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THE FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL-
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The oppression of the Jews by the
Russian officials has been renewed.
The Russian government is about to
take steps to restrict tbe Chinese influx
into Siberia.
The French minister of war is going to
reduce the army estimates by
, francs.
The brewers of*New York City sub
scribed $5,000 to aid yellow fever suffer
ers.
The German harvest in cereals and
potatoes has been a failure. The price
of bread is rising.
Henry Fitch, Democratic candidate
for state senator of the Oxford district
in New Hampshire, was thrown from his
wagon and his neck was broken.
At Toledo, Ohio, the Armeda Flour
Mills caught fire from friction in the
rollers, and the structure was entirely
destroyed. Entire loss SIOO,OOO.
The Traders’ Bank of Chicago, 111.,
failed on Tuesday. Judge Shepard ap
pointed Hugh McChesney, receiver of
the assets of the bank. The liabilities
are nearly $1,000,000.
The President’s action in regard to the
Chinese bill was received with great sat
isfaction in San Francisco, Cal. Five
thousand Chinese are now on the ocean,
and will have to return.
The Conway Manufacturing Company’s
extensive furniture factory on the We
nominee river, in Wisconsin, was de
stroyed by fire the third time in the last
half dozen years. Loss $125,000.
The empress of Austria explains that
although she admires Heine’s poetry, she
withdraws her gift to the Heine monu
ment fund at the request of the emperor
in consequence of Heine’s insults to the
Hohenzoilerns.
A dispatch from Ishpeming, Michigan,
says: “A heavy snow has been falling
for the past six hours. Reports from a
number of points in the upper peninsula
show that the storm is general. This
is the first snow of the season.”
Williams, Black & Co., one of the best
known business houses in New York,
holding a membership in the produce,
cotton, coffee, and until recently the
metal exchanges, have failed. The fail
ure is connected with the Chicago wheat
squeeze.
Jnstice Greenland,of the state supreme
court of Pennsylvania, has decided that
Jacob Reese must dispose of his basic
process to the Bessemer Steel Company.
Reese claims that he loses $50,000,000 by
the decision.
At a conference of miners held at Man
chester, England, at which 250,000 min
ers w r ere represented, it was decided to
strike on October 29, unless the demand
for an advance of 10 per cent in wages
was acceded to. It was also decided not
to accept the advance unless it was made
general.
Many retail bread dealers in Chicago,
ill., have raised the price one cent per
l loaf owing to continued advance in wheat
and the consequent increase in the
price of flour. The ] robabilities are that
the price will be put up another notch,
and tl'.e impression if the price w’ill be
forced up all over the country.
The widow and children of Gen. Sher
idan, in company with Col. Sheridan
and wife, left Nonquitt, Maas., on Sun
day, for Washington, D. C. The re
vised proofs of the last chapter and index
of Gen. Sheridan’s memoirs were re
' ctlved by Col. Sheridan from the pub
t li-hers the day before.
The Pope celebrated high mass for the
U ’ dead in St. Peters on Sunday to solem
® nize the close of his jubilee. The con-
K. gT e g’d on numbered 20,000 persons. Ad
“ mittance was by ticket. His holiness
was given an enthusiastic reception, and
with prolonged cries of
“viva?’ He appeared to be deeply
■ ’ moved.
The Norwegian brig Hurdi worked
her way into the Delaware Capes in a
helpless condition, part of the crew hav-
I Ing died of yellow fever and nearly all
those living unable to get out of their
bunks, being delirious. The Hurdi is
bound from Guayainus, Cuba, for Bos
ton with bag sugar, and was spoken by
by the pilot boat Edmunds.
The effort to induce the Indians to
sign the bill presented by Judge Wright
, and Capt Pratt at the Dakota Agency,
has failed: the commissioners will return
homo. The decision of the Indians is
briefly that the bill as it stands now
they n fu>o to accept, but if some changes
cau ls- made th'} will look upon it more
favorably and recommend it to the In
dians.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1888.
Advices from Zanzibar says the Ger
mans murdered at Kilwa, died while
nobly defending themselves. The Ger
man gunboat was present, but was un
able to give assistance in face of the
thousands of armed natives lining the
beach. The corpses of the murder
ed Germans were terribly mutilated. The
English gunboat saved the lives of the
Germans at Siude. The Germans es
caped from Mikindaui half an hour be
fore the arrival of the insurgents who
tired volleys at their dhow, laden with j
thousands of pounds of gunpowder.
