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-rUBLISHED AT- NGT.ONi N. C. $1 :00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. 8S3SSSS88SS8S88SS 8ffsSSSS88888888 8838S888888888888 SSSS9SSS9S95SS888 5 2isSSSSS355:2SSSSg rSS388S88S3S88888S iptlDjAt t 2 si T m f a r fstlS8SSS3SS83888l 7f8SSSSS8g888SS8 s - od e o h ee m , c fl ivnercJ at! trie Post Office at iJmtgton, N. CM l ttalcrt ' Second Class .Ma .ef.l T . SUBSCRiPHON P -CE. ; - t i ' The bscriptioo price of the Wevl Star Is i ai?lc'C.Vy !? year, postage paid. . . li months ' .. .'" i' ' " . B months f " . . ...11 00 60 ... 80 Wc are againisending bills to our subscribers. In the aggregate they amount to a very large sum. -J. any , of. pur ' subscribers are respon . tag promptly. Others pay no attenti n to the bills.. These latter do n.-t 'seem to understand that they arc. under W legal or moral obligation to pay for a newspaper. - ;- INDEPENDENT COINAGE. Nearly all; the gold standard ad- vdcates n this country profess to be bimetal! ts friendly to the restora tion ot saver orrconamon irai inose of the leading commercial nations of Europe which have demonetised silver agree ; with us in restoring it. Tiere afe some of the gold standard editors, who are bolder than the politicians' and j more candid, .' who -scout tie idea of bimetallism and laugh at what jhey call the absurd tand impossible double standard, ig noring -the i fact that the- civilized j world had the double standard for all the age since, goljd and silver have been used as money until England demonetized it Jin 1810 and es tab'.ished the. single gold standard and that -all the rest of the civilized world had the double standard until some European (nations and this country followed ' the example of England ki 1872 land l"873.. As far as the demonetization was concerned there was no 'concert between the nations each acting for itself, but now it is contended that there cannot be remcHietizatioa without Concert of action it least! between the leading ( vpraraercial nations. j; ; if they wait, for that they will wait : for &n j indefinite period, fori other Kuropqan ;j powers do n,ot wish to move until England, moves, and as England is the creditor nation of the " worfd, jsvhich has become enriched by the gulden 'tribute she has . drawn from other nations, she will not con- . sent to; it until, the preservation of a , languishing commerce compels her.' If the gold'-standard advocates in this country who profess to be di- me'talli'sts be honest in their prof es- sions, it seems to 'us that it is the sheerest waste of time and talk to be talking about: international agree ment as a necessary condition,' and to be contending that this country , could not succeed in establishing bi- metallism and, maintaining it with- oat the co operation of other n a nons. iney simply, if they be sin- I cere, frighten themselves and .t?y to fnghtn others by conjuring up im- J aginary disasters,' which have, no I more tangible; place in the probabili tie's than' iastiyear's breezes. -. Independent coinage will b ruin ous, they say, jbecause Ip. addition to the coinage tf our own silver tnls would beccm the dumping ground for the silver of the world and the resui would he a flood of cheap sil ver wtuoi would drive ggld, the bet-, f ter money", out. It would do neither, ior thq day ddr mints were thrown. I open to the free coinage of silver, .we pr ce of silver bullion would go . P to the. old price of 1873, and not an outke of it would be sold Inu rope or this country for less than the mint Value this country. Then when the Ch nese or the Japanese wanted silver to coin, instead of buv- Ing it t about CO cents an ounce, as now, they wojild have to pay $1.29 n ounce for it. With silver bullion at Sl f 0 an. ounce, - where would the I weeqt dollar come, in? The mint ! ice I in this country would fix he price the wo?ld- over" and there wouldj be neb object in sending silver from other countries to this country, t be Coined, 'for it would be worth as much in bullion form as it would b e in traffic lion is -om, and i- would be used in iij the same way as- gold bul- Th ey inconsistently declare that (1. cneapen money by causing ""upon and then tell us that it "uuui contract the volume of the currency by drawing gold out and all , ' e torrns of paper money: that are '(y or iridirectly based on gold. " isn tnute apparent' how we can th .I rrraiuu . nu- contraction ar , .Bfnie time, and how our money ' ft 111 become 'cheap and " depreciated ' wheu 000 hnn non f m a i i v'jw.uuy,i)00 of gold is driven, hj. uuvmg out gold is a bogy of the , 2'd standard men's Invention as la Ration, for neither will happen. "Ver W II hot be nninir1 mn nn.; luly than it:: can be absorbed, foi if Nwenad free coinao th cfimnino f O w UWUIUIUd SjV Vilmi VOL. XXVII. enterprise and industry ; would be such that there would be demand for two dollars to the one there is a de mand for now. The fact is that with our present minting capacity we couldn't coin silver as fast as it could and would be put into use, but the uncoined; silver, having its price fixed by the mint, could be used as capital, or as a substitute for coin it Hecessary, in establishing our in dustries or as a collateral upon which to borrow money. What difference- would It make then if gold were driven out of this country when its place would be taken by silver either in coin or bul lion form ?. Then we could rely upon ourselves instead of depending upon London for money, and then the gold problem would be "solved,- the gold borrowing cease, and our financial independence achieved.". A