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VOL. 111.
•SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS —THE EXCURSION
FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDENTS-SUICIDES
DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS, ETC.
Alabama.
Joel J. Merritt, postal clerk from
Cleveland, Tenn., to Selma, was arrested
in Selma for robbing the mails.
N. F. Thomson, a Birmingham real es
tate and insurance agent, and a candidate
on the prohibition ticket for county
treasurer, was arrested for false pretenses
in connection with a land trade during
► the late boom. The grand jury returned
an indictment against him. He was re
leased on $2,000 bond.
J. T. Sullivan, an engineer on the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was ar
rested in Birmingham on Saturday,
charged with manslaughter in the first
degree. About three weeks ago, while
running a freight train, Sullivan ran into
a switch engine at Warrior, killing a
man named John Beasley.
The suicide of Maggie Jones, of Birm
ingham, a woman of unsavory r< putation,
was the eighth sun ide in that city within
four weeks. They have occurred two per
week now for four successive weeks, and
a common inquiry is “Has any one com
mitted suicide to-day?” Suicide seems
to be epidemic th< re, forty-three having
occurred during the past twelve months.
Missouri.
George Taylor, a prominent St. Louis
cotion factor, is authority for the state
ment that jute bagging manufacturers
have formed a pool or trust and advanced
the price of bagging from seven to eleven
cents per yard, while there has been no
advance in raw material. Mr. Taylor
could not purchase such stock as he
wanted in St. Louis, and telegraphed
orders to Eastern manufacturers and
received the reply that he had better
purchase from the St. Louis makers.
Florida.
Twenty-four alligators were killed in
one night by a boy at Spring Garden.
The inland lakes in Volusia county are
- lower at present than at any time during
* the past ten years.
The catapillars are seriously injuring
the pea and potato vines in certain lo
calities in Pasco county.
The state authorities have ordered that
- the entire village of Plant City be burned
to the ground, including al buildings,
furniture, bedding, &c., in order to
stamp out the so-called yellow or mala
rial fever there.
The growers in and around Orlande
have netted 50 cents per pound for white
grapes. It is not improbable that in a
tew years grape culture in Florida will
become one of the leading industries.
Alachua county has a large acreage of
vineyards.
There is a man in Palatka who imag
ines that he is a teapot. He is perfectly
sane on every other subject, but nothing
can convince him that he is not a teapot,
and an earthen one at that. He sticks
out one arm to represent the spout, bends
the other to represent the handle, makes
a hissing noise to represent the escaping
• steam, and then, if any one comes near
him, is very uneasy lest they hit him and
break off either his handle or his spout.
The relief measures to be inaugurated
fcy the Marine Hospital Bureau will in
■ 1 elude a house to-house inspection of the
infected villages and the guarding of
them for a period of ten days, or until
the fever shall have entirely disappeared;
iftid also the disinfection of all premi cs
wherein the inmates have had fever.
• Guards will be immediately placed to
fc ’ prevent the refugees from ir.fec’ing other
places. Persons wishing to leave the jn-
B feeted villages will have to pass the
"5 flsual detention period and have their
S clothing fumigated.
South Carolina.
■ The river ph'-sphate minors around
A the South Carolina c-ast have entered
’ into a pool to put up the price of rock.
shis, of .course, does not include th"
k| lurid-miners. The production of river
■►Aaa.Kamounts to nearly 20,000 tons an
il v
'A commitee was appointed in Charles
ton on Wednesday to op< n books of sub-
- *cription for the purchase <f a steamship
.to run between there and Bal itnore. The
, - steamer is to be built outright, with a
capacity of 6,000 to 8,000 bales of cot
ton, and to have first-class accommoda
tions for TOO saloon passengers.
Lightning struck the shed of Hughes
■Si Brunson's store, at Brunson’s, under
, which weie a group of pedp e, and killed
Frank Rivers, col' red. outright. Col.
L. F. Hughes, oncof ti c pr >prietor>, re
ceived painful injuries from both the
shock ami a fad to the brick pavement.
Olliers were conside: ably shocked. Two
or tfiree houses were struck and will
need repairs.
®!l« Savannah (Tribune.
