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T)R TALMAGIfS SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Sobject: The Splendors and Glories of Heavenly Life ? A Glimpse of the Kinc's falace?An Impressive HalfHour in Eternity. 1 ? -*- r* T? V,a fAllfm'in" WASHI^iU IVAj u. \j.?Aii tut *vnv.. ...0 discourse, prepared by Dr. Talmngc befort his illness, a vivid glimpse of the splendors and glories of heavenly life is presented; text, Revelation vhi, 1, "There was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." The busiest place in the universe is heaven. It is the centre from which all good influences start; it is the goal at which all good results arrive. The Bible represents it as active with wheels and wings and orchestras and processions mounted or charioted. But my text de? scribes a space when the wheels ceased to roll and the trumpets to sound and the voices to chant. Ihe riders on the white horses reined in their charges. The doxologies were hushed and processions halted. The hand of arrest was upon all the splendor. "Stop heaven!" cried an omnipotent voice, and it stopped. For thirty minutes everything celestial stood still. "There was silence in heaven about the epaee of half an hour." From all we can learn it is the onh time heaven ever sioppea. it uues hoc 6top as other cities for the night, for there is no night there. It does not stop for a plague, tor the inhabitant never savs, "I am sick." It does not stop for bankruptcies, for its inhabitants never fail. It does not stop for impassable streets, for there are no fallen snows or sweeping freshets. What, then, stopped it for thir- i tv minutes? Gvotius and Professor Stuart think it was at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem. Mr. Lord thinks it was in the year 311, between the close of the Diocletian persecution and the beginning 01 the wars by which Constantine gained the throne. But that was all a guess, though a learned and brilliant guess. 1 do not know when it wa3 and I do not care when it was, but of the fact that such an interregnum of sound took place I am certain. "There was silence in heaven about the pace of half an hour." ?--i c_., ?u OT,,i AUUy liiair U1 Ullf ?c icai li iiiaw uvu nuu all heaven then honored silence. The longest and widest domain that ever existed is that over which stillness was queen. For an eternity there had not been a sound. World making was a later day occupation. For unimaginable ages it was a mute universe. God was the onlr being, and as there was no one to speak to there was no utterance. But that silence has all been broken up in to worlds, and it has become a noisy universe. Worlds in upheaval, worlds in congelation, worlds in conflagration, worlds in revolution. If geologists are right?and I believe they arc?there has not been a moment ot silence since this world began its travels, and the crashing and the splitting and the uproar and the hubbub are ever in progress. But when among the supernals a voice cried, "Hush!" and for half an hour heaven was still, silence was honored. The full power of silence manv of us have yet to learn. We are told that when Christ was arraigned "He answered not a word." That silence was louder than anv thunder that ever shook the world. Oftentimes when we are assailed and misrepresented the mightiest thincr to sav is to sav notb ing. and the mightiest thing to do 13 to do nothing. Those people who are always rushing into print to get themselves set right accomplish nothing but their own chagrin. Silence! Do right and leave the results with God. Among the grandest lessons the world has ever learned are the lessons of patience taught by those who endured uncomplainingly personal or domestic or political injustice. Stronger than any bitter or sarcastic oj revengeful answer is the patient silence. ^ot onjy are an me tnumpr.s oi im. past to be commemorated, but all the triumphs to come. Not only what we now know of God, but what we will know of Him after everlasting study of the deific. If my text had said there was silence in heaven for thirty days, I would not have been startled at the announcement, but it indicates thirty minutes. Why, there will be so many friends to hunt up. so many of the greatly good and useful that we will want to see, so many of the iiiscrutable things of earth we will need explained, so many exciting earthly experiences we will want to talk over, and all the other spirits and all the ages will .want the same, that there will be no more opportunity for cessation. ' How busy we will be kept in having pointed out to us the heroes and heroines that the world neve!1 fully appreciated?the yellow fever and cholera doctors who died, not flying from their posts; the female , nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos: the railroad engineers who stayed at their places in order to save the train, though they themselves perished. Hubert Goffin, the master miner, who, land in<? from the bucicet at the bottom ot the mine just as he heard the waters rush in and