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nwiwmiiMtiMi'K'rtrw .. j PALMETTO Glfllft] m flinor Events of the Week In a p ' Brief Form. * h ('Apt. Julc Anderson. conductor on tli- Blue Rid^e rood, had a narrow csc.ipo frcoi being killed by Louis Greer, at Beltcn. Greer became involved in a quarrel witn tne negro tram uanu auu Capt. Anderson tried to separate them. Greer made a vicious rake at Capt. Anderson's throat. The knife struck Capt. Anderson under the jaw and made a uaiuful wound though uot a serious oae. Two shooting scrape? happened at nu:l near Chester Sunday. One fight was between two employees of a lumber concern, in town, bat neither was hurt. The second was between a negro ir.an named John Monk and Sallic Branson, four miles north of Chester. It started from a discussion over a church affair. John shot Sallie through the forehead and the wound will probi fibly prove fatel. May Tucker, colored, was killed Tuesday night near Mt. Zion four miles north of Spartanburg by the discharge of a gun in the hands of a negro man named King Williams, who is now m jail. From what can be learned 11 appears that the dead negro woman and Williams had always been on friendly terms and there is some reason to think the shooting was aeci dental. Postmaster Harris, of Charleston >l:as concluded arrangements with the Consolidated Company for transportation in the city of the mail carriers aud special delivery beys, which will go into effect on July 1st. The rural delivery route through St. Andrew's parish and James Island will also be inaugurated on that date. Governor Hey ward Monday received a letter from Jas. W. McCormick, an attorney of Syracuse, N. Y., asking il there are any sons or grandsons o! John C. Calhoun now living in this State or elesewhere and bearing the uame of the great statesman. Mr. Mi - Cormick's address Is 412 Kirk diock Syracuse, N. Y. Rev. J. B. K. Smith, a Georgia vetel an. appeared on the streets of Columbia Tuesday in complete suit of the old butternut, faded and worn from service in the struggle. He was the center of an admiring group throughout the day. Dr. J. H. Burnett, of Graniteville, wishes to know if the State of South Carolina ever aided Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin. by appropriating 550,000 to his use. Dr. Burnett has seen the statement made in a well known and recently published encyclopedia, but wishes to have it Verified if possible. Carolina Joues, an old negro, was shot with bird shot near Acton, in Richland cor.nty, Wednesday morning. The shot entered his side and his injuries fortunately were not fatal. Sheriff Coleman was notified and sent Deputy Sheriff Cathcart to the scene with the fine pair of bloodhounds which the sheriff owns. With a view of establishing a permanent colony near Charleston a party of French Canadians from Fall River and New Bedford, Mass.. visited Charleston and inspected the truck 1 * fovmlncr Ion/In noov tV\o oltv n n rl mnflo ?v^ iaiuiiu^ lauuo nviii vuv vtij ??*??.? ?mmuv - other investigations of the advantages offered to settlers who desire to locate there and engage in agricultural pursuits. The Rev. Kltt Jones, colored, of Edgefield, quite a favorite with the people, was recently lodged in jail, < barged with murder. He gave the required bond and is now free until the August term of court, when he will be put on trial. The Associated Reformed Synod was orgt-nized at the Old Brick church in Fairfield county 100 years ago last Saturday. Sunday services commemorative of this occasion were held In the A. R. P. church at Due West. In the assignment of bishops for holding the next annual conferences of the Southern Methodist church Bishop A. Coke Smith will preside over the South Carolina conference, which convenes in Greenville the 9th of December. In the United States district court in Charleston Tuesday Judge Brawiey'refused the motion for a nev: trial for James Lang. Charles Rogers, H. B. Wilson and Walter Wood, convic ted in Greenville of postofflce robberies. When the defendants were put on trial the government claimed they were members of the Nolan gang, which had been operating in three States, and strong proof of their guilt was submitted. They were promptly convicted. The disappearance from Greenville of D. R. Elkin, lineman for the Southern Eell Telephone and Telegraph Company, still remains a deep mystery. It was reported that the young man had been located in Richmond, Ya.. a letter having been' received in Greenville to that effect from the s:s1 i.'Y of the man who had disappeared.' Coroner Black, of Greenville, however, has received a letter from the mother of Elkin. stating that the