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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 252
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Further Details of the Disaster at Sabine
Pass.
»c Town a Complete Wreck nod the Destli Roll
Startling—Touching 'Incidents of tint Horrible
light—Johnson’* llayou a Scene of Terror—The
Storm In England and Ireland.
Houston, Texas, October 16.—The Post’s
itnflf correspondent at Beaumont last night
telegraphs some interesting details of the
great deluge at Sabine Pass, lie says that
at places where the water was never over
eignt inches deep since the town was set
tled, two years ago, the flood was nine feet
deep. The new house of Bradley Garnet
was swept away with his family of five
persons. After floating two and a half
miles the house landed on a ridge back of
the town, all intact, and nobody hurt.
Boats that left Beaumont to succor’the dis
tressed, took large quantities of drinking
water, there being nothing but salt water
for ten -miles around Sabine Pass.
Mrs. John Stewart and her daughter
were separated at their home when the
flood struck the town. The daughter
seized a feather bed and the mother a win
dow frame, and thus supported them
selves. After being out all night they
landed at Aurora, on the lake shore
within a half mile ol each other, each
supposing the other had been lost. They
traversed fifteen miles before they were
found.
Postmaster Ward, of Beaumont, has tel
egraphed Postmaster-General Vilas asking
permission to distribute the Sabine Pass
mail from Beaumont, as the postmistress
and her assistant at Sabine Pass are both
reported drowned. To give some idea of
the velocity of the wind, a silver spoon
was blown from the residence of William
Harris to a distance of twelve miles. Mrs.
Junker’s body was found this morning and
a casket has been telegraphed for from
Orange. Mr. Marse Braussard lost #25,000
worth of cattle. The same reports say
much more than that. All the cattle not
lost will die, as nothing is left for them to
subsist on, salt water covering everything.
Mrs. Otto Brown floated twenty-five miles
on a feather bed. She had her child with
her, but it benumbed and died in convul
sions. During its struggles it knocked the
mother into the water. The waves pitched
Mrs. drown back on the bed. She was
finally found in a little inlet and was saved.
Captain F. A. Hyatt and William Guy re
port that they had a singular experience
as members of the relief committee on
their way to the Pass. The trains on
which they were traveling, stooped the
dump five miles from town. The water all
around this neck of land, on which is
placed the track, was fully eight feet deep.
The hands of Messrs. Hyatt and Guy were
blistered from fighting snakes, which liter
ally covered the dump for a distance of
five miles. There were thousands of water
moccasins from the overflowed dis
trict, taking refuge on this narrow
stretch of land, and every step across had
to be fought tnrough twisting serpents,
many of them deadly stump-tailed mocca
sins larger than a man’s arm. Wildcats,
also maddened at the water’s fury, rushed
pell-mell upon pedestrians, while coons
and every variety of animals snapped at
passers-by with hydrophobic rage. Many
times pedestrians left the dump and swam
around angry reptiles rather than try to
pass them. Capt. Hyatt alone killed over
160 snakes during his walk of live miles,
which consumed about ten hours. Guy
says no money eoulu tempt
him to take the trip over again.
In stepping about in the dark
be was tripped up and thrown by a snake
two inches in diameter and fully live feet
long. At a meeting of the citizens of
Beaumont, held to-day, for the purpose of
organizing relief measures, Mayor Calhoun
was chosen presiding officer and a general
relief committee was organized with
Mayor Calhoun as permanent chairman,
Mr. Wiess as permanent treasurer and
Alexander Wynn secretary. This general
committee is sun-divided into a committee
for the registration of sufferers. H. W.
Smith is chairman of the finance commit
tee, B. F. Edward is chairman of the com
mittee on supplies and Mrs. T. II. Laughour
is chairman of the committee on clothing.
A large number of ladies and all the min
isters of the city are on this committee.
H. W. Green, the chairmn , is a special
committee on procuring houses and shel
ter. Special committees consisting of
white and colored citizens have been ap
pointed to look after the colored sufferers.
A committee of five have been appointed
to take a steamboat and gather up the fur
niture and household effects floating in
Sabine lake. Before adjournment the gen
eral committee had a vote of thanks ex
tended to Judge Hull, president of tile
Houston Post Publishing Company, for his
prompt donation of #100 for
the Sabine sufferers. The committee on
finance were instructed to solicit inncls
and supplies from all sources ®and will
gladly accept old clothingor auythingthat
can he used by a destitute people. Mayor
Calhoun has issued the following:
Beaumont, Texas, October 15.—In view
of the urgent, and dire necessity of the
hopeless and despoiled people of Sabine
Pass I request immediate help in their be
half. Any kind of aid is invited—provis
ions, clothing or money. They are with
out menus of any kind.
[Signed] B. P. Caluoun,
Mayor of Beaumont.
