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OLUME IY.
TEMPERANCE.
Sing a Song of Sixpence.
• Sing a song of sixpence,
You fellow full of rye^
With not a cent to bury you
To-morrow, should you die.
The keeper's in the bar-room
Counting out his money;
His wife is in the parlor
With well-dressed sis and sonny.
Your wife has gone out working
And washing people’s clothes
pay for old rye whisky
To color your red noee.
A Prank Advertiser.
rhe following, which seems to be Cue
advertisement of a person who keeps a
liquor saloon, we give place in our column,
as we believe that any lover of honor and
truth cannot fail to admire the frankness
of the advertiser:
PATRONAGE SOLICITED.
Wishing to get a living without work¬
ing hard, I have leased commodious rooms
in Mr. Lorcmoney’s block, corner of Ruin
street and Perdition lane (next door to the
undertaker’s), where I shall manufacture
drunkards, paupers, lunatics, beggars,
criminals and dead beats, for sober and
industrious men to support. Backed up
by the law, I shall add to the number of
fatal accidents, diseases, disgraceful quar¬
rels, riots and cold-blooded murders. My
liquors are warranted to rob some of life,
* many of reason, more of property and all
of true peace; to make fathers fiends,
wives widows, and children orphans. I
shall cause mothers to forget their infants;
children to grow up in ignorance; young
women to lose their priceless purity; and
young men to become loafers, sw’carers,
gamblers, skeptics, and lewd fellows of
the basest sort. Lady customers are sup¬
plied with beer as good as the best “home
browed,” which will not only intoxicate
them, but also make them stupid, slack,
lazy, coarse and quarrelsome.
Sunday custuincrs will please enter by
tho back door. •
Boys and girls arc the raw material of
which I make drunkards, etc. Parents
miay help me in this work by always send,
ing their children for the “home-brewed
article,” and permitting them to loaf in
the street at night.
At two hours’ notice I am able to put
husbands in a condition to reel homo,
• break tho furniture, beat their wives and
kick their children out of doors; I slinll
also tit mechanics to spoil their work, be
discharged and become tramps.
If one of my regular customers should
decide to reform, I will, for a few pen¬
nies, with pleasure, induce him to take
just one glass more, or, by offering “free
drinks,” tempt him to start again on the
road to hell. The money he would spend
in bread and other things for his family,
will buy luxuries for mine. And thon,
when his money is gone, I will kick him
out, for his money is all I want.
Orders promptly tilled for fever, scrof¬
ula, consumption, or delirium tremens.
Tn short, I will do my best to help
bring upon my regular customers debt,
disgrace, disease, despair and death in
this world, and in the next the pangs of
tho second death.
Tho above may also bo obtained of my
high-toned agent, Mr. Frank Deseaver,
druggist, corner of Main street and Shod¬
dy uvcuue, who keeps a full stock of opi¬
um, pure liquors, and all the popular
cordials, tonics and bitters for medical
purposes only.
Having closed my curs to God’s warn¬
ing voice (Proverbs xxiii., 20, 21; and
xxiii., 13; Psalms ix., 10, 17; Romans ii.,
9), having made a contract with hell and
sold myself to work iniquity, and hav¬
ing paid for my license, I have a right to
bring all the above evils on my friends
and neighbors for the sake of gain.
Some have suggested that I display
outside the door assorted specimens of
iny art, but that would blockade the
street. Excellent samples of niy manu¬
factured wrecks may be seen inside my
saloon at almost any time, or nt the po¬
lice station every morning, in the poor
house, asylums and prisons every day,
and very frequently on the gallows.
Jtdas O’Clarety,
240 Ruin street. Rum River.
Impossible to Regulate.
John Harding, Esq., G. C. T. of New
Zealand, in a recent letter to the Auck¬
land Leader, referring to a proposal to
“regulate the trade” in intoxicants, says:
“That is as impossible as to regulate a
southwestern hurricane or an earthquake.
To regulate the trade England has passed
some five hundred acts of Parliament dur¬
ing tho last five hundred years, and with¬
out exception all have madc things worse.
Wo have now ample proof that nothing
short of total prohibit ion will rid us of
the curse.”
