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UNION S ADVANTAGES. TT T T mT T jm T T "11 M" T1 O POPULATION OF UNIONTwo
cotton mills (total capacity 100,- I I?I I I I I I I I I IM/I
000 spindles-one mill thei latest in the ] 1 | ^ I I I jl 1 VI likl U. S. Census 1890 1,670
South) one oil mill, one knitting mill, 1 i W J 1 ^ \ FflUl IV | | J L J| Police Census 1896 2 990
one brick plant, two banks, ten churches, ? Ji?^ -A- w ^ 'ML. w M WM -A- w r\?' V Police Census 1897 4 679
five schools, artesian water. & 1
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ATLANTA'S NEW DEPOT
In Nearer a Kcnllziitlon, Owing to Action
of City Council.
The Atlanta, On., city council,
Thursday afternoon, agreed to accede
to the conditions named hy the railroads
as necessary to he settled before
any move could be made toward building
a new depot.
The city lias designated its willingness
to co-operate in the erection of a
passenger station on the present site,
with elevated tracks and lowered street
crossings. There is still a slight difference
between the roads and the
city, however, relative to the clearance
under the raised tracks at the
central crossings, but this is a mere
detail.
In the resolution passed by the
council it is especially required that
the clearance at Whitehall, Pryor and
Loyd streets shall be twelve feet. The
railroad companies had calculated on
only an eleven foot clearance at Whitehall
street, which would give a 1 per
cent grade for the tracks, and a fivefoot
excavation for the street.
The city agrees to the excavation,
but requires another foot of c earance.
In order to make the twelve feet under
the tracks it will he necessary to
raise the Broad street bridge and to
begin the raised tratfks at a point sixty
or 100 feet west of the point it
would have been necessary to start
with an eleven-foot clearance and a 1
per cent grade.
The main object for inserting the
twelve-foot clearance clause was to let
the street enrs pass under the tracks.
The property owners along Whitehall
and Pryor streets are said to be heartily
in favor of allowing the cars to pass
on these thoroughfares. It would bo
impossible for an electric car of the
present type to pass through an elevenfoot
clearance. It can, however, pass
through a twelve-foot clearance.
In enso the roads agree to build the
depot with twelve feet under the tracks
at the central crossings, the Consolidated
street railway will in all probability
run its cross-town cars under
the tracks at Pryor, Whitehall and
perhaps Lioyd streets, instead of having
to go three or four blocks out of
the way over the Broad street bridge
no in | ?i cncu i
The aetion of the council is considered
most favorable for n magnificent
new station. The city lias agreed to
make certain sacrifices in order to secure
the depot, and the success of the
venture now rests with the railroads.
WORK OF FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Knrolllni; Clerk Piatt Shown Wumber of
Itllln Panned Itv Itoth llounen.
B. 8. Piatt, enrolling clerk of the
sonnte, has prepared a st%ement giving
in figures the results of the work
of the last congress.
The statement shows that 1,457
hills and joint resolutions became laws
out of a total of 18,40:1 introduced iu
both houses. Of the measures introduced
1*2,608 were presented in the.
house and 5,855 in the senato. Of
those which became laws,942 originated
in the house and 515 in the senate.
There were only two direct vetoes
during the congress, o?e of these applying
to a senate bill and the other
to a house measure. There were in
addition to these, four bills which
failed to becomo laws because they
were not annroved hv the nresident,
? _ * i %r x
The record shows that the senate
passed 1,173 of its own hills and that
the honse acted favorably upon only
517, or fewer than half of them, while
the 1,0H1 house hills passed by the
house the senate acted favorably upon
940.
A larger number of bills were introduced
tliau in any previous congress.
AMERICANS FACER FT SI CLARE.
Rebel Riflemen Give Kigliteentli Regiment
n lint Reception.
Details of the fighting at Iloilo on
March 16th show that 400 rebel rifloA
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j men from Pania were met by seven
companies of the Eighteenth regiment
1 of United States infantry ami a battalion
of Tennessee volunteers. As
supports these troops had three twoinch
Hotchkiss guns, under General
Miller, north of Jaro, across the river.
