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Atten tion has been called to an article in tho Chicago World To-day for Sep tember, which declares that cotton -la plunging the Southern people into poverty, and if it still is king, as was once the boast, it is a monarch that is destroying its people. The writer of the article in ques tion is Prof. Frederick Austin Ogg, of Indiana University. A'ccording to this professor: "The crop-lien system, with all its attendant evils, is becoming more and more widely established. It has become a gen eral custom of planters and tenants to use their credity with local mer chants to secure supplies in advance of marketing their crops. Some ob servers believe that as much as nine- tenths of all the cotton produced is sold in this manner. Not infre quently the crop is mortgaged for its entire value before the seed is sown. The rate of interest on all liens averages 40 per cent." Possibly this was the case when tho cotton planters, returning en tirely impoverished to their ruined homes and neglected lands after the Civil War, were making desperate efforts to rebuild their wasted for tunes. Possibly those planters who ho 1 1 not learned to fortify their portions by diversifying crops in the late nineties when the staple got down to 5 cents and less, realized that times were hard; but in the face of the vast recuperation and re vival of prosperity that have taken place in these Southern States since the closo of the Civil War, the great est portion of which has resulted from the growing and manufacture of cotton, only dense ignorance or unmortby jealousy can find any rea-1 80n to declare that COttOn 18 tne I bane of the South. Prof. Ogg's conclusions on the subject of cotton are as far as the width of the world, and as different as is night from day, from those of Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, of the Baltimore Manufacturers1 Record. Mr. Edmonds, who is one of the ablest political economists and most exact statisticians in this country, recently writing from Atlanta, says it is conservative to estimate that the South thia year will receive for its cotton crop $600,000,000, and for the last four years, seed in - -eluded, the South has realized from cotton alone more than two billion, or two thousand million dollars. - In addition to this, the manufac ture in the Southern mills of two million bales of cotton this year will add to receipts for cotton $200,- 000,000 more, which with $100, 000,000 for cotton seed products, will raise the receipts for this year's cotton to $900,000,000. According to Mr. Edmonds' fig ures, to be added to this magnificent showing for cotton is the grain crop, which likewise promises to be the - beat the South ever had. The value of agricultural products in the South other than cotton will exceed $900, 000,000 this year, or a total to the credit of the work of Southern far mers of $1,500,000,000, against $000,000,000 in 1880. Since 1880 the South has increased its popula tion by about 60 per cent., while it has increased tho value of its agri cultural products by 150 percent. Daring the same period it has devel oped the value of its manufactured and mineral products from $474, 000,000 to about $1,700,000,000, or a gam of 258 per cent. Taking agri culture, minerals and manufactures together, the gain has been from $1, 074,000,000 to $3,200,000,000, or 198 per cent., against 50 per cent, in crease In population. . It is useless to attempt to write down the South. Its progress is so ' r 1T1TT7i-' A Tr7TT7T;rTr -.rrr rm a Trr .X?:.: VOL. XXXIV. decisively and steadily unward tht only the blind can fail to see it. The great railroad companies are reali sing the situation so vividly that not only are they pushing their lines southward, but trade is being diverted from Eastern routes to so great an extent that the commerce of inch a metropolis as New York is already suffering and demonstrates that suffering by a plaintive outcry. JJ rom every point of view there is a grand future for these Southern States, and they are already real izing the prosperity resulting from the development of their great re sources. New Orleans Ficayune. THIS FARMER'S VALUE- The wealth of the American farm er and his value and importance to the world is set forth in some very interesting facts and figures in the New York Commercial. Our con temporary