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» VOL. XXVIII-NO. 298 OUR ALANTA NEWS. The Saying* and Doing* of the People’s Servant*. •labrsBCM Of Opinion Between the Two Hom.es. A Senator Whose Handwriting Impedes I,egls- lotion—Loral Items from the Uate City Tersely Told. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1886. PRICE FIVE CENTS Atlanta, December 14.—The finance •ommittee reported adversely upon the bill to repeal tne act establishing the school of technology.. Mr. Harrell, of Webster, gave notice that a minority report would be submitted ask ing that the bill do pass. Senate amendments to the general ap propriation bill were next considered. The amendment increasing the appropriation for visiting the convict camps by the peni tentiary officers from $800 to $1000 per an num was not concurred in. The amend ment to increase the salary of the clerk of the railroad commission from $1200 to $1500 was not concurred in. The amendment appropriating $150 to Jackson T. Tavlor for indexes to journals of the present'sta tion of the general assembly was not con curred in. The amendment increasing the appropriation for the lunatic asylum $SOOO to get Detter water supply was adopted bv substituting $3000. y y The amendment to appropriate $100 to bind the engrossed acts in the secretary of state’s office was concurred in. The amendment providing that so much of the appropriation for the new capitol as exceeded $180,000 per annum must come from a surplus in the treasury was not con curred in. A joint committee was appointed to visit the North Ueorgia Agricultural college at Dahlonega and inspect the buildings. The following bills were read and passed: For the relief of H. J. Adams, treasurer of the North Georgia conference, M. E. chnrch south. To amend the act fixing the fees of the sheriff and jailer of Stewart countv for dieting prisoners. To incorporate the Merchants’ bank of Rome. On motion of Mr. Pittman, of Troup, a senate amen -ment to the bill to incorpo rate the Macon, Birmingham and La- Grange railroad company, was concurred in. Mr. Atkinson, of Coweta, offered a reso- j iution reciting allegations against the ad- j ministration of affairs in the agricultural i department, and providing for a joint com- I mittee of five from the house and three from the senate, to investigate the allega tions. The resolution also empowered the ! committee to sit during the reces3. On motion of Mr Simmons, of Sumter, the : resolution was tabled. At 1 o’clock the house adjourned. AFTERNOON SESSION. The afternoon session of the house was I principally occupied in reading bills the third lime. The following were passed: To amend the act establishing a city j court in Muscogee county. To submit to the voters of Macon the proposed contract between the city and (Be Macon Gas Light and Water company. To amend the charter of the Macon Gas Light company. To incorporate the Elberton Loan and Savings Bank company. To Incorporate the Rome and North eastern Railroad company. To incorporate the Austel Insurance Company and the Neal Loan and Banking Cempany, of Atlanta. To incorporate the State'Banking Com pany, of Gainesville. Th amend the charter of the Marietta and North Georgia railroad. The house voted to adhere to its non- concurrence in the senate amendments to the appropriation bill, and a committee of conference was appointed. The house adjourned at 5 o’clock. Semite Proceedings. Atlanta, December 14.—The senate was j called to order at 10 o’clock, President Davison in the chair. Prayer was offered by the chaplain. After roll call and the reading of the journal standing committees on education, special judiciary, banks and enrollment submitted reports. A message from the governor was re ceived accompanying a sealed communica tion, to be considered in executive session. ■ A message from the house was received announcing concurrence by that body in certain acts of the senate, and non- concurrence in acertain amendment to the bill to incorporate the Macon, LaGrange and Birmingham Railroad company. On motion of Mr. Jackson, the rules were suspended and the bill refeired to was taken up. . . , The senate voted to insist upon lis amendment. (It is understood that the house old not object to the amendment on Its merits, but because they were unable to decipher the handwriting of the honorable senat >r who offered it.) On motion of Mr. Powell, the rules were suspended in order that all bills ready lor a second reading might be taken up. Reading bills a second time is about the most uninteresting thing imaginable. They are no longer new, nor are they ready for passage, and during the hour oc cupied in this uninteresting proceeding tne senators answered their correspondence, read the papers, or withdrew into the com mittee or cloak rooms. On motion of Mr. Powell the general tax bill was taken up and read the second time and recommitted. BILLS PASSED. On motion of Mr. Powell bills for