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VI
HOW THE INDUSTEY GROWS.
While the New England manufac
turers are complaining of depression
amounting to practical stagnation of
the industry in their section it has
been not only steadily but rapidly
growing in the South; how stfeadily
and how rapidly is shown by the fol
lowing, which we clip from an arti
cle in the Atlanta Constitution:
During the year which has mst
osed, not less than 86 cotton and
vrollen mills have sprung into exist
tence, scattered mainly over the States
of North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama an Texas. Up to October 1,
1S97 there were 375 cotton and woolen
mills in the various States of this sec
tion, representing 3,197,545 spindles,
and 1,024,488 bales of cotton consumed
during the year preceding. As divi
ded among the different States, the
record for the year ended October
t, 1897, is as follows:
Mills. Spindles. Bales.
Virginia 11 133,497 36,767
North Carolina. .147 852,221 267,615
South Carolina. 64 984,740 320,038
Georgia 67 677,825 225,506
Alabama 32 212,088 72,069
Mississippi 8 70,882 18,957
Louisiana 3 58,952 15,335
Texas..., 4 29,160 12,090
Arkansas .... 5 . . 1 3,000' 677
Tennessee.., ... . 26 , 95,836 29,915
Kentucky 9 57,592 22,362
Totals 375 3,197,545 1,024,482
Brought down to the present time,
there are now some 418 cotton and
woolen mills in active operation in the
South, as 33 mills have been erected
since October 1, 1897. The exact num
ber of spindles which these new mills
represent cannot be given.
'So much for the growth of the cot
ton industry in this section during the
past year. As compared with the steady
decline which has characterized the
cotton industry in the New England
States, it is all the more gratifying and
significant. W ith respect to the gradual
increase which the cotton industry in
the South has gained during the past
uecaue, it is interesting to note tiat in
icwz mere were Dareiy more tnan l,-
87a,000 spindles represented livfcrteren
tire industry. Since that time its
growth has been as follows : 1893, 2,
166,023 spindles: 1894, 2,291,064 spin
dlea; 18,95, 2,433,2S4 spindles; 1896,
3,011,136 spindles, and 1897, 3.197,54o
spindles. In this same ratio .of in
crease has been the amount of cotton
consumed. In 1894 only 723,359 bales
were taken by the Souther mills: in
1895, 852,252 bales; in 1896, 915,810
bales, and in 1807, 1,024,482 bales
There is no bopm or spurt in these
figures, but a steady, continuous
growth running back for two dec
ades and increasing each -succeeding
vear, proof positive that the indus
try is on solid ground and that there
is nothing inflated
in
it. With
twice as many spindles in
operation
now as there were
ten years ago our
mills are prospering:,
while the New
hngland mills, with their largy capi
tal, with all their experience, and
with their long established markets,
are complaining of small dividends
and some of no dividends at all. If
this means anything (and it does
mean something) it means that the
mills in the South can run and make
monev when the Northern mills
tould not run at all.
Another thing may be noted in
this connection to show that there
is still room in the South for ntore
mills and that the field has not been
fully occupied by any means. This
is that Southern mills in the main
are not yet venturing beyond plain
floods for which they havotound
market enough to keejK'them busy
and some of themunning double
time-night and day while the New
England mills are suffering from an
overstocked market. As a matter
of fact the New England mills have
ceased making some of the lines of
' goods made in the South because
they could not compete, with
Southern mills in these "lines
and have been - making only
such goods as are not made in the
South to any considerable, extent.
This shows that there is yet for the
Southern mills a good many lines of
goods upon which they have not en
tered, upon which they can enter if
they find there is any danger of over
stocking the markets with the lines
they are now making, which may
happen later on with the continued
increase in the number of mills and
spindles.
In that case they will sipply have
tojp up a step higher, add finer
grades to the lines of goods now
made and give the New England
mills some more competition in the
lines in which they do not yet feel it.
Thus the number of mills may con
tinue to increase in the South with
t "ut any fear of their becoming
dangerous competitors of each
other, for all they will hive, to do
is to widen the scope of the grades
of goods they make and thus avoid
tramping upon each other's toes, so
to speak, although thev mav b
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tramping pretty heavily on the toes
of their New England competitors,
from whom they have already forced
the cry of distress.
