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-ruiusuo AT WILMINGTON, N. C, ,1.00 A YEAR. IN ADVANCE. HE i sssssssssssssssss wis t-i t-t w ri ti p St 51 S8SSSSS8S3S8S83S3 ' 38888888888888888 " 18888888888888888 SS888S333S33S3333 ,,ao? 1 ""sgsssaaassiggsa 888888S83S88888SS : 8SS8S3S22333333S3 : I888l88888888888 I .. '.. ; . 'I i la . . . i ".' i i i r i : i i s t s ; i to . . W EEKLY VOL. XXX. WILMINGTON,' C.- FRIDAY, SEPTEMfiEE 8, 1899. NO. 46 - ncrcd at the Pot Office at dmtgton, N. C, at Second Clan Matter.) SUBSCRIPTION P. ICE. The snbacrlpdon price o( the Wo'-ly Star la aa ntlowi : jingle Copy 1 year, pottage. paid.. $1 00 " 6 months " " eo " " Smonthi " SO THE BRITISH AND THE BOERS. i Tho friction between the British and tho Boers is not of modem origin but goes back moro than a hundred years. Tho Dutch were the first to! establish a colony in South Africa and Capetown was a Dutch possession for more than 150 years when the English captured and took possession of it in 1806. The founders of the Transvaal Re public are the descendants of the Dutch Capetown colonists and they d'i3tnut andldisliko the British to day quite as much as their ancestors did more than a hundred years ago. The Boeis (which is the Dutch word for farmers) were then as they are now a pastoral people, more' devoted to farming and their flocks and herds than to trafficking for gain, and there was little if anything in common between thorn and their British rulers, whom they regarded as oppressors and hated. Abou iS34 -they resolved to sever their connection with the British; to get from under their rule; and therefore they "trekcd," or migrated into Zululand, where they- purchased land and. established a settlement, but had to fight for ill after wards and secure title with their Bhot guns. Within ten years the English nicked a quarrel with them, . into the Orange Free State, in 1843. But the English followed them there, there was more fighting and ' in IS 48 they: moved again, crossed the river Vaal, and established the Transvaal Republic. They had trouble with the surrounding tribes andJ.his tho British made an ex cuse to follow them again, which they did and intervened in 1S77 and raised the British flag in the Republic. The Boers did not sub- quietly but marshalled fought several battles and at Majuba Hill, in 1881 under Gen. Joubert, thrashed the British badly. This led to negotiations which resulted in peace under a British protectorate. By the treaty of 1884 the protec torate wa3 abolished, and it was jjro of , State necessity to secure the establishment of a home plant, which could be relied upon to fur nish ammunition in case of need. As to the franchises given for the construction and operation of rail roads these were given before the discovery of gold in workable quan tities, and when there was little en couragement for the building of railroads and little prospect of their paying the builders. Theholders Of the franchises doubtless took ad vantage of their opportunity in the traffic created by the gold discov eries and the consequent increase of population, but having the law on, their aide" the Republic can't very well prevent this, even if there were a disposition to put the brakes on the railroads. Attention is called to the fact that tho ckmor was raised for some of these reforms after steps had been taken by the Government of the Re public to institute reforms, the ob ject of the clamorers being to force a conflict which would give an excuse for overthrowing the Republic and establishing British rule. This was part j of the programme in the Jameson raid two years' ago, the Ob ject of hich was to precipitate a revolution " which would put the Government in the hands of the Outlanders, most' of whom, as we have said, are English- The trial in England of these raiders was a mere farce. Jameson was regarded as a hero, and Cecil Rhodes, the princi pal plainer of the raid was the boon companion of Prince of Wales and other notables while he was in England, to which he had been snnmoned as a witness. The Outlanders may have some grievances, but they .have none that are sufficient to put them in the po sition of martyrs. Their principal complaint is thaft they have not the right to make the laws under which they live, and take practical posses TO CORNER THE GREENBACKS. , The United States Comptroller of the' Currency, who has been in Chi cago recently, has been giving his views as to the probable currency legislation by the next Congress. Among other things he is quoted as saying: " "It is my opinion that Congress at the next session will pass the House Caucus bill now in the hands of the Senate Finance Committee, which em bodies the President's recommendation on a gold reserve fund. Under this bill from $125,000,000 t6 $150,000,000 in gold will be set aside as a fund for the redemption of greenbacks. The effect of this will be to place about $135,000,000 between us and the dan ger of trouble. It amounts to putting the currency of the country on a gold basis, and cannot be construed in any other way. It is not a contraction of the currency or a retirement of green backs, as some Democrats argue, be cause for every greenback turned into the Treasury equivalent in gold will be issued and put into circulation." This