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Ihc eacdttij Stat-. ILLIAH S.BERNARD Editor and Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, - -. September 8, 1899. TOBACCO AS AN UPBUILDER. Diversified farming has become an old theme in! tho South, . but it is a good theme and should be stuck to until diversified farming becomes the rule instead of the ex ception. It should be the aim' of the dwellers in the country, just as diversified manufacturing should be the aim of the dwellers in the cities. Take the farming class of the country as a whole and it will be found that the most prosperous and independent are those who di versify their crops and dd not put their dependence on any one crop. While there are a number of crops that the farmers of Eastern North Carolina might j raise with profit, there is none that offers more in ducements at present than tobacco, for the growth of which this part of the State is especially adapted, a discovery that has been made within a comparatively few years. In view of the fact that tobacco has been cultivated in cms country ever since the days of the first whitesettles, who learned some thing about it from the Indians, it is remarkable that its cultivation should be a mystery to so many far mers, even in the great tobacco pro ducing section of the South, and that the inquiry still continues to be made whether tobacco can be suc cessfully grown here or there, when it is grown in forty out of the forty- five States, and I can be grown any where between Maine and the Gulf, or anywhere between, the Atlantic and the Pacific. The question is not where it may be grown but where it may jbe grown with the greatest certainty and with the best profit. The profit, of course, depends upon the cost of production and the quality of the product, assuming that there is a . market near enough to- take what is produced. The product depends upon- the soil and uuo unmade, buoiu mutts oi sou pro ducing one kind, some another, one a low-priced, the other a high- priced leaf. Maryland, portions of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and portions of North Carolina produce a heavy leaf tobacco, suitable for the manufacture of plug, much of which is shipped, abroad. This does not command a high price, but it pays when the farming is well done V A1 J 1 -. ucuauau vl tne neavy yieia 'per acre. Florida and Connecticut produce a different quality, used in the manu facture of cigars, and a higher- priced leaf which pays well. East- " " - oretr Oarvbna - uaur pi itluue both the heavy leaf and the light leaf, the latter' of which is the more profitable if cultivated and prepared I for market by ken who understand . nuau wioy tue UUlUg.- The experimental stage has passed and tobacco-grpwmgis now anestab lished industry in the Eastern sec tion of the State, and one of the most profitable in a number of coun- ties where it was scarcely known ten years ago. Wilson Nash, Jagecombe, Greene, Ifenoir, Hali fax, Johnston, Wayne-and others now produce millions of pounds, and all have tobacco markets which have built up the towns and given them new life. Speaking of this wannotp the following 'romthe Fayetteville Observer : "Cant J. Q Huske returned terday- from yes- (win three months' through Eastern North Carolina tt ays inai toDacco culture has made a number of the sleepy to was of several yearsgo, grow out of all recollection uu M " magic. The country, too. i wears a wonderful look of prosperity." - p Tobacco is a stimulator of hustl ing, there is no doubt of that, and there is money in it for any com munity which gives it systematic, 1 . I - ' hnHinpaa-lilro itfontln. it. I ruouwwu, iwr it is a i crop that demands that and will not be fooled with without resenting it. xnere nas been no effort that we nave heard of to grow tobacco as a crop anywhere near Wilmington, OTin vaf to V 1 - , . J U7V UBea a88urea oyex- pormuueu tooacco handlers, that the ideal section for the cultivation of smoking tobacco, and leaf that is in the greatest demand as a smoker in foreign markets, is the section between here and Mount Olive, on some of which there doesn't seem to be vegetation enough to encour age a goat, and yet that hind planted in tobacco, which the planter under stood howj to cure and handle, will produce the finest kind of to bacco, a few; acres of which would buy fifty acres of cotton. As for a market the growers in this section would have Wilmington as a shipping poinf, and buyers here -for every pound they raised, and they would have the additional ad . vantage of being near fertilizer manu- , factories and being able to buy their fertilizers at the lowest price on ac count of the little freight they would have to pay ' Fertilizers which are shipped long distances form a large item of expense in the cultivation of tobacco. ' f . Here then, is the ideal section, . ideal in climate and soil (cheap land, too, to those who may wish to buy), cheap fertilizers and a shipping port for a market near by with low cost of transportation, all of which ' would be that muoh gain to the pro ducer and seller of the leaf. " Under these circumstances what good reason is" there why the section we speak of should not become a ffreat tobacco growing section and why Wilmington Bhonld not become a great tobacco buying, manufactur ing and shipping city ? A few men started the industry in -Nash, Edge combe, Lenoir, Wayne, Greene and other counties, which are now great tobacco 1 producers, with markets which , buy and ship millions of pounds, and a few . men can do the same in the section which we speak of as successfully, if not more suc cessfully than these didecause they will have advantages that the pio neers in the counties we name did cotton growers and others begin with an acre rr so, and "as "they acquire skill in e cultivation and curing in crease the acreage, in accordance with their ability to cultivate and handle, without neglecting other crops. 