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WILLIA JO. JJBIAMAJ f j Editor and Proprietor, v. WILMINGTON, N. C Friday, April 26, 1895. SJ In writing to Change yoar address mlnayt ghra fyrmtr direction as well aa full particular! i aa whera yon wish your jxrper to be lent hereafter. Unless yon do both changes can not be made. 1ST Notice of Marriage or Death, Tribute of Re spect. Resolutions of Thanka, e am chaiged f or a; ordinary advertisements, bat only half rates when paid for strictly in advance. At this rate 60 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death, car- Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters will register letters when desired. ' &r Only such remittances win be at the nsx oi tne publisher. ' Specimen copies forwarded when desired. WHAT A COHTRAST. ... . f '-af"usk We Deiieve it was VrencTat uiaui. iri that th rMrineratic party could always be depended upon to do Vjhe wrong thing at the right time," a fact to which the Republi can party . is indebted for its long lease of life. When in 1890 the peo ple revolutionized the House of Rep resentatives and replaced a large Re publican majority with a still larger Democratic majority and followed this "Dp" in 1892 by turning the Gov ernment altogether over to the Dem ocrats, for the first time in thirty six years, the prospects were fair for an indefinite lease of power for the Dem ocratic party, and if rfow that lease of power is uncertain its leaders have themselves to blame for it. Its whole course of action since it came into . . i lack ot concert amongst Its leaders in and outside of Congress as amazing as it has been disastrous, in marvel lous contrast'to the unityand harmony that marked the conduct of the Re publican leaders inside and out of Congress. 1 '. The Democratic platform of 1892 denounced the Sherman silver act as a cowardly makeshift," which should be repealed, but the party no where pledged itself to an uncondi tional repeal, and when it became evident on the assembling of the ex tra session called to repeal that act that there was strong antagonism within the party lines to the uncon ditional repeal there and then wise and level-headed leadership would have suggested a middle ground on which Democrats could have stood without jarring party solidity or compromising any Democratic prin- Mfalan "Riif Ti ? f Tt fia tinvAnflltiAnal a a , amss uvbul vm 4 U WW V wa-a. MS) repealer nor the conditional repealer seemed to 'realize this, but with a bull-headed obstinacy" each fought on his own line until finally the un conditional repealers backed by Re publican votes won and then and there the silver question became an irrepressible issue. In all that long and spirited and sometimes able and eloquent debate the Republicans, although responsi ble for the paternity of the Sherman act, preserved a masterly silence and listened while Democrats hurled logic, statistics, facts and sometimes invective at each other, and when the time came the Republicans quietly voted but made the Demo crats responsible for all that was said and done in the repeal of that act. Then was the time to have taken the vantage-gumndandettled the coin age question by substituting for the Sherman act a limited coinage which 1 J t- 1 .1 T-V wuuiu uavc sansncu mc ucmocrauc opponents of unconditional repeal in Congress, have satisfied the. people, and shut the mouths of the silver mine owners, or at least made them powerless to continue an agitation which now threatens the intergity of the Democratic party. That same lack of concert ' char acterized the tariff discussion, which came very near ending in a failure and would have ended in a failure if the majority had not surrendered to a handful of protectionists who stood by the interests which they championed with a tenacity which was as admirable as their treachery to the Democratic party was Infa mous. Still despite this the new tanfi was such an improvement on the McKinley monstrosity that the Democratic pledges were in a meas ure if not fully redeemed. With the concert of action there should have been the tariff bill could have beec passed in sixty days, and the work of recuperation of our industries begun before the Fall elections came on, the calamity howler would have been a much less powerful fac tor, and theDemocratic majority of the f 3d Congress would not have been converted into an overwhelm ing Republican majority in the 54th. And yet we have not learned , the lesson of harmony in council and mutual concession as an essential to harmony. Democratic leaders I now seem to have lost sight of every thing but the silver question, and are permitting themselves to be split up into contending factions over a qnestion that can and should be set' tied by compromise, and will eventu ally be so settled by some party. whether it be the Democratic party or not. It is pledged to bimetal lism. It has nowhere and at no time taken a position against silver money. There may.be a question among Democrats as to the amount of silver which should be coined, bat there can be no question as to the continued use of silver as money, Why then should one Democrat pro claim himself, as uncompromisingly opposed to any further coinage save on practically impossible conditions, and another proclaim himself an un compromising contender for the free and unlimited! coinaze , of silver 1 L t 1 M ..Hfl. AltftV wucrj party icaiiy ucuuuu wwi and when a common ground might : 1 be found In limited coinage, begin ning with a stated amount for a specified period, with the under standing that the amount , be in creased as the country demonstrated its capacity to absorb -a larger amount? That would be in the nature of an experiment which this country could certainly stand for a few years whether other nations adhered to the gold standard or not. - But with what seems to us a rash ness that borders on senseless des peration we are, nineteen months in advance of the next ; Presidential election, forcing an issue that the conditions may very much modify by that time, for in the meantime events may so form themselves in other sec tions of the world, and our own bus iness prospects be so materially