Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V?frl* JPheti, ''the naval officials 1 lite the greatest difficulty in getting mpsble feamen enough to man it.'' Says the Philadelphia Record: When William Penn laid out Philadelphia ho didn't lay out that in the year 1890 Philadelphia manufacturers would furnish locomotives for a railway in the Holy Land to draw trains from Jaffa to Jerusalem. [ According to the New Orleans Delta, 'a sixteeu-vear-old school marin in Wis- 0 consin. in order to subdue an overgrown j f fcoy who was attempting to break up her $ *chool, used a four-pound school bell on L1T. n. p."" ^ ? "The finding of gold," remarks the ^ Atlanta Conttitution, "is getting to be a common thing in Georgia. In innnj ^ counties in the State rich mines are be- ti ing worked?notably in Lumpkin Coun- ^ ty, where gold is found in abundance. ^ "Only recently, at Fork ('reek, in Madi"son County, workmen who were build ing a bridge struck a large vein of rock St rich in gold. The vein is about ten feet on "wide, nnd one of the piers of the Iridg stands upon it as u foundation.'' "y - - uu The railroad statistics of the United m? States furnish no end of interesting sb figures to those who care to investigate them. ^Nearly one hundred and Bixty ^^ ee million people in various capacities. nrr During the last year $1,000,000,000 was rni apent in railway freights, and, figuring upon a basis of 62,000,000 population, I would make $16 for every man, I 1,nl woman and child in the country. This ^ Bum would pay the national debt, oi (on supply free education to all tbe children last in tho country for a long period. 1 _ pal A most novel suit wa9 begun recently in tho District Court at Lincoln, Neb. In ' 1873 David Butler, ihcn Governor, of- cntj' fcrod, in conjunction with tho Lincoln tion Land Company, a certain Lincoln lot as a present to tho first child born in tho settlement, provided it was named for the city and Governor. The first child wag Butler Lincoln Breed. After the christening a contract for tho lot was made. The proi !ot was then quoted nt $50. To-day it f?r * is worth $40,000. Time passod, but the deed was nover delivered, and the lot- ;i)o(i tell into other hands. Young Qroed has A in just become of age, and knowing tho l> value of tho property, commenced suit * to recover possession. i?ov of a The proof of tho adage that where dor there is a will there is a wny to break it 1 is scon in some statistics in n Boston legal journal. They show that in the United States last year 1000 wills were coutostcd, rr 2400 of which wore broken. Largo as J, they seom, there is no roason, confossos (q,,, the Chicago Ilerald, to doubt the accuracy mci those figures. The contested will case was j^ftas become a familiar feature of everv ' ^i^Bobate Court, and the skill of lawyers j '^W-?etting nsido wills has becomo prover- j bial. 'Even the will of so subtle a law- nur yor as Mr. Tilden was successfully con- ^ 1 tested. The situation is an unfortunate jni, ono for the man of wealth. At his death the 'he can Either take his riches with him | '] nor be certain that they will be distributed C'oi afterward in accordance with the bobcats ("'K ore of his will. ^ It is likely, slates the Omaha IP.c, that cj,j the reindeer of the domesticated Siberian ('?> variety will bo introduced into Alaska beforo tho close of this year by the Government of the United States. Tho j subject wns brought before Congress by ke a Federal agent in Alaska, Doctor Shcldon Jackson. Agent Jackson says that ^ the natives livo along the Arctic coast tb of Alaska are in a state of starvation on tri account of tho gradual diminution of n to tho means of subsistence there, that hut slight expense would be incurred in w bringing over from Siberia a stock of ,ft reindeer, and that by the propagation of this animal a constant supply of food would be secured for the Alaskans. The means needed to procure the reindeer ft( from Siberia will bo put at the disposal, of the Interior lieparrmcnr. i no large i j> Sibeupn variety of tho reindeer is ridden by the Tungusians, who also uso it for {'( draught and who value it f >. its speed, F endurance, and pnr^vular i lantation to traveling or snow. Reiudt?r meat ia R r. ' ei delicious, and the unlk of tlr- herds ia ^ preferred to cow's milk. Clothing that ia almost impervious to the cold is made (< of tho akin; and, in fact, there ia h hardly any part of the animal that ia '' not availablo to some useful purpose. The