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9 -X- ------ ' t-.r if; i -fl i " f fi t Tip f 'If i ; . i 1 i . - ( 1 1 ! if if' .!?! ill' It r WILL I AM Hi BPA BD, I Editor and Propfletor. WILMINGTON. N. C. May 22, "1896 Friday, nf In wrltinc to change your addre mlwfjp9 yon wish roar pper to be tent hereafter. Valet yon do both chanfcei can not be made. u.i . u.. Death. Tribute of Re- TX2oni of TbTnkV, Ac, ar charged lor at ' i riL" Vrent of Marriage or Death. tr Remltuncea most be made by Check, Draft, i Postal Money Order or RegUtered Letter. Postmat "' " ten will register letters when-desired. V' r Only inch remittances will be at te risk of the . Z publisher. j ; . . ' j : igy Specimen copies forwarded when desired. We are, again sending .bills to our subscribers In the aggregate they amount to a very large sum. Many of ' our subscribers are responding promptly. Qtherf pay no attention to the bills." These latter dof not seem to understand that they are under any legal or moral obligation to pay for a newspaper. I ' ARE THEY PLAYING BLUFF? ' V We quoted a few days ago from the Philadelphia Times an editorial - which foreshadowed and advised a -bolt: by the! "sound money" pen at Chicago, if the silver men controlled I ( the Convention, which j: the Times V considered (to be quite probable. ; While the Times has teen acting : mainly with the Democratic party on ; leading questions, it is politically an 'independent" journal, i; V Yesterday we j quoted from and v commented upon an editorial in the . Philadelphia Record, a Democratic paper, whicn went even further than ytbe Times in. counselling a bolt in J the event the Chicago Convention ! : be dominated by free silver men, ? . and went so far as to declare that it ' would be' the duty of the "sound j money" men to withdraw from the ! Convention and put out a platform and candidates of their own.' It took both the Times and the Record good while to ; get this far along on the road and they did not - show their hand until it became so apparent as to leave no doubt that the free silver men would have a ma ;. jorlty of the delegates at Chicago. j1 They played mum on this line, the ' intention being if the gold men had a majority to insist that it is the duty of delegates w'ho j go 1 into the convention to abide by its action and ' loyally .support it both as to theKl platform and the candidates, in other ' words to bow like loyal Democrats v- In submission to 'the will of the ma- jority expressed la lthe prescribed " way!1 and y in. accordance ' with party usage and party law. That's what they and , the other papers which are directly -ortndirectly counselling bolting by ; the gold .men, if they cannot rule', v cwould have said and that's why they remained silent on that subject until - it. became manifest that the silver. , men would be in the majority. There is riot the slightest doubt that there are a good many gold - standard men who are so strongly wedded to gold that they would see " the Democratic party knocked into atoms to preserve the gold standard, ' for that means money to them,' and with them money is the supreme is sue,' They are how engaged . , in or- ganizing such voters as they can in- fluence into leagues to parry with , tthem .in tlje event the silver men dominate at Chicago. The purpose V Is, of course, to vote these men for a ' gold candidate, if they have a gold candidate to vote for. y ' ; These men -who call themselves Democrats, and the Democratic pa '' pers which are . encouraging them V and defending their action in a vahce are simply giving aid and comfort to the Republican partjyirT which we find no appeals to bolters and no threats from gold men to withdraw from . the St. Louis Con vention, to form their own platform and nominate their own candidates in the event the utterances or actions t of the majority of the delegates do not suit them. Of course the more ' divided the Democratic party is, the better are the Republican 1 party's i chances of success, especially when this division takes place in certain pivotaf States, the carrying' of which in a close elec- tion is essential to .. the suc- cess of either party. A divided De mocracy in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Mary land would ensure these States to the Republican candidates, that is if the Republican party stands by its candi dates This might .suit the bolters, and they might prefer Republican suc cess, even on a straddling platform,' to Democratic success on a silver platform, for with the Republican party in power they Would have little '. apprehension of any legislation ad averse to thegoid standard. ; I The1 papers which' are doing the bolt talking .and threatening now, ' but profess to be anxious for the sue- rea of 'tT Tlmrtr'Tarln nartv Vnnm that if the -program me foreshadowed by them be carried out it will inevi tably mean the deat of the Demo cratic party unless there should be an unprecedented , revolution, (which, however, we may 1 i witness,) and therefore,"they may be trying a game of bluff! to bring sifver men to their terms, and to the acceptance of some conditions that they may be holding in the bkekground. They may as a last resort offer as a compromise the repeal of the State bank tax, and limited coinage of silver in return for ' the ' yielding' of unlimited coinage and for the gradual retiring of the greenbacks as silver was "A Mit Thu wnnld ce a very se- ductiye proposition to make to dele gates who are not radically , com mitted to free and unlimited coinage, and who at jthe same time j would hate to be-cbnf routed by a split In the party. The State bank idea has already been hinted at and possibly it may be supplemented by a propo sition for limited coinage, coupled with a provision for retiring the greenbacks as rapidly as silver f is coined. It may be that the gold men,-that is, those of them who are anxious to hold the Democratic party together, may have la view some such movement as this, to be sprung when other plans fall, and that this bluff game is being played to help that or some other compro mise movement along. In our bpinion it isn't a very clever way -to go about ?r hnr