There is up to the present time
about $80,0000,000 invested in
Southern mills, over eighty percent.
of which is the money of Southern
men, but unless the signs of the
times are at fault, while much
Southern capital will continue o be
invested in cotton mills, a- much
larger amount of Northern capital
will be. There is in the monev cen-
t M v
ters of the North a great deal of
money which cannot find profitable
investment in that section even with
the inducement of very low rates
of interest, and if this condition con
tinues for anyletrgth of time much of
this money will find its way South
ward to be invested in cotton mills
and other industries and enterprises,
New England men with experience
in making fine grades of goods,
will when they find the profits too
small seek a field where they will be
greater, and will either move their
plants to the South or put up plants
in the South, and thus escape the
competition which they now com
plain of as threatening them with
ruin..
But even without this there are
other agencies which are beginning
to figure as factors which will favor
the growth and expansion of the in
dustry in this section and still fur
ther reduce the cost of production.
to which the New England mills at
tribute the rapid growth of the in
dustry in the South and declare one
of the reasons of their inability to suc
cessfully compete with Southern
mills. This is the utilizing of streams
to run mills at a distance by elec
tric power, which will not only
make it practicable to erect mills in
localities where they could not
otherwise be well located and at the
same time furnish a reliable motive
power at less cost than wood, or
coal, as cheap as these are.
The Yadkin river is now being
harnessed to furnish motive power
for factories in Winston and Salem,
fourteen miles distant, and another
company is being engaged to har
ness it at another point to furnish
motive power to run mills at some
point in Stanly county. And thus
ttiany of the streams in this State
and other States will be utilized
in
the building and operating of mills
not only on their banks but at a dis
tance from them. And so the work
will -go on and the industry in the
South continue td grow. ? -
MINOR MENTION.
Mr. John W. Fries, of
who appeared before the
Salem,
House
Banking and .Currency Committee
Friday, as one of the Southern rep
resentatives of "sound money," is a
successful business man, but we do
not know, that he has achieved any
distinction as an authority on fi
nances. In his representative
capacity he speaks for a very small
fraction of the people of North Car
olina. He speaks truthfully, how
ever, when he said that "the people
of North Carolina were clamoring
for money, and that he did not think
this meant cheaper money but bet
ter facilities for the trans
action of business, which could only
bo accomplished by the establish
ment of such a banking system as
will make it possible for the people
to get these facilities." What
Mr. , Fries means by "cheaper
money we do not know, but
generally f hen these sound money:
or gold men (for these are con
vertible term flow) speak of "cheap
or cheaper money they mean depre
ciated money or, as they frequently
-call it, "fiat" money. That kind of
money the people of North Carolina
do not want, but they do want
cheaper money, money at as reason
able rates of interest as it can be
procured in those sections of the
North which are well supplied with
it. If we understand Mr. Fries' po
sition, he favors the scheme pro
posed by the Indianapolis Currency
Commission, but under that scheme
the people of North Carolina will
never get the banking system Mr,
Fries says it is necessary for them to
have and which everyone who is
familiar with the! conditions in thjs
State knows it is necessary for them
to have.
The Croatans in Robeson
county
are moving to get msiae oi me
Democratic lines and hereafter vote
the Democratic ticket. They have
moving to get msiae
. 1 1
been sufficiently amused with the
outcome of the present administra
tion. The reports of men who
travel through the State and our
State exchanges agree that there is
u
a great change in public sentiment,
and that in all sections of the State,
but particularly in the Eastern por
tion, there are 'many voters who,
disgusted with the present condi
tion of affairs resulting from the
mongrel party rule, are going to
affiliate with the Democratic party
in the future. Some of these were
formerly Democrats, who joined the
Pdpulist party under the impreiwrion
that this would better their condi
tion and give the people a larger
measure of prosperity, but instead
oi mis tney saw the so-called " re
form" movement degenerate into a
disgusting scramble for spoils when
the "reformers" got into power and
a base truckling to the negro wing of
the party by putting white men put
of positions and putting negroes in
their places. These have not been
so many of these, it is true, but there
have been enough to show" the cow-,
ardice and the dickering" spirit of
the leaders, and to disgust the more
respectable element of the rank and
file, who did not go into the combi
nation for spoils. As the indica
tions present themselves now, there
is nothing to prevent the overthrow
of this discredited combination at
the next election but the grossest
stupidity on our side or omnipotent
deviltry on the other.
