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SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS of interest from va JUOUS POINTS IN TEE SOUTH. CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF k SOUTHERN STATES. UJPOETANCE IN THE There was a light frost in middle and nor th Alabama Tuesday night. There was frost at Port Gibson and Jackson, Miss., on Sunday night, the earliest in years. I Lather Tbe Clipper saw mills, tvt New Orleans, burned with a large lot of lumber, Tuesday morning. Loss $80,000; fully insured. The matter of the receivership of the electric and city railroads of Richmond, iVa., was again postponed by the chancery judge, Thursday. I: The Merrick Wrecking the company, of Norfolk, is at work saviug abandoned cargo of .he Amy Dera, which was by –er officers and crew’. '1 he trial of Edward Brown, charged Roger with the assassination of Colonel Ij. Page, late editor of the Marion Times F Register, was begun at Charlotte, N. C., [Friday, in McDowell superior court. I The North Carolina synod of the Pres ■wterian church convened in annual ses lion in Charlotte on Tuesday,with about ne hundred delegates and preachers resent. The synod will be in session * be week. ■ The labor general Assembly of the Knights ■th will be held in Atlanta on the ■mm.tteeof of November, and the executive M the order, now in session at Louis, a.e arranging ° business for tbe ^P sem An agreement A was reached , , . between [Hhe striking miners at Coalburg, near Birminglnm, Ala,, on Wednesday, and the miners will icturn to work. It is re norted that the terms of the opciatois Icre accepted. Cotton men at Savannah, Ga., say that indications point to an attempt by New York Ft parties to corner Octooer cotton, is reported that f>U the friegqt room from there to New York for the rest of [hc month has been engaged, or, in the language of the street, “swept clean.” % The propeity of Hillman, the electric health Sold resort, at Washington, Ga., was [ought on Tuesday at auction and was Ihere by Mr. James Benson for $8,000. lenson are*about 150 acres of land. Mr. is or.e of the persons whose [ill lealth was restored by it. He says * it f be kept up as a resort,, Coke iron was made in Anniston, Ala., lor the first time on Friday. The two lurnaces Lon have been in course of construe largest for two years, and are among t e and best in the country. The ton nage of iron, when both furnaces are in blast, will be more than that of the cot ton crop of the whole south. A , special , , committee . was on „ Tuesday , appointed by the chamber of commerce to take steps looking to the control of the South Carolina railway interests of [Charleston 8. C. No definite plan of ac hon was adopted, but with tbe co-opera tion of .ocal capitalists can be bought and operated, especially in the interests of that P° rt - A dispatch from Flemingsburg, . Ky., kavs: At least five hundred thousand pounds of tobacco in this county has been entirely destroyed by tbe frost of the last three nights. The auditor’s re port places the average crop of the coun ty at 4,700,000 pounds, and this year the crop was above that figure. About half of the crop had been housed and cured. The report that the various Alliances, Wheels, tition etc., would be called on to pe the legislatures of their respective States to suspend the collection of debts for six months has been denied by U’ol. L. F. Livingston, President of the State Alliance of Georgia, who says: The Farmers’ Alliauce has never adopt ed such a resolution, and never will.” The Tennessee conference, now in ses sion at Murrreesboro, Tenn., has a pecu liar question helore them. In passing the characters of the preachers, the charge was made against Brother Hag gard that he had been engaged to two "omen at the same time, marrying one of them within a week after writing a letter to the other pledging his undying love. i he case was referred to a committee for trial. I Last June the town of Livingston, I I destroyed ” um, er county, Ala., was almost entirely I heavy loss by fire one night, causing to the business men. Recently I evidence was discovered tending to show I that the fire was of incendiary origin, ® nt j citizens Birmingham, of Livingston who sent went detective down Andrew Thursday and arrested Andrew Moore, Rig them Ivy and Donham Jones, charg with the crime. The New York end New