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GENERAL WHEELER ON
THE
PHILIPPINES..
On his arrival at San Francisco
from Manila Gen. Wheeler was in
terviewed on the situation ahdis
thus reported :
"I biliov the-people are ready for a
certaiu kind of self government They
could be given the- power to make
laws uodr suco a system of govern
ment as bus been adopted for our ter
ritories Tne municipal governments
'are all in the bauds of the nat'vrs,
and thy pt along; without trouble or
friction. U .der a territorial form the
islands could be best controlled.
. "England, Rjssia, Germany and
Franco have braved war and pestilence
in efforts to secure a share of the
wealth, which will come to them by
commercial relations with these peo
pie. Tun treaty of peace cast upon us
the responsibility of sovereignty oxer
from nine to eleven million people,
together with the islands, which the?
inhabit, containing1 an area three times
that of our great and prosperous em
pire Siale '
"Very naturally there may b.i honest
difference of opinion as to whether
everything has been conducted during
the two years in accordance with the
best wisdom and most possible judg
ment, but there should b no question
among lha American people, as to trie
duty aud wivlon of now uniting in a
drtPrmned effort to tike the situation
as it stands, and to so cond-ict lh
affairs of our country as to bdd the
most to its glory, honor, welfare aud
prosperity.
Gen. Wheeler believes the people
of those islands are ready for a
"certain kind oi self government."
In this he differs" from-a good many
of the Republican expansionists, who
deny that they are fit for any kind
of self-government, and should
therefore be 'governed by military
satraps appointed by the Piesident
of the United States, as -provided
for in the bill of Senator Lodge,
which practically gives the President
absolute control over those islands
and their people. That they are fit
for a "certain kind of self-government,"
(to quote Gen. Wheeler) is
shown by the fact as stated by him,
i.U-4. I 1. I - I .
Luat i-ne muuicipai governments
are all in the hands of the natives
and they get along . without trouble
or, friction."
But it is shown by another fact,
which was ndt referred to by the
General, namely, that the only gov
ernment which the 10,000,000 of
people of those island have had since
the overthrow of the Spaniards, was
govorntnent by the Filipinos them
selves, whose authority was recog
nized by everybody but the soldiers
of the United States, who were fight
ing to overthrow thatgoverument.In
the government of. the islands they
seem to have gotten along "without
trouble or friction," juat as they do
intheir municipal governments. This
should be proof conclusive that tSiose
people'are fit for "a certain kind of
self-goyernment" and a very reapec
table kind, too. They may not be
up to all the kinks of government
according to the American fashion,
but if they are able to conduct a
government tnat maintains peace
and order and makes life and pro
perty and liberty safe, we ought to
be satisfied if they are, for it is the
xnipanoo who are to be governed
ftnrl Tint na
if they are now fit for "a certain
kind of government," when did tbey
become so? .Has Gen: Otis, while
sending, his men out to chaso them
and burn their towns and lay wa3te
their homes, been also giving them
instruction in the art of self-govern
ment? We are told by Gen. Ander
son that the r llipino Congress which
jjnet to adopt a constitution and es-
- tablish a Republic was a remark
ably intelligent body of men and one
that would compare favorably with
any like assembly anywhere. There
are some sixty different tribes of peo
pie in the Philippines, and yet they
' all recognized some . common au
thority and made common cause, in
sentiment at least, against the Ameri-
cans, as they did against Spain and
"got along without any trouble
or friction." 'If they didn't
know anything about self-govern-
' ment these islands would have been
a pandemonium, for outside of Luzon
the authority of the United States'
didn't amount to a cipherand there
only as far as the guns of the sol
diers could reach. Outside of the
narrow belt on the coast where our
soldiers operated the whole island
was under the government of the
Filipinos, and the people gave their
allegiance to that' government. In
the light of all that has happened
since the Spaniards took their forced
VOL. XXXI.
leave of the islands there is not the
slightest doubt that the people are
fit for a certain kind of self-government,
'and, as we have remarked, a
very respectable, kind, too a better
kind, probably, than we will be able
to give them for some time to come,
after our prolonged , attempts to
shoot them into a frame of mind to
study and follow our methods.
The General thinks it is quite
natural that people should have
honest differences of opinion as to the
wisdom of the methods pursued by
this Government and its military
representatives in the Philippines
but that whatever these differences
may be we should be united in seek
ing the "glory, honor, welfare and
prosperity" of our country. He is
is right in that,' but in this there
are differences of opinion for there-1
are millions of honest, thoroughbred
Americans who do not believe that
robbing the Filipinos of their xsoun-
try and appropriating it to ,ur use
or benefit is the way to promote the
"glory and honor" of this country,
but on the contrary the way to cover
it with disgrace and shame. We
should by all honest and legitimate
means seek theWelfare and pros
perity of our country, but we have
no light to seek to promote these
by robbing another people of their
heritage. especially after those
people had confided in us and made
issue with us-agaiD8t a common
enemy. We have no more right to
do do that than a man would have
to promote his own welfare and
prosperity by robbing his confiding
neighbor over whom he had gained
influence and power by delusive
promises. Welfare and prosperity
are desirable, but they should come
an honest, honorable way, and
not by the methods of the highway
man or pirate. Might doesnot
make right whatever, the pretences
may be, and successful plunder ;4oes
not' establish the right nor make
the wrong any less detestable or in
famous. The commercial argument
applies only to the sordid-souled; the
honest man spurns it as it should be
purned by the man who holds honor
above pelf.