varieties of wild caribou that are ( found in tlic northern regions of the New Dominion would be loss serviceable in ( Alaska than tlio Siberian domesticated ' breed. Those of our American adven- ' turera who are always on the lookout for i novelties may have tho pleasure of riding the reindeer, in Tungiisiau fashion, on 1 the soil of our own country. THE NEWS OF A WEEK. Southern Men And Measures Paragraphed. Newsy Chit-Chat and Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points Jn Our Own and Adjoining States. VIRGINIA. In sixteen cities of Virginia the negroes wn property worth 1.542. the Tester part of which is in real estate, u Richmond their possessions amount to 320,108. Considerable excitement is created in |MdM|OW the effort to close the bir William H. Turner, of Glasgow, was rrcsted in la;xington Thursday for ol?lining money uuder false pretenses. Billy Young, a Virginia prize tighter, nocked out A he Monchan.fcof Balinore, in a nMdte-weight ma i at ccan View Thursday. The visiting Boston Base Ball team rfeated the University of Virginia base i ill team by a score of 1H to I. Eddie W. II. Brown, ?>f New York ' ate, lectured at ('lin.se City on the secd coming of Christ. The foundations are being laid broad ' d deep for the Virginia Steel Car orks Company at Glasgow. and for tho " icliiuc factory, and gangs of laborers iv be seen busily engaged putting the rets in perfect condition. , tt \ mcetiug of the Danville business n was held to consider the Farmers' liance scheme to establish a eigarct?e angerf lor trie lorritiiiioil rh -C( npany. NORTH CAROLINA. ? Salisbury voted to issue bonds for street provements. " I'lie Charlotte compress No. 1, up to ;J e has compressed 02, HO I bales of cot , hii excess of HO,000 of the same date year. Wl lev. ]Mr. George, rector of the Episcochurch at New Berne, has accepted e j ] to become rector of the Church of , id Shepherd, of Raleigh. . H|] ending editors of the Stale are advo- ih ng the raising of a fund for tho erec- ih i of a monument to the memory of the Julius A. Bonit/.. the fnunrh?i- omi r proprietor of the Wilmington Mes( oucord correspondent writes that a ml Mi's. A\ aggninnn, of Washington, /'J' .'1 the Montgomery* ? *<m nmm rJW ovcrnor Fowlc has issued a formal j .-tarnation offering a reward of $400 ^ ^ ihe arrest and conviction of the raur- (j( i* or murderers of Revenue Officer R. ^ urnwell, who was fatally shot by . nshiners a few days ago near Mount | j ; while destroying an illicit distillery, r. .1. F. Crowell, president Trinity ego, which has recently been reed to Puvhnm, has inaugurated a ^ ement looking to the establishing j female seminary at Murfreesboro un- ' j . the direction of the trustees of Trinand the North Carolina Methodist ference. .. SOUTH CAROLINA. da lorenee is t<? have an iee factory. . to uesday evening a Mary Washington I was held in McNeill's opera house, irleston, to aid the fund for a monuit to the mother of Washington. It a brilliant society event. ?r 'lie city council of Spart.ttiburg hay ltU|??twrtrtt-^r?ro ? .- L 4^ ??, lit in Columbia for the comingCentennial. .and Agent Ciibbes is daily receiving nitrous letters from Northern and \( stern states inquiring aliout good loions and for settlement. Parties liav ' farmlands for sale should advertise , !! I'he Piedmont Havings and Investment; s( mpanv, of Greenville, a new enterprise irterod by Sec retary of State, has been 4 janized and officers elected. Capita' ok is $100,000. , The liutler Guards, at a meeting, de p led to buy new uniform and attend the s lumbia Centennial. The Greenville t lards will also go. and both companies , 11 be there in handsome uniforms. u Mrs. K\ Governor Pic kens has recent t presented to l>r. B. II. Tongue, of Al v n, to his already interesting codec tioD f curiosities and souvenirs, a Initio? I >tn the overcoat of Gen. Andrew Pick ' s, of the Revolutionary war; crescent oil t e State Hag that floated over Fort Moul- ' ie during the bombardment of Sumtei, < el a fragment of marble from the Wash 1 n monument, on which is a painting of ount Vernon. Any one visiting Aiken ould do well to visit Dr. Tongue's labtorv. TENNESSEE. A wire fence factory is tcbe establishi at Kno.xville. A 100 barrel flour mill will be erected | Winchester. 'CI... I... i ....... I ../I I,ill I i in: p' liim ????