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IT WOULD FAIL.
, The probabilities are that the ship
subsidy schemers, one of whom is
Hon. Mark Hanna, Mr. McKinley's
right bower, will have influence over
. this Congress to secure the passage
of the ship subsidy bill, for which
Senator Hanna and Congressman
Payne stand sponsors. But if they
do what assurance have the people
of this country who will be taxed to
pay the subsidies that the scheme
will not fail, and that all the mil
lions they pay in Subsidies will not
be that much thrown away? Possi
bly, and . probably, notwithstanding
the objection there might be by
many, as a matter of principle, to
paying subsidies for the benefit of
private enterprises, the people
might look with some favor on this
scheme, the alleged purpose of
which is to encourage and foster
an American merchant marine,
for there are few Americans
who would not hail with de
light the restoration of . our
marine, of which, this country was
once justly proud. But they would
like to havo. some assurance
that after having paid out millions
in subsidies they would have -a mer
chant marine which would stay on
the water and be able to take care of
itself after the coddling had come to
an end. They have no such assu
rance and the subsidy-grabbers can't
give it to them. t
That the revival of our merchant
marine is not expected to come soon,
even with the proposed subsidies, is
shown by the fact that the subsidy
system is to run through twenty
years, in which time the ..grabbers
will have absorbed $180,000,000 of
the people's money, wljenhey will
doubtless ask for an extension of
time and of the subsidies to protect
the "infant" marine, as the pro
tected manufacturers have after a
generation of protection insisted
upon more and a higher rate of pro
tection to protect the "infant in
duatries."
, If it be necessary to pay subsidies
to American ships for twenty years
to enable their owners to run them
without loss, how are they going to
run them after the twenty years ex-
pire? Are they going , to run them
at a loss then, or will they continue
to run them without the help of
- subsidies? If they can do that then
why cant they do it now? As it
seems to be merely a matter of
wages, the cost of labor of Euro
pean sailors being less than that of
Americans, the natural inference is
that if our ship owners are to be
able to get along without subsidies
after twenty years European wages
will be higher or American wages
lower, neither of which may be the
case. If subsidies are at all neces
sary they will be as necasary twenty
years hence as they are now and
will continue to be necessary, for
practically the same conditions will
prevail and: our ship owners will
have the same things to contend
against then that they have now and
more of them.
They have not to compete with
one or two nations only but with all
the maritime nations of the world,
so that (he subsidies to be given
must not only offset the differ
ence in the cost of operating between
this country and one or two of the
principal competitors, but the differ
ence between this country and the
lowest of the competing nations.
There is a difference in the cost of
operating between European na
tions, the differences between some
of these being even greater than the
difference between the leading ones
of those and the United States and
the trouble is that some of those
cheap operating nations are becom
ing formidable maritime powers as
far as their merchantmen are ,con
cerned, and it ia these that in all
probability will eventually be our
most formidable rivals in the ocean
carrying business, because depend'
ing mainly on that for their profi-
table investments they will center
their energies upon it.
England which pays her seafar
ing men less wages than we do ours
has a growing . competitor in Ger
many which pays less than she does
and in .Norway which pays less than
either, and our merchant marine
will haye to compete not only with
England's marine but also with that
VOL. XXXI.
of Germany and Norway on the
European, side, not to speak of
others, and with that of Japan, on
the Asiatic side.
Will these nations be less able to
compete twenty years hence than
they are now? Isn't it, on the con
trary, more reasonable to suppose
that they eill be better able to com
pete? They will at all events be as
well able so that if subsidies be
necessary to enable our ship owners
to run ships in .competition with
them now, it will be quite as neces
sary ten, twenty or thirty years from
now, - so that to accomplish its al-
ledged purpose it will be necessary
to continue the subsidy business as
the tariff business has been continu
ed and to make it indefinite or per
petual. S How will the American people
gain by that? It will simply amount
to this, that instead of paying high
rates for our service which the sub
sidy advocates say it would now be
necessary to charge to overcome the
difference in the cost of operating
on the seas, they would be paying
money in the form of subsidies in
stead of freight rates, and a good
deal more than the freight rates
would cost, and then they wouldn't
have a self-sustaining merchant ma
rine. The money goes out of their
pockets all the same, so what would
the difference be whether they paid
it as freight or as subsidy? As far
as the people are concerned, they
had better take their chances on get
ting a merchant marine in the
straight, business-like way, for the
subsidy scheme is nothing more nor
less tnan a swindle under pre
tence of restoring the American mer
chant marine which it will never
restore.
