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. j i j "A DEMOCRATIC- FAMILY NEWSPAPER. ' VOL. t. MARION, X. tV WKDNKSDAY, MARCH 18!), NO. 12. MARIOS J' -Hi. G-031i-Ai",y & SOisTr . . ' w.4 nt Vine" rl ; ra pa Xu terir DISTILLERY & MANUFACTORY OF Pure Native Wines, French Cognac, Brandies And FIXll LIQUOliti. Awrll FKt Prmiijim at Kx poition of . N w e, ;N. C.,.Feb., Old Fort. N. C. rrr mi a- Piofesaionnl ari0. L. O. BIRD ATT05KT AWD COUMZJ.LOR AT LW. Marion, - NO. Practices in all courts, State and Fed era). Special attention given to lave tigatlng land titles an! collecting claims. prOffice on Main Street. JUSTICE A JUSTICE, Attorney at Law, Mrrlon, N. 0. E. J. Justice is located here. Office iq upper room of Fleniming fibtel.' JAM KH MORRia. Marion, N. O. R..H McCALL. AsWviile, N. C. MORRIS fe M'CALL, Attorneys at Lw. rncthe in DcDwell,; RutVrfnrA, Pe!r, Yancey, nnd M iff hell eounties, and in the Unite' States' Circuit Court at A-liville and Stst. sville, and in the Supreme Cnutt of the St te. Busb on promptly attended t". M a. m:vland, Attoiinet at Law, Ma i n, N. C. Practices in th 10 h nnd 12th .Judi cial districts, the Supreme. Court of N rth Cnrol ni and ih Federal Court of the Western, di-tiict of North Caro ls. I). E. Hur-Gixs, Maiio.i, Is', i E V. WTgO!, rinnvi;ii, n c 1IUDGINK & WATSON, Attorneys and Counsellors at l,.v. RAll hus:nees fntMitnd to them leceive prompt attention. will Dentist. OITeiAhi profeasional services to hU f rim ds and f; nit-r patrons of Mtrion and vicii ity. All work guaranteed to le first class, end as reasonable ai mch work can bo aiT mUd. Office opposite the Fl raniing II use. Marion Record Is the only Petnoci'i c Nevp-p'f li McDowell county, nnd t. k la e cir cula'Ion in adjoining eounties It pub l'ihes all the news without fear or favor, and Is the organ of no ring or el'que. It is the bold champion of the peo ple's rights, an earnest advocate of tbf best interests of the county of McDow ell and the town of Marion. It adver tising rtes are reason b', and the sub scription price I $100 per ytar in ad tanes. If you want the b st newspaper in ths. countrj brimming full of choice readlrg matter for business me', farmers, me chanics, and the home circles of all classes subscribe and pay for the Rscord. Ifyou doa't, why Just don't, and the paper will be printed every Thursday evening as usual. If you haven't enough interest In voui eoun.ty'6 wellfare to $u-nin the best ad vocate of ita diversified interests, and its truest friend the newspaper yon need not expect a 2 column t bltuary notice when jour ol 1 tingy bones are hid from the ejes of progress in the ground. II who owp ascription's., to tn Rsccnr? will b- hoj j.-d fiom our -.list unless Ibey put up t onre. T .its R Sp ctfuily. Trie Fifl priori Record, Tonsorial, m f WM, SWEENEY, Tracticil and Scientific Barber. Over Stream n's drug 'store. Call and see He, as I promise s.tLfaction in U in- I F. MORPHEW, Attorney at Law, Practices in" the Courts of Mitchell Yarcy, Buncombe, Wataugi, Ashe; 8'iprerhe an 1 Federal Courts." .SO rtHEItX RA I L WA Y. (Piedmont Air Link.) " . F.tTeo -January. 20 This C.d-n-el Hhelulen published in inf im ni 'M om1 isutjct toih.mge wi'h-.ut nonfvjo n j uo;i!-. OA M Y. 57 NOT t ox :jh & . 37 Lv NrYriYT;T.S itYbt 4Sop"t'7 j ' Ph U'elphia 7 0 n m H5pm Ar Wa-.hinjrt'a 10 4'.' a m 10 25 p in l,v VVtisliiiui.'n II 01 b ni 10 4 i p in I .v m . 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Thn ugh tlee, ii'R cais lHtv( en New Yoik mill Nw ()rlnn, New Yolk ml Mtnl hi, an I New Yoik, Ash v ill and Hot liim Pit. ins; ear Utw("n Creenslor-i ml M-.i ig meiy. wis. i3 .n l 34 n-w York and Fieri In f.h it iww. iii.iitp.l l'uliir.nn cars ami his oa rath udv. Thnngh sleeping and coin pditn ent ars lv twt-pn sw oi k ai d St. August in ('wo oars', and Sew Ym k a-i 1 Aiijtusta. A m orries si -epinit oar h twem StLtl urv nn I Danville, opera teil between. Salis" ury ami Rit hmnn l. Dining cars b tween Su'lisl.'iiry an t St. Augus in. v, :;anl:ri. Cnitel tstatea fst m-ol rnllmau sle?p njc cars letvfcn New Y,.rlc. At nut . ami MoniiTOUierv, im 1 N-?w Y rk af. I Jacks, mill' Also haas!ee,ine ar htw o l'1-arlot'e an t August i. no 12 slepin cir (jreensboro t Rd.