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iFOLUME XXII..
Ilk S:orgia Saterprise.
A Agressive Dcmoerntic paper, jmb-
t Covington, Newton
.Cosi&tjr, Georgia, terms, $1.50 per an
• unm, •trictly in advance. Established
0.-toiler 2St!i, 1865. Burnt out on
*. U3l ujsUt, 1881, nml again on Dccetn
>or 31ft, 18s:(. Both times it wont down
n asltos without any inauraiico.
Tuli: NTERPRISB is an uncompromising
jjlHtonf the principles of theorguuizod
nihJßring Democracy of to-day.
wiiie it grants equal justice to all
icn before tho law, it holds this to K a
Flute-Man's Government, belonging to
lira by the right of discovery—be
to him by tho blood and suffer
ug jßhc Fathers. None but Anglo
iMuiHbitmes were signed to the Poelnra
ti<t&4ijs Independence, and none but
flfHK.cn bled a id died to wrench the
oolorttts front England’s cruel grasp, to
tMHsh tho proud young Bepuhlio of
Upon these issues the paper is wiling
to go l'fo o the public, asking no other
mppagt than that which its merits de
serve.! The paper will he frgg and out
spoken on all questions of public interest,
and will not endeavor to accomplish the
ridientns feat of “running with the Lure,
and keying with the hounds."
In other words, The Enterprise will
not be a “feuco rider” in any of tho po
litical cam paigns. Those who desire a
lirettoewspaper, are earnestly requested
Mk it a trial.
S. W HA AV KINS, Eli tor.
' STARVING ITALIANS.
of tho PnuNonffi*rt of ilio Wrecked
Bteainer Scotia.
Five hundred and nineteen of the Ital
ian jflssenpcrs of the wrecked steamer
Scotia, arrived on the sea barge Hag
gerty, at Castle Garden New York late
Sunday afternoon. The scene that fol
lowedl beggared description. They
rushed into the rotunda pell mell, shriek
ing and howling for food like ravenous
welrr
Tfcy crowded around the lunch tables
clinching over each other, and trampling
fI plots women and children. Pan
lium reigned supreme for fully an
It is customary to register all cm
s before they enter the rotunda,
and tape was broken on this occasion,
perintendeut Jackson. The force
mass of people was so great that
icers stationed to keep order were
aside like straws. The seething
:ou!d not he restrained, Mr. Jack
ve ordeis to give them all the food
ceded and charge it to the com
ners of emigration. Then the dis
ion of food began. It was impos
o regulate the distribution. Strong
rowded to the front with uplifted
and their eyes starting from their
s, crying in Italian, “Bread!
surging mob was utterly uncontrol-
W onion and children were tramp
i, crowded and pushed away. The
sof the garden added in the dis
ion by throwing loaves over the
of the nearest to the out skirts of
owd. Every time a loaf was fired
he crowd, twenty or more seram
and in some cases fought to get it.
Iry bread was a luxury was evident
froqa llie way the starving people gorged
themselves. In n short time all the food
gone, except some bologna sausage.
women and children were cared
ffi, and milk and beer added to their
Outside the railing tvere G 42
from the Etruria, 852 from
(Kd Waeslnnd and (100 from the Labreta-
Nearly 11,000 people were in the
jHunda. The babel of tongues was
■fehtful, as the people were of nil na
t|jjialiiie. The officials handled them
dj|Sl, keeping the Italia”* separate. The
outside the garden were besciged
S|h friends a J relatives of the Scotia’s
JHbcngen-.
Spume affecting scenes were witnessed.
■flßent Terkuyle and Interpreter Thcilly
Ai l up with the passengers on the
Bo The tug Luckenbach brought up
flan- baggage, and seventy more of the
people were brought to the garden.
came overland from Patchougee,
they landed.
A HAIL STORM.
Dm* .Miiill Dntnn*o to Property ut Ac
worth, tin.
Jj special to the Atlanta Constitution,
datid Monday, says: A terrible hail
Btojm, accompanied with a tcrritic and
IHHtructive wind, struck Acworth, Ga.,
last night, about 8:30 o’clock, and lasted
dfenit three-quarters of a minute. In this
Acrt time the whole scene was covered
the icy drops and drifted in many
a foot deep,
Klic wind lifted the tin roofing off of
storerooms, and the rain which fol
jiSfed c mpletcly wet their entire con
■t<. The owner places the damage at
tlooo.
Leak's and John Green's dwcll
®igs were both completely demolished.
Mo piece of timber was left in place, and
St, strange as it may seem, no one was
Kllttrt, notwithstanding there were six in
lach family. Some of the children were
in their beds. The furniture was badly
damaged.
Another house was also made n com
plete wreck, but the inmates were all
away from the house at church at the
time Another was almost set up on one
Tflie colored folks’ schoolliouse and
Rilertson's ginhouso and cotton press
wete also blown down.
NEW TRIAL REFUSED.
The supreme court of appeals of Vir-
Ttfgln. at Richmond, has rendered a de
jjjijljon in the case of Holmes B Puryear,
convicted of the murder of his wife by
pig Son, in Didwiddlc county in June,
188' The prisoner, when brought to a
trial, asked for a change of venue on 11c
count of prejudice against him in Din
wjdd'e. This was granted, aud he was
ijjHe 1 in Prince George county, was con
victed of murder ia the first degree, and
jlßtenced to be hanged October 2!)ill of
the same year. The decision of the stt
pßui-.t court sustains the judgment of
the lower court, aad Puryear will be
hanged on a day to lie hereafter fixed.
The Georgia Enterprise
SOUTHERN STATES.
NEWS NOTEB CATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ri.oitinA.
Tho question of paving tho principal
streets of Tampa is being urged in that
city.
t rrangements are being perfected to
start a citizens’ bank at Dayton in a
sh( rt time with a capital of about $30,-
000.
