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.. / * *' " * ' 11 - ??- -?- rn - ? ? ? ?? . _ _ _ , - ? _. . ... -w ?* M Dmmtml4d Aptotftafi't, Horticulture Domestic , Politics and the Current News of the Day. X ^ 'j^lA^teW SERIES. ~"" UNION C. II.. SOUTH CA^LINA, MAY 17, 1881). NUMBER 20. ** THE NEWS. ^ SOUTHERN ITEMS. TRADE REVIEW I CABLE SPARflfc* I INDUSTRIai nroadturmr I - Ju^K" Blmonton, of tbo l*onnsylTania INTF:i!1',?t,m" *'* -" 4 court* K?? .?? -? ? , umiuM mat tbf Western Unioi : Telegraph Company lias no right to romor its case to the United Htates courts, bccaua it Is brought to enforco a forfeiture for:vio lation of Ktntc laws and is not a cival suit Heary rains have somewhat checked thi forest lires in Wisconsin. 1'. B. Horr and family, of Braxton, W. Va,, while attempt ing to cross n swollen stream, wero all drowned by their boat capsizing* Harry Axworthy was murdered in Chicago by Otto Bnndburg.-'?The Ontario paper mill at Water town, N. Y., was set on fire and de? itroyed. Raines Warden t ie night watchman. has been arrested on suspicion. M. K. 8l(bcr was found hanging to the mast of *e -?oi/*a small Ixxit drifting about the bay at Port Blakcly, Washington Territory. He was probably murdered by smugglers. A confidence thief buncoed Parmer William Coffman, of Knyatte county, O., out of fft.UOO, | but moat of the money was reoovered and I H. H. Morton, the thief, captured. Mel1 choir Huber, aged it) years committed suicide ; at Scraoton, Pa., by cutting his throat with j a razor. Hundreds of families are in des| titute circumstances on the border of Oklaj Iioum. The York and IV?ph _ _ _ _ w*?V<ll JVdll* \ road hold their annual election at York. y The eoko producers of Flat Top, W. Va., hare formed a pool. The How case was y nailed at Gloucester Court-house, and con" tlnued until the June term. Bail refused. 1 The Senate investigation of rates on \ Canadian railroads was continued In New J York. The libel suit instituted by the I British consul at Newport News against Ed( itor Vinoy resulted in acquittal for the I V el itor. Dr. P. II. Crooin, a prominent I physician of. Chicago, has disappeared. A J bloody trunk has been found, aud it is beI lie red that he has been murdered and his |J body carried to some place of concealment / In the trunk.??A strike at the Allegheny I Bessemer Steel Works promises to end dia| >. .astrously to the strikers. The 8'. Vincent ' ' Orphan Asylum at Vincennee, Ind., was burned, entailing a loss of (50.000. The Susquehanna Rolling Mill, at Columbia, Pa., whose puddiers have been on strike for six weeks, partially returned work with new hands. Mr. Waller, the retiiring American connil at London, has been presented with han I' soma gifts by the consular body. The Samoan commissioners woro presented to Emreror William at Potsdam. The Canadian Parliament was prorogued. Crosi-oxamination of Mr. Parnell was continued bofor thi Parnell commission. The King of Wurtemburg insists upon Vbe return of Faroo Uavsge, his former American advisor. Qen Boulanger has summoned a council of bis supporters to meet in London May 10th.??The Tlpperary court has affirmed the sentences of imprisonment imposed on several members of Parliament. The buminiF nf nn *.H,.lnlt>?r hnlKlllljf ...oUr iTillajra^-^sisj ? ' fate of two of their companions, who wore i. i-"11'11? ' **" vuv VIVOIU^ UUUUlll^. V/IIC Ul IUD J UUII)^ men was burood to death and ihe other badly injured by jumping. The steamers City of New York, City of Rome and ihe Trove loft New York about the same time, and an interesting ocean race is oxpected. Andrew Gregory, proprietor of a hotel at Saginaw, Mich., in a quarrel with a woman, who called heiself his wifo, at Marquette, Mich., shot her dead and then attempted suicide. Three thousand miners in the Piltsburtr region are now out on strike. John Cullon, of Albany, N- Y., in a fit of jealousy, fatally shot bis wifo and himself. ?? Miss Jessie Benntngs while playing wi b > a pistol, at Pooria, Ills, accidentally shot herself. A detachment of United States troops has been sent to eject squatters on thi Cherokee strip. Interesting discoveries of ibaaetos of ancient uiouud mouldors have I Trwl'i"tai>a I The r?*mni ns or ox-iTcatdent ?eP?W4an USIUU do Tejada, of Mexico, were removed under ji, military eecort, from the Marble Cemetery, and shipped over the Pennsylvania Railroad to the City of Mexico. The funeral in New York of Dr. F. A, P. Barnard, ex-president of Columbia College, was attended by promi/ nent educators from all |>arta of the country. ??Many persons were killed and wounded in the recent riots near Guanajuato, Mexico,caused by the imprisonment of Jesuit priests. \ ?Throe thousand Indiana miners quit work because of a reduction inwrnges. Theciti. sens of Maplewood, a town recently annexed i to Chicago, was cleared of its corporation property, comprising the town hall, furniture, etc., by the indignant people. Thi | Malleable Iron Company, of Meriden, ; Uonn , h financially enioarrawga, aiiu vwo hundred and ttfty men are thrown out of { work. Dr. K:ienne Dasobamp, of New Orleara, was convicted of chloroforming, outraging and murdering twelve-year-old Juliette Delta :he? -George If. Boonk, an old Weit Virginian, died at Martinsburg. I After two trials and convictions, and a third successful appeal to the higher courts, Thomas Hotteling, of Hurges', Ohio, has escaped further prosecution on the charge of murder.?'?Frank McGowan, one of Edison's workers has just returned from a perilous 1 /" v undertaking In Houtb Amerlc*, traveling all 1- I/ ^ver the continent In search of a peculiar \* kind of bamboo, whioh, oft?r many hardi ihljM ho filially discovered. A HE SHOT THE MAYOR. " ' "N.. _ ___ f>onaldson Made No Sign Until Ho i Discharged If In Shotgun. " A tragedy occurred mar Covington, Tip>'ton county, Tenn., which resulted In the i killing of W. T. Douglas*, Mayor of that / city. A warrant bad been Isiued for the arrest of Henry Donaldson, a negro, charged V/-,' with attempted assault on a white woman. 