Orleans Coal and Iron Company have recently pur chased 64,000 acres of coal, iron and milicr lands in Tennessee. Expert min mg engineers say that on the property ar e 1,250,000,000 tons of red fossil ore Rnd .500,000,000 tons of brown hematite, «ix workable veins of coal, varying from lrce to eleven feet in thickness, and es ‘‘mated to contain 537,000,000 tons of con I, or enough to last the entire United states for five years. Iters, before Saturday, Attoiney-Gencrad Ilo -New the civil district court of ffitestration—one Orleans, sued out two writs of se Bart against Maurice J. and another against Miss Laura Baines, a sister to Mrs. E. A. Burke, *° recover certain portions of stolen f 11 bonds, which he alleges to have sr ‘ate n V Treasurer ansf « rred Burke. these After parties deducting by Ex le amount of the bonds so far recovered r c ’* n Burke’s deficit, he is still about - *400,000 , short SCHLEY COUNTY. NEWS. The New York Sun’s cotton review of Friday: Futures declined 8to 11 points under an unexpectedly weak report from Liverpool instead of the advance which the bulls expected, On this decline there was a brisk demand to cover con tracts, and as the day wore on the com paratively small crop movement gave strength to values. An exceptional feature was the further development of October cotton, which caused this month to close dearer, Cotton on spot was steady but quiet. The great fertilizer factory of G. Obor – Sons, established in 1857, at Locust Point, Baltimore, burned Thursday. It consisted of three large buildings which cost $125,000. The first building, in which 100 men were at work, burned to the ground and the flames, driven by the winds spread to another large building, completely gutting it. Fully $260,000 woith of damage had been done to the buildings,before the flames were gotten under control, which a member of the firm says cost $200,000, and $60,000 STOLEN DOCUMENTS. ALL THE RECORDS IN THE CRONIN CASE, AT CHICAGO, DISAPPEAR. A. dispatch from Chicago says: A startling rumor was current, early Satur day morning, that the entire official re ror£ l of the Cr nin case had been stolen, The record includes a copy of the pro ceedings before the coroner’s jury, the sworn affidavit of witnesses before the jury, portions of the hair, blood clots, cotton bating, and other tangible ev ‘dences o the crime louud in the catch ^ trunk. the An Carlson ex-employe cottage of and the the state bloody at tqrney’s office, who had full access to all valuable pieces of evidence, is now missing and may be in Canada. Yolu minous documentary testimony and mote precious, but still bulky, material evi Jencos were kept in what was considered a sa f e p{ JCe j n the state attorney’s office, to which only trusted employes had ac cess. The ex-employe is said to have several times been seen in proximity of this vault, which, when he w–s in the employment of the county, he had abun dant opportunity to learn every nook and crevice. The discoveries were made Friday morning, when the necessities of looking up the addresses of witnesses in compliance with an order expected to be entered by Judge McConnell at the morn ing session of the trial, made a reference to impeiuiive. affidavits taken Then, Wore it 3s the add, grand that jury the awful fact presented itself to the state’s attorney and colleagues that the result of their labors since May 4.th had van ished as if by magic..... A.I Hanks am Mark Solomon, criminal court bailiff s, under arrest, charged with packing tke Cronin jury. The first suspicion of the fac > tke / al ’ ure of lhe to r <;P ort {or dul J Saturday morning. Their absence was due the fact that they were taken to a Nortlmd)e hotel by several de tcctive9 and were kept there in close surveillance . Two men have also been d j scovere d in attempting to corrupt ve niv£meu summ oned to Judge McCon aell , g court and t0 j nstruct those favora b , e fcQ the pr j soners how to answer ques ti()DS of the state ' s attorney in order to be retained as jurors. AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. SUCCESSFUL TESTS OF A PROCESS FOR RE MOVING PHOSPHORUS FROM IRON. Four succe‘sful tests were made, on Wednesday, at the furnaces in Birming ham, Ala., of a chemical process for re moving all phosphorus from iron, and converting it into Bessemer pig. Every test w’as pronounced a complete success by chemists