little, weak nation might not be able to establish its own monetary system in dependent of other nations, but a great, young, powerful, wealthy and resourceful nation like this can, and it is to her shame that she has not done it before this. She can do it if she has the nerve, and when she does it other nations which are waiting for some one to take the lead will follow, and in due time the nations which have demonetized silver will hasten to remonetize it, with the possible exception of England which will ad here to the gold standard until neces sity forces her to abandon it. MIS OS MEN TIO JT. 7 It doesn't require an X-ray to see through Marlon Butler. He thinks he Is shrewd and that he is playing a smart game, but any one with ordi nary powers ot vision cad see clear through him and the game he is try ing to play. He is posing just nqw as a champion of free silver, but is dreadfully afraid that the Demo cratic party in convention at Chicago next Tuesday will adopt a free sil ver platform and nominate free silver candidates and that its action will be endorsed by the free silver men of the country, and this is what Ma rion is trying to prevent, for in this event he would be temporarily, at least, swallowed and cease to be the' 'conspicuous figure be' is now; and he loves to be con spicuous. He is trying to accom plish this by discrediting in advance the action of the Democratic conven- tion, as he tried t? discredit the ac tion of our Democratic State conven tion, ty asserting that it was con-' trolled by gold men, when they had only 31 Votes to 875 for free silver, , . ?.a. I ni i irar vvi nt ni iiz r ri 1 1 1 nir u iiii truth and with the intelligence of the people he talks to. But Mr. Butler is not a sincere silver man, nor an honest leader. VEour years ago when the Democratic party of North Caro lina favored free silver as it does now. Mr. Butler tried to sidetrack it as a minor and a very unimpor tant question Trom which the people whom he professed to repre sent would derive very little benefit. He was afraid then that his Populist following might be influenced by the silver issue to support the Demo- cratic party, the very thing that he fears' now. and the very thing that he is planning and laboring to pre- vent. . If he be a sincere silver man or an honest leader,! why be working to keep the friends of silver apart, to; divide the silver vote and thus aid in the election of McKinley and jthe indefinite fastening of the gold stand ard upon the people of this'country ? Is this the part of the true friend of the people and the silver cause, or of the charlatan who is playing both for his own selfish purposes ? In what striking contrast to the true; and consistent advocate of free sil ver, Senator Teller, who left the Re publican party on that issue, and who now, although warmly advo cated for the Presidential nomina- tion by many silver men, hopes .that the Chicago; convention will nomi nate a true friend of silver, and ex presses the belief that if it does ; the nomination will be endorsed i by silver men regardless of party. What a contrast. But Butler is not Teller. and fortunately Teller is not Butler. We have referred to some instan ces of bulldozing by moneyed insti tutions to suppress the free silver agitation in the South and West, and a short while ago commented Upon the refusal 'of a New York Trust Company to lend the State of Ala bama a small amount of money be cause the Senators from that State favored the free coinage of silver, and the Democrats of the State en dorsed the position taken by their Senators.' But . the following press dispatch from Louisville,; Ky., as an attempt at audacious and wholesale bulldozing caps the climax as far recorded up to the present time: as up to the present Louisville. Jane 29.-If the Dsmo cratic party declares for free silver at Chicago. Kentucky almost beyond a doubt will go Republican. This is what .i.- t .MMi.m. .,nb... a m,n declare. The way the banks stand is hown by their bitter opposition to free silver and the decided action tbey have made to check the spread of the craze. The most striking example of this is the tact tnat Dy mutual agreement tney have decided -to refuse to lend any money to any man who favors free sil- mm 1 A, ver. - It makei no difference who he . he cannot get a cent at any Louisville bank on any terms or security;- , Several of the banks tent for some of their pronounced silver patrons and re quested tnem to withdraw their ac counts. There was no reason for this. except, as they said: "Yoa are trvlne to destrov our Inter ests and we must protect ourselves. We acsirc io ; nave , notning to ao witn you."- If this appeared in ' free silver pa pers only we might doubt its credi bility and conclude that It was man ufactured for the purpose of making free silver votes, for that is what it will do, but we clip it from the New York Sun, one of the strongest and at the same time one of the most sensible , of the zold standard de fenders. -These ilouisville bankers may think they are good business men and understand (heir business, but - while the money question is a business question,; it is also now a, reat political t question, and they! show very little sense in letting it take such an offensively conspicuous position behind their V counters. Banks are not, or at least should not be political hives, and our opinion is that these bulldozing gentlemen who are presuming on their dollars to be dictatorial, will find before, they get through with it that the silver men of Kentucky can get along better without their dollars than they can get along without the silver men. Boycotts sometimes prove to be two edged weapons. 