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THE ELEMENTS IN A RAGE.
Blizzard, Tornado and Flood Rival Each
Other-Brownsville, Tennessee, Swept
by a Storm that Unroofs and De
stroys Stores and Residences.
MEMPHIS, TENN., February 26.
Brownsville, Tenn., six miles North
east of Memphis, on the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, was struck by a
cyclone at 4a. m., yesterday. Half the
business houses of the town were un
roofed and many were materially dam
aged, while several buildings were
totally destroyed. the cotton compress
was unroofed, the Northern Methodist
church was demolished and a brick
mill was unroofed. It next struck the
handsome building of the Brownsville
Savings Bank. The roof was picked
off and fell to the ground with a tre
mendous crash. Three squares of
buildings across the street, just north
of the bank, were unroofed except the
house of J. P. Phillips & Co. Only one
residence is reported as having been
damaged, that of Mrs. S. A. Baynes, in
Washington street.
Just following the cyclone came a
great flood of rain that completely
drenched the goods in the compresses.
The loss aggregates $50,000. The only
loss of life is that of a woman, about
tbree miles from Brownsville, who was
struck by falling trees and instantly
killed. Her two children were severely
injured.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
MEMPHIS, February 26.-A wind
storm of cyclone proportions, accom
panied by hail and rain, swept over
this section of country yesterday, doing
an immense amount of damage to
property and causing the loss of at
least one life. The storm in Memphis
was severe, but no material damage
was done.
Brownsville, Tenn., fifty-six miles
Northeast of this city, was the worst
sufferer so far reported. The storm
struck the town while its inhabitants
slept and had done its terrible work
before the real situation was realized.
It came from a Southwesterly direc
tion and was preceded by a rumbling
noise, which lasted a few seconds, and
then burst upon the town in appalling
fury.
The Jewish synagogue, Methodist
church, Baptist female college and the
op - courthouse were also unroofed and
otherwise damaged. The only life re
ported lost is that of Mrs. James Cooper,
wife of an engineer. A tree fell across
her house, crushing it in, killing her
and badly injuring two of her children.
ARKANSAS TOWNS DAMAGED.
MEMPHIS, February 26.-At Mari
anna, Ark., a new Christian church
was completely demolished, Bessar's
cotton shed was blown away, and the
roofs of several other buildings were
lifted off. About three miles west of
town a negro school,house, with sixty
five children in it,M;as blown from its
foudaton,but no one was hurt.
White river, at Biatesville, Ark., rose
fie feet in a fen hours, washing away
culverts and .lelaying trains badly.
Three houses were blown down near
the river side, and several buildings
fiattened out in the southeastern part
of the co::nty.
Thy'Hot Springs observatory, which
has 'tood for several years on the sum
mKit of Hot Springs mountain, and
irom whose windows thousands of vis
itors have viewed the surrounding
country, was levelled to the ground by
the gale. The storm played havoc
with the entire country botween Hot
Springs and the Onachita River. Many
farm houses were torn to atoms, and
the path of tha storm is one -mass of
wrecked timber.
Large trees were uprooted, and many
places the roads are completely blocked
by fallen timber. It is not yet known
whether any lives were lost, but that
there were is more than probable,
* owing to the destruction of so many
farm houses.
Considerable damage was done to
buildings and fences at Little Rock,
and at Alexander, near that place, a
school house was blown down and nine
children were injured.
WISCONSIN ROBED IN WHITE.
OSHKoSH, WiscoNSIN, Feb. 2.5.
Yesterday afternoon a blizzard of great
violence swept down upon this city.
In less than half an hour three inches
C of snow had fallen, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that the street ears
could be moved. The storm is by far
the worst for years. The effect will be
keenly felt in the lumber camps, where
the snow is already so deep that log
ging operations are carried on with
difficulty.
WATERTOWN, W%Vis., February 26.
Tbe most violent snow storm in two
years raged here yesterday and last
night. The snow is accompanied with
fierce winds from the north, and the
rmerd'ury is lowering rapidly. The
roads are also drifted badly, and the
*railroads are blocked to some extent.
A TORNADO IN ILLINOIS.
CARBoNDALE, ILL , February 26.
Monday night this place was visited by
the heaviest rainfall that has occurred
for the last fifteen years. It rained in
cessantly until noon yesterday. The
lowlands are inundated, and this will
interfere with railroad travel.
A tornada at Bainbridge, fifteen
miles east of here, completely demol
ished thbe residence of J. Snider. There
were several inmates in the d welling,
and all were injured, but none fatally.
Several buildings were blown from
their foundations and badly damaged.
AN OVERFLOW OF THE OHIO INEVI
TABLE.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, February 26.