Temperance Notes.
Felix L. Oswald, M. D., says: “We
must banish alcohol from the sick room
as well as from the banquet halL”
Thc New York lie taller, liquor organ,
says: “The liquor question seems to be
absorbing a great deal of the time of law¬
makers throughout the country at the
present time.”
Since prohibition went into effect in
Raleigh, N. C., the largest saloon in the
city has been turned into a shoe factory,
which will employ more persons than all
the dram shops in the city.
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY, GA.. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 6, 1887.
SOUTHERN STATES.
NEWS NOTES CATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
GEORGIA.
Washington county claims to have the
tallest man in the State, Mr. James; he
is 20 years old, weighs high. 200 pounds, and
ia « feet 7J iachea
Mr. II. C. Walker, formerly of Twiggs
county, but now of Laurens, has just in¬
herited $10,000, left him by his uncle,
John Walker, of Louisiana.
The mineral excitement around Tunnel
Hill is at fever heat. Nearly eveiy 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 iny is about as its* good chicken mar
ket ns town of size in Georgia.
Tho merchants o f 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
Legul Tender mine which shows four
ounces of silver and twenty-one pounds
of tin to the ton.
i been ? . taken fiD< ~ from f sp ec T. ... imcn ( of Napiers iron ore place has
near Rock Spring, m Walker county,
The ore is brown hematite, and the mdi
cations are that it exists in large quanti
tieSl
Mr. Charles F. Durr, formerly of the
Rome and Decatur railroad, has discov
ered a silver mine about eight miles from
Rome. 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. IIo now has a
stamp mill in operation, and will proceed
to sink shafts.
Last Monday morning the colored peo¬
ple’s church and academy, in lioekmart,
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 his mistake as soon as he took the
which poison and at once swallowed an emetic
saved his life.
On the 10th and 11th of May a conven¬
tion of all the counties on the Flint,
Chaltahooche and Apalachicola rivers
will meet iu 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 are 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 Rcidsville 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. C.). The body of the
unfortunate woman has not yet been
found.
Mr. farmer John II. Williamson, an industri¬
ous living about four miles south¬
west of Butler, lost his dwelling and its
entire contents by fire Saturday morning.
Mrs. Williamson was engaged at ironing
when the tire occurred, aud the house
discovered, was enveloped m flames before it was
consequently it was too late
to save any of the household effects,
there being no assistance present, except
Mr-<. Williamson and, perhaps, a few
small children.
north Carolina..
Near Cunningham’s store, in Person
county, and his nephew Saturday, Mr. John Hendricks
were killed by a runaway
t*° r30.
It is reported that a block of mica was
recently fouud in Jackson county which
measured 20 by 36 inches, and was 18
inches thick, weighing about 1,000
pounds.
The old Stewart mansion, located on
the banks of the Catawba river at the
point where Sugar creek flows into that
stream, Thursday was totally destroyed by fire last
evening about dark. i
The |>oor-house of Wiison county, ait
uated about one mile from Wilson, was
destroyed o’clock/ by fire Friday evening about :
four Insured in German Ameri
can insurance companv 1 of New York for
$1,500.
The freight office of the Carolina Cen¬
tral railroad company at Monroe, was
brokeu open Friday night, and a smalt
amount stolen. of change and a bunch of keys
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 andconhned to the house j
for some time. On that day there w’as
no one at the house with her but a little
giri, 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 Are and she ran out of the
house and was unable to extinguish the
flames.
Mrs. N’aucy Byrd, who lives near Liles
ville was taken, during the early part of
the year with what she deemed her last
illness. On Saturday, the 2Gth ult., she
scut to the store for goods out of which
to make her burial garments. When the
goods armed she examined them care
* u minute directions for their
cutting and making, and superintended
the work during its progress. When fin
Ished she dismissed the subject from her
mind and composedly awaited the end.
On Wednesday night, she said to a friend
who had just arrived, after having trav
eted many mites to see her, “James, I
want to turn over.” She was carefully
placed in the desired position, and in less
than five minutes passed away without a
•truggle.
BOOTH CAROLINA.
