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i ; i 4 DEVOTED TO THE mTEBESTS OF SOTJTHFpIlT AIJD BEXmS7ICH COUUTY. VOL 2.-No. 5J:i souTHPOirr. x. c, tiiuusi a y. .i cly no. i nu i . I'ltlCK FIVK CKSTS - f 1 WASHINGTON NEWS. GATHEEED BY THE f LEADER'S SPECIAL COERESPOIIDEOT. Wahiiisotos. D. July 27.-The delegation from Mobile, A la., is try ing to get the PostoEce Department to include that city in the ports to be used bv the subsidized lines'of mail steamer but it is not probable that it will succeed, in fact there seems to be wrioiH doubt as to whether any mcricau shipowners, aside from the ereral .established iau, will dare to ! eve put in uias unaer . u. - tisement Secretary Tracy has awarded the contract for building Cruiser No. 13, to me " luimwi v m4. . and Kngine Building Company of ... .1 I. : . an... : ......... 1 riiiiaiieiimw. i pri is submitted by the Bath Iron Works of Maine. ,uc J8 tract was given the Cram ps because of their surior facilities for building the veei, wiucfi ne tziuuui av at k-ast one year's time. When completed the vessel is to make not Ii-ss than twenty-oue knots per hour, uhich will make her one of the spee diest via;! in the world. There are signs o great activity among the friends of .Secretary Blaine and there are reasons for believing I that a juiet organized tnoveineut is to Ik.-started having for its object thJ lectiu of delegates to the Hepubliean j National Convention who will go there pledged to nominate IJlaine, whetln r lie coiiMiUU or not. it will not bu M range, if Mr. J. 8. Chirkson, presi- dent of the Kepublican - Licaguu ol Clubs, should be put forward by this movement as a runi'ing mate lor .Mr. Jtlailit. I A story that belongs to the 'nniort. . . ant if H ue" closa is in circulation here. It says that when " Jecretary 11 octor liecoines Senator Edmunds' successor, ex (Jov. Cheny, of Vermont, is to U cinne Scrrt'tary of War. This stor Vas disc red ited at lirst, because j I wu? .thouglit that Mr. il-irnsou would, u .Secretary Pioctor becomes Hiiialor, take advantage of the opportunity-ol strengthening his party in the north west by selecting a man from that section for Secretary of War, but it appears that iv.uator Chaudlet auu other New Eilghimlers who arerelieU iHKa losenu Harrison delegates to tne . . ii . .1 I National Convention, have served notice that Secretary Proctor must be sucecfded by a New England man J and Mr. Harrison's predilection fur tJov. Cheney has caused him to be selectetl. The souix from which the I story emanated is one that is friendly to Mr. IIarriso:i, and for that reasou I .! i i; - I it i.nus many oeueers. nepresenuime uri,, ... . canvass for the Speakership of the House, has managed to arouse the enmity of a considerable number of more or less innuentiai men in ni Iirty, although Iriendship for some of the other, candidates nas prooaoij hiul more to do wiUi Uie enmity oi the ireiitlemeu than' anything that Mr. Crisp hai actually done; that is to o . " ay as far as your corrvsjondeut knows. He is charged by those op- Iosed to his coudidacy 'frith having done mau' things, not the least of which are what they claim are his promises of chairmanships of commit' tees and places on the most prominent committees in ezcung tor yivnuwm of votes for himself for Speaker. This promising of committee places and chairmanships is doubtless a very reprehensible practice, but it would bo .eriecuv aio w cat iia j wmw the prominent candidate uaa niaae ... . 3 similar promises, and it is cerUiil that no Sieaker of either party has ever been elected, without having done precisely thoaame thing. Giving Mr. .Crisp ill that his most sanguine friends claim for: him, he U still con siderably short of enough votes pledged to control the democratic caucus. Another charge, and afar more serious one, is made agaiust him, and if it can be proven it alone will defeat him. That is, that he is the caudidste of the lobbyists. The demo- crat who made this charge says that he will prore it at the proper time, if it is necessary to defeat Crop. That is all that I know about it. Judge Crisp has always been regarded as an honorable man and anvthmr- mn- him with iobbyilJts wollK1 certainly create much surprise hen;, and the evidence will have to be of the most indisputable