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WASHINGTON, D. C.
BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL.
CONGRESS IN SESSION YET —MOVEMENTS
OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND —
WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES.
CONG RJESSIONAL.
The House amendment to the Senate
bill for a pension to the widow of Gen.
Heintzelman (reducing the amount from
SIOO to $75 a month) was non-concurred
in by the Senate on Tuesday and a con
ference ordered. Mr. Sherman, from the
committee on finance, reported the Senate
bill to declare unlawful, trusts and com
binations in restraint of trade and pro
duction. The House bill for the allow
ance of certain claims reported by ac
counting officers of the Treasury (known
as the Fourth of July claims,) was taken
from the calendar and passed. The
Senate in the afternoon resumed consid
eration of Chinese exclusion bill, and
was addressed by Mr. Stewart in advo
cacy of it. Messrs. Teller, Hoar and
George also spoke upon the bill, and then
it went over without action Imme-
diately after the reading of the journal,
the House resumed consideration of sun
dry civil appropriation bill, the pending
amendment being that relative to recla
mation of arid regions. Mr. Blount, of
Georgia, made an earnest appeal for
economy in the public expenditures, de
claring that the waste of public money
and the reduction of taxation were ut
terly inconsistent. Finally, after a long
debate, upon motion of Mr. Bland, of
Missouri, the appropriation in the Senate
amendment was reduced from $250,000 to
SIOO,OOO.
During the progress of a desultory po
litical debate with which the Senate
opened on Monday, the conference re
port on the fortifications bill was pre
sented and agreed to. Mr. Morgan in
troduced a bill appropriating $276,619
to be paid to the Chinese minister at
Washington as a full indemnity for all
losses and injuries sustained by Chinese
subjects, who have been, “in the remote
and unsettled regions of the United
States, the victims of injuries in their
persons and property at the hands of
lawless men,” and proceeded to address
the Senate in explanation and advocacy
of it. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, inter
rupted Mr. Morgan with a question w-hich
brought about a heated and unparlia
mentary personal expressions from both,
which have, upon reflection and upon
counsel of mutual friends, been struck
from the Congressional Record, At the
close of Mr. Morgan’s speech, his bill
was referred to the committee on foreign
relations In the House, Mr. Sayers,
of Texas, presented the conference re
port on the fortifications appropriation bill
and it was adopted. Under the call of
States, the following bills were intro
duced, and referred: By Mr. Henderson,
of North Carolina, to check and nullify
the baneful operation of trusts. By Mr.
McClammy, of North Carolina, to pro
vide for an inland waterway between
New York and Florida. By Mr. Crain,
of Texas, to exempt cotton bagging from
payment of duty.
GOSSIP.
President Cleveland has sent a letter to
the Democratic National Executive Com
mittee formally accepting the nomina
tion for the Presidency. On the subject
of “trusts” he says: “Judged by Dem
~~ ocratic principles the interests of the
people are betrayed when unnecessary
taxation, trusts and combinations are
permitted and fostered which, while un
duly enriching the few that combine,
rob the body of our citizens by depriving
them, as purchasers, of the benefits of
natural-competition.”
• The army bill, as finally agreed upon
by the conference and approved by both
i Houses of C'ongress, appro
. - priation of $24,471,300. Tho» fortifica
tions bill, also disposed of by Congress
on Monday, appropriates $397,200. These
bills were interdependent in a measure,
yet provisions for the same purpose hav
ing been inserted by the Senate in both
with a view to securing the appro
■Mft.‘viation in one of them, if the House
tmoVfW disallow it in the other. The
thief item so duplicated was that known
as the Hawley amendment, which appro
priated more than six millions for ord
nance. The substance of this amend
ment remains as a part of the fortifica
tions bill. Aside from regular provis
ions of army and fortification bills, these
measures appropriate as follows: For
manufacture of cannon and carriages,
$200,000: for testing pneumatic guns,
shells, etc., $100,000; for gun factory at
Waterliet arsenal, $700,000; for the pur
chase of rough-bored steels, $1,500,000:
for sub-marine mines arid sab-marine
controllable torpedoes, $200,000; rifled
mortars, $250,000; for purchase and test
of ordnance by ordnance l»oard, $5 0, •
000
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 15. 1888.
