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YUNDRICAAL COTTON BALE. - munn -At WILMINGTON, N. C A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. HE k j A7 . Star S8SSS8SS88888SSS8 8S8S8888888888S88 VOL. XXX. WILMINGTON NOG;, FRID, AUGUST 25, 1899. NO. ii 88888888888388888 moon; X 88888888888888888 8S88888828S888888 888888S882S88888S MAV S 8S8SS883SS88888S8 0"BIO",DSSS!2!SS28S!858 88888888888888388 O i..: ,iered at the Port Office at dmtgtoa, N. C, Second Clan Matter.! SUBSCRIPTION P UCE. The lutacription price of the "W -ly Star ia aa follows : I - Single Copy 1 year, pctafpaJd........... 1 00 3 ( 6 monthl " " 80 " monthl " SO ANOTHER TEXAS OBJECT LES SON. Yesterday we published an article showing how badly the Texas farm ers managed the cattle-raising in dustry and how much money they loso by selling their cattle to be fat tened for market in other States, when they have! the feed to fatten them and j could, if they would, make the profit themselves which by their unbusinesslike methods they let others make. According to the figures given in that article Texas cattle would be worth 185,000,000 miirA in th farnrftra of thai. Rfftfo if they were fattened in Texas than they now are. Eighty-five millions of dollars ia a pretty large sum of money taken out of an industry which with; better methods might take-in. ; - There isl another object lesson furnished by Texas, which we cite by way of illustration, not because we desire to hold that State up as a frightful - example of unthriftiness, but because she serves so well as an example, and what is true of her ap plies to every Southern State, in some degree. Texas is a great cat tle raising State, and also a great sheep raising States, and here is where this object leaaon comes in. For the first six months of this year there were a 116 textile plants established in the United States. Of these jlO were woollen mills, 78 cotton mills, 14 knitting mills and 16 classed as miscellaneous. . Nearly all of the cotton mills were in the South, but of the ten woollen mills only three were in the South, of which two were in Texas and one in North Carolina. Texas established four cotton mills, which is doubtless only a beginning. It is natural that attention should be turned on cotton mills in the South, because cotton growing is lone of the great indus tries in a majority of the Southern States, and they do wisely in pre paring to manufacture it instead of shipping it in the crude form. Every bale of cotton manufactured is that much more money brought into the South, and that -much more added to her wealth? We therefore hope the day may come when every bale of cotton produced in the south "will be manufactured in the South, and she will! dominate that industry for the world. None of these States, with the ex ception of Texas, may be called a sheep-raising State, although all of them should be, for there is not one of them in which sheep will not thrive, and raised with content to .sell wool and sheep, and have made but little effort to turn that industry to better account, or to make but of it the full profit there might be in it. . This does not necessarily imply that there is a lack of enterprise in Texas. It is probably because, the attention of the sheep raisers has not been turned in that direction, and therefore they have never fully realized the possibilities of that in dustry, or what they were annually losing by following -in the beaten track, aa the cotton growers have also been doing, many of whom do not yet fully comprehend the differ ence in the value- of raw lint and manufactured goods, for if they did there would be more cotton mills owned by cotton growers, who could build them on the co-operative plan in many communities if energetic efforts were made. Some one who commands the pub lic ear in Texas should inaugurate a movement for woollen mills and give the sheep raisers somo light on that subject as Mr. Pittuck did on the cattle feeding question in that Farmers' convention. Wo have no doubt that what he said will put the cattle raisers of the State to think ing, and perhaps it may be the in auguration of a revolution in that industry which will bring many millions of dollars annually into the po.ckets of Texas farmers. A movement for woollen factories may eventually do the same. While Texas leads as a sheep raising State, she is riot alone in this, for there is no Southern State which should not be a woollen manufacturing as well as a cotton.manufacturing State. - . Bates, who was sent by Gen. Otis, is down there trying to reconcile the Sultan to the deal and get him to acknowledge the American flag without the iormalitv of beins knocked on the head or shot through the body. As tempting placater the General took along $10,000 as a testimonial' of paternal interest. It took, and the Sultan took it. Then they went to work on a treaty, with the making of which the Sultan (who refused to go to Uebu himself, but sent his brother) seems to have had a good deal more to do than Gen. Bates had, for we are in formed by dispatches thathe insist ed on retaining all the wives he fancied, objected to admitting TJ. S. troops to more than one : or two places, and insisted on flying his own flag instead of the American flag. When the report of the pro ceedings left Cebu they hadn't reached an agreement on the flag question. , In view of the fact that these islands are a part of the purchase from Spain, and the imperious ness with which this country puts in a claim of absolute sovereignty over the others, and the indiscrimi nate slaughter of the Filipinos to es tablish this sovereignty, doesn't . this, dickering with the Mohammedan boas of the Sulus look somewhat farcical? If the Filipinos had been given one half the consideration the-Sulu sav ages and ex-pirates have been given, there would have been no occasion to shoot them, and no need of a big army in Luzon now. MARRIED-AT J. SOUTHPORT.