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THE KING’S CHAIR. TREMBLING.
The Hawaiian Consul General now in
London, Eng., denies the truth of the
report that a popular uprising at Honolu¬
lu against King Kalakaua is imminent.
The trouble, he explains, was caused by
a clique of disaffected canards politicians, Will)
probably started the recently in
circulation, but as they have no standing
or influence there is no likelihood that
their agitation will be productive of lirtrhi
except to themselves.
RATHER HOT.
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ington, Ill., for nearly a week, culminat¬
ing with a record of 116 degrees in the
sun, at 3 p. m., and 90 degrees in house?
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HEAVY CAPITAL
BEING SENT ALL OVER THE
SOUTH FOR INVESTMENT.
Rapid Strides Being Mndeln the Develop¬
ment or Mines, Buildlna of Railroads,
Factories, Saw and Flour Mills.
Griffin, Ga., is to have gas and Water
Works.
The Marietta & North Georgia Rail¬
road will build an iron bridge to cost
about $100,000.
The Kentucky Natural Gas and Mining
Co., capital stock $250,000, has been or¬
ganized at Louisville, Hy.
The Macon, Ga., Construction Co.,
will soon begin work on the Georgia
Southern & Florida Railroad.
The Cambria Iron Co., of Johnstown,
Fa., have purchased the manganese
property of Mr. Long, near Atkin’s
Tank, Va., and will develop it.
T. C. II. Vance, Harry Stuckay and
! others have chartered the Wakulla
Spring ital Land Co;, at Louisville, Kj,,C&p r
stock $100,000, to buy and sell and
improve land in Florida.
The Big Sandy, Tug River & Twelve
Pole Railroad Co., capital stock $500,
000, has been chartered to build a rail¬
road from Ceredo, W, Va., to the Ken
t uck.y state line, with several branches.
The Talladega, Ala., Real Estate and
Loan Association, a land company or¬
ganized about three months ago, with a
capital stock of $300,000, declared its
first quarterly dividend of 5 per cent.,
which was set apart as a reserve fund, to
be used by the board of directors for the
general interest of the company.
Major John W. Johnston, of Richmond, Birming¬
ham, Ala., in connection with syndicate, has
Va., purchased capitalists, forming a lands
large tracts of mineral
near Buchanan* interested Botetourt ill county, btiiiding Va., the
Northern iiieit
Virginia Western Railroad have also
taken ah option oh immense bodies of
mineral properties flliaf the saline place,
Decatur, Ala., Dots: Drabet is Son,
from Indiana, ate erecting the lloosier
Mill® Lumber Co., and will employ thirty
baeh. The Gate City Lumber & Manufac¬
turing Do. will manufacture finishing lum¬
ber and furniture. The enterprise removes
from Birmingham, Ala., and will employ
thirt ? men - A steam j° b p rin tin e
from Redfield, Dakota, starts in . the first
of July. $400,000 worth of lots have
bJ
Birmingham, Ala., notes: The Terry
Brick Works' Company’s capital stock is
$10,000, for the manufacture of brick,
Ule, etc. The Alabama Ice and Cold
Storage Company intends to build an ice
factory and a large cold storage ware¬
house, 100x200 feet. The New Orleans,
Birmingham & Notasulga Granite Com¬
pany has a capital stock of $88,000 for
the purpose of developing quarries. The
New York Manufacturing Company, agri¬ cap¬
ital stock $50,000, to manufacture
cultural implements, has beenformed.
Items About Knoxville, Tenn.: A
company has been organized to bore for
oil ahd gns, under the name of the Knox¬
ville Petroleum & Fuel Co. Ferguson A
Bearden have finished a sash mill and
blihd factory. five Haynes & wholesale Hensan have boot
just finished a story
and shoe house. The Knoxville Car
Wheel Co. are building addition s to their
works. The Third National 1 bank are
just finishing anew building, all of Knox
county marble. The Knoxville Lime
Works by S. and E. 8. Barker is just
organized. A company is being organized
to erect a large tannery; new marble quar¬
ries are being opened in Knox county.
The Pell City Land Co., of Ashville,
Ala., capital stock $250,000 has been
formed. The object is to improve land*,
establish manufactories and build a hotel
The Southern C’tton Oil Company are
making good progress in pushing forward
the construction of their cotton-seed oil
mills. They have about finished the
building of their mill at Gretna, opposite putting
New Orleans, La., and are now
in the machinery at Houston, Texas.
the proper caper.
A crusade having been inaugurated
ao-ainst the tobacconists of Washington,
I). C., who display in their windows
pictures of actresses' in tights, one dealer
has taken a wicked revenge. He dressed
all his scantily clad works of art in little
skirts of tissue paper. From the smallest
to the largest figure they are all clad in
white and pink and blue skirts of tissue
paper, gathered at the waist, and pasted
over the figure from the bust to the
ankles.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
INTERESTING bits of gossip
CAUGHT ON THE WING,
Heolal, Religions, Society, Military and
Other Topic* Which Interact the
People In the Seath.
