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So on tin nil (mintin'. PkWshsd br the Tararm* Publish!** Oo.) J. a DEYEAU2L > 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. NO. 8*