PRIT CHARD'S CHEEK.
Audacity of utterance is one of
the characteristics of the average
Republican stumper. Senator Pritch
ard possesses this characteristic fully
developed. It is the leading feature
of his speeches in the Senate and on
the stamp, where he gives, it even
fuller play than he does in the Sen
ate, doubtless for the reason- that
there is generally no one to reply to
him and he doesn't fear being called
to taw. The following extract from
his speech at' Newton is a sample of
his trifling with the verities and of
his colossal cheek:
"Under the last Republican adminis
tration, no county in North Carolina
was under negro rule."
Did Mr. Pritchard imagine that
he could fool an average intelligent
audience with such a barefaced as
sertion' and such arrant rot as this?
If there wasn't a county in North
Carolina under negro rule what was1
all that racket about in 1898? Do
the people of North Carolina per
mit themselves to become excited
over nothing, and work like fire
men fighting a conflagration to free
themselves from something that did
not exist? What did all those negro
commissioners, school committee
men, magistrates, constables' and
town commissioners in so many
counties in Eastern North Carolina
mean?: They "didn't have- them in
Western counties, for the white
people out there wouldn't stand it,
but the people of the Eastern coun
ties, where tha negroes are name
rous, knew that they did have
negro rule, for they saw it and felt
it every day they lived until their
white brethren of other parts of the
State flew to their rescue and the
redemption came in 1898.
It is to prevent the possibility of
a return of this state of affairs in
Eastern North Carolina that the
constitutional amendment has been
submitted to the people and this is
why Pritchard and his gang, who
are dependent upon negro votes, are
opposing it.
When, Miss Hadley, of Philadel
phia, went to the theatre in New
xork a lew nights ago she was a
perfect gemmery. She " wore five
pounds of 'em. When she came out
she was minus a bix ounce chunk,
which some light fingered fellow
who had a hankering for gems got
away witn. with a lew little ex
periences of this kind she may be
prevailed upon to henceforth leave
four or five pounds of them at home.
The Boers marry young, about
sixteen, ana when a ieliow gets a
wife, he also gets a lot of cows, goats
and sheep, and a span of oxen as a
starter. When spliced they takeJ
their bridal tour with the span of
oxen. ' .
i
' - A plot has been discovered to
poison Li Hung Chang, the job to
be done, by his boss cook. It isn't
stated, but the presumption is that
the cook lost bis head. '
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BIRDS OF A FSATHER. &C.
There is an old. saying that "birds
of a feather flock together." yOar
correspondent in Washington in
forms ns that "Senator Butler is
now seen daily seated with Senator
Pritchard and other Republican
Senators, and evidently seems to be
in their confidence. Every one
about the Senate predicts that the
Senator not only wants, but will re-..
ceive the Republican nomination for
Ixovernor oi .worth Carolina. ' lhere
is nothing in the world more natu
ral . than hat dickering Marion
should flock with the Republicans
when he is looking for their help to
accomplish his schemes.
But there is part of this dispatch
which we doubt where it says Butler
"evidently seems to be in their con
fidence." It may seem so, but these
Republican roosters know Butler too
well to have any confidence in him
when they haven't him bound down
so that he couldn't crawl out if he
took a notion to crawl. .Nobody who
knows Butler's political gyrations
and schemings has any confidence in
him now. As a confidence man he
played out a good while ago, and
those who are pulling with him now
and "seem" to have confidence in
him are simply doing so because
they think they can use him to carry
out their schemes, while he thinks
he can use them to carry out his
schemes.
They havo him so closely pinned
now that he a few daya ago in an
swer to a question by another Sena
tor refused to ay whether he still
favored the free and unlimited coin
ago of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and
when finally answering the question,
which the Senator persisted in, said
evasively that he was not in favor of
it unless on certain condition",
which conditions are not visible'and
probably never will be. Butler
should do like Representative Sibley
of Pennsylvania; take his seat on
the Republican side of the Senate.
OEN. MILES MAKES A FEW RE
MARKS.