Chairman Greet, of the committee on
lodgings, has already made 100 refugees
comfortable for the time being. Trains
which went toward Sabine Pass as far as
the track allowed returned here at, 8 p. m.
Fifteen bodies were recovered on higli land,
called Back Ridge, west of Sabine, aiul
were burkh Six bodies ot women were re
covered on the west shore ol the lake, two
colored and four white; one being that or
Mrs. W. A. Junker, of Carl-sail. Mr.
Junker is still missing. The steamer huniiy
P. returned from Johnson’s bayou, La. , to
Orange, and reports that those drowned at
that place were chiefly colored people.
The deaths at Sabine Pass and vicinity will
aggregate more than 91), and at Johnson s
bayou about 85. Only three houses are lelt
fit for Human habitation, though perhaps
a dozen are standing in a precarious con
dition. The people who escaped with
their lives are completely ruined finan
cially, many of them not being able to
provide themselves with the bare necessi
ties of life. A telegram from the mer
chants of Galveston to the relief commit
tee savs: ^
“Galveston subscribes $1000. Draw on
Ball, Hutchings & Co. for that amount.
The Mexican schooner Hercules is mgn
and dry at a point called Oil Ponds. Her
captain, James Guibelando. reports that
he was bound for New Orleans with IUS
mahogany logs, which are now
supposed to be lost. The cap
tain and crew were furnished
by a railroad company with passes to Aew
O’rleans and left to-night. A circular will
be addressed by the finance committee to
the principal business houses in the lead-
ing trade centres of the country asking as
sistance. While the subscriptions from local
and neighboring points have been free and
liberal, they are sufficient only to supply
the requirements of a few days, il '-oe-
sireri to urgently impress upon the people
of Texas and elsewhere the immediate ne
cessity of responding at once to the de
mands of this calamity. Conservative esti
mates place the loss at such figures that it
will require from #70.000 in T 100,000 to meet
the emergencies of the ease.
At .lollnsou's lluynii.
New Orleans, October 10.—A dispatch
to the Times-Denioerat, dated Johnson’s
Bayou, lash evening, savs: The village of
Johnson Bayou is a high ridge on the sea-
coast, and the bayou from which it takes
its name runs through the inhabitable
section, in which is also situ
ated the post office station known as Rad-
ford. They are in Cameron parish, on the
Louisiana shore, six miles east of Sabine
Pass. The bayou is nineteen miles in
length and varies from one to four miles
in width. The ridges face the gulf twelve
feet above the sea level, and in the rear is
a dense and impenetrable marsh. The
population on last Tuesday morning num
bered 1200 souls. To-day 86 of that number
are counted with the dead and 40 of their
bodies have been recovered and consigned
to graves in shell reefs, while the decom
posing corpses of the remaining forty-live
lie festering in the marshes. Radford
was very thickly settled and populous. It
boasted of its cotton and cunc plantations.
It was the head of navigation and its stores
were many, principally those run by J,
Pavetoe, who also operated a gin and
turned out 800 bales of cot ton produced in
tliis section, and the other stores were
owned by A. B. Smith &Co. and J. Griffith,
general merchandise dealers, and other
small merchants constituted the com
mercial community. Cotton and sugar
are the chief products of thu ridges,
which are composed of the richest
and most fertile grazing country,
and the parish has 8000 head of cattle and
horses owned by the thriving community.
Communication with the outer world was
through two steam vessels, both owned on
Johni oil’s bayou and Radford, while a fleet
of trading vessels plied off the bayou. At
4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon the storm de
scended upon the bayou; the waters rising
with the wind, swept through the lower
stories of the buildings, driving the
affrighted people into the attics and upon
the roofs. At 10 o’clock the first ridge,
twelve feet above the sea level, was ten
feet under water. House after house fi ll
in, or was swept away, either burying the
doomed people in the debris or hurling
them into the hissing waters.
The cotton gin and stores next
succumbed, and Radford and Johnson's
bayous were destroyed as completely as if
an invading army imd done the work. Il
was a night of terror described by the sur
vivors as appalling. The people could
only cling to each other and pray for
mercy and for the souls of those whose
despairing shrieks rang in their ears. For
twelve hours the storm raged over the
devastated settlements and then came a
lull. Hope revived as the waters receded
and the storm passed away, and the sur
vivors gathered on elevated points view
ing the scene of desolation around them.
Houses that stood the actions of the storm
were completely gutted. There was no
food nor drin t, salt water having invaded
everything. Then there began a search for
the dead; those whose bodies lay pinioned
by the ruins of houses were speedily re
covered. Prom out of the marshes more
corpses were taken and likewise buried.
Tiie death roll was then made up as fol
lows : Mrs. Prank Turner and two chil
dren; Mr. Locke, wife and seven children •
old Mrs. Locke; Mrs. W. Ferguson and
three children; Bradford Berry and daugh
ter; Mrs. Albert Lambert aud two chil
dren; eight children of Samuel Barwiek;
Mrs. Shell Walley and four children; Geo.
