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To hear the opponents of the pro posed constitutional amendment de claim against it one would suppose that tho advocates of tho amendment were doing something to violate some saered compact to which they are bound in honor and good faith, but the 'act is the constitution of North Carolina, as the. work of the consti tutional convention of 1867 is not the constitution of . the people of North Carolina and was never will ingly accepted or ratified by them. Since it was first declarod the con stitution of North Carolina it toas been amended in some respects to make it less objectionable than it was, but as it stands to-day it is not the constitution of the people of North Carolina. It lacks what all rrmsr.it.nf inna nbnnld havo fhft en dorsement of the people for whoso government it was ostensibly or dained. The methods by which that con stitution wa3 framed, adopted and ratified, are forgotten by many, and unknown to many; but there is no honest man living who, knowing these method?, would say that this constitution which we propose to amend in the matter oi suffrage is the constitution of North Carolina, properly speaking. The convention which concocted that constitution was elected when over twenty thousand white men in North Carolina were disfranchised and a majority of it was composed of political adventurers from the North, many of whom Sherman's army left behind it. They were commonly Known as "carpei-Daggers," aided and abetted by revenue officers and other Federal office holders. That majority was about - aa competent to draft a con stitution for the people of North Carolina, as they would, have been to originate the law thundred from Sinai. Such was the make-up of the convention that launched that constitution on the people of North Carolina, not in accordance with their will, but against their will. At the meeting in Shelby last Thursday, Hon. R. D.. Gilmer, can didate for Attorney General, recalled some history to show how that con stitution was "ratified" and how one of the few Democrats in the con- ' vention which adopted it protested against the attempt to elevate the negro and degrade the white man. We quote from the correspondent of the Raleigh News and Observer: "How did it happen," he asked, ' that the right of suffrage was ever : conferred upon the negro? There are men hero with whitened locks who should hear -the story retold; there - are young men and women here who ' have never heard it. We hear men these days" prating about the Consti tution and its violation. I want to say right here that the Constitution was never more grossly violated than on March 7th, 1867, when the right to regulate suffrage was taken from the States. Men who had been reared in the midst of civilization and cul ture were disfranchised. The ballot was taken from those who had fol lowed Lee and Jackson, and- it "was placed in the hands of negroes. The beads and his trinkets for which he barters away the inheritance of - his children." - i That was thirty-three years .ago. A generation has passed since then. Most of the men who participated in concocting that- scheme for the en slavement of the white people of North Carolina have passed away, but whether dead or, living their names are spoken only to be execra ted. Some ; of them have passed into oblivion, while living, : and others escaped ther penitentiary by migrating in time when they in stinctively felt that avenging jus tice was coming their way. . What a horrid mockeiy was that convention ; and that election ; to ratify its action. How well we re member how the negroes came in gangs to 'the polls, how they voted here, there and every where how they footed it for two or three days from the farms and the forests, and from across the Northern and South ern borders and probably voted at every polling place they found the - way, for the elec- on tion continued for three days to give the Republican managers time to round up the sable hordes. As the election was held under mili tary regulations there was no contest ing or questioning votes and evpry4 thing with a dark skin or kinky hair went right along without opposition; the boxes were .sent to uanby, the military boss at . Charleston, he de clared the result and put his stamp on it, and that's the way the consti tution of 1867, which made the negro a sovereign citizen and voter of North Carolina, was ratified! The people of North Carolina had no more to do with it than they had to do with originating tho war be tween the British and the Boers, and are no more bound by it in law or in morals than a person would be bound by an agreement made with a gang of cutthroats who stole a march on him and held him up" when he had no chance to defend himself. A contract made under duress is no contract at all, a contract made without the assent of both parties is no binding contract, and that is the kind of document the constitution we are now living under was when it came from that convention of carpet baggers and internal revenue pap- suckers and as it went into force on the ratification of Satrap Canby. Will anybody say that the people of North Carolina are bound in any way to submit to that thing indefi