The News and Observer VOL. XXXIX. MO. 73 TMIE BJfcOB®E§T ©DOStSMU&TrO®®!] (DIF AOT KKLWOO (Mi&DILORUA DDAOOf. IS NEARING ITS CLOSE THE DIJRRINT CASE MAV RE GIVEN TO TIIE JURY THURSDAY. OURRAHT'S MYSTERIOUS LETTER It is Said That Its Contents are Known and That in it Durrant Says he Saw the Last Details of the Murder and Saw Pastor Gibson and Another Man Prominent in Church Affair* Rend ing Over the Body of Blanche Lamont --The Letter Opened by his Lawyers. San Francisco, Oal., Oct. 25.—The trial of Durrant is nearing its close and the case will be probably given to the jury next Thursday or Friday. Attorney Dickinson for the defense has s-aid be will conclude on Tuesday morning, to which day the case has been continued, and Attorney Duprey, also for the de fenae, will probably finish for Durrant on Tue j day afternoon. District Attorney Barnes expects to begin his argument on Wednesday morning and to complete his closing address the same day. Judge Murphy's charge will be long aai exhaustive, and its delivery may take a day. The exhibits are numerous and in the cases of some will require much study on the part of the jury. This is especially true of the comparison of the notes of Durrant and those made by Student Glazer with whom Durrant quizzed. It is understood that the District At will parallel the two sets of notes and argue that Durrant’s could not be more like Glaze's without hiving been copied verbatim The District Attorney will, it is said, also attack the roll call, and will call attention to the error in marxirg student Gavin present when he was, in fact, absent. Tao jury will be asked to j idc a tion 0 AVeslyan au Easy Winner, Middletown, Conn., Oct 26. Wtea iyan, 18; New Jersey Athletic Club, 0. MISS VANDERBILT’S M VRRIAGF. Col. and Mr*. W. F. Smith,of Winston, j Invited to Atteud. Special to the News and Observer. Winston Salem, N. 0., Oct.. 26 The social event in Salem this week was the 40th wedding anniversary of Prof, and Mrs. Edward Leinbach Their home was the scene of a delightful gath ering of relatives and friends of the fam ily, and young and old rejoiced with them that they have come safely thus tar on life’s journey. An elegant collation was served and music gave added pleas ure to the evening. Mrs. Leinbach sang very sweetly some of the beautiful old songs which she had sung forty years ago. „ .. Co’, and Mrs. ,W. F. Smuh, of this city, have received au invitation to at tend the marriage of Miss Consuelo Van derbilt to the Duke of Marlborough, the event to be celebrated in New York a r high noon on November 6th. Colonel Smith is first cousin to Miss Vander bilt's mother. Their were brothers. It is stated that Miss Vander hilt’s memento trom her parents will be $15,000,000. They will also present the man she is to wed with $8,000,000. The directors of the Roanoke and Southern Railway held a business meet ing in Winston last night. The board authorized the payment of interest on the Roanoke and Southern equipment bonds by the Norfolk and Western re ceivers. Sher ff Lindsay, of Hamilton county, Mo., was in Winston last night looking for W. F. Barne3, a white man, who is reported to be under arrest at Stone ville, N. C Barnes is wanted i i Mis souri for forging a note for S4OO. He also stands charged with stealing money from some young ladies at a house where he boarded while in Missouri. His peo ple live in Winston. A telegram was received in Winston to-day from Gov. Carr, stating that he had issned a requisition for the removal of Barnes to Mi*souri. The Female M ssionary Society of the Moravian church gave their annual love feast Thursday night. The address was delivered by Rev. Dr. H. A. Brown, of the First Baptist church. A collection amounting to S6O 60 was taken. The farmers in the Piedmont section are unable to market their tobacco on account of the drought. Many of them are borrowing money on their crops in order to meet fertilizer and ether hills. The situation is quite serious. Many termers have not been able to sow any wheat yet awhile, while others say that wheat already sown has died since com ing up. Dr. Joh' M Rothro k, one of David son county’s test known physicians, died near Bethany last night, aged 70 yea*-* Russell Pratt, a young man who was kuked by ahorse near Winston, August 15th, died at the home of his uncle, Col. Alsoup, to-day. Winston shipped 250 000 pounds of manufactured tobacco this week. A large residence of William F rester, near Roaring river, Wilkes