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THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
A. H. Hews & Co’s pottery works,
North Cambridge. Miss., burned Tues¬
day.
Knoxville nnd Morristown, Tenn.,
suffered from fire Sunday. Ttio formei
sustained a loss of $13,000; the latter
$ 20 , 000 .
A cablegram of Tuesday says; Sir
Alexander Campbell, lieutenant governor
of Ontario, Canada, has been stricken by
paralysis and is in a critical condition.
Tho debt statement issued from Wash¬
ington Tuesday shows a net decrease in
interest bearing aud noti-inferest bearing
bonded debt during November of $2,-
570,139.50.
South Carolina has been awarded a
gold medal by the board of directors of
the Augusta exposition for the excellence
of its exhibit of natural and manufac¬
tured products.
Sales of loose leaf tobacco in the Dan¬
ville, Va., market during November
reached 2,807,600 pounds and for two
mouths of the tobacco year 4,659,365
pounds, showing a decrease as compared
with the same months of 1890 of 3,380,-
820 pounds.
A St. Louis, Mo., dispatch of Tuesday
says: It has Publishing just been discovered by the
Concordia Company, prin¬
ters of religious books, that Martin C.
Barthel and Martin H. Barthel, father
and son, two of its most trusted em
ployes, are short in their accounts.
In the United States court iu Louis¬
ville, Ivy., Wednesday, on the complaint
of the Central Trust company, of New
York, and other creditors, the Rich¬
mond, Nicholasville and Beattyville rail¬
road was placed in the hands of a re¬
ceiver. The liabilities aggregate nearly
three million dallars.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Anniston,
Ala., says; A charter has been obtained
by the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Loan
Association with an authorized cupital
stock of $1,000,000, divided into shares
at the par value of $50 each. The object
of the association will be to loan money
to farmers and mechanics.
A Nashville dispaten says; The cer¬
tificate of election as a member of con¬
gress to represent the second district was
issued Thursday by Governor Buchanan
to John C. Houk. The official returns
from the recent elections show the total
vote to be: J. C. Houk, 24,095; J. C.
J. Williams, 7,829; W. H. Henry, 211.
A Nashville dispatch of Thursday says;
That it is the intention of the state offi¬
cials to return the convicts to the East
Tennessee branch prisons within a few
days is now conceded. Acting under
the authority recently given him, Super¬
intendent Wade has employed a number
of guards and is securing more every day.
The 300 men at $40 a month will cost
$144,000 per annum.
Eight of the nine district held alliance lec¬
turers of North Carolina a meeting
at Rarleigli Wednesday. Piesident But¬
ler and the state lecturer were present.
A plan of work was mapped out and the
lecturers will visit all sections of the
state. Strong resolutions against party
action were advocate adopted, and the lecturers
will not independent party
action. This means much for North
Carolina.
A Chorlotte, N. C., dispatch of
Wednesday says: J. M. Benson, treasu¬
rer of Bladen county, has absconded
with $6,000 of the county’s money.
Benson has for sevaral years held the
position of treasurer of his county, and
for the past two years has been largly
engage d in the mercantile business at
Elizabethtown. His store has been
headquarters for the alliance of Bladen
county.
A number of the leading wholesale
grocers of the four large cities in Ten¬
nessee met at Nashville Saturday for the
purpose of correcting existing abuses in
the trade, although they declined to
state the nature of these abuses. Among
those present were representatives of all
the leading firms in Nashville, Memphis,
Knoxville and Chattanooga. The or¬
ganization is to be known as the South¬
ern Wholesale Grocers’ Association.
A Jackson, Miss,, dispatch says: The
Clarion on Wednesday re-published The Memphis an
editorial criticism from
Appeal-Avalanche, in which ex-Governor
Lowry and General W. H. McCarite are
brought sharply printed to task history for omitting, of Missis¬ in
their recently
sippi, any direct reference to Mrs. Jeffer¬
son Davis. The Clarion defends the his¬
torians, and refers to the fact that Mrs.
Davis in her book failed to refer to many
distinguished Mississippians, and named
six.
NOT SATISFIED.
The English Holders of Virginia Bonds
Kick.
A London cablegram says: Several
interviews were had Tuesday with lead¬
ing English holders of Virginia bonds in
regard to the latest plan for funding the
state debt. All of them were bitterly
opposed to the plan of settlement.
Cooper, secretary of the committe of
English holders, said that only an out¬
line of the proposition had been cabled.
Until tho full account which was coming
to England on the steamer Etruria was
received no meeting of English meantime holders
would be convened. In the
every opinion that he had heard ex¬
pressed concurred that the proposition
CD tenable.
RAILROADS OF THE COUNTRY.
Statistics Showing Gigantic Strides in
Construction and Traffic.
The third annual report on “statistics
of the railways in the United States,”
issued from the office of statistician of
the interstate commission at Washington,
gives comprehensive statistics covering
the operations of railways during the fis¬
cal year ended June 30, 1890, and a state¬
ment of earnings and expenses for nine
months ended March 30, 1891. A marked
feature of this report, which adds greatly
to the value of its statistics, is the map¬
ping and division of nil statistics in ten
territorial groups, by which differences in
conditions of operation in various parts
of the country are clearly brought to no¬
tice. Comparisons rendered possible by
this report show marked differences in
different parts of the country.
MILES OF KAILS.
The railway mileage in the United
States on June 30, 1890, was 163,597
miles; increase in rat! way mileage brought
into operation during the year was 6,000
miles. Michigan shows the largest in¬
crease in railway mileage during the
fiscal year, being 459 miles, and Georgia
comes next witli increased mileage of 437
miles. Group five, made up of Ken¬
tucky, T ennessee, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia and Florida, shows au increased
mileage of 1,370 milts during the year.
