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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 Legal advertising must be paid in advance. §3F"Special reduction made by con tracts for advertising to go iu larger space or longer time. |3iF“All bills for advertising are due after first insertion of advertisement, un less otherwise agreed. B. T. BROCK, Editor. E. C. GRISCOVI, Local Editor. Price $ 1.00, in Advance, OVER THE GLOBE. WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES POUR INTO OUR EARS. LABOR NOTES—ACCIDENTS ON SEA AND LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON Till! RAILROADS —NOTED PEOPLE DEAD. San Francisco had a $200,000 fire on Monday. One man was burned to death. The famous Star and Garter hotel at London, England, has been partly burned. The English papers still harp on the fisheries question, charging its agitation to a desire to make political capital. Lester Wallack, the famous actor and manager, died on Thursday at Stamford, Conn., where he has been for his health. Dispatches report a killing frost over New England, Northern New York, and Michigan. Ice as thick as window glass formed in many places. At Vostizza, on the Corinthian Gulf, two earthquake shocks did great damage on Monday. Many persons killed. The king has gone to the scene. News from Pesth, Hungary, states that six villages in the valley of Poprad are submerged. The villagers have fled to the mountains, and crops and grana ries have been swept away. Judge Linthan, at Waterloo, lowa, de nied the application of a Chinese laun dryman, Fong Wing, to be made a citi zen. The judge took the ground that the are not eligible to citizen ship under the laws and Constitution of the United States. An express train from Dijon, France, left the rails while on its way to Paris, blocking the road. The Italian night mail train ran into the disabled train and was wrecked. Twelve persons were killed and forty injured. The collision occurred between Malain and Velars-sur- Ouche. For the fourth time, Cutter, Ind., was the scene of a terrific explosion. Dyna mite was placed under the postoffice, and that structure literally blown to atoms. A large quantity of dynamite was found under the hotel, with matches half burned. A strong gale undoubtedly extinguished the matches. AUGUSTA, GA., FLOODED. The banks of the canal in Augusta, Ga., gave way ou Monday, and the great body of water caused by the floods of two weeks, surged upon the city, and the greatest flood since 1840 began. The factory district was first submerged. On the waters crept until they began to pour into Broad street, and thence through the intersecting streets to Greene, dhe tele graph office was invaded until the floor was covered. Then the operators pulled off shoes and stockings, and rolling up their pantaloons, continued to wire the message of disaster abroad, as the rising water marked the increasing inches on their legs. When the chair seats were reached the operators stood up at theii desks and bravely kept up the work of communication with the outside world. The waters reached their greatest triumph when, turning the highest grade of Broad street, they ran onward in a con tinuous stream, presenting the novel spectacle of four miles of boating on a public street. Hurriedly the merchants removed their goods from shelf to shelf as the water threatened the last resort, and then stood upon the counters to watch the seething flood. Second stories were eagerly sought by the affrighted people. When the water began to ap proach from the factory side it lifted the small houses as if they were but toy boxes and moved them around in wild confusion. By 6 o’clock at night the waters had reached 24 feet, and covered the northwestern portion of the city contiguous to the river bank, and tbe southeastern portions below the ceme tery. the two lowest parts of the city. By 7 o’clock, thirty-four feet seven inches was reached, and the water was running across Broad street to Greene from the river in swelling torrents. By water stood three inches deep in the office of the Planter’s hotel, and was creeping down Broad street to Campbell. At dark the waters had reached thirty seven feet, seven inches, the highest water known in Augusta since the freshet of 1840. The water has risen more rap idly than at any previous freshet, and in the low portion of the city, people wl o went to sleep thinking the waters reced ing, awoke to find themselves completely surrounded, and all egress cut off. Many occupviug one-story houses even removed to two-story buildings where they could be above the tide. The heavy