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ycry large piropoition of the Canadian
people arc victims of American fever.
Knglish society, according to the l.ondon
?(tir, has decided that the word
4'lady" Is to bo expunged from its lexicon
of polite conversation,and the good,
old-fashioned "woman" is to take its
placo.
"The Sunday cbllectibbs "in Trinity
Church. New York City, often amount to
$10,000, but the record was eclipsed on
a recent Sunday in the clmich of the
Vandcrbilt family's uttendencc, when
i>i a ?-aa ?
4>n,ouu was taken.
'Over one hundred tools and processes,
which are inarrels ol ingenuity
and scientific knowledge," says tho Rochester
(N. Y.) Democrat, "have been inveutcd
by safe burglars. A recent burglar's
outfit, captured by the police, consisted
of a little giant knob-breaker, a
diamond drill and a high explosive of
Mfc tho nature of dynamite, but put up iu
the form of a powder. It would open
the strongest bank safe in a lnlf hour,
1^' and without noise enough to disturb pco3
pic in the next house, while the entire
outfit could be carried in the pockets ol
an ordinary coat."
Nine men out of ten boast that they
? * Mli\ f?ir?r? " Kitf nonnnol XT Ann
.v.?~.0~v vv, ......
man out of ten will say that l>e "never
forgets a natnc." The two qualities arc
rarely combined In one individual. Two of
the best examples in Now York are in all
. v probability John L. Hill,room clerk at the
St. James Hotel, who never forgets the
name or face of a gue3t, even after a
lapse of years, and llobert Pinkerton,
tho head of Pinkerton's Detective
Agency, who. knows the name and face
of every "crook" of proihiucnco in
America. Each man has trained his
memory in the same groove for diUvient
purposes
" Experiments are being made by tlu
United States Government," said Herbert
W. Hotchkiss, of Michigau, to tho New
York Telegram, "as to which spot in this
country is tho healthiest. That is, they
r" trpin(r ^ h,r "" 'tain bnW.i nnr', j |
that the long-life circle includes Grand
Traverse Bay in Michigan, near Charlcroix,
and I can say that it is a place of
perpetual youth. I went there to die
some years ago aud urn now enjoying
werfeot hnaltll. Thprn ia i,r? Imtfop ntunn
J ? ?
to build up iti than there. The hospitality
of lumbermen is proverbial ami
any man who spends three months up
there and does not come out a new man
had better die at once."
The big guns of 1110dcru men of-war
arc likely, as appears from recent experiments,
to do quire as much damage to
friends, opines the New Orleans TimesDemocrat,
as enemies. A naval officer
has been describing the firing of a sixtyseven
ton gun on the new battle ship
Trafalgar, considered 0:1c of the three or 1
r.Mii- On 11*. I l> - *" *' ?- HI-1- UiT?J.
lie says: "The gun was pointed directly
ahead and fired with a chargo of G.'IO
pounds of slow-burning powder and a
1230-pouml p jectilc. The blast produccdvvt.be
nwb of the pcv.*dc? and
me snot was so tremendous fat tlie plate<
of the forecastle were forcett in and the
deck beams bent out of shape, while al- i
most every round carried away some fragment
of the projecting portions of the 1
ship, even when the training was to the
right or ilia left. It is estimated that ]
the vessel would be reduced to something '
very like a wreck were twenty-five rounds
to be fired cither directly ahead or direct- j
ly astern. This interferes with, or rcn- i
der.s impossible, firing when either in J
flight or chase, aud has caused our naval ^
constructors to modify the plans for the
projected battle-ships, as it is not deemed
desirable to have them sink from the (lis
charge of their o-.vn guns."
According to the Oaicugo lfcrabl
New York's Board of Education is considering
a proposal to banish the teaching
of French aud German iu the public
schools of the city. At present French
tf~\\ and Germ til are taught in live grades of
the schools to about 23,899 children,
100 minutes per week being devoted to
these languages. French an.l German
arc optional at present with the trustees
of tho various schools, and the system
has heretofore givcu satisfaction. The
principle of giving instruction in brauclies
demanded by a majority of the parents
is, however," confesses the Hera'A, "one
that needs to be carefully restricto 1.
Most of our public schools already attempt
far too much, and the result is that
instead of turning out graduates thor- <
oughJy well drilled in the rudiments of
English education in too many instances
they are contributions to swell the tide (
of mediocrity by attempting to give fnctruction
in too many branches. Thor~v.lt
ough work in the csseutiuis first and
after that the extras, i? there is time and
money for tlicui, should be tho aim of
public school work."
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ALLIANCE COLUMN. "
Interesting Alliance Politics From I
the West.