'Al the elements of a disastrous flont
in the Ohio River seem to be now
present. Continu'.us wet weather has
saturated the earth so that the exces
sive rainfalls of the past three or four
days have all found their outlet in the
tributaries of the river. Along the en
I tire valley of the Ohio the rainfall has
been enormous. From the Kentucky
side the Big Sandy River comes with a
boom almost unparalleled, while the
Kanawha River further up also pours
its swelling volume. The Scioto, Hock
ing, Muskingum, in Ohio, as well as
the two Maimis, keep the River's bed
full, while the rise is coming -down
from the head waters. The rise since
9 a. n. yesterday for the twenty-four
hours is over seven feet, and guage
now shows forty-nine six inches in the
channel. About five feet more will be
gin to interfere with railroad traffic,
and every inch after that will increase
that trouble as well as endangering
great quanties of goods in all the bot
tom portion of the city. A flood is in
evitable. Its proportion depends upon
the weather of the next few days.
There are already disturbances of
river navigation, as steamers cannot
pass under the suspension bridge. The
steamer Sherlock, for New Orleans, is
compelled, on that account, to defer
her departure until the water falls. At
Hamilton, Ohio, the Big Miami was
higher last night than it has been for
ten years. Water had entered the
Straub House, one of the provincial
hotels, and many houses were sub
merged in part.
THE FLOOD AT COLUMBUS.
COLUMBUs, OIio, February 26.-The
water in Scioto River did not reach the
point of damage until 2 o'clock this
morning, when the river broke into
the canal below the city, and the water
covered a vast expanse of lowlands.
The principal damage will be to the
banks of the Columbus feeder of the
Ohio Canal. Some of the manufacto
ries along the river were temporarily
disabled by the water pouring in on the
machinery, but no extensive damage
has been reported.
A BLIZZARD IN IOWA.
MASON CITY, IoWA, Feb. 2.-A
blizzard set in yesterday, covering the
entire northern part of the State. The
thermometer marks zero, and all
trains are d&,ayed.
DAMAGE To PERSON AND PROPERTY.
CINcINNATI, Feb. 26.-In many
places the heavy rainfall was attended
with high wind. At Keathley, Tenn.,
a bank building belonging to Winslow,
Fisher & Baird was blown to pieces.
Thirty-five persons were in the build
ing at the time, of whom six were more
oi- less injured, but none fatally. Geo.
Kitchener, of Lowell, Mass., had his
head and thigh bruised; O. E. Cross, of
Proctorville, Vt., had his right thigh
crushed; Geo. Thatcher, of Middles
boro, had an arm broken; Dr. Hudgins,
of Knoxville, Tenn., was severely in
jured in the eyes and had bothb legs and
an arm broken.
HEAVY RAINS THROUGHOUT KEN
TUcKY.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 26.-Heavy rains
are reported throughout the State. At
Frankfort the Kentucky River is ris
ing very rapidly and great loos is re
ported.
At Marion, Ky., there was a severe
wind storm. The Court House was
unroofed and partly blown down, rnd
the records badly damaged. The Op
era House was unroofed and several
big houses were more or less injured.
Several dwellings were damaged and
Mrs. Bell's was badly injured by fall
ing timbers. An enormous body of
earth, including several acres of the
surface of a hill which rises abruptly
from the Ohio River on the Kentucky
side, opposite Lawrenceburg, Ind.,
slipped into the river yesterday with a
frightful sound.
THE OUTLOOK ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 27.-The unusual
rainfall over the entire water shed of
the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and
their tributaries since last Saturday
bodes no good to the lowland country
not protected by levees, and in the
Yazoo delta and Tensas basins. Along
the Yazoo, from below Greenville, it is
stated that the levees will stand against
three feet of additional rise, and it is
probable that their strength will bE
tested before the present flood passes
there.
The worst is feared for the newly
constructed levees along the Tensas
basin, especially those near and abovE
Lake Providence and across the fool
hills of Chicot County, Ark., all o:
which have been recently built.
Major Starling, engineer for the low
er Mississippi levee district, anticipates
that the levees in Arkansas will givi
way and relieve the pressure on th<
Mississippi side.
ln Mississippi the Louisville, New~
Orleans and Texas Railroad is co-oper
ating with the levee board and has
concentrated men at convenient piaces
and sent themr to the scenes of dlange:
at all hours. Major Starling has in
structed his assistants to increas5 thei:
force, strengthen all weak places an<
prepare for more water.
The outlook in the section througl
which the Ohio and Arkansas river
pass is not encouraging. Both stream
are rising fast, and People along thei
banks have taken advantage of th
timely notice sent out by the signa
serice and moved their stock to place
of safety. The river at this pointi
still falling, but will probably Conme t
a stand by to-morrow.
