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J. B. ESTILL. Editor and Proprietor, j
items IX three states.
, FOBGIA. FLORIDA ATO SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IX TYPE.
Hit*!*" ' vhi,-h S * ,M * H Soldier’s Life—
Thr Keinslß* of the Eastman Rioters
IV Interred— The Savannah and Au
-ta Steamship Line Ready for Organ
ic iion—Florida's Libeled Steamers.
GIOB6IA.
. i ..maoVille. Tuesday, lighting tilled
' owned by Mrs. Mary Sloan.
M critber’s barroom at Danielsyille
.rne l tut a day or two ago with a lo**
> -t. .iniuoat will s<sni lie running on the
, n '., ,f ran secqre the fund*
tol’id !
. ,|,tv bales "f new cotton had lieen re
' ,( jii,. different warehouses in Aineri
i tesdaj night.
", , Mi-Donald, of Atlanta, charged with
Hud Brown, has been discharged for
:• K i i-ndence to convict.
I It. Pearce, aged alsmt seventy years.
- farm in the southwestern 'part of
. - -I, Tuaaday hat.
Hr K. ruggs is on trial at Gibson for
brothw-lh-law. Adrian Db
,/ru,_ „ s,\ shooting a short time ago.
\i tin lose of the warehouses on Tuesday
v, ; ,:ng. .lat inst., there had lieen received
|| , Ivinsville fifty hales of new cotton.
Hi. _’uth of September the town of Itut
. r w ote on the issuance of houds to raise
; , : r the completion of Butler College.
\t-> '•car-old colored child in Augusta
i, two feet of water m a basin of a
;;; i .11 front of its mother’s house Thurs
\ k W ilsou, white convict from t obb
, . -. aped from the Marietta and North
; Kaiiroad some three weeks ago, and
~ -till at large.
At Cartersville, Wednesday, a negro fell
, ;t ~fa second story window on Bank block
~u the pavement below, but as he fell on
I U . he ld no serious injury resulted.
r Alabama Fair Association, which holds
,1.., . run November l:t, will offer a prize of
}'•.,< , the t-'t drilled military company. It
,r in red that Georgia will lie represented.
- ~t* been entered in the .Superior Court
; ,t Atlanta by John ltucker, against the
- . ,rn Express Company for five thousand
dollars damages for injuries sustained liv
run against by one of the express
A reunion of the survivors of the several
. . inie# that went to the war from Craw
f.,r’. ..untv. and composed the Sixth, Twen
nctii and Forty-fifth tieorgia Itegiments. will
r >:• I at Beaver Dam Church oh the iir-t
S. i.nlay in September.
The committee canvassing for subscriptions
to the steamboat line between Augusta and
savannah has obtained a sufficient amount to
authorize the organization of the company,
l o re will be a meeting for that pur|M>sc this
morning in Augusta.
Extensive preparations are being made for
tii.- reunion of the surviving members of the
old Fifth Georgia in Augusta, ou the 29th of
this month, A big harlienie and a ride up
the canal will be in the programme. Captain
George Adams, one of the old members, will
deliver the address of welcome to the visitor-,
M-terans. and at the entertainment to I*.
given on the noth.
One of the old Fifth Georgia. lu.u in Daw
on, has u relic in the shape of a Bible, which
was in a aide-pneket, resting over his heart,
at the battle of l hickaiuauga, when a grape
shot struck It, badly mutilating the cover,
hut saving the life of the owner. The Bible
is i.f the tightly clasped kind, and upon its
clacticity the ball spent it- force, falling
harmlessly by the side of the veteran. This
Bible was captured from the army stores of
the enemy at Lawrcureburg. Ky.
A few days ago the bodies of Simon O'Gwin.
.!..■ King, lied.lick Powell. Bob In.nelson and
Ella Moore, the Eastman riot eonviets, were
exhumed front their graves in the jail yard
and removed to another place of burial. The
fact that all the holies were found where
they had been laid, refutes the rumors that
were published, and generally Itelieved. soon
after the prisoners were executed, stating
that several of the bodies, if not all of them,
tut'i lieen taken up and sent to the Atlanta
Metical College.
FLORIDA.
Tampa and Brooksville now have twenty
three mails a week.
Too much rain is proving disastrous to the
cotton crop in Suwannee county.
It i- rumored that a stage line will be estab
lished la-tween lleu nansville and Hague.
Pock Smith, who shot Jack Keefe several
weeks ago. having given his iiond. was liber
ated at Jacksonville Thursday.
The Jacksonville Herald announces that J.
A. Jaekson & Cos., of Longwood, Orange
county, have been compelled to suspend bti-i-
V permanent organization, known as the
Gainesville Gun tdub, lias been efleeted, with
< apt. E. I‘. Cater, President, andS.C. Sadler,
secretary.
At a meeting of the Jacksonville C it.vCoun
cil on Tliurdaysl,;oo was appropriated fora
lot and building for the Amerieus Hook and
Ladder Company.
The schooner Anna Dummitt is now dis
charging at the Waw-iws wharf, in Jack-..n
--vilh . forty barrels of honey brought from New
Smyrna. This is the fourth cargo of honey
she’ha- brought from that point the present
season.
There will lx- an election ordered by the
Democratic Executive Committee to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the dealli of Alachua
County Treasurer F. s. Boux. Ir. J. I>
• nnuweli, of Gainesville, w ill probably lie the
candidate.
H is learned that the steamship Alabama is
•piarantined in Tampa Bay w ith two cases of
yellow fever on board. The steamer plies be
tween New Orleans, Cellar Key. Tampa, Key
West and Havana, and it was on iier trip
from Havana that the sickness was discovered.
Dr. Wall, who is in charge of the quarantine
department at Tampa, lias the medical care
of the patients, and it is believed that they
will loth recover.
The Jacksonville Herald furnishes the fol
lowing additional information to a pres* dis
patch printed in yesterday'- Mokxixo Nt.vvs;
•‘Wednesday afternoon the paper* for several
-nits in admiralty were filed bv District At
torney Cliener w ith the Clerk if the I'nited
States Court in tin-city, lilx-lmg the steam
er* Caddo Belle, belonging to the Plant In
vestment Company, imw running on the su
wamiee river, between New Bradford and
t edar Key, and the Lizzie Henderson, which
plies between Cedar Key and Tampa, on the
i.ulf coast. The suits'are based ujiti the
statement of one James M. Currie that these
steamers have, on different occasion-,
carried passengers largely in excess
of the number allowed by their certificate*.
' urrie, in his capacity as informer, is allowed
'■> law the privilege of claiming from the
steamer HO jx-r head v in addition to the pass
money, of every passenger proved to
have been carried in excess of the regulation
i ilier. whirl* in the Caddo Belle is eigln'v,
and the Henderson forty. The claims of tlu
t nited states Government against the two
w**els. together with that of the -informer,’
(• -t up 112.141. of which *4.941 falls to the
*!iare of the latter. The “extra passengers’
ei. the Caddo Belle were railroad laborers,
which the company sent to work on their ex
ten-ion of the South Florida Kaiiroad."
SIHTH CAROLINA.
Tin-total shipment* of cotton from Chester
-nice September 1, 1882, amount to 42,241 bales.
'V..rk has begun on the permanent bridge
f--r the Clieraw and Chester Kaiiroad over
the (. ata wba river.
> uth Carolina lias 1,584 factories, working
MU hands, with a capital invested of $.".,400,-
4N. paying annually in wages *1.543.715, and
' ■ '’mg annually iii prod nr I- *9,558,M.
Vr. J. Aiken Keller, of Orangeburg county.
u title out hunting on last Saturday was acci
dentally shot by a negro who was along with
him. The whole load entered both thighs and
inSu-ted a very painful wound.
Kphraim Samuel, colored, was buried un
der a mass of stone and dirt while clearing
but a well in Ablieville county last week. He
: extricated from his dangerous |>osition
after eight hours of hard work.
John P. Lynch, who ran off w ith >1 is.* Stach
from Sumter, has lx-eu committed to jail in
default of bail of SI,OOO to be tried at the <•-
s r term of court. Lynch barely esea|*-d
U-ing lynched by the exasperated crowd.
Pn the 7th instant a colored man named
•tames, while riding carelessly on the carriage
j ll ™ * Priester's saw mill, in Newberry,
, *' ; ilane and fell forward on the saw.
which completely lacerated his arm and divi
ded his head.
Horace Hop-on. colored, w hile cleaning out
a "eil on the place of the late ex-Govcrnor
Jeter in I’nion countv. last week, was killed
by a rock which had fallen out of the w all of
the well, and. striking him on the head,
■crushed his skull.
John B. Bailey', Esq., editor of the Entrr
jri-e and Mountaineer, has been ap
pointed by Governor Thompson one of
the ■mraissioners to represent ili- -late
at the Educational Convention, to lw held m
L-uisviUe, Ky., next month.
The recent examination of applicants for
the hear Pealiody scholarship- al'heNa-h
--vtlle Normal College having failed by reason
of the poor standard of merit of the appli
cant-, another examination is announced to
■'* held at Columbia or. the :70th inst.
