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' THE SOUTH.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC EVERYWHERE —
COTTON STATISTICSy-rSUIC'IDES —RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
Alabainn.
A passenger train on the Nashville road
ran in o a buggy just east of Stevenson,
on Sunday in which was a man, his
wife and child. The man was killed and
the woman and child badly hurt.
Because Simon Isaac*. of Birmingham,
(formerly of Atlanta, Ga.) a soda wat< i
vender, did not address John Williams
<>in a manner agreeable to Williams, he
whipped out a pistol and shot Isaacs
three times, killing him. An hour be
fore the fatal allray, Will’ams attempted
to shoot another man.
At Day’s Gap, on Tuesday, Marshal
Williamson and Deputy Lee Williams
went to the house of Janies Gurgins to
arrest him. Gurgins resisted, and sever
al shots w ere exchanged. Dock Odom,
a highly respected citizen, entered the
yard while the shooting was in progress,
and fell dead with a bullet through his
heart.
The race and labor troubles at Round
. Mountain furnace, Cherokee county, have
broken out again. A special from Gads
den says the white laborers, who had
tried to drive away the negro, s, blew up
the house of Manager Elliott, of the fur
nace companI’, 1 ’, with dynamite. They,
threatened to blow up the furnace, and
Manager Ellidtt and the sheriff of Cher
okee county appealed to the governor
for help. Governor Seay ordered the
Etowah Rifles of Gadsden to the scene of
the trouble.
Miss Ida Fulton committed suicide at
Brewton, the loved against the judg
ment of her parent*, not wisely, perhaps,
but too well. Miss Fulton was only
about seventeen years of age, accomplish
ed and attractive -nd she belonged to
one of tiie best families of the place.
In the note to her heart-chosen sweet
heart she gave him her ring and request
ed him to kiss her once in death before
burial. Her engagement with the man
chosen by her parents had gone so far
* that her wedding trosseau had been pre
pared, but there was a funeral dirge in
stead of a wedding march.
South Carolina.
Anderson is hard at work working up
4 cotton-factory project.
While a party of negroes were out bear
driving in Santee swamp, near Manning,
Buell Dukes shot and killed Berry Taylor
for a bear. Dukes was on a stand and
Berry was coming through a cane brake
about fifty yards from where Dukes
was standing. As he emerged from the
canes, Dukes fired, hitting him in the
head with four buckshot.
A few wee ks ago a passenger train due
at Rock Hill on the Charlotte, Columbia
ft Augusta Railroad was wrecked by a
piece of iron being placed- on the track.
There were several wounded and the
fireman killed. Horace 11. Johnson, a
Pinkerton detective, lias succeeded in
getting evidence enough to cause the ar
rest of Robt. Springs, Tony Hutchison
and Eli White, all colored.
The secretary of the state board of
I health, lias received additional and im
portant information concerning the
alaiming epidemic of black measles,
wh’ch is prevailing among the negroes
on the plantations along the Santee river,
in Georgetown comity. On the planta
tion of Mr. Hazard, where over thirty
negroes died from the disease, and
it. is said to be spreading so rapidly that
an entire cessation of.work on the grow
ing crops is feaied. The crops consist
mostly of rice which is now in the milk
end requires careful watching.
Tcere is promise of a war among the
rice mills at Charleston. The battle was
begun by the Chisolm mill, which an-
N Bounced a reduction of tolls for milling
hX to 0 Cents per
was 12 cents a bushel, 0 cents ftr
and } cent for weighing, a to
-18.1-2 cents. In 188(r there was
■HrCeduction to 8 cents for milling and 5
P ’cents. for barreling, a total of 13 cents.
The charges for weighing have been
abolished. The present reduction by
the Chisolm makes the rates 0 cents for
. milling and 5 cents for barreling, a total
of 11 cents. There are five mills in
•Charleston, all of which do an active
business.
North Carolina.
Some cotton planters are, in accord
ance with the suggestions of the Farm
ers' Alliance and State Grange, using
cotton cloth instead of bagging. New
cutton has arrived at I.omiuburg packed
in cloth, and inquiry has been made of
iu-urai.ee agents wno say that they can
not take tiu or marine lisks on bales of
cotton of this kind.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. 1888.
Florida,
The Jacksonville relief committee feed
about 200 people a day.
