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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. D, WIKLE <fc 00., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1875.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 16.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Professor Tice maintains His reputa
tion ns the great American weather-
prophet. He predicted for September,
lrigoriflc waves and voilent tempests on
the sea. Facts sustain the Professor.
There are 1,700,000 Baptists in the
United States, and only 200,000
land. Virginia alone has as i
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and
Massachusetts put together. The denom
ination is very jxipular with negroes.
i Eng-
A withstanding the lapse of a
whole century, and the exertions of all
the epidemics, we are yet far from done
paying the expenses of our first war.
Nine widows of revolutionary soldiers
are still drawing pensions at Hartford,
Conn. One of them, the widow of Gen.
Henry Burdick, dmws six hundred dol-
Mafdlin sentimentality has not yet
got as far as Thibet. There "they bury
a criminal to the neck in the earth so that
nil movement is impossible, keep his
mouth forced ojtcned with a spike, and
then drive all kinds of horrible insects to
take refuge in the mouth, ears and
The Chinamen in New York are cele
brating a festival peculiar to their people.
The occasion recurs annually and the idea
of it is to furnish money, food and clothes
to their dead ancestors. In order to ac
complish this end a kind of subterfuge is
resorted to by collecting a comparatively
large quantity of mock money and mock
clothing, which are turned at an altar im-
provised for the purpose.
Tiie monument in honor of Edgar A.
h‘, which will be dedicated next month,
described as of whits marble, eight
feet high, resting on a granite base six
square. On the granite slab are two
other bases *f marble. On these rests the
die-block, three feet two inches square,
surmounted by a heavy cap, carved with
ornamental lyre in the centre of each
e. On the front of the die-bloek is a
beautifully chiseled medallion of the]>oet,
d in the purest Italiun statuary
marble, after a plaster east by Volk, the
sculptor, from a photograph in the pos
ition of a member of Poe's family,
New Oiu.eanh dispatches tells a hor
rible story of the destruction of property
at Galveston by the recent gale and ac
companying Hood, and the disaster seems
to be more appalling than those of 18117
and 1857, when the city was partially
erged under similar circumstance^
Galveston is inconveniently located for
such eatastrophios us that which his
just occurred, hut admirably situnted
for commerce, at the northeast extremity
f Galveston) island, which is very flat,
and twenty-eight miles long and one
1 one-half to three and one-half miles
le, intersected by numerous bayous.
The only remedy against a recurrence
of this desolation would seem to he in
ircctiou of a sea-wall around the
ofsuUlcient strength to resist the
plunging blows of such a flood.
Tin: Berlin Wa
have found out tl
wiry military sen
ill:’
(>flleo seems at last to
way to make compul
se thoroughly ^mpop-
Having raised the physical stand-
ird for the recruit so high that there is
io longer in practicepuy chnrtiHsofescajH*
lor those who come up to it—-nineteen
•nt of every twenty who fully reached it
last year were taken
now making the autumn
olls-it
i ge
oral <
in the
press over the number of sick
pital from them.
Many persons believe that Mrs. Min
nie-Hlierman Fitch has, through s|H*eiiil
favor of the government, lieen permitted
to get her Khedive diamond necklace out
of the New York custom-house without
paying the large duty on the jewels. She
has not yet adorned her neck, however,
witli the necklace, although she has inter
viewed Secretary Bristow several timet
on the subject. < 'ongress will have to act
on the matter next winter. The jeweh
are quite secure in the custom-house, how
ever, and, as burglarious (qierations art
hi numerous just now, it is perhapslxettoi
to leave them there than to risk them
within the insecure walls of a private
cure
(M2
flit 1V
i rapidly
women wen
indicted in Russia, of whom
arrested for participation in tin
movement. The Procurer G
the indictment, says socialism
spreading throughout the Kinj
most ardent propagandists of the nu
meat ls-lung to the upper clas
Among the indieted nre retired oftic
rofessors, justices of the jience, officials
of nil grades, and [several ladies of high
He
the
teialists onlv
opjiortunity, such as foreign
id put i
i practice tlici
at In
extravagant
f a compulsory abandonment of the
ity to "Cuba lihre.”
