North Carolina Newspapers

WILLIAM H. BEBNABD, Editor and Proprietor. - v WILMINGTON, n. c. Friday, June 7, 1895. BT la writing to change your address always &v formtr directional well aa foil particular! i as where you wish your psper to be aent hereafter. Vnleaa you do both chances can net do maae. mr Notices of Marriage or Death, Tributes of Re spect, Resolutions of Thanks, c, are charged for as ordinary advertisements, but only half rates when paid for strictly in advance. At this rate 60 cents will pay for a simple announcement of Marriage or Death. HT" Remittances must be made by Check, Draft, Postal Money Order or Registered Letter. Postmas ters will register letters when desired. Only inch remittances will be at the risk of the publisher. j. Specimen copies forwarded when desired. - CONFLICTING CLAIMS. The gold standard advocates seem to go upon the principle that to make good their side -of the case they must claim the earth, and therefore they answer the arguments of the silver men by asserting that prices and wages have been higher since the gold standard has prevailed than they were in . 1860 when the double standard prevailed. They jump the decade from 1860 to 1870, when prices and wages were high, because they say that-was the era of depre ciated money and therefore not a fair criterion. . But notwithstanding all this they contend that if prices have fallen and wages have fallen since 1873,, when silver was demone tized, the fall has been general, and while the purchasing power of money has increased the farmer and wage earner have not been injured because if they got less fqrjwhat they had to sell or their labor they got more tor the money they had to spend and were therefore as well, if not better off than before. j In other words, jumping the high price period from 1860 to 1870 the1 country was abso lutely benefitted by the demonetiza tion of silver, because even under the gold standard policy prices and labor were higher than they were in 1860 when bimetallism prevailed. We have frequently heard the same line of assertion followed by the advocates pi a high protective policy, who claimed that it was the high tariff which boomed the prices ot farm products by. furnishing a home market for the farmer, boomed wages by creating a demand tor labor, thus bringing prosperity to the country. But when they were claiming all this for. the protective tariff the silver question was not figuring with the energy it is now, as we had subsidiary coinage from 1873 to 1878, and fuller coinage from 1878 till 1890, and then the Sherman " a. L ! 1 lJ t W act, wnicn Kepi me silver agnation down. It is somewhat surprising to find Democrats jborrowing the arguments of the Republican protectionists to defend the position which they are taking now, and they advertise their insineeritv! when thev assort that the farmer and wage earner are more prosperous now than in 1860, before ' the Republican protective tariff eraj set in, when for years they had been holding up that system J as a colossal system -of legalized - plunder which robbed and impoverished the many for the benefit of the few whom it enriched. If the people are more pros perous jiow than they were before that system was invented why did they go around the country de nouncing it as an oppressive and plundering system and demand its immediate and radical reformation ? If it was what they declared it was then the people could not have pros pered! under it, and if the people have prospered under it and are bet ter off than they were before its adoption then it could not have been the plundering system which they said tit was, but must have been a beneficial one, as claimed by the Re publicans who invented it and de fended it: Of the two the Republi can j protectionist is the more con sistent and can lay the better claim to sincerity and honesty. But neither is right. Higher prices and! hip-he waves, as rnmnarpd with . I860, were the result of neither the protective tariff nor of depreciated money. In the first place'they were due to the fact that during- the war millions of men were taken from the walks of industry and called into the army, which decreased labor and also production, making the demand for both greater. At the same time the volume of money increased as labor and production decreased, and there' fore prices went up, and went up all the higher because there was an abun dance of money to pay for both, and although after the war the men who were disbanded from the armies be came producers, thus adding to the number of workers and the volume of production prices did not begin to fall funtil the money manipulators began iu GAciiasc mcir power . in congress to contract the volume of the cur rency. If wages have not been re duced more than they have been it is not the result of the protective tariff nor of the financial system that they are claiming so much for, but the result of the labor organiza tions which have been formed and have had to fight battle after battle for twenty years to keep wages where they have been and are now. The cut in wages began with the contraction of the currency and the cutting would have continued until it got to the bedrock it it had not been for the organizations among workmen. nThe Democratic champions of the gold standard and the Republican champions ot protection should get together and compare notes to pre vent one from invading the territory or the other and appropriating his claims. ; ! MINOS MENTION. f Gpod streets and good roads help not only the looks of the town or section in which they are located, but they have an economic value that is not fully appreciated. It has been demonstrated that a horse can draw three times as much on a hard, paved road as he can on soft ground, and consequently when the streets qr country roads are not paved there are Jwo thirds more horse power em ployed than would be necessary to do the same work if the streets and roads were paved. Considered from an economic standpoint? without any consideration for the draft animals, this means the keeping and feeding of three horses or mules when one would do, an, investment of two thirds more money than is absolutely necessary in that