Tho Kansas Senate Announces Itself 1
the Defender of the State's Honor.
Topeka, Kan.,?The House has passed
a compromise bill appropriating $00,000
for the aid of destitute settlers in the
Western counties of Kansas. The Senate
has agreed to .concur in the bill. The
money to l>c used for the purchase of *
seed grain in the counties where the crops 1
last year were destroyed by drought.
Tho followiug resolution has been i
Whereat, the passage of the House bill |
commonly culled the Elder tax bill nud ]
others of like ehartictcr by the House of
Hepreseutatives of this State has .caused 1
grcut apprehension and distrust among
the holders of Kansas securities, and is, ^
ns we believe, doing the people of this
State great and irreparable injury by
causing the withdrawal of all foreign |
capital from our State, thereby rendering
It impossible for the debtor class of our
people to renew their mortgages or even '
pay their interest accruing thereon; therefore
be it
Jtuuilcetf, That it is the sense of this (
Senate that no wild or visionary measure, 1
calculated iu its iihturc or by its provisions
to injuriously affect the people of
this State or the credit of the same, cau
or shnll pass this body. i
The House, in Committee of the Whole, i
lias reeoir.mended the passage of Sena- j
tor Hiehter's Alien Land Ownership bill.
The measure is a most stringent one, and
provides that aliens who now own land i
in the State must dispose of it in tea
years under pcnulty of forfeiture to the
State. Aliens who acquire by inheritance
or in satisfaction of debt must sell it
within live years from the time of securing
title. Corporations, 20 per cent, of
whose stock is owned by aliens, are prohibited
from owning over tf,000 acres of
land.
FARMERS ALLIANCE NOTKB.
The National organizer of the Farmers'
Alliance is now in Oregon, and he sends
word that the wheat raisers there are
(lockiug to the Alliance standard.
The Kansas Alliance leader, who
lately hoisted the name of ex-Senator
Ingulls as the Alliance candidate for
President, has not yet met with any
encouragement.
The Alliance in the State of Washington,
which held a convention lately, took t
no action in behalf of a third party, but
? ? ?! iirwrnwwws '
Farmers' Alliance Exchange held a convention
at Birmingham, Ala. Measures
were adopted regarding the handling
of this year's cotton crop and the
establishment of a cotton tie factory, aud
other business of a practical kind was
transacted.
Several branches of the Farmers' Allinucc
have recently been organized in
New Hampshire. The charge that
Senator Chandler has boon coquetting
with the Alliance is the subject of a great
deal of speculation in both parties in the
State.
The Boston Herald has obtained interviews
regarding the Farmers' Alliance
from a large number of the Old Grangers '
of Massachusetts. Nearly every one of
them stty.s that the Alliance cannot fun)
favor in the New Euglaiul States.
According to the Secretary of the
Minnesota Alliance, there are over 50,- ]
000 members of the organization in that
State; and both of the political parties
me afraid of its power.
TTie "leaders of the Kansas Alliance are
preparing for the local elections next
month. The women are eveu more
active in the political Held thau they
were last year.
The Nationalists of Rhode I*l??nd, v/Lc
are anxious to join forces with the Farmers'
Alliance, have nominated a full State
ticket for the spring elections on a
Socialistic platform. The caudidate for
Governor is an engineer, the candidate
for Lieutenant-Governor is a newsdealer,
and the other candidates arc mechanics 1
or shopkeepers. The New Nation says: 1
"To the Nationalists of Rhode Island
lias been reserved the distinction of 1
bringing out the first full-Hedged party '
ticket." i
Some of the Western farmers are having
hard luck. The following pathetic
lunouncemcnt is made in the news col
amus of ft Nebraska paper: "John j
rhompscn's dogs are nil (load but | '
twelve." 1
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Ho Know Mampkia.
lie was a backwoods Tennesseear.
seeing Washington last week, says the <
Star, with an official friend, and the last '
night they did "Cleopatra" ns presented 1
by Mrs. Bernhardt. <
He was greatly impressed by the per- <
formance, and in that scene where the
Kgyptain Queen sits upon the terrace 1
overlooking Memphis, his enthusinsm '
bubbled over.
"Moonshine nnd Molasses!" he ejacu- <
lated in a whirring whisper; "ain't that i
a socker from the headwaters? What is 1
it anyhow?" ]
"It's Memphis." Whispered the ofli- i
cial, holding him down. 1
"Come off," lie said, after ft moment's
n.fli i. na mi -t ?
.v..? It Hill i. l j|t?y lion I laiK
French in Memphis*. I sold a car load of
mulefT down there last fall." I
Oroat Confederate Gathering.
