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VOLUME XXI.
NIIWXAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, ISS6.
NUMBER 48.
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With good or ill, with false or true.
MOUNTAIN ROMANCE.
They were summering in the Santa
uz mountains, tlie most delightful
ice in the most delightful state in the
nion. The days were long, but full of
le interest that extended rambles and
ylvan discoveries confer. A fine
stream, in which one could wade or
oathe to heart’s content, kept up its
ceaseless conversation, like the hum of
.var and far voices. How beautiful in
he early morning was the light falling
the ranks of giant redwoods; and
irely there never was a bluer,
mrer sky than that bent above it all!
Amy Desart, book in hand, sauntered
fown a leafy path, on which faint rays
/f light from the far sky sifted down
Trough Hie redwoods* odorous branches,
tglinted on their scarred trunks, and fell
like silver arrows into the rich shade of
If.he forest. The book she carried was a
pretext. The day was for dreaming, and
what printed page could charm the eye,
when there were a thousand distractions
tempting the curiosity and challenging
the admiration of a healthy nature? If
a bumbling bee, a vagrant bird, a clump
ot yellow violets, or a broad “golden
back” were enough to speak to a poetic
soul,%r charm an artist's eye, who could
tire of watching the grander beauties of
a redwood forest, or,weary of the sud
den glimpses throug opened boughs of
the sublime blue moi ins? So a book
was quite a useless tliv ; to Miss Amy
Desart, but at the > me time her
habitual companion.
She was aroused from her lazy dream
ing by a loud halloo. Indeed, she
r J nmediately aroused, for the hal-
had been going on for quite a
^table length of time before her
consciousness stirred to the ef-
something unusual; for halloo-
■'G for owls, was by no means
in in those silent depths. Once
a from her summery stupor, She
with growing interest.
-ills continued at intervals, paua-
frkmingly in expectation or hope
ize< reply. Miss Desart concluded,
cai| ,ar d no responsive halloo from
Tr<i r P a, *t of the forest, that the
, i from some one lost in the wil-
As soon as her half somnolent
COUt formed this conclusion, her
* tip the idea, and when an-
rate and far away shout came
r f die answered with a musical
herejier vigorous young lungs, at
eantlime going in the evident di-
Cowdhe sound.
ol thf heard, for a responsive call
lanl •,lightly louder tones, so she
count whoever it was, lie was ap-
mamj^,. voice. Making a trumpet
Give she cried, “Lost?”
came quite distinctly, evi-
We |P e ^ e ^ in the same manner
the nai
office Ol 1 her languor. Here ai
Deraoci lively interest to occupy
made aA r ho are you?” she cC
war ref wood?” came the answer,
through cisco,” lie continued,
abled higly she plunged into theun-
performil track lesvs wayof the woods,
voice, which kept up a
—led conversation—if that
conversation—as she only
ionally to show him that
We are £• She had no ^ car °f
the name ^ f° r s * ie l iac h ^ mo anc *
candidate 111 the deepest and wildest
Treasurer rt 'st, which was full of
the Demote 1 '-
— jand-lost-my-way, ” came
t OR -liedly to her ears.
I am a said to lierself : “I’ve
or, subject hira to hi3 fate. The
I J,nv. vcmliug tl'.is sacred place
. a shot-gun!"
However, she proceeded to the rescue,
determining to give Mr. John Westwood
a caustic piece of her mind, when once
she had discovered him. (It is safe to
•say here, in parenthesis, that she forgot
her cruel intention long before she came
ii]i to him.) She picked and crashed her
way through the bushes for a m V, it
seemed to her. but distances are decep
tive when you have to work your way.
