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F > 4 ^'-; ' ',:"; fr\'?j: v4'* ; >?^-" r>* /^/ /. jt4^ f / ,/ /*'? _?te JS^ititaste fidget, THURLOW 8 CARTFR, Editor and Manager A Familv New?n?ni.r * ?, ?v, t> *? ~ ' T" ==::? - %..... * ' Ncw.paper For the Pronoun. o.JLc Politic), Boctal, Agrlcul.trml ?d oot.rn.rcUl InWroU. Term. .1.50 . Ycr. P.,.bin In 5dm.ce, SEMI-WEEKLY EDITION. I ANPASTFK < r ~ iump , ,0?, _.? == ? KAINKAS1 Kit, S.C.. JUNE 2, 1891. ESTAHLTSHEI) 1842. Miss Kate Hillinrd, in a paper road before the New York Thoosophists, speaking of hypnotism, says that no one while under the influence has over been induced to surrender a vital secret. Many experiments havo bees tried with this intent, but without success. A complaibt comes from Russia o the scarcity of physicians throughou' tho Empire. The number of raedica men is only one in fiOOO of tho ontir< population. These are mostly in th< large cities. The villago pcpnlatioi a ?' i- >? " u?n uui.y one in .w,uw, * tiiio in? re mote provinces have only on? dootoi -7^1 to 130,000 people Florists arc constantly looking foi ?uch plants an pro luce flowers that will live long after being cut from the parent stem, an 1 atao for those that flower in early spring before their leaves appear, mil thus present masses of unbroken bloom. Students of the subject say that Japan n?.ay be depended upon to furnish some shrub 1 ?>f the latter sort, and thero are a few native wild shrubs, notably that popularly known as the apicowooJ, that seem to ?roniise_grea|^ Canada promieoR to offer notable treasures to futuro historians 01* thi? continent. The Archives Department at Ottawa now presents for referouce 1200 volumes of original correspondence, and many hundreds of copies ( of documents bearing upon tho history of the New Euglaud colonies, Acadia, French Canada and the more western regions. Tho British War Offico handed over to the Department some time ago eight tons of valuable historical material, comprising 400,000 ohicinl documents. } * All Europe seems to the New York Times to have the exhibition fever, and some sort of world's fair is to ho bold in every European capital during this year. And tho epidemic is spread ^ lug liinuvr uuoui. aioxi U IrI?i is proparing a nat ional exhibition of nnciont i and mo.lorn Egypt, t< ? ? open in that L city during tlio coming summor. It ' in to he it complete exposition of the modern life, social, in lintrial, anil | artistic ol the laud of the Pharaohs, and also of much of tho country'* wondrous past. The oilicialHof liiiHsia seem to hsri ^ a queer way ol nuking their financial calculations. It it* pretty well known ^ to th > liuit:iMors of tha world that the Condition of tllill2? in that ermiir* is uoue of tli i briglituit, mil has not haen getting my bjtter for a long tin?; ail I t'i?r?w.u a goj.l deal of surprise whan lu> minister of tiuanoo iiibiIo his report i recently, to tin I M ttiat lie claim" 1 a surplus in th< a, / treasury over all. ordinary expcudi k/- tares of noniu $11,030,000. Tlu> px^(S perl i sot about (lading whore ho not the figures, and at last discovered that V& he arrived at them by tho simple process of entering all borrowed ^ir~ money us clear income, instead of putting it down on the other side of the j. ledger as debt. Asa matter of fact, M it seems there is really a deficit ol H some $44,030,033 and not much prov Speet of miking it np. Crops are growiug worse all over the empire, business is declining, all the inland ^ bank* aro practically insolvent, and N whole proviiicos are in arrears of taxes from way back in the eighties. ft , A writer on the pnblio debts of na?? tions presents an interesting table x comparing the figures of 186.% with s#- those of 1890. During that quarter of a century the grand total increased A? enormously. The only nations showing auy decrease wcro the United Htaioa, Great Britain and Denmark. fS Th? latter had a debt of $45,220,000 &j?> in 1865, an<l $33,004,722 in 1890. Thin is certainly a highly creditable if showing fbr a country so limited in resources and population. Great RAh Britain had a debt of $3,848,46,000 at the earlier of these dates, and ol Ai #3,850,719,561 at the latter. But the fir l^uited States was the only country ^ which made any rery great reduction, U namely, from #2,766,481,671 to #915,. ,'i 962,112, just about two-thirds. Turning now to the continent of Europe, including Russia and Turkey, which ICS?" *r? m Asia, we debtincreasing Hguree as follows: 3 |> ?uoa i. mv i*io. S? a?Mimny *010,470,000 fl.9M.317,ft| /M Austria - Una gftry !,?7J,3?,O0J 3,M?,SS9,53 ij^ Fm>'? 2.64i,vw,<ro 4,444,791,391 ? 