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-rUSUSHKD AT- ilmington. N. c, VV IN ADVANCE.. sS 88888888888888888 " 88888888888888898 88888888888888888 4ow 8 ssaassgBSggsgsaes 88888888888888888 82888888S8S888SSS : 888888&88SS8SSSSS- 8288S8S2SSS888SS3 88888888888888333 a a 3 s ' 8 fl Jj !::::: : ; : . ; s 4 d at the Post Office at Wilmtgtoo, Second Class Matter.l N. C, a SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Te iubwriptlon price o( the Weekly Star to M Copy lyearge paid u " o months .. 1 .r n.M.il SI 00 8 months . SO Have you received a bill for sub scription to the "Weekly otak re jjotiy? If so, is it correct? If cor rect, why not pay it? Is there a man nn earth who can print a newspaper for nothing, and pay the postage be sides? Can a farmer give away his turn, and cotton, and wheat, and. chicuens, and eggs, and keep out of the poor-house? If so, let us have ,v red oe. It will be valuable to ns in-. i jiK lloW. DEMOCRATIC NOBIINBBS. FOR CHIEF JUSTICE: James E Shepherd, of Beaufort. FOR ASSOCIATE JUSTICES: Wilier Clark, of Wake.. lames C MacRae, of Cumberland. Srmistead Burwell. of Mecklenburg. . FOR STATE TREASURER: S,muel McD Tate, of Burke. !0R REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS: First District W A B Branch, of Beaufort. - Second District F A Woodard, of Wilson. Third District John . G Shaw, ol Cumberland, Fourth District Charles M Cooke, ol Funklm. Filttr District A W Graham, of Gran- lilie. Sixth District J A Lock hart, of An son. -Seventh District John S Henderson. olRoan. i Eighth District W H Bower, of Cald- nll. ' ' Ninth District W T Crawford, of Haywood. FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES : Third District Jacoo Battle, of Nash. Fourth District W E Allen, -of Wayne.- Eight District B F Long, of Iredell. 1 Ninth District w N MCDane, ol Rockingham. Tenth District W. B. Council, Ir of Watauga. Twelfth District 11 B Carter, of Bun combe. FOR SOLICITOR. First District W M Bond, of Chowan. SeconA District W E Daniel, of Hai ku. Third District John E Woodard. of Wilson. Fourth District E W Pou, of Job n . Hon. ' Finn District E S Parker, of Ala nance. Sixth District O H Allen, of Lenoir. Seventh District N A McLean, of Robeson. Eighth District Emory E Raper, of Davidson Ninth District W Wilkes.. Tenth District W W Barber. C Newland, L Webb, of ol Caldell. Eleventh District J Cleveland. Twelfth District Geo Macon. of ol A Jones, RBW HaNOVER COUNTY TICKET. For House ot Representatives : THOMAS W. STRANGE. HERBERT McCLAMMY. For Sheriff : .. JOHN J. FOWLER. For Clerk Superior Court : JOHN D. TAYLOR. For Register of Deeds: IIOHN HAAR. Jr. For Treasurer: JAMES COWAN. For Coroner: W. H. BIDDLE. for Constable, Wilmington Township ; J. W. MILLIS., For Senator Tenth District, New Han over and Brunswick ; RUFUS GALLOWAY. The theatre-hisser has been sus tained by a New York Judge, who. "as decided that the man who pays "is admission fee has as 'much right t0 hiss a performance which he doesn't like as others have to, pound ,tle floor and applaud. That Judge ould also hold, no doubt, that one an would have just as much right l tnrow a cabbage or a bunch of onons as another has to throw an mtul of flowers. Hiram S. Thomas, a boss colored waiter of New York, who is said to Je worth $200,000, has caused a flu"yin Brooklvn bv coiner into a t0Dy-part of the town and buying a residence. The bon-ton white folks .Jon't want him in that bailiwick, and obi l.niknow ho to keep him . lhe nrftnprtv num... t H to buy the house from him, but e Will nn oil . . o r"". on wnat tne notise enst -"ie time last Summer Thomas .. - lcu irom a rocker on a -ana injured himself. By the me that report reached Italy it had J"" 'auing from the fifth-story win w of his houses. This shows how cs grows and climbs as it travels. A t:..i . ' tue Louisiana darkey thirteen old is creating a sensation in "anta ty preaching sermons re jajkable for their force, grace and "HUH. VOL. XXV, WHICH DID THE LEAVING! Capt. W. H. Kitchin in his speeches says he didn't leave the Democratic party, it . was the Democratic party that left him. That is about the only excuse that men like' Kitchin . who either through pique or ambition tarn a political summerset can offer the party left them, they didn't leave the party..; .. -.-"7 ':r,' -'-rr :. , r The Populists of this section call themselves Jeffersonian. Democrats, and claim, like Kitchin, who isn't a full-flegged" Populist " yet, ; that the Democratic party has left them. It left some ot them very suddenly, so suddenly that they never discovered that t had taken its departure until they saw, or thought they saw, an office within reach by becoming a Populist or half Populist and half Republican. " ' When did. the Democratic party leave Mr. Kitchin? He was . with it so folly np to the time of the last elec tion that although he threatened to bolt and stump the State azainst Cleveland if he was nominated, he swallowed Cleveland and made speeches for him. . He was with it after the election for he put in a bid for an office and although he didn't get what he wanted he got i an easy job in a very nice town to live in New Orleans a job that thousands of men, not so hard to please as the gentleman from Halifax, would have considered a soft snap. But he didn't relish the job, almost a sine