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It is hoped every subscriber in ar rears will read this notice, and that be will forward the amount due us at once. . j ' " Jt 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. We thank those of our subscribers whp have paid us, and trust this ap peal will not be lost on those who have not paid. EXPECTING TOO MUCH- In an address delivered a few days ago before a Democratic club Mr. Henry Watterson, editor of the Lou- : :n - . r 7 . 1. . lsvuie courier-j vurnui, luuh. ui;v;cisiui to pay his respects to the Wilson tariff bill in no complimentary terms. Mr. Watterson is a- Democrat, he is also a brilliant writer, but, like many Hrilliant men he. : prratir: anrl lit. terly impracticable, the kind of a man who is more dangerous to his friends than to his foes. He has ideas. One of these is that the Democratic party should be run in his way, and if it isn't, then he exercises the preroga tive that belongs to every native-born and naturalized citizen of this Re public, to kick like an athletic mule. Mr. Watterson is a radical tariff re former or rather a free-trader, for this comes nearer defining his posi tion than tariff reformer does. His objection is that it isn't radical enough, that there is too much-pro tection in it, that it is not the kind of a tariff the platform adopted at Chicago demanded when it declared for a "tariff for revenue only." Mr. Watterson is not the only Democrat who does not like the Wilson bill-, for there are others who kick against it for ah entirely different reason, namely, that there is too much free trade in it in some things which thev declare oueht to be pro tected, so that the Wilson bill has to encounter the hostility of two ele ments, each calling itself Demo cratic, one opposing it because it isn't near enough to free trade and the other because it is too near. Unless our memory fails to serve us Mr. Watterson supported the Mills bill which made an average re duction of about five per cent, on tne larin ot issu, ana was then a forty per cent, tariff, while the Wil son bill makes an average reduction of about thirty per cent, on the tariff ot 1890, leaving an average duty of about thirty-five per cent., five per cent. less than the Mills bill. It seems to us that if the Mills bill was good enough to meet the endorse ment and receive the support of Democrats in 1888, the Wilson bill rate of duty is entitled to their en dofsement and support now. On the other hand there are some Democrats who would substitute the Mills bill for the. Wilson bill,- because it did not put certain raw materials on the free list, which the Wilson bill does. These two elements were together on the Mills bill and they are to gether in kicking against the . Wilson bill, while all Democrats who take a cooMieaded view of .this question or whose judgment is not biased by imaginary local interests accept the Wilson bill. . . i " Leaving out of question Republi cans who have been educated to be lieve in the protective doctrine, and Democrats who from self interest subscribe to it, it would be an utter impossibility for any many to devise a tariff scheme which would be ac ceptable to every one. As far as the two objecting elements go, the Watterson free traders and the anti- free traders, the former are more ogical,consistent, honest, and there-' tore more entitled to respect, but they are also more headstrong and impracticable.; The trouble with them is that having mounted thje horse they want to put him in full gallop, regardless of obstructions tlfat may be in the wsy, or the dan ger of ; being dumped in a heap in some ditch on the way side. . : s R a , ay:a vol. xxv: " - -' : - wpa , They expect tc6 much and want to accomplish everything at one dash, wjthout considering the conditions, the environments, the difficulties or the dancer attendioe their heroic methods. There would be danger in I the present condition of the indus tries and business of this country in these heroic methods even if the Democrats were united and solid oh them, but with Democrats entertain ing the divergent and conflicting views that many now do, there would be infinitely more danger. The Chicago platform does declare for a'tarift for revenue only, but it was understood then, as all Democrats understand now, tnat a tantt tor revenue omy would pot be a free trade tariff nor anything "bordering on free!; trade when the. Government must have at least $400,000,000 of revenue, and that any practicable tariff system that could be devised would neces sarily carry more or less , protection with it. And it was also' understood thent as it is flow, that the Democratic congress which would have the task of giving us a new tariff, would exer cise its best-discretion and with the best lights before it, give us a tariff that would. come as near as possible to meeting the spirit and the letter of that platform, which was not an iron-clad, and was not intended to be an iron-clad instrument Witn the lights before them, the Democrats of the Ways and Means Committee, af ter long, painstaking and patient con sideration devised a measure, which although it may not be radical enough for Democrats of the Wat terson type to grow enthusiastic over, and is too radical to meet with the approbation of the believers in protection for special industries, is a step in the right direction which may be followed later bystill further re-. ductions when the country is pre-; pared for them, and it can be safely done without violent disarrangement of our industrial system. L The Wilson bill is not all that , we would have it. In a good