North Carolina Newspapers

'ght 'esicclttij &m WILLIAM H. BERNARD Bdltot and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, August 18, 1899. BRAIHS OK THE FARM. The long mooted question does farming pay may bo answered by saying that it depends upon what is produced and how the farming is done. Some, men would succeed and make money, on farms where others would go to the poor house or starve to death. The good farmer, in a business sense, is not the man who works, his land well, in a rou tine fashion, but the man who works his land well and then uses business judgment in planting those things for which he finds the readiest mar ket and the most profit. We find mention made of such men some times, . and we have such in thiB State, the success of some of whom we have noted in these columns. Mr. F. J. Meriam, of Georgia, is one, concerning whose operations the Richmond Times speaks as follows: "Mr F. J. Meriam, a Georgia far mer, recently startled the farmers of that State and the president of the State Agricultural Society by giving them a little insight into his farming operations. Mr. Meriam told them that several years ago he came into possession of a small worn outfarn, such as many of his hearers would not even look at But he knew that around him were hundreds of thous ands of persons eating up the earth, while there were but few engaged in an intelligent effort to cover the mar ket. Accordingly he and his brother-in-law broke ground in 1893 to meet the market demands in Atlanta. The first year he made only $500, but the fact that $115 of that amount was dug from 250 hills of cucumbers convinced him that he was on therifcht track and he continued his operations. The next year his sales went up to $1,934, and he received $500 from one acre which - he had planted in potatoes. "At this point President Brown in terrupted him to know if he meant what he said. Mr. Meriam replied that he had stated the exact fact, that he did- grow $500 worth of potatoes on one acre of very poor ground. In 1895 he marketed $3,829 worth of vegeta bles. In the year 1896, as everybody remembers, ) there was a great outcry from the farmers about the hard times and there was a general demand for legislation that would improve their condition. But .farmer Meriam did not depend upon legislation. He went to work on his little farm and he sold $5,068 worth of stuff, of which $764.67 came from lettuce, $583 from turnip salad and $434 from beets. "At this point he was again inter rupted by President Brown, who asked him what it cost him to raise this crop. Mr. Meriam told him that he could give him the exact figures for he kept a set of farming books in which he set down every item of expense. He had found in general terms that it cost mm exactly one-third oi what he pro duced to pay the necessary expenses of the farm from year to year, including repairs. - "He continued his narrative, show ing what he had made in 1897 and in 1898, and wound up with the startling announcement that he intended to pocket from his farm this year the snug sum of $10,000." This is a remarkable achievement on a small farm, and it is possible that there may be some exaggera tion in it, but allowing for this, there is enough in it even if the figures be divided by two to show what can Be done with industry and intelligent business methods on a small tract of ordinary or even, as in this case, on very poor land. Mr. Meriam didn't try to make a living and money on his poor land by rais ing cotton or something else that everybody else was raising, but hav insr located near-a larcro citv with a -j - - : ra- hundred thousand of so of people to feed, he took in the situation and concluded that he could find a market for the foodstuffs that they needed and then he set about rais ing such as could be grown to the best advantage and would yield the most j profit. He raised stuff for which . he had an every day uniaiiing market. VI course he had the advantage of be ing close to a large city, an advantage that comnaratively few farmers have, but there are hundreds of farmers around that and other Georgia cities who never caught on" to cultivating stuff for home people to eat. Thousands of them have raised melons', berries, peaches, &c, for Northern markets and have taken their chances on getting into market with: the early shipments, and also the chances of missing the first calls and selling later or prices that paid but little if any paid at all. If every farmer around the cities watched the home markets as closely as Mr. Meriam does and set to work to meet its needs as he does the de mand would soon be supplied and the profits would be smaller, and per haps he .-hasn't done the judicious thing for himself in so publicly advertising yhis operations and his profits; but farmers may learn from his story that money is to be made in farming by giving - attention to these things that the smaller and not the larger number raise, and by keeping a business eye upon the markets and raising those things for which there is a steady demand which can be relied upon, and in which there is the least com petition to cut prices down. Sup pose other farmers within a reason able distance of Atlanta and other large cities in Georgia, (and this ap devote their time to raising meat poultry, eggs and to supplying milk, butter and. canned fruits and vege tables, the hundreds of thousands o: dollars paid out to producers in other States would go into the pockets of those Georgia fanners, whose showing might compare favor ably with that