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' I I .00 A YEAR. IN ADVAncL ' 8888SS888883S8SS8 - sssssssilsiiiisss ,vm 8 S8SSS8SS8SSSgagg 8883888888888888 888888888888888si 8S888888S8S88888S 8888888888888888? 8S88S88228888888? -888888888888838$ I " " l-d I r 3 : s : - : s i si:;:: I mmm . "SaSSS88S yOL. xxxi. WILMINGTON, N. G., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1899. NO. 1 Catered at the Peat Offica st dmtgtoa, N. C, ' . Second Class Ma ier.1 SUBSCRIPTION P CE. ly 8 tar ii The mbicriptloo prlca of the Wo 5 8 month " " tO. - "8 months " " SO THE GAME OF THE GRABBERS. In an interview some time during' the late campaign in Ohio, in re ply to a question about hia ship .subsidy bill, known as the Hanna Payne bill, Senator Hanna aid he would "see it through," and we have little doubt that he will for Hanna is a power, and with his close connection with the President he will find little, difficulty in persuad ing hesitating Republican Congress men that voting for this bill will be about the best thing they can vdo. There is'a big steal in it, but the bigger the steal the better its chance of passage. "The honest papers of the; North Atlantic States, which are not in fluenced iy party, ran by the men who manipulate parties, but view' this question from a purely business standpoint, ", are uncompromisingly opposed to , these subsidy schemes, which they regard in the light of colossal steals for which there is no honest defence or justification. The Philadelphia Record, a leading paper of one of our leading manu facturing and commercial cities, has opposed this grabbing scheme from Ihe beginning, and exposed, the motives that inspired it. Some of "the results of the passage of this bill are set forth in the following ed itorial clipped from the Record: "The widening and deepening of the Welland Canal by the Canadian Government has induced the Illinois Transit Company to establish a direct steamship line for passengers and. freights from Chicago to Montreal and Liverpool. Beginning with three steamers, the company proposes to make a substantial increase iu its ton nage as business shall require. It is possible that this movement, which is to be followed by others of the same kind, will have the effect of diverting a large share of ocean shipping from our cities on the Atlantic seaboard. As the Canadian Government makes no ' discriminalion.in tolls, there is nothing to prevent American merchants and ship owners from enjoying a large share of the ocean transportation by way of the Welland Canal. It is this consideration which causes so much watering of the mouth of Sena tor Hanna and other prospective bene ficiaries of the gigantic scheme of stoamship subsidy. Although steam ships can be built and operated as cheaply on the American as on the Canadian bide of the Great Lakes, the subsidy mongers will plead in the .Fifty -sixth Congress for the Hanna Steamship Subsidy bill on the pre tence that this measure is necessary in order to revive the American mer chant marine. The real object of the scheme is to create a vast monopoly of ocean transportation. "Should the Hanna Steamship Sub sidy bill be passed, the next step would be to organize a Shipbuilding trust under its auspices, just as other monopolies have been created by Con gresssional legislation. In fact, so confident are the subsidy mongers of the passage of the bill, with the influ ence of the administration and the work of the lobby, that a movement is already on foot to combine all the shipyards on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and on the Great Lakes. Without the subsidy that is, sought , from Congress at the expense of the American people this shipbuilding combination, if formed, would, have no terrors; since any unjust power which it might attempt to exercise would be defeated by the competition of the maritime world. "Duriog the recent contest in Ohio Senator Hanna was not so wanting in frankness as to make a pretence of hostility to the Trusts which he did not feel. He could make such a pre tence when contemplating the great Ocean Transportation Trust that would be created under the Steamship Sub sidy bill, which he has ready for reintroduction in Congress. It has been stoutly denied in some quarters that there is any inten tion of forming a Shipbuilding Trust; and so far as ocean trans- Eortation is concerned such a com ination would be useless under ex isting conditions. But let the Hanna Steamship Subsidy bill be passed, and gigantic Shipbuilding Trust, to share if not to monopolize its spoils, would be inevitable. It is not to be supposed gested, combining under one man agement the leading Bhip yards of tfie country and absorbing or driv ing out of business the others. The next will be a combine to control the ocean traffic, and perhaps the lake traffic, too. Theremight be some difficulty in this and perhaps some legislation might be necessary to hfclp accomplish it, but men who have influence enough toy "put through" such a measure as the Hanna-Payne subsidy, steal would doubtless have influence enough to secure any supplementary legisla tion that might be necesaarv to secure them the full fruits of that swindling scheme. They might by some sort of discriminating