- Miss Mattie Wescott to Mr. Pierre Harrlss Wednesday Afternoon A Reception. The Southport Standard of yester day has the following announcement of the marriage of Mr. Pierre Harriss,- of Wilmington to MissMattie Wescott of that town :; ; " - "Yesterday a few minutes afternoon; mi. iierre A. Jlamss, of Wilmington, was married to Miss Mattie Wescott, of southport. The event was quite, a surprise to the young bride's many friends m Southport, a few only of which were invited to attend the quiet though pretty marriage which was celebrated at the home of her sister, Mrs. H. V. Tharp, Rev. W. M. .Shaw officiating. ' "' "The happy couple left at 2:30 P. M. for Wilmington where they make their future home, followed by the best wishes of their many friends." Wednesday night at the' residence of the bride's sister, Mrs. Sallie Skip per on Fifth street near Hanover, an enjoyable reception was tendered the happy young couple, to which a num ber of friends were invited: The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Amanda Wescott, of Southport, and a sister of Mr. J. A. Wescott, junior member of the firm of T. J. Wescott & Co ' PENITENTIARY BONDS. Wanted in Lttmberton. . Frank Robertson, a young white man,' who has been employed for a short time at the CottonMills, was arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Millis on a warrant from Sheriff George B. McLeod, of Robeson county, charging him with the larceny of a silver watch about a week ago from Mrs. Mary; L. Futrell, with whom he boarded at Lumberton. In a letter to Sheriff MacRae,. accompanying the warrant, Sheriff McLeod says that Mrs. Futrell is a widow and earns a livelihood by repairing watches, clocks, etc., and is anxious to recover the property. f . Sheriff MacHae yesterday notified the Robeson authorities of the arrest and it is probable that an officer will be down at noon to-day for the pris oner. Young Robertson says, that at the proper time he will vindicate him self fully, and it is not believed here thathe is guilty of wilful wrong-doiDg. QUARANTINE LIFTED. A SPLENDID SUCCESS Scored Yesterday by the Moore's Creek Battle Ground Monti mental Association. THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION. Awarded to the Wachovia Loan and Trust Company of Winston There Were Ten Bids. in which they cannot be less trouble, care and cost than they can be in the sheep raising States of the West. But Texas is a great sheep-raising State. We wondetifithas ever occurred to any Texas economist to figure out what that State annually loses by shipping her wool clip to be sold as raw material to Northern mills, in stead of manufacturing it and ship ping it as cloth? Texas built two woollen mil a during the first half of this year. We do not know how many were in that State before, but there are not enough to spin or weave a fraction of the wool produced in the State. Texas produces over a fourth of the entire cot ton crop of the South and -e will that if she it would than her entire cotton cfop, in ad dition to giving employment to many thousands of people and stimulating1 the breeding of higher grades of sheep, producing higher grades of Jwool and higher, priced goods, which would add still more to her income. As there is not much margin for profit in cotton sold as lint at pres ent prices j or the prices that have prevailed for some years, neither is there much profit in the common grades :of crude wool. The prqfit in both is in putting them upon the market in finished form, and as the cotton crop could be increased from three to four-fold or more by manu facturing it so could the wool, crop be enhanced in value from three to four-fold or more by manufactur ing it. V--,. For the thirty years or more since Texas has become noted aa a sheep raising State the raisers have been YOUNG, BUT GREAT. We have had numerous instances in this country of towns sprung up in a day, as it were, some of which! survived and grew, thers of which, built on booms, disappeared almost as rapidty as they came. We have not had many of the latter kind in the South but a number of the former. As an illustration of rapid,healthy and continuous growth Bingham, Alabama, looms up con spicuously. Not much more than twenty-five years ago cotton was grown" on the site on which that city now stands. To-day it is a humming, prosperous, great city, which has as yet scarcely entered upon the possi bilities before it. What it is and is now doing is thus briefly told by a correspondent of the Baltimore Sun: "The city of Birmingham contains a number of the most modern and com plete machine shops and foundries in the United States. Corliss engines and sugar mill machinery are the special