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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.
Dr. R. V. 'Williams died in Decatur
on Monday of yellow fever.
The Pike 'County Guano Factory, at
Troy, was burned. Loss $50,000; insu
rance $25,000.
A stabbing affray occurred at Bridge
port, which resulted in serious injuries
to Alexander Carpenter. Mr. Carpenter
got into a quarrel with a stranger, whose
name could not be learned, when the
fellow stabbed him in the back with a
knife, indicting a painful wound. The
extent of his injuries are not known but
it is thought they will not prove fatal.
Fire broke out in the McClellan
House at Birmingham, and burned so
rapidly that the building was almost to
tally destroyed, before the firemen could
get the flames under eontrol. J. A.
Weatherby of the Evening Chronicle,
■with his sister and niece, jumped from
the third floor to the yard, a distance of
fifty feet Weatherby was fatally in
jured.
S. G. Lawrence, a recently elected
justice of the peace of Birmingham, ac
companied by Will Lacey, both armed,
entered the Hot Blast office for the pur
pose of making W. 11. Edmunds, the
editor, retract something he said in a
card to the Montgomery Advertiser, de
nying statements made by Lawrence as
correspondent of the Montgomery Dis
patch, concerning the difficulty between
Edmunds and ex-Policemau Phinize,
which he (Edmunds) declined to do.
Lacey commenced firing promiscously a
self-cocking revolver, striking Edmunds
in the left arm, badly crushing and break
ing it. S. C. Tripney, a plumber, who
was in the room, received a ball in the
"back of his head, coming out through
the mouth. John Chappell, a young
man connected with the office, was shot
through the back of the neck. None of
the wounds will likely prove fatal. Mr.
Edmunds will lose his arm.
GEORGIA.
The National Forestry Congress will
meet in Atlanta Nov. 29.
fiei The Young Men’s Library Association
of Atlanta was damaged by fire ou Tues
day to the extent of $5,000.
Because he could not control his appe
tite for whiskey, Remus Jones, a young
man of Atlanta, ended his life on Tues
day by taking 14 grains of morphine.
The latest returns on the vote to
amend the s'ate constitution to have two
more judges on the supreme court bench,
shows a majority against it of about 5,-
500.
The criminals in Atlanta varied the
methods of murder on Monday, by chlo
roforming a woman, binding her hand
and foot, and nearly choking her to
death with a rope around her neck. The
deed was done by two men, and Jim
Tucker, of Douglas county, was arrested
as one of the men.
The colored woman, Maria Farris, who
was shot through a window while eating
supper, in Summerville, died on Mon
day. Rev. EJmoud Harns, a colored
Presbyterian preacher, and a former
member of the Legislature from Warren
county, and who is worth SIO,OOO, is in
jail as accessory. The alleged assassin
is Nathan Walker, who says Harris gave
him $5 to shoot the woman.
LOUISIANA.
A rule was taken a few days ago on
Gen. J. B. Vinnet, public administrator
of New Orleans, requiring him to pay
over $30,000 to the heirs of Kate Town
send. The fact is made known that his
predecessor, Gen. Vallere, is about $40,-
000 short iu his accounts. This amount
or more is due tQ the administrator of
the stateiby Vallere. In May last, Vallere
was elected criminal sheriff for the parish
L of Orleans, and still holds the position.
■Hu.
MARYLAND.
Mr. ‘‘and Mrs. Kenneman and their
eighteen months’ child, and Mrs. Phillips
and her four children, were crossing the
Wicomico River iu a canoe, near Princess
Anne, when a sudden blow of wind cap
sized the craft. Mrs. Kenneman, with
her babe iu her arms, sank instantly.
Mrs. Phillips’ two-months-old babe was
borne from her arms in the struggle for
life in the water, and went down to
gether with her four-years-old child.
NORTH CAROLIN 1.
Governor Scales commuted to lile im
prisonment. the death sentence of Cora
Wright, colored, who was to be hanged
at Tarboro November 2. She was eon
victed of murdering her six month-’’ old
child by placing it in a hollow stump
and lifting it starve to death.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 13, 1888.
TENNESSEE.
Rev. Sam Jones is admonishing Nash
ville sinners. He said: “The fact is
the Christians of Nashville are too stilted.
