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r i i BLACKNHEAR TIMES
VOL. VI.
SOliiHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
k CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE in the southern states.
Ex-Governor Perry, of Florida, is dy
ing at Bandera, Texas.
There was a light frost in middle and
north Alabama Tuesday night.
A receiver was, on Monday, appointed
for the Souih Carolina railroad.
There was frost at Port Gibson and
Jackson, Aliss., on Sunday night, the
earliest in years.
The Clipper saw mills, nt New Orleans,
togeiher with a large lot of lumber,
burned Tuesday morning. Loss $30,000;
fully insured.
The matter of the receivership of the
electric and city railroads of Richmond,
Va., was again postponed by the chancery
judge, Thuisday.
The Merrick Wrecking company, of
Norfolk, is at wrk saving the cargo of
the Amy Dera, which was abandoned by
her officers and crew.
jlJlhe trial of Edward Browu, charged
with the assassination of Colonel Roger
J. Page, late editor of the Marion 'l imes
Register, was begun at (. liurlotte, N. C.,
Friday, iu McDowell superior court.
Robbers intercepted a boy mail rider
between Leakeville and Palestine. Miss.,
Monday.and after rifling the mail pouch,
containing two registered the letters, boy and gave de
the empty pouch to
parted.
The North Carolina synod of tlie Pres
byterian church convened in annual ses
siou iu ( harlotte on Tuesday,with about
one hundred deb gates and in preachers session
(resent. The synod will be
one week.
The general Assembly of the Knights
of Labor will be held in Atlanta on the
12th of November, and the executive
comm ttee of the order, now in session at
St. Louis, aie arranging business for the
assembly.
An agreement was reached between
the striking miners at Coalburg, near and
Birmingham, Ala,, on Wednesday,
the miners will icturn to work, it is re
ported that the terms of the operators
were accepted.
Cotton men at Savannah, Ga., say that
indications point to an attempt by New
York parties to corner Octoner cotton.
It is reported that all tho friegqt room ol
from there to New York for the rest
the month lias been engaged, or, iu the
language of the street, “swept clean.”
The property of Hillman, the electric
health resort, at Washington, Ga., was
sold on Tuesday at auction and was
bought by Mr. James Ben-on for $8,000.
There are about 150 acres of land. Mr.
Benson is one of the persons whose
health was restored by it. He says it
will be kept up as a resort.
Coke iron was made in Anniston, Ala.,
for the first time on .Friday. The two
furnaces have been in course of construc
tion for two yeurs, and are among t e
!arge>t and best m the country. ’Ilie ton
nage of iron, when both furnaces are in
blast, will be more than that of tlie cot
ton crop of the whole south.
A special committee was on Tuesday
appointed by the chamber of commerce
to take sieps looking to the contr'd of
the Sou'll Carolina railway inleic-ts of
Ctiarleston, S. C. No definite plan of ac
tion was adopted, but with the co-opera
tion ot local capitalists can be bought and
operated, especially in the interests ol
that port.
A dispatch from Flemingsburg, Ky.,
says: At least five hundred tin u-aud
pounds of tobacco in this coun'y has
been emirely destroyed by ti e frost of
the last three nights. The auditor’s re
port places the average crop of the coun
ty at 4,700,<>00 pounds, and this year the
cr> p was above that figure. About half
of the crop had been housed and cured.
The repott that the various Alliances,
Wheels, etc., would be called on to pe
tition the legi-lutu.es of their respective
States to suspend the collection of debts
for six months has been denied by
Col. L. F. Livingston, President of the
State Alliance if Georgia, who says:
“The Farmers’ Alliance has never adopt
ed such a resolution, and never will.”
The Tennessee conference, now in ses
sion at Murrreesburo, Teun., has a pecu
liar question be.ore them. In passing the
the tharac ers of the preachers, Hag
charge was made against Brother
gard that he hi d been engaged to two of
women at the same time, m rrjing one
them within a week after writing a letter
to the other p edging his undying love. for
The case was referred to a committee
trial.
Last June the town of Livingston,
Sumter county, A!a., was almost entirely
destroyed by fire one night, causing
heavy loss to the business men. Recently
evidence w as discovered tending to show
that the fire was of incendiary origin,
and citizens of Livingston sent detective
Rubins, of Birmii gham, who went down
Thnrs-dav aud at rested Andrew Moore,
Andrew Ivy and Donham Jones, charg
ing them with the crime.
