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SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS of interest from va
JUOUS POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
k SOUTHERN STATES.
UJPOETANCE IN THE
There was a light frost in middle and
nor th Alabama Tuesday night.
There was frost at Port Gibson and
Jackson, Miss., on Sunday night, the
earliest in years.
I Lather Tbe Clipper saw mills, tvt New Orleans,
burned with a large lot of lumber,
Tuesday morning. Loss $80,000;
fully insured.
The matter of the receivership of the
electric and city railroads of Richmond,
iVa., was again postponed by the chancery
judge, Thursday.
I: The Merrick Wrecking the company, of
Norfolk, is at work saviug abandoned cargo of
.he Amy Dera, which was by
–er officers and crew’.
'1 he trial of Edward Brown, charged Roger
with the assassination of Colonel
Ij. Page, late editor of the Marion Times
F Register, was begun at Charlotte, N. C.,
[Friday, in McDowell superior court.
I The North Carolina synod of the Pres
■wterian church convened in annual ses
lion in Charlotte on Tuesday,with about
ne hundred delegates and preachers
resent. The synod will be in session
*
be week.
■ The labor general Assembly of the Knights
■th will be held in Atlanta on the
■mm.tteeof of November, and the executive
M the order, now in session at
Louis, a.e arranging ° business for tbe
^P sem An agreement A was reached , , . between
[Hhe striking miners at Coalburg, near
Birminglnm, Ala,, on Wednesday, and
the miners will icturn to work. It is re
norted that the terms of the opciatois
Icre accepted.
Cotton men at Savannah, Ga., say that
indications point to an attempt by New
York Ft parties to corner Octooer cotton,
is reported that f>U the friegqt room
from there to New York for the rest of
[hc month has been engaged, or, in the
language of the street, “swept clean.” %
The propeity of Hillman, the electric
health Sold resort, at Washington, Ga., was
[ought on Tuesday at auction and was
Ihere by Mr. James Benson for $8,000.
lenson are*about 150 acres of land. Mr.
is or.e of the persons whose
[ill lealth was restored by it. He says * it
f be kept up as a resort,,
Coke iron was made in Anniston, Ala.,
lor the first time on Friday. The two
lurnaces Lon have been in course of construe
largest for two years, and are among t e
and best in the country. The ton
nage of iron, when both furnaces are in
blast, will be more than that of the cot
ton crop of the whole south.
A , special , , committee . was on „ Tuesday ,
appointed by the chamber of commerce
to take steps looking to the control of
the South Carolina railway interests of
[Charleston 8. C. No definite plan of ac
hon was adopted, but with tbe co-opera
tion of .ocal capitalists can be bought and
operated, especially in the interests of
that P° rt -
A dispatch from Flemingsburg, . Ky.,
kavs: At least five hundred thousand
pounds of tobacco in this county has
been entirely destroyed by tbe frost of
the last three nights. The auditor’s re
port places the average crop of the coun
ty at 4,700,000 pounds, and this year the
crop was above that figure. About half
of the crop had been housed and cured.
The report that the various Alliances,
Wheels, tition etc., would be called on to pe
the legislatures of their respective
States to suspend the collection of debts
for six months has been denied by
U’ol. L. F. Livingston, President of the
State Alliance of Georgia, who says:
The Farmers’ Alliauce has never adopt
ed such a resolution, and never will.”
The Tennessee conference, now in ses
sion at Murrreesboro, Tenn., has a pecu
liar question helore them. In passing
the characters of the preachers, the
charge was made against Brother Hag
gard that he had been engaged to two
"omen at the same time, marrying one of
them within a week after writing a letter
to the other pledging his undying love.
i he case was referred to a committee for
trial.
I Last June the town of Livingston,
I I destroyed ” um, er county, Ala., was almost entirely
I heavy loss by fire one night, causing
to the business men. Recently
I evidence was discovered tending to show
I that the fire was of incendiary origin,
® nt j citizens Birmingham, of Livingston who sent went detective down
Andrew Thursday and arrested Andrew Moore,
Rig them Ivy and Donham Jones, charg
with the crime.
