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a - T -) I 1 - NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1887. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR we IHE IN 1860.__ FROM THE LAKES TO TIIE SEA. ~ A Few Facts about the Three C's Rail road and the Immense Trafllc it is Destined to Handle. 1etr aud Courier Editorial. The public have heard a g:eat deal C -aout the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago railroad, and know with sat 0e isfaction, especially in Charleston, that work is being pushed along the C line from Camden to Black's and that :a considerable section of the road I beyond Black's is in operation. Yet ( -there is probably very little under- t standing of what the road promise , and what it can be expected to effect. The new highway to the West well 1eserves to be better known, and will be found to improve steadily on ac- f quaintance. Designed and projected to form the shortest line between Charleston and the Ohio River, the "Three C's Railroad," as it is popularly called, commences at Ashland, Ky., on the Ohio River, follows the valley of the Big Sandy River to the boundary line of the States of Kentucky and Virginia, and thence runs in almost r a direct line to Johnson City, Tenn., r intersecting at that point, 216 miles t from Ashland, the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad. At C Marion, N. C., 87 miles from John son City, the line crosses the West. e:n North Carolina Railroad, and C roceeding thence through Ruther- I fort:on and Shelby, N. C., intersects the Ric,||nd and Danville Railroad at Black's Station, in South Carolina, 70 miles further south. At Yorkville, 28 miles from Black's, the road crosses the Chester and Lenoir Railroad; at Rock Hill, 14 miles from Yorkville, i it crosses the Charlotte, Columbia C and Augusta Railroad; and at Cam den, 478 miles from Ashland, it con nects with the South Carolina Rail way, with which advantageous traflic arrangements have been made, giving a continuous line from Ashland to the Atlantic. From Camden another branch of the line passes through Sumter, thirty-three miles further south, and at that point connects with the North. eastern Railroad. Ashland is 137 i miles from Cincinnati and 600 from t Charleston. The distance between i Cincinnati and Charleston by the "-Three C's Railroad." therefore, is 737 miles, as compared with 800 < miles by thc Cincinnati Southern, i and OS8 miles by the Chesape'ake and< Ohio. At Shelby, N. C., it should< deo be mentioned, the "Three C's"t ects with the Carolina CentralI ad for Charlotte and other and by consolidation with oad, as it is called, will r Black's to Hamburg, t is not improba ye direct com- C ia-forming - ent, with t e at Co-.a n the he 1 nal I the c to he. throug' e, the calci- ( ~ebusiness to be I ong its route will bei omake its independent traf :ighly profitab'le, M4any columns of the Ners w, i Conrier' would be required to present even a bare sketch of the varied min- - eral and agricultural resources of thei gyuntry through which the "Threei e's" will pass, and in whichi it will scarcely have a competitor for thei immense volume of traflc awaiting tts completion. At a distance of about thirty miles from Ashland, thei road enters the vast coal deposit known as the "Peach Orchard MIines."i Twenty miles further south it entersi a territory containing one of the( 1'argest deposits of splint or bloc!5 omal to be found in the E nited States,. cvering an area of many hundreds 9!'square miles. a!d where, in addi tion to other varieties of bituminous p;al, are f"und inghiaustible beds of ~annel coal, e:xteningl nearly to the Virginia line. Of this region Prof, N. S. Shaler, of Ilarvard UTniversity'. formerly director of the Geoloical< Survey o,f Kentucky. reports that -'it is the richest field of mineral wealth; in any' country.'' Near the bound'srv 1 jilje between lientucky' and Virgrinia the roa.d traverse3 beuar and hemna tite iron ore beds and other fields of coal, both minerals being of excel lent quality and in quantities that are declared to be practically ines hars'ible. Qther belts of ore are passed, comn-, nig south, before the road reaches what is p)erhaps one of the most val uable iron dep< sits on the continent. This is the famous Crauberry bed in ronounced by Prof. -N. C. Kerr tate geologist of North Carolina, to e unsurpassed in quality by any S ,on in the world, while in quantity has no equal in tl:is country. The importance of these several eposits may be understooO, without v oing into details. from the following f tatement of the relative convenience, a nd therefore the relative cheapness, rc f handling the ores, as compared c ith like ores in other parts of the a inited States. Mr. Swank, a special T 'overnment expert, says in the Uni. d ed States Census for 1880: "From o be ore mines of Lake Superior and p lissouri to the coal of