The New York and New Orleans Coal
and Iron Company have recently pur
chased 64,000 acres of coal, iron and
timber lands in Tennessee. Expert min
ing engineers say that on the property
are 1.250,000,000 tons of red fossil ore
and 300.000.000 tons of brnwn hematite,
six workable veins of coal, varying from
three to eleven feet in thiekne-s. and es
timated to contain 537.000,000 tons of
coal, or enough to last the entire United
Mates for five years.
A telegram was received at Savannah,
Ga., Monday afternoon, statintr that the
British steamship Amy Dora, Captain J.
GA. OCTOBER 17 . 1889.
J. Thompson, which cleared there for
Genoa in the latter part of September,
lias gone ashore on the Virginia shore.
A hole was stove in her hull and she
filled with water. She was attempting coal.
to put iu at Newport News for
She has aboard 4,700 bales of upland
cotton, weighing 2,840.908 pounds, various a^iu
valued at $238,818, shipped by
Savannah firms.
Tlie New York Sun's cotton review of
Friday: Futures declined 8 to 11 points
under an unexpectedly weak report from
Liverpool instead of the advance which
the bulls expected. On this decline
her* was a brisk demand to cover con
tracts, and as the day wore on the com
paratively small crop mo vein nt gave
strength to values. An .exceptional
feature was the lurther development month of
October cotton, which caused this
to close dearer. Cotton on spot was
steady but quiet.
The great fertilizer factory of G. Ober
& Hons, e tablished in 1857, at Locust
Point, Baltimore, burned Thursday. It
consisted of three large buildings which
cost $125,000. The first building, in
which 100 men were at work, burned to
the ground and the flames, driven by tho
winds spread to another large building,
completely gutting it. Fu ly $200,000
worth of damage had been done to the
buildings.before the flames were gotten
tinder control, which a member of the
firm says cost $200,000, and $00,000
worth of stock.__
ANOTHER CALL.
A GRAND RALLY OF ALLIANCES TO BE
nELD AT ST. LOUIS IN DECEMBER.
Hon. R. G. Sledge, chairman of the
national cotton committee of rite Farm
er.-,’ Alliance, with the other members of
the executive committee at Atlanta, Ga.,
on Tuesday, promulgated a paper
stronger than any yet drafted against
jute. T he paper was signed by himself
and lion. L F. L vingston and lion. R.
F. Kolb, and was mailed to the president
of every wheel, union aud alliance in
the cotton stati s, and to the farmers and
laboreis 1 union throughout the country,
i nd is us follows: Whereas, Recent in
lormation of a reliable natiiie has
reached us, that a jute combination has
been renewed, upon a more extons ve
scale than formerly, denominated the
American Manufacturing company, bagging in
which perhaps all principal jute
manufacturers are interested, by which
they propose to force on the cotton pro
ducer for the year 1890 their outputs;
and, Whereas, It is absolutely necessary
that whatever should be done to prevent
the same must, to be efficient, be done at
the cailiest possible day; therefore we,
the uudeisigncd, most earnestly request
presidents of expression each state alliance sub-alli- to
a decided from
ances, wheels and unions, in favor of the
exclusive use of cotton bagging for the
year 1890, and report the same to a con
vention at St. Louis on December 7th
next, at 10 a. m. Said convention to be
composed of the presidents of each
state alliance, wheel or union, or such
representatives as they may select, and
one or more delegates from each cotton
exchange in the United States, to take
into consideration and set tie the question
of tare on cotton covered-bales, and to
establish a standard cotton bagging.
We earnestly request the Hon. Evan
J nes, president of the Farmeis’ and La
borers’ union of America, to invite each
cotton exchange iu the United States to
send convention. properly accredited And in delegates tlie to
said event
that the cotton exchanges refuse or
neglect to participate in said convention,
then tlie delegates representing the pro
ducers shall proceed to fix the tare aud
prescribe a standard cotton bsgging, to
which a 1 alliancemen will unconipro
mizingly adhere. This action is neces
sary, that manufacturers of cotton bag
ging may be enabled to supply the de
mands at reasonable prices. Let sub
alliances take action immediately. Jj.
F. Livingston, President S. F. A.; R.
G. Sledge, Chmn. Nat. Con. Com.; R.
F. Kolb, Ag. Comr. Alabama.
BURNING COTTON.
TWO COMPRESSES AND 4,000 BALES 0>
COTTON BURNED IN SAVANNAH, GA.
