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TTON CROP - AND ITS CONDITION. f A Reduction of About Eight Per Cent. In rmuiau at . " : I . m . 91 1W - v A 1 . i :': ' I ' i ' : I. ' ' . ' , V i ' - Wilmington, n. c. . II i ' WW U ,1 I ,1 IT T IT T lnn a -rr-pv i . HI n WW M M . HA - Y lVH'W LJ. i 1 tl.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. I li-JL.JJia V V II A II ViJLjJLd Jl 1 "W t , b (88888888888888818 ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '" -r " - - - ' . ' j ' . ' - ' .IggagSgHHH v WILMINGTON, H.'C, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1895. ' V . ; x() ; 88888888888888888 s ' a ooW , I 888S8888888888888 82888888S828888SS t. : S 888888S88S8888888 SS88S8S228S8S888S S88S888888888S8S I. V4 39n oterd M. the Post Office at ilmtcton, N. C, Second Class Ma'ier.l SUBSCRIPTION PAICE. The subscription price of theWa- ollowi : ly Star Is at Jinnle Copy 1 jrear, postage paid...', " ,i . 6 months ' " 8 months ' " $100 CO 80 . WILL HE DO IT. A large number of tHe leading Republican papers of the country have Urged a reduction of tariff duties . on Ssrticlea on which trusts have been formed. Some have gone , so far as to advocate putting such articles on the iron list. . Some have not the patience to' wait until Con gress assembles in regular session but urge the President to call an ex tra session to meet at once and tackle, this trust question by abol ishing the protection that the tariff rgtves them. As might bo expected the Republican State Conventions will take their cue from these pa- ' pers, and whacks at trusts will be the order of the day with them. . ' Ohio led off, and as that is Mr. McKinley's State, and the - conven tion was bossed by his friend and manager, Hon. Mark,Hanna, it may bo taken f or gran'ted'that the Repub lican conventions of other . States will follow with more or less pic turesqueness,' and by the time they get through it will not be apparent that the trusts have a single friend iu the Republican party. But the trust organizers are not worrying by day nor losing any sleep by night over that. They rather enjoythe cuteness which schemes tonlch some Democratic thunder, for it is only the Democratic denunciation of trusts that give them any concern. As an- illustration showing why ; they need not be alarmed this same Ohio convention which took a swipe at the trusts and demanded from Congress restrictive legislation de feated for a re-nomination Attorney General .Monnett, f who by his pro- :! ceedings against tho Standard Oil trust incurred its enmity andjjie enmity of all the other trusts. That's the way Bos3 Ilanna and the other magnates' who manipulated that convention showed their sin cerity in denouncing trusts, - and their appreciation of the man who ; wa3 brave enough to beard and fight them. The presumption ' is that the man whom they, nominated in his place will understand why that anti-trust plank, was inserted in tho platform and will 7 con strue it accordingly. This fake trick may work as far as the State conventions are concerned but it will not end there, for the trick has been f orestalle.d by the Re publican papers which have de manded that Congress repeal the protective duty on all articles manu factured or controlled by trusts. This brings the case up to Mr. McKinley and puts him to the test. , There is little probability of 'an ex tra session of Congress being called, for Mr. McKinley doesn't want Con gress 'on his hands. If he had his choice ho would probably prefer that it didn't meet until after tho next Presidential election, which would give 'him a better opportunity Jto - play home politics and the Philip pine politics his ; own way. Withj a Congress on his hands this would not be so easy to do. j . ; When Congress does meet, he must send in his message, and of course ho willbe expected to touch upon those topics which have most engage public attention, such as tho trusts, the tariff, the question of colonies, the finances, etc., and he v will be expected to offer such sug gestions as to him may seem wise and expedient. With the condemnation,-of trusts by the Republican conventions,; which will be . about unanimous, ;he must either ignore this or he must take position against the trusts in hiS message. But mere deprecatory expressions will not do. He must go further and suggest or recommend a remedy, and in view of the restrictive legislation already . on the statute books, which has 5 proved such a completo fizzle, about the only thing he can do, if he does anything, will be to follow the ad vice of the journals which have urged the repeal of . the protective features of 'the tariff which have fostered the trusts. ' This will put him to the test. Will he do it? This remains to be seen. If he do, then will Congress act upon bis recommendation? It is placed in about as much of a , quandary as Mr. McKinley is. They will both be confronted by a very unpleasant predicament. . Having a majority in both HouBes, the party will be held responsible for wnat is done or not done. There willbe .no dodging this time and claiming that legislation was pre- ventca by an obstructing minority, for the minority