The laying of iron on the Silver
Springs, Ocala and Gulf railroad is pro
gressing rapidly. Another catgo is ex
pected soon
The orange growera of western Hills
borough arc just now shipping the hulk
of their oranges, and are receiving satis
factory prices.
The Tallahassee railroad fund has
reached SOO,OOO thousand thus fur.
Montiecllo has subscribed SIO,OOO, and
the enterprise, it is believed, will be a
success.
McMcckin is one of tho largest orange
shipping statious on the Florida South
ern. Tho crop of this season will reach
about twenty thousand boxes.
The proposition to change the name of
Gainesville to Alachua, lias been voted
down by tne city council. The propo
sition is unpopular with nearly every cit
izen.
The large saw mill of George AY. Rob
inson, at Miltvicw, valued at $(10,000,
and tlirec million feet of lumber was de
stroyed by fire last Thursday. The loss
is partially covered by insurance.
Over eight hundred water oak trees
have been set out along the streets of
Green Cove during the last thirty days,
prompted by a resolution of the town
council giving 25 cents for setting out,
and 25 cents additional, twelve mouths
hence, for all that are alive at that time.
A convention of the people living in
West Orange county has been called on
to decide on the creation of anew coun
ty, composing a part of Marion, Sumter
and Orange. The call issued calls for a
representation of five delegates from the
east of the Oeklawaha river to meet in
convention at Fort Mason, on Saturday,
March 27. The new county will be called
AVest Orange, and probably will select
Eustis as the county site.
The neighborhood of Pcniel embraces
many fine groves, and its people are cul
tivated and refined. One of the hand
somest places in this hamlet, about five
miles from Palatka, is that known as the
Taylor grove, until lately owned by Milo
Patterson. No one suspected that the
place was for sale, and many were
amazed to learn that the deed was exe
cuted and the purchase consummated.
The consideration was $5, 000, but the
form in which the cash was tendered con
stituted the novel feature of the transac
tion. The $5,000 will be paid in the
shape of vinegar, at twelve and a half
cents per quart.
GEOUQIA.
Washington county claims to have the
tallest man in the State, Sir. .Tame-; he
is 20 vears old, weighs 200 pounds, and
is 6 feet ?i inches high.
Mr. 11. C. Walker, formerly of Twiggs
county, but now of Laurens, has just in
herited #IO.OOO, left him by his uncle,
John Walker, of Louisiana.
The mineral excitement around Tunnel
Hill is at fever heat. Nearly evoty man
in that neighborhood has discovered iron
and manganese on his place.
The Dalton cotton mill stock is selling
at 115, when offered, but is held at 120.
The Cherokee factory stock will go to
110 before a wheel is turned.
Temple is about as good chicken mar
ket as any town of its size in Georgia.
The merchants of that place buy from
1,000 to 1,500 chickens a week.
The Spring Place Times has been
shown this week a recent assay of the
Legal Tender mine which shows four
ounces of silver and twenty-one pounds
of tin to the ton.
Avery fine specimen of iron ore has
been taken from T. C. Napier’s place
near Hock Spring, in Walker county.
The ore is brown hematite, and the indi
cations are that it exists in large quanti
ties.
Mr. Charles F. Durr, formerly of the
Rome and Decatur railroad, has discov
ered a silver mine about eight miles from
Home. The ore contains fifty per cent
of silver. He will sink a shaft in a few
days.
Major Cross, who is working a gold
mine near Tallapoosa, has a beautiful
nugget worth eighty-five dollars just
taken from his mine. He now has a
stamp mill in operation, and will proceed
to sink shafts.
Last Monday morniug the colored peo
ple's church and academy, in Rockmart,
were consumed by fire, the origin of
which is unknown. Loss #1,200; no in
surance.
John Swinson, a young man living
about four miles north of Dublin, re
cently through mistake swallowed strych
nine for a dose of calomel. He discov
ered bis mistake as soon as he took the
poison and at once swallowed an emetic
which saved his life.
On the 10th and 11th of May a conven
tion of all the counties on the Flint,
Chattalioochc and Apalachicola rivers
will meet in Columbus for the purpose of
securing ample appropriations for this
work, and greater activity in prosecuting
it. The counties of Lee, Worth, Dooly,
Macon. Taylor and Crawford arc entitled
to two delegates each.
Last Thursday night a man named
Davis, for some years a resident of Tat
nall county, but' formerly of Goldsboro,
,N. O was taken to Reidsvillc and com
mitted to jail. He is from the Perry
Mills neighborhood, and is charged with
bigamy and the murder of his first wife
(married in N. G\). The body of the
unfortunate woman has not yet been
found.
Mr. John 11. Williamson, an industri
ous farmer liviug about four miles south
west of Butler, lost his dwelling and its
entire contents by tire Saturday morning.
Mrs. Williamson was engaged at ironing
when the tire occurred, and the house
was enveloped in flames before it was
discovered, consequently it was too late
to save auv of the household effects,
there being no assistance present, except
Mrs. Williamson and. perhaps, a few
small children.
ALABAMA.
There are 1047 coko ovens in Alabama.
The toll on the bridge at Tuscaloosa
has been reduced one-half.
It is feared that the recent frosts in
north Alabama havo killed the fruit.
Ozark’s subseription to the capital
stock of the Alabama Midlund amounts to
about $20,000.
Negro members of tho Presbyterian
church in Greensboro have erected a neat
church in that place.
After January, 1888, no whisky will
he sold between Montgomery and Mobile
on the line of the railroad.
A man in Enudcrdale county was fined
S3O and about SSO costs for giving a boy
a drink of liquor.
A writer from Larkinsville, Jackson
county, snys that the cows in that town
have killed every shade tree by hooking
them.
