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SOIITHPORT. Brunswick Co.. N.C. i- t r nn mm THERE IS MONEY IX IT. The recent very heavy catches of fish in the vicinity of Southport, only go to how wnai migut oe uonu in establishing and building up a great sea food industry at this place. Hie canning company already here, have done a profitable business during the past year, in oysters, clams and terrapin, and the company's manufac ture could not equal the demand for Us goods. Tlio very heavy run of mullets this .year, would have given any company here prepared to handle them as fast V as caught, plenty to do. and have re sulted in a most profitable business to both fishermen and the company who could have taken them for shipment. While these fish have been in great abundance, and the fishermen have Wide some? money, the market after the first week or so has not been able to take the. fish' as caught, and tho re sult has l)een a dragging, over supplied market, with no inducement lor fisher- ... men to catch jmy except for home con sumption. '...'-Another excellent fish in i abundant supply this season, is the sea 'trout, which . has come in such, vast 'numbers as to fairly exhaust all who tried to diminish tho number by catch ing them. Tho catch a few days ago, of four small 'boats, line fishing, was between two and three thousand pounds in weight', and every day good catches were made. With a market here or buyers who would take all the ci. t.i i ' . ! " caugui, aim pay lor mem a iair price,' it is impossible to state how s " - - - manjrpounds could have been taken, and the results would hav honpfittd all parties, besides developing a most important industry. Hut the fish business here is not limited to simply the above mentioned sea products, nor to this season of the year alone, for during the entire year, with exceptional times, tho waters around Brunswick abound in many delicious varieties of fish and sea foods, which can bo secured with little or no risk and very little work. The argument of little or poor transporta tion, with the consequent impossibility of marketing in condition, at points where the demand will make prices always remunerative, will soon cease to exist. The field is open for the es tablishment of an industry here which will pay well. There is no obstacle in the way, which a little money, brains and honest endeavor cannot overcome. There is money in it for such persons. A POLITICAL SINEW. However loud the cry may be of an "unpurchaseable franchise," the de mand for ballot reform, and the sophis- try of any political partjr in its speeches for pure elections. the fact cannot be ignored that the money argument is as yet as convincing as it ever was, and is ah important campaign factor. The voluntary(?) contributions of office holders at every presidential campaign, amounting in reality and fact simply to political assessments, is an unknown sum. which comes regu " larly into the hands of those directing campaign affairs, to be placed where it will do the most good. The party out of power will natnr ally protest against this abuse of the .laws, and this leads to changes in the manner of contribution, -but which continue to bo willful violations of the intent of the law, no matter what name may be given to the contribution. The action of the executive committee of the New York Civil Servica Reform Association, in calling the attention of the Secretary of the Tmsnnr Postmaster General, to the soliciting of political contributions from persons in the employ of the Federal service. is a pertinent inquiry and one which is backed by the laws of 1883, which snouia De tested to see if they can 1 made effective, if violated. : The forty thousand dollars raised, recently, in a single evening at the Union League dub, in New York, to be used in Mr. Faasett's canvass, as candidate for Governor of New York, is an indication of how those who tub scribed this sum regard money as a political factor, and how necessary it is for campaign purposes. The large, idle, floating population of voters, found in every city of any size, is too important to be neglected at elections. -This element cares nothing for men or principles, except to the extent of the money involved in the purchase of its vote. What does the right of suffrage amount to with this class, whose harvest times is at elections? And what party management unwisely ignores this vote, which can be secured by means of the dollar. Do the mem bersof the party securing this vote, question the method employed, or at the end of the campaign investigate the incidental expense account? There is no party with such high ideas of political morals, not even the saintly Mugwump, that doea not recognize money, as & most important political sinew, in its 'purchasing power of votes. The strength which a substantial cam paign fund gives to a party, cannot be estimated. It is a demonstration of confidence in the party's position, faith in its principles, and a belief in its success. In the political battle