Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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J Devoted to Jfortioulture, Domettie JAUfkture, Politic* and the Current New* of the Day. y ?w- vaPl^x^Tif^Wftfy m^tuew. - - - >? ' -' '.??nfUfitr n ! ^tyjjpl^OLiN^fi&da y. march, 20, i89i. ,.,, number 12. ^ ' Tht bdiui office fa Washington bu decided to Introduce kindergarten training and materials as a part of its school ' lb prise worth winning has been offend by the East Indian Government. ^ the prise is $25,000 for a practical mashine for decorticating ramie. $ ?????? ' The damage caused in Algiera by the feet invasion of locusts is stated to Imomat to $60,000 for the department, $150,000 for that of Oran, and $200,000 fcg.Qanataotine. ' The University of Geno, Italy, has es-1 tabHshed an academy for scientific travelr^UB , i-wr -r- fa observe and investigate all phemonsns } ffihny women are finding congenial emfloyment in the various libraries which fart been established in nearly all tht icMesaad towns throughout the country. TM work Is eminently suited for them, 'declares the Now York World, and they a (have been found suited for the work, y tWhw. Caroline Le Oonte has been appointed State Librarian of South OaroUna. She is an accomplished student, a resident of Columbia, and is the first iwoman to hold such a position in the State. Making note of the vast sums spent 4 'for upholstery and decorations which add nothing to tho comfort of railroad cars, the Railroad OateUo expresses surprise that so little progress has been \ recorded in the lighting of trains by electricity. However, a beginning has ^ I t>een made in this direction and the kerosene lamp will by and by go to the same limbo with the coal store. Then a derailment will not necessarily imply a roasting of the passengers who escape being crushed to death. . A spark from a locomotive on the Southern Pacific Railroad in California caused u<n nurning or a wneat crop, i ne company being sued for damages showed that the fire was caused by a locomotive ?f the Santa Fe Company, lessee of the foad, and the United States Court sua-r., hails as an important principle, of wide application. In the letter of a sportsman to hii (favorite journal appears the following sentence, written apparently in all soberness: "Net all the farmers in this vallej annoy the hunters by posting trespass notices." How very kind and oonsidorate, exclaims Farm and Firetid#. Hon thoughtful of the tender feeling of the city sportsmen wh<Jr annually invade the 4'rooval deestrlcta" during the hunting season. How hard-hearted, sordid and selfish those other farmers are who "an. noy" the hunters by posting trespass w/Jr notices. "Annoy the hunters" is good. Certainly the farmer does not realise Ha what a grievous annoyance it is to the wF 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. The season is over, and the sportsmen have returned to their homes, and are now studying what amendments to the game U^ftey shall have the Legislature make so as to give them a better chance next season. ^ Professor Rodney Welch declares h i the Forum that "the rural districts hav not shared with towns the recent grea improvements in the postal service. It the country the postal facilities are hardl. 1 any better than they were a century ago | There are no money-order postofflces, ex oept in large commercial and manufsc > j , taring towns, and no free collection o ' distribution of mail! matter. If a fame | wishes to mall a letter he most go to th postoffice, perhaps ten mil** away, to d it. No good reason can be assigned wh; money orders should not be issued an 'cashed at every postoffice in theoountrj 'it to the free collection and free deliver; of postal matter, the people in the run districts are as much entitled to it a jtown people are, although the ssrviet couM not from the nature of things b performed so often in a sparsely-settle< 'region h in t thioklj populated one The general intelligenoe of any olaa .largely depends on the facilitiee to .learning what is going on in the world VfcTormg one class gives it a special ad Jraatage, which in time will produo* M marked results. Depriving nnmitrj T 'people of the postal facilitiee that'an enjoyed hy those who lire in large towns tends to lower their intellectual staadtnj 1 and to keep it below that of those wh HreineMea. In nearly allSuropean ooun ' tries the postal facilities are as good i ' the rural districts ss in the large towm In several of them eountry people has the advantage of the parcel post and o postal as rings honks. They m M lighted beoanoe they cultivate farm and vineyards, er raise eattla, sheep am ; % i , ' * ..