990,030.090 9,491,018,0V .M Itol\ 871,010.009 2,834,936,03 Hpniti 1^9,800,000 1.351,463.04 NMli.-rlan<U.... 411,139,009 430,619,95 Hltfiun 11000,009 310,804,00 1 l?)l-n 91,430,000 84,330,90 * Norway 0,041,009 13,073,76 Port u< at 199.400,000 400,499,69 . 34.610,000 107,908,69 > Turk-y 239,413,.500 931,000,00 ' BfWxrUnl 714,099 10,919,01 ^ TotoU. . ..08.000,050,000 #19,066,?49,?j APPEAL NOT SUSTAINED. IN THE CASE OF MISS SADIE MEANS. OF COLUMBIA. S. C. The Synod of South Carylina Upheld and the Presbytery of Charleston Gets Left. Nasiivillk, Tvnn. The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian j Church met in adjourned Reunion. Tho committee on foreign missions ' reported that work hud gone forward 1 with its MRutil sneceRR, contributions j had been larger and there nan a surt.lllu ... ttw. 4 -? > J , ... .uv HGWUIJ ui nWIT flVjUWi There were 130 missionaries in the field 1 and 165 native helpers and 600 com* municants had been added to the t Church. It was recommended that no action be taken as to co-operation in missionary work. , The Means cose was then taken up ami I>r. Blackburn, representing Charleston Presbytery, concluded hia argument. He was followed by Rev. Dr. Flynn, representing the Synod of South Carolina, which reversed the decision of the Presbytery and ordered that Misa Means be granted a letter of withdrawal in order that she might be admitted elsewhere. Dr. Flynn defended the Synod in a powerful argument in which the intricate points involved in the ipiestion of the regularity of the case were entered ami discussed at great length. Acting Moderator Lapsley called the Assembley to order at 2 p. in. Dr, Moore introduced a resolution affecting irresponsible evangelists and uni licensed persons, whieh was docketed. Dr. Flynn then continued his speech on me juiuciarv commit ioc'h report on tho Means ease i?n<1 diseussed the facts in the ease and claimed ttint an unfair distinction hail been mnde in the case of Miss Men lie, for otln i people in tho Church were as guilty ns she, with the Chuteh'H k now ledge. Ileeln med that 1 the session had honestly confounded I faets and the legal comdnsions t>> lie | <1<m1uc( il from tln-m. He argued thnt the use of the telephone on Sunday was i necessity ami the icault of its use was to lessen Sunday lahor. His speech was a strong presentation of the Synod's position. l>r. I.nj ton spoke in favor of enforcthe law as it itood. and not construe laws to lit every case. This wiih not a piestion of what the law should be but what it was. If Means' work was a necessity she should not be diueiplined; if it was not. she should be. The question was: "did the Synod do right?" He argued that the session and Presbyl terv did fight. I Then the vote was taken and carh member had two minutes to explain bis <*>>te and express his \iewa. The roll all began at '2 :'20 ami elosed at f>:40. flie result was not to sustain the ap,?enl from the ftynod, 77; to sustain, I 50: to sustain in 1 ?it N Coildn't Stay Away From the So-sth. Geoiiok II. Andebpon, I^cwinton, * B? rlie county, N. ('. ? I nnin Southern man by birth, but apent many yearn in th?* Woi-I, finally returning to my tin tivo State; bnt I havo never foun?l ?i liner elimate than in Nortli Carolina In my partlen, railiehea have been ' growing thua far thin winter. Cab ? huge, turnip*, lettuce, and beeta eta ml out iu the garden* here ami grow all winter long. Our noil in a sandy loam, with a clay fiuiuuil, which will .yield, when properly treated, two crops a year. But it must not l>e forgotten that our soil like that of any of the other H tales, nuiit he manured. Fanners the world over know that they cannot constantly i take from their laud and give the laud nothing in return, without suffering i consequent loaa. Another thing: the ao-ealled wornout lauds of the Houth are juc*t as good hh they ever were. All they need ia the aaine trentment with manure that the landa of the North re I eeive. Our ehiof crops are cotton, to haceo, com and field peas. Our people are hospitable, generous, and so eiable. From the experience I have had in other Htatea I cannot sea why North f'arolina should be behind any of them in the line of ninnufactoriea and kind i red indnatries. We raise the eotton, and should nianufaetnre it into cloth. ni i # . :it_ i ncm in room nere lor |W|wr mum, with the raw material* for it* manuI fact 11 re lying at our door*. With our immenne fruit reanurocn we need more ennui ng catablinhnienta and more ernporatora. Two crop* of augnr beet* will grow here per j-i nr. ' Why do we not make nugar? Tn fart. we need eotton mill*, nugar retinenea, , eanneriea, tobacco fartoriea, wagon