The insurgents in Bosnia andller/.c-
govinia, who will not down, it seems, are
doubtless actuated in their course by the
llectioiUtlmt if they submit in view of
the Porte’s promises of reform, they are
ertain to have the brutal and remorseless
nx-gatherer after them with redoubled
Igor. Turkey will certainly make them
pay for their rebellion as she is going to
the dogs as fast as she can, financially.
year the whole debt of the Turkish
government was $1,125,000,000, the in-
rease in four years having been $ 125,000,-
•00. The interest on this debt ill $110,000,-
•00 and the estimated revenue for the
present year is only $75,000,000. With
abundance of natural resources the gov
ernment will not*develop them. It ltor-
moncy wherever it can to pay the
interest on the debt at 12 per cent. The
present spurt of war in the western prov-
•es will necessitate further loans, hut
the country is plunging into a hoindess
bankruptcy, the prosjtect for relief is
doubtful. The sick man is very near his
nd.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY
, Mas
A fatal
Wilbmhnii
Ten thousii
down with tin’
The investiture of Cardinal McCloskey
took place yesterday at Borne. The
remony of conferring the red hat seems
have lieen dispensed with, as refer-
ice is made in the dispatches only to
io reception of the ring and title. The
remony took place In the consistory of
the Vatican, where the 1‘opo first closed
the lips of Cardinal McCloskey with his
lingers and then ordered him to open
i, giving him a full right to speak in
consistory. The ring which was
■rred was a sapphire ring, that stone
lieing emblematical of the princely dig*
of the Cardinal, and the church
i to him was Santa Maria Sophia
Minerva, one of the oldest ehurehes in
tome splendidly decorated with works
fart. Cardinal McCloskey, on ready
ing the ring, presented, as is the usual
custom, five hundred dollarn as a con
tribution toward the expenses of the
Bari lieu.
Tint fast mail business is a very good
tiling in many respects. It is pos.
however, that the speed required b;
post-oflleo department will, on son
the western roads, prove a rathe
lumitioiiH thing when .the frost begins
fork i
id culverts,
The
id ho
i Now York ;
plzootie.
The government inspectors at Buffalo
- about to him? mi investigation into (lie
lent futitl disaster to the propellers Kqiil-
x ami Meudota, by which thirty-four lives
re saerifleed. It is said that the Equinox
I not have proper Nailing papers, and
ither of die vessels had eonfornied to gov-
uniont regulations, for wliloh neglect of
urse the government officers themselves
While the internal revenue receipts of
this mouth nre satisfactory to the treasury
lit, those fiom customs ore less than
corresponding month last year,
i remain only $28,1)00,(KK) of now
hoods for negotiation. No further
dciiiption of bonds will lie made
until demanded by subscription to the new.
ion of the textile manul'ae-
turiilg interests of Massachusetts is still far
encouraging, Thousands of east
printed calicoes on hand at the present
it is said, will have lo lie carried over until
next season. Manufacturers say tin >
not do any business of importance ill
present extreme low prices, and the refusal
of operatives to work unless on their
New York City is badly afflicted with*
a horse jilagiie, hid the eastern shore of
Maryland seems to lie also In a very desperate
plight from the same cause. The disease is „
peculiar one, being no resemblance to the
epizootic. The horse is suddenly attacked
with diudiiess, and spins around until he
drops dead. The disease has been especially
fatal among valuable blooded stock, and tin
Chief Ross, of the Cherokee nation,
delivered an address nt the recent inter
national Indian fair at < JcmuJgec, in which
he stated that Indian Territory has has
mi area of *1-1,000,000 acres and a popula
tion of 70,000, divided into thirty-six
nations and trilies. The Indians harv-
«*stcd, last year, more tluyi six.million
Bushels of wheat; property valuation is
$ 10,000,000, and one-fifth of the interest
accruing each year is do voted to public
instruction. The fact thet these Indians
i getting i
^ long as possible.
ell has led to a v<
ep the white man <
The Two Republics, an American
jM-r published in the City of Mexico
phatically denies the rejiort which has
been in circulation fora month or more,
to the effect that Cortina, the KioGrande
bandit chief, "is enjoying the limits of
the City of Mexico.” It states that he
i- cloudy guarded iu a prison, and not
likely soon to be on the American border.
It states, however, that there arc rumors
to the effect that the only charge brought
against him will be that of insurbordi-
nation in disobeying the order to repair
to the capital. His friend* arc endeavor
ing to organize a strong 'outside influence
to screen him from puni.An.. at.
the
St. I/ottis Times boasts that the V
dalia "limited mail” made the stratling
time of one mile jmt minute, on Friday,
lietwcon Vundalia and cast Ft. Ixiuis,
On one portion of the road the train ran
flvo miles iu four minutes, and pa we ti
gers had to hold on to their scats tc
keep from lieing thrown about the cars
A rejiortor who took the wild ride sayi
he held his breath, expecting every mo
ment to lie "dashed into hug powder.'
The western roads are not built with i
view to such n strain as they receive
from the passage of the fast mail trains.
The first severe frost will render these
lightning trijn dangerous in the e
unless an uusual amount of thorough
inspection of rails and ears is practiced
ntinually.
