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- 1 1 r ' ' . . r :. I ...... ISHHD At M,NGTON. N. C, ' . T - .p IN ADVANCE. 53gg8S88888888888 8888888883 S 8 S a s aoot3 58888S8S888888888 S8SS88888883 ff88f88888888a88 . o. ntfice at Wilmteton. N. C, as t 11 "Lrond Class Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. ption price' of the Weekly Star is as $1 00 60 30 months UaUIR? AND AN AHSWEK. ft L following, which we clip from Richmond Vispatcns answers a lion concerning which there is a rfdeal of misapprehension: 4 iritnd of ours, who has had several iaioa that the silver dollar is at T.. fas they imagined) the Unest would at any time exchange r . i... i. o Hollar, wrote tn lyttaouar iui r ; ' totf.ni lor ou, SUajiCt, ana lnc ""UW,US ,B kuc wi- loddeocc: . - ' un G. Carlisle:' arSir.-Please let me know j Sllyer ceruncaie ,i uy uui mean -(certificate) is presentea at the andean holder, under th,e law, de void for it? ,.'''. Cm be hrst aemana stiver, ana im lecall v demand that the Gov- CtMCtiange the silver for gold?. lib did maice tne aemana. wouia acceded to? fin a oartv holding, say one silver Lror any number ol silver dollars. U demand from the Government ilbetxcrianeea lor goiar Very respectfully. Treasury Departmt. Office of the SecretXry. ashincton, u. c, June 17. 185. r-Io reply to vour letter of the 27th Wjouare informed that neither iM silver dollars nor silver certm- ire redeemed by the government told. Silver dollars are standard li of the United States, and. as such. nottedeemable at all; but they, as a silver certificates, are receivable II debts due to the United States. icr certificates are. of course, redeem- o standard silver dollars. Respsctfullv yours. C. S Hamlin. .Assistant Secretary. good rnany people are under the iression that the parity between silver dollars we now have and ;old dollars is maintained be ta the silver dollars are converti- ato gold dollars, which is not the , The silver dollars are convert ing nothing and the parity is atained simply because they are :gal tender and therefore possess money quality; but they are not a il lender to the bondholder and efore there is no ' parity between d dollar and the silver-, dollar arashe is concerned. The Gov- ent makes no effort to maintain parity between the two coins, and is talk about maintaining the ityissimply a delusion. By law silver dollar is made a legal ten- is between citizens of this coun ting business with each other. the Government receives it for Itoms and other does. That it take the place of gold and sit parity with gold inasmuch as Norms the same function. But Nit comes to the bondholder the 'ty imparted by law is lost because U-S. Treasury makes no effort Pt it into practice but quietly ig- ftSlt. nilesnn triA cilwflr fl-.llorc XT ii i vi viva aa kes no effort to put them in circu- N. but oavs the hnndhnMor and demand note holder in gold. w of the fact that the silver iS T(t v r i svAk1 a mSth doesn't it seem like perpe- H a fraud when it is as- ti 'hat the parity between the lnt VOlllm. nf eiirror ffrtM tiiiTvi auu maintained bpra -".uuiiL ui gUlU III U1C ml to mamtain it. which would be the case if free coinage ore ed? The effect and the intended m of this assertion is to create ""Pression that the irold 'in the nr7 gives standing and value to s"yer, which in the DODular mis rcension is convertihl into The silver dollar maintains its i i wmpiy Because it wears on its r'te stamD of th a I Pronounces it a dollar inlaw SOOd tn ni --11 ; .ut f wnat Plves it its wain inet n it ' S'cS the t?old roin it valw PlVe eo,l of its legal tender char " aia as far I uween US nr Mnrnrl t ecrne as Valnplecc aa ennnir r-- "Joney metal li k.ln h.- t IT UUIU U IU r4IaonIv rr u. i - . J ,1,a vaiuc t a bum V In the arts nr Inr i Sn nth.i- th. IU UtUWl eie it had a legal tender paiity. wthen. if Ann AAA r :i i air mtntNiM.j : . -.aiuidiueu on a paniy 8'd When not on "finltar nf t j!n wn.li goia ana so - "vausc oi me legal ten- llitv imn.t.j . t kt . 575.00.000 more be - me same way? L-et uvernmpnt j Ov . " 'V'l'KU'c auu uc th ythe sam ,aw that 8v- toll,.. .'Hzen receive the silver - u out without dis sfff888S8S888888 - gff8fff88S8888888 crimination and it will be at a parity then not only among the American people in their transactions with each other but with every one who has any claims on the Government. This would give it a parity in the full sense and make it money in the full sense. ..;', There is neither business equity nor business sense or justice in re quiring one man to take a silver dol lar at its face value and paying an other in gold Let the Government cease the deceptive pretence Of main taining the parity between the yellow and the white coins by' chucking the white coin back' into the vaults, and paying out gold to the holder of re deemable obligations, who has no more reason or right to demand gold than the day laborer has. That is not maintaining the parity, it is sim ply ignoring silver, and to that ex tent making useless a metal which was good enough as money for everybody m -this country until the5 conspiracy of 1873 succeeded in de grading it, and they followed this up five years later by establishing the gold reserve "to maintain the parityj" which it doesn t do. MIXOB. MXSTIOV. The hotel and restaurant keep ers ot New York are get ting a taste of a , new civil rights law recently enacted by the Legislature and there is considerable kicking in consequence. The law will do the colored people no good and simply encourages a certain class of negroes to take advantage of it to make a little money by instituting suits for damages, when they are not attended to as they think they ought to be, or to annoy the people who keep the better class of hotels