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, " 1 ' frTCVi ' ' r-r rr--: ' f - - . x . - . " .. . - - v JfXf , - -V x - Y " S ' i -A - - ' " - v " S s &oyl taakca the food pare, ' WnLMINGTQNN. C.,-FRIDAYUGIl3; 1897T - : V : . . NO. il IIL ' , PUBLISHED AT , . !LMlNGTON, N. c ., ; ,4 AT ' W ti 00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. g88&88S88888S8888 tqioojt SI 88888888888888883 8S88S8S88S8883883 2 2 SS 8 S S?SSS2SSK8S gslfssssssssssssi sqiaoH 8 H)00W ? 82888888282888883 qjooW I jT8S888888883333 3 us e- - r r S 3t 9 co o S8SSSSS38888S883 5888888888888888 ,T..a it the Post umce at iimti watered t "gjq, m.ict.1 SUSSCRIPTION P.xICE. Tie .nbscription prio of the Wo'-ly BtM k as . 9 months " - " 80 SILVER AND GOLD. The gold standard organs seem to , pjrticalar r pleasure," to calling attention to the fall in the price of silver within the past couple weeks, it having reached the lowest point since the closing of the Iodia mlnts, hea it took a suaaeni arop, as mignt have been expected. They account fatthe decline in price by the over supply in the market and the falliag off ia the demand, which may be the reasonable way to account for it, but it is somewhat remarkable that the .fall ia price should be so sudden and almost cd incident with the reported big gold discoveries: in Alaska and other portions df the world. Under present conditions, with' silver di vested to such a large extent ot its iimney quality, there- is no reason why a large increase in the gold untput,real or prospective,, should materially affect the price of silver na'.ess u?6a the' assumption hat gold will become so abundant as to take the place of silver'; for many of the uses to which the white metal is Sow applied; bat this evidently is not the case,- as no one looks for that. :-J;- . I ' .;::': Neither has there been any extra ordinary output of silver to glut the market more than, usual so that the decliae in price cannot be attributed to unusually excessive production. It may be noted, however ia this con section that there is now ia England i monetary cjrnnission delegated by the President of the Ualted States in pursuance of a resolution -of- Con fess, to try to bring about a con ference of the leading' European na tions, to see whether some agreement might notbj reached by whi;h sil- vermignt De restored as. a money metal and its coinage be entered upon by the nations participating in tie conference. It miy also be no-i ted that very favorable reports have coat from Europe as to the eocour-J ageaeat which this commission is Dieting with and its success ia se curing the promise' of co-opiratioo of some of the. governments over there. Some of these reports even jo so far as to say that the British Government i.s favorably impressed ud.dispased to co-operate to the ttent of miking soma important oncesaions.m opposition to the views "the gild standard adherents who contend that the -British monetary sjstem is;the best that could be de mised and should not be changed out : deference to other nations or to c fiagiish bimetalhsts wno have tea clamoring tor the dethrone ment of gold and the restoration of we double standard " it at all imorobable that under -ugiana snould. combine to put sl'SrS;ill lOWPr Hnarn tnil-K o nun "J injaring it and impairing Iti Winces for restoration as a money They . could by concert put t?.1 jt like that ia .a verv little ,M'e and send the metal ddwn not . . uul LUC i WUilU UVC1. Ae gold supplies are bought and rolled by a cimparatively small "uul3er of m-n so are the takes 3 a great fer supplies. ' It l of monev tn handle Jfct ; extensively; and tbecombina JS which have the money can con- we stock of both metals, and fix Je P"ce of the Utter as they could ae former if it was not a world- ?n7 metal. They dictate the 'a London, the cable reports it 2 lmillediately the markets abroad - mis side of the ocean go up -"am response to the London u 7 Sllver .miner seeks the markets Ws silver just as the wheat or . a grower seeks the markets 7.n's. wheat or cotton, the prices '"hlch a. are .fixed in London just as Wee nf Lu Iver is. and the silver w..- , s, since the mints have been agalnst sllver. iust- aa mnrh in le"" of the London buyers as In.. L grower 1 3, even -V, because the markets the World are ctiil ,u. . . - " .open """t ad cotton, both which me world must Je consumptive demand for" ih, . 1 Dseacut in twa as if "m ii as . Wn- . case 01 silver by the -vv.il n k. m din. markets of nearly all the ial a T against il as a money con7,Hredaced il Practically to Mon.as a mere commercial - w I 2 i. -i - : U ' -I . I i . y' .. . , f aU sarPrisio ; that the price of silver should o- down, controlled as it. is by.a small nam- r Lny-- uuic tuicresieu m . ,T. ' aaa Qave a s5asa motive tor pulling silver down. It wouldn't be at ali surprising that the manipulatorwho make the greatest profits bythe present raone-, wry system shohld combine1 to not silver down and gold up, for they k..h u 4 ouoie way. Dy this when one ounce of gold will buy more ounces of silver, and are helping by me aeprectatton of silver to keep it OOt Of the Vfa? as a fulY mnn I metal and an associate of their gold. i ney f orm combines and corner grain, cotton, sugar, steal and other things, and why not silver, especial ly wheo they have a double .motive and,so much to gain by it ? Before silver was demonetized they couldn't. corner or control i for it had a mint price which they, couldn't affect. There was a world market for.it then and the price of the coined "metal was practically the prici of the bul lion. -That's what the gold men do not want to sso again, for every dol lar added to the miatageof the world decreases to that extent the demand tor their gold and propjrti jaally re duces their profits as gold lenders. Possibly if the truth was knowa, it would be found that the latest' falls in the price of silver are the result'of pat np job3 by the gold kings. MINOR MENTION. 