-igb. no. 35 shaping ear Ka'eiRh t Oreehsbor Tlnoi.ch ticket-; n a 1j atiiincLal sta iloi & to all ix.ints. T r rats or information arplv t ny agent of the o mpany. or J. S B THOMPSON, tup iiit n lent Vint Division. I anville. Va. V. B RYDER, upelintenlent Std,1 Divisioc. Charlotte. N. C W.H. OKKKN, Utneral Manager Eastern Sjom. Washinston. D. c W. A. TURK., lien l l'as.Agt., Val ititon, D. C SEAB A8D AIR. LINE B New r utc to d a'l tte, Rle:ph, Wil- miig-on. Ricbtr.ond, Norfolk, Whins; ..n. Biltimore and the East. A's t. Atlan'a, New Oileins a-id all p-'ii -t ;n Texas and the Southwet-t. MunuliH Kansas Civ, Denver and a'l point-id he (treat West. For Maps, Folders. Time Tables a.H lowest ratis wiite to - i. A. NEWLAND, Gen. Tr iv. Pass. Age i, Charbdt-, N. C Leive Marion C, C. & C. Charlotte S. A. L Air ve Raleigh " " Wilmington " Atlanta 6 45 a ra 1 50 a in ; 0 ) p n 2o p in 3 00 p m . BA. NMVLAND. T. J. ANDERSON, Li. T.P. A. G. P.A BIG WHISKEY STEAL. 10,000 GALLONS OF CORN JCICK STOLFIN WITH A SIPHON. Brought to Light by the Investigations of United .States Internal Revenue Officers. The facts in one of the most remark. able robberies ever known in South Carolina have just been unearthed by the internal revenue officers at halla, S.'CV."; In 1832 ilenry Bieman jfcoTd- four government distilleriep; with bonded warehouses" situated' abbot a" half a mile apart along the banks ef a creek, two miles from.- Walhalla,'. to JV. C. Tatnm. They were ftvnlt on- the 6ide of the hill sloping towards the stream, and the varehouses . contained ten thousand gallons ofeorn whiskey. Ta tnm at once closed the dieti'leries arrd the warehouses were' locH.ed and the government seal attached,' it being the owner's purpose to hold the whiskey three yenrs before paying the tax as al lowedby law. During the latter part of August of last year Collector Townes wrote to Tutum several times informing him thfltthe three years were about to ex pire and urging him to be ready to comply with the law. On the night of September 5th." two days before the expiration of the time, three of the distilleries wefe burned to the ground. The fourth only contained seventy gallons of whiskey. Deputy Collectors Vauderford and King were deiailed to conduct an investigation. Yisitingthe sites of the burned buildings they could discover no signs whatever of whiskey, although they expected to find the ground saturated for many feet around where' the burning 11 aid had flowed, (trndually the evidence was developed p.nd finally confessions wero obtained substantially as follows: Soon aft?r the purchase by Tatnm one of the warehouses had been enter ed, the burglars drawing the staple of the door. Then they had inserted one end id" n piece of hose into a' barrel and drawing it through a crack in the wall placed the other end in an empty barrel at the foot of the hill in to which the whiskey was siphoned. This process was repeated night after night until. every gill of the whiskey had been stole ur lbe. siphon, arrange ment enabling the thieves to operate deliberately and avoid the danger which hauling away a large quantity at once would have incurred. The revenue officers say that the tax on the whiskey is secured by the bond. The facts above related were grad ually developed, and the arrests of John Farmer, Ashbury Hide, William Whitman, Tony Watkins and John Rowland followed. They have been given hearings before United States Commissioner Hawthorne at Greenville and were hold for trial. Some of them have made full confessions Spartutiburi; Organi7.es Against the Hell Telephone Company. SrAin-ANBvna, S. C, March 2". A new telepbono company, to bo known an the Spartanburg Telephone Compa ny, baa been organize! here, t or the past nix years the Bell people have oeu giving good service at the rale of S 15 nnd $-r0 a year per 'phone. This rate the citizens claim is too high, and steps were taken not long since to got up a now company. The company has been organized, all the stock necessary subscribed and the directors elected, nnd work will begin immediately of erecting the polos and putting in the plant. This new company will fur nish phones at the rnte of 20 a year for each 'phone. What the Bell peo ple will do is not known, but it is said that they will cut under this rate. They will either have to cut or quit the field. IO TAX BACHKLOKS. And Establish a Home for Old Maids. .The Ob.jeot