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tiso.
Sandersville, Washington County, Ga.
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THE MERCURY.
THE MERCURY.
A. J. JERNIGA V ,C CO., Proprietor!
UB\ 0TEI) TO LITKKATUIIE, AGRICULTURE ANJ> GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
E. S. LANGMADE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVIELE. Ga.
VOLUME VII.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.'
THE IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS
'Eartoys of the south.
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 Per Annum,
NUMBER 50.
PUBLISHED EYERY TUESDAY.
NOTIOE!
AU Communicationa Intended for
(Ate Paper must be accompanied by
the full name of the ivrlter—net
necenartly for publication, but ae m
guarantee of good faith.
We are In no way reeponettde fir
a vleme or eptntone of cormpond-
mil.
. ,,,, uas c 0 ., cnpital
stock $100,000, 1ms been organized at
Dayton, Tenn. The company arc leusing
them nM<1 WiH S,10rt, y ’’ e R in developing
I. |), E»**»,
B. D. EtARI, Js
EVANS & EVANS,
ainmiriirlurliiR anil Other IliialneM l>>>,
"" ••°®mlii#—New lUllr.^* K f c .
Knox county Texas will bnild a $10,-
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
8ANDERVILLE. GA.
| 000 jail.
A brick yard will be started at Monte-
zumn, Qa.
F. H. SAFFOLD,
attorney at law,
8ANDERBVILLE, GA.
Will praotice in all the Court* of the
iiiille Circuit and in the oonntiee
f ro imling Washington. Speoial El
ution given to commercial law.
A hotel will be built at Athens, Qa.. to
cost about $100,000.
A iarge roiier flour mill is to be erected
at Greenville Texas.
Tho Newport' News A Mississippi Vul-
ley Railroad Co., (office Kichmonu, Va,,)
will enlarge their machine shop and
build a new paint shop, at Huntington,
vv. Va.
A WHOLESALE LYNCHING
IORKV1LLE, S. C.
A company has been organized at Selina
Ain., to manufacture stoves, also one to
establish chain works- The capital stock
of each is $2.1,000 and has been sub
scribed.
H is rumored that a silk factory will
»>c built at Waldcsboio, N. C.
A. 11. Love joy will build n $10,000
hotel, at Alcxcxander City, Ala.
H. N. H0LLIFIELD.
I here is talk of a cotton factory being
ccrcctcd and Slate Springs, Alias.
A large briok-ynrd has been started
lately at at Mount Pleasant Tcxns.
A meeting lias lately been held at
Shreveport, La., for the purpose of or
ganizing u stock company to build a cot
ton factory to cost from $300,000 to
$400,000.
The Gerards’ Rectilinear Propellor Jb
Rotary Lngine Co. has been incorporated
at New Orleans to manufacture engines
etc. Tho capital stock authorized is
$1,000,000.
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
OfUee next door to Mi». Bayne's Milliniry
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O.V HAM) A NR FOR SALE
ES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc,, Etc.
Watches, Clocks
AMI)
JEWELRY
nEi’AiniD nr
JERzlsTIQ-AXT.
A company 1ms been formed to build a
hotel, fnxlOO feet at Renton, Tenn.
A bill will bo introduced in the legis.
lature of Virginia to ullow Danvillo to
appropriate $100,000 of a certain fund
There are prospects of a lnrgc hotel ] f ? r u . w K ,“ s works an<1 Ur improving the
at Morristown Ton,, streets, etc.
being erected at Morristown, Tenn.
Klins Hurley has established a sh,
block factory at Swift Island, N. C,
Elias Hurley has established a shuttle | nwu, r i‘i k .2 0 '’* ll i“ S b , e< : u l^orjioratod at
Birmingham, Ala., by Mr. M. T. Sum-
a ono i • o ... 1 ! nc . r l,ud oth ‘ , rs. Tho company will
A 200-bnrrcl flour mill will, it is said, I build works to manufacture 100 000
soon be built at Sauta Anna, Texas, 1
A hirge 3-story building will be erect
ed nt Lyncliburg, Vn., by George Mur
rell.
Works will be built to manufacture
steam engines extensively at Anniston,
Ala.
Arrangements are being made for the
erection of a canning factory at Raleigh,
8. Rosenbaum & Co., and others will
build a furniture factory nt Columbus,
Miss.
A company will be organized soon to
erect un electric light plant nt Winston,
N. C.
bricks daily.
A $400,000 stock company will be or
ganized at Florcneo, Ala., to erect a
charcoal furnace and chemical plant with
W. H. Wood as president. The site has
I" s i secured.
■ In- Memphis. Arkansas and Texus
imlmad company, capital stock $2,600,
000, has been chartered to build a ruil-
r<md from Memphis. Tenn., via Mariann
and Clarendon, Ark.
The Birmingham Strcot Oar Factory
Co., capital stock $100,000, has been or
ganized nt Birmingham, Ala., to muiiu-
lacture street cars and will soon begin
building their works.
