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SOOTH'S PROGRESS. INVKSTMKNT OF NORTHERN CAPITAL IN SOI TIIKRN FARMS. Numerous New liiilustrl.il mid IliilN din*; Enterpriser Reported for a week. Baltimore, Md., March 22.?The weekly review of Southern business conditions reports a very decided increase iu the sales of South em properties, including both farm and mineral binds There is a greater inquiry from the West and the North for Southern farm property than ever known before and the teudeuey seems to be increasing. In industrial enterprises cotton mill interests continue to uttact the largest share of attention. A very successful North Carolina mill has voted to increase its stock from $300,000 to $400,000 with which to build a new '20,000 spiudlc mill. At Cheraw, S. C , a SI0,000 knitting mill is projecte I, at LaureDs, S. C.. a cotton mill, at Salisbury, N. 0., a 30,000 spindle mill, while cotton mill companies are being organized at Jackson, Teuu; Shrieveport. La ; Salisbury. N C; Rutherford, N C; Fiednioiit, Ala. Demopolis, Ala, and other points. A $330,000 sugar refinery is to be built at New Orleans bv sugar planters, a company now being organized for that purpose. A $30,009 agricultural implement company is projected at Breuham, Texas; a $."0,000 woodenware factory in Virgiuia; $30,000 match factory and canning factory iu Mississippi; an electric light plant, lumber mill ami tobacco works iu North Caroliua; $10,00') brick company in South Carolina, ami phosphateplaut ami packing house in TenncHce; $30,000 water-works, 510,000 extract works in Texas Among the new l> aiding enterprises reported were a $150,000 Opera House projected at Charleston, 8. C; $25,000 jail in North Carolina, a $40,000 house at Stanton; a 'JOO-room It it ! at Atlanta, and a number of miscellaneous building enterprises The lea.ling railroad projects for the week are the reported putohise of about 300 miles of narrow guage lines in Florida, which will probably be changed to standard guage, aud the reconstruction of 25 miles in Georgia. Northern People Coining t.> Virginia. One Lynchburg real estate firm report that it sold during 183 4, to parties from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Michigan and Western States, 9,187 acres of land, and expect many more to settle iu their section this year. An agm* at Richmond. Va., reports that h" lias ha I ;u -ixtv days 1.2?)0 inquiries for farm Ian Is e >:niug from every Northern su I W. -f rn State ami from Canada, England. France and Sweden. Fittecu per cent , ??r 13D, of the inquires were from Pennsylvania. about lb per c ?ut each from New Y..rk and Ohio, the number-, respectively, bring 121 and 12* The UeXt 111 id i? -t State. d'? was Midiicrnn - r> ' and the uext Iowa an 1 Illinois, eaeh. From 11?.it will lie seen that it in not only from the rein )te mid destitute Northwe.x* nat farmers are seeking to move South, but from tie* older and wealthier uud presumably more contented Bust. A Petersburg, real ^stite firm sold Id farms in lS'.ll t > farmers from outside of Virginia, aggregating 7,010 aires, as follows Michigan, 12; Wiscousin. 1; West Virginia, 2. New York. 4 : Indiana, 2; South Dakota, 0; Ohio, ; tierumiiT, 2, Illinois, t, Nebraska. M; Kansas, 2. N nth D ?k >tu, I I, Pennsylvania. 2. Duriug January and February, 181.">, they hive more than doubled the business of any preceding year of IS years i:i th ; real estate business ' Similar reports came from all over Virginia. sot TII < A HO I.I N A I'OI'l I.ISM. Col. .loliit .1. Oargaii, of Sumter, \ViTl Oi'il'ini/i' a People's Party After t lir < oust it ut ion.11 f foil vent ion. Cot.I'miua, S , M ifli '2.J. ?For sovoral y ms tli -rt'ort to iigniu/.o ? People's party in S uti 1 C.u /linn has boon eoutulently expected A -j<n> 1 ileal of ijnift work ha* boe'i done i:? I tin' past tow y. iirs in. >ug til r nl Populists, but they h iv boon biding their time. Tntr.orrow Col -Tohn J. t Dargnn. ofSumbi. in iv i? 1 Popu- I liit, will iii ii k * tl. in in "i ii'i'tii'ii t tint 111* will oj ^iil.l/i- til IV Ijil. 