of Mr. Meriam. There are markets in every South- . . m "11 T M m aI1 wn' butter, Ac, very much of which, save the fresh vegetables and fruits, is imported fromother States, which do not produce them as abundantly or as cheaplyas they can be pro duced in the South. j The ntoney for the! Southern f arinejfs now and will "be for some time In going out of the tracK trav- ted bv the many and into the fcack travelled by the few, and then pursuing farming on business prin ciples and not in a hap-hazard,' slip shod way. As the merchant caters to the demands of his customers, bo should the farmer study and antici pate the demands of the markets where he finds, or can make custo mers. That kind of farming will pay when the blind, methodless, take-your-chance kind will not. GOOD AND BAD ROADS The U. S. Department of Agricul ture has issued a pamphlet, prepared by Mr. M. E. Eldridge, who is in charge of the office of public road inquiry. He gives some valuable information based on replies to 10, 000 letters sent out to reliable farmers and teamsters. He figures out from these replies that it costs on an average of 25 cents a ton to haul stuff a mile on our roads, while the same amount could be carried 200 miles by steamer and 50 miles by rail for the same money. In Europe, where they have better roads, the average cost of carrying a ton one mile is 7 ' cents, or a little over a quarter what it costs in this country. ' . An -estimate of the cost of bad roads in this country puts it at $250,000,000 a year. This is practi cally a tax of $250,000,000 a year on the people, but as they do not have to put their hands in their pockets and shell out the money they do not seem to realize it, but it is a tax all the same, and they are paying it right along. This takes into account only the money actually lost by the cost of trans portation; and does not consider the time lost when the roads are impassible, the large number of draft j animals it is necessary to keep and to feed, nor does it take into consideration the loss in de preciation of land in country and town resulting from the difficulty of transportation. We spend about $30,000,000 a year in shiftless patch ing of roads, which is virtually throw ing away that much money, but the patching is necessary and will be necessary until some sensible, sys- ematic method for permanent im provement is adopted. DON'T LIKE THE SHOW. There, are some of the New Eng land papers which do not take to the Jewett-Baker (white-and-black)com bination that is now performing up there. The Springfield (Mass.) Re publican, one of the leading papers of that section, thus records its opin ion of the bi-colored combination: "The large audience that erected Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett and the Baker family in Music Hall, Provi dence, Monday evening, as well as their Boston reception yesterday, will grieve all who lament that young per son's indiscreet activity in the Baker case. Especially may demonstrations M Jl 1 . . mm 1 . .... oi tins jona in me n orcn emoiuer pub lic feeling in the South, where the white people feel that it is time that they were left alone to work out their own great problem." . ." This is a very sensible view to take of this cheap show, which is doubt less being run in the interest princi pally of the cheeky, hustling indi vidual in skirts who conceived and got it up.- We have no doubt, either, that the Republican voices the sen timents of a majority of the sensible people of the section for which it speaks, including he more respect able element ofthe negroes. The white people up there beeame tired sometime ago of this negro racket, in which they take no interest, and which they are sick of having con tinually thrust upon them by seekers for notoriety, and fakirs like Miss Jewett, who is, doubtless, inspired more . by prospective box receipts than anything else. Shows like that can't hurt the South. It is said that Japanese laborers, under f contract are pouring into .Hawaii at the rate of about 1,500 a month. It will be the same way in the Philippines if we hold our grip on them. The labor of that country will be Japanese andChinese,against which American labor, if it went there, would stand no chance. We are wasting lives and money to hold these islands for the benefit of the rich who will gobble up what is worth gobbling. When Mrs. Felton,.at the meet ing of the Georgia State Agricul tural Society, advocated taxing dogs as one of the ways to encourage sheep culture, she was cheered. If Mrs. F. went before the Georgia Legislature and advocated taxing dogs she would not be cheered, for the dog has a grip on the average legislature, compared with hich the sheep is nowhere. - A Jersey city man committed suicide in jail to escape taking a bath. They should not resort to cruel and unusual punishments in those If ew Jersey jails. , Several American officers in Porto Rico have married Porto Rico girls. A practical illustration of "assimikv tion" that means something and has no shot-gun behind it. era State ior miinoos uyuuuwD worth of vegetables, fruits, meats, INCREASE IN MANUFACTURED ' ' EXPORTS. . One of the most gratifying,, and also significant features of our ex port trade, is the large and steady i increase for some years in our ex ports of manufactures. When - the statement is made that these amount to something over a quarter of our total exports it doesn't give an ac curate idea of the progress that is being made, such as would be given by a statement in detail of the vari ous articles exported and the class to which they belong, for this shows the industries that are making the mest" successful headway against foreign competition. The following statistical statement of the Treasury Department for the past fiscal year ending ' June 30th, throws some light on this; the values being given in millions of dollars and decimals: 1899. 