Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 llf'"" " ^ - -,-.^^iJM^ lfr Vwtfyenri ther< * * will be n".tie of the commodity left for manufacturing purposes and but little foi domestic use either in that State or in K * Indiana. It is the opinion of the Chicago Herat that "Uncle Sam does not offer much en couragement in the way of rcmuneratior to men of science in the Government cm iploy.. No matter how able a scientist 'may be the maximum salary he can re ceive is $1500 a year, and it is frequently merer $1000." Tho United States Secret Service offl' r ceis hare notified^ all the jewelers of ? Chicago that hereatter they will be prosk ccuted for counterfeiting in case they k '; are caught gold-plating silver or nickel coins for use tft-bangles. This action is r * taken because It has beeu discovered that some of these 'plated coins havo been pessecf for gold coins, which they resemble in size. S&* i ?? Joseph Nimmo, Jr., the Government oiAimician, is of the opiniou thnt "at the rate at which the Interstate Commission is now evolving decisions, it is to be appreheuded that in the course of ten years the railroad lawyers of this country, except those willing to study themselves to death, will throw up their profession in despair, for the reason that it has become too much for them." jet - The Prince of Monaco having securod with $600,000 annual iacome has QL-! made up.hia mind, to bo goon naci nave no more gambling in bis spacious realm after the present lease of tbo Casino is run out, April 16, 1$92. But the enterprising managers of the tables have made arrangements to reproduce the entire establishment, theatre and all, in Andorra, the little republic in tho Pyrenees On the border of Fraucc and Spain. Already $1,000,000 of the capital stock has been taken up in Paris. The asylum that anarchists of all Europeru countries havo made of Switzerland has never been regarded favorably by the Swiss peasantry. They have been impervious to all attacks of K" apoialistic oratory, and io order to make t' a more distinct resistaaoo Oga'mjb social> - , jfr isra, peasuni associations, uauer mo Fl> name of "Bauerbunde," have been founded in several parts of Qerman Switzerland. The movement has two R newspapers, one of which advocates this policy for the Government* "The abolition of public festivals and Government pensions, opposition to all superfluous expenditure of the State and improved education." f. vr , s.. Professor Lombroso, a student ol criminals, says that out of forty-one ana resists whom he studied fn the Paris > "PfrHV** mil tj-Ouo pci uuil ouunvi the criminal type of features. Of fortythree Chicago anarchists the percentage of wicked faces w.is forty, and that is a^out the percentage obtained trom the professor's researches among the political criminals of Turin. Regicides or nidrderers of presidents, such as Fieschl, Guiteau, Nobiling and historic evil-doers like Marat, had nearly all the criminal cost of features. Nobiling, Guiteau and Booth, in the specialist's opinion, had .^^bereditary tendencies to crime. Certain socialists, like Karl Marx and Lassallc, are exempted from the doctor's classification, as their features are noble, butthei suoh men do not favor anarchy. . The real truth about "the attempt in Japan to assassinate tho-Czarewitch" has reaohed the Berlin embassies from St. Petersburg. It appears that the Czarevitch and his companions, having dined freely, proceeded in plain clothes into the lowest quarter of the town in which they were staying, where they entered ? 'tea saloon," in which a largo an( rowdy company were assembled. Th Cearewitch and his friends appear t . have been somewhat exhilaruted, an< were assumed to be a band of not ver rettnod touists "on the spree." A rov spedily took place, and the police wen P.called io, whereupon there was a rougl fight, iu the course of which tho Czare witch was slightly wounded, by a pur aoddent, and he aud Prince Ocorgu c followers wore tho onl at theidea oFVho'^pe'r#^ Rgysl* having so hastily decorated h Greek nephew for saving the C??re witch ?*U who ?h la danger of notbtag oxcept I prison-cell for the night, which Princl j Gtoorge would have share 1 with him, fol they wero both equally culpable. Th Emperor was furious when the trutl fetched him, and, not content with telJ graphing a very severe rebuke to thl ! ' Cn^fe witch, he ordered him to re . turn home at nnce. His "beer-leaders sfHl have a bad time of it whan they gol - bao* to RomU. P These Late News Notes Will Re fresh You. i A. Digest of All the Principal Hap penings in Our Galaxy of Southern States. I VIRGINIA. 