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THE T RIB (THE DISCOURSES-
Mo3t not all of the Bepublican
papers jn the North have expressed
their x ews on the reqent race con
flicts in. Greenwood county, South
Carolina, and in this city. Some of
their views are moderately expressed
others geto an'extreme, but all are
written from a sectional and parti
san standpoint and are more or less
I colored by sectional and partisan
prejiidweT- The following from the
Xew jYork Tribune wad intended,
we presume, to be moderate, and is,
compared with editorials which
'have appeared in other Republican
journals. In a leading editorial,
after referring to the conflict be
tween the white miners and the ne
groes imported into the mines at
Pana, Illinois, which it contends was
not a race trouble but merely a la
bor trouble, it notes the conflict be
tween the whites and the blacks at
Phoenix S. C, and thus comments
on the d isturbance in this city: .
"But when we come to North Caro
lina and the troubles oyer the Wil
mington, city government there we
find not merelv the senseless race
feud, but the real race problem. The
South Carolina disturbance was riot.
-The North Carolina disturbance was
revolution. There appears to be no
doubt that the negro rule of Wil
mington was bad. The negro's best
friends in the South are agreed that
he is not yet fitted to rule well, and
do not blame the whites for desiring
to rule the towns of which they are the
most intelligent and capable element
with the largest iuterest at stake, though
they are or ten much outnumbered by
the irresponsible and ignorant blacks,
whose attempt at government is only
an opening for unscrupulous shapers
Wilmington has done away with this
government by what is nothing more
nor less by an act of revolution. The
new system may justify itself as better
than the old, but that is the -common
justification of revolution. It in fact
is its only justification, and to admit
that it is adequate is to admit that de
mocracy is a failure. The theory of
of majority rule and universal suffrage
has no place for good government by
uie minority wutu Hie majority gov
ernment is had- A majority of
bad negroes is just as sacred under
our Constitution as a majority of bad
whites, such as some of our .Northern
cities have had to endure. The ma
jority rule, be it good or bad, must be
accented unless we are nrenared to re
trace our steps to the more moderate
republicanism of our early history,
when suffrage was restricted with the
frank purpose of keeping the Govern
ment out of the hands of the irrespon
sible elements of society. The humor
of the situation is that this attack on
the democratic principle should come
from States which nave always as
serted their superior devotion to the
pure and ideal democratic philosophy.
'But the situation is not one in
which humor predominates. The
problem is a serious one, and it has
two sides, and it is made more serious
by ineradicable and irrational race
-prejudice. But for that a solution
might be found If the people of the
Southern States would frankly say
that they wanted to be ruled by their
beet rather than their worst citizens.
and Droceeded to shut out from suff
rage undesirable white voters on -the
same terms as the undesirable blacks.
there would be One solution. If they
would de vote themsel ves heartily to the
work of training the ignorant voters so
as to secure good government from
'Mem that would be a better though a
slower process. But as It is they
retard than promote the advancement
anttkreform of the most dangerous
element in their population, and legia
late not against ignorance and vice for
their Own sake, but agiinst them as
exhibited bv negroes. In consequence
revolution is the only road out of tne
conditon they make unendurable for
themselves. Sometimes it is the peace
ful revolution of unrepublican constitution-making.
Sometimes it is the
shotgun revolution, such as Wilming
ton has just witnessed. In such out
breaks tne South declares that all men
arenot equal.and that even in a republic
some majorities are not fit for self
government. Jf it would reality ac
ept that theory and make fitness a
question of morals, intellect and re
sponsibility and not a question of tint
ot sinn, and givs itself over to secur
ing the desired fntness either by train
in g or impartial sifting of its citizen
ship, it might obtain good government
and teach the whole country a lesson.
As it is, it has no recourse but violence
more or less open to protect the State
against the majority of its Own citi
zens, and such violence is the absolute
negation of republican government.
This is doubtless intended to be a
cool aud fair statement ot the case
from the Tribune's standpoint, but
the trouble is that it does not fully
understand what it disonsses and
ces too much for granted which
hor!Md not be taken for granted, and
assunfagtoo much that should not
t oe assutnem It is right in making
thfc distinetmp that it does between
the diBtujfoJRje in Greenwood conn
ty, S..C, which it calls a "riot," and
the disturbance in this city, whiehit
calls a "revolution," a-distinction.
however, which had been previously
made by the Charleston Jfew and
Courier. But it was not a shnt-omn
revolution at all, as the Tribune parity between the number of ne
assumes, for guns did not. figure in 1 groes and the number of whites, the
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mw cnange of the city government,
j.uey were used only in suppressing !
the turbnlent blaok element which
D7 firing upon the whites made firing
upon tnem a necessity to restore or
der and to save.Mfe, Possibly the
learof violence hi the conditions
which followed the shooting in
"Brooklyn" may have hastened
the resignations of the incumbents,
but whether this may have been the
case or not, there was no Violence
used, there was no shot-gun in it.
