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iZhc 'hnviinnuh Zvibunc. Publiihed by the Tktbuxh Pnbh»hfac O». ) J. H. DEVEAUZ. Mabmm* > 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.