THE.YELLOW FEVER.
Sunday was a typical autumnal day for i
Florida, a cloudless sky and a cool brae- ’
’.ng atmosphere. Overcoats were in de- [
mand, and convalescents were forced to ,
remain in doors by open fires. The mer- ;
cury fell lower than at any time this sea- ’
son so far. This weatht-r is very bad for j
the patients and convalescents, and al- |
though cool, it does not, in the opinion j
of physicians, lessen the chances of tak- |
ing yellow fever. Dr. Kenworthy, of i
Jacksonville, said: “Nothing but a I
frost will kill it. Just so long as there
is material for the disease to feed upon, |
just so long will it continue, unless I
checked by frost. Lavilla, Brooklyn and
Riverside, besides other suburban places,
have all been swept by the fever, and we
may now expect to see it cropping out at ■
points in populous portions of the city I
hitherto not infected. The type is un- j
doubtedly milder, but the disease has got i
to run itself out.” Dr. Porter received a
telegram from Surgeon General Ham- j
ilton bringing cheesing news that ar- ;
rangements will in all probability be per- I
fected, for permitting those who have had I
the yellow fever and recovered from it, |
as well as those who are now convales- I
cent, to leave the city for points North,
without spending ten days in quarantine
as heretofore. This will be welcome |
news to hundreds of people who would
have left long before this, but for dread
of inconveniences and privations at Camp I
Perry, Fernandina still persists in put- 1
ting herself out from communication by
telegraph. A locomotive arrived in j
Baldwin from that city, and brought from I
R. Cooley the following message, which
was wired from the latter point to Jack
sonville: “No new cases of yellow fever
to-day, and no deaths. Twenty-five cases
now under treatment. The situation
presents no alarming feature. Nobody
wants to leave Fernandina. All who
wished to leave have gone. The only
apprehension is an outbreak from unem- ;
ployed workmen. They are quiet up to
the present time, however. We need aid.
Jacksonville need have no fear of refu
gees from Fernandina attempting to
break through Duvall country's quaran
tine in order to secure free rations Mr.
Cooley is cashier of the bank of Fernan
dina, and formerly resided in Jackson
ville. He may be relied upon as giving .
an estimate of the situation as fairly as \
any man can do, who is himself locked I
up in this town at present. Many people j
in Jacksonville were alarmed by rumors i
of existence of small pox in the city, but
investigation proved the rumors to be en I
tirely without foundation. In fact, it is
said to be in Fernandina, however,
but the report could not be
traced to any reliable source.
An official circular was issued by Dr.
Wirt Johnson, the secretary of the state
Board of Health of Mississippi, advising i
refugees not to return to Jackson until
the danger can be declared absolutely
past, which will also be officially an
nounced hereafter. The physicians are
unanimously agreed that all the cases
that were reported as yellow fever are in
reality such, and they are anxious lest
those persons who are dou tful, may
venture to return, hence the above wise
precaution.
The mails are allowed to go in as usual,
but none of the anxious inquiries that
come from absentees can be answered ex
cept by telegraph. For ten days not a
letter has been allowed to leave Jackson
and the postoffice department
seems to have come to the conclusion that
a fever beseiged community has very few
rights it is bound to respect. This ab
rupt and unauthorized stoppage as com
munication with the outside world, is re
garded by the people as a cruel and in
tolerable grievance. Contrary to all ex
pectations, Chattanooga, Tenn., was vis
ited by a killing frost on Sunday morn
ing, the thermometer registering 37 1-2
degrees. Ben B. Grant, of Newark, ;
Ohio, a yellow fever patient there, died
while attacked with black vomit. He j
was superintendent of the Telephone ■
Company at Decatur, Ala. No more ref
ugees have come in. The weather is
frosty.
SENSIBLE MAN.
