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It is bo wonder that there are so
manyill bredmen and women t in the
world when one sees the lack of pains
takenby parents to ir^triiot their lit
tle ones in forms of table and' social
etiquette that are so easily taught to
the pliable infant mind, but which,
left unnoticed, ure soon supplanted by
actions that become bad habits in a very
short time.
It is no unusual sight to behold a
child drinkiugfrom.its sauoer with no
word of admonition from the mother
or nurse who sits near-by. A thirsty
little one will drink from a cup in
which there is a spoon, and later years'
will see no harm in . continuing -the
practice. Many a child eats with his
knife, and yet how easily . could the
fork or "spoon be substituted in its
place if the parents gave , but a tiny
bit of attention to this branch of thier
chidren’s education.
Selfishness is fostered so easily
through a lack - of watchfulness. The
gentler courtesies that count for so
much are not instilled in childhood,
and in later years the man or woman
is regarded as a bore. Good clothes
are not everything. Even good health
is not the one point desirable in a
child’s makeup. Good manners should
be added to health and attire in order
to gain a perfect ensemble that counts
for so much in the world’s judgment.
No one can estimate how great a
factor in life is the possession of good
manners. They are the open sesame
to the best of society. They are the
hall mark of the gentleman or lady,
but they must be acquired in infancy.
—New York Telegram.
Information About Lemons.
r
Lemons make very refreshing and
thirst-quenching drinks, and the citric
acid they contain cools the blood. Al
though we as a rule think there is only
One variety of lemons, there are really
two—Citrus lumia, the sweet lemon,
and Citrus limonum, the true lemon.
Citrus lumia is deficient in citric acid,
therefore these are pleasanter to suck
or eat, like oranges, than Citrus limo
num. For drinks they require the
addition of citric acid.
The lemons that are hard and hove
a slightly greenish hue contain the
most citric acid. Lemons unless fresh
soon get moldy—that is in a week or
so. To prevent them from doing this
they should not be allowed to touch
each other. If each is wrapped up in a
sheet of tissue paper, this cannot oc
cur. Some people put them in a
large stone jar, cover them with water
and renew the water every three days,
or oftener if it smells. But the best
way is to buy them fresh—Philadel
phia Times.
Last Word.
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A young girl once heard a bit of
wisdom from the lips of a very aged
woman—a woman who had rounded
the term of ninety years, and with
eyes still bright and clear looked out
upon the inrolling waters of eternity.
The girl was impressed by the empha-
y sis with which the venerable dame
said to her, “Bessie, never insist on
having the last word.” The determi
nation to have the last word leads to
more .quarrels and more bitterness of
feeling at home than almost
anything else in domestic life. The
fact is, that one may so control her
ongue and her eyes that she may al
low her opponent the pleasure of this
coveted concluding thrust and yet
placidly retain her own opinion, and
in the homely, colloquial parlance of
the npcounty, where one findB strong-
willed people living together in great
lienee with the most pronounced diver
sity of characteristics, “do as she’s a
mind to.”
Great Fairs of the World.
There have been nine great fairs ol
the world. The first great internation
al exposition was held in London, in
1851. The second world’s fair was
held at Paris, in 1855. The third was
held in London, in 1862. The fourth
was held in Paris, in 1857. The fifth
was in Vienna, in 1873. The Phila
delphia exposition of 1876, was the
„.-.?i ; xth rireat display. . The seventh in
ternational fair was in Paris, in 1878.
The eijgth fair was at Paris, in 1889.
The ninth, ns all the world knows, is
in progress in Chicago,
Dainty Splashers.
Savannah Torn and Sorrow-Stricken.
Havoc at Other Points.
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In,a summer cottage quite the effec
tive feature of every bedroom was the
washstand splasher. A wide piece_ of
cottage drapery, shirred on a slender
gilt rod and suspended by white rib
bon bands, formed the background of
the tis.ilet stand, falling to the floor
and coining well out on both sides.
The protection of the delicate wall
paper waiJy perfect, and the graceful
banners imparted an airy effect that
added much "'&> the prettiness of the
rooms.—New}fspr/c Times.
Character In\the Eyebrows.
Highly arched eyebrows are said to
denote vivacity and brilliancy, level
brows, strength of intellect; regularly
enrved eyebrows express cheerfulness;
square ones, deep thought; \irregular,
fickleness, versatility, excitability;
raised at the inner corner, melancho
ly ; joined over the nose, an unsettled
mind; thick and bushy eyebrows\de-
note physical strength.—Philadelp/tici
Ledger.
Little Dick—“Papa, didn’t you tell
mama we must economize?”
Papa—“I did, my son.”
Little Dick—“Well, I was thinkin’
that mebby if you’d get me a pony I
wouldn’t wear out so many shoes.”—
Street A Smith’s Good News.
WHILE
IN THE WAR
I wfes taken ill with spi
nal disease and rheuma
tism. 1 went home and
was confined to my bed.
unable to help myself
Ifor 22 months. * After
Jyears of misery a com-
rpanion machinist advis
ed me to take -Hood's
Sarsaparilla. I got
Mr. Wheeler*'
note a change
better. Alter taking 7
bottles I was well an l
have hot since been
troubled with my old. complaints.” Jas., A..
