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VOLUME V. ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, first insertion SI.OO Each subsequent insertion 50 Professional Cards, per year 5.00 Reading Notices, per line 10 {=gTLe gal advertising must be paid in advance. sggT*Spccial reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go in larger space or longer time. BpTAll bills for advertising are due after first insertion of advertisement, un less otherwise agreed. B. T. BROCK, Editor. E. C. GRISCOM, Local Editor. Price $ 1.00, in Advance. OVER THE GLOIiIT WHAT THE ELECTEIC WIEES POUR INTO OUE EAES. LABOR NOTES—ACCIDENTS ON SEA AND LAND —TERRIBLE ACCIDENTB ON THE RAILROADS —NOTED PEOPLE DEAD. The August report of the Alexandria, Egypt, cotton association shown that the condition of the crop is exceptionally good. A cable has been laid between Cuba and Hayti, connecting Cuba with Porto Plata, San Domingo, Curacoa and Vene zuela. Advices from Matamoras state that the Texas authorities on Thursday, raised the quarantine against Mexico. Mexico will raise her quarantine against Texas. At a meeting in London, England, of the holders of first debenture bonds of the Alabama, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Junction-Railway Company, a resolution was passed authorizing the receiver to borrow SIOO,OOO, with which to pur chase second mortgage bonds of the Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad Com pany. The reply of the French government to the note of Signor Crispi, Italian minister, announcing the Italian seizure of Massowah, is published. It says France desires to avoid entering upon irritating polemics and does not care to prolong debate, but it is impossible to avoid recalling the fact that the French consulate, was established at Massowah twenty-five years before date of Italian occupation. John Baker, while feeding a thrashing machine, on the farm of a man by the name of Weeks, at Guide Rock, Kan., was accidently cut on the hand by the band cutter (a boy.) He grasped the boy and deliberately feed him into the machine feet first. The boy’s screams attracted the attention of the other hands, but before they could interfere the boy’s body had half disappeared in the machine. The enraged men seized Ba ker and hanged him to the straw carrier. Horace Bishop, aged 15, and Charles Applebee, aged 16, both of Branford, Conn., while driving through that town on Thursday, stopped at the drug store of Robinson & Toole and called for soda water, which was given them. They drftve off, but shortly after returned in a very sick condition. They were taken to the office of Dr. Zink, where both of them died in about half an hour. An investigation revealed the fact that tinct ure of aconite had been mixed with the soda water instead of syrup. Robert J. Lotta, the clerk who made the fatal er ror, has been arrested. . INSIST ON A REDUCTION. A delegation of the South Georgia Melon Giowers callfd* on the rate com mittee of the Rpilwmy & Steam ship association at Atlanta, Ga., to make a formal demand for a change in rates, etc. r l hey say that the existence of the melon industry depends oa fairer treat ment at the hands of the roads. They ask for 33 per cent, reduction, fast freights and better cars. The committee took the matter under advisement. - - - ’I -Easy to Give Advice. There are three things about which a man knows more than his wife, yea four things about which he will not hearken to wisdom —when he ought to take his umbrella, when he ought to put on dry clothes, when he ought not to remove his flannels and when he ought not to go out on a steamer without an overcoat. Thousands of people went out from Tor onto by boat on Dominion Day, and probably 75 per cent, of the total of male excursionists were advised by sis ter, mother, or wife to take overcoats. But not 2 per cent, were persuaded. It is a fact that it was a cold day on the lake and that the want of heavier cloth ing spoiled the day for hundreds. The women were as lightly clad as the men, aud suffered even more seriously from the chilliness of the atmosphere. And probably half of these shivering women had urged their brothers or lathers or husbands to take overcoats. It _is usually safe to trust a woman to think too much of the comfort of the men around her and to neglect to provide for ber own wants or to insure her own pleasure. But the moral of this is that you should very rarely go out, on the lake without an overcoat, and that when .the women of your household attack you along this line you should yield like a wise man, and then institute a rigid counter-inquiry into the provisions the women have made for their own comfort. The lake has been here