The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 26, 1895, Image 2
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v . First Since the War.
For the first time since the days of
*6l-G5 there was a parade in tho streets
?I Charleston a few dare ago of en- '
listed troops. The PWOgaaieed Fourth
brigade was inspected andmnetered in
bf the adjatant general of the State.
and this function was followed by a j
parade and review. There were
nearly 1,000 men of all arms in line.
This included the oorps of oadets of
the State military academy, 150 strong;
the corps of oadets of the Porter mili- |
tary academy, ISO strong; throe bat- '
talions, nine companies of infantry;
one battalion of naval militia; one bat- J
' talion of artillery, a squadron of
cavalry, three bands of music and a !
drum oorps. Under the reorganization j
which recently took plaee, as a result ,
of the dispensary riot iu March, of
1804, those man are all enlisted re- '
gularly in the service of the State. '
Only one company of the brigade de- '
* dined to re-enlist, the Charleston
Light Dragoons. The adjutant general
of the State, and the oommaudant of
the Fourth brigade cure both graduates
of the State military academy since its
reorganization in 1880. The military !
display was a very creditably affair.
Work for Everybody.
A good report comes from Columbia
in regard to the work in Richland
County for the purpose of the State
exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. Tbe
county is moving, the wheels have
been started and strong and active
forces are behind them. Some of the
best men in the community are in- |
terested, the women have given the J
promise of their oo-operation, and i
things from now on are going to hum
along. The county that wants to get
ahead of Richland will have to be alert.
It is announced that the State Agricultural
Society has decided to hold
a floral fair tbe fourth week in May.
^ The Florence Eleetrio Light and
Fower Company has received a 120horse
power engiue with which it expect
to run its dynamos.
The election for a mayor of Rock
Hill to serve the unexpired portion of
the term for which the late Dr. Fowell
was elected resulted in the success of
W. C. Hutchison. I
The plant of the new Cheraw Knitting
Mills Co., will work a night and
day force, producing about 80,000
dozen hose per annum. About sixty
or seventy hands will be employed.
^Charleston wanhy an electric railway
built between that oity and the suburban
summer and health resort of
Hummerrille, S. C. The distance is
abont twenty-two miles, through a
beautiful moss covered forest. The
country is level and the line could
therefore be built at a minimum cost
sti would pay a large revenue
JL gentleman from Connecticut, who
is visiting different sections of tho
d/vn4k ?n aoarah <if a oni#dliln Iaoa^i on I
JVIUU IU P^aivu f* nuiipuir iv/vnuiviu
for a hotel of one hundred rooms,
which he proposer ?> build at some
place that will furnish suitable facilities
for hunting, recently visited Calhojiu
Falls, and aa a 'result of his invibii^atiou
viAs v?ry fnVGrsbls impressed
with that place.
A charter has been issued to the
Edgeiield Oil Co., of Edgefield. The
oapital stock of the company is $50,000,
with the right to increase it to
$100,000. The oftnera of the company
are Charles H. Fisher, president; R. .
M. Miller, Jr., secretary, and C. H. |
Fisher, treasurer. The company haa '
already built a cottonseed mill.
Tom Dpcon tn a Wreck.
A special to the News and Courier j
from .Florence, ?. u., nays: Train -to, 1
the southbound fast mail on the North- j
eastern Railroad, which left here at
8:10 o'clock Wednesday dooming for
Charleston, ran into a washout at |
Howe's Crossing, four miles below |
this city and was completely wrecked.
The engine passed over the washout, '
but the tender, mail, baggage, first- J
class car and three sleepers we at j
down. There were few passengers on >
the train, none of whom were killed.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., the
noted New York preacher and orntor,
and Robert Petteway, the baggage
master, of Wilmington, N. C., received
the worst injuries, neither sorious.
The train was in charge of Engineer
Meadors and Conductor ThomasOglesby,
neither of whom was hurt. To
add to the horror, the two rear sleepers
look tiro from gas lumps and were
burned.