Thoma* L. James, ex postmaster gen
eral of the United Suites, in an interview I
in London, England, said he believed
that in the near future a postal rule of
one penny on letters and one-half penny
ou newspapers, would be eslablialied bc
twevn Uicut Britain and Amciic u
WASHINGTON NEWS. I
Doings of Congress and the United
States Officials.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The resolution offered by Senator Call
on the 27th September, instructing the
committee on epidemic diseases to con
sider and report before the adjournment i
of this session of Congress, additional
legislation to prevent the importation of i
j contagious or infectious diseases from
! foreign countries on the coast and boun
] daries of the United States, was takenup
I in the Senate and Mr. Call proceeded to
! speak upon it. Mr. Pasco offered an.
| amendment directing the committee to
inquire further into the introduction of
yellow’ fever into Florida and other
i states during the present year. In the
I course of his remarks, Mr, Call read a
j letter from Dr. Read suggesting spirits of
' ammonia as a method of cure and pre
j vention and recommending that some ac
| tion be taken to test that method. After ;
l a discussion by Messrs. Call,Blair, Pasco,
1 Chandler, Berry and Morgan, the resolu- ;
! tion and amendment were referred to i
I the committee on epidemic distases i
I On motion of Mr. Forney of Alabama, a [
I bill was passed in the House, authoriz
ing the construction of a bridge across
the Coosa river, Ala. Mr. Burns of Ma
; ryland, presented the conference report
| upon the joint resolution in aid of yel-
I low fever sufferers. As agreed in the
I conference the resolution appropriates |
i SIOO,OOO to be expended under direction
I of the President, whenever in his opinion
such expenditure will tend to the eradi-
| cation of epidemics of yellow fever now I
i existing in the United States or to pre- '
! vent its spread from state to state.
In the Senate on Monday, among the
I communications presented, was one from '
i the Italian minister at Washington ac- |
I knowledging, with gratitude on behalf ;
: of the people of Italy, the preamble and
I resolution of the Senate accepting the ■
i bust of Garibaldi presented by Italians of
I Washington. Among the bills reported
I from the committees and placed on the |
I calendar, were the following: House
I bill, with amendments, to forfeit certain ;
I lands granted to the Northern Pacific i
Railroad company. The House bill to
construct a road to the national cemetery
at Florence, S. C. The President’s Mes
sage to Congress, announcing his ap
proval of the Chinese exclusion bill and
submitting “some suggestions and rec
ommendations” on the subject, was laid
• before the Senate and read at length.
I On motion of Mr. Call, the Senate bill
granting the right of way through the
naval and military reservations near Pen
sacola, Fla., to the Pensacola & Memphis
Railroad Company, was taken from the
calendar and passed... .In the absence of
the speaker, Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky,
occupied the chair as speaker pro tern, I
The following bills were introduced and >
i referred: By Mr. Dougherty, of Fiori-I
■ da, to prevent the introduction of con- j
I tagious diseases from one state to another: |
; also to establish a sciontific bureau in I
Jacksonville, Fla., to gather facts in re- j
; latiou to yellow fever, its origin j
I and spread, and the best means ;
lof suppressing and preventing it. I
By Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, proposing ■
a constitutional amendment providing
that one-third of the members of each j
house of Congress shall constitute a quo
rum. By Mr. Phelan, of Tenn,, provid
[ ing for the appointment of a board ofyel
'■ low fever commissioners to investigate
the sani ary condition of fever-infected
places, and to provide for the co-opera
tion of Spain and Mexico.
GOSSIP.
Everett Hayden, of the Navy Hydro
graphic Office, has been detailed to go
to the Wcsjt Indies to study hurricanes.
A dispatch received by Dr. Hamilton,
surgeon-general of the marine hospital
service, says there was one new case of
yellow fever at Calahan, Fla., Sunday.
The State Department has been in
formed by telegraph, by Minister Buck,
that the treaty of “amity, commerce and
navigation” between the United States
and Peru, has been ratified by the latter.
The report of the Utah commission
signed by G. L. Godfrey, A. B. Wil
liams and Arthur L. Thomas, was re
ceived by the Secretary of the Interior.
The recommendation of the last annual
report is renewed that Utah should not
be admitted to the Union.
Dr. Hamilton has suggested by tele
graph, that some of the money coutrib
ucd for the benefit of the jellow fever
sufferers in Jacksonville, be used in pay
ing the expenses of poor persons who
have been detained in quarantine for ten
days and who have not money enough to
continue their journey.
As the investigation of the construc
tion of the new aqueduct tunnel pro
gresses, more flagrant and criminal ap
pears to be the fraud. A large number
of holes have been drilled through the
walls of the brick arch in many sections
of the tunnel and ul but few points was
the work found to have been done in
uny particular according to the contract.
The Senate confirmed the nomination
of John B. Baird, of Georgia, to be reg
ister of the land office at Seattle, W. T.