nhopa, hrooin and hox factories, paper iniiln, and many other indnatriea, and wo have the water power to turn all of > their wheeln. | Hope can be grown in the Mouth at a profit, an well aa in the State of Wnnhingtoii. liainie can alno he grown here, and, if it pnva Texan, it would >a m V r'nnolina Wo nan iiVoiluon uid manufacture *iIk in our State, and the oilk industry ahould be an important una here. Tht End of Gold Shipments in Sight. Washinoto*. I). C.?Treaenry ofllciala ware much encouraged when the regular dixpateh from New York Msled ' that only #87,000 in gold bnd been engaged at the milt-Trew-urv for atupment * to Evropc Saturday. Tbla only rcdurea 8 Treasury gold to #79,820,000. In tliia I light ahipment ?? ? Saturday Treasury ' ofllciala profeaa to ace the cod in aight * of goltl shipment* for the preaetii. 0 7 Orockinridgo Nat the Congrtttiontl Comj mittoo. 1 Frankfort, Ky.?Co u g r e an man * Breckinridge haa gottou control of the 0 oongrrratonal committee of the district, 1 :a having thinga Ih* own way, and liar v died Saturday, September th, ax the [| day for a primary election. COTTON MILLS IN ALABAMA. What Has Been Done and What Ought to Be Done. i A?l<1rca? of Hon T. W. Pratt, (tellerrod at Birmingham, A'a., April 2.1 1891, at request of the Stale Convention of Ohaniberei f (.om me' ce of Alabama 1 The branch of Alabama development which, in my judgment, should first occupy the attention of one .? I of Commerce throughout the State in the manufacture of our great staple, cotton, and in view of the fact that thin State has advantage* for manufacturing cotton goods equal, if not superior, to all other*, we can, by a judicious aysteui of advertising these advantage*, secure for this State manufacturing plant* which will add million* to our valuation and tend* of thousands of industrious families to our population. The mercantile history of England during the past century is the history of her cotton manufacturing, and the same is true of New England, while the South, whieh has furnished the cotton,lias very little show in improvement for the many millions reeeived for her staple, while the value of her lands has gradually deereased and her substance lias been used in buying her foodstuffs and clothing from the North and abroad. The following statistics will serve to illustrate the importance of this great industry, ami the ridiculous position we occupy in regard to the same: There art- over $2,500,000,000 invested in cotton mills in the world,and over 3100,000,000 in the United State*. aud yet the South, furnishing fi'2 per of lit of the world's cotton, has a total cnpitnl invested in its manufacture of Iohm than $100,000,0(10, or nliout onetwenty-fifth of the world's investment. Tim value of the crop of cottou of IH'.Kl is calculated to he about $'27f>, 000,000, and this income would he trebled or quadrupled if we could manufacture our goods at home. Alabama possesses every requisite for the manufacture as well as the production of cotton?n splendid and healthful climate, low cost of living, cheap power, intelligent labor at a small cost and long liouraat work. 1. We have the cotton at our doors fiotn find hands, and it costs, us at least $1.50 per bale less than it costs the New England mills, which are obliged to pay freight on seventy-five pounds of waste and dirt with every bale, which, added to the regular | freight rate and the expenses of draying, sampling commission, etc., brings the raw material at the Eastern mills 110 per cent. above the cost to us?a [fair div{di>D<1. 'J. We have onr power at the lowest possible cost, for in addition to our uumeroiiB ami splendid water-powers, we are able to buy good steam coal in most nil portions of the State nt less than $1.50 per ton, ngninst a cost in Sew England of from $4.00 to $5.50 | per ton, nml hh Alabama is well supplied with water, mills would find no I difficulty in securing an abundance of Cold spring water for condeuaing,froo | of cost. New England inilla figure tlieir cost of power at about $20.00 to $2.1.00 per horse power per annnm | where steam is used, and from $15.00 to $20.00 per horse-power for water|M?wer. In comparison I find few Southern inilla whose power coata to exceed $10.00 per horse-power per auuniii, and many of these mills in the South use cheap high-pressure engines. fn the manufacture of print cloths in the" East it is estimated that power and henting cost one cent per pound if goods produced. While we cannot make a comparison witJ. a Southern mill of ttiin chnracter, 1 ?lo know from actual experisnw that in producing coarse yarns the coat of hent, light and power in onr null