'A few acres well cultivated and well cured and prepared for market will prove more profitable than a dozen acres carelessly or slovr enly managed. TRIBUTES TO THE JEWS. One of the finest tributes that we have ever heard from the platform to the Jewish people was the elo quent lecture by our lamented Vance on "The Scattered. Nation." Since the Dreyfus trial has been on in France the anti-Semitic spirit shown against those people has evoked elo quent tributes from men who are not Jews, a very ardent one by Geoi ge R. Wendling, which appeared in the and another by Samuel demons, better known as "MarkTPwain," who in a contribution to Harper's Weekly, giving the reasons for the anti- Semitic feeling in France, Germany, Russia and other European coun tries, pays the following truthful tribute to the Jews: "The Jew is not a disturber of the peace of any country. 'Even his ene- mies mil conceae mat. lie is not a loafer, he ia not a sot, he is not noisy, ne is not a Drawier nor a rioter, ne is not Quarrelsome. In the statistics of crime his presence is conspicuously rare in ail countries, with murder and other crimes of violence he has but little to do; he is a stranger to the hangman. In the police court's daily long roil oi -assaults' ana 'drunk and disorderlies' his name seldom appears. That the Jewish home is a home in the truest sense is a fact which no one will dispute. The family is knitted tn get her, by the strongest affections; its memoers snow each -other every due respect; and reverence for the elders is an inviolate law of the house. The Jew is not' a burden on the charities of the State nor the citv: these could cease irom tneir functions without af fecting him. When he is well enough he works; when he is incapacitated his own people take care of him. And not in a poor and stingy way.but with a fine and large benevolence. His race is entitled to be called the most benev olent of all the races of men. A Jewish beggar is not impossible, perhaps; sucn a ining may exist, but there are few men who can say they have seen tbat spectacle. The Jew has been staged, in many uncomplimentary xj tit mn x mow, no dra matist has done him the injustice to stage him as a beggar. Whenever a Jew has real need to heir. j' people save him from the necessity It.W: J ewish money, and amply. The Jews n . uuuw &uuul it; it is none quietly; they do not nae- and nested and harass us for contributions: they give us peace, ana set us an example an example which we have not found ourselves able to follow." SOME HEW ATO INTERESTIflG aUESTIONS. he approaching completion of the Illinois drainage canal, connect ing Lake Michigan with the Missis sippi .river, opens up some interest ing questions, in one of which the dwellers in the cities on the Lake are interested, in another of which the city of St. Louis and other cities which draw their water supplies from the river, are interested. It is con tended by some that the immense , volume of "water which will pass irom the Lake through the canal. will have such an effect in lowering.. the Lake surface as to destroy the navigable channels of these Lake cities, unless coristant dredging be resorted to. The Question that on- . . ? curs nere ia what riof. , Chicago has to open a canal at its end of the Lake which will steal the of water from them and thus practi- cally ruin them as shipping ports' Of course, the Chicago people and ,, a r r others who are interested in the auu, ueviare mat mis is a mere pretence inspired by iealousv of Chicago s prominence and progress. at. Ijouis and other cities which draw their supplies of drinking and other water for domestic use from the river are much more concerned than the dwellers in the Lake cities for they say that turning into this river the sewage of a city of more than a million and a half people, and emptying it into the river whence they draw their supplies will so no- lute and poison it that it it will not be fit for use. The promoters of th canal make light of this and nndr. take to show that the noxious mat ter carried down by such a volume TOte would be a mere trifl could not possibly materially affect the healthfnlness of the water of the mer into which it flowed, hnt St.. JLouis does not propose to take Chi. ergo authority for this but will call on the United States courts to say what right the city 'of Chicago has to make her river a sluice into which to dump Chicago s sewage? In addition to its other numeronn disreputable accomplishments, the mosquito is now accused of being the disseminator of malaria. - But who ever saw mosquito with ma laria? ' - , - -- --, , - T "S, It is said that a good many people j at the Summer resorts in the past j Summer went bareheaded to pre- serve the hair. Thfs preserves not only the hair but the hat. The hat j is an enemy of hair- Bald-headed women are "as few and- far between as angels' visits," and who ever saw a bald-headed savage? The shortest railroad . in