care, of inspecting immigrants at a moderate salary. . If the salary bad been larger he might have worried along with it longer and the Demo cratic party wouldn't have left -him yet. . . " ; . But how did the Democratic party leave Mr. Kitchin ? When and where did it slide off from its princi ples and leave him standing alone the sole custodian (if we except the Jeffersonian Populists) of those prin ciples ? The Democratic Congress repealed the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, but it took Repub lican votes to do it. But the Demo cratic platform adopted at Chicago denounced the Sherman act as a cowardly makeshift," and although it didn't in so many words pledge the party to its repeal virtually did so by declaring that everyone should favor its speedy repeal. The phrase "a cow ardly makeshift" was borrowed from Mr. D. B. Hill, whom Mr. Kitchin would have nominated - instead of Cleveland, if he could. He never objected to that declaration of the platform and he couldn't consis tently object because he knew that the Sherman act' was not : a Demo cratic but a Republican measure, which was opposed when before Con gress by the Democrats and favored by the Republicans, who, used it to hold the silver States in the Republi can column. After the election and the Republican party was defeated they were as ready to repeal it as they were to pass it, and none more so than wily John Sherman, who was credited with its paternity. Mr. Kitchin can't claim that the Demo cratic party left him on that, because the Democratic party. had no lot nor parcel in originating it nor in passing it. but on the contrary 'opposed it when under discussion. But the Democratic party has not given us free and unlimited coinage of silver. Perhaps that's what is the matter. , But when did the Demo cratic party promise that? It didn't do it in the platform of 1892, which simply declared in favor of free coin age on certain conditions.. It is true that a great many Democrats were then, (and some of them were in that convention,) and are now in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, but they didn't go off sulking by themselves,- nor go over to the Populist party and get up a little circus of their own to go around and scold the Democratic party r.nd swear it left them, as Captain Kitchin does. If he was consistent and sen sible and really as anxious for free silver as he seems to be he would stay with the free silver Democrats and keep on fighting for it, instead of pulling out and getting up a little guerilla warfare on his own account But he admits that the Southern Representatives and Senators were, with few exceptions right, and voted right on the silver question, and yet he says they have all left him, . be cause they wisely decide to make their fight for it within the party lines. So the Democratic party has not left the Captain on the silver question, because it never committed itself at any time to the free and un limited coinage of silver. That is not a question of principle, anyway It is simply a question of finances. on which financiers and the people of ail parties differ. When Democratic candidates in this State in 1890 favored the free coinage of silver, and the People's party leaders were afraid that this might take some of the ",wind out of their sails, they declared that the free ' coinage of silver -wouldn't amount to a continental, as all the Government could coin if it kept the mints ' running steadily wouldn't amount to more than sev entv-five cents Per capita. That was the ground taken by Col. Polk, their II ;HM recognized leader, who . sneered at it as a tub thrown to the whale, a mere bagatelle not . worth discussing or thinking about, All the lesser Jead- ers, the lieutenants who obeyed their chieftain's orders, echoed" CoL Polk and said it wasn't the free coinage of suver tney wanted Dut a $50 per I capita issue of greenbacks. ; Perhaps Captain Kitchin does not t; m. . ...'tiT.ii . uxe me new tana. - wen, mere are a good many Democrats who would prefer a somewhat different tariff, but they recognize the fact that as they study it this is on the whole a very good tariff, that it will save the people, and especially the Southern people; many - millions of dollars" a year, and they are not going around quarrelling with the Democratic party and swearing it left them, but they are taking the tariff and propose to peg away on the tariff reform line and help to improve it all they can, just as Captain Kitchin should have done if he had acted sensibly and patriotically. In view of these facts we are forced to the conclusion that it wasn't the Democratic party which left Captain Kitchin, but Captain Kitchin who left the Democratic party, and the Democratic party can stand it better than Captain Kitchin can. MTHOK MEHTI0I. The vv auesDoro Messenger says that when Captain Kitchinspoke in that town be refused to say, when the question was put to him, whether be would vote for Faircloth and Furches for Supreme Court Judges. It was a rather embarrassing ques- it to him, for he couldn't well say that he would vote for two representative men of the Republi can party, which he has been de nouncing for years and still de nounces, and he couldn t well say no, fori that would be throwing cold water on the fusion, in whose in terest he is