Pennsylvania > 1,000 miles. Connellsville coal is 7 aken 600 miles to the blast furnaces al f Chicago, and 750 miles to the blast n, urnaces of St. Louis." The Three sE 's will bring the coaking coal and A con ores within one hundred miles , f each other, and new furnaces will n ine its track along all the interven- tt ng' spaces. The iron furnaces al- b eady in operation in the Ohio Valley, rE is said by competent authority, d ill tax the freight capacity of the al oad." The demands of the facto. je ies, towns and cities at this end of tl: be line will be heavy at the outset ai nd will increase every year. The tr onditions all indicate that the new oad will have nearly as much busi-. m ess as it can manage in handling vi res alone, and no class of freight, tl erhaps, is more desirable, g Besides this immense traffic, how. c ver, the "Three C's" will have the p usiness that will naturally flow to it w rom the rich and rapidly developing a ountry through which it will run. tl he largest forests of hard wood in c tioerica lie along its line, and the tl emand for these woods is increasing n very year. LeaviLlg all other kinds n f business out of consideration, it i, as been estimated by railroad men i nd lumber men of large experience. tl vho have prospected along the route, e hat the freights upon lumber alone tl vill pay the interest on the bonds a or years after the completion of the a oad. it must be borne in mind, by the e ay, that the '-Three C's Railroad" s not all on paper alone. The en- tl ire line from Cincinnati to Ashland t s under contract. From Ashland, outh, fifty miles are completed, and t! he rest of the line to the State line b f Virginia is under construction and q s being pushed as rapidly as practi- fi able. It is expected that one hun-.t [red and fifty miles of this part of k ie road will be completed and run ing by January, 1888. Forty-five a alles of the road between Black's ia .nd 1arion, North Carolina, are al- e eady completed andl in operation, n .nd it is expected that the whole tl oad from Camden to Black's will bew pen for business by February 1. or u larch 1, at the latest, the contrac- 0 ors having experienced some una oidable delay. All together, it is d tated, two hundred and twenty-five C 2iles of new road will be completed ai v the end of ibe year. i~n immense ' ount of money is required, of Bi ourse, to conduct the work on so c iberal a scale and at so many points ,t once, and that it is being so con ucted is the best evidence that catn a e given of the faith of capitalists in he success of the line. We have given a few of 9l2 f:.ca he road ~to p)ress its construction b rth so much vigor. A great mnany fore similar facts mit be added i mt enough has been told to so how e nportanit the wiieaainfg appears n the minds of g:ose who are bes.t ti nformed as to its merits. Its ove- I ~helning success is as near to bein ssured as that of any scheme whichi as not yet been put to the test of 0 xqerienace, and, if iL mieets only aL ,art (f the expectations entertained n reardi to it, Charleston and South' >roina will still have abundant rea 'on to bless the intelligence zn nery that re&lize the (d;eaL of so nany years, and open the way from he Lakes to the Sea. .N. t.couis .Veocate. A strong infusion of the Sermion n the Mount is much needed in Ome popular phases of modern reli 'ion. The man who sent us five doi ars, and, demianding us to cgngec1 i:ee diollar debt by his owa motion, ::thout reierence to our rights '>r in. uir as to our willingness, discounts us own debts sixty.six per cent, and nshislf "Sanctified and saved. Iory to Gxod." needs a strong dosc 0 fthe Ten Commandments. There 9 s too much of this counterfeit reli- j d;on in circulation. One of its most ieltsive phnges is a prcfession of ih and holy experiences without m underpinning of fair dealing, with mutth fondman of common honesty 1 NEW~ EARTHQ(UAKEi POINTS. ioc"ks Eve ry Year in New England Volcanic Action in the West. \cr Yrk Tribune. The recent dispatch from Summer. lle, near Charleston. giving the in rmation that a shock of earthquakc companied with the now familiai >aring sound, had been experienced tme so soon after the cable messagE inouncing earthquake shocks in urkestan, that many people were sposed to believe in the certainty some connection between the twc ienomena. A gentleman, in fact, called at the 'j-ane office on June 12, immedi. elr after the disaster in Asia Mi. >r, and predicted a renewal of the ismic shocks in South Carolina. ,s that prediction was apparently rified, though after an interval of ne days, a reporter vent to ascer. in the views of Professor J. S. New erry, of Columbia college, who i; 'cognized as an authority on seismic sturbances. The professor plunged once into a discussion on the sub ct, saying that he was opposed tc e views of Sir William Thompsor id others who denied that the cen, al part of the earth