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I TheI Maxton union, j r ' "'' "! . " - 3 IX lit mmm, - 1 A DEMOCBATIC J 0 TEN A Ir THE PEOPLE AND THEIK IXTEBEST. VOL, IV. NO, 50. MAXTON. N. a, TUESDAY, JULY l, 1890. $ 1.00 A YEAR TOWN DIRECTORY. B. F. McLEAN Mayor. H W McNATT 0 H. BLOCKER, W. S. BYRNES, W. J. CURRIE, I Commit sioners. A J Bl RCK, Town Marshal LODGES. KNIGHTS OT HONOR, No. l,720raeeU on fecond and fourth Wednesday's at 7. MP. M. J. B. WEATHERLY, Dic tatorr B. F. McLEAN, Reporter. Y. M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.00 P. M. WM. BLACK, President. MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK. Captain, meets first Thursday nights of each month at 8 P. M. CHOSEN FRIENDS meet on second and fourth Monday in each month. Argus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W. Parham, Secretary and Treasurer. MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIYS, meets every Friday night, except first in eadi month, at 8 o'clock. ROBESON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY Kev .1 A Smith, President: E K Prcctor. Jr., 1st V.oc Prre. ; Dr J D Proom, 2nd V r'. ; A D Brown, Sec'y; Wm Black, Tr-as. and Depositary; Ex Com. Rev II G Hill, I D, L S Townsend, 13 P McEccbem, J O ourh, II McEochern; Auditing Com., E r McRao, O II Blocker and B D Caldwell. ExncrrivK committee. liev Joseph Evans, Rev H G Hill, D D, Kev J H Black, Rev o P Meeks, K?v J FFinlayson, Jos McCollurn, JPSmiih, Duncan McKav, Sr. N B Brown, Dr.lL, McMillan. AUDITING COMMITTEE. J P Smith, D II McNeill, J A Humphrey PlacQ of next meeting Lumberton, rJ. C. Time . of next meeting Thursday, May .'firth, 1880, at 11: o'clock a. m. Bibles and Testaments can be purchased of Wm. Black, Depository, Maxton, N. C, at cost. All churches and Bible Societies in the 'ounty invited to send delegates. Forward all collections to Wm Black, Treasurer, Maxton. N C. CHURCHES. PRESBYTERIAN, REV. DR. H. G- HILL, Pastor. Services each Sabbath at 4 P. M. Sunday School at 10 A. M. Prayer meeting every Wednesday ifternoon at 5 o'clock . METHODIST, REV. J. W. JONES Pastor. Services each Sunday at 11 A. M. Sun-slav School at 9 30 A. M. MASONIC. MAXTON LODGE A. F. & A. M. meets 1st Friday night in each month at 8 r. m. GENERAL DIRECTORY OP Robeson County. Senator. J. F. Payne. Representatives, ( T. M. "Watson. s D. C. Regan. 1 E. V. McKae. W. P. Moore, Cowiitv Commissioners, B. Stancil, j T. McBrvde. I .1. S. Oliver, 0. S. C. C. B. Townsend, Sheriff, II. McEachen. Rag'r Deeds. J. II. Morrison. Treasurer, W. W. McDairmid. J J. A. McAllister Board of Education ' " J. Black, S J. S. McQueen. Bupt. Pub. Instr'n, J. A. McAlister. CoronerA. Supt. of Health, Dr. F Lis R f A whaling captain who has been u 1 imiontr the Eskimos savs that all the chil f'dren are now taught to speak English a: soon us thev can talk. General Verdy Duvernois, the German Minister of War and one of the ablest of the younger Generals of the German army, is, a? his name implies, of French descent. He is descended from a Hu guenot family expelled from France by Louis XIV. s revocation of the edict of Nantes. It is a striking example of the folly of religious and political proscrip tions, remarks tht Chicago Herald, that the descendant of one of the French exiles should be the man destined to pre pare the plans for the next German in vasion of France. It is also singular that two ot the foremost men in the German army to-day should be of foreign birth. Von Caprivi comes of an Italian familv. The Hochi Shhbuny a leading Japan ese newspaper, discussing recently the progress of Christianity in Japan, says it is slow but sure. There is nothing striking about the number of converts added each year to the roll of Japanese Christians, or about the increase of the propagandists' ministrations. But, on the other hand, the foreign faith advances surely and steadily, planting its feet firmly as it goes and never retrograding for an instant. Opportunities to test the influence it has exercised upon the public mind are, of course, few and far between. Its dili gence in the cause of female education and its untiring efforts to improve the status of Japanese women are also quoted as easily discernable evidences of the process it is making. "In short," the Hochi JShitnbun concludes, "that Chris tianity will ultimately attain to power by