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HOME PROBLEMS. x
We have national problems, State
problems, financial problems, social
problems, industrial problems, some
of which affect all the-people, some
of which affect only portions of the
people aud some of which affect the
people of some section more than
they do those of other sections. In
common with other sections i6f tha
country the South takes great in
terest iu national questions, such as
the finances, the tariff, the newly
sprung question of expansion, and
others, buc the great problem in
which she is more immediately and
directly interested is the problem of
her industries, how to advance them
-iind fully utilize her matchless
resources. She is making progress
and, "under the circumstances, mar
vellous progress, in establishing
manufacturing industries, notably
in the manufacture of cotton and of
iron, but in her great industry
agricultureshe has not made the
progress her best wishers would like
to see. This is not because the
Southern farmer is lacking in intel
ligence inferior to farmers of
other sections, for taken as a whole
.the farmers of the South are the
equals in intelligence if not j supe
' rick to the farmers of the agricul
tural West taken as a whole. 1
The defects for which the , South
erner mers as a class are criticised
arejnpt so much in the man as in the
systems he inherited, from which it
is not such an easy thing to break
away"! In this respect the West has
the advantage of the South, for most
"of- thiis comparatively young,
where the people struck out fot
themselves unincumbered by in
herited systems. They have no ruts
to get out of that they didn't make
themselves. In a Targe portion of
the South the planters inherited cot
ton culture and they stick to it not
so much as a matter of choice as a
matter of necessity under present
conditions. It would not only be
difficult but impossible for them to
abandon that, for the conditions com
pel them to adhere to it and, to get
jout of it by degrees and slowly if
' at all.''
Cotton is called the 'money
crop," and it is the "money crop,"
even if there isn't any money in-it,
paradoxical as this may seem. It
is the "money drop" because it is
about the only crop that Ithe planter
can get money advanced upon to
make it, so that it commands money
before it is planted. When it is
growing, and reaching maturity he
can get more money advanced on it,
aud thus the crop helps to produce
itself . When harvested and ready
for market if the planter doesn't
Want to sell at the rutincr prices he
can store it and draw money ou it
approximating the market value of
the lint. It is not liable to damage
by keeping, or to decay, or to freez
ing as other crops would' be, and is
therefore in many respects the most
"desirable and convenient crop to
handle. Aside from the fact that it
. is the inherited crop, so to speak,
these are some of the i reasons why
its culture is so generally adhered
to and why the planters seem so re
luctant jfco abandon it, or even to re
duce the acreage. j
We wrote yesterday on wheat
culture, but there isn't, a3 far as we
know, a-wheat market in the South.
The farmer who grows wheat to sell
Vonld either have to bhip it away,
or have Aground into flour at his
nearest mill and then dispose of his
flour to some local merchant.
It is so with other grain. There
is no market for any of the grains
in our Southern cities as they have
in the West, where every town of
any size-has its grain markets and
its lpcal buyers who buy for ship
' raent. . !
There; is not in the South, as far
as we know, but one market for
, fray, because until quite recently
there was but little hay produced
fn the? South, when most of the hay
consumed was imported from the
West. We believe, but are not
luite sure of it. that there is a hav'
market now at Newnah, Georgia, in
the neighborhood of which the pro
duction of hay has become consider
able of an industry.
There is not, as fjfar as we know,
in the South a market for beef, pork
or mutton, most of the beef raised
VOL. XXX.
tot sale, not needed for local con
sumption, being shipped alive to
other markets. And so with pork
and mutton. There are no slaught
ering establishments such as they
have in Western cities, where the
farmers can find ready purchasers
for the, stock they have to sell.
Of course all this has a discour
aging effect on the farmers who
would engage in diversified farm
ing, , for there is little inducement
to plant crops which the planter
will find difficulty in selling, and
for which when he does offer1 for
sale he will be compelled to take
the local price, regardless of what
the ruling prices may be in the
great trade marts. In the cotton
belt we have cotton markets in
nearly all the towns of any impor
tance, just as in the West they have
grain and meat markets in nearly
all the towns of any importance.
So sh,ould we have in the South
not only cotton and tobacco mar
kets, but grain, hay and meat mar
kets, and if we had it would give a
powerful stimulus to diversified agri
culture, which must come before we
can have a really prosperous South.
Gan th s be done? Why shouldn't
it? Wouldn't it be a very easy mat
ter for the merchants of any town to
establish such markets and let it go
out to the farmers that if they grew
wheat, corn, oats, hay, or raised
beef, pork, or mutton, that they
could find purchasers who would pay
them the ruling priced for these
articles, just as the buyers in the
Western towns do with the farmers
there. The result of this would not
only be to encourage diversified agri
culture, and stock raising, which
would add to the prosperity of the
farmers, but it would add to the
trade of the, towns and to their pros
perity. - ;;
The planters need encouragement
in their efforts to break away from
the "all cotton" system and adopt
the better system of diversified farm
ing, and the towns can help them in
it, and in helping.Jthem, help them
selves. V ' - " ',
ELECTIONS IN THE SOUTH.