1 ; In reply tq Mr. Harrity's remark that for the Democratic convention to repeal the two-thirds rule would be "revolution," the Petersburg Index-Appeal answers that it would be no more revolutionary than the free coinage of silver, for which the party has never declared. Why, we had free coinage up to 1873,- and hence up to that time it was never an issue. Since then it has been, more or less so, but with limited coinage under the Bland-Allison act and with the Sherman act, under both of which silver received recog nition, the people Were less disposed to agitate that question .than tney. have become since the gold men forced the issue by their attempts to permanently retire silver and make gold the only money. - The advo cates of free coinage propose to go back to where we were up to 11873; that's all; 'There is nothing revolu tionary in that. If Walter N. Owens, a farmer of Oklahoma, had not been such a close observer and clever imitator he might not now be in the penitentiary. He was a citizen who stood well and was therefore frequently called upon to do jury service. One oi the last cases npon which he was called to serve was that of a man indicted for counterfeiting. The tools were brought Into ;the jary room where they were closely studied by Owens, who concluded that counterfeiting was an easier and a quicker way of making money than farming, so he made a "kit" and proceeded to busi ness. But unfortunately for him he hadn't proceeded very far in shoving the stuff before he was overtaken by a minion of the law and is now lead ing a retired life in the Leavenworth, Kansas, penitentiary. ";:1 : ?c Hon. Charles Grosvenor, of Ohio, McKinley's lightning calculator, rises to remark that "the Republican Con vention at St. Louis did not abandon any of the tenets of its' ancient, po litical faith nor did it announce any new doctrines." True, it was always a manufacturer-ran and gold manip ulated party, just as it is now, the party of the 1 classes, not of the masses. Mr. Grosvenor is candid. Natalie Mayser; a pretty 14 -year old gitl employed as a nurse in New York, is now in the lock-up because of a too ardent temperament. She had a weakness for setting fire to the houses of people she lived with be cause she enjoyed seeing them burn. She confessed to setting fire to three houses and gave this as her only reason. The aggregate wealth of the New York millionaires who are worth over $10,000,000 each, foots ' up $1,360,000,000, and there is not one of them who doesn't believe that there is money enough in this coun try, and that the gold standard isn't a daisy thing. . A Pennsylvania pensioner com mitted suicide a few days ago be cause he couldn't get his pension in creased. The Republican campaign orator should not fair-'to catch this and incorporate it in the bill of in dictment against Cleveland's admin istration. ' - 1 ' ! " ;'; -:: - . The Republican party is the "party of the people," a fact which is illus trated by the announcement that the combined wealth of the ten members ot Mr. Hanna's committee foots up $30,000,000. i ' 1 A "hermit", who recently died in Indiana turns out to have been a Kentucky murderer who -wai sen tenced to the penitentiary for life in 1868 and escaped while on the way to the penitentiary. The Kirkbride-Palmer - Company, of Minneapolis, one of the biggest gram firms in the Northeast, made a voluntary assignment yesterday aftwnoon. : WILMINGTON, N. Xforth Carolina Pre AMOOlation. , The North Carolina Press Association will meet in Wilmington Jaly 15tb, and it is time oar 'people were making the necessary preparations lor 'rceeivlng the "knights of the quilL" ' It goes without saying that they should meet with a cor dial welcome,; not only in order to main tain the well-earned reputation of Wil mington for hospitality, but because the editors represent the most powerful and useful organization of the State. '- They will come from every section of North Carolina, p Some of them have : been here before, but ; quite i a number of them have never visited oar city or 4ls attractive seaside resorts. Thtfwives of some of the editors, too, will come to see that "the boys" do not stay out too late at the meetings of "the Lodge," and, the Star expresses the hope thai the ladies of Wilmington ; will appoint a committee to look after the pleasure and comfort of our fair visitors. It will be well for "the committee ap pointed by. the Chamber of Commerce to prepare a complete programme of the plans adopted for the entertainment of our- editorial friends.' . WHAT TELLER SAYS, t Thinks Bland a Uitie Ahead .of Boles Would Advise All silver Men to Sup port the OemooTatio Tloket. 'Just now it looks as it Bland or Boies were in the lead, with Bland a little ahead if . anything," Senator Teller said to-day, when asked : regarding the situation in Chicago. "I believe that the Democratic party will, declare for sil ver at 16 to 1. The silver people are too much in earnest to allow a straddle. "I do not think the gold Democrats will bolt the convention, but they will knife the ticket at .the polls: The gold forces of the country will be a unit in November." i "What would you advise should the Democratic party declare unequivocally for stlvei?" he was asked. I would advise all the silver forces to support it. for that is the only way we can win," he answered. "We must meet the enemy with a solid front. I believe that if the silver forces! unite, and there is a genuine silver ticket in the field on a straight silver platform, , we will suc ceed in