quotes A. B. Stickney as saying in a recent address that in the census year 1900 the aggregate value of the products of all the farms of the country was $4,739, 118,000 an aggregate income suffi cient to purchase all the enormous bond and stock issues of the huge Steel Trust in the first two months of the year; all the stock of the Standard Oil Trust at 700, which is about its market value, in the next two months; all the stocks of the minor trusts in the next two months; to buy all the national banks in the next two months; to pay the bonded debt of the government in the next two months; to retire the greenbacks in less than one month, and still have about $500,000,000 left over. But on its own account the Com mercial estimates that the value of the farm products this year will be in excess of $5,000,000,000, and then brings out these additional points: The farmers of the United States employ over nine million per sons and pay out in wages every year over $300,000,000; the railroads employing over 1,000,000 people, depend largely upon him for their traffic; thousands of ships, flying the flag of every civilized nation, draw their earning from the business given by the American farmer. Finally, attention is called to the fact that let the crops of the American farmer fail and railroad earnings immediately fall off and trade begins to react, while the cost of living, not only in this country, but in England, Germany and France as well, will immediately rise. Truly we have it demonstrated here that the American farmer is about one of the most important valuable factors-in the world. In deed, when it comes to wealth, and to indispensibility to this country, he is pretty much the whole thing. Richmond .News Leader. A Spartanburg, S. C, special of the 23rd inat. to the Greenville Daily News says : "A young mar ried couple hailing from the ever lasting hills of North Carolina, where the candle light vet holds sway and nature's gas lies unmo lested beneath the rocks and boul ders, narrowly escaped asphyxiation at tne Spartan Inn at an early hour tM win; no- hv r1nwincrrat the pm. Bnt for the acute nostrils of Night Clerk Goodlett the coroner might have had a job to-day, and what seemed to all to be a honeymoon to have ended in a double tragedy. Their names are withheld for fear the gold brick or green goods people will get after them. And so J. Wiley Shook has again been relieved of his job. It seems special revenue agents of Greens boro, 'made reports to the commis sionerat Washington; they conflict ed, and the commissioner forthwith notified Collector Harkins to dis miss Shook. It is now said that J. Wiley is whiling away the time by cursing the Washington adminis tration. It is said that "boneless cod" shipped out of Gloucester, Massa chusetts, is not only "boneless" but "codless," the same being prepared from pollock. We are assured that pollock is all right, much whiter and sweeter than cod, but is unfor tunate. It has to masquerade in order to get a market. . Now that Dowie has a barrel of money aamuel Stevenson brings suit against the prophet for $10,000. Publicity is not a good thing in all cases. The President has approved the Hawaiian bond issue of $1,229,109. This issue is authorized under the Hawaiian loan account, and is for one year only. It was quite superfluous for Mark Hanna to deny that he is going to resign the national committee chair manship A child was christened in a lion's den in New York the-other day. Anything for novelty goes nowa days. SCHOOLS OPEN NEXT MONDAY Both City aid County Districts Supplied Wltb Excellent Corps of Teachers. Superintendent Blair Reelected.' As before stated, both the city and county public schools will open next week and pupils and teachers alike sre already making arrangements to resume their duties after the happy vacation days. The attendance upon the city schools promises to be larger than ever this year and nearly the entire excellent corps of principals and teachers has been retained for another session. That is a guarantee of the splendid work that will be done. At the Union School there will be two new teachers, Miss Isabel Bryan, of Scott's Hill, and Miss Sarah Crews well. of this city, they having been elected to fill vacancies. Miss Mary Cronly has been transferred from the Hemen way to the High Bchool, to fill the va cancy caused by the