United States Senator Walthall and I
Rx-Governor Lowry will deliver orations v
at the unveiling of the Confederate monu- r
ment in Jackson, Miss., 011 June 8rd. r
Governor Lowry will, it is understood,
offer a tribute to the 1 to Jefferson Davis, ^
while Gen. Walthall will speak of the j,
Confederate cause. It is expected to he g
the greatest demonstration of Kx Confederates
in Mississippi since the war, and .
preparations for the event arc projected
on a big scule.
Freezing Weather in Mississippi.
Jackson, Miss , | Special. | - The mcr? ^
cury here Saturday night went down to ^
the freezing point and materially damaged
tender vegetation of all kinds.
SOUTHERN STATE NEWS
Southern Men And Measure
Paragraphed.
ffewsy Chit-Chat and Telegraphi
Dispatches From Many Pointa
In Our Own and Adjoining
States.
VIRGINIA.
The Y. M. C. A. of Danville has elod
?d J. L. At lee, Jr., of Portsmouth, thei
recretary.
The body of a man was found in Pal
rick count^Tucsda^ horribly ^man^^
byterian church is changed to Shclto
Memorial church, in houor of the lat
W. N. Shelton, who made large dom
Lions to its buildilig fund.
Mayor Yancey, of Lynchburg, sei
three small boys to the prison rcfom
near Richmond, Tuesday.
* Tin? formal opening of of the Roanol
& Southern Railroad from "NVinston-S
lem, N. to Martinsville. Vs., wi
celebrated by the people of Martiusvil
on April 15th.
A negro who has a white wife in Roai
oke, says the Richmond Time*, is warn
ed for the murder of a colored worn?
who was legally married to him. T1
white wife has been arrested.
T n rn..i _t n?!i 1? 1 at
Jj^OII V. I VIIT, U1 >> Illlltlll !ID?I ,lliin
College, lias becu selected as Virgin in
member of the pan-American congrci
in Washington.
The much-talkcd-of fight betwec
Bill Kully, of Washington, and Walti
Campbell, of Philadelphia, took place i
Alexandria Wednesday night. Contr
ry to all expectations it was a glove tlgl
of ten rounds for a purse #100 to the vi
tor and $25 to the vanquished. Cam]
bell knocked out his opponent in t<
rounds. It took place on the st ge
the Opera House in the presence of ubo
five hundred spectators, and was u
doubtedly the most brutal and disgruc
ful affair that has ever token place
Alexandria.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Dirt has been broken for the new Unii
depot at Raleigh.
Rev. C. K. Woods, 1). D., of Misson
will preach the Baccnlu'arcatc sernu
at Trinity College this year.
The electric street cars will be ruunii
in Charlotte iu a few weeks. The o
horse car trucks havo all been rcpluci
terit.h full equipment for the electric sy
The Calawba Galley Masonic Lodg
of Morgunton, is to be revived.
The first train on the Yadkin rail rot
entered Albemarle, the couuty seat
Stanley, on Saturday last, and John 1
Drake was the only passenger.
The 2111st law passed by the i
cent Legislature, allows a person, aft
icii days' notice at court house, to opp
to clerk to change his name?can on
be changed once.
A new land company, composed (
Mrtj. L. A Burke, of Aberdceu, S. I
Prof. Carr and S. H. Brown,of Grecnsbor
has been organized, and is buying i
land around Statesville. Just what u:
they will make of it is not yet known.
Several large capitalists from Ne
York and Ohio have just purchased 1
200 acres of land in the "Southei
Pines," near Italeigh, on which they wi
plant 50,000 peach and 5,000 pear tree
Alxnit 550 acres are now being ctcared I
begin the plunting.
yiipx? II 111 II II i
Rev. Peter Goldsmith and wife, It
Greenville, Saturday for Gundalajar
Mexico, as a Baptist Missionary.
The Charleston Port Society celebrati
its 00th anniversary in < > ( ?? chv.r:
Sunday.
Two infants were cremated alive ne
Greenvil le, Wednesday, while their pn
ents were out in the fields.
The aggrega te earnings of all Sou
Carolina railroads for February we
$971,000.48, an increase of $0ti,!i(>7.l
over the same in onth of last year.
The diamond ring to be awarded
the lady who sold the greatest number
tickets for the "Fall of Babylon,"
L/uiiimuin, whs won i?y Miss 1'ercival.
The committee has sclw-lcd Green wot
for the location <?f the Baptist State O
plumage, which will he called "Carr
Maxwell Orphanage," taking its nnn
from a daughter of ex-Testator Maxwel
:>f Anderson county, who gave $40,001
The town of Greenwood gives $2,200.