Ex-President Harrison character
izes the proposed tariff legislation for
Porto Rico as a "most serious de
parture from right principles," which
is a very mild way of phrasing his "dis
approyal. Gen. Miles also regards it
as a very serious departure, although
he did not make any special refer
ence to this, when he expressedhis
sentiments in a letter dated March
the 6th to the Cuban American
League in New York. The part re
ferring to Porto Kico reads thus:-
Puerto Rico seems to be the storm
centre, or, in other words, tne place
where the great problems, what shall
we do with the islands on which our
flag has been raised, where 12,000,000
of inhabitants are now lookiug to the
Government of the Great tie public for
justice and protection, is to be solved.
It seems to me that, the soul of our in
stitutions is the equality of man in the
eo jovment of life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness. The pursuit of
happiness, of course, implies equality
in the rights of property, the accumu
lation of property and the disposition
of the same. It seems to me that tnere
could be no doubt as to the universal
desire of our people 73H)0,000 who
have eDi vyed such liberty and equal
ity, to accord the same blessings and
immunities to others, who, as wash
ington said, are (or have been) Strang
ers to liberty, and who are now by
forca of circumstances dwellingupon
domains control'ed by the United
States and over which the flag of our
Government waves either temporarily
or permanently.
If any man in this country should
be, on his own account, thorough
ly disgusted with this outrageous
breach of faith with the Porto Ricans
it is Gen. Miles, who as commander
of the army that invaded Por-to Rico,
in his proclamation, promised those
people the same rights, immunities
and opportunities tfhat are enjoyed
by the people of the States and ter
ritories over which the United States
flag then waved. ? He made this
pledge in good faithtas the military
representative of the United States,
and now he finds it completely ig
nored and utterly repudiated by the
Government in whose name it was
made.
It is said that there is no longer
necessity for a large army in the
Philippines, and consequently a
gdod many soldiers who haye served
long terms, or are weakened by sick
ness will be Bent home, lhis an
nouncement comes about the same
time that Gen. Otis made a big
oi der for type writers, which may
indicate that -he is going to settle
the racket with them.
The hankering for office must be
inborn in some men. An Ohio man
was recently so overjoyed because he
was nominated for an office that he
died from excitement, while a Penn
sylvania man who was beaten for a
squireship took it so 'much to heart
that he committed suicide. They
were both Republicans.
How are the mighty fallen. . Ex
Gov. Moses, who was once the cock
of the walk in South Carolina poli
tics, and a high roller, was arrested
a few days ago in Washington, where
he has been living for some years,
on a charge of larceny, gobbling
money entrusted to him for political
purposes.
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WILMINGTON, N. C, "FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1900.
A NEW ICE COMPANY.
:The Principal Factory and Chief
" Business of the Corporation
at Hamlet, N. C.
CAPITAL STOCK IS $10,000.
Ofber Raleigh News-Ashevllle Telephone
Company and Oakland Manufactur
ing Compaoy Organized -Kyan's
Suit Agaiast the S. A. L.
Special Star Telegram.! :
Ralkioh. N. C, March 8 The
Secretary of State to day incorporated,
the Hamlet Ice Company, with a capi
tal stock of $10 000; Chs. E Johnson,
Alf. A. Thompson and J. . Ludlow
Skinner, all of Raleigh, are incorpor
ators. The business proposed is the
manufacturing, purchase, ancfsale of
ice, refrigerating cars, furmshipg cold
storage, and the conduct of aff i other
business incident to the manufacture
of and dealing in ice and refrigeration.
The principal factory and chief busi
ness of the corporation is in Hamlet,
Richmond county, with branch fac
tory and store rooms at any
available place in the State.
Meetings of the corporation may be
held in Wake county or Richmond
county, and financial affairs may be
conducted in Raleigh. The contract
for machinery for this factory has al
ready been placed. It will have a
daily capacity of twenty five tons, and
a refrigerating capacity of forty tons a
day. The building is to be erected by
April first and machinery put in and
running not later than .May 1st. It
will be managed by Mr. T. M. Rose, of
Fayetteville. He has had long ex
perience in the ice business at Fayette
ville and Norfolk.
Other corporations granted to-day
are: Asheviiie Telephone uoaipanr,
with capital of .$80 000, and Oakland
Manufacturing Company, of Winston,
with capital of $20,000, for manufac
ture of furniture.
Answers to Thomas F. Rvan's com
plaint in his suit started here in De
cembers before Jude Purnell to pre
vent the consolidation of th Seaboard
pvstera were filed to-day with the clerk
of the United States Circuit Court.
Separate answers are filed by each of
the following defendants: Seaboard
& Roanoke Railroad Company, Ra
leigh & Gaston Railroad Company.
John Skelton Williams president.
Leigh R. Watts and J.JW. Middendorf
directors. Answers of the two rail
roads are much alike in all material
points of the suit. Messrs. Williams
and Watts, in their answers, refer to
and adopt the answers of these roads
and then add some additional material
facts bearing upon the case, Mr.