Foi.i/iwino closely upon the intelli
gence of the disaster at < lalvcston, comes
the startling information that the town
of Indinnoht, situated 120 miles south
west of Galveston, in Calhoun county,
Texas, has lieen engulfed by the sea and
almost entirely destroyed, with a large
loss of life. Indinnola. is uu important
coast commercial point, the terminus of
the Gulf, Western and Pacific railroads,
and the outlet of a productive country,
the trade lieing chiefly in lumber, hides
and wool. The census of 1870 gives it a
population of 2,100, of which *101 were
colored. The place has rapidly grown
into importance. Steamers run regularly
from there to Corpus Christ i and Galves
ton. The fearful cyclone which has torn
up the waters of the gulf and hurled
them upon the Texas cost was marked
by far greater violence than that which
usually characterizes the autumnal equi
noctial storms.
remedy Inis as yet
county, that of K
amounts to $25,00
Postmaster G
following telegru
, the h.s
• flesh
•flea
istal •
Jewell has sent the
to Thomas A Scott:
eei-pt tin- thanks of this dcporl-
thc rapid dispatch of our mails
inaugurated oil your Hues the ltith
other country except itiissia can
pi esc il day proves the power of Virginia as
igneous in 1861-1871 as iu all the century
INI ISC H3I .LAN MOTTS,
rite United States steamer Powlmttan,
w at New York, will sail from here this
ek for I’oi t-au-lTlnee, lluytl, in accordance
with a request from the state department.
During some troubles on the islands a short
time ago, the American minister there gave
belter to some of the parties, in consequence
if which their adversaries threatened the
minister, and the department deems it expe
dient to send a vessel for IHh protection, If
Ouo hundred and fifty recruits have
been ordered to Fort Union, near Mexico,
for assignment to the Fifteenth infantry.
Captain Queen, of the Fulled States
navy, throws light upon the Acapulco mas
sacre. It was a Inilf-breed Mexican riot, and
only one American was killed accidentally.
The Mexican authorities promise indemnity.
The president has appointed W
a,lice
• of i
• the
Sixth district of Tennessee, and Win. Cal-
y, of Nebraska, receiver of public moneys
(lie Wyoming land district, lie Inis also
ned the commission of Alex. White, of
ulmmu, to he chief justice of Utah ter
ritory.
* half
those distances, at a stretch, without running
oil' the edge. Considering the magnitude of
our territory, I believe our dispatch of mails
is now unoquulod.” The postnuistcr-gpnerul
also sent a telegram to W. II. Vanderbilt, as
follows: Please accept the thanks of (lie
post-office department of the United Stales
for (lie facilities yon have given il this week.
The
spec
ilh which you are mix
mails, are, I think, uneq
world, and I believe i
progress. I can already perceive
appreciate the advantages of rapid
pnrtntion bv responses from our official!
the public, from the Atlantic to the Missis-
»ij‘ph
WEST.
A fatal disease has broken •
the hogs of Southern Indiana, 1
death of a large number within (lie last few
SOUTH.
The corner-atom; of the new cupitol of
,vas laid at Wheeling Hat-
FOREIGN.
A special reports the town of Valeseo,
kiis, as entirely swept away by tin) flood.
No lives lost.
Hon. Benjamin II. Hill, of Georgia,
ays he thinks that just nt this time there
aight to lie but little, If any, public speaking
nt political questions at the south.
A letter from the steamship and rnil-
ond agent at Imliauola reports 200 houses
wept a war, and (lie steamboat and railroad
wharf, which cost $200,000, alniriM a total
wreck, and 150 to 200 lives lost.
The St. lamia businessmen nre making
active dibits to secure a wide-awake railroad
convention in November, the object of which
is to promote the construction of another
Pneille railroad and give the great Northern
monopoly a bitter taste of opposition mul
competition.
Dorregurny comes to the surface again
as general-in-chief of the (,'arlisl iirmii
seems to have paused iu the disgraceful (light
so vividly depicted in the Madrid dispatches.
There seems to he a lease of life for Don
Carlos and his brigands, after all.
The sultan of Turkey, iu view of the
fact that in a recent gtiiird-hmiHe skirmish iu
Iler/.eguviua, sundry letters were picked up
showing that the Servians intend
war with him, has repeated Ids demand upon
Fringe Milan for the observance of neutral
ity. The sultan retains the documents in
proof of .Milan’s pei tidy. • f ' ■
Advices from Ht. Petersburg aimotinei
Hint the Russian General KanHinan occupied
Kilobaud nu the liilh of the present month
without resistance. A greater portion of tlx
Russian troops remained outside in a forti
fied camp. All the prisoners have been de
livered to Gen. Kiiull'man, and tin- khan has
accepted all tin millions of peace.