's | H ty US soon ns tin- ?'o!i?tit'iti i. i! convi-ntiou tight i> over. Ho -,?vs Tb tirst nd to bo n'hii'Vt ! is a tfo ballot an I botii st couut. No in in who is tor the sake ot anv party, hietioti or i too triumph, willing to commit. or to en.i . ..... i.... i ; ? 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Cnarlotte, C.?After ft careful examination between the Brituunica, Appletou's American, ami Johnson's Luiversal Encyclopedias and History for Ready Reference by Larned, for the purpose of purchasing one of the | above for the Charlotte Library Asso- j eiatioo, History for Ready Rcfereuco was unanimously decided upon by the committee as beiugthe preferable,both for satisfactory results and for convenience of arraugement. (Mks.) B. L. I)ewet, Librarian. History for Ready Reference ismore : v tillable to me thau any Encyclope- I d it within my knowledge. Rev. T. ! ri. E'ntchard, D. D. "History for Ready Reference tint! Topical Reading," by J. N. Lamed, is the title of a new work just beiug issued l>y one of our largest publishing houses. It is the only work iu the world which attempt* to give the statements i upon all questions of history, of the : best scholars, the most brilliant writers, and the uiost vigorous thinkers, the I woiId 1ms ever seen. It is the only I work ?ver priuted which gives the full i text of the constitutions of the differ- j ent countries 01 the world; also the full ' te<t of ihe promiucttt Historical Docu- j meats such as the Magua Charter, the j Gran 1 lleruousTtauee, Scottish National Covenant, Habeas Corpus Act,. Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, Declaration of Indepondetice aud many others, ft is the only \\<>rk giving a brilliant and authentic aeoouut written by some authority on every Party or Faction in the world's history. It is the only work giving a el urly-defiued account of every battle and military movement in our late Civil War taken from every prominent writer upon that subject, and giving full justice to the South. But the greatest feature is its magnificent arrangement. Beiug arraugiwl tiral uli.ii iluitt.?.)!!t? u m.1 iVi.vtt k.i> - "*I """ countries Hud chronologically, any hie toticai subject, however obscure, can bo fouud as quickly as one can tind n word iu a dictionary, and thou you always have authority for it. In legal phras ?ologv it might be call, d a historical digest, 'ihat the historical accounts arc not meagre, is proven by the tttot that ibt) pages, of 1,000 words to a page, arc given to the History of the United States, "200 pages to Englaud, 239 to France, the article on Runic 100 pages, on "Papacy" tJ3 pages, "Slavery" 20 pages, "Sociul j Movements" 20 pages, while "Tarifl Legislation" takes up 23 pages. "The History of the Legal Science," "Med- , icai Science," "Money nud Banking," , ' Education, ' and in fact every topic , of a historical nature are all fully ] treated. The New York Nation says: , "The w.>rk possess < a universal char- j a. t. r,' New York Herald, "Itenibra- , ccs the whole range of historical | writu:,,' Boston Journal, "Nothing j like it has ever been published." It is ciiJofs -d by every scholar who has si en it !ii >irth Carolina bithop Iviward Rondthulcr, of Salem, President G. T W inston, Drs. Manning, Battle ami Hun..- and Profs E. A. Alderman ami C C. Coltb, of the Uni- ' v.