The New York end New Orleans Coal
and Iron Company have recently pur
chased 64,000 acres of coal, iron and
milicr lands in Tennessee. Expert min
mg engineers say that on the property
ar e 1,250,000,000 tons of red fossil ore
Rnd .500,000,000 tons of brown hematite,
«ix workable veins of coal, varying from
lrce to eleven feet in thickness, and es
‘‘mated to contain 537,000,000 tons of
con I, or enough to last the entire United
states for five years.
Iters, before Saturday, Attoiney-Gencrad Ilo
-New the civil district court of
ffitestration—one Orleans, sued out two writs of se
Bart against Maurice J.
and another against Miss Laura
Baines, a sister to Mrs. E. A. Burke,
*° recover certain portions of stolen
f 11 bonds, which he alleges to have
sr ‘ate n V Treasurer ansf « rred Burke. these After parties deducting by Ex
le amount of the bonds so far recovered
r c ’* n Burke’s deficit, he is still about
- *400,000 ,
short
SCHLEY COUNTY. NEWS.
The New York Sun’s cotton review of
Friday: Futures declined 8to 11 points
under an unexpectedly weak report from
Liverpool instead of the advance which
the bulls expected, On this decline
there was a brisk demand to cover con
tracts, and as the day wore on the com
paratively small crop movement gave
strength to values. An exceptional
feature was the further development of
October cotton, which caused this month
to close dearer, Cotton on spot was
steady but quiet.
The great fertilizer factory of G. Obor
– Sons, established in 1857, at Locust
Point, Baltimore, burned Thursday. It
consisted of three large buildings which
cost $125,000. The first building, in
which 100 men were at work, burned to
the ground and the flames, driven by the
winds spread to another large building,
completely gutting it. Fully $260,000
woith of damage had been done to the
buildings,before the flames were gotten
under control, which a member of the
firm says cost $200,000, and $60,000
STOLEN DOCUMENTS.
ALL THE RECORDS IN THE CRONIN CASE,
AT CHICAGO, DISAPPEAR.
A. dispatch from Chicago says: A
startling rumor was current, early Satur
day morning, that the entire official re
ror£ l of the Cr nin case had been stolen,
The record includes a copy of the pro
ceedings before the coroner’s jury, the
sworn affidavit of witnesses before the
jury, portions of the hair, blood
clots, cotton bating, and other tangible
ev ‘dences o the crime louud in the catch
^ trunk. the An Carlson ex-employe cottage of and the the state bloody at
tqrney’s office, who had full access to all
valuable pieces of evidence, is now
missing and may be in Canada. Yolu
minous documentary testimony and mote
precious, but still bulky, material evi
Jencos were kept in what was considered
a sa f e p{ JCe j n the state attorney’s office,
to which only trusted employes had ac
cess. The ex-employe is said to have
several times been seen in proximity of
this vault, which, when he w–s in the
employment of the county, he had abun
dant opportunity to learn every nook
and crevice. The discoveries were made
Friday morning, when the necessities of
looking up the addresses of witnesses in
compliance with an order expected to be
entered by Judge McConnell at the morn
ing session of the trial, made a reference
to impeiuiive. affidavits taken Then, Wore it 3s the add, grand that jury the
awful fact presented itself to the state’s
attorney and colleagues that the result
of their labors since May 4.th had van
ished as if by magic..... A.I Hanks am
Mark Solomon, criminal court bailiff s,
under arrest, charged with packing
tke Cronin jury. The first suspicion of
the fac > tke / al ’ ure of lhe to
r <;P ort {or dul J Saturday morning. Their
absence was due the fact that they were
taken to a Nortlmd)e hotel by several de
tcctive9 and were kept there in close
surveillance . Two men have also been
d j scovere d in attempting to corrupt ve
niv£meu summ oned to Judge McCon
aell , g court and t0 j nstruct those favora
b , e fcQ the pr j soners how to answer ques
ti()DS of the state ' s attorney in order to be
retained as jurors.
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
SUCCESSFUL TESTS OF A PROCESS FOR RE
MOVING PHOSPHORUS FROM IRON.