FIVE THINGS THAT IT WILL DO-
The Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Cumberland county has
issued a ringing address to the white
men of that county on the constitu
tional amendment. - In conclusion
it thus tersely sums up what will be
gained by the adoption of the amend
ment:
"1. Rule of white men by eliminat
ing the great body of ignorant negroes.
z. it will insure decent and eco
nomical government of cities, counties
and toe State.
'3. It wiil stimulate education.
'3. It wilrinsure every white' man
a life time right to vote whether he
can read or write or not if he will
register by 1908.
'5 It will insure peaceful elections.
free from race antagonisms."
Any one of these should be suffi
cient reason why every white voter
in the State should support the
amendment, hut the five combined
make an irresistible appeal for such
support. But there is a reason in
the .fifth result which should appeal
not only to every white man who de
sires the peace, prosperity and hap
piness of the State, but to every in
telligent, sensible, right-thinking
colored man who desires the peace,
prosperity and happiness of the State
and the prosperity and happiness of
bis own race. There is not one of
them who is not aware of the fact
that politics is mainly at the bottom
of the antagonism between the
races and of the strife that results
from that antagonism. TJnfortu
nately the large majority of the ne
groes permit themselves to be led by
designing men who are seeking their
own interests and array those ne
groes against the better element
of the white . people, regardless of
the.issues that may be involved aud
hence the antagonism. They know,
als, 'that the better element of
white people are not going to sur
render to this combination of selfish
ness and ignorance, and hence the
antagonism and strife will continue
as long as the ignorant element of
negroes under such leadership re
mains in the field to keep it up.
The only way to put an end to it
and to open the way for harmony
between the races is by removing
this cause of friction. The negro
could not be the loser by retiring
from the political field for he most
certainly .has not been the gainer by
remaining in it, where he has simply
played the part of tool to work the
schemes of designing negroes, and
often of less respectable white .men.
x resh water from the ocean is
one of the novelties that Atlantic
City will soon display. One of her
citizens'ia sinking an artesian well
under one of the piers. At a depth
of 740 feet, which has been reached,
the water in the well is found to be
influenced by the rise and' fall of
the tide, rising and lowering with it
about two feet. It is proposed to
go to a depth of 1,000 feet, when
an abundant flow of pure water is
expeeted.
Senator McMillan, of Michigan,
proposes to boycott Canada trade be
cause Canada refuses to let Michigan
lumber men go there, buy logs and
take them into Michigan to be cut
up into lumber. But as we sell Can
ada about two and a half times as
much as we buy from her, it doesn't
look as if this boycott, in the inter
est of the Michigan wood-sawyers.
would pan out just right.
THE PRIM AMES POPULAR.
Several days ago we called atten
tion to the action of the Democratic
committee of Mecklenburg county
inrecommending the adoption of
the primary system for that county,
and made such comment as the ' ac
tion suggested. Wherever this plan
has been proposed it has met
with favor from the Democratic
press and the people, as it should,
for it is thoroughly Democratic. " In
commending it the Raleigh Post of
yesterday says:
"Every county should adopt the
primary method of selecting delegates
and making nominations. It was
tried in a large number of counties
in 1898, and in every county so man
aged tne Democracy won by a large
ly increased vote. vThe people real
ized that they' had had a fair show to
not only 'attend' a meeting, but by
their vote express their choice and
abided the result."
It is apparent at first sight why
this plan should be popular and why
it give's the party more strength. It
brings the people in not only as
voters but directly as the makers of
the tickets for which they vote,
every voter having a voice directly
in naming the men who go upon the
tickets to be voted for at the elec
tions. This being the case of course
they take morje interest in the elec
tion, feel that it is a sort of personal
matter andjwork the harder and
more zealoitsly for suceess. There
is less cause for dissatisfaction
je-
cause less opportunity for the
isap-
pointed or their friends to say that
they were the victims ofwire ma
nipulators or of jobs put up before
the conventions met.
The ' more people interested m
an election the better, . tne larger
the vote, and the way to add to
the interest ia to get people to
gether and interested from the start,
and to make them feel that the
tickets they are asked to vote for
are their choice and not the out
come of luck or of cunning manipu
lation of conventions.
Rev. Wm. Burton, whose church
is near Kingston, Ky., thinks the
w'omen of his congregation just too
perverse for anything, xney re
fused to stop wearing corsets and
playing progressive euchre, and he
has therefore given up the task of
looking after their souls. His resig
nation was accepted without condi
tions.