kind of stock, and two thirds more in the cost of feeding. Considering the large num ber of draft animals employed in do ing the hauling in town and country, we may get a faint conception of what this would amount to in the aggregate. Cities of course give at tention to this matter and generally their streets are pretty well paved, but they all do not, especialfy in the South, where there is too little at tention given to it, some of them contenting themselves with paving a few of the principal traffic streets, where it is absolutely necessary. In the rural districts it doesn't receive one-tenth the attention it should re ceive from thpse who are most inter ested, and who tax themselves for bad. roads three times as much as it would cost to construct and keep in repair the best kind ot roads. There is certainly little sense in keeping and feeding three horses to do the work of one. I -i I . i The Philadelphia Ledger, an inde pendent paper, demands that the party platform builders be frank and say exactly what they mean, so that the people may know just where the parties stand and what they repre sent. Illustrating its point it re views the platform: adopted by the Ohio Republican convention, and af ter calling attention to the special features of the financial plank com ments as follows: i , j "Bi-metallism is used as a catchword. Senator Sherman defined it in his speech as meaning the use of gold as the stand ard and the coinage of . fractional silver coins in limited amounts and made a leg 1 tender for small sums. The most advanced advocate of the gold standard does not object to such 'bi-metallism, but the word is not generally understood to have that meaning. An advocate of the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. seeing that the Republicans in Ohio were in favor of bi metallism, would naturally sup pose that they wanted gold and silver coined on equal terms, and that is pre cisely what the platform is intended to mislead them into believing. The poli ticians, from Senator Sherman down, are simply juggling with the question. Sen ator Sherman shows in his speech that the gold standard must be maintained. that the free coinage of silver, would de monetize gold and would be disastrous to the country and especially to the working men : yet along with these honest expressions, he uses phrases that woo Id encourage the silver mea to hope that they might get free coinage through the aid of the Republican party. The Ohio platform is designed with the same purpose, and the statesmen who hope to be nomi nated tor f resident are keeping very quiet, that they also may avoid antag onisms and get votes from both factions. But the silver men have been fooled be fore, and declare that they must have a definite declaration from any man whom they are asked to support. We hope that they will insist upon it and that the opponents of free silver coinage will demand equal frankness. There should be no room for doubt as to the financial views ot any man who aspires to the Presidency; nor should these views be expressed in glittering phrases about sound money and parity of values. The silver men are trying to get unsound money, but they do not rec ognize it as such, and can subscribe heartily to any generality about sound money or honest money. What we want to know of every man who is an aspirant for public office is whether he advocates the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. John Sherman, in spite of his talk about bi-metallism, is op posed to it, and that is all we need to know about his views. Other public men have only to pronounce . for or against free coinage in order to let voters know how they stand with respect to 'sound money A great deal of mystify ing rhetoric can be dispensed with by a simple answer to the question. Are you or are you not in favor of the free coin age of silver at 18 to 1 ? The Ledger, which is a gold stan dard paper, doesn't believe in stradt dling, but it will do a good deal of vigorous protesting before it gets the Republican politicians off the fence or gets them to come out and declare unequivocally, before the election where they do stand. They have been straddling on this question so long and so successfully that they have an idea that they can play that game indefinitely. Wilmington, Delaware, has gone Democratic for the first time in sev-i eral years, and now some of the Re publicans of that and other States are demanding that Addicks be thrown over as the Jonah that did it. Wd expect Addicks wishes he had those $80,000 back that he spent to carry the State for the Republicans at the last election. . i- n Senator George, of Mississippi, wno nas Deen in tne senate since 1881 and ranks as one of the ablest men in that body, is critically ill at his home in Carrollton. He is soldier of two wars, the Mexican war and the war between the States. :' Weather man Dunn, of New York, figured out some time ago that we were behind 600 degrees in heat for this year, in which we had to catch up to make the average. Late re ports indicate that old Sol is coming down to business and getting there. - There are lots of what they call, "sacred places" : in India, old ruins within which, according to popular superstition, it is sacrilegious to kill an animal which is found within or. takes ref uge within them. This, it is said, accounts for the great number of poisonous reptiles and life destroy- inc animals in that Country. These are the breeding places where they are out of. the reach of danger and increase very rapidly. Last year they killed 2.800 Deoole and 80,000 head of cattle. i ; . . - Major Higley, an Iowa man, who has lived for some years in Honolulu, and is a friend of President Dole, is visiting his home and is quoted' as saying that if the United States do not annex Hawaii she will seek an nexation to Taoan. If the former does not occur, and the so-called Re public survives, the Japanese will swallow it up, for there are forty thousand of them there now, and as many as may be necessary for that purpose can be conveniently spared from Japan. A contemporary remarks that the office of President of the United States is one of such dignity that no man who runs