The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, May 22, 1896, Image 2
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,"
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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
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Some Sample Product* of the OJd^
Wheel mid lioom. U
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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.
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>- ?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
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GL.KANINGS PROM MANY POINTS f?
Important Happenings, Doth llome ^
aud Foreign, Dlefly Told. t!
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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.
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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.
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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