was molten. "That," said he, "is the core of the atter. I can only give you my ews, and you must not ask me foi e views of other people. To youi iestion as to whether there was any )nnection between the shocks ex rienced in southern Europe and estern Asia, and those of Charlestor id Mexico, I decidedly answer in i negative. What is an earthquake nee the answer would have beer ,at it was an uncompleted efTort o1 ature to cstablish a volcano, bul ow the current of scientific opinior that the volcano is but an incideni the business. An earthquake is e result of the contraction of th< rth's crust caused by loss of heal irough radition. Did you ever keel quince for the sake of the perfumE mong your linen?" "Yes,' was the answer, "I do i very year." "Then you must have noticed hov ie quince became wrinkled as it con -acted by drying up. Now that i. hat is happening to the earth, anc ie great mountain chains have beer uilt up as those wrinkles in the uince wer:, by the overlapping anc >lding up and crushing of substancE nrough the contraction caused b) >ss of heat. Therefore a line o rountains is a line of weakness, anc 3 the process of contraction i tways going on there will always bE irthquake shocks somewh]ere along touutain chains. Now, a volcano ih ie result of matter being thrust up ard from the molten interior, and ii ually is so protruded in great fault~ fissures like the Comnstock." "Do you think that there is any in ation of a line of volcanoes being ~tabis'ed from that one just startel ithe Sie;ra Unadre in Sonora througt eas anct on east and north to tuE ad mountain, of whose eccentric nduct so much has been written?' "No; but I believe that there ih w in existence a line of volcanic tion from the Sierra Madre tc .rizona, which runs al.ong a long-er ded fault stretchiig; fecm~ Sonori inso arizonc, Thme San Franciscc oup of mountains in A rizona are,] lieve, v-olcanoes, and far from ex nt. Mt. Tay'lor in New Mexic< in the same category. The Cas du nmuntains c.n the P'acific slopE ntansa- vcanoes thiat are still c ye, such as Mts. Shasin. Ranier .'nx [ond." 'Ys. but IBald mountain, pro ~ssor ! A re the A!!eghanies entireil utside of all these interesting dec eopenrts?" "You sceem to want a volcano or e Atlantic sideC. "Are there no hon,es for Bald nr:'n one, i believe. Are thecre no hopes of a voleant s ne fromi the sea somewhere in th< st oat pf Charleztun7 one~ that f am aware of; but yoi zht to have lived in the Triassi e, which was the volcanic epoch o s "jrt of America, and then yoi iht have seen the building of the ':Ua lde. With regard to your ide: ' a volcano to the southeast of Char >ton, that is b'azed upn thK andu atAe me that many shocks trav led from the southeast to the north rest, thoug~h the gzreat majority wer rm otheCr pointe. I have consid red that faet, sut have come to th oncsion that one cause which ha ertailv contrib)uted to disturb th tatic equilibrium of the earth's crus s to be found in the depos;ition uips he se hottom or sed imentary laver aused hy erosions. As these accu nulate they not only impose nes urns upon th nderlying mocks but by acting as blankets and pre venting the escape of heat they pro mote the softening of the sea bottom, which yields to latteral pressure, and is forced up in a series of faults and folds. I have no doubt this is one cause of the earthquake -vibrations which have been so frequent along our Atlantic coast. "I recently received from a friend in Boston, Mr. W. T. Brigham's His torical Not,.s on the Earthquakes of New England from 163S to 1869, and there were 231 of them, or one a year. You may be quite sure that these were strictly local, and pro ceeded from faults in mountain chains or from the effect of sedimentary de oosits on the sea bottom." Was He Bored New York Star. The episode in which General Drum has figured so largely will, we fear, revive a question frequently agi tated in the past, but never satisfac torily settled. We refer to the ques tion of the necessity for the large and more or less briliiant galaxy of mil itary talent collected together in the adjutant-general's department. Many person's -have denied the necessity. Many have gone so far as to say that Mr. Tite Barnacle himself never guessed one-half of what those adju tant-generals know about the art of '-how to do it." And the disclosure of General Drum's activity in the matter of re turning flags that nobody had asked for and everybody had forgotten will perhaps renew the controversy. How very unfortunate-for the adjutant generals-if it should appear that General Drum was goaded into this enterprise by sheer ennui; that, going to his office day after day, month af ter month, year after year, and find ing there nothing to stir the pulse less puddle of his life, save, perhaps, a little gossip from the Army and Navy Cotillion Club or a flutter of petticoats over some soft Washing ton assignment, he