Mr. J. F. Pride, of Pride’s, is ninety
six years old, A casual glance would
take him to be about fifty,so sprightly is
his appearance and walk.
Lauderdale county contributed six
recruits to the coal mines as the result
of criminal trials at the recent term of
the circuit court.
A piece-of gold ore about the Bize of a
baby’s fist, found near Alexandria City,
was recently sold in New York for $22.
A large amount of this ore has been
found in the Tallapoosa hills and owners
arc holding their lands at a high figure.
Mrs. Bailie Potts, wife of Mr. John
Potts, of Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale
county, cut her throat at the residence of
her sister, Mrs. E. G. Chandler, of
Gravelly Springs, using her husband’s
razor for the commission of the dread
deed. Grief for the death of a favorite
child, who died some months ago, is
supposed to have been the cause of her in
sane act.
Avery shocking accident occurred near
Anderson last Monday evening. Mr. John
A. Bates bad just returned to the field to
plow when a cold rain and sleet began to
fall, and he stopped by a large tree for
shelter, when another tree fell upon him
and crushed him into the ground. When
he was found one of his hands was still
on the plow handle, though his legs and
arms were badly broken in several places,
and the brains from his shattered skull
were found sticking to the tree by which
he was supposed to have been standing.
He was a good man and leaves a wife and
five little children.
John H. Dent et al., heirs of Mrs.
Eliza Dent, of Newnan, Ga., have filed
complaint in chancery against B. M.
Long and will bring suit for the tract of
land on which Cordova, Walker county,
is situated. This is by far the biggest
suit ever brought in the county, as the
land involved is one of the finest coal
regions in the county. It lies between
the Georgia Pacific and Kansas City
roads, near the crossing, and will be at
the head of navigation when the Warrior
river is opened up. Messrs. Sam Price
and Hewitt, McQueen & Cos. are attor
neys for plaintiffs and Messrs. Gunter &
Cunningham, of Jasper, and David
Smith, of Birmingham, are counsel for
the defense.
The factory at Anniston employs 320
operatives in the various departments of
the factory. The pay roll for one week
amounts to #1,500, which money is very
largely spent weekly inside of Anniston.
The amount of cloth turned out each day
is 15,000 yards, which would cover in
length over eight miles of ground. The
mills are now running on full time, and
are doing a fine business. In operation
some six years these mills have ohlybeen
shut down six months,which speaks well
when we view the fact that nearly all the
cotton mills in the United States have
been forced frequently to close their
doors. Anniston during this season lias
received 15,000 and Oxford 7,000 bales
of cotton.
SOCTII CAROLINA.
The Eutawville railroad scheme is a
very fertile theme of conversation and
speculation in Sumter now.
There is an old ladd seventy-three
years old, living in Union county, who
lost her teeth some fifteen years ago, and
now has a full new set nearly developed.
Captain George P. Anderson, a former
citizen of Greenville, died at Santa Rosa,
California, on the 23rd of February. He
was once well known bete, was a stu
dent of Furman university and a nephew
of Judge Pressley.
The large and beautiful residence of
Colonel S. M. Rice, in Union, caught on
fire and was consumed in a short while.
It is supposed that the lire originated by
rats with matches, ns it caught in the
garret, where no fire has been used. Very
few of the household effects were saved,
and a large amount of jewelry and silver
was consumed. The insurance is about
$3,000, which will not cover the loss by
a great deal.
The court in Chcsler has been engaged
for some time in the trial of Hav Rob
bins, colored, charged with tho murder
of Preston Vaughn, colored. The kill
ing occurred in June, 1885, in a bateau
on Broad river. A jug of whisky belong
ing to Preston Vaughn, and which, in
some way was broken, led to the difficulty
between him and Hay Robbins. The
state’s witnesses established a clear ease
of murder. The defendant, without any
justifiable provocation, stabbed aud after
wards shot his victim, producing almost
instant death. Ho swore that Vaughn
made threats against him and attempted
to draw a pistol upon him, but his testi
mony was wholly contradicted by other
and disinterested witnesses wiio were
present. It made its impression, how
ever, upon the jury, as they fouud him
only guilty of manslaughter.
A case of general interest and consid
erable importance has been tried in Barn
well. Eugene T. McCreary was arraigned
for the homicide on the Bth of November
last, of Thomas J. Rountree, n brother of
Mr. 8. Rountree, who represented Barn
well in 1876 in the famous “Wallace”
house. McCreary, the defendant, was
represented by the two famous criminal
lawyers of the second circuit. Colonel
Robert Aldrich, of Barnwell, and D. 8.
Henderson, senator from Aiken The
day was consumed in the trial, aud the
courthouse was crowded to its extreme
capacity. Many witnesses were exam
ined and the main defense relied on (self
defense) se uned to be sustained by the
evidence. The gentlemen charged with
the conduct of the prosecution and de
fense made slroug arguments, and after
the judge lmd fairly stated the law ap
plying to the case, it was given to the
jury, who, after ten or fifteen minutes’
deliberation, delivered a verdict of “not
guilty.”
my COUNTRY MAY SUB BVBR BB RIOUT. RIGUT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."—Jrffmnn
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 8. 1887,
NORTH CAROLINA.
Near Cunningham's store, in Person
county, Saturday, Mr. John lieudrieka
and ilia nephew were killed by a runaway
horse.
it is reported that a block of mica was
recently found in Jnekson county which
measured 2U by 30 inches, nnd was 18
inches til irk, weighing nbout 1,000
pounds.
The old Stewart mansion, located on
the hanks of the Catawba river at the
point where Sugar creek flows into that
stream, was totally destroyed by fire last
Thursday evening about dark.
The poor-house of Wilson county, sit
tiated about one mile from Wilson, was
destroyed by fire Friday evening about
four o’clock. Insured in German Amcri
can insurance eompuny of New York for
$1,300.