is practically getting into line with those who have been clam oring rfor the retirement- of the greenbacks. Tho intention v doubt less is, if Congress provides for this increased gold redemption fund, to lock up the redeemed greenbacks, to keep on redeeming and locking up until the greenback has practi cally disappeared from circulation. The absurdity in the concluding statement that this redemption will not result in a contraction of the currency because for every green back turned into the Treasury its equivalent in gold will be issued and put into circulation, is too apparent to deceive any one. Where does the Treasury get its gold? Msn'tit from money paid in from customs, duties, excise taxes, &c, and doesn't this come out of the volume in cir culation? And.when money that is in circulation is paid out for other money that is in circulation and that money is locked up, isn't that a con traction of the- currency to that .ex tent? As the law how stands the Treasury is required to re-issue the A NEW ENTERPRISE. Acme Tea Chest Company, Glasgow, Will Locate Sup ply Office Here. of EXTENSIVE TIMBER PURCHASE DEATH OF CAPTAIN J. W. DICKSEY. sion -'of the-country into which they greenbacks taken in by the Treasury, went as adventurers m quest of gold, and thu3 do by their ballots what they had previously done three times with bullets. Mindful of this and distrustful of the English the Boers by legislative safeguards have endeavored to keep the gov ernment in their own hands, just as the native American . party once tried to do in this country when it but it is quite evident that there is no intention , to re-issue those"re deemed under the contemplated scheme unlessnacessity compel it. A SPLENDID PRODUCTION. The industrial edition of the Ra leigh Neios and Observer just issued is one of the most colossal, compre- proposed to prevent foreigners from bensive and complete productions of becoming voters andaa was after- I tnat kind - ever waWla Anna in t.ViA naaaftcrp of thft I btate. It IS a c o - undertaken in this paper, or rather mit to this their forces, vided that no treaty could be made between the Republic and other countries without the ap proval of the British Government. The object of this, of course, was to prevent the Republic from form-. ing treaties! with other oountriss that might be ormight become hos tile to Great Britain, and allies of the Boers in the event of trouble. They might have gone on peace- f ullyon this basis had it not been for tho discovery ofgold in suffi cient quantity to give a great stimu lous to fortune hunting, and cause immigration of thousands; of adven turers, the large majority of whom were English. With prospecting and development, these mines be came a center of attraction and of speculation, and hundreds of . mil lions of dollars were ' made out of them, the demand for stock in them amounting to a craze for several years in Ensrland. The result of all this was "that the city of Johannes burg became practically an English city, though under Boer rule. Englishmen are nothing if not as sertive and aggressive: They soon began to complain of discrimination against them and to clamor for con cessions. They protested against "taxation without representation, against lack! of schooling facilities for their children, against the Dutch language being the official language of the! Republic, insisting that the English should be equally recog nized. In addition to this they dfe manded more representation ixTtJie Volksraad, the abolition of the mo-, nopoly. which controlled the sale and manufacture of powder and other explosives, and of the railroad mo nopoly. The "Volksraad listened -to some of these complaints, did agree to some concessions in the matter of representation in the Volksraad, but not to such an extent as to make it - practicable for the Outlanders, most of whom (not counting the native Africans) were Englishmen, to se cure control of the Volksraad. But they didn't concede enough to . sat isfy the clamorers. They modified the monopoly in explosives. In the def enco of the Republic it is said that the charter was given the dynamite company as a matter Chinese exclusion act to protect the Pacific Stages from being even tually dominated by Mongolians. The English are not Mongolians, of course, but the Boers have no more love for them than a San Francisco sandlotter has for a Chinaman. The present friction between the oers and the English is simply the re-assertion of the old conflict and the determination of the English to rne the Boers, made the stronger by the rich gold finds, and the desire of the Englishmen to gain undisput ed control OTer these, which they feel competent to do in fighting a people so much weaker than they are. It is Bimply another game of grab in which the British people are yery far! from being united, And for which many of them hold Lord Churchill, andhis asso ciates in the scheme of aggression responsible. i NEARING THE END. - It is now thought "that the Drey fug court martial? burlesque will be concluded some time next week. How it -can conclude without the acquittal of the accused it is utter ly impossible to conceive, if the court decides in acoordance with the testimony given. No court with a scintilla of respect for itself