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.? = =============. m *', -*^ Demoted to Agriculture Horticulture, Dommtic Economy, Polite Literature, Potttm amd the Current ttmcs oj the Day. XXV.?NEW SERIES. UNION 0. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. JUNE 22, 1894. NUMBER 25. TUq Earl of Aberdeen, Viceroy and Governor-General of Canada, says London Tid-Bits, in liable at any moment to be ousted from his seat in tlio House of Lords and deprived of his peerage and estate by the reappearance of his elder brother, who vanished in a most mysterious fashion years ago, during a voyage from New York to Brazil, fioni a vessel where he was serving as a sailor before the mast. Lord Boseberrv's attack upon landscape advertising iti his academy speech the other day has given an impetus to the agitatiou on the subjeoi in England. vine of thj greatest countryside advertisers announces that he will cease this manner of in- ! truding pills 011 the attention of the public, and n tacit boycotting oi nil concerns which disMgure the lan Iscape is becomiug a strong and popular policy. It is without open organization, because such a movemeub would ..... i>e oi tiouuinii logHiitv. Observant physician < begin to believe that appendicitis and grip have relation of rfect an.l cause. Appendicitis wm never so common as it has been since grip visited this country, and a physician who has performed many operations for the cure of the former advances t he theory that grip produces a catarrhal condition of the vermiform appendix that finally, in some cases, induces the state of acute inflammation to which the name appendicitis is applied. (drip is now manifesting itself with many variations. The strong facial resemblance which married couples often ae piire after living together a long pcrio I of years, harmonious in thought an 1 feeling, and subject to the same condition? in life, has often been commuted up >1. The Photographic Society, of Geneva, recently took the pictures of ?evoutyeight couplo for an investigation of this subject. The result was that iu twenty-four cases the resemblance in the personal appearance of the husband an l wifo was crrcat.nr Hon ftia4 of brother tin 1 sister ; iti thirty.cues it av.is equally great au I in oaly twehty-fo.?r vas there a total absence of resemblance. Tho Atlanta Constitution is convinced that no money-making schema is too rascally for some man, as witness the gang lately arrestj 1 in Xew York, which for years kn been plundering insurance companies au I cruelly killing horses in or.lor to seeurj in-, snrance m >ney. They rente 1 a st able, filled it with fine horses, goo I harnesses an I carriages, getting as lirg j insurance upon the contents ni wu possible. Theu a lot of worthiest horses, worn-out svagoas, etc., were 8'itMtitut M an I the stable s :t on liro. The gang is known to have dsatroyol more than n dozen stablos, involving the death of 100 or in >ro horses. The law having got thou ratals in its clutches, it is t ? lie hope 1 a do so will be given thorn that will servo as a warning to others. Koine interesting fnets present t'm nuolvcs as to the soeial con lition of the people of the Unite 1 Slates in a sin Iv of the statistics of Hi'? (' misus 15 ire in, remarks the Boston Heral 1. To* Census was taken on June 1, ISM, and then on' of I12,0(17, SSI mile inhabitants of this country th) unmarried numbered 10,015,570. Th married were 11,205,'22S, th'- widowe I were 815,4*17 and th ; divorce I ware 49,101. Out of <'10,551,'170 female inhabitants 17,1 SO, OH I were single, II, 1 ill! f <ie : i .i I - i / i - i ww, i ,;u writ* uiurritMi, ~,i >?,'>! t vvcr?! widows aud 71,S;?"> wore divorce J. Th number of married fannies is this much larger than the proportion <?.' married men, ami the fact that tin proportion of widows is Mire, tiin *s as great as tho proportion of widowers, and tho number of divorce! wo.n m much larger than the number of divorced men, shows that the men who aro widowers and divorce 1 in >rc fr quently married again thm wo:n ui in the same coalition, Again, it is shown that, by comparing t i inhabitants of fifty prin up it citiei with tlio country at large*, th ; gr.* it ;r pr >portion of m irrio I man arc in th* cities rather than in tin ci intry. This is contrary to expectation, an 1 the percentage of married mates in th * cities is one par cout. higher than it is ou tho average in ties country. In classifying the divorce I parsons, it is found that they arc m >=d num *r >ns in the western division, and least nu uerous in Delaware, M irylnn I. Virgiui i the twoCiroiinas, Georgia an 1 Flori 11 In Maryland tho proportion of mm riages is exceptionally high a*i 1 yet iu i l,?i il ? 