THE SOUTH.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC EVERYWHERE —
COTTON STATISTICS —SUICIDES —RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
Alabama.
Fred Banks, an Alabama negro, was
murdered by unknown men on Monday.
Frank Barker, a colored laborer re
cently from Birmingham, was knocked
off a freight car on Thursday by tele
phone wires in Huntsville and was run
over by the dummy cars and killed. He
was standing up and had been cautioned
about the danger. Had he been sitting
down he would have been in no danger.
Conductor R. N. West, of the Georgia
Pacific railroad, was shot and fatally
wounded by Conductor W. D. Moore, of
the same road. The shooting occurred
at Sardis, a small station 70 miles from
Birmingham. Moore was in charge of .
the west bound freight train, and West
in charge of an east bound freight. They '
met at Sardis, got into a quarrel about
whose train should take the siding. Both
men drew their pistols about the same
time and fired several shots. Moore es
caped unhurt. Two shots took effect in
West’s body.
Several days ago three horses were
placed in a car on the Georgia Pacific
road at Birmingham for shipment to At
lanta, Ga. The car was sealed on the
outside in the usual style, but when the
train reached Henry Ellen, fifteen miles I
out, the conductor discovered that the
car door was open and one of the horses
missing. The officials of the road have
had a thorough search made, but so far
they have found no trace of the horse.
The train made no stops except at cross
ings between Birmingham and Henry
Ellen, and the disappearance of the horse
is a mystery.
North i'nrolina.
William G. Upchurch, president of the
State Agricultural Society, says that
rain is rotting the cotton. It is such a
long spell of weather that the damage
must be extensive. Developments of
the new young belt is entirely stopped,
and the effect of the rain is the shedding
of both bolls and squares. Another re
sult will be that much cotton will be
stained. Bolls just opening will, of
course, all be affected in this way. Mr.
Upchurch says the damage to the fodder
crop will be heavy and widespread. All
fodder not in stacks is ruined. Corn
will also be hurt. Seven days without
sunshine will test any crop severely,
particularly at this season.
Over nine inches of rain fell at Ra- i
leigh during the month, and at some
points over a foot fell. The streams |
were raging in the up country. Between
Winston and Greenesboro, whole fields
of growing crops are under water, bridges j
are washed away and timber washed into
the streams. One deplorable result of
long continued rains is cotton seed :
sprouting in the locks. Even leaves
have began to put out on the sprouts and |
have in some cases attained a considera
ble growth. A large quantity of cotton
in the fields in the Laurensburg section
is in a similar condition and it is feared
that much damage will result to the sta
ple from this source.
Georaui.
Brunswick has lifted the quarantine
against Atlanta.
Part of the bridge over Fishing Creek,
on the Macon Railroad, is washed away,
while the following grist mills were
washed away: Morris’s Mill, on Town
creek; Allen’s Mill, on Town creek;
Brosser’s Mill, on Town creek; and
Champion’s Mill, on Rocky creek.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men met in Atlanta, on Monday, and
were welcomed to the city by Mayor
Cooper, and Gov. Gordon. Grand Mas
teis Arthur, of the Engineers, and Wilk
inson, of the Brakemen, attended the
convention. A grand reception was ten
dered Mr. Arthur in the evening.
The disaster to the rice crop of last
year will be repeated. The rise in the
Savannah river brings partial ruin on the
rice planters. The freshet will be worse
this year than last. In 1887 the loss ■
reached a quarter of a million dollars. It
is stated by competent factors that so far
only about l-100th of the rice crop has
been harvested. The planters along the
Hvei have about 4,000 acres in rice, and
the yield would hive been, under favor
able circumstances, about 150.000 bush
els. If the present lair weather continues
during the remainder of the week, over
one-half of the crop may be saved.
Florida*
St. Augustine citizens donated slo,’
000 to support a quarantine force.
Weal Virginia.
A flood in New River carried away the
big iron bridge of the Cheat peake &
Ohio Railroad at Grand View, involving
a loss of $50,000. A great deal of damage
in other quarters iy reported.
FEVER SCOURGE.
MANY NEW CASES DEVELOPING
IN POOR JACKSONVILLE.
A GALE COOLS THE ATMOSPHERE —DIF-
FERENCE OF OPINION AMONG EXPERTS.
THE QUESTION OF REFUGEEING.
