The bee., 1883-01-20
Middle and Southern States.

churches.
Middle and Southern States.
! Reliable information has been received
! from various sections of North Carolina to
the effect that the cotton crop of that State
will be over $1,000 bales less than last year,
and that great quantities of cotton left in the
fields unpicked have been badly damaged by
snow. 1t is estimated that the cotton crop
of Virginia will be less by several thousand
bales than it was last year.
Joseph Sailer, for many years financial
editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
died from complication of diseases. He
was in his seventy-fourth year.
Governor Bate was inaugurated with formal
ceremonies at the capitol, at Nashville. In
his inaugural address Gov. Bate spoke con-
corning the state debt es follows: "At no
time in the history of Tennessee has the in
coming legislature been looked to at home
and abroad with prouder satisfaction and
deeper anxiety than this. Certainly no one
has met una.L more peculiar auspices or IN.
vested with more delicate trusts. Neither
has one heretofore assembled brought with
it the wishes of a constituency more gener-
ously confded or more emphatically voiced
by maiorities at the polls. After the inau-
guration live eagle was set at liberty from
Capitol hill bearing medal on which was
inscribed: 'For president, Cleveland, of
New York; for vice president, Bate, of Ten
nessee.
The Supreme court of Appeals, of Va.
has rendered decision in the case of Judge
E. C. Burks, member of the old court, who
contested the seat of Judge Drury A. Hinton,
who was elected judge of the new court by
the last Legislature. The decision was in
favor of Judge Hinton, the opinion being
that Judge Burks, who was originally elected
to succeed Judge Joynes, deceased, was only
elected for the unexpired term, and not for
the full term as he claimed.
Rev. DR.. VIM. N. Pendleton, rector of
Grace Episcopal church, Lexington, Va, and
chief of artillery of the Confederate army of
northern Virginia, died in the 73d year of his
age.
at a meeting of bondholders of Chambers,
Lee, Pukin, Randolph and Tallipoosa
counties, Alabama, held at the Office of R. A.
Lancaster & Co.. in New York, large amount
of bonds were represented. A proposition
of compromise was submitted by Col. Aber-
crombie, the commissioner from Alabama,
and was generally accepted.
A number of cotton manufacturers met at
Atlanta and organized the Southern cotton
manufacturers association by the election of
&c
B. Dallas, of Nashville, secretary and trea-
surer.
The first cargo of corn in bulk, shipped to
Europe from Savannah, Ga, was loaded
from the new elevator aboard the British
steamship Mareka for Liverpool.
The Texas Legislature has adopted bill
Withdrawing the fifty cent land from sale.
Charles @. Stockley has been inaugurated
Governor of Delaware for a term of four
years. In speaking of the tariff question he
said that considering the fact that the
majority of Delawarians are actively inter
ested, more or less, directly in agriculture,
he congratulated all classes upon "the hopeful
promise of revisiG III the present unwise,
inadequate and ill-arTanged system of tariff
taxation, which has long since ceased to
protect even those industries especially Sc
lected to receive its benefits, while it has pro-
duced those periodical stoppages and stagna-
tons in production which are so ruinous and
distressing to operatives, and which increase
the cost of living to the laboring classes.
c. Conrad & Co., manufacturers of Bud
weisen beer at st. Louis, have failed, with
liabilities amounting to over 100000.
Tweddle Hall, Albany, was destroyed by
fire. 1t was a six-story building, the main
hall being fitted up with stage for dramatic
entertainments. The building was owned by
Mrs. H. W. Tellinghast. and was valued at
$25O,000 The ground floor was occupied by
stores, all of which we're destroyed. The loss
will reach $500, 900. Erastus Corning's resi-
dence adjoining was on fire several times,
but il was saved, and with it large number
of valuable family pictures and relics.
On Monday night the nail factory at Cum
berland, South Chicago, burned. The fire
was incendiary. The nail factory was one of
the largest and best furnished mills in the
United States. The warehouse contained a
stock of nails amounting to at least 15,0OO
kegs. and probably far greater number.