The freight office of the Carolina Cen
tral railroad company at Monroe, was
broken open Friday night, and a small
amount of change and a bunch of keys
stolen. It was known that on Friday an
amount of gold bullion was placed in the
office for shipment, and it is believed
that the thieves were after this.
On last Tuesday Mrs. Murray, the wife
Mr. W. J. Murray, of Frogsboro, was
burned to death. Mrs. Murray has been
in feeble health nml confined to the house
for some time. On that day there was
no one at the house with her hut a little
girl, and she'went out for some purpose
and on her return found her mother lying
out in the yard dead. It is thought her
clothes caught fire and she ran out of the
house and was unable to extinguish the
flames.
Airs. Nancy Byrd,who lives near Liles
villi- was taken, during the early part of
the year with what she deemed her last
illness. On Saturday, the 26th ult.,*iie
sent to the store for goods out of which
to make her burial garments. When the
goods arrived she examined them care
fully, gave minute directions for their
cutting nml making, nnd superintended
the work during its progress. When fin
ished she dismiss;' 1 the subject from her
mind and composedly awaited the end.
On Wednesday nigtit, she said to a friend
who had just arrived, after having trav
eled many miles to see her, “James, 1
want to turn over. ” She was carefully
placed in the desired position, and in less
than five minutes passed away without a
struggle.
HE SOLD THE RACE.
Till* t’fiptnin of tile llefented Ynrhl, Uriihi
less Tells a Tale.
A special from London dated Wednes
day, says: Yachtmcn were astounded
to-day to learn that Captain Samuels,
captain of the Dauntless had severed ail
relations with Caldwell 11. Colt, the
owner of the defeated yacht, and after
denouncing ali on board had left the
vessel. Soon a dozen or more prominent
yachtmyu boarded the DuimHeas to got
further particulars. But little informa
tion was volunteered to them by Mr.
Colt, who looked upon the sudden de
parture of the famous skipper as an out
rage. He declined to make a statement
beyond the assertion that Captain Samu
els and five of the rew had deserted the
vessel without satisfactory cause. Cap
tain Samuels is particularly bitter against
his former employer, and says in a most
positive way, that Mr. Colt is responsible
far the failure of the Dauntless in the
race. He charges that shortly after the
yacht lost sight of Fire Island light, Mr
Colt became abusive. His language was
ungcntlemanly, and it was only when,
Captain Samuels alleges, he was accused
of trying to allow the Coronet to obtain
an irrecoverable lead, that he refused to
listen further to his employer’s utter
ances. During the passage across, the
progress of the yacht was handicapped
by her owner. When Captain Samuels
saw that Mr. Colt’s ill-advised instruc
tions were acting to the detriment of the
vessel's speed, lie determined to fill the
place for which he was engaged, or re
linquish all responsibility. But Mr. Colt
disregarded bis protests entirely and con
tinued to give orders to the various men
at the wheel, notwithstanding. Captain
Samuels ordered otherwise. Finally,
Captain Samuels says, the control ol the
vessel devolved upon Mr. Colt, and he,
the captain, had only an outside voice.
He therefore, attributed the defeat of
the vessel to the mismanagement of her
owner, and his interference with the
standing? and well regulated rules of sea.
THE LONGSHOREMEN SUIT.
The Case Agninut the Longshoremen Slrl
kera tu Court.
Louis F. Post filed Monday, with the
clerk of the United Stales circuit court
of New York, answer* to James T.
Quinn, Timothy B. Putnam, Patrick Mc-
Gartland, John J. McKenna aud James
McGrath, Knights of Labor, against
whom the Old Dominion Steamship com
pany brought suit for $20,000 damages,
and who were held in bail for trial. The
case grew out of the boycott of freight
handled by the company. In their an
swers Quinn, Putnam and McGartlatid
deny all other allegations nnd claim that
the longshoremen were “locked out” by
the company because they refused to ac
cept a reduction of wages; Hint employes
were paid by the hour only, and were
under no contract for any term of service
whatever; that the longshoremen met in
a peaceable and orderly manner for the
purpose of maintaining the rate of wages
of their craft, aud that they, the defend
ants, only acted as mediators to settle
tho dispute. McKenna and McGrath
admit being officers of the Ocean associ
ation of longshoremen, and claim that
they were justified in their actions, being
under no contract to the Old Dominion
company. The defendants ask for judg
ment dismissing the case, with costs.
CORRUPTION IN OFFICE.
The grand jury ot Chicago investigated
a job Tuesday connected with the build
up of a sewer from one of the public
i bools and it is said has as good as de
cided to indict the two contractors and
county commissioner on account of their
share in the transaction. The story goes
that the commission will be charged with
i lit,cry. a penitentiary offense, and pnn
i-lmble with greater severity than any o(
the other charges against the bnodh-rs
Conspiracy will be charged again-t the
contractors and the evidence is rttpri
ented to be conclusive. A common
minor has all along stated there was $5.
i,>o involved in the artesian well job at
Ravenwood, and that this money was di
vided among the commissioners and otic
warden. The jury gave up part of their
time to-day to find out the truth id th s
story. Witnesses are said to have per
sonal knowledge of the transaction.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Tin: IMtPROVKMENTS IS VARIOUS
SECTIOSS OF THE SOUTH.
Ilniliifarluring nml Ollier lliisluess lillor
rl liiMiiuliif - New Kuttrndi, Hie.
Marks & Laird will develop an iron ore
mine at Laird.
A canning factory is to he established
Lexington, Ky.
John J. Wolf has erected a saw mill
at HogersvillCjTenn.
•Vii SB,OOO School building will be cr
ct'l' , v 'vert, Tex.
Jacob Bear will develop a manganese
mine at Greenville, Va.