a third reading were taken up and disposed oi as follows^ ^ regulate the registration of voters in Greene county.P as8 'r. d ■ . A bill to incorporate the At,a “^ and Edgewood Street Railroad Company. Passed*!! to incorporate the Commercial Telegraph Company. Passed. A bill to repeal an act consohdating cer tain county offices iu Oconee county. Passed^ wag received from the house announcing that they had reeeded irom their action and had concurred in the sen ate amendment to the bib the Macon, LaGrange and Birmingham railroad company; also, that the ho us had refused to concur in certam senate amendments to the appropriation bill, motion of Mr. Butt the senate took up the appropriation bill and ‘“fisted upon its amendments to same, and ° rdered notice of their action be at once transmit ted to the house. . On motion of Mr. Peek the senate went into executive session, and confirmed t following appointments by the goi ern . Hon. Howell Cobb, judge of city court m Clarke county, for four years from beptem e Hon. Richard M. Jackson to be judge of Oconee county court for four years lr November 18, 1887. „ . .. . . 11q Under a suspension of the rules the ml to incorporate the Athens and railroad company, and the bank oi Lumi kin, were read the second time. Adjourned at 1:10 p. in. The Coopers Strike. 3tS5 NCINNATI ’ .December U.-Elevon hun dred coopers in this city and Riverside stopped work to-day because the proprie- n/r,.,i I US ^ t0 sip L n the scale <»f uriees pre- pared by the workmen. The scale is very rjjl* P x * n £ Prices for all classes of work, «UoorH I f and u that a day ’ 8 work shall not mcceed ten hours, including lunch time,' with an hour off on Saturday without loss of pay. Efforts have been made during the past two weeks to reach an agreement, hut all have failed. They Snatched a Body That Wasn’t Dead. Baltimore, December 14.—The grand jury to-day found bills of Indictment against Anderson Perry, JohnT. Ross and Albert Hawkins, all colored, for the murder of Emily Brown oil Friday last, aud whose body they sold to the Maryland university tor dissecting purposes. They each pleaded not guilty. It is the intention of the state to go to trial early in the January term in the criminal court. They Worn Hurried Folks. Cleveland, Ohio, December 14.—Au gust Debdke to-day sought a reconciliation with his wife, whom he had deserted. She rejected his overtures and he beat her over the head with a hammer until he supposed her dead. He then out his own throat ef fectually and separated the arteries in his wrists and died. His wife will probably recover. President Cleveland's New Batch of Nom inations. ■ r. Mnrrlion Waal* to ilrarli Kcsenue Legislation. • a Railway Trying lo (let Through the Tellow Stone National Fork—Various Points from the Nation's Capital. ON CHANGE. A liny of Fluctuation and Comparative Quiet. New York, December 14.—The stock market gave promise of some Improvement in the early hours, but was feverish and un settled to a large extent, although quota tions advanced later. The bidding up of money to an extremely high rate offered another opportunity to the bears to vigor ously raid prices, and a decided slump bordering on a panic was the effect. In last hour the uusettled condition of New England kept the market feverish and ir regular when it would otherwise have been firm to strong. Southern specialties by enormous declines, coupled with selling of New England, were the principal feat ures of afternoon trading. The favorable factor iu the situation was the buying for foreign account) which was specially no ticeable in the forenoon, and the further drop in rates for sterling exchange. All such influence, however, counted for naught in the rush to sell in the afternoon. In the morning there was some improve ment. in Jersey Central on the announce ment that the Baltimore and Oiiio was now using the road under contract, and the stock bought by foreign people were prominently strong, including Reading, Erie and Louisville and Nashville. Boston parties threw New England upon the market iu large amounts when it became apparent that the control would pass into tho hands of New York parties. At the same time advantage was taken of the absence of the principal sup porters of the stock by bears, and room traders to hammer it vigorously, resulting in a break of over 6 percent. The opening was active and strong, although there was an absence of the usual result at that time of the day. The advance over last even ing's final figures ranged from 4 to 6 per cent., though a few stock* showed slight declines. After some slight hesitation an advance occurred covering the greater part of the first hour. New England broke badly, however, and in many cases under its influence early gains were lo3t. Toward noon the upward movement resumed, and at that time frac tional advances were general throughout the list. In the afternoon, however, a gen eral decline took place, southern