Henry spires, Elmore Williams and eleven
other-of the “stock law” rioters, in jail at
Lexington. Being unalde to procure bail
through a Trial Justice, as they are charged
w ffh arson, have applied to Judge Kershaw.
i>rav mg for a writ of habeas corpus.
Ihe i ity Council of Anderson hat passed a
r ' 'i to the effect ihat neither the ignor ;
•tu'e of the existence of the ordinance pre
venting the -ale of intoxicating liquors to
tumor- or persons of known intein|x-rate hab
ll* -hall lie any excuse for the violation of
sam ordinance.
I>r. \v dlmm Davenport, near Greenville, a
lenti*t, was thrown from a wagon by his
Mile running avvav while descending the
■ „ Kidge Mountains on Friday last, reeeiv
g injuries from which he died on Saturday,
aesse V\ atson. who wat with him in the
~ as a,so thrown out and severely in
r.i.’ The aerident happened just over Hie
‘me in North Carolina.
An officer of the Southern Telegraph Com
, ,V n ?' v “! Columbia say. that Hie lines
Just built and about to lx- built bv bis eom
rany la North and south Carolina* and Geor
gia are as follows: From Danville to Char
!roni Charlotte to •Columbia, from Co
luuibia to Charleston, from Columbia to An- •
Ir ‘*' a -from Augusta to Savannah via Millen.
ltnt* to Macon and from Macon to At-
Butler, a son of Senator M. C.
, ~f r ’ met with a severe accident at Lancas
ter court House last week, from which fears
— —i— —.— i , . > _ . i
"*hde out riding
rjll'io - vou ?* lad T< Ws horse became unman
.l?- *“ a J d r ?“ ? wa T with him. He was
an,l . as he struck the ground the
annual fell on him, crushing him badly and
wi , Sf.. C S?r. UB ? ,on of the hrain. The doctors
have but little hope, if any, for his recovery.
A DUDE CUFFED.
Social Right of Women Holding Babies
to le Seated in Cars.
-ten Y"rk Herald_ Augunt 21st.
A disturbance occurred yesterdav after
noon on one of the trains from Rockavvav
Bc-acli to the city over the New Y ork an*d
Li 'kaw ay Kaiiroad. The train was
crowded, and all the seats were occupied.
In one of the cars stood two females one
of whom, who was rather delicate in ap
pearance, carried a child in her arms.
Near to them stood an elderly man, tall
erect ot carriage, and with white hair and
beard. He was evidently concerned over
the that a woman, who seemed in del
uate health, should be compelled to stand
with a heavy child in her arms while
many men occupied seats around her. As
a jolt of the car precipitated the ladies
violently torvvard and almost caused the
one with the child to lose her balance, the
old gentleman could evidently stand it no
ionger. He advanced to a seat close to
the ladies, in which were comfortably en
sconced four young dudes.
“Gentlemen.” he said with every out
ward show of courtesy, but with a ’slight
inflection of contempt in his voice, “ix-r
--mit nu- to call your attention to the fact
that there are two ladies standing here
who have lieen unable to find seats. One
of these ladies is embarrassed with a
child,”
The young men, who were of the -‘nob
by” dressed, self sufficient tvpe ol city
youth, stared insolently at the speaker.
“We’ve paid our (are,” answered one
of the young men in a saffron necktie,
“and we’re entitled to seats.”
“If you make that a iioint,” said the old
gentleman, “sooner than see these ladies
stand 1 will refund you your fares in re
turn for the two seats.”
“\\ e don't want your money,” retorted
the young man who had sjKiken before,
insolently. “We just want to stay where
we are.”
The old man flushed angrily. “I come
from the South,” lie said, “and if there a
man were to act as you do under these
circumstances, we should look upon him
as a cur and pitch him out of the win
dow.”
“l>o you call me a cur?” screamed the
young fellow, springing to his feet.
“Do you refuse to relinquish vour seat ?”
“Yes; and do you call nle a cur?”
“I consider you to lie far lower than a
cur.”
As the old gentleman uttered these
words the young fellow made a threaten
ing motion, but the old man was too quick
for him. He drew back his right hand
and administered his opponent, a stinging
slap on the cheek. Instantly he executed
a similar mano uvre with his left hand.
The smack rang out loud and clear above
the rumbling noise of the train. The
young man was staggered, and his com
panions sprang up to assist him. Other
passengers, however, w hose attention had
been attracted by the quarrel, sprang to
the old gentleman’s side and prevent
ed any further violence. The ladies,
to whom attention had been attracted bv
the old gentleman’s interference in their
I’♦•hall, iiatl unnoticed by him been provid
ed with -''ats by fellow passengers a few
seconds lx-fore the quarrel culminated in
the warming of the whippersnapper’s
ears.
M ABEL YOUNG S CAREER.
Tin- Eventful History of One of the Late
Mormon Prophet's Daughters.
.V. l.ouix tirlobt-Democrat.
A couple with an interesting history
passed through the city recently on a wed
ding tour without attracting any atten
tion. They were H. McAllister and wife.
The bride was Mal>el Mumford, a daugh
ter of the late Mormon prophet, Brigham
Young, and self-divorced. Miss Young,
or rather Mrs. Mumford, the name by
which she was married to her present hus
band, gained considerable notorietv in
l’tab Territory by contesting her father’s
w ill, w hich she succeeded in breaking anti
securing as her share of the estate some
$70.000.
Her attorney in the suit was a Gentile
lawyer named Albert Hogan, who was
also one of the attorneys for Ann Eliza,
the prophet's nineteenth s[>ouse, in the
celebrated divorce ease. The attorney’s
interest in his fair client went beyond the
business character ot their relations, and
Hogan’s attentions to the fair Mrs. Mum
ford so affected his wife that she lieeame
insane and was sent to an asylum in Ken
tucky. After getting rid of nis w ife Ho
gan and his Mormon client went down to
Socorro. New Mexico, the scandal mon
gers of Salt Lake City making their stay
in the latter place somewhat unpleasant.
They had been in Socorro only a short
time when Mrs. Mumford met McAllis
ter. Their acquaintance ripened into a
closer intimacy, resulting, much to the
rage and disappointment of Hogan, in a
marriage.
McAllister lias also a remarkable his
tory. Some time ago he and other specu
lators sold six ranches, located in New
Mexico, to I'nited States Senator Logan
and General Adkins. They gave possess
ion of only live of the ranches, the sixth
being in dispute. The selling party hired
a force of desjieradoes to take forcible
j>ossession of the disputed premises, giv
ing orders to shoot any one found on the
premises. The hired assassins found two
men on the ranche, whom they took out,
tied to a tree, and shot.
SIXTY GOLD DOLLARS.
What was Found in a Mail Pouch.
A Washington special to the Courier-
Journal, August ±l, says:
‘•The Postmaster General has a letter to
day inclosing st*o in gold from the Italian
Director of Ports, with the explanation
that the money was found loose in a mail
pouch containing ordinary letters, re
ceived from New Y'ork on May is. and
that the station postal authorities
had been unable to discover to whom the
gold lie longed. It probably represents
the savings of some thrifty Italian
laborer who desired to send it to his rela
tives at home, but it is rather doubtful
whether his desire will ever be gratified.
As the money was inclosed in an ordinary
letter, no clew to the sender could be
found. It frequently occurs that coin sent
in registered envelopes escapes from them
and is found loose in the mail pouches.
Usually a careful examination of all the
packages enables the postal officers to re
store it to its proper place or to return it
to the sender.
“For several years the subject has en
gaged the attention of the officers of the
Post Office Department, and many at
tempts have been made to devise a regis
tered envelope which, while strong
enough to resist the abrading action of
the coin, should not la- too expensive to
preclude its use. In Great Britain a per
son sending a registered package is re
quired to buy the envelope in which it is
sent, and linen-lined envelopes are pro
vided for that purpose. They cost two or
three edits apiece. In the United States
no such charge is authorized, the cost of
the envelope Wing included in the fee for
registration, which is too small to justify
a more expensive envelope than the one
now in use.
Two Stories of Judge Black.
Bouton llro lit.
On one occasion, when attacked on the
Democratic side of the House, Thad
Stevens highly eulogized Black as a law
yer and a man, but expressly withheld
any indorsement of his polities, which
were as bad, he said, as possible. In
their originality, their courage and their
inflexibility, there were points of resem
blance between Stevens and Black,
though in other respects the widest dis
similarity prevailed. There were no so
cial relations between them; they scarce
ly ever s|xke, but. up to the time of his
death. Stevens cherished the highest re
si-ct for him, and Black has said:
‘•When Mr. Stevens diet!, he was un
e<iualed as a lawyer, and he said the
smartest things that ever were said, but.
his mind, so far as a sense of obligation to
<!od is concerned, was a howling wilder
ness.”