it it the "heaviest artillery,' and its power is irresistible to turn the tide of battle in certain quarters. While the present political condi tions exist, and a certain voting ele ment has its votes on sale, it is not to be expected that any political party will fail to use this roost potent agency, money, to effect its ends, if by so doing it wins. Political morals can be 'shocked by failure, but never by success. NO PILOT, NO SHIP. The loss of the U. S- naval steamer Despatch on the Virginia coast is an other evidence of the necessity of. em ploying coast pilots 'on naval vessels. Whatever loss the government has sustained by the stranding of the Ga lena, tug Nina and the Despatch with in a year was caused through the lack of knowledge of these vessels' position the responsibility of which must rest on the officers in command, although neither of them were pilots in the proper sense of the term. These officers, however, were ob liged to assume the responsibility of piloting their vessels, whether they were competent or not, through a na val regulation one that the depart ment seems determined not to modify no matter how much it costs to keep it in force through loss of vessels. With a good leadsman at his. post, with plenty of steam, and an engine in good order and tight ship, there is no excuse for any mariner getting his vessel near enough to the Virginia coast to strike bottom and especially, bound south, with the wind northeast. It was done in this case, however, and calls to mind the more serious disaster with loss of life, to the United States Steamer Huron, south of Cape Henry, the cause of which was not sufficient allowance for leeway and ai onshore current. An experienced pilot would never have allowed either of these vessels to get into shoal water under the ex isting circumstances, owing to this familiarity with the currents and the soundings. Year after year the Old Dominion steamships out of this port make their trips three times a week oyer the route on which the Despatch was wrecked. These vessels make schedule time through snow storm and fog, but are never known to get in water shoal enough to endanger the loss of the vessel, for the reason that their masters are expert pilots, and there are plenty of pilots just as com petent that naval vessels can employ, and which naval commander would be glad to have on board, if the de partment would modify its order in relation thereto. It u hot long since that the Des patch was ashore in the Potomac for several days, much to the inconven ience of the , Secretary of the Navy. She was then, at on this more recent stranding, being navigated without a pilot. The Marine Journal has always ad vocated the employment of pilots, where piloting, not navigating, is required. It has shown time and again wherein the Navy Department has lost thousands of dollar through total losses and repairs of vessels that were traceable directly to the non em ployment of pilots. Our new naval vessels are too valuable to experiment with as schools for pilots. Jermc Journal. PRESS C0HHENT8. The wonderful change in method, and the advancement made in present ing news, in almost every conceivable way to the great reading public, by the press of the country within the past few years is hardly realized, ex cept by dose observers. But this progress by the newspaper, is equally shared in by the periodicals, weekly or monthly. Conspicuous among these is the Cosmopolitan Magazine, which in two years, has advanced from ob scanty into prominence, and is now one of the leaders among the monthlies both in literary merit and for its un surpassed photographic reproductions of people and scenes, which have added greatly to its well-established reputa tion, and made its perusal by all readers most enjoyable. It is not alone in the secular press, that North Caroliria continues to show improvement, bat in the religious as well. The Greenville "Watch-Tower," the organ of the Disciple, has enlarged to an eight page paper, and continues its fine appearance with the increased size. The "Watch-Tower" should be found in the home of every family of the denomination in whose interests it is published, and can be read with profit by every one. BEYIEW8. Ths Homk-Makxb, for October, con tains most interesting reading in its departments, With the Housewife, Fashions and "Cycle," especially so for ladies. Among the descriptive articles, "The Old Van Rensselaer Mansion" by Mrs. M. P. Ferris, "Harvard Annex,'' by Mary Kendnck Kinney, and O. H's, "Along the Line," are finely illustrated, and the best in the number. The several prose and poetry pieces, with a few chapters of Marion Crawford's continued story, "The Three Fates," go to make up the num ber. Subscription price, $2.00 a year. Hoxe-Majcer Co., Union Square, New York. Thx Cosmopolitan, for November, is as usual superbly illustrated, and it pages are filled with interesting and profitable reading matter for all classes of reader. C. Osborne Ward's, "Mas sacres of the Roman Amphitheatre," illustrated