The Americans met with a heavy
lire. One of the men was killed and
fifteen were wounded of the Eighteenth
regiment, and there were several cases
of sunstroke. General Miller estimates
that fifty rebels were killed and
0110 hundred wounded.
ALUKIt BEACHES HAVANA.
Transport ItiRallK Whd Loot at Sea Fot
Man)* Hour*.
Secretary of War Alger aud his
party arrived at Havana Sunday afternoou
on the United States transport
Ingalls, after having lost their way at
soa for several hours. It seems that
the Ingalls was making very good
time Saturday, and was likely to make
Havana by night if she kept on a
straight course. General Alger suggested
waiting awhile at Key West,
oiui i? i my ineie -tu it Me to roach
llavonna at 9 o'clock Sunday morning.
The Ingalls put into Key West,
and General Alger wired General
Brooke to expect him at that hour.
The Ingalls left Key West at 11
o'clock Saturday night, and the whole
party was up for an early breakfast
Sunday morning, after which all went
on deck to wait for El Morro to loom
up. Nine o'clock came, but there
was no sign of the castle. General
Alger, getting a little imputient, sent
to the pilot house to inquire when Havana
would be reached. The reply
was: "In about an hour."
An hour and a half passed, with the
Cuban coast on the left, and Havana
was still unsighted.
Toward noon the roofs of a city
could be mado out, and General Alger,
calling for a glass, took a close look.
"Why, that is Matanzas," he said,
and just then the (ugalls began to
turn around. The navigating officer
was all out in his calculations. Ho
thought ho was west of Havana instead
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Menu while (leneruls Brooke, Ludlow,
Lee, Bates, Wilson and Hashrouek,
with their staffs, had rizen
early, hoarded a tug and had been
cruising outside the harbor, waiting
for the Ingalls. All the officers were
| in heavy blue cloth in honor of tlio
secretary of war, having laid aside
their khaki duck and flannel. The
generals kept going in and out until
noon, then lunched at a cheap waterside
restaurant and returned to their
cruise, going outside the harbor for another
look.
About 11 o'clock they saw the smoke
of a steamer going down the coast, but
as it was in the direction opposite from
that which they expected the Ingalls
they had no suspicion that it was tho
transport, and, therefore, returned to
La Mnchina wharf.
But the Ingalls it proved to be, and
in duo timo she entered the harbor,
but without the arranged reception.
Shortly after, however, tho generals
went on board and had a brief conference
(lin anoroloi v U'lu. nfrnnmi.l
to meet them again at 10 o'clock Monday
morning at the hotel Troeha, Governor
General Brooke's headquarters
at El Veadao.
General Alger did not land, flaying
that he preferred to remain on board
tho trauHiuyt.
CAMPBELL'S BONlV REFITSEI).
Contractor** Sonnnl Offer To (>o On Fuyne
Mmire'a Itmul Ti.rix.il
A New York dispatch says: Neil
Campbell, the contractor who was
once rejected as bondsman for Mrs.
Fnyne Moore, went to the district
attorney's office Tuesday and ngain
presented himself to qualify as a
bondsman for the woman in SI,0(10 in
which she is held on the charge of
stealing silverware.
l>istrict Attorney Gardner refused
to accept Campbell's bond on the
ground that he had been rejected
once.
AMERICAN FORCES ADVANCE
FILIPINOS RESISTING DESPERATELY
AT ALL POINTS.
INSURGENT CAPITAL IS REMOVED. I
City of Bomt? Captured- Our Troop* Suf- *
f*r Under I a tense HeatBut Are
Iu Good Condltra8$|||t'> .
A dispatch to the New York fWt'
nal, dated Manila, Wednesday, 1
that Bocave was taken by our tv66|>* ag
during the morning. The raiirotrf lr
bridge is uninjured. At the time the P
dispatch was sent General MaoArthur J,
wttn wivuiu oigu( miies 01 xuaioios, toe .
