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VOL VI.
China has recently negotiated a loan in
Hamburg of $40,000,000. The Celestials
are surely getting modernized if not civ
ilized.
It will be a comfort to many timid per
sons to remembp: that deaths by lighting
in this countr* average only about one in
a million of the population annually. In
vention will reduce this average, but can
not give entire immunity.
In a recent case in England where ex
perts in chirography were called in to
testify, a bank cashier knocked them out
by exhibiting sixty-five checks signed by
one man, and yet no tw o of the signa
tures were exactly like. It is doubtful if
any man ever signed his name twice
alike.
The Boston and Maine Railroad Com
pany has instructed its ticket agents to
sell no more tickets to Chinamen for
points in Canada or to points in the
United States by any route requiring the
passenger to go through Canada. This
rule is made necessary by the national
legislation regarding Chinese immigra
tion.
While other parts erf the country have
suffered much damage from the wet
weather of the earlier part of the season,
the recent disaster at Quebec was trace
able to an opposite cause—the hot, dry
spell which made the earth on the high
est level crack and caused it when the
rainfall did come at last to let loose the
masses of broken rock usually held in
place by it. Either extreme is disas
trous, it appears; and the American peo
ple will hope to belong spared another
such year of antagonistic weather condi
tions.
A.stained and faded oil painting has
been found in Philadelphia the history of
which no man knows. But Mayor Fitler
of that city offered $4500 for the relic and
and its owners refused to part with it.
The fact that the canvas bears the date
of 1567 is the basis upon which its strik
ing value rests. Surely, says the New
York World , that is a strange conception
of art which bases its schedule of prices
not upon the beauty of pictures but upon
their date. Under such construction a
coin a thousand years old is more pleas
ing to the eye than a sketch by Meissonier.
What, in the mime of reason is a paint
ing for? _
The proposed telegraph cable between
San Francisco and New Zealand by way
of Honolulu would be about 5800 miles
long, the longer section, 3800 miles, be
tween Honolulu and New Zealand, pass
ing many island groups, where, if desira
ble, the cable could he landed. There is
now cable communication between New
Zealand and Australia, and the proposed
line would, in effect, complete the girdle
of the world. According to the Phila
delphia Ledger , the new line will cost ten
million dollars, and, though tJ.e project
ors are sure it would pay, yet, in order
to convince capitalists of that fact, they
would like to have the United States
guarantee three per cent, interest on the
ten million dollars of cost.
The American turkey as an article of
export is rapidly forcing itself into the
good graces of the London market,where
it is now welcomed at a figure somewhere
between $4 and $5 per head. The in
dustry of shipping America's surplus tur
keys to European markets began in good
earnest about a year ago. and as an indi
cation of how rapid and substantial the
development of this particular trade has
been the steam.- , "p Devonia. which sailed
from New Y'ork carried 700 cases of se
lected turkeys, which were conveyed
from Liverpool to the London market by
lightning express delivery. It is expected
that similar transatlantic shipments will
be made by all steamers leaving New
York during the winter months.
In 1846 the consumption of American
cotton by Great Britain amounted to
3,239,000 bales, while the L'nited States
used only 390,000 bales of the product.
In 1888 the English consumption had in
creased to 2,705,000 bales, and tiiat of
the United States to 2.191,000 bales.
These figures, the San Francisco Chrrni
cle declares, show that our cotton industry
L« slowly but surely gaining on Great
Britain, and that in a few years oar pro
duction will exceed hers considerably.
The fact that England's production of
cotton cloths has been nearly stationary
for seme years, while ours is steadily in
creasing, supports this view and causes
the Chronicle to conclude that our island
friends will soon lie obliged to abandon
their proud boast of being the , leading ,.
cotton manufacturing nation of the
BLACKSHKAR. (J A. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1881).
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
SEWS FROM XTEKIVSniE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!
I IMS, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Dr. Phillippe Rieord, the celebrated
French surgeon, died in Paris Tuesday.