legisla lation, in addition to subsidies, secure this in the way of a tonnage tax or7 a tax of a similar nature, drive foreign ships from our ports in time and give a monopoly to the ships of this ship combine. That's about the way they would revive our merchant marine, and control it when they revived it, and all the time they would be running their arms into the United States Treas nry and drawing out -their millions of dollars, which would go as profits into their coffers, j If they are anxious to have a mer chant marine in which there would be no grab or steal why do they , not ask Congress to repeal the prohibi tive legislation which encumbers our statute books, antiquated half a cen tury ago, and give Americans who may wish to engage in ocean traffic the privilege to go where they choose to build or buy ships, and sail them under the flag of their country? If, as they assert, there is an abund ance of money in this country seek ing marine investment why not give it a chance and let the owners of that capital have a chance to invest it in ships built abroad, or in ships built at home, if they preferred this? If they are so fully im bued with national pride that they would prefer ships, built in this country, even At they cost more, let them have them, but if they took a purely business view of it and found that they could get such ships as they wanted in some other country on better terms,, let them go there and get them, and make them a part of our merchant marine, enjoying all the protection, rights and privileges of ships built in this cduntry. If they were as intent upon reviving our merchant marine as they are upon carrying out this colossal scheme and robbing the American people of millions of dol lars, that's what they would do; but the steal is a bigger thing in their eyes than a merchant marine, and hence they will oppose any step taken for the repeal of this prohibi tive legislation, THE ISSUE. . Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is quoted . as expressing the opinion that expansion and trusts will not figure as issues in the next Presi dential campaign, and that the live Issue will be the money question, fought by the Democrats on the Chicago platform. He says the ques tion of expansion and imperialism will be settled before the next cam paign opens, and therefore they will be elimnated. He does not give a reason why the trusts will not fig ure. There is no doubt, whatever, that the Administration will make hercu lean efforts to end the war in the Philippines before another election comes on, for the country has be come pretty tired of that hor rid series of blunders from be ginning " to end. The large re inforcements sent, with the" ad ditional war vessels is proof of this. In an island where only a small minority of the people are said to be in sympathy with the "insurrection" and with as few fighting men as the Filipino leaders are said to be able to muster, 65,000 American soldiers ought to have a picnic in going over that island when the roads become dry enough to make marching a matter of little labor. But the money question will be in it and the trusts, too. There is no doubt of that for neither of these can be eliminated. The financial stringency from Which business has suffered within the past year, not withstanding the talk of an abund anoe of money, has emphasized the necessity of making a fight for silver to prevent further contraction of the currency, for if the gold men succeed in establishing the gold standard they will practically destroy one half of our money, and the business interests of the country would be absolutely at the mercy of the big Eastern money combines. STILL PEGGING AWAY AT THE ARTESIAN WELL. ROAD MATTERS DISCUSSED. IMPERIAL PINE PRODUCT CO. It is Now 1,285 Feet Deep The Drill Has Passed Through 176 feet of Solid; Granite Rock. Notwithstanding the fact that Wil mington is down by the sea, it has a solid rock foundation, as is proven by the efforts of the Clarendon Water works Company to bore "an. artesian well at Hilton. The well, at the close of work yesterday afternoon, had reach ed a depth of 185 feet, the drill being still at work inJsblid granite rock that gets harder the deeper the drill goes. The rock is so solid that during the past week the boring made a progress of only three and a half feet, or an average of a little more than 7 inches a day. Up to yesterday evening' the drill has passed through 176 feet of granite. ,Work was begun an this well in March, 1898, and the contractor is still pegging away. The waterworks com pany is determined to get water if it is to be had this Bide of China, and no doubt they will succeed in getting a flow sooner or later. - It will be remembered that two wells were abandoned by former contractors after getting down several hundred feet and securing only a flow of salt water. 