A Greek priest has jiiHt started an
other insurrection among the tramps o
Bosnia, ami they are said to la- applying tin
torch quite freely. As their country is char
izrd by [rocky ridges several lliotisaili
high, nothing lint light-footed Turkisl
infantry can operate against them.
Tin* Emperor AVilliani will leave Get*
many certainly by October Jlrd, to visit tin
king of Italy. I’rincc Bismarck will prof
ably attend him. The emperor will set on
from Badeil-lliidcil noon after tin* birthday
of the empress, .September .TO. T
meats of the emperor have for u
past been regulated to a great extent by his
medical advisers, and a determination to
visit Italy has been made.
An English co-operative cotton muiin-
fnctiiring company at Hpartaiilnil'g, South
Carolina, lias succeeded iu interesting the
Fall River, Mass., cotton operatives in the
subject of emigrating lo the south to such an
extent that a colony is being organized to
settle, near Spartanburg, where good farm
lands can Ins bought at from >, I to $50 per
acre, and the country presents very superiorj
advantages to Massachusetts laborers.
THE GULF STORM.
llcYiiMlHlIoit III To \ ns li.s XVI ml nml Witter
—Gnlvesloii n( (lie Ml'IS',1 ol' Hie Non—
.11 Hen ol’ Nti-eet* la hi Winli' in Hie pnlli of
llie I'nlnl Flood—One lliimlreil nml Fir-
(.» llnllillntrs Fiii-i-letl from Tliele Fomi
iIiiHoiim, llin-.vlnu I’oi-Ij lliintnn llclnun
in Hie Ueia-riil Itnln.
New Origans Sjmclnl to Clilengu Times.
From passengers who arrived IVom Gal
veston to-night the most harrowing ac
counts of the effects of the cyclone were
gathered, as it. is estimated that some for
ty lives were lost and near 200 houses
re swept away by the flood, which eov-
d the city for fully two days, besides
others made untenantable by the losing
of their foundations by the water. The
scene between the hours of 12, mid
night, on Thursday, and I o’clock on
Friday morning, witnessed
THE MUSI' FEARFUL 8CF.NKH
inutile island city, the events occurring
then being of the most thrilling and
heart-rending character, houses being un
dermined and sent with their inmates
whirling through the streets, some lodg
ing and others being turned over in their
progress to bury alive the inmates in the
debris or drown them as they attempted
cape. Not until 7 o’clock Friday
morning, did the wind change to the
tenth and drive the water from the city,
the fall being almost as rapid as had been
‘ie rise, and at 8 o’clock scarcely any
'liter was left in the streets, boats in the
meantime being used, and busily plying
between the suburbs and the heart of the
ity
REMOVING WOMEN AND CHILDREN
to places of safety, the greatest alarm ex
isting, as the waves during the night
it with immense force from the gulf
... Jio bav. Scarcely had quiet been re
stored, wit h the disapjiearanee of the wil
ier, when the wind slutted, and increasing
n force gradually wore around to the
MiuthwoHt, again sending the water
through tin* city from the west end, mid
by !l o’eloek iu the afternoon the strand
and hay front, which hut a few hours be
fore were nearly dry, became covered
with water to the second floor, covering
lie wharves, the wind blowing at forty
dloH an hour, and sending the water up
with immense force, and
AGAIN FLOODING EVERYTHING.
The storm continued until nightfall,
when the wind went down, and the
water fell as suddenly as it rose, leaving
innumerable wrecks of churches, houses,
barns, and leaving many ships and sloops
high and dry in the streets of the city,
upon the bench, and damaging the
stock of goods iu some of the stores lo a
large extent, hut to what exact amount
could not lie ascertained up to Saturday
morning, when the steamship Mary left
the humor. At that time the stores
were closed, tho merelmhts and citizens
generally assembling to devise wii
the immediate
RELIEF OF THE DESTITUTE
in. the way of fond, shelter, etc., hun
dreds n! them being without homes of
anything to eat. The Howard associa
tion was also lieing organized, hut even
with its full force they would hardly he
able to meet the wants of the distressed,
who immhci;cd at least live hundred.
Every house in tho city, east of .South
street, from A street to the Gulf,
wrecked or damaged to such an extent
that they were, iiiitcnaiilahlc.
Till: RAILROAD lHUDGKH,
it seems, were badly damaged, some
slating that it would require a week in
repairing them, while others wuro equally
as confident tlint, it would roq
Miss J»
West Virginia wa
xrdny.
Tremendous storms have prevailed all
through New Mexico for the punt ten days,
mid the town of Las Cruces was nearly de
stroyed by the bursting of what is culled a
waterspout.