many things we think ; it might have cut deeper and shown less concern about the matter of protection. But we recognize the fact that the commit-, tee which was charged .. with the re sponsible duty of devising a tariff scheme were confronted by very perplexing- questions and that they had before them a task of extraordi nary difficulty. "This cut might have been deeper but that would have in volved the necessity of putting a tax on sugar; coffee, tea and other things. which are among the necessaries of ilfe, every one of which would en hance the cost of living to the poor man who finds it hard to live now. But that's the , way Mr. Watterson and those who agree with him would strike for a tariff for revenue only, and get the bulk of the revenue out of the sweat of the man who toils for his daily bread. As we remarked above, while the Wilson. bill is not all we would like to have it, it is a beginning and a step in the right' direction. It took thirty years to bring the country to the McKinley protective standard, and the tariff reform Democrats who expect to get back to the starting point atone jump expect too much. A SPLENDID OFFER. All readers of The Weekly Star should avail themselves of the splen did opportunity., offered them of securing the Stoddard Art Album at a purely nominal price. Each series, containing sixteen magnificent photo graphs of noted scenes and places, may be obtained by sending one coupon, cut from this paper, and twelve cents in money or stamps. There will be sixteen series in all, and when completed they will form one of the most beautiful, and in structive works of. art that adorned a parlor or library. ever Read advertisement in this paper for full ' particulars, showing how this beautiful work can be had for less than one-tenth its value.' SIINOR MENTION. Representative Payne, Rep., of New York, in discussing the tariff bill in the House Friday character ized it as a sectional bill, which dis criminates in favor of the Southern farmer as against the Northern far mer and illustrated by citing the fact that while cotton ties were put upon the free list there was no pro vision made for putting on the free list ties for baling -'the Northern far mer's hay. The hay crop, he said, was worth $400,000,000" while' the cotton crop is worth $300,000,000. A point like this is apt to catch the unreflecting person who reads it, but it is a fair specimen of the trickery and deceitful methods resorted to by the protection boomers in discussing this question. In the first place, he is trying to make it appear that this bill discriminates against the North ern farmer, and to do this he leaves the impression thatihis $400,000,000 worth of "hay is grown by Northern farmers, whereas these figures cover the bay crop of the whole country, a very considerable portion of which is grown in the Southern States, while there is not a pound of cotton grown in the North. Mr. Payne didn't give any figures as to the amount of ties that.were'used f orV baling bay, but we know the fact that a very small portion of the hay crop is baled or shipped, the larger portion being consumed either on the farms where r grown or in neighboring cities. Very little is shipped 'abroad-,' this- being the first year that there has been any great demand forjt, the hay crop of several European countries having been a failure this year. .' The hoop ing on hay is not as costly nor as heavy, nor is there as much required as for cotton because it is not ship ped as far nor handled as much' as cotton, and being less ; elastic, 'and less liable to damage, it ' need not be so carefully nor ' securely; baled. While by far the smaller portion ; of the hay grown in the North, (which is not worth $400,000,000, nor ; any where near it) is baled and shipped, three-fourths of the cotton crop Is, and shipping rules require that it be well ahd securely baled, in order that ships may carry a full load. In this respect there is no more comparison between hay and cotton than there is between cotton and turpentine. . Representative Simpson, Populist, of Kansas, in his speech on the tar iff bill in the House Friday gave a striking object lesson showing the benefits the average farmer derived from protected wool -He produced an overcoat for which $10.50 : had been paid,' which saw one season's service, wnicn became a aismai wreck and fell to pieces under, his oratorical gesticulation. The farmer who paid $10.50 for the overcoat was paying tor the protection ron the wool which was grown. in this, coun try. We do not know how many overcoats of that kind the farmers and other people buy, or how much other shoddy goods they buy - (for that' coat was shoddy)," but if the total was figured up, and then it was figured up what the same amount'of genuine woollen goods could be bought for if there was no protection on wool, it would be found that the farmers of this country and others who are compelled tobuy cheap shoddy goods . on account of the higher price of woollen goods, are paying a very high price for pro tection. About the same time that Mr. Simpson (who, by the way; comes irom a wool-growing btate) was giving bis object lesson, San&" ford & Sons, New York, carpet makers, made through the telegraph the announcement that on the 15th inst., to-morrow, they would resume on full time, operations, which had been suspended some time last July, and give employment to their 3,000 hands.. ' So much for the prospect of freei-wopL ; It has been predicted by men familiar with the woollen indus tries that within sixty days after (he passage of the Wilson bill, with the free wook clause in it, that