1 / Mayor Douglass was one of a posse of tea SM*k who went to the negro's house to vffscl r> Ids arrest. Thajrfound the cabin otoaod ami k called upon hMn ts open the door. Heoeivini Iaoor \waa opened mey vsouia srus ti m, end stated tnat they had 4 warrani j?t at this point a sun mi thurat througt door and discharged, tli > contonta ? Douglass, who was in front, aad klllini linstancy. Foaring another discharge pooN lmaaadiateiy retreated and Dooald succeeded in making his escape Mayoi class was about 97 years oU and leave J4?wt? own bieeuddeq death, ..w.iiiu nnns UOMPIIJED n FUOM MANY SOUKOBi 0 ??Mr. Thomas Nelson P.fge, the Virginia 9 novelist, will sail for Europe sometime next months. George Brown, a tollgate keeper near Georgetown, Ky , was fa tally" shot by Bbcd I J Cult re I in a quarrel over toll. 1 A man by tho nam-) of Lyons was run over by tho way train at Ilowlesburg, W. I Va., and bail both legs cut olT. ??A. E. Frar.ior, a well-known citlsen of Bedford county, Va., committed suicide by 1 cutting his throat with a knife. ' The town of Bhelby, N. C.. has voted to Issne bonds to the amount of fS.UUt) for the erection of a graded sclioolhouse. Tho young men of Albrightsville, Preston oounty, tV. Va., serenaded a recently fnarried couple wltfc4yiwitt? ig.. George Gilliam has been arrested in Lynohburg, charged with an assault tqwn Laura Brooks in Amherst county, Va. -?A large furniture factory is th > talk of Asbviile, N. C., to be established by a company of capitalists fiom tho northnest. Two men, names not ascertained, were drowned at Joshua Creek Dum, nino mlks above Lynchburg, Vu., on James river. n-i-'? .Vuu i ricseit, 01 Ka vent wood, W. Vn., was handling a revolver, a few days ago, when it was discbarge 1, shattering bis (lagers. Favorablo indications of a rich vein of anthracito coal lias been discovered in the North Mountain range of Augusta county, Virginia. Samuel Williams colored, an employe of the Norfolk and Western ltnilrond, was run over at Crewe, Vs., his head being severed front bis body. Dr. W. W. Rowan, a native of Charlestown, W. Va., and a graduate of a Baltimore medical college, wos recently elected mayor of Ouray, Colorado. Riley Dennis, BO years old, who was injured at KeifTa saw mill, in Washington county, Md. by being struok by a board has died from bis injuries. ? Mr.\ George Shouts, of Marion county W. Vh., while setting witb her back to u grate Are, bad ber dress ignited by a spark 1 and narrowly escaped being burued to , death, I The remains of two poddlers supposed to ( hove been murdered have tx en discovered \ im Somerset county, Ky. Their supposed | murderers arc two well-known farmers, wuo | are under arrest. | The Iron Gate I .and and Improvement 1 Company was organized at C.itton Forge, t Va., tbo capital stock of $l(X),UOJ being nil < taken. Mr. Throppe, of 1'hlladelpbia, is president, and Hon. Jacob Yost, manager ' and vico-president. 1 Mrs. J. W. Haden, of Lexington, N. C.. i died a few days ago from tbo effect* of f poison administered by Dr. J. J. bumuierhtll, of Salisbury, a venerable aud eminent payscum, lie gave ber morphine supposingit , was quinine. ? An unknown well-dressed man was killed h by a B. & O. train a snort distance east of c Martinsburg, W. Va. Ho is supposed to bo e about fortv vm~ -? * held and the"'remains interr^^here"*5*1 WtU J ^TnTv* WuK,..Wheat cr?P.ln F?*ierick KS _li U a moro adv?nced slate si b^i. ProiniKl''i? than has b ^ . cusp ftt tl)]^ ttfmr f*?? .'"'y - ? 2L-'X regular Pitched battle took place near ^ Dunsmore, Pocahontas county, W. Va., a s few days ago, between about a dozen women. fj They were armed with clubs, and whacked I each other around in a lively way. Sjveral JJ were injured. The body of an unknown man was found ei on a Ash trap in Dan river, three miles below tl Dauville, Va. Two boys, while attempting n to pull the body ashore, lost it in the strong ti current, and it was washed away. fi A new industry has just boon started in Raleigh, N. C., In the shape of a cider and n vinegar factory. Several wealthy citizens tl are interested in the enterprise, and it is said, n the outlook for a paying investment is first- 1< rate. " A syndicate of capitalists from Now . York, Boston, Buffalo and Syracuse has ' effected the purchase of 30,000 acres of farm t and timbered lands in Virginia ami Ncrib , Carolina for $150,000. Tue purchase is for ^ lumber purposes. 0 Nearly seventy men have already been I recruited for the military company that is t being formed in Tyler county, w. Vs., and t it is confidently expected that when muster- r ing in (lines comes there will be au even r nuudrea names on the> roster. v . ; r; t-'oppooge; commissioner of the t 4-CxClXUf??> ?Tit. ,,.... ? s II i VI :tlt. ** W??or MoD^ifol, died J West Virginia during the past seven years \ has been as follows: In 1882, 78,220 tons; 2 1888, 88,808 tons; 1881, 65,281 tous; 1835, 00,007 tons; 1886, 08,618 tons; 1837,82,311 , tons; 1888, 05,250 tons. ( ?Mr. Richard Nappier, of Orerhlll, Up'?hur county, W. Va , got oue of bis legs broken between the knee and ankle, while ^ working in the clearing, a log rolling upon htm. He is quite an aged man, and it will likely go pretty hard with him. i A new cotton seed oil mill Is to be built , at Coneton, a town eight miles from Tsrboro, N. C., on the Albermirle and Raleigh rail- ? road. The company is composed of so ne of j the most solid men in that section, and its success seems to be uudoubted. ?A colored boy named Levi GrlflVi, s>n ' of David Grifllu, fell into a well on Julian s < creek, Norfolk county, Va., and there being no one near to render assistance the boy w?s i drowned. The body was found by the fatbnr several hours after tho occurrence. i Dr. Doits, of Guyandotte, W. Va., sustained internal injuries itt attempting to jump Off