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®lw .'jiivnnnuli Cvibiw. Published by the Tacrines Pnblishta* Oo.) J. H. DEVEAUX. Manios* > VOL. IH. SHERIDAN’S DEATH. THE VETERAN SUDDENLY DIES BY THE SEASIDE. WITHOUT WARNING, HE PASSES AWAY — SKETCH OF HIS CAREER —SCHOFIELD NOW IN COMMAND. Hur W#Sf» 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.