The lower hydraulic and the Tyler
cotton compress, with their sheds and
4,000 bales of cotton were buried Wed
nesday morning, at Savannah, Ga.
The tire was discovered in the lower
press on Bay street at 2 o’clock.
Everything was very dry and the fire
swept irom yard to yaid rapidiv. The
wharf frontage was over five hundred feet
aud the depth to Bay str et was about
two hundred and fifty. For three h airs
all of that space, two acres and a li - If,
was ablaze. Tim c ve-sels, the Napier,
the Cypress and the CarltoD, all British
steam-hips, were lying at the wharves in
front id tiie burning bull lings and yards.
All of the cotton, 4,000 bales, on the
wharves took fire and were completely
destroyed. Tue presses are va ued at
- imettiing like $75,000 and the build
ings are protected. The total loss on the
cotton and presses is $400,'XiO.
WILL BUILD SHIPS.
A COMPANY ORGANIZED IN CHARLESTON
S. C., FOR THAT PURPOSE.
There was forwarded to the secretary
of state at Columbia, S. C., on Tuesday,
the declaration for tue charter of “tin
South Carolina Naval Construction and
ship-owners' Ass<x iation,” o; Charles
ton. capital stock $100,000, in shares ol
$50 each. The ns nts of the incor,ja
nitors will be published later, The oh
jects and purposes o the new eaterpri
are, bri' fly, to establish in Char.estoi fleet 'f ;
s:.ip yard tor the bui.di .g of x
carrying v- ssels, combining with this the
marine insurance.
GENERAL NEWS
C’0AZ>A’AM4 TiOA’ OF GURHMS, I
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS HiOJI EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS. STRlfEl,
HUES. AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
in Cornwall, England, Sunday.
Five more bodies were recovered front
the debris in a creek at Johnstown, Pa.,
on Tuesday.
A terrific storm prevailed on l.ako Hu
ron Monday. It is feared several vessels
have gone down.
The triennial national congress of Con
go eg itu.Ui.l churches met in Worcester,
Mas on Wednesday.
A tire in Pittsburg, Pa., on Monday
night, destroyed Oliver Druthers’ mill,
on Tenth street. Loss $250,000.
The old board of directors of the
Western Union telegraph company wa;
rc-lccted Wednesday without opposition.
According to the latest estimate, tin
new Fnncli chamber of deputies will
have 305 republican aud 210 opposition
members.
An anonymous writer has returned
$050 conscience money to Secretary 4\ i'.i
dom. The letter was postmarked St.
Joseph, Mo.
The regents offered ex-Queen Natalie
a large sum of money, provided condition* sly
would accept their proposed
and depart from tiervia.
Up to t’ne recess Tuesday night 037
jurors had been excused iu the Cronin
case at Chicago, foil. accepted and sworn
in and four temporarily passed.
The magnificent store and residence of
Clem Stuuchuker, in Evansville, Ind.,
which cost $300,000, was almost de
stroyed by tire Wi duesday morning.
Sister Martha Eldcn died Tuesday at
the convent of Mount St. Josephus,
Frederick, Md. She was ninety-four
years old, and had been in the sisterhood
neventy-six years.
General 15. Faulkner, the convicted
Danville hank wtccker, of Buffalo, N.
Y., on Wednesday gave bail in $20,000
to await the result of the appeal of his
case now pending.
Returns, on Monday, from towns that
cast more than two-ihirds of the state
vote of Connecticut la>t year, show that
the vote on the prohibitory amendment
is about three to one against it.
A dispath from Brainerd, Minn., an
nounces that the requisite number of sig
natures to ratify the sa'e of the lands of
the Mille Lacs Indians have been ob
tained. The sale embraces 3,000,000
acres of land in Minnesota.
Judge Day, at Auburn, N. Y.,
lias decided that the electrical
execution law is constitutional,
and remands Kemmler, under a death
st ntcnce by < lectrn ity, to the custody of
the warden of Auburn prison.
James Morgan, an Indiana farmer, who
lately advertised that he would give
$5,000 to any woman accommodated. who would marry
him, has been Miss
Hetty S. Wilson, aged forty-seven, has
accepted the offer. Morgan is eighty
two years old.
The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust
company, as tru-tec for holders of $8,
000,000 of bonds on which interest lias
been defaulted, has eptered suit for fore
closure in the United Hiatts court at
Boston, against tue American Rapid
Telegraph company.
