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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY. MAY 6, 1884. TWELVE PA atm: METROPOLITAN MEN. FOUR DtVINBS OF LOCAL PHOMI* FENCE IN NEW VORK, Same N??w Illustrative A.ccd.tc. of Benrj Ifni Beeoner-Tatmaga???e Fceallarltt..-B.b!>t Cel< Ijcr*. Manners and Apnearaec.-Dr. Nowmai.???. Trail be. In a Church, [The scries of sketches and illnstratlois continued In this number oI Thi Constitution are copy righted by the author, and all rights ol publica tion In any form are reserved ] Naw York, May 1,-Qeorge W. Cable recenUy published that Henry Ward Beecher entered heart ily Into the perpetration ol the piactlcal joke ol the autograph hunters In "Mark Twain;" but I am loth to believe that be found any enjoyment In that stupid loke. But Mr. Beecher has come to be so generally regarded aa a man ol hnmor, as well as one ol wisdom, that many stasdard Jokes and some profane ones are being attributed to him. For Instance, they are telling ol him that he truth, tut you cannot observe and hear the man without being satisfied that he firmly believes It Is the truth he la specking. While the Congregational council In U76 was Inquiring Into the charges against Beecher growing out of the Tilton scandal suit, he protesting his Innocence, called down the vengeance ol Heaven thon and there If he spoke falsely, In a speech so Impassioned that several ol the ministers present vainly Interrupted him with appeals to stop as'If they really feared an actual demonstration of di vine wrath. Rev. Frank Russell, one of those pres, cut, took this speech down lu short hand and sub sequently reading It to me said, the scene was one of the most extraordinary he had ever witnessed. I think It a pity that the regulations of this secret council prevented the publication ol Beecher???s speech on that occasion, for It most have boen a flue example of his most eloquent style. DeWltt Talmsge Is probably the most grotesque figure In the metropolitan ! ?It. This will be conceded by every y who over saw him there: by his own people and by those of them who have absolute faith In rxv. henry ward bexcuir. once encountered one of the many more zealous than discreet Christians, who have an Idea that there la no safety by any other through routo Heaven than their own, whoasked him: ???Brother Becchor, do you feel that you realtaknow our Lord, Jesus Christ?" To which Mr. Beecher Is reported to havoanswered: "Well, I have had occasion speak favorably of him from my pulplu" To him, too, la now attributed the remark that "Plymouth church congregations were the noblest to which eloquent prayers were ever fer vently addressed.??? The following story of Hr. Beecher la true, and 1 tell It for that reason and because It Illustrates another of his peculiarities. I eras passing the once of J. B. Ford it Co. when they were his pub Ushers years ago, and Samuel Wllklnaou, one of the firm, called me In to show me the proofs of the lUustratlons of the first volume of tho"Ltfe Christ," on which Mr. Beecher was then engaged, I had admired a j great many of the prints when Wilkinson, coming to a new one, suddenly snatch, ed It up and exclaimed: "See that now I There an Illustration of Mr, Beecher's ignorance of the value of money. That steel plate cost t400 and ho has made a correction which compels a re-engraving of the whole.??? Itwu the title page, beautifully' exe cuted on steel! It read, as engraved, ???Life of Je sus Christ by Henry Ward ;Beecher, etc." But on the margin waswrltton, in cramped .characters, be Inserted after "Jesua??? and beforo ???Christ," comma and tho word ???the,??? tho latter looking to llko a capital "B??? that I read It so aloud; where' upon WUklnson laughingly explained what It was. Beecher laughod over It a year or two later when told him of It, and admitted that the Idea of tho peculiar tltlo had como to him after the volume had been written, and ho at once adopted It with out the slightest thought of the cost to bis publishers. He has no Idea whatever the value of money. His mortgaging his house to raise >3,000 to place In tho hands of Frank Moul- ton for the use of Mr. and Mrs. Tilton la a further proof of this, and also of the fact that he doos not question very closely the character of his almoners or tho objects of his charily. There Is no man living more careless of his reputation as well as hla money; and he displays this In,his associations smd hla utterances, whether In his pulpit, his pa per or In his private letters. The lettelr to Moulton are Illustrative of this weakness. His love of m an and his Saviour undoubtedly permeates Beecher???s entire being, I do net bet love he oan harbor malice long. The humaniulaulsm ol Christ Isa fieqnent pulpit theme ol hla. Years ago I used to send (leorge E. Miles, a brilliant young reporter, (too brilliant to remain so) to report Beecher for the