after it should be per mitted to have it. Theoretically that is very nice, but . if this rule were adoDted and adhered to the office , - would be vacant most of the time. The sizzard is what they call the thing which has been yanking the perspiration out of mortals and the stiffening out of spermaceti candles for the past several days. But it would be iust as hot by any other name. Judge Harlan, of the U. S. Su preme Court, is six feet two inches tall, and hefty. Since his dissenting opinion on the income tax decision there are lots of people in this country who regard him as the big gest man on the bench. A contemporary remarks that "the outcome ot the income tax didn t amount to much." It amounted to $200,000 to lawyer Choate and a cor responding disgust to a good many other people. A GROCERS' BOYCOTT., The Retail Grocer. Will Befuae to Houte Goods toy the Louisville and Nashville Bailroad. The Charleston delegation to the Retail Grocers' Convention, held in Atlanta last week, says the News and Courier, has returned to the city. The gentlemen composing the delegation are much pleased with the work done by the Convention, and feel confident that it will result in much good. Probably the most important-action taken was a resolution adopted in regard to the method of making purchases. While the grocers did not say so in S3 many words, it is evident that it was and is still to boycott the Louisville and Nash ville Railroad system. It seems that the, grocers applied to the railroads for certain uniform rates on all goods in carload lots and less than carload lots, and the Louisville and Nashyille was the only one of the lines applied to that refused their request. The grocers naturally got rather hot un der the collar over the matter and cast about in their minds for some way of catching even." . Now there are two ways of purchasing, one "delivered " and the other what is known as 'f. o. b." in the latter case the grocer has . the privilege of routing his own purchase. So the Convention determined that in the future all members of the Asso ciation should buy goods "f . o. b." and while it may not have been tsaid in so many words, it was understood that grocers buying in this way will have their purchases routed any other way except via the Louisville and, Nashville system. This will be a pretty heavy blow at that railroad. Pretty much all ot the largest grocerymen in the South are members of the Association, and if the boycott is enforced it will mean- the last of many a carload of stuff to the Louisville and Nashville. THE COTTON PROSPECT. Planters Deeply Interested in Prices The Beit Authorities; Believe tne Improve ment Will Be Maintained. During last week the price oi spot cotton reached 7 cents per pound for middling. This figure represents an ad vance since the close of February of 2 cents per pound or $10 per bale. As most of the crop was sold prior to the advance, the improvement has left but small profit among the actual producers. and were the higher level of prices es tablished not to endure until next crop. the farmers, instead of being benefitted, would be actually injured because of the encouragement to expect better things which they have experienced. l he cotton producers are, therefore. deeply interested in the problem as to whether or not the advance established will endure. It should be said at once that the most capable authorities in the cotton trade are believers in the mainte nance of the improvement, and some even predict better prices than any which nave been so lar experienced. It should be remembered that notwithstanding the immense . crop of the past season, the country, was never so bare of cotton as it is at the present moment. Considering the great increase in the production, the visible supply is not very much larger than last year. it now generally conceded that the last crop was sold at prices entirely too low, and the eagerness witn wnich for eign consumers absorbed it attests this fact. There is little probability that even under favorable circumstances the next crop will approach that of last sea son, while, taking into consideration the smaller acreage planted, the reduced use of fertilizers and tne unusually bad weather which has been experienced, there is every reason to expect that the yield will prove very materially smaller than last year. Should the crop prove to be anything like 7,500,000 bales, the small excess to be carried over on September 1st next, if there should actually be an excess, will prove no barrier to a turtner improve ment in prices over and above the level now prevailing, as crop prospects are now anything but brilliant, the outlook for the maintenance of prices would seem to be exceedingly good. -OlA people. 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 anoetizer and aids digestion. Old People find it just exactly what they need. Price fifty cents per bottle at R R Bellamy's Drug Store. ? t RALEIGH HAPPENINGS. DEATH OF DR. BAILEY, EDITOR BIB- . LICAL RECORDER. Meeting of Director of Baptist .Female TJniveriity-pFfie Will of the Iate W. J, Hawkins Delegates to be .. Sent to the Memphis fconventton Commencement at A. and M. College Jane 10th. " . Star Correspondence Raleigh, N. C, June 5. Rev. Dr. Christopher T. Bailey, editor and proprietor of the Biblical Recorder, died here this morning, in the 60th year of his age. Rev. Dr. 