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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. 8. D. WIKLE dc 00.. Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1!), 1877.
VOL III. NO. 30.
NEWS SUMMARY'.
THe norm.
Memphis in to have n new cotton mill
Prairie fires are doing great damage
in Trim*.
According to the governor’ll message
the debt of MUaiKaippi, on the first of De
cember last, wan only 11,1000,605.22.
Oranges are selling at a cent apiece in
TntnpH. In Savannah they bring three cents
apiece by the hundred.
The number of prisoners in the Vir
ginia penitentiary has increased in the |>nat
year front 998 to 1,H7.
The court house and nil the county
records of Cocke eounty, Tetmeuee, were
destroyed by tire Saturday.
Nearly the enthe business part of
Crockett,Texas,’burned recently. Lisa $7fl,.
000 or $100,000.
A number of counties in Texas have
recently voted iu favor «f prohibition, and
many more will soon take a vote under the
local option law.
Dennis Williams presented the t )xford
tN. C.) orphan asylum with a ('hristmas
gift of sixty pair of sho-s and forty-eight
shawls.
Mr. McAdoo was elected s|>eaker of
the Tennessee legislature, Mr. John K.
Helms, clerk of the senate, and Mrs. Cook,
cncrossing clerk.
Mr. .1. Citron, of Shreveport, having
been burned out of house and home, pumped
the water out of bis wooden cistern and
veil in. He
Kiev
able to come <>t
wnter.
Captain Eadi
nther likes the change.
carrying nearly 10,000
re lying up Red river un-
ut on account of the low
id ’
lonel Andrews
Imve left New ()rleaiu to receive the first
payment on the jetties. They report a clear
I'liannel of two hundred feet wide and
twenty feet deep fiom deep water in the
river to deep water in the gnlf.
'1 he content over the United States sen-
utoreliip in Georgia is growing interestiug.
Senator Norwood, the incumbent, tieu. Col
quitt, governor elect, Col. Thus. llanleman,
Hon. It. H. Hill, ex-tlovernor llerscliell, V.
lohnnon, etc., etc., are nil spoken of. and
several of them anxious for the honor
South Florida Journal: General San
ford is going to engage extensively in the
culture of pine apples on Hi. Gertrude place,
ill plant over
jtisl
show that within the Texas und Pacific rail
road reservatlou there is vacant laud to the
amount of 13,092,000 acres. On the first of
■September last there had beeti set aside for
the benefit of the common school fund 23,*
12.'* sections of land, making iu nil 10.080,000
acres. Of domain subject to location Ht the
same date there were •13,940,820 acres. For
the year ending August 31st, there had been
of patents issued through tho general land
office, 9,794, representing 4,291,363 acres.
For the sumo year there were issued in cer
tificates of all classes, 8,311, representing 5,-
808,449 acres. During the same year the to-
lal new tiles were 13,650, representing in
acres 11,787,714. The total receipts of the
land otllcc for the year ending August 31st,
Notwithstanding too depression of trade
during the past six months, southern cotton
mills report u fair business. The seini-au-
mini report of the Augusta (Gn.) factory
show s profits tor the past six months of $13,-
000, from which a dividend of two per cent,
was declared. In view of the fact tlmt so
many manufactories have either suspended
operations or run on short time, the exhibit
of the Augusta concern is gratifying. Dur
ing the period above mentioned the factory
consumed 8391 ha.es of cotton,employed over
600 men, made 410,901 yards, and sold goods
to the amount of $116,040. Well managed
cotton factories, located where the staple is
grown, will pay. There can be no doubt of
Tint whole amount of mono
for the poor women and children,
and orphaned by the lirooklyn tire
ed to a little over $42,bOO.
Tho olticial report id deaths
York foi
them to 1
life with us.
Tho Virgil
submitted the
last
i fish (Mimuissio
land locked s
1,200,000. Hi
[•sides which large nu
It, river bass and |>«
rob! fish, etc., have bee
one mile west of h
five thousand this season. He ha
ceived an importation <*r plants of
i ml superior quality from ('araecaae, Yen*
xualo.
The following are tho achoola atatlitic
•>( Tennen.li-. While—Male,l(J7,.110: female, 1
MS,010; total, .las,318. Colored—Male, 55,-
-'12; female, 56,560; total, 10.,780; annul m- ;
Ul,5M,1U8. Inerett.e nver.oll.l.atle p„ | ,i l | n . j
lionnl 1871, ",t!'d. Number of .ehoolliouir., I
8,166; estimated value of school-houses $853,-
413.7 1. Number of teachers employed, I,.
* l,) . Average cost of tuition per pupil per
month, 85.6.
A trader got the contraot Air furnish,
ing the government post at Han Antonio,
Texas, with five hundred northern horses at
firj per head, and the Herald says of the
stock : The horses received by the military
hoard for the use of the cavalry are such
very fine animals that Lo, the poor Indian,
will not have much of a show to get away
with colored scalps,.If Simho only gets an
even start and can hold on.