at last waxe( .les perate under the dull, down-bearing 'pressure of stagnation and plunged into the first temptation that presents itself. IL woulc be unfortunate, we say, for the Adjutant generals seem to like the dreary waste of their depart ment careers, and such a disclosure as we suggest might remind the coun try of the old maxim about mischief and idle hands. The Doctrine of Toleration. Methodist Adrocate. Some people seem to have a very high opinon of editors. They seem to think that an editor is infallible or ought to be, and that in the plenary enjoyment and exercise o.f that in fallibility he ought, qs .a matter. of course, to. agree with them. Thcy have spbscibd for' his paper, and perhap~s paid fur it-perhaps not-but at any rate the editor ought to stand guard "over his colamns for their spe cial benefit and allow no one to print a thought or opinion therein which may not coincide exactly with their particular views- Now the most in-. fallible editor, in o.r,. yiew af the case. is the suo who has found out abat neither he nor his readers are in fallible, and that there are people in the world who think outside of his and their channel whose thopghts are entitled tc epnsideration. Tfhe thopights of others are sometimes so at variance with our way of thinking that we are for the rnomient suprised, Iand yet we are not prepared to say it they are not correct. As we go Iforward enlarging our scope of in Iformation, we find ourselves getting farther away from narrow intolerance Iof the opinion of others, and this we recognize as a true indication of progress. We meet multituTe; who disagree ;yih .s at miany important poinfts, and yet we find them to be just as goodI and just as wise as we ar.I no longer frightens us to en counter somecbcdy of a diiferent aginion'~, nor do we feel the least in clination for that reason to withdraw from him our respect' or our confi dence. U'ntil a man reaches this point and can think and:allow others 'think without a breach of friendship. our opin'ion of him is that he is a worthy3 denizen of thg zgel,cas. Newspaper Enterprise. Spcial to /7e News awl Courier. W' wLHLLA, June 29.-The er,ten -prising editonz and proprietors of the Keoo..ec Couder, whec' r'operty was so wantonly and cowardly destroyed by the incendiary's torch on the night tof the 20th inst., havze procured a new power press and fixtures and will very soon have in operation the old -KeG cee Courier, which has stood so rnobly by the country for so many long years. THE COUNTRY BOY. in I sen ISi. AdIvantare over the Town Boy in laer the Practieal Afrair. of Life. the Atlanta Constdittion. efit The Albany News and A,Icertise, tioL has some well considered remarks under the head of "City Boys versus van the Country Boys." Our contemporary is says: -The fact that the country has trer furnished the greater proportion c.f distinguished men who have adorned every profession in the annals of The, history, has led men to inquire into the causes that contribute to this re sult. "The city boy enjoys greater ad- cra vantages of a character which are de- at ( signed to equip men for the success- 21' ful discharge of the active duties of the a busy life. They are taught and en- cor couraged to make acquisitions of All that knowledge which has relatively by the most value in the practical careers Ex or life. But the effect seems to be ent( like the making of the brick that pile not up to form their houses; they all his come out about one size. The arti. him ficial is apparent; the methods em- na ployed seem to raise all to one plane (an of mediocrity, above which but few nan have the qualities and ability for ris- ma ing. There is a superficial acquaint, the ance with many subjects, a degree of Thu polish common to all which enables vot( them, like polished surfaces, to reflect wh the light around them, but an absence wou of inward warmth of intellectual VotE vigor. wou "The country boys are strikingly evet of different patterns, and present the sno natural phases of individuality of 000 character. The conditions of their TH1 lives seem more favorable for the development of mental strength, as the pure air is most conducive to irui bodily health. "The young men of a city, instead C of devoting their leisure to the culti- say, vations of t' - minds, dissipate their prei natural ment-. vigor in planning and Wi: enjoying society pleasures. The roa< youth of the country find in their pasi very occupation a field of profitable on study in observing the operation of up, the laws of nature, the very purest the science. Their leisure is profitably aws employed in meditation, and in the run study of the open book of nature, stre exhaustless in its knowledge and its eve pleasing variety. To him the visible bee forms of nature are leaves on which the lessons of wisdom and instruction sho are written, for the understanding of Ma which he possesses