or regard for. justice could be-influenced by the evidently con cocted, wholesale lying and perr iured testimony for the prosecu tion, the falsehood and perjury in much of which were clearly shown upon the trial. In their desperation at last, after haviner asserted and sworn that Dreyfus was the guilty man when it : was shown beyond reasonable doubt that Esterhazy was, they tried to make Dreyfus an accomplice of Esterhazy, a man he 'didn't know and had never met. The whofe scheme of conspiracy has been for some time so apparent as to create universal disguat,b and wonder why any.court not utterly lost to decency, Bhould not quash the wnole pro rtfifidino'. dron :the curtain oh the shameful burlequpologize to the accused and turn hinvl0086-" quitted and vindicated man, avic tirnof one of the basest and most malicious conspiracies ever concocted in France or any dther country. At one of the Summer resorts in Michigan recently forty couples from Chicago were publicly mar ried iii one day, the inducement being that a festival which was be inff held, to draw a crowd, adver tised that the licenses would be paid for and the services oi a minister given gratis. . Forty Chicago con ti tnnV ad vantage of it and were ICB J book, of the News and Observer size, containing 217 pages, neatly covered, giving a comprehensive yiew of the industrial movement throughout the State, and bringing prominently be fore the reader the rapid growth and substantial progress of the in dustrial centers such as Wilmington, Charlotte, Asheville, Greensboro,. Winston, Raleigh and other cities concerning which it presents facts and figures of much value and very interesting. The illustrations show ing buildings and industrial plants, with the numerous pictures, and biographic sketches of prominent eitizens form a very attractive and interesting feature of this publica tion, which in this and in other re spects is superior to anything of the kind ever issued in this State. It required no little enterprise and cour age to undertake such a work,; and with this a stupendous amount of labor io compile and present it in such intelligible form. The success and cleverness with which this has been done, reflects no- little credit on the publishersjnd compilers, but also on the State, of whose progress it is a splendid exhibit. Nearly Tea Thousand Acres Acquired in Bladen and Pender Counties May Lease Old C. P. & Y. V. Termini. SJeamer Line to Scotland. The Acme Tea Chest Company, 'of Glasgow, Scotland, with Mr. p. Stuart Brown as managing director and Mr. Will L. Miller, of Memphis, Tenn., as local manager, have decided to locate headquarters for America in this city and will open an office here. 'Mr. Miller, the local manager, has for some months -been looking over the territory, bordering on the Gulf and Atlantic- coast for a point possess ing the best possible advantages for supply of timber, gum and other woods, such as are iwaated for manufacture and for a good and convenient harbor for ocean steamers, as the company proposes to operate a line of vessels for the transportation of the , raw ma terial from this port. After; Visiting all the ports from New Orleans around the coast to this city the company has finally decided to locate its business in Wilmington., Mr. Miller has been quietly at work up the Cape Fear river, buying lands and making other arrangements, for the past several months, and in con versation with a Star representative yesterday, said that he had acquired by purchase some twenty-five miles of river front lying along the east bank of the river, covering a territory in Bladen and Pender counties sufficient to give them a supply of timber for some years to come. He has in all about seventy-five million feet of stumpage. His purchases will aggre gate about 10,000 acres. ' The Acme Tea Chest Company, at present, has a large factory in opera tion at Glasgow, manufacturing tea chests of veneering, gum and other woods; yery thin, betffz cemented crosswise, making a very light and substantial package. ThoAcme peo pie have also been recently experi menting with cement processes and machinery until they now, have a very complete plant in Scotland, and Mr. Miller says, in the near future, they expect to establish a plant of some kind here. Arrangements have about been con summated for a lease of the old Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley terminal at Point Peter, and Mr. Miller says he expects to begin cutting logs this week. These logs will be brought to the terminal for the present until a cargo is accumulated, which will be about November 1st At that time he expects to have a steamer from Glas gow for them, and other steamers to follow every sixty days as the busi ness progresses- They will also carry yght freight for outside parties, and if freight can be secured sufficient to warrant it,a faster schedule will be in augurated. Mr. Miller has been supplying the factory at Glasgow for the past eight months from Norfolk, but he. says the harbor charges, lighterage, etc , were very excessive, and in consequence of that he came to Wilmington where thisexpense is eliminated, as steamers can be loaded from the terminal. Mr, Brown, the managing 4irector, was in Wilmington a few weeks since and went over the groundwith Mr. Miller. He expressed himself as. well pleasedwith the many advantages of the port and did not hesitate in loca ting his supply office here. Mr. Miller is no novice at the lum ber and veneering business, but is perfectly familiar with all branches of of the work and might be aptly termed a veteran-lumberman. He and family will reside in Wilmington. Died at His Home On Front Street Last i Nlght The Funeral. At his home in this city. No. 815 South Front street, last night at 9:30 o'clock, Capt. J. W. Dicksey died at the advanced age of 82 years, after a brief-illness. - He was remarkably strong for a man of his years and had been con fined to his room for only one week. The attending physicians trace his death to heart failure. Capt.