working and making those tremendously long speeches. He did the only thing he could have done under the circumstances. snapped his jaws and said nothing. A man in his position, who when a question like this is put to him can say nettner yea neither nor nay, must like a fellow feel something setting astride of a barbed wire fence with nothing above to hang on to. But isn't this one-half the "new par tisan judiciary" that Marion Butler and the other Pop machine mana gers are asking tne people whom they are attempting to lead and hum buging to vote for? And one Of them for Chief Justice. Marion and the other Pop fusers plume themselves on being Jeffersonian Democrats, too, that is better, purer, stralghter Democrats than modern Democrats, who can't see any Jeffersonian. or other Democracy in conspiring with Republicans, and nominating and supporting Republicans for office, the most responsible offices in the State, on tne nypocnticai pretence mat they want to make these offices "non partisan." We are disposed to half way sympathize with the "Jefferson ian Democrat " Kitchin, in his em barrassment, but we can't help des pising the gauzy hypocrisy of the Marion Butler "Jeffersonians." Mathan Straus, who has been nominated for Mayor of New York by Tammany, is the philanthropist who has established those coal; milk and cheap food stations in that city, which, have enabled so many poor people to get the necessaries of life at a price that they could afford to pay.) The poor of the city will doubtlhss show their appreciation of his benevolence by giving him a rousing vote for the office which he did not seek. He is not only benevo lent but is a man of fine ability. A Colorado newspaper reporter has discovered that Governor Waite pays no taxes. Neither did the man whom the Populists of Arkansas nominated for Governor." They do their tax paying in howling against those who do pay taxes. The Savannah News says Chair- man! Clay, of the Democratic Cam- paign Committee of Georgia, was handicapped by alleged Democratic naoers Dreaching Populism almost I i . w under his nose. ROBESON REPUBLICANS. Mass Meeting of Colored Bepublioans at M-rtnn Thar Besudlata Fusion and Nominate a XgttlaUTe Tloket. j Special Star Telegram. Maxton, N. C Oct. 18. A large mass meeting of prominent coloied men from all sections of Robeson county was held here to-day. R. B. Russell, editor of tbe Maxton Blade, presided. and Frank Leach was secretary. Several enthusiastic speeches were made and the I meeting was a unit for straightout Re Dublicanism. except: Mitchell Smith, of Lumberton. who announced himself a straightout Democrat since the white Republican leaders have been swaiiowea bythePopsl The following legislative ticket was nominated but the matter of a county ticket was left to a committee: For the Senate, D. r. Allen, ot Lum berton. a prominent colored educator .n thi. nart nt tha State: tor the House, Guy H. Leach, of Maxton, and H. W. Betbea. of Pates. Both- are prominent .colored teachers and stand high in tne am rif hntTi rarM. The colored people m most parts. of Robeson will not take xinaiy to fusion." "C6n- WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRID!A:Yt OCTOBER 19r 1894: ; LOCKHARJ AT WRIGHT3VILLE. tat Democrwio Bally An Addrwa That Created Maoh EnthuaUam Dinner nd Or ate Boast Mualo Tut Banorer '-Cornet Band. .. ; :v:'!'i.Cfr- A train of cars filled' with , enthusiastic friends of the Democratic candidate for Congress -from this district pulled oat irom tne - rnncess street deoot ot tne Sea coast railroad promptly at 11.80 a. nu yesterdav, and at 12.80 the large gather m was called to order by Capt. E. W. Manning. Chairman - of the Township Committee, who in a few well chosen re marks introduced Mr. J. A.' Locknart as the next member of Coneress from this Congressional district. 'Ui . I IMr. Lockharf, in 'acknowledging the complimentary introduction, paid- well- merited recognition, to tne Democracy of the Cape Fear section, and in a speech of an hour and a halt- delivered, one of the ablest and most lucid : arguments in behalf!of Democratic principles: one that could but convince the most skeptical and awake, to renewed r exertion, the bardestieorker ei the nartv. -.' At the cftnr1n!nn rd ! tf-nrkhattV . address, Maj. C. W. McCiam my, Pen der a favorite son. was called upon and received with unstinted applause. . To say that the Major's speech, deliveredjn that happy catchy style, which is his alone, was enthusiastically received, would be but to convey a faint impres sion. - .'Ii". - The music for the occasion was fur nished by the Hanover Cornet Band and was excellently rendered. The din ner and oyster roast were gotten up in that degree of perfection of which Capt. Manning is par excellence. S. A. Ii. Bamon. l The Norfolk Virginian has the fol lowing in regard to rumored Changes to take place on tjbe Seaboard Air Line: Ever since the arrival and departure of Mr. R.C. Hoffman, President of the Seaboard Air Line, and Mr John C Winder, Vice-President of : the same, there has been vague rumors that there will be a general stir up among the offi cials ot the road. The Virginian repre sentative made diligent inquiries yester day to learn what there was in them, and was told by those in a position to know that mum was the word, and that all be could do was to await developments, which might take place after the 15tb, but they might occur before the 1st of November. However, he was assured tha quite a surprise awaited some of the employes. j i city markets! Poultry In Poor Supply Vegetables and Fiah Abundant. Poultry continues scarce and in de mand. The markets last evening were almost bare of fowls, which sold readily at S0S5c apiece; spring chickens, 15 25c. Fresh meats the best of beef. veal and mutton were in " abundant supply and sold at unchanged prices. Coots sold at 35c. per dozen; crabs, soft shell, 50c.; channel. 