"Wheeler, 1900 Division St., Baltimore, Md*j
2$ cents per box.:
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A Savannah special says: Almost on
this anniversary of 1881, Savannah was
swept Sunday night by one of the se
verest storms it has ever known. The
storm, which-had been predicted by
the weather bureau for several days,
began early in the afternoon and in
creased from then on until it reached
the climax between fib and 12 o’clock
gunday night, having blown for eight
hours in a terrific hurricane. It be
gan raining early in the morning, bnt
only in’gusts. After the first fall it
ceased entirely for several hours, and
did not begin again until afternoon.
Then the work of destruction began
and lasted until the storm had spent
its force. At midnight all the wharves
along the river front and Ocean Steam
ship company and Savannah, Florida
and Western railway wharves were
under water and the tide was still ris
ing rapidly.
A view of the city at daylight Mon
day morning revealed a scene of wreck
and rnin that surpassed that after the
great hurricane of 1881. The streets
were impassable from the debris.
Fallen trees, twisted roofs, masses of
brick, fenceB and broken limbs and
branches of trees, were piled across
the sidewalks and in the sqnares, and
broken wires hung in every direction.
It is impossible at present to estimate
the damage, as the result of the storm,
but it was very general, and it is safe
to say that it will go np in the hun
dreds of thousands, and perhaps high
er. Nearly everyone, if not quite all
the property owners in the city, have
been damaged to some extent, and
some to the extent of thousands.
FIFTY MISSING.
The list of fatalities is gradually
growing, and it is impossible to tell to
what extent it will go. Several bod
ies of drowned persons were picked np
during, the morning, and searches are
now being made for others who are
missing. Every hour seems to bring
some new story of a death as a result
of the storm.
Fourteen people are known to he
dead, and forty or fifty others are re
ported missing, and it is supposed, as
nothing, has been heard from them,
that their bodies will he found later.
A DOZEN VESSELS WRECKED.
Twelve barks and barken tines which
were anchored at quarantine station
were blown high and dry upon- the
marsh, and some of them were carried
by the storm across the marshes on to
an island two miles distant from the
station. One of the vessels at Tybeo
was completely capsized and three of
the Clubhouses on the island were
blown entirely down. Others were
flooded and the people sought shelter
wherever they could. The wires are
all down and Savannah is almost shut
off from telegraphic communication.
QUARANTINE DEMOLISHED.
" The ruin at quarantine is immeas
urable. Nothing is standing where
one of the finest stations on the south
Atlantic was located except the doc
tors’ house, and how this weathered
the fearful gale is miraculous; iho
wharves are gone, the new fumi
gating plant which has cost the city
so much money is in the bottom of
the sea, and nine vessels which were
waiting there for release to come to
the city are high and dry in
the marsh, and no doubt will be total
wrecks. The Cosnine was the only
vessel which managed to keep afloat.
FOURTEEN -DROWNED.
The tug Paulsen arrived in the city
at, 5 o’clock Monday afternoon. She
brought np about sixty passengers
from Tybee. Mr. Bevers, one of them,
stated that four negroes engaged in
clearing the railroad tracks were
drowned. It is reported that eight of
the crew of a terrapin sloop which
went ashore on the south end were
drowned.
HAVOC ON TYBEE.
The Hotel \Tybee was considerably
damaged. Her verandas are gone and
so are the bathhouses. The Knights
of Pythias clubhouse was washed
away. Two of the cottages of the
Cottage Club are g’pne. The Butler
house is gone. Mr, Starr’s house
was washed into the woods. The
Banche and Bambler clubhouses were
wrecked. The railroad track is clean
ed out. Henry Green’s house was
burned. George Bossell’s cottage was
swept out to sea. The north end was
practically cleaned out. The water
swept with tremendous force Jtyer thi3
part of the island, railroad trateks be
ing carried from 200 to 500 feetA
ILL FATED CHARLESTON. \
A Charleston special says: 'While
the record of terror and ruin wrought
by the great disaster of 1885 remains!
unbroken, Charleston has again stood
in the track of a cyclone which has
shaken the old city to her foundation
stones. The damage to property can
not be told’ and the loss of life is un
known.
The citizens awoke Monday morn
ing and gazed upon innumerable evi
deuces of the linrricane which swept
over the city Sunday afternoon and
night. Uprooted trees, fallen roofs,
broken fences and in the less substan
tial parts of the town, wrecked sheds
and shanties were found everywhere.
N . A veritable cyclone with all the ter
rors which the word has for the people
of that section, swept up the coast and
across Charleston. Early Saturday
morning the dreaded signul was run
np, and-the city held its breath hopin,
that the storm might pass her by.
