Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-21
Southern News.

wagon between the depots and postoffice at
Augusta, Ca, has been arrested for stealing
letters. aehT
! The building of the International Cotton
Exposition at Atlanta, Ga, was sold at pri-
vate sale by the executive committee to L. P.
Rice and R. H. Richards, of Atlanta for $685.,
600 cash. The purchasers will organize a
joint stock company at once to fill the build
ing with machinery for the manufacture of
| cotton.
General Robert Lowry was installed as
governor of Mississippi, at Jackson. Tho
inauguration ceremonies were very imposing
The inaugural address breathes patriotic,
liberal and progressive spirit, subjects of ed
ucation, manufactures, immigration and in
ternal improvements being specially COM
mended. The governor declared that the
cardinal principle of his administration will
be to protect the rights and foster the interest
of ALL and to promote the common welfare.
| The Capitol Board of Texas has awarded
the contract for building 5he new caA.e q at
Austin to SchneIl & Asserates, of Rock Island,
Ill. The contractors agree to commence
work February 1, and complete the building
in five years.
A special despatch from Waxahachie, Tex,
says that Colonel N. Thomas, formerly of
Fayette county, is dead. He was member
of the Texan Congress during the days of the
Texan republic.
| A delegation from Louisiana asked the
! President to make Ex-Governor Pinchback
collector of New Orleans.
| A large and enthusiastic meeting of repre-
! sentative citizens was held at Macon, Ga, to
| discuss plans for grand national art exhbi.
| ton. The exhibition will probably be held in
October next, and the projectors expect to
make it superior to anything of the kind ever
| before attempted in America.
I bill has been introduced in the Kentucky
| legislature giving persons accused of criml-
nal offenses the right to testify in their own
Defense II is meeting with strong opposi-
ton. This advance in criminal practice has
already been made in Maryland and mdhy
other states. -t
The Trion Cotton Factory, at Rome, Ca,
has been paying for several years seven per
cent. semi-annually There is no stock ON
the market, but its actual value is over 5000
per share of 800. The factory under it's new
roSaniZation is only six years old.
The second meeting of the holders of the
North Carolina special tax bonds was held in
New York, and resolution was adopted ex-
pressing the intention of the bondholders to
invoke the power of the United States su-
preme court, and to request New York state
to prosecute these claims under the law
which allows it to maintain the suit of citi-
zen against another state. committee, with
power to employ counsel to push the claims,
was also appointed.
| The whaling schooner Golden City arrived
at Port Royal with sixty barrels of sperm oil }.
got off the Atlantic coast.
1t is reported that an incendiary fire de-
stroyed the little town of Kemp, on the Texas
trunk railroad. Every building was burned.
The loss is estimated at $40, 900, and is par
tally insured.
Solicitor General Phillips is an applicant for
the United States district iudgeship of North
Carolina, but is opposed by about hundred
North Carolinians now in this city, a delega-
ton of whom had a long talk with President
Arthur. They oppose Mr. Phillips appoint
ment on the ground that he is not a resident
of North Carolina, not having resided there
for eighteen years.
The Langley Cotton Factory, at Augusta
| Ga, has declared semi annual dividend of
$3.50 per share, making over twenty per
cent. for the year. The net earnings for the
year are twenty-five per cent. The Sibley
mills will soon be in operation. A site has
been purchased for the John P. King mill, and
the work of erection will be begun in short
| time.
A fire broke out in the cotton rooms of W.
l.. Moody & Co., at the northwest corner of
the Strand and Twentysecond street, Gal
weston, Texas. The building was occupied
by the supreme court-rooms on the upper
floor, Moody & Jemison, Grace & Co., J. p.
Kindred and others on the second floor and
G. NJ. Pearre Co., wholesale srocers, on the
ground floor. The flames spread rapidly, and
at P. NJ. the large wholesale dry goods
establishment of Messrs. Greenleav, Book g.
Co., was wrapped in flames. The fire crossed
the street to the wholesale hardware estah-