A canning factory will be Htartcd at
Blue Ridge Springs, Vn., by T. F.Weeks
& Son,
A HORRIBLE MURDER.
Pinal.Wiinlcis mill Mi an lliii-na III* Wllu
nrnr Adit, Alii.
Hip p'lrlieulars of the most horrible
rime in the criminal records of Alabama
vc just 11 m • lo light. Last Tuesday
ornini! Tni'lcion Steele, colored, mur-
iri'l ami then burned his wife, near Ada,
M nigomcry county. About two
clock in ike morning they bad a quart cl
‘‘I l"’t winds led to blows. Tiulcton
nuk bis wife on tho bead with an axe
“dh*. killing lo t- almost instantly. He
1 it""!. I lie body and carried it olf to
1'iiciy |i!:ico in the woods, a mile from
5lM 'i tbiuw ii in a gully, piled trudi and
raw 1,11 it, llii’it poured kerosene oil on
ie lienji ituii stuck lire toil. Ho then
•turned home anil left (lie body to be
einatctl. Tho gentleman on whose
aco he was living missed tho woman,
1 s 'iii| nothing about it, mid tho inur-
wr remained on tho plnco a day and
K"t nfter the crime was committed.
Jllrf| l'*y morning he wont back to the
oo'ls tunl 1 o'iin 1 that the body had not
"(entirely burned up. lie put trash
tie- ic iiaiiiH, but having no match to
ift the lire again lie fled.
Suspiidon had been aroused, and the
" ih"M seaiehed thu woods and found
'■ ’'‘"willing portions of the body. Tits
inlerer was captured ten milos distant
'" "ight to Montgomery to jail. Ho
“' ii lull confession of the terrible
ll h md says he burned tho body to
"'i'J 1 ,be crime. The murderer is a
, '' :l( negro about twenty-five venre
A stock company has been formed at
Goldsboro, N. O., to start a furniture
factory.
Tha consolidated Coal & Iron Co., of
Chattanooga, Tenn., have made a propo
fol
sitiou to build tho Cincinnati, Huntsville
& Birmingham Railroad from Huntsville
to tha Tennessee river.
A Mob Talma froiu the Jail Kl*e Ainu Ac.
oaoed ef Murder and linns Ibem
all to Trees.
Most every body is more or less famil
iar with the story of tho brutal murder
on tho 80th of last November of little
Johnnie Lee Good, near Yorkville S. C ,
and the subsequent arrests made and con-
lessions developed.
This most horrible murder bad a fatal
termination on last Tuesday in the lynch
ing of five of tho prisoners arrested as
principals and accomplices. The story
of the lynching is tolu fully in the fol
lowing special from Yorkville: In per
fect security Yorkville retired Monday
eight, little expecting to awake up next
morning and find five dead bodies dang
ling from the limbs of trees, almost with-
in tho corporate limits. The men chose
for the time of thoir work the early
morning, and at half past four, the sher
iff, who is also jailor, was awnkoned by a
noiso at the door. He rushed nip to the
crowd iu his night dress and on refusing
to surrender the keys, his visitors pro
ceeded to tho third floor and commenced
on the same door that hud partly yielded
to similar treatment only a few’ weeks
before.
Tho sheriff was powerless to offer re
sistance and endeavored to attract atten
tion to tho jail by tho rapid and succes
sivo firing of his gun. This had tho
effect to bring to the scene a few persons,
but by the time they arrived the lyueli-
ing party had gained entrance, secured
the men thoy wanted and left. The
wooden door, before alluded to, was
opened by cutting out the large plate
lock with on ax. Tho padlocks securing
tho doors subsequently were broken, but
tlcrlliifi Held In Vnrioun I'lnrce lo Kxpreta
(Sympathy for Irolniul.
An immense muss meeting was held in
the Academy of Music, of Philadelphia,
Monday evening for the purpose of pro
testing against, the proposed coercive
legislation by the government of Great
Britain. Fully 1,000 wore present, and
a largo number who were uiiiublc to gain
admission had an overflow meeting in
the streets. Besides Governor Beaver
there were present all living ox-governors
of the State and many prominent persons
of the State and city.
The regular meeting was called to
order by ex Attorney Uoneral Brewster,
and after several stirring speeches lmd
been made resolutions were adopted ex
pressing the sentiment of the meeting,
anil the following was ordered telegraphed
to Messrs. Gladstone and Parnell:
"An immense anti coercion meeting
this evening. Five thousand people
present. 1 housands unable to obtuiu
admission. Tho governor of Pennsyl
vania presided. Every living ex-govor-
uor consenting to bo present to express
kis sympathy. No speaker Irish. All
Americans. Strong speeches were made
denouncing the bill and i expressing
amazement that such a measure shuttld
bo proposed in tho lOtli century by a civ
ilized government.
“Resolutions expressing the sentiment
of our city of ouc million lluhubitunta,
nud our State, of live million inhabitants,
in favor of Irish home rule,I were unan
imously and enthusiastically adopted.”
Tho cablegram was signed by Governor
Beaver.
