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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES. VOL. VI. A Pennsylvania farmer wants the Gov ernor to set apart a “sparrow day,” when a wholesale onslaught may be made on the obnoxious birds. The sentiment in favor of a republic in Brazil is spreading very rapidly, and it is by no means improbable that Dom Pedro is destined to be the last Emperor. According to an official statement, the contributions for the relief of the Johns town sufferers aggregate $3,500,000. What a magnificent exhibit of national benevolence. In Guelph, Ontario, the other day, every man, woman and child so far as could be ascertained, suffered for about four hours with headache, and the local physicians are looking wise and talking about fissures in the earth and the escape af natural gases. The Hartford Times reports a great stenographic feat: At Mrs. Isabella B. Barrows, of Boston, wrote a verbatim report of a speech made in German by Carl Schurz, which she turned into Eng lish while her pen was flying across the paper, in stenographic characters.” Legacies to the amount of $9000, left by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott to be expended upon public improvements, have amounted by investment for nearly a century to about $110,000. Of this, $100,000 will be devoted to the erection of a large public bath in Philadelphia, while the remaining $10,000 will be laid aside for another hundred years. If the poor inmates of insane asylums were capable of gratitude, the New York Sun thinks they would undoubtedly bless the name of Dr. A. G. Chase. This humane practitioner has invented a system of complex mirrors and shafts leading to the attic or top story of the asylum of Norristown, Penn., by which an inspector stationed there is enabled to observe minutely every act and motion of the patients and attendants in the wards of the first and second floors, so as to prevent the abuse of patients. The trustees have adopted this sort of rd\ te detectives and expect from their use a prompt cessation of the brutalities which have hitherto been practised with impu nity in the asylum. A paper published in India tells about the ingenuity of the thieves of that coun try in secreting stolen valuables, The base of the epiglottis is one of their curious hiding places, A leaden bullet three-quarters of an inch in diameter, fastened to a string, is allowed to slip down the throat to a certain depth, where it remains for half an hour or more. This operation is repeated until a pouch is formed in the throat iu which the thieves secrets small articles of jewelry, money, etc. Twenty prisoners in a Calcutta jail recently were found to be provided with this singular receptacle for stolen goods. The detectives of India must be uncommonly alert to have developed a ruse of this kind. According to a foreign publication, “it is quite likely that we may witness this year the unusual though not unpre cedented spectacle of an export of pota toes from Europe, and even from the United Kingdom, to America. The chief sources of supply for the United States are the New England States, and in all these except Ylaine the crop is undoubt edly a failure, Even in Maine it is be lieved that the yield will be very poor, although the accounts are not yet quite conclusive. The production of that State is, however, larger than that of any other in the Union, and if the adverse esti mates now current should be confirmed, there can be no doubt that imports from ride of the Alantic will be required.” Dr. Ogle, an English statistician. while admitting to the full extent al leged the movement, in England and the l nited Stages, toward .he on. a cities, denies that it is attended by a de population of the rural districts. He ha found that the rural population in Eng land did not decrease between 1851 and 1881 bv more than , one per cent., a rate quite within the limit of allowance for error. The author believes that the rural population is onlv stationary and is ample ampie, with witu the modem improvement* / an farming, for the tillage of the land, while only its increase and surplus pour into the towns: but the continuous mi gmtion <rration of or the tne mo=t mo vigorous ig and ener gebc to the manufacturing distnms. and higher mortality there, may be produc ing a gradual deterioration. BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1889. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIESe FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST. The report of the murder of the mis sionary, Savage, in New Guinea, is de clared to be untrue. Cap tal Hotel, at Dallas, Texas, $50,- was destioyed by tiie Thursday. Loss 000; insurance $80*,000. The Standard Oil company has ab sorbed the Globe refinery at Pittsburg, Pa., and also the Freedom, Pa., refinery. The schooner Southwest, iron laden, is missing, and, with her crew of nine men, is supposed to have gone down in Lake Erie. Master Workman Powderly says the Knights of Labor are in better shape than a year ago, the future brighter than ever before. A convention of the American Associ ation of Agricultural colleges and ex periment stations began its session at Washington, D. C., Tuesday. The Volcano of Colina, Mexico, is re ported to be in a state of active eruption. and Mauy houses have been destroyed, the woods for many miles around are on fire. News comes from Talequah, that the Cherokee council will employ attorneys to contest the government’s claim to ju risdiction over their lands known as the Cherokee strip. The New Y r ork Herald says that it is understood that the oil producers associ ation is to lay a pipe line from Pittsburg to the seaboard, in opposition to the Standard Oil company. Fire on the river in Bedford, just be yond the city limits of Manchester, N. II., Saturday, destroyed the farm buildings of Samuel N. Dunbar. Two children were burned to death. Coal miners of four pools in the Mo nongahela Valley met at Monongahclu City, Thursday,and decided to strike for an advance of one-half a cent per bushel for the price of mining. The first regular shipment of the new crop of California oranges passed through the port of Nongales Thursday. The quality this season is fine, and the crop is an unusually large one. A live wire fell on the roof of a Third avenue car, in New York city the other day, and stopped its progress. It is be lieved that it would have killed any one who have been touched by it. The Lager Bper Brewer’s association of New York, voted $440,000 to the woild’s fair guarantee fund. Total re ceived Wednesday was $522,000, mak ing the grand total now $3,554,110. Advices from the Pan Handle coun try and regions further north says that heavy snow now covers the earth and there is every indication that the begin ning of a most severe winter is at hand. A special to the Tribune from Albany, N.Y\ says that the firm of B. Lodge & Co., knit goods jobbers, of that city, has been forced into an assignment by a depres sion in business, with $70,000 liabilities. The official gazette at the city of Mexico publishes a contract entered into between that government and Francisco Alfaro for the construction by the latter of a railroad from the Rio Grande to the Pacific coast. The supreme court of Indiana has de cided that natural gas is a commercial commodity, and, consequently, the legis lative act of last winter prohibiting the piping of gas out of the state unconsti tutional. The wool growers of Western Texas have concluded to send a delegate to Washington to look after and protect the interest of the wool growers generally before the committee of ways and means' of the coming Congress. Daniel V. Carmichael, one of the best known business men of Amsterdam, N. Y”., was arrested Tuesday night by De tective Sweeney, of Albany, on the charge of forgery. The forgeries extend over a period of two years. The proposition to remove the remains of General Grant from Riverside Park, New York, to Arlington, near Washing ton city, seems to be meeting favorable consideration. It is indorsed by two or three posts of the G. A. R. The new state of North Dakota begins business with a bonded indebtedness of $50(1,000 and a floating indebtedness of about $C0,000. TTifh fnc strictest econ omy there will be a furrher defficiency during the first jear of at least $50,000. A call has been issued by the temper anee societies of Nebraska, Kan.-as, Iowa, North and South Dakota, for a conven tion to be held in Omaha on the 18th of December, for the purpose of organizing the states named in a central prohibition ^ from tbe port of jj ew y or k f 0 r week ending Saturday, November 9, amounted to $342,641, of $10,426 was in gold and 382,03; j n silver. Imports of specie last week amounted to $279,166, of which $177,331 was in * gold, ’ and $101,836 ’ ’ in silver. _ , , . ffiarket jg excited 3 C leve an< ] p j g - g q UO t e d a t 66s. It is reported that the svndicate has bought up all Cleveland ^™ts, Middles borough thus cornering No. 3 warrants the market, are quoted gt 6 a g CSLg h. £ y a nhosen, a prominent church member and cashier of the Toledo, O., National bank, has been arrested, charged ^ with embezzling about $60,009 ^ funds j M Kelleri tt i_ j er 0 f tbe bank, is also under arrest as an accomplice. Bishop O’Dwyer, at Limerick, Ireland, has issued a pastoral letter forbidding the clergy of the diocese to grant abso lution to any person guilty of boycotting The or pursuing the plan of campaign. right bishop retains to himself alone the to absolve such persons. In keeping with the rise in the iron market, the wages of employes of blast furnaces of the Brooks Iron company, at Birsboro, Pa., have been advanced ten per cent. The Warwick Iron company, of Pottstown, Pa., will incret.se its fur nace employes’ wages ten per cent, next Monday. Mayor Creiger, of Chicago, on Tuesday appointed a committee of leading citi zens to confer with the ex-Confcderato Soldiers Association relative to the re