long enough, and we have been here long enough to have better sense than most of us ex hibited on Dominion Day. —Toronto Globe, ___ RELIEF AT LAST. JACKSONVILLE TO BE EAPIDLY DEPOPULATED. SURGEON-GENERAL HAMILTON ISSUES AN IMPORTANT ORDER —A TRAIN LEAVES DIRECT FOR ATLANTA GA. —NOTES. At a late hour on Saturday night the Jacksonville 'Times- Union received the lollowing telegram from General Manager ll.nnes, of the S., F. & W. Railroad, giving the first authentic information with reference to the government excur sion train: “Savannah, Ga,, September 1. —At 8:20 p. m., I received a message from Surgeon-General Hamilton asking mo to send a special of four cars for ref ugees from Jacksonville to Atlanta. Bag gage must be left at the Waycrosa'fumi gating station. We will endeavor to have the train ready to leave Jacksonville about 1:30 p. m. Please give this pub lic notice. —11. S. Haines, G. M.” As soon as people learned this, there was more or less bustle, especially as tele phone messages to Waycross depot were answered by the announcement that the train had been made up and would leave promptly at 1:30 p. m. Nearly two hundred intending passengers had booked their names with the secretary of trade and it was expected that every one of the four cars would be crowded full. An impression had gained ground in some way that, inasmuch as this train had been heralded as a “government ex cursion train,” under charge of the sur geon-general, it w T ould be free to all, and scores of people, both white and black, were on hand two or three hours before the departure of the train in order to take advantage of this, aud they were all dis appointed. There were less than forty passengers, by actual count. Four ordi nary coaches had been provided, and the orders from Superintendent Fleming had been to sell tickets to Atlanta only, the cars to be locked, and no one allowed to leave the train at any point between Jacksonville and the Georgia capital. No baggage was received. Those who had brought it with them, expecting that it would be taken as far ns Waycross and there left behind for fumigation, were doomed to disappointment. The train orders were: “Receive no baggage.” Not even hand baggage was received, or wraps, or over coats. All had to be sent back to their homes by friends or messengers. Lunch baskets and boxes were the only “extras” allowed. Orders were, that after the train had passed the tracks of the Sa vannah, Florida & Western Railroad and gone upon those of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia, the conductor was to securely lock the car doors, and mingle with the passengers as little as possible., A moderate cyclone passed over Jack sonville Sunday. After the vortex went by, a gale from the southwest, accompa nied by load thunder, keen flashes of lightning and a heavy rainfall continuing several hours, clearing the atmosphere wonderfully and lowering the tempera ture, washing the surface of the streets perfectly clean, as well as carrying sev eral hundred barrels of lime which had been scattered abroad, into the river. “The effects of the storm,” said a lead ing Cuban physician, “will probably be excellent on the well, tending to lessen materially the infection, but will be bad on the sick. Unless watched with great care many patients may have a serious set back in consequence of the change of the weather.” About thirty new cases were reported on Sunday, and but two deaths. Up to date seventy-two have been dischaged as cured. Summary of situation: Total ca c es to date, 258; total deaths to date, 3L At a meeting of the Board of Health, the following resolution -was passed: “Resolved, That from this time no up holstered furniture or bedding shall be moved from any place in the city with out permission of this Board, obtained through M. M. Belisnrio, chief of the sanitary guards. Neal Mitchell, M. D., President of Board of Health.” A committee of the Florida refugees who are at present in Atlanta, Ga., went to Tallahassee, Fla., and interviewed Governor Perry, and the governor said he will ask the government to erect bar racks at some available point near Jack s«nville for rtse by the poorer cla-ses of Jacksonville who are unable to get away from that city. The governor received the committee very courteously and gave every indication that he felt a deep in terest in everything that would in any way relieve the dreadful state of affairs at Jacksonville. lie promised to do everything in his power to arrange fox transportation for refugees from Jack sonville, and from present indications he is going to succeed. A public meeting, which filled the court room to its utmost capacity, was held on Monday night in Chattanooga, Tenr., to