of a Hill. SrMiiFiEi.p, In.., March 2o. A bill to tax bachelors and establish an 11 maids' home" when the tax fund shall have readied 3-30,000 was intro duced in the house by Representative Wallick. ihe bill defines bachelors single men of thirty-two j'oars or ovoi" who has never been married and exempts men who have reached sixty- live, mIi.) are physically unfit or who can prove to a board 01 unmarried women owr tuxtv voars that they have proposed marriage at least three times to marringoalJe females and boen re fused each time. A Riisy Man's Misfortune. Thousands -of ieoile all over the country will sympathize with Charles Droadwav lousst tne JNew lork mer- hant prince, who is threatened with spoody ami total blindness. Mr. Ronss was a gallant confeder e soldier in Stonew all Jackson's army. After, the war he went to New York enniloss and friendless, and. bv hi pluck, energy -and foresight, accumu lated a fortune of $10,000,00. His liberality to his .oM comrades, his friends, the 'deserving poor and his native town. Winchester Va., is well known to mauy of our readers. The Seaboard' Announces Another Cut Washington, D. C, March 23. Tho Staboard announces a cut in the rat f from flRhinidon to Atlanta on its vestibule limited from $17.50 to 314.50. G O. EAVES, AU rue at Law, and U. 8. CommU tion r. M.ir"on, N. C. T"VfTice on Main street opposite Eifck Hotel A LIBRARY OF HOOKS. New Work Issue! f.ir S ipirior to and " Cheaper Than The Encyclop;9ias.--Fire Voljmz of Wonderful Vafae. Charlotte, N. C. After a careful examinntiou between the Britannica, AppIetonV American, an I Johnson's Universal Encyclopedias and History for Ready Reference by Lnrned, for the purpose of puichtfcing one of the above for the Charlotte Library Asso ciation, llistorv for Ready Reference .was unanimously decided upon by the committee as being the preferable, both for satisfactory 11 suits and for con venience of arrangement. (Mrs.) B. L. Dewey, Librarian. . History for RtuOy Reference is more v tlnable to me than any Kncyclope J a within niv Knowledge. Rev. T. 11. Piitchard, D. D. "History for Ready Reference and Topical Reading," by J. N. Lamed, is the title of a new work just being is "bued.by one of our largest .publishing houses. It is the only .woik inthe . world which attempts to give the statements upon all questions ol history, of the best scholars, the-mot brilliant writers, and the most vigorous thinkers, the woiM has ever seen. It is the only work ever printed which gives the full text of the constitutions of the differ ent countries of the world; also the full text of the promiuent Historical Docu ments such us the Magna Charter, the Grand Remonstrance, Scottish Nation al Covenant, Habeas Corpus Act, Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, Declara tion of Independence and many others. It is the only work giving a brilliant and authentic account written by some authority on. every. Party or Faction in the world s hif torv. It is the only work civiug a clearly-defined account of every battle and military movement in our late Civil War taken from every prominent writer upon that subject, and giviug full justice to the South. But the greatest feature is its mag nificent arrangement. Being arrang ed first alphabetically, and then by countries and chronologically, any his torical subject, however obscure, can be found as quickly as one can find a word in a dictionary, and then you always have auihority for it. In lgal phraseology it might be called a his torical digest, that the historical ac counts are not meagre, is proven by the fnct that 260 pages, of 1,000 words to a page, are given to the History of the United States, 200 pages to Lng !and, 239 to France, the article on Rome 100 pages, ou "Papacy" 63 pages, "Slavery" 20 pages, . "Social Movements" 26 pages, while "Tarifl Legislation" takes up 23 pages. "The History of the Legal Science, "Med ical Science," "Money and Banking," "Education," and in fact every topic of a historical nature are all fully treated. The New York Nation says: "The work possesses a universal char acter," New York Herald, "It embra ces the whole range of historical writing;" Boston Journal, "Nothing like it has ever been published. ' It is endorsed by every scholar who has seen it. In N. rth Carolina Bishop Edward Rondthaler, of