'Salt water isTalso gushing from the present well. ! THE CITY'S FINANCIAL STANDING. Force of habit is a strong thing. Some enterprising fellows struck a town in Egypt with 70,000 people, whose only drinking water came from an old canal. They bored some wells which furnished nice sparkling water, but the natives had become so accustomed to the per fumed liquid which their ancestors drank that, that they could not be prevailed upon to touch the other. "THE "ONLY DANGER." The New York Commercial Adver tiser is not especially interested in the cotton planter, but it takes in terest enough in him to warn him against "the only danger" an in-, crease of the cotton acreage next year. Speaking of the present and prospective conditions, it says: "Shortage in the cotton crop this vear comes at a time when the cotton mills both of the United States and of England and Germany are exceptional ly busy. This will probably prevent the rise in price of the raw material from lessening the output of cotton goods, and at the same time cotton planters will be benefited. The only danger is that a better price for cotton may tempt the planters to increase the acreage of cotton planting instead of continu ing the policy of diversifying their crops, as many of them have been doing of late. Still this tendency is quite natural, and the only security against it is new foreign outlets for American cotton goods, such as ex pansion would furnish. With a great permanent foreign trade in these fabrics it would not be & matter of su preme importance how much cotton was planted every year, ine ouuui could employ its natural resources as it deemed best and diversification of crops would not be so essential as it is now. Perception of these facts is one of the reasons why sentiment in that section is now so strongly in favor of expansion." . ' We publish this on account of the warning The Commercial-Advertiser being an expansion paper takes ad vantage of the opportunity to boost expansion by substantially asserting that the future prosperity of the cot ton growing industry In the outh is dependent upon, tnav wmcn is a An isthmian As a general thing the flea is sim ply a promoter of activity and some times of profanity. But there is a flea in Paraguay, the bite of which proves fatal. In 1870 an English colony of 200 people was extermi nated by it, and later a German colony was driven out. It attaoks Euro peans in preference to natives be cause they are cleaner, and use soap. Perhaps this may account for the natives' avoidance of soap. A lightning-rod man died in a Richmond hospital a few days ago, who carried a $1,000,000 insurance policy on his life. That he' should have carried so much 1 insurance didn't cause any surprise, but peo ple are curious to know how he man aged to get, money enough out of lightning-rods to keep the policy paid up. Referring to the repeated efforts to form a ship-building "trust, the Phil adelphia Press says: "If the ship builders combine, they will get no encouragement from Congress." With this hint from an administra tion organ perhaps they may wait till they grab the encouragement, and then combine. Kansas prisoners should not be subjected to too severe ordeals. One recently killed himself while a local band was serenading the Sher iff ."That was too much for the - prisoner. ' . . It is said j;bat Admiral Dewey has income enough to "keep the wolf from the door." - With his income, a daisy home, and a rich wife, he ought to be fixed to keep the whole wolf family .from the door. - ' - When Marconi was returning home, he notified his friends when he would be with them by sending in a telegram wherC the vessel was forty-five miles out from Southamp ton. Clerk and Treasurer Discounts Notes for Summer Current Expenses. In accordance with a' suggestion of the finance Committee at the last meeting of the Board of Aldermen, City Clerk and Treasurer B. F. King yesterday paid off notes amount ing to $30,000, which was borrowed by the city in June and July to tide over expenses until tax gathering time. These notes were not due un til December and January but were paid- yesterday and discount saved. Besides these notes.one of $10,000 long due the sinking fund, was taken up. This means that the actual debt of the city has been reduced $10,000 and the regular yearly loan paid back much sooner than usual. Mr .King says that he expects the regular revenue to run the city from now on and hopes to accumulate enough to pay the $5,000 bonds due Jan 1st, 1900, Financial matters under the new ad ministration are taking upon them' selves an exceedingly healthy atti tude and the collections of revenue thus far from all sources are a hand some testimonial to City Treasurer King . and his corps of competent as sistants. Up to last night $52,828 32 had been collected in real, personal and poil"taxes," wh'cb is far in excess of the amount received to a corres ponding period in previous years. The collection of privilege tax has also been unprecedented. British Tramps Depart. There is now not a British tramp steamer in port, the Moonstone, which was loading timber for the Acme Tea Chest .Company, having cleared for Glasgow and the Wragaoe having been cleared by Messrs. Alexander Sprunt & Sou with cotton for Bremen, Germany. , The Moonstone, 1,363 tons, Capt Foster, carried 468,508 feet of gum and ash timber, valued at $6,000, for the Acme Tea Chest Co.,' which will be used for veneering purposes, as has been often stated in the Stab. She also carried 1,000 feet pine lum ber, 750 casks spirits turpentine, 2,000 barrels rosin and 600 barrels' tar, the entire cargo being valued