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i f 7 ESTABLISHED 1867. WILMINGTON, N. C SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1894. PRICE 5 CENTS xaiyg . J Y L TEIiEGP-APHIC STJIOIARY. the order under whicli s mall notes have t been sent by epres3 fjX Government con tract rates from th' treasury to deposi tors of gold and g old certificates- The Supreme Lodge ,' Knights of Pythias, yesterday coqsr iered the new constitu tion. The juices announced j their de cision of a war ds that were contended for during the encampment The Pember ' ton mills, &t Lawrence,' ilass. , which hav- bee- A closed several week3, will .open Tuf j5day- -The Democrats of the Fourth Texas district nominate D. B. Culber fTiOQ, 80n of the "present Congress man, for Congress on the 5,601st ballot. The three men who had been running wit ivdrew on the 5.600th ballot Six rie eroes, charged with barn burning, w frc taken j from officers near Middle ' pjnV Tenn Friday night and shot to "death by a mob of persons unknown to -line officers 4 Gen. N. P. Banks died Vcstf'tday morning- The result of the attack on Port Arthur is not positively known. The Chinese will send 5,000 troops and a' fleet to that place. The re port of another attack on Port Arthur is , denied -Fpreign residents in the northern ports of China are made un easy by thus repeated outrages against missionaries and other, foreigners Mine owners in the Massillon, Ohio, sec "tion wiU import 200 West Virginia riegroes to take the strikers' places- The internal revenue commissioner ibue3 a circular-setting forth the new regulations as to theiale of tobacco c The defct statement shows a net decrease ; in the public debt, less cash in the treas ' ury, of $8,171,642 during August. The total debt of the Government now is $1,016,742,013.73. The gold reserve was 155,216,900. The increase in gold during the month was $963,033- Detective Richardson has bsen arrested on a bench warrant charging him with being acces spry to the lynching of the negroes at Middleton, Term.- -An earthquake cjausedthe inundation at Uvalde, Texas, b!y closing up a subterranean stream run nihg under the Lecna rivtr -A farmer in Texas kills his wife then commits suicide The cashier of the Bank of Tjescot, Kans.,: is killed and ' the bank robbed by three men. A posse is in pur Klf Norval A. Hawkins, cashier of the Standard Oil company, at Detroit, has been arrested on the charge of em bezzlement: -An Ohio saloonkeeper kills his wife, child and father-in-law -I The Vigilant and Satanita had an other race yesterday, three times around aitrianeular course. The Satanita wa s ahead on the first round. The Vigilan is. overtook and passed her to some distanc e when the wind failed. , Th9 racs was given to the Vigilant, but Mr. Gould will not take the money as the Satanita was ahead at the end of the first round- Mr. Gladstone contributes 100 to the Irish National Parliamentary fund The Labouchere section of the Radicals - will run Parliamentary candidates piedged to refuse to serve under a- Pre- mier who is a Peer Queen Victoria yil next week celebrate in grand style alBalmoral the birth of the sori of the Duke and Duches3 of York The entire American exhibit at Antwerp has been secured for the Cardiff exposition of 1895- -The race for the Cape May cup is off, so far as the Vigilant is concerned. The Santa Fe strikers, sent to jail for contempt of court in obstructing railway traffic, have been released The bishoi) f Omaha, of the Roman Catholic shurch, is under attachment for con empt from the judge of a district court or disobeying an injunction- -A British isteamer has been detained at a rt of Chili because she is carrying ms to the Insurgents of Peru i Mr, lester, of the New Orleans Cotton Ex change, gives out the figures of his cot- cdn cropreport- The additional news rom the Uvalde section of Texas in reases the horror of the disaster. The s of property is enormous and it is not t known how niaDy lives have been tf Sumter, S. C, has quite a serious Ten of a cans of counterfeiter?.' -wii t headquarters in Arkansas have .beeiv ua down by lederal secret service deted ve3 and captured. Western ork is suffering terribly from a rted drought -Two fresh cases lera are reported at Amsterdam m one to tnree new cases at other Holland -Lowlander died Forest fires are doing great in Wisconsin. Two villages jn destroyed. The wind is blow- miles an hour Senator But- tion will nominate a full ticket Carolina Arthur Conway, pfeer