Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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v Tks Indian office in Washington hs* I Icddcd to introduce kindergarten train- | tag and Material* as a part of ita school r A. prise worth winning has been of-1 bred bj the East Indian Government, the prize is $25,000 for a practical mashine for decorticating ramie. * ? ??? The damage caused in Algiers by the test invasion of locusts is stated to tmonat to $50,000 for the department, $150,000 for that of Qran, and $200,000 lor.CoaflUptiae. ' The University of Qeno, Italy, has established an academy for scientific travel?! ! ! |....|..tinuiimii mmmm , fo observe and investigate all phe aomena, j Mk?j women are finding congenial em-1 fbjment In the various libraries which tart been established in nearly all thfc feMea and towna throughout the country. The work la eminently suited for them, 'declares the Now York World, and they there been found suited for the work, foe. Carolino Le Conte has been appointed State Librarian of South Carolina. She is an accomplished student, a resident of Columbia, and is the first jwoman to hold such a position in the State. Making note of the vast sums spent for upholstery and decorations which add nothing to tho comfort of railroad SSy cars, tho Railroad QauUe expresses surprise that so little progress has been recorded in the lighting of trains by electricity. However, a beginaing has been made in this direction and the kerosene lamp will by and by go to the same limbo with the coal stove. Then a derailment will not necessarily imply a roasting of the passengers who escape being crushed to death. A spark from a locomotive on tho| Southern Pacific Railroad in California caused the burning of a wheat crop. The company being sued for damages showed that the fire was caused by a lccomotivo ?f the Santa Fo Company, lossco of the road, and the United States Court sus ? ' i ? 8Al ? m.f the New York Commercial Advert***" kails as an important principle, of wido application. In the letter of a sportsman to his ifavorite journal appears the following sentence, written apparently in all sober* nees: "Net all the farmers in this valloy annoy the hunters by posting trespass notices." How very kind and considerate, exclaims Farm and Firetide. How thoughtful of tho tender feeling of tho city sportsmen who annually invade the *'rooral deestricts" during tho hunting season. How hard-hearted, sordid and selfish those other farmers are who "an. WOT?" thn httnioM ? Af_ - * ?"j >uu uuuwm \>y posung trespass | notices. "Annoy tho hunters" i? good. Certainly tho farmer doos not realize what a grievous annoyance it is to the mighty hunter from the city to arrive with his dogs and his friends at his chosen hunting grounds and find them posted with trespass notices. It is too late now to help it. Tho season ia over, and the sportsmen have returned to their homes, and are now studying what amendments to the game laws they shall have tho Legislature make so as to give them a better chance next season. K Professor Rodney Welch declares ii * the Forum that "the rural districts havi not shared with towns the recent greal improvements in the postal service. Ii ihe country the postal facilities are hardlj any better than they were a century ago. There are no money-order postofflces, ex> cept in large commercial and manufac taring towns, and no free collection 01 distribution of mail1 matter. If a farma , wishes to mail a letter he must go to thi Dostoffice. nerhans ten miles awav. to d? it. No good reason can be assigned ?.uj money orders should not be issued and cashed at every postofflco in the country ' As to the free collection and free deliver] of postal matter, tho people in the rural districts are as much entitled to it ai town people aro, although the service could not from tho nature of things tx performed so often in a sparsely-settled region as in a thickly populated one. The general intelligence of any claa largely depends on the facilities foi laavninr? wlia# {a am tn maJi) vmutu^ '?uw* io(gvraug uu tu vuu VTiriivt4 ' Favoring one class gives it a special ad. .vantage, which in time will produos marked results. Depriving countrj people of the postal facilitiea that' an enjoyed by those who live in large towns, tends to lower their intellectual standing and to keep it below that of those wht live in cities. In nearly all European coua *-ies the postal facilities are as good it the rural districts as in tho large towns In several of them country people havi the advantage of the parcel post and oi postal savings banks. They are not slighted because they cultivate farmj and vineyards, or raise cattle, sheep ani few]*" MARCH A LIVELY MONTH, j Strong Breezes Walt These News Notes To Us, From Kanj Points In the Progressive Southland, Interesting We Axe Sure. VIRGINIA. The Fluvanna Building and Investment Co., has been organized at Bucna Vista; capital stock, $500,000. Muscoc, the murderer of Officer Seal, was sentenced to be hanged April 21st in Charlottesville. Major B. J. Black is drawing plans for IdaM,. 