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This is an admission, if nothing more, thaj; it needs defence and a good deal of A few days ago Secretary Root came to the rescue in a speech delivered in Mr.! McKinley's home town, Canton." He1 made a calm and dispassionate speech and perhaps as able a defence as has been made of. the McKinley "criminal aggression," to which the speech was mainly devoted. In this he differed decidedly from the ver bose, flamboyant Senator Beveridge, who believes in our picking np and appropriating all the loose islands on the seas which Borne stronger power has not already picked up; or the vituperative Roosevelt who a few years ago pronounced it a horrid, indefensible and. very un-American act to do the very things which he now advocates and denounces better Americans as traitors or cowards for opposing, for believing as he did when he wrote as a historian and not as a politician or a candidate for office. Secretary Root started out with denying that the Declaration of In dependence and "the consent of the governed" has, any application to the people of the Philippines or any other than the-special application to the people for whom it was written. But that's the only way they can defend this war of "criminal aggres sion," by denying one of the funda mental principles on which this Re public is founded. Secretary Root need not tell us that the writer of the Declaration did not mean to say that every tribe of men on the earth 'is capable of . intelligent, progressive, self govern ment for ho knew and everybody knows that many are not, but does that justify another nation in seiz ing possession of their territory and force its rule upon them because its rule might be better for them then' their own rule? Betweenna tions tho right of discovery justifies takiog possession of lands inhab ited by savages, on the principle that the earth is given to men for use and not to run wild, otherwise possessiou must come by conquest, or purchase, or treaty. He assumes that we are there by rights that the people of the .Philippines ard not capable of self government,, that therefore the Declaration does not apply to them, and that we can pro ceed to whip them in and to govern them by force without any regard to the Declaration of Independence. This is simply begging the ques tion, for the opponents of the policy which the Secretary defends deny that we are there by right and deny that tho Filipinos are incapable of self-government. We do not assert 'that they are capable of construct ing and successfully conducting a government like ours, which might not be adapted to the temperament and peculiarities . of those people; but they are capable of construct ing a government to suit themselves quite as well as our government suits us. He justifies forcing our govern ment upon those un willing x people by a quotation from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson, in which he r said the people who inhabited the Louisiana territory when purchased by him were not capable of self government and. therefore they were governed by Congress without their consent. The first part of this is true be cause that was a very extensive, and very sparsely settled territory, with many more Indians than white people in it, butwe are, not aware of the fact that there was any protest gainst or resistance to the authority " f this Government when France "inde the cession, for the provisions f-f the purchase act stipulated that ' h(! people who .owed allegiance to ranee should be given the same 1 ;:hts and privileges enjoyed by citizens of the United States, and t h n y were accordingly . treated as J titizeii8. , As soon as practicable they wee given" territorial govern ments, and later the territory was ! aubdivided and the sub-divisions VOL'. XXXII. WILMINGTON, N, O, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1900. N0. .1 admitted to full fellowship as States when they had the requisite popula tion. There was no government by powder and shot and soldiers then, and no ignoring of fundamental principles, for thqse people gov erned themselves just as the people of our territories now do. There ia no intention of doing anything of this kind with the Phil ippines, for when the treaty of-Paris was before the' Senate for ratifica tion no one asserted that it was the intention to hold permanent do- minion over those people. If there naa been that , treaty would never Have been ratified by that Senate. On the contrary, the Senate passed a resolution denying that there was any such intention, or any intention to incorporate thoBe people into the citizenship of the United States, while in the case of ' Louisiana and Florida and California both of those purposes were distinctly avowed. This destroys the parity-and makes the citation of the case of Louisiana by Secretary Root totally irrelevant." isut who is to be the judge as to whether a people are fit for self- government? The power which in sists on the right to rule or the peo ple over whom the rule is to be ex tended, assuming ihat they are peo ple of ordinary intelligence?" Ens- land repudiated the Belf-rule decla ration in our - Declaration of Inde pendence. She held