take action looking to enfoic ing a rigid quarantine against Atlanta because she has opened her doors to the yellow fever refugees from Florida. A resolution was adopted urging the board of health to order a quarantine against Atlanta and all cities and towns where refugees have been invited and are al lowed to congregate. By invi'ation of Governor John B. Gordon, a conference was held in Augus ta, Ga., on Monday, between Surgeon- General Hamilton and himself and sev j oral prominent health officers. Those present were: Governor Gordon, Sur geon-General Hamilton, Mayor May, President of the Board of Health Foster, Chairman Young, of the health commit tee of the City Council, and City AttoU ney Davidson, all of Augusta; Mayor Les ter and Dr. W. F. Brunner, health offi cer of Savannah; Mayor Dunn, ol DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RESOURCES UF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1888. Brunswick; Dr. Jerome Cochran, state health officer of Alabama, and Dr. James E. Reeves, ex president of the American Public Health association, and now special commissioner appointed by the state board of health of Tennessee. The object of the conference was to con sider the situation m Jacksonville, and the expediency of allowing the people of Jacksonville to go to other places, and under what restrictions. The resolutions of the Atlanta board of health were re ceived by Surgeon General Hamilton. After a general discussion and free ex pression of opinion by the gentjemen present. the following resolutions were adopted by the conference: “Resolved, That this conference cordially approves the plans of the surgeon-gener al of the United States marine haspital service requiring ten days’ quarantine of all persons from infected or suspected places, together with the fumigation and other disinfection of baggage, etc., from the infected points. Resolved, That the wholesale removal of persons from in fected districts to populous cities and ag gregation of individuals from infected places in any city in this country is re garded as extremely hazardous to any such community. Resolved, That the citizens of Jacksonville have no just cause for complaint against quarantine regidations, as at present operated, inas much as abundant provision has been atid will be made, by establishing healthful and cleanly camps for the inhabitants of Jacksonville and provision made for the maintenance of such citizens during their detention of camp. Resolved, That, in the judgment of this conference, after suspects have been* de tained in quarantine, camp ten days, and their baggage fumigated under the di rection of the Lmited States government, such persons should be permitted to go to any community willing to receive them. The conference adjourned, and Surgeon General Hamilton left for Camp Perry, St. Mary’s, Fla. The orderlies of the Bellevue hospital in New York, to the number of eighteen on Monday, resolved to tender their ser vices to go to Jacksonville to fight the yellow fever. THE DEADLY FLAMES. At an early hour on Sunday morning fire broke out in the toy warehouse of Prior, Hilgenberg & Co., 107 South Sharp street, Baltimore, Md. Before the firemen could get to w ork, an ex plosion of fireworks wrecked the build ing and caused the flames to spread with alarming rapidity to the drug house of J. 11. Winkilman & Co. and the hat house of M. S. Levy & Co., on the north. Scarcely had the firemen entered the ed ifice occupied by the drug house when the inside of the building seemed to sud denly drop in. A terrific explosion fol lowed and the immense building col lapsed. The entire fire department had by this time reached the scene, and as the attention of the men w r as concentrated on the building under which their comrades were buried, the flames had a chance to spread, and spread they did with fright ful rapidity. In an incredibly short space of time the entire block, running from Lombard to Platt streets was a seething mass of fl ime. At the drug house the firemen worked bravely. Holes were cut through the pavement and every effort made to reach the imprisoned men, but they were buried under a great mass of brick and iron and the fierce flames were roaring around the spot. George Bowers, Thomas Wagner, John A. Combs, Perry Ryan, Harry Walker, George Kerins and Hiram McAfee were buried in the ruins. The firms that were completely burned out are: Wylis, Bus ter & Co., wholesale shoe deal ers; J.H. Winkilman & Co., drugs; Tabb Bros. & Domenick, hardware; Prior & Co., toys; M. S. Levi & Sons, hats; 11. S. King & Sons, hardware; Dobler, Mudge & Co.,paper; and Ilirschberg, Hol lander & Co., paint and glass. The origin of the fire will probably never be