The Eutawville railroad scheme it a
▼cry 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.
cither Ror^ no? Grr^nvluc ^^T mer sa,
wal Ca wdl Lnu ^ ? e
i lento" oncc Fu^a'n n
of Judge Pressley,
The large and beautiful residence.of
I Colonel S. M. Rice, in Union, caught on
fire and was consumed in a short while.
It is supposed that the fire originated by
ra t 8 w ’ith matches, as it caught in the
garret, where no fire has been used. saved^ Ve
I ew of the household effects were
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.
f, StonS 1°;JnT b ^ e J’ en S R a 8 f‘ a ^
of j[ Pr^toe vkughnt colored. ThTk!l"
n g oocurre d in June, 1885, in a bateau
i 011 Broad river. A jug of whisky belong
I 1° Preston Vaughn, aud which, in
between some way him was broken, led to the difficulty
and Hay Robbins, The
state’s witnesses established a clear case
murder. The defendant* without any
justifiable provocation, stabbed and after
wards shot his victim, producing almost
instant death. He swore that Vaughn
madc threats against him and attempted
t o draw a pistol upon him, but his testi
inony I disinterested was wholly contradicted by other
aU( witnesses who were
present. It made its impression, how
ever, upon the jury, as they found him
ou *y {? ub *y of manslaughter,
A case of general interest and consid¬
erable importance has been tried in Barn¬
well. Eugene T. .McCreary w r as arraigned
for the homicide on the 8th of November
last, of Thomas J. Rountree, a brother of
Mr. S. Rountree, who represented Barn-,
well in 1870 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, aud D. 8.
Henderson, senator from Aiken The
day was consumed in the trial, and the
courthouse was crowded to its extreme
ined capacity. Many witnesses were exam
and the main defense relied on (self
defense) seemed to be sustained by the
evidence. The gentlemen charged with
the conduct of the prosecution and de¬
fense made strong arguments, and after
the judge had fairly stated the law ap- i
plying to the case, it was given to the j j
jury, who, after teu or fifteen minutes’
deliberation, delivered a verdict of “not
guilty.”
FLORIDA.
The question of paving the principal
streets of Tampa is being urged in that
city.
Arrangements citizens’ are being perfected to
start a bank at Dayton in a
short time with a caoital of about $50,
000 .
The laying of iron on the Silver
Springs, rapidly. Ocala and Gulf railroad is pro¬
gressing Another caigo is ex¬
pected soon.
The orange growers of western Hills¬
borough are just now shipping the bulk
of their oranges, and arc receiving satis¬
factory prices.
The Tallahassee railroad fund lias
reached $36,000 thousand thus far.
Moiiticello has subscribed $16,000, and
the enterprise, it is believed, will be a
success.
McMcckin i9 one of the largest orange
shipping The stations on the Florida South¬
ern. crop of this season will reach
about twenty thousand boxes.
The proposition to change the name of
Gainesville to Alachua, has been voted
down b y tne city council. The propo
is unpopular with nearly every cit
izen.
The large saw mill of George W. Itob
insoi L !it Millview, valued at $60,000,
and threo million feet of lumber was de
stroyed by fire last Thursday. The loss
is partially ccvercl by insurance.
Over eight hundred water oak trees
have been set out along the streets of
^ rcen ( - ove during the last thirty days,
prompted by a resolution for of the town
giving 2o emits setting out,
and 25 cents additional, twelves months
^ «» ‘ h «> «'■« “
A. convention of the people living in
West Orange county has been called on
to decide on the creation of a new coun
*. v » composing a part of issued Marion, Sumter
and Orange. The call calls for a
representation of five delegates from the
east of the Ockla.vaha river to meet in
cou veil tion at Fort Mason, on Saturday,
March 27. The new county will be called
West Orange, and proBably will select
Eustis as the countv site.
The neighborhood of Peniel embraces
many fine groves, and its people are cul
tivnted and refined, One of the hand
somcsl places in this hamlet, about five
miles from Palntka. is that known as the
Tavlor grove, until lately owned by Milo
Patterson. No one suspected that the
place was for sale, and many were
amazed to leuru that the deed was exe
euted and the purchase consummated,
Tbe consideration was $5,000, but the
form in which the cash was tendered con
Btitutcd the novel feature of the transac
t j on The $5,000 will twelve' be paid in the
shape 1 of vinegar, ? at aud a half
ce,lts |>er_q»art._______
new trial RefI'meb.
