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rl)0UHO AT wIlmington. n. c, AT ' $1.00 A YEAR- IN ADVANCE,' ss788888888888888888 if .ww si I gSi8g888ggggggg gg88SSS!SSSSSSSSS FS88S8S8888i888i3 88888888888888888 82888888288888888 S8S8S853S2SS88SS8 8288S8S3SS88S8883 8S8SS888888S88S88 - 10 -ao3' S S S S S 8 8 o a. . at the Post Uffice at wumt totered t ln Second Clast Matter.! Post Office at Wilmtgton, Nv C, as SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. Tht jubscription price of the Weekly. Star is at SteCopY 1 '. lttge paid....,.'. . .. " S mootns , u jimonthi " 80 r so HOARDING GOLD.". fix-Governor Roswell P. Flower, of New Vork, who is head of a bank- in? firm in that city, is of the optn: ion that there is at least $370,000,000 of gold hoarded in stockings and in 5:na!l holdings in this country.' Tak ing the Treasury statements tor a basis he takes it for granted that there is about $675,000,000 of gold iaibe country, about $225,000,000 -of which is held by the banks, and $30,000,000 in the Treasury, leaving .the remainder, or about $370,000,000, hid away somewhere. This he says was salted down by people who be came timid two years ago and con verted their greenbacks, into gold, partly for sscurity, but mostly with the hopi of reaping a premium on the gold. The premium didn't come and the gold remained salted lown where it remains now. This might account tor some of the hoarding, but only for a very small part of it, for the people who hoard gold in small quantities (and there are very few of the people who hoard it in large quan tities) are not of the spec ulative class and think very little about premiums. People who can hoard money will, if they can get it, hoard gold as a matter of preterence because there is a stable value in it, there i no legislation to adversely affect its value, and it is not so liable to injury as paper money. Being so much more valu able than other kinds of metallic money of course it is thought, more of, more carefully handled and bet ter guarded. If the ordinary person, especially one who toils for what he earns, has two kinds of money, one gold and one something else, and has to. spend either he will spend the other and save t he gold, "which he will spend only when he is compelled to. But compared with the popula lion there are veiy few people in any country who can hoard money of any kind, France having, perhaps, a greater number than any other. Even in our own country the hoard ing depends much upon the nation ality, Americans being little given to it and Irishmen still less. If statis tics could be gathered it would be found that the hoarders with gold in their stockings are very few and that Mr. Flower would have to do a good deal of hustling with some far reaching search-warrants to find a sum approximating $370,000,000. Gold was hoarded and worshipped thousands of years ago and the statemanship of recent years instead endeavoring to convert people oat of that kindof worship has been doing much to extend and intensify that kind of idolatry, and to en courage people to. set a high value upon and to hoard the yellow metal, thus keeping it scarce as a circula - ting medium and giving it an extra ordinary value, and thus at the same time depriving it of its full virtue as a money metal. It, like other coins r other kinds of money, was origi "ally intended as a medium of ex change, for that is what money i-S and every legislative act which discriminates between it and other kinds of money, which increases its value and lessens theirs, thereby tending to withdraw it from circula tion, doe3 that much to impair its usefulness as money and to that ex tent destroy its monev property. It s true money only when in circula tion; when hoarded in bank vault or in stocking it is worth to the world no more than that much bullion or that much metal at the mine, the only difference being that it is a little nearer reach if the inducement ' should be sufficient to bring it to the 'ight or the necessities of the hoarders forced them tcr-disgorge it is conceded that the money of lesser value will drive the money of greater value into retirement, and "is was and Is one of the specious and stock arguments against the free coinage of silver, but admitting lts truth, and it is true, what is the difference between driving money ut of the country, as the gold mon ometallists say free silver would, and Qnving it into the stockings, where Mr. Flower says it is, as the legisla- "n of these days does? It might well be across the ocean in stock lDgsas be in stockinsrs here, where 11 will remain until necessity or ex traordinary temptation draws it out. 4 S 5 1 VOL. XXVII. " WILMINGTON" N.: O.f FftTT) A Y. DEOFJVflVFR a. " - V ' - - no a "M"'"""MM"'M"'M''M"MTMM'MMM''M1'',,M,,,M'"''S'aal I Asiae trom the disposition of the people of this and of nearly all other nations to hoard gold, and thus con tract its volume in circulation and keep it "dear," are not the Govern ments themselves responsible for the extent to which the : hoarding is carried by practically ostracizing other kinds" of money and hoarding gold themselves? There is not a gold standard country in the -world to-day that is not doing that; and this is one of the things which creates the demand for gold, makes it the subject of speculation and also of boarding by the large operators to be in a condition to meet that de mand and profit by it. "Thus gold, instead of being a medium change, or money, becomes a sob- ject of speculation, a mere com mercial commodity, and in this re spect no better than silver, which has been practically reduced to that con dition by -.adverse, discriminating legislation. One of the results of this kind of legislation in this country has been to drive gold into retirement, or out ot circulation, which they say