CINCINNATI APPREHENSIVE.
INCINNxATI, Feb. 27-Tne rainfa
here during the twelve hours, endin
at S o'clock to-night was one-sixteent
Louisvillo. The river has been rising
here since 7 o'clock at the rate of an
inch an hour, and at 10 o'clock to
night it was fifty-five feet one inch and
a half, and still rising steadily.
The Western railway's passenger
stations to-morrow will be the Ohio
and Mississippi, Cincinnati, Hamiltbn
and Dayton and McLeah avenue
depots. At these the various roads
already driven from the Central depot
will receive and deliver their passen
gers. .
A storm reported central about Nash
ville, Tenn.. at this writing, 11 o'clock,
is causing grave apprehension here
among men who have property and
business interests in the lowlands of
the city.
If the precipitation in the next
twenty-four hours shonld be as great
in the Ohio Valley as it has been at
Memphis and Nashville from the
storm approaching here from that di
rection, it will doubtless cause a third
great flood. In that case the river
would be at its maximum about Tues
day or Wednesday of next week. The
situation at this writing has a danger
ous look.
EARL RUSSELL'S BRIDE.
Wooed and Won in the Disguise of a Me
chanic.
Loanoa, Feb. 24.-The young Coun
tess Russell is now recovered and the
happy pair have proceeded on their
honeymoon. There is a romantic story
connected with their marriage which
runs thus: Earl Russell is a partner. in
the electrical works at Teddington,
near the house in which Lady Scott
lives, and is an inthusiastic worker in
the business, which he constantly su
pervises. Lady Scott ordered- some
electrical fittings at the works and
Lord Russell took a gang of men over
to the house and set to work, dressed
in ordinary mechanic fashion as fore
man of the gang.
When lunch time came the men
were set down to refresh themselves in
the servants' hall, and his Lordship
sat down quietly with the rest to eat.
However, "Baby" Scott, as the
young heiress of the house was called,
had noticed the superior bearing and
manners of the supposed young fore
man, and, in a willful way, begged her
mother to ask him to lunch in the
parlor.
At first the old lady was indignant
at the idea of bringing a mere paid
foreman into a position of temporary
equality, but in the end gave way to
"Baby's" pleading, and the supposed
workman was promoted to the upper
chamber, where he made himself so
much at home that he won the heart
of the young lady, who, in a romantic
mood, suffered the handsome young
mechanic to whisper soft nothings in
her ear wbile she blushed responsively.
Clandestine meetings followed, with
the usual result. The young couple
nmet, loved and were plighted before
Lady Scott was aware of the da:ugh
ter's rash folly. When a rumor of the
state of things reached the maternal
ear her ladyship hurried off to the
electrical work on vengeance bent and
inQuired of the first man she met for
the audacious young foreman.
"Foreman, my lady!" answered the
workman. "Bless your 'art, my lady,
that warn't no bloomnin' foreman;
that's our master."
"Then your master is a very impu
dent, presuming fellow," cried her
ladyship, in a rage. "What's his
name?"
"H'earl Russell, my lady. and a
right down good one he is, too, and
knows his trade as if he weren't no
lord at all, but a real knight of labor."
The old lady was thunderstruck, and
the next time the Earl met his loved
one he was gently reproached with his
stratagem. The Earl excused himself.
on the old plea that he wanted to be
loved for himself alone, without the,
glamor of rank and riches.
The maiden coyly asked him if he
was convinced of her truth. He an
swered in the affirmative and together,
they faced the mother, who received
them graciously, protesting that she
had seen his native nobility through
he coarse disguise of fustian jaclket.
Then came a formal betrothal, then
the wedding, afterwards the accident
and now the honeymoon.
A Prohibition Ticket in Rhode Island.
PRovx DENCE, February 26.--The
State Prohibitio~nists put in nominad
ion the following ticket to-day: Gov
ernor, the Rev. John Larry; Lieut.
Governor, Joshua C. Brown; Secretary
of State, John WV. Mooney; Attorney
General, John T. Blodgett; General
Tresurer, John P. Hazard.
They Certainly DIsappeared.
! From the Pittsburg Dispatch .1
M ot her: "Willie, where are the dried
pears that were in the pantry?"
W Xillie: "All gone, mamma."
Mother: "I know that, you naughty
child. Did you eat them?"
WiXXillief.boldiy:] "How could I, when
it says on the box, 'Evaporated Fruit?'
Guess they must 'vaporated 'fore I
jcould get 'em."
Child Gored by a Bull..
[From the News and Courier.]
AUGUSTA, Ga., February 27.-At
Johnston, S. C., yesterday morning,
Mariania Gregg, the four-year-old
daughter of Mr. S. L. Ready,was gored
by a Jersey bull, receiving injuries fromr
tthe effects of which she died.
