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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.