Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-06-10
SOUTHERN NEW STEMS.

The outh Carolina railway commission
has received prot st from the Richmond
and Danviile Railway officials against the
low freight rate fixed by the commission on
liquor for the State dispensary.
CHECKS are being sent out under the
South Carolina fund for supplying artinci
limbs to OK Confederate soldiers. Ait gether
there are 254 approved applications. The
board has divided the applications into four
81 sses Those who lost an arm below the
elbow get an allowance OF s12; those who
lost al arm above the elbow get $3.50 !;
those who lost a leg above the knee are a.
lowed s26, and thoaa who lost that member
below the knee are apportioned $40.
CONTRACTS has cen signed for the early
completion of the Carrabelie, Tallahassee
and Georgia Railroad to Tallahassee. Ar
engagements are being made to build on to
Townsville. All financial emba easements
of the company has been removed by the
sale of 5000 of first mortgage bonds in
Scot and. The company will also erect ono
of the largest saw-miIls in the South at Car
rabelle, with capacity Of 100000 feet OF
lumber per day.
A Madison ella special says fire was dis
covered in the large general store and ware
house of T. j. Beggs & Co. The building
was soon in flames and before they could be
subdued five other stores and buildings had
been burned to the ground. Beggs Co.
lose abo $780, in stock, with insurance
of 81, 500. 1t was the largest mercantile es-
Enlistment in Florida west OF Jacksonville.
The total loss on the buildings and stock is
s3I, 900 insurance S12,5cO. There is no fire
department in the town.
Judge c G. James, at Douglassville, Ga. ,
has decided that Henry Ward and j. I
Bowen are entitled to the offices of Sheriff
and clerk of the county court, respectively.
In last January's election for county officers
the third party almost swept the field, elect
ing all their men int three. The defeated
Democrats all submitted except Henry Ward
and J. T. Bowen. who were apparently de-
feated by z. NJ. Bomar and r. A. Wilson for
the offices of sheriff and clerk of the court,
respectively. They filed their contest,
which was ably responded to by Bomar and
Wilson. Several weeks were consumed in
taking evidence on either side before JUS
tice of the peace.
Gov. TILLMAS, OF South Carolina, has ap-
pointed d. NJ. Mcintosh and Claude Mag
wood terrapin commissioners under the act
passed at the r, cent session of the egisla-
ture. The commissioners are to enter at
once upon the discharge of their new duties
and see what can be done to save the terra
pins from threatened extinction. Tho act
makes it unlawful for any person to catch,
trap, or have in his possession terrapin be-
tween the first day of April and the first day
of August of any year. The law is made to
apply to the counties of Georgetown, Charles
ton, Beaufort, Collector and Berkeley. Thos
trapping te rapins are required to take out
a license from the co nty commissioners Of
the county named. the violation OF the
law deemed a misdemeanor, punishable
by fine of not less than $50 or imprison-
ment of not less than six months, CT both.
HOWARD County, ARK, was swept by a
terrific storm of wind and rain, resulting in
u
County Assessor Stewart and two
children are reported to have been
killed in the collapse of their
house. Many bridges and trestles along the
different raj roads have been wrecked and
several hundred feet of the Arkansas and
Louisiana Railroad was washed away. Train
service has been abandoned. At Harrisburg
the Cantly Lumber Company's property was
swept away. Among the injured were David
Roberts, fatally, and Jacob Suede and wife
slightly injured. VIM. Martin, living twelve
niles southwest, had his farm washed
away. The entire county is wrecked from
two to seven miles southwest Rain and hail
both fell heavily. Judge Gibson's farm
house, three miles south was totally wrecked
At Guernsey half dozen houses were blown
New Leadville destructive hail-storm did
great damage to crops and residences and
killed large amount of stock.
In the course OF the next few months
seems certain that Atlanta will have III
fourth direct trunk line of railroads through
to New York, it having at present three line'
two the Richmond and Danvile and tht
Seaboard Air Line, in close and direct com
petition, and the thir the East Tennessee
Virginia and Georgia. The fourth connee-
ton is to come through an extension OF the
Atlantic Coast Line, connecting in direct
air lire with the South Carolina Railroad,
and thus through the Georgia Railroad with
Atlanta. The Atlantic Coast Line extension,
for the construction of which bids are now
being advertised, is to connect the present
te minus OF the Manchester and Augusta
Railroad at Remini, in Clarendon county,
with Denmark at the junction OF the South
Bound and South Carolina Railroads, In
BirnweIl county, a distance of forty our
miles. As soon as this connection Is estab-
iished the Georgia Railroad from Atlanta be-
comes part of direct line connec in with
the Atlantic Coast Line to Richmond, Wash
ington and New York.
AT the semi-annual meeting of the Ala
bama Industrial and Scientific Society sew
eral interesting papers were real about coke
making and the advantages and saving OBJ
tainei by washing it. Col. T. II. Aldrich, Of
the Tennes zee Coal, Iron and RIiiroad Com
pany, made important stat ments in regard
to no experiments now going on at Bessemer.
The iestion OF making cheap steel with the
pres OF this district is Low settled, as the
Tennessee com any has shipped during the
last two weeks more than LOO tons OF pig
iron, which was made in the Little Belle