One day Black was surrounded by a
bevy of his personal friends on the floor
of the House, among the rest Judge Mer
cer, then the Bradford Congressman, who
turned to him and said: *• Judge Black,
you have more friends on this side of the
House than on your own. You ought to
be a Republican. If you would join us,
we would appreciate you and give you
due prominence." To which Judge Black
made reply that be knew it all to be true;
the Republicans were good fellows: he
would like to belong to them, and there
was only one thing in the way. “ If,” he
said. ** there was no hereafter, 1 would
join the Republican party at once. Noth
ing deters me but the fear of hell.”
Matthew Arnold Pensioned.
London, August 24.—The government
has granted a pension of £250 a year to
Matthew Arnold, the poet and writer.
Cleanliness and purity make Parker’s
Hair Balsam the favorite for restoring the
youthful color to gray hair.
KIMBALL’S NEW HOTEL
HE LEASES THE OLD SITE AND
RENTS THE HOUSE.
The Reilistricting Bill Goes to the Gov
ernor—Morgan Not Allowed Another
Election on the Fence Duestioii,—Sev
eral Important Bills Passed by the
•Senate.
Atlanta, August 24.—H. I. Kimball
has leased the site of the burned Kimball
House for Dft years at an annual rental of
$14,200. In the meantime. Messrs. Scovillc
& Beermann had been trying to lease the
hotel, w hich is to lie built. They offered
Mr. Kimball to take the whole building,
stores and all, and pay $47,000 per tTnnuin
for it for the term of ten years. Mr. Kim
ball declined this proposition, as it was
yet undetermined how large the building
would be. Messrs. Scoville & Beermann
then offered to take the whole building,pay
the ground rent,the insurance, the taxes
and > per cent, besides, on the cost
of the building, whatever that might lie.
At the request of the owners of the land,
and of several gentlemen who will be
largely interested in the stock of the new
company, Mr. Kimball accepted this oftV* r
ot Messrs, scoville it Beermann. and the
pajiers were signed last night. Bv the
terms of the late lease of the Kimball, Mr.
Scoville had the refusal of whatever
building might he erected on the land of
the late hotel. He and Mr. Beermann take
$2.1,000 cash stock in the new company,
and say they can raise much more among
their personal friends.
Mr. Kimball has marked out quite an
elaborate schedule for rebuilding and re
opening the Kimball House, vet there are
many people here who are not verv san
guine that he will be able carry it
through. Tne land rent is thought too
high and the proposed building too large.
A FIGHT IN' A DINING-ROOM.
Considerable excitement was created
in the Markham House dining-room at
breakfast this morning bv a tight between
a young member of the House and a col
ored waiter.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-dav Mr. Barksdale, of
Lincoln; Mr. Harris, of Bibb; Mr. Mc-
Gregor, of Warren; Mr. Watts, of Stew
art, and Mr. Lofton, of Bibb, moved to re
consider the action on several points in
the redistricting bill passed yesterday.
Mr. Sweat, of Clinch, opposed recon
sideration, and Mr. McGregor spoke for it.
Mr. Jordan advocated the change of
Lincoln county from the Tenth to the
Eighth district. Mr. McGregor appealed
to the House to do justice to the Tenth
district.
Mr. Bishop, of Dawson, moved to table
the whole matter.
Mr. Lofton, ot Bibb, made an earnest
appeal to Mr. Bishop to withdraw his
motion, but he refused.
The House, however, voted him down
by a vote of 57 yeas to (59 nays, and Mr.
Lofton was allowed to proceed. He argued
that a mistake bad been made yesterday
in regard to an amendment by Mr. Gor
don, ol Houston, to change Laurens coun
ty to the Sixth district and Crawford to
Third district. The Representatives of
both counties are in favor of this trans
fer.
Mr. Gordon, of Houston, also spoke in
behalf of the change.
Mr. Hawkes, of Sumter, opposed the
change as putting additional burdens on
the Third district.
Mr. Tate, of Pickens, and Mr. Bishop,
ol Dawson, opposed reconsideration
on any part of the bill.
Mr. Redding, of Pike, said that he had
given his sanction to the proposed change
of Laurens yesterday, but he was now
opposed to it.
Mr. Gary, of Richmond, opposed any
changes, as they appeared not to be pro
posed in the interest of the Democratic
party, but tor personal ends perhaps.
Mr. AY’olfe, of Laurens, favored the
change of his county and announced that
the Senator from that section also favored
it. and lie thought that outsiders might
let the change be made. The roll call
showed •••> yeas to (HI nays, and reconsid
eration was refused.
Mr. DeLacy, of Dodge, introduced a
resolution that the Ordinary of each coun
ty be authorized to procure a stamp for
marking properly standard weights and
measures as prescribed bv law.
The rules were suspended, and the bill
authorizing Decatur county to levy a spe
cial tax to pay off her indebtedness, was
passed.
When the resolution to pay the com
mittee that investigated tile lunatic asy
lum $1 each per day and actual expenses
came up, Mr.' Mcßride, of Haralson, ob
jected to paying anything more than the
per diem and actual mileage.
Mr. Jenkins, of Putnam, said that it
came with bad grace from tlie members
who take ten cents per mile from the
State yet ride on free passes.
The resolution was adopted without
amendment.
Then the bill allowing the “ fence” men
in Morgan county to have another elec
tion on the “no feme” question, as thev
claim that the previous election was car
ried by traud, came up. Mr. Studdard, of
Morgan,and Mr. Middlebrooks, of Newton,
advocated it as an act of justice to the
“fence” men of that county.
Mr. Spence, of Mitchell, for the commit
tee. spoke forcibly against the bill.
Mr. Patten, of Thomas, explained that
he at first favored the bill in the commit
tee, hut was now satisfied that he did so
under a misapprehension of the facts
connected with the contest before the Or
dinary. This bill, although local, was one
dangerous in its operation, as it fixes a
precedent for the fence men in other
counties to secure by special legislation
an opportunity to vote out “no fence.”
The roll-call showed 84 yeas to 40 nays.
| The bill was therefore lost. Another big
hatch of leaves of absence were granted.
At the afternoon session House bills
were read the first time.
The rules were suspended, and Mr.
Everett, of Polk, introduced a bill amend
ing the act in regard to indigent and
maimed soldiers so as to give S2OO instead
of SIOO i>er year to such as have lost both
eyes or two limbs.
Mr. Little, Chairman of tlie Finance
Committee, asked leave for the members
to retire to consider some important bills,
but Mr. Peek, of Rockdale, objected as
the House would be left without a quorum
and public business would be retarded.
Absentees on Friday, Saturday and Mon
day often leave the General Asssemhly
with barely a quorum and frequently
without a quorum.
Several Senate bills were read the first
time.
Mr. Wriglit, of Floyd, said that the
House was too thin to tackle hills on
third reading, and moved to read certain
bills a second time under a suspension
of the rules. On the vote to suspend the
rules only 66 members responded.
The Speaker ordered the Doorkeeper to
hunt up the absentees.
Mr. Humber, of Putnam, moved a call
of the House, but Mr. Hulsey, of Fulton,
amended to proceed to read bills the sec
ond time,the Doorkeeper having increased
the number of members present to eighty
nine. It was carried after several efforts
to reach a quorum.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate, Senator McDonald advo
cated a motion to reconsider the action on
Mr. Rankin’s railroad tax bill, but the
motion was tabled.
The House bill prohibiting stock from
running at large in Hancock, Taliaferro
and Greene counties having been amend
ed so as to remove the objectionable fea
tures, was, after some little discussion,
passed.
The bill as to stock running at large in
Dougherty county passed.
The liquor license hill for Monticello, in
Jasper county, passeff.
The bill paying J. C. Palmer a wild-land
tax passed.
The bill protecting bridges in Pulaski
county from fast driving and heavy loads
passed.
The bill incorporating the Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee Railroad passed.
The bill incorporating the Gumming
and Lawrence Railroad and Manufac
turing Company passed.
The bill amending section 1455 of the
Code, so as to allow a fence election on
the first Wednesday in July of each year
if desired, occasioned a lively debate, but
The bill amending the act as to camp
hunting in Clinch county passed.
The liquor license bill for Appling
county passed.
The' bill creatinir a branch college at
Walthourville was opposed bv Mr. Tutt,
and favored by Messrs. McDonald, l>u
bignon, Greer and Davis, but passed.
The rules were suspended, and 31 r.
Greer introduced a bill authorizing tiie
Governor to appoint a stenographer for
each judicial circuit for two vears, at
SI,OOO a year.
The bill providing better facilities for
foreclosing mortgages was made the spe
cial order for Wednesday. Many local
hills passed, apd a good day’s work was
done.
At the hour of adjournment the Sena
tors were discussing the bill requiring
SAVANNAH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1883.
Judges to give in their charge section
140 b of the Code, which was reported ad
versely by the committee.
Mr. Baker favored the bill and Mr. Mel
drim opposed it.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
The Governor has signed the resolution
giving Augusta more time to complete
the tish way in her dam. The Senate has
concurred in the House amendment to the
re-districting bill, and it goes to the Gov
ernor.
The following is the composition oteach
Congressional district, together with the
number of inhabitants in each eountv and
each district;
FIRST DISTRICT.