there are all sorts Of tricks in .., - , politics.' : MIHOS MEBfTIOlf. ; Senator Pritchard, of this State, who holds his seat in the Senate by virtue of a combine with the Popu lists', is, as Artemus Ward would say, "an aihoosin cuss." His cojlleague, Senator Butler, has a bill before. the Senate prohibiting 1 the issuing of bonds by the Government without the consent of Conjgress. This bill is supported by the Populists, and some Democrats and some Republi; cans, and is opposed by some Demo crats and some Republicans: But it has put Senator , Pritchard; or the ragged edge. He hasn't the courage to oppose Jt openly, and is resorting to a. sneaking subterfuge as a justifi cation for failing to support it. In his speech Tuesday he said he Would support it on condition that Congress passed measures providing for suffi cient revenue and at the same time for ample protection to American In dustries. Senator Pritchard 'knew when he said that that there wasn't the slightest probability of Congress doing anything of the kind, and hence . this was manifestly a mere pretext to justify opposition to some thing, to which he was f pledged by a . platform which he doubt less participated in - making. He was present at, and not only an active participant fin the late Republican State Convention at Raleigh, but one of the principal engineers of that convention, the power behind the (hrone, according to some of the Republican papers, who manipulated and shaped the whole business. ; One of the planks of the platform adopted by that con vention denounced the issuing . of bonds In time of peace- as wholly unnecessary and utterly indef ensible, scandalous if not criminal. He en endorsed that plank and how resorts to a cowardly subterfuge, when the. 'opportunity is offered him to support that declaration In the -Senate, to ex cuse his failure to comply ji with the virtual Instructions of his own con vention, which he sanctioned by his presence and approval. He not only played false to his Populist allies who supported him for the Senate, but to his own party. ' Wft rllr the follovinflr : fmm thm r - & vqrariotte voserver: r The Wilmington Star quotes from the Philadelphia Times an editorial which favors a bolt by the gold men if free silver carries the day at the Chicasro Convention. But Chairman Harrity says that no delegations which will not pledge themselves beforehand to abide by the. convention's action in any and all cases must be admitted. Let that pledge oe taicen dv an, witnout lear or lavors, and there will be no bolting.- The reference . in this" extract to Chairman Harrity isbot strictly cor- ct. The Observer 'must be aware that the utterances attributed to him were-eported in connection with an alleged plan of the National Com mittee (the majority of whom are said to be "sound money" men) to keep silver delegates out ot the con vention and thus give the control to the gold men, by refusing to recog nize the right to a seat " in the con ventien if any delegate who had "threatened to bolt." There was no reference whatever in the published reports to the. general application of this procedure. It was to apply simply to free silver " delegates. While we fail to see bv what right Mr. Harrity, li; or the Committee over which he presides. can undertake to decide adversely on the eligibility of delegates who come duly accredited, if the rule applied generally and embraced gold as welt as sifver men, it would not make much material difference, and, as the Pforrzvgremarks, there "will be little fear of bolting." But the "plan" simply contemplated keeping silver men out. We didn't attach much Im portance to it when the announce ment was made for we didn't think; and we cannot be persuaded, that the committee would attempt any such high-handed proceeding as that. V':':-,- v . Senator Shetinan has been posing In the role of a man who is exceed ingly anxious that Congress take some 'steps to provide for revenue enough to cover , deficiences and thus prevent the necessity of issuing more bonds. He has made at least a half dozen appeals to the Senate, in which he urged- it not to think of adjourning until it had adopted some effective revenue measures. His sincerity was put to a test Tues day by his Republican " colleague, Dubois, when he proposed to Sena torSherman's filled cheese'1 bill an amendment providing, for an addi tional tax of 75 cents a barrel on malt liquors, which "would give, ac cording to Senator Dubois' figuring; $25,000,000 of additional revenue, enough to cover the estimated de ficiency, and! put the Treasury at ease, i But this r. was too much for Senator Sherman, who pretended to see in it a purpose to kill his "filled cheese" bill in which be took a good deal more Interest than he' did in providing revenue for the Treasury. With the exception !of an incomej tax there is no tax which would be, less felt than this proposed beer taxj and theres is no tax which would be as generally acceptable. - - - Boss Piatt rises to remark, in pay ing his respects to Mr. McKinley, that "money is the Issue."; Col. Fred. Grant, ' who has recently been ; in Ohio, and whose ; name has been mentioned for the Vice Presidency, declares that money is not the issue in this campaign,! These distin guished Republicans should come to some understanding, j so that tne conntrv mav know what the issue really is. L' Texas trots out the champion hog, a four-yeax old, which measures 8 feet 3 inches in length, stands 4 feet 1 inch high, ' weighs 1,500;. pounds, and eats corn like an; ox, cob and all. It requires' from 40 to 50: ears to make a ludch for him. The owner of this native expects to toakej him pull do wn the scales at 2,000 pounds. ' y . It Is announced that after Li Hung Chang concludes J the festivities in Russia, he will take in the sights in France and England and then take a swing at this country. After he nas swung 'round he will probably con clude that there is a pretty consider able portion of the world outside of China. ;;. r -: ' : : I' .