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AS AN ENGLISHMAN SEES IT.
There are a good., many objections
to a high protectiye .tariff, one of
which is that it operates unequally
and imposes the heaviest burdens on
those who are least able, to bear
them. In proportion to value it taxes
the imported goods consumed by
those in good circumstances much
less than it does the goods con
sujjW by the people who earn their
bread by their daily labor. The
reason assigned for this, but an un
truthful one, is that the classes of
goods on which the lighter duties
are imposed are not manufactured
in this country to any considerable
extent if at all, and therefore they
do not come into competition with
home made goods, for which reason
our manufacturers do not need pro
tection against therm.
That this is a fraudulent reason is
shown by the fact that the professed
purpose of the protective tariff is not
only to protect and foster the indus
tries already established, but to en
courage the establishment of new
ones. It is not simply to take care
of the "infants," but to multiply
the infants.
It is claimed that this policy of
protection has been highly success
ful in establishing and in increasing
the number of industries in this
country. There may be some truth
in this, and doubtless is. If so then
why would it not have some effect
in building up manufactories for
the production of the lines of goods
which arc now imported and pay
but a small tax in proportion to
Value, because they do not compete
with the classes of goods made in
this couutry? If the rich or well-to-do
must have these goods and
the tariff duties were made so high
as to discourage their importation,
wouldn't this make it an induce
ment to establish manufactories for
these lines of goods in this couutry?
A good many people no doubt would
continue to buy the imported goods
whatever the tariff might be, but if
raey could get the same kind of
an artiole at home for a less
price of course they would
buy that on the same principle
that they now buy scores of articles
made at home which they once
bought from Eunopean manufactur
ers; but until they have manufacto
ries at home to make the kinds of
of goods they desire they will con
tinue to buy the imported goods,
and until the statesmen who make
tariffs treat the goods- of the rich in
the same way they treat the goods of
the poor, until they handicap the
portation of the goods of the rich as
they do the goods of the poor, man
ufacturers will be content with the
the monopoly they .have in the
lines they now make and leave the
othei'3 to the European manufactnr
erspwlth whom they would have to
compete in the finer goods.. If there
be anything in protection at all it
should apply to all lines of manu
factures, especially to all lines that
can be made in this country, al
though they may not now be made.
This injudicious discrimination in
favor of the goods of the rich
fails to encourage the establishment
of manufactories for the production
of such goods, which is one of the
professed objects of the tariff, and
it fails to bring in .revenue to the
Government which is another of the
professed objects. Thus far it is
neither a measure for protection nor
for revenue. It doesn't hurt the
European manufacturers of these
kinds of goods for they find a mar
ket for them here among people
who are compelled to buy them be
cause they can't get what they want
any other way, and the only effect
therefore of the duty is to make
American consumers pay more, tne
importer charging in proportion to
the amount of duty he has to pay.
How it works is shown by the fol
lowing from an interview in Wash
ington by one of the newspaper re
porters with a representative of a
London exporting house. Speaking
of the Dingley tariff he said:
"The Dingley tariff has not hurt any
angnsb manufacturers in their sales
of expensive and fine goods to custo
mers in this country.
' There will always be a demand for
superior lines of merchandise of every
description from the eld country. My
house makes a specialty of fine arts,
and our trade with the United States
w very satisfactory. The firms that
send over high-priced woollens are
doing a splendid business. They make
cloths so much better and finer than
they can be produced in America, for
climatic reasons, that men who will
wear only the best clothing cannot be
satisfied with anything that is not im-
Eorted. There is no sort of a tariff
iw that your Congress can frame that
will shut us out of your markets."
There are several points inthis,one
of which is that the tariff dpes not
hurt the European manufacturers
of fine woolen goods because they
have a good market in this country
being without competition in these
lines. There is no doubt that they
do make certain lines of superior
quality for the reason, perhaps, that
they take time and care in the
manufacture of them. This may
have more to do with it than climatic
reasons. But the test has not been
made to demonstrate the ability or
inability of Americans to make
equally as fine goods.
