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TIMES.
VOL. VI.
The death rate in New York and other
cities has tieen unusually large recently
owing to the epidemic of influenza.
The Ladies’ Hermitage Association has
been formed of Southern ladies, to take
charge of and preserve The Hermitage,
General Jackson’s former home, about
twelve miles from Nashville, Tenn. The
property includes the home and tomb of
the General, and twenty-five acres of
land, with numerous relics.
* About two years ago salt was dis
covered in the town of Hutchinson,
Kan. To-day there are twelve estab
lishments in operation, with a combined
output of 1,637,000 barrels of salt per
annum, and much further development
is expected, the field of operations is so
great and the salt of such purity.
t Arthur Mack, ex-chief the Shanghai
detective force, asserts that while China
has a population of over 450,000,000,
yet the criminal element in proportion to
numbers is less than ten per cent, of what
it is in the Chinese quarter of San Fran
cisco. He accounts for this by the greater
stringency of the laws for the punish
ment of crime in China and the greater
certainty in their administration.
The largest gun in existence has been
sent by Messrs. Krupp to Cronstadt. It
is of cast-steel, weighs 235 tons, has a
barrel 40 feet long, a diameter of 6j feet
in the largest part and a bore of 13^
inches. Its range is over 11 miles, and
it will fire two shots per minute, each
shot costing from $1250 to $1500. In
a trial of the war monster, the projectile
—4 feet long and weighing 1800 pounds,
and propelled by a charge of 700 pounds
of powder—penetrated 19J inches and
went 1312 yards beyond the target.
The attempt to carry on a government
on the “boom” plan bas come to grief iu
the Argentine Republic. With gold at
240 it will not take long to bring matters
to a head. The result will be to place
the nation in hopeless debt to the Eu
ropean bondholders who have been ad
vancing money at high rates of usury.
The San Francisco Chronicle thinks there
is nothing the English bondholder enjoys
so much as handling the revenues of a
foreign country in order to pay himself
and his associate bankers a good round
interest. Egypt is in this predicament,
and the ambitious South American Re
public seems to be the next victim.
The Rappahannock, tlie largest sail
ing vessel ever built in the United
States, has been launched at Bath, Ale.,
from the yards of Arthur Sewell. The
Rappahannock has been constructed
specially for the petroleum trade, which
is now virtually in the hands of
British and German ship owners. As
soon as she is completed she will sail for
Philadelphia to load 120,000 cases of
refined oil for Hiogo, Japan. She will
be one of the finest and handsomest ships
afloat. She is modeled for speed, her
lines being fine and yacht-like, and is
fitted with all modern improvements,
steam donkey engine, which can be
utilized in hoisting the sails, patent cap
stans, etc.
E. Stone Wiggins, of Canada, is afraid
that, if a clear canal should be cut
through the Isthmus of Panama, the Gulf
of Alexico would drain into the Pacific,
the Gulf Stream move westward and the
climate of Europe become permanently
colder. lie has written a long letter on
the subject. “When we consider,” he
says, “that the Isthmus is simply a huge
dam, resisting the westward tendency of
said gulf, may the canal not act as a
small break which may lead to the sweep
ing away of the whole structure? Afay
not the water—through a high east wind,
for example—made a sudden run, and
ultimately attain a force and velocity
which no power could resist, and event
ually carry away the peninsula itself?”
Senator Mitchell has introduced a bill
into the upper House of Congress to pro
hibit the coming of Chinese into the
United States, whether subjects of the
Chinese Empire or otherwise. T.iose
who are now within the limits of the
United States, and who may hereafter
leave and attempt to return, are also ex
cluded. Suitable penalties for infringe
ments of the law are provided. The bill
provides that only officials of the Chinese
Empire shall be entitled to enter the
_ United . , States, _ and , they , shad first ob
tain permission of and be identified by
their Government. It is also provided
that anv Chinese person who has landed
unlawfully in the United States shall be
removed at the cost of the Government.
BLACTKSHRAR, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1890.
At THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL, IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the senate on Monday Mr. Chandler
presented several petitions to the senate
trout Mississippi, complaining of the
suppression of the republican vote in that
state, aud representing that tli > "so
called legislature of Mississippi” had re
cently enacted a law for establishing a
new constitution of the state on
the 12th of August, 1890. the
same not to be submitted to the
people for ratification, and that it was
the avowed purpose of the democrats to
employ fraudulent methods to deprive
many intelligent citizens of their fran
chise. Referred to the committee on
privileges and elections... .Mr. Chandler
offered a resolution calling on the attor
ney-general for information as to
the recent assassination of W. B.
Saunders, United States deputy dis
marshal for the northern
trict of Florida.... Mr. Beck presented his
the credentials of Mr. Blackburn for
new senatorial tenn from the 4th of March,
1891, which were placed on file....
The senate then proceeded to business
on the calendar aud passed about two
dozen bills (unobjectcd to), including the
following: To enable the secretary of
the interior to locate Indians in Florida
upon lands in severalty; appropriating
$40,000 for a statue and monument to
James Madison in the city of Washington
.. . .The Blair educational bill came up as
“unfinished business,” and Mr. Blair
resumed his argument in support of it.
He occupied about three hours, but did
not close his argument.
The senate, on Tuesday, ratified (he
British extradition treaty, with unimpor
tant amendments. The treaty makes the
following crimes extraditable, in addition
to those specified in 1842: “1. Man
slaughter. 2. Counterfeiting, or altering
money, or putting the same in circulation.
2. Embezzlement, larceny, obtaining mon
ey or goods under false pretences, or re
ceiving the same, knowing them to have
bee" wrongfully obtained. 4. Fraud by
baillee, banker, ugeut, factor, trustee,
director, member or officer of any com
pany, made criminal by the laws of both
countries. 5. Perjury or subordination
of perjury. 0. Rape, abduction, child
stealing, kidnapping. 7. Burglary. 8.
Piracy by law of nations. 9. Mutiny at
sea, wrongfully sinking or destroying a
vessel, or attempting to do so; assaults on
the high seas. 10. Crimes and offenses
against the laws of both countries lor the
suppression of slavery aud slave trading.” political
Extradition is not to be had for
offenses, nor shall any person, surrendered
by either party, be tried for any other
offense than the one for which he was ex
tradited. The treaty shall not apply ratifica- to
any crimes committed before its
tion.
The resolution heretofore offered in the
senate by Air. Chandler, calling on tlie the at
torney-general for information as to
assassination of W. B. Saunders, deputy
United States marshal in the northern dis
trict of Florida, was taken up on Wed
nesday and Mr. Pasco proceeded to ad
dress tlie senate in explanation of the
facts and circumstances of the case. Air.
Pasco had not concluded his statement
when the hour of 2 o’clock arrived, and
the education bill came up as unfinished
business. Air. Blair, however, yielded
the iloor to Air. Wilson, of Iowa, on
whose motion the senate bill appropriat- Fort
ing $100,000 for a public building at
Dodge, Iowa, was taken from the calen
dar and passed—AH. Call calling attention
to the fact that this was the fourth pub
lic building bill passed for Iowa at this
session..... On motion of Air. Stock
bridge, the senate building bill appropriating Lansing,
$100,000 for a public the calendar at and
Alich., was taken from
passed..... Air. Blair then resumed his
argument in favor of the education bill.
In the house, on Wednesday, Mr. But
terworth, of Ohio, from the committee
on patents presented a favorable report
upon the bill providing for the appoint- the
ment United of States representatives the international on the part indus- of
to
trial conference at Aladrid, Spain, Illinois, April
I, 1890.... Air. Rowell, of
chairman of the committee on
elections, gave notice that he would
call up the West Virginia contested
election case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton
for consideration next Wednesday... .Air.