im proved that the people may take much less interest in that issue than they do now when, just emerging from a business paralysis of three years duration, so many feel the need of money. . The Republican .leaders are not managing this way. There are sil ver coinage contenders in that party, and anti silver coinage men, too, but we do not hear of any silver or anti silver clubs being organized, nor of any agitation or counter agitation within that party's lines. Of all the prospective candidates for the Pre sidency, not one of them . has yet opened his mouth on that question, and of all the recognized leaders not one has yetsaid that the partv should proclaim for or against gold, for or against silver, and the upshot will be that when they meet in National Convention they, will as ; usual pro claim for both. Just now they are saying nothing, but are interested observers of the contentions among the Democrats, ready to take advan tage of any misstep, and pursuing a course of masterly inactivity, in strik ing contrast to the reckless rashness displayed by Democratic leaders. BOTOX KEHTIO?. The Emperor of Japan is showing himself in the hour of victory as well poised and far-seeing as he was bold, able and self-reliant in the day of conflict. - He is not carried away by the glorious achievements of his army that might be well calculated to turn the head of a ruler who ooked only to the present and not to the future. There is none of the ingoist in his composition, and he makes it plain that he has no sym pathy with the jingo spirit which had begun to show Itself more or less among his people. In the proclama tion announcing the treaty of peace between . Japan and China, he re bukes the spirit of aggression" shown by some in the excitement of victory, and warns . them against giving offence to: other nations, and thus complicate Japan's relations with other powers, and that China having paid the penalty of the breach of her .friendly relations j with Japan, must now be treated as a friendly power, and that by gones must be bygones. Having demonstrated her ability to take care of herself, and hold her position amongst the great nations ot the earth, Japan, he says, should culti vate peace and good-will with the na tions of the earth, and devote herself to the avocations of peace, not for getting, however, that the men of Japan are still soldiers, and must always be prepared to bear and defend the standards of their country bravely as they did in the glory- crowned conflict with China. There is wisdom in every line of that proc- amation, the spirit of which shows the Mikado to be as great or even a greater man in peace than he was in war, a great man among a marvel lously great people. The latest from Nicaragua is that three British warships had arrived at Corinto to enforce the ultimatum, but whether this is to be done by shell ing the town and knocking down some of the houses, or by blockading the port is not stated. If the object be to punish the Nicarasruans for their offence to British dignity the former would be the course to pur sue, for the latter would punish for eign merchants doing business with Nicaragua more than it would the Nicaraguans. But we still think that England is playing a bluff game and that she really has no intention of resorting tbshell.orsbot throwing or to blockading. Nicaragua will come to terms before either of these is done, especially as no United States warship has put In t an appearance, jat which, it, Tseems, great surprise is expressed in Nica ragua. Possibly the Nicaraguans have been counting on the interven tionof the United States, and the disappointment in not securing it would, in the event that Nicaragua be compelled to yield to British de mands, lead to an estrangement be tween that country and the United States, which is one of the things that the Britons have been playing for, for then it would be a very easy matter to create a feeling against the Americans who hold the canal con cessions and prevent an extension of these in the event the terms bad not been strictly complied with. With this the main object of the British statesmen in their dealings with Nica ragua would be accomplished. ; Baeklen'sj aVnUcm saUw. ' . 1" bist SALvr in the werld for Cuts, Bruises. Sores. Uldert, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores. Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Corn, and all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to ive ' perfect satisfaction or money re funded. Price SS cents per box. - For sale by K K tsiLUunr. , - The gold fields la Piedmont, North Carolina; are creating a boom in gold mining in that section of the State. There are now a number of prospectors from the West looking at properties and I others are expected It is reported that Edison, the elec trician, has purchased a mine near. Charlotte, where he proposes to de velop his process for the treatment of ores. Some practical, economic pro cess for working low grade ores is all that is necessary to make' gold min ing a profitable business in this State. A man's fate sometimes, bangs by a hair, as it were. The I young man Darant who is under arrest, in San Francisco, charged with the murder of two girls, is somewhat in that fix. A link in the evidence against him is some hairs found on the dress of one of the murdered girls which a micro scopic inspection proves to be similar to the hair of a horse which Durant had been riding the day of the mur der when he and one of his victims were last seen together. " SUPERIOR COURT. Osmi DispMed of at Teateida?' BomIod. The Superior Court yesterday dis posed of cases on the calendar as follows: J. F. Medlin and wife vs. Mary Buiord eta. Judgment for plaintiff. Appeal b defendant to Supreme Court. - S. McD.Tate, treasurer of the State of North Carolina vs. Bank of New Han over and Junius Davit aad R. T. Ben nett, assignee. Continued on account of sickness of Judge Bennett. ' W. J. Corbett vs. Gleaves Hardware Co. Final decree, dismissing receiver. Junius Davis, receiver, vs. Isaac Bates and wife. Decree ot foreclosure. Junius Davis, receiver, vs. Isaac Bates. Judgment.' --,-..,':;.