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The e are now in,ooo colored teachers
in the . nite i SUt-s, 1,000,000 p lpils in
the Southern States alone, 13,000 in the
male an i female high-s hools, and 3,-
O JO,OOO worshippers ’.n churches. There
are ixty normal schoo s. fifty colleges
and universities, and twenty-five theo
logical scoiina'ie-.
A grand exhibition, or ‘'World’s Fair,”
will b; held iu Paris, France, in 1389.
A gigantic iron tower i- to be a feature
of it. The State will contribute $1,200,-
0 >O, and $1,2 0,000 will be furni-hed bv
contractors, who will have possession of
the tower twenty years. It is to be three
times the heighth of the famous Arc dc
Triomphe.
As nearly every one in Europe is now
talking about war, let us see how many
men each nation can bring into the fray:
Russia, 4,000,000; France, 2,435,000;
Germany, 2,500,000; Austria, 1,770,0'0;
Italy, 2,400,0j0; Turkey, 800,000, mak
ingatotalof over 13,000,000 men. If
all the>e arms were employed in agcul
ture and commerce!
The London papers, commenting on
the wheat situation, says that America
has the reins entirely in her own hands.
Europe wants something like 2,000,000
bushels per week from the Atlantic
ports during the next five or six months
The stock of English wheat is reduced to
10,000,000 bushels, agaiust 27,000,0j0 at
the same time last year.
Surgeon Charles A. Siegfried, of the
United States navy, has leturned ’.rom
Paris, where he looked into the Pasteur
system of lighting hydrophobia, with a
view to its introduction into a govern
ment hospital in this country. He fays
that medical opinions in Frauee differ as
to the efficacy of the inoculations, but
that the record of cases seems to estab
lish the value of Pasteur’s work.
There is no dearth of physiciaus in
this country. A statistician declares
that while tho annual increase of the
population is less than two per cent, tho
annual increase of physicians is more
than five and one-half per cent. It is
said that there are nearly two thousand
more physicians iu the State of Illinois
than are necessary. No wonder many of
them are drifting into other callings.
A chimney on fire called out some of
the Baltimore firemen the other day.
When they reached the house one of
them drew’a big pistol and, standing be
low, fired five shots up the chimney.
Instantly the soot and fire dropped
down, and the fire w’as extinguished.
Tho concussion loosened the accumula
ted soot. Tho police and firemen of
that city say it is an old practice with
them and has never failed.
Mrs. Julia D. Grant recently received
from the Treasury Department at Wash
ington $982.50 for back pay due her hus
band as First Lieutenant nnd Quarter
master in the Fourth Regiment of In
fantry during the Mexican war, and al o
for the amount due for arrears from July
1 to July 23, 1885, as a retired General
of the United States army. Mrs. Grant
has forwarded the two checks to the
Grant Monument Association in New
York to aid the funds of that body.
Attracted by the profits that have been
derived from the rearing of ostriches and
the sale of their feathers, enterprising
persons have at various times exported
these birds from the Cape of Rood Hope
to such divergent quarters as India,
South Australia, the River Plate and
New Zealand: and in all these it is said
the birds are thriviug, notably so in she
last named colony, from wh ch a first
consignment of feathers was recently
taken to England. The Cape will,
therefore, no longer be able to boast of
monopolizing this industry.
Dr. T. D. Crothcrs is working hard to
prove that inebriety is contagious under
certain circumstances. lie ha3 just
printed a paper entitied: “C'er ain
Hereditary and Psychical Phenomena in
Inebriety,” to illustrate his doctrine that
intoxication may be imparted by conta
gion when hereditary defects predispose
the system to such influences. That is
to say, a perfectly sober man, brought
in contact with drunken men, may be
come drunk himself to all practical in
tents, or an equally sober person whose
parents, one or both, are hard drinkers,
may, when exposed to some mental
shock, apparently become fully intoxi
cated.
There is anew fad among the swells
of New York city, whose love for the
picturesque is not satisfied with the
sombre raiment of the conventional dress
suit. These scintillating individuals
now appear with two waistcoats when
arrayed for the evening. The out waist
coat is of white pique or silk, ad the
under vestment is of a gorgeous blue or
crimson silk, the elge of which just
protrudes beyond the lapel of the over
waistcoat. Any desire for conspicuous
ness is thus gratified, as the effect is
suggestive of the “orders” and insignia
of potentates and foreign diplomats.
The haberdashers are delighted at the
prospect of the innovation.
Some scoundrel played a fiendish
joke upon a little girl named ilettie
Johnson, at Lancaster, Ohio. He met
her in front of the residence of John C.
Hite, which is inclosed with au iron
fence, and told her to touch her tongue
to the frosted post. This she innocently
did, and of course it stu k there, when
the dastardly wretch who induced her
to do the thing ran up the street and
disappeared down an alley. The little
girl, only five years old. w s held tight
with her head to the post, bat a gentle
man, happening along, discovered h r
misfortune, and procuring a pitcher of
water released her, not, however, with
out leaving a strip of her tongue adher
ing to the cold iron.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER: FORSYTH. GA.. TUESDAY. MARCH 8, 1887.—EIGHT PAGES.
