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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.