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SHERIDAN’S DEATH.
THE VETERAN SUDDENLY DIES
BY THE SEASIDE.
WITHOUT WARNING, HE PASSES AWAY —
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER —SCHOFIELD
NOW IN COMMAND.
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GEN. P. H. SHERIDAN, U. S. A.
The following official bulletin was is
sued from Nonquitt, Mass., to the Asso
ciated Press at midnight on Sunday:
“Gen. Sheridan died at 10:20 this even
ing. The immediate cause of death was
heart failure. The remote cause was dis
ease of the mitrael andaoertic valves, the
existence of which was known to his
physicians, himself and his family in Nov
ember of last year. The complications
which have occurred have been nervous
exhaustion, pulmonary insarotions, pneu
monia, pulmonary oegeria, anasaca and
hemorrhages. The last day of his life
was somewhat restless, but no more so
than he has been several times since his
arrival at Nonquitt. At 9:30 symptoms
of heart failure suddenly appeared. The
remedies which had hitherto been success
ful w ere vigorously applied, but proved
ineffectual, and he sank rapidly, dying
painlessly at the hour named. [Signed]
Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon U. S. A;
M ashington Matthews, Assistant Surgeon
U. S. A.”
Owing to the lateness of the hour at
which the news of Sheridan’s death was
received at Washington, D. C., it was
impossible to get any information from
the more important public officials.
Neither the Piesident nor the Secretary
of War had heard of the death of the
commander of the army, and the first
news Col. Lamont had of it was received
from an Associated Press reporter. A
telegram was leceived at the White
House from Nonquitt at 12:08 a. m., and
a messenger boy told a night watchman
that it was an announcement of Gen.
Sheridan’s death. The watchman de
cided not to telephone the news to the
President at Oak View, nor to disturb
Col. Lamont, as they both were undoubt
edly asleep. The seal of the telegram
was, therefore, left unbroken. Col.
Lamont, however, was subsequently
awakened by an Associated Press re
porter, and informed of the sad news.
He said that he would not communicate
it to the President until morning. The
ringing of the colonel’s door-bell .awak
ened several of his neighbors, and they
expressed sincere sorrow at the death of
the general, and sympathy for his family.
One of the servants at Secretary Endi
cott's was notified of the death but he
declined to awaken the Secretary to com
municate the news to him.
Previous to the sudden appearance of
heart failure at about 9:30 there had been
no premonitions of any unfavorable
change in his condition. The weather
had been wanner than usual and the gen
eral was at times a little restless, but
seemed generally bright and cheerful.
His voice was strong; he took a small
supply of nourishment, slept occasiona ly
as usual, and the doctors and his family
were in hopeful spirits. At 7 o’clock,
Mrs. Sheridan and the doctors and went
to the hotel for supper, and soon after
.their return the u-ual preparations for
the night were nude. At about 9:29
Col. Sheridan said “Good night” to his
: brother who went to his hotel, there
having been through the day no sign
whatever of any unfavorable change in
condition. At 9:30 symptoms of
heart failure suddenly appeared, and
Doctors O’Reilly and Matthews, who
were with him at the time, immediate’y
applied remedies which had proved suc
cessful in all similar attacks, but this
time they were without effect, and despite
all th it cou'd be done, the general grad
ually sank into a condition of complete
unconsciousness and at 10.20 breathed
his last. Mrs. Sheridan, the Sisteis of
Charity, Maban und Ju tician, and the
faithful I ody servant Kkiu, were also
aK his bedside throughout his dying
hours.
The deceased was a hearted man
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. AUGUST 11, 1888.
but somewhat choleric, and w’ould give
vent to bursts of anger and make use of
sentences clothed in words not usually
used in presence of polite people. These
hasty words came from the head and not
the heart. It was such words as these
that gained him everlasting enemies in
Texas, but what he said about Texas
wasn’t half so harsh as he used when he
went to take command of the army
about Washington, and the red-tape
methods in vogue there, and brought
around a coolness between himself and
Secretary of War Endicott that existed
to the day of his death. He was a fine
cavalry officer, and was looked upon by
professional soldiers, at home and
abroad, as one of the greatest officers of
that fascinating branch of service.