gradual and steady accumulation of merits is a fact of which we are con vinced by long observation. If it pro gresses at its present rate its future is as NEWS SUMMARY. i PfiOM ALL OYXB THE SOUTHLAND, i- Aocidentfc 0&1 unities. Bemint Hews tod Kotes of Industry, viBGnrLA. Since the Richmond and Danville Railway has virtually become the pur chaser of the Danville and New River Narrow-Gauge road, itj has "placed an engineer corps in Patrick county,-wbich would seem to indicate Ithat it is pro posed to extend the line westward from Stuart. Oliver Perry wa3 cut into by a circu lar saw near Fishervilie. Major T. J. Yates was severely in jured by the fall of a safe at' Lynch burg, j The Lynchburg and Durham railroad has been completed to Roxboro, N. C. Two men were killed by an explosion on a steam tug at Newport News. Colonel William H. Ward, of Nor folk, has been notified that his servcies as inspector of hulls! are no longer needed. j Rev. Sam Jones closed a ten days' series of meetings at Richmond without a precedent in' Virginia. f It is estimated that 10,000 people attended the ser vices, and that thousands signified their intention of leading better lives. An audience of 10,000 invited Mr. Jones to return to Richmond. j N0STH OABOLDTA. The Oxford Land Company closed u contract for the erection at that place of a mammoth knitting factory. At Fau9t Hill, in Cabarrus county, ut most destitution is reported to exist, in consequence of the prevalence of a malig nant tjpiof measles, which has attacked almoet every person in the whole com munity . In many instances whole fam ilies are stricken down, and have no one whatever to care for them. Many of the sufferers are people who have moved to Faust Hill, to work in cotton factories there, but were attacked by the epidemic before they could get started at work The distress of many families is said to be heartrending. Help has been appeal ed for, and the people'trom the surround ing country are sending in contribution0, Winston covered herself with glory. The proposition to issue $200,000 worth of bonds for city improvements was overwhelmingly carried. Not a single vote against it. This provides for the immediateerection a of market-house, city hall and city prison, the; construction ot a sewerage sjstem and well-paved streets and buying of waterworks. The $100, 000 hotel will go up immediately, as will also the plug tobacco factories of P. H. Hanes and R. J. Reynolds, and wiU be the largest in the world. Revenue officers are making a reguUi campaign of raids since the recent addi tion to the force of special raiding agents. News has been received j of a bold de scent upon the "moonshiners," of Rock ingham county. The still of Robert Martin, neat Ayersville, j was completely demolished, and a number of hogsheads of blockade whisky cutiip. The still of Gus Martin, near by wai also destroyed, and the liquid which vas turned loose flooded the floor till it was knee deep. At Smith's stillhouse, a few miles further on, the raiders were repulsed with lire arms in the hands of the "moonshiners,' but no one was killed, Ex-Governor Bragdeii has accepted the position of one of the census entiim rators of Wayne county and is regular I employed in taking the statistics. A peculiar disease, with which a in is afflicted at the poor-house at Ne. Berne, has caused considerable alurni there. The appearance of the man indi cates that he has leprosy, and he ha been temporarily sent out of town while an examination by the county ph siciao is in progress. The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail Road branch, that taps the Deep River factory section, has been completed down as far as Columbia Factory, Hnd the schedule from that-point has beer put in opeiatioa. The June Musical Festival held u' Charlotte, on the 13th and 14th of Jum was a grand success. It is to be a per manent initution in the future. It will be known hereafter as the North Carolina Choral Association. Mr George Vanderbilt keeps adding to his landed estate in Buncombe County. His last purchase is twenty-eight acres of land adjoining his place, "Biltmore," for which he paid $33,000, being nearly $1,200 per acre. SOUTH 0AB0LI5A. Work is progressing rapidly on the 3 C's road now being graded between Augusta and Blacksburg. A shower passed over the city c companied by thunder and