is the objection to the free coinage of sil ver, which would do that, for doesn't Mr. Flower, the banker, say that of the $675,000,000 of gold in the country $235,000,000 are in the banks, $80,000,000 in the U. S. Treasury and about $370,000,000 hoarded in stockings and by small holders? This leaves nothing for circulation, - although when tbe Treasury comes to figure upon the per capita circulation it divides the $675,000,000 among the people and gives them so much per head. How long would this hoarding, which is now carried on . according to Mr.. Flower to such an excess, and with such detriment to the country, be continued if a sensible financial pol icy were pursued, and Governments ceased to look upon and treat gold as the only, true money metal? If silver were not discriminated against but were treated as gold is, as a full money metal, as it was before tbe de monetizing process began, there would be less temptation to gather up the gold and hide it, and citizens like Mr. Flower would not have to spend their Sundays ransacking their houses to find it if there were any special reason to bring it out. MINOR MENTION. Mr. Charles Emery Smith, editor of the Philadelphia Press, who was Minister to Russia during President Harrison's administration, was'one of the speakers at the late Chamber of Commerce banquet in New York. Among other things he said he in di lating on the progress of this coun try, he spoke as follows : ' la the two decades horn 1870 to 1890 the three mighty powers of Great Brit ain, France and Germany, all combined, with their 125.000,000 people, gained in wealth $30,000,000,000, while the United Slates alone, with its 60,000.000 people, pained 138.000.000.000.- The United States earns two thirds as , much as all tbe other three pat together. In 1860 the product of oar manufactures was lit tle more than half of England's. - In 1890 it more than doubled her oat pat. Oar expansion ia industries was more than twice that of England. France and Germany together. Their debts are piling op; ours are melting away. Their taxes are rising; ours are falling. Their expenditures are frightfully swelling; oars are relatively declining. Their pro ductive forces are stripped lor armies and armemenls; ours are at the plow, tbe forge, tbe loom and the exchange all the tools of wealth and not of waste. England's taxes are 10 per cent, of her earnings: France s. 13 per cent,.; uerma- ny s. 10.H per cent.; wnne oars are oniy 5 par cent. England spends one-sixth of her local taxes and one-twelfth of all her revenue for poor relief and only one- seventh for schools. The United States spends one-sixth of all her national and local income for schools and tbe demand for poor relief is only a beggarly item. The contrast is the key of tbe future." This is a pretty good showing for I the progressiveness and. energy of I the American people, but there is no more room for comparison between this country and - the countries re ferred to than there is between them and Africa. We have here a young country with millions of unoccupied acres, into which immigration has been pouring by the hundreds of thousands annually from the over rrnwded' countries of Europe, and we deserve no credit whatever for distancing them in the industrial race and in the accumulation of wealth. There is no parity ot con ditions that would justify a compari son. If Mr. Smith had gone a little further and shown where the main increase of wealth has been, how it has been absorbed by a compara tively smalls number of people and how little of it is distributed among the masses, it might have added in terest to his discourse and at the same time given his hearers some food for mental digestion. And yet with all this progress which Mr. Smith mentions with such satisfac tion In contrast with the lack of pro gress in the countries referred to, he is one of the men who believe in tying this country to the financial systems which prevail over there, and making us play second fiddle to them instead of leading tbem as we m anrl rrttild do if we had a auvu.u - financial policy of our own. The town of Albany, Ga., had a little exposition of its own one aay last week, which was a big exposi tion in Its way. It; was a" hay show, the chief promotor of which was the editor of the Albany Herala vho of fered prizes for the best samples of hay produced In Dougherty 'and .the surrounding counties. As in many other sections of the South the farm ers of that section were hot quite sure they could raise good hay and it required the temptation of a prize to stimulate them up to the point of making an earnest effort, but the Herald man succeeded and the re sult was an exhibition of hay which in quantity and quality surprised the natives, and others who may have dropped in about that time. One of the principal streets was selected for the exhibition . ' and for seven; nunarea leet on one side "and five hundred on the. other there was a solid wall of baled hay put up in one-ton samples. Some planters displayed as many as many "as Several hundred bales. The exhibition wound up with the distri bution of prizes, a jollification ana speeches, devoted we suppose to ex tolling the virtues of hay and laud ing the hay growers, not forgetting, we trust, the level-headed editor whose efforts resulted in such a use ful and commendable exhibition. He has been instrumental in showing the farmers of his section what they can do when they try, and if they now follow it up It will be money in their pockets and eventually result in miking their section one of tbe garden spots of Georgia, if it is not already. The latest from Hon. T. B. Reed represents him as saying that there is no hope of carrying through any tariff legislation in this Congress, for if such measures as might be pro posed could be gotten