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I ?r vin WINNS'BORO, S. a, WEDNESIUY, FEBRUARY 5, 1890. ' . WO.'28. ? i? \ UJLi. aij > jl. H Oil E-M A DE FE UTILIZER S AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE IN AUGURATED IN COLUMBIA. Tbe Work .' inprted Out by the Columbia Phosphate Company? What It Ofl'ers to tb? Farinera of Georgia and the Car?* liuas. An important branch of home industry has just been established at Columbia, S- Cv under the name oi the Columbia Phosphate Company. The officers are as follows: President?W. A. Clark, Vice President?J. C. Haskell, Secretary an<I Treasurer?Wilie Jones, Superintendent?T C. Robertson, Direc' Jxr A f!larb James Woodrow, J. IAHS FT. -LJL. , C. Haskell, G. L. Baker. The company has just issued a circular setting fourth its purposes and its facilities. It says: Before purchasing your fertilizers for another season we \ desire to call your attention to the goods we will put upon the market for the crop of 1S90. and trust that you , wiil give them a full trial, satisfied not only that the result obtained from this i our first year's production will fully realize your expectation, but that f Vl ?>m \ QZ I succeeding year^ win wnum. rhii is our first season, we have no testimony to offer, hit have this to say- "The best is aiWays the cheapest." and with this as our motto, have ' erected in the city of Columbia, at the very head of river navigation, Fertili- i zer Works that, for thorough equip- ? ment5 very respect, stand unrival- < ed ; ne United States, and so shall 1 : products be unexcelled. j Our works cover four acres, and are situated at the intersection of the Rich- 1 mcud & Danville and the Atlantic Line, and only 1,305 yards from 1 Gran by, the head of river navigation, 1 with which point it will be connected ( by a track, now being laid. The Atla a- / tic 'Joast iiine gives us direct connec- 1 tiou with the ports of Norfolk, Wil- t mington, and Charleston, from any of i * whi.rh we receive our sulphur direct;! froiii Sicily. The R&D. gives us an f 1 outlet lo the entire Piedmont section i of our State, and "'The Old Reliable" i (the Congaree and Santee) connects us directly with the phosphate beds, and : delivers the crude rock to us at a i - freight rate that paralyze? the great- * est of traffic managers and relegates < to innocuous desuetude the Inter- i State Railroad Laws. Surrounded with ?Uch freight fa'ili- t ties, we ask protection from none, and < boldly assert tha^ we will deliver our s Fertilizers at any point in the State, l duplicating prices of any standard i goods on the market. I It may not be known, but it is a fact, j that an iron steamboat of 250 t-ons ca- < pacify has made weekly trips between j <xraiiby and Charleston since last j March, without missing once. It is a i iact, that our Oil Mills have sold the planters of Fee Dee oOl) tons meal, and > truck farmers of Charleston 600 tons, j ail to be delivered by steamer; and j *??_? i-~~r xcilLJiia.'nut- on the river tms montn to meet tne increased , traffic. But the fact of all facts is, that , we offer the trade of the Pee Dee and , ? the Sacitee. of the mountain and , the seaboard, a Fertilizer excelled by . none, and at Charleston prices. , The names we have selected for j our goods are "Granby Ammonia- , ted Fertilizer," "Granby Acid Phos- ( phate" , Our ammoniated goods will contain . full 2i percent of Ar^monia, and our I , Acid Phosphate 10 per cent of availa- j ble phosphoric acid. This will be our J ( ?? . should the I I 1X1111*111 ULU. ijUaAc?uwv) _ trade desire the cheap, 1 and 1? per j cent ammoniated goods being now so j largely put upon the market, they will , be made only at their risk and under t their brand. We intend that in the 'c years tocome "GranbyFertilizer"shall , be a household w?ru in the South, maintained to the highest standard ) .and selling on its own merit. 5 VALUE OF FERTILJZEES. < The experiments of Liebigand other ! mgriculturai chemists established the 1 i f orHfioiallv Am- * 'laayoriaaue oi ??j rnoDia, Phosphoric Acid, and Potash to the growing plant. The experience ( of the successful farmer has demoa- ! sarated the absolute necessity of a free f and intelli-i nt use ol these ingredients. ' and to obtain them science, art and 1 commerce have been employed on ' the mo?t extensive scale, and millions { of dollavs invested in ihc production of ! commercial fertilizers. ' NITROGEN. ( Formerly the guano of Peru supplied < this clement, in large quantities, but < since the exhaustion of those deposits j * - ~ Upftn lar<?elv from, drv < I UC 0. ? blocd, fish scraps, nitrate of soda, and cotton seed meal. . < ' POTASH. This article is almost altogether obtained irosa the German mines, either j as kaisit or Muriate of Potash. PHOSPHORIC ACID. I This ingredient is found in naiure, ! both as is soluble Phosphate of Lluie ! jid(I Phosphate 01 Alumina, but as ( such is useless as a fertilize, being in- : soluble in water, and UvC available as ^ ?c, i a plant fcOd. J O Ease It il?iiiauig do | a plant feel has been the work of the I ! scientists, and the immense capital emp'oyed in this art attests their success. The largest deposit cf insoluble Phosphate of Lime that we know of exists in our own State, and is known as 1 Phosphate Rock, evidently the remains an?l deposits of sea animals and birds. Tn its crude state it is insoluble, but when ground and treated with c2?i!v?VmrS,? Acid it becomes soluble, and is known in commerce as Acidulated Reck, or Dissolved Bone, aud as such becomes ?he basis of ail commercial fenilizers. To make the rock soluble ^ve must have Sulphuric Acid. This ?v?i3 at first imported into Northern ports, the rock shipped North, the fertilizer.? m-ade and re-shipped South. This was expensive, the fertilizers sellirj; at $ To per ton. The next step was to import the Sulphur and make Sulfollowed the estab lishmentofthe acid chamber alongside vi the rock, still further reducing expenses. E*ery step \va? one to c.henpen production by brinaiug the crude materials together, but the last and iuo-t important i.tep yet made it to bsing them to tb(j planter and man tifaviture th< in at hi door, giving him i be best goods for rue least money. Such is the aim of the Columbia Phosphate Company. With the close or: r.e o;u year ? = havecv-uiplet^d a p'jint capable of pre dueinj? annually fifteen thousand tensof fertilizers. Favored by propitious weather, we accomplish the work in four months. Experts pronounce it ati-urpassed by any, North or South. Wt! are determined that its production shall be the worthy rival of the best, and during the present season offer to the trade? 