lightning. At the works of the Greenville Ferti lizer Company lighting killed Jim Haw kins, a colored carpenter, tearing his clothe from his body. Forty or fifty carpenters working on a building were affected and some of them were stricken unconscious for several minutes. Haw kins'd clothes were st on fire, but were extinguished. Three fine J rey heifers on the dairy farmofCapt. O. P. Mills near the city were also killed about the same time. A commission has bttsn issued for the organization of the Barnwell Steam Laundry and Water-works Company, of Barnwell Oourt House, whith a capi ta of $2,500 in shares of $50 each, aud with power to increase to $5,000 The corporators are Mike Brown. Thomas J. SiraoDs Willis J. Duncan. H. R. Walker andN. G W. Walker, nil of Barnwell. 1 V f Under the ni&cnded constitution the annual meeting of the Survivors Asso ciation of Richland County now takes place at Columbia on "Manaaaas Day," July 21, and the committee of arrange ments appointed at the last quarterly meeting of the Association are preparing to make a "big day" of it. Col. James Armstrong, of Charleston, whose fame as an orator of the "Loat Cause" extends throughout the South, has accepted an iovitation to deliver the annual address, and everybody will be invited to hear him. . A barbecue dinner will be served on the Fair grounds at a reasonable price, gaud the committee have decided not to limit the attendanca to members of the Association, and will sell tickets to as many ladies 'and gentle men as will attend. S ich an opportune ity of having a grand leunion of the old soldiers of the county, together with their.wivea and daughters, will surely be appreciated and liberally forwarded by our people. ' Ex-Governor Hagood aud Col. Mike Brown,of Barnwell, were in Columbia on business. Col. Brown is very Oheerful about the prospects of the SouthBound Railroad, of which project he is the Ticst -conspicous champion. Be was on-committal in bis replies to questions concerning the South Carolina terminus f the road, but there is good reason to relieve that the business men of Colum bia aie becoming much interested in se curing the line, and thatthey will put a iberal sum into the enterprise with the expectation of bringing the road to Col umbia. GEORGIA There ha3 been many new enterprises inaugurated at Fort Valley this year, and the beauty of it is they are successful in tvery respect. The latest, and oy farontaf ;he largest yet started, is the organization of a joint stock company by the farm ;rs,styled. ' The Farmers" Coo-perative Union," with an authorized capital of 1100,000. The charter is being drafted md the enterprise will be permanently organized as soon as the charter is granted and business will be opened to the pub lic with Fort Valley as thejnain place of operations The citizens of Mitchel county are working hard for a local fair, and they will probably have one. The Camilla Clarion thinks it would be a great suc cess. There has lonjc been a growing belief prevalent that Warrenton ia the home of some burglar, who is as experienced as he is bold, and the last of his acts only increases thi-s belief, recently Dr Scrug-gs (suffered a loss of nearly $150 at his hands, and Mr, James H. Swain and Mr. Ed Cody, who reside on the same street, suffered a small l6ss eanh. A number of other mysterious robberies are reported, and air efforts to catch the robber have failed. Subscription 'books are open for re cciving contributions for building a new Baptist church in Dahlonega. It is t ipected that $3,000 will be raised. Ooi3 hundred East Tennessee officials &ud agents held a meeting at Brunswick and wtre quartered on on St. Simons for a weak. Agent of the Merchants' and Miner's Transporation corupany.of Balti more,were in Brunswick, to look afterex tending another liae of steamships here, which will be extended soon. The dry docks, here are being, built 1,000 feet onger, it being necessary to handle the ixt season's cotton . Cedartown, The Polk county Farmer' allunce in session unanimously endorsed Hon. R. W. Everett, of this county, for congress. This opens the fight in the -evtuth, and lively time are expected i the near future. Macon, William SheltOn, of Bruos wick, is a sad young mau Shelton fell in with shark- shortly after arriving in Mscon yesterday, and he was picked up !v an officer on Fourth