tones of the alarm bells, at ten o’clock, announced to the people that the point of greatest dunger hadloome, and at eleven o clock all telegraf hie communication was cut Jju | I Hi \^H : THE SOUTH CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED IN READABLE SHAPE. LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC EVERYWHERE — COTTON STATISTICS —SUICIDES —RAIL- ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC. Alabama. Fred Banks, an Alabama negro, was murdert*d by unknown men on Monday. Frank Barker, a colored laborer re cently from Birmingham, was knocked off a freight car on Thursday by tele phone wires in Huntsville and was run over by the dummy cars and killed. He was standing up and had about the danger. Had he been sitting down he would have been in no danger. Conductor 1L N. West, of the Georgia Pacific railroad, was shot and fatally wounded by Conductor W. D. Moore, of the same road. The shooting occurred at Sardis, a small station 70 miles from Birmingham. Moore was in charge of the west bound freight train, and West in charge of an east bound freight. They met at Sardis, got into a quarrel about whose train should take the siding. Both men drew their pistols about the same time and fired several shots. Moore es caped unhurt. Two shots took effect in West’s body. Several days ago three horses were placed in a car on the Georgia Pacific road at Birmingham for shipment to At lanta, Ga. The car was seated on the outdde in the usual style, biix when the train reached Henry Ellen, fifteen miles out, the conductor discovered that the car door was open and one of the horses missing. The officials of the road have had a thorough search made, but so far they have found no trace of the horse. The train made no stops except at cross ings between Birmingham and Henry Ellen, and the disappearance of the horse is a mystery. Arkansas. The vault iu the county clerk’s office, at Little Rock, was broken open on Thursday night and poll books showing the returns of the election in nine town ships were taken out. Entrance to the vault was gained by chiseling and prying open with a crowbar the iron door of the vault herctofor*! considered secure. Other returns have been removed to one of the banks, to guard against further depredations. Fear of detection in “doctoring” the returns, caused the robbery. 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. Florida. It is claimed that the sewers of Jack sonville are in a very poor condition. The Knights of Labor in St. Augus tine have tendered the services of one hundred men for quarantine duty, sub ject to the rules of the Board. The of fer was received with thanks, and will be accepted in the event of its beirig needed. Georiia. Brunswick has lifted the quarantine against Atlanta. Part of the bridge over Fishing Creek, on the Macon Railroad, is washed away, while the following grist mills were washed away: Morris’s Mill, on Tow r n creek; Allen’s Mill, on Town creek; Brosser’s Mill, on Town creek; and Champion’s Mill, on Rocky creek. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men met in Atlanta, on Monday, and were welcomed to the city by Mayor Cooper, and Gov. Gordon. Grand Mas teis Arthur, of the Engineers, and Wilk inson, of the Brakemcn, attended the convention. A grand reception was ten dered Mr. Arthur in the evening. The disaster to the rice crop of last year will be repeated. The rise in the Savannah river brings partial ruin on tbe rice planters. The freshet will be worse this year than last. In 1887 the loss reached a quarter of a million dollars. It. is stated by competent factors that so far only about l-100th of the rice crop has been harvested. The planters along the rivei have about 4,000 acres in rice, and the yield would have been, under favor able circumstances, about 150.000 bush els. If the present fair weather continues during the remainder of the week; over one-half of the crop may be saved. Tennessee. The electric works of Dorsey, Payne & Co., in Chattanooga, were totally de stroyed by fire on Monday, besides, Law horn’s boarding house. Dorsey, Payne & Co. had just received the entire outfit to put in a messenger system, which was destroyed. There was filed with the county court clerk of Hamilton county, on Thursday, an application for a charter incorporating a new railroad to be built to Murphy, N. C., and thence to Augusta, Ga. The name of the road is to be tbe Chatta nooga, Cleveland & Murphy Railroad, and is to be run by a practicable route al ready surveyed from Chattauooga through the city of Cleveland to Mur phy, N. C., and thence, if