a train at that place. Ho wus detained until the train started, and when fet jumped off he fell to the ground with such lorce that he was so badly hurt that it is thought be cannot survive. The tax on real nnd personal property in I/exington, Va.C* is now 1)1 cents on tho fltJU assessed value. Two years ago it was *1.12^. The debt is less than $8 >,(NX), and after paying interest and making permanent improvements about $-r>,U00 goes nnnu tlly to the sinking fund. A collision occurred between two freight trains of the Midland Koad, between Mclvor's and Amherst station in Virginia. Both engines were badly damaged and a number of cars wrecked. Engineer Currier was Injured, also a fireman and a brakoman, but neither seriously. Tbe road was block-*! for several hour*. ? A murderous assault was made upon a man named Marsh, a few mile*, below Weetoh, \V. Vs., by a German named Kouscbl with an axe, Housclii wm h"l I in $ '>00 bail to await tho notion o! the Grand Jury. The evidence against him was strong. ' While James Butcher, of Krederickburg. ; Va., was repairing tbe damage done by the late storms, be was strnok ou the head by a heavy piece of timber, which fell endwise on him. It fractured his ahull, making a ragged fracture and rendering him iuscns i hie. His life la despaired of. t ??Charles It Crawford, a resident of | Taylors* I We, near Mt Airy,Frederick county, r Ma., was accidentally caught in a circular , law which he was operating a few days ago, t and before be could be extricated had ono t leg and arm out off. His injuries proved 1 fatal.- 'He left a widow and several children. > Ham11el Hooit, a laborer, was found dead in BenJ. N. HardUty'a ware room at ColllngI ton Hlocs, Priuoe George's county, Md. A , coroner's inquest was h rid, and the jury - decided that whilst intoxicated he fell bead r foremost between some barrels and a box, s and being unable to extricate himself died (yom suffooetiQU, Little Kevival from the Dullness Caused by the Centennial. Collections Generally Unsatisfactory. Bullisli Tomperatnent In tlin Stock Market, out n Bearish Tendency in Grain. II. O. Dun tt Co.,n Review. The unprecedented interruption of business by Centennial preparations and celebrations has made tbo week nearly a blank New York accumulated orders gave a surface appearance of greater activity, but It is yet too soon to judge which way the tide will turu, and the reports from otner cities, though nearly all hopeful in tone, do not indicate the expected improvement. The situation seems better at Milwaukee, it is satisfactory at Oin-tha, good at Cleveland as to most branches, but questionable at to iron; rather dull at Kansas City and St. Paul, and less encouraging at the chief centres of the grain, Iron, coal and leather trades. IVII~.tl- " U.>.cvuvinar? <ar irom satisfactory" at Milwaukee, not improve*! at detroit, and rather slow In groceries, tobacco and wooden ware at Pniladelphia, but in other lines there, and at other cities, generally, they seem fairly satisfactory, and in New York some dry goods dealers complain that collections are ''too good"?buyers keep so far within means. Iteports about the wool trade are contradictory. Prices aro low, but Philadelphia reports more sales and prospects of advance. A report that the Treasury may not decide the woolen worsted question for months disturbs importers, who have quantities of goods locked up Lecauso collectors wait for a decision. Otherwise the woolen trade | shows a little bettor movement, but mills are not working at nearly their capacity. Cotton has advanced an eighth and print cloths one-sixteenth, ami there Is a more sotivo jobbing trade, but in some linea at ' \ reduction in prices, and many mills are ' working short time. Silks ate quiet, but ! linens are quite active. In the leather trade 1 general discouragement is by some thought '.bo precursor of better thiugs, and a fair 2 business in boots and hhoes continues, helped > )j tho recent declines in prices of some ? trades. The paper trade is active, and con- C ;racts for delivery in Hueland and Ausraiia are reported. The slow improvement o ionttnues in drugs and chemides. 8 Coal is dull; the reported increase in stocks t or March is 00,000 tons and a strike at I Mttsburg is expected. Copp'r still waits lut the report that bankers will try and ix the price at twelvo cents is. thought to oresbaaow another disastrous attempt and ^ ubsequent collapse. Tin is lowor abroad * ttid f.JO 40 for prompt delivery here, and ? ead is very much deinoraliy.jd. Wheat ;oes lower, it having sold at 82^c, and corn as declined three quarters and oats one ' ent since last week. Dreams of successful J1 ornors prior to July are still chnriah.wi k..? ? ii the facta of the" present situation make li S> a*t?n,Pt appear hazardous. t Pork is uncbange?, with lard and hogs a o u t oi 1 aogari*reT""^h * " K0d acted, while a quick advance might follow' a! revival of demand or speculative conferenc. oi locks have been neglected and anil but ?] ttle stronger In prioe, with a disposition ) believe that the next considerable movetent must be upward. Yet, in spite of some _ rcellent reports, the earnings do not na- L rally compare with lost year's as well as ley did iu January or February, to say otnlng of March, and the outcome of conroversies at the West seems really as doubt- E ul as ever. " The future of the market probably depends ^ iucU upon the movements of money and lie feeling of foreign investors, and for the b loment both favor holders, but bankers t< xik upon a considerable outgo of specie as \ ot improbable, and the policy of Secretary Vindoni, as far as it has D?eii made known, ^ oes not seem likely to cause large disburse- ^ Dents before July. Tbe one favorable fea- n ure is that merchandise exports am still arge, for four weeks of April at New York xceeding last year's by $4,8JO,O0O or 18 per * ent. tbe increase in Imports here having " >een only 8 per cent But tbe Treasury has 1 aken in during tbe week, $1,800,000 more han it has paid out, und there are many 1 esaons for expecting that the exports of I nercbandiso nmv liresentlv decline. I . Thft ~ n ho couptrr -during?thfl letftas and *?