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The supreme court of nppeids of Vir- i
giuia, at Richmond, has rendered a de
t -ision in the case of Holmes B Puryeur,
convicted of the murder of his wife by
poison, in Didwiddle county in June,
The prisoner, when brought to a
trial, asked for a change of veuue on uc
count of prejudice against *him in Din
widdle This was granted, aud he was
tried hi Prince George county, was con
vic-ed of murder in the first degree, and
s.eutenced to lie hanged decision October of 29th the of
the same year. The su
preme court sustains the judgment of
the lower court, aud Puryear will be
hanged on a day to be hereafter fixed.
WEEKLY trade review.
AitidptM Kfect of the Inter*tate Com.
riiereo Ltw-Flaetaulou of the
Aloney market.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
the trade says:
“April is close at hand and some anxi¬
ety as to the money market is usual at
this season. The banks have been send
ing large amounts to the interior,through
deposits certificates at the treasury and the issues of
silver 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 has been
caused by the 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 6 to 8 per cent. All circumstances
make it comparatively easy for the oper
ator to produce a tight if he pleases. The
interstate bill causes great activity in
shipments of dry goods and other mer
chandise to anticipate a change of rates
on April 5th, but this means dullness af
ter that date, and complaints of indus
trial and commercial inactivity, respect
ing business that depends on future rates,
r:;i:
transportation Dry goods merchants
protest earnestly against the new classifi
cations, and especially against the charge
of higher rates for goods m box than m
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
lie act can be understood. Railsoad
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 G26 miles of road, against
200 to date last year, a safe indication as
‘
to the future Renorts retrardinff the
iron business are not favorable, imports
evidently having a depressing effect.
British shipments of iron and steel to
this country wpre 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 ono cent,
corn about half a cent, and oats a shade,
with unusually small sales and large re
ceipts. Cotton has advanced a quarter
and corn half a ecu,.
STEALING COTTON.
Tvreniy-flT* Buie* Disappear and Are
Subsequently Found.
A case somewhat startling was heard
before a justice of Columbia, 8. C.,
vious Wednesday morning. Several days pre¬
a freight car of the Charlotte, Co¬
lumbia and Augusta railroad,on a siding,
was found emptied of twenty five bales
of cotton. After a consultation with
railroad officials suspicion fell upon Ben¬
jamin F. Turner, yardmaster of the com¬
pany. He was accordingly arrested. He
stoutly declared his innocence. Sixteen
bales of the cotton have been found in
the ginhouse of Joseph Taylor, a colored
man city. living in the southern portion of the
The marks on these bales have
been obliterated. Taylor says he hauled
this cottou to tjue ginhouse at the request
of Turner. A car lock and a railroad
lantern were traced to Taylor’s possession.
It also came out by Taylor’s statement
that he had three bales iu his carriage
house. He claims to have put them there
by Turner’s oider.
Turner is about 38 years old, married,
and he lias hitherto borne an excellent
character. He has been employed by
the railroad about three years. Taylor
was prominent in the heydey of radical¬
ism in South Carolina. He was never
bitter. He is now an extensive dealer in
wood and coal, making money. Tho
present indications point to Turner’s dis¬
charge, and to Taylor’s commitment for
trial. The case has excited unusual in¬
terest, and the result is awaited with
some eagerness. Both defendants are
out on bail.
A BIG FIRE.
vi.n.a a, . sao.oou
Brave Rescue.
pjre started early Monday morning on
the southwest corner of Main and Wash
in gton streets, in of Memphis, Tenn. It
origi 6 nated the cellar of I. Bestlioff &
Co second . hand furni ture store, and
<le.troyed that building, Allath.unc &
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. $35,000. The stocks of
goods destroyed were valued at $15,000.
The insurance aggregates $21,000, di
vided equally between local and foreign
companies. The buildings burned were
owned by Capt. James Lee, jr., J. W.
