The gale., 1888-03-10
DYKES DoINGS.
SOUTHERN PARAGRAPHS OF IN
TEREsT TO OUR READERS.
The Events ofn Week In Our Own Country
New Enterprises, Nc., NC.

New Enterprises, &c., &c.
Pulaski county, Georgia, has voted in
favor Of 'sdary DR., y by majority OF about
100.
Sir Thomas Henry Grafton Esmona
will visit Atlanta, Ga, and speak on the
Irish home rule question.
All the stamps, money and registered
packages at Floral College, N. G., were
stolen recently. The depot was at the
same time entered and robbed.
The East Tennessee, Virginia y deor-
gia Railroad Company has contracted with
the Birmingham bridge and bolt works
for the iron work of large carshed and
passenger station at Rome, Ga.
Building No. II Theupitoulas street,
occupied by Balding Vallette, tobacconlst,
and +. r. Mathews and other agencies,
and unoccupied building No. 10, in
New Orleans, La, were burned.
The first snow of the Winter fell in At
lanta, Ga, a few nights ago. The snow
fall was heavy, but it melted almost as
rapidly as it fell, and there were compar-
atively few who saw the first snow.
The lilly hotel at Shreveport, La, was
burned. There were about 25 guests in
the building, all of whom escaped except
r. G. Craig, commercial traveller from
Cincinnati, who was burned to death.
Excessive and incessart rain has fallen
at Montgomery, Ala, and streams are all
up. A washout occurred on the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad near Geor-
giana, and delayed trains fifteen hours.
Bill Givings, of Augusta, Ga, watch.
man on the South Carolina Railroad
bridge over the Savannah river, was
killed by an incoming passenger train.
Givings was about forty years Of age, and
leaves wife living in that city.
Governor Scales has ordered the en-
campment of the North Carolina state
guard to be held at Wrightsville, near
Wilmington, beginning July 18th and
continuing seven days The entire force
will be put under canvas.
P. Adams appeared at Chattanooga,
rsnn opened a'G"s aM oce fSeen w.mson ill., son
arrived in that city m Floridasa a day
or two ago, and haPTsd to recognize
Adams on the street asa man who was
wanted in Florida for horse stealing.
The Library Exposition op0hcd at
Chattanooga, Tenn, under most M&sici-
Gus circumstances. 1t is estimated tnt
at least i, 900 people were present. The
Exposition promises to be a great sue
cess. The proceeds will be used to pur
chase library for the use of the public.
r.. f. LOBBY, formerly chief train dis
patcher of the Kansas City Railroad, was
run over by train and killed in the
Union depot at Birmingham, Ala. He
resigned his position recently, and was
tboarJiting u train for New York, when he
fell under the wheels and the toy of his
head was cut off. LOBBY cahe from
Watertown, Wis, where his pafents re-
side.
At directors meeting of the Carolina,
Knoxville & Western Railroad Company,
held in Greenyille. s. c., President Maui
lain rendered his resignation. A major
ity of the board differed with the prcsi-
dent in regard to an agreement made by
the executive committee with the Georgia
construction company, whereupon Presi.
dent Maulain did not feel that he could
longer occupy the position.
A fire broke out on Second avenue and
Lincoln street, Savannah, Ga, in a
double tenement owned by j. S. Collins.
The flames spread rapidly and destroyed
the two tenements, and communicating
with adjacent structures, consumed cot
tage occupied by Collins himself, and an
unoccupicd grocery. During the prog.
ress of .thQsfirc, fireman j. J. Conally fell
through tho floor of burning building
and was badly bruised.
While workmen on the railroad bridge
at Oconee, Ga, were engaged in some
difficult job, John McNish, a young white
man, fell distance of fifty feet into the
water below. He soon came to the top
of the water and began to swim, but as
the water was very swift, he was soon ex-
hausted, but just as he was nearing the
bank, hopeless and drcnchcd, he man
aged to grasp a limb, which he clinchcd
between his teeth, and swung to it until
assistance reached him.