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VOL. HI.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL-
ROAD Casualties—the cotton crop
—FLOODS —ACCIDENTS —CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
A. S. Kibbe, a telegraph operator at
Decatur died from yellow fever.
Judge Bruce has adjourned the United
States district court at Birmingham and
Huntsville until December, on account
of quarantine regulations.
The town of York, a town of 200 peo
ple. on the. Alabama Great Southern
Railroad, near the Mississippi line, has
, quarantined against the world. No pas
senger from any point will be allowed
to get off at that point. Armed guards
meet every train, and no amount of
health certificates will enable a passenger
to stop there.
An old feud between two prominent
families in Shelby county, ended on
Monday in the killing of George Turner,
at Coosa. The feud ends forever with
this tragedy, as Turner was the last male
representative of his family. Alex Mat
tock, many years ago, married Turner’s
sister against the protests of the Turner
family, and out of this grew the feud,
which resulted in many bloody encount
ers.
A second bloody race conflict has oc
curred at Round Mountain. Cherokee
county. A light occurred between George
Whitt, white, and a colored laborer.
Whitt and his friends fired on five negroes
from ami ush after the fight, killing two
and wounding the other three. Later in'
the night some negroes armed themselves
and a regular battle between the two
parties followed. Several were killed
and wounded on both sides.
GEORGIA.
Jim Parish, a negro, .-hot Ed. Walton
another negro, in the Bethel church, in
Atlanta. Jealousy was the cause.
Mr. Robert H. Richards, a prominent
business man of Atlanta, died of heart
disease while on a visit to Asheville, S. C.
On accountof flood damages, Augusta
has postponed the opening of the Expo
sition until November Bth. It will close
December 15 th.
Henry Kennedy, a carpenter, of Au
gusta, Supervisor Farmer of the Port
Royal Railroad, Higgins, and Mr.
Williams, a boatman, and an unknown
man and woman were drowned in the
recent floods.
The Confederate Veterans of Atlanta
dedicated a beautiful hall on Monday.
Gov. Gordon, Judge Wm. Lowndes Cal
houn, Cant. E. P. Howell and Henry W.
Grady made speeches. Many G. A. R.
men were present.
The flood in the Savannah river has
covered the rice plantations near the Sa
wanna, and the rice crop is nearly, if not
quite, a total loss. Reports from the
country districts state that the low lands
are all under water and the roads and
bridges carried away, so that travel is
almost impossible.
A cold-blooded murder was committed
in Atlanta Saturday night. A colored
man named Si Campbell, quarreled with
- his wife late in the afternoon, and when
the woman had retired for the night, and
was sound asleep, Campbell deliberately
placed the muzzle of a pistol close to the
woman’s face and fired twice in rapid
succession, killing her instantly.
, The refugees from Florida who passed
through Atlanta on the government
train, bound for Hendersonville, evi
dently did not relish the prospects ahead
of them. From all along the line of the
Richmond & Danville come reports of
the escape of the refugees from the
train. At Central, a small town 130
miles north of Atlanta, five jumped from
the train and ran into a cornfield, where
they hid until the train had left. They
purchased tickets to Cincinnati byway
of Asheville, from Spartanburg.
KENTUCKY.
At Paducah, fire was discovered in
Rikop’s saddlery establishment. By de
lay in the alarm and an accident to the
water-works, the fire department was
' in getting to work and the building
Toyed. The fire extended to
. • other buildings, making a total loss of
$200,000.
Another raid was made by the McCoys
on the Hatfield settlement at Cattletsburg.
The West Virginians were worsted. The
McCoys attempted to arrest an innocent
citizen—Richard Carey. He never hud
anything to do with the trouble. They
were stopped before they succeeded, and
their action so enraged the neighborhood
that nearly every man on the creek
t (Peter) took his gun and went in pursuit.
They t ame upon the West Virginians at
Paw Paw mountain, where a lively bat
tle took place. In the melee two of the
West Virginians were killed and two
were badly wounded. None of the Ken
tucky crowd was hurt.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1888.
FLORIDA.
On account of the prevalence of yellow
fever, the local land office at Jackson
ville, has been closed temporarily.