when one jerk of the rope would have lifted him into safety, put in the bucket a blind miner who wanted to go to his sick child, and jerked the rope for him to be pulled up. crying, "Tell them the water has burst in and we are probably lost, but we will seek refuge at the other end of the right gallery," and then giving the command to the other miners till they digged themselves so near out that the people from the outside could come to their rescue. The multitudes of men and women .who got no crown on earth we will want to see when they get their crown in heaven. I tell you heaven will have no more nail nours 10 spare. Besides that, heaven is full of children. They are in the vast tnajority. No child onH?arth who amounts to anything can be kept quiet half an hour, and how are you going to keep five hundred million of them quiet half an hour? Yon know heaven is much more of a place than it was when that recess of thirty minutes occurred. Its population has quadrupled, sextupled, centupled. Jtieaven ?ns more on nana, more 01 rapture. more of knowledge, moije of intercommunication, more of worship. The most thrilling place we have ever been in is stupid compared with that, and. if we now have no time to spare, we will then have no eternity to spare. Silence in heaven only half an hour! My subject also impresses me with the immortality of a half hour. That half hour mentioned in my text is more widely known than any other period in the calendar of heaven. None of the whole hours of heaven is measured off, none of the years, none of the centuries. Of the millions of age3 past and the millions of ages to come not one is especially measured off in the Bible. But the half hour of my text is made immortal. The only part of eternity that was ever measured by the earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text. Oh, the half hours! They decide everything. I am not asking what you will do .with the yep.rs yjr mouths ox- days of your life, but what of the half hours? Tell me the history of your half hours and I will tell you tfcc story of your whole life in eternity. The right or wrong things you can think in thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can say in thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can do in thirty" minutes are glorious or baleful, inspiring or desperate. Look out for the fragments of time. They are pieces of eternity. It was the half hours between shoeing horses that made Eiihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, the half hours between professional calls as a physician that made Abercrombie the Christian philosopher, the half hours between his duties as schoolmaster that made Salmon P. Chase Chief Justice, tiio half hours between shoe lasts that made Henry Wilson Vice-President of the United States', the half hours between canalboats that made James A. Garfield President. 'lhe half hour a day for good books or bad books, the half hour a day for prayedor indolence, the half hour a day for helping others or blasting others, the half hour before you go to business and the half hour after you return from business?that makes the difference between the scholar and the ignoramus, between tiie Christian and the iniidcl, between the saint and the demon, between triumph and catastrophe, between heaven and hell. The most tremendous things of your life and mine were certain half hours. The half hour when in the parsonage of a country minister I resolved to become a Christian then and there, the half hour when I decided to become a preacher of the gospel, the half hour when 1 first reflized tnat my son was dead, the half hour when I stood on the top of my house in Oxford street and saw our church burn, the half hour in which I entered Jerusa- j lem, the half hour in which I stopped on ] Mount Calvary, the half hour in which I i stood on Mars Hill and about ten or j fifteen other half hours are the chief times ! of my life. Vnn will find the inhabitants all at ! home. Enter the King's palace and take j only a glimpse, for we have only thirty minutes ior all heaven. "Is that Jesus?' "Yes." Just under the hair along His forehead is the mark of a wound made by a bunch of twisted brambles, and His foot on the throne has on the round of His instep another mark of a wound made by a spike, and a scar on the palm of the right hand and a scar on the palm of the left hand. But what a countenance! What a smile! What a grandeur! What a loveliness! What an overwhelming look , of kindness and grace! W?hy, He looks as if He had redeemed a world! But come on, for our time is short. Do you see that row of palaces? That is the Apostolic row. Do you sec that long reach of archi- ! tectural glories? That is Martyr row. Do [ you see that immense structure? That is the biggest house in heaven; that is "the house of many mansions." Do you see that wall? Shade your eyes against its burning splendor, for that is the wall of heaven, jasper at the bottom and amethyst at the top. See this river rolling through the heart of the