Stivner and four children; Mr. Franchall,
wife and grandson: Mrs. S. Gailier and
four children; a child of Alonzo Smith ;
Mrs. Tooeiiake’s four children ; Jack
Tooehake and seven children: Mrs. Haw
kins and three children, and Dr. George
Smith, wife and four children, all white
persons. The colored victims were Oliver
Johnson and wife; Jack Lewis, wife and
brother, anil Richard Hamberiek, wife and
five children.
During the morning a regular packet
stern wheel steamer, Emily P., arrived it
Johnson's Bayou and brought to Orange
as many persons as she could carry, in all
about sixty. Not one of them had any
thing but what they stood in. Many were
minus hats, shoe anil dresses. Their wants,
however, were promptly supplied by the
good people of this place, ami the refugees
made comfortable for the night.
To-morrow the steamers Emily P. and
Lark will return to the bayou and will
make regular trips until all are brought to
a place of safety. The people, save a few
who have large stock interests, say they
have abandoned the place forever. They
are deeendauts of a race of people who
made Johnson’s bayou a vast orange
g ove. Frost came and ruined them, and
then they turned to cotton and sugar, and
stock only to meet the lute of t.huir fore
fathers. Of 8000 head of stock which once
the bayou boasted, 6000 are drowned,
while the remainder will die of thirst, as
all tiie water is salt. There is no estimat
ing the loss, as there is no way of ascer
taining the valuations. Hence it is suffi
cient to say that the towns mu destroyed
and abandoned.
Swept Out of Existence.
Galveston, October 10.—Further par
ticulars of the great disaster at Sabine Pass
and Johnson’s bayou are constantly being
received. The situation has not been ex
aggerated in the least. A correspondent
who has just returned from Sabine Pass
telegraphs from Orange that the turky
buzzards are soarbing over Sabine for miles
around on land and water. It is one vast
ehanial house. The town is swept out of
existence. What was a prosperous village
when last Tuesday dawned is now a center
of wreck and desolation. There are 127
persons missing and supposed to be dead,
Only about twenty-five bodies have
thus far been recovered. There is not one
sound house in the town of Sabine. The
residences of Dr. Gilliland and Editor Mc-
Clanahan are tiie only ones that can be
repaired. Every other house is an abso
lute wreck. This in brief is a story of the
storm. Innumerable touching, heartrend
ing stories of the storm are related by the
survivors. One house containing fourteen
colored persons was seen to go down with
a crash and every one of them was lost.
Incidents are related of husbands lashing
wives and children to floating wrecks and
then seeing them killed by heavy logs be
ing driven against them.
The damage to property can only be
estimated by the value of the town, for all
is lost. The Sabine and East Texas rail
road is washed out for a distance of ten
miles The lies have floated off and the
rails are twisted like wires, the effect of
the great hurricane. Millions of dead fish
were cast up by the waves and thousands
of birds also strew the ground. A young
woman in a perfectly nude state was found
roaming around on the prairie five miles
from Sabine. She was demented and could
not tell her name. When the government
boat Penrose reached Sabine Pass yester
day Cob Umbas Martee was found rowing
around the delta, looking for the bodies of
his family. He said: ‘•Myself, wife and
three children were clinging to a floating
roof, which was gradually breaking to
pieces. One of the little ones went,
and then another. I was holding tne
youngest, and soon my wife said ‘good bye,
husband; I am going.’ 1 could not reach
her The pic<i of root supporting her
broke off and she sank before my eyes. I
held on to the youngest child,
named Pearl, some time longer:
The child addressing me said’
‘PapaT'm tired, won’t you walk with me?-
The piece of r'oof 1 was on was now crumb
ling to pieces. 1 told the little one to kiss
mo. She put both her little arms around
my neck, gave a big squeeze, and just then
a wave dashed us oil ami I saw her no
more. Great God, why didn’t I go down
too?”
lie was pressed to coon board the Pen
rose, but refused, saying: ‘'Here among
these lagoons are [lie bodies of my wife
and children and hero will I stop until I
can find them.”
No tongue can tell how people have suf
fered during the past few days. In many
cases the dead ones are considered the
lucky ones. Late reports from Johnson’s
bayou bring the terrible intelligence llmt
86 persons are now known to have been
lost in that settlement; and it is
greatly feared that, the list
will be swelled to 100 or more,
thus making the total number of
of victims by the hurricane at fully 200.
Reliable information from Johnson’s
bayou arrives slow, nil the roads being im
passable and only two boats are running
to that section. The destitution of the
survivors, of whom there are over 1000
around Johnson’s bayou and Radford vil
lage, is described as something awful. They
lost everything and are without food,
drink and clothes.
Arrasa the IVliters,
London, October 10.—The gale and
floods which began Thursday night along
the south and west English and Irish
coasts continue, having extended far
northward. Many reports of bridges and
buildings swept away are constantly
coining in. In Ulster, Ireland, the storm
and floods seriously impede railway traffic.