The waterpower at Niagara Falls is
to be developed at an expense of $3,000,-
COO. A poetaster said, long ago:
‘•And what a tremendous water power
Is wasted o'er its edge;
One man might supply all tha world wkh
flour,
With a single privilege.”
Montana cattlemen are greatly alarmed
for the future, owing to the overstocking
of the ranges. Last year witnessed a
heavy influx of cattle brought there tc
winter. Large herds were brought ovet
the parched trad from the Rio Grande,
and in their famished condition placed
on ranges already so fully stocked that
only a phenomenally mild winter could
prevent heavy losses. To make matters
worse the calf crop was unusally large
Up to Christmas the weather was favor
able and all was well, but since then,'
the temperature ranging as low as forty
below and blinding storms,before which
cattle drift in spite of the cowboys’ ef
forts, reduce the cattle in flesh and so
weaken them an to make heavy loss-, s
inevitable if the cold weat ,er continues.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says: “A Paris letter relate-an anecdote
that we commend to the consideration of
injured wives. A certain M. Perrin, o
gentleman of wealth and high social
position, w’as in the habit of beating his
wife, who was a proud woman and made
no complaint until his brutality became
unbearable. Having decided to leave
him, the lady, whose capabil ty of hatred
would have endeared her to Dr. John
son, felt that she could not be happy
afterward unless she obtained some
slight revenge upon her husband. Ac
cordingly she waited until the offender
came home one night in a state of inebri
ation, and theD, after he had fallen into
a drunken sleep, she sewed him up in the
b and clothes so that he could not move.
When M. Perrin awoke in the morning
his wife < ame in and gave him a thra-h
ing with a broom that made him weary
of life. Then she wont to her parents,
and now divoive proceedings have been
begun. The French woman’s process for
punishing a brute is even better than the
whipping post.”
John T. Norris, of Springfield, Ohio,
is one of the most famous detectives ol
the West, and the jails are full of men he
has brought to justice. He is not at all
the sort of man, however, that we find
playing the hero in detective literature.
He is very singular in appearance and is
vain and loquacious to a remarkable de
gree. Says tiie St. Louis Globe-Democrat-.
“Non is is a peculiar species of the genus
detective. Ills methods of conducting
his business are essentially different from
tho-e of every other member of the fra
ternity known to fame. When he strikes
. a town he generally proceeds to let every
body iu it know who he is and why he
is present. lie assumes no other name
than Norris. Ilis personal appearance
is so easily described that it would seem
impossible for any drook whom lie pur
sues not to know it. A stiff leg makes
any sue essfui disguise impossible. lie
has no assistants so far a3 known, and
yet he has had success in catching and
convicting criminals, which has made
him a terror to the crooked people in the
Territory in which he works.
Prince Pierre Krapotkine, the Nihili-t.
whose brother recently commised suicide
in exile in Siberia, has just concluded a
work that lias been sent to the printers
t> be entitled “In French and Russian
Prisons.” Krapotkine has seen the in
side of the prisons of both countries,
and, but for his escape from the fortress
of St. Peter and St. Paul, he would
probably be at work now in the mines
of Siberia, or else dead. The story of
his escape as told by him to Stepniak
and related by the latter,is very romantic.
Kr ipoticmc, who had been dangerously
ill, affected to be very weak during his
convalsence, and, therefore, was allowed
to walk in the yard of the Nicholas
hospital under guard of a single soldier,
his friends planned his escape, and, as
they were able to communicate with him,
carried out their plans. A fast horse
was kept in waiting on the next corner
from the hospital. One Nihilist hiied a
room overlooking the hospital yard and
the road, and the signal when the coast
was clear was to be a certain tune played
on the violin. The violin began just as
the hospital yard door opened to admit
i load of wood, and Krapotkine knocked
down his guard and escaped.
Home Life in the Country.
Too many of our farmers’ homes are
merely so in name. They are not homes
—only places to stay. Do not think we
are insinuating that you must rush right
off aud spend qOo > in buying new fur
niture. carpets and an organ. Not at all.
One of the “homciest” places we ever
saw was one that was entirely innocent
of any extravagance in that line. Three
hundred dollars would have cove.ed the
cost o: all ihe furniture in the house, bn:
i: was a place we always en oyed v sit
ing. The head of the family was always
ol.y and readv to take a hand in a game,
and li:s nine children, always h arty and
full of fun, did not care to be out in tire
evenings. Th • girls did aewirg and
knitting as they grew old enough, and
the boys wet often fonn 1 “making
something." but no evening passed th t
one did i.ot a e something to read to
the others—an anecdote or a story—
something eit er to amuse or instruct.
But the m.;iu seerrt of tlie r huppiuess,
if it wa- a -eeret lay in the fact that
worrying and f citing were banished.
One growler or fritter will spoil a whole
family. Fathe s. mothers, and n’t allow
a mult-find :l: spirit to spoil the pleasure
of your family cur. le. 1 on’t indulge in
it yourselves. Have as co y and com
fortable home as you can a.tord, but
il n't mourn over what yo i have not.