'Bailey was paral yzed several years ago in the pulpit of the Fayetteville Street ' Baptist Church, while pronouncing -the benediction, after having delivered a sermon. Since that time he has been in failing health and has been able to do but very little editorial work. Dr. Bailey was the most active and : influential, and . perhaps the best known Baptist in the State up to the time of his paralysis. He was active and vigorous in his work, and his efforts were crowned with success.' when be took charge of the Biblical : Recorder it was a poor piece of property, but now it is one of the best paying newspapers in the State. Dr. Bailey was a most lib eral and generous man, and he always had a good word for every one. His editorial work, perhaps more than any other thing, showed him the, man that he was. In writing he was forcible and convincing, always using a vein of sub dued humor with! telling effect. . The funeral will probably occur to-morrow. The Directors of the Baptist Female University met in this city yesterday. They discussed the plans before them for building the University. Mr. Spring field, the financial secretary, tells me be is meeting with much success in secur ing subscriptions. He is canvassing the State. Work on the buildings goes on rapidly. I Since the office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for the County went out of existence last Saturday, the duties of the office, except the examination of teachers, devolves upon the Register of Deeds, who is secretary ex-officio to the Board of County Commissioners. He gets five per cent for all the work done, Clerk of the Court Young has decided to make the attorneys for the executors of the will of the late W. J. Hawkins de fenders in the case before bim file a more specific answer than- the one recently filed by them in answer to Mrs. Hawkins' dissent, j. Wm. Barbee, a prominent farmer' of Cedar Fork township, this county, died yesterday from a stroke of paralysis. Secretary Nichols received a telegram from President Carr to-day congratula ting him and the citizens on securing the guarantee of $3,500 to hold the fair. The Messrs. Stewart claim that the overcharge ot $20 on a $94 job for the Railroad Commission, was on account of an error in calculation Next Friday there will be a meeting of the citizens of Raleigh for the put pose of sending delegates to the Na tional Bimetallic Conference in Mem phis. Prominent business men are be hind the meeting. ... - It is quite interesting to note that tne Populist Executive Committee has taken up the cry of the Democratic Executive Committee in declaring themselves for the silver question J " It cost the state S50 to get a prisoner here from Cherokee who is to serve a one year's term. I The Commencement exercises at the A. & M. College begin on the 10th. The closing exercises of the Raleigh Male Academy are on the 9th. Gen. F. H. Cameron's small daughter had the misfortune to fall out of a swing to-day while high up in the air. Her face was badly mashed and jawbone broken. - ' i ' , NEW YORK TRUCK MARKETS. Fall and Reliable Beports of Markets For Southern Fraita and Vegetables. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, June 5. Strawberries are about steady, with more moderate offer ings. Huckleberries in good supply and weak. Blackberries scarce. No Charles ton receipts of vegetables and the offer ings were moderate, with the demand a little better. Muskmelons Florida, per barrel, $3.00 to 3.00. CherriesNorth Carolina, per pound, 3 to 10c. Black berries North Carolina, per quart. 5 to 10c. Watermelons Florida, each, 60c to $1.00. Gooseberries, prime, per quart, 7 to 8c Huckleber ries -North Carolina, per quart, 5 to 10c. reaches Georgia, carrier, $2.00 to 6.00. Strawberries Maryland and Delaware, 3c to 10c per quart; Eastern Shore 4c to 6c; Norfolk 2c to Sc. Asparagus. 60c to $1.25 per dozen bunches. Beets, barrel crate, 50c to $1.00. Cukes Florida, crate, 50c to $1.00; Charleston $1.00 to 1.50; Savannah, crate, 75c to $1.25. Cab bages Charleston; barrel crate, 35c to $1.00; North Carolina do, 75c to $1.25; Norfolk do, 75c to $1.25. Peas East ern bhore, basket, 60c to 11.00; Mary land, 75c to $1.00; Baltimore, small basket, 60 to 1 75c; Norfolk, per basket, 75c to $1.00. Onions New Or leans, per bag, $1.25 to 1.50. Potatoes-4-Soutbern, $2.25 to 3.25; Chili red, $2.25 to 3.00; white, $255 to 3.00: poor to fair, $1.00 to 2 00; Southern seconds, $1.00 to 1.50. String beans Charles ton, wax, per basket, 75c to $1.25; green, 75: to $1.25; common, 35 to 60c; Georgia, per crate, 50 to 75c; per basket, 60c to $1.00; North - Carolina, wax, per basket, $1.00 to 1.60. Squash Florida, marrow, per crate, $1.50. Tomatoes Florida, choice, per carrier, $1.50; do. common, $1.00 to 1.25. . i Maxton Building Association. The sixth annual meeting of the Max- ton Building and Loan Association was held in Maxton ! Tuesday afternoon, when the following Directors were elec ted: Dr. T. D. Croom and Messrs. I. S. McRae, Ed. McRae and G. B. Patter son, of Maxton; Col. E. F. McRae, of Raemont; J. H. Morrison, of Lumberton, and Wm. H. Bernard, of Wilmington. The Constitution was so changed as to conform to the law passed by the Legis lature regulating ! interest. The stock holders declined to make any recom mendation to the Directors concerning a' reduction of interest on the eight-percent, contracts made before the passage of the law. A discussion of the question" developed the' fact that those who were paying eight per cent, were the strongest opposers of a reduction to six per cent., the argument, of course, being that the series of stock in which they had bor rowed would mature earlier on an eight-'per-cent. basis. ' Catarrh. Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the dis ease. Catarrah is a blood or constitu tional disease, and in order to cure it you must taKe internal remedies. Hall s Ca tarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack mcuicine. it was .prescnoea oy one of the best' physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, com- pmea with the best blood purifiers, act ing directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredi ents is what produces such wdnderful re- suits in curing Catarrh. Send for testK F. J. CHENEY & CO PropsTdledo.O. Sold by Druggists, price 75c STATE UNIVERSITY. Centennial Celebration Three Thousand People Tresent Orations Centennial Bon net. - " By Telegraph to the Morning Star. j. Raleigh, May 5. The great day of the centennial celebration of the State University opened , this J morning at Chapel Hill and the exercises . were in every way impressive from every stand point especially from the : Southern standpoint, that this is the only Universi ty south of Mason's and Dixon's line that is one hundred years old. There were 8,000 people present in the great Memo rial Hall at 11 o'clock this morning and' the audience was a picturesque contrast of young women, many of them grand-, children of alumni present fifty years ago. Alrjomed