desired, to Augustaj Ga. Kentucky. The great Fall celebration at Louisville opened with an industrial parade five miles long. Twenty thousand strangers wore present.. Virginia. Capt. McCauley, of the United States monitor fleet, inspected the James River below Richmond with a view of select ing an anchorage place for the fleet now at City Point. He will present a report to the Secretary of the Navy, recom mending Randolph Flats, three miles from Richmond as suitable anchorage Ar. . - DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OP THE RESOURCES OF DADE COUNTY. TRENTON. GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1888. Norih Carolina. At Kingston, a meeting of members of the Lenoir county Farmers’ Alliance was held on Thursday. slt represents nine hundred farmers. A resolution was adopted indorsing the action of the state alliance in regard to the cotton bagging trust, and instructing tßeir agent to order at once six thousand yards of burlaps. They are also urged to stand by the action of the alliance in the fight against the jute trust. William G. Upchurch, president of the State Agricultural Society, says that rain is rottiug the cotton. It is such a long spell of weather that the damage must be extensive. Developments of the new young belt is entirely stopped, ■ nd the effect of the rain is the shedding uf both bolls and squares. Another re suit will be that much cotton will be stained. Bolls just opening wili, of course, all be affected in this way. Mr. Upchurch says the damage to the fodder crop will be heavy and widespread. All fodder not in stacks is ruine4- Corn will also be hurt. Seven days without sunshine will test any crop severely, particularly at this season. moutli Carolina. An experiment was made at Charles ton, on Thursday, with the new pine straw bagging which is offered as a sub stitute for jute bagging for cotton bales. The pine straw T material seems to have stood the test of compressing, and the experiment was made to test its inflam mability. A piece of the pine straw cloth and one of the jute were fired sim ultaneously'. The jute was extinguished in two shrouds, while the pine straw burned and smouldered some fifteen or twenty seconds before it could be extin guished. Notwithstanding this, how ever, attention has been directed to the pine straw industry and the plants for several manufactories have already been offered in different portions of tbe state. At present there is but one known fac tory engaged in this work. It is situated near Wilmington, N. C., and has here tofore been manufacturing an article of matting which is claimed to be valuable in cases of tubercolosis owing to th£ odor of the pine leaves. Maryland. Winnie, Johnson, the largest colored woman in this country, weighing 849 pounds, died at Baltimore. r J he door ways had been especially enlarged toi*her benefit. 3hc was called “Big Winnie” and she had been exhibited as “tbe fattest woman” in the world for the last ten years. Fatty degeneration of the heart caused her death. She was bom iu Kentucky. The coffin was five feet eleven inches in length, three feet eight inches in width and three feet two inches deep. Fourteen men acted as pall bearers a eel they had all they could do to shove the dead giantess into her final resting place. , Missouri. The bagging trust at St. Louis has ad vanced the price of jute bagging anothei quarter of a cent per pound, making the price range from 11J to 13£. It is asserted that a still further advance is to be made soon. West Virginia. A flood in New River carried away the big iron bridge of the Chesapeake <& Ohio Railroad at Grand View, involving a loss of $50,000. A great deal of damage in other quarters is reported. THE COTTON CROP. The report of the Department of Ag riculture at Washington, D. C., makes the average condition of cotton 83.8, a decline of three and a half points since the last report. The general average is slightly higher than in 1887 and 1886, when it stood at 82.8 and 82.1 respect ively. The decline, while slight, has been general throughout the belt, except in Norih Carolina and Tennessee, where more seasonable weather has resulted in a slightly improved condition. Local damage has resulted iu the Carolinas from both drouth and excess of moisture, the rainfall during the month being un evenly distributed. Rust is general throughout Georgia, and with the drouth and shedding of bolls has seriously re duced the condition. Alabama has suf fered from heat and drouth and in some sections the month closes with appre hensions of damage from excessive and continuous rainfall. A decline