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III' ILW. D. BOUIAY.
FRIDAY MORSING. March 27,1874
Sensatipn lu North Carolina,
People living within twenty-five
miles of Bald Mountain, in McDowell
county, N. C., have been alarmed for
several days past by the quivering
of the earth and sounds like artillery
firing. Some fifty dwellers on the
mountain slopes say it seemed as if
the mountain was giving way. The
cattle became alarmed, and left their
usual ranges. People had gathered
in one locality, and were holding
prayer-meetings, at which preachers
of diffi retit denominations were pres
ent. When the call for mourners
was made, people rushed frantically
to- the altar from all parts of the
house, and even from the outside of
the building. The services continued
sixteen days and nights, and during
Ihoir progress, all lived in common.
Laborand property received no at
tention, and stock of all kinds were
turned oiit. About a hundred per
sons professed religion.
The New York Herald, from which
wo get our information, states tiiat,
near th§ summit of the mountain's
peak, nearly an acre had sunk, and
smoke and vapor wero issuing there
from.
It is said that there is a large rock
near Harrisvicw, weighing over thirty
tons, which has been split in two by
volcanic action, and smoke and vapor
are how issuing from its sides. An
other ono has lieeti displaced, and
now lies somo thirty feet from its
original position, near which there is
a largo fissure ih the earth. This is
the spot wltero the late snow melted
so rapidly.
Ono of the oldest citizens says the
present shock Is not severer than the
one of 181?.
An ohl illicit distiller, who had a
still in the recessed of the mountain,
When the commotion first began, pot
out, w ith a face livid from terror, in
quest of a revenue officer.
The first rumblings were heard on
the JOtli of February. They contin
ued until the 22d, when the noise be
camo so violent that the people left
their homes, nnd have not returned
to them since.
The rambling sounds in the moun
tain continue. There scans to be a
general expectancy of a big bursting
forth of the volcano. Business in
tiint section is generally suspended,
and nearly every ono is seeking the
salvation of his soul.
Whether an eruption takes place
or not, this scare will bo productive
of good, as it lias caused many to
seok religion who might not have
done so otherwise.
The Late Rains.— The recent
rains seem to have been general
throughout this section. Our ex
changes generally mention the high
water, ami the damages resulting
therefrom. The Chattahoochee was
80 high as to prevent the truvel of
steamboats, and nearly all the facto
ries at Columbus had to stop work.
Breaks and washes occurred on the
several railroads leading from Colum
bus, and the running of trains was
impeded, Tho Alabama river over
flowed the gas house at Montgomery,
and tho city was without gas. (Ilad
tho Legislature been in session, a
supply of that article might have been
obtained.)
Narrow Escapes,—The Columbus
Enquirer mentions two narrow es
capes experienced by the lato Bragg
Nongo, during his career ns a railroad
man. Onoe his engine jumped the
track on a tioetle on the Mobile and
Girard road, hut did not leave the
bridge; and at another time, on the
Atlantic and Gulf road, the section
master had a rail up on a bridge.
A* no danger signal was up, the
freight train went over it, and the en
gine and fourteen cars left the track,
but fortunately Teuiained upon the
bridge. \
liiu pr, ks Oonk. —The La (5 range
Reporter says nearly all the bridges
in the county are gone. Broughton’#
bridge, three miles from town, the
bridge at O'Neal’s Mills and Alford’s
bridge are washed away, and Goode’s
and Muffin’# bridges, as also all the
bridges on Flat Shoal creek, are re
ported gone.
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liionT, —Tho Columbus Enquirer
announces that henceforth no sub-
scriptions w:ll be received unless
paid for in advance. This is the only
way to successfully publish a paper,
and if ovary paper in the South
would adopt this courso, it would be
bettor‘for all. *
In Mouknino.— We learn that the
engine Estes is drafted in deep mourn
ing in memory of her laic engineer,
•Bragg Yonge.
The Whisky War in Ohio.