nitely, and have no right, after bear ing with it so long, to right the wrong against which Plato Durham then protested? That is all they propose to do, to protect the whie man from the negro and protect the negro in his life and property and in everything for which he can justly claim protection. If there were white Republican votes enough in the State to carry elections there isn't a white Repub lican politician in it that wouldn't support this amendment. But there are notj they need : negro votes and that's why they oppose it. conventions ever since they dis covered the necessity of saying something to make it appear that they were not owned.by and in favor of the trusts. : Cheek is one of the characteristics of the Republican platform makers, and it shows up conspicuously -in this platform, which gives' the Re publican administration credit for the restoration of ' prosperity, when the fact is this prosperity is the result of cpnditions , with which th e administration had nothing to do. The prosperity began with the ex traordinary demand for our food stuffs from countries across the ocean whose crops had failed, and from the energy . and -activity our manufacturers have exercised in ex tending their trade intoother coun tries, both of , which were suppli mented by a great revival of busi ness the world over. Englaid, Ger many, Russia and some other Euro pean countries have made immense industrial and commercial strides, and are all much more prosperous than they were a few years ago. The fact is there has been an industrial and business revival the world over, to which these administration eulo gists could as justly claim credit as they can for the improved conditions in this country. But that is more of the rot they have been giving us. IS HELD FOR MURDER. Half Breed Indian and Negro Fanatic Bound Over to the - Criminal Court, r HIS TEACHINGS CAUSE DEATH. Negri) Woman Educated Into Religions Frenzy Starved Herself to Death in Order That She Might Please ' Her So-called Master. 1 "Peace" or "Percy' of Dominica," the religious fanatic, whose reprehen sible conduct in inducing a number of his female followers to refrain! from food for a period of many days was noticed in yesterday's Stab, will be tried at the June term of the Criminal Court oa a charge of murder one of his followers in the evil practice hav ing died from starvation Friday night. With him are also held as accessories to the crime Emanuel Toomer and S T. Shiver, two Wilmington negroes whom he converted to his unsavory belief and who were ultimately ex: alted to high places in his church and used their influence upon the'deluded women towards inducing them to pro long what they termed a "holy fast," covering a period of from thirty to fifty-five days, as described in jester" "Peace" was first arraigned in until April 2nd, his thirtieth birth- j day, but if she is not hungry at the j expiration of thirty days she could not eat a mouthful until - she became hungry else she would die and go to hell the minute she swallowed food. The woman answered, yea, master, it is ten days more if you say so. It is through your power, that I am saved.' I went to the house Friday afternoon and found heir very weak.; She was apparently u 9 able to speak. She was out of her mind and was talking at random as fallback as last week.? - Thoma3 Payne, colored, testified: "I was a member of the band until about one year and a half ago; when I found that the religion would sepa rate me from- my wife I left them. They wanted; me to marry another woman and I refused.' The women at the house are under 'Peace's' control and he suggests the fasting. Members pay tribute to 'Peace.' I was ;not allowed to" vsit the house after my withdrawal from the band." Several otfr witnesses had also been summoned to testify, but in the light of the-aboveand from .other circutnstancesit was deemed unnec essary to hearSf tirther testimony and the folio wieverdict was promptly rendered: That the deceased came to her death by starvation caused by intimidation and strong influences brought to bear by one called "Percy or King of the Creoles," aided and abetted by Emanuel Toomer and S. T. Shiver. The jury therefore demands that the said Emanuel Toomer and 8. T. Shiver also be taken into custady and held to await the action of the grand jury, - "Peace" was immediately sent over to jail from the municipal court and was ren- H ANNA'S CONVENTION. Hanna's convention at Columbus, Ohio, closed up its work as it began and carried out the programme drawn up at (Washington even to the naming of the 5 candidates and the delegates to the national convention as slated by Hanna. And they called that assemblage of Han na's automatons a convention of the Republican party of Ohio! The so called platform, which was also made in Washington, is more an extrava gant-eulogy of the Republican party and McKinley than a platform. Outside of the brazen eulogistic features the notable thing about it is the namby-pamby resolution as to trusts and the deceitful resolution as to the Philippines, which was in serted in place of the plank s.eni from Washington, which, perhaps, the- home politicians, Republican party is the disfranchis- " " T-" ing. party, by