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THE UNION TIMES. UNION, 8. 6. We import from Fruiico, Belgium and England $0,000,000 worth of eggs each year, and from Cauuda, $'2,000,000 worth, besides largo quantities of poultry. ^ ^ 9 The assurance that New York will in the near future possess a creditable statue of Thomas Jellerson is a welcome ono to tho Mail and Express, of that city. Tho man who drafted tho Declaration of Independence, it says, should long ago have been momoralizcd in brouzo in New York City, "Lord Winchelsea thinks ho has solved the question of saviug British agriculture from extinction. Ho lias formed a "Produce Supply Association," whose object is to "collect the produce in country districts, distribute it into large centres of population, and whose name an l brand on every articlo will bo an absoluto guarantee both of quality and origin." It is asserted that under this system British farm produce will once mure flourish. "The farmers are ready to grow it, the railways to crrry it, ami tlie public to buy it," Lord Wiuchelsca. says. The Norwalk (Ohio) llelleetor prints n 1 iat of tho good roa Is in Ohio?pike roads?made of stouo and gravel, which shows tho mileage iu each county, atul shows that but ten counties in Ohio are without any road of this character.- Items uro qiioked as follows .* fJiirrdfF f?dst ' CbtfANflT <1j--[f|,L - ?< WfU*. p?r mile. tfhanqWS^U.. 7". f'10 _ $2000 Clark . -.? . * 025'J Clinton*. ? *510 (>, i &72<t Darko. tJJ? r\ Delawnus *}', 4 ^70 FrankluW-. ^ j 1053 J^jgan1 v.v ?. . .% $?.'* 1 r MadlsAtf.- {? >* ^121 Jiliamtk.' -h) J0S7 rni.\?0 ^ .... . kant ttouron- "33 'tho abotc UH MMltttea but S part of <1io roade. Tlitf trt-fi mileage as given in this article is ."?9Sfy."With tlie "frontier" fast disappearing, even iu the furthest West, it seems n far cry back to the days of the frontier in the furthest East, but there uro 3T?f. ,*a *lfiiysUagb,~ aT~ ttie""age "*oT ninety-out years, was such a link. She was the fifth white child boru iu the xegion which is now Piscataquis County, Ma iue. Two years before she was born her father, Eli Towne, moved from New Hampshire, crossed the Piscataquis llivtr, made a clearing in the primeval forest nn l built there a log cabin, in which Mrs. Dow was born. He was one of the first baa 1 of white people who settled in the wilderness, ?ud Dover now stands on the site of his cabin. Mrs. Dow was the first white child born in the present town limits of Dover. A dispatch to the Louisville CourierJournal from Poston, Mass., rays: "New England eolfou mills are giving up flic light against Southern competition and will soon cease to manufacture coarse cloths. The Lawrence Alanufactnj- ng Company of Lowell, Mass.. one of the biggest plants in this fcction, stopped making cloth entirely. The directors decided to refund to the stockholders half of the capital stocks shut down half of the mill and make nothing but hosiery. This is only the lirst of a scries. Other New England mills will very soon have to shut ilown. Treasurer linker, of itho Lawrence Company, Bays that this is a crisis which has becu peeking for three years. He says that the low wages paid for Southern mill labor is the cause of the trouble. TLo cost of bailor there is thirty per cent, cheaper than it is here. Consequently the Southern manufacturers have an advantage over those of the North of from ouo and ? half to two cents a pound. Most of these mills are located in the Carolines and Georgia, Although all the Southern Status are manufacturing cotton. Mr. Baker says that the Lawrence Manufacturing Company never expects to return to the manufacture of coarse cottouc, as there is such a surplus of labor iu the South mh to last for a generation at least, making it impossible for many years to manufacture hero nt a profit. lie soys thut the Southern mills do not maimfact are enough to supply the American trade, hut they make enough to control t ho price, and that the Northern xuills have to meet it, and that manufacturing it. the South is increasing ] /ast enough to discourage it here for good." A Georgia forme* while digging in hla field the other ?luy unearthed a box containing nineteen l?right s-ilvr coins of l'rou-h ?nd Spanish coinage i'hwy b<>re Uutes o/ > gift euri^' tiult oi tine present .