At last, he, waiting, gave a halloo
which sounded absurdly loud, when
right on the heels of it the bushes parted,
and a radiant wood-nymph, to be sure,
in a becoming costume of butf lawn,
the soft, loose draperies of which she
had caught up to protect them from the
brambles, revealing thereby the stiff em
broidered ruffles of an immaculate skirt,
and faultless feet shod i:i neat French
walking boots. But her cheeks were
flushed, her eyes were dazzling, and a
cloud of shining hair rested lightly on
her white forehead. Her wide hat,
pushed far back on her head by some
saucy branch, served as a frame to a be
witching face.
She beheld a tall young man in
hunter's buckskin, leaning on a rifle.
His brown eyes were a shade softer than
usual, from" their weariness, perhaps.
His face was clearly cut, and a dark
moustache adorned his firm lip.
For more than a moment they gazed
into each other's eyes, theu laughed and
bowed. After thanking her en
thusiastically. he s; iid: 1 had
no idea of compelling a young
to my rescue. I thought it was a boy
who answered me, and fully expected to
see a -barefoot boy, with cheeks of tan,’
instead of be hesitated.
“You will see no barefoot bciys around
here." site said, hastily. "Thei* is too
great a fear of rattlesnakes.”
“I have not seen any.”
“Maybe not. for they are not fearfuUy
prevalent, or I should not lie here. But
once in a while you come- across an ugly
fellow. I always go armed myself,” she
said saucilv, producing a tiny, silver-
mounted fcsk from the depths of a ca
pacious ]>ocket. , . ,
It was blit a glimpse of the flask he
caught for she plunged it back impa
tiently. as if she resented die impulse of
familiarity- _ . ..
ill follow me—, she said
Xet Result of Past Earthquakes.
only
turn, “I’m Miss Amy Desart, of—well, to choose. The mountains to the north
everything in general. We’re nomads. r were the Marin county branch of the
“I m most happy, Miss Desart,” he be-! Coast range, of which Tamalpais is the
gan in the stiff manner some people most prominent feature. But Tamalpais
adopt when acknowledging an introduc- is visible from the city, so they wouldn’t
tion, “to find in you an angel unawares,” , do. The same fault attached to the
he concluded with regained ease. “And mountains to the east, that rise from the
—and,” he went on mischievously, “I arid San Joaquin plains. Mount Diablo
think I was bitten by a rattlesnake some was their great feature, and his infernal
time this morning.” j majesty was plainly visible from the city.
She turned in alarm and met his eyes,! To the south were the Santa Cruz moun-
in which he could not repress a twinkle, tains, in whose depths his short-lived
“If you
Sh -W,'th all mv heart. I love the woods,
but began to feel I should never get oul
of this 1 have been wandering about,
eeekiug a path which I could follow any
where fer Six mortal hours.
“It's easy enough when you know the
way."
“Ah, but every one isn’t a dryad."
“No. I'm especially engaged for the
Why, you said you hadn’t seen any.
“I didn’t see one, but I’m sure I must
have heard a good many, and one could
easily bite me and I not pay much at
tention to it, you know, in my per
plexity.”
She regarded him carefully, felt
sure that he was a gentle
man, and saw besides the
mischief in his eyes a great exhaustion,
that brought out the silver flask without
further misgiving.
“I came olf at 4 this morning, without
any breakfast,” and one could see hi*
weariness was real. “You know,” he
added, excusing himself, “I expected tc
be back at the hotel by 6 with a deer
for breakfast.”
“You are staying at F ■?” she asked.
F was a village on the line of the
railway, about a mile distant.
“I have been there for the last week,
but intend to return to the city to-mor
row. I suppose you can show me the
way to F ?’
“Oh, yes. 1 am so glad it was full/
she said irrelevantly, as he returned hex
the empty flask. “You must have been
very faint. We are nearly to the path:
and Miss Desart’s compliments, and will
Air. John Westwood deign to partake of
an informal lunch at Hepsidam?”
“Mr. John Westwood accepts with
due informality, not to say that
he jumps at the chance. But
where and what in the name
of the redwoods is Hepsidam?”
“Hepsidam—as the name signifies—is
‘a place in the wilderness,’ rented during
the summer montlis to campers for a
small stipend. We have been dowD
every summer for three years. But
here we are.”