< -f r*-- - ' 'i*. & ' km r '? - I MARCH A LIVELY MONTH. Strong Breezes Waft These News Notes To Us, From Many Points In the Progressive Southland, Interesting We Are Sure. VIRGINIA. " The Fluvanna Building and Investment Co., has been organized at Bucna Vista; capital stock, $500,000. Muscoc, tho murderer of Officer Seal, was sentenced to bo hangod April 21st in Charlottesville. Major B. J. Black is drawing plans for lished op the site of the old Valentine House. The Mary Washington Monument Association, of Fredericksburg, has conveyi ed to the National Association the deed of the lots and unfinished monument of Mary, tho mother of Washington, and tho larger society is to complete the work of erecting a suitablo memorial over the grave. $80,000 will bo raised for the purpose. Suit was brought Friday against tho Richmond Railway and Electric Company by Rosarina Gencstray for $15,000. Sho was run over by an electric car and badly injured. ! A wreck occurred on tho 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 Methodist Episcopal Church South have concluded their labors in Roanoke and adjourned. Salem is inado glad by the nssuranco that the Ellis & Lcasig Steel and Iron Co., of Pottstown, Pa., has accepted the offer mado them, and will remove their entire plant fo Salem as soon as their present stock is worked up. The Rockbridge Co., ot Glasgow, of which General Fitzhugh Lee is president, 1 is reported to have placed half a million i dollars of its preferred stock in New England on advantageous terms. The English people who agreed to take $1,600,000 of this stock were unable to carry out their contract, and it is reported that they liavo forfeited $25,000 by their failure to do it. It is reported that a stock company will be organized for the manufacture of Esint from ocher to be developed near uray. NORTH CAROLINA. ; nattin ahoy will l>o held Gaston county, through her representative, has declared heraelf 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 ohtput of bituminous coal from the mines near Egypt, Chatham county, ' is increasing. The Seaboard Air Lino I will use this coal for its shops and en gines. r Almost fabulous reports comes from Asheville, says Harper's Weekly, with re1 nrard to tha work wnirli ( iu>!n? I = - ? ~v?B "J ij J. George Vandcvbilt on his estate near there. The natural effects of the place f are being enhanced by overy artificial effect that money can buy, and the $400,000 already spent upon the mansion and grounds are Baid to be only a part of the proposed outlay. The county commissioners of Mitchell ' will ery probably be brought to law by the courts, for having levied a tax beyond the constitutional limit and which covered the 8 cents tax for pensions and then placed that latter sum with their county taxes in the hands of their treasurer. The tax was then iu reality collected and diverted to couutv purposes. Ouo hundred and fifteen vessels and boats passed through the New Berne aud 1 Beaufort canal during tiie month of February. The canal company have put the , canal in better order than the creeks it joins. Tho Winston Laud & Improvement Co., is about to place on the mnrket some 1 1,500 residence and business lots iu the I company's new addition to Wilkesboro. I The company is to build a $15,000 court house ana donate it aud a block of ground ' to the county of Wilkes. > SOUTH CAROLINA. The real estate men of Columbia have > formed a real estate exchange. b A new postoffice has been established I in Spartanburg County and named nfter , Seuator Irby. Pinckney B. Hall has been appointed postmaster at the office ? of Irby/ t In South Carolina 0,000 acres of mel, ons were planted in 1800. This year at least 13,000 acres will bo devoted to ' that lucious fruit. Tlic Qovernor has appointed the fob lowing boards of physicians: Charleston?Robert L. Brodle, Charles M. Reese and J. Somen* Buist. Newberry ?W. D. Senn, C. T. Wychc, It. C. Carlisle. Hampton?N. H. Johnston, I. I. McGregorie, J. H. Ooethe. Gen. Dumont, the U. 8. supervising Inspector general of steamboats, announced the removal of Thos. O'Keefe, inspector of boilers at Charleston. No reason is assigned for the change, but it is said politics had nothing to do with it. The local board at Charleston will name his successor. The Western Carolina Land & Improvement Co., of Anderson, which was organized to develop the waterpower known as Calhoun Falls, and build a town near there at the crossing of two railroads, has been completing all preliminaries, and will soon announco 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 Kint. This company has $800,000 cap1 stock. i oaomozA. I The young men of Savannah propose | to establish an "Information Bureau" for eligible young wopsn who are willing to marry on $100 a month. 