- Dicksey is survived by a sor rowing wife, five sons, Capt. P. T. Dicksey ,""of the government dredge boat General Wright ; Mr. W. J. Dicksey, of South Washington ; Messrs. Geo. H , William and A. H. Dicksey, of this city, and one daughter, Mrs. Phil Shea,' of Richmond" Va. . For many years before the civil war, Capt. Dicksey was master and jpilo ea . several of the river boats plying be tween Wilmington and Fayetteville and was later harbor master of this port He entered the war and served valiantly as ensign of the Cape Fear Riflemen, stationed at Fort Caswell and later he was Sergent in Moore's Light Battery, where also served with dis tinction. During his declining years, he has not been so actively engaged, but has at different times held respon sible positions in he river shipping interests. , The funeral will be from the resi dence at 4 o'clock this afternoon , and the interment will be at Oakdale Cemetery. LOCAL SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. SENSATION AT GREENVILLE. Pistol Fired at District Attorney Bernard by B. S. Sheppird Bernard Ran. Special Star Telegram. Greenville, N. C", September 2. United States District Attorney C. M. Bernard, of the Eastern'North Car olina district, has been in Greenville the past two days. This evening.be was at the depot expecting to take the 7 o'clock train for Kinstom . Mr. B. S. Sheppardr was also at the depot and seeing Bernard, remarked: "You dd scoundrel, yoiuruined my home." At the same instant he drew a pistol and fired at Bernard. The ball missed, and Bernard ran in the . waiting-room at the depot, closing the door after him . While Sheppard was trying to get in the door, Bernard j jumped out of a window, got in a buggy, drove rapidly down town,, and swore out a peace warrant against Sheppard. The matter is being much discussed by citi zens on the streets to-night. Public sympathy is with Sheppard. ' MURDER TRIAL AT SMITHFIELD. DREYFDSARDS ARE ELATED. The Tide Has Turned They Say and the Prisoner Cannot Be Convicted. - EVIDENCE OF M LA M0TTE. Large Tramp Steamers for Export Cotton Trade Are Arriving Other News. The British steamship South Africa, of 2,213 tons burthen, Capt. Dobson, ar rived from St. Lucia via New York yesterday morning and will load with cotton for Liverpool or Bremen at the Champion Compress. Several other steamers are expected to arrive during the next week or two on a similar mission. Among them are the British steamship Chatburn, 1,225 tons, Capt Douglas, which cleared from Teneriffe August 26th; the British steamship Lord Kelvin, 2,232 tons, Capt. Steele, from Shields, having passed Dover August 11th, and the British steamer Velleda, 1,648 tons, Capt. Rulluch, which sailed from St. Michael August 25th. The Norwegian steamship Aquila, 1,407 tons, Capt. Andersen, is also bound for this port, having passecLLizard August 15th. m n . 1 J T T une iojiowing scnooners uu unga are in port at New York bound for Wilmington: Brig Caroline Gray, 289 tons, Meader, Smith, Gregory & Co. Brig if. C. Haskell, 299 tonf, Wing field, Smith, Greeory fc Co. Schooner Flora Morang, 242 tons, Henderaon, arrived August 27th, from Bridgeport.1 Schooner Chas. H. Sprague, 260 tons, Harper, J. H., Cox & Co. Brnnswick Tobacco Growers. A correspondent of the Star writing from Phoenix, N. C, says that thr "Brunswick County Tobacco Grower's ABsnnifttinn" will be organized at that place on Tuesday, September itn. Several prominent tobacconists from the State are expected to deliver ad dresses and a large crowd is expected. The - committee of arrangements are contemplating giving a big barbecue and pic-nic in honor of the occasion and the co-operation of the people is asked in support of the movement Tobacco growing is rapidly increasing in the coast counties and the yield will be larger this year than ever before. Mr. Wm. J. Poeue is the moving spirit in the organization of growers and information regarding same may be had by addressing him. WADESBORO PROGRESSING. Negro Convicted of Killing Young White f Man Criminal Court. Star Correspondence. Smithfield, N.J3., Sept 2.' The negro, Tom Smith, ! who killed Charles Cawthorne, a young white man, near Selma, on the 26th of last December, was tried here this week. The trial began Thursday and the case was given to the jury late yester day afternoon. This morning when court reconvened the jury ! brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. The nrisoner was ably defended by Col. Thomas M. Argo. iThe State's side of the case -as very ably