at $28,352.10. The vessel was by Heide & Co., and the cargo by Will L. Miller, agent. Tha Wraggoe, 1.838 tons, Capt. Rowe, carried 10,200 bales cotton, valued at $380,000, the vessel and cargo being by Messrs. Sprunt & Son. . Several other steamers for the cot ton trade are expected to arrive within a short time. LETTUCE SEASON HAS CO HE. Commissioners Give Farther Consideration to Improvement "Summer Rest" Road Declared Poblic. Only matters pertaining to the betJ terment of the public roads of the county were discubsed at yesterday's adjourned session of the Board of County Commissioners, though nothing definite was agreed upon and an adjournment was taken subject to call of the Chairman. For -the past several meetings of the Board the subject of good roads has been exhaus ively discussed by the members with Capt. " Barry, the road superinten dent, and that there will be some tangible results'' from the discussion, is assured. At the meeting yesterday anent the discussion of these matters, the ques tion of making a public thoroughfare of the -road, fron? Wrigbtsville depot to "Summer" Rest" was taken up and upon motion of Commissioner Alex ander it was ordered that the stretch of way from the depot along the sound to the Larkins ditch, thence in a northerly direction about two miles to a point near the six mile post near Baymede station, following the lines of the Stokeley and lower Newkirk roads be incorporated into the public road system and of course it will receive its pro rata benefit of the county ap propriation for this purpose. The cot tagers at "3ummer Rest" have been contending for this privilege for a number of years and the action of the board in this respect will be hailed with pleasure by them. At the meeting yesterday Col. Roger Moire presided and members present were Commissioners Holmes, Alex ander and McEachern. A TRANSFER OP STEAMERS. Details of Purchase of Its Plant by Mr. Geo. E." Pope, of Wilmington Deed Filed for Registration. The Stab noted several, months ago the purchase by Mr. George E. Pope, of Wilmington, of the plant of the Imperial Pine Product Company, or "Unknown Factory" as it is some times termed, and yesterday details of the purchase became apparent from the deed to the property, which was filed for registration at the Court House, The stipulation is $20 000 and the sale was made August 15th by the offi cers of the Imp-rial Company by virtue of a resolution passed at a meet ing of the stockholders in New York, January 19 th, delegating to the said officers the power to dispose of the plant and appurtenances, including the sole right to the trade mark "Im perolene," also that "free and per petual right of entry, right of way and easement at any and all times for the construction of a line of railway leading from the land of the company to and connecting with the W. & W. R. R., at or near the two-mile post." There were also entered for regis tration yesterday articles of release from the Knickerbocker Trust Com pany, of New Yorki to the Imperia Pine Product Company, absolving it of a mortage given for the security of payment of its fi-st mortage six per cent, gold bonds. The Imperial Company is a corpora tion existing under the laws of West Virginia. BRITISH REPEL I BOERS' ATTACK. An Attempt to Rush Estcourt Was Defeated by the Artillery. STILL SHELLING LADYSMITH. The Boers Bombarding Klmberley Again. British Relief Column Advices From Gen. Bailer British Transports . j . With Troops Arriving. COTTON CROP ESTIMATE. The Clyde Steamship Saginaw Will Be come a Regular Visitor to This Port. It can now be announced definitely that the Clyde steamship New York, Capt. Ingram, which has been plying regularly from the home port to Wil mington and Georgetown, will bs taken off this run and the Saginaw sent in her stead. The New York cleared for her last trip f com Wil mington early this week. The Oneida will, however, continue on this line and will be here as usual Tuesday, 21st, sailing from New York on the Saturday preceding. The Saginaw has often visited Wil mington and will be here on her initial trip, under the new arrange ment, Tuesday, November 28tbr sail ing from Georgetown as usual the day after arrival from the New York trip. She i3 in charge of Capt. Johnson and is of 1,429 tons burthen. Formerly she has been making the Clyde schedule between Boston, Charleston and Jacksonville, conveying both pas sengers and freight. In response to an inquiry, Superin tendent mallbones said yesterday that he did not know what disposition would be made of the Neio York. Kinston's Prosperity. Mr. R. M. Wescott returned last 'evening from a business trip to Kin ston, LaGrange and other points in that vicinity, Mr. Wescott was com pletely captivated with the air of busi ness prosperity and good will which appears to be pervading the growing little city of Kinston, and is extrava gant in his praise of the general com mercial aspect of the community in general. Twelve million pounds of tobacco, he said, were sold there the present season, and this industry alone has contributed greatly to the up building of the place. One enterprise alone in the city, he says, is reported as employing over three hundred laborers. It is suggested that what the