Charles Boyd, of Atlanta, who went i
Charleston about two weeks ago, an
started o waieii club, was raided an
lined $20 Tuesday for carrying on a gnu
of chance. The local jewelers got win
of his game, and forced the police to a
rest him. Boyd says he has a jeweler
license, and will go on with his Imsines
A reward of $1,000 is offered for tli
capture of a white man and two negrot
iiul the recovery of $1,550 they stol
rron? James Gardner, employed by th
Brewer Mining Company, while he wa
'eturning from the town of Kershaw t
he mine, last week.
TENNESSEE.
J. W. Taylor, of Omaha, Nel>., hs
>urcliascd a 1,215 aere tract of mangenes
?re land in Wayne county.
Maude ticoles, the daughter of a prop
KsruuH mercnnni ot Hamilton county
traa drowned in Sale creek. She wn
cscucd in ten minutes, but couldn't b
esuscitnted.
New York, Iloston and other partie
lave purchased the Hellevuc and High
and additions, at Johnston City, of (it
crcs for $75,000
The county court and city council, o
Chattanooga, each appropriated $500 t(
ntcrtnin I'resident Harrison during hi
top there.
The Stivers planing mill, near the E
T. V. iV <?. railroad bridge, Chattanooga
fas burned to the ground, Wednesday
(.v?) $io,000.
A wonderful freak of nature took plac<
1 M?4fe/uw'?f BftTid Stokley, *1 Newpostf!
few daji ago. A cow gave birth
to a oalf wkh two well-derelopfd head?,
_ but the calf waa dead when found. The
hide was taken off and will be preserved.
The noaihera papers are making worry
at the exptnae of Governor Buchanan, of
Tennessee, who pardoned a man in the
0 penitentiary, only to ind out later that
the fellow had forged his petition,
signatures and all. There is nothing funny
about it. The prisinor acted like a
bold, bad nan, and should feci thoroughly
ashamed of himself.
Toof, M(Gowan A Co., a prominent
firm of wholaaale grocers and cotton facir
tors In Mew phis, made an assignment
last week. Liabilities are $117,000, as,j
'^n^asb^^^^^^'SoSlect' the fund comu
iicr to Tmiimmm under Itu .?
the direct tax, la which he state* that ho
has found all the assessment and sale*
it books aud other records except the stub
j receipt books. He la having the record?
' copied.
LC GEORGIA
a" The citizens of LaFayette have decided
18 to build a fine academy and to start
'e up a first-class school.
The Coninress Company of Washingi
ton dcclarca a dividend of 20 per ceut.
t- for the year past. The capital is $20,in
000.
ic In Augusta the society people are in a
flutter of excitement over the claim for
'8 the estate of an old hnryess-mnker,
;8 amounting to about $2,500, brought by
^ the famous Ilargous family, of New
York. The estate was about tp be turn>n
ed over to the county, having been unpr
claimed for twenty yeurs.
it The farmers fh the vicinity of Abbea.
ville have restricted their acreage of cot[it
ton this year, and have correspondingly
c. increased their acreage of grain and other
crops. The wisdom of this course will
L.n be manifested when the crops arc gatherGf
ed aud marketed.
H. C. Odom, of Leesburg,who was
n* possibly the largest merchant in the countv,
was closed by the sheriff under mortin
gages amounting $35,000.
The stock yards in Augusta now have
to go. The law is in effect, and the
)<t board of health is going to have the law
enforced to the lettter.
The Presbyterians of Cedartown have
u) about finished their elegant $8,000
church, uud have called for their pastor,
Hev. John Kuox, of Kentucky.
Nine prisoners cut their way through
the roof of the Fulton oousty jail Wed
Kissiuiincc.
Bishop Gilraour, who has been very
ill al St. Augustine, and whose life was
despaired of, began to rally Sunday and
continues to improve.
ly Hon. E. S. Crell, ex-state treasurer,
fv was elected mayor, of the Pnlatka, Tuesday
on ihe democratic ticket,
jf The Florida Palmetto Brush company
). vhas been organised at St. Augustine with
(i, a capital of f10,000 to manufacture bruship
cs from the palmetto roof on a larger
se scale than heretofore.
The Tampa National Bank has beer,
w chartered to succeed the Commercial
.. Bank at Tampa.
in TlufNortli Beach Railway Co. at St.
ill Augustine has applied for a franchise
R. to operate a street railway by steam pow o
or.
The white squadron sailed from Tampa
? uir unuii.ii ,4*?- ?1
ft A Northern party* wfivSrcct an ice faea,
tory at Fernandina at a cost of $10,000.
L. II. Davis, of New Jersey; A. R.
sd Swoope, J. M. Bryan and others have inesr;:o;Y.tcd
the liciiu * anal Co. to construct
a canal from Lake Apopka to
Lake Uriflin in Lake county. The eapir
ital stock is $.">0,000.