November. Silver is gaining strength with ' amazing rapidity in all parts or the country; and I am sure it will continue to grow irom now on. it is the only subject discussed, and the adherents of it will gain. The; tariff has been relegated and the battle will be on the financial question." THE CITY MARKETS Well Bnpplied With Vegetable, Fresh ' Meaw, Fonltry and Melon. : The city markets, as usual at this sea son, are abundantly supplied with vege tables, melons and berries. Prices at Front street market , yesterday were: Cabbage, 5 to 10c; tomatoes, 80c per peck; cucumbers, 5: per dozen; squash, 5c per dozen; onions, 5c per bunch; egg plant, 5c; corn, 5 to 10s per dozen ears; okra, 6c per quart; Etna beans, 10c per quart; field peas, 5c per quart; potatoes, 15c per peck. - ' Melons are coming in more freely, yet prices are high; choice cantaloupes selling at 5 to 10c apiece, and inferior stock,! Of which there seems to be a great ! abundance, 2 to 3c; watermelons, 10 to 85c apiece. Peaches are in scant supply at 10c per quart; huckleberries, 15c per quart, and blackberries, 10c. The supply of poultry is equal to the demand and prices are reasonable, Spring chickens selling at 10 to 20c apiece, and grown fowls 25 to 80c; eggs, 12$i to 15c per dozen. Ia the fish market there are shrimp at 10c per quart; clams, 12c to 15c per quart; soft shell crabs, 40c, and channel crabs 10c per dozen.' The batchers had full supplies of fresh beef, veal and mutton of fine quality. i ' j . A MASSACHUSETTS FLOP. George Frederick Williams Will Favor Silver at Chicago. ; Boston, July 2. An evening paper States that Hon. George Frederick Wil liams, delegate at large to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, will favor the free coinage ot silver. Mr. Williams is quoted as making the following statement of his position : 'The time has come for a great popu lar uprising and I propose to be in it. In taking this step of supporting silver, I realize that 1 am doomed politically in Massachusetts, and that I shall never be forgiven by men who claim to be Dem ocrats. ; i: ;;j ; '".v y,.. : I realize, also, that these men can punish me socially j and financially, but 1 invite the persecution witn a conscien tious feeling that I am doing right by voicing the sentiments of an outraged public." :--S i; .,i ',:", ' . 8enator Daniel. ; The; Washington Post of yesterday says : . - . Representative Jones, of Virginia, one of the delegates at large to .the Chicago Convention, is in the city on his way to Chicago. :' ; "? : ."! "I had hoped to present the name el Senator Daniel to the convention as a hcandidate for Vice President, but I have just received a letter from him saying that he does not want his name present ed, and that he will not be a candidate." WASHINGTON NEWS. '' -T ' The Treasury Gold Beterve Withdrawals A Scheme of Certain" Bailr. ads to Avoid Postage of Mail Matter., ' j By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, July 8. The" gold withdrawals to day amouated to $466, 600, leaving the gold reserve at the close of business $1C0 836 75S. Of the gold withdrawn to-day $400,000 went to Canada. !;- " ' , The Postmaster General recently dis covered a clever scheme on the part of certain railroads to avoid postage of mail matter intended for officials of rail reads awLobeiri employes hy an In- terrhanoe of mail between roads carried - by the baggage masters In large ' envelopes. The scheme was worked principally in New York. , New York city. Buffalo and other terminal points exchanged mail ' matter, thus avoiding postage. The outcome of the discovery was a communication sent by the Department : to railroad officials stating that the Revised Statutes forbid regular post route roads carrying mails other than in regular mail cars, except when all letters are enclosed in stamped envelopes. - FRIDAY; JULY 1 0,' 1896. ANftDSSKLEETmG DELEGATES REPRESENTING ' FORTY : COUNTIES WERE PRESENT. jAll. Honest and Self-Bespaotms BepobH i I' ana Advised to Vote Against the Bo- $ubliean H ominee 7 For Governor : : State Exeoatlve Committee Appointed , .Other Baleigh ZTewe. ; i Raleigh, Nr Cw July 2. The aati-Russell mass meeting holds the boards to-day. It will meet at noon in Metropolitan Hall.: Parson R, H. W. Leak, the guiding light, calls the body tootder. There are not more than two dozen delegates; here this morning. wongn trie noon trains may possibly oring in more." ; i;, Congressman Stroud told; several newspapermen to-day that they could not wear the - Populist badge, because their clothes were too ' fine.: Uncle Stroud says he has nearly worn his out. He says English hasn't a badge. ' The new train on the Southern, which makes the trip' between Norfolk and Chattanooga without change, will soon extend the run, making connection with Memphis and Norfolk. The run will then be over 1.000 miles long. The Populist Executive Committee of the Fourth Congressional district -met here yesterday and apportioned the nine votes of the district in the National Convention to the various counties. The Countv Executive Committees will meet and elect the delegates to St. Louis. The Congressional Convention was called, but the date will be set by the chairman. Rev. J. O. Cunningham, D. D., has established the first home scholarship at Trinity College. It has been en dowed with $1,000. The interest on that amount will pay the tuition of one young man. . - ; ; h Special Star Telegram a There were about forty delegates from a distance here attending the anti Rus sell mass meeting. Kev. Leak was made chairman. He said that forty coun ties were represented