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VOL. X.
OOR LATEST DISPATCHES.
The Happenings of a Day Chronicled in
Brief and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing tie Gist of the News
From AH Parts of the World.
Sunday’s dispatches state that no
new cases of cholera have developed in
Jersey City.
A large part of the business portion
of the town of Magnolia, Ark., was de¬
stroyed by fire Friday morning. The
loss is $40,000,-insurance $22,000.
At 6 o’clock Sunday evening the
Louisviile and Nashville railroad em¬
ployes of all classes except telegraph
operators, in Evansville, Ind,, struck.
Pierre Lorillard has decided to sell
his entire stable of horses in training
and to temporarily retire from the
turf. The first sale eomes off at
ijheepehead Bay, September 8tli.
A dispatch from Woodsville, N. H.,
says: There was a severe frost on the
highlands in- this region Saturday
night. Vegetation was damaged con¬
siderably, but a heavy fog saved the
river crops.
Six skeletons have been found on
President’s island, six miles from
Memphis, Tenn., supposed to be those
of the crew and passengers of the ill
fated steamer Gold Dust, which was
burned a few years ago.
The Panola cotton mills, located
thirteen miles -south of Atlanta, at the
village of Panola, have been destroy¬
ed by fire and over sixty people
thrown out of employment. The loss
is estimated at over $50,000, partially
covered by insurance.
A Savannah, Ga., special of Satur¬
day says; It is now certain that the
official report of the loss of the steam¬
er City of Savannah will severely cen¬ and
sure the captain of two tugs
a schooner sighted at the time the
ship lay aground off Hunting island.
A St. Louis dispatch of Sunday says:
Charles A. Gunn, under arrest as a
suspected train robber, bas been pos¬
itively identified by the crow of the
Mobile and Ohio train he held up in
June last and his case has been turned
over to the officials of the Southern Ex¬
press company, who will prosecute.
Dispatches from Port Royal state
that no more dead bodies were found
Saturday about Port Royal, Beaufort
and the outlying islands; at least, none
were reported. The rain, which began
falling Friday night, continued
throughout the clay Saturday and boat¬
men were not brave enough to row
from one island to another.
Dispatches from Arkansas City
bring news of a fight between the
Dalton gang and the United States
marshal’s posse, in which two of the
marshal’s men were killed and Deputy
Houston fatally wounded. N. A.
Walker, N. D. Murray, G. ty. Ransom
and a boy armed Briggs were wounded
and a young man named Simmons in¬
stantly killed.
Outlaws held up the ’Frisco passen¬
ger train at the little town of
Mound Valley, Kas., at 4 o’clock Sun¬
day morning, shot and killed Express
Messenger Chapman and robbed the
passengers. They secured nothing
from the express car, but not a pas¬
senger escaped. Even the women
were relieved of jewels and money.
'A cable dispatch from London states
that the house of commons will not
adjourn before September 27th. The
leaders of the unionists are busy plot¬
ting trouble for Mr. Gladstone. Bal¬
four, Chamberlain and Sir Henry
James decided in a conference Satur¬
day to defer as long as possible the
adjournment, and thus defeat the gov¬
ernment’s plan for an autumn session.
A Denver, Col., dispatch says: Dr.
Thatcher Graves, the convicted poison¬
er of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, com¬
mitted suicide in his cell in the county
jail Saturday night, presumably by
taking poison. On his person was
found a note which ran as follows:
“To the Coroner of Denver. Dear
Sir: Please don’t hold any autopsy on
my remains. The cause of death may
be rendered as follows: ‘Died from
persecution; worn out, exhausted. f it
A dispatch from Rome, Ga., says:
Chester Scott, the noted train robber
and desperado and convicted of mur¬
dering Sheriff McGinnis, of Gordon
county, along with five other prison¬
ers in the Floyd eounty jail, escaped
Saturday night shortly after 7 o’clock.
The escape was most daring. Jailer
Copeland was knocked down, his wife
and mother were run over and with
crowded streets within a few feet nil
Jnade good their escape.
What will prove, perhaps, the most
disastrous street car accident ever re¬
corded took place in Cincinnati Sun¬
day evening at 7 o’clock. An electric
car dashed down a hill at frightful
speed, left the track, broke a telegraph
pole and shot into a saloon, wrecking
both it and the structure it struck.