Middendorf contents himself with de
nial of the jurisdiction of the court
over him he being a citizen of Mary
land and Rvan a citizn of New York.8
SUPERIOR COURT JURORS.
Drawn for Term Which Will Be Convened
April I6th--Coanty Treasurer Green's
Monthly Report.
At a called meetir g of the Board of
County Commissioners held yesterday
afternoon at which Col Roger Moore,
the chairman, presided, and Messrs. D,
McUachern ana uabnei noimes; were
present, the following jurors were
drawn fcr the term of New Hanover
Superior Court, which will be con
vened by Judge George H. Brownf'Jr.,
on Monday, April 16th.
First Week J. W. Dixon, H. J.
Bier man, Henry B. Jewett, James
Berg, Thos. E. -Davis, J. B. Fales,
Thad F. Tyler, Geo. J. Ueach, B A
Merritt, Rudolf Harts. Wm. McD.
Evans, J. W. Humphrey, R. F,
Ham me. Sol Bear, M. J. Cor belt, L
B. McKenzie, A. M. Pate, C. H.
Casteen. '
8econd Week J. H. Risley, Owen
Martindale, W. L. Bissenger, Chas.
VonGlahn, D. W. Stevens, J. D.
Garrison, Waiter S. Craig, C. C.
Parker. Jr.. W. R Bonham, Jno. L.
Corbt-tt, Sol J. Jones. J M. Kermon,
Jno. H. Hanby, F. H. Fecht g, W. J.
Warren, O IT. Corbett, Furney J
Gooding, B. J. King.
After the meeting of the regular
board, a session of the finance com
mittee was held at which bills for cur
rent expenses were examined and ap
proved.
The, monthly statement of Mr H.
McLi Green, County Treasurer, for the
month of February, has been prepared
and presented to the committee as
follows:
Receipts Balance from January
account $8,080: collected during the
month, $4,409.40. Total $12,489 40
Disbursements On general fund
account, $56 25; county home, 262 84;
public buildirg, $237 94; city hospital,
$250; superior court, 160.65; criminal
court, $45 10: jail, $99 10; out door
poor, $362 55 ; stationery and a ver
tising. '$55 78; roads and bridges.
$406 20: attornev. r $35: register of
deeds, $31 49 ; coroner, $25 ; superin
tendent of health, $75 63; commission
ert, $65 60; clerk, $50; janitor, $45;
treasurer's commissions, $80.12.. Total,
$2,344 24 The balance on hand is
$10,145 16.
The account with the special fund
for the month shows balance on hand
$1,910.43; collections during the
month, $867 05. Total, $2,777 48. The
disbursements consisted of $10 84 in
treasurer's commissions, leaving
balance on hand of $2,766 64
Tuesday, April 10th, has been
practically decided upon as the date
for the Pythian's District Meeting in
Wilmington. The new parapherna
lia, which has been purchased jointly
by Jefferson. Stonewall and Claren
don lodges, is expected to arrive with
in a few days.
IN FAVUR OF BELLAMY.
Rumored That the Hoase Election Com
mittee JV ill So Report The Wise
Young Contest Taken Up.
Special Star Telegram.
Washington, D. C, March 10. It
was rumored in the House to day that
Election Committee No. 2 would re
port in favor of Bellamy retaining his
seat. Dockery's asking the committee
to re open the case has esadently weak
ened his case in the eyes of the com
mittee. The Wise-Young, contest from Vir
ginia was again taken up in the House
to-day. Representative Linney spoke
for nearly two hours He said but lit
tle about the case itself, but dwelt on
his great love for the people of the
South and especially the Tar Heel
State. He dwelt at length on what
be termed the bitter and malicious at
tacks made on him by the press of bis
own State. During his speech he was
prompted at times by the contestant,
Wise. Seated by his side were Pear-
sttECof North Carolina, and Wise and
Walker, of Virginia all having con-
testa before the House. Linney's
speech was evidently made for dis
tribution in North Carolina, and
seemed to greatly amuse his Demo
cratic colleagues.
Senator Pritchard to-day introduced
a bill to pay P. If. Pescud and Samuel
Craig, of North Carolina, $10,209, the
same being for supplies seized by the
Federal troops in 1865. , Also, a bill to
pension Wm. H. Payne, of North
Carolina.
THE VANCE MONUMENT.
It Will Be Ready for Unveiling in May.
The Model Ready fer Inspection
March 15th.
Special Star Telegram.