-'- American Trust and Savings Bank vs. Junius Davis, receiver, and J. A. Leak, receiver. . Judgment. Commercial Bank ot Danville vs. Ju nius Davis, receiver, and J. A. L-ak, re ceiver. Judgment. Neilson vs. Schulken. Neilson called and non suited for failure to answer: plaintiff pay costs, taxed by clerk. Harriss vs. Weill. Judgment for plain tiff for $10 and costs. Grant Bros. vs. St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co. Continued by consent. Hansen & Smith vs. Argvle Lumber Co. Judgment signed. Hargrove & Co. vs. Adrian & Vollers. Parties have leave to substitute plead wgs. Union Bank and Trust Co. vs. Junius Davis, receiver, and I. A. Leak, re ceiver. Left open. J. Cohen & Son vs. Imperial Pine Product Co. Fees to Iredell Meares, attorney. t500 and expenses. , Rouse, et aL vs. Davis 6? zoeuer. Motion for expenses of attorney, &c and taxes and costs be allowed. Court adiourned at 1 o clock: till 10 a. m. to-day. THE HOLLAND SHORTAGE. . The Farmers' and Merohanta' Nation Bank Will Hake a Het Iron of About Twenty Thousand Dollars Pottery Added to Embezzlement. TheAfcttf give! the following addi tional details of the Holland embezzle ment in Charlotte. . To a News reporter Dr. John H. Mc- Aden, President of the Bank, said: . "Holland's shortage is between $60. 000 and $75,000. Covering in his pro perty and bis bond, the bank expects to sustain a loss of from $15,000 to $20,000. 'Une of Mr. Holland s methods was to show a credit on his books of money to bis account. In other banks, when In vestigation shows that these credits were false." . Mr. Holland was treasurer of the building fond of the-First Presbyterian Church, and had in his hands $97,000 of the church money. The greater part of this, if not all, had been disbursed as the work progressed, and the report that some of the church money was lost by his failure, is probably not true. A com mittee consisting of Messrs. J. C Bur roughs, George E. Wilson and Thomas Grier, made an examination into the matter and is to make a report at six o clock this afternoon. It was reported that Mr, Holland was placed . under arrest this morning, but the News an state upon authority that be 'has not been arrested. It can fur ther state upon authority that he will be prosecuted for embezzlement at the next term of the United States Court, to be held in this city next June, and that be will not be arrested in the mean time should he make no movement to flee the country. This, then, is the present status of a case that has stirred Charlotte as nothing has done since the failure of the Bank of Mecklenburg. . : The annexed paragraphs are from the Observer oi yesterday; The deeper the affair is. probed the more heinous it appears. Yesterday morning it was discovered that to the catalogue of crime of which the ex-cash ier had been guilty must be added the terrible offence of forgery. A note was found on which he forged the name of Mr. J. H.Sloan for $10,000. The note was on the bank, ' Mr. Sloan was noti fied early yesterday morning. He was greatly distressed over the matter. He had such extensive business dealings. witn Mr. Holland, as cashier ot the bank, and was one of his strongest sym pathizers. aid nt: "l have extolled Mr. Holland so highly to all the banks outside of Charlotte, with whom I had dealings, and I never had anything to distress me more. . . It was at first reported that he had gotten Mr. Sloan for $10,000, but that is not true. . He got the bank instead of Mr. Sloan. It was also reported that Mr. J. D. Church was a loser to the ex tent of $3,000, but this proves by acci dent not to be true. Mr. Church had paid into the bank $3,000 which Mr. Holland had failed to credit, but it was known in the bank that Mr. Church had paid in the money, so - the' bank makes it good. Mr. Sloan states that as far as It can be ascertained the entries on his account were correct and thad always neen so. Mr. Holland has for. years been a member of the board of deacons of the First Presbyterian Curch, It had often been the comment in the church, espe cially among the officers, that for years he bad not taken communion. After the sad denouement took place, be raid to a mend, who went to offer sympathy "You often asked why I did not take communion. Now you know. I had this matter on my conscience, and I could not take communion. , ' aTor .Over Fifty Tear Mas. Winslows Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by millions oi motuers tor their children while teeth Ing, with perfect success. . It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little susdrer immediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow s Soothing Syrup,' anaisxBnootner una. t w,.,nirrtrrri nm r n 1 1 ITT-- . , ' i ...... , ... ..... . ,,, , -. -JaJ RALEIGH NEWS BUDGET THE APPROACHING MUNICIPAL ELEC TION AN ABSORBING SUBJECT. , The Seaboard Air Iain and the IiOOO motive Brotherhood Supreme Conn Iasae Carriers' Claims State; Fair Maea Mett- ' ma In thv Interest ot . the Confederate Monument TJnveillnc. ' ; - -, . Star Corresfondence l:Myr ; -. Ralsugh, April 84. The Republican primaries last night made nominations for .Aldermen in all wards except the second. This ward is hopelessly Democratic. The Republi cans will however attempt to defeat one of the men on the Democratic ticket, whom they consider weak. If a Demo crat will run independent he will be sup- potted by the Republicans.' The nomi nation of Republican . delegates reveals the fact that Tip Wynne will " be nomi nated for Mayor Thursday night without a doubt. .Kemp Merrit will be placed on the ticket for . City ' Clerk and J. H, Alford, loreman oWht Biblical ' Recorder office, will be nominated for Tax Collec tor. Several persons who -attended the Democratic primaries were also promi nent in the Republican ward meetings. This afternoon Mr. Charles Basker- ville and Miss Mary Snow; were united in marriage at Chust s Church. Both parties are quite-popular and the event was a notable one socially. Attendants were here from this and other Southern States. Mr. and Mrs. Biskerville will make Chapel Hill their home. - The committee of engineers from Ab beville teturned home this mormng. They say they jivere highly satisfied with their interview with Mr. Read. They said the same, thing in regard to the con ference they had with that gentleman two weeks ago. ' Mr. Garrison told me there was a slight misunderstanding. which was now amicably settled. The meeting of all the engineers of the Seaboard system to be held here next Sunday is of great importance.. The Brotherhood being a secret oider it is impossible to learn of the object of their meetings..... ' -f i :-; The supreme t-ourt decided wis moraine to make the Jones-Ewart Judg- ship the special order Saturday. Shaffer won bis suit in the Civil Court yesterday, which involves the ; right to valuable property near the city limits. . - . - . a improvements in tne water worxs sys tem and eas plant oi the insane Asyium, which were authorized by the General Assembly, have been started. Senator Fred B. Rice arrived here to day. . .