through the Senate, which is very doubtful, they would be vetoed by the President. This is a conclusion that thousands of people came to long before Mr. Reed expressed his . opinion, but it. shows the trickery of the Republican leaders, all the same. In some of the States during tbe campaign they were quite the necessity of tion" for American eloquent on "more protec- industries, and they rang the changes on "free wool," especially in- Ohio, where they contended that it was ruining the "great industry" of wool-growing in this country, and made a good many of the wool-growers believe that if the : Republicans got control of Congress they "would fix that matter up all right. They knew they couldn't do it when they were talk ing that way, but thousands of their hearers, over whose eyes they were pulling the wool, didn't know it. Thev can't do anything with the tariff, but this will not prevent them from doing a good deal of talking on it, for they have to kill time and thev can kill it with that about as well as with anything. The Savannah Press tells of the champion old man, who not long ago brought into Macon two bales of cot' ton which he raised himself. He is 104 years old. He is sturdy looking, walks upright without a cane, and with the exception of dimness of vision, seems to be in jam up con dition. If you think the wasp is useless, and are ever tempted to sit down on him, take time and consider, for the wasp. kills files and does it with his little sting, which he always keeps ready and handy for business. On Thanksgiving day the Raleigh News and Observer issued a splendid 36-page Cotton Mill edition, hand somely printed and abounding in val uable information. It is a credit to the publishers, to Raleigh and the state. The output of gold for the Alaska mines for the few months they could work this year, is reported at $3,000,- 000. There are fifteen stamp mills erected for crushing the ore. A Baltimore wholesale coffee dealer is accused of artificially color ing his coffee. Some of his custo mers who have discovered it are drawing the color line on that. There is a combine just got up in Chicago on salted jsides. When they it into good shape they will proceed to salt the people who want sides. Spain admits a loss of 22,000 men since tbe f racas in Cuba began. The machete seems to have been , getting in its work, ably assisted by Yellow Jack, &c. - " ' '' -. : v; Of the 13,176 miles of street rail way in this country only 1,950 miles are now operated bv horse or mule power. We regret the suspension ot-the State recently started at Raleigh by Capt. S. A. Ashe. Coxey, otOhio, is going to start a newspaper. It will probably stop itself. -: - - - . This is a fast age we live in. They are hatching eggs in Germany by electricity. Mr. John Sparks is in the city making arrangements for the coming of "Sparks' Circus." which will show here next week. RALEIGH NEWS LETTER. REPORTED ATTEMPT TO WRECK ? A TRAIN ON THE COAST. LINE, The OTew liAthod ot GtnnlnR Cotton Jadsa fiohenok and tbe North Otrolina Ball- od laeaae Tba Irtta Sion H, Bocm- Qrand Xiod ot Muona Revenue Beis wea Tb.nktclTins Cclieotlooa for . Or phan Atylnmr. Star Correspondence - . Raleigh. November 80. Persons who visit Atlanta are particu larly imptessed with the new method of ginning cotton, which is shown there daily. . The cotton is put .in such com pact form that it is almost impossible to ignite by fire, and the rate of insurance is correspondingly small on cotton baled by the new method.- A bale weighs about the tame as those baled by the old method. Canvas is used to encase the cotton; whtch is rolled out. The manager told me that the factory had only commenced operations in Au gust, but that twenty or more of the' gins had been located ia the far South ern States. . It is the intention of the management to send representatives to each of the Southern States at an early date. - The new packing and ginning method will be explained to people in the various sections. . Editor Ayer says Judge Schcnck'a second attack on the North Carolina Railroad lease will create quite a stir.; Frot. tmory, ot tbe Agricultural Ex periment Station, delivered an address to-day on the Alliance at Flint, N. C The Alliance people in this city are mnch pleased with their location for tbe shoe factory in Hillsboro. The remains of tbe late Dr.' Ston H. . Rogers, which were interred in Abeline. Texas, were removed to this city and placed beside the grave of his wife. Dr. Rogers was for several years a physician n the Insane Asylum here. A call has been issued for the Grand Lodge of Masons to meet in this city December 5th. - The sum of 4150 was sec a red by Ma sons of this city for tbe Oxford Orphanage.- - After continued quietude in Revenue circles, two raids turned op to-day. De puty Collector Davis reports tbe de struction of a fifty-gallon illicit distillery and outfit near High View, Person coun ty. The property is supposed to have belonged to Sam Tack. Depaty Collector Momt seized a dis tillery of large proportions and a com plete outfit in Carbonton, Cnatbam county. The still belonged to Darden Barbee. There were no arrests. The result of the collection at the union serv.ee nere lnanxsgtving aay amounted to $66.64. The sum was divided between Barinm Springs. Thorn- asville and Oxford orphanages. Lieut. Henderson left yesterday for Philadelphia to join the battleship In diana. The meeting of the Masons in this city at an early date is to consider matters re lating to a gift to the Oxford Orphan age. The Sheriff reports that psopleare paying in taxes right along. ' Many of them are planking ap to escape the 50 per cent, penalty. Mr. Cbas. A. Cook, of warren, tux Judge Spier Whitaker and Ex Judge bcbencK are said to De tne counsel wno will appear in the fight against the rati fication of the lease of the North Caro lina Railway to the Southern. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh. N. C. November SO. A passenger from the East reports an attempt to wreck the Coast Line mail, two miles below Goldsboro last night. A stranger flagged the down train and an examination revealed tne tact tnat the spikes and fish-plates on both sides cf the rails were removed. The rails were slightly moved to one side. The stranger is thought to be by some a confederate of the would-be wreckers. A pack of bloodhounds went from Hali fax by special train to track the wreckers. DEATH OF MRS. BERNHEIM- Wife of Bar. Qt. V. Berabetm, D. D.-rSe- malna to be Take to PbUMpibarc, H". J for Intatment. Mrs. Elizabeth Crow Clayton, wife of Rev. G. D. Bernheim, D. D., pastor of St. Matthew's English Luthern Church, died last Friday night at the home of the family in this city, in the 65th year of her. age. The funeral services will be held in St. Matthew's Church this afternoon, at 4 o'clock, and the inter ment will be at the deceased lady's early home at Phillip sburg, N. . Mrs. Bernheim was born in Charles ton. S. C, March 7th, 1831. daughter of David and Elizabeth Hislop Clayton. Besides her husband she leaves five children, Mrs. J.T. Hool. of Pineville. N C. Mrs. Dudley Burkheimer and Messrs. Clayton, Augustus and Oscar Bernheim of this city. She was a woman of lovely Christian character, and notwithstand ing her great and long suffering, was an earnest and indefatigable -worker, espe cially in the Sunday school; and ever sines she was blind, edited a booklet for the instruction of children in the Sab bath school.' This sore bereavement that has fallen upon Rev. Dr. Bernheim evokes the deepest sympathyof the com munity. SEVERELY HURT. Mr. J. G. Darden Knocked Down and ' Ban Over by Boad Cart. Mr. J. G. Darden, agent in this city for the Virginia Life Insurance Company, was ran over by a road cart on the crossing at Second and Princess streets yesterday morning about 11 o'clock and seriously injured, He was picked up unconscious and carried into the office at Mr.H.L.Fennell's livery stable, where Dr. Bnllack attended him. - Mr. Darden was found to be seriously hurt, suffering from concussion of the brain and badly braised on the back and face. He was taken to his home. No. 409 Chesnut street, and at a late hour last night was still delirious and his condition un changedThe road cart was driven by Mr. H. L. Fennell. There was an auction sale of horses in front of his stable, and Mr. Fennell was showing one of the animals, driving up and down the streets. He called to Mr. Darden as the latter started across the street in front of the. horse, but was unable to check the animal in time to prevent the accident. C C. Smoot, Sons & Co. of Alexan dria, Va., closed a contract yesterday for the establishment of a $100,000 tannery plant at North Wilkesboro, N. C which will cover twenty acres of land, use six thousand cords of chesnut oak bark an nually and employ a large force of hands. .. RALEIGH HAPPENINGS. SPECIAL TERM OF COURT -GREENE COUNTY FOR For the Trial of Contested Election Caaaa BcquUition on the Governor of Vlr- . Stnis For a Houae'-Braakec Tbanka , ItiTlBfc Diy Republican Pow-wow ' Ex-Jadao Raise II Very loTselr In At- . .... teodanoa. Ibtar Correspondence Raleigh N. C. Nov. 29. . "Governor Carr has ordered a special term of court, for Greene., county, begin- I ning December 20th, for the trial of civil cases only. - Judge A. W." Graham will be' the -Judge presiding. The ' special term Is held to decide contested election cases arising out of the last election. The contest is for the positions of Clerk of the Superior Court and Sheriff. I The Governor; has made requisition on the Governor of Virginia for the de livery of Wm. Murdock McGinnis, of Richmond county, to this . State. Mc Ginnis is under arrest in Bryan county. The charge against him is breaking into a store at night.' Wm. D. McLaunn has been appointed a special messenger by the Governor to go alter the prisoner. Treasurer Worth has returned from the Sunday School Convention recently in session in Goldsboro. The Methodist church (Edenton street), of this city, has placed in the edi fice three handsome chandeliers. They were given through the munificence of Mr. E. B. Barbee. They are. very costly indeed.-- .- The sheriff of Nash county brought a string of nine convicts to the Peniten tiary.' This is one of the largest hauls of the year. v-- - Rev. George Rose, the negro who last. Sunday.made an attempt to take a seat in the congregstion of the First Baptist church, was arrested yesterday on a charge of indecent exposure. Mayor Russ fined him 17.25. Rose said he was from Ceylon i. West Afriea. Thanksgiving- was celebrated very quietly in, this city yesterday. Religous worship was observed at tbe churches. Many parties went bunting. The pow-wow at Metropolitan Hall was attended by a crowd of negroes. Letters were read from Senator Pritch ard acd Mr. Chas. A. Cook, expressing regret at their inability to be present. Mr. Danl L. Russell made one of his characteristic speeches, which caught the negroes by storm. It suited the crowd acd was a bid for their votes. The meeting is now asserted to have been in the interest of Russell's guber natorial boom. The big Wilmingtonian declared that Fusion was a necessity and must continue. Special Star Telegram. The fiscal year ends in the Treasury Department to-morrow with only three counties to settle taxes. ' SuperintendenrBoone, of the Thora asville Orphan Asylum, inspected the steam laundry here to -day with a .view of locating a laundry in Thomasville. MURDER OF J. B. BONNER. Too Work of n Organtasd Gang Confes sion of , One of the Wwderera. Late news from Aurora, N. C, where J. B. Bonner, its most, prominent