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3fbe WLczhlv gfax.- -PU BUSHES AT- VILMINGTON, N. C, AT . .00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. SSSS8S88888888383 oomm 83gg888S8gggg 88888888888888888 SSS888888888888S3 ' : 8S8SSS8S8S8SSSS83 88888888S8S88Sas 888888S88S888SSSS i 82888882288888883 " 88888888888888888 i n M g O " g g- L j : f - : s : : : , J s i - s . l-.fi- - Wllmravtstn M f . MM SUBSCRIPTION, PRICE. i he subscription price of the Weekly Star U as follow : . . . . ti nn -iuslc Copy year, pus - C nionthi 3 montbi SO 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 rorn, cotton, and wheat, and clmktrtis, arid eggs, and keep out of tlie poor-house? If so, let us have i; -recipe. It will be valuable to us jir-t iiuvv. PRINCIPLE VS. EXPEDIENCY. In the leading issues before the American people to-day the division is more on sectional than on party lines, with this exception that there is better discipline in the Republican than in the Democratic party, the leaders are better united and hold their following in hand better.: This is easier for the Republican leaders to do because that party is practically confined to the North, while the .Dem ocratic party has an active existence North, and South. In a party con fined to one section there is less di versity of interests within itsr lines and consequently harmony miiy be more easily maintained, and discip line be more easily enforced. While the Democratic .party has a national existence it is strongest in the South and in the West, and the interests of the South and of the West are in some things the very onposite of the interests of the East, and hence we find the Democrats of the former sections differing and sometimes very radically from those of the latter. Devoted less to expedi ency and more to principle than the Republicans the Democrats utter their sentiments freely and contend for them even within their own party lines, while the Republicans let their leaders do their thinking for them and have few contentions within their lines about anything. If they should differ about any matter of expedi ency, or about candidates,1 or about policies, they never get so far apart that they can't close the lines when the battle draws nigh. : This is strikingly illustrated in the course the leaders are. marking out on the silver question, which is al most diametrically the opposite of the the course pursued ever since silver his been a subject of contention. The Republican party struck the first blow against silver first by de ciarmg that the principal and inter est of Government bonds should be paid coin and then demone tizing silver, which made them pay able in gold. To hold the silver States of the West in line the ReDub lican party passed the Sherman act. and then when itf saw that there was no political power to be won by that uneipeu to repeal the Sherman law Now when the financial question has Decome pretty badly mixed and it sees the necessity of securing some of the Western States that it has lost, it is taking a tack on the silver ques tion and steering! in the direction of the free coinage of silver. A score of its leaders have spoken, several State conventions have spoken and yet there has been no dissent expressed , or protest from any respectable source. This shows the discipline, the lack of principle, and the Dliant ihenrlino- to exne- diency which characterizes the whole crowd from thi big leader to the nttle one, the lieutenants and squads that do as they are told and march as mey are commanded. There is no siich head-center die iauon . as this fin the Democratic party, no such p iart following at the pecic or command of the leader or leaders, tor Democrats are contend ing for issues, not simply for place, r--vi ui spous, ana nence expe diency, if it be Recognized at all, is -nays suuorainaiea to principle. orae ot the leaders like Gorman. nce and others of the so-called conservative" Senators, for ..in aiince, may be swerved from the straight path by expediency but the aaacs never are. ti, e 13 the scret of the trouble in "je Democratic party to-day. To i.e interests of the Eastern sec r" mainly, certain Democratic n i statesmen have been JUggling With nrinrmU .U- cial and tariftj questions, and jug gling with it t6 such an ;,.. d L Ia u... ,-'J """" a" "lent as to ir"5 uut "ie differe nee between "em and th men mkA t. 4.1 At- V4 ngnting for vears -yparentiy hopeless odds. . Thra mav snhn,; - a: AUC hut r compromises now, SiSte U.P the fight until in K Z navc been fight- " -'ULUJJl. Ac .U L. - uOWing the effect on a city of --y""s iu aeai with mpbs promptly, e " of Jfc3.000.0ftn of a. f tent, bonds which was put on the . J w w J market by Chicago the other day had niy one bidder at oar. less commie. par, less commis ons of $180,000. r VOL. XXV. Have you received a bill for sub- scription to the Weekly Star re cently ?' If so, Is it correct ? If cor ed, 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. " . ; MINOR MENTION If the protective tariff were simply or the purpose of protection, and the duties were so scaled as to simply cover the actual differencf. in