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J. H. DEVBAUX, Ma.xaokm >
VOL. IV.
(SOUTHERN STRAYS.
JA CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
(MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL-'
ROAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS —ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
Police Officer Woolridge, of Decatur,
died of yellow fever ou Monday.
M. 11. Amerine, of Montgomery,
wholesale dealer in tobacco and cigars,
made an assignment. Mr. Amerine’s fail
ure was caused by short collections, owing
to the yellow fever scare in North Ala
bama.
Two thousand miners, employed by
the Cahaba Coal Mining company, at
Bloctou, went out on a strike against a
reduction. The Cahaba Company has
"been paying 50 cts per ton for mining
since the sliding scale was adopted by
the mines in this district last Summer.
They announce a reduction of five cents
per ton and all the miners stopped work.
James Ware, a well known contractor
and former circuit court clerk, of Bir
mingham, was thrown down stairs by a
man named Place, and was fatally injured,
his skull being crushed in ou the right
aide. Place keeps a boarding house, and
at night Ware came to the house very
drunk. Place met him at the head of
the stairs and ordered him away 7 . Ware
began cursing and refused. After some
Words, Place pushed him down the stairs.
FLORIDA.
Drifton postofficc has been re-estab
lished.
Tice sentiment in Florida is strongly in
favor of the policy of nonintercourse with
Cuba from May to November by an iron
clad quarantine. It will be the most
prominent question in the state before
the Winter travel between the Gulf ports
and Havapa sets in.
LOUISIANA.
Thomas D. Miller, a member of the
cotton exchange, a wealthy sugar planter
and widely known in commercial and so
cial circles, died on Tuesday, at New Or
leans, aged 65.
John Chaffee, one of the most promi
nent members of the cotton exchange,
well known in the cotton trade and one
of the largest cotton planters in the Unit
ed States, died on Monday in New Or
leans, aged 73. Mr. Chatlee was funding
agent during the War, for the Confeder
ate government.
Hon. John Wentworth, better known
as “Long John,” a man as well known
as any in the West, died on Tuesday.
Mr. Wentworth was one of Chicago’s
oldest residents, and in his day was mayor
<of that city, congressman and editor of
the principal daily paper there. He was
73 years of age, and a man of wealth,
his estate beinu worthat least 81.000.000.
Bfrssorni.
Fire broke out in the Vandalia railway
freight depot in East St. Louis, and be
fore the fire department
fcould reach the scene, tjie depot was
’doomed, and the fire had spread to adja
cent buildings, including a hotel filled
•with people. The Vandalia freight
house was a total loss; fifteen freight
cars and 300 bales of cotton being de
stroyed.
NORTH CAROLINA.
At Mt. Zion chut ch, in Surry county,
as Rev. F. McNanghan, who had been
invited to preach, was in the pulpit and
in the very act of opening the service, he
fell dead without the least struggle. He
was 72 years old.
As a passenger train was moving slow
ly into the depot at Fremont, Stephen
Davis, a while man got directly in front
of the engine, and was crushed to death.
.No one saw him until the wheels had cut
him to pieces. It is alleged that he was
drunk at the time of the accident.
H. D. Robinson, who, for nearly two
years, had been manager of the Western
Union telegraph office, at Raleigh, was
some days ago. He has insti
tuted suit against the telegraph compa
ny for about six thousand dollars for
damages and services.
Police Detective B. F. Turlington, of
Wilmington, was sh t, probably fatally,
by a negro burglar whom he was attemp
ting to arrest ou the street. The ball etr
tered his jaw and ranged up. lodging in
his head. Tne negro would have ki.led
another man had his pistol not failed to
file.
Two white men, William Venters and
William A. Branch, set upon Calvin G >x,
at a political meeting in <. a ic >, and tear
ing plunks from a fence, b<h m on th ••
head until they hid driven into I is sXull
the n..ils which | rejected from t..e
planks. Cox was a ptomiiie t man some
years ago, and was grand lectun r of tho
grand lotige of Masons of North Caro
lina. Hu was a twin <u genius mid ;.n
inventor. d hia fnlul affr-y uus not duu
to any quarrel ni out poliuc', but wui
it stilt of 4 standing feud,
nftfam ■ . -e.. * .