A wheel barrow and tool factory are to
be built at Decatur, Ala
Troutwine & Seraoucs have built a
foundry at Union City, Tenn.
A company lias been incorporated at
Birmingham’ Alabama, to manufacture
cement from furnace slag by a patent
process.
The Tuscaloosa Northern Railway Cos.,
has been organized at Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama. Their road is now being ar
ranged.
Middlebrook Bros, arc building a saw
mill a'd a planing mill at Plano, Texas.
The capacity of tho planing mill is 40 M
feet daily.
A $23,000 company has been formed
to start a stove foundry at Morristown,
Tenn., by C. U. Johnson, of Girard, 0.,
and others.
A New York company has bought a
site at Paducah, Ky , and will erect a hotel
to cost SBO,OOO. It is to be completed by
January, 1888.
The Ripley Cigar Manufacturing com
pany lias been organized at Maysville, Ky..
and will at once start a factory to employ
about 50 hands.
Tim Montgomery Furnace & Chemical
Works, has been organized at Mont
gOofcry, Ala., to build s charcoal furnace
and chemical plant
The Bridgeport Brewing company,
Bridgeport, Conn., will build a large
brewery at Houston, Tex. Work will be
commenced at once.
Tho Cotton Seed company, capital
stock $500,000, has been organized at
Vicksburg, Miss. The company has four
machines erected for cleaning cotton seed
and will soon erect four more. Each
has a capacity of ten tons. They will
erect more machinery this summer; also
an oil mill.
S.nith & Sharp, Nashville. Tenn., have
received the plans for a $70,000 stone
church to be built by the Episcopalians.
The Tulip street Methodist church, same
place, will erect anew building to cost
nbout $30,000. Plans for a SIO,OOO
Baptist church to be built same place are
!ji i'. -'required.
\. Chance, of Loudon, and Messis.
(jyaig and McMullen,of Knoxville, Tenn.,
liWb pUrebnse* 183 iieres of Bauble laud
ind will open quarries.
The Columbia Bridge company, Day
ton, Ohio, have received the con-raet to
|,mid an iron bridge across the Duck
rivtr near Centreville, Tenn.
The English syndicate have completed
the purchase of the gold mines in While
county, Ga., and will, it is said, begin to
develop the property at once.
The Catholics of Birmingham, Ala.,
contemplate building a fine church.
A company has been formed at Mary
ville, Tenn.,to manufacture churns.
Machinery will be erected to develop a
silver and lead mine at Mason, Tex.
A company is being organized to build
a cotton compress at Bayou Sara, La.
James Hare is erecting five buildings
at Manchester, Va., to cost SIO,OOO each.
A horse shoe factory is to be erected
ut West Nashville, near Nashville, Tcnn.
A company has been formed to develop
magnetic iron ore mines in Ashe county.
N. C.
Negotiations are being made for the
erection of a cotton compress at Summit,
Miss. .
A gold mine is being developed at
Abbeville, 8. C., and machinery will soon
be erected.
The Nashville Iron company will put
in their works puddling machinery and
l(i furnaces.
It is reported that the money to build
a paper mill at Lynchburg,Va., Ims been
subscribed.
A $25,000 stock company has been or
ganized at Gainesville, Tex., to build a
grain elevator.
A Fire-Arm company has been char
tered at Littlaitock, Ark. The capital
stock is $3,000.
It is reported that a company is being
organized to build a largo marble yard at
Knoxville, Tenn.
The Tyler Lumber company will build
a planing mill at Tyler, Tex., and have
purchased machinery.
The United States navy department
will build a large dry dock at Norfolk,
Vu., to cost $600,000.
A. S. Emerson will erect a shirt and
underwear factory at Charleston, S. C.,
t wo stories, OOxlflO feet.
Negotiations are being made for the
establishment of a sewing machine fac
tory at Little Rock, Ark.
D. G. Palmer, Geneva, Ohio, has pur
chased 200 acres of mica land at Canton,
Ga., and will develop it.
I. N. Biggcr.-taff, Forest City,N.C., has
purchased machinery to erect a saw and
corn mill and cotton gin.
The Enterprise Rolling Mill company
capital stock SIOO,OOO has been incorpo
rated at Birmingham, Ala.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
company will extend their Mineral Rail
road, in Ala., to Huntsville.
It is stated that a company 1 as been
organized tit Selma, Ala., to build a
rolling mill and a nail factory.
The Sylph Mining company recently
organized, have commenced developing
gold mines at Booneville, Ark.
Samuel R. Bullock & Cos., of New
York, have contracted to build five miles
of street railroad at Paducah, Ky.
A company has beeu formed to build
gas works at Decatur, Ala., and will also
build a similar works at Hartselle.
A bill Ims been passed in the legisla
ture to allow Winchester, Vn., to issue
$20,000 of bonds to build a city hall.
A bill will be introduced in the legis
lature to authorize Gallatin, Tenn., to is
sue, $40,000 of bonds to build water works.
The West End Rolling Mill company
will be incorporated at Birmingham, Ala.
to build a rolling mill ot 150 tons <a
nacity.
The Enterprising Manufacturing com
pany, Augusta, Ga., have decided to
utilize the surplus power of their cotton
mill by putting in 10,000 spindles nnd
300 looms.
The North Alabama Oil & Asphalt
company capital stock $1,200,000, has
been organized at Birmingham, Ala. The
company owns about 2,000 acres of oil
and asphalt lands.
The Atlanta V Alabama Railway com
pany to build a railroad from Atlanta,
Ga., to Selma, Ala, 175 miles, will sur
vey their road at once and expect to lie
gin building it at an early day.
Walter W. Dnvin, Birmingham, Ala
bama has purchas 'd the right to manu
facture terracotta lumber by a patent
pioeess, nml will erect a plant at Bes
semer and probably at Sheffield also.