in i person and by letter, A platform denouncing Russell and advising au honest and sell-re specting Republicans to vote against him was adopted. The platform de clares for liberal education, Iree Cuba and against lynching. A resolution re commending that all local Republicans vote for W. A. Guthrie in the event of his nomination for Governor was passed, though not unanimously; Several dele gates made speeches in opposition to the endorsement of any man. Nearly all delegates favored gold. Unly one white man was present. ; A state exec utive committee was appointed. J. J Wood, of Halifax, Second district, R. B. Russell, Sixth district J. "Reynolds, Seventh1 district,' and: J. M. Moody, Ninth district, are members. MANY BICYCLE FAILURES Chief Censes the Iaereased Bales of Lowe Prioed Wheels and Priee Cut tins; to Meet the Competition. - V AT. V. Journal. Bicycle failures are coming thick and fast. There have been twenty-one fail ures in Jane, and any number of attach ments of wheels consigned for sale. many to anticipate expected failures. Many more failures are expected this month. - , Ahe cause oi the failures is not so much that the season is drawing to a close and sales are falling off. Every trade has its seasons. Nor can any local conditions account ior it, as fail ures are occurring in all parts of -the country. ;.;;' . . Lt There has been no falling off of inter est in wheeling. The main causes of failures are the cutting of prices and the increased sales of cheaper wheels. Good wheels are cheaper. The- catalogue prices remain the same, but the price cutting has been going on at a tremen dous rate. I One Chicago firm is in such need of ready money that it has sent a large consignment of first-class wheels to this city to be sold at auction. Yesterday they brought on the average a little over $35. I The Very best makes can be bought from out-of-town agents for $75. A few can be bought for less. A man who has a great many friends among the wheelmen in Brooklyn said be knew several who rode a wheel which has the reputation of not making discounts to any one. No one man paid $103 for his wheel. On Warren street a first grade wheel can be bought for $75. Of course, in most cases $100 is asked. The customer is "sized up." The same wheel is sold at ' the Brooklyn agency for $65. The Roundabout schemes ; devised to sell a wheel for $100 and yet less would fill volumes. S I The mannfacturers ; admit that this cutting will be more general as the sea son draws to a close. That list prices next year can be kept up to $100 is ex tremely aouDuui. , Some of the manufacturers say the pain cause of the recent failures was the lack of sufficient capital: that these men knew the cost of producing a wheel, and, seeing the apparently large margin of profit, rushed into the business not calculating the cost ot advertising and selling. j It is significant that most of the fail ures have been among dealers and not among manufacturers. 1 This shows that it is the margin ol profit that is being cut down. To give low prices the agents have to give up a part ot their proms. "Swallows Homeward Plj." - The excursion party that reached here Tuesday and left lor their homes yester day afternoon was one of the most wel come that has ever visited Wilmington. It was composed of the very best class of merchants and farmers, many ot them bringing their wives and children, and their stay here was productive of both pleasure and pront to our people. Al though numbering only about 125 per sons, their stay of a little over two day; gave them . ample time to dispose of their surplus cash, j . In the party were many charming young ladies frcm Maxton, Laurinburg and other points. & connoisseur tells the Star they were handsome, too; and that their departure left an "aching void in many a fine fellow a heart. A vote of thanks is due and is here tendered by the Star, to Messrs. Mc- Kinnon, Johns and Jennings ior the fine taste displayed by them in the selec tion of material for this excursion. One of the hottest campaigns ever known will be fought in Fayette ville this year. The boys are already putting on their war paint and prepar ing a sepulchre for Demosthenes Lycur- gus RasselL There are no braver Dem ocrats in the country than those ot Fay- etteville Watch Cumberland., The Star hears . favorable re ports of the political situation in Cum berland and "Columbus; Large Demo cratic gains are confidently predicted in both counties. - RALEIGH HAPPENINGS. ; POPULIST STATE -CONVENTION TO MEET AUGUST 13. The AntkBtusen Mass Meeting A Bevolt Well O aanlasd-Prof. XL A. Alder man Suggested for President ot the State TToiveteity. . . '"i'T Special Star Correspondence v J Ralhgh, N. C, July 8. 'he anti-Rufssll mass meet'no- ha gone into' history. Numerically it was1 quite a small affair; but' aside from this their allegiance to the Republican party cannot be questioned,; and : the meeting will cat a prominent part in the cam paign. ;j Rev. Leak said that he had hun dreds of letters from life-long . Republi cans who avowed that they; would never vote for Russell. Leak said that hewould print the letters if it became necessary ;the negroes; who were here were leader, and they have influence at home. - A Nash county! delegate, declared' that Russell could not get fifty . Republican votes in his county. The revolt against Russell is well organized. Just what the defec tion will be it is difficult to state, but it will run in the thousands. When Russell comes to realize this, if he has not .already done so, that long promised letter of declination may be pulled from under