and restaurants. The first one they lit on was Delmonico, who declined to serve them, and as a consequence paid $100 damages.. The next col ored speculator to come along was a Pullman Car porter. He was served sumptuously, as ordered, and also served with a bill which took the curl out of his hair. Other restaurant keepers permit them to come in, take seats, and pay no further attention to them. The waiters do not see them and as for hearing, they are as deaf as mile posts. And thus it will go on until the annoying class of colored, swells are - sufficiently amused, and that will be the end of it; but in the meantime they are do ing their race a good deal of harm. and are intensifying whatever of pre judice may already exist. The feel ing with which the law is regarded is thus expressed by a correspondent of the Baltimore Sun: A hotel man denounced the law as a Dolitical move, and predicts that it will lose the whole ol the hotel vote and the vote of patrons of hotels to the Repub lican oartv. 'You'll seek' said he. ' that the Republicans will find they've made a biz mistake in passing that law. It will take thousands of votes away from them. I'm a Republican, but 1 11 never vote lor anv man that voted lor that bill or haa anything to do with passing it. To win a few votes by it the party will lose many.' " . The New York Advertiser ; a Re publican paper, commenting on the performances of the colored bloods who have been making the rounds of the hotels concludes thus: "The solemn truth is that the colored man and brother will not benefit materi ally under this bill recently signed by the Governor. All the civil rights which he reauires have heretofore been bis lor the askincr. alwavs provided that he had the price to pay for them.- They still are bis on the same condition, no more, no less. He will soon tire of the pastime of de manding them at Delmonico s and the New Netberland. Fools white and black, posing as friends of the negroes, have done them more harm than all their enemies, real or imaginary, combined. There is no country, ancient or modern, which has shown anything to compare with the orozress and development of the United States in the last hundred years. . This may be attributed to several pauses such as the form of government which gives the individual the largest amount of liberty consistent- with public order: the education of the masses, thus qualifying- them for more intelligent and effective exer tion: the ereat public domain thrown open to the world which in vited immigration and brought to our shores millions of the sterling npoole of Europe: and the encour- i- - . . . . ao-ement of inventive genius, which has multiplied labor-saving machin- rv and made the labor of one man in this country equivalent iu iuc hnr of manv in other countries. Thus we have within a century become not only the greatest na tion in productive capacity, and the crreatest in industrial achievement, but with few exceptions the wealthi est country on the earth. In this wonderful development and progress too 4ittle account has been taken of th lahor-savinsr machinery which has made it possible. The high tariff advocate will tell you that it has been the result of the fostering care of the protective tariff , and others will say it is the result of other puBiic policies. Ignoring entirely the work of the inventor which ha3 enabled American industry to compete , with the world. Speaking of this Statis- ticiatj Mulhall, who has been writing on the growth of America, which he pronounces the most marvellous in the history ot the world, finds that by me use ot agricultural machinery one man in this country can feed 250 per sons, while in Europe one man can feed only thlrtv: And th cama ;e true, to a more or less extent, as to the productive power In other indus tries . ., ' '- - There are, according to the report of the Civil Service Commission, about 200,000 persons employed in the civil service of the United States of whom about 50,000 come under the civil service rules. Of the 150, Q00 who do not come under them about 20.000 are laborers, 5,000 ap pointed by the President and con firmed by the Senate, 1,500 in the legislative branch and 2,668 In . the judicial branch of the Government. Since President Cleveland .entered upon his . office 8,184 places have been brought under the civil service rules, to which are to be added 500 in the Agricultural Department. The probabilities are that . considerable additions will be made to the civil service list before the end of Presi dent Cleveland's term. There is one advantage in this, if no more; it lessens the graceless scramble for places on the advent of every new administration. - A question which is agitating Iowa is how to improve the 500 Indians who have a settlement in that State. The lands they own are some of the best in the State, but the red skins are too high-toned to work and pre fer to get their living by begging. Occasionally they corral a lot of dogs and have a dog feast and a good time. Reforming an Indian isn't easy, es pecially when reform has any of the elements of work in it. Gen. Phil Sheridan, who had some familiarity with the Indians, once remarked that the only really good Indian was a dead one. We are indebted to the American Bimetallic League, Sun building, Washington, D. C, for two pamph lets on the silver question one enti tled "Shylock, as Banker.Bondholder, Corruptionist, Conspirator," the other, "The Anarchists of Wealth," both by Gordon Clark, an able and vigorous writer, who is intensely in earnest in his championship of silver, and denunciation of the methods by which it was demonetized and de graded. ;'.. 