But the leather looked exceedingly
threatening 'Sunday morning, and
within a short'fime it became no long
er a doubt that\the dreaded cyclone
was to decend up Op
the city in all its
fury. The craft lying at anchor in
the bay were first to'take alarm, and
from all quarters of the harbor they
hurried to safety. The largest vessels,
no lest than the smallest craft, sought
protection from the, angity tempest.
By 1. o’clock the storm - hurst in
all its fury. Several carnalities
to. persons and 7 ’ much' serious
damage, is reported, bnt a complete
inventory can -only . be made. aftei\. a
careful inspection of the territory ex^
tending froni. the Ten Mile house to
the Battery. Every wire in' the' city
was-prostrated; thousands -of trees
were denuded of their foliage and.
limbs 1/lown entirely down. A hun
dred houses were unroofed and a nim-
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place was last heard from at 3 p. m.
Sunday.. Communication is now sus
pended.
THE BLOW AT AUGUSTA.
. An Angnsta, Ga., special says
Sunday night’s storm was the worst
that ever visited Angnsta within the
recollection of the oldest citizens. It
was a violent wind storm, accompanied
by over three inches of rain which
fell down with great force. Men and
women were* badly frightened and
filled with dread and fear of the re
sults. The routing, blustering wind
traveled at a high velocity and swept
everything before it. It was a fright
ful. night and made strong men timid
People Were not surprised upon look
ing out Monday morning to see trees
uprooted, Sidewalks were tom np by
the falling trees. Eleotrio light, fire
alarm and telephone wires were broken
down, and hanging signs were blown
away. All telegraphic communication
was shut off except to Atlanta. Crops
were badly damaged in the surround
ing country. Corn was Mown down
and cotton whipped .out. There was
no loss of life.
' - AT BRUNSWICK.
Following in the wake of the fever
and the famine, the elements. heaped
destruction on the ill-fated city of
Brnnswick. Streets were flooded and
made impassable to pedestrians. The
storm did not stop until daybreak
Monday morning. Thousands of dol
lars damage was done along the coast,
The damage to the buildings in the
city is heavy.
FEARFUL IN FLORIDA.
Jacksonville, Fla., wns struck by
the cyclone abont daybreak Sunday
morning, which rapidly increased in
force and fury np to 4 o’clock p. m,
It traveled in a northwesterly direc
tion from the West Indies.
It first struck the Florida coast at a
point sonth of Jupiter inlet. Its
course was still northwesterly, and it
traversed the whole eastern portion of
the peninsula, damaging property
more or less in a path forty to fifty
miles wide from the coast line west
ward.
In Jacksonville hundreds "of trees
were blown down and scores of dwell
ings and public buildings were either
unroofed entirely or had the tin blown
from them. The most serious damage
was to the Park opera honBe and the
Ocean Street Presbyterian church.
At Mayport (mouth of St. John’s
river) all the buildings suffered more
or less, and the old Atlantic house was
demolished completely. At Pablo
beach the sea encroached upon the
railroad tracks and the premesis of the
cottagers and the wind played sad
havoc among them. All the telegraph
and telephone wires were blown down.
St. Augustine reports the water
coming in over the sea wall and dama
ging residences and business blocks.
About thirty or forty yachts and small
crafts were badly damaged, or com
pletely destroyed. The fate of other
localities in Florida as well aB of the
outside territory invaded by the storm,
is still a sealed book. The wires are
down in every direction from Jack
sonville and communication with the
outside world was ausolntely cut off.
A Columbia special says: All Sonth
Carolina was in the very teeth of the
storm. The state weather observer
says that nearly the entire early rice
crop has been destroyed and that cot
ton has been injured from 25 to 30 per
cent. The crops in this section are in
a distressing condition. Corn and
peas are ruined. Pasture fences have
been blown away and the cattle are
scattered everywhere. Barns and
cribs have been blown down, leaving
the forage exposed. ‘
LATEB PARTICULARS.
Specials of Tuesday from Savannah
state that the list of fatalities as the
result of Sunday’s storm is rapidly in
creasing. The City of Savannah,
which sailed from Boston Thursday,
is fifty hours overdue and no tidings
from her, whatever, have been receiv
ed. The Savannah is one of the old
est boats on the line. The William
Crane steamer from Baltimore reach
ed the city Thursday, hut in a rather
bad condition. : Her captain re
ports wreckage all along the coast
near Charleston. There were
cabin doors, spars, mats and parts of
vessels of all kinds. Whether any of
them were the remains of the City of
Savannah is not known, bnt 'the sup
position is that such wns the ease, the
passenger list has not yet arrived from
Boston and it is not known who were
on board.
Hutchinson’s island presents a scene
of devastation. The entire island is still
covered with water and several houses,
which were un the little farms aoross
the river, have disappeared from view.
The bank opposite the city is strewn
with the wrecks of dwelling, sheds and
old boats.
At the lumber wharves near Yale
Koyal considerable lumber was floated
oft’, hut most of this can be recovered.
Had Tybee island been washed away
the demolition and destruction could
not have been much worse than it is.
Houses were blown down, burned,
ashed away and otherwise demolish-
Six lives were lost on the island.