1 Arffino Odd Fellows hall is to be erect* ed at Mineral City. t A building and loan association with . one million dollars capital was chartered ? in Alexandria Thursday. Ninety-two warrants have been issued for the participants iu the prize tight be twecn Indian Wongo and Jack Connors, which took place in Princess Anne county Tuesday night. The charter of the Busiucss Man's Protective Union, of Hit huinud^J^&gta^to J amended, anthoi Brtilgtllf'olmlrHaTtW ' general banking and brokerage business Herbert L. King and Millard A. King, children of M. F. King, < f Hie inond, were drowned by capsizing of a boat ir York Itivcr Tuesday night. Plans have been prepared for building a tunnel under the trncks of the Chesapeake ?fc Ohio Railroad at Newport News at a cost of *17 ,000. The tunuel is dc | ' signed for street travel and a street cat line along Twenty-eighth street. i The Catholics will build at *10,000 1 church cdiiice at Bueua Vista. E. King, Sr , of Petersburg, claims to f be the author of "Stonewall Jackson's Way." It has been credited to John Williamson Palmer, of New York. Governor McKinley issued a requisition upon the Governor of North Caro- ; liua for Charles Watkins, who is charged | with the murder of his wife on April 6th, ( near Salem, iu Roanoke county. George S. Smith was shot and killed ] at Alexandria by Jeffersot^Philh was one of Alexandria's enterprising citi- e r.cns, and for a long time was lieutenant of the Capitol police force at Washing c ton, D. C. t NORTH CAROLINA. i The electric street ear company, of ti Raleigh, hnve nrranged to construct n c belt line around the city. The railroad commission has complct- 1 ?d assessing the entire rnilroad property * >f the state, making the total value at $10,800,0(10. Last year it was $12,000,- 8 000, showing an increase of 50 per cent, i The contract has been given for the I new freight depot in Statesville, in the e place of the one burned. c Graud Sire Busbec, of Raleigh, has I uow recuperated so far that he is allowto take short drives. 8 Miss Helen Wliitskfr Fowle, daughter u of the late Governor riani?i cx Wnwlo.. was married Wednesday afternoon to Mr. 1 T Thomas Duerson Knight, of Chicago, in 1 Christ church, Raleigh, and witnessed >nly by near relatives and immediaic < friends. The groom is a near relative of t Mrs. Senator Vance and of Mrs. Charles M. Busbec. 11 The Capital City Land Co. has been f organized with A. S. Nichgk, of Michigan City, Ind., nresidenf^This com- j puny has purchased and will improve the j liiiggs ?fc Womblc property in North . Raleigh. ,, 1 It is now no longer a secret that Gov. Holt will not carry out the provisions of the law passed by the late Legislature, appropriating $25,000 to the World's t Fair at Chicago, to be taken from the f direct tax money sent here by the Govbased on a decision of the Attorney Gen- ] eral. Gov. Holt does not think he would , Ioe jusunca in appropriating lunas 01 which he is the custodian to any purpose other than that for which it is intended. SOUTH CAROLINA. A North Carolina party is corresponding relative to the establishment of a tobacco factory in Florence. Rev. l'rof. A. G. Voigt, of Thicl Col'ege, Pennsylvania, has accepted the professorship in the Newberry College and Seminary. The Richmond & Danville, South Carolina division, discharged several con doctors and engineers for allowing accidents to their trains. ' The Columbia firemen will at'end the firemens' tournament at Durham, N. C., on August 25, 20 and 27. i The Comptroller General has issued a circular to insuranco agents If the idea of the law propounded shall prevail the taxes of insurance agents will be about doubled. \ Winston's champiou base ball team , were defeated for the first time this year at Charleston Thursday ; score 8 to nothing. Winston won the second game; ' score, 10 to 2. 1 t Hon G. D. Tillman delivered an address at St. Matthew's, in the interest of 3 the new county of Calhoun The sub1 jeet. of his remarks was: "The Impory tance of Smaller Subdivisions of the \ State." An order has bceu taken in the United States Circuit Court authorizing the sale h of Chisolm's Island, for the sum of $150,. 000, to a company organized in Boston 0 hy Receiver Stowe, of the Old Pacific I uuano uompany. 