10 to 12Jc; oysters, from the sounds, 20c. per peck in the shell, and 10c per quart shelled. I tin vegetables, there were sweet pota toes in abundance at 5c per quart and 50c per bushel; cabbage. 5 to 10c per Head; olera, two quarts lor oc; tomatoes, oc. per quart; turnips, oc per quart; grapes. 5c per quart. r isn were plentiful, mullets selling at 10c per string; flounders, 15 to 20c; stur- 5c pergeon pound. ; A SHARP BLADE. A Colored Republican Editor Expresses . Hi Views. ; The I Maxton Blade, a Republican newspaper, edited bv a colored man. thus scores the white leaders of his party who are trying to drive the colored , Re publicans into the Populist camp: ; Ever since colored men were clothed with tbe robes of citizenship the white Republicans have taught them that it was a crime to vote any other than a straight Republican ticket, and now be cause they persist in doing what they have been taught to do, they are called rebels. They refuse to be driven into the Populist camp, and for this they are called all manner of hard names. The fact is, the white Republicans are the rebels; they are the traitors, for they are seeking to sell tbe colored vote to the Populist party. Tney will not be able to deliver the goods, however. A Heavy Transaction. j: One of the biggest deals on record in this, section was made yesterday, by which Commodore Sam. Bear became "seized and possessed" of theentire cargo of phosphate rock of the wrecked schooner Baizley, now supposed to be somewhere on Frying Pan shoals. The cargo was sold at auction to the highest bidder by Messrs. Cronly & Mor ns. There was a large attendance ot capitalists, all eager to purchase, and the bidding was spirited, tint -commodore Bear beat the-crowd in purse and Buy ing qualities, and after a hot contest the entire cargo was "knocked down" to the Commodore for one dollar ana seventy five cents. ;! Severely Hurt. f The cook on the British steamship Terra had his left arm severely cut yesterday afternoon by an explosion of a glass jar filled with yeast which be was : carrying under his . arm: The cot ; was a severe T one, about two inches long, ' severing the muscles of the fore-arm and cutting two arteries, which caused a hemorrhage. Capt. B. Peterson telephoned at once for a carriage, and took him to the Marine Hospital; but no doctor being there, tne iniured man was taken to Dr. Bulluck's office, where his wounds were attended to. He bled profusely. Last night he was resting easy. Treshet in the Cape Veer. There is a big freshet in the upper Cape Fear. Advices to the Weather Bureau yesterday morning were uw at 8 a. m. there was 47 feet 4 inches water in the river at Fayetteville; a rise of is feet 8 inches during tbe previous 24 hours. The water then was still rising and the lowlands along the river were flooded.. Schooner Lost. The schooner' Mina Belle, Capt. Thompson, bound from Philadelphia to this port, with a cargo of coal, was to tally wrecked in the hurricance of Tues day last. This information was .wired to Messrs. Geo. Harriss, Son & Co. yester day but the locality of the disaster was not stated. . i One of tbe Very Best;; Durham Times. Last Sunday the Wilmington Morn ing Star was twenty-seven years old. During this time it has been owned and controlled solely by the present editor, W. H. Bernard, who should be proud of running the oldest daily in the State, and at the same time one of the very best. May it reach its fifty-fourth anniversary under the tame management. ;-;isi. AaXj , iff, - -K- INTERESTING FIGURES! The Bemarkfcble Depreciation of Prloea in the Jbest Twenty-fire Teen. ' C A correspondent of the New York Herald writes as follows : .One notable feature of the business sanation Is the great decline . la prices. and this is not confined toany one art!-, cle or any one' country. .Manufactured aad: natural products alike are affected ; textflet, hardware and food aO show the same tendency.?' In the latter branch of commerce tome remarkable instances are given by the American Grocer in a review of its market reports for twenty five years: j ; Flour per barrel....... 62 $3 80 - Fork per barrel. . . ... .' 81 04 18 80 " Lard per pound.... .... . 