I ather rejoice in what you have and be
■■■•• kfu .—A'ffn'.....' if tad ma ;.
A Life cf Trials.
“ t OEie in, my poor man,” said a be
nevolent la y to a ragged tramp “and 1
will get you something to eat.”
“Thanky, mum; don t care if I do.”
“ I sup o e, ' continued the l .dy. set
ting a square meal before him. -your
lift has b.en full of trials:”
“Vis, mum; an’ the wu't of it wnz I
alius got convicted. "
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
GEORGIA.
During Saturday's storm in Dawson,
the outbuildings and sheds of the Da , son
Manufacturing works were blown down,
the water tank of Baldwin & Sharpe’s
mill, their shed and stables.
In Berrien county, while M. B. Clya't,
son of M. B. Clyatt, was harrowing a
piece of ground, in some way the tooth
of the harrow, seven-eighths of an inch
thick and ten inches long, struck his foot
and penetrated through it, pinning it to
the ground.
Valdosta's treasury is in a healthy con
dition. When the new council took
charge of the affairs of the town, in Feb
ruary, 1886, there was about S7OO in the
treasury and no considerable debts on the
town. They retired last week, and turned
over to their successors about §l,9oo,and
no debts amounting to anything.
A few fine white shad have been taken
from the river near Bainbridge this
spring, probably a part of the govern
ment plant made several years ago here
and at other points. Those caught were
taken with hook and line, although they
are seldom ever taken except with nets.
They were of good size, from two to
three pounds, fat and juicy.
Negotiations are pending now between
certain land owners in Decatur county
and a northern syndicate, which promises
the early sale, for cash, of 80,000 acres of
timbered lauds at $1.50 per acre —a deal
of $120,000. If consummated there is no
doubt of its proving the largest single
transaction in timbered lands that has oc
curred in the state in a long time.
Ellijay Courier: We learn of many in
dividuals in this county who intend rais
ing a crop of tobacco this year. The
movement set on foot seems to be gain
ing favor with the substantial farmers of
the county, and we hope to chronicle
their experiments as they progress in this
money-making business. We should be
glad to be informed by all persons who
engage in this branch of agriculture.
Joseph W, Graham was killed at Pax
son’s saw mills, near Mcßea, Saturday.
He was running the shingle machine at
I the mill at the time of the accident, and
by some means his foot aud leg was
caught in the cog wheels of the machin
ery, horribly crushing his leg nearly up
to the knee. Drs. Swinney and Blanton
and Hunter amputated the limb, but the
! shock was too great, resulting in death
i at 12:30 o’clock Saturday night.
A few days ago the Dade Coal com
i panv bought of Judge Jas. R. Brown, of
Canton, and J. D. Thomas, of Bartow
I county, about G.OOO acres of what is
j claimed to be as fine iron and mangane-e
property as there is anywhere lying in
| Cherokee and Bartow counties, on Stamp
creek. They paid for the same some
! thing over $12,000. This property was
| once owned and operated upon by Dr.
John W. Lewis, of Canton, and at one
time had as many as three or more fur
uaces upon it and paying well.
MISSISSIPPI.
The discovery of iron ore at Duck hill
has convulsed that town. Visitors from
j a distance arrive on every train, and iijs
almost impossible to keep up with the
sales of property, and some is resold al
most immediately at advanced price.
Northern capitalists are on their way to
town, and many sales are made by tele
graph.
The Vicksburg Democrat records a pe
culiar case tried before a negro justice in
Delta. An ordinance had b: en made
j against running a skiff in certain places
as a ferry and in the first case he decided
against the accused. In the second he
i was accused himself and he fined his skiff
J $5 and directed it to be sold for the fine
I and costs.
Reports from Issaquena, Sunflower,
Boliver, Sharkey and Washington coun
ties are favorable relative to crop prepa
rations. There will be an approximate
increase in acreage of about 10 per cent,
and the largest part will be devoted to
cotton. Money from eastern and north
ern cities is freely flowing to which will
enable planters to put in all their land.
Labor is abundant.
The Young Mens’ Christian association
of Mississippi will hold a state conven
tion and training school for Christian
workers at Columbus, beginning Friday
night, March 25th, and closing Thursday
night, March 31st. Prominent members
are being engaged for the occasion.
Every Young Mens’ Christian association
and every college of Mississippi are in
vited to send as many delegates as pos
sible.
John Joyce, of Vicksburg, aged fifty
years, suddenly stopped talking to a com
panion Sunday night in the sitting room
of Mrs. Conley's boarding-house and re
mained motionless and quiet until alarm
was excited. When the silent man was
touched he fell forward, deaM and already
beginning to grow cold and stiff. A doc
tor was called, but could do nothing for
a dead man. No inquest was held, as it
was apparent that heart disease caused
the sudden death.
SOUTH CAEOI.IXA.
Stenographer Parrott is about to bring
suit against the county" of Clarendon to
recover the fees due him for official serv
ices during the past year. On account of
the depleted condition of the county
treasury Mr. Parrott has never received
any remuneration for his services.