4 * MMflBHre&ac.'ka ii ilwllln The Empire and Dublin road h?? been gruded to Grovania, and the mils are all in hand to complete it to that place. The farmers of Habersham county are going into the tobacco-planting business on a large scale. They arc confident that it will add many thousand dollars to their yearly iucome. While out boating on the canal ncai Augusta, Harry Lamar and Louiso Connelly were drowned. Green Howell, a GO year-old Savannah negro, is gradually turning wliito. His hands arc perfectly white, his forehead and his throat and neck likewise. The Young Mens'Christian Association contemplates erecting a building at Atlanta to cost #50,000. The Ohio excursionists were royally ontortuined at Fort Valley. Editor Kcrsh inv|tcd all of thnm tn hij office. which Weekly Press Association, and made a fivc-columu speech to them, nonpareil measure. The Confederate pension limit undci the laws of Georgia is $150, and J. A. Simpson, who was a private in Comnanj K. 40th Georgia regiment, has just beer paid that amount. On the retreat froir linker's Creek, Miss., in climbing over r fence he was struck by a cannon ball It cut off his right arm at the shoulder took off a couple of fingers from the lef hand, dislocating the loft arm at the shoul der. Subsequently the left hand and urn became ligid and fixed and dwindles away to little more than skin and bone so that the only arm left is useless. Tin pension seems a small pittance for sucl disability. TENNESSEE. The House of Representatives passci the bill prohibing the running of freigb and excursion trains on Sunday, with tin exception of those carrying fruit anc live stock. Campbell county is preparing to buih a $10,000 jail at Jacksonboro. Plans have -been completed for tb erection of two buildings at Sullins Col lege, Bristol. The estimated cost i $40,000. A $12,000 public schoo building is also to be ercctcdat Bristol After a very interesting trip througl the rapidly developing section of South nmolovn ??/! P?T u vowi it t iBgiuia auvi JL?Utci u A CUUCWt1 the distinguished party of Congressmen Government officers and military met accompanying Secretary Proctor arrivee at Chattanooga Tuesday for the purposi of reviewing the Chickamauga battle field before determining the manner ii which the appropriation for the improvement of the Chickamauga National Pari shall be expended. The party wen the recipients of much attention at Roan oke, Bristol, Knoxville and other places David Posten, the lawyer who wa: shot at Memphis Tuesday bv Col. H. Claj ~VnaiJTO-or?a$iug mrn><a>?i ?iwu n?ju Into hour in the night and failed. It con eistcd in the cutting away of 30 inches of lacerated intestines. Col. King, ii his cell at the jail, received the news o his victim's death in the same cool mar ncr that has characterized his bearinj since the tragedy occurred. Ncgatiations, heretofore noted, hav for a long time been pending between a English syndicate and the owners of th Jellico, East Tenncssco and Kentuck coal mines. Options that aro said to ag gregate $3,500,000 were given. It is nov stated that an agent of the syndicate ha coine to this country to close the deal the options expiriug the 1st of April. FLORIDA. St. Augustine is being paved wit! cypress blocks. James Borland, David Borland, G. R Allen and others have incorporated th Citra Fruit Co. with a capital of $102, 500. The Florida Central & Peuinsula Railway Co., of Jacksonville, will erec at Fcrnandina phosphate elevators at cost of $50,000. Gen Alger drove up to one of th railroad offices at Jacksonville, alighted and went in. He wanted to find ou something about transportation, and th agent saiu: "What is your name, sir?1 "Gen. Alger," was the reply. "Well,1 said the agent, "I am glad you're a Gen eral, 'cause these Florida words are jus full of Colonels." Orange growers around Ocala are put ting in improved irrigation plants. Negotiations aro in progress for . th< erection of a mill at Macclenny to manu fact ure starch from the cassava root. In diana and Macclenny capitalists are in terested. The canal enterprise on the cast coasi of Florida, together with the new steam boat lines and the proposed railroads, are going to open up one of the finest sec tions of the state. It is a rich agricnl tura' country, and even if it hasn't an] phosphate deposits, there are "millions' in its soil. The Juno Beach Land Co., of Florida, has been incorporated for the purpose oi establishing a winter resort at Lata Worth inlet, Dade county. Juno Beach consists of a high ridge of land, lyinj between Lake Worth and tho