-"ft,-. ... r - t ' According to examination made by an expert what is known as Marble Mountain, in West Virginia, contains more marble, and of the finest ty, than has been used in the quali worid in all the ages past j There are sey eral different colors. ! some of which are in great demand A shipment of 120! railway car wheels was recently made from Buf falo, N. Y., to Germany. From the way our manufacturers are shipping iron truck abroad it looks; as iif they were pretty well able to take care of Lucuiactvcs wikuuuk j iribAiuicr a aa- . . i . i " i i sistance. ; I i The Raleigh Press-Visitor has put on its new Summer suit and feels as good as a boy with his 'first pair of red-top boots.. It is very neat and rather improves ' the appearance of the paper, which was always well and neatly gotten up. Spain is in the market tor S20O,- 000,000, to defray: expenses of the racket in Cuba. If Spain is getting any amusement out of that business she is paying for it. But where is she going to get the collateral to put up for the $200,000,000? It takes a good deal of salt to keep this country from "spilin'." The salt men produced last year 13,606, 649 barrels of 280 pounds each, valued at $4,423,086, $300,000 less than the crop of last year, which was 600,000 barrels less. The California banks are for cold. I mi -.r , !',.- J. . me iNew iotk savings Danxs ana the other banks also, are for g In fact nearly all the banks! are for gold. There is nothing surprising in that. The present arrangement suits them pretty well. 1 (The City Fathers of Montgomery, Alabama, who regard the bicycle as a vehicle, insist " that likes other vehicles it must' take the street and hot the sidewalk. The aforesaid Fathers are evidently not. straddlers themselves. :- " - -r.'. x , ' 1 Gov. La ppett, ot Rhode Island, is perfectly willing to ride behind Mr. McKinley, or any other gentleman the St. Louis Convention may name. Gov. Lippett is very accommodating. The "uses of adversity " may be sweet and all I that sort of thin?. but the average mortal is perfectly willing to let some one else j sample the sweetness, and pass upon It.' j iueen victoria recently jmade a donation of 3,000 francs to the poor of Nice, j That was very nice in tl Queen, though the sum was not very large. ' !!.."!'. i ! ! A Wichita, Kansas, man has had a gin arrested tor throwing kisses at him. The was ugly and the man's wife happened to be with him at the time. The Carlisle Presidential boom has figured so far in Kentucky as to have produced a "Carlisle button Mr. Carlisle s chances are; hardly worth a button. - J Senator Voorhees declines to be put upon the invalid list, but insists that he is able-bodied enough to run again for Senator. ! j CURRENT COMMENT. ! It doesn't seem to make much difference whether the Cuban troops use explosive Duiiets or not, since, ac cording to Gen.Weyler's reports, thev never hit SLXtybo6j.'rPAilJdgeriInd. j Mark , Hanna's sole ambitlo Is to be known as the man who made McKinTey President. Pray, then, what becomes of all those beautiful stories of how the people were aris ing in their might to boost the Ohio candidate into the White House? New York Journal, Dem. Ex-Gov. f Campbell! says he aoesn t want the Democratic noml M.4li- a. - mm, uiuuu, dui wouia accept u it were tendered him. He also declares he Trill support the ticket, no matter wnat the platform may be, or who is nominatea. Mr. Hill may see this witn "i am a Democrat," but It will puzzle him to go it a few chirts bet I ten Washington Post, Ind, I RALEIGH HAPPENINGS. I SUPREME COURT .ADJOURNED 4 TO MEET IN SEPTEMBER. ! ' Hondsraon'a Offer to tb Seaboard Au- ; Xilne Political Oouip Profeatorl X2o. ' aJUab'a NomlDation-Ex-MaMsTer Windtr " In Norfolk Hccro Conviet Shot Bomcr rj?bat Jadse BomcU la WUltns to Com Off the Bepablioan TiokeU j j - ; Special Star Correspondence - " I Raleigh, N. C, May 8. ? - Monday a committee of citizens from Henderson made a second trip to Ports mouth to consult with the officers of the Seaboard relative to locating ; the shops in j the town of Henderson. A conference was had with Mr. Su John. It can be stated that the Henderson committee; received, no,' positive an nouncement about the reconstruction ot the shops. Henderson offered 135,000 and a tract of land ior the shops. ; A negro convict tried to escape from the workhouse yesterday.'and was shot. A man from the East who has been to the Legislature three. times wrote, the editor of the Caucasian to know what free coinage 16 to 1 meant. He said he thoueht it meant that sixteen silver dol lars would be coined to 1 every cold dol lar.-- ' ' John H. Winder left for Norfolk to day in regard to his inianction case against President Hoffman, who is also at Norfolk. : ' - r ; ' ;-H-i. The Supreme Court finished its work yesterday and will not convene again un til the fourth Monday ; in .September. This session of the court was not so im portant as the last, j Then many cases of State interest arising out of the acts of the Legislature, notably the assignment act, were passed upon, j ) Prof. N. C. English seems to be jug gling with the nomination tendered him by the Fourth Republican Congressional convention. Mr. h-ngush has been askt ed the pointed question on more occa sions than? one, whether he intended to accept the nomination tendered him by the Republicans and in each instance he has given an evasive answer. , :! Prof. English promised to give the anxious public an answer Jn the early part of this week, but his silence has been ss complete as ever. - Hal Aver was asked to-day whether Mr. Stroud would be renominated by the Populists. . He replied that the Pop ulists would give Mr. Stroud a renomina tion if he wanted it. This would indi- datetbat Prof. English will be oat of it in the Populist Congret sional Conven tion.'lt is thought he will not run if the Populists do not endorse him. Special Star Telegram ) . A rumor which is said to be well founded, has it that Judge' Russell has written a letter to a party in Washing ton in which he states he is willing to come off the Republican ticket, j Judge Russell was not in Wilmington last night -and the Star had no means of ascertaining whether there is any foundation for the above rumor or not. j We do not. however, believe it has any basts. Star I 1 j I Wake forest college C0M- UEffCEMEffT. . Wake Forkst, N. C, May 26. Editor Star ; The first night of the Wake Forest Commencment is always given up to the graduating class. Ac cordingly, last night at 8.30 o'clock the class of '93 assembled up an the rostrum in the Wingate Memorial hall i and was called to order by; the president, H. H, McLendon, Wadesboro. "After a few words cf welcome by Mr. McLendon, the secretary, J. j W. Carlton, Warsaw, read the name j of the orator, j R. G. Rogers, Robeson bounty, who spoke on 'Tne Mission of the College Man" subject appropriate to the occasion and quite creditably treated. 