1. Pure Dissolved Bone. Guaranteed Analysis?12 per cent. Available Phosphoric Acid. 2 Granby Acid Phosphate. Guaranteed Analysis?10 to 12 per ceni;. Available Phosphoric Acid?1 to li per cent. Potash. 3. Granby Ammuniated Fertilizer. Guaranteed Analy=is?2? to 3 per cent. Ammonia?S to 10 per cent. Avanaoje < Phosphoric Acid?1 to li per cent, i Potash. . , 4. Pure German Kainit.?Imported by us. . Surrounded by every possible rail- 1 road facility, we can deliver promptly i to any point in three State's. We have i made special arrangements with the steamer John 31. Cole to deliver our ? goods at all landings cn the Santee and ( c%-r\A ta mariv T\lon1 ? JL l>av W.^ ? these rivers n<Jw shipping their cotton j seed to our oii mills, will find it to e their advantage to futher extend their commercial intercourse with Colum- ? bia by purchasing their fertilizers from 1 us. s Remember, our motto is to make r only the bestYours should be to patronize home s industries i PITT- CTAT1T A T T T A Vf C "PVOTT A VCV ^ 11c C s Pat Into Practical Working Shape?How the liusinenM ix Conducted--A Bit; Trade c Already Developed. g Sreenville News. E A reporter for the Ne*s yesterday vis[red tbe of3.ce of th? State Alliance Ex ^ ?RDge, which is located in this city, ^ver the store of Wilkins, Yoe &Co..on Main street. M. L. Donaldson. the State ? Business Agent, and his assistant, Thos. o VI. Berry, formerly of Cheraw, were in " ;he office. ? The exchange has been open for three Aitak half t Ui-j *?rr> e? citoq rlo. V*ci uau tvito wu4v? ??uo vn.- ^ roted to correspondence, the furnishing >: price lists, etc , and the first order v "or goods was received something over a f ivoek ago. Now the orders come in coniouousiy and Mr. Donaldson said to the eporter that the business in that short ^ :ime had been highly satisfactory to v limself aad to Col. J. C. * Coit, of Che- g( aw, the President of the Exchange, n vho was here a few days ago. The office is fitted up comfortably and nany visitors have called since business i m? i ; j_ i_ I " :vas oegus. iae ouam^ss ayeui aaa t?" i T, iesks and chairs and 13e floor is carpet- ^ ;d. Samples of flour and other articles tj ire to be seen lying around. a Mr. Donaldsou stated, in answer to ? ;he question on what plan the business ,j was managed, .that it was conducted * somewhat on the principle of a general brokerage business and that the money rj svhich was necessary to the running expenses of^the exchange was paid by the : irms wh^ch sold goods through the ex- ^ change, the same as a broker gets his pay from the Arm which he reoreients. ^ Mr. Donaldson said that only those firms -0 :aat were xuowa to oe stnuu) uouesi Q iad trustworthy were dealt with and if heir goods do nof come up to their rep- 1, resciQtatiou in the price iists farther bus;uess wi^h them is stopped immediately, "I ub'?aia p?cc-<l Mr X)oa- ^ i'dsoc, ".from manufacturing establish- ^ aaeots and concerns all over the Uuion, representing every product that the far- ^ aier has a&y use -for. T^e lowest prices ire quoted These lists are constantly ^ ;ommg to mr. I prepare from these a price list which I send :it intervals or ra.Wor, .no,-.fori r,. Ih? 11 nutu "aun,u vi' lur I'uotugco tt^cu i o ui ibe County Alliances. Ia turn the busi ], aess agents send them to the respective e" sub-Alliances iu their county. Then when ^oods are wanted, the sub-Al- s .iances find out how much auu what ^ iitch member wants. The price list is before them and the member takes out iis pocket book and put:} up the mocey J or what he wants The others do like- jj wise. Ao order for a cerisin amount oT >oods is made and the money and order ? sent to the county agent. He forwards j' t to me and I seud-tie-rrrdcf to ibe hrm ^ ;r firms which handle the goods and put *. :he mcney in the bank. The goods are (Dipped direct to tbe county ageut of ihe ;.>urty wb;cb crders ibe goods and if .hey ar<; received and fouud to meet the equiremeats the money is tbeD forwardjd to the 6rm. s< ' Thus, it will be sees, everything is a ioae oq a s:rictly cash basis acd the q nembers of the Alliance get advantage if the lowest wholesale prices. The f*( jeauty of the plan is that a cash business ^ s eucouraged and the farmers , will find themselves falling into j* i cash syateai instead of the credit ^.usiaess. It will be the means," sl J the fc( juiiness agent, ''of landing our people ^ jut of the mud on the solid rock." "I have received orders from nearly ivery county, from Horry to Pickens, ind maoy of them are for large sums. 5 jrae orders are for as many as 100 tons if guano. "If the evchange gets one-twentieth 0 >f the cash trade of the farmers of the a state it will do aa enormous business." n \To n,-wr,o )/ ?...>? V, r\r*r thf tl poor farmer would get money to patron- ^ ze the exchange. He said that .matter 1 s regulated by the sub Alliances. Some:ime? members of the sub Alliances, who ? trc- able to do so, furuish the money to c ihfc.r t? >or brother members and take se- ^ rarity. The ioans are made at small in- ^ :erest acd there is no charge for papers. v Additional clerical assistance will be ? seeded as the busings o! the exchange ^ Lirows. J The countL-s adjacent to Greenrille ' nave been the most lib-.rul up to this * ;ime in buyiog through the exchange, * out every county that hold- stock in the exchange will fall into line and a heavy J business for spriDg is expected. * InsalN'ji Advice Bearing Kruit. Point Pleasant, W. Va., Jan. 29.? A family of S persons, named Hargrove, living several miles south of here, have been poisoned by a negro womun. Four of the family are reported dead. " j 30 Secrcily E.\ecntr<l in Itio. New York, Jan. 29.?The captain ] /\* V?