stocks leading, which was checked before 2 p. m. A fractional rally . was followed by a renewed weakness and in the last hour declined. About one- third of the day’s business was trausacted in the last fifteen minutes, and the market closed very active and weak at the lowest prices of the day. The sales of stocks were 576,000 shares. Closing prices again show material declines throughout, and Chatta nooga leads with a decline of 22! per cent., Tennessee Coal 22, New England 6L Nor folk and Western preferred 32, Louisville and Nashville 3|, West Point 34, Canada Southern 2jj, Lackawanna 21, Reading 2 and others smaller amounts. OVER THE WATERY WASTE. .Hr. IllUmi Pleads His Own Case onil (lives Heavy HiiiiiI for Good Behavior. Dublin, December 14.—John Dillon ap peared for himself to-day in the action brought by the government against him for agitating in favor of the plan of cam paign. In his address to the court, Dillon contended ttiat the language he used in the speech selected as the basis ot prosecution was justifiable, and that the crown was straining the law against him. The judge declared that the plan of campaign was clearly and absolutely illegal. He ordered Dillon to give a personal bond in the sum of £1000. with two sureties for £1000 each, for good behaviour in the future, within twelve days, or go to prison for six months. France. THEY PASSED THE BUDGET. Paris, December 14.—The chamber of deputies to-day, by a vote of 508 to 12, passed the provisional budget for two months, asked for by the new government, and not for two departments of the gov ernment as heretofore stated. England. REDUCING THE ARMY IN EGYPT. London, December 14.—England has decided to reduce the Egyptian standing armv to 10,000 men and the army of occu pation to 3000, thus largely reducing the cost of armament to the Egyptian govern ment. r Awful Italians l'hoy Are. Auburn, N. Y., December 14.—The six Italians who assaulted four white laborers at Port Byron yesterday, are sate in Auburn jail. Lester Burgess, one of the victims, who was stabbed three times and had his skull fractured, died in a few hours. Captain Pratt and Henry Dayhars, who received terrrible knife wounds, are not expected to survive. A Boiler Explosion. Evansville, Ind., December 14.-A dis astrous boiler explosion occurred this fore noon at Charles Hofferburth’s extensive saw mill, in the western suburbs of this citv Three forty-foot boilers exploded, wrecking the mill, killing one man and wounding seven, ail employes. Lorty-one men were working in the mill. The ex plosion was terrific. < m . All Oily Drummer Oral)lie*. Philadelphia, Pa., December 14—A grocery salesman was held in $1000 bail by United States Commissioner Bell to-day on four charges of selling oleomargarine which was not marked us prescribed by Huston Goes Beiiinrructtc. Boston, December 14.-Ufie city vote for mayor with two precincts missing gives Obevan .democrat! 22,883, Hart (republi- | can) 18,174, McNeill (labor; 3u72. Washington, December 14.—Among the memorials presented in the senate was one by Mr. Spooner, from the German Aid society of Wisconsin, expressing the idea that there was no further necessity for stimulating immigration to this country, and that no satisfactory reason cau be as signed for allowing foreigners to vote and hold office after one year’s residence and before they are naturalized, and suggesting the enactment of laws making naturaliza tion and suffrage conform to a uniform standard. It was referred. On motion of Mr. Hoar, the house amendments to the electoral count bill were non-conourred in, and the conference asked that Senators Hour, Edmunds and Pugh be appointed conferees on the part of the senate. Mr. Morrell, from the committee on finance, reported back favorably the bill for the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar. Calendar. The senate then took up the bill repealing the tenure of of fice law. Mr. Edmunds opposed the bill. The law had been In existence nearly twenty years. President Johnson (to restrain whom it was enacted) obeyed it, although he believed it unconstitutional, and all his successors recognized Its validity as aguide and restraint. This bill was brought for ward apparently to aid their friends on the other side, and to relieve the president of the difficulties and embarrassments now attending removals and suspensions. It was an invitation to him to make short work of the whole civil service business and expel from office at once all officers who are within purveyance of the statue. Mr. Hoar advocated the passage of the bill. It had been reported from the judi ciary committee at the last Bession, but on account of the controversy then existing with the president on the subject of offices he had deemed it proper to ask the senate not to act upon .it., hut as that question had subsided, he now deemed it proper to ask the senate to vote I whether it would return to the ancient j policy