Brownsville (Tex.) Democrat: Tho
frequent shooting of cannon and musketry
over the river, nightly, is getting to he a
first-class nuisance. It is simply disturbing
the peace of both sides of the Rio Grande,
killing nothing, making asses of themselves,
and, withal, becoming the laughing-stock of
the whole world. One thousand cannon
tired, ten thousand cartridges exploded, and
no one killed!
Fort Worth special (27th) to Oalves-
ton News: M. M. Brennan, of this place,
has Just arrived from a frontier trip and
brought with him an Indian's outfit. He
says that he and three buffalo hunters sur
prised a thieving band of five Comanches on
the Colorado, about seventy miles from Con-
• ho, and killed them all. They slipped up
on them while cooking, and killed all but
•me the first round and finished him with a
•The New Orleans Times,in an crlitoral
headed, “The Jetties Certified as a .Success,”
says: “ At last the official survey has been
made, which declares that at least twenty
ieet of water for a width of two hundred
feet, throughout the entire length of the jet
ties, is to be found. A certificate has been
given by General Comstock, United .States
engineer in charge, to Captain Eads in proof
of this fact, and Captain Ends has left for
Washington to claim his first installment of
five hundred thousand dollars.”
Lampaaas(Tex.)Dispatch : For nearly
distributed.
pcrlei.ee un
by the notnt
Tho subject of outrage on American
citltetis on the Mexican border of the lUo
Grande by the revolutionists Is occupying
the attention of our government, ami orders
will soon ho sent to our army ami naval
forces in tlmt quarter with a view to their
protection, ns there is now no government in
Mexico to which an appeal can he made.
As regards the Indian marauders who cross
into Texas, the question is likely to he
brought to the attention of congress, whether
outrages on American cUiceua shall ho per
mitted to continue, or whether this govern
ment shall take into its own lianas the meas
ures of redress.
Capt. .1. \\\ Hall, who has just pre
pared tho marine statistics of 1876 places
the number of lake dUnsteis at 639; the
valuation of property lost; $1,173,360; losses
timber rafts on the lakes, $101,000. The
greatest losses daring any month was in
September, amounting to $276,000. The
number of disasters this year arc 417 less than
that of 1875. The total number of deaths
either on hoard of ship or on shore among
the seamen was 166, of which number 36
were vcmcIk musters, 14 were lost by founder-
ed vessels,97 were drowned, 28 died on shore,
13 were killed accidentally, 2 were murdered,
2 committed suicide ami 1 was found dead.
Tne new tonnage amounts to 7,461 this year,
a falling off from 1876 of 11,617 tons. Tho
lost tonnage amounts to 9,0(8) tons. Finan
cially, tho season of 1876 was the worst oil
CONGRESSIONAL.
Inthosenate on tho 4th, Mr. Wright
called up the hill recently Introduced by
him to cNtiihlibh n court for the trial of eon-
tested eleetlons in otllcc of president and
vice-president of the United States, for the
f having it referred, and spoke
i fir
idled to hv M
Bogy.
Mu
f his propositioi ,
•ssrs. Herman, Sherman
Kerriinii and Hkertnansp
the question, and the hill
•s referred to a special a
of the bill, decliir
Mr
* the !lo<
Mr.
r, hut a
’onking
der the
nlssiom
ish law is
elated
> the
ivhereby they had to
if $40, ad-
pay fi'ies "•
Judged by Henrico county court against three
men employed by them to catch minnows
and dace to feed chubs, which they had
placed iu a pond to breed, there being noth-
ing in the jtoiid for tho chubs 16
presented a petition of hiuiki
and other business men of New York . ....
in favor of an amicable settled cut of the
presidential contest. Adjourned.
In thosonutoon tho 6th, Mr. Morton
culled up tho resolution submitted by the
committee on privileges nnd elections,
diu'sdny Inst, declaring that Win. M.Tur
in ill duty hound under his oath to au-
r the questions propounded to him by
ulc-M (
• hnv
t had i
ugh I
thoroughly wet the ground, or lo raise the
water in the creeks and branches, or to fill
up the wells. Unless we have some good
rains this winter, we fear that the crops for
the next year will be exceedingly short.
During the last year or so, we have had occa
sional, light rains, just enough to wet the
surface and make it sufficiently seasonable
to give us a reasonable crop. We need a
gpod, old fashioned, soaking rain, one to till
up the creeks, to saturate the enrtb, and to
wash away the trash.
The East Florida Banner gives the fol
lowing results of the recent severe freeze:
“ While the fruit is pretty much a total loss
al] over the state, the trees, in many placer,
have suffered very little damage. On Orange
lake, in the groves where a few of the forest
trees were left standing, io signs of the
freeze is perceptible—the leaves of young
trees were not curled. Where the forest
tree* were entirely cut away the trees are
slightly damaged. Unmatured sprouts were
killed and the leaves on old trees are slightly
curled. On hills and slopes the trees suf
fered very little, while in the bottoms and
low places they suffered very much, and
many young unprotected trees were entirely
killed."