4 ? . .. . . 4 ~ ? 11! L nnnu 111' r? iin: 111 uy iv > many whlowa as there tiro willn-.ver.s. DivorceK ?iro more (Miainun at tli West than in the Kni. Tn -s ? nr s u few of tii"! fu^ts tint appear in tli study of the Census from the point oi view of the conjugal relation. ZEB VANCE'S REMAINS RETURNED TO THEIR FIRST GRAVE IN THE ASHEVILLE CEMETERY. Chas. N. Vance Has Them Removed from the Lot to Which Mrs. Vance Had Them Transferred Last Week. Ashkvim,e, N. O. ? All that in mortal of Zeb Vance, tlio body that on th? 18th of April wah buried in ltiveraide Cemetery, overlooking tho beantfnl French Hrond river, about which lie wrote poetic words in life, haa become the object of the moat unfortunate wrangle in the immediate family of tho beloved dead. Last Wednesday, RAViMi wppkn nft??r llw* infitHninttl ? will be rcmeinbvml, Mrs. Vance eanie to Aeheville and very quietly bad the remains of tho Senator removed from the grnvo in the old Vance lot in Riverside Cemetery to the spot that she had chosen and purchased for the purpose. This is the highest and most beautiful part of the cemetery, and it was planned that the inonunicut to Vance's memory should be erected over this spot. But the body was not destiuod to remain in its new grave long. Chas. N. Vance learned of the removal and came here Saturday evening. Some time Saturday night or before day Sunday morning the remains were again disinterred and placed in the family plat where they were first buried, beside the grave of his first wife, young Vance's mother, where, it is understood, Charlie Vance is determined they shall remain i-? there be any possible way of enforcing hi? wishes. The grave has been guarded by a special oftfter since Sunday morning. It is said ho agreed to the removal of bis father's body provided Mrs. Vanco would allow tho re-interment of tho Senator's lirst wife by bis side, but this Mrs. Vanee would not do. This wrangle as to the permanent restiiic nlnof> nf lln> lwl<?v.<il .1.....1 <> deplored l>y the people here, and it is feared that it will have an unfavorable effect upon the movement of organizing monument associations throughout the State. A TRAGEDY IN BIRMINGHAM. Kolb's Leading Supporter Kills the Son of an Ex-Mayor. Birmingham, Ai.a.?P. Or. Bowman, a lawyer ami lending advocate of Benhen Kolh for Governor, ahot and almost instantly killed Eugene Jeffera, thv 21-year-old son of Thomas Jeffera, ex-mayor of this city, in a bar room. Early in the evening, Bowman and Thomas Jeffers had a dispute, ami Bowman, who is about six feet and weighs nhout 200 pounds, hit Jeffera, who is about live feet and an old man Hinl weighs about I0.~i pounds, twice in the face. Young Jeffers, hearing of the occurrence, went to see Bowman and asked for an explanation. Those who witnessed the tragedy refuse to talk and if any words passed, it was impossible to get particulars. Excitement is very high. Bowman was first taken to the city prison but is now in the county jail. THE STATUS OF THE STRIKE. The Miners are Hot Sntisficl With tho Strike Settlement. liiUMiNOHAM, Ar,\. ?- The strikers here burned another railroad bridge, at CanlilT on the Georgia Pacific; it was (lotto by 2"> masked men. Whkrmno Curkk, Ohio. Firing still goes on between the angry coal strikers ami the Stat militia, but the latter with strong reinforcements are quelling tin: turbulent miners. Marii.IiON, Ohio.?The miners here in a meeting denounced Gov. McKinlev for sending State troops. Wiikrmno, W. Ya. Kxtreme dissatisfaction prevails among the miners throughout this section over the strike settlement. Leaders of the miners say ttint fully 8,000 votes will l?e east l>y the miners in this section against the ratification of the compromise. Virginia's New Election Law. A new ballot law will go into effect in Virginia on the 1st of duly, nml it will In- the means, it is expected, of reviving to some extent the Ib-publican party in the Old Dominion. Until William Mahone was defeated by MeKinney t?y over 40,000 majority in 188!), Virginia was regarded as one of the close States, r' adjnster moveinent taking many old line Democrats into the ii<>|>11 l>lionn camp. In Uncontest for President i it I MS I, Clove1 iiii?I defeated Blaine in Virginia hy 0,100, lllld ill 1SSS the ( 'lev< -1II11 (I electoral ticket won actually in a minority, though Cleveland'** )>1 nr*i 1 ity over Harrison was 1,500 in a poll of 300,000. Outside of liichniotid city, which gave a Democratic majority of 2,000, the Hepuhlieans carried the State. They polled at that i.ime 150,000 votes. Maliono could got only 120,000, and in 1H02 the. llarrisoii total fell to 113,000. At last year's >!eo!i.. i liie Hcpiihlicnnf made no nomination. I>nt let the eontest go liy default. They were without any representation in the last Virginia Legislature, which had 110 Democrats and II Populists members. There will lie no election for United States Senator hi Virginia until March. 