nearly every woollen factory in this coun try will be. in operation, which: will make a demand for wool that will more than compensate for the ima ginary losses sustained by putting wool on the free list. Near Huntsville, Ala., is a girl not yet nine years old, who makes the natives open their eyes when it comes to luting things. She is pretty, weighs 162 pounds, and can easily lift a- man who 'weighs 180. But it is in lifting anvils that she shows her muscle, for she can with ease yank a 225 pound anvil from the ground. The fact that she can get away with such a hefty anvil while a 180 pound man seems to be as much as she cares , to tackle, indi cates that her forte is rather in dead than live weight. . i . An Austrian othcer has invented a gun which he says will, fire 450 shots a minute. That's a daisy minute gun. . But if they keep on with those. shooting- machines -some one will have to be inventing some new pro cess of replenishing the armies to be swept away by them, or invent some other way than fighting to settle na tional disputes. -. f A conscience-stricken clergyman in Indiana has sent the Pension Office $300 pension money, which he says his conscience will not permit him to hold, although he was allowed the pension on certificates of physicians. When he is able he says he will-send the balance he has drawn. That kind of conscience has a pretty big field to work in in this country. ; r"; It is said that it required the slaugh ter of .8,000,000 birds to supply the women of this country last year with the feathers they wore in their Jiead gear, l his is a good many more than it took to supply the fashiona ble red people who originally sloshed around in this country with, the feath Mr Watterson, of the Louisville Courier- Journal, is in favor of taxing "big Incomes." But the question is what Mr. Watterson . would call big income. He said some time ago that he had for years earned a salary several times larger than that of a U. S. - Senator, and found it hard work to scrimmage along on that. JSot What He CUime to Be Key. - Dr. Yum' Finds There Are No Christian Jews Where 8ergiu Bepreeented He Had Cbnroh The . Bahbi and" Hia 8tory Denoonoed "by the. Amhorldea In Trevandrum. The following copied from the Savan- vah (Ga.) News will . be . read with inter est by many persons m Wilmington ; ' Rabbi John Sercnus Ben Israel, who figured - in Savannah last summer as a Christian Tew, turns out to be not what he represented himself to be. , ? He claimed here to be a descendant of Jews .from India - of the lost ten tribes, who were in in Jerusalem and were converted on the dav of Pentecost, or won to Christ by the Apostle Thomas in India.- He claimed that there are many thousand Christian '- Tews there. and that he is the pastor ot a large con gregation of Jews in Travancore, on the Malabar coast, m Madras Presidency. The rabbi s wife and three children ac companied him. The former, was said to have been a Zenana missionary, of the London Missionary, Society. He and his flock were very poor, and he asked sssistance for both. ' CAME WELL INDORSED, . Numerous letters of commendation were shown from clergymen for whom he lectured or preached, and who took np collections for him. Several min isters in Savannah were thus induced to let him address - their con gregations,; and took up collec tions for bis use. His statements, however, were out of accord with relia ble history. Other circumstances, too, aroused suspicion that he was not what he professed to be. and inquiries of great missionary boards and of persons who had commended him failed to clear . up the matter. . - A letter of inquiry was finally written by Rev. L. C. Vass. D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church, to Rev. S. Mateer, a missionary of the London Mis sionary Society in Trevandrum, Trevan core district, Southern India, -Asia, Ser gius claiming to have come from this section of the world. Recently the fol lowing reply bas been received: THE RABBI SHOWN UP. Trevandrum. October 7. 1893. Dear Dr. Viss: Your letter comes to me, as Mr: Mateer is in England. Never having heard of any Christian Jews in the L. M. S , or southern part of Travancore. I sent it to Dr. Hodges. C M. S. fCbnrch Mis sionary Society). Bishop of Travancore! His secretary writes me for him: "Sergius ! is a gross impostor, for there are no ; Christian Jews in Travancore." The venerable . Archdeacon Koshl, ; D. D., a native gentleman of long experience of thjs land, says: t"I have never heard of such a person as bergius, or of a Jewish. Christian congregation in Travancore.! The whole story appears to be a black species of imposture. this 13 to my mind conclusive, that is, if his reference to Travancore is cor-j rect. This, of course, is but a very! small part ot India, and we should know! the name of the place where his schools: are, to be quite sure. I am! sorry I cannot send you better news. " Yours most sincerely, Habold T. Wills. M. A. Lay Missionary, L. M. S., (London Misi sionary society.) , i : STILL GOING THE ROUNDS. The latest news from Rabbi Sergius is irom wewDern. w. u. where the New- bern journal says he preached in the Baptist church Sunday. Dec. 31. and lec tured in the Young Men's Christian As sociation ball. From the above letter it seems that he is an imposter, and that ne is simply getting money under false colors. h The American Israelite, edited by the distinguished Rabbi Wise, of Cincinnati, O.. denounces him as an ; Oriental scamp," and says "the story that Mr, Sergius tells altogether lacks proba bility, and we have no doubt he is laugh ing in nis sieeve at the tine