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1888.
GEORGIA.
The Maeon Board of Health has raised
the quarantine against the infected dis- ,
tricts.
John W. Nevitt, of Athens, 73 years
old and a former resident of Savannah,
died at Athens.
Bill Johnson, a sort of tramp negro
employed by C. O. Newman, near Coch
ran, was lynched by about 500 citizens on
Saturday.
Five prisoners attempted to escape
from the city prison in Atlanta on Sun
day, and were only discovered by acci
dent. They had easily enlarged a hole
in the planking, which had been started
by a rat.
Col*. J. G. Hiser, of Rome, has been
granted a pension as a Mexican veteran.
He was surgeon in the 2d Kentucky in
fantry in the Mexican War, and com
manded the Cherokee troops during the
last War.
Lewis Edwards, acoloredman of Jesup,
who, in January 1886 killed Robert Smith
the proprietor of the Sunnyside House,
and under a life sentence, was riddled
with bullets by a crowd on Monday, who
broke into the jail.
Bill Lewis, the colored bill poster of
Albany, was burned to death on Sunday.
The neighbors smelled burning flesh, and
broke into his room, the doors of which
were locked. They found him lying
dead with his head in the fire. He was
an epileptic, and fell in the fire while in
a fit.
Angus J. Morrison, a Scotchman em
ployed as a granite miner at the Lithonia
quarries, bored three holes and filled
them with blasting powder. Two of the
blasts went off, and while examining the
third, to ascertain what the trouble was,
the blast suddenly exploded, taking
Morrison's head completely off.
The steamship Nacoochee arrived at
Savannah on Sunday, having on board
the captain, his daughter, and a lady
passenger and seven men, composing the
crew of the schooner Nava May, aban
doned off Cape Henry, water logged.
The schooner was on a voyage to Phila
delphia from Patalico Sound, with a
cargo of lumber.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Marion County Fair will begin on
October 31 and close on November 2.
I. A. Porcher, for many years a pro
fessor in the college of Charleston, died
on Monday, aged 82 years.
“Rev. P. B. Jackson, the pastor of the
Methodist church at Abbeville, has ac
cepted an appointment to a church in
California.
Rev. E. T. Hodges, who left the state
last year to accept the pastorate of a
Methodist church in California, wili re
turn to his old home this Winter.
An accident took place on the Spartan
burg & Asheville road, whereby Jenkins,
son of J. 11. Jenkins, of Greenville lost
his life. He was flagman of a freight
train and while walking on top of the
train near Fletcher’s station, stepped be
tween two cars and was mashed to death,
his left arm and leg being crushed.
Eight of the ciders in the Presbyte
rian church in Charleston have sent a
paper to the South Carolina synod now
in session at Greenwood, protesting
against the recent action of the Charles
ton presbytery. This action is instigated
by the recent adoption of a resolution
forbidding the discussion of the theory
of evolution.
An attempt was made to assassinate
J. L. Stoppelheim, supervisor of regis
tration for Charleston county. While
driving in the suburbs some one in the
bushes fit ed at him. The load of shot
entered his foot. His wounds are not
serious. Stoppleheim had frequently re
ceived threatening letters from a man
whom he had refused to grant registra
tion certificates, all of which breathed
threats of vengeance.
The Magnetic Iron Ore and Steel
Company, composed of capitalists from
Atlanta, Ga., and Birmingham, Ala.,
purchased, for §60,00'1, the great
er part of the magnetic iron ore
tract, near the town of Black’s in York
county. It was known that there was
iron ore i < this section, but it had no
railroad connection, and nothing was
done toward utilizing it until the
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago was
run through it. A dl part of this
propertv was bought a few years ago for
§l5O, and it was s Id to the railroad for
$12,500.
