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Swain County Herald. Published Weekly at JJryson City, IS", c H. A. Hodge, Ed. & Pub Millionaire C. P. Huntington, of New York, has been solicited by King Leo pold, of Belgium, to secure an American interest in the Congo (Africa) Railroad. Egypt employs 2500 convicts upon its public works at a very small cost to the country. When the plans of Dr. Crook- fb'i Director-General of Prisons, are completed, the time of 4000 other prison ers will be profitably employed. An Australian wHo was hanging to th beam of a bridge aad realized that he jrnust fall made a rerbal "will to a com panion, disposing of about $50,000 worth of property, and tho court have sustained it, which leads the Detroit lresa to observe that "once in a while the court.3 do a sensible thiru?.' Tile review of the acreage and condi tion of tho cotton crop for the year, as published by tho New York Financial Chronicle, shows that an increase of acre ago of cotton in the whole South of 2 34-100 p5r cent., the increase in Texas being 7 per cent. Tho acreage of the whole South - in cotton this year is 20, 809,480 acres, being an increase of 464, 350 acres. : ' ' For tho first timo in the history of India, a public lecture has been delivered in Bombay by a -native lady. Miss Ra tahbai Ardeshir Malbarvala, M. D., lec tured in the Framjec Cownsjec Institute to a crowded audience, including 200 na tive ladies. The lecture, which was one .... on lung physiology-, "is described as mod est, ab'e and inti-resting. Tho London Jstws tells tins interesting ttnecdoto in a sketch of the late Laura Bridgman : When Carlylj "inpertinently asked, "What great or noblo thing has America ever done?" somebody replied: "She- has produced, a girl, deaf, dumb &nd blind from infancy, who, from her own earnings, has sent a barrel of flour to the starving subjects of Great Britain; in Ireland." - Everyone who takes the slightest in tercst in natural history will be sorry to learn that tho kangaroo is in danger of being extinguished. Its skin is so valuable that large numbers of young kangaroos are killed, and high authorities are of opinion that, unless the process is i topped, Australians will soon have seen the last specimen of this interesting animal. . Bankruptcy in England ranks next to a high crime.. If a member of Parliament lose his property and be adjudicated a bankrupt, he at once loses his seat in that august body. A -'mayor, alderman, coun cilor, guardian, overseer, member of school board, highway board, burial board, or select vestry, also forfeits hia office if he prove so dhelict in his busi ness affairs as to be uuablo to pay his debts. I'.tukce talent is forging its way every u here, ;' boasts the Cliicago Sun. "At the Pai Is Exposition it occupies a lofty place; yes, very lofty, especially in the shape of elevators on the Eiffel Tower. The Parisians were unable to make an ele vator to mount the entire distance of this wonderful structure and were compelled to give the contract to an American firm with the stipulation that nothing but French material should be used in it construction." A Belgian murderer named Hoyos will live in the annals of crime. Fourteen years' ago he insured his wife's life for 20,000. A few weeks afterward she was killed by a horse's kick, Hoyos said, but it was proved that he had just pre viously bought a horseshoe and fastened it to the cud of a mallet. He was a man of enormous physical strength, and there is little reason to doubt that ho killed the woman with the strange weapon. But Hoyos was acquitted in the absence oL actual tiroof. According to the Washington Star General M. C. Meigs has suggested to the Commissioner of Pensions that "the flags borne in hatt'c byllle "soldienc of the .Veiled States and those captured by them 4n war be hung around the walls of the .Pension Office building. He says also that the intent of all the acts of Congress regarding the captured flags is that they shall be displayed in some proper public place. Commissioner Tanner agrees with this suggestion, but is of the opinion that the roof of the Pension building, which leaks badly, should be mended before the battle flaars arehunsr about the walls." At the recent Mormon conference GeOrge Q. Cannon read the statistics of the church. There -arc 12 apostles, 70 patriarchs, 3719 high priests, 11,805 elders, 20G9 priests, 2292 teachers, 11, 610 deacons, SI, 899 families, 115,915 officers and members and 49,302 children under eight y-eara of age ; a total Mormon population of 153,911. The number of marriages for six months ending" April R 1G.Q0 ,t--.c Klft- l.iwl.c VTKA' members, 4SS; -excommunications, 113. I Many young men are leaving the Terri tory to take up land elsewhere. The saints, Cannon said, had been called to gether to buildup Zion, and this scatter ing must be stopped. WEST. NORTH AND KEWST ITEMS BY TELEGRAPH. Being A Condensation of he Princioal EaD pening8 in Different States. Acvcld FfiANCTS and a jOJ named Hiraes cf a ser.ara'tor at three miles from were.killod by the bursting the Kimbertoa Creamery, FhocnixviUe, I'can. A fiiik broke out in the livery and board- id s-taWes of Mosee "Weil, i ami 125 I.creca were burn-; l New York city, fl or biuTocste-1 to death mid over fifty trucfcJ i