ia only one-tenth of one cent per pound. Thin ianot a fair compariaon, owing to the different claws of work, hut the great coat of heating the large n>il'a of the North and Knot for about six months each year, when fuel ie high,ia an enorinoua expense aa compared with onr coal for heating in Alabama. when we have hut a few dava when it la necessary to use artilcal heat. 3. We have intelligent lalior which, by reaaon of the low coat of living, we can hire at a aaving of 23 per cent, over New Engla* d prieee, and we secure aixty-aix hours labor per week, against sivfv hours labor per week in New England and fifty-two and s-half hom-H labor per week in England, t. We have no labor organizations to corner nil. 5. The mill huihlinga and tenements | for Hi** lianda can lie built in this State *t a aaving of from 20 fo 40 per ceoi. from the coat of equally af good hnildinga in the Kitat. 9. W? run secure freight rutea to n'Mrkrt from moat of our Alabama cities on manufactured gooda at 4 raving of nearly half what it coata to transport the r?* cotton, nnd by a lit* tie effort on our part could get ratea to Chicago and other Weatern citiea lower than they are at prcaent, although our rutea now are lower than from New England to many Weatern point a. 7. The record of Southern mill ea*n- I ififttt, compared with the earninga of Northern milla for the pa?t few yeara, la much in far or of thl South, and ia a drong argument to uae with our Eastern friends. It ia. perhaps, not ffen* ernlly known (hnt Alabama hut made (hp great# at relative |>roRT?'RK in cotton manufacture of any State in the Union in the |>?*t four yearn, l?ut nurh ia the fact In IMtKl we had l?ut thirteen cotton mill* with 70,0t)0 *|>in'1le* and 1692 loom* iri the Htnte, ami we now have twenty -nine nulla with 1187,4ftH a|iimllcH ami 4010 loom*, or a three fohl iiicreaae both in looma and apin Ilea in only four yeara. Thia ia certainly a good record, lint we are ct 11 far behind aeveral of onr aiater Htate* in the Honth, who tecognized the importance of tbia industry yeara ago, and have done and are ill doing nil ju their power to extend thin itupor taut industry. Let us get into the harness us they have done and seen'e thiH enaetiuent of nueh lews, both iimiuicipal, eonuty and State, an will convince the world that nre we anxious to secure new blood, new money and new factories, u.id that wliea we get them we will foster them. Manufacture's of the South need more money and less adverse legislation, and befon they can hope to reach the perfection in mnnnfa'during attained in England and the Enst they must adopt the onlt sensible plan of equipping their uiilh with only tho best aud latest improver machinery, as no mill with machinery fifteen or twenty yeara old can hope h compete with modern equipped mills There lias been a genial opinio! prevniem in iue noinn aim ?.asl tlia' the tjoutbern manufacturers couh never hope to be able to ninke fie. goods, owing to climatic conditions but I think that idea-is exploded, fo we are now producing goods whici ten years ago our New England com petitora said we never could make,an< wo certainly hnvc reason to believ th.it we will eventually (hive theNes England mills off of (he fin? good they are now making and into otht 1 liues by meeting them in competition, as we have already done in coars yarns, aa it is recognized today thex are uuable to cope with in coarae goods, and I believe the day is not far distant when we will meet England in success ltd competition for the world's trade. After making careful investigation I find that the wages paid in English factories compare favorably with ours, and we have every advantage ovei ibeni oyeept in the costot our maehiury (which will be eveutually made in lie South.) the open markets of tin world and the cost of borrowed money. Many people say that cotton mil'' do not help lis much, owing to the low wng? s paid, aud in nnswer to that w< can soy that the average amount earned by agriculturists is hut thirty cents per day in Alabama, while the averagr wages to mill operatives in the State ir seventy cents per day. Unusual opportunities are offered i thin State for tl?o establishment oi knitting factories for aupplying the uome demand for hooiory, underwear, etc., oat of the product of our yarn mill*, and also for the building oi blencbery l imits to blcocfy our sheet lug and shitting, and do away with th present necessity of shipping our good" to New England to he bleached and theu returned to market, Jhus eating up much of nnr profit in Weight. With the building of new milla iour Slate will coiue the additional do inand for food producta and