CJeorsrfn.
j Speaker Carlisle declined to leave
j Washington, D. C., to deliver a speech
in Atlanta.
The 43d Georgia infantry held a re
union at Ponce de Leon Springs, near
Atlanta, and out of the 1,000 men that
composed it, in 1861,0n1y 13 were present.
S. P. Shatter & Co's, rosin oil mill and
chemical works at Savannah were burned
on Sunday. The works were located on
the West Ogeechee canal beyond the city
limits. The origin was spontaneous
combustion.
The Augusta Exposition received an
application for space from one of the
biggest loom manufacturers in Massachu
setts. The exhibit alone will cost several
thousand dollars to place, and the six
fancy looms will be operated by six
blooming Yankee girls.
Tennessee.
Memphis is to have a police patrol
wagon.
The steel rail mill of the Roane Iron
company at Chattanooga, has shut
down until September, on account of
the depressed condition of the steel rail
market.
Sam Watts, a clerk, and Charles Hum
phreys, a married miner, fought at Coal
Creek while on a drunken spree. The
latt< r was shot through the body and
will die.
Policeman W. T. Russell, who a week
ago killed Jesse Bishop while, it is al
leged, Bishop wss resisting arrest, was
taken before Judge Shepherd on a writ
of habeas corpus at Chattanooga on
Wednesday. As a result of the examin
ation, Russell was held to bail in the sum
of $5,000, which he readily gave.
A number of Southern capitalists and
manufacturers met on Monday at Nash
ville to discuss the location there of an
international mineral and metallic expo
sition. It was resolved to hold the expo
sition at Nashville in 1890. A commit
tee was appointed to organize the enter
prise, secure a charter and put it on a
practical basis.
Conductor Frank Cushman was ar
rested in Nashville and jailed there on
Sunday. Cushmau was in charge of the
extra freight train which collided with
the Louisville & Nashville fast express
at Oxmoor on the morning of the 17th,
C killing Engineers Nichols and Austin,
and Fireman Cummings. Cushman was
indicted by the grand jury last week for
manslaughter in the first degree.
Virginia.
Three colored section hands on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad were caught
under a gravel bank which caved in a
few miles below Richmond, Va., on Mon
day. Fred Yates was killed and the
other two seriously injured.
Miss Elia Barn", daughter of Con
gressman G. T. Barges, of Augusta, Ga.,
with a party of frienas, was witnessing a
pyrotechnic display al Winchester, when
some sparks fell upon the dress she was
wearing, wlrch in an instant blazed up
around her. The gentleman who accom
panied her snatched off J his coat, and
together with it and Miss Barnes’ wrap,
which she had her shoulders, the
flames were extinguished. AILs Barnes’
dress skirt was ijjjewroycd. but she es
caped all injury, <3c%>t a slight burn on
one of her hands.
The coroner’s jury assembled at the
scene of the recent collision on the Nor
folk & Western Railway, rendered its
verdict on Wednesday as follows: “We,
the jury, find the Norfolk & Western
Railway Company guilty of neglect ir.
sending complicated orders not easily
understood by employes of the company,
as shown by the evidence adduced befoie
the jury, and for its failure to designate
engine No. 3, which would have pre
vented this collision; and it is the opin
ion of this jury that the Nor oik &
Western management should be held
responsible for the results of this disas
ter.”
Texas
The first bale of cotton of the crop of
1888 was received at Galveston on Wed
nesday. It weighed 569 pounds, and was
classed as middling fair st iple. It was
sold at auction at 12 cents per pound,
I ind will be shipped to Liverpool via New
j York.
Lieut. Flipper, the colored officer in
! the United Slates army, who was dis
• missed some years ago, and afterwards
I joined the Mexican army, has turned up
at El Paso, with a story of two old gold
mines which he has found in Mexico,
jv t bursting with ore.
Arkansas.
’ Two deputy sheriffs attempted to ar
rest Fred Conww, a farmer, near Con
way. While Deputy Sheriff Witt was
reading the warrant to Conway, the latter
' drew a knife and stabbed the officer in
the left side. Conwaj’s wife and two
i sons then attacked Wit, who drew his
pistol and fired r.t Co:.any. The ball
I -truck the other officer, Deputy Sheriff
■ Lloyd. in ti e brea-t, inflicting a fata’
wound.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. AUGUST 4, 1888
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB
LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS —IMPORTANT
ACTS OF PRESIDENT CLEVELAND —AP-
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
CONGRESSIONAL..