1when the term of Senator Unnton, n|?|???*ntoiI f" I'll i vucuucy, will cxuiic. Baptist Colfag* Commencement Wake Forest, N. C\? Krastus F? Jones, of Winston, delivered the i?l ninni oration Tuesday ni111, on tin following mibjeet: "Tin- Hoy of < > 1 ?i Fiel. 1 School Ifns Hlnipcil < > 11 r Destiny in tho I'tist and Will Shape Our Des tiny in the Future." A banquet was given the nonior elass l?y President Charles I'. Taylor of tin e*?llego. SOLDIERS FOUND QUILTE. The Court of Inquiry Convict Officers and Privates. Ooi.rMBiA, S. C.?Tho court of inquiry appointed by Governor Tilimnn to inquire into the conduct of the military companion which refused to go to Darliugtou during the dispensary troubles, mnde it voluminous report us to the throe Columbia companies and four others. As to tho Governor's Guards, of Columbia, the court suys Captain Ihitcman was guilty of diso1 . * 1 1 A. ' . 1 I. uriiTh, imh in iir.in^ m1 ?nt? influenced by ft belief that to attempt to carry the company out of the armory would precipitate n riot. No other officer or member was guilty of any disobedience of orders. Those memTiers who threw down their arms in the presence of the governor at his mansion were guilty of unbecoming conduet, but were laboring under great excitement. The court found that Captain Alston, of the Richland Volunteers, a Columbia company, disobeyed no orders nor was guilty of any conduct unbecoming an officer. He is commended for bis determination to do his whole duty, having left a sick lied. No officer or member was guilty of disobeying or dors. As to the Zouaves, Captain Capers was guilty of disobeying ordoVh and of conduct unbecoming atl offieet in encouraging his officers to disobey the governor's orders. With tlio exception of Lieutenant Frost and a few members, the Zouaves were guilty of disobeying orders. The Jenkins Rifles were guilty of deliberate disobedience in refusing to go to Columbia when ordered. The Cordon Light Infantry, of Winnsboro, Captain Jordan wnH iriiilfv nf t,r??in oil i i,l oil if i khIhx! i. ence nuil ia solely responsible for tin failure of bin company to come to Co luinbia. As to the Catawba Hi Ilea, of Rock Hill, Captain Reed and Liieuten ant Harrison were guilty of disobedience. The commissioned officers and ten men, the Gordon Volunteers, o' Ilani|iton, diaobeyed no orders. Othei members disobeyed, but from businessconsiderations and not from a desir? to shirk the services required of them Governor Tillman has not decided what ho will do about it. The court finds that the conduct of Major Arthui Metts, of the Talmetto regiment, win unbecoming an officer and prejudicial to military discipline iu counseling tin Governor's Guards not to go to Dar lington. TRINITY COMMENCEMENT. 'he Methodist University Closes a Successful Year. Durham, N. C. ? Dr. Crowell made lis farewell talk. He stated that he ind been connected with the college ur seven years and had bccorao so greatly attached to the institution and the students that hia interest in anil levotion to both would not cease when he severed his connection. (I. T. Rowe of Statenvillo won the Junior oratorical prize. ('has. \V. Edwards, of High Point, s tin' valedictorian this year. The ra\toti Craven scholarship medal, ^iveil annually by .1. S. C'nrr, was iwnrdcd to W. W. Flowers, of Tftvlorsville. Dr. Milhurn, the blind chaplain of Congress, delivered the literary address. Texas Republicans Will Put Out a Ticket. Four Wo htm, Tkx. ? The State HeI>nb 1 i<>a11 League Club convection convention eonveneed here in the auditorium of the city hull, with delegates from all over the State. The chairman predicted victory for the Republican party in IN'.)}. An effort will be made to h.-irmoni/.c the Lilly-White and Iil:ic!