A commission of three, representing
the striking cigarmakers in Havana, ar
rived at Key West. They telegraphed
to all large cities North asking aid for
the strikers. The strikers anti their fami
lies number 20,000.
A yellow fever scare is on in Gaines
ville, and an exodus has commenced.
A large number of people went to At
lanta, Ga. The fever was taken to
Gainesville by the soldiers who went to
Fern ndina to put down a ’longshores
men’s riot.
TENNESSEE.
An important conference of the health
officers of the Southern States was held
in Nashville on Tue-day for the purpose
of considering the yellow fever situation.
Nashville authorities ordered a close
observance of the liquor law, and all sa
loons were closed last Sunday. The
preachers have organized a vigilance
committee to see that the Sunday law is
rigidly enforced.
LOUISIANA.
An awful crime w’as perpetrated at
Breaux Bridge. Friday night, when a
gang, supposed to be composed of five
members (so far unknown), attacked a
negro cabin, and shooting through the
walls, mortally wounded a colored
woman, who died a few hours afterwards.
From there they went to another cabin
where they outraged colored women,
and then whipped a colored man. The
negroes have made no affidavit as yet.
The white population are very much ex
cited over the matter, and resolutions
were adopted pledging protection to the
colored people, and declaring that the
perpetrators of the outrage shall be pun
ished.
VIRGINIA.
Henry W. Grady, of Atlanta, Ga., has
been invited by the committee at Staun
ton to receive the Confederate monument
to be dedicated there on October 27th,
to the Confederates from other states
that are buried at Staunton. Governor
Fitzhugh Lee will tender the statue as
representing the soldiers, and Mr. Grady
has been invited to receive it in behalf
of the younger element in the South.
In a collision on the Virginia Midland
five miles south of Culpepper, between an
extra north bound freight train and No.
50, south bound passenger train, Engi
neer Joe Crafton, of the passenger train
was badly injured and died. Fireman
King and Brakeman Galway and Wood
of the freight, and William Cord ion, por
ter on the Pullman car, were slightly in
jured, but no passengers were hurt.
Steps have been taken for the construc
tion of an electric line of cars from Rich
mond to the historic battlefields of Seven
Pines or Fve Oaks. The distance is
seven miles, thousands of old Union
soldiers visit the field annually from
Richmond, at a large expense. This line
will minimize the cost of the little trip.
The directors of the Atlantic & Danville
railroad have secured the money necessa
ry to complete the line to Danville.
NORTH CAROLINA.
At Charlotte, Sunday, a daring incen
diary set fire to the ice factory, and but
for quick work the building and ma
chinery would have been destroyed. The
factory had been idle since August Ist.
The incendiary had used, quantities oi
rosin, cotton waste and stiavings to start
the tire.
Fire broke out at Beaufort Sunday am.
spread rapidly, burning the sheriff’s of
fice and three other buildings on Turnei
street; Handlersand Hou-e, on Dicken
son street, and a two-story house occu
pied by colored people. The Winfielc
Chadwick building was partially burned.
Loss about SIO,OOO with very little in
surance.
MOUTH CAROLINA.
The breaking out of yellow fever at
Hendersonville has created considerable
consternation at Charleston, Henderson
ville being the Summer resort or a large
number ot wealthy Charlestonians. Im
mediately on receipt of the news of fever
at that place the mayor issued orders
quarantining, it and this complicates mat
ters, as many women and children were
on their way home, having run from the
fever. No person from Hendersonville
or any place in that vicinity is allowed to
come'to the city now without certificates.
TEXAS.
State Health Officer Dr. Rutherford,
who was at Galveston on Sunday, de
clared a strict and absolute quarantine
against New Orleans. Quarantine offi
cer Blount, at that point, was notified
to quarantine against all vessels coming
to that port from New Orleans, and a
similar embargo has been placed upon
railroads.
FOUND DEATH.
Advices from t,he Congo River state,
that Maj? Bartlett, the explrsr. r, has been
murdered by curriers ami that Jami- son
his returned to Stanley Falls and is or
ganizing a new expedition.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
THE WASHINGTON SOLONS GET
TING IN THEIR WORK.