- ' The United States Commissioner is holding court here to adjudicate the claims of letter carriers against the Gov ernment for a charge of overtime The claims here will amount to several thou sand dollars. I .. The North Carolina Abstract and Guarantee Company opened their office for business yesterday.,' They will make titles and abstracts of all real estate in Wake county. At present eighteen copyists are employed and as many as thirty will be given work in a tew days. The committee appointed by tne Agricultural Society to lay the matter of having another State Fair before the citizens of Raleigh, and to try and get the citizens to co-operate in liquidating past debts have issued a circular, which will be placed among the people in a few days. - I : Executive Clerk Hinton says he had a neighbor to die recently -who had been a farmer all his life, started the race of life without a copper, and when he died left a valuable farm of 500 acres, money loaned out on interest and no debts be hind him. This man raised his home supplies, and had not planted over 80 bales of cotton in eight years. "Tell me farming does not pay," said Mr. Hinton. The Governor will preside at the citi zens mass meeting to-morrow night, held for the purpose of arousing Interest and impressing the importance of the unveil ing exercises on the people. f rominent orators will speak. . BOLD BURGLARY. A Score on Karket Street Entered Early Tuesday fright Sothinc Taken but Portion of the Stoek Buined. Mr. H. VonGlahn's shoe store on Mar ket street near Front was forcibly en tered last Tuesday night, but whether for the purpose of robbery or with intent simply to do wanton injury to the stcek of goods in the place is not clear. Upon opening the store yesterday morning the proprietor found that the desk and money-drawer had been opened and ransacked, papers , taken out and scattered on the floor, but no money had been leftover nigh tin the drawer,. and it could not be ascertained that anything had been taken. The counter. however, was covered with fine shoes that had been taken from the cases and cut with a knife so as to ruin them. Altogether, there were seventeen pairs of men's and ladies' shoes, valued at about $75, practically destroy ed. It is thought that the store was en tered early in the evening. A lighted lamp is always left in the place at sight. but that night, Mr. W. L, DeRosset, Jr., whose store is next I to Mr. VonGlahn's, says that when he cloved bis place of business shortly after 9 o'clock, he no ticed that there was no light in Mr. Von Glahn's store. The lamp was found on up per floor of the building yesterday morn ing. The police officer oa that beat wa one of the new men on the force and probably did not notice that the lamp had been extinguished. Entrance to the store was gained by means of ladders on the premises in rear of the building with which the fellow reached the roof and descended through the scuttle, which was unfastened. v u There is no clue to the bold depredator. yet it is said that Mr. VonGlahn has rea son to suspect some one. ft is to be hoped that the guilty person will be iouna put ana punisnea io ' tne iuu ex tent oftbe law. j .'. , tr : The same night a stable in the rear of Mr. Simon -- Sanders' store, corner of Market and Second streets, was broken open and a large ; turkey gobbler was stolen. . J ; ,;,. : . " . The Haval Beaervea Battallion Of&oera Meeting." ', . : ' Newbern fournat: The meeting of the Naval Rf serves Battalion officers was nejd in tnis. city yesterday. Lieut. F, Winslow presiding and Mr. W. T. Hill acting as secretary, and Vf ewbern and other officers being present. After discussing this Summer's annual cruise it was decided to ask the several divisions of the State 3tow the 15th of July would suit them for the cruise and it found satisfactory make that the date. Some other business was transacted. but this is the portion of greatest inter est to the public. I t AM Paavla. " .Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true remedy in Electric Bitters. This medicine does not stimulate and contains no whiskey or other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aiding nature in the performance of the functions.- Electric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old People find it lust exactly what they need. Price fifty cents per bottle at R k BxtutMY s Urug store. f New HanoVer Sank building. It JPlnally does to tne Sattonal JSavk of "V - k Wilmington. j -The Bank, of New Hanover building will become the property of The Na tional Bank of Wilmington, after alL 1 Since the sale to the Atlantic National Bank, which was made subject to con firmation by theSuperior Court, the Re ceiver wat informed' that the National would make an "upset! bid, which, is a bid in excess of the amount for hlch the property had previously sold. After consultation between the Atlan tic and National people it was agreed that sealed bids should be , offered, no bid to-be considered that did not exceed $22,000. This met with the concurrence of Receiver Davis, who agreed to recom mend the confirmation of the sale to the highest bidder, ' , h The sealed bids were opened yester day, that of the Atlantic being $22,222 while that of the National was $23,600. So. the building will become the: prop erty of the National, as there is cb doubt that the sale will be confirmed. ' The property, it will be remembered. was ';knocked. down" to the Atlantic National Bank, at the sale which took place on the 15tb lnsL,at $22,000. 