David E. Durand and his wife left
home ia Bishopville to sp nd the day,
leaving their little daughters, Eva and
Cora, with their brother-in-law. Late
in the evening, while the children were
playing. Carnes was informed that Corn
had fallen fr ni a bed in the room in
hurried iti where she and pteke 1 her
up, but she died in a very few seconds,
Inr neck having been broken by the
fall. The ne.U morning Eva died from
She shock cno-cd by hi r little >ist< r’«
death. Tin ilages were aevm and thir
teen req odivlly.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Doings of Congress and the United
States Officials.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate spent Tuesday debating
the tariff bi 11... .lu the House, Mr.
Plumb, of Illinois, from <he committee
on labor, called up the bill to settle the
accounts of laborers under the eight hour
law. Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee,
moved to adjourn, and this motion was
defeated; yeas 27, nays 31. Mr. Oates
said that he had failed in his effort to
get the House to adjourn, and he would
now like to adjourn himself. He asked
leave of absence for the remainder of the
session. This was granted, as was also
a similar leave to Mr. Lanham, of Texas.
In the Senate on Monday, Mr. Brown
presented a petition of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union of Georgia
for the repeal of the internal revenue
laws apd addressed the Senate. He re
fered to the fact that there was no quo
rum of either house in the city of Wash
ington, and that no business cculd law
fully be done in the face of a single ob
jection. There was, therefore, he said,
but one thing left to be done, and that
was to adjourn at the earliest day possi
ble. The discussion of the adjournment
resolution stopped after Mr. Allison had
spoken. Tha Senate proceeded with the
consideration of the tariff bill,and Mr. Vest
took the floor to speak upon it Mr.
Dougherty, of Florida, asked the unani
mous consent of the House for the imme
diate consideration of the Senate joint
resolution relative to a conference to bo
held to inquire into the methods for the
supression of yellow fever. E. B. Tay
lor, of O >io, objected, and reiterated his
statement that no more legislation should
be enacted this session. The Speaker
proceeded to call the states for the intro
ductions of bills and resolutions. Mr.
Oates, of Alabama, introduced a resolu
tion for an adjournment of Congress on
Wednesday, and there was much ap
plause, coupled with cries of “Vote, vote
vote,” by the few members present. Ev
ery one entered into it, an 1 it seemed ev
ident from the press gallery that there
was not a me tuber who opposed it; if
however went over.
GOSSIP.
The President has approved the act
to include Sapelo sound, Sapelo river
and Sapelo island in the Brunswick col
lection district of Georgia.
James Longstreet, Jr., of Georgia, has
been promoted from topographic assist
ant at §6OO to assistant topographer at
§720 in the interior department.
The Treasury Department has denied
the petition of Duckworth & Co., Wilder
& Co., and others, of Savannah, Gil, for
allowance of drawback on jute coverings
of cotton exported from that part after
May 19th, 1887, without preliminary en
tries.
Superintendent Horan, of the National
Museum, left ou Mo day for Augusta,
Ga., to superintend the placing of the
government exhibits from that bureau at
the Exposition, which opens in that city
on the Bth of November. Maj. Charles
S. Hill, commissioner of the government
exhibits, will also h ave for Augusta in a
few days, and Popes to have the govern
ment exhibit historical and illustrative
of the functions of the bureau of the dif
ferent departments, in readiness by the
time the Exposition opens.
Dr. Hamilton, surgeon-general, of the
Marine Hospital service, received, the
following telegram on Monday from the
Board of Health at Gainesville, Fla.:
“We have two new cases to-day in dis
tant parts of the city. The outlook is
not good.” Dr. Hamilton also received
the foilowing/ep rt from Surgeon Hut
ton, at Camp Perry: “Five deaths,
eleven employes, forty new refugees ar
rived. Discharged 32, remaining 113;
yellow fever camp 6, all convalescent; no
new cases in eight days.”
The case of the North Car lina special i
tax bond case was called in the supreme I
court of the United States on Tuesday, i
After counsel on bRh sides had announ- ;
cc- 1 their readiness to proceed, the justices
held an informal consultation. The
chief justice thin announced that the
court deservi d a full bench to hear this I
case, as it involved a constitutional ques- >
tion. As Justice Matthews was ill, the I
court would adjourn the hearing for the I
present. The case of Bernard P. Ilans ,
vs. the State of Loui-iana, involving a I
similar question was disposed of in like I
manner.