will he with them m tni8 anti-trust, tariff-lowering legislation. If the Presidentfail to recommend it he will be kicking over his own State platform! and other Republican platforms and he' will be held responsible for that; if he does recommend a remedy on the lines proposed and Congress fail 1 'to ' act accordingly, it will he kicking over the several State plat forms and , will be. held responsible, so that whether this trust denuncia tion by State platforms, and the j demand for restrictive legisla tion by Congress war fori bun combe or not, it brings the ques tion up to the President and to Con gress and forces them to take posi tion, and not only that, but to take' action of some kind. In view of the coming Presiden tial election this puts them in a very unpleasant predicament, for if they take rigid action they . Will give of fence .to the trusts, whose money the party will need in the next cam paign, and if they do nothing or adopt some fake measures, there will be a hot time when their candidates are trotted out before the people. - THE PERPLEXED ADMINISTRA- U , TION. A Washington dispat ch published yesterday says a scheme hap been devised to recruit the army in Luzon by asking the volunteers whose time has expired, iand who de sire to remain in the Philippines, to re-enust for a limited time and then (ill up the regiments with new re cruits. There are said to be about 4,000 who express a wish to remain and- tfy their fortunes in those islands. Possibly a good manv of these ; may be willing to re-enlist, Pand they might as well if they desire o remain tnere, lor tney can t do much in the way - of establishing themselves in business until peace is restored.. Notwithstanding "the rose-colored reports we have had about the break ing down of the "rebellion," its sub stantial collapse, and the near ap proach of peace, we do not seem to be any nearer peace now than we were six months -ago, although our soldiers have won many battles (if they could be called battles) and gone through a terrible ordeal in their marching anil fighting in those horrid swamps and roadless hills, in melting heat and drenching rains. No soldiers were ever called upon to suffer more, and none have ever done it more loyally or cheerfully. If he end were in sight there might be' some offset to this, but there is no evidence that the end is in sight; on the contrary, there is reason to belfeve that it is. very re mote. Gen. Lawton was quoted some months ago as saying that he expected to see 100,000 troops in the Philippines before American su premacy is established and peace restored. This opinion is in a meas ure confirmed , by Gen. King, who a few days ago iarrived at San Fran cisco on sick leave, and js thus quoted:' ! "The situation in the Philippines is extremely serious. The people of those islands will keep up a guerrilla warfare, and there is no telling when the hostilities will cease. They retire to the fastnesses of their mountain re treats when they are whipped and hide in the jungles. Subsisting on practi cally nothing, they have no need for a base of supplies. . "It will necessitate a large force' of men to subjugate them completely. Their intrenchments were works of military engineering and construction equal to the best the most civilized mil itary nations have produced. Under the Spanish regime the Filipinos learned something of war, and we are gettmgevidence of this every day." The probabilities are that the ad ministration realizes the gravity of the situation, and the necessity for more troops, which is apparent to every one who' has followed the movements of the armies, and the only reason why more troops are not called for, according to Washington dispatches, is the fear of the effec on the party, in which they aro much more concerned than they are for the army In the Philippines. THE KIND OF REFORM NEEDED. With all the talk of currency re form there is no probability of any action that will much better the fi nanciaT Bystem or give the relief to the sections where it is most needed. Much has been ' written and said about State banks, with authority to issue notes on other securities than Government bonds, but the national banks of the money centers are powerful enough to defeat any measure of that kind, even if there were a disposition to enact it. ' ' In speaking of the proposed re forms in the currency system, and the likelikood of any substantial good being done, the Richmond Times, a gold standard paper, but a vigorous advocate of State banks, says: "Our gold coin, our silver coin, (be cause it is redeemed in gold), our greenbacks, our national bank notes are all (rood at their face value at New York and Chicago, and all of it 1 ; . - coes to thenenmm in fir the country nannla ham nf finan cial media with which to transact their affairs. .The country people, therefore, have no money for their bUSine&S. and it 19 fhav urhn malr A all the complaint against our financial conditions. They have a real griev ance, and they will continue to com plain, and justly complain, until our laws are so altered that they can h ve a medium of exchange. "The national bank act, in suppress ing their local banks, causes this stale of affairs, and they will never get any real relief until that act is so modified that they can again have their local . banks. 