Chatham. 44.W7, Glynn M'.l7
Effingham r>,979 Wavne. 5.950
So riven 12,7 m Appling . 7,,275
Emanuel. 9.7.111 Pierce . 4.538
Bulloch . 8,053 Camilen 6,183
Bryan . 4,925 Charlton. . 2,161
latnnll 6,985 Ware . 4,i59
Liberty.. . 10,566 Clinch 4,138
Mclntosh 6,241 Echols . . 2,553
SECOND DISTRICT.
Baker 7,315 Lowndes. 11,049
Herrien 6,619 Miller 3,720
rooks 11,727 Mitchell 9,392
Calhoun . 7,024 Quitman . 4,392
Clay . 6,650 Randolph 13,341
Colquitt 2,527 Terrell 10,451
lleeatiir .19,071 Thomas 20,598
Dougherty 12,622 Worth 5,892
Early ' 7,605 1
TntRD DISTRICT.
Coffee 5,070 Wilcox. . 3,109
Dodge . 5,358 Houston ... 23.251
Dooly 12,413 Macon . 11.675
Irwin 2.696 Sumter . 18,239
Telfair 4,828 Schley . 5,302
Montgomery 5,381 Webster . 5,237
Laurens .. 10,051 Stewart 13,998
Pulaski 14,058 Lee . 10,567
FOI'I.TII DISTRICT,
Taylor . 8,597 Talliot . 14,117
Marion . 8,39.s Chattahoochee 5,670
Muscogee 19,324 Harris 15,718
Heard . 8,769 Troup .20,565
Meriwether .. .17,851 [Coweta 19,109
Carroll .10,901;
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Clayton 8,0281 Rockdale . 6.838
KeKalb ...14,4971 Spalding .12,585
Fayette . 8,605i Walton .15,622
Fulton .46,126; Campbell 9,979
Henry 14,193 Douglass 6,934
Xewton . 13,019
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Bibl) 27,140 Crawford 8,656
Upson 12,400) Pike 13,849
Monroe . ... 18,808 Twiggs . 8,918
Wilkinson 12,001 Jones 11.613
Baldwin 12,998 Butts 8,311
Jasper 17,841 b
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Bartow . .18,690 Whitfield . 11,899
Catoosa . 4,739 Murray 8,268
Chattooga .10,021 Polk ' 17,932
Dade .. 4,702 Pauldlmg. 10,887
Cobb 20,746! Haralson 5,974
Floyd 24,418; Walker 11,055
Gordon 11,167 j
EItiUTH DISTRICT.
Hancock. 16,9891 Putnam. . 14,539
Greene 17,5471 Morgan . .14,034
Oconee 6,319 Clarke 11,702
Oglethorpe. 15,400 j Wilkes .15,985
Elbert .. 12,957 Madison 7,978.
Hart .. 9,0941 Franklin 11,453
NINTH DISTRICT.
Banks. 7,337 j Jackson. 16,298
Cherokee 14,435 j Lumpkin. 6,319
Dawson 5,837] Milton.. 6,261
Fannin. 7,245 Pickens . 6,790
Forsyth . 10.559 Rabun 4,834
Gilmer. 8,386 Towns. 3,261
Gwinnett 19,531 Union. (>,431
Halt 15,299 White 5.341
Habersham. 8,718
TENTH DISTRICT.
Johnson 4,8001 Columbia .10,465
Jefferson . 15,671 j Lincoln 6,412
Burke ...... 27,12* Washington 21,964
Glasscock 3,5771 Warren 10,885
McDuffie. 9,449 Taliaferro . 7,034
Richmond . 34,665|
The population ol' the districts, whites
and blacks, is as follows:
White. Colored. Total.
First district 77,421 74,331 151,775
Second district 64,932 91.061 155,593
Third district . 62,800 87,455 150,255
Fourth district 69,251 85,808 153,059
Fifth district 93,043 64.983 157,026
Sixth district ...02,213 87,390 149,609
Seventh district 117,850 37,168 154,318
Eighth district 64,842 89,195 154,037
Ninth district 131.894 20,878 152,772
Tenth district 57,122 92,694 150,116
SONGS OF THE WAR.
Six Thousand People irear Them Sung
at Chautauqua.
C'll AL'TAC'qt'A, N. Y., August 24. —This
afternoon six thousand persons assem
bled to hear the singing of Federal and
Confederate war songs and addresses by
Judge Albion W. Tourgee, of New York,
and Rev. Dr. Atticus G. Haygood, of
Georgia. Dr. Vincent asked the soldiers
of either army present to come to
the platform and 200 responded. After
the singing of war hymns, Judge Tour
gee spoke. He said that every nation
should sing its own songs. “The Watch
on the Rhine” conquered France. The
late war was the result of animosity. It
was over and the South has made more
progress in the four years of the war
than In the half century before. True,
the emancipation of slaves is the educa
tion of freemen. Yesterday set free the
body, to-morrow will set free the soul.
Dr. Haygood was introduced and greet
ed with cheers. He waved the United
states Hag in response and said that
Georgia is now under the stars and stripes.
“1 have seen the time when 1 would have
died for the other flag, and you would
despise me if I were ashamed of that
flag. Now I am obliged to tbe Chair for
trying to sing rebel songs, but they could
not do it; we do not sing them now, but
we are not ashamed that we sang them
once. Let us forget all but the good of
the war. Great changes are going on in
the South. We should be asked to show
fidelity to the Constitution and its amend
ments to the Declaration of Independence
and to the flag, and nothing more should
be demanded. Boys growing up South
will on occasion fight for their country’s
flag.”
A letter was read from Senator Col
quitt, of Georgia.
The services were the most impressive
ever held at Chautauqua. Several old
Confederates participated. Ex-Governor
Pierrepont, of YVest Virginia, was 011 the
platform.
>ll \ NESOTA’S CAL AM ITY.
Hundreds of People Floekins; to View
the Work of tlie Cyelone.
Rochester, Minn., August 24.—The
streets of the city to-day are full of peo
ple from all over the State. Some come
from curiosity, and some to care for
friends, while a large number of promi
nent men came from all portions of the
state to see the effect of the cyclone,
that they may know its extent and the
needs of its victims. One thousand men,
women and children of the class that
possess hardly anything outside of their
homes, and what there is in them, are to
day without anything. Of 2H> houses
which were standing before the approach
of a storm there is not sufficient material
to build the most ordinary frame shelter.
All household furniture and clothing was
also completely destroyed. The reported
list of killed has been exaggerated through
a confusion of names. A careful inquiry
shows that 10 comprise all those instantly
killed. The loss of life by the cyclone in
the country adjacent to Rochester has
not yet been accurately computed.
Details from the surrounding district
show that the cyclone swept over a terri
tory sixty.miles in length and above two
miles wide, leaving in its path nothing
but ruins. To form an idea of the loss
one has only to estimate the value of all
the improvements that had been made in
the section visited by the cvclone, and
which are all gone. The loss in Rochester
is now estimated at $350,000. Reports
from the town of Salem indicate that con
siderable damage was done in that lo
cality.
The mini tier of people killed by the cv
clone Tuesday is now fixed at thirty-four,
and the number of injured at eighty-two.
Of the latter nine were fatally injured.
KEY. J.IjANK KOH DEN’S MURDER
The , Jenkins Brothers Apply f<r
Change of Venue.
Mansfield, La., August 24.—The Jen
kins brothers, charged with the murder
of J. Lane Borden, have filed a petition
for a change of venue to Caddo parish, on
account of the prejudice existing in the
public mind, caused by the studious and
persistent efforts of divers evil disposed
persons to warp and bias the minds of the
people against them. The petition has
been set for a hearing Saturday. A sum
mons was issqed Wednesday"for a large
number of witnesses in the case both in
and out of the parish.
The First Rice Shipment.
Darien, Ga., August 24.—Captain A.
8. Barnwell ships to Savannah the first
new rice - of the season to-day from
Chainpney Island. He is ahead of all
others on this coast.
Northcote to Lay Down His Sceptre.
London, August 24.—Sir Stafford
Northcote will probably on account of his
poor health resign the leadership of the
Conservative party.
Daniel Buie. Laston, Ga., says:
“Brown’s Iron Bitters relieved me of se
vere suffering from dyspepsia.”
PENSACOLA JUBILANT.
NO NEW CASES OF FEVER RE
PORTED YESTERDAY.
Surgeon Owen’s Illness; Aggravated by
a Sunstroke—The RdTutation of the
Doctors—The Government Lending all
Possible Aid—An Experienced Physi
cian to he Bet allied.
Pensacola, August 24.—Up to noon
to-day there was no sickness of any kind
reported in this city. A post mortem in
the case of the man who dipd yesterday
developed the fact that his death was not
caused by yellow fever. Surgeon Murray
and Dr. Leonard pronounce the living
case one of malarial fever. Dr. Murray
is the surgeon who had charge of the cor
don at Brownsville, Texas, last year. Dr.
Leonard has. had a large experience.
Passengers arriving last night and this
morning from F.mploy City report that
place in a remarkably healthy condition.
