Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f.' ' ' l'*""*s*'">*~*" -~ - | *? ' ' *" " Devoted to Agriculture, UorticuUwr^^^^^^BKt^ny^^^^JBu^urt, DolUics and the Current JSeue oj the Day. XXIII." NEWSERJE& ^ UNION (' 11 ^'I'^flP^gOLIN^^RIDAY. FKIIUI AKV 2C., isi>.>. NUMIBElt !> obtained eti&lltfcs which show that tho number pflfuioides throughout the World . it i80,0w^rearty. Those figures, the; 'writer observes, hare been of steady growth* ,Thc greatest number of suicides happen h* June, the fewest in Soptcm- 2 ber. The 8rst ten days of the month ? give* the largest number of suicides. ly ' A chivalrous ihan is trying to awaken i little interest in Mr#. Columbus in this W ^nqWersary of the discovery that made * '" eSr6* oonsqrt famous. He tells us that jhbe was a Hiss Paleatrello, which fi^n. i (finitely more distinguished than plaiu possible that sho suggested the Western excursion to her lord and toaster, and \ spurred him on to his discovery, like ' plenty of other good wives to whom tk? j husbands owe their fame. V- TIM II 1 * King Lobongula, of Matabelcland, C South Africa, has jast proclaimed that I 'he will send his regiments on raids no j more, but that he will develop his t country with tho aid of tho white man. t Four years ago no white man was per- ? mittcd to enter Matabelcland without a special permit from the King, and mis- c sionaries are advised not to attompt to g settle in hie country if they valued their. ? lives. Lobengula has just made a new treaty with the British South Africa n ^ Company by which ho cedes to tlium a p large tract of country in addition to il Mashonaland, and gives them all the power and privileges they require. The finmnnntr nn? 1 nM "nft uv<r wuvku13 iv/v/j\j\j\j square g miles in Matabcleland and Mashonalaud. q ' Tills has boen a groat season for sport ^ in the hunting regions of tho New Eng- ^ [land Btatos, announces the New York '8un. Ouo taxidermist in Bangor has re- I1 [ceirod fifteen moosu heads for mounting T ithis season, all of them being unusually (' ilarge and fine. A fur buyer in Farmjington who returned a few days ago n {from a purchasing trip among tho trap- u ipcrs of Maine, New Hampshire, and Ver- ,r mont brought more than n score of bear skins, a great number of fox skins, iu- ^ .eluding a very fine gray; thirty bearer, tl .about as many fisher, a quantity of otter, able, coon, and cat akins, lire or six tr bun ired mink, and as many skunk. lie j fc bought about two thousand inuakrat T Jkkins in New Hampshire. The uuimals (had been killed this seasou. jt II. ?jj ol f Bays tho Gouippcr in tho New York tl World: "Ono who witnessed tho lira gi tlrlll by Tilfany & Co.'a clerks during tho recent bUzo which threatened the great w jewelry store tells ine it was one ot tho ]c best specimens of human mechanism ho jL ever saw. At the first sign of tire the store was cleared of customers and the clerks toV.c positions assigued them in ci ]>racticd. At tho first signal the heavy Iron shutters were closed, next tho hose r> Y was uucoiled, and at the third command the jewelry was doposited in the various g safes. Thero was no confusion, no con- m llicting orders or excitemeat. This admirable drill undoubtedly saved the firm d from a heavy loss, ai, had a panic taken c< place, the result may easily be imagined." ______ ' F / Harper's Mogaziuo contains as articlo n] on tho "Old Shipping Merchants of New si York," written by George W. Sholdon, V and illustrated by C. D. Gibson and P. H. Schell. It will bo a surprise to some fl to learn that these merchants, who ex- b ercised so important an influence on trade daring tho first half of the century, t< left no successors. They were men who ownel, wholly or in part, the picket and clipper ships of the transatlantic 4 service, and thoy did a largo business in ti exporting. But where is -the American house that exports to-dayl Tho busi- e ness is in the hands of foreigners, and Q is done so differently that were tho doors #1# It After voasa as?a molra fKr.ii* on. w tuwau vssvaa ??|. jj pearance on 'Change, they could not understand what is going on. e Tho Mow York Independent laments; Ii The American poople have shown so c much aptneaa and skill in almost all other lines of industry and business ^ enterprise that it is mortifying to have J to confess that we have boon greatly bo- f hind other nations in shipbuilding. " With tho finest timber in the world in great abundance, with all kinds of p metals in great supply, with rolling p mills and steel mills and othor metal 8 wArka m should bo flwt in shin building. It is gratifying, however, to I be told by a foreign shipbuilder, who has visited our shores twice within s c decade, that we have taken a long step k fdrwerd in shipbuilding in this period. He says the quality of our American- n built warships is almost as good as that < of the British warships, and they are t built quite as cheaply. If we can build 8 as oheaply now we ought to be able to build more oheaply after having bad a Uttle more experience. 