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N. <4 ~ ~' A VOL. Vi. MANNING. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBIUJARY 3, 1890. YO. 10 HOME-MADEF E 1RTILIZERSJ AN iPORTANT ENTERPRISE IN AUGUTATED IN COLUMBIA. The Work Mapped Out by the Cobumbia P1ho-phate Coupany-What It Offiers to the Fariera of (eorgia and the cara ;inas. An important.branch of bome industry i Ls u4 oen established at Colu.abia, C..., uuder the name ol the Columbia Phosphate Company. The officers are ts follows: President-W. A. Clark, Viec Presidet-J. C. Haskeli, Secre arv and Treasurer-Wilie Jones, SiU ueriutendent-T. C. Robertson, Direc tors--W. A. Clark, James Woodrow, J. C. Haskell, G. L. Baker. The company has just issued a circu I-r setting fourth its purposes and its faiciiti. It says: Before purchasing N uur fcrtilizers 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 will give them a full trial, satisfied not oulv that the result obtained from this our first year's production will fully realize your expectation, but that' succeeding years will confirm them. As this is our first season, we have no testimony to offer, but have this to say. "The best i: always tne cheap est." and with this as our motto, have erected in the city of Columbia. at the -ery head of river navigation, Fertili Works that, for thorougn equip- c t ; very respect, stand unrival ae United States, and so shall oducts be unexcelled. r works cover four acres, and are 3 ted at the intersection of the Rich- t d & Danville and the Atlantic t Line, and only 1,305 yards from v by, the head of river navigation, v which point it will be connected 0 track, now being laid. The Atlan- f oast Line gives us direct connec- y with the ports of Norfolk, Wil- . ton, and Charleston, from any of r, h we receive our sulphur direct t Sicily. The R. & D. gives us an b let to the entire Piedmont section r of our State, and "The Old Reliable" V (the Congaree and Santee) connects us directly with the phosphate beds, and a delivers the crude rock to us at a , freight rate that paralyzes the great- d est of traffic managers and relegates e to innocuous desuetude the Inter- a State Railroad Laws. Surrounded with such freight fa-ii- t ties, we ask protection from none, and boldly assert thaz we will deliver our s Fer-iIizers at any point in the State, b duplicating prices of any standard v goods on the market. It may not be known, but it is a fact, t that an iron steamboat of 250 tons ca- e pacity has made weekly trips between Granby and Charleston since last March, without missing once. It is a fact, that our Oil Mills have sold the a planters of Pee Dee 500 tons meal, and t truck faimers of Ch'arleston 600 tons, r all to be delivered by steamer; and that an extra boat will be put on the river this month to meet the increased Zraffic. But the fact of all facts is, that we offer the trade of the Pee Dee and the Santee, of the mountain and the seaboard, a Fertilizer excelled by none, and at Charleston prices. The names we have selected for our goods are "Granby Ammonia ted Fe-rtiliZer," "Granby Acid Phos phate ". .t Our ammoniated goods will contain full 2.3 per cent of An-'monma, and our Acid Phosphate 10 per cent of availa ble phosphoric acid. This will be our minimum guarantee, and should the trade desire the cheap, 1 and 11 per cent ammoniated goods bignow so largely put upon the market, they will1 be made only at their risk and unaer their br.and. We intend that im the years to somae "Granby Fertilizer"shall be a horsehold word in the South, maintai ted to the highest standard .and seliing on its own merit. vALUE OF FERTILIZERs. ( The experiments of Liebig and other 1 agricultural chemists established the imuportance of applying artificially Am monia, Phosphoric Adid, and Potash to the growing plant. The experience of the successful farmer has demon strated the absolute necessity of a free and intelliant use of these ingredients, and to obtain them science, art and commerce have been employed on the most extensive scale, and millions of dollars invested in the production of commercial fertilizers. NITROGEN. *Formerly the guano of Peru supplied this element in large quantities, but since the exhaustioni of those deposits the supply has been largely from dry blood, fish scraps, nitrate of soda, and cotton seed meal. POT AsH. 'jlis article is almost altogether ob tained imm the German mines, either as Kainit or Mairiate of Potash. PHOSPHORiC ACID~. This ingredient is found in nature. both as is soluble Phosphate of Lime an~d Phosphate ot Alumina, but .as suc-h is useless as a fertilizer, being in. soluble in water, and not available as a plant ft. od. To make it available as a plant food has been the work of the scientists, and the immense capital em ptoyed in this art attests their success. The largest deposit of insoluble Phos phate of Lime that we know of exists in our own State, and is known as Phosphate Rock, evidently the re mains and deposits of sea animals and birds. In its crude state it is insoluble, but when ground and treated wvith Sulphuric Acid it becomes soluble, and is known in commerce as Acidulated Rock, or Dissolved Bone, and as such becomes the basis of all commercial fertilizers. To make the rock soluble we must have Sulphuric Acid. This v.as at first imported into -Northern --rtthe rock shipped Nort 7,the fer ilizers made and re--shipped South. This was expensive, the fert ilizers sell iug at 575 per tou. The next step was timport the Sulphur and make dul phuric Acid, then followed the est ab lishment of the acid chaumber along side oft the rock, still further reducing exp.eoses. Every step was one to chemipent producticu oy brining the crude materials together, but the last and mnort important step yet maide in to bring them to the~ planter and man ufacture tht m at hi- door, giving him the best goods for the leas~t monev Such is the ;am of the ColuuAbia Phos phate Company. W.ith the close of the old year we have comnplo d1 a plant capatbte of pro due.ng atinualyv ifteen t hus-and tons of fert lize-rs. Favored by propitiou wea r, we accom~ li.h tbe~ work in four n.outths. Experts pronounce it anurpa:d by any, North or south. We are determined that its productiou and during the present season offer to the trade 1. Purc Dissolced Ronc. Guaranteed Analysis-12 per cent. Available Phos phoric Acid. 2 Gran>y Acid Pho.sphate. Guaran teed Analysis-10 to 12 per cen . Avail able Phosphoric Acid--1 to 1i per cent. Potash. 