1 here are some pretty , mean thieves in this country, but the meanest on record was the well dressed fellow in New York who sent a little match peddler in Chicago to change a $50 Confederate bill for him and then sneaked off with the little fellow's basket of matches. It would be hard to match that fellow for. double-distilled meanness. President, Cleveland has recently UCUIUCU LlAt UUUU1 S& Oil MMSm A-'.f tendered by a colored college in Ohio. In bis letter declining he stated that he bad previously de clined a similar honor from one of the greatest universities in the coun try, in both of which Mr. Cleveland showed excellent horse sense. The young soap maker in Chicago who was informed that he had be come heir to $1,000,000, left him by an aunt in Hamburg, didn't become excited, but continued right on mak ing soap. Sensible fellow. The man who makes a good article of soap is greater than a millionaire, although he may not put on any aires The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Times says doubt is no longer entertained in that city that Secretary Carlisle will be a can didate for the United States Senator- ship against Joe Blackburn. As the Cuban racket is about played out, according to Spanish ac counts, we suppose Spain is sending over those 25,000 men and raising $120,000,000 to have a jolly time in celebrating the pegging out. A young Chicago man who unex pectedly fell heir to $1,000,000, pro ceeded to eet away with it by in vesting in a fifty-cent cigar. CITY MARKETS Preiiy Well Stocked With Everything Seaaon at Beaaonable Frloea. TheWilmiogton markets are pretty well stocked just now with everything that grows in the neighborhood at this season in. .the way of vegetables and fruitsi There is a very- good variety of fish to be had, poultry is plenty, though not especially fine, and the meat mar kets " offer a fair lot of excellent beef, lamb, veal and pork. Cantaloupes are scarce. The crop is late. A few have appeared in market from near-by farms and sold readily at high prices. Watermelons are also late and growers say will not be in market before the middle 'of July. A car-load of Georgia melons was on sale yesterday and brought good prices. Plums, huckleberries and blackberries can be bought for 5c per quart and a few peaches (inferior stock) at 5 to 10c per quart.' '; H The supply of poultry is about suffi cient to meet the demand and prices are veil sustained. Grown (owls sell at 30 to 40c each and Spring chickens fromH 12X to 20c Eggs are abundant at 12c perdozen. . - WILMINGTON, N. C, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS- Convention of the Grand Iaodce at Mount Ain AaheviUa Selected aa the Next - Flaoe ot Meetlnu. - Messrs. E. G. Parmele. Walker Taylor, John L. Dudley. Thomas D. Meares, S. Behrends, I. Greenwald, W. T. Wood ward, officers and representatives of the Grand Lodge K. ol P .returned yesterday from the convention at Mount Airv. Prof. Washington Catlett. who was with the party,' is expected to return this evening. - Mr. Thomas D. Meares, P. G. C, of Wilmington, was re-elected Supreme Representative to the Supreme Lodge for the term of four years. umccrs oi tne urana Loage were elected, as follows : -' - - - P. G.C. C E. Holton, Greensboro. G. C. Charles A. Webb. Asheville. G. V. C Washington Catlett, Wil mington. ' I. r 5. B. Bandy, Monroe. G, M. of E. John Ward, Raleigh. G. K.ofR. and S.4-C D. Benbow. oreensboro. . i G. M. of A. H. D. I Hudson. Shelby. u. i. u. u. - A. McMillan, l-avette- ville. - . - , G. O. G. T. W. Hawkins, Mount Airy. Asheville was selected as the next place or meeting, the I third Tuesday in June. 1886 Mr.S. Behrends. of Germania Lodge. No. 4.. was appointed a member of the Finance Committee. J '. For the first time in its historv the Grand Lodge officially ' recognized the Uniform Rank, by making an appropri ation to enable divisions, now organized to carry on their work: uen. Kennedy ol the Grand Domain K. of P. of Illinois was in attendance at the Grand Lodge and rendered valuable assistance in preparing the new consti tution which was adopted and in many other important matters. Blue Ridge Lodge K. of P. of Mount Airy and many other citizens of that place did everything in their power to make the stay of visiting delegates pleasant. AMONG THE TRUCKERS. Crop Eaokward but Doing Well The Potato Crop Though Small Sold at Good Frloea. I Mr. C H. Heide, a successful truck farmer of New Hanover county says the yield of potatoes this season has not been so large as expected, on account of heavy rams early in the Spring, but prices were better, and taking the aver age, farmers have done tolerably well. The later crops, such as tomatoes and cantaloupes, are looking better than could have been expected from the lateness of the season. Mr. Heide says he thinks it would be agood thing if the farmers in this section would send ' to the Star some account of their success and lack-of success with different crops grown for shipment, to Northern markets; it would be informa tion of value to many! Mr. W. F. Alexander, of Middle Sound, in the city yesterday, reports crops generally backward; but com ing out wonderfully now. WORK OF MOONSHINERS. Orist and Sawmill Burned Fruit Tree. and Grapevines Destroyed. SpecialSlarTeUgram. Raleigh, N. C, June 22. Kelly's grist and sawmill, near New Hill. Chat ham county, was destroyed by fire this week. About 150 trees and many grapevines in the orchard of W. J. Olive, U. S. dep uty collector, residing near New Hill, were destroyed by cutting bark from them. The neighborhood is pretty certain that the work was done by moonshiners. Several were uo inl the last Federal Court. Kelly and. Olive were instru mental in breaking up a number of dis tilleries. It is known that moonshiners have made threats against them. The community is indignant. Jap