*s ec.onr* 7 -frrim "RiA-TVtn eiro, reports that 30 sailors who, while ' intoxicated, had shouted in the streets, ' "Lore: live the Emperor." were ese- 1 cuted secretly in prison at Rio. ; ?A man and a woman are traversing J Delaware county, Ohio, geitin^ mar- : ried by every preacher they come 1 across." The fake they work is to give J the minister a ?20 counterfeit bill and receive $10 or $15good money ic return. ?The Hi*5e Elevator Company of ; Chu-A ia is r>renarin<r estimates for an elevator to be used in the construction of a tower in London, Ea gland, to be 200 foet higher than the Eiffel Eowtr. ?H. G. Goldy, of Chicago, and aa; other broker have closed a contract for the purchase of three large Cleveland breweries lor an English syndicate. The amount to be paid is about $2,500,000. 4RP AND THE GHOSTS. BILL TELLS OF A ' MIDNIGHT ADNENTURE. When He Mistook a Church Spire lor n Gho*t?If There are Ghosts They nre Fx happy. - A - 11 i was ruminating aoouc gnoses?>en, if course, there are no such things?that :s to say nobody has ever seen one, but we have all come prstty near it. Several :imes I have almost seen a ghost. The racc is they won't let you 'em right fair md square, so that you couio a* ear to it. 1 visible ghost wouldn't be a gho&i, in invisible ghost is hard to see, espe- . :ially in the dark. But there are times i ind places when we can't help trying to ! ;ee them. Now, of course, there are no iuch things but still they have habits j ind haunts just like folks. I rhcy stay around graveyards and up 1 tairs iu dark closets, and they walk the oad in dark, swampy places, and linger > trouod country meeting bouses in the < light. They like dark, gloomy solitary 1 daces, and that makes me think that } jhosts are unhappy. They have done omcthing bad or suffered some &reat j aisfortune before tney were turned into i [hosts. The spirit of good people don't ( aake ghosts. It was hard work for the ? ritch of Ender to get the spirit of Samie, to come up. He didn't want 'to i ome up, and said ''why ha9t thou dis- j. [uieted me to bring me up?" And that s 5 the reason why we are all afraid of ? ;hosts. They are the spirits of bad peo- 8 ?le. Well, of course, there are no such c nings, out ID1S is me way we lam* g boa: it. I saw a ghost one dark night f s I was passing the old Fairview church, \ bout two raiies from town. It was ^ ralkiog right towards ine in the big oud, and was white--perfectly white? nd had legs and arms but no head. I ras about to turn my horse and rno, but e didn't want to turn?he wanted to go ; ome, and he wasn t scared a bit, and 5 I let him rack on until we "met the bos;, and it was the miliar going home ^ fith a sack of flour acrose his shoulders ad his head and bis white hat bent forrard. That liked to have been a ghosr. ^ 2 fact. it. would bave been if it bada't c cen tbe mnicr. Many? time hare I E iought bow near I came to seeing a * host, and I'm not sure yet but what it | ?as a gbost, and suddenly turned into ? tie miller They are migbty smart, and 11 ii if V s quics.as uguimug?iubi. is, 11 iucjc re any such thing9, which, of course, ? here are not. Last night about 10 o'clock I was com- ? ig over the high hill that is back of our ? ouse. I had been to see a sick grand; J1; hild and it was a near way to come by be old graveyard. Nobody has been " urried there for forty years, but that * lakes it all the worse for ghosts. They s' re old experienced ghosts, and can just 13 ais? up the hair on a man's head most - \ .i . - :< u. i u_:_ mu_? 2L Willi?mac is, n jjc uks auj fair. luat . s fine advantage a bald-headed man has w other people. A ghost can't rais? ? p his hair. I wish it could, that is if it ^ rould stay raised. That old graveyard s as tried the fortitude of my children v lany a time, and lastjnight it tried me ? ar it was very dark and the little pines ^ rere gloomy end sighed mournfully in 1_ _ j t : ? a a. ?t Lie wiuu x was uulhiu^ uvwu iui; teep hill feeling my way along careful- c j with my cane, when just as I happen- ? d to glance upward to the distant hori- ^ on in search of light, I saw a dark budowy figure bob up serenely just be- a :>re me and stop?and I stopped. I was ^ jst about to run into the thing, but as ; dident advance any I advanced a step ^ -a very cautious step. It quivered a ttle, but came no nearer. Again I step-ed forward and gave a sweeping stroke ^ ritb my cane, as if to cut ii in two, and ^ did cut in two, but it never- moved, j, .mazed, I paused and pondered, and jj aid to myself, "What in the dickens is ^ V Just then in the dark, dim light of ^ fio mnrW Viorirrkn awai in thfi ftftfit T MW ? .. ?j ? 0 iw the mysterious thing take shape and ^ ecome pointed at the top, and all at ace it flashed over me that it was the :eeple of the Methodist church that was quarter of a mile away. And it was. >t cou.se I diaent strike at it auy more, 61 od I felt cheap as dirt for being such a j: x>l, but I comforted myself in thinking 1 ow brave I was and that. I showed fight 0 ta ghost. Maybe it was a ghost. "Who D bows but what it was a genuine ghost, -Cl Dd for fear of being caught and expos- a d, it turned itself into that steeple. No ~ 'onder it scared me, for the poet says: * Some have mistaken stumps and posts For spectres, apparitions, ghosts. But when it turns into a st eeple It will alarm the most of peop'a. " - i? It is astonishing how a big thing away 0 ff can turn into a little thing close by, i vice versa. Albert Strickland toid g jo that he knew a feller to shoot nine ^ imcs at a coon in the fork of a very _ ? * - - 1 1 -3? 1j jgn popiar tree ana nooouj couiu see ^ bat coon but him. Albert says that at ist aa idea struck him, and he went F( lose up to the feller, as be was loading lis rifle for another shot, and he discov- a red a little tuzzy animal hanging to a t( iair on his eyeDrow. He brushed it offpith 3 straw, and the feller couldent find hat coon any more. The little aaimal t rjlonged in his head, but had stayed U on an exploring expedition, and was T caching the young idea how to shoot. ^ Libert didn't say who the feller was, but ^ ' hnT7f> rtlrofltc h?r? rav nninion. , uv* ' V J - * I am ruminating about ghosts tocigbf, ^ >ecause I req alone in a great two-story louse with seven rooms and a garret. r ' hear something in that gairet now. . Sly folks have all gone to the show. FnCy didn't press me to go, and Mrs. Vrp said: "I suppose you are going to a vrite your letter to night, and so you c :au*t take care of the house.'