1 - 'lis j>ju4i?4VXJJi PJiaiJLi llJCJltD# ** * V jat? Happenings o^^Jportance By DJbie Mrt of ,/irea States' Doings, Carefuhy Prepared Vor Our Busy Headers. VIRGINIA. The State debt bill has finally passed >oth Houses of the Legislature. Tl\p Farmers' Alliance is organizing a tock company to establish a fertilizer actory at Blackstone. Black marble is being mined at Fin:astle. a win um8 ueen introduced iu tho log Blaturc to incorporate tho Virginia Farmng Co. A well is to bo suuk at Tszowcll C. I. for petroleum oil. El:0widdie county wiil apply to the eg"< (nturo for authority to issue $100,HJOi, if bonds for tho improvements of its tublic roads. Tho Virginia Mineral Belt Railroad ios applied to the legislature for a cliarer. The road is to run from Danville lirougli the intervening counties to Fredericksburg, and thcucc to deep water ou he Potomac river. Qen. Thos. L. Rosser, ex-Confedcrate avalry ofKccr, in nn open letter to Couressman O'Fcrrall, announces himself a andidutc for Cougro s iu tbo seventh istrict, to succeed that gentlcmau. The House committee oa finance greed to report favorably a bill approropriating $;ir>,000 for Virginia's exliib; at the World's Fuir. Bpeaker Crisp was at Fortrass Monroe rom Thursday until Monday nigh*. He as not fully recovered his strength inco his lecent illness nud needs rest aud uiet. Thero is a rumor in Virgiuiu that LUielia Rives Clianlcr is painting a picture rom tho lovely model seen iu her own ill-sized mirror. The Qraud Lodge of the Knight's of ythias of Virginia met at Leesburg la-d hursdny. Two hundred Knights sat own to tho bampict at night. Colonel Philip T. Woodin, uow govrnor of tho Nationul Soldiers' Home at [nmpton, Va., was tho first enlisted len to enter Faueuil Hull in April, 1801, i rcspouso to the call of President Liuilu for 75,000 volunteer*. The apple growors of Albemarlo coua r have met with heavy losses lately irough the failuro of a Liverpool com- " lission firm, and, although they seut an .toruey over to n(t<? *u?i. ley mnizerrTmrao ccfils on the dollar >r their last several consignments. The he famous Albemarle pippins raised in lis vicinty have long been noted for icir rich flavor, and are a special favorc abroad?bringing tho extreme price F $1 per dozen. Hardly one man in a tousaud iu this country, outside of Virinia, has ever seen one, and what wonsr if they briug such a price in foreign arkcts? No doubt the now saddsr and iser fruit-inisers of this section will iok nearer home for a market for their licy apples. NOBTH CAROLINA. Work on Wilmington's electrical street ir liuc has commenced. Aslieville has sold $340,000 of 20-year per cent, bonds to Blair & Co., of New ork city. The amount of the shortage of Charles eagle, the young absconding railroad id express agent of MndisoD, is |80O. tkn ?.?bav??a a?** 1 * M MV Uivivunuu) |IUIVUUIQ IAA una ucou eclurcd constitutional by tha supreme >urt. Calvin McAllan, sheriff of Harnett, lade a complete State tax settlement, aying in $4,780.12. The Department of Agriculture will lake a new collection of the building onos of the State for exhibitiou at the forhl's Fair. A littl girl was burned to death near harlotte last week while playing in a eld in which her father was burning rush. Figures just made up show that Winsm Salem's plug tobacco output for 1801 rns 11,518,127 pounds, against 8,437,20 pounds for 1810. The Wilson Short-cut road reduces the istauce north and south via the Atlanic Coast Line by CO miles. The direct Itrouirh line is now via Wilson anil F??. UeviTle, leaving Wilmington off. The State chemist1* force havo thus far lade analysis of about OS brands of ferlizers. There are four chemists and iiree clerks at work. At Car1>onlon, Moore couuty, the revnue people made nnollier capture of a roonsbinc distillery and the operator, t is developed that the moonshiners put oncentrated lye in the liquor tlicy make. A bright future is before Bessemer lity. Last week ground was broken for $100,000 cottou factory, a 500 room otel is to be built shortly, a stove works, urniture factory, steel works and many tber new industries aro booked. Fifty ons of Bessemer ore are shipped daily. A Wake county sharper uamed Rogers ilayed a trick on a Raleigh lawyer. He ersonated Louis Harris, n neighbor, and ;iviog a land mortgage got $500. When be