The latest invention reported from
France is artificial cocoon and floss,
which is so much like the real thing
that the silk worm will have to re
tire from business. It is said that
the inventor who has a littler fac
tory Jias orders from the silk weavers
for more of it than hiaestablish
ment can supply, and he must en
large, w
A simple minded Philadelphia man
recently paid. $1,710 for an old 2-cent
stamp when he could have bought
85,500 brand new ones for that, kept
them for a hundred years or so and
had enough to supply several neigh
borhoods.
Of the 100,000,000 cotton spindles
in the world only 15,000,000 are in
the United states, and 5,000,000 of
these are in the South. But the
time will come when the majority of
the world's spindles will be in the
South. '
The beet sugar makers of Germany
have combined to beat their custom
ers out of some more cash. Three
hundred and sixty out of the four
hundred sugar factories in that
country have pooled their issues and
formed trust.
One of the attractions at the Paris
Exposition will be an artificial Ve
suvius in lull blast. If they could
form a combination with Sarah Bern
hardt in one of her tantrums this
would be a real warm attraction.
Chicago has just trotted out an
other great financier. He failed
with liabilities amounting to $5,-
464,917 and not one red cent of
assets. When he was punctured the
collapse was complete and instan
taneous. ,
Mr. John Morley, M. P., said in a
speech in London a few days ago
that the Transvaal war was "only a
gold hunters' conspiracy," and that
England was duped into it. Mr.
Morely sized it up about right.
Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily,-
has sent her latest, but presumably,
not her last husband to fight the
Boers, . and she will come to this:
country to stage it and bore the
Americans.
It cost the Government $3,442 to
bury the late Senator Morrill. It
cauld pay a good deal more than
that to bury some of those that are
living, and it would be money well
spent. ! '
Andrew Carnegie says that pov
erty is necessary in the world. He
would doubtless find a good many
people who would agree with him
that it is necessary for other folks.
Weekly
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, WOO.
CAROLINA CREOSOTE
AND OIL WORKS.
Plant Sold Yesterday to Mr. L. Hansen.
-Purchaser to Start Up a Wood Dis
tilling and Refining Business.
Mr. L. Hansen has become the pur
chaser of the .Carolina Creosote and
Oil Works, near the foot of Dawson
street between Front and Surry
streets. The sale was completed yes
terday by the filing of a deed trans
ferring the property from Mr. J. M.
Bunting, of this city,, to Mr. Hansen.
Mr. Bunting recently purchased the
plant from John J. McCook, Esq., of
New York, acting as trustee for the
Baltimore Trust Company, and attor
ney for the Hon. Warner Miller,
of
New York, who owned most of tb
stock in the company. Mr. Bun
paid $3,810 for the property an
the
purchase price named in the deed
to
Mr. Hansen is $4,500.
The purchase of Mr. Hansen includes
the parcel of land whereon the works
stand, all buildingsretorts, conden
sers, oil tanks, tubscreosoting cylin
ders, boilers, pumps, tools, derricks,
and all other machinery, appliances
and apparatus, oil, timber, lumber,
etc. y
Mr. Hansen will add extensively to
the plant by putting in new conden
sing machinery for general .wood dis
tilling and refining. The plant will be
tilized for manufacturing the various
products from pine wood. Work will
be commenced by Mr. Hansen on
Monday and he expects to do an ex
tensive business, employing many
hands.
- In speaking of the industry yester
day, Mr. Hansen said to a Stab repre
sentative: "The liquids and products
from pine wood are now used for a
great variety of purposes. After
twenty years of experience in the busi
ness, I consider pine wood distilling as
yet in its infancy. New uses for the
products are dicovered everyyear.
The time is near at hand when spirits
turpentine equal to the regularly disx
tilled article will be made direct from
pine wood. It is an industry that
originated here and its headquarters
will be kept here and surely benefit
Wilmington and the surrounding
country. The industry will soon play
an important part in the development
of the pitch pine regions of the South."
The products from7' the pitch pine
are legion, but the specialties manu
factured by Mr. Hansen are wood tur
pentine, spirittine balsam, spirittine in
halent, tar oils of several kinds, tar,
pitch, pyroligneous acid, disinfectant
liquids, , and pine rubber gum. Mr.
Hansen has for several years operated
a pine product manufactory at Mai mo,
a few miles west of this city, and
besides the medicinal specialties which
he has been manufacturing, he has
supplied large quantities of material to
manufacturers of - smokeless gun
powder and pine rubber gum to rub
ber manufactories. It has been known
for some time that an elastic gum
similar to indiarubber is one of the
products of pitch pine, and Mr.