resignation or Miss Sue Hall. Mr. Jno. J. Blair, of course, has been re elected superin tendent of the schools and he will be here in a few days to arrange for the opening. Prof. Washington Oatlelf, the county superintendent of schools, has been supplied with a splendid corps of instructors for the country dis tricts, both white and colored. A fall list for the several townships is as follows: OAPE FEAR TOWNSHIP. District Nn. 10 White. Hiii Emma Chambers, of Magnolia; colored, Eliza w. uougiass. District No. 13 White, Miss Kath leen Elmore, of Mount Olive: colored. Levi Nixon. District No. 6 White, T. B. Byrd; colored, J. J. Clemmons. FIDEEAL POINT TOWNSHIP, niatrlrt No. 8 White. Mill Lola Worley, of Pink Hill; colored, (to be ailed.) District No. 9 Colored. Sarah K. Hubbard. HARNETT TOWHSHIP. niMrfet Nn. 7 White. rEast Wil mington), Miss Bettle Pearsall; color ed, Miriam B. Nash. niatrlnt Nn. 13 White (Middle Sound), Miss Effie E. Johnson, of Mognolla; colored. Bare sx. uoii. ni.trid No. 11 White f8cott's Hill), F.M. Foy, Jr.; colored, Mollie Matthews. District No. 5 White, (Wrights willaV MIbb Paitia D. Thome, of Ailin. Halifax countyr colored, Thos. J. Sterling. District No. 14 White, (ureenvme W. O. Mlddleton; colored, Lucile H. Butler. District No. IB White. (Delffado). Misses Augusta Wiggins and Beba Myers. MASONBORO TOWNSHIP. District Nn. S. White. (Mvrtle Grove), Jno. M. Wright, of Old Hun dred. Diitrict No. 4 White (Masonboro), J. P. Herring; colored, Jane L. Crawley. SNATCHED WATCH AND RUN. Cotton Mill Foreman Lost Fine Gold Time piece Last Nfght. Mr. N. M. Hunt, a foremsn at the Wilmington Cotton Mills, reported at the police station last night a most daring robbery from his person at Tenth and Princess streets. Mr. Hunt was on his way home between 11 and 13 o'clock and a young negro ap proached him and asked him what time it was. The negro was so re spectful with the Inquiry that Mr. Hunt drew a new gold watch from his nocket and told the boy the time. The Inquirer drew nearer and asked Mr. Hunt if he was certain that was cor rect. Mr. Hunt replied yes, but had no sooner ten got the word out of his mouth than the negro snatched the time-piece, broke the chain loose from Mr. Hunt's vest and jumped over a fence. The owner chased the negro a short distance, but did not overtake him. Beer Bottle the Wespoo. Jealousy led Callie Robinson, col ored, to smash her rival, Julia Pearce, colored, with a beer bottle yesterday morning, and as a consequence of her action she was arraigned in Justice Fowler's court at once for an assault with a deadly weapon. She gave bond In the sum of $50 for her appear ance at next week's term of th,Supe- 1 W flnnrt. . WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1903. " " j CARNIVAL ARRANGEMENTS. Permanent Officers Elected aid Chsirmea of Committees Announced City and County Oranted Privileges. Now that county and municipal au thorities have granted all the neces sary exemptions and privileges, the Jr. O. U. A. M. Carnival Committee is going right ahead with the arrange ments for the big street fair in Wil mington Oct 19 th -24th, Inclusive, and indications point to a big success. The committee met at 10 o'clock yesterday morning at the office of Mr. Jno. E. Wood and effected a permanent or ganization by electing Mr. Wood chairman ; William J. Bellamy, Esq. , secretary; O. B. Anderson, assistant secretary, and C L. Spencer, treasurer. Carnival matters in general were quite enthusiastically discussed and the various departments of arrange ments were assigned to committees, the chairman of each of which is as follows: Parade Col. A. Watkins. Tickets W. E. Yopp. Confetti Bobt. H. Cowan. Amusements A. J. Hewlett. Fireworks O. B. Anderson. Voting Contest W. E. Yopp. Privileges and Licenses J.T. Burke. Advertising and Transportation Jno. E. Wood. Lijrht and Water Supply Dr. J. D. Webster. Each committee chairman is empow ered to appoint two other members to assist him and those appointments will be announced at the next meeting. The transportation committee will call upon the railroad authorities to morrow and make an effort to sscure very low rates for all who desire to visit Wilmington during that week. A ipecial advertising agent will be also employed to visit ail towns be tween Wilmington and Goldsboro, Newborn, Fayetteville, Hamlet, Flor ence and Soutbport. Attractive litho graphs will be posted and every in indnceaient will be held out to have as large an attendance of country people at the carnival as possible. The Lay ton Company, which will furnish the attractions, Is at Newport News this week and several tele grams regarding me arrangements were exchanged yesterday. The O. R, L & P. Co.. has kindly agreed to furnish all lights free of charge. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MET. Entertainment of Panther and Carnival Privileges New Member Sworn In. A called meeting of the Board of Cour.'y Commissioners was held yes Uiday morning. All members were present, Commissioner M. W. Divine having been sworn in by the Clerk of the Superior Court and taken his seat " member of the body. :' The only business transacted was the appropriation of $250 for a joint enter tainment with the Board of Aldermen to the officers of the German warship "Panther" this week, and the granting of the usual exemption from tax of the shows and exhibitions of the Jr. O. TJ. A. M. carnival here the week of Oct I9tb. Profitable Farm. Monroe Journals Mr. B. B. Mont ford, of New Hanover county, has been spending some time in Monroe with h5s sister, Mrs. Antoinette Beas ley. Mr. Montfordlsa truck farmer, located five miles from Wilmington. "I had a lettuce bed in the early Spring," said he, "comprising less than one-eighth of an acre. I sold the lettuce from it for $125, shipping it to Philadelphia. On less than two acres, embracing this bit, I then planted Irish potatoes, selling my crop for tl20. most of which was also shinned to Philadelphia. On the same ground IV" planted corn, which is now e' and ten feet high." That is the wa ' the truck growers of the Esst farm, and that section is destined to become very rich. T Epidemic of Diphtheria. There is said to be an epidemic of diphtheria in Onslow county and much alarm Is felt in some sections over the rapid spread of the disease- Several deaths have already occurred. The qus ran tine regulations, It Is said, are being very poorly observed, espe cially In the rural districts. NORTM - STRICKEN BY PARALYSIS. Sopt. M. 0. ChsoVIck, of Consiy Home, Suffered Stroke Friday Moralng While la Harvest Field. The many friends in the city of Mr. M G. Chad wick, superintendent of the County .Home, will regret ex cefdingly to learn that he suffered a stroke of paralysis about 10 o'clock Friday morning and Is now in a very precarious condition as a result there of. His entire right side is affected and his power of speech is gone. The Stroke came upon Mr. Chad wick while seated on a hay rake drawn by two mules, which he was operating about four miles from his home. Mr. Chad' wick was alone at the time, but man aged to stop the . team and motion others In the field to his assistance. Ho was taken home and was doing as well as could be expected early last night THE FAYETTEVILLE WATER WORKS. Receiver Appelated Peadlar Salt Involving Recent Approval for City Purchase. Special Star Corresjxmdence. Fayittkyille, N. a, Sept 25. Judge H. B. Bryan on yesterday ap pointed Dr. H. W. Lilly, of this city, temporary receiver of the Fayetteville Water, Light and Power Company, pending a suit in the Superior Court iigtlnit iald company to compel them to comply with the specifications of a contract entered Into between Mr. Richards, representing the company, and the city of Fayetteville, under which at the expiration of a term of years said waterworks were to be pur chased by the city of Fayetteville, at the option of the Board of Aldermen, the price to be fixed' by a board of aibitration. The readers of the Star will remember that the Board of Ar bitrators met a few weeks ago and ap praised the property at $79,000. Act ing for the Power Company, Mr. Richards declined to turn over the property at the figures named, hence the suit now entered. Dr. Lilly, the temporary receiver, Is to take charge of the property, collect all rents, etc., and hold the same In trust until final adjudication of the questions Involved. H. Etc. SENATOR JNO. W. DANIELS INVITED. Distinguished Virginia Ststesmsa Msy De liver Elks' Memorial Address Here. The distinguished Senator Jno. W. Daniels, of Lynchburg, Va., has been Invited to deliver the annual address upon the occasion of the memorial ex ercises of the Wilmington Lodge of Elks in this city the . first Sunday in