Ho stepped out on the path and stood
beside her. How fragrant and cool the
woods were. The broad, leafy path
made one sigh with pity for those whe
were bound to tread the stifling streets
of the city. They soon reached the cot
tage, which was not far from where
they struck the path. It was an idyllic
iepast that awaited them. Mrs. Desart
'ms as lovely and cordial as her daugh
ter and Mr. Desart was full of bonhom-
mand unconcealed delight, at meeting
any one so recently from the city.
“1 wish I had had the good luck to
lose myself in this vicinity a week ago,”
said Westwood, regretfully, as he was
taking his departure, considerably later
in the afternoon.
“Well, you. can find your way here
easily now, and we shall be glad to see
you at any time,” said paterfamilias,
cordially.
“Thank you for your kindness, but my
vacation ends to-morrow,” he sighed.
They all joined him on his walk hotel-
ward, to make sure of his taking the
right turns and angles which were to
take him to F , and it seemed to him
that Amy was even more beautiful in
the tender twilight than before. They
parted from him as warmly as from an
old friend, with cordial hand shakes all
around, and Mr. Desart told him to run
down an}* Sunday when he wanted a
breath of the redwoods—an invitation
cordially seconded by Mrs. Desart, and
shyly by Amy. They stood and watched
him till he reached a bend in the road,
where he turned and waved his handker
chief, at which three handkerchiefs flut
tered in response, then the bend in the
road hid him from sight. They turned
back on the path with rather a lonesome
feeling, for this bright young fellow,
whom they had not known a dozen hours
before, had proved such a jolly comrade
for the few hours of their acquaintance,
that they lionestlyregretted his departure.
And though they would have disclaimed
indignantly, and with truth, any sug
gestion that they had suffered ennui be
fore his appearance, still they began to
look forward to the possible Sunday
when he would come again. They
might have had visitors in abundance,
of course. But, though not by any
means selfish people, they were still not
gregarious to any extent.
Their unsocial instincts were probably
due to their fondness for traveling, and
the ease with which they had always
been able to gratify that fondness. Amy;
in fact, could hardly have told which
her own country. She was as
familiar with France and Germany as
America, and Scotland she has always
loved. But since they had discovered
the redwoods of California, she was in
spired by their grandeur to quite a
strong patriotism, for, though cosmo
politan bred, she was California born.
The next Sunday, John Westwood
could hardly conquer his desire to
visit his new friends. But he
felt that it would be better taste to
one Sunday elapse between his
visits. He was not very m ch expected,
to be sure, as they did not look for him
before two or three weeks. But in that
reek, Mr. Desart received a telegram
hat demanded his immediate presence
in New York. And in a few days this
family, always prepared for such emer-
encies. were on their eastward way.
Mr. Desart, as politeness demanded,
wrote a note of explanation and apology
to Mr. Wqstwoorl. waose address he in
tended to transcribe from the San Fran
cisco directory. His intentions were
good, but when they, had left New York
and were far out on the Atlantic, he dis
covered the still unaddresse<f note in one
of his many pockets.
It is unnecessary to dwell on the dis
appointment and surprise of Mr. West-
romance of a year ago was enacted. It is
not strange that ignoring the charms of
Mendocino redwoods, which necessitated
a day or two of steamboat travel, and
steeling his heart against Donner lake
and the snowy Sierras (which were
rather far off into the bargain), he de
cided to seek the bracing mountain air
in the Santa Cruz range. F was
only a few hours distant from the city,
and yet the place was a wild, untrodden
wilderness—a wilderness possessing the
great advantage of accessibility. One
hail only to strike out from the station
at F in any direction to lose himself
—as he had once proved—In a virgin
and primeval forest.