The tidal wave inundation at Galves
ton, according to later advices, extended
over the entire island, devastating small
farms, and flouting off houses in the suburbs,
and seriously damaging splendid homes iu
the residence portion of the city, where the
destruction was greatest. In the business
portion of the city, where stocks of goods
were stored on ground floors, a vast amount
of valuable merchandise has been ruined. It
is si deplorable calamity in the most
aspect ill which it may be presentc
will take a year to repair damages
erty, and perhaps several years t<
from lljc effects of the serious h
The Cubans propose to ■
eighth anniversary of Cuban indcp
deuce on October 10. Probably the re
cent receipt of eight cannon, two thou
sand rifles, three thousand swords, six
hundred thousand cartridges, three tons
of gunpowder and a quantity of army
medical stores, by the insurgents, will
add considerable zest to the proposed
celebration. It is said that, even with
the prospect of getting re-enforcements
to crush these rebels, stout old Valin;
soda keeps several men-of-war in coi
stant readiness in Havana harbor to r
reive him and hi- plunder in the event
There is a sort of grim melancholy in
Spotted Tail's statement of his price for
tin; Black Hills. Six millions in money,
a suit of clothes for every Indian, and a
guaranteed annuity for eighty years;
" for when that is gone,” nays Sjiotted
Tail, " there will lie no Indians.” This
estimate of the probable duration of the
Indian trilies is interesting, coming as it
does from the greatest of living aliorigine
chieftains. Like many of his predeces
sors, he foresees the inevitable fate of his
race. Eighty years, lie thinks—not more
than two generations—will suffice for the
greed, the cruelty, tin- diseases of the
white "man to exterminate the Indian.
But Spotted Tail, unlike most of his pre
decessors, does not indulge in any oratori
cal pathos about the last Indian following
the setting sun until he disappears in the (-i
far western seas, etc., hut simply stipu-1 w jjj • the swords ami portraits o
lutes that his people -hall Ik- well fed and j fn-hl Scott, Robert E. Lee, Htoi
clothed during the few remaining years on, .!<•)». Smart, Turner Ashby
of their existence. ' George II. 'I h«
i, of Jncki
died mi tin; 2d of August, a
s. Him Imd never spoken i
any use of her limbs,
had any
take of i
uhl i
fond .
ept i
her from a teaspoon ; had not sat np in twelve
months previous to her death, and never
weighed exceeding twenty-live pounds.
A dispatch from Darin states that u
formal conference of the Honiipartlst party
at Arenenlierg has been abandoned. The
cause assigned is that popular cxeitcnieut is
so threatening it was considered more pru
dent to remain quiet for the present. The
Itoiiapnrdiii organs and leaden preserve the
slrietc t silenee in regard to the affair. The
government is closely watching the move
ments of the BoiiapartibUi, and is prepared l<
act with vigor should circumstances require
The families of some of his most in
fluential partisans are endeavoring to induce
Don Carlos to conclude peace. Bauds o:
Carlists, encamped near Tolisa, refuse u
fight, and their commander has been ar
ested.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson Is desirous
that Virginia should make ft creditable dis
play at the centennial, and gives these perti
nent suggestions: " Let us have u memorial
containing historical relics and treasures, and
collect there such riches as no other people
i badge of
. Hpotts'
>d’s order of knighthood, the
instituted iu (he American
colonies; maps and surveys made bv George
Washington for Ixird Fairfax; the original
draft of the hill of rights of George Mason;
tiie very Magna Charta and declaration of
il liberty on this continent; Kosciusko’
Gen. Win
wall Jack
\. I’. Hill,
is—all the line which
It was announced
land intended to oeeiq
whole of Papua, or Nc
and valuable region
-? that i
- the de.
cnliy that Eng-
iid appropriate the
iralusiii, lint i
n of Preside!.
the Dclugou Bay case that she
o. The award to Portugal in
made on the ground Hint the
laim of a nation to territory, based on first
overy, and even on temporary oeeiipn
, was a valid and inextinguishable one,
as the Portuguese discovered New
iieu in the sixteenth century, they can
he dispossessed of the country by Eng-
that
land.
— I appears that there an: 8,000 paper
manufacturers in the world, employing
80,000 men, 180,000 women, besides tho
100,‘000 employed in the rug trade; 1,800,
000,000 pounds of pajierare produced an
nually. One-half i- used in printing, a
sixth in writing, and the other for pack
ing and other purposes.
to repair the new Santa Fe
bridge, and u much longer time to re
place tho Houston bridge. Tho elty
lil’idgoH were entirely swept away, some
of them being curried several miles from
their original location. Not a tree, not
a shrill), is left standing upon the island,
the scene presenting, iih the Mary left
the harbor.