One of the main reasons assigned
for asking a duty on wool was that it
would restrict if not prevent the im
portation of wool and thus encourage
the growing of fine wools in this
country. Whether it restricts the im-
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portatioifeof wools or not this English
man insists that it does not ma
terially affeot the importation of
fine wools woven into goods. There
is truth in what he says, I in tbiB
extract, and even more in the follow
ing remarks on tariffs in general:
"At the same time, if I were an
American, havine- oniv the hest. inter
ests of my whole country at heart, I
wouiu jw ior aosoiute tree trade. It
is true VOU TJaV VOUr men het.ter wnomt
over here, but they are worth more. A
Yankee OTer.t.i ve nr lahniwr 'raitAlnaoac
an English or continental working-
man to an extent that justih.es tne dif
ference in compensation. But the pro
tec tiff policy does nothing for the la
borer,, and under it his wages will
eventuallv TO down To the onwatmnnfl
of people it brings added cost for all
the necessities of life ' and no corres
ponding benefit You are too power
ful a nation, too great in resources, to
Sursue such a coddling policy. Let
own the bars by the abolition of your
duties and straightway the gates of all
countries will be opened to your
traders, who are now clamoring:
against restricted markets."
"In the race for commercial su
premacy, with free trade, America
might easily beat the world. If any
man challenges the statement, I point
to free trade England, and it seems to
me that, except to the most ignorant
auu ure uuiceu. Liiere is neen or no i
further argument. The protective 1
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arge revenues which invite wasteful
expenditure because of their method
of collection. Did the United States
have the direct system of taxation in
vogue in England, doyou suppose your
pension budget would run to an an
nual amount exceeding the cost of
Germany's standing army ?"
We must have revenue from some
source, a good deal of it. We can't get
it in the way Great Britain gets
hers. While there is need of so
much revenue, we. cannot even ap
proximate free trade, but the nearer
we get to free trade the better it will
be for the people at large, who would
then get cheaper goods, and for the
manufacturers, who would gain more
by the free entry they would have
into the markets of the world than
they would lose by making our mar
ket free to the world. Free trade
ought to be the policy of all nations.
MINOR MENTION.
Mr. L. A. Coolidge, of Boston,
who has given much study to the
subject of cotton manufacturing in
the South as compared with cotton,
manufacturing in the North, insists
that the South has, with others, an
advantage in the matter of wages
alone which cannot be over
estimated, although some under
estimate it, and others think'that it
will be but temporary, as operatives
in the Southern mills will ere long
demand higher wages, approximat
ing if not equalling those paid in
the New England nulls. Mr.
Coolidge, who has been investigat
ing the wage question in the South,
says the rate is on the average at
least 30 per cent, lower than in New
Englandj But as a matter of fact,
considering the cost of living, steady
work, &c, the Southern operative
is really better off than the NeW
England operative and, if thrifty,
can save more money in the course
of the year. He calls attention to
instances in which families earn as
much as twenty dollars a week,
children as well as parents being
employed. It frequently happens
that mills have to employ the
ohildren old enough to be useful to
secure the services of the parents,
although as a rule they do not
care to employ children. There
is a disposition in some quarters
to underrate the advantages in the
South, but the fact that mill, build
ing goes right along in the South
about twice as fast as it does in all
the rest of the country put together
is pretty good proof that Southern
men with money to put into mills
are pretty well satisfied with the
advantageb, which have been tested
and demonstrated by the great in
crease in the number of mills in the
South and the success the industry
has met with. There are to-day in
the South more than half as many
mills as there were in the whole
country in 1890. There were then j
in the 'country 905; ther$ are now in .
the South 483. If it should become J
a contest for supremacy or existence j
between the mills of the South and (
of the North, then the mills of the
North will have to go, for the fells'
of the South have the vantage ground
and will hold it.
In some portions s&f, the world
there is a great .prejudice against
labor-saving machinery growing out
of the belief that it makes-less work
for workmerand consequently
harder times fertheinl' This opinion
is entertained by some people in
this country. We read an article
a short while ago by a Writer Whose
name has escaped us, in which he
attributed the business depressions
in this country to-the general use of
machinery which takes he place of
Hand labor. This may be the effect
when the machinery is first intro
duced but it is not continuous, for
in time more people are employed
directly or indirectly in the building
cl othe machinery ; and in other in
dustries which it creates, than are
thrown out of employment by the
introduction of the machinery.
Mr. Horace G. Waldin, Chief
of the Massachusetts Bureau
of Statistics, who has been
investigating this subject pre
sents some interesting figures as the
result of these investigations. He
says that in 1850 the textile indus
try in the United States employed
146,897 persons; in 1890 the average
had risen to 511,897. In 1890 the
employes in the iron and steel indus
try numbered 77,555; in 1890, 175,'
506. In the shoe industry they
numbered, in 1850, 105,254; in 1870,
159,097. The probabilities are that
other industries employing labor
saving machinery would show "simi
lar increases. Instead of making it
worse machinery is bettering the
condition of the world and of its
toilers.