county, was destroyed Jby fire, with its contents, yes terday. It was insured two weeks ago for six hundred dollars. H ILL GIVE THEM NO EXCUSE. Steve Brodie Proposes to Have that Fieht Yet. Chicago, 111, Oct 26 —Steve Brodie says he is determined to see whether Corbett and Fitzsimmons really want to fight. He accordingly offers a purse of $5,000, to be contested for in private with twenty men on a side. He has posted a forf*it of SSOO with the Inter Ocean and says he stands ready to pull off the fight at any time. When asked whete he expected to pail off the mill, Brodie declined to name the exact locality. “You may say.” be said, “that it will take place in the State of New York. I have pulled off fights there before, and can do it again.” Tne Stake Money Returned. New York, Oct. 26.—Phil Pwver this a f ternoon turned over to Sheriff Bulling, o' Brock'yo, the $2,500 which was pate of the Fitziimmons Corbett stake money put up for the fight by Fitzsimmons. The return of the money was on an order by Judge Beach, of this eitv, to satisfy a j idgment of the Metropolitan Printing C unpaDy, of New York. THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Committee May Meet In January] to F-x the Time and Place, Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 26.—1 n an interview, 8 P. Sberin, secretary of the Democratic National Committee, says he does not believe the committee will meet before the middle of January to fix the time and p’ace of the next National con vention He says a conference of the officers of the committee has not even t~een suggested. There seems to be an impression among the Republicans that there will be a long, hard fought cam paign, said Mr. The leaders of that party seem to believe they ought to go into the campaign as early as possi ble. I believe the business world would I ke to see a short campaign. Death of Mr*. James E. Knstfee. Paris, Oct. 26 - Mrs. J Mines E. Bustle;, wife <>f United States Amhas sador James E. Eustice, died suddenly this morning at Rotoathvieland, of heart failure. Sue had been ill for only a few davs. Mr. Eustice received the unex nected news at the Embassy and loft immediately for the death bed. Atlanta O t. 26 —lt was decided to day bv the Exposition company to November 30 aside as Wheelman’s day. There will be racing, and prizes aggre gating $1,500 will be offered. RALEIGH. N. C.. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1895. THEY WILL NOT SUBMIT NEGROES OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRO TEST AG A INST THE NEW ELECTION LAW. WILL APPEAL TO THE COURTS And if that Fails to Congress, and If That Fall* to the People of the Coun try to Compel the State to Give Them Their Rights, Says Delegates Whip per and Small—Claim that the State has Never Been Under Negro Domi nation, not, During the Days of 186 H. Columbia, S. C,, Oct. 26. —la the Constitutional convention to day, W. J. Whipper, a colored delegate, of Beau fort, addressed the convention for two hours, contending that the negro never had been responsible for the frauds com raitted in South Caiolina, when they were in power, but that it was the work of designing white men for which the negroes were not res ponsible. He declared that the scheme of disfranchisement before the convention was gotten up by design ing men for their own interest. Though it would be parsed, the negroes, said Whipper, would fight it in the Supreme Court of the United States and in Con gress, and if all these failed, before the people of the country. Whipper was prominent in the days of negro domination in the State, and hav ing an intimate acquaintance with the men who governed the State then, his re marks possessed more interest than they otherwise would. He admitted at the outset that the negro was now the inferior of the white man, owing to his lack of educational advantages and the fact that he had been free only thirty years. He denied that there ever had been negro rule in the State. True, they had a majority in the convention of 1868 and subsequent legislatures, but they were but the too’s of designing white meD, who directed them as tney pleased, even when they could have elected every officer from constable to Governor the white man always had the most offices and no ne gro was ever a Governor, or a Judge or a Sheriff or any other high official. He claimed that in his town of Beaufort, where the negro had a majority of twenty to one of the population they always elected a