report that her son had been found In Richmond was untrue. \ swaiai of bees in Barnwell county settled on a mule's ears while he was ploughing in a field on Monday. In resisting their efforts to make a swarming place of his ears he angered them and they stung him to death. Gov. Hevward has granieu a respite of thirty days to Judson Beck, a negro, who was convicted of murder at the recent term of court in Barnwell and sentenced to be hanged. An appeal in the case is pending in the Supreme Court. Georgia May Farkcr, a little girl jiving in Bamberg, was poisoned last week by a druggist's clerk, who, In filling a prescription, gave the child voirosivc subllcaat instead of calomel. Spartanbufg is to have a new ?23,000 Ii.rnJtcre factory. CONFEDERATES MEET Splendid (iathering of Veterans in Columbia. Columbia, Special.?The convention of the Confederate Veterans met here on Tuesday night. The gathering -.vas large and enthusiastic. The meeting .-.as presided over by ( apt. Starling. The afldrcss of welcome was made by Mr. W. A. Clark, who said in part: Mr. Chairman and Veterans: It affords me real pleasure, fellow vete:ans, speaking for the chamber of commerce and for the good people of this city, to extend to you a rust cordial welcome 1 ?.. ? ? ,nnv on 1 nl!>!)S:inf (1I2U IU Vtldii }'Jil a reunion. Our doors ar? thrown wide open ar.d by their authority and a$ i.fceir representative I invite you to enter and be our guest. In extending you this invitation ul!ow ir.e. friends and follow veterans, to say that any community should esteem it a privilege to be vcur hest and v.e. 1 assure you. so esteem it. /s the surviving heroes of the Lost Cause you are rightfully entitled to cur estcoxn. admiration and gratitude, for veteran indeed you are, veterans in age. veterans in experience, veterans in war and veterans in pvaee. Few of you there be who have uot already passed the sixtieth mi 4 pest in the journey of life and can npw look back with experiences pregnant with great issues. It has fallen to the lot of few to have borne such vicissitudes as you. You are the remnant of a war almost without a parallel in history, and yet the peace that followed imposed trials even more severe than the cruelties of war itself. These trials you have borue with more than Spartan fortitude. This time has been set apart to celebrate the triumph of your efforts and I speak no idle words when I say, we esteem the honor of the occasion. HEROES OF A GREAT CAUSE. Ycu are the heroes of a great cause. You with your comrades, many of whom gave up their lives on the field of battle and many of whom have since met the last enemy and haw com? off more than conquerors, made battle for the cause of right and principle. The groat war in which you .. ere {he actors, unlike many others which a'c 1 ?oH^erotSf.r rlofpnSiVC. luntru t, i t, nuo uuw5v.w.x . ? fought in defense cf rights more ddav than life itself. History records hut few waged upon the same piane of exalted principles. In the conquests of Alexander the underlying principle were the subjugation of the world. lu the campaigns of the Caesars the underlying principles were new and additional territory for the Iteman empire and the enslaving of entire communities of civilized peoples. In the wars of the first Napoleon the underlying principles were nothing mote elevated than a selfish purpose to suborbinate all to the indomitable will of a remorseless ambition. Not so with the war waged by you. It. like its great forerunner, the American revolution, had higher aims and nobler aspirations. Constitutional rights end personal liberties were the great questions at issue and over which this great battle was joined. * The line was drawn and the battle waged between the two distinctive peoples who had settled in this country and by who3? intelligence, industry and courage it scon took its place among the foremost nations of '.he civilized world. People's, each distinguished for their intellectual vigor, their high standard of moral and religious aims, and their unbending loyalty to the cause of truth and justice. I The puritans of Nov/ England on tfte I one hand and the cavaliers and Scotch of Virginia and the Carolinas on tlve other; each fighting for constitutional liberties, as they each for themselves read and interpreted the law. It was indeed a battle of principles, waged by giants. It was desperate aud it was destructive. It also, from the very nature of the case, involved the horrors of fratricidal war. Fratricidal not only in the broad sense that we. while one people, were divided and f-ghting the one against the other. But true in the narrr.w sense. Yes. it not unfrequently