1 After the oration came the class poem by M. a.-Dry, Union county, who cele brated in verse the temperaments and Characteristics of some of his clast-mates. Class Historian J. H. Gore. Wilming ton, read a history of bis fellows which he frankly declared to be more narrative in its nature than critical, giving as his criterion his immortal predecessor In historical research, Herodotus, whose methods were characterized by the fre quent use of high colored stories. Mr. Gore's "narrative" was amusing and won much applause, but it was not with out , a serious element, a very tender reference being made to John Heck, a memoer ot tne class last vear, but re moved this yeat by the band of Death, and to frolessor Maske, who died at the beginning of the ! session of '94-95, and who had perhaps instructed at one time or another all of the present class. I M. Meekms appeared next in the roll of Prqphet, and the exercises were declared at an end. The muduates with their lady companions , then sought the home of Dr. Taylor to attend the an nual Senior reception, a permanent fea ture of the entertainment and always greatly enjuyca. . i . j Music tor the occasion is being fur nished by the First Virginia Regiment band, ot Richmond, which has been coming .to Wake Forest at everv Com mencement tor many years, and which, I think, always gives perfect satisfac tion.! -. . - ! The marshals are R. S. Dodd. W. T.I Carstarphen; L. C. Mcintosh. W. H. Still well, H. B. Folk and W. M. Stan cell. I' I. Among the visitors thus far arrived are Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Gore and daugh ter, Miss Bsll Gore, of Wilmingtqn. ( ' - - :' . - K.W.H. Tbe Negroes Want Offloo; Fayetteviile Observer". We were told by a prominent negro politician yester day that an understanding has been ar rived at between certain prominent? Populists and the Neill Waddell faction of the Republican party; ! . The programme, he says, is of courses fusion. The Republican's are going to nominate a member of the Legislature and the Register of Deeds and the Pop ulists the rest ! of the candidates., Prof. Geo; Williams, colored, lis slated for the Republican nomination for the Legisla ture and Chas. Smith, colored, for the Republican nomination for Register of Deeds. M - - : T ,. The Btn'a Chloftgo Estimate.' M-. Lumberton Robesonian: ,. "The . Wil mington Star, which has ! always been very conservative in its estimates and substantially correct In its conclusions, has been figuring oh the Chicago out look as to silver and gold, and figures out a majority of 140 for the white metal. In the States where conventions have already been held, the votes stand: Silver, 188; gold, 168." ;rt Mrs. White "How is , your wnc, inr, oruwor ,i j.. . Brown (pointing to where his wife sits in the next roonCat work on his coat) 'She's sew-sew." " ,h Mr. White-"Oh, I, see; she is mend ings sure enough."-Boston Transcript -- Out or Weakness comes strength when the blood has been purified,; en riched and, vitalized, the appetite-restored and the system built up by Hood's Sarsaparilla. a " '- ' i -i- .i i - s ,u Hood's Pills cure nausea, 'sick" headache,, indigestion, biliousness.'' All uruggists. jjoc. RALEIGH NEWS BUDGET CATrUE QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS REMOVED. rS: WU1 Attend-tns Biobmond, y,"B-iiBion-Comineneement t the A. & M. CoUMe-0ealiioi Hndtd Down by the BapremjJ Coorf. - ' Special Star CorresfiondeHce.1 y : RALKibi. N.CMarM. The Committee of Richmond catu brokers, who came here to stc uov; ernor Carr regarding the quarantine in ' NorthCarolina, has been to Washington to see the SecreUry of Ag ricuhure. Although Secretary Morton was but of Washington, they succeeded in their mission. The arrangement was effected with the Bureau of Animal In dustry, and fifteen western counties win be released from the quarantine regula tions, subject to the approval of Gov. Carr, wbicb is certain 10 oe given. . Ralffioh will send possioiy. two Hun dred citizens to the reunion at Rich mond. Vs.. next month.! The Gover nor's Guard will go. sixty strong. The bovsof the A. M. college are now in the midst of tbelr examinations. Their Commencement: exercises begin th Qrh of Jnne. Kesnich s Richmond band will be here ior a Week and will likely give a number nf fAnrcro here and in neurbborine towns. They have a week fntervening between the Wake Forest and Univer sity Commencements, where they have been engaged. It is said that a number ot ropuusts filiated with the Democrats in the prt manes and the oonventioni in mi countv. '- v-- ' Federal Court convened to-day, Judge Seymour presiding This term of the court is in marked contrast to the term last December, when the who'e town was flooded with moonshiners. Three hun dred cases were docketed then ; 150 are to be tried this week and most of thtss are continued cases. f Gov. Carr honors a requisition from the Governor of South Carolina for the delivery of James Belton under arrest at Charlotte. He is wanted for raping a s x-year old child in Kershaw county " Special Star Telegram. The Supreme Court has adjourned sine die.' The following i decisions were banded down! ; oaiuuiuu va. Odics, iiuiii new imu- over. Motion to modify opinion nied. ! ' ' . j .-. Elerbee vs. Railroad, from Richmond; affirmed. . ! Taylor vs. Smith, from' Craven; error. State Treasurer vs. Commissioners of Craven; affirmed. Weisel vj. Cobb, from Pasquotank; two appeals decided against defendant. 