A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
ITEMS or INTEREST FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Wliat I* Hein* Hone by tlie Ifenila of Our
Government-Tile Week’s lteylew.
these were replaced by new ones and the
cells were lc‘
locked.
were left comparatively safe
The Warren County Manufacturing
Co., capital stock $100,000 inis been in-
Bishop & Son contemplate erecting a i c ' or P. or( d°d to manufacture all kinds of
new wagon nnd carriage factory at Rtce-
villo, Tenn.
Macon. Ga., will dcoidc by vote April
23rd whether or not to build a $20,000
market house.
Mr. Cook has purchased 18 acres of
land nnd will start large brick works, at J
Portlnnd, Ky.
goods from cotton, and oil from cotton
seed at Vicksburg, Miss.
Tho St. Helen’s Laud, Coal aud Iron
Co., capitnl stock $1,000,000, has beeu
incorporated at Frankfort, Ky., to de
velop 12,000 acres of coal and timber
lands in Lee county, Ky.
Five prisoners were wanted, it seems,
instead of six, us on une former occasion,
and those taken wore Giles Good, Bailey
Dowdle, Prindley Thomson, Dan Rob
erts, andMose Lipscomb. Theiridentitv
wus insured by means of a dark lantern,
with which the party was provided. As j
far as can be known no resistance, el
even outcry, wns mude by any of tli"
doomed men. The spot selected for the
execution of thu deed, wns a knoll on the
road leading northwest from the jail and
only a short distance from the stone,
mnrking the first mile from the court
house.
The ropes used were ordinary cotton,
AT llOSTON
on the same eveuiug Funeuil hail was
packed by a thoroughly American nudi-
| cnee, tho occasion being a meeting to
express condemnation of the Irish crimes
: “cL Governor Ames, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Brackett, Mayor O’Brien, Senator
! Revenue Collector Fitzgerald,
Mayor Russell, of Cambridge, John Boyle
| O’Reilly, deputy collector, were among
| those prelent. Governor Allies, Senator
I Hoar, Mayor O'Brien, Rev. 0, A. Barton,
! John Boyle O'Reilly, Lieutenant Gover-
! nor Brackett, Rev.' A. A. lilincr, Rev.
i Father Teeling, of N’ewburyport; John
] K. Fitzgerald, Rev. Father Connnlly, of
Worcester; ex-Mayor Donovau, of Low
ell; Father McKentiy, of Marlboro; and
W. JO. Lord, of the Advertiser, were the
speakers. Telegrams were seni to Messrs.
Gladstone and Parnell, und over $1,100
collected for thu Irish league.
AT DK8 MOINES
THE NATIONAL DRILL.
The entries for the national drill to be
held the last week in May closed Satur
day night. A number of entries not yet
recorded are on their way, nnd will bo
received, having been mailed beforo the
date of closiug. 1 ho entries recorded are
distributed ns follows among the differ
ent branches of the service: Regimental
drill 4, battalion 5, artillery 7, gntling
guu 2, infantry companies 0.7, school
cadet corps 7, zouave 5, individual drill,
nbout, 82, rifle practice, shout, 08, mili
tary bands and drum corps, about, 22.
The Montgomery (Ain.) True Blues, the
Atlanta (Ga.) Rifles, the Mobile (Ala.)
Lomax Rifles, and one or two other com
munes from the south, who lmd previous
ly entered, have announced thoir un
willingness lo enter the contest with ne
gro companies and have therefore with
drawn, This action the part of these
companies lias caused considerable com
ment.
A CIVIL Mill VICE ora 1-loN.
The district supreme court, itiguner.il
term, rendered a decision Monday in the
case of Morris S. Miller against thu civil
service commission, brought before the
court upon a petition of right, in which
the petitioner complained of nets of the
commission and asked to have the civil
service law declared unconstitutional.
Judge Hagner, who delivered the opin
ion, said that tho court had given the pe
titioner a hearing, but could not grant
the relief prayed for. Tho application
was, therefore, dissmissed. The inter-
stuto commerce commissioners are being
flooded with petitioners from every sec
tion, aud from present indications they
will have their hands full for some time
to come. The following rule of proceed-
ure has been promulgated by them: Ap
plications made for ofHeiai action by this
commission (shall be made by petition
which petition shall set forth'the facts
on which they arc founded, and be ver-
rifled by the oath of the applicant or
some authorized agent.
A Nember of Men are Han’ocatrd In s Mil*
nt Snvnnim, I. T. >
A special from Venitn, Indian Terri*
tory, referring to a mine disnster nt Sa
vanna, says: The body o^ras tired must"’
have been immense, to' render flames of
such magnitude. It wns followed with
such concussion ns to startle every ono
lor miles around, and people in tho im
mediate vicinity were severely shocked.
The engine house and lifting works struc
ture, over a hundred feet long nud two
stories high, was blown into splinters by'
the current drivcu out of tho slope nnd
in a few minutes was enveloped in flame*.
From the character of the building nnd
being literally saturated with oil, it waa
not possible to save anything from tho
flames. There were six men in the mino
at the moment of the explosion, which
occurred nt ten minutes past ono o'clock.