whose vote the ballot -the people, did not deem it judicious was taken from the white man ana 1 insert and therefore substituted given to the negro, xney voiea ior three- days; then the ballots were taken to Charleston, S. C, and counted, and from there to General Canby's headquarters, where the re suit of the election was certified." "Mr. Gilmer read with fine effect the following resolution which was proposed in the convention by Plato Durham, a native of this county: "Resolved, That the. white and black races are distinct by nature, and mat any and all efforts to abolish or abridge such distinction, and to de er ad e the white to the level of the black race are crimes asrainst the civil - - ization of the asre and asrainst God. ''Resolved, That the government of the United States and of the Southern States were instituted by the white men. and that while the lives, liberty and property of the black race should be protected bv iust laws, these gov ernments ought to be controlled by white men onlv. - . "Continuing Mr. Gilmer .spoke of the character of the men who were thus disfranchised. They were men who had braved every danger, men who had blazed the forests and crossed tne mountains, men who had con quered nature and the savage men who had spilled their blood for home and country. They were Bun-crowned, tall men who lived above the fogs in public duty, and private life, .and for whom were these men deprived of a voice in the government? For a race who had known only slavery who were utterly unprepared for the duties of citizenshiD: thev knew not even the meaning of it and rejoiced in it only as the red man rejoices in his this dishonest resolution, based on the promise that this Government would he when it got a tight grip on the Philippines and had shot down all the "rebellious" Filipinos, a generous and benevolent despot, which is simply a re-affirmation)f the old hypocritical rot that has been turned over and over times without number since this war of "criminal aggression" began. The more ana tne onener 11. is tumeu the ranker it smells. They will do anything, they say, but sur render, the islands to those people, which; is like the promises of the captured highwayman who will do anything to placate justice but make restitution of the money stolen. The plank in reference to trusts is simply a non-committal declara tion in line with the milk and water recommendation in the President's message. It only declares that some thing should be done to prevent combinations from getting monopo lies in trade, but makes no sugges tion or hint as to what Congress should do. That's more of the same old rot that has been served up to the people by -Republican so-called .WHAT TRUSTS ARE . Eight years ago the late David A. Wells, one of the ablest economists in this country, gave tho follow ing definition of trusts and the remedy for them: . " What is a trust? In the popular and political sense it means a combina tion of the domestic producers of cer tain commodities to control production and advance prices. No trust of -this kind, operating on articles for which there is a possible competitive supply from other countries, could be main tained in the United States for a single month except under one of two condi tionseither all the competitive producers throughout the world must be brought into- the 'trust' or. what is the same thing, the product of the -. whole world must be con trolled; or the product of all foreign producers must be shut out from the markets of this country. The first re sult is not attainable. It would be obviously impracticable to induce all the manufacturers of starch, for ex ample, in all the different countries of Europe, to unite and put the con trol of their business in the hands of trustees residing in the United States. The second is made not .only possible, but effective in the highest degree, by the imposition of tariffs, or duties, on the importation of the articles in which the trusts are especially interest, so high as to completely bar them out of the American market. These duties the McKinley tariff act provides. LThe Dingley re-enacted or increased them.1 It thus be' comes the creator and preserver of trusts and monopolies, which,, freed from foreign competition, are advanc ing prices to American consumers to an extent that will afford them from 50 to 100 per cent, more profit than can be fairly considered as legitimate, but in which profits their employes do not participate. There are more than one hundred trusts in the United States that could have no existence except for the high duties that have been en acted or kept on, in order to maintain , and protect them." ; Every word herein said about trusts is more forcible now than it was then for- there are many more trusts now than there were then, and they are more grasping now than thev were then because they have succeeded in effecting a more gen eral consolidation of the industries and consequently have a greater monopoly. Of course everybody knows that if -the trusts were not fostered in this monopoly by a practically prohHritory tariff they would have competition and the monopoly would"sbe impossible, and yet the -Republican statesmen and party managers