Four succe‘sful tests were made, on
Wednesday, at the furnaces in Birming
ham, Ala., of a chemical process for re
moving all phosphorus from iron, and
converting it into Bessemer pig. Every
test w’as pronounced a complete success
by chemists and practical steel men en
giged to w’itness them. The process has
just been discovered by a Scotch chem
ist, named Archibald, w r ho is in the em
ploy of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad company. By this process the
extra cost of converting the ores of that
section int o bessemer pig will be only
fifty cents a ton. The success of the ex
periments have cause! no little excite
ment in iron and financial circles.
A BIG SCHEME.
CONSOLIDATION THAT WILL REVOLUTION
IZE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
A gigantic railway consolidation that
will connect the two oceans and revolu
tionize the international railway traffic,
has just been revealed at Chicago, Ill.
Contracts have been signed whereby the
Baltimore – Ohio railroad is to enter into
an agreement with the consolidated
Wisconsin Central and Northern Pacific
lines, connecting the oceans. The Atch
i-on, Topeka – Santa Fe system is in the
vleal, reaching Mexico and southern Cal
ifornia. Chicago will be made the centre
for operratlng the three great lines. The
Northern Pacific will be extended from
Puget’s sound and built into Alaska,
making a continuous line from New
York city to Sitka.
THEY PROTEST,
BUSINESS MEN OF MISSISSIPPI UPBRA1DINO
THE EXCHANGES.
The board of trade of Jackson, Miss.,
on Tuesday night adopted deprecate the the following: action
Resolved, That we
of the cotton exchanges iu the various
cities in declining to agree to the equal
izing of tare rules proposed in the bag
<rin«- convention in New Orleans; that
we approve the efforts of the New Or
leans cotton exchange to have the tare
rates generally adopted, and regret the
necessity that compelled them to decline
to adopt said tare rates, aud that we
avow our purpose so far as we can, tc
labor for the accomplishment of the end
let forth by said bagging convention.
THE LEGISLATURE.
■ILLS PASSED BY THE 8ENATE AND HOUS1
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill to repeal tbe act creating a board
of commissioners of roads and revenue
for the county of Emanuel; to amend the
act lot in authorizing Savannah; the sale of the arsenal
gift enterprises to prohibit lotteries,
and games of chance,and
to provide a misdemeanor penalty lor the
violation of the law; to incorporate the
Farmers’ Banking and Storage company
of Jackson county; to prohibit child la
bor; to authorize the Atlanta Gaslight
company to use electric lights as well as
gas and to issue bonds; to prohibit hunt
ing on the lands of another without con
sent in Telfair county; to prohibit the
catching fair ami of fish with seins or nets in Tel
dinary of Montgomery; Gordon to make the or
the board county a member of
of commissioners of roads and
revenues for that county; a resolution
to have the portraits of distinguished cit
izens in the old capitol cleaned, reno
vated and hung in the new capitol.
Fifty dollars appropriated; a bill giving
landlords special liens ou the crops of
renters those superior to all other liens except
for tuxes; to change the time ol
holding the superior court of Crawford
from the third Monday in April to the
third Monday in Match; to amend the
act for the forclosure of liens; to author
ize the governor to issue bonds of the
state to pay off the debt falling due iu
October, 1890; to amend the act estab
lishing a board of pharmaceutic exam
iners.
A bill to incorporate the town of H>1
ton, in Early county, one-half mile in
every dinction from Hilton’s storehouse;
to incorporate the town rfTienton; to
incorporate the Empire Mills Tele
graph company; to incorporate the
Germania Savings Bank of Savannah;
to authorize tbe mayor and council of
Savannah to establish and control harbor
lines in the Savannah river, at the cross
tide above the city to the sea, to prevent
the building of piers and bulkheads so
as to prevent the shoaling of the river; to
amend section 509 of the code, by in
serting thirty days instead of ten days;
to amend the act establishing public
schools in Carrollton, by increasing the
number of school trustees; to requite the
registration of voters iu Mclutosh county;
three mile prohibition bill for the Ray
town Methodist and Baptist churches,
except in Sharon, an incorporated town.