Atlantn Ocean, with a frontage of three miles or the ocoan and the same distance on th< lake. OTHER STATES. The putchase of 15,000 acres of pirn and oak lauds in Livingston parish Louisiana, by Chas. H. Henrv, o Pennsylvania, is another cyjdep?e the capitalists who hnVt hefetmote mad their ihvaataaenla ih'iho wWt ate 16ok ihg to the SOuth. The Southern marble-producinir State stand on the general list, as compare* with the whole countn^M follows: Ton neeseo, second; Oeoigk- fourth;, Man land, fifth; Virginia, seventh, fn cap ital invested these rank relatively as fol lows: Georgia, $2,878,827; Tennessee $818,500; Maryland, $878,004; Virginia not stated^ Rather be Hanged and Done With It Dbcatuk, Iu.?Bill Crawford, wh has been sentenced to be hanged on Sat unlay for the murder of Mre. Matthias refused to apply for a stay of execution although the Judga had said it would b granted if requested. He epvs he i guilty and does not care for delay in th execution. He want* it over with, i motion for an inquiry into his sanity made by his coone41, hasten overruled -c*v ?? IDEAS OF THE ALLIANCE. J Peffer, Kyle and Simpson Speak In \ Washington. 8 f Description of the Three Represent**- i tivQS of the Fanners -Vigorous ? Talk on the Ai|hs of Their Party and About Old f i Parties. J ' WAsniNGTOH, D. .?A great crowd | turned out here to hear Benators-elcct < Peffer and Kyle and ,fteprcsentative-elcct , Jerry Simpson address the Citizens' Alii- , ance in Grand Army Hull. Peffer and ( Kyle gnrprised ovcryl)ody by displaying ( more than ordinaryy/ratorical ability, and j enthusiasm by , angular lndWl]^*mttlo above medium" r height, slightly stooping in the shoulders, with long, sharp nose, and long beard of r a rich dark brown, falling down to the i lower buttons of his waistcoat, and n ' , pair of keen blue eyes, rather cloic toi pother?a man of mild, ministerial bear- ' ing and placid, gentle countenance. Scnator-clcct Kyle is a six-foot blonde 1 t of athletic build. He is a man of plain appearance; a man of the people, whose ' x hands have been used to toil. He docs I not look to be more than 35 years old. ( -His hair and mustache arc not quite red, j but nearly so. His complexion is decid- 1 i cdly blonde and a set of very white teetb are frequently exposed by a faint smile. ] His large blue eyes arc expressive of little enrncstness or amiability, but the I lines in his face are strong and his dress ' t" and whole bearing indicate a simplicity a and freedom from affectation or vanity. I Mr. Jcrrv Simpson is distinctly the autipodo of ifr Va^?<trnMs far from the '' 1 sockless citizen usually described for Simpson. Ho is a man of average size, c with durk hair and stubby mustache, being otherwise smooth shaven. His face 3 is bronzed, weather-beaten and strongly I marked with heavy lines? His eyes have a peculiar brightness and light up with " an "intellectual firo" when ho talks. A I twinkle that comes into them at times, and a smile that is just visible at the core ncrs of his mouth, indicate a keen sense ' of humor and, at the same time, a degree j of sclf-confUlcnce. His suit was a sort of gray goods of "hand-me-down" cut. B His shoes were heavy, with square tocj, and iaced with leather auiugo. His II neckwear was a plain standing collar, turned uowu at' the corners and orna\ mcnted with a black "shoestring" tic, 3 and he might be regarded a decidedly unfashionable figure, but not by any moano s Mr. Peflcr deplored the poor condir tiouofthjo ftwho had become i and said that the "McKinley bill would a bring about the importation of foreign f labor. On silver he was a free-coinage i- man. He said that one of Cleveland's g good qualities was honesty. There ww not the difference of the turning of a 6 hand on the money problem between the a leaders of the two old parties. e "What would you think," he said, "if y Qrover Cleveland should unite the Democratic and Republican parties east of j tho Alleghany Mountains, and be their 3 candidate against the united South and % West? This is not improbable. We ' leave our friends in the East to take carc of themselves. They can do so only by getting together* There is going to be b a great storm and our friends must hustle to get out of the rain." He cited the policy of the treasury in 0 going to the relief of Wall street last summer as an evidence of class favorit ism of which the farmers complained. If r that was right, die said, it was right foi t the aovcrHSqfiitiocomc to the relief of a the farmers orxlftr west. He drew a word painting of the duge outs and sod huts, at the doors of which women stood in tears watching for the | officers coming to sell them out. He e B?id tliey