December. ' While no acceptance has yet been received from Senator Daniels, the Elks are very confident that he will come. To Deliver Memorial Address. City Attorney William J. Bellamy, a prominent member of the order in the State, has been invited and has consented to deliver the annual ad" dress upon the occasion of the memo rial exercises or "Lodge of Sorrow" by the Durham Lodge of Elks, on the first Sunday In December. Mr. Bel lamy's services In the capacity of me morial day orator have always been much in demand, attesting his popu larity as a speaker, and the high es teem in which he is held by the B. P. O. E. Mr. Settler's Qenerosity. Contractor O. D. Morrill has a force of men at work fitting up nice apart ments for the new public school to be taught in District No. 12, near the Hope farm, on Castle Haynes road. The building was donated to the com mittee by Mr. O. F. Beitter, who now owns the "Johnson" place and whose generosity In this Instance is greatly appreciated by the Board of Education. The residents in that section will have a fine school for the full length of the term. A teacher has already been engaged. Car Motormsa Fined. The only ease in the Mayor's court yesterday was that of Motorman J. J. Johnson, of the C. B., L. & P. Co., charged with running a street car Friday night without a head light. The motorman was arrested, by Police man J. D. McOlammv and was fined ' $5 and co t bj iLr jt. CUNA'SlATETOtlSQ -RALEIGH;. ; 1 L i t -N'O SOME UNIVERSITY NOTES. Class Olilcers Elected Qermsn Club. Law and Medlcsl Departments. Special Star Correspondence. Chapel Hill, N. O., 8ept 25. This week has been organization week among the different classes of the Uni versity. The Seniors? met in the chapel Friday afternoon and elected the following' officers : S. S. Robins, president; W. E. Rankin, 1st V. P.; E. A. Council, 2nd V. P. ; L. B. Lock hart, secretary ; R M. Harper, treas urer; O. P. Russell, prophet; A, H. Johnston, statistician; W. E. Pharr, historian ; E. 8. W. Dameron, orator; O. E. Betts, poet The Sophomores, elected the following men to serve for the year : President Claude Cochran ; 1st V. P. ; T. H. Smith, 2nd V. P. ; V. L. Stevenson; secretary, Isham King; treasurer, V. M. Crawford; class rep retentative, J. A. Parker. The follow ing were elected as officers of the Law Class: A. W. Haywood, president; R 8. Stewart, first vice president; O. Adams, second vice president; L. T. Johnson, secretary and treasurer; C. E. Taylor, historian; Jno. Witber spoon. orator; O.'A. Barber, poet; R. W. Herring, solicitor; G. R. Ward, clerk; T. E. D. Andrews, sheriff; A. I Bullwlnkle, coroner. Dr. Thomas Baffin was elected judge of the moot court. The following are officers of the first year Medical Class : Presi dent W. O. Rice; secretary, B. P. Noble; treasurer, H. B. Best. At a meeting of the University Ger man Club, Friday aftertoon, the fol lowing officers were elected: M. O. Siaton, president; H. V. Worth, vice president; L. G. Bountree, secretary; P. Cumming. Jr., treasurer. T. D. Mearer, Jr., was chosen leader of the October german. x The first of the faculty lectures for this year was given by Dr. K. P. Bat tle. Thursday evening, in Girard Hall. His subject was, 'The Similarity of the Development of the Constitution of North Carolina to that of the En glish Constitution President F. P. V iable has just re turned from Atlanta, where he went to attend a meeiing of the executive committee of the Southern Educa tional Association. The purpose of the meeting was to decide upon a place for the next annual convention of the Association. "The best in the South," is what a prominent electrician and salesman for one of the biggest electrical con cerns in America salt to-day of the electrical equipment now being placed in the physical laboratory of the University. There is no doubt that the apparatus being put in is ample in amount and well selected for the pur pose. The Sophomore Foot Ball team Is E radioing hard for a game with Bing am School at Mebane, on October 3rd. Oapt. Yelverton says be will undoubtedly develop one of the fastest class teams In the college. LOUIS T. MOORE. GEN. IAN HAMILTON Is Here oa a Visit to the Battlefields of the Civil War. By Telegraph to the Homing Star. New Yore, Sept. 26. Lieutenant General Sir Ian Hamilton, who parti cipated in the defence of Ladysmitb, arrived from Liverpool on the Lucania to-day. .