18& Vt Sugar per pound 18.83 04.85 Tea per pound 59 23 Rieejper pound . C 06 J"0H ' Canned goods show even a greater de preciation ,in values. ; Cotton : prints i quoted at fourteen cents ' per yard, in I88i are now selling at four and-a naif. cents. Steel rails in 1869 cost -$183 per. ton; now Ezl. la some ot these branches special inventions or processes have had their influence, but in others thesevl conditions do. not exist. The great est decline in most articles has occurred in the last decade, and the tendency has been more pronounced in the last three years than in any previous three years. Naturally this great change has caused both students of political econo my and business men to study the cause or causes, l Some are disposed to at tribute it to tbe adoption ot gold as a standard of values and the demonetiza tion of silver. Others contend that in creased facilities tor production and dis tribution are responsible for it. A care ful study of the situation leads the non partisan, dispassionate observer ; to the conclusion that both of these forces have contributed to the result. It is perfectly evident to all, however, that we have been passing through a transi tion period such as - the world has seldom seen.. The average producer, manufacturer or . trader has bad to contend against a steady shrinkage in the value of the articles produced or handled, j The only exceptions have been those protected by a monopoly in some form. Exclusive production has protected some. Patents have protected others. Trade marks or unusual excel lence others. Manufacturers ot proprie tary articles, for which they have estab lished a demand by skilful advertising, have been among those who have been exempt from the general tendency. They have bought their raw materials at a constantly decreasing cost, and, being able to control the selling price of their products, have reaped a profit which those who were exposed ito the full force of competition have not. Steam and electricity, great factors in distribution, have been the great levellers of values. THE C. S. AND N. ROAD. There's Nothing the Matter with the A. O. lb And the Walter Telecxam Is Satis factory to Wilmington. Says the News and Courier of yester day: I When the report first reached Charles ton that the Atlantic Coast Line had bought tbe Charleston, Sumter and Northern Road, the editor of the News and Courier sent a dispatch to Mr. H. Walters, president of the Atlantic Coast Line . system, telling him of the rumor current here, and asking him what the purchase of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern meant for this city. The fol lowing dispatch, confirming the news that has already been given in the News and Courier, has been received from Mr. Walters at Petersburg: ."The Charleston, Sumter and North ern Railroad Company is an insolvent company which has never earned its operating expenses. Our lriends nave purchased some of its securities. If it passes into our control we will endeavor to make it possible to maintain it as a railroad and every interest that Charles ton can have in the business along its line will be safer than when at the mercy of an insufficient company. After the Scalpers. The Charleston Post says: -?It is said that the Southern Passenger Association has fixed the rates of Winter tourists at two cents a mile each way and that there will be an effort to put a stop to the work of the ticket scalpers in the selling of winter tourist rates. Stop-over privi leges will be granted just as heretofore, but they will be manipulated on a differ ent line of operations. The passenger desiring to secure a stop-over ticket will have to go to the ticket agent in the town he wishes to stop and deposit his ticket with him, getting a receipt for it. When he goes to leave the town he will have to go to the ticket agent and get his ticket again, and along with it be will get a 'paster.' showing the length of the stop-over, and on what tram the passenger must leave town on the con tinuance of his jonrnev." - -Atlantis Coast Line Hotels. A correspondent of the Star, writing from Weldon, says: "Mr. . H. Gaul, who has been connected with the A. C. Line hotel here for a number ot years, has been appointed General Manager of their hotels, to succeed the lateT. D. Mann. This is a well-merited compli ment. Mr, Gaul is well and favorably known to the travelling public, and will do all he can for their comfort.' Maxton Cotton Factory. The Maxton reporter of the Robesonian says: "Maxton has had a small cotton fac tory ready for operation for several months, but the orders for: the yarn which it was designed to make were so low that it would not justify a start. But since the repeal of the Republican tariff there is profit in sight. . Hands are being hired and in a few days our mtie town will have the hum of the spindle sound ing. It will be sweet Democratic music, too." "An Ornament and Example." .That staunch Democratic journal, the Wilmington Star, was twenty-seven vears old on Sunday last, and celebrat ing, this good age for a daily in North Carolina, it Increased its size to eight columns to the page. The Star has been an important factor in the history ot the State, and we wish it long life and , increased prosperity. Durham Sun. : The! Caswell News most cordially "seconds the motion." The Star .re ferred : to is counted among the most valned ot our exchanges, and is certainly an ornament and example of what North Carolina journalism should be. The British steamer Mayfieli cleared yesterday for. Liverpool, with 8,- 827 bales cotton, valued at $252,589. Ves sel and cargo by Messrs. Alex. Sptunt & Co. Btae. ABOUT C0TT01T. No Speculative Buyjms A Steady Fall In Prices that Only a Bic Frecse Will Stop. Hubbard, Price $ Co.s Weekly Cot ton Letter says: ' There is little difference in the condi tions surrounding Ithe cotton market, from