The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-08-19

| James NJ. Newberne are made members
of the executive COMMITTEE; j. II. Pearson
| delegate to the National Alliance; J. W.
Denmark, alternate.
The project of the Brunswick Western
| and Southern railway is in the hands OF
the sheriff. new corporation is to buy
up the franchise with "A view TO building
the road to Southport.
populst leader at Wilmington is
authorized by Senator Butler to state If
the populists there will get up free silver
demonstration TO be participated In by
siverites of all parties. he and other lead
ers will speak. He also challenges any
sound money man there to meet him.
Colonel j. T. Armfield is making ar
rangements to take the Fourth regiment
of the State Guard to the Atlanta expo
sition.
THE populist leaders and some republicans
had a meeting here this evening.
calls Were sent out to them some DAYS
ago asking their presence. There were
Marion Butler. w. II. Worth, Congressman
Shuford, Congressman stroud, Or cyrus
Thompson the No" president ct Ine Sta =
Lloyd and w. \. Guthrie. all popuiiSts, anu
DIR. John J. Mott, eX-republican cheirman
News from North Cnroiiun-
Raleigh. N. C.. August 1d.-(special)-The
knitting mill at VaIdese. The Waldcnslah
settlement in Burke county. has been pur-
chased and will be removed to Newton
where the plant will be enlarged.
The Wadesboro cotton mill has Just COM
petcd the work OF filling its factory with
new machinery.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterian con-
veEtion is in session at Statesville. Two
hundred delegates are present-quite
number from South Carolina.
The grand jury at Winston has returned
true bills against 100 or the negroes in last
Sunday nights riot and half that number
are in Jail. More than 200 have fled from
tho town.
The remarkable discovery is made that in
on act OF the last legislature is clause
which prevents the trial of any criminal
cases in the superior courts of Castor ana
Stanley counties. No one can say what
these counties Will do meanwhile with their
criminals until the next legislature meets
two years hence.
A month ago large number of men
rode from Stokes county to an adjoining
county and endcavorod to secure Or. Iilil'
young ply Sic!an whom they charged Win
the ruin OF a prominent young woman IN
Stokes. Hin eluded them. ana ten DAY
ago they made another visit. determined
to seize him. carry him to Stokes ana force
him to marry the girl. lie got wind OF
their coming and notned the sheriff. who
met the men with posse and forced them
to depart though there came near being
row. Since then Or. HILL becoming alarm
ed has fed. News comes of his arrest IN
Tennessee. II is believed that unless some
quick and skllcul work is done he VIII H't
free on habeas corpus proceedings.
Dies for His Sweetheart.
Raleigh n. c., August 13.-In Davidson
county yesterday Hammett Swing lost his
life IN his efforts to keep his sweetheart
from drowning The Young couple were
ont driving when the horse SHE'D in cross
ing a bridge and ran the buggy or. Mir.
| Swing jufhpe1 from the vehicle, but the
| Young lady with the horse and buggy went
overheard, failing several feet. The young
mal ran TO the bank ana swan ia the
rescue of Miss Baltimore. In the struggle
/ and excitement she held him too heavily
/ by the neck and he sank and was drowned
/ Just as she was sinking for the lest time
/ Mr. Robert Young came upon the scene
/ with a bateau. and. seeing her long hair In
| the water, reached down and pulled her out
and she was saved. The body Of Mr.. Swing
! was found and taken from the water about
/ 10 o'clock at night. He was about twenty
/ years old. The horse was drowned also.