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rHE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
• The*j>latff?W of the Indiana Prohibi-
‘ tionists contain* anti-Trust plank.
There are eighteen persons in England
! with rout rolls of over $500,000 per an-
l num.
_
here,ire 1,000,000 Canadians in the
tjri \ ' .States, who have emigrated here
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They have politics in Japan now, un¬
der the constitution, and one of the par¬
ties is called the Jijito.
Of the 300.000 qualified voters in the
city of New' Y'ork 14,000 pay taxes on
property and 260,000 pay rents to those
who own the property.
A Washington correspondent of the
tdica Observer says that “there probably
never were so many women seeking office
as there are this year.”
All the States and Territories of the
• Jnion have an organized militia. Of
these, 5750 are cavalry, 5054 artillery,
aud 90,133 arc infantry.
Suicide among German officers m-
creas es shoc kingly. During May twenty-
themselves, and the number
for June was larger still.
The New York Sun suggests that the
true cure for fhe fisheries and seal hunt¬
ing troubles is for Canada to settle the
whole business once for all by joining the
<jrreat American Union.
Finance Minister Dublan says the finan¬
cial outlook in Mexico was never better
than now. Business is increasing, and
«he customs receipts on imports from the
United States are greater than ever.
It must be by far the grandest, most
,
attractive and most important industrial
Exposition the world has ever seen. So
<iys the American Economist in reference
co the New*Y'ork Exposition of 1892.
The author of “Home, Sweet Home”
died without a home, and now the
author of the Homestead law, George AY.
Allen, of Ohio, has no homestead of his
own, and is about to die iu abject pov¬
erty.
The value of France, estimated oy M.
do Faville, a recognized authority, lias
I depreciated- since 187J about fifteen per
|C£jffr. of the entire national wealth. This,
in property held at home and abroad, is
■estimated at 200 milliards of francs, or
$40,000,000,000. Such a depreciation
is tremendous.
The Baltimore Sun states that Georgia
is fast becoming a great fruit growing
State. It is already recognized the
Oauuer melon State, and the enormous
crops of peaches and pears now being
shipped will place the State in the front
ranks with these fruits. Diversified
crops are making the land more pro¬
ductive, and lands are now becoming
profitable that formerly did not pay the
taxes.
—
Captain Wissmann, the German ex¬
plorer, has employed horses in AVest
Africa with the utmost success, and
Claims to be the first explorer who has
tried the experiment. He thinks that a
force of mounted infantry would be in¬
valuable for expeditions against the na-
lives, as the soldiers could thus see over
the high African grass, which often con-
ceals an enemy, and would also reach
their destination with much less* fatigue
than those on foot.
Says Popular Science Netcs: “An
absurd paragraph has been goiug the
rounds of the papers, stating that a
mi Id winter always indicates an unusual
number of thunder storms in the suc-
ceediag summer. Thunder-storms, more
than any other meteorological phenomena,
are dependent upon local and temporary
ponditions, and the unusuallv warm
weather of last winter will have no more
effect upon the summer’s electrical dis-
■ulxmecs than it will upon the next
Hbridcntial election.” -
Ifccre is a strong movement for co-
Hyvc purchasing among the farmers
^^Ncstcrn Indiana. Everything
•* 1 icr L now purchased In
SW r a contra.' t made by tin it
“The Alliance.'' at a
for storekeepers of about
L>ne of tiie consequences
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rf Lloa Indiana have been
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSA TION OF CURIO US,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS rno M ETF.BT WHERE-—ACCIDENT.?, STRIKE?,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
ico. Heavy floods prevail have at Tetecala, Mex¬
Several lives been lost.
The Jewish schoolmasters of Odessa,
Busna, have been forbidden to teach.
Shocks of earthquake were felt
da througluut western France on Thurs-
y-
Five men lost their lives by a boiler ex-
plosion on a farm near Claronsdale, III.,
Monday.
The municipal authorities of Paris
gave of 1 liomas a banquet Monday night in honoi
W. Edison, theinvenlor.
The furnace of Peacock & Thomas, at
Lancaster, Pa., started up Wednesday
afternoon,after three months’ suspension.
The Aurora Watch c^mp uy, of Auro-
ra, Ii 1 -, made an assignment Monday'.
$120,000. Liabilities, $200,000, estimated assets,
J he thermometer registered forty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
Cheyenne, morning. A severe frost is reported at
Wyoming.
Pottstown, Pottstown, Pa., iron company, at
Pa., on Wednesday, an¬
nounced an increase in the wages of pud-
dlers from $3.25 to $3.50 per ton.
Ohio, Mrs.George died Coons,of Little Sandusky,
doctors on Wednesday of what the
pronounce Asiatic cholera. The
peop’e theic arc greatly excited, and
many are leaving the village.