THE ARIZONA DAM DIASTER.
A Messenger Sent to Warn People of the
D.nger Gets Drunk and Neglects His
Duty.
PRESCoTr, Arizona, Feb. 24.-Two
prospectors, Moses and Robert Moore,
who have arrived from Upper Walnut
Grove dam, give the following particu
lars of the late diaster:
"We up to Hassayampa prospecting,
and passed a number of parties on the
way who must inevitably have been
lost. Thursday we arrived at the dam.
Friday morning the water in the dani
wes rising at the rate of eighteen
inches an hour, with all the sluices
opened. SuperintendentThomas Brown
had fifteen men employed all day in
blasting out a waste water way, to
allow the escape of water. Despite the
immense volume which went through
the passage, the water continued to rise
until 9 o'clock at night, when it began
to pour over the dam. In the afternoon.
Superintendent Brown, seeing the dam
must inevitably give way, sent a mes
senger to the lower dam to notify them
of the danger, but he stopped at a sa
loon on the road, and, becoming intoxi
cated, failed to deliver the message.
Next morning another messenger was
sent, but was overtaken and drowned
by the flood just as he neared the lower
camp. About midnight we were warned
by Brown calling;to his foreman, 'Get
up Phil, I think the dam has broken.'
Soon after there was a tremendous roar
which was indescribable, and we arose
and looking out saw the water rushing
out of the dam. Inside of two hours it
had disappeared entirely from where it
was from sixty to'ninety feet deep.
Francis M. Parker was one of the
men rescued from a perilous position
about daybreak. Parker and his part
ners had gone to bed. When he was
awakened he heard one of his partners
exclaim, "My God! what was that?"
He (Parker) never saw them again. He
was caught up by the water and was
lifted to'the roof of the cabin, where
he clung to the rafters until the cabin,
after floating around, wasdriven against
a bluff, where. he seized some bushes
and drew himself up on the cliff.
One man was seen to start for a
place of-safety, and seeing escape was
impossible, bravely turned his face to
the flood and was swept away.
Another man was seen going up a
steep hill and had reached a point about
fifty feet above the level of the river
bank, when a mighty volume of water
struckand killed him.
Outside towns are supplying all
needed.necessaries.
A MOST BEARKABLE DUEL.
Nee and Archer, Both- Drunk. Have Only
One Pistol, and Take Tdras as Firing.
KEYSER, W. Va., Feb. 24.-The new
mining town of Elkins, on ex-United
States Senator Davis's new railroad,
was the scene of a duel last night pos
sessing some remarkable ph;ases. James
Nee, a coal miner, and a carpenter
named Archer, fast friends, went on a
~big drunk together Saturday after
drawing their pay, and continued the
spree over until Sunday. That evening
they went to Mirs. Wise's saloon, where
they had been frequent patrons during
the carouse, and getting into a dispute
with the woman, drove her out of the
house.
They then proceeded to wreck the in
terior of the saloon, smashing glasses,
windows and mirrors and breaking the
furniture.
While thus engaged, Nee accidentally
hit Archer and the two men quarreled
and had a rough and tumble fight.
This did not,. satisfy them and they
agreed to fight a duel. There was but
one revolver between them, and with
drunken gravity they agreed that the
pistol should should be used turn about,
the shots to .be fired while the met
stood at opposite ends of the barroom.
The choice for first shot fell to Arch.
er, and Nee taking his place at the
other end of the room, Archer blazed
away. The bullet struck Nee in th4
head, ploughing a furrow along the
scalp and causing a profuise hemor
rhage.
When Nee came to shoot he wam
blinded by blood and so nervous frorr
the effects of the shot that he could nol
aim, the result was a miss, and Arche:
then took asecond shot, but also missed
and handed over -the revolver to Nei
for a second shot..
By this time a crowd had been at
tracted to the saloon, but no one ha(
courage enough to enter. The men re
fused to pay.any attention to calls t<
desist, and Nee fired at Archer, shoot
Ing him through the hand. He tool
the gun to Archer for a fifth shot, bu
before it could be fired the crowd rushe<
in, grabbed the revolver and put
stop to the desperate proceedings.
Neither of the wounds inflicted is a
all serious.
The Comning Meehanie.
(Scientific American.j
The coming mechanic, bred in train
ing schools, will be a very different ma:
from the mechanic of the present. Evei
the young mechanic who is now learn
ing in the shop will, in some importan
respects, be at a disadvantage when h
comes into contant and competitio:
with the young mechanic who is nos
in the school. The shop graduate ma;
be "practical" with the added advan1
age of wide theoretical knowledge. Th
shop graduate may beableto do all th
work planned or designed for him, an
the school graduate will be able n<
only to do the.work, but also to do tb
planning and the designing. In ever
way the school graduate will have a
the good points of the shop graduati
with added good points due to widi
information, while he will lack most <
Stand from Under.