street. His money was gone aud he appeared to have been on a big drunk. Shelton says ;ie had about $50 on hi? person when he fc -rived in the city. Deputy Sheriff Culptpptr of Waycr. was shot b) a negro, (unknown) who had burglar 7 ?d the Commiary of Tie vontractor, W. N. Lee. 0THEB BTATEB. H-u. C C. Shorter, of Enfaula, Ala., -Nj-ker of the Alab.ima House of Rep ,-Osenttivrs, is dead . He was a young nan of brilliant attainment- A deputy sheriff of Birmingham ar usted P. H. Warniaj and J. Black, on a charge of representing a bogus life iu surnce eompaLj. It i said they co! ;cctc 1 premiums ou policies in so ?in?ur ance coma'jy which does not,rxiti The men were taken To the county jail, aud the officers there refused to tell anything about the case and would not let re porters see tne prisoners. The deputy who invie the srrear. euwuut be fouad Blacv was a book keeper and traveling ilesman for a wholesale tobicco h use there for several years, and hss always been regarded as a man of good charac ter. Waring is a straogei and as he can not bj seen., n v.hini? f hu pat 1 known. He is wed dressed and hs the appearance of a well to do business man. The officers offer no t vplanation of their secrecy about the cus-?, and the affair is a very mysterious one. The ways and means committee of tht Louisiana legislature his decided to report favorably on the proposed con stitutional amendment to remove the capital from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. While bathing in a anall lake near Ghipley, Fia., yesterday afternoon, Miss Nita McMillan and Miss Nannie Callo way were drowned. Montgomery celebrated the opening of the Midland railroad by a grand ban quet. . T " INDUSTRIAL NEWS. RICH DEP03IT3 OTIRONIORT, Tie Mining and Shipping wi Ore in tie Southern States. In the developemenc of the iron in dustry of the South, there is one branch of the businesi that has received scarcely any attention at all comparatively that in, the mining and shipping of ore. Nearly all of the purchase of ore property have been made with a vipw tu f-bcuring a sourcf of supply fcr projected furnaces to be built on the pot, and nobody seems to have thought of undertaking, O i Urge scalr, the exclusive !uines of selling ore. In thr iron district of the North this carrii-d n n-3 ahuMucss as distinct from the manufacture of iron as the latter i from the conversion of iron into stoves and other pioduct, and it out oixhr most profitable branches of the iron busine . There is not only hu opening, but a very gr'.at need for a business of this sort in the South. Several furnace com panlea do not own satisfactory ore lands, and it is a source of considerable per pleiity and annoyance to have a .-regular and constant supply of ore uniform grade Many other furnaces would buy their ore in preference to doing their own mining If there were in existenco any well organized system of conducting mining operations on a large scale. The iron business of the South U but m its infancy. With its continued de velopment and with the recurring periods of depression to which this ana every other industry always has been and always will be liable, the question of s cheap raw material will be one of the - i . j i ct : 1, important couaiueranoiAs aiieciiug me profitable operation of furnaces. Fur naces so located as to be able to secure highest grade ores at a minimum of cost will have an advantage over others not so fortunate that may mean profitable iron making to one, and stoppage to the other. That there are furnaces in the South infinitely more fortunate in the matter of ore supply than others is an unquestionable fact, but this diff erence would be greatly narrowed if some of the best ore properties in the South were operated solely for the pur pose of shipping ores, by men who had a through and accurate knowledge of the needs and methods of the business, and whose experience would enable them to mine and deliver ore at the low est possible cost. It seems probable that thi need will soon be, in a measure, supplied. A few months ago some iron men who have been operating mines in the great Lake Superior district conceived the idea of undertaking a similar business in the South, and they have been indus triously investigating ore properties and perfecting plans since then. The origi nator of the idea wasMrChas. A. Avery, of New York, who