1898. 1897. 1689. Machinery and tools. ... 49 14 38.13 33.45 11.74 Agricultural machinery 18.43 7.61 6.24 3.62 Carriages, cars ana . . . cycles 9.86 10.27 9 95 8.09 Instruments .'8.40 8.77 8.05 1.03 All machinery... 78.74 58.78 51.69 82.49 Completed for use - 16.23 12.69,9.95 3.05 Crude and unclassified. 28.81 19.69 14.10 3.25 Totals ..........119.41 91.06 75.74 88,90 It may be! noted that nearly all the articles embraced in this table are composed wholly or in part of iron and keel, the significance of which is that this country has reached that point where it can suc cessfully compete with the world in the greatest pt the manufacturing industries for iron bears the same relation to the manufacturing in dustries that cotton, wheat and corn do to the agricultural industry. It is substantially the base of other manufacturing industries and the nation that can lead in that will have little difficulty in leading in others. These figures give the pro gress made in a few years, and it is but the beginning. Some years ago the question in Australasia was how to get rid of the rabbit. Since 1873 they have got rid of 200, 000, 000 of them by knock ing them on the head, peeling the hide off and shipping them to Europe. ' Canning the meat has be come an established industry. New Zeland alone ships over 15,000000 a year. The last bit of political gossip is that some Democrats are manoeuvring o use Admiral Schley' as a candi date for President or Vice President. The Democrats are not so badly at sea on that question that they have to hunt up an Admiral. There is a diminutive bush-tail gold fish found in China, which is so highly prized as a curiosity that they have been sold for more than $1,000 each. This is a little China fish story for which we do not vouch. The question "how to stop lynch ing" in the South is a standing topic of discussion. The surest and quick est way to do it will be to stop the crimes that provoke lynching. The Boston alderman who voted against appropriating money to wel come Dewey is named Brick. Since then he has had a good many bricks, figuratively speaking, hurled at him. The Local Quarantine. Quarantine officer EL EL Woebse, who has been on duty since the out break of yellow fever at the Soldiers' Home on the W. & W. railroad, be tween Rocky Mount and Goldsboro, was in the city yesterday for a short while, returning to his post of duty ast night. During his brief vacation, Chief Officer Green made a trip up the road and upon his return last night expressed himself as pleased with the work being, done. Messrs. Walter Penny, John Smith, of Wilmington, and a colored barber a brother of J. W. Yarborough, the Front street bar ber, who were on the train yesterday afternoon from Norfolk were detained at Wallace on account of not hav ing health certificates. They will prob ably receive them by wire and arrive in the city this morning. Officer Wig gins, who has been on duty at New born, has. been called in, as practically all danger is over from passengers coming from that direction. While there is really no danger from any section, the quarantine will, neverthe less, be maintained for several days yet as a precautionary measure. CURRENT COMMENT. Our Gatlings and Jorsrensens have killed many more innocent people in the Philippines than the hurricane has killed in Porto Rico. The President and Secretary of War should stop the suffering of their own making. Charleston News and Courier, JJem. , Recently we stated, on what seemed competent information, that the butter made by our neighbor hood farmers was spoiled by feeding cows on cotton seed. . An expert in forms us that perhaps the best but ter sent to Augusta from the country comes from cows thus fed, and that it would be hard to beat the butter he makes form cows fed" on cotton seed meal and hulls. Augusta ChronicleDem. xne j&.eeiev cure craze which had the merit of discovering to suffering man that he can quit a habit if he really wants to has about run its course. At one time it was a big thing and coined money from those engaged in it. Now ll.l L 1 . me largest operator, manager oi an hundred institutes m Missouri and Illinois, has collapsed, owing near one hundred thousand1 dollars and having not quite, one bundred dol lars of assets. This failure makes the end. Mobile Register, Dem. The East Carolina Real Estate Agency has excellent facilities for selling farms and timbered lands. It advertises all property and makes only a nominal cnarare unless a sale is madej" For terms etc, address R. Q. Grady & Co., Burgaw, N. O. ' , GENERAL ROAD LAW. Will be Made Operative Through New Hanover County With out Delay. SUPERINTENDENT ELECTED. CapL John Barry Elected for Period of One Year at Meeting of Commissioners -Yesterday Line Fence Build' ing Also Considered. . CapL John .Barry was elected County Road Superintendent for New Hanover at a special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held yesterday afternoon for the purpose considering this and other questions deferred from the regular meeting of of the Board on the first Monday in AugusL AH members of the Board were pres ent as was also County Attorney W. B. McKoy. . :l The election ot-Captain Barry