We are not surprised that Mr.
McKinley, Miv Dingley and others
of the yellow tinged statesmen
should refer to the bond contracts
as "legal technicalities." In times
gone by when they found any par
ticular clauses of the constitution
in their way, they brushed them
aside as "legal technicalities."
When they want to do anything
they let no written law nor techni
cality stand in their way.
Having quashed the Teller resolu
tion in the House, the Philadelphia
North American rises to remark that
"The gold men should now take
the aggressive and pass a bill of their
own making." Now it should pro
ceed to suggest a way by which such
a bill could be got through the Sen
ate, which is "agin em."
An Indiana Odd Fellows' Mutual
Aid Society has closed up shop with
liabilities of $100,000 and assets a
little over $3. Three is an odd
number. Some of the Fellows in
side seem to have been running that
thing for their mutual benefit.
When Miss Richardson, of Ken
tucky was cut out of the honor of
christening the Kentucky .she took
it as philosophically as could be ex
pected under the circumstances and
concluded to get married. She is
bound to have some excitement.
In Germany the law . is when a
man's life is insured and he loses
his hands by an accident, he can
claim the life insurance money, be
cause as he can't earn a living he is
considered practically dead.
A pack of cards in the pocket of
a New York man caught a bullet
aimed at him and saved his life.
But ftiis doesn't offset the bullets
that packs of cards have caused to
be shot into other fellows.
A New York statesman has intro
duced a bill requiring Chinese laun
drymen to give receipts for Washee,
washee in English. That is an in
sidious attempt to knock John
Chinaman out with the vernacular.
"Fifty three men are trying to re
form the Republican party in New
York," remarks the Philadelphia
North American. This is a stupen
dous job for fifty-three men to un
dertake. .
- If Gen. Blanco doesn't succeed
better as a soldier than as a briber
his aspirations to fame will never be
realized. So far he hasn't succeeded
in buying anything worth carting to
Havana.
With the wave of "McKinley
prosperity" the embezzling indus
try picked up considerably last
year.. The total of embezzlements
was $11,154,550, an increase of
$2,000,000 over 1896.
The first cargo of American pig
'ron received in Sweden, ar
iving at Gothenburg last week,
.ame from the South and was
dipped from Savannah.
If Corbett was cured of dyspepsia
by that solar plexus punch from
Fitzsimmons, he might try a few
punches in the jaw to cure that
habit of too much chinning.
There are bunglers in all kinds of
business. There were 92tt duels in
tltaly last year, but one amateur or
bungler took it in earnest and killed
his man.
THE POSTOFFICE.
Formal Transfer to the New
Postmaster Will Be Made
This Afternoon.
CHADB0URN TAKES CHARGE.
Ex-Postmaster Morton Retires With the
Respect and Confidence of the Peo
pleHis Management Has the
Endorsement of the De- -partraent.
The transfer of a postoffice where a
large amount of business is transacted
is something of an undertaking and is
most frequently done on Sunday when
there is least business transacted.. So
this afternoon has been selected as af
fording a good opportunity for the re
tiring postmaster to transfer to his suc
cessor the control of the Wilmington
postoffice. This means that all the
stamps will be counted out and the
books, keys and everything else that
pertains to the active duties of post
master will pass from Mr. Morton's
hands to Mr. Chadbourn's this after
noon. Mr. Chadbourn has not made public
his decision, if he has made one, as to
who will be his assistant. The present
assistant postmaster, Mr. W. C. af t,
will most probably remain in the
office for two or three weeks. The
rest of the force are nearly all under
civil service, and will not be removed
without cause.
Mr. Morton will be occupied for a
week orien days making out reports
and finally arranging the business of
the postoffice so far as it concernsjhim.
He will have a desk in the office of
the assistant postmaster and will be
ready to furnish to the new incumbent
such information about the control of
the office as he may desire. Mr. Mor
ton s term began January 15, 1894.
The Retiring Postmaster.