white mayor and gave the whites half the council. Tnesc things showed, he claimed, that the bugaboo of negro domination and the destruction of white supremacy were but subterfuges gotteu up by designing men who wished to profit politically thereby. He held that*the devotion of the negro to his master’s family and in terests while he was away fightiDg bat tles to forge m >re firmly the shackles about his slaves, made the white people owe him a deep debt of gratitude which would be ill repaid by taking away from him his rights. He said the negroes intended to sap the foundations cf the Convention itself in the United States Supreme Court; and if that failed, to appeal to Congress; and if that failed, to trust to the people of the country to compel the State to give them their rights. He was followed by Gen. Robert Smalls, also colored, who made a short address endorsing Wnipper’s senti ments. Debate on the question was adjourned until Monday. HOMAN’S MISSIONArFsOCTETY. No ladecent Show* Will be Allowed at the Rocky Mount Fair. Special to tlie News and Observer. Rocky Mount, Oct. 26. The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Methodist church for the Washington District is now in session here. Among the delegates present are Mrs. Swindell and Miss Pescud, of Raleigh. At the opening exercises last night Mrs. Underwood welcomed the delegates, which was responded to by Mrs Swin dell An instructive and entertaining Bible talk by Miss Pescud, closed the exercises. Tne sessions will last till Monday. The authorities of the Rocky Mount Fair Association have allowed no inde cent shows ever to be in their grounds uor have they permitted any gambling for the last ten 3 ears. Rev. Mr. Charles Fetter, of the mission work of the Episcopal Church, preached in the Church of the Good Shepherd last night. Mr. 8, K Fountain has put up a tele phone service, the exchange system of which is his own invention and manu facture. There are about fifty sub scribers, and the ’phones work admira oly. THE MAD IGASCAK TREAT Y. Tbe Ihlttßd Aeci-pt* the Protectorate ot France. Paris, Oct. 26 —The treaty between France and Madagascar has been pub fished In brief the Queen accepts the protectorate of France The lat ter repre sent* Madagascar in all foreigu relations. Questions concerning foreigners will be in the hands of the French resident gen eral. and the Republic undertakes to de fend Madagascar against all dangers. Tbe ieeident general will have control of the international administration of Madagascar, bat tbe republic does not assume responsibility for the treat it g or concessions b<••■etofore granted. Public expenditures and the debt will be se cured by the revenue of the island. Toe Queen agreee not to contract a loan without the authority of the republic Tbe French du loraats and consuls abroad are charged with the protection of the interests of the island. TAR HE:ELS IN HIGH FAVOR. I'liree Promoted in the Treasury De ment iu a Week. Special to the News and Observer. Washington, D. U., Oct. 26. Mr. W. F. Carter, of. North Carolina, has been promoted in the office of the Auditor for the treasury Department from S9OO to SI,OOO. This is the third North Carolinian promoted in the Treasury Department within the last week. Mr A. C. Shaw has received a letter from'Cousul W. M Little, of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, concerning two patents which a citizen of that country wishes to in troduce iuto the United S'ates. Mr. Little said he expected to visit this coun try and his home in Charlotte early next year. The Governor's foot-guard of New llaven, Conn., arrived in this city last night, returning from Atlanta. Major Benjamin E Moore, officer in charge, said that one of the most important events during the entire trip South and one which the entire gu e lectures here to-night on Farming in North Carolina. His lecture will be illustrated, showing how per pendicular farming is carried on in tbe western part of the State. Miss Sallte Perry, of North Carolina, i 3 visiting at Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Harper, of No. 12 I street, northeast, having ac companied them from the Atlanta ex position. Mr. A. M. Wells, who has been spend ing his vacation at his home in Duplin county, has returned to Washington, ac companied by bis family. Mr. I). 