A BARREN WASTE,
not unlike a desert, excepting that the
standing houses gave a token of life.
The steamship Mary started from her
wharf at Galveston on Wednesday morn
ing while the wind was blowing a gale,
nml evidently it was the intention of
ic Galveston agent to send her to Bra-
lear, hut knowing it perilous to put to
-a during such a storm, (Jupt. Benson
included to go no further than the
hay, and, after getting n safe distance
from the dliwarf, let go both anchors, Ids
iidginent forbidding him from proceed
ing further, notwithstanding the, ns
your reporter learned, "imperative
order” to go lo sea. Had he done so,
the boat with all on hoard would doubt
less have, been lost, as she could not have
withstood
THE TERR MILK GULF HKAH
that prevailed all that night. About
one o'clock on Friday morning, when
the gale raged the fiercest and the seas
dashing over the boat, and when noth
ing could lie seen a boat’s length dis
tant, the English bark Mary McDowell,
a three, mast vessel and the largest in
the harbor, was driven against tin
steamship Mary, even while the lorinei
had her anchor out.
Hoiifltoii Mjicclnl to New York Hcnilil.
The following dispatch was soilt by a
special reporter, who pushed through to
the city on a schooner. It is the lit
liable news from Galveston since
storm began: "I reached boro about
five o’clock this evening (18th), coming
over in a schooner from Virginia Point.
The city shows but little signs of the
storm. In the business part of the town
the wharves are safe and sound, and tho
streets show hut little sign of the forty
eight hours’ inundation.
THE I’KOI’LE J'HKf’ARINC
"As soon as the jieople saw the storm
coming they began to prepare for it.
or nearly all, of the goods on the h
floors were hoisted to tho second and
third stories, and thus saved. The dam
age to goods is very light- On the east
end of the island the storm was tho se
verest, and did most damage. All the
houses down in what is known
cast end, are destroyed or nearly ►
Ocean 1 louse is no more. The To:
Gulf City cotton presses are destroyed,
and uiso iii< factors’ press, -orliy’s new
block of three story hoit.-es was badly
damaged by the wind. 'I’Jic street
track in the east end are torn up and
huvobeen demolished,
this time, except what may he standing
in tho low places. The (lest met ion of
life in the elty was small. It cannot he
truly estimated yet, hut not more than a
dozen lives have been lost. A woman
was crushed by the falling of her house.
Dr. Feet, tho city physician, was lost at
the quarantine station, together with his
grandson, Willie Blunt. Ho moved his
family into tho elty and then went hack
to tho station, which was destroyed.
Sixty men at work on the breakwater
were cut off from tho elty.
A NINE MILK DRIFT.
All were saved hut four. One of these,
Patrick Landagnn, drifted to Virginia
Point on a plank (nine miles) and struck
the Santa Fo bridge and hung to it.
Three vessels in port dragged their an-
hors. One of them is known to he wife.
The safe vessel is the Memory, an Eng
lish brigantine. The steamer Diana
weathered tiie storm nobly.
One of tho dredge boats from Redllsh
is on the prairie near Virginia Point .
Two schooners drove through the Gal
veston railroa’d bridge and tlioir crews
.to lost.
Seven houses vrero destroyed at Vir
ginia Point.
The. storm was tho fiercest over known
to by any citizen.
A numlKT of wrecks are reported on
the island coast, but nothing definite is
known concerning t hem.
Funeral Rites of an African of Rank.
A correspondent of the London Times
gives the following vivid description of
the'scenes which attend tho death of a
"eahoeeor,” or man of rank, in Ashantee:
Well, immediately after demise, the
body of a ealxieecr is washed, anointed
with sweet oils and grease, and sptinkled
with gold-dust. The oils ami grease
cause the gold-dust to st ick to the corpse,
which being black, throws off the bright
eelor of the gold to perfection. The
beard is trimmed into knots, and upon
each knot are tied small heads of glass
and thin particles of gold. Tho Ashan-
tccs, you perceive, are as dainty in the
decoration of the heads of tlioir dead as
tho Assyrian dandies were of their own
when living. In cloth of costly silk-
embroidered damask, or in velvet
or in other k rich garments, the
body is dressed and ornninontod with
armletw and necklaces of gold and silver.