those which apparently surround every other product of the soil in evsry country of the worjd. Namely, that na ture, this year, seejms to have devoted herself to producing a bountiful crop of every article needjed by man, witb the exception of corn fend flax, and the .re sult is that merchants of the oldest standing in trade ajre aghast at the prices which are being accepted by the produ cers for their products. Naturally this condition of aflaus has driven speculation entirely .a way from all markets, and tbe trade looks with envi ous eyes -upon tne spinner a position, who is enabled to! dispose of bis yarns at such a price that all his operations are being conducted at a profit, as the raw material . is daily tailing below tbe point which his most sanguine expecta tions led him to believe would be touched before the end of tbe crop year. While cotton slowly declines and is now-ot the lowest point touched, it is curious that no reports ot damage to the .crop, either by storm or frost, cause any anxiety as they would in other years, but are passed over' as simple incidents of climatic influences, which are if . any thing lor the benefit of the crop rather than injury, and dhe idea has now be come almost a positive conviction that this crop will exceed 9,000,000 bales. The question which is presented to the trade is what willf become of the surplus above the. requirements of the spinners. which is variously estimated from 8,250,- ouo to 8,oou,00U bales. h.ven Mr. unison has finally been n verted and sees no nope for the market it tne anticipated crop Of 9,000.000 is realized, 'and expects that tbe addition pi 750,000 bales of cot ton to tbe visible supply would have the effect of dragging the market to a very low basis. Certainly there seems at tne moment nothing! to interfere with this conviction, and it is fouhd in the mind of every man connected witn the Busi ness, that there bin be no prospect of any advance in cotton unless some de- cided.gccident should occur to the cotton CTOP- . . . . . . . At the present time there is a nuie hesitancy as to) pursuing the decline further, becauseiof . tbe knowledge that this is the critical moment, when a frost may make or mar tbe cotton crop. Up to the present time the cold waves have each of them been passing to a lower point in the booth, and this last one, which reached its lowest on the morn ing of Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, made thej following records as given by the United States Signal Ser vice Bureau. In the Little Rock district, Brinkl?, 38; Forest City, 32, Fort Smith, 84; Helena, 88; Malvern, 88; Newport, 80, Russellville. 84; Pine Bluff, 40; Little Rock. 42; Paris, Texas. 40; Oklahoma, 40. In the Memphis district, Milan; Dyersburg, Arlington, Tennessee, Cor inth, Mississippi, all report 32 degrees. Bolivar. . Tennessee. SO; Batesville. Mississippi, si; uecatur, Ala bama. 34: Brownsville, Tennessee, 30; Hernado, Miss, 93; Greenville, Miss., 38; Tuscumbia, Ala.,136. We furnish these records without comment, as it is evi dent that at the present time no reports of damage to thej cotton crop by frost will be credited f nless the temperature should fall to freezing point and extend very far throughout the South. There fore the market Remains simply one be tween the consumer and the producer, with the producer striving to sell three times as much cotton to the consumer as is necessary for lis immediate require ments, and without thought of any re ports of curtailment of the current esti mate of the yielf , or of any speculative buying, the price naturally falls in the ef forts of the producer to dispose of his cotton. HOUSEHOLD RECIPES. Tour Good Bedpes for Making Pickles. MUSHROOM PICKLES. Take small buttor mushrooms, wipe clean, put in salt and water and let stand for 48 hours; scald sufficient vine gar to cover tbe mushrooms, add a little cavenne and i mace: drain tne musn- rooms, pour the vinegar over when cold and keep in a cool, dry place. CHOW-CHOW. Four onions, six stalks of celery, two dozen tomatoes, one head of cabbage chopped fine. Boil in one quart of water, then drain; take two quarts vine gar, two pounds sugar, oneUablespoonful mustard, tnree t&Diespooniuis mixea spices. Boil all together. PICKLED GRAPES. . The large dark grapes are preferred. Wipe clean and pick off stems, then weigh. To six pounds of fruit use one quart of vinegar and three and a half pounds of sugar, some stick cinnamon and a few whole cloves; add the sugar and spices to the vinegar and cook to gether; put. the grapes into heated glass lars and cover with hot vinegar, screw the covers on same as for canned fruit. VIRGINIA MIXED PICKLES. Take four dozen large cucumbers, half a peck of full-grown green potatoes, a dozen white onions, two heads ot cab bage, half a pint of grated horseradish and fourth of a pound of mustard seed and ground pepper each, one ounce of cinnamon, one ounce of celery seed, half a teacup of saud oil and two ounces of tumeric Quarter the cucumbers, cut the tomatoes in thick slices, chop the cabbage and onions, sprinkle with a pint of salt, let stand for twenty-four hours and drain. Mix tbe spice and seasoning in a gallon of strong vinegar, scald and pour boiling hot over the pickles, let stand two days, reheat the vinegar, add a pound of brown sugar with the oil, and