d-?stroyod. Tho and essential oil loss is cftiia atod f.t 3-io,0C0. Dodoe & Olcott's drufd manufactory, at Jersey Ci y, li. J., was 10- tallv destroyed bv fire. 1A b about 29,003. dwelling houso At FiacLvi'Ic, Penn., i occupied by z.n aged cuuplo. nuduiff, vjaa du&lroyed by Mfc-hae! McCrath flro. Tlie charred remains of tho husband an G. wife were found in the ruins. ! Tntf Oklahoma TcrritoriLl Convention d cided to partition tli3 Territory into twelve ccunlif. The names recommended for tr:o of the counties vrefe Harrison' and CJeve- land. j . Three of the five colore derod Trotorion, afc Red men who mur- ffliver J anction, Ark., a few months ago, wire lynched at the scene of tho murder. Richard LYUAy, aged ti wenty-tfcree, and Bortha Head, aged twenty were drowned at bathing. Dewey, one of Kenonfca, "U'L., wbilo going EX-GOVEEKGK KELSON Wiscoat In'ti early (iovemoa 3, has just died at Caasville, Wis., agd sevenay-nve years. A package of forty reg tered letters, con stolen from tho taiirinj about $10,000, was registry department of tho pOEtofllCG. Milwaukee (Whs.) Tiik steamer St.j Isieholis, with 500 col ored oxeurnioniste ran into Itho closed uruv.-- bridgo- over St. Augustine Creek, four miles south of Savannah,; Ga,, demolishing the for ward part of tho steamer, willing two women and injuring twenty-eight Aiea and women, somooftham fatally. J. P. Bus&HiLcn and w lfe, of Rockford, 111., committed suicide togc ber by drowning. They wore both seventy years of ago, and in good circumstances. TilB President, aeconjparied by Mrs. Ilar- jibon and Private; Secretary IJalford, left "Washington for Dtier Park, ltd., to spiid a short vacation. I Fouu hundred bouses arillpubh; buildings were destroyed by fire in the town of Pales, Hungary. Many children bo missing. Hundreds of deral homeless by tho Oro, distress prevails, j rero reported to cQplo were ren- and the greatest The freedom of Ue city of Edinburgh, Scotland, wa3 conerred ujj In reply to the address accompanying the presentation Mr. Parnell said that tho Irish people v.'ouM accept tlio tribute as anotusr proof of the near triumph -.' their L?jitiaiaio aspirations for freedom Tun Yandex paper miUi: near Poutai lier, loss is enormous. Mr. WiilLmi ury for damaga? ,'crdiet in fa vox ses in Liverpool, France, were burnod. The The jury in the care O'Brien against Lord SaUsl for slauder, has returned a of Lord fc'-alk-bury. I Several, cotton warohoi: England, liave been detrotcd by fh'O, Tho loss is-$500, 000. J - . A - Tnir New Jersey Prohibitionists have aominated George La Mont for Governor. Three children of Mrs Michael Stein, iged nine, six and three years, were burned to death b-v an explosion of kerosene at 1-iewistown, Penn. j Martin Pipheu and Whrlam Boll were suffocated in a fermenting tlank at a Santa B.osa'(Cal.) winery.' - Albert Bcxow has been panged at Little Her of Franklin Falls, Tdinn., for the mur Eich. This is the first execution to take place under the new law criminals shall be executed providing that In tho strictest privacy and that no newspaper men shall be present, l mrteen persons wiinesseu vne exe cution. ! i Anita and Miriam Bogo g, maiden sisters, living in Jackson County, Va., committed suicide by taking arsenic. They left a letter, signed jointly, saying that ihere was noth- lng jn lifp for old maids, and they were tired of it. They were in good carcumstances. Tom Simpson, Deputy Sheriff Morgan and J. B. Howton ver$ killed afar Birmingham, Ala., during a family feud. President Harbisos ha: sent through the State Department a despatch to Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazfh congratulating him upon his escape from the assassin j bullet. Colokel Wright, tho (Commissioner of Labor. has received notico oa his appointment on tho permanent commission having for its object tho carrying out of the Intel-national Congress Jaons for the poor, j the purposes of or cheap habita- Roswf.u, G. Hour, ex-G ingressman from Michigan, has written a letter to President Harrison declining to acccj t tlie Consulship to Valparaiso, Chili, to w dch he was re cently appointed, j The British Ggvernment 'ropc'sal that an Increased Print of Wales, enabling h.13 accepted the allowance to the him to provide nian-iaga portions for his eiuldren, le substi tuted for the proposed special grants. 1'n'E Earl of Fife, who to marry the. Prince of Wales's daught-ei", has been created i'Pukc by the Queen, and taken the title of Duke ol Fife. ! General Pol'U;;?-f.b his issued a mani op-to r.nnoiiu'ing that he wrill ' -otaid as a mididatx? for.tlie Chambeof Deputies in ighty cantons in France at tion. i she coming elec- The Dogs of Constantinople! In speaking of Constantinople it is im possible to forget lnentioiin-r the swarms of dogs that infest the str ets of the Turk ish quarter by tens upon tens of thous ands. How these dosrs m insjre to subsist in such numbers is a problem verv diffi cult to solve. They are mostly large ani mals of the wolf-dog variety. They Beem to have a creat ai tinathv for the Christian, and are quite dangerous to anv European venturing into "tlie Turkish quarter at night.! Stracge to say, they are never afflicted witl i hydrophobia, which is probably due to the free life they lead. If, however, sluch an -epidem-ic did break out anions