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WILMINGTON, N. C, AT 00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. $1 HqlOOW SI 88888888888888888 -fff8S8S888S88888 88888888888888888 88888888S8SS888B 88888858828888888 8188S881I18T88888 u u - a. 3 er -Ksierrd at-ths FortCMM Second Class Matter. 1 N. C, SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. The .utacription pHce of the Weekly Star is as follows: u tl 00 Single Copy 1 year postage paid "J R ' (months " SI "3 month " " 91 Have you received a bill for sub scription to the Weekly STARre cently ? If so, is it correct ? If cor rect, why not pay it ? Is there a man on earth who can print a newspaper for nothing and pay the postage be sides? Can a farmer give away his ,,;,, i.'d cotton, and wheaj, and t hickens, and eggs, and keep out of iir poor-house? If so, let us have i i recipe. It will be valuable to us just now. SENSE VS. NONSENSE. In all political parties there are three kinds of men; the time-server, who, although pretending to have principles, really has none, and will do anything to win; the man who has principles and is such a contender for them that he would rather be beaten a thousand times than depart a hair's breadth from them; and, third, the man who has principles but who be lieves in results, and is willing to secure by degrees what his more on compromising brother insists on 'ac complishing at a bound, if it took a hundred attempts and a hundred years to accomplish it. About the only difference between these two is that the former, insists on marching in a straight line to the goal he seeks regardless of the obstructions or difficulties in the way, while the other avoids the obstructions as much as possible, and takes the surer and safer route, although it may be somewhat longer. The Democratic party has all three of these kinds within its ranks, the first of whom are not entitled to re spect hecause they are not honest, the second and third of whom are entitled to. respect because they are honest, are laboring for the same ob ject but differ as to the methods to be pursued in the effort to accom plish it. One is' impractical, the other practical; one will lake nothing because he can't get all he contends for, the other, aware of the fact that he can't get all, gets what he can and keeps fighting it out on that line, gaining what he can until he finally secures all he contends for. He barters no principle, makes no pieuges to tun nts banner and cease the assault but moves onward patiently, perseYeringly, deter minedly and hopefully, gaining all the ground he can and holding it. ii i - .... we nave an illustration of this in the wiy the tariff question is dis cussed and the way the tantt bill is received by the spokesmen for the Democratic party, and by the masses of the party. When the bill came from the House of Representatives it was not radical enough to please that element of the party which be lieved in a literal adherence to the derm.nd for "a tariff for revenue only, and when it went to the Sen ate it had to run the gauntlet of those who ignored the letter of that demand and claimed to be acting in accordance with its spirit. uwing to the composition of the Senate, the small difference numeri cally between the two principal op "'S parties, ana tne power wielded by the few who put the "spirit" construction on the declara tioirof the platform, they could and did so materially change the bill as it came lrom the House that it be v.auic suDsiantiauy a new bill, but still a marked improvement on the MCKiniey bill and a considerable stride in the direction of reduced tariff taxation and the reform for which the Democratic party has been contending. There are within the party disappointed and dissatisfied men, who would kick the whole thing to pieces and give up the job, and let the country go on and Dav tribute under the MnKinW monstrosity because they can't wipe the monstrosity out at one swipe. They are apparently oblivious of the possibility of the Republicans con trolling the next House of Represen tatives when tariff reform would come to a dead halt and nothing be gained in the way of a reduction of taxa tion. Theii mofto is, however hun gry thev maw h i.it- r ' " wuuic ioai or no bread. On the other hand 1 v . "V "C U1C practical Democrat adhering to the principle and keep ing a tariff for revenue In irh w realizing from the conditions that mis is unatta nabl- nrt- , . .u- best that is within reach with the uuci understanding that they are muow I von. xxv. not satisfied with this but take it be cause it is a movement jin the direc tion of lessening the burdens of the ; people and with the re solve 5 to keep" tip ' the contest for reform until the demands of the people are- complied with and we have attained the fullest-measure of reform possible. They believe a half loaf (which is secured without any forfeiture of pledges or degrading