[New York Herald.]
A great deal of Northern capital has
gone into the Sonthern States in the
last half-dozen years; and there is not
a week now that one does not read re
ports of new enterprises in the South
under Northern control and manage
ment and set up with the help of North
ern capital.
We have a word of warning to give
t:) the owners of these many millions
of Northern capital invested in South
ern enterprises, and of other millions
ready to be invested in the same region.
The profitableness of such enter
prises depends upon the continuance of
peace and order in the Southern States.
Under the rule of Mr. Arthur, and still
more under that of Mr. Cleveland,
peace and order did obtain in these
States. Confidence in the stability of
things down there drew many millions
of Northern capital into those States.
They are rich in a great variety of un
developed resources; they have an
abundant and sufficiently capable la
boring force. Given good order and
the Northern ventures in those States
will continue to be, for years, uncom
monly profitable; and there will be for
a long time to come great inducements
for more Northern capital and enter
prise in that half of the Union.
So far all has gone well down there.
No complaints are heard from the
Northern men who have gone into the
South with capital to engage in useful
and developing enterprises. They are
welcomed; they find other capital safe
ly and very profitably invested; they
have no fault to find with the local
laws; the taxes are low; their property,
be it in mines or mills or factories, is
secure.
But we warn the owners of these
many millions of Northern capital em
ployed in the South that this happy
and satisfactory condition may not
last much longer. The Republican
managers in Washington have de
termined, as a desperate partisan ex
pedient, to fling Southern affairs and
interests into confusion and disorder.
They have agreed on policies intended
to set the the two races in violent oppo
sition to each other all over the South.
They are getting ready laws which, as
sure as they are enacted, will plunge
the whold South into a condition which
every one will see is fatal to all legiti
mate business enterprises.
Already all over the South is felt the
ground swell which foretells the com
ing storm. The proposed Republican
Legislation for Federal control of elec
tions in the Southern States means, as
the negroes as well as the whites under
stand, and attempt to make the most
ignorant and corrupt part of the negro
I population rulers over the whites in
States, counties and townships. In all
I parts of the South negro demagogues,
excited by the promise of Republican
legislation, are raising their heads with
new hopes of mastery. They have the
votes, and the Republicans in Congress,
they believe, will enact laws under
which the solid negro vote in all the
black country shall once more, as in
the reconstruction times, control the
offices, lay and spend the local and
State taxes, and begin a new career of
robbery, lawlessness and demoraliza
tion.
The beginnings of the great upheaval
are already seen in tbe increase of in
cendiary fires in several Southern
States since the Republican programme
became known, in the frequest assas
sinations of peaceable and orderly
white men, and in a sensible increase
of violence and disorder and crime be
tween the races.
Watching these things carefully we
are bound to warn Northern capitalists
to "stand from under." Unless North
ern public opinion makes itself heard,
as it did in the latter carpet bag days,
against this republican programme,
the party in power in both houses will
make laws and the party managers
will require policies from the Execu
tive which will so excite the negro
demogogues in the South as to produce
in all these States collisiens between
the races which are sure to result in
incendiarism, pillage, murder and a
general and total disorganization of the
negro population.
The Republican managers do not care
for the negro, but they see no hope of
carrying another Presidential election
unless they can once more, in the old
Mississippi steamboat way, "put a nig
ger on the safety valve." They care
nothing for the general interests of the
country; they care nothing for its pros
perity-they care only for power, and
as has been shown in the House of
Representatives already they will do
and dare everything to keep them
83lves in power.
It is for Northern public opinion by
vigorous and timely protests to drive
them from their evil and unscrupnl.us
designs.
A Mooniess Month.
[Golden Days.]
-The nionth of February, 1886, was in
one respect the most remarkable in the
oworld's history. It had no full moon,
January had two full moons, and se
Shad March, but February had none.
Do you realize what a rare thing ir
enature that 'was? It had not occurred
since the time of Washington, nor eines
the discovery of America, nor since
the beginning of the Christian era, noi
the creation of the world. And it wil
Snot occur again, according to the comn
.putation of astronomers, for- -how long
fdolyou think?-2,500,000Oyears. Was no
that a truly wonderful month?
Wealth Increase--It's Form.
[New York Bulletin.]
At the end of every year there comes
the question, "What has become of the
results of the year's production?"