was made after an extended conference lasting for more than an hour and a half. His salary which is left at the discretion of the Board in the act authorizing the. elec tion was fixed at $75 per month, and it is understood that the gen eral road law will become opera tive in the county at the earliest possible moment Prisoners from the work house, it is understood, 'will also be employed on the public roads, and the Commissioners already have assu rance from Judge Battle that the peti tioner the regular convict system so admirably being employed in other counties, iH-be all ;wed in New Han over county. In making the tax assessments for the fiscal year in June the Board in cluded a uniform levy of ten cents per hundred on property and thirty cents on the poll, for the maintenance of the hew system about to. be put into effect. The election of a superintendent was made in accordance with Chapter 581 of the Public Laws of North Carolina, which is entitled "An act to pro vide j for the better working of the public roads and highways of the State" and which is com monly termed the "general road law." The act provides for the elec tion of a superintendent at the first regular session of the . commissioners in June, but for reasons satisfactory, the election has been postponed from time to time until yesterday. The su perintendent has general control over the roads of the entire county and is required by law to make a monthly report to the commissioners of progress and of the moneys expended, f At the end of each quarter he is required to submit another report, one on the con dition of roads and bridges of the county, plans for their improvement and a complete inventory of all tools and implements in the road seuvice. His bond is fixed by the act at $2,000 and his salary is fixed by the commis sioners. The appointment of guards for the management of convicts is dele gated to the commissioners and the road superintendent The county treasurer, by the act, becomes the treasurer of the road fund and for his services the act authorizes a commis sion not exceeding two per cent. He is also required to make a monthly statement of the condition of the road fund to the commissioners as well as a semi annual report, embracing those made during the months. County Fence Committee.' The committee appointed at the last meeting of the Board to look into the matter of the building of the line fence between New Hanover and Pender counties made necessary by the no-fence law, which roes into effect in New Hanover on December 15th of the present year, submitted the following report : To the Chairman and County . Com missioners: Tour committee appointed on coun ty fence do recommend the following: That said fence shallbe all of 12 gauge steel wireexcept bottom strand,; which shall be of hog proof barbed wire, the strands to be 21, 3, 31, 4, 41, 5, H, 6, 7, 8 and 9 inches apart the-eross or up right to be 6 inches apart in lower 30 inches and 12 inches apart in the upper 28 inches. That iron posts be used 7 feet long and placed 161 feet apart and braced each hundred yards with heavy wire as one brace and scantling 4x6 as the other brace. That 10x10 inch black cypress or cedar posts be used for gate posts and each gatepost be properly braced by 4x6 inch scantling. We further recommend that bids be asked for. 1st. The entire fence to be com plete and erected. 2nd. For fence and iron posts de livered at depot either at Castle Hayne or Scott's Hill. 3rd. For taking, material at either of above places and erecting the fence. 4th. That bids for five gates nine feet wide with hinges and fasten ings. , D. McEaohern, ' W. F. Alexander, John Barry, Committee. The report was adopted and upon motion it. was referred again to the same committee . for the purpose of arranging the advertisement far bids in accordance with the specifications and -for the further purpose . of cor responding with dealers relative to the purchase of material necessary for the work. The matter of bank stock assess ments, left over from the preceding meeting, was again deferred until cer tain information, which has been written for, is received. Arrested For Arson. Mary J. Graham, colored, was ar rested here yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Spalding, of Columbus coun ty, on a warrant charging her with arson. The specific charge is burn ing an outhouse near Council's Sta tion, and she was taken to the Colum bus jail at Whiteville yesterday after noon, where she will be held to an swer the charge at the next term of the Criminal Court Deputy Spald ing was assisted in making the arrest by Deputy Sheriff Flynn. Read the advertisement of the East Carolina Real Estate Agency in this issue of the Star. It offers for sals some very valuable farms. f spirits still advancing. ; I Sales On the Wharf Yesterday Afternoon at 48 and 4& Cents Condition of . the Market. Another advance in price of spirits turpentine was a feature in the day's business in naval stores on the local market yesterday. There were no sales in the morning as. buyers only offered 4748, cents but near the closing yesterday afternoon purchasers became more eager and one-half cent advance was realized. . . Speaking of the ' almost phenome nal rise in prioes during the past sev eral weeks the Savannah News of Sunday says; . "The situation in the naval store, market still continues abnormal. The price of sou-its yesterday was 48 cents bid, with a strong demand for export and very little : stuff sold. As pre viously explained the situation is