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PALMETTO POINTERS EVENTS ALL. OVER THE STATE. South Carolina Crop Report* Director Bauer, oftho weather and crop bureau, iu bin report for the past week save : Cotton planting has been actively pushed over the eutire State an the weather permitted, but an yet scarcely more than half of the crop has been put in the ground, considering the en iiru niiiir, iu tut' rnoit'iu ^unuii ii> ih neariug completion, while only just fairly begun in the western portion, j (Termination slow owing to cold weather Some replanting necessary owing to cool weather. Some planted in March not yet up. The general opinion seems to ho that there will be less planted Uiih year than lust. Corn planting is nearly completed | on the uplands and the stand of that that is up is good iu places, fairly good j generally, and not poor anywhere. Some replanting uccessary owiug to j washed lauds, birds, and possibly poor i seed used. Birds very troublesome iu Orangeburg county. The weather has ! been too cool for this crop, which is tairlv two weeks late Germination has been slow. Grains are improving very much. Wheat is doing very well anil promises j to be better than was thought at the i first of the season. Spring oats look very promising: their condition seems I to be uniform throughout the State. Fall sowu oats are a complete failure. | Vittirn /in it o iu lioiiinr nlanlnd vnrtr 1 largely this year. In place* it is being I planted to supplement the oats crop j for forage, ami for that purpose is "aid to be most excellent. Some seed caue damaged, owing, it is thought, to the manner iu which it was packed away last Call, allowing the cane to become touted and killing the "eyes." Tobacco plants, in beds, are looking very Hue. But little, if any, has been transplanted into Holds yet. The acreage will this year be largely increase.I. as uiauy farmers will cultivute experimental Holds of from three to five acres. This report comes from Darlington County and is doubtless ; true of much of the Pec-Dee section. I Peauuta will also receive more attention than has beeu the case heretotore. Truck matured rapidly and heavy shipments continue to the Northern markets from the coast region. The interior truck farms are very late. Irish potatoes have not attained a satisfactory stand, but will improve under the influence of warm weather. Sweet potatoes for seed continue scarce. < I a ill ? n?, although late, are in good condition. Fruit and berries will bo abundant crops. It is rarely the case that a frost occurs in tbia State after the 20th of April, except possibly in the extreme western portion, so that danger front that source has passed, leaving the crops practically assured. Cherry and apple trees in full bloom in Oconee, Cickeus aud Greeuvillo cou n ties. Cotton M',; :'or Greenville County. A commission for a ehurter was issued to the American Spiuning Company, of Greenville County The corporators named are: O. H. Sampson, Jmn. 11 Morgan. Jan. L Orr and Jas. S. Cothian, Jr. The eapitul stock of the eoiupany is to be $ 125,1)00. The company proposes operating a cotton null in Green\ die County From the eharaeter of the men interested this is evidently a strictly business enterprise and one which will amount to something. A Itel te of t lie Past. The committee that is looking over the records of the treasurer's oflice at Columbia to iiud out all about tbe payment of the old bonds ran aeross a copy of a draft oftho Constitution that was adopted in 1 770 for the State of South Carolina. The paper is in rather a mixed up couJitiou, and no exact date appears on it The preamble, however, states that the Constitution is to replace the one temporarily passed Mareli 2t>, 177'i -4** Death of Dr. Holler, of K<lgef]cti|. !>r G. S. ibitler, one of the most prominent citizen* of KdgcHohl died at Ins Home Thursday morning after a lingering illness. Dr Butler belonged to one of the best families, his ancestors having helped to settle this con in i y. In Contempt of Judge huff. r oliovviug out Ins declaration of m* tflltloU !(> dlHlrgH 1.1 J IhlgO Golf's temporal \ 111 jiiliftt(>n restraining al' Staff, count \ ami tiiunifi|>*iI ofticurs from interfering with liquor shipped into this State, while in transit itml in the hands of cor.M: iic? s until May'id. Omi riior I vans liquor constable oil Friday aftcrin oil m-i/cila Imm l of bottled beer, shipv d l<y express froiu Augusta. (In., to I V d. (bible, Columbia. Tin y broke it ojieii and eonveiied its confiscated cout? nt- to lie state dispensary. State Liquor ('oinniissiouer Mixson issued a circular to constables, commanding the in to be particularly vigilant in detecting and sei/ing liquors. The further action ol the United .States judges is awaited with the keenest interest. The wouien of Columbia will publish a newspaper on the 10th of May, Memorial Day, iu aid of the Columbia Hospital, the Columbia "State,"having liberally given them that one day's issue to help the cause along. It is a good cause and deserves the most gen1 erous assistance. I *75.000 F1RK IN fitARLOTTR. The Sanders & niaokwood Warehouse and Six Stores Destroyed. April. 