Philip Henry Sheridan was born in
Somerset, Percy county, Ohio, March 6,
1831. He graduated at West Point in
1853, served in Texas in 1854-55, and on
the Pacific coast till May 14, 1861, when
he was made captain in the 13th infantry,
chief quartermaster and commissary of
the army of Southwestern Missouri and
subsequently quarter master to Gen.
Halleck in the Mississippi campaign of
the spring of 1862, he was made colonel
of the 2nd, Michigan volunteer cavalry
and took part in the engagement at
Booneville, July 1, when he was made
brigadier-gem ral of volunteers. Tn com
mand of the 11th division of the army of
Ohio he led the advance into Kentuckv
and was in the battle of Perryville and in
the subsequent march to the relief of
Nashville. Assigned to the Army of the
Cumberland his division was in the cam
paign of Tennessee from November 1862,
to September, 1863, taking an active part
in the battle of Murfreesboro, when he
wis made major-general of volunteers.
He took part in the battle of Chicka
mauga and in the operations about Chat
tanooga. From April 4 to August 3,
1864 he was in command of the cavalry
corps of the army of the Potomac and
with his 10 060 men was actively em
ployed in the Wi derness and between it
and Richmond. On August 4th he was
appointed to the command of the Army
of the Shenandoah, and on the
7th to that of the militiary division. He
On November Bth, 1864, he was made a
major general in the army. From Feb
ruary 27th to March 24th, 1865, he was
engaged in the raid from Winchester to
Petersburg. He was present at the ca
pitulation of General Lee. He was ap
pointed to the command of the military
division of the Southwest, June 17th;
of the department of the gulf, August
15th, 1886; of the fifth military district,
including Louisiana and Texas,
March 11, 1867, ami of the
department of the Missouri, with
headquarters at Fort Leavenworth,
September 12th. On March 4, 1869. he
was made lieutenant-general and assigned
to the command of the division of the
Missouri. Early in 1875 political dis
turbances threatening in Louisiana he
was stationed for a few weeks in New
Oi leans, and then returned to his com
mand in Chicago. He was made general
of the army by special act of Congress
recently. •
By virtue of his being senior major
general, Gen. Schofield will assume com
mand of the army of the .United States.
Congress may change matters, however,
by legislative action.
GREAT STRIKE.
Not since the great sugar house strike
and riots, two years ago, has there been
so much excitement in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
as prevailed Sunday morning. The
streets were lined with crowds of
men, women and children, hooting and
yelling, while striking employes of the
Crosstown railroad company were en
gaged in rioting and in barricading the
streets to prevent the running of cars.
The cause of the excitement was a tie-up
on three lines controlled by the Cross
town railroad company, the Hunter's
Point and Erie Basin and Calvary Ceme
tery and Oakland street and Park ave
nue. Gen. Henry W. Slocum is presi
dent of the company. The tie-up was
entirely unexpected by the officers of the
road; much so, that both Vice Presi
dent Connors and Superintendent D. W.
Sullivan left town to spend Sunday in
the country. The causes which led to
the sudden movement, of the men are said
to be the discharge of certain employes,
the importation of green drivers under
contract, and alleged favoritism on the
pait of one of the starters. The tie-up
was ordered by Master Workman George
11. Pearson and the executive committee
of local assembly 5174, Knights of La
bor, which is composed of employes of
the road in question.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Flem Trout and Bob Kennedy, two
notorious characters, were arrested in Al
toona, Pa., for incendiarism. The city
had suffered much from mysterious tires
of late, and the above named men were
caught in the act. They were tiring the
wholesale warehouse of Barnett Bond’s
Sun when caught.
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS —THE EXCURSION
FEVER—RAILROAD ACCIDENTS-SUICIDEB
DEFALCATIONS—COTTON REPORTS,ETC.
Alabama.
Julius Calson Davis, a leading colored
politician, at Eutaw was killed on Tuesday
by Madison Coleman, also colored. Davis
was a man of bad character and antece
dents.