pour over tbe pickles. A Skeleton Unearthed. While workmen were engaged in digging a flower-pit in Jthe garden in rear of the residence of Mr. Joseph H. Hanby, corner of Eighth and Dock streets, a skeleton was unearthed about three feet below tbe surface The bones indicated that it wa the body of a large man. Several hundred people stopped to look at the skeleton, and surmise and wonder. - Those familiar with the facts attach no importance to or surprise at the find. "Clean, Neat and Newsy. Washington Progress The Morning Star, of Wilmington N. C one of the cleanest; neatest. newsiest and best edited dailies in the South, comes to us permanently en largedV this week. The Star Is just twenty-seven years old, and has never chanced name or ownership. . ims is a magnificent record, ine star is ai ways gladly read in this othce. May its wholesome light shine in every tarheel household. NO. 50 A- C L. TRAIN HELD UP BY SEVEN MASKED MEN NEAR QUAN- TICO.VA. 1 The Express Car Blown Open With Dyna mite and the Safe Plundered One Hun dred and Slahty Thousand Dollars Said to Have Been Taken The Bobbers ijseepe One Thousand Dollars Beward Offered for the Attest of Any of Them. - By Telegraph to the Moraine Star. Richmond, VAn Oct. 12. The North ern bound passenger train on the Rich mond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Rail road which left here at 7 o'clock to-night was held up near Quantico. The engi neer and fireman were forced from their engine and the engine was cut loose and sent ahead. The express car was then entered, the messengers covered with pistols and the safe blown open and robbed. Tbe runaway locomotive was stopped at Quantico by obstructing, ihe track. . ...... Richmond, Va October 15 --Itis stated here to-night that there was an unusually large amount of money on tbe train, probably $50,000. The robbers, seven in number, were masked and did not blow open tbe safe, as first reported. i ney iorceq tne messenger to open it. lhe railroad company bas offered XI.- 000 for the arrest ot any one of tbe robbers. I. t The Express messeneer. B. F. Crutch - field, and his helper, H. Murray, barred the doors of the Express car, but these were blown open with dynamite. Alter the robbery the thieves, made off wifh-their booty in the direction of the PotomacTriver, where it is supposed they had a boat in waiting to take them to tbe Maryland side; Some of tbe rob bers entered tbe passenger Coaches. i he operator at Brooks, six mils from Quantico, discovered ' that tbe -engine was "wild" as it passed his station and telegraphed to Quantico; where a switch was thrown so that it was brought into collision with two loaded freight cars and wrecked. Had tbe locomotive been permitted to pass Quantico it would bave collided witb the Southbound passenger train.' i As the train approached Aquia Creek. two men stepped out and commanded the engineer to stop the train, which he promptly did. When the train had come to a full stop the two robbers were joined by five others. -The robbers then blew open the express xar with dyna- mite and picked out the pacsages con- taming money. Conductor Birdsall notified the pas- sengers of wbat had asked tor a revolver. happened and Not one of tbe passengers was armed, j The expresss-messenger: made an at tempt at resistance and fired two shots at the robbers, who opened fire on him. wounding him in the left arm. Tbis was the only resistance attempted. Tbe express messenger said that the safe contained 1150.000. The robbers secured this and all of the express money. It, is will loot up to packages containing thought this amount about $180,000. A Targe amount of tbis money was shipped from Richmond. Washington, October' 13. Aston ishment is the feeling uppermost con cerning last night's train robbery, within twenty-five miles of the city. The de tails are as follows: ! The train held up was the North bound train on the Richmond, Freder icksburg and Potomac road, leaving Richmond at 7 o clock last night. The train left Fredericksburg at 8.55 o'clock on time. Tbe robbery occurred near Aquia creek, between Brooks Station and Wide Water, an j exceedingly wild part of the country, entirely suited for the purpose. It is not known at what point the robbers hoarded the train, and the first intimation anybody had that trouble was brewing was when two men jumped from the tender down into the cab, and levelling revolvers at the aston ished engineer and fireman, ordered them to stop the train. The engineer hesitated for an instant, but when informed that he must stop the train or be killed, he closed the throttle, and the train, which had been running at- about j forty miles an bour, slowed up, and finally came to a complete standstill. The fire man and engineer were ..compelled to leave the engine and sit quietly on the bank alongside the track. Then the bandits, who were seven in number and all disguised by masks or handker chiefs, tied over the lower part of their faces, made for the Adams Express car, which was in charge of Messenger T. S. Crutchfield. One robber entered the car. As described by crutcnneid, he was of heavy build and dressed like a farmer, although he seemed to thor oughly understand the express business. He had a red handkerchief over the lower part of his face. , iwhen the train was stopped, says Crutchfield, "I opened the door of my car. The robber fired a shot at me. I dodged back and closed the door. He called 'Open that door.' I did not do it. 