The authorities of Tampa officially de
clare there is no yellow fever there.
Indian River lemons are proving s
powerful factor tn fighting against yellow
fever.
A severe storm visited DeLand. A
small cyclone passed north of the town.
It struck Capt. A. D. Hilton’s house, a
two-story frame building, and literally
tinned it bottom side up.
Ten nensee.
Because the colored people of Chatta
nooga were denied admittance to East
Lake Park, they have bought a park for
their own use.
An explosion took place in the Chatta
nooga ice factory on Monday, which
frightened a team of horses, causing
them to run off. The driver, Adam
Schearir, was killed by the wagon run
ning over him.
At the meeting of the cotton planters
of West *l\-nnessee and North Mississippi
held at Memphis, it was resolved to de
cline to use jute bagging at present pri
ces and to adopt any substitute for the
same that could be found.
A large cave has been discovered at
Red Boiling Springs. The entrance, is
large enough to drive in a two-horse
wagon and turn around inside. It has
already been explored four miles, some
<J the passages being so small that it
would seem impossible to pass through.
Five weeks ago. Policeman W. T. Rus
sell, of Chattanooga, shot and killed
.Jesse Bishop, a negro, for resisting ar
rest. Chief of Police Howard received
the following communication, written
in red ink : “Death to Russell and all
police that shoot a negro. Beware Po
liceman Russell, your time is short.” In
the center of the sheet of paper was x
skull and cross bones.
Texas.
Mrs. Millville, Miss Mattie Harvey,
Miss Mattie Lane and a servant girl of
San Felipe, went to the Brazos Rivet to
go in bathing. They went to a sand-bar
about one-half mile below town, and not
owing of the quicksand went in.
When they were in water about
deep their feet were washed out from
under them. The servant girl, stydng
the danger, rushed in and rescued Mip.
Millville, but the others went down.
Virginia.
Default having been made on the sec
ond payment on Libby prison, it will be
sold again and at public auction. W.
IL Gray, of Chicago, bought the prop
erty in February' last and made the first
payment in cash. He then sold it to a
Chicago syndicate who failed to meet the
terms of sale.
Miss Effie Williamson, aged 18, of
Fairfax county, was killed on Wednesday
near Long Branch station, on the Alex
andria & Fredericksburg Railroad. She
had taken leave of some friends at the
station, and was orr her way home when,
in crossing the track, she was run down
by a freight train.
T. Spicer Curlett, an ex-member of
the Legislature of Virginia, has been
forced to resign his position a« common
wealth attorney of Lancaster county,
having recently sent a challenge to a man
of the county to mortal combat. The
challenge was not accepted, but the
sender is now disfranchised under the
law.
A SMALL WAR.
A Trinidad, Col., special says: What
may' prove a long and bloody struggle
opened to-day on the Maxwell Grant at
Stonewall, forty miles west of Trinidad.
The sheriff's posse sent to keep the peace
was met by armed settlers in numbers
estimated at from 200 to 500 men. The
settlers demanded the arms of the posse,
which demand was refused. The posse
took up quarters in the Pooler hotel, a
large frame building. The settlers en
deavored to force an entrance when the
posse opened fire. R. R. Russell, one ol
the oldest settlers, fell dead, and two or
three others were wounded, and the
building was soon riddled with bullets.!
The sheriff is gathering men in numbers!
to go to t e relief of the besieged posse.
It is believed that the building will bd
burned and a dozen besieged deputies
1 put to death. The settlers come from|
tributaries of the Pugative River, Vers
mejo, New Mexico, and also from the)
Costill > grant in those mountain fasj
n'esses* It seems useless to ojipose theirj
with either militia or regular troops.)
Public sentiment in Trinidad is entirely
with the settlers. The settler cavalry n
composed of both Americans and Mexi*
cans. The Mexicans are painted as fi>i
■ war.
A JOKE.
The French police have received in
structions to discover th- authors of nn
ingenious political trick, which consists
I of defacing the coins of Napolepn 111,
and suiistiluting the name of Boulaugei
‘ I, Empcreur, with the 'lute 1888.
I
WASHINGTON, I). C.
I
BUSY TIMES STILL. IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL.
I CONGRESS IN SESSION YET —MOVEMENTS
OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND
WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES.