Mr. John E. Peoples, one of Anderson’s
extensive stock dealers, made a corner on
mules last salesday. He bought out every
drover in the city that day, and has been
selling a great many mules at retail here
and at his stable in Greenville. The Jef
ferson County (Tennessee) Visitor makes
mention of the fact, that Mr. John Cottei.
of that county and state, sold on liis last
visit to Anniston $5,000 worth of East
Tennessee mules to Mr. JohnE. Peoples.
J. E. Peoples and J. S, Fowler will sell
this year $125,000 worth of mules.
A correspondent of the Newberry Her
ald and News, in a recent i.-sue of that
paper, says that just before the breaking
out of our war, a highly educated Swede,
named Hammerskold. sealed in Liucoln
ton, N. C., to engage in the iron business,
that abandoning his business to enter the
confederate army, he became impover
ished, and that after the war, in order to
raise money, he sold a valuable diamond
studded gold snuff box. said to have
been a gift of the king of Sweden. ;o
Colonel L. D. CLiius, of Columbia, who
subsequently presented it to Colonel
Rion. The correspondent thinks that
this is the alleged Orleans snuff box. The
snuff box bears the letter 0., and a crown
set in diamonds It has not the Orleans
monogram. The initial is probably that
of Oscar I, king of Sweden and Norway,
born 1799. died 1859.
TENNESSEE.
Professor E. E. Barnard, of Vanderbilt
university observatory, says of the new
comet: “Since discovery the comet has
been moving toward the northwest at a
very unusual rate. 5 degrees and 17 min
utes north and 14 minutes of right ascen
sion, west, daily. It continues very faint.
Its path since discovery has been oblique
ly across the miiky way, and its rapid
motion continually brings it in front of a
small star, which in every case shines
through the comet's densest part with
undiminished luster. The rough posi
tion of the comet last night was about 8
or 10 degrees northeast of Sirius (the
dog star).”
Governor Taylor, in an interview, said:
“I notice that there is in prison a large
number of children under fifteen years of
age. It is a shame that Tennessee should
not have some place of refuge for these
poor little creatures, and not place them
among hardened criminals Judges and
jury should not send children to prison,
and I shall deem it my duty to uphold
the honor of Tennessee by pardoning
them. lam confident I will benefit more
by this step than by allowing them to re
main in a school for crime. I have re
quested the wardens to prepare for me a
list of the names and offenses of every
person in prison under seventeen. They
nor any other child shall remain there
while I am governor of Tennessee.
The supreme court has sentenced Ben
Brown, colored, to be hanged in Nash
ville, April 13 next, for the murder of
Frank Arnold, colored, near Belle Meade,
November 9, 1885. Brown manifested
no emotion when Judge Snodgrass pro
nounced his doom, and at its conclusion
looked at Simon Fox, one of his accom
plices and smiled, Tiie court affirmed
the verdict of the lower court in the case
of Fox, who was sentenced to twenty
years’ imprisonment at hard labor.
Nelson Joslin, Foster Joslin and Bill
Brown, the other participants in the
crime, are in jail awaiting trial. The
murder for which Ben Brown will be
hanged is known as the ‘ ‘Bellville street
headless horror.” Arnold, the victim,
resided six miles from the city and owned
a small farm, which Ben Btown wished
to possess. On the night of the murder
Arnold was induced to leave home on a
hunting expedition with Ben Brown,
Bill Brown, Nelson Joslin, Foster Joslin,
and Simon Fox. When in a thicket
Arnold was struck with an ax and shot
through the head. The body was cut in
pieces, and the head severed from the
i funk.
ALABAMA.
Mobile has secured nearly all of her
baseball team.
Mobile has anew afternoon paper
called the Evening Telegram.
Workmen are now digging the third
artesian well in Eufaula.
It is reported that a company will soon
be formed to work the phosphate beds
between Marion and Llamburg.
A convention will be held iu Mont
| gomery, on March loth, looking to the
removing of obstructions to navigation in
the Coosa river.
Dr. J. H. Reeves, a farmer near Eu
faula, takes off the hub of the horn of a
calf when it is five or six months old,
and thereby he is getting a hornless lot
j of
The bounty treasurer's report of Bul
lock ccvunty shows a balance of over $3,-
! 000 in the treasury, in addition to over
S4OO of fine and forfeiture fund, making
an aggregate of $3,427.
Sellcis report an increased demand for
guano up to date over sales for last year.
J here has been at the rate of an annual
increase of ten per cent for the last five
years in the sale of this commodity.
Ozark, in Dale county, subscribed
SIO,OOO to the Alabama Midland railroad
on the first day tho books were opened.
It is said that the county will subscribe
between $60,000 and $70,000. The sur
vey of the road will be completed in
about six weeks.
The assignment of the Bray Bros., of
Eufaula, is announced. It is an old
house, having been in the hardware busi
ness in Eufaula since 1858. Their liabil
ities are about $25,000: the exact amount
of assets cannot be determined until an
inventory of stock and other property is
had.
Near Bilbra’s creek, in Washington
county, last Thursday, Willie Trotter, of
Montrose, Baldwin county, was stabbed
and killed by Charles McMillan, of the
same county. The coroner’s jury brought
in a verdict that the killing was a “coid,
deliberate murder,” and recommended
the arrest of McMillan, who had fled.
