Hillsboro recorder., 1888-07-26
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD. PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUSTRIAL PRoGREss-THE EXCURSION
FEyER--RAHRoAD AccIDENTs-suIcIDEs
DEFALcATIoNs--co COTTON REPORTS, ETC.
Alabama.

Alabama. -
Ground was broken at Bessemer for
the foundations for three large furnaces,
which are to be built by a strong syndi.
dicate of Southern capitalists. There
are rumors Of the Inauguration of indus.
trial enterprises which will call for the
expenditure of over $4,000, 900 within
the next twelve months. ~
Benton Vines, well-to-do farmer, and
for several years member Of the board
Of county commissioners, committed sui
eide on Tuesday by cutting his throat
with razor. He lived on his farm, a
few miles from Birmingham. Vines had
been in bad health for several months,
and recently resigned his position as
commissioner.
The annual camp meeting of the M. E.
Church, South, will open at the Atlantic
Camp Grounds, Pablo Beach, on August
Is.
Fifteen carloads of steel rails have
been delivered for the Sugar Belt Rail
road. and the work is progressing as rap
idly as possible, large number OF hands
being at work.
There will be no state encampment OF
the militia, as it has just been discovered
that there are no tents, the same having
been used in the late yellow fever cpl
demic in the southern part OF the state.
Pensacola has at her docks new Ital-
ian steamer built on a new principle.
She has two compartments, one forward
and one aft the engines, with thirty-flvt
foot matches. Her net register is 2, d0C
tons, but she can carry $500 tons OF
coal on twenty-one feet draught of wa
ter. Her name is the Benicia, and she
will load with pitch pine for Venice
Italy.
The house Of c. G. Singleton OF Camp
bell was struck by lightning on Thursday
almost knocking out one end OF thu
house and passing through it in severa
ways. Mr.. Singleton was struck on thu
hand, the fluid passing thence up thu
arm and down the body and leg to thu
end of the toes, burning and tearing hi
clothing completely tearing up one o.
his shoes. A-ehild 8 years old had hi
dress torn of and burned from head u
foot raising some large blisters on hi
BODY. and little girl was severel..
wounded by large splinter being drlVel
through her leg.
The Times Democrat Of New Orleans,
had an interview with prominent Free
Mason of Mississippi, to the effect that
Lodge No. So elected liquor dealer ss a
member, and that the grand master sus'
oended the charter of the lodge. This
action has created much excitement
smong the members of the order.
Mississippi.
Hon. Pat Darden died on Tuesday al
bis residence in jefferson county. after /
.hort illness Of Aux. He was the mos
prominent granger in Mississippi, having
been the grand master Of that organiza
tion since 1876. He was elected grand
master Of the national grange at Boston
four years ago, and was reelected at th,
last national meeting. He was q gallant
soldier during the War, commanding on'
u the best batteries in the Southern
ymy.
North Carolina.
Two-thirds Of the tobacco plants il
the western part OF the state have beei
killed by recent frosts.
Durham county Is bothered over q sur
plus Of $1,000 in the treasury, and vii
improve the roads Of the county.
A census Of Salisbury has been taken
Il shows that The town has 4.159 inhabi
tants, an increase since 1886 Of 755.
Work is slowly progressing on th
Wilson Short Cut Railroad. They wan
to get il 10 the Alfordsville & Leesvill'
Road during July.
Charlotte's tax rate for the curren
year has been fixed by the board Of al
dermen at s5 cents on the 800, an In
crease of Is cents over last year.
The signal corps observer at Hatter
reports the German brig Anncan, lad
with turpcntine, and bound from sayaD
nah, Ca, to Glasgow, Scotland, ground
cd on Hatteras Shoals. The vessel wi
probably be a total loss. The crew ha
been saved.
Senator John II. Reagan, Of Texas, ]
response 10 an invitation from Col. l
L. Polk, has consented TO attend th
Inter. State Farmers Cotton Conventio
in Raleigh in August and deliver an ad
dress on ''lnter. State Transportation an
its Relation 10 Agriculture"
| The North Carolina State Guard Is no
In annual enCampment on Wrightsill
sound, eight miles from Wilmington
Every company in the state Is pTesen
Thonsandsof civilians and soldiers thron
the camp and vicinity. Wilmington
in a flutter Of bunting, the buildings b
| ing handsomely decorated.
| w. A. Potts, Jr., Of Washington, WI
was to have been hanged for the murd'
Of Paul Linckc, In June, 1883. Succeede
in escaping the gallowsby taking poisol
IL will Ia remembered that he was