The Texas general land office records
nf telegraph
> tin
isiiiIhi
roHKMJN.
stated that a third part of thi
gh Ills oflV
ksoiiYllle, Oregon, and that he can not
use hiiiiM-If from answering the same by
-on of his official connection with the
stern Union telegraph company as iiiiuin-
of their office lit Jacksonville, Oregon,
.pled, yeas 33 ; nays 3. Adjourned.
NKNATK.
n tho houaoon tho 4th, Mr. Wells in-
Juced It hill providing for the repeal of
:ax*-N on enpitnl and deposits of stale and
ionul Imuksand hanking Institutions, lie-
■ed. Thu senate amendments to the hill
the sale of Saline lands were concurred
I a hill making the
fine
.’Hie
id Galve
i, Tex
Tho German goto
the Impure! hank of G
ile of silver for the H(
as ports to which umippraUud murcliandlNe
has ordered may he imported. Passed. Mr. Kidder
Bjiecial from !
Is of what pa
pen Mid hat P
ru gives additional dc
ed fat the interview he
Iih and Lord Salshury
• ported hack u hill giving
of the whole, Mr. Harris of Vlr-
• chair, on the state of the union ;
first hill being one reported by Mr. Hew-
•d Hint the sultan
mphatic. Mid hat declm
.ould uphold his rights a
lod.
A dispatch from Bucharest reports
iiindreds of Jewish families, rceently or-
lered by the mayor of Rnslin, iu Moldovia,
o quit within three days. Many of the poor
people driven from the town died of cold
4 hunger on the roadside. The Bucharest
authorities remain impassive.
The German government ha* lat.ly
published the results of an Investigation by
states of the empire, with regard to
ph
j gin
itt of Alai
and Black Hawk wars, i
From the
oore than ni
ndustry, 3|,f
.ml the rest
tlo
it
that
oldioi
Of $M
ontli to nil whe
lex lean war, or
served sixty day
thirty days in the Florida
wars) und to their surviving widows, unmar
ried. Passed Adjourned.
In the house on tho 6th, on motion of
Mr. Atkins (Tcnncsse) senate amendments
to the hill making appropriations for
id other peuaioi
The
l the whole,
Mr. Hooker in the chair, on the private cal-
ndnr. When the committee rose, the ques
tion of the recusant witness, Mr. Barns, the
New Orleans manager of the Western Union
ph company, was theu take
t one-fourth hi
c-balf arc employed in textile
•0 in the manufacture of cigars,
i various branches. The du a.
so eu- I Mr* lluriis was before the h
I, und and submitted, in writing, hf
(1 by his counsel. The
ath. The sergeant
of work i froi
clve ho
reeled t
house the
on the cr
lloskiu
4 the house,
ElHii
in custody. The
and never exceeds thirteen hours. In
s, the usual pay is from $1.25 to $2 per
, although many skilled workwomen
ve as much as $6.
esident Jlerroa, of Costa Rica lias
abolished the press,and placed every printing
try under the control ol the
authorities. India rubber cutting is again
prohibited in Costa Rica. Another battle
occurred in the shite of Con cos, republic of
Colombia. The Liberals claims a victory,
hut lost some prominent officers. The loss
on each side in the previously reported bat
tle of Garrpata, was, Liberals, six hundred
killed and thirteen hundred wounded ; Con
servatives, three hundred killed and seven
hundred wounded, at least five hundred of j The*
whom will die. Mr. Moaeno, the Dutch c
sul, senor Augustin Velez and two other |i
sons were assassinated at Carthagi
assassins were arrested. T!
has reduced the legation
cond class.
retain Mr Ba
n went Into committee of tin
intingcncy nnd deficiency bill, Mi
(N Y.) in the chair. After abon
rs Spent over the deficiency hill, the
ee rose, and the hill
c adjourned till to-i
ORTRAITH BY TELEGRAPH.
States t
It has often been said that tin
of telegraphy is us yet only in itninfancy.
What it will Tie when it reaches the age
of maturity it would Vie difficult to Bay
with certainty, but Home idea may l>c
formed from the extraordinary telegraphic
discovery just made in Paris. It appears
that Home inventor haH found out the
meant) of Bending portrait# by telegraph.