were not repudiators. What n they wanted was money enough in cir> culatiou so that they could get it for the products of their labor. He hA(l asked t farmers in Kansas what interest they paid on short-time loans, aqd they replied from 18 to 77 per cent. The result of their labors on farm products was not over 1J or 2 per cent. He advocated the Government of the people running railroads for public transportation at low rates, to cover expenses, but not for profit. A new Government railroad should be built from North Da1 kota to the Gulf. In about twenty-five years, he predicted, there would lie uo > such thing as interest on money. Senator-elect Kyle considered the lack of money the. trouble in South Dakota \ and the West. He said that the Alliance i muvoiuuub grew out oi the discontent !| in the South and West on account of , economic conditions. More money was f needed to carry on the trade of the couu) try. The high tariff was bad enough, i j but the scarcity of money was worse, i t They wanted money, and did not care 1 what sort. Silver money was as good as 1 gold, and gold was no better than pa per. Jerry Simpson proves to be a keen or' ator, full of anecdote and spirit? Tho i t I Alliance, he said, was a development. , ' It was the result of the awakening of the I f fanner to the fact that he was not getting t his share of advantages. ? "We aalr," said Mr. Simpson, "that - sectional strife wan kept alivo for political purpose*. We caine to seo that the a question of loyalty or disloyalty was a j mere matter of where one was born. If I had been b ?rn in the South I would Rrobablyfcgyql'Vp a rebel and have felt ;my paUioW^nty to light for the cause [*_ of the ConfeMjscy; So it might have S been with n*. We decided to t join hands the South. We determined to fill nptfce bloody chasm, and we started by throwing Ingalls into it. ' South fotvilin? W?.l? o Hampton, and wo will fill thcchiwm if we have to throw in all the old leaden who atrivo to keep sectional strife alive." He said ho did not think the money | c question was |he aJl-aUsorbing one. The question of transportation wan, in his e apinion, more important. It waa through ^ these transportation lines, where the far mere had to pay freights to cover the in I tcrcst ou watered stocks several times ] he Amount of the original cost of the oads, that tlie money of the farmers was ucked up. If vicious legislation*? as to be icrinitteu to stand, and railrouds to couolidnte wealth, it would do but little jood to increase the circulating medium vith the idea of helping the farmer, for t would all go at once back into the pock!ts of the monopolists. He argued in favor of taxing heavily ill land withheld from use, claiming that 10 one had u right to withdraw land rom the use of the public and not himelf use it in some way. "We do not favor the confiscation of land," he said "Every man may hold as much as he an get nud as he wants to, but if he withholds it from use he should pay a ;nx for the privilege of doing so." In ither words he was opposed to restricting the amount of available land so us to nuke that, on the market more valuable. Courier. The Arkansaw Traveler's Land. Littlk Rock, Ark., [8pecial.]?Prof. John C. Branncr, the State geologist of Arkansas and the head of the recent geologic survey in the State, tells the Kansas City Stur of Rome of the undeveloped and neglected resources between the Ozarks and Texas: "The recent survey disclosed the fact that coal, marble and zinc exists in enormous quantities in the northwestern part of the State, while marble, sandstone,manganese, glass, sand and limestone abound in the northeast quarter. Some Brown coal and potter's :lay are found near the low portion of the State, in the southeast quarter. In the southwest kaolin, antimony, whetstone, some brown coal and chalk, said to bo the first to bo discovered in the United States, are tho mineral productions. None of these vast provisions of nature have been advertised, ana un- 1 til recently very little has been done toward developing them. The general impression about Arkansas has been that 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; IN million acres of fine timber remain untouched, as well as the vast mineral dc Eosits, and, in fact, Arkansas offers i; etter and a more diversified field than any State in the Union." Prof Branncr believes Hint ui8 state is on tnc eve ol an era of rapid progress ond development, and soon lake her place among the greater States, whose inducements have been heralded to the world, and attracted the attention of multitudes of people and millions of inonev to settle upon the unclaimed lands, build great cities and