-eotury. Edison prophesies that ia ten years horseless carriages will be the rule, nud horse-propelled vehicles the exception. The money order business during the last quarter of 18D5 is said to have exceeded that of uny previous quarter in tho history of the country. Clnuson College, the agricultural school of South Carolina,has dropped French and (termini from its curriculum, and will teach only Kuglish. Each year brings an increase in tho ] number of bicycle factories nud they all seem to bo busy. iUo wiicei huh Biiroly come to stay, predicts Farm, Field and Fireside. Pioneers in the Bangor (Me.) jail arc to lie supplied with potted plants to care for in their colls. It is believed that the care of the plants will have an "elevating anil reform* ing iniltictico." In Saxony 110 one is permitted to shoo horses unless ho has passed a public examination, and is properly qualified. A school at Dresden has students from all parts of the world studying "farriery." This includes not only shoeing horses, but their care and treatment?a provision that saves u great deal of money for farmers and others owning horse*. The Juneau (Alaska) Mining Record published a story to tho efleet that Seattle merchants buy up and destroy all Alaska papers which reach Seattle, Wash., to prevent people intending to go to the mines from finding out how cheap they can buy outfits in Juneau. The same paper says a movement is on foot to transfer the trade of Juneau to Portlaud, Oregon, in consequence of these alleged facts. Speaking of cotton mnuufncturing in the South, It. II. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' ltecord, says: 1 "It would require in the South nil investment of over ?1,000,000,000 of capital to build and equip mills enough to consume ull the cotton the South now raises, and if the South could manufacture at home all the cotton which its cotton fields turn out, the product would be worth to this section about ?1,200,000,000 a year, instead of selling for an average of ?1100,000," ? * X . . II the grammarian, who complains she is making havoc of the language, says the New York Advertiser. One crusty old oaclieior complains because authoress, doctress ami sculptress are constantly misused lor author, doctor or sculptor. An author is ono who writes, a doctor one who practises medicine,a sculptor one whose profession is sculpture. If you give the feminine termination to these words when applied to women authors or sculptor.-, you Nuould be consistent ami speak of a I a woman skater as a skatrcss, a manufacturer as a inaniifactiiress, and a writer as a writross, a woman cook as cook ess, and a woman walker as a walkerehs. One is just as correct as the other. The Chicago Chronicle says: Some years ago lie v. I.. 1'. Hoc, an Auieri cnu novelist, of wbum tho late Matthew Arnold wrote in very sneering phrase, yet whose hooks went into Aineritiiiii households hy the tens of thousands, told in pleasant fashion the story of n New Y.>rk family unwillingly "Driven Back to F.deu." He described as only a man enjoying habitually the fresh uir and the ample elbow room of a country home could deacrihe the squalor uud indecencies of life in a city tenement-house. He went on to tell how one family, well nurtured and well educated, but brought by divers misfortuues to low tinaticial estate, drifted deeper into the slums, clinging ever to the city, though suffering always from the city's oppressions, tho city's brutalities, until at last, all unwillingly, they were led by kindly hands into tho country, where began for them a new life, physical and intellectual. Allowing for some unliable literary exaggeration, remembering, us folk who knew K. I'. Hoc must remember, tlint the author of this instructive tale spent in a vain attempt to raise strawberries profitably the iucome from an nnusuully profitable literary vogue, one still must acknowledge the absolute intelligence of his argument m this particular case. If the pcoplo in the cit.es who live in squalor and wretchedness, who, heiug themselves upright and honorable of purpose, yet are forced to rub dhows with vice, could be induced to shake from their feet the dust and dirt ?