For three days, the new cases in Jack
sonville, Fla., were reported a- follows:
Friday, 77; Saturday, 44; Sunday, 49,
and about 20 deaths.
Ou Sunday the wind blew- a gale foi
several hours, and the weather was pDsi- I
lively cold. There seems to be no settled j
line of action among those in charge oi i
affairs, and the opinions of doctors and :
expert nurses differ widely. For in- .
stance: A newspaper correspondent ask
ed a leading practitioner if the sun com
ing out bright and hot after a heavy
i rain and gale would tend to develop new ‘
cases, and his reply was: “Yes, wemaj ;
expect a big crop as soon as the next j
warm day comes.” Another physician,
[ asked the same question, answered:
I “No, this rain and cold wind has cleared
and changed the atmosphere. This is I
favorable to both the sick and the well.’ '
Doctors are working heroically and
self-sacrificing with the sick, and the I
wonder is that more of them have not i
already fallen victims to the disease.
Dr. W. N. Lafard died Sunday, and
several drug clerks are reported as sick,
and some with symptoms of yellow fever, ;
but more from overwork and loss of sleep.
While up to the present time all of the ■
drug stores in the city have kept open '
■ and have served the public well, it be- i
I gins to look as if the establishment of a I
i government dispensary would ere long ;
be indispensable. The question of de- |
population is far from a settlement; in I
fact, it grows more complicated daily. ’
It is a popular notion that the reason for
the colored people’s desire to remain, is I
the fact that they will be maintained at j
the public expense. This is to a large i
i degree erroneous. The colored people
of Jacksonville are for the most part a
hard-working, thrifty, independent class.
Many of them own little lots of land and
i frame houses, and naturally the idea of
leaving their possessions behind in care
of no one, strikes them unfavorably. i
There are perhaps one thousand colored
draymen in Jacksonville, whose chief in- I
come is carting meichandise. All traffic :
and business is stopped; these men find
: themselves with mules on their hands to
keep as well as families to provide for,
and they naturally ask: “Shall we
leave our animals to die, our homes to be
pillaged, and take up our residence at a
; distance, where the chances of earning a
living among strangers is perhaps no bet
ter than here at present?” It is a rank
injustice to charge these colored people ,
i with selfishness. Fourteen nurses came
from New Orleans, and some of them
struck for $Ua day before they left the
depot; they had been engaged for $3 a
day and were promptly discharged.
The following telegram was sent to
Washington on Saturdav: “To Surgeon- '
General Hamilton, Washington: Your 1
explanation of the stopping of the train
at Live Oak and returned to Jackson
ville because the authorities of Tennes
: see refused admittance to refugees from
i this city into the state is satisfactory.
Our people, not knowing the reason that
existed for such action, naturally blamed
you. This association is always desirous
to be just, and will co-operate with you
in such reasonable regulation as may be
considerc I necessary to protect the pub
lic health and conform to regulations
governing transportation in force by the
health authorities of other states. We I
are aware that state laws govern, and j
that we cannot send refugees to points in
states that will not receive them and
have been communicating with authori- ’
ties both local and state, of North Caro
lina, and have just received information \
that Hendersonville can take 500, Saluda, :
Hickory and other p-iints, will take !
smaller numbers. Impossible to state :
how many can go to Hendersonville or
other points around there, but think if ;
two days’ notice were given, that a special |
train for refugees would leave here for :
Hendersonville, that at least two hundred ;
would go. Have just received your tel
egram of this morning that special will
be provided fcr Hendersonville. Please j
allow two days’ notice. Hope you can j
make arrangements with Tennessee board
of health. May want to go in that dirtc- :
tion. Pleased to hear improvements to
be ma de at Camp Perry and that you i
will make jour headquarters there. We
desire to work in harmony with yon.
(signed) P. McQuaid, Acting Presi- ;
dent.” The following was set to |
Surgeon-Gen. Hamilton, at Washington:
“At the request of citizens and physi- '
ciani, I desire a physician of experience 1
in yellow fever to visit and describe the ;
growth of the epidemic at this place. <
Citizens are demoralized. (Signed) D. I
J. Water, and .Mayor, and President I
Boaid of Heal h, M-Clenny, Fla.” The ’
surgeon general immediately telegraphed '
Dr. Posy, at Waycross, to go to -McClen
ay and investigate.