the tost of production in competing countries and this, there woulu be little complaint for in that case the duties would be so low that they would be scarcely felt in the price of goods home made or imported. But this is not the case, for the revenue 'collected by the Government from customs is nominal . in comparison with the tribute the people pay the protected manufacturers who take advantage of the high tariff to put up the price of their goods. The New York Herald, a non-partisan paper, has been making some inves tigations on this line and finds from statistics that from 1863 to 1882 the prices of articles consumed by the American people were increased $1,-, 160,000,000 a year, of which only $160,OOO,05& a year went to the Gov ernment as customs collected, the $1,000,000,000 going to the protected manufacturers. For these nineteen years we would have an aggregate of $19,000,000,000 which the Ameri can consumers have paid the manu factures in consequence of the in creased price resulting from the high tariff. Investigations since the passage of the McKinley bill show that. the people have paid in increased prices $l,80a,000,000 a year, only $207,- 000,000 of which went to 1 the Gov ernment in customs collected. It figures out that under the proposed Senate bill the tribute to the manufac turers would be $1,250,000,000 com pared with $163,000,000 of revenue to the Government. Even-.that would be a saving of $343,000,000 a year to the American people in the tribute paid to the protected manu facturers. The protected manufac turing plants of this country are es timated to be worth $7,000,000,000, so that the American people have paid in increased cost of goods more than four times the total value of all the manufactories in the country, which is paying a pretty high price to foster American industries. We hear much of the great pros perity this country has en joyed under Republican rule, as a result of Re publican policies, but mainly the fi nancial and tariff policies. Pros perity in the true sense does or should mean that the bulk of the people are prosperous, that labor is fairly compensated and that the rea sonably thrifty man can lay away something for a rainy day or old age. When the money of the country passes speedily from the hands of the earners the masses into the hands of the few there can be no real prosperity, no matter how much wealth these few may have accumu lated. There are about 65,000,000 of people in this country and yet, ac cording to the estimates of statistic ians of recognized reputation, there are but 85,000 out of these 65,000,- 000, a little over one in a thousand, who have an income of over 000 a year, or who would be subject to the proposed income tax. Deduct from this the estimated 30,- 000 who own the 'colossal fortunes, whose Incomes run up into the many thousands and we have about 55,000 who are actually earning an income of $4,000 a year. Whit a showing this for a country which has been boasting of its phenomenal prosper ity. It simply shows that, while there are men in it of vast fortunes, the bulk of the people, who toil and who make whatever of prosperity there is, are working not to better their owa condition but to still further enrich the already rich, whi'e they them- selve live from 'hand to mouth and have to scuffle to do that. The Japanese have not stood much on ceremony in tackling the Chinese who are backing Corea against Japan. If China had kept her fingers out of the pie there would have been little, if any, trouble, as the Corean Government would in all probability have come to terms and provided for the reform that Japan demand ed, which, if we understand the con tention, was that the Japanese resi dent andjdoing business in Corea, person and property. This the Chi- nese didn't desire for thev wanted to drive Japanese traders out of Corea, and with this view they fomented trouble, and under pre tence of protecting Chinese residents sent troops into Corea, more to I thwart Japan than to protect I Chinese.. Tanan caucht on to this. - o I and hence the lacfe. of ceremony in I firin into and s5nking those Chinese I transDorts. There Is brettv crood - 1 transports. There is . pretty good ground for the belief that Russian H intrigue has had a hand in precipi tating these hostilities and that she haa been pressing China to take the aggressive, and it is not impossible, if the fight thickens, that Russia and Great Britain may yet lock horns as the outcome broglio. of this Corean lm- Have you recevied a bill : for sub scription to the Weekly Star re cently? j If so, is it correct? If cor rect, why not pay its 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 cofton, and -wheat, and chickens, and eggs, and. keep out of the poor-house? If so, let us have the recipe. . It will be valuable to us just now. ; The. Republican, published in Lyons, France, convinced the public beyond doubt that it had a hustling lot of reporters when it gave on one side of the paper, the morning after President Carnot's assassination, a graphic account of his reception in the theatre and on the other an ac count of his assassination