and philanthropist of Chicago, has disappeared, leaving many debts behind him. XiAWEence, Mass., Sept. 1. The Pem berton mills, which have benclosed for several weeks, will resume operations xuesoay next. - jvatz oc roivogt have just received their third car load of No. 9 Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines, and they are ,aispiayea at tneir omce on Front street 1 i V i Ne w I pro tra of chJ and try towns lm yestercmy damagl - nave d f ihg for-F ler's fa 1 in! Sovih the hi THE AUGUST BULLETIN OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL, DEPARTMENT. An Interesting and. vaiaaoie docu ment Pull of Industrial Statis tics W. P. Btrond to Retire Prom the Congressional Race -Cotton Oil Mills to Start Up The Cot I ton Crop Over I ; Estimated. Messenger Bureau, i v Raleigh. Sept. 1. S Your correspondent gave you a few days ago some advance notes from the August bulletin of the State Agricultural Department. The bulletin came from the printer to-day. It is an interesting number. It gives the name, location, . t - ' - -. i number of spindles, looms, etc., of all the cotton and woolen milla in this State. It shows that there are 150 cotton weav- ing or spinning mills, nine hosiery or knitting, one towel weaving, one net and twine, one silk plaids, fourteen woolen, one bag mill. In all there are 177. Here is the way they run. Almance county 20, Cabarrus' 5, Catawba 6, Cleveland - 7, Cumberland 7, Durham 5, Gaston 22, Guilford 7, Lincoln 6. Mecklenburg 13, Randolph 15, Richmond 8, Surrey 6. The largest mill is that of the Odell Manufacturing company at Concord, with 1,125 looms and 25,000 spindles. The Rocky Mount-mills have 25,000 spindles. The smallest cotton mill has only 960 spindles and 43 looms and is at Monbo, Catawba county. The total number of spindles in all the mills is about 725,000. The addition is not given in the. report, but this is a close figure. There are mills in thirty-seven counties. Thfi bulletin devotes six pages to a list of miscellaneous mills, factories, etc., giving the names of 702 of these. For syth county is far in the lead, having over-seventy. Guilford comes next with forty-two. Wake third with forty-one The dates of eight fairs are given in theTjulletin. These fairs are the Rowan, Warren and Cabarrus counties, Elizabeth City, "Border Exposition at Maxton, State, Lumber River and Edenton. Three pages of the bulletin are devoted to a list of breeders of registered and blooded horses, cattle, sheep , and swine, 300 names being given. Mr. T. C. Milliken writes your corre spondent from High Point, ;in response to a special inquiry, that he has decided to accept the Republican nomination for Congress from this district. This is pos itive. It is now hinted that W. F. Stroud, the Populist nominee, will retire in favor of Milliken. Your correspond ent gives this rumor for what it is worth. What is to be the name of the fusion party? isa question many people are asking. A good- name, ought to be given the "combine." One will be dis covered. Doe's the National Republican committee endorse or recognize fusion? If the two parties now amalgamated try to separate in 1896 how will they draw the line? Thesejare some of the many queries one hears. Next Monday the cotton oil mills here will start up and will work up several hundred tons of old seed. The superin tendent says he thinks it will be October 1st before the regular season opens. Cotton opens slowly. Out of fifty stalks examined yesterday on an upland near here not an open boll was found. It is true this cotton is of great size, nearly 4$ feet high, and that it is so dense that the outline of the rows is barely to be distinguished. Mr. John Robinson, Commissioner of Agriculture, has just returned from a trip to Wadesboro and several other places. He says he is sure the excellence of the cotton , crop : is over-estimated. His personal observations in'this respect are confirmed by what some observant farmers tell him. These farmers concur in saying that the crop is not a good one; that there is far too much weed. The commissioner says that he has had mis givings as to the crop, as he has never yet known a full one made when the rain fall has been so full as that of this year. In the bulletin he says: "This year maybe an exception to the rule. This is said so that planters may not be too sanguine in their expectations." The crop has been as well cultivated as any ever grown. The prospects for a fine grade of lint is good. Tyre Glenn is the new secretary of the Republican State executive cmnittee. Cyrene and her company are engaged to appear here at the Academy of Music one week, beginning September 10th. The telephone rentals have been re duced here $12 a year. . The will of the late Maj. Neathery re quires hLj administrator to sell "his half interest in the bookstore of Alfred Wil liams & Co. Your correspondent a few days "ago stated that Capt. E. W. Kerr had chal- lenged Maj. W. A. Guthrie to a joint de Date at uuan beptemDer otn. 