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WASHINGTON, D. 0.
BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL.
3ONGRE6S IN SESSION YET—MOVEMENTS
OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND —•
WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Almost immediately after the reading
* jf the journal on Tuesday, the Senate
went into open executive session on the
fisheries treaty, and Mr. Morgan pro
ceeded with his speech in favor of ratifi
cation. The Gibson resolution to recom
. mit the fisheries treaty with instructions,
**was lost by a strict party vote—yeas 29,
nays 31. The next vote taken was an
amendment offered by Mr. Gray, to arti
cle 11, providing that on all occasions
facilities shall be accorded United States
fishing vessels in Canadian ports for the
purchase of casual or needful provisions
and supplies. Rejected by a like party
vote—yeas 28, nays 30. The following
bills were also taken from the calendar
and passed: House bill for the relief of
the Roman Catholic church of St. Peter
and St. Paul at Chattanooga, Tenn., ap
propriating $18,729 for damages during
the War. A motion to reconsider was
made and is pending; House bills appro
priating $30,000 foY a lighthouse and fog
signal at or near Gull Hoal, Pamlico
sound, North Carolina, and $25,000 for
a light off Pamlico Point, North Caro
lina were passed. To pay John D.
Munnerlyn, of Waynesboro, Ga., sl,-
465, for services rendered as internal
revenue collector just after the War.
Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, introduced a
bill -which was referred to the committee
.on the judiciary, changing the time for
*the assembling of the fifty-first and sub
sequent Congress to the first Monday in
March of each year, instead of the first
Monday in December. The House went
into committee of the whole on the de
ficiency appropriation, and discussion of
the French spoliation claims section was
resumed. Mr. Dibble, of South Caro
lina, upon whose motion the committee
on appropriations was directed to provide
for the payment of claims, defended his
position and argued against the proposi
■ Y tion to appeal the cases to the supreme
court.
In the Senate on Monday, the resolu
tion heretofore offered by Mr. Edmunds,
instructing the committee on finance to
inquire and report as to the deposits of
white depositors in the Freedman’s bank,
who were in no way concerned in its
mismanagement and failure, was taken
up. At Mr. Edmunds’ solicitation, Mr.
Beck withdrew his objection and the res
olution was adopted. The Senate then,
at 11:40, went into open executive ses
sion on the fisheries treaty, and Mr. Mor
gan resumed his argument in favor of
ratification... .Representative Breckin
ridge, of Arkansas, introduced five tariff
bills in the House. As stated in the ti
tles, they are intended to correct certain
abuses arising under the present tariff
laws and Mr. Breckinridge defines these
abuses more closely as growing out of
the system of trusts. He does not expect
that the general tariff bill will be passed
during this session of Congress, and in
troduces these bills in the hope that Con
gress may put a check upon trusts by
passing these specific bill reducing du
> tieS'on bagging for cotton, sugar forcon
' sumption, coal oil, alcohol and cotton
seed oil. Referred.
GOSSIP.
Judge William W. Wilshire died in
Washington from congestion of the brain.
Judge Wilshire was born in Illinois.
During the War he served in the Union
army as major and on its conclusion set
tled at Little Rock, Ark. He was ap
pointed chief justice of Arkansas in
1868, which office he resigned three
years later.
The somewhat well measure
which has been before several Congresses
directing the Secretary of the Trcas
nry to adjust the claims of the states of
iXlNew Yost, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Vir
kXgiliia and South Carolina, and the city
Baltimore for expenses incurred in the
E- common defense in 1812, was introduced
Ir Senator Daniel as a proposed amend
ment to the deficiency appropriation bill.
The weather during the week has been
favorable for growing crop# in the wheat
and corn regions of the northwest, where
k reports indicate that crop prospects have
been improved. In Arkansas. Tenne see,
Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina
the weather during the week was favor'
able and growing crops which was suffer
ing from drouth in the early part of tin
week were much benefited by recent
rains. Rain has pr< ved beneficial to the
tobacco crop in Kentucky.
Surgeon-General Hamilton was in
formed on Tuesday by Dr. Guiteras that
the camp at St. Mary’s, Fla., is now
ready for two hundred per-ons. No
baggage will be received there. Dr.
Hutton, at Waycross, Ga., says the time
has arrived for the detention of all refu
gees from Jacksonville. The fumiga'ion
SAVANNAH, GA.. SATURDAY. AUGUST 25, 1888
station there is now in good order. Dr.