ties of mammoth plants, whose large pay jolls are circulated at home. There are two of the largest cotton gin facto ries! in the world in Birmingham. There is a $600,000 cotton mill. There are two large rolling mills. There are in the city of Birmingham and the county of Jefferson, of which it is the metropolis, twenty-five blast fur naces. . There are chair ' factories, bolt works, mattress factories and iron bed factories, veneer and gaso line engine factories and brass works. The mine and mill, the furnace and the railroad all get their work done at home. Nothing in the iron line is imported. Tyres for furnaces and brasses for railroads are made in Bir mingham. Every size of car wheel is made in the city of Birmingham. In fact, one of the largest and most pros perous car wheel manufactories in the United States is located in this city. There are fertilizer factories and pow der works. There are grist mills, and flour mills have been located. The variety of the industries of the city grows each year and adds to the pro ductiveness of the district." There is a city whose foundation is iron, so to sneak, for that is what called it into existence, drew enterprising men there from other localities and sections, and stimu- Paty de Clam is mad at the way the anti-Dreyfusites have turned a cold shoulder to him and threatens "to tell all." The trouble with Paty is that he has established such a reputation as a liar that no one would believe him if he told the truth. Some fellow who has been running the death census in Luzon, making his calculations from the reports of Gen. Otis, figures up 63,981 Fili pinos killed by our soldiers and 426,720 wounded, and there are still some left for "benevolent assimilation." Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, August 16. Bids for the $60,000 of bonds ordered to be sold for the purchase of the Caledonia penitentiary farm were opened to-day at noon in the State Treasurer's office. There were ten bids four in the State and six from outsiders. All but three of the bids were for the whole issue. The bids ranged from 104.60 to 108.75. Th successful bidder was the Wacho via Loan and Trust Co., of Winston. To this company also was awarded the $110,000 of bonds sold on May 22d, for payment of the penitentiary debts. For that issue $109,275 was paid. Both issues are for ten years at four per cent. The bid of , the Wachovia Loan and Trust Company was $750 higher than that of the next bidder, the Ra leigh' Savings Bank. . t ' FIRE AT RED SPRINGS. NORTHERN AND WESTERN TOUR. Wilmington Minstrel Tronpe Arranging for the Coming Theatrical Season. . Mr. John W- Blomme, of Wilming ton, manager and proprietor of the Darktown Minstrels, announces that his troop will begin about September 15th, in a special car elegantly fur nished for the purpose, a tour of the South and West. Charleston, S. C, being the first city in which his com pany will hold the boards. Mr. Bloome is how advertising in the musical periodicals of the North for a band of twelve pieces, which will accompany the troupe on its tour. which will embrace the larger cities of the territory named. He has ' now about perfected arrangements with the New Jersey Car and Equipment Co., of Lake View, N. J., for one of their handsome parlor cars, with berth ac commodation for 36 persons. The car is painted vermillion and will be especially re-finished in the shopf, if the trade is made, in confor mity to the ideas of Mr. Bloome. BENJAMIN E. STANLY. Died Last Wednesday at His Father's Home Near Kington, N. C. Star Correspondence. Kinston, N. C, August 18. , Last Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, at his father's home near Kinston, Benjamin E. Stanly, more familiarly known as "Pat" Stanly, died at the aee of 27 years. His di lated the multiplied and various in- I ness was short, his condition not-hav -r- I 1 Kaawma lAminM until nriftiin i-lltf dnatriea now in existence there. ' It doesn't depend upon iron alone, but is a city of diversified industries, givJng"employment to many kinds of skilled labor. It is gratifying to see 'such cities springing up in the South, and pleasant to note their success and prosperity. They are standing object lessons showing what enterprise and energy can do under favorable conditions. DICKERING WITH THE SULTAN. When the United States traded I - n venture the opinion with S.pam for the Philippine lsianas, manufactured; her wool the Sulu group was included. In be worth more to her the bargain maaetnere were no special conditions as to these. But the Sulu denizens 'are" pretty hard customers, some of them savages and nannihals. Thev believe in a mul tiplicity of wives, and for many years the principal industry of thoBO liv ing along the coasts was pirating on vessels that were tempted into their waters and got within their reach, They were too much or Spain and she found it easier nd cheaper to, buy them off by paying them to-be have themselvea4han it would be to fight them. Sne therefore agreed to pay the Sultan, who is a Mohamme dan and the boss man, an annuity to maKe n-is pewpie .uv , quitrobbing ships and cutting ine throats of surprised sailor men who fell into their hands. That was the statu quo wneu me United States bargained ior tne Philippines and acquired the Sul tan, his ishinds and their