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Entered Jtceording to postal regulations at the postoflh -cat Southport, X. C'.,as second post class attor Ti:kmh of hi:iCi:iiTiov. niRKK month!. -. . .3- Cents. six month- 00 Cent. mVUK... 00 Suit '' Mail. IayaW u advance. Give jjoMollUe address in full, including "county and State. K-iit'lv draft, toU'nlce order, or re phu n let'tcr, at our risk. j-yp.VlverliMng rates furnished on appli cation Xo tinnuink-.il in will 1 printed in the Lkaokk without the name of the writer being known to th editors. Obituary or death .notices, of live Vuu-s, subject to'editoriul revision, free. Ingcr notice, subject to approval, to Ik paid for in advance The Leader cannot return rejected mai.uMripts, no matter what their charac ter maV be. To this rule no exception will lie ma'le with regard to either letters or in closures. Nor will the editor tutor into any rornpondence respecting rejected communications. All matter not inserted to destroyed. STEVENS &FAEEELL 'Editor ami Proprietors. SOtTHPORT. IlrniiHwifkCo..NrC. Soi'TIIPOKT, X. C, XoVKMBKR 5, 1801. IJXAXSWKHAHLE EVIDKXCK Tli ciaims which the Leaden lias jx.rsiHtently made for Southport, that it possessed the Greatest Xatl'kai. IIakiioh on the South Atlantic Coast, have been not only recognized, but tested and proven as true, and by dis interested jarties. From the Qrst issue of tins pajK;r until the present time, the Leader has not failed to call public attention, at intervals, to this "harbor's unsurpassed natural advan tages, which had not been known to the world, or appreciated by Xorth Carolinians.-1 Xo visitor to Southport has ever failed to note what it might become as a commercial port, or hesi tated to exclaim upon the matchless view, where rolls the broad Cape Fear, as it broadens and deepens, forming the magnificent harbor of Southport, ere it loses itself in the great Atlantic. The fact that this harbor's advantages have been tried on two different occa sions, and by steamships of a draught which would .severely test the best water depths of any South Atlantic Coast bar, has been mentioned in these column;5. ' The mere mention of the arrival and departure of such steamships, would . jHissess an 'importance' itself in the history of this .place, coming as they did, one mi (ire, seeking aid, the other seeking coal and rest after a four days light to round Capo llatteras But the surprise of both captains in find ini such a harbor, before unknown to them, and their unhesitating testimony as to its location and importance, are unanswerable. Capt. H. li. Quick, of the Morgan steamship, "El Monte," spoke not only most favorably and emphatically while here of Southport's harbor, but is on record in the Xew York Murine Journal, over his own signature, where he states that this harbor is "the best on the Coast be tween Chesapeake Hay and Key "West." The El Monte" drew twenty-one feet six inches, and crossed the bar easily at neap tide. Caot. Whatley, of the English steamship "Chollerton," was equally positive in regard to this har bor's advantages, especially so as a coaling station for the South Atlantic. After the "Chollerton" had finished coaling here, and before leaving tho dock, Capt. Whatley in an interview said, "There is no harbor on the South Atlantic Coast except Southport, that I would have attempted to enter with my cargo of 3,S00 tons." He also ad ded that if -Southport can supply steam ships with coal at prices charged at Xorfolk, no steamships loaded at ports on the Gulf of Mexico or on the Coast south of here, will ever go to Xorfolk for coal but will always come he-c, thereby shunning the dangers of llat teras." Statements like these, coming irom men wholly disinterested, and of unquestioned character, must impress everyone. How can such a harbor remain unused and neglected, is the natural tkought of every one. But it needs no prediction to guess the results which will follow these facts becomiug known. How many town lots would have been sold at any other place with such testimony as this, if dne half as much, even, could be said of its future possibilities? Southport with tho greatest of na tural advantages, is possible of a devel opment which will make her not only the first city in Xorth Carolina, but an active competitor among the sea coast cities for the ocean trade, for few ports will be able to nval her deep water, wide and long harbor, healthy location and most favorable lotion on account of the