EMPIRE predicted.
The German speak dis- j
trus mglv < i rhe situation in Fiance.
T - G<’/„ quoting th
Fl, qm-t's r« vision bill, indorses the pre«
ha ,d. The 7b/A<7thinks that soine
oublicsn yuify is senlt d. ,
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABOR —SEETHING CAUL
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE —FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC. —NOTED DEAD.
Noted “Long John” Wentworth, atom
time mayor of Chicago. 111., is djing
from softening of the brain.
Emperor William presented to the
Pope a gold snuff box, set with jewels,
with his own portrait in the middle.
The sultan of Morocco will send an
embassy to the United States to com
plain, among other things, of the con- -
duct of Reed Lewis, United States con
sul at Tangier.
The grip cars of Chicago, 111. arc to be
hereafter run by new men, nearly all
the new hands being supplied from Kan
sas city, Mo. The police have their hands
full guarding the new men.
Forty thousand copies of Dr. Macken
zie’s book have been seized by the po
lice of Leipsic. The police are visiting
the bookshops in Beilin, and are seizing
all copies of Dr. Mackenzie’s book where
ever they are found.
The Pall Mall Gageite states that Dr.
Bergman, one of the physicians who
were in attendants upon the late Emperor
Frederick, will bring an action for libel
in English courts against Dr. Mackenzie,
for statements macle by the latter in his
book on the case of Emperor Frederick,
reflecting on Dr. Bergman’s ability as a
physician. The Gazette says that Dr.
Gerrarat will probably institute proceed
ings against Dr. Mackenzie.
The Pope is making arrangements for
the holding of a consistory, at which ho
will deliver an allocution concerning the
visit to his holiness of the emperor of
Germany. Cardinal Rampollo, papal
secretary, has sent a circular letter to the
various nuncios in which he says thattho
Pope is much satisfied with Emperor
William's visit to the Vatican, and that
Emperor William recognizes the Pope’s
high sovereignty.
E. D. Davison & Son have shut down
their lumber mills on Lallase River, near
Halifax, N. >S., throwing 400’men out of i
work. Cook & Co., have also shutdown,
their lumber mills, throwing another
large numb r out of employment, and
other lumbermen arc preparing to do
likewise. This action is taken on ac
count of the enforcement of the law
preventing sawdust from being dropped
from the mills into the river.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Dr. Neal Mitchell, President of the
Board of Health, of Jacksonville, Fla.,
issued the following official bulletin for
tl.e 24 hours ending Tuesday, New
cases, 58; deaths, 2; total cases, 3,675;
total deaths, 418. Two physicians re
signed Tuesday, and feft for Camp Perry.
Others have reconsidered their former
actiqn, and will remain. Dr. J. AL
Fairlie, Secretary of the Board of Trade, |
died. lie had been down with fever
nearly a w< ek, and was already worn ■
<>ut with continuous watching of sick in
his family. He was a native of Scotland I
and has resided in Jacksonville since J
1879. The prevailing opinion still holds j
that the epidemic is nearing its end, al- '
though the new cases ate numerous. The ;
phys clans say that oftentimes the dis- I
ease is more fatal at the close than at the j
height of an epidemic of yellow fever. I
Dr. J. F. Hartigan, reports to the marine j
hospital bureau, from Titusville, Fla., ;
that he has investigated that city, and I
binford, and finds them both healthy. !
He will leave for Orlando. Surgeon I
Hutton telegraphs from Camp Perry, I
Fla., that ten nurses will leave there for I
New Orleans. Montgomery has re- ■
moved quarantine regulations against all ’
points m Alabama, except Decatur, Ala.,
and Jackson, Miss. Three ca*es of I
yellow fever, nil colored; no deaths.