1 mmmmm KEY. TH0S. H. PRITCHARD, D. BMOlutiona Adopt :d br Brooklyn Baptist Sunday School. On Sunday afternoon, at 4 p. m in Brooklyn Baptist Church, a memorial meeting was held in memory of the late Dr. Pritchard. Rev. J. W. Kramer spoke of Dr. Pritchard as a friend to the young man, Mr. S. L. Smith spoke of the great work he had done for Brook lyn Church, and Mr. I. H. McDougall spoke of many of his noble characteris tics. Mr. . C. Gore offered the follow ing resolution: j ! ' j 'Since the Almighty God has re moved from earth : our friend and brother, Rev. Thos. H. Pritchard, D. D., be it ' . I - "Resolved, That in his death the Bap tist cause has lost a strong man, and hu manity a warm friend; that we deplore the fact that he is with us no more; that we believe he is already wearing the crown of the faithful; that we extend our sympathies to bis family in this hour of separation; that we recommend them to the mercy of bis God; that a topy of these resolutions be sent to our daily pa pers for publication, and one to, his family." 1 i Brooklyn Baptist S 5. May 24, 1896.- ." j . SALEM FEMALE ACADEMY. Ben lot 'a " 8eoond Erenlnc ' XUiays by Twenty-one Xitdiee-Crjwds ot Vlaltbra at the Sohool's Art Exhibit. , Special Star Telegram. Winston, M. C, May 28. Moravian home church was crowded again, to night with friends and patrons of Salem's popular and famous female educational institution.. The occasion was Seniors' second evening, when twenty-one mem bers of the class read essays. Their names and subjects are as follows: "PhotoeraDhs." bv Misses Siewers of Salem, Brown ol ' Winston, Moote of HuntsvUle. N. C. "Venezuela." by. Misses! Bass of Mocksville, Robertson of Clayton. inornton of Fayetteviile, Kierson of Wmston. i . i "Music," by Misses Smy the of Texas, Mason of Conclave. N. C. "Literature." bv Misses Goodman of Texss, Lienebach of Salami,. Skinner of ureenville, N. C, Parker of Gatesville, "Armenia," by i Misses :- Cromer. Walker, Marler of Winston, Gibson of Concord. i "The Crescent and the Cress," by Misses Barber and Taylor of South Car olina, Wurreschke and Heee of Salem. . From 2 to 5 o'clock this aliternoon the! Academy Chapel was crowded with vis itors, the attraction being the school's art. exhibit, which was superlatively grand, it elicited many handsome and meritorious compliments. The Alumni Association will meet to morrow morn ing and elect officers, j This will be fol lowed at 2.80 p. m., by an Alumni ban quet. Oat s re-nmons will be , held in Society Hall at 9 a. m. to-morrow. $3,000 GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY. Commons Hall to Be Bur ted 1n September j and Oood Board Furnished at $8 Per ; Month Student Waiters, j Chapel Hill, N. Ci, May 28. Mrs. Frederick Baker of New York, has given the University three thousand dollars to equip Commons Hall at the University and provide board at cost for students. Tbe Hall wiU be opened next September with accommodations for two hundred, and the charge will be $3 per month, which is hoped to be re duced to to after a while. ! There will be twenty student waiters, wbVwill get board for their services. f j -. The Mason farm (1 000 acres), located a mile and onct half from tbe University and recently bequeathed to it by Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Mason, will be used as a poultry, dairy, stock and truck farm to supply the tables ia Commons Hall. President Winston -says : that Com mons Hall will have Western beef dally and the best food io ht State by the ...j r. . , . . This is a great thing for the Univer sity and a great thing for the hundreds f - - I I T - . oi neeav wji in are, eager to go means. S. vi," Nasnre. Needs assistance it may be best to ren- der it, promptly, but one should remem berto use even the mostjxerfect reme dies only when needed. The best and most simple and gentle remedy is the Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company. nonn Carolina wno tocollege, biit lack Btrngcla for Foaieasion of Child, v There was a ripple of excitement on Water street near Market yesterday afternoon, caused bv the struggle -ol a white man and woman for the posses sion of a child a boy about four years old. -. The man was Mr. James Melvin, who lives near lanhoe in Sampson county, and the woman his wife.- The couple 'separated some 'time ago, Mrs. Melvin coming to Wtimingion to ave, with her child. Yesterday Mr.; Melvin was in town in search of the child. He found the boy playing in the ; yard of a house on Dock street near btcOna, wbere Mrs. Melvin was living, picked him up and went down to the river front to a boarding house on Water, between Mar ket and Pnncess streets, followed by Mts. Melvin and a crowd of men and boys. At the boarding hduse Mrs. Mel vin attacked her husband, striking him several severe blows, and took pcsies-l sion of the child. When she reached the sidewalk, followed by Mr. Melvin. a negro policeman appeared and prevented Melvin from interfering witb Mrs. Mel vin, who carried ner son to ner Dome, Melvin declared , that he would take legal steps to recover; possession of the child. THEY GIVE UP OHIO. Tedetal Offlod-bolder Carry Oloomy Ao- ooanta to the Admtnlatntlon People. Washington, May 25. Collector of Internal Revenue, Joseph H. Dowling. of Cincinnati, and Surveyor of the Port Henry D. Lemon, cf ihz same city, are are here to confer with the Administra tion managers concerning the political situation in Ohio. Dowling and Lf mon, both of whom were appointed because of their experience in politic, have inldrm ed the Administration people that the Ohio Democrats are bound to declare for free silver in their State Convention, that the unite rule ! will doubtless be adopted, aid the forty six votes of Ohio can for silver and a silver candidate at Chicago. Senator Brice 'privately coin cides with Dowling i and -Lemon, and says it is too late for- the President to stem the tide by renouncing third term aspirations, r: ' SPANISH FORCES CRUSHED. Ambushed and Slaughtered While Try ing Second Time 10 Invade the Cuban New York Jferald. ' Kingston. Jamaica, May 25 Ad vices have reached here from a reliable source in Cuba to the effect that a strong body of Spanish troops recently made a second attempt to invade Cubitas, the seat of the Cuban Government. They were ambushed in the mountain fast nesses and sustained a crushing defeat. Tbe Spaniards were literally slaught ered by tbe insurgents, and the ' force was compelled to flee in disorder, aband oning their equipments on the field. Bewbern for Free BUver. The Democratic primaries were held in the five wards of the city of Newbern Saturday. In the First Ward a resolu tion was unanimously Dissed instructing the delegates in ravor ol tree and un limited coinage of silver at 16 to 1. In the Third Ward a similar resolution was passed. In the Fifth Ward a resolution was passed instructing the delegates to vote for none but free silver delegates to the State Convention, and farther in structing them to vote as a nnit. and to do all in their power to promote peace and harmony. Ia the Second and Fourth Wards no ' resolutions were onered. . '.