The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-08-04
SOUTHLAND ITEMS.
PARAGRAPHS, SAD, PLEASANT
AND TERRIBLE.
INDUSTRIAL PRoGREss-THE EXCURSION
DEFALCATIoNs-CoTT REPORTS, ETC.
Alabama.

Cleveland, Tenn, to Selma, was arrested
in Selma for robbing the mails.
N. F. Thomson, Birmingham real es-
tate and insurance agent, and a candidate
on the prohibition ticket for county
treasurer, was arrested for false pretenses
in connection with land trade during
the late boom. The grand jury returned
an indictment against him. He was re-
leased on $4,000 bond.
j. T. Sullivan, an engineer on the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, was ar
rested in Birmingham on Saturday,
charged with manslaughter in the first
degree. About three weeks ago, while
running freight train, Sullivan ran into
switch engine at Warrior, killing a
man named John Beasley.
The suicide of Maggie Jones, of Birm-
ingham, a woman Of unsavory II putation.
was the eighth suicide in that city within
four weeks. They have occurred two per
week now for four succe- sive weeks, and
common inquiry is HAS any one COM
mittcd suicide to-day?" Suicide seems
to be epidemic there, forty three having
occurred during the past twelve months.
Missouri.
George Taylor, a prominent st. Louis
cotton factor, is authority for the state
ment that jute bagging manufacturers
have formed pool or trust and advanced
the price of bagging from seven to eleven
cents per yard, while there has been no
advance in raw material. Mr. Taylor
could not purchase such stock as he
wanted in St. Louis, and telegraphed
orders to Eastern manufacturers and
received the reply that he had better
purchase from the St. Louis makers.
Florida.
Twenty-four allioators were killed in
one night by a boy at Spring Garden.
The inland lakes in Volusia county are
lower at present than at any time during
the past ten years.
The catapillars are seriously injuring
the pea and potato vines in certain To-
calities in Pasco county.
The state authorities have ordered that
the entire village of Plant City be burned
to the ground, including al buildings,
furniture, bedding, &C., in order to
stamp out the so-called yellow or mala-
rial fever there.
The growers in and around Orlando
have netted so cents per pound for white
grapes. It is not improbable that in
few years grape culture in Florida will
become one of the leading industries.
Alachua county has large acreage of
vineyards.
There is man in Palatka who mag
ines that he is a teapot. He is perfectly
sane on every other subject, but nothing
can convince him that he is not teapot,
and an earthen one at that. He sticks
out one arm to represent the spout, bends
the other to represent the handle, makes
a Kissing noise to represent the escaping
steam, and then, if any one comes near
him, is very uneasy lest they hit him and
break off either his handle or his spout.
The relief measures to be inaugurlted
hy the Marine Hospital Bureau VIII in
clude house toulouse inspection of the
infected villages and the guarding Of
them for a PERIOD of ten days, or until
the fever shall have entirely disappeared;
and also the disinfection of all premi cs
wherein the inmates have had fever.
Guards will be Immediately placed to
prevent the refugees from injecting other
places. Persons wishing to leave the JIM
feeted villages will have to pass the
dgual detention period and have their
alothing fumigated.
South Carolina.
Tire river phosphate miners around
he South Carolina coast have entered
into q pool to put up the price of rock
Ehis, of course. Goes not include the
land ,psiners. The production Of river
sysGK amounts to nearly 10000 tons an
pualiy.
; a committee was appointefin Charles
ton on Wednesday to optn books of sub
ecription for the purchase Of a steamship
to run between there and Bal The
steamer is to be built outright, with
capacity of 5000 to 5000 bales Of cot
ton, and to have first class accommoda-
tons for 100 saloon passengers.
Lightning struck the shed of Hughes
& Brunson's store, at Brunson's, under
which Were a group Of pedp'e, and killed
Frank Rivers, colored, outright Col,
l.. F. Hughes one Of the pr prietoTs, re-
ceiyed painful injuries from both the
shock and a fail TO the brick pavement
Others were considerably shocked. Two
oe three houses were struck and viii
need repairs,