HUNGARIANS KILLED-
A wreck occurred on the Pottsville ,
division of the Lehigh VtdJey Railroad,
near Tamarind, Pa., between a Lehigh j
gravel train and a Pennsylvania fast
freight. The flagman diel not get back
far enough to signal the freight, which
struck the caboose of the gravel train, the j
l itter containing a batch of Hungarian
laborers, six of whom were instantly ;
kided. Twenty-six were injured, two of '
them dying while being conveyed to the
hospital. The gravel train was backing
on a siding Alien the frt ighttraiu, which
.was rjuining ou or 1< rs, appro ichel at a
high rate of speed and went crashing
into th' 1 cars uhe’d. The ki led and in- ;
jured men were a l on the tr .in,
with the i X < ptiou of ope TfliUeman on ■
the Pern syß-amuxra-n. who was killed (
on hi-' own tr •in.l'S ■ far as is kn »wn, the
resDOßsibiiity ’Mu up «n the shoulders <>f .
tlu ui. , V.dtoflag the freight )
lb tuiH lob tAut the utuduuL
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( 5 cents'-In Advance.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Flattery is sugar-coated lies.
It is good to be merry at moat.
Sweet meat must have sour sauce. *
Be fit for more than tho thing you are
now doing.
The time is never lo’st that is devoted
to good works.
Duties fulfilled arc always pleasures
to the memory.
Faithfulness and sincerity are the
highest things.
Wo rospect ourselves moro if we
j have succeeded in life.
Truth is tho property of no individual,
but is tho treasure of all men.
After missing one opportunity wo are
shy about embracing another.
It is ono thing to notice a wink and
another to know what it means.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood,
and forgets tho obligations of gratitude.
No man ever did a designed injury to
another without doing a greater to him
self.
Diffidence i», perhaps, quite as often ,
tho child of vanity as of aelf-deprecia-A
tion.
Tho happiness of love is in action; its
test is what ono is willing to do for
others.
Tho manner of giving shows tho
character of tho giver moro than the
gift itself.
Tho passionate aro like men standing
on their headj; they son everything tho
wrong way.
Happy tho man who early learna the
wide chasm that lies between his wishes
and his powers.
Ladies of fashion starve their happi
ness to feed their vanity and thoir love
to food their pride.
Truth is tho most powerful thing in
j tho world, since fiction can only pleasa
ns by its resemblance.
A Northern Water Route to Yenisei.
A wealthy Russian merchant named
Sibiriakoff has expended largo sums of
money in endeavoring to reach tho Yen
isei river in Siberia by tho northern
water route. Ho has always failed, t
while a British sea captain named Wig- 7 ;
gins has successfully made three trips
and has recently started on a fourth.
Wiggins states that tho Russian’s fail
ure is duo to tin fact that tho ships
employed by him were not fit for such
a voyage and got caught in the lea,
Tho Russian government lias shown its
' appreciation of Captain Wiggins* en
terprise in opening tho northern route
by granting him special trading privi
leges for five years. Tho profits of the
trade arc said to bo enormous. A first
class ship’s mast 60 feet high can be
■ bought on tho Yenisei for $5; beef costs "
there only five cents a pound; a ton of
salt worth about $4 nt Liverpool is sala- i
ble at Yeniseisk lor §75; a ton of wheat
I can bo bought there for $5, and Captain
Wiggins found a fine quality of black
lead so plentiful th t ho ballasted his
i ship with it. J
A Man of One Idea.
“Did it ever occur t > you that Jonks ,
must be a very narrow minded person?” '
i said a travelling man to his wife.
| “Mr. Jenks who has but ono eye? 1 ’
‘Y'es; yqu mention the peculiarity
upon which I base my conclusion.”
“Do you think him necessarily nar
row minded simply became ho hasn’t
; two eyes?'*
“Exactly.”
‘ Because he’s a man of one eye, t.
dear."—[Merchant Traveller.’ J
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The Careless Bananicide.
“Bannnicide” is a new Word coined |
by tho Martha’s Vineyari Herald. It ia I
a good one and refers to tho thoughtless |
—or malicious —persons who, whenever I.
they spend a uickle or hang up the I
deaicr for a banana, advartiso tha fact f
by spreading tho peel over as much I
sidewalk us pos iblo, where its pre- - e :cn |
is left th<nigh not always s:on. ** fluis> 1
aucidos” shculd bo tripped up at their m
I owe, game.
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