Sugar Refineries Resumed Work.
The Sprockles Bugar Refinery of
Philadelphia, Pa. which baa been
closed for two week by order of the
Bugar Trust, by which it is controlled,
has started to run again. The resumption
of work is looked npon as a
steady one. The plant is running on
nearly full time, but with a reducod
force. Another refinery in Williamsburg,
N. Y., which was closed by tie
trust at the same time Spreokles was
shut down ha* also resumed work
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^ AMAOHUSKTTS MILL MBIT.
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Tk?jr Don't Qlvo n Good Thing Aw my,
but Sine Upon It.
Talking about the Maaaachuaetta
mill committee,a successful cotton mill
man who has most of his money invested
in Southern enterprises, put
the situation in a very terse and
forcible manner. Said'he: "So far,
! as we Southern ootton manufacturers
| are concerned it wuulil be better for ,
us and our pocketbooks if the New
, England 'manufacturers would keep
BVAT fl>Am fKn Qrvntk Q^ 4U.
I w? vftw vuv ik^vu?u* *?u iiki an vumr
liking this section.is concerned there
1 csn be no qaestion, end it is simply s
| question as to which is in a position
i to get here first. It would be poor
; .business polioy for anyone to find a
good thing, as these people hays, and
then go and trumpet it about to all
their'business rivals. These people
are going to quietly fold their tints
and invest thoir money in the South,
and get just as long a start before the
other fellow as is possible. The longer
the better, and the earlier they get
here the more pie they will be able to
eat. These people understand the mill
business so thoroughly that they have
not taken long to see the advantages
of cotton mills in the Southern field." ;
A COTTON MILL MAT.
The D. A. Tompkins Company, of
Charlotte. N. C., has gotten out an interesting
map in connection with the
matter of successful cotton mills. It is
called "A map showing the territory of
the most success? ul toxtile manufa?t;ir. s
in the United States." The successful
territory is marked off iu red. First'
comes the New England territory; then
a slice taking in Trenton, Philadelphia
and Baltimore. The largest division is
the Piedmont belt. It commences at
Lynchburg, in Southern Virginia, and
runs South as far as Eufaula, Alabama.
On the North the belt skirts the Blue
Ridge Mountain range and on the
South the boundary ismarked Tarboro,
N.. C., Florence, Orangeburg and
Barnwell, in South Carolina, and
Dawson and Millen, in Georgia. Very
little of Alabama is included in the
"most successful territory" and none
of Texas, Florida, Mississippi or other
Southern States come in the rod lines
Two-thirds of South Carolina is included
in the most successful territory.
All of the Piedmont section proper is
embraced as well as Columbia, Barnwell,
Sumter, Chester, Lancaster,
Darlington, Orangeburg, Edgctield,
Ahhnvillo Ailran oml 1 '
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the territory adjoining. Mr. Tompkins
does not undertake to explain
why the map w?? drawn in this way,
but simply explains that it is after a
study of the successful cotton mills.
<vrn. Li. Wilson In Richmond.
Hon. William L. Wilson, Postmaster
General, arrived in Richmond, Va.,
Wednesday afternoon on the 2:45 train
from Washington. He was met at
Ashland by a committee of the local
alumni of the University of Virginia,
and on reaching here was tendered a
lunch at the residence of Mr. Wyndham
R. Meredith, and later a reception
in his honor was hold at the executive
nansinn Tkn *
uinuoiuu. X lit uuypi UUK w nrj UnMHlt'U
in receiving by his staff, who were in
uniform, and the affair vm very brilliant.
A delegation of white postofflce
employes attended the reception
in a body and at the door of the manlion
were joined by a colored letter
carrier. The latter wan stopped by
the Governor's butler and waited in
the hall until Mr. Wilson came out of
the parlor and shook hands with him.