Reliable telegrams received from
.1. Gainesville, state that the Florida crop of
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re uraun nun lutiiiinn:!^ "in ue VtTy Short,
m as a result of the frosts. Savannah truckers
will replant those articles heavily to
meet the deficiency.
()'j The following are the ofticers of the
. State Legislature: -Jeff B. Brown, Key
West, president of the senate, and Dr.
J. S. Gnakin, of Starke, speaker of the
?j house; G\ N. Fin lay, of Lake City, secr.
retary of the senate, and Dr. Willium Forje
sythc Bynum, clerk of the house.
>e OTHER STATES.
The Governor, Secretary of State, and
Attorney-General, of Mississippi, consti.
luting a Board to fix the prices on certain
'J public State lands, hnvc de er:nir.c.*l lu
\ place on sale 00,000 acres of pine lands
11, which have recently la-en granted to the
1(j State hy :he United States. The price is
? fixed at $2 per acre.
Kansas City and Chicago packers have
's recently purchased NO,000 head of Texas
s. lattle at a cost of $2,500,000, or an avcrie
age of $:tl.25 jar head. It will require
250 trains of 10 earn wtdi t?? tmna.
|e tliia stock to the packing houses.
ic The lit. licv. Thomas Brennan, the
s new Catholic Bishop of Texas, wiis con0
serrated atKric, Pa., on Sunday. Texas
is a new See,, and Bishop Brcnnnn is its
iii st Hishop.
,s A Female Miser Starves to Death.
? Nkw Youk City, fflpccial.]?Kate
Iloach, aged 00, one of the characters of
'* the 4th ward, was found in her miserable?
hovel, slowly dyinf^-t-f-'starvntion. She
8 was removed to the hospital where the
e doctors say she cannot recover. A
search was made through her apartment,
s and atnid the rags and squalor, the officer
found over $2,000 in gold and bills,
j and bank books, calling for nearly $4,000 ,
mwio. ^ |
1 Yellow Fever on Shipboard.
f, Sodtiiami'Tos, Kxo., [Cablegram.]?
The British steamer Trent, from Brazilian
oorts and the Iiiver Platte, has arrived
licre and been placed in (fnarmitine.
' During the passage from Jtrn7.il four
' deaths from yellow fever occurred on
board the Trent. The steamship's mails
e had not yet been landed,
BARNI1M IS NO MOftE."
The Great Showman, After a Lon
And Useful Life,
Dies at His Home in Bridgeport
After Three Month's Illness?His
Travels in the South Before
The War.
BmnoKronT, Conn., [Special.]?Th
great showman, 1'. T. Barnum, passe
away at 6:23 o'clock in the evening, i
the presence of liis grief-stricken fainih
During the i?erio<l of Mr. Barnum's in
I\ T BAUNl'M.
validism and confinement to the lioust
which began twenty-one weeks ago las
Friday; there have been frequent fluctui
tious in his condition, from each of whir
he rallied, although in each instance wit
lightly lowered vitality.
Mr. llarnum sank into comatose cowl
tion, from which it was evident thi
there would l>c little hope of his agai
returning to cortfeciousness. When tl
ond finally came, it was peaceful, nud
all appearances, painless.
The physicians say that Mr. Jlarnu
had no organic disease, whatever, the ei
fccblcd heart action which had been a]
parent for the past few months being dt
to the gradual failure of his general mei
tal powers, resulting from old age. il
was above eighty. *
Phinens Taylor llarnum was born i
Iletliel, Conn., July 5th, 1810.
After ejerking awhile, he opened
country store, and made money out <
various lottery schemes. In 1821) he b
came the editor of The Danbury lleral
of Freedom.
moving to isew i oik in no pu
chased Joyce Heath, an aged colored wi
man, for ,000, and exhibited her i
With*thh company, some thmo durii
the thirties, lie traveled southward
wagons. At that time there was no ro
roads, and few towns in north Georgi
Following the old Indian roads throuj
Georgia, he entered Alabama, on his w
to Montgomery. One man in the coi
puny was very eager to get into a re
with the Indians, and his blood-thirs
talk made Itanium resolve to test li
courage. The showman took a few met
hers of the company into his eonliilene
and at a given signal they dashed u
from the woods in all the glory of rt
paint, feathers and blankets, hraiidishin
their tomahawks and yelling like nun
men.
Just as Itanium expected, the man wli
was hunting for a tight put spurs to tl
horse and tied at lightning speed in tl
direction of Montgomery. He was tiua
ly overtaken, hut the adventure mortitle
him so much that he cmhraeed an earl
opportunity of leaving the compuuy.