Johnson, the notorious moonshiner, who was ar rested recently and who is under $500 bond, lives in the community and is sus pected, j Bedueed Batea 8. A.'li. On account of the Summer School - for teachers. University of North Caro- lina. Chapel Hill, the' Seaboard Air Line will sell round trip tickets to that point at lednced rates. Rate from Wilming ton tS.00; from Maxton $6.20. Tickets ou sale June 21st to July 1st, final limit August 1st 1895. On account of the meeting of Grand Lodge K.of P. of North Carolina (col ored) at Durham, N, CJuly 1st to 5th, the S. A. L. will sell round trip tickets to that point at reduced rates. Rate from Wilmington $7.70. Tickets on sale June 29th, 80th, and July 1st, final limit July 7th. On account 01 the North Carolina Firemens' Association (colored) at Hen derson, N. C., Augdst 13th to 15th, the S. A. L. will sell round trip tickets to that point at reduced rates. Rate from Wilmington $7.10. I On account of Distr ct Conference M. E. Church South. Lumberton. N. C the S. A. L. will sell round trip tickets to that point at reduced rates. Rate from Wilmington $8.45. j On account of the meeting of the Bap tist Young People's Union of America, Baltimore, Md., July 16th-21st, 1895, the S. A. L. will sell round trip tickets at very low rates. Rate from Wilmington for the round trip via Portsmouth and Bay Line $10.00, via Weldon $13.10. Tickets on sale July 16 and 17tb, final limit August 5th, 1895. . Death ol M. Sam'l B, Burtt, Mr. Samuel S. Burtt, an aged and respected citizen of Wilmington, died yesterday morning this city, in the 8! at his residence in st year of his age He leaves a wife and two sons Mr. S. A. Burtt, cashier of the Standard Oil Co. here, and Mr. L R. Burtt, of Love- land, Ohio. : Mr. Burtt was born in the city of Newark. N. J., and came to Wilmington some fifty by trade or more years ago.- He was a machinist, and for many years carried on a successful business in this city, until failing health compelled him to retire. He Was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wilmington, and his funeral will take place from that church this morning at 9 o'clock. . FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1895. FOR SOUND MONEY. MEETING OF CITIZENS AT THE COURT j i HOUSE YESTERDAY. . i Organised Declaration, of Principles The Constitution Adopted Offloen jClectei Committees Appointed. : Pursuant to the call heretofore pub lished a meeting of citizens was held at the Court House at 12 m. yesterday to organize a Sound Money Club. The meeting was called to Order by H. .C McQueen, Esq., who requested Mr. A. P. Hallett to read the minutes of a preceding meeting held at The Orton, which fully explained the purpose of the present meeting. - v On motion. Mr. McQueen: was made permanent chairman, and A. P. Hallett,' Esq secretary. v , . The Committee on Platform ap pointed at a previous meeting, reported through : its Chairman. Mr. Rountree, the following Constitution and Declara tion of .Principles:; ; - THI CONSTITUTION. - First,-The name of this organization shall be theDemocratic Sound Money Club. - Second. There shall be a President, two Vice Presidents, a Secretary and Treasurer, an Executive Committee, a Finance Committee, each composed of five elected by the members, whose term of office shall be one year, and such other committees as may be deemed de sirable. I " Third.! The object of this organization shall be to promote the intelligent study of monetary and financial questions, to foster a loyal support ot the Democratic Administration and to endeavor to pre serve the integrity and ascendency of the Democratic party. DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES. While fully appreciating the great business depression from which our peo ple, in common with all the nations of the earth, have been suffering, we see no evidence to lead us to believe that it is caused by an insufficiency of money either in this or in any other country ; and we do not perceive how the evil can be summarily removed by silver legisla tion; therefore we declare our adherence to the following principles, which we confidently assert are in accordance with settled Democratic doctrine : First.: We hold it self-evident that the powers of the legislature should be limited to the enactment of such laws as shall interfere as little as possible with the personal liberties of the people and shall allow the freest and fullest scope to tne inaepenaent aeveiopment of each individual; that all governmental protec tion, whether given to the manufacturer or to the mine owner or to any other class ot persons is odious and unjust,, that no government can by mere legis lative act create the prosperity, wealth. or contentment of all of its citizens, and that all schemes of legislative action that are offered as panaceas "for human ills are founded on a misconception of the functions of government, are false in theory and are fraught with danger to the common weal. Second. We believe that the present free silver agitation is especially hurtful in its results to our section of the coun try, in that it tends to create apprehen sion in the minds of capitalists and pre vents them from engaging in industrial enterprises and giving employment to labor. The South owns no. silver mines, but it has vast undeveloped resources. needing only capital operating with con fidence!. Third. We believe that the mere an nouncement upon tne morrow ot an election that the "free biiver move ment Was triumphant would cause a scramble among holders of American se curities to sell out; that this wholesale selling Would cause an immediate and heavy decline in all prices, a monetary crisis, a stoppage of all accommodations to farmers and merchants, a rush