Reid, of Iowa, in behalf of the judiciary
committee, called up a bill to regulate the
sittings of the United States courts in the
dristrict of South Carolina, and it passed. of
The house then went into committee
the whole for consideration of the bill
authorizing the appointment The of bill an as
sistant secretary of war. was
favorably reported from the committee of
the whole to the house, and the Oklaho
ma bill was taken up. The remainder of
the day's session was occupied in the dis
cussion of the Oklahoma bill, but with
out action... .Saturday afternoon, March
22d, was set apart for delivery of eulo*
gies upon the late representative Edward
J. Ray, of Louisiana, and Thursday even
ing, April 3d, was fixed for the delivery
of eulogies upon the late representative
8. S. Cox. of New York.
NOTES.
The president on Wednesday nominated
Wm. F. Bowers supervisor of the census
fur the second Georgia district.
The hou *e amendment to the bill to
have statistics of mortjra^e indebtedness
obtained in lhe next C( r nsus wag noa .
concurred in, and a conference was asked,
The first assistant postmaster general on
Saturday appointed the following fourth
class postmasters for Georgia: At Good
win, Franklin county, E. L. Cawthron;
at Round Oak, Jones county, J. W. Turk.
Quite a delegation of Alabamians are
at the capital, in the interest of a half
million appropriation for the CSoosa river.
Representative Cobb is pressing the mat
ter before the committee, and expects to
be successful.
lleuiy J. Fanz, the victim of the Aber
deen outrage, has been recommended
by Superintendent Porter for appoint- eleventh
ment as special agent of the
census to collect statistics relative to the
recorded indebtedness.
Marshal Hayden and District-Attorney
Strippling, of Florida, arrived at Wash
ington on Monday to coufer with the
attorney-general in regard to the admin
istration of election laws in that state,
and in regard to the assassination of
Deputy Marshal Saunders. They met
the attorney-general at the department of
justice, and detailed the circumstances
attending the homicide.
The reports of the action of the body
upon the British extradition Wednesday,
and which was printed in the papers, was
the cause of the question being consid
ered. Among the measures desired suggested end, as
likely to entirely accomplish clear the the senate wing was of
one to
the capitol during executive sessions of
all persons except senators and those em
ployes whose duties require them to be
present.
The pension appropriation bill for the
next fiscal year was reported Tuesday
from the committee on appropriations. It
carries with it #98,472,401, being $50,-
791 less than the estimates and $16,068,-
701 more than the bill for the current
fiscal year, though there is an estimated
deficiency of $21,598,834 this in the .pension the bill
expenditures for year; so that
is really $4,980,073 less than expenditures
will bo this year.
Air. Carlton’s bill to establish a federal
court at Athens, Ga., to be known as the
eastern division of the northern judicial
district of Georgia* passed the house on
Wednesday. The following counties are
included in the new district: Banks,
Clark, Elbert, Franklin, Greene, Haber
sham, Hart, Jackson, Morgan, Madison,
Oglethorpe, Oconee and Walton. At the
requesf of Mr. Candler, Rabun, Towns,
Union and White counties were stricken
out of the original bill.
The news of the arrest of seventeen
citizens of Sharon, Ga.,charged against with Post- con
spiracy and intimidation
master Duckworth, caused considerable
comment among the Southern members
Tuesday. As soon as Representative
Barnes, heard of it, he went asked to see expla- Attor
ney General Miller, and an
nation. The attorney-general replied charges that
he had ordered the arrest on
based upon representations made to the
department that there was interference
with a United States officer in tire dis
charge of ilia duty.
The president on Monday issued a
proclamation directing the removal of all
cattle from grazing upon what is known
as the Cherokee outlet, in the northern
part of the Indian territory. The remov
al must be completed by October 1st next.
The president also directs that in case
tlie negotiations now pending for the
cession of that territory to the United
States shall have been completed before
next October that the cattle must be re
moved forthwith upon notice. He also
directs that no additional herds be per
mitted to enter this territory ufter this
date.
A GOOD SHOWING.
NEW ENTERPRISES STARTED IN T1IE SOUTH
WITHIN A WAEK.