money fell due the lawyer sent the otice and this of course reached the real larvis. The bogus Harris is in jail. Governor Holt has ordered a special Ivil term of Bertie Superior Court, to egin May 9, Judge Brown presiding. A military company has been formed it Rocky Mt. ana commissions were isucd to J. L. Arlington, captain: J. D. Mom, first lieutenant, and K. L. Doughridge, second lieutenant, company D, issigned to the second regiment. fOT7TH CAROLINA. Judge Kershaw has granted a mandanus in favor of the phosphate" compares of South Carolina, ordering the au sss XPrtt&VSfSL ftflfii $6 to ffr n ton. Qoveruor Tillman was asked Thursday who was his |proferouce for tho Presiden tial nominee of the Democratic party. He snid that ho had not yet decided, bnt that he was not in favor of Cleveland^ The W. C. T. U. Annual Convention assembled under tho most auspicious circumstances in Columbia lust week with fifty delegates in attendance. The Secietury of State has issued commissions for the charter of tho Thomas Gold Mining Company, with headquarters at Spnrtauliurg. The Sumpter Guards have loaned Col. A. It. Chisolm, of New "York, preaidvul of tho Southern Society of New York, one of their most cherished relics Of secession, griz.: the regimental battio flag that floated over Fort Sumpter during teur Institute of Palis, Fiance, has discovered a "new ehromogcnic micro-organism, found in the vesicles of herpes labiates bacillus viridiaus." which will no doubt bring him success and fame in tho new field open to him. Dr. Symmers was graduated with (list honors from the universities of Aberdeen and Kdiuburgli, and will soou end his studies iu PariB. Ihuubcrg has given finely located property, amounting in vaJuo to $5,000, nud an additional subscription of $10,000, to WolTord College, for the purpose of establishing and fitting a school there. Led by eight or ten influential citizens, the entire community joined in tbo work with great unanimity. The building will be begun .soon, and it is hoped they will bo ready for use next fall, iiauberg never made a better investment, or one thai will make richer returns. WolTord Co'lcge has adopted the wise policy of estnbl isliing fitting schools iu diucrcui sections of the State as feeders to the College. The great uccd of the State is i.;.#i. C-...1.. ?? ? "is" e"""- y scunois. 1 lie acmsnd for higher education is fully met in the colleges already established. GREAT FIRE iJTNEW~ ORLEANS. Tho Heaviest in Ten Years?Loss, a Million and a Quarter. New Oklkans, La.?Tho most disastrous tire of a decade swept New Orlcaus Wednesday uight. More than $2,000,000 worth of property is in ruins. At 10.30 tho alarm was sounded for a fire that was discovered in tho immense dry goods house of A- 8. Schwartz, on Canal street. By the lime the firemen arrived the fiumes were bursting through the roof. The Schwartz building was doomed and all efforts were directed to saving adjoin .ing buildings. At ouo time tho fire seemed to be uuder control, and confined safaly WuMisiMKiMe piano house of -P. Werlein, and then across to Bourbon street. ltunkle's dry goods lioiiso was next, and was soon a roaring furnace. Unger's beer garden and the variety theatre - adjoining Run- ! kle's were swept away as if a tinder box. The Bourbon street entrance of llolmea1 largo dry goods store caught tire aud was also soon in ruius. Kreuger's dry gooda ( house on Canal street burned next?a total loss. The loss on stock, ns near as can be estimated, are as follows: A. 8. Schwartz, dry goods, $500,000; P. Werlein, pianos aud musical instruments, $30,000; Cluvcrius, drugs, $8,200; Ruukle, dry goods, $75,000; Unger, beer garden, stock nud building, $32,000; II. I). 8. Holmes, dry goods, $25,000; Kutthn, dry goods, 75,000; Hoffman Bros., $18,000; Leopold Levy, carpets and mattiug, $50,000; Kreuger, dry goods, $30,000; B. Fellmau, dry goods, $200,000. The total loss will exceed $1,250,000, insurance covered mostly by foreign companies. Local compnuies will lose nlmiii 4'ir.n nna rri>rm?.?...i? ?r ..../...i.. visited the scene next day. Bourbon street is so blocked with debris that travel is iaipeded. Btreet cars cannot pass. IN THE BRITISH "HOUSE. The Government's Irish Bill Derided. A London cab'egram says: In the House of Commons Under Secretary Lowthcr, of the Foreign Office, replying to Mr. Jennings, M. 1'., said the reciprocity conference between the United states and Canada at Washington had been of an informal character, and that it had not been brought officially to the notice of the Ur.tish Oovernmeut. Mr. Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury, introduced the Irish local government bill, aud it was oxplaiued by him us follows: It establishes districts as well as conn ty councils, with functions solely Administrative. (Cries of "Oil, Oh ") Giand juries as heretofore would perforin judicial or quasi judicial functions. (Renewed cries or dissent an laughter among the Liberals and Nationalists ) The councils would have powers in sanitary natters, etc., and could appoint tnemLers on lunatic asylum boards, the Viceroy appointing an equal number. (Derisive laughter among the Irish members.) Municipal boroughs would be separate from the councils tor ndmic*st-?tivA purposes. Robbed Him of His Little All. x.v-ity, [special. j? unaries r raiiKlio, CXf-convict, and three confederates assaulted and robbed Thoinnu Quintan in Mott street on the night of the 7th inst., and robbed biin of liis little nil?a collar button nnd two keys. They then ran awny. Franklin wns arrested, and ho tleaded guilty in the General Sessions efore Judge Miirtiue of robbery in the first degree Judge Mnriine sentenced him to State prison for eleven years and six months. Sanford Banford. Sawford, Fla.?The Hon. John San ford, member of Congress from the Sara toga district, in New York, and Miss Ethel Sanford, daughter of the late Gen. ft. 8. Sanford, were married in the Episcopal church by the Right Rev. H. B. Whipple, Bishop of Minnosota. |pi taTTy & suggcs i^p^ny. ^ ralbioa, N. O.fi-'Ftn representative# h of the county Alliafitos In this congrcs- <* sional district .who met here elected Eu- 11 gene C. Heddiugticld, of "Wake, to ropre- *' sent the distiict at kho great convention c at St.Louis, in which the farmers1 aud la- ? borers1 unions are to participate. k * * * * * * )( Washington, D. 8.?The Department ? of Agriculture has now iu press Farmers1 fl Bulletin No. s wliii-t ?1 J .JV* VdiP U UI III ttUU I) practical manner of smut, in oats and o wheat especially, and of the menus which si should be adopted by farmers in prepar- tl ing the seed so as to avoid injury to the 01 crop from this cause. Iu order to avail l< themselves of tho suggestions therein <>i contained, farmers will want to receive ji this bulletin without auy delay, and ni special urgency will be used to get it out w promptly. In the meantime applicants w should send iu their names and addresses m and the bulletin will be mailed to th?m it immediately on its issue. tl v v v * ? * 11 Ci Washington, D. C.?Mr. Otis, of Kan- w sas, au AUiauce member, has introduced .j, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the ^ Treasury to have two billions dollars of w paper money duly printed in denominations ranging from f 1 to $500, each bill being absolute money and not in the form of a promise, to be full legal tender for both public and private debts and interchangeable ut par with any other kind of lawful money of the United States. It " shall be known as tho National Union Loau Fuud, nud placed in the United / States Treasury, subject to tho order 'Jfdtii the Govenors of the different States\A in the Union. Any Slate can draw on/"1* fo fund byt paying 1 per cent. intcre?v.Per F< year, aud the State can loan to U/cUizcns RC on security at a rate of-intere?^01 lo ex* D reed 8 w>r wni -*I1 amfli the Gcvtrsor the State, [ a? with the great seal of the Btate attached, ^ and in conformity w/th the laws of the pc State and a full statemtoot ef the account of the Statu with the National Union Loan Fund, verified py tho Treasurer of the State, shall be rendered semi-annually to the Secretary of tie Treasury of the United States, and the interest due paid. j? The Secretary of the Treasury shall honor R( all drafts made rpon the fund e* to the extent off CO per cent. of the assessed vane of the real es- di tate in the State, and it shall be tho duty P1 of tho Secretary )f the Treasury *c to render an annual report to 6' Congress of the conditi in of the fund and the net revenue derived therefrom by the at United States. C( *1 8( "llAtSE 80METIIIN0 TO SELL." tl In their complaints ef hard times and ^ their petitions for legislative relief the farmers ava often met with tho advice, ^ "raise something to sell." This advice comes of course, in most instances, from those who never "raise- anything themselves, (unless it is the devil) but who, good, kind souls never think how it sounds, so great is their interest in the t< farmer's welfare. Wo low rise to ask f| the question, who raises more than the ti farmers of tbo United.. States? -If the l' amount raised was an index to prosperi- F tj tho farmers would\aol only be tbc wealthiest class in this nation but of the 01 world. They not only raise enough for tl the sixty-three millions of people in this ^ country, but export