of the government lo rule, which * had existed from 1789 to 1867 and which (notwithstanding the condition of the stat ute hooks) had practically existed since the accession to power of General Grant in March, 1869. President Grant had recom mended its repeal, so that he (Hoar) was acting under pretty substantial republican authority in trying to get rid of this legis lation. It seemed to him to be totally in consistent with the constitutional theory of the government for the president, in whom executive power was expressly lodged by the constitution to be compelled to answer to that responsibility when instruments were forced upon him against his will, or in whom he had no confidence. While expressing himself in full sympathy with the principles of civil service reform he still declared bis convolu tion that the people of the United States expected and demanded that no man should be kept in any executive employ ment who had not the confidence of tbe person responsible for tho success of these executive functions. Executive seasion and adjourned. The House. Washington, December 14. — The speaker laid before the house a letter from the secretary of the treasury submitting the book of estimates for the fiscal year 1888. Mr. Herbert, chairman of the committee on naval affairs, called attention to a dis pute which had arisen between that com mittee and the committee on appropria tions as to which bad jurisdiction over the estimates for navy yards and stations and the new naval observatory. After fully examining the question he had come to the conclusion that the position taken by him on Saturday, that the estimates were within the jurisdiction of the appropria tion committee was erroneous, and he offerred a resolution referring to the com mittee on naval affairs so much of the book of estimates as had reference to those objects. The speaker called attention to the fact that Mr. Herbert’s resolution disposed of only a small part of the book of estimates, and on motion of Mr. Blount, the resolu tion and book of estimates were referred to the committee on rules in order to en able that committee to report a resolution for the distribution of the estimates. On motion of Mr. Cabel, of Virginia, the bill was passed appropriating $10,000 for gruding and paving the approaches to the national cemetery uear Danville, Va. A hill was reported from tho public building committee for repairing the pub lic building at Charleston. 8. C. Iu the morning hour, Mr. Payson, of Illinois, on behalf of the committee on public lauds, called up the bill granting to the Cinnabar and Clark’s Fork railroad company the right of way through the nortnern portion of the Yellowstone park in Montana. After a long debate,in which strong objection was shown to this enter ing wedge, which might cause the ulti mate destruction of the park, as the hill was being considered in the committee of the whole, Mr. Cox moved to strike out the enacting clauses. This was agreed to by a vote of 107 to 65. But before action gpis taken by the house the morning hour ex pired. Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, said that in view of the absence of several members he desired to give notice that on Saturday next he would move that the house go into a committee of the whole on the rev enue bills. The house then went into a committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. The bill was read by paragraphs for amendments. On motion of Mr. I McComas, of Maryland, the item for the 1 Baltimore postofflee building was in- : creased from $100,009 to $287,000. j On motion of Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, ! an amendment was adopted, increasing I from $50;000 to $70,000 the appropriation I for a public building at Jacksonville, ! Florida. Several similar amendments ! were adopted increasing items for public buildings in the north and west. The committee then rose and the house adjourned. Taking op the Trade hollar hjr the Ear. Washington, Deeember 14.—The senate committee on finance, this morning order- j ed a favorable report on the hill for the redemption and reeoinage of the trade 1 dollar, with amendments providing that i the amount to be redeemed shall not ex- | ceed $.500,090 monthly, and that it shail be j counted as a part of the monthly purchase of bullion for the mint. Prcuhleiitiiil Appointments. , Washington, December 14.—Tbe presi- j dent to-day nominated to ho collectors of customs: Peter F. Cogbull, district of I Petersburg, Va.; Jito. F. Wheaton, district j of Savannah, G.i.; Edward Hoplcings, dis- | trict of Saint Johns, Fia.; Cooley Mann, district of Vicksburg, MisB.: surveyor of customs, James F. Tobin, port of Memphis; Lawrence N. Buford, of Mississippi, to be deputy fourth auditor of tho treasury; Hugh A. Haralson, of Georgia, deputy auditor of the treasury for the post office department. Postmasters: Mrs. Blanche C. Law, Darlington, 8. Cg Mary Sue Du bois, Marlon C. H., 8. C.: Daniel W. Stan ley, Bartow, Fla.; Kittle llostwick, Wes son, Miss. ^_■ A III* Fire. St. Louis, December 14.