conditions) better than no bread.. , From a practical, -business, com mon sense, political standpoint .which of these these two shows the most sense and makes the best use of the power the Democratic party, now wields .at Washington ? As we see it the man who while contending for the full measure does not, kick over the measure because it is not full, but takes what. he can get, keeps his eyes open and .watches his opportu nity to get more,- shows more level headed sense in ten minutes "than his grab-all brother does in ten moons. Practical, common sense is a good thing in politics, as it Is in business affairs, as long as it tloes not involve any dishonorable surrender. Have you received a bill for sub scription to the Weekly Star re cently ? If so, Is it correct ? If cor rect, why not pay it? Is there a man on earth who can print a newspaper for nothing and pay the postage be sides? Can a farmer give away his corn, and cotton, and wheat, and chickens, and eggs, and keep out of the poor-house? If so, let ns have the recipe. . It will be valuable to us just now. ' . " winok mebtion. The big coal strike is practically broken, the miners of several of the mining districts having come to an understanding with their: employers and agreed to go to work.- This will leave nothing for the others to do but to follow their example. In some districts the strikers return to work at the old scale of wages, and in others at a slight increase, while in others if they return to. .work it wilt be at a reduction. Now, after a long strike, the loss of millions of dollars in wages, the destruction of much property and the loss of a num ber of lives, they may ask themselves what they have gained, and no one win oe aDie to ten them, for they have gained nothing, while there has been much loss to them, to their employers, and to thousands of others, owners ot or employes in industries affected by the strikes. And thus eight strikes out of ten end, leaving the strikers in as bad if not a worse condition than they were at the beginning, and their employers in a worse condition be cause of' the damage done and the losses sustained by the stoppage of work, and expenses incurred for the protection of property. Some of these days perhaps both sides will come to their senses and arrange for the settlement of their differences in a peaceful, friendly, business-like way. - The Senate investigating commit- tee has spread a drag-net and propo ses to take in the whole Senate and find out under oath whether any of the Senators did "take sugar on their'n." There may be others, but we are sure there are two Senators who will be highly gratified 't)y this decision. One is Senator McPher- son, of New Jersey, who bad already been before the committee and 'fessed up that he had been dabbling somewhat in suzar stocks, and that he had done some unconscious spec ulating through a servant who un fortunately didn't ' possess, the gumption to enable him to tell which telegrams to send off and which to withhold. Mr. McPherson would doubtless like to know whether there are any other Senators who have been speculating or have servants of that kind. The other is Senator Hill who doesn't take any stock in sugar, but has a consuming curiosity to find out whether Arthur P. Gorman has been taking a nip at the saccharine stocks. Mr. Gorman is one of the sleek, sly,! silent gentlemen on whom Mr. Hill keeps his weather eye, and whom he would like to side-track or run into the repair shop. But, by this de cision, the committee evidently de termined not to leave any ground for the charge that it was disposed to dodge its full duty or to screen any one. ', " - . - 1 We haven't beard much of block tin for some time. During the past ten months nearly 10,000,000 pounds were imported, on which a duty of four cents a pound was paid. This duty was imposed to foster the tin mining industry in the Black Hills, in California and in some other sec tions where tin had been discovered. We were assured when the McKinley bill doubled the duty, that the result would be that within a few years, at most, the tin mines of this country would produce more.tin than it would have any use forv During the campaigns .the Republican ora tors and organs boasted of . the progress being madein (he tin mines and exhibited published, statements of the big output of some, of the mines, the big things in sight and the bright prospects ahead. The fostering legislation had been a suc cess, tin mining In this country was an established industry and no more 1 JLUiJEld would our tin makers be compelled to look to Wales i or elsewhere" for their supplies of block tin. But after the elections they quit talking about block - tin and : proudly exhibiting little chunks of it, and now we hear nothing more of block tin, but the American tin makers for the fourth year continue to pay the four cents a pound duty all the same. ; :, . - - The