more food thau any o other nntion in the world. If wealth d produced remained in tho hands of the n Sroducers the farmer's name would be d Hi, with a big K. Suppose we apply a n: a little of this advice to somo of those Ij who give it. Take tho professional politician for instance. Let us all agree to have him raise "somethibg to sell." Tell him he will be better^UjUand "nearer to that station in life to which it has pleased God t?? -2?]1 him." Let us be generous ? and charitable ai:] help him to "retire to ^ Hia lArliirl/til fthunpfl nf ftrivntn Ufa" It* finding a substifbte to take the burdensome uod lionoroiiR duties of office from bis shoulders. Poor fellow, be has been a martyr long enough. Then let us tnkc the poof preacher at a salary of $25,000 u year. Ad vise him to I "raise more to sell." I'ut him where he can raise it, for "is not a dollar a day euougli to buy bread? Water costs noth- c log and a man that cannot live on bread ^ and water is not fit tq live, A family may live, laugh, love untfbe happy that . eats bread in the morning wi IK good wa, ter, and water and good bread at noon, aud water and bread at n'ght," Let him mix a little sweat and brawn at a dollar fa a day, with his cogitations on the best \j road to Heaven. It won't hurt him. It'll do him good. It may tan him a little and make warts on the inside of his hands. but it will make him better acquainted with tho environments .which surround the men who "raise something to sell;'' besides God has ordained that "in the sweat of his' fnce ho shall cat his bread," and if he cats a "dollar a day's" worth, *\t tho low prico it brings at the farm, it will make him swetk. Next let us take the Congressman-/the fellow" that don't want any sub-Traisury and^latrd loan schemes Give tMe poor fellow a chance to "raiso somethjfig to sell."- Give him . the chauco in thJisamo manner that Jerry { Simpson and lieo^dovcrandothotskind- ( ' A 1 't& L:\i y gave their opponents. Let them so MBLuiucb of thnt live thousand dollar SroWtttBy eau make in a year by "raisihg to 8011" such things as j<t?w uu the arm. Poor devils, they would drenin o.' lights of inlrodueing n hill to colonize he grasshoppers or suppicss chinch bugs. Phey would call lustily in their sleep for he committee's report of the bill for tlovrnmcut Building of Mississippi River Iprays to Water the Farms in the Missisippi Valley; or for the appointment of n ommtttce to examine 111 the price of Lmorican wheat in Liverpool with cot if transportation, etc. Oh. it would b un to see a Cougrsesmau compelled to 'raise something to sell" besides votes. But tho very wealthy! What shall we ay of them? What has Jay Gould had o sell that lie cau count his wealth by nillions? Did lie raise it? Suppose we pply this advice to him! Go out upon he fhrm, Jay, aud raise "something to ell." Suppose he ate nothing, his clothe* iGvcr wore out and he never paid any axes. How long would it take him tc ficqprulate n )nuidrcd unl'ion dollars? Buf wnul of tTreeditor, tho "able odlor" who says "there seems to be but one giucujr, ? um?3 ui lauu-owncis on one ,aud, and of tenant farmers on the othr." Come out and basic in the sumler's sun while the heat is 100 in the hade. This is a hoc. Take this row of otton now and work along the side of le. We're "raisiug something to sell"at ix ceuts a pound. If our crops are net estroyed by breaehy stock, or are uot jo late or too early, or blown down by rind, or devoured by bugs, or si nig by ies, or eaten by worms, or carried away y birds, or dug up by gophers or moles, r pulled up by crows, or dr'cd up by the .in, or drowned out by rain, or rotted iu ic field or stack, or heated iu the crib, r eaten by weevils, or they dou't all run > weed or vine or straw or smut or cob, r the rust destroy theni, wo can make ist thiity-scvcu and a half cents a day, ad with that and what we've got and hat wc haven't g t and what we can do ithout, we may ho able to pay the iutcrit on the mortgage and barely squeeze nvagfi. Oli yes. we're "raising sonicling to sell"? to the fellows who get ich, somehow, after they buy it; and ome to think these are the pesky fellows ho are constanly adv'?ing us to ' raise iore to sell." Well, about the next ting wc raise will he "something to buy ith,"?money. We'll kind o' averagt lings up a littkr. THE/PEOPLE'S PARTY. l Go>^ontion Hold and a Ticket Nominated in Louisiana. Alexandria, La.?The State conveuon of the People's party of Louisiana ct with 171 delegates present. The llowing Slate ticket was nominated: or governor, G. W. Bruce; Lieutenant ivcrnor. J. J. Mills; secretary of State, , M. McStrovick; treasurer, John Mn,nn?. II ... V6Yili\:m;w,'VuiiVifMoiV* ~.r: I). Pattern; tornoy general. Judge Watlc Haugh. State executive committee was updated and the convention ueljouriied. The Lumber Meu in New Orleans. New Oklkans, La.?The Southern iuibcr Manufacturers' Association adurued sine die after an all day's session, esolutious were adopted against the ils of selling by face measure, prcvaot in Alabama ami Georgia. The directors were constituted as \ ermauent rice list. The committee with power i change the prices only change in rades of star rift sawed llooring. A memorial to Congress was adopted iking for additional ports on the Gulf )ast. The various vice-presidents were ppoiulcd a committee to solicit subtriptious for the yellow piuc exhibit at ic World's Fair. Kansas City was amed as tbo next place of inc.ting. 11 . White, of II issouri, was re elected | resident; Gee. S. Lneey, of Louisiana, ice-president, and M. F. McLeod, of [issouri, treasurer. Hope it Will Succeod. It has been rumored iu cotton circles or some weeks that John IT. Iumau has irmed a very strong financial combinaon to bull cottou. A dispatch from iverpool to the Now York Journal of inance says: It is stated here upon the authority of ue of the most important traders that ie new syndicate organized in New rork to protect the cotton market has ver $15,000,000 at its hack, of which 5,000,000 is rubscribed here and iu Lonon. Went worth, of the Loudon Coloial Hank, is said to represent large Lotion interests in the deal The maungelent will, however, be vested exclusive f in John II. Innian of New York. A Preacher Whips an Editor. Rai.eioii, N. C., [Special. ] ?News cached here of a fight between au editor nd a preacher at Tatboro. Two wellnown clergymen of Kooky Mount, neni iere, had au acriuiouious discussion ou afant baptism, as a result of which blows tarso'l. J. C. I'owcll, editor of the Tarioro Southerner, published an account of t. One of the reverend gentlemen. Mr. iove, of tho Baptist church at Kocky ifount, went to Tarboro, and there met ulitor Powell, lie asked f<>r a correc ion, which was emphatically refused, vhercupon the preacher and the editor lame to blows The editor was knocked lowu and badly used. Ln English View of the American Free Silver Agitation. A London cablegram anys: Tht Times inn u >> ? hi utic uu iuc iiimiu Sliver till. Thu writer says: "Although elccionesriog tactics have helped it, that it rill become a law is improbable. The Jnited rttates must eventually choose >etween the gold aud silver standards, lut the time is not favorable now. The rgument that the bill will attract gold nd raiso the price of cotton and grain rtay suffice for the Southern and Western arniers, but it is too flimsy to affect the 'forth " $10 ,000 for Pensacola. Washington, D. C.?The Senate )issedal)ill appropriating #10,000 for he improvement of the road to the na.ional cemetery near Pensacola, Fin. Renewed Confidence in Southern Investments. Tho Manufacturers' Record, of Haiti wore, iu its issue of February 20, says: "There nre many tigus of u icvivnl of confidence iu Southern investments, ?ml among them are the proposed reorganization by tho foremost financiers of tho country of the Richmond & West I'oiut Terminal, tho large amount of money lately furnished for extensions of the Norfolk & Western Railroad, tho great improvements involving an expenditure of some millions of dollars by the Chesapeake & Ohio, aud the consummation of financial plans for carrying out many development enterprises. Tho troubles, duo in part to low-price cotton, iu part to tho natural effects of such a worldwide panic as we had last year, are now seen to bo, as tho Manufacturers' Record lias steadily claimed, only of a temporary I character, and while severe for a time, they in no way destroy tho solid foundation of wealth based on tho Smith's iui comparable natural resources. They may I have retarded tho development of these I resources fof a while, but they have only served to show the dangers to be avoided, and the result will ho a more conservative and more solid foundation for the great industrial activities of the future. Among the new enterprises reported for the week are important railroad extensions and improvements uud mining and kuiii|>iiuivs mat cover a wide range of iudustry. In West Virginia a $500,000 coal ininiug company and a $1,000,000 oil and gas company have been incorporated, also two lumber companies, one of $100,000 and one of $50,000 capital stock, respectively; Birmingham, Ala., lias a $15,000 company to manufacture wheelbarrows; Hunting ton, Ark , a $50,000 improvement company; at Llano, Texas, a $50,000 or $ ??