harvest be is reaping trom his dupes." I bergius is a man of low stature, stout. with dark and long hair and whiskers. His address is plausible, his manners unctuous and his English very broken and indistinct. He left Savannah osten sibly for; the World's Fair, leaving his wife and children here.' Thev lived for a while in a little house on Second ave nue, but finally disappeared and are sub- posed to have joined Sergius in his travels. ; Condition of the Farmers. Mr. A. J. Austin, of Union county, who was recently in Charlotte, talked in this hopeful strain to a reporter of the News: "There is more meat, more wheat and corn and genuine comfort in the country now than I have ever known before. It is true there is less money; but I'll tell you now, if eotton would just take a rise some of us would be rich. In my imme diate neighborhood I know of more than 290 bates of cotton that will be sold as soon as the market reaches 8 cents. But we are all right. I tell you, for we have more stuff to live on than we have ever made in three former years put to gether. ; To which a Star representative will add that he recently had a conversation with- Mr. I. H. Smith,, a prominent citi zen of Bladen, ahd he talked just as Mr. Austin did. , " : . ADULTERATION OF COFFEE. And Nlee Things Are Not Put With it br r For It, Either. . "Coffee," says Dr. Winslow Anderson, of San Francisco, "now one of the most universally used of all beverages, ex cepting, perhaps, tea and beer, is usually abominably adulterated. It would seem difficult to imitate coffee,: but it is not! "A very fair cup of coffee is made from black- walnut dust, caramel and roasted and - brown horse liver. ..This mixture has been 'ascertained by chemi cal analysis to be in i extensive use. Ground coffee and hotel decoctions often contain roasted and ground peas, beans, potatoes, carrots,; corn, rye and oak bark, while chicory is seldom absent "This chicory, by the way, is itself adulterated with roasted" wheat, rye, beans, acorns, carrots, J parsnips, beet root, baked livers, Venetian red, colored earths, oak bark, tan and sawdust.' To Our Snbsoribers. ' , ' In consequence of the protracted sick ness of pur travelling agent, Mr. Wi B Jordan, we have found it necessary to send bills direct to many ot our sub scribers. The substantial responses to these reminders have been much more general than wel expected they would, but they have been overlooked by some of our subscribers. "A word to the wise is sufficient," let us hope. . Persons ordering the ; Stoddard Art Series are reminded that from six to ten days must elapse, after theif or ders are received at the Star office, be fore the series can reach them from the publishers, Luther Memorial Building Burned Iioaa Estimated at $5,000, With Insurance for Half the Amount A Residence on Princess Street . on Fire The Flames : BpeedflyfTCTtrTTfrniahed A Dwelling and a Store Burned. The Luther Memorial -Building wasJ destroyed by fire yesterday about one o'clock. At 12.45 o'clock fire was discovered on the roof of the residence of Mrs. L. M. Williams, No. 510 Princess street. Some of "the neighbors who discovered the fire ran to the Atlantic Engine House,, a block and a half distant. About the time they reached the engine house an alarm was turned in from boxNo.82 corner of Sixth and Princess streets, for a fire in the LutfaerMemoriaP3uiIding on the same corner. - " . ; ''. '.- The engines reached the scene and put out the first fire in short order. The damage to Mrs.: Williams', house was a bole about five feet square burned in the shingle roof, and a general flooding of the. interior.. There was no insurance on this building, nor on Mrs: Williams' furniture. - - " " " t But the Luther Memorial Building fire was a fierce aad stubborn one. - The steeple was in a blaze before the fire was discovered, and for some time the water supply was weak and ' the streams did not reach the . roof ot i the building. A stiff breeze was blowing from the West, and every , one expected to see the Lutheran parsonage. which was scorching with the intense heat, consumed also. A few cottages just back of the Memorial building caught from sparks, but the flames were extinguished by a bucket brigade, which did good service. y: j The heat from the fire was very in tense, the tin roof being red hot, and the Fire Department could do but little ex cept protect the adjoining property by keeping it soaked with water. About 1 o'clock the steeple fell with a crash, crushing the roof and causing the flames to leap high. ' At the time the fire was discovered the Parochial School, with about forty scholars, was in session, and it is due to the coolness of Miss. Florence L. Bonitz and. her assistant. Miss Annie Sem mer man, that there was , no panic among the scholars. They marched' out of the building safely, carrying their books with them. ' i r The building was erected- about ten years ago lor St. fauis evangelical Lutheran Church Sunday School and the Parochial (day) school, and was also used for church festivals, concerts and entertainments. It was a handsome structure, built of the best material, and everybody regrets the loss. : The build ing was insured for $2,500, about half what it cost, and there was $300 insur ance on the fixtures and furniture; all in the Etna of Hartford, with Messrs. At kinson & Son.! A piano and organ were saved, and part of the school furniture; but the library was a total loss. It is-supposed that the fire originated from sparks from a tinner's fire-pot which was left by the workmen who were re pairing the roof ahd had gone to dinner. The school