to force collections of all debts, a bank panic and countless failures of business men, corporations and banks, from the effects of which the whole country, in cluding our section, would languish for years, i Fourth. We assert that universal ex perience teaches that it is beyound the power of any Government to make gold and silver circulate as money in unnmit ed quantities at a ratio that does not correspond with the market val ues ot; the two metais, ana we oeiieve that the passage of an act by the United btates alone providing tor tne tree and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, when the market ratio is 82 to 1, instead of inflating the currency and causing an advance of all prices as com monlv believed, would, in tne first in stance; immediately drive out of circula tion six hundred and twenty-nine mil lions ot gold dollars, give us pure silver monometalism and contract the existing volume of currency to the extent of about One-third, create an instantaneous scarcity of money, disarrange all business calculations, deter all persons from en terine Into contracts; and in fact paraylze Industry, throw innumerable persons out of employment and cause immeasurable loss and suffering. Fifth. That in the absence of an agree-- ment between all the great commercial nations, we favor the retention of the gold doljar as the ultimate standard of value.! But we aiso neartuy tavor sucn use of legal tender silver as can be maintained without impairing the credit of the Government or diminishing the purchasing or debt-paying power of the money in tne nanas oi tne people. thereby securing the only possible bi metalhsm. Sixth. We assert that those who. clamor for free and unlimited coinage of silver erroneously call themselves "bi- metallists, and we demand that they point out how the parity now being maintained between gold and the various enormous issues both of silver and papr money can be continued except by the confidence of the holders thereof in the ability and intention of the Government to exchange on demand the one for the otherj The Government owning no natural deposits ot precious metals; legislation being impotent to create values; how can parity be maintained when taxation fails, or exhausted public credit is unable to supply sufficient of the most valuable commodity to satisfy the demands of the owners of the least valuable? The answer is so self-evident that We declare the issue can only be sauarely between silver monometallism pure and simple, and gold monometal lism Supplemented by such use ot silver and paper as now obtains; between the standard of value of the most backward and least enlightened nations and that of the- most advanced and prosperous. Seventh. We favor retiring and can celling both greenbacks and Treasury for "Sherman") notes, and substituting therefor bank notes, thereby eliminating an element from our monetary system that is a standing menace to the national credijt; the tetention of which must ever ooerate as an insuperable obstacle to the establishing of a sound financial system. Eighth. We favor the repeal of the ten ner cent, tax on State banks to the end that.1 under proper safeguards and re strictions, such institutions may exercise TAR. the right of issue, thereby enabling them to; provide the means for each community to regulate the volume of currency to correspond toi its own needs. Ninth. We invite all who think at we do, or who desire to study the financial questions ot the day to unite with us and we earnestly urge the formation of bound i Money Democratic Clubs throughont the State and South. - Tenth. We deny the right of the Dem ocratic Executive Committee of this State to formulate a oartv platform and we deprecate the suggestion made to call a State Convention of the party at this time, when no elections are immi nent, and we belive it would be injuri ous to business interests and prejudi cial to the welfare ol the . Democratic party, We want no "snap conventions" in North Carolina, but we desire that the people should have time to study the question and form their own opinions in peace and quietness, in the confidence that their great common sense will lead them to just conclusions. On motion, the Constitution was adopted, and the Declaration of Prin ciples, read section by section, on mo tion was adopted, generally without dis cussion. The ninth declaration provoked con siderable discussion. Mr. Geo. Kidder excepted to" the word "Democratic." contending that the club should not be committed to party, and that the ques tion of politics should be eliminated from the principles of the club Mr. (Jalder contended th it all the re forms to which the club was committed could be accomplished through the agency of the Democratic party. " Mr. Rountree said that the gold men could have more influence in the Demo cratic party than by the organization of an independent party. But he reserved the right to vote as his conscience dic tated, regardless of party affiliations. Mr. Diggs offered a resolution as an addition to the Declaration ot Princi ples. This occasioned considerable dis cussion. I Mr. ialder suggested that though he personally was in accord with the sentiments expressed in the resolu tion, that in the interest of harmony he would suggest that Mr. Diggs withdraw his resolution and offer it as remarks. Mr. Diggs accepted the suggestion and it was ordered that the- remarks be spread upon the minutes. The Committee on Organization through its Chairman, P. B. Manning, Esq., reported the following as officers to serve for one year : President D G Worth. Vice-Presidents D L Gore. I Allan Taylor.! Secretary and Treasurer A P Hallett. Executive Committee George Roun tree. C W Worth. C E Borden, Sam