Nearly seven hundred people were
drowned, and two hundred injured, dur
ing the September floods in Japan.
A dispatch from Fergus Falls, Mian.,
says that the ground was covered with
snow Monday morning at that place.
The large flouring mill of the L. C.
Porter milling company, at Winona,
Minn., burned Wednesday. Loss esti
mated at $150,000.
Cholera is still raging in the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months there have been 7,000
deaths from the disease.
Snow is reported from Baltimore,
Philadelphia, interior and various points in the
of New York and Pennsylvania.
A few' flakes fell in Washington also,
mingled with rain, which prevailed all
Wednesday.
A fire at Port Clinton, O., on Friday,
destroyed the planing mill and lumber
yard of August Spies & Co., an elevator
filled with grain, and n coal warehouse
owned by L. Couch & Co., together with
two Loss dwellings, railroad cars, docks, etc.
$100,000.
The switchmen’s strike in the Louis
ville and Nashville yards at Evansvide,
Iud., is practically at an end. New
switchmen ara arriving on every incom
ing train, and some of tho old ones have
applied for their places, and will doubt
less go to work at once.
The steamer Quinte, of the Deseronto
Navigation company, Friday. at Deseronto,Out., Four
was burned on persons
were lost. The boat had a light load of
freight and express matter, destroyed. principally She
lumber, all of which was
also carried mails, which were lost.
Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
whose celebrated tabernacle was de
stroyed by fire, one week ago, announced
on Sunday that the trustees of his
church had purchased Clinton property and 150x200
feet, on the corner of Greene
avenues, for the erection of a new taber
uacle. The ground will be broken on the
28th lost.
The Pope, in an address to some
French pilgrims, at, Rome, on Sunday,
advised the formation of an association
which shall bo devoted (o securing the
material welfare of tho workmen by
procuring increased facilities for labor,
calculating principles of economy and
defending the rights and legitimate
claims of workmen.
The cruisers Chicago, Boston, Atlanta
and Yorktown will sail for Europe about
the 10th of November, and after a trip
through, to the Mediterranean sea and
visiting all European capitals which can
ho reached by water, will return to the
United States in the spring, and then
make a trip in South American and Cen
tral American waters.
James J. YVcst,ex-editor of the Chicago
Times, gave bond in the sum of $2,500
to answer for his appearance whenever
the State chooses to put him on trial on
the charge of issuing stock of the which Tuner
Company with fradulent intent,for
he was indicted. Charles E. Graham,
former secretary of the Company, was
also indicted with West.
A dispatch from Woodville Fremont, Ohio, says:
The village of is a terribly
ravaged place. Nearly one-third of the
persons in the town are victims of ty
phoid fever and diphtheria. Last week
there were ten deaths from typhoid fever
and nearly that number prevails from diphtheria.
Great excitement in the town,
and business is entirely suspended.
A strike of moulders at Pittsburg, Pa.,
was inaugurated Monday. Two weeks
ago they made a demand for an advance
oi ten per cent in their wages, but up to
a late hour Saturday night, none of the
manufacturers had conceded the in
crease, and at a meeting it was decided
to strike on Monday morning. There are
about 1,000 moulders in the city.
In an address Monday before the Boys’
and Girls’ National Home association, in
session at Washington, D. C., Alexander
Hogeland, president of the association,
stated that there were $00,000 boy
tramps in the United States. He advo
cated the establishment of a registration bt
system by which boy tramps might
found and hired to farmers willing to
employ them.
The jute bagging factory of the South
Mills Bagging company, at St. Louis,
Mo., was damaged by fire Tuesday morn
ing to the extent of about $50,000.
About three hundred and fifty hands,
chiefly women and girls, are thrown out
of employment. The factory belonged to
the jute trust, and was running full
handed. The loss is covered by insu
rance.
A meeting was held at Philadelphia on
Wednesday of representatives of a num
ber of bar iron manufacturing establish
ments of Pennsylvania and vicinity to
consult concerning the condition of trade.