with solemn measure in "Old Hundred," which was followed by orations by ex-Congressman A. M. Wad dell for the old University and A..H. Eller for the new. , The Centennial sonnet was read by the author, Henry Jerome Stockard, a young North; Carolina poet now getting to be well-known through the Century, and other magazines. It is as follows r ' "As what to our dim-sighted human eyes j- Seem dams of evening gathering chill ..; and gray " -fv ' Around a century's slowly sinking day. Relentlessly expunging fields and skies . In truth, are only morning mists that rise But to be sundered by a level ray. And backward driven from the heavens away. Where lift new heights engrained with unknown dies So be thy life through centuries unborn: Around thy West no sunsets saddening gloom. Nor shades of night thy.landscape falling oer," But dawning ever of some wider morn Whose reaches unconjectuied suns il lume Dayward till years shall come and go no . more. DAVIS MILITARY COLLEGE.- Annual Commenoement Society Celebra- tions llllltary Exercises. Special Star Telegram Winston, June 4. The annual Com mencement exercises at Davis Military College are in progress this week. Lieut. W. E. Shipp, of the U. S. army, repre sents ! Uncle Sam's Government here. The past session has been highly sue cessful, twenty States being represented by cadets. The annual celebration of the Wash ington and Jefferson Literary Societies came off last night and to-night respec tively. The oration last evening was de livered in a very able manner by Cadet H. W. Fife, of Charlotte, on "The Duty of the Southern Scholar. The military exercises occurred at 6 o'clock this afternoon, and consisted of a review, dress parade, drill and sham battle!. The review was by Gen. E. Wj Moise, of Sumter, S. C. who will deliver the annual address at 11 a. m. to morrow. ; DAVIS MILITARY COLLEGE. Diplomas Presented totheOraduatinic data ' Literary Address by Gen. E. W. Hotse. Special Star Telegram. Winston, N. (j. une 5. This was Commencement day proper of the Davis Military College, and the exercises were of a high order, and inspiring to friends and patrons of the institution. The ad- by Gen. E. W. Moise, ot Sumter, was an able effort. He made a comparison between the characters of Napoleon Bonaparte and Robert E. Lee. Diplomas were presented to the grad uating class by Rev. J. F. George, rec tor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. CaptJ D. W. Thrower, of North Carolina, received the degree of C. E; Cadet E. Lyerly and Lieut. J. H. Prjtchard. of North Carolina, and Sergeant Wm. Simpkins, of Florida, the degree of A. B; Cadet W. Mack Reiche and Sergt. C. M. Wesson, of Maryland, the degree of B. S.'.It was announced that Capt. Thrower, Sergt. Wesson, and Cadet Simpkins were the most distinguished in military science. Their names will be reported to the Governors of their respective States and published in the U. S. Army Journal. Diplomas were also awarded to lour graduates in tne commercial de partment and one for architectural draw ing. m m WEATHER CROP BULLETIN. Condition of Crops In the Eastern and Central Siatrleta ot north. Carolina, June 1st, 1805. Eastern District. Tobacco plants about all set out and plants start off very well. I An improvement in all crops is noted. . Cotton recently planted is com ing up well. Cotton-chopping has been the order of the day with many farmers, Corn j and peanuts are looking better. Kice nearly all planted. Beans and po tatoes are being shipped from trucking districts. Cut-worms and potato-bugs are still doing much damage, but the warm weather will no doubt check the ravages of cut-worms. Gardens greatly improved, farmers are pushing ahead to clear crops of grass. Central District. All reports in dicate that the past week was very favor able fof farm work, and that everything as growing nicely; ram is beginning to be needed. Cotton has improved, though Still small and backward with poor stand. Considerable was replanted. Chopping cotton not yet finished. vorn; is growing rapidly and is being worked for the first time. Some corn is yet to be planted. Kapid pro gress has been made in transplanting tobacco, which is growing off nicely. The ravages of cut-worms and potato-bugs have been Slightly diminished by the heat. Clover and hay being harvested. Fruit has fallen off considerably. Grapes are out of bloom and a big crop has set. Strawberries plentiful. Farmers are in much better spirits. Cotton Begion Bulletin. . It was slightly cooler yesterday in the cotton belt. The maximum tempera tures at stations in the Wilmington dis trict were recorded as follows: Char lotte I land Greensboro - 90; Wilmington 91; Raleigh and Weldon 94; Goldsboro and Lumberton 96; Cheraw, Florence, and Newbern 98. There was no rain in this district. The STARRTTnTbrmed that the cut rates which have been in effect on the Seaboad Air Line will be withdrawn on the 11th of this month and the regu lar passenger tariff established again. -'Hrker, of Maxton, claims the championship for that town as a Summer j; resort. He says 92 was the highest range of the thermometer there during the recent scorch. y Iffr Over Fifty Tesu-s. Mrs! Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used lor over fifty years bv millions of mothers for 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 suffdrer immediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle.; Be sure and ask for Mrs; Winslow Soothing Syrup," and take no other kin.i. t COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Regular Moeting-The Tax Lavy-Treas- uret'a Report The Chairman Author ised to Borrow (8,000. The Board oi. Commissioners of New Hanover county met yesterday in regu lar session. Present : Messrs. H. A. Bagg (chairman), ; E. L Pearce,. B.jG. Worth, J. C. Stevenson. : i County Treasurer S. Van Amnnge sub mitted report for the month-of May, showing balance oh band, $8,403.24. p Register of Deeds l no. Haar reported 14 marriage licenses issued during the month of May, and the fees therefor, amounting to $39.00, paid to the County Treasurer. " . ' Oh motion the chairman of the Board was authorized to borrow $8000 from the National Bank of Wilmington, md the chairman was authorized to execute a note for that amount over the seal of the commissioners. " : The Board proceeded under the hew law to fix the tax levy for 1895, as follows: On real and personal property on 2100 valuation $0.47 On the poll..... 1.41 On real estate . For general expenses per $100.... For hospital Interest on bond and sinking fund. New road law, , . 