4. Death of Dr. George Howe. -1 Dr. George Howe, son-in-law of Rev. Jos. R. Wilson. D. D. both at one time residents of ; Wilmingtondied . in Columbia. S. C. last Sunday, morning. The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier says : His death was not unexpected, but it will none the : less shock his . many friends. - Dr. Howe stood in the front rank of Souti Carolina physicians and nad a pre-eminent piace nere as pnyst- clan and citizen. He was a son of the distinguished theologian, Dr. Howe, who for years was connected with the Theological Seminary. Dr. Howe was in the prime of life, not over . 43, and leaves a wife and family. He has always been a cons.stent Presbyterian. For years he bad been chief medical exami ner of the Knights ot fytbtas and he bad taken a mcst active interest in the City Hospital and other kindred insti tutions. L - . Dr. Howe died, it is said, from an operation, for appendicitis. Dr. Jos. Price, of Philadelphia, performed the operation, and Dr. Howe's death fol lowed twenty-four hours afterwards. V A. WHOLESALE LYNCHING. Two Ken and Three Women lamohed in Alabama They Had Murdered Then Burned the Body of Their Vic tim. Atxanta, Ga April 21. A dispatch from ureenviiie, Ala., says, rive per sons were arrested yesterday near But ler Springs, this county, charged with the murder of Watts Murphy, a splendid young man and nephew of our former. Governor. Tom Watts. Of these two were men and three women, all colored. Their names ; were: John Rattler, Zeb Colley, Martha Greene, Alice Greene and Mary Deane. Another negro man, who was also implicated, made his es cape. :- - - A posse of brave and determined men. who bad charge of the five prisoners. started from Butler Springs, a distance ot about sixteen miles west of Greenville, about 10 or 11 o'clock last night, with the object of placing them all in the county jail for trial. At 8 o'clock this morning, at a lonely place en route, the party, which was slowly wending its way to the Greenville jail, was halted and commanded, upon pain of instant death, to be still. Probably a hundred brave and desperately determined men, with arms in their hands, took the five pris oners from the guard, hanged them to the limbs of trees and left their bodies dangling in that position. Last week Watts Murphy, the mur dered man, was waylaid, killed and his body cremated. Nothing of his where abouts was known, and hi family be came alarmed and instituted a search for him. One of the old family servants. Zeb, finally told what he knew of the missing man. His confession involved four others, and it was reported that all of the! parties lynched confessed the crime before they were swung up. Drowned Hear Hub. . The remains of Mr. Louis DeWaine, of Hub, N. C, millwright of the Butters Lumber Company, reached here yester day morning at . 11 o'clock. He was drowned in the river about 'three miles from Hub Sunday, while out sailing. Now one was with him, and how It happened - is unknown. . He was sober, I upright, quiet employe and was held in high esteem by the owners being one of the best , men tney ever nan. his remains . were brought to Wilmington for interment in the Catholic Cemetery. The funeral services were conducted at the grave. Mr. DeWaine was a French-Canadian, and came here about three years ago irom Minnesota. The pall j bearers were Mr. Wm. Sheehan and Dr. T. B. Carroll, of this city, and Messrs. J no. F. Traley and ino. Leserge, ot tinb, N. tw. FELL FEo5 A BRIDGE And Almost Instantly Killed at Weldon j . . Weldon, N, C. April 22. Editor Star. Norflett Allen, a very worthy colored man, fell from the S. A Line bridge this morning and wat aim os instantly killed. He was employed by tne oridge company. We are haying fine weather and the farmers ari hnav. The A. C. Line authorities are having meir portion ot tne rauroao sneo re moved. I Many fish are being caught in Roa noke river now.- . A PRESENT TO V. P. ST. JOHN- He la Presented With a Gold Wateh by . Iiooomosive Engineers. Norfolk Virginian. ) Thai Vice President SL John, of the Seaboard Air Line, is held : in high esteem by the railroad employes of the West, j who know him best, has just oeen strongly aemonstrated by the pre sentation to him of a beautiful gold watch, a gift of the locomotive engineers ot the icntcago, Kock island and Pacific rtauroaa company. - - v . -Friday last Messrs. C J. Ringe, of Trenton, Mo., and John Lacy, of Chica go. a committee sent by the engineers Of the Rock Island svstem, arrived here and went to the office of Mr. St. John, in rortsmoutn, only to find that he. had gone I South. - The - strangers nassed their time pleasantly visiting points of interest. Mr. ' St. : John, on his return from the South, received the committee at bis home, in Portsmouth, Sunday afternoon,. where the beautiful tribute of esteem was formally presented. Mr. bt. John returned his thanks in a feeling tetter. .. The watch is very handsome, , the back is deeply engraved. Inside the case is the inscription: , "A j toxen ot friendship from en gineers on Rock island Road, 1805.' s ! -; The modern ITav Commends Itself to the well-informed, do pleasantly and ; effectually what w to was formerly done : in the crudest manner and disacrreeahlv aa well. TrtrUnuth. system and break up colds, headaches ana icvcrs wiinout unpleasant after ef fects, use the delightful liquid laxative rxmcuy. syrup oi rigs. Palnd's Csleiy Compound Best SpringRemeclyiiTthe World - It Makes. People Well. There irone true specific for. diseases arising frojn a , debilitated, nervous sys tem, and that is Fame's celery com- potnxL ao generally prescribed by physi cians. It is probably the most remark- liable remedy that the scientific research of this country nas proaucea. - srtm. Edward E. Phelps, M. D. LL. U.,ot Dart mouth College, first prescribed what is now known the- world over as Paine a celery compounds, a positive - cure for dysper. sia, biliousness, liver compiami, neuralgia, heuraatism, all nervous dis eases and kidney troubles. For the lat ter Paine's celery compound, has suc ceeded again and again where everything else has failed, --r .