All stated that business was in good cjn
dition and that the demand for iron was
good and that their best quotation for
bars in car-load lots at Philadelphia pound; was
one and nine-tenths cents per
base, net cash.
The plan for changing the constitution
of the American cotton seed trust and
merging it into a new incorporated com
pany, was made public, at New Y'ork, on
Friday. Under its provisions, the new
company will issue $21,000,000 of stock
aB d $11,000,000 in bonds. The present
holders will receive twenty-five per cent.
of the face of their certificates in new
bonds, and fifty per cent, in new
stock. All property of the piesent trust
will be transferred to the new company.
Typhoid symptoms among Yale stu
dents at New Haven, Conn., is causing
increased uneasiness. On Tuesday, sev
eral men who showed symptoms of ty
phoid in a mild form, and several suf
fering from typhoid malaria, were sent
to their homes to recuperate, A mn
jority of the men who have been ill, have
rooms away from the college in different
parts of the city, and there is no unusual
sickness among the townspeople in the
sections where the students havo resided.
There seems to be no specific cause for
the present outbreak.
A FIENDISH DEED.
INHUMAN ACTS OF A PARTY OF NEGROES
IN ALABAMA.
A special, on Tuesday, to the Birmiug
hain Age Herald, from LaFayette, Ala.,
records a crime in Tallapoosa county that
has rarely been surpassed in its horrible
details. It seems that while Albert
Smith and his three oldest children had
gone some miles to church, live negro
men approached the house and asked
Mrs. Smith to give them something to
eat, * 1111(1 being refused, they went into
the house,and learning that there was no
one at home but Mrs. Smith and her lit
tle babe, forced her into the yard and
began ransacking the house. After aj >
preprinting all that they could find in
the way of money and valuables, they
set fire to the house, and added horror
to the terrible scene by forcing the
distracted woman to witness the
most brutal of fiendish deeds, which
was tho tossing of her little baby in the
air, and lotting it fall back almost on
the point of sharp knives which they held
under it. The brutes finally went away,
leaving the woman with nothing to greet
the return of the horror-stricken husband
and children but her half dead babe and
a smouldering heap of coals. People for
miles around have been searching the
country for the villians, and at last ac
counts three of the negroes had been
captured.
THE COTTON MOVEMENT.
A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE NEW
ORLEANS EXCHANGE.
The New Orleans cotton exchange
statement, is-ued Monday, makes tho net
cotton movement across the Ohio, Mis
sissippi and Potomac rivers to Northern
American and Canadian mills, during
the week ending October 10, 24,186 bales,
against 30,253 last year, and tho total
since September 1, 60,253, agajnst S7.
069. Total American mill takings, north
and south, for the first seven weeks of
the season, 313,783, against 252,000,against 369,190, of
which by northern mills,
307,000. Amount of American crop that
has come in sight during the past seven
weeks, 1, 529,475, against 1,305,387 bales.
The statement shows that the net rail
movement overland, which at the end of
the fourth week of September was ahead
of last year 4,397 bales,lias since lost 85,-
724, and is now 31,826 behind last year.
Foreign exports lor seven weeks are
230,861 bales ahead of last year, while
the American spinners, take show a de
ficit of 55,415, and American stocks at
delivery ports and leading interior close cen
ters are 83,820 bales less than at the
of the corresponding week last season.
SWITCHMEN STRIKE.
THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE IlOAD
THREATENED WITH HKUIOUB TROUBLE.
A dispatch, on Monday, from Evans
ville, Ind., says: What is feared may
yet prove to be the beginning and of a Nash- gen
eral strike on the Louisville
ville and Mackey system of railroads
centering here, was inaugurated in the
Louisville and Nashville lrcight yards in
this city late Monday afternoon. At that
time the Louisville and Nashville switch
men had succeeded in blockading the
transfer track, which runs through the
city, with loaded freight cars, extending
from one end of the city to the other,
opening being left at street crossings
only, and the pins between every two
cats were drawn and taken away.