a Rosetta stone; effe and all natural sounds are voices for spe which he has an interpretation." imi All this is suggestive. It is evi esecially worthy the attention o.f ori boys who, because their-lot is cast in fu the country and or, faris, imagine frui that they are dme v-ictims of misfor- is a tune. The Constitution has received herl hemdreds af' letters from boys who wer live in the country asking for advice fmni and information as to their future. Th Occasionally, in responding to these that letters, we have pursued the line of for thought suggested by the re'mark.s ofty the News and Adcertiser- ag Thie disadvantag~e that a~ boy im- cl giuca he inds in a country life are dist not at all serious. The country is a Fr school of and within itself and to live the there is to secure an education superior in some resp)ects to an that mam can beleonferred by he hools. Per- to lap.s the most prev'alenlt error in this IOfl( world is the notion that an cducation Hei can only be secured in schlsi, I el is a notion held by old and b)y young, dro by parents and by children, but it is m-a a false and pernicious notion, and it the has prevented many a bright young dec fellow from makin-g an effort that nor would have brought him success. noi it is a pity that every boy cannot kno,w what he v-ill inevitably find o4 i later-namely, that thec srgallest and and. 32 unira portant part of his educa-po ton is that which lie receives in the thia schools. The practical knowledge1 a the 'nformnation and the experience he mnrst acqumire aie not to be found in the te:st books, nor in tile system of instruction carried on under the auspices of Prof. Dryasdust and his able assistants. The boy's education get -and the onlr education lie will get ul -must be secured though his own b eforts, and throuith his contac't 'im nature and with lie G Assumiug that Atlanta is in some Got srt a typical city, we have no hesi- Tai tation in saving that, almost without col exception, the most successful nzen 1j here in every business are those who tric were born, bred and educated in the country. We suppose that every community in this country would make a similar showing, and the rea son is not far to seek. The country "al boys enter life with health, strength "le and vigor, and with an individuality ex; unimpaired by pedagogues and text pl books. He has his own way of look ing at things, his own method of~ the solin the small problems that fall 'h ts way, and original and common se views of all things. le may c polish, he may lack culture, but lack of these are positive ben. , andj are part of the self-educa which he has acquired. 'he country boy is at no disad tage in this day and time. On contrary, his environment, which n itself an education, gives him nendously the advantage. 0O1IO'S NEXT GOVERNOR. Dld Roman will be Called to Lead the Dem- t ocratic Forces to Victory. cLiJBLS, June 20.-The Demo ic State convention will be held leveland, Ohio, on July 20 and As the time grows nearer for meeting of the Convention, it be es more and more apparent that ?n G. Thurman will be nominated icelamation for Governor. The Senator is not anxious to again ir the political arena, but he can well refuse a unanimous call of party, the party that has honored so often. If he will allow his e to go before the convention it looks as if he will) no other te will be mentioned, and Thur will be placed at the head of ticket amid a storm of applause. ,rman would poll a tremendous for Governor. Old Democrats have not voted since the war Id come out of their holes and for Thurman. His nomination ld create the greatest enthusiasm C known in Ohio, and he would 4 v under Foraker by at least 20, majority. E DROUGHT IN THE NORTH- s WEST. t and Crops in Illinois and Wisconsin Perishing for Want of Rain. C r ]IICAGo, July 1,-A local paper 3: "No such drought as now rails has existed in Illinois and r ;consin for many years. The Is are ankle deep with dust, the tures are brown, and the leaves forest and shade trees shrivelled t and each hot breath of air from cloudless horizon drives them .y in showers. The creeks have dry, and the water in the larger -1 ams is at a lower stage than was I e known before. There has not n a soaking rain in this part of country since March. Two wers in April and one each in1 y and June had but a temporary et on the crop. Stunted yellow rs, blending disconsolately over sense beds of dust are the only lene that the farmers sowed any a this year. The leaves of the t trees are falling off and the t, which promised to be plentiful, rinkled and dried out. The rasp. y bushes look as though they e producing a crop of shot, so in ely small and hard are the berries. drought has becomte so terrible public prayers are being offered rain, Th'e fences along the coun roads and dead walls of the vil as are plastered with huge bills ing for special services at the riet school houses and churobes. as are burning in the woods and pastures for' miles around are ohed. Thue farmers have lost iy cattle in these fires, which seem spring up in a dozen places at e. Reports from all parts of ary nd the adjoining counties of intense sufferin,g from the ught. The drinking water in y towns has been polluted, while beds of creeks are covered with aying fish. The drought in the then and1 cenral portions of Illi s is not any s,nore seriou~s than it nWisconsin. The Badger State ~iteraly burning up, and the fruit crops are nearly destroyed. Rie ts from northwestern lowa z'ate 1.the drought has been broken in hat section." A Cute Politician. From the Chicago .