- -.'- .-'f The medical lournals of thia country have given more space in the last few years to the : many remarkable cases where the uss of Paine's celery com pound hasmade people well than to any other one subject. MILITIA ORDERED OUT TO SUPPRESS A RIOT IN BEAUFORT V., - COUNTY, N. C. . Negroes Threaten to Burn the Town of Bath A H amber of Offioere and Special Deputies Sertonaly Injured Three of the Bloters Arrested. By Telegraph to tbe Morning Star. '" Raleigh, April 22. A special to the News and Observer from Washington,' N. C says: A riot and almost a race war occurred at Bath, Beaufort county, Saturday, night last. Over hundred negroes of the town were drunk and made threats that they would not be arrested. The officers attempted to ap prehend them, but were - overpowered. A number of the officers and . special deputies were seriously wounded. After several attempts the officers arested two colored men. They were placed in the lock-up and guarded by the citizens. Sunday morning; about 7 o'clock, tbe officers with a posse of men attempted to arrest two colored men at Bayside, about two miles from the bay. One-ot them ran towards the woods and the officers fired at him, striking him in the hip and ankle. All of the prisoners were tried Sunday morning and bound over to Court. Later in the day they were taken to Washington. N. u, in a boat. The negroes followed them m boats for a long distance, but were unable to come up with them. The militia was ordered out to suppress the riot, but the mob dispersed about 8 o'clock Sunday morn ing before : tbe . troops reached Batb. Great excitement prevails, and the negroes swear vengeance for the arrest of their leaders. The instigator of the whole affair: Thomas Bonner, has been outlawed. He swearse will not be taken alive, and that the town of Bath shall pay for his life before he dies. It is be lieved that Lanier, the wounded prisoner, will die. WILMINGTON DEALERS INTERESTED. Under Judge OefTa Order Uauor May Be Bens to South Carol taa Referring to the recent order of Judge Goff of the U. S. Circuit Court, the Co lumbia State says The text of Judge Goff 'a decision in the dispensary case shows it to be of the most sweeping character. Until the further order of the court,- there can be no interference with the agents or em ployes of common carriers engaged in interstate commerce 'while transporting, noioing or delivering articles of com merce brought by common carriers into the State,' or 'interfering in any manner whatsoever with articles of .commerce so brought into the State whilst in the hands of tbe consignees thereof. Un der this injunction any one can bring liquors in any quantity into the State and hold them securely. If any officer of State, county or municipality inter feres with such liquors in transit or in the hands of agents or purchasers he will go to jail for contempt of court. inenext ten days ought to break the record for importations." . NAVAL BATTALION MEETING To be Held In STewbera To-day Impor tant Business to be Considered. Newbern fournal: A meeting of all the commissioned officers of the Naval Battalion and the battalion petty staff will meet in Newbern to-day to transact important business. Matters pertaining to this Summer's cruise- will be one of the interesting matters that are to be considered. - A great deal of interest is felt in the cruise this year, which is most likely to be on the RaleigfcThtrt are now a larger number of divisions than heretofore. They are to be found in Newbern, Wil mington, Charlotte, (these are the three oldest). Kinston, Morehead City and Elizabeth City. : The three last have been organized quite recently. The one at - Beaufort has not effected organiza tion as yet, but there is very good pro bability that it will do so in the near future. ' - . . While' the battalion officers are here the Newbern' division will be inspected in artillery by Lieut. Morton, of Wil mington. :'. Tbe officers composing the battalion organization, which meets to-day. are ten staff battalion officers, eight petty staff officers and eighteen cjivision com missioned officers. " IOHN L. SAVES A LIFE. He Tears the Clothing From a Woman in ; FUmes and Probably Bares Her IAS e. ; Boston. Mass April 21, 1895. John L. Sullivan was badly burned in rescu ing a woman from fire in Dover street to-night. A kettle of fat upset and cauftht fire in the kitchen of. No. 5,1 Dover street. Margaret Donnelly, the cook, was spattered with the contents and her clothing caught fire. Sullivan was in one of the upper rooms of tbe house, and, hearing" the woman's screams, be ran to tbe kitchen. He started in to extinguish the flames on the burning servant with his hands. When the clothing had been either torn or burned from her body he real ized that his hands were badly burned. He accomplished his task, however, and probably saved the woman's life. - The police, were "notified and the woman was taken to the City Hospital, where she lies in a precarigns condition. Sullivan asked the police not to men tion the incident, as he did not care to have it get into the newspapers. Steam Taoht Gladys ' The steam yacht Gladys from Jack sonville, Fla, for New. York, arrived here Monday afternoon last in distress. Last Sunday night, thirty miles north of Cape Romain.S. C, her boiler broke down. It was deemed unsafe to hoist sail on the yacht because of tbe high seas, and - so she drifted until- Monday morning. Near Frying-pan lightship she was encountered by a tug from South port and towed into that port and thence up to Wilmington: The necessary re pairs to the Gladys boiler wiU be made here and she will await orders from the owners. Capt. -Reuben Willis, coast pilot of Norfolk, Va Is in - charge of the yacht and Mr, John I. Chambers, for merly of this dty, is engineer. I " . " M rlfWtTniT" TTTrnT nnv T? . I n MR: JOHN H INMAN GIVES HIS VIEWS ON THE SITUATION. , Says He is sot a Manipulator, u. Buys and Bells on His Judgment ZjO: nr : Higher Frloes and a