'f George Wallace, of Boston, Mass., rcpy I resent ir^ a eyiulicate of eapiUlist^ofUmt Chattanooga labor union denounces e convict labor, and petitioned Governor Buchanan to summon the Legislature in extra session to consider the subject. ,e Mr. Barker, of Pittsburg, Pa., and a others arc endeavoring of organize a i- $200,000 stock comnany for the purpose 0 of erecting a steel pMttt at J sper. t A committee has investigating as , to the advisability of constructing canals between the Tennessee and Cumberland t | rivers and between the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers. - 1 hese canal inks (to ( be 50 or 00 miles in length) will, it is .v -v-? --- * - r^maZ Z I Jackson, is chief engineer. GEORGIA. Colnmbus is to have a garbage crematory. Savannah will probably build a second garbage crematory. A grand reunion of the surviving vetcraus of the famous Fortv-second Georgia reg'mcnt took place Wednesday, at Grant Park. Atlanta. At a meeting of Brunswick citizens the Southeast Georgia Fair Association was organized for the purpose of holding an annual fair in Glvnu. Virgil Steed has sold #130 worth of watermelons for the cash in Talbotton since the opening of the season olf of two acres of land, on which lie made less than one thousand pouuds of seed cotton last year. slapped the captain's face at the lime fOjO using such npprobious language. The colored sta'c firemen's tournament was held at Augusta last week, with companies present from Macon, Athens, j t'uthbert, Americus, Washington. Barnesville and Albany. The fust named raptured the #100 reel race prize. The Atlanta city council li s ratified ihc contract of the wa'cr commission for die three pumping engines for the new water works; also adopted a bill for premutation in the legislature, authorizing lie issuance of #300,000 of water works >onds. FLORIDA. Gilmore & Davis have secured contract or the erection of a building 60x72 feet 'or the State Industrial College for col >red students, at Tallahassee. W. II. Braden, a farmer, was shot Tuesday at Mundun's Point, on thc Sn ""uv.i, iwij lum inui mat nc nan conic ;ithcr to get rations or kill him." The doors of the First National bank >f Palatka closed last week, and a notice hereon says that they will remain closed intil the arrival of a national bank eximiner. This bank was regarded as one >f the stauncliest in the state. So far July in Florida has been deightful. Another month of the weather s'ould break up the northern czodus. There has been for the past few years, ays the Times-Union, a great cry for 'younger blood" in the supreme court of Florida. The "blood" seems to be young nough now, and the work of disposing if cases is certainly going on more rapidV I nan in the past. A Fairbanks special says: The hipmcnt of pears and putting up fruit (ic'ina tii ba tlio thing nt Iku f U? . r range crop is a decided success, nmr )OIiniUt-iiicgB muA nntciuiClDDB SrC VCVV leliscious this year. The pineapple movement is about end d. This year's crop was the biggest in he history of Florida. A well-known railroad man estimates that 250 tons of phosphate arc shipped iom Florida per nay. A big ship arrived in Fernaudina, ilonday, and is loading with phosphate, ""our other large phosphate ships are expected daily, and Fernandina's people ire jubilant in consequence. OTHER STATES. The last of the jury bribery cases was ricd in New Orleans and resulted in an icquittal. The law of Mississippi require three &Wfw,,f.?vmoyQ^r? wMitafc lie must be ablo to construe.the lion of the Statft' 'This last clktBc is vague and uncertain, and under it onehalf the voters of the State can be deprived of the right of suffrage. Royal Arch Masons. Minneapolis, Minn., [Special.]?The general grand chapter Royal Arch Masons of the United States of America began us twenty-eighth triennial convocation here at high noon, Wednesday. This body is the largest Masonic body in the world, having a membership of 141,901. It is also the oldest body in the United States, and it will celebrate its centenial in 1897. An address of welcome was delivered by Mayor 1*. B. "Winston, and a response by the general grand high priest, I). F. Day, of Buffalo, N. Y. The report of the general grand scribe showed that in two years the new growth of the or der has been 14,949. The total membership now is 141,901. Since 1889 $186796 were collected and $168,095 expended. There are 2,069 enrolled chapters, Interesting references was made to the growth of the order in Asia, Mexico and South America. The grand chapter in Chile has not been heard from on account of tho civil war. The general grand high priest in his address said that the grnud chapters of Pennsylvania, Virginia nud West Virginia, which were still independent, would probably be brought under the general chapter, as wo'l as the Canadian grand chapters, before the centennial. Virginia's World's Fair Convention. The spirit manifested at the State convention held last week, Wednesday, at Pulaski, evidenced that the World's Columbian Exposition has taken a strong hold upou the minds of the people of the Commonwealth, and that there will be ft substantially unanimous call upon the generaJia^mbly next w'?