TlieN. Y. Herald says that at Cleve
land, 0, on the 19th, the anti-whisky
women were assaulted by a mob at a
saloon of the lowest class, And two
of them were seriously injured. The
police interfered, but were driven
back, and one of them received a
dangerous blow on the head from a
brick. The ladies fled, but were fol
lowed by the mob through several
streets. The ladies say they have
been urged on by the men, hut that
they not only fail to. co-operate with
them, bat are too cowardly to pro
tect them from gross insults and per
sonal injury. (Any man who don’t
fight for the protection of those ladies
after tiiat is no man at all.)
An immense mass meeting was held
at night, at which the attack on the
ladies was strongly denounced, and
all urged them to go on, assuring
them they would be protected. (But
what effect will condemnatory reso
lutions and speeches have on a set of
men who are cowardly enough to as
sault a party of helpless, inoffensive
women ? The only way to impress
them is by physical force.)
Nothing daunted, the ladies were
wit next day, protected by a strong
forco of police. No personal violence
was shown the women by the mob,
but hooting and yelling and obscene
remarks were freely indulged in.
Let it be remembered, foY the credit
of Cleveland, that these disgraceful
scenes only occurred in the worst
parts of the city. In the better por
tions the ladies were treated with
politeness and respect.
Tiie Late Accioknt.— A gentle
man of La Grange, who was at the
scene of the late accident on the N.
*fe S. li. R., gives it to the Reporter
as his opinion, that the trestle would
not have been injured by tbo rains,
ha<l it been properly made in the first
place. He says it was not fastened
firm enough in the ground. He esti
mates the damage to the road at about
$5,000. The Columbus Enquirer es
timates the money loss at about SISOO.
The latter paper says the freight box
is badly wrecked, tyit that the engine
is not seriously damaged.
Trichina. —lt is said that a heat
of 160 degrees Fahrenheit kills these
dreaded worms. If this be true,
there is no danger where meat has
been thoroughly cooked. This is
the only known remedy. The boil
ng point is 210 dogroce, an<3 there
fore no risk !b incurred in eating
meat which has been sufficiently
boiled.
23?" The Columbus Enquirer an
nounced, a few days ago, that Alonzo
Dekel, a negro, came to that office
and stated that Ilenry Bell, another
negro, had stolen ffiis clothes, and left
for Hamilton on foot. We shall be
pleased to hear of Henry’s arrival—
in our jail. .
Troup Factory. —Mr. Thos. Les
lie informs the La Grange Reporter
that the water was two feet deep on
the faotory floor, and slightly soiled
the looms. Iu tho warehouse some
cotton was two feet under water.
Damage nearly >SOO.
Si i
Handy. —The City Novelty Com
pany, of Buffalo, New York, send us
a neat little contrivance, in the shape
of a combined envevope opener, nail
oleaner and watch key. One will be
mailed to any address on receipt of
35 cents.
fc-ST’The Enquirer nays that Co
lumbus has invested $3,000 in Louis
ville lottery tickets, and Atlanta
SO,OOO. And yet some who bought
tickets are too poor to take a paper 1
A Mistake. —The New York Her
ald says it is announced that Mr. B.
11. Hill will be a candidate for Con
gress from Alabama. If it alludes
to " our Ben,” it is mistaken.
137" A special dispatch from Sa
vannah to the Atlanta Herald etatos
that Msj. Calhoun, of the Columbus
Enquirer, has bought a half interest
in tho Savannah Advertiser.
Recovered.—' Tom Jones, the fire
man who was injured by jumping
from the engine, in the late accident
on the North and Sonth road, is up
and about.
t&T Charles Sumner, the great
anti-slavery agitator, died in Wash
ington on the 11th, of disease of the
heart. He was in his 64th year.
ty E. 11. Norwood, of Whitesville,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy in
the District Court at Savannah.
83ET* A little salt put into the cab
bage has been found a preventive for
the ravages of the green worm.
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tsr a minister walked six miles
to marry a oouple lately. He said he
felt sort of fee-bill like. The groom
saw iu
CF* The paper that’s full of rows—
The paper of pins.