-rsitv, Rev. I W. Carter, of Raleigh, Rev. K A. Yates, of Durham, Rev. Egbert Smith, of Greensboro, \V. W. Fuller, of Durham, and mauy others endorse it uueouditioually. For circulars address (.'has. L. Van Xoppen, Buford Hotel, Charlotte,N. 0. , LIST OK PATENTS Granted to Southern inventors laat week F. (,'. Amsbary, Little Rock, Ark., stop and waste valve. M. H. Baer, Hagerstown, Md.. metallic stay for wire fences. J. M. Christopher, Baltimore, Md., alarm for vehicles. t J. R. Ciunkloton, Baltimore, Mil., bicycle-support. .1 C. Dcycrle, Salem, Va., brake for rail way-cars. V. L. Fmerson. Baltimore, Md., lumber-drier. A Eustis, New Orleans, device for .. i l nssisnui? mnrm persons. T. CI ask ins, Aicadia, La., onr-coupI',, J. (rriflin, Zi hi, Ivy., wire fence. J. House, I'riiie-'ss Anne, Va., rockiny frame for tan lis n>j- vats. 15. H. Johnson, I>iekey, <ta., scrub1>. r. VV H Ka'ol . Slannton, Va., Thrill- I t,,R- .. . ' S. K. Ki-iolf, Jackson, Tenn,, building-block. 15 bow . nbci g, N* >t folk, Va , convertible car. O 1' MoDonal 1, Daytonn, Fin., furnijintor. S. M Nc-'ly Smith's Turnout, S. C.. baling i?r "ss. \V. 11 Hubert*. Knowillo, Tonn., Combined tile-pn-e and desk. L. Sciinott. Ibis* -11, Ky., air-brake coupling. ('. H Smith, liiriniutfham, Ala., car-coMpliny. N I'. Taylor, Henderson, Ivy., blind ilnt holding device. d T. Thorpe \'?w Orleans, La., gas (*ont roller. A. Volkenratli, Huntington, W. Va., pan-l; ft*r. ('. A. White. Carli.le, Ky., harnessUimming. SOUTHERN BRIEFS. C. H. More, vice-president of the New England Grauite Manufacturers' Association, is traveling iu the South with the view of buying quarry property. He has recently been prospecting in the vicinity of Charlotte, N. C. A meeting of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Buena Vista, Vu., will he held on April 12 to consider and determiue a proposition to remove the bank to Lexington, Va. Anderson, S.C., has sold $20,000 of school bonds to J. N. Brewer, of that ni4?* v.l J. Charter has been granted to the Kershaw Banking <V Mercantile Co., of Kerohaw, S. C., with Leroy Springs, president; William Sauson, vice-president, and J. M. Heath, treasurer. The capital stock is $2'~>,i)00. The Manhattan Investment Association, of Camden, S. C., has been incorporated by D. Wolfe, W. F. Malone, J. S. Liudsay aud others. The capital stock is $oQ00. Davis i Zoellcr of Wilmington. N. C., dealers iu dry good-*, notions, carpets, etc., have assigned with Frauk H. Steadman, assignee Preferences about $6,200, of which about So,000 to local creditors. 20,000 bales of cotton were burned at the N*ew Orleans. La., cotton compress last week The loss is over a million dollars. liev. l>r. William I>n?\\u Yotiee. pro- i lessor of ancient languages at l\<?am>ko College, Va.. dropped tlei'i from apoplexy about ^ o'clock Friday evening at the Luthcruu church. in Salem. Va.. just before the cotuaieuceiueat < t services. WILL APPOINT MATT TICHE. The Newspaper Man to lie Senate Tillman's Private Secretary. Columbia, S C., March 22.?It istated on good authority that Senat t Tillmau will appoint Mnthcw Fitzs n.- ! uiuuh Tighe, recently of Charleston bat now of Washington, D. C., as h> private secretary. Mr. Tighe was for I merly ou the stair of The Charleston I News and Courier In 1891 Senat >; I Irby appointed him his private seer- i tary, and he acted in that capacity until last fall, when he resigned aim accepted a position on the stall' of Th Washington Times. Mr. Tig he ilooked npou as one of the most valua ble literary adjuncts of the reform party. He is a young man of tuor than usual talent. A curious story comes from Cross Anchor, Union county. Last woek n negro man wa/s ret iming through tinwoods from work with an ax slung across his shoulders, when stiddoulv he stepped into an old well, partially covered with brush He was force i to cut steps in the side ot the well by which to climb out, ami it fo >k twenty hours' of hard work befoie Lis rcache i the toy. Spartanburg Organizes Agai-ist the ISell Telepl.e-ue ( omp.tliv. Si'AitTANsirau. S. '.. Mar i'. A in w telephone eoic.pany. to be kn an i.