1 ' Li Ilung Chang is a liberal- minded, progressive Chinaman. He has worked long to get China out of the ruts, but he ; has had to contend against superstition, the effect of ed ucation, and the customs of ages and against formidable opposition by men high in place and in povsv who were content to have China remain as she is, and who would if they could build the Chinese wall still higher. One of these, and,the most obstinate and formidable of the lot, Li Hung Tao, has recently died, aad this left the anti progressive ele ment without a head, unless some other one pops up. As an illustra tion of the liberal mindedness of Li Hung Chang, we quote the follow ing from a letter to an American missionary : ? ' Uaqacitionably, if yoa can givs to the blind leaders of our people light and learning enj)yed la the West, tof, in tarn, will leid oar people oat of their darkness. I think I may claim ' to have manr frieadt ia the United States, where you now go. The cordial recep tion I met with wherever I went there made a deep impresiiou upon my heart, and bat greatlv eadeared your people to me. If it woald interest them to know that I regard you highly aad give von a helping band in your fatare efforts to bring more light into the world and en coarage higher aims for human aspirations-, yoa may use for that purpose this letter from, vour friend." ; This is not only , an evidence of liberality in matters of religion, but it shows that LI Hung Chang is a thinker and that he has some just conception of what it is necessary to do to bring bis country spiritually from darkness to light. It is neces sary to give light to the "blind lead ers of the blind;' but it is no easy matter to convince those blind lead ers that they are blind, for conceit ia their own knowledge and superi ority is one of the predominating characteristics ojf the Chinese, both high and low. Even Li Hung Chang, with all his liberality and progressive Qess.has considerable of thls.al though he has been educated;, out of it to some extent by reading and contact with men of other 'countries. But he is giving aid to the missionaries by ntroducing new methods and mod ern ideas into hi3 country. Tne lo comotive and tne teiegrapn are mighty evangelizers. Bradstreet's review ot the business situation for the past week notes an "upward tendency of prices." There is an advance in hides, wheat, wheat flour, pork, lard, Pacific coast hops, sugar, softcoaranct-tea, also in Bes semer pig iron at Pittsburg, "where smelters declined orders for future delivery at current quotations and for iron barsi and iroa aad steel sheets at Western centers." Ordi narily this taken! as a whole might be a source of congratulatioa as aa evidence of returning prosperity, bat when we look into it the cdngratula- . - i : - : tion will bear some raocuncawuj. The advance in the price of -wheat flour and pork is not because of any extraordlhrry home demand, but be- rf the foreiirn demand. But the country is the gainer by that. The advance in the price of soft coal is not the result of increased business activity, but of the miners' strike, which has reduced the supply and run the price up. There Is no feature of returning prosperity in this. The other things mentioned in which there has been an advance in price are all covered by the new tariff, and the advance is due to that and hot to any extraordinary demand. With the exception of the advance in the price, of food staffs which go abroad and bring money in there Is nbthingin this upon which the coun try may be congratulated, but the reverse, for it means higher prices for articles of daily consumption and use, for which the people receive no compensatine benefit. The "nrnter. ted" are sipply taking advantage of tr -!' "5 l squeeM tribute out of thr 2Qa to get la its work already, . , - .; 'v .: y': A leading German publication in an article on the railways of the world, gives the mileage of the world at the end of irqs .a Aao qso msi distributed as follow?: Europe, 155, ' 284; North America, 205;693; South America. 1 24.026: Asia: ' 2fi mo- at. rica. 8,169; (Australia. 13,888. The United States lead in mileage with 1S1 717-miT.o ao oooi Germany; 18,671 ia Austria-Hungary; 20,909 in the United Kingdom; 24,980 in France; 23,455 in Russia; 19,403 in British India, and 13.888 ia Australia. It attributes the finan cial embarrassments r of the Ameri can railways to the great reduction within the past twenty years in the cost of transportation, both of freight and passengers, and argues that with the volume of business which our rai!road have been doing if they re ceived the same rates that they'jdid in 1871, they would be financially prosperous. There; isome truti ia this, for the reduction ia rates, which has been very gteat, resulting from? c mp.etition and other conditions, has" doubtless had much to do with cut ting d jwn receipts and sweeping away profits, but there are other causes and among them the financial ty&tem which has , been a powerful factor in the! depression.