1895, is destined to be a memorable month for Charlotte, N. C. The most distressing bank defalca- J tion that has ever been known in Charlotte, occurred in the early part of the week, and Thursday afternoon the largest tire that has been chronicled since the big cotton platform fire of 1875. The immense cotton warehouse on North College street known as the j Sanders itr Blackwood warehouse, l erected at a cost of $'2(>,0i)0, lies a mass | of ruius. together with the rear portion I of the Holton building on Trade street, running back to the cotton warehouse, and two new stores on North College ! ati eet owned by Capt. Harrison Watts. By 5 o'clock the whole of the immense warehouse was in Humes. The sight was grand yet terrifying A slight breeze was blowing, and sparks aud flakes of burning cotton were carried over the houses ou the opposite block. The roof of Ritch's stable was discovered to be on tire, as were several roofs of houses in Buzzard's Roost. With this increase of danger, increased the excitement. Bucket brigades were formed and the roofs were manned and the water passed up. Ah the Haines rolled higher and higher from the burning warehouse, it was j seen that the whole block of houses, au unbroken line of brick, on College street, was in great danger. The occupants of the various stores on College, believed nothing but that the whole block would be swept away, and a rush was ma le by each to get his goods out. The streets were strewn with furniture, ~*oeeries, beds, boil [ clothing, trunks, ooef and everything else portable. The scene was a wild one. It seemed as the fire progressed that it would not stop short of the corner. The stores on the College street block were occupied as follows: Southern Newspaper Union, occupying corner of College and Fifth; W. F. Strange, tin ware; Charlotte Broom Factory; John Sloan, grocery; Tester Bros., mechanics; Lubinsky & Bamsey, furniture. and next two store rooms of Capt. Watts, unoccupied. The fire stopped about the furniture store. The Southern Newspaper Union I kept its presses running and men at work up to the time w hen the fire was in only a few doors from it "That's enterprise," said some one. "You can't dow n the press, you know " The general opinion seemed to be that the fire could have been prevented had the water supply been sufficient. The pressure was not strong enough. Superintendent Hutchison, of the water works, was seen after the fire. He said that one of the three boilers was being cleaned, making them Hnort, when the fire began, one boiler. It took about JO minutes to fire it up. The pressure, he said, was #0 pounds, ' l>ut at one time went down to 40. He, 1 as well as the company, was worried that the boiler was not in working orI der. The tire of Thursday afternoon | clearly ilemon*ti ate* that two boilers ! are not sufficient, and as the third one j is likely to hnve to be cleaned again, ! and possibly agaiu <>n the very day , when needed, as Thursday, it seems j that the company should purchase an j extra one. The shortage in water cost ' the city thousand* of dollars. The loss is estimated to be about S7."?,000. Insurance $19,800. A colored bov named Ib-n Wright was badly cut by falling glass. His j face and arms were fearfully torn. Klglit It.imiits to be Shot. i A special from the City of Mexico H.tl>. e!.. .4 ?l... n Iiiiti/ nil- illlJM I'llli; \ l/UI h Ul IIIU State of Oaxaca 1ms affirmed the sentence of death passed by the District Court against eight prisoners held for the murder of Count Munzuno, a wealthy Italian nobleman, killed at his hacienda near the City of Mexico by robbera over a year ago. Three ; others accused of complicity in the assassination have been released from custody. The case will now go to the 1st division of the Court for final ro( vision, alter which the prisoners will ! be legally shot if nothing new is dis; covered m the testimony. Work of Professionals. The director* of tlie First National bunk of IMait.field, N. J., have just made public a theft of i?22,7lio from the vault Monday. The casliier missI ed the money when lie went to close the batik