—A special to the Post-Dispatch from Poplar Bluff, Mo., reports the destruction of tne county court house and the partial destruction of the county jail. The county records were saved. The prisoners had to be removed from tho jail atone time, but were returned to the cells after the fire was quenched, Loss $46,000. A Maryland (’onmigration. Baltimore, December 14.—A fire last, night destroyed a large burn and sevorul outhouses on the farm of Moses Fox, about nine miles east of this city. Sovonty-ttvo head of cattle were burned to death. Val uable machinery was also destroyed. The loss is estimated at $30,000, partially in sured. BEATEN BY A BRUTE. Colonrl (liovcs Is Assaulted By Mayor Perry, of Greenville. Ala. Special lo Enquirer-Sun. Montgomery, Ala., December 14.—A disgraceful affair occurred at Greenville, a town fifty miles south of this place, this morning. The people held a liquor elect ion there yesterday and the auti-prohlbitiou- ists won by a small majority. Some weeks ago, by invitation of the best people of the town, Messrs. Chcves aud Beauchamp, 4wo prominent temper ance lecturers of Kentucky und Georgia, went down and entered the prohibition fight. About daylight this morning the lecturers weut to the depot to leave for their respective homes. Col. Chcves was attucked and brutally assaulted by the mayor of Greenville, J. T. Perry, and a crowd of whisky men and roughs. A gentleman, who wus an eye-witness to the difficulty, staled tbe troublo to your correspondent as follows : Yesterday Col. Clieves said, someth!ug in his speech which offended Mayor Perry, though tin one knew that the mayor’s feelings had been ruffled at the time. This morning, about 6 o’clock, while Col. Chcves and Mr. Beau champ were waiting at the depot for the northbound passenger train Mayor Perry, tile city marshal and several whisky men attacked Col. Cheves with clubs and brass knucks. I have no doubt that Cheves would have been brutally murdered had not tile approaching train compelled Mayor Perry to get out of the wuy. Perry had knocked him down on the track with brass knucks and continued to pound him for several minutes. Beauchamp had drawn his pistol to shoot Perry, and had not the conductor interferred he would have killed the enraged mayor. Col. Cheves was helped on the train, accompanied by Beauchamp, and reached Montgomery early this morning, beaten up and covered with blood. Beuucliamp went 6n to Troy, where -ho will fill uu en gagement to-night, and Col. Cheves re- turned to Greenville by tbe next-train, and swears that justice shall be done him. To-day Gov. Seay granted a respite to Jim Miller, a negro sentenced to be hung in Choctaw county next Friday for mur der. He is respited until tbe 14th of Jan uary. The Mayor KuKliun of Greenville, Alabama. By Associated Press. Montgomery, Ala., December 14.—A special to the Advertiser from Greenville says, the local election for prohibition in Greenville yesterday resulted in a victory for the liquor men. For a week or more, Messrs. Cheves and Beaucamp, temper ance lecturers from Kentucky, were en gaged in the campaign. This morning as Cheves alighted from a hack at the depot to take the north hound train, J. D. Perry, mayor of the city, assaulted him, beating him violently over the head. Cheves was finally rescued, and is now in cure of physicians. Ilis skull has two holes in it, aud there are other bruises on his person. Mayor Perry was on tne liquor side in the contest, and claims that Cheves insulted him in some speeches made lust week. The mayor has uot been arrested. THE EARTHQUAKE SUFFERERS. The Relief Committee Makes a Guuil Slum Inn of IVork. Charleston, December 14.—At a meet ing of the city council to-, ight Mayor Courtenay submitted the preliminary re port of the executive relief committee, showing that the total amount of $634,258 was received by them for sufferers by the earthquake, and that tho disbursements amounted to $148,119. The report says : “The committee will have repaired in all about 1850 houses out of a total number ot' over 70(10 in the city, at an average cost of about $250 each (not including over 100 houses at Mount Pleasant uml in the vicini ty of the city, aud not including contribu tions, amounting to $20,733, sent to the Summerville committee.) Of the balance of $186)139 the committee will reserve $86,- 139 us m their opinion an ample sum for tho plastering and closing up of the unfin ished business of house repairs, and will make a special deposit with the city treas urer of tbe sum of $100,000 to be applied to the rebuilding of tbe city hospitals aud alms house, repairs of the public school buildings, orphan house, old folks’ home and other charity expenditures for the [ poor. They would remark that this dis position of a portion of the contributions ; sent to Charleston is in