*?re a*c e-fT ^VYnfteSlO turn wnn last thiU would be required, there was a general agreement that $100,000 would uc the lowest sum that the legislature should appropriate. It has been noticed that in some other States the farmers opposed any appropriation, or else insisted that it should be eery small, and that they denounced all liberality of appropriation as grievoui [ extravagancies. Not thus feel the Virginia agriculturists, who were represented at Pulaski. On the contrary they intend to spend libcrall)*, but not lavishly, in order that their Coiiiuionwca'th may hsve a rew rd for the enterprise and public epirit of her citizens. AX/LJLANOE DEJJUnfcENT. Everything Mortgaged i Southwestern, Kansas. Counties With Small Populi ions and Large Debts the Outc ne of Wildcat Settling Bche es. " \/ O Southwestern Kansas boa s of the shrewdtst financiers in the Id, writes a Topeka correspondent 'of ic Boston Herald How the people Hy and what they can hope for in the fhtui have puzzled the brains of the castafb lart of the neere'must command <q?n the I admitntion of their victims. The thirty-second judicial difrict is composed of si* counties?Scwarl^ Stevens and Morton, on the southern ine between Kansas and No Man's Lard~tand Crant. Haskell and Stanton joining them I on the north. Each of these couities is 27 miles square. A few years age every a re of their area bclougedto the government. Since, then they have been taken up by alleged Tanners, who, as soon they could secure title from the land office, mortgaged them to loan companici for all the agents would advance and abandoned them. Now the loan companies are in undisputed possession of 90 per cent, of the (laims, and about the only remaining evidence that the country was ever populated arc the ruins of sod houses and dugouts that dot the broad ttlai^j^vogular_ _ -U'('d;"bftnlt^8f"lf''T!WiH{Tn indication that j the little hut is occupied, and that water | I* uciiiff pumpcu lor toe lamilys use from a depth ranging from 100 to 180 feet. rw? Towns wliich were nbiding places formerly of from 500 to 8,000 people are now either entirely deserted or nearly so. County seats which contain fully 100 business, houses seldom have over three in use, and the are enougn buildings to furnish two for each mau woman and child resident. City lots, which were once in demand at $1,500 each, and many of which have brought $2,000, . now have no value, and their owners do ot pretend to pay taxes upon them. These counties wcro organized in prosperous times, when eastern loan companies, through their agenhywere dealing "nrge cuuu'gTTTo entitle them to county organization under the state law, while now there is not one that has half enough. Abortive attempts at farming have almost invariably proved complete failures, and the only crop that has been raised has hccu one of bonds and mortgages. ****** Commencing Monday, July 27, a Farmers' Alliance and Knights of Labor encampment began at Sulphur Springs, Texas, to continue five days. The programme is modeled upon the Chautauquan system, and includes addresses each day, from well known lecturers, the following speakers being of the number: Prof. C. Vincent, Senator Pcffor, President Evan Jones, Harry Tracy, M. W. Wilkins, R. W. Coleman, H. 8. P. Ashby, W. 8. Morgan, C. W. A>vmcr, Ralph Beau gathering of labek in i Texas was present. (Irotfl^Pfc-pod and water were provided for Those who were camped. 4 pbfkeh in WEST virginia. t Wheeling, W. Va.,?Senator Wj B. Poller, of Kansife, National Allianccfeccretary Turner and State Alliance Omanizer Carskudon addressed an audieKe of 10,000 people at Moundsville. Afar the address?