in Mis sissippi and Louisiana is the result of a marked excess of moisture during the last two weeks of August. The severe storm which swept over these states on the 19th and 20th prostrated the plants, and continuous rains have beaten out the bolls and caused some rotting. The crop in Texas was beginning to suffer for moisture when the rains of the latter part of the month came, seasonable over the greater part of the state, breaking the threatened drouth and arresting the decline in the condition which had sei in. In Arkansas the average has been lowered by locally unfavorable seasons, drouth in 3ome sections and excessive moisture, especially toward the close of the month, in others, causing a reduc tion. The month was favorable in Tennes see; seasons good, aud but little com plaint of rust. State averages of condi tion are: Virginia 84, North Carolina 84, South Carolina 83, Georgia 85, Flor ida 90, Alabama 87, Mississippi 88, Lou isiana 79, Texas 78, Arkansas 87, Ten nessee 95. The crop is generally somewhat late and picking delayed by unfavorable weather. Caterpillars and boll worms are frequently mentioned, and doing damage where not vigorously fought. The first is found most fre quently in Georgia, Alabama and Louisi ana, while the latter is noted chiefly in Texas. It will of course, be understood that this report relates to the status on FEVER SCOURGE. MANY NEW CASES DEVELOPING IN POOR JACKSONVILLE. A GALE COOLS THE ATMOSPHERE —DIF- FERENCE OF OPINION AMONG EXPERTS. THE QUESTION OF REFUGEEIXG. FOi three days, the new cases in Jack sonville, Fla., were reported a- follows: Friday, 77; Saturday, 44; Su (day, 49, and about 20 deaths. On Sunday the wind blew a gale for several hour*, and the weather was p si : ively cold. 1 here seems to be uo settler line of action among those in charge o! all tirs, and the opinions of doctors and expert nurses differ widely. For in stance: A newspaper correspondent ask ed a leading practitioner if the sun com ing out bright and hot after a heavy rain and gale would tend to develop new cases, and his reply was: “Yes, we may expect a big crop as soon as the next warm day comes.” Another physician, isked the same question, answered: “No, this rain and cold wind has cleared and changed the atmosphere. This is favorable to both the sick and the well.’ Doctors are working heroically and self-sacrificing with the sick, and the wonder is that more of them have not already fallen victims to the disease. Dr. W. N. Lafard died Sunday, and several drug clerks are reported as sick, and some with symptoms of yellow fever, but more from overwork and loss of sleep. While up to the present time all of the drugstores in the city have kept open and have served the public well, it be gins to look as if the establishment of a government dispensary would ere long be indispensable. The question of de population is far from a settlement; in fact, it grows more complicated daily. It is a popular notion that the reason for the colored people’s desire to remain, is the fact that they w ill be maintained at the public expense. This is to a large degree erroneous. The colored people of Jacksonville are for the most part a hard-working, thrifty, independent class. Many of them own little lots of land and frame houses, and naturally tbe idea of leaving their possessions behind in care of uo one, strikes them unfavorably. There are perhaps one thousand colored 1 ay men in Jacksonville, whose chief in come is carting moichandlse. All traffic and business is stopped; these men find themselves with mules on their hands to keep as well as families to provide for, and they naturally ask: “Shall we leave our animals to die, our homes to be pillaged, and take up our residence at a distance, where the chances of earning a living among strung iris perhaps no bet ter than here at present* ’ It is a rank injustice to charge these colored people witn selfishness. Fourteen nurses came from New Orleans, and some of them struck for $4 a day before they left the depot; they had been engaged for $3 a day and were promptly discharged. The following telegram was sent to Washington on Saturday: “To Surgeon- General Hamilton, Washington: Your explanation of the stopping of the train at Live Oak and returned to Jackson ville because the authorities of Tennes see refused admittance to refugees from this city into tk| state is satisfactory. Our people, no*<nowing the reason that existed for such action, naturally blamed you. This association is always desirous to be ju*t, and will co-operate with you in such reasonable regulation as may be considered