'J.he facts are these: Chairman Marion Butler, or some one, made an appointment for Mr. Guthrie at Dunn on that date. Some citizens of Dunn asked Chairman Pou to ask Capt. Kerr to meet Mr. Guthrie. Mr. Pou did ask him and he has consented to go. He does ' not like to be put in the light of one "spoiling for a fight." . Shot Himself While Hunting. Washington, Sept. l.The opening of the shooting session in the extensive Potomac marshes to-day, a great oc casion to all local sportsmenwas marked Dy a ratal accident Benjamin Sweenv, a 17-year old messenger in the weather bureau, went gunning along the, Vir ginia shore and while leaning against his gun the hammer fell and a charge of shot entered his side, causing death m a short time. Killed Wife, Child and Father-in Iiaw. Cincinnati, Sept. L Jim Payne, a saloonist at Lockland, thirteen miles out of this city, killed h& wife, child and father-in-law at 7;45 o'clock to night. THS LEON A DISASTER. The Destruction of Property Enor mousMany Persons Drowned - Thousands of Acres Under Water. - . j - St. Louis, Sept. 1. A special from San Antonio to the Post-Dispatch says: The scene of the destruction and desblution in the flooded district for a distance of 100 miles east and west from here and extending south from the Southern Pacific railway-to the Rio Grande, 200 miles away, is simply terrible. Thous ands upon thousands of acres of pasture and farm lands are still under water. It is estimated that the damage to crops in the valley of the Leona river will reach $500,000, while in the valleys of the Sacoand the Sabine rivers . the! losses will be fully as much more, j Many thousands of cattle, horses and! sheep were swept away and drowned, j Up to last midnight, all telegrams received hereby, the Southern Pacific , railroad officials and for 4he press came jby the roundabout way of El Paso, Pueblo" and Kansas City, all direct communication with Uvalde and other flooded town be ing cut off. The wires are now restored, however, and information frcfoi the Leona valley is now coming.in Reports received this morning are still more alarming than the ones. It is still a matter of uncertainty as to the number of lives lost, but addi tions to the list of drowned are con stantly coming in. About one half of the houses of Uvalde, a town 0f 2,'300 people, were; carried away and there is much suffering there by homeless fami lies, but no more fatalities, are reported there. Nothing has yet been heafd from the settlement of seventv-five families several miles below uvaiae, out; mere are -wr -9 m H still errave fears that manv. if not all of them, were swept down by the torrent and lost. . N The town of Batesvilie was entirely inundated and there was heavy I loss of property, but no lives reported lost. There are several other , towns ., in the flooded district, but they are away from railroad and telegraphic lines and noth ing can be heard from them until the waters subside. All construction officials of the Southern Pacific, however, have gone to the scene of the principal disas ter and several trainloads of material and men have eone west to repair the dam age to the tracks and to reconstruct bridges. i Mr. Hester's Cotton Crop Report. New Orleans, Sept. 1. The totals of the Hester's annual New Orleans Cotton Exchange report for the cotton crop of the United States were promulgated this afternoon. They showed total re ceints of cotton at all United States ports for the year of 5,940,092 bales,! against 5,088,892 bales last year: overland, 931, 706 bales, against 912,146; Southern con sumption, taken direct from interior of the cotton belt, 678,019 bales, against 699,827, making the cotton crop of the United States for 1893-94 amount to 7,549,817 bales, against 6,700,365 last year and 9,035,379 the year before. The total consumption of the Southern mills was 718,515 bales, but of this 40,496 bales were taken from out of ports and included in port receipts, This shows that tne ooutnern mills naveused up 