thera it would certainly be necessary to imploy an array of soldiers to exterminate them. Xu York Herald. iius na3 been j a ycadj for horrors. While not yet half gone, iSST witnessed the Samoan tidal wave, the Conemnu-h flood and the Seattle fire. I S0UTHE315 INDUSTKIAL PE0GBESS The Development of Our Material Eesour ces Continues. The lumber manufacturers, wood workers and dealers in Nashville, Tenn., are: Seventeen band saw mills, aggre gate capacity 482,000 feet; seven circu lar saw mills, aggregating daily capacity 107,000 feet; twenty-one planing mills, aggregate daily capacity 553,000 feet; twenty lumber yards, aggregate daily ca pacity 527,000 feet. The lumber handled in the Nashville market is 200,000 000 feet annually, and the capital invested , $4,y27,00O. " The manufacture of wagons, cart?, etc., consumes annually more than 3,130,000 feet of lumber, one firm alone having an annual output of ls,7i50 wagons and carts. Manufactur er 's Record. In discussing the South's industrial progress' the Railway Age, of Chicago, says: "The development of the varied advantages of mineral deposits, forests, "water-power, soil and climate with which a large area ia the Southern States is fa vored has been going on for a few years with surprising vigor. While the South always liad natural resources sufucient to give it a leading position in respect to manufacturing industries, it lacked the capital, and, it must le confessed, its people generally lacked the energy to take advantage of what nature has done for them, lint capital from the Northern States and from foreign countries has at last been induced to investigate the op portunities for profit which exists in the iron, coal and timber regions of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas, and already within a few years many millions of dollars have been expended in the building of rail ways, the development of mines and the construction of mills and factories. The railway has really been the pioneer in all this great work of development. Locked up in the mountains, without means of transportation at hand, "all the vast wealth of nature is practically valueless, and had it not been for the courage of the railway builders who dared to push their lines into the wilderness, far in ad vance of population and traffic of any kind, the great growth of i which the South now so justly boasts would not have been possible. The railways first made the rich mining, timber and agri cultural regions of the South accessible, and then, with great energy and persist ence, nicidc their attractions known, and brought in not only immigrants who sim ply wanted homes, but also capitalists living far distant, who were induced to invest some of their wealth on the rcpre sentatious of the possibilities which had been made known." T. L. llaney & Co., of West Bride water, Pa., contemplate moving their stov eworks to some point in the South. 0YEK1THE CROSS-TIES. New Sections of the South to be Entered by the Iron Horse. Nokfolk am) Western's Extensions. The Norfolk and Western railroad has begun work on the southeastern exten sion from the Cripple Creek division to the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley, and 35 miles of road are to be built to the North Carolina state- line, where the. Cape Fear road's line will be met.! The Norfolk & Western's engineers are working hard, and it is expected they will have the 35 miles of road built before Christmas. The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley com pany has made arrangements to build 10 miles of road, extending its present read to the North Carolina state line. A .con solidated mortgage has been created, and bonds will be issued at the rate of $15, 000 a mile to retire outstanding obliira tions, and to provide means for the new extension. AH surveys have been made, and work will begin at once. Besides this line, the Cape Fear company is push ing the work on this line into Wilming ton, which is to be completed this sum mer. The Norfolk and Western will then be enabled to send coal through all the central section of North Carolina, a, even to the seacoast. while it will get it. return considerable local traffic of a gen eral character, besides copper, mangan esc, and other ores, which can be smelted iu the eastern furnaces. Ultimately the three connections will prove of great advantage, as si through line .ill be formed. from the Ohio river to the sea at Wilmington. Arrangements are now being made for securing funds with which the Irvintou extension Avill be built. This route has been surveyed several times and a good line located. Independently of the ad vantage that will accrue to the main line , of'the Norfolk and Western through this road to the Ohio river will be the addi tional traffic that will j go to the south through the connection with the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley. . There is now no direct rail line between the Ohio rail road system and the lines south of the Norfolk and Western and East Tennessee roads, and this new road is likely to prove of great importance in the traffic between the two sections. ' It will not be finished for more than a year, but by that time the Cape Fear company's.system will be in good work ing order and busiuess can be readily