CONG Il ENMONi*U
The Senate, on Wednesday, took into
consideration the conference report on
the sundry civil appiopriation bill and
was addressed at considerable length by I
Mr. Allison in explanation of it, and a
gcncial defense of the action of the Sen
ate. A long debate followed, and pend
ing disposition of the conference report,
the Senate went into secret session. The
resolution offered by Mr. Hoar, with
respect to the fisheiies question, with
amendment thereto, offered by Mr. Ed
munds, was taken up and agreed to. .. .
The Speaker laid before the House a
number of requests for leave of absence,
but Mr, Breckenridge, of Kentucky, ob
ected to giauiig any haves except
t..0-e desired on account of sickness.
The House went info a committee of the i
whole on the Oklahoma bill, and
debate on the pending section
I of the bill being limited to throe hours,
.Mr. Clayton, of Illinois, took the floor.
I Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, declared that
' if the homestead law would be fatal to
the bill, then it ought to die.
In the Senate on Monday, the resolu
tion heretofore offered by Air, Stewart,
calling for copies of reports, affidavits
and communications, on which the com
missioner of the general land office based
his letter to Air. Barnes on the subject of
timber depredations, was taken up and
d’* cussed.. .The Speaker laid before
the House a number of telegrams from
absent member", asking for an extension
of leaves on account of sickness. Their
requests were complied with. Under ;
the call of states, the following resolu
tion etc. was introduced and referred:
Requesting the President to communi
cate to the House copies of all communi
cations addressed by his direction to the
I government of Great Britaian remonstra
ting with that government against
■ wiongs and unfair treatment of citizens
I by the action of the Canadian govern
ment in refunding to vessels and cargoes
which pass through the Welland and
o.ther Canadian canals, nearly' the entire
tolls if they' are destined to Canadian
ports, while those bound for American
ports are not allowed any such advantage;
and against the breach of the treaty of
1871, whereby Great Britain promised to
the United States equality in the matter
of land transportatian. The President Is
also called upon for copies of any de
mand made by his direction upon Great
Britain for redress of such wrongs, and
relies of Great Britain to such commun
ication and demands. Air. Hooker, of
.Mississippi, intioduced a joint resolution
authorizing the President for a given
period, to suspend the duty on cotton
bagging. Referred. The House went
i into committee of the whole on the defi
ciency appropriation bill.
GOSSIP.
j Judge Stewart received a petition
i signed by 300 citizens of DeKalb county,
Ga., asking for the removal of the [ fr.:s
ent postmaster at Dunwoody.
Senator Cail introduced in the Senate ;
a bill to subdivide the internal revenue
collection district of Florida, and mak
ing a sub-distriet of Key West.
A member of the conference committee
on the sundry civil bill states that Sena-
I tor Brown’s amendment appropriating
SIO,OOO for an artesian well at the Au-
I g.ista, Ga., arsenal has been agreed to.
President Cleveland and Col. Lamont,
I accompanied by Internal Revenue Col
lector Aliller, left Washington on Tues
day on a fishing excursion of two #r
three days in the vicinity of Clifton
Forge, in Blue Ridge Mountains.
Health Officer Townsend, of Washiog-
I ion, and Surgeon General Hamilton,
held a conference in regard to the yellow
fever epidemic, and decided that a train
insoectiou service should be organized to
inspect all trains arriving in that city
from infected points.
Mayor Les'er, of Savannah, Ga., tele
graphed that he is informed that Air.
| Mernwether died at Fernandina, Fla., of
yellow fever, an 1 asks that FernanihDa I
be inspected. Dr. Hamilton replied,
authorizing him to send a competent in- I
Spector to Fernandina at the expense of i
the maiiue hospital bureau.
The .House committee on invalid pen
sions took up the bill granting a pension
of $5,000 to the widow of Gen. Sheridan.
T he bill had been referred to a sub-com
I mittee of one. consisting of Mort ill, of
Kansas, who rteommc'.ided that the
amount be fixed at $2,000 per annum.
Judge Yoder, of Ohio, moved to fix it
at $3,500, the amount tecommended by
! the Senate committ >e. This was adopt- .
I ed, and the bill was ordered to be report
■ ed with the amount placed at $3,500.
IMPENDING TROUBLES.