It is said that the nation is adding to
its wealth a thousand million yearly;
in what form? It is not in monetary
circulation. It is not in claims against
other countries or ownership of proper
ty there. The crops of the year we
shall presently consume, or if part is
to be sold abroad, the goods to be re
ceived in exchange will presently be
consumed. Where is the additional
wealth of -which we boast? Is it only
in a higher valuation of lands and
buildings and other fixed property-a
valuation which may be lost with the
next turn of the wheel?
These questions are not as childish
as to many they may seem. It is of no
smal: iwportance to discover what form
the added wealth of the nation takes,
so that we niay judge how far it is solid
and lasting, and capable of reproduc
tion. For if all the lands of the country
were worth $10,000,000,000 a year ago,
and $11,000,000,000 now, but can pro
duce no more, the added wealth is im
aginary. Or if there has been added
within a few years $2,000,000,000 to the
nominal value of railroad property,
without any increase in the yearly
earning power, what actual gain in
wealth is there?
The foundation of prosperity is the
land, and every year witnesses an ac
tual increase in the number of acres
reduced to cultivation and productive
ness. That change means increased
wealth. From 1870 to 1880 there were
added of improved land about 96,000,.
000 acres, or more than fifty per cent.,
and there is every reason to believe
that the progress in that respect has
been even more rapid during the past
decade. But the addition of fifteen mil
lion acres of improved land every year
involves permanent investment of labor
in clearing, fencing, breaking and road
building, in the erection of houses and
barns, and the procurement of stock
and implements and machinery. The
new railroad, which may not pay a
single dollar to owners as yet, may
nevertheless have made possible and
profitable this enormous expenditure
of labor in the creation of new farms,
and if the fifteen million acres yearly
were worth no more than the average
of land in 1880, that alone would rep
resent an addition of four hundred mil
lions or more to the national wealth
each year, even though nothing had
been added to the price of land pre
viously cultivated. But the completion
of the roads. and railroads, the settle
ment of other lands near by, and the
gradual development of a community,
also add largely to the actual as well as
the nominal value of all farm property
within the circle of influence.
So it is wvith the dwellings and other
structures in cities and towns. The
country is not worse, but better sup
plied with all such structures than it
was ten years ago. But that means an
increase more than proportionate to
population, and the yearly addition of
1,700,000 inhabitants, even if there were
no improvement in the condition and
accommodations of the people, would
by itself require additional investment
yearly of three hundred and forty mil
lions or more in buildings.
Property of that kind contributes as
truly as any other to the wealth-pro
ducing power of the country; dwellings
no less than stores, or warehouses, or
factories. But in addition there has
been each year an enormous addition
to the manufacturing plant, apart from
the buildings otherwise estimated; to
the machinery in use and its produc
tive capacity. It is not so easy to form
even an approximate estimate of .the
value of these additions, but every one
realizes that they must be large. M~ore
over new mines are constantly opened,
which add millions every year to the
production; the new mines in the Lake
Superior dist.iict alone, which have
been added within the past five years,
have increased the production more
than 4,008,000 tons each year, in value
$20,000,000.
MR. CLEVELAN D SELLS "0.1K VIEW,"
Realizing a Clear Profit Thereon of About
$100,000.
WVASHINGTON, February 27.--The
Evening Star this afternoon says that
F. G. Newlands, represonting what is
known as the "California Syndicate,"
which has recently miade some exten
sive purchases of suburban real estate,
adjoiniug the city on the Northwest,
has purchased from ex-President Cleve
land his country place on the Tennal
lytown road, near the city, known as
"Oak View." The price paid for the
house and about 29 acres of land was
8140,000. The property was purchased
by Mr. Cleveland about four years ago,
and, with the improvements since
made, cost him about $32,000. Mr.
Cleveland is said to have realized on
this sale a clear profit of about $100,
030.
John Jacob Astor's WVill.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Mr Astor's
will was filed for probate to-day. It
covers only two and a half sheets of
parchment. By the terms of the will
St. Luke's Hospital receives $100,000,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art $.50,
000, the Astor Library $450,000, Alex
ander Hamilton $30,004). and James
t Simmons Armstrong $30,000. All the
rest residue and remiainder of his estate
goes to his son, William Waldorf
Astor. rhe executors are Win. Waldori
A RE3fARKABLE SALE OF TOWN LOTS.
Chattanooga Wild Over the Proposed Pro
hibition City of Harriman.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., February 26.
-The sale of lots at the new prohibi
tion town of Harriman on the Cincin
nati Southern Railroad, owned by the
East Tennesse Land Company, of
which Clinton B. Fiske is president,
came off to-day. It was one of the most
remarkable ever known in this 3oun
try.