Many small vessels have been wrecked.
Tile loss of life ashore so far has not been
great. The British hark Bollport has been
wrecked off Skelligs island, on the south
west coast of Ireland. She was being
towed by the tug Game Cock when the
hawser parted and the bark was thrown
on the rocky shore and destroyed. All of
her crew perished.
The British ship Teviattolate, which
sailed from Cardiff, Wales, Thursday last,
was wrecked during tiie storm on Car-
matlien bar. There were on board at the
time twenty-e ght persons. The life boat
rescued nine of the passengers. The oth
ers, among whom were the captain and
officers, left in the boat, and but two of
them succeeded in reaching the shore
alive. The other sovenl een perished.
4 A. M.—The great hurricane which has
just passed over England and Ireland was
accompanied by til : heaviest rain storms
within memory. During last night there
were many collisions and wrecks, aud a
number of channel fishing boats were
stranded. The beach at Brighton presents
a spectacle of destruction. A torpedo gun
boat at Portsmouth dragged its anchor and
driftedlinto the mud, but was afterwards
rescued by tugs. The glass roof of the
Il Fracombe Hotel was broken and bath
houses washed away. The storm was very
lurious on the Irish coasts. The streets in
many of the towns were Hooded. Com
stalks were blown away and corn standing
in the fields destroyed. The damage fir
immense. There have been destructive
floods in Wales.
in a gratifyinurarul prosperous condition.
The aim of the members is to make it
second to no similar organization in the
state.
ON ’CHANGE.
An Irregular Market, with Some Prominent De
l-Ilium.
New York, October 18.—To-day’s stock
market presented the same general fea
tures as that,of yesterday, the principal
activity being confined to a few specialties,
while the general market was compara
tively dull, and its fluctuations slight. Coal
stocks were the chief features; and, while
Lackawanna and Delawure and Hudson,
with the bituminous coal roads, were
strong, Jersey Central was weak, and
Reading barely steady. The other special
ties which displayed marked strength were
Manhattan nickel plate stocks and Ohio
and Mississippi; the proposed arrange
ment with the Erie stimulating the price
of the latter. Northeastern was specially
weak to-day on heavy selling. Lacka
wanna was the leader of tiie market.
The| depression in the Jersey Central is
due principally to the publication
of the rumor that in the reorganization
proposed an assessment of 16 per cent,
would he levied upon , the stock. The
opening was strong, the first prices rang
ing generally from i to 1 above the closing
figures, while Jersey Central was ? higher.
Tne market developed much irregularity
and feverishness in the early trading,
which, however, disappeared. The mar
ket moved up in union. The gains,
however, were generally lost by noon,
after which there was less business
and alternate advances and de
clines until the close, which was
firm. Tiie final prices show irregular
changes, though a majority of the active
list are high. T ie conspicuous net de
clines comprise Jersey Central 1 ; |, North
eastern Hand Manitoba 1. Nickel Plate
common, howover, is up 24, preferred 21,
Lackawanna 1.1, Hooking Valley 1',, Dela
ware and Hudson 1J. Sates 432,030 shares.
COREA.
A City Almost Exteriiitmitisl hy Cholera.
CmCAao. October 16.—A Times special
from San Francisco says: “Private ad
vices received in this city stale that
cholera is still raging in Corea. No idea
can be .farmed of the extent of the scourge.
It has more than decimated the eapitol,
where, out of n population of 200,000, the
| death rate runs at the frightful average
| of a thousand per day. About
] as many Coreans as there are
! people in the state of California have been
| swept, away already, mid it is hard to say
, where the plague will stop. Corea is de
scribed as “an appalling pest spot.” Never
I was there a more frightful record of
j ravages of disease on mankind. The story
j of the plague of London is beggared by
what if now going on in Seeoul. They are
j beginning to give over the task of burying
j their dead and the city is threatened with
j positive extinction.
Tim Chilli mi Strike.
| Chtcaoo, October 16.—The usual crowds
| of idlers remained in the vicinity of the
packing houses and besought all the men
| who oquld be reached not to go to work.
| Many applicants for work, however, went
! out on the regular and special passenger
j trains and were landed at the doors of the
j packing houses, which were guarded hy
j armed patrols. The strikers stopped a
• wagon-containing the clothing and bed
ding for the Pinkerton men just outside
I the city limits to-day and handled th
j driver roughly, throwing the clotliin}
; into tiie street
The Total Cotton Crop.
j New York, October 13.—The fourteontl
annual book of cotton statistics, c un pile'
by Mum Latham, Alexander ft Co., u
i New York, just published, contains es-i
in itesof this year’s cotton cron from m- n
2300 correspondents through:} it th t ■ i' i
j ern states. A summary of the esrim i -
' makes the total crop of this year 6,2 )
I bales.