Matters in Georgia.
The Columbus Literary Society
took in $l7O at Saxe’s lecture, and
spent sl9o—-a deficit of S2O. Colum
bus is not much on lectures, but when
it comes to a miustrel show, tier peo
ple are on hand.
The Atlanta Constitution has dis
continued its quarto size on Sunday,
and its week-day issues have, been
reduced in size from eight to seven
columns. Sensible.
A roan lately escaped from the
Atlanta jail by means of a hair pin.
lie scratched the mortar away from
one of the bricks, took out the brick,
ran his hand through the hole, and
slipped back the bolt of the door.
A case of pistols belonging to B.
D. Lay, who made himself so con- '
Bpicuous at Columbus, last year, in
the dueling affair between Phillips
and Waddell, is to be sold at a con
stable’s sale in Atlanta, for the bene
fit of Lay’s landlord.
Tbo Carrollton Times complains
that The Atlanta Constitution has
dropped its quarto Sunday edition.
If Sharpe had to pay the bills for
about two issues, be would be per
fectly satisfied with the present size,
which is large enough for any Geor
gia daily in times like these.
A pair of twins have recently been
added to the household possessions
of an old man and his wife, both 67
years old, who live at Stone Moun
tain.
A negress died in Houston county
last week at the advanced age of 112.
Gen. McLaws has been nominated
collector of internal revenue for the
Augusta district.
Hon, Thos. Hardeman has been
freed from his disabilities by Con
gress.
Some Atlanta policemen, in a late
search for stolen goods, found 400
pounds of bacon and 18 bolts of
sheeting in the possession of negro
thieves. The sheeting was buried in
a garden.
Some hard-hearted individual, with
out knowledge of the poverty of
preachers and editors, left an infant
on the front porch of Presiding Elder
McGehec, in Columbus, the other
night, while he and bis family were
at church. The reverend gentleman
turned the baby over to the police.
Whilst a negro was being tried
in Columbus a day or two since, for
stealing a grindstone, one of the ju
rors missed his hat, and it was finally
found under the prisoner’s
hidden by his legs. It comes as nat
ural for the average African to steal
as to lie.
At Atlanta, recently, Grant, Alex
ander Cos. levied on a whole train
of cars in possession of the Air-Line
Railroad Cos., as the property of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad.
The Air-Line Cos. have commenced
suit against G., A. & Cos. for $25,000
damages. They claim that the train
was leased by them, and is their prop
erty until tho lease expires.
The Monroe Advertiser learns that
Elias Mitchell, the negro who killed
Jim Cleveland, last March, and was
sent to the penitentiary for life, died,
a short lime since, a raving maniac.
He seemed to imagine that his victim
was with him constantly, standing by
his bedside and going with him
wherever he went.
Wiley Chambliss, of Berrien county,
claims to have made five hundred gal
lons of syrup from cane grown on
three-fourths of an acre.
The Ocmulgee in Macon rose last
week to within eighteen inches of
tho high-water mark of the Harrison
freshet. The river overflowed into
the park, washed the race-track, and
partially submerged the foundation
of the grand stand.
Tho Toombsboro’ Tribune-isriri.
formed that the wife of Mr, Peter
Meadows, of Wilkinson county, last
week gave birth to three children,
all of whom are living and doing
well.
Blakely Smith, son of the late Rev.
J. Blakely Smith, died at Oxford
last week.
lion. Iverson L. Harris, one of the
oldest and most distinguished law
yers of Georgia, is reported to be
quite sick at Milledgeville.
Three of the negroes convicted of
participating in the murder of Afr.
Juniper Hall of Thomas county, have
been sentenced to be hung on the
ITth of April. Their names are
Emanuel, Charles, and Nimrod. Two
others, Bill Blackshear and Mingo
\\ ashington, who had been conricted
and recommended to mercy, were
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
At the same time, another negro,
Webster Lyons, a Baptist preacher,
was also sentenced to be hung on tho
17th of April, for the murder of his
wife by poison.
