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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. .
HOW BABTHOUAEBS ABB OAUSMD.
It has been asked oflate whether the
hurricanes which followed by the
Spanish earthquakes were net pro
siu ced by those subterranean disturb
jftioes, and all-expHiiilng electricity
has been called upon to explain how
earth-throes might have caused at
mospt eric disturbances. I know ef
no a yin which such consequences
cou' i \ave followed from a displace
ment or the earth’s crust. To me it
seems far more natural to conclude
that the hurricanes and earthquakes
were alike produced (the hurricanes
chiefly, the earthquakes partially) by
the atmospheric compression which
proceeded the subterranean disturb
ances. This compression indicated a
heaping of air over the disturbed re
gion; the earth’s crust fielded u titter
this increase of pressure, combined
with Hie action of other forces, and
earthquakes followed ; the compressed
Aigswcpl away te regions oCless pres
eurcand the rarefaction following lod
in the usual way to the indraught,
which precedes a cyclone disturbance
in the air.
But while the act ion of altnosphereic
pressure in helping to excite subter
ranean activities must not be over
looked, the varying pressure excited
by seas and oceans is a more potent
disturbing factor. Atmospheric
pressure is distributed in such a way
that though the weight of air on any,
given area is continually changing,
tlipre are ho sharply defined lutes, at
any time, which separate region's of
greater pressure. It i otherwise
with the sea along shoreline. Here
we have the sea acting with constant
ly varying intensity, as its level
changes, on the seaward* side ot the
shore line, while on the landwaad side
there are no such variations of pres
sure. Let us consider what this
means. Take.a tolerably straight
shore line 500 miles in length, and
suppose that this shore line a region
of ocean 100 miles broad rises t hrough
a height of three feet under the coiq
bineit action of sub and moon raising
a tidal wave, and favoring strong
winds urging the water shoreward
Then WO have 50,000 square miles of
sea-water, three feet deep, added
as so much dead-weight to that part
of the earth’s crust which underlies
the seas along that shore. Each
square mile contains itt round num
bers 3,000,000 square yards, or 27.000,-
000 square feet. The additional
weight corresponds, then (as the
added layer is three feet, deep, to 50,-
000 times 91,000,000 cubic feet of wa
ter each weighing 64 1 j pounds, or to
116,000,000,000, tons. It is cioar that
the addition of so enormous a weight
as this to the submerged part of the
earth’s crust, outside the shore line,
may well produce strains too great
to be insisted. It must be remeiiiUr
that the very existence of a precipi
tous shore line (as distinguished from
one where the land above water and
the parts submerged form one great
slope) indicates the comparative
weakness ef the crust along that coast.
It has yielded on one aide to pressure
thrusting it upward above the sea
level, and on the other side to the
pressure ef the water forcing it down.
It is true, the actual line of yielding
may not coincide with the existent
shoreline. For the action of the sea
waves mav (and generally must) have
altered the position of the coast from
that which it occupied when first
formed. But it may be taken for
granted that not far from every preci
pitous shore line lies a line of weak
ness where the crust have war in the
past, any may again. In this consid
eration undoubtedly we find a part of
the explanation of the observed fact
that almost all the great regions of
subterranean activity on the earth lie
near the shore.
But while the changes of atmos
pheric and oceanic pressure are potent
factors in the production of earth
quakes, and are probably in the great
numbers *f cases their directoicasion,
it is, of course, to the subterranean
regions themselves that We must look
for the forces at work in upheaving the
crust ef the earth. The forces acting
from the outside are as the pull on the
trigger; the imprisioned gases and va
pors generated by internal heat arc as
the powder by whose explosion the
missile is ejected.
Yet even in considering the earth’s
subterranean activities we still have
to look outside for a part at lest of the
causes of disturbance. The air per
haps may iu this respect he neglected,
but the water is all-important. It
Jiaoboen said, indeed, and probably
with a nearer approach to truth than
usual in the rase of generalizations of
,I he srt ‘'Without wafer there ran be
no volcano,” aud a stmillar rule (not
quite so generaL) applies to earth
quakes; few probably occur, possibly
none, save through the actingor water
in some way or other. All active
volcanoes except one (in mid Asia)
are by the sea-shotc. Nearly all the
great earthquakes reorded by history
have taken place, and have apparent
ly had their centre of disturbance,
near the sea.
There can be little doubt, indeed,
that the direct cause of every great
subterranean disturbance is water in
the form of steam —steam superheat
ed. under great pressure, and there
fore possessing much greater expan
sive power than steam at ordinary
temperatures.— Richard A. Proctor
in Harper's Magazine for .Tune.