- General Hamilton will remain in this-country only three weeks and a portion of that time will be spent in Canada -visiting various military posts. General Hamilton said: I have only five weeks leave of absence, so that I shall not be able to stay as long as I wish. I want to look over the great battlefields of your civil war Gettysburg, Antietam, Chancellors ville, Fredericksburg and the rest" General Hamilton came here on the invitation of General Oorbin and other American army officers whom he met at the German army manoeu vres and he will be accompanied by some of them on his trip to the South ern battlefields. LYNCH1NQ IN OEORQIA. Negro Who Assaulted a Small White Girl In Decatur County. By Telegraph to.the Horning Etarr1 Thomasvillk, Ga., Sept. 26. A negro was lynched this afternoon about five miles north of Whlgham, a town in Decatur county, twenty miles west of here. The negro assaulted a small white girl this morning. Up to a late hour to-night it was im possible to get particulars concerning the affair. Harry Oleson and Jack Johnson,' a sailor boarding house keeper and his assistant, were arrested in Savannah by United States authorities, charged with forcibly taking eight negroes and forcibly putting them on board a Rus sian barque as sailors. The men are now penniless in London. Oleson was reccently arrested for shanghaing A two white boys. NO. 49 THE STATE CAPITAL. Handsome New Structure Rec ommended by the Legis lative Committee. THE DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES. Besntlful and Elegantly Appointed Rooms for the Senate and House Supreme Court Library Homes far the Other Officials Notes. Through the courtesy of Hon. Jno. O. Drewry, secretary of the committee appointed by the Legislature at its last session to Investigate the advissbility of remodeling the State Capitol build Idc, the Star is permitted this m or n i&c to present a cut of the proposed nr -7 structure together with some dsta at o the improvements contemplated. Tt v cut on this psge is a correct repre sentation of the Capitol as it will ap pear when remodeled after the plans ar d specifications prepared by Archi tect Frank P. Milburn: The main building will remain as it If, forming the centrsl feature, as ah -wn in the cut. The view shown in the cut is taken from the northwest corner of Capitol Sauare. showinsr the north and south wing additions, which. win i ouxiuu; me rear or east wing la not shown in this cut. The pure classic style of the old building is to be carried out on the new additions. The extreme dimensions will be 808 north and south, and- 202 east and west The main west wing will be 65x100. The main central feature will be the new dome, which will be lo cated over the present rotunda; this dome will be 150 feet above the main first floor. An open view can be bad from the lower floor to the dome above. Domes of less height will sur mount the north and south wings forming an architectural feature over the Senate and House. The basement or the esst wing 65x100, will be used for boiler, fuel and heating apparatus. Additional space is provided for public toilets ana lor the storage of old re cords. Bpace is also provided for elec trie elevator machinery. The base' ment story of the new north and south wings will be divided into storage space to be used by the Governor. Treasurer,. Secretary of 8tateand Au ditor. The main first floor corridors will extend through the new wings, 18 feet wide. Four wide, easy tread stair ways are provided in addition to the two electric elevators, which will run from the basement to the gallery floor: they will be. locatad in the centre of the building, in the wide east and west corridor In order to obtain a satisfactory ar rangement, the architect suggests the following allotment of the space on the first floor in the building, which, nowever, is subject to changes here' after by the Board. Assuming that this arrangement will be satisfactory to the Board, the present Governor's office will be used by the Railroad Commission; the prerent Treasurer's office will be used by the Insurance Commissiones; the Secretary of State will use one-half of his old space, the other half will be given to the Enrol ling Department; the auditor will use his present space and "be given addl-. tional space in the new north wing. The Slate