- ? |v ii'i i? '??? rintintC 0 I >i- llw State c*xliil>it at ic Woriel's Fair. The House, however, asscd a hill allowing eounly authorities i appropriate money for exhibits at tho air. There will semi arrive in this country n eminent Ihiii li geologist and mining ngineer to la\ tin- foundations for a ugc enterprise in Fast Tennessee. A hill has been iiitrodueed in the legilature authorising the < it v of Memphis i issue $l,000,0h0 of bonds for street laving, ete. A bill has been introduced in the legisaturc authorizing Bristol to issue #'2'>0. >00 of bonds for street improvements. j Miss Jennie Btalcy, sister-in-law of , bounty Judge Hugh Whiteside, at t'hatanoogn aeeeidentally shot herself Thurs j lay evening with a revolver. The young lady will prohablv recover, but the wound is a very serious one. The Newport Development Co. has secured the following industries for Inea lion in Newport: An elect lie light plant and sash, door and blind factory, to be erected by North Adams (Muss.) capital ists, and brick works; the company it also negotiating for a 50-loom woolen mill, a 4,000 spindle cotton mill, and a fouu dry and machine shop. GEORGIA. At Atlanta, .Tuo. W. Woodruff filed a suit against the Atlanta and Florida mil road for $10,000 injuries, sustained in a ' wreck near Woolsey. K. E. Stanley, who died recently at Milledgeville, it is said, had the reputation of having killed two men in duel on the same day. The Grady Cadets are now regularly :? part of the state militia. An order was issued by Adjutant-General Kell, attach ing the company to the Fourth Georgii battalion, Colonel W. L. Calhoun commanding. Itcplies have been received from eighty I counties in the state, giving approximate ] widows entitled to draw pensions. These eighty counties show a little more thou 2,500 widows. There is money enough to pension COO of them. A trio-county fair, consisting of Catoosa, Walker and Dade counties has been suggested nud the citizens hope to secure it. The enterprising farmers of these three counties are interested in the fair, ?nd they are workiug hard to make it a success. Other couuties in the stats are ilso discussiug the trio-county idea, which is gainiug in popularity. Samuel If. liumph, of Fort Valley, is jetting rich on peaches. He owns the 'Willow Lake" nurseries, near that place, ind his income from his orchards amounts o over f00,000 per year. Good peach auds can he obtained iu the best peach aisiug sections of Georgia, and on lines f railroad where tfte shipping facilities re excellent, for from $8 to $20 an acre. FLORIDA. core of 0 to 5. * ~ "* 1 A banouet closed the State Convention f the Odd Fellows, at Gainesville. William .1. Dunne, was instautly killed t St. Augustine, Sunday, by the giving way of the rotten railing of the porch of 1 hotel. i It would be highly interesting to learn, ' lys the Times-L'niou, exactly in what 1 ipdition Sam Jones has left the devil ?<>n iciii injr rrom the light with him re in Jacksonville. Sam struck some avy blows .straight from the shoulder ' ! 'V;nl;v f,Hlr lo presume that he left lev 11 "slight Iy disfigured but still ia e ring." Over tvv., thousand crates of strawbei - I * i|,pe'' frum > I vventy acres of land are being cleared about three miles west of the town <?r lando. for J\ j>. Ink) anf, SOf>n ||)(> llv empty, haviiig but one prisoner, ir pauper list numbers about a half a izen. The relations between blacks and lites are peaceful and harmonious, and orers have employment in orange oves, mills and phosphate mines at leunerative prices. A hail storm visited Orlando Saturday it, and the stones, some an inch in di* icier, fell for live minutes. They driftin piles on the south sides of the ccts. Several horses ran away, but no ic was hurt. One hundred windows in e San Juan Hotel were broken. The image to fruit was considerably. There v- a small tornado at Wilcox, half way Winter Park, and many trees were rn up by the roots. p OTHER STATES. 1 The business managers of the alliance " e in Birmingham, Ala., devising a plan * r the organi/ution of a,"-immense tie ctorv. -c 1 'I tie mscrtnviiiw oTinrnmu vil?? lemr*-^ I the section of Louisiana which ia^c- ( ?tcd to the cultivation of cotton comes j ic news that the planters are preparing , > decrease the acreage ol that staple and i ] iversify their crops to a greater extent j inn heretofore. This determination is , ... ,...,..14 ,,f Mwj I.xi; urioM for the fleerv i laple the present season. j , ,000,000 Acres Keclained in Florida. A .Jacksonville correspondent of the itlauta Constitution furnishes some i>-.presting information in regard to the ugar industry