Ex-GovernorBullock, of Georgia,
a Republican, has recently written
letters on the race problem which
have attracted wide notice not only
on account of the source from which
they came, but on" account of the
views expressed, for he is outspoken
in advocacy Of qualified suffrage as
the easiest and most effective solu
tion. He takes - issif e with those
who favor what might be called pu
nitive legislation, such as limiting
the representation in proportion to
the number of votes cast, force bills,
etc. In reply to Congressman
Thomas, of Illinois,, who favors force
'bill legislation, he writes a letter to
the Washington Post in which, re
ferring to an editorial discussing Mr.'
Thomas' views, and also his own, he
says:
I agree entirely with vou as to the
basis of representation in Congress,
aud as to the right and duty of the
States to purify their franchise and
eliminate ignorance from the ballot
box. Id) this procedure, while we
keep within the .limitation of the
National Constitution, we should re-'
ceiv-e the commendation and en
couragement of our sister States North,
who from their abundant wealth can
afford liberal free education to all
their , young people growing into citi
zenship, f v
It was no fault of ours that in the
South the great mass of ignorant male
slaves were thrust into the ballot-box,
and that our intelligent white men,
those who had held office before the
war, were excluded from it. This
illogical legislation by a Republican
Congress was the only provision for
the re-establishment of civil govern
ment in the States which had composed
the Confederacy.
This mistaken policy was subse
quently made fundamental by the
fourteenth amendment. -
These conditions our people accept
ed as the choice of evils, and instead
of counting two-thirds of the nesrroes
in making up the basis for represen
tation we counted .them all. Then
came the fifteenth amendment, which
prohibits any State from denying
rights on account of raoe, color, &c.
"Recently some of our States have
modified, and later on more of them
will so modify the limit of franchise
as to lift it to the hands of intelligent
tax-paying citizens. In this they have
my most hearty concurrence If any
State shall legislate for a regulation of
franchise on a color line, such legisla
tion "must fall when the fifteenth
amendment is judicially construed.
Bu whatever our lawful provision fer
franchise may be, does not restrict the
basis for representation. This isvas
you say, art population and not on
franchise." "
A short while ago we published
an extract from an intetviewwith
Bishop Fallows, qf Chicago, in
which he said the statesmen who
conferred suffraee on the emauci-
pated slaves without anyprepara-
tory training for citizenship com
mitted "arave error," which they
unquestionably did, assuming that
they were acting from good and
honest motives. But they werenot,
and hence this conferring of fran
chise was not, under the circum
stances, "a grave error," but some
thing more closely bordering on a
colossal crime. They knew the
negroes, with very few exceptions,
were not competent to exercise the
franchise intelligently, and they
knew they would be led and voted
'ai so many dumb cattle by un
principled white men, both native
and from other States, as they were
and still are. They knew that then
just as well as they know it now,
after hirty-two years of experience.
And yei they conferred the fran
chise on all these negroes, and some
of them now find fault with the
Southern States which pass laws to
protect themselves from this mass
of ignorance.
' But Mr. Bullock takes issue with
them on that and contends that it
is not only the right, but the duty
Of the States to protect themselves
from the possible rule of the ignor
ant and unfit. Referring to the
suggestion of force bills, he says:
"My recommendation to which you
refer was made ten years ago in oppo
sition to a newspaper suggestion that
a Republican Congress should provide
a remedy by legislation 'foree bills'
for an alleged violent suppression of
Republican votes in Southern Con
gressional districts. This recommenda
tion I recently repeated in objecting to
a similar intimation.
."That recommendation then and
now is: J
" 'If it be true that one white South
ern vote in Congressional elections is
equal to three white Northern votes,
this can be overcome by the simple
remedy I pointed out through your
columns ten years ago-November 2
1888 as follows : Whenever the total
number of votes cast for. a Congress
man does not bear a fair proportion
to the whole number of inhabitants in
the district in which an election is
held. Congress should refuse to seat
the member claiming to be elected,
and notify the proper State authori
ties to hold another another election.
This course should be continued and
repeated until the election resulted in
a full and free representation through
the ballot boxes. There is
one thing a Republican Congress
should not do, and that is to seat con
testants from this section. Let our
districts and States, remain unrepre
sented until our own people hold
elections that are above suspicion and
without grounds for contests before
Congress.
