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VOL. IV.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
& CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEN —RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES —THE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS —ACCIDENTB —CROP RETURNS. I
ALABAMA.
The two Houses of the Alabama Legis
lature |in joiut session, inaugurated
Sovernor Thomas Seay, who was re
jected to a second term of office at
the last state election. Hon. John L.
Cobbs, State Treasurer, and Hon. C. D.
Hogue, State Auditor, were sworn in and
assumed the duties of the office.
The colored residents of Pigeon Roost,
Birmingham, were wild with fright on
Mom ay, and many fled from their homes.
Early in the evening a large lion escaped
from its cage in Forepaugh’s ten cent cir
cus, and is now lying under a house in
Pigeon Roost. The attaches of the circus
could not be induced to go within one
hundred feet of the beast.
The third one of the four big furnaces
at Ensley went in blast. The 100 ton
furnace at Tiussville, nine miles from
Birmingham, also went in blast
Work on Thomas furnace No. 2 com
menced in earnest, a large force of men
being put to work. All the furnaces in
this distrct are now in operation, except
the Williamson, which is out of blast
for repairs.
W. L. Williams, a Star route mall
carrier in Lawrence county, was mur
dered and robbed by unknown parties.
Williams carried a daily mail route be
tween Moulton and Oaksville, Lawrence
county. At an early hour Saturday
morning he started out on his route, and
at a point some ten miles from Moult n
lie was shot dead from ambush. The
mail sack was cut open and rifled of
several registered packages, and the body
of Williams was robbed of all his money
and valuables.
ARKANSAS.
Philadelphia people are claiming a
tract of over 20,000 acres of land near |
Berryville, and have recorded a deed i
conveying title to the property. The ;
land is occupied by farmers and is worth
about $250,000.
x FLORIDA.
On Monday there was not a new case |
of yellow lever in Jacksonville. Ten
gangs of mha, comprising the fumigat
ing brigade, started at work.
S. F. DeLesdenier, of-Houston, Tex.,
suicided at the City hotel in Pensacola.
DeLesdenier was a prominent member of
the I. O. O. F., having been a grand rep
resentative of his state at the meeting of j
the Southern grand lodge held in Atlanta j
in 1884, and in Indianapolis in 1875, and |
at the time of his death was grand scribe !
of thfis order in Texas.
The steamer David Clark, from Sa
vannah, Ga., arrived at Fernandina on j
Sunday, with a lot of passengers and :
considerable freight. The steamer was :
met at the dock by a bra-s band. The |
dock was crowded with joyous people, |
it being the first steamer entering that !
port since September 1. Speeches were
made by Mayor Barr and others.
The City Council of Jacksonville re
pealed the refugee ordina' ce, substituting
therefor one framed to meet the action of
the Board of Health. Mayor Gerow sub
sequently issued the following proclama
tion: “Whereas, by resolutions passed
this day by the city council of the city
of Jacksonville, and the Duval county
board of health, respectively, it appears
that said authorities are assured that the
work of disinfecting the city will be
practically accomplished by the 15-h in-
Btant; therefore, be it known that any
and all persons, on and after the 15th
day of December, instant, may lawfully
enter into and remain within said city.
Dated Jacksonville, Fla., December 4,
1888. D. F. Gerow, Acting Mayor.”
LOUISIANA.
Fire on Tuesday afternoon destroyed
the buildings 40, 42 and 44 Chartres
stre«t, in New Orleans, occupied by
Janus Boyle & Co., wholesale notions
and cloti ing, and Eugene Dupree,
wholesale boats and shoes. Boyle’s 10-s
is estimated at $50,000; Dupree’s less is
r estimated at SOO,OOO. The stock and
building of the O ior Dessau's perfumery
were damaged to the ex
tent of $10,000; fully insured.
NORTH CAROLINA.
k Van Cannadv, the murderer of James
Phil beck of Shelby, was lynched on Sun
day.
lion. Thomas Settle, judge of the
United States c >urt of Florida, and a
recognized liglu in Republican pol.tics
in the South, died at his home in Greens
boio, N. C., on Sunday morning.
A son of Cupt. J. J Thomas, a promi
nent citizen of Raleigh, walked into u
hardware store, bought a pistol, had s
loaded, and before he could be*teo
raised it to his head Jjrcd, killing
himself iuttautb’. * *
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1888.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A suit in the common pleas for $lO,-
000 damages, bsought by Geerdes against
the Charleston Ice Company, for annoy
ance caused by the smell of ammonia
used in the manufacture of ice, was end- j
ed with a verdict for the company.