and practical steel men en giged to w’itness them. The process has just been discovered by a Scotch chem ist, named Archibald, w r ho is in the em ploy of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. By this process the extra cost of converting the ores of that section int o bessemer pig will be only fifty cents a ton. The success of the ex periments have cause! no little excite ment in iron and financial circles. A BIG SCHEME. CONSOLIDATION THAT WILL REVOLUTION IZE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY TRAFFIC. A gigantic railway consolidation that will connect the two oceans and revolu tionize the international railway traffic, has just been revealed at Chicago, Ill. Contracts have been signed whereby the Baltimore – Ohio railroad is to enter into an agreement with the consolidated Wisconsin Central and Northern Pacific lines, connecting the oceans. The Atch i-on, Topeka – Santa Fe system is in the vleal, reaching Mexico and southern Cal ifornia. Chicago will be made the centre for operratlng the three great lines. The Northern Pacific will be extended from Puget’s sound and built into Alaska, making a continuous line from New York city to Sitka. THEY PROTEST, BUSINESS MEN OF MISSISSIPPI UPBRA1DINO THE EXCHANGES. The board of trade of Jackson, Miss., on Tuesday night adopted deprecate the the following: action Resolved, That we of the cotton exchanges iu the various cities in declining to agree to the equal izing of tare rules proposed in the bag <rin«- convention in New Orleans; that we approve the efforts of the New Or leans cotton exchange to have the tare rates generally adopted, and regret the necessity that compelled them to decline to adopt said tare rates, aud that we avow our purpose so far as we can, tc labor for the accomplishment of the end let forth by said bagging convention. THE LEGISLATURE. ■ILLS PASSED BY THE 8ENATE AND HOUS1 OF REPRESENTATIVES. A bill to repeal tbe act creating a board of commissioners of roads and revenue for the county of Emanuel; to amend the act lot in authorizing Savannah; the sale of the arsenal gift enterprises to prohibit lotteries, and games of chance,and to provide a misdemeanor penalty lor the violation of the law; to incorporate the Farmers’ Banking and Storage company of Jackson county; to prohibit child la bor; to authorize the Atlanta Gaslight company to use electric lights as well as gas and to issue bonds; to prohibit hunt ing on the lands of another without con sent in Telfair county; to prohibit the catching fair ami of fish with seins or nets in Tel dinary of Montgomery; Gordon to make the or the board county a member of of commissioners of roads and revenues for that county; a resolution to have the portraits of distinguished cit izens in the old capitol cleaned, reno vated and hung in the new capitol. Fifty dollars appropriated; a bill giving landlords special liens ou the crops of renters those superior to all other liens except for tuxes; to change the time ol holding the superior court of Crawford from the third Monday in April to the third Monday in Match; to amend the act for the forclosure of liens; to author ize the governor to issue bonds of the state to pay off the debt falling due iu October, 1890; to amend the act estab lishing a board of pharmaceutic exam iners. A bill to incorporate the town of H>1 ton, in Early county, one-half mile in every dinction from Hilton’s storehouse; to incorporate the town rfTienton; to incorporate the Empire Mills Tele graph company; to incorporate the Germania Savings Bank of Savannah; to authorize tbe mayor and council of Savannah to establish and control harbor lines in the Savannah river, at the cross tide above the city to the sea, to prevent the building of piers and bulkheads so as to prevent the shoaling of the river; to amend section 509 of the code, by in serting thirty days instead of ten days; to amend the act establishing public schools in Carrollton, by increasing the number of school trustees; to requite the registration of voters iu Mclutosh county; three mile prohibition bill for the Ray town Methodist and Baptist churches, except in Sharon, an incorporated town. A biit to amend the charter of Colquitt in Wilcox county, and provide for the election of a mayor aud aldermen; a lence law for certain portions of Thomas county; to incorporate the Brooks Al liauce