"I will now add that it will be. bet
ter for us to remain unrepresented if
necessary, while we aae adopting and
perfecting improved systems of elec
tion laws, than to be subjected to Fed
eral interference. Such interference
our people would construe as an effort
by Republican authority to Africanize
the South. Any legislation by a Re
publican Congress on this line would
be welcome to my Democratic friends
and insure the continued solidarity of
the white vote m national as well as
local affairs, and thus make certain
that 'solid Southern alliance with the
anarchical elements of the rest of the
country, to the' ruin of all the coun
try,' which' you and I, Mr. Editor,
seek to avoid." '. y i '
"Leave to us the regulation of our
own elections. When a Congressman
presents himself who is not truly re
tresentative with a majority of the
awful votes of the district behind
him, let Congress refuse him a seat
and request the State authorities to
ordera new election
"In this State (Georgia) the real
contest is in the primaries for nomina
tion. After the nomination has been
decided, little' interest is taken in
the formal election, and hence the
small official vote. If, however, any'
opposition candidate sees, fit to press
himself, the polls are open and free.
"It might be better if the active con:
test took place at the regular elec
tion. In that ease, the number
voting would satisfy even Mr. Thomas,
of Belleville, 111. But anything like
Congressional action by "force-. bills,"
t3Eegulate and control Southern elec
tions iErt he hope of "negro domina
tion," would set the Republican Party
in a minority where it would and
should remain indefinitely.
Under very adverse conditions the
negro in the South, since nis, freedom,
have made great progress, and the in
telligent tax-paying classes of- them
will favor suffrage on that basis.
"Even with the additional ignorant
suffrage, that was forced upon us
after the war, we in the South, with
few exceptions, have local govern
ments safer for our best interests than
some at the North. Socialistic 'combi
nations have not taken possession of
any of our municipal governments,
and never will. .
"I do not agree with Mr. Thomas,
of Illinois, that we need further
amendments to the national Constitu
tion.. ' j
"Let us rather abide fairly by those
we have. 5 Under them the Southern
States will shovf to the country the
safest and best franchise in the Union,
with a purely American control, and
in due season a union of the 'wealth,
worth and intelligence' of this section
with the same elements in the JNortn.
"The effect of such a union will be
the perpetuation of American liberty
and safety for the American citizen,
native and foreignborri.'l
Heretofore there have been a great
many contested elections from the
South, contests that have been en
couraged by the allowances for ex
penses of counsel, &c, and by the
hope that partisanship would exer
cise mere influence in deciding the'
ease, than facte. These contests
verv frequently hang nearly to the
edd of the term when the sitting
member who has voted and drawn
his pay in the meantime is unseated
and the contestant seated just in
time to draw his pay when ou the
alleged evidence there ha3 beed no
congressman serving whjle two
have drawn salaries. As partisan
ship nearly always exercises more or
less influence in deciding these con
tests, and sometimes decides them,
it would be better, as Mr. Bullock
says, to refer the matter back to the
neonle and let them decide it, and
let the people of the district in the
meantime so unrepresented, which
they practically are any way while
the contest is in progress.; This
would have the effect of stopping
the contests, where intimidation was
alleged for it would be giving notice
to the defeatedicandidate that he
must fight hiSfbattle before the peo
ple and not in Congress. In that
case there would be very few con
tests for there would be no prospec
tive salary grab, the United States
footing the bill of expenses in the
meantime.
As far as our elections in general
are concerned they are paragons of
honesty and fairness compared with
elections in some of the Northern
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23,
States whete bribery and corruption
are the order of the day.
The Supreme Court tf Tennessee
some time ago rendered a decision
that reading the papers and form
ing opinions upon whst was read
does not disqualify a man from ser
ving on a jury in a murder trial,
although he may have read all that
was published about it. The court
doubtless acted on the assumption
that a man who does not read the
papers is too much oft a back num
ber to make a reliable? juror.
Congressman-elect ; Roberts, of
Utah, who! is equipped with three
wives, which is advanced as a rea
son why he should, not be per
mitted to take his seat, says if they
give him time he Will divest him
self of the surplus two, for it isn't
an easy matter to get rid of so
much wife on short notice when
the wife shows a disposition to be
sticky.
Another) regulation duel took place
in France the other day, between
two statesmen, one of whom objected
to being called a Whitewashed
Panamaist." Some burned powder
removed the "whitewash," honor
was satisfied and no harm done.
BOYD TO BE PROSECUTOR.
Has Been Complaining That the Federal
Grand Jury Failed to Indict the
' , Wilmington Citizens.
Raleigh Netys and Observer.
Col. Jas. E. Boyd, Assistant Attor
ney General of the United States, will
in a few days get something that will
hold him down for awhile.