- We don't know s how the law is done there, or how the head of Judge King, ofvNew Orleans, is geared, but his heart is geared all right. In a di vorce case before him he refused to permit the children to be brought into court as witness for or 'agaiast either parent, and stated his position thus: ''I care not what the law or the facts of the jcas6 may be; I will not permit one of these children to take the stand for or against either their father or mother. I will not permit ia such them to be innocently placed. a position that they will have: to look back upon It with distress in later years." Aad that settled it. Bravo for that Judge. . j The i St. Louis Globe Democrat, Rep., says the Republican party is a party that "does " things." jit does for a fact. It has been doing things so long and so many of them that it has about done the country up. And now it is doing some more of tfiem -with its dinged Dingley tariff. : To day' if nothing happens, Mr. Felts, of Colorado, will scoot on his flying apparatus from the summit of Pike's Peak! to Cameron's Cove, an airline distance of thirteen miles.and thence to Colorado Springs, taking a drop from the starting point of about 8,000 feet. It may be all right if he doesn't: drop too suddenly. I When the water gets low in the, streams the farmers of Illinois and Wisconsin go to gathering fresh water clams, the shells of which are bought by button manufacturers. At one of the central points ia Wis-4 consin many tons are brought in daily. . 1 i Some men never forget their po liteness. When the Judge at Johns town, Pa., the other day sentenced to death two brothers convicted of murder, one of them said, "I'm much obliged, Judge." Possibly he may feel under some obligations to the sheriff for giving him a swihg. German emigrants have showa re markably good sense. Out of the 2,300,000 who have left the father land, all but 200,000 landed in this country and drove, stakes. Kaiser William ought to. have a kiodred feeling for us. In a congratulatory strain on the ; "return of Republican prosperity," a ;westem paper "exclaims: "Truly the Major's position of advance agent was no joke." No, indeed, it wasn't. No joke in that ' The stock of microbes will be nrettv full latter a while. A Colo rado man has just discovered: a brand new one which gets in its wprk after dark, but dies in the sun-light. When the light Is turned on it goes out. Bxtraditiflg people from tjhe U. S. to New South Wales, is a pretty, ex- pensive business. Ic cost $30,000 to get that multi-murderer Butler back; but they haa the satisfaction ot hanging him. It it be true that it is only the female mosdalto which does the bit ing, on what rations does her male escort feed . : , l'" Dsth of Mr. Oao. M. Qtw. Mr. GeonreM. Greer, a young busl- aess man living oa the corner f Fourth aad Qaeea jstreets. and a Consistent memaer of Fifth Street Methodist church, died Friday night at 10 o'clock, after a brief illness. He was takeo with nasal hemorrhage, on Wednesday, the flow of blood continuing off and on. nearly twenty-four hours, jThursdav night be became unconscious and re mained so until his death. , j . The deceased was twenty-six years old and uamarried. The funeral will be conducted at 11 q'clock to-day from Fifth Street Methodist church. s-- . r r 1 1 - mmm .mm- r m mm - .. THE SCHOOL, Be'o. Why Tx-F'n Bhooll Vote Ag'a It (Next TcetdkT. . : There are many good and substantial reasons why the tax payer i will on Toes day next vote against the proposed school t.; ,- - T : y::: First and foremost, the burden upon the citizen who i aiding the govern meat is already marvelouily heavy, the poll and property taxation being prob ably an paralleled' and however willing the heart may bej or however j virtuous the cause, men eventually feel that such monstrous taxation becomes a species of political tyranny without giving at all adequate returns. ' n , ; j Farther, one naturally feels an interest as to bow this special fund is to be man aged and by whom. Taxes are more, readily voted when there is faith in the powers that be. Such faith has not been greatly engendered by the last two law making bodies composing our State Leg islature.. -; i j - --.-J - t , The call for this considerable addi tional tax would Indicate that o&r edu cational system was greatly i deficient, and that illiteracy was more or less mas ter of the situation. Such - is not the case, and whatever the educational his tory I of the State . may have been in previous years, the history j ot recent times shows that North Carolina ha been steadily advancing, colleges vand schools of best grade rapidly springing into ex stence in all parts ot the State. i uae seeming mistake that is invari ably. 'made by the; public agitator or politician, and by many of the people generally, is that education is; the even tual panacea for the political and social istic troubles and legislative ills of the land and should bej sown broad cast into all mental soil fit or unfit for ts reception. And yet' it 4s fair to as sume from past history that there prob ably always will be those to whom edu cation Could be of no benefit, could never aid in their daily struggle and by its dim light pictures of Unhappinessand discontent woald dawn into their hearts which could never be eradicated. , One of the ablest educational writers has recently written as follows: "Linked closely with many other very' serious educational mistakes, and ' from many points of view by tar the most pro foundly serious of them all, is that ca rious fancy, which is almost universal among our people, that education - ia it self and for all human beings Is a good and thoroughly desirable possession. Sj axiomatic