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Ik J" ' - . ii i . i ' ' '" i ,i i H - - " ' "i . . . j i i iii -t ii--'mii. ,U-' "MMMM""-"-- DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPOBT AKD BRUNSWICK COUNTY. 1 " VOL. 2 NO. 37. THE WORLD'S NEWS. -:o:- A CONIENSKl SU3IMA11Y OF A WEEK'S DOINGS Big Failure In St. 1'anl, Minn. Fearful Earthquake in Japan, Ten Thousand LI v It. Kail way Director of France Held Tteponlble. THURSDAY. OCTOBEIl 29. Boston University secures $50,000 by the irill of Lorley D. Paddock, as a trust fund, to be known as the "Paddock Fund." By the will of Asa Snow of Brockton, 3Iass., the Missionary Society of the Metho dist Church receives a 0ft of $17,000. ' Four detachments of cavalry have been sent out over the Cherokee strip, Oklahoma territory, to eject all boomers and confiscate all cattle The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific railroad depot at Ilockwood, Tenn.. was destroyed by fire at an early hour yes terday morning. Loss, $20,000. IJushnell & IJushnell real estate dealers at St. Paul, Minn., failed yesterday. Ac cording to a statement made by the firm, their liabilities are from $4.10,000 to $500, 000 and assets from $450,000 to $600, 000. The creditors are principally Eastern firms The glaze mill of the Ohio Powder Works four miles from Youngstown, Ohio, explo ded about 3 o'clock yesterday morning, completely destroying the mill, with 500 kegs of powder. Two of the men lost their lives. FOHEIGX. A severe earthquake is reported as having recently taken place in Japan. Much pro perty has been destroyed and many lives' lost. Theyield of wheat in Italy is estimated at 15,450,000 quarters; of maize, 8,068,000; of oats, 2,000,000; of barley, l,201,000;and; of rice, 2,403,000. Italy has not been in such a prosperous condition for many years. FKIDAY, OCTOHKll 30. . The p(8tofilce at Groton, Conn., was roblH-'d of $500 yesterday. 1 Typhoid fever is epidemic in the Rhode Island Stutc prison- A. Howell torpedo was lost in the bay at - I hunting for it. The schooner Mary E., from Jacksonville for Lake Wirth, is ashore near Lake Wirth Inlet, Florida Bull Brothers tin stamp works at Muncie, Ind., were burned on Wednesday causing a lWs of $52,000. A bronze statue of Gen. William Carter Wiekham wis unveiled at Richmond, Va., yesterday. Gov. McKinney presided and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee delivered the oration. The Oliver Bierne, a Mississippi river steamboat, was burned yesterday morning at Wilkins' Bend, twelve miles from Vicks- burg. Steamer and cargo, which consisted of 708 bales of cotton and 100 tons of other freight are a total loss Twelve persons lost their lives. FOREIGN. An Englishman in Shanghai, China, has been sentenced to nine months imprison- ment for selling arms to a Chinese secret society. The French Chamber of Deputies yes- terday, by a vote of 264 to 205, held the Railway Directors of France responsible r . ... .... lortue many accidents wlncli nave occurea l on the various lines recently. satuiuay, October 31. A cotton picking machine has been tried with great success at Atlanta, Ga. Clinton, N. J. , was devastated by a $100, 000 fire last night. Niiieteenof the princi- pal buildings of the town were destroyed, The U. S. steamer Fern and the English . . . .... I iramp steamship lago came into collision nil mill's uu i iiuuuic ugiii, near iiuiiuiK, r Va., yestenlay morning at 5:30 o'clock. m rr m. i . v n. i The Iaco received no damaze but the Fern was obliged to put into Norfolk for repairs f According to a New York dispatch the 1 Southern Associated Press has been organ ized in New York by a number of leading newspaper men from Virginia, North Caro- lino CmitV. r..rti;r. njnrrria 'Plnnilo I ....... .v.w. uU..a, 6'". .vuiuania, jLississippi, louisiauu nuu 1 ru-. i ness R.G. Dun &CVs weekly review of trade 1 ssiys: The imurovement in business con- i j i tinuts. It is greater than before at the. v est, consiueraoiy improved at the bourn 5., -1 1 . w I 13 vieuny jK-rcieeu even ai me Jasi. No fears are entertained of a monetary pressure, for it is believed that the advance in rates by the Bank of England will not diminish the shipments of gold to this country. Failures for the past week 255 against 249 the previous week. FOBIOX. An investigation has been instituted by the Chilian authorities at Santiago into the killing of the