The children of Mrs. Maybrick h ive
been adopted by a lady and gentleman of
London, with the approval of the rela¬
tives on both sides of the family. The
children will assume the name of their
foster parents.
An explosion occurred Thursday in the
iron stone pit of Maurice Wood Colliery,
disastrous Midlothcan, Germany, which threatens
consequences. Two dead
bodies have alteady b<en recovered.
Sixty-two miners are entombed.
Fifty people were seriously poisoned
by eating cheese at the village of Betts-
ville, Ohio, m d it is feared some may
die. This is the third lot of people poi¬
soned in a like manner within a week,
and the matter will be investigated.
The convention for the improvement
of western waterways began its eighth
meeting there at Cincinnati, on Wednesday,
river points was a very from large New Orleans attendance from
to Pitts¬
burg and Cairo to Davenport, It was
estimated that fully 150 delegates were
present.
'l’be post-office department is informed
that boih the east and west bound mail
stages were held up and robbed of all
registered mail matter near Atgcr, Cal ,
on Tuesday night. Inspector Zeboldt
has been authorized to offer a reward of
$1,000 for the apprehension of the
thieves.
The North German Gazette maintains
that the London strike is closely eon-
nected with the Socialist movement, and
asserts that the manifesto calling for a
general strike in London was telegraphed
to the Socialist paper, Volks Tribune ,two
days before it was issued in London.
At a conference of window glass man¬
ufacturers and representatives ol the
AVorkers’ Association, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
on AYednes lay, the manufacturers offered
to compromise This rejected, by paying and last year’s wa¬
ges. was and negotiations determined
ore now off, and a long
struggle is anticipated.
The president, on Monday, made the
following appointments: George AY.
Lyon, to be surveyor of customs for the
port of New Y'ork; Theodore B. Willis,
to be naval officer of customs in the dis¬
trict of New Y'ork; Ernest Nathan, to be
collector of internal revenue for the first
district of New Y'ork.
There seems to be a misapprehension
in regard to the ruling of Judge Thayer,
of the United States Court, in the case
before him at St. Louis, Mo., list Mon¬
day, affecting the label of the cigar
makers’ union. The court did not de¬
cide against the union or hold its label
invalid, but simply overruled a demurrer.
The small coke producers of the Con-
nellville region met at Pittsburg, Pa.,
Saturday and formed a syndicate for
trols mutual 2,052 protection. iu the The region, syndicate Frick con- &
ovens
McClure having the other 12,000. It lias
been officially announced that the price
of coke will be advanced to$1.50 per ton
on October 1.
Saturday closed without a single juror
being selected in the Cronin trial, at
Chicago, III. Nearly every man called
to the box was promptly disqualified be-
cause of legal objection on account of
preconceived and expressed opinions,and
few to whom legal objections have not
been preferred, have ultimately fallen
“
uuder a peremptory challenge.
Fire in Laird, Norton & Co.'s lumber
sard at Winona. Minn., on Thursday,
destroyed 22,000,000 feet of lumber,
7,000,000 shingles, a three-story brick
warehouse and contents, consisting of
loord, sash glass, etc., together with
theds, tram wavs aed other property,
making a total loss of $314,000; insu-
tance $175 000
Exports of specie from,he port id New
t4°8, of wS. «il«7 vimV™ in g°oia and
1333,993 Of tho total exports
*311,700 111 iu silver went to Europe, stiver and
the gold and *11,193 in to
South America. Imports of specie for
die week amounted to $27,090, of which
$18,308 was in gold and $8,782 silver.
The following is a statement of the
floriated week bauks Saturday, of New Y'ork August for the
Reserve ending 7th;
inciease, $3,346,600; loans in-
crease, $590,400; specie increase, $6,-
699,50o; legal tenders decrease, $2,209,-
700; deposits increase, $5,172,800; cir-
emotion increase, $41,000. The banks
now hold $7,841,575 in excess of the 23
p er cen t_ rule. '
Fire broke out on an upper floor of
McArdVs four-storv rag aud junk ware-
house at Albany, N. Y., Monday after-
noon. Thi:ty or forty women and girl?
we e employed in picking ri gs. Many
of them escaped by the stairways and
fire escape, but some were cut off bv a
dense smoke. One girl fell from a
bird-story window upon a p ie of iron
wa? fatally hurt. Anothir followed
later and was baoly indued.
|^d wes probably fatally burned. It
that others were caught in the
Wt rccived on Wednesday at the de-
f steam engineering, navv
*. ° n
ern'ment? 1h.t' f 0 r
states the horse
tve'optd b? the ship in h r re-
pr obably not be
bu;l kis to a penalty of $30,000. The
vessel was built ou the p ans of the Nan-
isvakan, English designed, which had
about twenty-four trials before she was
accepted.
the legislature.
BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The following bills have been passed
by the Senate: A bill to prohibit tres-
passing the charter in Screven Statesboro' county. To amend
of in Bullock
COunt y- To incorporate the bank of
Fort G aincs * To amend the act creating
Ihe hoard of county commissioners of
Fulton county. To make title to the
Columbus Gas Light Co., for a piece of
land. A bill to amend the charter of
the Camilla, so as to make it unlawful for
mayor and council to grant liquor li¬
cense thirds except of the by written consent of two-
resident free holders of the
town. Two bills amending the charter
of the Darien Shoit Line; to incorporate
the Altamaha and sapelo Canal company;
to establish public schools for the town
of Decatur; a stock law for the 91st dis¬
trict of Schley; to amend charter of the
Macon, LaGrange and Birmingham rail¬
road ; to repeal the road law of Chatta¬
nooga intoxicating county; liquors to prohibit the sale of
within three miles of
Cowen academy; to amend the charter of
Hartwell; to ratify and amend the char¬
ter of Buena Vista; a bill to amend the
charter of .LaGrange so as to authorize
the levy and collection of a tax of one-
half instead of onc-fourth of one per
cent; a bill to incorporate the town of
Richland, in Stewart county; a bill to
make it unlawful for any county, through
its officers, to exempt from taxation any
property and whatever; a bili to recognize
make legal all primary elections by
political parties and to make it illegal to
vote fraudulently in such elections; a
bill to incorporate the Eatonton and
Madison railroad company; a bill to
prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors
within three miles of Mount Olivet
Mcthotlist church in Banks county; a
stock law for certain districts of Dooley
county; a bill to amend the charter of
the Chattanooga Southern Railway com-
pany; a bill to incorporate the Piedmont
Loan and Banking company, with per¬
petual succession; a bill to pay insolvent-
costs; a Dill to provide for the transfer
of misdemeanor ca?cs pending in the su¬
perior court of Stewart county; a bill to
amend the act creating a board of coin-
missioners of roads and revenue for
Stewart county; a bill to amend the
charter of Ckauncey, in Dodge county;
a bill to extend tbc corporate limits of
Eastman, ip Dodge county; another bill
to amend the charter of Chauncev; a bill
to amend incorporate the charter the of Eastman*; a bill
to Melon Belt Railroad
company.
BILLS PASSED IN TIIF. HOUSE.
Senate bill to amend charter of Al¬
bany; a bill to amend charter of Fulton
county street railroad company, by in¬
serting the counties of DeKalb and
Cobb, so as to allow the road to operate
in these two counties as well as in Fulton.
A bill to incorporate the Dahlonega and
Dawsonville railroad company; a bill to
provide for registration Senate of voters in
Bry?n county. Wvnnton bill to incorpo¬
rate the and street railroad
company; a bill to prohibit the sale of
whiskey near a church aud academy iu
Walker county; Senate bill to incorpo¬
rate Lumber City, in Telfair county; a
bill to incorporate the Ocean Pond and
St. Mary’s Short Line railroad ; Senate
bill to amend the charter of Albany
street railroad company, The House
passed 10. the bill W. & incorporate A. bill by a vote of 13
to A to the town of
Mineral Bluff; a bill to amend the char¬
ter of Shelimao; a bill to levy a tax for
educational purposes in Emanuel county;
to amend the charter of the Merchants’
bank of Macon; to incorporate the Lab¬
orers’ Loan and Savings bank at Way-
cross; to extend the corporate limits of
the city of Columbus for the purpose of
taking in the newly purchased cemeterj
section.
A resolution authorizing the librarian
to furnish each judge of ihe supreme
court with certain volumes of supreme
court reports; to regulate the fees of
clerks ot the superior couit; to ratify
and confirm the acts of the superior
courts in granting or renewing charters
of religious and charitable institutions;
to amend the act authorizing the amend¬
ments of affidavits to foreclose liens; to
authorize judges of superior courts to
appoint special constables in certain
cities; to change the time of holding
superior court in Telfair county; to pro¬
vide a stock law for certain districts in
rilay county; to amend section 15, o.
l ^ ie co; ^ e -
A bill to amend section 2 of the gen-
era ^ * ay ac ** sec li° u I s i n reference
lo license required amendment of sewing machine,
a S cnts - by die every com
P an .V doing business in the state shall
»«•»«• W f 00 '. a “ d bnsma,. . “ is .° the ?“ cc£
To amend .lie road laws of the county
Charlton; to prohibit hunting or fish-
lu ^ on anf ^ s another in Builock
county, to extend the corporate limits
of the town ot I airburn; to amend the
public school act of the town of Quit¬
man 5 to attend the charter of the acad-
^ to
1° l>" rch ”*> /<? ,‘ h<! 10
T” 1 ? DoU '
fi'y and Suburban * , , radrend u ; to locorpo-
Ibe Catooon railroad; to amend the
road laws, so far as they apply to the
county of Dade; to fix the bonds of the
clerk aud sheriff of Fulton county.