Tribune. This conversation usually fallowed Miles???s rotura to the efilce: Miles???How much space for Beechor? Night Editor-What did he talk about? Miles???Oh, the love of Jesus, of course. N. E.???One column for the love of Jesua; one page If ho sald,any thing about the love of Tilton I have not told these stories lu any Irreverent spirit, but solely with the purpose of giving an ldeaof Beecher as he exists Ho Is the greatest commoner of aU the really great men I hare ever met, not excepting Bherman.and he is more Impres sive In this characteristic than the general because you are sure Beecher does not affect It while you are not so positive about Sherman. Beecher Is democratic In everything but his party adulations, and Is already democraUc In hla political prlnd- plea. There la no troublo In approaching him at any Urns, however busy he may be, and he does not Impress you In the slightest degree with any thing akin to awe. On the contrary his greeting Is so hearty that you are at once put at your ease, Ycu are made to feel that you are si good aa he is and know quite as much. His tendency to Inde pendence Is manifest In eveiythlng he does. His language wonld sometimes horrify Llndley Murray and shoek the purist who can???t abide slang, even when It la more expressive than the pure unde* filed English, Bis attire Is never orthodox In cut, Is very often threadbare and Is always shabby genteel. His slouch batflaiworn on the street and thrown on the floor of his pulpit jwtlh equal dfsre gard of how It fits or where It falls. A stranger In his church Is pretty spt, unless hla bump of rever ence Is pretty fuUy developed, to laugh when the preacher first emerges to view on his platform??? there la no pulpit???and "shies hla castor" against the back wall, whence It falls to the floor. His Independence lu religion recently Induced him to withdraw tram the Congregational chutch, which he had so long led, but it was because the church did not keep peee with him In his religious evolution; when 11 catches up. If li ever does, he will probably again be of IL His Independence In politics has led him to reject one of the chief articles of his party???s creed; but has not led him to accept all the principles of the other party. He has not exactly quitted his party as he has his church, but he Is straying a good way from the course It has selected. The great charm of Beecher???s oratory Is the man ifest eareesmeasof the man. His flights pi elo quence are accompanied by gestures and varia tions of tones which no art cf the elocutionist could have ever taught You see that the Ideas have ???Instantly biased up from long smouldering con victions and that their fire la the true Promethean spark, and not stolen either; you feel that the grace of gesture la natural; the forcible and elo quent expression, however quaint Is unstudied. You may listen to hla argument unconvinced of Its BEV. T. BE WITT TALXAOU, his teachings and respect for hts eccentric utter ances; bntthey will all insist that he Is good and earnest and that bis method oI teaching Is effse- Uvc, in proof of which they will point to hla con gregations. With a"hallelu]ah chorus" ho recently popped up In hla pulpit and proclaimed hlmtell the minister of the largest congregation In the United Btatee. It la probably a tact on which he la to be congratulated, though hardly one for self congratulation by a modest minister. In the mat- of saving tenia I suppose tho rule of the select few ought t prevail, but at the tame time one la not absolutely convinced that there la more religion lu a big con gregation than a small one???at least not in New York, Eccentricity, sensationalism, hetrodoxy, draw quite as well In this cosmopolitan city as truo religion does; and while I do not mean to say that Mr, Talmage la not orthodox or that he la not sin cerely religions, I do say that ho thrives largely by hla eccentricity and hla sensationalism. His sob Joels of dtfconrso aio Invariably sensational; hla treatment of them In language and delivery la sen sational, and he purposely aim ecccntrle. He la a man whom nobody, probably including himself, thinks or protends Is a profound Biblical scholar lmpresalvo teacher. He can't argue; ha doesn't movoyon;ho doesn't let you to thinking for days after on what he has eald;you don't accept what he says lmpUcltly and on the other hand you don???t go to the troublo of refuting It. He will nover set others to discussing his religious propositions. Ho sometimes startles by the elngularlty of hie propos sltlons; occasionally ehoeks by hla extravagant Il lustrations of Ms strained Ideas; but usually he elicits chiefly smiles at his absurd parallels. He dotes on paradoxes, delights In alliteration; and rov els In forced Illustrations. Ho is personally awkward to grotesquencss. These personal peculiarities have made him the subject of lnnumorablo caricatures, both