Hutton also telegraphed that ceria n
parties on their way from Suwanee,
Fla., to Savannah, refused to give up
their checks at the "Waycross fumigation
station and he ordered the train l:eld un
til instructions were received from Wash
ington. The baggage was pulle 1 off.
A statement has been prepared at the
treasury department in regard to appro
priations for the fiscal year ending June
30th, 1889, made at the present session
of Congress in the regular annual appro
priation bills. It is as follows: Bills
finally passed by both Houses,, $222,-
733,190; bills not yet disposed of sundry
civil appropriation bill, as passed by the
House, $23,332,406, as passed by the
Senate, $28,506,999; army bill, house,
$24,639,300; Senate, $31,531,800; navy
bill, house, $20,003,074; Senate, $20,-
193,292; fortification, pending in the
Senate, passed the House, $3,725,000.
Deficiency, pending in the House, $3,-
539,434. Total bills as passed by or
pending in the House, $297,972,405 ;
Senate, including amount of deficiency
bill, $310,229,716. Permanent and in
definite appropriations, $115,640,799.
Total appropriation in House bills,
$413, 613, 204; Senate, $425,870,515.
Estimated revenue, including $57,562,-
734 for postal revenue, $440,563,734.
Estimated surplus, $26,950,530, based
on House appropriations, and $14,693,-
219 on Senate appropriations.
THE YELLOW FEVER. ’
The steamer City of Jacksonville, which
brought down four cannon from Tocoi to
Jacksonville, which had been sent there
from St. Augustine with a large amount
of powder and a number of blank cart
ridges. This makes seven pieces now in
the city, but only five were used, the
others being disabled for want of compe
tent men to handle them. 'J he Postmas
ter General, in an order, directed that all
newspaper mail originating at Jackson
ville, Fla., should be fumigated at that
point instead of being sent to Waycross,
thus avoiding annoying delays. Sur
geon-General Hamilton, at Washington,
D. C., received a telegram from Assist
ant Surgeon Clarkson, of Fort Monroe,
Va., saying he has quarantined the Brit
ish steamship Athens, seven days from
Pensacola to Newport News. He says a
cese of hematemesis with collapse was
found on board, and too ill for transpor
tation. The vessel is being fumigated
without removing the cargo of timber.
Dr. Hamilton then telegraphed Dr. Clark
son to anchor the vessel in the North
Channel, near Cape Charles, and hold her
in quarantine for further observation.
Two new cases of yellow fever were re
ported on Monday to the directors of
health at Jacksonville, Fla., and one
death only, that of J. M. Minton at Sand
Hills. There aie several suspicious cases
which are expected to be better defined.
More vigorous measures will be taken for
the segregation of patients and suspects.
Reports sent out of financial stringency
in local banks are- erroneous. All the
leading banks are well supplied. Gree
ly’s bank, -which posted sixty days’ notice
on account of run of savings by refugees,
has resumed. The business of the city
is light, owing to the stringency of quar
antine, but is going on as usual. A thou
sand pounds of bi-chloride of mercury is
to be used by the city for disinfecting.
Col. Lester, mayor of Savannah, Ga.,
is endeavoring to get Surgeon-General
Hamilton put in charge of the quarantine
of the whole state until frost comes.
This can be done by the Secretary of the
Treasury, on the request of the governor.
If it is done, the expense will be shoul
dered by the government, and will save
the Georgia towns a considerable outlay.
Dr. L. S. Posey, of the Louisiana board
of health, has been instructed by Sur
geon-General Hamilton to visit Orlando,
Sanford, and other towns in Florida, and
ascertain their condition. Surgeon But
ton has arrived at Waycross, Ga., and
assumed charge of the fumigation station
there. Dr Wall, of Tampa, telegraphs
to the Marine hospital bureau as fol
lows: Having houses and effects fumi
gated as sick get well. The authorities
are having premises cleaned and disin
fected. An infant was lost in a family
which was taken with the fever on Mon
day .
A NEW COMBINATION.
Twenty-four wholesale liquor dealers
of St. Louis, Mo., formed a corporation
to build a gigantic distillery in that city.
The purpose of the organization is to di
rectly oppose the whiskey trust, which
has put the price of high wines at a figure
which the organization claims is alto
gether to high, in comparison with dis
tilled goods, notably Kentucky brands.
VERY CRUEL.