Crop r.o Xxoeedtoc A New York" correspondent : of the Atlanta Constitution tegrspbs that jmk per as iouuwa; . . Your correspondent to cay naa . m short talk .wttn Mr. jonn n. lomin about cotton. He believea.Jn higher, prices for cotton and does not hesitate to say so. He is looked upon here as one of the most successful manipulators o! trie cotton market in the world. - He is keeping all hands nervous by his pres ence on tbe floor of the Cotton Exchange and he is generally credited with engin eerin&r the big rise in May cotton. Io nian. Swan & Co. are supposed to hold more spot cotton tnan any . otner oros erage bouse. Mr. Inman is generally regarded as the strongest man on the exchanae. However, be denies that he 4ias anything to do with the manipula tion of the market. He said to the Constitution s correspondent to-day: . "I simply exercise my judgment at out when cotton is a good sale or a good purchase I have studied the question a long time, and when .my judgment -is fully made up I act-promptly and gen erally 'quite boldly. I always makeup my mind on tne conditions surrounding the market; I have nothing to do with tbe manipulation The cotton' market will run over any man or any combina tion of men who are on the wrong-side. There can be a combination to cither bull or bear cotton when the conditions surrounding favor, but when the condi tions -point one way and tne combina tion another, tbe combination generally suffers.".:-.-:.,!'. ..Vt, LOOKS FOR HIGHER PRICES , 'Then you think .this year's crop of cotton will bring better prices than last year's?" .. ..... r undoubtedly do, and l would ad vise all the farmers in -Georgia to act on that idea and make all the cotton they can this year. I think it is mainly a question of bow much above : 7 cents it will go pow in this market. There has been a tremendous rush from all over the country to sell cotton on this advance, and my private information is that there is less: cotton all over the in terior than there has been for several years, and that two or three weeks hence the interior will be practically exhausted of cotton." ; He says that in his experience of thirty years he has never known tbe po sition ot cotton -to be so strong when the present low price1 is taken intocon- I sideration. V "The price of cotton," Jie continued, jbas advanced nearly 1 cents, and" a moderate reaction "would ' not surprise me, but if the market should sell off 15 or 20 points I am strongly of the opin ion that liberal purchases ' on that basis would show very handsome profits. Jnst at the moment very much depends upon the situation in Texas, which State makes about one-third of the entire crop. There is a protracted drought existing there, which, if it shpuld continue for three or four weeks, would cause the market to go to 8 cents : between now and October 1st. If there should be gen eral rains in Texas within the next ten days, that will cause the market to sell off 15 or 20 points, at which price it will do to buy.-. By general rains I do not mean showers, but steady and heavy rains, aggregating two to three inches rainfall, so the ground can become thor oughly moistened. PLANTING IS BACKWARD. "Preparations for planting the next crop are very backward this year, and as the planting must bacompleted by May 1st, at least the situation in this re spect is far from encouraging. . The main strength in cotton lies in the in ability of the South to make the next cotton crop equal to the last under any conditions. Can this be done ? Tbe acreage of the 1893'94 crop and that of 18M-'95 were about tbe same, and still the crops of the two seasons show a dif ference of-2,000.000 to 2,200.000 bales in favor of tbe latter. The great difference is wholly attributable to tbe phenomenal season of 1894V95, tbe like of which was never before known, and is not again kkely to be repeated. Assuming, then, that the acreage this year will be the same as the last two years, I am of the opinion that the next crop cannot under any conditions exceed that of 189S-'94. which was 7,550,000 bales. "As regards the condition of the planters, I may state that they are so greatly discouraged that their mental and .physical condition is much rnn down. Their stock is not in such good condition as last year, and owing to their distressing financial situation, the shipments of mules for farming pur poses to the South this year will not ex ceed 2.000, whereas the shipments last year were 80.000. Regarding the con sumption of - fertilizers, I do not attach much importance to this matter. MANCHESTER STOCKS ARE SMALL. "American spinners have stocked up. very largely, and are in good condition in this respect. Continental spinners have-followed in a measure, and are still buying large amounts of cotton. But at Manchester the stocks held by spinners are small, while at Liverpool there is an average stock, which, how ever, does not belong to English spin nerr, but it controlled to a - considerable extent by people who have bought for investment. With the rise in silver and prospects of ah early termination of hos tilities between China and Japan. Man chester will not hesitate to supply her self more freely with cotton. "The New York market has been be low the other markets in price since the beginning of the season, and there has been no time when cotton could be de livered to us at less than : JcfQKc p:r pound loss, and that, condition in a measure still exists. The Southern mar;. kets have advanced ss .rapidly as we have, and therefore there is not likely to be any great pressure of actual cotton in tbe market nnless New York prices are worked to a higher level. We have had already an advance of & to cand it is quite natural that we . should have a moderate reaction, but I . believe - that those who buy on the reactions around present prices will in the long run reap bands me profits" ..'