of pen and pencil, to which potential Imple ments ho owes much ol his popularity and present prominence. Rev. Robert Collyer has not added to his orator ical reputation since he came hero from Chlcag o, though he has popularized his church that of tho Messiah, and Is greatly beloved RXV, ROBERT COLLYER, by hla parishioner!. Tho yonng'people especially delight In him, lor ho has emancipated them In part from tho thraldom of a too strict church deco rum which formerly prevailed. Something ol liberty hall la now to bo found In hla Church, ss In those of Beecher and Talmage; and It la not regarded ae a sin to laugh at what la witty, nor even to have "broom itlck drills" sad amateur operas In tho lecture room ol the building. Mr. Collyer Is said to resemble Beecher; but It la In figure only. The facial features and expreealon are notat all alike, and the elylee of oratory are essentially different; opposite sty lea, I should lay, Dr, Collyer Is most admired when he boami with good na???.nra and talks sympathetically; wbllo Beecher appears to most advantage when yon recognise that ho has grown angry In wrestling with on or hla subject. Dr. Collyer Is moat Inter esting In his reminiscences: Beecber In bis denunciations. I most add that Dr. Collyer hae a greater regard than Beecher has for the firet per- -irononn; tt any rate he appears to be much stlmate with it. if I may fudge by the fre- qiency with which he neet It. The Rev. Dr, Newman la In a peck of trouble with the obdurate deacons ol nil church???the RIY. OR. N1WMAN. Madison Avenue Congregations!???and they have gotten out an Injunction which practically pnts him out of the main temple into the basement, and they will probably bare him on the sidewalk before long. But be Is not except ional In this particular, for all hla predecessors have been in thesame kettle ofhot water with tho same bolters or brollcra. AU sorts of plauilbio ex planations are made, but the simple cause of the trouble la that the would-be fashionable congrega tion originally built loo costly a church to begin with, and baa ever since been living beyond Its means. It has never learned the truth ol that wis dom to wMch Wilkins Mlcawber aspired, but never attained, which ensured peace to thoao who lived even a shilling within their Incomes. The congre- gaUon Is composed largely ol pcoplo who with moderate Incomes, which wonld be ample In less costly residences, Insist on Uvlng on tho outskirts of society, giving up laigely to show that which would make them comfortable without need less display. They struggle all the week to keep a brown atone front, and go to church on Bunday looking for all tho world aa If Ihey thought church coll was a bank???s notice of protest. Dr, HepwortU labored with the same problem and tho tame deacons lu the samo church; but ho could never make the place tether profitable nor faihlon- able. It was thought that Dr. Newman might do both, and that with General Grant lu Ms ecclesias tical wake, ho would attract crowds of amallerflsh Is the Madison avenue. But he has done nothing of the aort, and tho deacons and leading Ughta who pay tho deficiency Mila of the churah have rebelled In consequence of that failure. That la the rea skeleton lu the Madison avenue closet. The cx cusea given are many, and as they Illustrate Dr. Ncwmau'a style as a pulpit orator some of them may be mentioned. Bomo of hla hearers complain that ???he Is only geographically religious.??? by which they mean, aa they state, that ho dram bis experleccea aa a traveler In the eenaular service of the Uul.od States for hla Illustrations of divine leaching!, and that his sermons srotoo spt to lecture! of travel andadveuture. Another class of Ms disaffected hearers assert that hla sermons are merely suggestion of the ltstbook hchu been reading. If this la so ho has evidently been recently reading both Socrates and Contact na??? moat likely In the original, for some of his Ideas of the ???wise saws" of these ancient pMloaophers are mixed lu their modern applies-, lions. He laloly cited Socrates, who patiently and forgivingly endured Zinthlppo and Confucius,who wrote: ???Do not unto others as you wonld not have others da unto you,??? to provo that It Is quite Christian llko to pais your enemies by with digni fied contumely, bnt that it Is not Incumbent on yon to forgive them ;> and that while yon need not forgive you can pray for them. WMch I lake to bo a sort of religion that may satisfy a fashionable Madison avenue congregation but will not fill cltn or ila contribution box or Its roll ol membership, PERSONAL roINTS. I am told that it Is a fact that Beecher was anx ious to go to Chicago as a republican delegate large and Ihal Talmags 1s now lull ol hopo going as a democratic delegate. I moo H. Bromley, formerly of tho Tribune and lately ol the Commercial Advertiser, tells me that he Is now an editorial writer an