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\0L. NilI. ,EATH and disaster. ter Particulars of the Deatn-Deal | jig storm on the Gulf. i nf Honor and Misery-The heath |/ist Increased to 2,023. flew Orleans special of Fndaj .I The foil story ot the greet storm 1S3* 1 >»" told bil r.l ale °l «• Efe&stsss: ftto isolated localities, but the E sentiment is that nearly all are likely to be found have been overed, 0V and that the others have ii swept to sea in .he great tidal re. This leaves some doubt as to exact number lost, as the popula [ of the settlement at the time of [sterwas not known.’Father Gon bux, the parish priest, has fnrnish , list of 822 known to be dead. The imate of the loss runs from this fig to to 1,200 for the Oheniere prop *nd 1,300 for the whole district, n tiie Bayou Cook section the num i 0 f bodies recovered has been 131 as lows: l Bnvou Cook 37 ; Bayou Shute I Grand Bayou 26 ; Bayou Ferraud Rayon [at Chalard 1: Cypress bay 16 Tropical Bend, on the Missis bi river, .eighteen miles distant Ere they floated from the swamp, 17 feie are 183 other persons still miss | who have not been seen since the rm. Their bodies are supposed to lying in the swamps or were swept sea. A large number of searching rties are out looking for them, but the swamp grass is ten feet high, the itch is a very difficult one and the flies are discovered mainly by the rrible stench they send out. It will idifficult to identfy them,not only be jseof decompositionbut because they ve been badly disfigured and eaten I the gars and other fish and crabs. 6s makes the total loss in the Bayou ck te country 316, two-thirds of whom Austrains from Dalmatia. . )n the , coast islands, seventy-eight , |ies f and have llo been on Cat found and on Ship the islands, Chand bahly all from the wrecked vessels Mississippi or Chandleur sound, kloss of life from the shipping will peavier than was at first reported. ady 184 bodies have been report M there are still many vessels ing he whose fate is unknown. Both islands and on the Bayou Cook bp, the stench from the dead bod B men and cattle is most offensive. BURYING THE DEAD. He Louisiana state board of health Bent lime and other disinfectants p used where the dead are lying. (appeal was made to the board to y the dead, but a majority decided \ this was not within its province . that the burying must be done by [parishes. Orleans, The Slavonian Society, pew fom appointed Coroner to bury all those found in the pips at its expense and erect slabs r them giving their names. This ping of done. life Only reported a few additional Friday, es were PP* Doe at sea. They are: Creole Gap island 3; Slidell 3; Wrens ad 2. The list of the dead is now jn heniere as fellows Cominada by districts: and neighboring lements, 1,312; Bayou Cook conn- 316; Lost from shipping, 184; ndlsle, 27, lower coast of Plaque e, 47; Lake Borgne fishing camps, Louisiana Coast island, 73; Mis ppi sound, 73 ; total, 2,023. hs may be increased fifty or sixty ither losses on missing vessels. In ition to those vessels reported lost rsday the following are known to racked with the following lives hem: Corinne, 5; Hope, 5; Anne, Georgiana. we^ 2; Rosalie, 4. The file’s men found lashed to the of the vessel, but dead. Other :ked vessels are the Pauline, Made, pger Danido MaryB ViUara L Iy T,!r’ 6 ’ B > ‘ 8 Helena had large FAMILIES. r ^2 dead at Cheniere Carain .whose names are known, 496 were dren. The Caminada people are pus for large families. Mr. Lafon Miis wife and fifteen children, Aiser N his wife and ten children and Bonamour his wife and ten j plren. eace brothers, The families who lived of the together, three Aulome and Perie, consisted of grown persons and twenty chil P- Of these twenty-six only one, tn Valence, survived. the effects of the storm at the Che re are seen only in the 88 tfle houues, but the geography La wged C t The er of settlement th ® country formerly I Baratana bay. The wash ^1?