Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
The Presidential Family to Occupy .S. 3'.s ssss. ss Woodley Next Week.
FLORIDA TO HAVE A RIVAL
In the Island of Jamaica-The
 Pruett White Cap Case. F. Naval Movements.

WAsaINGToN, March 25.-The president 2 expects to leave the White House with his family next week and occupy Woodley, his country residence in the suburbs of Washington. He will drive in to the White House at least twics week for cabi- net meetings, but will transact considerable official business at Woodey. Early in < June he will go to Buzzards' Bay, where Gray Gables is already being made ready for the summer stay. At present it is un- derstood the president does not anticipate any emergency requring>an extra session of congress.
 .-1 JAMAICA FRUIT COUNTRY.
 Our consul at Kingston, Jamaica, in a , report to the state department, quotes Governor Blake of Jamaica in his annual message us saying that he has received ap- plications from Florida for information as to the prospects of orange growing in - Jamaica. They came from persons whose groves have been ruined by the severe frosts and who realize the precarious nature of the fruit industry in Florida on account of the periodical cold waves from which it has suffered. The governor speaks of the excellence of the Jamaica orange, growing without cultivation or care, and says that it is evident that Jamaica could, {, with syste matic cultivation, produce enormous crops of oranges, lemons, grape fruit and shaddock, equal in quality to that of any fruit in the American or Euro pean markets.
 He will welcome the introduction of a regular cultivation that ought to be as valuable and as stable as the cultivation of sugar or bananas, and has directed full in formation to be prepared and forwarded to the parties in Florida who have asked in formation on the subject.
 The dry goods store of II. Harrison & Co.,, at No. 1257 Eleventh street, south east was burned this morning, Loss be- tween S15 .0OO and $2O, GOO; insurance not known. The origin of the fire has not been ascertaned. The flames at one time made such headway that a general alarm was turned in.
 THE ALABAMA WHITE CAMPERS.
 The noted White Cap cases from Alabama were under argument in the supreme court today after the Debs ct al. habeas corpus case had been taken under consideration. Rather an unusual condition of things was presented in the record and by the briefs filed. Wiley and William Prnett were taken from their beds on the night of men and severely whipped, each receiving about seventy five lashes with large sticks, s'until. ' as the record says, 'sthey were bloody from their shoulders to their knees, their backs being lacerated in many places, the skin being cut in gashes or s inches lopg." The night was indictment, and aside from the whipping the Pruetts suffered greatly from exposure.
 For this assault J. w. Todd and twenty six others were indicted in the United States court for the Northern, district of Alabsmi under section 5406, revised statutes, the indictment charging that they ''did combine, conspire and confed- crate together by force, intimidation and Prpett, who had heretofore been witnesses and testified against Joe Arnold, Milton Farmer and George Kelly upon charge of endeavoring to influence, intimidaie and ..,tf ssxn nf t,1 States, in violation of the criminal laws of the United States, tried preliminarily by and before Robert Charlson, acting as commissioner of the circuit court of the United States for said district, in their per son and property on account of the said witnesses above named having testified in said cause, in said court as aforesaid, and in pursuance of such a conspiracy did beat the Pruetts as stated.' On the trial of the cause Todd and thirteen others were con- victed and sentenced to four years' inn prisonment each and the payment of fine of $500.
 From this judgment they appeal to the United States supreme court. being ad- mitted to bail pending the decision on the appeal. The defense says that the indicted parties were not guilty of inflctiug the whipping, and that if they were 1t was ad- ministered not because the Pruetts had been witnesses in United States court against their neighbors, but because they deserved 1t on general principles.
 The case was argued for the defendants by John o. Fay and for the government by Assistant Attorney General Whitney. In concluding his brief the latter apparently conceded that the judgment of conviction could only be maintained with any as- surance of certainty against three oI the defendants.
 TO JOIN MEADE's SQUADRON.
 The cruiser Raleigh rejoined the Atlanta at Colon yesterday after a weeks stay at Cartbagena, where she went for coal. As affairs are now quiet on the isthmus 1t is probable that she will join Admiral Meade's squadron at Kingston. The fleet, which, left Ban Domingo on Saturday, should have reached Kingston on Saturday unless, as is believed at the navy depart ment, it cruised around the island of Hayu and through the windward passage of Cape The Columbia should reach Kingston about Friday. With finer Admiral Meade will be in command of the largest and finest Amer tcan fleet that has ever met in British port.
 MOVEMENTS OF THE ESSEX.
 The naval training ship Essex arrived at St. Thomas, West Indies, today, whore she will remain until April 5, and then sail for Yorktown. Va.
 The gunboat Castine completed her pas- sage of the Suez canal this morning on her way to Zanzibar, to render assistance, if needed, to Consul Hollis, who has been for some months resting under . charge of murdering native who invaded his home at midnight. He was acquitted by the To- cal court, but under peculiar provision of Portuguese colonial law an appeal to the