> and tan factions of the Hepubliean party. A full State ticket will be put in the field. The Republican State executive committee decided to hold a lU-puhlican convention uu Tuesday, August 27th. nt Pallas. Soithern Inventions. Wa?iiim?to\, 1>. C.- I*n11 nts have been granted to tho following inven* tions by men of the Southern States: Planter, Geo. W. Murray, Sumter, S. ('. Mr. Murray wiir also granted patents on n cotton chopper nnd n fertilizer distributor, n second style of planter,a combined cotton aeeil planter and fertilizer distributor and a cotton reaper. Fish trap, Win. Hentou Greenfield, Ark. Miners Want Pay in Cash. Prrvsnrno, Pa. ? Two important suits are entered against "company stores" for the recovery of money withheld to pay store hills. They will he the find auits brought under the act of iho fjegiidntlire of IH'.H, providing for the acini-monthly payment of miner* in "lawful money." One of the auit* will lie ngainat the Hobbina Coal Cone puny, the other again at \V. P. Rend ?V <'o., coal and coko operntora. The plaintiff* are both striking ininera ol McDonald. Democrats Rep/diatc Cleveland Ahkadf.M'Hia, Ai?k.? The Clark County Democratic Convention |>nt itself on record as opposing the Cleveland Administration. After nominating the candidates for county offices, the Convention adopted r. i(-solution denouncing President Cleveland's fi nancinl policy in Rtrong language. A Possible Lynching in Atlantic City. Nohpot.k, Va. ? A white man attempted to commit a criminal assnnlt upor I tin* eleven-year-old daughter of ('apt. W. K. Face, of Atlantic City, lie war frightened off* l>y the girl's screams. The police believe they will arrest him i before morning. If captured in At? lantic City there will bo a lynching boo. WASHINGTON NEWS. The U. S. Senate has confirmed W M. Duukeo to be postmaster at Christianburg, Va. Secretary Carlisle has awarded the contract for the erection of the lifesaving station at Sullivan's Island, S. C., to Henry L. Cadcj of Chirleatou, at St,400. Senator Gordon has introduced a bill iii the Seuato appropriating $50,.100 for building at the Cottou States [exposition at Atlanta, Oa., and $150,)00 for the maintenance of th? exposition. ? A Richmond, Va., apeciai to th< Atlanta Constitution ia ns follows: A prominent Richmond gentleman who returned from Washington brings the news that Senator Hill remarked in liia presence that he would not be a candidate for tlie presidential nomination in J MOO, but that Steveusott will be iiia mall and the man that New Yorlr will support. This gentleman is a close friend of Hill's and did valiant work in his campaign in this city two years ago. Three H rndro-t Mile> in a Row Boat. (Danville Register.) Tim Norfolk Virginian ol Wodn^a day cunt tincd the following: Tile eccentric passenger who came up with Cii] tain Jones on the steamer Lucy, from Plymouth, N. 0., yesterday, win evidently determined io get to Norfolk without paying railroad fure. In company with his valet he accomplished, in a small, opcll row hunt, the (10(1 miles distance between Danville and Plymouth, passing down the Dan rivet to tile Roanoke, and thence to tli North Carolina sounds. He left Danville on the tilth of March and arrived at Plymouth on Saturday, June Oth, lacking only four days of hcing three months on his strange journey. At Plymouth he took passage on the Lucy, the sounds hcing too rough for him even after bin passage of the rapids iu the Dan and Hoanoke. He carried hit provisions and an old stove with hint in his boat. He has often before made trips in strange ways,tramping through the mountains in winter, and once coming to Norfolk on a bicycle. Whnt his next venture will be is not known, but it is unlikely that he will return by the same route he came. Who is he ? $t,250,000 a Year for Fruit and Early YcjV'ut.'es. Along the route of the Tuniisville A Nashville Hailroad, between Paris and Memphis, Tenn., a distance of 181 milas, a rapidly enlarging tin the is being developed by the increase of the i,..i..iv.?i.? ii iiii-k"'" ? ?.-4 imiiiPiiti. i lit: month ?