Mr. Boyd, it will be remembered, is
the individual Who, betrayed the Ku
Klux, of which organization he was a
member. Now, Mr. Boyd is trying to
perfect another feat of much the same
character.
As stated in this paper sometime
ago, the Department of Justice at
Washington, of which Mr. Boyd is a
part, has been taking a great deal of
interest in North Carolina affairs ; es
pecially that part of its affairs which
relates to Wilmington and the riots
there after election.
And just -before the United States
court met here Attorney General'
Griggs, at Mr. Boyd's suggestion,
wrote to District Attorney Bernard,
directing him to prosecute those who
were concerned in the departure, from
Wilmington, of United States Com
missioner Bunting, who lived with a
negro wife.
Mr. Bernard signified his willingness
to do whatever might be warranted
by the facts in the case and the &vr
governing it. Judge Puraell charged
the grand jury, which by the way is a
remarkably good one, as to the law
governing such cases.
The court has been going on two
weeks and still no true bill has been
brought in against any of the Wil
mington people.
So yesterday another letter came
from the Department of Justice, com
plaining that the men who exiled
Bunting had not been indicted. The
tone of the letter was querulous, dicta
torial and such as must be offensive to
the officers of the court to whom it is
directed.
It is understood, like the former
communications on this subject, to
have been inspired bv Mr. Boyd. And
as he seems so anxious to have these
pe iple prosecuted, regardless of the
facts or the state of public feeling in
regard to the matter, it will, I am told,
be suggested, by way of reply to Mr.
Griggs, that he send Mr. Boyd down
to conduct the prosecution.
Now let Colonel Jeems either put
up or shut up.
HEAD OFFICE TO BE
IN WILMINGTON.
The Relief Department of the Atlantic
Coast Line to Be in Operation After
January 15th.
The office of the relief department
of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Company is to be opened and the
work of the department inaugurated
in this city January 15th. So a mem
ber of the Star staff was told yester
day by Dr. G G. Thomas, A. C. L.
Chief surgeon, who will have the
super in tendency of the department
over the entire railroad system.
Dr. Thomas has but recently re
turned from Chicago, where, as Stab
readers are aware,, he went to make a
study of the work of a simalar Relief
Department being successfully oper
ated by the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad. Mr. Nixon Davis,
who i3 to fill an important position
with the A. C. L. Department, is ex
pected td return from Chicago Tuesday
of this week. He has also been making
a study of the Chicago system.
The Relief Department office to be
established in Wilmington will be the
head office of the whole system. Official
announcements will be made in regard
to the department shortly.
. LETTUCE SHIPMENTS.
The Heaviest of the Year Were Made
Yesterday.
Capt. J. R. Williams, agent for the
Southern Express Company, was quite
busy yesterday handling the lettuce
shipments for the local truck growers
He told a Stab representative yester
day afternoon that the day's shipments
were the heaviest of the year, over
two hundred packages for the North
ern markets having been handled. A
special car for the dajj's shipments
was ordered, and was loaded with the
packages, -j.
The largest shipments were made in
their order by Messrs. J. F. Garrell, J.
M. Chad wick and C. H. Heide.
The prices were quoted yesterday at
from $4.50 to $6.50 per barrel.
ONE OF THE OLD-TIMERS.
L. Q. Estes, One of Wilmington's earliest
, Carpet-Baggers, Goes Into
Bankruptcy.
The extract below, -from the Wash
ington Post, recalls the days of car-pet-baggery
in Wilmington. Gen.
Estes was long a resident here and
was at one time Collector qf Customs.
From here he went to Halifax county,
where he engaged in farming on a
large scale. The Post says :
I "Llewellyn G. Estes, a patent medi
cine manufacturer at 704 Fourteenth
street northwest, yesterday filed a
petition in voluntary bankruptcy. He
declares that he owes debts and is un-
able to pay the same, and that he 'is
willing to surrender all his estates and
effects for the benefit of his creditors.
but that ne has no such estate and
effects.' He desires to obtain the bene
fit of the recent bankruptcv act. The
claims scheduled, and which are un
secured, aggregate about $74,000."
I Among the creditors are T. B.
Keogh, Greensboro, $5,000; Wm.
Black & Co., Tarboro, $9,200; Jas. H.
Chadbourn & Co. and others, Wil
mington, $4,334.10. It may be doubted
if there has been a day during the
last twenty years when either of the
North Carolina creditors would have
refused five cents on the dollar in set
tlement of their claims. '
YARD CONDUCTOR INJURED.