American sapors, and is , oeing prosecuted with all diligence. There are now ninetv-two natienta in Cork hospitals suffering from wounds re- ceived during Thursday night's rioting between McCarthyites and Parnelhtes. A Paris journal says in a dispatch from tr , ... .. - jiaaagascar, that the town of Maynnga, situatedon an Island at the entrance of uembatookc bay, has been almost entirely destroyed by a conflaffration. The loss is estimated to be $200,000. Sunday, November i. - ergus f alls, Minn., was visited yester- day by a blizzard. The ground is covered With snow. TM ,T . , . . , hold $12,838,525 in excess of die reouire- ments of the 25 per cent-rule. TheAmerican Colonization Societv has sent 66 negro colonist to Liberia. They left New York yesterday by the bark Liberia. The Society pays all expenses of the trip and maintainanee for several months. At 4 a m yesterday the convict stockade . Al , . , , . miners, vuc magazine oiown up ana me . . , , . . , .. j wuvicis ireeu. n is saia mat loo were i j. ,... , . . . maue iree ai unceviue ana iu at uoal ,, t ,m , , I Creek. There has been no bloodshed re-1 ported. , The Southern Associated Press met yes- icruaj ai me ahof iiouse, .ew iorK ana 1 j.1 A x TT V " w I elected officers- The organization meets with great approval in the South. foreign. - Athens had an earthquake shock at 3 uuwf uionung. very mue aura- T" 1 1 I age was done. j Severe snow storms are reported as pre- vailing throughout Bulgaria since Wednes- day. Trains are all snow-bound. he latest news from Japan is to the effect that the recent earthquake in the island destroyed in the neighborhoxl of 20,000 houses. It is thought that 10,000 persons lost their lives. MONDAY. XOVE3X11KH 2. The passenger station and freight depot at North Pemberton, N. J. on the Pennsyl vania railroad were burned yesterday. II. A- P. Carter, Minister to the United States from Hawaii, died at 1 ;30 o'clock yesterday morning at the Everett House, New York. He had been very ill for two months- Thirty-eight persons composing the van- i guard of a Russian colony seeking ihomes in Kansas, passed tlirough the barge office at New York yesterday. Senator Matt S. Quay has brought suit in Philadelphia against James Kerr, chair man of the Democratic State Committee, for $100,000 damages for libel and con- spiracy for libel Elwood City, Penn., suffered a severe loss by nre on Saturday morning, an en- v. : l. j i I J I entailing a loss of $60,000 which is entirely covered by insurance. The McDonald oil field, near Pittsburg. Penn., has touched the world's record by Droduciner 77.000 barrels of oil in twentv- four hours TLe r,cord wa3 Tjreviouslv made, nine years ago, by the Bradford ' h , field, which is nearly ten times as large as the McDonald. FOREIGN. The Rothehilds will renew the Spanish loan of $10,000,000, and advance $20,000, 000 more, in gold, to the Bank of Spain. The English naval gun practice at Ply- mouth has been stopped by the Admiralty authorities on account of the recent care less and fatal firing. A collision is reported between British and Portuguese soldiers iiTXorenzo Mar ques, East Africa, in whieh two were killed and fifteen injured. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 3. The customs receipts at New York have fallen off $28,853,900 during the past six months. Lorillard's tobacco factory at Jersey City, N. J., was visited by a destructive fire yes- terday morning. The damage will be in the neighborhood of $50,000. The Exposition at Augusta, Ga., opened yesterday with very favorable weather. There are exhibits from many .Northern la.. T r 1 states, mciuuing Jew i orK.jJiassacuuseus Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and Con necticut The thermometer at Northfield, Mum., yesterday fell nearly to zero. In parts of Minnesota and Dakota the first snow of likelihood of Minister Egan being re the season is falling. called at present. It is not expected Two hundred convicts working in the coal mines at Oliver fepnngs, Tenn., were liberated yesterday oy a large uanu vi nm.mtfwl -mn rI'l?Q mllrM 0l fniwifta 1 " , " " that k now at larce. a-- The Maverick National Bank of Boston, Mass.. has failed. The amount of liabili- ties is estimated at $2,000,000. foreign England has already been visited by sharp frosts. The thermometer at Ham- burg has fallen to seven degrees below 1 .1 1 ireezmg pim ami mere u.