Banking company; to amend the charter of Macon so as to authorize the collection of $50,000 per annum on li censes and business; to prohibit tbe sale of liquor within five miles of Towltown Methodist aud Christian churches iu De catur county; to repeal Marion an act to provide twro weeks sessions of county su perior court; to authorize the holding of an election in Terrell county ti determine whether bonds shall be issued; to estab lish public schools m Dawson county; to authorize the county commissioners or the ordinaries, where there are no such commissioners, to hire convicts to other counties; to incorporate the town of Shady Dale, in Jasper county; to amend the act prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors by inserting before (he word “tobacco” the word “cigarette ;” to provide for the drawing and of juries in the superior courts; a game fish law for Bullock county; to require the regis tration of voters in Bullock county; to prohibit the sale of liquor near Rock Spring Academy and Cove church, iu McWilliams’ Cove, Walker county; to incorporate the Stevenson, Sand Moun tain A Dalton Railroad; to prohibit the sale of liquor near St. Mary’s masonic institute and the Chickamauga Baptist church in Walker county. A four mile prohibition law for Pope’s chapel in Wilkes county. Also a four mile prohibition bill for Independence church in Wilkes. A bill to incorporate the Hawkinsville and Florida Souther.. Railroad company; tC incorporate En terprise Street Railroad company of Sa vannah; to amend the charter of the Empire aud Dublin Railroad company. A 2£ mile prohibition bill for Moore’s Grove Baptist church in Clarke county. A bill to incorporate the Satilla River Transportation company. A resolution for the relief of Baldy Ryalls, former A bill tar. collector of Dodge county. to authorize the mayor and council of Lin colnton to issue municipal bonds for the purpose of raising money to build an academy; to relieve Eugene Begnin, of Baldwin, on aoeount of a surety on a for feited bond of Turner; to establish a school district in Lumpkin county; Sa- to authorize the mayor and council of vannah to establish harbor lines; to provide a punishment for any exicutor, administrator, guardian or trustee who shall fraudulently convert tiust property to his own use; to amend the tax act of 1888-89; to provide for the establish ment of the line between Georgia and Alabama; to authorize the mayor and council of Athens to levy a tax to pave Ihe sidewalks of that city. BANK STATEMENT Following is a statement of the asso ciated banks at New York for the week ending Saturday: Reserve increase...... ......$ Ofl0,025 Loans decrease......... ...... 4,070,30C Specie increase..... .. ...... 1.885,800 Legal tenders decrease. ...... 5,107,700 1,152,300 Deposits decrease...... ...... Circulation decrease... ...... 13,200 The bunks now hold $705,708 less than 25 per cent, rule calls for. ANOTHER CALL. A GRAND RALLY OF ALLIANCES TO BE HELD AT ST. LOUIS IN DECEMBER. Hon. R. G. Sledge, chairman of the national cotton committee of the Farm ers’ Alliance, with the other members of the executive committee at Atlanta, Ga., ou Tuesday, promulgated a paper stronger than any yet drafted against jute. '] he paper was signed by himself and Hon. L F. L vingston and* Hon. li. F. Kolb, and was mailed to the president of every wheel, union and alliance in the cotton stat: s, and to the farmers and luborets’ uuion throughout the country, and is as follows: Whereas, Recent in formation of a reliable nature has reached us, that a jute combination has been renewed ii pon a more extens.ve scale than foimerly, denominated the American Manufacturing company, in which [ erhaps all principal jute bagging manufacturers are interested, by which they propose to force on the cotton pro ducer for the year 1800 their outputs; and, Whereas, It is absolutely necessary that whatever should be done to prevent tk<? same must, to be efficient, be done at the eaibest possible day; therefore we, the uudeisigned, most earnestly request the presidents of each state alliance to have a decided expression from sub-alli ances, wheels and unions, in favor cf the exclusive use of cotton bagging for the year 1890, and report the same to a con vention at St. Louis ou December 7tli next, at 10 a. in. Said convention to be composed of the presidents of each state