A man named Roder, of Quincy, 111.,
shot three boys, all about ten years of
age, who were stealing apples from hi?
orchard. One of the boys. Harman
Kemper, will die. Bail was refused Ro
der, pending the result of the boy's
wou'.d.
Till- SOUTH.—
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE,
lightning plays havoc everywhere—
COTTON STATISTICS—SUICIDES —RAIL-
HOAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
1 laba inn.
A negro boy named Mayfield Sharp,
only ten years old, living mar Jernigan,
was left to nurse a 14-months old negro
child. Growing tired of the charge,dur
ing the absence of its parents, he took a
! a kettle of boiling water and poured it
|in the child’s face and mouth. He then
strangled the child until it was dead.
Mrs. Reed, wife of N. 11. Reed, a prom
inent farmer in Alexander City, was
found dead in bed. Suspicion rested
upon the husband, and the coroner’s jury
returned a verdict charging him with
murder. He denies his guilt stoutly,
but has been arrested and placed in
jail. Death was caused by strangula
tion.
N'ertli Carolina.
A waterspout burst on the mountain
in Alexander county and in a few min
utes the small branches had swollen to
the size of rivers and done much dam
age.
Thirty of the lawless negroes (railroad
hands) were tried before Judge Mares at
Charlotte. All were found guilty and
sentenced from two to three years in the
chaingang.
The Interstate Farmers’ Convention
assembled in Raleigh, and was called to
order by the president, Col. L. L. Polk.
The convention represents the cotton
states. Welcoming addresses were
made by Governor A. M. Scales, Hon.
A. A. Thompson, Mayor of Raleigh,
Commissioner of Agriculture John Rob
inson, and Dr. G. W. Sanderlain, of
Goldsboro.
Governor Scales received a telegram at
i Raleigh from Wadesboro, the county
seat of Anson county, which informed
him of the escape of all the prisoners in
the jail there. They overpowered the
jailer when lie went to give them supper,
and took away bis revolver. The hue
and cry was raised and a number of citi
zens turned out in pursuit. John Mor
ton, who had the revolver, faced the
pursuers defiantly, and dared them to
advance. They did so, and he shot two
of them, one mortally. All the fugi
tives then made their escape.
Fire broke out at Durham in an unoc
cupied tobacco factory of E. 11. Pogue.
The local fire department had disbanded
Saturday night, in consequence of a dis
pute with the town authorities. A high
wind was blowing, and the fire spread
rapidly. After destroying Pogue’s fac
tory the fire next burned another old to
bacco factory, occupied by W. Y.
Whitteil. It next swept away two to
bacco houses owned by Robert Jones and
William Osborne, in which were three
hundred thousand pounds of leaf totiac-
I co, owned by Jones and Osborne. After
burning several small buildings, the lire
J destroyed Dr, Johnston’s livery stable
and residences. In all twelve buildings
' were burned. It is the belief that the
i fire was of incendiary origin.
The police of Chattanooga, are arrest
, ing violators of the cruelty to animals
law.
A threshing machine exploded near
' Telford on Thursday, and Bud Carper,
engineer, instantly, and wounded several
others. The cause of the explosion was
' a defective steam gauge.
The efforts to organize a railroad de
partment of the Young Men's Christian
: Association in Chattanooga, have not been
successful, at d the proposed organization
will be abandoned.
The dry goods house of W. T. Bull, at
Chattanooga, was closed on an attach
ment in favor of J. C. Bui nett. Bull
was in the act of packing his goods to
j move away when the sheriff’levied on his
1 stock.
W. 11. Inman, of New York, died at
Tate Springs Monday. He was a native
of Dandridge. The deceased was a
brother of Shade and Walker P. Inman,
and the uncle of John H., Samuel M.,
and Hugh T. Inman, of Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Inman removed to New York shortly
after the close of the War.
It is alleged that the revenue officers
had discovered one hundred empty whis
k y barrels in the wholesale liquor store
of Col f Frank M. Potts, of Chattanooga,
without the stamps having been can
celled. The penalty for each offense is
a fine of from SSOO to SIO,OOO and impris
onment not less than one year.
Dr. Abe Williams was arrested at
Rockwood, by United States deputy
marshals on a cbargft*()f obtaining money
under false pretenses, by representing
himself as a pension claim agent ami
getting his fee in advance. He had j
played the same game elsewhere ami
left his victims to mourn his departure.
South Carolina.
Capt. F. M. Trimmer, for the last
twenty year ; clerk of the court, died at
Spartanburg. He was buried with Ma
sonic honors. He was one of the most
popular men in the county.