Gulf Stream and Trade Winds. FORTIFIED HAMlOltsr General Howard, iu his annual re port as commander of the military department of tho East, calls attention to the fact that, since the commence. ment of the constiuction of otimov navy, Great Britain has strengthened her fleet on our side of the Atlantic by the substitution of vessels of greater power than those which were formerly on 'this station. In this action he per ceives a purpose on the part of that power to maintain its predominance in these waters. lie points to Halifax, Bermuda, Kingston and St, Lucia, as well fortified and garrisoned har bors, connected by telegraphic cable and furnished with navy yards admi rably adapted to serve as coaling and repairing stations for a fleet operating in the Xorth Atlantic. Bv wav of control he shows that, while we arc; building naval vessels of the 'host type, and have already afloat a fleet that 13 held in good estimation, we have provided for thern along our whole coast no harbor of shelter to which they could, Intake themselves in absolute security from the pursuit of an enemy. He urges, therefore, that the harbors of Boslon, Xew. York and Hampton Roads should be thoroughly fortified, not only for tun protection of the -neighboring cities, but in order that the ships of our Xavy, doing duty on the Xorth Atlantic, may have con venient harbors which they may seek with safety for the purpose of coaling or repairs. LTho importance of a general system of coast fortification has been long ac knowledged, and in 1885 apian was adopted for the fortification of Xew1 York, San Francisco, Boston and Hampton Roads combined with tho defense of Washington. It was in tended that tlio fortification of Phila delphia, Baltimore, Portland and the ports of Rhode Island 'should' follow. On the Gulf of Mexico the harbors to be provided are Xew Orleans. Galves ton and Tampa Bay.' In the South Atlantic a safe harbor could be con structed at Savannah. The point of Gen. Howard's urgent recommenda tion is that these fortifications are not only required for the protection of our seaboard cities, but that they are wanted as impregnable harbors for tho reception at need of tho cruisers of our Xavy. The fortifications will bo .mainly earthworks and will be provided with mortar batteries and other enormous guns. The character of the worjc may be judged from that which is now in progress in Xew York harbor, between Coney Island and Rockavyay Beach. Two immense quadrangular mounds ot earth are constructed, with ' four pits in the center of each, at the bot tom of which,rtwenty-five feet below the top, will be four twelve-inch howitzers The projectiles used in these guns are of solid steel and weigh G 2 5 pounds each. With a charge of eighty pounds of powder they can be fired eight miles. It is believed that one of these descending tfpon the deck of the iron-clad afloat would pierce the entire ship, and that a dynamite shell so fired would shatter her into ten thousand fragments. The ability to make ordnance of such tremendous caliber makes the solution of the pro blem of coast defense comparatively simple and its neglect proportionately inexcusable. Washington Post. As regards a safe harbor and coal ing station for Government vessels, Southport could be made far superior to Savannah or any other port on the South Atlantic. The Government now owns Oak Island, lying at the mouth of the Capo Fear river, upon Which it built Fort Caswell some fifty years ago, a fortress, once impregifoble, now in ruins, but which could agSin be made capable of resisting any attack by its" superior position. The expense of making this port a Government station for the South Atlantic, would practi cally amount to but little, and its ad vantages as a station are unsurpassed. Editor. TWO MORE TRIUMPHS. The ever inventive Edison is re ported to have achieved two more triumphs. The one includes the nrac- - 1 -.... tical application of electricity as a motor to great railroad lines, and the other its use for the propulsion of street cars without overhead wires. The first obviates the difficulty hitherto experienced from the interference of steam, which limits the rapiditv of the piston stroke, as at each movement a charge of steam lias to be got rid of from one side of the piston head to make room for the fresh injection at the other end of the cylinder. This difficulty vanishes in the new motor, which will 'permit a speed of 100 miles as easily as the 50 or GO miles per