great metropolis: That is the river concerning which tnosc who once lived Oil IDC Uillllk.S ui LUC uuinun \u lac Alabama or the Rhine or the Shannon say, "We never saw the like of this for clarity and sheen." That is the chief river of heaven?so bright, so wide, so deep. But you ash, "Where arc the asylums for the old?" I answer, "The inhabitants are all young." "Where are the hospitals for the lame':" "They arc all ngile." "Where I are the infirmaries for the blind and | deaf?" "They all see and hear." "Where , are the almshouses for the poor?" "They | are all multimillionaires." "Where are j the inebriate asvlums?" "Why, there are | no saloons." "Where are the graveyards?" | "Why, they never die." l'ass down those boulevards of gold and I amber and sapphire and see those inter- j minable streets built by the Architect of i the universe into homes, over the threshold I of which sorrow'never steps and out of j ' ? fortoa onna nhln f V? 1 u' HUM: tuuuuio iuuo, j-un. ?. .v.* . earthly sickness, now look rubicund with | immortal health. "Oh. let me go in and see them!" you i say. No, you cannot go in. There are j those who would never consent to let you come out again. You say, "Let me stay here in this place where they never sin, where they never sudor, where they never part." No. no! Our time is short, our thirty minutes are almost gone. Come on! W e must get back to earth before this half hour of heavenly silence breaks up, for in your mortal state you cannot endure the pomp and splendor and resonance when this half hour of silence is ended. The day will come when you can sec heaven in full blast, but not now. I am now j onlv showing you heaven at the dullest j half hour ot all eternities. Come on! There is something in the celestial appearance which makes me think that tne naif hour of silence will soon be over. Yonder are the white horses being hitched to chariots, and yonder, are seraphs linger- | ing harps as if about to strike them into | symphony, and yonder are conquerors i taking down from the bine halls of heaven the trumpets of victory. Remember we are mortal yet and cannot endure the full roll of heavenly harmonies and cannot endure even the silent heaven for more j than half an hour. Hark! me ciock in tne rower 01 ncaven beyins to strike, and the half hour is ended. Descend! Come back! Come down till your work is done. Shoulder a little longer your burdens. Fight a little longer your battles. Weep a Tittle longer your jriefs. And then take heaven not in its dullest half hour, but in its mightiest pomp, and, instead of taking it for thirty minutes, take it world without end. Cut how will you spend the first half hour of your heavenly citizenship after you have gone in to stay? After your prostration before the throne in worship of Him who made it possible for you to get there at all I think the rest of your first half hour in hearen will be passed in receiving your rewarC if you have been faithful. T have a strangely beautiful book [ containing the pictures of the medals struck by the Englilh Government in honor of great battles. These medals are pinned over the heart of the returned heroes of the army on great occasions, the roval family present and the royal bands playing?the Crimean medal, the medal of the mutiny, the Victoria cross, the Waterloo medal. In your first half hour in heaven in some way you win ne nonorea ( for the earthly struggles in which vou won j the day. Stand up before all tne royal | house of heaven and receive the insignia while you are announced as victor over the drafts and freshets of the farm field, victor over the temptations of the Stock Exchange, victor over professional allurements, victor over domestic infelicities, victor over mechanic's shop, victor over the storehouse, victor over home worriments, victor over physical distresses, victor over hereditary depressions, victor over sin and death and hell. Take the badge that celebrates those victories through our Lord Jesus Christ. Take it in the presence of all the prallerics, saintly, angelic and divine, while all heaven chants. '"These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed ard made white in the blood of the Lamb." [Copyright^ 19(2, L. Klopsch.l | FIRE AT ARP'S HOUSE The Alarm Made Bill Get a Move On Him. CHIMNEY SOOT CAUGHT ON FIRE Water Poured on Soon I*utOut Blaze in Kitchen?Arp Gives Some Fire statistics. Fire and water and air. The three j things that cost the least and are the j most necessary to our existence are the most dangerous when unrestrained, j Last Sabbath evening my wife and I walked down to Jessie's house to comfort her in her sick bed, ana play with . Lhe little girls and help nurse the little Daby boy. Suddenly the fire bell gave an ilarm and my wife walked out on the ; veranda to find out where the fire was. I in a moment she came hurrying back tnd almost screamed. "It's our house? :t's our house; run quick. Oh! mercy." j I threw the baby down on the floor? j ao, I didn't either?and dep%rted those :oasts with