* ;'lfes nAVm," said I, with my accustomed j nec-kness. They left the lamp burning a the parlor. I know they dk3, and i j atard the front door close. I heard a -acket out there a little while ago and .vent to see and found the lamp cut and * ;he front door open. What does that rem? The lamp wasn't filled today I c-clsoa, and the door don't shut eyery:ime it seems to?sometimes the wind it, and sometimes the dog pushes It open, so it is all right I reckon: but it j ; awful lonesome when there is no woman about the bouse. A man who ba9 lived with one fortj/ years had rather bavc lu*r around raising a racket than ^ i ?> h:ivfc her at all. O? course she - I<>- e$ tj go to the shows. Penned up { ail day at borne, mending aod patching, ( ^^iogon buttons and strings, burning 1 up lost cuffs and collar- buttons; mamma, ] <vh?*re are my socks, or my handbercb ef, or my flannel shirt, or my cravat, or my other shoes, or my Latin gramlE-jr, or my slate pencil, or my anything . and everything. "Wa3 rbere ever sucn , helpless children. It's a -wonder you don't lose your head." But she gets up , and slips around and finds it. She always finds it. She can go in the dark < and pat her band on everything L? her go to the show. She is not old jet. Sbe is six years younger than her lord and loves a new dress iust like she did thirtj years a go, and she gets them, too. I wish she would make haste and get as old as I am. I used to think that a man ought to be "a few yesrs older than his wife, so she would look up to him, but I doubt it now. I've quit going to shows unless they are a great intellectual treat. I bad rather stay at home with the ghosts and ruminate. But these women are full of emotion. They love to shed tears over the pathetic, and rejoice with the good, and despise the .bad, and get all chokc^ up with joy or with sorrow, and they love to look all round the circle and see io on?! hna; fhpc are drested > ? i?l/ ' O bU&lv UUM u Vf ??vj ? - ? aud rvno they came with, and they can see behiod tb.;ui as well as before them, and how in the r.oilJ they do it I doa't know. Mo>t of our blioA's are homemade, and keep the money at home, but they are getting alarmingly frequent ic this town?every church is running them, ind they average about one a week, and tve must all go or send the money, so as aot to hurt feelings or be talked about, rhe churches waut money and the wornjn are bound to have it. It is the same way all over the country. Every day or :wo, I get letters wanting money for' ;hurches or parsonages. It would breakneiG a month to respond to all that ask He. I am sorry that I can't, for if there ' s any better* work than to buna up toe 1 jhurcbes I don't kDow it. I wish I had' i charity fund, but j haven't It is a nip ' ind tucs to get along, and our folks are rying to build a new church too, and ' vant every dollar that I can spare. "It is 1 in uWful thing to be a poor man with, .< iuch a man's ways, but I can't help it ' low. What's that? Me thinks I hear -l mother ghost. Bui. no, it's niv family :oming from the show aud I'll bear'it all, < ind t&en ihey win runsacK me pantry or something to cat. I've got an awful ! mogry family, especially aboiu bedtime, 1 *hen they come from a show. ' Bill Arp.. ( THE TRUTH COMES OUT \ lbanc the Slrnterlonn Crime in North Car- ] olinn. rRi.LEiGHj N. C., January 30.?Sat- * irday night, just before midnight, 1 here was a very mysterious murder at ' ?axton, in Robeson county. It was ommitted in the heart of the town \ Art a #1 frs a n tt r\AAr?l A icai o* iiguvi c*^u A1XW.UJ vere only fifty yards away,standing on' i , platform at the depot awaing a train. s Suddenly three pistol shots were heard s n very rapid succession, but there ( /as no other noise. The crowd rail j o the place where the shots were- ; ieard, and there found a Croatan In- \ Ian lying beside a store dying. A ] listol bullet had struck him just above j he heart. His only words wera , "nir?V mA nn " Tn n. minntfi hft was . ead. Hiirname is not known. Itiwas ] he beliei that he was assassinated by , ome negro, and he has fled, it isr. ru- x aored. * t Today, the mystery was revealed, j iid a very sensational afEair made f :nown. It was Sim Lowry, son of a j nee notorious* outlaw, Steve Lowry, , rho was shot and killed, and his f layer was Donahoe McQueen, a night t ,'atchman. .Lowry's father was one f the celebrated Lowry*gang of out- t iws, which was exterminated" jri Lobeson county twenty years ago, fcer its members h id led a desperate ^ areer of robbery and murder. It- is t aid that McQueen fired the shot that illed Steve Lowry, the outlaw, and ; tiafe Sim Lowry* then a boy, swore to a veoge the death of his father. He ras at Maxten last Saturday night ^ rinking, and following McQueenttempted to: assassinate him^wttH a nife, whereupon _ McQueen shot nd killed -hisf to save his own life. * IcQueen is a white man: and is saidd be a good citizen. The man he' ! illed belonged to the tribe of Croatou adians, fifteen hundred of whom live 1 Robeson .county. McQueen's and lOwry's bodies have -been .taken to iumberton. McQueen has acknowldged the killing and surrendered imself. ' : Had Hira There. Allen, of Mississippi, has told more tories since the opening of Congress ian Billy Mason, our story telling man' ^ :om the Third-District o.f Illinois. One f his best stories was dropped "the oth?r ^ ight at Chamberlin'a. Half a dozea angenial spirits were ieated together at table, and one thing and another led t J.len to reel off a'full dozen of Stories, 'tie last one was about his Tupelo conLituent, Bill Brown. Bill is an old far- ^ ler who owns half the marshes around .lien's nnrivf> r?it.v A v^ar atro hfi T ought a young bull.from a lawyer who t i a shrewd fellow and known through-; t ut Allen's district. ''Brown wasn't quite sure of his bar- n ain," said Allan, "so every time the twyer went that way he hedged so > mch that the lawyer grew extravagant. 3 bis praise." ' ' . < "I tell you, Brown," said he, a9 ,ne t ode by the farmhouie, "that's the finest j nimal in this whole country. I'd ride ny time"tw6 miles out of, my way just c o pass it io your meadow! T sold it.to ^ ou for ^To/'.but' I reckon it's'worth " _._fV /vn^'r.9'7 aairl ??urv iiiu^u is it WUliu, toy u i j, be farmer. _ . "Well, if I was selling it today: I rouldn't let it go for a ccat less than ;250. It's worth that, acd I congratuite you upon shaving me so,neatly." Bill Brown felt pretty good over the ?ull, and every time he taw the lawyer hey talked about it. the lawyer, always epeaiiQg that he would no$ sell it for es3 than $2o0. The lawyer in the meantime had beome counsel for a Mississippi railroad nd had to appraise and' settle all diffi-u:.. 