8. Hoover, who was so seri ously hurt by colliding with the street car a few days ago, is rapidly im proving. His eyes, which were reported damaged, will not lose their sight. Mr R. A. Stutts, of Moore county, is very ill at his residence with typhoid fever. Mr. I. Fearing and wife leave to-night for Elizabeth City to spend several days. Isaac W. Durham has been appointed postmaster at lioscoo, N. C. Arrival*. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Clark, Asheville. M. Patten, North Carolina. L. W. Scott, Greensboro. A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. Two More of the Beaufort Insurance v Cases Decided Yesterday. Special to the News ami Observer. Beaufort, N. C, Oct 26. The jury in tue case of Di. T. B Del amar and Levi T. Noe for forgery brought, in to-day the expected verdicr. of not. guilty Judge Graham remarked to the jury, “Gentlemen I am not responsible for your verdict.” The solicit r made a mo'ion that the cases be moved from Carteret county on the ground that the State could not get a fair trial because of prejudice against the iisuirar.ee companies who are prose cuting these defendants. After argu merit pro and con the Judge moved the cases to Jones county court which meets next week and bound the defendants over under five hundred dollar justified bonds to appear at Trenton next Tues day. The impression seems to be among the outside public that the verdict was just. The in- urance cases ou the civil docket were moved to Craven county to be tried in February next. These are the cases for enforcing payment of the poli cies which the companies are claiming to be fraudulent. TAKE NO FUSION IN Til El It’S. Texa* Populist* Hill Form No Alli ance With Any Other Party. Fort Worth, Tex., Oct. 26. -Tie State Executive Committee of the Peo ple’s party met to day in this city, wirh all the members present either in person or proxy. About fifty prominent raeo be sos the party from over the State were in attendance. The committeo de termined on forming no fusion with a ty of the other pilitical pirties, and will work alone both in State and national affairs, adhering strictly to the Omaha platform. The committee will make no concessions whatever. The place for holding the State Convention was left with the committee to determine later on, it will probably bahekl at Austin. Contemplated Railroad Changes, Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 26 —There is a rumor in railroad circles which seem 3 to have some foundation in fact, that Pres ident James Clarke, of the Mobile and Ohio Rail Load will shortly succeed Gen eral Manager B F. Yoakum, of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Road Pres ident Uiarke, so the story goes, will be succeeded by J. G. Mann, the present General Manager of the Mobile and Ohio. Mrs. Thomp*on Hound Over. Special to the News and Observer. Hickory, N. C., Oct. 26. Justice Hawser at the hearing of the Thompson abduction ca e bound Mrs. Thompson over to court for taking her son, Hugh D’Ann, from Claremont Col lege a few days ago. Gov. Seal*’ Nephew in Jail. Tampa, Fla., Oct. 26 —Oullen Seals, an alleged nephew of ex Governor Seals, of Alabama, is iu jail here. He failed in attempting to absco d with $250 of city tax collections. He was employed as clerk to the Collector. WAR SCARE IN EUROPE THE RUSSO-CHINA TREATY THE FEATURE OF INTEREST IN POLITICS. ANO THE VENEZUELAN DISPUTE The F'ar East* rn Development* are flost Senou*, and the End of the Venezuelan Affair is Not Yet in Sight—No Harmony in the Iri*l» Party—Tobacco Growing in England —Mis* Vanderbilt’* Bridal Bonquet— It is l‘i E'eet in Circumference. (Copyrighted 1895, by the Associated Tress.) London, Oct. 26.—The war scare caused by the despatch to the Times from Hong Kong published on Friday morn ing, making public the concessions said to have been granted bv China to Rus sia, including the right to build rail roads which would connect Vladivos tok with Port Arthur, and the privilege of anchoring a fleet at the latter place, was the main feature of interest ia the political world during the past week, although the Ven ezuelan dispute with Great Britain attracted much attention. The far east eru developments are most serious, if the Times correspondent has been well in formed, and the end of the Venezuelan affair is not in sight, unless ail the pres ent outward s'gns are deceiving. The speaker today, alluding to the Venezuelan question, makes light of the intervention of the United States ia the matter and says: ‘ ‘The bluster of a portion of the Ameri can press need not be taken very seri ously, inasmuch