1 hamuli a lished on the site of the old Valentine Houm. The Mary Washington Monument Association, of Fredericksburg, has conveyed to the National Association the deed of the lots and unfinished monument of Mary, the mother of Washington, and the larger society is to complete the work of erecting a suitable memorial over the grave. $80,000 will be raised for the purpose. Suit was brought Friday against the Richmond Railwny and Electric Company by Rosarina Genes tray for $15,000. She was run over by an electric car and badlv injured. A wreck occurred on the Richmond and Danville railroad near Danville, Wednesday, in which Fireman Robertson was killed and several others seriously wounded. The 107th annual session of the Baltimore Conference of the M6thodist Episcopal Church South have concluded their labors in Roanoke and adjourned. Salem is made glad by the assurance that the Ellis & Lcssig Steel and Iron Co., of Pottstown, Pa., has accepted the offer made them, and will remove their entire plant fo Salem as soon as their present stock is worked up. The Rockbridge Co., of Glasgow, of which ucncrai r iiznugn iicc is president, is reported to luivo placed half a million dollars of its preferred stock in New England on advantageous terms. The English people who agreed to take $1,500,000 of this stock were unable to carry out their contract, and it is reported that they have forfeited $25,000 by their failure to do it. It is reported that a stock company will bo organized for the manufacture of paint from ochcr to be developed near Luray. NORTH CAROLINA. ?.an.* .-,...1 n.Hlnr,hog will bftllfild atr Gaston county, through her representative, has declared herself a dry county. The Governor has granted a pardon to W. P. Deshong, of Greensboro, Who was serving out a ten year term for receiving stolen goods. The output of bituminous coal from the mines near Egypt, Chatham county, is increasing. The Seaboard Air Line will use this coal for its shops and engines. Almost fabulous reports comes from Asheville, says Harper's Weekly, with rcSird to the work which is being done by eorge Vaudcrbilt on his estate near there. The natural effects of the place are being cnliauced by every artificial effect that money can buy, and the $100.000 already spent upon the mansion and groui^ttpe said to be only a part of the prop^WPout lay. The county commissioners of Mitchell will very probably be brought to law by tho courts,, for having levied a tax beyond the constitutional limit and which a il_ o ? i- > ' vuvcreu mc o cents rax ior pensions and then placed that latter sum with their county taxes iu the hands of their treasurer. The tax was then iu reality collected and diverted to county purposes. Ouc hundred aud fifteen vessels and boats passed through the New Heme aud Beaufort. r?n;| during the mouth wf IVwluarv. The caual company have put the ranal in better oider than tlie creeks it joins. The Wiuston Land & Improvement Co., is about to place on the market some 1,500 residence and business lots in the compnny's new addition to Wilkesboro. The company is (o build a sflo.OOO court house and donate it and a block of ground to the county of Wilkes. SOUTH CAROLINA. The real estate men of Columbia have formed a real estate exchange. A new postoffico has been established J in Spartanburg County and named after Senator Irby. Pinekney B. Hall has been appointed postmaster at the office of I?by. In South Carolina 9,000 acres of melons were planted in 1890. This year at least 19,000 acres will be devoted to tli.it liiciuiia fruit. The Governor has appointed the following boards of physicians: Chailcston?Robert L. llrodle, Charles M. Reese and J. Somers Iluist. Newberry ?W. I). Senn, C. T. Wye he, R. C. Carlisle. Hampton?N. II. Johnston, I. I. McGregorie, J. II. Oocthc. Gen. Dumont, the U. 8. supervising inspector general of steamboats, annouuc- j cd the removal of Thos. O'Keefe, inspector of boilers at Charleston. No reason is assigned for the change, but it is said ftolitics had nothing to do with it. The ocal board at Charleston will name his successor. The Western Carolina Land it Improvement Co., of Anderson, which was organized to develop tho waterpower known as Calhoun Falls, and build a town near there at the crossing of two railroads, has been completing all I preliminaries, and will soon announce that the town-site is prepared and what facilities will be offered to manufacturers to locate and use the magnificent water-power of Savannah river at that point. This company has f:i00,000 capital stock. GEORGIA. The young men of