4u\. umes xur tuc uui jjuiauuu*. ... One day as he sat in his office,. loutish "n Jilt Brown came in, twirled His bat be- .j ween his tbumb3, and said ia a wheediDg tone: "I reckon that air. bull is good for a .J >ert sum, cap'n." . . * Certainlv, Mr. Brown,, certainly.; $230 :ouldn't buy it of me if I stiil had it in ( ny possession." . - ' 'Yv'ai!, cap'n that ajr bull was run >ver by yar railroad last eight .and' I ' eciion you'll see tnat tnev pay me ?zo.u or it."" Indiana Don't Like Manuivl Labor. * Denison TeXj, Jan. 29.? Serious trouble is anticipated in tae.Chickasaw Nation, as t^ie time approaches for collection of the per capita of five; dollars levied on white residents for the privilege - of performing manual labor. Aveasetl Her WrongM. Troy, n. Y., Jan, 29.?a womaa . giving the name ofiIr3? MeGrath, and claiming Chicago as. her home,. shot Edwin r irth, a well known \ inventor, on the street here this.afternoon. Firthr will die. The woman claims' Firth deceived her. " / ALMOST A SAVAGE. A WHITE MAN'S STRANGE LIFE IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. Chief of a Tribe of Natives?Ills English Relatives to Attempt His Rescue if He Wi'. ? Come Back.?CiTiiiacation Forgot* ten. -' / ' v*1 Poaii^T), ,Me., Jao~.t30.?The story of the yrreckj^' Portland b&rk Tewksbury the South Pa cinc, and the strange''sfa&y- of the rescue of her crew, as told, by <&pt. Wm. hooding of Yarmouth, M6.'/ has ^ strange sequel. The bark sailed from Newcastle, New South Wa)e3, March 7, 1889, for Hong Kong, under charter for New York. She .proceeded until the Oth of April following, when in latitude 7 deg. 5 min. North and longitude 149 deg. 11 min East sjie encountered a gale and was dri rehash ore.oirSusanne Reef, nearPoaedt Island, one of the group of Caroline Islands, in the South Pacific. The crew escaped in one-of the ship's boats and managed with great difficulty to reach a small-islet to the Northward. ITrota this islet after the storm subsided they made the Island of Pozeat, which is inViahit-efl hw a mm nf c?ivacrAB Aa the boat approached the island a fleet of canoes put off to intercept them. There were about thirty canoes, with eight or ten men in each, and all were armed with knives and spears. Some of the snvages could not wait for the. boat to comValongside, but jumped overboard md.swam to her, each. man., carrying a iong^wicked-looking-knii'e, held between bis teeth.. The first savages to reach the boat jlambered-ih iintil 1>he boat was nearly 9wamp$d. Then they began to st ip the jailors of their coats and outer garments,' throwipg the garments aboard their own 3aDoes? which by this time were pad31ing alongside. The white men were joon despoiled of everything " "but their, anderltrirts, these being Apit ind the whole IJeet dre<m towaca the ,and.l-~ / ' *- ' | When they got ashore, and while the shipv^pegked crew were standing surrounded by the noisy crowd of ^ natives i rnafi'dreased as all the^ others, only svith' a cloth about his hips- pushed his tvny through the crowd and 9poke to ;hem^n tbe English language. m_ 4.. _ :_i l ? c n /> LQ. X.LW SJiUv. 'jliuieul ui v^ajjiaiu vjtuuung, whom the man addressed himleif, ^ie seeming native introduced himself as Cbarls Irons, an Englishman, and offered to render any assistance it was passible for him to give. ^Later the captain learned " Iro'ns's hisory. It appears that he- was left at ?ozeat Island by a trading vessel about our years ago, his business being to rep eseat the trades in the cocoanut oil ;rade, but the.vessel had never called for AIM InnviiMM Utm U a Vn n .iuua 3iuv;c leaviug uiui, auu uc uau gradually assumed the habits of the naives an&finally became so much like ;hem id ^pearance and manner of life le was not in any way to be distinguish;d from the people among whom he ived. He had taken to himself seven vives, and was regarded by the natives is a man of importance second o?ly to he chief of the tiibe. Irons had been so long among the naives that he had forgotten many of the sommoo things of civilization. A^^sy" >r two after landing at Pozeat_>6aptain ?ooding, who had becom?Je-^a degr.ee incertaia about bis reasoning of time, lot knowing exactj^-' whether the day vas Thursday op-Friday in the week, iske_i Irons^rf he knew what day of the Tee^-ifwas. Irons answered that he luTnot, and more that he did not know vhat year it was. Captain Gooding say? that the natives vould never have allowed him and his :rew to leave Pozeat if it had not been or the good offices of Irons. Irons inerested himself in behalf oi the shipvrecked men and hired a canoe from he natives with presents of English calco, from stores in his possession. With .his canoe Captain Gooding, Second date George W. Harrison and one of he ship's crew set sail ten days after heir arrival at Pozeat, -leaving the renoin^pr nf thA *hin'a rnmnariT flnri "Pirnf late Richard Watchman, seven men in ill, at Pozeat. The captain and his men made their vay in the canoe by a roundabout course rom island to island, touching at eight lifferent.ones and making stops at each arying from two days to a month's dilation, finally arriving at Ruk, where here is a missionary station. Here they were cared for by the misionaries and obtained the use of the >oat belonging to the station. In the Qissionary boat they made sail back to ^zeat direct and taking the members of he crew they had left there returned to he missionary island. Two months after their return the aissionary vessel, Morning Star, arrived " <5 k a f A 111 Aha ,L1KX IUUOl LULLU Ckl I bVS UUUUlUt Uj TYUtit hev landed November 18. From Honouiu Captain' Gooding and part of the :rew were brought by the steamer Ausratia to San Francisco, arriving there November 29. This etory, told by Captain Gooding >n hi9 return, was publiseed in the New fork Herald's London edition, and tolay the managing owners of the wrecked jark, Chase Leavitt & Co., of this city md Captain Gooding of Yarruoutb, are n receipt of letters from London makng inquiry in regard to the Irons who tppcars to figure as prime minister of he suvage Pozeat. Both letters are from the same source, he "Probate and Divorce Registry, somerset House, London," and are sign;d by Lancelot C. Irons. The writer iays he has reason to believe the