that it had no better application to us than the Mc. Kinley expansionists now sav it has to the Filipinos." The justification ana defence of monarchical gov ernment is the inability of men to govern themselves, the very aigu ment the expansionists now make to justify forcing their, government upon the Filipinos, who, they say, will be better governed bv us than they could be governed by them selves, ust as the defender of the monarchy says the people will be better governed by a king than they could govern themselves. Mr. Root and other defenders of expansion by bayonets take their argument from George the III, and not from George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. FOREIGN MARKETS. The Republican statesmen and stumpers have -become great advo cates of opening foreign markets, an d this is one of the principal argu ments they advance in justification of the McKinley method of expan sion, asserting that it will secure for us not only the markets of the lands we grab but that it will give us the vantage ground for the extension of trade in countries adjacent. As far as the desirability of for eign markets goes they are'right, although they are wrong as to the method of securing them, but it took a good while to educate them up to an appreciation of foreign markets. In every discussion we have ever had on the protective tariff the position of the Democrats who opposed high protection Jras that this' country must hbve access to the foreign markets in or der to dispose of its surplus products and manufactures if it ex pected continuous and permanent prosperity, while the Republicans poo-poohed the foreign market and insisted on building up the "home market" as all that was necessary. Thpy whacked on the tariff taxes to build up the home market and soon found that overcropped, and then our manufacturers were forced by ne cessity to strike ' out for the world market or shut up shop. ; They did, and by their tact, in dustry, energy and ability to "com pete with foreign manufacturers they have increased their expqrts from year to year until, they amount to more than a fourth of our iotal exports, and find markets in every country under the sun. This was done without any grab game, or any soldiers with powder and shot, but in a legitimate way of business, the only way our trade with other coun tries can be built up. A French experimenter has suc ceeded in melting wood. .He places it in a closed vessel, from which the gases are not ' permitted to escape, and after undergoing a process of dry distillation the wood is reduced to a molten condition. When cooled the new .substance is hard, 'may be shaped and polished; is impervious to water! and acids, and is a perfect electrical non-conductor. - A Berlin review figures out that the people of the world now write about 12,000,000,000 letters a year, 8,000,000,000 of which are in Eng lish, 1,200,000,000 in German, and 1,000,000,000 in i French. The rest are divided among other European countries. The reviewer doesn't seem to have taken into account the letter writers of Asia and s other countries on that side of the globe. Hon. John G. Carlisle, who can't make a choice from the eight vor ten Presidential tickets in the field, will not vote, and as Hon. Grover Cleve land is in the -same predicament he will probably go fishing or gunning, if the weather is favorable. "l ; : -- - ' - ; - - I JUSTIFYING CORBTTPTIOIT. Cbeek is one of the characteristics of the Republican politician. They have in all political, emergencies relied largely upon the free'use of money, and finding this successful they have increased their campaign funds from year to year, until under Hanna they have reached phenome nal proportions, running up into many millions. The very size of those funds -.precludes,' the supposi tion that they are needed, or used for strictly legitimate purposes. Mark Hanna now pretends to be in dignant at the charge . that he in tends any of his fund for .corrupt purposes, but everybody who knows anything about the machine methods since he has been running it smiles at this put on indignation. . But some of them' sneer at this talk of corruption and make light of it by asserting that the Democrat who talks about voters being bribed casts a reflection f upon his own party, in which the bribery must be dtfne, and argue that it is no more corrupt to buy votes than it is to Bell them, which is true; but because there are "men who will sell their votes a very low order of men, and men as a rule who .have no political principles this does not palliate or justify the buying, any more than stealing by a thief justifies another in receiving the stolen goods. These men who buy votes pretend to be respectable, law-abiding, law respecting citizens who would not receive stolen goods; but they will receive bought or stolen votes, for these bought votes are simplv stolea Lapk of moral training, social envi-I ronment, neea 01 money may be the extenuating circumstances in the case of the morally obtuse,Tr hard pressed man for selling his vote, but there is no extenuation for the men of intelligence and presump tive in respectability who buys it either directly or through a hired agent. That votes are sold