Filipino capital. A 1^
CnplUl Kcported Moved. v . 1
A dispatch under the same date to
the New York Herald from Manila 11
says the insurgent capital has been 1
moved from Malolos to San Fernando. (
The insurgents burned* Bulacan <
Tuesday nfternoon. The monitor 4
Monaduock shelled Los Finas south
of Manila Tuesday noon. ' j
Advices received at Washington ^
state that the engineers under General
MacArthur are repairing bridges, the, fl
rebels having failed to destroy
iron works and the railroad is kept \
busy hurrying supplies to the front.
The country around Malolos is level ]
with occasional streams and patches
of wood, but there are no more jungles.
The American reports show that
twenty men were killed and sixty-one
wounded on our side Monday. The
Dakota regiment lost ten men killed
and thirty-seven wounded.
According to prisoners in the hands
of t.YlA A morioAno A orni nnl/ln'a flrannv.
ala, Garcia, Tofreo and Pacheco, were
with the Filipino army Monday and
drove their followers into the first
aggressive demonstration. *^he rebels [
attempted to charge across the plain
east of the railroad, but the Americans
charged tp meet.them and the Pjliniftoa t
- uwmi gltvr a tew shots, leaving sev- r
eral men killed on the field. i
The Filipino prisoners further de- i
clare that the rebels have lost all taste 1
for fighting and their officers have to <
keep them in line by beating them (
with swords. ?
One of the most brilliant and costly I
achievements of the campaign was the i
charge of Major Howard's battalion (
across the river. Advancing at the (
double-quick, they found the river be- <
neatli them and splashed across with a i
yell, swimming and wading, with bill- i
let spattering in the water, and rushed ;
up on the trenches. Ten men were t
killed and eleven were wounded in the <
charge. i
Our troons rantured four Sitaniards i
who were fighting with the insurgents, t
General M no Arthur was under a 1
heavy fire Tuesday. <
The prisoners say Aguinahlo has j
deelnred that if the Americans can ]
take the Filipino capital he will sur- 1
render. i
General MncArthnr's inen are tired, '
but are in splendid spirits. The heat (
is intense, being 90 degrees on the \
coast and fully 100 degrees in the in- i
terior and the Americans suflfer a great i
deal. In spite of the heat, however, ]
eveiy man is eager to proceed toward i
the enemy.
A detachment of ninety-six Filipino
prisoners was escorted into Manila
Tuesday. Their appearance aroused '
great interest as they were marched
from the railroad depot to the prison.
The rebels have unloaded about 500 :
men from a train half a mile in front
of General MocArtuhr's forces with '
the object of re-enforcing the Filipino '
garrisons at Bulcacnn and Guiguinto
on either side of the railroad leading
to MhIoIor.
The fact that the railroad is in operation
to onr front facilitates the '
transportation of supplies to the troops.
War department officials have re- '
ferred to the disposition with which 1
the insurgents were fighting. It was
tuken as an indication that they had '
staked everything on the outcome of '
this fight, and losing it, they would 1
submit rather than prolong a hopeless j
struggle. In this view the fierceness '
of tho rebel fighting was taken as an
evidence that "once whipped they 1
will stay whipped." '
F. X - (J0VKit>0It PI Kit PONT DEAD.
I'olitlcttlly Known ?? tlie Father of West
Virginia.
Hon. Francis Fierpont, the first gov- ,
ernor of West Virginia, died Friday
night in Fittsbnrg, Pa., at the residence
of his daughter.
Ex-flovernor Pierpont was the union
governor of the restored government
of Virginia organized in Wheeling at
the outbreak of the war by the citizens
o' what is now West Virginia, and
who then Opposed the secession. He
was the principal agitator of the division
of the state before the war and a
prime mover in the organization of
West Virginia and has since been
known as the father of that state.
ADDITION A I, MANILA NEWS.
Drupcnte Knronntrri Still Continue With
Rflii-l* Ketrontlnic.
A dispatch to The New York Heruld
from Manila, Tuesday, snys:
"The gunboat LaOuna <le Day attacked
the insurgents at Bulacau.
Three Americans were wounded.
"ilaeArthur's division has crossed
the .Mariluo river and is advaucing
northward.
' The insurgents attacked the Americys
last evening at Marilao, but were
rawilsed with severe loss. Our loss
iive killed and fourteen wounded."