At one ntnee on Ms southern trip,
num cnme'henr losing his life. He li?
blacked his face, anil was taking a negi
minstrel part in the performance, win
he heard a quarrel at the door of tl
tent. Forgetting l?i" M??y fi-.cc, ?ui
out and endeavored to quiet a drunk*
white mun who was trying to force h
way in. The stranger at once drew b
pistol, swearing that "no d?d nigge
should talk to him in that style. Not)
iug but presence of mind and a prom]
explanation of the situation saved tl
manager, and after that when he hlacke
his face, he was careful not to forget h
assumed character.
He discovered Tom Thumb and star
cd him through Europe, meeting Quec
Victoria, and other crowned heads.
Later he brought .lenny Lind to th
couutry, and made a fortune out of he:
He failed in business many times, bi
always picked himself up again. II
museum in New York, anil his circus, ai
famous all over the world.
He was a staunch republican, and wt
once defeated for congress in Connect
cut. During the first Cleveland can
paign, lie offered to sell out his Connect
cut property at 25 rents on the dollar,
the democratic candidate was electe<
After the election, he was challenged I
stand by his promise, but lie hacked ou
His books, "The Life of 1*. T. ila
uum," "Struggles ami Triumphs," an
"The Humbugs of the World." have bet
widely read.
Mr. llarnum frequently lectured c
temperance and other popular subject
lie was always a moral man, kind licarte
and charitable, and many of the greatci
men of the country were his intimat
friends. Several times during his caret
he was forced to begin life anew withot
n dollar, but peo|ile b it so much conl
deuce in his integrity and ability, tin
they were always glad to help him. 1 la
his energies been directed in other chat
nels lie would have di?tinguishcd bin
self in more useful and remitablo walk
of life. As it is, he made himself tli
prince of showmen.
Ben Butler Gets $200,000.
Washington, I). ('.?General B. I
flutter, of Massachusetts, has receive
from the United States treasury #200
100 for property owned by him at tli
corner of New Jersey avenue and
itrccts, Washington.
April Snow in Alabama.
Birmingham, Ai.a., |S|?ecial.]? Suo
fell here and all over North Alabim
Sunday. The fall was slight, but it w:
the first April snow in t|?is vicinity j
over 40 yeras.
; THREE BRITISH SYNDICATES.
g Buying- Up Largo Prop lies in the
South for 1) . ? -Lnt.
II\i.ti\iohk, Miv, .-ia!.)?This
week'a Manufacturer I publisher
' *x tracts from a lettci i t itit English cortiii|)onilcnt
holding very intimate relations
to iron and steel and financial circles
of tlreat Britain, which states that
the British com)mny which has purthnscd
j>ro\?crty in Brquatchio valley, Kust
'? Tennessee, has ??60,000 capital and is
the strong^t English directory yetorgaun
ixed for operations in the south.
The American representatives are John
'* II. 1 nnmn, John C Calhoun and General
Chamberlain, of the Southern Iron CoiupanyjOfjUhattanooga^^^^^^^^^
uent British expert to examiuo 100,i'00
acres of timber, coal aud iron and fireclay
lands on Licking river, in Keutucky,
tvhich vvil' be purchased and developed
if tlu? export'* report is satisfactory.
A third synde ate, with n capital stock
>f JL" 1,100,000, is being organized to make
extensive purchases in tlu> south,for which
negotiations lire now iu progress. This
company is to secure its property in tiiuc
to begin work next autumn. The same
writer says that, the recent rumorsthat the
British syndicate behind the Kimhall
, town company of Tennessee has purchas
eii also the pro|K?rties of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and ltaihoadCompany, in that
stale, and will unite all its acquisitions
under one management, are correct. This
reported purchase does not include the
, Alabama properties of the Tennessee
^ Coal, Iron ami Railroad Company.
;; VIEW OYSTER FIELDS.
h ?
Qovornora of Maryland and Virginia
I* to Inspect Them,
lit
in lticiiMoNn, Va.. |Special. |?Governor
l0 MeKinney irevived a letter from Commauder
Joseph ||. Scth, of the Maryland
state llshery force,which leads: "Governor
m Jackson wishes me to confer with you
n_ and arrange a time when you can give us
.. a day or two to look over our oyster
|C fields. He would like a time between
|)a the loth of April and the loth of May,
[e but will accept your convenience.''
"Governor MeKiuney's private soerc^
fury, Mr. McLcod, replied: "1 am instructed
by Governor MeK iimey to acknowledge
the receipt of your couiuiunication
of the olst ult., and say in reply
L, that lie will^ie glad to go over the oyster
ltj fields with Governor Jackson ami yourself,
and have a full and free conference
r_ with you and him on the Oyster ipicst)
1 ion, and thinks it may result in good to
|g both States.
