The News and Observer
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 137.
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SIFTING THE EVIDENCE
ATTORNEYS IN THE SHEMWELL
MURDER TRIAL SUM
MING UP.
JUDGE MONTGOMERY'S SPEECH.
II Was a Lucid and Able Presentation
ol the State’s Side of the Case-Asks
a Verdict of Murder in the First De
gree—Seeks to Show That the Killing
Has Wilful, Deliberate and Premed
itated—Congressman Linney Opens
For the Detence—Other Speeches.
Special to the News and Observer.
Lexington, N. 0., July 11.
In behalf of the State against Baxter
Shemwell for the killing of the late Dr.
R. L. Payne, Judge W. J. Montgomery
at 8:40 this morning made the opening
argument.
The Judge seemed iu good shape and
byway of preliminary touched upon
capital punishment from the biblical
standpoint, (seemingly with his eye main
ly upon the Quaker on the jury), sajing
that it was author zsd by the Old Testa
ment and not abrogated by the New, as
instructed by St. Paul at Caesar's judg
ment seat.
The speaker then handed to Judge
Boykin his instructions, an analysis of
which was about as follows:
First, under the new statute the State
was required to prove, beyond a reason
able doubt, that the killing was wilful,
deliberate and premeditated in order to
convict of muder in the first degree.
Second, that in murder of the second de
gree, the killing being proved,
the burden was shifted to the defen
dant to show that he was justified.
Third, byway of deduction, that if
Shemwell left his drug store armed with
two pistols, with the intention of pro
voking a difficulty and of using his pis
tols, it did not mailer who made the
first assault or drew the first pistol, he
was guilty of murder in the first degree
He then proceeded with this argument:
First, that the jury could not find the
defendant guilty of a less crime
than murder in the second degree, because,
the burden of proof being upon him,
only eleven witnesses including the de
fendant, five being kins people, had
sworn one statement hiTV \
and twenty-nine disinterested witnesses
had contradict.*! them, and, therefore,
he had not satisfied the jury of his in
nocence. Second, that the State will
ask for a verdict of murder in the first
degree, because tbe evidence shows that
it was wilful, deliberate and premedi
tated.
Addressing himself to the first gene
ral division of bis argument, Mr. Mont
gomery contrasted the witnesses respec
tively for the defendant and for the
State. Patting Dr. Lee Payne against
Shemwell, ne said the former did not
have as much motive; Mrs. Lee Payne
against Mrs. Shemwell; little David
Crotts against Dermott Shemwell;
W. B. Hamner, fifty five yards off,
against Trantham, 206 yards off;
Gertrude Hamner, 55 yards off,
against Mrs Wheeler and Miss Alice
Shemwell, each, 164 yards off; Tussie,
107 yards off, against Ford, 206 yards
off,‘whose father is in the employment
of Shemwell. He asked the jury to put
the character, story, capacity, interest
and motive of each group of witnesses,
one aga nst the other.
Then speaking of old man David
Crotts siDgly, who was walking along
with the doctors Payne at the time of
the killing, Mr. Montgomery said Crotts
had lived three score years and all he
had was his character, which he had
built up through all that time, and would
he now perjure himself on the holy evan
gelists without a motive ?
Addressing himself to the second gen
eral division of bis argument as to mur
der in the first degree Mr. Montgomery
covered three points: first, malice; sec
ond, intention; third, preparation. Un
der the first he cited the alleged state
ment of Shemwell in the magistrate’s
tria 1 referring to the weakined eye of
old Dr. Payne, namely, “I wish I had
gotten his other eye.” Again, ‘‘l thank
you, Mrs. Addertor, but 1 will kill them
before night.”
“Is that malice, gentlemen? Is that
malice, gentlemen ?” exclaimed the
speaker. “It is hell’s own decoction of
blood and gall. As to intention, look at
. the mound in yonder cemetery.” As to
preparation,he exhibited the pistols to the
jury —one 38, the other 41 caliber—which
he said Shemwell had carefully loaded.