Mayor Wright convened the Board of
Aldermen, the incumbents resigned
and the new men elected and took
the r places and all was done with
as much order as if there had been
no disturbance at all. There was
no ntention to drive these men out
at office, they wero iaformed-by the
committee of citizens appointed to
represent the people that they were
out of place, had been faithless and
incompetent and obnoxious, and the
sentiment of the public was that
they shonld resign, but theie were
no threats made and no force used,
ft was. a "revolution," but a peace
able revolution, and must not be
misrepresented and misunderstood
by being coupled wth the shooting
incidents in Brooklyn, with which it
had no connection whatever, any
further than that the incumbents in
office may have become awed by the
conditions that confronted them and
and concluded that by turning the
city government over to better and
more competent men order might be
restored and a general race conflict
be averted. - .
This is a distinction with a differ
ence which the Tribune did not catch
on to and therefore all its remarks
on this "revolution" as nullifying
constitutional rights, nullifying
citizenship, &c, falls to the ground,
for it was not a revolution of vio
lence, but everything was done in
order, in accordance with law and
with the co-operation and consent
of the officers who relinquished the
offices they held to others more ac-1
i . aria f
ceptaoie to tne community, it
armed citizens had gone to those
officers who resigned and demanded
that they do so nnder threat of com
pulsion or violence if they refused
there might be some foundation for
the inferences and conclusions of
the Tribune, but as this was hot the
case, as there was neither presence
of weapon, violence or threat of vio
lence the assumption upon which
the Tribunes argument is based
falls to the ground and the argument
with it.
It was a revolution, but a peace
able revolution, the result of public
sentiment to which the obnoxious
city administration succumbed and
went out and men whom the com
munity respected and in whom they
had confidence went in. That's the
kind of a revolution it was, no shot
gun affair, but a peaceable triumph
of respectability over wortMessness
and incompetency.
APPLY IT AT HOME.
In the Star of Friday and Sat
urday we commented upon ah edi
torial which appeared in the New J
York Tribune discussing the late
race disturbances in this State and
in South Carolina, in which the
writer held that there was no Justi
fication for the course pursued by
our white people to protect them
selves from negro domination. The
conclusion from that article was
that the white people must com
tinue to submit to negro domination
no matter how humiliating or op
pressive it might be until they could
outnumber' and outvote the negroes,
and that relief in any other way
would be a negative of the theory of
"majority rule" and be practical re
volution.
If the theory of "mai rity rule
and universal suffrage" were con
ceded to he fundamental principles
there woutd be some foundation for
the line of argument pursned by
the Tribune, but the majority rule
and universal suffrage as the fathers
of the Republic understood it is
qufte different from the majority
rule and universal suffrage as un
derstood by those who criticise the
white people of the South who do
not see universal suffrage in the
same light that they do, and do not
hold it as "sacred" as they do. In
nnr remarks yesterday we showed
how this universal suffrage was in
nosed npon the South, and that the
people of the South were never mor
ally or as citizens bound to reeog.
niae it, in which refusal they have
had the tacit or open approval of
the people of other sections
But our critit are. neither candid
nor hondst for they find fault with
us for refusing to submit to condi
tions to which they would not sub
mit one day, if they could help it.
They find fault w th us for protect
ing ourselves from negro rule, and
for keeping negroes out of office
when they do not give the negroes a
ghost of a chanoe to get into office,
although if they did give the ne
groes among them such a showing
there would be no danger of negro
domination, as there is suoh a das
whites krg4y outnumbering the ne
groes. They showno moreregaTdfor
the negro as an office-holder than the
white people of the South do, and
are studiously silent on their ostra
cizing the negro while lecturing us
for refusing to be governed by, him. sible for the collapse of the Repub
There are a great many negroes 1 liean party, and that it would be
in some
such as
of the Northern States,
New York, Ohio, and
Illinois, where many thousands of
them are voters, but who ever heard
of a negro being nominated: for any
office in any of these States? If
they think the way shonld be open
for them to run for and to hold
office in sections of the South where
they are in the majority, (for that
is what their contention means if it
means anything), why should noti
the way be equally open to them in
the North, where they have so many
professed friends, and are in the
minority? Wouldn't it come with
better grace and more consistency
from these critics if they showed their
honesty by giving the negro some
substantial recognition before criti
cising the Southern people for de
clining to put the negro on top?