library will occupy the en tire first floor of the east wing, which will be 65x100, with additional space for the' Librarian, 15x25. The Adjutant General will , have an office 15x25 opposite the librarian on the east and west cor ridor. The Governor will occupy half the floor space on the first floor in the new south wing. The State Treasurer will occupy the space in the new south wing opposite the Govern or. The Secretary of State will oc cupy one-half of the floor space on the first floor in the new north wing, and ill also use one-half of hispresent- omce. superintendent of Public In struction will occupy one-third of the space in the new north wing opposite the Secretary of Btate. The Auditor will use the other room which is con nected with his present office. The main second floor corridors will extend from the House to the Senate, north and southland from the Su preme Court room'to the main portico of the east entrance, east and west and crossing at the central rotunda. The Supreme Court room will occupy the entire second floor of the esst wing. The Attorney General will have space on the cross hall near the Supreme Court room, office 22x24, with a private office 15x22. The Senate will occupy the central portion of the new north wing on the second floor, which will be semi-circular in shape, two stories high, ar ranging for galleries above, which will also be circular. Ample space is provided for fifty members. Rooms are provided for Lieuten ant Governor, clerks and sten ographers, and ten large committee rooms and toilets. - The House will occupy the central portion of the new fouth wing with accommodation for 120 members, two stories high, with large gallery on three sides. Separate rooms are provided for Speaker, clerks and stenographer. Fifteen large committee rooms with toilets, also extra large joint committee room. The Supreme Court Library will occupy the entire floor space of the third floor in the east wing. Book elevators will be arranged for the convenience of the court room on the floor below. In addition to the main room, two other rooms will be provided, one for the Librarian, and the other for a packing room. MARYLAND DEMOCRATS. Stste Csmpslrn Opened Race Issue the Borden of All Speeches. .; ,By Telegraph to the Horning Star. Baltimore, Sept 26. The Dem ocratic State campaign was opened to day in the presence of about 8,000 per at Mount Airey. Among the speakers were General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia; Edwin Warfield. the nominee for governor and exOongress- man Joshua Miles. The burden or all the speeches was the race issue. In his remarks Mr. Warfield declared that "the great and Dressing problem of the day, not only in Maryland, but In every section of our common country. North as well as South, East as well as West, is the negro question and it cannot be put aside." i Connsel for Congressman Gnd crer have completed their brief in t.:- r- nr,,l'-m ltfa election by a u.(.j lify of approxi - mately 500. IWtiSoD. a roDacco atiuKcnaE measures feet 7 inchasrin height, 7 inches in circumference, ana bore about 70 leaves. The stalk forks about half way up and has just begun to seed. A negro bovont hunting sauir- rels about three miles from Bed Springs, saw a grape vine shaking, and Beeing something moving thought it was a 'possum, and shot it. A negro woman fell, the load taking effect in her face, putting out her eyes. , A negro, whose name is not known, was carried to Raleigh from Norlina Thursday night for treaty ment. He was employed in a Sea board Air Line gravel train and was caught in some machinery, pitched in the air and fell on his head. Ho is unconscious and cannot recover. Newton Enterprise'. Mr.' J. A. Yoder received a letter Sunday from his wife, who is at Montezuma, Mitchell county, in which she de scribes the Winter weather they aro having in the mountains. Water in the water buckets has a thick covering of ice every morning, and the window glass and trees are white with frost. Tne weather reminds her of January down here. A Raleigh dispatch says: Late Thursday night J. W. Mangum, well known here, drank two ounces of laudanum, intending to commit suicide. Members of his family discovered what he had done and summoned a physician, whose ad ministration, of antidotes soon brought the old man around. Asked why He took the poison, ho said he was