Judge Hoyt Declines to Make the Raca
for Mayor.
t Deterttvr'8 Omul Work llnrry Hill’s UnUroiu'.
Fern's of mi Mill ilo in 11 In Million County Jail- V
youthful Moonshiner.—The Vigilance Com.
■liter -Tlu> Atlanta Lrttllcry, 1 tc.
Atlanta, Ga., October 16.—On the 9th
oflnst month a gang of negroes boarded an
Air Line passenger train at Spartanburg,
South Carolina, and when Conductor
Mooney asked for tickets, they refused to
pay. saying they proposed to go to Char
lotte without paying a rod cent. Just ns
the conductor pulied'tho bell cord, one of
the negroes threatened to kill him. The
train slacked up, and with the assistance
of the train hands the men were ejected,
but not before pistols were drawn and the
air filled with profane language. Asthelast
ofthenegvoes was pushed from the platform
they opened fire on the conductor and
train hands. The coaches wore riddled
with bullets, but no one was hurt.
As soon as the conductor reached the
next station he made out a written report
of the affair, which was transmitted to the
general manager of the road at once. Im-
niediately after receiving the information,
Superintendent Berkeley sent for detective
Fellers and out him upon the cose. The
detective went at once to Spartanburg but
was unable to ascertain the names of any
of t he negroes, neither could Conductor
Mooney give him any information of value.
The negroes had become alarmed at their
work aud managed to keep themselves mi-
f known. Detective Fellers, however, felt
1 certain that he could unravel the matter,
and with that sin w,tireless pace which is pe
culiarly li is# own,he went to work. Monday
lust he secured the names of the entire
parly, and then ascertained that every one
of them had been in Spartanburg on the
night of the 19th of September. With
this to work on the detective soon had
seven of the negroes arrested. He worked
the eane successfully, and hits strong evi
dence against the men. On Wednesday
night while he and his assistants were
trying to arrest the leader ot the gang
they were fired upon, but escaped un
harmed. The detectives returned the fire,
mid feel sure they succeeded in wounding
the negro, as a quantity of blood was
found on the ground. The entire crowd
was taken before a trial justice and re
hatred to’ give a bond. The railroad
officers are very much pleased with de
tective Fellows’ work.
The Vivl I a n it linn mil tn-.
Atlanta, October 10.—It is understood
that the Young Men’s Prohibition Club
have organized a vigilance committee and
will begin to hunt up the blind tigers. The
liquor men, however, know who is who
and are ns well organized as can be. A
fellow without the password is compelled
to go dry while the wet man grenses his
whistle with the redeye. The blind tigers
are difficult to locate.
Austell Insurance C'nnimny.
Atlanta, October 18.—At tiie next ses
sion of the general assembly application
will be made to incorporate the Austell
Insurance Company. Tim capital stock of
the corporation will be #209,000. The gen
tlemen composing the company are W.
W. Austell, Raul Itomare, W. J. Garrett,
S. M. Inman, R. H. Richards, Elgin Loeh-
raneand Stephen A. Ryan.
Hurry Hill’s Railroad.
Atlanta, October 16.—Meeting clever
Captain Harry Hill to-day, he said: “I
hope to complete the Union Point and
White Plains railroad, and will begin
work again next week. I will nuver give
it up.” That means the road will be built.
A Youthful II"oiistiiorr.
Atlanta. October 16.—Yesterday, in the
| United States eirouit court, a lad 16 years
l old, named Stringer, of Hull county, was
arraigned for illicit distilling. While the
| evidence would have been conclusive
j against the boy, on account of his age the
j ease was nol prosed.
A Ntwro i’oronor.
Atlanta, Ga., October 18.—There are so
many white candidates out for coroner
t that it is feared David Toby Howard, a
negro, will be elected, the white vote be
ing split up so badly. It is understood that
- an effort will be made to get some of the
! candidates to withdraw.
A.Smith Clayton's It. him.
j Atlanta, October 18.—-Closer-to-my-
Bosom-Come A. Smith Clayton has re-
| turned from his summer rambles. He is
| direct from New York, and reports a good
time. Mr. Clayton is a charming writer
1 and it genial, social member of the fourth
| estate. He twill remain in Atlanta.
Ur
The Co
rial I'rtivi-leru f<
n Lion.
Atlanta, October 16.— 1 The Georgia
division of the Travelers Protective Asso
ciation held an enthusiastic meeting this
afternoon at the chamber of commerce,
with Air. Joe Hirsch, president, in the
chair. W.S. Davis was elected secretary
and treasurer, vice A. L. Waldo, resigned.
Messrs. Lew llalzler and E. it. Watson,
delegates to the national convention «t
Baltimore, rendered tlu-ir report, showing
a large increase in membership through
out the country and the acquirement
of concessions "rom railroads. Tiie follow
ing chairr.i. n of the respective ommiltees
of the < I -orgia di,: .vere elected:
Out: •I'- I -w Ilidzler.