Mr. McKinley received thousands
of negro votes when he ran for the
Presidency. JIas he ever shown
that the negro was entitled to any
claim or consideration by appoint
ing any of them to any position in
the North? He has shown his ap
preciation not by appointing them
to official positions in the North
where they would come into contact
with white people, but by appoint
ing them to positions in the South,
when by so doing he outraged pub
ic sentiment and intensified the
race feeling, which he dared not
provoke in the North. The logical
inference from such appointments is
that in Mr. McKinley's opinion ne
groes are good enough to hold office
in the South but not in the North,
thns practically negativing the
"equality" of which the Bepublican
editors prate.
From their standpoint, practically
at least, and as shown by their treat
ment of the negro, the negro in the
South is one thing, the negro in the
North another, good enough to rule
in the South but not good enongh
to rule in the North.
Taking possession of and holding
the Antilles, and the" Philippines,
seems now to be the settled policy of
the Bepublican party as represented
by the Administration at Washing-
eans wmcn
speak for this
for the Republican party. The prin-
cipal, in fact the only argument in
justification of 3uch a policy, in the
face of our disavowal of any pur
pose of conquest, is that the natives
of these islands are unfit for self-gov
ernment, and therefore we must as
friends to them, hold and govern the
islands until the natives are suffi
ciently qualified to govern them
selves. They make nmess to rule
a qualification as to the people of
those islands, And declare that it is
a duty we dweto them to prevent
them from, ruling themselves until.
in onr opinion, they are com
petent to do it well, and yet
the men . Wh . talk this way
and show such sol citude for the
welfare of these people whom we
have taken under our paternal care,
put ballots in the hands of the
emancipated slaves of the South and
thus not only vested them with the
"constitutional right to govern
themselves, but to govern the-white
people of the South, and they did
it, too. when a very large number of
the white men of the South were
disfranchised by the same party that
enfranchised these slaves. They
didn't show a tenth part of the con
cern for either the white people of
the South or the black people of the
South as they are now showing for
these mixed races of the Spanish
possessions, whom they are so solici
tous to protect from themselves.
Isn't every reason they give on
that line for refusing to turn the
ffovernmtfhts of these islands over
to their oVn people, equally--
against turning the government of
any Southern State or tliegovern
ment of a portion of any Southern
State over to negro rule, when tliey
themselves admit that thi negroes,
after thirty-two years of voting,
schooling and Republican training
are not fit to rule? Why not apply
the reasoning as to Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines te our.
iome folks who are nearer to us and
should be dearer to them?
HOLDING GOV. RUSSELL RESPONSIBLE-
V
The reported interview by a cor?
respondent of the 8mb with Mar
shal Dookery, published in the
Siab yesterday, is the first public;
expression of sentiment from the
Dockery side since the recent land
slide hot it seems that Ishe Dookery-,'
Sr.. tributes to the able adminis-
tration of "Dan RusselF previous to
the election were simply to pull the
wool over the eyes of Dan, and thus
innuence nim to uu umc mwe m
the way of. boosting the Dockery the necessary capitepias b4en kc$
candidates into the offices thev were scribed andfthe wor will b prjose-
hankering for, especially Dookery,
Sr., who had previously made some
WILMINGTON, N. G., FR
uncomplimentary remarks
agont "Dan."
.. It is pretty fair to info that the
Marshal in this interview voiced the
sentiments of the Dockery family in
it . T'-nBBKsassi '
no ding (jrovernor - Kassell respon-
doughnuts to them if their pet
h&version were impeached. Nobody;
ever thought at any time that Gov
ernor Bussell would wear mourning
f the whole Dockery combine was
cleaned out, but it is pretty sure
that since reading this tribute of
appreciation and kindly feeling be
will not d$ny more than retire for
a while and weep. Perhaps, thoughf
when he recovers his equanimity he
may reiterate some of his previous
remarks. Under the circumstances
however, he should make a good
deal of allowance for the Dockerys,
as a wholejot of them were swooped
by the same cyclone and naturally
feel somewhat sore.
CUFFING THE BLACK CONTIN
GENT. The deluded negroes of this State
who ever since their enfranchise
ment have been standing by the
Republican party and voting as then
leaders of that party told them to
vote are now beginning to discover
how misplaced their confidence was.
No sooner had the result of the
election been made known than a
number of the. Western Republicans
began to discuss the organization of
a "Lily White" Republican party,
the doors of which would be closed
against the negro. .
A correspondent -of the SxaB,
who had a conversation with IT. S.
Marshal Dockery, reports him as
saying: "If you Democrats dis
franchise the nigger (he is a 'nig
ger' now since the election) so that
he can never get into politics again,
we will form a- 'Lily White', party
and gain control in North Carolina
inside of five years." This doubt
less expresses not only the Dockery
sentiment, but the sentiment of a
good many other white Republicans
in this State, and it is an illustra
tion, too, of their utter selfishness
and of their base ingratitude to and
desertion of a race which has loyal
ly stood by them for more than
thirty years, and voted almost sol
idly for them at the last election.