>cS. ~ovenor Hughes, of Arkansas, s two suits of clothes a year reg ly from Georgia, the material ng woven .and ihis clothes being .le up in that State. He has just cived his summer outfit from the ober State. It is made of checked tonade, and fits nicely. Senator ;e, who was present when the thes came, said : "If his excel cy will grant me the loan of that t next year I will carry two dis ts instead of one." Really? Orangeurg Times and Democrat. t makes us feel tired to hear an 1 home" print paper, gotten up in aded long primer" regardless of >ense, eternally prating about te matter and patent outsides.. ny of these papers. wou.ld be atly improved if they would adopt Datet oantside and then fill up niaid with plate matter. RAILROAD RACKET. Pushing the Work on the Three C's A Business Visit from Officials. Special to 'escs and Courier. CAMDEN, June 29.-Your correS )ondent last night had an interesting that with Col. R. A. Johnson, of Bos on, the superintendent, and Col. Uattison, of Tennessee, the chief en ineer of the Charleston, Cincinnati nd Chicago Railroad. The object f the visit by these gentlemen was o locate a depot, freight house and nachine shops, and to settle with Mr. . S. -Netties for the right of way for he road through his place. The rep ,esentative of the railroad company Lt Camden being absent, the money $500) was left with Intendent Dunlap ill his return, when the necessary >apers will be signed and the money ,aid to Mr. Nettles. The location for the depot and hops have not been decided upon, o your correspondent, being request d to keep mum. by Col. Johnson, ron't even mention the lands which hey have in view, and about which he terms are being settled. Col. ohnson thinks the road will be run ing from Black's to Camden by ebruary 1, though Col. Mattison binks it will be safer to say March . The contracts with Smith and tipley for the road-bed requires the r ork to be finished by January 1, ut more time will be allowed, as the ontractors have been delayed una oidably. As soon as the road is finished to amden the work will be immediate y pushed in the direction of Sumter, o Camden is certain to have a com eting line to Charleston. Track aying from Camden northward will ommence as soon as the road-bed is eady through Mr. Nettles's place, chich, according to Col. Mattison, ill not be more than five weeks. 'here is now $150,000 worth of iron .t the South Carolina Railway depot or the "Three C's" Road, and Col. fohnson says that ought to be enough o make the people believe that the oad is a certainty. Evidently Col. Johnson has been earing some grumbling about the )onds for the road and other dissat sfaction from the people. He says ie is certtain that the time will come vhen he and his colleagues will be onsidered public benefactors. These ,wo gentlemen left in a carriage this norning to take a trip up the line of -oad. )RGAIZING IMPROVEMENT COMPA NIES. EDGEFIELD, June 27-Senator But er has lately been to Alexandria Va., where he, with Gen. Rosser and other >rominent Southern and Northern nen, have organized two financial :ompanies, one known as the "New 3outh Mining and Improving Coin pany," and the other as the "Virginia Mining Company." Both of these :opanies were chartered by the last Virginia Legislature, and are inti nately connected with the Charles on,Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad. rhe Virginia company hold 100,000 icres of land, which is supposed to ~over a vast region of coal, and bhrough the centre of which the Three 's is to run. This large area of and lies in the States of Virginia id Kentucky. The capital stock of he companies is said to be $5,000, )0, and their object is to develop his coal region. I r.m informed that 225 miles of the Three C's, which in .ts entirety of length will be 600 niles, is now under contract for uilding, to be completed by Janu mrv next. THE MAGNLTIC LINE. Two large new engines have ar -ived at Black's for the use of the harleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Road. They weigh forty-five tons each and are named "Rutherford" id "Cleveland." Another engine soon to arrive will be called "York." Chief Engineer W~atson objects to e abbreviation "Three G's" for