Savannah propose to establish an "Information lhireau" .or eligible young women wku arc willing to marry on $100'a mouOT^( The Empire tad Dublin road has been [ graded to Grovania, and the rails are all to hand to complete it to that place. The fanners of Habersham county are going into the tobacco-planting business on a large scale. They are confident that it will add many thousand dollars ?. to their yearly income. While out boating on the canal near Augusta, Hurry Lamar and Louise Connelly were drowned. Green Howell, a 60 year-old Savannah negro, is gradually turning white. His hands are perfectly white, his forehead and his throat and neck likewise. j, The Young Mens'Christian Association p contemplates erecting a building at At- j( lanta to cost $50,000. m The Ohio excursionists were royally on- K tcrtnincd at Fort Valley. Editor Kersh m iiiijlnl.iil.tif Wm\ in "hij Weekly Press Association, and made a five-column speech to them, noupareU measure. a| The Confederate pension limit under b <1... 1...... ?f n?A.?i. .. ?t tft _nrl I A ? *i?w m" n vi 10 f i?iv? ?uu v. Simpson, who was a private in Company a K. '10th (Georgia regiment, has just been paid that amount. On the retreat from I1 baker's Creek, Miss., in climbing over a K fenee he was struck by a cannon ball. 11 It cut off his right arm at tho shouhlcr. took of! a couple of fingers from the left ? hand, dislocating the left arm at the shout- R der. Subsequently the left hand and arm h became rigid and fixed and dwindled 11 away to little more than skin and bone, ' so that the only arm left is useless. Tho b pension seems a small pittance for such C( disability. R TENNESSEE. { The House of Representatives passed Li the bill prohibing the running of freight' a and excursion trains on Sunday, with the. a exception of thoso carrying fruit and live stock. a Campbell county is preparing to build a $10,000 jail at Jacksonboro. 8 Plans have been completed for the ? erection of two buildings at Sullius Col- )' lege, Bristol. The estimated cost is 1! $40,000. A $12,000 public school n building is also to be ercctcdat Bristol. 11 After a very interesting trip through J1 the rapidly developing section of South western Virginia and Eastern Tennessee jj the distinguished party of Congressmen. Government officers and military men n accompanying Secretary Proctor arrived at Chattanooga Tuesday for the purpose j of reviewing the Chickamauga battlefield before determining the manner in n which the appropriation for the improve- ^ ment of the Chickamauga National Park shall be expended. The party were ^ the recipients of much attention at Roan- ' oke, Bristol, Knoxville and other places. ? David Posten, the lawyer who was shot at Memphis Tuesday bv Col. K. Clay I WMllpgTTWH+ing niu Husnfa ?ten ? late hour in the night and failed. It con- ]i sisted in the cutting away of 30 inchei a of lacerated intestines. Col. King, in L his cell at the jail, received the news of li his victim's death in the same cool man- u nor that has characterized his bearing g siuee the tragedy occurred. ? Negatiations, heretofore noted, have for a long time been pending between an English syndicate and the owners of the Jellico, East Tennessee and Kentucky coal mines. Options that arc said to ag- 0 grcgatc $3,500,000 were given. It is now ' stated that an agent of the syndicate has c come to this country to close the deal, ^ the options expiring the 1st of April. 1' FLORIDA. ? St. Augustine is being paved with JJ cypress blocks. * * - - I James Borland, David Borland, G. R. Al'cn and others have incorporated tho g Cilia Fruit Co. with a capital of $102,- 8i 500. ;< The Florida Central & Peuinsular tl Railway Co., of Jacksonville, will erect tl at Fcrnandina phosphate elevators at a tl cost of $50,000. Gen Alger drove up to one of the ? railroad otlices nt Jacksonville, alighted, v and went in. He wanted to find out 0 something about transportation, and the 8| Bald . ' What in yuui name, sirV" 11 "lien. Alger," was the reply. "Well," c said the agent, "I am glad you're a Gen- I1 oral, 'cause these Florida words ate just full of Colonels." P Orange growers around Ocala are putting in improved irrigation plants. Negotiations arc in progress for the erection of a mill at Mneelcnny to inanu- p facture starch from the cassava root. Indinna nnd Maccleuiiy capitalists arc in- i, terested. The canal enterprise on the east coast ^ of Florida, together with the new steamboat lines and the proposed railroads, are going to open up one of the finest sections of the state. It is a rich agricul- Q turn' country, and even if it hasnT any Rj phosphate deposits, there are "millions" n in its soil. I j, The Juno Beach Land Co., of Florida, | e< has been incorporated for the purpose of | n establishing a winter icsort nt LakO j tl Worth inlet, Dade county. Juno Beach | b consists of a high ridge of land, lying ?j between Lake Worth and the Atlantic ^ Ocean, with a frontage of three miles on g the ocean and the same distance on the p lake. OTHER STATES. ' rri.. in AAA ? -f 1 A I IIU Ul 1</,VVV (IllC i Ul [line I XI And oak lands in Livingston parish, II Louisiana, by Chas. II. Henry, of ft Pennsylvania, is another evidence tl\a.t h capitalists who hav'fe hefetdlore made their investments ihtho West afe look- st ing to the South. ct The Southern marblc-producing States ? T stand on the general list, as compared with the whole country, as follows; Tennessee, second; Georgia, fourth; Mary- P land, tifth; Virginia, seventh. In cap- lt ital invested these rauk relatively as fol- 01 lows: Georgia, $2,373,027; Tennessee, b< $815,500; Maryland, $576,004; Virginia, jc not stated. Rather be Hanged and Done With It. Dkcatcr, Iix.?Bill Crawford, who II has been sentenced to be hanged on Sat- In unlay for the murder of Mrs. Matthias st refused to apply for a stay of execution, although the Judgo had said it would he ()l granted if requested. He savs lie is <p guilty and does not care for dolay in the a| e xecution. He wants it over with. A t|, motion for an inquiry iuto his sanity, IVl made by his counsel, has lpeeu overruled, tc DBAS OF THB SJJANCET effer, Kyle aad Simpson Speak In Washington. toecription of the Three Representative* of the Vtrawe-Tifaroui Talk on the Aims of Their Party and About Old Parties. Washington, I>. C.?A great crowd lrned out here to hear Bcnatore-elect effer and Kyle and Representative-elect i-rry Simpson address the Citizens' Allince in Grand Army Hall. Peffer and jle surprised everybody by displaying tore than ordinary oratorical ability, ana [r. Simnsou cn<*uO Arrcat enthusiasm by 111 mu'wiijirtiiiiTiTi " 1 IIMIMI H" Mr. of ngul&r build, a little nltovo medium ' eight, slightly stooping in the shoulder*, ritn long, sharp nose, and long beard of rich dark brown, falling down to the nvcr buttons of his waistcoat, and n air of keen blue eye*, rather clo^c to ether?a man of mild, ministerial benrjg and placid, gentle countenance. Senator-elect Kyle is a six-foot blonde f athletic build. He is a man of plain ppcarance; a man of the people, whose ands have been used to toil. He does ot look to bo more than !iS years old. lis hair and mustache arc not quite red, ut nearly so. His complexion is deriddly blonde and a set of very white teeth re frequently exposed by a faint sinile. lis large blue eyes arc expressive of lille earnestness or amiability, hut the nes in his face aro strong aud his dress nd whole hearing indicate a simplicity nd freedom from affectation or vanity. Mr. Jerry Simpson is distinctly the utipodo ox a, is lor from the CKjkless citir.cn usually described for impson. Ho is a man of average size, ,!ii j i? i? i a i t t__ a ? ? - mil mint iiiur ana biuddj musiacne, ocig otherwise smooth shaven. His face i tironzedj weather-beaten and strongly larked with heavy lines. Ilis eyes have peculiar brightness and light up with n "intellectual fire" when ho talks. A winkle that comes into them at times, nil a smile that is just visible at the r orors of his mouth, indicate a keen sense f humor and, at the same time, a degree f self-confidence. nis suit was a sort ot ray goods of "hand-me-down" cut. lis shoes were heavy, with square toc% nd laced with leather striugs. His eckwcur was a plain standing coiiar, urned down at' the corners and ornnlented with a black "shoestring" tie, nd he might bo regarded a decidedly nfushiounblo figure, but not by any leans uncouth. Mr. Peffer deplored the poor condiiou of tho ft i^ra, who had become i re tense of* /4? racing the tatin taxes, nd said that the McKinley bill would iring about the importation of foreign nbor. On silver he was a free-coinage nan. He said that one of Cleveland's ;ood qualities was honesty. There way tot the difference of the turning of a land on tho money problem between the cadcrs of the two old parties. "What would you think," he said, "if Jrovcr Cleveland should unite tho Demcratic and Republican parties east of he Alleghany Mountains, and be their andidatc against the united South and Vest? This is not improbable. We ?avc our friends in the East to take care f themselves. They can do so oidy by ettiug together. There is goiug to be great 6torm and our friends must husle to get out of the rain." lie cited the policy of the treasury in oing to the relief of Wall street last iimmcr as an evidence ol class favorit !m of which the farmers complained. If hat was right, he said, it was right foi he Govcrawr^yo ajmc to the relief of he farmers ofTnfc West, lie drew a word painting of the duguts and sod huts, at the doors of which romen stood in tenrs watching for the flicers coming to sell them out. lie iid they were not repudiators. What 'ucy wunieu was money enough in cirulation so that they could get it for the roducts of rheir labor. He had asked irmers in Kansas what interest they aid on short-time loaus, and they relied from 18 to 77 per ceut. The rcult of their labors on farm products was ot over 1J or 2 per cent. He advocated the Government of the cople running railroads for public trausortatiou at low raies, to cover expenses, ut not for profit. A new Government lilroad should be built from North l)aota to the Gulf. In about twenty-five ears, he predicted, there would be no icli thing as interest on money. 