* t rn. M. ooioam^" * onuing week of laab year the tl^urei were , 34, made up of 3-J0 in the United States, and 5 iu the Dominion of Canada. , t :kushed to a pulpy mass; , t in immense lioek l aws on Tnrce Miners in a Mine. The Hyde Park shaft, near Scranton, Pa., iras the scene of a terrible mine acci lent, rhree men who wjre working several hunJred feet below the surface, loading coal from the mine chamber in a car, wore caught under a falling slab of rock 15 feet long, 12 feet wide and about two foet thick, crushing them to death Instantly. Tlio victims arc: Flynn, Michael, miner, fifty years old, married; Katchford, Patrick, fifty-six years old, marrieJ; Kogan, Patrick, ingle. The men had just fired a heavy blast and < * sounded the roof, but except aslight hollowness at the faou of tin breast it seemed secure. Their car was nearly filled with coal'when the terrible crash came. The roof that they had just conclud d was safe gave way, catching them under it before (hey h id time to re.tiisi what had happened. Flying pieces of rocky uiass struck and slightly injured two otlnr miners who had heard the reitort and were hurrying to the scene of the accident. When help arrived it was seen that the victims were crushed into a pulpy mass, and it took several hours to remove the rock from the mangled bodies. The bodies wero then carried to the homes of the men who hid a short time previously left tor thhir dailv task. CLEANED OUT THE TOWN. Onn Suburb of Chicago Robs Attothci ?A Funny Hlcnl. The town cf Maplewood is one of those re cently annexe! to Chicago. Chief of Polios Hubbard went out there to take formal pos. session of the place and put It in charge ol city police officers. He found the town hall, where the village police and Are department bad made their headquarters, literally robbed of everything. One chemical Are engine and all the appur Una noes of the office, even to tile cuspidor* and the cojI, as well as the shed that covered it, were gone. The captain of the town of Jefferson polios had con>e in .tbe night after the annexation and carried everything to Klrair. The people of Maplewood had purchased the lire engine and paid for the building, and they felt like mobbing the town or Jefferson police. Huperintendent Hubbard took l'ruttee Nolan and the two Jefferson policemen before the ftty law department and related the facta Assistant Corporation Counsel Knight el onoe wrut > on order to the Jefferson town authorities commanding them to return ail that bad been taken put of Mapjewood, The Duke of Edinburgh ts 111. | The Queen Dowager of Bavaria It dying. The Cur is in constant dread being killed. I \ A slight shook of earthquake wa felt in Cairo, Egypt. Seven cardinals will be created at the coming consistory. The King of the Netherlands is < ally improving in health. The Bijou Theatre in Melbourne uu been destroyed by Are. Kx-King Milan is credited with s desire to become Patriarch of all Servta. ' ' An agent of the Boulangists |? -negotiating In Loudon Tor a loan of 1 Count de St. Foi *. the FiencMqTh istcr to Uruguay, has been trimjCerred to Mexico. oeedl^rJT^Hlonderry?v|Ct>r^y df Ireland. , A party of Egyptians frohuSuakini were I attacked and defeated by a rotco of Soudan- | ( i .se. * An unsuccessful attempt tips made In ton- I ilon to borrow money (or the Panama Canal I Company. I Striking Mr drivers overcame the police J in Vienna and a force of cavalry bad to be * called out to quell the disorder. Fifteen hundred delegate* will attend tho ' Austrian Catholic Congress.- Two deputies f will represent Bishop Strossmayer. " United State* Minister Pendleton present- t e<l his letters of recall to Emperor William , of Germany, and will retire immediately from Berlin. The condition of the Empress of Austria, who is said to be insane, has slightly improved. She passes whole days without speaking or moving. * Gen. Boulanger has decided to leave Bel- ' gium. His decision is due to tho warning given him hy the government that if lie did ? not leave tho ountry he would be expelled. * Emperor William, of Germany, in en interview with Prince Bismarck, showed un- . flinching opposition to overtures from the '? Vatican for tho appointment of a nuncio at n Berlin. The labor agitatfon Iniiernfanjr Is spread- ? ing Jieyond towns into the country. The 01 notice oro credited with havibg seised enor- * mous quantities of American revolotionary eaflets. K A unionist conference at Birmingham, i* Sng., adopted resolutions urging tbn govern- n> neat to introduce in the House of Commons 1 measure to enable tenants to become own- .|j ire of the Laud. C At the Mancheetea Easter steeple-chases is ind hurdle races the Lancashire handicap teeplechaso plate of 1,000 sovereigns, about c hrce miles and a quarter was won by the n) 'rince of Wale's oged Magic, w The Catholio Congress at Vienna will open >n the 22d Inst. It Is expected that the Con- tx ;rem will proclaim the necessity of the re- ,? stabllah tnent of th? temporal power of the tc 'ope. A Congress will also be held iu tc iadrid for the same purpose. Chaplain 8toeckeris practically suspended p roin the functions of preacher to the Ger- w nan Court brcAuseof his anti-Semitlo teach- m figs. He w!i! be permitted to retain his par- jt, latnentary seat, but be will pot be allowed ,n 0 continue political agitation except nil constituencies of Sieger 2HHKfi0BHHu2t pooulace ^ IISA.STERS Kb. Jr 1 Bt Two colored firemen nan,-d Bajls'r and lav is were killed by a boiler explosion at the or essenier Rollings Mills In Birmingham, Alabama. " Mrs. A. H. Luc is, her two daugbters and er hired man, were drownel, while drying an > cross a swollen cree*. near Carthage, fr llssouri. A storm on Luke Superior broke up a num- Qr er of booms of logs ami scattered the tim- bi ers out in the lake, cauisng a loss to lumberlen estiinited at $ lUO.UOJ.' ^ James Connor and James Harris were cc :lllbd by the premature exploison of dynaaite, i>>ar Homer, Michigan. They were ilowiug cut stumps with dynamite. Engineer J.