Capt. W. A. Weeks Caught Between
Two Freight Cars and Seriously
Mashed Yesterday Afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon about 4.30
o'clock Mr. W. A. Weeks, yard con
ductor on the Atlantic Coast Line
freight yard, was very seriously in
jured by being caught between two
cars. He is severely mashed across
the hips and Dr. Bullock, the attend
ing physician, fears that serious inter
nal injury has been sustained. It
seems that conductor Weeks went
with engine No. 101 in charge of engi
neer G. S. O'Brian, out to the curve
about two miles from the freight depot,
to get two box cars. ,Mr. Tom Barr,
the switchman, was on the scene when
theaccident occurred.
Conductor Weeks coupled the cars
to the engine himself and signaled the
engineer to proceed. The' train moved
a short distance and was signaled to
I stop. As it did, two box cars standing
on a sidetrack moved down the adja
cent track and the forward one caught
Capt. Weeks and mashed him against
the rear, car of his train.
The injured man was brought to
the city and conveyed to his boarding
i place, the residence of Mra. Norwood,
on Red Cross street. He was met at
the depot by Dr. Bullock, who accom
panied himto the residence and ac
corded medical attention. So far as
can be learned, no blame can be at
tached to any railroad employe or the
Coast Line Company.
Capt. Weeks is an efficient and
popular conductor, and he has the
sincere sympathy of numerous friends
in his unfortunate accident.
GRAND AND TO THE POINT.
That is What An Eye-Witness Pro.
nounces The Exercises in Honor of
Visiting Heroes Wednesday.
Dr. James D. Nutt, who took such
an active and effective part in
beautifully - decorating the Opera
House for the trophy presentation
ceremonies Wednesday night received
the following interesting letter yes
terday which he kindly consents for
the Star to publish, to wit:
My Dear Friend: I was one of the
fortu nates who obtained a seat at the
Opera House last evening to witness
the reception you were about to give
to your townsman and heroes of the
late war, and in my estimation it was
grand and to the point. But what
made it above the average deception
was, the speakers were all so modest,
not courting flattery. Also, to see the
British flag hanging alongside the
American flag, and to hear the band
olav "God save the Queen." paid me
with untold pleasure, the thought of
which I shall not forget. Being a
trader to your country for twenty
years it is the first time for me to hear
the above tune played in the United
States. Therefore, I say it was a
pleasure to be with an American
audience7 , Yours in unity,
Britisher.
One of Jim Young's Soldiers.
Wm. H. Lane, a member of the
Third Regiment of N. CL volunteers,
colored, who is at home on a furlough
was landed in the guardhouse late yes
terday afternoon by patrolman T. H.
Gillifcen for being drunk and disor
derly, corner Water and Princess
streets. He refused to move on when
ordered to do so by the policeman and
grew very impudent and insulting.
When forbearance could avail noth
ing, the officer promptly locked him
up. Lane was once driver of the old
Phoenix Horse Reel Co., and is a well
known negro here. He will be tried
by the Mayor this morning.
The W. S. Cook Steamboat Company.
The Fayetteville Observer says:
Capt. W. T. Gibson, of Savannah,
Ga., is in the city to attend a meeting
of the stockholders to organize "The
W. S. Cook Steamboat Company,"
thecharterof which was recently ob
tained from the Secretary of State. This
company does business on the Savan
nah river between Savannah and Au
gusta.
Alio lliiUVVlUg UlUUOiB IIW VKVVM .
B. R. Taylor, President: A. J. Cook,
Vice President; W. T. Gibson, Gen'l
Manager ; H. L. Cook, General Coun
sel; W. 8. Cook, Sec'y and Treasurer.
This company owns the steamer
"W. S. Cook," which was built at
Ausmsta about two years ago and is a
passenger and freight vessel.
1898.
SMITH'S ISLAND PROPERTY.,
Purchased by Dr. F. B. Ullery, of Chica
goHis Purpose to Build a Sanato
rium There.
Southport Standard.'
Our readers are more or less ac
quainted with the large land suit of
the Government against the Walker
heirs bringing in question the title to
Smith's Island, that large and valuable
ialand of about 4,000 acres at the
mouth of Cape Fear river.
It will be remembered that Dr. F. B.
Ullery, of Chicago, purchased this
property from the Walker heirs sever
al years ago, and that subsequent to
this sale, the Government instituted
suit for the same, which has been
fought by the Walker heirs successful
ly. The question of title was tried in the
court, where it went in favor of the de
fendants. From this the Government
appealed to a higher court, which in
turn confirmed the decision of the
lower court. The limit for appellate
privilege has now expired, whfch
leaves the Walker heirs successful
and the property that of Dr. Ullery,
who has taken considerable interest in
the suit
This property is considered very
valuable. JSven in its undeveloped
and unimproved state it is listed at
$15,000, and now that the question of
title is settled it is probablahat the
ovwftr will carry Out his original pur
pose of building a sanatorium there,
the location being so excellent and
the climate so favorable for such an
enterprise -
Spirits Turpentine Still Advancing. .
