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dhc Sawtmnah ©ribunc Published by the Tutbuxs Publishiaa Co. 1 J. HL DKYEAUX. Maklou* > VOL. 111. 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. ” ( f 1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents for Six Months; - 50 cents Thrt * Months; Single Copies 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.