- j Mr. and Mr. Jamea -Melvin Bete re Saaire ' MeQowan. ! I"' f :' :" Mr.' James Melvin aed wife, Mrs. Marv A. Me v n. the couple who had a scuffl i on Water 5screet Monday after noon for tbe possession of a child, in which Mrs. Melvin came off victorious (as told in tbe Star), were in Justice McGowan's Court; yesterday morning, Mrs. Melvin having been arrested upon complaint of her husband, charging her with assault and-battery. - Alter an in vestigation ot the case, the magistrate decided that the ! defendant was not. guilty and required the prosecuting Wit ness (Mr. Memo), to pay the costs. Thompion School Commencement. The closing exercises of Thompson School, at Siler City, will occur May 31st to June 2d. Rev. T. M "Johnson, of Henderson, N. C.,: will preach the an nual sermon; Dr. Jno. C. Kilgo, president of Trinity College, will deliver the lit erary address Tuesday, June 2d. . Re union of old students Monday, June 1st. TheC. F. & Y. V. K. K. will give excur sion rates to all visitors and .passenger coaches will be attached to freight trains. newbarn Journal. .7 Mr. Charles L, Stevens, so well known in this section as the editor of the South port Leader, has bought the Newbern Journal, and the first issue under the new management ! appeared yesterday. There is a marked improvement in the paper, and Mr. Stevens ability and ex perience in journalism will no doubt be amply rewarded. The Star extends its best wishes.. An Old Bubiariber. Mr. W. B. , B3wden, of Dudley; N. C, in renewing his subscription i to the Daily Star to February, 1897, writes: "I have been a regular subscriber for twenty-six years. and wish you much prosperity. In this connection we may be pardoned for slying that we are very proud of the fact that a very consider able number of Our subscribers have been taking the paper over twenty years.1 The Truok Farmers. : Mr. F. J. Dempsey, who called at the Star office yesterday,1 says the recent rains have gladdened the hearts of the truckers, and that their crops are now growing finely. Irish potatoes, however, have been cut short by the drought, and thete will not be much more than half a crop. Mr. Dempsey says the truckers generally are well satisfied with their trade thus far this season. . Truit Growers and Truckers Association, Mr. Jas, E. Westbrook, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Eastern Carolina Fruit Growers and Truckers Association, requests shippets at all sta tions to m:et at an early day and elect delegates to the meeting to be held at Faison, N. C Tuesday, June 30ch, prox., to consider various matters connected With their interests. 1 - Dr. Fritehard'a Iibrary and Inraranoa. Charlotte Observer u Mrs. Pritchard yesterday went through Dr. Pritchafd's library at the Baptist churchand gave half of the books to theSunday school of Tryon street churchand the rest to Wake Fores: CoHege. Dr. Pritchard's life was insured for lO.OOOHe had a policy of 13,000 in the Royal Arcanum and $2,000 in the Knights oi Honor, besides other insur ance. J". '-)---- -.. :' :: - : , lfor Over JFlftr Tears Mrs. Winslow's Soothing SYRm,has been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teeth ing, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain cures wind colic, and is the bes. remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little suffdrer immediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wjnslow Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. . f , - CROPS ABD POLITICS. Xxtradt frjm C.woUr letter ot iafc 1.. An- thonv, Banker, JJVw York. - Mew York. May 23. Silver exports till continue, and are an important fac tor that cannot be ignored and general exports show a satisfactory increase over last vear. ,. H, :: - ., f . r- f" ; ' . - While the stock market, has been un settled on account of the political con dition! with whicn we are surrounoeu, the bears have bad very little comfort, and purchases made the week ending May loth nave inowu i jium most insUnces.:-C5-.r;r t The most prominent candidate on ine ReDublican side for tne presidential nomination, while be has made no pub lic utterance as to the gold standard, will not receive the nomination umess he comes out flatiootea in tavor ci ine best money in the world, nor do we be lieve that any candidate on the Repub lican ticket can be nominated where there is the shadow of a doubt as to his convictions upon in sudicci. The- wheat market, nas continued nervous as we preaiciea.