Elsewhere we have spoken of the
competition between Northern and
Southern jfcotton mills, and of the
probability of this competition ex
tending to the finder grades not now
made to any great extent in the
South. That this is not a mere
speculation is shown by the fact
that some of the New England mill
men assert that this condition is pre
senting itself now. At a meeting
of mill operators in Lowell a few
days ago, a reply was issued to the
operatites who protested against a
reduction of wages, which closed
thus :
'That there are in the South many
small mills filled with old machinery
running on low grade goods is true
enough, but also immaterial. The fact
remains absolutely indisputable that
the Southern mill of . which we have
most cause to fear as a competiter is
built on the very best plans that the
most skillful engineers of JNew Eng
land can draw and the best contractors
in the country can erect, is filled with
the best machinery that America or
England can produce ; is officered by
able men and is turning out first-class
goods, as coarse or as fine as any made
in any quantity in Lowell with a liv
ing profit at prices which would net a
loss to any mill in this in this" part of
the country."
It isn't the old mill Jthey fear, but
the.modernly equipped mills which
are the equals, and some of them
the superiors of any mills in the
East.
The Chicago Chronicle remarks
"that from all parts of the country,
especially from the East, come re
ports of a great increase in the num
ber of tramps. New England, is
fairly overrun with them and- in
Pennsylvania and New Jersey their
name is legion." Another evidence
of "McKinley prosperity," which
the Chronicle, although calling itself
a Democrat, helped to boost, by
kicking against Bryan.
Indiana is coming to the front.
In addition to the genius who claims
to have invented a perpetual
motion machine, and another who
claims to have invented a perpetual
light, she has a young man of 18
years who has been married three
times and divorced twice. With
such a start this young man may
yet achieve distinction.
A Seattle, Washington, man, who
lias just returned from Klondike, re
ports the discovery of the mother
lode from which it is sujjposed all
that loose gold thatis scattered
about up there comes. It was dis
covered at fouirpoints some distance
from eacJr other, about thirty feet
belojwfhe surface, up in the high
ground.
An Indiana man comes to the
front with a daisy invention of a
light (hermetically enclosed in a
glass globe) which he says will burn
forever and not cost a red cent after
it is started.. This is a sort of a
solar plexus tap at Nikola Tesla,
who has been working on the vacuum
tube for several years.
The New York Commercial Ad
vertiser, Rep., speaking of the elec
tion of Hanna, remarks that a ma
jority of one was a close call but
practically as good as a majority of
ten and "much cheaper." If the re
ports as to what the one cost are true,
ten would have made a big rent in
Hanna's pile.
One of the New York legislators
who isn't afraid of the traditional 13
wants to make juries in criminal
cases consist of 13 members, one to
be held in reserve in case anything
happen to any one of the other
twelve to incapacitate him.
Edison has made another discov
ery which, if it pans out as he an
ticipates, promises much. He has
discovered a iiew mineral which
mixed with iron makes t much
tougher, and makes cast iron as
though and strong as wrought iron.
The Germans seem to have the
clinch on the breweries. Of the
51,000 estimated to be in the world
26,000 are in Germany, and Ger
mans own a good many of
that are not.
those
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Fort Smith, Ark., may hot be an
up to date town in every-, respect,
but when it comes to stalwartf im
promptu cyclones, it is no slouch.
SMALLPOX SITUATION
Another Suspected Case Devel
oped and Reported to Super
intendent of Health.
NO CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Rumors of Other Cases Unfounded Car.
penters at Work on the New Pest
House-Doctors Besieged by Per
sons Wanting Vaccination.
James Hodge, a colored laborer, was
quarantined, yesterday morning at his
home in Latimer's alley, between
Orange and Ann from Second to
4
Third, - as probably having a case of
smallpox. He came to the Health
Office with two companions and the
party were marched to Hodge's house
in charge of Dr. McMillan and Police
man W. D. George. One of the col
ored men, expecting that the house
would be quarantined, managed to
get away. The officers on duty in the
neighborhood were notified to keep a
look-out for him, but -he came back
of his own accord in a short while.
It will be sometime to-day, perhaps
to-morrow, before it Can be finally de
cided that Hodge has the smallpox.
That is the information gained from
the Health Office. The rumors preva
lent yesterday, that there were three
or four new Cases were started from
the fact that there are several persons
quarantined in the same house with
Hodge.
Steve Johnson, the first man to take
the disease, is progressing finely un
der the treatment of Dr. W. D. McMil
lan, Superintendent of Health.
Mr. Geo. Harriss, President of the
Seamen's Friend Society, instructed
Dr. S. P. Wright yesterday that the
old pest house at Mt. Tirzah, which is
the property of the Society, would be
at the service of the city, free of charge,
provided it should be burned after
ward. There has not been a case of small
pox in the pest house since eight or ten
years ago, when Mate Lewis of the
schooner Alice Hearne was taken
there and died. Ten carpenters were
put to work on it yesterday, under
Alderman Benson and will have it in
readiness bv to-morrow.