>f May over 100,000 cahch of perishable goods wore handled. Among tIicko wore 02,000 crates of berries. The balance of the shipments were made up of peas, beans and other ear1(V veg< tables. The potnto and tomato props also promise large tonnage. It is estimated that in this territory over $1,250,000 are annually distributed among the truck farmers. The strawberry crop in this section amounts to over $250,(M)0. The Louisville At Nashville runs fruit trains through this district, making the trip from Memphis to Chicago in forty hours. Cotton Crop Report. The condition of the crop ia reported as nearly up to the average and more advanced as a whole than that of ho t year. The cultivation lias been timely and thorough, and it is report <1 that 1 InTr lias rarely been a season wlien grass and weeds have given so little trouble, tine largely to the fact that the rainfall has nowhere been cxeessive. Taking the entire rendition of the |dant. it is on the whole very promising inueli better than either last year or the year before at this time ami this is particularly true of Texas and Mississippi, two of the largest producing States. Miners Going to Work. Conrwr.rs, <>. 1'elegrams from mining towns in (thio indicate that the miners are coming to think better of the settlement agreement. At Nelsonville, Sand Knn, Vol kvilleand I'd la ire, they resolved to accept the settlement and went to wotk on Monday. Prrrsmuti, I 'a. ?The miners' district voted unanimously for resuming work, JunelStb, and with the same vote ratified the action of the Columbus convention and endorsed the action of the national coal miners. There wero present 121 delegates, representing 20,0(10 miners. A Small Difference in Favor of North Carolina. IPanville Register.) An 1111 fortiinut? businc.vr. man not many months ago made an assignment of si! his property for the benefit of his creditors. As he owned property in two counties in Virginia and two in North Carolina, the deed of assignment had to lie recorded in four border counties. The fees for recording in the two N'oiTfi Cnrolina"counties amounted to $fi.S<). From each of tin Virginia counties enij.^ lengthy iff "lull, the two amounting to $387. Hon. Chi /nrey ? Depew on the South. Iii his speech <1< livered nt the University i?f Virginia on dune 12, Hon. C'lifttinoov M. l>epew said: Our country is still comparatively j unsettled, our resources are only pnrtiiillv developed, ninl our possibilities for imlustry, for hnppiness and for homes are incalculable. The Southern States offer almost boundless opportunities of ngriciiltnral ami mineral Wealth. \ ANOTHER BIG COTTON MILL. The Pelzer Cbrripanjl IB Bull J Again and Increase its Investment by Half ti Million Dollars. The Pelzer (8. C.) Mfg. Co., lift?* decided to again inereoae its capital stock and add to the capacity of its tnillfl on the Saluda River, 10 milla 1>clo\t Greenville. Wotk tvill be begun without delay. The new mill trill be Heat IVlzer and will contain about 40,000 apindlea. It will coat in the neighborhood of $500,000, but the new stock to bo iaaued will be only $400,000, and will make the capital of the company a round hiiltioil. The addition will make the Pelzer one of the largest. <. otion companies fn the-Nfmttrnnd one of the largest in the country. The company began work in 1880 with 10,000 apiiidlea. It has grown steadily and is how operating 52,000. The addition tvill give it 5)2,000 spindles, wliioh 111 be over 30,000 more than the largest tiiil 1 in the South now liaa. The Pelztif Company now employs 1,400 people and nae 25,000 bales of cotton. With the addition it will employ nn additional force of J, 100 hands and will use 20,001) more hales of cotton, giving it a total roll of 2,500 lunula and total capacity of -15,001! bales of cotton a year. The iliereasi will give Pel/er a population close t 10,000 and will make it probably a larger town than Spartanburg or An derson and close to (Ircenvillc. The new mill will be,with the others, under the direct management of Pres ident E. A. Smyth, under whose control the company's plant lias made its wonderful growth, and under whose work one of the largest and nunt flourishing towns in the State has in eleven years grown from an old In Id and a shoal. The Newberry Cotton Mill Arlne*. Work on the large annex to the Newberry (S. C.) Cotton Mills is moving right along, and the walls will soon be ready for the second floor. The building la being erected according to the latest approved plants In mill engineering. Stephen (ireetic ,V Co., tnill engineers of Providence, It. I., are the architects who furnished the plans, and they Certainly know their business. Tito tftpv iniDmlPil tvinrli i Hop v has been purchased for tlit* annex to the mill, and when completed the factory will be Hocond to none of similar capacity in the State. The work of building the mill is being done by W. T. Davia A Co., of dewberry. The brick in made by J. P. A* T. C. Pooli of Newlierry, nn?l 1 might Bay here what perhnpn cannot be said