consonance with the wishes of the donors expressed i by them in letters to Mayor Courteny. I No better use could he made of this sum of money and none which would be more | satisfyiugto the donors everywhere than to ! replace the wrecked buildings necessary | for the comfort and care of the needy, ' sick and poor, and thus make a permanent ] memorial of the munificent giving of the j American people in this our year of great calamity. With tho committee’s re- 1 port, are tables showing receipts from different states and cities. These are, however, necessarily incomplete, and do not include donations received by tbe relief committee appointed immediately after the earthquake nor the receipts by individuals for reliqf purposes, and by charitable organizations. The News and Courier estimates that the total subscription to earthquake relief fund w ill I amount to about $115,000; leaving a loss of over 65,500,000 by the earthquake of 1886, I aud the cyclone of August 1885 to he borne | by individuals, corporations and the gov- | ernment. Oiii' Hull) Found. St. Louis, Mo., December 14.—A body of ! one ol tbe Shopleigh Cantwell company I employes was found in the debris of the 1 burned steamer last night. It wus that of ! Arthur W. Palmer, a clerk. It was almost 1 consumed, only a portion remaining; but j enough of the clothing remained to blenti- I fy him. Molin, the missing porter, has not been found. sim Lire m lost. Burning of the Great Steamer J. W. White on the Mississippi. A Heartrending Story tf llleanter and Heat h. Kereaminit Women ami Children Are Hushed by the Flames—An Accident Unequaled In Many n Day. Memphis, December 14.—It is currently reported here that the elegant steamer J. M. White, running between Vicksburg and New Orleans, waB burned at an early hour this morning near Baton Rouge, La., and that fifty lives were lost. 11:66 A. M.—The loss of the steamer J. M. White has been confirmed. She burn ed to the water’s edge at 11 o’clock last night while lying ut the hank near Bayou Sara, Lousiaua. About sixty lives were lost, consisting largely of women aud children. Nearly all the crew wore saved. Among tho passengers reported lost is the superintendent of tho Vldolia railroad at Natchez, who together with his wife and children perished in tho disaster. The books of the boat were lost. These mea gre details were received hero over tho wires of tho Louisville, New Orleans and Texas railroad. Tiie J. M. White was the finest steamer on the Mississippi river. She was e» route to New Orleans, and had a cargo of cotton on board estimated at not less than 2000 bales. Surviving passengers and tho crew were conveyed to New Orleans this morning. New Orleans, December 14.—Several survivors of the disaster reached this city to-day by the Mississippi Valley railroad from Baton Rouge. They had been taken to that point by the steamer Stella Wilde, which came along soon after the destruc tion of the White. Col. S. L. James, a pas senger who was in his state room, managed to get. ashore. He was taken to his home, No. 277 Prytania street, on his arrival, where he is now in a critical condition. He stated that the sight was hor rifying) and could not be described. Colonel James positively declared that there muhI have been sixty persons lost. William McGreery, chief engineer of the boat, says: “About, 10:10 o’clock lost night while ly ing in Doctor Fratt’s place above post office landing at Point Coupe, at which place the boat was loading cotton seed, a fire broke out amidship between the en gines on top of the cotton below the hoilor deck. Engineers Rorry and Gently were on watch and gave the alarm, and l iio pumps were put to work, but without avail. The watchman gave tho alarm by ringing the bell. Clerks Callahan and Bell aroused the people in the cabin. Tho fire spread rapidly, and in less than fifteen minutes the boat had burned to the water’s edge. There were four kegs of powder in the magazine, and the moment the fire reached them the flames shot about 100 feet high. The sight was the most heartrending ever wit nessed. The shrieking of women and children for help was awful. Ho saw the superin tendent of the Vidalia railroad, standing aft of the ladies’ cabin, throw liis lit lie daughters into the water. Ho stood there and burned to death with his wife. There were in the cabin nine lady passengers and about eight men. At New Texas twenty deck passengers were taken on board; all are supposed to he lost. It is learned that Andrew Pierce, a sailor, and Antonio Rehuttu. a fireman, are tne ones to whom nil tho credit of saving the survivors is due. All of the officers and nearly all of the crow escaped. Four or five of the cabin crew only are known to ho lost. No authenticated list of the lives lost can be made. The names of those given are personally known to some of the survivors. The States has the following account gathered from the officers and crew: They had innded to take on