OVER THE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES—ACCIDENTS ON SEA AND
LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RAILROADS —NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The famous Star and Garter hotel at
London, England, has been partly
burned.
The English papers still harp on the
fisheries question, charging its agitation
to a desire to make political capital.
Dispatches reporta killing frost over
New England, Northern New York, and
Michigan. Ice as thick as window glass
formed in many places.
At Vostizza, on the Corinthian Gulf,
two earthquake shocks did great damage
on Monday. Many persons killed. The
king has gone to the scene.
Judge Linthan, at Waterloo, lowa, de
nied the application of a Chinese laun
dryman, Fong Wing, to be made a citi
zen. The judge took the ground that
the Chinese are not eligible to citizen
ship under the laws and Constitution of
the United States.
Thorne Carroll & Co., of New York,
wholesale dealers in hosiery, have made an
assignment, with preferences of $26,498.
It 'is the oldest house in the trade, and
was established 1854, and in 1886 claimed
a capital of $200,000. The liabilities are
about SIOO,OOO.
For the fourth time, Cutter, Ind., was
the scene of a terrific explosion. Dyna
mite was placed under the postoffice, and
that structure literally blown to atoms.
A large quantity of dynamite was found
under the hotel, with matches half
burned. A strong gale undoubtedly
extinguished the matches.
The Kansas City National Exposition
was formally opened on Tuesday before
a large assemblage. It will continue for
seven weeks. Among the attractions arc
the bands of Gilmore and Liberati, fire
men from the neighboring cities, who are
to participate in tournament who made a
fine showing at their parade.
Counterfeit five and one-dollar bills are
being extensively circulated in New
York. The sub-treasury officials say
they are so skilfully executed that they
would deceive almost every one unless
carefully scrutinized. The paper in the
flve-dollar bill is a trifle thicker than it
should be, ami the head of Gen. Grant,
which adorned the bill, is somewhat
rougher and less evenly executed than cn
the genuine “bill. The one-dollar coun
terfeits: the paper is more nearly like the
genuine paper, but the same defect is in
the head of Martha Washington as in the
head of Gen. Grant.
The annual convention of the National
Protective Association convened in New
York. The organization is compo-ed of
the spirit distillers of the United States
and has about 800 members, who repre
sent about $152,000,000 of invested cap
ital. John M. Atherton, of Kentucky,
is president, and C. Turney, of St. Louis,
is secretary. The purposeof the conven
tion is to consider some general system
of license which will be applicable to all
branches of the trade and which will be
presented to the public for approval.
The association is composed of wholesale
dealers only, yet the retail dealers of New
York have been invited to attend.
HOLD YOUR NOSE.
Wilson Miller, a farmer living in Plum
township, Venango county, Pa., under
took sometime ago to raise skunks for
their pelts. It has not been as yet a suc
cess but he thinks in another season he
can make it so. He began the business
by capturing alive six skunks at the cost
of a -nit of clothes and three days’ hard
work turning over railpiles. His inten
tion is to kill off all the spotted young,
believing that in time this would give
him exclusively black ones, the skins of
which a) ways command a good price in
market.
CIRCUS ACCIDENT.
A Cincinnati bound freight train heav
ily laden, dashed at full speed into John
Robinson's circus train, which wa* stand
ing at Corwin station, Ohio. The ca
boose at the rear of the circus train was
slit in two and four sleepers ahead of it
telescoped. No damage occurred to the
animals of the circus proper, which were
in long trains ahead of the sleepers.
Four men were killed and eighteen
wounded.
VETERANS KILLED.
A train of veteran soldiers b und f« r
the G. A. R. encampment, a' Coluinbij'i,
Ohio, started from Youngstown, Ohio,
over the N. Y., Pa., <& O. Railion 1, ami
at Rittman, the c unecting ro<i of th
engine broke. hile waiting for ic
pairs, a freight came along, collided wi:h
the passenger train, inuny wire kil. n
and wounded. ”
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I 5 Oent*>-In Adranoa.
THE COTTON CROP.