°^ f JL t8frollt tasmadeittace gulf of Mexico. Chandleur island HALE'S WEEKLY. Our Paitli: Pure Jeffersonian Democracy. CONYERS, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1893. storm lias ceased washing largely away o the lie an soil island, and leav¬ the i ing it merely a roof covered in ordi bays have been enlarged or lessened. horror's climax. Terrific as was the work of the storm j elsewhere, on Chemere Caminada it; reached a climax of horror. Chemere is one of that group of islands which extend along the lower coast, and to which belong Grand isle, Tam halier and Lost island It s a long, F Nation was . ire:s.s:,”'Thrs,s work of the elements no where finds better exemplification than at Cam inidaville. The condition in which this once prosperous little town is now left left is is nrtnfllliner appa hn . On On Sunday Sunday evening mere were owe im & . within its limits, but only tw enty- ve remain standing, and of these, there is not one uninjured. The mute *p peal of these shattered heaps of de bris is irresistible. Even the coldest heart, would grow sick to behold them, The sympathetic scene is lieart-rend .'tig. BWRYINO THEIR OWN FAMILIES. It’is no unusual thing to see great, rugged fishermen, bronzed and hard¬ ened by a life of almost constant ex¬ posure, embrace each other in tears. All had shares in the losses of the storm. Not one of them could claim, exception from the universal d«prea sion. There were a thousand duties to be attended to, and they had little time to spend in conversation. Bo long as the festering dead lay Tin buried, one did not have tho heart to detain them from . their work. Just imagine fathers and mothers bury ing their sons and daughters, and chil dren, in their extreme sadness, bury ing their dead parents. Everywhere one could see graves, wherein as many as ten people were buried. Some were drowned; others killed in the wrecknge. There are liund eds of bodies that are still unburied. Some are under the wrecked buildings, while the balance are floating on the bosom of the bav of Caminada. Beneath some of the wrecks there are many decaying bodies, but they canno t be taken out and given even a rade Christian burial. The brave little band of grave diggers is exhaust ed Th have a ] rea dv buried in the rude graves on t he island 950, and are Btill burying what bodies they can find. Imagination would be out of place in describing that scene, for the cruel truth itself surpasses anything possi¬ ble to the fancy. THE COTTON CROP. Official Report of the Department of Agriculture. The report of the statistical divis¬ ion of the department of agriculture at Washington makes cotton show a decline of 2.7 points from the Septem¬ ber condition, which was 73.4, as against 70.7 for this month. The con dition of cotton in the month of June ^. as 85.6, declining to 82.7 in July and to 80.4 in August, losing from that time to the present 9.7 points. retrogressive tendency has been persistent during the season” Reports t - rom t he most fertile parts of the cot ton belt arc far from hopeful. The jexas crop 0 f 1892 and ’93 was about 3 i per CCI1 t. of the entire crop of the country, and the October report of this department of 1892 showed a condition of 77 pel . f . en t. as against 65 per cent, for *jg93. .' The percentages of the states aro Virginia, 93; North Carolina, 76 . s 0U tb Carolina, 62 ; Georgia, 76 ; jq 0T j da> ^4; Alabama, 76; Mississippi, 73, Louisiana, 71; Texas, 65 ; Arkan- 8agj 7] . Tennessee, 59. p be October condition in the states oi Virginia and North Carolina is the « «?* 0f Sel ’1 mb u’’n^ T ^ two points, ^por s from from t|ie eight remaining states indicate declines mconditum from to U P 01, ite- be s ate v e e ' P ^Carolina,' . £5”*“; 63 Georgia, 77; Florida,85; Alabama,78; Mississippi, 78; Louisiana, 81; Texas, 63; Arkansas, 80; Tennessee, 66. The causes of deterioration in condi tion are the same as those reported in the department report. The weather conditions have not been favorable, Protracted and prevalent drought, places and ex cessive moisture in some various insect enemies of the plant have all contributed toward producing the low conditions reported. A favor H ble autumn is the only hope of im provement. The weather conditions are favorable to successful picking in wost par ts. __ Riotous Strikers. A cable dispatch from Paris Ba y e Striking coal miners started ri ° ts Monday evening at Levin m the de part ment of Pash-de-Calais. and a Drucort, in the department of Eure. I n both the military and police qnick \ v dispersed the crowds. Nobody was j iiiinred. SOOTHERN NEWS ITEMS. » MU < Her Proms au4 Pm purity Briefly Notes, li.. P1 ' e ln ” s 0 Interest In,elest Pl Portrayed :l v in - Pithy Paragraphs. - i _ compan/at i: . „t„hle of the E Ky.l T Everson Louisville, was dest aWi»~. royed by