manufactured good*, and an additional incentive given our farmers for the production of foodstuffs at Sortie, and thus we would become independent of the North, to whom we now give our cotton crop in exchange for wearing apparel, corn, bacon and hav. Our cotton will always he our foundation crop, and the mills will surely come to it and add more w ealth to our Htate than any other industry. Lot us advise the world of what we have and w hat we arc and aucceaa will aurely come. Huntsville feels proud of her distinction as the largest cot tonmanufacturing city in the Htate, and especially so aa she haa attained that diatinction in the past two years through the efforts of her citizens. We now have over S',000,000 invested in three mills and use li,5(f0 halcg qJ cotton per annum and produce 000 pounds of domestic runt tf?i60,000 !?? ??. ? <r/varna, employ 1000 hands and giving our farming community the best local cotton market in the State. There ia no rcaaon why Alabama should not he filled with good, prosperous cities like Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and if we would use the same push and energy to secure legitimate manufacturing industries as tlicy have used,we,like those Htates. would have a wealthy population. THE REBUILDING OF ClFMSON, Result of the Recent Meetings of the Boare of Trustees. Calhocm, S. C. ? On Fr?d?y night the board of trnsteea of Clomaon College held a prelim-narv meeting, but d-d not irnnaact mueh huaineaa. A querent whs present, however, and the !>oard have hehl frequent aeaaion. Mr. Brnre, tlio arehiteet of Atlanta who planned the College, ia here, and he estimates that it will eoat fSOjHX] to rebit'ld and will take throe month*. Mr. Thompson, !* ?? eordi actor,of Hork Hill, in rived, lint it is not known outs-do the hoard whether he has made ac estimate or not. AH the information that could be ob< turned is that advertiaein?uta for hid* to reiHiiltl tho Uol'ege sent out and fbat if any of (bent ia satisfactory the work will be given out by contract; il t?ol tbc board will have ?t done. The new Mechanical Hall i? to be partitioned oT and used na section rooms. Wooden at recti! rea will l?e erected al ocec which will also serve a? section rooms. Only n |>art of the walls wi!' have to be torn down, the one on the west side l>ein? most dan;?erono. 4 Big Conftdara*a Ha-Union CnaassviLtr, Tenm.?A big Con federate ?e-nnion ? ? held on the Fori Do nelson battlefield T n est lay. Veteran* from many Hintea and otaoy distinguished Confederate* wer? present. Assemblage Wing estimated at 10.000. Ei-C vOiigr?-*sm??i John F. Hoitae delivered the oralioi An addrena wa? alao made by (!oterr?<?r Turney. Chinaman Bida tha Boat. Chk aoo, III.?Chicago Chmnmrr are establixhing a Mammio loilge. It four month* the paraphernalia will l?< in working order. Ye Chow in gram! I tuaaUr. NIPPED IN THE SUD. I Rascal Who Tried to Swindie The Soithem Express Company. Charleston, c.?An important i out interesting chhc ??n? trit<l iu tin { Jnited States Circuit Couit, nt Char estou, S. C.. Judge Bra \* ley presiding, < evolving the auppressioii, for the resent, at least of it proposed forger, vho has also nerved n term in the penitentiary for forgery; and also involving 1 he principle that the United States nails cannot he used for the purpose if fraud, even if the perpetrator may < lot finally consummate his schemes md become the beneficiary of his raud or proposed fraud. One F. A. Blackwood, writing over the fietitioifs signature of W. I). Morris, Sr., addressed the American Bank Vote Company, at New York, asking i them to furnish him with a supply of Southern Express money orders. He illeged that his uncle was an agent of the Southern Express Company, and hod lost o lot of money orders, and they were ashamed to replace them nud he wished to have prices quoted hy the hundred, the object being to obtain a supply of blank money orders I ny tms sunteiiuge. At the same time he was negotiating by mail with the Cole Printing Company, of Sanford, N. C., with a view to obtaining checks on sundry bunks aud letter beads with the name of C. L. Loop, general auditor Sout hern Ex pres* Company printed thereon. The American Hank Note Company promptly referred the correspondence received hv them to General Auditor Loop, of the Southern Express Company, who placed the matter in the hands of Route Agent A. Richardaon, of the same company, at Columbia, S. C., who succeeded in locating the alleged \V. I). Motrin as one E. A. Bluckwood. Blackwood was arrested upon a warrant sworn out by E. 1) IVcr, postottice inspector, who rendered material service in working up and prosecuting the