happened that those so near and dear as brothers enlisted upon different sides, each rising to distinction and high rank in the army of his choice. It was indeed the case of a divided house. It has but recently been my privilege to see a book of the genealogy of out of the distinguished families of the country, who grew to greatness in the great State of Kentucky. FOR THE RIGHT. The record shows that the family furnished to both the federal army aucl Confederate army soldiers of distiuc. tion and of unquestioned courage. The name appears among the m3jor generals in each army. From one household alone of the name three sons were soldiers in the federal army and two sons-in-law were soldiers in the Confederate army. Nor can either he charged with being traitor to his country. Each fought for the cause as it appeared unto him right; and as he saw it. it was to him right. For these as well as other reasons it was a desperate war. It was a conflict between a great people and upon jgreat principles. It has been aptly called an "irrepressible conflict." And so it was. In the evolution of this great country and in ' its rapid rise to greatness it could not be otherwise thau that great Issues would emerge. Issues that must he settled quick, so that progress should not be retarded. Such issues did in truth arise aua could not be stopped short of the great issue which culminated in that war in which you took so prominent a part. You. my friends, have a lively remembrance of it and of the result. Xor have we cause to regret because forsooth the result was against us. Chester Edmunds Sho*. Wilmington, Special.?A serious shooting affray is reported from Chadbourn Wednesday. Two well-to-do farmers. Chester Edmonds and a man named Reid, met in the street and as a result of an old feud about stock running at large. Reid fired upon Edmonds, the bullet entering his body and inflicting perhaps a fatal wound. Reid boarded a train after the shooting. hut was arrested. He claims selfdefence. ssving Edmonds and his i broth?r were beating him at fbc time with a piece of iron. . . . , -V .V -. . /. r . >[' I SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS Early Planted Vegetables Coming li Rap'dly?General Review The week ending 8 a. m., Monday May 11th. had a mean temperature o about (15 degrees, which is between I and 0 degrees below normal. The tern I nerature for the season since Is to d&to has i)ocn below norma!. Then were a few comparatively warm day; eailv in the week, followed by stead: low temperatures and fresh easterl; winds, that had a detrimental effec cn crop growth, and made germinatioi slow. This condition prevailed ove the whole State. There was an exces: of cloudiness that had a harmful ten dency. . The rainfall at the close of the pre vious week and the beginning of tbli one, covered practically the entiri State, but with small localities when !t was light, or absent, and with hai over a wide extent of country reachinj from Anderson county along the Sa vannah river to Barnwell, and witl the western limits on a line from Lex ington t*> Lancaster, thence extendinj eastward almost to the coast, and int< the extreme northeastern countries The hall was heaviest, and most de structive, in portions of Edgefield Florence, Darlington. Lancaster, Ches terfield and Marlboro counties, al though quite heavy in a few other coun ties. In the counties named, whol fields of tobacco and cotton were de stroyed, as well as much fruit, neces sitating extensive replanting of the twi first named crops. Rainy condition prevailed over the eastern countries 01 the 8th and 9th, with heavy rainfal along the coast where It was mBs needed, but none over the westen counties on these dates, where the nee< of rain is indicated to soften clay land that have become hard and break u] cloddy under the plow. nlontlnnr to finic'lOtl (PYPPnt 01 bottom lands, and much is up to fairl; good stands, but is growing slowlj and looks sickly, birds and worms con tiiiue damaging especially on botton lands, and a great deal of replanting i being done. Much corn has receivei lis first, and some its second cultiva tiou. There ig an improvement in the stan of cotton, as late plantings are comini up better than early ones; much of th latter have been replanted and this i now coming up to fairly good stands ' Planting is nearing completion. Som i fields have been chopped. Cotton 1 : growing slowly and looks sickly, froc I the effects of the easterly, cool winds Tobacco has fair stands, but con i tinues small. Transplanting is finished i and renlantine generally finished While oats continue poor, and will no make even a fair crop, there is a gen eral