handled. Atlanta and Alabama. At the last session of the Alabama legislature a char ter was obtained for a road, to be called the Atlanta and Alabama, to rim from Atlanta, Ga., to Selma, Ala. The Sea board and Roanoke road people obtained the charter with a view of making it a continuation of their Georgia, Carolina arid Northern. The purpose of the syndi cate is reported to be to extend this sys tern to New Orleans. Malarial Mysteries. Oddly enough, it is only within the last ten or fifteen years that scientific men have known that malaria was the result ol living organisms iu the blood, and it is only within the last two or three years that investigators have obtained any knowledge of what these organisms are like. It is true that as long ago as B. C. 50 Lucretius ventured to suggest that malaria was "due to having organisms in' the blood." But the Romans probably thought his suggestion even less import ant than the same jxet's theory of fall iug atoms. The Roman's were a practi cal people; they cared little about the cause, but strove to get rid of the results. Accordingly they built those great drains which are suc-h marvels of engineering skill. The art of making these drains is sa:d to have belonged by heredity to cer tain faualie.s, a few descendants of whom . arc si ill living in the AbruzzL As a re- suit oi inese works came a thriving rtonu- lation, abundant hai vests, and luxurious villas. Vtith the decav cay of Roman civili- of the bandwere arrested for petty tliiev urned. Kao York ing and James Stephens appeared against fcltion limes. malaria ret THROUGH DIXIE. STJMMABT OF SOUTHERN JTEWS Happenings of Special Importance From Virginia to the Lone Star State. KORTO CAROLINA. A bank for Lenoir is talked of. Senator M. W. Ransom has accepted an invitation to deliver the centennial ad dress at Fayctteville on the 2tsjt of No veinler next. Thr Hon. Jefferson Davis has also accepted an invitation to Ik? pres ent, and is expected to deliver a brief ad dress. The Raleigh city sewerage committee met and opened bids for the work of opening and closing trenches and laj'ing the pipe of the new city system of sewer age. There were ten bids ranging from $32,000 to $70,000. The committee de cided to recommend to the lxard of al dermen the acceptance of the bid of Messrs. Quinn & Smith, of Nashville, who propose to do the work specified for $32,126.23. The regular shipment of grapes north from Raleigh commences Wednesday afternoon, Capt. B. F. Williamson mak ing the first shipment. " It is probable that 40,000 baskets will be required to ship Raleigh's crop this year. The President -has detailed Second Lieutenant James B. Hughes, tenth cav alry, as Professor of Military Science at Bingham School, Orange county: The President has appointed James H. Ramsey postmaster at Salisbury, vice A. II. Boyden, removed. S. T. Albert, the engineer iu charge of the government work on certain rivers in Virginia and North Carolina, in his an nual report says no work was done the past year on the Dan river of 1 Virginia and North Carolina, but recommends that $ 11, 500 be appropriated to continue work on in that stream. SOL'TII CAROLINA. Governor Richardson pardoned Rosa Bonnell, who was convicted in Berkeley county this year for aggravated assaul t and battery and sentenced by Judge Witherspoon to one year iu the peniten tiary. She was convicted in her absence and the evidence, iHs thought, was not sufficient to have convicted her; besides this, she is now about to become a moth er. Her pardon was recommended by the Judge and solicitor. ?v J. N. Trainer of the Patterson Mill Company, Chester, Pa., has selected the site for the new cotton mill at Rock Hill. He was so much pleased with the place that he decided to add 5,000 spindles making a mill of 15,000 spindles. 8 The presiding judge of the circuit court at Columbia has granted a new trial in the case of Elbert I). Ilerran against the South Carolina railway compan3, in which, as already reported, the jury gave the plaintiff $5,000 for injuries received while discharging his duty as car coupler. A stroke of lightning, resulting in the death of two negroes, is reported from Georgetown county. Peter Robinson and Frank Robinson, father and son, while setting in their cabin in the country, were instantly killed. The body of each was badly scarred and their clothes (consider ably burned. The building was torn near the point where the men were sit ting. ' j Dr. McDow was expelled from the Medical Society at Charleston, after his resignation had been refused. - ' The average crop of cotton seed in South Carolina is estimated at 215,000 long tons, and the greater part of the crop will be handled before very long by the local mills. Wednesday afternoon the conductor of the Laurens train brought back with him from Laurens to Greenville Susie Dobson, a small white girl of the" latter city, who made an attempt (o run away from her parents and go to Augusta. The con ductor of the train thought something was wrong and would not let her go on to Augusta. The chief of police put her in the station house until her father call ed for her. The ticket was given her by a woman of Augusta who is staying there. ' The Norwegian bark Lupa for Brahe, Germany, was cleared at Beaufort with cargo on Wednesday. Farmer