As a result of the collision two people
are dead, six injured beyond recovery
and nearly forty more arc hurt, many
dangerously.
A J acksonville specie! says: There
is no yellow fever in Florida. The
State has a clean bill of health. Adis-
The Banner-Messenger.
BUCHANAN, HARALSON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1893.
KfcsStfKSMS
Sunday states that the sickness of
?S“^ t M , yeuow 1 fOTM.T ,l not
yellow fever, as n subsequent diagnosis
shows. He has since declared all re¬
strictions off and the poople may go to
Port Tampa and come as they please.
A New York dispatch of Saturday
gives tho statement for the Georgia
railroad for the year ending June
30th, which shows: Net earnings,
$484,771, an increase of 109,444;
charges, $626,727, an increase of
$2,011, and deficit, $141,956, a de¬
crease of $107,433. Coupons from
the Georgia Pacific Railroad com¬
pany’s 5 per cent, equipment mort¬
gage bonds due August 1, 1893, will be
paid by the receivers on presentation
at the Central Trust company of New
York.
A Washington special of Sunday
says: The United States treasury is
depleted. But little over the gold re¬
serve remains. Funds must, there¬
fore, be raised at once. President
Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle had
(/conference Saturday and agreed that
of all the plans proposed the best was
to coin the seigniorage of silver now
in the treasury. That amounts to
$52,000,000. Mr. Carlisle talked with
the leaders of both houses of congress
about the matter and found them
all in favor of the plan.
Several deputy sheriffs of Birming¬ blood¬
ham, Ala., with a number of
hounds, arrived in Clarke county Sat¬
urday night, where they went on a
telegraphic ’ call from the sheriff of
that county. They say they have
found the trail of the Meacham gang
of outlaws. The sheriff of that coun¬
ty anticipates serious trouble in cap¬
turing them, and has called for depu¬
ties from a number of counties. It
was given out a few days ago that the
gang had made their escape and left
the state, but the report was untrue.
NEWS FROM PORT ROYAL.
Many More Dead Bodies Being Found
and Unceremoniously Buried.
A special from PoTt Royal, S. O.,
states that the islands around Port
Royal and Beaufort presented a sad¬
der scene Friday than was that of
Thursday. The waters have begun
receding rapidly, and as they disap¬
pear, leaving the land in view, pictures
of desolation and destruction multi¬
ply. Dead bodies are being found on
all portions of every one of the islands
and in most instances decomposition
has gone so far that anything like a
certain recognition is almost impos¬
sible.
The discovery of the bodies is sad
enough hut the burial which they are
given enhances the sadness of the
story. No one has time now to join a
funeral cortege unless the funeral he
that of a member of his own family.
Those who have not lost by death a
relative are kept busy repairing tho
damage to their property or saving what
they can from the wreckage. The dead,
when found, are left on the ground
where discovered until grave diggers
can he secured. Then a shallow
hole is made in the earth by scooping
out the mud. No digging is now
necessary, as the earth is almost a
puddle for from two to ten feet. The
hole once made the body is dumped
in without coffin or clergy and the
mud trampled hack again. Sometimes
the discoveries are so frequent and the
burials so multiplied that more than
one body is placed in the same hole.
NO STRIKE YET.
But (he L. & N. Employes Are Awaiting
the Result of a Conference.
A Nashville special of Friday says:
Everything is quite in railroad circles
in the city. The men are at work and
business is proceeding. Great interest
is felt in the result of the conference at
Louisville between the various commit¬
tees and the officials of the Louisville
and Nashville. If ordered by the com¬
mittee to strike they will all go out,
but if the committee decides that they
shall remain they will do so. Up to
noon Friday President Thomas, of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis,
had received no communication from
the representatives of the employes of
his road, although this was the date set
by the union employes for a conference Major
with him. At tho last meeting
Thomas told the men that if the busi¬
ness of the road justified it the regular,
wages would be restored, but the men
wanted an absolute promise and when
Major Thomas declined to give it they
Baid they would vote on the matter and
give theiranswer at a second conference
to be held Friday.
A Fatal Wreck.
A southbound freight train loaded
with merchandise, was wrecked and
partly burned about ten miles from
Brenham, Texas, on the Gulf, Colo¬
rado and Santa Fe, Friday. A prai
rio fire had burned away a piece of
track, and as the train came along at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, it
rushed into a bridge spanning a wide
creek. Jack Swanson, the engineer,
was killed and Fireman Dameron and
Brakeman Ford were fatally injured.