Columbia, S, C, Register, Till man organ, is mistaken. There are no Populists in i North : Carolina. They. are all '.'Teffersbnian Democrats," like Tillman. The Star is very well aware of the fact that Tillman calls himself a, Democrat, but it is also very well aware of the fact that be is fighting both the Democracy of his" own State and the Democratic party of the country, and that he is as far from being in accord with either of them as if he stood r squarely pn the -Populist platform.. It answers his purpose "best to call himself - a Democrat, 1 just ! as : ; the Popu list leaders ' of this State do when they go before the people and I eek excuse for their desertion by still claiming to be Democrats, "Jef fersonian Democrats," better Demo crats than the men who make the Democratic party: -We are used to that kind of thing over here, and we recoenize it even at this distance .when we see it In South Carolina. Tillman's disguise is too thin to fool anybody. : . ': I - . ' :"' . The New Jersey mosquito does not seem to be any fonder of castor oil than the average small bov. ' Actine on this knowledge, Mr. McOable, ot Sea Girt, N. J., sleeps soundly while his unhappy neighbors are beating the tom-tom and making bonfires to scare the buzzing assailants off. He doesn't catch 'em and dose 'em with oil, but plants lots of castor beans on his premises and that does the, work and secures tack: v him :j immunity from . at- Have you received a bill for sub scription to the Weekly Star re cently ? . If so, is it correct ? If cor rect, whv not pay It f - is there a man on earth who can print a news paper for nothing, and pay the post age besides? Can a tanner give away This . corn, and cotton, and wheat, and chickens, and eggs, and keep out of the poor-house ? If so, let ns have rthe ; recipe. It will be valuable to us just now. . Ex Governor - Berry, of New Hampshire, who died recently at the age of ninety-eight years, must have been a very remarkable man. He was twice elected Governor, several times a member of the Legislature, held a number of minor omces, was for. twenty-nine years a Judge, and yet never sought office nor asked a man to vote for him.: Good timber must be scarce in New Hampshire. It is said that Pittsburg is to have the largest telescope in the world. The lens will be fifty inches in diam eter, which is eight inches more than the largest so tar made, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Phipps Jr. will put up the $150,000 which it is esti mated it will cost to build and put up the telescope. j The new Constitution of - Hawaii provides that to be eligible to natu ralization in that country one must be able to read, speak and write the English language. On general prin ciples that's right, and it wouldn't be a bad rule to adopt on this side of the water. Mrs. Mary E. Spencer in an article in tne at. Louis trtooe-uemocrat. Rep., contends that i lying Is a dis ease, not' a crime.: Henceforth the public may look with more, compas sion on the average Republican ed itor and statesman, who seem to be much afflicted in that way. " Kentucky has felt the nip of the hard times and- is confronted by a deficit in the treasury of about a half million dollars. NEWS FROM HALIFAX. Bev. ChmrlM I Hofinan Republican Con- greiaional Convention Crops in Good Condition. . .1' StarwCorresfiottdencei Weldon, N. C June 16. The Rev. Charles L. Hofman. of Tar- boro. who has been conducting a mis sion in Grace Episcopal Church here for the oast week, closed last week. He preached several fine sermons, and we found him a most excellent gentleman and would be glad to have him among us attain. -' The KeDublican congressional' in vention wiil be held here on the 27lh. The crops In this. section are consid ered very eood. ! Tbey arc a little back ward on account of the cool weather. ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS. Snow HOI Council Bo. 2, InatlratedV Snow Hixi' Greene Co, N. -- ; X: : ; 1 v June 15, 1894. Editor Star. Wilmington, N C: Snow Hill Council No. 27, Order, of Chosen Friends, was instituted yester day by H. Witcover, P. Q. C with the following officers: George N Lindsay, P. Commander: L. V. Morrell, Co.; R. A. Edwards. V. Co.: Swift Galloway, Pre late: C A. Lassiter. Marshal; J. I. Pot ter, Warden; a. M. Launiana. uuara; a.. H. Sugg, Sentry; W. Haywood Dail. Secretary; Tosiah Exum, Treasurer; Swift Galloway, Chairman Board Trus tees; W. Haywood Dail. Trustee; Josiah Exum, - Trustee; Joseph E. Grimalev, Medical Examiner. WILMINGTON, N.X. FRIDAY, JUNE .22, 1894., FOR YOUR SCRAP BOOK. How to Boil FotstOM-Brownlnc for (Jn- l vles-Doohesu 8tik. Here are some good recipes.