C. W. Coker has sued the Atlanta
Street Railroad Company for dama
ges for a broken leg. Amount
claimed SIO,OOO.
Matters In General.
O. B. Hart, Radical Governor of
Florida, died at Jacksonville on the
18th.
A negro mail driver in Virginia
has been detected in robbing the mails
of some $200,000 in post-office orders
and drafts. Most *jP ul! “Jfcave been
recovered.
Dr. Livingstone’s lywy has reached
Aden, on its way to /England.
Judge Dent, the President’s broth
er-in-law, is dead.
The burning of the cutlery works
at New Brighton, Conn., caused a
loss of SBOO,OOO, and threw 500 hands
out of employment.
“ A, Friend to the Afflicted ” sends
the Montgomery Advertiser a recipe
for asthma, as follows: lodide of
potash one ounce ; dissolve it in half
a pint of water, and take one or two
teaspoonfuls a day.
The Duke de la Rocliefoucauld-
Bisaccia, French Minister to England,
receives a salary of $40,000 a year.
Since Queen Victoria took her place
on the English throne, thirty-six
years ago, every other throne in Eu
rope, from the least unto the greatest,
has changed its occupant.
M. Petinset has been exploring the
Terra del Fuego. lie found the na
tives docile, though cannibals through
hunger and necessity. Coal and cop
per abound, as well as cinnamon and
fuschia trees. He thinks the natives
would sell their whole country for
some sacks of flour and biscuit, with
a few quintals of jerked beef.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi
has rendered a decision legalizing
miscegenation. The decision was
rendered in a case where a parcel of
mulatto children sued for the prop
erty of their white father, whom they
alleged had married their negro
mother. The court sustained the
validity of the marriage, and the
children were declared the legal heirs
of their deceased parent. Ia two
other Southern States—Alabama and
South Carolina—these marriages are
also permitted.
Nearly a half million fire originated
in the Exchange Block, on Pennsyl
vania street, Indianapolis, Indiana
Incendiarism.
Joseph Booth fell under the cars
at Virginia City, Nevada, recently.
Both legs were cut off. A young
man witnessed the accident. He
fainted and his hair turned instantly
gray. It is probable neither will
fturvij’©.
Marshal MacMahon has a salary of
$120,000.
Governor Carpenter, of lowa, has
declared himself anew in favor of
woman suffrage.
There is an inebriate in Chicago
who has signed the pledge eighty
seven limes. Try again, old fellow.
One peculiarity of the women’s
temperance movement at the West is
the tolling of bells when they make
the whisky seller a visit.
Geo. Lavine, a farmer residing five
miles below Toledo, Ohio, while on
his way home a few nights since,
drove his team over an embankment
fifty feet high and was instantly
killed.
Mr. Ritchie, a section master of
the Mobile & Montgomery Railroad,
was shot and killed, last week, by a
negro man named Ed. Turner, whom
he had discharged. The negro has
not yet been arrested.
Mr. Mat Alsabrook was killed in
Randolph county, Ala., a few days
ago, by a negro man, at whose dog
he threw a rock. The dog was at
tacking him at the time, in the road,
and the rock struck the negro’s
house, when the latter ran out with
his gun and shot Mr. Alsabrook.
A company is to be organized in
New York to hunt ont thieves, mur
derers, lost persons and lost property,
with a view of recovering the rewards
offered. It is stated that the parties
have on record rewards amounting
to $60,000 for those who have com
mitted murder, arson, horse thefts
and other crimes.
A man, living in the vicinity of San
Diego, California, was recently ar
rested for chopping down a telegraph
pole. He admitted the offome, and
said that he had conscientious objec
tions to telegraphy, and thought it
was his duty to put an end to the
business.
The city council of Birmingham
has ordered all tho public wells of
the city filled up, thereby forcing the
people to patrouize the water works
company.
The Montgomery Ledger says:
“The county will have to spend
twenty thousand dollars to repair
damages done to the public highways
by the recent rains.”
