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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIV.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
■IKMS OF IN TIC MOST I ROM VA-
JiiuL'S POINTS IN TU SOUTH.
„ Ml , „1 oust or wiur is ooiwi on or
WI-oUUM'i: IN lUK SOI I IlliUN STATES.
flu* Dnwtoli Nut mini bunk, of Daw
dii ii,i Ims been authorized to begin
lumiiob with 11 <-’upitnl of ♦50,000.
The nianngori of the sugar trust luivc
n Ihii'il tin' regular quarterly dividend
I two nud ii ludt |>' eont.
Ili'urv C. Win moth, of Louisiana, lins
et , n „j,'|M,iiit'd collector of customs for
ic district of New Ul'lcaus, La.
'1 11.* hotel nt Hon Air, a summer resort
■i 'luv miles from Rchmond,Va., on the
tieliiiiond mid Dunville railroad, wus
lurnnl Wednesday. L'ss $25,000; lr
-iiilly insured.
The city council of Danville, Va., hns
irdered nn election on October 15th, to
mte mi a corporate subscription of $150,-
(no toward the western extension of the
lllantie & Danville railroad.
New counterfeit two-dollar treasury
■eititlc.tis have iimdc tluir appearance
„ Chnttnnr ogn, Tcnn. The engraving is
|i c, but ihe paper is poor. All coun
ii b its, so fur discovered, arc numbered
t 105441741, mid bear a picture of Gou
aid Hancock.
ilueof the largest charters ever granted
„ any corporation in the south, whs
rai,tld by the superior court if Georgia,
iy which the Southern Homo Building
uid Loan association, of Atlantu, Gn.,
was inciirporatcd, with authority to do
jiisiuess in (leorgii or any other state.
I he authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
)00.
U. |j. Stallings, ti p chief of police o.’
Anpisfon, Ala,, | übiishes in the News ol
licit city a card in which he solemnly ob
ligati* himself to the Pelham family to
have the community of Anniston on or
hi fore Monday, September 20th, never to
nttim. The card is s long one, and i
the outcome of the killing, sometime
Igfl, pf Wifintß Pelham by Stallings.
The Charleston, H. C., city assessor’s
jiopks show tliat there has her u for 1809
Hu increase of ♦200,000 over the personal
■cturns made for DBB in money invested
D materials, machinery, srr.a 1 indue.ries,
uctorics and other personal tv, etc. But
ip the other hand there hue been a
ihriakiige in the returns for stocks ol
p ods and such bonds and securities as
ire subject to municipal taxation, of over
1900,000.
The triennial conclave of the grand
Encampment of Knights Templar will
be held in Wushiugt >n, D. C., next
3i**ntli, and the event is attract
ng attention all over the United States
I his conclave will be the most impoitaut
and at the same time most interesting
sypr held ou this cpntinenf. The altend
i;iec will |se very layge, anil it is expect
'd that there will bp at least lyojn 40,000
;o 60,000 Knights formed jn line on
Pennsylvania avenue on that grand oc
:asiop.
A substitute for cotton, in the shapi
if chemically prepared ramie fibre, has
icon invented by Dr. Ranknin, of
Dliarteston, 8. C. The metlrod of its
preparation is, of course, a secret, but it
ib estimated that the cost per bale or per
bound will not exceed that for the prep
aration for uiaikit of equivalent amounts
of longcottuD. Dr. Pauknin is in com
inunicatirn with business men in New
Vork who ire interested in the discov
cry. Simetliing viry interesting in th
way < f the deve'o| mer.t of the industry
may be shortly expected.
At a meeting of the Farnn rs’ Alliance,
held at El la villi-, Gn„ the following res
elutions were unanimously adopted : He
solved, Fir-t, By the Schley couuty nl
lianee now in se-sion, that we demand ol
the potion bnycis of E laville, mi allow
ance Pi right pounds taro on cotton baled
jn cotton bagging. Unsolved, Second,
That if said demand is not complied
with, we insist that every member of the
alliance of Schley county do refuse to
onl l ooize said market or any other mar
tlet where sa}d demands are refused.”
Adopted September 10th, 1889,
Mr, David Ilonnetheau, aged about 75
years, ilied at the city hospital at Charles
ton, H, C,, on Tuesday. He was se
verely burnton Fiiday night at Ids home,
and from these injuries died, Bonne
theau is the last of an old Huguenot
family of that name, and for many years
kept a junk shop, and was a jeweler by
trade. He lived all alone and in a hovel,
hut is said to have left a snug bum of
money, the stinted savings of years.
" hen his house was found burning he
vas in tlm fire and refused to be moved,
lie was taken out by force, but fought
to .-' ay with lug ppopepty.
1 )ie anr-pal pieeting pf tpe sfockjiold-
DS of tlie Nashville, Ohattauooga und
- t. J.- uis railway, was held in the office
°* 'he company, in Nashville, Tennessee,
fin last Wednesday, fhe gross earnings
■laVie' ypar werp Shown tp be $3,000.-
WMb; operating expenses, $1,fifi1,444.-
on, eayug.u.t earnings, f1,348,780.68.
ut ot this sum there lias been paid in
tuu-s ’ ♦808,095.54; improve
r S ' —035,588-00: leaving
from whloh four
l.i . “ n , l | s ut 1 1-4 per cent, each upon
■ IwViop 0 ! s^ have been declared,
low in 58; lwvin S “ b “ lancc . * Bi >-
FIRST and last.
AN 0I I> MAN Tai <Kß Ills first RIDE ON A
ILnoAD and dies on DOARD.
, J^ :d,on rode to liiu death
£?cfc *?■ lte w 9 "P W ro" ° f
w ir , *■ jura, who lived with his
couutv 't rin K, i Sumner
ever eDn '’ and "either of them hud
We,,"? on a railroad train before.