-s the Spartan :rg Teh-pii me < ouipnnv, has been organized here. r?>r the j past six years tie' Hell people h ive j been giving good service at the rate of s|"< and So<> a Near pel- 'piiolie. This rate the citizen* claim is too high, ami steps were taken not long since to get up a new eompanv. The company has been organized, all the stock necessary s;il>iserib< d and the directors elected, and work wil: b-giu iniinediately of erecting the poles and putting in th plant. This new company wili furnish 'phones at the rate of Si" a y-ur 1 for each 'photic. What the Bell poo-J pie will do is not known, but it is said that they will cut umler tlii > rate. I'licv will either have to cut or ?j ?it lie tiehl. I(> 1MX II AfllKLOliH. \n?t K-tabtUli ;t H' Site for <)!?! >!aM-?. I'ile Oli'ci'l of a } !)i. Si'i:is< KiJir.i?. ri.r.., March J" A ill t" tax iuiehe.<>!*.*> ;iu 1 establish u. "old tilii l? !.->* h:?;.:e" whesi th" t:i i iilJcl -hall have reae'icil moo wa-i ::itr->- i Inceil in the i, by 1t'e-n tat: V<Wailick. I'll.- ' ii! I? :i:?? ^ ine ' t-- single men ii. thirtv t vi-ar* >: I ?ver who has ti.-vi r he-a la iiiieii tie! j \?'liijit? inCli wh > have !Va h i | live, wh 'aie j iiv-i. -i'.'y titiiit ; \ i. ! an iifove to i ' > iril if: 1 ! , i W? cue I; oVi I' s:\tv a : - i': I o.ive 1 Ii|i>1 a>>ei 1 inurri at lea-t tar ti j I ii.an ia^eal.h t'eiaal a:. . \ r in-ei 1 eai h tin:.1 \ llti*.\ >] .u's Ml-h rt cue. '1 1,??' 1 ?:i!: ' ' e f i . i v t i; country will - v.at hi itt'harlea I I'.r.ealwiiy III. . . ti: New \ I', j i'halit jiri.iei . tl?. tin :t i \?j;|. , sj?? < ?i\ in. \ total Mr Koii.--. v. i- 11 -(:?.1 iM ! ;il?- *i>M: rihSt a:'. iirii '*ar:.; v. Alter tile \N ! - !i W. Tit te ' i'.I V k |>ehiiiJess iiii i J.: ij 1 i ~. u:. I?y li:-> jiiiiek, eneriry iit.ti fur s:.{.it, .i ?*i;th::lllteil II t'urt.Wie >. !i;s iiWriility t<> h;> <<! 1 < mirau v. L:-> I'rieinl'., the <le*t;rv I ut* | ?? ;* a:.; iin nntivi town, WinchnHtor Vn , ; . well! known t<< tu.my r,-.i i I WASHINGTON NOTKS. Secretary Greaham, who waa 63 on St. Patrick's Day, is the oldest member of the cubiuet, and Secretary Smith is the baby. Pages in Congress will hereafter bo snmmoucd by touching an electric button on the desk instead of noisily clapping the hands. For years there have been many promiucut Cuban annexationists in tho I'nited States. The question has never been made a political one or annexation might have been accomplished before this. It would be difficult to tind two mou wider apart upon everything political tbau Senators Morgan, of Alabama, and Frve, of Maine, are, but just read how perfectly they agree on Citbau annexation, aud do not forget that they arc both members of the Senate Committee oil Foreign Relations, Senator Morgan being the chairman. Said Senator Fry, of that little diplomatic Hurry with Spaiu: "It looks as if Spaiu would make the required apology and as if all would noon be settled. I had hoped it would be otherwise, aud that Spaiu would assume such au arrogant and belligeraut tone that it would be necessary for the United States to go over and take possession of Cuba. We certainly ought to have that island in order to round out our possessions as they should be, ami if we cannot buy it, I foroue should like to have au opportunity to acquire it by conquest." Said Senator Morgan: "lam in favor of purchasing Cuba or of acquiring it by any other just method. I have always lieeu aCubau annexationist, tor the islaud i-" an important one to the Uuited States. If the revolutionists ar-? able to hold out for a year they will be able to secure material assistance from persons in this country, uot ou!y in the way of money, but iu