while pretending to be opposed to trusts refuse to listen . to any proposition to reduce the tariff on trusts. Controlled products, even on those from which the Gov ernment derives little'or io revenue the only one who reap any benefit from it being the trusts, which hav ing no competition can levy such tribute as they please upon the peo ple. f " This ought to be made an issue in every congressional district, and no candidate supported who will not pledge himself to tariff reduction and to put a stop to giving legisla tive aid and comfort to the plunder ing trusts. One of the burning questions in Greenwich, Connecticut, is how old a girl must be- before she ceases to be spankable by her step-ma. A magistrate last week "!put the age limit at sixteen, as debarring the step-mother from that kind of recrea tion, but provokingly left it a deba table question as to whether the decision covered all the girl's acr quired relations. . The old stone house at Tappan, N. Y., in which Maj. Andre was imprisoned during the Revolu tionary war, until h9 was executed, is to be converted into a soup fao tnrv. This won't add to the odor of his fame. Nancy Washington, colored, cele brated her 105th birthday in Boston a few days ago; The most remark able achievement in Nancy's career was the burying of six husbands ai intervals. - municipal court yesterday mornin on a Charge of nuisance. When.lt was ascertained that Nellie Scott, col ored, had died from the effects of pro longing a "fast" prescribed by "Peace," the warrant was amended so j as to charge the defendant with being an accessory to the death and he was sent to jail in'default of $,000 bond for hi3 appearance for trial at the Criminal Court Mayor Waddell immediately noti fied Dr.R. J. Price, the Coroner, of the unusual circumstances of the death of the Scott woman and he forthwith summoned a jury composed of Messrs. S. G. Hall (foreman), Samuel Springer, (secretary), W. A. McGowan, Sol. J. Jones, W. B. Savage and Isaiabi West, and these visited the house on Eighth between Harnett and Swann streets soon after noon yesterday, j They found the woman in the terribly emaciated condition spoken of yester day and retired to the Court House to hear the testimony of witnesses re lating to the circumstances which led up to the death. j - ' . There was a volume of testimony re lating to the belief of these twenty four uneducated negroes, j whom "Peace" has worked up to the religious frenzy which culminated in the death of the Scott woman. Emanuel Toomer-, one of, "Peace's" followers, after testifying that he was next to his leader in the fanaticism ba ing practiced, said: "I am a member of this band, of which Percy is our chief. ; Nettie Scott (the deceased) is also one of our followers and she said she wanted to fast until life left her body. ! Percy said if she believed in him he could bring her through, but if she lost faith in him she would die. . The deceased said she had plenty of food to eat, and if she wanted to eat she could do so. but she said Bhe did not want to eat I said I wanted her to die so she could live for her savior. Percy said that they would have to fast as many days as he was years old and he was thirty years old. I still believe in this faith and will still con tinue in it by the help of God. I am now not living with my wife because she does not believe in my faith, and I now cohabit with my class.' Percy influences his followers to fast, and the deceased fasted until she died. He does not compel them to fast" George Murray, the colored man who procured the warrant for "Peace," testified that on last Thurs day he was coming down Bladen street and Constable Sheehan in formed him of the operations of "Peace." "Mr. Sheehan told me," he said, "of the women fasting in the house and that they were nearly starved to death. I went, to the house and asked the Scott woman if she wanted something to eat Percy shook his head at the woman and said 'no' she did not want anything to eat, and if she did I could mot give it to her. Before she could answer the question 'Peace' shook his head as if for her to say 'no.' Toomer. one of the band, said he wanted the woman to die so she could live again for her Hattie Shettington, a member of the colored Methodist church, testi fied: "I visited the woman, in the house and found her in the condition described. Percy1 was present and in formed me of the fasting. I have no thing to do with Percy; I am afraid of him." . . Annie C. Johnson, another; colored woman testified: "I visited the wo men in the house. Percy told me she was fasting for thirty days, one day for each year in his life. I visited the house until the woman died."; Irene Shiver, one of the women of the band testified: "Percy, of Do minica, came to this country about three years ago and he was teaching the Catholic faith (not the Roman Catholic) as it was in the beginning. He told us-that ne aia not compel any one to follow him; the road was nar row. Hfe gave his followers instruc tions asto fasting and I was first to fast fox the purpose of cleansing my. system. I fasted for twenty-four days and five hours." j Cornelia Haynes testified: "I have been knowing deceased for a number of years but when she