has inaugurated and managed successfully a number of enter prises of very considerable magnitude. Mr. Avery and his associates havp during the last, three months secured control of some superb iron and mancanef e proper ties in several Southern States, which have been selected after extended and careful examination by the most competent and noted experts. They in clude fourteen tracts of brown hematite ore in Georgia and Alabama, seven Bess emer iron ore properties in Tennessee, and a manganese rniue hi Augusta county, Virginia. The Bessemer mine are the property of the Augusta Mining it Invetment Co., of which Mr. Avwy h president. Concerning the propertied to W pur chased, the following condensation from reports ou theui that have len made Ly acknowledged authorities will be read with interest. The following i h report j on the Begseinu ore property iu. I'm ( netgee. ; "There art two sept rate 5nd dutim-t j vh us, and the trend i northr.tH and j outhwHt. Tht vt-iu an uur half mile j Hpart. the nuiitli vein beiu-j a mixture of J hard ami soft urr the analysi-- of the soft ore iu thi- vrin na t- irn 5S.10, phos. .04:1. There in an opening on ltd-- lLat was worked a number of years ago and hauled -.everal ruile on vvugona to fur Dace. The opening N about tir fert deep and about 125 feet long, and the stope ou the east end gives a width of 20 feet, without any foot wall bein shown. This bank is very favorably ituated for mining, as rairroad could be brought close to the ore. The north vein ii hard, red specular, very dense and lays on a hard quart! zite foot wall. Analysis from thjs vein gave iron 69.75, phos. .040. For three mile, the entire lrbth of this property, you can trace the,e veins oy the float on the surface. Mr. Avery examined the Augusta man ganese mine near Staunton, on the S. V. R R., and w rote about it as follows 'There was upon thn properry the hncet showing of,mangnee that I have ever seen. The quanity indicated would be excellent even for aux ion ore property. They had made one opeuing 47 feet long and 37 feet wide, from which I selected samples the entire length aud width. A shaft has been sunk 20 feet, ill in good maDganese. The forir.ation is generally clay, filled with manganes, varying from the size of a pet to a large boulier, and occunicg in place in many instances. Tb- manganese i very clean, and I hould judge aroutone-h9.1f would be lump ere and the hslance would re quire wahing. About three quarters of mile further to the southwest, upon the same property, they were also doing a large amount of exploration work at or near some old pits where manganese had nbeen mined years ago upon a email scale, and ap parently in a very crude manner. Sev eral trenches had been opened, all ibowing excellent manganese in Urge quantities. The company will have its own ore cars so aa not to be hampered in its operations by the frequent inability of railroads to supply cars when needed. To cany out thi enterprise on the scale that has been planned will require 1125,000. A Lightning Ticket Seller. s Tom Kelly, the ticket-seller ofTBar num's circus, is as much a specialist in his peculiar line as any, strictly speaking, ( professional man. The whole process of receiving tht money, giving the -ticket-and making change is done iu three movements, with the regularity of clock work. The ticket window is about four teet above the bottom of the wagon. Mr. Kelly &it upon a high stool, with a large sum of money in dollars, halves and quarters piled upon the shelf on his right. A corresponding shelf oh the left is coveted with tickets and half tickets. All this is arranared before the window ia opened . A line of several hundred im patiently clamoring people wait outside. Mr. Kelly climbs upon his stool, takes a long, deep breath and opens the window. Money is received in his right hand and dropped upon the floor. The thumb of the left hand has, in the meantime, pushed a ticket from the pile, and the right hand has selected, mechanically, : the change, and presented it to the pur chaser. No attempt is made to pile up the money received. It is literally dropped, and when the show commences Mr. Kelly sits like a buoy surrounded by; a sea of money, the crests of - whosB waves mount up to and press closely around his waist, and almost on a level with the window ledge. After the per formance