pre sented by Hon. E. W, Pou, the popu lar . solicitor of the Fourth district, ably assisted by Col. John A. Warren of the Smithfield bar". j Six prisoners have been sentenced to the nenitentiarv. each for a six year's term. They were convicted of larceny. . j Tont Smith will - be sentenced this afternoon, after which the court will adjourn. ! SHIPWRECKED SEAMAN" TELLS DREADFUL STORY. Maj. Hartmann Concluded His Testimony, Practically Uncontested, in Favor of v Dreyfus Gonse Disconcerted. Roget's Attempted Reply. - - By Cable to the Morning star. Rennes, September 2. Elation is the only word that expresses the feel ings of the Dreyfusards as to to day's proceedings. The tide has turned at last they say, and Dreyfus cannot be condemned after the evidence civen this morning. The spirits of the Drey fusards are quite mercurial. "Every day since the opening of the trial has seen them rise or fall ; recently they have been-falling heavily, the close of tue morning sessions generally find ing them in anxious conversation, ac companied by! ominous shaking of their heads. To day's buoyancy, there fore, is all the more noteworthy. Yes terday was a fairly good day, but to day's session, they claim, .puts the verdict out of doubt and the judges must acquit Dreyfus. in shaking" thewitness' testimony, ' while Defond Lamotte took the unpre cedented course of actually question ing General Rozet and getting the bet- ter of him once or twice. Thstwo men .stood exchanging heated argu-,' ments, totally ignoring ColonelJou aust, who was twice obliged to ask them not to speak at each other and ( to remain calm. General Roget es- . pecially was excited, particularly when' he found he was making no impres sion on his opponent who, on .the contrary,- scored on him. Roget was unused to this treatment, as hitherto he has had his own way and been al lowed to bully witnesses. Finally, on Roget declaring that Dreyfus might have written, "I am going to the manoeuvres," because be could have asked special permission, which is invariably granted, M. De mange asked him if there was any proof that Dreyfus' did ask such per mission.. To this Roget replied: "I do .not know; no trace has been found of his application." This answer brought a chorus of "Ohl" from the audience, because had Dreyfus asked, traces would easily have been forth coming.' v Roget then said Dreyfus might have asked verbally, in which case no trace of the application could be found. "Quite so," 'rejoined M. Demange, but the head of the bureau could be asked whether such request was made. . This practically ended the session, which was one of the most interesting and undeniably the most favorable to Dreyfus yet held. The military wit nesses followed the evidence with all eyes and ears, exchanging confidences, which, judging from the expression on their faces were evidently far from agreeable. Demands Apology. Paris, September 2. -La Lanterne to day says that Colonel Schneider, the Austrian military attache here, has telegraphed to the Austrian charge d'affaires to ask General Roget if the reference made to him by Roget in his reply to Picot's testimony in the Drey fus court martial was intended as an insult If it was, then the charge d'affaires, on behalf of Schneider, was to demand an apology from General Roget or satisfaction by arms. A QUESTION OF BALES. Snrvlvors of a Norwegian Bark Adrift on a Raft Cast Lots As to Which Should Be Eaten. 1 By Telegraph to the Morning Star. - Charleston, S. C, Sept. 2. The British- steamer Woodruff, Captain Milbrun, arrived from Hamburg to day. August 31st two hundred and fifty miles south of Charleston, the Woodruff picked up Maurice Ander son and Goodmund Thomasen, survi vors -of the Norwegian Ibark Drot, wrecked August 15th off the Florida COast- Th itaa bemud t vom Pas. cagoula to Buenos Ayres.' Anderson is a raving maniac and his: companion is shockingly mutilated from bites of the crazed man. Thomasen tells a dreadful story. The captain of the Drot and seven seamen were swept overboard and lost in the recent West Indian hurricane. The i mate and seven other men put to sea on a raft made from decking. The rart parted soon after, and the mate and one man were separated from the others. The mate's companion was landed at Phil adelphia by the German steamer Ti tania on August 22d. He stated that the mate committed suicide. Of the six men on the other part of crazed from Expert Evidence. Major Hartmann, of the artillery, occupied nearly half the session with the conclusion of his expert evidence to the effect that Dreyfus as an artil lery officer would not have displayed such ignorance regarding the guns and brakes as was shown in the bor dereau, while the other subjects of the bordereau were matters upon which any officer should inform himself. Major. Hartmann's testimony prac tically stood uncontested, as neither General Deloye nor General Mercier, who replied, refuted any material point-therein. ! M. Havet, a member of the institu tion, then entered upon the grammati cal aspect of the bordereau and in. vigorous but eloquent language de voted himself to showing that the con struction of the bordereau bristled with strong and, in his opinion, con clusive marks of Esterhazy's handi work, while the phraseology bore jio