You can’t fight by yourself, brethren.
As long as you are trying to do right
God and angels and good men will be
with you.”
A terrible shooting affray occurred in
Chattanooga on Monday, in which David
C. Hunter was shot three times by Vic
tor Gordon and instantly killed. Gor
don had his jaw broken by Hunter, who
hit him with a plank after he had been
shot twice. The murdered man was
anly 19 years of age.
R. D. Wilson, recently in the govern
ment service as a postal clerk on the
Memphis & Charleston Railroad between
Chattanooga and Memphis, during the
existence of the recent quarantine, de
clined to make his runs, and also ex
pressed an unwillingness, in accordance
with requirements, to make his home in
Chattanooga. He resigned, by request.
Two brothers, aged ten and fourteen,
named Green, took a keg of powder
from the camp of Condon Bros., on the
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville
Railroad. They poured it out in a pile
and were experimenting, when the ex
plosive became . ignited. One of the
boys was literally blown to pieces and
the other so badly injured that he died
soon after.
George M. Bradt, of Chattanooga, has
been indicted for arson. Mr. Bradt has
been accused’of setting fire to his print
ing office on the night of August 9th,
which resulted in the destruction of the
Caldwell-Griffis block, ami the loss of
several lives. The fire broke out iu the
printing office, which was located in the
second story of the block, and spread
with such rapidity that nearly half a mil
lion dollars’ worth of property was de
stroyed.
The family of John L. Kirby, editor
of the Sunday-School Visitor of Nash
ville, were at the Sam Jones meeting,
when a two-horse wagon drove up with
three men in it. One got out and entered
the house from the rear, the other two
staying with the wagon. The first man
brought out bundle after bundle, but the
neighbors supposed it was all right. By
and by the wagon drove off, and when
Kirby’s family returned they found the
house in disorder. Every drawer and
trunk in the house had been ransacked,
and every garment of clothing stolen.
The delegates of the Trades and Labor
organizations of Nashville, to complete
the organization of a permanent Trades
and Labor federation met. A permanent
organization was effected. The committee
on resolutions reported and the resolu
tions were adopted—opposing the con
vict lease system, opposing the importa
tion of contract pauper labor, deploring
the formation of trusts and pools, oppos
ing children under the age of fourte n
years in workshops and factories, op
posing the monopoly of natural opportu
nities, land, money and transportation,
favoring the adoption of the eight hour
system, favoring the stamping of all
union made goods and the purchase of
the same, favoring a thorough system of
I free school education and favoring the
I Australian system of voting in national
elections.
SOUTH CAROLINA. f
Alec Farrar, who for many years has
been the crier of the U. S. Court, died
at Charleston, Sunday. He was very
polite and had a weakness for praising
the personality of the higher officers of
the court and of the lawyers and the re
porters. It was a common thing with
! him to say, “Mr A. or Mr I’, you look
i really very charming this morning sir,
: oyster soup, sir, to-day, across the way.”
i It is related that he made a similar speech
1 to the late Chief Justice of the United
States Court during the progress of the
political trials. He was as polite as
Chesterfield on all occasions, his bow us
ually extending from the soles of his
feet to the top of his head.
There is a section of Colleton county
which has had remarkable spells of
weather during the past two years. The
I section is not over twenty miles square.
■ For fourteen months following
I the earthquake, which was very severe
! in that section, there was an almost con-
I tinuous drought. During this time the
total rainfall did not exceed two inches.
I Streams and springs dried up: crops and
; cattle peri-hed for want of water and it
' w.is difficult for the people to obtain
good drinking water. A little over two
! months ago rain began falling steadily in
that section, and for 57 consecutive days
tAere were only two upon which it did
; not rain. All the lowlands were turned
into lakes.
QUEER.
John €’. Cornelson. whose horse-whip
ping of Judge Richard Reed, of the su
perior court, in Louisvi le, Ky., led to
the latter’s suicide, was respited from im
i prisonment by Governor Buckner for a
1 term of nine months. He wdl then re
| tun to jail to serve out three years.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Doings of Congress and the United
States Officials,
CONG RESSIONAL.