known. No fire is used in the Prior establishment and it is supposed spon taneous combustion was the cause, but it is known that a system of electric lighting was introduced in the building recently, and it was only tried that-night and it may be that defective insulation started the flames and the combustible nature of the contents of the building served as food for the destroying ele ment. The fire was discovered by an intoxicated man who stopped to rest on the steps of a building opposite. A BUMPTIOUS PAIR. The celebrated Sharon divorce ease, which has occupied the attention of the Pacific Coast for a number of years, cul minated on Monday, iu a sensational in cident, which resulted in placing Sarah Althea Sharon, now Mrs. Davids. Terry, in jaii for thirty days, anu her husband, Judge Terry, for six months. When Judge Field announced a decision ad verse to the claims of Mrs. Terry, she assailed him with her tongue, for which she w’as arrested. In her hand-bag was found a bull dog pistol. As the officers approached Mrs. Terry, her husband drew a dirk aud attempted to stab the officers. David S. Terry was formerly judge of the supreme court of California, and ■while holding that position in 1856, be came involved in a quarrel with David C. Broderick, United States senator from California. A duel followed, and Bro derick was killed. A BAKERS’ HARVEST. A heavy rain, accompanied by a gale, prevailed over England, doing additional damage to crops. As a result of the ex pected shortage in breadstuffs, bakers are raising the price of bread. THE SOUTH.. CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED IN READABLE SHAPE. LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC EVERYWHERE— COTTON STATISTICS —SUICIDES —RAIL- ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC. Alabama. Mayor Lane, of Birmingham, has de clared a quarantine against Atlanta, Ga., and instructed the officers to rigidly en force it. No person who has been in Atlanta within twenty days will be al lowed to enter or pass through the city. The mayor notified the officers of the Georgia Pacific Railroad that no train crews from Atlanta would be allowed to enter that city, and no crew from this city could go to Atlanta and return. The quarantine tvas declared on account of the number of Florida refugees now in Atlanta, and the fact that they continue to arrive there. It was also reported on Thursday that there were two cases of yellow fever in Atlanta. Texas. Harrison Spencer, a colored man, prominently identified with the labor party at Longview', was taken from his home late at night recently by members of the party of his own color and hanged. The reason assigned for the crime was that Spencer had left the labor party. Florida M. A. Cawthon, a prominent citizen of DeFuttiak Springs, died at his residence at 1:30 o’clock Thursday morning. The deceased had been suffering front an ul cer for some time, ami, acting under the advice of the best medical experts, had it removed, and was thought to be doing well until blood-poisoning set in, from w'hich he died. * • r'j ui. The quaran ine of Savannah against Blacksiu ar has been raised. William Hail was arrested in Catoosa county, on i charge of stealing a church hell irom one of the churches in Chat tanooga. He waived the necessary for malities in securing requisition papers, and was taken to Chattanooga and landed in jail. The digests from all the counties in the stale have been received at the Comptroller General’s office, at Atlanta, and the property in the aggregate re turned by the 131 counties m Georgia sum up $327,863,331. But this does not include the property returned by the tax aide railroads in the state, which will aggregate $29,000,000. This makes Giorgia’s j roperty return foot up the snug sum of $356,863,331. The digests from all of the counties show a net in crease over last year of $11,258,002, and the net gain in railroad property returned will amount to s4,ooo,which runs up the aggregate net mcr’jie for the last fiscal year to $15,258,002. In nine years, Georgia has gained about $120,000,000 in taxable property on the digest, and $20,000,000 in taxable railroad property. LiOiii&infia. Cotton planters from different parts of the Alexandria section are discouraged at the crop prospects. Some complain of worms, aud of rain washing off the poi son. All say that in the bottom crops bolls are rotting and the seed in open cotton is sprouting, and that the crop will be cut off not less than forty per cent. * North Carolina. At Oxford on Monday, a mixed mob of negroes and whites took three negroes from the jail and hanged them. Two of the negroes were murderers and the third was guilty of arson. William Fletcher, of