The list of new enterprises organized
in the south during the week show un
predented activity in the sale of mineral and
and timber lauds in large tracts or
ganization of a company with local and
outside capital to build new towns and
establish new industries. This activity
is general, extending from Virginia to
the re-
ported for tho week is a $1,500,000 eoa!
and iron company in Birmingham, the
contract for buildings for a $500,000 cot
ton mill in Florence, Ala., purchased and by
Alabama capitalists; of two furnaces
mineral property for $900,000; a $500,000
cotton mill in Arkansas, a $250,000
car-building company in Atlanta, wo/xs a
#250,000 brick and title
in Brunswick, a $200,000 phos
phate company in Florida, $200,000
cotton mill company in Georgia,
$ 10,000 pulp making in South
Carolina, $ 100,000 1 cotton mill
in North Carolina, $200,000
ette machine company in Roanoke, Va. >
twenty new iron furnaces at Pulaski, Va.,
two others at Johuson City, Tenn., one
at Bristol, by Pennsylvania iron makers;
one at Begs tone Gap, Va., and a large
number of others taking shape u\ other
points. Gigantic enterprises, requiring
many millions of capital, backed in many
cases by capitalists in Europe, as well as
in the north, are being formed for opera
tions in the South.
WORK OF THE FLAMES
TORONTO UNIVERSITY, AT TORONTO, CAN
ADA, DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Toronto university was totally dr
stroved by fire Friday. Preparations had
been made for the annual “conversazione,’
at which 2,000 persons were expected tz
be present, and it was just before thi
guests commenced to arrive at 7 o’clock,
that the fire broke out. It is estimated
that the total loss will be one million dol
lars. This includes a library valued at
$100,000, and all equipments which waj
generally of the most modern style. Lost
of records and historical and other docu
ments and most valuable papers belonging
to the president. Sir Daniel Wilson, can
not be estimated by dollars and cents, for
they cannot be replaced. The fire origi
nated by the careless handling of lamps.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Juhn & Adler, overall manufacturers,
of Baltimore, failed Thursday.
Governor Hill, of New York, signed
the world’s fair bill on Thursday.
The labor trouble at Woburn, Mass.,
has been settled without a lockout.
Sara Bernhardt is ill in Paris, and hiu
discontinued her performances.
The senate of the new state of Wash
ington passed a bill on Tuesday establish
ing the Australian system.
The annual convention of the National
American Woman Suffrage association
began iu Washington Tuesday.
The Paris Herald says President Carnot
has decided to pardon the Duke of Or
leans, and send him under escort to the
frontier.
It is the intention of the Russian gov
ernment to commence at once the con
struction of several large iron clads and
cruisers.
A theatrical performance for tlie benefit
of Airs. James G. Blaine, Jr., was given and
Tuesday afternoon in New York,
netted $4,000.
Switzerland will act as arbitrator in the
dispute concerning the boundaries be
tween the Portuguese possessions aud the
Orange Free State.
After a year of total abstinence of the
liquor traffic iu Plainfield, N. J., the city
council met Monday night and granted
fifteen hotel aud saloon licenses.
The American Cotton Seed Oil com
pany filed articles at Trenton, N. J., on
Wednesday, from $20,000,000 increasing $30,000,000. its capital stock
to
A special train with over one hundred
prominent citizens left Chicago for Wash
ington Thursday night. They go to urge
Chicago as the site for tho world’s fair.
An explosion occurred iu a colliery
near Decise, France, Tuesday night, it
is not known now many lives were lost,
but already thirty-four bodies have been
recovered.
Gilinartin & Doyle, wholesale dealers
in woolens, Nos. 14 made aud 10 assignment Lispernard
street, New Y'ork, un
Monday. bilities, Nominal assets, $235,000; lia
#!)(), 000.
For tho first time since the strike, the
bells of Nashua, N. II., company work Tuesday sum
moned the operatives to
morning. There was a feeble response, 1,400
however, not more than 100 of the
strikers going in.
The steamer Finance, from Brazilian
ports, which arrived at New York on
Monday, brings forty-one steerage passen- who
gers, most of whom are Germans
went to Rio Janeiro to better their condi
tion. They all returned disappointed.
Four hundred thousand miners in
Great Britain have decided to adhere to
their demand for increase of ten per cent,
in wages. Should It. is probable do the the men coal will
will decreased they three-quarters. so, out
put be
Sentence was passed Thursday, upon the Nuvasse
rioters in Baltimore George N.