tho Evening Tele gram, Bennett???s ju nlor Herald. Theodore Tilton la In Paris where he enjoye about tho aamo reputation as Oscar Wildo did In this country, Tilton, howovor can poao with greater graco and talk more aonslbly than the great English n-tthctlc. One ol tho local papers la In hot water becauso ol tho publication that ???William H. V." (who- over that can be) was ???sowing wild oats,"and preparing a beautiful little Queen Anno residence??? for the "leading lady ol a fashionable up-town theater." The gentleman lowhcmlt euppoaed this relera was in W. H. Vanderbilt???s box at tho walking match on Bunday night last sur rounded by six Iroquois Indians; but disgusted with his company finally took relugo among tho reporters, Tho falluroof Irving to allude In his farewell rpcech to Abbey conflims in somo men's minds Ibe story which has been sflaat ilnco Irv ing arrangod for bl?? ro'um to this country next season on his own account, that tho two had disa greed, It la said that Abbey, In tho troublous times at Cincinnati, overdrew his account with the Irving company; bnt I do not bellovo It. Thero has probably been some aort ol parting, but I do not doubt that It was amicably arranged. Mrs. Langtry's reappearance on Monday night In a part and costume which reveals her fair propor tions has beon well received by the critics, ol- ALL THROUGH DIXIE. fin HEWS OF THI WEEK IK THE SOUTHf.KM STATES, What the Southern Folks are Doing???The tales* News by Mall and Wire to The Constitution. though her tasto In appearing In plush and gold Instead of wblto robes, la ridiculed. Thq big house, Nlblo???s, In which she appears, wlU not hold the people who apply for places. Tho "boom of beauty" Is still In Its unspent force. The accompanying cut la from tho latest photograph ol her by Barony, I am at a loss to know what It repraaenta her aa do ing, bnt I know that It truly represents that classic bust ol hen, and particularly Ibe arm about which so many have raved. The Tribune's exposure of tho methods ol some Chicago and Cincinnati papen for obtaining sped al London cables, la said to have resulted In tha discovery ol the parties to the practice. The Bobctl Leard Collier dispatch relative to Mathew Arnold, which so quickly followrd tho "Arnold hoax??? la said to havo been also a perpetration by the Tribune people to prove the abstraction of foreign dispatches from other offices aa well aa ila own. The aucceaeol the cheap caba recently Introduced here by Byerson A Brown under the corporation title ol the "New York Cab Company (limited,)??? have driven the other cab men to Imitating their ???tyle and finish, bnt not their cheap prloes. The local papers have so generally and repeatedly ex posed this fraud that the dtlanea do not suffer from the Imposition ol poor service and exhorbltsnt charge! by the bogus cheap cabs. The cabs of both kinds are to be found lu greatest numbers at the depo'a and ferries, and hence It It chiefly strergeta from other dtlta end the country wbninffer most The bogus cab m.n paint their oldest and most worn vehicles to Imitate the ntweebe of the New York company, end also put upon them an Imitation of tho trade mark of tha genuine company, Such of your readers as Visit the dry aie warned to look carefnUy for the lettere "C C" on the cheap cabs. The bogus caba use tho letters L D lnsucha manners- to look like C O. Strangers taking theast bogus cabs are sure of getting old ones and pretty certain of being charged Illegal raise. Tho gennlne cabs are welt served at leas then Ibe legal rate. William F. C. Shanes. Jtcxleea Csstsal OlrssUrs. ElPaso, Texae, May J -The directors of the Mexican Central raUroal arrived here at four o???clock this afternoon, and left at seven In e ???pedal train lot thecityol Mexico, expecting to travel only by day light from Chihuahua. Grand orations nave been prepend for them along tho rente. The eventa of the past week have not been very notable. The pretty little town of Walterboro, C??? hoe bccn???almosl wiped out by a disas trous fire. Great preparations are being made for the 109:h??? anniversary of Mecklenburg, North Carolina, declaration of' Independence. Perhaps the moat atrocious crime of the week Is reported from near Blrmlnglis Ala., where a man murdered his father-1 law in a cowardly manner, and then fled the woods. Farmers in the South Atlsntlc states com plain that the backward spring has grently retarded their operations. Corn and cotton are three weeks behind. The present genial lunshino, however, will soon bring every thing to tho front Kentucky, Bourbon county, Ky., bos In the but fiftr years Invested over >200.000 In turnpikes and bridges, and now bis forty-eight turnpike roads aggregating 231 miles In length. ______ Mississippi, Tho Natchei cotton mills arc. working straight ahead on Inti Umo. Mlnlslpp! proposes to erect a monument to 8. Premia. Thousands of horses and