this country is the Marine Bailway at Coney -Island. It is half a mile long, capital 125,000, shares 500. Austin Corbin, Jr. owns 499 of them, which were given him by his father. In 1887, the income of the road was $86,000, now it is larger. Mr. Ainsworth, a pension expert, says we wjll see the last of thepen- sion business, for the war between the States, in 1995. Possibly he is somewhat premature. Haven't we still some pensioners (widows) on the roll from the Revolutionary war. A citizen of Brooklyn, N Y., and a citizen of St. Louis, Mo.v had a somewhat .protracted chat over the long-distance telephone last week. They were charged with fifty hours of service, and paid the bill ($3,000) .without a growl. - A beggars' trust is the latest kink m JNew xork. An enterprising hustler agrees to feed,, clothe and house a corps of forty mendicants, who in return agree to dump their collections in his hat. MARRIAGE AT SOUTHPORT. Miss Annie Holdeo, Daughter of Capt. T. M. Thompson, to Lieut. Earl I. Brown, U. S. Engineer Corps. Special Star Correspondence. Southport, N. C, Sept. 6th. To-day at high noon, at the hand some residence of the bride's father, Annie Holden, the lovely and accom plished daughter of Capt T. M. Thompson, was married to Lieut Earl I. Brown, of the U. S. Engineer Corps. The house was profuselv and artisti cally decorated with palms and flowers. At tne appointed hour, to the strains of Mendelssohn's Wedding Marcn, the charming maid of honor, Miss Flosie Reiger, .carrying a beautiful bunch of American Beautv roses, ac companied by the best man, Mr. John Thompson, entered the parlor. Fol lowing them came the lovely bride. accompanied by the groom in full dress uniform, and then followed Captain and Mrs. T. M. Thompson. The bride was gowned in an elerant dress of white satin? trimmed with exquisite point lace, and carried a beautiful bouquet of Bride's roses. The Rev. Edward Wootten f Wil mington was waiting to receive the bridal party, and in the midst of manv friends and relatives of the bride and room, impressively performed the eautiful Episcopal wedding cere mony, i Two pretty incidents of the weddintr were the cutting of the bride's cake by the bride with the groom's sword; and the tossing of her bouquet by the bride, causing a nrettv scramble amanc her girl friends for the coveted souve nir. , Tim presents were costly and numer ous, from friends North and South. among them being a check fpr one thousand dollars from the father and mother of the groom. ' J-.ieut. Brown is from Carrollton, Ga., having n-aduated from Wmt Point in '98, and for the past year has been stationed at this point in the Engineer Corns under Hunt. during which time he has made many friends here and in Wilmington. Lieutenant and Mrs. Brown with a party of friends left on the Govern ment tug Cynthia at three o'clock for Wilmington to take the Atlantic Coast Line seven o'clock train for their new home at Willet's Point, L. I. AT FORT CASWELL Tirret Practice With EixbMnch Disap pearler Rifle No Hits Made. Special Star Telegram. Southport, N. C, Sept 6. Bat tery "C," Fourth artillery, under com mand of Lieut Landon, engaged in target practice to-day at Fort Caswell. Six shots were fired with the eight-inch disappearing rifles, using charges of forty-four pounds powder and one hundred and fifty pound projectiles. The drum of the old blockade runifer Ella, off Baldhead, was used for a tar get; but while the shots were close there were no hits. The battery ex pects to have practice again on Friday. Gone to Fort Meade. . Lieut Bradley J. Wootten left on the 7 P. M northbound train yester day for Camp Meade. He left in corn-, pliance with telegraphic instructions from Washington. He wasat the same time advised that his commission as Lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth regiment infantry volunteers had been mailed to the regimental commander at Fort Meade. He expects to very buuu leave tne united estates lor ser vice in the Philippines. ' Lightship Still Ashore. A telegram from Norfolk, Va., says: The Diamond Shoals Lightship, the only beacon marking the most danger ous point on the Atlantic coast, is still high and dry on the beach, where it was stranded during the recent hurri cane. The ship cannot be floated until the east winds bring up a high tide which will pull her off. The Mer ritt wrecking crew, including th tnr Rescue that went to carry her tackle anu ancnors, nas returned to port from Cape Hatteras. The lightship is reported in good 'condition. The wreckers assert that she can be saved. An Approaching Marriage. Cards have been issued announcing the marriage of Miss Hester Vii ualvert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs: Charles B. Calvert of Washington. D. C, to Dr. Henry W. Lilly, of Fay etteville. The marriage will be cele- brated in St John's chuichWashing- I ton, on Wednesday, September 20th, at 8 o'clock: Tfce Best Prescription for Chills and fever is a bottle of &rove's Tastk LKS8 Chile Tokio. Never fail ir cure; then whv exnerimttnt -mtn. worthless imitations I Price 50 cents. Your money bach if it fails to cure. MORMtfN EMISSARIES. , ' North Carolina Conference of Latter Day Saints Headqoarterr Id Ooldsboro. Pnrtv Workers In Tfila PIpM Special Star Telegram. ' - Ralkighj N. O., Sept 6. Presiding Elder Louis Swenson, of Utah, has arrived here and is actively in charge of the North Carolina Conference of Latter Day Saints or Mormons. The conference embraces fifty-seven coun ties of the State, some of.