The City hotel at LaFayette was con
sumed by fire Tuesday evening. The fire
was discovered about daybreak in one of
the lower rooms, and is supposed to have
been caused by a rat with a match. There
was a slow rain falling while the building
was on fire, but the flames could not be
stopped. The hotel belonged to Mr. 0.
D. Norman, -who is in Montgomery in at
tendance upon the legislature. It was
insured for $2,500. The furniture, which
belonged to Mr. G. T. Johnson, propri
etor of the hotel, was insured.
FLORIDA.
An opera house is nearing completion
in Tavares.
The jetty contractors are pushiug their
work at Fernandiua.
Shipments of oranges are over with,
and that of early vegetables are taking
their place.
A Gainesville advertisement reads as
follows: On and after this date the price
of the Simonson’s artesian mineral water
will be 2£e. a drink, or $2 a month.
Reuben H. Stark, who lives some five
miles from Conant, was robbed and mur
dered by two colored men named John
D. Fuss* and “Yankee” Patterson, who
were working for him. They also shot
Stark's housekeeper, but she will recover.
The murderers secured $l5O in cash, a
shotgun and a gold watch.
At a meeting of the Florida Fruit
Growers’ association, held in Orlando, it
was recommended that a sub-tropical ex
position be held at some convenient
point each year, commencing in Decem
ber and holding open till March, all the
counties to be invited to take part.
The farmers complain about the low
price of sea island cotton. They say it
has been selling at such prices that it is
unprofitable to grow it. It is thought
that this industry has been overdone, and
that the supply exceeds the demand.
The acreage of cotton should be reduced,
and a few acres put in tobacco would be
profitable if properly cultivated.
Chixamex in Quincy, CM.forma, Luilt a
bonfire during a heavy snowstorm at night
and caught more than twenty wild "eese
which were attracted by the blaze.
FRIGHTFUL EARTHQUAKES.
FRANCE AND ITALY FEARFULLY
SHAKEN.
Unnjr Lives Reported I.ost.—The Carnival
at Nice Broken I p.—Extent
of the Shocks.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt
throughout France and Italy Wednesday
loiug much damage to persons and prop
erty. Associated press dispatches from
Rome says: At Nice houses rocked,
walls cracked, and in some cases frail
tenements were thrown to the ground.
People rushed from their houses and fell |
upon their knees in the street, praying ;
for deliverance from sudden death. Vis
itors to the city became thoroughly j
frightened, and arc leaving the place.
Many persons were injured by failing
debris.
The shocks caused an awful surprise to
the crowds of maskers returning home
from the carnival festivals in their fancy
costumes, worn and bedraggled by the
night's exercises, and looking dull and
dreary under the glare of the early morn
ing sunlight. The first shock created an
immediate panic.
Many casualties were caused by the
shocks. The people are panic stricken
and the entire population are in the
streets. The railway station is beseiged
with visitors who are anxious to leave at
the first chance that offers.
At Marseilles ilie walls of a number of
buildings were cracked. Shocks were
also felt at Leghorn and Milan and several
places in the province of Genoa, Italy.
Shocks were felt with great severity at
Savona, near Genoa, and a number of
houses were wrecked and eleven persons
killed at that place.
Two violent shocks were felt at Tnulon.
The first shock Avas of 15 seconds dura
tion and the second 12 seconds.
At Cannes, three shocks were felt at
the same hour. Many persons at that
place rushed to the seashore for safety.
At Avignon three shocks were exper
ienced between six and eight o’clock.
The first shock was A’ery severe and
awakened everybody in the place. Sev
eral shocks were felt at Genoa at six
o’clock.
There are rumors of enormous damage
in the mountains, caused by avalanches,
set in motion by the shocks. Horsea be
came restless and refused to move hours
before the event.
At Cervo, near Diano Marina, 300 per
sons Avere killed by being buried in the
ruins of falling buildings. Railway traf
fic is suspended beyond Lavona. Prison
ers in the government jail at Finalborgo,
alarmed by the earthquake, attempted to
escape, but were overcome by the guards.
The earthquake devastated the whole
of Italian Riviera. At Noli, on the gulf
of Genoa, and not far from Savona, sev
eral houses fell and fifteen persons Avere
| killed. Six persons were killed and
| thirty were injured at Oneglia, also on
the gulf of Genoa. At Diano Marino,
near Oneglia, scores of people were killed
and hundreds Avere injured. Fully one
third of the toAvn was destroyed.
IN CORSICA.
Two sharp shocks were felt in Corsica.
It is reported that several persons Avere
killed at Mentone, where St. Michael’s
church was badly damaged and the post
office wrecked. An iumate of the con
vent of the Holy Sacrament at Nice died
from fright.
{ \ THE EXTENT OP THE SHOCKS.
j The shocks affected a wide eccentric
| area. The first shock occurred at 6:30 a.
j m., and. the last at 10 p. m. Accounts
j are vague and conflicting,but there seems
to have been no damage done in the in
land toAvns. The earthquake Avas felt
throughout Liguria and Piedmont, but
the wires are broken and neAvs travels
slowly. The people everywhere spent
the night in the open air.
