The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-12-14
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting an EpitOme OF tho
South's Progress and Prosperity

The Presbyterian Synod Of Georgia
met in Savannah with about 200 min
listers and lay delegates in attendance.
South CArolina's vote for governor is
as follows: John Gary Evans, 80, 5S6;
Sampson Pope, 1867 constitutional
convention, yes, 81 484, no, 30, 1870.
A convention of farmers of West
Tennessee, held under the auspices Of
the bureau of agriculture, met at Jack
son, Thursday. for a three days SEES
sion.
A barge loaded with 6, 500 barrels of
-four, all consigned by Scharff, Bern
heimer & Co., of st. Louis and towed
by the steamer Polar Wave, sank about
forty miles above Greenville, Miss,
and it is likely that the cargo is entire
ly ruined
The South Carolina conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church south,
convened at Laurens, Wednesday, in
its one hundred and ninth session,
Bishop J. G. Keener presiding. OF the
$50 members, over $50 answered to
first roll call.
Thursday night fire was discovered
in No. 4 hold of the British steamship
John Bright, lying at Galveston,
Texas. The fire was burning furiously
among the 1,S00 bales stored in the
hold when the fire department reached
the vessel. The fire was soon gotten
under control.
The Georgia Midland and Gulf rail
road has been placed in the hands of
receiver. Mr.. FlourDoy, of Columbus,
Ca, was designated by Judge Newman
to act as temporary receiver for the
road until the assets of the property
can be fully investigated by the court
and its solvency ascertained.
Receiver Eugene L. Jones, of the
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
Railroad Company, says that the reor-
ganization of the Georgia Central will
take place in a short time, and if the
present plans are carried out, the
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
roud will be part of the system.
| Wednesday the regular term of the
court of Stafford county, Va, began
at Fredericksburg, but the train rob-
berry case will not come up, having
been postponed until the December
term on account of Morganfeld's con-
dition, who is still in Cincinnati and can
not travel yet. Searcy is still in Jail.
In the district court at Houston,
Tex, Thursday, Inman & Co., the
great cotton buyers, filed suit against
the st. Louis and Southwestern Rail-
road Company for $50, 900 actual dam
ages and penalty footing up So, 900.
Inman & Co. allege that the defendant
road has been guilty of discriminating
against them in the shipment of cotton.
Bills were introduced into the Ala
bama house of representatives Thurs
day providing for the repeal of the
law requiring insurance companies do
ing business in the state to have al
actual cash capital of 100000. In
anticipation of its passage three bills
were introduced asking the incopora.
ton Of mutual life insure com.
panies.
The Alabama synod Of eresbyte
rian church met IN Mont. merry Wed.
nesday. The attendance is large. DR.
Whaling, of Gainesville, Tenn, was
elected moderator. DIR. Summers, o.
Clark esville, delivered an address upor
secular and ministerial education
Plans are being discussed looking to {
large increase of the endowment to tn,
Southern university, of Greensboro
Ala
A Raleigh, N. c., dispatch says
Official returns from seventy-tw,
counties show that Tate, democratic
nominee for state treasurer, receive,
103, 535 votes, and Worth, the fusiol
nominee, 5,641. Twenty-fou
counties remain unofficially reported
If these preserve the same ratio tn
democratic vote will be $4,000, an
p the fusion vote $4,000. This vii
make the fusion majority only $4,000
The general assembly Of the Knight
of Labor, in session at New Orlean
disposed of the vexatious question @
admitting lawyers and e-earnin
barkeepers to the order. The quef
ton had been favorably reported b
the committee, but was voted down
The vote was reconsidered and tn
matter was finally disposed of, only t
come up in division with a numbe
of amendments attached. The admii
sion of lawyers was then voted on an
defeated. The question anent tn
barkeepers met the same fate.