An estimate has been made by the audi
tor o! tlie Pensylvania railroad of the
losses incurred during the Johnstown
floods, winch shows that $1,500,000 will
have to be expended in r< pairs, while
there was a comparative incidental lo-sin
earnings of nearly $1,000,000.
One hundred persons were buried in
the debris of buildings shattered by a
storm that visited the island of Sardinia,
and thi.tv persons were kill'd. In the
province of Caglari 240 hous s were de
stroyed. Six'een persons were killed and
hundreds were injured.
It is reported that William Warldorfl
Aster, at a banquet, given by himself to
Mayor Grant, on Wednesday night, de
elaied that the World’s Fair at New
York, must be a success, and that if
necessary he would foot tin* entire bill,
estimate! at $20,000,000, lmnself.
Edward Spellman, of Pe ria, III., who
is to be a wi tless in the Cronin case, will
produce tue mi-sing books of Clan-mi
Gaci camp No. 20. The e books, it is
stated, will show beyond question that
secret committee to try Dr. Cr nin
appoint'! by Senior Gu.idian Beggs.
At Terre Haute, Ind., Axtele,
great trotter, was kj <i to Co onel
ley, ol Chicago, for $105,000.
Conley is supposed to represent a
cate. Andy Walsh, of Hartford, and
.Madden, of Lexington offered $101,000,
but it was refuse 1, Tb s is the
price ever paid for any horse.
The Daily New*, of London, prints
letter from Crete, which confirms the
port that Chakii Pasha, the governor,
allowed Turkish troops t> pillage and
per-ecute Christians after gaining their
confidence by promises of protection.
The letter gives a list of killed,
and imprisoned and describes the
ities in detail.
W. R. Robinson A Co., oil dealers,
Provid-nce, It I., made an Bedford.
Thursday to J. Swift, of New
The firm was established in 1829,
Las an oil rt finery in New Bedford,
an office in Providence. The firm’s
debteoness is placed at from $250,000
$300,000.
Two thousand women workers in Lon
don, England, held a meeting Thursday,
at which they re-olved to organize
the purimse of improvin'- their
tion. The Bishop of Bedford presided,
and a mo ii" the well known persons pres
ent. were Lady Sanhurst, the Rev. Messrs.
Price, Hughes and Clifford, and Me-srs.
Burns, Ttiatf, Mann and Champion, la
bor agitato) s.
A wreck occurred on the Cleveland,
Wheel ill" and Lorain railroad, two miles
west of Bridgeport, Ohio, Friday morn
ing between an engine and cab >ose car
rying about one hundred laborers. One
train was going north and a freight with
a caboose com mg south. A gel end
smash-up was ihe result. Pour men.
whom 'names could not he learne I, were
killed and twelve were fatally injured.
The corner stone of the New \ oik
World’s new home, the Pulitzer 1 wilding,
at P rk Row and Franklort str ets, was
laid Friday afternoon by Joseph l’ulit
zer, Jr.. the four-vcur-old son ol the pro
prietor utul editor of the World, Ci,|
onel John A. Coekerill, editor of the
Worid, represented Mr. Pulitzer, and
made the opening address, He was fol
lowed by Chauticey Depew and Gov< rnor
Hill. Among those who attended the
ceremonies w ere Govern >r Green, of New
Jersey, Geoige V. ( bilds, of the Phila
delphia Ledger, E. Furlong, of the Cam
den Post, and Mayor Grant
RECOVERING THE BONDS.
THE NEW ORLEANS GRAND JURY RECOVER
MOST OF THE MISSING StU'l JUTIK8.
The grand jury nt New Orleans,
Wednesday, made tho following report
regarding the stolen bonds: To 1 be
Hon. R. II. Marr, Judge of the Criminal
District Court: ‘‘We have the honor to
repott that the following missing bonds,
Know n ns Constitutional bonds, have been
recovered and have been turne I over to
the attorney general of the state, to wit:
two hundred and fitly two $1,1)1 0
bonds, numbers 249 to 500, $252,000;
two lmt lied and thirty $500 bonds,
numbers ,’J1 to 05, and numoois 70 to
800, $115,000; oito hundred and sixty
three $10d Ootids, numbers 88 to 200,
$100. total amount recovered, $888,400.