He had no hope of meeting his quon
dam acquaintances again. If they had
been down at all, he felt sure they had
flown before that. He assur^H himself
that he would not have wished to meet
them, for they had treated him shab
bily. It was a most contradictory im
pulse, then, that drew him the very first
day of his arrival past the redwood
cabin. If he had hoped for any sign of
his will-’o-the-wisp friends, however, he
was disappointed. No sign of life was
about the place, and he avoided it in his
future rambles.
The large streams that flowed through
the forest were famous for trout, and to
trout-fishing he devoted himself, as
offering fewer opportunities for getting
lost than hunting the wary deer. So
with rod and line, a plentiful supply of
light literature, and a sportsman’s lunch
basket well filled, he would start out for
the day.
He was impartial in his choice of
streams, and often angled in the one
that flowed near Hepsidam. He choose
that one to-day, and made his way up
the stream for a long distance by leaping
from stone to stone, or by walking the
mighty length of the redwood trees that
lay, as they had fallen, in and across the
stream in every direction, and by wad
ing with his water-defying boots in the
beautiful smooth stretches of water.
At last he reached a place he judged
favorable alike for angling and for read
ing. It was a redwood trunk, soft with
mossy growths, hid among mighty
boulders; and from this shelter his
line could play on a smooth peb
bly pool that promised lots of trout.
Here he ensconsed himself comfortably,
baited his hook, flung his line out into
the stream, propped the pole up near
at hand (which may be a scientific way
to fish, but was quite in the way of a
lazy young man), stretched himself at
full length on his broad divan, chose the
most conversational novel his pocket
bore, and was soon deep in its pages.
Behind him rose an absolutely perpen
dicular cliff, many feet in hight, dotted
from top to bottom with waving “five
finger” ferns. They were of such dense
and large growth that no portion of the
rocky wall was visible, and down
through the tops of the redwoods hun
dreds of feet above, and over the living
;reen curtain, the sun sent his flicker
ing rays. The trout were wary, and
gave him plenty of time to get inter
ested in his book, which, being a lively
summer novel, caused him soon to for-
;et the shyness of the denizens of the
stream. So in turning a page it acted
quite like a shock to his nervous system
when he saw his pole bend, and sud
denly show symptoms of falling head
long into the stream. He caught it
with the mental ejaculation, “It must
be a big one to pull like that!” and
straightway his book was forgotten. He
lifted the pole and carefully began to
draw in the line, at the same time ad
vancing to the edge of his nook to see
his game.
An exclamation of pain greeted his
effort to tauten his line, and there on a
rock in the brook he beheld his catch.
He gazed in consternation at the sight of
a girl seated on the rock, and bending
over a rosy bare foot, which bore in the
pink ball of a tiny toe a cruel black fish
hook. His effort to draw in the line
nust have caused her acute pain, and
called forth the moan which smote on
his ears. Her head was bent, and her
hands were busy trying to draw out the
ugly barb.
“This must be another 'Lorelei,’ ” he
thought, “a nd these woods are surely
haunted. I’ll be carried off by a pixie
next,”
He hardly knew how to offer his ser
vices—as he was evidently unobserved,
it was awkward to break the silence.
But of course it was only fair that he
should help this damsel in distress. He
was just essaying “Allow me,” when she
suddenly rose, without having extracted
the hook, and attempted the feat of
walking on her heel. Then raising her
eyes, she saw him helpless and guilty
before her.
“You!” she cried faintly, and let her
skirts drop quickly over her feet,
whereat the former became as wet as the
latter.
You!” he cried in rapture; for it was
she! no strange pixie nor Lorelei, but
his dryad of a year ago. “Can you ever
forgive me ?” he asked in deep contri
tion. “Let me take out that wretched
hook.”
She offered no resistance as he lifter
band.”—K. L. Carmarthen in Overland
Monthlv.
Trouble on the Pacific Slope.
