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THE DYING TRUST.
EFFORTS of the jute trust to dispose
OF THEIK BAGGING.
It is officially announced at Raleigh,
N. C., that the jute trust has made a
proposition to the Farmers 1 Alliances
that, if they will again use jute bagging,
it will again be solu ;.t S\ cents on time,
uud that the jute trust w .11 pay the farm
ers fig more per ton for their cotton seed
than is offered at any of the cotton seed
oil mills. This is regarded by the Alii
ance as an indication that the trust is in
bad straits. The jute trust is shipping
its bagging to cotton points all over the
state, with or without orders, aud in
some places it has been offered at two
cents per yard. The trust sends bagging
in quantities, and at two points Wednes
day arrived addressed to parties who
have no existence. In other cases it is
arriving addressed to merchants who re
fuse to touch it. No sales of trust bag
ging are being made in the state, and in
some large markets merchants have uot
purchased a pound of it. The fight
Hgainst the bagging trust is now hotter
than ever.
W ILL 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., who visited the delta region
of Mississippi and inspected the lauds in
Arkansas, was most favorably impressed
with the results of his trip, and will rec
ommend a gradual movement Mississippi of colored del
people, It especially said to that the least 50,000
ta. is at
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 aud homes for
every 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 iu North Carolina decline to give
the emigrants reduced rates, as it is not
their policy to encourage the exodus in
any way.__
STILL DISSATISFIED.
THB LONDON STRIKERS REJECT PROPOSI-
8ITI0NS 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
itrikers should resume 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’ terms,
namely, an increase of wages from Jan
uary 1, 1890, ou condition that the men
return to work ou Monday. The situa
tion is. therefore, unchanged.
LIBERAL BEQUESTS.
OJ.FT8 MADE BY THE LATE MRS. GIFFORD,
OF CONNECTICUT.
By the death of Mrs. Ellen M.Gifford,
the last surviving heir of the late Philip
Maret, at her home iu New Haven,
Conn., on Saturday, au estate valued at
over $600,000, which was held by her
trust, reverts to local institutions, as fol
lows: Connecticut hospital, income to
be used in supporting free beds, $120,
000; city of New Haven, $120,000, in
come to be used for indigent and infirm
persons, 1120 not paupers; Yale college,
, 000 , income to be used for scholar
ship Haven in academical departments; New
Orphan asylum, $G0,000; St.
Francis Orphan asylum, $60,000; city of
New Haven, $60,000, to aid the public
library; $60,000, for the state of Connecticut,
to be used for the support of au
institute fo r idiots and imbecil es.
A DETERMINED SUICIDE,
* PROMINENT RAILROAD AND REAL KS
TATE MAN OF FLORIDA KILLS HIMSELF.
A special from Seville, Fla., says:
William Kemble Lento, 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 dischaiging a revolver into his brain.
He died almost instantly He was a man
() f considerable means, aud was largely
interested in the town of Seville, being
heavily invested in her lands, railroads,
water-works, t( rprises. lumber mills and other of en his
It is said that nearly all
inheritance has been either lost or tied
U P in such a manner that it is unremu
nerative to him, aud fear that he had in
volved *° desperation others in and his suicide. reverses, drove bin
DISSAtFsfTeD KNIGHTS.
T MS COMMANDERY HAVING TROUBLE RE
GARDING THE NEW RITUAL.
Hie controversy between Grand Com
Sunder Roorae und the grand com
“doption •nandery of the state of Iowa, over the
of the new ritual, is one of the
most before important questions that will come
the approaching triennia 1 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 au order.
Thereupon, the grand commandery de
,iri d the Iowa knights in a state of dis
,
k nights of other states*
THE LEGISLATURE.
BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE
OF KEPRESJtHTATITES.
Io amend tne load laws of the county
of Charlton; to prohibit hunting or fish
ing ou the lands of another in Bullock
county; to extend the corporate limits
of the town of Fairburn; to amend the
public school act of the town of Quit
man; to amend the charter of the acad
also emy at authorize Louisville, in Jefferson county;
to the town of Louisville
to incorporate purchase lands for the academy ; to
the Bainbridge, Lake Dou
glas aud Suburban railread; to incorpo
rate the Catoosa railroad; to amend the
road laws, so far as they apply to the
county of Dade; to fix the bonds of the
clerk and sheriff of Fultou county.
Gov. Gordon affixed his signature to
the following bills, making them laws:
An act to prohibit the sale of seed cotton
in the county of Crawford, in quantities
of less than five hundred pounds, be
tween the 15th day of August and the
15tli day of December of each year; and
to provide a penalty therefor. An act
to authorize the board of commissioners
oi Newton county to "levy a tax or two
per cent on the state tax, to run for a
period of fifty-seven years,for the purpose
of meeting the indebtedness incurred by
reason of building a new court-house.