The Farmers' Alliances held a meeting
at Temple, Tex., recently to consider the
erection of a cotton factory. A charter
for a company to build one to cost about
SIOO,OOO was drawn und officers elected.
The Banana & Indian River Inlet Cos.,
lias lieeu formed in Florida to build a
canal to connect the Atlantic ocean with
the Banana and Indian rivers. A com
pany to build a canal. 1,800 feet long,
from Lake Ola to Lake Cnrlcton has also
been organized.
The Bear Mountain Telegraph & Tele
phone company has been cl nrtored at
Hear, Arkansas’, and will build a line
from Hot Springs to Fort Smith, via
Bear.
The Standard Charcoal, Iron and
Chemical company, Nashville, Tenn.,
have licensed a company to build one of
their charcoal and chemical plants at New
Orleans.
The Roanoke Manufacturing company
has been organized at Roanoke, \ a., to sell
lumber,coal, “te., and manufacture meal,
flour, lime, piaster, etc, Tho capital
stock is to bo not less t an $ >,OOO nor
more than $30,000.
W2EBLY TRADE REVIEW.
antfrlpnlcil Kflftrt of ih* I liter*!ate Com*
lnerre Law- I- Itin uni inn* of Ihe
Muncy Market.
It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
the trade says:
“April is dose at hand and some anxi*
ety ns tc the money market is usual at
this season. The hanks have been send
ing large amounts to the interior,through
deposits ut the treasury aud the issues of
silver certificates elsewhere, and there
has also been a heavy demand for Phila
delphia exchange, so that a further de
cline in reserves is expected. Western
and southern demand for money lias been
caused by tlie desire to ship products be
fore the interstate act and change of rates
go into effect. Though the demand at
Chicago is reported diminishing, rates
are Gto 8 per cent. All circumstances
make it comparatively easy for the oper
ator to produce a tight if he pleas s. The
interstate bill causes great activity in
shipment* of-drygoods and other mer
chandise to anticipate a change of rates
on April sth, but this means dullness af
ter that date, and complaints of indus
trial and commercial inactivity, respect
ing business that depends on future rates,
grows more numerous. Coal men are
awaiting the proposed new rates for
transportation. Dry goods merchants
protest earnestly against the new classifi
cations, and especially against the charge
of higher rates for goods in box than in
the bale. The selection ot commission
ers is thought to foreshadow a strong ef
fort to adjust rates according to distance.
General Fink thinks the law will tend to
the crushing of the small by the larger
companies, and Mr. Adams thinks it
hastens the swallowing of the weaker by
the stronger roads. Months of uncer
tainty must elapse before the effects of
the act can be understood. Railroad
business has been large.
The temporary activity of March does
not indicate a larger business after a
change of rates, however, nor is the
building of G2G miles of road, against
290 to date last your, a safe indication as
to the future. Reports regarding the
iron business are not favorable, imports
evidently having a depressing effect.
British shipments of iron and steel to
this country were 117,453 tons in Febru
ary and 94,151 tons in January. Prices
of kinds largely imported show a weak
ness. • Pork products have reacted a little.
Wool is lower, the demand for goods be
ing slack. Wheat has declined one cent,
corn about half a cent, and oats a shade,
with unusually small “ llvl ,lll r u r(J
ceints Ooitoii has advanced a quarto
and corn half a cent.
A BIG FIRE.
MrinphU Vi.ilrri bv n H.jO.IHMI Blaze—A
Brave Itrm’ne.
Fire started early Monday mowing on
the southwest corner of Main and Wash
ington street*, of Memphis, Tenn. It
originated in the cellar of I. Besthoff &
Cos., second-hand furniture store, and
destroyed that building, Allathorne &
Co.’s seed store, William Quinn’s board
ing house and saloon and James Curley’s
Tixoli gardens. The four buildings
burned were four stories high, and were
valued at about $33,000. The stocks of
goods destroyed were vaiued at $15,000.
Th“. insurance aggregates $21,000, di
vided equally between local and foreign
companies. The buildings Inli ne I were
owned by Capt. James Lee, jr., J. W.
McGuire. Col. W. If. Wood and ihomas
Boyle.
There were many narrow escapes by
the inmates of upper stories. Two wo
men were rescued by firemen who had
been cut off from escape and remained in
the third story for half an hour. A gale
of wind was blowing, and thtvrcseue was
made in the face of clouds of smoke,
which poured out of the building and
nearly suffocated tbc brave firemen.
MILLS BURNED DOWN.
A 8260,000 Fire Takes I’lnee in West Point
—To bi* Hebnllt.
A special from We*! Point, Ga., dated
Monday, says: A fire broke out to-night
ut 7 o’clock in the West Point Mouufac
luriug company’s mills, four and a half
miles below town. The fire originated in
the wheel house, cause unknown. The
building was totally consumed. It was
iusured for only oue hundred aud fifty
thousand inllars. The owners, Messrs.
Lanier, say they will rebuild at once.
I lie losses will be borne by about fifteen
insurance companies. About two hun
dred operatives arc thrown out of work.
Superintendent Long’s residence is in
great danger of burning. The winds are
blowing strongly in that direction. It is
favorable to tbe warehouses, and they
may not be lost.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ITEMS or INTEREST IKOM OUtt
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
.Mini U Urine llonf by ihi' rTenrin of Onr
f*u%rrniiM'iit Tbr Work** IJovlowv.
Washington, DC. It is now regarded
ns settled that Assistant bee re tar y Fair
! child will succeed Mr. Manning ns seen**
I taryof the treasury, and that his appoint
i moot will he announced the latter part of
next week. Solicitor McCue and Comp
troller Maynard are sp >ken of as possible
j successors of Mr. Fairchild as assistant
I secretary. The former, however, is said
| to prefer the new circuit judgship in
1 New York city, and the latter is said to
prefer his present position. Third Au
| ditor Williams nnd Chief Clerk You mans
i are also said to be. aspirants to the assist*
i ant secretaryship.