The local market for spirits turpen
tine continues quite active. Yesterday
afternoon it closed at 3839 cents, or
li cents over the market for the pre
vious day. A gentleman, who is thor
oughly conversant with all matters
pertaining to naval stores, informed a
Star reporter yesterday afternoon that
spirits turpentine, had not commanded
so high a price in the past ten years.
He attributed the continued rise in the
product to its scarcity on the Southern
markets. The receipts yesterday were
91 casks, and the corresponding day
last year 30.30f cents were the, quo
tations. Assignment of R. R. Love. v
The Star regrets to announce that
Mr. R. R. Love, 4 well known aud
popular merchant of this city, has
been compelled to make an assign
ment. After reserving $500, the per
sonal property exemption allowed by
law, his creditors are divided into
five classes. The liabilities amount to
about $4,400 aud the assets consist of
stock of goods in the store occupied
by Mr. Love on North Water street.
and accounts, etc. Mr. Owen F.
Lo7e is the assignee.
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A VERY GRACEFUL ACT.
On the Part at Hon. F. H. Busbee and
1 Hon. B. F. Long.
Raleigh Post. - J
That was a very graceful act, jnst
such as they are only capable of, on
the part of Hon. Fab H. Busbee, of
this katy, and Hon. B. F. Long, of
Statesville, in tendering their services
to such citizens of Wilmington as it
was proposed to prosecute for recent
occurrences in that city While
it is not at all probable that their ser
vices will be needed, as no prosecn
tions are likely to occur, yet this prof
fer was graceful, and as gracefully
appreciated by the noble community
involved.
And here it is but just to again com
mend the action of Judge Purnell in
removing Bunting and appointing a
decent man in his place. This nipped
any move which may have been in
tended for the harrassment of the
people of Wilmington in the -bud for
which he deserves, as he receives, the
thanks and commendation of all the
people. f
WILL BE A DOUBLE MARRIAGE.
One
of the Grooms-elect a Travelling
Salesman Well Known Here.
There will be a double marriage in
the First Baptist Church at Winston,
on the afternoon of Thursday, Dei
cember,29th. The following invita
tions were received here yesterday, to
wit:
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Webster
give in marriage their
daughters
Addie May
Milton Vergil Miller,
and
Nellie Vance
to
Arthur A. McCray.
Thursday afternoon, December 29th,
Eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
Four o'elock, at First Baptist Church,
Winston, N. C.
Mr. Miller, one of the grooms-elect,
has many friends in this city, he hav-
mg spent some time nere as a travel
ling salesman for the BrOwn Bros. To
bacco Company.
A MAXT0N MARRIAGE.
Mr. A. A. McLeod to Wed Miss Meddle
Stewart Burns.
Invitations were received in this
city yesterday announcing a marriage
to be celebrated at Maxton on Wed
nesday, the 28th inst. The bride and
groom-elect are among Maxton's very
best people. The invitations read as
follows:
A Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Burns
request the honor of your company
at the marriage of their daughter,
- Meddie Stewart,
to
Mr. Adolphus A. McLeod,
on Wednesday,
December the Twentv-eichth. .
Eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
at five o'clock P. M.,
at the Presbyterian Church,
-Maxton, N.C.
There was no change in. the
naval stores market yesterday. Spirits
held firm at the same price as on
Friday.
NO. 10
NORTH CAROLINA K
NAVAL RESERVES.
I Detachment of Wilmington Divi
sion Took Charge of the
Cruiser Hornet.
AT THE NORFOLK NAVY YARP.
A Trial Trip to Chesapeake Bay Will
Leave Monday Afternoon for Wil
. mington Expected to Arrive
Next Tuesday.
Special Star Telegram. ,
Norfolk, Va., December 17. A de
tachment of North Carolina Naval Re
serves, under command of Lieutenant
Commander Geo. L. Morton, arrived
at the Norfolk navy yard to-day f romN
Wilmington and took charge of the
converted yacht Hornet, which was
recently assigned to the reserves as a
practice vessel. The Hornet is one of
the finest ships of what was the "Mos
quito Fleet," and did gallant work in
the Hispano-American war.