A SUIT FOBDIVOBGB.
The Lower Seventeenth Furnishes Ms.
terislfor s Sensational Divorce Suit.
(CartersTille American.)
A prominent attorney of this city
tiled in the Superior Court on last
Friday a libel for divorce that eon
tains some pccular aud unusual
statement. The petitioner is a young
man of Taylorsville, and the young
wile lives just across the county line
in Polk. Out of a feeling of kindness
we forbear to give the names of the
panics implicated, though the whole
affair is now public property since it
has become n part of tho record of
the county. The leading facts as con
taitted in the petition ate about as fol
lows :
On Monday evening or last week
two strong men came to the house of
the young man who brings this
suit, and charged him with having
seduced the sister of otto of the men,
and told him that Its had to go at
once and marry tho injured girl,
lie denied the pharge of seduction
owl refused to go. They told him
that he either had to go or die. One
of the men then drew a pistol and told
him that he had come prepared to
make him go. The petition then con
tinues “and petitioner being unarm
ed and defenseless was compelled to
go, and they took petitioner to the
house of th* said gtrl on said 4lh of
May and guarded Ifim there all night
and sent for license and on the sth of
May compelled him to marry her
against his will and cottsen', or lose
his life, she saying at the time that
petitioner was not tho cause of the
trouble. After said marriage the
said girl was brought by her brother
to the house of petitioner’s mother
and tnere left. And petitioner avers
that said marriage was obtained by
force, tnenaaes and duress and there
fore petit ionempnys that tne same
may be annulled and declared void
and divorce bo granted.” We give
these facts as we find them itt the pe
tition. The other side will doubtless
have something to say by way of jus
tification and some peculiar develop
ments may he expected.
“Ladies’ Day at the Ranch” is the
taking title of a paper iu the forth
coming (June) Hubert, decribing
life on a Western ranch, owned by
“quite an ideal firm”—“consisting as
it did of a Millionaire blissfully in
different to llie wajrs in which his
millions were being spent, a Man ol
Leisure, with nothing to do but to
travel —for tlie best interests of the
’concern' —between Yew York and
Carnoiro, and an enthusiast who de
sired nothing but the privilege of
doing all the work.” It was the
Enthusiast, of course, who lived at
ihe ranch, and one spring the fam
ily of the Man of Leisure took it .into
their head* to visit him, and liked
the life so well that they stayed from
April to November. The paper
gives a very lively description of
that life, its perils and fascinations—
cyclones for inslauce and prairie fires
and one of its most entertaining bits
is the written description sent by the
hoit to his propcctive visiiors, in the
way of travelling directions —a
strange enough piece of literature to
those accustomed to the well-marked
roads of settled states. The paper is
written by Alice Wellington Rollins,
and charmingly illustrated by It.
Swain Gifford and his wife.
Two female tramps recently passed
through Gainesville.
WASHINGTON, GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1885.
OAYBNNB PEPFE* lITI A PISTOL.
Mrs *H ell Blinds Her Husband and Then
Shoots at him.
(rromgaturdii.v'a Sew York Tribune.
Bcthpagc is a cluster of houses be
tween the villages of Farmingdale
and Ilicksville. L. I. It is so small
that none of the trains oil the Long
Island Railroad atop there. Until
Wednesday it had never been credited
with furnishing so choice a morsel
for gosip jo the villages around it,
as was then supplied, and milder wg§
only prevented by tho unsteady arm
of a women, who, alter blinding lie*
husband with cayenne pepper, at -
tempted to shoot him far abiadoning
her and two children. Ten years ago
Edward Builcr and Nellie Bedell, of
Mannetto Hill, were married. Both
were well known in the neighborhood
and their wedding was long the talk
among the villagers. After fouryears
of happy wedded life Edward died,
leaving a handsome widow and two
attractive children. For one year
Mrs. Butler wore the widows weeds
and her grief was apparently most
sincere. It caused no little surprise
when after twelve months she dis
carded black and canto out in colors.
Her deceased husband’s name she
als* forgot and requested that her
friends call her by her maiden mime.