a pile of cotton seed, and there were between thirty five und forty roustabouts engaged in Hie work, when precisely at 10:16 o’clock everybody was startled by the ringing of the hell by the watchman, Tom Muller. Immediately after the cry of “fire” was token up by twenty voices. In an instant the direst confusion reigned. Men darted to and fro, and the work of arousing the sleeping pas sengers was begun. The fire was discovered by Thomas Barry, second engineer, who, with his partner, Stephen Jammy, was on watch at the time. The first intimation he had of the fire was a small light on top of a row of cotton bales amidship, which greatly resembled the flame of a lantern. Barry left his post to investigate, and was astonished to discover that tile light was caused by a hale of cotton briskly burning. He gave the alarm,his voice ringing through the deck room of the vessel. Watchman Muller took in the situation at once, ami I rang the huge bell located on the second deck. Muller stood at bis post ringing the bell until he wus forced to retreat by the fast encroaching flames. The noise of the clanging hell aroused Wm. MeGreevy, chief engineer, who was nsieep in the texas. He sprang out of bed and groped his way through tho smoke to wake up his partner, John Pali osier, second assistant engineer, who was asleep in the forward part of tho “texas.” About midway he me Pallasierwho had also been aroused by the bell and was on his way to hunt for MoGreevy. The two men then looked as best they could through stifling smoke for others who slept in the “texaH,” but not seeing any one and believing that all but themselves hodileft, they crawled out on the hurricane deck and were compelled to climb down on one of tho staneheons to right side of the boat whence they got oil shore. In the meantime two streams of water were brought to play on the fire, hut the heavy black volumes of smoke drove the engineers back. They fought the flames step by step, hut were at last forced to DROP THE HOSE AND SAVE THEMSELVES. ! The tire burned with frightful rapidity and j in Jess time than it takes to tel) it the en tire left side of the boat was a mass of j flames. Tiie fire soon caught the railing | of the cabin deck, and before assistance was to be hail the boat looked ; as if she was encircled by a I stream of fire. The crackling of flames i and the shrieks of the passengers aud crew ' caused the most intense excitement. Wlieu I the alarm was first sounded, Alex. McVey, ■ head clerk, was sitting at the stove in his ! cabin. Tiie first peal of the bell caused him to rush outside, and, seeing the flames leap high in the air, he ran hack to the cabin and endeavored to get the books and , money. Tho fire gained rapidly on him, j and lie was compelled *o leave the office, ! but - not before he had secured a sum of money. McVey then turned his | attention to saving the cabin passengers, ' of whom there wore about fifteen or eigh teen, including eight ladias. He first awoke I tho second clerk, John Callahan, who ran out of his room in his undershirt and trous ers. Callahan and McVey went to each room, and awoke the initiates. The terri fied passengers quickly got out, nearly all of them in their night garments. Among them was a gentleman, name unknown, : but recognized as the superintendent of t he Vidalia Southern railway, ile hud his [ wife and two children,girls of 9 and 12 years with him. He called them around and bade them follow him. By this time the flames had reached the cabin, through which thick smoke was rolling. The panic- stricken passengers quickly made for an entrance, Borne to the stern and others to the front. The gentleman referred to was among those that went to the stern. On reaching the deck he threw his children, ono at a time, into the river. Before ha and hiB wife could follow tha flames had reached them and they were burned to death. The two pilots on watch, John Stout and Bob Smith, were in the pilot house and were compell ed to jump into the river, where they wore picked up. They had a narrow es cape from death. The fire burned so quickly that it was impossible to see who was saved and who was lost. The deck was crowded with roustabouts and deck passengers, thirty of the latter having got on the vessel at, New Texas iuiiding, just nbovc where tho boat was burned. Nearly all of these were lost. While the passengers and crew were es caping from the boat, the steampipc blow up and was hurled 300 yards in the air. The force of the explosion caused over twenty bales of burning cotton to ha hurled high in the air, where they re volved Bcveral times and then foil in the river. Immediately after the explosion shrioks were heard coming from the stern of the vessel. For an instant two colored women were seen standing on tho gallery just back of the wheel house, and tho next instant they were hid den trom view by tho smoko and flames. The first part of the boat to give way was the wheel house. It