Upon arrival here, the reserves at
once went aboard the Hornet and were
assigned positions. They did their first
duty aboard her this afternoon, when
in command of iLieut. J. G. uimby,
the Hornet, left the navy yard for a
short run to Chesapeake Bay, tb lim
ber up the machinery and incidentally
to get the kinks out of the reservfes,
who were rather stiff after thu rail
road ride from Wilmington, The
Hornet's machinery worked like a
charm and the embryo tars got about
like veterans. The Hornet returned
to the navy yard to-night, and, it was
stated, would leave Monday af ternoon
for Wilmington. The run should be
made in thirty-two hours, so that the
Hornet may be expected in Wilming
ton some time Tuesday. The boys
slept aboard her to-night. The Hornet,
before the war, was owned by Henry
H. Flagler, the railroad magnate. She
was named the "Alicia." Ott April
6th the government purchased her for
$117,000. The Hornet took part in sev
eral engagements with the Spaniards ;
notably June 30th at Manzanillo; she,
with the Hist and Wampatuck, while
making a reconnoisance between Cape
Cruz and Manzanillo were engaged
with the enemy's vessels, field bat
teries and. infantry at Manzanillo. The
Hornet was struck many times, hav
ing her main-pipe cut, and becoming
disabled the Wampatuck towed her
out of danger. After repairs she again.
took part in a Manzanillo engagement,
during which several Spanish gun
boate were destroyed. After the war
Hob Hornet came here, and has since
been thoroughly overhauled.
Another Account.
Norfolk, Va., Dec, 17. The Wile
mington Naval Reserves arrived at 10
A. M. to-day and immediatelv went
aboard the U. S. steamship Hornet.
Commander Morton signed for the
ship and equipment. The crew, dur
ing the day, put on water and supplies.
The ship was taken out for a trial trip
to the Capes and return this afternoon,
manned entirely by Naval Reserves,
Capt. Morton in command. The boil
ers have been tested for one hundred
and sixty pounds, but only eighty to
a hundred and five were carried, and
the ship showed a speed of twelve
knots. She can easily make seven
teen knots per hour under full press
ure. I
The North Carolina Reserves have
undoubtedly secured the prize ship of
the auxiliary cruisers. The Hornet
will finish taking on supplies Monday
and sail immediately, and should ar
rive at Wilmington within from twenty-four
to thirty hours. A thorough
test is being made to-night of the elec
tric plant, including her powerful
search lights and her order signals in
the rigging.
THE ELECTION IN
1900.
Jim
Col. W. J. Bryan Says the Issues Will be
Pree Silver, Anti-Imperialism and
the Rights of Labor.
'M
By Telegraph to the Moraine Star.
New York, December 17. The
World will to-morrow publish the fol
lowing: William J. Bryan is in town. He
was found last night, (Saturday) at
the Bariholdi Hotel. Colonel Bryan
declared himself an uncompromising
opponent of the McKinley policy of
expansion. He said :
"It is too early at this time to dis
cuss nartv oolitics for the presidential
election of 1900, but I think the issues
then will be free silver, anti-expansion,
-anti imperialism and the rights
of labor. f
f have already expressed myself
against imperialism and territorial ex
pansion. The proposal to adopt the
colonial idea of European nations is
fraught with the greatest danger.
"What will be fate of the treaty in
the Senate I do not care to predict.
While I was in Washington I sought
all the information I could get I can
not say that I learned sufficient to
warrant me in expressing a positive
opinion.
"Do I think free silver will be an
issue in 1900? Certainly, It will be
the main question. How about the
labor problem? I am not prepared
to answer that question."
I Mr. Wm. J. Bellamy, a popular
Wilmington boy now connected with
the New York office of the American
Tobacco Company, arrived in the' city
last night to spend the Christmas holi
days with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. W.
H. J. Bellamy. The Star joins a host
of friends in extending him a hearty
welcome. He will be here two weeks.
Cotton advanced an eighth yes
terday, being quoted at the closing
5f cents for middling. The tone of
the market was firm and the receipts
2,610 bales.
Capitalists Scared Away by Negro Role
May Return and Establish a '
Large Factory.
American Wool and Cotton Reporter, Dec. 15th.
A new spinning mill is again in
prospect for Wilmington, N. 0. ' The i
term "again" is used advisedly, and
for this reason : About a year ago a
party of Maryland and New England
capitalists sent an agent to Wilming
ton to investigate the prospects and
eligibility of that locality for the es- !