mules hare been killed In tho upper swsmp counties o! Mississippi buffalo gnats. Arkansas. Fort Smith, Ark., April 28.???'Thomas L. Tliomp eon and Daniel Joncs,whtto men; Jsck the Women Killer, a Cherokeo: John Davis, a Choctaw, and Fanny Echols, a negreu, wero convicted In the United States court ol murder In Indian Territory, and Mat Music, a negro, was convicted of rape Indian Tcrrllory. They wero sentenced to-day be hanged on Friday, July 11. Virginia. Tho g'rcatoonncll ol Red Men ol Virginia will held In Petersburg tho Mth ol May. Borne 1,650 seals have up to this tlmo been s-ild Richmond for tho Thom-j coucsrt. Fortress Monroe, Va.,is tho largett fort In tho world, covorlng an area of sovontr acres. It was built In 1817. A man recently died in Nolson, Vo., that In hla long life nover bought a match. A fire, clihor open or banked, was kept np continually on the hearth In this be trod In tho footsteps ot hla father, and the flro upon that one hearth was a continuous firo for.more than ono hundred years, Louisiana. Shreveport, La., April 28.???Telegrams received hero state that NulUcan and Clarke, convicted Onxeplta parish ol tho murder ol old man Rogers and his wife last month, wero taken from the Jail at Monroe Saturday night and wero hanged by tho citizens. A free school to teach silk culture Is to bo estab lished In New Orleans. Tho horticultural hall will bo one ol tho most attractive features at tho New Orloans exhibition It will ha the largest conservatory ovor erected, Mexico will adorn the contor with royal prims and choice plants from that country, * Florida, Live Oak, April 80.???At the last term of tho Bradford i-???acult oourt a negro woman, under tho uamo ofMury Wllll-im-,??? was arraigned nnd con victed of larcouy. Sbo waa sentenced to tho stato prlron for eight months???tho sentonce bring Unlit on account of her sex. On last Thursday was week sho arrived at tho convict camps under charge ol Mr. Wilder, whoso duty It Is to go for and rccclvo the prisoners sentenced to the slate prison, Bbo was placed in tho yaid of tho camps with the other female convicts, and put to such light work as-ls generally done by tho women of the Institu tion, On Saturday s'.rnngo rumors in regird to tho sex ol the new convict reached Captain Powell's con, and ho caused an Investigation to bo made, when lo, Mtry Williams turned out to be a man Ho thon made a lull confession, giving bis true name as Bcu Turner, and says ho was raised on plantation nctr Moutlcollo, lu Jefferson county, Ho often played the rolo ot a femalo In Jack sonvllle, where ho says there waa a gangongaged In stealing and pilfering. Thoy would go ont at night dressod In moa'a clothes and atcal what they could, and next day aa femalea would promonade lha street- and spy out the grounds for another nlght???a work. The Presbytorlaq memorial college ol Florida, la to be located at Lake dc Funlak. A pair of black bssi were caught In Lake Draw, Fla., last week which Upped the scale* at nineteen pouude. Alabama. Biominoham. April 30 ???A posao Is still scouring the country for Jim Smithson, who murdered his father-in-law, John Blankenship, on list Tuesday evening, Blankenahlp was a poor farmer sixty years old, living twenty miles from here In the mountainous section, Smithson was a trifling fel, low, often abusing his wlfo. BUnkensMpsccused Mm of this and ol being untrus lo her. Smithson procured! plilol,-fating that bo was going to kill Blankenship, went to tho field where the old man wee plowing,flipped np behind and shot him dead In Mi tracks. The governor will offer a good re ward for bis arrest. MoNTooMaar. May 2 ???A stock company has been organized with a paid up capital stock ol >30,000 for an extensive manufactory of soap, ball potash and axlo grease. Cottonseed oil will Uko tho piece of offal end grease. Che enterprise Is In the htnde ol leading Montgomery bustnim men. Crape are generally promising, especially corn and oats. The week's receipts to-day ISO; to date tetoco egalost 112.000 last year. Governor O???Neel goee to Turcaloo-a to attend the corner etone leylng of tho university building. Selma, Ala, hae seventy-four arteelen wells. Borne them flow excellent mineral water, and every etream la pure end hxMhfni. ??? Texas. CotuMxtm. Texas. April 28.???The farmers on ac- conntol the cold weather and beating rains that have prevailed lu this section, have had to replant their cot ton. Dallas, Texae, April 29.???Out ol the beav- leetreln etorms ever known In tble section occurred on Bunday night, enbmergtng the country fo miles around. Between Drills and Hutchins, on the Houston and Texas Central rsUroad, six miles outh'of here, a washout occurred into which the southbound train waa precipitated, the locomotive upset, the engineer nearly drowned. No trains were run on this road yesterday. On the Texas and Pa cific, and the Texas trank Ucee, Might