3. Granby Anmoniated Fertilizer. Guaranteed Analycis-2L to 3 per cent. I Ammonia-8 to 10 per cent. Available Phosph-oric Acid-1 to 1 per cent. Potash. 4. Pure Gernwn Kainit. -Imported by us. Surrounded by egoy possible rail road facility, we can deliver promptly to any point in three State's. We have made special arrangements with the teamer John M. Cole to deliver our 4oods at all landings en the Santee and P'ee Dee, and the many planti ers of hese rivers now shipping their cotton eed to our oil wills, will find it to heir advantage to futher extend their ommercial intercourse with Colum )ia by purchasing their fertilizers from is. Remember, our motto ii to make mly the best Yours should be to patronize home adustries [HE STATE ALLIANCE EXCHANGE. 'ut Into Practical Workiug shape--Hiow the Busines is conducted--A Big Trade Already Developed. reenville News. A report r for the News yesterday vis; ed the office of the State Alliance E2 hange, wbich is located in this cit, ver the store of Wiltns, Yoe & Co.. on lain street. M. L. Donaldson. the State usmess Agent, and his assistant, Thos. . Berry, Lormerly of Cheraw, were in be office. The exchange has been open for three eeks. Over half this une was de oted to correzpondence, the furnishing price lists, etc , and the first order )t goods was received something over a rek ago. Now the orders come in con ouously and Mr. Donaldson said to the porter that the business in that short me had bcen highly satisfactory to imself and to Col. J. C. Coit. of Che w, the President of the Exchange, ho was here a few days ago. The office is titted up comfortably aUnd iany visitors have called since business ras begue. The business agent has two esks and chairs and the floor is carpet d. Samples of flour and other articles re to be seen lying around. Mr. Donaldson stated, in answer to le question on what plan the business as managed, that it was conducted mewbat on the principle of a general rokerage business and that the money rhich was necessary to the running ex enses of the exchange was paid by the rms wh-ch sold goods through the ex ange, the same as a broker gets his ar from the firm which he represents. r. Donaldson said that only those firms at were known to be strictly honest d trustworthy were dealt with and if beir goods do nor come up to their rep esentation in the price lists further bus .ess with them is stopped immediately. -I obtait, price lists," said 1r. Don idson, "from manufacturing establish ients and concerns all over the Union, epresenting every product that the far ier has any use for. The lowest prices re quoted These lists are constantly oming to me. I prepare frot these a rice list which I send at intervals or rhen wanted to the business agents of he County Alliances. In turn the busi ess agents aend them to the respective ub-Alliances in their county. Then rheni goods are wanted, the sub-Al iances find out how much and what ach member wants. The price list is. efore them and the member takes out tis pocket book and puts up the money or what he wants. The others do like vise. An order for a certsin amount of oods is made and the money and order et to the county agent. lHe forwards t to me and Isend the order to the irm r firms whicn handle the goods and put he money in the bank. The goods are nipped direct to the county agent of the surty wh~ch nrders the goods and if hey are received and found to meet the equirements the money is then forward :d to the firm. "Thus, it will be seen, everything is lone on a strictly cash basis and the nebers of the Alliance get advantage if the lowest wholesale prices. 'Ihe yeauty of the plan is that a cash business s encouraged and the farmers -il find themselves falling into 4 cash system instead of the credit busi 2ess.. It will be the means," said the usiness agent, "ot landing our people ut of the mud on the solid rock." "I have received orders from nearly very county, frem Iorry to Pickens, and many of them are for large sums. Some orders are for as many as 100 tons of guano. "If the evchange gets one-twentieth of the cash trade of the farmers of the State it will d0 an enormous business." Mr.. Donaldson was a.-ked how the poor farmers would get money to patron ize the exchange. He said that matter is regulated by the sub Alliances. Some :imes members of the sub Alliances, who are able to do so. furnish the money to ther p or b:otber membiers and take se curitv. The loans are made at small in terest and there as no~ charge for papers. Additi'ontl clerical assistaince wiil be needed as the busies of the exchange grows, -The conties: adiaceni. toG Greenville have been the moat libsral up to this ime in buying through the exchange, but every county ibat holds stock in the exchange wil! fi irnto line and a heavy business for spring i-s expected. Ingl~aIIP Advice Btearine Fruit. PoiXT PLEis&NT, W. Va., Jan. 29. A family of 8 per-sons, named H-ar grove, livtng sever-al miles south of here, have been poisoned by a negr-o wo:a~n Four of the family are report, ed dead. 30) eecretly Exet-ed in itio. NEW YORK, Jani. 2.-The captain o :he steamer La Piace, from Rio Jan io, reports that ;?0 sailor-s who, while intoxicated, had shouted In the streets, "Long live the Emuperor," were exe cuted secretly in prison at Rito. --A msan and a woman are traversing Delaware county, Ohio, getting mar ried by every preacher they come across.