for the day. It was in two ! packages. One contained $20,000 in new bills, and the other $2,7t?o in mutilated lulls. It. is believed that the robbery was the work of professional thieves, a a during the afternoon a stranger came in and engaged one of tellers in conversation, leaving without having transacted any business. "the latest news. GLKANINtiS FROM MANY POINTS. Important Happenings, Bath tl<;mo auil Foreign, Hrietly l'old. Financial. Comptroller Eckels closed up the j First Natioual Bank of Willinmtitie, j Conu. The capital of the hank ta j $100,001) aud it baa become impaired, it is said, through the eareleesuesa or otherwise of the cashier, who receutlv died. Cotton. Estimates placed the acreage in cotton in Texas last year at 5,000,000 with a yield of 8,000,000 huloH. In response to questions recently asked its numerous correspondents throughout the State, the Houston Post has received over two hundred replies. The correspondents' replies from a!l sections of the State, in regard to the acreage I in cottou, the weather conditions and the date of planting, indicate a decrease in cotton of about 17.1 percent., i while vhev show a large increase in the land cultivated. The farmers seem to have been diversifying their crops to a considerable extent, planting much more corn aud small grain than usual. Labor. At Fall River, Mass., the mills re.^.i \T i?? .1UII1CV4 U|K IHUV'UO lUVJUUIIJ U1U1 Ulli^ UU' tier the scale of wages in operation previous to August "JO,1891. Twentyfour thousand workers are benefitted. The Edwards Manufacturing Company of Augusta. Me., employing nearly 1,200 hands, has restored wages to the schedule in force previous to November 12, 1894, when a cut of 10 per cent, was made. According to the agreement the increase in wages of from 5 to 10 per cent, went into effect at the Uuited States Cotton Company's big mill at Central Falls, R. I., in all the departments. The mills are running at their full capacity, and 1,630 looms are now iu daily operation. Tue advance in wages in the three cotton mills at Suucook, N H., went into efi'ect and 1,600 employes are happy. ? ? The Naiiiflitv Still. Revenue agents located a still Fri' dav night near Coal City, in St. Clair county, Ala., and succeeded in not only destroying the still, but also arresting two men, whom they took to Birmingham Besides the still 1,000 gallons of beer was destroyed. ?? Legal. At Madison, Wis., the Supreme Court handed down a decision establishing the validity of the law, which provides that life imprisonment opera es as a decree of Absolute divorce without further legal proceedings. Wm. Garreuch was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, and his wife married James Duket. Garreuch secured a new trial and had the judgment of conviction set aside. Then he hail Duket arrested for adultery, Fires. rire broke out in the wholesale hat and fur establishment of Lamplier, Finch & Skiuuer. at St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday Loss, $110,000. The insurance is placed at $160,000. The entire central business section of Duquesne, on the Monongaheln river, twelve miles from (Pittsburg, Pa., was destroyed by tire The loss is about $100,000. Twenty buildings were destroyed. -4?? .Mortuary. Ex-Senator James F. Wilson died at his home at Fairfield, Iowa, from paralysis of the brain. s Legislative. The Tennessee House of Representatives concurred in the Senate resolution declaring for the free coinage of silver at. 16 to 1 and instructing the Tennessee delegation in Congress to support such ,legislation. The vote stood IT to :i8. The Missouri Legislature convened in extra session ut noou Tuesday, Governor Stoue's message whs very leugthy and asked tor the passage of lawn in favor of pure elections and for the reliof of railway employes. The Governor also tuade a severe attack ou the lohhy. Assemblyman O'Gradv's New York city police re-organization hill, which is the same as Senator LoXow's, has passed the State Assembly hv a vote of aves S?