ception to be tendered to Governor Gor don, of Georgia,during his visit Novem ber 30th. The occusion promises to be a notable one. A dispatch from Roseburg, Oregon, says: A lone highwayman held up a Coos Bay stage Thursday, broke open letters and registered pounchesand rifled them of their contents, then handed them back to tlio driver, thanked him politely and bade him “God speed.” It is reported from Chicago that Dr. Cronin’s clothes were found on Evans ton avenue, about one hundred feet from the catch basin in which the body was found, Saturday afternoon. In them wii an account book containing Cronin's name. Mrs. Conklin, with whom lie lived, identified them as his. The state geologist of Ohio, says offi cially that the natural gas supply in the now famous field iu the northwestern part of that state will not last for ten years. In the eastern part of the state the supply has been so nearly exhausted that the manufactories have been com pelled to return to the use of coal. The committee appointed at the meet ing of the govoinors of the thirteen orig inal states, held in Philadelphia in April, 1888, and of which Governor Green, of New Jersey, was chairman, has issued an invitation to the governors of all the states and territories to meet in person, or by representation, on the second Tues day in December, 1889, at the Ebbitt house, Washington, D. C. THE CRONIN TRIAL BAD BLOOD BETWEEN COUW8EL—A WO MAN’S STARTLING TESTIMONY. There is much bad blood between counsel for the prosecution and those for the deforce in the Cronin case, which is rot confi icd to the principal counsel, but is shared also by the juniors. There was a wrangle Tuesday nighi in the cli rk’s office after adjournment, in which Disuict Attoinoy Longenccker and At torney Forrest exchauged tho lie and nearly came custody to blows. Tne dispute which have was about the of exhibits been placed in evidence. Counsel for the defense wishes them taken from the prosecuting attorney and placed in the bauds of the clerk. This wrangle broke out afresh iu the court Wednesday m ruing without any apparent renson, except that Attorneys Forrest and Hynes wished to imphasize the distrust and dislike of Prosecutor Longenecker. dropped, The matter was fiualiv an 1 the testimony proceeded with. Tho most important testimony, so far, outside of the identification of Burke as the man who rented the Carlson cottage, where tl e murder was committed, is that of a washerwom'ti named Puuline Hoer tel. Bhe testified that she passed the Carlson cottage between 8 and 9 on the night of tho murder. Bhe saw a white horse, drawing a buggy in which there were two men, driven up to the cottage. The larger man, who appeared like taking a gen tleman, got out of the buggy and a satchel or box out of the baggy went up the steps and entered the cottage. The driver of the white horse at once turned around and drove back toward Chicago. The man knocked a-fl was at once admitted into the cottage. .Vs Hoertel quick as the door was closed Mrs. heard sounds as of blows and the fall <>f a heavy body and what sounded to her like some one calling, “Oh, God.” In the confusion of sounds she also heard the word “Jesus.” Then in a very short time everything became still. Bhe said: “It was hs if somebody was fighting and hen as if somebody fell.” Witness said this occurred soon after eight o’clock at night. “The man who went into the cottage,” she continued, “went into the house unhesitatingly, and it seemed tc me as if the door was opened or ns il S',me one opened it for him ns he came up the steps. When I turned from Ash land avenue and started east I saw a man standing between the Carlson house and the cottage. He was inside in the fence. There was a light in front of the cottage rnd the night was bright starlight.” ANOTHER SUSPECT FOUND IS THE CRONIN CARE, BUT HE IS IN EUROPE. The Chicago Inter (Fean,(A Thursday, says another important Cronin su-pect has come to light in the person of a former resident of Lakeview—an Irish man, named McDonald. He is now said to be in Europe and the police are mak ing strenuous efforts to locate him. Before the murder, McDonald was em ployed by the public works department in Lakeview. After the disappearance of Dr. Cronin, McDonald suddenly appeared to be in affluent circumstances, trip and talked to his neighbors about a to Europe, and exhibited steimdnp tickets. May 10th the family disap peared. Tbe neighbors assert frequently that prior to May 4th McDonald was visited by suspicious characters. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OK WHAT IS QOINO ON Of IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATUS. A Confederate monument was unveiled in Suffolk, Va., Thursday. Chief Justice W. N. II. Smith, of North Carolina supreme court, died at Raleigh, Thursday. Miss Nellie P. Hunt, daughter of tho late Mini. H. Hunt, of Louisiana, ex minister to Russia and a member of Gar field’s cabiuet, has been chosen private secretary to Mrs. Levi P. Morton. The assessment of property for taxa tion in Louisiana has just been com pleted. The total amount is $223,894,- 750, which is an increase of about 9 per cent, over the assessment of 1888. It is now said that the last reported McCoys fight between the Hatfields and and in West Virginia never occurred, that the accounts of previous conflicts between these factions were much ex aggerated. Sanfor.i, Joseph Plummer, Thursday. aged 88, died months near Ky., Two and it ago he had a stroke of paralysis, is said weut without food for forty days, his weight declining from 225 to 125 pounds. A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., on Monday says: Frank J. Lee, who ac companied Sam Jones, the revivalist, to this city last winter as his private secre tary, is now locked up iu the city prison on a charge of burglary. Hon. Jefferson Davis, who had accepted an invitation to attend tho approach- has ing centennial at Fayetteville, N. C. ( written a letter to the committee of ar rangements, in which he states that his health will not permit him to be present. Ten men have been arrested at Cleve land, Tenn., for passing counterfeit money. The operations of the counter feiters have been very extensive through out that section for several months past, silver dollars being tho principal coins made. A special of Tuesday to the (four Ur - Journal from Loudon, Ky., says: Reports from tho fight of tho French-Eversolo factions in Perry county continue to lie meager and conflicting, but there is no doubt that a desperate encounter com menced at Hazard Thursday, and is yet perhaps in progress. Among the cases of importance which will he tried at Sylvania, Ga., next week will he that of Thomas Beard, charged with killing L. M. Conner a short time ago. The .Alliancemen are taking an active part in tho proceedings, owing the to the fact that Beard belonged manifested to or- in der, and intense interest is the case. Dispatches of Thursday from Vernon, Ala., say that Summers, the merchant who w T as robbed there Tuesday night, declares that the robber was not Burrow. Summers bus known Rube .1 his life, and although the men wore masks, he could tell his visitors were not the fa mous outlaw and his pal. At a meeting in New Orleans, of the chamber of commerce and industry of Louisiana, Thursday night, there was a spirited contest over the question of preference as between New York and Chicago for the site of the world’s expo sition of 1892. A resolution was finally adopted favoring Chicago. News was received from Reidsville, N. G'., Thursday, that the grand jury had returned a true bill against Mrs. Cora May Harris, for the murder of her hus band, a merchant of that place, by poi soning him. The woman is of one of the best families iu the state, a relative of ex-Governor Scales, and the ease promises to be a celebrated one. News of a horrible double murder comes from Johnston county, N. C. An aged and respectable lady named Mrs. Celia Brown resided in the eountry, about four miles from Selma, with her little grandson eight years of age. Sat urday morning both were found mur dered. They had been killed with a gun. No clew has been obtained to the murderer and no cause for it can be as signed. The well known ease of Charles E. Cross and Samuel C. White, defaulting president and cashier, respectively, Raleigh, N. of the State National bank of C., was finally disposed of Monday by an opinion rendered by Justice Harlan in the United States supreme court. The effect of the decision will be to eornpel Cross aDd White to serve out the term for which they were sentenced. The third bi-ennial session of the Uni ted Syod of the Evangelist Lutheran church, South, convened in Wilmington, N. C., Thursday. This body embraces eight district synods, and lias a commu nicant membership of about forty thou sand. One of the important, matters to he considered by the synod is the estab lishment of a Southern theological sem inary. A Jackson, Miss., special says: A spe cial train ori the Illinois Central branch from Aberdeen, Mi-*., collided north of Canton with a switch engine Thursday, resulting in the death of Patrick Red mond, engineer of tbe switch engine; Tom Loftin. fireman of the switch en gine. Jim Smith, I). Halsey and V. Thorr.ss, and several other persons were injured. The royal chapter of King’s Daughter-*, which is composed of delegates from the various circles in the state, met at Charleston, S. C., Sunday, and was very tlimly attended. The slim attendance was attributed to the publication in a newspaper of a card, which wns supposed to have been written by a prominent writer Kitg’i Daughter and in which tbe urged the King’s Daughters to get up a petition to Queen Victoria for the pardon of Mrs. May-brick. News comes from Raleigh, N. C’., thnt the reports of very valuable finds of gold in Montgomery county are true, and that there is already much excitement in that section, which may develop into a rush if the discoveries continue. The char acter of gold found