McGuire. Col. W. H. Wood and Jhomas
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 iu
the third story for half an hour. A gale
of wind was blowing, aud the rescue was
made in the face of clouds of smoke,
which poured out of the building and
lenrly suffocated the brave firemen.
t’ORRl'FTION IN OFFICE
a Jo'» T , r , «e Tuesday grand jury connected ot am,- Chicago with inyestigated • the build- ,
*ng of a sewer from one of the public
M hods and it is said has as good as dc
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
! ribery, a penitentiary offense, and pun
i-liable with greater severity than any of
the other charges against tho boodlera.
('ouspiracy will be charged again*! the
contractors and the evidence is repre
tented to be conclusive, A common
rumor has all along stated there was $5,
U00 involved in the artesian well job at
Kavenwood, and that this money was di¬
vided among the commissioners amt one
warden. The jury gave up part of their
time to-day to liud out the truth of this
story. Witnesses are said to have per
sonal knowledge of the transaction.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH.
MMmf*cturt»* and other Bu*iae** inur¬
** tB Kniirond*, Ete.
Marks & Laird will develop an iron ore
mine at Laird.
^ cann i n g factory is to be established
t Lexington, Ky.
John J. Wolf has erected a saw mill
at Rogersville,Tenn.
An $8,000 school building will be er¬
ected at Calvert, Tex.
Jacob Bear will develop a manganese
mine at Greenville, Va.
wheel-barrow and tool factory are to
he built at Decatur, Ala.
Trmitwina Semonea have built a
f_.-_.a_ y Union Citv y ’ Tenn
A company , has , been formed to build a
creamery at Natchitoches, La.
The Catholics of Birmingham, Ala.,
contemplate building a fine church.
Machin win be erected to develop a
silyer and lead mine at Magon Tex .
, A company is . being organized organized to to build dui id
j a cotton compress at Bayou Sara La.
James Hare is erecting five buildings
at Manchester, Va., to cost $10,000 each.
A horse shoe factory is to be erected
u t West Nashville, near Nashville, Tenn.
a rnmmnvhas been formed to develot)
ma o- ne ticdron ore mines in Ashe countv. “
^ * ’* (j
ejection of a cotton compress C oZre“ at at Summit Summit,
*
A gold . being . developed . at
mine is
Abbeville, S. 0., and machinery will soon
be erected.
The Nashville Trnn Iron pnmnftnv company will will nllt put
• ^ furnaces^ 8 PUdd maolnner ^ and
16 Frances.
•
Xt 18 reported that the money to , build
a paper mill at Lynchburg, Va., has 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 Little Rock, Ark. The capital
stock is $3 000.
Tt : rcnnrted that a comoanv is beint?
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,
Va., to cost $600,000.
A. S. Emerson will erect a shirt a,„l
underwear factory at Charleston, S. 0.,
two stories, 56x100 feet.
„ Negotiatums are , being . made j for * the ,
establishment of a sewing machine lac
tory at Little Rock, Ark.
D.‘G. Palmer, Geneva, Ohio, has pur
chased 200 acres of mica laud at Canton,
Ga., and will develop it.
I.N. Biggerstaff, Forest City,N.C., has
purchased machinery to erect a saw and
corn mill and cotton gin.
The Enterprise Rolling Mill company
capital stock $100,000 has been incorpo
rated at Birmingham, Ala.
m Ihe Louisville & e Nashville x Railroad ,
company will extend their Mineral R ul
road, in Ala., to Huntsville.
It is stated that a company lias been
organized at Selma, Ala., to build a
rolling mill and a nail factory.
The Sylph Mining company developing recently
organized, have commenced
gold mines at Booneville, Ark.
Samuel R. Bullock & Co., of New
York, have contracted to build five miles
of street railroad at Paducah, Ky.
A company has been formed to build
gas works at Decatur, Ala., and will also
build a similar works at Hartselle.
A bill allow has been Winchester, passed in Va., the to legisla¬
ture 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$40,000of Lr bonds to build waterworks,
The West . End -j-, , Rolling tx a.- Mill company
will be incorporated a Birmingham, Ala.
to build a rolling mill or l.*0 <>ns f.i
pacity.