8e?-dor-elcct Kyle considered the lack f moiiey tW trouble in South Dakota ad the West. He said that the Alliance lovement grew out of the discontent l the South and West on account of conomic conditions. More money was eeded to carrv on the trade of t he CGiiu- | y. The high tariff was bad enough, ut the scarcity of money was worse, "hey wanted money, and did not care rhat sort. Silver money was as good as old, and gold was no better thau paer. Jerry Simpson proves to be a keen ortor, full of anecuote and spirit? The .Uiance, he said, was a development. I was the result of the awakening of the irmer to the fact that he was not getting is share of advantages. 4,W? u>w ? cowl m *?*. . niui|?minf illilL ictional strife was kept alive for politiil purposes. We came to sec that the uestion of loyalty or disloyalty was a lere matter of where one was horn. If had been b ?rn in the Hoy'h I would robablydwvc l)^en a rebel aua have felt my patrioW''lii7 to light for the cause f the Confederacy. So it might have ?en with any of ua. "We decided to in hands with tho South. We detcrinod to till up the bloody cliasm, and e started by throwing Ingalls into it. autli Carolina followed with Wade ampton, and we will fill thccliasm if we ive to throw ia all the old leaders who rive to keep sectional strife alive." Ifc said ho did not think the money uestion was the all-abaorbing one. The jestion of transportation was, in bis union, more important. It was through icsc transportation lines, where the faren had to pay freights to cover the i" rest ou watered stocks several times the amount of the original coat of the roads, that the money of tb? farmer* was sucked un. If vicious legislation was to be permitted to stand, and railroads to con- 1 solidate wealth, it would do but little good to increase the circulating medium with the idea of helping the farmer, for it would all go at once baeJt into the pock ^ ets of the monopolists. lie argued in favor of taxing heavily all laud withheld from use, claiming that no one had a right to withdraw land froiu the use of tho publie and not himself use it in some way. "We do not 11 favor the confiscation of land," he said *' "Every man may hold as murh as he can get and as he wants to, but if lie ^ withholds it from use lie should nav a ' tux for the privilege of doing so." In j other words he was opposed to restrict- ^ ing the amount of available lan<l so ?s (?> make that on the market moro valuable. Courier. ? ?I The Arkanaaw Traveler'# Land Ij!Tti<k Rook, Aiik., [Special.]?Prof John ('. IIrunner, tho State geologist of Arkansas and tho head of tho recent go ologic survey in the State, tolls the Kansas City Star of some of the undeveloped and neglected resources between tne Ozarks nud Texas: "Tho recent survey disclosed the fact that coal, marble and zinc exists in enormous quantities in tho northwestern part of the State, while marble, sandstone,manganese, glass, sand and limcstoue abound in the northeast quarter. Some Brown coal and potter's clay are found near the low portion of tho State, in the southeast quarter. In the southwest kaolin, antimony, whetstone, some brown coal and chalk, Baid 4?x l\n iho fieot 4/\ li.? .1 f ? 4' ? "V vw wu uiBtuvncu 111 (I1U I United States, nro tho mineral produc- I ( tions. None of these vast provisions of I , , nature liave been advertised, uud un- ? til recently very little has been done to- j ward developing them. The general imprcssion about Arkansas has been that j the State contained Hot Springs, Little { | Rock and a vast area of swamp lands, ( while it is really -one of the richest States in the Union. There are but five of the 33 million acres of land in cultivation; lit million acres of fiuo timber remain untouched, as well as the vast mineral de posits, ami, in fact, Arkansas offers <; better and a more diversified field than any State in the Union." Prof Rranner believes that his State is on the eve of an era of rapid progress mid development, and soon take her place among the greater States, whose inducements have liecn heralded to the world, and attracted the ( attention of multitudes of people and millions of money to settle upon the unclaimed lands, build great cities and utilize the things that are uuder the earth. The forces are already at. work, and Prof. Rranner believes that tho future of Arkansas is assured. 