hour now attainable. In fact, it is said the limit 'of speed is only that of tin; en durance of the machinery and the strength of the tracks. By the second invention the electric current will be transmitted alone the rails which form the tracks, and pass through a motor under the car from one rail to another, thus completing tho circuit, the terminals of which are at tho central station. The much dreaded and hitherto unavoidable dis sipation of the current when attempted to be passed along the rails is prevented by having tho current one of low volt age. That is, it will have a sufficient amount of power,, but working at a low pressure, it having been found that the higher the voltage the greater must j be the insulation to prevent the cur rent from being lost by flying off from ! the conductor en route. The voltage 1 of the current to be employed will be I hardly one-fifth that of the overhead trolley system, which as technically stated is over 500. JThe most remark able feature in the invention is what is known as tho "pick-up, by which the current is to be taken from one line of rails. It is said the mechanism is so ingeniously arranged that it will work with perfect certainty through six inches of mud or water. If all this be true, and it can hardly bo otherwise when announced by -Edison, the grip, the cable and the horse, will soon be banished from service on street cars in the cities, and the steam locomotive with all its noise and dirt will be relegated to incidental uses such as switching trains from od 3 track 0' another, both in city and country. The power machines which-now travel along The tracks, drawing the loads after them, will be replaced by big stationary engines, which on the rail roads will be distributed at intervals of some twenty miles, and from them the power wilL be distributed along the intermediate lines. Whether by picking up a supply, as is now done at the water tank, or by taking up the current from one rail and passing it over to, the other, tho transportation service of the country will be per formed without smoke or steam to foul the atmosphere, ashes to blind the passerby, or sparks to start a con flagration such as has not seldom wiped out thousands of dollars' worth of pro perty as an incident of modern methods In addition to this the new service will be marked by a great increase of speed where that is safe, and a freedom from many things that how tend to render progress uncertain. It will be an era of improvement making life more en durable in the cities, more pleasant in the suburbs, and morb attractive in the remote rural districts by placing the latter within nearer hailing dis tance from the great aggregations of humanity. This double invention may prove to be not the least of the benefits which have been conferred on the world in the last fifty years by the array of inventive genius 111 which Edison holds the front rank Chicago Tribune. NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS. The farmer has raised great crops this year, but his work 'wi'l not be done until - he has "raised" a great many mortgages. Asheville. Citizen. Strike while the iron is hot. The spirit of improvement is abroad in the land. Press to the front and make for yourself, your town, your cou'nty, and your State an honorable name. Ae;y Jit rne Journal. But we must have newspapers and newspaper men and they cannot become better until we get over our hurry and material strife. Xew'spa pers will be just what the people are. -Charlotte Chronicle. Mr. E. C. Bed dlngfield, like the. honest and candid man that he is, told the committee that there will be a a Third party ticket fn the field in this State next year and that this fact had just as well be looked squarely in the face. Landmark. The citizens of Rocky Mount did the graceful and proper thing the other day. In a mass meeting they unani mously passed a resolution of thanks to the editors of the Argonant for the good work that paper has been doing for the town. Kings Mountain Xercs. Honest, open, fair ind manly dis cussion will do a vast deal of good in Xorth Carolina just now. The boy cott of a newspaper by an Alliance because its course is not approved is not right. Xq one need take a paper whoso utterances lie does not approve, but an organized boycott is not fair nor just and makes enemies. Roanoke A e us. PRESS COMMENTS. The mere announcement of this or that newspapers independence, or non partisanisrn, is usually far from actual standing