7 Light Infantry and Naval Reser .08 .06 .06 ves... $0.47 On the poll For general expenses ........... Hospital . . . 0.71 0.24 .18 , .18 . .10 Interest on bonds and sinking fund....... New road law . ... Light Infantry and Naval Re- vll W ........... jl.41 r State 0.47 .43 i .90 1.41 1.29 and county) will be as follows : On property for county on $100 valuation Ditto for State and schools.. On poll for county. .......... On poll for school and poor. . $2.70 The tax levy last year was : On prop erty for county 46 j lor State 41 09 cents on the f 100 valuation. On poll for county $1.40; for school and poor $1.24 $2.64. The Board appointed J. W. McCartney superintendent of Oak Grove cemetery. BOARDS OF EDUCATION. I The Old Board Adjourns After Adopting Beaolutiona Complimentary to Capt. E. W. Manning The New Board Appoints Sohool Committeemen for the County. The old Board of Education for New Hanover county held its last meeting yesterday at 11 a. m. Present : H. A. Bagg, chairman, B. G. Worth and E. L. Pearce. . After the transaction of routine work. the following resolution was unanimously adopted : - Resolved, In severing our connection with our Superintendent of Public In struction, Mr. E. W. Manning, who has so faithfully looked after the public schools of this county, inspiring teachers and pupils with renewed interest in the cause of education, we desre to put on record our regret at the severance of a connection that has been so pleasant for tne term ot bis service. The Board then adjourned sine die. In the afternoon, after the adjourn ment of the meeting of the Board of Cor:, nissioners, the latter organized as the Board of Education, under the new law. I Mr. H. A. Bagg, chairman, called the meeting to order. Commissioners Worth, Stevenson and Pearce were present. On motion, the Board appointed the following school committeemen, viz: District No. l James F. tost, Jr., W. H Sprunt, Jos. E. Sampson. District No. 2 Sam'l Northrop, J, H. Chadbdurn, Sr., J, G.Norwood. District No. 3 H. L. Home, D. W. Trask, Geo. Rogers. District No. 4 B. S. Montford, Lewis Todd.W. H.Biddle. District No. 5 E. W. Manning, W. L. Rogers, E. T, Carraway. District No. 6 Jas. T. Kerr, D. G: Westbrook, F; J. Dempsey. District No. 7 W. H. Mills. W. A. Patten, Sol. J. Tones. District No. 8 Stephen Keys, W. D. Rhodes, Jos. H. Davis. District No. 9 E. D. Craig, J. W. Foreman, A. L. Freeman. District No. 10 James Cowan, R. W. Bordeaux, Julius Bizzell. District No. 11 W. B. Canaday, Hen ry Southerland. Gerrett Walker. On motion, the Board adjourned; CHARLESTON TRUCKERS. Notwithstanding Many Drawbsoks They Bay They Will Make Money This Tear. The News and Courier says : " Not withstanding all that the truckmen have to contend with this season they are go ing to come out big winners on the year's business. The phenomenal weather of the Winter and Spring bade fair at one time to paralyze the trucking industry throughout, the entire South Atlantic coast country just as it did the orange crop in Florida; but the vegetables in many sections escaped the disas ter and the farmers ot these places are ! very well satisfied with the way things are turning out. Charles ton and vicinity is one of these fortunate places. The Savannah people, on the other hand, are not so well satisfied. Florida naturally got in the. early stuff and made a corner on most of the fancy prices, and Savannah, following very closely in the steps of the- Floridians. suffered in consequence. However it may be across the Savannah, the Charles ton vegetable growers say that they are very well Content with the way things have gone with them. A well known farmer was spoken to on the subject yesterday. He said : "The truckmen of this section will make money this season. The prices have held up well so far. and the yield has been excellent. Under these circum stances there is always big money in truck." Entering more into the detail he said: "It is this way: A good crop of cucum bers j should yield say 1,000 baskets to the acre. As matters stand now we get $3.50 per basket for cucumbers. - Of course such prices will not hold, but we will get in a good part of the crop at that figure, and then the market will slide down until it does not pay to ship. Anyway, I should say that the farmer should make about $300 an acre on i his cucumbers this yean It is the same thing over again with potatoes. Our lands average us about seventy-five bar rels of potatoes pef acre. We have been getting $5.00 per barrel for them, and the market still stands up to $4.00, and if this holds for a very few days longer .there must be good money in every acre of potatoes in and around Charles ton." Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction Cityj I1U was told by her doctors she had Consumption, and that there was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery completely cured her, and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers, 139 Florida St. San Fran cisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, ap proaching Consumption, tried without result everything else then bought one bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such results, of which these are samples, that; prove the won derful efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles at R. R Bellamy's Drug Store. Regular size 60c and $1.00. , FIVE CENT COTTON. A PLANTER EXPRESSES HIS OPINION . ON THE SUBJECT. He Bays the People Have-Learned An In" valuable Lesson From the Hard Times - This Tear, for the First .Time, Many - Planters are Out of Debt. . Walter Wellman writes as follows from Memphis to' the Chicago Ifimes-Herald: ' "What a relief it sometimes is to get away from the politician, the statesman, the man of theories, and taj talk to a gen uine business man. " There is Judge Robinson, of Robinsohville, Miss., who was a