Gov. Gordon affixed bis signature to
the following . bills, making them laws:
An act to prohibit the sale of seed cotton
in the county of Crawfoid, in quantises
of less than five hundred pounds, and the be-
tween the 15’h day of August
loth day of December of each year; and
to provide a penalty thvrefor. An act
to authorize the board of commissioners
Newton county to levy a tax of two
P or ccn * on *h e state tax, to run for a
period of fifty-seven yoirs,for the purpose by
meeting the indebtedness incut red
reason of building a new court-house.
-^u ft et to prohibit the sale of m 1 [ nr
or spirituous liquors within three milts
° f Coweta academy, iu Cobb county near
the line .between the counties of Cobb
and Cherokee. An act to incorporate
Atlanta and Sapelo River Canal com-
I»nj* A* act to amend the charter of
Griffin, and the various acts amendatory
thereof; also to repeal a portion of the
f ct legislature approved Oato-
>®= 1887 arnmeDding the charter of
1 "P 0 " prapertv real and per-
to incorporate the Eadenton end
Match™ Railroad company.
Rain in the valleys and snosv in the moant-
:ins have extinguished for the the fires that have
raging past month in Montana,
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FR03tf VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOOT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE S UTTHEBN STATES.
Jefferson Davis giv<s positive assur¬
ances that he wilt be at Fayetteville, N.
C., in November*t? attend the constitu¬
tional centennial celebration. Fully fifty
thousand peopfce will be present to see
him.
A special from Fort Worth, Texas,
says that the re-unioa of ex-confedera'e
and federal soldiers begun Thursday.
Thousands of people were present. There
was a biir barbecue, speech-making, and
remarkable good feeling a'l around.
The Central Railroad of Georgia and
the Savannah fast freight line announce
that freight will now be carried from
Boston, New' Y'ork and Philadelphia to
Atlanta, Ga., for 1.08; 90; 80; GC; 55;
49. All these rates include marine in¬
surance.
The courthouse of Moore county, N.
C., at Carthage, together with all the
county records, was completely destroyed
by lire Thursday. There is a general
belief that the lire was of incendiary
origin. The loss falls heavily upon the
county, tion. and will, of course, cause litiga¬
A convention of miners was held at
Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday, to per¬
fect a state organization. Delegates from
all the mines in the state were present.
It was unanimously decided to co-operate
with the farmers’ alliance in au effort to
secure certain legislation in the interest
of the laboring classes.
The sheriff of Pike county, Kv., ar¬
rived at Fiankfort on Saturday with five
prisoners, convicted at Pikcville for the
murder of the McCoys in the McCoy-
Hatfield inter-state feud. They arc El¬
lison Mounts, who is to hang; Valentine
Hatfield, Alexander Messer and Doc, and
Plyman Mayhorn, each sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Mrs. Polk, the venerable widow of
President James K. Polk, celebrated her
eighty-sixth birthday on Wednesday, at
Nashville, Tenn. A number of friends
called upon her to renew the assurance
of esteem and remembrance, and greet
one whose existence is a link between a
historic past and a stirring present.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation in the south, was
granted by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
w r as incorporated, with authority to do
business in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000 .
A party of gentlemen from New Y'ork,
representing prominent railroad, banking
and business iuteres's of that city, ar¬
rived at Norfolk, Va., on Saturday.
Elaborate arrangements had been made
by the Norfolk and Portsmouth cotton
exchange, chamber of commerce, board
of trade and the city council of Ports¬
mouth to receive the distinguished visi¬
tors, who came on a tour of inspection.
The Charleston, S. C., city assessor's
books show that there has been for 188S
an increase of $300,000 over the personal
returns made for H88 in money invested
in materials, machinery, small industries,
factories aud other personalty, etc. But
ou the other hunt! there has been a
shrinkage in the returns for stocks ol
goods and such bonds and securities as
are subject to municipal taxation, of over
$300,000.
The compilation of volumes of war
records, comprising operations about
Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tenn., in¬
cluding the battle of Missionary Ridge,
is the progressing rapidly. Two volumes of
Chickamauga battle have been com¬
pleted, containing both union and con¬
federate reports, and some advance cop¬
ies will be printed for use at the ap¬
proaching reunion of the eociety of army
of the Cumberland at Chattanooga.