Galiuiii, 1 morn t°R they rode over to
Nashvill and B ot on the train bound for
" ~ * r"? ” , " ch
and i a uft . ," oVel 3°uruey
time t„ ! , nnd hour from the
Iris 80u ? a , r . t . td ' ho suddenly fell dead in
ueart ffi’si. “ ’ d ? ul11 Wlls caused from
eitemen *“4 Primarily by the ex
iourney. ’ ,S 6u hl ,oßed . of lps sfiftnge
FOREST PIREa,
°i We and destruction op
PROPERTY IN MONTANA,
8 i1v ,.. * ' l la t‘ h from Hqlenn Montana,
hw of „n for f U:i ! '’', 1 , ,lM received
slruotivp f u of I he hurecst and most de-
Montana m “T - Vlt reported in
Right in at occurred Sunday
tv and fl I r* i c 1 , ,trlCt ’ MUsoula conn
barren y ?- anch wu9 made 8
11 Is reported Vl l?** thal l thirt 7
in the ilumes *'n Bev , er “ • Jeo .l ) ' u perished
•rtv w ill I he destruction of prop
-1 11 “Kifregate fully $1,000,000.
DIBASTROUB STORMS
| WKEPINO TIIK ATLANTIC COAST, BOIKO
Untold damage to profjciity.
I A tcirilde nnd disastrous storm swept
I ul °n tho Atlantic coast Monday, doing
considerable damage. At New York,
H e North and East river fronts and tho
cellars of warehouses and tenements on
both the east and west sides of the lower
put of the city are in a decidedly cha
otic state. Some of tho piers are en
tirely covered by the tide, uud sonic Unit
I are usually twelve feet above
| high water mark have their
decks licked by the angry waves.
Ihe Jersey shore was inundated in many
places. Ou the East riverfront, buildings
from Fiftieth stre t to Fourteenth street,
ate affected by the great rise of water.
The lower end of Blackwell's island is
submerged, und the keepers were engaged
early in tho morning in removing pa
tients from frame out-buildings on that
portion of the island. It is tho general
impression umong sea faiing men, thit
the tide is the highest known for twenty
five years. No vessels arrived at New
York up to noon Tuesday. The storm
came from the fcaward, nnd was full
grown when it struck the coast. Along
die Jersey coast the surf is reported the
heaviest ever known. A similar condition
prevails all along the coast of New Eng
land aud New Jersey. Reports from
Coney island are to the effect that Mon
day night’s storm and its acco . ponying
high tide were the most disastrous iu the
history of that storm-beaten isle. The
Marine railway his been swept away,
Ihe esplanade in frunt of Manhattan
Beach h itel washed out, and the sea is
flowing into the basement of Manhattan
Bench hotel. A greater part of the
Concordance is gone.
Report* from Ph ladelpliia sny: The
damage to railroad lines entering Atlan
tic City, Cape May, Sea Isle City, Ocean
City, anti other coast resorts, by the great
storm is vciy heavy. The Camden and
Atlantic and West Jcieey roads were un
able to get a train in or out of Atlantic
City on Tuesday. 'lhe stoim carried
away telegraph poles aud wires and all
communication was cut off. Water in the
old Camden and Atlantic excursion
house at Atlantic City is four or five feet
high, and in the meadows it is as high,
se that it is diflitu t to calculate the dam
age that has been done to railroad prop
erties. Ocean City is almost entirely
under water, and the beach road, which
Is floated by every high tide, il
believed to be an entire wreck.
The news from Lewes, I)* laware, is that
the tide was the highest since 1867.
Telegraphic communication with the
Breakwater was destroyed. The
schooners Alena Covert, llenry McLarke,
J. F. Becker, Byron M, Maud Seward,
Neuonn, Gertrude Summers nud four
unknown schooners are a-hure. Both
wooden piers have been destroyed,
A COSTLY BLAZE.
A LARGE SUGAR REFINERY IN BROOKLYN,
N. Y,, REDUCED TO ASUKg.
Avery disastrous fire broke out Satur
duv afternoon in the mammoth sugai
plant of the Dick & Meyers Cos., on
North Seventh aud North Eighth streets,
in Brooklyn, N. Y. The entire estab
li-liment, which consisted of a collection
of buildings eight stories in hiiglitb, ex
tending about 000 feet on North Seventh
street, 300 feet on North E ghth street,
and 250 feet along the dock,was reduced
to ashes. It was filled with very valua
ble machinery, and tho loss ou the build
ing ami machinery is estimated at about
$1,500,000. Within the building were
17,000 barrels of sugar, valued at about
half a million dollars, making a fotal
loss of about 12,000,000. The filter
house, next dgor to the refinery, soon
caught Arp, apd shortly afterwards the
second fiber house, adjoining, was seized
upon by the hungry flames. Almost at
ihe same time, the machine building,
office building, and a number of sheds
net# uttneked. In a short time the
flames had reached the storage house on
North Seventh street, where 8,000 bar
rels of sugar were stored. In half au
hour all this was burned up,and soon the
entire plant of twelve buildings were in
ruins. The capacity of the burnt re
finery was 1,000,000 piunds dally.
About 20,000 barrels of sugar went up in
smoke.
THE COTTON EXCHANGES
MEET IN NEW ORLEANS AND DISPOSE OF
THE BAGGING QUESTION.
The cotton bagging convention as
sembled at New Orleans, La., on
Wednesday, aqd deposed of lhe bagging
question promptly 4“d effectually, ufier
a very thorough discussion of the matter.
There were present delegates from the
New York and New Orleans, Augusta,
Memphis, Mobile, Meridian, Miss.,
Jackson, Mi§s.. an 1 Selma, A a., ex
changes. Besides the delegates from
the oottoo exchanges, there w ere present
the following State commissioners ol
agriculture: J- 4V. Henderson, ol
Georgia; R. F. Kolb, of Alabama; John
Ho lid of Tennessee; M. F. Locke, ol
Arkansas, and T. J. Bird, of Louisiana.