Durham, and J. W. Goodson were returning from a hunt in a buggy, and in front of the house of the father-in-law of Fletcher, the buggy became uncoupled and the front wheels pulled out, throwing the front of the buggy to the ground. Fletcher had the muzzle of his gun under his arm, and the jar caused the gun to explode, and the entire contents entered his body. Death soon followed. At Lumbcrton, Ilichard D. Johnson was on Thursday convicted of bigamy, and sentenced to five years at hard labor in the penitentiary. Johnson had three wives, some living at no great distance from each other, but it turns out that he is a regular polygamist. He now con fesses, since his conviction, that he has fifteen wives. He declares that when ever he changes his residence, and this was of frequent occurrence, he remarked, and he declares that he always found it cheaper to .marry than to move a family. Rev. Dr. Fordyce M. Hubbard was found dead by his bedside at his home in Raleigh. He was kneeling in a posture of prayer. lie was 80 years,of age, and was a native of Massachusetts, where he married the daughter of United States Senator Bates, of that state. Fifty years ago he went to Newberne, N. C., and in 1849 became professor of Latin in the state university, remaining there until 1808. He then went to New York state as rector of the Protestant Episcopal church at Manlius. At the time of his death he was preparing a school history of North Carolina for the state. At Carthage, M. N. Johnson, a leading merchant, committed suicide. He com plained of being unwell in the morning aud quit work and went to two stores, at each of which he purchased an ounce of laudanum. He then went to the resi dence where he boarded and retired to his room. He ate hearty at dinner and went to bed, saying he was not well. A pistol shot was heard, and some school boys, who roomed with Johnson, ran to the room and found him dead with a bullet wound iu his breast, just above the heart. He drank both bottles of lauda num before shooting himself. -Delaware. The tug Argus, reported at Delaware Breakwater, that the schooner Adele Thackaray is off the Cape with yellow fever on board and two men dead. Misfiffttippi* The following order of the state board of health was promulgated and went into opeintion on Thursday: “On account of the increase of the yellow fever Fi Jacksonville, Fla., it has in the opinion of the executive committee of the state board of health, become necessary to adopt more stringent measures for the protection of this state. It is therefore ordered that on and after this date, no person will be permitted to enter the siate unless they possess a certificate from a health officer that they have not been exposed to yellow fever.” Missouri. John Riley, an unruly and desperate convict, who has infringed the rules of the penitentiary at Jefferson time and again, and who has attacked shop guards on several occasions, met his fate on Thursday evening at the hands of Joseph Gresham, a guard in the shop of the Glesecke Boot and Shoe Company, at the penitentiary. Just after the whistle had sounded for the men to resume work after the dinner hour, Riley assaulted the guard, knocking him down, striking him a number of heavy blows in the.face and kicking him several times while he was on the floor. After struggling a few minutes, Gresham regained his feet, and drawing a revolver, shot his assailant twice. South Carolina. Cotton is arriving at Charleston at the rate of 2,000 bales a day. Very few bales are packed with other than jute bagging, as shippers reject all such bales as unmerchantable. The produce exchange, cotton ex change and chamber of commerce, in Charleston, perfected plans for establish ing a steamship line to Baltimore with close rail connection to New York from that point. IfniiPMCo. The boiler of the Perry stove works at South Pittsburg was blown up Monday, instantly killing Charles Taylor, the su perintendent of the works; J. B. Mills, a machinist; M. Donovan, foreman of the mounting department; G. N. Carter, a leading jeweler of the town; Wm. Plum bee, Jof Winchester, Tenn., and Vv m. Wat son, a moulder. William Gross, a ma chinist, and Rock Scruggs, a moulder, were both fatally hurt and will die. A large piece of the boiler was thrown end over end a distance of 100 yards and tore a hole through the side of Dietzen’s store and landed against the opposite wall. Many smaller pieces were thrown a dis of several hundred yards. LABOR DAY. Lai® Day was celebrated in Cincinna ti, Ohio, on Monday, by a big parade, in which representatives of all tra lea participated. Among the Knights ot Labor assemblies represented were three hundred members of the South Bend assembly. The