It is reported that the strike is Louisville general
»t all principal points on the
& Nashville, system, including
St. Louis, Memphis, Nushville,
Birmingham, and such places.
The grievance, as stated by the
strikers, is that they have not been re
ceiving standard pay, which is $2.25 per
day, while they have only been getting
$2. At present, the strike does not af
fect more than five hundred men.
A JURY SECURED AT LAST.
AND IHE CRONIN SUSPECTS WILL NOW GO
ON TRIAL FOR THEIR LIVES.
The complete jury was selected in the
Cronin case late Tuesday afternoon.
When this work had been finished the
state’s attorney asked for an adjourn
ment of two days, in order to give the
prosecution time to make out a plan for
the presentation of the case. The impan
neling of the jury commenced August
4th. Allowing for the time occupied by
the court in tne drainage commission,
and adjournment asked for by the state's
attorney, seven weeks have been occu
pied in getting the jury. One thousand
and ninety-one jurors have been sum
moned, of whom 927 have been ex
by counsel for cause. In addition to the
1,091 special veniremen summoned, there
were also twenty-four on the regulat and
panel disposed of. One hundred
seventy peremptory challenge* have been
used, of which the defense has used
ninety-seven. At the t me the jury was
sworn in, Beggs, the defendant, had
three peremptory challenges left and the
state twenty-two.
S0UJI1 CUN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
El0US POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
1MTORTANCK IN THE SOUTHERN STATUS.
A terrific storm of rain, snow, hail
and sleet prevailed at Harrisonburg, Yin,
hurricane. Wednesday. Tlr 1 wind blew a perfect
The national missionary convention ol
the Christian church convened in Louis
from ydle, the Ky., United on Tuesday. States 000 Canada delegates
and were
present.
Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, one of Geor
gia’s wealthiest and most respected citi
zens, died at his residence in Athens,
Ga., on Sunday, tt the nge of seventy
one years.
The Presbyterian Synod, composed of
two hundred ministers and delegates
from Virginia, West Virginia and Mary
land, convenod at Winchester, Ya., on
Thursday.
Work is going on upon the public
building the at Savannah, Ga., in definanee
of order of the treasury department
commanding decided its cessation until congress
site. upon the proposed change of
The letter carriers of Charleston, 9. C.,
in response to a suggestion from the let
ter carriers of New York, met on
each Wednesday, and contributed two dollars
to the fund for a monument of the
late Samuel 9. Cox.
Switchmen on roads entering Memphis,
Tonn., on Friday petitioned the several
superintendents for an increase of wages
from $2.15 and $2.25 per day to $2.50.
A general strike is threatened if (heir de
mands are not conceded to.
The R. B. Stone lumber company, with
yards at Chicago mid mills at Ricc'and,
Ky., assigned Tuesday. Liabilities $81,-
500; assets $80,000. I’he cause of the
failure is said to have been i n explosion,
which wrecked the company’s plant.
The Southern exposition opens in
Montgomery, Ala., oil November 5th.
Ihe management received a letter Wed
nesduy morning from President Harrison
stating that he would start the machinery
through the medium of telegraph wires
on that day.
Argument was begun in the supreme
court of the United Suites, on Tuesday,
in the case of Charles E. Cress and Sam
uel C. White, defaulting president and
cashier of the State .National bank, ol
Raleigh, N. C., against the state of
North Carolina.
'f'lie Allianccmrn of Laurens county,
8. C., have adopted Tuesdays and Fri
days as the days to sell their cotton it
the Laurens market. This plan is being
adopted all over the South, and one oi
two days in each week are set apart and
cotton buyers notified to be present and
take advantage of a full market.
At a meeting of the board of visitors
of the Confederate Soldier’ home, ii.
Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, the res
ignation of Governor Lee, as president,
was tendered and accepted. The gover
n< r resigns on neeount of the approach
ing expifiitiou of his term of office, when
lie contemplates moving from the city.