Naval Surgeon Owen, who died at the
navy yard, sustained a sunstroke three
weeks ago,which contributed to his death.
He was the surgeon who defied Secretary
of the Navy Chandler in the case of Cap
tain Hopkins, who was discharged for de
serting his post. Surgeon Owen was
court-martialed affid acquitted. His popu
larity in Pensacola was great. There hat.e
lieen no cases and no deaths at the navy
yard.
Before the man died win. was sent from
Pensacola, and before the post mortem
was contemplated, old nurses and citi
zens familiar with yellow fever declared
that he did not have it. A large class
hold the same belief about tbe few cases
reported at the navy yard.
New Orleans, August 24.—The Board
ol Health last night resolved to apply the
non-intercourse proclamation to ’Car
denas, Matanzas, Santiago de Cuba and
Cienfuegos, having received official in
formation of the existence of yellow fever
at those places. The board also resolved
to establish a ten days’ quarantine
against vessels from Pensacola. Dr. Fly,
the Health Officer of Galveston, was
present at the meeting. He stated that
he had visited the Charity Hospital and
other public institutions, and after a care
ful examination ol the city was convinced
that it was in an excellent sanitary and
healthful condition. He expressed him
self full} - satisfied that the Louisiana
Board of Health would deal fairly with
Galveston, and would furnish all the in
formation desired.
W ashington, August 24.—The follow
ing telegram to the Postmaster General
from Acting Postmaster F. Sallee at Jack
sonville, Fla., has been received at the
Post Office Department:
“The Board of Health of this city, in
view of the existence of yellow fever at
Pensacola, Fla., respectfully request that
you order all mail matter from that city
for this point to be separately pouched
and confer authority to have the same
fumigated at Baldwin. Fla.”
A telegram from Pensacola, Fla., to the
Navy Department, dated yesterday, says
that no new eases had appeared among
the marines, but there was one new case
in Warrington.
The Surgeon General of the Marine
Hospital service to-day received a tele
gram from Lieutenant Commander Welsh,
commanding the navy yard at Pensacola,
Ila„ as follows: “I request authority to
employ five sanitary policemen to make
a house-to-house inspection at $2 per
diem. \\ ill you provide nurses and
medicines and physicians tor those who
are too poor to pay? As there are no pri
vate physicians in the villages who un
derstand sanitary work, no inspector has
been appointed. I may vet have to send
to New Orleans for one. There is but one
physician who will practice, and he is in
experienced. I think one of experience
of New Orleans should be provided for
the poor. It physicians are allowed I
will recommend and procure them. What
per diem are they to be allowed, and also
the nurses?
The Surgeon General telegraphed in re
ply: “Y'ou are authorized to employ five
policemen to make a house-to-house in
spection in Warrington anil Woolsev ats2
per diem. Please have the work com
menced immediately. Cases of yellow
fever ought to be treated at the quaran
tine hospital across the bay. Surgeon
Murray will receive all cases sent there
tor treatment, and by a signal from the
yard will send a launch to the navy yard
lor them. I cannot supply families nurses,
etc. You may employ one physician at
slu per day for thirty days. Disinfectant
and fumigating materials will be turnish
ed by the Collector of Customs upon
requisition.
Passed Assistant Surgeon A. M. Gui
tera, arrived in Washington this morning
from the United States steamship Swa
tara. He received orders for duty at the
Pensacola navy yard, and left here imme
diately for that post to render medical
aid to the yellow fever sufferers.
UAILIUKS IN BUSINESS.
One of tlie Largest Whisky Firms in
Cincinnati Goes to the Wall.
Cincinnati, August 24.— Deeds of as
signment were filed yesterday by the
members of one of the largest and oldest
grocery and grain firms in the city. One
was tiled by Bishop Bros., another by
Charles A. Bishop A Cos., and a third by
George W. Bishop .individually. The firm
of Bishop Bros, has practically ceased
business and exists only to dispose of the
quantity of whisky it is carrying and to
close up the old business. *lt consists
of George W. Bishop, 11. V. B. Morris,
and George 11. Henderson. The last two
are also members of tke-grocery firm of
Hawkins, Morris A Cos., which does not
join in this assignment. The firm of
Charles H. Bishop A Cos. is composed of
George W. Bishop A Son, and deals in
Hour and grain. No statement has been
made. George W. Bishop says that they
have $200,000 whisky tax due soon. He
says that they have had a series of losses
since 1873, notably by a ranch in Texas,
and in grain dealings. He thinks that
the creditors will not lose much eventu
ally.
Richmond, Va., August 24.—William
Jenkins A Cos., grocers and commission
merchants, have failed, with liabilities of
about $35,000. It is believed that their as
sets are sufficient to .pay the secured
creditors in full, and will leave the unse
cured ones forty or fifty cents on the
dollar.
New York, August 24.— The failures
reported by It. G. Dun A Cos. during the
last seven days throughout the United
States and Canada number 105, as against
1.0 last week. The distribution was:
New England States 23. Middle States 20,
Southern States 30, Western States 48,
Pacific States and Territories 21, New
York city 4 and Canada 1!).
AMERICA'S BAH ASSOCIATION.
Officers Elected and Chief .I list ice Cole
ridge Extended a Welcome.
Saratoga, N. Y., August 24.—The
American Bar Association held its clos
ing session this morning. The meetin°-
was called to order by President Lawton
at 10:30 o’clock. William Allen Butler,
of New York, offered a resolution extend
ing a most cordial welcome to Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge, who arrived on the
steamship Celtic from England
this morning. The resolution was
unanimously adopted. The follow
ing gentlemen were elected officers
of the association for the ensuing vear:
President, Cortland Parker, of New Jer
sey; Vice Presidents (partial list) D. \.
Trov. of Alabama; E. M. Randall,'-of
Florida; L. M. W hittle, of Georgia- E 1’
Roche, of Louisiana; L. E. Houston,’ of
Mississippi; T. B. Keogh, of North Caro
lina; 11. E. Young, of South Carolina; A.
Allison, of Tennessee; 11. {}. street’ of
Texas; J. R. Tucker, of Virginia, anil E.
B. Knight, ot H est \ irginia; Secretary
Edward Otis Hinkley, of Baltimore-
Treasurer, Francis Rawle, of Pennsyli
vania; Executive Committee, Luke T.
Poland, of Vermont, Chairman: s. E."
Baldw in, of Connecticut, and Win" Vlipii
Butler, of New York,
The convention adjourned sine <lie at
11:60 o’clock p. m.
A Newspaper Suspends.
Chattanooga, Tenn., August 24.
The Daily Democrat newspaper, started
in this eit.v eleven months ago, suspended
publication to-day.
1 ft
Nothing Like Itosadali*.
I have suffered 37 years with Liver Com
plaint, Rheumatism, Sick Headache and
disordered Stomach. 1 was at one time
raving distracted, rubbing my hands and
half crazy with pain. My wife sent for a
doctor and lie attended me 9 months. He
said he could do me po good. I felt I was
in the jaws of death. Another physician
took me in charge and doctored'me 18
months. I paid him $33. and owe him 140
more, but one bottle of Rosadalis did me
more good than all the medicine the doc
tors ever gave me. J. H. Walker,
Moore’s Creek, N. C.
FRANK JAMES’ TRIAL.
A Belief that the Jury is Favorable to
the Prisoner.
Gallatin, Mo., August 24. —The inter
est in the Frank James trial, which had
lessened slightly during Thursday, was
fully revived yesterday. The time lor
convening the court had been appointed
at 1 :?>0 o’clock, but the attorneys at that
time had not completed the work of pre
paring the jury challenges. When this
was finished the court met at 4:30
o’clock. *
The prisoner entered in charge
ot two officers, and his counsel
announced that the challenges had
been completed. The Sheriff then pro
ceeded to call the jurymen as selected to
try the prisoner on the charge of train
robbery at Winston, and the murder ot
Conductor Wesfall. The names of the
witnesses were then called, 89 beinsr for
the State and 39 for the defense. Of the
State's witnesses 50 responded and were
sworn. Among the absent ones
were Mrs. Sarah Hite, Mrs.
Bolton, “Dick” Liddell, “Jim” Cummings
and the Ford brothers. The prosecution
is positive, however, that thev will ap
pear when wanted. About a third of the
defendant’s witnesses answered, and
were sworn. After the charge to the jury
and the witnesses, the court adjourned
until 8 o’clock this morning. The general
impression is that the defense have won
half the fight in getting the jury. The
prosecution, however, expresses itself as
confident.
'file excitement attending the >lauies
trial was increased to-day, when Judge
Irving and liarficld Davis, the gentlemen
warned a day or two ago to be careful iu
giving testimony against Frank James,
each received the following letter:
St. Loris, August 23, 1883.
To HarfleM Smith and Alex lMing, Gal
latin :
Gents— Your evidence against Frank
James will be watched bv tried and true
friends of tbe hero. No one but tbe
writer and one other know how near Gov.