The celebrated Hickory Level planta¬
tion, r.enr Albany, Ga., was sold Tues¬
day at public sale. It was one of the
finest farms of the cotton belt of the
south, and has been considered one of
the best properties in Dougherty county.
Twenty year? ago the property would
have sold for $100,000 easily. The sale
being a forced one, the 400 acres brought
only $14,000, and was bought by Mrs.
Joseph Beall, of New Y r ork.
The electrotypers and etereotypers of
Atlanta, Ga., on Friday, held a meeting
and organized the Southern Electrotyp-
ers and Stereotypers association with the
following officers: J. A. AVrigley, pres¬
ident; AY. G. Sands, vice-president; M.
P. MacDermott, secretary; A. B. Burk,
financial secretary; J. S. Armistead,
treasurer. The principal objects of the
association are the discussion of the new
features and advantages of the trade, the
protection of employers from incapable
and inefficient workmen, and protection
to its members.
The trial of Fannie Biyant wns ended
in the criminal court at Birmingham,
Ala., on Saturday, sue is tne mulatto
woman complice supposed to have been the ac*
of Dick Hawes in Ihe minder
of lrs wife and children last December.
A verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree was rendered by the jury, and the
punishment fixed at life imprisonment.
During the reading of the verdict the
prisoner's face showed no" emotion, but
after the jury had been polled, she broke
down and sobbed like a child.
STILL DISSATISFIED.
THE LONDON STRIKERS REJECT PROPOSI-
SITIONS FOR A COMPROMISE.
The dock companies at London, Eng¬
land, have agreed to the demands of the
strikers,but the rates of wages to be paid
are to continue as at the present. The
advanced rate not to go into
effect until January 1st. It was made a
condition of the arrangement that all the
strikers should rriuime work on Monday.
Messrs. Burns and Tillett signified their
acceptance of the company’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’ teim?,
namely, an increase of wages from Jan¬
uary 1, 1890, on condition that the men
return to work ou Monday. The situa¬
tion is, therefore, unchanged.
KILLS HIMSELF.
A PROMINENT BOSTON BUSINESS MAN COM¬
MITS SUICIDE.
Eben Dale, a Boston manufacturer,
commit* ed suicide Monday morniDg, at
his residence, near Boston, Mass., shoot¬
ing himself with an old-fashioned pistol,
the bullet going through his head. Dale
was o n e of the best known men in Bos¬
ton. In addition to his other business
interests, he was treasurer of the Dexter
woolen mills, and selling agent for Wil-
para Trubull A Co., New Y'ork. No
r easons are assigned for the rash act.
A FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
TWO HUNDRED people KILLED and 1,000
INJURED IN ANTWERP, BELGIUM.
A dynamite explosion occurred Friday,
at Antwerp, Belgium, in a cartridge fac¬
tory, in the vicinity of the bourse, killing
200 persons, and injuring at least 1,000
others, and doiug an enormous amount
of damage to property. Portions of the
bourse were struck by burning panic fragments that
and set ou trie, causing a in
building, which was at the time crowded.
Ttie cartridge factory was situated be¬
hind the docks, upon which millions of
cartridges were being loaded. It was
adjacent to petroleum stores, and
two warehouses large Russian petroleum
were set on fire.
Among the roar of flames there w.is o
continuous succession of loud reports,
supposed to be from the iguition of
package? of cartridges. Several vessels
were burned. Owing to the intense heat
the firemen were unable to approach the
flames nearer thau one hundred yards.
At the moment of the explosion, many
of the workmen jumped into ihe Scheldt
iu their fright aud were drowned. A
number of sailors and customs officers
were kiiled on board ships by living bul¬
lets, and ships were riddled by missiles.
It is estimated lh?t 2.0C0 tons of car¬
tridges were exploded. The noise was
heard thirty miles awt>y. Human heads
and other parts of bodies were fouod
half a mile away from the scene of d s-
aster. One hundred aud thirty whole
corpses lie in the 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 and *jue< n
have telegraphed, expressing sympathy
with the sufferers. Subscriptions have
been opened for the relief of those ren¬
dered destitute bv the disaster.
A COSTLY BLAZE.