On R dr-. 11. Il Watson.
On Legislation A. C. Latnpkin.
On Hotels—J. M. Skinner.
A convention of all commercial travelers
in Georgia was called to meet in Atlanta
in December, and a committee was
appointed-to is.-,tie an invitation and ar
range the details. The committee, con
sisting of Messrs. A. C. Lumpkin, Lew
Flutzler, R. li. Watson. 0. I). Montgomery,
J. R. Christian, Joe Hirsch and W. .4. Da
vis, met, at the Kimball House this even
ing and determined upon December 16 as
the date of the convention.
New York, October 16.—Mrs. Grant ro-
ceivi-d from the publishing house of Chas.
Ij. Webster ft Co., a cheek for #150,000 a
few days ago. This is the second install
ment. The first payment made from the
profits of the Grant Memoir.i was in the
form ot a check for #200,000, seat to airs.
Grant sometime ago. “If onr suits are de
cided favorably,’ said Mr. Wehstor to a re
porter, “wo Hliall send Mrs. < Irani another
check for #100,000 in a month. The suits
to which 1 refer Rre those arising out of
the unauthorized sale of our books by
Wanamakor at Philadelphia.” .
THE CHURCH CONVENTION.
Wind whs Dour by tin- l’roti-stiint M|i1ni'0]hiHiiiin
. Vislmlsy—The l'rn|iositloii to L'hungr tho
Name of tin- Oliurcli Rejected.
CHIOAOO, October 1(1.—The galleries and
lobbies of the Central music hull were
crowded to tiie utmost this morning when
the Protestant Episcopal convention
opened, ns it was known that the great
debate on the proposition to drop tiie
words “Protestant Episcopal” in designat
ing the church would close. The discus
sion was opened by Dr. Stringfellow, of
Alabama, who argued for a postponement
of the consideration of the question on the
ground that the time was not ripe.
Mr. McConnell, of Louisiana, bitterly
opposed the proposition to change the
name of the church, and Dr. Sheffield, of
Virginia, took the same view.
The debate was then closed hy Mr. Judd,
who contended that the opposition did
not represent the progressive spirit which
should actuate the church. The church
should take its broad mid true name, and
this vvns not to he confounded with Roman
ism. Mr. Judd spoke for twenty minutes,
considering the question from nil points,
and when tho hour of 11 o’clock arrived
the debate was declared closed.
The names of clerical delegates were
called first and were quite evenly divided
on the proposition, but the sentiment of
tho lay delegates was more generally op
posed to the proposition. The vote hy
dioceses was as follows, forty-nine dioceses
voting: A majority of clericals in seven
teen dioceses voted aye, a majority voted
no in twenty-two dioceses, and ten dio
ceses were evenly divided; in forty-four
dioceses a majority of the lay delegates in
eleven dioceses voted aye, end twenty-
nine dioceses voted no and in four were-
equally divided.
The report of the .joint committee on the
liturgical revision was submitted ami laid
on the table to await the action of the
home of bishops. The report is one of
unusual length, embodying numerous me
morials for a revision of the prayer hook.
The convention then uiljoiirncd until
Monday.
ON THE TRACK.
Till* Apfirimrlilnv Rare*, of ttie Vtarylstol Joe key
Club. I
Baltimore, October 16.—The fall meet 1
ing of the Maryland Jockey Club will be
gin on Tuesday next, the 19th Inst., nnd 11
Is expected it will be one of the most sue
cessful ever rim at Pimlico. The late rain
lias put the track in fine condition, anti
every arrangement has been made to as
sure an interesting week. For the six
stake races 360 horees have been entered, l
of which 69 are for the Central, 88 for (
Dixie, 17 for the Pimlico handicap steeple
chine, 49 for the Oriole handicap, 50 for [lie
Vestal and 87 for the Brcckenriclge, besides
7 subocribcrs for the Boaie stakes, 3 miles, ,
There will [lie but two steeplechase races .
during tiie meeting.
Th,' Hares id l.iitonIn Pnrli.
Cincinnati, October 16.—Tho first race I
atLatonia for three-year-olds anil upward,
7 furlongs, Dawn of Day won easily, Etsy
B. 2d, Jim Nave 3d; time 1:304.
Second race, for maiden three-year-olds
nnd upwards, 1 mile; Kirlin won, Big 1
Three 2d, ilnrroilsburg 3d ; time 1:464.
Third race, for three-year-olds and up
ward, 1.1-18 miles; Gold Bar won, Berlin
2d. Fanteral 3d ; time 1:50. |
Fourth race,for two-year-olds, 6 furlongs,
Clarion won, Foster2a, Comedie 3d; time 1
1:18. I
Fifth race, for all ages, 9 furlongs; Gray ,
Cloud won, Porter Ash 2d, Kaludlah 3d ;
time 1:57#.