is this held to be that its prin ciple has been Incorporated j into the constitutions of many of our btates, and not only is education made ree to all, bat ia most States :it is made compul sory upon all. There is probably in our whole system to day no principle so fundamentally untrue as this, and there is certainly none that is fraught with so much social and political peril for the future, j For education means ambition, and ambition means discontent." . ' I ' "Nor is there any moral safeguard in a limited degree of education. Qaite tne contrary, it only makes the natu rally criminal person far more dangerous, converting the potential sneak-thief into the actual forger and embezzler, and the barroom brawler, into the anarchistic bomb-thrower. Statistics i lately sent to Congress in a veto message show the fact that in our prisons ) the proportion of the fairly educated to the anedacated is far larger thao among aa equal num ber ot ordinary citizens." : A fair scrutiny of the situation would indicate that reformatories rather' than schools were needed. Moral rottenness with attendant criminal outbreaks is con siderably more in evidence than mental weakness! ! r: In the long ago days of the framing of our constitution, the j politician and statesman were identical. Unfortunate ly political struggles of more than a hun dred years have about effected the di vorcement of the two, and we find j the politician of to-day too ready to take what he thinki will be the popular side of public q iestions upon most superfi cial and imature lodgment, without that serious study which sach problems always aemana, . i :- Such studious -consideration of the present school question would result in adding nothing to the. burdens of ' our tax-payers, and the real, friend of the people woald devise a i way to lighten those burdens rather than adding t&ere- to. Citizen. STRANGE PHENOMENA. A, Brigbt Light in ta But Sean in tbe ' IS rlr Morning bra Oit imaf Sidge ' " combe County. M Whitakers, Edgicombe Co., N. C, j j i August 7, 1897. Editor ;Star: At 18 .o'clock this morning - the heavens being obscured by a cloud, a light, 1 like unto the early dawn, lighted up the eastern faori zon. A bright object loomed up which I at first took to be ' the morning star" (no pun ) Its ascent, though, was not direct: its position wavered like unto a ship at sear ft tacked about, urst to the south, then to the north; then a descent. till the Object was hid from sight; a second ! ascent, jthen j it descended. Later, it made its appearance again. though' looking less bright apparently, taking its flight to tne east. - My observation of this strange phe nomena lasted for at least one hour. About fifteen minutes prior to my first seeing the light in the east, I heard two reports apparently ia i that ' direction. which excited my curiosity. These noises may or may not have bad any connection with the other phenomena, I onlv surmised that tbev might. Wnat was thisj light ? Was it one of nature's wonders, or was it a work of art? ' Is it possible that It was a flash lieht at Hatterati? Or was it an serial .ship, or a wandering kite? barely, to me. it was a wondertui at ranter, ana i doubt not it mut have oeen seen by others,! since "it was not done in a cor- nCr"- I ' . " " -J-'i Sontbport Item. ; I - ' x The itandard,Aaznst Sih, says: The work on the new! Fort Caswell, is oroerressine favorably. Tbe battery which has been under , construction for some months wiil probably be completed this Fall. . , Both crews in the Life Saving Service went over to the stations last Saturday far the ten months service.:. They went on duty at 12 o'clpck on the night of the 8ist. :, ;.J - j. x - Sealed bids tor the contract for repair ing the quarantice s'atlon,: were filed last Monday with) Dr. Eager as custodian here. ! The bids ranged from sji.so.av to 11.860. Mr. 'William ' Weeks was the lowest bidder, and it is probable the pro pas il will be approved this week. The work must ba completed within forty daysfrom approval, i ! As it requires a majority of the qualified registered voters in each township to carry the election in favor of the special school tax. it is not likely that it will be successful in seventy-five oat of some thirteen hundred townships in the State. . j i Dmh of Mr. Noh B. Cfooptr, of Mallins 8. O. The Star learns with regret of the death of Mr. Noah B Cooper, of Mal lins. S. C . the father of our esteemed citizens, Messrs. W: B. and L J. Cooper. He pasted away yesterday afternoon at 5.20 o'clock, at the age of 62 years. ;; He leaves seven sons and four daughters. A good part of Mr. Cooper's, life was spent In Horry county, S C . where he heldjieveral places of trust, having been tax collector and the representative of his county ia the State Legislature. In 1879 he removed to Mullins, Marion county, where he has since lived, en gaged in business pursuits t Mr. Cooper's, life had been despaired of for several days. Mr. W. B. Cooper left last week to bs at his father's bed side, and the tidings that he sent here were to the effect that it was only a ques tion of time before death would end the sick man's sufferings. The funeral will be conducted at Mal lins this afternoon from the! Methodist church.. . !.'!.'.-..'. . ! 