committee, which consists of Messrs. John Render, chairman;. L. Hansen, L. Vollers, C. Schulken, and H. Gerdts, met yesterday afternoon, and de cided that the Parochial school will continue. The children will meet at the church Lecture room at the usual time of opening. .'' " . : t' j' The tire last night at 11.30 o'clock was on the corner of Seventeenth and Mar ket streets in a two-story dwelling and store adjoining, owned and occupied by Wo. Swann, colored. Both buildings were burned down; on account of the distance to the nearest hydrant seven blocks the firemen could not get water to put out the fire. The dwelling was insured for $1,000; furni ture, $300; store, $100, and stock therein, $300. Most of the goods in the store were saved. The insurance was in com panies represented by Messrs. Atkinson bon. The buildings might have been saved if water had been available. j THE COTTON CROP. 1 Traders Bednolng Xstimatea in Proportion to he Fallinc Off in Interior Beoelpte, Messrs. Clapp & Co., of New York, in their "Weekly Market Letter," January 11th, say : The trade generally appear to be re ducing theircrop estimates in propor tion to the falling off in interior receipts. Seventy three and a half per cent, of the cotton yearly coming in sight ordinarily occurs the first four months of a crop Vear or before January 1. But few weeks usually elapse before the interior move' ment falls on sharply, ine woria s visible supply is now around the maxi mum (which was reached tebruary 26, 1891. when 4,720.878 bales were in sight in the United States, afloat and in Eu rope), spinners ' reported takings in Manchester and on the continent are liberal and fully up to general expecta tions. Southern and Northern spinners are reported as slowly increasing their purchases. v Speculation has broadened; outside trade is more scattered and more gener al.- More confidence and better prices seem to be expected by the better ele ment of the cotton trade as well as the grower and factor who continue to be very bullish. Exports about keep pace with the general movement in propor tion to average seasons. The Indian crop is reported as fully ; equaling an average. About a year ago the crop was considered as about 1,200.000 bales, against 1,467,000 for 1891-2. ; What a. Dime Will Do. The places for relieving the necessi ties of the poor in New York have been so thoroughly studied and system ized that the Charity Organization Society has opened the Wayfarers' Lodge, ; in West Twenty-eighth street, near Tenth avenue, where for a ten cent ticket re spectable men are furnished with supper. a bath, shave and bed. These tickets are sold to charitable persons or organi zations for distribution. J l Who would have supposed that ten cents could be used to such advantage in providing comforts for the poor. - j , : est .'.-. i The price of each of the Art Albnm Series will be twenty cents without coupons. With , three coupons, twelve cents. . HIGHER? i ( . There la not the Bis Cotton Cron - Has Been Foretold.-: . f j -j The Star does not advise its readers to buy cotton (though it would hesitate long -before' advising them to sell); at present prices,' but its views correspond in the main with those of the Augusta Chronicle as expressed in the subjoned article: ... - " . -1 ' 1 ill "There is reason to believe that better prices will prevail in cotton, and that those who have bought at the . prices which have obtained for some time, or those farmers who still hold their; crop will make good money but of it. t . l nere is not the big cotton crop which has been foretold by some authorities. and as soon as the Cotton world becomes convinced of this there will be - a move ment to acquire at once the necessary stocks, and as soon as this 'movement shows itself the '--T:'.-- .i-. -a, V--. : UPWARD PRICE WILL BEGIN. - As long as spinners believe there is more cotton than the demands of trade require they are willing to take things very qui etly, and show no hurry to load ud. Thev are willing to let prices go as low as they win. i ney ao not care to run them un on themselves. But it it should f de velop that the crop is barely up to the ngures oi tne worm s consumption or possibly a little below, then there will be a prompt movement on the part ofevery spinner to get an the stock he needs be fore the supply runs short, and the minute this movement becomes : pro nounced cotton will start going up in earnest. ' - .:. We believe that such will Drove to be the case, and we look for better prices. We never encourage speculation, but for the man who has the money to put into it in a plain business way, we believe cot ton is a good investment. East Carolina Fair. ' The annual fair of the East Carolina tsh, Oyster, Game and Industrial j As sociation will be held at Newbern, begin ning Monday, February 19ihr and con tinuing one week." ' ! l The Atlantic & - North Carolina.' and the Wilmington, Newbern & Norfolk railroads will sell tickets over their lines at the rate of one cent "for every j mile travelled. Also greatly reduced rates on all steamboat lines. ! j! The grounds and buildings will be lighted throughout by electric lights. Ihe programme ot amusements , in cludes all the latest novelties and attrac tions that pertain to a first class Fair, and is so arranged as to offer special at tractions for each day. - J . ; j j i tor premium lists, or other informa tion, apply to Chas. Reizenstein, Secre tary and Treasurer. Brought Bix Hundred Dollars. The Norwegian barque ' Linda, 333 tons, was sold by auction yesterday and bought by Capt. Edgar Williams, for the Diamond Wrecking Co., ot Wilmington. The