salacrity. Firemen and people were hurrying that way. I j jtruck a fox trot for awhile, but soon relaxed into a fast walk, and then a slow pull up the hill, for I felt my pal- | pitation coming on. Before I reached the mansion I met some of the advance i guard returning who said the Are was >ut. So I sat down on the front steps . to blow for a minute. When I went | through the hall to the kitchen where | the commotion was, I found our daugh- ; ters and some good friends still j drenching the smoking walls and pouring water down the flue up in the garret. The accumulated soot of twenty years had caught on fire and some- i bow got to the lathing and then to the 1 veiling and dropped d^wn to the floor. Vobody was at home. Tho cook was in her cabin asleep. Her little boy was sit- ; ting on the back steps and when our girls arrived he very quietly pointed to ' the kitchen and said: "Dar's a fire in dar." Then they heard the cracking i dames and saw smoke pouring through a broken pane. On opening the door they were astounded, for the whole room seemed ablaze. One ran to the front door and screamed "Fire, fire, ; fire," and the other went to the tele- j phone and then they flew to the water Taucet and good neighbors gathered in and filled the buckets and went to work. They were just in time, lor a delay of ten minutes would have caused the loss of the house and all of our time-henored furniture and pictures amd books and my wife's fine clothes and golden wedding presents. When I left Jessie's house my wife hailed me bn the run and said save something, but I am not certain whether it was her fine dresses in the wardrobe or her j silverware In the dark closet or her Bible. I reckon it was the Bible that , ?he has read a chapter in every night for all these long years. I had a good j bid Baptist aunt in Rome and when her house caught on fire away in tr-e j night and the firemen came running . she ran out in her night clothes and begged them to save her Christian In- i dex. She had a stock of them and treasnred them more than anything else. aU PVinrlna IT V/llI ftVSUU U1U inoicanwi, vimiiVd A. F. McCoy, of Franklin college, used to lecture to us students, and h's favorite subject was 4 The Regularity of Irregular things." and he satisfied me that the longer my house escaped a lire , the more I was liable to have one. The , chances against me increase 1 as the years rolled on, and so i have been ex- j pecting a fire. The insurance romps- i nies understand this and base all their j calculations and rates upon it. They will tell you what is the average life of j a dewlling. a store, a gin. a planing mil or a church. The professor illus-! n rlina Hr?v onH aoiH if vrm i LlfcXLL-VI " i LU CL UiVC UV/A U41U WM>U J -? ?? | cast the dice a dozen times the six spot might come up th ree or four times I in succession and the ace several times, but if you caset the dice a thousand times, each number from one to six would show up about an equal number of times. That is according to the calculation of chances and proves the regularity of irregular things. So it is with the rainfall which, however uncertain in its coming, amounts to about the same every year. Since 188.1 the losses by fire in the United States have averaged $105,000,000 a year, the lowest being $100,000,000 and the highest $110,000,000, and yet in 1871 the loss in Chicago alone was $200,000,000. But where did fire come from and who gave it and when. There is nc mention of Are In the Mosaic account of the creation nor for two thousand years after it. Until after the flood there was not much need of fire, for the people were not permitted to eat meat. Their food was the fruit of the; earth. But I reckon they did have fire %.nd blacksmith shops and made hammers and hces and nails, etc. Noah could not have built the ark without tools and nails. The presumption is that tl^e Creator supplied Adam with tools to dress the garden and Abe5 with knives to sacrifice the firstlings o? his flock, but there are Indian tribes In our day and negroes in Africa and Esquimaux in the Arctic regions whc nave no anowieage ot iron ur il? uac^. A thousand years before Christ, Honiei wrote that Jupiter only possessed the element that we call fire and when man was created man he refused tc give him fire. But Prometheus stolf some from heaven and gave it to mar and it made Jupiter so mad that lit chained him to a rock and sent eagles to eat his liver out and as fast as thej eat it by day the liver grew again by I night, but finally he was unchained and the eagles driven away. It seems that Prometheus was a friend to mankind. and by the command of Jupitei actually created man ont of the mu<l 1 that was left after the flood?not Mo\ V ah's flood, but the flood of Deucalion away back In the ages. He was a god nearly as powerful as Jupiter and was always In a quarrel with him. He taught mankind architecture, astronomy. figures, medicine, navigation and all the arts that adorn life. At Athens and other ancient cities, temples were built to his honor. They