In surrendering the trust confided to
him for so long a period Mr. Morton
may rest assured that he carries with
him the high appreciation of the peo
ple he has served so faithfully and so
well. Painstaking, accommodating,
resourceful and vigilant, he has won
the respect and confidence of the bus
iness men of Wilmington ; and it may
be conscientiously said that no pre
vious management of this office has
ever given more general satisfaction.
Mr. Morton has during his term in
augurated many reforms in the mail
service. Among them may be named
the increase of service between Wil
mingon and Shallotte from semi-weekly
to tri-weekly ; free delivery at Wrights
ville Beach, and the system of ex
changing pouches of registered letters
between Wilmington, Richmond,' Bal
timore, Washington and New York,
which has proved a great convenience
to bankers and business men generally.
He has made many other improve
ments in the service, most of which
have been heretofore mentioned in the
Stab.
One of the best evidences of Mr.
Morton's thorough efficiency is his
high standing with the post-office offi
cials at Washington. He has been
complimented on his good work by
the First Assistant Postmaster General
and the heads of other bureaux, and
during the second year of his term he
received the following letter from one
of the most capable officers in the ser
vice, who came to Wilmington and
made a thorough inspection of the
office:
Post-Office Department,
Office of Post-Office Inspectors:
Goldsboro, N. C, Dec. 2, 1896
Mr. Geo.-L. Morton, Postmaster, Wil
mington, N. C i
Dear Sir Allow me to congratu
late you on having such a well con
ducted office and efficient force, and
upon rendering such a very satisfac
tory service to the public, as well as
to the department.
Mr. Craft, Miss Darby, Miss Bell and
the other members of your force are so
efficient in their respective duties, to
say nothing of the postmaster, that I
would scarcely know where to begin
in paying compliments.
Your office is certainly second to
none that I have ever visited, and if I
find one that is more satisfactorily
conducted than yours I will be sure
to notify you.
Very respectfully,
H. T. Gregory,
Post-Office Inspector.
The New Postmaster.
Postmaster Chadbourn, though yet
untried, has the elements necessary to
success in his new calling. He is a
man of education' and intelligence,
with excellent judgment, and an am
ple fund of good common sense. His
business experience, too, extends
through a period of many years, and
the Star will be disappointed if he
does not make an excellent post
master. Freedman's Bank Depositors.
What is known as the Lamb bill, re
cently introduced in Congress, pro
vides for the appropriation of $1,000,
000 to pay depositors in the defunct
Freedman's Saving and Trust Com
pany. If this bill shall become a law
the amounts that will come to the
North Carolina cities where branches
were established will be, approxima
tely, as follows: Wilmington, $10,
000 ; Raleigh, $7000 Newbern, $7,000.
Receives Diploma from State Pair.
Mr. H. Kuhl has received and placed
in a handsome frame the diploma award
ed by the North Carolina Agricultural
Society to his son, Mr. F. W. Kuhl, of
Thompson School, Siler City, for the
best specimen of ornamental penman
ship at the last State Fair. The di
ploma is something to be highly
prized. It bears the seal of the State
and the signatures of R. H. Battle and
John Nichols, president and secretary
of the Fair Association.
I
j RUSH OF ORDERS.
The Fertilizer Men of WUmington
and Charleston Are Doing
a Fine Business.
NEARLY A TON A MINUTE.
The Sales Indicate No Intention of Planters
to Materially Curtail Production
Prices Have Been Advanced in
Charleston Demand Good
All Along the Line.
If the sales of fertilizers are a fair
criterion on which to base estimates
of cotton acreage and production, the
reports from WUmington and Charles
ton factories certainly do not indicate
any determination on the part of plan
ters to materially curtail production.
Some days since the STAR showed that
the manufacturers of fertilizers in and
near Wilmington were doing a good
business in fact, that they were a lit
tle pushed to keep up with their or
ders. Now it is learned that the
Charleston factories have a rush of
orders, and that there has recently
been an advance in the price of fertil
izers. The News, and Courier of yes
terday thus refers to this question,
which is one that possesses peculiar
interest at this time-.
The movement of fertilizers out of
Charleston for the last few weeks has
been exceedingly heavy. Some time
ago The News and Courier printed an
article based upon information gather
ed from reliable sources to show that
there was no foundation for the belief
prevailing in certain quarters to the
effect that the product of the mills
would be a drug upon the market this
season. The views then expressed have
been fully sustained by the events of the
last few weeks. A well known fertil
izer man said yesterday that last week
his company shipped out of Charleston
nearly a ton of goods a minute for
every working hour of the six days of
the week. He had the figures with
him to substantiate what he said. His
records showed that during the week
ending last Saturday he had shipped
upwards of 3,300 tons of goods out of
the city. There are ten working hours
in a day, or six hundred minutes.