Ralkioh, N. C, March 9. The
Vance monument, to be erected here
in Capitol Square, will be ready for
unveiling in May. The model is being
made by Henry J. Eilicott, sculptor,
at Washington, and a letter from him
toxlay informs the committee having
thef matter in charge that the model
will be ready for inspection next
Thursday, March 15th. He adds there
has been some apparent delay on his-
part in getting the model ready, but
that this has been due to the fact that
he was forming it with the very
greatest care, hoping to make it one of
the finest nieces of statuary in the
South. The committee to make ex
amination consists of R. H. Battle,
Joseph (J Brown and J. D. Boushall,
of Raleigh, and R. H. Speif it, of
Edgecombe. This committee will in
spect the model and suggest any altera
tions in it When it is finally ap
proved a plaster cast will be made.
This cast will then be sent to the
bronze foundry of the Gorham Manu
facturing Company, New York.
DEATH OF MAJ. W. P. CAMPBELL.
Died at His Home in Fayetteville Friday
Morning Aged 56 Years.
Special Star Correspondence.
Fayettevillb, N. C March 9.
Msj. W. F. Campbell passed away at
his residence in this city this n orning,
after a brief illness, aged about 56
years, and his death has given the
whole community deep regret tie was
an excellent confederate soldier, brave
and faithful in all the stirring events
of field and camp; was a true and tried
Democrat, an able speaker on the hust
ings and aa influential worker in the
rank and hie oi tne party, tie was an
ex commandant of the Fayetteville
Independent Light Infantry, an ad
mirable officer, devoted to the interest
of the corps.
Mai Campbell leaves a wife and one
child, his marriage taking place two or
three years since to Miss Liouia U-lo
ver, daughter of the late Edwin Glo
ver. The deceased was a member of
St. John's Episcopal Church, from
which the funeral services will take
place to-morrow.
AYCOcK 11 PITT.
Addressed a Large Audience at the Conrt
House in Greenville.
Special Star TeUgram.
Greenville, N. C, March 10
Hon. C. B. Aycock, of Goldsboro, ad
dressed a large crowd in the Court
House to-day. It was the opening
speeshOi the campaign, it was one
of the best delivered here and will do
good.
Funeral of Mrs. Strauss.
Yesterday morning at 9 30 o'clock
from the residence of Mr. J.EL Starusa,
No 709 North Fourth street, the
funeral of Mrs. W. A. Strauss, whose
death at Warsaw on Thursday even
ing was noted in these columns, was
conducted in the presence of a large
concourse of friends and relatives by
Rev.Dr.Calvin S. Blackwell, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, who was
assisted by Rev. A. D. McClure, pas
tor of St. Andrew's .Presbyterian
Church. i
The interment was atOakdale ceme
tery, the pall bearers being Messrs.
Z E. Murrell, A. W. Allen, J. A.
Orrell. Anson Alligood, J. O. Powers
and B. F. Murphy.
For the W. L. I.
Hon. Jno. D. Bellamy has made ap
plication to the Secretary of War for
two cannons and a pyramid of balls to
be placed as an ornament in front of
the armory of the Wilmington Light
Infantry. At present all the available
material in this line is in the service in
our new island possessions, but while
Mr. Bellamy has no direct assurance
that the request will be granted, he
stated to a reporter yesterday after
noon that it was very likely that the
company would receive the articles
asked for at a later date.
PURE FOOD CONGRESS.
Mr. S. H. Fishblate Attended as Delegate
from Wilmington Merchants'
Association.
Mr. S. H. Fishblate returned yester
day from a ten days' trip to a number
of the principal Northern cities and to
Washington, D. C, where he attended
as a delegate from the Wilmington
Merchants' Association the lrure Food
Congress of the United States, which
was in session from Wednesday, the
7th inst, to the Friday following.
There were 300 delegates present from
every State and Territory in the Union
and one from our new possession,
Porto Rico. The deliberations of the
assembly were presided over by Hon.
J. E. Blackburn, of Ohio, and among
the delegates in attendance were
a number of the members of
the House of Representatives and quite
a number from the Senate, among
them being Senators Mason, of Illi
nois; Cochrane and Clark, of Missouri,
Representatives Atwater, of North
Carolina, and Litimer, of South Caro
lina. Mr. Fishbiate was appointed a mem
ber of a committee to present to the
House a bill aimed at food adulteration
and was also elected one of the vice
presidents. Other North Carolina
delegates in attendance upon the meet
ing were Dr. R. H. Lewis and Prof.
J. Q Holladay, of Rileigh.
While- in Washington Mr. Fishblate
tells the Star that he met quite a num
ber of Representatives and Senators of
both parties, who spoke quite hope
fully of Mr. Bellamy 's chances to re
tain his seat. For a new member Mr.
Fishblate says that be has made a very
favorable impression and is unques
tionably the leading member from the
State.
DEMOCRAT REMOVED FROM OFFICE.
Mr. T. A Brown, U. S. Ganger, Succeeded
by Capt. John Fitzgerald, Rep. '
From thoroughly reliable sources it
was learned yesterday that Mr. Thos.