by Dan Beard, is a fascina ting story of the Roman gladiatorial days, and the researches made in the Portugal town of Batalha, by Com mander Crowninshield, U. S. N , and its remarkable cathedral, will be en joyed by the student or reader, in the article "Batalha and Alcobaca." "Al falfa Farming" in Colorado, oy J. B. Walker, shows the wonderful produc tiveness of this plant. The "City of the World's Fair," can be read with profit by all who expect to visit the wonderful modern city, so well de scribed in this number, by Charles King- This by no means completes the list of pieces, others by Thos. L. James, Louise C. Moulton, Horace Porter, will prove well worth the perusing. Thx Cosmopolitan, $3.00 a year, Cosmopolitan Publishing Co., Madison Square, New York. NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS. If a protective tariff does not put prices up and keep them up it is a mis nomer and an absurdity, quite as much of an absurdity as is the assertion that it lowers price. Wilmington Star. ' ' " Tne average prudence of men en gaged in business may be said to be a constant quantity. Some are prudent; some incautious;, but incautious about what? About crediting customer be yond their ability to pay. Newt. Observer. The old fogy notion that modesty must wear a veil and avoid interest in great questions makes woman an in ferior being. She ha lost none of her modesty, but has lost much of her ignorance, and the world is the better for it iState Chronicle. The people understand the sugar situation better than the Republican party think they da The people want substantial, not fictitious relief; they want low taxes, not coupled with high bounties; they want the lowest taxa tion consistent with the actual needs of the Government. Chatham Record. m ) It is also a fact that the Democra tic party to-day stands squarely upon record as favoring every demand the farmers are making for relief, save and except the sub-treasury, which ould have the Government loan the farmer money at two per cent, per annum, when the Government itself cannot borrow money at such a rate of interest. And the Government has not a dollar of money, and cannot get a dollar of money, unless it borrows it or taxes the people the fanners in cluded to raise L AskevUU Citizen. Men mistrust their fellow men and in the struggle for an existence the weak and oppressed are made to bow at the feet of the mighty, and yield uncomplainingly. This condi tion has obtained so long in this conn try that those who have been living under the great burdens are being aroused to the absolute necessity of making a stubborn resistance in order to free themselves and restore their right. No period in the history of this country ha ever witnessed such a thorough determination on the part of the working rTtanis to obtain relief from oppxtsiT tad uajsst le-iaUtioa. Fanner' AdvttaU. BEV0LUTI0NABY BUHTS. In this township are two remarka ble and very old ruins, or we might say signs, of ruined mills. One of these was erected across a stream navi gable to the source by good-sized fiats and even steamboats. Tradition saith that in "ye olden time" a man having let out a contract for building a dam across this stream, the work was commenced. - After many months of toil the contractor found that he would be unable to finish it, and going to his employer he offered to give all he had done if the contract were can celled. He was refused and as he had property, was sued for damages and ruined. The work was finally completed but did 'not stand. The dam is almost high enough, except on the streams, to hold five feet of water and this after the wear and tear of over a century. Two county bridge now span the two waterways, The length of the dam is about 500 yards It is known as the "Old HazeaL" The other ruin is across Town creek, at the head of navigation, 12 miles west of Wilmington, N. C, the creek flow ing into Cape Fear river 10 mile be low Wilmington. At this place the tide rises two to six inches, making a tideway of 46 miles to Wilmington. This dam is even now 8 to 10 feet high and 10 feet in width. Huge pine and oak have grown on and around it so that it cannot be distinguished from the surrounding forest but for its shape and height There appears to have been a grist mill on the main stream, flood-gates in the center and a saw-mill on the other side, on a race cut through the solid land, nearly half a mile in length, connecting with a turn of the creek below. About U years ago. in cutting out this old race to make a higher landing, pine scant ling and two section of sheathing, well preserved but water worn, were uncovered. The sheathing had evi dently been torn from its original foundations. A break seems to have taken place before the dam was fin ished, leaving a small lake below. The next break was at the flood. gates, The dam was built around the lake that was left by the break (about one acre in extent). One freshet and only one, (in 1867) since the late war and as long before as l ean remember, ran