white nan on Pozeat Island is his youngest and >uly living brother, and says: "We ast heard of him in December, 1878, _i i__ *.u pvueu uc was uauiuj; v?jm lug savagca ui j Saw Guinea in a ship that chartered 'rom Brisbane." He gives a miriute de scription of his brother as he appeared it that time, and says his full name 3? William Charles Frederick Irons. The letter to Captain Gooding <^0Dlains questions as to particulars of identification and inquires as to how assistance might be sent to the man & P?zeat if he proves to be the PersojfK^ght for. The letter to Chase, Leayf/ ? v,u. :oncludes: tkI and ali my pdr'8 'eel sure that the Englishman mel^oned is aur brother, supposed to har^.een murdered by the savages elever years ago." I saw Captain William hooding at his home in Yarmouth to-day. He said he had no doubt the man Pozeat was the William Charles FryStrick Irons inquired for. The description giren in the tnllipqin all LCI LCI 1 i UlU kJUlUCUClr,*"' ? points with tbat of the man he met at Pozeat. / Captain Goodinf says that at bis first meeting with the^m:ia &t Po2eat, in surprise at being a<^rea3eci in the languge of civili2ation he exclaimed: What! Can you speak Enfj'sb?" "I ought t<v' was the answer, "for I was born 7VLondon." I Captain Gooding says he left Irons at the missionary station at Ruk, Irons having accompanied him there on the return voyage of the missionary boat. When they arrived the missionaries were greatly surprised to see Irons, for they u-j o Art- rtf Vila ripafh at the littu ucaiu a v* bands of the savages in December, 1878. The party also met at one of the islands in the' Ruk lagoon Harry Chisholm, who was at one time a shipmate of Irons. He was surprised to see Irons alive, having heard the report of his death. ! From information gathered by Cap- ^ ^ "* * ' 1-'?^ A AAA I I tain tfooaing it appears tuau uuw wwv were at one t^me together in a ves.Vfi&'/iji&diQg^ amon&ijtbe islands. This it Brisbane ter. ~<ptrading carried on by t^'yes^$^Rt^a kidnapping of natives&rom thWj3a*t?l&e and Northern groups to the Fijij an^ other islands. It was during a trip of this kind among the New Guinea islanders that the fight occurred which led to the report of Irons's death. ' ~ The business was broken up by men of-war ten or twelve years ago, eim;e when Irons has lived a savage life at Pozeat-. Chisholm, who is Irish by-birth, has lived in about the same condition. He is a man of influence io one of the thiee tribes of natives inhabiting a large mountainous island in the Ruk lagoon. This lagoon is about thirty miles in circumference. and contains seven or eight islands. Captain Gooding thinks Irons would like to return to civilization if his future support wera assured. -He will write to London to that effect, and will say that a letter addressed ca.e Rev. Mr. Snelling, missionary station, i Ruk, will probably reach Irons without t unnecessarj delay. MORE TROUBLE FOR MRS. MORRIS. Mr. m?rris'n Will wt>e'Cojitesced by His Relatives an.d-tlie Life Insurance Com?aay.. Reidsville, N.' C., January 30.?As was well known, there was more *t stake | in the trial of Mrs. Morris, charged with 1- causing the death of her husband by ! chloroform, than the mere conviction or j acquittal of the* fair prisoner. There is ; the large estate of Mr. Morris bequeathed ia his will to his wife, and *$10,000 j insurance policy on his life, also payable ; to Mrs. Morris. The acquittal of the 1 prisoner, of course, throws all this into her hands; whereas, had She been eonricted, the will of her husband would have been null and void. This i? the ome or .airs, juorns ana it is ia mm thriving town -where most of the property mentioned in the will of Mr. Morris is located. It 19 learned to-nigbt that there will be several lawsuits over the matter, and there is more interest in store for the pretty Widow Morris. Relatives of the dead man will contest his will, on the ground of undue influence on the part of Mrs. Morris in inducing her hu&band to make its provi- . sions in her favor. The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of New York announce that they will fight the case till judgment day before they will pay over the ten thousand dol'ar p?licy. RACE AND RELIGION. Conference Will Not be Heldfaj Selma, Ala. Charleston, S. C., January 29.?The African Methodist bench of Bishops met here today, Bishops Waymati, Ward, Turner, Disdey, Gaines, Arnett, Tanner and Grant being present, representing nearly an tne territory id ine union. The action of the last conference appointing Selma, Ala., a9 the place for the next meeting was revoked on the ground of race prejudice in that city as evidenced by the expulsion of the negro preacher, Rev. M. E. Bryant. As ballot between New Orleans and Philadelphia resulted in the choice of Philadelyhia as the place of next meeting. Ingalls Confesses. Washington, Jan. 30.?On Thursday last; just after Senator Ingalis concluded . his speech on the negro question, he met Senator Butler,, of South Carolina, in the lobby. As the two men shook hands ' Senator Butler said: / "Ingalis, 'what in the do you mean by doing like this?" evidently Referring to his bitter speech. f "Butler," replied Ingalis, "do /you know anything about Roman history?If so, perhaps you remember ho/w the. Roman fathers used to get together and priyately laugh over the gullibility of the Roman people." With a smile the Kansas walked away. ' A* Extraordinary ?