kind in order to obtain credence in Washington. Mr. n. ..W. Ayer, in charge of the Farmers' Alliance bureau of informa tion here, says the circular which is bein t to the farmers does not i LtaiJhid vieu nr LJ . the frj tfreentirely - capable of ! doing their own thinking. The busi- i negs of the .g thfl Uf the farmcrgj and 'thafa what thls circuiar does concerning the cereal 6f wwd ' Qn thc inforinJltion by holding hack their croOB if thev see fiL and if they hold' back? half or even a third of the crop they will doubtless trofit UriiIv -.irinir trtr tH Mr A yer it ig glnp,y ridiculous frt i.l.r. tl,. tl. Kr "'" organize a wheat trust, and that it is simply trying to give the farmer a poiuter that will enable him to get better prices for his wheat. FOREIGN XKW8. o uri - r MfntiwtiiHv of ti ioImic in th Old World. The House of Commons on last Wedneiay vottd $300,000, for thw relief of the poor in Ireland. T10 Knhsh rifle team won tin KolaiKre Cup at Bislev, Entclaud, last Vednesda3', by a score of 07J. Tin Canadians were second, with C72 points pn Victor Emmanuel. Prince of VTanlfts. elih'st. Kin of th Kinjrnf Itnlv. r. , o J flrP:VPIl i EiifrlMiid lafir. i and was - met by the Prince of Wale and thc Italian Ambassador. The" population of France is now :;s,(M).", 150, an increase since the last census of 20.S,384. The ruml tMjpula lion has iecreased. .! Damages to the amount of $150,000 vvas done last Thursday to the Abdin 1 'a lace, Cairo, Egypt The ; Canadian i illvinen have taken prizes amounting to i'58l in the tour .lament at Iislev. Eng. Sixth 'workmen weri killed last L . .. XT ' I... rnuaj at .tmubuua, falling of ajchurch tower. Workmen out of employment by the depression caused by the United (States ' tat iff legislation, set fire to a cork factory at Evora, Spain, on un- day, causing great damage. Famine has been averted iu North wegt jntjia by copious rains A rious collision took place be twei.n two excursion, trains at St. Maudu Erauce, on Sunday. IJoth were teturniug from a musical festival at Fonteno v. Fifteen dead jeg been so far recoveml and u fa tlought that many more are m wfeck Over 60 injured persons have been taken from the ruins. There has been an increase in the area of the flooded districts in Moravia and Silesia. The Vistula and the March, near Olmutz, are a mile wide, and much land is submenred. In the Tyrolese Alps large tracts of land have been devastated by avalanches, which have fallen into the valleys and djunag A cable from Paris says that an attempt has recently been made on the life of President Carnot's wife. An infernal machine was sent to her through the mails, but suspicion being . i it i I UiU 1IMM1U1U w m. frt Arthur Brand, Giadstonian Liberal, b received a majority of 200 over Duncan, uonservatrve, w u,e recenv election ,w the AVubeck division, Cambridgeshire, Jhe result was a great surprise to both parties, According to information, received at Geneva from Murren, Henry M. Stanley, the explorer has just met with a serious accident, having frac- turcd ms leu anwe jomi u3 au,. ally slipping while mountain climbing, THE STATE CAPITAL. LEADINO T0PIU3 07 THE Win AT RALEiniT Ralxiou, X. O, July 28. A large portion of our mercantile community are now in the throes of the dull trade, and the city presents anything else than a bustling commu nity. The summer season is fast pass ing off, and even now many of the retail dealers are taking account of 8 Pory to going North for purchases. It may be said, how- ever, in advance, that the poor pros pect for a full crop, is causing business men to view the mercantile situation with something like distrust, and the large purchases of last season will liatdly lie repeated this year. The lull in business at the Capital, reported last week, has not in any material respect been improved. If the bustle incident to the payment of warrants for dirvct taxes be excluded, there is hardly anything to report. Ilie rush in this respect, however, has not abated, and the paying teller as well as the .Governor's private secre tary, have their hands full. Up to noon to-day, the number of warrants issued altogether, will run up over twenty-two hundred, representing an aggregate 'of about $50,000. This is iar aneao ui wiiai vas, at nrst ex ctetl and counrms Gov. Holt in his decision to withhold any payment towards the World's Fair, as recom mended by the Attorney General.'