savages, including ihe ex-piratea. Now Gen. ing become alarming until within the past few days. He was a graduate of the Univer sity, and durine his stay there of four -rears was a member-of the base ball team, and for one year of the foot ball ; team. Of the former he was captain for two years, and was knpwn as one of the best amateur players in the South. His jolly good nature had en deared him to a number offriends, who will hear with regret of his death. . - Nelll Overshoots Himself. Atlanta Constitution: Even the traders in the New York Cotton Ex change do notput much faith in Mr. Henry M. Neill's prediction of an enormous cotton crop this season. According to the Commercial, they iArrd it as extravagant, tleclaring that it has bo facts from which he caa logically draw the conclusions he reaches. . Mr. Neill's figures of a possible cot ton crop of 12,000,000 bales are gener racrarded as beine at least 1,500,- 000 over the mark, thus bringing down the concensus of opinion to the figures of Mr. George W. Truitt, of Georgia, to which we have already referred. . -. At Presbyterian Chords. . ' Mr. C. O. Alexander and Miss Jane H. Alexander, were united in marriage at the First Presbyterian Church yes terday at 9 A. M., Rev. Peyton H. Hoge, D. IX, officiating. The groom is a valued salesman in Mr. J. L-lBoatwright's grocery store, is a son of County Commissioner W. F. Alexander, and has lived in this city for several years. .The bride is from Topsail Sound, being a daughter of Dr. S. L. Alexander of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander left yester day evening for a bridal tour. They will visit w asuingwu, dmuuwio, Asheville and other places of interest. Lumber Mills and Railroad Cars Burned. Loss $10,000, Partly Insured. Special Star Telegram. Red Springs, N: C, August 17.j A ten thousand dollar fire here to day. W. J. McDiarmid's planing mills, offices, lumber, etc, burned; loss $5,000, partially insured. The Red Springs Lumber Co, lost four cars of lumber, the depot, and 200 worth of freight. Loss, $1,000; not insured. A. C. L. Railroad lost three fiat cars, a water tank, and the damage to the track caused two hours delay to the trains. The fire caught from sparks. FOR THE STANDARD BALE. Galveston, Texas, May 5, 1899. The Galveston Maritime Association held a meeting yesterday and adopted Jthe following : Whereas. The cotton ginners con vention which closed its annual meet ing at Galveston May 3, 1899, adopted a resolution that all cotton ginners in the State of Texas be requested to re model their boxes in which the square bale of cotton is originally formed to a standard size of 24 inches wide by 54 inches .long; and considering that the. trade generally will be greatly benefitted by having bales of uniform size and increased density, therefore be it, Resolved, by the Galveston Mari time Association, composed of the va rious ship agents at Galveston, that all ocean freight rates on cotton quoted for shipments to be made on ana after August 1st, 1899, shall be based upon said standard bale, compressed to a minimum density of .twenty-five (25) pounds to the cubic foot, and that 10 cents per hundred pounds extra freight will be charged on all bales of greater dimensions or less density. B. Adoue, President. Geo. Anderson, Secretary. NEW CROP COTTON. Health Authorities Decided Yesterday to Enforce it No Further. The city health authorities yester day decided that all possible dan ger of a yellow fever epidemic here by reason of contagion from the infected district in Virginia had passed, and accordingly the quar antine was lifted and the officers guarding the railroad approaches to the city were ordered to be relieved of further duty. They all returned to the city yesterday and last night. While at no time was there t reason for serious alarm or necessity for a stringent . quarantine, Chief Officer Green has done efficient and faithful service and the public is more than ever of the opinion that Capt Green is "the right man in the right place." Sawed Off. Something rather amusing occurred, on the up trip of the steamer'Wilming ton last Saturday afternoon. Three ladies and two young gentlemen were seated, forming a party, upon the up per deck. The young ladies finally engaged in singing when the two young men joined in, one of the two gentlemen making, probably for fun, discordant notes, and finally turning to one of the young ladies asked if she had ever heard a billy goat sing, to which she replied, "not until I heard you a few moments ago." Passengers near by who overheard it roared, while the young man held for a time a carpet bottom stool before his face. Sufficient to say be was quiet for the remainder of the trip. The Scotland Hotel. Attention is called to the advertise ment of the Scotland Hotel in this issue of the Star. The proprietress is the wife of Capt. Irving Robinson, well known to travellers and shippers of this section as one of the most popular steamboatmen who ever ran on the Cape Fear river. Gibson, the new home of Captain and Mrs. Robinson, is one of the most flourishing and progressive towns in the State, and all who visit it are delighted with its people. Drunv mers and the travelling public gener ally who may favor the Scotland Hotel with their patronage will find it a first class