The topography of no other part of
the world is so adapted to de
velop dangerous floods and subsequent
periods of water famine as that of Cali
fornia, where the natural conditions are
destroyed, and the sheep industry of the
state is actively engaged and has been
actively engaged for many years in de
stroying the balance of power held by the
forests upon the water supply. Count
less herds of sheep, cattle, and goats are
driven every summer up from the
parched valleys into the moist mountain
meadows and woods. They have de
voured every blade of grass and stamped
out and gnawed away every bush and
young tree along the whole length of the
Sierras. The reproductive power of the
forest is thus seriously impaired, if not
utterly ruined.
Nor is this the worst feature of the
situation. Overpasturage of the woods
has destroyed the grasses and the
shrubs, and now for the purpose of in
creasing or renewing the supply the
shepherds are setting fire to the forests,
which by shading the ground check the
growth of herbage. A hundred forest
fires may now be seen upon any summer
day from any of the high California
mountains slowly eating away, what
was once the noblest development of all
forest growths. The animals are graz
ing, moreover, and the fires are burning
upon the public domain of the United
States; and the government isindifferent
to this destruction of property or unable
to prevent it.—New York Sun.
Agassiz and the Student.
The writer well remembers his intro
duction to the late Agassiz and how lie
learned his method of investigation.
Having undertaken the study of
natural history, I went to Ahe professor
and asked him where to flegin. “Ah,
said he,“so you want to begin,do you? All
right, here is a bluefish; now take it, dis
sect it carefully, note all you see, and
come back to-morrow at the same time
and report.” Off I started with my fish,
Yery carefully I went about my dissee
tion. In an hour or two I fancied I
knew all about that fish, but as I was
not to report until the next day I kept at
it, every hour finding something now.
I went to the profeasor at the appointed
time, feeling proud and confident that
my natural discernment, for such I
was pleased to term it, had enabled mo
to master the subject, and that I should
well acquit myself in my report. The
professor listened to all I had to say
and in his quiet way remarked: “So, so,
very good, but not all.” To make a lon w
story short, I kept at that fish for u
month, always the same answer, “very
good, but not all. How I hated that
fish at the end of the first week. How
it did smell! I did not want to touch it,
and flew into a rage at least a dozen
times, and yet each day I found some
thing new, and so on until the end of
the month, and what there was then
about that fish that I did not know
not worth knowing.—Electrical Review.
How to Skeletonize Leaves.
The usual method is to soak the leaves
for a long time in rain water until they
are quite decayed, but those who have
had considerable experience in the work
recommend a quicker method, the im
mersion of the leaves in a boiling alka
line solution, the time of immersion to
be regulated by the character of the
various leaves and the nature of the
epidermis to be removed. When it is
seen that the green part of the leaf is
dissolving put the leaf on a flat m dte
earthen plate and cover it with Cu*ar
water. Then, being gently squeezed
with the fingers, the membranes will
begin to open and the green substance
will come out at the edges. The mem
branes must be carefully taken off with
the finger, and great caution must be
used in separating them near the middle
rib. The skeletons must then be
thoroughly bleached by exposing them
to the fumes of chlorine gas. If to this
vapor be added that of peroxide of
hydrogen the fibres of the leaves are
strengthened, so that they can be readily
arranged—after being dried by pressure
between folds of tissue paper—in bou
quets.—Boston Transcript.
Mesmeric Trance for Alcoholism.
A suggestion is made by The Journal
of Inebriety which is sufficient to open
up a new field of reform work. Hypnot
ism, or a form of mesmeric trance into
which individuals of a peculiar tem
perament can be thrown by a person of
# more positive mental qualities, is pf >
posed as a method of treatment for the
alcohol habit. The theorist claims that
the patient can be hypnotized and while
in that condition made to realize the
horrors and perils of inebriety. A shock
to the brain centers is thereby imparted
which is said to effect a permanent
change in the patient’s character.—
Chicago News.
The silver ore found at Abingdon,
Mass., assays 11 per cent, silver.
her up on a mossy log, and then deftly
and a3 flatly as possible cut out the
barb. Cf course it was painful, but two
o • t! ‘e little gasps were all the sign she
S-. w, and ley cut him to the heart.