over this place, it being lower than the main work- Another break which was never respired, left a lake nearly as large as the last one. These lakes are never less than six feet in depth and sometimes afford real good fishing It would be very good if hooks and worms were not continually bobbing, with 15th amendments at the other end of the line. All of Town Creek is more or less low and swampy ground, but right here is high (made ground) entirely across. The bottom is rocky and marl. The water has been pouring through the breaks and the two water ways, during freshets, for over a century and in the recollection of the oldest citizen there is no apparent wasting of this solid earthen work. . One may well ask, Who built it? Who paid for it? Who died while it was going up? What accident hap pened? How much money was lost in the building? When was it built? etc It is so long ago that the name of the builder has been lost or forgotten. An old man, Miles Potter, (now dead) who was born about 1785, used to re late that he remembered, when a boy, of eating grapes which grew upon the then old mill-house. It was said many years ago that an old graveyard near by may; have been the resting place of the poor African slave torn away from his home upon the Senegal or Niger, and made to wear hi life away carry ing earth upon his head or upon a rude barrow, under the cruel lash of task-master. Or, as history tells us, English subject were for crimes some times committed and sometime cent over to the American colonies, they may .have been employed the same way and buried there too. If money was not lost, labor was. Old folk tell us that in the "long ago" dump carts and mules were not used a now. None but strong corporations would attempt such work now. One might say how could any man be so foolish as to us undertake so much in the face of such odds. Why did he not use rock or wood for water tumble in stead of so much loose dirt? A hundred years from now, when our country has a population like China, our descendants may say. What poor farmer those old people were; for history says that men with families, farmers, had from 25 to 100 acres of land and barely made a living. We support our families and have only from one to two acre. The best speed of their railroad cars was 60 miles an hour, while our air cars travel at theJJ rate of 200. Again, history tells us they had a great Republican or Democratic government, with laws made and executed for the benefit of her then 65,000,000 inhabitant. In the next chapter it say that business or trade is allowed and lieessed, which coat the people of that day billions of dollar, wifh no profit to the masses. We cannot'see why thoughtful free men could have acted so differently from what we do now, and yet they seemed to brag about their great and free country. But we turn from what was, to what i and say that a saw and grist mill, cotton gin, spoke and handle fac tory and a shingle mill could easily be run by that old race with the high bank and make the welkin ring with sound of axe, saw and wheels. ; In this section we have quantities of the finest pitch, spruce and rosemary pine, hickory, . ash. cypress, poplar sweet gum, black gum and other tim bers, farm lands, people and wire grass. P, Town -Creek, Brunswick Co., N.'C POLITICALLY CONSIDERED. Gov. Campbell think , he will be elected by 15,000 plurality, and Mc Kinley'a friends are confident of the Major' election by 30,000: You put up your money and take your choice. Chicago Tribunt. Cleveland and Hill meet effusively in public, but to judge by the expres sions ofj their respective supporters what they think in private would send the political mercury below freezing point. Baltimore American. The farmer who work are the farmer who think. The farmers who talk and shriek calamity are the farm ars who think the farmers who work do not think. That is the difference between them and that is what will regelate the shrieker to the rear in November. Omaha Bee. If Congress settles the Silver bill this winter, and by a law which shall give unlimited coinage of silver or un limited coinage to the product of the American silver mines, that will pass for a Republican measure, such a boom wjll follow it that no Democrat will be elected. Salt Lake Triune. No politician of either party in Iowa for a moment sneers at "grangerism," but both parties cultivate the acquain tance of the farmer, and if some of the leaders offer him a stone they take good care that it be in the likeness of a bakery biscuit or a good honest farmer's bre&d.