The neAvs of the earthquake Avas at
first disbelieved in Paris. When con
firmed it caused the greatest sensation.
-Anxiety over the fate of friends Avas gen
eral, and the telegraph offices Avers soon
crowded. Light shocks were felt at
Nimes, Privas, Valence, Grenoble and
Lyons. The gendarmerie barracks at
Mentone collapsed, and several persons
were killed or injured. Business is sus
pended almost eA’ervwhere.
Reports from various placas put the
total number killed at more than four
hundred, and many more fatally injured.
LATER NEWS.
Further dispatches from the earthquak
ing district, state that over 2,000 people
have been killed. At Nice the panic has
not subsided, aud fugitives are fleeing in
every direction. The people are afraid
to re-enter their houses and hotels, and
the heights back of the city are crowded
with refugees. Two thousand English,
American and Russian visitors we:e en
camped during the night on elevated
ground. Six thousand people have left
the city and started for Paris.
Further details received allow that the
effects are far more serious than was at
first thought. The loss of life and de
struction of property have been terrible.
Ihe most startling news comes from
Genose Riviera. Over
FIFTEEN HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE KILLED
in that district. At the village of Bajar
do, situated at the top of a hill, a number
of inhabitants took refuge in a church
when the shocks were first felt. A sub
sequent and greater shock demolished
the church, and three hundred people,
who were in it. were killed. Th de
stitution of property in sections of Italy
visited by the earthquakes was immense
aid widespread.
Fifty persons were injured at Mentone
,nd one killed; killed two persons and
injured ten at Nice; killed four aud in
ured two at Bar; killed two and injured
twelve at Bollene. At Chateau Nenf
many were injured. At Savona two
houses fell, killing nine persons and in
juring fifteen.
The total number of deaths reported
up to the present writing is about two
thousand. Shocks were felt at Parma,
Turin and Cosenza. Undulations of the
earth were noticed at Clataria, in Sicily,
at the foot of Mount Etna.
The center of the disturbance seems to
have been in the province of Nice, on the
southeast coast of France.
No severe shock has ever been felt in
this immediate section before, though
the earthquake in Switzerland in 1801
was slightly felt along the coast. The
great Lisbon earthquake was also felt,
though it did no injury.
While the center of the last disturb
ance was at Nice, the area of the shock
was vast in its proportions. It was felt
distinctly in Rome and westward almost
to the Spanish coast of the Mediteranean,
tiiough no serious damages reported in
ny othor locality than'in that included
in the area of a circle inscribed around
Nice, -with a radiu3 of about seventy-five
miles.
The olde-t Epi-eop 1 Yh-rcli in the
United States is t! ' ■ : . - Vn/, V
It contains the font u: L: n Unla’ was
baptized.
SEARCHING THE RUINS-
I'urtlier I)a!I of the KnropMii l.trth
ni.a'-ic.
Heartrending details of the disasters
caused by the earthquakes continue to ar
rive. At Diauo Mariano, a child of
twelve years and her father were extri
cated from the debris, when the lattei
expired upon the spot. The survivors at
Diuno Mariano say that a majority of the
victims were killed by the second shock,
people having re-entered their houses to
procure clothing. The bodies, wrapped
m shrouds, lie in the middle of the
streets.
At Bassano the soldiers are still search
ing the ruins. They have rescued
twenty’seven persons, all of whom are
more or less injured. The people sleep
in carriages and improvised places ot
shelter.
>ignor Ganaja, minister of public
works of Italy, lias visited Bejardo, and
attended the funeral of 230 victims of
the church cellar, who were buried in a
common trench in the cemetery. He also
made arrangements for a temporary hos
pital for the injured.
The relief committees are being organ
ized throughout the country, but it is
impossible to supply the numerous wants.
Ban Remo is deserted. I here were
303 persons killed and 150 injured in
that town.
Troops have been compelled to keep
back, at tho point of the bayonet, the
crowds of despairing men and women
who were impeding the work of excava
tion, in their efforts to find missing rela
tives, The bodies of the victims of the
disaster are terribly disfigured. The suf
ferings of the survivors are great. The
supply of provisions and drugs and am
bulance apparatus being painfully inade
quate. The work of the rescuers is at
tended with considerable danger. In
some cases the} 7 haA’e been obliged to flee
from the battery Avails, although they
could hear the groans of the victims bur
ied beneath the debris. All the members
o r the family of the mayor of Bajardo
Avere killed outright. Of another fam
ily, consisting of tAventy-tAvo persons,
named Maestria, only a single member,
half demented, is left, The half-clothed
people are wandering on the seashore ex
posed to the inclement weather. At
Diano Mariano a Avoman and child avcip
taken out alive after being entomb 1
ihree days.
HEAVY WINDS.
fv.o Ohio River Steamers Sunk at Louis
ville U).