to the name extent by many millH, that its management is wholly in charge of Newberrians, who have made it ft buccchh. Its capital stt>ck is more largely held by home people than that of other mills in the State, and the stockholders possessed at the beginning so great faith in the ultimate success of the enterprise that they have held 011 to their investment, and there has been less changing ami buying up of stock among them than tin* croakers predicted at the organization of the company eleven years ago. Newberry ih proud of tln> Kplf-iitllit record the Newberry Cotton Mills lias achieved in the financial and commercial work, and when ita25,000 spindlcsare "humming on the hill" we will only he quickened to do still greater thing.*. Some Railroads Cnininq. The South Carolina roads showing gains in net earnings for March are tin Ashcville ?V Spaitanbure, 20.07 jiei ent.; Carolina, Cnmhei land (laj? A Chicago, 21.57 percent.: Central itnilroad ??f South Carolina, 1.1 1 per cent, 'hnrleston, Cincinnati ?V* Chicago, 7.12 ( er cent ', Charleston, Sumter A* Northern, 10.00.; Charlotte, Columbia A Augusta, 1.81 per cent ; Columbia, Newberry A' Laurens, 10.71 per emit. Florence Hailroad, 8.0 percent.; Georgia, Carolina A* Northern, 1.75 per ? ?>..?? 1. a .. .... t,. o *.<4 rnt.; Port lioviiI A Western Nortl larolina, 11.1 r? per cent.; Sontli I 'outul, 10.91 per cent.; South A* North ("aro linn, 25.04 per cent.; Spartanburg, Pnion ,v Columbia, 15.55 per cent. Wilson A* Suinmcrtoii, 92 IS per cent. In the aggregate of net earnings loi nil roads there won n decrease of 2.(1 per cent. Cape Fecr & Yalkin Valley Reorganization. The formulation of a plan of reorganization for the (Tape Pear A Yud vin Valley Jlailroad will he proceeded vitli, more than a majority of tin >onds being now in control of tin ommittee. The last day for the deposit of the bonds haa passed, and tin uithori/.ed depositories, the Mercantile Trust (To. of I'flltiinore and tin Par in era' Loan and Trust ('?>. of New fork, have received the following: () u-ries A, SI ,0(18,000; series 15, $(574,)00: aeries (', $718,009, a total of $2, 190,(100 out of the entire issue of ?5, 154,000. A plan of reorganization wil >e adopted having fixed charges with n the present earning capacity of tin end as rei orted bv the receiver, (ten folin Gill. I his will avoid ntiv cluing* ?{ ovorniling, as business being dul luring the vour, the minimum ourniiif ibility is thought to have boon ronoheil frov'aion "ill he made in the plan foi i 23-mile extension, so as to give tin oad a deep-water terminal at South port, N. C. Female Farmers in Alabama. Montoomf.rv, Ala. At the commencement exercises of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auhurn three young women were graduated with high honors. That institution, like the State University at Tuscaloosa, is open to young women on equal term* witli yoiinfl men. Thin marks a lonp I step forward for the cause of education in this State. \ PITHY NEWS ITEMS. The plan of reorganization for the Cape Fear Ar Yadkin Valley Railroad will provide for a 23-mile extenRiou to Southport, N. C. The British steamship British King cleared from Beaufort, S. C., on the Oth inst, with 1000 tons phosphate tock for Garnton Dock, England. The British steamship Mathew Bendhigton cleared from Beaufort, S. 0., on the 4tli inst. with 2750 tous phospliato rock for Loudon, Eng. A leather belting factory has been established at Charlotte, N. C. A bellows factory is also in operation. Tho tir? plant and franchise of the New Berne (N. C.) Water Co., was purchased on June 5 at public sale by James Redmond for $35,025. Spartanburg, S. C., parties have incorporated a hedge fence company with $15,000 capital. At a special election Cnlpeper, Ya , voted $20,00(1 for a water works system. The Charleston (S. C.) Hotel Uo., lias obtained n commission to incorporate. Capital stock $25,000; contract has been let, work to commence at once. Krastua Wiinnn, the noted Now York financier ,woa convicted of forgery last Friday. The N. C. Press Association bad a pleasant meeting last week at Morganton, N. C. The Catawba Spinning Mills, Chester, S. C , started up again tbb week their 11,000 spindles. The proponed Melrose Cotton Mills, Raleigh, N. C., will shortly begin building. The intention is to produce very line hosiery yarns. The Dixon Mfg. Co., at Snow ('amp, N. C., has doubled its capacity and is running on full time. This i? the only woolen mill in the Alamance section. The