tire Saturday morn i»*. v'iy l'.lnaii'.r ’Th,: losi horses A number of cases m the city are very serious. There are rumors also ot several cases of sma lpox, but nothing ofticial Recapitulation Under treat ment, ^ ^ 187; discharged, ^ 83; dead, lb. . The weather al ,.i Four hundred . , miners,who . . have . been out on a strike for two months in the Coal Creek and Bricevillc districts, re turned to work Monday morning, as a compromise with the companies, which was a ten per cent reduction in the dollar, and one dollar off on house rent. The reason given by the miners for accepting the compromise was that, their wives and children were starving and that they must feed them. A Jackson, Miss., special of Monday says: Governor Stone'lias received information from Hon. H. M. Street, speaker of the house of representu lives, and one of the most prominent insurance men in the state, confirm iffi? what the governor lias already Ba Ll contradicting the burning of gins by white caps. Colonel Street states that he does not know of a single gm Rouse in the state that has been burn¬ ed by white caps or supposed to have been burned by white caps, The trial of the sixteen soldiers charged with the lynching of Richard Drummond at Bricevillc last August, was commenced at Knoxville Monday through habeas corpus proceedings before Judge Sneed, of the Knox county criminal court. A number of witnesses on both sides were examined, when the defense offered to rest its case, but the prosecution objected on the ground that three important wit¬ nesses were absent. The state was given two days to produce them and the court adjourned until Thursday. A Harrodsburg, Ky., special says: The jury in the case of H. C. T ass more, for the murder of Richard Bax ton on October 25, 1887, returned a verdict Saturday morning for ac quittal, being out less than a half an hour. This is the fifteenth court the case has been put through. As a re suit the jury stood seven for capital pun ishment, four for life and one for ac quittal and they have been growing more lenient every court since. The case has cost the state over $30,000, several jurymen being taken from ad joing counties as well as witneses. Advices of Sunday state that New ^ Orleans has raised a relief fnnd for the storm sufferers of about, $75,000 in all, and steamers, luggers, skiffs and trains have been sent in every direc tion to extend relief. The only new development is tho intelligence from Bayou St. Andreas, leading from the the Grand isle district, that there are a hundred deaths along that section, making 1,660 deaths between Chen iere and Bayou Cook. A great many people are leaving their former homes in the storm-stricken section, and flock ing to New Orleans. Tho Nashville Safe Deposit and Trust Company made an assignment late Saturday night for the benefit of its creditors. The total assets are $224,056.56, while the liabilities amount to $224,056.56 The American Na tional is a creditor to the amount of $9,500, the Continental National, of Memphis, $5,000; Fourth National, $10,000; First National, of Nashville, $5,000, and Nashville Trust Company, $9,500. The cause of the failure is due to the fact that the company could not realize the cash on their assets. It is claimed that the creditors will be paid in full. Judge Gary Nominated. A Chicago special of Friday says , Judge Gary, who presided at the trial of the Haymarket anarchists, placed at the head of the republican judicial ticket for re-election. The democratic convention some days ago declined to endorse him, and instead named for the place on the ticket Ed ward Osgood Brown, the single taxer who took a prominent part in the movement for the pardon of Fielden, Schwab and Neebe. Judge Gary’s re nomination by the republicans was by acclamati on. _ Chicago Bay at the Fair. Worid’s'fairThe^ -, r y rn ffiTr - Tr n ± Officials estimate the attendance at 725 000. Two peo p F i e were killed while goingto and com J m the fair while the hospital r ord at 6 0 - c]ock showed ft total of j e88 t h an forty slight casualties. Two hours later the number had increased t(j ^ 2 5 BRUNSWICK ASKS FOR AiD. Governor Northen Issues an Appeal to Georgians in Her Behalf. Last Monday Governor Northen re¬ ceived from Hon. Thomas W. Lamb, the mayor of Brunswick, who is now at the head of a band of brave men fighting the fever and starvation in the stricken city