A telegram from Louisville Ky., says:
Early Saturday morning, the wind com
menced to blow here heavily, coming
from the northwest. It continued to
blow a perfect hurricane at intervals un
til G o’clock this evening. Many acci
dents are reported and considerable
damage has been done. The stern wheel
steamer Reindeer, lying at the city wharf,
was so roughly treated by the waves that
she sprang a leak and sunk in four feet
of water. After she had settled upon
the bottom, a much larger steamer, Hi
hernia, which was tied to the'.wharf a
few yards above, was seized by the whirl
wind. Her three large cables were snap
ped like twine, and she was cast against
the lumber vessel. The latter was badly
smashed up and the Hibernia reached
her moorings with her side smashed.
The river is rising two inches an hour
arid if the <*..y. twins of the last week
continue, much suffering will follow.
The water lias already reached many
houses. The hurricane today also smashed
in about 150 feet of the western wall ol
the southern exposition buildim-- doing
SI,OOO damage.
THE WEEKLY REVIEW.
Many Millions Invested in Southern Enter
prises.
During the past week there have been
received reports of the incorporation of
the following new companies in the
South: Nashville Light and Heat com
pany, two millions capital; the car com
pany, Anniston, Ala., one million cap
ital; the South Baltimore Car company,
$200,000 capital; the Consolidated Coal
Coal and Iron company, Chattanooga,
$2,500,000 capital! United States Crude
Petroleum and Gas company, Baltimore,
$1,000,000 capital; the stained glass fac
tory, Chattanooga, $2,500,000; five blast
furnaces as follows: one at Rome, Ga.,
one at Culera, Ala, two at Cartersville,
Ga., one at Gadsden, Ala., gas machine
works, Chattanooga; sheet rolling mill,
Atlanta; Pawne Mineral company, Ash
vilie, Ala., $1,000,000 capital; Consoli
dated Mining company, Memphis, sl,-
000,000 capital; spoke factory, Lexing
ton, Ky., SIOO,OOO capital; Bessemer
Steel Rolling mills, Bessemer, Alabama,
half million capital; saw mill supply
factory, Chattanooga, $150,000 capital.
Among the small new organizations are
three flour mills and a factory at Chat
tanooga; seventeen lumber companies,
Ihree in Arkansas, two in Tennessee, one
in Alabama, two in Florida, three in
Georgia, two in Louisiana, four in Texas,
and four railroad companies, two in
North Carolina, one in Alabama, aud one
from Chattanooga to the top of Lookout
mountain.
A COWARDLY ASSASSIN.
A Young Sian and Woman While Riding in
a Wagon are Fired Upon and Killed.
One of the foulest crimes ever commit
ted in Ea-t Tennessee, occurred in Roane
county. A young man named Newman
was employed to move a woman and her
daughter named Weaver, from Kingston
to Rock wood. He was driving on a
mountain road in a wagon loaded with
household goods, and beside him sat the
filtecn-year-old daughter of Mrs. Weaver,
v. n . suddenly a man named Epps sprang
Horn the roadside in front of the tearm
lie carried a shotgun in his hand, and
without a word he leveled it at Newman,
aii 1 fired both barrels, which were load
ed with buckshot. Newman rolled from
his seat a corpse, and the young girl fell
b k m the wagon with a dozen dullets
in her breast. Mrs. Weaver was sitting
in the rear of the wagon and escaped un
injured. The alarm was given, and in
ui hour one hundred men were in pursuit
of the murderer. No one can assign anv
w. for his assassination of Newman
•m l the innocent girl.
SHERMAN'S SUCCESSOR
There is an impression abroad that
Senators Hoar or Ingalls will be selected
to succeed Senator Sherman as president
of the senate. It is not known that
either is a candidate for the honor, and
the impression has for a basis only in
formal preliminary talks of this afternoon
among the senators. In addition to theii
■welt know n stancting and long experi
ence both are expert parliamentarians.
It is thought that the senator elected
will fill the position not merely during
the recess, but during the next congress.
ANOTHER 7JULRPAD.
Uiriuingbniii \’a.. nnd Tr'‘ • I li.,
lo hi* Conomnl.
The Binni gliam. Georgia ■ .
railroad company, through their . n
representative, have ~ eretlv pin*-';. >.
of the Tallahassee, Bainbridge .aid \\
tern corapauy, the old road 1> dk■ a i
as the Bainbridge, Cuthbcvt re and ( m
bus road, and propose building a : •••
line to be completed this y.u . from i,
mingham, Ala., to Ta’iali. l i., via,
Opelika. Florence. C'uthhert a:ul Y
bridge. The conditions prescribed n; ■
donations of the stipulated sums from th
countries through which it will run foe .
this place to Bainbridge lie m .v i
to be given to the companx in t -id- ra
tion of the enhanced value Avhi h will
accrue from the building <3' J I lie.- t *
the real estate of the pur-L . . inn,
and nothing else is asked i:t return.
These sums will ag p gate
thousand dollars along the > id i .<1 i • !
alone, ami have already been obligated
in notes. be void
Kansas City
tion to Birmingham, and Avid give
through line to the Atlantic i gulf
ports. Parties Avho have just let. Cutl.
bert for the lower counth s are arranging
the preliminaries, Avliich have been con
ducted in the quietest maimer, and the
hands Avill be put to work as soon as
these are completed. Ilmse g. th m m
giA'e every assurance of the ability 4 the
corporation in aa’liosc interest icy are at
work, to build the line, and Lav ■al .ly
paid a large cash sum for the old road
bed.