the duster. I asked a Populist of note, who is not given to talking and who is well posted, what he thought Kussell would do. He asked the question, what does Russell desire most and what does be hate most. The answer was easy. I said that he de sires to be .Governor of North Carolina above all things and he hates a Democrat like - he hates nothing else. "Well, said the Populist. "Russell will realize shortly that his election is an impossi bility and you can count on it that he will not be astumbung bloik for the de feat of any Democrat. A large part of the Raleieh delegation which went to Richmond returned this evening. The Populist Central Com mittee imet at ten o clock. Senator Bat ler, Wi A. Guthrie, A. . S. Peace, Con gressman -Skinner and Buck Kitchin are here. Pro! D. Howell returned from Chapel Hill to-day-. He says everybody is talk ing of .Prof. E. A. Alderman as Dr. Win ston s ; successor and that it is pretty well assured that he will be the new President. .1 t There are 139 teachers- attending the University Summer School. This is 34 more than last year. j Special Star Telegram. ' The Populist Central Committee calls the State Convention to meet here Au gust 13th. Delegates at large to the Na tional Convention at St. Louis were ap pointed. ; ! -.'.''. LBy Southern Asiociated Prejt.1 Raleigh, July 8 The Populist State Central Committee met here to-day, Senator Marion Butler presiding, and called! a State Convention at Raleigh August 13th. It also elected eleven dele gates-at-large to the Populist National Convention at bL Louis. '1 EXCURSIONS TO WILMINGTON. The Atlantio Coast Makes No Dlicrimlnt tion Against Charleston, and the People Come Here Because They Xitke WU mlnston Beet. ! " News and Courier. A shoit time since, the Florence cor respondent of the News and Courier commented upon the fact that large ex cursion parties were frequently taken from 1 all over the Pee-Dee section to Wilmington, and he suggested that the Atlantic Coast Line Road favored that city in the matter of such rates more! than! it did Charleston and Sullivan's Island. A reporter called uponj Mrj W. J. Morris," the - Bis trict (passenger agent of the Atlantic Coast Line, in this city yesterday, and asked him what, if any, preference his system gave Wilmington over Charles ton in the matter of excursion rates. Mr. Morns said: "It is true that we are can vine more excursionists uown to Wilmington than we are bringing here, bnt this is merely a result oi the prefer ences of the people and not of any dis criminations in rates. As between the two cities it, is not of the least conse- auence to the Atlantic Loast Line wnicn gets the excursionists so long as the ceooie buy tne tickets: tnat is to say, we will do anything in our power for either of them so lone as it maaes no discrimination against the other. We have; in force ; to Charleston the exact same rates which are carrying these people to Wilmington and we would iust as soon bring them here as to carry them there. Bat they seem to prefer going to' Wilmington and the peo ple 03 Charleston can scaiceiy expect that i we should discriminate against Wilmington by making an effort to pre vent themi from doing so. The rates are all right, and I am confident that if the proper people in Charleston would try to attract the people here by adver tising our advantages as Wilmington ad vertises hers that we would get some of those excursionists. It is clearly to my personal interest to have them patron ize ray division of the system and my aid may be counted on at all times. iPOPULIST PARTY. Meeting of Executive Committee ot the t Third Congressional Distriot. The Executive Committee of the People's party of the Third Congres sional district met at the Bonitz House yesterday at 1 p. m, for the purpose of naming the date and place for the Con gressional Convention. The committee consisted ot the fol lowing member: H. E. King, of On slow county, chairman; H. H. Perry of Craven, O. L, Ward of Duplin, O. F. Herring of Sampson, G. P.. Sutton of Bladen. The other counties were rep resented by proxy. The committee decided to call the convention at Clinton the third week in August, provided certain accommoda tions could be had. Mr. O. F. Herring was appointed a committee of one to re port, and if the report is favorable, the chairman is autnonzed to can the con vention in Clinton,' naming the exact date himself. If the report is not favor able, the chairman will call the conven tion at Warsaw. Duplin county. ' A number of the counties have se lected their delegates to the National Convention to be held at St. Louis, Inly U2, 1896, and sent in then-credentials for the chairman to sign and the other counties will soon. follow. Onslow and Harnett hold their primaries next Satur day. July the 4th, and their county con vention Monaay, tne oin, io select aeic gates to the various conventions, ' "-r- A ; correspondent of the Char lotte Observer recommends - Hon. A. M Waddeli for the Presidency of the Uni versity. . - - r . - - inter-statecommerce. Decision hy the Commission In Two Cases Brooght by theIiynehbrjrg Board cf .Trade.' :- -! -7V lr i :. - -: , : f -r " By Telegraph to the Morning Star, . Washington, July,, 8.