Bear, Jr., Win Caldef. Finance Committee H C McQueen H A Whiting. R D Cronly, Donald Mac- Rae. Geo W Kidder. Correspondence Committee P B Man ning, ti A waiting, Jonn n, Crow, T Diggs, I Allan Taylor. Mr. Worth then took the chair and addressed the club, after which the meeting adjourned subject to the call of the chair. The following gentlemen joined the club at the meeting: D G Worth Wm Calder C W Worth S PMcNair D L Gore J W Norwood A J DeRosset B F Hall Donald McRae W B Cooper J S Armstrong W H Green WW Lane J W Jenkins Geo R French WGMacRae J H Crow T W Clawson J H Davis J C Slocumb Sam Bear, Jr W S Hancock W A Johnson H C McQueen M Cronly, Tr . K N Sweet Geo Rountree C E Borden O G Parsley RD Cronly H A Whiting ) C Stevenson J Allan Taylor W C Jones A D Cazaux J W Atkinson A f Hallett P B Manning E S Tennent TCDiegs GW Kidder Guilford Home Junius Davis. Fire at Magnolia. A correspondent of the Star writes from Magnolia, Duplin county, that J. Baker & Son's steam saw and grist mill at that place were destroyed by fire yes terday morning at 4 o'clock. The loss is estimated at $1,000; no insurance. The fire is supposed to have been caused by sparks from the smoke-stack. A TELEGRAPHIC BLTTNDEB. Theliateat Abaorption by the Southern Bailroad-It la the Atlantic and Dan ville Bailroad and Not the Atlantlo Coaat liine. Charleston News and Courier. It has now come to light that there was an error in the dispatch which was sent out from New York the other day announcing that an alliance bad been formed between the Southern and the Atlantic Coast Line systems. While no official! denial or correction of the dispatch has been made, it has come to light that what the dispatch should; have stated was that the alliance had been formed between the Southern system and the Atlantic and Danville Koad. Mo one is surpnsea in the least at a combine Of this kind. The Atlantic and Danville is - a road which runs from Danville to Norfolk, and for a number of years has been closelv affili ated with the old Richmond & Danville properties, in fact it was a part of the old system out of which the Southern was made and it has just now oeen tasen into the deal. The Atlantic & Danville is and must always remain a very impor tant factor in the Southern system, as it gives the Southern its only practical route into Morioik. When the dispatch was published statincr that the alliance bad been lorm ed between the Southern and the At lantic Coast Line, the News and Cou rier published an article discrediting the truth of the statement. It showed that nothing could be gained by either sys tem in any such combine, and it gave some of the reasons for that opinion. The fact of the matter is that despite some very wild rumors regarding the in tention of the Southern people ultimate lv to gobble no pretty much all of the South Atlantic systems it is absurd to suppose that the Atlantic Coast Line is likely to be one of its earliest victims. No one ever doubted !that it would be more than a Question of time before the Atlantic and Danville was taken under the wing of the Southern. BANK STATEMENT Weekly Statement of Aaaociated Banks. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, June 22. The weekly statement of the associated-banks shows the following changes: Reserve decrease, $1,414,650; loans increase, $4,980,500; specie decrease, $394,000; legal tenders, increase. $390,100; deposits increase. $5,643,000 circulation decrease, $52,000. The banks now hold $36,544,350 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rnle. i NO. 34 RALEIGH NEWS BUDGET. BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS REQUIRED TO PAY A FRAN CHISE tax: Oommiaaionera of Wake County Xaaue Bonds to Pay for Construction ol Bridges State Auditor's Be port in Demand Bate Ball Conoert Judge Ewan'a Elec tionThe Arrlngton Court. Star Correspondence. - Raleigh, N. C, June 22. Section 86 of the Revenue Act says. every private business corporation (rail roads, banks and insurance companies excepted) shall pay franchise tax accord ing to a stipulated graduated scale. The Mechanics' and Investors' Union and B. and L. Associations rn this city at tempt to evade the law by classing their business under the head of panking. Treasurer Worth decided yesterday that they were not exempt and would be lia ble to the tax. The Atlantic Hotel and the Egypt Coal Coal Company are char tered in this county, and have been no tified by. the sheriff to pay the tax to this county. The sheriff says bouses of ill repute are liable to the boarding house tax, and he will enforce the law:. Lots of fruit is being shipped to this city. Apricots, peaches, cantaloupes and all kinds of fruit are auite plentiful. Peaches raised in this county retailed this morning at 50 cents a peck. ml k. vv. i ate, an aged citizen, died last night after a short illness. General Passenger Agent -Turk of the Southern Railway is in the city. C I. Andrews has returned from Norfolk, but he declines to talk about the new route to Norfolk by way of Raleigh. the Board of County (commissioners have issued $6,000 worth of new bonds to be used in paviog for the construction of new bridges which have recently been built in place ot those washed away during the Winter. The .Board is only allowed to issue bonds in paying for the erection of bridges. A good many people in Raleigh are interested in base ball and are much dis appointed because of the failure to es tablish a State League early in the sea son. A good idea would be toJarrangea series ot games on the plan proposed by tne Wilmington management. The annual report of the Auditor for the past year was such an excellent one that the supply has been exhausted and the demand was so great that an extra edition of 500 copies