Again that he said, “I have accom
plished what I determined to do.” The
speaker said this was the exclamation of
one who was exultant, exuberant over
his deed, and that God Almighty had
thus so arranged as that murder would
out. He said that the positive state
ment of Lee was entitled to more weight
than the statements of those who contra
dicted him, as was that of Mrs. Adderton
a'so. Rearing upon this principle the
spe tker referred to the account of the
thieves at the crucifixion given by the
four evangelists; Matthew aud Mark
said they both reviled the Saviour, John
said nothing on this point, Luke said one
exclaimed, “Lord, remember me,” and
the positive statement was the ac
cepted one.
Then Mr Montgomery continued
quotiug J. H. Hamner’s testimony of the
prisoner’s statement to the sheriff: “I
am your prisoner; I have done my do.”
Beau's testimony: “I heard him tell
Mrs. Shemwell, ‘I told you they would
not get me first.’” Tussey hoard Mrs.
Shemwell say to Shemwell, “You prom
ised me you would not do it.” O’Neal
testified that Wheeler said as Shemwell
was coming out of the drug store,
“Baxter, don’t do that;” and Wheeler
slid the speaker was not put up to deny
this.
Mr. Montgomery then contrasted the
conduct of the two parties after the first
shooting, one walking slowly home, the
other hunting for guns, goiDg for pis
tols, sending down home so * a Winches
ter, going here and there breathing out
slaughter. The only thing said tbe
speaker, in the nature of a threat testified
to against the Paynes was that when
Mrs. Lee Payne cried to her husband,
“Lee, Lee there comes Shemwell with
a gun,” her husband asked the of
ficer to arrest him, and said
“If he comes here I will lay for him and
kill him.” Then following Shemwell
march up the street, the speaker said he
could not wait to sign his bond after the
trial, he was in such a hurry to pursue
the Payne’s that his counsel, Robbins,
had to say to him, “Sit down, Baxter ”
Again the speaker used with strong ef
fect the appearance of the people behind
him. “Two hundred people,” he ex
claimed, “saw. Shemwell’s demeauor as
he walked along. Why was every
eye riveted upon him ? Why were
the stores emptied, and why did
the women come from their
sewing machines to look ? Why did men
stand aghast expecting every moment to
take place what did take place? Why
did not he send for the buggy, he sent
for the horse ? Why was it necessary to
carry his wife’s pistol home just then?
Aye, his eye was lit with madness
and his face w r as dark with settled hate.
How was it if Shemwell did not make
some demonstration, old man Crotts
should cry out “Look out Shem well’s
upon you ? ” The range of the bullet
that went crashing through that old man’s
breast shoved the truth of the testimony
a j to positions of parties. Why does a man
put up tvo pistols if he means to shoot
atone man only? He was shooting at
both. Why did he take time to pull the
second pistol before he shot? why did
not he U3e the one he had out, if he did
not intend to shoot both ? Focalizing his
points iuto a final sentence the speaker
said, “If he prepared his pistols for that
purpose it is murder in the first degree.”
Then he began his peroration. “They
tell you the old man was a conspirator
and a murderer. Did ever a conspira
tor die with such words upon his lips,
“Lord Jesu*, receive my soul’ ? Then
the speaker added, “Simon son of Jonas,
lovestthon me? Lord Jesus thou knowest
all things, that ( iovethee.” The speaker
referred touchingly to the devotion or
Shemwell’s wife, which deeply affected
her, and to the cheerless hearthstone,
and vacant chair at the old homestead
of the Paynes. “The tears have dried,”
he said in c’osing, “the busy world has
gone back to its vocation, when every
little bird would sing as if to burst its
heart with joy, you hear from yonder
widowed home only a plain live cry.”
Mr. Montgomery’s presentation was a
masterly piece of iogical oontruction, the
analysis of which only is given here, for
he spoke two houss and forty minutes
with fervor and effect, that was felt by
the crowded court house, as well as by
the jury. The speech may well s’and
forth to the public as the whole conten
tion of the State, as an exhaustive and
lucid summing up of the testimony
brought forward.
Mr. Montgomery was followed by Mr.
Linney the fir.it speaker for the defence.
Mr. Linney tossed aside the poetical quo
tations in Mr Montgomery’s speech,
and said he proposed to address himself
to the intelligence of the jury. Mr. Lin
ney’s speech seemed to take root in the
theory that Mr. Lee Payne hated the
prisoner. Tbe presence of Dr. Buchanan
here had been attributed to Shemwell by
Dr. Payne, and therein lay the begin
ning of hate. That as an evidence
of the growth of such hate, even
callaterally, Payne had refused to
attend John Harkey with Buch
anan, though Harkey’s skull was
crushed> that through this hate in the
son, the father had been influenced and
his greatness paralyzed; that young Dr.