- Cut . them pat and paste in your scrao,- book. Pat one pound of lump sugar into.an iron pan with a small cupful of. water. place on a hot stove and allow it to boll until it burns; then add one pint of boil ing water: Pour off the liquid, : which. when cold, bottle for use. A lew drops of this added to eravies, etc., will make them a beautiful rich brown. j - : STEAK A I.A BUCHESSEV Cut cold beef into nice steaks, mince the trimmings finely, and to every one- quarter pound of mince add a cupful of bread : crumbs half a teaspoonful'of ; mixed herbs, an onion finely chopped, and pepper and-salt to taste, t rut ail but the steaks into a fry pan with an ounce of butter or beef drippine. . Let it brown well and add a small quantity of craw or water. Take one egg, a tea- spoontui ot saiaa oil. tne same qaaniuy of white vinegar, half .a teaspoonful t of mustard, a . dessertspoonfut , of grated horse radish and a pinch of salt.' Mix very well. heat, bat do not boH. Rnb each niece of steak with a little drippine or butter and broil over a dear fire. Place the broiled steak e.a hot dish. pour the sauce over and mince round. Serve. . . ' '. Vi - ' . v HOW TO BOlt; POTATOES. New potatoes are made Watery by be ing laid in cold water, but in the Winter and Spring they should be peeled and laid in cold water an hour or two before they are cooked.' Put them into boihns; water with salt in it, andallow 30 or 40 minutes for boiling, according to size. Have the potatoes of uniform size, other wise the small ones will be done before tbe larger ones are cooked. When they are done through, pour off every drop of water and take tne kettle to tne door or window and shake them." Shaking them in the open air makes them mealy. :- Set the kettle on the back-of the stove, cover them up with a clean towel, and let them stand while you are dishing the dinner. Take them up with a spoon and serve smoking hot. Tnere is no vegetable that gams more by being prepared with due attention than tbe potato. Tne dif ference between a soggy, water-soaked potato and one that is properly cooked ia K&ahcs iimji uiauj .w&a icaiiw. - .un MnHn THE KITCHEN MARKET. - Current Prices Yesterday fof Traits, Vege table, Fowl, Fish and Fresh Heats. The huckleberry season is here, but the famous "big bluet" of Sampson, Du plin and Pender counties are not with us. The berry shippers find that better prices can be obtained in Northern mar kets and are shipping in that direction, Prices yesterday m New York for these berries, as quoted to the Star, are 14 to 20 cents per quart. Blackberries were in market yesterday, out in small sup ply, at 10c per quart, and strawberries the very last of the season at 10c Vegetables, ; notwithstanding the dry weather, are abundant, at moderate prices. Cabbage at 5 to 10c per head; corn, 15 to 20c per dozen; cucumbers, 15c per dozen; onions, 5c per bunch; beets. 6c per bunch; new potatoes, 5c per quart; squash,: lc apiece. In tbe fish market, sturgeon sold at 5c a pound; flounders, 15c a string; mullets. 15 to 20c; croakers, 5 to 10c; trout. 5 to 10c; blackfish, 10c; pigtlsh, 10c; shrimp, 15 to 20c per quart. Poultry were in fair supply. Grown fowls sold at SO to 85c apiece, and Spring chickens from 12 to 20c each, according to size. Eggs, 15 cents per dozen. The butchers stalls were well sup plied with fresh meats beef, veal and mutton at current rates. Suppose We Try Tnia t j A movement is on foot in Charleston to secure a garrison of United States troops for Fort Moultrie, near that city, and a memorial, numerously signed, has already been forwarded to the Secretary of War. Why are we so slow in Wil mington ? Here is something we may secure witnout tne expenditure ot a dollar; but we can't get it if we don't try. We have two eligible points, Southport and Wrightsville, and it would be pleas ant and attractive to have three or four companies of United States soldiers at either place. Will not some enterprising citizen pre pare a memorial and present it to the leading business men ot the city? Everybody would sign it, ana it it ac complishes nothing only a few hours' time will be lost. - A Btg Turtle Caught at Ocean View. Mr. Waiter Rutland and Mr. Richard Bradley, while walking on-the beach m front of their cottage at Ocean View Friday night, saw something crawling up the beach. Upon investigation they found the thing to be a mammoth tur tle. It was all both could do to turn it over. They got assistance and carried the prize to Mr. Rutland's cottage, and then decided to present it to a friend in Wilmington, who will be heard from later. ':'"'mm-'' Cotton Statement. Receipts of cotton here yesterday, 12 bales; same day last year, 28. Receipts for the week ended yesterday, 77 bales; same week last year. 185. Receipts for the crop year to June 15th, 1894r 189,571 paies; ior same time last Bcason, ioo,oo. Stock. 