in Florida growing out of he reclamation by a Philadelphia svndiate of an immense area of unrcr laiiued iiul submerged lands, which have been .averted into some of the richest alluial soil in the world. Thousands of teres of once submerged lands are now f caring upon their fertile surface imnense fields of sugar cane and groves of tropical fruits, and of all this immense 1.000,000 acre tract but a little over 500,000 acres remain unsold to-day. One of the companies formed bv tlie | original buyers, the Okecboobce Drain- | age Company, has acquired by its work j 1,200,000 acres, the proportion the State I ? * f i 11. .1 1 ItptTU 111 Ol lllitlilCii iltlil when their work is completed they will I have secured 2.000,000 acres. On part j .,f tin. l nui iiiliimi'.I 1 iv tliir. eitmoanv it t lias built h large si: -ir mill, known as the i }-d. (!loud Sugar Mill, ami has been ex- I perimeot ing in the production of sugar i cane with entire success. Cane, it is j claimed, ha- been prnduecd on the lands of the St Cloud plantation of a size far exceeding anything either Louisiana or Jamaica ran grow, and the company has been encouraged to go into the business pti 11 more largely this year, and has put up 1.000 acres over and beyond their acreage of last year. Another branch of the Okechoobec Damage Company has been experimenting with lite, and with like success. Compliments to Pornell. Dcni.in, 1 hkl.au d, [Cablegram.]? Maurice Mealy, in a speech in Sligo said he again challenged Pnrnell to resign. Recent speeches of Darnell, he said, were I more excuses, and proved him to be a coward and sneak, in addition to a libertine ami liar. Confederate Pensions in Arkansas. I.itti.k Hoi k, Aiik., |Special. ]- A bill to pension disabled Confederate sold it rs nnil their indigent widows ami appropriate $10,000 for a soldiers' home nt Little Rock has pa cd both liO'ises of the Arkansas Legislature. THE FARMERS' VJlAN< The Growth of the Ordenb Ethereal 1 So 8ay? Ingalls, of Kansas, hnd Further Compares Xi top** republican Feeling in \ 1856 to 1860. \ Baltimore, Md., [Special.]? tor John J. Ii^alls. of Kansaa, in |u terview here'wud of the Farmer*' Alliai "This movement is building grt\ then the majority of the ramie on eastern slo|>e ?re willing \ >vlmit. presents one of the most into. jiyA li'.ieal problems iA.thc ceutury^^m ing not understood. In the- west, purely agiiculttftnl section, it has tal adecpJtold uu the public mind, and the olution of the movement is closely wat I ed by our deepest thinkers andpoliti economists. These farmers have c< eluded that there are wrongs existi that no* d adjustment. The growth the organization is not ethereal or sp< taneous, but has conic with a stro undercurrent of reason that will ultiinat< land it on a solid foundation whirh w defy all the efforts of political agitah to shake. "Of course the blatant demagogic whose claims are unreasonable and untc aide, will not be the ones to carry tl movement to the success I look for it reach. You will find, however, tli with the force behind it and with ev partial success these agitators will forced to give way to the more couserv 11vt? eiemcnt, ami the leadership will I assumed l>y meu impelled alone 1 the assurance that it wilfh results. The adjustments of the taril the expansion of the circulating mcdiur an<l other measures the absence of whi< thinking farmers believe underlie tl stagnation that now afflicts them will 1 advocated by the best minds in the mnv ment in such a way as to carry with the i strong popular feeling. "f think it may lie compnred to tl Veling of Republicanism which swej ?ver the country from 1856 to I860. Th esult might be more ipiickly reache :ould the West and the tjouth find coir aoucr ground or which to stsud. Th Cast and the North have recognized thi II along, anil have very adroitly prevent I any coalition. They know that ii lie South anything that endangers th real government by the white clemen ill be '-enisled, ami that every other in -rest will be sacrificed to this Tlici Irout reached their limit. ? ^ "The sections aro becoming apatneti like to tire appeals and menaces, am hen the one dies out and the other i IIiiyed wo may look for a coalition tlia fill produce tangible ro|ults. The ex ,ting political parties, however, may b Ireir platforms and the candidates norr nated make such concessions to the A1 iancc as to cause the members to retur ii their respective folds with the belli hat evils tlicv seek to redress %ill