' A strange accident occurred in Charles
ton. Two colored draymen, while at- 1
tempting to load a carboy of vitriol on a j
dray, smashed the carboy. The acid set
lire to their clothing and also to the dray
and mule’s tail. The two men and the
mule were badly injured, perhaps fatally.
Colored tenants on farms in various
parts of the state have become imbued
with the idea that they will not be re. j
quired to pay their rents, now that Gen. |
Harrison has been elected President, and
many of them are squandering their
bard-earned money in the purchase of f
musical instruments and other luxuries, j
In Orangeburg county and other sections, j
some of the colored small farmers are j
turning out their stock to graze at large, '
as they think that President-elect Harri
son will wipe the fence law out of exist
ence when he goes into office.
TENNESSEE.
Rev. Dr, W. E. Boggs has ["announced
to the representatives of his congregation
at Memphis, his acceptance of the chancel
lorship of the University of Georgia, sub
ject to the action of his presbytery.
An attempt was made by unknown
parties to wreck a passenger train be
tween South Pittsburg and Bridgeport.
Some ties were put on the track, but
were found by one of the section men
and removed before the train’s time.
The officers discovered another link
in the line of evidence, which is being
worked to show, that the recent European
Hotel tire in G'hattanooga, where several
people lost their lives, was incendiary.
On Monday Detective Frank Papeniun
| found three witnesses who saw the hotel
! set on fire and the officers are looking
j for additional testimony. They believe
several persons are implicated. Thus far
only one arrest has been made.
VIRGINIA.
The total sales of leaf tobacco by auc
i tion in the Danville market in Novembei
was 1,751,968 pounds; sales from Octo
j her Ist to November 30th, inclusive,
2,875,801 pounds. S.de of tobacco
stanqis one week aggregates $7,749.
I News has been received of the destruc
tion by tire of about one-halt
of the entire town of Jonesville, the j
county site of Lee. Total loss $50,000.
After the lire was over H. O. Ballou shot
and killed Dan Craig and mortally
wounded Berry Craig, a brother of Dan.
Ballou in some way intimated that the
Craigs had possibly set tire to the town,
| and the difficulty and killing was the
: result.
The Baptist Congress, consisting of tbe j
| leading ministers and laymen,' began its {
I seventh annual session at Richmond last j
! Tuesday. Dr. P. Puryear read a papei I
I on “Ho w Far the S-ate Should Educate.” !
' A paper on ‘ C unmou vs. Parochial j
; Schools,” by Rev. Dr. Phillip Moxurn, |
I was presented. Rev. Walter Raunsc en- j
i bauscb, of New York, thin addressed j
the congress. The night session was ;
taken up with addre.-ser on Prohibition i
and high 1 cense by Dr. Way laud Hoyt !
and H. A. DeLane.
HARRISON’S VISITORS.
Gen. James Long-treet, of Georgia,
accompanied by his friend, Hon. E. A.
Angier and Alton Angier, of Atlanta,
called on Gen. Ha rison at Indianapolis.
Ind. His visit is declared to be purely a
social one and at the invitation of his
o d friend, Dr. Wilson, a neighboj
of the President-elect, formerly tin
commander of O M. Mitchell Post G.
A. R., of Atlanta. On Sunday night,
General Harrison presided at the fifty
third anniversary of the Indianapolis
benevolent society. The audience num
bered nearly 3,000. Gen. Harrhou
opened the exercises proper of the even
ing with a few remark . lie recalled
many meetings of the benevolent society I
in contrast with this. It was formerly I
the habit to hold these anniversary
meetings on evenings of Thanksgiving j
Day. Many of them, in earl er years ot |
his recollection, were but sparsely at
tended. Perhaps this was the result of i
lethargy of overfeeding <>n Thanksgiv- |
ing Day, for, notwithstanding the sparse
attendance which sometimes rewarded j
the invitation of society to its anniver- !
sarv there has always been, he believed,
av tv widespread ;> ud do -p inteiest in
tlm work of benevolence.
IS he guilty?