In the Senate on Tuesday, Mr. Harris,
; from the committee on epidemic diseases,
reported a joint resolution directing the
chiefs of medical bureaus of the army
and navy and marine hospital service
to co-operate with the yellow fever con-
I fereuce to be held in Washington. The
. resolution for an inquiry into the assassi
i nation of Joseph Hoffman, a witness be
: fore the committee on privileges and
! elections (in the investigation into politi
| cal disturbances at Brenham, Texas,)
| was adopted... .In the House, in consid-
I oration of the morning hour, Mr.Mcßae,of
Arkansas, ou behalf of the committee on
public lands, calleci up the Senate bill to
relieve purchasers of and indemnify cer
tain states for swamp and overflowed
lauds disposed of, but a quorum not
being present nothing was done.
The tariff debate in the Senate on
Monday was inaugurated by the speeches
of Senator Allison and Senator Vance
for the Republican and Democratic sides
respectively. But the tariff has already
been discussed so much this session that
very little interest was manifested by the
general public, and the galleries, as us
ual, were almost deserted. On the floor,
however, there were more members pres
ent than have shown up for some weeks,
but they did not remain very long. The
l two speeches consumed the entire day.
■ ....Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, reported
[ favorably to the House, from the com
mittee on expenditures in the Treasury
Department, the bill appropriating
$500,000 to establish camps for yellow
fever refugees. The bill authorizes the
President to establish camps of refugees
in designated localities; to furnish sup
plies to camps and to destroy camp
equipage after the disappearance of the
epidemic.
GOSSIP.
The annual report of William A.
West, chief inspector. of the po-toffice
i department, show's that during the last
fiscal year, 791 persons were arrested for
offenses against the postal laws. Os this
number 213 were postal employes, 172
were burglars and mail robbers, and 4b6
I were persons unclassified.
I Reports received in Washington on
Monday show that a track has been con
structed around Jacksonville, Fla., mak
ing connection between the Jacksonville,
Tampa Key West Road with the Sa
vannah, Florida & Western Railroad,
thus allowing through transportation to
I the South without entering Jacksonville.
Argument in case No. 846, the United
States against the American Bell Tele
phone Company, began iu the United
States supreme court on Tuesday. Judge
Thurman made the opening address for
the United States. The case grows out
of a suit brought by Acting Attorney
General Jenks in the circuit curt of the
United States for the District of Massa
l chusetts to have canceled two patents
I granted Alexander Graham Bell as in-
I ventor of the telephone, on the ground
i that the patents were obtained by fraud.
Chief Justice Fuller took the oath of
i office and assumed the active duties of
his position on Monday. An hour before
th'e time for the opening of the court,
the narrow space plotted the general pub
lic in the court chamber was crowded by
men and women, who wanted to witness
I the ceremony of installation. It was an
' orderly, well mannered throng of con
| gressmen, attorneys and ladies, which
' sought to pack itself into a space far too
small to contain it, and naught but crow-
I ding marred the usual solemn decorum
! of the proceedings.
The weather crop bulletin issued by
I the Signal Office, says: “The weather
■ has been favorable for all growing crops
; during the week throughout the cotton
; region, and cotton picking is progressing
I rapidly. In Northern Texas the crop is
reported about two weeks late. Light
I frosts occurred in the northern portion
' of the gulf states during the first part of
j the week, and some damage resulted to
tobacco in North Carolina, Tennessee
and Kentucky. In some sections of the
last named state one-fourth of the late
I tobacco crop has been injured. In Ten
-1 ncssec the weather is favorable for the
I seeding of wheat, and an increased
! acreage is reported.”
AVE-T VIRGINIA.
The Cincinnati and St. Louis Express
train, on the B. & O. Railroad, while
running 40 miles an hour, ran into a
I freight train at Dickerton’s Station on
| Sunday and the killed and wounded are:
I William 11. Wiley, postal clerk, of Fair
| mount; John Casey, postal clerk, of
| Washington; George Ridenbaugh,
| brateeinan, of Berlin were killed. Ihe
injwa-d are; Engineer J< s.ph .Jeffries,
oFthe exprejs; J. B. \ irtz, fireman of
, the freight'Ahumas Landon, conductor
! of the express; A. C. Crook, postal
I clerk; L. W. Gordon, express messenger;
I 11. M. Jack-on, postal clerk.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIKES,
SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
President Carnot, of France, opposes
a revision of the constitution.