Payne had turned his back upon Harkey
and that too upon a most damnable tech
nicality. “Talk about trusts,” said the
speaker, “thii| (referring to the medical
profession) is the blackest, meanest trust
that ever cursed man. The black list of
doctors was illegal in its nature and
develish in its benefits. This action
towards Harkey had its origin in hatred
towards Shemwell.”
Then Mr. Linney went into an apos
trophe on malice. He said young Pa) ne
had been armed for three weeks and that
Shemwell found it out. Shemwell want
ed to adjust all differences but his pleas
for peace were all in vain. The two men
met at the barber shop, Payne 200
against Shemwell 140. Pa>ne put his
hand to his pocket, Shemwell undertook
to stop it. Shemwell saw the emergency
and drew His pistol more quickly.
Shemwell said, “ You have tried
to destroy me.” Payne very flatly
denied it. Payne’s disposition was
such as that he could not brook opposi
tion, and he knew his father would sec
ond him. He poured into his father’s
mind a cask of hell broth distilled by his
distempered heart. The chief complaint
against Shemwell was his energy and his
power to accumulate money.
Mr. Linney here went over the two
difficulties telling iu different language
only, substantially the story that had
been told by the defendant. He
spoke of Shemwell’s provocation when
old Dr. Payue spoke of having practiced
free for his mother, and said that at the
first difficulty he was standing in the
presence of a concealed enemy (referring
to young Dr. Payne in the office); said
there were three men against Shemwell,
aud asked why did not they tie him, be
cause they did not want to. The Paynes
wanted to take sight at him like a rat.
Here Linney eulogized Watson for
having developed the fact that young
, RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1895.
Payne was in his office and had looked
through the door at his father and Shem
well and compared young Payne to a
man behind a turkey blind. He said but
for Redwine, saying, “Don’tshoot,” they
would probably be now trying Dr. Payne.
He spoke of tbe miserable conspiracy
formed on that occasion. They invited
the struggle, they brought on the tor
nado, that swept Bhemwellinto thetrou
ble. If the guns of the Paynes had not
missed fire, they both would have exhib
ited their crime on the gallows.
Mr. Linney made the point that a cut
ting of the subclavian artery caused
death in a very few T moments, and,
therefore, the old Doctor must have been
off the street, as stated by Shemwell, as
otherwise he would not have had suffi
cient time to get there. He said the
reason young Payne did not plunge with
his father after Shemwell was tnat he
was busy with his pistol. When it failed
to fire young Payne became confounded
and an imbecile, even in the hands of
little Dermott. He said there were Bto
1 against Lee’s testimony that Shemwell
had said he had done what he had de
termined to do.
Mr. Linney reviewed the testimony of
the witnesses for the defence, and made
a feeling plea for the prisoner, who
with his wife, sat in full view of the
jury, the wife cast down with tears and
the prisoner tearful too for the first time
as he gazed with steady features at the
jury. Mr. Linney closed after having
spoken two hours and a half, and was
attentively listened to by the jury and
all those present.
The afternoon was consumed b/ Mr.
Williams for the State aud Mr. Buxton
for tbe defence, in admirable and elabo
rate speeches. Mr. Buxton at one time
had the whole room in tears, aud some
people remarked after court that his had
been the speech of the day.
W. E. Christian.
DON’T WANT TO PAY TAXES.
Private Stockholders of the N. C.
Railroad Refuse to Meet,
Special to the News and Obsever.
Greensboro, N. C., July 11.
The stockholders of the North Caro
lina Railroad again failed to hold their
annual meeting here to-day owing to
the fact that the private stockholders re
fused to go into the meeting and there
was, therefore, no quorum prtsent. This
is the third time the meeting has failed
for this reason.
It & well known that Gov. Carr wteho
the road to surrender the tax exemption
clause of its charter, but this cannot be
done except in a meeting of the stock
holders, and as the private stockholders
are opposed to the surrender, they re
fuse to attend the meetings and thus
prevent such action, since no quorum for
the transaction of business can be ob
tained without their presence, this also
has the effect of preventing the election
of Dew officers and directors, and the
old officers and directors will, therefore,
continue to hold over.