joined the new church I had nothing further to do with her. I visited the woman March 27th and found her fasting. She was unable from weakness to help herseii and said that she was fasting to live again in the spirit Percy : came in and asked how deceased was feeling. Said she was 'very weak in this old frame but strong in you.' Percy began talking to me and said deceased was full of the devil; had more of the devil in her than any woman he had ever met He said that this was her last chance to get the devil out of her; the Lord commanded him to put her down and fast her for thirty days. Said that he had women in the house to watch her and said that she had fasted twenty-five days and must continue for five days longer. The women must prevent her from eating placed ered, Constable Sheehan Toomer and Shiver in jail. When asked about the death, "Peace" said that the woman was in hell, for she died for want of faith. The better class of colored people are highly incensedver the operations of the fanatic and would have done vio lence to Toomer and Shiver had they not been arrested last night The prisoner was examined by the county authorities yesterday just after the session of the police court, but they refused to say that he was -insane; on the contrary, they feel quite sure that he is in rational mind. DURHAM TOBACCO COMPANY. Judge Simoatoo's Decision In Pavor of ' the Trnst Receiver Permanent V Sale of Property Ordered.' ; Special Star Telegram.' Raleigh, N. C, April 28. The de cision of Judge Simonton in the Blackwell Durham Tobacco Company case was received here to-day. It is in favor of the Eruston every point, making the receivership permanent and ordering sale of the property. ' This is a suit, it will be remem bered, brought by officers, directors and employes of the American To bacco Company, who are also large stockholders in the Blackwell Com pany, to have a receiver appointed for the Blackwell Company and close up its business. ' - - The suit was against - Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. and the minority stockholders in it, and was based on an -interview with Major Wm A. Guthrie, one of the minority stock holders, published in the Stab some. months ago. In this interview Major Guthrie declared his intention to ask the Legislature to repeal the charter of the Blackwell Company on the ground that it was a trust. -' As soon as the interview, appeared, the president, vice president, secre tary, treasurer and several directors and employes of the American To bacco Company went befoVeTjudge Simonton. at Charleston, and asked I that a receiver be appointed. The petition was granted and P. S. Shell, secretary of the American Tobacco . Company, was named as temporary receiver and April 17th at Charleston was fixed as the time for hearing argument as to whether the appointment of the receiver should be made permanent. The case was duly argued at the time set The opinion of the court makes this receivership permanent and orders sale of the property. Xrr ; A SPLENDID RECEPTION. QUEER RELIGION 71 v. OF NEGRO FANATIC. FAST EXPRESS ! SERVICE NORTH. Capt. WHIey and Wardroom Officers of Revenue Cutter Algonquin Entertain a Number of Friends Arrangement Has Been Made for Through Train Leaving Wilmington in Morn log The Berry Movement. Mr. Samuel W. Westbrook, chair man of the committee appointed by the American Produce Travellers' As sociation to confer with theSouthern Express Company relative to a change in the contemplated schedule of ex press trains for the movement of the berry crop, has assurances from Mr. J. J. Oroswell, the clever route agent of the company, that the wishes of the Association will be complied with. . Details of the change are familiar to Stab readers and the truckers along the Wilmington and Weldon railroad will congratulate themselves upon the change . and accord to the Express people their thanks for the inauguration of a service which promises to be more prompt, efficient and in every way more desirable than the schedule that have been in. vogue for the past few years. Mr. W. J. Oroswell, superintendent of this division, have arranged for a solid fast express train to leave Wilmington daily between 8 and 9 o'clock each morning during the berry season. This train will be operated on a fast through schedule and will place shipments in the North ern markets early the following morning after' consignment Special express messengers will be placed on these trains and everything handled without delay. . REV. H. w: SMITH'S WITHDRAWAL Capt O. S. Willey and the ward room officers of the United States reve nue cutter Algonquin were "on board" to a number of invited friends last evening from 8 to 10 o'clock, and the occasion while quite informal was one of the most pleasant of the open ing Springtide events. The guests of the occasion, numbering more than a hundred, were royally received and each officer vied with another in enter taining those invited, who delighted themselves to attend. The handsome vessel was brilliantly lighted and presented a splendid ap pearance from both the interior and exterior. The dek was draped with the numerous signal, flags of the service artistically grouped and the officers' apartments