We have deem, d it our duty to make
this announcement to your Honor, so
from an official source of information it
may reach the public, and to sonic extent
lend to settle too condition of the fitmu
cial affairs of the state.” Attorney-Gen
eral W. H. Rogers states that of the
S’olen Constitutional bonds there is slid
put the fo lowing: Duo $1,090 bond,
number 199, $1,000; f rty-nine
$1,000 bonds, numbers 201 t"
2*18 inclusive, $49,000; foity
$■'}! 0 bonds, numbers 8(1 to 75,
$20,000. Total Constitutional bonds tin
recovered, $70,000. Tbeimpre~sion now
is that all the stolen bonds will be re
covered by the authorities, most of them
being held in New Orleans.
GALLANT KNIGHTS.
MEETING OF THE GRAND CONCLAVE. OF
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR IN WASHINGTON.
On Tuesday, the city of Washington
wore a holiday garb. Tho days of chiv
alry, with all their pom]) and display,
seemed revived. It was the opening of
day of the grand triennial conclave
Knights-T- niplar of the United Btates.
Long columns of soldiery, with Hu it
gorgeous plumes and uniforms, gallop- ban
ing, mounted equerries, fluttering
martial music, the shrill and com
ntanding trumpet calls, and throngs
of admiring spcctatois, made
the scene grandly imposing.
Along Pennsylvania avenue the d. corn
tor had been lavish iri the use of bunting
and from every window und hou-c front
Jugs, banners and the cr-ss of the t emp
lars were in tho eri-qt October air. A
moderate estimate would , lace the nurn
her of visitors in the cityat about50.000,
and the number of knights has been es
timated nt from 15,000 to 20,00'), co all -
prising over 200 commanderies from
sections of the country.
ALLIANCES IN ALABAMA.
BOTH WHITE AM) COLORED ALLIANCES
BEING ORGANIZED AND BOOMING.
The following is from Greenville,
Ala.: “Thirteen colored Farmers’ A lit
slices have thus far been organized in
this, Butler county, alone,and belong the
e ore of the year sitniliar organizations
will he formed in ev-ry township. The
membership is not large,but it is rapidly
increasing, and bids fair to be strong
I he white and colored Alliances are
united in their war against trusis, and in
promotion of the doctrine that farmers
s,.r lUlrl establish co-operative stores an l
manufactures, and publish tie ir own
newspa pers, conduct their own schools,
and have a hand iri everything else them that
f-niecns them as citizens or - ff> <•t
personally or collectively. A manufac
turing at d commercial company, tinder
the auspices of the Farmers’ Alliance,has
been organized here, with a capital of
$125,000.”
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY
SUCCESSFUL TESTS OF A I'ROri FOR HK
MOVING PHOSPHORUS FROM IRON.
Four succc sful tests were made, on
Wednesday, at the furnaces in Birming
ham, Ala., of a etc iniial process for re
moving all phosphorus from iron, and
converting it into Bessemer pig. Every
test was pronounced a complete success
by chemists and practical -t-el men en
g ged to witness them. The process h is
just been disc .vered by a Seo cn chem
ist, narne l Archibald, who is in the em
ploy of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad company. By this process the
extra cost of converting the ores of that
section into bessemer pig wilt ue only
fifty cents a ton. The succes- of the ex
periments iiave cause i no little excite
ment in iron and financial circles.
WASHINGTON, D. (J.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OK INTEREST FROM TUB NATIONAL CAPITAL,
Edward D. Olmstead was on Thurs
day appointed postmaster at New Deca
tur, Ala.
The President on Thursday appointed
Edward D. Olmstead, postmaster at New
Decatur, Ala.
ia o. Leech has been appointed direct*
or of the mint at Columbia, S. C., vice
Dr. J. P. Kimball, resigned.
The government dry dock, just opened
at the navy yard in Norfolk, Va., is 530
feet over all, and will hold 8,0 0,000
gallons of water. 11 has cost $500,000.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Bussey, i n \\ rdnesday, rescinded the
order of Commissioner Tanner, provid
ing that no disability pension shall be
less than four dollrus per month.
The members of the 51st Congress arc
beginning to make their appearance in
Washington, and the political gossips
are at work upon their slates in connec
tion with the organization of the House
of Representatives,
Secretary Tracy issued an order Thurs
to the contractor of the Petrel to deliver
vessel at the Norfolk, Va., navy yard ,ov
acceptance. Her electric light plant
will he placed aboard, and then she will
he complete and ready for service.
The state department, at Washington,
is in recept of a report of the recent riot
at Navas-in, Jamaica. The laborers
charge that the bosses and managers at
tacked them with firearms because they
r< fused to work after being improperly
treated, that they captured some of the
guns and returned the lire.