The main point of discussion by the
convention was the tare on cotton, uud
the following resolution was unanimously
adopted: 11 l'hat on and after the first o!
October, 1889, all cotton shall be sold at
net weight, allowing 24 pounds of gross
weight for tare on jute covered bales and
18 pounds oil for tare on cottpn covered
bales Cotton covering to he of standard
weight, i Of pound to yard ” _ Before
adjourning, the convention decided to
arrange for a uniform classification for
cotton. All the exchanges will appoint
experts who will meet at New Orleans
at the earliest day possible, and agree
upon tho classification.
s. S. COX DEAD.
A LONG AND EVENTFUL piFE IHURFLY
SJCETCpICp.
Congressman 8. S. Cox died at New
York on Tuesday evening. He was born
at Zanesville* O , September 30, 18-4,
being (15 years of agent his death, lie
graduated at Brown college in 1840 , be
camo a lawyer and editor, and in 1850
beoame secretary of legation to I eru.
The following year he was elected to
congress from Ohio, and re-elected for
threo consecutive terms, serving in all
eight years. In 1800 he removed to
New York, and two years later was
elcetod to congress from that city, and
re-elected in 1870. President Cleve
land appointed him minister to Turkey
which post he resigned after fi ling it
creditably for two years, and on Ins re
turn to this country was re-electea to
conunm
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER RE RIGHT; RIGHT OH WRONG, MY COUNTRY I” —Jekekkuon.
COVING'!
GENERAL NEWS.
CON DUN FA TION ON CURIOUS,
ANI) EXCITING EVENTS.
M:ws i non tvißvwur.BK -accidents, stbieei,
in lies, AND HAITIININUS Of INTEREST.
Five men lost their lives by a boiler ex
plosion on a farm near Claronsdale, 111.,
Monday.
It is reported that the new German
army bill will involve tho expenditure of
200,000,000 marks.
Estimates of loss by the recent ftro at
Antwerp, Belgium, range from 25,000,-
000 to 85,000,000 francs.
President Harrison on Wednesday re
ceived the resignation of James Tanner
us commissioner of pensions.
The municipal authorities of Paris
gave a banquet Monduy night in honor
of Thomas W. Edison, the Inventor.
The Aurora Watch compuny, of Auro
ra, 111., made an assignment Monday.
Liabilities, $200,000, estimated assets,
♦ 120,000.
The Paris exposition directors an
nounce that it must be closed on October 1
31st. Many appeals have been made to
continue it longer.
The thermometer registered forty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
morning. A severe frost is reported at
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Socialists attempted to hold an open
air meetiog at Hamburg, Germauy, on
Tuesday night. The pdice broke up
the meeting aud arrested thirteen per
sons.
The entire bench of Judges, District
aud Ciicuit, of Rigs, Russia, have been
airested for usiug the German language
after they had been ordered to u-e Rus
sian.
The Chicago delegation that recently
visited Tampa, Fla., have made a favora
ble repoitas to ihe practicability of u-ing
Tampa to uivert South American trade to
this country.
The rate committee of the Southern
Railroad and Steamship association met
in New York on Wednesday, nnd decided
that at present no advance in freight,
tariffs would be made.
The Ir'sh police have been ordered not
to “shadow” English members of Par
liament traveling in Ireland. Annual
returns show that 78,684 persons emi
giatcd from Ireland during the past year.
A boiler in the California tash, uoor
and blind factory at Oakland, exploded
Wednesday, killing four men outright
and injuring several others, two peihaps
fatally. Two others are. supposed to he
buried in the ruins.
Win. P. Iliginbolham, president of the
Blue Valley Bank of Manhattan, Kansas,
hns been convicted iu the District Court
of grand larceny. The case is the out
growth of the suspension of Higiuboth
i.m’s bank Wednesday, when the ledger
showed a deficit of SIOO,OOO.
The president, on Monday, made the
following t ppointmeuls: George W.
Lyon, to be surveyor of customs for the
port of New York; Theodoie B. Willis,
to be naval officer of customs in the dis
trict of New York; Ernest Nathan, to be
collector of internal revenue for the first
district of New York.
The Aurora, 111., Match Company
made an assignment Tuesday for the
benefit of its creditors. The liabilities
are in the neighborhood of ♦200,000,
Of this amount $15,000 is due to em
ployees. The estimated assets are: Real
estate SBO,OOO, finished matches SIO,OOO,
und bills icceivable $30,000.
A sharp shook of electricity was felt at
Wilkesburre, Pa., on Tuesday. Build
ings in Ashley, Kingston, Pitiston and
the surrounding country trembled for
several seconds, vigorously enough to
rattle glassware and crockery, and in
some cases to throw it to the floor. So
far as can be heard from, no property has
been damaged or persons injured.
During Tuesday and Wednesday there
were great convulsions of nature ttnd
subterranean commotions, followed by
tremendous explosions of gas and steam
in tire upper geyer basin at Hot Springs,
Aik. All the larger geysers are in fu
rious activity. Scientists explain that
all of this phenomenal outburst is direct
ly traceable to and connected with the
atmospheric and sub marine demonstra
tions of the great storm that prevailed
ilong the Atlantic coast.
Fire broke out on an upper floor of
McArdle’s four-story rag and junk ware
house at Albany, N. Y., Monduy aner
noon. Thirty or forty women and girls
were employed in picking rags. Many
of them escaped by the stairways and
fire escape, but some were cut off by a
dense smoke. One girl fell from a
thud-story window upon a pile of irort
und was fatally hurt. Another followed
a moment later and was badly injured.
Another was probably fatally burned. It
is reported that Olliers were caught iu the
building.
WILL GO WEST.
FIFTY THOUSAND COLORED PEOPLE OP
NORTH CAROLINA TO EMIGRATE.