-u uj fall ot snow. . , . - , ... terdav. nrohibitinir the exD0rt of all ,v.r,,1k,.vf-,.ntin(r ,(-t The ukase aDDlies a au "-"O -' to potatoes and all products from the pro- hibited cereals. o0-wi,am lTnll tl, ..ntrr ridenoe of the Prince of Wales, has been greatly damageu oy nre. ii is saia xa, me the upper port ion of the hall must be rebuilt. "WEDNESDAY. NVEMOllER 4. Mrs. Jefferson Davis and daughter have arrived at Richmond. Va. It is said that Sirs. Davis is in poor health. The Itata case came to an end at Los Anrplfs V.! v;tirdar. Judee Rose, of United States Court rendered a decision granting the motion to dismiss the case against the defendants. Crabtree & Patchell's large woolen mill I . . . . I at Montgomery, N. ., burned to the ground yesterday. One hundred and fifty hands are thrown out of employment. Loss about .80.000: oartiallv insured. - T. UtMt vmnrfll finable indicate that Flower, the Democratic nominee for Governor of New York, is elected by a maioritv of 30.000. and EcKanley a ma jo- rity of 15,000 as Republican nominee for WWW ftnvprnnr of Ohio. Rnk nf TWtn will rivfi about 70 cents I on the dollar. i SOUTHPOBT, WASHINGTON NEWS. THE ATTITUDE OF THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT. Plenty off Humors Afloat tU to How the ..... . . . ,, . , . Inited htate l ill Proceed In the .. . Matter. Four and a-UalfFer . . " . Cent. Honda Coming In. Washington, D. C, Nov. 2, 1891 War, grim visaged and red handed, h fnr .i Aava iUa l.i of tlie songs sung by the sensation mongers and young naval officers who have never smelt any powder except ... m l. . , " Jow:a "l owiety ucnes, auu no st0lT has heen to absurd to find credence, one will do for an example that in onlr to ret even with th i o Chilian junta, the administration had determined to recognize Senor Vicu na, now a fugitive in this country, who was elected president of Chili just previous to the demise of the Bal- maceda Government, and to send him back to that country with a squadron of our lest ships and a military force strong enough to enable him to assume the office to which he was elected. How is that for absurdity? Those who know best the real situation of affairs have no fear of war between Chili and the United States. Even granting that there was cause sufficient for this country to attack Chili, there would still be little danger of war; because President Harrison and Secre tary Blaine are both on record as ai dent advocates for the settlement of all international disputes which can- noi be disposed of by the ordinary methods of dirlomacv bv arbitration It urill no 1'iimnm horfin that tho ron American Congress, when in session UCiU iasu aiou pledging the nations it represented to adobt arbitration for the settlement of d;nnt Thp PhiKnn r,n,Pnfflt,vpS j u v uwkra j yj .-wv tm v v w to that Congress refused, however, to vote for that resolution or to be bound by it. Secretary Blaine has been assured by Senor Montt, the Chilian Minister here who is in constant communication with the junta, that the investigation requested by this government of the attack upon our sailors is being made and that if it shall show that the Chilians were to blame they will do the right thing; but it is plain, from private advices received here, that the purpose of the investigation is to make it appear that the affair was only a common street bifawlfor which the Chilian government cannot accept any responsibility. At present Chili is occupying the familiar position of the small boy who makes faces at the big one relying upon the disparity in their sizes for protection, and G.eat Britain appears to be playing the role 0j tne 0y who nudges the little fellow " , , and whisnprs- I "Do it again; if he hits you we will call him a coward." It is s'ated by those close to the administration that there is no that any further steps will be taken this government until the Chilian , , , reasonable time to compete the investigation and report I r f its result, and it is not unlikely that the whole matter may go over, until the permanent government, recently elected shall succeed the present tem porary government of Chili. The new omciais win De msiaiiea mis monti I nt frflni tho annminr I , , , . , ment oy tne omciais 01 me jepari. ment of State that delegates from Barbadoes and lnnidad are soon to 1 come here to negotiate a reciprocity agreement, that Encland has agreed r- ir Ti l; r -rin I ' focate with the United States; indeed d that thcse delegates will have full power to conclude such an agreement. Mr. Blaine is also said to be confident that tho reciproci ty agreements which have been in negotiation for some time with Mexico. Colombia, Venezuela and Pern will shortly be accomplished facU. All of the matured 4 per cent bonds have been extended or re deemed, except about $4,500,000 and hev are cominz in at the rate of -bout twentv thousand dollars a day. Postmaster-General Wanamaker . , , . J irom lhe County seat Postmaster, re- Mating to his request that they won Id inspect the other offices in the county and make a report upon their condi r,nu tht& lttrs contain 1 L1UU. V V vw.v.w t t mttaMr .... . . . fact style which contain humor enougn h make the repuUtion of a pro i ... .1 . i i , , . v ' lessionai -mnuy iuau , uut uwuxug N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1891. i 1 made public by the Department offi - cial s thathasa tendency to make the writer appear ridiculous. An Illinois ! postmas:er a woman reported the condition of all the offices visited, in cluding her own, to be bad. A Mis sissippi girl postmaster asked to be excused from making the inspections because she was too young to go around alone, and she had no one to go with her. More than two thousand answers have so far been received by the department. The gossips are not so positive that Commissioner Raum is to go since the resignation of the second one of the three men that he asked to have dis missed has been accepted by Secretary Noble. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. A Steady ProjjreM of the Work in the Varioaa Department. The State of Idaho has applied for 10,000 square feet of space in tho Mines and Mining building for a dis play of minerals. The agricultural society of France t as decided to offer a number of pre miums for the best French horses shown at the Fair. The State Board of Commerce, of Oregon, has employed canvassers to raise $25,000 to be turned in to the State's World's Fair fund. The Hamburg-American Packet Company, of which Carl Schurz is the New York director, has subscribed 85.000 to Exposition stock. Quaritch, the noted London book dealer, intends to send to the Exposi tion an autograph letter of Christo pher Columbus; for which he paid 5,000. Wisconsin's building at the Exposi tion will be 80x90 feet, three stories high, and of the Queen Anne style of architecture. Its cost is estimated at $29,G00. Virginia's building at the Exposi tion will be of the old colonial type, measuring 33x76 feet, two stories high and surrounded by a piazza 15 feet wide, ltstost will be $20,000. The Quebec Steamship Company, operating the New York, Bermuda & West India Line, has agreed to bring government exhibits to the Fair free. Half rate is granted on the exhibits of individuals. E. R. L. Gould, the American dele gate to the International Statistical Institute, recently . held in Paris, writes to the Chief Fearn saying that the congress has accepted an invita tion to meet in Chicago in 1893. Mrs. Potter Palmer is to drive the last nail in the Woman's building. The lady managers of Montana, at the suggestion of Mrs. J. E. Richards, are having the nail made of gold, silver and copper. It will be forwarded to Chicago as soon as completed. The great imitation coast-line bat- tie-ship, which is to constitute and con- tain the government's naval exhibit is in an advanced state of construction. It will be all inclosed before winter weather sets in and all of the interior work will be completed by spring. The nine Lady Managers resident in Chicago, called together by Mrs. Potter Palmer, have decided to estab lished a model sanitary kitchen in the Woman's building at the Exposition. An effort will be made by a special entertainment or otherwise, to raise the $4,000 necessary for the purpose. T:e number of intending exhibitors who have applied for space at the Ex position reached 1,623 on Oct 24. This is a much larger number than the Centennial had at a corresponding early date. The number does not in elude any foreign applications, all of which are made to their respective national commissions. - One acre of eround within the Horticultural building lias been re served for an orange grove from Flor ida and the same amount lor a grove from California. These trees will be brought to Chicago next year and