These men were all killed, Thoir numea
areas fpllows: Miles Jnrrett, Dave Jonqs,
Hugh Dooley, William Baines, Chnrloa
Parson*, and Bert French. Tho moat
distressing part of the accident is tho
suffering of thirteen more, who woro at
tempting, witli others, to renoh the fated,
uicu through an adjoining mine.
Following are their names: Jamea
Ward, James McGinnis.*, Fred Rates,
Thomas Novell, Mike Kelley, Thomas '
Daniels, George Hill, Pat Glnnoy, Robert
Miller, Pat Fagan, John WLllintns, Peter
Rcnold and William Hudson. Tho
workings of the two mines run togethor
far down iu the mine but theso means of
communication have, never been attended
to or the me'u could have been rescued.
Out of tlie first party attempting to reach
number two, llvo wore lost nnd are still
in the mine,
A second party of twelve or fifteen
went down. At this writing, eight of
theso arc reported lost in the mino, over
come with lire damp. This mnkes tliirv
teen nlready sacrificed to innttention.
There is no telling what mny bo further
loss of life in the attempt to rcscuo tho
bodies of those now in the mines. Cut
ting is now being driven through into
•or lifts or onttics. When’
one of tho upper!
done, it is hoped they will bo able to at
leust rescue the bodies of tlie unfortun
ates. Fans have been started in No. 2,
by attaching the boiler of a switch loco
motive to steam pipes. Everything that
is possible is being done to enable the
men to reach tho bottom of tlie slope.
The Louisvilie-Kentucky Woolen Mills
Co. will build a brick factory, two stor
ies, (15x77 feet.
sicians, but they arrived too late to tun
der any assistance to tlie five limb bodies
A. Potts, of Danville, is organizing a
stock company to build a roller flour mill
at Somerset, Kv.
Parties from Ironton, O., will erect a
wheelbarrow nnd wood-working factory
at Decatur, Ala.
$15,000 linvc been raised for building
a glass factory nt Blnckwatcr, Fla. A site
lias been secured.
A. 8. Emerson is erecting acorrugated
iron building for bis stenm laundry nt
Charleston S. C.
four MEN DROWNED.
r > «<• I inter VVlitlo Itnlllng Timber Hows
tbe Oconee lllver.
'!' ,' 1 ' Sl "iih, of Dublin Ga,, start’d,
llairsday, a largo raft of timber
' ) Lie Oconee river to Darien, with n
' . llr lie ordered the crew
u " '"Kin and day
n' 1 *! 'Liy night, while turning abend
.’ ,lv ' r ' 'Hu raft broke to pieces nnd
> the crew except the pilot wore
, dr saved himself by clinging
' If ating timbers until lie could
•' bank. U is said that the ralt
"'K 1 fly-six pieces, which would
r “8 e 1,000 feet each.
'!;'• bJl, it is said, was poorly put to-
1 B nnd mw r*r«tw 1 A..
and one crew refused to go on it
. ' 111 'd' employed another. Smith
' tied by old river men not to nt-
' be running ,,f sueli a raft, ns it
"locked, but paid no attention
'nrnnig. lli* timber i* a com-
A company is being organized nt Mor
ristown, Tenn., to build a soslt, blind
and door factory.
An $80,000 stock company is being
formed at Pine Bluff, Ark., to erect
a cotton Compress.
A company lias been organized
The American Wire Hoop Co., of Juck-
ton, Tenn., has been reorganized, anil
tho capital stock has been increased to . . - , ,,
$000,000. The company will build their i' 10 * found dall g*>ng from trees, four
works at West Nashville, 1 f rom one tru0 011 tB® eust side of tho road
‘ ! aud tlie other from the limb of a stout
The Southern Natural Gas & Oil Co., ! oak hard by on the opposite side. Life
of Wheeling, )\. Va., ltnvo issued $5,-; was found to be extinct.
000,000 of bonds for the purpose of de- | Tito sheriff caused tlie bodies to be cut
vcloping their mineral, oil und gas lauds, | down immediately, and on blanket
a large and enthusiastic muss convention,
... - . - | rc prescnting the people, of Iowa, wus
winch appear to have been used as plow ! held to express sympathy with the people
hues As soon as it was possible for tlie of Ireland, nud denounce the Balfour co-
shenff to do so, he went to the spot of 1 urcion bill. Uovernor Liinabee was pros-
tho execution, taking with him two pli.v- blent, and speeches were made by him
Lieutenant Governor Ilill, Secretary of
Slate .lucksou, Auditor Lvon, Congress
man Conger, Judge Gwinn, several Pro
testant and C'utiiolio clergymen und
others.
THE TEXAS DROU
TH.
embracing nearly 200,0U0 acres.
F. Ponce, of Roma, Ga., proposes to
organize a $5,000 chair factory, $5,000
trunk factory and $5,00’0 broom factory,
and in connection witli J. W. Rounsa-
ville, a $25,000 woodenwaro factory.