The trades display, which begun at
Knoxville, Term., on Tuesday, celebrat
ing the completion of the Knoxville,
Cumberland Gup and Louisville railroad,
was more of a success than was antici
pated. crowded, Trains on all the roads were
and when the procession
moved oil, it was witnessed by at h ast
fifty thousand spectators.
Hull county, Georgia, alliance has
wisily appointed a judiciary committee
to whom ail differences between brethreu
are to lie submitted before any legal steps
are taken. This committee will als i be
advisory in the matter of making wills,
settling estates, guardianship of orphans,
etc., und is intended to nrevert needless
litigation and continued strife on the
part of members.
The jurors for the November term of
sessions court were drawn at Charleston,
8. G\, on Tuesday. 'flic panel consists
of twenty-nine whites and seven negro* s.
At the corning term negroes only are to
be tried for serious offenses. The panel
for the June term of court, at which Dr.
McIJow was tried for the murder of
Capt. F. W. Dawson, consisted of twen
ty whites arid sixteen blacks.
At Hallett, N. O., on Sunday, a mad
dog sprang upon the 11 year-old teeth son in
of T. C. Johnson, and fixed its
the child’s arm. His father and mother
ran to his aid and made desperate at
tempts to tear the dog away, but throat were
unsuccessful. Not until the dog’s
was entirely severed would he relax his
hold upon the prostrate and fainting
boy. The muscles of the arm were torn
to pieces.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Jeffer
son Davis, but more generally known left as
the “daughter of the confederacy,”
New Orleans on Tuesday, for New York,
whence she will in a few days sail for
Europe. Miss Davis goes as the guest of
Mrs. Pulitzer, of New York, who takes
her abroad in hope of restoring her to
health. It is thought that rix months at
the retorts of Germany, prefaced her by a
winter on the Riviera, will restore to
perfect health.
BANK STATEMENT
Following is a statement of the asso
mated banks at New York for the week
'-nding Saturday:
liese.ne increase...... $ 45,434,106
Loans decrease......... ... 2,22i,900
... 2.635,500
... 1,563,100
Deposit* decrease..... . 1,625 275
Circulation decrease., 39,300
The baLks now hold $916,650 less than
25 per cent rule tills for.
TRADE REVIEW
FOU WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER
ID, BY DUNN & CO.
n. Q. Dunn & Co.’s weokly review of
trade, says: As before, the money ma.
ket is the one point of anxiety. Rates
are higher, but perhaps the apprehension
has somewhat lessened. The country
still calls for money largely, but reports
from all interior points show that the
supply is ample for commercial needs.
The volume of trade continues large;
bank clearings exceed last years’, and
railroad earning are encouraging. The
iron trade is healthy, southern furnaces
seeming to have well sold up, and
though an offer of Lehigh valley brand
No. 1 at $0.50 is reported, the quotation
for pig is $17 to $18. Bar iron is not
firm as other forms, and a surprisingly
heavy demand for plates and structural
forms is for steel rather than iron. Rails
are quoted at $81.50. Cotton manufact
ure is thriving, and the trade in goods
satisfactory. Print cloths selling at 3Jo
for 04’s. There was a further decline of
a sixteenth in raw cotton, and sales at
New Y'ork were 540,000 bales for the
week. Receipts and exports both con
tinue t> exceed last year’s largely.
Speculation for higher prices in wheat
has not been active, for the Inst govern
ment report ami heuvy northwestern re
ceipts, with scanty exports, combine
to depress prices, which l a e fallen 2}
cents for the week, with sales of 01,000,
000 bushels, against 20,0(H), 000 declined last
week, Friday alone. Corn lias
J, and oats 1J cents, while pork products,
though still sustained by the clique, are
a little lower. Coffee lias yielded a
quarter. stubbornly, The stock market yielded resists tight
money but/ is at an
averugb >i $1 per share on active rail
road stocks, with some recovery, how
ever, on Friday. It is the theory of
some western managers, that an advance
in prices, just before the meeting of tho
legislatures in the granger states, would
bo most unfortunate. But the more gen
erally controlling influence is tho con
viction that western competition threat
ens mischief, and is not restrained by
the interstate net or by the good sense of
managers, while for the present, mone
tary uncertainties are also felt. Business
failures during last week number for the
United States 1^2. Canada 41.
