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r r i U BLACKS * $ I A V, Ji / \ riTj l 71 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*.