4"Hmthniy*l^c^^^T^^dshf^^fhaV' " affect ion of Masons, one towards another, which is born at our iuiafiation and grows aud strengthens with every degree; which is ever ready to defeud the fame of a brother, which will protect the innocence of his family, and prompt him to pursue the way lie should go, where dangers beset his path; will caution him mrainst his cucmy, ami often against the worst of enemies, himself, will apprise hiin of his deviations from the lines laid down upon the Trestle hoard. by which ho might derange the harmony ami glory of the Temple, ami cense to deserve wages of the Great Grand .Master above. brotherly love and friendship is that sense of duty combined with zeal which would hazard pioperty, liberty and life to serve an injured and suffering brother. It does not consist in that pecuniary assistance, which may he rendered to a member of the Craft, to give an impetus to his affairs in life, or to rear for him an establishment. ? Win. S. Cogdcll, Grand Master, A. F. and A. M., of bouth Carolina. 1821. Alabama Gives No Money to World's Fair. The hill .which has passed the Alabama {senate, making an appropriation of $25,000 for a proper representation of that State at the World's Fair, was smothered in the House during the last hours of the session. A remembrance of the late force bill seemed to influence the legislators in their adverse action. The. Montgomery , Advertiser deplores the failure of the Legislature to make nil appropriation, and expresses gratification that there arc yet Alabumians possessing sufficient enterprise and far-sightedness to move in j the matter. A movement has already becu put on foot, with active men in the lead, j to have a State convention to devise ways And means for promoting an exhibit for the State of Alubamaat the World's Fair. It is believed that the movement will succeed and that Alabama will make a creditable exhibit. A Colored Millionaire Dead. in.ii;.. A wi.ii.. .. ?J ?mi ? i? 1 . ...i.I* * . vt niiv, ii iuiuicu millionaire, who died in Brooklyn last week, made his money l>y compounding and selling dings in New Vork city, lie established himself in the. "Swamp" half a century 1 ago, and duping the early days of the war, when others of his race suffered In dignities from the mob, his store escaped issnult, for he was known as a friend 1 and benefactor of the poor. Dr. White, ?s he was called, was well educated and had a tine private library. In tho Wild and Wooly Wost. \ ViitoiMA, Nkv.?Bella Preusch, 13 ' year old girl, was suspended from school f for thirty <lays for misbehavior. She ' went home and shot and fatally wounded lie;.so If with a revolver. The Toxaa Cattlemen. i Dallas, Tkx., [Hpceiol.]?The 130th Annual convention of the northwest Texas cattle growers' association, adjourned to meet at Fort Worth, March, 1M?J2 The reports show cattle particularly well preserved during the last winter. The California Legislature passed a bill appropriating $300,000 for thai State's exhibit at the World's Fair, im>*1 J.ivcinor Markhain has approved tin bill. Wi'li its wealth of products and a j liberal appropriation, California will j .h il)tlc*s make a great exhibit. < The first newspaper In Virginia wai printed in 1760 at $50 per annum. 1 k/\/v AUAJllil Mli\J\/AVlXaIWJi [Baltimore's Business Hen Hare T Great Faith In Them. Ph? South Hai Learned to Manufacture Her Staple Products, J Iron and Cotton. w ? ?.1 BautIiiokk, AId., March II.?The Mailifacturer's Record of tbis week publish- (|( a interviews with leading Baltimore ^ >ankers as to tho effect on southern so uriiics of the Ute financial crisis follow- 1't) ng tho failure of the Bariugs, of Loudon, ?|( ina the outlook for southern investuionts. dr. Alexander Brown, head of the loiij; -stabiished house of Alexander Brown t Co., of Baltimore, founders of, and ' n associated with Brown, Hhiply it Co.. ' wr.v.r J'sr ** liouse and connections, that cover tin ommercial cities of the globe, said : , "Our house some time since curtailed vi ts western business and turned its atcntiou to fho south as the the larger and ^ nore profitable field for investuionts. IVe have invested not only in railroad counties, but in ninny others, and are ( icrfectly satisfied with them. During ho recent world-wido financial depres- J!1 ion, southern securities felt tho cflect 'f' nuch less than those of other sections, I'lio best securities always command ho market, aud thoso who wish to get he liest at tho lowest price can find them * 11 the south and in it alone." Messrs. Jno. A. Hamilton & Co., load ng bunkers who havb placed somo milions of dollars in the south for their r. licnts, said: "Railroad facilities in tho iouth have been inadequate iu proportion to the business, which the wonaor?lihnvtlUU lifts nrouucofl md consequently the ucw railroads, which f? lavo been built in producing sections tv uui whero advantageous connections iiavo been made, havobocn generally sue- ir cessful. As in all enterprises there arc *p croakers who predict disaster, so we R( have heard the expression that there is )tj too much railroad building at tho South, This is not our opinion of tlio situation. ?