At night Mr. Wilson, at the banquet
of the Richmond Chapter of the
University of Virginia Alumni, responded
to the toast. "The Scholar
in? Politics." Mr. Wilson said that
high political education w as the foundation
of Democratic institutions. If
there ever was a time when it was
necessary for every man to do his duty j
ft? a citizen, as a patriot, as a politician,
it was this time. The politics of the
country had undergone a change since
the days of Thomas Jefferson. The
function of the scholar in politics was
the function of enlightening the people.
POSTAL. HOLIDAYS.
The Postmaster Oeneral Amends the
Regulations Regarding Them.
The Postmaster General amended
the postal laws and regulations regarding
holidays. The amendment stales
that postmasters may observe as holidays
January 1st, February 2'2nd, May
30th, July 4th, the first Monday in
September, known as Labor Day, December
25th, and such other days as
the President of the United States or
the Governors in their respective States
may designate as fast or thanksgiving
days, or proclaim specially as holidays.
On other occasions their offices can be
closed only after permission is obtained
therefor from the Departtueut. to
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be applied lor tnrougu iuc xirsi am- i
sistant Postmaster General. Upon ]
holidays postofHces must be opened
suflicicntly to meet fairly the public
convenience. Mails must be up and
distributed as on other days. When a
legal holiday tails upon a Sunday the
following Monday rnnv be obserrdv,
unless otherwise specially provided for
l?v State authority.
Although Alsuoe wus under French
j control for nearly two centuries, the
people continue to speak German.
Industrial Conditions South.
The indutrial conditions of the
South are improving. Iron ia strong
and the demsnd is heavj. The lumber
market shows strength. The dcmand
for machinery from all parts of
the South is much heavier than for
months past and there is a greater
number of new projects than ordinarAmong
the fifty-three- new industries
reported as established or incorpoeated
are two canning factories at
Thomson, Ga., an electric light plant
at Paaa Christian, Miss., and $20,000
electrio plants at Pulaski, Jeun., and
Taylor Texas; flouring mills at Berryville,
Ark.; Rocky Face, Ga.; Jasper
and Kinsport, Tenn.; Pinkerton, Va,;
and Brandy wine, W. Va. Ice factories
afe to l>e established at Raleigh,
N. C.; Cleveland, Tenn,; aud Han Antonio,
Texas. A land company with
a capital of $78,000 has been organiz
i'u at Atlanta, it*.; ana one at ftlaroo,
$50,000.? Coal mines will he developed
at Jhfsper, Ala.; and a $75,000 cotton
setd oil mill erected at Fort
Worth, Tex. A $40,000 cotton mill i?
reported from Central, 8. C.. and one
to cost $500,000 is proposed at Columbia,
S. C. At Cullman, Ala., a $50, 000
cotton mill will be erected ami at
Hogansville, Ga., one to coat $125,000
and another at Spartanburg. S C.,
with a coital of $200,000.
Woodworking plants will be established
at Talladega. Ala,, Tampa, Fla.,
Atlanta and Waycross, Ga., New Orleans,
La., Wilmington. N. (' , Beaumont,
and Lynchburg, Va.
Among the enlargements reported
is a flouring inillat Mill Bridge, N. C.,
Wytheville, Va., aud Maaontown, W.
Va., aniLanachine works at Atlanta,
Ga.
Among new buildings a $16,000
church at Birmingham, Ala., a
$30,000 court house at Zeimlon, Ga.,
and hotela to be enlarged at Atlanta,
Ga. Several new residences will be
erected at Louisville, Kv., and Wheeling,
W. and a warehouse at Tim*
monsville, S. C.
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADES.
Cotton, OH and Wheat Climbing-The
Rl^eintlie Pi Ire of Beef.
R. G. Dunn & Co.'s weekly review
of trade for the past week, earn: In
every speculative department business
is growing, but this in really the least
satisfactory feature of the situation.
Cotton, oil and wheat climbed above
the export price, so that the marketing
of products abroad must be checked
and money is absorbed which ought to
be employed in productive lndustrv
and iu distribution of products to consumers.