'The Republican party will not mod ify that act so as to give them their lo cal banks.' That act gives a monopoly of money lending to the rich men of the commercial centers, and it is these whom the Republican leaders always have it in mind to conciliate. "All our ' financial ills would be cured by firmly establishing ,the gold standard, destroying the greenbacks and repealing the tax upon the issues of State banks, and they- will never win until al) three of these things are done." T Unfortunately for the South and the more sparsely settled States of tho West they are outnumbered in Congress by the more populous and wealthy. States, which have good banking facilities! and an abund ance of circulating medium through their banks. Not being interested on their own account they take no interest iu other sections which suf fer, but on tho contrary oppose-any material change in the present sys tem, which they seem to think works well enough for them. The opposition to State banks comes mainly from the same sections where there is the greatest opposi tion to free silver, and for the same reason. , THE RACE PROBLEM. The majority of people in consid ering the race problem in the South view it from the political standpoint, which although , very serious is very for from being the most serious fea ture of the question. That can be remedied by legislation" and finally eliminated, and will be, at least in those States where the negro is a menacing factor in politics. The close proximity of the races, the very large numbers of negroes that inhabit towns and cities makes-their presence in such -large numbers from a sanitary standpoint a very perplexing question both on ac count of themselves and the whites, the health of all communities being jeopardized by the lack of attention to sanitary precaution, and the dis criminating intelligence to so live as to avoid contracting diseases. In -speaking-of-fchis question Mr. James E. Rankin, President of the Hen derson, (Kentucky) cotton mills, is quoted as follows: "Totally oblivious to all sanitary measures, they are a constant menace to the health of all; too stupid for the performance of any but the most menial offices, and unreliable in the discharge of those, and yet from their numbers they are a constant barrier to immigration. On the farm they curtail production by their lack of thrift and consequent disregard of the land-owner's interest." This is brief, but it is as true" as it is brief, and says a great deal. 13ut the labor feature is a minor one compared with the sanitary feature, which is the most difficult to rem edy, because it is so difficult to get the negroes to co-operate "in secur ing good sanitary conditions. Some of those Western fellows are determined to knock out our North Carolina copper finds The latest, discovery is reported from Arizona where a company has made a deal for a thirty-five acre tract, which con tains a hill 225 feet high in which there are according to figuring 8,000,000 tons of Copper, mixed with gold and silver. ' - ' George Francis Train, who a few days ago . celebrated his seventieth birthday, says he will live to be a hundred and fifty if he meet with no accident. But why not three hundred, as he is still a youth at seventy, and says he "is born every day?" Mrs. Jack, widow of actor Jack, while perfectly willing to take fier third of the $250,000 he left, de clined to comply with his wish as expressed in his will and marry his brother. She had a little will of her own which she preferred to follow in that matter. Admiral Sampson thinks we ought to have a fleet double as large as we have now. If we are to pursue the expansion policy we, must keep on expanding our navy accordingly. Maude Adams must make a catchy Juliet. The gross receipts at four of her performances at Phila delphia, Washington, Pittsburg and Gleveland amounted to $26,000. The Supreme Court of Indiana has given trusts in th at State a black eye, deciding that when a cor poration combines with other cor porations to destroy competition it forfeits its charter. Fabulously rich gold finds are re ported from Southern Oregon. That is a better country to winter in than the Klondike. Dreyfus is said to be still under guard.' He also keeps a guard on his mouthand does not permit it to talk much. '' ' v . . HAS TENDERED - HIS RESIGNATION. Dr. P. H. Hoge Indicates His Determina tion to Accept the Call to a Church in Louisville, Kentucky.' Rev. Dr. Peyton H. Hogehas ac cepted the call to Warren Memorial 'Tnckn-:n u i. t : Ky. His resignation as pastor of the First Presbyterian church was handed the session at about 10 o'clock Thurs day night, after the conclusion of the usual prayer meeting services. Ia it he asked for a congre gational meeting Sunday at which there will- be adopted Ja petition to the Wilmington Presbytery to dissolve the relation between church and pastor. The news that Dr. Hoge had decided to accept the Louisville call was not altogether a surprise as it was gener ally known that he looked