Hansen, who is a chemist of many
years' experience, has a process of his
own for producing a substitute for
indiarubber. Yesterday he showed
a Stab , reporter a quantity of
pine rubber, which would readily
be taken for the genuine rubber gum.
A number of indiarubber manufac
turers are now combining pine rubber
with the genuine article in various
manufactures made of rubber. Tests
have shown that pine rubber will re
sist heat as well as ordit ary indiarub
ber. It has superior elastic quality,
will not crack and is said to possess
high electrical insulating qualities.
When mixed with other it gradients it
can ba used for cable wire coatings
and other forms of electrical insula
tors for wheel tires, etc.
THE TRUCKERS IN SESSION.
The Board of Directors of the Association
Met Yesterday Lower Rates.
The executive committee of the East
Carolina Truck and Fruit Growers'
Association met last night in the
rooms of the Wilmington Merchants'
Association . There were in atte idance
President W. L. , Hill, of Warsaw;
Secretary S. H. Strange, of Fayette
ville, and Messrs. W. E. Springer, of
this city; J. S. Westbrook, of Faison;
J. A. Westbrook, of Mt. Olive; 11. J.
Aaron, of Mt. Olive; A. J. Coultas, of
Chadbourn; J. H. Baughman, of
Grist; D. W. Fussell, of Rose Hill, B.
F. Fussell, of Teachy, and Dr. George
F. Lucas, of Currie.
The board was in session from 7 P.
M. till 1130 P. M., going over the
routine work of the association, mak
ing shipping arrangements for the ap
proaching berry season, and hearing
the report of the association's attorney
ex Judge W. R. Allen, of Goldsboro,
as to the status of claims against the
transportation companies for miscar
ried or damaged shipments. :
A conference was had with the au
thorities of the Atlantic Coast Line,
and a reasonable reduction of the vege
table tariff was secured. .The rates
are satisfactory to the truckers ex
cept in one or two particulars.
President Hill says the railroad peo
ple met the board in a spirit which
showed that they were anxious to do
all they could in the interest of the'
truckers. He says the strawberry
plants are in good condition and the
outlook is for a crop as large and
probably larger than that of last year,
when the shipments were some 300,
000 crates.
The government warehouse
and enclosures at foot of Princess
street are nearing completion. The
roof was being painted yesterday.
WENT TRUE TO THE MARK.
ucub yuvcr n uocacry jr , tuns a ruipiao
and Causes Two to Drop Their
Gobs and Flee.
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Lieut. Oliver H. Dockery, Jr., son
of the Hon. Oliver EL Dockery, of
Richmond county, N, C, is now with
the United States army in the Philip
pines. It seems that he is distinguish
ing himself, judging from the follow
ing from the Manila Freedom, of De
cember 19th, a copy of which Jno. H.
Gore, Esq., of this city, furnishes to
the Stab:
"Lieutenant Dockery, with a de
tachment of the Third infantry, com
ing from Subig en route to Manila on
the steamer Macpan, reached Mari
veles, opposite Corregidor Island, at
2 o'clock Sunday afternoon and found
at that point 100 insurgents in posses
sion of the town. The gallant lieu
tenant landed with a small party on
the south side of the town and suc
ceeded in driving the enemy out, killing-one
and wounding many more.
He released two English sailors at
San Matcelino Salvo and a number of
Spanish prisoners.
"The rout of the insurgents at
Mariveles was complete. When the
lieutenant was leading the advance
force while marching upon the
enemy's position, three armed insur
gents came running down the road
The lieutenant stepped aside from off
the dyke upon which, he was walking
and shot one man dead. The other
two dropped their guns and fled,
warning the- garrison of the approach
of an armed force of Americans. Be
fore the party could reach the enemy,
they had picked up their traps and lit
out for more comfortable territory."
THE COAST LINE CHUTE.
First Steamship Coaled Yesterday After
noon Norwegian Steamship Skald
Took on 380 Tons of Coal.
The Atlantic Coast Line coal chute,
recently completed, coaled its first
vessel yesterday afternoon. The ship
was the Norweigan steamer Skuld
which took on a cargo of 300 tons of
Pocahontas coal. It required only
eight hours to do the work, but after
everything gets to working smoothly
a vessel can be coaled in much less
time.
The chute is 90 feet high. A big
iron bucket, which carries up a ton at
a time, hoists the coal from the pit on
the wharf, into which it is flss un
loaded from a train of coal cars, and
when the bucket is carried by a cable
to the top of the chute it automati
cally dumps into a car which runs out
and also automatically dumps into the
weighing hopper, where the weight is
registered and the , coal then chuted
into the vessel from the height above.