The Senate on Monday resumed con
sideration of the sundry civil bill, and
several unimportant amendments were
offered from the committee on appro
priations and agreed to. Mr. Bowen of
fered an amendment appropriating $250,-
000 for the purpose of investigating the
extent to which the arid region of the
United States can be redeemed by irriga
tion, and briefly addressed the Senate in
its support... .In the Home, Mr. Collins,
of Massachusetts, asked unanimous
consent to offer a resolution making
the copyright bill the special order
for the sth of December, next, but
Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, objected.
Mr. McAdoo, of New Jersey, introduced
a resolution for reference t<Rhe commit
tee on foreign affairs, calling for infor
mation from our consuls in (foreign coun
tries relative to emigration to the United
States. It provides that consuls, consul
generals and ministers resident of the
UnifediStates in foreign countries, from
which come emigrants in considerable
numbers to the Unite i States, shall pro
ceed to investigate emigration from these
countries to the United States.
The Senate on Thursday r sumeel con
sideration of the army appropriation bill,
the pending question being on the
amendment offered by Air. Hawley ap
propriating $750,000 for an armory gun
factory at’Wartervleitarsenal,New York;
$5,000,000 for the purchase of steel for
high p >wer coast defence guns; $500,000
for the purchase of submarine mines;
and $500,000 for submarine controllable
torpedoes. Mr. Hawley’s amendment
was agreed to—yeas 24, nays 16, and the
bill was passed. The Senate then pro
ceeded to the consideration of the fish
eries treaty in open executive session, and
was addressed by Air. Wilson, of Mary
land, in favor of its ratification. Two
presidential vetoes were read and refer
red, and the Senate adjournin’... .The
bill to provide for postoffice buildings in
cities where there urepio other govern
ment offices, occupied the attention of
the House. The.'report accompanying
the bill explains its provisions. It pro
poses to establish a plan for the con
struction of public buildings for the use
exclusively of the postoffice department,
of uniform character, and which
shall be especially adapted for
the purposes of that department,
where the gross receipts amount to three
thousand dollars annually for two succes
sive years. The extreme limit of the
cost to the United States for any build
ing shall not, in any ease, exceed twenty
thousand dollais. Subject to these limi
itations, it provides for three classes of
buildings, varying in cost according to
the amount of gross receipts.
GOSSIP.
Statesville, N. C., is to have a $75,000
public building.
Mrs. George L. Morgan, of Georgia,
was appointed a copyist in the interior
department, at a salary of S9OO.
Cjiicf Justice Fuller has received his
commission from President Cleveland,
but will not be sworn in until October.
Air. Dibble will lead the forces in the
House in support of the French spolia
tion claims amendment to the general
deficiency bill. Should the bill pass, up
wards of $30,000 will go to South Caro
lina claimants.
Senator Call has introduced a bill
granting the Pensacola & Memphis Rail
way Company a right of way through
the military reservation in Florida. A
steamboat mail service has been estab
lished from Tampa, byway of Key West,
to Havana and return three times a week.
Senator Dawes’ bill to prevent white
men from acquiring title or right to any
tribal property or int- rest in the Indian
Territory has passed the House, and with
the President’s signature w ill now beta,m:
a law. This bill had its oiigin with S c
r< t try Lamar, who recommended it tc
Congress while in charge of the Interior
Department.
Senator Palmer reported favorably
from the committ e on education and la
borthe bill appropriating $400,000 L t
Colored Exposition in Atlanta next year,
will call the bill up for action next week,
or earliir if possible. Both he and Sen
ator Brown have been talking up the bill
considerably, and expect its passage.
Senat< r Palmer says be has no doubt bat
that it will pass without opposition.
The committee on agriculture reconsid
ered its action of last week in referring
to the sub committee the compound lard
bill and all adulterated food bills before
the committee, with instructions to report
by bill, or otherwise, in December next,
and decided torepoitto the House the
Lee bill, to prevent the sale, manufacture
or transportation of adulterated articles
of food, drink and drugs, also a substi
tute for the Butterworth bill, defining
lard, and imposing a tax upon compound
lard, and regulating its sale, importation
and expo tition.