3.112 bales; at same date last year, 4,001. ' -; SIXTH JUdTc L DISTRICT. Dexnoeratle Executive Committee Meeting. The Democratic Executive Committee for the Sixth Judicial District is hereby called to meet at Hotel Kennon, uoias boro. N. C. on Tuesday, the 26th day of June, 1894, at 12.80 p. m for the purpose of fixing time and place for holding a convention to nominate a candidate for Solicitor for said Sixth District; A full attendance of this committee is desired. P. M. Pearsall, Chairman. J. J. Royal, Secretary. Xrfvw Water in the Upper Cape Fear. The water in the upper Cape Fear river is still very low; the .gauge at Fayetteville showing only a foot and a half. ' Steamboats manage . to get through, however, but only with hard work. The steamer Cape Fear arrived here yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock. and left on the return trip about 6 o'clock last evening. On her down trip the Caie Fear left Fayetteville at .9 o'clock Friday morning. : 0BITTTARY. ur Samuel J. Hinsdale, of FayetteTflle, h'y-'S. O., Aged 77 Tears. . " " A special correspondent ot the Star at Fayetteville writes: : . ? At his residence on . Hay mount, - a suburb of Fayetteville. at 1245 o. m.. on the 13th lost., Mr. Samuel J. Hinsdale departed this life, "aged 77 years born in Middletown. Conn, :; March -''26th, 1817. A - Northern man by birth, the deceased made his home in North Caro lina at the age of 26 years, 'and (or half a century has been the leading druggist of tne atate during a long life of business activity and usefulness carving; a name and building a character the brightness ot wnicn are emphasized in the. deep sense bf loss sustained by his Commu nity la) his death; ". i - Mr.;Hinsdale was a chemist of rare ex cellence and - profound : attainments, whose analyses have always been accept ed as Authoritative, and whose discover ies in tbe science have been valuable end important. He was senior Narden- and vestryman of St. JohnV P. ETCburch of FayettevOle - -and " tor- many vears was oresident i of the. State Pharmaceutical r Society.": His .borne was ever the abode rof a graceful and refined hospitality, and -among - his fellowmen he was the steadfast friend. the helpful neighbor, the Samaritan with hand outstretched at misery 8 appeal. His first wife was Miss Elizabeth C Wetmore, daughter pf the late Ichabod Wetmore (cashier of the Fayetteville branch of the State Bank), a niece of the late Hon. Geo. E. Badger, and sister of the wife of Lieut. Gen. T. H, Holmes. Of this marriage there survive , Col. J no; W.Hinsdale, a leading lawyer of tbe State, and Mrs.' McRae. wife of lost ice James C McRae. of the State Supreme tourt bench, in 1886 he married Mrs. Mary Broad foot, who, with one child, survives him: BAD FOR CAPT- DUNLAP. Arrested in New Jersey on a Serious ChargeSaid; , to Have , Deserted His Wife. . ' - .,'; "-:v;H.- J' --- : TheCapt. Dunlap referred to in the annexed -article from the Richmond State is no doubt the same man who fig ured in religious meetings in Wilming ton not long since: Capt. Dunlap, an evangelist who has been conducting revival services, in Nyack for the past week, says a Nyack, N. J., telegram, was arrested here to-day by Detectives Manniser and Eiloph of the United States Secret Service. It is alleged that Dunlap embezzled sev eral thousand dollars from the Gov ernment while in its employ in Wash ington. - The detectives who have been follow ing the captain all over the conntry, ar rested him as. he was talking to one of the converts' of his revival. He was handcuffed and taken away on a train, making no protest. - Evangelist Dunlap came to Nyack a week ago with recommendations from many of the principal cities of the United States. He held religious ser vices in the Y. M. C A. building, and subsequently under the auspices .of the W.uT.U.ne began a spirited revival in St. Paul's Methodist church. He was a fluent and powerful speaker, and this combined with his apparently deep piety and earnestness, drew large houses at each meeting. ' He is about 70 years old, and claims to be an ex-sea captain, and said that his wife and family were dead. Before coming to Nyack he had been conduct ing revivals in i different parts ot the country, and had engagements to preach at Sparkill and Sing Sing next week after his work here was finished. Since his arrest it has been discovered. it is said, that he endeavored to forge a check for tlOO- on a prominent citizen, Detective Manniser said that Capt. Dun lap i had deserted his aged wife and grown up family in Washington, and went away with another woman, wnom he later deserted in St. Louis. The Hicks Forecast. - , The annexed extract from Rev. Ira Hicks' weather forecast is submitted for the benefit of those who believe in this prophet's predictions : ! rom the in to lotn is a regular pe riod, with a Mercury equinox csntral on the loth. Many showers must be ex pected all along here, with dangerous storms probably on the black figure days. Tbe 20th and 2ist are centers oi distur bance excited by Mercury, Venus and the Solstice crisis. Hard storms, with hail and much lightning, - followed by unseasonable cold. From 26th to 80th falls a storm