is no. reflec tion upon the Democratic party, for the men who sell their votes are not Democrats they are simply floaters on the political current,, who are np to the highest bidder and will vote for the party paying the 'highest price. There are a good many of these in the United States, and some of them aire so in the habit of making merchandise of their ballots that they stand around , the polls waiting for the highest bidder with out concealment, and this is, in States 'and localities where the peo ple who sell their votes are in com fortable circumstances and not only where the vulgar, venal mob gathers. That's the element that the bribers deal with; that's where- they find their material but they are not Democrats, and therefore their be ing open to. purchase is no reflec tion upon the Democratic party, whose true followers are unpur chasable. Gen. St. Clair, of West Virginia, got himself rapturously kissed, at one of the Bryan meetings in West. Virginia, by an enthusiastic widow Who mistook him for Bryan. Bryan stood at some distance, saw the pre dicament of his friend, but declined to come to the rescue. It is the only instance on record where he ever dodged. Ex-Chairman Hoi ton, of the Re publican State Committee, is help ing the Democrats by causingj.he arrest of Democratic registrars, the object of which is to intimidate. He isn't doing much intimidating, but he is making lots of our fellows mad. The Republican election 'steerers have been busy for some time im porting negroes from Missouri and Others States where they will not be needed on election - day into Illinois where they will be needed. At such times they find the colored brother very useful There are some remarkably sharp men in New, York. A telegram says that some of them have succeeded in beating Hanna's committee out of $100,000 on forged checks. The man who 'could beat Hanna's crowd out of money must e sooners. - , For some years there has been a war on in Washington among the wive of Government : officials as to which outranks the others and have precedence at public functions. Mrs. Dewey is in it this time as claimant to precedence. . According to a steel rail expert, the profits of the Carnegie Company on steel rails last year were $7,272, 000. They now make rails for $15 a ton and demand $26 for them. : The Chinese like this country so well that they are slipping in the back way over the Canada line. ' ' Election for President and Conoressman and Primary for United States Senator, Tues day, November Sixth. THE-SIMMONS MEBTINQ. Editor Star "We see it stated by a Carr disciple that the Simmons en dorsement meeting: was a .yerygraod affair, numbering, it is said, precisely lOi persons. We have never been able to appreciate the logic which would cause a preference for Mr. "Carr over Mr. Simmons until the' statement re ferred to made its appearance. And the public is n6w to understand! that the ability of the Carr adherents to ap preciate Mr. Simmons' fitness for Sena or and value to the State, is demon strated in their mathematical inca pacity. The meeting in question was remarkably representative, and num bered unquestionably betweeft 200 and 300. The proceedings of the meeting were very conservative, and so far from depreciating Mr. Carr, praised his virtues above their deserts. The matter is simply a question of fitness for the position of. Senator, and isup- K wed to be friendly rivalry in the emocratic - family. But such com i munications as the Vance-Faison' letter should cause every sincere and unbiased man to rally to the support of Mr: Simmons, not on his account alone but in defecne of the integrity pf the White Supremacy victory In North Carolina. The fact that such a letter should have been given to the public with Mr. Carr's evident consent, shows that that gentleman would be incap : able of respresenting: the State as a whole, for he would -consider the men who supported Mr. Simmons as being eaemies tn nn Klip, morula ) nnsmfiia of public trust The friends of Mr. Carr must indeed ord to justify such an attack osthe a -1-1- i a m . i private uuu pumic virtues oi tne man who has done so much to redeem the St&te from TiftriuhlinaTI mla an1 naw domination. Pour years of service to A. I m t . . . . . toe iron i mignt cover a multitude of sins, but hardly four months, t v White Supremacy. " MERCER & EVANS COMPANY. New Department Store Now Open The Cash-In-Advance System. . The new department store of the Mercer & Evans Company, Nos. 115 117 Princess street, was thrown open to the public last week. The store had no formal opening but Mr. J. B. Mercer, president of the company, informs the Star that the people are ' rapidly ap preciating the cash-in advance system recently inaugurated at the store and are affording a good patronage from the very start. The adjoining store room to the shoe store has been nicely fitted up and a ..stock of new goods has been placed for the Fall and Winter trade. Extra clerical help has also been se cured and Mr. Mercer, who organized the company, appears to have laid the foundation for a successful and long, enduring business. Mason boro Fishing Crew. Captain J. MHewlett, of the Mason boro Sound Fishing Crew, pronounces the mullet season thus far the best in twenty fita years.