Salem, Prefii--dent G. T. Winston, Drs. Manning, Battle nnd Hume and Profs. E. A. Al derman and C. C. Cobb, of' the Uni versity, Rev. J. W. Carter, of Raleigh, Rev. E. A. Yatrs, of Durham, Rev. Egbert Smith, of Greensboro, W. W. Fuller, of Durham, and many others endorse it unconditionally. For circulars n duress Chas. L. Van Noppen, Buford Hotel, Charlotte.N.C. THE HECINNINO NO I' REACHED. Col. MoCIure siys Never Mind Ihe Weather, tint Push' Forward. JAfKsoNvn.LK, Fla., March 26. It was oxpected that Col. Alexander Me Clure, editor of the Philadelphia rimes, would stop in this city on his way .North and preparations were made to give him a reception. But to-day Mayor I). U. Fletcher received letter from the veteran editor, who is at rit. Augustine, suiting tnai 11 would be impossible for hirn to accept Jacksonville's bosoit ilil v. The let tor is n most . interesting one. Col. McClure devotes a large portion of the letter to Florida and her resources. He urges the people not to despond because of the freeze and says that the State has a great future. Concluding he says: "I hope that Florida will make an earnest and united effort to aid the Atlanta Exoositiou. It should be a land mark in the history of Southern pro gress and every fState south of the -Potomac should'make common cause to aid iu the great work. Great as has been the advancement of the Southern States during the la.st dozen years yon Lave hardlv reached the beginning of Southern development, and the Atlan ta Exposition should be made the most successful illustration industrial pos sibilities and achievements iu its re constructed state. " Resist rni ion of Woman in Kansas, TorEKA, Kas., March 25. The reg istration just closed shows a total reg istration of women voters this year 2,520, the largest since the W. C. T. I. fight against the Republicans candi date for mavor iul'.'l. The local women's Republican organization has Ken aetie this sp.riug, but not iu the interests of uuv special candidate. At Leavenworth the registration for the city eWtion. 3,7'. or two-fifths of the total !iumler ot voters arv J-umii, There are three hundred more with their names on the poll book's than ever before. Most ofthos registered are foreign born and colore ! women. At Winfield, out of a registration of nearlv 2,000, one-third of the voters an women. Sajttei. D. Lajte. of Northamrton. Mass. ias been for fifty-six consecutive years jus jlegof the peaee. SOUTH'S- PROGRESS. INVESTMENT OF NORTHERN CAP ITAL IN SOUTHERN FARMS. Numerous New Industrial and Dull ding Enterprises Reported for .a week. Baltimore, Md., March 22. The weekly review of Southern business conditions reports a very deci ded increase in the sales of South ern properties, including both farm and mineral lands. There is a greater inquiry from the West and the North for Southern farm property than ever known before and the tendency seems to be increasing. In industrial enterprises cotton mill interests continue to attact the largest share of attention. A very successful North Carolina mill has voted to in crease its stock from SHOO, 000 to $400, 000 with which to build, a new 20,000 spindle mill. At Cheraw, S. C, a $10,000 knitting mill is projected, at Laurens, S. C, a cotton mill, ;ht Salis-, burv, NT. C, a 30,000' spindle' mill, whiU cottofi mill companies are being organized nt- Jackeon, Tenu ; Sbrieve poit, La; Salifrlmry, N . C; Rutherford, N.- C; Piedmont, Ala; Demppolis, Ala, and other points. -. . A $350,000 sugar refinery is to be built at New Orleans by sugnr plan ters, a company row being organized for that purpose. A $50,000 agricul tural implement company in projected .at Brenham, .Texas; a. $"0,000 wood- enware factory in Virginia; $30,000 match factory and canning factory in Mississippi; an electric light plant," lumber mill and tobacco works in North Carolina; $10,000 brick com pany in South Carolina, and; phos phateplant and packing house in Teu nesee; $30,000 water-works; $10,000 extract works in Texas. Among the new building enterprises reported were a $150,000 Opera House projected at Chaileston, S. C; $25,000 jail in North Carolina; a $10,000 houwe at Stanton; a 200-room hotel at Atlan ta, and a number of miscellaneous building enterprises. The leading railroad projects for the week are the reported purchase