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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 vr-facric.__________ 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 , , 1 ’ Iribune. that many of rf Lloa Indiana have been I their business “ Jwliere . . . competition is at Washington om United L, Town ’ L he 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. isk ypsii f (W' - Jfcy I Sag a, •mm - V; t7 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. [Chicago Herald. $20 MoriteSin S e1, HIGH ARM$ 25 . 00 . 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