with favor Upon , the offer and thought that he could'not afford to fail to embrace the opportunity for wider usefulness that awaited him in the metropolis of the great State of Kentucky. His decision is, however, none the less a matter of great regret both to his own people and the public generally. Dr. Hoge assumed the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in No-', vember, 1885, when he was only about 28 years of age. Previously he had been pastor of a church in Richmond, to which he was called soon after his graduation from Union Theological Seminary. . His pastorate has been as successful as it has been prolonged. There is no department of the church life but has prospered under his zealous care. There have been many changes, all for the better, in the church building. The organ has been removed from the front of the church to the rear of the pulpit, the galleries have been changed and the, walls dec orated. The lecture room, also, was planned and erected during Dr. Hoge's pastorate at a cost of from ten to twelve thousand dollars, making the church property take rank among the most valuable church properties in the State. There has been marked growth in the membership of the church. When Dr. Hoge came here there were about 185 bona fide members. There are now 385, not counting the colony of about IPO members sent out some years ago to form Inimanuel church. It has been an active membership, too. There are nuuierou? Organiza tions connected with the church, in cluding the Westminster League, the McAden League for- work in home missions, and 'a number, of societies for general mission work. The contributions of the church to all objects have ranged frjm ten to twentyr thousand dollars, in one oi two years slightly above the latl sum. A prominent Presbyterian, who is well informed as to the anm penditures of the different churches of his denomination throughout the State, said yesterday that in this par ticular the First of Wilmington was very near, if not quite, in the lead. ' , Besides beiDg a successful j pastor, Dr. Hoge has shown himself a public spirited citizen. He was active in the organization of the Wilmington Lec ture Lyceum and his utterances dur ing the race trouble of last November were regarded as both timely and patriotic. - Dr. Hoge's salary when he first came here was $3,000 and aESanse. After some years he provided his, own home and then the salary was raised to $3, 600 at which fizure it remained. It is understood that the salary of the pas tor of Warren Memorial Church is $6,000. It is not known yet when Dr. Hoge and his family will remove to Louis ville. At present he is in Knoxville, Tenn., where he is to make the bacca laureate address before the graduating class of the University of Tennessee. 000D OFFER FORM CAPT. SKINNER. If the Commissioners Will Begin Work On Federal Point Road. In connection With the contem plated improvement of the public roads, the Stab learns from Capt. W. P. Oldham, clerk of the Board of Qounty Commissioners, that Capt. S. W. Skinner has made the board an offer that is thought very liberal. . It is contingent on the willingness of the board to begin the work 'at the fourth mile post on the Federal Point road and complete these four miles of road first, working from the mile Dost toward the city with shell and5from the city toward the mile vpost with stone. In substance, the proposition is to give free use of his landing on Barnum's Creek and $250 in cash, to sell a No. 2 Gates' rock crusher 'in perfect order at half the cost of a new one, and to give the use of an engine for twelve months. TRUCKING NOTES, n Little Money Made On Any of the Early Vegetables. This has been a bad year on truckers all around, a Middle Sound grower of early vegetables said yesterday. . It was hoped that returns from beans and Irish potatoes 'would make up for previous losses, on strawberries, but on the contrary the yield was poor and the prices far from high. . Aspara gus is about the only vegetable which has been grown with profit ., Register of Deeds Biddle has re turns from Brown - & - MacMahon, Philadelphia, showing sales of beans on the 6th at $1.50 a basket. This is considered a fair price. '' Read the advertisement of the East Carolina Real Estate Agency in this issue of the Star. It offers for sale some very valuable farms. t ROBBED AND MURDERED. Mr. E. B. Weeks, a Merchant of Carteret County, N. C, Found Dead in J Bis Store.' Special Star Telegram. Beaufort, Nv C, June 8. Mr. E. B. Weeks a well to do mer chant who lived on , Bogue Sound, about 25 miles from Beaufort, was murdered last night in his store on Bogue Sound near j the postoffice known as Bogue. The parties who committee the deed are so far not known, though strofig .. suspicion points to men in the neighborhood. One of them is a negro. Mr. Weeks has been sleeping in his store and for the last few days" had been feeble. The people at the place where he took his meals .wondered why he was so late coming to breakfast, and when some of the family - went out to the store they found tfaiatt the window shutter had been broken open and also found the tracks of two persons under the windows: The window-shutters had been bored into with an auger.