planted, so that they will bear fruit while the Exposition is open. These two acres constitute two interior courts of the building. Seventy-four cases of relics of the Indians and Mound Builders have been received by the Department of Ethnology of the Exposition from Chillicothe, Ohio. They contain great variety of prehistoric implements and utensils, such as axes, arrow-heads, pipes, bowls, jars, etc. They were exhumed by a party acting under the direction of Chief Putnam. The Socthpobt Luudeb $1 a year 1 1) TT7plFQ UTinPPT j ilAL"T" VXllA. -:o:- A CXHUIESPONDEXTS VIEWS OX ItALEIGII AFFAIKS. Kxeevtive Committee AddreM to the Democrats. MerrhaaU ParehaaeTax Hxtlu Man-of-war at fiouthport Gem at the Exposition. Raleigh, N. C, November 3. The address to the democrats in the State prepared by the Alliance and non.-Al liance members of the executive com mittee is to be out in a day or two. It is a well considered document. It contents itself with charging the re publicans with the evils whieh haven existed and now exist. It doe3 not itemize the charges nor is it necessary. Such an address, signed by such men, will surely have a good effect in head ing off the third party. Of course Polk will have a following and his face is turned toward the third party. That is not now denied or concealed, par ticularly since the speech at Elizabeth ty. Polk is argryl and will be glad to put any snub upon some of the democratic leaders. Some of the latter say that with him it is now rule or ruin. He has a much larger and wider influence than many people think. This fact may as well be recognized. The event in the Supreme Court this week has been the argument in the nerchants purchase tax matter, invol ving the State's right to impose it. The case was divided and two cases made; one involving the question whether goods were purchased outside the State the imposition of such a tax was not an attempt to regulate inter state commerce liie other case in-. volves the question whether, if goods arf purchased within the State, the atter can impose this tax, as it is like a discrimination against the merchants. The State derives $30,000 annually from this particular tax. This is evidently the principal month of the exposition. The attend anco will be large and the number of attractions greater than in October. The presence of the magnificent Fifth Maryland regiment next week will be a special feature, as will be Odd Fel- ows' day. Masonic day comes a week ater. One of the curiosities (if that be a good word) here this week is St. Al exander of the U. S. army. He is the first negro graduate of West Point your correspondent ever saw. He has a good appearance and is well in formed. Negro officers will always be scarce, for though in case of war there would be hundreds of thousands of negro troops, yet very probably they would be officered by white men just as are all the native regiments in the British seuvice. The Governor has commissioned the officers of the newly created naval reserve batallion of Charlotte. Ar rangements will be made next sum mer, it is understood, for the pur. chase of a man-of-war at Southport, in which this battalion, and perhaps other naval reserves which may be en listed later, will go for training. The formation of the needed four compa nies in the State has been slow, but there is not much real military spirit. The country people are as ignorant of modern war as they are of Arabic. Many complaints have been made to the railway commissioners regard ing the failure of the R&D, and the W. k W railways to make proper con nections at Goldsboro. An order was issued yesterday requiring such con nection to be made at once. If the people will state any grievances prop erly, the commission will redress them. The penitentiary authorities will ac quire yet more land, in Northampton county, to be cultivated by convicts, making in all 18,000 acres. This will enve work to 700 convicts. It is quite clear that as the railway work is ending the farm work must be givep the convicts. " It develops otherwise useless lands and does not throw the convicts in competition with free la bor. The troubles in Tennessee now prevailing have called forth attention to the propriety of the course this State is pursuing, of course the peni teniiary is self-sustaining and is no burden Jto the tax-payers. The internal revenue collections in this district during the past