>,000 iron bridge is to bo built; Dallas bus a $50,000 improvement company; Florida lias a $500,00 ) lumber coinpauy ami a $150,000 phosphite company; in Tennessee a new furnace has just gone into blast; "Mobile has organized a company to build a drydock; Augusta, tJa., a $'250,000 woodwork machinery company; a large rolling mill is to be moved from New Jersey to Baltimore and u p'atc mill added; Queen City, Texas, has incorporated a $400,000 irou company; Spurtauburg, S C., a $100,000 mining company; Knoxville. Tcuu., a $'250,000 construction aud bridge coinpauy; Texas, a $1,000,000 mining company aud a $50,000 mill and gin company, etc." Georgia, Carolina and Northern. A press dispatch from Atlanta, says: The Georgia. Carolina aud Northern railroad lias been coin toe ted to within two miles of Atlanta Trjina are I cing run to a point twenty-two miles from Atlanta, ami it is expected to complete and opsn the road l?v the middle of March. This road is intended as a link in the Seaboard Air Line, composed of the lines controlled by the Seaboard and -Hanruhu v.ofupsnys. ine company was organized in I860 te build a standard gauge railroad from Monroe, N. (J., to Atlanta, da , 280 miles. Work was commenced ou the northern cud of the line, and it was opened to Chester, S, ('., a distance of forty-five miles, in October, 1888. On July 1, 1880, there were issued 15,3(50,00J first mortgage 5 per cent forty-year $1 000 gould coupon bonds, which have become very popular among investors, especially in Baltimore, being considered among the safest railroad bonds that can be obtained. The Mercantile Tru t aud Deposit Company, of Baltimore, is the trustee named in the mortgage and interest on the bonds is made payable at the Trust Company's otlice The Seaboard Air Line is composed of six railroads, which form a rail road system whose northern termiuus is at Portsmouth, Va., where connection is made with the steamers ot the Baltimore Steam Packet Company and the Old Do minion Steamship Company, and whose southern tcriniuus wil' be Atlanta, Oa., as soon as the Georgia, Carolina and Northern is computed Through trains will bo run between these poiuts via Charlotte. Committee Program Mapped Out. Washington, D. C.?It Is announced that the intention of the Ways and Means Committee is to call up the tarilT question in the House early next week. This program would to some extent defer the consideration of the silver questiou. The silver bill, cannot be taken up and got out of the way in advance of that time. The announcement of the purpose to call up the tarill question about the lirst of March, was made in the Ways and Means Committee at a brief session of the full committee. An agreement was rt^clic I among the members of the Committee that the minority should have until a week from Saturday to prepare their reports aguinsc the three hills, wool, binding twine, and bagging measures, heretofore ordered favorablv repoited to the House by a party vote. Chairman Springer then announced | that it was intended to call up one of the three bills on Monday following the submission of the reports to the House. No objection was manifest <1 upon the part of the Republicans to the course. A Noted Caso Settled. 1)ks Moinks, Iowa ?The llyde-Hopewell case, involving the civil rights of n colored man, has been settled in favor of the defendent Hopewell. The court I I...I.I tl.nl> 11...........11 1....1 a. ..:..i. I i ~ -- ivi?i iimv iiwiivttcii unu i hi? i il;iii iu !u fuse to servo Hyde in his restaurant anil that I lie fact that the latter being a colored man. did not enter into the case. In other words the restaurant business is a private one, like a grocery or a dry goods store, and it differs from an inn and the proprie or may sell or not to any one who enters his store. The Briceville Mines to Be Co* Operative. Knoxvii.i.e, Tknn., |Special.]?The mines of the Tennessee Mining Company in Hriceviltc will bo worked upon the co-operative plan. The details have been agreed upon and incorporated in an amended charter, which has been filed. The miners are allowed to take stock and have taken $10,000. Kach subscriber will have twenty months in which to pay for $100. The company will erect residences and allow the miners to buj on liberal terms. Largest Ships Admit, The largest sailing ship under any flag m Is the five-masted vessel La France, which recently took coal from Newcastle to San Fraucisco. She is 375 feet in length, 111 feet in breadth and 33* feeth in depth, measured from (ho upper deck to the bottom of the hold. Her net gauge is 3(500 tons and her burden (51 On tons. The principal ditnensotis of the vessel are os follows: Bowsprit, 50 feet long and 12 inches and 30 inches in diameter; inizzenmast, in