>f the city and go back to mother imtifre a vast stride toward the solution of the problem of poverty would be taken. | mini still and not let 11 poor man. I These big distilleries, said he, swindle j the government outot' more tax money | than all our moonshine stills put together. All they have to do is to bribe J the storekeeper. I know of one over I in North Carolina that sold .'1,800 gal1 Ions in one year and never paid a dollar tax on it. Ho told Professor Tucker that the revenues men broke up forty stills in that region last year, but to his knowledge there wero about a Lundred that wore still running on a small scale. "The hoys sorter like tho danger of it," said be, "and the informer catches it when fonud out. Ho generally leaves this part of tho country as soon as ho pockets his bribe. Tho mountain people are not us hone-stand honorable as they used to be, and it all conies of this bribe-taking business. The United States ought to be ashamed of it." Tho professor said it isimpossihlo to convince those mountain* eers who aro seventy-five miles from market, tbut it is wrong to convert RILL ARP S LETTlftt I " COMPARISON BKTWRfCN PKlMkc, TIVK AM) NKW MKTIIODS. HP Some Sample Product* of the OJd^ Wheel mid lioom. U ? jr Thin is a great government. ^ie ] don't know very much about it nnW we go behind tho scenes?behin.'tfc I * eereeus as it were?and seo what i*A I | iug on. The doings of congress a an 1 read them in the papers are very n<>l I and exciting but it is mostly routed I. work utul tells us nothiug of wbatsV going on in tho various departments^ I seientilio and industrial. We used U get the patent oflieo reports that had a world of curious information and exi plnnatory pictures, but they seem ta have stopped coming. And there were books on agriculture and horticulture and pestiferous iusccts and books thai told about cattle and sheep and all th^ I (I!nouses to which they wore suojeci; I All those used to bo distributed awonijj ; tho people like the gurdeu seeds ar< ; distributed, and pretty much for tht same vote-casting: purpose, but the^ cost a big lot of money, and now arc given only to tho scientific. Tim met of science make bnt little noise in the world. They care lint little for 18011 or forttiue, but they are ever at worl studying nature and solviug nivstcriei and lessening tho burdens of life. 11 does seem to lie a dispensation of pro videnco that great men cure but litth for mouey. What they discover o invent soon becomes common proper ty. I aui not speaking of tlio smnl man who takes out a patent on lis! hooks or hairpins, but of great men liko .Tenner and Pasteur, Agassiz, Ful ton. Watts, Newton or Morse. But I was ruminating about a visi I had today?a visit from Professo Tucker, tho United States agent fo the labor department. He came t find out about how tho silk busino was conducted in Georgia fifty year ago. So I told him how my father it 1837 got some moms niulticaulis cut tiugs from Vrashingtou and in tw years hail cevorul aoresof young tree* and theu built n house forty foe square and two stories high, and fille it with hurdlo frames ami got com silkworm esres. and when they liatciie tho worm hood tilled the house aud el up all the mulberry leaves and wante more. Wo got-euongh from a noigl , bor to finish up with, and wo boj were glad euougb when tho nasty tbinf began to wrap up in their mummj 1 like shrouds. 1 But nay curiosity was excited. Win i does the*United States want to kuo I all this for? So ho explained by sa^ ing that his department is coniparin the old with the now?tho priinitii 0 * - * r r " uuo i economic questions. IIo had a leathi grip full of camples of the handiwor of the women of western North Cart linn and northeast Georgia. Ever little squaro or scrap was pinned to printed sheet, that gave the name c the weaver and her age and residence There were samples of woolen aud col ton and linen and silk, samples of lis scy and jeans and counterpanes an quilts ami wagon sheets and curtain and table cloths, and some of thet were gems of beautiful fabrics, and i: those mountain counties the hnmhl people nre Ftili spinning nud weaviui in the old-fashioned way and nre hap py. In many families their hamli work is piled up on tho shelve and clothes presses, awaiting tli marriage of sons and daughters, t< whom they were to bo given as bridn presents. Professor Tucker had sons specimens of silk sewing thread am flax thread that were made at home He found good people up there win seldom bought anything and were nbi to give a strauger a good bed am plenty to eat ami a sincere hospitality He told me of an old man in Rubui who said he never fell out with th< United States until the revenue ofticeri began to sueak around his little still where ho had been making peacfc brandy for tifty years, and had the re> spect of his Maker aud his neighbors, and ho told thorn that the United States waseut big enough to stop him, for tho right to mako it was handed down to hin\ from his father and grandfather. 