-rJowa Homestead. The Democratic leaders cannot keep the silver question out of the canvass next year by any sort of shuffling or legerdemain which they can employ. In ihe South and West the Democratic a masses are too anxious to get the issue fairly before the country to stand any such cowardice and trickery as the bosses are trying to practice. SL Louis Globe Democrat. It is not presumptuous to suppose that, as the South increases m indus trial wealth, and as its interests become more generally identified with and dependent upon the policy of protec tion, its political solidity, which is all of one kind, will disappear. There is no sentiment, political or otherwise, in business. Hard, practical, common sense control the operations of trade. Philadelphia Ledger. YflLHINGTON ADYEBTIftKXENTH. MILLER & HAAR Can furnish you with the best PIANO AND ORGAN in the world at reasonable prices. Instru ment sold on the Instalment Plan or for Cash. ! Sheet Music and Books always on hand, also all other instruments and trimmings. Tuning and Repairing of all kinds a specialty. Call or Address. lliller & Haar'a Music House, 122 Market street, Wilmington, N. C. WM. GOODMAN. No. 8 Market Street, WILMINGTON. N. C. Ready-Mad2 CLOTHING. DRY GOODS, FANCY ARTICLES. BOOTS AND SHOES HATS AND CAPS. Bnmrtrick County People Should Hake Ily Store Their Headquarters, .While in 711-ai&stca. WM..G00DMAN. B.'K PENNY Has just returned from the North ern Markets with an Immense Stock of CLOTHING, I bought Ute. therefore I bought cheap and can afford to undersell any clotbier in the city. B. F. PENNY, 110 and 112 Market St.. Wilmington, N. C. EARL, & WILSON'S Collars and Cuffs are the best in the world and at NAUMBURG'S 113 Princess St. Wilmington, You will find a largo stock of them. FINEST MEN'S FURNISHINGS ' Best Fitting CHILDREN'S SUITS. KNOX'S H ATS, ETC , -H TUR T- I Am The Only Strictly Eetail Dealer In. Fine BOOTS, SHOES AND SLIPPERS IN WILMINGTON. I sell no shoddy goods, but sell as fine all leather shoes as are manufac tured in the United States. L L. GREENE WALD, US Market Street Wilminsrton. N. C. NOTICE!' XL WILL BE HERE OCT. 9TH. W(T are nowofTering the largest stock of CIGARS AND TOBACCO to be found in the city and at prices to suit the times. SAMUEL BEAR, Sr., No. 12 Market Street, WILMINGTON, N. C. WILMINGTON MARBLE YARD, JOHN MAUNDER, Proprietor. WILMINGTON, N. C. North Front Street. :o: Monuments and G r a v e Stones Made to Order, SPIRITTINE BALSAM. Cures Rheumatism. Relieves Pain. PERSIAN INHALENT. For Consumption, Asthma, Catarrh, and La Grippe. PERSIAN OINTMENT the greatest Skin Cure in the world. For Sale br D. I. WATSON. Druggist, South port, N. C. Manufactured by the Spirittinc Chemical Co., HANSEN & SMITH, Manager, WILMINGTON, N. C. W. MUNROE fc CO. Dealers In ... : FURNITURE. CARPETS, BEDDING, &c. No. 10 South Front Street, WILMINGTON, N. C. IREDELL MEARES, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office, 17 Princess Street WILMINGTON. N. C. Practices in all State and Federal Courts WILMINGTON, N. C. - The most complete and fashionable Hotel for Northern tourists between Washington, D. C, and Florida. All modern conveniences for the comfort of guests, unsurpassed Cuisine, Herator Service, Electric Lights and Steam-heated. Rooms with bath and en suite. TIE RTOI J. E. MONTAGUE, Hanager. ASSIGNEE SALE At Cost ! At Cost! HEDR1CKS COR.M-R. Commencing with Iturdayr-Octoberioih. ' i I will offer the cntlrr stork of; DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, Gents- Furnishings, Etc., of J. J. lied rick. m a- i Avail yourselves of this opportunity, n. many valuable bargains will te oprnixl ti you. All persons indebted to the said J. .). I led rick can now get their bills, ami wilf save trouble bj making prompt, settlement of same. A. D. BROWN, Assignee. S. H. FISHBLATE WILMINGTON, N. C. S. H. FISHBLATE iMINGTON, X? C. BIG BARGAINS. S.H. FISHBLATE WILMINGTON, X. O. S. H. FISHBLATE, WILMINGTON, N. 0. ALDERMAN & FLANNER. Importers and Wholesale DEALERS IX No. 114 North Tront Street WILMINGTON', N. C. THIS IS WHAT THE RACKET STORE will do, they will you more good good cither retail or wholesale; for less money than any other bouse In the city can afford" to do. We intend earrying, by far the largest line of goods, this season, we ever had. . Our buyer ha just returned from the Northern rttorEets. where he has purebaM-d-a large fet'ick of gixxli for ny jot cavb. We do rordUJlv incite ne and all, ri h or poor Iq come end inspect our diJJVreiit line of good in Millinery. hJoe. Notion. Dry flood. Men. JJoyaiid Youth' ("lh ingy Lf1te aJk! Oeutlernr-n? -Underwear, Laces, Embroidery, - Jewelry all bought in large quantities. , . ; A nice new line of Lac Curtain. Win dow Shade. TruskjVali-. Toys. Gim . Hosiery. Net k wear, all kind of Carix. floor and table Oil Clota. V Itibbon in all ftLadcs, widths, quality and style. Come and ace n and be convinced that our foods are strictly Crtt-class and prices to suit the times. , Merchant are respectfully invited to call on us and get our prices in jobbln g lots. AH order from the country are promptly attended to. We baTe on hand a line and cheap line of Matting for lCcta. per yard worth 20ct and some for 22jcU worth 30ct. ,Thes prices cannot he beaten by anyone. We are still at our old stand opposite the Front Street Market. o. 117 South Front Street. IT TIM, BEADDY & OAYXOBD Headquarters New York. WILMINGTON. N- C, 3 i
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