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Elie Snvannftli Eribuue. Published by the Tbttcws Publishing Co.) 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 ' 2 ... L. (#1.25 Per Annum; 75 cents for Bix Months; < 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies ( 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 - il 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. NO. 1.