4H0 said they threatened him every time they enmo about, but he kept two pitchforks in the houseone under the front door and the other at tho head of Lis j bed, and they dident dare to nrrest him. Hut after worrying with them for throe years thiugs kept getting hotter and hotter, nud his neighbors advised him to (juit stilling and he did, for ho was getting old and wanted to livo in peace, hut it was a bad government that would let a rieh heir corn into whiskey, when ono 1 oshel will make three gallons and J ley oan hanl a hundred dollars worth fith a little yoke of tto >rs. lint they an't run a still on the government lan, for it would cost two or three Stijdred dollars, and they havn't got ao money. He wanted to know if i here was auy old-fashioned wheels ad lootus used in this country. Yes, t good mauy. A good old man died tear hero last year whose family never voro any other clothes as lbug us ho ivud. I knew anothor man who was inito well ofT for n farmer, who was a deacon iu the church and sometimes foremnu of a grand juiy, who never bought storo clothos?ho always looked well in his homc-mado jeans, lie tunned leather and made ihoes for his family. His socks nud . lispeuders and turkey red huudker'Aiefs wero all made at homo and so Aas tho bod ticking aud the feather 'beds and mattresses. "Kiuse your \girls to work," said he, "und they will i make good wives aud good mothers. [lOuring the war the women of Colum[ljUs, Oa., 8woro oft' from wearing Rf^nkeo goods, but mino do the saino L J in peace." ? I jTfca?V>s pretty hard on the girls,and'! ) J ,ioald think would fit them for v "onr| int or to i.j sisters of charity. ZTfttd . K tenant once who believed so e^Wtig I fa working tho children that they grew |lp without auy schooling. They I -Hdent have any themselves aud dident I fte the need of any. They had f bright little girl whom they caller Ihelbv. "What is that child's name?' asked tho mother, and she said "Her name is Othello." "Why, tha is a boy's name," said I, but she lusist ed that some man who staid all nigh At their bouso said it was a party nam [ Aor a girl. "What is your boy1 .ame?" said I, "theone you call Dee? 'Ob, his nnmo is Desdemony, but w all him Dee for short." The poc t Yomau had got the names mixedr tthello and Desdemoua. Sotno ( r thue rude people do actually love ( Thev irot up before day an 0 $vuok and eat breakfast oefore siinrii gTand are oflf to tbo field. Ouo of n ?| tenants told me he was always sori ' j?heu Sunday came, for it was a migh g f Ion)? day to him. , But the old-fashioned wheel ni ,J loom were very usoful and pleasa things fb work with. My wife st 0 loves to tell her children how she us tj to spin and weave on Suturdays a1 ^ sometimes when eho came from sehc j in the eveuiugs, and how Ailsey? L i] d mother?was the best weaver and con pg' make ten yards of plain cloth u day six yards of jeans. Becky ' was t j. brag spiuncr aud my wife was tnuj to spin and weave by these family i groes, ft?r they all loved her and w< w good to her and she was good to the j. She used to spin awhile and wti p awhile ami theu practice awhile ro -the piano and it was a pleasant mixti rr-.9" . notind and she lool >r -t.'.i' Constitution. k ? >- ?JKMKXTRD IN HIS GKAVK. 8 Holmes' Ilody Safe From (Iravo lit )f bcrs. Mrs. Pite/.ei's Claim. }> The body of II. II. Holmes, which was I [[ bedded iu cement in a pine box, Thurst after the hanging nnd then plne.-d in a vu j la Holy Cro. s cemetery, riiiladeipbia, 1 H was Friday buried in a grave 10 feet in dep Xhobox ?ith the body imbedded in conn weighs o.era ton and it was too wide to n lowered into an ordinary grave. Jlei 0 Undertaker O'lb.urke selected "sufilcii (. space in the single grave port:.>11 >>f the 1 etery to receive the unusually large eofl I lie only ve|ii?