due to the large amount of contracts sold and the shortage in the crop due to the February freeze. The prediction that spirits will go to 50 cents before the' end of the month is still freely made. - The receipts of both spirits and rosin are considerably behind last year with little indication that the loss will be made up; and hence the buyers have little to hope for in the way of reduced prices. As they are getting the most of their stuff on contract, however, they have nothing to complain of. The situation presents the remarkable anomaly of unusually high prices prevailing with nobody making any large profits. The producers sold last spring at prices from 15 to 19 cents be low the . present market quotations. The factors, acting for the producers, sold to the exporters, who in turn sold to their customers abroad and these sold to the manufacturers of paints, varnishes and other products in which turpentine is used. All transactions were based upon the then prevailing prices, hence very few are deriving any benefit from the present high prices. The speculators would have had a snap, but nobody seems to have anticipated the present condition of things. The few producers who did not sell contracts or who only sold a small percentage of their output are getting some benefit out of the situa tion. NORTH CAROLINA WILL RETAIN THE HORNET. So Says Capt. George L. Morton, of the N. C. Naval Battalion Maryland's Boat Too Small. Capt. Geo. L. Morton, of the North Carolina Naval Battalion, returned to the city yesterday after an absence of more than a week. He was asked by a member of the Stab staff about the statement in the Baltimore Sun, re published in a recent issue of the Star to the effect that the converted cruiser Hornet, now assigned to this port for the use of the North Carolina Naval militia would soon be trans ferred to Baltimore for the use of the Maryland militia. Captain Morton replied that there was not the least foundation in fact for the report ; that North Carolina would certainly retain the Hornet and Maryland would have to look elsewhere for a vessel if they change or get an additional boat. He added that the officers of the Maryland militia selected the Sylvia, tneir present ooat, aoout the same time he chose the Hornet for Wil mington, and both were taken from the Norfolk navy yard about the same time. Maryland, he says, made the mistake of selecting too small a vessel, and now they are trying to get a larger one.- Some of the North Carolina Reserves, Captain Morton says, remarked when they passed the vessel assigned to Maryland on leav ing Norfolk when they were bringing the Hornet here, that Maryland's ves sel could be placed on the deck of the Hornet, it being so small. The Mary land Reserves evidently fell in love with North Carolina's boat at that time, and now they want to get her. A SAFE RULE. Ooldsboro Argus. We publish in this issue an elabor ate disquisition upon the .relative merits of the square "standard" bale of cotton and the newly proposed and much advocated roundlap bale. Be hind the latter is said to be the strong est "trust" in the world. It is a safe rule for the farmer to adopt, that he foster nothing that is promoted by a trust Hence the standard square bale that any ordinary farmer can pre pare for market with little ingenuity aside from its superior merit from a commercial standpoint should be still the bale of the farmer, and they will be wise to favor no other. x Criminal Court Convicts. Two penitentiary convicts sentenced daring the recent term of the Criminal Court were carried to Raleigh yester day by Jailer Millis and Deputy Sheriff Terry. They were both ne groes ; Jno. Perry, sentenced to life im prisonment for burglary, and W. H. Boyette, given ten years for, larceny and receiving stolen goods. ,- Superin tendent - Chadwick, of the county work house, also receipted the sheriff for fourteen convicts yesterday, all negroes. A number of these are to be taken from the work house and put on the chain gang, which a Star reporter was told yesterday will be established within a month. Inspector Rice Here. Mr. F. B. Rice, who recently suc ceeded Captain Gannon as inspector of hulls for the Charleston district, embracing Wilmington and Newborn, arrived in the city on board the steam ship New York yesterday. He will remain in the city for several days and in company with ; Captain E. E. Groom, boiler inspector for this dis trict who is expected to arrive from Charleston to day, will on Wednesday inspect the tug Navassa and the little river steamer Croesus. It was learned yesterday that Mr. Rice would not be required to stand the civil service ex amination until the early part of Oc tober. . . TO CI.BAN8K THE SYSTESI Effectually, yet gently, when costive or bilious; to permanently overcome habitual constipation; to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activ ity, without irritating' or weakening them; . to dispel . headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of Figs, made by the California Fig Syrup Co, jjAj)d QDT NO CASE. ! Oliver H. Dockery's ! Counsel to Make Motion to Re-open ' - .... i . .. . - f '' the Case.! FOR ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY In Dockery vs. Bellamy Contest They Want Congress to Send Committee to Investigate Contestant's Brief . and Motion Received. It seems that O. H. Dockery and his counsel are at' last beginning to re alize how very weak their case in con testing the right of Hon. John D. Bel lamy to a seat in the Fifty-sixth Con gress is. In