l?c r? armed in their own households." ****** tub al.l.lanck in tf.xas. The following is the concluding paia raph of a circular letter sent out. h bother S. O. Dawes, flecretarv-treaaurc f the State Alliance of Texas, 181H. I lions a remarkably healthy growth c he Order in that State: "The growth of the Order is quite ci iMITjitfii 100 sub-Alliances hav ember lad. and leen reorganized Also'<>\" ne ounty Alliance.', have fonnet Life and enthusiasm are being developc in every part of the Stute. Bros. Join ind IVrduc are devoting their whole tin I -* W. lvtu,""8 111 "Y"' ^ wuj tuu ilently look for a bright future for o Order in this State. You should gi these faithful brethren, with others wl ne in the field, your undivided suppo and encouragement." Southern Farmers More Prosperou Prominent citizens of Yuma Count Colorado, have published an addn asking for aid for sett lore in the conn a bo lost their crops by the drought li /ear. Two hundred families arc report io be in want of the actual necessaries life. They "especially need spri wheat, sorghum seed, German mill early corn, oats, feed for teams and pi visions of all kinds." The address signed l?y the couutv.pfliccrs and t postmaster of YuniaClty, and there Is doubt that help is badly needed by I unfortunate people for whom it is i quested. A ononis of this character lu iw nomf. naiTi'fullv familiar in recent yen i -?* however, and they go very far to pr< that the New "West is not nearly so gr a place for industrious settlers as the ( South. Kmigrants from tho North Stales will do well to note the cxperic of their predecessors and govern th( selves accordingly. Suit for Sorvices in Forming a Trv j Nkw Yoiik, (Special.]?Theodore , leu has brought actiou in the 8upr< ! Court to recover from the Keanry Tol ] (o Company $50,000 for his services ' connection with the organization of American Tobacco Compaay, othen bnown as the "Cigarette Trust" in If He claims he had a contract with fondants under which he did the 10 The defendants deny the contract. '"op An Argentiaa/^Hdition. Bcp.nos Amies, [Callcgram.]?I announced that, the provincial Cover will signify their adhesion to the lition of the .Mitre and Itoea parties. Coventor of Buenos Ay res, however, post s the coalition. No Local Option in Now Hnmpa! Concord, N. II.?The local o lieenve bill was Killed in the 1 1 Thursday by a vote of 106 to 140, T - ? "? [IE. DANA IN GEORGIA. Not Tells a Reporter What Strikes Him in the South. An. a sta, t?a., (Special. | ? Chas. A. I jje l>?n?. Kditor of the New York Sun, spent some time here ami talkgd freely on all subjects, lie is noted for his fear lessmess in criticising men ami measures, sin! this interview bristles with plain, blunt and caustic comment on cur lent nnB , eventa. jn_ For a man ot erudition. Mr. Dana is . euiaikahly robust. From his looks no ater 'nc wou'(i suspect him of l?ciiig bookish, the pbysiuue and the hiusipie H nanner of a man of action. Though of ull height, he does not look tall. His in hiassive, well-filled frame gives an im rbout the eves is there any outward evi ' n deuce of the scholar. This is the impres t >ion until lie begins to talk. Then the ch- Physical vigor is eelipsed l?v the intel eul cetual, and you are astonished at the )(J rapidity with which he gets over urrnmnl ' . ( in coining into a new plnre his jjIhiii'cs (|j -rem to Hart shout incessantly until lifl >11 Jms up. Then ho is off on 1 1 something elm*. ' pj" Mr. Dana was asked: rill "What strikes you down here?" "Activity, pio.<?peiity, ahsenec of sttf ' filing or distress. There is supposed to hp great distress among the fanners, hut t | j ! don't see it in (ieorgia, Alahama 01 ' . . ilsewhere in the South." l'( "I see great improvement in the no ' int 000*- They are getting Idaeker. This is a very noticeable fact , you don't see . one mulatto where von saw four thirty ' years ago. I ;cc hardly any except the 1^. hotel waiters. This is better, for the ' , 1 l>la< ks are the stronger rare and are not ' 4 .te i"k).li'aatf^^r-..ii ..