-|e strong enough* to hold 1 ? box was a wagon used in hauling moi meats and this convoyed the hodv t,r Holn e I rV.1f ' vault to its last resting pinee. ?? aen iii?' iiiuorui services were over a o; Father Mel'nko atnl the undertaker ami I ? assistants hail departed, Urn grave ?li^?j??v assisted t?y a mason, ami under tin* sup vision of lawyer lb tan, piled a layer of nient two feet thiek upon the hox. The n terial was packed in and about the sides a ends of the i ovel sarcophagus ami when I job was finished the remains of Holmes w< pronouneed safe from grave robbers for time. His tomb will be a solid wall of roi Mr. Rotan remained to see that the I; wishes of his elient w? re carried out. Lawyer Thomas A. Fahn, the legal ad vis of Mrs. I'ete/.el. stated that lie would slior confer with Lawyer Itotau and District j ' torney General Graham with the view locating ?tiy cash or property left by Holii that could be attaclied in order to satisfy t claim of Mrs. l'lte/.el. The latter wants re.' tution for the insurance money she \\ swindled out of by the bogus promisor}- u< which Holmt 9 represented as having be signed by her husband. Mr. Rotan was seen in relation to tlio m; of papers thai Holmes turned over to hi "I have not yet oxamined the document! said he, "but I am certain there is no n among them. Holmes stated 011 the d previous to his death that he would not p pare a will." STATK NAVAL MILITIA. The Summer Kxerclses for the St a Turs Arranged. The programme for the summer oxereis of the naval militia organisation in the vai ous States was annouuied by the na department Thursday. Assistant He retaiy Mc.Vdoo, of the navy depai t ...ill n>..l.nl.l.. 1'...... . on the Dolphin on June 15 ami spej two weeks inspecting the naval militia o ganizntlons of Georgia and North Cnrolip A monitor will he detailed from June 15th Jane 30th for the fie< rgin ami North Cnrolit militia organizations, and (luring the san period a cruiser will no given for the use , the Louisiana and South Carolina miiili One week will be spent in the wuturs of ea? Stute. ATTKN'l ION. V K'l'JSli ANS! General Gordon Issues an Importiiu Order to U. C, V. Gen. J. B. Gordon, commanding tli United Ktntas Confederate Veterans, ai noances in general order No, 164 that tli sixifi annual reunion of the United C'onfec oral,.Veterans willItf held at Kiehmond, Va on V esday, Wednesday ami Thursday Jun'.iO, July 1 and 2, 1S9G. lie stntes tiit 815 camps are organized aud applications at hi for 100 more. Business of great impor anee will eomo before the annual meet in aud a full attendance is urged. Subsoribo for this paper. LATEST NEWS IH BRIEF. I ? * I) GL.KANINGS PROM MANY POINTS f? Important Happenings, Doth llome ^ aud Foreign, Dlefly Told. t! . 1 Southern News Notes. Much damage done to property by a cyclone in Virginia Tuesday. J A great-nephew of Jefferson Davis j whs shot and killed iu Keutucky Tuusday. j At Chattanooga, 'l'enn., weuncBimj, tho sixth uunuiil session of tlio Southern Hardware Jobbers' Association < met. Tho national association of police chiefH which met in Atlanta Wednes* ilny decided to hold their next mooting in Pittsburg. The Snprr.r e Court of Georgia hoA reversed tho finding of the lower court by which Seventh-day Adventists were tiued for working on Sunday. Ernest A. Man, of Florida, has been appointed couaul to Bergen, Norway, and Kobt. Hansom, of North Carolina, secretary of legation at Mexico. A company of Knoxville capitalists has bceu formed to work the gold 1 mines recently discovered at Eco, in | Monroe county, Teun. , At Vicksburg, Mi?h., Tuesday, . eleven persona were killed and six in^ jured, with two otliers missing, by tho explosion of u tow-bout on the Missis~ bippi river. c Texas and Nebraska was visited by a M cyclone and heavy rain Tuesday At >? Nacona, Texas, three persous were in0 jured, and at Lincoln. Nel>., manyperir sons wero injured also, but no lives _ lost. >f The striko w hich has existed at the to yards of tho Newport News Shipbuild ill ing anil Dry Dock Company, emieu jo Tuesday, the men returning to work iy on the company's terms. They agree ry to give the ""lark" Mine system a trial ty of thirty days. Tho famous M-ontvnle Spring Heto id fit Montvale Springs, lllount county nt Tehnessee, was destroyed by fire Tues ill day. The property was owned b^ ed Bobert. Bonner, of New York, am 'id other Eastern capitalists and was vnl >ol tied at Sod,000, with $15,000 iusur !