on the way to the theatre. The reporter was a little too previous and caught the managing editor napping. " Tthis shows, however, that the French re porter gets there if he has to do it ahead of time sometimes. The Territory of Arizona is rich in ancient ruins. The latest finds are by a mining prospector who in his rambles in an unexplored section discovered a street, smoothly paved for about three miles, with the ruins of houses for the entire length on both sides. The street ends at a yawning chasmr which leads to the impression that the place was . de stroyed by an earthquake. He also found the remains of human beings in a fair state of preservation. There . is trouble brewing for Mexico. The editors over there have gone to discussing woman suffrage and are getting warm about it. -i Have yon 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 us have the recipe. It will be valuable to us just now. - The C. P. & T. V. BeceiveTShip. As the position of one or more ot the parties to the case recently decided by Judge Simonton, at Greensboro, seems to be misunderstood in some quarters, it should be stated that the North State Improvement Company.jthrough its re ceiver, J. w. fries, bled a petition in tne suit, in which Gen. GiU was appointed receiver of the Cane Fear & 'Yadkin Yalley Railway Company, asking to be made a party defendant and to intervene in the suit for the purpose of setting up any claims that the Improvement Com' pany might have. This petition of the North State Improvement Company was allowed. The Lynchburg, Va., Na tional Bank was also made a party de fendant, for the purpose of protecting itself as a creditor until some person should be appointed trustee of the con solidated mortgage bondholders instead of the Mercantile Trust and Deposit company: ot Baltimore, tnat bad re signed its trust. AN ENCOURAGING VIEW. A Considerable Improvement Daring the ; But Week. The New York Journal of Commerce takes this view of the dry goods trade: It is encouraging to observe real im provement in the dry goods trade. For more than a week there has been a decided increase in the demand for staple cotton goods. , It is true this de mand was stimulated by price reductions and the prospect of higher freight rates on Southern lines; but even such induce ments would have had no effect a few weeks ago. The cessation of strikes, eood croo prospects, and a better feel ing generally at the interior contnoutea materially towards improvement, bales- men on the road frequently report con ditions better than this time last year. and reports from Eastern cotton mills are also brighter, some important con templated shut-downs having been in definitely postponed. It is so long since the dry goods trade has been able to furnish any evidences ot encouragement that the occasion is worth noting. At the Head of the Clan. You know that story, don't you, of the small boy who brought joy to the heart of a fond parent by telling him that he was next to the head of the class in school? And after the fond parent! parted with the silver reward of merit in the shape of a quarter, he bethought himself to ask how many boys there were in that class. The youthful finanr cier promptly replied, little bov." "Me an' anothe- But bovs learn to spell more easily nowadays than they did in the days of the log scboolbousel and "aeestnet school teacher, who "boarded around.' Thev used to go to school on the Western Reserve, often in fear of an at m.n of school books, manv of them differing as widely from each other as the form and quality of the information which they imparted. But in the general cost to the public by reduction in the the labor-saving devices in making books, none bas been so startling as the offer made by the pub lishers of the American Encyclopaedic Dictionary. - I Thlt is a comrjlete and' valuable dic tionary, and also an encyclopaedia of great merit, and the two combined are offered to the readers of The Star at a price within the reach, of everybody. Read announcement In another column. Twenty parts now ready. r EEKl WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3,1894. . .: STATE EDUCATION. Pacta and Figure by Freftdent Molver. In a recent lecture before the Sum mer School for teachers at Chapel- Hill, Dr. Charles Mclver presented the fol lowing facts and figures relating to pub lic education Itf North Carolina: . . " There are 370,000 children of school age in the State, of whom only 85.000 are in private schools,' leaving 335,000 to be ed ucated in public schools. Nine children out of every ten in North Carolina have no chance for education, - except in schools supported by the State. - ; The public school fund for lower schools comes from poll taxes, fines, for feitures and penalties, liquor license, and a school tax of 16 cents on (100 of listed prooertv. All the noil tax is reauired bv the Constitution to go to public schools, except what goes to support the poor; which cannot exceed the fourth. A man who pays only poll tax is taxed only for common schools and the poor.