period 'that will bring threatening bluster, with some severe storms. Watch them all. Earthquakes and volcanic activity due in June. THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DI8TRICT. Notice is hereby given that a special meetingof the members of' the Demo cratic Executive Committee for the Third Congressional District is this day called to meet in Wilmington, on Tues day, June 19th, at 12.30 o clock p. m., for the Dureose of selecting a time ana place for holding the next Congressional Convention of tbe said district, and the transaction of other equally important business. - . - -- By order of the Committee. Z. W. Whitehead Chairman. J. S. Bizzell, Secretary. tune 9, 1894. SUDDEN DEATH Ot Mr. Semi Nathan at Bennett sville, 8. C, Special Star Telegram Bennettsville, S. C Tune 15, 1894. Mr. Sam'l Nathan, travelling salesman for Strouse, Loeb; a Co., Philadelphia was stricken with rheumatism of tbe heart this morning about six o'clock, at the Rogers House in our little village, and died about ten a. m. His home is in Baltimore. Md., where his body was taken, leaving here this afternoon, es corted by some friends and his son. Milton Nathan, who was travelling with him. . - ' ' Killed His Brother. Intelligence was received here yester- dav of a fratricide in Onslow county. near Cedarhurst station, on the W. N. & N. railroad. .Two brothers; Frank bim- momsandTom Simmons, sons of Mr. Beniamin Simmons, bad a quarrel early in the morning, when Frann Simmons picked ud a shot-gun and fired at his brother Tom. killing him almost in stantly. Both voung men lived with their father and are unmarried. Gainful Aeoldent. Mr. Thomas Herring, who is employed in the Peregoy saw mill, received a painful cut yesterday morning while using a large mortising cmsei, wnicn slipped from his grasp, severing the two small toes of the right loot, tie was brought, immediately to the city, to a surgeon, who dressed his wound. . The cut, while not being a dangerous one, is very painful and may keep him con fined to his house for a few weeics. A Washington dispatch says the Comptroller of the Currency has author ized the National Bank of Wilmington, N. C to begin business with a capital of 1UU,UW. 5 J- ... i r-1 .THE SUGAR TRUST. CONTINUATION OF THE SENATE IN- ; ' " VESTIGATION. Wany Senators Examined Senator! Ban- Among the Number The Charge That He Had Bought Bugar Steak Ex- ploded En Statement in Begat d the Matter Senator Quay Tells of His Specu lations in Sugar Trust stoek. '. ' ,B Telegraph to the Meminc.Star. WASHINGTON, Tune 16 -Many Sena tors were examined to-day by the. Sen atorial Committee engaged in investiga ting relations between' the Sugar Trust and Senators. When the committee ad journed it had heard the testimony of seventy-four ot the eighty-five members of the Senate. The eleven wha arejyet to be examined are Messrs. Butler, Cam eron, Dixon, Gorman, Irby, . Mitchelf of Oregon, Pettigrew. Walsh, Washburn: Wilson and WolcottT Mostof theselare out of town, and Senator Wolcott isf ill in Paris. '' . - ; . . The committee developed no sensa tions td-day, bur it managed to explede one. For some time past there hve been rumors that Senator Ransomjof North Carolina, had been speculating! m sugar stock, but the reputation for Integ rity held by him has effectually prevented their publication. To-day the basis lor these rumors was shown by the state ment of the Senator to the committee that his son George, who is his clerk, ahd Captain Barnes, his messenger. ' bad in vested small sums in bucket shops. explanation oi ueneral Kansom wa: complete vindication for 'him from t accusations contained in the rumors. Nearly all tbe Senators who testifi to-day made negative answers to tl questions prepared by; the committee and were allowed to go without further examination, v " ' J .The testimony of Senator Ransom lis as follows; Chairman Gray asked Mr. Ransom the question as follows: j 'Has any member of your family or any person in your employ or any clerk employed under the laws of the United States in your service, been interested in any transaction in sugar stocks or certifi cates during the period mentioned?" j - Mr. Ransom I want to make a state ment. On last Thursday night, the 14th, this week, Mr. Howland, the correspon dent of the New York Press, Sent tie his card and called to see me at nty rooms at the Metropolitan, with a ste nographer by the name of Robertson. He asked me questions very like those that you have put to me. ; I mean te substance of them. He then informed me that the New York Press did . not wish to do me or' any other Democrat any injury without giving ns an opportu nity to be beard, and he telt it to be ttis duty to tell me that they had in their possession, or he had. or somebody had. a broker's scrip upon which were record ed tne purchases ot amerent gentleman or different persons in buying stocks, and that upon that