Doles’guano works. "■ Boston, (Mass.)
harbor, were burned < n Mo iday.
Snow to the. depth of six inches fell at
several points in Central New York and
in Western Ontario. *
The people of Ramsey county, Dakota,
are starving, caused by early frosts kill
ing the crops, and an appeal for aid has
been issued.
James T. Clark & Co., carriage manu
facturers, of Racine, Wis., failed. Lia
bilities about $200,000. Dull business is
given as the cause of the collapse.
Emperor William has ordered that his
state carriage, horses and servants be sent
to Rome, for the purpose of driving him
to visit the Pope at the Vatican in state.
The death of Miss Seraphine Roth, of
New Orleans, took place in New York,’
under especially mournful circumstances.'
Miss Roth was the daughter of Jacob
Roth, a German merchant in the Cres
cent city. She died of heart disease.
The German ami Italian Anarchists
mean mischief. Letters from Zurich,
which have been intercepted, refer to some
plot against Emperor William and give
rise to the belief that he will be attacked
during his tour of Italy.
The United States’ cruiser Baltimore
was launched nt Crump’s ship yard on
the Delaware River, near Philadelphia,
Pa. Mrs. Theodore D. Wilson, wife of
the chief of the Bureau of Construction
of the Navy Department christened the
vessel.
Francis W. Williams, junior member
of the well known banking house of
Williams, Black & Co., committed sui
cide at lhe Grand Union hotel, New
York, on Monday. 'The firm was
squeezed by the “Old Hutch” wheat
corner, ami suspended on the 26th of
September.
The International Bank of Berlin,
Germany, has been founded with a capi
tal of $5,000,000. It absorbs Goldbcrger’s
banking business without taxing the lia
bilities. The directors include Gold
berger and Dessaner, manager of Roth
child’s Vienna house, who are president
and vice-presdents respectively.
A FIGHT ON.
The support of the trades’ assembly
has been pledged to the car men in Chi
cago, 111., during the strike. Mayor
Roche issued a proclamation requesting
the people of the city not to congregate
in the streets. The first collision be
tween the police and strikers occurred
about midnight at Larrobee street barns
on Sunday. Capt. Shaack and a com
pany of his men brought sixteen im
ported laborers to a barn in the guise of
special policemen, and was trying to get
them under cover without attracting at
tention, when a few of the strikers began
to call out “scab,” “scab.” This inlu
riated the captain and spiingingfrom his
buggy he called on officers to clear the
street. The men were slow' about obey
ing the order. In fact, they behaved as
if they would rather that homebody else
would clear the street. The captain,
who had advanced to within a few feet
of the position occupied by the strikers,
observed the situation, and turning upon
the line of blue coats, be shouted:
“Cowards, disperse this mob.” The of
ficers, evidently nettled at this, rushed
at a little knot of strikers with drawn
clubs and scattered it in every direction.
CHINESE ARRIVALS.
The steamer Be'gic arrived Monday
at San Francisco, Cal., from Hong Kong.
She brings 106 Chinese. The Duke of
Westminster also arrived from Hong
Kong via Vancouver, B. C., with 211
Chineseaboard. From advices by the
Belgic the following is gleaned: A dis
astrous flood in the province of Moukden,
about 250 miles northeast of Pekin,
caused the death of hundreds of natives;
the utter annihilation of very many
homes, destruction to the crops and pros
pects of a general famine for the coming
winter. Cholera is still raging at Hong
Kong. The daily average of patients
ranges from forty to fifty, most of whom
die.
SNOW FALL.
• Snow fell over a great part of Quebec,
New Hampshire and Vermont on TWes
<l..y, to the depth of from two inches in
New Hampshire to six inches iu Mon
treal. *
I f 1.25 For Annum; 75 cents for Six Months;
< 50 cents Three Months; Single CopiM
( 5 cent►-In Advance.
GEORGIA’S CROPS.