J. B. Fortune is a white Republican
of Wake county. Shortly after the
colonization oi tne negroes was tne
solution of the race problem and
that he favored it. To explain him
self more fully he sent the following
which appeared in the Raleigh Post
of Saturday.
As several papers have quoted what;
I said in recrard to the results of the
last election in North Carolina, and !
the future of the Republican party
i State as i see it, witn your par
nbn I would like to explain
my-
i
self more fully.
publican party in North Carolina with
the distinct understanding with the
negro that he is not to have any office,:
where the appointment, or election of
him in it. will ininro his race, or weak
en the Remiblican nartv. If the ne- I
gro is not disfranchised by the Demi
crane party, let mm plainly urn
stand that he is at liberty to vote f
any party he chooses. lam saying
Because is is oesi xor mm ana me
that we act nonest witn eacn oi
.concerning conditions which con f:
us to-day.
He cannot protect himself. The
State government cannot protect him,
the National government cannot dnP
tect him. to hold office where the white
man says he does not want him and
will not have him. This is a tenp
fact.
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I have said that colonization was the
thing for the negro. Now why dptfl
say it? It may never be done. But
if the neero race has an ambition to
hold: office and political promotions
during Me, colonization is the only
door open to him to prove to the world
that he is capable of self government
Resolutions passed by the Northern
negro does the Southern negro more
harm than good. We do not want
any Force Bill legislation for the
South, either. Just let us alone and
we can, if we will, build up a Re
publican party in North Carolina that
the whole country will be proud of,
and that the other Southern
can pattern after. There is
much difference in McKinley ism
and Bryanism as there is between day
light and night, so far as the prosperity
of the United States is concerned And
I want to see the Republicans of North
Carolina go to work and organize the
Jbtepublican party in tne state on tne
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pnncipiesoi una xtuuuntu. xvepuuiicau
platform protection, sound money.
territorial expansion, and a strong cen
tral government and you will see the
ousiness interest or ine Quite ana
thousands of voters join in and help
to build up the only National party
taat nas ever been able to give tnis
country prosperity. These are my
own individual views, honestly ex
pressed. Respectfully,
J. B. Fobtttnsj.
This is interesting only in so far
as it shows the trend of thonght of
white Republicans, and what they
really think of the negroes. It
shows, too, that Governor Russell it
hot the only Republican who, practi
cally at least, regards them as "sav
ages J- 'J .
A- new company,? known as the
Grace syndicate, has been organized
to construct the Nicaragua canal,
.and has secured possession of the
. concessions held by the Warner
j ixiuivi yvmpuu. i la sum uua-s
cnted at onoa-ftretty Heh V bjr"
' route as snrveyed
tn
rom
25,
Disbanded Yesterday Afternoon
Five CKtfeckDy Cap
tain Albert Todd.
ROSIER OF THE COMPANY
Record of Physical Condition When En
listed and Discharged, with Descrip
tion and Deportment of Each
Member, PHed at Wish
ington and Raleigh.
At usi two minutes to 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon Captain Albert
telared Company "K," Second
North Carolina Infantry, 17. S. A.,
out of service. All day the
tfd had, been busy making physi
cal examinationsof the members. And
other members of the muster out staff
were preparing the pay roll and other
records incident to the disbanding of
the company.
According to announcement made
in yesterday's Stab the company was
assembled at the W. L, I. armory at
A. M. It was a few minutes past that
hour when Capt. MacRae and the mus
ter out officers arrived, and as they ap
proached the boys lined up in front of
the building and gave three lusty
cheers for the gallant captain. They
also gave the officers who accompanied
him a hearty reception.
: No time was lost in getting down to
work. They had two days allowed
for the muster out, but one proved
all that was needed. One of the most
important records prepared for the
muster out was a complete history of
the company, showing in detail the
record of each member during the
whole time he was enlisted, his physi
cial condition at the time he was en
listed and when he was dismissed
There are five copies of this record.
One is filed with the War Department
at Washington, another with the State
authorities at Raleigh, the third is
kept by the muster out officer, the
fourth is for the captain of the com
pany and the fifth is left with the Wil
mington Light Infantry.
After the boys had been lined u p and
formally declared mustered out at 5
o'clock, the work of y paying off
still remained to be done, and also the
signing of the certificates of dismissal.
This required almost two hours.
Altogether more than $8,000 was
paid out, all of it in beautiful new bills
just from the presses. Each member
of the company drew two months and
fifteen days' pay. The out of -town
of the company will return
homes to day. The muster
will go to Wilson, where
several members of the I
and did not
f? '
K. Roster.
Captain Donald MacRae.