The directors held their regular an
nual meeting to day.
Hon Lee S. Overman, erf Salisbury,
tendered bis resignation as president of
the road, and Hon. A. H Alexander was
elected to succeed him.
WAYLAID A YOUNG GIRL.
An Ex-Convict Kill* Minnie Ingersoll
and W ounds a Farm Hasd.
Watertown, N. Y., July 11.-~A girl
of 16 years was murdered and an old
man fatally wounded by an ex convict at
Chapel Hill, near Lowville, Lewis county,
last night. The victims of the assassin
were Minnie Ingersoll, who lived with
her brother, Eugene Ingersoll aud
Nicholas P. Strife, a farm band in In
geraoh’s employ.
Tbe murderer is John H ;ck, aged 30
years, who was convicted of attempting
to murder a young woman in Denmark,
Lewis county, several years, and who
was sentenced to seven years at Auburn.
He met Miss Ingersoll this spring and
became infatuated with her, but tbe girl
would have nothing to say to him. Yes
terday morning Hoch drove from Low
ville to the Chapel Hill, but the girl’s
brother Eugene, ordered him away, and
he drove to his half sister’s home for
dinner.
Driving back to Lowville. he bought a
Winchester jifle and cartridges. Late in
the evening Hoch sneaked into the In
gersoll barn, and when Mi s Ingersoll
passed with a pail of milk he fired, the
ball lodging in her heart. She fell dead.
Strife was following the girl w th a pail
of milk and the murderer fired a second
time, tbe ball entering Strife’s left side.
Strife ran in terror and alarmed the
household. Hoch made for the woods
and escaped.
This morning the sheriff found Hoch
hiding at a farm house. He had told
George Graves, the owner, the story of
the crime, threatening death to him if
they said a w r ord. He showed fight to
the officers, but finding resistance use
less he put a revolver to his forehead
and fired, fracturing his skull. Strife
may die. It is expected that Hoch will
recover.
Still Persecuting Armenian*.
Constantinople, July 11. Two Ameri
can Missionaries arrived at Moosh yes
terday to distribute the funds collected
in England for the starving Armenians.
The condition of the Armenians at Van
shows no signs of improvement. The
Kurds are continuing their depredations.
Being Towed to Wilmington.
Norfolk, Va , July 11.—The Albe
marle Navigation Company’s steamer
Ix>ta, which was in Hampton Roads a
few days ago, was picked up at sea to
day off North Beach by the Red Star tug
Juno and is being towed to Wilmington.
DEATH OF GEN. MARTI
A CUBAN WAR CORRESPONDENT
TELLS THE STORY OF
HIS FALL.
FRANK WOODWARD S EXPERIENCE.
The Spanish Authorities Refused to
Recognize Woodward as an Ameri
can Citizen and he had to Seek Pro
tection From the British Flag-
Alarming Increase ol Yellow Fever
in Cuba and the Other West India
lsiands--28 Deaths in one day.
New York, July 11. —Frank Wood
ward, the Cuban war correspondent
arrived to day by the steamer Ardandhu
from Gibara, apparently noue the worse
for his trying experiences in Cuba.
Woodward, after many weeks
ships, managed to reach Gibara. He
proceeded immediately to the United
States Consular Agency, where
he met Jose H. Beola, a Spaniard
who is not only the United States Con
sular Agent, but an officer in the
Spanish army. Beola, Woodward as
serts, treated him in a most jliscourte
ous manner, advising him to give him
self up to the Spanish authorities, which
would mean imprisonment for a long pe
riod. He was compelled to seek the pro
section of the British flag aboard the
tramp steamer Ardandhu, and through
’he kindness of Captain Walker, man
aged to reach home alive.
Beola, Woodward says, refused to re
cognize him as an American citizen, and
declined to communicate with Santiago
De Cuba, where Mr. Woodward stated
his papers had been filed with Consul
Hyatt, and declared that all American
reporters were paid by the Cubans to
write lies.