>duH operand! has not yet been
' disclosed, but expcrimentH have been
de, and—if we arc to believe the pa-
b—with complete success. The trial
bilia.ii senate I waH made by the police authorities of
United ar, d Lyons. The portrait of a Ly-
| onx official was forwarded from Pari« by
the new telegraphic apparatus, and at
once recognized. In return the Lyons
nimxLANEout. j police telegraph to Paris the portrait ac-
The total amount of silver pavment 1 companied by the usual description, of a
mad. by the government »ince April 18, de * ? ho had ju.t absconded with hi.
a. foiinur : nn n * ' master s money, aod the Pans police,
] e . i nr oo-r oe.' -to thanks to the telegraphic portrait, were
fractional currency redeemed, $15,207,965.72; j enabled l0 arrest fa thief on his alight-
on account ol currency obligations, $9,814,-1 j n g f rom the train at the Lyons railway
599.35; total, $25,052,562.97. j station. These facts arc published on the
The government directors of the Union best authority, and, incredible as they
Pacific railway have made their annual re- may seem, arc no doubt authentic. Bo
port, in which they complain of {he fre-1 far the ingenius discovery in only being
quent conflicts relati
of the road, and propose that
arr.ngt.tn.lit .hnuld be mad. between tb. j t’VL'wiii'be''turned to'aceouiH by ...
government and the company that will not c | e ty at large under the various trying
interfere with the progress of the road, nnd ; circumstances of life, and more especially
at the same time, secure the payment of all j n the cases of deserted wives and bus-
the interest and reduce a large portion of bands, missing heirs, disconsolate lovers,
the road’s indebtedness. } and similar interesting beings.
,1.. /.nnatmetinn ' employed for the detection of criminals,
Tdefinate I but il h evidenfc that the police authori-
1 ’ j ties will not tie able to monopolize it, and
THE RAILROAD BRIDGE DISASTER.
.1 Nurilvor'i Mor*.
Mr. ,T. E, Burchell, was Interviewed
by n reporter iu relation to the Ashta
bula railway disaster. 11c is one of the
survivors, nnd his graphic story iH full of
interest. Ills statement is us follows:
I was in tho next car to tho parlor-ear,
tho third sleeper from tilt? rear. There
were eleven airs in the train. l.eft Buf
falo at about 2 o’clock Fritlay afternoon.
Started an h*Uf late. Had a very heavy
.'•storm when *vo loft. They claim
ono hundred and sixty-five passengers
were on. 1 think there were between
two hundred nnd two hundred and fifty.
I do not think we ran more than fit teen
miles an hour until Within, perhaps, an
hour before the accident. We wore then
running ten miles an hour. At tho last
station before tho accident the snow was
*'ery heavy,and wo all thought wo should
be snowed in there.; We lost an hour
and n half’s timo bolweeh Buffalo nnd
this last station, before the accident. 1
then went through the ears and found
the two ordinary passenger cars were
crowded. Tho smoking car was full.
There were two passenger coaches ahead
of the smoker. Ncxt to tho smoking car
the parlor-ear, about one-third full.
MB. 111.188 AND FAMILY
* in tlmt. I was in tho next car to
that. The car In which 1 was was pretty
full. Behind tho parlor ear there were
- u sleepers. Those wore quite full,
reached the bridge, ns well as I can
pinko it out, about a quarter to 8 o’clock.
'Hie train was due there at a quarter
past 6 o’clock. 1 don’t think we were
going quite ten miloaun hour. One on-
gino hud got over, but it was almost
pulled back by the shock. The whole
train was on tho bridge when
THE STRUCTURE BlIRDUNLY WENT DOWN,
and not a vestige remained ol her. Thero
was no such thing ns running of I* tho
track. The bridge broke with a terrific
smash with tho woightof the wholo train
upon it. Tho first sound 1 heard was a
racking in (rout of the car. I heard this
twice, and then hoard a similar cracking
sound in tho rear. I then became (’on
ions of u sudden "sinking of tlm car.
The cars seemed to be sinking down into
tho gulf below. There was a general
rush, and I was recalled to conscious-
less by the shock of landing iu the snow
reek eighty feet below. The first thing
heard was a wuinhn'sscream. It was, I
think, Miss Bingham. Hhe cried, “Oh,
help me! help mill” Borne of the pus-
eengers had got out of tho window, and
1 then heard the cry of fire. Ah the lady
riod I broke the window. A gentleman
helped me to push this lady, u Miss Bing
ham, I think, through the window. 1
then j uni ped out after her. She sank in
tho snow, 1 scrambled out of tlm window
then. 1 think 1 was
TJ1K TDK CA It,
most of them had got through the
udows. The car was on fire at both
ends; at ono end, I know, ami I think
at both. As soon ah I got out I found
the snow iu tho creek was very deep,
nearly up to my waist; certainly up to
my knees. I pulled Miss Bingham out
o* the snow and carried her on my hack
to the bank. I stumbled three times,
and the third time a gentleman helped
me Pi get her to the only house, u Hindi
sort of engine-house, that was on the
bank, I saw the lire was gain ing rapidly
on the train. It burned like oil. At
tho timo I didn't know them worn any
lives lost. Wo saved all, or nearly all,
tho people iu our car. There wore Home
broken arms and some other bruises and
Tho wind was blowing vory strong
at the time, and there was a neavv snow
storm. Tho wreck covered tho whole
:o between the two piers, and
TDK III'USING TRAIN
the length of the bridge, Some of j
cars were smashed all to pieces, ami
the othcrH lay wrecked in every conceiv
able shape. The lire, was very clear and
hot. By the time I got out, I was com
pletely exhausted, and I lay there
cramped for about three-quarters of an
hour. They brought about fifty-two
alive into ami around tbe house, and
then they transported them to the town,
a very short distance, say a quarter of
a mile or so. They were all badly hurt.