washouts also occurred. Creeks and ??????.reams below tha city are aoavollen that the great volume of waterempty- in* Into Trinity river has changed the oouras of th* current, presenting the extraordinary ipecta-lo of river running up stream, carrying with It the drift wood, etc. The damage to the crape lsallgbL Dallas, Mey I .???In the dletriet court yeeterdey the cotton ewtndllng cesoe were brought lo e sad den termination by tbe discharge of Ferdinand Baum and the dismissal of the Jury because the bill of lading offered In evidence was e contract of the Missouri Pacific 'railway, and not the Texas and Pacific as charged In the Indictment. This ruling by the court disposed el eU the cases, end accordingly the district attorney entered a nolle prosequi. It la understood the next grand Jury will Indict Beum snow. At the close ol the war Fort Worth, Texas, had a. population ol 860. Now tho population la over 22,000 aid It boosts of a halt a dozen railway* In operation and several more projected. Sccjlona ol Toxsi, on account ol cold weather and heating rains, hare had to replant their- cot ton. Texas State Sunday-school convention meets at TetreU 29:b ol Mey. North Carolina. Wilmington, N. O., April 28.-Mr. John Rnwlee and hla wlfo died within three houn of each other, Mr. Rawlcs was In tho field at work, having left hla wlfo at the houtc In apparent good health. Suddenly Mrs. Rawls waa takon 111 and one ol the children ran to the field to tell her father that her mother wee dying. Be reached the houeo In rime to see his wile die, end knelt beside tbe bed u the family supposed, to pray. Oae ol tho elder aona, hearing a gurgling lu his father's throat, placed hla hand on him, and found that ho wu dead, Cuaolottx, April 29,???The 109lh anniversary ol tbe Mceklenhnrg declaration of Independence will be celebrated with great eclat here on the 19th 20th and 21st of May, Senator Pendleton and Speaker Carlisle will be tho orators of tho oocaslon and Fathqr Ryan will be a participant. It la ex pected that President Arthur and many other dis tinguished persons will bo prescat. Ample pre parations will bo made lor Iho proper entertain ment of tha guests. Cheap rates have been granted by tbe different rallwayi, and It la confidently ex pected that thousands ol vlsltora will luattendance during tho three gals days. Chani/itte, April 80.???A meeting ol cotton plaid manufacturers of North Carolina waa held to-day at Greonsboro, and waa called to order at eleven o'clock at Benbow hall, Two thousand throe hun dred and eighty eight looms wore represented by tho following: Thomas M, Holt, Granlto mills, Haw river. J. M. Odell, Odell Mipiufaefurtng Cotqpauy, C cord, R. Y. McAden, McAden mill, Lowell. R. D, Holt, Bcllmont mill. L 8. Holt and E. M. Holt, Plaid mills, Graham. J; U, Holt, Gleucoo mill, Graham. J. H. Holt, Glencoe mills. Company Shops, W E Holt, Carolina mills, Graham. E. M, llolt it Sons, Hawilrer, J, H. Fcrrol, Kaudellmtn A Noeralo mills, Ran dolman, 0.3, Causey, Willow Brook mills, L xl-rgtun C, H. Lawrence, Huguenot. R. A. Bchoalflold, Rfvcrsldo. J. N. Williams, Asseheo mills. W. M. Kline, Mount PlcosauL G. A. Curtis, Rock creek. G. Rosenlhsl, Foils ol Nousc. At the organlatUon, T. M. Holt wu elected pits Idem; O.B. Causey, vice president; a. Rosenthal secretary end treasurer; Executive ommlHcc???T. M. Holt, B. Y. MoAdcn, J. M. Odell, J. H. Fortol, R. A. Bchoalflold, C, H. Lawrence. A conatitullon and by-lawa were adopted. It wu decided annul- mously that there wee no over production, the mills are running on lull Umo, and sold ahead, wllh no slock on hand. Tho mooting wte harmonious and enthusiastic, The outlook for southern manufacturers Is good. Charlotte, May 1.???H. McBmlth, who oonduat od tho breach house ol tho Savannah, Oa., music store ot Luddon it Bates, In this city, committed ???ulcldo hero to-day by ehooUng himself la tho bead. He died Instantly. It le Intimated that he wu behind In his accounts. Raleigh, N C, Mey 1,???President A B Andrews, ol tho Western North Carolina railroad, to-day paid >60,000 fo tho stato under tie contract for tho purchaao ol tho state's Interest In tho railroad. Tho celobreUon of the nnnlvorsary of tho Meck lenburg declaration of Independence at Charlotte, N. O , on UlO 20th of May. A soap factory Is to bo established In Charlotte North Carolina, Tennesacc. Chattanooga, April 29 ???Tho Blanton house, about which has been so much litigation ol late, will bo dosod to-morrow. Tho houso will bo sold on Mey 13th to Otto Plock, of New York, who has raised tho bid sovcrsl thousand dollars over that ul which It was knocked off at the recent talc. Plock will expend >19,0:0 In refurnishing It. A prominent oil man from Pennsylvania, now hero, states that ho is willing to furnish half tho oapllel, with tho company to horO a well to supply iho city with gee for manufacturing and other pur poses. Tho