~ The fake they- work is to- give the minister a $20 counterlelt bill and re 'at1Uor$15 good money in return. -The Hle Elevator Comipany of Chica::o is preparing estitnates for- an elevtor to be uced in the construtctionl of toW-r in London, Engtaudl, to e 2n) f.-et highier than 6he Eiffel Eo .wer. -li G3. (:wdy, of Chicago, and an other b:-oker ha've- closed1 a contract lor the purtchase of t hree large Cleveland breweries for an English syndicate The amount to be paid is about $2, 5OOO A RP AND THE GMQSTS. BILL TELLS OF A MIDNIGHT AD NENTURE. When ie Mistook a Church Spire for a Gho.%t-lf There are Ghosts They are UnIhappy. I was ruminating about ghosts-::ell, of course, there are no such things-that is to sav nobodv has ever seen one. but we have al come prSLt: :--r it. Several times I have almost seec a .. The fact ictlnev won't ie you see'em riut ir and square, so that you could swear to it. A visible ghost wouldn't be a ghost, and an invisiLle ghost is hard to see, espe c:ally in the dark. But there are times and places when we can't help trying to see them. Now, of course, there are no such thiog--, but still they have habits arid haunta just like folks. They stay around graveyards and up stairs in dark closets, and they walk the road in dark, swampy places, and linger around country meeting houses in the ight. They like dark, gloomy solitary laces, and that makes me think that hosts are unbappy. They have done omthing bad or suffered somie great uisfortune before tney were turned into hosts. The spirit of good people don't nake ghosts. It was hard work for the ,irci of Eader to get the spirit of Sam el to come up. He didn't want to ome up, and said "why hast thou dis uieted me to bring me up?" And that s the reason why we are all afraid of hosts. They are the spirits of bad peo >e. Well, of course, there are no such hings, but this is the way we think bout it. I saw a ghost one dark night s I was passing the old Fairview church, bout two miles from town. It was alking right towards me ir the big oad, and was white--perfectly white Lud had legs and arms but no head. I vas about to turn my horse and run, but e didn't want to turn-he wanted to go ome, and he waso t scared a bit, and o I let him rack on until we met the hos., and it was the miller going home ith a sack of flour across his shoulders :d Lis head and his white hat bent for rard. That liked to have been a ghos-. n fact. it would have been if it hada'i een the miiler. Many a time have I hought how near I came to seeing a host, and I'm not sure yet but what it as a ghost, and suddenly turned into he miller. They are mighty smart, and s quick as lightting- that is, If there re any such things, which, of course, here are not. Last night about 10 o'clock I was com g over the high hill that is back of our ouse. I had been to see a sick grand hild and it was a near way to come by Te old graveyard. 'Nobody has been urried there for forty years, but that nakes it all the worse for ghosts. They re old experienced ghosts, and can just aise up the hair on a man's head most .wful-that is, if he has any bair. That s one advantage a bald-headed man has ver other people. A ghost can't raise p his hair. I wish it could, that is if it vould stay raised. That old graveyard as tried the fortitude of my children nany a time, and lastsnight it tried me or it was very dark and the little pines vere gloomy and sighed mournfully in be wind. I was coming down the teep hill feeling my way along careful y 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 hadowy figure bob up sereneiy just be ore me and stop-and I stopped. I was. ust about to run into the thing, but as dident advance any I advanced a step -a very cantious step. Is quivered a itle, but came no nearer. Again I step ed forward and gave a sweeping stroke rith my cane, as if to cut it in two, and did crit in two, but it never moved. tmazed, I paused and pondered, and taid to myself, "What in the dickens is t?' Just then in the dark, dim light of he murky horizon away in the east I raw the mysterious thing take shape and ,ecome pointed at the top, and all at nce it flashed over me that it was tne ateeple of the Methodist church that was quarter of a mile away. And it was. T course I dident strike at it any more, ad I felt cheap as dirt for being such a ool, but I comforted myself in thinking ow brave I was and thart I showed fight it a ghost. May be it was a ghost. Who ~nows but what it was a genuine ghost, d for fear of being caught and expos d, it turned itself into that steeple. No vonder it scared me, for the poet says: Some have mistaken stumps and posts -For spectres. apparitions, ghosts. But when it turns into a steeple It will alarm the most of people. It is astonishing how a big thing away >l can turn into a little thing close by, iud vice versa. Albert Strickland told nio that he knew a feller to shoot nine times at a esoon in the fork of a very high poplar tree and nobody could see that coon but him. Albert says that at last an idea struck him, and he went close up to the fAler, as he was loading his rifle for another shot, and he discov ered a little suzzy animal hanging to a hair oil his eveorow.. lIfe brushed it oil with a straw, and the feller couldent find that coon any more. The little animal belonged in his head, but had stra yed og on an exploring expedition, arid was teaching the young idea how to shoot. Albert didn't say w~ho the feller was, but I have always had my c.pinion. Ilam ruminating about ghosts tonight, because I am alone in a great two-story house with seven rooms and a garret. 