Very of ten purolunipsof unwrought nug
gets of gold, bored through and through,
are strung upon a piece of hempen string
and twisted round tho forearms in tin*
form of bracelets. Thus gay ly bedizened
and performed and demised tho body is
placed upon a chair in sitting attitude,
or is shown recumbent upon a bed,
trimmed with gaudy drapery. When
this combined rite of purification and
garniture bus been completed the rela
tions assemble and begin to dance mid
sing. While tho relations and friends
are making merry a fetishmau, or..priest,
is led slowly into the festive throng, and
tho female slaves of tho dead eahoeeor
are brought before him. Alter the utter
ance of .various incantations he pretends
that the' fetish has denoted, bv means of
his mediation, a certain slave for election
lo follow her master to the next world ;
hut I need not he a much trouble to
suggest to you that the members of the
family always decide beforehand among
themselves which unfortunate wretch
shall accompany the. deceased chief. Be
ing chosen, ami by the choice condemned
to die, the slave is stripped naked.
Around her neck a wisp of hay is wound
and her arms are rudely pinioned with a
rope of straw. She is now roughly
dragged a second time to the pre
the letishmmi, who recommends her, in a
speech of blasphemous rhodonioiilades
and rhetorical parade, to serve her
master dutifully through the mazes of
the unknown sphere to which he has
been summoned on a journey. During
the delivery of the jHirtentons exhorta
tion he is busily employed in daubing a
white-colored earth over the face of the
ping slave; and when the admonitory
harangue has been exhausted he strikes
icr severely with his open palm upon
Jthor cheek. In benighted zeal .thecom
pany snatch up the sacerdotal cue. They
strive to rival one another ill repeating
the assault with the harshest violence
and in dealing tho keenest pain on he
nude and trembling person.
the executioners, moreover, are I>1chh<m
and the congregated hand of enhoeeers
manifest their profound respect by raising
tin! foot of each executioner with both
hands and by rubbing tho sole upon the
crown of their heads. The natives of the
Gala coast have a loose conception of a
state of purgatory or probation, and en
tertain the idea that the soul of the dead
wanders iiurestingly for many yenrsahouL
the world, and requires a servant for the
performance of menial duties iu Iris long
and ceaseless wanderings. Hence comes
the custom of killing a slave at the death
iftbqccor, for a ealioceer may not draw
water,' nor hew wood, nor cook food.
Having been removed by dint of cuffs
or manual force from the sight of the fe-
t ishnian, t he slave is hurried to a wooden
box, into which the carcass of flic cabo-
ceer will eventually lie squeezed. Along
the lid of tho box the slave is ;-t retched
upon her stomach, and her feet and head
are grasped by two executioners, so that
her struggles may he subject to control.
A friend of the dead cttboceer approaches
the prostrate creature and slashes her
with a sword just below the right /boul
der-blade. Catching the blood that flown
from the wound, lie smears the box.
When a sufficiency of blood has been
drawn for this purpose she is lifted from
the lid, and is reviled, struck and covered
with spittle by tho bystanders. AH the
while she utters the loudest and most
grievous lamentations; und the louder
and more grievous they are, the more ac
ceptable (lo (lie torturers deem the sacri
ficial gratuity to the dead citbOcacf. She
b then driven to the sjsit whore she is to
lie slain. When tho head has lieen cut
off tiie heart is plucked out through an
opening in tho hack. An executioner re
ceives the head with yells and frantic
signs of joy, and runs with it through the
town. Savagely and furiously lie tosses
it to the ground mid kicks it like a hall
before him, snatches it up in his flight,
! spits u|hiii it, flings it into the air, catches
’ its descent, or, permitting it to drop
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—The first medal that Bismarck evor
got was for saving tlie’Jifo of a drowning
Two million bushels of oysters are an
nually taken from Chesapeako Buy and
tributaries without any perceptible dimi
nution of the supply.
Hand-knit goods manufacturers have
held a meeting and agreed to hold their
goods for higher prftes, stopping produc
tion if necessary.
—For the memorial statue of C’harles
Hum nor, twenty-six models have been
offered. Of these fourteen wero at once
rejected by the commit tee.
—"Was not her death quite sudden?”
said a condoling friend to a bereaved
widower. ‘|Well, yes, rather, for her.”
— A Pennsylvania camp-meeting was
recently broken up by six poor little
skunks. The devil comes in various gui-
—Russia goes for a Communist like a
wild lolieeman for a mad dog. Long
terms of imprisonment or Siberia is tho
penalty for lieing a Communist.
—Tho King of the Friendly Islands in
the Pacific Ocean is a licensed local min
ister of tho Methodist denomination, and
his wife. Queen Charlotte, is a class
leader.
—Barry Sullivan is fifty-one years old.
and is a nntivoof Dublin. Ho performed
iu tho United States from the lull of 1858
to the summer of 18(10. Since then he
has been in Europe.
—Gov. Hart ran ft is trying to break up
"hangman’s day ” in Pennsylvania, not
by pardoning murderers, hut sentencing
them to he hung on other days of the
week than Friday.