First Lieutenant Chas. H. White.
Second Lieutenant R. H. Cowan.
Sergeants William A. Whitney,
j James S. Hooper, Cuthbert Martin,
Charles D. Myers. James A. Windlev
FT?
members
to their
out omcers
the will meet
I come a own nere to De mustered ou
Company
thsand Riehard Bradley.
uorporais ugene v orsnee, Eugene
J. Woodward, Champ McD. Davis,
Charles F. Green, Hugh W. Turren
tine, Charles M. Mc Arthur, - Hestel E.
Frazier. Vernon Baldwin,, Edward
nunc, J on a a., urotgen, Jr., James
O. Reiily and William G. Lewis.
Musicians George M. Baldwin and
Frederick C. Graff
Artificer John Quelch.
w agoner Milton Kay.
Privates A. E. Barlowe. J. E Boy-
Ian, J J. Breckenridge, C. N. Brewer,
Jr., Ut. -IT. Brooks, A Bryant, "aui
Branch, A. J. Burruss, U. M. Butler,
O. XL Byerly, J. W. Eapp, Geo. B.
Clark, R. L. Clummants, F. H. Coop
er, O. G. Crouch, J. S. Daggett, P. E.
Dancy, E. P. Dhdlw, Geo. F. Duke,
Eugene Edens, O. G. Farrow, D. W.
Green, Luther Greer, K. B. Hardee,
D. G. Hardy, Jos. A. Herring, Thos.
Hobbs, T. A. Heide, A. J. Howard,
Charles T. Johnson, W. A. Keith, L.
D. Latham, S. McK. Lewis, J. P.
Long, J. F. McCartney, D. C. Mo-
Keithan, E. W. McKinney, a B.
Mangum, J. U. Myre, W. S. Mintz. O.
Moffltt, N. A. Morrison, C: W. Mul
ford, E J. Murrin, J. A. Oldham, Jr.,
E. E. Parker, B. D. Penton, S. W.
Pierce, J. E. Powell, C E. Pridgen,
R C. Pridgen, MacC. Rivenbark, R.
Rominger, D. B. Sellers, R. Shaw, E.
Shepard, J. W. Smith, E. Stanley,
Jos Swain, G. B. Thees, J. F Tilley,
G. W. Vernon, C. D. Wakler. J. H.
Wilson, J. L. White, W. T. Williams,
W. R. Windley, G. I. Winn and D.
B. Workman.
Q0V. RUSSELL'S FRIENDS.
Marshal Dockery Says He Has Crashed
the Rep. Party In North Carolina.
A correspondent of the Stab gives
the following account of a conversa
tion witb u. S. Marshal Dockery a
few days ago:
Gov. Russell's friends have a nice lit
tie plan for him. Tour correspond
ent met U. S- Marshal H. C. Dockery
on the Carolina Central train a few
days since.
Mr. Dockery asked, "Do yon
Democrats intend to impeach Gov.
Russell?" "If I had Gdv. Rus
sell's brain and legal training."
said Mr. Dockery, I would
suffer myself to he impeached by the
uemocrauc ljegisiature, ana men go
to some large Northern city and open
a law office as an impeached Southern
Governor, the last remnant of Repub
licanism in the South. It would be a
drawing card, and would insure .him
the biggest kind of a business. '
' 'Governor Russell's blind folly has
crushed the Republican party in North
Carolina, but if you Democrats will
disfranchise the nigger so that he can
never, get in politics again, we will
form a 'Lily Wmte' party and sain
control in North Carolina inside of
five years."
At the meeting in Chicago of the1
JMUgnts of Jbaoor Jno. W. rarsons,
of Mew York, was elected general
master workman by a close vote over
tne present officer, Henry H. Hicks,
who,, is also a ew x orker.
Archie S. Miller, a civil engineer,
age J35 years, single, died in a hotel . m
Washington, D. C, yesterday fwitffi
wnat tne physicians have pronounced
to ds yenow rever.
1898.
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1 MHM - T HsvaBMBBB
NEGRO MAN FATALLY CUH
Catrfis Mitchell's Jugular Vein Severed
by John Bowen, Colored, Early
This Morning
- About one o'clock this morning a
row nwnrmd hAtarAMi fwn nnlutm im
a gambling dive near the comer of
Fourth and Church streets, and one
of them, Charles Mitchell, was very
seriously out. The fact is, policemen
who investigated the' case say, that the
negro could not have lived an hour
after he was cut.