An evening paper in Washington re
rehearses .editorially the charges againsl
Governor Perry, of Florida, that he was
responsible for tbe yellow fever epidemic,
H m then says: "It is a serious charge tc
lay at, any man’s do r, and the gnveruoi
. mb make u strenuous defen-o
™ - n .°« .' ; n n ” f bis stubbornness in the
in jus i I • Vliug crisi
to n ot the nape*
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE-
Mr. Pruden, one of the President’s
secretaries, was announced, and
the Annual Message was delivered
to the House and immediately
read by the clerk. That portion of the
Message in which the President treats of
the tariff question was listened to at
tentively by members on both sides of
the house. Now and then a smile, more
of triumph than of derision, would ap
pear upon the face of some cnthudastic
Republican, but the silence was not
broken until the clerk read in a clear
; voice: “the cause for which the battle is
waged is comprised within lines clearly
and distinctively defined. It should
never be compromised. It is the people's
> cause.” Then the Democrats could no
longer restrain their feelings and broke
| into a round of applause, which was an
swered by the Republicans with derisive
| laughter. The President’s reference to
the Sackville-West incident provoked a
laugh from the Republican side of the
House, but no counter demonstration was
made by the Democrats. From this
point interest in the Message slackened.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, was the only mem
ber who paid the slightest attention to
the further reading, and the noise of
conversation was so great that this was
no easy task. When, at 3.15, the read
ing was complete 1, Mr. Mills offered a
resolution, which was agreed to, refer
ring the Message to the committee of the
whole and providing for its printing.
On the subject of trusts
and “combines,” he said: “As
we view the achievements of aggre
nated capital, we discover the existence
of trusts, combinations and monopolies,
while the citizen is struggling far in the
j rear or is tramped to death beneath an
iron heel. Corporations, which should
be the carefully restrained creatures of
the law and the servants of the people,
are fast becoming the people’s masters.
Still congratulating ouiselves upon the
wealth and prosperity of our country,
and complacently contemplating every
incident of change inseparably from these
conditions, it is our duty as patriotic
citizens to inquire at the present stage ol
our progress, how the bond of govern
ment made with the peoplb has been
kept and performed, ami instead of linn
iting the tribute drawn from our citizens
to the necessities of its economical ad
ministration, the government persists
under the same laws by which these re
sults are produced, the government per
mits many millions more to be added tc
the cost of the living of our people and
to be taken from our consumers, which
! unreasonably swells the profits of asrn .il
but powerless minority. Our farmers,
long suffering and patient struggling in
| the face of life with the hard st and
; most unremitting toil, will not fail tc
I see, in spite of misrepresentation and
1 misleading fallacies, that they are obliged
to accept such prices for their products ,
as are fixed in fore’gn markets where j
they compete with the farmers of the
I world; that their lands are declining in
value while their debts increase; and that
without compensating favor they are
j forced by the action of the governmenl
to pay, for the benefit of others, such en
1 hanced prices for the things they need, j
that the scanty returns of their labor fai
to furnish their support or leave no mar i
gin for accumulation. Communi-m is i !
hateful thing, and a menaci j
to peace and organized govern- |
ment. But ihe communism of com \
bined wealth and capital, the out- j
growth of over-weening cupidity anci J
selfishness which insiduously undermines \
the justice and integrity of free institu
tions, is not less dangerous than tin
communion of oppressed poverty anc
toil which, exasperated by injustice anc
discontent, attacks, with wild disorder,
the cita 'el of rule.
The department of agriculture has
continued with a good measure of suc
cess, its efforts to develop the processes,
enlarge the results and augment the pro
fits of American husbandry. Its records
of the year show that the season of 1888
has been one of medium production. A
generous supply of ihe demands of con- :
sumption has been assured, and a surplus
for exportation, moderate in certain pro- [
ducts and bountiful in others, will prove l
a benefaction alike to buyer and grower.
Four years ago it was found that tin
gre .t cattle industry of the country was
endangered and those engaged in it were
alarmed at the rapid extension of the
European plague of pleuro-pneurnouia.
Serious outbreaks existed in Illinois,
Missouri and Kentucky and in Tennes
see. Animals affected were In Id h
quarantine. Five counties in Ni w York
anil from one to four counties in each of
the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania.