Two unknown tramps were killed and
number of others are reported to be in
the ruins.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Government and Routine oi
tie House and Senate Discussed.
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo¬
ple and Their General Welfare.
There are eleven contested election
cases now before tho Iioubo of repre¬
sentatives.
there will , be no delay about the
work of tariff revision. Chairman
Wilson Wednesday morning called to¬
gether the committee on ways and
means. It was decided that the com¬
mittees have daily sessions until Sep¬
tember 20th, when the tariff bill will
be presented to the house. Wilson,
MoMillin and Turner will be loaders
in framing the democratic bill.
Senator Gxay, of Delaware, one of
the closest senators to tho president,
says that Mr. Cleveland is anxious
that the work of reforming the tariff
be proceeded with immediately after
the consideration of tho silver repeal,
and is also anxious that congress re¬
main in session until December. W.
D. Bynum is also authority for the
statement that congress will remain in
session.
The treasury department has ordered
all the gold bullion in the department
coined immediately. This bullion is
in the form of bars, and as it cannot
be used in that shape it has been de¬
cided to coin it. There is about
$90,000,000 in bullion, and as the
coinage capacity of the Philadelphia
mint is only $6,000,000 a month, it
will take more than a year to coin the
bullion on hand at present.
The bill introduced in the house
Tuesday afternoon by Mr. Spring¬
er to coin the seigniorage silver
bullion in the treasury, will be
favorably reported from the commit¬
tee on coinage. The bill undoubtedly
will pass the house and get the presi¬
dent’s signature. It will mean an ad¬
dition of at least fifty million dollars
to the circulating medium, and, to¬
gether with Voorhees’ national bank
bill, will increase the currency of the
country nearly one hundred million
dollars.
Senator Butler, of South Curoli/u,,
returned from the south to Washing¬
ton Friday morning. He found a tel¬
egram from Port Royal informing him
of the condition of affairs there and
urging him to join with the other
members from his state and see what
could be done to relieve the people
who are in distress. The senator will
call on the secretary of war and en¬
deavor to secure some action by that
department in the nature of an order
providing a supply of tents and ra¬
tions for those who are homeless and
without food. The senator does not
Bee any hopes of securing relief
through legislative action, for con¬
gress has always in the past declined
to appropriate money for this sort of
relief, holding Mr. that that was the duty
of the state. Butler will do every¬
thing in his power, though, to bring
relief of som sort to those who are suf¬
fering.
A Washington special of Wednesday
says: The story about Mr. Cleveland
having part of his jaw bone removed
on account of a cancerous growth in
the mouth proves to be correct. Dr.
Hasbrouck, ono -of the physicians
who aided in performing the operation
on the first of July, while Mr. Cleve¬
land was on the yacht of his friend,
Mr. Benedict, confirms tho story. Ho
says more than an inch of his jaw bone
was removed. Mr. Cleveland stood
the operation well and his physicians
state that it will probably not affect
his general health. All the diseased
tissue was removed and the incision
healed thoroughly at once. There is
a fear, however, that in the near future
it will prove more serious than the
physicians will admit. The subject
was freely discussed at the capital
Wednesday, and much anxiety was ex¬
pressed about the condition of the
president’s health.
The Administration’s Policy.
During the last few days Secretary
Carlisle has had several conferences
with the leading members of both
houses of congress in which he has
stated that the administration prefers
that congress pass but two financial
measures for the present. These are the
Unconditional repeal of the Sherman
law and the Voorhees bill, allowing na¬
tional banks to issue currency to the par
value of bonds on deposit. After this
is done the administration prefers that
congress will hands off financial mat¬
ters for the present and allow the
strained situation of the country to
right itself. After that is done and
business is progressing smoothly and
the banks get on a firm basis again
then congress may consider the repeal
of the ten per cent tax on state banks,
and the hundreds of other financial
propositions which have been suggest¬
ed and introduced * in the shape of
bills in the two houses of congress.
Silver In the Senate.