>'s ance. iid Northern News Items. Twenty buildings were destroyed b rht ,l cyclouo at Wortlimgtou, .Minn, je- T uesdny. . re Eugene Akers, a oonfoctioner ? n. New York, had 320,000 worth of dii ivo mouds stolen Wednesday. on A Boston jury gave a man a verdi l,rw against a street railway for $35,0( "y da^^ges for the loss of a 'eg. J tho important cities of the country." T The fire at L'Anse, Mich.. Tuesda destroyed 8750,000 worth of proper ,1,. bud rendered 300 persons homeless. f 'I ho Spanish earavals which ean lm- bver during tho World's I-'air ha\ lay |ceu given the Field museum, ami wi ul fecronfter lloat in the lagoon direct a., In trout of tho museum building. lo i', A IfetlerutioJl ?f "Is orders of raihvn ... , f, luniiuiiiK iiremeu, iraiumel Angiti'-. r:\ switchmen, conductors an cnt tbh'praphers, 1ms been formed at S m- Ilonis. A proposition to admit tl in- Auerioau Kailway Union was vote dfwu. 1 ,l" T ^o>. lv8 \ A'aftliiiigt on. nil iA b"f/ f-tutno to Gen. Ifnncoc Ins una ill "f!1 Washington Woduei Ts? da v. free The convention of the Suprem ,a" Couucil of the A. 1'. A. met in Wash ;',Yrt lugtou, 1). C., Tuesday. rn The action of the President in sum moiling Hon. Alexander W. Terrel' llsj United States minister to Tnrkej from his Texas home to Washington A,'r was not based on any new or seiiou ^'ty developments in the Turkish situation of The Senate iinanco committee hu Vs appointed Harris, of Tenucssoe, Vest .('j' of Missouri, and Waltliam, of Missii ras aippi, Democrats, Piatt. of ('onnecti >t? cut, ltepublican, and Jones, of Nevada wn Populist, as a sub-committee to iuvep ls3 tigato tho bond issues, llurris will b uu chairman. -* ?. rill Foreign. The German Heichstag haH -.irM th export bounty on sugar at mark per hundred kilos. Dr. Salmon, tho oldest Freemasoi in the world, died in London Tuesday He was 10(5 years old. It is officially denied that. Gen. Wey ler has resignod or been dismissed a r'~ Captain-General of Cuba, v v * >L.m Kussia lias taken possession of ter ntory at Cbefoo, China, to which Kng >n land luys claim, and trouble is untici J(j putcd. r- The signing of a protoco1 betwcei ** tho governments of Argentina au< IU Chile has removed a threatening sit in nation and exehaugo him risen to 17}. at > i-.!- ? .... uuviui'M irom Pretoria sayi l', thftt tbo dentil scutonccH of .fobu Hayi Hammond and tho reformer couspira tors tbero have been commuted tt five ycurs imprisonment. it ? n ? DKATIt IN A CYCbONK. 1,1 Slxly-Klght People Killed at Sherman, Texan, and Vicinity. A eyelonc struck Sherman, Texan, at 4 Thursday, killing many people and lining '' great damage. 'i'hc number of dead is now '' believed to he about (is is yet unidentified. It is said the cyclone struck tho bull park t- while a Kamo was in progress and that part i g the Sherman and San Antonio teams and many spectators were killed. All tab-graph wires to Sherman arc down. Ifeatl children liave been found in trees lh*v. Mr. Sln-arer ?- among the dead. TULKGRAPKIC TICKS. Amoug the Presidential nominations hnrsduy, llobt. Lee Jenkius, of N. whh appointed consul of tho United tates at Pat run, Greece. Seven hundred stonemasonsiu Pittsurg, Ph., wont on a strike Thursday jt uu advauco in wages. Daniel L. Russell, of Wilnfiugton, i. C., was nominated for Govornor at he State Republican Convention at taleigh Fridiy. Tho Rritish minister at l'ekin, has >rotested to the Chiuts* government igniust its cession of foreshore at Chedo to a Russian linn. Assistant Secroturv McAdoo, of tho S'livy Department, will probably leave Washington 011 tho Dolphin on June loth and .spend two weeks inspecting the naval militia organization of Georgia and North Carolina. At Cincinnati, O., Thursday the Gild Fellows' Temple Company assigned. The assets are plat ed at $559,- ' 000 and the libilities ?200,000. Tho Imy-Ic t,f capital and I'UUBU ^MCU *? t..w ... failure to sell the stock and bonds of the company, which was hui'ding a now homo for the three lodges of Cincinnati. The latest news in connection to the cyclone at Sherman, Texas, Friday, i? that the dead now number lot). It is' .feared that tho- restoration of tele graphic communication will bring information of tho loss of lifo nud property in the surrounding