Woodward tells the following story of
the death of General Marti, of the Cu
ban army:
“While Marti with about 200 Cubans,
was reconnoitc-ring in the vicinity of
Gibara, he fell in with a force of Spanish
troops numbering nearly a thousand men,
who where drawn upon the banks of a
small river. The Insurgent scouts were
about to retreat when Marti ordered a
charge. The Spaniards, taken by sur
prise soon formed a square. General
Marti mounted on a large gray stallion
which he spurred furiously into a gallop,
charged madly on tbe Spanish square,
breaking down their ranks. The horse
became unmanageable and plugged vio
lently. goaded and pierced by the Span
iards’ bayonets Marti was dragged from
his horse and bayoneted and his body af
terwards riddled with bullets.”
The Yellow Fever in Cuba.
Washington, D. C., July 11.—Advices
to the Snrgeon General of the Marine
Hospital Service, indicate quite an
alarmiug increase of yellow fever in
Cuba and other West India islands. The
week . ending June 29th recorded 28
deaths in Santiago, while there is an
average of five deaths daily at Puerto
Principe, a city of about 45,000 popula
tion. There are about 100 cases in the
military hospital at San Juan de Puerto
R co, and the disease is rapidly in
crease g.
The report from Santiago sayt?: “The
death rate is increasing at an alarming
rate.” The same state of affairs is indi
cated by the report from Puerto Prin
cipe. The Military Hospital at the latter
place is crowded and the disease is of
the most malignant type. This place is
near the centre of the island of Cuba,
which would indicate that the disease is
virulent and epidemic and rapidly mak
ing its way towards Havannah and the
western end of the iMand.
Ban Juan is the capital of the island
of Porto Rico, the most eastern of the
West Indies and one of the Spanish po*F
sessions. The report from this place,
dated June Ist, comes from the United
States Consul there. He says that no
record of the cases is publbhed, but that
be ge'a bis information from reputable
physicians. He attributes the new im
pulse in the disease to the presence there
of Spanish troops, and adds:
“While the military barracks are
never qui’e free from this disease, the
present condition of thing* bids fair to
produce a serious epidemic of fever, if
it has not already reached that stage
during the months of July, August, Sep
tember and October. There are a hun
dred or more cases in the military hos
pital and the disease seems to be in
creasing, while the mortality is alarm
iDg, reaching as high as 80 or 90 per
cent.”
His report indicates the presence of
fever and also of small pox in the sur
rounding country, and in the city out
side of the hospital. In view of these
reports Surgeon-General Wyman is re
doubling his efforts for the protection
of the American coast against the in
fection.
GOING BACK TO GEORGIA.
The Negro Colony in Mexico has Proved
an Utter Failure,
Denver, Col., July 11.—A special
from El Paso, Tex., says: News reaches
here from Mapimo, Mexico, that Bill
Ellis, the negro agitator, who dumped
eight hundred negroes from Alabama
and Georgia into Tlahuilo, Durango, for
farm work, where they have become
practically enslaved, has been sent to
the colony to conduct the negroes back
to the American border where they were
turned loose
The negroes have ' een dying so fast
and have proven so unruly from ill
treatment that the colony managers have
resolved to get rid of them. The clony
is regarded as a failure.
MR. M ASSEY ON TIIK STAND.
He Gives His Version ol all His Fi
nancial Transactions.
Norfolk, Va,, July 11.—After Mrs
Massey left the witness stand, where she
was kept two and one half hours by a
rigid and searching, but perfectly re
spectful cross-examination, conducted
by Capt. John S. Wise, of New York, the
plaintiff, her husband, Rev. John E.
Massey, was sworn and testified at
length.
He gave a history of his political life,
and his connection with the free schools
of Virginia, and denied that he had ever
received any monetary consideration
from any one of his official acts. As to
the Ash Lawn farm transfer to his
brother, he sjiid that prior to the war he
was in good circumstances; that when
the war closed it left him very
destitute as compared with his previous
circumstances; he had paid $15,000 in
cash in conference money in part pay
ment on the Ash Lawn farm for which
he was to pay $27,500. At the end of
the war the price and interest left him
owiDg about $20,000 on the farm. He
sold another farm for $13,000 and paid
it on the Ash Lawn farm; marie good
crops just then and paid more on the
Ash Lawn farm, leaving him owing
about $5,000 on the Ash Lawn farm.
Continuing, he said that his entire in
debtedness after the events above men
tioned, was $13,000.
