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‘*r. FsteeSsl !Ms fey 1 m 1 & •x •**£ I fl',-1 m 'J k'W i I y*;M - : -3E9 j «•** [• • '■ B • B H w £ m *, J-f PVfaPpllPI - v - 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. -- 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 *° ^ “* ,nl1 " ,)H 1>Hre ‘ 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, - 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“ ‘ e p .»‘ 0 _ 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.