- It is now almost considered certain, that seven-eighths of the fund will be called for by survivors-or their representa tives. The Commissioners of this county, and, it can bo supposed of others, are laving rather a tough time with the merchants in the matter of listihir heir purchases under Schedule .11, eommonlv kiown as the Merchants Purchase Tax That there has existed a strong opposition to this feature of he Revenue bill, is undeniable, is evidenced by the large number of ap plications for its repeal presented to aich General Assembly. At the late -'essioii the opposition was even more ptrited than ever, and. on one occa sion brought forth "bad blood'' iu the Senate Chamber.'-'- The opriositiou was lel by Senator lJellamy,of New Hano ver, who declared in prophetic tones that it would be violently resisted through the courts from the lowest to the highest. This prediction has been verified recently at Wilmington, and the case will probably be carried to the Supreme Court at its coming fall session. Pending this, however, many of the merchants here are holding back, notwithstanding the delinquents have been summoned before the IJoard of Commissioners, to show cause why the penalty of the law shall not Ite inflicted. Il is a vexed question, and, has caused some little excitement here, in mercantile circles. , W. IL J. Goodwin, one of our most prosperous fanners, of this vicinity, has iu vented a cotton chopper, for which he has applied for a pateut. It is claimed that it will chop one side of ten acres of cotton per day. Mr. Goodwin -has the assurance that the patent wilt "lie forthcoming and it is his purpose to have the chopper in full operation at ' the Inter-State ' Exposi tion. One of the most successful excur stons of the season, will be run from here to Richmond, Va next week, ( Wednesday Aug. 5th.) The fare for the round trip is only $2.50. and the managers say they must carry over a thousand from this city and as many more from intermediate points. Col. Thos. B. Keogh, who was in the aty yesterday, says, that Xorth Carolina has been oven a moet bean- tiful site at the World's Fair in Chicago. He is much concerned about " V its appropriation from our Mate and thinks if it is withheld, tie source of much mortification. He nowever, niaaiw uu ww w nor Holt, as he feels that the Governor ; has decided in strict accordance with what he deems bs duty in the prem- 4 is ses. WEEKLY HEWS SUHMABY. nAPPEumos m this couirniY rOH THE PAST T7EEK. Thursday. Jaly. 23. Lieut John F. Meigs, of the United States Navy, has been in the service twenty-nine years, is to be retired from active duty. The Kimball Si Champ Investment Company, of Council Bluffs. Iowa, made an ' assignment yesterday after noon. Their assets are placed at from fc4W;cao to $500,000 and the liabili ties at $125,000. ' ' Dr. Austin W.IIolden, the historian, of Warren county, K. V., and a well know MasonJ was buned at Glen Falls, N. V., yestenfar, with Masonic honors. The editor of the Southern Alliance, published at Atlanta, Ga., lias been arrested, . charged with, violating the postal laws in re-publishing an edito rial from the San Francisco Examiner. This edi tonal . is said to be a lottery advertisement. ,' An extra session of the Tennessee legislature baa been called by the Gov eruor who, in his call, has recom mended that the convict lease system be nullified or repealed. Friday, July ti. A truce was declared yesterday by the Tennessee miners at llriceville, pending the Governor's proposition. The grand jury of New York have found an indictment against Charles O. C. Heniiessy, city eilitor of the Xew York Daily News, charging him with disdemeanor for .publishing an account of the recent electrocution at Sinz Sing. A telegram from West Point, Xeb., says: The greatest flood in this city's history, occurred here Wtluesday last almost completely siibiuergiiig the business part' of tho .city. ' The U. S. Treasury shipped three! hundred thousand dollars in small notes to Chicaco, for use in the move ment of crops. The General Grand Chapter Uoyal rch . Masons, in session. at Miuueapo lis, Minn., yesterday morning electetl Jos'ph P. Horner, of Xew