commences, and no more people want tickets, Mr. Kelly closes-sth window and steps carefully -.oveT thia bed of money. Then, and not xill then,' is any attempt made to count and assort1 this sum, which amounts to several thou sand dollars in pieces of all denoxnina- tions. New York Prix. Americans are Fond of Maple sytup. The ' great demand for maple sugar, which has been constantly increasing for the last ten years, shows what an impor tant business it i3 and how ereat it must be in the future. Maple sugar is a lux- ury that those who are able will nave after tasting it, and the. loreign demand will be large. The fact that the business is so good and prosperous should be a warning to farmers to take good care of their maple trees, and to have their num bers increase each year, so as to be able to supply the increasing demand. The income from the sugar orchard is now , quite an important item. In a good year many make it mete them one hundred dollars, and some double and triple that. One sold his cake sugar the present sea son for twenty cents a pound and his molasses for one dollar per gallon. Fifty years ago maple sugar sold slowly and for four and five cents a pound, and the farmer had to take store pay for it. . The farmers then made the sugar they used. The sugar then was not as white and nice as now, as the sap was caught in troughs and wooden buckets, and was boiled in large kettles under the trees. Sugar houses, evaporators and tin buckets were then unknown. Though the molasses was not ss light-colored and nice to look at as it is now. yet it often had a finer, more exquisite maple taste. It would be well if the law-makers wuuld do some thing toward saving the maple trees and having their aumbers increase. iW England Ftnaet. itsilroad UoDstruttiuij. JJuOeacul, Fia., The Van Fraag Hail rojd Asso'vlitiivu ha beeu orgonized. The object of the k;jciation is to j.ro mote. the building of th-? Mexican Gulf, Facid'. JL Puget Sound Railroad, from PetiSaCola to the Mjs-ir-ipli river. Abbeville, Gi , Tht charter of the Abbeville A TifroL Rsilroa-1 Co., hk been riltd: capita! -stock 5O,O0O. The Massachusetts Construction Co., has beeu a war Jtd the contract for con structing the Cape I Var Cincionatti Railroad from r?outhport to Wilraioetou, 25 miles, and from Southpott to Salis bury, 196 miles distant Bristol, Tton., Toe L'n&ka Conduc tion Co. has bee u ortauized. Tne com pany is said tohivebeen organized to build the Bristol !;zethloD A North Carolina Railroad. The Tallahasie .NiiUm Railroad Co. has been incorporated. The company contemplates ton'.r icung a railroad to some p3int in Georgia not yet decided upon. The Brunswick Lake City Tamp Railway Co', La made j.nlication for charter in Georgia to construct a rail road about 40 mile; in length from Brunswick to a -,- m o& the Florida State line to onue, t with the projected Florida diviiiD t -oint- rosd; capital stock not i- ui.00. Organized BetT art. A society in Paris, organized to pre vent the trade in children by professional beggars, has made its first . report in which it gives the name and adrtjeases of several trtablubmrnt which employ children aa dower girls and as beggars. One of these employs 120 girls from eight to eleven years old to sell flowers on the streets. They are required to bring in a profit of sixty cents each or receive nothing for their day's work, Wotgo O0EBESP05DEH0C Ihcft TanQMsee Moving in the Front Bank cf thi 8onllAiDfiY4lopcei:t,-Bprigktly Johnson City on Her coca. Johnson City, Tenn., June 24, 1 The writer, after being pointed out the improremeots actually going on, la ten s to a partial orocramm of -t and those to follow, for this x nun ate Tennessee town, is remiaded of the growth of j Al tovna, PennsyUauia, which it bids jfair to parallel. I was in that Keystono State citf. which is located on' the moun tain summit level of the Pennsylvania Kallroid. a few years ajrv, when its pop ulation les than 3,C0 ). The Penn sylvania company locatrd their shop at Altuona for the manufacture and repair of rolling tock ; that proved to be tha makiag of the towu for two years jigo the population uumttrcd forty-eight thousand, to which, if tb render will add ten per tent , b will have about the population, the reusu enumerator? will accord Altoona. J The Charleston, Cinciuuati and (jfhi cngo Railroad with it