tobacco industry has done for Kinston, Wilson and other points, the same could be done for Wilmington if only the proper measures were taken by her commercial men and the far mers in the territory adjoining. Latham, Alexander & Co. Put the Figures at 8,709,690 Bales. Messrs Latham, Alexander & Co., the well known bankers and cotton merchants, have , issued a circular, dated November 15th, in which they estimate the present crop at 8,709,690 bales against 11,275,000 bales last year. This letter is based on 2,800 letters re ceived from reliable correspondents in all the cotton States, and the result given above is reached by averaging the estimates from each State. The circular of Messrs. Latham, Alexander & Co., concludes as fol lows: ' Two thsusand one hundred and forty correspondents report that the crop has been more rapidly marketed, or shipped to market as quickly as in former years. x Four hundred and forty-two corres pondents report that from 5 to 15 per cent, more than last year has been held on plantations, towns and cities for higher prices. Our Special agents who have been travelling through the South for the Sast month, to ascertain the true con ition of the cotton crop fully con firm the foregoing estimate." from three positions; Subsequently they maintained ftesultory fire until 7.15 o'clock. I One shell killed a Kaffir woman in the street and another fell on the roof of a bar. partially wrecking the building but not injuring . any of the inmates. Six shells were fired against the -waterworks, but fell in the reservoir. Several ar tillerymen in the fort there had close shaves. Our guns replied at long range, and at least two shells are believed to have found their mark, as the fire of the Boers in that direction was effectually silenced. ' i The heavy bombardment was re-- no wed at 8 40 o'clock this afternoon from two positions. Our guns are now replying. The enemy's shells are fall ing harmlessly, though the artillery men have found the range. twinklings; Cotton and Naval Stores. The following weekly and crop year receipts of cotton and navalstores for the period ending November 17th, were posted at the Produce Exchange yesterday : Week ended Nov. 17th, 1899. Cot ton, 11,893 bales; spirits, 377 casks; ro- sin, 5,816 oarreis; tar, x,uui oarreis; crude, 293 barrels. Week ended Nov. 17th, 1898. Cot ton, 17,969 bales; spirits, 855 casks; ro sin, 2,988 barrels; tar, 857 barrels; crude, 196 barrels. , Crop year to Nov. 17th, 1899. Cot ton, 153,214 bales; spirits, 23,649 casks: rosin; 93 235 barrels; tar, 36,753 bar rels; crude, 8,455 barrels. Crop year to Nov. 17th, 1898. Cot ton, 193,803 bales; spirits, 21,975 casks; rosin, 104,109 barrels; tar, 36,037 bar rels; crude, 7,858 barrels. ! By Cable to the uornbur Star. Estcoxjbt, November 18 1.40 P. M. -Atl0 o'clock this morning the Boers attempted to rush Estcourt, but one shot from our naval gun and sev eral long range volleys nred by the Dublin Fusileers sent them back pre cipitately. ' The Boers had several guns posted on surrounding kopjes, bnt our naval men apparently astonished them, and their guns' were withdrawn. - 1 A runner arrived here from Lady smith to-day bearing dispatches from General White who reported all well there. He adds that the Boer shells have no effect. General White re cently made a sortie and drove the Boers from their, guns position. . The British did not lose a man. The town is healthy. I The bombardment of Ladysmith was continued almost daily with bier eruns. The ooers endeavored on Tuesday to make a closer investment, but were re pulsed ; General White following this up with a sortie which drove the Boers from all their positions with consider able loss. The Boers are reported to be serious ly short of provisions. , Kimberley Relief Column. Orange River, Novetuber 15. General Methnen has decided that the Kimberley relief column is to march m as light order as possible. omall bands of tJoers are roaming in Griqualand West, annexing towns without opposition. They have al ready taken possession, of Barkley West and Douglass. A few police were captured at both places. Lorenzo, Marques, Delagoa Bat, Nov. 17. The official Volkstem re ports that the great bridge over the Tugela river, near Colenso, was com pletely destroyed Wednesday Novem ber 15. The Boers are looking forward with great interest to the impending encounter between Colenso and Est court, with the advancing British. About six hundred burghers, with cannon, are guarding the Helmakaar pass, eighteen miles from Dundee, to baffle strategical attempt to reoccupy Dundee by the Pietermaritzburg Greytown route. j Advices From Qeneral Boiler. London, November 18. The War Office has received the following dis patch from General Buller, dated Cape Town, November 17th: "Report from Kimberley November 11th, says all I well there. Reports from Ladysmith November 12th and November 13th say all well there." An official dispatch from Pretoria, dated Friday, November 10 th, con firms the statements to the effect that the Boers' big guns had little effect at Mafeking. Reports from Cape Colony indicate that the Boer sympathizers are greatly surprised at the inability of General Joubert to capture Ladysmith. It is announced that British