-a conference was held* with leading Alliance and People's part^ men of this State with a view of naming a I - nira rn i i n <>i cmping in v??:sv tuj{iiii?i t ?c groat majority of tho Alliance >adcrs, such as Congressman Capchart an : Senator Knott, stand aloof from tho mc roinent and predict its failure in this Stat i. ****** k national alliance encami uknt. Baltimohe, Mi>., [8peclal |?'The American says that the National Farmers1 Alliance will hold their nncafuptn?nA in Maryland, near this city, and that the annual encampment will be hdjl here every year, certainly for the mjit five yeais, and it is probable that a ifce will bo purchased and the encampmeu. located here permanently. This year the eucampmcnt will be held in September. About two hundred ocres of lam, will be needed for the encampment aDdin auditorium will he erected which vill seat 12,000. The encampment will list two weeks and 2.">0,000 persons may be expected to be present. The Peni*rlvania and Baltimore and Ohio rail rows have made liberal offcis to secure the ipcampment along their lines. ****** polk in washington. Washington Post: An intftcstiiig | talker, because his words ring wlh the j i ity of ln>nest conviction, is Col. I, tractive face full of ^SPWneaa and goou humor. His hair il h'on gray and hie long pointed hcnnH nearly white. He looka about five andw1"^' *n<* 'r good taste. I I ,"T.',e Portioan pre?'.' hc WttJ, "i? ful | of miarepwentutio*]! ?f t*1? Alliaoce (You must have hcarJB ?' t',? alleged nc tion of the Kansas s^W" Alliance, to th< effect that, as the SoflB^ wng not reprc sented at our Cincin9fcli convention, i I was n scheme to cau-y^V1* country in th J next national electtoi^B'or *1*? Democracy And therefore the ?u|^KAlliance in qucs tion would return to the Republican party. Now, this was made of the whole cloth. The president of the Alliance came out in a card denouncing the whole story as a falsehood. No such resolution tion was ever introduced, yet it gets in print, and people who read onlv the par tisan papers fancy the Alliance has gone to pieces iu Kansas, and that its members will go straightway back to their old love, the Republican party." "I want to tell you that such notions are absurd In Kansas today we have from 15.UOO to 20,000 members gained since the adoption of the Oca I a platform. i Does that look like losing strength? We ! arc growing faster than ever and are I thoroughly united." "Will there be a third ticket in the 1 Presidential race? I will give vou a s straight answer: So far as the Northwest i is concerned the third party has come to c rtrt end to their int lerance, proscription, t and denunciation of our order and its principles there will be a third ticket in c the South also. There is a great deal of J hutnan nature among A l'iance men. They I have stood a good deal from the Democratic leaders, but are growing weary and J may turn on their detractors." "Is it true that you have demanded ? the resignation of President Hall, of the Missouri State Alliance, being he is op t posed to the sub-treasury plank?" "About as true as the story that as n commander of a Confederate brigade I f had some prisoners shot in cold blood at f Gettysburg. I never got higher than third r lieutenant and the Union soldiers I had 'v executed existed in the fertile brain of a partizau editor. No, President Hall has i not been asked out of the order. I have t had some corrcsnoudence with him and 1 think that he with Wade of Tennessee v and McAllister and Beeman, ofMississip- vi !>'. nre making sad mjgf-akes in cfrvjarinrr. v " Wnnt about the charges that Dr. Ma- 1 cune has sold out to the protective tariff < advocates?" i "That is on a par with the other stuff. * We never notice the calumnies directed < against our prominent men. The public c has got so used to the fakes of the party > organs that little dependence is placed in '1 what such papers say." ( "Col. Polk has been lecturing in New p York Slate to enthusiastic audiences, and I v will start shortly for Georgia, where he j 'I is to make a speech making tour in com- o puny with Gen. Weaver, of Iowa, Hon. I f Jerry Simpson, and Mrs. Digges, of s Kansas." o A YOUNG JEW'S STORY 'j Of Inhuman Treatment in Russia a and How He Escaped Siberia. iiuTMffmWii' an detention buicau at the barge office, . awaitiug the decision of the supcriaton- . dent of immigration. It is piohable that they wijl all be scut back, nr. each one has been "assisted." One of the detained immigrants, Men del Tioguiski, a young man of tweuty, a t carpenter by trade, tells a thrilling story of his own adventures and sufferings in Hussia. He became a suspect, while walking at his trade in Iliga. end to escape Siberia, which was inevitable, he fled . from city to city, pursued constantly He . was finally iakcu prisoner, beaten and treated most inhumanly, and prepared for Siberia, when be again managed to ^ escape. 