Yesterday was the busiest day that
the physicians of Wilmington have
experienced in many a day. They
were completely besieged with persons
who wanted to be vaccinated, and it
would not be an exaggeration to say
that the twenty-three doctors here
"scratched" a thousand arms yester
day. Next week the pupils in the pub
lic schools will be vaccinated. The ex
act plan that will be pursued has not
yet been decided upon, and will not be
until Superintendent Noble returns
from Chapel Hill.
THE CAPE FEAR AND
YADKIN YALLEY R. R.
If Judee Simon ton Is Sustained Case
Will Probably Be Appealed to
U. S. Supreme Court.
There are many rumors and many
opinions afloat in regard to the future
of the Cape Fear and Yadkinv'alley
Railwav. It has been known for some
time that a "deal" had been made that
gave the Seaboard Air Line control of
the propertysuBject, however, to the
sale ofthe road, which it has been
supposed would take place at an early
day.
Judge Simonton, of the United
States Circuit Court, it will be re
called, decided that the road must be
sold as a whole, and not by divisions,
and from this decision the "New York
committee," as it is known, took an
appeal to the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals, where the case is
now under advisement, with a prob
ability that the opinion will not be
filed until February. ,
The impression seems quite general
that if Judge Simonton is sustained by
the Circuit Court of Appeals there will
be no further delay except that neces
saryf or carrying out the decree of the
court for the public sale of the proper
ty, and that the Seaboard Air Lane will
have possession of the property in
sixty days or less. But here is where
the element of doubt comes in : Even
if the Circuit Court of Appeals affirm.
the decision of Judge Simonton, which
is likely, there is still , opportunity, for
another appeal this time to the Su
preme Court of the United States. On
this point the Star has unquestioned
authority for the statement that one of
the leading counsel for the "New York
committee" has recently said that if
Judge Simonton's order to sell the
road as an entirety is sustained, the
New York people will take the case to
the United States Supreme Court on
appeal. Another prominent attorney,
Of this State, has, within a few days,
in conversation with the writer, ex
pressed a similar opinion. So, it is
manifest that much depends on this
Question of final appeal. If the case
goes to the Supreme Court it will in
volve serious delay in effecting the
sale of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Val
ley road, and on this depends the early
success of anv plan looking to reor
ganization.
"The Record" Salutes It. j w
The followine is from the Philadel
phia Record, one of the leading met
ropolitan dailies of the United States :
"The "Wilmington (N. C.) Mornino
Star has beamed upon its particular
constituency for thirty years under the
control of its present'owner and editor,
Mr. William H. Bernard. It begins
the new year with new mechanical
equipment. The Record salutes it,
and wishes it a full measure of prosperity."
GRAND LODGE OF MASONS.
Proceedings in Regard to the Orphan
Asylum.
The following from the proceedings
of the Grand Lodge of Masons, at Ox
ford, is interesting :
The first business which occupied
the attention of the Grand Lodere at
the afternoon session was a nroDosition
from B. N. Duke. Esq.. offerim? to do
nate $7,500 to the Orphan-Asylum, pro-:
v "jcu me uraiiu .uouffe will raise a
ike sum during 1898. This proposi
tion iproa accepted in the f ollowing res
olution': "That the nronosition of Mr: R N
Duke be accepted and that the Grand
Lodge of North Carolina extend to Mr.
Duke its heartfelt appreciation of this
munificent manifestation of his gener
osity and philanthropy.
This sum is to be used in erecting an
additional building for, girls and mak
ing meeaea improvements.
The Grand Lodge raised $1,600.
The Ornhan Asvlum Committee re
commended the employment of a
larger number of boys in the wood
working shops: that the herd of cattle
be enlarged; that $3,500 be appropri
ated by the Grand Lodge for the sup
port of the asylum; that the machine
shops be removed to the asylum
grounds at a cost of $2,500. The com
mittee compliments the successful
work in every department of the asy
lum work.
SOUTHPORT NAVAL RESERVES.
Much Interest In the Organization!
Uniform to Be Ordered.
The StAE is glad to hear many fav
orable reports concerning the South
port Naval Reserves, who may be call
ed on soon t6 active duty. The Stan
dard of yesterday says:
The Southoort Division of Naval
Reserves held a business meeting last
mgnt wmcn was wen attended Dy tne
boys. Measurements were taken for
the uniforms which are to be ordered
soon. Committee on Constitution and
By-laws, and entertainments were ap
pointed, and will report this ..evening.