resemblance to Dreyfus' style. Gonse-Picquart Correspondence. The next stage of the proceedings was the reading of the Gonse-Picquart correspondence, exchanged at the time Colonel Picquart suspected Es terhazy and. wanted General Gonse to probe the matter to the bottom. This brought M Labor! to the front, and in a series of questions he brought out sharply . before the court the machinations of which Colonel Pic quart was the victim at the hands of the major from the moment he showed a desire to thoroughly sift the matter. M. Labori for the the first time got General Gonse to admit that he ordered ilie tampering wim ntuaxt-a letters, in order, as he said, to ascer tain Picquart's doings while he was chief of the intelligence bureau. A little later M. Labori evidently dis concerted General Gonse,or the latter blurted out that Lieutenant Colonel Henry committed his forgery in order to have fresh nroofs against Dreyfus. The audience smiled audibly at . the explanation. General Gouse then added: "But it was unnecessary, since the diplomatic dossier contained incriminating docu ments, with 'Dreyfus' written in full." General Gonse apparently meant me Panizzardi dispatch, which has already been ruled out of court, to Some TIB tfj llU the rart one became crazea irom ex- , M L b . tested indignantly, ex posure and jumped into the sea Two AMn.ere u no such docu ment," and then asked General Gonse to enumerate the documents to which he alluded. f Colonel Jouaust president of the and If Henry Lusher, of Covington, Kentucky, gets well he should have his dreaming apparatus repaired. The other night v he dreamed ther were two burglars in his room. He jumped up, seized a chair and began to belabor . hi3 room-mate who was sleeping soundly. The room-mate considerably battered jumped up andJ;ook refuge under a table, when Lusher ran out of the room brand ishing his chair, fell down stairs, breaking both legs, one arm and three ribs. He'll kill himself some time if he doesn't tone down on his dreaming. - ' Captain Miller, of the steamer Holly Rood, who has just arrived at New York from Manila, says tne disagreements : between Gen. Otis and Admiral Dewey were.the talk of the town. Otis wouldn't do any thing Dewey wanted done and Dewey wouldn't do anything Otis wanted done. Dewey probably took Otis' measure and sized him up before he had been there long. ' END OF THE COTTON SEASON. WhangjEni Soo got a notion into his head that the throne of Corea was his, hut he wa3 very soon cured of it, for they caught him and cut his head off. They use some very forcible arguments over in that eonntry sometimes. y The Berlin authorities are level headed, in forbidding collections among the school children for mis oinnarv or other purposes, on the tfablicly married on the veranda of ground t they -aFe- a burden to Sue of the hotels, JJJ parents and cause ill-feeling " among bus mess for the Chicago, divorce p mills. - r -r Receipts During Last Year Not Discourag ing to Business Men A Statement. Yesterday was the last day of the 1898-99 cotton season, and receipts in the future will, according to the long established custom, be reckoned from September 1st ' CoL Cantwell, secre tarybf the Produce Exchange, labored faithfully yesterday and broke all pre vious records of his twenty odd years' experience as secretary of that organ ization by having all his reports post ed for the inspection of members at 6.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The comparative "statement of re ceipts for the month of August are published in the commercial columns of the Stab this morning, and below is added the receipts of the entire cot ton season for the last fiscal year with those of preceding years since 1890 : 1898-99. -lEi'f 1BA7.0B. ...323,273 1896-97..... .....:..2M,6M 1895-96 , H5'E 1894 95. . . . i I......... .234,621 189394... ...4??.8i 1892-93 "-in 1891-92. ...... :.....- 1890-91.. 1889-90.... ,,..134,916 The receipts for the 1898-99 season are the heaviest in" the history of the port, with the exception of the preced ing season when an unprecedented large yield .was made in the territory contiguous to Wilmington. - The re port is a very favorable one and Bhows . steady increase for the past ten years in the cotton trade at this port. , " Three hundred "and eighty-two was the number of; bales of new crop cotton on the market yesterday. The buUx of the receipts continue to come via the W., C. & A. railroad. The market is steady at 5 ft cents.' To Have a System of Waterworks Electric Lights. Special Star Telegram. Wadesboeo, N. C, August 3L A municipal election was held in this place to-day upon the question of issuing bonds to the extent of twenty five thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a system of waterworks and electric lights. The measure carried by a majority of one hundred and twenty-one of the polled votes. . ' Wadesboro will soon be equipped and fitted with these modern conven iences and the major part of her citi zens contemplate the new venture with much pride and gratification. Transferred to Wilmington. Mr. Cobart Brand, of Sumter, S. C., has been transferred from the ser vice of the Atlantic Coast Lineat Ashley Junction to the general office in this city. He has been as signed to duty in the train