transports are arriving at Cape Town to-day, and add, roughly, four thousand six hun dred men to the British force in South Africa, making a total of about 27,000 men of General Buller's army corps that have arrived. She "It's a woman's privi lege to change her mind, you know." He "Yes, and her age, too, but she takes her time in doing it." , His View: Little sister "Do you always have to count four when you come to a period?" Little Brother "No; only when you're at school.'' JFuclc. Stern Father " So you want to marry my daughter, . do you ?" Young Man (nervously) " Yes, sir." 8tern Father" Thanks. Have a ci gar." . j Aunty "Do you say your prayers in the morning, too, Johnny t" Johnny, -(scornfully) "Of course I don't. Anybody can take care of him- . self in the daytime." Harlem Life j ; "Daughters are a great anx- iety." "How so, Mrs. Nooch!" "If you don't dress them handsomely they are not attractive, and if you do dress them handsomely men are afraid to marry them." Chicago Record, j "Never pay any money without taking a receipt for it," said the pruj dent man. Senator Sorghum looked at himi pityingly and exclaimed t "What's the good of a receipt with the Australian ballot system?" Wash ington Star. -) Visitor "I wonder that you allow your servant girl to kindle the fire with kerosene Aren't you afraid she'll be burned to death some day ?" Mr. Howson Lott "There's no danr ger; she's too green to burn."" Har per1 s Bazaar. J Jay Green "Hoh! What do you girls want with a chaperone at your picnic to morrow, if there ain't going to be any men along?" Daisy Medders "Stupid! Don't you suppose we want somebody to turn the ice cream freezer?" Harper's Bazar. I Fond Father "Tommy, I've just received from Santa Claus a tele gram saying he hasn't watches enough ' this year to go round." Tommy (ref flectively) "Well, just wire him to. call here early in the evening." Jew' elertf Weekly. Mr. Enpeck "Do you think that man who acknowledges having forty-two wives should be imprisoned ?'f Mrs. Enpeck "Imprisoned? Why the wretch ought to be hanged?" Mr. En peck "Yes, I guess you are right, my dear. That would put the poor fel low out of his misery." j Mrs. Smitem "Bobby, you. bad boy, have you been fighting with Tommy Slimson again? Dear, deart I shall have to get you a new suit.'! Bobby "That's nothing, ma. You ought to see Tommy Slimson. His ma may have to get her a new boy." t . Tit Bits. : 1 After the Boom: "When I came to this town," said the man on the drv coods box. "everything 1 had in the world was tied up in a red ban4 danna handkerchief." "And now , asked toe tourist, who was waitiDg for a train. "And now," replied the man, "everything I've got in the worm is tied down witn mortgages. Chicago Tribune. WARM WIRELETS. will sheer ' assumption nana! would do more for the cotton SJraShJJjfiTe1 industry than ten Philippine archi- An Attractive Show Window. livious of their interests and oppor- uelagos. if they came as a free gift I a very pleasing and an exceedingly without a dollar of cost or a drop of appropriate show window on the occa- uia 4 aw assumption is that I sion of the big Uivvut wuv sentiment in, this section is strongly in favor oT expansion. There are some expansionists in the South, it is true but as far as public senti ment7 goes it is decidedly against ex pansion by powder and ball. & W.si inert on disnatch says Ad- tunities as to leave the entire subsidy poils to the ship owners. - "For the rest, the vast export and import trade of the United States affords a conspicuous refutation of the pretence that the Hanna Steamship Subsidy bill is necessary to open new markets. What is needed in this as in maoy other cases is not the making of new bad laws, but the repeal of old d laws. Repeal of the Navigation kws, which prohibit American mer chants from buying ships in the best markets, would accomplish infinitely more to retrieve the country's mari Jime interests than could be -effected by the expenditure of untold millions of the people's money in subsidy spoils. Under the policy of free ship there ould be a spontaneous and normal 'ise of the American merchant marine. The Hanna Steamship Subsidy bill, on he other band, would mean a vast cean Transportation Trait for the obstruction of commerce and the op pression of the people." The first result will be a ship build iQg trust, as hag already been :sug- miral Dewey has deeded that Wash ington house presented to him, to his wife. He said when they first talked of giving him a house he didn't have any use for it, and this proves it. ' ' With her six large skunk farms producing very large colonies of Bkunks, it is not surprising -uwi u diana should be in bad odor. Masonic Fair, which claim all attention this week, may be seen at the shoe store oi -m-m UniwA Ar. F.vans. No. 115 Prin- iucnai a. ww - . cess street The window is filled with Douglass, Jenness Miller and Dutten hoffer and other standardmanufactures of shoes, of which this enterprising firm has exclusive sale in the city. These are artistically grouped around a display of the premiums given away at the store and novelties in the shoe lineSurrounding them all and in the background is a large placard with a" neat emblematical drawing with this terse and