of the majority of the papers making such announcement. It is a relief and satisfaction, to find news papers practicing what they preach, to find an agreement in all the columns. The Tost of Washington, 'D. C, is not only np to the times in news matter, but preserves an admirable evenness and fairness in its editorial expressions. It both claims to be and always is Independent and Clean in every way. The proverbial Almanac, supposed to be hanging by every fire-side, can be, in Xorth Carolina, none other bat Turner'. Aside from the many in teresting features found in its pages, its astronomical calculations for this State, with its proven reliability as an Almanac make it a book necessary for every household, especially so in the farm house. 1 832, being its Fifty fifth year of publication, indicates a successful career. Price ten cent, postpaid. Publisher, J. II. Ennis, Raleigh, X. C. POLITICALLY CONSIDERED. There is no tariff on campaign lies, and hence they are not monopolized by either party. Cleveland Sun and Voice. If taking the tariff off sugar gave the sugar trust a black eye and left $60,000,000 in the pockets of the peo ple, why not go farther and take the tariff off wool, tin, steel, iron, glass and a hundred other articles? Chica go Globe. If the Probitionists desire to make an aggressive national campaign they will nominate John P. St. John again for President next year. He is the one man of their party who has stead ily and saucily kept his head in view nationally for ten years Troy Tress, It is decidedly unfair to hold Presi dent Harrison responsible tot the ut terances of his son. Plenty of the very, men who thus try to fasten Rus sell Harrison's views upon the Presi dent would be made ridiculous if held responsible for the talkativeness of their own offspring. Muskegon Chron icle. .' As a rule the men who make it their business to buy from farmers and sell to them do not make more than a fair profit, and the farmer who thinks he can have the service of col lecting and distributing performed for nothing may find himself the victim of a confidence game. Chicago Trib une. Mrs. Rhoades, State Superintendent of young women's work in the Wom an's Christian Temperance Union of Pennsylvania, made this statement in a speech at the Bradford convention last week: "We have given up the idea of ever gaining anything by politics, and are now confining ourselves to individual work. We expect nothing, or very little, from legislation. It has been shown that the law cannot make a sober man out of a drunkard.'' India, napolis Journal. That petticoated politician Mrs. Lease of Kansas, who has been hurling anathemas at millionaire corporations and railroad kings, travels on passes whenever she may and invariably rides free as she goes about her own State. It is clear enough that Mrs. Lease makes agitating her business because it pays. It is also clear that the railroad managers look upon her and her kind as persons not likely to do them much harm; perhaps they would rather have violent abuse from the Lease kind than not. Y. Y. Ti imes. REVIEWS. It is worth everybody's while to buy the Xovember Wide Awake, for three notable features: "The Boyhood of Hawthorne," by his relative, Mrs. Richard Manning of Salem, Mass., which is full of family anecdote and gives a photograph of the first portrait painted of Hawthorne; the closing chapters of Margaret Sidney's famous Peppers serial; and. "Nolan," a ballad by Mrs Laura E. Richards, giving the tragic story of the bearer of Raglan's dispatch to Lucan's "Light Brigade," when they made the famous "charge" at Balaklava. Wide Awake is $'J.40 a year. D. Lothrop Company, Boston. The consciousness of having a reme dy at hand for croup, pneumonia, sore throat, and sudden colds, is very consoling to a parent. With a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the house, one feels, in such cases, a sense of security nothing else can give. ' ALL IN A HALF CENTURY. The unification of Italy. The annexation of Texas. The French revolution of 1848. The discovery of photography; The laying of the ocean cables. The discovery of the telephone. The emancipation of the Russian sens. " The discovery of the electric tele graph. The establishment of ocean steam navigation. The overthrow of the Pope's tempo ral power. I'he extension of Russian power into Central Asia. The great Franco-German .war and the unification of Germany. The great civil war and abolition of slavery in the United