1 A COTTON CORNER. Bepirted Oornar In 8pit Cotton in at. Iidnia Ooa Hones Controls Fraoti oally tha Entlra Stoek. ' I St. Louis. Aug. 8. Cotton is said to be cornered in this city, and is likely to remain cornered until September 1st. when tbe official cotton year opens and tbe new crop begins to move. The state ments of the local warehouses show that the total number of bales in store to-day aggregated 91682 bales. Last year at this time there were 25,- 236 bales. Of the 9 682 bales now oa hand, more than 9 000 are held by one firm, the Allen-West Commission Com pany. Middling cotton is quoted on tbe blackboard of the Cotton Exchange at 71 13 16 cents, bat holders, it is said, are asking from half a cent to three quarters of a cent above. that figure, and seem to be indifferent about selling. las. H. Allen, of the Allen-West Com mission Company, wheo asked to day if tbere was a corner, replied in the nega tive. I . 1 'This is the end of tbe cotton season ot 189S and, 1897," said he, "and cotton is mighty tcirce at all the leading cot ton points! from (New Orleans to St. Louis. We have over 9.000 bales in the warehouses, and we are holding on to it. as nearly half of (hat cotton is two years old. It is well seasoned, and then the crop of two years ago was finer than last year s growth. CITY MARKETS. Well Supplied w.tb frost, Fiib, JTraeb Meata and Vagetablea. The inclement weather yesterday did not prevent the city markets from being well supplied with all the usual edibles. Watermelons are still plentiful, but cantaloupes are growing scarce. . Vege tables, meats, and fish were in about the same supply as usual. Egs sold at from 10 to 15 cents per dozjn. Fish Sturgeon. 5c per pound; pigfish. 10c per buach; mallets. 10c per bunch; trout, 12 to 15: per buach, flounders. 15 to 25c per bach. Clams. .Cribs and Shrimps Clams, 15c per qaart; soft crab3, 40c per dozen; stone crabs, 5 to 10c each; Channel crabs, 10c per dozen; shrimps, 5 : per quart, Meat Lola steak, 13Jc per pound; round, 10c; chuck bief, 7c; stew, 5 to 9 mutton. 10 to 12:; veal, 10 to c; tongues, 20s each; sausage, 124c per pound. i J Poultry Grown chlc'ns, 50 to 60c per pair; spring chickens. 20 to 50c per pair; dressed chickens. 50 to 60c per pair. . : Vegetables Oalons, 5c per bunch; Irish potatoes, new, 30c per peck; car rots, 5s per buach; cabbage, 5 to 8c per head; sqiash, 10; per dozen; roasting ears, 10 to 15s per dozen; string beans, 20c per peck; butter beans, 8c per quart; cacumbers. 5 to 10c per dozen; okra, 5c per quart; vegetable eggs, 5c; tomatoes, 5c per quart. j Fruits Peaches, 10c per quart; apples, 20 to 85c per peck; pears, 5c per quart; cantaloupes, 2 to 15c eaco; J watermelons (aative), 5 to 25c each; figs, 10c per quart; grapes. 10c per quart. Colored Confidence Mn. John Roper, colored, an alleged con fidence man, was arraigned for trial be fore Justice Fowler yesterday afternoon, charged with the iarceav ot a sewing machine from Liaey Hicks, colored. aad with false pretence. Upou hearing the testimony tn the two cases Justice Fowler decided that there was probable cauie to hold Rper to aaswsr to the first charge ia the Criminal Court, but that the latter charge simply amounted to a breach of trust,1 The defendant was committed to j nl in default of a $103 justified bond, imposed upon him by the Court in the larceny case. There are two other charges pending against Roper, one of which is for swin dling Julius Coachman, colored, to whom Roper promised a position as conductor on the S. A. L. road. To I a tarns Iiodics t WalLoe. Tbe following Odd Fellows, members ot the four lodges, Orion, Wilmington, Hanover and Cape Fear, of this city, will go to Wallace Wednesday night (as told in the Star yesterday) to establish a lodge in that town, viz : Messrs. J. M. McGowan. W. W. Yopp. A, H. Creasy. W. F. LeGwinl S. J. Ellis. M. W, Jacobi, T. G. Evans, W. C Smith, B. . Jacobs, Alex. Boone, : L. La Boone, F. Lafello. I. J. Hopkins, J. E. Gordon, A. T. Marshall, J. W. Fleet, Jao. Robinson, Frank Meir, J. O. Powers, B. W. Dur ham, Bordeaux and Baldwin. The team, which is in charge of Dis trict Deputy Grand Master Jos.T. Ring, will leave for Wallace Wednesday even ing at 7,25 o'clock, returning the follow ing morning. . .:. 1 The friends of Major C M. Stedman will be glad to hear that in the Greensboro papers his name has been several times mentioned recently in con nection wifh important law cases. The Record o Friday refers to a case in which the city of Greensboro is sued for $10,- 000 damages, and in which Maj. Sted man appears as one of the counsel for the city. - ' RALEIGH NEWS BUDGET. SUNDAY SELLING AND THE BOARD OF ft.-; : '. ALDERMEN. O ty Tx IiSvf Postponed Until tieptsmber Dnrnam, tie SwineUer aoTernci Bns aelt Will Oo to f;n Mocroe Flrtt Boll or Cotton in! Wake County. Special Star Cortispondence ' RALEIGH. August 7. The meeting of the aldermen last night was a tame affair to what was ex pected. The Sunday selling question was not brought before the board. The advocates of the Sunday "blue law'! evi dently saw it woald be defeated and did not present iu Mr. N. B. Brougbton said a short time sines that the alder men had to pass this ordinance. By agreement they let the ordinance stand as it is. The aldermen postponed the tax levy until September, and announced that If the bonds are hot carried at the approaching .election on the aaestion, the tax'levy will have to be. increased to meet the city's expenses. An ordinance has been introduced be fore the aldermen to place the entire supervision and control of the police into tbe hands of a special police com mittee. This looks 'like a hit at the major, and will tend to increase tbe bad feeling already existing between tbe may or and the board. The people would far prefer to have their mayor suspend policemen and fill temporary