25,333 bales less during the j past year than m 1892-93. Mr. Hester makes the actual cotton crop of the State of Texas 2,059,060 bales or 49,463 bales less, than last year These, he states, constitute the actual deliveries from Texas and. Indian Terri tory. ' ! Mr. Hester's full report, which will be issued Monday, will contain some inter esting references to the acreage question and also the result of his investigations into the movement of the past five years, showing actual deliveriesfrom the cotton States, divided into groups in such a manner as to be almost equal in value to an actual census. In this connection he' announces, as a result of his investiga tion, that the census figures, which it was claimed were several hundred thou sand bales too small for.Texas and Indian Territory, and too large to the same ex tent in the Atlantic States, are proven to have been practically correct, i The Sun's Cotton ReTlew. New York, Sept. 1. The Sun's cot ton review says: The Cotton Exchange was closed. Heavy rains werej reported in some parts of Texas and j Georgia. rcusr, Diignt. ana rot are reported in Texas. The visible supply of cotton in this country is, at the ports 176,000 bales; interior towns, 42,000i against 243,000 and 61,000, respectively, last year, a deficit of 86,000 bales. The amount on shipboard not cleared' is 5,000 bales more than a year ago. The total visible supply in this country and Europe is 2,005,000 bales, against 2,297, 000 last year, a decrease of 222,000 bales. The supply of American is 14,589.000 bales, against l,77U,000 and the total supply is 605,000 bales less than in 1892. On September 1st, 1892, the visible sup- ly of American cotton was 1 2,148,000 ales. Two crop3 have since been made. aggregating 14,200,000 bales. The pres ent visible supply is 1,589,000, which sho vs that the takings of American cot ton for the past two years has been 14, 750,000 bales, but the large excess in the visible supply in the hands of spinners and especially in the country at thr end of thej3eason in 1892 has. probably been exhausted. Damage to Cotton, j New Ort.kans, Sept. l.The Picayune special from Natchez, Miss., says: Par ties who have just returned from a trip through North Louisiana over jthe New Orleans and Northwestern road and through the southern tier of counties along the line of the Houston Central, Arkansas and Northern road, report that the cotton crop in the section jhas been damaged fully 20 per cent, by blight, rust, shedding, etc., caused by jthe exces sive and continuous rains. The outlook is not nearly so bright as it was two weeks ago. i i TREASURY STATEMENT. THE CASH IN THE TREASURY STEADILY INCREASING. Decrease of the Debt During August iqb ioia .Reserve on the In creaseFull Debt Statement- No Longer Anxinns trt ir-r. change Small Notes for .Gold Regulations for Sate of To bacco. Washington, Sept. 1. Acting United State Treasurer Meline has revoked the special notice issued June 18, 1894, under which small notes have been sent by express from the treasury here at Government contract rates, for deposits of gold and gold certificates, and ship ments of the notes from the United States treasury here under its provisions are discontinued. Small notes, hereafter, may be furnished by sub-treasurers at their counters to the extent that such notes are on hand in excess of the re quirements of the current business of their offices, in exchange for gold and gold certificates and large denomina tions of legal tender notes. Small notes will be shipped from here on ' sub-treas urers' orders to th extent that they can ba spared. This order in effect prevents shippers from obtaining the benefit of the Government s contract ratfs. Its ftsue shows that the treasury has no further concern about beiner able to re- . . At I n pienisiTagQia reserve. Internal Revehurf&mrmssioner Miller to-day issued a circular to colleetorsof ; 4- 1 .a.i ii Mi in i, emeu itjveuue, Beiuug iori.ii me new regulations adopted by the Treasury S)e partmeit to govern the packing of leaf tobacco The regulations provide that "all persons selling leaf tobacco, except farmers and raisers who sell their own product, must qualify as man ufacturers of tobacco in the manner pre scribed in section 3355 of the Revi-ed Statutes, as amended by section 14 of the act of March 1, 1879, and in subsequent sections relating to the manufacture of tobacco, and must conform to the regu lations established January, 1892, con cerning taxes on tobacco. And such