TAXATION IN CITIES AND TOWNS.
Rate Is Higher in Wilmington Than at Any
Place in the State.
Raleigh Post.
The rate of taxation per $100 for
1899, in the various towns and coun
ties in the State have been compiled
by Mr. Henry Clay Brown, the effi
cient secretary to the Corporation
Commission.
There is quite a variance in the tax
ation rates in the different cities as
welt as in the counties, and the figures
make an interesting study.
While reports have not been re
ceived from all cities and counties,
the returns are very nearly complete,
and enables satisfactory comparisons.
Wilmington leads all cities in the
State in the rate of taxation, the
amount beir g $1.75 per $100. Greens
boro and Statesville come next with
tax rates of $1 30. and Raleigh is third
with a rate of $1 23 1 3 The tax rate
in Charlotte is only $1.00, and it is the
same in Fayetteville.
In other places the tax rate is as
follows : Henderson and Concord 90,
Salisbury 85, Monroe 80, Elizabeth
City 75, Newborn 72i, Warrenton 65,
Goldsboro, Greenville and : Rocky
Mount 60, Wilson 33 1 3, Wake Forest
25, Pittsboro 10. High Point 66 2 3.
SENATOR JNO. W. DANIEL.
Will Speak in Opposition tb the Pritchard
' Resolution.
Special to Richmond Dispatch.
Washington, D. C, January 25.
Senator John W. Daniel will address
the Senate in opposition to the Pritch
ard resolution regarding the proposed
suffrage amendment in North Caro
lina. The request that he should do
so, I understand, comes from the
Democrats of North Carolina. t
Senator Daniel is well equipped and
qualified to answer Senator Pritchard's
criticisms of the people of the South.
He has given the question of negro
suffrage close study, and made obser
vations which will stand him in good
stead when he speaks in defence of
the people of the South for having
eliminated the illiterate negro from
politics. He has not yet announced
when he will deliver his address.
Standard Square Bales.
The British steamer Chatbum, Capt.
Wood, which has made repeated voy
ages to and from Wilmington, was
cleared yesterday by Messrs, Alexan
der Sprunt & Son, for Bremen, Ger
many, with 6,725 bales cotton, weigh
ing 3,293,533 - pounds1 and valued at
$356,000. She carries about 700 bales
more than she has ever done before,
which is attributable to the uniformity
of the bales 24x54 standard and to
superior handling by the Champion
Compress Company.
With the departure of the Chatburn
there is now not a tramp steamer in
port for a cargo -of cotton. One or
more is expected, however, within a
very few days.
Elbert R. Partridge Dead.
Mr. Elbert R. Partridge, of Jones
boro, N. C, who is well remembered
by old residents of Wilmington and
Fayetteville, died at his home yester
day, morning about 11 o'clock at the
advanced age of 88 years. A corres
pondent writing from Jonesboro yes
terday says, that he was connected
with the steamboat business here be
fore the war with Mr. J. D. Williams.
TAR.
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE
ai iTMNi As:nriATinM
luuu.uiiivni
It Was Entertaiaed at Dinner Last Even,
lag at Tbe Ortoo by Dr. Blackwell.
Several Brilliant Toasts.
TheR?v. Calvin S. Blackwell, D.D.,
pastor of the First Baptist Church, en
tertained the alumni and former stu
dents of Wake Forest College last
evening at The Orton.
The dinner began at 6 o'clock and
was ia progress till 9 o'clock. The fol
lowing was the menu, which was
served delightfully .and in the very
best style under the supervision of
Mr. J. H. Hinton, The Orton's popu
lar steward :
Lynnhaven Bay oysters, on half shell.
Celery. Olives.
Broiled Shad, Butter Sauce.
Sliced Tomatoes. Potato Chips.
Tenderloin Steak. Quail on Toast.
Asparagus. Fresn friecTPotatoes.
Lemon Jelly
Oake. Fruits.
Cigars.
Dr. Blackwell, presided at the head
of the table, and the honored
guests were Mr. J. W. Bailey, of
Raleigh, editor of the . Biblical Re
corder, the Rev. John E. " White of
Raleigh, secretary of the Baptist State
Board of Missions, both alumni of
Wake Forest, and Mr. D. L. Gore, of
this city,, one of the trustees of the
college. The following gentlemen,
who are alumni, were present: Rev.
J. J. Payseur, pastor of Brooklyn
Baptist Church, Rev. R. H. Herring,
pastor of Southside Baptist Church,
and Messrs. John H. Gore, Jr., C. E.