A biit to amend the charter of Colquitt
in Wilcox county, and provide for the
election of a mayor aud aldermen; a
lence law for certain portions of Thomas
county; to incorporate the Brooks Al
liauce Banking company; to amend the
charter of Macon so as to authorize the
collection of $50,000 per annum on li
censes and business; to prohibit tbe sale
of liquor within five miles of Towltown
Methodist aud Christian churches iu De
catur county; to repeal Marion an act to provide
twro weeks sessions of county su
perior court; to authorize the holding of
an election in Terrell county ti determine
whether bonds shall be issued; to estab
lish public schools m Dawson county;
to authorize the county commissioners
or the ordinaries, where there are no
such commissioners, to hire convicts to
other counties; to incorporate the town
of Shady Dale, in Jasper county; to
amend the act prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes to minors by inserting before
(he word “tobacco” the word “cigarette ;”
to provide for the drawing and of juries in
the superior courts; a game fish law
for Bullock county; to require the regis
tration of voters in Bullock county; to
prohibit the sale of liquor near Rock
Spring Academy and Cove church, iu
McWilliams’ Cove, Walker county; to
incorporate the Stevenson, Sand Moun
tain A Dalton Railroad; to prohibit the
sale of liquor near St. Mary’s masonic
institute and the Chickamauga Baptist
church in Walker county.
A four mile prohibition law for Pope’s
chapel in Wilkes county. Also a four
mile prohibition bill for Independence
church in Wilkes. A bill to incorporate
the Hawkinsville and Florida Souther..
Railroad company; tC incorporate En
terprise Street Railroad company of Sa
vannah; to amend the charter of the
Empire aud Dublin Railroad company.
A 2£ mile prohibition bill for Moore’s
Grove Baptist church in Clarke county.
A bill to incorporate the Satilla River
Transportation company. A resolution
for the relief of Baldy Ryalls, former A bill tar.
collector of Dodge county. to
authorize the mayor and council of Lin
colnton to issue municipal bonds for the
purpose of raising money to build an
academy; to relieve Eugene Begnin, of
Baldwin, on aoeount of a surety on a for
feited bond of Turner; to establish a
school district in Lumpkin county; Sa- to
authorize the mayor and council of
vannah to establish harbor lines; to
provide a punishment for any exicutor,
administrator, guardian or trustee who
shall fraudulently convert tiust property
to his own use; to amend the tax act of
1888-89; to provide for the establish
ment of the line between Georgia and
Alabama; to authorize the mayor and
council of Athens to levy a tax to pave
Ihe sidewalks of that city.
BANK STATEMENT
Following is a statement of the asso
ciated banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday:
Reserve increase...... ......$ Ofl0,025
Loans decrease......... ...... 4,070,30C
Specie increase..... .. ...... 1.885,800
Legal tenders decrease. ...... 5,107,700 1,152,300
Deposits decrease...... ......
Circulation decrease... ...... 13,200
The bunks now hold $705,708 less
than 25 per cent, rule calls for.
ANOTHER CALL.
A GRAND RALLY OF ALLIANCES TO BE
HELD AT ST. LOUIS IN DECEMBER.
Hon. R. G. Sledge, chairman of the
national cotton committee of the Farm
ers’ Alliance, with the other members of
the executive committee at Atlanta, Ga.,
ou Tuesday, promulgated a paper
stronger than any yet drafted against
jute. '] he paper was signed by himself
and Hon. L F. L vingston and* Hon. li.
F. Kolb, and was mailed to the president
of every wheel, union and alliance in
the cotton stat: s, and to the farmers and
luborets’ uuion throughout the country,
and is as follows: Whereas, Recent in
formation of a reliable nature has
reached us, that a jute combination has
been renewed ii pon a more extens.ve
scale than foimerly, denominated the
American Manufacturing company, in
which [ erhaps all principal jute bagging
manufacturers are interested, by which
they propose to force on the cotton pro
ducer for the year 1800 their outputs;
and, Whereas, It is absolutely necessary
that whatever should be done to prevent
tk<? same must, to be efficient, be done at
the eaibest possible day; therefore we,
the uudeisigned, most earnestly request
the presidents of each state alliance to
have a decided expression from sub-alli
ances, wheels and unions, in favor cf the
exclusive use of cotton bagging for the
year 1890, and report the same to a con
vention at St. Louis ou December 7tli
next, at 10 a. in. Said convention to be
composed of the presidents of each
state alliance, wheel or union, or such
representatives as they * may select, and
one exchange or more delegates the from each cotton
in United States, tr. take
into consideration and settle the question
of tare on cotton covered-bales, and to
establish a standard cotton bagging.