There is uo evidence that cotton is
in lar ger dflLsud than it was when the
price was swit lower, but prices have
been so low Tor months that au upward
movement was easy without much reason.
though stocks here and abroad
are 300,000 bales larger than they
were at the same date after the greatest.
crop ever produced heretofore and
spinners here and abroad have taken
about 1.GOO.000 bales mure th?n
Lave consumed, 'lbe rise tends to
prevent the decrease of acreage, which
ia its one reasonable excuse.
Outside of the speculative markets
the most important feature is the rise
in the price of beef, but which is largely
due to the control of source? of supply
by a few strong corporations. The
aotual decrease in receipts of cattle at
the four ebief Western markets has
been 200,000 head during the first
quarter of 1H93, aud the quantity killed
has been only 80,000 head less than
last year?about 10 per cent.
General trade conditions at theSouth
are no better, and in some respects
less satisfactory. Improvement) ia
demand is not announced at any point.
In IVxns high winds and lack of rain
have hurt crop prospects, and farmers
in some localities have not planted yet.
Soiiu- large textile mills have advanced
wages at Fall River about 10
per cent, restoring the rater, paid ufter
the reduction iu September, 1803.
Labor troubles are comparatively less
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BeiK'uf tint* wren, niiu luc itfuueiiCV lt?
toward larger returns for labor, which
will increase the consuming power for
other product*. The cotton mills are
euoouruged by improving prices and
are fairly busy.
Failures during the past week have
been 241 in the Cuited States, against
2111 last year, and 26 iu Canada,agaiust
45 last year.
Deputy Comptroller of the Treasury
Mansur Dead.
Charles H. Mansur, of Missouri,
Deputy Comptroller of the U. S. Treasury,
died shortly before 7 o'clock
Tuesday morning after an illness of
several weeks, during which his death
has been daily expected. Early iutha
night the physicians abandoned the
faint ray of hope that lingered, and
discontinued administering medicine.
Tlic Visible Sii|?|>l\ .
Official reports from New York indicate
that the total visible supph of cotton
for the world is 4,27~,<i;?l hah a,
of which 3,945,451 hales are American,
against 5,05r>,2?4 hales and OKI
hales respectively last year. The receipts
<?f cotton last w -ek at all the interior
towns were 41,055 hales; receipts
from the plantations 45,451 hales.
Crop in sight iV*li!.20t? hales.
PITHY NEWS ITEMS.
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Charles Knox, tbe founder of the
hat manufacturing company which
bears his name, died of pneumonia,
aged 77 years.
J. A. White of Columbus,Ga. announces
bia intention of becoming a candidate
for President of tbe United States, as
silver man. labor man. and southerner.
He wants to unite the west and south.
White is a shoemaker.
According to the report of the gorerment
geological survey the production
of marble from Oeorgia in 1894
was 481,029 cubic feet, valued at $716,385,
as compared' with 8261,666, the
valuq in 1898, an increase of 174 per
cent. Oeorgia ranks second among
tbe marble-producing States, Vsrmont
being first. All the marble comes
from Pickens county.
The annnal report of tbe American
tnliannn pnmmiaM/in ahnnra a anvntn. ^'
$4,013/227, after allowing for the income
tax and preferred stock dividend.
The surplus after common stock ?lividend
is $1,805/227. Total surplus,
$7,198,290, on December 13, 1894.
Fifteen thousand dozen eggs woro
shipped from Huutsville, Ala., to New
York last Saturday and on Tuesday
several hundred oases were shipped to
Now Orleans.
George Cowan, of Oborlit^. O., aged
21, while playing baseball, was struck .
by a pitched ball behind the ear and
lustautly killed.
j Rev. E. V. Evans has resigned the
! rectorship of Trinity Protestant Episcopal
church at St. Augustine, Fla.,
to go to England, where he has fallen
heir to the property aud title of his
uncle, the late Lord Carberry.