sale was by order of the under writers; Messrs. Cronly & Morns, auc tioneers. The Linda was found water- logged and abandoned off Frying Pan J shoals shortly after the big storm in August last, by a British tramp. steamer. which towed the wreck into this 'port. The cargo of mahogany on the: Linda was transhiped some time ago. Fort Caswell. " 1 There are some reports at Southport, the Leader says, "to the effect that; Fort Caswell is to be rebuilt, and that the Government will put up new brick bar racks on the property at Southport now partly occupied by the Signal Service, which will be occupied by two jcompa nies of US.iArtiUery,-Fort Caswell to be garrisoned by men from here, only a small guard to occupy the Fort,; when more may be needed. - j except The Beat in the State." A lady at La Grange, N. C, writes as follows: "enclosed find three cou pons and six two-cent stamps for the first series of the Art Album. We take your Daily, and I read it tkroupk every night. I consider it the best paper in the State, and my husband could not get along without it. The Observer's View. The Charlotte Observer also received a "card irom Mr. Marion cutler in ref erence to the special printed in a num ber of papers about the Goldsboro hair pulling. It printed part of it and added this comment: Wbl "Following the excellent example of the Wilmington Star in the same case, we omit so much ot the card as is merely denunciatory of the correspon dent who sent out the special. The ends of justice are met in the publication of u- r :- .lit A Train Kills a Flying Hawk. A large hen hawk flying along the lice of the W. N. & N. R. R. was struck and killed by the locomotive of the regular passenger traihTbursday, when about tour miles from Newbern, the) journal says. Mr, W. o. Kelly, tne. engineer ob served the hawk flying down one side of the track ahead of the engine and at last when the engine was close upon him, he attempted to ny across to the other side and met his death as stated Taxes In Instalments. The city tax rate in Augusta, Georgia, is $1.25 per $100.00, payable in three in stalments. The last feature is an admir able one, and the Srar ventures .the opinion that a similar arrangement in Wilmington would prove most accepta ble to a large majority of the tax-payers. It is much easier to pay a tax; of $75.00 in three instalments of $25.00 each than it is to pay the whole amount at once, We need go no turtner than our ouua ine Associations to prove the; value of the instalment plan. '. Burglary. The residence of Mr. A. L. Koonce, assistant road-master on the W., N. & N R. R., was robbed by a burglar or bur glars Thursday night. Mr. Koonce was aroused about 2 o'clock yesterday morn ing to attend a sick child, and found "his pants missing and the back-door of the house open. The pants were found in the yard after daylight, but j a J pocket book containing $35 in money,; a note for $40, receipted bills and other; papers were gone. The thieves carried off, also, some sugar and coffee from a pantry in the kitchen. ; kr: ''.'.' -J Dr. K. J. Powers, of Willard, N, C an old friend of the Star, was in the citv vesterdav. - He - was s offering se verely with an attack of rheumatism. That i y VV:.: RIGHT OF. RAILWAYS ; To Fix Chances for Use of Freight Cars after Notice of Arrival Affirmed by the Courts of "Virginia. r ' By Telegraph to the efomiag Stat. Richmond, Jan. 11. In the case of the Norfolk & Western Railroad Co. vs. Adams, Clements & Co., involving the right of railways or car service associa tions to have a fixed charge for the use of their cars every day they remain uh- 'u. J.J .1 J ' nf .1 .luiucu Biici luics uajrs uuncc - yn lucu arrival, the Supreme Court of Appeals Jto-day - decided . in... favor of the railroad. . The opinion says that the railroads of Virginia and of jpther States, for . their own - pro tection as well as for the protection and benefit of the public are entitled to have a car service set of rules "designed and forced to secure the prompt movement tif freight cars; and under the rules of this car service association- the Norfolk i Western have a charge of $1 per car er day for the use of their cars.- The Opinion refers to the serious incon venience and delays to both railroads ajbd shippers before such a system was adopted, and a number of other refer ences setting . forth the rights of the companies to establish such rules. The case came ud on a writ of error fiom the Circuit Court of Roanoke. STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE. Cashier Pulliam, of the National Bank-of jlAaheville, Missing with $6,200 of the j bank's Funds. . - . 1 1 By Telegraph to the Morning Star. I sAsheville, N. C, January 11. Saturday belore New Year's, Lawrence Pfiliiam, cashier of the National Bank o Asheville, left here with $6,200 for Eistern banks, saying he could save egress charges by carrying the money, as he was going as 4ar as Philadelphia ary way, for the purpose of haying an operation performed. Pulliam has not yet been beard from at any point. Opinion as to; the reason of this is very much di vipad, with perhaps a strong preponder ance in his favor. Pulliam had been in wietched health and had frequently to take morphine. His wife and friends believe his mind to beva flee ted, and that hefhad wandered off and perhaps been assaulted and robbed. If. Pulliam in tended to keep the money: he could as wel as not have takes much more money than he did. A thnrnncrh praminatinn of fhe affairs of the bank by officials and experts has so far failed to develop any I uriber shortage. Pulliam was bonded in the fidelity and Causality Co., of Ne York, in $10,000. REDWINE SENTENCED To i ISix Tears Imprisonment in the Columbus Penitentiary. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Atlanta, G a., January 12. Judge Pardee this morning sentenced Lewis Redwine, the defaulting assistant cashier of toe Gate City National Bank, for a term I ot six years , in the Columbus, Ohio penitentiary, he having pleaded guilty! yesterday to embezzlement as assistant cashier, for $103,000. Hon. N. I. Hammond, the leading attorney for the defence, presented a physician's cer tificate! concerning Redwine's health, showing that he was not physically in strong ' condition, and begged the judge that his. sentence be such as to admit of some hope, Captain Harry Johnson, who is the leading prosecuting attorney, and who is father of Tom Cobb ifckson, who committed suicide, as is generally supposed on account of complications relating to the embezzle ment, quickly rose, demanded mstice, and said: "I want the long arm ot the law to wach out and take in whom it may. Tiie way to the ruin of the Gate CityBai?k is paved with gravestones." isHINGTON NEWS. A Contingenoy Upon Which the Secretary of the Treasury Could Issue Bonds. - Bv lTe'.egraph to the Morning Star. Washington, Jan. 12. A Cabinet officer (nit Secretary Carlisle) stated to day that be contingency upon which the Secretnryl of the Treasury could issue bonds without Congressional action was when the cold reserve in the Treasury was invadfd to such a point as, in the judgmentfot the Secretary of the Treas ury, to impair connaence. mat point, he suggested, had been almost, if not quite reached. Under the resumption act, he adfed, the Secretary of theTreas ury, if he seemed it proper, could issue bonds without further authorization of Congressjto the extent of making the gold reserve intact. At present this would mean an issue ot $zo,uuu,uuu bonds, the gold reserve having been in vaded to that amount. These bonds, of course, wduld have to be issued at the rates prescribed by the specie resumption act, namely, at 4 or i per cent. R. w. jP. TERMINAL, Judgment! for $17,813,845 Against the Company. By felegraph to .the Morning Star. New York. January 13. In regard to the judgment for $17,813,815 against the Richmond & West Point Terminal Rail way and Warehouse Company, in favor of the reorganization committee, entered in the Nefr York county clerk s office to day, it is ajaid it is a step in furtherance of the scheme of rehabilitation. The Richmond Terminal 5's and 6's were secured by certain securities deposited with the trustee. These collaterals were soldf by order of the Re-organization Ojtnitnittee, and were bought in for about $5000. Drexel, Morgan & Co., as depositories I under the plan, have taken judgment for the balance due the bondholders. It is also stated that the decree wihich the Court will be asked to enter? in ordering the sale of - the Richmond & Danville Railroad under the consolidated mortgage will require that thef following payments shall be made by the purchasers : First, the cost of thesifit and sale and the expenses and charges of the Central Trust Com pany ; second, the receivers" certificates under the order of the court of June 22 third, the principal and interest of the consolidated mortgage; and fourththe receivers! certificates issued for the oan" : j ' m " SUNDAY SELECTIONS. . Hef that allows himself every thing that is permitted, is very near to that whujh is forbidden. si. Augustine. - Line is just long enough to carve a tombstone, but a trifle too brief to live u to the epitaph. Young Obser ver. 1 1 . Mere amusement allures ana and deceives us, and leads us down im Derceptlbly in thoughtlessness to the grave. Rascal. . Concentration is the secret of strength In politics, in war, in trade, in short, ia all management of human affairs. Emerson.:. Cam and Judas, despairing of God's mercy, provoked his wrath to dam nation. ! fAs it they could be more sinful than be was mtTCilxxu&atiy. y. Mount Phoenix: We re gret to note the death on Saturday night of W. B Winstead, Esq., a promi nent gentleman of this section. Mr. Winstead had been sick for a long time with some disease which baffled all the efforts of the physicians both here and in Baltimore to diagnose. '''.-:.-.v'-, -" Raleigh News and Observer: We are glad to learn from a direct source that the condition ot Col. J. M. Heck who has for several months been at Phil adelphia under expert treatment, is much improved and that he is now able to sit up and do writing and attend ' to other , affairs, and that confident hopes of his ultimate. recovery are entertained. . Mount Airy News: Six hun dred gallons of beer and twenty gallons ot singlings destroyed and three stills hacked to pieces was the result of a raid by Deputy Collector Z. T. Smith and Deputy Collector W. J. York recent,! y in the Round Peak neighborhood among the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge moun tains. They captured a moonshiner named Johnson but he gave them the slip and made good his escape. . - Rockingham Rocket-. Mr. J. C. Yates, an old citizen of Wolf Pit town ship, died on the 3rd inst. -Recently Deputy Collector W. F. Gibson seized a couple of teams and a lot of whiskey beldr-Kirg to Isaac Williams, of Laurin burg. Alter Mr. Gibson had gotten pos session of the property and started to Maxton with it, he was overtaken by Williams and three negroes, who attsmpted to recapture the contraband property. But Mr. Gibson is not made of that sort of stuff, and he held on to the property and landed it safely in Maxton. - Charlotte News: Mr. Chas. M. Baker died yesterday