Tillman, tho famous demo cratic agitator of the State, has been elected president of a Farmers' "Alliance in Edgecombe county. On the first of June the cotton crop in South Carolina stood at 7G ; but since that time the average has risen until it has passed by four per cent, the average of last. The Average -of the corn crop is four per cent, above the general average for the Southern States, and is surpassed only by the states of Texas and Nebras ka. In lice in this state also, the aver age is above last year, by about three per cent., an improvement of seven percent, since the rains set in. TENNESSEE. Tom Condcr, who murdered Jack Riley, near Troy, Obion county, iu Sep tember last, was hanged Tuesday. Gov ernor Taylor several tlajs age received a petition asking for a commutation of ser tcnCe, but declined to interfere, i Condcr and Mrs. Riley, wife of the victim and mother-in-law of the murderer, were ar. rested for the killing of Riley and tried. Conder was sentenced to be hanged and Mrs. Riley to imprisonment for life. She made a confession, saying that Riley was shot and killed by Condcr, and that she was present at the time the crime was committed. Conder was forty-three years old and a Mormon. For a week past a coal fleet, moored a few miles above Memphis, has been in jeopardy, and only by strenuous effort 3 and a large outlay of money have the owncis succeeded in keeping the boats alloat. The ilectj consists of seventy-five barges containing 050,000 bushels of coal vaiucu .-1 $i t o,uuu. me trouble ' was brought about and uncxpectc-' in a most -' sinirular 1 manner. Shrimps. in count less mvraids, have eaten out the oakum in seams of the loa(s, let ting the water m and rendering the ser vices of a large number of men at the pumps necessary to kec-p the ixats from sinking. The loats have been moved into current, which has kept the shrimps off, and sawdust lammed into the leaks. Sev eral days of labor will yet be required be fore the fleet is considered safe. Strawberry Plains, Jefferson county, has long leen the rendezvous of a band of thievincr nffrrrua inin--tJm t!n- (nn r them as the principal witness. Monday niht Stephens was sitting at home with his wife and child, when suddenly the re port of a gun was beard and he fell uead. Mrs. Stephens was slightly wounded. It is thought the shot was fired by Bill Jackson, a desperate negro and member of the gang. The wildest excitement pre vails and Jackson is being hunted. If caught he will probably be lynched. Attorneys for Mrs. Mary Pillow filed a bill iu the circuit court at Memphis against Col. Clay Iving for $100,000 dam ages for defamation of character and slander. The present suit is the outcome of a suit commence! ia chancery last month by Col. King, enjoining Mrs. Pil low from taking possession of certain propcrtvin Arkansas, which she claimed had been deeded to her by King. Col. King, in his bill, made some severe charges against Mrs. Pillow. Mrs. Pillow is the widow of Gen. (Jr. J. Pillow, of Confederate fame, and is connected with some of the best families of-Tcunesscc. TIKI.ISIA. Walter Austin, while at work on the skylight of II. M. Smith & Co's. machine shops, Ri -hmond, fc'l through, a dis tance of thirty feet, injuring himself in ternally, lie lived but a few hours. E. C. Jordan, well known, throughout the United States as the proprietor of White Sulphur Springs, near Winchester, I died JUonday morning, lie was mi ten on the hand by a pet squirrel two months ago, and blood - poisoning set in. His arm was amputated on Frida'. James A.. Patterson, of Waynesboro, made an assignment to A. V. Braxton, an attorney of Staunton. His assets were over $00,000 and debts less than $10,000. Patterson owned and operated the largest flouring mill in the valley, and did a large business. He has left the country. No reasou is assigned for his absence or his assignment. He was a prominent and influential citizen and-chairman of the democratic county committee. An English syndicate has purchased the salt works of Palmer, Carpenter & Co., in Saltville, for $1,000,000, and leased them to a" northern, company for the manufacture -of soda. Young Charlie Z'irkl, employed in the dry goods house of S. I). Timbcrlakc, Staunton, was drowned there Wednesday afternoon, while bathing iu the fair grounds pond. A prohibition state convention nomi nated for Governor, Thos. E. Taylor, of Loudoun county; for Lieut. Governor, W. J. She! bourne, of Montgomery coun ty; for Attorney-General, Judge J. M. Quarles, of Staunton. A platform was adopted declaring as a crime, and lobe punished as such, .the manufacture, sale, exportation, importation and transporta tion of alcoholic liquors; opposition to trusts and monopolies; in favor of public education, the disfranchisement of voters who sell their votes or who buy them, against violations of tho Sabbath, etc. C. F. Douthat, a stranger who has been' parading the town of Roanoke for several days as a member of a Cincinnati Detec tive Ageuey, was arrested cm information that he was wanted at Pulaski City for housebreaking. The mayor lined ten dollars for carrying concealed weapons and then; turned him over the Pulaski authorities. He was equipped with badge, nippers, handcuffs, etc. The colored stale normal school opened at Lexington