of. about 300 miles of nurrow guage lines in Florida, which will probably be changed to standard guage, and the reconstruction of 25 miles in Georgia. Northern People Coming to Virginia. One Lynchburg real estate firm re port that it sold during 1 80 1, to parties from New 101k, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Western States, 9,187 acres of land, and expect many more to settle in their section this year. An agent at Richmond, Va., reports that he has had in sixty days 1.200 in quiries for farm lands coming from every Northern aud Western State and from Canada, England, France and Sweden. Fifteen per cent., or 180, of the inquiries were from Penn sylvania, about 10 per cent, each from New York and Ohio, the numbers, re spectively, being 121 and 128. The next highest State, 69, was Michigan, and the next Iowa and Illinois, 58 each. From this it will be seen that it is not only from the remote and des titute Northwest that farmers arc seek ing to move South, but from the older and wealthier and presumably more contented East. A Petersburg, real estate firm sold 43 farms in 1804 to farmers from out side of Virginia, . aggregating 7,030 acres, as follows: Michigan, 12; Wis consin, 1; west lrgium, 'i Aew York,-4; Indiaua, 2; South Dukota, 6; Ohio, 3; Germany, 2; Illinois, 4; Ne braska, 3; Kansas, 2; North Dakot 1; 1, Pennsylvania, 2. During January and February, 18H5, they h ive more than doubled the business, of any pre ceding year of 18 years iu the real es tate business. Similar reports came from all over Virginia. To Save the Fallen Ones. The board of managers of the Lindlev Training Sehool at Asheville, nothing daunt d by the refusal of the Leg islature to give thtni $2.500, have deter mined to open the class of this institu tion iu April. These managers earnest ly appeal to the generosity of the peo ple of North Carolina for help in this noble work. So seldom h a woman bob! out a helping band to a fallen sister woman, that when a band of noble woman are making an effort t save these sinning girla let them have every encouragement possible. -Think of it, only girls under 1 are admitted and now such cases have to lo sent to other States for a home and refuge and often to iiud these honis iu other States too full to admit them. Important Convention Approach In?. Ala.. March '. The Mobile, South and West Grain and Trade C'ii: gross will hold its second annual meet ing in Mobile, April 4th, 5th and 6th, and promises to be of much imjrtance in extending trade-, relations and in promoting the shipments of Western products via Southern seaports. Mobile expects large elelwgations and is pre paring a hospitable reception. Among other. ieatnres will lie an inspection of a new siiip channel and Lartior and a trip out-ia the gulf of the; celebrated Snapper Banks. " ' ' --.j . 4 'jThf. lyruiRniers Organle t Winstdn',',N'. r C,: Mrrt h ;2I.-.Tbe North Carolina Division of the TraeltrV Protective Aiiociatioii of America w as organized in the chaml-tr of commerce re o us, Thursday night, byW. J. Crnmp.of Richmond, Ya. The names of 33 members were en rolled at the lirst meeting, oe.inpos-d ruestlv of travehng men and inanu- Ifactunrs of Winston-Sakm. This? number will be largely iucrtaetd. WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Gresham, who wm 63 on St. Patrick's Day, is the oldest mem ber of the cabinet, and Secretary Smith is the baby. rage in Congress will hereafter be summoned by touching an electric button on the desk instead of noisily 'clappipg the hands. For years -there-. have been .many prominent Cuban annexationists in the United States. The qnettion has never been made a. political, one or annexa tion might have been accomplished be fore this. It would be difficult to find two men wider apart npon everything political than Senators Morgan, of Alabama, and ir rye, of Maine, are, but just read how perfectly they agree on Cuban annexation, and do not forget that they are both membersof the Sen ate Committee on Foreign Relations, Senator Morgan being the chairman. Said Senator Fry, of that little diplo matic flurry with Spain: "It looks as if Spain would make the required apol ogy and as if all would soon be settled. I hadvhoped it wotild bejotherwise, and that Spain would assume such an arrp gant.and.beJiigerant tope that it