Mr. Baird is now superintendent of the
dead loiter office, and he expects to re
sign his present position and leave for
his new post soon. Mr. Baird is from
Atlanta, Ga., where he practiced law
some years. He was at one time adju
tant-general of Georgia.
What was at first thought to be a case
of yellow fever, and which may yet de
velop into the dread disease, was found
in Washington at the Baltimore & Ohio
depot. A train which arrived there from
Baltimore the other morning, brought
with it a man about thirty years of age,
who was so ill that he could hardly leave
the car. The sick man was very poorly
dressed and was destitute of money.
His name, he said, was James Oswald.
He admitted that he had come from
Jacksonville.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Five men were injured on the Georgia
Pacific Railroad on Monday. The acci
dent happened about two and one-half
miles west of Villa Rica, forty-one miles
from Atlanta. A short distance from
the station is a high trestle, which is
approached around a sharp curve. It
was upon this trestle that the accident
happened. Soon after the noon hour,
freight train number 63, moving towards
Atlanta, approached the trestle. Con
ductor Guess was iu charge of the train,
with Engineer McNew on the locomo
tive. Just before the train reached the
trestle the engineer reduced his speed,
and the engine passed over all right, lie
was in the act of putting on steam when
he discovered that something had occur
red, and looking back lie was horrified to
find that the caboose and two or three
cars had jumped the track ami left the
wood work. Th: engine was quickly
stopped, and, with his fireman, Engineer
McNew went back to the cab. Theie he
found live persons groaning and insensi
ble. They were Conductor Guess, John
Nabors, Will Mosby, colored; W. P.
Brown, J. P. New. Most of them are
thought to be fatally hurt.
ABOUT COTTON,
The speculation in cotton for future
delivery has been only moderately active
for the week, with a feverish, unsettled
tone, and frequent though rather narrow
fluctuations in values. There was a
sharp advance in the Liverpool market,
notwithstanding the adoption of a
“short-time” policy by a majority of the
Lancashire spinners. The weather in the
South has become favorable to the ma
turing and gathering of the crop, but the
spread of the yellow fever into towns of
Alabama and Mississippi threw the peo
ple of whole districts into a panic, and
led to such rigid local quarantines that
railroad transportation was nearly sus
pended. The alarm appeared to have
measurably subsided, the weather having
turned cool and bracing, and railroad
officials were encouraged to make efforts
to start trains. The weather has been
quite favorable, and picking is making
good progress. The movement of the
crop, however, is retarded by the refusal
of many planters to use jute bagging at
present prices, and by the quarantine
regulations at many points.
GHASTLY SENSATION.
On Sunday morning the whole city of
London, England, was again startled by
the news that more murders were added
to the list of mysterious ciimes that have
recently been committed in Whitechapel.
At an early hour it was known that two
women were murdered. The two vic
tims, as in tbe former cases, were disso
lute women of the poorer class. The
bodies of the .unfortunate women had
been disemboweled, their throats cut
and noses severed. The heart and lungs
had been thrown aside, and the entrails
twisted into a gaping wound around the
neck. The incisions showed rough dex
terity. The work of dissection was done
with the utmost haste. In consequence
of the refusal of Home Secrelary Math
ews to offer a reward for the arres' of
the murderer, the people of East End
petitioned Queen Victoria herself to au
thorize the offering of a reward.
NARROW ESCAPE,
The artillery parade recently, at which
the Emperor Francis Joseph narrowly
escaped being shot, took place at tbe
Steinfelt ranges in Vienna. The enape
ror had ordered that the bugle be
sounded—the signal to cease firing— 'll
order that he might inspect the target.
The officer in command of the battery,
located I.OQb yards away, did not hear
tbe signal/and us it was iHipos-ible for
him to see the emperor as he advanced,
owing to a depH'bfiou in the ground, the
battery again lin<l. Fortunately tie
emperor and lis suit' were out of the
Hue of fire, and coufc'H’i'ntly were not
hurt. Orderlies ru*h/d to the bult< ■
and pltvcut'. I 'Oiy further tiring-
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< 50 cents Tnrc« Months; Single Copies
( I cents--In Advsnoe.
SOUTHERN STRAYS-
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPW
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —
ROAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON ■
—FLOODS —ACCIDENTS —CROP CVXS®. ‘
GEORGIA.
A committee of 60 citizens, in stTtwflr.
session at Atlanta, nominated JolskilXL ’
Glenn, the well known lawyer,
mayor.