11c succeeded in reaching the frontier and by the assistance of his conntrymcn was sent to Hamburg Ilcie he -i was further assisted and left for America. ( He lias no money, having been robbed . be vraa tokan. prisoner in ttpssia, and' he says if he is caught ngain hi that country ' he will be put to death. The Jewish , societies have taken hold of bis case. , That Big Light House. ( Washington, P. C., [Special.]?Underson & Ban of New York, contractors for the construction of the light house on Diamond Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, have informed the Light House board that notwithstanding great loss that they have already sustained in that work, they will make anothrr endeavor to secure a solid foundation. On a treacherous reef, it will he impossible, they say, to do that or auy thing before next year beyond the con-strction of a caisson which will he larger and stronger thau the ouc which was destroyed a few weeks nt-o while beintr nut in position. They feel confident that a permanent i light ran be estnb'ished at that point but think it cannot bo done for much less i than two million dollars Their contract furioeis $485,000, being within $15,000 of the avsit.-ible appropriation." , It Means Dollar "Wheat. A Baltimore merchant tells the American of that city that "France has ordered wheat this year in Baltimore up to the present lime to the extent of about 25,000 (1001, ($5,000,000".) The expenditure of $5,000,000 means tire purchase through firms iu this city of, roughly estimated, 5.t 00,000 bushels of wheat. The purchase money alone does not by any means represent the benefit accruing to t his city from such cxpendituic, for you must take into consideration the vast uumlrer of bauds that must necessarily be employed to handle the grain, on the lailroad, at the pierfi, and oa shipboard. The shortage of the wheat crops in European countries, and the heavy crop of wheat and other ccicals with which we ou this side'of rhe walci have been blessed. serve to give a boom iu shipping at this and other ports of the Atlantic that I mnri.t0i- Ihn fur I lilUftv < M"- ' , flyiillBimy vh i The Rev. Dr. Cuvler of Brooklyn says > that Horace Greeley once tohl him that i he believed that at the time of his young manhood in New Hampshire he was t'nc 1 only teetotaler in the Stale. The Re v. Dr. Cuyler further says upon the authority of the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beechcr, (hat in s those times, when the Congregational Ministers' Association of Connecticut t held a dinner, the nlaee where they dine ed had so much whiskey in it that it smelled like a barroom. Things have h changed since then. "STONEWALL" JACKSON. The 30th Anniversary of Manassaj Fitly Celebrated. The Statue of the Great Cavalry Leader Unveiled at Lexington. Lexington. Va ?[Special.]?The 30th anniversary of the first battle of Manassas was celebrated here with great enthusiasm. The village was bright and bustling ivith color, while 10.000 strangers atfeinbled within its environs to participate f th? eXCrC'SCS inc'dent to the unveiling Imids ofdog, and the sky cleared licauifully. Three arches extended over main street >n the line of march. On one appeared (acksou's telegram after the battle of McDowell: "God blessed our arms with victory at IcDowcll yesterday." On another banuer is his request to est in Lexington: "In the valley let me lie underneath Sod's onen sky." The decoration of houses was profuse ind some of them beautiful, consisting ?f long streamers. Confederate States' lags, and the battle Hags, set off with tational colors. Lee's mausoleum was vrapped in evergvecus and cut fiowers. The statue of Thomas J. Ja? ksunstands n a circle iu the centre of the city cetncery on Main street. A square containng four acres of ground, well set off rith giant trees partially hides the static from view. The site is a slight mound pWWlifMlflg touuln. Tlie sculptor is a Virginian, Edward V. Valentine, who iesigucd the Lee monument. The statue s of brouzo, heroic iu size and portrays lackson with uncovered head, leaning >n his sword and left leg. and looking tut upon the field of battle. In his ight hand at his side is a field glass, flic figure is clad iu full uniform of a 'oufedeiatc Lieutenant General with [old lace on sleeves distinctly visible and vith heavy military boots aud spurs, 'lie carriage is easy, and.the attitude is ue of close observation with the right oot advanced, ready and alert for intant aud vigorous action Tkcs M>or.i f the swoid upon which the gauntlettcd fft hand jests, hears the letters, "U. S." 