Crittenden came to biting the dust. On
April 18, 1882, on tbe Sunday afternoon
that he rode in a chair ear from Jefferson
City to St. Louis, a pistol was cocked
twice, and only policy prevented its use.
Frank James has hundreds of friends that
will never see him sacrificed, and will
come to his aid at the proper time. If
you are wise, you will be careful.
[Signed] a. R. K.
The letter addressed to Mr. Davis was
written in red ink in a free bold hand and
enclosed in an envelope of a hotel at San
Antonio, Texas. The postmark is
Wabash Postal Car, and the letter was
evidently mailed at Union depot. The
letter to Mr. Irving was written with
black ink and enclosed in a plain envelope.
James’attorneys denounce the author of
the letter.
St. Louis, August 24.—A special dis
patch to the ! J ost-Dispatch from Gallatin,
Mo., says that the jury that is trying the
case of tbe State vs. Frank James spent
the night in charsre of the Sheriff. The
case was much discussed at the hotels,
and the opinion is generally expressed
t hat a verdict of guilty is out of the ques
tion. A hung jury is probable, and an
acquittal possible. The solid Democracy
of the jury, the youth and associates of
four of the number, and the ex-Confed
erate record ol six ol the number,
give rise to this belief. Last
night Dick Liddell and Mrs. Hite arrived.
This morning he showed up on the streets
with two long navy revolvers clasped to
his waist. Promptly at 8 o’clock the
court convened, the witnesses being ex
cluded from the court room. The attend
ance was not so large as yesterday. A
number of ladies occupied seats on the
stage. Judge Goodman announced that
the counsel would lie allowed an hour in
which to present the case to the jury.
Mr. Wallace, for the State, read the in
dictment, and told the story of the Win
ston robbery, and the manner of the death
ot \\ . C. Millan, who was shot through
the head as he looked into the door of the
smoking car. He saw there Frank and
Jesse Janies . and Wood Hite.
The two men who took
possession of the engine were Dick Liddell
and Clarence llite. Mr. Wallace then
went into the history of the conspiracy to
rob the train at Winston, and life of the
James boys in Tennessee, giving the or
ganization of the band, etc. Testimony
will be introduced to show that the
gang, before leaving Kentucky, ship
ped some implements of robbery
to John Ford, a brother of Bob Ford. Mr.
Wallace then foreshadowed the testimony
ol the State, locating the gang in Clay
and Ray counties, and establishing their
presence in the vicinity of Winston on
the day of the robbery.
The defense waived its right to the pre
sentation of its case, and the taking of
testimony commenced.
The witnesses to-dav were al! employes
or passengers on the fobbed train.
GERM ANY’S INSULT TO FRANCE.
The London Times Characterizes the
Gazette’s A rtiele as a Vulgar Menace.
London, August 24.—The Times this
morning again comments at length on
the article against France recently pub
lished in the Berlin North German
Gazette , and which has attracted much
attention throughout Europe. The Times
says that the Gazette's article is a gross
and deliberate insult. 11 it fails to shock
the public opinion of Europe it is only
because we are accustomed to hear Ger
many address France in terms wholly
unknown to European diplomacy. To
prefer an untenable charge in language
calculated to wound and humiliate
France is an outrage upon decency
and courtesy. Diplomacy has abundant
resources for conducting, controversies
without resorting to language of vulgar
menace. Paris papers give various rea
sons for the article, including the recent
unveiling at Coubevar of a monument
commemorative ot the defense of Paris,
tbe vote for Fortress Artillery, the tour of
inspection of General Thibaudin, the
French Minister of War, and the comple
tion ol the forts on the eastern lrontier.
Ix Paris National states that the idea of
mobilizing the French troops lias been
abandoned.
The Cologne Gazette hints that the
Reichstag was summoned, owing to an’
intention to mobilize the troops.
The Standard's correspondent at Berlin
says that the report that France will
shortly mobilize her Eastern army corps
has attracted serious attention here.
Germany will make a counter demonstra
tion if the idea is carried out.
The Pans press insist that they have
given Germany no just cause for offense.
'They say that France sincerely desires
peace. She should keep calm, but be pre
pared for any emergency.
I>K CHAMBORD DKAI).
He Retains Consclousnesa Up to the
l ast Moment.
Frohsdorfk, August 24.—The death
ot the Count de Chambord occurred at
7:15 o’clock this morning. He remained
conscious to within a moment of his
death. There will be public funeral ser
vices at Frohsdorff. The obsequies will
be celebrated at Goritz a week hence.
Paris, August 24.—The Republican
journals speak respectfnllv in regard to
the death of the Count de Chambord, and
unite in paying homage to the sincerity of
the deceased. The Royalist papers haye
appeared with mourning borders and are
reserved regarding the consequences of
the Count’s death. The body will be
lmrletl by the side of that of Charles X.
Ihe will oi tile Count was read in the
presence of the Austrian Court.
CROSS AM) CRESCENT,
Albanian Christians Again Put tp the
Sword by Panatjeal Mohammedans.
Lon PON, August 24.—A special to the
Manchester Guardian from Cettinje, Mon
tenegro, says that a reign of terror exists
in the village of Kossoqs, in Albania.
Arnauts are murdering Christians, and
all of the latter who can get away are
fleeing from the country, The Turkish
officials connive at file outrages op Chris
tians and haye arrested and exiled a
number of priests. In the Ipek district
ninety-two persons have been murdered
and tweiity-three villages abandoned.
Three to Hang on One I)av.
Danville, Va., August 24.—Sawney
Younger, Reuben King and Isaac Evans,
on trial in the Hustings Court,Pittsylvan
ia county, lor the murder of Shepard, com
mitted on the lhth inst. were to-day found
guilty, and sentenced to be banged Sep
tember 23. 1
The Czar and Czarina Going to Copen
hagen.
Copenhagen, 24.- The Czar
apd Czarina of Russia ate expected to
Visit the royal family of Denmark in a
short time,
Mrs. J. W. Johnson, Rome, Ga., says:
,‘I used Brown’s Iron Bitters for indiges
tion and derived much benefit,”
COTTON IN THE COUNTIES.
A SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT NOTED
BY THE NEWS SPECIALS.
Rust, Caterpillars and Worms Still
Causing SomdiCoinplalnt— The Esti
mate of the Yield Not Changed—Pick
ing Commenced but Not General-
Labor Not Over-Plentiful.
The reports from various counties in
Georgia and Florida relative to the condi
tion of the cotton crop, presented below,
do not show any great change since the
reports of last week. There are still
complaints of worms, rust and caterpil
lars. In some localities there has been
too much rain. The general tone of the
report is that there will be a very con
siderable falling off from the yield of last
year.
DOUGHERTY' COUNTY'.
Albany, August 23.— The condition of
the crop at present is in tolerable good or
der-, but not more than half as good as
that of last year, although cleaner. The
crop is nearly ruined by drought. Rain
commenced a few days since, and the
worms are hard at work doing a great
deal of damage. The yield will not ex
ceed one bale to eight acres. Picking
commenced several davs ago. The rust
has caused a great many boils to open.
There is a lack of laborers, the saw mills,
turpentine farms and railroads having
furnished them employment.
BRYAN COUNTY'.
Walden Branch, August 23.—The
late cotton is now doing very well. The
average yield will be about 400 pounds of
seed cotton per acre. The worms have
made their appearance in a number of
places, and are doing some damage. There
is a scarcity of labor.
BULLOCH COUNTY.
Statesboro, August 23.—There has
been but little change in the crop since
the last report.
BANKS COUNTY.
Homer, August 23. —There is nothing
new to report, except that fine rains have
fallen, which will greatly benefit the crop.
Picking will begin September 1.
BERRIEN COUNTY.
Nashville, August 23.—Since the last
report rust and worms have made their
appearance, but the damage they will do
cannot yet be accurately estimated.
Labor is very scarce, and’wages corre
spondingly high, which will cause much
delay in picking and ginning, thereby
subjecting the growers to heavy losses oh
account of inclement weather, etc. Pick
ing has commenced live days earlier than
at first expected.
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Appling, August 23, —There is a slight
increase in the acreage over last year.
Some planters are plowing yet in their
late cotton. A close observer of crops
thinks this is the poorest crop in seven
teen years. The cotton plant is a very
faithful one, but the hot weather anil
winds of July were too much for it. It
will take about four acres to make a bale.
Tbe supply of labor is equal to the de
mand.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Caknesville, August 22.—The condi
tion of the crop is not near so good as it
was at this time last year. It has suf
fered considerably lrom dry weather. The
fine season of a few days ago, no doubt,
will improve it some, but it is too late to
help it much, and difficult to state what
the yield per acre will he; some farmers
estimate it very low. Picking will begin
about September Ist or 15th.
GILMER COUNTY.
Ellijay', August 23.—Cotton is not
.raised in Gilmer to an extent that will
justify a report. What little is plauted 111
Gilmer can be put at 75 per cent, as com
pared with a good crop last year.
GLJfNN COUNTY.
Hamilton, August 23.—The condition
of the crop at present is not as good as
that of last year, aud the crop is seriously
damaged by drought in some portions of
the county. No worms are reported.