longest freight train that evor left Chatta nooga, went yesterday over tho Western and Atlantic road, containing aovenly-fivo loaded cars Clsvxland, May 1 ??? Mr*. Bradford, ol tbla place, hu received from the government X Off) In beck imnslone at tho widow of a deceased soldlor In the late war. Bbo will receive In future >25 per month. Upon rooclpt of tho money Mrs. Bradford at onoe purchased a neat aadoommodioui home A mineral flat* manufacturing company hu been organised In Nuhvllle, Tcnn. Thoy pri poia to go right to work manufacturing glare. Chattanooga, May 2,-On Iho 31st day of Decem ber, 1882, Jemce W, Paxton, express messenger run ning betweou this city and Lynchburg, on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, pltehcd beg containing 82.000 from tho door of the expreas car. u the train was petting through a tunnel near Lynchburg. Tho monoy was mimed on th* arrival the Inin at that place, and tho foot reported by telegraph to Knoxvlllo. Paxton wu ordered to that place at once and watch put npon -hla movement. Ho asked permission to return to Lynchburg, which privilege wu granted, but tho watch wu oontlnuad. He made a coofl lanto of an old col ored porter at Iho expreaa offioe, and told Mm where tbe grid could be found, off,ring to pay him liberally II hi would bring It to him. Tho potter reported the mattor to tho agent and the money wu found In tho tunuel u represented. Iho company having aecured tho monoy, agreed to to- Paxton on condition that ho would leave tho country. Thle he did, and In a short time was published la tho papers that be htd committed suicide In Texas. Nothing more wu ever hoard of him till lut night when he wu recognised by a conductor on tho Memphis and Charleston train. Ho acknowledged that ho was Paxton and name to thla city. He left for hit old home on use East Tennessee, Virginia aad Georgia train, Lut night Abo Maisongale's wife refused to go to a festival with him aad be took a stick and but her horribly. He wu arrested for euault with Intent lo kill. It Is given on good >u???borlty that Hon. John R. Neal, of Rbea county, hu formally announced himself actndldate for congress on Undemocratic ticket In this the "third" congressional district. Th* Uttie town of Trixsble, In Teoncasee, hu had nearly fifty deaths from measles the lut two men the. John McAUUey. near Milan, Tenn., recently, while boring a well, struck a good quality of stone coal ata depth of elxty feet. It la estimated that 4 000.000 strawberry plante were eel In west Tenneuoe this spring. The West Tenneaee horticultural society will hold tn exhlblUon at Jackson, 8th, 91b. and loth ol Mey. Tbe Knoxville woolen mills have been organised Capital suck >100.000. a J. HcGlang, president. Buffalo gnats and tho early maaqnltou are mak ing things lively. The city ot Knoxville, Tennessee, la to bolide temple on tho expostflons grounds In New Or leans; Is to bo const meted ol the various marbles East Tennessee. South Carolina. Charleston, April 29 ???Ex-Govcmor Henry Meson Mathews died at f-cwlahurg last night. News hujnat been received here ot the killing of Bheriff Adkins, ol Boone connty, who wu way- Thera Is little doubt bnt that tho deed was do .e by au organised band ol ouUaws known as the ' James gang-" os Adkins had been zealous la bringing the offenders to JnsUce. An armed pc-are ???coming Iho country In pursuit of the etrarslo-. ,, iAst night three unknown persons entered the rosldemce of Jacob A. Woods, a firmer lu this county, lor the purpose ol robbing him. Woods mads an effort to drive tho robbers out, bnt was shot and seriously wounded. His sen, Albert Woods, heard tho shooting, and ran Into the room and wu shot dead by the rabbets. Mbs Mary Wooda, a daughter, ran In with a pistol and shot at the robbers who ran off. It lisopp-.scd one ol the robbers wu ibot by Miss Wooda a a blood waesceu in the yard this morning. Tho robbers are supposed to be tbe same who abet and robbed Ox-Sheriff Atkinson In Boone county two nights ???go, Thero la much excitement and a posao 1, In -pursuit ol the robbers, who If caught wl.l be lynched. Walterboro, April 29 ???This pretty llltlo town teems lobe doomed. A few years ago the pftco wu almost depopulated by a cyclone, and at In terrain since then hu been visited by various other calamities. In tho destructive colfligrallon which has just taken place here, tho prettiest residences and heat appointed stores were burned to the ground. At dvo o clock In the afternoon the alarm wu aounded, and tt wu teen that tho hotel wu burning. Slowly and aurcly tho tlimes spread, despite all efforts to extin-, gulsh them, and the building wu burned lo tho gronnd. Tho surrounding property then succumbed to tbo fire. Tho stores of Hagood A Meteor, A O Van lathe and L M Tripp wero con sumed. Tho office ol tho Ceillclon Free I'tC'S-Ilke- wise was soon doomed to destruction. Then tho extenstvo