- inere uas been, however, a good trading marnci, and irocd orohts nave oeen maae oy those who purchased on ail weaK spots and took fair profits. Hacb day con firms the statements we nave made as regards the) 'Northwest section, and wnen it is taken into account that North Dakota alone furnishes an average crop of about 65.000.000 bushels, and mat scarcely an acre has been seeded there. yet, and that the total spring crop oi the country amounts to about 800.000 000 bushels, and that except in Missouri, Kansas and: Texas, and ; a few points contiguous thereto, crops are not as sured, must convince tne most ssepticai that we are a long way off i from even a moderate Spring : wheat j crop at the present time.: Harvesting has begun in Kansas, and also in Texas, and the crop there is beyond the slightest danger, and will probably turn out to be among the largest, if not the largest crop eyerhar- vested in that section. . The mercantile situation while unset tled holds its own, but without much further improvement. The cotton crop still shows a large in crease in acreage over last year, and as we predicted receipts are increasing and the exports are not large, arid cotton, as stated it would do. has declined mate rially,, and we see ' no reason to expect anything like the present pricts for the new crop, - t The foreign situation remains about the same politically, but the bond pur- I chases made there show that nothing is needed but a proper gold plank in tbe platform of both parties, and proper can didates nominated to turn all tbe sur plus money of Europe to our doors. -- INSURGENTS MOVE WESTWARD. Advanoe druard of Maoeo'a Betaloroement Tears TJp a Ballroad and Does Other ." Damage? - .' ! Havana, Cuba, May 24. A rebel column, estimated at one thousand men, crossed the ' Havana and Pma del Rio Railroad on the day before yesterday, twelve miles out, tearing up the track and cutting the telegraph wires, thus temporarily interrupting traffic between this city and the; trocha, and cotmuing their march westward.! The name cf the leader is unknown, This is believed to be tbe advance guard of the reinforce ment General Gomez 4S sending to Ma-, ceo s rescue. ' i . i More than ten thousand insurgents, composing Gomez s main column, are reported to have encamped yesterday lust beyond Union de j los Keyes, this morning resuming their march west ward over the same route as Maceo's forces ' followed ia; December and Jan uary last. Great; excitement prevails in Spanish military circles Ten trains left Havana at midnight to bring troops from the trocha to strengthen the Gov ernment posts between this city and Batabano, in 1 the j hope of ' checking Gomez's movement toward Pinar del Rio. GOMEZ ! IN HAVANA. News has just been received that Gomez' right wing has eajtoftd Havana Province, beyond JarucoT wo flying squadrons of the rebel cavalry, under" General Masso and. Colonel Radigiiez, estimated at one thousand each,, en camped last night on the Mirosa plan tation between this city and Batabano. Several railway bridges in this province were blown up last night to prevent the' movement of the troops General Wev Ier has ordered to the front. It is ex pected that additional volunteers will be called to arms as a precaution ; in de fence of the capital.! j1. : Funeral of Dr. Pritchard. : The News says of the funeral of ReV. Dr. Pritchard, which took place in Char lotte Sunday: j : " " . ?s ( The hour set for the funeral was 5 jo 'clock, but the church was filled .long before that time, tht people kept com ing however, until they surrounded the church on all sides and lining. the street in front while the impressive services were being held over the body. Every evangelical pastor in the city was upon the platform, most all of them taking some part in the serviced Mr. Pruett, Baptist City; Missionary, opened with prayer, which jwas followed by a quartette composed of Miss , Freeman, and Messrs. Bryan, Scott and Summev. Rev. J. R. Hawkins gave out hymn 648, Rev. O. L. Stringfellov, of Raleigh read a chapter of i scripture and Dr. Brooks offered praver. -' . Dr. Chas. E. Taylor, President cf Wake Forest College, was the principal speaker and was followed bv Rev. Jno. A. Preston, of the First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Dr. W. S. Bowman, of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, and Rev. C. L. Hoffman, of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. The closing prayer was Offered by Rev. H. L. Atkins, when Rev. Mr, Tur-i rentine read out hymn 639, after which the body was borne from the church to tbe grave. Ic was the longest funeral procession ever known in Charlotte. - NEWS FROM MAXTON. Frcm W. B. Eaiket'a Iiettsr to the Bobe- 1 j sonian. ; j .' Hon. J. F. Payne has been elected city attorney lor the third term. No matter what the issue, is, Payne gets there. i! ' i . ' ' .... I Tbe following officers were re-elected! and elected by the Maxton Y. M. Cr A. last Sunday night for the ensuing year:! I. D. Austin, j president; A.J. McKin non, vice president; jV"B. Weatherly, treasurer, and R. D. Croom, secretary. During the! shower last Wednesday evening, the stables of Mr. T. B. Russell Were struck by lightning and burned down. The barn also caught on fire but fortunately was extinguished. Jhe stock; was saved and so far as we can learn the loss was not large. -.. j. xTbe annual report of the Maxton Building and Loan Association shows an excellent year's business which his amounted to $32,067 60 J The- first and second series; cf stock have 'matured, and the third will mature by the first ol September. The average profit per an num of the six series now in force has been 19 per cent, upon the sums paid in. No association in the S ate has done better. It has built up tbe town of Max ton, helped a ; number of farmers and aided citizens of other towns.) A ninth series of stock; will be issued next Satur day; any one who desires, can 1 get stock in that series Call on Wm H. Ber nard, one of the .Directors, at the Star omce. ' Charlotte, N. C, gets the Lutheran College for women.- Columbia, S. C, was her most -formidable competitor. The site of the college will be on the nigniana t ark property. People oftenwonder why their nerves are j- so weak fwby they get tired so easily why they start at every slight but sudden sound; why they do not sleep' r 1 naturally; why they -have frequent'-' '- i' headaches, Indigestion and nervous f Iff: Dyspepsia . . o The explanation is simple. It is found in i that impure .blood which is contin- nally.. feeding the nerves upon refuse instead of the elements of strength and vigor. , In such condition opiate and nerve compounds simply deaden and da not cure. Hood 'a Sarsaparilla feeds ' the nerves pure, rich,-red blood; gives natural sleep, perfect digestion, js. the true remedy for all nervous troubles. j Sarsaparilla Is thet One True Blood Pnrlner.- l per -bottle. Prepared only ty C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. tw I j. ' Jv.'n cure Liver Ills; easy to ilOOU 3 FllIS take, easy to operate. 