*8. Burns and Fireman James tferrlmaii were ktjled by .<a train running nto a wash-out on ~ ibiMnn wore i ?' Wf fin abd all were in- e| A freight train on the Boston and Albany, ? lailroad broke apart near Worcester, Massa- , hu setts, and then came together agaiu, Q wrecking several cars and tearing up a por;ion of the truck. Two freight trains collided near Glen Ifary, j* Ponnesseo, as a result of the forgetfulnefs of v he engineer of one of tbem. Hrakanian 1'aylor and Conductor Hineline were killed, J ind Knginoor Rusk fatally injured. Two ,, ithers were slightly injured. The Emmons dynamite factory, about a milo from Harrison, Westchester county, N. if., caught fire in the engine room, and soon itterwards the factory blew ut>. Newton I Enunons, son o( iho proprietor, and An.lerion, the tlreman, were injured, the former J, ieriously. During a heavy fog one freight traiu on n the Pennsylvania Railroad run into the rear J j, of another, near Trenton. New Jersey, The I train hands jumped aud were uninjured. A man supposed to be William A Hefton. of , 1709 Moravian street, Philadelphia, an if on work lepairer, who was riding in the caboose, was killed. r In Chicago, Nicholas Nelson jvas engaged. ! in drawing oil from a tank oar C m the Chfoa- 1 go, Milwaukee and Stwtfaul RhUw ij* tiatk to a tank on a Wagon used in hauNng the/oil 1 over to kilns, where it was used In burping I lime, when both tanks exploded. Nelson was I fatally burned. The cnuse of the explosion was unknown. I The British steamer Pine Branch arrived at j Baltimore, and reports the yellow fever as 1 terrible at Hantos and Rio Janeiro, a number < of deaths at the latter port reaching 100 a day. Chief Engineer William Thomaa^of the Fine ' 1 Branch, was left in the hospital at Rio. suf- I fering from the fever. On March 31 a boy i belonging to tbe crew, died, and was buried | at h-jh. i While Easter services were progressing in the Hill Btreet Methodist Episcopal Chnrcb In Newark, New Jersey, a large coagregetioe being preseut, a loy in tbe gallery shouted "lire" three times, causing a panic. The Pastor and U9hers with muuh difficulty convinced the people that there was no fire, and uruer wm rwiorwi. una womau was injurea Id tbe crush. The boy that raised the false alarm was arrested. A mixed train ou tbe Central KaUroail of Iowa was wrecked near Berwick, Illinois. A wheel broke as the train was crossing a bridge at Cedar Creek, and two oaif ware burled into the creek And cangbt Are. burning the bridge. Tbe oo^dactor, Coif in, and the son of section forera^a IWvage. Jhs only passenger, were tlrriniirfr TnjirHM- Agent | ttQDerta, nraketnan H?#d and a mall clerk were dangerously, II cot fatally injured. An exptarinn of natural gas is Itelteewport, Pa., Wrecked the Hotel Landmark and dangerously injured the proprietor. John Lundmark, and a little girl, who wee standing In thwaoor and wsko blown aoroae the street. The building took fire and wea entirely consumed, together with the three frame dwellings adjoining. During the progreat of the Ore Chief McCnlllster. of the rire Department, was painfully but not fatally burned. The loes was 929,000, tfcrftfourtbs cor wed by tcswawe, r... vbi rti\ i iHE.n i ^ The Dfvrlnpmoni of New Enterprise Throughout the South. MARYLAND. Boyd's?Saw Mill.?O. A. & F. A. Zeigle will rebuild their saw mill reported a burned. Frederick?Iron Foundry--Marked &Wil ooxon are purchasing niach."-.?ry for thcii Iron foundry. Port Deposit?Stone Quarries.?Benjamit Kipner is preparing to develop the Cross quarries. Is erecting machinery. Baltimore?Lime Kilns &c. ?C. H. Pearsoi tt Co. Will build 10 lime kilns of the ruos improved desieu. They will also sink at trtesian well. MUST BlakgTtriple" roudenalng pump with a capacity of 3,600,100 gallons per day at their oil works at Jan ton. Baltimore?Shoe Fectory.?The Baltimore Joot and Shoe Manufacturing Co., has been ncorporated by James Carroll,John Waters, *. C. Slingloff,.Henry Clark and Henry 8. Sell with a capital stock of $100,000. Mr. Jlark i* nr*M?nf. Washington. D. C.?Sand Mining.?The ""otornac Steam Sand Dredging & Compounding Co. has been incorporated l>v iforrts Murphy, R. A. Adams, Frank K. lopkins and others to dredge Kami out of he Potomac and its tributaries. Tho capital tock is $25,000. VIRGINIA. G'oen Forest?Iron Mines.?The linen n 'ism do., will commence developing their ron ore mines at once. Pocahontas ? Electric-light Plant.?The (orfolk & Western Railroad ?o. (ollico, loan ok e) are erecting an electric-light plant. Halem?Iron Furnace and Iron Mill.?The outhwest Virginia Land Co., will build, it i stated, an iron furnace and a hoop iron (111. Rocky Mount?Gold Mining.?Dr. Henry Vanklin, of Richmond, will it is reported, rect sluice and rockers for the pur|>use of asbiDg gold. Page County?Iron Miues, &c.? J. Rlake Kendall, of Washington, D. C., has leased on and manganese land from D. F. Kaguy ad B. C. Rust, and will develop same. Suffolk?Railroad.?The Suffolk A: Carona Railroad, running frot.< Suffolk to bowan, N. C , a distance of 40 miles, will it reported be made u standard gauge. Newport Newt?Iron-working Shop?The hesapeake Dry Dock & Const ruction Co., e about commencing work on their irouorking shop, which is to lie 2a x 120 feet. Lexington?Ice Factory.?E. A. Quisenjrry, reported as organizing a company to tablish an ice plant, contemplates tho ei ecru of a plant from 5 to JUonsdaily capacity I coet $7,000. Wytherille?Mineral Waters, &c.?The ilot Rid ire Snrimrs Co. lin? itb Frank 8. Blair as president, to shin literal waters, build a hotel. &c. The eai>kl stock is to be not less than tlOOJJUO nor ore than *250,000. Richmond-Stove Works.