- the ex treme western . counties being in the Tennesseajconference and some of the southern counties in the conference of South Carolina. The Southern States mission embraces fourteen con ferences, covering eleven V States, namely: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida Ken tucky, Tennessee, and Ohio which, has recently been added. Chattanooga is the headquarters for the Southern States mission and there the Southern Star, Mormon organ, is published. There are now about five hundred elders at work in the Southern States mission. Presiding Elder Swenson says that about forty five elders are, or soon will be at work in the North Carolina Conference. To this number add six or eight local workers in the field Elders Emery and Bolin are located in this county with headquarters in Raleigh. Headquarters for the North Carolina Conference will be in Golds- boro. Golds bo ro was selected in pref erence to Raleigh as beings more con venient There are elders at work in Wilmington, Wilson, Kinston, Eliza beth City and' other places in the east and these fields can best' be reached from Goldsboro. Special attention is paid to the east in winter. Presiding,, Elder Swenson says he regards North Carolina as one of the best Southern States for the pro pagation of Mormon belief. Converts he says are being made rapidly and the treatment' the elders receive here is in marked contrast to the way they are mobbed in-Georgia. Elders say that if people do not agree with them here they generally treat them fair. Corporation Commission. The corporation commission to-day hxed the new cotton seed and hull rate, issuing a circular making the new cotton seed rate established by the Southern Railway operative not only on that road but also on various roads of the Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line. This rate is based on per ton of 2,000 pounds.' THE BAQQAQE QUESTION. Mr. P. T. Mills, of Wilmington, Piles Com plaint With Corporation Commission. Raleigh News and Observer.! Another matter before the Corpora tion Commission yesterday was the complaint of Mr. FT.. Mills, of .Wil mington, vs. the Wilmington and Weldon railroad and the Seaboard Air Line, alleging discrimination in making a contract with one livery firm of Wilmington to allow its rep- resentarive .exclusively to appear on train of the mtul and solicit the' car riage and transfer of baggage of pas sengers. Plaintiff alled that the contract amounted to the granting of a practical monopoly' of the baggage vansier Business in Wilmington, and constituted an unjust discrimination against him and all other transfer companies who were denied the right to have representatives on the trains of the defendant roads. In support of this he cited a former statute, now idiicucu, luruiaaiug sucn contracts. The defendants ureed in mnW that they could not submit to the confusion tnat would result from allowing all transfer companies to have a renra- rentative on their trains, that the com pany whose agent was permitted on trains was virtually their agent was uuuer Dona to mem, and tnat it was a great convinience to passengers and savea coniusion and delay at the sta tion. Passengers could if they so de sired, wait until they reached the station to arrange for the carriage of ineir oaggage. it was not alleged that the contract led to any extortionate cnarges. The commission took the matter under consideration. Mr. C. M. Bu8bee represented the plaintiff, Mr. R. O. Burton, the Coast Line and Capt J. M. Turner pre sented the case clearly and forcibly for kue Beaooara. WEDDING AT SCOTTS HILL. Miss Corbett United in Marriare to Mr. P. K. Patch, of Wilmington. Yesterday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, at the home of the bride at Scott's Hill, Miss Ula Corbett, daughter of the late Mr. John Corbett of that village, was happily married to, Mr. F. K. Futch, a popular and efficient conductor of the Street Railway sys tem. The ceremony was impressively performed by Kev. Jno. H. Hall, pastor of Fifth Street Methodist church, who accompanied the groom to Scott's Hill yesterday morning. The bride and groom arrived in the city at 7.15 o'clock last evening, and last night, at the home of Mr. Futch, jno. 4U Uhurch street, a reception was tendered the popular young couple, to which a number of friends were invited. Mr. and Mrs. Futch will reside in Wilmington in the future. Rev. C. C. Brown, D. D., and wife, who have been guests at Ocean View Hotel, on Wrightsville Beach the past month, passed through the city yesterday returning to their home ou niter, d. wnere xjt. urown is pastor of the Baptist church. How's Tblif We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward ior any case of Catarrh that can not oe cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., TnlnHn CiMn yehe undersigned, have known n . i. ineney ior tne last fifteen years, and believe him. perfectly honorable m au Dusmess transactions, and finan- ciay able to carry out any obligation West & Teuax, . Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Kuwait & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. - Sold by all druggist. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best t j kiliino oh masonboro sounds Ooe Negro Accidentally Shot Another, Ia fllcllog Wound PromWhichHe Died. By the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of William Bracy Sunday morning about 9 o'clock, Cornelius' Nixon was shot and killed; an entire load of No. 7 shot having taken effect just between his eyes. - ; Bracy and Nixon are both colored men, the latter about 18 years of age, and were employed by Mr. P. R. Fow ler at Fowler's Poinf on Masonboro Sound. - Sunday morning the two ne groes, with Mr. Chas. L. Jones, were at Bracy's home; Mr. Jones having. gone there to , get Bracy to extract-! two loaded shells from a breech load ing gun, with which he had been hunting. Bracy unbreeched the gun and tried to-push the shells out with a cane. Failing in this he laid the gun upon his lap, breeched it and in attempting to let down the hammers of the gun, one -barrel was discharged with the result as before state. The negro fell, but as he was not instantly killed Mr. Jones quickly harnessed a mule -to his buggy and started with the negro to the city for surgical aid. Just after passing the second toll house, the buggy in which he and the wounded man were riding broke down. A cart was procured in its stead, but just before reaching town the negro died. He was taken to the City Hospital and at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon a jury of inquest, composed of Justice Jno. J. Fowler (chairman). Dr. C. P. Bolles, Messrs. M. Kirschbaum, James Hall, William Niestle and Samuel Hall, were em-1 panelled and' after examining wit nesses, rendered a verdict exculpating Bracy and declaring the killing an accident . jgL , DEATH OP OEORQE DYER. Died in Savannah, Georgia, Last Evening About 6 30 O'clock The Funeral. A telegram received in the city early last night conveyed the sad intelli gence of the death of Mr. George R. Dyer, son of our esteemed townsman. Mr. John Dyer, which occurred at 6.30 o clock last evening at his home in Sa vannah, Ga., after an extended illness covering a period of several months. Mr." Dyer is well and favorably known in Wilmington, he having spent his early days and a part of his young manhood in this city. He went to Savannah a number of years ago and has since been engaged on the lo cal staff of the Savannah News, where he has served with credit to himself and to his employers.- He was married in this city to Miss Mary Clowe before leaving for his adopted home, and she with one son survive him. His aged father, who resides in this city, also survives him and has the sympathy of a wide circle of friends. - The remains will be brought to thu city, probably to-day, for funeral and interment the announcement to be made later. STEAMSHIP WENT ASHORE. Norwegian Vessel Drifted Oat of River Channel and Oronnded Sunday. The Norwegian steamship Aquila, vf 1.40T tons burthen. Captain Ander sen, arrived at Southport Saturday night from Bremen, Germany, con signed to-Messrs. Heide & Co., of this city, and laden with kainit for the Navassa Guano Company. Sunday forenoon she was taken in tow by the tug Alexander Jones for this port, but when near Big Island. about eight miles from the city, by being loaded too deep and by bad steering, she drifted out of the river channel and went ashore. The tugs Jones, and Blanche,- however, pulled her afloat on the flood tide Sunday afternoon and started with her to this port They proceeded about three miles up the river, when she again in the same way went ashore and up to last night she had not been floated. Her cargo is, however, being lightered and she is expected up this morning. The Marion, with the Jones and Blanche,. went to her assistance. Captain An dersen said the Aquila was drawing twenty feet six inches of water when she came over the bar. United States Custom House In spector Polley is now aboard the ship looking after the discharge of part cargo. The accident is not at all detrimen tal to the port as the pilots sav similar occurrences are frequent even in New ionc harbor. Victor Bine To Wed. A special to the New York Herald has this bit of interesting news regard ing liieut Victor Blue whose visit to Wilmington on the Spanish prize boats' with Lieut Anderson last Winter will always be pleasantly re membered by Wilmington people: It was announced here to-day that Morristown. N. J.. is to hv a hril- liant and interesting naval wedding on October 17, the contracting persons being Lieut Victor Blue, U. S. N., of the cruiser Brooklyn, and Miss Eleanor Stewart a niece of Capt Tki. 21? TT T-r vv x-nmp xx. cooper, u. . . Steamship Aquila Floated. The Norwegian steamer Aquila', which went aground down the river near Big Island Sunday morning and a second time on Sunday night was floated yesterday morning about 10 o'clock and in tow of the tug's Alex ander uones &na. utancne, sne was brought into this port uninjured by reason of her slight mishap. The tug Marion towed the barge Louis H., - mar i ' ... aown monaay, and upon this was loaded about three hundred tons of kainit with which she was seemingly overburdened. Both the steamer and barge are now at the Navassa guano works discharging their cargoes. Why were 25,000 BOTTLES OP ROB ERTS TASTELESS 25o. CHILL TONIC sold the first year of Its birth? Answer; Becauselt Is the BEST AT ANY PRICE, guaranteed to cure, money refunded if It falls, pleasant to take, 25o per bottle. It Is sold and guaranteed by JEOBKBT E. BELLAMY, mar 84 ly Wholesale and BetaO Droggist "" 1 " 1 '"""n-nfcBnB"-"'-"- - Bead the advertisement nf th ir.net Carolina Real Estate Airancv in this issue of the Star. It offers for sale some very valuable