We earnestly request tbe Hon. Evan
Junes, president of tbe Farmers’ and La
borers’ union of America, to invite each
cotton exchange in the United States to
send properly accredited delegates to
said convention. And iu the event
that the cotton exchanges refuse or
neglect to participate in said convention,
then the delegates representing the pro
ducers shall proceed to fix the tare and
prescribe a standard cotton bigging, to
which a’l alliancemen will u n com pro
mizingly adhere. This action is neccs
sary, that manufacturers of cotton bag
ging may be enabled to supply the de
mands at reasonable prices. Let sub
alliances take action immediately. L.
F. Livingston, President S. F. A.; R.
G. Sledge, Chnrn. Nat. Cou. Com.; II.
F. Kolb. Ag. Comr. Alabama.
ROASTED ALIVE.
A nouSF, AND ITS INMATES BURNED Uf
BY THE EXPLOSION OF GAS.
At Davis Switch, a small village, thir
teen miles fiom Bradford, Me., the
dwelling of Patrick Daily was burned,
and his wife and three sons aged thir
teen, eleven and nine respectively, were
roasted in the flames. At *6 o’clock Sun
day night, while the Daily family were
at supper, the , , father „ went to .... the stove
to partly turn off the gw. He uuinteu
tionally shut the throttle tight, and on
reversing it again the house was filled
with gas, and an explosion followed, and
in an instant the entire house was in
flames. The three boys and the mothei
fell prostrate on the floor, overcome by
the heat aud flames. The house was
entirely consumed in a few’ minutes.
The charred and blackened bodies pre
sented a most s ekening sight. Mr.
Daily was severely but not fatally burned
about the head and face, and is almost
crazed with grief.
THE VETERAN PREACHERS
PASS RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET AT THE
RESIGNATION OF CORPORAL TANNER.
The Veterans’ Association of Ministers
of the Genesee Methodist Conference,
numbering about fifty members, held its
annual meeting in Lockport, N. Y., on
Thursday, and adopted the following
resolution: Resolved, That we have
heard with sincere regret of the resigna
tion as commissioner of pensions of
Corporal James Tanner, forced from him
fey the influence of politicians, and that
we depreciate the subordination of the
pension department to political wire
pullers, so that it cannot be administered
by a man who, like Corporal Tanner, has
ihe true interest of the soldiers at heart,
and we call upon the President of the
United States in to hands place of the granting of
administer pensions it the in the those of the who will
interest coun
try. and to bestow upon Corporal Tanner
such recognition as befits a man who, in
every position, has shown himself the
true friend of the soldier,
ALLIANCES IN ALABAMA.
BOTH WHITE AND COLORED ALLIANCES
BEING ORGANIZED AND BOOMING.
The following is from Greenville,
Ala.: “Thirteen colored Farmers’ Alli
ances have thus far been organized in
this, Butler county, alone.and before the
close of the year similiar organizations
will be formed in every township. rapidly The
membership is not large,but it is
increasing, and bids fair to be strong.
The white and colored Alliances are
united in their war against trusts, and in
promotion of the doctrine that farmers
should establish co-operative stores and
manufactures, and publish their own
newspapers, conduct their own schools,
and have a hand in everything else that
concerns them as citizens or affects them
personally or collectively. A manufac
turing and commercial company, under
the auspices of the Farmers’ Alliance,has
been organized here, with a capital of
$125,000.”
GALLANT KNIGHTS.
MEETING OF THE GRAND CONCLAVE OF
EMU UTS TEMPLAR IN WASHINGTON.
On Tuesday, the city of Washington
alry, w oie a holiday garb. The days of chiv
w ith all their pomp and display,
seemed revived. It was the opening
day of the grand triennial conclave oi
Knights-Tcimplar of the United States.
Long columns of soldiery, with their
gorgeous plumes and uniforms, gallop
ing, mounted equerries, fluttering baa
bers, martial music, the shrill and com
manding trumpet calls, and throngs
of admiring spectatois, made,
the scene grandly imposing.