He then told the history of his brother,
also a minister, and concluded by saying
that when his brother came to Virginia
to attend the funeral of their father, he
(Mr. J. E. Massey) told the brother of
his (J. E. Massey’s) finarcial dif
ficulties, and the brother agreed that
if he (J. E. M.) would deed him (the
brother) the Ash Lawn farm, he
(the brother) would assume all of his
(J. E M.’») debts. One of the stipula
tions was that he (J. E M.) would stay
on the farm and apply the proceeds from
same to the payment of the debts, and
those proceeds, with money furnished
by the brother, paid the debts.
Mr. Massey narrated the circumstances
of a suit brought against him as surety
on a bond of an administrator (Wil
liams), in which case judgment was
given against him. He and Mr. Spence
were sureties on the bond of Dr. Wil
liams, and Mr. Massey’s position is that
Dr. Williams paid for the support and ed
ucation of the infant children in the ease
fl.OfO more than he (Williams) re
ceived from the estate of the father of
the children. Mr. Massey say l ' be found
this to be a fact by going over all the
vouchers in the case. Later on, during
the war, these vouchers was destroyed
by fire. The children brought suit to re
cover from Dr. Williams bondsman the
money that had gone into the hands of
Dr. Williams as administrator. They got
judgment against Ma.«sey and Spence
because (Mt. Massey contends), Dr. Wil
liams himself as adminstrator paid out,
for the benefit of these children
the trust money he had of theirs
when under the law he should have paid
it over to a legally appointed guardian
of the children, and let that guardiau
pay for the support and education of
said children.
As to his fiowccial condition he said
that his average income per year has
been $1,400 since 1880. In the past five
years he has averaged a net income of
SBOO from the farm. Has netted as high
as $2,900 in one year since 1880.
In regard to witness De Lea’s testi
mony that he (De Lea) saw Mr. Massey
and Mr. Womack coming out of the
Planters’ Bank of Richmond, Mr. Mas
sey having a roll of money in his haud.
Mr. Massey said it was entirely untrue
aud that nothing De Lea stated while on
the stand was true. He (Massey) thought
those who made up this story must have
thought that he (Massey) was entirely
devoid of sense when they said that he
went into the bank with a briber and
came out with him with a roll of money
k in his hand, (meaning that no one would
do so foolish a thing, as his enemies
allege he did in this case).
In regard to his investments for his
wife, he said that school superintendents
of Virginia presented his wife with SSOO
as a bridal present, the presentation
speech being made by Superintendent
Murray, of Norfolk. This money and
other money of hers he invested for her,
part of it at Big Stone Gap, thinking
that this Big Stone Gap property would
be a bonanza, being inside the corporate
limits of the town.
Iu regard to the purchase of the Char
lottesville property, he said that it was
due to his having to leave his wife alone
at Ash Lawn when he was away. They
decided, therefore, either to build or buy
in Charlottesville. When Mrs. Massey
said to him (on her return from Ala
bama), that she had $2,350 to pay on the
purchase of a house in Charlottes ville, he
gave her $2,750 more which made the
$5,000. Mr. Massey deposited in the bank
in Charlottsville in 1894.
IN INTEREST OF FREE SILVER.
The Attendance at the Convention at
Grtiiin, La., Will be Large.
Atlanta, Ga., July 11.—Reports from
county meetings throughout the State to
select delegates to the Free Silver Con
vention, called to meet at Griffin, forty
miles from Atlanta on the 18th., inst.,
indicate that the body will contain about
95 per cent of Populists and a sprinkling
of Republicans, the rest being silver
Democrats. The attendance will proba
bly be large though many counties have
chosen no delegates at all, others have
named forty and fifty.
U. 8. Senator A. O. Bacon, who was
prominently discussed for the Chairman
ship has gone to Europe and will not be
present, though he has written a letter
approving the purposes of the conven
tion.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
OUR RIVERS AND HARBORS.
Report to the Chief of Engineer* Upon
Improvement* in Them.
Washington, July 11.- Major W. S.
Stanton has made his report to the Chief
of Engineers upon improvements of
river and horbors in North Carolina.
With his report is submitted some cor
respondence over the improvement at
Ocracoke Inlet in which Representative
Branch of the First Congressional District
and Major Stanton participate. It ap
pears that for some time past there
had been available $95,012 for’ this
work which had not been used.