The number of railway corporations which 927 on
June 30, 1890, was 1,707, of
are operating companies, twenty-two
companies representing 1,646 miles, have
been re-organized during the year, and
thirty-four companies, representing 1,905
miles, have merged their corporation ex¬
istence into the other corporations.
The gross income of seventy-four com¬
panies is $837,000,000 out of a total
gross income of all the railways in the
country of $1,041,877,032, locomotives or 80 per
cent. The t”tal number of
in used is 29,928, of which 8,384 are
passenger locomotives and 16,140 are
freight locomotives. This shows ten
freight locomotives and five passenger
locomotives for edch 100 miles of opera¬
ted line. The number of cars used in
railways of the United States is 1,104,-
138 or 744 per 100 miles.
THE ARMY OF EMPLOYES.
The total number of men employed is
749,301, being an increase of 45.551 over
Uie number employed in 1889. The 154,-
404.06 miles of line which are made the
basis of statistics in this report are rep¬
resented by railway capital to the amount
of $9,459,444,172, equivalent to $60,481
per mile. Assuming that the remaining
mileage is capitalized at the same rate
the total capitalization of railway prop¬
erty in the United States would he
$9,894,483,409. The increase in railway
capital for 1890 over the railway capital
for the previous year is $444,268,798.
Of this amount $250,000,000 at least is
due to the increase existence. in capitalization on
lines already in
The number of passengers carried dur¬
ing the year was 402,430,865. The ag¬
gregate number of miles traveled by all
passengers, was 11,847,785,617, miles. or an
average journey of twenty-four carried
The number of tons of freight
during the vear. covered by the report,
was 636,141,617.
CASUALTIES.
The total number of persons reported
by railways as killed during the year was
6,320, and the total number reported as
injured was 29,034. Of the employes, total num¬
ber killed 4,451 were 285
passengers and 3,584 were classed as
“other persons.” In this latter figure are
included a large number of suicides. Of
the total number injured, 22,390 besides were
employes, 2,444 passengers,
4,200 unclassified. If the number of em¬
ployes killed be assigned to the total
number, it appears that one death occurs
for every 306 men employed on the rail¬
ways, and one injury occurs for every
thirty-three men employed. The largest
number of casualties occur to men en¬
gaged directly in handling trains. Thus,
while the trainmen represent but 18 per
cent of the total number of employes, the
casualties sustained by them account for
58 per cent of the total casualties. A
passenger riding continuously, at the
rate of thirty miles an hour, might ex¬
pect immunity from death by railway ac¬
cident for 1,700 years; but an engineer,
brakeman or conductor, under the same
conditions, is liable to fatal accident at
the expiration of fortyyears.
The report recommends that express
companies, water transportation terminal com¬
panies and rolling stock and
companies be required to furnish railway
statistics to the commission.
A BIG DROP
In Richmond Terminal Stock---Tlie
Lowest Notch.
A New York dispatch says: Tuesday
was a dismal day for everybody interested
in Richmond Terminal, and particularly
for the holders of the common stock.
That choice commodities specimen sold of down the to stock 9-J, the ex¬
change it has touched, and
lowest price watermark ever when the was
at this low gODg
sounded at 3 o’clock. Wall street is al¬
ways ready with explanations of unusual
occurrences, and reasons for Tuesday’s bad
break in Richmond Terminal were in
abundant circulation. Some of the stories
were very unsavory, One was that the
advisory committee of able financiers,
nominated the other day to examine into
the Terminal affairs and formulate a plan
for the permanent adjustment of its
finances, has made a preliminary investi¬
gation and has given the opinion that an
assessment of $10 a share on the common
stock of the Terminal would be abso¬
lutely necessary to save the concern.
This report created general alarm and
the stock in consequence tumbled beols
">ver bead.
Plants With Poisonous Odors.
There are few flowers whose perfume
is actually deadly. The flowers of the the
kali mujah, or death plant, found in
islands of Java aud Sumatra, emit a per¬
fume so powerful as to overcome, if in¬
haled for any length of time, a full
grown man and killing all forms of in¬
sect life approaching it. This perfume produc¬
resembles chloroform in effect,
ing insensibility and convulsing the
muscles the of the face, especially All those
about mouth and eyes. insects
nnd birds seem instinctively to avoid the
plant, but when accidentally approach¬
ing it they have been seen to drop to the
earth, even when as far off as three feet.
Linnccus mentions a case in which the
odor of the rose bay proved fatal, and
there is a flower knowu to the Persiaus
as kerzerch, the psrfume of which they
believe will kill a man if he inhales it
after a hot south wind has passed over
its blossoms. Many other plants, though
not less having deadly perfumes, which decidedly neverthe¬
give forth odors are
fever hurtful. and The headaches poedaria feetidn excites
in those inhaling it.
One of the magnolias emits an ouor
which produces in many persons nausea and
and sickness, and the poison sumach
poison logwood are apt to lead to simi¬
larly unpleasant effects.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Quick Mail Transit.
Mr. Gotham—“I hear Mr. DePave has
been arrested, What la the charge
against him?”
Mr. Brooklin—“Delaying the United
States mail,”
“My gooduess? In what way?”
“De Pave is very fat, and when a mail
wagon ran over him it lost twenty sec¬
onds’ time and missed the train.”—New
York Weekly.
Had Seen Him.
English Girl (to accepted lover)—“My
dear, I think you should see my father.”
American Youth—“Oh, I’ve seen him
several times. He looks very respecta¬
ble.—Street & Smith’s Good News.”
Still Young.
Old Resident—“Yes, sir, I’m eighty
years old, and I walked thirty miles
t’other day. Kin you do that? ”
Average man—“N-o,not yet. I’m only
forty.—Street & Smith’s Good News.”
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