Great excitement was caused in Green
ville by the raiding of two gambling
saloons by the police. Thirteen gamblers
were arrested ami placed in the station
house—twelve negroes and one white
man.
The driver of one of the fire engines in
Charleston had an eye knocked out
while driving out of the engine house to
a fire, but retained his seat and got his
engine to the tire before giving up the
reins.
Georcm.
The police of Atlanta are going tc :
stamp out loitering in the streets, espe- !
cially at night.
The revenue steamer Boutwell returned
to Brunswick after a cruise down the bay
looking after yellow fever refugees and
quarantine contrabands, she having found
a fishing smack sunk in the bay near the |
bar at the mouth of the bay. The ,
sunken vessel is supposed to be the fish
ing smack Madge, of Savannah.
Messrs. Dibbrcll and Underwood, of
Atlanta, who, for the past year, have
been employed as conductors on the Pan
ama Railroad, left that city en route to
Mexico, having accepted positions on
the Mexican Central Railrood. The gen
tlemen have had sufficient experience on
the isthmus of Panama to last them for a
lifetime, and will probably never feel any
strong desire to return to that country. ,
Virginin.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad Co.,
is still negotiating to buy from the Rich- ‘
mond & West Point Terminal railroad i
the latter’s interest in the Virginia &
Georgia road. The transaction will in
volve $7,009,000.
The Merceet model of the equestrian
statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee was placed
on exhibition at the capitol at Richmond
on Monday, and the board of managers
of the Lee Monument Association, of
which Governor Lee is president, have
cabled their acceptance of the design.
A duel between Segar Whiting, son of
11. C. Whiting, president of the Hamp- i
ton bank, and Dixie Lee, son of Maj. B.
H. Lee, collector of customs at Newport
News, was arranged to take place at
Buck roe, at daylight on Saturday. The
principals were on the ground and
choosing weapons when Sheriff Williams
arrived and arrested Lee and his party. '
Whiting escaped and went to the eastern
shore.
Loiiinlann.
A severe storm raged in and aroupd
New Orleans on Monday. Nearly fifty [
boats on the river were lost, and great I
damage was done to rice and sugar cane
crops. The tide in the gulf was very
high, and back water was as heavy as in
the famous flood of 1861, when New
Orleans was badly inundated.
The storm was very severe at Morgan
City. Dozens of houses were wholly or
partly unroofed, and fully fifty buildings
arc off their foundations. The floating
elevator, George Gilchrist, valued at j
$13,000, was destroyed. Among the
lieav'est losers of property along the
river are the coal dealers. Eighty loaded j
coal barges and boats, and one boat of
coke were sunk and a number of others j
were reported sinking. The Pittsburg i
and Southern Coal company lost !’■ rty
at Willow Grove, twenty-seven at Nine- i
Mile Point, and ten at Brown & Jones’
coal yard at Algiers. The total loss is
$300,000.
West Virginia.
While 1,000 or more people were ;
massed on the substantial stone bridge j
over Wheeling creek at Main street, in
Wheeling, watching the raging waters
caused by the floods, a man on the creek i
bank one bundled feet above, shouted ■
warning, and the pan c-stricken crowd i
rushed into each other in a wild effort i
to reach terra firm.".. After the bridge I
was cleared, those nearest, seeing it still ‘
apparently safe, turned back, laughing
at their alarm, but before they reached j
the edge the br. Ige, 140 feet in length,
fell with one awful crash and the waters
leaped sixty feet in the air. and water, i
gas and natural gas mains, sewers, tele- •
graph and telephone wires, electric lights >
and street car wire conductors were car- ;
■ied down. The Baltimore and Ohio de- ■
pot, built over the creek, and the Market ‘
itreet iron bridge, it i- feared, will go. (
The losses will.reach $250,00 f.
I'torhlfL.
Charles W. Cook, of BL Augustine, a
y ung man about 26 years old, and a con- \
tractor in charge of the concrete work on
trie cathedral, tell eighty feet from the
bellry to the gr und. lb-1 ruke his am I
and d cd a lew minute? iutrr.
A <• b.red school trusty of the
Board of Trus’ees of Orlando, named G.
E. Edwards, having been charged with
demanding sl2 from an applicant for a I
tciichership, in order to jwcure his in- I
flueuc •, s o tried |»y School
Board and found guilty.
