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She Sawmmh ©ribuwt Published by the TurxVßß Fnbliihtae 00. 1 J.VL DEVEAU X. MAitAaa* > VOL. Hl. ' 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. NO. 46.