the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Road, arnd wants it called the "Mag n.etic Line." Col. P. P. Dickinson, who has just gone over the line of the Three C's Road, says that the road bed is the nest he ever saw on a new road. Fifteen new freight cars, with a ca pacity of 10,000 pounds each, have been received at Black's for use on the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chi cago Road, between Black's and Rutherfordton. Previous to the arrival of the new equipments the Three C's Road re turned for taxation two passenger coaches, one baggage car, two boox oa's, twelve fiat cars, seven hand cars and nine push cars. The completed track from Black's to Rutherfordtonl is forty-three and three-fifths miies of ai track and one mile of side track, Four miles are in South Carolina, twenty-one in Cleveland and eighteen and three fifths in Rutherford. The assessment in South Carolina is $5. 000 per mile. The Kershaw Gazette says: "It is probable that the amount paid out for railroad work in this county dur ing the present week will reach at least $15,000." A TALK WITH SENATOR BUTLER. All Sorts of Political News and Gossip IDformally Discussed. From the Baltimore Sun. WASINGToN, June 27.-Senator Butler, of South Carolina, is here to meet some Boston gentlemen who are interested in the construction of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chi cago Railroad. He called at the White House to-day with Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, and the two Southern Senators were in consulta tion with the President for some time. Senator Butler remarked, af ter leaving the Executive Mansion, that he believed it was pretty well settled that Secretary Lamar is to go upon the Supreme Court bench, and that Senator Colquitt will be come a member of the Cabinet, in charge of the interior department. In the event of Senator Colquitt retiring from the Senate, Governor Gordon, will probably succeed him. Senator Butler stated that he bad received no inside information on this subject, but these impressions he had gath ered incidentally. He was asked if he knew anything about the rumor that an attempt is being made to form an organization, composed prin cipally of Southern Democrats, to prevent the renomination of President Cleveland. The Senator said he had conversed with nearly every South ern Congressman at present in Wash-, ington, but none of them had men tioned the subject to him. A report was circulated to-day to the effect that a circular had been issued pro posing an organized movement on the part of certain Democratic Con gressmen to prevent the renomination of Cleveland at all hazards. The Senator laughed at the report as ab surd. He was informed that the presence of so many Southern Con gressmen in this city just now had perhaps given rise to the report above mentioned. To this he replied that he had learned from Senator Vest himself the latter hvas passing through Washington on his way to Montano, and only stopped over to attend to some private business. Senator Hampton is here fitting out for a fishirag excursion to Canada. Senator Ransom is here to look after certain North Carolina appointments in which he is interested. Sereotor Colquitt is also bere to attend to cer tain private business, and the same may be said of several other South ern Congressmen now here. Good Reasons. Greenrile News. Some newspaper with imagination of special daring and a cheek of ada mantine construction has spread abroad a story that Dana, of the New York Sun'and Pallitzer, of the World, who have been blackguarding each other vehemently, have gone to Eu rope to fight a duel. We are ready to bet all that we can possibly beg, borrow or earn that they will not fight 1-Because it would not pay; 2-Because they are afraid; 3-Because each has a repugnance to giving deen people the pleasure of seeing him kill the other; 4-Because' Dana is too fat and too old and Pullitzer is too thin and young. One would never reach the ground and the other could not by any device or possibility be kept on it; 5-Because neither of the two has a principle he would defend at the cost of half a dollar. We know other reasons, but these will do begin with. The Fearful Deeds of a Drunken Father and Husaand. MORRIsTow N, N. J., July 1.-John Wilson of Chatham, near Morristown, was an habitual drunkard and brute, Last night he went home drunk and gave his wife a beating before he went to bed. This morning he woke up surly, and becomming enraged at his little daughter shot at her with a double-barrelled shotgun, but missed is aim and the child escape. The wife remonstrated with him whereup on he fired at her, shooting her through the heart. Mrs. Wilson started to run out through the rear door, but fell in her tracks and immediately expired. Being thoroughly frenzied, Wilson reloaded his gun and placing it to the side of his head blew out. his brains.