Orleans, (jeneral Grand High Priest, for the -nmnir -triennial iKnod. Three' huu- dietl delegates are present.' - Saturday, July S5. K. (i. Dun & I'os wefkly review of trade savs: Some improveiuint ju the business situation is still noted. There is more actual trade in most of the leawling branches and more general confidence as to the future. Hut the monetary situatiou does uot grow clearer, and the decline in stocks, not withstanding the great dullness and with enormous crops coming, marks a feeling of Wall street that difficulties may oe ot r ..eu. t . i a i k 1 ures for the past week 254, against 274 last week. The consecration of Uev. niillipe Broolcs, D.D to the bishopric of the Diocese of ilassactiusetts, will taxe place in the City church, Boston, on Wednesday, October 14 The census repoitstiows the L nited states to be the largest producer of copfier in the world, it product for the year 1889 being 22G,0uo.962 pounds. The Columbian Oil Company, ol Chicago, with branches at Memphis, wwaumna, Minun nas oeen piacw. in tne nanas oi a receiver, me company trj ortfsjieHi on jnne isz. of uiisi rear: with a catMtal of tl.000.000. 1 "'" Xew York banks now hold $19,. i7io.323 in excess of the requirements !.f I , , , . . , j. f i rin nMrmvMi i n niir mini m (SV - VJfe ty A kaS w ti t f i V4 VAN? I'WS'M Wm f .. w.lnhi. Frid.; n,ht a , 17,. r-nr,nn , , . , . iy h nam 4k i 11 h k.. i iiiiii w j j u m j AArt at $300,000 Jticnmood. sl, ano AunniMS, Tenn., have been raised by order o: Artirit- Pira4ier General W hitCeid - . , to postoCces of the first class, with i free deliverv. the census of 1890 showing that they are entitled to this distinction. Ten other cities were rabed at the same time. Dallas, Texas, was visited, by a de structive fire yesterday morning. The following places of business were totally destroyed: J. H.Cannon & Co's liquor hous-e, the Henbrook School Furniture Company. establishment, the Brewers' Storage Company's ware house and Wolfe k Company's cotton gin. Sanger k Company had 500 bales of cotton, in this gin, which were also lost. The loss by a rough estimate is placed at $2,000,000. ' Xlesday, Jaljr 27. A fire at Xe up. r.News on Saturday night destroyed a whole block of twenty -eicht buildings. The Wash, ington Hotel and a three-story brick building were among the number. Two ladies and two children aie re ported t to have died of fright. Loss estimated at $50,000. Orrington Lunr, of K van? ton. 111., has given $50,000 to the Northwestern University of that city for the erection of a new library building. ' - - Otto Schcendnve, a trusted assistant to the cashier of the Werner Printing and lithographing Co., at Akron, O., ran off Saturday with $'2,000 belong ing to the company. Schomduve is only eighteen years of age. Judge Hiram C. Clark, a well known retired lawyer and local histor ian of Jamestown, X. Y., died at Provincetown, Mass. on Satiirdv, aged 75. lie was judge for many years during the Vigilance Commit tee's rule in 1849 in San Francisco. A wreck on the Cincinnati, Hamil ton and Dayton railroad excursion train near Middleton, 0., on Sunday night, -killed three persons and se riously injured four others. Tuesday, July 28. The stipple of the Unititl Prcsby- terian Church, at Greenville, Pa., was struck by lightning on Sunday morn ing while the iastor, Hev. J. C. Scul- ley, was delivering his sermon. The steeple was badly shattered and crea ted quite a serious panic among thc congregation, o one was injuied. Two Italians and one negro were killed and several wounded in a battle between negroes and Italian workmen employed on the Xorfolk ii Western railroad, in Logan county. West Vir- gtma. i he ngnt look place last rut. uruay anu 11 18 iran- u,ai ,,,orti I 1 - ' J .'A -.1 4l.A trouble will follow. The first bale of the new crop of J Georgia . . cotton, classed . about strict low middling, raised in Dougherty county, was sold at public auction in front of thc X. Y. Cotton Exchange, J at seven cents ler pound. .4 disnatch from Victoria. R C. K In ... ...ui i... tt cutter Uush, and turned over to the British war ship Xymph, by whom gje waa ordered home. Tlie Marvin arrived at Victoria on Sunday. I T7csasdar. Jclj 23. Four prisoners escaped yesterday from the military prison at Fort 1 