A blind horse belonging to M. Carlton,
of Birmingham, fell into a well. Carlton
went to the well and was looking down
at his horse, when he lost his balance and
tumbled in himself. The horse was not
dead and kicked him on the head and
body, inflicting very serious wounds. The
well is one hundred feet deep.
The three little daughters of Marco
Long, who resides near Sand Mountain,
DeKalb county, went into the woods to
pick berries. Their long stay caused a
search to be made, and the three children
were found lying near a large rattle
snake. Two of them were already dead,
and the third died soon afterwards. They
had all been bitten in several places by
the rattlesnake.
Florida.
Mr. White, of St. Augustine, has
growing on h’s place in Beuua Ezperan
za, four species of the castor bean plant.
One of the trees measures thirty-five
inches around its trunk. The beans of
this plant arc worth $2 a bushel.
The farmers around Plant City have
made fine crops, and vegetables arc to be
planted on hundreds of acres. New
lands are being put in order, and new
groves set out. There are about 100,000
boxes of oranges on the trees near thatj
place to be shipped the coming Fall and
Winter.
Marcus Diamond was accidentally
drowned in the Cascade near Tallahassee.
While bathing with a small companion
he ventured into deep water, and before
assistance could be had from town, he had
been under water nearly an hour and
could not be resuscitated. He arrived
there less than two months ago from Ger
many, was about 18 years old, and a
brother of Julius Diamond, a prominent
merchant.
North Carolina.
A remarkable accident occurred in
Richmond county. While a negro
woman was standing near an open well
she was struck by lightning and knocked
into the well. She was dead when taken
out.
Dave Lowe, of Alamance county, com
mitted suicide in a rather novel way. He
contrived to climb a large tree, and stand
ing in one of its forks, fifty feet above
ground, sprang head foremost. He
broke his skull and spine and died in
stantly.
Dr. F. H. Glover, one of the ablest
physicians in the state, died suddenly
on Tuesd.y at his home at Charlotte. He
was a native of S >uth Carolina, but for
twenty years had lived at Charlotte.
He was a prominent Mason and Knight
Tem pldr.
John T. McKinnon, a merchant of
Wadeville, Montgomery county, was
found dead in his store. Beside him xvas
a shot gun, and in his head was a large
wound made by shot. Some believe that
it was a case of suicide, while others
think it accidental.
Members of the Farmers’ Alliance are
up in arms on account of the cotton bag
ging trust. They are holding meetings'
and pledging themselves not to purchase
any bagaing at the present exorbitant
advance in price, but to use some other
material for their cotton, if it be only
four-cent cottonade.
Some weeks ago Bill Thornburg shot
into a private house in Lincoln county,
from which he had been ejected, and
killed Lee Alderhall, an inoffensive
young man. 'Thornburg, who is a typi
cal desperado, fled, but subsequently re
turned, and has s > intimidated the offi
cers, it is stated, as to secure immunity
from arrest.
Virginia.
The Gray National Company has been
chartered by the circuit court at Rich
mond, with a capital stock not to exceed
$15,000,000. The principal offices will
be located in Richmond. The officers
are: President. Thomas M. Logan; vice
president, Charies E. Coon, of New-
York; secretary, David I. Carson, of
New York. Among the incorporators
are United States Senators Plumb and
Hale; John 11. Inman, George 8. Scott,
C. B.'Brice, J. B. Pace ami James 11.
Dooly. The company wi 1 engage in the
genera! telegraph and telephone business
under the system invented by Prof.
Efisha Gray.
A saving of $9,917,894 in interest »’M
made to this co intry t>y the purchase of
Uui'.ud bonis uudur tho April circular.
rJeoi-Kla.
The 9th Georgia battalion of artillery
held a reunion at Suwanee on Thursday.
A Northern syndicate will buy- part of
Cumberland Island, near Brunswick, and
will erect a mammoth hotel there.
The book-keepers and clerks of Atlan
ta have formed a beneficial organization,
to care for one another in sickness and
trouble.
The ladies of Atlanta have started a
hospital known as the King’s Daughters’
Hospital, and the donations were very
[liberal by the citizens.