Macon citizens have subscribed
towards the expense of holding a Sfcsiis.'-
Fair, and it will be held Nov«tmJ«®’
5-10.
William Percy of Miss, was arrestedHtjsr
two Atlanta detectives for alleged .juot
der, and attempted to shoot them TriAkMia
pistol but was overpowered.
The Rome Exposition opened or> Mn»~
day with great eclat. The
and variety of the mineral exhilwtl *
staking, but the nu st beautiful feadaontr
is the display of marble.
The steamer Tronteeska, with
bales of cotton, was burned at the m-rwsifa
of Flint River. No lives were lost.
$35,000, partially insured. The craw
were picked up by the steamer NaaidL
Under the able management of
Win. Lowndes Calhoun, tbe presid’aA
the Fulton County Confederate
ans of Atlanta, the association is
ahead rapidly. Thirty new ruciwlMSV
weie added on Monday night.
One day's doings in Atlanta: MwSno-
Cunningham was stabbed to dertJbßjgr
William Merrjwethcr, in Jack Hyaaiflw
billiard hall, on Ivy street —all uegrr«si;x
n grocer named Abney, who came
Florida a month ago, was shot by
burglars; Elijah Hardeman, a .
attempted to kill a negro man amsfc
woman by shooting them, claiming' USay
insulted him.
At Bob King’s saw mill, four
east of.Calhoun, Mr. King was sta&tfccugf
over the saw. which was running, *3Hr
delivering to tighten some bolts witJk
wrench; his foot slipped, he lost ImsfoerS
ance, and fell upon the saw. The power
ful steel teeth horribly mangled his asto*..
and striking his head, crushed tbe
The teeth so deeply penetrated his hw&jr
that the machinery came to a coina&l*
standstill. The workmen carried him
into a shanty near by, where he shortts
expired. ' *
NORTH CAROLINA.
James B. Woods was put into
penitentiary at Raleigh, who was,
a few weeks ago, a practicing attorney-®!
Iredell county. His crime is forgery,aUM® \
he is to serve a three years’ sentence-.
At Dallas, Gaston county, C. M. Be***- '
ers was arrested on a capias from Gas&au,,
charged with criminal libel. Hu iaizixi ■ 1
in that county last year, was a ineidais '
of the Knights of Labor, quarreled ;
them, attacked them in the papers, ,
charged one of their leaders with Luring ,
stolen the leather of a tanner.
Bruner & Allen, the largest dealers wr
general merchandise at Wadesboro, B»aßhc
an assignment Tuesday under peeaKiur 1
circumstances. Last Saturday they Smv
lowed $5,000 and intended to us« xkufc- j
sum and $2,000 more in meeting
pressing claims. On a recent night muw
bold thief forced their safe and got <_
away with the $7,000. The result
that an assignment was necessary, ’ll*:::
firm’s liabiliiics aggregate about
Benjamin Debirry, died a most .
ble death in Anson county. He left In
town <>f Wadesboro in the morning xairv
much intoxicated, reeling as he sat ia Hjk *
buggy, which was drawn by n faitiAxo.'
horse. About noon, people who wr».-. ‘ ’•>
passing along the public road, keSUp- J
washed and marked by a steep I»is3 eIS tj
sand, and jagged stones, saw the i
and buggy moving very slowly. *
found Deberry entangled in the
mangled and bruised. The head wkv- u
jelly and the shoulders cut and bruifitjiL
MISSOURI.
A wreck occurred on the St.
Iron Mountain and Southern R.->i&w«jr
bridge, which crosses the St. Fruacit
river one mile north of Fredericktaou
For several weeks a bridge coast ructiigy
firm has been engaged in repairing tlx
wooden bridge which spanned tibia*
stream with un iron structure, and S»r»-
duy would have witnessed its
tion. A freight train was sent over khc ffl
bridge, and it gave away under lit
si rain. Where tho blame lies is »c
known. The wreck is a very owa-s.
one.
SOI TH CAROLINA.
The farmers in the Greenville dtstjrirJß
report lute cotton elightly damaged by ;.t«
f rost of Saturday and Sunday mortuojflM.
The pefrjiarop hns been practically rwuatJl
nn I cut short.
H. W. C. Smith, a very pr ink.■ it
highly e-t' eiiK-d young num of
had his k-ft arm s< verely cut and tew* V*.
a cotton gin. He died bu -re
u><! could be procured.
NO. 51.