: The jugular vein was, they say,
sevesped on the left side of the neck
and his cheek cut clear across to the
mouth- When friends started to carry
the negro to his home on Fifth, be-
tween Swson and Wright steeet8,i
blood was spurting fron the wound in a
perfect jet and no medical aid could be
gotten. Thelast reportof his condi
was soon alter ne was gotten home:
It was said that he was unconscious
and almost cold in death;
John Bowen is the negro who did t
the cutting. It is not known how
the quarrel started. Policemen
W. TX, George and S, F. Huggins
were at the corner of Fourth
and Church streets and heard the
wounded negro cry out that' he was
cat. The door in the house of which
the deed was com mitted is the third
from the corner on the left side to
ward Nun street. The policemen ran
to the scene but; the murderer . es
caped by running in the shadows and
eluding the officers. When last seen he
passed under the electric light at the I
corner of Fourth and Nun streets.
xne woman wno keeps the dive in
which the cutting occurred would not
tell anything.
The negro Mitchell sells fish at the
city market, and Bowen is employed
at one of the beer bottling houses in
the city. He has not yet been ar
rested.
JAMES R. RICHARDSON'S DEATH.
Owned 24,000 Acres Of
Cotton Was
tie Largest Plaster in the
World.
Memphis, Tekn., Nov.
19. James
R. Richardson, whose death last night
at his plantation. Dahomev. near-
Hiss., was announced, was
off suddenlvbv heart trouble.
His home was in New Orleans.
where he was a leader in society and
was, besides, interested in nearly every
public institution, including two of
the theaters in that city.
Mr. Richardson was probably the
largest individual cotton planter in the
World He cultivated in cotton about
24,000 acres of land, mostly in Missis
sippi. - r
He was a son of Edmund Rich
ardson, who died in 1886, and who
was a native of North Carolina The
Wo7largeWiS
tations. He was known at lfl Cot
ton Knur." The manaeement of the
New Orleans exposition of 1885 was
in his hands.
SENATOR WM. J. DAVIS.
Certificate of Election Issued to Him by
Returning Board Yesterday.
Sheriff D R. Walker, of Brunswick,
and Mr. W. H. Shaw, for Sheriff Hew-
ett, of New Hanover, constituting the
returning board for tins, the Tenth
Senatorial district, met at the court
house at noon yesterday and canvassed
the senatorial vote of the two counties
composing the district.
This action is taken in compliance
with Section 27, of the consolidated
election law of North Carolina, which
provides that the sheriffs in the vari
ous senatorial, districts composed of
more than one county, after receiving
the returns from the clerks, shall meet
on the tenth day after the election in
their respective districts for the pur
pose of comparing the' polls. The
penalty for failure on the part of any
sheriff to perform this duty is $1,000.
In accordance with a further pro
vision of the act requiring the pres
ence of a justice of the peace and five
electors, Justice J. M. McGowan and
Messrs. Jas. Cowan, W. N, Orohly,
R P. McClammy, W. P. Oldham and
R. H. Hewlett met with the board.
The vote as declared is as follows:
W. J. Davis New Hanover, 3,386;
Brunswick, 1,198. Total, 4,578.
t. B. Davis New Hanover, 2,118:
Brunswick, L22. Total 3,30.
From this it will be seen that Wil
liam J. Davis' majority is 1,238, and
a certificate of election was issued for
him to this effect.
He Wants to Come Back.
Yesterday Mayor Waddell received
a letter from F. P. Toomer, a negro
ex-polioeman who fled to Newborn
during the recent trouble, asking if
he could come back to Wilmington to
see his people. The Mayor wrote him,
as he has written several others who
have made the same inquiry, that he
can come back if he wants to do so and
that he will protect him so far as he is
able to do. He advised him. however.
that inasmuch as it appeared that he
had made himself very obnoxious to
many people it would be best for him
to stay away. It is thought hardly
probable that Toomer will return.
Raleigh Post '. The Caucasian will
new quarters and new surround
ing. The last issue of Senator Butler's
paper has made its appearance in
leigh. The plant is being moved to
vruiuauuru w ucre u wiu oe prmxea in
the future. The advertising and busi
ness offices will continue in Raleigh,
and the naner will be mailed from this
point. One of the compositors, who
has been employed on the paper, said
yesterday: 'The object in having the
paper printed in GoldsbOroisto reduce
expenses, n is a wseuoa at organized
laoor. oenaior ouutsr nas W pa
Union wages in Raleigh and bv hat
ing it published in Goldsboro he can
employ rat labor. The paper is go
ing down the hill, it only has 2,000
subscribers and is fast losing the hold
3GHf3aaa.?'
THE WRECKED RECORD PRESS
it rirst Did Service in I8 Has
uag neen Little Better Than
Rahnisluv
As much as has been said and written
of late about the printing press of the
Daily Record office, the wrecking of
which, by the indignant white citizens
Of Wilmington to avenge a slander
upon Ihe fair women of North Caro
lina, really brought about the recent
racewarhere.no reference has been
made to the history or value of the
machine.