vacancies than for it to be in the hands of a few aldermen to manipulate for their favor ites and pets. Depot v Sheriff Rivers returned from Indianapolis yesterday without Darbam. the fellow who swindled tbe Rovall & Borden Furniture Company, of this city. with a bogus draft for ftlOO. The prose cuting attorney in Iadianapolis told Mr. Ktvers that be didnt have a sufficient case to convict him, but when Durham saw that an officer had come for him from North Carolina he pleaded guilty rather tban be brought to Raleigh for trial. The judge sentenced him to not less than' one or more than fourteen years' imprisonment, in the discretion of a board, and fined him $10. Representative Johnson, of Sampson county, is in the city. His friends could scarcely recognize him. He bad a gay red mustache last winter, and now be has dyed it coal black. His fastidious appearance gives him tbe air of an office seeker. Tne Governor is expected back Mon day. Governor and Mrs. Russell and their party wilbgo to Fort Monroe next Saturday to witness the; target practice. The Governor's Guards will be present on that occasion. Maj. E. M. Hayes will go Monday to get things in order for the party. The first mature boll of cotton was brought to Raleigh yesterday from Johnston county. It was raised on the farm of Mrs. Tomlinson, twenty miles Iron; Raleigh. Capt. C. B. Denson, of Raleigh, will teach at King's Mountain next session. Sieam Tag Altz.nder Jooea. - ; The tug Alexander Jones is attracting a great deal of attention just now, A telegram from Jacksonville, I Florida, dated August 5th, to the New York, states that the tug Alexander Jones left this port a few days ago under suspicion, and was searched before departure. The dispatch stated further that a filibustering expedition bad left one Of the Florida keys with a large amount of arms and ammunition and leyeral Cubans, all of which were transferred to tbe Jones from a schooner sailing from Knight's Key. ' This seems a very plausible story, but the facts do' not bear it out; at least that part of it connected with the' Jones. The Jones did. naft leave Wilmington until Wednesday at 6.30 p. m. and did not pass out from Southport until Thursday, the day the dispatch reports her as having been in the vicinity of Jack sonville. She was not searched here; in fact, the government officials had ho au thority to board her. She left here os tensibly to go to Brunswick. Ga., to en gage in the towing business. SeoatotJona W. Daniel. Uaited States Senator John W, Daniel, of Virginia, who, with his family, has been spending several days at South- port, came up to tbe city yesterday on the steamer Wilmington. He was the guest of Tbe Orten until 7.15 p. m., when he left for Roanoke, Virginia, to attend the State Democratic Convention, which meets there next Tuesday. Mrs. Daniel, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Har per and Messrs.1 loo. W. Daniel. Jr., and Ned Daniel will be at Southport for sev eral weeks. . : A Sad Death. Among the passengers on the Carolina Central train yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Dunlap, of Charlotte, who with their little eighteen month's old daughter were on their, way to the sea shore. The little one had been in bad health and was being taken to the sea side under the family physician's direc tions. Last night at nine o'clock it died. The parents hid fondly hoped that their child would find restoration; to health by breath mg the salt air from the ocean. It was pitifully sad that it should die so soon. Snort in HlalAooounu. In our Raleigh letter yesterday men tion was made of the tact that J. L. Milan, assistant ticket agent of the Sea board Air Line at Charlotte, had ab sconded. It now appears that a short age of about $1,200 has been 'found in his accounts. His bond, made by a Northern Trust Company, is for $9,000, which fully protects tbe railroad. Storm at Hatttraa. The Norfolk Dispatch of Friday- says "an unusually heavy storm swept the coast Thursday night from Cape Hat- teras to Cape Henry, but fortunately no disasters occurred. The government's wire went down, but it is known that a terrible sea was on last night, with the wind at fifty miles aa hour. At Cape Henry a velocity of thirty six miles an hour from the northeast was recorded blowing directly against incoming steam ships." Farmers along the line of the W. 4 W. railroad, above Rocky Point, were rejoicing yesterday at the copious rainfall that had broken the drought in that section -3 ' r Y0K0N GOLD REGION. REPORT OF 'A GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - EXPERT. - Plenty of Boom lor P op-.ct3r aad Mlotrs The Prise U t Xubcr-Htning Xitwt. By Telegraph to the Morning Stat, w Washington, August 7. The report on the Takon gold region by Jostah Ed ward Spurr the geological survey ex pert, who headed a. party that made a thorough investigation ia Alaska last Summer, giving new facts about the interior, was made public to day, ij is a comprehensive document and reviews in detail the work In the -various dis tricts. It says as to the forty-mile gold district, that in the. latter part of 1887 Franklin gulch was struck, and the first year the creek is estimated to have pro duced $1,000. Ever since it has been a constant payer. ! , The discovery of Davis creek and -a stampede from Franklin gu'ch followed in the, spring; of 1888. Ia 1891 gold mining in the interior, as well as on the coast at Silver Bow basin and Tread well, received a great impetus. The event of 1893 was the discovery of Mil ler creek. In tbe spring of 1893 many new claims were staked, and it la esti mated that eighty men took out $100. 