were also decorated for the event. On deck the cutter orchestra rendered a delightful programme of music and a splendid spread of refreshments was served. Besides Capt Willey, commanding the vessel, the officers who entertained last evening are First Lieutenant J. E. Reinburg; Second Lieutenant B. M. Chiswell; Third Lieutenant F, R. Smith , Chief Engineer Fred E. Owen ; First Assistant Engineer; J. E. Dorry ; Second Assistant Engineer J. B. Turner. RURAL FREE DELIVERY. His iTeachingi Came j Near Endlog the Lives of Several of His Followers by Starvation. - "Peace, God of the Universe or King of the Creoles,f' as he chooses to dub himself, was arrested yesterday at noon by Lieutenant of Police F. T. Skipper and placed in the station house for a hearing before Mayor Waddell this morning on the charge of being a common nuisance. The offender is a half-breed Indian and negro and is also known as "Percy, of Dominica,' and has made himself notorious in Wilmington for the queer and reprehensible religious belief to which he has converted a uumber of the least educated negroes in the northeastern section of the city. His misconduct and utter disregard for the law, which he justifies by his religious belief has twice brought him before the courts on previous occasions and in this instance it is probable he will be sent to jail for trial at the coming term of Criminal Courts The warrant upon which "Peace" was arrested was sworn out by G. W, Murray, a respectable colored man of the neighborhood id which the offen der operated, and if charges that he "did commit a public nuisance by pre tending to have - supernatural powers and by inducing divers women and others to starve themselves for many' days successively and in the presence and hearing of divers persons then and there assembled, preventing these wo men from taking any nourishment and by attracting great crowds of people to the great annoyance and incon venience of the public." Chief Parmele, Lieutenant Skipper and Constable Sheehan, in investiga ting the merits of the allegations made by Murray, went over to a house occu pied by "Peace" on Eighth between Harnett and Swann streets and were surprised to find gruesome evidences of "Peace's" operations. On the floor of the room occupied by the half breed, who; is of a ginger. cake hue and who wears his hair long, they found a ne gro woman terribly emaciated and al most starved to death. It was learned from another woman in the house, who bad not been . indulging in the "holy fast" prescribed by "Peace," that ' the woman on the floor had not partaken of nourishment in 54 days. In each of two beds in the room were two other women who had deprived themselves of food for 34 and 12 days respectively. They, too, were in an emaciated condition and-hardly able to stir. After satisfy ingNthemselves thai the women had received nourishment, the officers took "Peace" and landed him in the station house, as stated, j The prisoner was asked by a report er as to -his church in Wilmington and it was learned that he has twenty-four disciples. The women, he said, be came possessed of the spirit and "fasted' of their own accord. Several others of his flock, he continued, were to "go on a fast1' to day and there Were a number of them at the station house when , he was locked up. "Peace" confessed to having been made to leave the West Indies on a sailing vessel on ! account of his re ligious belief. He said that he had been in Wilmington "on and off" for three years, and : that at the end of five years,' which is in the coming month, his ministry would cease. The better class of negroes are much incensed over his conduct and wish Mm to be made to leave the city. "i Winston ; Journal: The four- . teen year old son of Doras Ery, of Hickory, became insane by being, frightened, the result of being hazed, by some bad boys. Yesterday he was taken to the State Hospital. The boys for their rash act, will be dealt with to ' the full extent of the law which they so justly deserve. ' - i .Rockingham Anglo-Saxon: We learn that there was a great deal of damage done by the heavy rains in up per Richmond last week. They say they had a regular cloud burst The cotton press at Baldwin's mill was washed away and a bale of cotton washed down -the creek. Much - dam age was done where crops had been planted in the low lands, in some ' places nearly, all the soil that had been ' plowed up and being washed away. Nearly all bridges on Mountain Creek were washed away. ' Raleigh News and Observer: Mr. Felix Webb was shot and Almost instantly killed by J. W. Morris, his Dromer m-iay, xnursday, near Aureli an Springs. Morris married Webb's sister and my informant from that sec tion, says that Morris has treated his wife badly and was whipping her yes , terday when her bother came up to protest against it Morris then took down his gun and shot Webb twice, both loads taking effect Webb lived an hour or so after the shooting. Mor ris gave himself up and is now in jail. It is said that he was in the insane as sy lum at Raleigh for several months . some years ago. - Mount Airy JVewsT The fur niture factory is os pering and always behind with orders. Solid , car loads of goods go out nearly every day andsome times two to three carloads. rue grip nas been quite preva lent in almost every part of Surry and " -adjoining counties during the past Winter and this spring, and numbers of old citizens have died. Grip had something to do with come of these deaths ana many died of pneumonia. . All kinds of fruits except peaches . will be abundant this year if we es cape frost a few more days. The peach crop is never very large in this coun try owing to the fact that the insects kill the trees before they grow to any . size, and to this difficulty is to be added tne damage almost ever year oy late frosts. Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligence: Thomas Kenan Hildreth died at the home of his father, Mr. W. H. Hildreth, in this place, last Thursday night of pneumonia, - aged about 19 years. Senator Pritchard spoke at Rockingham Tuesday it being Tuesday of court week, A gentleman who was present tells us that a large crowd of negroes, together with near ly all the revenue doodles and postmasters of this Congres sional district , were present to cheer hvjn and give him aid in his enort to perpetuate negro rule in the State. The government distillery of Mr. W P. Ingram, located at Coleman's Mill, on Pee Dee river, Richmond county, was Seized by revenue officers one day last week. The distillery has been closed and all the property con fiscated by the Government. Viola tion of the revenue laws is the reason given for the seizure. Rocky Mount Arqonaut: The outlook for a big fruit crop is the best for several years, and the chance of its being killed is extremely improb able. Mr. Macreary Karas, of Ma cedonia, is in Rocky Mount and will plant some Turkish tobacco on tne Haverson Griffin place near town. Mr. Karas is representing a big New York firm and if he is successful in raising this tobacco says the price will average about (1 per pound instead of 6 oi8 cents. .The leaves of this tobac co are very small, about the size of a dollar and -the seed are sown the drills. The Culpeper mills .is working steadily on big paying ore. Some of the richest ore ever encoun-". tered in the mine is now being taken out. The deepest workings on Ele phatvein shoWvwell defined , walls. The vein is fromfour to eight - feet mJIa niii c- river 1 nsv 1 mo rrnin in - nearly every piece Broken. This vein gives evey indicationNpf being a very , strong and permanent fissure. Other valuable mining Droperties will soon be opened in that section of the coun try. a A PLUCKY WOMAN Was Not as Protest Against Westminster Confession Preparing Statement i, - Rev. Hay Watson Smith has writ ten to the editor of the Charlotte Observer the following letter which will be read with interest by his nu merous friends in Wilmington: "To the Editor: . It gives me very little concern, Mr. Editor, that I should be considered unorthodox. The charge of heresy is, in my opin ion, a mere bogy; and yet the fear in spired by it has been a fruitful cause of cowardice and equivocation with priests and ministers of every branch of the church. "I do wish to say, however, that my withdrawal from the ministry of the Southern Presbyterian Church, the church in which I was brought up, to which I owe so much, and which I love above all others, is not "a protest against the Confession of Faith." "I am preparing, as rapidly as cir cumstances will permit, an article in which l shall make perfectly plain tne primary ground of my withdrawal. In the meantime I trust that your readers will not class me with certain solodists and rhetoricians who are now fulminating in so lurid a manner, and with so little sense of propriety against the Westminster Confession. Hay Watson Smith, Little Rock, Ark., April 23rd, 1900. THE BOSTON TRUCK PROSPECTS. With Market Has Opened Auspiciously Promises for Good Prices. I Special Star Correspondence. Boston, Mass,, April 25. The sea son for Southern fruit and truck has opened auspiciously in our market, and demand is better than that of the average season. " The prospects for early green truck and straw berries are especially encouraging, and it promises now to be a season of pay ing prices for potatoes, peaches and melons. As in past seasons, I urge shippers to forward goods in ventilated pack ages and have contents iresn Har vested. - . - 7 ChESTEB R'XiAWBENOE, Wholesale Commission Merchants, Fanueil Hall Market0 Representative Atwater Working for Bet ter Mail Facilities in His District. Special Star Telegram. Washington, D. C, April 27. Representative Atwater was at the Postoffice Department to day and re commended the establishment of rural free delivery in Wakf county. He was informed that an inspector would be sent at once to investigate the mat ter and report on the merits of the case. He hopes to secure rural free delivery for other counties in his dis trict. Mrs. Atwater, who has been visit- ine her sick sister - in Charlotte, - will return to-morrow. Postmasters appointed in North Carolina to-day are: M. L. Caple, Caples Mill, ' Richmond county, and Haywood Hayes, Glennmore, John ston county. Will Return to New York. CoL K. M, Murchison, after spend ing the Winter at his splendid retreat at Orton plantation, has "broken camp," so to speak, and will return, to New York to-morrow. He will carry with him the best wishes of his nu merous Wilmington friends for a safe return next season, as is his usual cus tom. .