resi dent, was murdered Saturday night, is that suspicion fell upon William Brant ley and David Credle, and they were apprehended and guarded separately, no communication being allowed. Credle confessed that be was present when rhen J. W. C, B. Bonner was murdered; that Brantley did the shooting; that Uriah Bell and Sherrard Bell, tbe latter only 16. were also present; that there was a band of robbers, to plunder stores and Eeople. and to murder if necessary; that ;. F. Cherry and Alex Hadnell. mer chants, were also to be murdered. Credle also confessed that thev met Bonner face to face; that Brantley spoke to him pleasantly, then knocked him down on the sidewalk; that Bonner pleaded for his life, promising not. to betray them, but offering to give them all his property, and be also begged them to spare his life for the sake of his motherless chil dren, but Brantley said "Shoot him!" and shot him. Young Bell - then shot him and all of them threw his body over the fence among the weeds, where it was found. All four of the gang lead a real Jesse James life, and organized their robber gang on that basis. All were taken to Washington, N. C, on a special steamer under guard. FOUND DEAD IN A CAVE. D. A. O. Denning, a Prominent Faimsr of Cumberland County. Special Star Telegram. Favetteville, N. C, Nov. 80. D. A. C. Denning, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Godwins, a small village on the A. C L. R. R. twelve miles from this city, was found dead in a cave near the Cape Fear river at that place to-day. He had been very ill and was delirious last night, and it is thought he escaped from his attendants and met his death, in a tragic manner. ,: Whether be was murdered or not is not yet known. The coroner has empanelled a jury, but the verdict will not be given until a late hour to-night. FOOT BALL. What is Bald About the Universities Game at Biohmond, IVa. Special from Richmond - to Norfolk papers : It is said that more liquor was drunk in Richmond last night than on any night during many years. At some bar rooms people gathered in such crowds they had to wait in line like Jackson Ward voters. Most of the drinking was done in celebration of the victory of the Virginia foot ball team. Some of the students got most gloriously intoxicated and not a few of tbem stayed here all night. It is the concensus of opinion among experts that North Carolina has a stronger team than Virginia and that the Virginians won by good lock. Nearly all of the college students and alumni drawn here by yesterday a foot ball game have left the city. The scenes of disorder at the game were such as to disgust lovers of the great athletic sport. There was an absolute lack of management, the spectators were al lowed to crowd into the players' terri tory and one or two fine plays were thus interfered with A great deal of money was won and lost on the contest and tbe odds were rather iniavor of the Tar Heels. The latter apparently had the best team. The State Department at Washington has received official confirmation of the report that A. Kt Ward, the alleged em bezzler from Memphis, Tenn., for whose extradition a warrant has been issued, has escaped from Honduras, where he was supposed to be in custody. COTTON MARKET. Hubbard Bros. Report 8Deoultioo a to ' -the Ultimate Course ot Prises, v. ; - ' New York. Nov. 9th. ' Editor STA&After a sharp advance the market has developed weakness on a liquidation of the. local interests which were influential in assisting the improve ment and notwithstanding' the ' light movement of the crop, the temper of the market has. become decidedly antagonis tic to a further ' advance. The reason for this opinion appears to be due en tirely to local causes,: as : the factors of demand and supply appear to justify the maintainance of the present range of values, if the present movement ot the crop is to be regarded as any indication of the ultimate yield., It is a curjous feature of tbe situation that the South appears to be anxious to meet each ad vance with selling orders which undoubt edly has caused some , anxiety as to the ultimate yield, as it makes many believe the crop to be larger than the movement indicates and these offers forecast a disposition on the part of the Southern holders to meet eaca advance above 8J cents with a free supply of the cotton they hold in reserve. Ia all the advices from the South there is no indi cation of any-such reserve8.4r The con j stant offerings of cotton whenever the price passes from beyond that point ren der merchants more than Cautious and on the first indication of weakness they are quick to realize upon their holdings. This nervousness naturally acts as a damper on the market, but whether it is based upon more than a natural disposition- to avoid the possibility of loss, which the previous bull speculation en countered, can of course be decided only by the actnal outcome of tbe crop. At the moment all of tbe returns from . the South point to a small crop, not ex ceeding 7,000,000 bales, and in many in stances the indications are for a yield much less than the earlier estimates would seem to call for. The movement ot the crop confirms tbe small crop esti mates, being lighter than the most san guine bulls believed probable, without any apparent effect upon prices or upon the demand from Europe, which continues upon a provokingly small scale. On each decline the continental spin ners seem willing to become large buyers, but as soon as the market ad vances they reluse tolollowthe improve ment, while the English soinnersL being without reserve stocks, are daily buyers of their actual consumption, if ijot add ing something to their surplus reserves This puzzling array of conflicting factors is novel to most of . the trade as the markets for the past five years have been