a single piece, 1 10 feet long; main boom of the mizy.cnmast, 4(5 feet long; upper throat, 21 feet; lower throat, 23 feet. The lower ami top masts ure in a single piece, and of tliefollowing dimensions i hove deck : Foremast, 159 feet; foreinaininast, 1(5(5 feet; nftcrtnuiumast, 107 feet. The diameter of the mast varies from 30 inches to 17 inches; that of the topgallantmasts is from 10 inches to 10 inches. The length of the lower yards is 82 feet, that of the upper yards from 75 feet to 77 feet, special supervision of the Bureau Veiitas. She was built on the Clyde. It may bo mteiesting to mention that on her first voyage from Cardiff tc Bio do Janeiro the trip was completed in thirty-three days, and although only moderate winds prevailed a peed of twelve ?nd one-half knots was attained, the vessel being laden with 0000 tons of coal. The fifth mast "very much facilitates the working of the ship, which tacks about with wonderful case," said the captatu at the conclusion of the voyage. Referring to big sailing ships, says the Chicago News, calls to' mind (lie monster Yankee clipper, thc(lrand Republic, built in the '50s for Law and launched, but she wus too big for hci time and she ended her days as a French transport and then as a coal hulk. Hut in her prime she made the ruu from New York to Scilly in thirteen days. ' Z jr- L Alio EST S.YILINO VESSEL IN T'lK WOKI.i,. The largest British ship is the Liverpool, of 3330 tons, built of iron i?y Messrs. liusscll & Co., oil the Clyde. She is 333 feet long, IS feet broad and 2.S feet deep. Iler four masts a:e each square-rigged,but she is far from clumsy r'or * \K'limy with such a ship as the Tiieriuopyhui ot a large American wooden ship, having bright lofty spars and decks sis white as a hound's teeth. Iron docks do not lend themselves readily to adornment. Next iu size is the Palgrave, of 3078 tons. The United States ship Shcnaudoah, of Hath, Mo., built by Messrs. dcwan re i;o., 01 tnui port, is tuo largest woo.leu vcssscl iu existeucc. She is 3258 tons register ami will carry about 5UUU tons of heavy cargo. She recently left San Francisco, Cal., with 112,000 centals of wheat, worth $175,000. This is the largest gram cargo ou record. An Itigciiious lluhbcr. Kuhn, the great German naturalist, informs that in the year 1700 som< monks who kept bees observing thai they made unusual noise lifted up th< hive, when an animal llcw out, which tc their great surprise?for tiicy at tirsi took it to be a bat?proved to be * death's head hawk moth, and he re r embers that several, some years before, had been found dead in the bee houses. * Ilubcr also, in 1804, discovered that ii made its way into his hives and thost of his vicinity and robbed them of theii honey. In Africa, we arc told, it has the satin propensity, which the Hottentots observ. ing, in order to monopolize trie honey ol the wild bees, have induced the colonisti to believe that it inflicts a mortal wound. This moth has the faculty of emitting a remarkable sound, which Ilubcr sup poses may pruuuee mi eueci on mo Decs somewhat similar to that proilucc>l by tin voice of their queen. As soon as uttered, this strikes them motionless, ami then the moth is enabled to commit with impunity much devastation in the midsl of myriads of armed bauds.?Casscl'i Magazine. i'onmt a Mastodon Tusk. The tusk of a huge mastodon has been discovered at Darlington, ten miles north of Crawfordsvillc, Ind. The find proves to be much better than was at first thought, and promises to he one of the tiucst ever mado in this country. The tusk was discovered in digging a well at the resilience cf George Lynch. The tusk was struck by the drill, and so perfect did the ivory seem to be that they decide 1 that it had a commercial valuo and concluded to dig it up. They dug down to it, almut twelve feet under ground, and found that the tusk that they had struck was at least twelve inches in diameter, an I even on the outside was almost perfectly preserved. The men have already unearthed about four feet of the tusk and have found tio sigu ?e i -:.i * ? ? - ui iiu cnu i-miur wuy. judging irotn that already ia view, the tusk is about fourteen feet in length, and the finders are confident in their belief that the skull and other bones will be found in a like state of preservation, as the whole is submerged in living water and covered with clean, pure sand. Several geologists of this aud other cities will make every effort to get it out and mount it for tho college museum.?St. Imuis Republic. The landed surface of the Northern Hemisphere is about 44,000,000 sujuaie mile?, us against 16,000,000 pquure miles embraced by the Southern Hemisphere.