fact that they have totally failed to make out their case, despite all their recent "much ado" about de- positiqntaking in the various counties of the district That they realize the weakness of their position is evidenced by the fact that they give notice that they will make a motion to reopen the case, and for Congress to send a committee into the district to take additional testi mony. j The announcement of this intention is made in the "Contestant's brief of facts and authorities, . and also his motion to reopen the case and for Cougress to take additional testimo ny," copies of-which were received in printed form ythe ontestee, Hon. Jno. l. Bellamy, yesterday. A concluding feature of this volumi nous document is the following: Motion to Reopened Court. . ' '1 In conclusion .contestant asks that this congress will reopen this case and take up the investigation of these uuparalled political crimes where he has been forced to leave it, and through its committee bring out and show the House the whole of the great inequity called the election of 1898 that it may judge whether con testeecan honorably claim "to have been elected by the people of the Sixth Congressional District to a seat in the 56th Congress the United "States from North Carolina. In support of the motion for a new trial contestant's counsel give affida vits of the negro W. E. j Henderson, who swears that he came to Raleigh to testify and was forced to flee from the city to escape bodily harm, and that of Claudius Dockery, Esq., who makes oath that many prominent citizens, Republicans and Popuplists through out the district, are afraid! to testify to the real conditions which existed. The "Brief of Facts" (?) gives the direct testimony of many of the witnesses, omitting in each instance, however, the cross examination, which explained away every seeming advantage which was gained by cotes tant. j With this distorted evidence the claim is made that "Enough has been; shown to acquaint Congress with the damnatory facts and put it upon its notice and in quiry." Hon. John D. Bellamy said yester day that he sincerely hopes that Con gress will send a committee here to investigate. That it would very great ly accrue to his (Bellamy's) advantage. A Sample Fabrication. A rediculous feature of the brief and one which is a fair sample of the outrageous misrepresentations with which the document teams, is the fol lowing reference to conditions in Wilmington and New; Hanover county, to wit: j New Hanover county was the storm centre of the great cyclone of fraud, violence and political outrage, by which the white Democrats of North Caro lina, being in constantly increasing minority, wrested the government of State, county, city and township from the hands of its lawfully elected offi cers, and intimidated, stamped out, killed and ran off or permanently dis franchised the rapidly increasing ma jority of Republicans and Populists, white and black, and the city of Wil mington was par excellence the home and seat of the chief originators of the conspiracy. The revolutionary methods reorted to throughout the State were conceived and perfected there, and the arms and ammunition for the whole district; were furnished from there. Contestant regrets the disinclination of his intimidated wit nesses to tell all they know, and the impossibility to secure testimony of others, who had they dared, would have testified to crimes and outrages purely political in their nature which would appall the members of thexom mittee and Congress by their heinous ness and brutality, and have vividly recalled to mind the scenes enacted in the streets of Paris in 17S2 by the blood crazy mobs of those awful days, when "in the name of virtue, terror was irrevocally the order of the day." Contestant will as far as possible lift the veil which contestea and his adherents and co-conspirators have hastened to draw over those) shocking scenes where freedom of thought, opinion'and speech were foully mur dered and the rights of American free born citizens were trampled in the filth and dirt of the political mud of Wilmington, during the months imme diately preceding the days immediately following Nov. 8th, 1898; and we will do so in order that Congress may de termine whether any man claiming election by these revolutionary and outrageous methods can slink into a seat in that body with the. blood of the victims upon his . hands unheeded and unquestioned. I Contestant will, after a brief glance at the evidence in the record, from this county, refer to the part bdrne by one A. M. Waddell, the DantSn of this recent attack upon American institu tions as affecting the Congressional elections. i NEW CROP cotton; First Bale for This Season From Anson County Sold at Morven. Special Star Telegram. Moeven, N. C, August j 14. The first bale of new Cotton for this season was sold here this afternoon at four o'clock by C. D. Thomas, superintend ent of T. V. Hardison's plantation, and bought by The Hardison Co, It brought six and a half cents per pound ; strict middling; weighed 520 pounds. Why were 25,000 BOTTLES.br ROB, ERTS TASTELESS 25c CHILL TONIC sold theflrst year of its birth? i Answer: Because It Is the BEST AT AJXJ PRICE, guaranteed to cure, money refunded if it falls, pleasant to take, 35o per bottle. It Is sold and guaranteed by j JEOBKET R. BELLAMY, marS41y Wholesale and Retail Drogrglst, BEACHES ABANDONED Severe Wind and HigrUlreakers Cause Many Cottagers and Visitors fTO SEEK SAFETY IN THE CITY. I' Expect to. Relarn to Their Cottages or Hotels