I think two of theso died alter they were
taken to tho town, nnd one man died who
had his leg cutoff.
Tho scene I surveyed from the engine-
house on the bank was perfectly sicken
ing. The whole train was a mass of fire,
and the wounded were lying about the
wreck and crawling away from it. The
heat was so intense at that time that one
could not get very near. The sight was
dreadful. Heads were cut open, bodies
were out, and arms and legs
DUOKKN AND MANGLED.
After I and others got to that engine-
house no ono could return. Within
fiitcen minutes after that time the heat
was so intense that no one could ap
proach tho train, and those who were
buried under it had to crawl away as
best they could. There were a great
many in the airs who could not get out
the cars were so jammed together. The
townspeople did everything that possibly
could bo done, but they could not get
near the burning wreck within half ah
hour after the train went down. The
hotel is about a quarter of a mile from
the bridge. The people crowded the
bluffs on either side of the ruined bridge,
but could not get down to the spot. Tne
depth from the bluffs to the bed of the
river is about seventy or eighty feet.
Tbe wounded were carried to tbo hotel
and kindly cared lor. Three or four
physicians were promptly on the spot,
and they went from one to the other of
the sufferers, and did all that medical
skill was capable of. The lady who gave
birth to the child in tho night was in
jured by having her foot smashed.
THE SCENE WAS AN AWFUL ONE
in its horrible details. One lady was
stripped of all her clothing by being
dragged throu :h one of tho car windows.
She was badly cut, and was carried un to
the hotel. The survivors were bleeding
from cuts nnd mangled wounds, and
many of them charred with firo and
blackened with smoke. The trainmen
looked very badly bruised and used up.
I believe that Mr. Bliss got through
a window and expected to be able to pull
his wife and children through. This :
only my conjecture. Their car v
blocked up so completely and tbo family
jammed in so that escape, except through
tho windows, was impossible. Tho cars
were burning at the extremities from tho
sieves at each end. I believe
1ILIHS WAH lit'USED TO DBATU
trying to save his wife and two little
ones. A number of tho surviving passen
gers hoard tho shrieks of tho women nnd
children but could not get to 4hom.
They wero in a perfect furnace. The
HgurcH of those burned in the curs could
be plainly seen. They wero burned up
so badly tlmt identification in many in
stances was impossible. Bomo of those
who perished in the tire wero burned to
ashes. Bones and ehnrrod limbs wero
picked out, and of some of the lost there
were but ghastly trunks. There were
but fifty-two taken out of the wreck,
and tb roc-quarters of that number were
badly injured. I saw but ono other man
who escaped with iih little injury as I
did. 1 was badly bruised.”
” llow long was it before the Haines
were out?”
“ I should say about an hour. They
had an engine tliore, but no hose, nnd
they could make no impression on the
fire. The train burned very quickly;
it was consumed within un hour. In
every car wore two stoves, one at each
end, and tlm lumps wero all lighted ut
tho time.”
“ Did you see any persons taken from
the train after the fire got full head
way?”
“No. All that wero saved were res
cued, 1 think, at the time the people got
out of our car. They could not be got
out, for the firo was so rapid.”
“llow many persons altogether do you
think were killed, Mr. BuroUeH?”
“ I should say alsmt ono hundred and
fifty. The railroad officers claim that
there were only one hundred and sixty-
five people on the train, but that could
not l>o. 1 boliovo there were fully two
hundred on hoard the train, and my un
derstanding of it iH that tho railroad
officials admit that there are over ono
hundred killed. Tho bridge was feared
by railroad employes. Up at thohotol 1
heard some of the railroad men express
themselves as having always been fenr-
fiil of tbe bridge, and ono who hnd
passed over it two houes beforo tho acci
dent said it occured to him that tbo
bridge was too light.”—Chicago Inter-
THE BENGAL CYCLONE.
The (.’alcuttn correspondent of the
London Times, writing under date of
November 17th, furnishes tho following
particulars concerning the appalling cy-
lone in Bengal.
ORIGIN OF THE CYCLONE.