men, iu spite of all efforts to prevent it. There are many men who are ready to go into a war for Cuba, or any other war, and there will be no way of keeping them out of it if the meu who are leading this revolt show that they cotumau<l any real strength at home." Suu'i' th' so public utterances the prodiction is freely made that a uew movement for the annexation of Cuba will s ?oa begin to show itself iu this co'iutry. In fact, many believe that Secretary Gresham made his recent demand upon Spain unnecessarily harsh with the hope that it would make Spain <I > -omethiug that would justify an attack upon her. General Ransom has secured a place in the Postoftice Department for Robert Powell, of Edgecomb county, N. C. G S. Thompson was appointed postmaster at Osceola, Alamance county, N. C.. and R. C. Jackson at Bowling Greeu, York county, S. C. lo KvJii*>it son?hern liivi>ntii)n< Ah exhibition that should furnish iut nesting und instructive entertainm >nt is to Wh one of the features of the reunion of Confederate veterans to he held in May it Houstou, Texan This exhiiution is to be a display of ingenious devices and patents from Southern inventors exclusively. A general invitation has been extended to the people of the South controlling devices or patents to enter same for this display. Power will be supplied for machinery and facilities provided for giving each exhibit proper accommodation. M. M. Bright, of Houston, is in charge of the arrangements for the exhibition. whose novelty aud extensive fiel 1 for exhibits sh >ul i make it a sueOlive Culture In the South. Id is said that South Carolina could produce abundant crops of a tine variety of olives if it were not for the fact that the bearing season is the same as that ot the cotton plant The olives are allowed to wither aud fall unpicked for want of laborers, who are engaged in the cotton fields. Tli?-tre?s are hardy ami -till continue t > bear ill spite of neglect, so that the day is not far oil", probably, when we -hall raise enough olives it. home to supply the demand. Chimin <'V Maina Mistake. RfTnunt'onDTos', N. 0., March ID.? At Rutherford college today aeventyftvc students went to the depot to inoi t their professors. As the professors left the cars, the students set up i vol! Chauncey Dcpew was aboard and thought tlie^F were cheering him. He left the car and made them a politi eal .perch. The train moved oft bofoi f >r. Dcpew saw the joke that, was on intii. New Carolina Itatlroads. The North Carolina legislaturej*ranted charter- to Ihe following railway companies: Cnrritrek ?V Carolina, < il l. lhoad, Houthpol't ,V Wester.;, M irioiioad Springs, I'lvrponth, Washington A Kingston, Carolina Hail way V l.'unlx r Co., New !"< riir Stre"t flailway Electric, Satiford, Eillington Ar Eastern, Carolina Ar Northern. Se:?tenei ?! for {.itielling Taylor. W\- if. ;r.?N, t>. C.. March TV W. ( ?.via Chase, tin- colored editor who was convicted of the criminal libel of C If. Taylor, the colored rceoiilcr I.;' <1 m. vh H'fo, wna Kriitrjircil t" y Inys i:; j'lil b\ thf Ir<. BIG WHISKEY STEAL. 10,000 GALLON'S OK CORN JL'IOK STOLEN WITH A SIPHON'. Brought to Light by tin* Investigations of United States liitornal Reveuue Olllccrs. The facts in one of tho most remarkable robberies ever known iu South Carolina have just been unearthed by the internal revenue olHeers at Wallialla, S. C. In 1892 tleury Bicmau soil four government distilleries, with bonded warehouses situated about a halt' a mile apart along the banks of a ereek, two miles from Walhallu, to \V. 0. Tatum. They were built on the side of the hill sloping towards the stream, and the warehouses eoutaiued ten thousand gallons of corn whiskey. Tatum at onee closed the disti'leries and the warehouses were looked and the government seal attached, it