*cene. A reporter witnessed a Q extraordinary cwnu in tVio niftt r\f RiflHlAvill* "N" C. In front of a small; cabin a pulpit had been erected. In *his stood a negro "preaching" at the /top of his roice. There was no one except the reporter and the preacher near, &od foimer stood and listened, but w*s not noticed by the speaker. On inquiry it was found that the preacher was Robert Bell, Two years ago he wa<? fired from the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Biddlerille because he go into his church barefooted. He was warned against' fViio VlftPfiinrr ?f nnt nrto Ann day, as he attempted to ascend his pulpit shoele?3) a dozen good, pious deacons s^ze<^ him and fired him from the church- On that day Bell declared that he would preach three times every day in 0WQ yard, and be does it, although n? one goes to hear him.?Macon telegraph, , Beth Died at the Well. Thomaeton, Ga., Jan. 30.?Two negro women di d under peculiar cireumstaaces in Hootenville district on Mr. W. T. Eespess' place a week or so ago. One of them, named Viney Todd, dropped dead near the well at her home, and the other, .Snsan Respes9, was helping to prepare the body for burial, and went to the same well and fell within ten feet of the spot where the other woman died. She, however, did not die immediately, but lived several hours. Opposed to Sabsldlei. Charleston, S. C., January 30.? The resolution adopted by the executive committee of the chamber of com* j merce, on Saturday last, indorsing the I mflWltr* nnw hofnrA pAnm-osa tn mJTI yj I tonnage subsidies to American built, ships, has caused considerable excitement here. It i3 extremely doubtful if the chamber will approve the aetion of its committee, and it is also extremely improbable that the state's repreeentatives in Cengress will accede to the request made by them, and support ^the measure. The tendency of public opinion in this city and state j is opposed to subsidies of all kinds. ' THE ALLIANCE GROWING. PRESIDENT STACKHOTJ3EISYERY HOPEFUL. Ha Thinks the Order has Made a Fine Beginning, and will Comlinne to Grow ?The Jate Troat Will be Downed." Gen,E. T. Stackhoase, President of * A iir?-?r toe rarmerb ^maiiuc ux uuuiu na, was ia Charleston a fevr days ago, having gone there to orgasize a sab-alliance in Charleston County?the - first instituted ia the coast sectioa. Id a conversation with a reporter for the Sunday News, Gen. Stackhouae said: "As to the prospects of the college, we have the best reasons to believe that the suit in the United States Court will j be dccided about the 1st of May. Col.' Orr, who has been in Washington, ha? returned and met with the trustees. JLa I understand it an alternative motioa was made?either to hear oral argument ,or to submit a case to the Court in writing. The latter alternative will be adopted, I think, and in all probability the whole matter will be decided at tkis term of the Court." "Has the Alliance, in your judgment, come up up to the expectations of the farmers?" "Well, that is rather a broad que* fcion, and one to which mo one could give an all inclusive answer. Bat I do not hesitate to say that the general principles have worked well. There are exceptiono 1 acraa i n ac/tHono ttt ava iVi aoa at vnoto IU tgi^aiu cc^viuuoj nucic bucic is now trouble. Everywhere else I should say that Alliance methods have been eminently successful. In Laacita-. ter there is trouble and despondency by reason of the failure of the crop." "How does the Alliance propose to meet such emergencies?" ' 1 "That is a question yet to be answered." "Are the,p?oplej)Xi3?rCa^ Or the Alliance f" "Some of them are and some of them are not. But, at aDy rate, the Alliance cannot be expected, in such disasters, to pay a mans debts; nor can it make him able to pay them. As a. general rule where a man is crooked in financial matters or careless in obligations he is beund to get into trouble. "But. after all tbeae minor jaefctera, the Alliance baa surely done a groat deal of good; and we are growiaj more rapidly tbao wc ever did.3" ' What is the size of tbe army nowt" "Not less tban thirty thousand, a small proportion of which is composed of ladies. There is still a great deal of material to be enrolled. So far we havs formed Alliances in every county in tboi State except Beaufort. Charleston wheeled into line today. Georgetown,' as you have probably heard, has been organized witbin tbe past few days. "It entails a good deal of work, but I have an invaluable and most efficient worker in Mr. W. N. Elder, of York., He is a great organizer, one well qaalifi-. ed for this position. I supervise the work and attend to the finances of the new organizations." "How has the cotton cover for cotto? worked this season? "I toi of the opinioa that complete success was prevented by a too "vykfe range of substitutes for jute. A great peal of the stuff that was put on the cotton should not have ueen used. That waSrfeexeyer, a very excusable.hli andespeciaTly^sifl^^'SJ^yf^ltof the zeal and anxiety of t/he farmers to whip out the Jute Trust./ "WhatTimpressi&n have you made on the jute monopolists!" " lou may judSge of that from the fact that jute meii offered us jute this very season at 7 ceits a yard." Gen. Stackfaouse then went on to talk over a few a/ther matters, which need not be published ufc this time. He impressed thf reporter as being a thoroughly practical man, and one who talks to the poic/i and calls things by their name. / / CURRENT NEWS. Hefma Gathered Here and There br Tele* 7 craph and Scluers. / ?Mrs. Frank Lesliejhas been ill for a jweek past. ?Emin Pasha has been made a doctor of Dhilosoohv bv the T7nivarsrif-.T7 nf Koenigsburg.x ?Miss Braddon, the novelist, is masculine in her dress, wearing coat, waistcoat and pleated shirt. ?The only daughter of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry feme, is a private secretary in Massachusetts. ?Ex-Secretary of the Interior "Vilas will visit his former chief, Grover Cleveland, in New York next week. ?The late Charles Mackay left behind him a large quantity of unpublished MS. most of which was quite recently written. -?Dr. J. H. Grail inger, ex-represen tative in Congress, announces himself as a candidate for the New Hampshire senatorphip* ?William Brons, president of the Chicago Tribune company and ex-lieutenant governor of Illinois, died Monday night, aged 76. ?Gen. Boulanger recently struck his forehead against a chandelier in his heu*e en the Isle of Jersey. He was quite severely wounded. ?The returns for taxation for personalty in Savannah amount to $11,595,039. The assessment of real estate is expected to approximate $18,000,000. . ?Hon. John Bigelow, ex-minister, to France, started not long ago for an ' extensive trip in Europe, but has been recalled from Copenhagen by the death of a son-in-law. ?Benzor, the "Jubilee Plunger," has been arrested at Nice for forgery. A man vho could spend $2,000,000 in two years is capable of almost anyfeat of financial Napoleonism. i j ? > ?vucmvo A-isuci uaj uemeu a new trial and sentenced Jhapleau of New York, convicted of murder, to death by electricity during the week beginning March 3. ?Perine C. Whitney and Miss Josephine Ward, the latter deaf and dumb, are to be married at West Haven, Conn., in a few days. - The groom is 66 and the