Taylor, Jr., W. H. Peterson, J. W.
Norwood, Ceburn D. Weeks, Need
ham P. Mangum, John M. Brewer, Jr.,
Claude Gore, R. W. Haywood, 3. H.
Burtt, and E. A. Farriss.
Dr. Blackwell welcomed his guests
in a felicitous manner, and introduced
the following who responded to toasts:
Kev. John E. White "The alumni
and students of Wake Forest, in busi
ness and in the professions."
Ceburn D. Weeks, Esq. '.'Limbs of
the Law solid to the heart cut from
Wake Forest."
John H. Gore, Esq. "Our Alma
Mater, once a year 'lest we forget,
lest we forget.' "
Mr. J. W. Bailey, editor of the Bib
lical Recorder, the guest of honor
"Wake Forest's beautiful sister, the
Baptist Female University."
The responses were very happy, and
the brilliance of thought and the depth
and breadth of the reasoning of the
speakers reflected great credit upon
Wake Forest as a trainer of minds.
Though some of the speakers had only
a few days' notice indeed, some only
one day the speeches were well
rounded, finished and eloquent. The
appreciation was marked and the ap
plause was very hearty. In addition
to the responses, remarks were made
by all present, including a talk by Mr.
D. L. Gore.
On motion, it was decided to main
tain a permanent organization of the
alumni resident in Wilmington, and
to have an annual dinner to bring them
together. The following committee
was appointed to make arrangements
for the dinner next year: Rev. J. J.
Payseur, John H. Gore, Esq., and
Ceburn D. Weeks, Esq.
THE SMALLPOX SITUATION.
Nothing to Encourage Fear of an Epidemic.
Many Were Vaccinated Yesterday.
NolNew Cases.
. All the smallpox patients had a quiet
day at the pest house yesterday and
were not disturbed by any recruits to
their ranks, neither did those confined
for precaution's sake develop any
symptoms of the disease. Dr. Mc
Millan thinks he now has the disease
well in bounds and with a more gen
eral vaccination, which is sure to
follow, the possibility of an epidemic
is reduced to a minimum. Several
visits were made to the pest house
and the victims are reported on tbe
road to recovery. '
There was more of a demand for
free vaccination at the Health office
yesterday and family physicians re
ported a busy day. Dr. Richard J.
Price drove down to Masonboro yes
terday morning and made a vaccina
tion tour oyer an area of about six
miles in the vicinity of the negro's
house from which the patient wa3
taken Friday afternoon. He vacci
nated in all about fifty persons and
will go down again this morning to
look after others who may desire the
preventative. Dr. Lippitt made an
inspection of several negro quarters
in different sections of the city yester-
' day, but discovered no new cases.
Death of Mrs. Abner Robinson.
The sad information of the death of
Mrs. Lizzie Garrison Robinson, wife
of 'Captain Abner Robinson; of Pen
der county, was received in the city
yesterday. She passed away at her home
near iong Creek at 5 o'clock Wednes
day morning, and the funeral took
place yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Mr Robinson was a Miss Blount,
of Washington, N. C, and was in her
seventies. She leaves an aged hus
band but no children. The deceased
was a highly cultured lady and ex
emplary Christian, and leaves many
warm friends in Wilmington who
will be exceedingly sorrowful over her
death. Her home was one of refine
ment and her graceful and generous
hospitality were widely known.
The tug Protector with the
barges Carrie L. Tyler and Maria
Dolores in tow cleared yesterday for
Charleston, S. C. While in the vicinity
of Beaufort Thursday she lost a barge,
which she had in tow also for Charles
ton, but proceeded with two othe
NQ. 15
FIRST WEEK'S WORK
OF THE SUPERIOR COURT.
I Finished at 2 O'clock Yesterday Several
Trivial Cases Disposed of and Recess
Taken Until Monday Morning.
The Superior Court adjourned at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon for the
week. No cases of special--interest
were heard, and the session upon the
whole was a dull one.
, The following were the matters dis
posed of;
Prince Davis vs. Lucilla Davis ; judg
ment for non-suit in absence of plain
tiff to prosecute. Bellamy & Bellamy
appeared for plaintiff, and Bellamy &
Peschau and Geo. H. Howell, Esq., for
defendant. j
- James Beasley vs. James Wilson;
judgment for non-suit in absence of
plaintiff to prosecute. On motion of
Bellamy & Bellamy, counsel for the
defendant, it was adjudged that plain
tiff recover nothing and that the de
feadanVgo without and recover from
the plaintiff the cost of the action, to
be taxed by the clerk of the court.