would bp necessary. for the .United State's to go over and'take possession of Cuba. We certaiuly ought fo have that island in order to round out our possessions as they should be, and if we cannot buy it, 1'fof one should like to have an opportunity to acquire it by conquest" Said Senator Morgan: "I am in favor of purchasing Cuba or of acquiring it bv any other fust method. I have al-y ways been a Cuban annexationist, for th island is an important one to the United States. . If the revolutionists are able to hold out or. a year they will be able to secure material assis tance from persons in this country, not only in the way of money, but in men,'- iu spite of all efforts to prevent it. There' arfr mauy men who are ready to go into a w ar for Cuba, or any other war, and there will be no way ot keeping them out of it if the men who are leading this revolt show that they command any real strength at home Siuce these public utterances tne "pre diction is freely mado that a new movement for the annexation of Cuba will soon begin to show 'itself -in this country. In fact, many believe that Secretary Gresham made his recent demand upon Spain unnecessarily hand! with the hone that it would make Spain do something that would justify an attack upon her. General Ransom has secured a place in the Postoffice Department for Rob ert Powell, of Edgecomb county, N. C. G. S. Thompson was apjoi nted postmaster at Osceola, Alamancv coun ty, N. C, and It. U. .Jackson at Bow ling Green, York county, S. C. . The income tax is pouring in 'faster than was expected, which is little com fort for the enemies of the mcawro. Representative 1 Swanson says that his friend General Ransom had the greatest hold on the offices of any man in Congress from the South. The same view was; recently taken by the Washington correspondent of the New- York Tribune. Mr. Henry G. Williams, assistant superintendent of the House document room, just returned from Norlli t aro linn, says that the feeling in the Stat is better and steadily improving. This is probabv due to the adjournment o the Legislature and to the natural ten dency toward reaction after a ban pinch. LIST OF PATENTS Granted to Southern inventors Inst week: F. C. Amsbary, Little Rock, Ark stopsnd wnste valve. M. H. User, Hagerstown, metallic stay for wire fences. Md.. J. M. Christopher, Baltimore, Md., alarm for vehicles. J. R. Ciunkleton, Baltimore, Md., biovcle-suppoit. J. C. Deyerle, Salem, Va., brake for railway-cars. V. L. Emerson, Baltimore,. Md lumber-drier. A. Eustis. New Orleans, device for assisting infirm persons. T. Gaskins, Aicadia, La., car-coup ling. E. J. Griffin, Zion, Ky., wire fence J. Houe, Priucess Anne, Va., rock ing frame for tanning-vats. B. H. Johnson, Dickey, Ga., scrub ber. W. II. Kable, Staunton, Va., Thrill S. E. Kierolf, Jackson, Tenn building-block. B. Lowenbercr. Norfolk. a., con vertible car. O. P. McDonald, Daytona, Fla. fumipator. S. M. Neelv. Smith's Turnout. 8. C. baling press. W. H. Roberta. Knoxville, Tenn. combined file-case and deak. L. Sennett. Russell. Ky., air-brake eon nl in ir. C. H. Smith. Birmingham." Ala. car-conplincr. N. 1. Taylor, Henderson, Ky. blind slat holding device. J. T. Thorpe, New Orleans. Li., gas controller. A. Volkenratb, Huntington, W. Va randifter. - -. C. A. White-. Carlt-le, Ky., harness trimming. .V -'r -- Rock Hill Mayor lad 'pj! JTW,; .FewelT. 'major, of -Rock JliU..i;., 1mmJI ?3uaav.. je-was prominent physician a well as rnayyr j 4 the city Sentenced for Libelling Taslor. Washington-, D. C, March 25. W, Calvin Chase, the colored editor who was convicted of the criminal libel of C. H. J. Tavlor, the colored recorder of deeds, someday ago, waa fccntenceel to ujnttv days in "jail by the Judge. SOUTHERN BRIEFS. C. II. More, viee-president of the New England Granite Manufacturers Association, is traveling in the South with the view of buying quarry proper ty. He has recently been prospecting iu the vicinity of Charlotte, N. C. , k me ting of the stockholders of the iFirttt., National Bank of Buena Vifrta. m will be held on April 12 to consider and determine a proposition to remove the bank to Lexington, Va. Anderaon, B.C., has sold $20,000 of school bonds to J. N. Brewer, of that ity. Charter has been granted to the Kershaw BankiDg & Mercantile Co.. of Kenbaw, S. C, with Leroy Springs resident; William Sanson, vice-pres ident, and J. M. Heath, treasurer. The capital stock is $25,000. The Manhattan Investment Associa tion, of Camden, S. C, 1ms been in corporated by D. Wolfe, W. F. Ma- lone, J. S. Lindsay and others. Ine capital steck is $5000. Davis k Zoeller of Wilmington, - C, dealer in dry goods. notions,' carpets, etc., hare assigned with Frank II. Stead man, assignee. Preferences alont $6,200, of which about $5,000 to local creditors. 