necessary to protect the pub lic health and conform to regulations governing transportation in force by the health authorities of other states. We are aware that state laws govern, and that we cannot send refugees to points in states that will not receive them and have been communicating with authori ties both local and state, of North Caro lina, and have just received information that Hendersonville can take 500, Saluda, Hickory and other p.inis, wili take smaller numbers. Impossible to state how many can go to Hendersonville or other points around there, but think if two days’ notice were given, that a special train for refugees would leave here for Hendersonville, that at least two hundred would go. Have just received your tel egram of this morning that special- will be provided fer Hendersonville. Please allow two days’ notice. Hope you can make arrangements with Tennessee board of health. Slay want togo in that dinc tion. Pleased to hear improvements to be made at Camp Perry and that you will make your headquarters there. We desire to work in harmony with you. (signed) P. McQuaid, Acting Presi dent.” The following was set to Surgeon-Gen. Hamilton, at Washington: “At the request of citizens and physi- I desire a physician of experience in yellow fever to visit and describe the growth of the epidemic at this place. Citizens are demoralized. (Signed) D. J. Water, and Mayor, and President Board of Ileal h, McOlcnny, Fla.” Tbe surgeon general immediately telegraphed Dr. Pusy, at Waycross, to go to McClen ny and investigate. SOON SETTLED. The colored longshoremen at Fernan dina, Fla., who were loading lumber struck a few days ago, about 500 in num ber, for an increase in wages from $1.25 to *2.50 per day, thinking that the quar antine would prevent the getting of labor from abroad. The employers stood firm and organized a protective association. Nearly 100 laborers were brought in from the country, but were driven from their work by the strikers. A mob of nearly 400 men threatened a serious riot. Ths Court of A ppeals of New York State holds that publ’ .- intoxication, under tbe statute, has all the elements of a crime, be- WASHING ION. 1). C. BUSY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA TIONAL CAPITOL CONGRESS IN SESSION YES’ —MOVEMENTS OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND — WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES. CONK It KS.SION AI.. During the progress of a desultory po litical debate with which the Senate opened on Monday, the conference re port on the fortificatiens bill was pre sented and agreed to. Mr. Morgan in troduced a bill appropriating $279,619 to be paid to tbe Chinese minister at Washington as a full indemnity for all losses and injuries sustained by Chinese subjects, who have been, “iu the remote and unsettled regions of the United States, the victims of injuries iu their persons and property at the hands of lawless men,” and proceeded to address the Senate in explanation and advocacy of it. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, inter rupted Mr. Morgan with a question which brought about a heated and unparlia mentary personal expressions from both, which have, upon reflection and upon counsel of mutual friends, been struck from the Congressional Record. At the close of Mr. Morgan’s speech, his bill was referred to the committee on foreign relations In the House, Mr. Sayers, of Texas, presented the conference re port on the fortifications appropriation bill and it was adopted. Under the call of States, the following bills were intro duced, and referred: By Mr. Henderson, of North Carolina, to check and nullify the baneful operation of trusts. By Mr. MoClainmy, of North Carolina, to pro vide for an inland waterway between New York and Florida. By Mr. Cram, of Texas, to exempt cotton bagging from payment of duty. GOSSIP. President Cleveland has sent a letter to the Democratic National Executive Com mittee formally accepting the nomina tion for the Presidency. On the subject of “trusts” he says: “Judged by Dem ocratic principles the interests of the people are betrayed when unnecessary taxation, trusts and combitiaiions are permitted and fostered which, while uu duly enriching the few that combine, rob the body of our citizens by depriving them, as purchasers, of > he benefits of nan™|ui competition.” The army bill, as finally agreed upon by the conference and approved by both Houses of Congress, carries an appro priation of $24,471,300. The fnrtilica tio’jSfcbill, also disposed of by Congress on Monday, appropriates $397,200. These bills were interdependent