Geo. AV. Price, president of the State
Colored Emigration Association, at Ra
lcigb, N. C., who visited the delta region
of Mississippi and in9pepted the lands in
Arkansas, yvas moat favorably impressed
with the ypsults at his trip, uud "hi ,ec *
people, especially to the Mississippi del
ta. It is said that at least CO, 000
will be removed from North Carolina this
Fall and Winter, Dut that the movement
will not amount to anything like a wild
rush. It will be gradual, as the plau is
to secure employment and homes lor
ono before they leave the state.
The exodus is to begin about September
18 Many colored people are already
selling their effects preparatory to emi
grating. It is understood that the rail
roads fn North Carolina decline to give
Lhe emigrants reduced rates, as it is not
their policy to encourage the exodus In
any way.. .
A SERIOUS JOKE.
A NEWLY MARRIED COUI’LE PRESENTED
WITH DRUGGED CAKES.
At Pelham, N. C., Friday, AV. T.
Strodcr and Nannie Lovelace were ntar
rie j On the way home they were met
by two yotfug men who offered to treat
the bridal party with small cakes and
one offered them to the crowd while the
other had otdy two cakes and he sard
he would treat the bride and grcoin.
The newly married people ate their
cikcs and were taken very sick imme
afterward. The two cakes were
drugged very heavily. The two young
w ,n left for parts unknown.
PON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER HE 1880.
A FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
nvo UUNDItKD PKOPI.K HILLED ASP 1,000
injured in amt want*, inti,(him.
A dynamite explosion occurred Friday,
at Antwerp, Belgium, In a earlridgc fac
tory, in the vicinity of tho bourse, killing
200 persons, and iujuiing at least 1,000
others, and doing un enormous amount
of damage to property. Portion* of the
bourse were struck by burning fragments
and set on the, causing a panic in that
building, which wus at the time crowded.
Tne cartridge factory wus situated be
hind the docks, upon which millions of
cartridges were being loaded. It was
adjacent to petroleum stores, and
two large Russian petroleum
wuroliouowH wero oot on lire.
Among the roar of flame * them ws ,i j
continuous succession of loud report*, 1
supposed to be from the ignition of
packages of cartridgi s. Several vessels
were huruod. Owing to the intense best |
the firemen were unable to approach the
flames nearer than one hundred yards.
At the moment of tho explosion, many
of the workmen jumped into ihe Scheldt
in their flight and were drowned. A
number of sailors nnd customs officers
were killed on board ships by flying bul
lets, and ships wore riddled by missiles.
It is estimated that 2,000 tous of car
tridges weie exploded. The noise was
heard thirty miles awty. Human heads
and other parts of bodies were found
half a mile away from the scene of dis
aster. One hundred and thirty whole
corpses lie in tho morgues, and charred
heaps of human remains represent an
unknown number of dead. The minis
ter of the interior has visited the scene
of the explosion. 'I he king aud queen
have telegraphed, expressing sympathy
with the sufferers. Subscriptions have
been opened for the relief of those ren
dered de* itute by the disaster.
BALTIMORE’S JUBILEE.
IMPOSING MILITARY AND CIVIC PROCES
SIONS, FEATURES OF THE DAY.
The six days’ celebration of the anni
versary of the defense of Baltimore, in
our second war with Great Britain, com
menced at Baltimore on Monday. The
events to be celebrated are of national
importance, and the fact that one (A
them, the bombardment of Fort Mc-
Henry, inspired that patriotic outburst iu
song, “The Star Spangled Banner,” is
sufficient of itself to give to the Balti
more festival n national interest, which
has been recognized in the participation
of President Harrison and the
efforts of the war and navy depart
ments to contribute to its success.
Along the thoroughfares of the queen
of the Chesapeake the frowning fronts of
old-time war houses and graceful arches
aDd pillars of modern palaces of trade
hide their sombre colors in festoons of
bunting and clusters of flags. Never be
fore in the history of Baltimore has any
thing like it been seen. Scarcely a bus
inesa house Or rtwallinsy 1“ ‘R"
section but what was outwardly beautified
by the artistic hands of the decorator.
Yaet throngs of people crowded the
streets, and the military and civic pro
cessions, the parade ot the industrial
and trades’organizations, with thousands
of floats, formed an imposing spectacle.
THE COTTON REPORT
AS BENT OUT BY TUB AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON.
The cotton report of the statistician
of the department of agriculture for
September represents the crop as com
paratively late. Too abundant moisture
is generally reported, producing rank
weed and retarding the development of
bolls. Rust has appeared quite gener
ally on sandy uplands. The gray soils
of the Atlan'ic coast show most rust.
There has been considerable dropping ol
forms and of young bolls in the areas
most affected by the extremes of moist
ure and temperature. The general aver
age of condition is 80.0, against 89.3 lasi
mouth nnd 83.8 in September of last
year. State averages ate as follows:
Virginia, 02; Nortli Carolina, 79; South
Carolina, 87; Georgia, 90: Florida, 94;
Alabama, 91; Mississippi, 88; Louis
iami, 91; Texas, 81; Arkansas, 90; Ten
nessee. 80.
STILL DISSATISFIED.
THE LONDON STRIKERS REJECT PRorOSI-
SmoKS FOli A COMPROMISE.
Tho dock companies at London, Eng
land, have agreed to the demands of the
strikers,hut the rates of wugi sto be paid
are to continue as at the present, 'lhe
advanced rate not to go into
effect until January Ist. It was made a
condition of the arrangement that all the
strikers should njmme work on Monday.
Messrs. Burns and Tillett signified tin it
acceptance of the eompuuy’s terms. When
notified of the action of the dock com
panies, the strike committee issued a
manifesto stating that the strikers would
not accept the dock companies’ terms,
namely, an increase of wages fiom Jan
uary 1, 1890, on condition that the men
return to work on Monday. The situa
tion is. therefore, unchanged.
LIBERAL BEQUESTS.
GIFT'S MADE BY THE I.ATE MRS. GIFFORD,
OF CONNECTICUT.