Nothing has yet been settled in regard
to the treosuiyship. Mr, Jordan’s resit/
nation has not yet been accepted, nnd,
while he requested the president to re
lieve him of the duties and n sponsibili
ties of the office about the 3d of April,
it is thought he would consent to retain
the position a while longer if the presi
dent so desired. The chances are, how
ever, that the president will ho able to
select his successor before the date speci
fied by Mr. Jordan. It is .said that the
president desires to select anew treasurer
from the west.
There was considerable comment at the
treasury department over the failure of
congress to make any provision for pay
ing the salary of the new circuit judge of
New Y'ork. The act creating the office
fixed the compensation, SO,OOO per an
num. 1•' no provision for its payment
was made in any of the regular appropri
ation bills. The new appointee will,
therefore, have to look to congress to
supply the omission in the next deficiency
appropriation bill. It is not likely that
the office will be declined for this
reason.
IIOW THE MONEY Ml ST HE PAID.
The first comptroller of the treasury
has decided an interesting question in
regard to the execution of the act pissed
at the last session of congress, providing
for the redemption and sale of school
farm lands, now held in the Beaufort, S.
C., by the l uited States. One of the
provisions of the act is that “before such
redemption shall be awarded and titlo
restored on any such application and
proof, such applicant shall pay into tho
treasury of the United States the amount
of the tax, penalty, interest and costs
properly chargeable against the lands
described in such application, together
with the cost of advertising the sale of
raid lands,” etc. A question aiose as to
whether it will be in compliance with
law, if the money is paid or deposited to
the credit of the secretary of the treasury
until invested in United States bonds;
and also whether if the money is paid
into the treasury it can be invested in
United States bonds without a sj>eciul
appropriatiorf. The first comptroller has
decided that as the act specifies that tho
money shall be paid into the treasury, it
would not be in compliance with the law
to deposit it to the credit of the secre
tary, and that after the money lias been
deposited in the treasury it cannot be
drawn therefrom, but in consequence of
appropriations made by law.
NEW' POST AO E STAMPS.
Post-office department officials arc hav
ing prepared a series of new designs of
embossed stamps for stamped cnvelo} s
of one, two, four and five cent denomi
nations. The head of Franklin has I eon
selected for the one cent stamps, and
heads of Washington, Jackson aud
Grant for the two, four and five cent de
nominations, respectively. The general
design of the new series is uniform. On
the upper side and following the oval
shape of the stamp is the legend, “United
States Postage,” instead of “l S. Post
age,” as on the stamps now in use. This
new series will be ready for use about
May 1. The border of the one cent
adhesive stamp has been slightly modi
fied to conform to the design of the two
cent stamp.
THEY WANT THE OFFICE.
Ciuo-Warrnnto Su tt
('arolliiii ( oiill.
A ease of quo wairanto, involving the
right to the office of register of deeds of
Ashviilc, N. C’.,the lees of which amount
to about three thousand dollars per an
num, has for several months awakened a
deep public interest at that place. A
democrat, J. li. Patterson, is the present
incumbent, and the relator is Robert
Cole, a republican, elected at the laic
election and failed to file a bond on the
day directed by the statute. V learned
argument was made by Major W. 11.
Malone for the relator, and by Captain
M. E. Carter for the defendant, llis
honor. Judge Graves, decided in favor of
the defendant and the relator appealed.
A decision was also rendered in the
similar coupon tax rase of li. A. Carper,
jailer of Pulaski county, \a., against
Biclmrd L. Fitzgerald. Appeal from the
United States circuit court for the east
ern district of Virginia. Fitzgerald, the
appellee in this case, is a traveling sales
man for the firm of Austin, Field & Cos.,
of Philadelphia. He was arrested in
Pulaski county, Va., for doing business
without license, after he had made an of
fal of tax n < fixable coupon in payment
for such license. Upon a writ of habeas
corpus lie was discharged from custody
by Judge Bond, of the United States
circuit court for tho eastern district of
Virginia, sitting as circuit judge, in
chambers at Baltimore. The state of
Virginia, through its jailer, appealed
from Judge Bond’s decision to the court
at Asheville. This court holds that the
act of March 3, 1885, allows appeals' in
habeas corpus cases only from a decision
of the circuit court, and that the decision
of the circuit judge sitting in chambers
is not a decision of the court, even al
though such judge may order the papers
filed, aud his order recorded in the cir
cuit court. The appeal is, therefore,
dismissed. Opinion by Chief Justice
Waite.
BLOWING If A CANAL.
A few nights ago Cecil aqueduct on
the canal at Defiance 0., was blown open.
Next night armed men drove away the
guards who were watching the reservoir
and blew out the banks in two places
and finally dynamite was used to destroy
ttie locks. It will take half the summer
to repair the damage already done. 1 lit
governor has been asked for instructions.
There was a strong effort made recently
to have the legislature vacate the canal at
this point.
M M BEK 20.
FOUR SCORE AND TEN.
fllllli llntior* I* ill to I lie .(grit Impcrnr
or (< nnnny.
A Berlin dispatch gives tho following de
tails of tho festivities attending the celebra
tion of Knq>eror William's birthday:
Tho ninetieth anniversary of Hmperot
William's birth was ushered in by tho j>eal-
Ing "l bolls in all the churches and the tower
of tho Town Hall and the sounding of a
choral. 'Hie city whs decorated as it never
was before. Gai lands, laurels, festoons
of ovi i ,;r.*oii, banners, bright drapery,
an 1 brilliant carpets hung on every completi
on wjKit wlu re ornament could be made to
add to the joyous opfiearanco of the town.