-p, - ... J! ij Hone. The negroes are valuable lahor 11 n' era and the country can't get. along ?' h *'thout them. If they were taken out I* le of Georgia you jmild "suffor for lack of j? H> hihor. Their p^A^would have to he ' p tilled by Italians or nTavonians, ami Iliad " ?j' rather have 100 negroes thau 100 Slavo '? ninns. President Polmer Among Us. .?? .... .1 is President Palmer, of the World's Fair j," d commission, spent Saturday last in At i lauta, Ga., and then departed for Jaek jj(1 e snnville, Fla. While in Atlanta Mr. Pal ^y s mer called upon Governor Northern, and |ja had ipiitc an extended conference with jj, a him in reference to the Georgia display m, r at the Fair, lie will return to Atlautn in .... ill' w n.H con vent i(^u is to he /. * for st'i ^ii in^ aii adc ^ 1 rector Hencral Davis, who has beeU in y'j s Jacksonville for several days, is nlxo'en t tliusinstic over the prospects of the. Fair, _r which lie predicts will eclipse any expo- |)(] v sit ion ever given in this country. It wiII> i give, he says, the best opportunity ever ^ I- presented for bringing its imincnse re U(| n sources iiroinineiitlv before the ncoiile. jl(| Women'o Finns for Women's Building, j CiiicAoo, It,t?, (Special. | ? Miss Sophia lb d. Ilaydcii, of Boston, wins the $1,000 ex pii/.c olfereil for the best design for the pi [ woman's building of the World's Fair, fii v Miss J.ois I . Ilowe, also of Boston, takes gc r second prize, $."i(io, and Miss Laura an t Hayes, of Chicago, gets $250 offered for I I?r if the third best design. Miss Harden is a re, first honor graduate of the Massachusetts m I- Institute of Technology and Miss Howe e is from tlie same institution. Miss Hayes Hi ( Xs soon an tin Ti ii~TiTl n H III?T ^ w llayden was wired to come to Chicago tr 1. immediately and elaborate lier plans. a? ?d lier design is one of marked simplicity. sj ps It is in the Italian style with colonnades sc broken by centre and end pavillions. rn Tl** S. 4 l omO i <r.n f | 4 II- i lit .* II Ittib OJ ?# i'l/ ?.'??; *?UW litt, itr I find .Ml left. i?l* f-iiiiiirr 'riifii? is tm VJ ve dome. The feature of orimment is |> 10 the entranc. n Vengeance, Swift and Sure. Minm.KsijoHoroii, Ky., [Special. 1S. A. Burke, a telegraph operator at ('inn " herland (hip, was siiot from atnhush in the mom in;/I n a negro named Hauler. .' s Burke died in-tuntly A few hours alter ' ' N Hunter was capture I in Middleslmrough ( ,s iiiiii taken l>aek l<? tiie (iap. Sixty armcd men met (lie otlieers and look j I unlet* 1 in (lie mountains, luiuged him to a tree nK and riddled liim with I in I lets. Ct, . . .. l Schooner Wrecked on N. C. Coast is lie The two masted schoucis that we.u ooo ?nil a ainujter miles south of , },c ('hicinuconuco life, saving station, if t:.v - j r(> Tuesday morning is ttic "Strathairly" o! | ive Weaiii line, Baltimore. ller crew wa? , irs, i omposed ol twenty-six, ot which nin? j ^ve 'een have perished, among them all tl" >od otlieers except second mate. ern Weekly Cotton Statistics. Livs.nrooi,, Eno.?Total sales for tin "m vcek oT.OUO hales; American 211,00 i: rade taking including forwarded from ?hip?ide 12,000; actual export 4,00(1: to >st. -aI iinpoil 100.000, American 00,0011; to ?i ml sink 1.168.000: American 860,000; 'me total alloat 1(15,000; American 150,000 )Hr "omilotors took 1,200, exporters took in '^00. the vise Coming to the World's Fair. The Spanish Government has notitice ?" lie department of state at Washington hat it will participate in the World's 'olumhian Exposition at Chicago. Minder Lincoln r.lso cabled a brief announce neut that the Government of Great I5r:t tin had accepted the invitation to mnki IS i display at the Fair, nors 1 conThe Sale of a Newspaper at a Sacrifice. W11.mlnoton, N. C.?The Wilmington Daily Mcsseuger, including nl! tbe presses, hire niat? rial and good will, the property o! the late Julius A. llonit/., was sold In ption am t ion Wednesday under a $10,00'* loiiac mortgage for $4,500. The publication 1 continues, LAST GREAT GENER Death of Joseph Eggleston John Th? Hero of Three Wars Has Pi Over the River.?-Buriotl in 1 Monumental City. Washington, l>. C\, | Special. | eral Joseph K Johnston died of I failure at his residenee in this cit; 11:15 oVIock Sunday night With at the last moment were e\ Uov? Mel ,ane, of Maryland, and the in Ilia death was very sudden, ami a momenta la-fore dissolution there no M|>] enranee to indicate it. He gi?