The cyclone appears to have had its
origin somewhere in tliu eastern portion
of the bay of Bengal, probably a little
to the north of the Anumnns. Proceed
ing in a northerly direction, it struck
the land at tho inland of Bundccp on the
coast of Chittagong. It would then ap
pear to have gone north, and, after get
ting to Home distant inland, to have
turned and swept down the Meglmn, car
rying with it an enormous storm wave,
or, I should say rather, a succession of
storm waves. At any rate this descrip
tion of the course of the cyclone is aj>-
parcntly the only ono which will account
for the difference iu tho marks loft at
Dulhin, Blmliabazporo and Huttiuli from
those to the east iu Kundecp and Chitta
gong. In the two first-named iiIuc^h the
lie of the trees and ruins would seem to
indicate that they were blown down or
unrooted by a storm or wave from the
north, while in the other two tho des
truction seems have como from a south
erly quarter.
APPALLING HUKNEH AND TERIllFIG LOHH
UK LIFE.
Bo this ns it may, there can bo no
doubt of tbo fact that about midnight,
and without warning of any kind, the
three islands of Dakliin Bhahabazpore,
Uattiah and Hundcep wero’ontircly sub
merged. A number of tho inhabitants,
startled from their sleep, took refuge in
the trees, which most fortunately sur
rounded every village, and they alone
ore saved. Many, unable to reach the
trees, climbed on tho roofs of their homes.
There they lound only temporary safety,
for the water, rushing into the houses to
tho depth of twenty foot, soon burst off
tho roofH, and tho recoding waves carried
i out to sen, with tho unhappy
wretches still clinging to them. Some
few of the people of Hundcep were
drifted on roofs or planks across tho
ihanncl to the mainland, a distance of
ten miles. Every soul who was caught
by the water before he hnd made for a
tree or a roof was drowned at once ; and
it is hardly an exaggeration to say that
the early morning of the first saw all the
survivors of the jwpulation of the three
islands I have named, as well as of tho
seaboard of the adjoining mainland,
perched in the trees which alone’romainca
visible above the water. It iH uifficult to
say, nnd perhaps it will never bo a
rately known, what was the exact loss of
life on that night. The first reports w
ceived in Calcutta put it at twenty
thousand. Subsequently that number
was said to bo forty thousand, and then
ono hundred and fifty thousand,hut since
the return of the lieutenant governor’s
party I have learned that after a careful
examination of the reports from tho sev
eral police stations, tho loss of lifo cannot
have been less than two hundred and
fifteen thousand persons. When w
member that three islands, themselves
containing at least tbreo hundred and
forty thousand souls, were almost in a
moment submerged undor from twenty
to thirty feet of water, the stoim-wave
from the sea meeting the storm-wave
from the Maghna, a terrific gala blowing
all the time and not an inch of high
ground on which to take refuge, nothing,
in fact, but tho trees—when wc remem
ber all this, tho only marvel is that a
single person escaped to tell the tale of
the awful night. It was remarked by
the lieutenant governor’s party, during
their tour through tho districts and
islands, that in every house at which
they made inquires they were told that
one or more members of tho family had
perished.
PROBABLE OUTBREAK OF EPIDEMIC DIB-
EASE.
It is some satisfaction to know that
this calamity is not likely to give rise to
much material distress among the peo
ple. if the people of Backergunge nnd
Noakholly can only tide over tho next
two or three weeks no apprehension
need be entertained. Meanwhile relief
centres have been established, and the
officers of the government have been iu
structcd to give assistance to all who
really need It. An outbreak of epidemic
diseaso is what is now most to bo feared,
nnd it is said that cholera has already
ntndo its appearance in Nonkholly. See
ing Hint uead bodies of men and cattle,
and debris of all kinds are scattered over
the country, it scorns likely that the dis
ease may spread to Backergunge, Chitta
gong and other distr eta. Among the
other inconveniences suffered by the jk?o-
ple is the loss of their boats—no slight
calainitv in the Unngetlo delta—where
wheeled conveyances are unknown. The
cattle, too, have been almost all swept
away. Society was, for a time at least,
utterly disorganized. The pohco were
drowned, almost to a man, and most of
the civil officers on tho islands perished.
In former days tho peoplo of those parts
Imre an evil name, and wero reputed to
lrn given to robbery and theft. For a
few days it nppoared ns if, among tho
general confusion, tho survivors were
about to fall back on tho ways of their
fathers. But the energy of the district
officers, hacked by a largo body of po
lice from the neighboring collootorntca,
soon restored order, und now everything
is quiet and peaceable.
THE L08T CIRCASSIAN.
Tho second wreck of tho ship Circassian
is tho most disastrous that inis occurred
on the Long Island coast since tho wreck
of the John Milton fifteen years ago.