The Smithsonian authorities are exper
imenting on a specific for snake-poison
ing, anti a man in Buffalo, N. Y., writes
to Prof. Yarrow: “lam willing to be
inoculated as many times as you think
necessary to make my system prods
against the snake poison; and when you
think I am safe, comparatively speaking,
from the effects of the virus, I will let
the snake bite me, so that it can be es
tablished beyond doubt that you have a
genuine specific; also, when it has been
proved that I am safe against the rattle
snake bite, you could try the black-make
or the moccasin, or any other variety of
poisonous snakes that you may have.
My terms arc not very steep. I want
sls per week as long as the experiments
last and SIOO at the finish. In case the
remedy should fail and a fatal result en
sue I would want to be buried decently
after my body had been examined by
physicians to see the working of the poi
son.”
RUSHING FOR LIBERTY.
A plot for the escape of four hundred
convicts at Piatt Alines, Ala., was dis
covered several days ago, but the prison
officials kept the matter so quiet that the
far ts only leaked out on Wednesday At
slope No. 1, about four <>f the seven hun
dred convicts are confined, and there is
only one entrance into the mine at that
place. It seems that one of the veins or
leads at this slope has been worked until
it was within a tew hundred feet of the
surface on the other side of the mountain.
Some of the older convicts some time ago
conceived a plan to dig out of the mine.
Others were let into the plot, and the
convicts would work turns on their tun
nel after completing their day’s task of
mining. The number into the plot was
increased, until nearly all of the four
hundred convicts working iu the slope
knew about it, and aided in the work.
Saturday, it is said, was the day set
apart to force the tunnel through the
mountain and escape. After all the con
victs had entered the slope that morning,
the entrance was blocked on the inside,
and then they began to dig for liberty,
the tunnel lacking only a few feet of
completion, but the plot had been be
trayed, and the guards were on the look
out. The obstruction at the mouth of
the slope was removed and the convicts
were driven away from their tunnel, and
forced to return to work. The ring
leaders were punished, and every pre
caution has been taked to prevent an es
cape by the tunnel route. Only three
'months ago five convicts escaped from
Coalburg mines, by the same means, and
only two of them were recaptured.
COTTON.
The New York Financial Chronicle, in
its weekly review of the cotton move
ment, says that the total receipts since
the first of September, 1887, 5,488,937
bales, against 5,204,670 bales for the
same period of 1886-7, shows an increase
since September 1, 1887, of 284,258
bales. The exports for the week reached a
total of 27,285 bales, of which 14,819 were
for Great Britain, 7,218 for France and
2,238 to the rest of the continent. The
total sales for forward delivery for the
week are 330,400 bales. For immediate
delivery the total sales foot up 6,406
bales, including 3,430 for export, 2,976
for consumption. The imports into con
tinental ports have been 18,000 bales.
There is a decrease in the cotton in sight
of 315,282 bales as compared with the
same date of 1887, a de-rea-e of 239,283
bides as compared with the corresponding
date of 1886 and a decrease of 278,735
bales as compared with 1885. The old
interior stocks have decreased during the
week 3,286 bales, and are 5,113 bales
more than at the same period last year.
The receipts at the same townshave been
2,037 bales more than the same week List
ye r, and since September 1 the receipts
at all the towns arc 111,204 bales more
than for the same time iu 1886-7.
“WHITE CAPS” SHOT.
“White Caps” in Crawford county,
Ind., whipped two women nearly to
flea'll —on - will probably die —and then
proceeded to the house of a reputable
citizen in the neighborhood and ordered
him to spread the news of their doings
as their warning. The plans of the
“White Caps” had been overheard, and
the citizen had three friends with him.
He accordingly refused to do the bidding
of the “White Caps,” and was threat
ened by them. A fight ensued,'in which
three of the “White Caps” were shot, two
of them fatally. One of these is named
Gregory, a country merchant, aged fifty
years, with a family of grown children.
Another is a saloon keeper name I Maun
ders, a worthiest fellow. The wounded
men have been hidden away, ami the
country is ut> in arms on a Lunt fur them.