The London ridicules the argu
| ment that President Cleveland's Message
. relative to the fisheries question is a
party move. He would not have recom
mended retaliation unless he had regarded
it as the last alternative to the rejected
treaty. With reference to the T oronto
i Mail's demand for cust oms union between
i Canada and the United States, the Nctcs
I says: “It would be a strange and ironi
cal stroke of fortune should Mr. Cham
berlain, who poses as an ardent imperi
alist, have indirectly contributed, by his
recklessness and rancor to the detaching
j of the Dominion from the sovereignty of
tue queen.” from Halifax is to
the effect that those who have contended
that Canada made too liberal concessions
to the United States, are pleased that the
fisheries treaty is rejected, but others
who have desired an amicable settlement
of the disputes on almost any equitable
basis, express extreme anxiety over the
United States Senate's action. All par
ties are unanimous in dema: ding that the
modus vinendi shall be immediately re
scinded and that the whole resources of
the Dominion, if necessary, shall be
placed at the disposal of the marine de
partment for the adequate, stern and un
yielding protection of Canada’s fishing
grounds. Only those vessels which have
taken out licenses for the present season
will be allowed in Canadian ports, ex
cept under the convention of 1818. In
all circles the gloomy feeling prevails
that serious troubles arc impending. The
American fishermen will not restrain
themselves from following the fish w ithin
limit. If found tresspassing, the Cana
dian cruisers are bound to make a cap
ture. The Canadian people feel that
they are backed by the- whole resources
of the British empire. They say that the
British squadron stationed there “could
blow up New York in four days, not
taking into consideration that the Uni ed
States has any navy, or that it possesses
the finest torpedo system in the world.
The Canadian Parliament, by its ratitica- I
tion of the treaty, has proposed liberal
concessions in the interest of peace. No
government could live in Canada that
would make a more complete abandon
ment of Cena lian contentions. If there
is bloodshed In consequence of the Sen
' ate’s inscrutable action the responsibility
must rest with tho-e who, by their gross
misrepresentations of the facts, have in
fluenced the Senate’s ac.tion. The action
of the Senate persiste I in, or even while
affairs remain in status quo, can scarcely
result otherwise than in violence, and for
this the United States must take the re
sponsibility in the eyes of the world.
MANY WENT DOWN.
The steamship Bratsburg, coal laden,
on her wav from Sydney to Montreal,
struck ti rock at Cape (,'hatte and was
damaged considerably. She was headed
for the shore at once to keep her afloat
and went aground near Ste. Felicite, nine
miles below Alatene. A fearful storm
came tip, and the captain was force 1, to
abandon the vessel, taking off witti him
two lady passengers. The crew, com
posed of seventeen men, were left on
board. They remained until morning,
when the steamer began to break up.
They took to two small boats, but soon
after leaving the steamer, both boats were
upset .and fifteen out of seventeen weie
drowned.
DEMENTED MILLIONAIRE.
Robeit Garrett, the railroad magnate,
has been placed in the Bloomingdale,
N. Y., lunatic asylum. It took six men
to control him before his confinement.
Air. Garrett’s delusion is that he has Jay
Goul 1 confined in a cell, “where,” to use
his own language, “I intend keeping
him until he lots.” His perverted mind
makeshim believe that while he was
asleep several of Gould’s minions, armed
with knives and revolvers, came to his
bedside, and threatened to kill him if he
did not release their chief.
THE CROPS.
Reports from Arkansas, Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina and Smith
Carolina indicate that the weather has j
been favorable to al crops. High winds
and heavy rains did considerable damage
to growing crops in Louisiana and Mis
sissipi. High winds also damaged corn
j in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and New' Jersey. But
I the attending rains will improve the
I crops.
STOPPED.
Orders were given out on Monday tc
! contractors to stop work on th'- Duiutb,
South Shor.' ami Atlantic extens i>n to
West Superiors. That road has made an
agreement to use the Northern Pa iiic
I tracks. The immediate cause of this is
I on account of President Cleveland’s re
i taliatory message, ns the South Shore
. is entirely owned )>y the Cunadian Pa
l ■ ific.
i f 1.25 P?r Annum; 75 cent* for Six Months;
( 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies
I 5 ceut»» -In Advene*.