She ran nshoro in a blinding snow-storm,
and all on board, thirty persons, were
lost. Tho crow of tho Milton wore frozen
Htltrin tho rigging, their arms standing
straight out in front of them. Tho men
on Imard tho Cireussion hud finished, on
Friday night, all the necessary iirelimi-
narics for attaching a hawser with which
she was to bo drawn off. During tho
early hours of the night tho wind fresh
ened a littlo and tho sea began to run
high until about six o’clock, when It lie-
gun to break clear over her. Tbe men
apprehending danger went into the fore
rigging, where they wero ordered for
greater safety. All on board, thirty-two
souls all told, remained thus exposed un
til early in tho morning, when it was
doomed advisable to shift quarters as tho
falling of tho top hnmjmr, caused l»y tho
rolling of the vessel, made it difficult to
hold on. The crew was safely transferred
to tho mlzzon rigging where the signals
of distress were shown. All this time tho
Hlioro was tduin iu sight. Tho moon was
shining brightly, and tho fires built by
tho life saving stations showed plainly
tho figures of the crowd *on tho bench
hurrying to nnd.fro iu thc’vain endeavor
to aid thu men in the rigging. It was
an awful suspense for the poor fellows
lashed to the masts and yards of the ship.
They saw attempt after attempt made
to establiHli conimunicirtion- with
them fail, and each failuro scorned
to measure their purchase on life.
Every effort to get a boat off
shore, proved Aitilo, us often as it Was at
tempted tho sea drove it high and dry on
tho hank. Captain Henry Jlnnling of
lifo saving station No. 10, now brought
u mortar into sorvice, and several balls
with a ropo attached wero thrown out
to the ship, but ono of the cords roaclied
the ship, and iis hold was not very
secure, nnd it presently fell off, and tho
tender thread upon which thirty-two hu
man lives depended was snapped forever.
During tho early pnrt of tho night, be
fore the men went into the rigging, the
cables wero slacked, but tho sTdp moved
only a short distance, and continued
through tho night to strike tho bottom.
Every time she struck tho men thought
she would lose her masts, to which they
had lashed themselves. While conscious
of their great danger and tho utter im
possibility of saving themselves if the
mast should go by tho board. It being of
iron, they woro unable to slacken tho
lashing. Home of thorn, with more self-
possession than the others, had tnkeu this
contingency into their calculations, and
hud not securely lauhed themselves; and
among those were tho only four saved
from tho wreck. At half-past four
o’clock in the morning the long-dreaded
crisis came, and tho mizzen-mast went
by the board with a crash, carrying tho
main-mast with it. A tremendous swell
had struck the Circassian aft nnd raised
her very high; when it receded sho
thumped heavily, and tho terrific jar
threw the mast over theside. The masts,
being iron, went to tho bottom immedi
ately, carrying with them twenty-eight
souls. The customhouse officer, detailed
to superintend the landing of t no cargo,
in his description of the terrible scene,
says the ship was lying nl>ouL six hun
dred feet oft shore. Amid tho howling
of the tempest and tho war of the waves
there was lxirno to our ears tho voices of
the poor fellows in tho rigging, singing
hymns and praying to God. Tnero was
hardly a dry eye on slioreamong us as we
heard their thrilling and supremo appeals
made to God. Among those on wreck
were ten Shinnecock Indians, who, us a
rule, arc very good men. During this
agonizing scene, which lasted for
wc heard .these men praying. The beach
lined with women sobbing piteously.
In the treatment of malarious diseases
in India, it is fouud that quinine loses
its effect after it has been administered
fora short time, although it is extremely
efficacious at first. Licjuor arsenicnlis
in chronic ca*esof malaria, and the nitric
bath for children, are tbe remedies now
in favor among the physicians of upper
India, although they frankly express
that removal Irom the malarious district
is the only safeguard.
The attempt to grow India-rubber and
vanilla in Bengal has thus far failed,
and is probably impracticable, but there
is a good prospect that the cultivation
of tho ipecacuanha plant will soon Is*
successfully established in several parts
of India. Tho best quality of Ipecacu
anha is native of Brazil, but the Just re
port of tho director of the royal botanic
garden at Calcutta states that tho India
prodnet is now equal to ft.
niirii.uu;NT.
id night
Hrt’i (ltllglit
Ol*(9i ill IHnl, uml tunic lii M«y
M*y fool from outorlim lo-diy ;
From itumb mid ifihnly lm|iotriit
KUml tho old Hon In Hit way.
Tills Is tin* hour I waited for;
Silently In ii dim iL-mwlr
I cross tho eriioliiK corridor;
Ami kiioiiilt tho wliidlnuR ol (be M
Her ■ lumber lies In h little »i>ai:i*
Beyond tlio shadowy liiniUuy i*lm»;
I roach Ib-atop Irroaolutw-
“MB
Her II|ih
my yliill nil In tmIii.
hitn from head to fort,
i her wliiilliitf-rdi.'fll
For hrnt nor cold, for «ood nor III.
Kmiuht tlmt nvnllml for mlnlrdrr
Too little nr too areal could bo;
To nil tlilit|(« olao ludllbir.'iit,
Early and Into wero ono to am.
This tn tho hour 1 wnlted fur:--
Fuwdoiiiito tmr|N)no, loro nml pain,
Have *v«K(d tliolr liivltcolunl war,
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By Live*. V
ropldei* I
Scientific Misccllauf.