scrip l had been la frequent purchaser of sugar stock this city during the sugar debates her1 1 protested to him as possitively as a man was capable ot doing that it was impossible that it could be s? that I never owned one certificate k oiece of certificate of Sucar stock in nv life; that in fact, since 1 had been in the Senate, I never traded in one dollarss worth of SQCk. 1 insisted ; upon hs seeing the broker.' He told me, upoit my asking him, that it was busby m. Co., who had a house near seventh street, on Pennsylvania avenue, &ad that this thing was certainly there. T tola him to telegraph to his paper at once that there was not a word of truth in It He asked me if this could be the wor ot some, malicious enemy of mine, told him I could hardly believe that, bu! I could not account for it to savi me, how it was possible. I said would be glad U you could see thi: limb., .mi. kfNr win inrinln in ant www.. ( '"""'Is" J publication of this sort, and find out it this information is not absolutely with-l out foundation as false as it can be; He said he would do that and then soidJ "Well, General, this is a very clear! statement of yours. Do you know any I other person by the name of Ransom ins the city. 1 told him l knew oi but. one person in the city by the name of Ran-H torn now, and that was my son George,! who was my clerk. He asked me where he was, and I said:' "He is in tbe parlor now. I will step in and bring him here." I was, perhaps, more cautious than the occasion required, and . 1 said: "I would thank you to come with me to tbe door here, so that you can see that no communication takes places between jne and my son." 1 went to tne parlor and becRoneo my son to come in. I did not speak to him or see him between the parlor and my room, and when he got in my room I asked the gentlemen to state their busi ness to him, and told my son whatever the matter was to tell the truth about it. He then stated that he had bought some sugar stock on the 17th or 18th ot April. He put up a margin ot ten collars, wnicn he paid the broker on some sugar stock. He said that on the same day he put up a margin of $25 on cotton. He said he lost the money on tbe cotton and won $10 on the sugar; that afterwards he re peated the bet on sugar, not on cotton. and I think he lost . the second. He then stated that he and a Captain Barnes, a messenger here at the Commerce- Committee room, after that, on two occasions, bought $10 worth ot Sugar stock a piece. They went in to gether, and I asked this correspondent to examine my son fully. About two weeks ago Capt. Barnes came to me. He is a messenger of the commerce com mittee, a North Carolinian, and has been here for some time, and he told me had something to tell me, and it was rough; that a friend cf his had told him that they had a paper on which my name was down for so much sugar stocK, ana that I was deeply in it. . I told him how absolutely false it was; and for him to go to his friend and ten him tne same thing. . The next day he came to me and told me his friend had looked Into the matter and thought there was nothing in it. and I told him he must look into it : thoroughly to see and know that there was nothing in it; that I could not live . if there was any thing of that sort in anybody's breast about it. He returned the next morn ing and told me his friend said it was all 'a, myth all nothing and to not give myself any concern about it. This cor respondent asked me the., name of that person and I told him it was given to me in confidence and 1 had no right to give the name without Captain Barnes' con sent; but I have no objection . to giving the name to tbe committee. I have seen Mr; Howland about it. I just this min ute, sent for him and told him that I should ask' the committee to summon him to give the account of his interview with me to you. -' '.-: " .' ' The Chairman Had you any knowl edge whatever untd this interview with Mr Howland on the evening you speak of, of the bets of your son with this broker in sugar and cotton? : Senator Kansom I never dreamed of such a thing. I would not have be lieved it. The truth of it is, I went to my son with a great deal of confidence, when this correspondent wanted to see him. The paper shows that .when be bought the first stock I was out of the city. The 18th of April was when we NO. 33 were at Gov. Vance's funeral, at Ashe ville. J f may state to the committee that I have no interest whatever,- and never have had, in any stock or trade or anything else, in any way, since I have been in the senate. - -.-,.5 !..-.