It will be of interest to know thaW
the press was bought in New York sify
and brought to Wilmington in 1865 to
print a daily paper caUedthe Dispatch,
established at that time by Mr Wil
liam H. Bernard and the lateCkd,
Jno. D. Barry. It was a Howe
succeeding years the old press
passed through many vicissitudes and
seen some hard service until at the
time it was wrecked on November
10th, it coukl be said to have no real
value as a printing press.
It was used for printing the Dis-
patchioTA few years; but Major Ber
nard soon retired from the paper Sub
sequently the Dispatch failed and the
press was sold to Republicans to print
a paper called the Post. During the
memorable Ore on Market street the.
in which the newspaper office
was estaoiisned burned and it war
only by the heroic efforts of Mr. S. G.
Hall and others thrt the press was
saved from the fire, theXbuading hav
ing fallen in only a few minutes after
the press was removed.
Within a short time the press was
set-up again on Marketjstreet,?between
and Third, and on a subse
quent Thanksgiving day moved to the
building now occupied by S. G. Hall's
Job Printing office. In the course of
time the Post suspended publication
and the old press, then practically,
worn out, was stored back of Mr.
Hall's job - Office, considered mere-
y. a piace.-of v worthless plun-
aer. ninauy aoout ten years ago
a 1 Tn -s a
the old press was sold at auction
to Mr. T; W. Clawson for a paltry
sum, probably $10. He kept it there
just as it was for quite a while, until.
he sold it JA. L. Manly, the negro
editor, when he started the Record,
less than a year ago, Manly had the
old thing patched up and overhauled,
so that he managed to print the few I
hundred copies of the paper which he I
circulated. However, as it was, the f
paper would frequently fail to appear I
. .. -tijl J " " I
on an aiternoon ana tne next aay there
would be an explanation that 'the
Record failed to appear because the
prem.was iJwftendoVn.'' Sometimes
the paper misled as many as two and
three issues in sueosnatenn thisaQ
count. This press, together with a few cases
of old type, a couple of chases and
some other articles of little if any
value, constituted the. office of the
Daily Record, as destroyed November
10th. And yet Manly, in telling of
his troubles North, puts on a doleful
face and talks of his loss as though a
whole fortune had been destroy edt A i
clear case of "making a mountain out
of a mole hill."
DEMPSEY'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED.
Meeting of the County Commisioners and
Board of Education Yesterday. A
There was a called meeting of the'
Board of County Commissioners yes
terday. All the Board was present
except W. F. Alexander.
Early in the meeting the session was
.resolved into a Board of Education by
catling in CoL Jno. D. Taylor, clerir
of the Superior Court, and Charles
Norwood, register of deeds. The re
signation of F. J. Dempsey as a mem
ber of the Board of Education was
accepted. The resignation, together
with the reason therefor,- was pub
lished in a recent issue of the Stab.
The only busines stransacted by the
County Commissioners was the release
of J. E. Silvia, of Federal Point
township, from taxes, by the correc
tion of a clerical error.
They Are Returning.
One of the prominent colored men
of the city sent out by Mayc
to induce negro refugees, reported
have been m hiding m the outskirts of
the city for fear of molestation by the
whites, returned to the city yesterday
oming. In conversation with a
Stab reporter, he said that he found
large numbers of frightened negroes
in the adjoining townships, but int
mated that none was m the feai
starving condition as described by
some. Upon assuring them that the
city government promised protection
to all law-abiding and peaceable citi-
tens and by showing them the sign t
statement from- Mayor Waddell,
they, in, a majority of eases, had
returned to their homes in the city and
had resumed their work. As a renre
sentative of the better element of th
colored race, he spoke very compli
mentary of Mayor Waddell and the
efficient chief of police, Mr. Parmele.
Admiral Cervera's official re
port emphasizes the work of the
Brooklyhj Schley's flagship. It may
he observed that his report was not
revised by our navy - department.
Otherwise, Sampson's ship -would
have been substituted for. Schley's.
-Atlanta Gomttiutim, Dem.
Senator Hanna and some
other people are talking gfiblv of a
duty on tea and coffee, as if they
were not aware that a" duty is now
levied oh tea, under the new War
Revenue law, which Ijas raised the
custom receipts slightly above the
the low-level attained under the
Dlngley tariff. Mmtdelphia Re
writ, Dem.
riends and relatives in Wil
mington will hear with profotrndest
sorrow of the death of MmaMary,
Anderson Alderman, whioh occurrec
yesterday at her home at Tomahai
N. C, in the seventy-second year
Mr. and Mrs. Alderman for a lone
tfene
resided inWilmington, but about !'
two years ago they moved' to Toma-l
hawk where they have since been re-
riding. It was while living here that '
Mrs. Alderman endeared herself to so
many Wfisaington people by her kind
and affectionate temper and her tender
and amiable disposition. She was up
to the time of her death a member of
Grace MethodistiChurch of this jty,
and lived the life of a consecrated and
amiable Christian lady, whose life was
an inspiration to those with whom she j
came in contact.