mercantile establishment cf Mec.ru retry it Shaffer, ono of tho moat spacious and best sup, plied stores In the country, woe laid lnae'-e-, all the contents- being burned. On imbed the fire ???nd the beautiful residence of Captain Btraffer wu next Ignited. Boon tbo building and all Iu contents were burned. A building owned by Bdnalor How ell was also burned and much other property de stroyed before tho fire could be suppressed. Dun lng tho fire numbers ol suspicious looklngstrar-gora In the garb ol tramps, were seen slinking about tbo Greets sail eager to loot. A "committee of a My," under tbe command ol Colonel Edwards soon dis persed tbo tramps. The segregate value cf the property destroyed Is In the neighborhood > I lusty thoiiiar.ll dollars. There was very llltlo In* n- ee on any of tho property. At this particular time Ibe lose folia very heavily ou tho o immunity. - Measures tor relief will bo started In Charleston and Columbia. Charleston, April 80.???ficott Hill, Brownlow 11IU, and Charles Bpnrlock, robbers who shot and killed Albert Woods, and fatally wounded A. J. Woods on Monday night near St. Albans, ibis county, were captured this afternoon, lu the mountains, and taken to S???-. Albans, Lalo to night about 200 dtlaenta, who had been In pursuit, ot Ibo murderers, surrounded the hotel lu Sr. Al bans, whero the prisoner! are now confined, clam- o lng for Ibo blood of tho prisoners. Great ex citement prevails here and at 8L Albans, and there fo every Indication that tho robbore will he lynched beforo daylight to-morrow. Six officers left hero to-night to bring tho prisoners lo Jill la this city. Oaool tho prisoners hu made a con fession. The market hore lrfnow flooded with strawber ries. They may bi bought at flvo oenfo a quart*, almost any day. A delegation ol Charleston wheelmen will parti cipate lu the bicycle tournament at Charlotio, N. C??? on the 20th of May. Tho following ihows tho expor's from Ibis poit dating Iho week ending Saturday night: 6,665 barrels ol naval stores, 2,120 tonsof phosphate rock, l,07Sbalcaof cotton, 97-1 bales of domestics, 168 casks ol clay, 321 barrels el cotton seed oil, 2,263 packages ot vcgotablos, 79,000 qnarts ol 1 strawber ries, 680 packages ol sundries, 276 45-1 feet of cross- ties 436,728 lout ot lumber, 690 barrels of rice, 39,- 800 shingles, 20 tons of old Iron. Tho mammolh summer hotel on Bulllvan's Island will probably bo finished by Iho mlddlo of Juno. A lanto number of rooms bare already boon engaged for tho stason, Columbia, Mey 1.???Tbo doting exercises of tbo Columbia theological seminary will occur week alter nesrt. Thu alumni, which last year organized themselves Into an association, will meet ou the h. A largo attendants! Is expected. Tho gang ol burglars which hu Infested Colum bia for eomi) weeks, hu been successfully broken Baveral ol Its rlnglcadors havo been captured and ono of them, la trying to get twey, was shot. Tbo remnant of tho po-so will repair to muro in viting Holds. Yesterday afternoon the members of tho Colum bia memorial association, mot In tho chapel ot the Washington snoot Methodist church end made ar rangements for celebrating mcm'utlsl day???tho 10th ol May. Tho soldler'a graves in the cometer; end tbe different graveyards will bo dcoorated with Cowers. This beautiful custom Is perpetuated by our patriotic women. Tho planters say that the backward rpiltg hu greatly rotsrdod tbclr planting op! rations. Com and cotton are not less than thres week* behind hud. Thu warmth and aunaMne ol the put week continues to cheer tha eoll-tlltenaiid they are mak ing the most ol the favorable weather. They sro very hopefnl and confidently expect a year of plenty and prosperity.' Immense oropa are pros dieted. Ills believed that tho old saying; "Plenti ful crops and good cheer come la ovary presiden tial yosr," wlllbo verified the coming season. CHASuarroN, 8. O., May 2.???The tag Jacob Bran- dow waa partially burned at her ptir In thla city, hlf morning Her hull and machinery were laved, 112,000. Camden. May 2???News hu come from Ibe quiet little village o! Liberty Ht:i that Mr. A. 11. Perry, well thought of ottiun, killed Mr. Charier J, McDowell, one ol Iho most prominent rttldsuts of tho placo. A talented ycurg lady ol this county Is about to make her debut u a temperance fcaiurer. she will Join Mrs Chapin and other noble women In their good work, Leilngton enuntv, South Ctro'lns, bn nude a shipment of cherries. snee organ! ??? ??? have 461 mem- c: rrnerin Ausins, or nooae county, wno wu way- weight, elurn os phcAptratc pow-lerz. laid??? Bordered Hid hli bciy horribly BatlUted., <*11-. .Whals-Ta-g by. b^-iq-a Droi. -t Absolutely Pure. Thi* powder never varies. A mmtl of purity,, ???length and wholes mcneas. Moie economical ?? th* ordinary kiad*, and cannot bo aoM fa with the multitude of lon-tot, ibort* weight, alum or photpbate powder*. Sold only la