,Jfcneral MacArtliur's division spent
BCpadRy night and Tuesday morning at
B^ycanayan, the next station beyond
Hflln A ffar ronnnnnifovinot
Irpnshed along the railroad Tuesday
kernoon toward Maloloa.
If the statement of thirty-five prisiers
captured is true, the main body
the enemy lias retreated to Malolos.
lit there are 110 more trenches to en(Inter,
although over thirty villages,
hiding the larger settlements of
llacan and Gudguiuto, intervene.
At every railroad station circulars
>ve been posted, signed by the Filino
commander-in-chief, Antonio
ana, ordering all spies and hearers
news to the enemy to he shot withit
trial and instructing that all lootb
and ravishers ho treated in the
tne manner. Further, all towns
landoned by the Filipino troops are
fpt to he burned.
While deploring the existence of
iv^r, the circular maintains the undername
right of the Filipinos to defend
loeir homes, lives and lands ngainst
"would-be dominators -who would kill
them, their wives and children," adding
that this motive ought to impel all
Filipinos to sncrifice everything.
The shelling of Paranarjue was not
flU. ~ A A . I -*- X? 1
Laciuc\uiuicu. 1 lie mrrev Miip Ainnimlock
anchored off the town and the ininrgents,
emboldened by the long siljnce
of the warships on guard duty,
jpened fire on her with muskets, with
Lhe result that one man was killed
?nd three were wounded. The Monadaock
then destroyed half the town, including
the church.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
rhe New Industries ilftportril In the South
l>urlncr the 1'iut Week.
2The more important of the new iniij^*ie?.-ennrted
during the past week
>,onipri^ a1*7^7 onj it}
Mnbanin; brick works in Georgia and
iouth Carolina; a canning factory in
rexas; a carriage factory in South
Carolina; coal minea in Arkansas; a
obstruction company in Kentucky; a
iO.OOO-spindle cotton mill in Alaitma;
three cotton mills in North Carilina?investments
of $75,000. $150,100
and $500,000 respectively; a$100,100
cotton mill in South Carolina; two
cottonseed oil mills in Alabama, two
n South Carolina and one in Texas; two
nunicipal electric light plantain Georgia;
two flouring mills in Arkansas,
:wo in North Caroliua, one in South
Carolina and one in Texas; three furniture
factories in North Carolina;
;rain elevators in Kentucky and Texas;
i harware company in Georgia; ice
:actories in Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina and Virginia; a knitting mill
in South Carolina; lumber mills in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Virginia; a machine shop
in Kentucky; a phosphate plant in
rennessee; a rope factory in South
Carolina; a sash, door and blind factory
in Virginia; a tannery in Texas;
x wire fence manufactory in west Tennessee,
and a self-opening can company
in West Virginia.?Tradesman
(Chattarooga, Tenn.)
TO II0L1) GENERAL REUNION.
OrKitiiiziitloim of the South Wll! Meet At
Fill In Church, Vs.
A general reunion of southern organizations
in Maryland, Virginia and
the District of Columbia is to be held
at Falls Church, Va., June 7th and
8th.
Preparations were begun Monday
when committees from the Daughters
of the Confederacy, the Southern Relief
Society and the Confederate Veterans
met in Washington to confer
with W. Ij. Utley, representing the
general management of the encampment.
General Joe Wheeler will be requested,
as representative of the joint
committee, to call on the president
md ask that he deliver an address.
General Miles and Admiral Schley,
Senators Daniel and Martin, ex-Senator
Gorman, Bishop Penick and Governor
Tyler, of Virginia, will also be
isked to speak.
WITNESSES ARE SUMMONED
For the Quay Trial Which lfn* Roen Set
For Tenth of April.
It was announced in Philadelphia,
Thursday, that the commonwealth has
suhpienaed all its witiieRseR in the
trial of former United States Senator
Quay and his Ron, Richard It. Quay,
which begins April Kith.
Between fifty and sixty persouH
have been summoned to testify for the
prosecution.
It iH said that Assistant District Attorney
Clement personally attended to
tho summoning of two Pittsburg bank
cashiers.
The trial is expected to take place
before Judge Beitler.
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