Tony Waters vs. Georgia Waters;
judgment for non-suit in absence of
plaintiff to prosecute. On motion of
counsel for the defendant, Bellamy &
Bellamy, it was adjudged that plain
tiff recover nothing and pay costs.
H. A. Burr vs. T. Frank Simmons;
verdict for defendant.
Lloyd C. McKoy vs. Carolina Cen
tral Railroad Company; judgment for
plaintiff in sum of ;3.65.
Alice Ward vs J. J. Ward; judg
ment for divorce.
The court will be convened again on
to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, and
it is probable that the term will be
continued until one of the latter days
of the present week. Cases are calen
dared for every day during the week
until Friday, but there is a probability
that the business will be wound up
and an adjournment taken a day or
two sooner than that time.
The two cases against the Carolina
Central Railroad Company brought by
Lloyd C. McKoy, of Northwest, Bruns
wick county, will be taken up the first
thing Monday morning. It will be re
membered that these actions are
brought to recover from the defendant
railroad company $1,200 damage, said
to have been sustained by the plaintiff
by reason of forest fires started oa his
place by sparks from a locomotive.
The plaintiff is represented b Herbert
McClammy, Esq., and Rountree &
Carr. The railroad company has for
its attorney Iredell Meares, Esq. Other
cases calendared for Monday are S. H.
Fishblate vs. Wallestine, Klee & Co.,
and W. C. Craft vs. Mechanics' Home
Association, et al.
HANDSOME SILVER SERVICE
FOR MR. J. H. DAVIS.
It Was Presented to Him Yesterday by
tbe Men Who Have Worked Under
Him In the A. C. L. Shops.
Inviewofhe fact that . Mr. John
H. Davis, master car builder at the
Atlantic Coast Line shops, has ten
dered his resignation, the men in the
shops on yesterday presented Mr.
Davis with a very handsome silver ser
vice of seven pieces, including two
pitchers, goblets, waiter, etc. Mr.
Davis was agreeably taken by sur
prise at tnis maniiestation oi tne re
gard of the men who have worked un
der him so long, and fie values the
gift very highly and greatly appre
ciates the kind consideration of the
givers.
The men in the shops presented the
service to Mr. Davis as a mark of their
esteem and as a. token of the pleasant
associations that have existed between
them for the past twenty-five years.
The service is in the hands of a jewel
ler to be appropriately and handsomely
engraved. It will be formally pre
sented to morrow.
THE DELQAD0 MILL.
Tbe Spindles Have Been Humming Since
Wednesday Superior Quality Yarn
Produced Weaving to Start e
The Stab noted that on Monday
last the new" Delgado Mill "broke
cotton," having then started up the
pickers. Carding began on Tuesday,
and the spindles began to hum on
Wednesday. During the past week
the mill has consequently been crowded
with spectators, and this week others
will go to work, as the looms will be
sfartArl ii n. '5 I
It was first necessary to manufac
ture a supply of thread and the- spin
ning frames are now turning it off in a
lively fashion.
Yarn of superior quality is being
produced and an expert said yesterday
that of the many mills he had seen
started ud he had never, seen any do so
under better auspices than the Del
gado. j
Strawberry ProBpects Around Chadboorn.
Mr. Wm. Struthers spent a part of
last week at his truck farm near Grice
on the W., C. & A. railroad. He says
the prospects are for one of the largest
strawberry crops in several years. The
farmers are planing for a big acreage
and the indications are for a bountiful
yield. The new cold storage ware
house at Chadbourn is practically
completed and strawberry growers are
confident of a much better shipping
service than in former years.
Mr.-J. Bryan Russell left yes
terday morning via' Kansas City for
his cattle ranch at Quitaque, Texas,
after spending some time pleasantly
in the city, the guest of friends and
relatives. j
OF PORTO RICO.
Recommendations of the Senate Com.
mittee Providing a Porn of Gov
ernment for the Island.
Br Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Washington, January 27. The
Senate committee on Porto Rico has
decided, so far as it can decide, that
the island whose affairs it has under
its particular care, shall be known as
Porto Rico -and not Puerto Rico as
fixed by a recent executive order. The
question came up to-day in. the meet
ing of the committee in connection
with the Foraker bill, providing a
form of government for the island and
the decision upon the spelling of the .
name was unanimous.