- He pays nothing to higher education. - Fublic higher education inrNorth Car-: olina is aided from the general fund. The annual appropriations; are: Univer sity, $30,000; Normal and Industrial, 813,000; Agricultural and Mechanical, 910,000; Cullowhee Normal, $1,500. To tal, $43,500. This sum comes from the general fund, and is not taken from the school fund. It could not be added to the school fund unless by an act of Leg islature. Its addition to jthe common school fund would not add four days to the length of the common school terms. The tax rate for higher! education is practically 1 cents on $100 of listed property. Any citizen of the State may know what he contributes to higher ed ucation by remembering that: (1) those who only pay poll tax contribute noth ing; (2) those listed at $100 contribute 1 cents; (3) those listed at $1,000 con tribute 1 cents: (4) those listed at $10,000 contribute $1.66. j About one man out of ten in North Carolina is listed at more than $1,000, About ninetenths of the people of North Carolina pay annually less than lt cents to support tne university, the Nor-- mal and Industrial, the Agricultural and Mechanical and the Cullowhee Schools. In Sampson county there are 5,529 tax payers. Of these only 546 pay as much as 16 cents to higher education, and only 17 pay as much as 81 cents. These facts and figures speak for them selves, and show very plainly whether the many are taxed for the few or the few for the-many. j The objection that all do not go to the higher schools applies equally to the lower schools, for one-third of the children of school age do not go to the lower schools. The objection will des troy any sjstem. :l ' PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN OTHER STATES, j Annual State appropriations for the support ot higher education are made as follows, (not including, appropriations for repairs and special purposes): North Caroli na ..... . . $ 44.000 South Carolina .t. 107,500 Virginia , 129,500 Georgia 61,000 West Virginia 200,000 New York 506,484 Connecticut .'r 80,000 Vermont 82,000 Rhode Island 30,000 Pennsylvania J . . . . . 130,000 South Dakota ............... 80,175 Ohio.., ..... 123,000 Michigan J 851,000 Minnesota. 202,000 Illinois....- : 154,000 Colorado j 250,000 Nebraska 196,000 These figures are given by the Super- tendents of Public Instruction for their States in recent letters to Dr. Mclver. They show how little North Carolina does for higher public education com pared with her sister States. ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS: Atlantic Council Ho. 29 Instituted at Morehead City. Morehead City, N. C July 26. Wilmington Stan Atlantic Council No. 29, Order Chosen Friends, was insti tuted hereto-night by H Witcover, P G C, with following officers, and consol idated with Morehead City, Coun cil No. 26: Robert W. Wal lace, P. C; Mark T. Royal, C; John A. Guthrie, V. C; Will R, Davis, Sec; David B. Wade,Treas.; Thomas C. Willis, Prelate; Martin V. Willis, Marshal; I. S. Bell, Warden; W. C. Piner, Guard; Sam uel Bennett. Sentry; William Krai, W. H. Jackson. W. J. Wallace, Trustees; George N. Ennett, Med. Ex. Yours truly, w. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. velvet cake. One pound of flour, one pound of su gar, half a pound of butter, five eggs beaten separately, then poured together, and beaten again; half a teaspoonful of soda, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar; flavor with vanilla, wineglass of wine or brandy. j PREPARING CUCUMBERS. Cucumbers should be gathered while the dew is yet on them, and put imme diately on the ice. An hour before din ner pare and slice them very thin, and let them lie in salted ice water till din ner is ready, then drain them, and put them into a glass dish, and sprinkle bits of ice over them. Serve them with a French dressing in a separate dish. - FRIED TOMATOES. Select firm but thoroughly ripe toma toes tor this purpose. Peel them and lay them on the ice so that they- will be firm when needed. Cut them in slices not less than one-half inch in thickness. Have a deep kettle of frying fat ready. Heat it until it smokes in the centre. Dip the slices in an egg which has been beaten up with two teaspoonfuls of water and a few drops of onion juice. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper over the sliced tomatoes and dip them in fine sifted bread crumbs. Egg -them again, and put bread crumbs over them a sec ond time. Put them on a wire spoon and immerse them in the hot fat for eight minutes. When they, rise to the top of the fat turn them over, and in a moment or two more they will be done. They will be an even golden brown on both sides, delicious to the taste, and a very ornamental dish when served, as they should be. on a napkin, one slice overlapping another in a circle and a gar nish of green celery in the centre. Exporta Foreign. I The Belgian steamer 7r cleared yes terday for the Continent, via Savannah, Ga with 2,500 casks spirits turpentine and 2,500 barrels rosin, value $33,007. Vessel by E. Peschau & Co., and cargo by Antwerp Naval Stores Co. Brig M. C. Haskell cleared for St. John's, P. R., with 270,669 feet lumber, 81,650 shingles and 10 casks spirits tur pentine, value $4,950. Vessel by James T. Riley & Co- cargo by E. Kidders' Son. : - - ' ; : : : 7 CZAR TtLLMAN'S LATEST. . : "The Despot'a Heel la on Thy Shore What Is Said About TOInun'a Froola- ' mation In Charleston. : - : Governor Tillman's proclamation re garding the opening of the dispensaries again ' on the -1st ' of August was.' ot course,' the all-absorbing, topic of con versation yesterday. Notwithstanding the assertions ; made in his campaign speeches and the announcement that he would issue such a proclamation on Monday, , many people were -still sur prised when they read the document yesterday morning. Up to the time that they saw the proclamation with their own eyes some of them doubted that the 'Governor really intended to reha bilitate the obnoxious law. The procla mation itself. was read, reread and dis cussed from one -end of the city to the other. ; " ' ''" . - - . A reporter called upon Chairman W. Gibbes Whaley, of the county board of control, and asked for information re garding the opening of the dispensaries ,bre. Mr.' Whaley ; said that he had received as yet no official instruction from Columbia, and that he was" pre pared to give no information which was not contained in the proclamation. A large number of the leading saloon men of the' city were seen. They all regarded the situation as , being a very grave one, but were not prepared to say definitely what course they would pur sue. They said that they could not tell how the law was to be enforced, and consequently they did not know what course they would have to adopt. Tbay seemed to hope that so long as there is a shadow resting'upon the con stitutionality of the law Governor Till man will not attempt to enforce it with rigor. They say. that he should at least wait until the law ot 1893 has been de clared constitutional by the Supreme Court before he begins aggressive opera tions against the saloon men. From their standpoint the burden of the proof is now in their favors, that is to say, the as sumption is that the new as well as the old law is unconstitutional, and that they are consequently justified in continuing business until the Court renders another and contrary decision. They realize, however, that Governor Tillman is a law unto himself, and that it is more than probable that he will be guided more by his inclination than by the equities of the case. A lawyer who was seen regarding the matter said that it was more than desira ble that the new law should be passed upon by the Supreme Court as soon as possible. The regular term of the Su preme Court did not begin until some time late in the Fall, and in the mean time all manner of trouble might grow out of the condition of affairs which would exist after the 1st of Au gust. He thought that the most sensi ble thing to do would be for some one to apply for an injunction to have the State restrained from opening the dis pensaries as was. proposed. Such pro ceedings were always in order, whether the Court was sitting or not, and the re sult would be to get the new law tested at as early a date as possible. Some of the saloon men are very out spoken in the bitterness which they feel towards the Governor for the course he has pursued. In the first blush of their anger all manner of statements are made, but the general impression prevails that, matters will very readily fall back into .the routine which they pursued- under the old dispensary regime, that is to say, that the saloon keepers will return to the sale of soft drinks after August the 1st. The "blind tiger" will be brought out again, with the very probable ex ception that he will be run more numer ous than he ever was before. Some of the saloon keepers seen said that they had already begun to dispose of their stock i of liquors, borne ot them are making preparations to store the stuff quietly away in Charleston, while others are sending it out of the State. Every thing yet awhile is in such a disorgan ized state that most of the saloon men openly avow that they don't yet. know what course they will adopt. Democratic Executive Committee The newly elected County Executive Committee is expected to meet this morning at 10 o'clock. The members of the committee are First Ward C. H. Ganzer and F. T Skipper. , Second WardC E. Borden and D. Quinlivan. Third Ward W. N. Harriss and Geo. H. Howell. Fourth Ward H. McL. Green and Geo. D. Parsley. Fifth Ward J. W. Branch and C E. Hall. ; Masonboro township 1. D. Fergus. Harnett township E. W. Manning. Cape Fear and Federal Point town ships, each entitled to one member, had not reported up to yesterday. - A Dead Infant JTound. ' The dead body of a mulatto female infant was found on the j street near the corner of Eighth and Bruns wick, yesterday.morning about 11 o'clock by an old colored woman, it was wrapped in a piece of coarse bagging, and apparently had not been dead many hours. Information concerning the patter was sent to police headquarters and Chief of ; Police Clowe and Coroner Walton went to the place and took charge of the body. Sub sequently, Dr. Shepard, county physi cian, made an examination ot the re mains, but could find nothing to indi cate the cause of death. No inquest was held, and no clue could be found that would lead to the identification of the mother of the child. The remains were buried in Oak v Grove cemetery at tne expense ot the county. 