improvement in condition, espe I dally where the rainfall was heaviest ! Oat3 are in full head, and ripening ii ' the eastern counties, but the heads ar | not filling well. Wheat continues pool ; owing to rust and hessian flics. Soin ! fields of grain have been plowed unde j and planted to other crops. Fruit eon ! tinues promising, although there ar ! numerous reports of dropping. Th commercial crop of peaches will be a average one. frocn present indication* I Rice is doing poorlj\ Melons nec I warmer weather. Upland pastures ar I failing in the western counties. Gar i dens are doing well. Truckers are ship J ping beans, white potatoes and larg j quantities of berries. The wester: ! counties need rain, and the whole Stat j warmer weather.?J. W. Bauer, See j tion Director. / MARKET QUOTATIONS. COTTON MARKET. 1 These figures represent prices pai ; to wagons: Strict good middling 10.7 Good middling 10.6 Strict middling 10.6 Stains and tinges 8% to 10.5 PRODUCE MARKET. t 7A VU1UMO . ,f IV Chickens?spring 15 Hens?per head 33 Eggs 13} Beecwax 20 Turkeys ' 12} Corn 60 Ducks 22}* Wheat 60 Wheat?seed 1 00 Oats 45 Rye 1 00 Sides 9 Skins?calf 40 Hides?dry salt 10 Tallow?unrendered 2 Judge Campbell Bounced. Richmond. Special.?Final action i the case of Judge Clarence J. Caihj bell, of Amherst county, who horsf whipped Rev. Dr. Crawford, who wa at the time head of the State Anti Saloon League, was taken, so far a the General Assembly is concemei the House of Delegates agreeing to th Senate amendments to the resolutio rmoving the Judge from the bench. Conductor Attacked. Anderson, Special.?Capt. Jule Ar derson, conductor on the Blue Ridg marl had a narrow escane from bein killed by Louis Greer, a negro, at Be ton Sunday night. Greer became ir volved in a quarrel with the negr train hand and Capt. Anderson tried t separate them. Greer, was in an ugl humor and made a vicious rake at Cap Anderson's throat with a knife. Tb knife struck Capt. Anderson under th Jaw and made a painful wound tlioug not a serious one. Had the knife bee sharper or the blow just a little stror ger it would have proved fatal. Tb negro fled immediately afterward an was not caught. Greenville Veterans. Greenville, Special.?Camp Williat Beattie. Sons of Veterans, has electe the following officers to serve the er suing year: D. C. Durham, commandei W. C. Cothran. vice-commander; J. . McSwain, secretary and treasurer: I M. Blythe, adjutant. Messrs. D. C. Dui ham, W. C. Cothran, John H. Earle, . J. McSwain, Perry Beattie and Jos. ) McCullough w?re elected delegates t the reunion in Columbia, and Coir mander Durham was authorized to ai point alternates. . r v- yv.^ j ' i? WAS IN IKE SOUTH. a Tbe Dynamiter, Rosseau, Had Bought _f Clothing in Raleigh ' WAS A WEU.-DRESSED STRANGER 3 Ir f An American, About Forty Years of J Age, and Seemingly Well Educated r ?Police Working on the Case. New York, Special.?The police tw" lieve G. Rossean, who, it is alleged, e sent the package of dynamite to the 2 steamship Umbria's pier last Saturday, I came from Raleigh. N. C., recently, ! This clue was obtained from an inI sciipiicu on the tag on the coat of the ~ would-be dynamiter, left with a tailor a the day he disappeared with a dyna' mite package. The inscription bears the name of Cross & Lineham, Raleigh, N. C. V. Martire, a tailor, said Ros seau left two suits at his shop to be - cleaned and pressed. One was blue and 6 the other brown. The blue one bore the name of a Raleigh concern. Mar9 tire said: "I am satisfied that the man s who owns the blue suit is the man i described by the truckmen who took * the dynamite box from Mrs. Currie's j house to the pier. He appeared to be j about 40 years old. He talked like an s American, with slight Southern accent, p and had the air of a man of education and refinement. He was about 5 feet, 8 II Inches in height, and had a thin face. , He wore closely-cropped, dark brown mustache and his hair was dark, alii most black. He took his hat off once s while talking to me and I noticed thaf ^ his head was slightly bald on top. wnen in nere ne wore a aara gray j sack suit and black felt hat." Martire g says he can positively identify the e owner of the clothes if he sees him 3 again. Several persons who know g' Rosseau declare he spoke of being in a North Carolina a long time. The police n expect to arrest him at any moment. ' Bought Clothes in Raleigh. I, Raleigh, Special.?Joseph Bland, a I. salesman at Cross & Lineham's, sold a t man of Rosseau'a description a suit of 2 clothes and a stiff Stetson hat April . 