farms. f ! APT. BARRY RESIGNS As a Member of the Board New Hanover County ,:. Commissioners, j" CAN SUCCESSOR BE ELECTED? Is Question Puzzling the Board and the County Attorney Capt Barry to En' ter Upon Duties of Superin tendent of fcoads at Once.; The principal feature of the Septem ber session of the New Hanover Coun ty Commissioners held yesterday afternoon was the acceptance- of the resignation of Capt Jno. Barry as a member of the Board. The resigna fion is in order that he may accept the position of superintendent of roads, a position to which he was elected by the Commissioners at a recent meet ing. It was expected that at the same time Capt. Barry's resignation was ac cepiea nis oond oi $z,uuu as. super mtendent of public roads would be ac cepted, but the bond has not yet been executed. However, the agent for the Surety Company, at Raleigh: wired Col. Moore yesterday that it was al O. K., andWould be mailed last night CbL Moore, as Chairman, was in structed to accept the bond when it ar rived subject to the approval of the Board at their next meeting j on Sep tember 12th. Capt. Barry was instructed yester day to proceed at once to thoroughly familiarize himself with the road con i luuuiu . burouKuom me countv and i:: ii i . submit to the Board at their next meeting a report, together With re commendations as to when and where work should begin. The tax lists for 1899 were formally turned over to Sheriff MacRae for collection. j - w. J. bavage was released from poll tax on account of physical disa bility. j The report of Mr. W. H. Biddle, as register of deeds, sho wed 22 marriage licenses issued during August and $20.90 paid to the county treasurer. Superior Court Jury, j xne i oiio wing jury was drawn to serve during the next termor the New Hanover Superior Court, to wit: Jj'urst Week C. R. Mason, Henry wcucueu, Ji.1 ij a, u waiton, John T. Keyes. B. J. Kuhlken, Louis H. Skin ners W. B. Clark. Wm. Gilchrist, Vir- ginius nail, K. Canaday, W. E. jacKson. waiter Ww. r .T .TV. inc ur, J. T. Gordon, W. G. Webb. Geo! v. Bitten, w. T. Canady. J. L. Sai lings. Second Week S. P. Mr.Nnir Ram. uei omitn, w. UK T. Keen, Eli H. 2aIi W- R Bell,'Geo. W. Smith, TIT m i r - .. ' jlT' v. - vnutr. ueorce i' Howistt . x. mcrwieT-Aaron iMathan, E. F. Dourn, Eugene v. Uraig, T. D. Gore, '. jnerediin, jonn o. Pivpr. The report of Dr. W. D. McMillan. as Superintendent of Health, was read and adopted. It was as follows: To the Board of County Commis sioners: - I During the month of August we have treated 152 patients in this office and made 69 visits to 54 patients at their uomes. Thero is no a auar&ntinn n ;n V. county, and very little sickness. xne iiome is well keot clean and in a very good sanitary condition. Th inmates are well fed and comfortable. There is a lack of discipline that makes the inmates unruly and dissatisfied in complete idleness. Therefor T m. spectf ully recommend a light and easy cujjjiujf luoui ior me inmates and regu lar roll calls or resnonsna t nf anma kind at least three times that the inmates will realize that they are at least animate andmusthus act The I ail is in as tmnA nan i f ai v aa dition as is possible with the defective piumomg except as at one time reported this plumbing has been leaking and in an unsanitary condition since the present sheriff has had charge. Please help him in a sometimes nnnmiiui jaij by having the plumbing sothat it win not ieaK. v - Respectfully. Wm. D. McMillan, Supt of Health. The Board took a recess at 4:15 o clock until the afternoon of Septem oer lztn. . f Capt Barry's Successor. ii win be of interest to note that during the meetihg yesterday some reference was made to the election of a successor to. Capt Jno. Barry on the coara or commissioners. County At torney W. B. McKoy, Esq., was asked in regard to what steps would have to be taken and expressed the opinion that there is no law providing for the filling of a vacancy, the. law ior the clerk of the court to appoint the com missioner having been repealed and no act substituted by the last Legislature. The law as it now stands has a clause providing for filling vacancies after: 1901 but not before. Howgr, Mr. Ju.cii.oy said he would look j into the matter further and make a definite re port at the next meeting, j Commie sioner McEachern remarked at the con elusion of Mr. McKoy's statement that there is a strong indication that they will have to wag "along as a bob failed Board." j The entire Board, except Commis sioner Holmes, were in attendant upon yesterday's meeting, j The Tax Books. xesterday, for the first time, the county tax books were open at the sheriff's office for the -payment of taxes for the year 1899. Sheriff Mac Rae said that several persons called during the day and made themselves 'square" with the county and State. Rev. Dr. Peyton H. Hoge, through a?. i. u. McQueen, has the distinc tion of being the first person to settle for the new fiscal year of tax collect ing. THE LADIES. The pleasant effect and nnrf&t ty with which ladies may use Svrun of Figs under all conditions makes it their favorite remedy. To iret the tin a and genuine article look for the name of the California Fig Syrup Company printed near the bottom of the pack age. For sale by all druggists. The East Carolina Real Rntafi Agency has excellent facilitina from selling farms and timbered lands. It advertises all property and makes only a nominal charge unless a min i le. For terms etc.. addrMa T? n Grady & Co., Burgaw, N. Q THE GREENVILLE SHOOTING. District Attorney Bernard Makes a State . meat About the Affair Upon His Arrival at Raleigh. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C. Sept 4. District Attorney Bernard, who was shot at Saturday night in Greenville by Mr. B. S.- Shephard, arrived here yester day and makes the following state ment:. ' j - "At the time of the assault I was in the omnibus alone,! waiting for the train, to return to Raleigh. I had no intimation that my assailant was any wherein the community. The attack was made without the slightest warn ing or provocation, j A witness of the affair was Frank Tyson, attorney, of Greenville, who came up to the depot in the bus with me. . He stated that the assailant came from the direction of my back. The first intimation7 I had of his presence was some one say ing to the crowd around the bus ' to get out of the way, and I then saw my assailant standing about ten feet dis tance from me with pistol raised to the level of his face, pointing at me, and. he immediately fired. He never ex changed a single word with me, and it is not true, to my knowledge, that he said anything about my ruining his home either before or at the time he fired." j ARRESTED IN I LAURINBURG. An Escaped Convict Who Has About Four teen Years to Serve for Arson. His Confessions.. Special Star Telegram. Laurihburg, C, Sept 4.An escaped convict, Joe Jordan, arrived here yesterday andis in custody. He says he left the pentfentiary farm early in August, went Richmond, thence here; that he wask "trusty," and was as good as toldUhat the authorities did not want him at the farm. His crime was arson, of the Methodia- church here, in 1893. Jas.! Barefoot was im plicated. Several fires occurred here at that time, but owing to Jordan's com plete reversal of a former statement, evidence to convict his associate was not obtainable. Jordan to day admitted the partial burning, ia the night, of the residence of one Mr." Gal vin, in 1893, whom he attempted to destroy be cause accused by Galvin of puncturing his bicycle. Not withstanding all this, Jordan is trying to get a petition for pardon. He has about fourteen years to 6erve. There are some who would help him out is possible; but if freed he will be indicted at once for arson in the first degree. STORM IN ROBESON COUNTY. Moss Neck, a Small Station On the S. A. L, Suffered Prom Heavy Winds. Special Star Correspondence. Moss Neck, N. C, Sept 6th, 1899. A terrific storm, visited this section last evening. The wind blew down the saw mill shelter of. Mr. IW. Culbreth, damaging the machineryto some extent Strange to say two mules which were under the shelter at the time of its falling came out ap parently uninjured. The stables of Mrs. M. A. Pate were alsoblown down, killing a buggy horse belonging to Mr. J. W. Culbreth. and an othf property of Mrs. Pate. Five mules. aw 1- 1 . a wuicu were uouseu in tne same build ing, werejnjured very little. Crops are badly damaged both reason of the storm and weather con ditions previous. MR. BELLAMY'S BRIEP. t Has Been Completed and is Now In the Hands of the Printer. Raleigh News and Observer. Messrs. C. M. Busbee and Frank L Osborne, attorneys for Hon. John D. Bellamy, Congressman from the Sixth district, in his contest with Oliver Dockery, have completed their brief in the case. Mr. Bli'mT yesterday and ran over the brief with his attorneys, after which it was given to the printers, j The brief is a very clear demonstra tion of the shallowness of Dockery's claim to the place on the ground of fraud and intimidation, and if the law and the evidence go for anything oerore the Congressional committee will quickly wilt the foliage of Mr. Dockery. Holds on by A "Thread. The Greensboro correspondent of the Raleigh Post has the following with reference to the probable result of the Bernard-Sheppard episode at Green ville, N. C, this week: There's no use in hitting a man when he s down, but the truth of the matter is that the Republicans in this neck of woods . appear to have very - little sympathy or respect for United States District Attorney Claude M. Bernard They right freely say that his legal acumen is not commensurate with his proclivity for getting himself and other people into trouble. This morning one of the Republicans, who occa sionally counts the currency of Uncle Sam m double XV said that Bernard had been holding his nflR kv n threaf I that he was altogether persona non grata with the McKinley regime. And they are sure to lift him now." he added. i Marriage Last Nlgfat. Last night at the residence of Mrs. Jno. S. McEachern, on Sixth street between Ann and Nun, in the pres ence of relatives and a few friends Ugiss Emma Gertrude Bornemann, the accomplished daughter of the late Jno. C. Bornemann. was hmnii. married to Mr. Geo. W. Trask. asue- cessiui young truck farmer of Mason boro township and a son of Mr. D. W. Trask. It was a quiet home mar riage, ano tne ceremony pretty. j was very For Ot- witty Tears - Mrs. Wikslow's Soothing Syeup has been used far twtkf flftir nanM L millions of mothers for their children wuno teeming with perfect success. It soothes the child .. allays all tain. cures wind i; . J3 . " m. w vvitv, CU1U is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the noor littT n.M. mediately. Sold by druggists in Part Of the World. Taronti..fi. i- -iruKuo. sure and ask for ,4Mra Winslow's Sooth in