>, noes 22. The bill us passed does not contain any provision allowing appeals nor any provision that a a policeman shall not be tried on ' charges more than once. Assembly man l.awson's New York city police I magistrates' lull passed tlie Senate oy a vote of 20 ayes to l? nays. ? Crime. Robert King, while on a drunken spree, kicked his dead daughter's eof| tin part Iv over in New Yol k Monday, 1' the body falling partly out. I. U Holland, the defaulting oa-hiur of the Merchants and Farmers' National bank of Charlotte, N. C., has disappeared. Warrants have been fanned for his arrest. ?1,000 reward has been offered by the bank for his npproheuHiou. Holland if caught will he tried for forgery as well as for embezzlement. The counsel for Durant, charged with murdering two youug women in a church in San Francisco, Cal.. will attempt to tlx the crime of the murder upon Rev. Dr. Oibaou, the pastor of the church, claiming to have sufficient vvidenee to do so. Nathan Pelham, who was to be , hanged last Friday at Seltna, Ala., for I the murder of three negroes, through ' his lawyer, E. V. Molette, and a peti- j tion to the governor signed by the i entire bar of that. eitv. has had his i death senteuee commuted to life iinprisouiueut by Governor Gates. SI Iscellaueous. The number of ballots taken in the j Delaware Legislature for Senator has j run up to 121, but there is yet no elee- j tiou. The American sailors are still in jail j in Santiago, Cuba, without trial. There ' is no evideuee against them. There I are no indications of their release. ! The Amerieau resideuts declare it au outrage aud savthe request of the gov- ! eminent would begvauted if a warship ! were there. Foreign. The Paris oiuuibus strike has been ! settled. The compauy will re-instate | all the strikers A violent earthquake, accompanied with thuuder, shook Laibach, Austria, Tuesday afternoon. Eight or ten ! buildings collapsed aud the few families who had returned to their homes lied back to the fields. Tn the Loudon House of commons Mr. W. T. Russell's hill providing for the perpetuation of the existing temporary regulation closiug the drinking ssloons in Ireland on Suuduy passed its second reudiug by a vote of 163 to 09. Now Orleans Cotton Crop Statement. The crop statement from September 1st to April '26th inclusive: Pork receipts.7,691,275 bales,against 5,648,558 last, year,4,711,019 year before la-t, and 6,099,458 for the same time in 1892; overland to mills anil Canada, 951,355, against 780,306, last year, 301,691 and 1,173,230; interior stocks in excess of September 1st, 125,858, agsinst 106,634 last year, 156,915 and 234,593 for the same time in 1892; ooutueru mill tailings, r>7 i ,.ib i, against 580, 485 last year. 462,344 and 308,005 for the same time in 1892; crop brought in sight during 238 days to date, 9,346,355, against 7,115,983 lust year, 6,234,973 and 8,615,334; crop brought into sight for the week, 64,741, against 46,371 for the seven days ending April 26th, last year, 36,289 and 52,852; crop brought luto sight for the first tweuty-six days of April, 292,887, against 199,032 last year, 164,868 year before Iastaud221,* 045 for the snrae time in 1892. Comparisons in these reports are made up to the corresponding date last year, year before last and 1892, and not to the close of the corresponding week. Comparisons by weeks j would take in 239 days of the season last year, 240 year before last, 242 in 1892, against only 238 days this year. The High Price of Beef. The live stock men of Chicago do not iike the reports sent out by Secre tarv or Agriculture iuorton intimating that the high price of uieut is caused by a combination iu the interest of the stock men as against both the producer and consumer of meat. At a largely attended meeting held at the Stock Exchange at the Union Stock Yards ou Thursday a long series of resolutions were adopted and ordered telegraphed to Secretary Morton. The resolutions say the receipts of cattle at the four principal Western markets for the current year arc *270,001) head less than for the same period of 1S94. This alone is responsible for the increase in the prices of dressed beef. Statements recently sent out charging that there is a combine or trust are pronounced unjust, and the public is asked to withhold its judgment until the merits of th- controversy can be investigated by the press. Weekly Kec'elpts of Cotton. The following are the total net receipts of cotton at all ports since Sep4 1..., I I wil l trill IIU1 1 , I"tn. (ialv?!Hton, 1 ,(>'12,929; New Orleans, 2,487,912; Mobile, 245,010; Savannah; 912.982; Charleston, 421,882; Wilmington, 2811,901; Norfolk, 454,208; Baltimore, 111,510; New York, 180,945; Boston, 295,202; New Port News, .'12,981; Philadelphia, 90,052; West Point, 281,28'); Brunswick, 100,025; Vi'Iuhco, 592; Port Uoyal, 149,000, Total 7,080,285. Pii st Mill to t'onir South, Annonnecinent of the plans for the early establishment of a 10,000 spindle cotton mill was made at Atlanta. I lie mill will be located on tin* Cb ittahoocliie Biver. six miles from Atlanta, by the Wlnttier Cotton Mill Company, of Lowell, Mass , assisted by local capitalists. Work will be begun oa May 15. HOLLAND IS'JAILED. - - A VOLI XTAKV SritltKNDKR. Holland Asked td He Tiikcii to