'he historical fact is it was modeled rom Jackson's own sword. The statue roper measures eight feet and surmounts granite pedestal ten and a half feet 884^1668," and >n another the s\ng\e word^^StonewaU," lie sobriquet given Jackson by his chief, 3ennral Lee. Beneath the pedestal is a mult containing six sepulchre chambers, an rounded by a circular grass plot iround which is a drive way with four ipproachcs. The general effects of the structure is imposing, and old soldiers vho followed Jackson during the war ire pleased with the statue. The parade ground of the Virginia military institute was the place of formaion, which was under the direction of L'hief Marshal, General James A. Walk:r, of Wythe, Va., the only surviving ommander of the Stonewall Brigade. Members of General Walker's staff who iccupied the right of the procession verc: Maj. S. C. Moore, Berryvillc, tfti.; Capt. Jno. Bumgardncr, Staunton; Japt. Randolph Barton, Baltimore; Japt. (r B Garden. New York; Capt. Martz. RockVnghaiu,;>"(<80"r//. ill, John T Dunlap, J. P. Moore, R. T. McLeod, W. F Johnson, Capt. William Wade, Capt S. W. Paxton, M. D. Wilson, J. X. Bell, J. C. Rawlings and Jno Carmicliael, of Rockbridge. The staff was followed by the Stonewall Baud with twenty pieces, heading the Rockbridge (Va.) Battery under Col. Win. T Poague, with the guns the battery operated under General Jackson at the battle of Manassas . The remainder of the procession made up of survivors of the Stonewall brigade, consisting of 2d, 4th, .1th, 27th and yjd Virginia regiments under commaud of Col. Andrew Jackson, Grigsby and Col. J. K. Edmonson; Maryland baud Confederate Veterans of the army and Navy from Maryland under Gen. Bradley Johnsou; vuiious confederate cam pa, and carriages containing Gen. Jubal A. Early, orator of the day, Gen Wade Hampton, who presided over tho ceremonies, Edward V. Valeutiue, Sculptor; Mrs. T. J. Jackson, General Resser and a number of OVTltvAvT uTflvVia uuA ladies. Tho procession tlrst tnovod to campus of Washington nud Leo Uu'ver* sily uud lulled about 'be plat to. m which had been erected for distinguished gue t? and handsomely decorated. It was twelve o'clock when the procession arrived at the campus. Gen Hampton then introduced Col. T. M. Semines, of the Virginia Military Institute, who recited most beautifully three poems, ''Stonewall Jackson's Way," "Over the liver," and "Slain in brittle." Gen. Jubal A. Early, orator of the oronsion. was next in'ioduced, and commenced speaking from manuscript. General Early appeared in good health hut shower! pain. fill signs of old age. He was twice in> tcrrupted by bauds that had just arrived. He stopped speaking and turned sharplj around and asked if there was no way ft stop that fuss The oration wns received with attention and great enthusiasm. touching incident on the stand wni T'^fi.b..AjkKfti.4.14C^son mc* ^cr liHlc grand jcldldrc^wriorarRn^fm(1<'ffW,IPWf,^IWf ted to see for so long a time. She ci braced them warmly and appeared mu affected, holding little 1 hoinas in 1 arms during the oration. Julia i alone. After the oration the parade v continued to the cemetery, foiming rear of it at two o'clock. At 2:15 Mrs Stonewall Jackson a her two little grand children, Julia Jar son ( hris inn and Thomcs Jackson Chi i tian, ascended the stand accompanied Captain John Caimichael. Two minu I Afterwards amid the firing of c?inoa by j he Rockbridge artillery the com ?7as I nuiled by little Julia and the veil fell ex, I posing to view the statue. Military and civic orgacizations then passed in view of the statue through the cemetery, dropping out of Mne aathtg etched their Quarters. TRAGEDY AT A DANCE. George Futch ShooU Willie Dowlinp and His Father. A Starke, Fla., special sais: Willi* Howling was shot and killed and his lather, Joseph Dowlinp, perhaps fatally vounded by George Futch, Wednesday tunning, about fifteen miles west of here _ The trouble occuracd at the hou e of * "crum Adkins < I u r i n^thcim^^s^^^ o'hl man titkifuT^ hand. Futch got enough and asked to bo "turned loose." ThcnDowling let him go. Then Futch slipped hack, pulled oul his pistol, and began firing. The first shot struck Willie Howling j oyer tlie region of the heart, killing him instantly Futch had fired three shots I at Joseph Howling, the father, the first uttering the upper part of the right I thigh, the next cntcriug the right lower I oition of tlie abdomen, and the last ee, i u ing t lie right groin Futch then ran through the front gate and turned and tired another shot into the crowd, dangerously wouuding an I'tphan boj' named \arncs. A posse started pursuit of Futch at once, but so far nothing lias been heard from him. Those people are well connected and among tin best citizens of Bradford i ounty. In fact, Joseph Howling bears the reputation of being one of the best and most prosperous farmers in the coiin-^ "OLD UNCLE BILLY." Death of an Eccentric Cha.ract<?