usually of one character without the constant interruption of factors to disturb tbe tone of the market. It is these factors first pulling one way and then another, which disturb tbe market, preventing the trade from having more than a temporary opinion as to the ul timate course of prices. - After several years of low prices it is natural for the trade to regard present prices as high, aad spinners hold the same ideas: both well founded if the supply is sufficient, but both wrong if the conditions of the trade render the supply too small for the actual requirements without creat ing such a drain up jn the visible acd invisible supply, as may cause a per manently higher range of values. BRTJBSWICK COUZTTY. Tbe Publla School Building Hear Ksrm er's Turn-Out Burned No Insurance. Star Correspondence Farmer's Turn-out, November 27. On the morning of the 27th insL the public school bouse (white) was burned by some one not known. This makes the third public school house that has been reduced to ashes ln this district. The school bouse had been built but a few years, it cost the county nearly two hundred dollars. There was no insurance. I think that it would be ad visable for the people of this community and others to insure their school nouses ia the future, as some of the people seem to like to practice arson. Tbe school had been in session only two weeks, under management of Mr. Lee Greer, of Onslow county. The at tendance was good about fifty. It seems that the people of this com munity are taking great interest in their public schools, we long to see Bruns wick county wake up .and work in line with her sister counties in educational matters. L. C. Arrested In tbe River. Yesterday morning Constable J. .P. Flynn had placed in his hands a capias for a negro named Julius Robinson, an escaped convict from the Southpoit jail. Upon information given later in the day, Mr. Flynn, accompanied by 'Squire Gay, of Brunswick county, ana Mr. J. M. wes cott, of this city, went in search of Rob inson at the Cape Fear Lumber mills and found him on a schooner loading lumber at the mills. When Mr. Flynn and party went aboard the vessel Robin son jumped over tbe rail into the river. Mr. Flynn immediately Jumped over after him and succeeded in capturing him. Flynn brought his prisoner ashore and took him to the county jail. yesterday ICornina'a Fire. Fire broke out about half-past eight o'clock yesterday morning in the . brick building on the South side of - Market street, between Front and Water, owned and occupied by Mr. Samuel Bear, Sr. Tbe Fire Department was soon - on the ground, and although the fire had made good .headway the flames were speedily extinguished. It is thought that the fire was caused by a spark from a stove falling among a quantity of wool, wax, hides, paper, etc., stored on the second floor. Tbe loss on the building and stock will probably amount to f 1.200. Mr. Hear canned $5,000 insurance on the stock and $4,000 on the building, in companies repre sented here by Messrs, Atkinson & Son," Joseph D. Smith and M. S. Willard. Boott-MoXiaan. Miss Mary Scott, daughter of Mr. A. F. Scott, of Cronly, N. C, and sister of Messrs. J. T., J. A. and Root. Scott of this citv. was hapoilv united in marriage yesterday to Mr. R. - A, McLean, of. Cronlv. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. McFadyen at tbe bride's residence at 2 o'clock, A re ception was held afterwards.' The couple received many handsome and costly presents. They left at 4 o'clock over the S. A. L. for a tour to Atlanta, with the best wishes of many friends. The Norwegian barquentine Flora cleared: yesterday for - London, Eng., with 4,612 barrels rosin and 400 barrels gum thus, shipped by S. P. Shot ter & Co. and valued at $8,51L10. The Spiritinetompany of Wil mington has been awarded a" certificate for special excellence of its productions 'exhibited at the Cotton States and In ternational Exposition, Atlanta, Ga. SENSATIONAL EPISODE AT AN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN ? . THE CITY OF CHICAGO-. ! Gov. aitgeld'e Bp ech In Replying to Gov. -- Campbell Xtaudttory Bema?ks Upon G rover CHveltr d. . . " y .' ; i ' v By .Tetegrapli to. the Morning Star. ' ' 'Chicago, No- " 80. Five hundred ssts of Scotland and others from vari ous States and -Canada celebrated at a banquet. in the Auditorium Hotel to night the aonivesary of Sv Andrew's day and "the semi-centennial" of the .founding of the Illinois St. Andrew's So ciety. Among the distinguished speak ers were Gov Altgeld, ex Gov. James E Campbell, t1 Ohio, Sir James Frank, Pres dent Harper of the Uoivetsity of Chicago. Major Gen'J Wesley Merritt ard Maor Sf. G v. AhegeM's opened rematks created a sensation and brought ionh bisstsfrom some of those present. ' He spoke in : reply to Gov. Campbell of Ohio, who made, an address ringing with praises of President Cleve land, whom he said did not want a third term and who : would at the proper time announce : aj. foreign policy in cood accord .with the . senti- ol--liberty-l0ving -nation ; of freemen. When Gov. Altgeld arose -a few minutes later those who knew him and could read his features saw he was about to say something of an explosive character aod they were not disappointed The Governor began; - "A great picture maker always wants a dark background to show off his fine work. That is what sm here for to-night. I arh the dark background to this great arrayof eloquence and learning. When Chairman Cameron invited me to this -jubilee meeting, he said, Governor, we must have ycu' and I am here. But I will say now that 1 am not here for the purpose' oi lauding any man in the office of President or out of it. I want to de clare to ycu that I have not come here with a commission to aggrandize tbe financial policies of Presidential candi dates. T