Dr. J. 8. Wilson, a citizen of Atlanta,
on Saturday evening attempted to pass
'before a railroad train at Whitehall Street
.crossing, but slipped and fi-ll before the
[locomotive. Both of his feet were cut
off.
The surveyors started work on Monday
laying off the lands donated by the Car
tersville Laud Company to the Carters
ville Furnace Company. The elevations,
depressions, etc., will be taken, and the
furnace site laid off. Work will be be
gun at once. It is saiil that a strong
[company formed in Atlanta will shortly
'begin the erection of a rolling mill at
that point.
The annual national convention of the
Locomotive Brotherhood is to be held
this year at Atlanta, on September 10,
and it will be the endeavor of the organ
ization to make it as perfect in every
detail as possible; to this end they have
undertaken to publish a complete history
of the association and its workings from
the first formation, together with por
traits of the grand officers.
A thief entered Governor Gordon’s
mansion in Atlanta and stole therefrom
the governor’s gray coat and vest. In
the coat pockets were a number of valu
able papers addressed to “Governor Gor
don,” or “General Gordon,” and in a
vest pocket was an old fashioned, key
winding, double-face gold watch. The
watch was handsomely chased and the
charm was a fiat woven one.
A block of buildings, called Hell’s
Half Acre, in Brunswick, between Bay
street and Oglethorpe.street, was con
demned by the City Council, and will be
razed and burned after the occupants and
owners have enjoyed thirty days’ notice.
The block is inhabited by a horde of
wretched squalid people, whose presence
and surroundings in that, part of the city
was pronounced a public nuisance by the
board of health.
TeniiPNHpe.
At Clarksville, shops and stores of all
kinds were closed on Sunday by the au
thorities; even the ice factory was shut up.
A SIOO,OOO company has been formed
with paid-up capital to erect a 500-roorn
hotel at the Point on Lookout mountain
Chattanooga.
At Sunbright, while bearing lumber
away from Weaver’s saw mill, Henry
Lyle slipped and fell against the saw,
which was in motion. His lower jaw
was entirely cut off. The saw teeth
reached his lungs.
George Gaines, of Nashville, shot in
the riot at the tenth district polls, died
Sunday. While the votes were being!
counted, some colored men outside rushed
in and attempted to lake the ballot box.
Forty or fifty shots were fired und three
men wounded before quiet was restored.
William Van Patton and R. E. Brooks,
both of Michigan, settled two years ago
near Cleveland, each buying farms iu the
same neighborhood. Both were married
and had twochildren. Three weeks ago,
by the agreement of all parties concerned,
tlie men traded wives. Everything had
been moving on pleasantly and agreeably
since the trade until Saturday, when Van
Patton visited Cleveland to consult a
lawyer in reference to rescinding his for
mer action and trading back. Van Pat
ton’s wife is so well pleased with her new
husband that she refuses to return to her
former home. Mrs. Brooks is also satis
fied with Van Patton and expresses a
willingness to remain with him.
While two boys, Jackson Moore and
John Harvey, of Memphis, aged about
seventeen y.ars, were hunting squirrels
across the river in Arkansas, they dis->
covered a large rattlesnake coiled upon
a rock apparently asleep. Moore said he|
would capture the snake alive. Hd
crept up to the deadly rattle'-, and by a
quick movement caught it firmly below
the head and held it at arm’s length in
triumph. Suddenly the snake coded it
self around the boy’s arm. He became
frightened and attempted to throw it off,
when the reptile sti uek him. He then
fell in a swo->n, while his friend fled for
assistance. The nearest house was two
miles distant, and when help arrived the
poor lad was past help and died in ag
ony.
Maryland.
Justice Harlan in the United States
Circuit Couit at Baltimore on Tuesday,
granted a new trial to B. Howard Ma
thews, ex-postofliee clerk, who is now
serving a tertfi al two years in the peni
tentiary for Bmlx zz.liuif the contents of a
decoy letter!* Judge Harbin decides that
the letter in question was not “intended
to be conveyed by mail.’’
($1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents lor Blx Months;
< 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies
I I cents--In Advance.
THE WORLD OVER.