Key, Henry Jones and Edward Smith
were sentenced to be hanged on Alareh the
28th. Fourteen others were sent to
penitentiary from two to four years.
At New York the world’s fair confer
ence report wits adopted in the assembly
by a vote of 119 to 1. The senate on
Wednesday afternoon agreed to the con
ference report. Tlie bill now goes to the
who has announced that he will
sign it.
Four weeks ago It. E. II. Srnitii, who
represented the Corbin Banking Co., of
York city, and who had opened dis- a
large plantation store at Elmy, this La.,
An investigation o affairs,
closed Wednesday night, shows a
of $40,000.
A cablegram from London says; Pas
senger steamer Coral Queen, from Gath
erbury, has been sunk off River Tecs in
Coliiston with the Rotterdam steamer,
Brineo. All persons, including captain
and officers of the Coral Queen, have been
landed. Sixteen lives reported lost.
The Manufacturer*' Record gives facts
and statistics showing that the exports
from twenty leading Southern ports were
$00,959,738 greater in 1889 than in 1888.
The largest increase in proportion was at
Brunswick, Ga., where the <-jrj>orts foi
1889 nearly doubled those for 1888.
A dispatch of Tuesday, from Baltimore,
Aid., says: A. Brehme & Co., importers,
German street; 11. P. Towles A Co., fur
nishing goods, Baltimore street; and 8.
A. WeLsh, notions, Lexington benefit street; tiled
deeds of trust for the of their
creditors. The bonds filed are respect
ively $24,000, #40,000 and $1,000.
An Alliance Land Exchange has been
opened at No. 511 Nintii street, north
west, Washington, D. C., for the purpose
of aiding Alliance farmers in the south
ern states in selling their surplus lands to
the best advantage. The fee for entering
the land, when not less than 100 acres, is
one cent per acre. No other charge is
made.
At New York, Thursday, the grand ju
ry handed indictments against George A.
Pell, James A. Simmons and ex-Presi
dent Wallach, of the Lenox Hill bank,
charged jointly with conspiracy in
defying the State banking laws. The
charge against Pell, Simmons and Wal
lach was grand larceny in the first degree,
in taking $31,000 worth of l*ond 8.
Vandals have girdled the elm planted at Lex- by
ington, Mass., which was
General Grant on April 19, 1875, the
one hundredth anniversary of the battle.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
Probably #40,000 has been paid by
Houston county, Ga., farmers for Ken
tucky mules and horses within the last
sixty duys
*%
The State Kchanges of Mississippi, Ar
kansas and Tennessee are to bo consoli
dated under one management and its cen
tral agency will he in Memphis for th«
present.
*%
Florida Alliunccmen don’t want politi
cians in our national council. They
passed the following resolution at then
recent state meeting: “That no official
of tho supremo council, namely presi
dent, vice-president, secretary, members treasurer,
general [manager or of direc
tory, shall hold any political office or ac
eept or solicit a nomination for any polit
ical office in the state or nation as long ai
he holds office in the supreme couuciL
A
The attention of all Alliancemen it
called to the fact that the National Al
liance has adopted and cotton weight bagging 44
inches wide of 8-4 lb. as the
standard. They found that the loose
wove bagging tho of 12 ounces These facts weight an
swered purpose. wore
published to the world over and over
again, yet certain sub-Allianccs have
recommended the manufact ure of bagging 1^,13
44 inches wide and weighing 1J,
or 2 pounds per yard, as the opinion of
certain lodges may happen weight to and run. width This
is all useless, as the of
cotton bagging is settled for this year..
♦ *
T. II. Martin, of the Pleasant Hill,
Talbot county, Ga., Alliance, writes:
“We intend to get every member to take
our State Organ, as it is one of the great
est levers in lifting the farmers to inde
pendence, in teaching tho Alliancemen
their duty and iu bringing them The together
for their mutual benefit. reading
and thinking members will be of great
assistance to the order, aud by their in
formation and fealty to tho cause,
strengthen the weaker brother until all
become banded together then in every measure and
for their interest, and trusts
monopolies and class legislation will be a
tliiug of the past. Tho farmer cannot
now reach the bank and borrow money
except through the paying warehouseman unjust and or
commission merchant,
unnecessary fees. If the lands of the
farmer arc not above the merchants’ cred
it, this government is a fraud.