- The number caught in his f in? from September 1st to October 2..h, is 250,000 and exception ally good' hauls for the season are still being made. The length of Captain Hewlett's seine is 230 yards and the crew this season consists as follows: Lewis Todd and John C -sten, first and second captains respectively, of boat crew; bow oarsman, John Cos ten; midship oarsman, B. Franks, col ored; stroke oarsman, Sim Franks, colored; boat followers, Robert Pead rickandGniss Lumsden; seine crew, Charley Dick, Bill Dick, James Ras berry, Willie Hewett, Josh, Kit and Thomas Franks, colored; Van Everett, colored; Jessie Walton and Beth Wal ton. The seine and boat ' is owned by Captain Hewlett, J. A. and Elijah Hewlett. Decorated With 'Simmons Branches. An ardent admirer in Wilmington of the Hon. F. M. Simmons yesterday decorated both show windows of his store on Market between Water and Front streets with branches of a 'aim mon tree sent him by a friend in Brunswick county. As the famous North Carolina persimmon, as "it grows upon de vine," haibeen adopted by Mr. Simmons' friends as the official badge for his senatorial campaign, the aforesaid supporter was soon besieged by pedestrians along that way, who were anxious to provide themselves with the official badge of the State chairman. Many of the half ripe per simmons on the branches for decora tion were soon clipped and borne off upon the lapels of coats worn by other "ardent admirers," who" cheerfully re marked that the fruit would be full ripe by next Tuesday. The Star office is indebted to the 'badge head quarters" for a supply left yesterday afternoon. ' New Machinery at Quarry. The hoisting engine and derrick which the city has bought for use at the rock quarry, have been placed in position and the engine was run yes terday to test the machinery all the parts worked nicely. . The engine and derrick will falititate matters very much and will do away with hauling rock out of the quarry in . wheel-bar rows. Heretofore 20. men were en gaged all the time with wheel-barrows, but now they can be used in the quarry and more rock can b6 gotten out. ' - With steam, two tons of rock, can be hoisted at one time. If everything turns out as expected the machinery will be started to-morrow morning. v A Brunswick county man, who was in the city yesterday, swapped horses. As he was crossing the river on his return home yesterday after noon he found he had "a high stepper and a high kicker." The horse jumped over the railing of the flat and it was only with difficulty that the animal's life was saved by getting him aboard the fiat again. . : . ' ---. i CHAS. D. BALDWIN DEAD. Prominent Savannah Citizen, Formerly of Colambns County, Passed Away at Petersburg Wednesday. , - The sad - news of . the death of Mr. Charles D. Baldwin, of Savannah. Ga. was received early yesterday by his friends and relatives in this section of the State.. : He was a native of Columbus county and a son of Col. W. M Baldwin, of WhileviUe, N; C. He isof an old line of Scotch descent, on both sides, which for so long ihas' added to the prosper ity and material development of Southern North -Carolina. ' : He was a prosperous merchant at Whiteville about eight years-ago. but more inviting fields of trade induced his removal to Savannah, where, as a member of the great firm of Peacock. Hunt & Company, they controlled the naval store market of the South. He accumulated a good fortune, due alone to his push, his energy and hia T ? 1 .... 1 nign Duainess qualities. He felt symptoms some years asro of heart trouble, and soueht relief at Wrightsville, where he spent last Sum mer; then at Saratoga, and New York city, but to no avail. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ida Sew ard, in Petersburg, Va., Wednesday night, where he was resting on his re turn home. He was 52 years of a?e. and a big hearted, open, and generous man. Many can trace their success in life, to his generosity, kindness and helping hand. Mr. Baldwin married Miss Eliza Powell, of Columbus county, and two cmiaren, jars. Seward, ot Petersburg, Va., and Mr. Willie Powell, of Savan nah, Ga., survive him. i Mrs, W. L Jackson, of Whiteville. and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce. Williams and daughter, of Burgaw; Miss Maggie McDaniel and Mr. Ellis McDaniel, of Whiteville,lef t last evening for Peters burg to attend the funeral. Mrs. Wil liams and Mrs. Jackson are sisters of the deceased and Miss McDaniel and Mr. McDaniel are-niece and nephew respectively of Mr. Baldwin. SOLDIER BURIED AT BURQ4W. Funeral of Private Saunders, U. S. V., Who Died io the Philippine Hands. Mr. Joseph R.. Saunders, who died in the Philippine Islands on August 15th, and whose body arrived at Bur gaw Thursday, was buried ia the family burying ground Friday. Mr. J. T. Cowan, cousin of the deceased,' went up to Burgaw Friday to at tend the funeral. Mr. Saunders-was a son of Mr. L. EL Saunders. He enlisted at Fort Cas well in the U. S. volunteer army in July, 1898, and was sent to the Philip pines as a member of Company B, Twenty-seventh regiment, U. 8. V. lie rougnt in a number of battles. but never received a