The Tuscaloosa Northern Railway ( o.,
has been organized at Tuscaloosa, Ala
bama. Their road is now being ar
ranged.
Middlebrook Bros, are building a saw
mill and a planing mill at Plano, Texas.
The capacity of the planing mill is 40 M
feet daily.
A $25,000 company has beeu formed
to start a stove foundry at Morristown.
Tenn., by C. R. Johnson, of Girard, <).,
and others.
A New York company has bought a
site at Paducah,Ky., and will erect a hotel
to cost $80,00$. It is to be completed bv
t UD mmrv !,’•
Ripley , Cigar «• Manufacturing t * •
The (-om
pany has been organized at Maysvi e, \.,
and will at once stait a factory «> cnip o\
about 50 hands.
The Montgomery Furnace & Chc-niica.
Works, has been organized at Mont
gomery, Ala., to build a charcoal furnace
and chemical plant. •
The Bridgeport Brewing comp my,
Bridgeport, Conn., will build a large
brewery at Houston, Tex. Work will be
commenced at once.
A. Chance, of Loudon, and Mcssis.
Craig and McMullen,of Knoxville, Tenn.,
nave purchased 125 acres of marble land
and will open quarries.
The Columbia Bridge company, Dav
ton, Ohio, have received the contract to
build an iron bridge across the Duck
river near Centreville, Tenn.
The English syndicate have completed White
the purchase of the gold mines in
county, Ga., and will, it is said, l>egin to
develop the property at once.
Boston parties are negotiating for
about 12,000 acres of land at Mammoth
Spring, Ark., with a view to erecting a
large cotton factory and flouring milte.
The Enterprising Manufacturing com¬
uHlipe pany, the Augusta, Ga., have decided to
mill surplus power of their cotton
j 800 looms. by.putting in 10,000 spindles and
*
The North Alabama Oil & Asphalt
company organized capital stock Birmingham, 81,300,000, has
i : been at Ala. The
company Wh,lit owns about 3,000 acres of oil
! and 1 liinds
1
The Atlanta 4 & Alabama 4 , i „ 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 be
gin building it at an early day.
Walter W. Duvin, Birmingham. Ala
bama facture lias purchased the right to maim
! terra cotta lumber by u patent
proccss, and will erect a plant at Bes
' seiner 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
$100,000 was drawn and officers elected,
T 1 , lie Banana „ & t Indian r r River »• T In i et i Co.. r
has been foimed in Honda to build a
canal to connect the Atlantic ocean with
the Banana and Indian rivers. A com
De ‘
■ The Bear Mountain Telegraph A Tele
phone companv has been chartered at
,f Arkansas and will build a line
om ot Springs 1 8 to Fort Smith, via
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 sell
has been organized at Roanoke,Va.,to
i ^ ^ iniiunfacture me al,
fl our lime, plaster, etc, The capital
j stock : s to be not less than $5,000 nor
mQre than * 5() ’ 00Q
Tbe 0®“?“ n . ® eed „______ com P an ^ ca P lta J
j P tock $500,000, Miss has The been u organized . four at
Vicksburg, company has seed
machines erected for cleaning cotton
and will soon erect four more Each
has a capacity ot ten tons. They will
j erect oil more mill. machinery this summer; also
an
Smith & Sharp, Nashville, Tenn., have
received the plans for a $70,000 stone
church to be built by the Episcon alians.
The Tulip street Methodist church, same
place, will erect a new building to cost
abo,u $ 30 ’ 0()0 - Plans for tt I 10 * 000
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THE LONGSHOREMEN SUIT.
' rh « A«aiu«.i the i.o n « s iiorei«ica stri¬
ker* in Court.
Louis F. Post tiled Monday, with the
'-'"'X' 1 Stot,! » d, c “ it
' " f New Yo *. "> James , T.