by the sea, a letter asking' for aid for his people. The ap peal should touch a responsive chord in the hearts of every Georgian. It gives the true situation of affairs in B '“ l - In response to this 'letter Governor Vortlier, hss written the tnltewinR let- 3E«&i5n3 f L “ "dm to^ h ., a df semurge , 7 him to ask the P e b „ t the miabT> 01 UUL calamity calamity he ne but mu ui&- di» charges his duty to his unfortunate people, in the absence ot power m his city government and provision on the P«t ut ^ate , , to , render , aid abso- , lu tely aeeded. I appeal to the good people of this state,once more, to come to his relief through liberal coutnbu tl0 Jjs 111 mon ®y and provisions. 1 Bespectlully, \v. J. Northen, Governor ot Georgia, j | The following is the letter received by Governor Northen from Mayor Lamb: J lie Excellency, It. J, Northen, (love"nor of Georgia: My Dear Sir—Your favor has been received, with $6.40 included, for which accept my thanks for and in be¬ half of the suffering of this city. The conditions are daily growing worse. It now looks as if every man, woman and child in the city, except the those who have immunity from disease, will take the fever. A great many negroes are sick, many more than we had in 1876, and I am under the impression that it is for want of the white race to feed upon, although there are many white people yet who may have the fever. I am praying for frost and aid. Without the former, we must have the latter, or starvation is inevitable. The outside world does not understand thoroughly our situation. In a few words, it is this: No business; no money; city treasury depleted; sick¬ ness and suffering everywhere. We are, therefore, compelled to ask for aid j from a generous public, which up to tll ; 8 time j ias i, e en kind; but, with the : f ever on tho increase and both money and provisions coming in slowly, I am compelled to appeal again for assist ance While we have as yet no dis turbances among the negroes, should they become maddened from hunger, j-p w hites would he powerless to de¬ {end themselves against such odds, j apprehend no danger unless in that eveut j ]iav0j f or W ant of proper men (m tlle po ii oe f orce , some twenty f our 0 { the best colored men as police lnen> to pro t ect the houses of those J who My bave task, left I the c j ty . has been can assure you, anything but pleasant. I am trusting in a kind Providence to guide mo in these trials; and—please understand uie—1 have not a word of excuse to make for myself, but have feelings of sympathy for a few men who left Brunswick in her dire distress and said to a charitable people abroad, “The people of Brunswick are not in distress.” If they were in the city to-day and understood tho situation, and should be struck with remorse, they feel like praying to a merciful Father for forgivness. You will par don me, but 1 was anxious that you should know that we had one or more citizens who made the remarks referred .to in this letter. I feel it my duty to keep you advis ed of the situation, knowing at the same time that you are doing all in your power to assist us. My clerk this morning was stricken with fever, ft lias no respect for por sons. With my best wishes, I remain (in haste) Your friend, Thomas W. Lamb, Mayor. WILLING TO GO BACK. The Striking L. A; N. Shop Men Ask for Re-instatemenl. The striking shop of the Louis- . men ville and Nashville roa( l at Lecatur, Ala., realize that they have lost and are now desirous of getting back into their old places. Local oflicials ot tho j Iiouisville and Nashville company are j advised that the attorney of the com j pany at Decatur was called on hrmay night by the chairman of the shop j strikers, who said that the men were willing to go back to work at the re , duced scale of wages. 