The town is laid off in an old field
and there are not half a dozen houses
in the place, but the lots sold for an
average of $2G per front foot and two
hundred and twenty-three lots were
sold. Four thousana people were pres
ent, thirty-four States in the Union
being represented. The company to
day appropriated $1,000,000 for streets,
water and lights and improvements of
the town site.
$40 A FItONT FOOT.
CHATTANOOGA, February 27.-Four
thousand people are wildly clamoring
for lots at the new town of Harriman,
fifty miles north of this city, on the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad.
At the sale yesterday 278 lots were
sold for $150,000. To-day 100 more lots
were sold for $350,000, making the total
sales for two days $500,000. Lots sold to
day for as much as $210 a front foot.
The excitement is great. The town is
as yet a barren field, with a score or
more of temporary frame shanties. It
is as yet all on paper, but the crowd of
boomers, investors and speculators
seemed to be .assured that quite a city
will soon be there. The sale continues
to-morrow. Lots were knocked down
on tbe first bid in rapid succession, the
promoter of the town expressing a de
sire to keep down reckless prices, but
to no avail.
A NOVELTY FOR IOWA.
The Inauguration of a Democratic Gov
ernor after Many Years of Republican
Misrule.
DES MOINES, IA., February 27.-The
inauguration of Governor Boies this
afternoon was carried out with great
enthusiasm among the Democrats.
Visitors had come from all over the
State and from other States, the most
noteworthy being the St. Joseph, Mo.,
Jefferson Club, 450 strong, and the
Cook County Democracy of Chicago,
250 strong. The inaugural procession
was formed at the Savery House and
marched to the Capitol.
The galleries were crowded when the
Gubernatorial party entered the hail of
the House of Representatives, where
both branches of the Legislature were
in joint session. The oath of office was
administered to the Governor and
Lieutenant Governor-elect, and Gover
nor Boies then read his inaugural ad
dress.
In his inaugural address the Gover
nor takes strong ground in favor of
carefully guarded high license and of a
secret ballot. A considerable portion of
the message is devoted to the tariff, and
the present high protective tariff is
condemned.
The Hottest February.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Weather
reports from the. South Atlantic an$
East Gulf States indicate that one of
the warmest,.periods of which there is
any record during the month of Febru
ary occurred over that section yester
day and to-day. The following are the
maximum temperatures of Tuesday, at
selected stations, with their relation to
the highest temperatures ever observed
during February, viz: Washington
City, 72 degrees, six degrees below; Wil
mington, 78, two degrees below; Nor
folf, 78, three degrees below; Lynch
burg, 72, t wo below; Augusta, 84, two
above; Charlotte, 78, two above; At
lanta, 76, one above; Montgomery, 80,
one below; Savannah, 80, one below.
The highest recorded temperature dur
ing February at Washington City, 78
degrees, occurred in 1874.
Lexington Cotton Mill.
[Special to the News and Courier.j
LEXINGTON, February 24.-A meet
ing of the stockholders of the Lexington
Manufacturing Company was held to
night ill the Court House, and after
adopting by-laws for the government
of the company the following board of
directors was elected: C. M. Efird, W.
P. Roof, WV. J. Assmann, S. 0.
Kaminer, Allen Jones and H. A.
Meetze.
It was decided that the monthly pay
ments begin on March 1. It is expected
that work will begin at once and the
mill be in running order by Novem
ber I.
Apologized for His Horse.
United Ireland prints the following
apology:
SCARTEEN, Newmarket, county Cork.
To THE SECRETARY, Meelin Branch,
National League:
DEAR SIR.-I can't express what pain
I felt on learning that my horse had
disgraced himself by working for the
police. Till this misforturne came upon
him there was nothing against the
animal's character that could cause me
to supect he could give the least offence
to the country or in any way becorne
associated with tihe dirty set in Meelin
who are w orking for the government
and tile peelers. I was from home the
day it hiappenled. If he had been at
home my poor horse, believe|me, would
have a clean character to day. I am
sure your League will accept this ex
pression of regret coming from me, who
,am no sycophant. Yours truly,
WILLIAM SULLIVAN.
HAWES HANGED AT LAST.
The Famous Birmingham Butcher Pays
the Penalty of his Crime.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 2S.--At
three minutrs before one oneo'clock
this afternoon Richard R. Hawes was
hanged in the jaii yard in this city.
The hanging was attended with no
extraordinarv circumstances, and aside
from the fearful atrocity of the crime
the hanging would have been in all
respects common place.
Hawes yesterday told oneof his spirit
ual advisers tnat while he never com
mitted the murder himself he was as
guilty as the person who did the killing, -
for he had paid for the work.
HIS HEART ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
And His Stomach for Yor Years Where His
Left Lung Should Have Been.
[New York Sun.]