000. Since then Miller creek has been the heaviest producer of the Forty mile district, and .until recently ot the whole .Yukon. Its entire length'' lies in British possessions.' -,"y' - Tbe output for 1893, as given by the mint director for the Alaskan creeks, all but Miller creek being in American possetsion, was $198 000. with a mining population of 193. The total amount produced by the Yukon placers in 1891 was double that of the previous fear. I o 1895 the output had doubled again. Following is the report on tbe Klon dike district. " - j "With the announcement of gold here in the interior in 1896-97 there was a genuine stampede to the new region. Forty-mile was almost deserted. But 850 men spent the Winter on Klondike, in the gulches, and at the new town of Dawson. The more important parts of the district are on Bonanza and Hanker creeks. According to latest information 400 claims had been located up to Jan uary 1st, 1897; about half as many on Hunker creek. "There is plenty of room for many more prospectors ana miners, lor tbe gulches and creeks which, have shown good prospects are spread over an area of 700 square miles.. The estimated Alaskan gold production for 1896, made by the Spurr report, is $1,400,000." The report points out the difficulties in the way of speedy development of the country. First, tbe climate, with short Summer season and long Winter. Pros-; pecting is done in the Winter and more and more every year, because the frozen ground ; readers travelling over the swamp, mossy country more easy, and the miners thus able to begin work with the first Spring thaw. "Whatever Alaska may be in the future, it is not self-supporting agriculturally. Moose, caribou and bear are variable in quan tity, abundant sometimes and disappear ing from the region for twelve months at a time. Ten dollars a day is the general wages paid; $12 for a day of ten hours being paid ia some of the more remote gulches. In Winter the price for labor is $6 to $8 per day of , six hours. ManV times the miners " have been at the point of starvation, and hardly a Winter when they have not been put on a ration basis. Universal suffrage is given and all have an equal vote Penalties include: f or stealing, banishment from the country and also whipping; threatening with weapons, tbe same; murders, hanging; but there have been no murders so far." The mining laws differ for different gulches. Generally, the claim is for 500 feet for I gulch diggings from rlmrock, but in some gulches not paying well an effort is being made to stake claims 1,820 feet long. Crowded creeks are staked, 800 feet to the claim, and no man is allowed to-stake more tban one claim in bis own name, save tbe discoverer, who is allowed 1.000 feet. The only officer in the republic of miners is the recorder, appdiuted by popular vote, one in each gulch or creek: .: POSTMASTERS Of tbe Fonrtb Claaa Appointed in Noitb . a -i Carolina. By TelegTaph to the Morning Star. Washington, August 7 The fol lowing fourth class postmasteis were ap pointed today:. North " Carolina Abshers, ' W.' D. Woodruff; Alfordsville, A. L. Bullock; Arden. C F. Summer; Bismark, L E. Barber;" B owing Rock, W. P. Laws; Blaine. J. F. Russell, Cagles Mill, W. L. Cornelison; California Creek, A. F. Sprindle; Cleveland. T L Barringer; Danville, A A Foust; Fall Creek, E C. Phillips; Fork Church, A. M. Foster; Gladstone, A K. Miller; Harper's Cress Roads. Samuel Cox: Hairsville, M. A. Ewinei L'sk. L A. McAllister; Lock- ville. J. A Parham; Merry GiksN G. Gunter; O.d Dock, M. C. Marlow; Ore Hill, E.i C. Cheek; Pedlars Hill. G. A. Smith; Peru. Alma Tendiand: Rosedale, J. F. Jones: Sipona, McW. Barber; Tur nersburg. J. E. Hendren; Wadeville, N. H. Hurley; Yokley, W. R. Padgett. THE AJLANTA STRIKE. SatiiUotorlly Adjusted and OperatlTsa Will Betora to Work Monday. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Atlanta, August 7. The strike which has been on for the past few days between the operatives of: the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills was satisfactorily adjusted to-day, and it is announced that the operatives will return to work Mon day morning. Fourteen hundred em ployes went out oa the strike which It was thought was settled yesterday, but last night the trouble was renewed. Pre sident Etsas agreed to restore the status as it existed at the time of tbe strike, discharging the negro women, but tbe strikers afterwards insisted that all ne gro bands in the factory, even those for merly employed, be discharged. This President Elsas refused to do. A basis of settlement was reached to day by which the strikers agree to return to work provided the status es it existed before Thursday ras restored, and this President Eisas agreed to do. President Elsas said to-day that in .en gaging the negro women not a single white employe had been discharged, and the only reason r for engaging the negro help was the Inability of tne company to secure as many white operatives as were needed. '; A general advance of seventeen per, cent., benefitting every orancn o tbe trade, will bs asked b the window gkss workers ofgan xition at the annual con ferencewitb tbe manufacture's at Chi- cago next Wednesday. A 15 per' cent, advance meats a restoration of 1892 wages, the hights: paid ncder any cf the Uriff bills. : 1 1 rauivii . - i POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAt BAKING POWDER 00., NEW VOMC at the seal fisheries dispute. Betarn ot Gen. Pjttir