A LARGE SUGAR REFINERY IN BROOKLYN,
N. Y., REDUCED TO ASHES.
A very disastrous tire broke out Satur¬
day afternoon in the mammoth sugar
plant of the Dick & Meyers Co., on
North Seventh and North Eighth streets,
in Brooklyn, N. Y T . The entire estab-
li-hment, which consisted of a collection
of buildings eight stories in h ighth, ex¬
tending about GOO feet ou North Seventh
street, 300 feet on North E ghth street,
and ashes. 250 feet along the dock,was reduced
to It was filled with very valua¬
ble machinery, and the loss on the build¬
ing aud 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 total
loss of about $2,000,000. The filter
house, next door to the refinery, soon
caught fire, and shortly afterwards the
second filter house, adjoining, was seized
upon by the hungry flames. Almost at
the same time, the machine building,
office building, and a number of sheds
were attacked. In a short time the
flames bad reached the storage house on
North Seventh street, where 8,000 bar¬
rels of sugar were stored. In half an
hour all this was burned up,and soon the
entire plant of capacity twelve buildings were in
ruins. The of the burnt re¬
finery was 1,000,000 piunds daily.
About 20,000 bnrrels of sugar went up in
smoke.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
A FATAL ACCIDENT TO A DREDGING CREW
IN THE ST. JOHNS RIVER.
A terrible explosion occurred at th<
mouth of the St. Johns river, near Jack¬
sonville, Fla., on Thursday, by which
two men were killed, and several more
injured. Captain R. G. Ross, in charge
of the government jetty work at St
Johns bar, has been engaged for several
days, with a crew of twelve men, in
blowing up the submerged wreck of the
old Dutch brig Neva, ivhich has for years
obstructed the channel off Maypoit. It
seems that two of the men were solder¬
ing a twenty-five pound can of dynamite,
when it exploded with a terrific report
and blew both men to atoms and terribly
wounded others. The explosion was
heard for miles around, and caused an
upheaval of ivater and tremor of the
earth.
LIBERAL BEQUESTS.
GIFTS MADE BY THE LATE MRS. GIFFORD,
OF CONNECTICUT.
By the death of Mrs. Ellen M.GifToid,
the last surviving heir of the late Phi.ip
Maret, at her home in N- vv Haven,
Conn., on Saturday, au estate valued at
over $000,000, which was held by her
trust, reverts to local institutions, as fol¬
lows: Connecticut hospital, income to
be used in supporting fne beds, $120,-
000; city of New Haven, $120,900, in¬
come to be used for indigent aud infirm
persons, not paupers; Yale college,
$120,000, income to be used for scholar¬
ship in academical departments; New
Haven Orphan asylum, $80,000; St.
Francis Orphan asylum, $60,000; city of
New Haven, $80,000, to aid the public
library; for the state of Com ccticut,
$60,000, to be used for the support of an
institute for idiots and imbeciles.
A DETERMINED SUICIDE.
A PROMINENT RAILROAD AND REAL ES¬
TATE MAN OF FLORIDA KILLS HIMSELF.
A special from Seville, Fla., says:
AYilham Kemble Lente, a prominent
railroad and real estate man, committed
suicide here on Wednesday. He began
his work of self-destruction by slashing
his forearm with a sharp razor, and then
took a large dose of morphine, and ended
by dischatging a revolver into his brain.
He died almost instantly He was a man
of considerable means, and was largely
interested in the town of Seville, being
heavily invested in her lands, railroads,
w ater works, lumber mills and other en¬
terprises. It is said that nearly all of his
inheritance has been either lost or tied
up in such a manner that it is unremu-
nerative to him, aud fear that he had in¬
volved others in his reverses, drove him
to desperation and suicide.
DISSATISFIED KNIGHTS.
THE COMMANDERY HAVING TROUBLE RE
GARDINO THE NEW RITUAL.
The controveisy between Giand Com¬
mander Roome and the grand com-
mandery of the state of Iowa, over the
adoption of the new ritual, is one of the
most important questions that will coinc
before the approaching triennial conclave
for action. The Iowa commandery de¬
clined to follow Grand Commander
Roome's order for the adoption of the
new ritual, on the ground that it was be¬
yond his power to issue such an order.
Thereupon, the grand commandery de¬
clared the Iowa knights in a state of d s-
loyaLy and rebellion, and interdicting
ail Templar intercourse with them by the
knights of other states.
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¬ The
menced at Baltimore on Monday.
events to be celebrated ore of national
importance, and the fact that one of
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 a national interest, which
has of been President recognized Harrison iu the participation and the
efforts of the war and navy depart¬
ments to contribute to its ruccess.
Along the thoroughfares of the queen
of the Chesapeake the frowning fronts of
old-time war houses and graceful arches
and pillars of modern palaces of trade
hide their sombre colors in festoons of
bunting and clusters of flags. Never be¬
fore iu the history of Baltimore has any¬
thing like it been seen. Scarcely a bus¬
iness house or dwelling in the central
section tut what was outwardly beautified
by the artistic hai-ds of the decorator.
Vast throngs of people crowded the
streets, and the military and civic pro-
cessious, the parade of the iudustiial
and trades’organizations, with thousands
of floats, formed an imposing spectacle.
WILL GO WEST.
