THE STAR V Bi-Weekly Paper, publiaht'.tl in tit? interest of the Colored Poo pie of the South. OZSO. T. WASSOM, EDITOR AND PROPIilETOB. Hon. Geo. H. White, Attorney at Law. Nun Berne, N. 0., Hon. Jno. C. Dancy, Torboro, N. ft, V. Prof. W. It. Harms, Raleigh, N. ft, Da. L. A. Rutherford, M. D.. Macon, ia., Mas. B. V. H. Brooks, Knoxvillc, Term., Hon. R. B. Elliott, Columbia, 8. C, Hos. Geo. W. Price, Jr., Wilmington. N. C. Hon. W. V. Turner, Washington D. C. Are corresponding editors of the Stab. HATES OP ADVERTISING, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. , One square, one insertion $ 50 One square, two insertions , . . . 1.00 One square, three insertions 1.25 Ono square, ono month 8.00 One square, three months ti.OO Ono square, six months 3.(10 One square, twelve months 10.00 For largor advertising liberal contract will in' made. TIMELY TOPICS. The value of somo tilings is quite as apt to be underestimated as overrated, as illustrated in the results to which the study of the habits of insects lead. Ac cording to the careful estimate of the American Naturalist the average annual loss to the nation from the attacks of injurious plants and insects and other animals is as least $300,000,000. Within a period of four years a few of the West ern States suffered a loss of $200,000, 000 by the attack of the Rocky moun tain locust. The State of Illinois lost in one year (1861) $73,000,000 by the chinch bug. The'annual average loss to the cotton crop is estimated at not less than 615,000,000 or $20, 000,000. There are between fifty and a hundreJ thou sand species of insects in the land, nearly all of which may have k more or less direct bearing on the fate of some valuable production. The disaster on tho Mexican railway, by which nearly one hundred and fifty people were killed and sixty-nine, wounded, was occasioned by the stupid obstinacy of the officers of the troops, who were being convened to the city, of Mexico. It was 8 o'clock in the even ing when tho locomotive engineer said to the lieutecant-colonel: " The route ie new and the roadbed maybe washed out and the bridges unaafe; we had better wait until the morning." The officer told him to go on; ho had received or ders to report at tho city of Mexico the next morning. The engineer proceeded slowly and cautiously until he reached a new bridge spanning a ravine. Here he stopped for the purpose of examin ing the bridge. The officer and two subordinates, sprang upon the engine, and with pistols at his head and the heads of the firemen, ordered him to proceed. Some of tho Boldiers, under standing what was passing, jumped off and escaped; the others, crying for pro tection, cowered in the cars. Two piers had been carried away by the freshet, leaving the rails still standing. The train plunged into the abyss, the cars mangling and crashing the in mates; great quantities of lime fell upon them; eighty barrels of alcohol took lire from the coals of the engine, and the whole writhing mass of human be ings were enveloped in the flames. There being no means of communica tion with the distant stations for long hours, no aid-came. Amongthosesaved were the engineer pnd, as some will almost regret to read, the officer who was the immediate cause of the catas trophe. A few moments' examination, as urged by the engineer, would have prevented the horror. FISHERMEN OF AMERICA. The Baroness Courts as an Entertainer. The Baroness r.rtrdett-Coutts has got rjuite over her virgin blushes, and, hav ing at the ripe age of sixty summers tasted the sweetness of love's young dream, she and her juvenile husband have embarked on a long course of par ties. She gives a fashionable dinner every other day, and people of title are as numerous on her visiting list as cent pieces on a collection plate when an ap peal is made for the distressed heathen. One thing, however, is remarkable about these dinners. No young women go to them. Boyish Mr. Burdett-Coutts is not nearly thirty yet, so the Baroness wisely keeps temptation out of his way. For all his sleekness the poor fellow be gins to wear a jaded, tired, worn and weary look, which seems to hint of the possibility of his golden world palling upon him. Whatever he thought before he mated with a fortune, part of a bank and half a county of acres, there can be no doubt that to-day Mr. Burdett-Coutts Bartlett is convinced of the kindness, as well as the wisdom, of the barriers in the tables of consanguinity, that a man shall not be allowed to marry his grand mother. A few days ago the Baroness went to court, husband and all, but tho Queen snubbed her terrifically, and the venerable lady went home again in a very bad temper. In her agitation she lost a valuable sapphire brooch, which slipped off her dress, and was brushed by the trains of some ladies under a piece of piping in one of the passages of Buck ingham Palace. This musty but mod ern palatial pile is, however, dusted once a week, and so it chanced that one Jemima Ann of tho royal kitchen swept the valuables out of their hidiuj? place fxact-lv five days after they had been lobl. Still the Baroness has tot quite recovered from the cold shouldering sho vooevved ad the bauds of tho crown. --London Globe, Some Interesting Facta About the Fisheries. Professor G. Brown Goode, of the United States fish commission, and special agent of the census in