1 ear somc thing in that garret now. M folks have all gone to the show. They didn't press me to go, and Mrs. Ar) said: "I suppose you are goreg to write your letter to night, and so you ca't take care of the house." "Yes r.am" said I, with my accustomed meekness. They left the lamp burning in the parlor. I know they did, and I hea d the front door close. I heard a racket ouat there a little while ago and went to s.ee and found the lamp rut and the front door open. What does that mean? The lamp wasn't filled today I reckon, and the door don't shut every time it seems to--sometimes the wind blows it, and sometimes the dog pushes it open, so it is all right I reckon: but it s aw ful lonesome when there is no wont an about the house. A man who has lived with one forty years had rather have her around raising a racket than nt to have her at all. Of course she oes to go to the shows. Penned up all day at home, mending and patchingr, sewingz on buttons and strings, hunting up lost cuffs and collar-buttons; mamma, where are my socks, or my band ker c-n'ef, or my ilannel shirt, or my cravat, or my other shoes, or my~ Latin urumn :nar, or my slate pencil, or my anythiont and everything. "Was there ever suel: helpless ebildren. Ir's a wonder yor dont lose your head." But she ge's uj and slips around and finds it. She al way findls it She cnn go in the dui and put her hand on everything L13 her go to the show. She is not old yet. She is six years younger than her lord and loves a new dress just like she d:d thirty years ano, and she gets them, too. I wish she ould make haste and get as old as I am. I uaed to think that a man ought to be a few Seurs 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 Lad rather stay at home with the ghosts and ruminate. But these women are' full of c:-totion. They love to shed tears over the pathetic, and rejiice with the good, an1d despise the b:d, aUd get all ced up % ith j iv o witu sorrow, and they love to io'K eil round the circle un.d see who is there a.,J bow they are dressed and who they came with. and they can see behind them ais well as before them, and how in the wor'ld ther do it I da't know. Most of our shows ate home mae, and keep tbe money at home, but they are getting alarmingiy frequent in this town-every church is running them, and they averagc about one a week, and we must all go or send the money, so as not to hurt feelings or be talked about. The churches want money and the wom en are bound to have it. It is the samie way all over the country. Every day or two, I gt letters wanting money for churches or paraoriages. It would break m. ir .t month to respond to all that ask me. I 4m sorry that I can't, for if there is nyo otter work than to build up the ciaurclys I don't know it. I wish I had a charity fund, but I haven't I is a nip and tues to get along, and our folks are trying to build a new church to6, and want every ol!ar that I can spare. ..t is an awful tibing to he a p )or man witb such a ma'. ways. but I can't be]p it now. What'. that? Me thinks I hear another ghost. But, no, it's ny family coming izom the show and 1',ihear it all, and then they will ransack the pantry for something to eat. I've got an awful hungry family, especially ab-out bedtime, when they come from a show. BILL ARP. THE TRUTH COMES OUT About the Mysterious Crime in North Car olina. RALEIGH, N. C., January 30.-Sat urday night, just before midnight, there was a very mysterious murder at Maxton, in Robeson county. It was committed in the heart, of the town near a bright light and many people were only fifty yards away,standing on a platform at the depot awaing a train. Suddenly three pistol shots were heard in very rapid succession, but there was no other noise. The crowd ran to the place where the shots were heard, and there found a Croatan In dian lying beside a store dying. A pistol bullet had struck him just above the heart. His only words wera 'pick me up." In a minute he was dead. His name is not known. It was the belier that he was assassinated by some negro, and he has fled, it is ru mored. Today the mystery was revealed, and a very sensational affair made known. It was Sim Lowry, son of a once notorious outlaw, Steve Lowry, who was shot and killed, and his slayer was Donahoe McQueen, a night watchman. Lowry's father was one of the celebrated Lowry gang of out laws, which was exterminated in Robeson county twenty years ago, after its members had led a desperate career of robbery and murder. It is aid that McQueen fired the shot that illed Steve Lowry, the outlaw, and hat Sim Lowry, then a boy, swore to venge the death of his father. He as at Maxten last Saturday night rinking, and following McQueen ttempted to assassinate him with a nife, whereupon McQueen shot nd killed him to save his own life. IcQueen is a white man, and is said o be a good citizen. The man he illed belonged to the tribe of Croaton ndians, fifteen hundred of whom live n Robesou county. McQueen's and owry's bodies have been taken to umberton.' McQueen has acknowl dged the killing and surrendered imself. H ad Him There. Allen, of Mississippi, has told more tories since the opening of Congress han Billy Mason, our story telling man rom the Third District of Illinois. One f his best stories was dropped the other ight at Chamberlin's. Half a dozen ongenial spirits were :eated together at taole, and one thing and another led Alen to reel off a full dozen of stories. he last one was about his Tupelo con ituent, Bill Brown. Bill is an old far er who owns half the marshes around Allen's native city. A year ago he ought a young bull from a lawyer who s a shrewd fellow and known through ut Allen's district. '.'Brown weasn't quite sure of his bar gain" said A lien, "so avery tinme the lawyer went that way he hedged so much that the lawyer grew extravagant in his praise." "I tell you, Brown," said he, as ne rode by the farmhouse, "that's the tiest animal in this whole country. I'd ride any time two miles out of my way just to pass it in your mcadow. I sold it to you for $~75, but I reckon it's worth-" "How much is it worth, cap'o?" said the farmer. "Well, if I was selling it today I wouldn't let .it go for a cent less thano $250. It's worth that, and I congratu late you upon shaving me so neatly." Bill Brown felt pretty good overth bull, and every time he saw the lawyrr they tal ked about it, the lawyer always repeating that he wo)uld not sell it for less than $250. The lawyer in the meantime had be come counsel for a MississIppi railroad and had to appraise and settle all diffi culties for the corporation. One day as he sat in his office, loutish Bill Brown came in, twirled his hat be-. tween his thumbs, and said in a wheed ling tone: "I' reckon that air bull is good for a pert sumi, cap)'n." SCertainly, Mr. Brown, certainly;$250 couldn't buy it of me if I still had it in my p)ossesion." -'Wall, cap'n that air bull was run over by yer railroad last eight and I reckon vou'll see that they pay me $250 for it." Indinns i)ona't Like ."Hiai:ual Labor'. D)ENIsoN TEX , Jan. 29.