21st, 22nd or 23rd. The man attracted a attention by examining first a Prince e Albert and remarking. "I'd be a fool \ to buy that when I'll be in New York e in three weeks and tpy tailor can make one." He finally bought a blue serge e suit, then came back and got an une finished worsted, but it is doubtful If n he returned the serge suit. Milton Vogj Ier, of Philadelphia, was In the store e at the time and told Bland he saw the ! ? Vf Annf nnrl /tamA wJtK _ man in iiui;iv7 muuui auu miuu unu i- him on the train to Raleigh. Bland e cannot remember what name the fellow n gave, but it wasn't Rosseau. e Employers Organize. Kansas City, Special.?The 6,000 employers of labor in this city have abaned together to fight the members of labor unions who use the boycott to 3 gain their ends, and have formed the . Employers' Association. The associa5 tion decided to deliver goods to those 5 places where non-union goods are dls0 criminated against. This action has resulted from a brewing company employing union men, refusing to deliver beer to a hotel bar until the union was recognized. A member of the associa? tion retaliated by refusing to deliver ice to the saloons handling this par ticular brewing company's beer with the result that the delivery of beer to the offending hotel was immediately resumed. Several persistent boycotts have been laid agajnst restaurants and various branches of trade in Kansas City within the past year, because of refusal of employers to recognize unions. Injunction Against Strikers. n Springfield. 111., Special.?An fnjunction restraining E. E. Clarke and 200 striking switchmen, yardmen and other employes of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad from interfering with the operation of the road by stopping trains, ^ picketing yards, or assembling in large numbers or in any other manner inl? terfering, was granted to the road by n Judge Humphrey in the United States Circuit Court here Wednesday. Accused of riurder. i- Newport, News. Va.. Special.?The ;e dead body of Mr.ggie Harris, a colored g woman, was found near here WednesI day. Twg brliets had lodged in the . Tho noliro arrested on susnieion o MDr.'*" Samuel Robertson, of Newport o News, a negro Christian Science pracy titioner, under whose treatment the t. woman has been for the past several ie weeks. Robertson Is an intelligent eolie ored man. well-to-do, and bears a good h reputation. He denies having had anya thing to do with the woman's death l* and suggests that she committed suid cide. He was committed to jail. An in quest will be held tomorrow. riurdered H -r Child. n Petersburg, Va.. Special.?Mrs .Tasd per F. Gwaltncy, a 17-year-old wife t- and mother, crazed jealousy, today ; killed her nine-months-old infant with I. morphine and then attempted suicide by the same means. The attempt failed, j" ind she was arrested by the police and L* 's in jail awaiting the result of the o ?oroner'3 Inquest. The tragedy is the rtork of gossips who told Mrs. Gwaltj. oey that .her husband had been seen walking with a former sweetheart. ' ?-.". V' 7 ' ^S^v'?/ . #V\T.'$?> WHITE MAN KILLED BT A MOB taaurance Agent Shot to Death at Wilson, North Carolina. Wilson, Special.?Perry Jones, an Insurance agent, who came here some , time ago. was shot in his room Wed- ' nesday night by a crowd of citizens ' who intended to run him out of towu, j and as a result died at 7 o'clock Thursday morning. One of the alleged at- 1 tacking party was also wounded. Eleven men were arrested on the charge of participation in the crime. The objection to Jones was because of his alleged association with a colored woman. Jones stated, after being wounded, that when the men rushed into his room he fired on them, when he was shot. Jones came to Wilson about two weeks ago as an insurance agent, giving his residence as Little Rock, Ark. He worked industrial insurance. A few clays ago he was arrested with a negro woman, suspicion having fallen on him about a watch which was stolen in Goldsboro. The trial resulted in his acquittal. After the trial George Whitley, of Wilson, went to Jones and told him he would have to leave town. Whitley claimed to be a representative of a crowd of men in Wilson who would not have a man here who associated with a negro woman. Jones, becoming alarmed, had Whitley arrested on a peace warrant. The trial resulted in Whitley's being put under a $200 peace bond. Jones received Information that be would be attacked. He went to Mr. J. R. Uzzell, a lawyer here, and told of ( his trouble. He advised him to go to his room and remain there until morn- . ing, when he would advise him further. ] Jones was never seen again until he , was found Thursday morning in his room, mortally wounded. Eleven men have been placed under arrest for participating