1 he proposition was also made that if taken.back the strike of the shop men on tbe entire ***** w ould be dec lared off. Tlie Reduction Accepted, 4 Louisville dispatch of Monday J j 8t ates that the employees of Che peake Ohio and Southwestern, have accepted the ten percent, reduction and returned to work ' 1 ODR LATEST DISPATCHES. flie Happenings of a Day Chronicled in Brief and Concise Paragraphs And Containing the Gist of the News From All Parts of the World. Attendance at the world’s fair Tues¬ day was 335,264; on Chicago day— Monday—paid admissions were 713,- 646. James Houston, for many years gen¬ eral manager of the Associated Press in the United States, died in New York Tuesday. The Clarksville, Tonn., Farmers’ and Merchants’ bank went into liqui¬ dation Tuesday. Depositors will be paid in full. Thirty-five new cases of yellow fe¬ ver and two deaths was the official re¬ port of the Brunswick board of health for the twenty-four hours ending at noon Tuesday. A general strike of the American flint glass workers lias been ordered. This action is the result of the glass trust declaring that all factories would be operated by non-union men. The entire republican ticket in In¬ dianapolis was elected Tuesday by a majority not exceeding 1,500. The average democratic majority two years ago was about the same. The British steamer Mem non, load¬ ed with 2,000 bales of cotton, took fire Tuesday. The compartments wore flooded with water. The extent of damage will not be known until the cotton is brought out. A special of Tuesday from Paris says: Count Ferdinand DoLesseps is hourly expected to breathe his last. All hope of improvement has been given up, and it is believed death can he delayed by the native tenacity of his constitution. Ho is not expected to live till daylight. Word was received Tuesday from Tuskahoma, I. T., of a terrible triple murder which occurred about forty miles west of that city. The victims were Choctaws. Governor Jones Bays it was the result of the late political trou¬ bles and the men killed belonged to the Jones faction. Particulars are un¬ obtainable at present. A relief train of six freight cars, provisions and supplies for tho fever stricken town of Brunswick, Ga., left Jersey City, N. J., Wednesday morn¬ Washington. ing on the Pennsylvania railroad via It will reach its desti¬ nation in about throe days. The train carried a large amount of Hour, sugar and other staples, as well as tea, cof¬ fee, delicacies and medicines. A London cablegram of Tuesday says: Tho government lias received a dispatch from Rio do Janeiro announ¬ cing that one of the forts in the bay surrendered to Admiral de Mellos. The dispatch adds that the city of Rio de Janeiro remains quiet in spite of the fact that several shots from tho guns on board the rebel ships, sup¬ posed to have been fired at the forts, fell into the city. The Evening Record, a paper which appeared in San Francisco, Tuesday, the first time, and about tho reliabili¬ ty of which nothing is known, prints a story to tho effect that the territory of Lower California has been purchased from the republic of Mexico by a syndicate of American and English capitalists, who proposo to annex the peninsular to the United States, Tho alleged au¬ thority is William Wrendon, an En¬ glish capitalist, After taking 5,182 ballots, tho first judicial democratic convention in ses¬ sion at Baltimore ended tho deadlock Tuesday by nominating as chief judge Henry Page, of Somerset, and associ¬ ate, Henry Lloyd, of Dorchester. The convention started to work two months ago. Tt was made up of sixteen dele¬ gates and representing four counties. Each county had a candidate. The counties paired off, made combinations and every vote stood eight to eight. The political leaders, headed by Sena¬ tor Gorman, are credited with being instrumental in breaking the deadlock. The number of ballots taken breaks all records. TWO RECEIVERS Will Sow Direct the Affairs of the Cen¬ tral Railroad. The Central Railroad Company co reoe ; verB ^ 1 j t) ma tter was disposed of ^ <^ Justice Jackson at Washington atur( ] ay * Upon the petition concur ^ 1 maIJV bondholders and seen holders of the system the court a p po i n t e d Somers Hayes, of New y , co-receiver with H. M. Comer present receiver the ground of ^ petition being the magnitude of ^be interest at stake and necessary for the division of labor, the appointment jn ^ ^ r(;flecting upon the present r ; vpr ^ Yr r j Haves is the president of the Pau „, ld Duluth railroad, and of the New York and Northern. The appointment is received with general satisfaction by all concerned, ----- Thera I* bo doubt that people raiser, ^ are abbs to move in th higheet circle*.