Brooklyn .larky C uMi Him.
New York, October 16.— First race, for
three-year-olds and upwards, 1 1-18 mile j
heats; first heat, Herbert won, Sam Brown
2d, Nettle 3d; time 1:7). Second heat, Her- i
| hurt won by a length and a half, Uonzal- I
ton 2d, Nettle 3d; time 1:51.
j Second race, for two-year-olds, 7 fur- !
longs; Relax won a length before, Tin odo-
| sius 28, George O. Bennette 3d; time 1:31.
j Third race, 7 furlongs; King Arthur 1st,
a neck before Hopeful, who was 2d,
Henialay 3d; time 1:30.
j Fourth race, for 3-year-oldHand upward,
3 miles; Benoza won hv H lengths, Ferona
2d, Little Dan 3d; time 5:231.
| Filth race, for 3 year-olds and upward,
| 1 1-16 miles; Ferg Kyle won by IJ lengths, j
| Frankie B. 2d, Broughton Hd; time 1:50.
Kirilins Against tlie C mission.
! Jackson, Miss., October 16.—Tho. rail- j
I road commission issued a circular to-day,
| calling attention to the fact that several I
■ railroads, among them tho Mobile and
I Ohio and Vicksburg and Meridian, have
' refused to obey its rules and are isuiing
| rates in excess of those fixed by the eom-
: mission, and advising all persons who
| suffer thereby to file their complaints
with the commission, which will at once
| put them into court. The line tor each j
violation is #.500.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Yestorday’s Proceedings of tin* Convention ot
Ulilimond
Richmond, Va., October 16.—When the
general assembly of t he Knights of Labor
resumed its session this morning the dis
cussion of tho report of Dewey’s plan for
tho establishment of a labor journal as an
organ was resumed. It was expected that
the debate on the subject would not be
permitted to continue long, and that the
report of the committee on laws on the re
vision ofthe constitution, action on which
had been interrupted by the election of
general officers, would again be taken up.
It was rumored that the committee on law
hail changed the report on the revision of
the constitution, as originally submitted,
by a special committee, so ns to preservo
intact district assemblies as they exist at
present, and thus remove the objections
raised against this clause of the revised
constitution. The p[eneral treasurer, Mr.
Turner, left hero this morning for Phila
delphia, where there are more than #20,000
worth of money orders awaiting his signa
ture. He will return Monday.
The discussion on the newspaper project
was brought to a close by an adoption of
the motion to lay the motion on the table.
The committee on law again got the floor,
nnd that part of its report on the revision
of tho constitution in relation to the duties
of the general officers was adopted. Dis
cussion of the clause relating to stale as
semblies was in progress when the hour
for noon recess arrived, and was resumed
at the afternoon session.
Mr. Powderly was not well to-day, and
remnine 1 in his room most of the day. In
his absence General Secretary LI ten mail
presided. At this afternoon’s session the
consideration of the report on tiie revision
of the constitution as it came f ora the
hands of Die committee on law was con
tinued. Section 1, relating to the name,
jurisdiction and membership, was passed
without action. Section 2, treating of the
meetings of the general assembly and rep
resentation. was amended so as to change
tiie tmsis of representation from one dele
gate for each t housand members to one for
every 3000. and to make the allowance for
mileage payable by the general assembly.
It was then adopted.
Section 3, treating of the genera) assem
bly .was adopted after two clauses had been
amended so as to read “Any general of
ficer, whether representative or not, is eli
gible to re-election,” and “Any represent
ative or past representative to this general
assembly, or past general officer, is eligible
to election for any office in the general as
sembly except that of general master
workman.”
In the clause of section 4, relating to the
duties of ollieers, an amendment was made
by which in case of the death, resignation
or removal of the general master workman
the general worthy foreman shall succeed
to nnd perform all the duties of and become
the general master workman until the
next session of the general assembly, when
there shall be an election to fill thu posi
tion.
In Bection 9, relating to state assemblies,
amendments were adopted hy which the
formation of state assemblies is made op
tional instead of compulsory. Further
amendments were adopted by which the
jurisdiction of existing district assemblies
rem i , mu hanged, unless they themselves
eon'- ut t, * a change.
The general assembly h!ho resolved not
to i:.i if *ro with the national trade dis-
ti it', and an amendment in tiie section
ilnting to them wan adopted, providing
that no local assembly shall be compelled
to join a district assembly, thus permitting
the trade local assemblies to retain their
independence.
Another amendment that was adopted
provides for i n interchange of working
cards with trades unions agreeing to recip
rocate by receiving Knights of Labor cards.
The general assembly adjourned until
Monday, when such portions of the revis
ion of the constitution as it is determined
to act on at the present session will be dis
poned of. Business was transacted with
such dispatch this afternoon that some
delegates entertain hopes of an adjourn
ment Monday evening. A number of dele
gates left here for their homes to-day, hut
the grent majority will carry out t heir de
termination to remain until the work of
the convention is concluded.