By the death of Mrs. Ellen M.Gifford,
the last surviving heir of the late Philip
Maret, at her homo in Ni-w Haven,
Conn., on Saturday, an estate valued al
over SOOO,OOO, which was held by her
trust, reverts to local institutions, as fol
lows: Connecticut hospital, income to
be used in supporting free l-uds, $120,-
QQO; city of New Haven, $120,000, in
come to be used for indigent and infirm
persons, not paupers; Yale college,
$120,000, income to be used for scholar
ship iu academical departments; New
Haven Orphan asylum, $00,000; St.
Francis Orphan asylum, $00,000; city ol
New Haven, $60,000, to uid the public
library; for the ttnte of Con'cctieut,
SOO,OOO, to be used for the support of an
institute for idiots aud imbeciles.
KILLS HIMSELF.
A PROMINENT BOBTON BUSINESS MAN COM
MIT'S SUICIDE.
Ebon Dale, a Boston manufacturer,
committed suicide Monday morning, at
liis residence, near Boston, Mass., shoot
ing himself with an old-fashioned pistol,
ilie bullet going through his head. Halo
was one of tho best known men ill Bos
ton. Iu addition to his other business
interests, be was treasurer of the Dexter
woolen mills, and selling agent for VVil
liam Trubull & Cos., New York. No
( easous are assigned for the rash act,
THE DYING TRUST.
EFFORT* OK TIIE JtiTM Tilt’NT TO MiPOftß
or Tiliciit iiaooi.no.
It is officially announced at Ruleigh,
N. C., that the jute trust hns made s
proposition to the Farmer*’ Alliance*
that, if they will again use jute bagging,
it will again be sold at 8j cents on lime,
and that the jute trust will psy the farm
ers $2 more per ton for their cotton seed
than is offered at any of the cotton seed
oil mills. Tills is regarded by tho Alii
ancc us an indication that the trust l* in
bad straits, The jute trust is shlppiug
its bagigiug to cotton points all over the
state, witii or without orders, and in
some place* it has been offered at two
cents per yard. The trust sands bagging
iu quantities, and at two points Wednes
’ j "tied addressed to who
sve no existence. In other cases it is
arming addressed 1o merchants who re
fuse to touch it. No talcs of tiust bag
ging arc being insde in the state, aud in
some large markets merchants liuve not
purchased a pound of it. The tight
against the bagging trust is now hotter
than ever.
A DETERMINED SUICIDE.
A PROMINENT ItAII.HO.AI> AND REAL ES
TATE MAN OK FLORIDA KILLS 11IMSELK.
A special from Seville, Fla., says:
William Kemble Lente, a prominent
railroad and rial estate man, committed
suicide here on Wednesday. He begin
his work of self-destruction by slashing
his forearm with a sharp razor, anil then
took a large dose of morphine, and ended
by disohaiging a revolver into his bruin,
lie died almost instuntiy lie was a man
of considerable means, and was largely
interested in the town of Seville, being
heavily invested in her lauds, railroads,
w ater works, lumber mills and other en
terprises. It is said that nearly all of hi*
inheritance has been either lost or tied
up in such a manner that it is unrcmti*
nerative to him, and fear that he had in
volved others in his reverses, drove hiu
to desperation and suicide.
DISSATISFIED KNIGHTB.
THE COMMANDER? lIAVINO TROUBLE RE
GARDING THE NEW RITUAL.
The controversy between G:and Com
mander Roome nnd the grand com
mandery of the state of lowa, over the
adoption of the new ritual, is one of the
most important questions that will come
before the approaching triennial conclave
for action. The lowa commanderv de
clined to follow Grand Commander
Roomed order for the adoption of the
new ritual, on the ground that it wus be
yond his power to issue such an order.
Thereupon, the grand oommandery de
clared the lowa knight* in a state of dis
loyalty and rebellion, and interdicting
all Templar intercourse with them by the
anights of other state*.
another~v7ctTm.
A MUTILATED HUMAN BODY FOUND IN
WHITECHAPEL, LONDON.
Tuesday morning, a policeman found
the body of a fallen woman lying at the
corner of the railway arch on Cable
street, Whitechapel. An examination
of the remains showed that the head and
arms had been cut off uud carried nwny.
The murder is the worst of the whole
series of Whitechapel murders. Tho
manner in which the limbs had been
severed from the body shows that the
murderer was possessed of some surgical
skill. The mo=t intense excitement
again prevails in Whitechapel.
STANLEY HEARD FROM.
MOVEMENTS OF THE GREAT EXPLORER IN
TUE WILDS OF AFRICA.
Cable dispatches from Zanzibar to the
government of Congo state say: ‘‘Henry
M. Stanley, on leaving basin of Albert
Nyaoza, endeavored to make his way up
ward by passing to the west of the Vic
toria Nyunra. lie failed, however, iu
this attempt. He then went northward,
and reached the eastern shore of the
lake. Emin Pasha accompanied him.
After a long stay on the lake, awaiting
supplies, he marched iu the direction of
Bombassa. He is expected to reach the
-astern coast about the end of October.”
A NEW JOHNSTOWN.
The new directory of Johnstown,
Pa., ami the surrounding boroughs con
tains the names of over five hundred
business and professional men. it also
shows that there aro now thirty-six
grocery stores and fifty-one saloons opeu
iu the nlace.
Lean Pork the Best.
The cheapest fowls make the best
pork, says u writer. The reason is, it is
the leanest. Lean pork, then, being
the best, we should tv.’ to make it. Con
finement ill fens tends to inerease the
fat. Exercise develop! the muscles.
The muscular part is the best food. Tho
fat is largely waste. We make fat to
throw it away. People buy hams not
for the fat, but for the lean. When the
fat is wasted it makes the lean cost just
so much more. Reduce the fat and in
crease tho lean.