locf f rViQ nnn en to cm trior? oa monnfon. tured tobacco, must be put up in pack- ages sucn as are prescribed in section 3332; Revised Statutes, as amended by section 14, of the act of March 1, 1879, and by the act 61 Janury, 1883, for fine cut chewing tobacco, and-all other kinds of tobacco, not otherwise provided for, to wit: In packages containing 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 46 ounces, or in .wooden packages con'iaiamg: 10, 20, 40 and 60 pounds each, marked as prescribed for such wooden packages in said section as amended, and with the caution notice prescribed by section 5, Act of March 3, 1883, amend ing section 3364, Revised Statutes. And when such . tobacco, so packed and marked, is sold or removed for use, itshall be subject ' to the tax of 6 cents per pound, and stamps therefor shall be affixed and canceled in the manner pre scribed, for like packings of . fine cut chewing tobacco. - The debt statement issued this after noon shows a net decrease in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during Ausrust of $8,174,642 The interest bear ing debt increased $80; the non interest bearing debt decreased $91,977 and the cash in the treasury increased $8,082,745. The balances of the several classes of debt' at the close of business August 31st were: Interest bearing debts, $635,042, 670; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,831,750; debt bearing no interest, $379,867,593.47; total, $1,016,742,013.73. The certificates and treasurer notes, offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury, outstand ing at the end of the month were $615, 350,572, a decrease of $1,621,757. The total cash in the treasury was $781,703, 357. The gold reserve was $55,216,900.; Net cash balance was $71,931,197.27 In the month there was an increase in gold coin and bars of $963,033. the total at the close being $120,885,869. Of the surplus there was in National bank depositories $17,330,897, against $17,466,156 at the end of the previous month. Counterfeiters Captured. Little Rock, Ark , Sept. i. The largest and most dangerous gang of counterfeiters ever organized fin this country has been run down and broken up by United States secret service detec tives. The headquarters of the gang was at Bodicaw, Nevada county, and was composed of abont twenty men, ten of whom have been arrested and are now in the penitentiary, awaiting a pre liminary examination. . Those now in custody are: George Vought, a cattle dealer; James NcNatt, a general store keeper, : and Berry Huckelby, Jack Smith, Mose Wesleyen, Charles Deloney, Riley Wils, Sam Ferguson, Dave NichoU and Wm. Steel, prominent farmers. The counterfeits consisted of dollars., halves and quarters and are the best that were ever made. Several thousand dol lars of the spurious coin were circulated in Southwest Arkansas. Highest oi all in Leavening FROM THE BRITISH ISLKS. Mr. Gladstone's Contribution to the Irish Fund Will Serve Under no Peer as Premier Rojal Cele bration at Balmoral Amer ican Exhibits at Cardiff. London, Sept. 1. Mr. Gladstone's con tributionof j100 to the Irish National Parliamentary fund, following the speech of I Mr. Dillon in Dublin on Wednesday, when he intimated to the Government that thf Irish partywould be obliged to recoiididcr their position unless the Min istry promptly and plainly declared their policy in regard to the House of Lords, are the current political topics. : By everybody who discusses them these acts are understood to havejbeen in tended as a timely reminder to Lord Rosebery to ( fulfill the promise which he gave upon assuming the Premiership that the Ministry would maintain the continuity f Mr. Gladstone's policy in regard to, Ireland, the keynote jof which was sounded in Mr. Gladstone's last speech in the House of Comrnons. In thi3 memorable speech the ex-Premier de nounced the House of Lords and advised the people to insist upon the abolition of the veto power of the upper body as the only serious hindrance to the granting of a full measure of home rule to Ireland. But Lord Rosebery 's first session of Par liament has been finished without a sign of the Government's intention of pushiug this part of the programme and the Labouphere section of the Rad icals will1 carry out their inten tion of running Parliamentary candi dates whose first pledges will be to refuse to serve under a Premier who is a Peer. The Labor party, with a view of showing that they do not intend to serve the Lib eral party through