. „ 1 £“*“»'»■ F»‘™* Mc
‘
j Gartland, John J. McKenna and James
■ McGrath, Knights of Labor, against
w hom the Old Dominion Steamship com
panv brought suit for $20,000 damages,
j a nd who wore held in bail for trial. The
ease grew out of the boycott of freight
handled by the company. In their an
swers Quinn, Putnam and McGartland
deny all other allegations and claim that
the longshoremen were “locked out” by
the cora P an y because they refused to ac
<*ept a ’eduction of wages; that employee
I )aid by the hour only, and were
under no contract for auv term of service
whatever; that tli£ longshoremen met in
a peaceable and orderly manner for the
purpose of maintaining the rate of defend¬ wages
of their craft, and that they, the
ants, only acted as mediators to settle
• the dispute. McKenna and McGrath
admit being officers of the Ocean associ
j I a!ion they were of longshoremen, justified in their and actions, claim being that
under no contract to the Old Dominion
< <*"ipanv. I he defendants ask.for judg
,neilt dismissing the case, with costs.
THE GREAT ICE GORGE
Intereatliitf Incidents Connected with tho
Extreme Cold in Dakotn.
All attempts to break the Sibley island
j gorge with dynamite are unavailing. A
| man was seen Thursday evening riding
down the river on a cake of ice, frantic
ally calling for help, but it was linpossi
b i e to help { him. Twelve families near
Livonias iad a mosfc thrilling experience,
x Yftor being on the roofs of houses for
twenty-four hours a thin crust formed
over the river and on this they walked to
the shore, two miles, some breaking rescued,
through several times,but being
Fort Lincoln army officers at Bismarck
are s t d i 0 f the opinion that the people
opposite the city the perished post on in the the low flood. lands soutn This
u f
belief is becoming prevalent, and as re
ports come in from remote river districts
the story or suffering and loss of life is
intensified.
THE HNOVV DRIFT* OF CANADA
Th e snow blockade on the inter-Colon,
ha8 . > al inroad be ® n one is hundred unprecedented. hours in One covering train
tw0 m d es aQ d snow drifts where it now
stands completely J cover the telegraph ^
pole9 tgo[Dg Engligll uia
which left Friday, is still stuck between
Riviere de Loup and Remouski, while
the increasing English mail and an emi
grant special train are likely to remain
over tonight at St. Flave. Every effort
i s being made to have the line cleared
and no excuse will be spared. The
’anada Pacific railroad cancelled all out
^roing trains Monday and Tuesday. The
Jrifis on the road are very deep,
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HUNO BY ROBBER*.
Sunday morning Benjamin Mabbs, hanging ol
Hazen, Ark., was found dead,
in his room. Suicide was the first con
elusion, but investigation disclosed rob
bery, and the cc nclusion now is that
thieves hung Mabbs up, and let him
down partially choked, until he revesleo
the hiding place of his money and valu
allies, of which he was known to hav.
I considerable, and that they then hung;
; him up and left him, white they bastene 1
to secure the booty. There is no clue to
the perpetrators. The time that elapsed
alter death before tne discovery of t.ie
robbery has given the criminals ample
time to escape.
A {@v 1“ ‘
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HZ 8019 THI BACK
The Captain *f the Defeated Yaehf* Dannt
lea* Tell* a Tale.
A special from London dated Wednes
?»* »T» ! Yachtmen^ were a bounded
t0 ‘^ .
a ? j?
captain of the Dauntless severed j aU
refation. with Caldwell H. Colt, the
owner of the defeated yacht, and after
denouncing all on board had left the
vessel. Soon a dozen or more prominent
yachtmen boarded the Dauntless to get
f ur ther particulars. Butlittleinforma
tion W as volunteered to them by Mr.
Colt, who looked upon t he sudden de
parture of the declined famous skipper as an out
rage. He to make a statement
beyond the assertion that Captain Samu
els and five of the crew had deserted the
vessel without satisfactory cause. bitter against Gap
tain Samuels employer, Is particularly and in most
his former says a
positive way, that Mr. Colt is responsible in the
for the failure of the Dauntless
race. He charges that shortly after the
yacht fc lost sight of Fire Island light, Mr.
olt beC ame abusive. His language was
migent-te man ly, and it was only when,
Captain Samuels alleges, he was accused
Q f trying to allow the Coronet to obtain
ances. During the passage across, the
progress by of the yacht was handicapped
i her owner. When Captain Samuela
saw that Mr. Colt’s ill-advised instruc
tions were acting to the detriment of the
vessel’s speed, which he he determined to fill the
place finquish for responsibility. was engaged, or re
all But Mr. Colt
disregarded give his orders protests entirely and con
tinued to to the various men
a j. tbe notwithstanding Captain
Samuels ordered otherwise. Finally,
Captain Samuels says, the control of the
vessel devolved upon Mr. Colt, and he,
the captain, had only an outside voice.