J ill? Ho I'rcferri'il Prison to lamely Wanderings in Foreign IjiiuiIh. While the family of Mr. W. K. Shaw, Charlotte, N. C., were at aupper Simday eveniug about, eight o'clock, a measenger arrived to see Mr. Shaw. ITo tt-uu fold tknt MV H . \ 11.1. I net* him. He hurried to the place where the ex-cashier was iu hiding, and saw him. "I sent for you," said the ex-cashier, "because I wanted to give myself up." Mr. Shaw asked if he had fully made up his mind to do so. "Yea," said he, "I have thought the matter over for these five days, and have made up my mind to surrender. I woulif rather serve my time, five or ten years iu the penitentiary, thau to be hounded down by justice through many years separated from my family, ami not be able to hear from them or to write to them. In $he peniteutiary lean, at least, write to aud hear from my family, and it would be a relief to me to know that I, at least, would not be hounded down, from place to place, as I woulu be if E tied from justice." Mr. Shaw knows Mr. Holland well, the two being brothers-in-law, and knows one of his strongest characteristics to be, decision. If he once makes up his mind to a certain course, uoth: :.. al. i J - * ? ?~ mg iu mo wuria ciiucnsage iiim. air. Shuw, remembering this characteristic, knew it was useless to dissuade him, and, in fact, did not try. "Well, what do you want to do?" he asked Mr. Holland. "1 want you to go with me to Col. Maxwell's (U. S. commissioner) togivct myself up " The two started for Col. Maxwell's. On the way they talked of the possibility of some one seeing them together, and attempting to arrest Mr. Holland, in order to claim the 31 000 reward. They decided to obviate this bv going immediately to Dr. McAden's and surrendering to him, aud get him to accompany them to 'Squire Maxwell's, so any oue seeing them would at least not be able to arrest Holland in order to get the reward, an officer of tho bank being already with him. IN (AIL. It was about 9:30 wheu the three men arrived at the jail. Sheriff" Smith was at home. He opened the door and asked the three men in the parlor. 'Squire Maxwell told the Sheriff* that Mr. Holland wanted to give himself up, as he preferred prison to the lifo of a fugitive from justice. The sheriff thought he had done the wise thing. He then went out to arrange a place for Mr. Holland to sleep. He did not put him in a cell, as he felt that it was unnecessary, but arranged a bed in what is known as the corridor, a larger room than a cell 'Squire Maxwell and Mr Shaw gave tho ox-cashier their hands in farewell, aud left him with Sheriff'Smith?a prisoner iu Meckleuburg jail. Holland did not leave Charlotte, but was concealed at the house of some friend. He got the papers and read every uecouut of his defalcation and flight Fie said last night that he had not beeu out of town, but just left home to rest and get his inind composed. Besides the burden of the wrong he had committed, the grief of his family had well nigh crazed him, and he felt that he must get away and be quiet and compose himself. His first question last night when he again saw Mr. Shaw was: "What doeb my family think?" When Fiolland surrendered to 'Squire Maxwell Sunday uight, he asked the 'squire if he did not think it was the best thing he could do. "Yes," said the 'squire, "I do." Ifollund said: "I never had any intention of leaving Charlotte; I wanted quiet and rest, therefore left home, but I meant from the first to stav and face it out." M onday afternoon at 15 o'clock, Mr. Holland had a preliminary trial before United States Commissioner D. (i. Maxwell. He waived examination, and failing to give bond, was commit* veti in jhii u> iiWilli i.riill ill tUU JUQ6 term of Federal Court. Killed in Bed II.y Ills Crazy Wife. At Savannah, < ??.. Milton .1. ttehweigert, foreman of the evening Bulletin, was shot through the heart and in-tantly killed I?y hia wife. He wan a alee 11 at the tune. Mrs. Sehweigert is said to l?e inaaue and is now under h i est. Sehweigert is from Lancaster, ! 'a. Miss Pollard Will Sail. Madeline Pollard. who recovered Slo.OlH) damages in her suit against. Col. Breckenridge, hid who has not heen aide to collect the amount, sailed ... ?i... /M ?> 'ii in!- ? miiii | >111- it ns 111? ?-< > 1111 >:i 111 < 11 hi i'Iiui itiiMi: woinun who will inula- u foiir years' trij> around Ihf world. Ami It fume. Evangelist. Moody prayed for ruin Sunday at Fort. Worth. Thnl night whilf 10,000 people w eif nsHplidded at. thf tuliprnuf|p. singing praise for the prospects of ruin, thf storm broke with such foreo that thf roof gave way, anil over forty peoplo wero injured, one fatally.