LL- t >re up his handkerchief for a strip
Remarkable Bremen Cellars.
As for the cities—for they are really
the subject of our observations, the peo
ple being merely accessories, as in Claude
Lorraine's landscape—Bremen was the
first as well as one of the most interest
ing that we have seen. It is a pretty
little town.chiefly noted for three tilings,
its present freedom, the former influence
of the celebrated Hanseatic league, and
the bleikeller. With regard to the sec
ond of these peculiarities it is only nec-
i essary to say that the leaders of the
—Syria, Palestine and Asia.
o°0 towns destroyed.
1137—Sic:ly; 15,000 per-ons buried
1153—In Syria; 20,000 perish< d.
1263—In Cicilia; 50,000 peri>hed.
1455, Decembers—At Naples; in.
000 perished.
1009, September 14— Constanti
nople; thousands perished.
1531, February26—At Lisbon; 1,500
houses and 30,000 persons buried.
1626, July :?0—Naples; 30 towns
jnd 70,000 lives lost.
1667, April 6—Ragusa ruined ;5,000
perished.
1667-Schmaki; lasted three
months; SO,000 perished.
1672,April 14—At Rimiui;above !,■
500 perished.
1692, June 7—Island of Jamaica;
whole of Port Royal enguiphed 40
fathoms deep and 3,000 perished
1693, September—54 cities and
towns and more than 100,000 lives
were lost.
1703, February 2—Aquilla; 5,000
perished.
1703—Jeddo, Japa , ruined; 200,
000 perished.
1706, November 3.—In the Ah
bruzzi; 15,000 perished.
1716, May and June—At Algiers;
20,000 perished.
1726, September 1—Palermo ;6,000
lives lost.
1731, November 30—China; !00,000
people swallowed up at Pekin.
1732, November 29—Naples; 1,940
perished.
1746, October28—Lima andCaliao;
18,0(i0 persons buried.
1751, Grand Cairo; half the houses
and 40,000 persons swallowed up.
1755, June 7—Karschan, Norib
Persia, destroyed; 40,000 perished.
1755, November 1—The greuf
earthquake at Lisbon. In abou)
eight minutes most of the house
and upwards of 50,000 inhabitants
were swallowed up.
1759, o c t 0 ber 30—Syria, 20,000 pi r-
lshed.
1780-Tauris, 15,000 houses ami
multitudes buried.
1797,February 4—Panama destroy
ed and 40,000 people buried in one
second.
1805, July 26-Frosolone, Naples,
6,000 lives.
1312, March 16—at Caracas, 12,000
perished.
1819, June 16—Kutch sunk; 2,00U
persons buried.
1822—Aleppo destroyed; 20,000
perished.
1846, February 14—Tennate,thous
ands lost.
1842, 3lay 7—Cape Haytian, St.
Domingo, between 4,000 and 5,000
lives.
1851, August 14—South Ttaly, 14,-
000 lives lost.
1856, March 2—Tsiand of Great
Sanger, 3,000 lives lost.
1859, March 22—Quito, 5,000 per
sons killed.
1861, March 20—Mendoza, South
America, 7,000 lives lost.
1863, July 2 and 3—Manilla, phi 1-
liplne Isles, 10,000 persons perished.
186S, August 13—15—Peru and
Ecuador, 25,000 lives lost and 30,000
rendered homeless; loss of property
estimated at $300,000,000.
1875, May 16—18—San Jose de
Cueta, Colombia, 14,000 lives.
1881,March 16—Ischia, 289 hou-ee,
114 lives lost, about £38,000:4 March,
more destroyed by another shock
1SS1, April 3—Kcia, 4,000 perished.
1883, July 23—Island of Tschia, in
the bay of Naples, destroyed; 1,990
lives.