To-day or To-morrow Orton Crowded Last Nlht Yester day's Storm Conditions. The weather conditions and the ap proach of the West Indian storm (erst while hurricane) was the most general as well as exciting topic among Wil mingtonians and Wrightsville and Carolina Beach cottagers yesterday. Indeed so exciting did the situation become on the two beaches that dur ing the afternoon and evening large numbers of the cottagers and guests at the hotels came up to the city to spend the night Whilel'no damage was done to property, either in the city or on Wrightsville and Carolina Beach, the velocity of the wind, particu larly on . j the two beaches, was sufficient to cause much uneasiness. , The , Weather Bureau records show j that the highest veloc ity of the wind in the city during the day was thirty miles an hour. This velocity was reached several times, notably about 4:30 A. M. and between 2 and 3 P. M. But on both beaches the wind was several times really ter rific, reaching, it is estimated by sev eral competent judges, a velocity of not less than sixty-five miles an hour. As the day advanced and the fierce storm conditions seemed unabated the advice of Mr; W. H. Fallon, the Weather Observer, was asked by hun dreds of people as to the advisability of remaining on the beach during the night. In each instance Mr. Fallon said that while he did not believe there would be any! special danger still he thought it best for the cottagers to come up to the city for the night as a matter of precaution . On Wrightsville Beach. As a result of Mr. Fallon's advice the Wilmington Seacoast train from Wrightsville Beach arriving in the city at 12:15, 4:30 and 6:45 o'clock yes terday afternoon brought large num bers of cottagers and Seashore and Ocean View Hotel guests. It is esti- .mated that there were nearly 1,000 people on the train leaving the beach at 3:45 o'clock! and the other trains were well freighted with cottagers and visitors seeking safety in the city, the people fearing to stay on Wrightsville Beach, especially because of the isola tion of the beach from the mainland by banks' channel and the sound, mak ing esofcpe in case of a tidal wave or severe hurricane rather difficult The fact is the only cottagers 'who mustered courage to spend last night on the beach were the families of Mr. E. J. Powers, Mr. J. A. Arringdale, Capt. E W. Vancourt Lucas, Mr. James Worth. Mr. C. W. Whitlock and Mr. Hall. All the guests from both the hotels, came to the city for the night. Mrs. Mayo and family re mained at Ocean View Hotei. Several members of Kittie Club also remained on the beach. At no time during the day or up to a late hour last night did the breakers sweep over the beach to the Banks channel. They washed un der Ocean View Hotel when the tide was the highest, the water going as far back as the railroad track. This was at high tide early in the afternoon. A memberof the Stab staff visited the beach on the 5. 15 tra in, returning to the city about 7.30. - The wind reached the highest ve locity attained during the day about 6 o'clock last night At that time it was almost impossible to walk on the beach or stand; in an exposed place about a building, the velocity of the wind being so great as to almost carry you away bodily. The wind, too, was freighted with fine sand which well nigh penetrated the flesh. The view of the ocean was magnificent As far as the eye could, see there stretched a succession of seething billows, some of them apparently twenty or thirty feet high, breaking one over the other in a mad race for the shore, presenting a picture the grandeur of which beggars description. Quite a number of gentlemen went down on the 7.15 train last night especially to see the storm at sea.' Some returned at 10 o'clock last night and others (very few) remained over night The train returned to the beach last night at 11 o'clock and remained all night, so as to be at hand should it be necessary to move the few people re maining on the beach to Wrightsville or the city. j At about 11 o'clock last night a Star reporter was told over the telephone by Capt. Lucas, who spent the night at his cottage, that the wind was blow ing fully fifty or sixty miles an hour, but that no damage had apparently been done to the cottages, either by wind or breakers. On Carolina Bench. There was no undue alarm or ex citement at Carolina Beach yesterday, the facilities there for escape from; the "pitiless peltings of the storm" being ample in case of dire necessity. Never theless, many of the cottagers, as a matter of precaution, came' up to the city last evening. Many others, however, remained, having no appre hension of any serious result Captain Harper went back to the pier with the steamer Wilmington after the 7:30 trip and anchored dur ing the night ready to take the re maining residents of the beach on board and bring them to the city should the storm conditions become so severe as to drive them from the beach for refuge, j The tide yesterday afternoon on Carolina Beach was the highest that has been known in many years. The breakers swept over the beach to the sound at both the Sedgeley Hall and Hanover Seaside Club houses, as well asthe intervening beach. At the hotel the surf also washed up quite high, reaching the steps and throwing spray on the porches. There are forty cottages above the hotel and ine sun nowea between them all breakers actually rolling up on th f "ouuces 0j washing into cottage hallways. Th cottages are, however, so well a chored and have withstood the power f ul force