—[Chicago Inter Oeesm. > TRADE TOPICS. Report of the Past Week’s Business by Ban & Co. It is difficult to detect any signs of improvement. While there has been some addition to the number of manu¬ facturing establishments and the num¬ ber of hands at work during the past week, it is becoming painfully clear that the orders obtained do not suffice the to keep limited employed at full time even force at present engaged. Reports from other cities disclose a distinct check in business. There is, on the whole, less activity and less confidence regarding the future than there was a week ago, ami this is in many cases attributed to the uncer¬ tainty regarding the monetary future which the delay in the senate causos. The stock of money in New York banks has increased rapidly, and the retirement of clearing house certifi¬ cates at New York and at other cities shows a great improvement in the monetary situation. There is not ns much encouragement ns might be desired in the industrial reports for the week. An increased number of establishments is reported in operation, but the sagging of prices in print cloths and sonic other cotton goods, and in the more important pro¬ ducts of iron and steel, discloses great¬ ly retarded business. The demand for iron products is, on the whole, less satisfactory than it was a week ago. Steel billets are selling at Pittsburg for $18 per ton, and there is practical¬ ly no demand for rails. In tho manufacture of wool thero is still a remarkabblo hesitation and the demand for consumption is much restricted, so that the purchases of wool at tho principal market, notwith¬ standing some speculative buying, have been only 2,626,996 pounds, against 6,727,400 for the same week last year. The movement of wheat has been fairly largo and tho price has declined about two cents, while corn has also yielded about one cent. Cotton is 1-4 cent higher, with other distinctions in crop prospects, and pork products are also somewhat higher—pork, 75 cents per barrel. Oil has advanced sharply, and after some reaction closed 2 cents per barrol higher than a week ago. It is possible that the surplus currency in circula¬ tion lias the natural effect of stimulat¬ ing speculative activity. Happily, diminished the changes thus far have not the exports of products, which con¬ tinue fairly large. Failures continue to decrease in number and importance, though reported not as much ns hoped. The number for the United States for the past week was 320, against 184 for the same week last year, and in Canada 45, against 36 last year. Tho disposition to include all banking and financial failures with those of commercial and manufactur¬ ing concerns during tho past, year, has led to estimates which de much injus¬ tice to mercantile interests. THE VIGILANT WINS The First, of a Series of Races for America’s Pup. A New York special says: Bowling along under a fair wind, the American cup defender, Vigilant, crossed the line at Sandy Hook lightship at 3:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon, winner in the first of the international races for the American cup. The Valkyrie later ar¬ rived home almost eight minutes and both were at once taken in tow by their respective tenders and hur¬ ried to their place of shelter off Bay Ridge. magnificent contest front It was a navy points of view and demonstrate!: for that day, at least, the superior construction of the center boarder, over tho cutter as well as the superior yachtmanship of men, who handled the English boat. itOILANT WINS THE SECOND BACK. A special of Monday from Sandy Hook, N. ,T., says: The Vigilant cross¬ ed tho line at 2:50 p. m., tho Vakyrie three minutes astern. ALTGELD ENDORSED In His Action Pardoning the Hay market Rioters. A Chicago special says: That the democracy support Governor Altgeld in the pardon of the anarchists, and his denunciation of Judge Gary, was publicly demonstrated at the county convention Wednesday, When it reached Judge Gary’s name for re nomination, ex-Jmlge Moran, one of the most respected jurists in the city, howled down and threatened wijh personal violence when he presented Gary’s name. Religious Convention, Second only in importance to the great World's Parliament of Religion* in the world’s congress was the evan gelical alliance which opened at Chi cago, Monday morning, and partici Rating in the proceedings are Rev C. H. Carter, the famous social reform divine of New York city, Prof Henry Drummond, Endinlmrg, and other famous men m religiousi circles. Over two thousand representatives of the evangelical l.mlms participated m the inaugural session, and the attendance for the entire acek bide fair to beaery large.