desire to impress upon your minds that I did not. come here with or without commission to ex plain or to excuse any man's foreign policy that may happen to require cither explanation or excuse aod I am not here to tell in glowing terms or polished, phrase of any P.esident who thinks b.e is a greater man than was Washington." At tbe first utterance that give warn ing of what was coining the presiding officials at the speaker's stand grew un easy and shifted in their seats. As tbe Governor , warmed to the subject and exhibited the pique he Ifft at being forced to listen to the laudation of Pres ident Cleveland, there were a few hisses from the body of the house .and D.R.Cam eron, one of tbe officials of the society, started toward tbe front as if to protest. The hissing grew more pronounced as the Governor proceeded. Ex-Gov. Campbell turned red and pale alter nately and faced the. speaker in a defi ant 'attitude. . Everybody at the table and the greater part cf the 'audience was impressed by the scene, and jt was not until Gov. Altgeld ceased, bis reply direct to Gov. Campbell and turned to the subject matter of bis speech that the excitement died away. THE MURDERER HOLMES Be fused New Trial and Bentenoed to be - Hanged. . By Telegraph to the Morning Star. PHiLADELPHiA.Nov.30-H.W.Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, who was convicted of murder in the first degree for having caused the death in this city of Benj F. Pitzel, was this morning, in tbe Court of Oyer and Terminer, refused a hew trial and sentenced to be hanged. The opin ion denying the accused a new trial was delivered by Judge Arno'd, it having been concurred" in by Judges Thayer, " Willson and Arnold, who heard the-, application' for a new trial. ; Judge ! Arnold then pro noanced the death sentence. Holmes, who had been brought into Court to bear the opinion, was not affected at the ad verse decision of the Court, and when Judge Arnold in deliberate tones sen tenced him to be hanged by the neck until dead the air of apparent indiffer ence which was so manifest tbrought the trial was not deviated from by the al leged multi-murderer. Holmes was then returned to the county prison and a death watch was placed over him. The date of execution will be fixed by Gov. Hastings. The opinion covers thirty-seven type written pages, and Judge Arnold occu pied an hour in its delivery. Every phase of the noted case was gone into andlbe fifteen points raised by the de fendant's counsel in the application for a new trial were disposed of seriatim. It is believed that the case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. GROVER CLEVELAND. Ex-Gov. Campbell of Ohio Says Mr. Clove land Will Hot Acoept tha Nomination for Preaidant. . By Telegraph to tbe Morning Stai. Chicago, November 80. Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, who arrived here this morning to attend the St. Andrew's So ciety banquet, said for publication: aGrover Cleveland has not the slight est idea of accepting a nomination for the Presidency should it be offered to him by the Democratic party, in 1896. Why, Mr. Cleveland would not think of it for a minute. The spirit of the whole country is against the third term and the leaders of the party as well as Mr. Cleveland are of the same ' mind. The prospect of the party in 1896 is good. It will pull together and make a hot race. There will be no landslide. Wm. Mc- Kinley cannot carry the delegation from his State. The heart of the people is with him, but the leaders will be for tbe man who will place in their hands the patronage of Ohio." . TENNESSEE'S LYNCHING. Tbe Two Victims of tbe Mob Allowed to Hang All Night. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. "" Kashvillk, Tenn November 80. The negroes Joe Robertson and Osris McGaha, who were hanged at Fayette--yille last night, were allowed to remain hanging all night, ' the mob having placed a placard over them- on which was written ' in large letters: ''Not to be cut down until to-morrow at 10 o'clock." About sunrise this morn ing, however, Capt. . H. Burnham cat them down. Coroner Holman at once impanelled a jury, and the usual verdict of "deatn at tne bands ot a moD oi un known men" was rendered. - The last words oi McGaha to tbe mob were: "We are going to hell on a charge of rape and yon all for murder.". ; . - A cable dispatch from Port Louis, Mt-u'irus, received by the London For eign Mission Board, says that Mr. John son td his wife, both of whom were eh gad m missionary work : ln ' Madagas car, were murdered daring a riot on the Bland. .- Clamor in Ep gland For Sixona and Deo'- sive Dealing With.taa Sultan of Turkey ., Who la Personally Besponstble-Pot the . - MaaaibreaSn ' Armenia DiSeulty' ia L - Floating the Hew Chinese Xiotn.-. !i - ' . ' By Cable to the Moraing Star. ; London, Nov. . 80. It was learned - -from " the Foreign: Office : to-day that ' Lord Salisbury's answer to the American -note outlining the Monroe dac-rinc in ' connection with the Venezuela dispute ' has just been mailed to Sir Julian Paun- ; cefote, British Ambassador at Washington.- .' - ' , , Neither the assent of .' the Suiun to -each of the Powers having a second guardshlp at Constantinople, nor the" promulgation of paper reforns. will quiet the rising public wrath over the progress , of his poliay, of extermination directed against the Christians of Asia Minor. . , The clamor for; strong and decisive dealing with the Sultan comes from Conservatives and L'pera's all-. The popular conviction grur ton Abdul Hamid is jickeyiog wah the Powers, and that the palace clique, to whom his ' obstinacies and duplicity are attributed, ., agree with .but do not rule him. The Speaker's Constantinople correspondent, who fii st directed attention to the Ar- menian outrages, has since become a recognized authority on tbe subject. He declares that he, has ample evidence that the Sultan is personally respon sible for the whole series of " mis- ; acres He explains that the late outrages commenced . as soon - as the' Sultan accepted the reforms -applying to six .