wound. He died about fifteen miles from Manila. Deceased is survived by his father. two brothers and two sisters, Messrs. Edward' and Alton Saunders and Misses Vida and Alice Saunders. HORSE FELL ON HIM. Mr. H. A. Martindale Painfully Injured at His Home on Masonboro Sound. Mr. H. A. Martindale, of Mason boro Sound, while riding horseback over his farm yesterday morning, sus tained very serious injuries by his horse falling in a ditch and rolling over on him. The horse was fright ened by breaking in a bridge over a ditch near by and before he could be gotten under control he stumbled into the other ditch. ' Mr. Martindale hurried home as quickly as possible and Dr. E. S. Pigford was summoned. After ex amination he found a dislocated shoulder and a fracture of the left shoulder blade. Dr. Pigford saw no signs of, internal injuries. Mr. Mar tindale is 63 years old and his injuries will go very hard with him. It is feared he will be i laid up for some time. ' - ' Negro Boy Shot. - Last night about 10 o'clock, Henry Armstrong, a young negro, shot another colored boy, Rudolph Her bert, in the major toe of his right foot, at Kidder' sMill. Armstrong was arrest ed by Officer Joe Everitt and placed in the guard, house. The negro who was shot received only a slight wound and was carried' to his home on Third street between Wright and Merritt Armstrong claims that the shooting was purely accidental. He said he had the pistol in his hand and it went off unexpectedly. Col. Wadded Still In Fight: The Raleigh Post of yesterday, says that although Col. WaddelThas with drawn from the Senatorial race he will keep in the fight for good govern ment and will fill a number of ap pointments between now and election. One of his speakings will be at a grand rally arranged for him at Statesville, Nov. 3rd. The Post says in this con nection: There are but few Wad dells in this country and a failure to hear him at -any time on any subject is a loss indeed." The Scholarship Prize. The International Correspondence School, of Scranton, Pa., which "offers a Scholarship to - the - member of the Red team who hands in the largest mumber of names of new members in the Y. M. C. A. contest, has an enroll ment of 225,000 students in the United States and Canada. There are 400 of that number in North Carolina and 57 in Wilmington. The scholarship which it offers the Reds, is worth . $40. 8everal members of the team are running a close race to secure it - THE SIMMONS CAMPAIGN. ! . , . .- , -;- '; Twenly-flve Men iff Each Ward to Push mr. aimmoBs juieresis. - : ; As a result of the conference of the neveral ward committees in the Ma sonic Temple Friday night in the in- terest of the Hon. F. M. Simmons as a candidate for the United States Senate, the following committees of twenty five were named, from each ward to assist in the campaign : First Ward Capt. Jno. Barry, F.; P. Lamb, W. H. Cox, Thos. Herring, Geo. L. Morton, J. F. Maunder, 8. H.: Terry, G. F. G. Tiencken, W. A. Wrieht. Mike CJarrnll. IT. A . Fort. man, Thos. B. Carroll, Thos. Quin ii van, o. v. uennis j. M. wooiard J. H. A. Strauss, Jr.T J as. A. Mote, Isaiah West. A-annm TT TTnvea An: drew' Mavronichols, George Schnib ben, W. H. Terry, H. F. Farrow," weo. Jung, u. A. smitn. r Second Ward Frank- TT Rtarirrinri P. Quince Moore, Geo. S.LeGrand E. S. Pigford, J. G. L, Giescaen, Daniel Qaihlivan, G. W. Britt, Sig mond . Bear, Jurcren Haar, - Geo. E. Leftwicb,- M. M Parker, Jno. H. Sweeney, Cuthbert Martin, R. W. Wallace, W. V. Hardin, H. E. Boney, R. C. Banks, John Boesch, Pat Glavin, G. W. Linder, W. C. Gallo way, J. O. Munds. Otto Banck, W. G; Eyaos, W. N. Harriss, - Third Ward Geo. H. Howell. W: B. Cooper, Harriss Yopp, J. T; King, George Harriss, Weliinftton Banks, Henry G. Fennell, John E. Crow, 8. J. Ellis. Robt Bellamy, Wm. Good man, C. W. Yates, Ed. S. Battle. S. H. Fishblate. T. ' Rn ten thai S T Adams, J. O. Morrison, W. G. Pulliam, Jas. H. Taylor, Jr., D. M Williams, Louis Hall. H. H. Mcllhenny, John Marshall, E. C. Holt, A. J. Marshall, Jas. A. Montgomery, L. B. Sasser, R. A. Parsley, N. E. Gillican, H. B. Pe schau, W. B. Thorp, B. J. Jacobs, T. Morgan Turrentine, W. C. Yar borough. ; . Fourth Ward .Tnhn T Rllmir Jr.. 3rd J. H. Wattw W. TT. OrAAn J. L. Boatwright, W. W.Howey, Wil liam j. oeuamy, w. i. ineet, K. w. Price, Martin S. Willard, Steven weensn, w. m. Cumming, fJ. H. Robinson. J. 55. ' TTin Kenan, Iredell Meares, Mike Corbett, w. -a., mcuowan, j. u. ttiggins, w. S. Hewlett. E. D. Sloan, W. F. Rob ertson, James 1L Stevenson. Fifth Ward T. Jt Prasann 1 T Yates, R. H. McCoy, E. P.H.Strunck, jo. uvxienc&en, u. ii. uewett, w. if. F. Newton. r. MMT.aftrm-n T? T. Litgen, R. A. Burnett, C. C. Redd, T. J. Gore, Henry Bennett, Freeman Yopp, J. P. O'Sullivan, Julius Gor don, R. A. Biddle, Fred Griffith, D. JLj. x. uapps, W. A. Riach, L. D. BordnaiiT. R M Wilann H A T?K. bins, B. F. Penny, A. J. Hanby. MARRIAGE AT LAURftBURCj. Miss Annetta Everett i Happily Wedded to Angus u. McLean, Esq. Specidl Star Correspondence. Laurinbtjrg, October 25. Miss An netta Everett, of this place, 'and Mr. Angus D. McLean, of Maxton. but latterly of Washington, N. C, were united in marriage in the Methodist Church at 9 n'nlrwOr last nioht tha pastor, Rev. W. 8. Massey, officiating. ) Everett, sister of the bride, who at tended with Mr. A W. MfTjan nf Lumberton. Misses Bessie Bonner Mc- ijean, sue Uovmgton, lsabelle Brown and Mary McEachin were bridesmaids. Ushera. Mr Rnhrt H TCirnrAtt Mr H B. McLean, Mr. Pendleton, Mr. Rod- WV T m m-. v . man, oar. j. a., uoob:, ur. feter Jobn and Mr. James F. McNair. Miss Katie McLean presided at the organ. After the marriage an elaborate re ception was given at the residence of Mrs. M. W. Everett, mother of the bride. THE STATE FAIR. Twenty Thousand People on the (hounds. Annual Meeting Officers Elected. Special Star Telegram. Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 25. Today was the principal day of the State Fair and the crowd that entered the gates is estimated at twenty thousand. To-night, at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Agricultural So ciety, President McNamee declined re-election, and Gen. Wm. :R. Cox was chosen president of the next Fair. Secretary Pogue and Treasurer Denson were re elected. Must Provide' Fire Escapes. Chief Charles Schnibben is busy these days in notifying owners of buildings required to be furnished with fire escape that the law must be com plied with at once. Hitherto the law has not been enforced, but the Fire Committee has instructed the chief '-'to turn over a new leaf," so to speak, and see that the ordinance is enforced. The penalty for refusing to comply with the law in this particular is $50 fine or imprisonment for not exceeding thirty days, either or both, at the discretion of the court. Steamship Mathilda Ashore. The Norwegian steamship Mathilda, 2,269 tons, very heavily laden with kainit from Hamburg and drawing more than 21 feet of water, went ashore in the river, . about five miles the city, at 1 o'clock yesterday after noon, while proceeding up from South- port to Wilmington in tow of the tug Blanche. The barge Louis H., with a force of stevedores, was sent down to lighten! the steamer ' soon after her grounding and she is expected to pro ceed up to the city to-day.- , Marriage Announcement. Mr. and Mr. Geo. Martin, of Morven, N. G, have issued invitations to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Grace, to Mr. Marcus Lafayette Ham, on Wednesday afternoon, November 7th, at 2.30 o'clock in the Methodist Church. Mr. Ham is A. C. L. agent at Morven. Ex-President Grover Cleveland, in terviewed last night in regard to his having been offered the presidency of Washington and Lee University, said : "I never heard of it, thought of it, or -dreamed of it, and I don't belie ve any body else ever did, either." . SUGAR CANE SPECIMENS. Mr. E. D. Pearsall, of Rocky Point, Suc cessful Grower, Has an Interesting Exhibit at This Office. , Mr. E. D. Pearsall, of Rocky Point, A successful sugar cane crrower and all-round good farmer, who combines theory with practical knowledge in hii agricultural operations', yesterday left at the Star office three specimens of sugar and sorghum cane which are for the examination of those inter ested in its culture. Mr. Pearsall outlines the several varieties, as fol lows:. - V ; "dolman'" nr Tin 4 MRA vonot. that was originated at Deer Lodge,' KaS.l ' ExnprimftTit Sbit.inn Tt nnana seventv-five dava from thA timn nt planting, is free from rust, a fine hog j ,j j I.. . auu yuuiiry iooa ana me seea are now largely used in adulterating flour by being ground with wheat, especially in making maccaroni flourat Yield this season 204 gallons per acre. Have tested the following varieties and find it superior to them all, viz.: Early Amber, Wolf-tail, Red Top, Honduras, Goose. neck. OnmnAina Whito T.ihor- ian, Orange and Honey. Its early 4uaiibics ouhuics ih iu ua pianiea xaie in the season, after truck crops are taken from the land. The .per cent age of sucrosi is large. PearsaU'a Pender Sprout A variety of cane remarkable for its hpuVht.- Ia prolific, can be planted three feet apart in the drill and. one foot on the row five to six s talks ma? ha ft to a hill. It ripens too late for a. general crop ior syrup, out is gooq. tor bog feed. Is easily blown down by storms. - Oh in ASA Tm nhn ThA first oonu aitav imported into the United States, and was extensively grown during the civil war. The Confederate soldier regularly drew his ration of sorghum 3 t j . 1 n i . huu wiiu a inns nour ne managea io make what he thought a palatable cake.' This cane has a large per cent, of glucose and at the experiment sta tions has been discarded as a anro-hum for making sugar. GREAT DEMONSTRATION BY CHICAGO DEMOCRATS. The Largest Political (lathering Ever Held in the Windy City Addressed . by Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson By Telegrapn to the Horning star. Chicago, October 27. Probably the largest out door political mass meet ing ever organized in Chicago was held to-night in the. half mile of J3tate street known as the "Court of Honor." The great thoroughfare was thronged wun a cueenng, jostling, perspiring mass of neoDle. Chairman J. K. Jones, of the Democratic National Committee, . has designated this as jnag Day" and tne national banner played an important and spectacular part in tne celebration. Portraits of