The Soddy Coal Co., of Chutnuoogn
have sold out their property to parties in
Cincinnati, O., who will organize a new
company, with a capital stock of $000,-
0JO, to develop thu property. Tho now
| company will build additional coke
j ovens.
Tho Fort Smith nnd Van Buren Street
Railway Co., nt Fort Smith, Ark :, cap
ut i iii.I stock $50,000, lias been chartered to
sprend upon tlie ground, laid them side
by side under the branches of the tree on
which the four were hanged. Here 'ho
bodies remained until lute in the after
noon, when they were removed for burial.
Prindley Thomson’s relatives took
possession of his body, and tlie body of
Bailey Dowdle was taken possession of
by his father, Tho other bodies were
buried at the expense of tho county.
icli l)iiuni|f(4 to (!ro|ia aud Siifl'i ring among
Live MtocL.
Galveston
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Mansfield, Ky., to build a cotton seed oil j build u street railroad to Van Buren. At
mill and ice factory.
The Newport Tanning Co.
chartered nt Newport, Ark.
build works shortly.
has been
and will
same place a Belt Railroad company has
been incorporated to build a street rail-
ton I about 8 miles long.
a, UII>KNT at BTEEI, WORKS.
I the
foul'll, i" S p Fbompsou steel works,
. abtmt 10 o’clock Tues-
rnm ~ a heat of steel had been
Pad to a
portable ladle, preparatory
I "8 >t into ingot molds, when the
"Uneti i ’ j
all i ‘ , J fP* ode d and was scattered
litf„e , ction8, Five pitmen were
el, ■' bll !' ned from head to foot. A
c.„!'i Pa ?' sill 8 to the pit at the time
W f" 11 Jy . tbu Hash and his clothing
b ' H body. Two pitmen, it
v e » 1 ’ . llro fataliy burned. All oth- !
(li|(,f'l- liri0U8ly ' Ad thu physicians in i
vthir Wl re promptly summoned and i
,mj e 8 Possible dono for the relief of
Efforts are being made to organize a
compnny to build a largo cotton factory
nt Mooresville, N. C.
It is reported that G. W. Owens, of
Dalton, Ga., is organizing a company to
develop a marble quarry.
Greensboro N. C., 1ms decided by a
popular vote to issue $100,000 on bonds
for public improvements.
E. 1’. Moulton lias sold his lend mines
nt White Pine, Tenn , to a company who
will develop them at once.
flic Wilmore Town Co., lias been or
ganized nt El Paso Texas to build a new
town in the Rio Grande Valley.
T. J. MitchelL has purchased the Sadler
mill at Sndlcrsville, Tenn., and will put
iu machinery for n woolen mill.
P. Schillinger bus purchased a 25-ton
ice machine for his brewery, at Birming
ham, Ala., nt a cost of $18,000.
Tlie Woodward Iron Co., at Wheeling,
Ala., are opening » new mine, nnd
will build some new coke ovens.
A compnny lias been formed to build
an icc factory at Van Buren, Ark., nnd
will purchase machinery at once.
A stock company has been organized
to build a cotton compress nt Thomaston,
Ga., and will begin work ut once.
W. M. Nixon and others have leased
and will develop the Half-Moon Island
ore mines near Chattanooga, Icnn.
J. Chandler has contracted to erect
A Philapelphia company, (represented
by Evans R. Dick, 147 Fourth street,)
owning 0,0t)0 acres of iron lands in the
Cripple Creek region, in Virginia, and
40,000 acres of coal lands, contemplate
mining coal nnd manufacturing iron nud
coke on a large scale, but as yet have
formed no plans which tiicy care to mnko
public.
The Hope Manufacturing Co., of
Mason City, W. Va., will at once re-
lui.kl their large salt works, which were
burned.
Robert Iloussols of Linden, has sold
mineral lands to Memphis parties, who
will develop them and build a furnace
on the Tennessee river.
The Charleston & Savannah Railroad
Co. (office, Charleston) are building a
biifnch railroad from Ravenei Station to
Voting's Island, 5J miles.
a bink'buikl'in'g at South Pittsburg Ten
nessee, to cost not less than *40,000.
A Company bus been organized lo erect
a large sash, door and blind factory at
Athens, Ga . nnd have IH.n'olmsod a stte.
The p iid in capital stock is $15,000.
'lie
' V| M:<;iCK,ts AT WORK.
Dlle mul oim pttasengor train on
oil stig;.,, "flway was wrecked at
n.| Mim.i’ <:1 ». ,u 'les from Jackson,
tlinfi,_ ay , m fe r ht. No ono wus iu-
*' th «ghth2
mblv K |,?,u' U1L Passengers were con-
ave | H!C 'j 11 U P- The accident .scents
switch e to • coin wreckers, as
1 lioltwnc f lH partly thrown and an
». The^V jammed between the
ll t tin. 10ll< authorities lay the
"ity, JL ,, <n ' 1,1 n ' s idents of that
''"s' 1 - 1 on ti,„ 1 luy rl diii are seeking
e,,f tliei,. l : . L ‘ ll 8 1| ieer for running over
nt " live stock recently.