HARALSON COUNTY'.
Buchanan, August 23.— I The condition
of the crop at present is about 50 per cent,
poorer than that of last year, and it is
threatened with damage by rust.
JASPER COUNTY'.
Monticello, August 23.—Since the
last report the condition of the cotton
crop has improved. The planters are
more cheerful, and it is generally believed
that there will be two-thirds ol last veal’s
crop made in the county; late cotton is
doing finely and will make a tine crop
should the rains continue. There are no
signs of worms. One of the farmers com
menced picking 011 last Monday, the 20th.
LINCOLN COUNTY.
Lincolnton, August 23.—Since the
last report there has been no improve
ment in the cotton crop, the opinion now
prevailing that it will take five or six
acres to make a bale, and if the rain stays
off a few days longer it will require from
six to eight acres. Ticking has com
menced and labor is sufficient to handle
the present crop.
MURRAY COUNTY.
Spring Place, August 23.—The condi
tion ot the crop is very good. The season
continues fine and the promise of an aver
age yield of cotton is now flattering. The
weed is small, but well filled with bolls,
and no sign of shedding. Corn, sorghum
and sweet potatoes are improving finely
and promise a fair yield. Early corn is
doing better than hoped for some time
since.
MORGAN COUNTY.
Madison, August 23.—There is nothing
new since the last report. Rain is badly
needed in some sections. The crop is
about 25 per cent, below that of last year.
Picking will begin about September 1.
There is plenty of labor.
OGLETHORPE COUNTY'.
Lexington, August 23.—The condition
of the crop at present is 50. The cot
ton has been considerably injured by
drought. The estimated yield per acre is
300 pounds of seed cotton. Picking has
commenced,but is not general. There is no
lack of labor. The yield is variously esti
mated from one-third to half a crop. There
is an abundance of rain now, but too late
to benefit the cotton.
PIERCE COUNTY.
Blacksheak, August 23.—The first
bale of new cotton was sold here last Sat
urday by J. H. Gray, and bought by Dr.
I). N. Baldwin at 9 cents per pound. The
caterpillars are destroying the crop, and
young cotton is damaged greatly.
PICKENS COUNTY.
Jasper, August 23.—The crop prospect
is very good. No serious disaster sine#*
the last report, and as yet very little com
plaint ol the caterpillar. The probability
is, that they have disappeared for the pres
ent. There is some little rust in cotton.
Corn will turn out well, and other crops
in proj<ortion.
Tike county.
Zebulon, August 23.—Very heavy
rains have fallen and the streams are
higher than ever known to the oldest citi
zen, and in some places the land is badly
washed and the crops damaged. The
present yield will make about 85 percent,
of last year’s yield. The weed is compar
atively small, but full. There is no shed
ding yet. Picking has not commenced.
PULASKI COUNTY.
Hawkixsville, August 23.—There is
no change since the last report.
ROCKDALE COUNTY.
Conyers, August 23.—The condi
tion of the crop at present is well
marked, but will not be half as large as
that of last year, The cotton is seriously
damaged by drought. The estimated yield
per acre will not be more than from 200
to 250 pounds of seed cotton. Picking will
commence on September Ist aud continue
until the 10th. There is a full supply of
labor.
STEWART COUNTY.
Lumpkin, August 23.—The condition of
the crop at pjesent is .35, Worms have
destroyed the crop on many farms. Pick
ing began op the 20th inst. Very little
cotton is open yet and late cotton prom
ises well in some place# where the rains
have fallen,
SUMTER COUNTY.
Amkricus, August 23.—The condition
of the crop at present is 50 per cent, poorer
than that of last year, with the caterpil
lar ready to eat it up. All the crop is
making some progress, but the worms are
at work. The yield per acre will be 350
jiounds of seed cotton. Picking has com
menced. There is a full supply of labor.
SPALDING COUNTY.
Griffin, August 3^—There i# a great
deal of complaint heard of the suialluess
of the coUou, hut a thorough examina
tiqn reveals the fact that the crop will not
fall on more than 15 per cent, less than
that of last year. The first crop and
growth is splendid, and if the first ten
days of September are favorable there;
will be an average crop.
TALBOT COUNT V,
TalbgttQN, August 23.—The cotton
PWfect grows worse, Only the late cot- i
ton, embracing probably one-fourth oi the
I crop, has done anything in the last two
: weeks. A few days ago reports of the
ravages of the boll-worm began to come
iin from different sections. This is sur
| prising because of the drv summer. Pick
| ing has commenced pretty generally.
TERRELL COUNTY.
Dawson, August 23.—There is but lit
tle change since the last report. Raiwlias
fallen in some parts of the county. The
rust is still ravaging the crop, and the
i caterpillars are spreading. Picking is
i very general. Labor is light and poor.
Ihere will not be more than 50 per cent, of
an average crop.
TELFAIR COUNTY.
Mcßae, August 23.—Since the last re
port there have lieen general showers of
rain. The rust is still spreading slowly;
a great deal of the plant has shed all its
leaves. There is but little hope of any
top crop. Picking is not yet general. Un
less there is a change soon there will
hardly be half a crop.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Sandersvili.k, August 23.—The wea
ther is excessively hot and dry. The cot
ton is opening too freely; rust and cater
pillars are complained of in various sec
tions of the county. The general impres
sion is that there will lie only a two-third
cotton crop in the countv, compared with
that of last year.
WHITE COUNTY. *
Clkvland, August 23.—Since the last
report there has been no material change.
A|little rain has fallen, which has improv
ed the corn. The cotton crop will not
make more than half a crop. No cater
pillars have appeared as vet. There is
plenty of labor.
WALTON COUNTY.
Monroe, August 23.—Since the last re
port much rain has fallen in the county.
The cotton crop will improve to six-teenths
of a crop as compared with that or last sea
son. Picking will begin about September
10th. In the southern portion of the coun
ty cotton is now opening. The corn crop
is about the same as the last report. La
bor is plentiful.
Florida.
COLUMBIA COUNTY'.
Lake City, August 23.—The cotton
crop (sea island) is threatened with
damage from rain, and worms are in
many fields. Picking has commenced,
but labor is scarce, owing to the building
of railroads, etc.
PUTNAM COUNTY'.
Palatka, August 23.— There are no
worms. The average crop will be this
vear 200 pounds seed cotton to the acre of
the sea island variety—long staple. This
is about a half crop. The weather is
warm and bright. Picking has begun,
with labor plentiful. The orange crop is
line. Corn is good.
GADSDEN COUNTY.
Quincy, Fla., August 23.—sSiuce the
lOtli inst. the season has been good, but it
came too late, however, to benefit the cot
ton to any extent. Picking is progress
ing quite lively. A few bales of the new
crop have been brought in. The cater
pillar is still at work, but does not seem
to be making the headway expected two
weeks ago. The crop will not equal that
of last year, is not abundant.
LORD COLKRIDGK’S ARRIVAL.
A Committee of the Bar Association
Meets Him Down the Bay.
New York, August 24.—Members of
the committee of the Bar Association
cruised about the bay all last night
awaiting the steamer Celtic, on which
Lord Chief J ustice Coleridge was a pas
senger. The steamer arrived this morn
ing, and Lord Coleridge and Gilbert
Coleridge, his son. Sir James Han
nen, M. P., and Hon. Charles Russell, M.
P., were taken on board the yacht, where
breakfast awaited them. On landing they
were driven to the residence of Mr. Eliot
F. Shepard, where Lord Coleridge and
his friends will be guests during their
stay in this city. This evening a dinner
will be given at Mr. Shepard’s, at which
General Hancock will be present.
AFFAIRS IN TONQUIN.
No Further Movement to he Made Before
October.
London, August 24.— The Paris corre
spondent of the Daily .Weiss says it is
stated that no further operations in Ton
quin will be possible until October.
Paris, August 24.—Gen. Bouet, the
French military commander in Tonquin,
in a telegram to Admiral Peyrong, Min
ister of Marine and of the Colonies, giv
ing the details of the recent lighting near
Hanoi, says that owing to the French te
connoissance the enemy have abandonee
their position and fallen back to Son tag.
He reports that the enemy’s loss was 300
killed and 1,000 wounded.
No Change at Taniatave.
Tamatave, August 7. —The situation
here remains unchanged. Admiral Pierre,
the French commander, has restored to
the foreign consuls power to exercise the
functions of their offices.
Paris, August 24.—M. Challemel La
cour, the French Foreign Minister, has
summon M. Waddington, the French
Ambassador at London, to coifte to Paris
to discuss the Tamatave affair.
Bat and Ball.
Washington, August 24.—Games of
base ball were played to-day as follows:
At New York—New Yorks 9, Philadel
phias 3.
At Detroit—Detroits 8, Clevelands 8.
The game was called in the 10th inning
on account of darkness.
At Chicago—Chicagos 4, Buffalos 1.
At Boston—Providences 3, Bostons 1.
At Pittsburg—St. Louises 15, Alleghe
nys 5.