8. A. L. Changes. The Charlotte News notes the follow ing changes : The following promotions and ap pointments have been made in the mo tive power department of the Seaboard Air Line : Capt. Tames Maglenn, late general master mechanic, has been made general superintendent of motive power, with headauarters in this city; Mr. a. . Shaw, of the G. C& N has been pro moted to the office lately filled by Capt. Maglenn in Raleigh. - The appointment ot Mr. W. T. Harding, late of the Bald win Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, as chief j draughtsman, opens np another very essential department in the system of the S. A. L Mr. Harding's office will also be in Raleigh. rM MM MM ' Newbern Tournal: Mf. Alfred L. Heath, of Riverdale, died very sud denly yesterday mornine from - what is supposed to have been neuralgia of the. heart. Alonzo Moore and watnan Fisher, two negro men. were arrested in Onslow county and brought to the city yesterday, charged with breaking into and robbing Mr. Guy Lane's store at Bellair. The theft was committed Sun day night. v Jr-Kj " " ' ' RAILROAO CONFERENCE. " IV .1 mm el . ' ' ' " ITMfflew Coast Line O...A i. 'ANOTHER DISAGREE! ENT The Beculara and dteformen Split on a :j Question of Part- law-Biz Beculara Withdraw from thja Meeting Yesterday, . and the Seven Reformers Organise a ' County Oommittecj. - In response to a notice that a meeting of the County Democratic Executive Committee of New Hanover county would be held at the Court House at 10 o'clock a. nu, y ester lay, there appeared, a short time alter (he appointed hour, Messrs. H. McL. Green, George D. Parsley, F. T. Skipper, C H. Ganzer. J. Branch, Andrew Blair and James Cowan, of the Reform Democrats; and. Charles E. Borden, D. Quinlivan, W. N. Harriss. George H. Howell, E. W. Man ning and D. J. FiTgus, of the Regalar Democrats. The Regulars, through Mr. Borden." stated that they ere . present i.ot as members of the Co inty Committee, bat as members of the ' iVard and Township Committees, and trade the .point that there was no quorui n of the latter pres ent, and that, const quentlyrno County Committee could t elected or organ ized. Further, that for the reason that no such Committee had been legally elected, they would J decline to take any part in the transaction of business. They called attention to the following sections of the Plant of Organization : "Section 2. The! several township executive committees shall convene at the meetings of the Several county con ventions, or at any time and place that a majority of them njay select, and shall elect a county executive committee, to consist of not less t"nan five members, one of whom shall be designated as chairman, who shall preside at ail of the committee meetings "Section 9. In esses where all the township executive committees are re quired to meet for the purpose of elect ing county executive committees,- said meetings shall be deemed to have a quorum when a majority of such town ships shall be represented in said meet ing. Section 9 was referred to in order to establish the contention of the Regulars that ft was necessary for all the town ship committees, or a quorum, to meet in one body for the election of a County Executive Committee Mr. H. McL: Greeniof the Reformers, disagreed with Mr. Borden, and claimed' that by party custom in this county the committee had been properly elected and had the right to organize. ine six Regulars tnen witnurew wiin out having voted on any proposition. A suggestion was then made that Col. A. M. Waddell (who! was in his office across the. passage) be requested to give his opinion as to the situation. Col. Waddell said that from time im memorial the executive committee of each ward and township had met inde pendently and separately and elected its representatives on thk County Executive Committee, and the representatives then met and organized the committee. He advised the committee-men present to go ahead and organize if they had a quorum. j It was decided that (leaving out Fed- eral Point township the County Execu tive Committee consisted of thirteen members, and that the seven members present constituted a quorum. On motion. Mr. H. McL Green was elected permanent! chairman, by ac clamation, and Mr. Geo. D. Parsley sec retary. The Chair stated that Mr. Geo. T. Shepard desired to appear before the ex ecutive committee, and Mr. Blair was re quested to notify Mr. Shepard that the committee was ready to hear him. Mr. Shepard appeared, and said that "as there was such a stir-up" about his nomination, and (talk of the wreck trouble, he thought, he would tender his resignation, hoping that some one else would be selected who would give satis- faction. He then read a written state- ment. The withdrawal of Mr. Shepard was then read as follows Wilmington, N.C., July 20. 