A Brown, United St ites . gauger
stationed here with offices in the post
office building had been removed and
Capt. John Fitzgerald, republican,
placed in his stead. The emoluments
of the office are said to be not over
$400 per year. Mr. Brown is p. Demo
crat and has filled the office with
thorough satisfaction to all parties
concerned for quite a number ef years.
Capt. Fuzerld received his com
mission from Collector E C. Duncan
on Thursday last and will assume im
mediate control of the affairs of the
office.
The Cotton Market.
Mr. D. L. Gore, president of the D.
L. Gore Company, takes the Star to
task for quoting cotton on the local
market Wednesday, March 7th at 9J
cents for middling and 91 cents for
good middling and says in a card
dated March 8th, that he is satisfied
that neither of these grades sold this
high. "Nine and one half for lots
through," Mr. Gore says, "is the best
I have beard of, and had it been all
good middling I don't think it would
have brought more. With the lead
ing futures off at least 50 points in the
last two to three days, 9 cents would
be all middling would bring this after
noon." The quotations printed in the
Star are corrected daily in the after
noons from the official records at the
Produce Exchange. If these be incor
rect, the fault lies not in this office.
Cotton and Naval Stores.5
The following comparative state
ment of the weekly and part crop year
receipts of cotton and naval stores
was posted yesterday at the Produce
Exchange,
Week ending March 9tb, 1900 Cot
ton, 3 847 bales; spirits, 169 casks;
rosin, 2 155 barrels: tar, 3,123 barrels;
crude. 93 barrels
Week ending March 9th. 1899 Cot
ton. 1.513 bales; spirits, 152 casks; ros
in, 1,449 barrels; tar, 1.966 barrels;
crude, 147 barrels.
Crop year to March 9th, 1900. Cot
ton, 259,537 bales; spirits, 29, 364 casks;
rosin, 160,775 barrels; tar, 74,261 bar
rels; crude, 11,835 barrels,
Crop year to March 9th, 1899. Cot
ton, 286.822 bales; spirits, 27,490 casks;
rosin. 153 757 barrels: tar, 67.961
barrels; crude. 10.933 barrels.
The New Dyeing Establishment.
Mr. C. E. Eaton, representing C. G.
Sargent & Company, of Graniteville,
Mass., who has been here for the past
ten days or two weeks' placing the
drying machinery for Mr. H. M. Chase
and others who have recently installed
a dyeing establishment of large pro
portions in the old Industrial Manu
facturing Company's building on
Surry street, left last night for his
home at Graniteville, having com
pleted his work. The machinery in
stalled, Mr. Eaton says, is the most
extensive of any of its kind in the
South, exclusive of the plants oper
ated in connection with the larger
cotton mills. Quite a lot of adjunct
machinery is yet to be added to the
plant here, Mr. Eaton says, in addi
tion to the dryer which has a capacity
of 5000 pounds of raw cotton per day.
The Clam Market.
Dealers report that clams are now
bringing very remunerative prices in
the Northern markets, sales having
been made during the past week as
high as $2.25 per sack of one and one
half bushels The supply here has
been exceptionally "good and large
quantities have been shipped during
the period named, and even larger
shipments are looked for during the
coming week.
NO. 21
RESUMES OPERATION.
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The Castle Haynes Phosphate
Mines to Be Worked More
Extensively.
-MANAGER ARENDELL HERE.
Fifty Convicts Willi Begin Mining Rock
To-morrow Morning-ttr. C. C. Chad
bonrn Will Devote His-Tinae to
Management: of the Plant.
Mr. C. C. Chadbourn, manager of
the Hanover Land and Improvement
Company, in conversation with a rep
resentative of the Star said last night
that on to-morrow morning operations
wou Id be resumed extensive phosphate
mines of his company at Castle
Hayt,est which have for several
months been idle on account of the
removal of the penitentiary convicts
for the gathering of the cotton crop on
the State farms in other parts of North
Carolina.
Mr. Chadborn has but recently as
sumed the management of the compa
ny's interests at the mines and he has
inaugurated new methods and inno
vations, which promise the company
large returns. He will spend his en
tire time at the works, returning to
the city at night and there is every in
dication that the work can be carried
on successfully during the remainder
of the year. With the stimulation in
prices of all grades of phosphate rock
and that used for road making and
the now general demand for same,
this industry bids fair to be one of the
most important in the county.
Fif ly convicts will begin the work
to-morrow .morning under a lease
with the State and while Mr.- Chadburn
would not make public the prospects
of the company in the way of disposi
tion of the material, it is safe to Say
that he has orders ahead sufficient to
work on full time for several months.
Mr. F. B Arendell, manager of the
N. C. State prison, spent yesterday in
the city and made a visit with Mr. Chad-
bourn to the camps at Castle Haynes.
Hfi also made a tour of inspection to
the camps across the river at the rice
plantations.
The Finishing Touches.