case. Blackwood was taken before the United States Commissioner in Charleston and commited for trial. Mis guilt was establiaed ho clearly that there could In? no doubt whatever. The jury, after retiring lor a short 11m . r< turned u verdict of guilty. Hlnckwood whs sentenced by Judge Hrawley to imprisonment iu the Columbus, (>., penitentiary for a term of one year Hint one month and to pay ? tine of $o'W>. Atlantic Coast l.ine to Etteml f# Augusta The building of a liue to Augusta, Oa., in the next move booked for the extension of tbe Atlantic Const Lttie system. The management of this line has Ween gradually broadening out its ramifications, adding new territory to the rich sections already f. 'be' oy to its roads. After completing tiie NV-Ison short cut. work on the Denmark extension was begun, and now as tins line is nearing completion the system is reselling out for the trade centreing at Augusta. The manage >s of the Atlantic Coast Line seldom discuss contemplated improvements publicly;tliev believe more ia uctiou than in words, so that quietly and with any nimoiimn meut preliminary surveys have bee 1 commeueed for an extension from Ashley Junction, S. C., to Augusta The officials of the company decline to state just when work of construction 'will IimIii I...* -- ?!.? II *M niu uui i*r. nitTj 1 11 - rv out their plans with as li.tle delay us possible, tin: impression is that such ?tep* will be taken in the near futoie. Tile u,id bijullpiveat of Augusta is nil nttinetive. nv..? ><> v i Ailrond manager*. nud the icnihiiey of the times in catrying Kaste? n line? towards those sections. To Atlanta and thence to the gulf const offers loHo possibilities sufficiently inviting for the continuation of at lea^t one Knstem n>nd that way. The Atlantic Coast Line may yet figure in Southwestern business, with a gulf tevtninus at New Orleans. PROF SMITH WILL NOT RECANT He Says Thai to Stifle His Convictions Now Would he a Crime Against Reason. ' Haratooa, N. Y. The Dev. Dr. Henry P. Smith, convicted Saturrtav of heresy by the Presbyterian General Assembly and adjudged unworthy to > teach or preach the Gospel its he 11 ni derstanda it, is still here ami apparentt ly quite unaffected by the derish?n, which he expected and for which he i was fully prepared. Prof. Smith, his I wife, mother, two children, and the wife of Prof. Rriggs, form an inter, sting party at the Worden Hotel. ! The Assembly formally expressed its regret that the Southern Gem-nil i Assembly had declined to enter into negotiations looking to an organic re' union of the churches. North and i 3outh. I ? . A Btg Anti-Trutt Tobacco Factory i St. Louis, Mo.? Arrangements are being made by local tobacco manufacturers to erect an immense cigarette > factory here to be run in opposition to the Cigarette Trust. The details of the enterprise are kept secret but it is i said on apparently good authority that the Arms interested in the new factory are: Ligget A Myers, Druraiuotid Tobacco Company, Catlin Tobacco and the Browne Tobacco Company. It is claimed the Cigarette Trust has made ' such inroads on the plug tobacco in i dustry that the formation of nn anti irun* ciK?ri'iw i?cw>ry ll iiccmnry to protect the local tohaceo tuaniifnctiireri. Wife Murderer Sentenced wii.mikoton, N. C. ? John Brock, the nife murderer, wih wotencrd in the Criminal Court to 3D yeurn in the ' State penitentiary, receiving th" full 1 penalty for murder in the neeond de* gree, of which lie waa couvicted. If ie ' counael withdrew the motion for n new trial, PITHY NEWS ITEho. Governor Curr reprieved Dick Broadnax, who wuh under sentence to be banged at Milton, Caswell county, N. 0., in June until July C. The construction of a water supply is talked of nt SVallhalla, S. C. The Greenwood, S. C., Oil Co., is building a ginnery, and machinery consists of eight 70 saw gins with handling nnd cleaning apparatus. The Pocahontas, Ya., Cotton Mfg. Co., ih Adding $10,000 woith of new machinery to its cotton mill. Tho Grand Lodge of Virginia Odd Fellows will erect an orphanage at Abingdon. The Ladsou Presbyterian Church Columbia, S. C., will erect a new edified to cost about $*000. The contractors for building tho Pickens iV Easlcy Railroad, South Carolina, will hood commence tracklaving. The roal will be nine miles long. Governor Cnrr Bet July 13 as the date ei execution ot l alvin ami Thomas Coley, tho negroes who murdered the peddler Turk, r, in Franklin county. Lotiishurg, N. C., is tho place ol' tx.tuition. Fire destroyed tho lumber dry kilns and (50,000 fort of lumber at (ieorgetown, S. ('. Large deponitH of Bessemer ore have it is reported, been found in Ktokes