-'vilayets, giving Chi is tfans riehtsthat depended on their num bers. The massacres have been, chiefly -confined to tJiese vilayets, tbe object te-. ine to reduce the number of Christiana as to give them no claim to any influ- ence. -The work of extermination pro . ceeds as systematically as it is posiible "forxhc Turkish authorities to carry it on." Both the Kuidiand the troops are ( acting under the orders of the autoori ties ln their work ot pillage, rapine and , murder. The correspondent estimates that 10 000 persons were massacred be tween November 18th and 85th. while -the Sultan was posing before Europe as being desirous of affecting reforms and as being benevolently inclined towards tbe. Armenians." . enting upon the matter fur nished by this correspondent, tbe Speaxer says that among the crutal derers who are engaged in wipicg cut the Aimenians there is 'not one so brutal and criminal as this wretch, Ab dual Hamid, whose very existence is a reproach to humanity. Can the civil ized world, the paper asks, look on with no stronger' feeling than tepid dissp proval, while the monster who owes his power to the protection of Great Britain consu mates a crime that is almost with out paralell? - . The object of Ptince Henry of ' Bat tenburg volunteering for service in the Ashantce expedition is to get some show -of military service that, will give the Queen, a chance to place him on tbe active list of the army. At present he holds a merely honorary position to which no salary attaches A single cimpatgn, with or without fighting, will qualify him lor lucrative promotion. London financial houses that have been apprcached on the subject cf i he new Chi nese loan have not yet assented to tbe negotiations that are being conducted in Berlin, The reports that an Anglo- American syndicate is being formed to float the loan are entirely wrong. -. Ac cording, to the Statist, Germany is un able to lend the twenty million pounds that China requires, and London is not in the mood to lend it. Paris ': November 80. A duel was fought near this city to-day between Baron Boissy D'Anglas and Viscount Melcbior De Vegue, ; who represent re spectively in tbe Chamber of Deputies a district, in the department of Drome ' and one in Ardecbe. Viscount De Vogue received a wound in the lip. Viscount Da , Vogue i a conservative Republican and Baron Boissy. D'Anglas a radical Republican. Vienna, November -80 The W tische Correspondenz'hAt received in formation to the effect that the entire Armenian population of Baiburt. sixty five miles northwest of Erzeroum and Kurahissar, about fifty miles south of Djgbeker, have been massacred - by LaZes Kurds. The Turkish population of Tamzara joined the Kurds in massa creing the Armenians of that ' locality, killing men, women and children. A NEGRO MOB Attempts to Iiynob a Murderer at St. Lou la Mlssoorl. . By Telegraph to "the Morning Star. St. Louis, November 80. A mob of five hundred angry negroes gathered at the morgue, at Spruce and Twelfth streets, this morning to await the arrival of Alexander Royle.the negro who mut- dered his mistress, Tesse Sims, in a drunken quarrel yesterday morning. Royle was captured in East St. Louis last . night and brought to the morgue to be , sworn over the body of his victim. Two police officers were detailed to escort Royle from the jail to the morgue, a distance of two hundred yards. Other policemen were stationed along the route in-anticipation of trouble from the threatening mob. ' When the crowd caught sight of the prisoner, they became f arious and with shouts of "lynch the black devil." "let's string bim up, began to crowd closely -around the trembling Royle . and his escort. A messenger was sent to police headquar ters, a block away for assistance and Chief Harrigan ordered out every avail able policeman. In less than three minutes fifty officers with revolvers and clubs were forcing their -way through the straggling mob, and quickly formed a cordon around., tbe murderer. They . threatened to shoot the first man who attempted to lay hands on the prisoner, and this , had a deterring effect on tbe mob. who ' permitted the officers to place Royle in the morgue. In the meantime the crowd had swollen to a thousand and the officers, fearing serious trouble, out witted the mob by taking Royle through the adjoining buildings to the jail.' where be was placed in "Murderer's Row" to await trial. The mob was furious at being outwitted and only tbe absence of a leader prevented an assault upon the jail buildinc LYNCHI A Negro Murderer Shot to Death by Hb. ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Atlanta, Ga., November 29. A special to the Constitution from Monte zuma, says that Tony Sutton, a negro, was shot to death by a mob late yester day. Sutton killed W. T. Sangster, in Dooley county, last Tuesday. He was captured yesterday, and while on the way to jail, Sutton was taken from the officers, carried into the woods and shot. Sutton said that be killed bangster lor -revenge, was glad of it, and did not care what was aone to mm. . . . SBSBnnnBS MBS : Concord Standard'. Two small children were left alone last Wednesday; morning at the home of Ed Foil, colored, Who lives on the plantation of Mr. Ran som Bis ckwelder five miles east of this city, one or both being in a cradle near the fire and some, sparks are supposed to have popped out and set fire to the bed clothing, burning one child to death and the other so badly that it died. - 4g-1ngeqrgia. f .
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