This made him ship 94-100 of a ton of
fertilizer every working minute of the
week.
The demand is reported to be Aod
all along the line, and in more man
one instance there has been a sharp ad
vance, in price recently. Many ofthe
companies have just about as much
business as they can do, and they are
kept in a rush all the time. A few
days ago a gentleman who had made a
purchase of a Charleston company
sent in an order for more stuff "at
rock-bottom prices.' A dispatch was
sent out informing him that he could
have his order filled at an advance of
37 cents a ton on what he had uaid a
1 veek or so before, and that if he
wanted the stuff at these figures he
had better wire his acceptance before
night, as the offer would aot be al
lowed to stand over till next day. He
wired his acceptance.
Similar instances could be multiplied
to indicate the activity in the fertilizer
business. The cases mentioned are not
isolated ones.
Leased to the State.
The South port Standard says that
the State has leased the out standing
rice lands at Nayassa belonging to the
Navassa Guano Co. and will put a
force of convicts to work in getting
the fields in readiness for cultivation.
The camp will be placed near Navassa
on the Cape Fear River about five
miles from the city. Mr. George H.
Cannon has been appointed manager
of the farm
RACING EVENTS.
Newbern,' Washington, Greenville and
Rocky Mount-Big Prases Offered.
Washington, N. C, Progress: The
Newbern, Washington, Greenville
and, Rocky Mount Fair Associations
have arranged a circuit of four weeks
racing and offer the large sum of elev
en thousand and four hundred dollars
in purses.
The classes range from four minutes
to be free for all and the purses range
from $100 to $500 each. The races of
this circuit commence at Newbern on
March 1st; Washington March 9th;
Greenville March 18th and Rocky
Mount March 28rd. There will be
four days racing at each place. The
entries for the first two races close on
Feb. 12th and the last two on March
1st.
Mr. George Green is the Secretary
for the Newbern Fair and Mr. R. L.
Davis, of Washington, N. C, acts for
the other three places."
NEWS PROM DUPLIN.
Death of Two Prominent Citizens and an
1 Estimable Lady.
Mr. F. H. Keathley, ex-chairman of
the Board of County Commissioners
of Duplin county, died at his home
Wednesday, the 2d, of consumption.
He represented Duplin in the lower
house of the Legislature in 1895.
Mr. H. R. Kornegay, for many years
past a prominent attorney at the Du
plin Bar, died Friday night, 4th inst.,
at his home in Kenansville. He had
been in feeble health for some months.
Mrs. Mary Brown, wife of Mr. Isaac
Brown, formerly of Warsaw, now of
Pilot Mountain, died at her daughter's
home in Rocky Mount on the 3d inst. ,
of heart trouble. She was buried at
Warsaw yesterday.
Discharged from the Pest House.
James Hodge, the colored man who
has been confined at the smallpox pest
house, was discharged yesterday after
noon. He was relieved of his cloth
ing, which was burned, and at the
city's expense was furnished with a
new suit of clothing from shoes to hat.
Lam Gotten, the colored nurse, received
the same treatment only along with
his clothing was burned by Dr. Mc
Millan's orders some Confederate bills,
as it was not thought perfectly safe to
let him keep them. Hodge was driven
in a surrey from the hospital to the
alley where he lives.
I A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE,
It Broke Out Early Yesterday
Morning in the Town of
-Laurinburg.
LOSSES ESTIMATED AT $30,000.
Several Business Houses, Two Livery
Stables and Other Buildings De
stroyed -Insurance About Ten
.i Thousand Dollars.
Specidt Star Telegram.
Laurinburg, N. C, February 4.
Once more Laurinburg has been in
vaded by the fire fiend and her citi
zens made to weep over the wreck of
a night.
Fire was discovered this morning at 1
o'clock breaking through the sides and
roof of J. W. McNair's warehouse, join
ed toj the main body of the store-room.
Before anything could be done to stay
its progress; the flames had made the
leap across Fairley street and set the
two-story building occupied by the J.
K. ,Britt Harness Company on fire.
From there it soon spread to the next
building, occupied by the McDougald
Furniture Company. In quick suc
cession went the two livery stables in
the rear, and the building occupied by
Anthony Harris on the south side.