An act to prohibit the sale of malt or
or of spirituous liquors within three miles
Coweta academy, in Cobb county,near
the line between the counties of Cobb
and Cherokee. An act to incorporate
the Atlanta and Sapelo River Canal com
pany. An act to amend the charter of
Griffin, and the various acts amendatory
thereof; also to repeal a portion of the
act of the legislature approved Octo
ber 16 , 1887, amending the charter of
Griffin, shall so that the mayor aaff council
be authorized to levy a tax of | of
1 per cent, upon all property real and per
sonal; to incorporate the Eadenton and
Matcben Railroad company.
A bill to elect the commissioner of agri
culture by the people; a bill to amend
the charter of Cairo town, so as to em
power the mayor and council to elect and
dismiss the marshal; a bill to prohibit
the sale of liquor within three miles of
Antioch Baptist church, in Morgan
county; also a stock law for the 777th
district of that county.
s. S. COX DEAD.
A LONG AND EVENTFUL LIFE BRIEFLY
SKETCHED.
Congressman S. S. Cox died at New
York on Tuesday evening. He was born
at Zanesville, O., September 30, 1824,
being 65 years of age at his death. He
graduated at Brown college in 1846, be
came a lawyer and editor, and in 1855
became secretary of legation to Peru.
The following year he was elected to
congress from Ohio, and re-elected for
three consecutive terms, serving in all
eight years. In 1866 he removed to
New York, and two years later was
elected to congress from that city, and
re-elected in 1870. President Cleve
which land appointed him resigned minister to filling Turkey,
post he after it
creditably for two years, and on his re
turn to this country was re elected to
congress.
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ANOTHER VICTIM.
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
inns had been cut off and carried away.
The murder is the worst of the whole
series of Whitechapel murders. The
manner in which the limbs had been
severed from the body shows that the
murderer was possessed of some surgical
skill. The most intense excitement
again prevails m Whitechapel.
KILLS HIMSELF.
A prominent boston business man com
mits SUIOIDE.
Eben Dale, a Boston manufacturer,
committed suicide Monday morning, at
his residence, near Boston, Mass., shoot
ing himself with an old-fashioned pistol,
the bullet going through bis head, Dale
was one 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
iam Trubull – Co., New York. No
1 assigned for the rash act.
r easons are
forest fires.
LOSS OF life and DESTRUCTION OP
PROPERTY IN MONTANA,
\ dispatch from Helena, Montana
says: Information has been received
here of one of ilie fiercest and most de
structivo forest tires yet reported Sunday in
Montana. The fire occurred
night in Strcgis district, Missoula coun
ty and the Cokely ranch was made a
barren waste in less than thirty minuses.
lt is reported that several people perished
in the flames. 'Ihe destruction of prop
erty will aggregate fully $ ,000,000.
A NEW JOHNSTOWN.
r!ie °°g directory of Johnstown,
f *•» an ‘ u £ „ troughs hundred con
tarns the names ofmin f ov r g ve
business and l >r " cs ‘ H also
s “ ows t ia j nQW tbirty-six
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Congo (African) railroad.
SCHLBT COUNTY NJWB.
AIR SHIPS.
Problem of Their Construction
Receiving Great Attention.
Vessels of the FutureThat Will
Sail the Aerial Sea.
The problem of air navigation is re
ceiving more attention now than ever
before. Nor is it “cranks" only who
are working at it. Mechanical engi
neers of ability and reputation are de
voting time and thought to its solution.
That some one will work it out at a
not very distant day is not at all impos
sible, nor even improbable. It is sim
ply a question of increasing power with
out increasing the weight of the appa
ratus by which the power is developed.
Just how much the ratio of power to
weight must be increased we do not
venture to say, but there are no suffi -
cient grounds for asserting that such
increase is impracticable. The solution
of the problem may be found in im
proved engines and boilers, or in new
fuels, or in storage batteries, or in some
yet unexplored part of the field of elec
trical force. It would be rash to pre
dict just how success will be reached,
but it would be much more rash to insist
that it never will be reached.
The successful airship will, it is safe
to say, be a large structure, very light
weight compared with its strength, but
yet many times heavier than the air
which it displaces. The mechanical
skill which has produced that marvel of
lightness and strength, the modern
bicycle, will not find the task of design
ing such a structure too difficult.
Attempts to navigate the air by means
of gas-inflated receptacles have been
persisted in through a hundred years,
but no real success has been reached.
Such devices, in spite of all the efforts
to make them dirigible, are but as
feathers in the wind. All such at
tempts arc in the wrong direction. A
bird can fly—not because it is compara
tively light in weight (for it is not) but
because it is strong. Its breast muscles
by which its wings are operated, are of
immense proportionate size, and the
rapid circulation of its blood supplies
these muscles with abundant stores of
energy. Of all living creatures the vital
energies of the bird are the most in
tense, and it is, therefore, able to pro
duce the power required to sustain its
body in and propel it through the air.