house in every respect. AGAINST PERPETUAL ROYALTY. Fromthe Planter and Ginner. . The boosters for the trust try to make it appear always that the fight against the trust is a fight against improved methods, pure and simple. They also speak of it as a fight against the prin ciple of compression at the gin. - The resolution introduced by Mr. Schaeff er at the Galveston convention against the Cole bill spoke of it as a bill aimed at compression at the gin, when in fact it was not so aimed but directed solely against the perpetual royalty plan. The resolution, as furnished the press and -printed in various papers, said nothing about the Cole bill being aimed at gin compression. Who do you suppose changed the wording of that resolution, and why? It would be in teresting to know. ONEIDA ARRIVED YESTERDAY. First Bale Sold in the State Received In Wilmington Yesterday. The first bale of new crop cotton re ceived in Wilmington this season ar rived yesterday over the W., C. & A. railroad, and is consigned jo Mr. E. Lilly, by The Hardison Company, of Morven, N. C. The bale weighs 520 pounds, and was originally sold on August 14th, as told in the Star's tele graphic dispatches, at six and one-half cents. Mr. Lilly has thus far madsno dis position of the cotton. STANDARD BALE RESOLUTIONS. FARMERS URGED TO ADOPT UNI FORK! STANDARD FOR SftCABB PRESSES. Cost of Change la Small and. Benefits WtU Pay for the Expense in a Very Short Time., Augusta Chronicle. The following resolution was unani mously, adopted at the Cotton Ex change to-day, about twenty-five members being present: As the packing of square oaies oi cotton has been done in boxes of ir regular size and much oi it coverea withugar sacks and patched bagging, thereby rendering such irregularity in size and covering unsatisfactory to the planters and ginners of our tribu tary country the importance of adopt ing the 54x24 box, making uniform packages of square bales. We also recommend the use of two-pound bag ging as a covering. . .. This will give to the trade uniform ity in the size of square balesr andV a satisfactory covering, and will enable the producers to get better net results for their cotton. The cost of change is small and the benefits to be derived very-great. Big Excursion From Wilmington 5,000 People On Battle Uround Stirring Music Beautiful Ceremonies. General Good Time. - The officers and members of the Moore's Creek Battle Ground Associa tion, the various committees and ladies and gentlemen other than members. who in any way participated in the programme, abundantly j merit the highest and most sincere congratula tions upon the splendid success which attended the celebration yesterday of the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, so gallantly fought by American patriots under the leadership of Col. Lilling ton, then of Wilmington, and Col. Caswell, against the British and Tories, commanded by General Donald Mc Donald, on February 27th 1776. It is estimated that 5,000 people as sembled on this famous battle ground to share the pleasures of the celebra tion and pay reverent homage to the 'memory of those fearless patriots who rallied to the colonial standard, boldly and with signal success baffling a deep laid plot on the part of the British to cripple and crush the American Revo lution by uniting the Tories and erst while Scotch Highlanders with Lord Corn wallis' army and thereby capture and hold in check the South until the colonies in the North were conquered. Every one expected a big success to be scored by the celebration, and the Star is glad to report that the expecta tions of the most sanguine were more than realized in the rendition of the programme, features of which were an annual meeting of Moore's Creek Monumental Association, stirring music by the Second Regiment Band, of Wilmington, tie address by R. G. Grady, Esq., oJfBurgaw,! monument decorating and .flag roising by a bevy of young ladies representing the thir teen original States, a sumptuous pic nic dinner and barbecue, followed by quite an en joyable dance j which con tinued until a late hour last night. The Wilmington Excursion. . A train of seven coaches, bearing probably 500 people, left the Front street A. C. L. depot for the Battle Ground a few minutes past 9 o'clock yesterday morning, arriving at Currie, the nearest station, about 10 o'clock. Through the thoughtfulness of the reception committee numerous con veyances were in waiting to convey the excursionists to the battle ground, scarcely three-quarters of a mile away. In this connection the Star represen tative tenders thanks to Dr. Geo. F. Lucas, who' kindly put his excellent carriage at his disposal for driving to and from the battle ground. It was an imposing scene at the battle ground, the vast crowd of people moving hither and thither, hundreds of them grouped about the historic granite monument and the prettily designed, and substantially constructed new pavillion, both of which occupy commanding positions, j Business Meeting of Association. It was 10.30 o'clock when the busi ness meeting of the Moore's Creek As sociation was called to order by Presi dent James F. Moore, Capt. R. P. Paddison, the regular secretary serv ing in his official capacity. Announcement was made by Capt. Paddison and President Moore that an appropriation