Survevs ure being mude for the propos
ed St. Johns River, Lake Weir & Gulf
Railroad, to run from Norwalk to Anclote,
Fla., 120 miles.
The cotton mills of the West Point
Manufacturing Co., at West Point, Ga.,
will be rebuilt at once. The loss is re
ported to be $250,000.
It is reported that plans are being pre-
pared for the erection of a large ice fac-
torv and refiitrerntiug and bottling
tory and refiigerntmg
works at Paris Texas.
’I lio Standard Gas Machine Co., cap
ital stock $100,000, has keen organized
at Cfinttanooga, Tenn.,
Anderson us president.
with John O.
The Chattanooga, Cleveland & Duck-
town Railroad Co., lms beeu incorporated
at Nashville, Tenn., by J. T. Wilder, of
Roan Mountain nnd others.
The Newport Nevis it Mississippi Vnl
ley Railroad Co., (office, Richmond,)
contemplate building a coal pier 275 feet
long at Newport News, Va.
C. C. Huckabee, owning a cotton seed
oil mill in Southern Alabama, has formed
a $30,000 stock company to move it to
Oxanna, Ala., nnd enlarge it.
The Forestville and Printup City
Street Railroad Co. capital stock $25,-
000, has hem formed ut Rome, Ga., to
build a dummy street railroad.
The Newport, Jonesboro & lit, Louis
Railway Co., has been incorporated at
Newport Ark., to build a 40-mile railroad
to Jonesboro. The capital stock is $800,-
000.
The Church of the Advent, at Louis
ville, Ky., will erect a new edifice to cost
about $20,000. It will be of brick, OOx
104 feet.
A canning company, with a capital
stock of $100,000, has been chartered ut
Fort Smith, Ark., with R. E. Doyle as
president.
The Columbia A Greenville Railroad
Co. (office, Columbia, S. C.) will ut once
extend the Blue Ridge Railroad to Wnl-
halIn S. C.
pbe Florence Compress, Packet and
Feiry Co., with a capital slock of $50,-
0 () has .been organized at Florence, Ala.,
|or a compress.
Tbo Vote* of Women Rejected nt a Wla-
cousin Election.
Associated press dispatch from Mil
waukee, Wis , dated Tuesday, says: The
election to-day was for stato associate
judge of tho supremo court. Harlow T.
Orton, democrat, was rc-elcctcd without
opposition. Milwaukee county voted oil
judge of the circuit court and judge of
the superior court. The democrat* and
republicans placed a fusion ticket in the
field ogainst the labor party. At 10
o clock to-night twenty-five precincts
have been heard from, giving IJ. II.
Johnson, democrat, and George 11.
Noyes, republican, fusion judicial candi
dates, 1,141 majority over the labor can
didates. The seventeen additional city
precincts will probnbly neutralize this
majority, but seven towns of the county-
will go strongly for the fusion candidates,
who are probnbly elected by 2,000 major
ity. The labor party will elect about
hulf the aldermen and nbout one-half the
supervisors. Both bodies will probably
be democratic, as two-thirds of tho al
dermen hold over. In many cities of the
state, by preconcerted arrangement, ladies
iu bodies went to the polls aud offered to
vote, claiming to be entitled to do so by
an inference conveyed by tho recent law
allowing womeu to voto in school affair*.
In Sturgeon Bay one hundred of them
voted, but elsewhere their ballots weie
refused. In Delavnn, eighty prominent
Indies marched to the polls in the morn
ing in procession. A lively discussion
followed, speeches being made for and
against their right to vote. After con
siderable excitement tho board refused
to accept th« votes of the ladies. The
polls wore blocked until after 12 o’clock
by ladies who persisted in offering their
votes. A test case will be made and
carried to the supreme court. Reports
from the interior cities are meagre. Co
lumbus. Delavan and Totnnh have elected
Special telegrams to tho
News, Houston Post nnd Fort Worth
Gazette during the past week, from near
ly every couuty in Texas, indicate the
prevalence of a serious drouth through
out the slnte, affecting in a'lnifge measure
its agricultural ns well a* its live stock
interests. Tlie drouth mny be said to bo
a continuation of Inst year’H dry spell, ns
no general rains have fallen throughout
the interior since last September, while
local showers have been few and inade
quate during tho past six mouth*. The
drouth now extends over the grout cot
ton belt, jeopardizing tlie outlook for the
coining crop by retarding and preventing
planting, which is usual 1^ in full progress
at this season, but can scarcely be said to
have commenced, except in the const
counties, owing to tlie extreme dryness
of tbo earth. Along the coast cotton is
up, nnd reports from several points speak
oft’
some damage by the frosts of the past
few nights. Of the six great districts
comprising tlie cotton belt the south
western, containing 23 counties, produc
ing 200,000 bales, is suffering worst, ac
cording to all accounts, and planting is
retarded nearly n month, with no present
indications of rain. This is tlie early
cotton district of Texas. Winter wheat
in central nnd north Texas is inlsu suffer
ing from want of rain, showing poor
growth. Similar reports are received re
garding oats. White spring wheat is de
layed. Corn in tho bottom lands along
tho Brazos, Trinity and Colorado rivers
promises a fair average.