utilize the things that nrc under the earth. The forces are already at work, and Prof. Branncr believes that the future of Arkansas is assured. affection of Masons, one towards another, which is born at our iuialiation 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 liiin to pursue the way he should go, where dangers beset his path; will caution him against his enemy, and often against the worst of enemies, himself, will apprise him of his deviations from the lines laid down upon the Trestle Hoard, by which he might derange the harmony aud glory of the Temple, and cease to deserve wages of the Great Grand .Master above. Brotherly love and friendship is that sense of duty combined with zeal which would hazard property, liberty anu life to serve an iujured and suffering brother. It does not consist in that pecuniary assistance, which may be rendered to a member of the Craft, to give an impetus to his affairs in life, or to rear for him an establishment.?Win. 8. Cogdcll, Grand Master, A. P. and A. M., of boutb Carolina. 1821. Alabama Gives No Honey to World's Fair. The bill which has passed the Alabama Senate, making an appropriation of $23,000 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 an appropriation, and expresses gratification that there are yet Alabamians possessing sufficient enterprise and far-sightedness to move in the matter. A movement has already boea put on foot, with active men in the lead, to have a State convention to devise ways and means for promotiug an exhibit for the State of Alabama at the World's Fair. It is believed that the movement Will succeed and that Alabama will make a creditable exhibit. A Colored Millionaire Dead. Philip A. White, a colored millionaire, who died in Brooklyn last week, made his money by compounding and selling illugs in New York city. He established himself in the "Swamp" half a century ago, and durring the early days of tho IV11* tk'lton Atltova a# l%?n f 3 ! ? .T J nuvu "luvio VI I tin mtf DUUlTt'U indignities from the inob, his store escaped icsnult, for ho whs known hs a friend and benefactor of the poor. Dr. White, is he was called, was well educated and liad a tine private library. In the Wild and Wooly West. V i no in i a, Nkv.?Bella Preusch, 15 year old girl, was suspended from school for thirty dnys for misbehavior. Sho went home and shot and fatally woundad hej-sclf with a revolver. It The Texas Cattlemen. Dallas, Tkx., [Special.]?The 150th annual convention of tho northwest Texas cattle growers' association, adjourned to meet at Fort Worth, March, 1892 The reports show cattle particularly wcl*. preserved during the last winter. The California Legislature passed ft bill appropriating $300,000 for flint Slate's exhibit at the World's Fair, and I Inheritor Markham lias approved the bill. Wi'.li its wealth of products and a liberal appropriation, California will doubtless make a groat exhibit. The Brat newspaper In Virginia wttf printed in 1760 at $50 per annum. southern sfeerrarrres. Baltimore's Business Men Have / Great Faith In Them. The South Has Learned to Manufacture Her Staple Products, Iron and Cotton. Baltimore, Md., March 11.?The Manufacturer's Record of this week publishes interviews with leading Baltimore bankers as to the effect on southern securities of the late financial crisis following the failure of the Barings, of London, and the outlook for southern investments. Mr. Alexander Brown, head of the long established house of Alexander Brown & Co., of Baltimore, founders of, and associated with Brown, Shiply & Co.. and llrowii Bros' Co., of New York, and or the branch house and connections, that cover the commercial cities of the globe, said: "Our house some time 6incc curtailed its western business and turned its attention to (he south as the the larger and more profitable field for investments. We have invested not only in railroad securities, but in many others, and arc perfectly satisfied with them. During the recent world-wido financial denres sion, southern securities felt the effect much less than those of other sections. Tho best securities always command the market, and those who wish to get the best at the lowest price can find them in the south and in it alone." Messrs. Jno. A. Hampton & Co., leading bankers who havte placed some millions of dollars in tho south for their clients, said: "Railroad facilities in the south have been inadequate in proportion to the business, which the wondoruna jjruuucon and consequently the new railroads, which have been built in producing sections and where advantageous connections nave heen made, have been generally successful. As in all enterprises thero arc croakers who predict