new Mnxton (N. C.) Cotton Mills is to lie put into operation soon on 4a ti? 20s yarns. An addition is being made to the T. M. Holt Co's cotton mills nt Haw River, N. C. A large addition is also being made to the Aurora Cotton MilU at Ibirlington, N. C. The new electric lights were turned tin at Iioxingtou, N. C., last week. The North Carolina Toaehers's Association met nt Beaufort, .Tune 20th. The Kolh ticket in Alabama was endorsed by the Kolb, Populist and Republican State Committees. President Mclvcr, of the the Stat* Normal and Industrial School, Greensboro, N. C., has received more than 100 applications for admission sinct A colony of Bohemians who settled in Waller county, Texas, have met with considerable success in farming, and their numbers have grown each year. They have uow started to build a tewn to be called "Slovanvillc." There were two South Carolinians in the class which was graduated at West Point on Tuesday last. The clasf numbered fifty-four and in the list ol graduates Francis LeJ. Parker, of Abbeville, stood twelfth ami Frank Parker, of Georgetown, stood thirtieth. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, has pardoned David Jackson, who was convicted of rape in Lancaster in March, I Sit 1, ami sentenced to a life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The judge and solicitor requested the pa>*don on the ground that the woman in the ease was of pronounced questionable character and bail no warrant, on this occasion, for making a charge against Jackson. The academic council of John Hopkins University, Baltimore, last Mon tiny awarded twenty-six Hopkins scholarships to graduate students who nrc residents of Virginia ami Nortli Carolina. Anion;? thcin wore: John McLaren McRryde, Jr., of Illnckslmrg, Va.,(A. 15. and A. M., University of South Carolina, 18110 and 185)3,) and Frank Kern pic Wilcox, of Lynn, N. C., (South Carolina Military Academy, ; 1893). Under an order of tho Circuit Court Receiver A. S. Tompkins advertises for sale on the first Monday in July the magnificent gingham mill of the Cheater Mfg. Company,Chester, I S. It is said that if certain parties purchase the property who contemplate doing so, the factory will at once ho put into operation. "Our Southern factory liurned down the other day," said a New Yorker cheerfully, "and on the whole ' it was a very good th'og. There was I Home insurance, there will he plenty of money to rebuild, and in these dull times any excuse for shutting down is a Godsend. The factory will be re* 1 built, with all modern improvements, and when business revives we shall be ready to go to work Kes. Why Not? Tin* immigration agent c?f the Georgia Southern A Florida Railroad hai in live years located i),000 people along 1 ">rt miles of that road in Georgia, nn average of sixty to the mile. Most ol them have l<een planted in colonies, i Wliv enn't our railroads do the sanu filing? Surely South Carolina should be more Attractive than wiregras* Georgia!?Columbia (S. C.) State. Bclva May Practice in Virginia Co.irts. At Wvtheville, \*n., Hclvn Lock wood has the privilege of practicing law in s the courts of Virginia after this date. Judge Richardson, who had the canting vote, having decided in her favor .Friday morning. THE RICHMOND A DANVILLE SOLD. Sought in by the Drexel Company, and Nero* \ nH after to Be Called the Southern Railway ,1k H Company. ?Db Richmond, Va.?The Richmond A Danville Railroad wan sold hereunder ? decree of the United States Circuit ^ Court to Messrs. C. II. Coster and A. J. Thomas, a purchasing committee of the Drexel, Morgan & Company reorganization committee. Their bid was $2,0:10,000. The foreclosure and sale were under the third mortgage and subject to the gold, debenture and equipment mortgage. Tho sale was immediately confirmed by the court, and this action constituted-the re-organization committee, a o?>rpo~^?N}n under 11 charter granted by < \s8t rjcKiVlatiiic. Tl,< committee win here Monday and re-organise the giving it the name of Southern ltail^^BHfl^H way Company. 3 NEW SOUTHERN BANKS. A new hanking company hna been ' incorporated at Winusboro, S.(called the Savings, Loan a;ul Investment AsBociatiou of Fairfield County with Ek J. Emerson, president. The National Hank of Wilmington* 1 B N. C., has been organized with J. s. WMR Armstrong, president, and L. L. .Ten- . kins, of Oastonia, N. C.', en shier. capital stock is $100,000. Ai Richmond, Va., the State Bnild?