afternoon ; at 4 o'clock, after only a few hour's illness.: He was seventy five years old. bis last birthday being Thursday, the day before be died. M. W. Evans, assistant. postmaster, sr Charity, Yadkin county,' bas been arrested for disposing ot post age stamps for the payment of debts, and making false entries of cancellation of stamps to increase the compensation of the office. S. M. Dickerson. late assistant postmaster at State Road. Surry county, was also arrested for viola tion of postal regulations. Burlington News: The report' of a pistol Monday evening attracted a crowd to the Eagle House, and it was learned that Mr. W. R. Stroud, the pro prietor, had been shot by a pistol in the hands ot Miss lruitt. who has made ber home there for some time past. From the best information to be had, it was a piece of gross carelessness, as she bad been told that the weapon was loaded.' The ball struck Mr. Stroud in the right' shoulder, burying itself in the bone. Drs. Stafford and Page were called in and dressed the wound. He is not dan gerously, but badly hurt. The ball is still in the bone. Scotland Neck Democrat : Mrs. Maria Pope, relict of the late D. A. Pope, died at her home near Spring Hill . Sunday, January 7th, at 8 o'clock a. m.. after an illness of a week. Sne'was taken with la grippe which developed into pneumonia. It is rumored that one half interest in the Great Falls water power, six miles from Weldon, has been sold to Northern capitalists. This sale insures the erection, in the near future, of twolaige cotton mills and a hotel. An avenue two miles long, reaching from Great Falls to the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, has already been cut out and is now being graded and culverts put in. Goldsboro Headlight ; After a long and suffering illness, Major Richard McDonald breathed his last Saturday morning at 3.30 o'clock, at his home on -William street. - - We regret to learn of the assignment of Gapt. R. P. How ell, late cashier of the Bank of Wayne, made to Mr. W. T. Yelver ton yesterday morning, with preferences amounting to $13,812. His liabilities will reach to about $35,000. - The Arlington Hospital to be opened in this city shortly, is now an assured fact. Dr. JYi. Koninson win be tne pnysician in oharge. while Mr. and Mrs. Thos. F. Jones, of this county, will administer to the wants of the patients. . - - Raleigh Vtsitpr: It is with the deepest regret that we announce the death of Mrs. Sylvester Smith, which took place at 3 o'clock this morning at her residence on west street near the old North Carolina depot, in the 79th year of her age. Mrs. Smith was a native of Halifax county. C. H. Price, recently escaped from the Michigan penitentiary.is supposed to be lurking in North Caro-" Una. He is a clever forger having stolen $100,000 at one clip from the U. S. Ex press omce at bt. Louis, There is a heavy reward for him. At the re quest of Governor Carr physicians have made an examination of the mental con dition of Peter DeGraff, the Winston murderer, now under sentence of death. They declare him as sane as any man under similar circumstances. Greenville Reflector: Mrs. G. A. Vick, of this county, who in 1887. was convicted of perjury and served a sen tence therefor, was , at last term ot Pitt Superior Court restored to full citizen ship, it appearing to the satisfaction ol the Court that he was wrongfully prose cuted and convicted. Roxy Pearce. perhaps better known as "Aunt Roxie," an old colored woman living on the premises of MrL B.Cherry, died Friday night. She was the oldest person in the community. Her exact age can not be given, but that she was more than a hundred years old can be established beyond doubt. She belonged to the Pearces, and when Mr. B. C. Pearce's father was born in 1799 she was his nurse. -This was 95 years ago, and presuming that she would then be about 15 years old or more to have been in trusted with the care ot an infant, it is safe to say she must have been .at least 110 years old at her death. Clinton Democrat: The facts in the difficulty between Mr. Butler and Mr. Humphrey seem to have been these: Mr. Humphrey lived at the Kenhon until last summer when he removed to Win ston, N, C Since Mr. Humphrey's ab sence Mr. and Mrs. Butler have occupied the chairs at the dining table formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey, On entering the dining room Sunday Mr. Humphrey insisted on Mr. Butler's giving up bis chair to Mrs. Humphrey ; which Mr. Butler declined to do. Then followed Mr. Humphrey's assault on Mr. Butler. The combatants were separated before either had gotten much advan tage of the other. The affair produced considerable excitement in the dining room for several moments. Mr. John A. West, of Timothy, recently killed three pigs one year old t common stock, that made 786 pounds of pork. At the same time he killed four pigs six months old that netted 413 pounds. TWINKLINGS. "I wonder why these things are called 'Welsh rabbits,' " said Dawsen, as he ate one. "Why Welsh?" "I don't know, .unless it makes your stomach feel as a Welsh name looks in print.'' Truth. i Dusty Rhodes I had a private box at a food exhibit this afternoon. i Fits William How did you come to get it? Dusty Rhodes I was looking in a res taurant window to tee a man make wheat cakes and a policeman stepped up and gave it to me. Kate Fields Washing' ton. "The death of her husband must have been a dreadful blow to Mrs. Musicale.M ! "It was, indeed." "I suppose she has given up her piano playihg entirely?" ' - -No, she still plays; but only on the black keys." Tit-Bits, .1-- w - 1 -. r- h ,