alliance, wheel or union, or such representatives as they * may select, and one exchange or more delegates the from each cotton in United States, tr. take into consideration and settle the question of tare on cotton covered-bales, and to establish a standard cotton bagging. We earnestly request tbe Hon. Evan Junes, president of tbe Farmers’ and La borers’ union of America, to invite each cotton exchange in the United States to send properly accredited delegates to said convention. And iu the event that the cotton exchanges refuse or neglect to participate in said convention, then the delegates representing the pro ducers shall proceed to fix the tare and prescribe a standard cotton bigging, to which a’l alliancemen will u n com pro mizingly adhere. This action is neccs sary, that manufacturers of cotton bag ging may be enabled to supply the de mands at reasonable prices. Let sub alliances take action immediately. L. F. Livingston, President S. F. A.; R. G. Sledge, Chnrn. Nat. Cou. Com.; II. F. Kolb. Ag. Comr. Alabama. ROASTED ALIVE. A nouSF, AND ITS INMATES BURNED Uf BY THE EXPLOSION OF GAS. At Davis Switch, a small village, thir teen miles fiom Bradford, Me., the dwelling of Patrick Daily was burned, and his wife and three sons aged thir teen, eleven and nine respectively, were roasted in the flames. At *6 o’clock Sun day night, while the Daily family were at supper, the , , father „ went to .... the stove to partly turn off the gw. He uuinteu tionally shut the throttle tight, and on reversing it again the house was filled with gas, and an explosion followed, and in an instant the entire house was in flames. The three boys and the mothei fell prostrate on the floor, overcome by the heat aud flames. The house was entirely consumed in a few’ minutes. The charred and blackened bodies pre sented a most s ekening sight. Mr. Daily was severely but not fatally burned about the head and face, and is almost crazed with grief. THE VETERAN PREACHERS PASS RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET AT THE RESIGNATION OF CORPORAL TANNER. The Veterans’ Association of Ministers of the Genesee Methodist Conference, numbering about fifty members, held its annual meeting in Lockport, N. Y., on Thursday, and adopted the following resolution: Resolved, That we have heard with sincere regret of the resigna tion as commissioner of pensions of Corporal James Tanner, forced from him fey the influence of politicians, and that we depreciate the subordination of the pension department to political wire pullers, so that it cannot be administered by a man who, like Corporal Tanner, has ihe true interest of the soldiers at heart, and we call upon the President of the United States in to hands place of the granting of administer pensions it the in the those of the who will interest coun try. and to bestow upon Corporal Tanner such recognition as befits a man who, in every position, has shown himself the true friend of the soldier, ALLIANCES IN ALABAMA. BOTH WHITE AND COLORED ALLIANCES BEING ORGANIZED AND BOOMING. The following is from Greenville, Ala.: “Thirteen colored Farmers’ Alli ances have thus far been organized in this, Butler county, alone.and before the close of the year similiar organizations will be formed in every township. rapidly The membership is not large,but it is increasing, and bids fair to be strong. The white and colored Alliances are united in their war against trusts, and in promotion of the doctrine that farmers should establish co-operative stores and manufactures, and publish their own newspapers, conduct their own schools, and have a hand in everything else that concerns them as citizens or affects them personally or collectively. A manufac turing and commercial company, under the auspices of the Farmers’ Alliance,has been organized here, with a capital of $125,000.” GALLANT KNIGHTS. MEETING OF THE GRAND CONCLAVE OF EMU UTS TEMPLAR IN WASHINGTON. On Tuesday, the city of Washington alry, w oie a holiday garb. The days of chiv w ith all their pomp and display, seemed revived. It was the opening day of the grand triennial conclave oi Knights-Tcimplar of the United States. Long columns of soldiery, with their gorgeous plumes and uniforms, gallop ing, mounted equerries, fluttering baa bers, martial music, the shrill and com manding trumpet calls, and throngs of admiring spectatois, made, the scene