Numbers of colored people on
Hutchinson's island are missing, and
it is believed that manymore perished.
A pttrty, consisting of C. A. Gradot,
George-Schwarz, Harry Fender, "Wal
ter Bobiqer and two others left Savan
nah Sunday morning on a “maroon”
and have n»t. been heard from since.
The steamar Boellevue, sighted an
abandoned \ boat, bottom np,
which the friends of those in the ma
rooning party \fear was their boat.
Biver men and others say that the fnll
list of those who were lost in the
storm will never be\known except by
the missing of those" .who fail to re
turn. \
FIFTEEN WBEICKS.
Fifteen vessels on the\harbor and off
Tybee were wrecked or\ badly dam
aged. More than that \iumber of
smaller crafts are missing ai»d are be
lieved to have been lost. A
The loss of life at Charleston has
been remarkably slight, considering
the fearful ravage which was doiie to
property in every quarter of the \’ity.
The total death roll numbers six ‘
sons, three of whom met death in
city and three on Sullivan’s island.
THE DAMAGE DONE.
It is difficult to give an estimate of
the damage done by the storm. The J\
following is a rough estimate: To ~
buildings,' $100,000; -vessels wrecked,
$150,000; damage to, the " railroads
lading out of the city, $100,000; "dam
age to the rice drop, $200,000. The
interior tributary to SaySnnah is dam
aged probablyto the amount of $1,000, -
000 or inore, as the cotton crop over a
The tiaai wave struck r'ort Koyal ana
the: damage to property is nothing in
.comparison to the loss of life.. Over
one hundred tire known to.have been
drowned- and killed in Port Boyal,
Beaufort, Seabrook and on Helena 7 is
land. :
After a Seven Days’ Battle With An
gry Waves.
Dispatches of Wednesday night
state that the passengers and crew of
the City of Savannah have been res
cued and are safe, though the gallant
steamship is a total wreck.
After a seven days’ encounter with
the ocean at its angriest, and after
shipwreck on a storm-beaten coast the
passengers of the ill-fated ship were
rescued by the gallant steamer City of
Birmingham off Hunting .Island, on
the Sonth Carolina coast.
Heartily and sincerely did Savan
nah rejoice when the news reached
the city, whose name the fated steam
ship bore, and a nation rejoiced with
her. A day of doubt and anxiety and
sorrow had the happiest possible
ending. As the gallant City of 3ir-
mingham steamed np to her dock,
bearing aloft the pennant of her
stricken sister and below that most
precious burden, her human freight,
cheer after cheer rang out from the
assembled throng to give her noble
welcome.
The rescue of the Savannah was the
feature of the day’s news from the
storm-swept coast region. In Savan
nah, in Atlanta, throughout the entire
country, the deepest interest was felt
all day in the fate of the long-past
due steamships. They had been given
np for lost; and just when everybody
began to give up in despair, the Bir
mingham, with, the Savannah’s people
on board,"reached her home.
The City of Savannah was the oldest
ship of the Ocean steamship fleet.
She was built in Chester,*Pa., in 1877,
by John Borch & Son. She was of
2,029 gross tons and 1,358 net. Her
engines were compound and were built
in 1877. She carried forty-six officers
and men. The steamer is a total loss.
No information yet about the cargo.
BUSINESS IMPROVES.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Trade for the
Past Week.
B. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: The improvement ob
served last week has become much
more distinct and general. While ac
tual transactions have increased bnt
little, the change of public feeling is
noteworthy. There are fewer failures
either of bankers or of important com
mercial or manufacturing, concerns,
than for some weeks past. Many dis
asters have been avoided by a more
general pooling of resources and a
greater spirit of mutual helpfulness
and forbearance than were some weeks
ago. One large stock failure for sev
eral million dollars was thus ;prevent-
ed in Wall street on Thursday, and
the market for securities, though at
■times depressed, by the clo|ing of
heavy loans, has been extremely dull
without material decline.
Money on call is more abundant
and lower, as ma$y interior loans
have been paid since the banks ceased
to send currency away, and advanced
the rates for renewing or extending
such loans,but there is little relief as
respects mercantile accommodations,
as the use of the check in the place of
currency increases, and the secretary
of the treasury in answer to an inquiry,
has stated that nb legal objection
exists to the use of sight drafts on
New York for small sums.
The difficulty of collections and the
interruption of exchanges are nearly as
serious as ever. The number of in
dustrial establishments resuming busi
ness begins to compare fairly with the
number stopping work. A little bet
ter demand appears for some products,
such as wire nails and barbed wire, of
which important producers have been
idle for nearly two months. Bnt in
general the consumption has so far de
creased that the southern furnaces are
offering pig iron at very low figures
here, and standard makers in Penn
sylvania are contemplating a re
duction in prices. - Though currency
is at a premium of 1 to 2 per cent,
the demand is less than a week
. Beceipts of gold from Europe
during the past week have been
,700,000, but the Bank of England
has raised its rate to 5 per cent.,
which is expected to stop further
shipments of gold to this country and
the Bank of France has lost during the
past week about $1,600,000. The ab
sorption of money has not yet ceased,
and credit substitutes are in use as yet
poorly supply its place.