UNDER BOYCOTT.
THE FA11MRI18’ ALLIANCES OF SOUTH CAR
OMNI ON THE WAI -PATH
A dispatch from Charleston, H. C.,
soys: The wai waged by the Farmers’
Alliance iu this stne igaiust 1 he jute
bagging trait, is becoming serious, and
gradually involving side issues of u some
what rbrious business clniriie cr. The
alliance is ex ending tho boycott, not
only to the manufacturers and dealers of
jute bagging, but also to newspaper News,
towns and cities. The Greenville
one of the live daily newspapers pub
lished iu this state, has been boycotted
by a local alliance, because the editor
wrote s rnetliing that didn’t please tho
alliance int n. The city of Greenville,
the third largest <ity in the state, is suf
fering a stagnate n of business, The
city of Spartanburg, tho fourth largest
city in the state, lias also been boycotted
by the Spartanburg County Alliance,
ing who, on Saturday, published the follow
ofliciul notice: “Whereas, we, the
members of tlie Fanners’ Alliance, rep
resenting 234 bales of cotton, which was
properly ber graded by an experienced business, mem
of tho alliance, long in the
and offered lor sale in the Spartanburg and
market on Friday and Saturday,
firmly believing from all we can learn,
that there is a deliberate attempt among
the cotton Duyers and cotton mills to
cripple der our or Ier, and to co-operative defeat our or
and to defeat our plan
of grading and selling our own cotton,
therefore be it resolved; That we take
cur cotton off this market, and sell it in
some other market, and recommend that
members of the alliance heretofore, as
far as possible, keep their cotton city away of
from Spartanburg market.” The
Charleston, the metropolis of the state,
has been boycotted by the Humter Coun
ty Alliance, whose members are forbid
de.n to send any cotton to Charleston,
In many sections the farmers are holding
back their cotton, and, as a consequence,
there are complaints of dull business.
The boycott war promises to assume
large dimensions.
FATAL SMASH-UP.
A WRECK ON THE LOUISVILLE AND NASH
VILLE ROAD—DISASTROUS RESULTS.
A disastrous freight wreck occurred
Tuesday morning on the Louisville snd
Nashville railroad, thirty-nine miles
north of Birmingham, Ala. The
spreading of the rails derailed five cars
of a south hound fast freight train.
Two of the five cars were loaded with
fine horses cri route from Maysville, Ky.,
to the state fair in Birmingham. Several
of the horses wi re so badly crippled
that they had to be killed. One of the
colored groomsmen in charge of the
horses, was instantly killed, and two
others were totally injured. W. L.
Greene, a brakernan on the train, was
also severely injured.
DEVASTATING FLOODS.
In a review of the calamities caused
l»y floods in Japan during the year 1889,
the Japan Mail says: “Incomplete re
turns show that twelve prefectures have
been devastated, 2,410 people killed,
155 woundedsaud over 90.000 people More de
prived of means of subsistence,
than 50,000 houses have been swept
away or submerged, 150,000 acres ot
crops have been destroyed, about 6,000
bridges have been washed away and
some hundred mile* of road have been
broken up.”
NO. 4.
PETITIONS FOR PARDON
M US. MATH KICK, NOW SERVING A LIFE
HKNTRNCE IN LONDON.
Interest in the celebrated Maybrick
poisoning case was revived through a
document which reached New York
the arrival of the mail from England
It was a mortgage, and bore
signature in a firm, hold hand of
Maybrick. The mortgagee is
Richard Stewart Cleaver, of Liverpool, and
Mrs. Maybrick’s English counselor, his fee.
the mortgage was made to secure
It hems a date three days after the trial
began, and was placed on file in the
county register's office in New York
Friday morning. At the office of Roe &
Macklin,Mrs. Maybrick’s American attor
neys, was learned that strenuous efforts are
being made English by several bar prominent mem
bers of the to secure a per
il m for tlie convicted woman, among
them being Sir Charles Russell, Sir
Henry James, anil the recorder of Liv
erpool. A petition asking her
majesty’s intervention in the cusss
has, it is said, ben signed
by at least two-thirds of the barris
ters in England, and members of parlia- the
ment and lending men throughout
kingdom are interested in securing Mrs.