dispatcher's office. He is a brother of Mr. JjN. Brand, the clever' and efficient chief clerk in the office of Superintendent of Transportation. Sneed-Fuller Co. The Stab with pleasure this morning directs the attention of its readers to the new advertisement of the Sneed Fuller Co., successors to the Sneed Company proprietors of the well known furniture establishment on corner Second . and Market streets. The gentlemen comprising the new firm are enterprising business mien of experience in the furniture line, arid with a large stock of all the new up-to- date fancies and novelties at reason able prices, they ask for the patronage of the public. Their stock is already as large if not the largest in the city and invoices aof new goods are con stantly arriving. , others, exhausted from suffering, fell overboard and were lost i Anderson, Thomasen and a German seaman drew lots as to which should be eaten, as none of them had had k mouthful since thev took to the raft. The lot fell to the German. He i was killed and the blood was sucked from his veins by the two survivorsi Soon after Anderson lost his reason and savagely attacked his i only com panion. Thomasen's breast and face were bitten in several places, chunks of good size being torn out Both men are now at the city hos pital and the Norwegian.consuhas taken the ease in hand, Thomasen is a native of Stevenger, Norway. A TENNESSEE TRAGEDY. Mormon Elders Mobbed Young Woman Shot and Killed Man Who Did the Shooting Committed Suicide. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Chattanooga, Sept 2. Wednes day night six Mormon elders were conducting a meeting in a school house at Pine Bluff, Stewart county, Tennessee, when the building was stormed by a mob of over a hundred men. Eggs and rocks were thrown through the windows and the building almost entirely, demolished. Those present fled to save their lives, as bullets commenced to strike the build ing thick and fast Miss May Harden, a popular young oman of the place, walked between Elders Olson and Petty, with a view to checking the work of the mob. While the trio passed down the road shots were fired 1mm ambush, and she was hit by a ball and almost instantly killed. Her brothers vowed they would avenge the crime and after the first excite ment died out secured bloodhounds and placed them on the: trail of .the assassins. 'I Ttnrton Vinson, a prominent young farmer and superintendent of I a Sun day school, wrote a confession,' stating that he had killed the girlL but that it was an accident and that he wished to rid himself .of remorse of conscience. Shortly after the confession the blood hounds trailed to his home. Vinson turned, picked up a knife and cut his throat, almost at the same instant sending a bullet through his brain. His family ana tne omcer s posse wit nessed the suicide. I m m m Two Cuban editors at Santiago will, it is expected, fight a duel to-day , or Monday, in consequence ox auterences regarding certain questions arising from the election of the city council. The first of the formal trial races be tween the ColCmbia and Defender yes terday for the purpose of selecting a vacht to sail against tne snamrocK in- defence of America's cup, resulte m a decisive victory: for tne uoiumoia court martial, however, declined to put the. question, whereupon M T,hori said he reserved to himself the right to submit a formal application for these documents. ' In Favor of Dreyfus. T Then came the leading witnels of the day, M. Defond Lamotte, a proba tioner contemporaneously with- Drey fus, who is now a civil engineer and has no reason to fear the wrath of the military clique. I The witness opened by declaring that, despite the fact that he had a, brother in the garri son at Rennes, he came to tell what he knew in favor of Dreyfus, and. he proceeded to make a state ment, which, according to the Drey fusards, practically decides the case. First he recalled the fact that a circu lar was sent to the probationers on May 14th, 1894, informing them that they must not go to tne manoeuvres, thus showing that the man who wrote the bordereau in August and said "I am going to the manoeuvres" could not be Dreyfus.' The witness then pointed out that none of the minis ters, who, he believed, acted in good faith, were informed of the existence of this circular, ! which he declared "I consider a vital point in tne case. i.mi ; 1 7) T wl "This circular," he continued, "shat ters the prosecution, because after May 17th Dreyfus could not say 'I am go ing to the manoeuvres,' for then be knew he would, not go; while, prior to May 17th, he could not have known the five documents comprised in the bordereau." j . s ' Another Strong Point i M. Defond Lamotte then brought out another strong point Alluding to the modifications of the dispositions concerning the troops, he said the writer of the bordereau used the term "nw ulftn." I "Now," said! the witness, "it has been impressed izpon you that on Oc tober 15th a circular was sent out from the war ministry containing those very words, and that therefore, the writer of the bordereau must haye been an officer of the ministry. But one thing has struck me who sent out that circular! It - was the third bureau, the chief of which was Lieu tenant Colonel Du Patyde Clam, who