very gratifying buc- cess. The people of Morganton have" determined that the road shall he built, and that determination means success. Charlotte Observer: Observer readers may remember the mysterious drowning about three years ago of Mr. Clay tsarkley in the river near Beattie s ford. Mr. Barkley and horse were found in the stream; both drowned. It was supposed that he had mistaken the ford. and so gone to his death, but it has come to light that be' was the victim of foul play. There lived in the same neighborhood with him a man named Coly Little. Soon after Mr. Barkley 's death.be (Little) went to Texas. No one connected his departure with the death of Barkley. Recently, when on his deathbed. -Little confessed that he had murdered Barkley, robbed him, then put his body back into the buggy and driven the horse to the river, where they were found the next morning. Goldsboro Headlight: We re gret very much to announce that Mr. L. Edwards, dealer in dry coods and clothing, has again been forced to the wall by the heavy pressure brought upon him by his creditors. Although in pos session of ample assets, he wa3 unable to raise the ready cash to meet his ma turing bills, and his creditors not being. willing to give the extension asked for, he was compelled on (Tuesday to turn over his entire stock of goods to satisfy all claims, amounting to about $6,000. The untimely demise of Mr. Chas. Jones occurred at his home in Indian Springs township, Monday at 1 p. m., after a four weeks' illness with typhoid fever, " aged 23 years. His brother William preceded him about a month ago, both leaving families. Charlotte News: United States Commissioner Tohn W. Bostain, of Albemarle, is in the city. He had two and a half pounds of gold in his pocket, which was found on the Tom Ifitog place, four; miles east of Albemarle, The first gold was found on this flace about the middle of October, ' ames Johnston found a chunk of gold weighing five and a half pounds at this place, which was then the Jroperty of 'a man named Shankje. ohnston hid the gold and left for Ar kansas. Shankle heard ot it and offered Johnston tq pay his way back if he would give him (Shankle) half of the gold. -Johnston agreed and the start was made. but in Mississipprhe died. Before he was quite dead he told Shankle where the gold was. Shankle returned, found the chunk and then sold his farm of 100 acres for. one hundred dollars and left for Arkansas. At the same spot now is the rich mine. Carthage BlaSe: The Blade deeply sympathizes with the family ot Mr. Joe Knight, of Quiet, in the loss of their little three-year oid boy last Tues day, who was burned to death. The burned child and his five-year old brother were left near the house while their mother went a few hundred yards to see a sick neighbor. Tbey went into the house and were cracking walnuts on the hearth, when the little fellow's cloth ing caught fire. The older child very heroically attempted to extinguish the flames, throwing water on him, finally tearing all his clothes off; but the little fellow' had already received fatal burns. On last Friday afternoon the house of Mr. John B. Vick was broken into and a revolver, a lot of clothing and some jewelry was stolen therefrom. Sus picion at once pointed to Herbert Golt ston, a negro boy of bad character. On Saturday morning a warrant was issued 1 for his arrest, but when the officers went to look tor him the bird had Mown. But t on Monday morning he was overhauled i at Manly and brought here in the after-r i noon. He had a preliminary hearing be fore 'Squire Frye immediately and was sent to jail in default of bail. When cap tured he was attired in Mr. Vick's clothes. ! . " THE FIELD OF HONOR. Two Prominent Tonne Men of Blchmqnd, Va., Arrested to Prevent a Breach ot the Feaee. Bv Telegraph to the Morning Star. ' Richmond, Dec 16. W. A. Daniel and P. H. C. Cabell, ! two prominent young society men, were arrested here to-night upon the charge of being about to break the peace. The warrant did not specify bow they proposed to en gage in combat, but it is believed that their, intention was to meet on "The field of honor." The cause of the diffi culty has been kept quiet, but it is be lieved to have grown out ot a discussion of the fact of Mr. J. Alston Cabell's having voted for Mr. Thomas S. Martin for U. S. Senator, when certain ol his constituents in this city thought he would vote for Gen. Lee. The Messrs. Cabell are brothers.! The would-be beligerents were bailed for their appear ance before the police court Monday morning. ;-."!. WARM Wl RELETS. Corbett, the American pugilist, has moved to Mayport and may now be con sidered a resident of that village by the sea. and to hear the athlete talk one can readily see that he is more than pleased with his temporary home. A passenger and freight train on the S. A. L. road collided on a bridge at Comer, Ga., yesterdays Twelve passen gers were more or. less bruised. The engineers and firemen of both trains were hurt but not seriously. I - - Patrick Meehan was acquitted yester day in the Superior Court at Atlanta, Ga., of the charge of murdering Robt. McBnde. whom he shot tor malting in sulting advances to bis wife. The ver dict of the jury was applauded. : The last game of the billiard tourna ment at New York was played last night. Ives and Schaefer, who played, had leach won two and lost one game of the aeries. Schaefer, in the sixth inning, ran the game out. Ives' score was 50. V.:
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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