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Oc JSommah ©ritane. Published by tho Tbikunb Publish tac 00. 1 J. H. DEVEAUX. Manaqbf > vol. hl 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. _ 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. A IE a. * ..4 NO. 45.