We do not inuke war upon any legitimate
business, hut we do special contend privileges for|‘equnl
rights to all and to
none.’ The farmer asks for financial nothing world but
afuirdeul, aud when the
depends upon his product, it is certainly
only lair for him to receive his loans at
first hands. Subscribing for and reading
such papers as our state organ and the
National Economist will soon teach the
farmers the wuy to secure their just
rights .—Southern Alliance Farmer.
MARDI GRA8.
THE CARNIVAL IN NEW ORLEANS—A
nitILLIANT l’AGEANT.
Tlie grand street pageant of the king oi
the carnival at New •Orleans moved
promntly at noon on Tuesday, composed
as follows: Mounted detachment house
hold troops; platoon of household troops;
Bouiff Gras and attendants; king’s own
royal guards; his most sublime majesty,
Rex, king of the carnival; a earuivul
court in pageant, consisting of the nineteen themo
moving tableaux ears, revealing
illustrated; rulers of undent times.
His majesty, Rex, impersonating Urukh,
of Chaldea, is seated upon a gorgeous
throne, and waves his sceptre to his loyal
subjects as he passes along: Justinian, of
Byzantium; Hhalmonezer, of Assyria; Chi
Solomon, of Israel; Cliing Wong, of
na; Zcnobia, of Palmyra; Riun
esis of Egypt; Alexander, of
Alaeedou; Abdurnnan, of Hpuin.
William, conqueror Media; of England; caleph Cyrax- of
orcs, of Almansour,
Bagdad; Gcnzcric, king of Vandals, in
Africa; Blank; Noee, of Rome; Albion,
king of Lombardi; Merez, of Egypt;
Cyrus, of Persia. The streets on which
the procession moved were crowded with
spectators. It is generally admitted to
he the most brilliant march gras season
that New Orleans bus ever enjoyed.
THE GRIP IN MEXICO.
TERRIBLE WORK OF THE MALADY AMONG
THE TOO HER CLASSES.
Private letters from Mexico state that
the grippe has been more widespread and
persistent in its ravages there than any
where else on the American continent. A
letter dated the 14th instant and received
at Han Antonio, “The Texas, on Thursday, influenza
says: progress of the
here and its results have been truly ter
rifle. The greatest fatality is among the
houses poorer classes, who live generally in
which afford no protection against
the elements, and they have died abac
lately like sheep, sometimes 125 a day.
Just now the supply of coffins has been
exhausted and many bodies have been
buried without them.”
COLLAPSE OF A TRU8T.
F.XJOINED FROM BELLING OR DISPOSING
OF ANT OF THE STOCK.
circuit Judge Lacombc, in the United State*
court at New York, on Friday,
an injunction restraining the cot
ton oil trust from selling or commanding disposing oi
of their pioperty, and
to show cause before him why a
receiver bill should not be appointed. The
which was filed shows that the trust
the was organized September May 10, 1884, and
$2,000,000. profits up to 31, for 1887, were over
The profits the year 1880
were over $2,000,000, and the amount ol
outstanding certificates were $42,000.
NO 21
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S and dixon’s line.
Officers of six cavalry companies, of
Virginia, met in Richmond Wednesday
and organized the first regiment of Vir
ginia cavalry.
Dr. W. J. Thomas, one of the most
prominent physicians of North Carolina,
died in Wilmington, on Tuesday, of diph
theria, aged seventy-two years.
Fire broke out Wednesday morning in
Levy & Wolfson's crockery store, N cw
Orleans, and four stores of the Touro
block, on Canal street were burned out.
Allianccmeu, Captain John C. Cheney, elected a prominent general
has been
manager of the Southern Exposition at
Montgomery, Ala.,and will probably iden
tify tlie Alliuneenmn of the state with its
agricultural exhibits this fall.