?bn and
TlTexflimsier h*d we wliniVrange to mccl
' you at'any time and place you mav desig*
^ "
A thoroughbred Don Junn.
a.
I'MIKKUHRURO, W. V.V., | Special. ] ?
?ty Oliver Deacon, a well-known society
11- voting null) of Tom's Creek neighborhood,
PW Cahcl county, has made a reputation as a
IV Don Juan. He deceived a young woman
,js named Hash under promise of marriage,
and ollicers were seut after him, but ho
made his escape into Kentuc ky. lie was
ut lo have married Miss Hash on March 20.
,,j it now appears that the Hash girl is not
|;, .lie only one interested in Deacon's
p whereabouts. There are no fewer than
.'ighlecn young and handsome women in
|0 the same neighborhood to whom Deacon
ie was engaged on the date tixed for liis
u. wedding with Miss Hash. People in
p Cabel county threatened to bang Deacon, *
,1 but. he evidently considers himself safo,
ly as he has written a friend that "they
don't hang gentlemen in Kentucky."
Galveston Will Honor tho President.
ro Oai.vkston, Tkxas. |Special. |?Mayor
in Fulton sent a message to the City Counle
cil sayi g that President Harrt????, r.c
it eoni)m11ifil l?y a distinguished party,
:u would arrive here on April IM, and reis
main two days. Inasmuch as this would
is be the first time in the history of the
r" State and the city for the Chief Ma^ish
trate of the nation to honor Texas and
pt Galveston hy a visit, he sujfjested that
ie the Council take such action as was necd
essary to accord to the party a reception
is commensurate with the dignity of the
occasion. 1'rclimiiiary steps are now het
in<> taken, and the Presidential party
in will he received cordiallyjg
Death of Sister Mary Stanislaus.
r. Cii a iti.kston, S. C\, | Special. ] -Sister
it Mary Stanislaus, known in the world as
is Miss Catherine Coventry, and one of the
"0 oldest sisters in the Convent of Our J.ndy
of Mercy, died at the advanced n#c of
is eighty-one years. She took tlio veil in
i- IBlfl. She was the leader of the hand of
i- sisters who left here at the opening of
i- hostilities, and served during the entire
if confederate war in the hospitals of Vir1.
ginia. She was a devoted adherent to
to the lost cause.
Pool Sellers t? Tost a Nov/ Law.
r<1
Nasiivii.i.k, Ti:nn., |Special. | ? It is
in understood that men who have heretofore
conducted pool rooms in this city
in wiil open a room oil the Memphis races
s. and endeavor to make hooks, the object
d being tu test the constitutionality of the
?t act recently passed hy the General As:e
scmhly, routining all betting on races to
:r the tracks on which the races are in
it progress. The old law gives t lie pool |
i- men tin- light to open hooks at any place
it on isircs run in the State, hut the new
i] law gives them no such right.
Bids for Government Building Sites.
;s Washington, I). C., |Special.]-Bids
ie were opened at the Treasury department
for sites upon which to erect public
buildings in the following cities: Itcuisvillc,
N. ('. ; Meridian, Miss.; Koine,
Gn.; Stauntiyi, \a., and Norfolk, Va.
" A number of sites were offered for sale
d to the government at each place. A
r special agent will he sent to each city to
1^0 examine the sites offered.
A Negro Admitted to the Bar.
8avannaii, Ga., [Special.J?For the
first time in the history of Savannah a
w negro was admitted to practice at the bar
,:i after passing a most iigid examination.
ia He is John II. Klnclc, of Virginia. A
In leading member of lh'- bar, prominent iu
social life, advocated his admission.
GOV. FOWLE IS DEAD,
And Thomas H. Holt Is Governor
of N. C. Now.
Died Suddenly at Raleigh.?Appoplexy
Supposed to be the Cause.
Halkioii, N. C., (Specini.]?Governor
Fowls died suddenly Tuesday night.
Ho hud boon nt homo slightly indisposcd
for two days but was not supposed to
to he seriously siek.
At uight he helped his younger children
with tlu-ir lessons as usual and re- 1
tircd.^^
was not feeling well and expected sho
would linvo to sit up with him. His
daughter Helen then wont into his room,
and in n fo<t minutes he said, "l'ur fainting."
Sho hastened to dampen a towel,
hut heforo she could do so ho had expired.
Sho ran for a doctor, and othor
doctors were summoned, but ho was already
dead.
His death was probably crnised from
appoplcxy. lie was (JO years old.
