The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-05-06
ALL THROUGH DIXIE.
HAPPENINGS OF Il WEEK TN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND.
Georgia Alone rs Not Our Domain - No
Cover the Entire South from the
Potomac TO the Rio Grand.

Raleigh, N c., April Especial Gov
ernor Carr was invited by Mrs. Armistead
Jones' president of the Ladies Memorial
Association, and members of its commit
tee to receive the confederate monument
Oh behalf of the state. Governor carr
accepted the invitation.
Taken EuclS 30 Texas.
Nashville, Tenn, May 1.-(Special)-
James Driscoll. alias Charles Smith, want
ed IN Waller county. Texas, for mGfder,
was captured here today and started Tor
Texas on the night train in the CUSTODY
Of officers. He is charged with the muir
der of James Carroll seven years ago. tie
had married since coming here.
Another One Lynchcd.
Creenville Ala, April 29.-The sixth ne
gro lynched in Butler county yesterday
for the murder of young Watts Murphy.
Sheriff Bargainer found his body hanging
from tree in the neighborhood where the
other five were lynched last Sunday. He
appeared to have been dead at least day.
This last victim is believed to have been
the one who struck the blow that killed
Murphy. His name is not known.
Doing IL Good Work.
Selma, Ala April 30.-(Special)-A little
over three weeks ago the citizens OF Selma
met and organized commercial club ana
sent the president, Earnest Lamar, ana
Vice President S. D. Holt over to South
Carolina to inspect the cotton mills there.
Today, papers for the Incorporation of the
Intern ltional Cotton Mil Comapny OF
Selma, We're 1iled in the office OF the pro-
bate court. The capital stock of the com
pany IS $4,000 and they hope TO have the
new mill built ana i'm operation by Septein-
Der LIST. 1t IS reported that another com
rany for mill number two IS organizing.
The cry is heard all over, "see how we
81, ia iJl club was or
ganized.
New Machine shops.
Huntsville. Ala. April 3.-(Special) lime
machinery for me Lownes factory ana ma
chine shops arrived yesterday from SouLh
Milwaukee. Wis, and large Iorce 81 hallnS
is at work today adjusting the engines
boilers and heavy machinery. A. II.
Switzer, of Winter Park. Fla, arrived yes
te1day ana will remain here until the plant
is in successful operation.
The Huntsville Female college VIII al
most certainly be rebuilt. a committee Of
prominent business men are soliciting sub
sCriptOns with marked success. building
materials are being accepted as donations
ana this feature is adding to the prospects
fer success The building Will cost S39,0O.
VIII LOnd the Cotton.
New Orleans, La, May 1.-The Excelsior
Cooperative Association is an association
of Longshoremen and cotton screwmen
that was organized for the purpose of I'M
dertaking the loading of cotton and other
merchandise, with the stevcdore element
excluded 1t was contendeI ut the time
that the association was formed that the
effort at cooperative lcvee labor would re-
suit in failure. The association held
meeting today and it was found that they
had net profit of $1,000 after all liabilities
have been cleared off. As the association
was formed at the very end of the cotton
season, the results are very gratifying %
the organizers Of the Excelsior Association.
Ghoulish Rslic Hunters.
Chattanooga, Tenn, April 30.-(Special)-
The people residing on Missionary ridge
in the vicinity of Bragg's headquarters are
greatly excited over the recent conCJct
relic hunters, who have carried thsi
ghoulish depredatiOns to slch AN e-
as - open utAtDrt o. braves All taah-
vicinity and take thcrefrom buttons. can
teens ana other relics. They have actual
ly carried away pieces Of bones and skulls
of soldiers buried there The matter has
been referred to the authorities and OH
GERS are now on the track Of the robbers
The soldiers are supposed to have been
CoufeJerates. one OF the grave robbers
whose name is not known, remarked TO
resident Of the ridge that he mad got
splendid specimen. it being a rebel skull
with a bullet in it," They Will be prose
cuted if they can be caught
An A.EBC IN Europe.
Birmingham, Ala, April 30-The Tennee-
see Coal Iron and Railroad Company. VIII
send a representative to Europe i'm a few
weeks to look into the matter Of placing
orders for iron. The Tennessee company
now makes pig iron, in this district cheaper
than it can be made anywhere else ON the
globe. A few tons of Alabama pig iron
We're shipped to England two or three years
ago, but no systematic effort was made to
follow that shipment mp with others and
hence no other shipments were made. The
Tennessee companys agent will go to all
the leading iron manufacturing districts
Of the European countries and there demon
Strate that Alabama iron of a good grade
can be put in those countries at q cheaper
rate than even England can make it,
Several shipments of sample iron will pro-
cede the Tennessee companys agent and
be in waiting for him when he arrives at
the different places to be visited by nim
Alabama iron manufacturers recently de
termned to extend their market and push
sales where they have hitherto been UNI
known. In this matter the foreign field
is not being neglected. The Howard
Iron Company, of Bassemer, iron
pipe manufacturers, has AN agent now on
his way to Japan to bid on two large or
nristoi'~ People stirred IN.
Bristol Tenn. May 2.-(SpeciaI)-T cit
liens Of Bristol and Sullivan county are
raising 4 vigorous protest over seeming
ly harmless bill, which has been intro |
duced in the Tennessee house by w A |
Robson and into the senate by Senator |
This bill provided for the !
cession of one-half of Main street in Bris- !
toll Tenn. to the state of Virginia. on /
the territory proposed to be coded is one /
rail of an electric street railway and one /
half of the ties for distance of one mile (
and also lines of gas and water pipes, a /
portion of six tracks of the Southern rail- !
way and a portion of the Bristol and !
North Carolina railway This act is an /
other relic of the Turney administration /
which paid out the sum of $S,i9O5t in liti- ,
eating with the state of Virginia over the +
line between the two states of which this