of $100 fqr 1898, $100 for 1899 and an annual appropriation of $50 thereafter has been made by the State to the Association. Dr. G. F. Lucas, Dr. E. Porter and Bruce Williams, Esq., were appointed by the President a committee to receive certain relics which were brought to the battle ground for presentation to the Association, it being the purpose of the Association to ultimately have a museum on the grounds. President Moore announced that the Association had accumulated a debt of $280 and requested all members to some time during the day pay to Se Eetary Paddison their $10 assessments and receive certificates of indebtedness for the same, the purpose of the Asso ciation being to treat the matter as a loan and refund it just as soon as the affairs of the corporation will admit of it. I On motion of Dr.E. Porter, seconded by Dr. G. F. Lucas, letters from the Governors of the thirteen original States, acknowledging the receipt of invitations to attend and regretting the impossibility of their being pres ent, were ordered t spread upon the minutes. ;j President Moore announced that a large' number of people wanted to make small donations to the Associa Had to Put to Sea to Escape Hurricane. Passed a Derelict. The Clyde steamship Oneida, Capt. Staples, arrived in port yesterday ibout 1 o'clock, having passed up from Southport at 9.30 o'clock. The steamer encountered the hurricane three miles beyond Frying Pan light ship and was compelled to put to sea to escape the fury of the storm. Capt. Staples says he had a rather rough ex perience, but says his vessel has proven itself to be admirably fitted for rough seas,- and he steamed her into port yesterday without the slight est evidences of injury. About sixty-five miles south by southeast of Frying Pan shoals Capt. Staples reports having passed a dere lict anhooner with three masts, all her sails having been, torn into shreds and the vessel apparently deserted. The wrpnired vessel, he savs. was painted black, and could not, therefore, be the tio a d a tion by DJ Porter that scuoouer . y. jjw.te.f, rr . . . . , RA-fltorv h author days overdue. the contributions, was A Wrong Notion I It is a mistake to suppose that 1 baby must i c ome with great pain and 1 suffering. An i expectant mother need only use the i wonderful lini ment calleaaJ MOTHER'S FR1EKD - ' to escape1 the i dread, danger; ana nervousness. wiuks liniment for $1 a bottle, - wives are in- i vltert to send for our free illustrated book. It will tell them things they ought to know. THS BRADFIKLD XXGULAXOB oa.,AUau, uA izedta receive adopted. j The Association adjourned to meet at Burgaw on Monday, August 28th. A Beautiful Ceremony. Immediately after the adjournment of the business meeting; the Second Regiment Band, of Wilmington; struck up the stirring strains of "El Capitan March," in time to which thirteen of Pender county's fairest and most graceful young ladies came upon the pavillion, executing a beau tiful drill and subsequently singing with excellent effect the patriotic air "America." Preceding the national air a fervent prayer was offered by the chaplain, Ret. Colin Shaw. They were all attired alike in white organdie costumes of exquisite pattern with marseilles trimming and sashes of red, white and blue. They wore oxford cans, around the front of each of which, in gold lettering,, was the name of the State represented by the young lady by whom it was worn. They also carried a prettily wrought garland of evergreens and' the two in front, Miss Annetta Paddison representing Virginia, and Miss Hya cinthe Peterson representing New Hampshire, carried between them an evergreen hoop. Both the wreath and the hoop were ; subsequently used by the young ladies in decorating the monument. The beautiful ceremonies so well rendered by the bevy of young ladies representing the thirteen original States were arranged under the direc tion of Mrs. E. A. Hawes and the fol lowing were the young ladies and the States they represent: Virginia, Miss Annetta Paddison; South Carolina, Miss Meta Simpson; North Carolina, Miss Thyra Lucas; Georgia, Miss Berta Simpson; Mary land, Miss Maggie Hawes; Delaware, Miss 1 TT.nla RnntsaiiT 'NTanr T.Mnw Miss Sena Herring; New York, Miss Mary Lucas; Connecticut, Miss Mary Styron ; Pennsylvania, Miss Lina Mc Ausli t; Rhode Island, Miss Irene bimpson ; New Hampshire. Miss Hva cinthe Peterson; Massachusetts, Miss mauie uawes. Address of R. Q. Urady, Esq. President Jas. F. Moore of tht Monumental Association introduced the orator of the day, incidentally ex tending a welcome to the people. He announced that Hon. Of B. Aycock, of Goldsboro. had been invited to de liver the. address but had taen obliged to decline and thereafter introduced R. G. Grady, Esq., whom he stated had only known for a few hours be fore that he was to perform this task. Mr. Grady was cordially - greeted and treated his vast audience to quite an appropriate address, in which he fluently reviewed the struggles of the people in many ages of the world for the establishment and maintenance of liberty, and then presented in vivid detail the most notable incidents of the Moore's Creek Bridge battle, as well as the incidents leading up to this famous "clash at arms," concludinsr with a beautiful tribute to the move ment looking to the erection