| On the contrary we hold that tho march t>, of progress has just commenced. U p to the past four years tho southern m people have been depending, maiuly, up- ol on other sections for supplies. What raw ,,, material was produced was sent away for |]| manufacture, aud even breadstuff's and u provisions were purchased at the North s< and Wcf-. Now tho staple products, s(. cotton at. a iron, are, to a great extent, |,, manufactured at homo, ami steam en- jn ^liicfl, cars, agricultural implements ami many other products are turned out and j. Hud a home market. We consider the in wonderful record of the past only is the ? beginning of southern prosperity. This year promises to show even lietter results i |)i ii mmm in and the next decade will show a most" astonishing increase in population. 'In ?< climate, soil resources and natural advan- T tages, the south defies competition. Un- ni dcr these circumstances, is it strange the railroad men are anxious to take advnu- ' tago of the situation, and that their at 11 tention should turn to a section which promises such handsome results? Kail p roads in productive and improving seclions and a paying traffic awaiting all ex b tensions, and new roads from their com 1 v pletions are recorded l?y a business which c' taxes them to their filli capacity. Messrs. Fisher and f'.ha.v ?aid: 'Kc curities during the recent liuaiicial d;V w tress, suffered far less depreciation than those of other sections. In a general A sense it may he said, that all classes s< of southern securities arc worth more intrinsieally now than they ever have been, st nnd while tlieie is no very active demand for them at present, nor do we look for ''' Ann until tlm ilTiwI nf (lin lulu tiinm/iinl \V " v MM*.. * ?' ?'..vv. viju ? ?.?> Miiriiivin: depressions have entirely disappeared, x' still the tone of the market is healthy, l'i nnd there is every reason to expect a "(J steady if not rapid appreciation of values. The prospects are that there will be a steady advance in the commercial niiu iuuustriui ueveiopment throughout the south." m __ ?t Have Proved Golden Deposits. ,.a The phosphate rocks of Florida arc W1 fast being converted into gold by the he fortunate land owners of that tier of conn- "I1 tics in which, centuries ago, by some do providential dispensation, marine minislots perished that their bones might en- ho rich the cotton, corn and tobacco tields "a :>f the Month One purchase was recently made in Citrus county by New York parties, who bought 7,050 acres of land "I1 for $0< 0,000, the same to be paid in font *ai installments of 1150,000 each. These an- na jociates have employed l)r. Francis at Wyatt, of New York, to make a careful dt examination of the dejiosits, that he may mggest a plan for their economic removal. Messrs. Hans & (Mark, of Jackconvillo, through whose inatrumcntwlily tho Citrus county property was sold, have ''! now become interested in another in Alachua county, they having purchased 3,000 acres of laud for $50,000, on which .' aic not only phosphate deposits, hut a large acreage of vuluahle timher, saw mill, dwellings nnd other improvements. y1 Chauueey I>1- ricpew wan rigut. 1110 South is the field for Americ an adventure. ( J1,' Type Printing Machines. New Yohk, [Special.]?In the United Mates Circuit Court Judge Lncomhe granted a preliminary injunction in favor !,; )f the National Typographic Company ,|, ind tlie Mergenthaler Printing Company igainst the New York Typographic Company, the Press Publishing Company and others, to restrain them from ur,tiIX Rogers's type printing machines, ivhicli the plaint ills claim infringing on he Mergenthaler patents. pa For the Opium Eaters. San Fkancibco, Cal., [Special | ? The "1 Collector of Port Phelps states that during the past four mouths 00,000 pounds of prepared opium has been legally imported to thi? city. This opium is val- 1! ucd at $1,800.00. m A bill has been introduced into the Minnesota Legislature to prevent "any ftninlo person" ftom exposing in any way "her I"1 ether limb or liui^s" on the stage. It is mc nn the way to a firial pAasagc, and the ballet will soon, in all lllrdnhood, be a tb*ng of the palt. ev ii i ii * ?-. - ' /.