WHAT IS BEING DONE FOR THE ARMY AND
NAVY —LIVELY DEBATES IN CONGRESS
—NOTES.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on Tuesday, the defi
ciency appropriation bill was reported
back from the committee on appropria
tions and was ordered printed. Notice
was given that Mr. Jones, of Arkansas,
would address the Senate on Wednesday
on the motion to refer the President’s
Annual Message. Mr. Sherman’s resolu
tion offered Monday, instructing the
committee on foreign relations to inquire
into the state of the relations of the
United States with Great Britain and the
Dominion of Canada, and to report at
the next session such measures as are ex
pedient to promote friendly commercial
and political intercourse between those
countries and the United States, was ta
ken up, and Mr. Sherman addressed the
Senate .. .The Speaker pro tem. laid be
fore the House a communication from the
Postmaster General in response to the
Grosvenor resolution calling for informa
tion relating to the distribution through
the mails of the Tax Reform Advocate,
in violation of the postal laws. Mr.
Catchings, of Mississippi, from the com
mittee on rivers and harbors, reported a
bill authorizing the Secretary of War to
prescribe rules and regulations for the
care and management of the St. Clair
flats ship canal. Passed.
In the Senate on Monday, Mr. Mitchell
introduced a bill to reduce letter postage
to one cent an ounce. Laid on the table.
A motion to reconsider the vote passing
the Chinese exclusion bill was defeated
in the Senate —yeas 20, nays 21. So the
bill remains passed. Mr. Hoar offered a
resolution (which was adopted), in
structing the committee on finance to in
quire as to the cotton bagging trust and
what legislation is necessary to counter
act it. The House bill to enlarge the
powers and duties of the department, of
agriculture and to create an executive
department to be known as the depart
ment of agriculture, was taken up, the
question being on the amendment strik
ing out section 5, which transfers the
weather bureau of the signal service to
the department of agriculture. A lively
debate followed. Without action, the
bll was laid aside... .In the House, on
motion of Air. McMillin, of Tennessee,
Air. Cox, of New York, was elected
speaker pro tem to act during the ab
sence of Air. Carlisle. No quorum being
present, no business was transacted.
<;<*ssn>.
The President has pardoned two North
Carolina moonshiners.
If President Cleveland signs the Chi
nese exclusion bill, Secretary of State
Bayard, will resign his position.
The first triennial meeting of the con
gress of American physicians and sur
geons is in session at Washington.
Surgeon General Hamilton has tele
graphed Mayor Harkins, of Asheville,
N. C., that no refugees will be sent to
that city.
A leak occurred in the new silver
vault at Washington during a recent
storm, and when rhe doors was opened
the next morning, there was four incites
of water in it.
The following Georgia patents were
i granted on Tuesday. Fred C. Cooper,
: Rome, dclinting cotton seed; Joshua H.
I Malaier and E. 11. Smith, Sunnyside,
j fertilizer distibutor; Herman Thaden,
Atlanta, seed planter.
Senator Brown has had passed through
the Senate, Mr. Clement’s House bill to
pay Charles Bradwcll, colored, of Gaines
ville, Ga., for four bales of cotton de
stroyed by Sherman’s army in Savannah,
during the War.
The Secretary of the Navy has tele
graphed Rear Admiral Kimberly, com
manding the Pacific station, who is now
at San Francisco, Cal., to send one of
the vessels of his squadron to the Sameon
Islands for such sei vice as may be in
quired of it in the protection of Amri
| cans.
• THE PHILADELPHIA IDEA.
Mayor Fitler, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
has transmitted to Wasniugton, D. C., a
resolution adopted by the relief commit
tee of that city, which asks that to pre
vent the spread of yellow to Northern
cities, the U. S. Government establish a
military cordon.
| EARTHQUAKE.
On Tuesday night about 9 o'clock, a
very distict earthquake shock was heard
in Central Georgia. First, a rumbling
noise was heard; then calhe the shock,
which lasted fully three seconds. The
houses quit creel and windows rattled
1 enough to arouse the people.
THE FEVER.