20,000 bales of cotton were burned at the New Orleans, La., cotton com press Ust week. The loss is over a milliou de liars. Rev. Dr. William Brown Yonce, pro fessor of ancient language at Roanoke College, Va., dropped dead from apo- lexv alxMit 8 o'clock I nday evening at the Lutheran church, inSalem, Va., just before the commencement ef set- ices. 'Gov,. McKinley goea from Thoniaa- ville, Ga., to Honda this week. W, P. Pike, Supt. f the Ii. X. R, R., died in Louisville on Monday of erysipelas. WILL APPOINT MATT TIHIIK. rhe Newspaper Man lo He Senator Tillman's Private Secretary. Columbia, S. C, March 22.It is stated on good authority that Senator IHUman will appoint Mathew Eitts-m- ruons iigne, recently 01 cnariesun. but now of Washington, D. C, as his private secretary. .Mr. Tigbe wis for merly on the staff of The Charleston News and Courier. In 1891 Senator Irby appointed him his private secre tary, and he acted in that capacity un til last fall, when he resigned ana accepted a position on the staff of The Washinffton Times. Mr. Tighe is looked npon as one of the most valua ble literary adjnucts of the reform party. He is a y.oung mau of more than usual talent. A curious story comes from Cross nchor. Union county. Last week a uegro man wu.'i returning tnrougn ins woods from work with an ax alun across his nnouiuers, wnen suueiemy h stepped into an old well, partially covered with brush. He was forced to cut steps in tho aide of the well by which to climb out, and it took twenty boars' of hard work before he reached the top. SOUTH CAROLINA POPULISM. Col. John .1. O irgan, of Sumter, Will Organize a People's Parly After the Constitutional Convention. Columbia, S C., March 22. For several 3 ears the effort to organize a People's party in South Carolina baa been confidently expected. A good deal of quiet work has been done in the past few years among the real Populists, but they have been lndmg their time. Tomorrow Col.' John J. Dargan, of Sumter, an avowed Popn- liut, will make the announcement that he will organize the People's psrty aa soon the constitutional convention fight is over. He says: "The first end to be achieved is a free ballot and honest count. No man who is for the sake of any party, faction or race tri umph, willing to commit, or to en courage others to commit fraud or perjury, or resort to any election tricks of any kind, need expect leader ship in this party in the State not at leaet while I am alve ground." To Exhibit Southern Invention. An exhibition that should furnish in teresting an-l instructive entertain ment is to be one of the features of the reunion of Confederate veteran to be held in May at Houston, Texas. This exhibition is to be a dinplay of ingen ious devices and patents from South ern inventors exclusively. A general invitation ha ben extended to the people of the South controlling devices or patents to enter same for this dis play. Power will be npplied for ma chinery and facilities provided for giv ing each exhibit proper accommoda tion. M. M. Bright, of Houston, is in charge of the arrangements for the ex hibition, vhofte novelty and extensive field for exhibits ehoul 1 make it a suc ctss. .--.- Gov. stone' iCVcalU the Legislature. Jefkersox Crry,' Mo., Maroii 26. Governor Stone" h decided to call the Legislature in extra esion. That horfy adje.urued hatly Saturday even ing," having touch imjortant leginla tron iuceuiqJete. For the first lime in 2ft-year fche, Republicans-liave a major ipr in on branch and ji' 'blockade to jieedfd roHureH exists.. ' ew Ofllcers.' A telegram from Washington says: "Major Edward M. Hayes, Seventh Cavalry, ha leen ordered to proceed to Raleigh, N. C, to report iu person to the Governor of North Carolina for duty pertaining to the National Guard j of that State, to relieve Capt. deu W. Jones, Tenth Cavalry. lUad-