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I $1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents /or Six Months;
< 50 cento Three Mon the; Single CopiM
I | cents' -In Advance.
I CHOP REPOHI
FOR AUGUST, OF GEORGIA’S COM
MISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.
SOMETHING ABOUT COTTON, CORN, MEL-
ONS AND INSPECTIONS —ANALYSES AND
STATISTICS OF FERTILIZERS.
The cotton crop has a little more than
maintained the “condition and pros-
I pects” reported for July Ist. In North
Georgia the condition is 92 against 90,
one month ago; Middle Georgia, 87
against 86; Southwest Georgia, 93
against 91 ; East Georgia, 80 against 77;
while Southeast Georgia has fallen to 92
against 94 The general average of the
slate is 89 against 88. The average con
dition of the crop for the stale, August
Ist, 1887, was 101, and this figure was
thought to be too low at the time; but
the remarkably severe storm of August
4, 1887, reduced the condition at once to
90. The condition of the crop may,
! therefore, be described as one point less
| promising than that of the crop of 1887,
on August sth, or after the storm alluded
to.
The condition of the corn crop has
materially improved since last report, the
advance being mainly in North and Mid
cl le Georgia, and Southwest Georgia.
The comparative condition in thus repre
sented in figures: In North Georgia, 97
against 93; Middle Georgia, 94 against
87; Southwest Georgia, 100 against 92;
I East Georgia, 87 against 90; Southeast
Georgia, 96 against 95; in the state at
large, 95 against 91. This shows a gene
ral improvement of 4 points since July Ist.
The question was asked of correspond
i ents, “What have been the profits of the
melon crop as compared to last year?”
I The same question was asked in the ques
tions for the August crop report of 1887.
Melon growers are discouraged by the
unexpected meagerness of returns. This
I result is due to three causes, each of which
may be removed or modified. First:
the want of information by the grower
and shipper of the state of the markets
at different points as to supply, and the
consequent glutting of some markets and
insufficient supply of others. This may
be remedied by concert of action and the
establishment of a “melon exchange” at
convenient points for distribution. Sec
ond : Want of care in rejecting over-ripe
and undcisized melons. A very few
melons, of small size, or uninviting ap
pearance, or over-ripe condition, will
frequently reduce the salable price of a
carlo,id t>le s than cost of freight and
commissi ns. The orange and lemon
grov.c:s of Florida hqve learned this le»»
son, ami never ship culls with good
fruit. Third: Probably too high rates
<>l i. i .ht. It would certainly be to the
future interest of the railroads to aid in
developing ami perpetuating this source
of In ight income by as low a tariff as
po-sible. Carrying at a loss now, may
aid in the establishment of melon grow
ing as one of the permanent industries
ot the South, ami a reliable and remun
erative source of income to the railroads.
While it is line that instances have
occurred in which the sales of shipments
did not cover freights and commissions,
yet, on the whole, there is reason to b«
lieve that the business of growing melons
has been fairly prof! able to the mod
skillful growers and shippers, and that
it will become more reliable in the fu
ture. It is comparatively a new business,
and there is much to learn by the far
mer who has never before planted more
than a mere “patch” for family use.
During the season of 1887-8 there
were inspected, analyzed and admitted
to sale in Georgia 268,007.89 tons of
commercial fertilizers and chemicals. In
1875-6 the amount was 55,316 tons.
, The report * n commercial fertilizers is
■ as follows:
a EC EXPTS.
! 1 <■< (• n 208,007.89 tons at
fifty cents per ton $104,003,68
EXPENSES OF INSPECTION.
! 2,108,992 insp ctor’s tags at $2 per
thousand $ 4,253.99
Express charges on tags and samples,
dray age, telegrams, postage, 4c 259.91
Bottles, wax, stationery, etc 278.96
Traveling expense of inspectors.... 1,297.65
' Net amount paid into the treasury. 97,913.17
$104,003.68
NOT VERY NEAR.
W. R Brooke, of Geneva, N. Y., hui
1 announced the •is overy of a comet. It
was in the northwest at evening, and
only ab ut thirty degrees from the sun,
! so that it does not remain long übove the
horizon after sunset. For this reason
, very few observations have been secured.
It is now in the lower part of the con
stellation Great Bear, and ie moving to
ward Leu. it is at present 142,009,000
miles from the earth.
Ml-aouri.
Capt. Nnt Kinney the founder of the
Bald Kcobbvrs was kdied iu Ozark.
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