-The , Inter- State Commerce Commission to-day, in an opinion by Commissioner Knapp, an nounced;: its - decision r cf ; two ' : cases brought ! by the' Lynchburg Board, of Trade against the Old.Domlnion Steam ship Company, the j Merchants and Miners Steamship Company, the Nor folk and Western Railroad Company and the ; East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, now Southern Railway Com- The commission rules as toiiows : VTJnder the fourth section of the act to tegulate commerce, a carrier is not justified in charging more for the shorter than for the .longer distance by competi tion at ths longer distance point of other carriers which are themselves subject to that act,! in the absence of authority from the Commission under the proviso clause of said section. " r-- "When rates are relatively unjust, so that undue preference Is afforded to one locality or undue preiudice results to another,: the law is violated and its pen alties incurred, although the higher rate is not in itself excessive, and such rale is especially applicable where a given rela tion m rates, lone continued and con- cededly j equitable, is suddenly and al most, completely reversed, merely be cause other carriers; to the longer dis tance point have disregarded their legal duties. "During the period between May 29th and .August 1st, 1894, when greatly re duced rates were charged by defendants to Knoxville, Tenn., dealers at Lynch burg, Va., an intermediate locality, were entitled to rates over the defend ant's lines from New York, Providence and Boston not greater than those ac cepted at the same time and like traffic over said lines to Knoxville, and the ex cess paid for transportation by the in tervening Lynchburg dealers over con temporaneous rates to Knoxville was unlawfully collected. Reparation is or dered accordingly." TELLER TALKS. " Thinks the Democrats Will Nominate a Good BUver Man at ChiosRO Who Should Have the Active Support of All Free Cciaige Men. !.''. By Telegraph to. the Morning Star. Chicago, Tuly 3. In view of the many conflicting statements put in cir culation respecting Senator Teller's at titude and the intention of his friensto who walked with htm out of the Sl Louis Convention a fortnight ago, Sena tor Dubois this afternoon gave out the following letter fromhis associate, the only one, he said, that had been received from Senator Teller since the adjourn ment of the Republican Convention: Morrison, III.. July 8. 1896. Hon. Fred Dubois, Springfield, III. Dear Sir I reached this place yesterday and will remain here until the last of the week, when I will leave for Denver. I notice that the gold standard Dem ocrats have declared their intention to control the Chicago Convention. I do not think they can do it. if our silver friends control the convention and give us a good silver man, as I think they will, I think he should have the active support of all who believe the money question is the great question before the American people. We must, for this campaign at least, overlook all. minor differences and put the country on sound financial system that recognizes that gold and silver are the, money of the Constitution. I believe that this can be. done, and to that end we must bend all our energies to a little more pa triotism and a little less partisanship as all our country needs at this time. The friends of silver made no mistake at St. Louis and we must not make a mistake as to our future alliance with other sil ver advocates. The cause is of too much importance to admit of carping or criticism. We must ail get together and act together Until the battle is over. It will be a royal battle with justice on our side. ! ! We mast win. Let us hear from you soon. ' ! Yours, truly, Signed H. M. Teller. GOLD DEMOCRATS Hold ft Connoil cf War Their Hesd- aoartera in Chicago and Bssolve to Make an Aggressive Fight Against the Silver Men. 1 By Telegraph to the Morning Stan Chicago, Jaly 8 Under the auspices of the Illinois ''Honest Money Demo crats,' national headquarters of that element were opened in Parlor A, of the Wellington Hotel this morning, with a. meeting in which Comptroller Eckles, ex-Congressmen Cable and Forman, ex- Mayor John r. Hopkins, franklin Mc Veigh and representative Democrats from about twenty towns in the State, took part. One of the" participants re ferred to the gathering as a council of war, Governor Altgeld and the Illinois delegation in particular and the sil ver people in general being the subject of attack.. All of those named and several' others made speeches in which they insisted that tne nonest money element should, assume the ag gressive instead of contenting itself with the defensive side. A mistake had been made, it was argued, in permitting the silver, forces to go so far, and every gold standard Democrat was nrged to get out into the open and do what he could to ward stemming the tide of the silver metal.- The claim of Gov. Altgeld and his delegation that they represent the solid Democracy oi Illinois should be antagonized on the floor of the conven tion, and it was decided to refer to a sub committee the question as bow this could best be accomplished. XJther sub committees were appointed to meet the Eastern money people scheduled to ar rive from the bast tbis afternoon and evening and round them up for the con ference called for to-nighL j CURRENT COMMENT. Since the production of that New York platform it is not the very best of taste for the New York Dem ocratic editors to sneer at the fin an cial pland of the Ohio Republicans. 