tired of life and had nothing to live for. - A Charlotte special says: At the inquest over the body of Will Smith, in Sharon township to-day, the coroner's jury, presided over by Coroner Cathey, found "that the deceased, came to his death from a Sistol shot wound at the hands of ohn Kirk, who fired the revolver with cnmmal intent." It was at first thought that the shooting was accidental, but after, the burial the suspicions of the connty officials were aroused and the inquest was held. Wadesboro special to the Char lotte Gbserver: To-day the jury brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree against ill Boggan for the murder of John Sullivan. The defendant's lawyers immediate ly tried to have this verdiot set aside, but failed. Judge Cooke, late this afternoon, sentenced Boggan to be hanged. This will be the first legal hanging that has occurred in this county since about 1870, - when two negroes were hung at the same time. . Moravian Falls correspondent Statesville Landmark: At Summit, this county, a fatal accident occur red last Friday. Mr. Scott Church was examining a gun which was accidentally fired, the bullet taking effect in the body of a small child belonging to a Mr. Phillips. The ball passed through the child's body, killing it instantly and wounding another of the Phillips children in the arm. The children were at school and were among other children on the playground when tho accident occurred. Strange to say, no one was hurt except the two Phillips children. About a year ago Mr. Phillips himself killed one of his . Own children by the accidental discharge of his gun. This is a remarkable instance two children of the same family killed and a third wounded by the accidental dircharge of a gun, all in about a year. Statesville special to Charlotte Observer: John Disher, a young white man who has been in the em ploy of the Key Furniture Company for the past two or three months, was arrested this morning on a war rant issued at Lexington, charging him with seduction under promise to marry Miss Ada Ford, of that town. The first knowledge Miss Ford's family had of the affair was by accident yesterday. She went to her room and found some mem ber of her family reading a letter which she had received from Disher and which she had left lying in her room. The letter was dated States ville 16, and among other things contained the information that Disher would leave Stateaville that night for Columbus, Ga. When the young lady saw that her letter was being read she turned away, secured a bottle of laudanum from another part of the house and at tempted to take it, but was prevent ed by a member of the family. On learning the circumstances of her trouble, two of her brothers secured a warrant and came to Statesville last night. This morning Disher was arrested and agreed to accom pany the Messrs. Ford to Lexington and make satisfactory adjustment of the matter. Ashevllle special to Charlotte Observer: More is being heard here of the Bey. Hyder, the itinerant preacher whose marital entangle ments have been the subject of much discussion, Mitchell county, stated, Mr. Hyder principally in As heretofore has a quartette ox wives in Ashevllle ana had no trouble in organizing a choir, num erically very strong, when he con ducted a series of meetings in a tent on the outskirts of the city. His last courtship was interesting. One night after the service he was ap proached by Mrs. Fannie Embler, or Hyder, or Blackwell. Any way, Fannie, after telling her ex perience, - how she had been uplifted by the discourse, gave the further information that she was a widow, or presumed she was, as she thought her busband had died in South Carolina. Mr. Hyder expressed his deep-seated sympathy for the widow and or phans, wherever found, and said it was his painful duty to bring con firmation of the death of the hus band in South Carolina, whence he had just arrived. The preacher and the widow were promptly married and the very next day Embler, the husband, showed up. And thus it was that an Asheville lawyer was as tonished the other day when a very good-looking woman came into his office and expressed her very earnest desire to secure two divorces, with as little delay as possible, one sam she did not have any use for either 1 TCmhlol- or Hvder. the clerical an- 1 oeiver, and she wanted her freedom J twice, ' i