a3 the press has been blustering with better cause against us for the last sixty years. It is true that this bluster now derives significance from the fact that America has a navy and group of naval chauvinists. She also has manufactures whom protection has s imulated to over production and who want a marktt| for their superfluous goods. But these considerations apply to tbe case of Cuba with far more -orce than to Venezuela, and it looks as if the ma*s of Americans thought that in the latter case at any rate, they did ne t ap ply at all. ” The Fpecial dispatch from London in regaid to Venezuela have stirred up the British fore ; gn office as well as the Uni ted States Ambassador, the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, as they have been freely re cabled to the London Times. The Mar qnis of Salisbury, who was at Hatfield House, personally sent a contradic tion of the report that aa unpleasant interview had taken place between him self and Mr. Bayard, and it was upon this that the Times’ denial of the report was based. The Marquis of Salisbury’s words in making the denial were: • Lord Salisbury m*de no such oh nervations to Mr. Bayard as are stated, nor has he yet sent any reply in writing of any kind to thß United States commu nication.” Mr. Justin McCarthy’s ejection of the Plunkett scheme to bring about harmony in the Irish party by calling a confer ence of the members of all shades of opinion, to decide upon the measures to be brought forward for the benefit of Ireland, is not calculated to inspire be lief in the McOarthyites’ sincerity to do their utmost for the country. Mr. Plunkett’s proposal was one which, it is claimed, might have been accept ed by every Irish politician, as he did not ask one of them to relinquish his own views of the political question; hut he simply wanted to devise means to help the Irish tenant to get his produce in market at a remunerative price. The Redmonitcs were willing to accept the invitation. The Conservative newspapers naturally say that the Me Oatehyitea prefer the poverty stricken Ireland which keeps the home rule ag : - tation alive to a prosperous country which would not do so. The attempts to grow tobacco in Eng land were still per-isted in this year, in spite of the failure of the crop of 1894, and have had much improved results Mr. Fiennes 8. W. Cornwallis, of Linton Park, formerly member of Parliament for Maidstone, and Mr. 0. H. Brasser, Preston Hall, have been the leading ex perimenters. A fine crop has bfen grown and is now being dried. Mr. Cornwallis has written a letter to the newspapers, in which ho says that he expects presentable tobacco will be produced by this year’s crop He adds that as the growth of tobacco is legalized in England, there will be a large reduction in duty, which the home grower will have made. Tnen, however low grade the tobacco, it might easily be grown on exhausted land and limited to a suitable area in order to prevent ex tensive cultivation The bridal bouquet intended for Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, upon the occasion of her marriage, November 6rh, to tbe Duke of Marlborough, will be taken to New Yo’-k to-day by a steamship sailing from Liverpool. It is excop'ionally large and beautiful, and is made up from the moat choice and valuable flowers ever gathered in the historical eardens and conservatories at Blenheim This magnificent bouquet, which is most tastily aranged, is twelve feet in circum ference. England and the Uuited State*. London, Oct. 26.— The alarmist dis ’ ateh to the Times from Hong Kong, published yesterday, announcing that Russia, by the treaty recently secured with China, ha* acquired the right to anchor a fleet at Port Arthur and built railroads which would connect Vladivos tok with that port, remains the great subject for newspaper comment, al- PRICE FIVE CENTS though the report has rot v t b'on con firmed 1 y the Br .ish fort ign office. The Westminster Gazetic uus after noon, commenting upon tbe develop ments in the East, points out that, iu its opinion, an excellent opport unity is now offered for making a beginning with what is described as “the union in the higher diplomacy of the United States and Great Britain, to which all thinking men in the Knglish speaking world so confidently book forward ” Continuing, the Westminster Gazette remarks. “America, with ourselves, is a pacific power. For years back the has taken great interest in the development of