Mathias Hell, a young German, was
then living at Breslau and paid occa
sional vis'is to Mannetto Hilt, where
the widow and her children lived
with her parents. Hell had jusi re
turned from Germany, where he had
Inherited a small fortune. Ho was
good looking and dressed well, and
this with Ills good nature and pleas
ant ways soon gained him entrance
to the widow’s heart and a prominent
place lit Iter affections and the couple
wore united in marriage. The sec
anu marriage of the woman was not
one of continued happiness. Fornyear
or more the money felt to the husband
lasted, but after it had been expended
Mathias began to sell the property
his wife had felt to her by her parents,
who died shortly aftet her second
marriage. Two month* ago, on com
plaint oFliiswifc, ho was arrcstftd for
failing to support his family and tak
en before Justice Foxwell, who sent.
him to Queens county jailfor thirty
days. After walking back toliethpage
he determided to do better and work
for Ids family, and he secured em
ployment al Woodbury.
On Wednesday evening alter fin
ishing his work lie started to walk to
the. house where his wife lived to try
to effect some compromise, and tell
Iter ot his future intentions. When
he had walked about half the distance
between Woodbury and Bethpagc lie
met his wife coming toward him. It
was just dark, and she was nearly at
his .side when he recognized her. The
word “Nellie” had just escaped in's
lips when her right hand was raised
in the air, and before ho could design
her intentions it decended, and as it
did his face was covered and his eyes
filled with cayenne paper. “My God.
lam blinded!” he screamed, as ho
staggered aimlessly around, and as he
reach out his hand toward where ho
had seen iter standing a pistol shot
rang out, and the bullet whizzed past
his head in such close proximity that
there* cou!.l he no doubt as to the in
tention of the mind that caused it.
“Don’t kill me; don’t kill me!” en
treated the blind man as he fell against
the fence in front of tlie house ef Far
mer Bnrtncll. His request was fol
lowed by a recoud and third shot in
rapid succession, and as the echo of
the last died away Mr. BurtncU
threw open the front door of his
bouse and, with lamp in hand, hur
ried out to learn the cause of the cries
and shots. Reaching the gate he
heard the groans of Hell as lie lay lie
side thej fem e, and hastening to ids
side demanded to know the cause.
“Nellie’s blinded me, I can’t see!”
replied the man, as lie was assisted
to his feet and helped into the house.
Mr. Buronell hurried fo Hlckville tor
it physical!. It is feared that the
nerves of his eyes are injured, and the
sight can never be restored. AVhen
Mr. BurtncU reached the road to of
fer Ilell assistance he did not see any
woman. Yesterday Justice Foxwell,
qf Farmingdalc, received a note di
rected by 1101 l asking for advice in
the case. The justice responded at
enoe, and it is probable that a war
rant will be issued for the arrest of
the women. Mrs. Hell refused to say
anything about the escapade, but
those acquainted with say that if she
is arrested she will tell an interesting
story. Her husband .is being cared
{or by neighbors.
THB GEOBOIA BONOS.
(Burner Watchman.)
Go*. McDaniel borrowed the en
tire amount 53.455,000 authorized by
the act of the legislature, from a ftjw
gentleman in New York, at four and
a half per ceht. This (Imply means
that in the next thirty years, the sum
of 54,664.250, is to be sent out of the
state to New York, to pay tho interest
and at the end of that time to be fol
lowed by the principal, making about
eight million in all. We are one of
those )ylte believe that these bonds
cop I<l all have been sold in Georgia.
The .nferest than would have been
annually paid out here to our own
people and the money kept at homo.
It is no answer to this to say Hint it
could not have been borrowed here
at four and a half per cent. Sup
pose it could not, in our judgment it
is better to have let the bonds been
taken by out-own people at five per
cent, than to send them to New York
at lira rand a half. We believe itt
the policy of Hie state borrowing
from its own citizens, Chen the motl
ey that is taken out of nut- pockets in
the wavofjtaxes is paid back piotnnlo
in Hie shape of interest. Asa general
rule, all governments with good cred
it sell their bonds to their own citi
zens. Of course some of them find
their way abroad, anti are taken by
foreign holders, but the bulk of them
are owned at home. It is a sound
policy for the reason that it keeps
the money at homo among our own
people. Under this arrangement of
the governor’s with Messrs. Wolfl'c
anil Rogers more than a hundred
and fifty thousand dollars of taxes
every year for the next thirty years
will he sent out of the slate to New
Yoii. We firmly believe that all
this money could have been kept here
in Georgia. All lie can do was lo ac
cept the Georgia bids anil give oth
ers who did not hid in tho slato an
opportunity by private contract. Be
sides, lithe governor will make the
calculation he will see that at tivo per
reittyjouds sold at 106j a ' is less than
half, and nomu of the
were over 107 for the
five pier cents. But suppose lie hud
let the whole amount go toGoorgians
at par and five per cent, it would
have been hotter titan soiling them
i* New York at four and a half. It
would not do to say that tho interest
of the state in its corporate capacity
can he separated from the interest of
the people of the stato. There is no
such thing as a good trade far tho
stale, but a bad ono for the people.