-The Southern tear-"? WEST VIRGINIA. Belmont?Oil Well.?Wra. Jobuston it tiling another oil well. Belmont?Oil Well.?Mildred Bros., of itler, Pa., are drilling for oil. Bluefleld?Electric-Light Plant.?An elecic-light plant has been erected. Bramwell?Bottling Works.?Diggos & ix have started bottling works.* New Cumberland ?W. B. Lx\ of Titus He, has leased oil land on llolb.irt's run om Lewis Banders. Charleston?Street Railway. ? E. B. Dyer id associates have received n franchise to did a street railway. Charleston?Land.?The Aspinwnll and A. . Law tracts of lands have beau sold. They intaia about 200,000 acres. Ellenboro?Stone Quarry.?The Baltimore Ohio Railroad Co. (office Baltimore, Md.) ive opened a stone quarry. Parkersburg?Saw Mill.?Noah A they has oved bis saw mill from Pigeon's Roost to a -on Works will,* W slatedt~b\irm~BBOTlUn> on furnace and are making surveys. Prosit furnace is 75x10 feeet. Cairo?Railroad.?The Baltimore & Ohio ailroad Co. (office Baltimoro, Md.) will, it said, probably build a branch road to ranUvllle, a distance of 35 miles. Ellenboro?Railroad.?Charles 8. Martin, homas E. Davis, L. D. McWhorter and thers have incorporated the Ohio & West ' mrinln Southern Railroad Co. to laiild a illroad from the coal fields near Clottville > Marietta, Ohio, a distance of Co miles, lights of wuy have been secured. NORTH CAROLINA. Charlotte?Shoo Factory.?Mr. VanLtnd gham is organizing a stock company to esablish a shoe factory. Ashevllle?Railroad.?A survey will bo oade shortly of tbo proposed Ashoville, Atsnta and Baltimore Railroad. Charlotte?Refrigerator.?Armour & Co., >f Chicago, II'., will, it is reported, erect a arge meat refrigerator warehouse. ELdfldd? Railroad.? K (Torts are being node to have the Atlantic Coast Line (ofllcd iVdmington, N. C.) rebuild a railroad from 3t*l field to Cas too. O istonia?Cotton Factory.?J. H Craigz, P. C. Pe^ram and L. L. Jenkins have organzed a company to build another cotton 'actory. Work to bo commenced soon. Aslieville?Tobacco Factory.?Hull & Hull ire interested in tho $35,000 stock contpnnj utely reported as orgumztd to build a to tMcco factory. Will manufacture plu^ ami tracking tobacco. Charlotte?Reduction Works.?S. R. Bart lett and J. F. Wiswell. of Boston, Man. have secured tho Adams Reduction Works and are adding some machinery to test theii procesi for reducing gold ores. Capacity daily will be 20 tons. If successful the; will build new reduction works Hendersonville?Spoke and Handle Kac tory.?The Hendersonville Manufacturlui Co. baa been orgauizst with Dr. Wexte Smothers, president; K. M. Hrittaiii. vice president, and J. 8. Rhodes, secretary, fo tbo manufacture of spokes, handles, barrt boope, &o The capital stock is $5,00). Charlotte?Oil Mill, Fertilizer Factory an Ulunery.?The Charlotte Oil and Fertilize Co., lately re port. *1 as to build a cotton-seo oil mill aiid fertiliser factory, have starte active work. They will also build a cotto ginnery with a uaily capacity or sixty omo Capacity oil mill will be 1J5 tons ot see SOUTH CAROLINA. Rdgotleld?Brick Works.?Brick worl have oeen started. Maycsville- Bagging Factory.?J. E. A kins will probably start a piuw-tlbro baggu factory. Ureenrille-Cotton Gins?Cely Bros, w erect four McCarthy English uouble-roll cottons gins. Greenville ? Electrical Railroad. ? T , Greenville tttreet Railroad Co. oonteinpla adopting electricity a? ? mo tire power, 1'ariingioti?The Darlington Land & Irn provemeut Co. has been organir. h1 with n capital stock of which wilt be incrcaseil. They are uow improving the land. l^anrens?Oil Mill and Fertiliser Factory. The l^aurons O.I & Fortilia>r Co., reported last week as chartered, will build a cottonseed oil ruill and fertiliser factory of 1JU tons daily capacity. r Darlington?Oil Mill. ?The Darlington s Ginning, Milling, Fertiliser Warehouse Co. have ordered machinery for their cotton seed oil mill, previously luuutioned. The r plant will cost *15,(too. Yorkvllle? Buggy Works.?M. C. Willis ? and W. B. Moore have organised the Caroi linn Buggy Co. for the inanufaclure of buggies, wagon, etc. They have works already i in operation and will enlarge same Inter in t the year. i Florence?Oil Mill.?Walter and S. A. Gregg, T Kershaw, C. M. Covington und " Oil Co., with" a capitaT of to builiiT . contou-s ed oil mill. Machinery will cost ; about 1-.000. Ninety six?Railroad. -- The Aiuii?i? i nrwnwood tt Western Itailronil Co. have organized with A. M. Aiken, prescient. It is probable that arrangements will be made with the Charles on, Cuici'-nati Chicago Kailroat Co. (oflice, Kock IIill) for the completion of their roaii. I NEW SOUTHERN BANKS; Lenksvillo, N. C ?A bank has be?n organize!. Lumpkin, Ga.?A ba lk* has been organize I. Now B'rmingham, Texas.?Wado Bonner will start a bank. Charleston, S. C.?A now savin* bank is to bo star bit. Benttyvllle, Ky.?Capital has boon subscribed to start a bank. i iiiiaiioinn, Teun.?The capital of the now First National Bank, is $50,000. West 1'oint, Miss.?A Stat* hank is being organized. Capital will bo fiO.OJO. Gainesville, Ga.?The First National Bink has been organized witu $50,000 capita). Houston, Texas.?The Houston Nationnl Bank has been orgaut/. ,?1. L. L. Jester is cashier. Rogorsville, Tenn.?The Kogcrsvillo National Bank has been organized tviili $50,000 capital. Wbitowright, Texas.?A bank will bo started shortly by Wotnack & Sou, of I)un gerflold. Curtorsvillo, Gn.?The First National Bank has commenced business. J. H. Vivien is cashier. West i'oint, Miss.?The Merchant & Planters' Bank has been organized oy T. C. Kiug and others. Union Springs, Ala-?Tho Farmers' Alliance conteinplute .starting a bank with $100,ooo capital. Madison, Oi.,?Tho capital of the Bank of Madison, lately mentioned as to be started, will bo $50,000. I Jacksonville, Fla. ? A bill has been intro| duced in th.) legislature at