He therefore, attributed jthe defeat of
the vessel to the mismanagement of her
owner, and his interference with the
standing and well regulated rules of sea.
AH EX-GOVERNOR SUICIDES.
Kx-Oovernor Reynolds, of Missouri, Jamps
Down nu Elevator Shaft.
Hon. Thomas C. Reynolds committed
suicide at the custom house in St. Louia
Wednesday afternoon by plunging down.
an elevator shaft from tne third floor.
He fell the distance of eighty feet and
crushed in his skull. The cause of the
act duced was mental derangement superin¬
by hallucinations that he wa*
about to become insane. In his pocket
book 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.
insomnia Recently he had been troubled with
and frequent nervousness.
Visions invited him to join his dead
friends, and fearing lest he should be a
burden to his wife by becoming a luna¬
tic—having twice before been troubled
with dementia, and his estate of $25,000
being in order, unimpaired and product¬
ive, he determined to end his life.
Governor Reynolds was born in CharJ
leston, S. C. He studied in the university
of Virginia, graduating and continued his studies in
Germany, He at in Heidelberg the in
1842. spent one year university
of Paris; and was admitted to the bar in
Virginia in 1844. He was secretary of
the United States legation to Spain in
1846 and 1848. In 1859 lie located at St.
Louis. In 1860 he was elected lieutenant
uovernor of Missouri on the same ticket
with Governor Caleb Jackson, and in the
civil war sided with the confederacy. At
the close of the war he went to Mexico.
In 1868be returned to St. Louis ; He
was a member of the commission sent to
^outh America about two years ago in
ihe interest of commerce with the United
States. In 1854 he fought a duel with
II. Gratz Brown, with rifles at thirty
paces, on the islands opposite St. Louis,
over a political in the discussiou. Governor Mr. Brown Rey¬
was hit knee, but
nolds was not touched, It is believed
r hat Governor Reynolds only intended to
maim Mr. Brown.
MILLS BURNED DOWN.
A S200,000 Fire Take* Place in West Point
—T* be Rebuilt.
A special from West Point, Ga., dated
Monday, says: A fire broke out to-night
at 7 o’clock in the West Point Monufac
miles turing company’s mills, four originated and a half in
below town. The fire
the wheel house, cause unknown. The
building insured for was totally consumed. It was
thousand only one hundred and fifty
dollars. The owners, Messrs.
Lanier, say they will rebuild at once.
The losses will be borne by about fifteen
insurance companies. About two hun¬
dred operatives are 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 the warehouses, and they
may not be lost.
DISASTROUS HURRICANE.
West Virginia Visited and Much Damns*
Don* tn Property.
A terrific hurricane early Saturday
morning did a large amount of damage
in the vicinity of Wheeling, W.Va., al¬
though the city itself escaped, Moundsville owing the to
sheltered position. Charlea At wrecked.
large barn of Jasper was
Near Cameron Mr. Ott’s dwelling house
was destroyed. At Littleton three barns
and a saw mill were wrecked. The Cath¬
olic Church at Broad Tree station, on the
Baltimore road, was twisted at right an¬
gles to its former position. stock Six barn miles of
above Wheeling the large quarter of
Edward Miller was blown a
a mite and reduced to splinters. At Bur¬
ton a large amount of lumber was widely
scattered. Reports of other damages are
constantly coming in.
blowing n .nwi«A up a c anal.
^ f ew n jg bb | a g C Cecil aqueduct on
the canal at Defiance O., was blown open,
Next night armed men drove away tbe
guards who were watching the reservoir
^ blew out the bankg in two pt aces
aud fi na u y dyDam ite was used to destroy
tt;e i 0( .k s . it will take half the summer
to repair the damage already done. Tbe
goveruor has been asked for instructions,
There was a strong effort made recently
to have the legislature vacate the canal at
tbis point.