poetical announcement: "With Masonic Treatment We Greet You; With Masonic Dealings We .Treat You." It is needless to say the window will attract the attention of the many visitors to the Fair this week. Truckers Made Oood Shipments Yesterday. Are Encouraged With Actjve Market. The first lettuee shipments of con sequence from the vicinity of Wil mington were made yesterday by ex press to several Northern markets and within a week or two the lettuce sea son will be in full blast About fifty barrels were shipped yesterday and the growers say that next week cut ting will become more general. Prices as a rule are very remunerative thus far and commission houses in several of the markets North are offering $5 to $5.60 . per barrel with indications of a steady market for some time yet Several soliciting agents are already in the field and bespeak a successful season for the farmer. v There is ajnuch larger acreage in lettuce this year than usual and the quality is paid to be very fine, though in sections the effects of the late drought are apparent. Will Return To.night. -v ' -Mr. W. W. MacRae, who recently went to New York for treatment of a bite inflicted by a supposed rabid dog, is expected to return to his home this evening. He is now in Fayette ville visiting relatives and reports that the Pasteur treatment was' a suc cess, if there was,' indeed, need of such irentmAnt. His manv friends here will be glad to know that he has taken this successful precaution to prevent hydrophobia in the event the animal by which he was bitten-tfas a rabid one. The Register of Deeds during the past week issued five licenses for the marriage of white couples and one 1 for the marriage of a colored Couple. Dr. Porter Recovering. Mr. D. C. Venters, of Rocky Point, who was in the city yesterday, told a Star representative that Dr. E. Porter, who sustained serious injuries several days ago by falling from a ladder from whence he was directing some im provements to a building, is improving rapidly and will be out in a short while. There are few men in Eastern Carolina so well and favorably known as Dr. Porter and the news of his rapid recovery will be noted with pleasure by his numerous friends and especially those -in Wilmington and vicinity, where he has such extensive business interests and is consequently better known. . " Operative Scalded. Mr. Levi J. Perry, an employe in the dye rooms of the Wilmington Cotton Mills, was severely soalded about the right side yesterday morn ing at 10 o'clock by a sluice of boiling fluid turned upon him accidentally from a vessel by one of his fellow workmen. Dr. McMillan gave him temporary attention and later Dr. R. E. Zachary, the mill physician had him sent to his home, 512 Orrell's alley. He is not seriously injured and will return to his work in a few days. Tug Blanche Floated. The tug Blanche was pulled off the beach at Southport on the flood tide early yesterday morning and was towed up to the city by the Marion yesterday afternoon for fresh water to refill the boiler. She is not injured in any particular and after filling the boiler she steamed down the river as of yore and resumed her harbor towing. His Sanity Questioned. r Upon an affidavit made by Hiram Moore, J. E. Tyner was yesterday brought before a commission de luna tico inquirendo for an examination as to his alleged insanity. A number of witnesses testified, all of whom except Moore, swore that Mr. Tyner was per fectly sane so far as they could dis cern. The commission before con cluding the examination dismissed the entire proceeding. Mr. Tyner declares that the action was brought by Moore because some days since he had him arrested for being a nusiance. .. Schooner Gold Leafs Wreck, The wreck report of the coasting schooner Gold Leaf, of 15 tons, which went ashore during the recent hurri cane was filed at the Custom House yesterday by Capt A. D. Bessent master.. The 'Gold Leaf is owned by Mr. Jesse Wilson, of Calabash, N. C, and is valued at $800. The cargo was valuedTat $1,000. making a total of $1,800, all of which is a total loss. She carried a cargo of general merchan dise and was manned by four seamen, none of whom were lost She was bound from Wilmington to Little River, S. C. Heavy Fighting at Ladysmith. Lorenzo Marques, N ovember 18. Belated disnatches from a correspond ent with the Boers near Ladysmith, up to Tuesday, November 14th, have arrirvea uere, uiMjr uoiuk atriviajr cen sored at Pretoria. Commandant: Weilbach captured a man who reported that General White was wounded and had gone to Pieter m&ritzburcr. leaviner General French in command. This, however, does not tallv with the Transvaal's infor mation. The prisoner also reported that the British forces were hiding in underground chambers, in order to avoid the shells, and said there were about one thousand wounded in the hospitals. General Joubert had been indisixsed. but is better. Heavv fiehtiner occurred between the i Orange Free State troops and the British south of Ladysmith during the morning of Tuesday, November 14th. The result is not known. Boers Repulsed. London, November 19. A dispatch from Pietermantzbure. aatea atur- dav. November 18th. savs "A runner brines a message frOm Ladysmith saying that on November 9th the Boers attacked mat town irom the f southwest but were repulsed by the Roval Rifles and Rifle brigade with sreat loss. On November 14th the Rnera made an attack near Colenso, but were repulsed with a loss of eight hundred. Fighting is proceeding at Estcourt" j ! The Last Attack on Estcourt. 