IJ'TI'1'UI),
UNEASINESS IN FINANCIAL circles.
BERLlN^Oetober 10. —Towards the close'
of business on the bourse to-day it was re
ported that the imperial hank of Germany
would raise its rate ofdiseount on Monday.
The rumor aro"c from t h fact that A “mat
ing thejbuuk committees lies been called
for Monday. Ai: uneasy feeling prevails
in financial circles over the extent of the
German capital risked in Russia. The
leading bankers have placed a full state
ment ofthe position of G-rman investors
in the bonds of Prince Bismarck and bavo
received from him private assurances that
the entente enrdiale between Germany
and Russia remains undisturbed, and that
a perfect understanding exists between
both countries.
Portioned hy tho ['resident.
Washington, October 10.—The prosi
dent lias pardoned Harwell Hodges, who
was convicted in the first district of North
Carolina of illicit distilling and sentenced
to a term of imprisonment. Thu pardon
was granted at the earnest solicitation of
the district attorney who prosecuted the
ease, upon the ground that the prisoner
had already suffered sufficiently, and his
imprisonment for a longer period would
result in a great hardship to ids dependent
family.
Sanitary 10
u 11 nil,.
Atlanta, Ga., October 18.—Fearing an
other epidemic in jail, Judge Newman
passed an order to-day directing Marshal
Nelms to receive the services of lJrs. W. F.
Westmoreland and J. F. MeGaston to co
operate with Dr. C. A. Stiles, U. 4. surgeon,
to investigate and report as to the sanitary
condition of the Fulton county jail. The
judge desires to know exactly how many
prisoners can be safely and healthfully
confined at one time in the jail.
.1 uiluT Hoyt DiTiint-H to Itun.
Atlanta, October 16.—Judge S. B. Hoyt
declines positively to make the race for
mayor. He is an out and out Cooper man
and will work for him.
Tire Atlnuta Irtlllery.
Atlanta, Ga., October 16.—Tho A tlanta
Artillery have ordered about fifty uniforms.
• It is expected that they will be received in
time to allow the corps to appear noon
the occasion of the inauguration of Gen
eral John R. Gordon as governor. Kvory-
I tiring considered, the Atlanta Artillery ’is
Galveston, October 10.—The steamer j
Robinin (British; is anchored outside the
bar while completing her cargo. It was
found to be on tire this morning. She has
500 tons of oil ealce and 3030 bales of cotton
on hoard. The flames r aged fiercely for a
couple of hours. It is thought the fire is
now under control. Slur is an iron-clad j
vessel of 2058 tons, and is owned by J. j
Robinson & Sons, of North Shields, Eng- 1
land. I
RllllIICHS lit II Sianllstlll.
Minneapolis, Minn., October 16.—Bust- I
ness is at a standstill, owing to the railroad
strike. Nothing was done on ’change to- j
day, owing to the difficulty in getting grgin [
handled. Tiie railroads cannot deliver at
the mills or elevators, and nothing can be
shipped out.
\ Vessel Sunk.
St. Johns, October 16.—Friday night the i
: schooner Hmeline. hound from St. Pierre
j to Bay Dispatch, struck on Dragon prom- (
I ontory i:i Hermitage bay, west coast of
j New Foundland, and sank immediately.
Tim captain and crow of six men were :ill
i lost.
t Small Slr!k».
Key West, Fla., October 16,—The load
ing ofthe Spanish steamer S:tn Juan has
been delayed bv a si riice. If the matter'is
not settled before Wednesday tiie consul
will procure gangs of laborers from GaJ-
veston.
f'liiirleston tines to n Cirrus.
Charleston, October 16.—There have
been no shakes to-day, and the people
have recovered sufficient confidence to
turn out by tho thousands to a circus. The
city is full of life and business activity.
X Tlieiitrirtil Compiniy Strumled.
Savannah, Ga., October 16.—The theat
rical company which is playing “The
Creole,” under the management of P. L.
Mattox, is stranded here. Lillian Lewis,
the star, and Cyril Searie are members of
the company.
Frankie's Work.
Washington, D. C., October 16.—The
president to-dav appointed Benjamin Fol
som, of New York, to be consul of tho
United States at Sheffield. Mr. Folsom is
a cousin of Mrs. Cleveland.
Another Shock.
Charleston, October lft—There was a
severe earthquake shock at Summerville
at 6 o’clock last night. No damage was
done.
Su(tilcu Death ofii Rothcliilil.
Frankfort, Obtober 16.—Mayor Kiri
R itjichild, th • he id of t o gre it banking
j firm, died suddenly to-day from heart dis-
' ease.
t Fall lire.
New Orleans, October 16.—B. J. West’s
Sons, hardware and agricultural iinpie-
ni -its, have failed. They make no state
ment.