believed thai the verv firp that he brought down ! from heaven was still preserver! ant! ; was always burning on an altar In the i temple of Vesta-. It is sailed the pacred ' fire?the Vestal fire?the fire of the hearthstone and must not he allowed to go out. If it does go out from accident even the familv who loses it rousl go to the temple of Vesta and get a i new supply. ' Of course all these stories about th? gods are superstitious, but they are very fascinating ones and old Homer still stands as the greatest poet, and ranks as the equal of Shakespeare or Milton. That reverence for sacred fire is not yet extinguished, and it is said that the Roman Catholic priesthood burn candles in their cathedrals day and night because the custom was handed down from the ancient churches and those churches probably got it from Grecian and Roman mythology. Anyhow, we know that the Jews had great reverence for fire, for they had to use it in their sacrifices, and God appeared to Moses in a burning bush and descended on Mt Sinai in fire and the Israelites were guided through the wilderness by a pilar of fire by night, and fire came down from heaven and de- i stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and many other important events wcm i marked by fire. In our young days | when there were no matches it was no ure or certain thing to find fire on the hearthstone every cold morning that came. Some times the live chunk that was buried in the ashes at bed time went out or was burned up. and then one of the boys had to go to a neighbor's and borrow fire. It was alway3 called borrowing fire, for it was reasonably expected that the neighbor would sometimes find himself in the same condition. The Cherokee Indians made fire by rubbing two hard dry sticks together with great rapidity. 1 have seen little Indian boys do it very quickly, and I tried to imitate them, but I failed. But if the good pure vestal fire came from heaven I reckon old Satan got some of it when he fell and took it down below. That's the kind that concerns us most The old preacher who rvrv ornunrl nrfl O /?>! i Tl V A.hfUlt t.llfi uaoi iu ?>\j atuuuu V4*w4..**0 "Mountains of Hepidam where the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its first born, and he played on a harp of thousand strings?sperots of just men made perfect." also had a few broken remarks about fire. "My impertinent hearers, there are several kinds of fire. There are fox fire and camp fire and fire and fill back, but the kind that consarns you most are the fire that is not squenched and is called hell fire for short."?Bill Apr in Atlanta Constitution. Hission to Move. Kroonstad, Orange River Colony, By Cable.?Owing to the great distance separating the members of the Transvaal mission nere, rrom Mr. Steyn, the former president of th? Orange Free State, and General Delarey, the negotiations between theBoer leaders in South Africa looking to the conclusion of the war make little prosserg.p!NEw( amhramh ma little progress. It is expected, however, that Mr.' Schalkburger and his collegues on the mission will shortly leave here for a more convenient centre from which to conduct the negotiations. Sargeant Appointed. Washington, Special.?Frank Sargent, president of the Brotherhood of T /./.nmntli'A fli-omon caw tho Prpsi UULCrUiUU*C i iivrnvu, uw ?? luw ?>. dent Friday, and was tendered the position of Commissioner General of Immigration. Mr. Sergeant accepted the offer. It is understood that the resignations of Messers. Powderly and McSweney have been requested, or will be at once. Jos. Murray will succeed the latter and Wm. Williams will be nominated soon to succeed Commissioner of Immigration Fitchie, at New York. Chamber Meets. Johannesburg, By Cable.?A meeting of the chamber of miner?, the first since the beginning of the war, has been held here. The president of the chamber said in an address that it was greatly due to General Botha that much wanton destruction had Leen avoided, as he had held the commandant of the town personally responsible for the destruction of any pioperty which might ocxur. The president also said it was highly probable that by next July half of the mining industry would be in operation and that before many months full working would be resumed. i ne Atlantic wuy rue. Atlantic City, N. J., Special.?On Thursday a diasirous fire wrecked many of the palatial hotels of Atlantic City, doing a damage of over $1,000,000. No adequate fire protection was available. One life was lost. Thirteen hotels and more than 7C buildings had been destroyed or severely damaged. The effect of the fire has been to give the city a new charter, providing for building laws, the bill for the same having been signed by Gov. Vfurphy when he heard the fire was raging. Already the city is planning to rise, strengthened, from its 1 financial loss of $1,000,000. 