Conspicuous by the extreme elegance of their
decoration wore the Royal Academy and the
university building;, and the city residence of
the i'rown I t k William.
The monument ot Frederick the Great was
covered with wreaths and flowers. Wherever
there was a bust or statuo of the Em
peror in a shop window or other exposed
Vince it wait buried in flowers,
ho people were all out In holiday
EMPEROR WILLIAM.
attire, end the streets were thronged. x.nrly
in the day special memorial religious services
were held in all the churches and synagogues,
iiiid the edifices were crowded in every case
The children from all the schools in the city
went in processions, accompanied by bands
of music, to the church services.
The students’ procession past, thepnlacewas
a grand affair. They went’ in carriages, of
which there were several hundred in line, and
carried tho bright banners of the various
school and college societies and associations.
They were accompanied by many bands play
ing mu ic nnd arrayed in gorgeous mediaeval
costum e. The long line of carriages was
preceded and followed by students on horse
back. Passing the palace the bands played
the national anthem, “Preussenlied,” and
“YVaeht nm Rhein,” the students all singing
to the music.
The Emperor appeared at the window as
the procession was moving past and bowed,
remaining there a considerable time. Th*
great crowd in the street gave him an ovation,
the multitude cheering itself hoarse, ana
tiring itself out waving hats and handker
chiefs.
The municipal procession was preceded by
heralds and marshals fearing the town ban
ner. the whole lx>ly of the Evangelical clergy,
the chief civil and military authorities, repre
sentatives of German science, art, and com
merce t*he direct- nj* of fch and the
burgesses and communal officers, m all over
2,000 persons. The procession was accompanied
by several hands, which played marches al
ternately with chorals by tmmpetecrs. Tho
procession went in state from the Town
Hall to attend commemorative religious ser
vice in the Church of Ht. Nicholas.
At noon a royal salute of 101 guns was fired
from the Koenigsplatz.
Prince Bismarck and Marshal von Mcltks
went to pay their congratulations to the Era-
I>eror ot 1 o'clock. They were enthusiastically
cheered all along the route on their way to
and from the palace. *
All the inemliers of the imperial family and
all their princely guests drove in profession to
the palace and personally tendered their con
gratulalions t> the Emperor. The proces
sion. wliich included tho Kings of Saxony
and I’oumania, tho Grand Duke of Baden
nnd Mi.H-klenlmrg-Schwerin, the Grand
Dukes Michael and Vladimir of Russia, the
Ci own Princes of Austria, Sweden, Denmark
and Wurtcmberg; the Prince of Wale?, tho
• bunt of Flanders, the Duke of Aosta, Prince
Leopold of Bavaria and many others, was
cheerod by the crowds in the streets.
The day was celebrated with similar and
equal enthusiasm in all the towns of Ger
many.
Priii 1 Bismarck assured the Crown Prince
Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, who was pres
ent , represent iug his father at the Emperor's
birthday celebration, that Germany's foreign
policy is pacific; that peace is assured for
1887, and that there is no cause for disquietude
in eit her thu Fast or West.
The Emperor began to receive his guests at
11 o’clock in the morning, and he appeared at
his favorite window in the palace overlooking
the street, n* often as he could find time to do
so, respond to tho choirs of the people, who
passed by in thousands to t a # limpwo o#
him.
The illuminations at night throughout th
city were superb. An es|eeially striking
feature was the picture, 100 yards long by 20
yards wide, in front of tho Academy of Arts
depicting events in the Emperor’s life. All
the Secretaries of Departments were decorated
by the Emperor. In receiving the household
deputation, the Emperor said;
*1 have reached this age by the grace of
God, and, if the Lord helps me nnd wants me
to, 1 may live to see another year.”
Emperor William conferee! various honors
upon all the members of his Cabinet.
AN EX-GOVERNOR SUICIDES.
Fx-Governor ReynoliU, of .MUsoari, Jumps
Down un Elevator Sbalt.
Hon. Thomas C. Reynolds committed
suicide at the custom house in Bt. Louis
Wednesday afternoon by plunging down
an elevator shaft from the third floor.
He fell the distance of eighty feet and
crushed in his skull. The cause of the
act was mental derangement superin
duced by hallucinations that lie was
about to become insane. In his porket
iiook was found a letter to his wife, stat
ing that two years ago he contracted
malaria at Aspinwall and had failed to
recover, the disease settling in his spine.
Recently he had been troubled with
insomnia and frequent nervousness.
Visions invited him to join his dead
friends, and feaiing lest he should be a
burden to his wife by becoming a luna
tic—having twice before been troubled
with dementia, aud his estate of $2.5,000
being in order, unimpaired and product
ive, he determined to end his life.
Governor Reynolds was born in Char
leston, 8. C. He studied in the university
of Virginia, and continued his'studies in
Germany, graduating ut Heidelberg in
1842. He spent one yeariu (he university
of Paris; and was admitted to the bar in
Virginia in 1844. He was secretary m
the United States legation to Spain in
1846 and 1848. In 1830 tie located at St.
Louis, tu 1800 ho was elected lieutenant -
governor of Missouri on the same ticket
with Governor Caleb Jackson, and in the
civil war sided with the confederacy. At
ihe close of the war he went flu Mexico,
In 1868 he returned to St. Louis. He
„s a nu mber of the comnjissipn sent to
until America alicut two years ago in
lie interest of commerce with the United
-tutes. In 1854 he fought auu 1 with
I!. Gratz Brown, with rifles at thirty
paces, on the islands opposite St. Louis,
vet a political discussion. Mr. Blown
was hit in the knee, but Governoi Rey
nolds was not touched. It is believid
that Governor Reynolds only intended to
maim Mr. Brown.