The surgi oil-general of the marine hos
pital service, received a tub Posey, gram Thurs
day morning from Dr. at Ja;,k*
sonville, Flu., saying that the stale hoard
of health reports several cases of yellow
fever at Key West. 1 he surgeon says
there is no need of apprehension, and
that every precaution lias been taken to
prevent the spread of the disease.
1 lie present term of the United States
Supreme. Court will be confronted withn
docket of 1,825 cases, and it is esti
mated, diligently as court may sit, it can
dispose ol not more than 40(1 during the
term. Virginia coupon cases will he
called immediately, as will also be the
ease of Cross and While against the
state of North Carolina. This latter in
a criminal ease which, in pursuance of a
previous order of the court, lias been
advanced on the docket.
A statement, prewired nt the treasury
department shows that the total amount
of standard silver dollars in the treasury,
against which certificates may bo issued
is $5,170 171. Of dollars, a total coinage ol
$841,199,050, silver there is in
the treasury $282,829,808, against which
tiler,-are in circulation $277,758,102 of
certificates, '1 lie amount, of standard
dollars m circulation is $88,870,877, and
the count of silver certificates in the
ticasiiry is $2,582,205.
Cotton returns of the first of October,
to the department of agriculture, show a
large plant, growth, active opening of
bolls, the fibre in good condition, and
generally fine weather for picking, yet
the plant is everywhere reported lute,
and fears are expressed that frost may
seriously shorten the crop. The crop lias
been injured more by moi-t.ure than
drouth, though some soils and localities
have been too dry in September. injury, Worms
have wrought considerable not
withstanding the geneial use of insecti
cides, especially west of Alabama. Com
plaint of adulteration of paris green is
made in certain quarters. The following
state percentages were, presented: Vir
gin a 58, North Carolina 72, South Car
olina 81, Geotgia 87, Florida 88, Alaba
ma 87, Mississippi 79. Louisiana 88,
Texas 78. Arkansas 88, Tennessee 82.
This makes, as a general percentage, 81.4
of a full crop. Prospects on the first of
October, compared with 87.9 per cent,
last October.
A DEADLY GAS PIPE.
DISASTROUS AND FATAL RESULT OF A
. GAS DISPLAY.
A second accident in the history of the
Kokomo gas belt occurred at Jerome, fif
teen miles cast of Kokomo, Ind., on
Monday night, in which Clm-a Mormon
was instantly killed; Frank Little had a
leg broken, necessitating amputation;
Hiram Overman bail bis skull fractured,
and John Hogue probably fatally burned,
while a number of others who were in
close proximity were more or less injured.
A large crowd had gathered at this well,
which is the strongest one in the state,
to witness the gas display. Sixty feet
of four-inch pipe was laid from the well
terminating ;n a vertical elbow, four feet
in height. The young man who applied
the torch foolishly turned this elbow
down to lie on the ground, and just as
tlie gas ignited the tremendous force
flung sixty feet of pipe around, striking
and burning everything within its reach.
The Penusylvniiiia Railroad is making
experiments to mitigate the horrors of
burning trains. It,-, projs.-ed with to pla-e
on the engines a connection the
steam-pump, by which a hose can lie
attached and used to quench tire. A
tnai was made the other day in West
Philadelphia, and the pump threw a
stream over the highest buildings. If
further experiments prove engines successful, will lie a
number of jassengcr
equipped, ami the train crews exercised
in the tire drill.
NO. 2.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
WHO Wil l, MANAGE KNIOHT8 TEMPLAR
At FAIRS FOR THE NEXT TI1UF.E YEARS.
The grand encampment Knights Tem
plar of the United States, in secret ses
sion at Washington, D. on Thursday,
elected the following officers to serve for
the next three years: Very Eminent Sir
J. P. S. Gubin, of Pennsylvania, most
eminent McCurdy, grand master; Very Eminent Sir
Hugh of Michigan, deputy
grand master; Very Eminent Sir Warren
Lome Thomas, of Kentucky, grand
generalissimo; Very Eminent Sir Reuben
licdlin Lloyd, of California, grand cap
tain general; Very Emincut Sir Henry
Bales Stoddard, of Texas, grand senior
warden; Wry Eminent Sir Nicholas Van
Slyck, of Rhode Island, grand junior
warden; Very Eminent Sir H. Wales
Lines, of Connecticut, grand treasurer;
Very Eminent Sir William 11. Isaacs, of
Virginia, grand recorder, The next
conclave will he held In Denver.