Deceased was a daughter of the late
William J. Love, of Wilmington, and
the wife Of Mr. L T, Alderman.
Twn daughters, Mrs. Dr. Murphy
and Miss Florence Alderman, of
Tomahawk, and two sons, Capt. J. T.
Alderma ol Raleigh, and MrrAdol
phus Alderman, survive her, and have
the irref
suffered.
ine funeral services wiU be con
ducted to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock j
from Grace M. E. Church, and imme
diately, thereafter the interment will
be made in Oakdale cemetery.
SALE OF . F.ANDY. V. R. R.
E. S. Martin, Special Master, Notified
That Appeal to Supreme Court
Will be Withdrawn.
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xb uu w seems aoBoiuiejy certain
that the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
railroad will be sold as a whole and
not in sections as was desired by New
York bondholders. -
E. S. Martin, Esq., one of the special
masters in tine pending proceeding
in the United States Supreme
Court, involving the sale of the
road - has received notice , from
counsel in the case to the effect that
the appeal to the Supreme Court ask
ing" revision of the decree of Judge
Simonton tSat the road be sold as a
whole will be withdrawn so that the
decree for the sale as a whole will take
its course. However, this step has not
yet been taken nor does Mr. Martin
know when the appeal will be with
drawn. He only knows that it is the
avowed purpose of the counsel to take
lhat course.
Judge Simonton s decree, whioh will-!
be executed in case the appeal is with
drawn; provides for the sale of the
road as a whole at auction and the
division of the proceeds among the
creditors. The sale will probably be
m Fayetteville.
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UlfcU IN KALblUH YcSTcKUAY.
The Remains of Mrs. Joanna Maan
to
Arrive Here This Afternoon
'Funeral Tiumnrrnw. O
- isiv-
News was received here yesterday
of the death of Mrs. Joanna Mann,
widow of the late L. H. Mann, of this
city. She died in Raleigh yesterday
afternoon, and the remains are ex
pected to arrive here this afternoon.
The funeral will, however, probably,
not be held until to-morrow after
noon, inasmuch as the deceased's son,!
Mr. J. L. Mann, of Washington, D.
C, has been telegraphed for and can
not reach here in time for the inter-!
ment to be made earlier. J
Mrs. Mahn was born in Swanns-
boro, and died in the fifty-second yda
of her age. She leaves five children.
H. W. Howell, of this city ; Mr. J. L.
Mann, of Washington, D. C ; Mr. W.
E. Mann, Mr. S. L. Mann and Miss '
Geneva J. Mann ; all of this oitjs
And the Star joins their friends in
sincere sympathy for them in the 1m
of their mother a most estimable
lady, who was a consistent membes-fa-
Fifth Street Methodist Church and the
lies' Aid Society of that congrega-
on. -
The funeral service will he. coin
ducted from Fifth Street Churoh by
the pastor. Rev. W. L.
and the interment will be in Oak
cemetery.
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.
I
Robinson, Democrat, and White, 1
Declared Elected by SmaU Msjoritie
Star Telegram.)
cial vote of the Fonrteentll
district was not canvassed i
on account of the failure of the
of Harnett county to meet the shei
of Sampson an Bladen yesterdaj
The count shows J. W. S. Robittson,;
jpemoerat, to heelected jwnl3Ft
seven majority, and F. M. Whites Fa-i
sionist. bv twenty-four majority.
Both senators are from Sajnpaon, -;;Th
vote was very close in the district $
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M:hfX,, friends in
rabTe rost' WBfeh-W -jn LI
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r1i nnmnmrn '
vuiuimcsMM. mm
dale
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Lcial count at KoseDoro, to-uuy, ujj
vote in tiwFourteenth SehafoBtP
dMrfct, declares J. W". S. Robinson
Democrat, and White, Fusion, elsM&
ie Democrats have claimed the elec
tion of Jones, and enough votes cast ;
for Jones in one; township in Sampson
county were thrown out on tee 8th
elect him bv a good majority. In
townships in Sampson the Fusi
regtstered several votes on the day
election illegally.
Smithfteld Herald: Froi
nresent outlook it seems as if 1
age m tobacco in jonnscon
r . . . . .
will be quanrupied next year.
Rockingham Rocket'.
Patterson, of
died suddc
ing and
noon.
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