Col. Henderson, the Commissioner of
Agriculture of Georgia, in bis last report,
says: “The heavy "sfor'ins of raw■■anq
wind which occurred during the first
twelve days of September, covering the
entire stale, proved very damaging t<f
most crops not harvested, but especially
to cotton and rice. The storms werd
most violent and the rainfall the greatest
in the eastern and northeastern section o|
the state, causing great floods in the Sai
vanuah and Ogeechce rivers, almost
without precedent in the history of thfl
state. The general reduction of thfl
condition of the cotton crop —an average
of the state—was 10 points, or from 83
on September 1, to 75, October 1. Thiq
is due almost entirely' to the heavy storms
already alluded to. ' In North Georgia
the damage was 11 points; in Middle!
Georgia, 14; in Southwest Georgia, 3; in
East Georgia, 7; in Southeast Georgia,
13; showing that the greatest injury oc
curred in the valleys of the Savannah and
Ogeechce rivers. The general average
condition for the state is three points bes
low that < f October 1, 1887. It is quite
evident that t he sober, second thought of
the farmers has reduced the first esti
mates of damage. The effects of the
storms ami floods are also seen in the TCi
duction of the condition and prospective,
yield of corn from 93 on September 1, to
88 on October 1. The condition is now
the same as that of October 1, 1887.;
The sugar cane crop is ieported bffij
little under an average, while in fact, it H
probably the best crop we have
hud for several years. Ried
is not damaged as much as wad
first estimated, showing a redu’etion in’’
Southeast Georgia (where the bulk of tht
crop is produced) of but 4 points smefl
September 1. Swct potatoes have sm<
proved 3 points and give promise of a full
crop. The questions in regard to the priced
of cotton bagging, on the first day ol
October, 1887, and flic date this year,
the average quantity used per bale, and
the price of cotton, were intended to
elicit, facts which have a special interest
at this time. At 6.4 yards per bale ir
required 45,000.(100 yards of bagging fol
the crop of At. 8.9 cents pel
yard the prevailing price of last season,'
the cost ol the bagging for that crop was
$4,005,000. Assuming that the crop ol
the present year will equal that of last
year, the cost of covering it with jutfl
bagging at 14 cents- per yard will bfl
$6,300,000, or an increase of $2,295,000.’'
‘‘MOVE ON!”
Jim Henderson, a colored mar,, who
has been working for the Atlanta Street
Railroad Company for some time past,
was shot through the head by Wiiiiaia-
Brown, another colored man, on Sunday
night. Ttie shooting occurred at a uegni
church beyond West End and caused
considerable excitement. Soon after!,
dark, Henderson and a companion named
Williams, approached the church and
when near the buildi .g, passed Brown.)
Brown pulled out a pistol and
skipped out. Brown approached Hen-;
derson. “What, don't you move?”
“Why should 1 move? 1 hava’t done
anything,” answered the negro. “Well
get. Get a move on you!” said Brown,
raising his pistol. Henderson stood still
ami Brown pulled the trigger. The ball
pass d into Henderson’s mouth and with
lhe blood pouring down his chest, he
ran into the church. As he moVed, Brown
fired two more times. Hendersonentered
the < hutch as fast as he could move
and threw' the congregation into great
excitement. He dropped near the pulpit.
It was found that onefiali knocked aw'ay
several teeth and tearing half the tonguf
away had buried itself in the neck. 11
was found in the back of the neck.
MORMONS DOWNED.
The supreme court of Utah entered a
final ju igment anil decree in the case of
the United States against the Mormon
church, which was pending to dissolve
the church corporation and have its
property declared escheated to tho
government. The suit was brought in
the supreme court of that territory under
the act. of Congress of February 10,1887.
In that suit a receiver was appointed for
the church corporation and succeeded in
collecting over $7,000,000 worth of
property, real and personal. The decree
entered is a complete triumph for the
government. _______
SPECK OF WAR.
German frigates Moltke, Stosch, Gneis
enau and Charlotte, which were lying in
the Bay of Naples, Italy, for the purpose
of firing a salute in honor of Emperor
William upon his arrival there, have re
ceived orders to proceed instantly to Zan-j
zibar to protect German residents whose'
lives and property are endangered by a
rising among the natives. The f >ur war
ships carry a complement of 1,6 .0 men
and mount 66 guns. The German trdn-.
ing squadu kof half a dozzen ve?sds in
the Mcditcmmeau hss also been ordered
to Zanzibar.
NO. 52.