Tuesday morning. GEORGIA. The Fanners' Alliance of Georgia, hav ing made war upon jute and many other things, has now taken up the question of the Undertakers' Trust. The f ol lowing, just passed by the Fayette county Al liance, is being taken up all over the State: "Whereas, There is an organized Funeral Undertakers'. Trust in the United States for the purpose of practicing ex tortion on the heart-stricken people; therefore be it Resolved, That we will not purchase any funeral "material from any one belonging" to said t rust, but we will use home-made material for the bur ial of our dead rather than patronize any member of this trust." One hundred military men, represent ing forty-five companies of. State .militia, met at Atlanta and memorialized the Legislature, urging the passage of a law making one year's military service com pulsory. . The question of allowing Atlanta citi zens to give a dedication entertainment, in the new capitol received its quietus in the Senate. The Senate refuses to grant the use of the building if there is to be dancing. The anti-dancers outnumber the dancers two to one. FLORIDA The Secretary of Treasury has directed an investigation of charges of alleged il legal practices on the part of the custom officers at Tampa, in the matter of foreign importations. OTIIEIl STATE'S. The body of a man named Davis was found hanging from a tree in Robinson, Tex. His body was riddled with bullets, and-upon his breast was apiece of pa per, saying: "Take warning! Executed by fifty men for seven attempts to assault white women." The ld v was cut down. taken to Waco, and buried. Davis en tered the house of a cattle man on Thurs day night but was frightened awav. The neighbors pursued him and disposed of him without, judge or jury. Before he was hanged.- Davis made a confession of all his previous attempts. Col. D. Howard Smith, ex-auditor of Kentucky, died at Louisville of heart dis ease. He was born near Georgetown, Kv. in 1821, and served with distinction in , the Confederate army. A stranger named Gaston committed suicide at Brcwton, Ala., throwing him self upon a circular saw in a saw mill. He was killed instantly. From p.-pen his home w as in Iowa. It is thought tha jwu:oi i: no H.I.-MJU 11 t'iriK't I !:tl mMH between him and a Miss Smith of Des Moines, Iowa, had been broken. j The Colorado Diver at Columbus, Tex., i is thirtv-one ft high and rising. Tl.e I lowlands nre all inundated and crows are I tnt.reiy destroyed. The damage to the cotton crops in the county is estimated at f-o0,000. People are moving to the highlands, expecting the river to wash over everything. Melons, fences and ferryboats are coming down the stream too numerous to count. It has been rain ing there for three weeks. One foot more wiil cut of! all railroad communica tion. There has bec-o a great development of lumbering in the South since 180. There are also ICO jer cent, more saw milhi no than then, 107 per cent, more hands em ployed, and 100 per cent, more capital iavested. flnttonseed as Feed. There is an astonishing statement pub lished to the effect that "the hulls of the cottonseed of the cotton State3 will pro duce more beef, butter milk and cheese, more wool and mutton, that all the clo ver and blue grass of Tennessee, Ken tucky and Ohio." And yet it appearsto be true. An Atlanta firm fattened 5.300 ieeves last vear on cottonseed hulls at a profit of 20,000. Two train loads of these beeves were shipped from Atlanta to Philadelphia and sold there in come titionwith Chicago leef. This same firm will fatten 10,000 steers next winter. Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, an authority cm foxhounds, bees and Jerseys, is feed in"-his herd on cottonseed hulls, ana savs the result in milk, butter and beef is amazing. Mr.JW. M. Towers, of Rome, G a., writes at a test between corn, cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls, in which the latter produced vastly better results. And yet until a year ago cottonseed hulls were used as fuel for engines or cast away as worthless. Of all the plants that grow, cotton is the miracle, and its wonders arc not jet tried. Its little black wrinkled seed is as full of mean ing as an old Hebrew verb. The Pulpit and McDow. CiiAiiLESTO-V, S. C The publication of the sermons on nmrikr and adultery apropos of the McDow;' verdict, caused quite a sensation in the city. Tho Me Dowites and the jurymen are incensed, and it is stated that several of the white jurors have announced their intention to go gunning for the ministers and press correspondents. The Charleston. Sun say a: "It is time for the ministers of God to speak out when the waves of immortality, sin, corruption, and madness are threat ening to submerge ui, and all the old land markr and criterions of right and wrong arc becoming confused and swept away. None too soon, We say, have these men" of God elected to call a halt in th name of their Sovereign Master, for do the signs f the times seem to show; that vigorous and authoritative speech on the subject lias been 'too long delayed?'' The Medical Society had a meeting, at which McDow was elaborately discussed. He had applied for membership to the society years ago, but was blackballed, it is said, on account of his reputation as a "masher.". He was elected about