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Published bv the Tbubuxt Pnblishtwc 00. 1 J. Bf DEVEALA. Makagbw > 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. 151.25 Per Annum; 75 cent,’, lor Hix Months; ■! 50 cents Ttires Months; Single Copies I I oent»<-In Advance. THE WORLD OVER. CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY ’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.