delegate to the sound money con vention. He lives in Louisville, ; Ky. and runs a big cotton plantation about fifty miles south of here in, the rich delta country. Judge Robinson gave , me some most interesting facts about farm ing and business in the - South. . "The hard times of the last two years have been worth everything to the people of the South' said the Judge. "The peo ple have learned an invaluable lesson which could have never been taught .us in any other school than that-of adversity. When cotton was 10 cents a pound and everything booming, the planter down in my sec tion would go to town, borrow $10,000 from bis factor or banker, and spend that in raising his crop and getting it to market. Two years ago, when the price of cotton began dropping land the hatd times came on, the planter walked into his banker's in the Spring for his $10,000, and was surprised to hear the man of money saj : 'We are curtailing our busi ness and can't let you have $10,000. If you can get along with $5,000, we can accommodate you.' i . "But the planter was very sure he could not get along with $5,000. He had always had $10,000, and $10,000 it must be or nothing. He would! find another banker. .'(-, "Well, he iooked around for another banker," continued Judge Robinson; "perhaps he found some one willing to lend bim $6,000 or $7,000. but out of this must come the balance of $1,000 or $2, 000 owing to the old bankers. ' Then the planter wonld get on his high horse and say he wouldn't put in any crop at all. The country was going to; ruin when a man couldn't get $10,000 advance on his cotton crop, and he would just as soon go down in idleness as in toil. He would go on home, but in , a day or two, per haps, would reappear and tell his factor to make out the papers. 'I'll take $5,000. letting the balance stand, in d see what I can do.' "This came pretty hard to thousands and thousands of men in the South," said Judge Robinson; "I know, because I was one of them. We were rebellious and mad at the world, but it was the best thing that ever happened to us. We went home to make the best of a bad bargain. We reduced expenses in every way possible. We were amazed to dis cover how much unnecessary money we bad paid out for one thing or another simply because it came easy. Instead of buying bacon, we began j to raise pigs. Instead of buying corn for the" mules and meal for the hands, we planted corn. In stead of buying most of pur vegetables and fruit and things, we began looking after our gardens, orchards, vines and bushes. "What was the result? The first year through with the maionty of us got about half the capital we had previously used, and the balances against us in town did not increase. The second year many of us wiped out the balances. We did this notwithstanding the low price -of cotton. This year, for the first time in their lives, many Southern planters are out of debt. Some are even able to put in their crops and go through the Summer on their own capital. They aire becoming independent of the factor. This year, with cotton up to 7 or 8 cents, as it looks now it might be, will be the best year many Southern planters have ever known. It will be a godsend to the South if the price does not go up too rapidly. It will be better for us if it goes up a little this year, and a little; more next, for if it were; to jump up to 10 cents again the men who have been ; forced to learn this lesson of thrift will say the boom has come again, and will fall into their old extravagance." I CLOTHING FOR THE HEATHEN. The Fate of a Lot of Clothing Bent to Af rioi Some Queer Antics of the Na tiVea How a Chief Mounted a Bhlrt. -. ine Sunday bcnooi magazine gives the following: About a year ago the adies of a cer- tain Dorcas Society made up a large quantity of shirts, trousers and socks, and boxed them up and sent them to a missionary station on the west coast of Africa. A man named Ridley went out with the boxes, and stayed in Africa for several months. When he returned, the Dorcas Society of course, was anxious to hear how its donation was received, and Ridley, one evening, met the members and told them about it in a little speech. He said, j "Well, you know we got the clothes out there all right, and after a while we distributed them among some of the natives in tbe. neighborhood. We thought maybe it would attract them to the mission, but it didn't, and after some time had elapsed, and not a native came to church with those clothes oa, I went out on an exploring expedition to find out about it. It seems that on the first day after the goods were distrib uted ' one of the chiefs attempted to mount a shirt. I He didn't exactly understand it, and ' he pushed his legs through the arms and gathered the tail up around his waist. He couldn't make it stay up. however, and they say he went around inquiring in his native, tongue what kind of an idiot it was that constrncted a garment that wouldn't hang on, and swearing some of the most awful heathen oaths. At last be let it drag, and that night he got his legs tangled in it somehow, and fell over a precipice and was killed. "Another chief '.who got lone on prop; erly went paddling around ! in the dark, and the people imagining he was a ghost, sacrificed four babies to keep off the evil spirit. , . "And then you know (those trousers you sent out? Well, they fitted one pair on an idol, and then they stuffed most of the rest with leaves and set them up as a kind of new-fashioned idols, and be gan to worship them. They say that the services were very impressive. Some ot the women split a fewj pairs in half, and after sewing up the legs used them to carry yamsin, and I saw one chief with a corduroy leg on his head as a kind of helmets. . j "I think though the socks were most popular. All the fighting1 ruen went for them the first thing. They filled them with sand and used ihem las boomerangs and war-clubs. I learned that they were so much pleased with the efficiency ot those socks that they made, a - raid on a neighboring tribe on purpose to try them, and tbey say they khocked about eighty women and children on the head before they came home. They asked me if I wouldn't speak to you and get you to send out a few barrels more, and to make them a little stronger, so they'd, last longer, and I said I would.! "This society's dome a bower of eaoA rto those heathen, and I've no doubt if you keep right along with the work you will inaugurate a general war all over the continent of Africa, and give everybody an idol of his own. All; they want is enough socks and trousers. "I'll take them when I go out again." . v Then the Dorcas passed a resolution declaring that it would, f perhaps be better to let the heathen go naked and give the clothes to the poor of home. Maybe that is the better way. DUKE Cigarettes i ixm ISA JHW.DukeSonsoYCorKSr ES SJ DURHAM. N.C. U.S.A. YAW K MADE FROM High Grade Tobacco ' ASS ABSOLUTELY PURE declltf fr sn we W 2p $25,000 , DAMAGES. Awarded lh a Damagj Suit Against the New J xoik World. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New j York, June 4.-One of the largest verdicts ever rendered against a newspaper in a libel suit was that found i". Arm In m CnAM "" . I Dciurc juurc itigranam against the Press Publishing Company (World) for tor nnn 1 a Vu. W T I T fu.wV uauiagcs. i ue SCUOu Was brought; by Wm. L. Paine to rect ver jdu.uuu carnages. Mr. fame is a law yer and for about - twenty y?ars prior to the time that he came to tnis city he had resided in wiiKesDarre, fenna.. where be practiced bis profession. The World puoiisnea irom its correspondent at Wilkesbarre a story to the effect that Mr Paine had eloped from that city with the wile of a friend Mrs. Maggie Lee and had come to this city and married her, and after squandering her monevh.rt deserted her. It seemed but little effort had been made to get at the truth of the jacts, although Mr. fame was livine with tne woman in tnis city at the time of the publication ot the story in 1892. The fact was tnat Mr. fame was married to Mrs Lee. ' There was no elopement whatever. She obtained a divorce from her husband about four months prior to the time of her marriage to Mr. Paine. Thev came to this City and took up their residence here and have been living here peaceably ever since. They have four children, two by this! marriage, and two being Mrs. Paine 8 children by her former marriage. Mr. Paine and wife.both testified to thesj facts. It took tbe ury but a few minutes to give lawyer Paine the verdict. SOUTH CAROLINA. A New Move in tbe Dispensary Caie-fa ' Contompt cf Slmct ton's Order. ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Columbia, S. C, June 5 This mort- ing another interesting legal move was made ii the matter of the dispensary law. State Commissioner Mixson and liquor constable Beach were arrt s ed, The proceedings are made under the special conspiracy act of Congress, which was referred to in the Debs case. They were arrested upon a warrant sworn out by two leading citizens, Messrs. Muller and Beck, before U. S. Commissioner Reid, o Newberry. They are charged with special conspiracy to violate the Inter-Staie commerce act ol seizing some beer . belonging oomplainants. The Commis iuuu in to the sioner also issued a warrant for the search and .seizure ot the confiscated The prisoners were taken up for a preliminary hearing. Dr. Pope ap peared for the complainants and asked that they be bound over for conspiracy. The assistant Attorney-General told the deputy marshal to consider the seized property in his possession for the pur poses of this case. The State maintains that the deiendants cannot be held crim inally liable under this aet of Congress The hearing will be continued at 3 SO o'clock. This is an entirely new p o- ceeding. I The hearing was concluded at the afternoon session, Dr. Pope and Judge Tpwnsend both making lengthy speeches, the former arguing that tbe Cc-mmissioner had jurisdiction and tbe latter denying it. Dr. Pope's speech was a spicy one. The Commissioner de cided that the defendants were in contempt of Judge Simonton's or der 1 of injunction, which he said wasl cow the law, and bound Mixson overuo appear for trial at the November term ot the United States Supreme Court here In the sum of $1,000, making the constable's bond onlv hall that amount; VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF la tne Iilbel Suit for Damages Against iba . Bev. Sam Small, ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. NORFOLK, Va June 4. In tbe Court of Law land Chancery to-day th i -r' brouehti In a verdict awarding Si damages! in the suit ot Mrs. Rev. A. J Reamy, of Eastern Shore, Va.. against the Pilot Publishing Co. and Sam Small for damages to her character and reputa tion. The suit grew out of the printing in the Pilot some months ago ot a com munication from its correspondent on tee Eastern Shore, containing reflections upon the character of Mrs. Reamy, which reflections were afterwards proved untrue and kinfoundedj 4- HON M. W. RANSOM Passed Through CDarlctte Last Night on Ei Way to Wealern North Carolina. St Telegraph to the Morning Sts. CharlottI, June 4. Hon. MaitW Ransom,minister to Mexico, absent on sick leave, passed through this city t night on his way to the western part m the State' to recuperate. He is wea but looks fairlyl well, and got out of iw car while the tfaiin stopped and siow chatting in the railroap yard with friend during thCwaiti 1 NEWS THE NAVY. Movements of Vessels of the North Atl' tlo Squadron. By Telegraph5. to the Morning Star Washington June 5. The cm sef Atlanta arrived a Ft. Monroe to-dw after coaling at I'oiut Lambert. She will Sail for New liondon in a few dafj to await the rendezvous of tbe Nort Atlantic squadron early in July when ll New York and Columbia return ror Keil. The Raleigh followed the Atlw to Point Lambert for coal and as soo as her bunkers are fll will Proedm New York to participate in tbe Harif ship 'canal celebration On the 17th. Raleigh will be joined" by the Cincmow at that time, both vessels being ancfiort at the western entrance of the canai The Modern Way, Commends Itself to the well 'oxf'l do pleasantly and effectually what formerly done in the crudest nDD and disagreeably as well. To cleanse system and break upl colds. head and fevers without unpleasant alt" fects. use the delightfu liquid ii,a" remedy. Syrup of Figs. n