-They-found Mr. Weeks upon his bed in the store, with a rope around his neck and his feet on the floor. No other "marks were found on the body but the one made by the. rope. The coroner and jury left Beaufort this afternoon to hold an inquest. Mr. -Weeks was about 50 years of age; never had been married. He was one of the first citizens of Carteret county. Some months 'ago parties broke into his store and stole $60; this time they got only about $10 in cash. DEATH OF MRS. QAFFORD. The Wife of the Editor of the Dispatch Died Yesterday Afternoon After Two Weeks Illness. The Stab announces with sorrow the death of Mrs. Esther E. Gafford, the wife of Editor John W. Gaff on or me jjispatcn. sue passed away last evening at 7 o'clock after an ill ness of thirteen days. She wasan her iweniy-tnira year ana haa been mar ried for about two years. Mrs. Gafford - was thedaughter of Rev.' J. P. King, formerly of this city, but now of Jacksonville, Fla. Be sides her parents, her husband and an infant child, aged about one yeaj?, there are left to nlourn her loss the fol lowing brothers and sisters: Messrs. A.. S. King rind J. M. King, Jr., and Miss Theodosia King, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. Rosa James, of South RockyMount, and Mrs. Sallie Bald- win.yOf this city. v. J. P. King is already in - the y and Mrs. King is expected to ar- ive in time to attend the funeral. which will take place at 5 o'clock this afternoon from the Second Advent Church, of which the deceased lady was a member. The services will be conducted by Rev. E. Fisk, the pas tor. Interment at Bellevue cemetery. CARRIED TO FLORENCE. The Negro Who Is Supposed to Have Com mitted Murder Last Fall Not Yet Finally Identified. Creech, the supposed ', murderer of the woman in Florence, S. C, was de livered ' to Sheriff McLendon, of Florence county, yesterday, who came in on the 1:15 train from the South, and left with his prisoner at 3:45 P.M. j Sheriff McLendon did not know the negro who committed the murder, and therefore could not identify Creech as the' guilty party. A scar, however, on Creech's face was found just as described by those who knew the man who did the killing. If the prisoner turns out to be the murderer, the reward of , $100 will go to Officers C. A. Stead and Alexander Wells, who made the arrest oh infor mation given by a colored woman. From the reward will be deducted jail fees, railroad fare of the sheriff both ways and the railroad fare of the prisoner, the reward being for the de livery of the culprit. It is not alto gether certain that Creech is the man, although so positively recog nized by a Florence negro, who came up for the purpose a few days ago. Several persons in . Florence ac quainted with all the parties involved in the shooting, say that the picture of Creech is not that of the mur derer. Arm Caught in a Machine. , Miss Mary Thomas, one of the' em ployes at the Wilmington Steam Laundrv, suffered a painful but not serious accident yesterday morning about nine o'clock. She was cleaning the small cylinder of a oollar machine and got her left hand caught between this cylinder and a larger One, both of which were revolving. Bhe was im mediately rescued from her painful situation and as it happened medical help was at hand in the person of Dr. Charles T. Harper. The arm was found : to be badly bruised, but no bones were broken, The, youag ladv was at once sent to her home on Seventh street between Wooster and Dawson. 1 Marriage Announcement. Rev. and Mrs. Andrew P. Tyer have issued invitations for the' marriage" of their daughter, Miss Isla Blanche, to Mr. Samuel Robert Collier, Jr., the marriage to be celebrated on. Wednes day June 28th.. at 6.30 P. M., in Grace M. E. Church. The bride and groqm-elect are among Wilmington's best known and most popular young people and the marriage will be one of the most notable of the season. CITY AND COUNTY. Officials Besieged by Urumbling Tax Pay ere Some Say They Will Not . Pay Schedule B Tax. . The situation at the Court House and the City Hall is still far from satisfactory the tax payers are riled and no, mistake. At the City Hall the advertised tax ordinance has had its effect, and the Clerk and Treasurer and his assistant have had many a question levelled at themj in the last day or so. The trouble ia, Clerk King says, that the law hasn't been enforced heretofore. This gives the impression Hhat the license taxes are something new, when as a matter of . fact, the ordinance is the same as j that which has been adopted by succeeding boards of aldermen for years, with a few ex ceptions, j Over on the other side of the street the trouble is with the Schedule B tax. Soma citizens who have never felt the burden of the tax before, are indignant and vow they will never pay it. When tho people are less and less inclined to feel satisfied over the valuation of property as made by the board of assessors. It seems to be pretty well understood that there must be a re- duction and the problem j is how to make it. It has been suggested by some that a general reduction Of a certain per cent, would