Much interest is being taken in the en
terprise by the boys and they desire
the co-operation of the town people to
make the organization a perfect suc
cess, and one that thev and the service
'will be proud of.
SUNNY SOUTH COLONY. !
New Recruits from the West for the Set
tlement at Chadbourn.
Mr. Jas. W. Wilson, business man
ager of the Farm, Field and Fireside,
Chicago, and promoter of the Sunny
South Colony at Chadbourn was here
yesterday with a number of new re
cruits for the colony. He was accom
panied by Mr. D. H. Harnley, editor
of the Planters' and Truckers' Jour
nal, who has been to his former home
in Illinois to spend Christmas. The
party were stopping at the Bonitz
House, and left on the 4 o'clock train
for Chadbourn. The prospectors will
be back here in a week or so, most of
them on their way home to get their
effects and come South to live.
The colony is growing rapidly. The
inducements that are offered are such
that the "Western farmers cannot
sist them. The climate is gootLso is
the soil, and the price of land is very
considerably lower thanitfihe thickly
settled portions of tae country
which the colonists came.
from
Senator Pritchard Mentioned in Some
Quarters as His Probable Successor.
Washington Post.
Winston, N. C, January 14. Au
thentic information was received here
to-day that Judge Robert Dick, of
the United States Federal Court, will
soon retire from the bench onaccount
of ill health. Several , Winston law
yers received letters to-day from Judge
Robert M. Douglass, Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court and son-in-law
of Judge Dick, asking them to write
letters of indorsement to President
McKinley as to his character and
fitness for the position. Judge Douglass
says his name has already been sug
gested to the President as Judge Deck's
successor. Jie also states tnat ms
father-in-law's health will necessitate
his early retirement.
Some of the leading Republicans
here express the opinion that either
Senator Pritchard or Col. James Boyd
will succeed Judge Dick. $-
A Half Million Life Policy.
Mr. J. R. Johnston, of Raleigh,
State manager for the. Sun Life Assur
ance Co., was in the city yesterday,
conferring, with Mr. T. H, Pegram,
manager of the Wilmington district.
Mr. Johnston tells a representative of
the Star that a policy is in process of
issuance to Mr. J. C. Mallonee, of
Charlotte, for a half million dollars.
The annual premium will be $35,000,
and is to be paid by a certain trust
company of New York city. The ob
ject of the policy is to ultimately liqui
date certain obligations of Mr. Mal
lonee incurred in the construction of
certain railroad lines several years
since. The applicant has gone to the
head office of the Sun Company for a
final examination. .
Wants to Buy a Farm.
The Morning Star is in receipt of a
letter from Mr. Adolf H. 'Matsan. of
329 Daly street, Philadelphia, in
which he makes inquiry as to what
section of the State it would be best
for a man of small capital to buy a
good farm. He wants "good land
cheap," a" healthy location, supplied
with good water and reasonably close
to a railroad: As a matter of fact, the
soil about Wilmington is most admi
rably adapted for truck fanning, fruit
cultivation etc., and The Star trusts
that some of our readers will give Mr.
Matsan an opportunity to locate in
this section. ,
Richmond Dispatch: "The
Wilmington (N. C.) Star celebrated
New Year's Day by appearing in new
type. It has always been a neat and
newsy paper. Its editor and proprie
torWilliam H. Bernard is a Rich
mond 'boy.'"
I HflfOE DICKtTrETIRE.
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LAST OF THE NIXON
STREET PEST HOUSES.
Went, Up in Smoke Yesterday Evening.
It Was the Work of Incendiaries
The Insurance.
The remaining cottage of the two
at the corner of Ninth and Nixon
streets, intended to have been used as
a. smallpox pest house, was burned by
incendiaries yesterday evening
The alarm was sent in from box 17,
at 6:45 o'clock, and by 7:15 all that
remained of the little tenement was a
mass of smoking debris, with here and
there a charred post and other upright
timbers. standing like sentinels
about the chimney, as though
they, in their turn, feared lest an at
tempt might still be made to use that
for smallpox patients.
The fire attracted a great crowd of
people, ana tne nre companies re
sponded promptly to the alarm. The
colored people of that vicinity were
evidently much rejoiced, and expres
sions of approval could be heard on
every hand. As the hremen came
upon the scene, a number of pistols
were fired as a sort of greeting. Of
course, they were discharged over
head .and no damage was done, or in
tended, to by-standers.