Mr. Branch wrote to the Chief
of Engineers a sharp letter criti
cizing Maj. Stanton because nothing
had been done. This letter was sent to
the Major and he replied to the Chief in
which he takes issue with the Congress
man. He, however, submitted a pro
ject for the improvement ot the inlet by
the Wallace channel to a depth of nine
feet, which, is approved by the Chief
of Engineers and the appropriation for
the purpose is ordered to be used, which
is sufficient to complete the work.
One of the important projects in North
Carolina is the improvement of the Cape
Fear River at and below Wilmington,
the object being to obtain 18 feet at low
water from Wilmington to the ocean, by
dikes and dredging,about $175,000 being
expended during the year. Winyaw
Bay, 8. C., is under the care of Major
Stanton where the project is to obtain
fifteen feet of water over the bar and
work is being done by means of jetties
and a dike. About $385,417 has been
expended on the work.
SENATOR VEST SAILS.
Says He Does Not Think Mr. Cleve
land Want* a Third Term.
New York, July 11. —Senator
VesQ of Missouri, sailed on the West
ernland for Antwerp yesterday morning
and will remain abroad for his health
for several months.
Senator Vest has just come from a
journey through the Western cereal pro
duction States, and he said that he had
never seen crops generally in such good
condition and everything so favorable to
a harvest, far above the average in quan
tity and quality.
The Senator is in favor of free silver
and has very decided views on the the
ject.
“If any attempt to commit the Demo
cratic national convention to a single
gold standard succeeds, it will split the
party and cause the nomination of a free
silver ticket.
“The silver men do not demand an
immediate approval of a free coinage
law, and would be contented with a
frank, honest expression committing the
party to bimetallism, and a free use of
silver as soon as some practical measure
could be formulated and enacted into
law.
“The Presidential sentiment” doesn’t
point toward any one in particular in
the Democratic party. Mr. Cleveland
will leave office with renown to himself
and the country. I do not believe he
would accept a third term, even though
it should be offered him, which is un
likely.”
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
At Louisville:
Lou'lle, 100010006000000 o—2
Boston, 000100100000000 o—2
(Called on account of darkness.)
Batteries: McDermott and Warner;
Dolan and Ryan.
Base hits: Louisville, 11 ; Boston, 12.
Brrors: Louisville, 2; Boston, 3.
At Pittsburg:
Pittsburg, 010003000 I—s
Brooklyn, 100000021 o—4
Batteries: Hawley and Merritt; Lucid
and Grim.
Base hits: Pittsburg, 12; Brooklyn, 16.
Errors: Pittsburg, 2; Brooklyn, 2.
At St. Louis:
St. Louis, 00100000 o—l
Philadelphia, 01000304 I—9
Batteries: Ehret and Miller; Carsey
nd Buckley.
Base hits: St. Louis, 5; Philadelphia,
14.
Errors: St. Louis, 4; Philadelphia, 1.
At Cleveland:
Cleveland, 01332000 o—9
New York, 3 0310013 4—15
Batteries: Wallace, Cuppy and O’Con
nor; German and Wilson.
Base hits: Cleveland, 13; New York,
16,
Errors; Cleveland, 4; New York, 3.
At Chicago:
Chicago, 00030000 0— 3
Baltimore, 06511000 o—lß
Batteries: Hutchison, Thornton and
Donohue; Hemming and Clark.
Base hits: Chicago, 7; Baltimore, 20.
Errors: Chicago, 6; Baltimore, 0.
Says the Southern Doesn’t Want It.
New York, July 11.—President Sam
uel Spencer, of the Southern Railway
Company, stated to day, regarding the
rumor that the Southern was negotiating
for the control of the Macon and North
ern Railroad, that there was no founda
tion in the statement that the Southern
desired the control of the Maoon and
Northern, as that road is not a natural
or convenient connection for the South
ern Railway.
Robbed the Ticket Office.
Harfers’ Ferry, W. Va., July 11.—
Two unknown men robbed the ticket
office of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road last night. They forced the bars
off the office windows, opened the money
drawer with a jimmy. They carried
away several hundred dollars but failed
to secure about SI,OOO which was left in
the drawer.