1894. To the Executive Committee of New Han over County: Gentlemen : For the good of the Democratic party I feel it my duty to decline the nomination given me by the convention held in the Opera House Saturday. Tuly 21st. 1894, for the House of Representatives for New Hanover county. This the 26th day ot July, 1894. j Geo. T. Shepard. Witness: H. MgL. Green. I hereby certify that the Regulars (as they call themselves) offered me the same place that was given me by the Reformers, provided I would vote solid for their ticket. Geo. t. shepard. Witness : H. McL. Green. On motion of Mr. Cowan, Mr. Shep- atd's "declwatioa of the nomination for member of the State Legislature was accepted. Also, declination of Q. H. Kennedy, of the! nomination for Con stable ot Wilmington township, as fol lows: T Wilmington! N. C July 25, 1894. To the Executive Committee of New Hanover County. ' Gentlemen :-i-For the good of the Democratic party I feel it my duty to decline the nomination given me by the convention heldj in the Opera House Saturday. July 21, for the office of con stable. I resignhopmg you gentlemen will elect some good man in my place. O. H. KENNEDY. On motion, the meeting adjourned, subject to the call of the chairman. Bellamy Visits Charlotte. The Charlotte Observer of yesterday says: t Mr. John D. Bellamy, Jr., of Wilming ton. arrived here yesterday to spend a day or two. As is well known, Mr. Bel lamy is one of trie candidates for the nomination lor wCfagress in this district. He considers his prospects fair and is en deavoringto find what friends he bas in ! Mecklenburg, He found a good many yesterday. Considerable attention was shown him and helseemed to enjoy the day. J. Bellamy in Columbps. ' The White vflle News says, in its re- . port of the proceedings of the county Democratic convention: "A canvass among the delegates from the different townships elected to the Congressional convention revealed the fact that Bel lamy will' carry most of Columbus. McNeill will get la small share, and Lockhart may get a lew scattering votes.' NO. 39 S- R. AND S. S. ASSOCIATION. Beault of the Beeent Keating in Sew York. New York, July 24. The members of the Southern Railway and Steamship Association say the recent meetings have resulted in securing a j most satisfactory agreement for the maintenance ot rates. An essential feature is a provision that when any line has evidence that a com pany is giving a rebate or cutting rates, it can, on presentation: of the evidence to the commissioner, demand a general reduction in the rates all round to meet the case. It is believed this is the next thing to a pool. The report of the executive committee on the rate schedule was accepted. Then the question of .what; rate should be charged on all first-class freight carried between New York and Atlanta, Ga came up for debate. 1 At the meeting held in the Waldorf Hotel, New York city, six weeks ago, the rate was reduced on account of competition from $1.14 per 100 pounds to 60 cents. After a long , discussion this afternoon the maioritv of tne delegates voted to raise. the rate from 60 cents back to the old figure. When this question was settled the As sociation made arrangements for a sup plementary meeting, which will be held at the Oriental Hotel on August 22. ine new board ot orhcers and arbitra tion or the coming year will be elected then. ! The Caroltna' Central. I The Baltimore Sun of yesterday says: -The bondholders'-committee of the Carolina Central railroad met yesterday at the office of the j Maryland Trust Company, to receive a proposition from Mr. B. Curzon Hoffman, president of the Seaboard Air Line, in I reference to the bonds of the Carolina Central. The committee declined .to take action on the proposition until after it had been submitted to the bondholders. The first mortgage bonds, which the com mittee represents, amount to (2,000,000. The road is operated by the Seaboard Air Line, which has been paying the in terest on the bonds. mu A Pointer. I The Clinton Democrat says: Messrs. Warren Johnson. Abram Hobbs and C. E, Daniel compose the special committee recently appointed by order of the Board of Magistrates to ex amine the convict road system of Wayne county with a view of working Samp spn's convicts on the public roads of the county. The committee was highly pleased with what was seen from thor ough investigation and will report favor ably, h NAVAL STORES AGAIN. Reported That Savannah Export era Are Becoming Nervous Charleston Factors Aiding Those of Savannah. The naval stores factors are receiving letters from prominent producers all over the southern part of the State urg ing them to hold out in the movement to hold up the market against , the efforts of the buyers to break it. Several letters received yesterday urged the factors to hold turpentine for 29K cents, and others suggested that there should be a general meeting of the operators from all sections of the State to endorse the movement of the factors, and to urge a cessation of production until the demand for turpentine should raise the price to a point where it will equal the cost of production, and if pos sible pay the producers something for making it. The price the factors are holding tur pentine for now