-Serious trouble is anticipatedjin theiChickasawv Nation, as the time approaches for clection of the per capita of live dolars levied on white residents fojr the privilege of performing manual labor. Ave'ned 11er u1 r'on. TxoY, N. YT., Jan. 29.--A woman giving the name of Mrsa. McGrath, and claiming Chicago as her home. shot Edwin .Firth, a well known inventor, on the street here this afternoon. Firth will die. The woman claims F irth de ceive her ALMOST A SAVAGE. A WHITE MAN'S STRANGE LIFE IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. Mlief of a Tribe of Natives-iiis EngIosh Relativesto Attempt H'is Rescue If Bc ..Will Come Back.-Civilization Forgot ten. PoRTLACN, Me., .Jan. s30.--The story of the wreck of the Portland bark Tewksburv L. Sweat in the South Pa cific, and the strange story of the rescue of her crew, as told by Capt. Wi. Gooding of Yarmouth, Me., has a strange sequel. The bark sailed from Newcast'e, New South Wales, March 7, 1889, for Hong Kong, under charter for New York. She proceeded until the 9th of April fol lowiog, when in latitude 7 deg. 5 min. Norta and longitude 149 deg. 11 min East she encountered a gale and was driven ashore on Susanne Reef, near Po zeat 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. From this islet after the storm subsided they made the Island of Pozeat, which is inhabited by a race of fierce savages. As the boat approached the island a fleet of canoes put off to intercept them. There were about thirty canues, with eight or ten men in each, and all were armed with knives and spears. Some of the savages could not wait for the boat to come alongside, but jumped overboard and swam to her, each man carrying a long wicked-looking knife, held between his teeth. The first savages to reach the boat clambered in until the boat was nearly swamped. Then they began to st ip the sailors of their coats and outer garments, throwing the garments aboard their own canoes; which by this time were pad dling alongside. The white men were soon despoiled of everything but their undershirts, these being left to them, and the whole fleet drew in toward the land. When they got asbore, and while the shipwrecked crew were sianding sur rounded by the noisy crowd of natives a man dressed as all the others, only with a cloth about his hips, pushed his way through the crowd and spoke to them in tne Engliar language. To the astonishment of Captain Good iug, to whom the man addressed him self, the seeming native introduced him self as Charls Irons, an Englishman, and offered to render any assistance it was possible for him to give. :Later the captain learned Irons's his tory. It appears that he was left at Pozeat Island by a trading vessel about four years ago, his business being to rep resent the trades in the cocoanut oil trade, but the vessel had never called for Irons since leaving him, and he had gradually assumed the habits of the na tives and finally became so much like them in appearance and manner of life he was not in any way to be distinguish ed from the people among whom he lived. He had taken to himself seven wives, and was regarded by the natives as a man of importance second only to the chief of the tribe. Irons had been so long among the na tives that he had forgotten many of the common things of civilization. A day or two after landing at Pozeat Captain Gooding, who had become in a degree uncertain about his reckoning of. time, ot knowing exactly whether the day was Thursday or Friday in the week, askedi Irons if he knew what day of the week it kvas. Irons' answered that he id not, and more that he did not know what year it was. Captain Gooding says that the natives would never have allowed him and his rew to leave Pozeat if it had not been for the good offices of Irons. Irons in erested himself in behalf of the ship wrecked men and hired a canoe from he natives with presents of English cal c, from stores in his possession. With his canoe Captaiti Gooding, Second ate George W. Harrison and one of he ship's crew set sail ten days after bir arrival at Pozeat, leaving the re rainder of the ship's company and First Iate Richard Watchman, seven men in al, at Pozeat. The captain and his men made their ay in the canoe by a rourndabout course fom island to island, touching at eight iferent ones and making stops at each arying from two days to a month's du ation, finally arriving at Ruk, where here is a missionary station. Here they were cared for by the mis onaries and obtained the use of the oat belonging to the station. In the issionary boat they made sail back to Pozeat direct and taking the members of he crew they had left there returned to the missionary island. Two months after their return the issionary vassel, Morning Star, arrived ad took them all to Honolulu, where hey landed November 18. From Hono uluCaptain Gooding and part of the rew were brought by the steamer Aus ratia to San Francisco. arriving there November 29. This story, told by Captain Gooding mn his retuin, was publiseed in the New York Herald's London edition, and to ay the managing owners of the wrecked bark, Chase Leavitt & Co., of this city and Captain Gooding of Yaraouth, are in receipt of letters from London mak ing inquiry in regard to the Irons who appears to tigure as prime minister of the savage Pozeat. Both letters arc from the same source, the '"Probate and Divorce Registry, Somerset House, London," and are sign ed b'y Lancelot C. Irons. The