disaster, so we have heard the expression that there is too much railroad building at the South, This is not our opinion of the situation. On the contrary we hold that tho march of progress has just commenced. Up to the past four years the southern people have been depending, maiuly, upon other sections for supplies. What raw material was produced was sent nway for manufacture, and even brcadstuffs and provisions were purchased at the North and West. Now tho staple products, cotton and iron, are, to a great extent, manufactured at home, and steam engines, cars, agricultural implements and many other products are turned out and find a home market. We consider the wonderful record of the past only is the beginning of southern prosperity. This year promises to show even better results "in'^md^^^i??decaS?^?l5h!m^aBmS astonishing increase in population. ' In climate, soil resources and natural advantages, the south defies competition. Un der these circumstances, is it strange tin railroad men aro anxious to take ndvnu tnge of the situation, and that their at tention should turn to a section whicl promises such handsome results? Rail roads in productive and improving sec tions and a paying traffic awaiting all ex tensions, and new roads from their com pletions .arc recorded by a business whicl taxes them to'i&j'ir full capacity. Messrs. Fisher ana ?'ud: "Sc curities during the recent tiuuncfiK*tress, suffered far less depreciation than those of other sections. In a general sense it may he said, that all classes of southern securities arc worth more intrinsically now than they ever have hcen, and while there is no very active demand for them at present, nor do we look for one until the effect of the late financial depressions have entirely disappeared, still the tone of the market is healthy, and there is every reason to expect a steady if not rapid appreciation of values. The prospects arc that there will be a steady advance in the commercial and industrial development throughout the south." Have Proved Golden Deposits. The phosphate rocks of Florida are fast being converted into gold by the fortunate land owners of that tier of counties in which, centuries ago, by some providential dispensation, marine naonslcis perished that their bones might enrich tire cotton, corn and tobacco fields of the South One purchase was recently made in Citrus county by New York parties, who bought 7,0'JO acres of land for $0i 0,000, the same to be paid in foui installments of $150,000 each. These associates have employed l)r. Francis Wyatt, of New York, to make a careful examination of the deposits, that he inay suggest a plan for their economic removal. Messrs. llarrs & Clark, of Jaekconville, through whose instrumentality tlio Citrus county property was sold, have now become interested iu another in Alachua county, they having purchased 3,000 acres of laud for $50,000, on which aie not only phosphate deposits, but a large acreage of valuable timber, saw mill, dwellings and other improvements. fllia.i rw>*,i7 XI n.tw.vv vuaa ri.rlif Thn South is thctield for American adventure. Type Printing Machine*. New Yokk, [Special.]?In the United Slates Circuit Court Judge Lacombe granted a preliminary injunction in favor of tlie National Typographic Company and the Mergenthaler Printing Company against the Now York Typographic Company, the Press Publishing Company and others, to restrain them from using Itogers'a type printing machines, which tlio plaintiffs claim infringing on he Mergenthaler {intents. For the Opium Eaters. San Fkancibco, Cal., [Special|?The Collector of Port Pliclps states that during the past four months 90,000 pounds of prepared opium has been legally imported to this city. This opium is valued st $1,800,00. A bill has been introduced into the Minnesota Legislature to prevent "any female person" ftOm exposing in any way "her nether limb or lfm^s" on the stage. It is on the way to a final pibuMgo, and the ballet will soon, in itlf ffironhood, be a thing of the pwt. LOOKING AFTER THE OYSTg^flMg The Official Viait of Flah aioner McDonald to Charleston. HHalfiHE Col. Marshall McDonald, the Unitcu^r States commissioner of fish and fisheries, spent several days in Charleston last week. Commissioner McDonald came with a view to looking over the physi < al survey of the waters of South Carolina now being made by the Fish Hawk and her crew of specialists in regard to the propagation 01 oysters. Col. McDonald was seen by a reporter to whom he readily cousented to converse concerning the proposed propagation of oysters along this coast. "The survey,"" he said, "which first commenced at Winyah Bay and thenco * extended to Tvlrec