The fire was evidently well ad
vanced before the alarm was given,
as the cottage was literally wrapped
in flames when the fire boys reached
the scene.
This house was also owned by
Messrs. Jas. H. Chadbourn & Co. It
was insured for $100, in the German
American Company. There were only
two rooms, with very low ceilings,
and crudely put together. In fact,
the house was not fit to have been
used as a pest-house and no such in
tention was entertained by the city au
thorities after the burning of the main
cottaee early Friday morning. Now
that it is destroyed, however, the col
ored people of that neighborhood feel
thoroughly confident that they are not
to be troubled with smallpox patients
provided there should he any more
smallpox.
During and after the fire last night
a number of negroes were heard to
declare that another old abandoned
house, standing across the street from
the pest house site, should "go the
way of the pest houses" before morn
ing:, but the old house still stands. It
is a worthless shell, and has long been
in disuse.
SPECIAL COURT ADJOURNED.
January Term of the Superior Court to
Convene the 24th-Cases Tried
Yesterday.
Judge Suttou "adjourned the special
term of the New Hanover Criminal
Courtat 1 o'clock yesterday. As pre-
eted by the Star, only about twelve
cases, all ot minor importance, were
continued to the next regular term.
In the case of Agnes Hunt, ar
raigned for assault and battery with
deadly weapon, the trial of whom was
pending Friday evening, judgment
was suspended on payment of costs.
In an appeal from the magistrate's
court in the case of Kate Bradley, for
assault, the iudement of the lower
court was sustained.
The last case tried was Patrick Chest
nut, charged with an assault and
battery with deadly weapon. A ver
dict of not guilty was returned by the
jury-
As announced in yesterday's Star,
Judge Sutton leaves Wilmingtou to-
dav for Warrenton, where he holds a
court next week.
The regular January term of the
New Hanover Superior Court will be
convened Monday, the 24th inst,
and Hon. S. B. Adams of the Fifth dis
trict will be the presiding Judge.
FAMILY MARKET BASKET.
Saturday Prices of Meats, Fish, Poultry,
Vegetables, Etc.
Oh the city markets yesterday there
was a fair supply of poultry, fish, eggs,
meats and vegetables at the following
prices. Eggs, 12i to 15c per dozen. Let
tuce, 2i to 5c per hfead ; sweet potatoes,
15o per peck; Irish potatoes, doc per
peck; cabbage, 5 to 10c each; collards,
2 i to 5c per head ; celery, 25c per bunch ;
field peas, 5 to 8c per quart ; onions, 5c
per bunch ; spinach, 20c per peck ; tur
nips, 5c per bunch. Dressed turkeys,
16fc per pound ; dressed chickens, 60 to
75c per pair; live chickens, 40 to 60c
per pair; partridges, 12c each. Steak,
10 to 12ic ; chuck and stew beef, 5 to
7c ; 'possums, 30c each ; fresh pork, 10c ;
sausage, 10c; veal, mutton and lamb,
10 to 12. New River oysters, 90c per
gallon ; Stump Sound, 60c ; clams, 50c
Trout. 10c per bunch; mullets, 10c:
Hickory shad, 20c.
Parents' Consent Necessary Any Way.
A young man applied to Register of
Deeds C. W. Norwood Friday for li
cense to wed, giving the age of the
lady of his choice as being 17 years,
He was told that the written consent
of the parents would have to be pro
duced before the license could be is
sued. "Why," the prospective groom
replied, "she's a widow." All the
same, the parents' consent had to be
secured.
Does Smallpox Improve Morals ?
There has not been a single case
called for trial in the Mayor's . court
since last Tuesday. In fact, there has
not been a single arrest during that
time. Some members of the police
force ascribe the cause to the smallpox
scare. They say that the criminal
classes are not mingling in their want
ed haunts as they did before the ap
pearance of the disease here.
THE SITUATION IS
BECOMING VERY CLOUDY.
The Appointment of Mr. Chadbourn Seems
to Be Hung Up By a Railroad
Deal Very Foggy.
It does not by any means appear that
Col. Wilhelm Hernandez has gone to
that Chad; "bourne from which no
traveller returns," postmasteriously
speaking; but there's trouble in Camp
Harmony beyond a doubt. Some of the
Colonel's friends are prepared to admit
that it is a railroad deal that now be
fogs the situation, and the Star has it
from three or four sources that the At
lantic and North Carolina Railroad is
involved in the fight. Of course, there
are other influences at work, and
chiefly among these is the scramble for
office.