Can this be done 1 Certainly. In this
way: Keep the pigs all their lives in tho
pasture. I eed skim-milk und bran. Keep
corn away from them. Give them vegeta
blesand apples with the bran. When the
bodies or frames are grown, give them
oatmeal or rye, ground entire, mixed
with bran, putting in twice ns much
bran ns rye. Keep up the vegetable and
apple diet and allow them during this
time to eat all the grass they will. Alitilo
corn may Vie fed toward the end. Pork
fed in this way will have more lean and
will lie tender und jUicv. At Kirby
homestead, with our breed of hogs, nml
using turnips we have produced ham 75
percent lean. The fat is something
more than mere lard— animal oil. It is
meat, with tho substance and grain of
meat. To get such pork is worth trying
for, as it is in demaud. The saiisage
and the other food products made from
such pig meat are sup -rior iu quality
and taste. There is a tenderness and
flavor which enhances tho value. Pigs
should not lie fed so much or gorged to
such an extent that they will not go out
to pasture.
From investigations carried on by Dr.
Rappoport in St. Petersburg, it would
seem that the quantity of gastric juice
secreted during sleep is much smaller
than that secreted during the daytime or
active life. The digestive power is also
less. Pepsin is found to much the same
amount; but chloride of sodium and
hydrochloric acid are iu smaller propor
tions.
LITTLE WILLIE.
Poor little Willie,
With his many pretty wiles;
Words of wisdom i„ his looks,
And quaint, quiet smiles;
Hair of amber, touched with
Gold of heaven so brave;
All lying derkly hid
In a workhouse grave.
You remember little Willie:
Fair anil funny fellow! be
Sprang like a lily
From the dirt of poverty;
Poor little Willie!
Not a friend was nigh,
When, from thecold world,
He crouched down to die.
Iu tlic i lay we wandered foodless,
Little WiUie cried for bread:
In th-- night we wandered homeless,
Little 11 illie cried for bed;
Parted at the workhouse door,
Not a word we said;
Ah, so tired was poor Willie,
Aud so sweetly sleep the dead.
’Twas in the dead of winter,
We laid him in the earth;
The world brought in the New-Year
On a tide of mirth.
But, for lost little Willie
Nota tear we crave;
Cold and hunger canuot wake him
In his workhouse grave.
We thought him beautiful,
Felt it hard to part;
We loved him dutiful;
Down, down, poor heart!
The storms they may beat;
The winter winds may rave; -
Little Willie feels not,
Iu his workhouse gravo.
No room for little Willie;
In the world we bad no part;
On him stared the Gorgon-eye,
Through which looks uo heart.
“Come to me,” said Heaven;
And, if Heavens will save,
Little matters though the door
Bea workhouse grave.
—Gerald Massey.
A STOWAWAY’S STORY.
Reading in the papers the other day of
the arrest of the mate of the Rio steamer '■
Finance for cruelty to three or four:
stowaways who made their appeuraucc
after the vessel was well on her voyage,
has recalled vividly an adventure I had
when u boy of fourteen, aud, though I
was a very humble individual myself, the
particulars of that adventure stirred the j
people of a great kingdom.
I know the sailor from topmast head to ;
kelson, I have sailed in all sorts of!
crafts, with all sorts of crews, and have !
perved many Captains. 1 know that sail
ors are rough and uncouth, aud that j
there is always-a disposition to find fault!
and to magnify evils. Jack would have ;
his growl, no matter how well fed and
how weit useu. On land tnere is n cor
tain antagonism between euwloyer and I
employed. On shipboard this is intensi- i
tied, but that is because the employer has
so much more power over the employed.
I frankly admit that I have never met j
half a dozen sailors, no matter what sort I
of Captain they were sailing under, who '
were without complaints, but it does not
follow that all the others complained with- j
out reason. The ship may be comforta :
ble and full-handed, the fare all right,
and the Captain a good man, but the I
mates can still make the craft mighty un- j
comfortable for the men. I venture to ,
assert that there are not half a dozen
long voyage sailing crafts leaving our
shores in which abuses calling for loud
growling do not exist, and what is true I
of America is true of all other countries.
The Dutch, Swedes, Russians, and Las- ,
cars will stand overwork, pour grub, and
the abuse of oflicers, and as much for
this reason as any other the Yankee Bailor
has been driven from the sea. and his j
place filled by these substitutes.
When I was eleven years old my
mother died, aud my father decided to
go to Australia. I was his only child, j
and he was by no means burdened with
money. He was a master plumber, and ,
he set out for Sidney under contract, i
Three months after our arrival he married
again, and it was not six weeks before |
my stepmother pushed me iuto the i
street. I was under-sized and sickly, i
but I never gave her the slightest cause i
for even a harsh word. She simply took
an aversion to me, and somehow her |
hatred came to be reflected in my father.
He saw me thrown out on the world
with hardly a protest,and two days later,
when he met me in the street, he gave me
about eight shillings in money and ad
vised me to set up as a bootblack and
newsboy. I should probably have fol
lowed his suggestions had I not on that
same day chanced to fall in with two or
three lads who were planning to stow
themselves away aboard of an English
brig called the Charles 11. Churchill.
They were boys who had run away from
home or been thrown over like myself,
and the idea was that they could do bet
ter in England. I was invited to join,
and when our plans had Seen laid there
were four of us of about tho same age.
We looked the brig over, found that we
could get aboard, and made our arrange
ments.
One night when the brig was nearly
ready for sea I stole aboard, carrying
with me about two quarts of water and
four pounds of bread and meat. This
was the share I was to furnish. I was to i
board, slip down the midship hatch, and
the others were to follow at brief inter
vals. A fire on hoard a ship a few hun
dred feet away collected the crew of the
brig aft and I got aboard without risk.
The hold was nearly full of hags, barrels,
and boxes,und after waiting a few minutes
l made my way over these toward the bow,
and found a very comfortable place on a
lot of dry hides. I remained awake and
alert for two hours and then fell asleep
without realizing that I was a bit sleepy.