Complaints from Austin, Sum Antonio
nnd Waco, in central and southwestern
districts, are far more numerous than
from the Palestine distiict, and the rain-
full at these points January 1st, averages
less tliun two inches, while tlie moan
average rainfall for tlie same, potiod each
year lias heretofore been 12.40. The
great grazing areas of the west, south
west and northwest Texas arc suffering
even worse than tlie agricultural section*,
as tho drouth is nearly a year old in many
of these districts.
the new sechktahy and assistant. !
I he president signed tlie commissions
"! Charles S. Fairchild as secretary of
"lie treasury, und Isaac II. Maynard as
assistant secretary of the treasury Friday.
•Ir. Fairchild at once entered upon tho
■ lischurgo of his new duties. The officers j
ami many clerks of tho department waited
INSTANTLY KILLED.
M. U. Uray Killed by M. T. I’rlnar—Th*
Particulars,
M. H. Gray, a citizen of Fannin coun
try, Gu., was killed Sunday afternoon at
State Lino, in eaifl county, by J.' .Tj
•ii him eatTy and 'ex^emkd thdV^conErat- ! P r | nc e- ''fbe parties are both wcll known,
illations. The crowd became so great! Pru »ce being a Dailiff. The particular*’
that lie was compelled to ubaudon, for a
lime, all ideas of attending to the cur
rent work clnimiutr his attention. He
claiming his attention,
caused a temporary halt by announcing
tlmt lie would receive Ilia official friends
informally in tho afternoon nfter he had
disposed of his mail. He received a
profusion of floweis and congratulatory
letters and telegram* from nil parts of the
country. A majority of tlie telegram*
«ere from bankers uud business men. !
Judge Maynard iu accepting his new |
office will suffer a loss of $5,000 a year in (
salary. He makes tlie change at the
peisonnl solicitation of the president and "
Secretary Fuirchild, with the latter of |
whom he enjoys the closest personal re- I
'ations.
lisnmnT and maynaiid disauhek.
We clip the following from the Eve-
ping Star of Wednesday: There have |
Been mini' r ut* points of controversy be
tween Second Controller Maynard and
Secretary Kudicott, The secretary of
war has not In all cases been willing to
qcrept tbo decisions of the second con
troller, ami lias tried on several occasions
t ( o have them reversed or overruled in
some way. There has been a conflict of
authority and Judge Maynard has held
tlw key to ilm situation. Two or three
months ago, Mr. Eudicott wrote a letter
to the second controller in relation to the
account* of Surgeon Billings, Lieutenant
Ray ami Captain Wheeler for mileage
are ns follows: Gray wus having some
words with a negro who ' worked for.
Prince. Prince came up and tried to"
stop tho difficulty." Gray thought Prince"
wanted to arrest him and began cursiug
him. Prince told him to stop or he would
shoot him. Gray continued to curse
and picked up a rock to throw. Then
Princo began to shoot. Tho first shot
went through Gray’s coat. The second
shot hit him in the loft eye, killing him
instantly. After firing the second shot
Prince turned and fled.
An inquest wus held, the verdict was
that “the deceased came to his death by
a pistol shot ball fired from a pistol in
the hands of John Prince, and that it war
a case of murder. Prince is ut largo, a
reward of $205, is offered by John Dray,
of Blue Ridge, for his apprehension and
delivery.
TAR HEEL MOONSHINERS.
Information lins just been received in
regard to several case* of crookednos* in
the management of tho government dis
tilleries in Rutherford county, N. C.
Two of these establishments imve been
seized by a government official from
Washington, who, ns a detective, worked
up the ease. Tlie storekeeper* and dis-
tillf ' -- ‘
llers were in copartnership nnd con
spired in defrauding the government.
The parties have fled. They arc chanced
charged
while journeying abroad, which ltud been j - V A°A atlon of " tho ruvenue
llisallowed, reopened by request of the
secretary of war, uud again disallowed;
and also to certain accounts of Capt. J.B.
Rawles, Majors Smith nud Tucker and
qthers. In the letter Mr. Kmlieott an
nounced that ho intended to submit the
casus to the court of claims under tlie
provisions of section 8 of the act of
March 3, 1884, which permits mutters
controverted in tlie departments to be
split to tlie court of claims.
laws on a large scale.
karroaiis and newspapers.
Yesterday just befoic retiring Irom the
flier Jutiii
Cincinnati newspapers appeared Friday
without the customary column giving the
time of turival and departure of trains.
This is m accordance with the proposition
made by the newspapers, jointly, in view
of the stoppage of passes to stop the free
publication of matter'for the benefit of
the railroad but but to uccept' tickets in
payment for all advertising. The railroads
replied, accepting tlie proposition for ad
vertisements which they should order,
and intimating tliut the duily publication
of time tables should not be regarded as
an advertisement'.
