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®he Swmmah {Tribune. Published br th* Thtttss Pnbli»hi*c Co. 1 J. H. DEVEAUX. Manas** > 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.