Only by the hardest kind of work were"
the flames here controlled.
The loss is estimated at $30,000, with
$10,000 insurance. J. W. McNair
was the largest loser, having a $15,000
stock with but $5,000. There was no
insurance on the livery stables; the
other property was partially insured.
THE PEANUT OUTLOOK.
The Norfolk Market Nervous and Prices
Advanced.
Norfolk Pilot: "The peanut mar
ket is nervous and, owning to the small
receipts, advancing. An advance of
about a quarter of a cent last week has
been followed by another of about the
same within the past day or two. Con
siderable sales are reported as having
been made of fancy farmer's stock yes
terday as high as 3 cents, and a good
many sales at 21 cents. These figures
indicate an upward movement, which
will be very gratifying to farmers.
THE WILMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.
Miss Rose, One of the Teachers, Resigns
on Account of III Health.
The resignation of Miss Annie Lee
Rose as teacher in the Wilmington
High School has been accepted and
Miss Rose left yesterday morning for
& protracted visit to relations in Gra
ham county. Miss Rose's resignation
is occasioned by ill health.
Ttye School Board has elected a suc
cessor to Miss Rose, but owmg to the
fact that the party has not yet
accepted, the name is withheld from
the public s
Miss Rose has been a teacher in the
High School here for the past four
years and the School Board, her asso
ciate teachers and the children who
have been underher. tutelage, all speak
of her in the very highest terms, not
only as a highly successful teacher,
but also as a lady of rare culture and
admirable disposition. 0
She came to Wilmington in 1894 as
one of the first teachers in, the High
School, having just completed her
course in the Greensboro Normal and
Industrial College, and during her
stay here has won many admiring
friends who regret exceedingly that
she has been forced to give up her
position and leave the city. It is
hoped that her health may very soon
materially improve and that she will
again assume , the duties of the position
from which she now retires.
Death ot Mrs. S. E. S. Willson.
The Star notes with sorrow the
death of Mrs. Sarah E. S. Willson,
relict of the late William Willson.
She passed away last night, in her
79th year, at 11 o'clock, at the resi
dence of her son, Mr. J. E. Willson.
She had been in feeble health for years
and death resulted as much from a
general break down of the system as
from anything else.
Mrs. Willson had lived in Wilming
ton all her life. Her husband pre
ceded her to the grave in 1882. Those
of her children who survive her are
Mr. J. E. Willson, of this city, Mr.
Charles D. Willson, a travelling sales
man, and Messrs. Walter and Benja
min Willson, who live in Florida.
Mrs. Willson was a faithful member
of Grace M. E. Church
The f uneral will take place Monday
at 3.30 P. M. from the residence of her
son, Mr. J. E. Willson, 615 Princess
street. V
Dead Man in a Box-car.
A colored man was lound dead m a
box-car yesterday morning at South
Rocky Mount. Ten other colored men,
evidently tramps, were found in the
same car. Some of them said that
their companion had frozen to death,
but there were other accounts that con
flicted with theirs. All the negroes
are under arrest, awaiting the coron
er's inquest.
Fruit and Track Growers.
A called meeting of the Executive
Committee of the East Carolina Fruit
and Truck (growers Association was
held' here yesterday. Among those
present were Messrs. J. A Brown,
chairman. J. H. Westbrook, G. . W
Westbrook, W. L. Hill.
"It Grows More Vigorous."
Christian Herald: "The Wilming-
j ton Daily Star put on a new and most
i becoming dress recently. Though one
' of our oldest dailies, it renews its youth
i and grows more vigorous and attrac
tive as it advances in years
j ACTION POSTPONED.
Result of the Conference at the
Governor's Mansion on the
Hancock Scandal.
ANOTHER MEETING FEB'Y 22.
All Admit That Hancock Will Be Bounceed
s. Other Raleigh News Retainers
Paid to Governor's Attorneys in
" the Case Against the
7 Southern.
Special Star Correspondence. ,
Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 5.