county, N. (5., on the property of the Carolina Iron, Miniug A- Invebtinent Co. The agent of a European coloni'.u tion company is H?id to have decided to tnake Fort Worth, TcXuh, the ceutei i?f exteiiMive colonization work. Church A- Mnhone have obtained a bond on the Newell mine, in Cabarrus county, N. C., and will at one. put in machinery to develop anme. Church A Malioneare aaid to be agents of Win. M..1 ' * * * " I'luikiin', oi reieranurg, Vh., and>ln<< 1'. JuiH'B, of Gold Hill, Neb., both members of Congreas. Fire at Spartanburg, S. C., destroyed the warehouse of the Povt Hoy nl mid Weatern R. It., with guano and ' 10 bales of cotton. An other cotton " mill to In* built at South Norfolk, Vh , at a coat of $200,000 is being talked of. The Powhatan Mfg. Co'a knitting mill at Humbert's Point, Va.. near Norfolk, is working on dull tunc, cmploying over 2iH) hands. The Hermitage Cotton Mills, lieidsville, N. C., after 3 months idleness, have rcHUined. C. Clarke in Supt. The Greenwood (S. C.) Cotton Mills have declared a 3 per cent, semiannual dividend and re-elected W. Tj. 1 )ii r?%t <ih ' The Green Hill Woolen Mill, located near Mt. Airy, N. C., will be put in operation again very noon by M. .1. Hawkins, of Warrenton, who recently pnrelioaetl the plant. The entire machinery is being overhauled. Ground was broken thin week on Coddle creek, near Concord, N. C., for the. new cotton ini 1 1m of the (J. \V. Patterson Mfg. Co. They expect to have everything completed and the machinery in readiness for the coming cotton crop. The Union (H. C.) Cotton Mity^ " "hvwneut of eloih lrff.? I'i nlay. I lie mill nm ?v ,iu aud day, order* having been received to keep it constantly busy bix months ahead. It is reported from Columbia, S. C., that Aretes Blood, of Maneliesti r, N. H., and other stockholders interested in the new cotton-duck mill at Co imiii i'ii* i* ir |ii i j hi 11' k i?? ur^NiM/r n Company to 1>iiiI?1 another mill nt the DHine place. Active preparations are under wav for the early commencement of work at the Newport Newa, (Ah.) ship yard on the thtee vessels to be built for the United Stntea Navy. Home of tin material for tlieae boats haa already arrived, and tho work of eonatrnction will, it ia expected, be begun within the next few day a. Governor Tillman left Columbia Saturday for New York to deliver an address before a temperance convention 011 the dispensary system. Senator Gorman, of Maryland, is a v?rv sick man. A New 00,000 Spindle Mill. T. P. Frizcll, engineer, No. f>0 Congress street, Boston, advertises that ho has been instructed by responsible parties to select a location for a cotton mill in the South of not less than .AO, 000 spindles, to have a ginnery and cotton-oil plant combined. It in to be operated by water-power, and offers of water niton are invited. Communications on thin subject must state the locality, name of the stream, extent of druiuuge ground, extent of cotton cultivation, railroad communication and nil other information that would be of value in determining the question of the location of a cotton mill. Out of all the aites offered, some that present the frost attractive showing will be personally investigated and a decision reached. Franc* Suei the World s Fan Company. CmcAflo, III. ?Suit for 81,000,000 damages was begun in the United States Circuit Court by the French ltepublio against the World's Columbian Exposition. The litigation grows out of the French government's claim for damages to exhibits of French subjects injured during the manufacturers' building lire. TO PARALLEL THE N & W the Chesapeake ami <S Ohio Railroad to Ex tend its Line Thro/gh a Fine Co intry. Danville, Va.?The Chesapeake AOhio Railroad Company has decided to pnealh'l the Norfolk A- Western through Southwest Virginia, and tap 'he boost coal seams and some of the oo.it t'inber lands in the world. Tho new line will be about 100 miles in length, running from the nioutb of I'iney creek through the valley to tho Clcyaiulotte mountain, and will reconuect with tho main line of tho Chesapeake Ar Ohio at Barboursville. Ft is estimateil by the State's geologist last year that there are in the conn t* v which will l>o controlled by the Chesapeake k Ohio with its new line rot less thnn 2,O00,<)O't,OI>U t< ns of coal. This is not the only wealth in this region. It is allllmavilv timbered with hard woods, and when accessible. (lie trees tire worth ?100 nu were. The Chestipenke A* Ohio Company already own more than 5,000 acres <>f lan<l in Raleigh county un<l are buying everything that is offered in that vicinity. Preliminary surveys have been niudr ami work on the new road will begin this summer. Lord Roseberry s Horse Wins. London, Kngland At New mm ket. the Newmarket stakes of I.AoO wivi-r igns, for three year olds, one mile tnd two furloncs, was won by Lord Roseberry's Lailas. l)ougltta Rair<rs St. Florian was second, and Daniel Cooper's (Mare, third. NY hen a youu^ mmt D,,e>\ M,>!trV,ri rv -.aid ho had the ambition to do three things, viz: Marry the richest woman in Kngland. win the Derby, and become Premier of Kngland. He accomplished the lirst by marrying a Miss 1 >e Roth lnhls, ami he is the present Premier ol Kngland. 