OVI-1K HIE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES —ACCIDENTS ON SEA ANO
LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RA 11,ROADS NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The death is announced of Philip Hen
ry Gosse, F. if. S., English naturalist,
aged 78 years*
Gen. Von Schkopp has been appointed'
governor of Cologne. Gen. Knobelskoil
succeeds Gen. Von Schkopp as command
ant at Spandau.
The captain of the steatner Etinwell,
wa* arrested at Philadelphia, Pa., i<>t‘
bringing a case of yellow fever into that
city from Aspinwall.
Ihe six stoty stocking factory of Her
man Kline A Co., Cincinnati, was de
stroyed by fire on Tuesday. Loss SIOO,-
000. Partially insured.
I hol< ra is raging in Presque Isle
county, Mich., and the people are dying
like sheep, with no doctors in the imme
diate vic.nity. Nine persons died in one
day.
During a pole raising on Tuesday near
Morris, (Itsego county, N. Y.. a cannon
was discharged prematurely, killing
John Dickson,' Albert Sergeant and Fred
Sage.
The National Prohibition headquarters
at Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street,
New York, were fornial’v opened Mon
day. Heretofore the i’rohibi ionisl hca 1-
quarieis have been in Chicago.
The first local option election in New
Jersey under the la-.y p ssc l by flic legis
lature of last Winter was held in Cum
beiland county on Tue d.iy and resulted
in a majority of 1.74 ! for anti-license.
George W. Waldron, one of the own
ers and manager of the Waldron bunk,
of Hillsdale, Alich., absconded, taking,
wi h him money and securities variously
estimated at from -;*><>,ooo to
He leaves a wile and two children;
Papers were filed and approved by
Judge Allyn, at Tticnnm, \¥ u-liington,
Ten it >ry, appe di t rec nt decision
of th.; supreme court relative to woman
suffrage, that it was unconstitutional,
to the supreme court of the Unit- d States.
Three children, Berta and Edna Smith
and Cred Bernard, all aged about 12,
were drowned on Tuesday by the cap
sizing of a boat in the harbor at Hyannis,
Mass. Seven others were rescued in an
exhausted condition. A : i were from
Boston.
The explosion of 20,VC0 pounds of
powder occurred in the drying house of
the Giant Powder company, near West
Burkcley, Cal. Two white men and
three Chinamen were killed. The white
men were Josiah Lewis and C. Bunce.
The building was blown to atoms.
The emptess of Russia, princess of
Wales, and ull royalties of Denmark, met
at the palace of the duke of Cumberland
at Gemunden, in Austria. It is surmised
that the meeting related to the project of
the czar and Emperor William to create
a monarchy of Bulgaria and Roumelia,
with the duke of Cumberland as king.
The Berlin, Germany, newspipers are
silent on the subject of the arrests of so
cialits, which are made daily. The par
ticular prison in whict arrested purties
are confined is crowded now with men
and women, charged with the propaga
tion of socialist doctrines and the utter
ance of seditious cries.
The third council wt.c held at Imaco,
Col., between tie.; Ind? n commissioners
and the Indians. The Indians received
the overdue gratuity money, and it was
expected this would put them in good
humor and facilitate the business in hand.
Speeches were made on both sides, but
the chiefs were obstinate and would not
consent to removal.
The false work for building the super
structure of the Chesapeake A Ohio Rail
way bridge over the Ohio between Coving
ton and Cincinnati was swept away by a
great raft of drift wood that had accumu
lated at its base. The losers are the con
tractors, the Phienix Bridge company.
| They estimate their loss at nearly $200,-
000. Two weeks more low water would
have made them safe.
An Evansville, Ind., special is to the
effect that all trains have been stopped
on the Mackey system of railroads, owing
to the strike declared against the roads
therein embraced by Chiefs Arthur and
Sargent. The system includes the Peo
ria, Decatur and Evan»vi le; Evansville
and Indianapolis, and Evansville and
Terre Haute roads, having a total length
of 700 miles. The trouble began some
weeks ago out of discriminations said to
have been imide by Master Mechanic
Smith agniiiht the biotherhood men.
Chiefs Arthur and Sargent cu;ne to the
of action and temporarily settled
the matter, but repeated snubs, it is al
leged, have precipitated a strike which
includes ull engineer*, firemen and
switchmen.
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