thick and thin, as heretofore, are arranging to run Tom Mann, the- labor agitator, against the Liberal, Fen wick, as a candidate for secretary of the Trades' Union congress. During thercoming week the Queen intends to ceieorate tne Dictn ot tne son ot tne uuue ana uucness ot x otk oy a great family gathering at Balmoral, at which, besides the immediate relations of the royal family. Prince Henry, , of Russia, will represent the Emperor of Germany and the Czarevitch will be pres ent on behalf of the Czar. The g" ther ing will last several days and will.be replete with appropriate festivity. In the meantime the critical condition of the Count of Paris casts a gloom over the spirit3 of the members of the royal j miy The head of the house of Bour bon is, privately highly esteemed 1 and re spected by the various members of Her Majesty's family,-including tbr Queen herself, though their meetings during later years have been infrequent The cause of this semi-estrangement was'the hopeless love which '- the late Duke' ot Clarence bore for .the Count's daughter Helena. - : , ---v-- It is said that the entire large and in teresting American section of exhibit at the Antwerp exposition has been secured for the exhibition which is to be held in Cardiff in 1895, and which will be for mally opened by the Prince of Wales. A Bishop Arrested for Contempt of Court. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 1. Judge F. R. Scott, of the District court, has issued an attachment for the person of Rt. Rev. Richard Scannell, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, of Omaha, forcantempt of court. The action grows out of the renioval of the priest of St. Paul's church by the bishop. Judge Scott granted an injunction f preventing the bishop from interf erring with the conduct of the church, pending a hearing in the court. Judge Scott is a strong member of the American Protective association and recently gained notoriety by causing the arrest of Editor Rose water of the Bee on the charge of contempt of court. At 3 o'clock Bishop Scannell appeared in court. He was not formally under arrest, having been merely notified by a constable to be present. The contempt proceedings were, continued. Judge Scott then ordered the bailiff to secure the keys to the church and open the edi fice in order that services may be held to-morrowi The bishop again refused to surrender the keys, and the officer was told to open the church if the doors had to be broken down. The bishop then asked the chief of police to send an officer to prevent the forcible entrance, thereupon the judge declared he would haye the chief arrested if he did. . The church will be opened to-morrow. Bloodshed is feared. Butlerites to Nominate a Ticket. Columbia, S. C, Sept: 1. At a meet ing of Gen. I Butler's friends, held here last night, it was determined to run an independent Democratic ticket against the regular Democracy, which is known as the Tillmanites. Legislative tickets, favorable to Butler will be nominated in every county and it is probable that a convention Twill be held to nominate a full State ticket from Governor down. This action is arousing much bitter ness, and the Democratic Executive com msttee, of which Senator Irby is chair man, has been called to meet on Tues day next to consider the political situa tion. When the independent conven tion will be called ha3 not been decided. Republicans will take advantage of the divided Democracy and run : candidates in most of the congressional districts. Power, j- Latent U, S. Grv Report YESTERDAY'S RAGE; THE DECISION REBUKE TO THE - DARTMOUTH CLUB. Jne.Vigilant and the HaiAtiita. SfukA Another Failure, ath a Itrce-rThe Britisher Ahead on the First . Round The Yankee Ahead When the Wind Dies OutThe Race -Given to thfj Vigilant. Dartmouth, Sept. 1. The Vigilant and the Satanita started l in a race this morning for the Bay club prize, valued at io. The course was triangular, from the Dartmouth range southwest to a mark boat off Torcross, thence by the east jmark boat and back; three times around, the total distance being forty two miles. The wind was light from the nortneast, tiie weather iiazy and the smobth. ,x i . "x Both hn.ifcs cvhfd sua fVAv pmud sea the ; - - " - j vuw v line! The Vigilant had the lee berth and crossed tne starting line at 10:30:10. The Satanita crossed at 10:30:20. Both had their jack-yarders and jib topsails set and had a free reach to; port from Toroross. ' . On this stretch the Vigilant bad