Mr J. B. Page, who has been in the
city for some time in the interest of
Messrs. Bowles & Warwick, of Rich
mond, Va., yesterday completed the
work of fitting the steam pipes for the
new Delgado mills, and left for bis
home last night.
The contract was
undertaken by his
one of the largest
house, Mr. Page
says, and with the
finishing touches Delgado is as well
fitted up with steam heating apparatus,
etc., as any cotton mill in the country.
Two large engines! and a smaller one
with four pumps for supplying the fire
sprinkling apparatus throughout the
mill were installed, as well as the large
amount of pipe fittings incident to the
other machinery in a cotton -mill the
size of the Delgado.
Matters at the new mill are now as
summg a practical basis; the ma
chinery is gradually being put in op
eration to its full capacity, and the va
rious buildings and cottages for opera
tives are receiving; the final touches.
Large shipments of cotton are coming
into the mills and Wilmington is al
rady boasting of her new and very
important industry.
Mr. Bellamy's Favor.
Referring to the hearing of the
Bellamy Dockery case in Washington
the Fost of yesterday says:
"There is said ta be some prospect of
a committee report in favor of Mr.
Bellamy, as the argument has brought
out the fact that the committee can
throw out all of the votes in New
Hanover, and Richmond counties
about which there is any reasonable
dispute, and still find a safe majority
for the sitting member. Mr. Bellggty s
aaaiority, as was returned, was ,o39
The charges about the shooting of
negroes re'aie to events subsequent to
the election. Two negroes were killed
pror to the election, one in a bar-room
fight and one for reasons political or
otherwise, which ! are hardly plain,
although they are not connected with
Mr. Bellamy s campaign. Thepresen
tation of these matters was made in a
very emphatic and able manner by
r. Bellamy's attorney. ,
State Geologist Coming.
Star readers will rentember that at
the last regular monthly meeting of
the Board of County Commissioners,
upon motion of Mr. Mc Sachem, the
chairman of the board was instructed
to invite Prof. J. A. Holmes, the State
Geologist, to come to Wilmington and
address them upon the subject of prac
tical road building. Col. Moore im
mediately communicated with Prof.
-Holmes, and yesterday an acceptance
of the invitation was received, in
which Prof. Holmes said that he would
arrive in Wilmington tne miaaie or
the present week, for the purpose
named, which isi construed by Col.
Moore to mean Wednesday or Thurs
day. !
Teachers' Assembly.
Mr. Marcus W. Jacobi, chairman oj
the committee to arrange for the N.
C. Teachers' Assembly here in June,
yesterday wrote Superintendent Meb
ane that all arrangements as to ac
comodations for the visitors upon this
occasion had been made and that it
was earnestly hoped his committee
would decide to meet here when the
place is designated Monday. .
Mr. J. D. Church, general
manager of the New York Life Insur
ance Company in the Carolinas, has
resigned his position and will leave for
New York, where he will be associ
ated with his brother in the largest
cooperage business in the world. Mr.
Martin A. Lyon; of Charlotte, suc
ceeds nun.
learn
badly
spelL
that oats in some sections were
damaged by the recent cold
Wheat was hurt very little.
-Aberdeen Telegram: The barn
forage and twelve head of cittle be- -
longir-g to Mr. Mel. Ken nedv. of Eigle -
Springs, was burned last Monday
morning it was tne work: of an mcen-
diary and the loss is ab ut $250.
Statesville Landmark: Rev.
J.-H. Pretsly, who is an iuteuse Boer
sympatbiz-r, has named the latest aa-.
dition to his family Kdtherine Croi je
Gronj being in honor of the famous
Boer general the Lion tf Africa w ho
recently surrendered to Gen. Roberts.
Raleigh News and Observer:
The Populists in my section, aa ell
as the Democrats, are in favor of the
Constitutional Amendment," said Mr.
&.. L. McUallum. of Ked Springs, yes
terday "In fact about everybody
down there is for getting the negro out
of politics."
Elizabeth -City Economist:
D parted this life on Thuday of last
week, at his tome in Newlnd Town
ship Pasquotank county, Mr. J.ishua
Jones, atred 63 years. Two new
c tton factories are on the tapis, and
i i . , i
re oemg pusnea witn energy Dy en
terpryiirg men.
Kinston Free Press: Nearly
all the truck rs around Kinston are
increasing the r a-;r-sge this season.
Planting of p tatoea is being rapidly
pushed, and as. soon as favorable
weather returns our truckers will fin
ish up in putting potatoes in the
ground. Estimates as to the damage
to the cabbage crop by cold weather.
places the loss at about 20 per cent.
Raleigh News and Observer:
Judge Walter Clark's Que brick hotel
at Halifax was burned Thursday
morning at about half past two
o'clock, and the building and most of
the contents are total losses. The
hotel was a splendid three-story brick
Structure and cost $14 000 to . build it.