- While Senator Quay admitted having speculated, he answered all the other questions in the negative. Mr. Quay's evidenee was short and to the point.. He was examined by Senator Lodge, who asked: "Have you bought or soldi di rectly or indirectly, since the beginning of the session ot Congress, any so-called bugar stock or stocks, or stocks or-cer- tincates of the American Sugar Refining Mr - Quay I have. I have - bought and sold, not continuously, .but inci dentally with other stocks,- stocks of the American Sugar Refining " Company during the last twenty months, begin ning, say twenty months -ago. The last transaction. I think, was on the day that was fixed for. the vote noon the sugar schedule, when I closed out at some loss, to enable, me to- vote without having any interest in tbe stock. I had been away for a week and did not know the schedule was about to be voted toon. I have done nothlng.in it since.. I do not feel that there -is .anything in my con nection with the Senate to interfere with my buying or selling the stock when I please, and I propose to do so. - Gregson, The Inventor. A Remarkable Englishman's Work in This Country. Incessant Labor Nearly Coat Him His Iilfe He Tried America's Grateat Remedy, and It Made Dim Well- Sleeps Sound for tne First Time In Several Xeatrs.V v Inventing is my business," said Geo. Gregson. This rematkible English man has been in this country' five years. He received the great gold medal from the Pins Acad emy of Inventors, and it was his-work that was selected by the examiner-in-chief at the World's Fair as the best representative of its class. ; Most people think ot inventors as men gifted with golden brains that turn out tbe most marvelous devices without exertion. As a fact men of ideas are the hardest workers." They live by the very sweat of their brains ; ia the eager pursuit of an idea, like many professional and busi- ness men, they forget that their minds are not tireless and that to rack their brains all day and far into the night the nervous - system must have unusually good and abundant nourishment that will build up its myriad delicate parts. The following letter from Mr. Gregson is an. example that is better than col umns of advice:-' " Cambridge," Mass, April 5, 1894. 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It is upon this marvelous power of nourishing all the nervous tissues and purifying the blood that 1st remarkable Icures depend. - I Its action is perfectly intelligible to jevery well educated physician, and that is just why Paine's celery compound is so unhesitatingly prescribud by physici ans in every city, town or villiage, with out exception, in tbe united States and ICanada. - i It supplies rich, new blood,- full of Ibrain and nerve food ; it feeds worn-out fnerve centres, and exhausted tissues rwherever the freshly enriched blood fstream goes. The languor and tired' Heeling that without exception accom panies thin, lifeless blood, vanishes ; the 'spirits" are raised and a new feeling of I health and life declares the presence of g pure blood and well fed nerves and brain. - sasssssT ss fs I Col. Frederick I Child. I The death Is announced at Statesburg, S. C. on the 10th inst., oi Col. F. L. Childs, a Confederate veteran who was for some time and up to the close of the war in 1865, commandant of .the arsenal at Fayetteville. N. C The Columbia, S. Ct Slate, in noticing his demise says : Col. F. L. Childs, for the last twenty five years a resident of Charleston, died While on a visit at Statesburg very sud denly Sunday morning at the residence of his brother-in-law, Dr. W. W. An derson, The dead soldier was in every sense a Christian and a gentleman; one who could not have made an enemy, and he was. like his father, a graduate ot West Point. SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. The members of the Democratic Ex ecutive Committee for the Sixth Con gressional District are requested to meet in the town ot Launnourg, m.uod toe 22d day of June. 1894, at 12 o'clock sharp for tbe purpose of fixing a time and place for holding the next Congres sional Convention and for the transaction ol such other business as may come be fore tbe committee. , Walter H. Nkal, Chairman. All Democratic papers is the district please copy. 1 7- SUN DAY SCLECTIO N S . And yt when a sVronz Wain W-' weighed against a true heart, its seems to me like balancing a bubble against ar : wedge of pure gold, 0. W. Holmes:, Wisdom says: "Honesty is the best policy.! VMue says:r I'l do not . care whether, it is the test policy or not it is right, and therefore I will be honest." Lyman Abbott. "' ' - : - All we want in Christ we shall find in Christ. It - we want : little, we shall find little: if we want much, we shall find much; and if, in utter helpless ness, we cast our all on Christ, - He will be to us the whole treasury of God. Bishop Whipple. - -We are. not "our own; we are bought with a price; and nothing short of an unreserved surrender of self- interest to God's interest in humanity is moral and just. Not to be self-sacrificing in ethers service is injustice. To be unloving.'even to tbe unlovable, is to be ungodlv. ReiCeoree . Herron. ; WASHINGTON NEWS. 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