At Baltimore—Baltimores 12, Eclipses
At Philadelphia—Cincinnatis 8 Ath
letics 5. '
Bad for the Stock Baisers.
Cheyenne, W. TANARUS., August 24.—1n the *
case of the United States vs. A. H. May,
et al., for an injunction to abate a fence
which had unlawfully enclosed eleven
sections of the public domain, a decision
was rendered in the District Court to-day
by Chief Justice Lever granting the in
junction. The decision in this case, which
was a test case, affects the stock raisin''
business in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah!
Idaho. Montana, Arizona, New Mexico I
and Kansas.
I)r. Swift’s .Astronomical Peeps.
Rochester, X. Y., August 24.—1)r.
Lewis Swift, director of the Warner ob
servatory, says that the object dimly seen
on Wednesday evening proves to have
been a nebula-, the identity of which the
clouds and moonlight obscured. Dr.
Swift has discovered fortv new nebula
lately with the powerful telescope of the
Warner observatory, all of which have
escaped the eye of astronomers with
larger telescopes.
A Free Trade Conference.
Kansas City, Mo. t August 24.—The
Missouri Free Trade Lea gib- has issued
an invitation to all who oppose a protec
tive tariff and favor a genuine reform in
the revenue laws to attend a conference
at St. Louis October 2, I*B3, for the dis
cussion of these questions. All or'ani
zations sympathizing w ith the movement
are invited to send delegates and indi
vidual sympathizers are also invited.
Garfield’s California Monument,
San Francisco, August - 44.—The cere
mony of laying the foundation of the Gar
held monument took place at noon to-duv,
under the auspices of the Grand Madon'ie
Lodge of California, assisted by the Grand
Kncampinent of Knights Templar of the
United States, at Golden Gate l’ark, Over
100,000 people witnessed the ceremonies.
England’s Halt alien for Zululand.
LONpqjj, August 24.—1n the I louse of
Commons last evening Lord Darlington
Minister of War, said that the battalioii
of British troops mentioned in a Durban
dispatch as having been ordered to Zulu
land would proceed to the border of
Natal, but would notenter Zululand until
further orders. nui
Earl spencer's Hopes for Ireland.
, Au -\ lst 24, —Earl Spencer,
ifld L"eutenaijt, m speaking at Cork last
evening, said that he trusted the davs of
, hGh'ruees, crime and agitation in Ireland
'' *T e , I ,a 3L and that Uv- country could
look forward to, practicable measures in
politics and proftpenty in the land,
Socialism in Germany.
Berlin, August 24. —At a meeting of
workingmen held at Munich last even in"
socialist Deputy Vollmar made a speech’
The police interfered to stop the meeting'
and wounded several persons who resisted
their actiou.
A Store ay.U Three Dwellings Bqrwed.
C aa ELS2JTON, August 24. A aneeinl to
that "three \ Q? urie r rr<MU Sumter says
♦ Svm , th i reC . and stores were en
in^ lj The l ? o "'^ l by . flre there this morn
to SSO OW 1088 lseßtunated at from $35,000
t PRICE 810 A TEAK. 1
I 5 CENTS A COPT. j
MOOXSHIXIX.G AT AX EXD.
XORTH CAROLINA THE ONLY
STATE UNDER THE BAN.
A Discharged Treasury Girl Looses Her
Tongue—The New Immigrant Law-
Chandler’s New Tubs—Evans Beset by
the Manufacturers of Patent Medi
cines.
Washington, August 24. Reports
which have been recently received by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue lrom
all over the Southern States, show a very
good condition of atfairs as regards com
pliance with the Internal Revenue laws.
There have been no serious violations of
the laws governing the distillation of
whisky, except in one State. North Caro
lina continues to furnish a number of
people who will manufacture whisky
without due regard to the legal require
ments. With this exception. Commis
sioner Evans is satisfied that the day of
moonshiners in the South is over.
A VERITABLE VIXEN.
Miss Lucy Horton, who three years ago
! sued a son of Senator Morgan, of Ala
j bama, for seduction, had a place in the
, treasury Depart men t until yesterday.
>he was then dismissed. To-day she ai>-
jieared in the office ol the Appointment
( lerk and created a verv livelv scene
She denounced Secretary Folger.'the Ap
pointment Clerk and all the officials con
nected with the government. She was
very violent and abusive, and it was only
by very good management that she was
gotten out ol the building. She could be
heard a w hole corridbr’s length, and what
she said created quite a sensation, es
pecially among the female employes who
were within earshot.
WORKING OF THE IMMIGRANT LAW.
In conversation with an officer of the
Bureau of Navigation, 1 was informed to
daj that there has been collected under
the act to regulate immigration, approved
August and, 1882, about $225,000, and that
the Commissioners of the Boards of Immi
gration established at New York, Boston
1 hiladelphia, Portland and Baltimore
have expended to relieve immigrants
$2(10,000. Secretary Folger will not estab
lish other boards at present, but may late
this fall or next spring. In the execution
ol the law the customs officers find it verv
lame in that it provides no penalty for a
violation of the clause prohibiting the
landing ot helpless and destitute emi
grants. It simply provides for their re
turn to the point of debarkation. Con
gress will be asked to make an amend
ment to cover this deficit. The general
working ol the law, however, gives great
satisfaction to the Treasury Department.
THE NEW CRUISERS.
Mr. Bowles, assistant naval con
structor, is preparing and will have ready
in a tew days a complete description of
the new vessels to be built under the
act ol the last Congress, together
with a full and complete analysis of the
armament of those vessels in relation to
their tonnage, etc. This report will !*•
completed by Monday next. Mr. Bowles
is Secretary ol the Naval Advisory Board,
under whose directions and plans the
new vessels are to he built. Ilis descrip
tion will be the first authentic and relia
ble paper on the subject that has vet been
presented to the public.
EVANS’ BITTER PILL.
Following the precedent established bv
Commissioner Evans, who practically ex
empts Hostetler’s bitters from taxation
the manufacturers of other medical coinl
pounds into which alcohol enters are be
ginning to apply for the same privilege as
is vouchsafed the Hostetter Company.
At least ten applications of this charac
ter have already been received. Mr.
Evans thinks there will be many more
and there doubtless will. Whether they
shall be exempted from taxation as alco
holic preparations w ill depend altogether
upon the result of the analysis which the
successive applications for immunttv from
taxation will receive at the government
hands.
MAHONK HARD PRESSED.
Everybody seems to be conspiring
against Mahone. He is in need of money
for political purposes, and he is in need
of workers of ability to help him main
tain lus grip in Virginia, l’he Jay llub
beli plan ol assessment is forever under a
cloud if Dorman B. Eaton knows what he
is about. Ihe postal telegraph scheme
w 11 fell Mahone thinks should draw money
from prospective office holders has
. Proved a success. Virginia's
V miain is almost at his wit’s end. Even
prominent members of the administration
ai e beginning to snub him. He requested
a Post Office Department inspector named
Giddins, whose duties are in Virginia, to
assist him on the stump. Mr. Giddins is
an observer of the signs of the times
He admires .Mahone, hut does not
care about allowing his admiration
to cost him his place. Before acting in
obedience to Mahone’s request he came to
*\ ashington to ask the advice of Post
master General Gresham on the subject
Judge Gresham is a strict disciplinarian!
He believes that the public service is
paramount to party politics.
a . ve y° any work to do in your sec
tion /” he asked the Inspector.
“Yes, sir,” was the honest reply.
Then said the Postmaster General
“you had letter attend to it, and let the
state campaign go. Your duty is to the
government, and not to any political sec
tion of Virginia.”
I lie Insjiector was convinced that Judge
Gresham is in earnest, and he will not
take the. stump for Mr. Mahoue. The lat
ter lias no means of appeal from this
righteous decision. The President is at
i ellowstone, and there is no other Cabi
net officer in town. Mr. Mahoue will
na\e to trv again when the Poslmaster
General is beyond the reach of the tele
graph, like Chief Arthur.
The Trade* Federation.
New- York, August 24,-The federa
tion of trades unions this morning re
solved that the federation of organized
trades and labor unions considers the
question of shortening the hours of labor
as paramount to all questions at present
and demands the enforcement of the eight
hour law on all general and State trovern
ment works. I’. 11. McLogan, of Chicago,
was elected I resident o| the federation.
The Order of St. Luke.
Petersburg, Va., August 24.—The
Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the Inde
pendent Order of St. Luke of Virginia ad
journed this afternoon, to meet at Nor
folk, August 21. 18S4. At the session to
day the officers elected for the ensuing
year were installed, and appeal cases
were disposed of.
Mushki Alum in War Paint.
London, August 21.—A dispatch from
Simla to the Reuter Telegram Company
says that a general rising of the Ghilzafe
against the Ameer of Afghanistan has.
occurred. The insurgents are under the
lead of Mushki Alum.
A Grab. Elevator Burned.
Madison, ll d., August 24.—The wheat
elevator ol I'row & Cos., containing 100,(XX)
bushels of wheat, was destroyed by fire
this morning. The loss is $125,000.
yahing pomori-.
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