charge of fishery statistics, read an interesting paper on "The Fishermen of the United fctates," before th6 Anthropological society of Washington. Prof essor Goode said : Every man engaged in the fish eries has at least one other man who is dependent to a considerable extent upon the labors of the first for support. To the class of shoremen belong (1) the capitalists who furnish supplies and apparatus for the use of the active fishermen ; (2) the shopkeepers from whom they purchase provisions and clothing, and (3) the skilled laborers who manufacture for them articles of apparel, shelter and the apparatus of the trade. In addition to the profes sional fishermen, there is a large class of men who have been called "semi professional" fishermen men who de rive from the fisheries less than a half of their entire income. Taking into account all those persons who are di rectly employed in the fisheries for a larger or smaller portion of the year? those who are dependent upon fisher men in a commercial way for support, and tho members of their families who are actually dependent upon their labors, it cannot be far out of the way to estimate the total number of persons dependent on the fisheries at from 800, 000 to 1,000.000. The total value of tho product to the producers of the fisheries of the United States has not yet been definitely de termined ; but it will doubtless prove to be somewhere between forty and fifty million of dollars. Of tho thirty-one States and Territories whose citizens are engaged in the fishery industry, seventeen have more than a thousand professional fishermen. The most im portant of these States is, of course, Massachusetts, with from eighteen to twenty-five thoasand men. Second stands Maine, with ten to twelve thou sand, unless indeed the sixteen thou sand oystermen of Virginia and the fifteen thousand of Maryland are allowed to swell the totals for those States. Maine, however, stands second so far as the fisheries proper are concerned. Third comes New York with about 5,000 men, then New Jersey with 4,000 men, North Carolina with 3,500, Oregon with its horde of salmon fishermen 2,500 in number, Florida with 2,100, Connecticut and California with about 2,000 each, Michigan with 1,781, Wis consin with 800, Georgia with 1,400, Ohio with 1,046, Delaware, Rhode Island and South Carolina, each with about 1,000 ; New Hampshire, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas with about 400 each, and Mississippi with only sixty. The majority of our fishermen are native-born citizens of the United States, although in certain localities there are extensive communities of foreigners. Most numerous of these are the natives of the British provinces, of whom there are at least four thousand em ployed in the fisheries of New England. There are probably not less than two thousand Portuguese, chiefly natives of the Azores and of the Cape de Verd Islands. Most of the Portuguese have brought their families with them, and have built up extensive communities in the towns whence they sail upon their fishing voyages. There are also about ono thousand Scandina vians, one thousand or more of Irish and English birth, a considerable num ber of French, Italians, Austrians, Min orcans, Slavs, Greeks, Spaniards and Germans. In the whaling fleet may be found Lascars, Malays and a larger number of Kanakas, or natives of the various South Sea Islands. In the whale fishery of Southern New England a considerable number of men of par tial Indian descent may be found, and in the fisheries of the great lakes especi ally those of Lake Superior and the vi cinity of Mackinaw Indians and Indian half-breeds are employed. Tho salmon and other fisheries of Puget Sound are prosecuted chiefly by tho aid of Indian fishermen. In Alaska, where the population depends almost entirely upon the fisheries for support, the head of every family is a professional fisherman, and upon a very low estimate one-fourth of the inhabitants of Alaska should bo considered as fishermen. J'Y vy of them catch fish for the use of otr a than their own immediate dependents. Only one Chinaman ha3 as yet enrolled himself among the fisherman of the At lantic coast, but in Californiad an Oregon there are about four thousand of these men, all of whom, excepting about three hundred, are employed as factory hands in the salmon canneries of the Sacramento and Columbia basins. The three hundred who have tne right to te classed among the actual fishermen livo for the most part in Cali fornia, and the product of their industry is to a very great extent exported to China ; although they supply the local demands of their countrymen resident on the Pacific coast. Tho negro element in the fishing Eopulation is somewhat extensive. We ave no means of ascertaining how many of this race are included among the native-born Americans returned by the census reporters. The shad fisheries of the South are prosecuted chiefly by the use of negro muscle, and probably not less than four or fiva thousand of these men are employed during the shad and herring season in setting and haul ing the seines. The only locality where negroes participate to a large extent in the shore fisheries is Key West, Fla., where the natives of the Bahamas both negro and white are considered among tho most skillful of thesponge and mar ket fishermen. Negroes are rarely