Delaware and Maryland, wer.- almost
iqua !y affected. W ith this gieat danger
upon us, ami with the contagion already
in the channels of c iurnerce, with tin
enormous direct and indirect losses al
ready lx ing caused by it, uiwl when only
prompt and energetic action could ho
successful, there wer< in none of these
states any laws authorizing this depart
ment to eradicate the malady or giving j
the state officials power to co-operuti.
with it for this purpose. The depart
ment even lacked both the requisite ap
propriation and authority. By seeking
state co-operation in connection with the
authority from Congress, the work of
eradication has been pressed successfully,
and this dreaded disease has been extir
pated from the Western states, and also
from the Eastern states, which are still
under supervision. The danger has thus
been removed and trade and commerce
have been freed from the vexatious state
of restrictions which were deemed nec
essary for a time.
During the past four years the process
of diffusion, as applied to the manufac
ture of sugar from sorghum and sugar
cane has been introduced into this coun
try and fully perfected by the experi
ments carried on by the department of
agriculture. This process is now uni
versally considered to be the most eco
nomical one, and it is through it that the
sorghum sugar industry has been estab
lished upon a firm basis, anil the road to
its future success opened. The adoption
of this diffusion process is also extending
in Louisiana and other sugar producing
parts of the country, and will doubtless
soon be the only method employed for
the extraction of sugar from the cane.
Many other matters were touched upon
! by the President, the document occupy
i ing a space of niuo columns in the daily
! papers.
DISINFECTING.
As an indication of the thorough man
ner in which disinfection will bo pur
sued, Dr. Porter addressed the following
notice to physicians in charge at
Jacksonville, Florida: “Instruct the
foreman and operatives of each squad,
that they provide themselves with work
ing suits of clothes, to bo worn only
when performing disinfecting, and to be
changed on going home to meals and at
night, and leave at the office on Pine
street. The object I wish to attain is
: that the clothing which will come in
j contact with disinfected ones shall not
i | come in contact with persons not having
; j had the fever or uninfected articles.
[ j When the general process of disinfection
. ! is through with, the operatives of the
i ‘ department must have their clothiug
, J thoroughly disinfected by the super
i heated steam process before returning
I them to their homes.” The work of dis
infecting begins at once. The disinfect-
I ing rooms are tight compartments, ten
, by twelve by six and one-half in dimen
| sion, and closed by trap doors, which
are raised on hinges by means of pulleys.
I There is one steaming room and two
| drying rooms. The floors of the rooms
are covered with steam pipes, those in
the steam room being perforated every
jux inches to allow toe escape of fine
*ts of steam. For blankets and such
other ar icles of clothing as can be
| waved, three large cylindrical vats have
! been prepared, where they will be thor
! oughly purified with boiling water, after
which they will be wrung in a steam
wringer which revolves with great ra
piditv. forcim/ the water-out.
WESTERN LAWLESSNESS.
A bold attempt was made Tuesday
| morning to rob the safe in the office of
| the Booge packing house in Sioux City,
j lowa. Four masked men rushed upon
i Thomas Coleman, the watch
| man, and overpowered him. A gunny
| sack was tied over his head and his
| h; nds and legs were secured, and he was
| laid down in a corner of the • fli :o. As
i the watchman did not report, the en
gineer, assistant engineer and tankman
i went successively to see what was wrong
and each ir, turn was seized and bound
like Coleman. The burglars worked
hard to open the safe, but us er three
hours work they broke their drill and
gave up the job after going through the
| pockets of the captured men and secur
i ing $65... .At 4 o’clock Tuesday morn
i ing, twenty armed men succeeded in ef
fecting an entrance to the jail in Canyon
! City, Colorado, overpowered the sheriff,
and tore down the siecl cage in winch
Withered, a murderer, was confined.
The prisoner broke up his bed, and with
; u portion of the slat kn icked several of
j the mob down. Three shots were then
fired by members of the party, and With
en-dl fell to the floor with a shattered
shoulder. He was immediately carried
without resistance a hort distance trom
the jail, and strung up to a telegraph
pole, anil his body left hanging until
daylight next morning. Withered never
laid a word after he was wounded, and
appeared most indiff rent as to his file,
llarry Perdue, another murderer confined
in jail, was not molested.
PROPER GIFT.
The ‘Red Cross” telegraphed fr< m
Washington. I). C., to an agent to-buy
ten ill' umnd pounds of meal and sixteen
hundred pounds of meat forth'* * offering
people of Sand r on. Fit.