bride 40 years younger. ?While plowing in a field the horses of Farmer Guss of Martinsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania, suddenlv sank into the ground and went fiftee"n feet bolow the surface before they found bottom. ?English syndicates have put $4,000,000 in Chicago breweries: $4,500* 000 in New York breweries: and $12,000,000 ia St. Louis breweries. Whichever route the World's Fair may take the syndicates are aasured of a' lively toade. * TV/8 8J3THAM D ROM (OS. Wonderful Resemblance Between a Couple of Twin Brothers. In ail probability. the most startling. case crl personal .resemblance is ttaf which, exists between the twin brothers,; Meyer and John Goldsmith, sons of- ^ Maurice Goldsiruih, a well-known tobac-J co merchant of 842 East Eightieth street, ; v; New York. The record of the odd nritf-j takes made by intimate friends, offing to their resemblance, is a long ?ne. Meyer Goldsmith is the head cutter at the Broadway tailoring establishment of the Jacobs Brothers, and his twin \ brother, John, is foreman ef a larg? cigar manufactory at Boston,. These twin brothers are twenty-three years of: age and were born in New York City. ;! John is married and has lived in Bos-' ton for abeut two years." Hec&me hfflfee . lasf. TceeV nri-fc'hrm'fc can<^r*i? *.n*r xcaty} bis intended visit, and entered tHe-p%?! rental residence ^"bdut tie time thll Meyer was due. 3is good* mother greeted John > a? Meyer, and was1 a little surprised at aa unusual display of affection. llrs^. John Goldsmith then -came forward and dispelled the illusion, and her mother-in-law "accepted the laugh," OC eVtO Vlfli? ?iATVQ /NY* ^UVMU ' mien the twin toy3 w?ra itftantg it | is said tliat Meyer was HI one day, bu? , John had his neck covered with flaai nel and was dosed with soothing sir*p | by his mother, who mistook him lor Meyer. *' i John Goldsmith went dofWh to the Jacobs .Brothers' store one day and took his brother Meyer's place, working nearly all day before it was discovered that he vr&s John "and not Meyer, as the ?employes in the store presumed- ? Tthaw no "hrtVh tfffill Ana making mistakes as to onr identity neari 1y everyday, "^sa^djtfeyer Goldsmith tg> -trWreporter. ~ " "I havs hadpexsons talk to me in what seemed riddles?matters about which I was not posted?only "to find ont that they intended their conversation for my brother John. And John has a similar experience." , ". A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. ^ A Man Struck by a Cdw- Thafe Sad -Beoa B:oisted by a Ebcemottvfc ^ O*? of most peeclato aaaMfafat la fie maofis ,df sai33seaai? oocttT7?l__ ?a # CbnludSfc? Wel-Pa **?Lb 5??. 59'&lGeorgia Bafca&c recently says tie B2r- .. minghani Ager Herald. About west of Linden a conpi^^Mfltf the siding of dV (topMI accideSj ion wa9H body of Sfl fling carcaM assisted by W fellow-?as ? [ brought to thi^J attended wounds, thoug?j|^^Hfl^HPR^exmful, ancrcoSRstedof aniimI Tvft* rtll 4-C A TvJ O VvAn +V* Q ^fio/5 LJ\J 4. VX V/Utc CfciXU. UliUOOO <a.uvuu two aavt<bw.9 faee"andb<jdy. At the time that the trairimen cam? to his resc ie the young man was insen ible and would doubtless hare been killed had it not been for the speedy relief from his terrible predicament. On the train he was recognized as Claud# Huston, a lad of nineteen or twenty, the son of a prominent and influential physician of Clarksville, Ga. He has been away from home a number of months, and his parents will come for him. He wishes now he had never run away. A COSTLY NECKLACE. One Worth 9350,000 to Be Worn by an English Brewer'# "Wife. The beer people of England hay? mints of money, says New York Truth. They have put two score millions into the brewing business ia this country, and don't seem to miss it. The Guinness people have been wealthy for two or three generations, and when they turned their brewery into a stock company they becahie richer still. The wife of one of the great brewing family has *iust given an order for a new necklace that, even with, unlimited. credit and the greatest industry, oan not be finished Jtor several years, because, in th3 first place, the best oldmine stones ate very scarce, and, secondly, because she has stipulated that rtvery diamond in the necklace must be a perfect match. It is to- be a very elaborate pattern and will cost 8250,000. ?? Just now the fashionable ornaments in Paris are little gold or silver towers of- Eiffel with a diamond on top to represent th? ele?tric light. A Paris jeweler has one in his window that attracts crowds all day long, and ia almost as muck an object of popular" curiosity as the famous tower itself. - Thia v one is an exaet copy of the So a struck* ure> made in silver and covered with diamonds, with a huge diamond si tip tap wMtiJi it set on: a. spring, ana. jb-j it quivers shoots ouj long fays-ef celored Hgirtv Tber5 are 40,000 <ioall diamonds set into the silver frame. Of cburse it can no? be; used for any thing, aud must eventually be broken up and the diamonds ust>d in some other way, bat it has trotted the jeweler in advertisement far more than he paid for workmanship uno:a it. How He Got His Lessons- / A achool-bsy in England hi* upon a novgl method of obtaining the answer to an arithmetical problem. He dropped into a grocer 5 shop on his way to school, and said he wanted certain commodities at certain prices. After exhausting hits list he said: "Xow, if I give you half a sovereign, what change shall I get baqjc?" The grocer told, him, wherenpon he thanked th e shopman and turned to CTO. 6 4VV 2-5 +:>.* r> t/h i r? rrc i* 1 aA * >! Ck grocer; and his disgust can be imagined when the ingenious urchin told him he was too late for school, and as he hadn't learned his arithmetic lesson he had' adopted that method of getting the sum, "*Drked for hia\. ?Miss Kennedy, a San Francisco school marm, who was dismissed by the school committee in J1887 without any assigned cause, has been reinsta tea dy a decision or me erapreme vk;uts, with $5,000 lor pay in the interval. ?The French soldiers have been an army of tea drinker* during the prevalence of the grip. Wherever the grip made its appliance in a regiment all the soldiers who remained free from the epidemic were given between . meals hot tea with sugar. ' ?Anarchist , John Most has been released cn $50C bail, pending an appeal A o the Court of Appeals of New York. J Jt