members of this assembly all reside in the suburbs along the river front, and are all rolling mill hands. When the parade marched down Elm street, this assembly halted in front of a large political banner, stretched across the street. The men refused to march under the banner. After a consultation, they decided it would be considered cowardice to march around it. Action was decided on in a hurry. Captain C. C. Rouse, an old cavalry man, gave the signal and instantly the stars and stripes were lowered, the band struck up a funer al dirge and in this manner the men under the banner. When they had pa-sed it the American flag was raised the band played a lively air aud the men proceeded iu the line of march. 4 here was magnificent weather tor the celebration of Labor Day in New York City. The city at large put on holiday appearance, and residents were astir ear ly. The grand parade was the particular feature of the day. It is estimated that 40,000 people were in liue. Labor Day was observed in Chicago, St. Louis, and other cities. INDIAN FIGHT. Two bands of Indians in the Lasal Mount fins near the Utah-Colorado line, engaged in a fight. The fighting was undoubtedly between a nomadic tribe known as Pahutes, who have not been under the agency protection for over ten years and a band of Utes, who were senl from the southern agency where the three Ute commissioners now are, for the pur pose of getting the renegades, if possible, to go to the agency and take part in ihe treaty negotiation. Several were killed. VENGEANCE THREATENED, The United Ireland, a newspaper ot Dublin, says, that the American Senate iu rejecting the fisheries treaty gave England a terrible preof of the power of retaliation of the greater Ireland across the sea, whose vengeance Balfour’s coer cion policy has aroused. It says the ar rest of the Redmond brothers will incite fresh vengeance. The paper commends the action of the Cork hand in refusing to play the national anthem at the Irish axhibition in London. MUST GO. Gov. Gray, of Indiana, has written again to the judges and prosecuting at torneys of the judicial districts which are disturbed bj the White Cap outrages, urging that increased exertions be made to cause to be indicted all persons who have in any way been connected with the 1 reoent Cachings. NUMBER 27. COITT DIRECTOR? COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary J. A. Bennett Superior Court Clerk S. H. Thurman.. Sheriff W. A. Byrd Tax Receiver Clayton Tatum Tax Collector Thos. Tittle. Treasurer B. P. Majors. School Superintendent.. .J. P. Jacoway. Surveyor. W, F. Taylor.. TOWN COMMISSIONERS. B. P. Majors, B. T. Brock, J. P. Bondi, J. A. Curcton, J. B. Williams. J. P. Bond, President. B. T. Brock, Secretary. B. P. Majors, Treasurer. J. T. Wool bright, City Marshal. COURTS. Snperior Court. J. C. Fain Judge. J. W. Harris, Jr Solicitor General. Meets third Mondays in March and September. Ordinary’s Court. J. A. Bennett Ordinary. Meets first Monday in each month. Justices’ Court, Trenton District. Meets second Saturday in each month. J. A, Cureton. T. 11. B. Cole, Justice*. Rising Fawn District meets third Sat urdny in each month. J. M. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. •MASONIC LORE. Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M. S. H. Thurman, H. P. M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary, Meets second Saturday iu each montl) Trenton Lodge No. 179 F. and A. 3T. J. A. Bennett, W. M. T. J. Lumpkin, Secretary. Meetings Wednesday night on and be fore each full moon, and two weeks th- reafter. Rising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. a f * A. M. S. 11. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secretary. Meetings Saturday night on and befd_ each full moon, and two weeks thereaf-. ter, at 2 o’clock p. m. CHURCH NOTICES. M. E. Church SouTn.—Trenton Cir cuit, Chattanooga District—A. J. Fra zier, Presiding Elder; J. A. Prater, Pas tor in charge; S. 11. Thurman, Recording Stew Ad. Trenton services second and fourth Sundays in each mouth, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prayer meetings every Sunday night. Byrd’s Chapel.—Services second ar d fourth Sundays in each month at 3 o’clock p. m. Rising Fawn.—Services first and thirf Sundays in each mouth, at 10.30 o’clock a, m. Prayer meetings every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs.—Services first al third Sundays in each month at 8 o’clo p, m. Furnace at night. BO&RD OF EDUCATION. B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. Acuff, W. C. Cureton, John Clark. NOTICE, Any additions to be made to the aboy changes or errors, parties interested would confer a great favor by notifying us of the same.