is 29W cents, and for days and weeks no sales have been re corded. Last year the prices went low on. account of the stringency of the money market. The factors could not get money to carry the stock, but this year conditions have been different, and the factors have been equal to the situa tion. It is not their purpose to corner the. market, but simply to keep prices up to the point where the producers can make the cost of production. The buyers are trying to break the market by quoting prices on the basis of the Wilmington market, which is 26 to 27 cents a gallon. But the stock at Wilmington in the bands ot the buyers is a small one, and very little ot it would be purchasable in one lot. One ot the greatest fortifications the factors have is the lact that the buyers have many of them sold short, and it is believed they have extended their con tracts to August 1 in hope that they will be able to get the product at a price at that time which will afford them a profit. It is not the desire ot the factors, one of them said, to cause the exporters any loss, but they have taken a stand which they believe to be the proper one and they intend to hold out. In case the buyers cannot extend their contracts beyond August 1, it would seem that they will have to come over and take the turpentine at the price for which the factors are holding it. The buyers, he said, are weakening and are thought to be getting rather nervous.' The factors are strongly backed up in the position they have taken, and the fact that the producers are urging defi nite action among themselves with re gard to a cessation of the production, in dicates that the strength, is being added to every day. The Charleston factors are upnoioing the Savannah factors in the position they have taken and have expressed themselves through the columns of the Charleston newspapers. The situation is becoming interesting and it is believed that it will be a matter of only a few days before there will be a change one way or the other, probably in favor ot the factors. - CAPT. ROSS' LOSS. ; Further Fartionlara of the Burning of the JTug Stevens. Concerning the burning of the . tug Stevens, owned by Capt. R. G. Ross, for merly of Wilmington, mentioned in the Star of Friday, the Jacksonville Citisen of the 27th says: About 1 o'clock yesterday morning the tug . . Stevens was burned to the" water's edge while lying at her wharf at Mavport. The fire started in tne engine room, but exactly how it started is not known. It is thought that some wood stored near the fire room first caught. The mate was the only person aboard at the time of the fire. He was awak ened by the smoke and flames, and hav ing no means to extinguisn tne names, ne rushed to Mayport to notify Captain Potter, the tug's commander. The captain seeing there was no hope of saving the tug, ana as tqe blazing vessel was a menace to the wharf and two lighters, cut her loose and allowed her to drift until the struck, a sand bank. All of the vessel above the water line was destroyed. ; The Stevens was owned by Captain Ross, and has been used by him in the jetty work since be took the contract five vears ago. She had also been used at Key West, and has proved a very stanch vessel. She was valued at $14,000, and was insured for $5,000 in J. H. Norton's agency. Extension to Den- ... mark Completed. There was quite a gathering of promi nent men in the city yesterday, says the News and Courier. General Manager L R. Kenly, Traffic Manager T. M. Emer son, Assistant Traffic Manager H. M. Emerson asd Soliciting Agent R. A. Brand, ot the Atlantic Coast Line sys tem. General Manager T. K. Scott and General Freight Agent A. G. Jackson, of the Georgia Road, and Col. Robert Hunt, of the Southern Railway Com- . pany, were in the city during the day. Messrs. Kenly, Scott, T. M. Emerson, Jackson and H. M. Emerson spent the day at the general -offices of the South . Carolina and Georgia road in consulta tion with General Manager Emerson and Capt. E. P. Waring. The subject up for consideration was the completion ot the Atlantic Coast Line's Denmark exten sion and the effect that it will have upon Georgia business through Augusta. The Coast Line system, having completed its new road, is now ready to pat it into operation and before doing so many traffic arrangements have to be perfected with the South Carolina and Georgia Company and with the Georgia road. . These were the subjects of considera tion yesterday. The Coast Line will, of course, wish to make arrangements for . hauling us cars over the South Carolina and Georgia road's track from Augusta to Denmark, and steps were taken to wards establishing a basis for these operations. The Georgia road being the principal Augusta connection of th the other lines, many important traffic matters had to be arranged be tween the three. The meeting lasted pretty much all day, anrl the business before the gentlemen present seems to have been transacted in a manner satis factory to all parties. The visiting rail road officials returned to their respective homes last night. Serioualy Injured. 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