of monu mets to the heroic dead. The Star resrrets that demand for space will not admit of the publica tion of the speech in full. Monument Decorated. Following the address there was an appropriate selection by the band, fol lowed by the rendering of "The Old North State'," in which the whole audience participated, being led by the bevy of young ladies representing the thirteen original States. The song con cluded, the band rendered a march. and the ladies went through another difficult and very pretty drill, after which the ladies marched from the pavilion to the monument, about one hundred feet away, which they twined with the two seventeen-foot ever green wreaths, ' securing them to the top of the shaft by means of the ever green hoop, used to such good advan tage in the previous drill. An ever green bearing the name "Grady," in honor of John Grady, who was killed during the battle, was also suspended on the monument under which the re mains of the dead hero lie buried. The scene presented in decorating the monument was especially attrac tive, the beauty and appropriate cos tuming of the thirteen young ladies combining with the ceremonies and drills rendered in completing a beau tiful picture, snap spots of which were eagerly sought and obtained by professional and amateur photog raphers. ! Unfurling the Flag. Several feet to the north of the monument was a flag pole more than one hundred feet high and the young ladies passed to this after encircling the monument several times in graceful drill in time to band music. Here, with the assistance of several gentle men they raised a large national flag. the whilesinging "The Star Spangled Banner." The Sumptuous Spread. The flag raising concluded the ex ercises of the day and feeding of the multitude was the next thing in order. This the good people of Pender did most sumptuously and "to the queen's taste." A table several hundred feet long was improvised and upon this a competent commmittee on dinner spread. There was everything good to eat including barbecue. The following was the committee on dinner: Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Woodcock. iMr. and Mrs. D. J. Corbett, Mr. Frank Sessoms. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hollins worth. Dr. and Mrs. Geo. F. Lucas. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sidbury, Mr. and ilira. O , x. j UJ jut, auu ma, tw. x miiW) Mr. and Mrs.i W. F. Bell. Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Lewis,. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ward: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ab. . John son, Mr. and Mrs. R. H Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. J.-N. Henry, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Colvin, Mr. and Mm. E. A. Hawes. Mr. and Mrs. M M. Bullard, Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Herring, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Mc Uf-rn 1LT A TT JU.UUJTO, lUCi IU1U iUlO. JQL. U. X WUIWUi Mr. and Mr. TJ. W. Corbett, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Keith, Mr. and Mrs. L. Vollers, Mr. and Mrs. Wash. Henry, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woodcock. Music andilanclnf. ' After dinner there was musie and dancing all the afternoon. The Wil mington excursionists left , at 6:10 o'clock, but the merry-making con tinued until far into the night. This report j would be incomplete without the names of the marshals and the committees on arrangements and reception on duty during the day. They are: - Committee of Reception E. A. Hawes, Dr. G. F. Lucas, R. G. Grady, Dr. E. Porter, J. T. Foy. Committee of Arrangements Mrs. E. A. Hawes (chairman), W. F. Bell, W. J. Holiingsworth, D. J. Corbett, R. P. Paddison, B. F. Keith. Marshals W. H. Alderman (chief), W. R. Walker, J. H- Colvin, M. M. Bullard, J. E. Henry, Joe A. John son, C. C. Woodcock, Jno. R. Hawes, Ed. Holiingsworth, J. J. Lucas, J. A. Black, R. P. Paddison, D. J. Corbett, Allen Keith, Dan Corbett. Some Facta and Flrares Which Would Seem to Support the Claim That It la a Merciless Trust.; ,. . . ;; -, ... , , Correspondent at Yorkville, S. C. (News and Courier) : The farmers of York county do not take kindly to the cylindrical cotton bale, and neither do the ginners ss a rule. In fact there is no probability that there will be I more than one installed in a xork ' m . x il 1 f m county gin nouse at we oeginning oi . the season this Fall, and there is little prospect of its being kept busy. The farmers oppose it because they are not willing to place themselves at the mercy of what will, if schemes mate rialize, prove to be the most merci less trust ever organized in the United States. . The proposition of the representatives of the round bale peo ple to pay 45 cents more per hundred Kunds for cotton, packed in round les than square is no inducement to a farmer who has sufficient intelli gence to make a very simple calcula tion, . because the difference in the cost and weight of the wrappings of , the square and round bales will actu- ' ally make 500 pounds of lint cotton wrapped In the old standard style net 15 cents more than 500 pounds put up ' in the new style, and besides this practically all the cotton sold in York county during the past two seasons was bought by cotton mills of this ' and neighboring counties, and the farmers received, about 25 cents per hundred more for it than could or would have been paid by exporters. The .farmers and ginner's object to the string that is tied to the round bale press. It is a well known fact that they are not sold to the ginners, but are installed on the following terms: $500 to be paid or due when the press is put in. The ginner is then . allowed to pack 1,000 bales, weighing . 