has been struck oft. Fully 1.500 people went out to Pullen Park last evening to a concert given by the Cornet band.; There was a double set of cars running on fast, schedule, but the street car service was totally inade quate to accommodate the large number of people. The Journal of the Senate shows that Judge Ewart received 22 votes in the Senate whereas 26 formed a quorum and that number was necessary for election. The election of Judge for the Criminal Court was not by joint ballot. udge Starbuck . decided " in the Stamford-Ellington case that where there was no quorum there wss no election. Can he be removed? The fact stands that he did not received a majority. "Chief Justice Campbell is bordering on the verge of delirium tremens. His condition is truly pitiable and elicits sympathy. The old man came here ex pecting to get the court together. Fail ing in this he took to drink and has kept it up. He has no money and bad none when he came here, somebody seems to be supplying him with whiskey. He cant get home unless some one helps him out. He was at the Capitol this morning; Ve said little and wept bitterly. it is my opinion that the auditor will allow him mileage. AFFAIRS IN CUBA. Fait her Sueoeeees By tie Inanrgenta Span- iah Volunteer Join the Bebsl Foroea. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Jacksonville, Fla., June 22. A cablegram to the Times-Union from Key West., Fla., says: Passengers on the steamer Mascotte to-night report that a battle was fought on the 12th near Vega Alta in Remedos between the insur gents under the command of Roloff and Sanches, and Spaniards under Sala manca in which the latter was killed together wilh sixty men the insurgents loss being small. It is also reported that Coranado, director of La Discussion, was arrested and put in the Cabanas yesterday for publishing re ports from correspondents in the field. It is reported in Havana that there are uprisings in San Jose Laslajas, Begudeal, Santiago De Las Vegas, Guira and Al quisar. The capture ot Maximo uomcz is De nied in Havana. The First Battalion of Volunteers. about one hundred men. have been ar rested and put in the Cabanas for refus ing to go into the field. Col. Basallo, with four hundred and eighty men, de serted and joined the insurgents. It is also reported that the Lieutenant of Volunteers near Camaguani with fifty men has joined the rebel forces. It is claimed they are badly treated and poor ly fed. CROPS INJURED By Heavy Contlnuoua Bains in MUalastppt. By Telegraph to the Morning Star Jackson, June 22. During the past two weeks there has been scarcely a day without a heavy rain, and no day In which the sun has had an unobstructed chance at the growing crops. The con sequence is farmers are beginning to "growl. Urass is growing rapiaiy ana the land is too wet to work. This being Saturday a large number of farmers were in the city and the Southern Asso ciated. Press reporter took occasion to make special inquiries about crops. Every one interviewed declared tne ram was injuring cotton, and two or three said their corn was turning yellow from standing in the water. Cotton this year is small for the season. . : BRUTAL MURDER Followed by a Lynching in Claiborne County, Miaaiaarppi. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Jackson, Miss., June 22. A letter has been received here bringing addi tional particulars of the murder and lynching in Claiborne county. John Saunders has been living in adul tery with his daughter. His wife caught up with him; they quarrelled and John knocked her down, and then after the fashion of negroes in killing an opossum, he put a stick on her neck, stood on tbe stick ana puiiea ner arms until he broke her neck. There is not such a murder on. recordi He was promptly lynched when the particulars became known. . Joseph Collins and three brothers named Brent were killed yesterday by an explosion of a boiler in a saw mill at Spring-Hill. Ark. Many others were severely injured. - LATE; FOREIGN NEWS; THE RUSSO FRENCH SYNDICATE AND " THE CHINEbE WAR LOAN. China Withholda Batifloition oi the Con- traot The Opanith Government' Making Large Fnriehaaea ot! War Material in England-Naval Evolntlona at KielThe ' Amerioan Fqaedron Geta a Full Share of ' Admiration The Britlah Mlnlatry Will : Besign. ., ., ,1 ':;'- By Cablet the Morning Star : London. June 22. The Statist and the Pall Mali Gazette contradict the telegrams from St. Petersburg saying that the Chinese loan -contract has been signed. The fact is that China with- -holds the ratification, though she is pressed by Russia to conclude the treaty. China may finally refuse to ratily the convention. She objects to the conditions imposed by 'France, that further loans must be borrowed in Paris. She also refuses . to hypothecate any . part of her customs revenue for the loan: According to the Pall Mall Gazette the real reason for this situation of affairs Is that on April 22 last a special Chinese envoy signed a contract with a London firm granting the Bank of Eng land the option bf arranging the great loan. The bank I immediately placed at the disposal ot the authorities at Pekin the sum of 1.000,000 which was drawn upon. . Russia and France afterwards stepped in and tried to spoil the London contract. - . . The double dealirg on the part of the . Pekln authorities: led the British Gov ernment to remind them that the cus toms revenue of the treaty ports, on which the loan must be secured, was already practically in the hands of the British, whose rights must be protected. With a view to fixing matters the Russo French syndicate again tried to indue the Rothschilds to join the syndicate, offering them 9,DOO,000 of the loan. This effer the Rothschilds declined. ' London, June 