and Mr. Hamlin -Will Report to Pfeeldent MoKlnley Bho tly.. . : By Telegraph to tbe Heroine Star: ' .Washington. August 7. Gen. John . W. Foster, who has just returned from Europe called at ihs State Department to-day with bis associate in the seal fish- , eries negotiations, Mr. Hamlin, and saw j Secretary Sherman. He made no writ ten report bu: In conversation gave the Secretary oi Stale a comprehensive idea ot the result of his missioa. Later in the day Gsa. Foster celled upon Secre tary Gage at tbe Treasury Department andbad quite a comultatton with him, much of which was prooibl? devoted to a discussion of the financial question from an Ejropean standpoint. Gen. Poster and Mr. Hamlin .will leave In a day or two for Like Champlain, where tney will report to the President, at tbe suggestion of Secretary Sherman. Both declined positively to make any public statemearof the result of the work tbey have in hind, and particularly to give any iniormatloa as the conditions under which the. conference to regulate the seal question will assemble in this city in October. ' TEXAS LYNCHING. r A Negro Haagsd br a Hob for Criminal . Aecault. ." I By Telegraph to the Morning Stat. Houston, Tkx August 7. A double lynching is very likely at Nacogdoches . to-night. IThe people are guarding the jail to prevent the sheriff spiriting away Esteck White, a negro, and - another party is seeking tbe place where the sheriff J has hiddea Armas Phillips. ; me two attempted a criminal as sault upon two young ladies laat Wednesday night and White j boasted that he ' bad a lock of hair from the head of one of them, which led to his capture. A mob of five hundred men broke into the jail at 10 o'clock,4 seized White and banged hitm He admitted he was implicated in the crime,) but laid . tbe blame on others. Phillips will be lynched as soon as his hiding place is discovered. ' AN 'ORIGINAL PACKAGE" As Ot fined br Jadge Simonton of the XJ.B, , cjirjeit Court. vl j , ' ' ' By Telegraph to the Morning Star. ' Charleston, August 7. Ia the U.S. Circait Court, Judge Simonton filed a decision in tbe case ot Guckenheimer & Sons vs. W. W. Sellers et al., brought to settle the question 'of what constitutes an original package." Judge Simonton decided that if 'a bottle is given to a carrier outside the ' Stare fer shipment Into tbe State, that is an original pack age. If several bottles are tied together . or placed in a barrel or crate or box, then the box, barrel or crate is the origi nal package and must not be broken for delivery or ssle. In the words of the document, "an original package is the package delivered to the carrier by the importer at tbe initial place of ship ment. ' OHIO DEMOCRAT. County Convention in Cleveland Silver. Element in Contr jl-Chioago Platform Ec- F doraed. - By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . Cleveland, August. 7. The Demo- cratic county convention was the most" harmonious in years. The silver ele ment was completely In control of the convention. A county and legislative -ticket was nominated and the legislative candidates were pledged to vote against Jno. R. McLean for United States Sen ator if elected. The entire Chicago I platform was endorsed. Special reference being made to tbe plank against gov- ernment by injunction. ! . FOUR-ROUND CONTEST Between Horace Leeds ni Young Oriflfj it Atlantlo City, By Telegraph to tbe Morning Sjtar. Atlantic City. N. J., August 7. Horace Leeds, of this city,, and young Gnffo, the Australian, met! to-night in a four-round contest, ' which proved a most exciting one. Leeds, to ' , tbe surprise of the 1,500 spectators, put up tbe best fight of bis life. : He kept the! Australian going all, through the bout and had a snade tbe best of the ! argument. Gnffo was , not in good condition, however, which is partly ac- ' countable for his showing. ' WARM WlHELETb ' .The National Democratic association of colored men is called to meet in con vention at Columbus, Onio, on Septem ber 23rd. In Coffee county, Ala., Allen Light- foot was shot and killed and bis son, Joe, badlv wounded by an armed posse 4 of officers. The j Lightfoots were both fugitives from justice. !. The pension roll of the Ualted States has almost reached the 'million mark. .Commissioner Evans has just Issued a statement showing that at the beginning . oi this fiscal year the pension' list num- bered just 983.528. i ' President Young, of the National Base ball League, who has been employed in the U. S. Treasury Department ior " thirty-one years, tendered his resigna tion and at bis personal request it was accepted at once by Secretary Gage. 1 The weekly bank statement shows the fo; lowing, changes: Reserve, decreased $4,718,025; loans, incressid $6666 200; specie increased $632,400; legal tenders, decreased 4 553.900; deposits, increased ' $3,187,300; circulation, decreased $46,400. Tbe banks now hold $41 002,125 ia ex cess of the nquiremems of the 25 per ' cent. rule. . C0MSU1U1PTI0M To the Editor I have an absolute Cure for ' CONSUMPTION and all Bronchial, Throat and Lung- Trouble, and all condition of Wasting Avar. Br ita titnelv use thousand of apparent ly hopeleaa cases have been termantnily cured. oo prooi-posiiiTe am a ui iia will Rend FREB to anyone a: wer to cure. I icted, THREE BOTTLES of my Newly Discovered ty Newly Discovered Kemedies, upon receipt of ttxpresa ana r-ostotnee aaaresa. Always aincerely youra, SLOCUM,M.C, 183 Pearl St., t wriUnctlie Dootor, pieaae nuatio T.?A. New York. : When wriUnc tbe mention thte papeft . an Wly 4 P fl; i1 .1 tii- U !l-