Tullahussxi to charter the Bouthurn Siviug & Trust Co. L) wishing, Tenn.?A hank has been organized witn W. W. JJ-iivie as *, br'isidont; W. T. Jordan, vice-president, and W. T. Nicholson, cashier. Will couaiueuce business July 1. Richmond,. Va.?Tho Security Finance Co. has been chartered with K. D. Christian as president, and James II. Pace, secretary and j treasurer. Tho capital stuck is to b - not less than $100,000 nor inoru than $000,OOJ. MORE APPOINTMENTS. A Brother and the Kx-lirlvato Secretary of Mr. Harrison Named. Tlio President has made tho following appointments. Thomas It. Iloland, of Virginia, to he United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. To hoJUnited States Attorneys -Simu 'lW. Hawkins, of Tennessee, for the Western District of Tennessee; John Iluhm, of Tennessee, for ti'o Middle District of Tennessee, Do Alva S. Alexander, of New York, fur tho j Northern District of New York. To be United States Marshals Joshua II. Hill, of North Carolina, for tho Eastern DisUJnt nt Viirtli (Umlinn : Carter 11, I iarrihOU. Andrew J. Evans, of Texas, to be attorney of tho United Htates for tho West- rn District of Texas; Wm. II. H. Clayton, of Arkansas, to be attorney of the Unite 1 Status for the Western District of Arkansas. Wm. Alvord Terrell, of Henderson. Texas, and Cordon (iraham Heiner, of Kittanning, Pa., have been appointed by the President as cadets to the Military Academv. A. lingnrdus, of Rochester N. Y., has boon ap|iointtHl superintendent of mails, at i Rochester, vice M K. Toomov. rosiirinxi. J. K Woodbridgo. of Connecticut, sup%rin- I tendent of tlte division of supplies in tho Po.-tofllee Department, tins resigned. Win. , J. Pollack, of Kansas, has been appointed chief clerk to the Second Assistant Cos tin istor (ioneral, vice Jain *s T. Briscoo rosi:ned. Henry Cummett, of the geological survey, has Ik'cii appointed biographer of tho census. C. B. Harrison, tho new mnrshnl for Tennessee district, served in the Union army during the war and rose to the ran k of major. Ho is a resilient of Murfreosboro'. Ho is a brother of tho President. . Mr. Thomas K. Poland who was appointed United States attorney for tho Kistern . District of Virginia, is a native of tint state ) and a resident of Norfolk, lie was prosecu, ting attorney for that city for several years, and Is said to bo a lawyer of fJiility. His appointment was recommended by rx-P.uiator Mahone, Representative Bowden and Brown, and others. .1. B. Hill, of Raleigh, who was appointed marshal for tho Kaatern District of North I Carolina. held tho same ollico under previous ' Republican administrations. There wag practically no opposition to bis ronppointi inent. 8. VV. Hawkins, the newly appointed attorney for the Western Districtof Tennessee, was the Republican candidate for governor ' at the lust election. He is a resident of IIuntr iiigton, and is said to he an excellent lawyer. f J. W. Hrowu, who has Ipton appointed y United HtutOs marshal for the same district, lives at lirowusvillo, and has held the oltluo of clerk of the court of Huywood county since INSii. He is a young mm of hi^h * repute. r John Huhm, who has been appointed div " trict attorney for the Middle Districtof TonI nessee, is a native of (leriiinny. He came to this country in l?til, joine?l the Union army and served throughout the war most of the d time on Hen. Thomas' staiT. At the clos.) ol r the war he settled in Nashville, and has live<l d there ever since. Ho is said to he one of the d liest lawyers fn the 8iate. n 1>. 8. Alexander, who baa been appointee1 ' attorney for the Northern District of New d York, is a native of Maine, but has for < number of years been a citizen of Ohio am Indiana From the latter Htatohowusap pointed fifth auditor of the treasury, bu was removd from this position upon the ail vent of the Cleveland administration. H Its then settled in Rultul >, N. Y., and engagei In the practice of law. During the recen t- I campaign bo assisted in attending to the cot ,g rvxpondence of Mr Harrison, and was frc ?|uently spoken of in connection with th .jl utltce of private secretary to tlio rresldoul er 1 - At a called meeting of the Chamber c ho Commerce of Greensboro, N. C. ,a com mitt* tie was appointed to consider the matter of roller flouring mill in tbat town, . TEMPERANCE. THE SALOONS AK A BANK. You deposit your money?and lose it! Your time?ami lose it! Your character?and lose it! Your strength?and lose it! Your manly independence?and lose it! Your solf-eontrol?ami lose it! Your home comfort?and lose it! Your wife's happiness?and lose it! Your children's happiness?nnd lose it! Your own soul?and lose it! ALCOHOL AND DISEASE. Many persons think of the effects of alcohol indulgence as temporary, as if the man were All right again as soon as he had slept off his intoxication. This is partly true, for in this, as in other cases, nature at once begins tho work of eliminating tho poison from the uriiUlU. Moreover, the recuperative force grows weaker and weaker under repeated potations, till at last It Ik lost altogether. There is not only a tendency to numerous diseases which are directly caused by the alcoholic poison, but at the same time the system is rendered susceptible to diseases of other sorts. In fact, the condition is one of physical deterioration. What is worse, this deterioration tends to perpetuate itself in the man's posterity. Says Dr. Richardson, of london; "Not one of the transmitted wrongs, physical or mental, is more certainly passed on to those yet unborn than are the wrongs inflicted by alcohol." Says Dr. Forbes Winslow, of London: "Tho human race is morally, mentally and socially deteriorated by that, poison." and tho celebrated Dr. Anstic, of Knglaml, writes: ' When drinking has l>een strong in lioth parents, it is a physical certainty that it w ill fx* traced in the children." Among the inherited tendencies is that strange paroxysmal and irresistible