Japan, Corea and China. The interest of John Bull and cousin Jonathan is identical. Neither desires to disturb the statu quo; both wish to get a fair share of what commercial advan'ages may be going. Should the Times’ Hong Kong despatch be confirmed and the Czar’s advisors unfortunately persevere in their determination to disturb the bal ance of power in the far east, Japan will look for friends, and those friends are, obviously, Great Britain and the United States. “The little anxiety in the foreign office now would be cheaply bought if it is led thereby to carefully consider the future diplomatic and naval relations between tbe old country and her strenuous sons across the Atlantic and to realize that the English speaking world can better employ its strength Than in international squabbling over such petty matters as the boundaries and obligations of Vene zuela and Nicaragua.” CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The Cuban d ly at the Atlanta Exposi tion has been postponed to December 1. Whitney Glass Works and other prop erty to the amount of $106,000 was de stroyed by fire yesterday at Glassboro, N. J. The New England Cotton Manufac turers’ Association went to Columbus, Ga., in a body yesterday to see the mills there. Secretary Carlisle has not yet fully de cided whether or not he will go to Ken tucky to vote at the coming election. The last day upon which he can register is Wednesday next. The well-known wholesale dry-goods firm of Bamberger, Bloom & Co., of Louisville, Ky., made an assignment, yes terday afternoon. Liabilities, $1,200,000; assets about the same. Early yesterday morning about a dozen houses were burned in Woodbury, a Baltimore suburb, causing a lass of about $30,009. It was c used by the explosion of a gasoline tank. Senator Hill spoke three times in Ohio yesterday with ex Gov. Campbell. In di.-e issiug the Democratic tariff law, Senator Hill said it would finally woik out for the good of the country. If a mistake was made in collecting too little taxes, that could be remedied. At least •the rnouey which had not been collected was still in the pockets of the people and not piled up in the treasury as a surplus. PAROLE EVIDENCE EXCLUDED. Judge Coble Refuses to Admit tbe tes timony ol Senator Dowd in the Peni tentiary Case. Judge Coble yesterday decided not to admit parole evidence in the quo war ranto proceedings brought by 11. C. Dockery and others for possession of the State Penitentiary. This excludes the testimony of Senator Cary Dowd, who was put on the stand by the defense the previous afternoon. It practically means that tho defense will not be permitted to prove that the fusion directors were elected before the Act creating their offices was ratified. As was the case the day before, most of the time of the cour was taken up by the argument of counsel. Mcßae, D*y and Whitaker spoke for the plain tiffs, arid Shepherd and Busbee for the defendants. Death ot Capt. Drummond. Caps. W. F. Drummond is dead. For thirty years he hai been passing from Norfolk to Weldon and Raleigh, and then baek to Norfolk again. He was known to everybody as the jovial and courtly conductor of the Seaboard Air Line. He was an encyclopedia of every thing that had happened wituin his reach during these thirty years. He remem bered and often related funny incidents that occurred when both himself and tho road over which he ran were young. He sometimes seemed a little uncivil, but he was not. He was too noble, too generous, and too broad miuded to beat auy time anything bu r considerate and geuteel, what seemed to be indiffrence or crustiness, when you knew him well— were becoming characteristic. He was large of statue and his heart was big in proportion. He was a consistent Christian and gave unsparingly to charity and to his church. He was teken sick in May last and has been gradually declining until Thursday night when he quietly passed away at the home of his si*ter, Mrs E. A. F Fletcher, iu Acomac county, Va. Thoma*ville vs. Cary. The Alliauce executive committee yes terday visited Tbomasvillo to lot k over the town with a view to its availability aa a site for the new Alliance choc fac tory. At this point the contest has nar rowed down to Cary and Tnomasville. The latter offers more money, 1 ut Cary is nearer Raleigh, is on two lines of rail road and is an unusually good site for in'-nuteetering purposes. Sometime this week the committee will meet here again to settle the loca tion.