The expense accounts made by the
new railroad commissioners would
make very interesting reading matter
just now. There is no way of gaining
access to these accounts. I understand
that some of the aceounts are most ab
surd. Among others is the following :
"Paid J. L. Mott, $25 for services as
guard to the commission office." Now
young Mott is a son of the doctor and
holds a regular position in the peni
tentiary. At the Governor's sugges
tion he was stationed at the commis
sion office for two weeks to hold off
the ; Wilsons and the enemy the
Southern Railway. About all young
Mott did was to draw breath and the
twenty-five dollars salary.
collector Duncan is appointing1 store
keepers and causers in various narts
of the district. The eligibles on the
civil service list have been exhausted
and appointments are made now of
persons who have never stood the
civil service examination.
Secretary of State Thompson licensed
the Pacific Fire Insurance Company
of New York to-day.
lhe Kau way Commission report will
make its appearance next week. Clerk
Brown is preparing some matter from
the report for use by the press.
The colored people are to be given
better accommodations in the Union
depot here. '
1 he directors of the Atlantic Sc North
Carolina Railroad met again this
morning. It had been decided at the
conference at the Executive Mansion
last night, which lasted past midnight,
that the Hancock matter should be
postponed. At the meeting this morn
ing a motion was made to adjourn
until February 22, and the same pre
vailed. The sessidn was a short one.
Special Star Telegram.
Nearly all the directors of the At
lantic and North Carolina road ad
mit that Hancock will be bounced at
the meeting on the 22d; only two of
the members of the Board are for him.
The Governor would have had him
ousted to-day, but desired to let him
down easy. 1
The Governor's attorneys, Messrs.
Cook and Douglass, have been paid
three hundred dollars 1 each as re
tainers' fees in the prosecution of the,
case against the Southern Railway
Company.
STABBED IN THE SHOULDER.
Colored Stevedore Cut With a Knife
by a Negro.
Yesterday afternoon about four
o'clock Bristow Hurst, a colored steve
dore aged 35 years and an employe in
the Champion Compress, was stabbed
by another colored man on Water
streetbetween Dock and Orange .Hurst
says he does not know who the man
wasthat stabbed him, but others said
that itwas a young colored man named
Floyd Cole.
After being stabbed Hurst ran to
Front street and up Front to Mr. R.
R. Bellamy's drug store. He was
bleeding freely and his clothes were
saturated with blood. Dr. J, C. Shep
ard and a colored physician, Dr. T. R.
Mask, were called in to dress the man's
wound. They found a stab two or three
inches deep in the left shoulder four
inches above the heart. After the physi
cians had rendered the necessary ser
vices, Hurst was placed in a carriage
and driven to his home on Fourth
street, between Church and Castle.
He says the man who stabbed him
had changed some money for him and
claimed that he had given him too
much. Hurst denied this, and when
he did, Cole, if this was the man,
whipped out a pocket-knife and drove
it to the handle in Hurst's body.
Officers are in pursuit of Cole. J
Track Dealers Here.
Several gentlemen from Northern
cities have recently come to Wilming
ton for the trucking season- for the
purpose of representing extensive
truck dealers North. Among them
are Mr. W. A. Sharp, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., Messrs. O. C. Stevens and S. A.
Townsend, of Philadelphia, and Mr.
A. S. Maynard, of Chicago. All these
gentlemen are stopping at the Orton.
ALABAMA POPULISTS.
Agitating Movement for Returning to the
Democratic Party.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Chattanooga, Tenn., February5.
A special to the Times from Birming
ham, Ala., says: A conference of i
score or more leading Populists of this
county was held to-day. They issued
a call for all the Pops of the country,
February 19th, to consider a system
of returning to the Democratic
party, and participating in Democratic
primaries. The leaders of the move
ment say the Democrats adopted thi
ropuusnc principles at me unicago
convention and that the best thing for
Populists to do is to return to. Demo
cracy, act as a faction of the party and
by united action wield a strong in
fluence on the party primaries and
conventions. It is said similar efforts
will be made in various counties. Jerry
Fountain, former Populist county
chairman, is the leader of the move
ment which is now opposed by the
State Populist Organization.
Monsumor Edward McCohran. bv
virtue of his title an honorary member
of the f ontihcai household, vicar-gen-eral
of .the arch diocese of Baltimore.
and for more than half a century pas
tor of at. .Peters (Jathohc Church
Baltimore, died yesterday; aged 86
years.
turn
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWOCtl CO., JEW YORK.
SPANISH TROOPS
- SENT TO CUBA.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Says
There Is No Aggravation
of the Situation.
U. S. MINISTER WOODFORD.
Presented An Official Note, To Which
Premier Sagas ta Replied in Vigorous
Terms Work on Naval Anna-
ments Being Rushed.