Bryan and Stevenson were also num erous along the broad street. The weather was perfect for an out door de monstration. . ' , . - Along both sides of State street speakers stands had been erected at short distances and from these points Democratic orators of national promi nence addressed the portion of the multitude nearest at hand. The chief speaker was A. E. Stevenson, former vice president and again a canididate for that office. Mr. Stevenson's speeches at the dif ferent stands, half a dozen in number, were necessarily very brief and proba bly were not heard by any part of his audiences' more than - twenty feet away, on account of the . shouting, blowing of horns, constant surging to and fro and the general disorder inci dental to a large open air gathering. Probably the largest crowd that he ad dressed was around the stand erected between Madison and Monroe stkeets. At Madison street, State street be comes narrower and this caused great congestion, the people pouring in from the broad part of the street to sur round the stand from which Mr. Stevenson spoke. The police had to fight their way through and it was some time before Mr. Stevenson could be escorted from the carriage to the - stand. . From this point he faced a solid, struggling, enthusiastic mass of , humanity, stretching - from . Monroe to Madison.' The people were so eager to get within hearing distance that the police could do nothing with them; the jam was terrific; women screamed and fainted, and at last the confusion became so great that Mr. Stevenson desisted and regaining his carriage with great diffi culty was driven to.the next speaking. More or less confusion and disorder prevailed at all the meetings, but at none of them was there anything like a hostile demonstration and no abate ment -of enthusiasm wherever Mr. Stevenson appeared. The crowd sur rounding the stand at VanBuren street,, although very dense, was one of the most orderly addressed by the former vice president It was well along toward midnight when the big mass meeting or collec tion of mass meetings, came to an end. The only untoward incident was an explosion of fireworks among the crowd at the Van Buren street end of the parade. The explosion caused a stampede and a number of people were trampled unon and slur htlv burned, but apparently no person was senqusiy injured. JENNIE BOSSCHIETER MURDER. Coroner's Verdict Charging Four4 Young Men of Paterson With the Crime. : Bv Telezrapn to the Hornlns Star. New York, October 27. A Jury empanelled by uoroner Vroom of Ber gen county, N. J., in the case of Jennie Bosschieter, whose death is alleged to have been caused by the administra tion of a drug while she was in the comnanv of four vounir men of ' Patt erson, to day brought in the follow- lngvercuct: .. . . ... .. . We, the jurors, being duly sworn and charged to inquire on the part of the State of New Jersey, when, where, how and after what manner the said .TAnvifo T?rmoVt i of Ar am a 4a Vi aw K do say upon our oaths aforesaid thai the said Jennie Bosschieter came toiler death, according to the evidence pro- Aimorl . An f tl a 1 Qf K ?ait..F fWAlun in the county of Passaic, and that Walter McAlister, George D. Kerr, Andrew Uampbell and William Death are re sponsible for tne same. ; The work of counting the inhabi tants of the United fttntea - a nnn ticallv camnletAd vAstardAV and thim week Director Merriam will announce tne population of tne country.. - Mnnrnfl 7Hnnuirri . Th num ber of chattel mortgages and crop liens given in this conntvJn 1900 is lees bv 198 than ft vai In 1R99 ThA MnraiT. lation of chattel mortgages and liens goes on beautifully. , , Mount Ohve Advertiser : The banking business, resulting from the sale of truck in this section, amounted to $1,000,000 the last season, of which ' one third was handled- by the Bank of . Wayne. It is safe to assume that next Bokson the bank at this nlace will han dle at least $200,000 of this business. - Rockingham Anglo-i$axon: A -negro named John Brown was brought . to Rockingham . Tuesday night and ' placed in jail, charged with a criminal assault nil A min(r Omntan orirl - Sessums on the tram road about half a mile from Hoffman, last Saturday. Ha was arraign ad hnfnrA 'PlmiirA -Rut. ler at Hoffman, Tuesday,, and com mitted to jail without nrivilece of oau. ; Kinston Jree Pressi . Sinston people were surprised this morning to learn that Mr. T. B. Yancey, of Vir ginia, who married Mrs. Mattie Moore Here lant Tuesday, bad been arrested on the charge of bigamy. Mr. Yancey has a wife and two children near : Jason. Greene county , but claims to . have be9n divorced from her. He ap peared before Justice J. , G. Cox at 11 o'clock and the case was continued till Monday, by which time it is hoped that his wife and children and the au-. thoritieaat Boydton, Va., will be com?' municated with and the ttruth known. Salisbury - Twlh-ftdex The negroes many of whom 'are strav characters and have not been in Salis bury more than two weeks are trying to get on the registration -books here. , For the past two days it has been evi- - dent that all the negroes in this vicin ity have intended to vote if they were permitted. The whole aim and pur pose seems to - be