One feature of the epidemic nt Jack
sonville during the past week is the fre
quency with which it has attackeel phy
sicians and clergymen and other active
j workers in the cause of the sick and suf
fering. Drs. C. J. Burroughs and C. IT.
i Mallett were both piostrated on Thurs
day, and Dr. Daniel gave up and went
to bed on Friday. The ranks of the
clergymen have been thinned, but all who
are sick give signs of early recovery.
The condition of Rev. J. B. Bickrell is
not so hopeful as could be wished, but
has not as yet become critical. Bishop
Edwin G. Weeds is still well and doing
good work at all tunes and places.
Bishop Moore and the Rev. Father Ken
ny (recently recovered) are both active in
the work of nursing charity, and may be
seen at almost any hour of the day en
gaged in the noble mission of relief to
t,e suffering. Just about enough new
doctors have come in to fill the local va
c r.cics caused by sickness. Afore are
u eded. The following temporary ns-
I signraents have been made by F. IT.
! Caldwell, who has charge of the medical
corps. Dr. A. AV. Knight will take the
territory east of Alarket to East Jack
sonville; Dr. Clay will take
Lavilla, north of Beaver street,
und Hansomtown; Dr. Donohue, of Cary
ville, Fla., wdl take Campbell's addi
tion, Fairfield and Oakland; Dr. George
i C. Alathews and Dr. Eddy, of St. Louis,
j xvilltake Lavilla, south of Bean street;
. Dr. Yahoo, of Ocala, will - take charge
l of Ead Jacksonville,with headquarters at
! Dr. Fairlie’s drug stoic. Dr.*Bryant, of
I Houston, and Dr Shetral,of Savannah has
! been assigned to the district bounded by
| Clay strict, on West Alarket street on
j the east, and Springfield and Hansom
j town on the north. There is room >t
j St. Luke’s hospital to accommodate tbir
; teen more patients, and the hospital is
now in excellent condition. Six private
! rooms, suitable to patients who desire
isolation, are vacant and they are neatly
furnished and most comfoitable apart
ments. Dr. Bollacc Ahtchell says lie has
thiity patients now at the Sandhills and
ample accommodation for sixty or seven
ty more. He proposes to move out
and make his home there until
the frost puts an end to his labors.
Dr. Porter, received the following tele
gram: Camp Perry, September IG. —■
Dr. 8. Y. Porter, Jacksonville: ’‘Suggest
to the people coming here that they may
bring sheets, pillow casesand towels, and
git them some evening after fumigation.
No pillows. Will fill cases with fresh
pine straw. —Hamilton.” Saturday's
weather whs somewhat pleasanter as no
rain fell, but a hot sun poured scorching
rays down without mercy and exhalation
arising could be s en line thin mist.
“This is yellow fever weather,” said a
doctor, “and you may now look for a
large increase in the number of cases, but
it is a great relief for the sick, and that
i we think good.”
THE ENGLISH COMMISSION.
The conynission appointed by the Eng
lish Parliament to examine into charges
made by the London Times against Air.
Parnail and other Irish members of the
House of Commons, opened its first ses
sion in the probate court. Owing to
the limited size of the court room it was
impossible to admit more than a select
few of public representatives of the
press, who occupied the bulk of the
space, two hundred reporters, represent
ing provincial, London and American
newspapers, having obtained tickets of
admission. After a day spent in legal
“sparring for position,” the commission
adjourned to October 22, without having
gone into the merits of the case at all.
The commission will make the inquiry
as thorough it was an issue between Air.
O’Donnell and the Times, reserving to
themselves the power to call anybody
who might be able to throw light on the
issues therein involved. .The inquiry
would be carried on in accordance with
rules of ordinary courts. Before pro
ceeding, Judge Hannen asked Sir Charles
Russell for whom he appeared. Sir
Charles replied that he represented 84
Irish members of Parliament.
A STRAGE BET.
Two Swedish farmers named Ole John
son and Hans Erickson, of Nebraska
City, Neb., made a strange bet on the
presidential election. A written agree
ment was, drawn up and placed in the
hands of a prominent business man.
According to its terms, in the event of
Cleveland’s election, Mr. Johnson for
feits to Air. Erickson his wife, Johnson
to have and to hold against the lawful
claims of any and ail persons whatsoever.