month broke all the records. The tobacco at Durham yielded over 70,000, while the total wa3 $105,000.r The unpre cedented number of peach and apple brandy distilleries caused the great increase. The fruit crop was a large one and was thoroughly worked op. To most visitors to the exposition the display of gems and gem-stones which the department of agriculture makes is a revelation as no less than thirty varieties are shown. Strange to say some of these are lent. The State does not own a fine specimen of hiddenite, for instance. Private collec tors, colleges, museums, etc., buy these things. North Carolina ought to appropriate money for the purchase of one really fine specimen of each mineral or gem found in the State. Other States and all other counties do this, nere the plea of poverty and of inability to do this or that always comes in. The negro State convention held in August of last year was a novelty, and was the cause of widening the breach between the white and b?ack republi. cans. Ever since the former has dis trusted the negroes. The latter have no love for their old allies, and cer. tainly begin to show their mdepen- enco as voters. They demand a share of all offices in the gift of the republicans, or regular division of the natural spoil in fact. NORTH CAROLINA. News Clipped From Valuable Exchange From the Old Xorth State. Work has commenced on the new union passenger depot at this place. The depot will be a beauty, and is to be pushed to a rapid completion. Messfujer'Jntflligencer. Alfred Dawns, the negro who bur glarized Mr. John W. Wadsworth s residence will pay the penalty with his life. Judgo Meares sentenced him to le hanged December 3rd.. Charlotte Democrat. Mr. J. S. Carr,of Durham, has sent Dr. Abernethy a check for $250 to aid in the re-building of Rutherford College. Dr. B F. Dixon, of Greeus boro, has given $25, says the Morgan ton Herald. Durham Jlerottler. Twelve car loads of Italians Satur day, and two car loads yesterday passed through this city en route to work in phosphate beds down South. They were a hard looking aggregation of humanity. Golhhrro Argus. The reports from all over this sec tion, indicate a short cotton crop. The cotton is weli-bolled, but is not opening, and some is rotting in tho green boll. We hope it will not bo as bad as supposed. Gjnntd That. There have been quite a number of transfers of real estate in Uocky Mount during the past week, and at high figures. There is a great deal of activity in the real estate market hero and prices aro rapidly advancing Argonaut. The Governor has ordered a special term of Montgomery Supreme Court for the trial of both civil and criminal cases. The term will be one week only, and begins on Monday, Decem ber 7th, 1891. Judge Aimfield will preside. Vidette. The negro who attempted to derail Engineer nail's train on the C. C. a couple of weeks ago between Shelby and Murfresboro by placing an obstruc tion on the track, was sentenced at Shelby court Tuesday to twenty years in the penitentiary. Cltarlotte Chroni cle. The North Carolina Midland Road between Winston Salem and Mocks ville, has oeen completed. The last rail and cross-tie was laid yesterday. This is joyful news. We learn to-day that the passenger tram will bo run on a regular schedule through to Mocksville on and after November 1st.. Twin City Sentinel. The firm of Taylor, BouU k Broth erton, plumbers and tinners, doing business at No. 43 Patton avenue, composed of Messrs. Fitch Taylor, S. G. Bouis, W. L. Brotberton and E. filch Taylor, has made an assignment appointing W. W. West assignee. j The liabilities foot op about $25,000. The assets are not known, but it ii believed that they will be almost suffi cient to cover the liabilities. A$h&. tiUe Citizen, Interest in the celebrated Mc Dougaki trial is ever on the increase. The array of counsel will be strong and larce. For the defence will be Maj. Jno. D. Shaw, Sr., and Mr. Jno. D.Shaw, Jr of Rockingham, Col. W. F. French and Capt. W. S. Norment, of Lumberton, and Hon. J. C McRae and Mr. Jno. G. Sbaw, of Fayetteville. while the attorneys for the proaecn tion are Hon. Alfred liowland and Col. Neai Archie McLean, of Lumber ton, Walter H. NeaL of Laurinburg, and Solicitor Frank McNeill, of Rock ingb&m. One hundred and forty-two witnessed hare already been summoned with the probability that the number will be increased to two hundreds