4 Washington JPost, Ind. j The issue between the silver champions and the advocates of the single gold standard is plain and un mistakable. There is no ground; of compromise. The Chicago Conven tion must declare for either one or the other. Augusta Chronicle, Dem. Senator; Quay of Pennsyl vania, who was one of the earliest and most faithful nurses of the tariff baby, says that the currency is going to be the only issue in this campaign. Somebody ought to break the news gently at Canton before the news papers abruptly shock Vr, McKinley with it. New York Journal gold) Dem. - , - - SPIRm TURPENTINEa H . -eitnton Democrat : On last Thursday, Mr. . Reddlnx Butler, of js.oseooro died from an attack of lever, from which he had been suff er- ng tor some time. His wife, who was suffering from the same disease, survived him but a few hours, dying: - Chatham Record: The friends of Mr. John H. Lawrence, of" vape rear, townsnip,; willtegret to' :; hear ofhis death, after a protracted sickness. We much regret to " hear of the death of Dr. Edward H. : Ward, j of Williams township, who was one of Chatham's most respected citizens. : He was about 67 years old and had beefl in feeble health for several, years." :';. :;-.; ;; .;;;;,, Lexington Dispatch: A negro called '-Crazy Jake" was drowned at , the Yadkin river bridge 4at week. He formerly lived near Tyro. While crossing the railroad bridge he heard the vestibule coming and swung down under the bridge to keep.from ; being struck, where be was shaken loose, and fell in the river. He has not been seen since falling in the water, ,and it is supposed he was drowned. Tarboro ' Southerner: A white man by the name of Frederick Norris --tv w was killed by an engine on, the rail road near Conetoe last Saturday night. ; It was reported he left Cone- toe about nine o'clock, to go to his dome' in Pitt county, across the creek. He was met on the railroad on the Edgecombe side of the creek by some small boys, and they say he was drunk. He had hardly reached the middle of the creek trestle be fore an v engine and , tender came thundering' along and rolled him into eternity. It is supposed he was too intoxicated to remove himself from -the track. The engine did not stop. Raleigh News and Observer'. The Alliance shoe factory is almost a fact," said Mr. T. Ivey, Alliance State Business Agent, who was here yesterday." "Carloads of machinery, , are already in the house at Hillsboro and the rest will be there in a few days. Oar professional shoe expert, ; who will have charge of the factory,, has already arrived. He is Robert Brockett, ot Alexandria, Va., and has many years experience in the busi ness. We are also putting in the tanning machinery, the boilers and engines. , When the Alliance meets with us the second week in August, we expect to be turning, out shoes by the Wholesale." ; , Hickory Carolinian : About twenty years ago, a man by the name of fcGutre suddenly disap peared and a diligent search was made for his body but j was never found. It is supposed that .he was killed by some one, and his body buried. About eighteen months after the killing another search was made . for the body, and it was supposed to -have been taken up and buried in an other - place. Everything quieted down for some eighteen years until last week when Jacob Holler died, revealing the whole affair to the pub lic just before his death. Holler made his statement to ah old woman living with him and Mr. Jule Poovy. We have been unable to get the exact statement he. gave, but the' substance was that a man by the name of Bolch shot ' "him, and he (Holler) and two women burled the body. He told where theyi first buried, him and- where Jfe.: was buried the second time. Jn ' last Saturday, deputy sheriff Caffvia , Hawn and about a dozen mensum moned, went to the place, which is about two miles northwest of Hickory- on-the lands ot the late I Holler, - and commenced digging for the body. ; Nothing was found that day. On Monday they dug and on that day they found the first grave he ! was buried in, and also someJiair, they judged to be his, also the stick that his body was carried on which answered to the one that Holler des- . . cribed In his dying statement. Up to the time of publication no more search has been made, but we have " heard that they will look for the re mains again. , it the remains are . found, it is thought a good many will be implicated In it. . CLEVELAND STRIKERS. . A Monster Demonstration to be Made Sun day at the Funeral of the Workman Killed br a HoE-TJoion Man. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Cleveland, Jaly 8. The locked-out employes cf the Brown : Hoisting and Conveying Machine company held a meeting in Superior Hall this morning. The situation was thoroughly canvassed and it was ordered that these telegrams , be sent : ' j "Eueene V. Debs, New York City 1 Workmen here in awful ferment. Union man deliberately murdered by scabs. Burial Sunday aiternoon, can you come and deliver funeral oration?" "Tames O'Connell, Grand- Master Ma chinist, Oil City, Pa.: Great ferment. Union man murdered by I scabs. Can you 'come?" ' : : - ' A burning proclamation to all laboring men in the clty.was issued. ! The Brown Hoisting Company and the municipal government, which furnishes police to protect the non-union men, were Ditteny . denounced. A strong appeal was sent to all union men in Northern Ohio .to make a special effort atd attend the dead striker s funeral at I Immaculate Conception Church Sunday. Those at tending the funeral are requested to wi sar a white ribbon. The parade will be formed at Superior Hall, in the neigh borhood of the works, at 12.80 p. m. Sun-, day.- The majority of .the labor organi zations in the city have already signified, their intention to participate. A monster demonstration is anticipated. Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of!all in leaveningrengtb. Latest United States Government , Food Report. : ROYAL BAKING. POWDER Co., New York. . " - - . ' - 1 r
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