found, however, u " -wring fiBhing ves- sels of the North. There is not a single negro among the 5,000 fishermen of Gloucester, and their absence on the other fishing vessels of New England is no less noteworthy. There is, however, a considerable sprinkling of negroes among the crews of the whaling vessels of Provinceton and New Bedford, New Bedford alone reporting over 200. These men are for the most part natives of the West India Islands; such as Jamaica and St. Croix, where the American whalers engaging in the Atlantio fishery are accustomed to make harbor for recruiting and enrolling their crews. As a counterpart of the solitary Chinaman engaged in the Atlantio fisheries we hear of a solitary negro on the Pacific coast, a lone fisherman, who sits on the wharf at New Taconia, Washington Territory, and fishes to supply the local market. The number of foreign fishermen in the United States, excluding 5,000 negroes and 8,000 Indians and Esqui maux, who are considered to be native bom citizens, probably does not exceed 10 to 12 per cent of the total number, as is indicated by the figures which have already been given. Considerably more than one-half of the fishing popu lation of the United States belongs to the Atlantic coast north of the capes of Delaware ; of this number at least four fifths are of English descent. They are by far the most interesting of our fisher men, since to their number belong the 20,000 or more men who may properly be designated the "sailor fishermen" of the United States. Professor Goode referred to tho men tal and physical traits of the New Eng land fishermen, their enterprise as shown in their readiness ; to adopt improved methods, their intelligence and public spirit. He spoke also of the education of tho young fisherman, and the injury to good seamanship resulting from tlie custom of deferring the shipment of the boys who formerly entered tho busines at the ago of ten or twelve but who now remain on shore until they are fifteen or sixteen, and have had their respective faculties dulled by school training. Reference wa3 made to the morality of the fishermen, the strict observance of the Sabbath to be met with among large classes of them, and the entire absence of ardent spirits on the fishing vessels. Tho character of their favorite books and newspapers, their amusements, their dialect and their superstitions were dis cussed. The chief diseases were noted to be dyspepsia and rheumatism. They are as a rule long-lived, though the fish ing population of large ports like Glou cester is decimated by disaster every year or two. The financial profits vary from $1,000 to $2,000 a year for each man, though sometimes a year's work results sorely in an embarrassing bur den of debts. Why 'I hey Go. Tho Chinese house servants of San Francisco have queer ways of protecting their own interests. For instance, a Chinaman has a position which brings him in five dollars a week. He hears of a position that would give him six dollars a week, and he immediately en deavors to get it. He succeeds, but with characteristic foresightedness he arranges so that he can get his first po sition back should the new one not suit him. This he does by writing on the wall. In some place where the new ser vant would be sure to see it, he writes somo diabolical sentence concerning the mistress or master of the house, such as, "This house no good ; very bad pay." "Lady she scold very much ; nc good." In one case a few months ago a China man wrote by tho faucet at the sink in the kitchen : "Man in this house kill Chinaboy and bury him in tho back yard." A new Chinaboy is engaged to take the place of tho one who has left, and, finding these terrible stories of the horrible way in which the employers treat the servants, gets away as soon as he can. So, if the first servant does not like his new place, the old one is open to him. Chinese laundrynicn have a similar method of getting even with customers. When bills are not' paid they retain the clothes, and it is some times necessary to obtain them by at tachment. But the garments are re turned in a different condition from that in which they were when taken. Certain cabalistic figures on them moan "bad pay no good." This is warning to other iaundrymen to be on their guard. Once a washman wrote on the clothes of a lady who was about to leave tho part of tho city where he kept his place, "Washin only once in two weeks." Taken altu. ether, the China man is rather a treacherous fellow. Soft Beds. There are differences in opinion in regard to tho best beds for refreshing sleep, some persons advocating soft and somo hard beds. The difference between them is that the weight of a body on soft bed presses on a larger surface than Upon a hard bed, and consequently more comfort is eDjoyed. Hard beds should never be given to little children, and parents who suppose that such bods con tribute to health by hardening and developing the constitution are surely in error. Eminent physicians both here and in England concur in this opinion, and state that hard beds have often proved injurious to tho shape of infants. Birds and animals cover their offspring with the sof tost materials they can obtain, and also make soft beds for them ; and the softness of a bed is not evidence of its being unwholesome. 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