It was morning when I awoke, and as the
sailors were at work below, I dared not
move or call out. I figured that my com
panions were in hiding around me, nnd
so rested easy through the day, sleeping
most of the time. At about sundown 1
felt the ship under motion, and an hour
later the hatches were closed and I was
in midnight darkness. I lmd matches
and u stuii of caudle, and, after striking
a light, I moved around and whistled and
called to my companions. I could make
my way over the freight very easily in
any direction and 1 would not give up
that I was alone until I had searched for
a full hour. Then 1 was positive tliit I
was alone; the others had either backed
out or had been battled in Their attempt
to gat aboard. I was much upset nt the
disoovery and crawled back to my bod
and cried myself to sleep.
It had been agreed among us boys tint
we should keep secreted three days after
sailing. None of us anticipated any
trouble when wo should mako our
presence known. I had no way of com
puting time, as it was night all tho time
in the hold, but after my bread und water
lmd lwcii used up and I was hungry nnd
thirsty, I decided that tho three days
were up. Crawling to tho cover of tho
hatch I knocked on it and shouted, and
after a little it was opened and I was
helped out. It was 9 o’clock on the
morning of the fourth day. Tho first
word from the Captain was n curse, and
liis first act was to swing mo about the
deck bv the hair. Then he called for a
iop.: nud VAt me until I fainted away,
and while lying unconscious he and the
first mate kicked me several times.
When I came to I was ordered forward
turning the men. They gnve me kind
words, satisfied my hunger and thirst,
and hoped that the worst was over. It
was not, however. At about noon I was
called aft, nnd after the Captain had in
terrogated me ns to my identity and why
I had selected his vessel, he gave me j
another I suiting, and turned me over to ;
the mate with the words:
“You cau have him now, and I hope
you’ll kill him before the week is out.”
“Aye, sir, leave that to me," was the
reply. “I’ll find a dozen ways to make
him wish he’d never been born.”
I had committed an offence, but noth
ing deserving such punishment as I re
ceived for the next three days. I was
flogged, kicked, cuffed and maltreated in
every way Captain and mate could think
of, und was more than onee rendered in
seusible by their cruelty. I heard the
men cursing the officers for their con
duct, and encouraging each other to in
terfere, hut I was jiassivc. Indeed, after !
a beating or two, I was so harried that I
could scarcely remember my own name. I
On the afternoon of the fourth day, soon j
after dinner,while I was forward with the \
watch and assisting the sailmaker to re- i
pair a sail, the first mate called me aft. j
The wind was light and the sea smooth,
and a few fathoms astern of the brig was !
an enormous shark. It had occurred to
the two brutes to have some fun with me.
The mate noosed a rope and passed it
around my waist, and then, while I
struggled and shrieked and begged for
mercy, he carried me to the port quarter
aud dropped me overboard for shark
bait. The shark made a rush for me,
but I was hauled up just in advance of
his jaws. The Captain and mate laughed
uproariously, and the latter had picked
me up to drop me from the other quarter
when the entire crew came running aft.
I saw that much, and then fainted away,
and what took place while I was uncon
scious was never clearly related to me.
The crew had determined to interfere,
and their action excited the Captain and
inote to a trrril>le Aesree., Thhe former
had a revolver in his pocket, anu wnen
the crew refused to go forward he fired at
and wounded one of them. This brought
on a fight, in which both officers and one
of the sailors were killed. It was rebel
lion—not mutiny. The sole idea of the
crew was to protect me from further (
cruelty. In carrying this out murder was
done and all were liable to the gallows.
The dead bodies were lying on
on deck when I recovered con
sciousness while the men had congregat
ed in the waist of the brig for consulta
tion. The second mate whose name was
Chapman, jiad sympathized with the
crew althougii he had no hand in the
light. He was now asked to take com
mand of the brig until it could be deter
mined what should be done, and he did
so. The three men were prepared for
burial in the usual way, and launched
over the side without service, and au
hour after the fight not a trace of it was
left.
When the question of what should be
done came up for discussion most of the
men were appalled at the seriousness of
the case. It was the first duty of the
mate to set a signal of distress, but, of
course, nothing of the sort was done.
Under the law he should head for the
nearest port and there surrender brig and
crew, but, of course, he had no thought
of this. While he had not incited the
crew to resistance, he had not come to
the aid of the officers. It would have
been easy to prove his sympathy for me,
and that would have made him the acces
sory of the crew. It was realized that
all had outlawed themselves, and the
question was where to go and what to do
with tho brig. It was finally decided to
haul up for the Solomon Islands. The
brig was bound home through Torres
Strait, as she had two ports of cal! to
make before reaching the Cape of Good
Hope, and we were not over 450 miles
out of Sidney when the mur
ders occurred. We therefore had a voy
age of quite 1500 miles before us.
For the first week men could not have
behaved more sensibly. The discipline
was good, and all were under proper re
straint. We were sighting vessels daily,
and on several occasion we were passed
so closely that we had to signal our num
ber and report all well. On the third
day a man-of-war exchanged signals with
US, and through some bungling on our
part his suspicions seemed to have been
aroused, and he would perhaps have
boarded us had not a change in the
weather occurred. After about a week,
however, the men began to get independ
ent and to bring forward new plans,
and there was no longer any harmony
among the crew. While Chapman was
the onlv one who could navigate a ship,
und while he had been put in charge of
the brig, the men finally refused to do
.any work beyond that of sailingthe craft.
Borne openly advocated that we turn
pirate, and others wanted to run into
tsome port and sell brig and cargo ami di
• vide the money. This was hooted at by
! the more intelligent, and gave rise to fur
t tlier ill-feeling.
The brig had light or contrary winds
land made slow progress, and at the end
iof two weeks the situation on board
• could not have been much worse.