tablishment of a large cotton manu
facturing plant, Wilmington being
naturally an apparently good location
for the purpose. The agent came, and
after an investigation made a most
satisfactory report, including the infor
mation that some local capital could be
oounted on for the enterprise. ' Steps
were taken to establish the plant and
purchases of site, material and letting 1 -of
contracts for j the buildings were
about to be given out, when the chief
promoters of the scheme learned of
the disastrous results that had fol
lowed "fusipn" or negro rule in I
that city and county during the then i
previous year or so. Two of them,
with an attorney and, engineer, went
down there to investigate. Well, to
make a long story short, they finally
ieii, aisgusieu wuu me so-caiieu au
ministration of the laws, the insuffi
cient protectiorr'guaranteed property, L
and prospects of higher taxes. The
attorney (from Baltimore) told the
writer that he had advised his clients
not to invest a dollar of money in
Wilmington while the existing con
ditions prevailed there. The gentle
men canceled all the business engage
ments they had made and returned to
Maryland. New York and New Eng- l
land, whence they came. They did so
with reluctance, as they stated all the
time, and told a certain business man
of the city that when a revolution of
the conditions obtaining bad been
worked there, as he had indicated, if
such a thing ever came to pass, (Which
he doubted,) he and his associates
would possibly be disposed to reopen '
negotiations, wjth the view of estab-
lishing the plant they had at first de
signed. Without waiting for a formal
letter from his Wilmington acquaint-. t
ance, this gentleman went back last
week. Since then he has looked into
the work and effects of the "revolu
tion" promised and which he had seen
in the newspapers of the country had
been compassed. . He states that he is
now satisfied ' with the admi
rable' condition of . public affairs
as locally administered by the ex
isting city and county govern
ments (the board of aldermen and
county commissioners being composed
almost wholly of business men who
have heretofore taken no active in
terest in politics), and is impressed
with the fact that these officials are
now determined to so actively push
the business, industrial and manufac
turing interests of this locality, that
he believes it will be the best govern
ment and the most inviting .field for
investment in the whole South. He
is going back to North Carolina this
week and advise his late associates to
again join with him in establishing
the big mill first contemplated a year
iago. It will be done during the com
ing year, 'j
RUSSIA WANTS TO BORROW.
Representatives of the Government Try
ing to Negotiate a Loan of Immense
Proportions in New York.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star. j
Chicago, December 17. James H. j.
Eckels, president of the Commercial
National Bank, said to-day :
"I am creditably informed that a
great foreign power has sent agents to
the United States, and that they are
now in New York for the purpose of
negotiating a loan of immense propor
tions. If the source of information is
reliable, it is the first instance in the
history of the United States of a
foreign power borrowing money here."
New York, Dec. 17. Emissaries
of Russia have made a careful survey
of the1 situation in this city and have
sounded nearly all of the leading con
cerns. Their business has been con
ducted quietly and so far nothing
seems to show that their overtures
have met with much success.
Jacob H. Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb &
Company, when shown the statement
of Mr. Eckels, said: "I understand
that two or "three weeks ago several
firms in this city, including my own,
were sounded by persons who claimed
to be acting for the Russian govern
ment as to the feasibility of floating a
3 per cent, or 3i per cent. loan. I do
not th in k such a negotiation feasible
in the United States."
Henry Speyer refused to make any
mment on Mr. Jackals' statement.
An effort was made to see J. Pierpont
Morgan and other financiers to-night,
but they could not be found.
IN A SUBURB OF HAVANA.
A Riot in Which One Man Was Killed
and Five Men Wounded Caused by w
Cubans Rejoicing.
By Telegraph to the Morning Star. . j: ,
Havana, December 17. A riot oc
curred at Cerro, a suburb of Havana, i
at 7.30 o'clock to-night. A number of
shots were fired, and one man is re- ' ,
ported to have been killed and five in - 1
jured. The residents of Cerro suppos
ing that the Spaniards had officially .
evacuated the suburbs, raised Cuban
and American flags over a number of
buildings. Crackers were fired and
speechs were made on street corners.
and these rejoicings on the part of "the
Cubans led to a riot. According to
the account of the affair, given by tbe
Spaniards, the riot was the result of a
tavern brawl.
Marion Brill, of Jacksonville, Fla. i
a teamster of the Second Illinois regi
ment, who was driving a mule wagon
through Cerro at the time of the
affray, was struck by a bullet in the
right arm. He was brought to the
Inerlaterra Hotel.
Senor Fernandez Le Castro, civil
governor of Havana, has informed
Gen. Greene that the offenders will
be severely punished. Senor De
Castro says he saw no Spanish soldiers
at the scene of the affray.
At 9.45 this evening Gen. Lee and
Gen. Greene were in conference with
the Spanish officials.
Beeper Water in the Channel.
The good work of U. S. engineers in
deepening the channel of the Cape
Fear river below Wilmington con tinues
to show gratifying results. Yes
terday the British steamship Hindous-
tan, which cleared Friday from Wil- .
mington for Bremen, Ger., with cargo
of 9042 bales of cotton, passed down
the river and out to sea, drawing
twenty feet four inches water, with
out delay from any cause, and on a
moderate tide. Late in the afternoon
the British steamship Assyrian came
up the river, drawing twenty feet
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