LABORERS' FIGHT.
A Tragedy nt n Cotton Columns in Xnw
Orleatia, La.
In a fight in tho Factors’ cotton press
at Oew Orleans, La., between members
of the old and new councils, Tuesday
afternoon, Patrick Gilchrist was shot and
republican mayors. In Dopcre a fusion dangerously wounded by Alexander Paul,
of republicans aud democrats won over a colored yardman.^ The wounded^ man,
the labor party.
labor ticket.
Kenosha elected a full
THEY STRIKE OIL.
A special from Chattanooga, Tenn.,
says: A brief dispatch to the papers
Tuesday, announcing that oil had been
in James county, twenty miles east of
Chattanooga, threw the city into a good
deal of excitement und at Ootelwoh,
where tlie well was drilled, the people
are fairly wild. Two months ago, James
Luman & Co., of Pennsylvania, begun to
bore for oil in the White Oak mountains,
but they attracted no especial, attention
uutil Monday, when the oil beguu to
who is also a yardman, wns sent to thu
charity hospital. Paul was arrested and
taken to the central station. Police Su
perintendent Adams is concentrating his
force at the presses. Paul was seen at
the central station, Gilchrist he said, had
been threatening him for several days.
Today, while standing ut the press, cor
nur of Robin nnd Tochoupitoullas streets,
Gilchrist approached him. A muu nam
ed Burke held Gilchrist back, but lie
broke away, drew a revolver and fired
four shots. He (Puul) returned the tire,
emptying five chambers of his pistol, one
bullet tailing effect in Gilchrist's abdo
men.
Paul is chairman of tho executive com
mittee of yardmen No. 2, and is vice
flow. There is no doubt but that oil has ; president of the trades assembly. He
struck. Two companies were was also vice president of the cotton
beeu struck. Two companies were ■ Was also vice president of tihe cotton
formed here u few mouths ago to bore | council before the press association difll-
for oil und gas anil the discovery Monday culties originated. Gilchrist is well
hud n very stimulating effect, us they will known in cotton circles, and has always
begin work at once, : borne au excellent reputation.
IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE.
office of second controlier Judge Mayn
aid wrote a sharp reply lo the secretary
of war. He suid that the cases had been
settled and tlie papers turned over to tht
second auditor; that the re-exumiimtioa
had resulted in postponing the decision
reached in the first instance, and that the
npitter would not be ugain reopened. As
t'|< the announcement that the secretary
oj war intended to send tlie cases to the
court of claims he calls attention to the
fact that the cases are entirely under the
jurisdiction of the treasury department
and cannot lie taken to the court of
claims by the head of any other depart
ment. Moreover, lie reminds Secretary
Endicott that the court'could only give
up opinion and not a decision in tlie prospects of great success, us Mou'tgom-
eftse's, should the secretary go there. Iu tr . v 18 a grand distributing point,
conclusion lie says
Montgomery, Ala.,—,A movement was
inaugurated here Wednesday by one of
tho wealthiest corporations in the south'
to establish car wheel manufacturing
works near Highland pork. Some of -the
shrewdest business men anil capitalists
are concerned in the enterprise, and (hero
is no doubt of its establishment, with
“11 the secretary of war had any doubt
witli reference to the correctness of his
own views upon any or all of the abstract
questions of law propounded in his let
ter, the opinion of tlie court of claims
tl|iereon might be of value to him; but us
tl|ii* office 1ms no doubt, and, so far as it
ci|m be learned this department lias none,
wjitli reference to the correctness of the
adjustment of accounts referred to, it is
npt seen how a reference of these cases
by another department to the court of
claims can affect the past or control the
luture action of the treasury department
tlfereon.”
"SNOW STORMS IN ,MICHIGAN.
-A special from Hail-
says : Decidely the
Chicago, III.-
cock, . Michigan,
worst snow storm of' the season is just
over, Tlie snow is thrty-four inches deep,
and drifted badly. Tho Hancock aud
Calumet railroad is blockaded. The Mar
quette train wus delayed several hours,
and it took the Mineral Range train sev
enteen hours to go thirteen miles, from
Calumet to Hancock. For tlie first time >
for the season till traffic on the street was ■.
(topped.
SPEKCT OK THE INTERSTATE I,AW.
THE NEW WAR VESSELS.
The secretary of the navy has invited
■haled proposals from ship builders of
the United States for building five new
viessel8; tho “Newark,” authorized by
the naval appropriation bill of 1885; two
niueteen knot cruisers known as numbers
feiur and five; aud two 1,700 ton gun
boats, designated as numbers three and
fdur.
Hahkisbukg, hi. -The Chesapeake
nail works, employing 200 men, and the
Lockhtll and Paxton furnace have ceased
operation until tin* rail coat] and trails-
pollution companies reach some conclus
ion regarding t'rcigla rates . Mill owners
say they cannot continue business under'
the interstate act ns iiitcvprcttc 1. t8uv-
crat hundred men arc thrown out of
employment. . . I
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