a month before he murdered Dawson. After his acquittal he sent in his letter of resignation which, however, was not ac cepted. At the. meeting of the society the p'-int w.ia raised that he was not a member, not having signed the constitu tion, and the matter was postponed. An ollicer of the society is reported as saying that McDow's letter would not be receiv ed. H lie was a member he would be ex pelled, but to expel him will involve a trial. It is known that at least one drug gist has given orders that his clerks shall not ill any prescriptions by McDow. The Original Jim Crow. In the summer of 1828, back of the Louisville (Ky.) Theatre was a livery stable kept by a man named Crow. The actors could look into tho stable yard from the windows of their dressing rooms, and were very fond of watching the movements of an old and decrepit slave who was employed by. the proprietor to do all sorts of odd jobs. As wasthecusr torn among the colored people he had as sumed his master's name, and called hira self Jim Crow. He was very much de formed -the right shoulder was drawn up high, and the left leg wras stiff and crooked at the knee, which gave bun a painful, .but at the same time ludicrous, limp. " He was in the habit -of crooning a queer old tune, to which he had ap plied words of his own. At the end of each verse he gave a peculiar step, "rocking de heel" in tho manner since so general among the long generation of his delineators, and these were the words of his refrain : Wheel about, turn about, Do ji'sso, An' tbery time I wheel about I j'imp Jim Crow. Rice closely watched this unconscious performer, and recognized in him a character entirely new to the stage. Ho wrote a. number of verses, quickened an slightly changed the air, made up exactly like the original, and appeared before a Louisville audience, which,' as Mr. Con ner, cays, went - mad with delight, recall ing him on the first night at least .twenty times. And so Jim Crow jumped into fame, and something that looks almost like immortality. flu-pea's. " .Pi-ties Expecting a Flood. Virginia, Xev., is full of Piutes men women- and children, who, fearing a ie i'.igc, ore getting out of the valleys.. Not .-'-;; a,o a Piute prophet predicted J a at flood that would drown all this part of the w orld. He said the ancients would rise from th;-Ir graves and there would be a r.ew deal on this continent, in which the red men would be restored to their old rights and repossess the land. Having br-n told of the flood in the East and the drowning of thousands of white men, they have got an exaggerated idea of the disaster and believe that very few whites remain on that side of the continent. Their prophet, of course, claims credit for what h.-is happened, and they next ex- p-ct a bona to- drown the wluies of the rtcst. The - '-' -- v lUlO JL Ulg f hey fire Ia3-ing iu a stock of pro rith v.-Inch to lice to the mount- visions wiiii v. iiicli to lice to the mount ain tops, . r.d suppose that the whites will remain in their houses to beIrowned if y did in the East. Virginia (Ken.) as the 1 1 A aft Tropellcd by Explosloiis. The Eureka" is a novel craft which lias been squirming about the East River lately. Her novelty consists in the facjfc that she is propelled by explosions of oil and air, operating upon the water through Pvo ui uw Bieru. biie attained i J"001 or IO"r or five mile, an hour by 1 - ,""U5 ner inventor ia ticRT with his discovery. It b reporUd that tte "i0"0? of th boat "was very stead v ?v ! i thumping at the stern, due uv enecxs oi tne explosion. " With a maximum speed of five miles an hrmr and the impossibility of telling -wheS the boat has Ktr,, ;, . cr ; . . vaivauj uiinivnTunnr through with her w..i o 1 the Eureka can hardlybe called a acream ng succea.-Aiw York Commercial Ai tertiur. A Comparison of Values. in It took last r,n l.ticTil - hJhli Z J ' n3il3' now OQe V JSrlw wdl buy tea pounds of r ij3 lquired bixty-t"' bush- ' Soth ISwTv UJ a yarJ of broad- ' SSliU amoant of barley ft thUrJZ f h'rooih. of wK rf ?6 Pnte K ne bushel now alt b,? H ?T Te yanl of SStoS cS. ' f 71 but tweny 1 yar.pf ctiKo.Scuntific America. v w RAMIE FIBRE COMING To Qttt! o a fTnfnT If' 11 o .. - w w,u .m-ni 3. southern Mi v. The Rhea or RttK, The hopes which have i.ln. tertaincd that rhe.i l'tf-h r ramie take rank as a leadin r ...., til, rfc . 1 . "All I' , 'j tcnal give interest to su. r ' Vi n.,. commercial report c-f lr c '-r . ia . nnahf r I r ia ,.i . j vui, 'nu-iJv to ana vanion, where it, is into grass cloth. The ,rU...n "hemp" is also, he believe s?m althbiurh it is sometimiw .1 V jute, which it certain! v is "'t. All Allen states that be 1,.,.J :.. "' MirMit fast, for the information of'llwVV-! ' nf t!nmniprci iif fb-if , . . ... ....... hmUi pnuit 'it what facilities there are at i Iink procuring and manipulatiu-r .j.-;!' "at lie is wiMiiui 10 Dc tue means of s) 11 trade in the pviwirl f If ti ' lrliii.i however, not hopeful of see hi, r t,;,, ? grow to important dimensions" ni.iii a j, chincry for thoroughly lrepaiin,M1(,, C4. 1. uuiu 101 .-.pinning nas Keen pcru-c.j SWISS COTTON MILLS. The Swiss Society of Cotton s,; and Weavers has lately publi .m'" statistical tables which amy sm-Ml''Jlffl' a. ponwfpshmnl f tf tlm .... I'K.-nii of the various industries (1, . .. 