1S83, August 26—Java island was
lattered and sunk and sixteen
ethers raised their heads above the
surrounding waters. Nearly 100,000
people were buried beneath volcan
ic df bris or swept off the face of the
nd by the volcanic wave.
1884-85— Andalusia, 745 persons
killvd, 1,4S5, injured and 17,000 build
ings damaged.
1885,—Sarinagur and numerous
villages almost destroyed.
ISS6, August 28—Morea and tie
land of Zante, several villages
:id 300 lives.
GENERAL NU-7S-
wood, when in high spirits he set out on , vr:i p around the little bleeding toe.
the woodland path, only to find a de- -
sorted house at the end of it. He re
peated the visit at odd intervals during
the rest of the summer and fall, but
“And now, - he said, as gayly as he felt
to be consistent with a bad conscience,
“fishermen always carry their catch
home. I belive, and you can not walk.”
She yielded to this arrangement, say
ing. “It isn't far—I had just started out
to wade up stream for ferns.
always with the same result, till he
finally pave up in despair, and came
near to believing that he had never been
lost in the redwoods, but had fallen
isleep on an enchanted hill-side (as
Grimm’s people do) and dreamed the
whole Thing.
It was late in Septemberof the follow
ing year before John Westwood felt able
to take his annual vacation from busi
ness cares. But the days grew so '-arm capturing Amy so cruelly. But at his
that he determined to break away from j wedding, some months later, he confided Journal,
the hot pavements and ceaseless noise ot I b** friends at lam that it was the i
league used to meet in the rath-haus
(town hall) here, particularly affecting
the large and well-filled cellars apper
taining thereto. In one of these cellars
is a vault containing twelve hogsheads
of old wine: each cask is named after an
apostle. In an adjoining vault is a thir
teenth cask bearing the device of a rose;
on the ceiling is a large, gigantic figure
of the same flower. It is from the num
ber of secret meetings which took place
here that the term “sub-rosa” is derived.
The bleikeller, or lead cellar, has
A correspondent of the Taghlatt
at Frazensbad had an interview
with M. Je Giers, in which the Rus-
ian foreign minister said he would
return to St. Petersburg ,.i, Septem
ber 3. He would govi.i Bcrdn, and
have another conference with
Prince Bismarck. Nothing fin:
had been decided with re. ar.l
Bulgaria in his recent inte i
with the Ge. man chancellor, a* .
was not known then that Pritici
Alexander would return to Sofia.
M. de Giers said he did not knnu
what the Czar’s presenr intentions
were, but he was sure lius = ia wouio
not occupy Bulgaria while that
country was tranquil. Russia’s po
sition would be very delicate and
critical, should Prince Alexander
ii sist upon the execution of the no-n
who led the conspiracy again.-:!
him.
M. de Giers spoke in condemna-
„ „ . . . „ peculiar property of preserving bodies
So Paul and Yirgmia wrse, carefully which heve been buried in it. Although
over the stones and up me road he bore ^ open case6 , so me have been kept for
ha sweet burden, to the door cf Hepsi- nearlv 200 vears. There are two o- three
dam. where many explanations were the other places in Europe which have the
order ofrhe day. same power, as in Bordeaux and some ■ tiin of Prince Al x odor’s course,
Mr. Desart gave him the long deferred ^ of Italy-there, however, the am! alludin* t.. England’s action ir.
le.ter, and they all forgave him for mon ks attribute the effect to miracles, the c-cmi-e- said she n-ed i-vi • -
not to natural ca-tsea—Cor. Albany , Iline , hat Plime w | thi „ - r c ,
- — j a-i iastrumc ut agr it.3t Rm si..
It is encouraging 'o n t • th it thi
•ountry fiom one end to the oiln >
scorning to Ihs relief of Chc.rlc
on.
Special A cent \Y. E. Speer, (
he supervising architect’s offic
,ies beer, directed to i roeppd inrnn.
iately to Cliarlesti u t<> insj ■ i; am
report on the condition of the po-
dfiee and the United States custne
house buildings in that city.