By Cable to the Morning Star.
Madrid -February 5. Senor Gullon,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, de
clares there is no reason to fear any
aggravation of the Cuban situation.
The despatch of 15,000 men to Cuba,
the minister asserts, was decided upon
before General Blanco's departure.
Havana, February 5. Captain
General Blanco and General Pando
have arrived at Puerto. Principe.
General Blanco is expected to reach
Havana m three, days.
Madrid, February! 5. El Heroldo
says that Gen. Stewart L. Woodford,
the United States minister, to-day' pre
sented an official note to the Spanish
government, to which Premier Sagasta
responded in vigorous terms.
The work on the naval armaments
is being actively rushed, and the Span
ish squadron will proceed shortly tor
the Canary Islands.
Havana, February 5. Among the
passengers who arrived here to-day on
board tbe Spanish steamer Maria Chris
tina were Senor Edouardo Dolz, sec
retarv of norts and teletrraohs in the
colonial government; Senator Elisee
Giberg and thirty officers and 1,450
soldiers. The Secretary and benator
were received by the Central and other
companies and by the Autonomist
Commission, who went out on a tug
boat to meet them. The new arrivals
were cheered by crowds of people on
the wharves. i
Cant. George A. Converse? of the
United States cruiser Montgomery, ac
companied by Lieut. Bamsey and U.
S. Uonsul Uryce, visited the uovernor
of Matanzas yesterday, and to-day the
Governor, his secretary and the
other authorities of of Matanzas, where
the cruiser is at anchor, returned the
visit of the American officers.
London, Feb. 5. Special dispatches
from Madrid say that the Spanish
Government has decided to send two
additional cruisers to the United
States. The vessels selected will
probably be the Cristobel Colon and
the Almirante Oquehdo.
Havana, February 5. (via Key
West Fla.) The reported action of
ex-Secretary of State Olney in contri
buting $100 for the relief of sutrermg
Cubans through the Spanish minister
in Washington, ignoring Consul Gen
eral Lee, is criticised by Americans
here as tending to cast discredit upon
the contributions through the State
Department. The announcement that
the gift was made through the Spanish
minister was cabled here and given
publicity and a prominent American
resident, speaking of the matter said
that the cable dispatch cost as large a
sum as the gift.
Insurgent (Jol. (Jamejo, a country
man of Gen. Maximo Gomez, who suc
ceeded leader Cuervo, has already or
ganized two squadrons of cavalry in
the districts of Guannor, Vogas and
San Nicolas, in Havana province.
Jill JJiano jjeia manna which has
hitherto refused to admit that an an
nexation sentiment existed among res
ident Spaniards in Cuba, now recog
nizes the fact that many Spaniards
here believe that annexation is a ne
cessity to save their lives and property.
SPAIN'S TORPEDO BOATS.
No Significance Attached to the Sending
of a Merchant Ship With the
Flotilla.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star.
Washtnotom. Fhiunrv 4. At. t.liA
Spanish legation no significance is at-
i i u a- i .
wkjucu iu uic souuiug oi a mercnant
shin alrtiaor with fhn Innuuln flotilla
which is about to cross the Atlantic.
It is said at the legation that the
sending, of the torpedo boats has been
contemnlated for a Inner timo and Kaa
been repeatedly announced through
me press. iney are, however,
Small craft to undertake thn
hardship of an ocean voyage
and it is essential that they be
accompanied by a larger vessel to
serve as a transport for extra supplies,
particularly coal, which the tiny craft
cannot carry in sufficient quantities
for a long voyage. The merchant
vessel will serve merely as a transport.
She belongs to a merchant company
having a large number of ships, so
that one of them can be readily spared
for this service. AH of these ships
belong to the auxiliary navy and are
subject to call at any time. The one
now being brought into service is a
small affair, by no means formidable,
and useful mainly for carrying sup
plies. The Populists in Congress have
completed an organization, with Rep
resentative Bell, of Colorado, as chair
man of the joint caucus, Representa
tive Shuford, of North Carolina, as
secretary, and Senator Harris, of Kan
sas, as chairman of the Congressional
Committee.
CONSUMPTION
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Lung Troubles, and all conditions of Wasting
Away. By its timely use thousands of apparent
ly nopeies cases nave ooen
SO proof -positive am I of its power to
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upon receipt of Btprwaa and Postoffice
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