The failures for the past week num
ber 410 in the United States and
twenty in Canada. Of the commer
cial failures in the United States 149
were in eastern states, sixty-five in
southern and 180 in western.
FOUR MUD
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Beaufort anfl Port Royal
Scenes of Death and Desolation On All
Sides—400 Dead Bodies-Recovered.
A special of Thursday night from
Beaufort, S. C., is to the effect that
over three hundred and ninety dead
bodies have been found on the islands
about Beaufort and Port Boyal. Over
two million dollars of property lias
been wrecked near the same points.
And both of these are the direct re-,
suit of the severe storm which swept
along the Atlantic coast on the night
of August 27th.
Every one of the fifteen or twenty
islands lying around Port Boyal and
Beaufort is steeped in sorrow. On
every door knob there is a bunch of
crape, and upon every hillside there
are fresh-made graves, some already
filled, while others are awaiting the
bodies that will he deposited in them
just as soon as some one can he found
to do the kind Christian net of shovel
ing the dirt upon the coffin.
The beeches, the undergrowth,
trees and shubbery, the marshes and
the inlets are turning np new dead
bodies every time an investigation is
made. Already more than two hund
red- bodies have been found, and many
people of that section are confident
in their predictions that the death roll
will run as high as five hundred. Some
of the people, and they are among the
best people of that section of the state,
even place the loss at more than one
thousand.
There has not been on hour of any
day since the early hours of Monday
morning that a dead body" has not
been found at some point on one of
the many islands. As the waters re
cede and the people move deeper into
the wreckage gathered by the storm
the ghastly pictures are uncovered. So
frequent are the discoveries that the
finding of a single body attracts no
attention at all. It takes the discov
ery of at leaBt a clump of a half-dozen
or more to induce the people to show
auy feelings whatever,
It is around Beaufort and Port Boy
al that the death rate was the greatest,
but in neither of the towns were many
lives lost. At Beaufort only three
coffins were brought to supply the
local demand, while Port Boyal got
off evejj lighter. Around the two
towns there is a chain of islands, and
it was upon these that the black angel
of death hovered for hours Sunday
night, leaving in his path sorrow and
desolation greater than has ever visi
ted the state before, even in the bloody
days of reconstruction.
The storm was one of the most se
vere the people of the coast have ever
known. This section of the Atlantic
coast has been prolific in storms that
scattered death and destruction of
property in their wake, but the weath
er wise man, the oldest inhabitant, .or
the coast pilot cannot recall anything
approaching it. It was a storm of
wind, rain and hail, and tie" elements
seemed combined in their greate^ fury.
The seas ran liirii, and saht-watgr
waves were driven by the heavy winds
as much as twenty miles inland.
House were blown away; trees were
torn from the earth, leaving holes hi;
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation for the Past
Week.
The review of the industrial situation in the
South for the past week shows that there is no
material change in industrial and financial con
ditions. Tlie failures reported for the week are
less in number and importance than for the
week preceding; several of the banks which had
suspended business have resumed payments,
and others give notice of an early intention so
to do, and in merchantiie businest a slight im
provement is noted, especially in the hardware
rade.
Crop reports, from all parts of the South,
are generally favorable. Cotton is coming in
to market, but not to a largo extent. The
price is too-low to tempt farmers who are not
obliged to sell, and this class is larger at pres
ent than in any former season.
There are no reports of the establishment of
new industries of special importance. Twenty-
three new industries were established or incor
porated during the week, together with four
enlargements of manufactories, and nine im-
portanlnew buildings.
Business generally throughout tho Sonth is
being conducted on a conservative basis, and is
considerably restricted. Credits are carefully
scrutinized, aud while the volume of business
is smalt there is a prevaiing belief that the
worst is over, and that improvement may bo
expected henceforward.—Tradesman (Chatta
nooga,Tenn.)
A STRIKE THREATENED. -
Employes of Iho Louisville & Nashville
\ Oppose a Cut.
A despatch of "Wednesday from Louis
ville, iSy., says: It is very likely that
a generis' strike of the machinists on
the Ig. & N. system will take place.
Ttaesday afternoon a conference be-
a- jg.M' - - t - -r rfcween the machinists and tte Louis-
wide territory has suffered severely < v jp e an(i Nashville*
ny turpen
”iof thi
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e districts at.
trees are des- ]
which lasted an hojj
Brown, district ,
as held
C.E.
LSt,
s, as-
osed
enough to hide a freight traiAvessels
were dashed against the breaEWs and 1
thrown upon the'earthas much as five
spiles from the water edge.
The storm began, really, Sunday
morning. The day came on with
heavy black elonds hanging over the
ports. An ugly wind started up about
10 o’clock Sunday morning, blowing
from the northeast. It increased as
the day grew on, and about noon a
cold, chilly rain started. Long before
dark the people living along the coast
knew that a storm was inevitable hut
none dreamed of the great extent it
assumed. Late in the evening the
wind took on a great velocity, and as
the night advanced the great volocity
of the wind increased until it attained
a speed of 130 miles an hour at
o’clock. And this is about the time
the City of Savannah went ashore.
