The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-11-23
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South's Progress and Prosperity.


court at Atlanta, Ca, Monday.
AT Kellar, La, Tuesday while Abram
Smith and his wife were in the field
picking cotton, their cabin burned,
cremating their three little children.
Fire was discovered Saturday morn
ing in the hatch of the British steamer
Haietin at New Orleans. Two hun
dred bales of cotton were damaged.
The loss is small.
The federal grand jury at Jackson,
Miss, by vote of more than 2 to l,
refused to indict the governor, treasu-
rer and auditor in the matter of the
printing of the Mississippi state war
rants.
Some fifty odd enlisted men OF the
garrison at Fortress Monroe, Va, of
foreign birth, went to Norfolk to OBJ
tain naturalization papers Tuesday,
which is now required by recent act
of congress.
Blue, red and green and every other
kind of fire burned in Chattanooga
Tuesday night when 5000 republicans
of the county and surrounding towns
united with as many more in the city
to celebrate Evans election.
The house Of Louis Williams, nine
miles below Natchez, Miss, burned
at an early hour Tuesday morning and
two young children were cremated in
the blaze. Williams himself and an
older child were badly burned.
The estimate of the cotton crop
made on the exchange at Charleston,
S. c., varies from 100000 to
10000, 900 bales. 1t is expected that
Charleston's receipts this year will be
fully 100000 bales, of which 1873, 1872
bales have been so far received.
A special of Monday from Nashville,
Tenn, states that unofficial returns
from every county in the state give
Evans, republican nominee for COVER
nor, plurality of 1854. The figures
are carefully compiled and the official
count will not materially change them.
Rev. Thomas NJ. Beckham, we'll
known Methodist minister, under
whose preaching it is said that at least
1000 persons had been converted,
died at the retreat for the sick at
Richmond, Va, Sunday. Mr.. Beck
ham was born in Lexington, Davidson
county, North Carolina, March 81,
1885.
So far the grand jury at Jackson,
Miss, has made no report to the court
relative to the special warrant case,
and may not do so, but it may be con-
sidered as certainty that its refusal
to indict was fnality, SO far, at least,
as this court is concerned. 1t is I'M
derstood that all the witnesses in the
case have been paid off and discharged,
Forty-fve persons we're poisoned by
ice cream at Wake Forest college, Raj.
eigh, N. G. The cream was served al
a golden wedding there. Among the
sick were five of the faculty. Miss
Simmons, daughter of the late Pro.
lessor William G. Simmons, and Miss
Dunn are not expected to live. The
others are out of danger. There were
ptomaines in the cream.
The Texas and Pacific railroads big
cotton wharf at New Orleans caught
fire in some mysterious manner late
Monday evening. The entire wharf
800 feet long, was destroyed, and witt
it between 25, 900 and 200 bales o.
cotton. Forty or fifty cars loaded
with cotton were also consumed, max
ing about $4,000 bales loss in all
The loss will exceed half millior
dollars.
Judging by present appearances tn,
labor trouble at New Orleans seems tt
be at an end. Mr.. Saunders, the loca
agent of the West India steamship
line, has colored men at work on tire,
steamships. The police are still oil
the levee in force for the alleged pur
pose of protecting the colored laborers
President Labouisse, of the cotton ex
change, says that everything is pro
ceoding quietly.
/ Judge Ferriss, through his solicitor
filed sensational bill at Nashville
Tenn, Monday, against the count,
health officers, DR.. w. 7. Gains, DIR
II. B. Cochran, former Jail physician
| and DR.. w. ]. Edwards. The bill
charges Gains and Cochran with cor
ruption in having Edwards purchas
for 81, 041 a site for q county pest
house and selling it to the county 70
50, 1905, and that the three divide
l the profits. The county trustee is ell
a joined from paying the warrant.
= The Alabama Sheriff's Associatio
e met at Montgomery in annual sessio
Tuesday. Officers were elected an
the usual business routine was gon
: through with. The recommendation
E of the state auditor in his report to til