A Western invent or proposes to solve
the problem by means of an immense
cylinder 500 feet long and 100 feet in
diameter, from the inside of which the
air is to be exhausted in order to lighten
it. The plan will not bear investiga
tion. The air in such cylinder would
weigh about 150 tons. Add conical
ends, each extending 250 feet, and it
would be (theoretically) possible to
pump out about 200 tons of air. But
the cylinder itself, made of quarter
inch steel without any internal bracing,
would weigh at least 1,200 tons. Com
pared with this the weight of the air is
insignificant-—hardly more than that of
the food in a pigeon’s crop compared
with the weight of its entire body.
And as to exhaust the air from the
cylinder would at once subject it to a
pressure of considerably over 3,000,000
pounds from the outside atmosphere the
scheme appears rather wild. Much less
open to adverse criticism is the plan
suggested by Mr. E. C. Stedman years
ago in the then Scribner's Monthly Mag
azine , which was to fill all the hollow
spaces in the proposed air ship with
hydrogen gas. This gas, at normal
pressure, would sustain the pressure of
the atmosphere, while its weight is only
one-fourteenth that of air.
Ihe notion that aluminum, because of
its lightness, may make aerial naviga
tion possible, is a mistaken one. Tn at
metal has only about one-third the
strength of .tool nnd no special advan
tagecould be gained from its use.
The successful air ship will uot be a
bag of gas nor an exhausted receiver,
but a structure having the strength of
steel aud carrying machinery of coi^par
a tively little weight, but capable of do
vel - enormous power. It will lift
itself from the earth and hold a level
flight through space because of the tre
mendous force with which the air is
beaten by its huge whirling oars, or the
blades of its swiftly revolving screws.
I* T "iU ... be , able ,. . marntam . . its . course
against those currents of the aerial sea,
the wind. And it is not unlikely that
the first successful voyage through up
per air will mark the farthest limit of
.ehievrment fa hi, .1
the ages to subdue the realm of nature
and bend to his own uses its most un
tamable forces. There will then be no
new field for the mechanical engineer to
conquer.— Railway Master Mechanic.
Facts Regarding Babies.
In the course of a lecture delivered in
New Orleans the other day a distin
guished female physician said that the
inability of a baby to hold up its head
was not due to the weakness of the
neek, but to the lack of development of
its will power. The act of standing
was instinctive aud initiative, while
facial expression and gesture were due
almost wholly to imitation. A baby’s
smile, she said, was the most mis under- 1
stood thing in infancy. A real smile
must have an idea behind it, but the
expression resembling a smile, which is
so often seen on a very young baby’s
face, was without an idea, and was due
to the easy condition of the stomach or
to some other physical satisfaction. The
smile with an idea does not appear
earlier than the fourth week. So, too,
with the crying of a baby. The con
tortion of the features is due to physi
cal causes. The baby sheds no tears,
because the lachrymal glands are not
developed for several weeks after birth.
The chief pleasure of all children is
to change from one condition to an
other by their own efforts. This is the
beginniug of the development of the
will power, and is often attested in
what has been called the “imperative
intention of tears.” This is not dis
closed until after the second or third
month.
A baby tests everything by its mouth,
its sense of taste being the surest and
most reliable guide it has. The atten
tion of all young children is difficult to
attract, and they must attain considera
ble age before they begin to notice.
Then colors and sounds arc most poten
tial. Fear has been known to bo mani
fested by a baby only three weeks old,
and in all cases the sensation is pro
duced by sound more than by sight.
Children of luxurious and carefully
guarded homes are almost wholly with
out fear, but the children of poor and
exposed parents always manifest it.
Jealousy and sympathy begin to mam
fest themselves in the second year. Cu
riosity also begins to develop here, and
proves to be a self-feeder throughout
childhood. A little later the ego be
gins to appear, and the baby has the
first consciousness of itself. The ego
first appears as a muscular sense, and
the infant gradually learns to distin
guish itself from surrounding objects,
It is first the hand that is distinguished
and then the foot and finally the whole
body.
Memory does not appear before the
child is two years of age. All the rea
soning of children is primitive and ele
mentary, and develops slowly. Darwin
noted an association of ideas in the
mind of his child when it was only five
months of age.
The lecturer related experiences of
babies with the first view of mirrors,
and showed that their actions under the
new conditions were similar to those of
anthropoid apes and dogs under like
conditions.
Belgium’s Hatless Monarch.