But it was not until the next morning
that the people knew of the great and
terrible danger through which they
had passed.
A glance at the map will show that
around the place of greatest disaster
there is a group of some twenty
islands. Some of these are very small,
with only one or two families livin'
thereon, while others are larger and
accommodate as many inhabitants ns
4,500. St. Helena has a population of
4,500; Lady’s island, 1,500; Dawtha’s
island, 75 ; Coosaw island, 600; Beau
fort, town, has a population of 3,600.
Port Boyal island, embracing tho
towns of Beaufort and Koyal, has a
population of about 8,000.
FOUR HUNDRED ARE DEAD.
As far as reliable information which
has reached tho officers goes, the dead
will number 400, and they are located
as follows: At the Pacific works sev
enty-nine bodies have been found and
buried. On Lady’s island twenty-four
bodies were buried on Tuesday and
others hav > been found since. On Paris
island nineteen bodies had been recov
ered and buried up to Tuesday noon.
On Beanfort island twelve bodies
have been buried. At the Coosaw
mines five bodies have been buried.
At Cain’s Neck twenty-two bodies have
been recovered and buried, ,and re
ports are that seventy-nine lives were
lost there. On the Eustis place, one
of the richest plantations of Lady’s
island, forty-seven new made graves
were filled "Wednesday morniug. At
the other end of Lady’s island seven
other dead bodies have been found. At
Dawtha’s island, a place qf about
1,200 acres, eighty lives are reported
lost and nearly half that many, bodies
have been recovered. In addition to
the list of those given elsewhere from
St. Helena it is estimated that 150 lives
have been lost. On Warsaw island
reliable information has placed forty-
five in the grave. On hunting island,
the island off. which the steamship
City of Savannah was wrecked, forty-
six are dead.
LOSS TO' SHIPFING.
The loss to shipping around the im
portant islands is fearfuL’ There are
eight dredges which were employed in
getting out phosphate rock by the
several companies engaged in this in
dustry. The largest one, the Kennedy,
cost $350,000. The others were not
so-valuable, but all are beached high
and'dry, or are bottom up and hope
less wrecks. Connected with these
dredges were washboats and lighters.
There were something like three hun-
for Charleston, another for Savannah
and tho damage to railroads and
steamship lines and there is a grand
total'of something like $5,000,000 loss
and 600 dead bodies as the fruit of
Sunday night’s blow in a stretch of
100 mile's on the Oeorgia and Carolina
coast. It is equal to the devastation
of war, and yet these are the figures
given by conservative men.
THE GOVEBNOB’S PROCLAMATION*
Governor Tillman issued the fol
lowing proclamation at 11 o’clock
Thursday night: “Having received
the following telegram from J. H.
Averill, receiver of the Port Boyal
and Angnsta Bailroad company con
veying the startling intelligence of an
appalling loss of- life and a terrible
state of. destitution upon the islands
upon the coast of this state resulting
from the terrible hurricane which the
Almighty in His judgment has visited
upon the people of the south Atlantic
states, causing universal suffering:
“ •-Ykmasses.N. C., August 31.—To Hon. B. R.
Tillman, Governor of North Carolina: The loss
of life by the recent cyclone on tl:c islands ad
jacent to B aufort and Port Boyal will numb-.r
not less than six hundred people. There are
seven thousand on the islands entirely destitute
of provisions. All they had has been washed
away and their crops are entirely lost. Great
destitution will prevail among them nuleES they
liavospeeiy relief. I am working night ami
day to open rip communication and liopo to
have trains into Beaufort not later than Mon
day next. Please address any reply yon have
to mo at Yemassec, from which point it will be
forwarded by railroad. J. H. Avebeol.’”
Governor Tillman then goes on to
call on the people of South Carolina
to come to the aid of their suffering
fellow citizens. ' He calls for con
tributions of money, food, clothing
and other necessaries of life sufficient
to meet the present emergency.
SODTHIRI HEWS ITEMS.
Over Hlany a League
Spreads the infectious air poison of chills and
fever, a complaint to the eradication and
prevention of which Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters is specially adapted. Vast and fertile
districts are periodically visited by this re
lentless malady. Fortify with the Bitters
Tie Drift ot Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly Msl
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pilhy Paragraphs.
about $2,000, and which are scattered
all over the marshes. Many of these
rered.but there are at least
.total wrecks.
the phosphate indns-
warchoiises, eom-
A Savannah special says: Another
case of yellow fever broke out at Port
Tampa, Fla., Wednesday. The quar
antine has been raised, hut is now on
again.
A Knoxville dispatch says: Nows
comes from Sevier county of a terrific
freshet' Monday. Pigeon river rose
fifteen feet in two hours, and water
flowed two feet deep in the streets of
Sevierville. Growing corn along the
river has been greatly damaged.