22. The Spanish Gov ernment has recently placed large or ders for war material in Glasgow, New Castle and Birmingham, comprehending the construction of twenty gun-boatsand-a large quantity of small aims and the furnishing of heavy consignments of am munition. The aggregate cost involves the expenditure by the Spanish Gov ernment of 2,500,000 pounds. Tbe Span ish Ministry of Marine has an accredited agent in England at the present time, who Is arranging the contracts for these supplies, most of which are already un der process of manufacture. London, June 22. Lord Roseberry went to Windsor; at 7.10 o'clock this evening. He was driven to the castle in one of the royal carriages. Thj Pre mier's secretary, Mr. Murray, informed a representative of tbe United Press that Lord Roseberry had really gone to Windsor in accordance with a previous command from the Queen, but that he would 'also report to tier Maiesty the decisioa arrived at its deliberations to by tbe Cabinet after day. Tbe sun prints an extra in which it says it has good reasons to believe that Lord Roseberry wil tender his resigna tion to tbe Queen on the occasion of his visit to Windsor Castle to-night. . The Sun further says that at the Cab inet meeting this alternoon all of the Ministers were in favor of giving up their offices, trie - only question undecided being whether they would resign or dis- solve Parliament, Alter further discus that they would re- I . The manceuvering the harbor at noon. sion it was decided sign. Kiel, June 22, fleet returned to Their evolutions' were highly successful. The vessels of the American squadron have continued to be objects of admira- tion and curiosity Ito the officers of all of the assembled fleets, who almost with out exception have inepected them. The concensus of opinion is that the San Francisco is the newest, cleanest and the harbor and the Columbia one of the finest and best. All foreign naval off cers speak in the highest terms of the courtesies extended to them during their stay here. The American and French ships sailed at, midday. They were boarded bytheoffi- - cers ol the wtaWiquadron. who heart ily wished theirFrench hosts ton voyage. The Russians were entertained with the utmost hospitality, champagne consti tuting a large share oLthe refreshments served. Lieutenant Ward, who was at- tached at various times to the U. S. embassies at Paris; Berlin 'and St. Pe tersburg, declared in an interview list night that he was heartily ashamed, while making the passage ol the canal, to think how the Amsneans barged the big drum and blew the trumpet for years, seeking to show what a great nation they were and what great things they would do in the tremendous work of building and controlling the Nicaragua Canal, yet they had neither built it nor allowed anyone else to do so. In the meantime Germany, saying noth ing, had plodded along, and when the canal was ready it was opened and tbe -world invited to view it. This impres sion is largely shared by the naval offi cers of other countries. Tbe entire arrangements were perfect and the Germans have shown tbe vis itors from all nations, without the least indication of partiality, the utmost at tention. , It is expectec that the Emperor will pay'a visit to tbe Columbia to-morrow. The representative of the United Press went on board the San Francisco to-day. The accident which occurred on one of her steam launches yesterday wascaused bv the blowing out of the head of her boiler. Little damage was done either to the vessel or herxfitures beyond the tearing away of the awning. Four per sons were hurt but none of them serious ly, not one ot them being placed on the sick list. ' ALABAMA DEMOCRATS .Will Elect Sound Money Congressmen Next Tear and Bend Delegation of the Same Stripe to the National Con vention. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. New York, June 22. The Evening Sun says: Mr. Frank P. O'Brien. . editor and proprietor of the Birming ham (Ala.) Aze-Herald. and leader of the Democratic majority in the Legisla ture of Alabama, has just arrived in the city lrom the South, and' brings the news that the free silver agitation in his State has resulted in a combination of political elements that will ensure the selection of a sound money delegation to the next National " Convention, and ' the election of sound money Congressmen next year. Mr O'Brien said: - "One of 'the first things done by the free silver agitators in Alabama was to combine with the Populists. Kolb. tbe Populist leader, is now working at the silver men. and has carried his following with him. "The result of this is a combination of the Southern Republicans with the Southern Democrats of tbe State for the Congressional election next year, in or der to prevent the election ot any free silver representatives from the State. The sound money Democrats of the State, I believe, will be able to control the State Convention next May and elect the delegates to the National Con vention. Recently some of the Repub lican leaders of the State have volun teered to ioln forces with us next year to prevent the election of free silver men to Congress and the Legislature. "Since my arrival In New York I have learned that the Republicans of our State have been advised by leaders of that party in this city, and by prominent members of the Republican National Commitee, to make the combination with the sound money Democrats in order to defeat the free silver Populist combination. Under tbe circumstances, the defeat of the Populists in our State election and the Pooulist silver combina tion in the Congressional election next year. I regard as certain."
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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