in the killing. All those arrested were placed in Jail. Wreck of the Vera Cruz. Washington, Special.?Capt. Slamm, nf the rpvprmp pntt-pr Rrmtwpl! which went to the relief of the passengers and crew of the Vera Cruz III, which stranded on the 12th inst, on Dry Point Shoal, N. C.. has made a preliminary report to Captain Shoemaker, chief of the revenue cutter service, i Capt. Slamm says that on his arrival at the wreck he found that the master of the Vera Cruz.had left his vessel < with all his personal effects and in- 1 struments of navigation in the keeping 1 of a "friend and passenger," to go to , Wilmington. N. 0., to secure funds , with which to pay for the transporta- i tion of the passengers to New Bedford, 1 Mass.. the destination of his vessel. AH of the ship's papers including the pas- i senger list, were turned ever to the i collector of customs at Newbern, \ whither the passengers and crew were i taken. The vessel was practically ; abandoned by her crew. As near as could be learned the passenger list of the Vera Cruz called for 240 persons, while tne Keeper or tne lire-saving station is reported to have landed 391, exclusive of the bark's crew. This fact 1 together with the circumstances of the 1 vessel being brought from fresh water ! Into the dangerous harbor where she grounded, the captain says, appears suspicious. The vessel is imbedded In the sand and probably will be abandoned. Thirty-five barrels of whale oil comprise her cargo. Promrt Shipments Impossible. Washington. Special.?The Depart- | raent of State lias just received from the United States legation at Havana a report which points out the trade opportunities in the Cuban market in manufactured cotton. The report says i Cuba has no advantage in its close proximity to the manufacturing centra of the Southern States, as the freight i is lower on goods exported from Europe than those exported from either I New York, Mobile or New Orleans. .As 1 a general rule deliveries can ba made quicker from the United States than from Europe, but during the past year It hes been almost impossible to get good11 with any promptness frort the United States and this has caused a loss to our trade. Was the Naronic Blown Up ? New York, Special.?Among the effects of the man who sent the infernal machine to the Cunard Line dock, last week, was a piece of paper, on which was written in French: "The destruction of the Naronic wa3 complete. Mr. LeBrun, who made the box, has this moment gone to Chicago." The Naronic left Liverpool on the morning of February 11, 1903, with 4,000 tons of freight, a crew of flfty-flve passengers who had gone to England on the previous trip in charge of a cargo of cattle. She was never seen after she left th? Mersey, and to this day no word of her fate has reached the owners of thi line. Fire in Suffolk. Richmond, Special?Fire which started in the restaurant of Robert Tate, colored, in Suffolk, spread rapidly and destroyed the offices of the Gay Manufacturing Company, burned all the buildings 011 a block on East Washington street, some four or five, belonging to the Suffolk & Carolina Railway Company, and burned four or five other buildings, including Keller's Hotel. There was little insurance. The loss was about $15,000. Engineer and Fireman Killed. Washington Court House, Ohio, Special.?The Cincinnati & Pittsburg Express, on the Midland division of the Baltimore & ?o Southwestern, was wrecked 5 miles east of Washington Court House. Two persons were killed and several seriously injured. The killed are: Engineer John May, Newark, Ohio; and Fireman J. A. Leighton, Newark, Ohio. The accident was caused by spreading rails. I SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL. Progressive Wilmington, The report of Mr. James H. Chad. bourn, retiring president of the WTU mington (N. C.) Chamber of Com-, merce, at its fiftieth session. Is a noli/ worthy summary of good rosol&a low-; Ing from persistent, energetic and well-directed efforts of business men' for the upbuilding of their community. Mr. Chadboyrn shows bow tho'Qham* ber has a general oversight of the ^ business of the port, establishing relee governing trade and shipping; he describes the methods for keeping a thorough record of all commodities dealt in by the city's merchants, the V liberality of the Chamber in spending money to promote Wilmington's interests, noting especially the prepfnuttba of a volume setting forth the many ad- ' i vantages of Wilmington and JtA vieini-*' 1 ty for manufacturing, for business and for residence, and its interest in attracting new industries and sustaining those already established. He said < that .never before were the