CONDENSATION OF FACTS BY
’PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
SOMETHING ABOUT CONVENTIONS, RAIL-
ROADS, WORKING PEOPLE, CAPITALISTS,
EUROPEAN CROWNED HEADS, ETC.
General Eudes, ex-communistj while
addressing a meeting of strikers in Paris,
Fiance, on Sunday, dropped dead of ap
oplexy.
The car drivers and conductors of New
York City will not support their striking
brethren of Green Point, Long Island.
They say that the step was ill advised
and uncalled for.
Col. George Gibson, of the sth U. 8.
infantry, commandant at Ft. Bliss, died
very suddenly on Tuesday at Las Vegas,
N. M., where he had been for rest.
Seven socialists of Berlin, Germany,
have been sentenced to imprisonment for
terms varying from two months to three
years for insulting the imperial house. ‘
Emperor William will sojourn in Al
sace-Lorraine for ten days, making the
palace at Strasburg his headquarters,
lie will visit Metz and other large towns.
Lawrence Donovan, who successfully
jumped from Niagara and Brooklyn
bridges, was drowned on Tuesday in the
Thames, London, into which he jumped
from the Southwestern railway bridge at
Charing Cross, formerly called Hunger
ford bridge.
James O’Neil, an employe of an elec
tric company, was repairing a lamp in
the city hall at Hoboken, N. J., on Tues
day, when the current was turned on and®
he was instantly killed. There was a long
red mark on his right side. The flesh
was broken at the waist.
John Robinson, the veteran showman,
died at Cincinnati. He had been for »
some weeks in a critical condition. Mr.
Robinson was more than 80years of age,
yet until a very short time of death,
maintained a remarkable degree of vigor.
He has spent almost his whole life in the
management of circuses, being succeeded
by his sons within the last few years.
He left property valued at $4,000,000.
An east-bound passenger train on th©
Santa Fe railroad left the track near
Lawrence, Kansas, on Tuesday, whjle
running forty miles an hour. All th©
car- except the sleepers went off the
track, several of them being demolished.
Martin Meyars, the engineer, was killed
instantly, and John Huiff, the fireman,
was badly scalded. The accident was
caused by a broken rail.
A tremendous rain and wind storm
burst over Springfield, Ohio, and raged
for five minutes. In that brief time,
thousands of dollars’ worth of damage
was done. The magnificent Arcade
hotel budding was struck by lightning
dur ng the storm and badly wrecked.
The wind lifted the wrecked roof and
hurledit with tremendous violence on
the sky-liuht, and it fell with a crash
that was heard for blocks.
FEMALE DUEL.
'I he mock sword practice between the
Viennese fencers al the Bijou theater in
Boston Mass., was varied on Saturday
night by a real duel. For some months _
past, Mathilnc Tngumaim, an Austrian
beauty, has been the most admired <
swordsman of Prof. Hart’s troupe, and
the manager has paid her many compli
ments. All this time Anna Brantsle, a
small blonde, h .s been jealous of her lug
rival, and when the two came on the i
stage, blood was in the eyes of both.
After parrying a few moments, Miss Bran
tsle tushe.d upon her opponent with
great fury. They parried and fought in
anger for at least fifteen minutes. Mean
while the audience rest to their feet mid
yelled and cheered at the combatants, • -
while several l.nli-s fainted away. Fi
nally the little woman, Miss Brantsle,
lorced the tall favorite t > tue wings of
the theatre, beat her down upon the
floor of tne stage and actually pulled her
hair in token of vict ry. Prof. Hart,
who c line forward t» stop the fight, was
assaulted by M.ss Brantsle and driven
off the static.
FEVER IN A CONVENT.
An outbreak of typhoid fever has oc
curred in the ('..rmelite convent at
Hochelega, Mon.real. All those who
had not taken the habit were sent home
to tin ir parents. One of the novices has ,
died and many others have been pros
trated.
SUFFERINGS OF PARIS.
Tremendous showers of rain and cold
weather in Par s, France, has driven
away many tourists, and the strike of a
12,000 laborers with their threatening
demonstrations, cause much desponden
cy-
NO. 43.