^m3 he Official Yiait of Vtah08 ioner McDonald to OharlNm^HH Col. Marshall McDonald, the Unltcu^^^ ates commissioner of fish and fisheries. J tent several days in Charleston last eck. Commissioner McDonald came it It a view to looking over the phyai .1 survey of the waters of South Carina now being ntado by the Fish Hawk nl her crew of specialists in regard to e propagation of oysters. CoL McDon1 was seen by a reporter to whom ho tililv in ennvomn rnn^rniiiir e proposed propagation of oysters i?ng this i oast. Tho survey," ho wild, "which first niniotiocd at Winyah Bay and theme tended to Tvliee roads, is now nearing mplotioo. Maps and charts of tliu stei beds, and of the looalltlaia adapt 1 todM yWatiag o( ojaUn, an Uum; instructed l?v the specialists aboard tho isli Hawk, and when tho survey shall i\e boon -completed tho report will bo nt to me at Washington and will nf rwards Iw published. Tho United atos, through tho fish commissioner, ?ve, at the request of Bouth Carolina's epresentativos in Congress and the Ben t\ lurui.Niicu noum v-nroiiua wiin u rana of classifying her oyster grounds >uth Carolina cau get tho anino mean* r planting oysters an Connecticut ha i >?c." rot. Mr Donald la a native Oi irgiuiu and waa an ofticcr in the delate army. THE END IS NOT ho Bohring Boa Controversy BoJL_ U. S. and Oroat Britain. W .......?. r>. <r., (vjiet'fal. ttlcment of tho Behring Sea matter rcshadowod in tho correspondence mm tho Unltod Htntcs and tho UrUlsMP ivcrnments is not in tho opinion of rasury department officials yet assured, he fact that the issuo of portnita to ves Is to cruise in Behring Boa is not proihited during tho pendency of tho noiM'iations tills summer is pointed out as most, fatal to tho United States' intert in those waters. Advices received at the trensury dcpaitirnt indicate a more general onsluuglit i the seal lislieries this spring and sum rr than ever lieforo. Hicro are now [ling out nt Victoria, II. C., 40 vessels liicii will infest the waters about tho ill Islands. At Ban Francisco 20 ves. Is are being inndo ready for sea, hound r the Islands of Hi. Paul and 8t George, tiie language of a government official alien tin* pending controversy as to ju-<liction is settled there will he nothg to settle." That is-all the seals ill have been destroyed. piadron to I'ensncota was Atlanta day. uesday the squadron went through naval luuoeuvrcs for the bcuctlt of the momcm of the Congressional naval committee. 'Iiese gentlemen were entertained by Addral Walker on tho flagship Chicago. At night a largo delegation of Atlanta cople reached I'cnsncola, the object of lieir visit being the formal presentation > tho cruiser Atlanta of n inagnitlccnt si I cr service, tho gift of the < Hi/ens of tho ity for which the cruiser is named. Wednesday was Atlanta day. Wednesday morning the Atlanta party as received by Admiral Walker on tho lolphiu and carried out to where tho Hit tit.a lay at anchor. The formal prenlation took place on tho deck. Capt. . I* Howell, editor of the Atlanta Con itntion, made the presentation speech, id ('apt. l'hillips received tho pjift for ic cruiser. All the officers of tlio fleet ere on board the AtlnhU*, besides many si tin s. The party wan Entertained by ie officers of the Atlanta. Kh? squad? at left Thursday for Tampa. A Horrible Detective Story. i'ktkhbuttho, Va., | Special. J ~JaJHHBH| >ong, a private detective, was to in the night lying in u street of hontas, a aulnirb, unconscious, am! it h Kcvcrc and terriblo knife cuts in his ad. One of these had taken off tno per part of one of his ears and tending iwnward stopped just short of the car. d artery. Youug was taken to a use near by and received proper surgiI attentien. lie has not recovered sufficiently to re an intelligent account of tho assault ion him, but is supposed that his aslant was a white man and that, pcrps, some difficulty about a woman was the bottom of the affair. It is stated it an aircst will shortly bo made. Atlanta and Charlotte Air Dino. At tue annual mating of the Atlanta nl Charlotte Air Line Railroad in New ork city hint week, the follumug diiec* iih were elected for the ensuing year: ugenc Kelly, P. P. Dickinson, Kiclmid vine, It. II. Rochester, B. R. McAlpiuc, S. Pairchild, Chas. M. Fryc, all of ew York; H. W. Biblev, of Rochester; is. Bryan, of Richmond; Michael JcuUs. of Baltimore; Bhipwith Wilincr, of ill imore, and D. J. Oartb, of Beareo :le, New York. Detroit's Lavish Hospitality. Banking, Mich.?The House passed a II authorizing Detroit to raise fifty onsand dollaia to entertfin the Naliouencampment of the G. A. R. SHgjg||g Strike of Clark's Thread Newark. N. J.?The girls emp^^HHKIS No. 3 tnill of 'he Clark Thread my loFl wdlh. in a body Wcdncr^W'X oruiog, refusing to handle "scab" In. A ned yarn. The Civil War in Chili. London, [Cablegnun.]?It is said that merchant* have private inior at ion that President Balmacedn, < ' liili, has been murdered. Philadelphia (Penu.) statistics show it fifty women aro employed to 100 :n in that city. Now York City has one millionaire U try 1(500 people.