.. ". - COOK YsTttEABES. The Criminal Circuit Court case Beady for the Supreme Court. j The papers in the Criminal Circuit Court case C A. Cook vs. O. P. Meares have been prepared by Col, Jno. D. Taylor, Clerk of the Superior Court, and will be sent to the Supreme Court at Raleigh this week. Judge Hoke's judgment is a brief document. After reciting the facts in the case, that Cook was elected Judge of the Court before the act creating the Court became a law, etc , he says: ; "And the Court being of opinion upon the foregoing facts that the relator of the plaintiff is not entitled to the said office of Judge ot said Circuit Criminal Court for the county of New Hanover and others, but that the defendant is en titled to said office,! doth declare and adjudge that the defendant O. P. Meares is entitled of right to the office of Judge of the Circuit Criminal Court composed of the counties of New Hanover and Others, and that the plaintiff and his sureties to tbe prosecution of this action pay the cost, of this action, to be taxed by the clerk. - . , -i Signed W.H.HOKE, ' 'Tudge Presiding, r Johnson's Magnetic Oil kills all pains whether internal or external. 11 size, 50 ?V ? ct. size. 25 cts. J. H. Hardin and J. Hicks Bunting, DUKE Cigarettes MADE FROM High Grado Tobacco Aim . ABSOLUTELY PURE OecMtf ft a w CASHIER HOLLAND EMBEZZLED SIXTY THOUSAND DOL. LARS Of Sounds of the Merohsn s and Fa mer National Bask of Cba-lctte-Has Hide So Effort to Ssospe. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. CHARLOTTE. N C. April 23 -Cashitr J.. R. Holland, of the Merchants' an kFarmers' National Bank of Charlotif it a ociauuer 10 tne amount ol $60,006 or mVe- Bank Examiner Miller his been here for several days, and says he will remain for at least two weeks loneir n wo uc wuu aiscoverea ihs dt- faicauon. Mr. Hollands peculationi have Deen carried on for eight veai. past, andh,e has managed Bntil the Ian few days to bide them from discovm The exact amount of them is not vet folly known. - ' No man in Charlotte has in the past been held in higher tegaifl or been more fully trusted than Mr. Holland, and the whole city was greatly sunrisri shocked to hear of his embezzlement He has not yet been placed undei arrest at the request of the directors of the bank, be agreeing to waive examination incase proceedings are begun ain,t him. He has never made the sligbl enorc xo escape. . Tf I 1 t I... 1 - 1 T aa:ii . Jk . : 1 miner iiuuycu ti vraaiuma on CIS wa? In Charlotte. He examined the Nation Bank there thoroughly, and knew every bans witn wmcn it baa an account or money loaned. He found that bank in good condition and came on to Char lotte. The first day he spent at the Merchants and Farmers' Bank be discovered on looking over cashier Hol land s books, where he had a loan ol $5,000 marked to the Gaston ia bank. He called Mr. Holland up and asked if that was correct. He said yes Mr. Miller made a mental note oi the fact. He next proceeded to look over the cash. He found it short just one dollar. That was easily accounted for and paid. That night Mr. Miller left. No one asked where he was going, but supposed be was through with "bis examination and bad gone elsewhere on the-same errand. He had gone, but only to return. He took the 10.40 train for Gastonia, rung Mr. Jenkins,' the President ol the bank, up, and told him he wanted to look over bis books again. Mr. Jenkins wondered what was up, but said little. He and Mr. Miller spent the night go ing through the books. No loan ol (5,000 to the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank was found. Mr. Miller siir "You have loaned the Merchants' anrt Farmers'-Bank, of Charlptte, $5,000, ol which there is no record." "No," fa.d Mr. Jenkins. "I have not. That was the beginning of the end Mr. Miller said nothing more, but came back to Charlotte the next day. He appeared at the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank and said to Mr. Holland, that be might have made a mistake it counting the cash tbe day before, and believed he would-count it again, h- stead of finding it only one dollar short, he found it $16,000 short.. Mr. Holland, as was his custom, had borrowed $16,000 to put to bis cash while the examiner was here, but thinking he had fin ishedf aad departed, and that be withdrew tbe $18,000 and returned it to was safe at least for ' another year, be the party from whom he borrowed it Seeing that all was lost, he confessed to President McAden that he was a de faulter and the sad story of his fall be came known. . The Merchants! and Farmers' Bank a peneciiy saie, navinga sumcieniresem tund to cover all losses. CASHIER HOLLAND ABSCONDED FROM CHARLOTTE TUES DAY NIGHT. A Be ward of $1,000 Offered for His iwi- Bo Hew Developments as to the 8b.uu St Telegraph to the Homing Star. Charlotte. April 24 J R. H I the defaulting cashier of tbe Meicbanu and Farmers' National Bank, ol tni city, left Tuesdar night and bis where abouts are- unknown. He has not fd been taken tinder nrrr s' " To day United States Mhal Alli son swore out a warrant for him aud i description of him was wired in8"1"! rections. To-day, also, the bank offered a reward of $1,000 for him. There ttt no further new developments as tow shortage.' which is understood to K about $60,000. The bank is absolute safe. It can stand its loss and stiun a good part of its surplus left, witbo the neccatltv rf onino nnon its UD0 Vided profits or capital, The Termors Are Coming. . It is manifest that the next lev will witness a tide of immigration!0 North Carolina from the farming tionsot the North. The Star ban ceived the following letter, and.'won say to tbe writer thatjhe cannot do do ter than come straight to Wilmingto where he can secure all the informti he desires : . Hiuier P. On Lvcs Co- Mich-, Anril 20. 1895- f?vrf nnv 1X7; II ,nn nleaSC 1 . AM . . . 1 - JVM f- . ting up a crowd to move to vnr3 to larm, ; We are all farmers and of like to see one of your papers. . Yours, very truly, - J.H. DENNY, Helmer P. O.. Luce Co.; Micni Two I.tves Saved. fj'j MrsT Phoebe Thomas, of JfJ City, DL, was told by her doctor! r naa consumption, ana mai , If Dr. no nope lor ber, but two doh' - a King's New Discovery completely cu her, and she says it saved her" tm t? . nn t?i: j- Ct Sari r1 Cisco, suffered from a dreadful c' proaching Consumption, tried A result everything else men bottle Of Dr. King's New Discovery in two weeks was cured. 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