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PITHY NEWS ITEMS. Kelly's Industrials are on the point of collapse near Cairo, Ill. They are kept out of the city by armed force. The loss at Clemson, S. C., College by the fire amounts to $40,000 over the and above insurance, not counting loss of the State's exhibit-one of the finest in the country. The estimates of loss by flood in Oregon a.e placed as big all $10,000,000, half of which is sustained by railroads. The Willamette river is rising now. Allen Whittington, of Wilkes county,N.C., is in his 94th year. He has been a 'squire since 1830, and participated in the meeting of the 'squires at Wilkesboro. Out of about 1,100 listed polls in Jones county, N. C., last year, the sheriff in his settlement with the-count ty commissioner returned only two insolvent. This, the Jones county folks claim, beats the State. Mrs. Senator Vance has had the remains of the late Senator removed from the family plat to the sight on the highest poiut in Riverside cemetery, Asheville, N. C., which sight Mrs. Vance purchased some time ago, and over which the monument is to be erected. George K. Chafee, intely appointed receiver for the Aiken County (S. C.) Loan and Savings Bank. states that the bank will not resume business Depositors will get every dollar of their money, but the stockholders will only receive a part. The shops of the South Carolina & Georgia Railroad lately turned out a new locomotive and tender which has attracted much attention. The entire work was performed at the shops, and the locomotive is of large and powerful design. The Winnsboro (S. C.) Savings, Loan & Investment Co. has been incorporated by B. J. Emerson, J. D. Davis, C.G. Garrett and others to do A general banking and loan business. The capital stock is $9,000. The Charlotte Supply Co., Charlotte, N. C., are about to start a new manufacturing establishment, another connecting link to the textile industrial business of the South. The new enterprise will produce leather belting of all dimensions, loom strappings and niem company will put out of their hands be good an article as there can as found in the East, or elsewhere. Give them a trial. The railroad commission at Raleigh, N. C., received notice from the officers of the North Carolina Railroad that they were unable to comply with the law and return the property of the road for taxation, the cause of this failure being the serving upon them of a notice by some of the private stockholders. The injunction forbids them to list the property for taxation, the stockholders who have obtained it claiming that exemption is granted in the company's charter. The matter comes up before Judge Dick, at chambers, at Greensboro, July 1. This will bring up the entire question and naturally there will be considerable public interest, as all the railroadssave this one pays taxes.