'I he purchase was made and the railroad
from the mill where the meal was ground
to the places named gave free ytr.ins
j t-urtatiou. j
| $1.36 Per Annum; 76 c«nu for 81* Months:
< 60 cents Three Month*; Single Copie*
( • cent*--in Advano*.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Atlanta, under the hew will hav/ U
six aldermen. \ t \
A movement is ou foot to efet&baHfcia
soap factory in Newnan, and the iniuca- .
tions are altogether suc
cess of the enterprise.
Cohen, the man who was assaulted
while asleep at Covington one night
with a club, when Thomas, his
companion was killed, is getting better.
Echols, the man who played cards with
them on that fatal night, will be re
moved to Atlanta for safe keeping.
An unknown tramp went to sleep un
der a construction train of the Georgia
Southern Railroad near Valdosta on
Monday night, and was run over when
the tiain started. Both his legs were
cut off above his knees. He was carried
to Valdosta ami sent to the county farm.
Governor Gordon pardoned Flora Jones
on Monday. She was convicted of lar
ceny from the house at the October term,
1888, of Jones superior court and sen
tenced to the penitentiary for one year.
Those familiar with the facts believe that
she was the tool of her husband in com
mitting tho crime.
The sensation in Augusta is that Con
tractor Redmond has thrown up his job
on the canal, and that the work of re
pairing the freshet damages to the first
level, has been halted. Mr. Redmond
has a real or fancied grievance against
the city, he alleging that the city re
tarded his work or curtailed his profits
on tho contract through the engineer not
promptly staking off work for his barrow
men. It is feared that a legal clash will
result and the work of repairing the ca
nal be further delayed.
The following bills were approved by
| Gov. Gordon: To make legal
: and valid the occupancy of Ninth
I street in the city of Columbus.
1 To authorize the refunding of the excess
of $250, paid for license to sell spirituous
liquors granted by tho commissioners of
j roads and revenues of Fulton county in
1887 anil 1888, An act to amend act
reeating and organizing a board of com
missioners of Chatham county by pro
viding that the appointments by the gov
ernor shall be ou recommendation of tha - .
grand jury of the county.
A report of an insurrection in Wilkes
county was much exaggerated. There
was no uprising there and the county
now is quiet. The trouble arose over the
arrest of Tim Smith and John Coleman,
who resisted a posse and used arms.
Rumors that the negroes were arming in
the neighboihood aroused the whites,
who took Coleman and Smith from the
posse, and, it is believed, made away
with them by tying stones aronnil their
necks and throwing them into the river.
E. B. Code, a prominent farmer and
storekeeper in Wilkes county, who, it is
said, had aided the negroes in arming
and resisting the posse, was notified to
leave the county and left. Much feeling
is felt in some quarters against Code,
who said he only urged the negroes to
! arm against violence. The people of
Wilkes county, as a whole, do not ap
prove of the lynching, and the matter
will be brought into the courts.
The tower at the new Hebrew orphans?'
home in Atlanta, fell on Tuesday, the
heavy stones crushing through the roof
of the surrounding portions ot the build
ing, and doing damage to the extent of ,
probably $5,000. Four men had a mi
raculous escape from instant death. The
top part of toe tower suddenly collapsed,
and the men who were at work on top of
the tower suddenly disappeared from
view. These were Qwrge Giiveiy 4
contractor for the building, /two brick-* ~
masons, Arthur Gibson and John Boch
in er, and one laborer, name unknown.
The last three are negroes. The corner
stones at the base were not anchored,
and they gave wa v. The heavy stones
crashed through the roof over thfe super
intendent's parlor and one of the d<>rini»i
torie*. and did a great deal of damage.
The four men who were on top were
saved by the scantling upon which they
were working, catching over t e hole
on the. inside of the tower. As it was
they had a fall of thirty five feet, from
the top of the tower to whorfc the clock
part begins.
COTTON.
Thd""**’-visible supply of cotton sot
the wr Ob 294,751 bales, of which
2,0 y jx 'S* 're American, against
2'v Sr
ive- Tv, last The receipts at all in
terior towns are 155,295 bales; receipt*
at plantations. 282,750 bales; crop is
sight, 3,16 .654 bal 8.
DIVIDED IT.
A man was arrested in Waterbary the
ether day for insulting a lady pass'ing in
the »i: - oet. In eourt, after he was cun.
xicted, he protested that he merely e
“Ah, theke —stay there.” ,
The Jrage’s reply was: “Well,*
will get fine for ‘ah, there, ’ an
days in jail for ‘stay there.”’— Ha,
Tima.
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