writer says he has reason to believe the white man on Pezeat Island is his youngest and only living brother, and says: "We 'last heard of him mn December, 1878, when he was trading with the savages of New Guinea in a ship that charteredI from Brisbane." He gives a minute de srption of his brother as he appeared at that time, and says his full name is William Charles Frederick Irons. ,* The letter to Captain Gooding con tans questions as to particulars of iden tification and inquires as to how assis tance might be sent to the man at Po zeat if he prToves to be the person sought for. The letter to Chase. Leavitt & Co. concludes: "I and ali my people feel sure that the lEnglishman mentioned is our brother, supposed to have been mut deed by the savages eleven years ago." I saw Captain William Gooding at his home in Tarmouth to-day. H~e said he had no doubt the man at Pozeat was the William Charles Frederick Irons in quired for. The description given in the letter from Somerset House tallies in all points with that of the man he met at Pozeat. Captain Gooding says that at his first meeting with the man at Pozeat, in sur prise at being addressed in the languge of civilization he exclaimned: What! Carn you speak English?" "I ought iLo," was the answer, "for I as born in TLondon." Captain Gooding says hc left Irons a 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 t9 see Irons, for they had heard a report of his death at the bands of the savage3 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 tain Gooding it appears that both these men were at one time together in a ves sel trading among the islands. This may be the ship chartered at Brisbane that Lancelot Irons refers to-in .his let ter. One feature of the trading carried on by the vessel was the kidnapping of natives from the Caroline and Northern groups to the Fijii and 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, since when Irons has lived a savage life at Po zeat. Chisholm, who is Irish by birth, has lived in about the same condition. He is a man of influence in one of the thice tribes of natives inhabiting a large moubtainous island in the Ruk lagoon. This lagoon is about thirty miles in cir cumfarence, and contains seven or eight islands. Captain Gooding thinks Irons would like to return to civilization if his future suppoit were assured. He will write to London to that effect, and will say that a letter addressed ca e Rev. ir. Snelling, missionary station, Ruk, will probably reach Irons without unnecessary delay. MORE TROUBLE FOR MRS. MORRIS. Mr. Morris's Will to be Contested by His Relatives and the Life Insurance Com pany. REIDSvILLE, N. C., January 30.-As was well known, there was more at stake in the trial of Mrs. Morris, charged with causing the death of het husband by chloroform, than the mere conviction or acquittal of the fair prisoner. There is the large estate of Mr. Morris bequeath ed in his will to his wife, and a $10,000 insurance policy on his life, also payable to Mrs. Morris. The acquittal of the prisoner, of course, throws all this into her hands; whereas had she beea con victed, the will of her husband would have been null and void. This is the home of Mrs. Morris and it is in this thriving town where most of the proper tv mentioned in the will of Mr. Morris is lcated. It is learned to-night 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 influ ernce on the part of Mrs. Morris in in ducing her husband to make its provi sions in her favor. The Mutual Bene fit Life Insurance Company of New York announce that they will fight the case till judgment day before they will pay over the ten thousand dollar policy; RACE AND RELIGION. Why a Conference Will Not be Held In Selma, Ala. CHARLEsTON, S. C., January 29.-The African Methodist bench of Bishops met here today, Bishops Wayman, Ward, Turner, Disdey, Gaines, Arnett, Tantner and Grant being present, representing early all the territory in the Union. he action of the last conference ap ointing Selma, Ala., as the place for he next meeting was revoked on the ground of race prejudice in that city as videnced by the expulsion of the negro preacher, Rev. M. E. Bryant. As ballot etween New Orleans and Philadelphia esulted in the choice of Philadelyhia as he place of next meeting. Ingails Confesses. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-On Thursday ast, just after Senator Ingalls concluded hs speech on the negro question, he met :enator Butler,, of South Carolina, in he lobby. As the two men shook hands Senator Butler said: "Ingalls, what in the - do you ean by doing like this?" evidently re ferring to his bitter speech. "Butler," replied Ingalls, "do you now anything about Roman history? f so, perhaps you remember how the Roman fathers used to get together and privately laugh over the gullibility of he Roman people." With a smile the Kansan walked way. .As Extraordinary Scene. A reporter witnessed an extraordinary scene in the vicinity of Biddleville, N. . In front of a small cabin a pulpit ad been erected. In this stood a negro "preaching" at the top of his voice. There was no one except the reporter and the preacher near, and the forimer stood and listened, but was not noticed by the speaker. On inquiry it was found- that the preacher was Robert Bell, Two years ago he was fired from the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Biddleville because he would go into his church barefooted. He was warned against this offense- and heeding it not, one Sun day, as he attempted to ascend his pul pit shoeless, half a dozen good, pious deacons seized him and tired him from the church. On that day Bell declared that he would preach three times every day in his own yard, and he does it, although no one goes to hear him.-Ma con Teiegrapt. Both Died at the Well. TrooarsToN, GA., Jan. :30.