shows that it has been beaten from veins. The find will greatly stimulate mining in that county, which is the richest in the state in aurif erous deposits. A GENERAL FIGHT SEVERAL MKN KILLED IN TIIE FRKNCH KVEHBOLF. KURD IN KENTUCKT. A Courier-Journal special from Hazard, Kv., says: The circuit court convened here last Monday. Judgo Lilley, the regular judge, not being present, tho bar elected Captain W. L. Huclst, of Wolf county, to presido. Everything started off serenely, with apparently no danger of trouble between the warring factions. Geurgo Eversole, leader of the Eversole faction, came in to town Mondny evening before the court with fifteen armed men. But ns most of them were under bond to appear at this term of court, nothing was thought of it. The Eversole party kept increasing iu numbers until it reached' thirty well-armed men. Thero were only a few of the French party in town. It soon beenmo apparent, that there would be trouble. French was aware of the war-like preparations and placed himself with a strong force iu easy reach of tho town so as to bo able to relieve his friends in the event of trouble. Thurs day evening Wesley Whittaker, of the Eversole faction, tired upon Henry Dav idson, one of the French party. Whit taker had barricaded himself in a small log house on tho opposito sido of the street. Davidson was tho soon meantime, joined had by others. Whittaker, in also been joined by several of his friends, and a lively fight French took place between and tbe four men of tho party Evcrsoles. Tho court which was in ses sion, stampeded. The light lasted about fifteen minutos. When the smoke cleared away, it was found that Camp bell, of tho Eversolo party, had been killed. This fight took place about four o’clock in the aftor noon. The parties r est,ed ou their arms till dark, when tho light was re newed with increased fierceness. The French party lmd been reinforced by the Davidson boys, Jessie Morgan, brother of E. C. Morgan, win* was killed by tho Evcrsoles, and others. B. F. French himself enme Into town about 12 o’clock with reinforcements to the relief of hiN beleaguered friends. At daybreak the fight raged with new fury. The Ever solo party was stationed in tho court house and J. C. Eversolo’s old fort. The battle lasted about an hour and when the Eversole party retreated, leaving their dead, Ed Several Campbell and wounded John McKrdglit, the killed. were on Evi rsolo side. The court broke up with out ceremony, the judgo leaving for home ns quickly us possible. A COURT ROOM FIGHT IN WHICH THREE PERSONS ARE KILLED AND SEVERAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. A dispatdh from Lexington, Va., saysi “Reports received here from Browns burg, a small village of about 800 peo ple, In Rockbridge county, fourteen miles notth of Lexington, state that that village is in a high state of excitement over a terrible and bloody fight between leading men of tho vicinity. Three persons are dead or fatally wounded, while a number of others are severely injured. It seems that Dr. P. J. Walker, one of the most prominent phy sicians and surgeons of the state, hud threatened tho life of Henry Miller, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Rock* bridge county, for an insult offered the former’s wife. Miller had Walker ar rested to keep the peace. Friday even ing the case came up in a magistrate's court, and the trouble soon started, which ended in both sides drawing their weapons. Miller was killed, Dr. Walker fatally wounded and Mrs. Walk er, who was in court as a witness, wai killed. Dan and William Miller, sons of the accused, were shot and dangerously wounded. Samuel Beaver and others whose names are unknown, are also in jured.” A later dispatch ssys: “Dr. 1'. J. Walker, who was wounded in the Brownburg affair Friday evening, near Lexington, Va., lias died from his wounds. Dave Miller is mortally wounded, and his brothers George, James and William implicated in the shooting of Dr. Wulker and his wife, are in jail. Lyncning is feared.” TRIED FIVE TIME8. AN EDGKKIED, S. C., MURDERER ESCAPES THE GALLOWS POU THE FIFTH TIME. News comes from Charleston, S. C., that the fifth trial of It. T. Jones, the model Edgefield murderer,is now in pro gress at the Edgefield courthou-e. Some five or six years ago Jones, who married ' Miss Pressley, got mail with his wife’s relatives, took his shot gun and three or four butcher knives, and went out into field where his father-in-law, aged sev enty years, and three brothers-in-law, were at wotk. Jones established a hu men abbattoir. Be murdered his aged father-in-law and butchered hie three brothers-in-law. He then went in the courthouse village and surrendered him selL The murder occurred during the session of the court at which the Cul breath lynchers were being tried for the murder of an innocent man.. Jones has been a hero ever since. Five times he has been brought to trial, and each time he has escaped by a mistrial. NO 7. TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT WIIII.K IN THE ACT OF PLACING A DAN GEROUS OBSTRUCTION ON THE TRACE. The Central passenger train which left Atlanta, Ga., bound for Macon, Wednes day evening, narrowly escaped a fearful wreck. By the time the train reached Westview, near McPherson barracks, tha engine was under good headway. The watchmnn who looks after the tracks near Oakland was walking the track when suddenly ho discovered a man bending over the track just ahead of him. 11c stepped forw aid and asked the man what he was doing, when the latter raised up and ho recognized him as Dick Latham, a negro well known in Atlanta. Glancing at the track, the watchman saw a piece of railroad iron, curiously bent, lying on the rail. The headlight of the train flashed full upon it, and he saw that it had been tied to the track with wire, and he tugged away at it, getting it clear of the rail just as the wheels of the locomotive passed over the wiros that lie did not have time to disen tangle. By that time the negro had es caped, hut was captured later in the night. Tho spot where the iron was tied to the track is within fifty yards of tho pi ice where tho same train was wrecked by a cross-»ie placed on tho track some weeks ago, when three railroad men lost their lives. MOVEMENTS OF COTTON. KEPOIIT OF NEW ORLEANS COTTON EX CHANGE FOR TABT WEEK. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement niukes tho cotton movement over tho Ohio and Mississippi and Poto mac rivers to Northern American and Canadian mills, for the week ending No vember 0th, 48,887 bales, against 48,779 last year, and the total, since September 1st, 1,188,070, against 230,741 lust year; the total American mill takings, North and South, for tho first ten weeks of tho season, 517,888, against 074,853, of which by Northern, 481,436, against 587,152; I ho amount of the American cotton crop in sight, 2,070,580 The statement shows a partial halt in heavy foreign exports, and tho excess, which lust week was 410,575 bales, is now 869,- 573 O7or the total to this time last year. It also indicates that the Northern mills ure the still deficiency pursuing in a their hand-to-mouth takings for policy, the ten ing weeks been increased compared with last year hav to 125,718 bales. The stocks af the seaports and leading interior towns have increased 189,874 hales during the week, reducing the de ficiency, compared with the close of the corresponding week last year, to 80,543 hulas. POI80NED HA8H. OVER A HUNDRED WEST POINT CADETS BUPPOBED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED. A report reached Ncwburg, N. Y., Thursday, that half the corps of cadets at West Point, upwards of 150, hail re ported lit Hospital ill from poisoning. It turns out that tho illness occurred a few days ago; that, it was not poisoning, but trouble of the bowels, and tho attack was general with all connected with the mess hall—drivers, gardeners, waiters, etc., furing as badly ai the cadets. Even those who had not tasted food at the mess were ns bndly afflicted as the others, Tho surgeon had his hands full of busi ness for a time, but all recovered. Tha superintendent has appointed a commis >ion to investigate the cause. 8UIT8 FILED TO COMPEL THE DELIVERY AND PATMEN*^ OF BONDS UNLAWFULLY ISSUED. The Massachusetts and Bouthem Con struction company has filed suits in the United States circuit court against the townships of York, Ebenezer, Broad River, Catawba and Cherokee, in York county; the townships of Giles Creek, Pleasant Hill and Cane Break, in Lan caster county; the state of South Caro lina and the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust company, to compel the township! named to deliver and pay over the bonds issued by these townships to aid in the Construction of the Charleston, Cincin nati and Chicago railroad. The state supreme court of South Carolina hae de clared the issuance of such bonds by tha townships unconstitutional. THROUGH THE 8HOAL8. A MISSISSIPPI KIVER STEAMBOAT LANDI AT CHATTANOOGA'S WHARF. The steamboat, A. C. Conn, a Missis sippi Shoals river canal craft, and passed arrived through wharf Muscle in at the Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday morning. This is the first vessel which has passed through the great canals now abou.’ completed. The construction of canalr to overcome obstructions in the Tennes see river at Muscle Shoals was com menced by the government in 1878, and nearly four million dollars have thus far been expended on the work. The open ing of the canals, which will formally take place in a few weeks, will give in wa- the ter transportation nine months year from Chattanooga to the Mississippi river. COPPER TUMBLES. A London cable to the New York stocSl exchange, on Thursday, indicated a aud den break of nearly two pounds in the foreign copper market. Q. M. B. metal, which had Ueeu taken in large quantities on Wednesday at 47 pounds on a steady market, closed weak Thursday at 43 pounds 0 shillings spot and 45.10 fu mres.