~ oi Cabarrus County. ! Ciiari.otte, N. C., [Special.]?One i f i i lie most eccentric men iu North Carolim; has just died iu Township No. lO.Cabnri us County, at the age of 80. He was Win. Host, known throughout this secj lion as "Old Uncle Billy." Droll iu speech, singular in thought, l.c was a bachelor, a woman hater, amis ; -r and a recluse. His sole companion" were two old dogs and an old negrcss who cooked his tueals. After his death his lclatives ransacked his house aud ! gathered together $10,000 in gold found stowed away iu cans, stockings, pockets I of old clothes, pitchers, jars, gourds, boxes, cupboards and nooks and crannies. i opctWd Tor ten years were among them. \ Three hundred doUats in notes which i had been hid among the rafters had been destroyed by rats and mice. The old ! man made a will a month before hi9 death, by which he bequeathed of the 1,800 acres he possessed, 500 acres to Peter Dost and his hi other, his nephews, and the remainder in 100 acre tracts to other ! nephews. No bequests were made to his \ nieces or any of his female relatives, nor i was the faithful old black cook rcmcin! bcrcd. One thousand dollars was bej quentiicd to Bethel Church, fiom which ' he was buried. Tlio disappointed rela'< tives threaten to contest the will. Forty Thousand in Gold in Her Woodshed. New Casti.e, Pa., [Special.]?The Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church here has just come into $10,000 in a peculiar way. Maty Grecv was au eccentric old i . iu fum-Konro years. About four weeks agif.11 liwi?^ had come, aha ?at for bar r*- .Mlti a ~ friend to make her will. She first asked to be carried to a woodshed in the. yard. There she pulled aside i some rubbish aud disclosed a can cou tabling $40,000 in sliiuiug gold. Then the old lady was carried into the house | ami made u will bequeathing fll),L'UU to I the (.hutch. She was informed that if a j public bequest was made within thirty j days of death it was of no avail, so the i ..hi lady iianded over the money in rash. Straws Show the Wind. The railroad const!action which is reeorded for the six months ending .Inly I t. shows that of the 1,005) miles of railway that were built during teat period, 1>:16 were iu the South. The mileage of 'lie several States is as follows: Georgia. 1-V>; Alabama, 187; South Carolina, lCO.5; West Virginia, 111; Virginia, 100; .tid North Carolina, 84 4. Of the Northern Suites Pennsylvania leads with 180.4, Washington follows with 102.7, ... ??* . .. y, ,;>i, nn r I Montana with 78.7. Only two miles I were constructed in New York, four In Massachusetts, live in Indiana, six in Maine and Missouri each nuJ seven in New Hampshire. Arms Purchased for the Miners. Ivxoxvii.i.K, Tknn., [Special J?It is said on what scents to lie good authority that arms are being purchased in Knoxville for the use of persons in the neighhood of Coal Creek. Investigation s' ows .1.... .1 . r? 4 t ?1." l 1 i ni;n mi in* |i?i>i c > inline in' ir ii;u? iH'irii nn unusually largo number of calls at Knoxville haul ware stores for Winchester rifles. It is said that there are five huudied meu in the vicinity of Williamsburg, Ky., ready to come out to the aid of minr ! ers at Coal Creek It is known that a tel> I cgrain was received from Pennington pro[ posing contributions of money and also of men, if necessary. At uo time has the i 1 situation appeared more serious theie, - I though there there will be no conflict unI til the Governor moves convicts. S-V 1 II I ... in- I Foolish Engineering. ^ i Wrst Point, Nkb., [fjpecial.]?Th..* l?t t ntC8t ^ood in thi? u??tory occur a~~ (I here yesterday almost completely sun in merging the business part of the city. usl year the city council filled up a n(i luge creek that flowed through West i!k- 1 "oi nt, but made no provision for carrying -is- ,wuy the water. Yesterday a heavy rain l)V -loi ni set in nnd the old creek turned iuto tCg ' .he inain street.