It it is bad for tiie people, it is bud for
the state.
uccordlng to ihe published bids in
the Constitution, every city in the
state except Atlanta offered the Gov
ernor large sums of money at five per
cent. There is no reason to believe
tlint in the case of Atlanta it is only
a temporary stringency, anil that,
twelve, months from now there will
lie a great deal more money there
than bids indicate is the condition at
present. Rut be this as it may, there
is plenty of it now all over the stale.
If this trade with tlio New Yorkers
could be rescinded, and the governor
will give our own people a chance,
they will buy his five per cents, and
take them at a premium.
But suppose they were not taken all
the governer might have offered
them here first, as a sort of
popular loan, which was the idea of
the introducer of the original bill,
Mr. Russell, of Clarke, and given our
people a chance. Then what they
did not take, could all the same have
been sold to outsiders, at just as good
figures.
We are sorry to see this everlast
ing drain of money out of the state
going on. AVe believe Ihe governor
is conscientious, and did what he
thought was best, but we regret to
have to think that his action needless
ly swells this outgoing stream.
Eight million of principal and inter
est, in the next thirty years, drawn
out of the pockets of our p*ple, and
sent to New York to stay—that is
what it amounts to.
Belmont, N. H., boasts of a woman
who goes and chops wood with her
husband. It is quite a common thing
for a woman to mop the floor with
her husband, but we never heard of
chopping wood with them.
The measles are thick in some por
tions of Meriwether county.
A DETBOTIVB ON CBIMINALB.
Ths TronbU of Taklnsr Thsm tr on Ono
Fort of tho Country to Another.
“The majority imagine that because
a man commits a crime his whole
life changes and ho becomes a reck
less and desperate character,,’ said
Detective Larkins.
A critical glance at the detective
revealed the fact that he very much
resembled the others who follow his
calling in New York, at least as to the
big moustache and general air of
prosperity. If a Now York detective
is divorced from his big moustache
and his snug fitting-sack coat with
the lapels well turned he is dis
guised.
“I have in my lime made journeys
a good deal with criminals ghat is, I
have gone to points distant from New
York, and taken fugitives to tho home
authorities. After every trip of that
sort men have asked me whether I
bad much trouble with the prisoner,
and they seem surprised to learn that
ine.i are still sensible, after they com
mit crimes. The last man I travelled
with was arrested at Niagara Falls,
ami I travelled from lhat point witli
him to New Orleans. It was a long
trip, and the prisoner was wanted for
a SIO,OOO, embezzlement. If the man
hadn't been a fool, he might have
been enjoying the money yet. He
was a small clerk in New Orleans, and
it was his custom to make out checks
for the cashier to sign. Occasionally
Hie cashier would sign blank checks
aud allow tho small clerk to fill them
out with small amounts, like $2 or $3
lor instance. One day the small
clerk took one of those small checks,
filled it out for a nice little SIO,OOO
and took the first train for Niagara.
As an illustration oftlie lax manner
in which business houses trust their
clerks, I may'mention the fact that
it usually takes a month’s hard work
to close up tho business and make a
detailed report to tho Secretary.”
this same small clerk had swindled
another business house out of another
few thousand dollars in the sott.e
way. The youth took hisslo,ooo and
went to Niagara Falls and painted
the Falls poa green. lie was a very
popular young tnan around there for
a time. He gavo philopena presents
of diamond lockets and the llko to
every young woman of pleasing exte
rior on either (side of the Falls,
bought out tho local jeweler, and
spent about S2X3O in a week. His
popularity was at the highest point
when I arrived. 1 found the most
popular man of the neighborhood on
the Canada side whooping her up
joyously. I told him he was wanted
in Now Orleans and he looked pained.
Then he brightened up said he was
on tho Canada side and we couldn’t
get him. I said it was onlyamattcr
timewhen tho government would
give him up for forgery and he
might as well sav# tho government
needless expense. Ho didn’t know
you see that he was wanted simply
(or embezzlement and not for forgery.
Had he known it lie would have
been secure on the Canada side.