The Quinnebog Company of Dsnielsville
and Nicholsouville, Conn., together
with the Fall River and New
; tied to ret (Mans.) Manufacturers' Associations,
have all advanced the operatives,
wages ranging from (5$ to 124 per
cent., taking effect on the 22(1 inst.
John Quarler and David Hutler, the
two Murray County (Oa) Wbitecappera
convicted of participating in the recant
hanging of Henry Worley, were sentenced
by the Atlanta Federal Court
to tivo Tears each in the penitentiary
at Columbus, O., with a tine of $500
each additional. The ease will be carried
to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The manufacturers' convention to
bo held in Atlanta Pfaj 7th and 8th
will be one of the most important
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Uicruu^n OVOI UC11I IU tuot tIM . AUO I
state association of manufacturers that
the convention is to organize will be
the first association of its character
ever organized in the south. This fact
alone will attract gteat attention to
Georgia's progress and prosperity, i
More than 300 delegates are ,
PIEDMONT MINERAL COMPANY.
Englishmen with $200,000 to Look
for Caol<l and Moun/.lte.
i
Win. E. Hidden, of Newark. N. J.,
who returned from London on tho
Lucania recently, went abroad on
March t?th to complete contracts in I
North Carolina. 1
These interests were capitalized
while Mr. Hidden was iu London for (
$200,000 ?ud a company was formed, I
called the Piedmont Mineral Company, I
limited. Mr. Hidden was made a i
director of the company and was ap- \
pointed the American manager to have
full charge of the company's property j
and interests in this country.
Mr. Hidden said that the new coin - 1
panj owns 2.500 acres of valuable min- 1
eral lands in the mountains of North i
Carolina and also owns all the mineral
rights in another tract of 1,000 acres. '
The principal mineral to be mined ia 1
gold, rich deposits of which exist on
one tract sixty miles east of Asheville.
Another valuable mineral is mouuzite,
which contains thorium, a material
iiHeil m producing the incandescent gas
light now being introduced iu Newark.
Tliia mineral exists in largo quantities
ou the company's property
WAMHINUlOM NOTK.S.
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H. H. Sims, of Durham, ha* been
transferred from the Pension Office to '
the Interior Department proper. I
All recently published estimates
of the income tax returns are too low. '
They will very largely exceed ten mil- j
lion dollars. The returns for the Oar- 1
olinas and the South are generally '
small. Some of our capital is listed
North and taxes paid here, although [
some of the industries are located in
the South
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Reports from an authoritative
source have reached the Agri Miltural
Depa-itment that an unknown insect . j
has attacked the waterraelom plants of |
MOUthorn Oiinroriu nnij nr.w '
to destroy flint product. The Depart- <
mrnt at once despatched Assistant En- i
tomologist D. W. Ooquillett to the spot i
to make a thorough investigation.
Patterson and Sound Money.
Representative Josiah Patterson, of <
Memphia, Tenn., is in Washington in I
the interest of a sound money conven- 1
tion to ho held in Memphis May 23. i
Patterson between now and the date '
of the convention will make addresses
in nearly all the large cities---of the
Mouth on the subject of iinanco and
tho importance of the coming convention
.
In the Western District the Week Ha<
Been Favorable for Furm Work. *
The following is the lastcrbp report:
Eastkrn District.?Tho v^ry heavy
rainfall on Monday of last w*ek,which
caused some damage to crops especially
in the North, and flooded lowlands
everywhere, made land so wet that
ploughing and planting word delayed
half the week. This week was dry, except
light showers on the 13th and 14th,
but too oool and windy. The exceM
of sunshine was quite favorable. Warmr
dry weather in needed to enable farmers
to push ahead with work, which
is much behind. Farmers are being
foroed to prepare soil too hastily. Corn
planting is progressing as rapidly as
circumstances permit,and is about half
finished on nplsuds. Home corn is up.
Strawberries are looking medium.