had had- the bordereau in his hands for the previous twenty days." M. Defond Lamotte, by this, in tended to jhow that Du Paty de Clam purposely' used the words "new plan" in the circular order by what the wit ness described aa "arguing in a vicious circle to back up his contention that an officer of the ministry wrote the bordereau and that" officer was Dreyfus." Roget Rose to Respond. : Gflneral Roget then rose to reply to M. Defond Lamotte. but found he hi An Interesting Letter That Was Addressed to the Ginnera of Texas. The recent letter addressed to the cotton growers of Texas by Presi dent Hunter, of the State Ginners' As sociation, has been carefully consid- . ered by many of the ginners in North and South Carolina who are endeavor ing to get out a standard bale. The ad vice and suggestions are timely. Copies of the letter have been distributed v the full text of which is as follows : "I Eave watched with great interest the movement for the introduction of ' the standard bale. There Beems to be a good deal of opposition to it but it looks to me-as if it comes from people who don't want us to make any im provement unless we do it by buying their inventions. The objections I hear seem to me trivial and far-fetched, . but they are so persistently urged that I think some practical man ought to answer them. "It is said that the presses are not strong enough to make a bale in a smaller box. 'A large number have been made in different places in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Ala bama and Mississippi, and not one of the presses' was injured. The 24x54 inch box has been in use in Alabama for years, and has always given satis faction. Many of us make 7W to 800 pound bales in 28x58 boxes.' Why can't we make 500-pound ones, or even larger, in 24x54 ones? It is not necessary or a good thing to make' such large bales. They are bad handle and easilv damaged sav the compresses want u r their work for them. The iittie aao of pressure we put on a bale would not be a flea bite to. a compress, if they could get the benefit of it, but they can't; they cut the bands off be- fore they press it, and it swells up again. The only thing we. can do to : help the compress is to make the bale a good size; they, can't change the shape; we have to do that; all they can do is to reduce the thickness, and they can't do that properly unless we give them the right size bale. "There is no need to come up so far, with the follow-block. If you are in the least afraid you have not pressure, enough, come up only far enough to tie out; tne compress win uu iud icdi. "Many farmers want a large bale. They think the buyers pay more for it. This is not true. On the contrary, they will pay more for 24x54 bales than for any other. They must over look the fact the more bales they make the more bagging and ties they will sell at the price of cotton. It would be better all around if they would only bring L600 pounds of seed cotton to the gin. we are all changing our boxes around here, and we are going to put only 1,650 pounds of seed cotton to-a bale. ,,If the farmer! bring more at nrsi we will ouy tne excess oi tuom until we get them to bring the right "It is set up that this change is urged by buyers, compressors, steam ship people, insurance men and spin ners, because H will help their busi ness. Suppose it does. It costs us practically nothing and will certainly help the farmer very much, and if he makes money he , will have more to spend, and he always spends it near home. It cost me about $7 to change my box. I didn't change it to please the compresses or anybody else. I did it because I thoaght it good business. "I thought a good deal of this mat ter and read a lot about it in the papers, and I think' it a good thing, and I advised all my fellow ginners to adopt it and change their boxes to the 91vKA.inTi otfttnlnrd B17.A before the season opens. ' I think we shall all have to do it anyhow, nrhether we Want to or not necause the buyers will undoubtedlv nay more for the 24x54-inch bale, and I believe in doing the right thing before it is forced upon us. "I have had assurance from some of the best cotton buyers thay they intend to pay more for the standard bales. If any of you who have made the change think that the farmers are not getting any benefit from it, write to me and I think I can refer your letters to people who will nee that they do." DARIEN RIOTERS. caught a tartar. ad He did not succeed Fourteen Tried and Convicted One Ac quitted Town StlU Guarded. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Daeikn, Ga., September 2. In the riot cases to-day two blocks of five and one extra rioter were tried. Of the first block fourwere convicted and one ac quitted, and in the second block four were convicted,vwith a mistrial aa to the fifth, a woman, the solitary rioter who demannea severance, was convicted. "Thismakes fourteen con victed in twoday t. There are still about f orVcases to be heard. There js perfect quietness about the town which is still guarded by four troops nt oAvalrv. : It is believed some of the cases will be nol pressed on account' of heavy expense of the extra session . ofthecourt. " The President and Mrs. McKinley arrived in Washington, D. a, yester at one o'clock m the afternoon. dajy i