The report of the Department of Ag
riculture at Washington, D. C., makes
the average condition of cotton 88.8, a
decline of three and a half points since
the last report. The general average is
slightly higher than in 1887 and 1886,
when it stood at 82.8 and 82.1 respect
ively. The decline, while slight, has
been general throughout the belt, except
> in North Carolina and Tennessee, where
1 more seasonable weather has resulted in
i a slightly improved condition. Local
damage has resulted in the Carolinas
from both drouth and excess of moisture,
the rainfall during the month being un
evenly distributed. Rust is general
I throughout Georgia, and with the drouth
! and shedding of bolls has seriously re- *
i duced the condition. Alabama has suf- .
sered from heat and drouth and in some
sections the month closes with appre
hensions of damage from excessive and
continuous rainfall. A decline in Mis
sissippi and Louisiana is the result of a
marked excess of moisture during the
last two weeks of August. The severe
storm which swept over these states on
the 19th and 20th prostrated the plants,
and continuous rains have beaten out
the bolls and caused some rotting. The
crop in Texas was beginning to suffer
for moisture when the rains of the latter
part of the month came, seasonable oyer
the greater part of the state, breaking
the threatened drouth and arresting the
j decline in the condition which had sei
in. In Arkansas the average has been
lowered by locally unfavorable seasons,
| drouth in some sections and excessive
moisture, especially toward the close of
the month, in others, causing a reduc
: ti>>n. The month was favorable in Tennes
i see; seasons good, and but little com-
I plaint of rust. State averages of condi
tion are: Virginia 84, North Carolina
84, South Carolina 83, Georgia 85, Flor
ida 90, Alabama 87, Mississippi 88, Lou
isiana 79, Texas 78, Arkansas 87. Ten
nessee 95. The crop is generally
somewhat late and picking delayed by
unfavorable weather. Caterpillars and
boll worms are frequently mentioned,
and doing damage where not vigorously*-!
: fought. The first is found most fre
quently in Georgia, Alabama and Louisi
i ana, while the latter is noted chiefly in
' Texas. It will of course, be understood
that this report relates to the status on
the first day of September.
|
AUG JSTA. GA, FLOODED.
The banks of the canal in Augusta,
Ga., gave way on Monday, and the great
body of water caused by the floods of
two weeks, surged upon the city, and the
reatest flood since 1840 began. The
i factory district was first submerged. On
the waters cr< pt until they began topour
into Broad street, and thence through the
intersecting streets to Greene. The tele
graph office whs invaded until the floor
was covered. Then the operators pulled
off shoes and stockings, and rolling up
. .heir pantaloons, continued to wire the
1 mes-age of disaster abroad, as the rising
water marked the increasing inches on
their legs. When the chair seats were
reached the operators stood up at their
desks and bravely kept up the work of
: communication with the outside world.
Uhe waters reached their greatest triumph
i alien, turning the highest grade of
Ur. ad street, they ran onward in a con- J
tinuous stream, presenting the novel
‘pectacleof four miles of boating on a »
public street. Hurriedly the merchants
removed their goods from shelf to shelf*:
as the water threatened the last resort,"'
and then stood upon the counters to
watch the seething flood. Second stories •
were eagerly sought by the affrighted J
people. When the water began to ffp
proach from the factory side it lifted the
small houses as if they were but toy
boxes and moved fie m around in wild*?
confusion. By 6 o’clock at night'the
waters had reached 24 feet, ;nd covered
he northwestern portion of the city
■ contiguous t<> the river bai k. and the
s outheastern portions below the ceme
i tery. the two lowest parts of the <ity.
i By 7 o’clock, thirty-four feet seven
inches was reached, and th water was
running acro-s Broad s|reet to Green®
from the rivir in swelling torrents. By
> 8 o'clock, water stood tbicc inches deep io
! the office of the Planter’s hotel, and was
i creeping down Broad street to Campbell.
At dark the w teis had reached thirty-,
seven feet, seven inche-, the highest
; water known in Augusta since the freshet
: of 1840. Tlx- water has risen more rap
i idly than at any previous fre-het, and in /
the low portion of the city, people who/
went to si. ep thinking the wateis reced
j ing, awoke to find themselves completely
I unrounded, and all egress cut off. Many
occupyingone->tory houses even removed
two-story buildings where they could
,be above the tide. The heavy tones of
the al .rm bells, at ten o’clock, announced
to the people tiuit the point of greatest
danger hud come, and ut eleven o’clock
all Ukgrupbic communication was cut
1 off
NO. 48.