-Two negro women die d under peculiar circt'm stances in Ilootenville district on Mr. W. T. Respess' place a week or so ago. One of them, named Viney Todd, dropped dead near the well at her home., and the othcr, Snsan Respess, was helping to pre pare the body for burial, and went to the same well and fell within ten feet of the pot where the other woman died. She, however, did not die immediately, but lived several hours. opposed to Subuidles. CHARI.EsTON, S. C., January 30. The resolution adopted by the execu tive committee of the chamber of com merce, on Saturday last, indorsing the measure now before Congress to pay tonnage subsidies to American built ships, has caused considerable excite ment here. It is exttremely doubtful if the chamber will approve the action of its committee, and it is also ex tremely imoprobable that the state's repreeentatives in Congress will accede to the request made by them, and support~the measure. The tendency of public opinion in this city and statt soppnned to uhsidies f all 1rinds. THE ALLIANCE GROWING. PRESIDENT STACKHOUSE IS VERY HOPEFUL. He Thinks the Order has Made a Fine Beginning, and will Conlinue to Grow -The Jute Trust Will be "Downed." Gen. E. T. Stackhouse, President of the Farmers' Alliance of South Caroli na, was ia Charleston a few days ago, having gone there to organize a cub-alli ance in Charleston County-the first in stituted in the coast section. In a con versation with a reporter for the Sunday News, Gen. Stackhouse said: "As to the prospects of the college, we have the best reasons to believe that the suit in the United States Court will be decided about the 1st of May. Col. Orr, who has been in Washington, has returned and met with the trustees. As I understand it an alternative motion, was made-either to hear oral argument or to submit a case to the Court in wri ting. The latter alternative will be adopted, I think, and in all probability the whole matter will be decided at this .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 ques tion, and one to which no one could give an all inclusive answer. But I do not hesitate to say that the general principles have worked well. There are exception al cases in certain sections, where there is now trouble. Everywhere ele I should say that Alliance methods have been eminently successful. In Lancas ter there is trouble and despondency by reason of the failure of the crop." "How does the Alliance propose to meat such emergencies?" "That is a question yet to be an swered." "Are the people of Lancaster members of the Alliance?" "Some of them arc and some of them are not. But, at any 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 mat te-s or careless in obligations he is bound to get into trouble. "But, after all these minor mptters, the Ahiance has surely done a great deal of good; and we are growing more rap idly than we ever did." "What is the size of the army now?" "Not less than 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 have formed Alliances in every county in the State except Beaufort. Charlesten wheeled into line today. Georgetow%, as you have probably heard, has been or ganized within the past few days. "It e3 tails a good deal of work, but I have an in-aluable and most efficient worker ia Mr. W. N. Elder, of York. He is a great organizer, one well qualifi ed for this position. I supervise the work and attend to the finances of the new organizations." "How has the cotton cover for cotton worked this season? "I am of the opino 1F complete success was prevented by a too wide range of substitutes for jute. A great peal of the stuff that was put on the cotton shculd not have ueen used. That was, howLver, a very excusable blunder, and especially as it was the result of the zeal and anxiety of the farmers to whip out the Jute Trust." "What impression have you made on the jute monopolists?" "You may judge of that from the fact that jute men offered us jute this very season at 7 cents a yard." Gen. Stackhouse then went on to talk over a few other matters, which need not be published nt this time. He im pressed the reporter as being a thorough ly practical man, and one who talks to the point and calls things by their name. CURRENT NEWS. Items Gathered Here and There by Tele graph and Scissers. -Mrs. Frank Leslie~has been ill for a week past. -Emin Pasha has been made a doc tor of philosophy by the University of Koenigsburg. -Miss Braddon, the novelist, is mas culins in her dress, wearing coat, waist coat and pleated shirt. -The only daughter of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame, 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 be hind him a large quantity of unpublish ed MS. most of which was quite recent ly' written. -Dr. J- H. Gall inger, ex-represen tative in Congress, announces himself as a candidate for the New Hampshire senatorship' -William Brons, president of the Chicago Tribune company and ex-leu tenant governor of Illinois, died Mon day night, aged 763. -Gen. Boulanger recently struck his forehead against a chandelier in his house on the Isle of Jersey. He was quite severely wounded. -The returns for tantion for per sonalty in Savannah amount to $11, 595,039. The assessment of real es tate is expected to approximate $1S, 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-ia-law. -Benzor, the "Jubilee Plunger," has been arrested at Nico for forgery.1 A man who could spend S2,000,000 in two years is capable of almost anyfeat of financial Napoleonism. -Justice Fisher has denied a new trial and sentenced Chapleau of New York, convicted of murder, to death by electricity during the week begin ning March 3. -Perir e C. Whitney and Miss Jose phine WErd, the latter deaf and dumb, are to be married at West Haven, Conn., in a few days. The groom is 663 and the bride 40 years younger. --While plowing in a field the horses of Farmer Guss of Martinsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania, suddenly sank into the ground and went fifteen feet bolow the surface before they found bottom. -English syndicates have put $4, 000,000 in Chicago breweries: $4,500 000 in New Yorg breweries: and $12, 1000,000 in St. Louis