<dfl^^R^H ing A- Loan Co. has been chartcred^^H|B^fl with M. M. Gilliam, president. capital stock is to be not less tk&^BBfl^Bfl ^HB^B Tho Carolina Insurance Co., of WtblHSfl^^a mington, N. C., has declared a semi-1 annual dividend of a per cent. L. W. White lias succeeded W. C. MeOowan as vice-president of tho Na- v tional Hank of Abbeville, S. C, B SILK EXPERIMENT STATIONS. J The Government to Form Them Under the K Direction of Secretary of Agriculture. Washington, D. C.?Tho Semite ibb Thursday passed a hill authorizing' the MB Secretary of Agriculture to establish five silk experiment stations, each in JBI diflferent sections of the country with the view of developing silk cultnro MB throughout the United States. Such ^^B silk culture stations shall be a part of the several experiment stations in tho ^MMB Stntes in which they may be located. ^^b The work at each station shnll be con- 1 ducted under the supervision of the 1 director at such station, who ry cm mt?b wwk aiidtr mterr^. ^ ?B^^B lations to be prescribed by the Secrc tary of Agriculture. The bill appro- |fl priates So,000 annually to each of the VH stations fur silk culture which shall bo ^fl established under the provisions of this ^b act. M A Freak of Lightning. ^b During a thunder storm last Wednesday afternoon the lightning struck ^B| the signal pole of tho weather observer's olliee at Wilmington, N. 0.,which ^^B wbh ruiseil on the top of the Government building. The polo was shatter- B ed and the halliards parted when the (lags came down with a run. The f building was not damaged at all, although the shock was felt all over / it, especially on tho upper lloor occupied by the weather observer and tho United States engineer officials. FOREIGN NOTES. jJ? TViJohn, Duke Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England, is dead. Thirty harvesters were drowned near Aehill, Ireland, by a capsizing boat. A rebellion aiming at Caucasian independence has alarmed the Russian government. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. ' The Senate. 12tn Pat.?Tho tobacco 6ehodulo of till Tariff >>f 11 was disposed of au 1 tho agricultural schedule taken up. 121th Day.?The agricultural sohodulo of . - T...IK 1.111 ?Ar - i r - spoke in fnvor of tha Government relinquishing its claim against the Sanfor I estate. 12."?rp Day.?The Hoar resolution as to r.??" linquishing the Oovernmcnt claims against! tho Stanford estate was. after discussion. laid on tho table? yeas, 24 ; nays. 19. Tha Tariff bill was then taken up. Right paragraphs of tho agricultural schedule were dispose.l of. 126th Day.?The conferenc9 report on th? bill authorizing ttio Pennsylvania and NmV Jersey Itnilroad Company to construct bridge across the Delaware River was agrecii to. The Sonato passed a bili dividing railwav postal clerks Into seven classes, with salnrios ranging from 80.1 tf? 1800. Mr. Walsh introduced i tail In patahliah in Wimhinirlon n nor manont exposition of tho product* ami resources of the several States anil Territories. Mr. Hoar Introduced a bill to release the Stanford estate from the Government's claim. The Senate disposed of the agricultural schedule of the Tariff hill. 127th Day.?Three schedule*, filling eighteen pages of the Tariff Hill and relating to _ spirits and wines, cotton manufactures an 1 flax, hemp and jute, were disposed of. Tim five-minute rule was in operation. Tim jHAB cotton schedule, covering ten pages. w.i4 disposed of in thirty minutes. 124th Day.?I.lttle progress was made on the Tariff bill, the day bolng chiefly occupied with five-minute speeches. , The House. 143n Day.?The House concurred in the Senate amendments to tho New York an-t New Jersey Rridga bill. By a vote of 17J to 102 the House voted not to repeal fh3 law imposing a tax of ten per cent, upon tho is-* sues of State banks and other associations. 144th Day.?The day was devoted to consideration of the Indian Appropriation bill, the discussion being over tho rids to remove the supply warehouse from New York to Chicago. No action was taken. 14.4th Day.?Tho Indian Appropriation j mil YYi%a u??u3i'i"r"<i in ui 1119 Whole. 146th Da*.?The House spent three hours in consideration ol the Indian Appropriation hill under the flve-mtnulo rule and passed over 9oven pages in that timo. 147th Day.?The .'.ay was devoted to tho consideration of District of Columbia business. 14Hth Day.?Tho Indian Appropriation bill was further considered. The Indian ' Commission was practically legislated out of office by a refus it to make an appropriation for It.