The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, May 03, 1895, Image 6
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
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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
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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
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.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.
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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.
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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.
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.Mortuary.
Ex-Senator James F. Wilson died at
his home at Fairfield, Iowa, from
paralysis of the brain.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.