towns greater than already estimated. By u vote Saturday the General Conference of tho African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, at Mobile, Ala., decided that the next quadrennial session bo held in the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, Washington, 1). C., on tho tirst Wednesday in May, 1900. J. B. Koruegay, of Van Doru, Ala., is under arrest, charged with tho fraudulent use of tho mails. lie is said to have ordered some $22,000 worth of goods from 120 different firms iti tho North and West and die, posed of the goods at a big discouut I and mado no effort to settle. In 1>Ccornber last ho mado an aHsignmont, transferring previously all of his property to his wifo. 1 The total visible supply of cottonfor tho world is 2,481,101 bales, of I I which 2,347,9(51 bales are American, I against 3,789(5,127 bales respectively last year. Bcccipts of cotton this > week at all iutcrior towns 18,047 bales. Hcceipts from the plantations 12,221 bales. Crop in sight 0,713,144 bales. J" Bernard Koch' Saturday drowned ? himself in a reservoir ut Irwin, Pa., after poisoning his brothcr-in law, hie if wifo and two children. ??:t l n- I Two humlrcil union car uumwent oat ou ft strike for higher g rt ut tho Ensign Car Works, liuutington, )0 W. Vft., Saturday. .1 Saturday ftu 'msucccreful attempt \ to )i??l.l I Ilumlin'n fust mare. Nightingale, y, valued at ?10,000, fell dead Saturday ty at Louisville, Ivy., on the race track, while going at u three-minute clip, ic Two lioya confess that they have fo been tho perpetrators of the many reill cent fires at Waltliam, Mass., in which ly ?1,'>00,000 of property was destroyed, the reason for their incendiarism being V "a desire to see the llamu." ' Tho I'ockfort Watch Company, of Jvockfott, 111., made an assignment t- Saturday. Tim capital stock is Sll80,10 000. 'l'bo lust inventory taken shows assets of $100,001), and liabilities of ?1 lo.DOO. Cause of the assignment ia the depression of the watch trade. k Tho prisoners in Newport, Ivy., jail, sawed the hinges oil* tho rear door Saturday night ami all escaped except Jackson and Walling, the alleged mUrdu o m of Pearl Uryan, who refused to !eu\e, thinl.iii" it a elan to lynch theiu. t- Til K KOADS AS8KSSKI). ' Very Few of the Itonds liaised Mod ' of Tticm Ijeft as They Were ^ bust Year, i. The State board of equilization of railroad property lield its annual mooting Wednesday, in Columbia, and fixed ' the asscssmeets of the property of tho various railroads in the State for taxation. The board then adjourned to ' Judo 4, at which time tho roprescntatives of all the roads not satisfied with tho assessments will bo permitted to appenr before the board. The majority of tho assessments were * left tho same as last year. One or two a roads were reduced. Several of tho roads were raised considerably. Hero i are tho assessments "per mile" as . compared to those of last year : Name of lioad. 1 N!l."?. IXllfi. A. A- S. It. It * a.000 .f 0,000 Ashley Itiver 11. It 7.000 0.000 s A A C. Air l.iiie It. 11 10.000 Hi 00) liorkoley It. It if.000 :i 00 > lllue Itidge It. It 1.000 4.nod branch villi- and bowman.... 1,50.') 1.500 - a c. a. a c. it. it i.ooo l ooo . ('. K. A W. It. It 1.000 1,000 Carolina Midland 5,000 5,000 C. C. A A. It. It .. 1:1,000 1:1,000 i ('. a S. It>* lit,000 14.000 j Choraw and Chester 14,500 2,500 Chernw and Salisbury it,500 l^OOO Chester and I,endr 4.000 4!?00 . Central of South Carolina. .. 0,000 s.ooO C. A (1. It. K 10.000 10.000 c. X. A b. It. It 5.000 5.000 * Ka-t Shore Terminal .. 10.000 10,000 Florence It. It 15,000 15.000 ima. ' , . mir.raiu li) . 0,500 -1,000 (?.. C\ A N. It. It 10,000 10,000 <(t'orK<'towu mi<t '.Ventern 2.000 2.000 <ilfnn8|?rin??]t. It 2.000 2.500 (i. P.. W. .V It. It. It 4.000 4.000 P. ('..VP. It. It 7.500 7,500 > Hartsvill" It. It 2.000 2.500 1 .aureus Itnilway :t,000 5,000 . Mam-hester ami Augusta. 0,000 10,000 Northeastern It. It 10,000 10,000 ' O. It. A C. It. It 5.000 5,000 P. It. .V A. It. It 7.500 7.500 P. It. A W. V. It. It 0,500 0,500 Palmetto It. It it,000 0,000 8. I'. A (in. It. It . 15,000 15,000 ' S. C. A Pii<aitl<a It. It 0,500 8.000 H. A N. C. It. It 1,000 1,000 W.. ('. A ('. p. It |,()00 4,000 W., ('. A A. It. It 10,000 10,000 vv. t . A A. (P IM.I Florence) 15.000 15,000 \ W, A 8. It. It. ;|,JOO 2,000