Major Campbell Brown, probably
the wealthiest live stock breeder in
Tennessee, committed suicide at Grand
Bapids, Mich., Wednesday, by shoot
ing himself through the head with a
32-caliber revolver. Major Brown has
suffered from mental trouble for fiva
years and treatment has been without
permanent ben'efit.
Colonel Louis J. Dupree, one of the
best known newspaper men in the
south, and American consul to San
Salvador under Cleveland's first ad
ministration, died at Memphis, Tenn.,
Monday night. He was sixty-eight
years oitl and. until his late sickness
has beep editor of The Memphis
Lodgei*.
. Frederick A. Hull, president of the
Log Mountain Coal, Coke and Timber
company, pf.’Eifiesville, Ky., and a
member of the firm of E. A. Hull &
C'o., of Danbury, Conn., made an as
signment Wednesday. * His Kentucky
property is valued at one million dol
lars. His Danbury interests are ex
tensive. Hull is sick and may not live.
The . Southern Passenger Associa
tion at a meeting at Knoxville, Tenn.,
Wednesday declared tho penal law in
effect regarding world’s fair rates to
Chicago. The trouble is between tho
Memphis, Cumberland Gap and Louis
ville and East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroads. Both roads, it
seems, did some cutting and an iron
clad contract made Saturday last was
broken-by both roads Monday.
The City of Savannah, of the Bos
ton line, is ashore on hunting island,
thirty miles off Beanfort, S. C. She
is a total wreck and is rapidly going to
pieces. Her passengers were received
by the City of Birmingham, of the
“New York line, and carried to Savan
nah Wednesday night. The wrecked’
passengers lost everything, some being
even without hats and coats. They
were provided for by the Oceau Steam
ship Company.
A Columbia, S. C., special of Wed
nesday says: The great storm has
passed and gone but its effects will be
felt in the Palmetto State for the re
remainder of this year, if not longer.
Wreck and ruin have followed in its
path everywhere. Dire disaster dawns
more and more upon the people as
each day passes, and they have come
to look about them and behold the
rnin that has been- wrought by the
raging winds and surging waters.
A Montgomery special says: Josiah
Morris & Co., who suspended payment
two weeks ago, resumed business
Monday morning, and from the hour
of opening until closing a heavy busi
ness was done, the old customers of
the hank coming forward to make de
posits and open their - accounts with
the firm. This incident in the hank
ing history of the country is almost
without a parrallel. The entire com
munity rejoices over the resumption.
A Jacksonville special of Tuesday
says: The damage done by Sunday’s
cyclone was general throughout the
city and on the east coast of‘Florida,
but there was no serious loss at any
one point. The unroofing of the
Presbyterian church and the opera
house in Jacksonville and of Lynn’s
hotel, at St. Augustine, were tho most
serious results of the storm. The loss
in Jacksonville will not . exceed $25,-
UUO, and this is distributed probably
among 500 people, in various amounts.
Several thousand people wearing
Keeley bodges, assembled in the spa
cious grounds of the Keeley institute
at Memphis Tenn., Wednesday, to
form an interstate league. Addresses
were made by Dr. Leslie Keeley, who
was present, and by the heads of the
various commercial bodies of the city,
the mayor and several others. The
city was- fnll of delegates and the
meeting was a grand success. The
new organization takes in members
from Texas, Mississsppi, Arkansas,
Missouri and a few. other states.
THE INJUNCTION DISSOLVED
Prayer is the language of the heart. Only
soul language is heard in heaven,
If yonr Back Aches, or you are ail worn ont,
good for nothing, it is general debility.
Erown’s Iron Bitters will cure you, make you
strong, cleanse your liver, and give you a good
appetite—tones the nerves.
Don’t repent over anything you have done-
Don’t do anything to reprnt of.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, "1
Lucas County. )“•
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney &
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and Stato aforesaid, and that said Brin
will pay the snm of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each aud every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Frank J. Cheney.
r worn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886.
i —!—, A. \V. Gleason,
•j seal}-
* —.— ’ Nntarjl Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure istaken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O.
ESfSold by Druggists, 75c.
We Cure Rupture.
No matter of how long standing. Write
for free treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J,
Hollensworth & Co., Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y.
Price SI; by mail, $1-15-
Worry is the great ferti izer of troubles. It
prodn es them and it maks them grow.
Ladies needing a tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Brown’s Iron
Bitters. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria,
Indigestion,Biliousness and Liver Complaints,
makes the Blood rich and pure.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water.Drnggists sell at 25c per bottle.
The Rich Arab’s Dress.
The rich man among the Arabs
dresses richly. His shirt is of fine
linen. His inside vest is buttoned,
the outside one worn loose. A long
paletot often takes the place of the
latter. It is cut part way down from
the neck, and the loose armholes allow
the arms to be held in or outside.
The wide trousers are bound abont the
waist by a rich scarf. Over all is fre
quently worn the long loose tunic, cut
V shape at the neck, and with short
sleeves low down. The hands are fre
quently kept inside—in winter for
warmth—and an Aral) leaches outfrom
the V, at the neck for anything he
wants handed him with a peculiarly
limited motion which at first you fail
to comprehend. Tho burnoose is an
out-of-doors garment, and the fez may
or may not have the turban cloth.