'PI nuhlic build intra nnil at.
ccutivc mansion tiro draped in mourning
nnd lbilcigh is a city of s&duess.
Lieut. Hovcruor llolt was telegraphed
for ami arrived on tlio noon train Wednesday,
and took the olfth of oflico as
Governor of North Carolina.
.lust after noon the body of tho Into
(Governor was taken from tho statolv new
mansion, in a parlor in which it had been
placed in the early morning, to thoeapito),
escorted by the Coventor's Guards uud
distinguished people. . ..
Tho streets and capital squares were
hrunged with people. The casket was
placed iu a catafalque in the rotunda and
guard was at once mounted. A si ream
of people began to nour through tho
building, each person looking at thu 4v
miliar face.
The rotunda was heavily drape* in
black and while, iu hands and festoons.
Scores of telegrams of condolence from
litis and other slates poured in. News
mis rcceiveil here that several cities and
towns would hold memorial services in
honor of the dead (lovcrnor.
Seceretury of State Coko received
ilie following telegram from Gov. Philip
\V. MoKiniicy, of Virginia, "For myself
and people of Virginia, I desire to express
iny ueep regret at tho loss which North
Carolina litis just sustained iu tho death
of her distinguished governor. Pletwo
convey my personal sympathy and cou- '
doleiico to his family."
!?y mi
Order of formation of procession:
Adjutant (icncral Glenn and governor's
StnlT, military escort under comnintul
lirigiulier (leneral John W. Cotton, lienrse,
family ami intimate friemls, Gov. Holt
ami state ollicers, justices of the supremo
I'ourt, memhers of the legislature, ollicers
of I lie stale institutions, municipal ollleers.tJraml
l.odgo ami the subordinate
lodges of Masons, Odd Fellows, lire departments,
oil fzons. 'i'lie following honorary
pall hearers: Thomas J. Jam's,
M. W. Hansom, ("has. M. Husbcc, Thos. 8.
Keenan, H. (J. Heade, Augustus 8. Hcymour,
Kenip Rattle, Tiros. ,T. Jcrnigan,
James Me Hue, H. F. Purk, James McKee,
A. It. Andrews.
MR. IN MAN HAS CONTROL.
The Annual Election of the Tennes*
see Coal and Iron Company.
Tkacy Citv, Tknn., [ Special.1?The
Annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company was held here nod reunl??d t?
:iie election of almost an entirely new
hoard of directors. John If. finnan's
friends held a majority of the stock by
proxy ami otherwise, with the result that
the old board named by William Duncan
was retired. The following arc the d
lectors elected: John II. Ininan, Thom
. nan, v;. uuiuwin, vv. v;. nneidon,
.Funics Stillman, F. T. Brown, _
James 'i'. Woodward, Samuel Thomas
and A. IF. I Foard man, of New York;
Thomas Itarrelt, Napoleon Hill and
Flinch Fry, of Memphis; Nat Baxter, .Jr.,
and A. M. Shook, of Nashville, and T.
T. Ilillmun, of Birmingham. The directors
met for organization April 15th, in
New York, and Nat Baxter, Jr., was
elected president, which olliec he lilled
before, when Ininan was in control.
Small Grace for Hawkins.
AVaahinoton, T>. C\?John Hawkins,
who embezzled $"120 in money orders
from iiie postolliee at Newberry, S. G\,
will have to serve all but one month of
his imprisonment. The I'rcsident, in
acting upon I lawk in's ap]>eal for u pardon,
made the following endorsement
upon the back of the application;
"In consideration of the fact that
Hawkins had served one month in jail
after sentence,his term of imprisonment is
commuted to fourteen months."
The original sentence was Fifteen
months and a Fine of one hundred dollars.
Attorney -fjcncrul Miller declined
i io recomuienu r.xecuuvc cicmency. ah
appeal was rnn<lc to allow that Hawkins
was an illiterate man, not familiar with
the law and was led to do wrong to assist
his large family.
So Says the Loader of the 400.
"The Prince of Wales," said Ward
McAllister the other day, "is the best
dressed woman in the world. I don't
believe that she ever Wears the same
dress twice, and she has her hair dressed
in Paris every day. She wears false hair,
you know, and she sends her wigs over to
Paris daily. While one wig is going
across the Channel to Franco to lie dressed
the other is coming to London.
Beating the Half-mile Record.
Mobii.k, Ai.a.?The world's half-mile
walking record has been broken here by
Jlcnry <1. Klink, Jr., the present champion
one-mile walker of tho world. Klink
did the half-mile in 2 minutes and 65 seconds
on a sandy track, five Ions to tho
half mile. The record for half a milo
was formerly 3 minutes 12-4 sconds.
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