4 X ' \U- 31 SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL Confidence In the South. Mr. M. H. Atkinson, of Atlanta, Oft., who recently returned from the North after conferring with the stockholders of various public service companies of Atlanta, says that he found the 3tock holders much encouraged over conditions in that city. They apparently had great faith in their Investments in the South, and believed they had done well to Invest there. Furthermore, they would not dispose of their holdings. Continuig, Mr. Atkinson said he had spent three weeks In the North, and that during the entire time he has been living in the South, making occasional visits to the North, he had never seen business men of the latter section so thoroughly imbued with the idea that the South is the place for investments. "They are," he added, "going to do much for this section in the future, and the results of the present feeling will soon be felt generally." To Double a Big Mill. Mention was made recently of the fact that the Belton Mills, of Belton. S. C., had in contemplation the erection of a duplicate plant. The propo sition was given consideration at a meeting of the directors on March 20, and decided affirmatively. This company now has an equipment of 27,000 spindles and 300 looms, which will accordingly be duplicated. The construction of the required additional buildings will be commenced at once, and contracts for the machinery will be awarded soon. Formal action to ratify the directors' decision will be taken in April by the stockholders. Cai>italization is $400,000, and probably $300,000 will be the investment for the new mill. F. A. Smythe is president. A Denim mil Rumored. Messrs. Moses H. Cone and Caesar Cone, of Greensboro, N. C., are negoti- , ating the purchase of. a water-power property near Roanoke Rapids, N. C., the power said to be obtained being 10.000 horse-power. It is rumored that If the property is purchased it will be develoDed to its utmost, and that a cot ton denim mill of 2,000 looms and complement of spindles will be erected to utilize the power. The Messrs. Cone control the Proximity Manufacturing Co. at Greensboro, N. C., which operates 18,000 spindles and 1.000 looms in the manufacture of cotton denims. Textile Notes. (From the Manufacturers' Record.) The Highland Park Manufacturing Co. of Charlotte, N. C., and Rock Hill, S. C., will build a cotton-seed oil mill to be operated in connection with Mill No. 2 at KocK Hill, it is proposed 10 expend about $100,000 for the erection, and equipment of the addition. Doubtless this is a step toward adding a ginnery and fertilizer factory, and thus the company would be enabled to manufacture from cotton all its marketable products. Piedmont Manufacturing Co., Portsmouth. Va.. states that its proposed equipment, lately mentioned, wilt be of sufficient capacity to produce 400 dozen garments of ribbed underwear daily, employing 125 hands when in full operation. The building completed is a two-story structure 40x80 feet, with a 30x30-foot ell. Capital is $25,000. Rapid progress is being made with the reconstruction of the Globe Cotton Mills at Augusta, Ga., and the plant will be in operation in the near future. The old building has been remodeled and rebuilt, and will hold 5600 spindles The new loomhouse is built of brick 149x156 feet, and will hold 400 looma A new wheelpit will be built, and ne* equipment of water-wheels will be Installed. R. M. Gates of Charlotte, N. C., Is about to purchase the Green rlvei shoals property near Hendersonvllle. N. C., with the intention of developing the property and erecting at the aite 8 large cotton mill. Mr. Oates also has under consideration removing to the site a Charlotte mill, instead of erecting new plant. The Charlotte mill has 15,500 spindles and 300 looms. Messrs. W. C. Kimball & Co. of Tallapoosa, Ga.. stated that their knitting plant, reported recently, will require an Investment or ?z,uuu. me two-siorj building, 25x80 feet in size. Is now being erected to hold the ten machines for producing hosiery. Ellawhite Cotton Mills of Uniontowir Ala., contracted for a 500-spindle addition, not a 3500-spindle addition as stated last week. All contracts havt been awarded. Work has begun on the erection of the required buildings Roberdel Manufacturing Co., RockIngham, N. C., states that plans have not been formulated as yet for its No. 2 mill. Announcement of fae decision to build this addition was made at length last week. Richmond HosieryMills of Rossville Ga., has increased capital JIO.OOO. This frtr im. acuou ID La&cu iu i/iu>iuc iuuuc ivi Approvements and additional machinery, especially in the dyeing department Messrs. M. C. Migel & Co., of Astoria, N. Y., manufacturers of broad and dress silks, will establish a branch plant at Fayette and Greene streets Baltimore, Md., employing 100 operatives. T. L. Vaughn has purchased the Twin City Knitting Mills at WinstonSalem. N. C., from F. H. Fries, receiver. The plant produces ladies' underwear; it was capitalized at $12,000. Merchants and Manufacturers' Association of Laurinburg, S. C.. is in communication with a capitalist who is seeking site for a $100,000 cotton mill. . ' 4