'Estcourt. November 18. For sev eral days it has been known that the Boers have been creeping toward Est ennrt. and had boasted that they -. . ... mi would be in here tnis morning, xney At Bavnort. eighteen miles west of Brocksville, Fla., Joe Goethe, a hotel keeper, killed SamFrir k, a prominent citizen, it is reported as an act oi justifiable homicide by citizens. Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa has resigned and his resignation has been accepted for the United States, one of the tnree parties to me cenin treaty, by the president. APaterson dispatch says: The most intimate friends of Vice President Hobart admit that the improvement observed a few days ago has disap-i peared and that he is growingweaker.j Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska and Miss Lola Purman,! daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Pur man of Washington, were marnea yesterday at the residence otb bride's parents. ; ( I The Macon Conference of the Afri can Methodist .episcopal cnurcn; adopted a resolution endorsing the speech of Bishop H. M. Turner con cerning the Hard wick bill now before the Georgia Legislature which is in tended to disfranchise the negroes. Frank Morse and Warren Goodwin, arrested in Murray county, Ga., upon the charge of counterfeiting. The men ' have been" bound oyer and placed in aiL A large number Of i dollars and fractional coins and a com plete set of implements were alsOj secured. The Secretary of the Treasury under, the authority contained in Section 3005 of the Revised Statutes, has de signated Newport News, Va., Swan- ton, Vermont ana an isiego, vaia., places at which goods may be forward ed in transit through the United States to and from Canada. 1 The Atlantic Coast Line will put in service to-night a quicker schedule on their Florida and West Indian limited train, and on January 16th next they will run on this train a sleeping car throueh to Palm Beach and Miami, On the same date they will put in ser vice their , Hew x one ana r ionaa special train. General Andrew D. Cowles died yesterday at Statesville, N. C. He was postmaster oi nis town unaer Harrison's administration ; was a Mc- were met unoni their arrival with a recention that thev little expected. . . ., ,,.1 T 11.. t-v..li: At exactly iu o ciock. vub xuuuu ui- , in x 896 adiustant een- leers took up their position , an Iwith- SSraVKt out wasting any time opened fire by Snftnih.Ameri war and captain of Sale of Steamer Daggett Capt Herbert Ward has sold his two-third interest in the river steamer W. T. Daggett, of 35 tons, to Capt Ellis Sherman, of Point Caswell, the consideration being $350 for this in terest. Capt Sherman had previously purchased the other, third interest in the boat from Mr. B. L. Malnass, also of Point Caswell, and he is itbw the sole owner. The bill of sale of Capt Ward's interest and a mortgage to Capt Ward to secure payment have been filed at the Custom House. The numerous friends in Wil mington of Mr. NorwooAGiles.will re gret much to know that yesterday there was no change in his condition for the better. Mr. Clayton Giles, his brother, is at his bedside in New York. vnllavs at lone range on the advanc ing! enemy, who were crossing the railway from the northwest of the tnwn. A loud renort and a whizzing head told i the tale of the blue jackets' watchfulness. A big puff of mnlrn indicated that their aim was good, the shell i bursting in the miast of the Boers, several of whose horses were observed galloping about rider less. The Boers doubled back, helter- On advantageous points of the sur- roundinc hills, the Boers guns' were posted, getting ! ready to cover tne advance of their firing line. Their astonishment must have been great, as tliAT snnedilv i retired. One snot ..nct tVinm tn withdraw out Of sight. They evidently did not dream that the Rritish had a fonir ranee gun here as they were pressing on with the utmost nrtnfidence. exDectingto be in Estcourt within fifteen minutes after crossing the railway, au w quien uuw. L , Killed a Kaflfr Woman. tttwwwrt.icv. November 18. The Boers bombarded Kimberley again at 5.15 o'clock this morning, shelling the town briskly until 6.15 A. M., oneof thelvolunteer companies enlisted for that war in North Carolina. - U. S. CRUISER CHARLESTON. An Eifort Will be Made to Float the Stranded Warship. By Telegraph to the Morning Star. Washington, Nov. 16. The Cul geoa started to day from Hong Kong for the wreck of the-cruiser Charleston. If she can manage to approach the, wreck and lift off the big turret guns it is believed that the Charleston can be floated. The main source of anxiety is the weather, which at this time is likely to be stormy. COUCH SYRUP Cures Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives quick, sure results. 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The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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