meethe diffi culty. Others contend I that this would not do, for there has not been a uniform -increase. Ini some cases property was assessed at only a little more than its previous valuation and in other cases the excess is much great er. It seems necessary now to hear a complaint from each citizen who think his property has "been as"- sessed above its value. i ' S ASK j FOR THE DISCHARGE. )f the Man or Men Who Were Respon sible for the Shackling of J. Tillman Howard With a Negro. The following communication, which explains itself, was mailed to the Board of County . Commissioners yesterday: ! Wilmington, N. C, June 10, 1899. To the Board of County Commis sioners: j The underlying principle of the movement for white' supremacy r which resulted last year in the substitution of good government for bad, was not based in the slightest upon the mere desire for political power, but had its root and force in the claim that, under equal conditions, the white man, by reason of his race, was always and everywhere the superior of the negro, and was therefore entitled, as he in tended, to administer the government in the best interest of both races. To lose sight of this principle 1 for- an in stant means a step towards return to the conditions which for so many years menaced our safety and re stricted our business prqgress. We cannot afford even a suggestion of such a step, nor permit the . slightest deviation from the path which we have marked out as calculated to increase our prosperity. Viewed; from this standpoint, matters that might be con sidered trivial in themselves take on a serious aspect when looked upon as indicative of a forgetfulness of the occurrences of last year. Any office holder or public employe,! who does not understand and subscribe to this doctrine and practice it, should not be allowed to remain in the employ of a white man's government; and this view is more strongly imperative when such employe practices thei very out rages which we condemned in those who professed to believe that the ne gro was the white man's equal. In accordance with this opinion, the undersigned ask that you discharge from the employ of the county the man or men who were responsible for shackling a white and negro convict together a few days since, j The communication bears the fotj lowing signatures: 1 ' Jno. E. Crow, C. C. Brown, Jno. R. Turrentine, Heyer Bros.,! Jno. H. Brown, Jno. T. Rankin, W. B. Coop er, J. A. Taylor, E. E. David, E. S. Lathrop, B. G. Worth, H. L. Fennell, J. H. Boatwright, Jas. H. Ghadbourn, Jp, , Jno. L. Cant well.-Walker Taylor, H. W. Malloy, J. H. McRee, B. A. Jones, R. W. Hicks, W. R. Kenan, Thos. D. Meares, J. V. B. Metts, Ire dell Meares, Samuel Northrop, G. E. Leftwich, C. W. Worth, C. C. Cov ington, Wm. Calder, J.j H. Boat wright, Jas. I. Metts, F. E. Hashagen, W. A. Riach, A. David. j REVENUE CUTTER COLFAX. She Was in Port Yesterday May Be come a Receiving Ship. The United States Revenue Cutter Colfax, Capt. Mitchell, was in port yesterday having arrived at the gov ernment wharf late Friday jafternoon. She will go out to-day bound for Bal timore. She will not be used in the cutter service any more, as experience has shown that despite the repairs and overhauling which she underwent in Baltimore during, the Spanish Ameri can war, she is still unsuited to revenue cutter work. She will probably be used for a receiving ship. . j The Colfax has been at the Charles ton station for the past two months, but during the. winter Savannah has been her headquarters. She touched at Wilmington last December on her way from Baltimore to Savannah. Bladen Is Growing Tobacco, j Mr. S. Singletary, a substantial planter of Clarkton, was a welcome visitor to' the Stab office last evening. He tells the Stab that the country in and around Clarkton is getting to be a fine tobacco growing section. There are seven or eight hnndred acres in cultivation this year, and it is only a year or two ago that the people began to grow the crop. A fine large ware house is just being completed a build ing which will be a credit to the town and the progressive farmers of Bladen. Cotton acreage, Mr. Singletary re ports is being greatly decreased this year, perhaps as much as fifty per cent, in his immediate .vicinity. CITIZEN A UNITED STATES CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS. Nineteen Cases for Retailing Tried Sev eral Witnesses Heavily Fined No Action in Counterfeit Cases. In'the United States Circuit and Dis trict Courts yesterday, Judge Thos. R. Purnell presiding, nineteen cases were disposed of, all! but three' being for re tailing without license. During the day the grand jury returned twenty true and five not true bills. Four w itnesses were called and failed and were each; fined $40. They were Charles Melvin, Press Bowers, W. S. Crump and Charles Ewing. The court was in session, as usual, from 8.30 A. M until 2 P. M., with the usual officers in attendance. The Docket. Charles Pearson, retailing liquor without license; verdict guilty. Nat Minter, working at a still; de fendant plead guilty and was sen tenced to thirty days in jail. . Cases for retailing liquor without li cense were