craving for liquor which comes on ut intervals, it may be of months, though meantime the man is absolutely free from it. Dr. Husk, of Sweden, says that, half his nation are annually consuming an average of forty gullons of Iniuor each- thnt new diseases have miiiwirixl ? "< "IJ ' 1 . , ....V. vm uuci I1UVP 111eruased fearfully in prevalence and intensity, and that in cousequence the Swedes have deteriorated In stature and physical strength. The testimony from Franco and other nations of Europe is similar. Nor are these effects confined to inebriates and to those who indulge in the more fiery liquors. Bir Henry Thompson, after over twenty years devoted to hospital practice, as well as to private practice in every rank, testifies as follows: "I have no hesitation in attributing a very large proport ion of some of the most pain fill and dangerous maladies that come under mv notice to the ordinary use of fermented drink in quantities conventionally deemed uioder ate. There is no habit in this country which so much tends to deteriorate tho quality of the race." In view of such testimonies?and they might l?e greatly multiplied?is the war against tho saloon one of fanaticism V? louth's Companion. A MILLIONAIRES I1KTKKMINK.n WIITK. A special from Michigan City, fnd., says that Mrs. W. O. l^ed.s, wife of one of tno richest men in Indiana, has secured evidence that nineteen different saloon keiqiers in Michigan City have sold liuuor to -h"r bus , s Which'she attributes Mr. Leeds's drinking habits to the influence of politicians and sa"oon men, who have fastened themselves upon him. Mrs. Leeds says she proposes to have the saloon keepers suffer froiuu-eiO w> $100 fine for every drink sold to lur. Leeds after notice was given. Her investigation showed incidentally that out of sixty-h\o places in Michigan City where liquor is sold, i,nl v fiftv-ono. are licensed Site intend* to have the unlicensed fourteen forced to close. Mrs. I>*eds is well supplied with money and looks like a determined woman. The saloon keepers do not appear to be worried. It is ;rumored that Mr. Leeds has promised to stand back of them in any proceedings and supply the sinews of war. The amount of money lie can control is estimated at $5,000,000. A WKLI.-EDOCATED HOY. While tno discussion is going on as to the prohibitory method of dealing with the liquor traffic, the children and young people in tho .Prohibitory States are, to a large extent, growing up free from the saloon contumiuii.tion to which so many fall victims in licensed Jiquor selling communities. Not long ago an eight-year-old -boy, the son of u prominent official in Kansas. j?id a visit to relatives in i2$?9feU?K? ft?!1"* made ji . ointiuuoua the streets of that city, and passing the liquorsaloons, with their screened windows, and other characteristic appointments, lie inquired with much curiosity of his uncle: ^'What kind of shops arc these?' Ho had .never seen such in his own city iti Kansas. What u saving of the lioyhood and girlhood of the nation it would lie indeed if, as completely as from Kansas, the liquor-saloon could be lionished in every State throughout the Union!?National Temperance Advocate, TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. South Africa rej>orts a Woman's Christian Temperance Union comj>osed of natives. The temperance movement in Holland has warm and influential support from Hev. C. S. Adams Van Scheltama, of the Reformed church at. Amsterdam. Postmastcr-ficneral Wanamaker lias established an inviolable rule tbat no postofflce shall bo kept in a saloon, or in any room from which a saloon may be entered. Thaddeus B. Wakeman, of the New York bar, has a decided opinion on the temperance Suestion. He says: "There are but two constant. positions on this subject; free trade in alcohcl if it is a food, no trade in alcohol (except as a poison) if it is a poison. Science has rendered her verdict, on the facts; it is a ? poison, and the most terrible affliction of the human race." 1M women ot oouth Carolina have tiaen holding a temperance convention at Charleston, and have asked the State to adopt scientific temperance instruction in public schools, and the apfiointment of police matrons in all the cities and towns of the State. They have decided that they will wait no longer for the legislature tofcet voluntarily, and have liesieged the Governor with petitions and visits. California, with its "pure, light, homemade wine" idea, has one saloon to every .ninety of its population. This proportion is exceeded by only two States in the Union. So far from wine-making being California's mainspring of material success, it has been shown that against its 1887 value of fi,780,000, the wheat and barley product, aggregated 945,420,000, and tho gold and silver mining, 9M,565,000. New York Press: "See these young men 1 from rinhWn In fwpntr.?T von re of mro What are they doing? Smoking, drinking, I smoking, drinking. What do they talk of? Tobacco, wine, whisky, hallet girls, races,hall (hatches, stocks. Do you ever hear them discuss matters of any gravity whatever? Do . they know anything beyond the flippancies ' that float with the current to-day? They are ^ the very arum upon the water or life." 1 The question "Is moderate drinking harrr.full" is being discussed by the Ancient Order I of United Workmen, Fast Grand Master Workman James says that one of the lodgee 8 that has cost the order the remarkable nun I of 180,000 in ten years is composed almost I exclusively of lieer drinkers, and that these men were received into the order with the understanding that they only drink occasion0 ally. Men who acknowledge that, they are moderate hut habitual drinkers are debarred from membership. Miss Frances K. WUlard has gone Routh, >f where she will attend the annual conventions o of the Women's Christian Temperance Union a societies and visit the leading Southern cities, She will return to Chicago in May.