loyettevtllc Obterrrr. "DT VfT TIlf l fTTTTC - A -SF M. W -S UAJAI A U. ON TO CHICAGO! THE BRUNSWICK WESTERN & SOUTIIEItNIlAILROAD'S Ohjeettv fVlnt. An Exrltiaa Week la othport. The Cmatjr to Tete mm Itoad. Railroad OAclaU Meet the Com I ilea era. The railroad which is to open up Southport to the West and Northwest is only a question of few months. The possibilities of this city, will soon prove certainties. The talk of railroads will not be speculative or problematical any longer, but the actual thing, in' ui mui lafiujjjcMi vpui auuu. j, t ab road to and from Southport will not be a question, but a fact. Until last Monday, tho quietness of tho parties interested in this great enterprise, made the general sentiment one of distrust. But as usual with successful Chicago enterprises, they remain unknown until the proper time of divulging them, regardless of out side opinions. The scheme is not one of a day. It has been slowly working for months. Investigations have been made, and the situation thoroughly canvassed. Every foot of ground here, every available" resource of this port, ' county and State, is as well known, if not better, to the Chicago people, as by those living here. Every transac tion, every move made by others here, or towards here has been carefully noted. '. Tli is section was startled about a month ago by the report in the Lcadu of the purchase of charter, terminals at Southport and Wilmington, and organization of the Brunswick West- ' era k Southern Railroad Company. A quiet period followed. The people saidr "Nothing in it Same old talk." Chicago was in it and with both feet. In it to the extent of owning ono of the finest railroad charters in the country, owning about three hundred feet of water front on tho river at Wilmington, several hundred acres of. the best property at Southport, with a water frontage of nearly a mile. Whatf they otherwise control in tho way of and is only known to themselves. The excitement in Southport when the railroad company this week made known their intentions was intense. Its proposition to the County Commis sioners, when asking for a County subscription in its aid, was so liberal as to at once enlist the support of tho majority of the Commissioners. The Company bears all . expenses of the election, which takes place on the 22nd day of December, they have also placed in bank at Wilmington, a for feit of $1,500 as a guarantee of good faith that the work will go forward at once. 1 he benefit this road will be to Brunswick County cannot be folly estimated at present. It will be im mense. The Company is to build over seventy miles of road in this County, which will pass through every town ship except one. It will give employ ment to every man who desires Work, and expend upwards of one million dollars, which will go to ecrich the County and its people- The full list of officers, of the Bruns wick Western k Southern Railroad Company, which has never been fully published is, Geo. L. Dunlap, Prei dent; F. B. UUery, Vice President; J. D. Bellamy, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer; H. Ii. Dougherty, Gener. al Manager. Directors, Geo. L. Dun lap, Geo. II. Bliss, Y. B. UUery, Chi cago, J. D. Bellamy, Jr R. W. nicks, W. E. Worth, Wilmington; N. C, a II. Dougherty, Newark, X. J . B. Stevens, W. II. Pyke, Southport. Mf. Geo. L. Dun lip, as General Mana ger of the Chicago k Northwestern R. R. has a national repuUtion, di reeling and building up as he did one of the gieatest railroad properties of this country. ' Mr. II. IL Dougherty, General Manager, has been engaged as civil engineer in several railroad enteiprV. ses in this country. His work of late has been mostly in bridge building, - especially of the Cantalever Bridge, as he ha) assisted in the construction of five out of the nine of these bridges now in use. Mr. Dougherty has as sisted in the Pocghkeepsie and Niag ara Bridges, and has just returned from Pern. South America, where be completed a cantalever bridge, one of the greatest engineering feats of the present day. The other gentlemen are well known for their ability and pnh, and the things already done, is a sufficient guarantee of their promi ses yet to be completed. The projec ted line will have its terminal at Southport, with a line North io Wil mington, and West to Knoxriile, Tenn, and ultimately to Chicago. 1 t
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