disposed of as follows: Tom Mitchell, plead guilty; sen tenced to thirtv davs in inil anA 1flf fine. t. r Gillead BellJ plead guilty; sen- icnceu to 3U uays in jail and '$100 fine. Brittain Leach, plead guilty; sen tenced to 30 days in jail and $100 fine. Solomon Thompson, called and failed; judgment nisi. Immanuel Covington, plead guilty; sentenced to 60 j days in fail and $100 fine. I -. Haywood McLeod, plead guilty; judgment supended, the defendant haviDg beea-ia jail since January 18, Calvin McEachin, verdict guilty; sentenced to 60 days n jail and $100 fine. j Nancy Monroe, plead guilty ; judg ment suspended and defendant dis charged. John Hines, plead guilty; judgment suspended and defendant disqharged. Charles McLellen, plead "guilty; judgment suspended and defendant discharged. Edward Oxendine, verdict not guilty. - ' Rob. Buchuman, verdict guilty; sentenced to 30 days in jail and $100 tiae. Alice Gorhans, plead guilty; judg1 ment suspended and defendant dis charged, j Hector Locklear, verdict guilty. Nowan Locklear, verdict guilty; judgment suspended on account of the death of the defendant.- James Green called and failed ; judg ment nisei. j Geo Baldwin and M. A. Roy, charg ed with illicit distilerng. Baldwin plead guilty to working at a still and having been in jail 4 months, judgment was suspended and defendant was dis charged. M. A. Ray was called and failed; judgment nisi. -Nothing has yet been done in the" matter of bringing Nicholas Politz and the other alleged counterfeiters to trial. The cases have not even been brought to the attention of the grand jury. It is not known when the matter will be taken up. In the United States Circuit and Dis trict Courts yesterday the grand jury returned true bills against Nicholas Politz and Walter Silvey, now in jail, charged with counterfeiting silver dol lars, halves, quarters and nickels. No time has been set for the trial, but it is thought that the cases will be called Monday or Tuesday of next week. Court was in session yesterday the usual time S. 30 A. M. to 2 P. M. And aside from true bills against the counterfeiters, Politz and Sijvey, there were no incidents of special public in terest. One grand juryman, J. W. Atkin son, and J. W. McPhail, a petit jury man, were excused for the term. Cases for retailing spirituous liquors without license were disposed Sof as fol lows: -, Sandy Leach plead guilty; . prayer for judgment: continued. Flora Oxendine; verdict not guilty. Nannie Home, verdict not guilty. Augus Watson, verdict guilty; judg ment suspended and defendant dis charged, j - - - Robt. Buchaman, verdict guilty; judgment suspended and defendant discharged. - , ' Wm. Goins, plead guilty ; judg ment suspended and the defendant dis charged. Harker Goins, verdict not guilty. Murdock Strickland, plead guilty; judgment suspended on the payment of costs and to give bond to next term of court. J Other cases disposed of were as fol lows: Wm. Locklear, illicit distilling, con victed June 7th; judgment six months in jail and $100 fine and costs. Oscar Smith, illicit distilling, plead guilty; judgment 30 days in jail and $100 fine. Court will convene again this morn ing at 8:30 o'clock and will probably take a recess soon after noon until Monday, so that the jurymen will have an opportunity to leave the city on the afternoon, trains for their homes to spend Sunday. Danbury Reporter: The wheat crop in this county is not as good as it usually is. Some farmers have had to plow up some of their wheat and sow the ground in peas. The apple crop in this section is about to be a failure. A good many of the trees did not bloomL and those that did bloom are being damaged by insects, causing the little apples to fall off. BRADFIELD'8 J FEMALE REGULATAD 1 is for women's diseases and irregu larities. It cures everything that is mmmnTilT railed n. "f pmnlo fivmHo TiTwn nil tVi a ! r d VJ,limmv W V CUASAA, U1A ing out weakness and imparting strength; stopping unnatural drains, and regulating the monthly flow j and Weakly women strong and well again. 1 a bottle at drug stores. Send for a free book about it. The Bradfleld Renulator Co.. Atlanta. Ga. - 7 1 the Acreage As Compared With That of Last Year. -" - ' !,f By Telegraph to tne noriilflg star. " Washington, June lO.-rThe con solidated returns of the different crop reporting agencies 'bf the Department of Agriculture, made up to June 1st, ' indicate a reduction of about 8 per cent, in the acreage planted in cotton, as compared with last year.