Deputy Coroner Jenkins made an an
topsy yesterday on the body of Albert
L. Johnson, the inventor, who dropped
dead in the Equitable building on Tues
day Afternoon, and discovered a most
remarkable case of displacement
of the organs of the body. The
heart, which was abnormally fat, had
moved over to the right side of the
chest, the stomach, spleen, pancreas,
and a greater portion of the large and
small intestine had passed up into
the left pleural cavity and consid
erably compressed the left lung. The
heart, besides being displaced, was
compressed. A tree fell on Mr. John
son years ago and his diaphragm wai
ruptured. It is believed that the genr
e.xal displacement of the organs in his
body occurred at that time and had ex
isted ever since.
Death of a Legislator.
LFrom the News and Courier.]
EDGEFTELD, February 21.-Dr. J. H.
Strom died. at his residence in this
place last night at 11 o'clock. A week
ago he was seized with the grip, which
soon developed into pneumonia.
Dr. Strom was one of Edgefield's
worthiest and most sterling farmers
and citizens, and was foremost in all
that pertained to her advancement and
good. He was born .in the Gilgal sec
tion of the county in 1839, and after re
ceiving the educational advantages
afforded by the neighborhood- schools
graduated from the Georgia Medical
College in 1870. He followed, the vo
cation of planting. besides practicing
his profession, and had accumulated a
handsome fortune. He represented
this county in the Legislature in 1889,
and after receiving the educational ad
vantages afforded by the neighborhood
schools graduated from the Georgia
Medical College in 1870. He followed
the vocation of planting, besides prac- =
ticing his profession, and had accumu
lated a handsome fortune. He repre- -
sented this county in the Legislature
in 1880 and 1881, and 1882, and was a
member of the present Legislature. His .
obsequies will be .conducted by. th
Knights of Honor, of which he was a
member, and will take place to-morrbw
morning.
Alliance Officers' Salaries.
The following are the amounts of the
salaries received by the officers of the '
National Alliance and Industrial
Union:
L. L. Polk, president-Salary $3,000
per annum and all expenses, with
$1,000 per annnm for office assistant.
J. H. Turner, Secretary-Salary $2,
000 per annum and all ex.penses.
C. WV. Macune, chairman executive
committee-Salary $2,500 per annum
and all expenses.-..
Evan Jones, chairman judiciary com- -
mittee-Salary nothing and no appro
priation for expenses.
Ben Terrel, lecturer-Salary $3,000
per annum and all expenses, travelling
and otherwise.
Ripe Tonmatoes in February.
[Sumter Advance.]
A friend has sent to our office a
beautifully ripe tomato plucked from
his garden on the 16th instant. The
vine is growing in a corner of the gar
den protected to some extent, We
have seen ripe tomatoes remaining
upon the vines frequently until mid
winter. Why should niot more atten
tion be paid to the preservation of this
most healthy vegetable.
Who Can Join the Alance ?
E. P. Stackhouse, President of the
South Carolina State Alliance, answers Q
the question as follows:
Factory operatives are not eligible to
membership in the Farmers' Alliance
and Industrial Union.
"Country" physicians only are eligi
ble to membership.
The "Clerk of t.he County Court," if
a farmer, or otherwise entitled to mem
bership, is not rendered ineligible be
cause he lives in town.
The man "who keeps stables, and
speculates on horses, mules, hogs, etc.,
is not eligible, although he owns a
farm. -
The fact that town and city mechan
ics are now eligible would not justify
the reception of a "manufacturer" and
"dealer" in buggies, coffins, etc. He
should be regarded as a speculator.
The Theft of Montana.
HELENA, MONT., February 21.-The
Montana Legislature adjourned last
night, having been in session ninety
days and failed to pass a single bill.
.Addresses to the people were issued by
Republican Senators and Democratic
Representatives. It is understood that
Governor Toole will call a special ses
sion to pass appropriation bills alfout
the 1st of May. It is said that the
Governor will recognize the legality of
the election of the five Republican
Rlepresentatives from Silver Bow Coun- ~.
ty if the United States Senate seats
&Sanders and Power. This done, the
deadlock ends and leuislation ma~y
proceed. Magmunis an< Clark have
practically given up the fight, and
will return to Helena in a few days.
Ten'2housand Puneots.
J. W. Nance, a Texan, advertised
last week that he would be at Morfrees
boro, Tenn., on Tuesday of this week
1to buy all the chicken hens he could
get at 25i cents apiece. He came along
in a poultry car capable of containing -
.5,000, ar.d bie had to telegraph for an
other, as there were over 10,000 et
wvaiting for him. The "cluck c eL~ -
of 10,000 congregated throats ce a
bhiggeer sensation than ever Murfrsees~''
bor knew before.