Along Pennsylvania avenue the decora
tor had been lavish in the use of bunting
and from every wundow and house front
flags, banners and the cross of the Temjr
lars were in the crisp October air. A
moderate estimate would place the num
ber of visitors in the city at about50,000,
and the number of knights has been es
timated at from 15,000 to 20,000, com
prising over 200 commanderies from all
section 13 of the country.
BURNING COTTON.
TWO COMPRESSES AND 4,000 BALES OF
COTTON BURNED IN SAVANNAH, OA.
The lower hydraulic and the Tyler
cotton compress, with their sheds and
4,000 bales of cotton were burned Wed
nesday morning, at Savannah, Ga.
The fire was discovered in the lower
press on Bay street at 2 o’clock.
Everything was very dry and the fire
swept from yard to yard rapidly. The
wharf frontage was over five hundred feet
and the depth to Bay street was about
two hundred taiJ fifty. For three hours
all of that space, two acres and a half,
was ablaze. Throe ve-sels, tho Napier, 1
the Cypress and the Carlton, ,
all British
steamships, were lying at the wharves in
front of the burning buildings aud yards.
All of the cotton, 4,000 bales, on the,
wharves took fire and were completely
destroyed. Tho presses are valued at
something like $75,000 and the build
ings are protected. The total loss on tho
cotton and presses is $400,000.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
W1IO WILL MANAGE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
AFFAIRS FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
The grand encampment Knights Tem
plar of the United States, in secret ses
sion at Washington, D. C., on Thursday,
elected the following officers to serve for
the next three years: Very Eminent. Sir
J. P. S. Gobin, of Pennsylvania, most
eminent grand master; Very Eminent Hir
Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, deputy
grand master; Very Eminent Sir Warren.
Lome Thomas, of Kentucky, grand
generalissimo; Very Eminent Sir Reuben
Hedlin Lloyd, of California, grand cap
tain general; Very Eminent Sir Henry
Bales Stoddard, of Texas, grand senior
warden; Very Eminent Sir Nicholas Van
Slyck, of Rhode Island, grand junior
warden; Very Eminent Sir H. Wales
Lines, 0 f Connecticut, grand treasurer;
y Eminent Sir William B. Isaacs, of
Virginia, grand recorder. The next
conclave will be held in Denver.
DEADLY WIRES
MAYOR GRANT, OF NEW YORK, ORDERS
THE ELECTRIC WIRES DOWN.
Mayor Grant, on Saturday morning,
hastily called a meeting of the board of
electrical control of New York, and as
soon as it was assembled, a resolution
was adopted ordering the immediate re
moval of all electric light wires that
were of this not properly insulated. The causa on'
Friday, hasty action was the killing,
of a lineman by electricity from!
badly connected wire*. An interview with
Mr. Edison, the inventor, has beert
printed, in which he says that no insula
tion will make an electric wire safe, and
that sub ways and insulation will aliku
prove ineffective, an4 that the only way
to prevent loss of life is to regulate the
pressure the same as the pressure of steam
boilers is regulated.
TO COLONIZE THE NEGROES
THE BILL FOR THAT PURPOSE PASSED BY
THE MEXICAN LEGISLATURE.
Advices from Mexico say the bill to
grant a concession to Henry C. Ferguson
and William H. Ellis, two colored men
from Texas, who propose to colonize
lands in Oaxaca, Guerrero, Vera Cruz,
Miehoacan and San Luis Potasi with Ne
groes from Texas and other American
states, has passed the lower house ol
congress and has gone to the senate.
It is believed it will be passed and be
signed by the president. from Texas It is will expected
that 2,000 Negroes move these
to Mexico and raise cotton on
lands, and many thousands of industrious
blacks, skilled in cultivation, will follow
them from states east of the Mississippi.
WILL BUiLD SHIPS.
A COMPANY ORGANIZED IN CHARLESTON,
8. C., FOB THAT PURPOSE.
There was forwarded to the secretary
of state at Columbia, S. O., on Tuesday,
the declaration for tiie charter of “the
South Carolina Naval Construction und
Ship owners' Association,” of Charles
ton, capital stock $100,000, in shares of
$50 each. The names of the incorpo
rator will be published later. Tho ob
jects and purposes of the new enterprise
are, briefly, to establish iu Charleston a
ship yard for the building of a fleet of
carrying vessels, combining with this the
marine insurance.