Leavenworth, Kansas, by tunnelling under the east wall of the prison. a small boiler used in the repair o tbe rmi aiy oil Mill, at vicksburg, Miss, exploded yesterday engineer Md firerain. I o. i a t ' . i t- Dttw.u. mercnani ok auuis, wuu nwui- 1 . . M 1 A AAA AAA t . . . Im. .., I - x-:i i t l rV- w 1 .""" "mvK4 to nnUI ta tB,M.0"r $120,000 in cash, proven to be in hit J possessiMi, to his creditors. Samuel nds, who U said to have 1 been the oldest printer in the country, died at bis home in Baltimore, yester- . dar. in bis 92nd year. He had been I in acuve service as prcnwrr, ruiivr or tmbluher ever since his apprentice hip in 18U :Tn SorTnroiO lxtvt ?l a Vear WORLD'S FAIB NOTES GREAT INTEREST UANIFESTED THS0UGIZ0UT CUIIOP. -Walker Foarn, Chief of Foreign Affairs has arrived at heailqaafters and is organizing his bureau. The arrival of the Xational Ktiro- peau Commisiou in Iondon, seems already to have given a new impetus" to foreign interest in the hxposilion. On July 28th the commission begins a tour of England and Ireland. . The Wisconsin : Slate. 2Vm . lus- a1verttsel for plans for a two story building which shsll not cort more than $30,000. Tlie building is to be exclusively of Wisconsin inater.ak Japan is preparing to make a mag nificent display. An imperial orili. nance hai justliocn issued authorizing the organization of a special exhibition bureau. Mr. Sato the Jasiiee alitor deputed by the Mikado's Kmpire, to gather information in ngsrd to the Columbian Kposition, is now in Chicago gathering material, to bo translated into the Japanese language. Tlie Highland Association has made application for fifteen or twenty acres on which Ui uivo exhibitions of fcot tish (lames. The Kxixwition Manairiw nient a; e inquiring into the terms upon which the required space, can be secured adjacent to the grounds' Texas' Building will Ikj a re produc tion of thc ancient Spanish mission of San Jose, and it is ossiblo to perfectly reproduce by w of staff, the effect of adobe, the original material. The Xational Youth's World's Fair Association has been organized in Vennont, and is rigorously pushing towards the perfection of iu plans. The Prince of Wales will take a practical part in tlio consultations f England's commission. It is also an- nounced that Sir H'-nry Wood will visit Chicago in Septeml.cr, accompa nied by -James Dredge, to oiganixo the Britisli .section of the Worjd's Fair, Texas has decided to set apart a spacious room in its Reposition build- ini for an exhibit bv .the colored people of the State. ' " ( t James Allison of Cincinnati has been chosen Chief of the Department of Manufactures, and Wlllard A. Transportation. Trof. W.'IToinlina . lias been commissioned Choraj Iirec4 tor of the Kxposition. l'rof. Tom! ins. Choral Director of. the Kxposition, is in Kngland and will invite a number of the great Knglih choral societies to jiarticipate in'th'O" dedication ceremonies, of the Kxjosi tion ounumgs in iciooer, ls'jz. urn auditorium for choral music has been a . . a . mm mm located iu the north court of the matt; u fact u res building. George Wanl, manager of thc Conf.' mercial Cable Company, writes to Chief Barrett that he will make a big display at the Kxposition of cable in strument. He expects to show a complete repairing steamer, illustra ting tbe method of repairing cable. Tlie liondon Times, in a long review Ul MiD IJkJi klVU, BJ V4U no doubt now that tlie Kxposition will surpass in many resjjects all expo! tions previously held. Kngluh manu . : '" i t. i .ir ' iaciurersare rgvu w rac irffs u Tlie Xew Orleans Machinery Com pany writes to Chief Buchanan that it will makp a complete exhibit of cotton gins, sugar mills and other machinery at Uie Kxposition. Another interest ing invention that this company will bring is the first cotton gin made by Eli Whitney, which was invented in 1790. Alabama may be represented in miniature at the Kxpowttion by a series of comprehensive relief map. A man at Mobile has brought oat this scheme and proposes to show the mineral deposits, cotton belt, vegetable farms and everything else of interest in the State on a series of maps covering 20,000 square feet. Twenty-nine States and Territories have made appropriations for exhibit j
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