If, on the other hand. General Harrison
is elected, the agreement stipulates tb it
Air. Johnson shall receive from Air.
Erickson one Jersey cow, valued nbsTO.
All the parties to the wager are in earn
est, including Mrs. Johnson, wh > ex
presses a hope that Cleveland will 1 e re
elected.
t 51.25 Per Annum; 75 cents for Six Months;
< 50 cents Tnrce Months; Single Copiss
I 5 cents' -In Advance.
THE WOULD OVEIL
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL*
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED PEOPLE DEAD*
Bismarck will follow Von Aloltke’a
example and resign.
The United Typotlue of America is in
session in New York.
At Glasgow, Scotland, sixty-five peo
ple were arrested for participating in a
riot.
Charles A. Percy made a second trip
through the whirlpool rapids at Niagara
Falls on Sunday.
The number of deaths in Havana from
yellow fever during July were 8(1, and
during August 114.
The French government has ordered
gunboats to the west coast of Africa to
suppress the slave trade.
Samuel Pruett shot and fatally wounded
his wife in a courtroom at Kokonaa,
Ind., during the progress of a divorce
suit, and also shot J. C. Blacklidge, he
claims accidentally.
tL John Dillon, the noted Irish orator
mid agitator, has been granted an uncon
ditional release from prison on account
of his bad health., Alauy friends met him
in Dublin upon his return there and he
was greeted most enthusiastically.
C. A. Pillsbury & Co., of Minneapolis.
Alinn., the largest milling firm in the
world, have just finished a division of
$40,000 among their employes. This
has been made in pursuance of a profit
sharing plan adopted four years ago.
Bitter feeling has been engendered at
Pittsburg, Pa., over the establishment
of a parochal school by the Catholics in
the first ward puvlic school
Seven Protestant ministers denounced
Catholocism from their pulpits on Sun
day. Arrangements were made for mass
meetings in that; city and also in Alle
gheny to protest against the use of public
school buildings for religious purposes.
THE CROP BULLETIN.
The weather crop bulletin, issued by
the signal office, says that reports from
the corn belt, including Indiana, Illinois,
lowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, indicate
that the weather during the past week
has been especially favorable, and that
the corn crop, which is very large, is
generally secure and past injury from
frost. The, frosts which occurred during
the week along the northern border of
lowa and in Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan did some damage to the grow
ing crops. Over the west portion of the
cotton region, including Alabama and
Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louis
iana and Texas, favorable weather dur
ing the week greatly improved all grow
ing crops, and cotton picking is in
progress in all these States. In North
and South Carolina all growing crops
are seriously injured by heavy rains and
dangerous floods. The weather during
the week was especially favorable for
tobacco in Kentucky and Tennessee. The*
weather in New England and the middle
Atlantic States was generally unfavor
able for ripening crops. Farm work is
retarded.
SHOULD PASS.
At the request of a number of phys
icians in attendance upon the medical
congress, at Washington, D. C., Major ’
Barnes, of Georgia, introduced in the
House of Representatives, a bill of
fering a reward of SIOO,OOO to any per
son of any nationality who will discover
the true cause or germ of yellow’ fever
with any certain means of its prevention,
destruction or material modification; or
who, without discovering the cause or ■
germ of said disease, sh ill discover a
certain and practical mode of effecting
its prevention, destruction or material
modification. The bill was referred to
the committee on commerce, and the
energetic Barnes will push it through at
once.
THE LATEST.
Dr. 11. S. Tanner, who became famous
about eight years ago by fasting forty
days at Clarendon ball, New York City,
arrived at Chicago, 111., from New Alex
icp. He is apparently in perfect health,
and his girth is such as to suggest any
thing except abstinence feom food. The
doctor is pursuing another branch of
semi-suspended animation, viz., hiber
nation. He declares that bears and other
hibernating animals do not use their
lungs during the hibernating season, and
he is convinced that man can hiliernute,
and will permit himself to be sealed up io>
affair-tight coffin and laid away until such
time as he shall designate for it to be
opqaed.
NO. 49.