States, The rise and fall of Napoleon III., and the establishment of the French republic The discovery of the source of the Nile and the Xiger and the explora tion of interior Africa. The war with Mexico, and the ac quisition of California, with the dis coveries of gold that followed. Tax Soctbport Lejldeh $1 a year. CITY GBOWTH. A tendency in modern life which can only be regarded as a deplorable one is revealed anew by the social sta tistics of cities prepared in connection with the Eleventh Census of the Uni ted States. These statistics show the surprising growth of the cities and large towns of the country a growth which seems to be out of all proper proportion to the increase of the gen eral population. While the rural and village popula tion in the older States, and also in parts of some of the newer States, shows a tendency t6 decrease, the city population is everywhere on the in crease. And with this increase the ill-health evil and unhappiness which almost invariably attend the massing of great numbers of people upon a small area show a marked development. In the United States in 1890, there were three hundred aud forty-five cities which had ten thousand inhabi tants and upwaid. In 1880 there were but two hundred and nineteen such cities. The increase of the population living m cities containing ten thousand or more inhabitants, in the ten years from 1880 to 1890, was more than six and a half million, or a little more than sixty per cent. During the same time the popula tion of the whole country had increased a little less than twenty -five per cent. More than half of the increase of the whole population of the country was made within these three hundred and ferty-five cities. Leaving them out of the account, the population of the country would have increased less than six millions between 1880 and 1890. The importance of these cities has increased to such an extent that they now include more than seventeen mil lions of our population, or a little less than twenty -eight per cent of all the people in the country. The town-dwelling population has gained very rapidly upon the country dwelling population in the ten years between the last two censuses, tn 1880, only a little more than" twenty one per cent, of the population lived in cities of ten thousand and more inhabitants; in 1890 nearly twenty eight per cent, of the people lived iu such cities. It does not appear that the people have been driven from the country to the cities by the unfruitfulness of the land or the unduly hard conditions of life there. Some of the most fertile, most prosperous, and in every way most highly favored commonwealths in the Union have suffered such a loss in many of their best agricultural counties. - The social statistics of cities gathered by the census bureau tell their own story of the conditions of life for which the people who flock to the cities are exchanging the comparative physical and moral health of the country. These statistics bear out the correct ness, as a general statement, of the rule that the death-rate increases with the density of the population; that is to say, the more thickly people are congregated, the greater proportion die each year. To illustrate, in certain wards of the city of Boston people are packed together at the rate of one hundred and sixty-six persons to the acre; and here the deaths are thirty per thousand each year. In certain other wards of the same city there are only four peo ple to the acre, and here there are but nineteen deaths per thousand. Moral ill-health also increases in proportion to the density of popula tion. It would seem reasonable that where a great many people are gath ered together in a little space, a fewer number of policemen, in proportion to the number of people, must be need ed to keep them in order. The exact opposite is the case. As a general rule, the greater the' popula tion of a city, the greater is the per cent, of police, force needed to each head of the population. The city of Xew York has not only more policemen than any other city In the country, but it also has a great er proportion of them to the number of people. It requires twenty-three policemen to every ten thousand of its people whereas the city of Rock ford, Illinois, the smallest of the cities from which figures relating to the police force are given by the cen suVbureau, requires but twelve po licemen for its population of more than twenty-three thousand. The existence of the tendency of