grandly imposing. Along Pennsylvania avenue the decora tor had been lavish in the use of bunting and from every wundow and house front flags, banners and the cross of the Temjr lars were in the crisp October air. A moderate estimate would place the num ber of visitors in the city at about50,000, and the number of knights has been es timated at from 15,000 to 20,000, com prising over 200 commanderies from all section 13 of the country. BURNING COTTON. TWO COMPRESSES AND 4,000 BALES OF COTTON BURNED IN SAVANNAH, OA. The lower hydraulic and the Tyler cotton compress, with their sheds and 4,000 bales of cotton were burned Wed nesday morning, at Savannah, Ga. The fire was discovered in the lower press on Bay street at 2 o’clock. Everything was very dry and the fire swept from yard to yard rapidly. The wharf frontage was over five hundred feet and the depth to Bay street was about two hundred taiJ fifty. For three hours all of that space, two acres and a half, was ablaze. Throe ve-sels, tho Napier, 1 the Cypress and the Carlton, , all British steamships, were lying at the wharves in front of the burning buildings aud yards. All of the cotton, 4,000 bales, on the, wharves took fire and were completely destroyed. Tho presses are valued at something like $75,000 and the build ings are protected. The total loss on tho cotton and presses is $400,000. NEW OFFICERS ELECTED. W1IO WILL MANAGE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR AFFAIRS FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS. The grand encampment Knights Tem plar of the United States, in secret ses sion at Washington, D. C., on Thursday, elected the following officers to serve for the next three years: Very Eminent. Sir J. P. S. Gobin, of Pennsylvania, most eminent grand master; Very Eminent Hir Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, deputy grand master; Very Eminent Sir Warren. Lome Thomas, of Kentucky, grand generalissimo; Very Eminent Sir Reuben Hedlin Lloyd, of California, grand cap tain general; Very Eminent Sir Henry Bales Stoddard, of Texas, grand senior warden; Very Eminent Sir Nicholas Van Slyck, of Rhode Island, grand junior warden; Very Eminent Sir H. Wales Lines, 0 f Connecticut, grand treasurer; y Eminent Sir William B. Isaacs, of Virginia, grand recorder. The next conclave will be held in Denver. DEADLY WIRES MAYOR GRANT, OF NEW YORK, ORDERS THE ELECTRIC WIRES DOWN. Mayor Grant, on Saturday morning, hastily called a meeting of the board of electrical control of New York, and as soon as it was assembled, a resolution was adopted ordering the immediate re moval of all electric light wires that were of this not properly insulated. The causa on' Friday, hasty action was the killing, of a lineman by electricity from! badly connected wire*. An interview with Mr. Edison, the inventor, has beert printed, in which he says that no insula tion will make an electric wire safe, and that sub ways and insulation will aliku prove ineffective, an4 that the only way to prevent loss of life is to regulate the pressure the same as the pressure of steam boilers is regulated. TO COLONIZE THE NEGROES THE BILL FOR THAT PURPOSE PASSED BY THE MEXICAN LEGISLATURE. Advices from Mexico say the bill to grant a concession to Henry C. Ferguson and William H. Ellis, two colored men from Texas, who propose to colonize lands in Oaxaca, Guerrero, Vera Cruz, Miehoacan and San Luis Potasi with Ne groes from Texas and other American states, has passed the lower house ol congress and has gone to the senate. It is believed it will be passed and be signed by the president. from Texas It is will expected that 2,000 Negroes move these to Mexico and raise cotton on lands, and many thousands of industrious blacks, skilled in cultivation, will follow them from states east of the Mississippi. WILL BUiLD SHIPS. A COMPANY ORGANIZED IN CHARLESTON, 8. C., FOB THAT PURPOSE. There was forwarded to the secretary of state at Columbia, S. O., on Tuesday, the declaration for tiie charter of “the South Carolina Naval Construction und Ship owners' Association,” of Charles ton, capital stock $100,000, in shares of $50 each. The names of the incorpo rator will be published later. Tho ob jects and purposes of the new enterprise are, briefly, to establish iu Charleston a ship yard for the building of a fleet of carrying vessels, combining with this the marine insurance.