25c. SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN. A QUESTION OF COLOR IN, THE GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY 1 Fiom the Presbytery of Charleston For- ! elm ISiaaiona Ht pott Young People's" Bootetles. : By TeliegTaph to the Morning" Star. Memphis, Tknn., May 27.--The As sembly was opened at 9 o'clock with de votional exercises. ;i The question of young people's socie ties now agitating all churches, cropped up in connection with a request for the preparation ot doctrinal topics Tor young " people's meetings. Dr. Parks cham pioned the cause of the young people. The committee opposed tbe proposition of such tbplcs, but the Assembly decided by a large majority in their favor. j Tbe Foreign Missions: report was taken from the docket and adopted bv sections. The economy of the Execu tive Committee is commended,: the . treasurv is out of debt. Rec rets arc '. expressed that 1.039 churches have not . given to Foreign Missions and they blame tbe ministers for failure to pre sent the cause.' Action was taken dis using of mission, property in Brazil. A judicial case, involving the question of color, was then taken up, and the As sembly was solemnly constituted a court to consider the matter. The case is as follows: One Reuben fames, a colored man, presented himself as a candidate . for the ministry before the Presbytery oi Charleston; which is in the "blaqk belt" of South Carolina. I The Presbytery ex- . amined him and was satisfied entirely as . to his qualifications!, but. refused tore-- ceive him solely because he was a negro. Exercising its right to review tbe records of the Presbytery, the Synod took excep tion to this action and ordered the Pres bytery to .reconsider its action and receive James. Elder J A. Ensloe, of Westminster Cburch, Charleston, brings tbe matter before the General Assembly by complaining of this action of the Synod. ' i- . rtte first : speaker (was h.lder..ns:oct e complainant, lie a sciaimea race prejudice and spoke of his life-long in- - terest in the religious training of the ne groes. But the people of Charleston. Presbytery do cot dee nr it wise to per mit any mingling cf the races. His p.rin- " cipal point was. that that th? Book of Church Order does not recognize the relationship of candidates to Pies lyte- : ries. therefore the ' Synod had no right taJorce upon the Presbytery a relatien 8bip which is uocotstitutional. Eider W : tf Thnmn'ertn 'til Snnth farrt. ' - Una, represented the Synod. He ap- j pealed for the colored race and said that ': "We have no right to refuse, to license ,' one of its members to carry the gospel i to his own people. : There is no fear of race amalgamation in South Carolina. These coiored men will be driven to' leave our Church and enter the Northern Church, which is holding out its arms to receive them." ; i The greatest speech of the session, . so far, was v made , by Dr. Woodrbw. ' Among other thing he said jva, "1 do not recozhtze the right of the Church to bind my conscience. II mV conscierce 1 will not permit: me r to obey the' law ot the -church, I ;bave ; a simple remedy. J I. will not obey. I will withdraw from .the Cbtfrch. Charleston Presbytery cannot. come up-' here and . say that it has conscientious reasons for not obeying the constitntion of Our Church. If it will not obey, let it withdraw." j .'.' , ; " The whole afterncton was taken up by this debate. Most ol the speakers ex pressed themselves as opposed to the in troduction of the color line into the Church courts, especially when there -are colored commissioners now on the floor of the Assembly, The debate was still in progress when the hour for re- cess was reached. ! Ah effort was made to have a vote then,! and (or a few mo meets there was the utmcst confusion. Motions t a take .recess, to go on with ' the vote, and.to lay on the' table, came , from all parts of tbe house. ( The mod erator solved the question -by ordering a . recess until 8 p. m.1 , f . -- THE TRUCK MARKET.. -1 Ht-y Tort: Prloaa jBot Boathern Fulta acd i Vegetables. j ByTelegraph to the Morning Star. ( . New York, May 27. -Strawberries Maryland and Delaware, quart, 8 to9c; do Norfolk, quart, 2 to 4c; blackber ries. North Carolina, quart 16 to 17c; huckleberries, North Carolina, quart 12 to He; watrfrmelons, Florida, each 60 to 75c; beets, Charleston, 100 bunches, 2 50 to 5.00; do Norfolk, 2 00 to 4.00; cucum bers, Florida, crate, 50. toy. 1.00; do Charleston, basket, 75c to 125; do Sa vannah. 75c to 1.25; cabbages, Savannah, crate, 1.00 to 1 50; do pnarleston, 1 00 to 1.50; do NorthXarolina, 1 00 to 1 25; do Norfolk. 75c to 155;;egg plant. Florida, barrel, 2 CO to 4 00; peas. Norfolk, half barrel, 60c to 1 00, do Maryland, basket, 1,00 to 1.25; string beans, Savannah, bas ket. 50t to 1.25; do Charleston, 50c to 1,25; do North Carolina, basket, 1 00 to .OOviquash, Florida, crate. 75c to 2.C0; tomatoes; Florida, carrier, 150 to 3 50; potatoes. Florida. 1 00 to 8.00; do Savan nah, 1.00 to J3 25; do Charleston, 1 00 to 8.25; do North Carolina, 1.00 to 8 00. WARM Wl RELETS. A Key West dispatch says that the re-, port that the Three Friends, bound from Jacksonville to Cuba on a filibustering expedition, bad been sunk in an attempt to escape - from the revenue cutter Winona1 is without foundation. I ' - l The feature of yesterday's session of ; the General Conference ofnbe Metho- ' diist Episcopal Church at Cleveland, Ohio, was the adoption of a resolution providing for an immense churdh insur ance company to compete with the great companies of the world. ., i , ':' ' ,- Electric BUtera. ' ' , l Electric Bittes is a medicine for any season, but perhaps more generally needed, when the languid, exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the'need of a tonic and alterative is felt: ; A prompt use of this medicine bas -often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medif -cine will act more Surely in counteract log and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. 60c. and $1.00 per bottle at R. R. Bellamy's Drug Store. t 1 U-L
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