Leopold, King of the Belgians, is a
sworn foe of tobacco and an ardent sup
porter of the Belgian Anti-Tobacco
League. He is, as well, a man of “sim
ple and severe way of life. ” He rises
early, breakfasts sparingly, and—a rare
thing on the Continent—takes his morn
ing tub with all an Englishman’s fervor,
His wide sympathies embrace vegetari
ani c m in their scope, and his most nota
ble passion, perhaps, is for going about
without a hat. Whenever the weather
is suitable King Leopold goes abroad in
his garden as hatless as Adam, exulting
in his freedom from the conventionality
of a headpiece. He has some strange
craze about the wind’s action on the
brain, and he puts his craze into prac
tice whenever possible. In fact, eccen
tricity of the intelligent kind marked
him for her own. He is a linguist of
rare acquisitions and is always deep in
the study of some new language or
other. Music is one of his aversions, but
the sister art of painting finds in him
an appreciative and enthusiastic ama
teur. Hi; face is strong and intelli
gent, without being handsome, and a
beard of appropriately regal length
sweeps his chest.
Mettlesome.
“I showed ’em the mettle I was made
of.”
“What did you do that for? Hadn’t
they brass before?” 1
ever seen
scientific scraps.
War balloons are being made in Eng*
land for the French army.
Faraftutcs have been adopted in Ger
many for campaigning purposes.
An average of five feet of water i3 es.
timated to fall annually over the whole
earth.
An Italian engineer has successfully
presented re incrustation *f steam
boilers by the use of sugar.
There is quite an agitation on this
side the water in favor of metal ties in
stead of depleting our forests year by
year.
The electrical treatment ef sewag*
bids fair to give sanitary engineers one
of the most valuable improvements sub
mitted to them in a long time.
Worcester, Mass., has a factory for
the manufacture of corrugated steel
barrel hoops, lately invented, which am
said to be elastic, and hug barrels or
packages tightly. They are welded in
two seconds.
It is pointed out that when much dust
19 P resent in lho atmosphere the heat of
the sun is greatly absorbed, hence it
seems probable that dust particles may
aid in the formation qf fogs in another
way than by acting as nuclei.
Professor Elisha Gray remarks that
electrical science has made a greater ad
vance in the last tw T cnty years than in
all the 6000 historic yeari preceding.
More is discovered in one day now than
in a thousand years of the middle ages.
A Lewiston (Me.) paper says: “A
method of distinguishing the mushroom
from the poisonous toadstool is said to
be by sprinkling salt ou the under side.
II it turns black the mushroom is good;
if yellow, it is poisonous. Time should
be given the salt to act.”
It has been noticed that a jet of com
pressed gas inflicts upon the body an
injury of the same nature a burn.
Dr. B. W. Richard3on has accordingly
suggested the use of compressed gas—
carbonic acid as most convenient—as a
cautery, with advantages in removing
warts, etc.
The fastest locomotive employed ia
carrying the Scotch mail, where the
highest rate of speed in England is at
tained, has three cylinders, a new de
parture in locomotive building, and a
seven-feet driving wheel. It ha® been
made specially for high speed w ; th
heavy trains.
The wiring of the Parliament Build
ing in Vienna has been quite ingeniously
accomplished, the principal cable run
through one of the many vcntilat
ing pipes, the wires being carried
through the gas piping, thereby allow
ing the elaborate decorations on the
walls to remain uninjured,
An artesian well in North City, a
suburb of St. Augustine, Fla., is said to
have tho largest flow of any artesiaa
well in tho world. It is an eight-inch
we ii, and its flow exceeds the highest
expectations. From a measurement
made by Dr. J. K. Rainey, the flow ex
ceeds 8000 galIong per m j nu te, or ovcr
n 600,000 gallons every twenty-four
hour3 .
While we expect to find the ears
upon the head in the larger animals, we
look in vain for the same arrangement
in the lower invertebrate creatures
Many of these, like the scallops have no
head; others, like crabs and lobsters,
have no ears placed on their horns or
attennae; others, like the green grass
hopper, have the ear on the foreleg;
others, like the fresh-water shrimp,
have R on the tail.
Alaska Currants.
The dried currant-like fruit frequently
referred to by travellers iu Alaska as
gathered by the Indians in immense
quantities, is not a true currant, but the
berries of tho Shepherd ia nrgentea, a
<arge shrub known in our Northern
States and Territories as the Buffalo
berry. A correspondent residing at
Fort Wrangle, Alaska, writes us that
this is about the only native edible fruit
of the c<nmtr7 ’ and the Indiana a PP re '
ciat ° 80 hi ^ hIy that thcy « ather and
dry U for winter U8e ’ berries not
only serving as an agreeable acid sauce,
but no doubt adding much to tho health
of the oonsumer. While this handsome
and prolific shrub is a native of the
colder regions of tho Rocky Mountaina
from New Mexico northward to Alaska,
it also thrives in tho gardens of our
eastern cities and their suburbs, where
it has been sparingly cultivated for the
pag t Lalf century, and perhaps for a
longer time.