Shipments will not begin for ton days
or two weeks. Truck crops continue
promising, radishes, early cabbages,
etc., being marketed. No damage is
reported from frost
Ckntrau District.?The rain of last
week was remarkably heavy, especially
in a line from Vance county down to
Anson; land was washed considerably,
stroams overflowed, bridges washed
away, plant beds ruined and plowed
land packed so that it wiil have to bs
broken over again. Plowing ro-coramonced
actively on Thursday. Light
fronts occurred mornings of 12th and
15th, which, as one correspondent remarks,
had beneficial rather than injurious
effects, by thinning out fruit on
overburdened peach trees. The coo!
woather continues to retard program*
of vegetation,but forests are beginning
to look green. Apples and cherries
are now in bloom. Increased acreage
to fruit is reported. Oardoning made
some progresH during th<* week. Wheat
and rje small but looking well,average
stand; oats poor. Irish potatoes and
corn coming up. Corn planting is progressing,
and a few farmers have begun
to plant eotton. Much more attention
than usual will be paid to tobacco in
this district.
Western District. ?Notwithstanding
cool weather and some frosts the
past week lias boon favorable for farm
work, though vegetation makes slow
progress. There was a large percentage
of sunshiue and very little raiq^^.
The heavy rains of the preceding week
also delayed {'lowing and planting for
two days in this district, but the
ground is now in excellent condition,
and two weeks of fair weather would
euauie farmers to oatrh n*? ?ith
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work. Farmers have beon rapidly preparing
land, planting corn and gardens,
and getting ready for cotton. Tobacco
plants are coming up nicely. Small
grains have improved,especially wheat
and rye, and spring oats are starting off
well. .Traps ?ce budding slqprly in ths
west and peaches and cherries are in
bloom, and strawberries and apples in
the South. Light frosts occurred with
* little damage, but conditions still indicate
a largo fruit crop.
Beats Cotton or Tobacco.
Another valuable plaut, the cansigre,
has been discovered and brought into
cultivation for commercial purposes,
which may possibly be added sooner
or later to the regular crops in the
Bouth. An interesting aocount of itia
published by the Financier, City of
Mexico, which states that it is becoming'an
important crop in Arizona,
New Mexico and Texas, and adds that
in one region of Texas, the Pecos
Valley, the farmers are abandoning
cotton and growing cauaigre with decided
profit.
A nn^Viow 11 1 I - *
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word belongs to the Mexican dialect
and means 4ia sour or acid stalk or
pane," and that the plant belongs to
the buckwheat family and in related a
to rhubarb, dock sorrel, etc., all of
which grow in the Southern States.
Cultivation, it in stated, increases the^^B
product to thirty tons of green
per acre, which shrink to about eight^^H
tons when dried. The value of tb^B^f
plant is owing to its tunning pmper^^^B
ties, as the roots yield from 2d to
per cent, of tannic acid ; white oak and
hemlock bark yield only from 8 to 10
per cent. Prices of the dried root
range from $25 to $30 per ton in the
rough. In Europe from $50 to $80
per ton is paid and the demand fur
exceeds the supply. The crop per
acre is said to be wor*ft from $175 to
$225, while the cost of planting and
cultivating is about the same as that of
the sweet potato crop. The taunio
acid from canaigrc- is said to Ije exceptionally
valuable for tanning uppers,
fine saddlery and fancy leathers. It
is used also an a dyestuflr.
This in eDougb to commend the
plant to the attention of farmers in the
South who are disposed to seek substitutes
for cotton; and if the ]<lant
will grow here, and respond to cultivation,
it |is certainly well worth cultivating.
A crop that can be planted
and cultivated "the name a* the sweet
potato crop" and pays from $175 to
B'225 per acre, with the demand exceeding
the supply, should not require
much urging beyond the statement
of its merits. Further information
regarding it, and useful suggestions
ah to its cultivation, can be obtained
by applying to the Agricultural
Department at Washington.
Under the laws of Now Jorsoy flogging
is prohibited iu public auhoola. .