Judge Clark did not have a dollar of
insurance on it.
Salisbury Sun: Sunday night
Mr. Tom Talbyrd, of Carnu-1. Mont-
tromery county, was fnucid dead in bis
own house, his body dangling at the
end of a rope, the other end haying
been thrown over a rafter and fastened
there. Talbyrd was 56 years old and
a widower. The rash deed was done
ome time Sunday while he was alone.
Property on which there was a mort
gage had been taken away from Tal
byrd and it is thought that this had
caused fcuch a depression of spirit as to
It act to suicide.
Monroe Journal: Mr. Wm.
DeLaney, of west Monroe township,
died last Tuesday morning. He had
been sick some time with a com plica
tion of troubles, beginning with pneu-
: l i ; : . u i :
Mr. DeLaney was about fifty-five
years of age. Mr. Simon Moser,
of Bu ford township, died last Satur- .
oav. Just a week before his death he
ban attended the funeral of his brother.
R-turning home from the burying he
a8 in a short time taken sick him
self, with pneumonia. He was 76
years of age.
Carthage Blade: Mr. L. T.
Seawell is jubilant over the discovery .
which he has made of rich coal beds
on his own land near Park wood on
Hullison branch of the C nhage rail-
road and near the Durham & Char- .
1 ate railroad. It has been known for
many years that the country along Mc
Lendon and Richland creeks is under
laid with thick seams of best grade of
cal. Some day this coal will be
mined and put, on the market and will
be a good source of revenue to the
owners and furnish employment to
the labor of this section. The Cum
mock coal mine is paying now belter
than ever in its history and the output
of coal there is heavy and the demand
for it greater than the supply.
Clinton Democrat: A gentle
man who recently spent some time in
Yadkin county savs he was told while
there that all the Democrats at d about
half the Republicans in that county
favor the constitutional amendment.
A curiosity in the way of a
partridge almost white in color was
received at the Democrat office Satur
day. It was caught in a trap on the
Killett plantation, four miles south of
towniV Mr. J. J. Barden, of
Turkey township, lost his dwelling
and smoke-house by fire on Tuesday
night, the 27th. - The fire was discov
ered about 11 o'clock, when the roof
was all ablaze. M st of the meat was
saved but very little in the dwell
ing. We understand that there was
$1,000 insurance, which is not suffi
cient to cover the loss. Mr. Barden
was in Wilmington at the time on
business.
Charlotte News : Mr. James '
Osborne lives at Hickory Grove. He
married Miss Little, a daughter of, Mr.
Alex Little. Mrs. Osborne's sister,
Miss Mol lie Little, has been visiting
them several days. Tuesday night sLe
attempted to commit suicide by taking
laudanum. She swallowed the con- ,
tents of a two ounce bottle, about 12
o'clock and went to bed. Her heavy
breathing attracting the attention of
some of the famiiy, and on not being
able to arouse th-v we at in tuste for
for physicians. Before the physicians
U Z .. V... MMmwAtf . V A .nBAf
her siupOr was explained in the find
ing of the empty bottle near the bed.
The doctors worked with her all night,
and to day at noon she was better.
Disappointment in love was the cause
of her attempting to take her life. She
had written a long letter of ten or
twelve pags stating why she was go
ing to ki I herself because her affec
tions were not returned; she did not.
care to live, she said. Miss Little is
25 years of age, and is perfectly sane.
Her family did not in the least suspect
that she was carrying a burden that
would drive her to despreation. Miss
Little died at 3 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. Tom Kerns, colored,
fell from the top of a tram way, a dis
tance of forty feet, at a Charlotte Oil
& Fertilizer, Works this morningabout
ten minutes before four o'clock, and
broke his neck.' While Charlotte
has had an abundance of rain today,
(Wednesday) Greensboro, just 93
miles north of us, has been in the
midst of one of the largest now storm
of the Winter. A passenger who
came in on No. 33 this morning said
that a blinding storm was in full sway
when the traiu reached that : city this
morning. The fall of snow extends
as far south aa Salisbury.
NEW COTTON MILLS.
Three Corporations Formed in South Caro
lina the Past Week.
Bv Telegraph txfthe Moraine star.
Columbia, S. C, March 10. Three
quarters of a million dollars were pro
jected in cotton mills in this 8tate this
week. Three new mills filed papers
with the Secretary of State. It is ex
clusiva of the Easley mill, capitalized
at $200,000. which has been in process
of formation but not chartered until
this week. The Woodruff mill, of
Spartanburg county, and the Croft
mill of Aiken county, each capitalized
at $250,000, were organized this week,
and the Foe mills,-Ureenvuie, in
creased its capital stock to $500,000,
"double its present capitalization.
Including the Easley mill, the total
for the year is $3,775,000. This puts
South. Carolina far in the lead for new
mills.
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