‘There were nine of us, including the
lC ook, a black man, and each man of
(them seemed determined •to do as he
■ pleased. All messed in the cabin, and
• all had access to the liquor, and as a con
isequence fights frequently occurred, and
• there were times when the brig had close
• shaves from being made a wreck. On
l one occasion the men charged the mate
i with playing them false, and with plan
• ning to deliver them up to justice, but he
isomehow satisfied them that he was hold
•iug to the course originally agreed upon,
MUMBER 48.
and he was honest in what he said. Af
ter a run of some twenty-five days he an
nounced that we were approaching the
Solomon Islands, and the men at, onue
made ready to carry out their further
plans.
One hundred miles southwest of Hon
Christoval, which is tho easternmost
island of the group, is a smaller group
called the Little Solomons. It was this
group we were approaching, aud at that
date no white mun had set foot upon
them. They were inhabited by fierce uud
blood thirsty natives, who combined pi
racy, wrecking and fishing, and the mate
wns for making for the other group. He
was overruled in this, and when the brig
had hauled in until the land could be
seen from the deck the long boat was got
over and loaded. The men Intended to
jfiaytho ]wi-.t of castaways, and had a
story all fixed up. They erased the name
of the boat, and took nothing aboard
which would betray the identity of the
brig which they meant to- scuttle. At
noon, after working all the morning,
they had loaded the boat with wliatever
suited them, divided up the sum of 41250
found on board, and were ready to bore
holes in the brig’s bottom.
For two days I had been ill of fever
and confined to my bunk. I knew from
the conversation around me what was
going on, und at noon, when one of the
men brought me a cup of gruel, he said
we should soon be off. Half an hour
later the brig became so quiet that I
grew afraid, and with great effort crawled
on deck. Tho long boat was a mile
away, with every nmn in it. About four
miles to the west, coming tip under a
light breeze, was n British man-of-war.
All sail had been taken off the brig so that
she was simply drifting. It was the
sight of the man-of-war which Lad hur
ried our crew off so suddenly. In about
an hour she came up,and after a crew had
been put aboard, both vessels stood in
and came to anchor in a bay, and then
boats were sent out for the mutineers.
Not even a sight of them was ever ob
tained. Ten years later it was known
that they made a landing on one of the
small islands, were secreted by the na
tives until the ship sailed, and every one
of them was then knocked on the head
for the sake of the plunder.
I was taken hack to Sidney, and later
ou to England, anil as I was the only
survivor my story was told and retold in
the courts and press until the whole
world had the details.— New York Sun.
Lemon Cultivation in Sicily.
The United States Consul in Messina,
in a recent report says that the well
known variety of lemon called the “lu
nare,” or ever-bearing, produce* blos
soms and fruit every month in the year.
When, however, during the Indiam sum
mer, rainy days are succeeded by dry,
clear weather, lemon trees of different
varieties immediately put on bloom, and
if. owing to the mildness of the season,
the iruit sets in m. me ucgiufiragoi
it will come to maturity at midsummer.
Lemons are divided into two classes—the
true and the bastard lemon. The former
is produced by the April and May blooms,
the bastard by the irregular blooms of
February, March, June, and July, which
depend upon the rainfall or regulur irri
gation and the intensity of the heat dur
ing the summer and winter seasons. The
true lemon requires nine months to reach
maturity—from the bloom in May to the
mature fruit in January. There are but
three harvests of the true lemon; the
first in November, when the lemon is
green in appearance and not fully ripe.
These lemons are the most highly prized;
they possess remarkable keeping quali
ties, and are admirably preserved in boxes
in warehouses from November until
March, aud sometimes as late as May, and
then shipped. The second harvest oc
curs in December and January. These
lemons must be shipped three weeks af
ter gathering, by which time they have
acquired a yellowish appearance. The
third harvest occurs in March and April.
This fruit is shipped as soon as gathered,
spring prices being very high. The uni
formity in size of lemons is due to the
monthly harvestings from October to
March. Bastard lemons present well
characterized peculiarities in shape aud
appearance; their inner skin is fine, and
adheres tenaciously to the meat;
they are hard, rich in acid, and seed
less. The bastard lemon, pro
duced from the bloom ot June
1, is still green the following April, and
ripens only toward the end of July. It
remains on the trees over a year, and sells
well in summer. Besides the March
and June bastards, there are yet others
that remain on the trees from twelve to
eighteen months. The true lemon can
be left on the tree until the end of May
or the first week in June; but it inter
feres with the new crop, drops of! from
over maturity, and is liable to be
attacked by 'insects. The bastards, on
1 the contrary, withstand bad weather and
parasites, and they mature from June to
October. It is estimated that four times
more oranges thun lemons are lost in the
groves and warehouses. Good drainage
is most essential in orange and lemon
! culture. In Sieily lemon cultivation is
thirty per cent, more profitable than that
! of oranges, for the trees are more prolific
and the prices higher. —Scientific Ameri
j can.
Oyster Statistics.
In his speech before the Georgia Legis
lature on the oyster bill Captuin Gordon,
of Chatham, quoted some interesting fig
ures.
“Five per cent, of the Georgia coast,'
said he, “is in natural oyster beds. Nol
many people know what that means in
dollars and cents."
A commission was appointed by the
! State of Maryland to investigate the oyster
i laws of other States and countries and
! perfect the laws of their own State. In
I their report the commissioners point to
the laws of Rhode Island as a model code
!in that respect. Calculating on results
obtained in Rhode Island, the commis
sioners estimate the oyster beds of Mary
land can easily be made worth $2,000,-
000,000. On the snrne basis the Georgia
beds should be worth to the State not
less than $800,000,000. There are 1,000,-
000 acres in oyster beds there and 400,000
in Georgia.
AVithin the next twenty years the oyster
industry will be, next to agriculture, the
most important industry in Georgia.—
Atlanta Constitution.
It takes from one and a half to twe
bushels of tfheat to sow one acre of
ground.