of so many storms that th occupants entertained little fear f ' serious results. The Night in the City. .According to weather prognostics tions the worst part of the storm was to have reached Wilmington soou after midnight last night, but up t0 3 o'clock this morning, barring an occa sional gust ot possibly twenty-fiVe miles j velocity, there was nothing t0 suggest the approach of a storm. At 8 o'clock last night Mr. Fallon observer at the Wilmington station -made the following report: ' The storm continues to move slowiv up the coast It is now central be tween Wilmington and Charleston and has been accompanied during the day by high northerly winds from Norfolk, Va , to Charleston, S. C the following maximum wind velocitit8 being reported up to 8 P. M: Charles ton. 56 north ; Wilmington and Nor folk, 30, northwest Another gale is prevailing over the west Gulf coast Generally cloudy weather and rani Erevailed during the day over the Liddle and South Atlantic and Gulf States, with lower temperature, con tinuing to night; elsewhere the weath er is generally clear, with an area of high temperature extending from the central Ohio valley south westward The centre of the coast storm will -probably pass Wilmington during the night, followed Wednesday by de creasing northerly winds. In speaking of the storm last night Mr. Fallon, of the Weather Bureau, said that the present storm is moving the slowest of any storm on record for many years. For instance, on Au gust 14th, at 8 A. M., it was between Jacksonville and Tampa; at 8 P. M , August 14th, it was reported off Jack sonville; August 15th, at 8 A. M., it was just south of Charleston, and last night at 8 P. M.,just south of Wil mington. It is very much to be hoped that Wilmington and the beaches have seen all they will get of it. - LIKES THE AMERICAN NX'S PRESS. An Arkansas Firm Used It Last Sea son With Great Satisfaction. From the Commercial Appeal, j Memphi&f Tenn. A. J. Clements, of the firm of Clem ents & Daniel, cotton ginners of Lo noke, Ark., was in the city yesterday, Mr. Clements was seen by a Commer cial Appeal representative in the of fice of the American Cotton Company, in the Continental building,- and he talked I very enthusiastically of that company's Roundlap bale press, which he has been operating at his gin, the past season. He compressed about 4,000 bales on his Roundlap bale press, and the cotton was all sold at the press at Memphis prices. Mr. Clements says that a Roundlap bale from the Amer ican 'Company's press will net from $2.50 to $3.00 more than from the old press, In fact, a farmer a few months ago made a test of the matter, bring ing the exact number of pounds of the same quality to Mr, Clements that he did to a square bale 1 press, without let ting either gin know he was mak jug the test and the Roundlap bale netted just $3.75 more than the square bale. Mr. Clements says that one season has satisfied him of the merits of the Amercan Company's Roundlap bale press. It is a good thing he says, both for the ginner and the farmer, and his firm will continue its use and abandon its other press entirely.' PROBABLY A SUICIDE. White Man Tired of Life Dies Prom the Effects of An Overdose of Laudanum. Edward Roderick, a huckster, aged about 38 years, died yesterday morn ing at 9.30 o'clock, at his home, No. 720 South Seventh street, from the effects of an overdose of laudanum, taken, as he said, to "end his troubles on earth. Roderick on Monday afternoon re marked I to his sister, Mrs. Josephine Mintz, that he intended to kill himself and on the following night he ex hibited to his nephew, Edgar Mintz, a bottle of! laudanum, &t the same time remarking that he was going to take it; that he was tired of life and wanted to end his miseries. About 12 o'clock Monday night he went to his home and fell in a stupor to the floor. He was picked up and carried into the house, where he re mained unconscious until his death yesterday morning. Dr. W. D. Mc Millan was summoned a few hours before the death of the unfortunate mail. hilt tiia nnririAAa nam too late, and Dr. Zachary, to whom the case was given by Dr. McMillan was unable at the advanced stage of Roderick's stupor, to revive him. On his person was found an empty bottle bearing a laudanum label and there is no doubt that the contents were taken with the object of ending life. Domestic trouble is said by relatives of the deceased to have been the cause of the rash deed, Deceased leaves a wife and five children. : The funeral will be from the late residence this morning at 10 o'clock, the services baincr enn ducted hy Elder J. W. S. Harvey. The Boat Prescription for Chill" and fever is a bottle of Grove's Taste less Chill Tonic. Never fails to cure: then whv experiment with worthless imitations ? Price 50 censt. Your money bach if it fails to cure. Prom Pike's Pesk. A telegram was received in this city yesterday in which Franklin McNeill, Esq., North Carolina Railroad Com missioner, and Mrs. McNeill, greeted their friends in Wilmington from the summit of Pike's Peak, Colorado. They are taking a combination busi ness and West pleasure trip! 'through the Proof of the pudding lied In the eating of It Proof of ROBERTS' TASTELESS CHILL TONIO lies In the taking of it. COST NOTHING U It falls to cure. W cents per bottle If It cures. Sold strictly on Its merits by ROBERT R. BELLAMY, marM ly Wholesale and Retatt Druggist. If you wish to sell a farm or city property place it in the hands of the least Carolina Real Estate Agenuj. RG. Grady & Co., Burgaw, N.C.