heiug the owner's purpose to hold the whiskey three veers before iiiivm / tliutav ,?l. lowedby law. During the latter part of August of lust year Collector Towuea wrote to Tatum several times lufortniug him that the three years were ahout to expire and nrgiug him to be ready to comply with the law. On the night, of September ~>th, two days before the expiration of the time, three of the distilleries were burned to the ground. The fourth only contained seventy gallons of whiskey. Deputy Collectors Vauderi'ord and King were deiailed to conduct an investigation. Visitlug the sites of the burned buildings they could discover uo signs whatever of whiskey, although they expected to Hud the ground saturated for many feet around where the burning fluid had flowed. Gradually the evideuce was developed and dually confessions were obtained substantially as follows: Soor. after the purchase by 'latum ...... ..? o.. i ?... ? i - "in III IUC WUI' U'l ITJS umi iitru fuicrod, the burglars drawing tho staple of the door. Then they had inserted ouo end of a j>ioce of hose into a barrel and drawing it through a erack iu tho wall placed the oth-T end in an empty barrel at the foot of the lull in to which the whiskey was siphoned This process was repeated night after night nutil every gill of the whiskey had been stolen, the siphon arrangement enabling the thieves to operate deliberately and avoid the danger which hauling away a large quantity at once would have incurred. The revenue officers say that the tax on the whiskey is secured by the boud. The facts above related were gradually developed, and the arrests of John Farmer, A-hbury Hide, William Whitman, Tony Watkius and dobu Rowland followed. They have been given hearings before United States Commissioner Hawthorne ntOreeuvillo and were hold for trial Someofthem have made full confessions AN OPKItATOR'S THROAT CUT. Will Stewart, at Hlackstuirg, Attacked by Robbers and Left for Dead. Hi'ABTANr.,,Kii. S. G, March '20.? This morning about '2 o'clock Will Stewart. aged twenty, night operator ut Blacksbtirg, was lying <>n a table in his ofliee witli the >loor unlocked when unknow n parti*.. cam.? in ami robbed his pockets. This ,lou?. they knoekoil hini in the head, indicting two painful wounds. They theu searched the office and succeeded in finding Sl').'2r> iu the ticket drawer The robbers then cut the young man's throat acid left hinr for dead. Afte? some time Stewart regained consciousness, and mores dead than aliv went to the hotel and aroused the clerk, and told hini of the robbery and the attempt to take bis life. The robbers, thinking Stewart dead, went to the store of Barker and effected an entrance by cutting out a pane of glass hi one ?>f the windows. They prized open the safe ami made way with the entire contents. The .mount >s not known. The Drummers Organize. Wisstov, N. < .. March 21. The \i>rll C'i" i-i.i ! v : -! 11 r i i C!i?? Tnivrlrr's I'rwtccti'.<> Asaociutioii <?f Aiiiffii-ii was -r^.ini/ -<l in tli clia:ul>: r of I'Miutiwrrf- r >oi>ih, Thursday ni^bt, l.v,\V .f. Cr:imi'.of llodiHiond, Vu. The mimes < : liti-niix-r-. w -re i'!. rolled a' ti.<- iii-t ? ??n?j ??? ?I inosth of t*% !:*ii.it'll aii'! ma:: i fiii'tiuvrs of N\'iii-.f\?:i-Sul?'in. Yhi* hi:..1, t r w:'.! i-i largely iurro'i- I. \i vt ()!l:i ITS. A 1 i ni W.idiin^t s iy >: ' Mi or I: v .!.1 M. 'inns, >t-v ,.;ii ( Mvulfy. - i??.' i r?l :*' <! t | : reoil to it:l. N t'.. 1 ' I'JMirf . j< '.noil t. 41 < : - . i . . . .. ilutv iH rtaiiiiiiX to tL National (Miurd ? I thut Stat . *< I I; v? ( .it| !. . :ia It[i \ , \V. .1 Truth ( ivuiry. l'lir >iti'(l Auaoiiurrs Alio!Iior < at. Wash.vi;- n. !>. ('., March -I.). 'I'lir Srali<'!ir?I m.:ioiif?<TH u rut in the rate from \S n^liiti-.'ton t<? A11 si? t> <m it, vr.sti* ! i'ur.t" ! from to Si 1