prospect* \ of the city so bright, and he revealed the reason for that in his additional statement that the merchants of WJlmington have more public splri; than ever before, are more united In their public efforts and present a solid front In bringing Wilmington forward aa commercial center and as an export j city.?Manufacturers' Record. t! Ginning Statistics. ' -','i The census office announces from reports of cotton ginners that there wee* ginned of the crop of 1902. running bales, equal to 10,63t,HS ba|ee of the 500-Dound standard, or ernstlM round bales as half-bales, vauled at $501,897,134. The of l- - ? raw cotton exports In 1902 Is giro* Ot ; $290,651,819, malting it the leading ar- ( J tide in American exports, and Jkbm' < value of the cotton crop of isdk pro- -j duccd in the Stafes Included U the p Louisiana purchase Is given S( $13,885.044, an amount greater hy were than $3,000,000 than the original price paid to France for the territory, with. & compound interest at 2 per eeA Textile Notes. t o Messrs. J. B. McCord and Q, A, Red-> ' sell of Morristown. Tenn., will cstab-i','^ lisb a knitting mill. Union Oil Co., Union Point, fia., w? >' not operate as a cotton mill tlte 9>art& Cotton Mills at Sparta. Qa., reported. % last week as purchased. < Middle Georgia Cotton Mills, Baton- | ton, Ga.. mentioned last week as add Ing fiew spindles, has completed the 1 Installations. The new spindles number 2112. an increase in the "plant'* total to 5440. Messrs. C. H. Makepeace : & Co. of Providence, R. I., wean engineers in charge of the ImfMVftNew Iberia (La.) Cotton Mill wwrjj sold during the week to W. R. BntfcJal as agent. It is reported he vfll m^l the mill in operation. There am teen knitting machines in the producing underwear. Walter Brown, recently of Baltl- j more, Md., has leased Dr. J. T. lamy's cotton mill, now idle, near En. field. X. C. He will repeair the dam*^ enlarge the building and install zn*4,.tj| chinery for manufacturing single an# - , double yarns, hall twine, vope Messrs. .T. FI. Price, Sam R. Stherens, , C. H. Stevens, E. W. Reld. J. H. Wolfe, ' A. C. Cherry, P. C. Andrews ant ciates will organize a $5000 stock com pany for manufacturing cotton goods. They propose equipping a plant. twelve looms for producing fahcy sheeting and novelty gooda. The plank will be located at Magnolia, Mlna. About $25,000 has been rabeerfbad is the proposed $100,000 cotton-mRI com- 'J pany at Salley, S: C., mentioned lasf week. W. S. Peterson is interested ilk the enterprise, and hopes to make' air rangements for permanent organise* *\. tion. Outside capital will be invttod to invest. A water-power is available for ; development in this connection. Dispatches state that B. Prank Mo- vg * bane and German capitalists fcaye twnMS chased 4(J00 acres of land at Snrajr. H. C., as site for the establishment of & - > cotton mill that will contain XMjDdl |jj spindles and 14,000 looms, amd of &. large mill for manufacturing wooieat^j blankets. Mr. Mebane is well known as beinct largply interested in the several mills at Spray. Lumber Notes. '-aM , G. W. Hinshaw of Winston, N. CE^yJ has purchased, probably for develop^;* ment, 4,000 acres of timber land near $ Wilkesboro. The Blue Ridge Lumber Co, Greensboro. N. C? has completed lir ganization with G. E. Holton, pied 3 dent. The company has a capital $20,000. and has begun the erection at j a saw-mill plant. 13. ?i. vu&viii ouu ii mi ii imhi m Boydton. Va., have purchased and 'irtKg ' operate sawmill and timber lands d^T'la T. & F. B. Roberts. R. M. Smith of P&rkeraborg, w4ji| Va., has purchased the ExcehriaiSfli Lumber Co.'s property near VSUgmjK^ and will operate the milling plant 'J The Licking Coal & Lumber Cbi.-tfKjq Ashland, Ky... has purchased abodjfll 1 fi.000 acres of ccal and timber in Morgan county, and will begin mB !velopments at once. ^ The shipments of lumber and ber from the port of Pensacola for the ; * . month of April were unusually, heavy. 4| The total shipment amoanted to M.' JJ 060.000 feet, of which 11,670,009 feofSgJ was lumber and 20.391,000 feet tlatt-j,'. ber. besides 60.000 miscellaneous. it is Rmtftii tnat Messrs# roaenftg ' Bros. & Co. of Hagerstown, Md., rebuild their rim and spoke factory burned at a less of $20,000. Tlio Southern Development C?4 i 020-21 Colonial Building, Boston* M Mass,, la arranging to establish nitoat^r at Lakevicw, N. C., for the a&tnufae^g turc of cypress and juniper shinglgjV The Atlantic Shook & Yxa&fiT^B cf Norfolk, Va., started *np wjap** last week In order to cspertsteq^^lth the machinery. There Is conjjPi nhl?~_ work to be done yet before 4m plant^'" li complete and ready for offtation. i