The gossip is that efforts are being
made to lease the Atlantic and North
Carolina to the Southern Railway.
Yet it seems almost incredible that the
Southern would pay any interest at all
on the bonded debt of that road. It
would be of no special value to the
Southern to have a terminus at New
born, particularly as that system has
an outlet at Norfolk. '.
At all events, the appointment of a
postmaster is temporarily, at least,
held up ; and if Col. Wilhelm Her
nandez Chadbourn does not cut the
gordian knot in person or by proxy,
very soon, the Stab will feel con
strained to designate him as Col. Wo-
ful Hypochondriac Chadbourn.
THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
A Canvass of the House Shows a Major
ity of Republicans Favorable
to a Change.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Washington, January 15., The
canvass ot Kepubiican members ot
the House of Representatives on the
question of changing the Civil Ser
vice law, which has been conducted
by the Republican "steering com
mittee, is about completed.. Of the
202 Republican members of tne House
the canvass is said to &show that a
majority, varying from 1& to 40, is
favorable to a change in the law, ac
cording to the degree of change pro
posed. This last factor leads to some
difference of opinion as to the result
of the canvass. Representative Pear
son, of North Carolina, a mem
ber of the committee, places the
aimber of Republicans who can be
depended on at 115. Mr. Hvans, of
Kentucky, another member ot tne
committee, places the number at 135.
Uoth estimates are based on the can-
Aass, the difference bemg due to the
attitude of certain doubtful members.
As a whole, the result gives satisfac
tion to those who have made the can- '
vass. They say that in a number of
cases entire State delegations are
shown by the canvass to favor a
change in the law. This is the case in
the State delegations of North Caro
lina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Vir
ginia and New Hampshire.
.Beyond completing tne canvass, tne
opposition to the Civil Service law is
taking no active steps for the present,
the purpose being to wait until the
regular civil service committee of the
House takes action on the bill before
it proposes a modification of the law.
EIGHT MEN WERE KILLED.
Desperate Fighting Among Negro Gamblers
in Leslie County, Kentucky.
By Telegraph to the Horning Star.
Middleboro, Ky., January 15. A
special dispatch from Hyden says that
the fight on Sandy Fork, Leslie coun
ty, continued all day yesterday.
Eight men were reported killed and
four wounded ; all colored.
The extraordinary blood-letting on
Sandy Fork began on Wednesday
when a party of negroes who were
playing cards at what is called a blind
tiger, got into a dispute concerning
the way the game was progressing.
Drunkenness added to the Drutality of
the fight that followed. Four men
were killed then there, ou bsequently
the fight was renewed by friends on
both sides, until the mortality list is
equal almost to the casualties in a mil
itary engagement. The feeling aroused
gives rise to apprehension of more
crime.
SUICIDE IN. CHICAGO.
It
Was Witnessed by Scores of
People
in the Masonic Temple.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Chicago, January 15. Alfred C
Greenlealf . a bookkeeper, committed
suicide to-day by jumping from the six
teenth floor of the Masonic Temple.
Greenleaf had been out of employ
ment for some time and. becoming
despondent decided to make away with
himself. His first attempt was made
in the Chamber of Commerce build
ing, where he was caught in the
act of jumping over the railing from
the twelfth floor to the rotunda and
ejected from the building. He then
went to the Masonic Temple, ascended
to the sixteenth floor, climbed upon
the railing and jumped off into the
rotunda. His body struck a marble
landing on the third floor, shattered a
slab two inches thick and landed on
the balcony of the second floor. The
body was reduced to a mere pulp.
Greenleaf 's suicide was witnessed by
scores of people in the rotunda.
LYNCHINoTlN KENTUCKY.
A Negro Ravisher Surrounded by a Mob
in Ballard County.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Cincinnati, Jan. 5. A special to
the Commercial Tribune from Padu
cah, Ky., says :
News by telephone from Hinkley
ville, Ballard county, up to midnight,
is that Bob Blanks, the Mayfield ne
gro assailant of Delia Bartly, aged
eleven years, has been surrounded by
a mob and it is believed will be cap
tured and lynched there, TTi victim
is still in a precarious conditi on.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has
formally announced that he would be a
candtdate for election to the United
States Senate by the Legislature which
meets in extra session next Monday.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
KOVM. BAKING POWDER CO., NEW VOftK.