roads, is now neariug completion. Maps and charts of the oyster beds, and of the localitieis adapt ?i to lb? planting of oyster*, are being constructed by the specialists aboard the Fish Hawk, nnd when the survey shall have been -completed the report will he sent to me at Washington and will afterwards l?e published. The United Stales, through the fish commissioner, have, at the request of South Carolina's Representatives in Congress and the 8cn ate, furnished South Carolina with a means of classifying her oyster grounds. South Carolina can get the same means for planting oysters as Connecticut ua < done." Col. McDonald is a native o? Virginia aud was an officer in the fedciatc army. THE END IS NOT The Behring Sea Controversy Bea. U. 8. and Oreat Britain. W-lQwawswy !> <? f (Ujfttflir.J? settlement of the Behring Sea matter foreshadowed in tho correspondence tween the United States and the BritiswP^ governments is not in the opinion of ' reasury department officials yet assured. The fact (hat the issue of permits to vessels to cruise in Bchring Sea is not prohibited during the pendency of the negotiations this summer is pointed out as almost fatal to the United States' interest in those waters. Advices received at the treasury dcpaitinent iudicatc a more general onslaught on the seal fisheries this spring and summer than ever before. Thero are now titling out at Victoria, B. C., 40 vessels which will infest the waters about the Seal Islands. At San Francisco 20 ves-els arc being made ready for sea, bound lor the Islands of St. Paul and St George, in the language of a government official "when the pending controversy as to juisdiction is settled there will be nothing to settle." That is?all the scnls will have been destroyed. i squadron to l'ensacola was Atlanta day. Tuesday the squadron went through naval manoeuvres for the bcnctlt of the members of the Congressional naval committee. These gentlemen were entertained by Admiral "Walker on the flagship Chicago. , At night a large delegation of Atlanta people reached Pensacola, the object of their visit being the formal presentation to the cruiser Atlanta of a magnificent si!. i ver service, the gift of the citizens of the , city for which the cruiser is named. Wcduesday was Atlanta day. "Wednesday morning the Atlanta party was received by Admiral Walker on tho p^T)olphiu and carried out to where tho lay at anchor. The formal presentatimMafiK P1* on tho deck. Capt. E P Howell e"dl^or ?' Atlanta Constitution, madetCT5 presentation speech. and Capt. PhillipsHec^ved th? K,ft'?I the cruiser. All the ^ccrsjrftlic fleet were on hoard the Atlau;p visitors. 1 he party was squutfc ilie officers of the Atlanta. 4U?* "on left Thursday for Tampa. ^ A Horrible Detective Story. Petursuuro, Va., [Special.] Young, a private detective, was fo^Hpt 'i late in the night lying in a street of 1 cahontM, a suburb, unconscious, iwKt B with severe and terrible knife cuts in hia head. One of these had taken off tne 1 upper part of one of liis ears and tendiug downward stopped just short of the caroled artery. Young was taken to n Jj house near by and received proper surgival attcutien. lie has not recovered sufficiently to j give an intelligent account of the assault fl upon him, but is supposed that his as- I sailant was a white man and that, per- I haps, some difficulty about a woman was fl at the bottom of tile affair. It is stated fl that an nircst will shortly bo made. Atlanta and Charlotte Air Djjse. At the annual megting of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad in New York city last week, the following directors were elected for the ensuing year: Eugene Kelly, P. P. Dickinson, Hichrnd Irvine, R. H. Rochester, B. R. McAlpiuc, ] C. S. Fairchild, Chas. M. Frye, all of New York; H. W. Bibley, of Rochester; J Jos. Bryan, of Richmond; Michael Jcuk in*, of Baltimore; Shipwith Wilincr, of .'l 1 Baltimore, and D. J. Garth, of Seare3ilale, New York. Detroit's Lavish Hospitality. Lansing, Mjch.?The House painted a Bill authorizing Detroit to raise fifty , 1 lM.uMtntl doHais to entertain the Natitoi- i M mpmeut of the O. A. R. Jtkci I J August. B -jj Strike of Clark's Thread Newark. N. J.?The girls faqriHRHH^H iu No. 3 mill of 'he Cla.sk Thread panv loft work in a Body \Vcdnc:R??vW morning, refusing to handle "sOaV ished yarn. rjR The Civil War in Chili. i ..Ni?on, i>;amegram.j?It is Mid tlmy' > llainbui^ merchants hare private jfeiof w nation that President Balmaceda, < A 4SH Chili, fine been murdered. V f Philadelphia (Penn.) statistics gho',T I that fifty women are employed to 100 <j^H men in that city. /jfl Now York City has one mUHenaire to A i every 1600 people.