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’PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL*
ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS,
EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC.
John Robinson's circus people posted
their bills on a Vincennes, Ind., church,
and were heavily lined lor doing it.
The Pope sent a telegram congratulat
ing Emperor William upon the birth of
his fifth son. The emperor, in reply,
thanked the Pope.
Emperor William will visit the Pope
immediately on his arrival in Rome, be
fore going to Quirnail, in order not to
offend the Pope.
One thousand miners employed in the
coal mines at St. Etienne, near Paris,
France, have struck, and it is expected
that the strike will spread.
A fearful storm caused much destruc
tion in northwest France. Afany fisher
men were drowned. The duke of Gra
mont’s yacht foundered off Quettcville.
A volcanic eruption at Bandesan, fifty
leagues from Yokohama, destroyed sev
eral villages, and killed 1,000 persons,
including 100 visitors at the Rima
Springs.
The Copenhagen Dog Bind, says that
Emperor William must not be allowed
to belive that the Danes have renounced,
hope of retaining restoration of Scheil
werg Ilolstein.
The latest proposals of Signor Crispb
in the negotiations from the Franco-Ital
ian treaty, do not suit AL LeGrande, the
French minister of commerce, and theie
may be trouble.
The paper mill of John Devarrcnc?, at
East Lee, Alass., was destroyed by fire on
Sunday. The mill employed about one
hundred and fifty hands, and the loss
will be about $100,009.
Chairmini Hoge, arrested in connection
with the Locomotive Engineers’ troubles,
has sued the chief detective ol the Bur
lington road and the Lincoln, Neb.,
Daily News for libel.
It is stated in official circles, that in
consequence of the protest of the Amer
ican authorities against the existing reg
ainl ions with respect to the St. Lawrence
canal, the Canadian government will re
move the present discrimination in favor
of grain bound for Montreal.
Tax Collector Pratt, of Pittsfield,
Alass., has di-appeared. Pratt is said to
be several thousand short. He charges
his difficulty in his leniency to some tax
payers who were bis friends and from
whom he could not c IL ct without re
sorting to legal measuf. s.
Chai les Cummings, second steward of
the Brighton hot< 1, and Henry Boyd,
also an employe of the hotel, Atlantic
City, got beyond their depth while bath
ing on Monday, and b th were drowned,
although hi roic efforts wer ■ made to save
them. Cummings’ bo ly was recovered.
Both men were from Philadelphia.
A gun-mith, named Rudolph Sebic,
was arrested in Chicago, 111., on Wednes
day, and is now behind prison bars, un
der bonds of $7,090. He is charged
with being the individual who furnished
dynamite to the conspirators who intend
ed to assassinate the three law officers
most prominent in the Haymarket prose
cution. t
While prayer-meeting was in progress
in a church in Indianapolis, Ind., the
people present were alarmed by groans
as of a man in agony, and an investiga
tion being made, Eugene Zinzis was
found on the floor in a pew, with an
empty bottle at. hand. The bottle had
contained carbolic acid, which Zinzis hud
.swallowed and died before he could be
removed from the church.
A constable and posse of cowboys had
alight in the mountains, near Benson,
Arizomi, with three Alexic.an hone
thieves, belong!, gto a band which has
a rend<z.vous in the White Stone and Si
erra Nevada moun'aius. Iwo of the
Alexicai.s were killed and the other
thieves escaped. One of the dead men
has b en identified us one of the Sonora
train robbers.
All the cable lines have advanced
r:.t s. On S-pternber Ist the rates will |
be advanced to 25 cents per word be
tween all points in Great Britain and
Leland. France and Germany, and New
Engl .nd cities on the land lints to New
York. South and west of New York
full rates will be charged by the land
r ompnni- 8 in addition to the 25-cent rate.
Tae rnte on press dispatches will be raised
from 6 to 10 cents per word.
The Hee ./ournaf figures that the annual
honey product of North America is aliout
10.1,000,00 1 pound*, an I its vulhe is nearly
£15,0.0,0)0. Th' annuil wax product n
ibout O'jyr) pounds, and it« value H more
Il m >lOl,O o. There are about* 909,000 per
hum keeping Gaw in North America.
NO. 42.