EVERYTHING
WAS TRANQUIL.
Consul General Lee's Advices to
the State Department as to
Situation in Havana.
THE CITY PERFECTLY QUIET.
Blanco Threatened with Mob Violence
Rumor That Rioting Will be Re
sumed and Continued To-day-Arrival
of Senor Govin.
By Telegraph to The Morning Star.
Washington, January 15. A cable
gram was received at the State De
partment at 1 o'clock this afternoon
from Consul General Lee at Havana,
stating that everything was tranquil.
The official advices from Havana
received by the Spanish minister, Mr.
Dupuy deLtome, continue to be reas
suring. A dispatch sent at 8 o'clock
last evening said that the city was per
fectly quiet. Another dispatch, sent
shortly after midnight and received
early this morning, stated that a few
people gathered in the public park
about 10 o'clock last night. There5
was no demonstration and under ordi
nary circumstances no attention would
have been given to it, as thepark is
the central public point of Havana'
As a matter of precaution, how
ever, the patrol of soldiers on
duty asked the people tST move away
and this they did without demonstra
tion or the exercise of any force. By
12 o'clock the troops were back in
their quarters. No surprise would be
felt, if there were sporadic gatherings
of groups in. a city of Havana's size,
particularly Sunday, when the streets
are usually filled with those otherwise
engaged during the week. This cus
tomary outpouring of the people,
doubtless, will occur to-morrow and it
may serve as an incentive for the con
gregating of groups, but it is said this
should not be misconstrued into a pop
ular demonstration, and no uneasiness
whatever is felt that it will be the occa
sion of anything more than a few vivas
even if that much occurs.
Senor Govin, a member of the au
tonomous cabinet, arrives at Havana
to-day and this, also, it is said, may.
serve as a pretext for some vivas by
the ultras. Govin has been at Atlanta,
Ga., since the autonomous cabinet
was formed. He is regarded as the
strongest man of that body and for
that reason his appointment has excited
intense hostility among the insurgents
and their friends. It led to a move
ment to insult him personally as he
passed through Tampa, according to
information submitted to the Spanish
minister. This led Senor Govin 0
change his route, making a sea trip by
way of New York. He sailed from
there last Saturday. In view of the
movement against him at Tampa, it
would be no surprise to the legation
here if the same ultra element at Ha
vana took his arrival as an opportunity
for a similar expression against him.
During the afternoon the minister
was in receipt of advices showing that
up to 2 o'clock the city of Havana had
been absolutely calm. The new Min
ister of the Interior, Senor Govin, had
arrived and received a respectful recep
tion. Later he took the oath of office.
Havana, January , 15. A dispatch
received from Spanish sources in Pi
llar del Rio says that the insurgent
Brigadier Gener Perico Belgrade has
been killed by his followers, and that
his chief of staff, Luis Lopez Marin,
has surrendered to the Spanish author
ities. Senor Antonio Govin, the Cuban
lawyer, who has been appointed Min
ister of the Interior in the autonomous
cabinet, arrived here to-day. The
members of the Central committee
and a number of his friends went ort
three tugs to meet him, received Mm
on his arrival and welcomed him back
to Havana. Senor Govin afterwJArd
called upon the President of the Ciian
Cabinet, Senor Galvez, and took Tthe
oath of office.
Captain General Blanco has issued a
circular ordering that each battalion of
infantry be strengthened by 128 men,
to be recruited in tbeir respective lo
calities by the generals of (division.
The recruits will be obliged to serve
six months and will recehrathe same
pay as the regular soldiers. The circu
lar also orders that the loal guerillas
double their numbers under the same
conditions until organized.
A dispatch from San Juan de Las
Yeras, province of Santa Clara, an
nounces that the insurgent leader
Loelle Cepero. a naturalized American
citizen, has surrendered to the Spanish
authorities.
Capt. Calvo and others, who were
leaders in the recent raids upon the
offices of the newspapers Diario de la
Maria, La Discussion and El Ream
cent r ado, will be prosecuted for then
connection with the disturbances, Over
300 army officers, it is said, will plead
guilty to being concerned in the de
monstration. ' The volunteer officers, it is also re
ported, intend to assemble and plead
guilty of participation in the attacks
upon the newspaper offices.
The editor of El Reconcentrado has
been in hiding since the beginning of
the rioting.
Last n igh t a large Are was noticed at
Caimato, near Havana.
A rumor has been in circulation that
the rioting would be resumed to-night
and continued all dav to -morrow
and continued all day to-morrow.
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