FIFTY thousand colored people of
NORTH CAROLINA TO EMIGRATE.
Geo. W. Price, president of the State
Colored Emigration Association, at Ra¬
leigh, N. C., ulio visited the delta region in
of Mississippi and inspected the impressed lands
Arkansas, was most favorably
with the results of his trip, aud will rec¬
ommend a gradual movement of colored
people, especially to the Mississippi del¬
ta. ft is said that at least 50,000
will be removed from North Carolina this
Fall and Winter, but that the movement
will not amount to anything like a wild
rush. It will be gradual, as the plan is
to secure employment and homes for
cyery one 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 in North Carolina decline to give
the emigrants reduced rates, as it is not
their policy to encourage the exodus in
any way.
A FRAUDULENT BANK,
CITIZENS OF LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, SYS¬
TEMATICALLY SWINDLED.
A special from Lynchburg, Va., says.
A daring banking fraud lias been un¬
earthed iu this city. In December last,
Judge Latham, of the corporation parties court,
granted a charter to certain to
conduct “The American Insurance and
Banking company, capital $100,000.” In
January business was begun with R. M.
Brown, of Lynchburg, president; C. C.
Welliner, secretary and treasurer; the
two mentioned Morton Brown, of Gala,
Va.; AY. H. Welliner, of Lockliaven,
Pa., aud H. J. Brown, of Flcmington,
Pa., as a board of directors. A lively
business was carried ou until recently,
when sufficient evidence wag received t •
induce the grand jury to find indict¬
ments against Bro >:n and Wcliiner for
fraud. Thursday, when the officers went
to serve warrants on the indicted parties,
it was found that they had skipped.
Deadly Arrow Poison.
at of the arrow poisons of Africa
hitherto known have been of vegetable
origin, indeed, all the famous poisons
are of this nature. Mr. H. M. Stanley
has added cue poison to the list which
does not appear to be a product of the
vegetable kingdom. In the Lower Con¬
go district Mr. Stanley’s force was as¬
sailed by a tribe of dwarfs, who used
poisoned arrows. Five members of the
expedition were hit by these arrows,
four (black men) dying very shortly
after, tense. their Tho fifth sufferings Lieutenant having'been in¬
had man, Stairs,
a narrow escape. The poison of
the arrow which hit him had been dry,
and so lie did not experience the full
found toxiciiy of the barb. It was afterward
that the poison is manufactured
from the dried bodies of red ants, or
pismires, palm ground into powder, cooked
in oil and smeared over the
wooden points of the arrows. What is
the nature of the poison which causes
death i
The Lancet says it is formic acid,
which exists in the free state in red
an!s, and is in tho pure state so cor¬
rosive, that it produces blisters on tho
skin. Hence there is little ground, says
our contemporary, for doubting that it
was tho “deadly had irritant by which so
many men been lost with such ter¬
rible suffering.” The multitude of
curious insects encountered, which ren¬
dered their lives “as miserable as they
c mid well be,” bears out Mr. Stanley’s
idea, that many similar poisons could
be prepared from insects. It certainly
is strange that, with the exception of
cantharides, and perha] s of blatta ori¬
entals, the insect -world is so little used
for active therapeuti< s. Not forgetting
the fact that hom eopaths have long hail
that respect for the insect kingdom
which tho Lancet desires, we may men¬
tion that ptoma'nos as a source of
toxicity are more likely than formic
acid to have produced the paralytic
symptoms which were exhibited by the
dying men.—(New England Druggist.
The Lunatic of Ealing.
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Sag a,
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A lunatic living at Ealing. the ceiling. .
Declared he could walk or
There is no need to tell
When he tried it b fell, in healing.
Vnd his wounds too 1 : a long time
--Harper 3 # Young People.
The Most Healthy Diet Tor
The sailor is currents.
The jewel er should live on carats
The historian on dates.
The plumber on leek
The pngil st on punches.
The burglar on robins.
Baseball catcher.? on fowls.
Baseball fielders o:i fin s.
Weather prophets on 1 <*.
Actresses on cream puffs.
V.
THE NATIONAL
BECKXJtY leads the Pittsburg Club in home
runs. New
The Bostons won the series from
York. *
Maine has a base ball club called the Fen-
nessewassee. laid
Casey, of the Philadelphias, has been
off without pay.
A. G. Spalding favors doing away alto¬
gether with the fold catch.
The total attendance at the Boston 275,000. grounds
this season is almost sure to reach
According to Anson Cleveland has given
Chicago harder fights than the other League
clubs. only
Ryan, Glasscock and Tiernan are the
League players who have scored 100 runs this
season.
The buildings and fences of the old Polo
Grounds in New York have been soid at pub¬
lic auction.