Rvmn tCL no other. , - a J " , T - A MAMMOTH PLANT. The Greatly Increased Capacity of the Champion Cotton ; Compress. " ! SPRUNT LINE OF STEAMHlDt? j "ni Established to Ply From Wilmineton to Various Porelgi Ports Will be Ten Vessels of Urge Tonnage Three Now Here. At the Champion Compress pailt which has three huge cotton con. presses going at full speed, with , capacity of 4,000 bales per day m. be seen two large British steamer's tL -South Africa- and the Oml loadmgjor Europe, and flying a while uurgce wnu me red letters "3 Line"(at their mainmast head. prunt Messrs. , :r' - kjq a member of the Stab staff yesterday that they have, after many years of experience in chartering cotton stemp oj.. , , "UUUl ed a new method. wWii absolute control of amimhnr;.. able boats for as1 1 a time as they can be used in their trade to and fro;,, foreign points. They have hitherto worked at some disadvantage in chartering for only one voyage, and this has led them to establish their own line to Bremer Liverpool, Genoa, Ghent and other European ports. These ships will be under their full control to returu to Wilmington or to go to other parte at their option, and this new departure in the cotton business is another indi cation of the well known enterprise and foresight of this long established nrm. The Aquila now aground in Cape Fear river with inward cargo, is one of the Sprunt Line. It is to be hope.l that she will meet with better luck after she is towed over to them here The "Sprunt Line" will comprise ten ocean steamships of large ton nage, which will ply betweea Wil mington and foreign ports regularly. Then there will be others which will be.operated from time to time as the company may elect. As noted in yesterday's Star, the Onhsby was the first of the Sprunt line to arrive. The others are no on the high seas bound this way and are expected to arrive in rapid succes cession to receive cargoes of cotton. Compress Greatly Improved. The Champion Cotton Compress is, commercially speaking, the pride of Wilmington and its wonderful devel opment under the direction of the Alexander Sprunt & Son Company, Mr. James Sprunt and his brother, , Mr. W. H. Sprunt, contributesin a very large degree to Wilmington's business activity and commercial prosperity. It will be of interest to note some of the principal features of the improvements which have been made in the compress equipmeut dur ing the past Summer and are no adding very greatly to the quantity and quality of the work' and goes, iii fact, to make what is conceded to be beyond doubt the best equipped cotton compress anywhere in the United States. First and foremost another powerful hydraulic press has been added, mak-. ing three powerful presses which oper ate within forty feet of the bows of the huge ocean steamers, as they lie at the pier to receive their cargoes of cotton, and compress 4,000 stan dard bales of cotton per day. Absolute Weather Protection. Then, too, the docks have been dredged to a depth of twenty two feet, and five 'ocean steamships ican be loaded simultaneously. All the piers are covered, so that ships can be loaded in all kinds of weather without dam age to the cotton. The' railroad plat forms at the foot of Red Cross street haye also been covered with substantial roofing, and this insures absolute pro tection to the cotton from the time it is received from the railroad trains until it is discharged from the steam ships in foreign ports. All wood foundations to presses and other parts of the machinery have been removed and solid masonry sub stituted. Protection from Fire. In the main buildings of the com press the old division doors have been changed to standard automatic fire proof doors, which close automatical- . ly under unusual heat, which melts the fuse and releases the doors, which fly across the space and make tire proof divisions. The building is also furnished throughout with automatic fire sprinklers, so that the risk by rea son of fire damage in the mammoth compress is reduced to a minimum. Other Advantageous features. Messrs. Sprunt have shops .attached to their compress in which skilled mechanics make the cotton trucks, shears and other tools and necessary impliments, including stencels, etc. They also have ample arrangements for coaling steamers with quick dis patch, a feature which is especially appreciated by Bhip owners. - The hew hydranlic press works very smoothly and effectively and an pre riously stated, with the addition of this powerful machine the capacity of the plant is increased to 4,000 bales per day During the height of the cotton com pressing season Messrs. Sprunt give employment to six hundred or more people, including the clerical force. They have only been running a few days, and have not yet reached their full capacity. Cotton is pouring inW the city now, however," on every in coming freight train, and it is a ques tion of only a few days when the com press will be running at full capacity, and, indeed, it is .very probable that the presses may even be operated both day and night a little later on. Proof of the pudding lies In the eating of It. Proof of ROBERTS' TASTELESS flITTT..T TYYNTTn lloa In the, taklUK of It- COST NOTHUfQ If it falls to cure. 25 cents per bottle if It cures. Sold stflw on Its merits by ( ROBERT R. BELLAMY, marMly Wholesale and Retail Drngpst-
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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