Maybrick’s release in view of the insuf
ficiency of the evidence, us they believe,
which convicted her.
A NEW SECURITY.:
IMG IKON LISTED ON THU NKW YORK
STOCK EXCHANGE.
A new set urity has recently been listed
"n the New York Stock Exchange which
bids fair to bo popular with all classes
of traders; from tho reckless speculator The
to (lie most conservative investor.
stock ticker now records along with Iho
multitudinous railroad shares and trust
stocks, tho word “warrants.” This new
character on the price current means u
certificate for so many tons of pig iron,
stacked in a storage yard somewhere in
the United States, and deliverable on de
mand to tho owner of said wurrnut.
These warrants or certificates, are guar
anteed by a responsible trust company of
New York. In other words, staid old
pig iron, which heretofore has been tin
available as a speculative commodity,has und hereafter
at last wheeled into line,
will bo as easily handled by the traders
on change, as a barrel of oil, a bushel of
grain, a bale of cotton, a block of bonds,
or a sbnro of stock. A company has
been formed by strong capitalists to
further this end. The purjiose of this
corporation is to take care of all the iron
flint may be made in tho United States
subject to tho running requirement of
the iron trade.
A Dog’s Sense of Justice.
A gentleman residing in the suburbs
is the owner of a very large and iutelli
j-ciit Newfoundland dog, to which he is
lunch attached. The other day Max
Mho dog in question) accompanied his
master to a neighboring market, where
Home purchases were to lie made, and,
of courw), something for the dog was in
e lided in til • list.
When it came to the latter investment
the purchaser was impressed with tho
small return secured for his money,
and the (leg’s glance at the same
time seemed t > signify that u similar
ini] I'cssion had taken pos-e. s on of his
canine mind. The purchaser was just
about to remonstrate with tho dealer,
when, turning suddenly, he caught a
glimpse of the dog, wlio lull! taken his
own method to get even, and was dart
ing through the door with something ho
had seized from the bench. Tin- (h aler
did not notice the theft, and the owner
of the dog thought he was justified iu
postponing any remonstrance as to his
purchase until a more favorable time.—
| New York Star.
FLORIDA FRUIT8
WILL BE CONSIGNED TO CIMCAOO DEALERS
FOR DISTRIBUTION.
A largely attended meeting of whole
sale fruit dealers which of Chicago was held
Thursday, at Gen. A. S. Mann,
of Jacksonville, Fla., wus present, to
formulate point apian for to Florida make Chicago for the North- a dis
west. He said t hat the fruit grower* of
stitc had urrived at the conclusion
it was a waste of time and money
consign hundreds of small packages
towns and villages throughout the
He proposed, as spokesman
the shippers of Florida, who had 10,
boxes of oranges to send over
country, that the merchants of Chi
unite to make that city a point for
ROA8TED ALIVE.
A YOUNG MAN’S CLOTHES SATURATED
WITH GASOLINE AND PET ON FIRE.
A special to the Mobile Register from
Greenville, Ala., says: between Early Saturday
morning a quarrel a negro and
a young white man named Roberts re
in the negro pouring gasoline over
and another negro applied a lighted
lamp to Lis clothes. In an instant Rob
was wrapped in flames and was lit
rousted alive. One of the negroet
arrested. The other escaped.
A STRANGE CA8E.
of A negro man went before the grand jury
Irwin county, Ga., a few week* ago,
and swore that he had been offended by
another negro cursing in hi* presence.
The grand jury returned a true bill, the
offender was arrested and tried at that
term of the su|>erior court, found guilty,
and sentenced to pay a tine of five dol
lars and cost*.