breweries. Which ever route the World's Fair may take the syndicates are assured of a lively trae. TWO GOTHAM DROMIOS. Wonderful resemblance Between a Couple of Twin Brothers. In all probability the most startling' case of personal resemblance is thatf which exists between the twinbrothers, Meyer and John Goldsmith, sons of Maurice Goldsmith, a well-known tobac co merchant of 842 East Eightieth street6, Ncw York. The record of the odd mlu-' takes made by intimate friends, owingI to their resemblance, is a long one. Mefer Goldsmith is the head cutter at the Broadway tailoring establishment of the Jacobs Brothers, and his twin* brother, John, is foreman of a large 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 dbout two years. He came home last week without sending any word 04 his intended visit, and entered the pa-.' rental residence ',bout the time that Meyer was due. His good mither greeted John as Meyer, and was a little surprised at an unusual display of affection. I Mrs. John Goldsmith then came for 'Oard and dispelled the illusion, and her mother-in-law "accepted the laugh," as she had done before on several oba siov. 'When the twin boys were izffats it is said that Meyer was ill one day, but John had his neck covered with fian nel and w-! dosed with soothIng sirup by his mother, who mistook him for Meyer. John Goldsmith went down to the Jacobs Brothers' store one day and took his brother Meyer's place, working nearly all day before it was discovered that he was John and not Meyer, as the employes in the store presumed. "Friends who know us both well are making mistakes astoouridentitynear ly every day," said Meyer Goldsmith to. a World reporter. "I havo had persons talk tomeinwhat seemed riddles-matters about which I was not posted-only to find out that they intended their conversation for zy brother John. And John has a saml experience." A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. A Man Struck by a C6w That Ead e eolsted by a nocomoYve. One of the most peeuliar aceidents in the annals of railroading oecured on Conductor Wolts train No. 53 of the Georgia Pacific recently says the Bir mingham Age-Herald. Abouttw~o miles west of Linden a couple of men stood on the siding waiting for the train to go by so they could resume their weary tramp along the tracks. Just as tho train reached that point a cow stepped on the track, was struck by the pilot and hurled into the air. As the body fell it struck one of the men. The animal, which was in the throes of death, fell squarely on top of the tramp, and later, when the train was stopped and backed to the scene of the accident, the unfortunate man's comp-_ ion was found endeavoring to drag the body of his chum from under the strug gling carcass. In this he was quickly assisted ty thertrainzew lr - fellow was put in the baggage-car and brought to this city, where his injuries were attended to by Dr. Page. His wounds, though not serious, were ex tremely painful, and consisted of a num ber of cuts and bruises about the 'head, face and body. At the time that the traiznen came to his rescue the young man was Insen sible and would doubtless have been killea had it not been for the speedy relief from his terrible predicament. On the train he was re'cognizedasCland 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 NECKLA'CE. One Worth 5250,000 to Be Worn by an English Brewer's Wife. The beer people of Englan'd have' mints of money, says New York Trnth;' They have put two score millions into the brewing business ta this country~ and don't seem to mi';s it. The Guin ness people have been wealthy for two or three generations, and when they. turned their brewery into a stock corn pany they becana richer still. The wife of one of the great brewing famn f1y has just. given an order for a new. necklace that, even with unlimited credit and the greatest industry, can not be finished for several years, be eause, in the first place, the best old mine stones are very scarce, and, sec ondly, because she has stipulated that every diamond in the necklace must be a perfect match. It is to be a very olaborate pattern and will cost $250,000. Just now the fashionable ornaments in Paris are little gold er silver towers of Eiffel with a diamond on top to represenit the elect'ic light. A Paris jeweler has one in his window that ak t~acts crowds all day long, and is al most as much an object of popular curi osity as ti~e famous tower itself. This one is an exact copy of the iron struct ure, made in silver and covered with diamonds% with a huge diamond at the top which is set on~a spring,- apd as it quivers shoots out long rays of colored light. There are 40,000 small diamonds set into the silver frame. Of course it can not be used for any thing; and must eventually be broken un and the diamonds used in some other way, but it has netted the jeweler in advertise ment far more than he paid for work manship upon it. How He Got Ims Lessons. A school-boy in England hit upos a novel method of obtaining the answer to an arithmetical problem. Be dropped into a grocer's shop on his way to school, and said he wanted certains commodities at certain prices. After exhausting hi list he said: "Nw if I give you half a sovereign, what change shall I get back?" The grocer told him, whereupon he thanked the shopman and turned to go. "Wait for the things," called the 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, W:rked for him.~ -Mis Knne'ya San Francisce school marm, who was dismissed by the school committee in il88T without any assigned cause, has been reinsta ted by a decision of the Supreme Court, with $5,000 for pay in the interval. -The French soldiers have been an army of tea drinkers during the pre valence of the grip. Wherever the griD made its appearance in a regiment all the soldiers who remained free from the epidemie were given between meals hot tea with sugar. -Anarchist, John Most has been re leased on $500 bail, pending an appeal ok teCourt of Appeals of New York.