Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-06
Southern Nexvs.

mint in that city. 1t is stated that witnesses
testified that Davis had substituted a. 500
made for standard dollars by passing them
through rollers for DETACHMENT and then
having them coined.
A special to the Raleigh, N. c., News OBJ
server reports an extensive fire at Goldsbor o.,
N. @. The Bonitz hotel was entirely de-
stroyed. The fire was first discovered in the
roof, and its origin is supposed to have been
from defective fue. Loss, $4,000; insu-
rance, $4,000. Three men were slightly
wounded at the fire.
Governor Hawkins, of Tenn, has received
proposition from the holders Of the Ten
nessee bonds proposing to compromise the
debt at sixty cents on the dollar, and graded
interest of four, five and six per cent.
A fearful cyclone struck the lower edge of
Bibb county, passing into Twiggs, Jones and
Wilkinson counties, blowing track eight
hundred yards wide, moving down fences,
farm buildings, etc. Samuel Cove, father of
Hon. Samuel F. Cove, ex-Republican member
OF Congress, living one mile from Griswollo
was killed; also Miss Lockhart, near Gordon
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The jury in the case of the United States
against the managers Of election at Maysville
precinct, Sumter county, s. c., failed to agree,
and new trial was ordered, Judge Bond ex-
pressing regret that the government and de-
PENDANTS should be put to the expense of an
other trial. The grand jury was discharged,
the indictment against the managers of cleo
ton at the Camp-ground precinct, Richland
county, being withdrawn by the district attor-
ney. The case was commenced against John
Thogg and thirty-eight other defendants,
charged with conspiracy to prevent qualified
voters from voting at the Buford's Bridge
precinct, in Barnwell county, at the election
of 1880.
The steamer City of Sanford took fire be-
tween Sanford and Jacksonville, Florida, and
was totally destroyed. Nine persona were
burned to death.
northern capitalist is in Raleigh, N. O..
with $25, 900, which he proposes to invest in q
cotton factory there, provided SIS, 900 addi-
ton capital is raised.
Eighty-fve thousand tons Of fertilizers were
sold in North Carolina last year, which at $40
er ton would aggregate So, 100000.
The Cumberland Iron Works Company, at
Nashville, Tenn, has just declared an annu al
dividend Of twenty per cent.
The contract for the erection of the Atlanta
cottonseed oil mill has been let and work will
begin at once.
A palmetto pulp and paper fac tory is about
tn he attn rted OF To Etox;1.
Atlanta will erect during the summer cot
tonseed mill, with capital of 500, OOO There
! will also be one in Rome, with capital Of
| 500, 900; one in Athens with same capital ;
one in Columbus with $500
The Sloss Furnace, at Birmingham. Ala.
upon which over 5000, 900 has been expended,
was fired up Monday morning, April 10. Work
was begun on this furnace last June, and it is
one Of the largest ever erected in the Southern
states.
The bridge Of the Texas and Mexican rail-
road across the Los Angeles river, near Laredo,
Texas, has been burned.
There was exhibited at Cincinnati sample
OF spring wheat grown on ordinary land near
Americus, Ga. 1t was sown November 26,
1881, harvested April 7. 1882, and threshed
April 81. 1t averaged twenty bushels to the
acre, and is of good quality.
The water at Morgan city, La, is falling at
the rate of three inches day, and land is be-
ginning to appear on the upper side of the
town. Thirty thousand government rations
were distributed to the inhabitants. The dis
tress of Bayou Teche is still represented to be
very great
In the U. s. Circuit Court at Charlestown, S.
G., the trial of John T. Hogg and thirty-eight
other citizens of Barnwell county for OBJ
structing voters at the Buford Bridge precinct
in 1880 was continued. All the witnesses
heard for the prosecution we're colored. They
claimed that they had been told that the COL
ored voters must wait until the white men had
voted, but some of them admitted they had
voted without molestation, and that the only
pistol fired during the day was by colored
man.
Information has been received that Felix
Room killed. Nathaniel Johnson at Yancey-
vile, Caswell county, N. c., with a double
barrelled shotgun, and wounded George Will
Hanson, Jr. The messenger could tell Moth
ing of the cause OF the shooting He only
saw Johnson load and Williamson lying
wounded, and was sent in haste for friends
here. All the parties are of the best families
W. @. Williamson and W. N. Shelton left for
Yanceyville Immediately.
A dispatch stated that Senator Hill, of
Georgia, had arrived in st. Louis in weak
condition, On route to Eureka Springs. Ad-
vices received in Atlanta, Georgia., excite the
gravest apprehensions in regard to Senator
Hill. 1t is said his condition is exceedingly
critical, and that his friends may prepare for
the worst at any moment.
Memorial day was generally observed at
Macon, Georgia. All places of business we're
closed. There was parade of the military
and the graves were decorated, after which
memorial address was delivered by Rev.
Charles Lane.
In the United States court at Charleston, s,
c., the trial of John T. Hogg and thirty eight
others, charged with obstructing voters at the
election of 1880, was continued, the govern
ment resting its case and witnesses for the
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