Tile 30th ffeoTgia regiment, C. 8. A.,
will have a reunion at Salt Springs, near
Atlanta, July 15th.
Measles are prevalent and particularly Ga.
fatal in many cases in Irwin county,
A. MeCleod lost his wife and grown-up
daughter from the disease.
During the prevalence of a thunder¬
storm iti Concord,. S bf C,, Ifghtfiitig,-oil a negro and two the
mules were killed ,
plantation of Robert Charles McFadden.
James M. Webb, a jeweler of Salis,
Miss., poisoned his wife and the evidence
was so clear against him that a crowd of
the citizens of the place hung him on a
tailroad trestle*,
A large fiiiiiibet .of negroes who are
employed at the Williamltfff iHtnttc.e and
Lynn iron works in Birmingham, Ala.,
have struck for higher wages. They are
members of the Knights of Labor.
Adeline Slaton, who works in the Sib¬
ley Mills, In Augusta, Ga., was struck by
llglithiflg for dhrifig.a awhile. storm She and better knocked the
senseless entirely was
following day, but has lost her
voice, not having been able to articulate
a word since the shock.
The Southern express office at Wick
liffc, Ky., was robbed of $110 and sev¬
eral tefolVers,- by a man giving the name
of H. W. Wells. The. agent charge. was sick
and left an assistant in Wells
volunteered to help him, and whCfl the
assistant went to dinner, Wells took the
money and absconded.
GoV, Gordon, of Georgia, has appoint¬
ed Hon, J. Samuel Barrett to the vacant
Wilkes county judgeship,
Andrew B. Faeetti, of Savannah, Ga.,
was the instantly killed by a freight train Rail¬ on
Savanhah, Florida & Western
road.
The latest boom in Atlanta, Ga., busi¬
ness circles has been brought bashful on by sin¬ a
lady, who finds partners for
gle men for $5. The matrimonial market
is quite excited.
Miss Jessica Hardemnn, of Macon, Ga.,
a beautiful girl and only daughter of
Col. Robert U. Hardeman, state treasur¬
er, died suddenly. She was an accom¬
plished musician.
Some negro boys undertook to haze
Harp Sing, an Atlanta, Ga., Chinese
laundryman, and the Celestial, with a
stick with a pointed nail in the end of it,
nearly killed several of them.
Winfield Scott, a nephew of the late
Gen. Winfield Scott, U. S. A., attempted
to defend a woman of doubtful reputa¬
tion, who was assaulted by Edward
Levy, in Richmond, Va. Scott was
stabbed by Levy and may die.
An accident occurred on the Virginia
Midland Railroad, about two miles from
Lawyer’s Depot, near Lynchburg, Va. A
freight train, coming from the south,
had not been reported to the train dis¬
patchers. At the point designated, it
came in collision with a hand-car con¬
taining John Martin, his five children
and a Mrs. Sprouce, returning from the
funeral of one of his children. Two of
the little ones were killed outright.
Yellow fever is extending all over Key
West, Fla., and nothing will now stop it
but the exhaustion of material.
The 52d Georgia regiment, who served
during the War, will have a reunion and
barbecue atDahlonega,Ga., August 10th.
Colored men have applied for permis¬
sion to use Piedmont Park, in Atlanta,
Ga., for the purposes of a National Col¬
ored Exposition, in 1888.
The Atlanta, Ga., glass works, one of
the finest plants of the kind in the coun¬
try, was destroyed by fire. The loss
amounts to $50,000, on which there is an
insurance of $30,000.
Col. James D. Graham, of Sumter, S.
C., has discovered an inexhaustible bed
of kaolin. If it turns out to be kaolin, a
joint stock company will be formed and
the lands bought up. There is a bed of
it five miles long and of uncertain depth,
enough to keep a company busy working
it for many years.
Some trifling characters have recently
been using incendiary language among
the negroes of the vicinity of Fishing
Creek Factory, S. C. At a meeting of a
considerable number of good and sub¬
stantial farmers, resolutions were adopt¬
ed warning the guilty parties to desist
from their incendiary talk, or take the
consequences.
A riot occurred during the Jubilee
celebration at Liverpool, Eng., between
a party of Orangemen and a crowd of
Socialists.
The British government has arranged
for the arrest of Davitt, O’Brien, Dillon
and Sexton, members of Parliament, who
have encouraged the Irish to resist
evictions.
A collision occurred at Hat re de Grace, .
Md., cn the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore Railroad, between two express killed,
trains, and three persons were
three very badly injured and a number of
others more or less seriously injured.
The Bethel Baptist Church, near Shel
bvville Ind., was burned, and the incen
’ Colee, caught and
diarv, Charles was
iailed He confessed and swore out an
affidavit for the pastor, Rev. William
Snapp, as an accessory, alleging that
gnapp offered him $50 to burn the .
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NUMBER 18 .
GENERAL NEWS.
NORTH OR US, PROVINCES, MEX¬
ICO AND ACROSS THE SEAS.