fell into tho water and a draft being created, tho flumes swept through the centre of tho bout. Those who escaped- were taken away from tho scene by the steamboat “Stella Wild,” which plies between Bayoa Snra and Natchez. As the “Wild” was backing out, four kegs of gun powder that were in the hold exploded and cotton and burning timber* were hurled in all directions. This virtu ally put the fire out, and what was once a palatial steamer was now a blackened wreck. A loud cry for help came from tho middle of the stream. A boat was lowered and wns quickly pulled in the direction of the cry. Through the darkness tho crew saw the figure of a man grasping a bale of cotton, but before they could reach him the bale turned over and when It was righted the man was gone. INTENSE EXCITEMENT IN YORKVILLE. A Band of Murderers In Unearthed and Will Pro fi ll lily fin Fy nrllcil. Special to Enquirer-Sun. Atlanta, December 14.—J. H. Kirkland, conductor on the Air Line railroad, who came in to-night, Huys J. W. Littlejohn, of York county, S. C., boarded his train last night at Black’s en route for Spartanburg. Ho had just come from Yorkville, and says the town is in the greutest state of ex citement over tho arrest of about 100 mon who are implicated as belonging to tho secret or^er of murderers and thieves la that section, and which was de clared in the stories told by the murderers of young John Lee Goode. Mr. Littlejohn says all out twenty-five of the prisoners had been liberated, and these were to be I taken before a magistrate to-day. Tho feeling is intense against them, and lynch ing was freely talked of. It was thought Judge Lynch would hold high carnival in York county to-night. The story of find ing the beheaded body of young Goode haa already been published. FATHER McGLYNN. Sieiiiitlonnl Hiirinoii by a “ llifarnitd Catholic.’ 1 New York, December 12.—High n: i38 was celebrated this forenoon at, St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church, ot which the Rev. Dr. Edward MeGlynn is pastor, hut he did not perform the func tions of the celebrant. He sat within tbs rail, wearing surplice and beretta, as though he were a visitor in his own church. Father O’Callalian was celebrant. Father McLaughlin preached a sermon on “Humility.” The Rev. Dr. MeGlynn offi ciated at low mass in tiie ehureh early in the forenoon. It wus the only service at which he took a prominent part. It wan rumored among the congregation that ho had been suspended anew from celebrating high mass, hut he himself, when asked, re plied that he hud nothing to oommunicate to the press. At the arehicpiscopal residence, at Fif tieth street and Madison avenue, it wa a said at tbe door that Archbishop Corrigan lind not returned home and that McDon nell had no statement to make. The Kev. J. O'Connor, the ex-priest who is conducting u “Reformed Catholic Church,” talked to his congregation in the Masonic Temple lust night about Dr. lio- Glynn. He took a slightly sensational view of the case, declaring that a number of priests and bishops who had been summoned to Home had never been heard of again, while others had been imprisoned in monasteries. “Tho power of the propaganda,” said Mr. O'Con nor, “ is so great that a priest could be im prisoned for years and his friends would not learn of his whereabouts. I hope that if the pope orders Dr. MeGlynn into a re treat that he will have grit enough to re sist the power of Rome, and, if necessary, to call upon his country for protection if the propaganda attempts to resort to foul means.” TWO MEN KILLED IN BIRMINGHAM. The Otllreri Raid a Negro Gambling Dea and • Hattlr Fiimicn. Birmingham, Ala., December 14.—A sheriff’s duputy and four policemen made a raid on a negro gambling den near the city last night, when a fusilade occurred between the occupants of the house and the officers. Thu result was that five of the gamblers were captured und two were killed. Noue of the officers were hurt. Crooked Financier* Under Arrest. Virginia City, Nev., December 14.— Solomon Frnnkel, a member of the stock broking firm of Frankel & Co..which failed a few days ago, was arrested last night, charged with embezzlement. W. IL P. Blauvelt, proprietor of the Gold Hill bank, was also arrested, charged with a similar offense. Stabbed Through the Brain. New York, December 14.—Joseph Ma son was picked up last night from the sidewalk and carried to the hospital, where the examining surgeon found a murderous stab wound in the back of the head, the knife-blade having penetrated the brain. Death followed this morning, j The blow was that of a stealthy assassin. Terror on tho Ties. Lynchburg, Va., December 14.—A col- ' lision occurred on the Norfolk and Wesb- | ern railroad near Cripple Creek Junction i this morning whereby two engines were 1 wrecked and one exploded. No lives were j lost, but ono engineer named S. J. Roberta 1 was wounded. Six freight cars were : burned. The loss is $50,000.