The managers of the Semi-Tropical generously ex
position, a Ocala, Flu., have 25th,
set apart Tuesday, February as
“Alliance Day,” on which all Alliance
men will be cordially welcomed without
the usual card of admission.
The Proyreuite Farmer, at Raleigh, N.
0., edited by President L. L. Polk, of
the National Alliance, has entered upon
its fifth volume. It has always been a
first class Alliance and farmer’s journal,
and has won deserved success ul 1 along
tho years that have passed.
A meeting of colored citizens was held
Thursday night decided at Nashville, begin Tenn., the at
which it was to
publication of a weekly newspaper there
at an early date. The capital stock will
not be less than #10,000, aud of this $3,
000 has already been taken.
There 1ms been a great sensation at
Hinitbliehl, N. C., tho past few duys, on
occount of the trial of .1. E. Starling for
murder. 11hits resulted the in murder un acquittal, of
lie was charged with mother-in-law, and lit- an
aged woman, his
tle boy, his nephew, who were found
dead, with their skulls crushed, iu u
branch near homo.
Tho first through train over the Capo
Fear and Yadkin Valley railway, just
completed to Wilmington, N. C., left
thereon Monday for Alt. Airy, 248 miles
distant. The whole line embraces about
350 inihs, and is being rapidly extended.
The completion of tho roads opens new
and immense territory to the trude of
Wilmington.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., says: and
If, is learned (hat the Cape Fear
Yadkin Valley railroad will Imild a line
from Bemicttsvillc, 8. G\, to Charleston,
on tho south, and also build from Mt.
Airy to some point on the Norfolk and
Western railway on the west. These
connections, when ohtaiued, will make it
one of the most important roads in the
state.
A double tragedy occurred at Charles
ton, 8. C., Monday night. Feldeumnn Napoleou
Laval called at the store of B.
& Co., and asked to see his wife, who had
been separated from him for some time.
When the woman came down, Laval shot
her, and then entering the store, shot
Feldemann. Both of the victims are
thought to lie fatally wounded. The af
fair ims created u great sensation, as tho
parties are well known and prominent iu
business and society circles.
THE PLOT EXPOSED.
DASTARDLY ATTI.MIT TO POISON A .IAUi
FULL OK I'Kon.K.
A dispatch from Pikeville, Kv., says
Ellison Mounts was hanged here Wcdnsdai
Alafuir for participating McCoy and in her the brother murder After of Mi; the t
execution if successful, tlie officers would found have a |)lot \#hich,
resulted in the
death esca pc of of a the number prisoner of the guards and the of probable the jail.
Through discovery the confession of the jail cook
the was made. Tlie Hatfields
had paid food the cook $200 to place a drug
in the of the jail guards the night
before the execution. The dru l was
found to be strychnine. The «ook was
immediately have arrested, All the outlaw
gang fled to the mountains of West
Virginia, where it is sure death for of
ficers to follow. All the lawless persons
affair who are responsible from for this outrageous
are West Virginia, The
sheriff is having tlie necessary papers ar
ranged to secure requisition for tlie would
be murderers, and every effort will be
made to bring them to justice. 8ould
they he brought back during the present
intense excitement every one of them would
be instantly with mobbed, as the people arc
crazed
AN ICE TRU8T.
FACTORIES in CHATTANOOQA, TENN., OOU J
BINE INTO A TRUST.
The three ice manufactories of Chatta
n'joga, Tenn., have combined to dispose
of all their product to the Central Icc
Company the organized, for the purposes of
trust. The price of ice has been ad
vanced sixty-six and two-thirds per cent.
Consumers are raising stock to build an
indejiendent factory.
BANK STATEMENT.
of The the following is the weekly statement
associated banks for the week end
ng Saturday, February 15th:
Gan* •serve increase...................J2.3fll,800
increase..................... 1,778,400
4 ecie increase..................... 2.382.000
Deposits e-gal tenders incieue.............. 312.60C
increase................... 1,251,200
ircnlation increase................ 19,200
Banks now hold #7,497,100 in excess of
the 20 per cent. rale.