Ewing, the New York’s Captain, has gn en
up playing mascots. The last (a little colored
boy) was a failure.
Farrar. Fogarty, YYood and Nash are the
latest additions to the 100 base-hit recoi d
among League clubs.
In Omaha they have started the old and
demoralizing practice of rewarding home
runs with coin showers.
Philadelphia and New Y '
Pittsburg, or
are the teams that Pitcher Clarkson, tn a
mainstay of Boston, is a special terror to*
Indianapolis fears him not.
A Bostonian promises a forty dollar easy
chair to each member of the Bostons if they
succeed in winning the pennant.
The struggle for the championship is very
close and exciting this year, both in the
League and American Association.
Over one hundred League games have so
far been won and lost by one inn. Chicago
has won the most games and Cleveland lost
the most by that small margiu.
The stars of the baseball world afford
valuable lessons to the aspiring youngsters
of the profession. They are shining exam¬
ples of the value of temperance.
Cleveland is the only League club to lose
three straight games to one club by one run
each. It is also the only club iu the League
which scored in every iuning of a game.
The Washington management have made
arrangements with the Bostons to during play a tho sc¬
ries of six games, in Washington, Knights Templar
Triennial Conclave of the
in October.
The Louisville baseball managers have
signed Flanagan, formerly of the Athletics,
to play first, base; Ryan and McDermott as
a battery; and young Clarkson, formerly of
the Tri-State League, as a pitcher.
On Labor Day the twelve games played
by the League aud Association clubs at¬
tracted an attendance of 75,362. The League
had 46,384 patrons and the Association 28,-
978. The League played seven games and
the Association only five.
The Boston-New York, Pliiladelphia-
Washington, Ghicago-Pittsburg Iudianapolis-Cleveland complete. and the At
series are
least the few games which these clubs have
not played will not likely be contested, as
the schedule will not permit it.
The Columbus Club directors at a meeting
request that Holland, the umpire, be lio
longer scheduled for any game in Columbus.
President Wi< koff replied than he has no
power to change umpires, as the schedule of
umpires was arranged by a committee ap¬
pointed for that purpose.
Arthur Irwin, late Captain of the Phila-
delphias, has reason to feel proud of the re¬
cord he has made with the Washington Club.
It stamps him as a baseball general second to
none. Ho took a team badly handicapped, and
and, with practically the same men de¬
pending on the efforts of two pitchers to win,
has vastly bettered its standing among
League clubs and made it a drehded antag¬
onist.
A bad accident occurred recently in Chi¬
cago at a game of baseball between two nines
that styled themselves tli© “Doctors” and the
“Undertakers.” In the seventh inning,
when the Undertakers were well iu the lead,
James NcNerney, the pitcher, was delivering few
a swift in-shoot when his arm snapped a
inches from the shoulder, and he fell to tin*
ground unconscious. An examination re¬
vealed the fact that his arm was broken, tho
bone almost protruding tho flesh. He was
removed to his home.
LEAGUE
Boston.... '"""1Von. j.nit. Ferccntnge
New 68 3S .63.5
York. 66 10 .623
Chicago... Philadelphia 58 53 .523
Cleveland.... 56 51 .523
Indianapolis. 53 56 .4815
Pittsburg.... 49 63 .438
Washington. 49 64 .434
35 67 .343
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD.
Brooklyn... Won. Lort. Percentage.
75 37 .670
St. Louis.... 72 39 .649
Baltimore... 64 45 .587
Athletic..... 61 47 .565
Cincinnati.. 59 55 .518
Kansas City 46 65 .414
Columbus... 46 68 .404
Louisville... 23 90 .204
Cake of Ice in Midsummer.
A party was made up recently at Pe-
corah, Iowa, to visit Iowa’s famous ice
cave. It is but a half mile from that
town, and pioduces unlimited ice in
midsummer. The party left the AVinne-
shiek House during the afternoon aud
walked a’ong tho bank of the Iowa
River. The bluffs at this point are
about 400 feet high. There is a steep
climb of 200 feet, and a rock, having
the appearance of gypsum, juts out for
fifty feet. The entrance to the cave is a
fissure ten feet wide aud twenty feet
high. A strong current of cold air was
issuing from the care. Candles were
lighted and preparations made to enter.
Thirty feet inside the cave* the path
turns to the left, and downward toward
the river. The slope is gradual, the
w alls and roof being within reach most
of the time. One himdrad feet from
the mouth the roof and walls were found
coated with ice, which increased in
thickness as the party penetrated,
There was ne dripping or mud, and
p ecor? of ice two feet long were scaled
off the roof. Owing to the fitful light
and the danger of exploration, the party
did not go in over 200 feet. The path
con fin tied to incline toward the river,
and the temparature was freezing.
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