“I talked witli him half an hour, and
then ho walked across the bridge, and
wo put up at a hotel on the American
side. I had him watched and wont
around to see the Philopena girls. In
loss than a day I recovered all the
jewelry, except a locket which a girl
who lived in Port Huron had taken
home with her. Then I lighted a
cigar and sat down by the bedside of
that interesting young criminal while
he slept. He enjoyed his sleep with
calm repose. He arose the next morn
ing and ate a hearty breakfast. Mean
while I was so fagged out of my
self that I couldn’t eat a mouthful.
Then the the criminal and I got into
a car and started for New Orleans.
All that day lie smiled and enjoyed
himself, and I watched him. Of
course, I did not care to go to sleep.
That night I made him take all his
clothes off and get into an upper
berth. I sat on tho edge of a lower
berth with my clothes on. This
made two sleepless nights. The crimi
nal was healthy and enjoying himself.
The foilwing night I put him to bed
again and sat on the edge of the berth
until wo arrived at New Orleans.
AVhen wo got off the tram I looked
like an abandoned and dissipated
housebreaker, and he was as fresh
andvosyas the morn. It just shows
that it is no trouble to care take of
criminals on a journey.
Floyd county jail has only three
prisoners within its walls.
NO. 21
BXy.SAN JONES.
(Huh Tills American.)
AVOIRDUPOIS.
God goes by weight and measure.
There’s many a big, fat, wtll-fed
member of the church in rhis town
who will pull dawn 200 pounds avoir
dupois, but if he be pnt on God’w
scales his wsight would not be felt.
(Laughter.)
I was once preaching in a lowiv
and said to the pastor ef the church ;
“Why, your people don’t laugh.*
He replied: “Intelligence don’t gig
gle.” I always since have taken that
as a pointer.
HYPOCRISY.
Now, just listen ; there’s old man
A., who’s terribly down on dancing
and thinks it a great sin. Ho comes
up to the church and says if you don’t
turn out a certain member for danc
ing he’ll leave the church. Now that
old fellow don’t sin In dancing, but if
you examine you; can find where ho
had been loaning out money ai 30 per
cent interest.
Brother B. don’t dance and don’t
loan out money at usurious rates, and
he wants those who do to be turned
out of the church. Tins same churclr
member can be tolled to hell with a
demijohn of whisky. Another mem
ber who don’t have either one of tl]
above vices thinks himself a good
Christian and has progressive euchre
parties in his house. That’s the sort
of members that our churches are
made up of.
LAZY CHRISTIANS
Of course, there were lots of church
members here who would sleep until
7 o’clock. There’s many a good Meth
odist, Baptist and Presbyterian in
this city who wouldn’t turn over in
his bed to save Nashville from hell.
Now, brother, at about 7 o’clock you
turn over in bed and say to your
wife, “Here’s the biggest old hum
bug in the world,”and let your wife
while she's dressing look in the glass ’
and say, “Weil here’s the biggest
humbuggress.”
PIETY AND CLUBS.
There isn’t enough fire in hell to
make piety and club life mix. I’vo
got no respect for a member of tho
.church that pays more to a godleso
thing than to the source of salvation.
If your club’s a pious institution, let’s
have a meeting (here to-morrow
night, We can’t go into all the rooms
of course, for wo’U run up on bottles.
If I have overstated tho case, and
you will take mo up there and show
that I am wrong I will take it back
to-msrrow night. Society is wrong
at the top. I can’t get the laborer to
give to the church and he religious
when that old Judge is swearing and
drinking. If you have money and are
not using it to increase the religion of
this world you will end in hell. If
there is anything I have pity for it 19
a poor and nngodly man. To be
poor in this world, and then go to
hell too, is awl'ul; ain’t it ? (Laugh-*'
ter.)
FAITH AND INTELLECT.
I have got a contempt for a man
that will sit down and play cards.
Lord have mercy on us! I thought
Nashville was a veryintelluctual town
You have had a very intellectual
preacher hero. AVho’s quit drinking,
gambling or dancing because he has
been here? AVc want a religion that
touches the conscience, not the intel
lect.
THE RCOT OF ALL EVIL
It’s four story houses and groomod
horses and four servants to a family
that is running Nashville. 110 then in
voked the assistance of tho church in
this movement and said that if God
would rally around him SOOChristian
men and women he would show tho
people that there was a God in Israel.
THE PAPERS.
In a town in Georgia once—a fash
ionable town—l preached about their
drinking and bails, and ail that, and
the papers there said it was vulgar
and ill bred. They said more about
me than I believed. That’s one thing
I don’t like about the newspapers.
Everybody believes all they read in
them. I didn’t believe one-half what
the papers of that town said of me.
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