K.m.lhln, About Ireland, Labor Troubles,
Railroad Robberies. Victoria’s Jabllse.
Kurepeaa Osatplloatlsas, Eto.
If Dr. McGlynn, the suspended New
York priest, does not appear in Rome
early in July, he will be excommunicated
from Ms church.
By the wrecking of a train on ther
Hawkesburg railway, at Sydney, N. 8.,
seven persons were killed and forty others
injured. The accident was caused by the
failure of brakes to work while, the train
was going down an incline.
Matthew Gurnee, of Haverstraw, N.
Y., who was bitten hy a dog,with and which who
he was playing, a month ago,
was seized with symptoms of hydro¬
phobia recently, died after a night of
great ngotiy. He was 60 years old, un -
married and wealthy,
An explosion occurred in one of the
mines of the Susquehanna Coal Co., at
Wilkesbarrc, Pa. Four men were killed
and four badly hurt. Opinion accident is that ex¬
pressed by survivors set fire of by the powder explo¬
the gas wife on
sion," as several kegs of powder are miss¬
ing from the store- house.
Chicago’s water collector, L. G. Pope,
turns out to be a defaulter.
Win. Clark Noble, a young ecwlptor,
is to execute a monument to the mesaory
of John McCullough, the actor.
Ph.ladelphia, Pa., bakers use chrome
yellow to color their buns, and George
M. Palmer, a baker, lost a wife and five
children, who ate some of his buns.
There has been a failure of crops in
Asia Minor and other districts of Adam*,
and Kutnhia are threatened with famine.
The Sultun of Turkey held a cabinet
council to discuss the subject, and dis¬
patched a commissioner to institute
measures of relief.
Bijou, an elephant, over 100 years old,
could not stand erect on account of his>
age, so the manager of the dime museum
in Boston, Mass., where he was on.cxbi
bition, gave him poisoned caramels.
Just as he was dying, he twined ms
trunk affectionately around his keeper.
Maxwell, alias Brooks, the murderer
of Preller, at St. Louis, Mo., is to be
hanged. The Supreme Court refuses to
reverse the decision unofficially of tlio notified C0 , UI R by his .
prisoner was and much dejected,
attorneys, his was trial very farce. The
saying that was a 12th.
execution is fixed for August
The Irishmen of New York City as¬
sembled at the Cooper Union to mourn
the deaths of their countrymen who have
died on the scaffold in the past 50 years.
The reading desk and stage were decked
with mourning emblems.
A solemn mass of requiem was cele¬
brated in the Church of the Holy Inno¬
cents, New York, over the victims who
have died in 50 years of English misrule.
A coffin was placed in the church, cov¬
ered with black cloth and having the in¬
scription, “I. H. S.” There was no
corpse in the coffin, which was placed Irish
the? e as a sign for the thousands of
men who had perished from British laws
during the past 50 years.
The Pope has sent Cardinal Persico,
member of the congregation for special Gi
ecclesiastical affairs, and affairs, Monsignor Ire¬
raldi, secretary for Irish to
land on a special mission to Irish bishops.
Rev. Charles Stowe, son of Mrs. Har¬
riet Beecher Stowe, who filled the pulpit
of the late Henry Ward Beecher lately,
will probably be appointed permanently Stowe
pastor of Plymouth Church. Mr.
is about 30 years old.
Guy Webber, of Cincinnati, acting the for
Eastern capitalists, has concluded
purchase of 2,000,000 acres of land in
Sonora, Mcx. The purchase was made
from different persons, and the purpose
is to establish an American colony,
Charles Alden, inventor of the milk
condensing, fruit evaporating, and other
processes, committed suicide in Ran¬
dolph, Mass., by shooting. He was at
one time very wealthy. He was 76 years
old and had been subject to mental ab
eration on account of financial difficulties.
Both the state and defense handed in
instructions, which were read by Judge
Shepard, in the case of the Chicago, III.,
“boodlers,” with only a few modifica¬
tions and no comments, one way or the
other. The jury brought in a verdict of
guilty against McGarigle and McDonald,
and the penalty was fixed at three years’
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The recent feiry accident at Parks, on
the Danube liver, was much worse than
was at first reported. The boat was fear¬
fully overloaded, having 400 persons on
board. It is stated that the boatmen
were intoxicated. Bodies recovered give
evidence of fearful death struggles estimated in
their tattered clothes, and it is
that 300 persons were drowned.
THE RIGHT SORT.
rpj )c g oc j e ty of the Army of the Poto
mac met at g arH toga, N. Y. Several
resolutions were offered on the matter of
the return of the captured flags, but all
v-ere laid on the table. Resolutions were
adopted that the next annual meeting be
], e ld a t Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d and 3d,
1888. Several addresses were made,
showing that an extremely kind feeling
existed toward the Confederate survivors,
and resolutions were unanimously adopted
that the survivors of the Army of North
cm Virginia be invited to meet with the
society. These were adopted after a
ringing speech in favor of the ast by
Corporal Tanner, who lost two legs m
the war, while serving as a corporal.