Thousands of copies of the Czar’.-
reply to Prince Alexander havi
been printed by order of tlie Rus
sian consul, and distributed among
the people of Bulgaria. It is be
lieved that Russia will give the
throne to the Duke of Oldenburg,
who is the commander of a cavalry
division at St. Petersburg, and a
favorite of the Czar.
Since the occurrence of the earth
quake shock the artesian well in
front of the council chamber in
Selma has almost ceased to flow,
the stream now being about the
size of an ordinary lead pencil
It runs less than a gallon to the
minute. This well was especially
known for the mineral properties
its water contained, and was used
largely.
For some time it has been sup
posed that George Potts, of Frank
lin, was dead. He disappeared
mysteriously, left a letter to his
friends, and everything pointed con
clusively to his suicide. Lately
however, he has appeared in sever
al place.-. His alleged suicide wa:
to relieve his bondsmen in some
legal troubles into which he hai
fallen in Alabama, and he worked
his scheme admirably.
t Postmaster Gon’i Steven
son received a largenumber of tch
grams from prominent ciiizens •.
Nashville, Tonn., requesting that
the widow of Genera' 15. F. (.'heat-
ham be appointed to succeed her
iiusband as postmaster at Nashvill
They represent that she is thorough
ly competent and worthy and th
choice of tlie people. No action in
the maHer can be taken until th-
return of the President and Post
master-general.
Richard Payne, a young man
from Floyd county, serving a year’s
sentence in the penitentiary, escap
ed from Rising Town furnace in
Dade county on July 20th. (’-ol.
Towers, principal keeper of the
penitentiary, received notice Sep
tember 6 from the guard at the
furnace that young Payna had been
returned b. his father, who desired
him to serve out his term, and ex
plained that Richard had been in
duced by others to escape.
A special to the Advance from
Pulaski station, Pulaski county, Va ,
say*capitalists are buy’ng all
mineral lands in south-^est Virgin
ia. Northern capitalists purchased
a large tract on Saturday near here,
paying $34,000 cash. Two iron
millionaires from Pennsylvania
will arrive to-morrow, and a largo
party ot northern and English
capitalists will be here this week.
Several narrow guage road? will be
built immediately to connect with
the Norfolk and Western road at
this place. Iron ore assayed rues
55 per cent pure steel. Owners of
mineral lands of all kinds are
greatly excited.
The sudden outbreak of the Exve'-
-ior geyser in the Yellowstone Park
preceded the widely extended
earthquake shocks of the more
eastern country by a day or two.
This geyser is the largest and the
most powerful known in the world,
and is of recent development to the
public knowledge. It has played for
a. period, and then ceased for jear3
It coines from out of that fearful
body of hot water popularly known
in the park as “Hell’s Half-Acre.’
This immense spring covers an acre
and a quarter of ground, and flows
over on the east side into the Fire-
hol river, which it reaches in a
icataract of boiling water, descend-
ng over a surface of fhe most gor
geous colors, in which yellow, or
ange, red and rose tints appear
upon a white ground.
The tax digests of the different
counties ■ontaining the returns of
the taxable property of the State
for the present year have reached
the comptroller-general’-, office, as
cu-tomary, in a v* ry scattering
. • eeii11 . -Turnof ih xa-
> , r q.erty, i ' personal, con-
iedi ine *i• $301.'-28.153.
i nai is i n tile assumption [nai in,
Fulton digest is correct, which,
however, has not yet been finally
accepted by the contrr Her. Last
year the return of this class of
property was $299,146,798. These
figures show an increase in the class
of property returned in the county
tax digests of $7,381,355. The total
v ah ■ . . ed by the tax digests
do notent th ■ fetal taxable
property of the Stele. There must
be $22,1:38,972, which the railroad
property of the State is subject to
taxation. This will r'v. f t-1
of the taxable pr ■ .. • ,
of $329.19/ ’25. $7.3-. ..
not » v iv -i i
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