- The re ports from several of the cotton States are more or less conflicting, and the department will issue no quantitative ' estimate of the acreage until it is more definitely ascertainable. That there -. has been n substantial reduction of acreage, however, admits of no doubt. Not only was the acreage originally, planted less than that of last year, but there has been some plowing up of Iand on which the seed--of the gener ally poor quality of which there are. hundreds of complaints had failed to germinate. The indicated decrease in the prin cipal States is as follows: North Caro lina and Tennessee 11 j)er cent. ; South ; Carolina and Alabama, 7; -Georgia, Louisiana and Arkansas, 10; Texas, 9; Mississippi, 2; Indian Territory, 4; Ok lahoma, 15. , The average condition on June 1st was 75.7, against 89 on June 1st, 1898, and 88.1, the mean of the June aver ages for the past fifteen years. ,s . The condition in the principal -States is as'follows: Texas, 90; Georgia, 88; North Carolina, 87; South Carolina and Alabama, SG; Tennessee, 85; In dian Territory, 94; Louisiana and Ok lahoma, 81; Arkansas, SOpand Mis sissippi, 78.. BREWERY TRUST SCHEME. A Billion Dollars Capital Required la diaoa Capitalists Support the Gi gantic Project. ! By Telegraph to the Morning star. . Indianapolis, June lOThe Senft nel to-morrow will say : "The trust mania has reached the breweries, and it may be said that a scheme is on foot to form a trust with $1,000,000,000 capitaland buy up all the -breweries in the country. r . i "It is said that the scheme, which is. at present only in its inception, rej ceived impetus at the national conven tion of brewers at Detroit, when plans were discussed secretly. "It is said that several big Indiana capitalists ate lending" their psuport to the . gigantic project, among them Crawford Fairbanks, the brewer of -Terro Haute. Mr. Fairbanks was seen at the Demsoa House to-day. Ha was somewhat evasive, and said that six mouths ago ho had heard of such a movement, but not recently. lie said that no option Jiad been secured on his brewery. He finally denied, that he had knowledge of a projected trust. "Joseph C. Shaft, president of the American Brewing Company, of this city, who returned to-day from De troit where he attended the national meeting of brewers, talked in an en tirely different vein. He added that the . subject of a brew ery trust was a topic K of private consideration of the coalren tion at which six hundred leading brewers were present. He said the matter is in its infancy now. He had calculated, he said, that something more than a billion dollars capital will be required, as there are 2,200 brew eries in the country to be bought up. It is understood that an option has been placed by the trust on Mr. Shaft's brewery and this he did not deny. When asked how many options have been secured in Indiana he jaid :, "At a guess I should say eight to ten to date." . ' "Mr. Shaft declined to say who are behind the brewery trust, but replied, in response to that question: .East ern capitalists "are promoting the trust." - - "The scheme is a stupendous one, and it 'will require at least, three years to perfect it. The American Malting Company already has a monoply on all the malt produced in this country. The distilleries will all be bought up and also all the 2,200 brewers. I should say it will require at least $1,000,000, 000 td do the work. The consumer wjll not lose. Beer will remain at five cents a glass, but taxes and other ex penses will be decreased, and better beer will be placed on the market At the expiration of three years, I look to see all the malt distilleries and brew eries of the United States controlled by the one workmghea3L TiJE DOOMED STEAMER PARIS A Complete Wreck On the Rocks Off the Manacles Has Been Abandoned by Her Crew, By Cable to the-Morning Star. CovEBAcfc, Cornwall, JunelO.-r The American line steamer ''Paris, which ran on the rocks off- the Man acles May 21st, is now known to be doomed. - , - A southeast wind is blowing, bring ing in heavy seas, which are driving the steamer astern landwards. Her boilers have shifted, her false bottoms are gone and the divers are unable to work. With the exception of about a dozen men who remain with the captain and three officers, all the crew of th Paris have left her. On the arrival of the last batch of the crew at Falmouth, to be paid off, a fracas occurred wit h ' the agents and the underwriters, The agents g refused to pay the men's fares home,, which the sailors strongly "re sented, as they had . stood by the ship until nearly the end. There are now thirty feet of water i in the holds of the Paris. ' The quartermaster, who was on deck when the steamer struck, said he ' saw a warning flare from a pilot boat, , but that it; was not interpreted as a sign that the Paris was in a dangerous position, i The ship's helm was nearly . starboarded in order to clear the pilot boat, and the course W. If. W. was -immediately resumed. He adds that -but for this temporary alteration, the Paris would have sunk alongside the Mohegan. j . COUNTERFEITERS SENTENCED. Two Italians Convicted in the U. S. Court at Norfolk, Virginia. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Norfolk, Va., June 10. Carlo Fasi, the Italian brought here from Richmond, with his son George Fasi, . was convicted in the United States Court yesterday of passing counter feit money, and was given three years -in the penitentiary and fined $50 to- 1 ' day by Judge Waddill. ; George, who ! is quite a youths was convicted Friday, with a recommendation to the . mercy of the court. Judge Waddill gave , him one yearr A Good Excuse: "They say Russell Sage's income is more than ; $10 a minute." "Well.-if that's the case, you can hardly blame the old man for nOt wanting to stop for meals. "Philadelphia Press,, ,