people to flock from the farms to cities and from better to worse conditions of life, is one of the most serious so cial problems of the time. lWi'i Companion, One touch of X&ture makes the whole world kin." Diseases common to the race compel to search for a common remedy. It 13 found in Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the reputation of which is world-wide, having largely superseded every other blood medicine in use. 1T1L3IIXGTOX ADTEBTISKMEXTS. CALL AND EXAMINE our larse stock of CIGARS, TOBACCO, SNUFF, ETC. Before purcliafting. It will be to your Interest. . SAMUEL BEAR, Sr., No. 12 Market Street, WILMINGTON,. X. C. THE T1IKKK SPHUTTINE REMEDIES SPIBITTINE BALSAM Cures Rhcuraat ism. Relieves Pain. SPIBITTINE INHALENT. For Consumption, Asthma, Catarrh, and La Grippe. SPIBITTINE OINTMENT the greatest Skin Cure in the world. For Sale br I). I. WATSOX. Druggist, South port, X. C. -Manufactured only bv the SPIRITTINE CHEMICAL COMPANY. HANSEN & SMITH, Managers. WILMIXGTOX. X. C. WILMINGTON, N. C. Strictly first-class In eTery particular. :o: The most complete and fashionable Hotel for Xbrthern Tourists between Washington, D. C, and Florida. All modern conveniences for the comfort of guests, unsurpassed Cuisine, Elevator Service, Electric Lights and Steam heated. , Iiooms with bath and en suite. Best location for transcient and per manent guests in the City of Wilming ton. N.C. J. E. MONTAGUE, Manager. MILLER & HAAR Can furnish you with the best PIANO AND ORGAN in the world at reasonable prices. Instru ments sold on the Instalment Plan or for Cash. Sheet Music and Books always on hand, ajso all other instruments and trimmings. Tuning and Repairing of all kinds a specialty. Call or Address. Miller & Haar's Music House, 122 Market street, Wilmington, X. C. B. F. PENNY Has just returned from the North ern Markets with an Immense Stock of CLOTHING, I bought'late, therefore I bought cheap and can afford to undersell any clothier in the city. B.F.PENNY, 110 and 112 Market St., Wilmington. N. C. -H T URT- I Am The Only Strictly Betail 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. GREKXEWAIjD, 1 13 Market Street. Wilmington, N. C. WILMINGTON MARBLE YARD, JOHN MAUNDER, Proprietor. j 2 WILMIXGTOX V C. i 2 I North Front Street. :o;- Monuments and Huavk SxoxEii Made to Okdeh. f W. MUNItOE & CO. Dealer? in FURNITURE. CARPETS, BEDDING, &a Xo. 10 South Front Street, WILMINGTON', X. C. IREDELL MEARES, ATTORNEY AT EAW. Office, 17 Princess Street WILMINGTON. X. C. Practices In all State and Federal Courts THE 0RTO1 WM, GOODMAN. No. 8 Market Street, WIOnNGTOX, X. v Ready-Mad? CLOTHING. DRY GOODS, FANCY ART1CI.KS. BOOTS AND SHOKN HATS AND CAPS. Brunswick County People Should Make My Store Their Headquarters, While in WiC mington. WM. GOODMAN. S. H. F1SHBLATE. WILMINGTON, N. C. S. H. FISHBL ATE WILMIXGTOX. X. BIG BARGAINS. S. H. FISHBLATE WILMIXGTOX, X. 0. S. H. FISHBLATE, WILMINGTON, N. 0. X ALDLKMAJN & ' FLANNER. Importers and Wholesale i'i - DEALERS IN No. 114 North Front Street WILMIXGTOX, X. q. THIS IS WHAT TIIE RACKET STORE will do, they will sell you more rood goods either retail or wholesale, for lesa money than any other house In the city can afford to do. e intend carrying, by far the largest line of ood, this seaflon, we ever had. rOur buyer has jurt -returned from the Northern market, where he has purrhaM-d a large stock of goods for ready spot cah. We do cordUllr invite one ami all. ri or poor to come and inspect our different lines of good In Slillinery. Shs, Notion, Dry Goods, 3ren. ltoys'and Youths Cloth ing, Ladies' and Gentlemen' Underwear, Lanes, Embroidery, Jewelry all bought In laree quantities. A nice new line of Lace Curtains. Win dow Shades, Trunks, Valises. Tojs. Gloves. Hosiery, Neckwear, all kinds of larjct. floor and table Oil Cloth. Klbbon In all shades, widths, quality and style. Come and see us and be convinced that our goods are strictly first-class and prices to suit the times. Merchants are respectfully invited to call on os and get our prices in jobbing lots. All orders from the country are promptly attended to. ' We hare on hand a fine and cheap line of flatting for lGcts. per yard worth 20cts and some for 22jcf worth 30cts. These TIE prices cannot be beaten ny anyone. We are still at our old stand opposite the Front Street 3farket, No. 117 South Froiit Street. BEADDY & GAYLOBD. Headquarters New York. ' WILMINGTON. N. C.
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