'Open tbat door or i n blow the whole car to pieces witn dynamite. "Then he threw a suck ot dynamite. It struck the door and shattered it and tbe casing. " The force knocked me off my feet, i then opened the door, une robber came in and made me open the safe. He took everything. There was one package which he must have thought contained only papers, for be threw it into tbe box. It contained so.ouo. men he said. 'Open tbat other safe.' 'That is simply a dead-head safe,' I explained The h l it is. be roared, "snow me vour way-bill lor it. l started to get the bill and he said, 'Keep your hands up. Show me the paper, 1 11 get it. He looked at the bill and was satisfied that the second safe contained nothing. which was true. "The man was very cooi all the time We had seven or eight through express potrnches, each containing packages oi monev: how much, I cannot guess. The man cut a small slit in each pouch and took every package." Crutchfield then says there may have been $150,000 in the packages. The rob berv occupied about twenty minutes The night was dark, the place selected a deeocut. The engineer and fireman sat on the bank on one side of the train dur ing the whole robbery and were not ten feet from two or three of the robbers as thev fired shots into the air. The man. who entered the car seemed to be the leader, although a man on the outside with a hish-key voice bad a good deal to say about things. This man was tall and ran about a good deal. He drove Charley, the porter, who rushed ahead at first, thinking that tramps were shoot ing, back into the sleeper and fired two shots at him. The train crew, the postal clerks and messengers were thoroughly cowed, the terrific dynamite explosion having caused them to fear tbat they would be blown to pieces at any moment. Conductor Birdsong, who is -one ol tbe oldest conductors on the road, one of those in the rear coaches, showed fight. He passed through the train, asking each passenger whether he had a revolver. - and finally succeeded in finding a small one. Armed with this he stationed himself at the head of the ladies' car, cautioning the passengers to keen their seats and remain auletv tie He coolly asserted that he would kill foot on the plat- form. - All the sengersthid their valuables, and : ley of them, dropped down in the ieati.Vi..ri' r. fes and between the There were seven postal clerks.in the car ahead of tbe express car. The pos tal car was full of windows and the ' clerks were badly scard. They bad no arms. The postal car had many sacks of registered mail, but no effort was made to touch them. When the robbery had been com- -pleted the tall man who had fired the first shot into tbe express car, gave the word, "go ahead with the engine." The bandits compelled the engine crew ot . uncouple the locomotive, jumped aboard and made good their escape in tbe di- -rection of the Potomac river, where it is supposed they had a boat in waiting to take them to Maryland. . The robbers are supposed to have left the engine before it passed Wide Water, and the. telegraph operator at the sta tion comprehending that somethiug was -wrong, telegraphed ahead to Quantico to lookout for a wild engine. A switch wastbrow just outside of Quantico, and when the engine arrived it was thrown upon the switch, crashed into a number ot freight cars, and in a moment more a huge pile of debris marked the spot where the collision occurred. The engine was thrown on its side and is a -complete wreck. A special was stand ing on tbe main track at Quantico and narrowly escaped being' struck by the runaway engine. Abrakeman had just thrown the switch as tbe wild engine dashed into the yards and out sidetracks into the freight cars. An engine was sent from.. Quantico to bring on tbe delayed train and it arrived v in Washington with its frightened and -demoralized passengers at 11.17 a, m., a little over two hours behind schedule time. The train with tbe rifled express car, stl in charge of messenger Crutch field, was immediately switched on to the New York train, and ten minutes after its arrival was on its way to New York. Tbe railroad company has placed a reward of $1,060 each on the robbers. A dispatch from Richmond says Gov. O'Ferrall has added adotber thousand dollars to the reward. New York, Oct, 18. No. luither in telligence as to tbe amount of money looted from train No. 78 on tbe R.; F. & P. K. R. could be obtained this after noon at the Adams Express Cos bead quarters. The officials of tbat company were busy receiving reports from the places whence tbe different consignments of money were shipped, and were en deavoring to sum up the total loss. The amonnt stated to have been taken ranged from $140,000 to $850,000. but tbe Adams Express Co. say that it will not . be near the lowest of these figures. The American ENCYCLOPMC DICTIONARY. 35 Farts How Ready. Cheaply and easily obtained through The Star." It Contains 250,000 Words, Covering nearly 4,000 pages, and was compiled at an expense aggregating $600,000, extending over nearly 20 years' continuous labor ol men well qualified to undertake such an exact ing task. 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