The committee went over the bill in?
detail, deciding upon many changes
in phraseology and some altera
tions in the general provisions of
the measure. Probably one of the
most important changes was to
strike out i the word "constitution"
wherever it appeared in the original
print of the bill, which extended the
provisions of the constitution as well
as of the laws of the United States to
the island, i The change was made be
cause of the opinion generally ex
pressed by; the members of the com
mittee that our constitution is not
suited to the Porto Rican people. The
opinion was also quite general that
the extension of the constitution, was.
not necessary. Some of the Senators
expressed the opinion that the natives
of the island were not yet prepared
for jury trials. ' Another important
amendment provides for ?the re
tirement of Porto Rican coins
and substitutes for them the
coins of the United States. The secre -tary
oi the trt asury is authorized to
redeem the silver coin known as the
peso and all other silver and copper
Porto Rican coins now in circulation
at the present rate of sixty cents in the
money of the United States for one
peso, this rate to be applied in the ex
change- of other coins. 1 None but
United States coins are to be legal ten
der in Porto Rico for more than three
months after the passage of this act
Another provision gives optional
authority to the President to appoint
an officer of the army Governor of the
island. All laws enacted by the Porto
Rican Legislature are to be reported
to Congress, which- reserves the right
to annul, i -NE0R0
ARRESTED FOR RETAILING.
Gilbert Hotllns Charged With
Selling
Liquor Without License.
Gilbert Hollins, colored, who is well
known in Wilmington,' was arrested
on the wharf yesterday morning by
the United States Deputy Marshal on:
a charge of retailing liquor in
Brunswick bounty without license.
The evidence was furnished and the
warrant secured byDeputy Collector
C. M. Babbitt, upon the occasion of
his last visit here.
Hollins was taken before United
States Commissioner S. P. Collier and
I the hearing set for next Wednesday.
He gave bond for his appearance in
the sum of $200 justified and was dis
charged until the preliminary examin
ation. The negro lives in the vicinity
of Town Creek.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT TARB0R0.
Mrs.
Mark Denton Killed Her Son and
John Manning Injured.
By Telegraph to the Morning Btar.
Raleigh, January 26. A special to
the News and Observer from Tarboro,
N. C, says:
"This morning as the work train
was coming into the depot it struck
Sirs. Mark Denton, her young son and
John Manning, on the Norfolk and
Carolina bridge. Mrs. Denton was
killed instantly, but the others escaped
with terrible bruises. The child's con
dition late in the afternoon was very
serious. All the parties were on their
way to town and were caught by the
train on the bridge. Mrs. Denton has
a husband who lives on the Bate farm
near Tarboro." -
HINDUS AND MOHAMMEDANS.
Monster Meeting In Calcutta Express
Loyalty to the Throne.
By Cable to the Morning Star.
Calcutta, January 27. A monster
meeting of Hindus and Mohamme
dans in the town hall here today,
passed a resolution expressing un
swerving loyalty and attachment to
the throne and deciding to offer prayers
for the victory of the British in all
places of worship. The meeting also
subscribed 63,000 rupees toward the
Mansion House fund for the relief of
tbe "widows and families of the victims
of the South African war.
"Peace" Back Again.
"Peace" or "King of the Creoles,"
the negro or Indian fanatic who re
fused to vacate the lands of Mr. J. H.
Boat wright up the A. & Y. railroad
some time ago upon the rather odd
pretext that the land is still the prop
erty of his Indian fathers, and who
subsequently was compelled to do so
by Justice McGowanis said to have
moved with his followers back to the
city, having taken up his abode in the
negro quarters of "Brooklyn.
He has caused quite a stir in the ,
ranks of the uneducated colored church
people and is said to be daily add
ing to bis number of converts. The
better class of colored people gave him
a substantial warning 10 move nut
base of operations several months ago,
which he has regarded until now.
Justice of. the Peace Arrested.
Justice George W. Price, Jr., col
ored, was arraigned before Dr. W. W.
Harriss, Justice of the Peace, yesterday-afternoon
at 5 jo'clock on a war
rant sworn out by John Martin, also
colored, charging him with embezzle
ment The case was continuied until
10 o'clock to-morrow morning. Mar
tin alleges in the -warrant that an
amount of furniture and household
goods was entrusted to Price to sell
upon commission of ten per cent The
I goods were disposed of and it is alleged
I that Justice Price refused to make the
proper returns for the same.
For the School Fund.
Justicei Fowler yesterday Pid OTer
to County Treasurer Green $25 for the
I -school fund, the same being the amount
I 0; flne collected from the white man,
John Ludwig, a laborer at a saw, mill
near Faison, N. C, who came to the
city a few Sundays since, entered by
mistake the residence of a gentleman
- in the city and addressed unbecoming
remarks to his wife, a reference to the
case having been made in the Stab at
the time, -.