THEY PROTEST.
business men of Mississippi upbraiding
THE EXCHANGES.
The board of trade of Jackson, Miss.,
on Tuesday night adopted deprecate the the followi action g:
Resolved, That wo the
of the cotton exchanges in tho various equal
cities in declining to agree to
izing convention of tare rules in proposed New Orleans; in the tag- that
ging tho Herts of tho New Or
we approve exchange i iiave the
leans cotton to tare
lutes generally adopted, and regret the
necessity that compelled them and to,decline tlmt
to adopt said tare rates, we
avow our purpose so far as wo can, to
labor for lire accomplishment of the end
set forth by said hugging convention.
A BIG SCHEME.
CONSOLIDATION THAT WITH, REVOLUTION
IZE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
A gigantic railway consolidation that
will connect tlte two oceans and revolu
tionize the international railway traffic,
has just been revealed at Chicago, 111.
Contracts have been signed whereby the
Baltimore A Ohio railroad is to enter Into
an agreement with tho consolidated
Wisconsin Central and Northern Pacific
lilies, connecting the oceans. The Atelt
i on, Topeka &, Bunts Pe system is in tho
deal, reaching Mexico and southern Cal
ifornia. Chicago will he made the centre
for operrating the three great lines. The
N trthorn Pacific will he extended from
Puget's sound and built into Alaska,
making a continuous lino from New
York city to Hitka.
TO COLONIZE THE NEGROES
TUI, lilt,I, FOR THAT IMtltl'OHE PARSED BY
ITU, MEXICAN I.EGISI.A'ITTII..
Advices from Mexico say the lull to
grant a concession to Henry O. Ferguson
ifld William If. Ellis, two colored men
..om Texas, who propose to colonize
lands in Oaxaca, Guerrero, Wra Cruz,
Michoacan and Him Luis Pots si with Ne
groes front Texas and other American
states, lias passed the lower house of
congress und has gone to the senate.
It is believed it will be passed expected and be
signed by the president. Jt is
that 2,000 Negroes from Texas will move
to Mexico and raise cotton on these
lands, and many thousands of industrious
blacks, skilled in cultivation, will follow
them from states east of the Mississippi.
Why Uarr.aclcB Fatten, and Batten
A well-known yachting authority Early has
been making some envious tests. sheet of
last Spring he procured a large
steel, such as is used for plating
yachts. He ruled it off into sections
and painted if with various preparation* fouling
which are supposed to be anti
compositions »wd irrt sisf iblo barnacle
killers. He sank the plate in four fath
oms of water, and f in other (la v lie ho’sf
ed it, up. It was covered with grass,
weeds und claimed barnacles. One a*solute compound, denth
which was to lx*
to barnacles, was encrusted w ith extraor
dinarily large specimens of pediineulat
ed cirri podia. almost large
.Some of them were as se
saddle rock oysters. With a view to dip
cover whether the composition was real*
ly poisonons or not, a tew of the barns'
cles were thrown to a neightior’s hog,
which devoured them with avidity. Fi r
teen minutes afterwards the hog was
dead. All of which is pretty conclusive
proof that wliat is poison for pigs is just
the food that barnacles fatten and l*it
ten upon. Meanwhile, a fortune awaits
the man who invents some really effect
ual anti-fouling composition for the bot
toms of iron shifts. Owners of the steel
yachts, which arc now so fashionable,
have to haul out perpetually if they wish
to keep up the speed of their vessels. —
New York Usrahl.
The United Htatcs cruiser Van tic is
out looking up derelicts. Hho was or
dered to provide lierself with charts of
Office floating and wrecks proceed from the Hydrographic Her
to destroy them.
orders directed though that derelicts
found witi,ill tin murine league of the
eons should not la- touched. The cus
tomary way to destroy these obstruc
tions and is bv blowing placing them torpedoes pieces. under Lust
them in
winter, when the cruisers Boston and
Atlanta, were in Wet India waters,
derelict they experimented, destroying every
they run across bv firing six-inch heavy
projectiles and eight-inch into them from It the have been
guns. may
a little more expensive way of destroy
jug the wrecks than if toipedoes had
been used, lmt it afforded, however, and a
good opjKirtunity for target practice effects
« chance to note he destructive
of the heavy shells.