Judge Cnnniogbam, of the City
Court of Montgomery, recently fined
A 6aloon keeper fifty dollars for sell
ing a glass of liquor to a minor, and
then fined the miuor fifty dollars for
carrying coucealed weapons.
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
o
John S. Reese & Cos., Baltimore, General Agents
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CASE PRICE, $56 00 PER ION.
ALSO, ON TIME, FOR COTTON OR CURRENCY
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The use of this Guano for the past eight years has established its charac
ter for excellence and reliability. Freed only assure constitiierS that tkt
Guano brought into market this season is precisely the same in composition
and quality as that heretofore sold. _
The large fixed capital invested by this Company in this business Famiahn
the best guarantee of continued excellence. The Company has a greater
interest in maintaining its standard of quality than any number of consutsen
can have.
Orders received, and information famished, on application to my Agent*
at various local markets.
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE OF LIME,
C©©SYOTS WIYJ® o©Y*@Kt BBS®.
PERUVIAN GUANO, DISSOLVED AMONIATED BONES, LAND PLASTER, 4c., &,
W. H. YOUNG, 12 Broad St.. Columbus, Ca. t
W. C. JOHNSTON, Agent at Kingsboro. fel>2o-lm
J. W. PEASE & NORMAN,
COLUMBUS, GA.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
mrfiMSg PRAXBIBGb' JPHGTOMB* <2*© o
Rosewood seven octave Pianos from S3OO to SSOO. Geo. Woods & Cos,
Mason & Hamlin, and other Organs. Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Banjos,
mouth harps, sheet music, etc. We make orders for sheet music and music
books every few days, and anything wanted and not in stock, will U
ordered and furnished at publisher’s prices. JiovV-ly
BLOW THE WHISTLE, BIS?® THE BELL,
ST©F THE KTOan, WE’VE <KO©BS ¥© SELL.
THORNTON Sc ACEE,
78 BROAD ST-, COLUMBUS, GA,
Have just received anew lot of Men’s and Boys’
CLOTHING,
At a reduction of 20 to 25 per cent on former wholesale cost prices, which will #nnW tin
to sell at less than cost prices for the same class of goods purchased earlier in.the mmmi.
As we were able to pet a still further reduction of from sto 6 per cent lor the cash, vi
will sell at corresponding low prices. Now is the time to buy good Clothing at lor pri
ces than ever sold in this section. Call and see for you'belves.
W. 3. CHAFFIN’,
BOOaLSULljililll tJj STATION EB
AND DEALER IN
MUSICAX INSTRUMENTS,
CHBOSSOS, FSAMSB AJS© MOULDINGS,
NO. 92 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
A- WITTICH. C- M- KISSEL
WITTICH & KINSEL,
PEACTICAL WATCHMAKEES,
JEWBUIB Hi EEillVliS,
NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WITCHES, JflL
SHIWnEE
CLOCKS, ’ i
JEWELRY,
lip wa m,
of tllG XjAteSt BXAZI'U.fAOt'UZTeO
- entirely new stock of the best goods and the latest styles has been recently bought is
New York, and is hereby offered at the Lowest Cash Prices. . . ,
Diamonds, gold and silver Spectacles and Eve-Glasses, gold and silver Thimbiwi, ladies’ U
gents Chains, plain end fancy Gold Rings of beautiful workmanship, and every
, variety of article found In a First-elnss Jewelry Store.
Stencil Plates of every description cut at short notice.
Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Pebbled Spectacles and Eve-glasses and Age®**
for the Arundel Pebble Specks which ai*e slightly colored, and in high favor with every
body using specks or cve-glasses.
Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairfng fn aft its branches. Shir Jewelry Society Badg**/
Diamond setting, or any new work made to order at reasonable charges.
Engraving promply executed. oct24-ly
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
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CHAPMAN & VERSTILLE
Announce to their friends and patrons that their stock Will be kept con
stantly replenished with Seasonable Goods at Lowest Market Prices-
Will rsoeive in payment Eagle & Fhenix money and Cotton at highest marks*