Construction Headquarttrs in JohrUon City has j al ready at least half iht? work completed and steel rails laid in Tennesfce'sdornXii is being rapidly puhcd to completion. This line will rxteud from Charleston (or Savannah if uorr- inducements jjarc offered j, harbor on the Atlantic to thy head of low water navigation, on Ihcs Obiorirtrat Ahlaod, Ky., almost ! an air lice. At Ashland )! has immediate connection with the Ohio river traffic and by rail with hl the roads of jthe northwest; it will hsve important , feed ers all along ita rout---at Sumpfer. Camdtn Junction, Lancaster, Kock XI ill Blacksburg, Marion and other points, a special link in us system from Blacks burg to Augusta direct. Through its rorth Carolina connections, and at Johnson City it connect with the East Tennesse, Virginia and Georgia system, embracing the main line and several feeders and the Johnson City and Caro lina road, now building. ! With the shops of thi's great trunk liae located at Johnson City already with a population ofo,0JU, it can hardly fail to become a Southern Altoonaw To this in all disinterestedness, let us look at the natural wealth of this sec tion. It is 36 miles by rail to Cranberry Forge, Mitchell county, N. C, when? the immense deposits of iron ore are be ing mioeJ by a Philadelphia company; this ore is in several grades, one jqf which is excellent pig for Bessemer steel. Two furnaces are being erected by t.he Cirnegie Iron Company near Johafjon City and more are to follow. The ad joining, Csrter county, Tenn., alio has enormous deposits of orts. The near- . ntss of the very pure ores of East Ten nessee and Western Ncrth Carolina to the pure coal iu the upper Cumber land region will from present indications be a great iron and steel producing cen ter. In wandericg about the city I find tjb.e business men are live, energetic, pro gressive folks'. Further, observe churches, school, three newspaper's, three bankr, foundry and machine shops,, tobacco factories, etc. I will cot men tion the long list of projective industries which these sanguine people contem plate, but jcannot pass by the $100,000 hotel being erected by the-Carnegie Land Company on a block fronting the site for the Union Passenger depot. The city water works will begin operation this week. ' j . - As a party o: young men were return ing from Sunday school near Fuller Grisbam's place, on Boon's creek, Wash ington county, on Sunday last, troublo broke cut aiucuo tuem. James Heddy struck Frank Crouch over the head with a ti'ib. knocking him down. H(4dy then dre a p;toi and uupped it stter a time?, riiiuir it at 'a-?, butf roueh hid in the meantime rt-co.vrrd his feet find put uch distant-- f ttAt-ei thim that -hot did not take ellr t. Ucddy has he a- caped the ofliorrs. but two of the pair PI have beeU SI rested. Jobs A Durham, chirf eu-jincer for he Knoiville Water Co., Lmaam launch which will play upon tb Tennessee atxire and below ixuoxvilk this lummcr. ! The Jauut h has a i opacity of :irryipg 40 peison. It i 4C fet long by S wide. Th i-ame i " Voilett The boat Will be iid for cirriu p cuic aud exeur tou partiei . jj Will write uu net: from the famous Tat Kps-.ca Spring in Granger county. C. S DoXALDSOl,! A Mam moth Bnlldlnj. j -. i Buildings eight and ten stories, and some even twelve aud fourteen atorie high, are no uncommon sight in oar large cities. And among these mammoth struc tures is one which is sow being erected in Chicago by a firm of well-known pal fishers of that city. It is to be tea stories in bight above the basement, and the frame ia to be entirely of steel a novelty in the way of building. It will contain fifteen miles of steel railway ; twelve mile of steam pipe ; seven acres of floors, the boards cf which, if laid end to ed, would reach from Albany to Boston, some 200 tnilts(. If the cement used in the building were in barrel piled One upon another, the pile would be two miles high, and the plaster used ia the build ing would, cover an ordinary street If or more than a mile. In the whole struc ture there will be some 3700 toaS of . iteel. The building, when finished, WUl orob&biv b unea rled in the West. DtUvU. Frt Frtt. Fiirlid was the author of "There IS na royal road to learning.' He said it to Ptolemy Soter, his pupil wiw-wAAft ward &tnff of Egypt- " S " I
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