—The three wonders of tho world at
present arc—How fluff accumulates in
vest pockets; where pins go to, and why,
when a man comes out of a saloon ho
lonltH one way and goes the other.
—Few women are like Mary Ann Davis,
of Ismisiaua. When she found that her
bread was "heavy” sho hung herself with
a bod-cord and gave Davis a chance to
marrv a French cook.
— Italy is having four monster cannon
made, hut they will he of no use except
as curiosities. It costs $1,200 each to lire
them, and one salute would bankrupt tho
corf i try.
—A fierce war is raging between tho
allopathic, homeopathic, and eclectic
schools of medicine in St. Louis, nml
while the <loetov»»rc thus employed their
patients are exhibiting alarming symp
toms of eoiivnlesonco.
Immense deposits of iron ore are said
to exist in nil parts of the Russian em
pire. Tho consumption of iron by tho
Russian people iH now enormous, ami an
energetic development of tho mines is
probable.
—Win. Coulter, the oldest railway con
ductor in the United States, having re
fused to wear tho uniform and .ticket
satchel recently ordered by Pennsylvania
railroad company, will retire and build a
$50,000 house.
A subscriber ask for the derivation
of tho word " Bonanza.” It is a Spanish
term, and, we believe, means favorable
■ze, and metaphorically a stroke of
I luck. It is used in the mining
’districts with reference to rich fields of
•Tho population of Rond Island
shows n gain of over eighteen per cent,
in the last five years, and establishes the
laim of that state to being the most
tensely populated slate in tho Union.
— By a decree of the Khedive of
Egypt, tho calendar iu use among Chris-
talii nations will henceforth he used in
Egypt, instead of the Malioiiiiucdnn cal
cium r, (luting from Lite Hegira.
—Lead and silver have been found a
Haverhill^ Mass., on the farm wlioro the
poet Whittier was born, and a shaft
twenty feet deep has been Hunk, from
which ore equal to that found at New
bury lias lieen taken.
—Here is a elm n enterprising
ghost, to aid some impocunioiis friend who
still lingers in the flesh. A $100 gold
note has been deposited in a hunk in Han
Diego, California, and the {Spiritualist
who can toll tho number of it can havo it.
—It was an old bachelor who declared
that tho conventional representation of a
cherub was Ihh idea of a model infant.
"No nasty little lungs to scream with,
no dirty fittle hands to meddle with, no
horrid little legs to run about on—just a
dear little pairoflhifly wingsand a head.”
—Iu the garden of tho late Andrew
Johnson’s residence is a magnificent
willow, growing from a twig taken from
the willow which bonds over the grave
of Napoleon Bonaparte on Hi. Helena,
and sent to tho president. A twig from
this noted tree will lie planted over Mr.
Johnson’s hill.
—A New Orleans gentleman has sued
tho Times of that city for libel, claiming
two hundred and fifty dollars damages,
for calling him a "midnight ruffian.”
Probably he would not have objected to
the simple epithet ruffian, but "mid
night ruffian”—that was a grain too
much.
According to the London correspond
ent of the Liverpool Post, a marked
cliango seems to havo taken place iu the
domestic life and habits of tho male
members of Queen Victoria’s family,
and their almost complete retirement
from fashionable circles is much spoken
of.
—At Dolmen the Germans pointed four
of ICrupp’s cannon} loaded with halls that
collectively weighed twelve hundred
weight, against a target made like a sec
tion of the skin of the best English iron
clad, and the cannon were then discharged
simultaneously, by tho electric wire, and
the target was annihilated.
buildings nre also ruined. Home of the henvify, kicks it again and again
sewers of the city are badly damaged and ! Body is never buried, hut is spurned aside
of the outer streets washed away. t 0 De eaten by wild beasts or vultures.
i OF LIFE.
A great many houses were unroofed,
and a great nuinlier of shade trees were
blown down, Tiie water has subsided at
—Wanted—the name of a race horse
which hasn't "made the quickest time on
record” this summer.
—Bishop Ames tell a story of a slave-
master in Missouri, in olden time of
negro vassalage, who said to bis chattel:
"Poinpcy,! hear you arc a great
preacher."
" Yes, maHsa, do Lord do help mo
iKiwerl'ul sometimes.” ,
“Well, Pompov, don’t you think the
negroes steal littfo things on the. planta
tion.” ., , , n
"Ps mighty fraul they does, massa.
“Then, Pompoy, I want you to preach
a sermon to the negroes against steal-
brief reflection, Pompey rc-
mg.
“ You see, massa, (hit won’t do, ’ciiaso
t’would throw Hueh a coolness over the
meotln’.”