The senate committee on finance
Tuesday morning decided to report
hack to the senate the Wilson repeal
hill with the recommendation that the
Voorhees bill, already on the senate
calendar, he substituted for it. The
committeo also resolved to sot asido
tlie national bank circulation bill,
which is now unfinished business in
tho senate in favor of tho Voorlioes
bill, and press the latter measure as
rapidly os tho temper of the
senate will permit. The dif¬
ference between the house bill
and the Voorhees bill is found in the
attachment to the latter of a para¬
graph declaring that it is the policy of
the United States to use both gold
and silver as money metals, and to
preserve the parity. The program of
tho committee, as far as it contem
plates tho sotting aside of the national
bank bill, can only be carried out
through the aid of the majority in the
senate, for the national bank bill can¬
not he withdrawn or set aside save
through a majority vote in favor of
the consideration of the repeal bill.
BUSINESS MORE PROMISING.
Bradstrcet’s and Dun Give Encourag¬
ing Reports.
Bradstrcet’s report of trade for past
week says: The clouds over the gen¬
eral business situation throughout the
country have continued to break away.
This is tho second week in which the
actual improvement has been recorded,
as indicated by an increase in volume
and distribution of merchandise re¬
ported at Cincinnati, Chicago, St.
Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. More
travelers have been sent out from these
and other points, and manufacturing
industries there as well as at larger
eastern centers have in a number of
instances begun starting up, some
without special orders.
R. G. Dun & Co. says: The indus¬
trial situation mends hut little. The
signs of improvement observed a week
ago were scarcely sustained, for, while
twelve textile and thirteen steel con¬
cerns have resumed after stoppago,
fifty-five textile and two steel concerns
have stopped. In addition, thirteen
others have reduced working time,
and several have reduced working
forces. A more satisfactory indica¬
tion is that the failures are greatly
diminished in importance and some in
number. The number reported dur¬
ing tho past week in tho United States
is 356 against 148 for the same week
last year, and in Canada 29 against
28 last year. In the eastern states
the failures number 149 ; in the west¬
ern 142 and in the southern 65, show¬
ing an improvement in each section.
A STAY LAW WANTED.
South Carolina Farmers Legislature. Request an
Extra Session of the
The farmers are becoming alarmed
at the likelihood of having to market
their cotton at present prices and
the Mechanicville ‘ Alliance unani¬
mously adopted the following:
Whereas, The money sharks and
goldbugs have contracted the volume
of money so that there is practically
no money in the country to move the
cotton crop; and,
Whereas, Congress does not seem to
intend to give the necessary relief in
time to save us from bankruptcy;
therefore, be it
“Resolved, That we earnestly appeal
to the governor of South Carolina to
call an extra session of the legislature,
not later than September 15th, to paBS
a stay law on all debts falling due on
or before November 15th, so that we
may be enabled to pay our debts with¬
out bankrupting ourselves and starv¬
ing our wives and children.
“Resolved, That under the present
conditions there is no way whereby we
can meet our debts without sacrificing
our homes and property, which we do
not propose to do. TukeB our lives,
but do not starve our wives and chil¬
dren.”
THE HOME RULE BILL
Passes the House of Commons and
First Reading in House of Lords.
A London cable dispatch says: The
house of commons agreed to suspend
the 12 o’clock rule Friday night in
order that the third reading of the
home rule bill might be concluded be¬
fore adjournment. The principal
speakers were Justin McCarthy, John
Morley and Chamberlain and Balfour.
The time having arrived for the third
reading of the bill, tho speaker form¬
ally put the motion and ordered a di¬
vision of tho house. Mr. Gladstone
was the first to record hiB vote, and
Mr. Morley was the lost. Each was
given an ovation, as was also Balfour.
The division resulted ; For the mo¬
tion, 301; against, 267.
When the figures were announced
the Irish members sprang to their feet
and cheered wiidi. , «aving hats and
handkerchiefs and '. like, while the
opposition members raised their coun¬
ter cheers and shouts of “resign!
resign!”
The house then adjourned. Imme¬
diately after the sitting of the house
of lords was resumed and five minutes
later the homo rule bill passed it on
tho first reading__
Banks Resuming Business.
A Washington special of Friday says:
The following national hanks, which
recently suspended payment, have been
permitted tore-open their doors for
business. The American National Bank
of Nashville,Tenn. ; the First National
Bank of Grundy Center, Iowa, and the
First National Bank of Harrisonville,
Missouri, . .
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