- - -- Mr. R, C. Crawford, one of the popular proprietors of the Seashore Hotel at Wrightsville, arrived yester day from Raleigh and went down to the beach in the afternoon to look af ter the preliminaries of. opening this well known holstery. He was ac companied by Mr. R. N. Simms, also of Raleigh. Rev. Dr. A. G. Voigt, pastor of StPaul's EnglishLutheran Church, will leave Tuesday for Charlotte where on Wednesday he will deliver an ad dress before the Elizabeth . College students. From Charlotte. Dr. Voigt will tro to Albemarle to attend the North Carolina synod of his church. Mr. : A. D. Wessell, accom panied by his daughter, Miss Gertrude, will leave Wednesday for Albemarle to attend the North Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Uhurch. Miss W esse 11 will go on to Asheville where she will yisit for some time. AT CAROLINA BEACH. Captain Harper Make's Announcement the Prospects for the Season at This Popular Resort. v Bank Captain J. W. j Harper, the genial master of the steamer Wilmingt on and nroDrietor of the Oceanic Hotel at Carolina Beach, when seen by a re porter yesterday afternoon talked most encouragingly of the prospects for a successful season at the popular resort in which he is interested. The first of the season's trip on the steamer will be made this afternoon,, leaving Market street dock at 2 o'clock and returning at 7 o'clock this evening. The pros pects are that qui te a number of people will go down. The roundf trip fare will be only 25 cents. I Captain Harper says that he has furnished the twenty-odd rooms in the Oceanic Hotel and will have them to let this Summer. Dining accommodations j may be secured from the several well arranged board ing houses in close proximity to the hotel building. These rooms will be in charge of Mr. Joe Yopp, who will rent at reasonable rates for the day, month or season J It has been decided to have no boarding accommodations in the hotel building, and this depart ment will be looked after by Mr. EL A. Kure and Dr. Ji D. Webster.'in their well arranged boarding houses near by. The bath rooms will be in charge Of Mr. Vrans Swann, as usual. The saloon and cafe will be con ducted by Mr. W. V. Hardin, who is very popular with the trade in Wil mington. ' j " Detached from Cotter. - The numerous friends in the city of Second Assistant Engineer J. B. Tur .ner, of the United States revenue cut ter Algonquin, will regret exceeding ly that he has been detached from the cutter her9 'and assigned to duty in supervising some of the naval con struction at Trigg's shipyard, . Rich mond, Va. Mr. Turner will leave about the middle Of the present week to assume the duties of his new posi tion. No order has yet been issued as to Mr. Turner's successor. Foiled ao Attempt to Rob a Savings at Lynn, Mass. By Telegraph to tne Horning Bt&r. Lynn, Mass., April 28. A bold at tempt was made to rob the Lynn Five iCent Savings Bank shortly after noon to-day. During thei lunch hour a man approached . the teller's window ancK passed a note to Harriet P. Houghton, who was on duty; . The note read: "Don't speak or make any noise or I'll put a bullet through your brain. Count out $500 and be quick; pass it to -me without trouble. I have two friends watching us now and any attempt to communi cate with any one will mean your death." . Miss Houghton, although consider ably alarmed, quickly reached a but ton near her desk which sounded an electrical califor the police. Then she coolly informed the man what Bhe had done. Without a pausf the robber rushed from the bank and disappeared down Market street The pelice ar rived a few minutes later. NEW YORK CENTRAL STRIKE. Strikers Claim That Thirty-two Hundred Men Have Quit Work. . By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Buffalo! April 28. It was arran- ged to-night that the representatives of the striking shop and repairmen of the New York Central should meet in consultation to-morrow afternoon with commissioners. The contention will remain in abeyance pending the interview. - Beyond the joining of the striker to day by men of the Western; 4 New York and Pennsylvania, the . Lehigh "Valley, Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western and Nickel Plate, the situation is unchanged. The strikers claim to-night that 3,200 men are out; and the railroad men concede 2,200. North Carolina Versus Georgia. Atlantai Qa., April 28. In. the third inning : of to-day's game at Brisbane Park, Umpire Lynch gave North Carolina a run on a balk which the Georsria men claim they knew . nothing of until the last inning, al though the JNortn uaronna scorer nau it on his book. In the ninth inning, Georgia made four runs, and the large crowd , after cheering themselves hoarse, went home under the impres sion that North Carolina had been de feated by one run. Ther score was North Carolina, 7; Ge0rgia,.7. The engagement of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, second son of the late Cor nelius Vanderbilt, and Miss Elsie French daughter of. Mrs. Francis Ormond French, was announced yes terday. ' 1