|tcd feebly once or twice, and great leader of artuics had himself obt Ik I--a. his room for several weeks past, and in:; (lie lust few days had gradually gi weaker. During Iho past twenty hours he had mnnined in h wmi-ci lose rondition, ami was aroused < iitlieulty. His death was so peaeeful (hat ( Mil.anc, who was at his hedside. ?'i lot fur several inoiueuts helieve that jiMicnd was dead. There was not as lot a movement; his heart erased to I md he sank to rest as peaceably juicily as a t?at?e to sleep. In aildition to his heart trouhle, general had eoiituieted a severe cold w le recently aided as pall hearer at unerals of Admiral l'orter and (Sen Sherman. With the dentli of (Sen. Johnston tl * removed the last prominent liguro itheraide in the great civil war. Them were a great many caller* Sen. Johnston's late residenee, iuelud Sens. Hehntield and Koneernns and . niral Dodgers. |mmm '? " .unwwmffil nd Tuesday morning taken to St Jo| hureli where the funeral service h lace at II o'clock, the reelor, l?r. Do iss, conducting the ceremonies; nil g simple and void of display, this he le expressed wish of the dead man ? is relatives. The honorary pall hearers were Sena ?hn T. Morgan, of Alahamn; Sena . I! of Virginia; the Ih a' \ Vi,,Ty' <{- ki ? A ; (leu. Charles W. Field. (1, nlgers, '(fen! llV<Y A'tyttfi'/tfon. 'flea . llriee, Col Aieher Anderson, ? Itiuiorc; Col. Kdwin C# Harris, tl in. J. C. Bancroft Davis and I'ay II tor James Watmaugh, of the nav c active pallbearers were taken fro 5 members of tho Ex-Confederu soeiatiou, Washington City. ,'ondolatory telegrams wtthout_nur b presence of himself rginiu tiHicials at tho funeral. (Sen. Wheeler, from AlubamiW.tel nnhed : "Our universal rcurct that i i longer lmvo our beloved general." Senator Walthall telegraphed fr< i.Hsishippi: "(leu. .Johnston had i liuir.it101 Hiid affection and his fain is my sympathy." Similar despatches from Gen. A. iwlon, of Georgia, Kepreacntnti icckeiiridgo, of Kentucky, from t Confederate association, from ma aces in the South ami from porsoi iends or war associates of the de neral, avowing admiration for his ? Ited charaeter and appreciation of I illiant services, pride in his career gret at his death were received at t ausion during the day and night. 1*. T. Sherman, on la-half of the h in. Sherman, lent the following fr< ew York: inier t.". the u)',u\r, /i1 l'o'W'V^tr isuranee of their profound sorrow :i , mpathy." IJAi.TiMocr, Mo. (Jen. .lohnston's mills were interred at (Ireciimount <Y sst coneoiu.se of people Only the s le hurial service at t In-grave was re 1 accordance with the wishes of datives. Wilmington. N. ('., has an catabl lent at which arc nrndc wooden ?< lishes, diamond and berry baskets, fi nd vegetable crates, candy and ora oxes and various other articles. It t uts to order veneers from d#cet gi mphr, sycamore, oak, ash, lurch i laluut. There is no monopoly in i adustry, but there is an unceasing t teadily increasing demand for 111:1113 Is products. Hydrophobia After Twenty Yeai Mkxico, Mo., [Special.)?William f Kept with him all the time. During night his sufferings were terrible, gnashed ids ieeiii and frothed at mouth continually. It is said that al twenty years ago he was bitten by a dog. "which the doctor thinks is cause. _ State Secretary Elected. It.\ i.r.ioii, N'. 0. The members ol veeutivc committee of the State K is' Alliance who me here (S. M J under and .1. Af. Mew home) clectei S. I'm ties, of Wilson, State Serretai siieeeed E. ('. llcddin^tirlil, re.signeii A Hanging at Mauch Chunk Matcii Chunk, Pa.?The jail rrowded Wednesday morning to vvi tiie hanging of Oliver William Sta His neck was broken an he died wi struggling. Disastrous Bank Failure in .L villo. F/orisvn.f.rc, Kv. - The otlieinl mcnt of Schwuit/. & Co.. the f hankers, is as follows: Assets, $."? liabilities. Gold Coin for Cuba. Nkw Yokk, [Special] ? At tla treasury late Thursday afternoon Odd in gold coin was ordered for nrcnl to Cuba. number 14|m?w^ ; al. a southern monopoly. ston. Scmothing- About Slate Pencil* and Where Made. tased Cnniparat ivrly few (tersons ere awaro J10 *?f lie fact that the only place in America where slate |>eucilii are now manufactured is in the State of Virginia, near the city of (iiarlottcaville, Alhernuirtn county. (Jen- For a numltcr of years sonput one slato icait pencils of tine quality were manufactured y at at a ipiarry near Castleton, Vermont, hut him about ten or fifteen years ago the slate of irnor which these |tencils were made began to Jrsc. grow gritty aud the quarries weto abanfew done*!. was Another slate peneil factory was started then in Ml SlatingUrn, Ph., but the slate proved dur- panv's quarries, which are altuated about own N miles from the city of Charlottesville, four Va., contain a very large body of cxren>ma tinuallj tine soaps tone slate; in fact, it is with believed to lie the finest. in the world. It is called "soapstone" slate on account of lov . its slick, soapy feeling