4 Confederate Reh'c RaI.F.IOII. N. ('. The State Museum has received the stnoke stack of the Confederate rum "Albemarle. ' and it will 1m* prominently shown there. It is roughly made tin< 1 in ri i<il I with holes, lunny of them made by N uml 1" inch shot. The Allii'murh' was built hv Peter E. Smith at Hill's Ferry, on the Hoauoke river, near Scotland Neel-. For some years the smoke-stack hu 1 been on exhibition at St. Louis, whero it wuh taken tVom the New Orleans exposition in 1885 Emma Juch to be H>s Bride. New York.?F.mmu .Inch, the famous prima donna, will on June titi.bemurried to Assistant District Attorney Fruncis Wellnian, of this city. Miss .Inch herself suid so at the Waldorf. Weaver Nornm-;'* l for Ccng.e**. Atlantic, low* Oereral .fames 15. Weaver was nominated as 'lie Populist candidate for Coiig'ess from the seventh district. Five Rioters Killed. Uniontown, Pa. ? Last week the tickle Hollow mines of the Washington Goal and Coke Company, midway Ix-tween Fayette City and Layton statioti, were tne scene of the bloodiest encounter since the strike begun. Both sides were in fighting shape, 72 arntcd deputies contending w ith a mob of from 1,500 ta 2,000 strik? is, about 200 of whom were armed with nil kinds of nuns. Five strikers were killed and eight or more wounded and three depw??re wounded. The Colored Man's Nomination Confirmed, Washington, I). ('. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Chas. H. !. .Taylor, coh.red, of Kansas, to be re cor?l?T of in the flistrictof ('?> lumhin. The vote whk 32 to 1 >. ThvIoi romcH from Kntmna City. Knn., ntnl \%nn appointed through the influence of Senator Martin. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. The Senate. I tOrn Day. ?A lively an 1 rather personal del.nt,. on the Iron ore clause of tho Tariff bill occupied tho whole day. 111th Day.?Tho Tariff bill wa? considered all day. Somn progress was inula with tho m"tal schedule, tho doty on Iron oro being fixed at fortv ecnts a ton. 112tii Dat.?Tho Tariff dolwto was continnod, Us principal foaturo being a speech by Mr. Oornian. Mr. Toiler move I as a tost voto that tho TnrilT bill bo laid on tit" table. The Henste retu-i < 1 by a voto of 2t yeas to 3ft nay* to n lont tho motion. 113th Day.?Mr. Kylo's resolution declaring against any attempt to restore the Queen In I ?wall was taken tip. Unanimous conscit' v.t? r.skod to JMJt it on Its pass tiro, but tho Tariff bill provonte I. (loo 1 progress was made on the metal schelule of tiie Tariff bill . Mr. Halo ropllo I to Mr. (Sarin in. 114th Dav. The Senate dispose t of live pages of the Tariff bill, completing the metal schedule, except lite paratrr.apli relating to lead and xinc .an I their manufactures. Tltn Mouse. 30rh Dav.?By an overwhelming vote It was decided that the law authorizing the do-king of members' psv had been ro pealed. Paul J. Sorg, of Ohio, w is sworn <n .as n Representative. 131bt Day. The House directed the N ivnl Committee to investigate the nr-nor-plate charges. A resolution looking to popular election of Henator* was reported favorably. The Legislative, Eiooutive .in I Judicial Appropriation hill was considered In Committee of the Whole ; the Item for a ilarlos of the Civil Hervtco Commission an<l Its emplovea wee strlolcen out. 132i> Dat. -The Legislative, Executive and Ju Hotel Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole. 133r> Dat.?The Legislative, Execnlivoanl Judicial Appropriation bill waspass->l. with the Item for salaries of the Civil Horvioe Comniisnion restored. 13trn Dat.- It was private bill day an t the entire session was devoted thereto, in Committee of the Whole. One Mil, for I ho relief of Thomas It. Reed, an officer In <he Pennsylvania troops during the war, w.te ordered to be favorably reported. The rest of the day was spent upon what la known as "the Omnibus resolution," being a resolution referring thirty-seven bills In a bun '? lo lb? Court of Claims. At 5 o'elo -k the House took a recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session being for the consideration ol private peosiOO cuv) rtUef MU?.