a desire to defeat Hon. Theo. F. Kluttz for re-election. - t is believed that negroes are being colonized; - It is more than likely that some of these individuals will bo in dicted and made examples of. . Newbern Journal: A, double wedding occurred in Beaufort county last week in which the groom was 61 ' years of age and the bride 21 years. The son of the groom, 21 years of age. marriea a nrst cousin or tne brute, who was 24 years of age. The groom of the first part by a former marriasre had nine sons and three daughters. The boys names all began with J. and the girls' names began with L. the names of the girls being Laura. Lena and Lizzie. Another son, some years ago, married a sister of the present bride, so . that father and son have married sisters. . Raleigh News and Observer: Tuesday the Raleigh Hosiery Company began the work of excavation for the foundations of their new hosiery mill. This will be situated on the Snow property just north ofithe penitentiary . and will be up to date in every respect. -The mill property will be a three story Dries: building .100x40 feet. The Littleton Hosiery Mill Company was chartered Tuesday.- The capital stock $2,000, and the incorporation is to last , thirty years. There is no exhibit at the State Fair more beautiful and delicious than the James grape exhibit by Mr. O. E. Warren, of the Riverside Nurseries, Greenville. -These grapes can be, shipped and will be good for . weeks, which gives them a decided advantage over the scuppernong. fapers in bankruptcy were filed here Tuesday bv Zach F. Lone-, of Rockingham. The liabilities are placed at if lo.uuu, and assests are unkown. v - Wadesboro .Messenger InteUi- gencer:lHLv. Asbury Bailey died at the nome. of his son in-law. Mr.. Jan Dixon 'in Wedesboro township. Tues day night The deceased was a well . known citizen and was ubout 83 years -old. John (Dock) Atkinson, who lives near town, murderously assault ed his father in-law, Mr. John .Car- -penter, Friday afternoon. -Mr. Car penter, Atkinson and Atkinson's wife and two children were in a wagon to gether, inthe lot back of Messrs. H. W. Little & Co's store, when the assault was made. Atkinson was drinking ' and Mr. Carpenter upbraided him for not buying sugar with 50 cents fie (tJarpenter) had given him for .. that . purpose. Atkinson new into a passion -and plunged a knife into the breast of -the old man. Fortunately the knife ' was deflected by a rib, or Carpenter would have been instantly killed, en the blade entered the breast immedia- , tely over the heart. As it was the point of the knife only lacked about an eighth of an inch penetrating that organ. After the cutting Atkin son jumped from the wagon and ran. but was caught by mr. J. p. Mills, and ' is now in jaU. . , Fayettevilld Observer: John Council, the burglar who terrorized this community for two months, commit ting half a dozen burglaries (five of which he confessed) - and numberless - robberies, was yesterday allowed to X 1 1 A - , , . 1 . ' pieau gouty to uurjfiary in vue second . degree, and was sentenced to the State prison for a term of twenty-five years. For two months, night after night, ihe entered tne homes of many of our prominent citizens, where there were no male protectors,'in several cases en- tering the bedrooms, and carried off numerous articles, many of which were found at his home or at the home of hia paramour, Queen Ivy. The case named the police, despite the fact that -a geat number of special police were -appointed to patrol the different resi dence section of the city. He was only caught when In a hurried departure -from the residence of Thomas Broad- foot, Moore street which he had just robbed, he left his hat and a butcher . knife. These were at once identified ' by Chief of Police Flowers as the property of Council, and led to his undoing. Queen Ivey, charged-with receiving stolen goods, 'vy Council, has not yet been been sentenced. TWINKLINGS. The Matrimonial Lottery Miss Askins "Do you believe in church , lotteries!" De Witte "Well er I rather like church weddings." Pjuck. -. Might 'Do ? There.- "Maude thinks of applying , for a position as soprano in a church choir." - " Well, there's a church for the deaf np on Seventh street" Philadelphia Event ing Bulletin. : ; :,y j ( The ravages of" time: t Mrs. Walle 'Tm sure the constant anxiety must have been terribly wearing." Mrs. Luers "Wearing? why, in the last three years I've grown to look at least six months older VLife. : Clergyman "My i child, be- - ware of picking up a toadstool . instead of a mushroom. They are easy to con- w fuse." Child "That be all roight, sur. Us hain't agoin' to eat 'em ourselves they're agoin! to market to be sold.". Tit-Bits.. . . . ...iJ.;.? r . He "Oh, pray," Miss Dalrim- -pie, don't call me Mr. Brookes.!1 She "Oh, but our acquaintance has been ' so brief. This i so sudden" (Sweetly) t ujr - uiuuiu x utui .you ' Jut. - Brookes?" He Oh only because my name'a Somerset t" Punch. , r Her Definition "Yes," said Miss Cayenne. . ;He ia undoubtedly a cynic." .."What is ' your r idea ot a cynic!" 'He is a person Who keens you continually in doubt whether he -, is unusually clever or unusually disa i irttM-rWashington Star. : - .' '