when first brought mid out of the quarry, ami as it is free of the grit it is easily worked. Its toughness igh, also enhances its value for manufacturing lte.it pill poses. it can he very highly polish ami ill, nii'l when made into mantels, soda fountains, ami other useful ami oinamen the tnl articles can hardly he distinguished lieu 11mil thi' finest marble, for which it is the frequently mistaken, the process of mar end lilei/ntion to w hich it is subjected making it a beautiful imitation. In this deposit HIC o. in IICI1N Ol 8IHI0 lllgllly on valuable for tho manufacture of Iho lino i; <!? nf pencils which (ho MoidiccHo i nl Soii|?Hloni? Slate Company is plnciug on inn iho market. It is found in two colon*, Ad greenish white nnd pnrnle; Hie (armor is made iiiln pencils, which " !t?rr" :,'v the especial product of This ins ihoro heing no others like ||,ein. Tho ' purple slate makes a lieiuitifnl pencil ah VK , fr<'e of ffrit or Other scratch* j?e- substances, a .pialily highly pri/.ed. nn'i MURDER IN ATLANTA. !m An EnK?'neer Kill. HI. Fireman for ,v Reporting* Him for Neglect of Duly, 'i, Atlanta, (1a., |Special, I-, * -yv . ' n. I.V lllliidrr o O CtocK. I'llileirj wood, an engineer on tho Western unci if Atlantic ltailroad, killed his Fireman, no Sires, both white, at their boarding homo ii or. liaker ntrect. It seems that Sires had v. reported Underwood to tho Bnporinten in dent of the railroad for neglect of duty it They mot at their boarding house, when Underwood asked 8lrc? if lie had report - Mn A. PRETTY GOOD RECORD.v ?y ily What Was Accomplished in Part of ^ Southwest Virginia During 1300. iv; The following is a list of the new in-. 11ii diistrics ami works of improvement *.t iiy points on the Norfolk & Western tt.il| roml in course of const met ion, under ,?| eontrnrt, or completed during year fHtIO; ,x. 12 Mast furnaces, H rolling inills, 21 l,js foundries, maeliiiie works ami other iron or works, H5 woodworking estahlishineiits, |)U I .'it) other industries, 42 iron mines, it coal mines, 2,000 coke ovens, 45 hotels, ,le 7 iron highway bridges, 0 electric plants, ?? 7 street railways, 2 lielt line railroads, 0 water and gas works, 2 public buildings, in, | course of const ruction or contracted and do not incliid" those ('(intfiuia|dU{4t?P^^ I,.. This is a remarkable list, snowing what has acliiallv la cn accomplished. i if < i '. ,: . 4 i,. I,..I i II *# I * J"% %% ' ? t j'lim .t M?/V lilt IMMtM Ml iin. tliis there are hundreds that will inn:,,|t tcriali/.e and lie put under construetiou the during 1801. 1 Sending iiimtlles hy Wlrn. i*h- I Wiiat is, termed telpherage, or (lie Iter run\ eyuiicc of parcels by electricity nlo.ijj ruit I'tie.i of wire placed overhead, is lit tin "K,! known in this country beyond the xl.irje ''so of experiment. We have little real need of this device l?> assist commercial businesf. In South America, however, tlllA , | . , i|i(j (elplierapfo sc.mines appear to be of propitious to (ho ap ;e u lot or, and a line has been constructed 180 miles lontf, which will place Buenos Ayres and b. .Montevideo in communication. Across . the lai I'iata there is u swim; for the Uc wires of nineteen iniies, and the initial If- !>/ t.v > (ended to dispatch letter lciVJ b ( (lie 1Iwn cities ut intervals of two hour* bout ?titii Francisco Kramiru.r. mad tl?o d he Cosmopolitan's pri/o of $200 for lie In s| article of 4.000 words written by i !..r;ii' r\< daughter, deseribin:r farm life, with suggestion* as to the best means of r the making furni I'fc attractive and happy, arm has been awarded to Miss Jennie K. Mei- Hooker, of McCiitehanville, Ind. It will i W. be printed in tho April number. More v to than i!00 writers competed for the prixc. SenatAr IVffcr, of Kansas, liaa laid :wli of his eight children, three of whom was or girl, learn h trade. Type-setting Inesa rents t?? have been moat popular with ailey. :i:rui, although one daughter baa fit.* ? 1 thou'. tri 'elf to become an amanucnaia, and one on is a locomotive engineer. Mian Mamie Hayard, the youngest ionic daughter of ex-Sccretnry Itaynrd, is to marry Count I.owenhanpt, win luia been studying ship l"n'< state- Wilmington, Delaware, and .".''."r large esta'e in his own country. 1,'iVi; i ? I'.x Premier Criapi, of Italy, finds the aw a piotitahie profession, an Italian caii'slup company having engage*! him . < counsel at an annual aalarv of 50,000 it sub ship General Miles, the Indian tighter, is going to Mexico on a leave of absence.