in a measure, yet provisions for the same purpose hav ing been inserted by the Senate in both bills, with a view to securing the appro priation in one of them, if the House should disallow- it in the other. The chief item so duplicated was that known as the Hawley amendment, which appro priated more than six millions for ord nance. The substance of this amend ment remains as a part of the fortifica tions bill. Aside from regular provis ions of army and fortification bills, these measures appropriate as follows: For manufacture of cannon and carriages, $200,000; for testing pneumatic guns, shells, etc., $100,000; for gun factory at Waterlietarsenal, $700,000; for the pur chase of rough-bored steels, $1,500,900; for sub marine mines and sub-marine controllable torpedoe®, $200,000; rilled mortars, $250,000; for purchase and test of ordnance by ordnance board, $500,- 000. WILL TEST IT. The prospects of the exclusion hill be coming a law is causing great excitement among the Chinese in San Francisco, Cal., particularly among the 5,000 or 0,000 “prior residents” who are roaming the streets pendhig their examination in the federal com " as to their right to re main there. The “prior residents” have not been legally landed, yet though tlu-y are at present enjoying the samefreedom of the country that any native born American does. Should tl e exclusion bill become an absolute law, however, this great army will have to be gatlieied up, if possible, and returned to Chino, or else forfeit their bail money. Should the Chinese refuse to give thein-elve up, thcie will Ik* a very heavy loss t* the bondsmen; that is, if the bondsmen ran be found. It is understood that as soon as tbe announcement of the exelu'h n bill’s fihal adoption is made, the Chinese will at once lest its constitutionality be fore the United States Supreme Coert. In the meantime, the Chinese “prior residents” and those who purchased r< - turn certificates in China are being dumped off the fa®t arriving steamer- i y the wholesale. CiRCUS ACCIDENT. A Cincinnati bound freight train heai ily laden, dashed at full speed into John Robinson’s eirem train, which wa- stand ing at Corwin station, Ohio. The ca boose at the rear of the circus train was slit in two and four sleepers ahead of it telescoped. No damage occurred to the animals of the circus proper, which were in long trains ahead of the sleepers. Four men were killed and eighteen wounded. VETERANS KILLED. A train of veteran soldiers bound for the G. A. R. encampment, at Columbus, Ohio, started from Youngstown, Ohio, over the N. Y., Pa., & O. Railroad, aud at Rittman, the connecting rod of the engine broke. While waiting for re pairs, a freight came along, collided with NUMBER 28. MNTY DIRECTORY COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary J- A. Bennett Superior Court Clerk.... S. H. Thurman. Sheriff W. A. Byrd Tax Receiver Claytou 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. Cureton, J. B. Williams. J. P. Bond, President. B. T. Brock, Secretary. B. P. Majors, Treasurer, J. T. Woolbright, City Marshal. COURTS. Superior 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. H. B. Cole, Justices. Rising Fawn Distiict meets third Sat urday iu each month. J. At. Cantsell, J. A. Moreland, Jus tices. k • , MASONIC LORE. Trenton Chapter No. 60. R. A. M. 8. 11. Thurman, 11. P. M. A. B. Tatum, Secretary. Meets second Saturday in each month ' • Trentou Lodge No. 179 F. and A. M. J. A. Bennett, W. M. T. J. Lumpkin, Secretary, Meetings Wednesday night on and be fore each full moon, and two weeks thereafter. Bising Fawn Lodge No. 293 F. ar * A. M. S. H. Thurman, W. M. J. M. Forester, Secretary. Meetings Saturday night on and befc. each full moon, and two weeks thereaL ter, at 2 o’clock p. m. CHUR“H NOTICES. E. Church South.— Trenton Cir cuit, Chattanooga District—A. J Fra zier, Presiding Elder; J. A. Prater, Pas tor in charge; S. H. Thurman, Roc rding Steward. Trenton services second and fourth Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prayer meetings every Sunday night.. Byrd’s Chapel.— S -rvic s second and fourth Sundays in each month at 3 o’clock p. m. Rising Fawn.— Services first and tliir< Sundays in each month, at 10.30 o’clock a. m. Prayer meeting* every Wednesday and Sunday nights. Cave Springs.— Services first ai third Sundays in each month at 3o'c;o p, m. Furnace at night. eOfRD OF EDUCATION. B. F. Pace, President; G. A. R. Bible, R. W. Acuff,- W. C. Cureton. lohn Clark. NOTICE. W Any additions to be made to the übov changes or errors, parties interest©. would confer a great favor by notifyin. f ■'