SUNDAYS FIRES.
ir.cpiuliury Fire in Lynchburg, Vu. ttico
HuriiKt at Nc*w Or I runs*
A destructive incendiary fire occurred
Sunday morning at 3 o'clock, on Mm
street, Lynchburg, Ya., destroying tin
Hill City livery stable, the feed stoic <•:
T. M. Harwood and W. A. Woody's car
riage factory. Sixteen valuable hors
and tA\o mules were burned to death.
Two firemen Avere badly injured. (’liarlcs
Buford was arrested and partially con
fessed the crime, implicating several
other persons. The loss is $10,000; in
surance $5,000.
The Mariposa rice mill. Nos. 00 to 67
St. Joseph street, New Orleans, La., and
ah adjoining building Avere burned Sun
day. The loss is estimated at $15,000,
fully insured. The fourth story of the
building on the eastern corner of Canal
and Chartres streets was burned also.
The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO.
WOLSELEY ON LEE.
“Just, Oentle, Genernni ami Honorable
His Life a Record of Unty Nobly Hone.”
Geu. Lord Wolsclcy, in an article on
Gen. Robert E. Lee, speaks Aviih un
bounded enthusiasm of the personal char
acter and military genius of that officer.
The article says: “If he had not been
controlled by the political leaders e the
Confederacy, lie would have captured
Washington after the battle of Bull Run.
He Avas the greatest American of tho
century, and is worthy of eulogy Avitli
Washington. Among the world's gener
als he Avas the most perfect of all. Just,
gentle, generous and honorable. Lis wliolo
life Avas a record of duty nobly done."
THE DOCTOR WAS DRUNK
ti-.il lie fiiivi* His I’ntient Too .llarh Alor
piiiue.
Mrs. Ann Leonard Loth died at Rich*
mond, Ya., last Wednesday night uud< r
circumstances which led to an investiga
tion by the coroner Thursday In the
absence of her regular physician Dr.
Hilaries Iv. Gardner was summoned and
he administered morphine
twice. The evidence of the family
physician, who was called before death
ensued is to the effect that Mrs. Loth
died from morphine poison and that
when he Avent to the house lie found Dr.
Gardner lying on' the bed under the in
fluence of liquor. Dr. Gardner Avas ar
rested,
SOUTH CAROLINA SHAKEN.
( linrleHton mid *-iinuiicrvili)- Again S’mUen
Up by Uarllifiiiakcs.
A’ out six o’clock Saturday morning
a slight earthquake shock Avas felt at
Charleston and adjacent country. The
shock continued fh r c seconds. The di
rection of the wave Avas from west to east.
In one house a vase Avas thrown down
but no damage was done anywhere. The
shock was so slight that many persona
sleeping at the time were not disturbed.
The first disturbance worth mentioning
since the first of the new year. A spec
ial from Summerville says: a decide 1
earthquake shock was felt here at six
o’clock Sunday morning. It was ve*f
short and no damage resulted. Coming
after the earthquakes in Europe, it has
made rather a sensation.
A NEW TELKO It A I’ll COMPANY.
The certificate of incorp ~'i i
New York Southern Telegraph eon >any,
was filed Monday, states that it- ipl* and
i $1,000,000, divided into share -of ■■
each, with the privilege of incr lug it s
-tuck to $5,000,000. The incorporators
and number of shares held by each are as
follows: James B. Pace, Richmond,
3,500 shares ; John S.- Wise, Ric!.:n
1.000; Thomas M. Logan, Rici.mm.'i,
1.000: J. G. Moore, New York, 4.000,
nd J. C Weaver Page, New York. 5.-
000. The wires are to run from X
York to Philadelphia, Baltimore,
ington, Richmond, Charleston. Savannah
and New Orleans and to all intermediate
points.
ELECTION FRAI DrS.
The federal grand jury, which has been
investigating frauds committed at tho
election in St. Louis last November,
made its final report to Judge Treat in
the United States district court Thurs
day, and returned twenty-two indict
ments in addition to those heretofore
found. A special jury has been coded to
try these cases at the March te: : oi ti t
court.
The daughters of the Princess oi Wales
had a very jolly h Iklay at Torquay. They
went shopping by themselves am ran into
place after place to make their little pur
chases, with evident delv.ht at ti. ;r free
dom. The second day of th.ir s: ,v they
appeared inline, buoyant quits at a 1 ot
store with a short sti-k w-k h, they ex
plained. was tli • length of th ir mother's
foot, and they w anted a pair of : übb. rs,
“goloshes"’ they cal 3 1 um, : i
It was quite a c mi'-al scene, for ti d< s
man entered into the s; iiit ot ;. - fun
and tried to stick in all sizes and c- .. htions
of overshoes until tu :* young la k s .re
Satisfied. They Lad th . m v.t ; p; and . . 1 aid
for them, and walked a.my v.i hth : j a:cel
under the arm of the young-, si of tha
tluve. for they quite refused to have their
purchases “sent” while they were at Tor
quay.