gained 1 mixmte and 54 seconds and was 2 min utes and 5 seconds ahead in rounding thejrnark. The Vigilant held up to the eastward and the Satanita kept well in toward Blackwood, where the wind hauled eastwardly. Atthis point it was impossible to see the yachis on account of jthe haze and they were consequently not timea as tney rounded the east buoy Vp m emerging from the thick haze af per rouading the east mark it was seen that ttie Satanita, being; closer in shore wks .cutting a better wind than the Vigi- K laht a ad was gaining upon the American boat. She continued to gain and handily prus a tne centre-boarder on the run hbme for the first round. Both boats gybid to round the commodore's boat. Which: they did as . follows: Satanita 12:85:08; Vigilant, 12:35:49. a rom the time of . roundine Torcross until .the rounding of the commodore' boat, the Satanita had gained 2 minutes and 45 seconds on the centre-boarder and upon bearing away from Torcross o i the second round was 41 seconds aheai of the American, . . I It was again a free reach to port for ross. On this reach the Vieilaht overhauled and passed the Satanita arid In rounding the Torcross mark boat was minuits ana 4 secona aneaa. rne Vigilant had gained 2 minutes and seconds in the run to Torcross. jDoxn ooais neia insnore on tne neat to r ti i v -i i . . the east boat, the Vigilant increasing: her lead, but, later, both ran into a calm on the eastward tack and. a repetition of yesterday's failure to make a race of it was assured. -. - J' Shortly after rounding Torcross the Vigilant disappeared in the haze, heajd ing to the eastward for the second mark boat and the Satanita, which appeared to be about 3 minutes behind, was also, iost sight of soon afterward, After be ing out of Fight about an hour, the Vigi lant came into view bringing a breeze from the west and made, dose hauled, for the commodore's boat. The Satanita also appeared in sight, but soon aftr-.' ward gave up the race, signaled1 for a to w and was brought home, j The Vigilant carried sail until she reached a point within two hundred yards of the commodore's boat.' Sbe then hoved to and took in her head sails. After a short time she set them i cm '1 again, but she lay still, making no tempt to reach the commodore's boat, The committee decided the race favor of the Vigilant, but it. is doubtful if euch a decision would have been made on their action yesterday. It is thought probable .hat Mr. Gould will take the race for the Vigilant, she having fairly won it, but will refuse the money, as all the other races, terminated under sim ilar conditions, nave been aeciaed. upon the result at tne end of the hrat round. There was very little enthusiasm either at the start or any time during the con test. The thick haze aud light wind' which prevailed at sunrise and through out the day added to the depression caused by the profuse, adverse comments , upon yesterday's preferences of the sail- ? ing committee, and it is doubtful that the day furnished much" enjoyment to anybody concerned. j . - The adherance of the committee to the seldom observed, if not obsolete, rule re quiring a race to be finished within the time limit of eight hours has disgusted yachtmen and heaped discomfiture upon the Royal Dartmouth sailing committee, whose unfairness is notorious. The award of to-day's race to the Vigilant was clearly the result of the "pounding" they Received for yesterday's decision. Terrible. Drought in New York. . Buffalo. Sept. I. Western New York is almost literally burning, up. The droiith is almost without precedent. Farmers mourn the loss of crops and fear further havoc by fire and starvation &t stocks Counties', like Chautauqua and Erie, which haye dairy interests of great magnitude, are the chief sufferers, and unless rain comes speedily and copiously this entire end of the State will experi ence a financial loss" which it can ill afford. The bordering province of Onta rio is similarly parched. I Serious Fire at Sumter. I Charleston. 8. C, Sept 1. A specia to the News and Courier from Sumter 3. C, reports the burning this mornin of the notion store of Deschampes Bros; -f-loss on store $12,000, insurance $10,500;: store of Rembert, Marshall & Co. loss dn stock $10,000, insurance $3,000; Free- man printing office -loss $1,400, insmjr" ance $300; W. H. Yates damage to stock il.OOO, fully covered by insurancer The fire is attributed to the explosion of lamp. " , -i 4
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