The swell wears European socks,
and his slippers, usually trodden down
at the heel by the common or careless,
are handsomely embroidered or of fine
morocco, red or yellow. The calf is
naked. Parts of this dress are drop
ped at intervals according to the
wealth or habit. There are few per
sons more really magnificent than a
well dressed Arab sheik or a man of
wealth. In our days of business suits
which cloak the godly and ungodly
alike the dress is uncommonly attrac
tive—on an Arab. That it would suit
our habits one will scarcely allege.
Bnt the trousers have one manifest
advantage.. They do not, cannot, bag
at the knee.—Colonel T. A. Dodge,
U. S. A., in Harper’s.
A Hide Choice.
Guard *(at the World's Fair)—“lad-
vise yon to go to yonr State building
and make that sort of a headquarters
for receiving mail, writing letters,
resting, etc. What state are yon
from?”
Drummer—“Well—er—which State
building is tho most comfortable?”
A I’olite Dog.
Mother—“Did yon thank the gentle
man who carried you across the crowd
ed street?”
Wee Son—“I tried to, but I didn’t
know what to say—the words wouldn’t
come somehow; hut I guess it’s all
right, ’cause my dog wagged his tail
enough for both of us.”
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KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter v;nan others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world’s best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevera
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels withowt weak
ening them and it is perfectly free Iroas^
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs i3 for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 botties, but it is man
ufactured by-the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
How to Clean tlie Face.
Theatrical people know that oil
cleans the skin better than water.
Generally other people do not. If ac
tresses undertook to get their makeup
off with water, they would need soft
soap and a scrub brush to do it, and
the skin would inevitably come off
with it. They used once cocoa butter.
Now they use cocoa oil, which is a
better preparation of the same thing.
Drug stores keep it. Some keep it-""
fresh, and some keep it rancid. Take
care not to patronize the second class,
and in cocoa oil you will have the most
delightful of all emollient for the oil
hath.
If you want to see how effective it
is, come in from a railway journey on
a hot day, when the windows have been
up and yon have had ns much benefit
of tho smoke and soot as the fireman.
Take the most vigorous bath you can
.devise or endure, then spread some
cocoa oil on the face and rub it off.
The blackened towel will tell the tale
of failure for the hath and triumph for
the oil.—Boston Gazette.
Table Decoration.
j All forms of table garniture are re-
: quired to be low. The tall vases are
used upon mantels in tho drnwing-
j room, tho sitting-room and -the little ,
! reception room, but no longer upon
| the table, where their height proves a
| hindrance to dinner chat. The custom
of putting huge pieces in the centre
was never good, bnt so long as fashion
declares in its favor it held neverthe
less, and only very few had the courage
to denounce it. Now, when it is the
correct thing to arrange tempting hits
of color as low as can be, the wisdom
of the change cannot he' denied, and
diners ont gain an enlarged view of
their neighbors and vis-a-vis. —Ex
change. ■
Stock From Reacts.
— 1
Just before the roaslj a done pouis
into the pan in which it is cooking
about a pint of hot water. Bemoye
the roast and turn the gravy into a
dish. When it is cold, there will be
found a supply of pure, rich meat
stock ready to flavor sauces or to im
prove soujj stock.
For Summer Cookery
Royal -Baking Powder will be found the
greatest of helps. With least labor and
trouble it makes bread, biscuit and cake
of 'finest flavor, light, sweet, appetizing
and assuredly digestible and wholesome.
MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS
THOMSON’S
My wife suffered with indigestion
and dyspepsia for years. Life be
came a burden to her. Physicians
failed to give relief. After reading
one of your books, I purchased a
bottle of August Flower. It worked
like a charm. My wife received im
mediate relief after taking the first
dose. She was completely cured—
now weighs 165 pounds, and can eal
anything she desires without any
deleterious results as was formerly
the case. G. H. Dear, Prop’r Wash
ington House, Washington, Va. S
fwiNE OF CARDUI *
CLINCH RIVETS.
Ho tool* required- Only a hammer needed to drive
and clinch them eaiily and quickly, leaving the cllnoh
absolutely smooth. Jteqnlrinj no hole to be made in
the leather nor burr lor the Rivets. They are strong* .
tonrh and durable. Millions now in use. All
lengths," nnilbrm or assorted, put np In boxes. ^
And the World’s Fair Gates Will he
Closed on Sundays.
A Chicago dispatch says: The in
junction restraining the directors
from closing the World’s fair gates to
the public oh Sundays, has been <”"
dred of these, the average value, being solved. ..Judges Dnnne and Brantt
United in - a decision - to this'
Thursday‘morning. .. Judge .Qd
dissented and upheld the
Jnjtge Stein. With the injr
olved, the directors are at
■■■"■ their discretion in c""- ;
day, and the:
inst a fair on the
will, therefore, be,