250 pounds each and for each bale over that number he is to pay the owners of the press a royalty of 50 cents. An ordinary double box square press can be bought for $350 and the farmers and ginners think the cylin drical press should be sold outright at about tbb same price. The cotton raisers of the South are heavily bur dened now and it is to be hoped that they will not stick their heads in the new sugar coated noose offered by the round bale people. FIVE LIVES COST. Schooner Wrecked On the North Carolina Coast Only Three of the Crew I Were Saved. Bv Teiunrapb to tne Mornlntt Star. " Norfolk. Va., August 16. Local Weather Observer Gray received a dispatch from Kitty Hawk, N. C, to night, stating that the three-masted' schooner Aaron Keppard, Uaptain Wessell, lumber laden, from Savan nah to . Philadelphia, was totally wrecked off Gull shoals, on the North Carolina coast, to-day. The schooner had been in distress nearly all day. and went to-pieces toward night. A Liire Saving crew from the Gull Shoals Life Saving station was sent to rescue the schooner's crew, but of the eight men only three were saved. It is not known whether or not Captain Wessell was one of those lost. The wind reached a velocity of sixty miles an hour along the coast here to day. Some of the regular passenger and freight steamers scheduled to leave this port to-day did not venture on their voyage. LIKE THE FOX. From the Planter and Ginnerl One thine at the Galveston conven tion that struck me as peculiar f was the fact that the ginners who had round bale presses tridd to make such brave talks for them, and yet not one among tnem said ne naa iouna ma press profitable. They seemed to be like the fox, who, having had" his tail pinched off in a crack, wanted all the rest of the foxes to have theirs pinch ed off not because he had enjoyed it, but because he didn't want to be the only fox who had gotten his tail pinched. While one of those round bale ginners was speaking, and struggling like a young lawyer with a bad case to make the best argument he could, a member sitting behind me re marked to the man next to him : "That fellow puts me in mind of the fellow that had the runaway bull by the tail. He thought if he let go the bull would hook him to death, and knew if he held On the bull would run him to death." l thought the illustration very apt, but I believe the ginner wouio? oe sater to trust taldnsr the arreat trust by the horns than in swinging onto its tail. PARKER ROSE MARRIAGE. Smithfikld, N. C, August 16. The Presbyterian Church at this place was the scene of a a lovely marriage at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The parties who pledged their fortunes at love's shrine were Prof. Virgil O. Parker and Miss Annie Lee Rose, both of Smithfield. v Promptly at the hour appointed the bridal party were ushered in by Messrs. Thos. J.l Lassiter aid Allen K. Smith, the wedding march being skillfully rendered by Miss Nellie Lunceford, of this place. The decorations around the church were profuse and tasteful all that kind friends could do to make the scene one of loveliness. The bride en tered leaning on the arm of her uncle Mr. Edgar R. Northam, of Raleigh, who gave her away; the grom entered' with his brother, Chas. J. Parker, Esq., late Secretary of the N. C. Teachers' Assembly. As the bridal party met at the altar the' impressive ceremony which made the happy couple one, was performed by the Rev. R. W. Hines, of the Presbyterian Church. After the marriage Mr. and Mrs. Parker im mediately left by the Coast line for Wake county, where they will spend some days at the home of Mr. Parker's father, after which they will be at home in Smithfield. , Both parties are well known in this section and number ; their friends by Prof. Parker, who for several years has been professor of Latin and Greek in Turlington Institute, Smithfield, N. (T. is a teacher who stands high in his profession. Miss Rose has held sev eral important positions as teacher in the State, among them one in Wil mington. Her many personal charms as well as her usual mental endow ments are such as to elicit the admira tion of all who know her. The writer joins their host of friends here in the wish that life to them may be one grand sweet song. Frying Paa Lifht Ship. Nothing definite was heard yester day from Frying Pan . light ship, which, as stated in yesterday's Star, is thought to have been driven from her anchorage by the West India hur ricane, j Capt B. W.. Brown, Quaran tine Officer at Southport, from whom the last Information, was sought by Collector Dancy. telegraphs that the pilots have no information concerning the vessel. ' The Charleston papers of yesterday surmised that she had broken from her moorings and was moving down the coast toward that city. .
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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