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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. Baldness may be avoided by tho use of Hall’s Ilair Renowcr, which prevents the falling out of the hair and stimulates it to renewed growth and luxuriance. It also restores faded or gray hair to its original dark color and radically cures nearly every dis ease of the scalp. ,