Inn rocou tly^ope nod mine near Gaines-*
ville, Gn., have boon unearthed gold,
Hilver, copper,Iron,zinc, titanium,nickel,
tin, molybdinum. lead, stealite, kaolin,
mien, rock crystal, umber, asbestos, ru
bies, diamoutlH, garnets umlVormuluin.
An advantage over ordinary tea, at
tributed to mate ten of Paraguay, is that
its excessivo use does not occasion any
nervous disorder. A beverage superior
to coffee as usually prepared is wild to
have been introduced into Australia
lately. It is mado from tbo leaf of the
coflbe shrub, instead of front the berry.
M. Beekerlinn.of the Vienna academy,
has lately demonstrated that nitro
glycerine when frozen is not ho sensitive
to sltockH or blows as the same substance
is when iu the ordinary liquid state.
Until now the erystalizetl form has gene
rally been looked upon ns far more *x-
plo-ivo than tho other, when subjected
any sudden impact.
It is well known that linseed oil, boiled
until it has lost five i*er rent.of its weight,
nsHtimes the appearance or condition of
inolnsscH, and when the loss is twelve per
itil. it chungcH into a mass strongly ro*
mbling caoutchouc. To test the dry
ing properties of oils boiled for various
lengths of time, M. Sane states that he
[died them to a deal-board; the re-
l was that tho oil which had been
boiled for tho spaed of' ten minutcH be
came a fine, transparent varnish in
twenty-four hours, tlmt which had the
consistency of molusscH was not resinfied
in 11111*011 days, and tlmt boiled to the
consistency of cuoutehour remained en
tirely unaltered. From this it would
appear that tho drying property is not
iprovod by a concentration of the oil.
According to Dr. Sturgcs, an English
physician, whooping-cough iH not always
to bo escaped by preventing contagion,
for ut n certain age Jhe disposition to
ward this diseaso is *so great tlmt the
child will originate it. lie says:
“ Whooping-cough is a nervous disease of
sensibility of the bronchial mucous mem
brane Although possible in a modified
form at nil ages, it has its period of
Himolfil liability and full development
sinmltaueoiiHly with that time of lift)
when the nervous system is irritable und
the ineehuniHm ol respiration diaphrag
matic. A child of the proper age with
catarrh and cough is thus on the very
brink of whooping cough. A large pro-
portion of such children will develop
the disease) for thonuclves upon casual
provocation,ull contagion nnd all epidem
ic influence apart.” Therefore he does
not think contagion plays tho important
part generally supposed, and the assump
tion of a specific morbid poison in in his
opinion entirely gratuitous. As to
treatment ho says: “ The specific reme
dies for whooping-cough (which have
thoir season and may he said now to in
clude all drugs whatever of any potency),
have all of thorn a certain testimony iu
thoir favor. They agree in a single point;
whatever by tfiler nauseousness, the
grievous method of their application, or
the disturbance they bring to tbo child’s
habits and surroundings, the best vauntod
remedies-emetics, sponging of the lar
ynx, Ill-flavored inhalation, change, of
scene, beating with the rod—are all cal
culated to Iraprets tho patient, and find
thoir use accordingly.”
A writer in tho Scion!ific Farmer esti
mates the food-value of one pound of
eggs ns a producer of force, i, e., the
amount of work tho pound oxidized in
the body Ih theoretically capnblo of pro
ducing at 1,68-1 foot-tons, and tho vulue
of one jMiund of lean beef, from the sami*
point of view, at 1)00 foot-tons. As a
flesh-producer, one pound ol eggs i«
about cqunl to one pound of beef, and is
shown by tho following analysis quoted
by tbo author:
Out Vouutlf/Ron*.
!SK:
i ofVr!r
Will proilnof* ut tlie muxliiiiun
intiucfo brflcali.
One Pound of Hr* -,
KlrMnu ii'iilf iiV»i»'niou'.’.i' I oi.\ \n gn.
tee ' w-
The author hereupon remarks as fol
lows:
“ A hen may be calculated to consumo
one bushel of corn yearly, and to lay
twelve dozen or eighteen pounds of eggs.
This is equivalent to sayiug that three
and one tenth pounds of corn will pro
duce, when fed to this hen, one pound of
eggs. A pound of pork, on the contrary,
requires obout five and one-half pounds
of corn for its production. When eggs
are twenty-five cents per dozen, and pork
is ten cents a pound, wc have the bushel
of corn fed producing $2.88 wurth of
eggs, and but $1.05 worth of pork.
“ Judging from these facts, ogps must;
he economical in their production ana
their eating, and especially fitted for the
laboring-man in replacing meat.”
“Dab’s gwine to bo wah,” remarkrd
a colored citizen, “an’ all you - * niggalm
might jes’ 's well git ready for active
business.” “ Which sido shall we take¥”
asked one of his hearers. “ You niggalus
«en take jes’ what sido yer please; 1’tM
gvrine to take de Canada sido I"