1 . There are at present at '-"UCITU--4. spinning mills, containing li? spindles; Go weaving mU, eon, 16,800 looms for plain goods; 41 w mills containing fi I 1. , - o .-. mums i(rf hj 'tons of thread, 10,12' tons of i.lai-TJ I I..,. oouu iuiis 01 coioreu ro, s pi 1 A . "! e j . . . . 1 tu in-n. erai icuuency 01 me tra.lc is towards M increase in the number of looms ami ml,, crease in uie numoer ot spindles. Tk comparing last year with the year V4 tW was a reduction in the number of ni,iDln of 157,204, but an increase in the numUr of looms of 304. In the spinnin-r rilli were employed some 11,200 h.iml." earn ing during the year 7. .-,, (,tM)fr j, wages. In the thread mills tit.- m,mU was 1,300 earning 800,000fr., un.l k weaving mills for plain goods tlu ro w(r employed D,900- hands, earning OOOfr. The yearly, productio,, (,f cotton per employe amounts tlun (m the average to 2,029 kilog., at a cost of nklf of 63l)fr. or say, 4,500111. pir 5 ia wages. SOUTHERN MILL NOT lis. A 20,00 spindle colton mill will f built at Bessemer, Ala. New EwUn parties are interested. Efforts are Un made to organize a stock compiiuy tu build a colton mill at .Jacksonville, "pht. 'G D. Stewart and otliersh.ive'forineili company with $100,000 capital stork to build a cotton factory at .Joiiesboro, da., with capacity of from 0,000 1.) I0O00 spindles. The Cumbc rland, N. ('., niil! will replace part of their spinning and carding machinery with new, mif mako other improvements. A. cotton factory will be built at Harden, N. V. '.The Oak dale Mfg. Co., .Jamestown," f. ('., aru erecting a new building for their cotton mill, and will add new ma-W-r-j tv crease capacity about . one-tliird, to 5,000 spindles; electric lights will be put iu. The Wennonah cotton mills,. U-xin'j,'-' ton, N. C, will build u ;!0 feeL,exteasi"u to their mill. The erection of a cotton mill at Lowell, N. C, is being agitated. The Stanley, N. (,'., Cotton Mill (. are putting iu 1,000 spindles for making carjet . yarns-. Another colton milllis projected at Anderson, S. C.-John Lew &, Sons, IJridgeport, Pa., are c-orrep.nJ-ing in regard to establishing a w.x.Ihi factory at Columbus, S. C The AVbit ney, S. C, Mfg. Co. have completed tin ir cotton mill and are about to be 111 ora tions. The Clarksville, Tciiil, .Mfr's. Aicl Association In being organized with $100,000 capital stock, to encourage es tablishment of factories. The Uiversidi mills, Danville, Va., arc adding Wm spinel Ies and 1 1 1 looms. 1 Col. R. J. Page Killed. linger J. Page, editor of the Marion, N'. C., Times-Ilegister, was shot and instant ly killed at -nne o'clock Tuesday inornitii.'. as he stepped oir the train from A.hevil!f at Marion, by Kd Brown. Drown tir-U five shots in Page's back. The cause f the shoot ing is k.iuI to be Page's iniproper attention to Mrs. . Dr. Butt, Mter of Brown. Page was a close kinsman of (.Jen. be He was about fifty years old, uud ' separated from liis -,ife. Brown, i 1 1'-' son of u prominent-citizen' and a wealtlij farmer in McDowell county. In tho Interest of tlo Poi-i Col. Julian Allen, of Stntisvilie, X C one. of the comiuisssouers of the Suthcr:i Exposition, was in -Riltimorc: to nrran lans for the colonization of Poli-h fa'"' ilics of that :ity in North Carolina u'J rirginia. His plans have the coinnn -i1 1 tion of Cardinal Cibb.ns. Col: Alk-a was the guest of iju; liev. P t -r ( ,') anicc, ot the Holy llosary c hureh, on Eastern avenue. A nutting of the l'"1' was held at the church Sunday, and tie five hundred persons present Mw id d t" send Dev. Peter Cbovvaniec to N-n1 Carolina and Virginia to cxamin-- tli1 dif ferent iKiiuts at which it is pro--d establish colonics. It i.-4 estiui il id tLs' there are o,000 Polish familie s ii Iiln more, and that the majority c-f thj'1 would gladly settle in Viiginb i;-l .V rt! Carolina. Mr. J. Prank Mn ; h 1' tablished a large colony of Pole :t ('ii' mont, Va. Co!, Allen will wdt him - acquire all the details incidental toisU' lishing a colony. He U acting as a ui' bcr of the Southern Exposition Taxedo Vsir. The entire property of Tuxedo Pa the fashionable country resort for wtaiti to Mr. Lorillard's grandchildren, an d if it keep on increasine In value and P"P4'-- larity for twenty-five years as it tw ,-ttf inir Vio ym' t. ;i I e & ' il.M. J tf -.. .-it rrt aro no O -v jahi, jcai3, ' more fifty cottage owners and De four hundred club members, giving net income of more than $40,000 The village at the station increasing in due ratio, and aa the club now opporting.M,'. Lorillard's pi agalnit lms fir five yean U l entirely devoted to Improvement., wbh 'WW "ery direction.- ,hmmd tetrttet. - - - KIJNG COTTnu- xne xiriusn consul at Hankow n Alin, the export of what is called ;,'ni- that place. This article, A,' ''' is not hemp, hut rhea til.r,. I r A'r. mg to some experiments ,!. .' the French Government last -.. " n h dcr to discover the best inetho, 'n ' mrinsrthis material for m.,,,..r '. ltt oicu goous- aim uay-eiglit thn-ad mil' containing 73,543 spindles. The . of the various mills during the I ki v urns O.O 7 r,f c..,,' ...... ' l .. . , - VA -UI1 t'lll 1,111 ,1
Swain County Herald (Charleston, N.C.)
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Aug. 1, 1889, edition 1
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