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J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME V.
Central & Southwestern HaiMs.
f All traini of ihii system are run by Stand
lid (90) Meridian time, which is 36 minutes
ilower than time kept by city.]
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24, 1886.
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE PASSEN
GER TRAINS on the Central and South
western Railroads and branches will run. as
follows:
GOING NORTH.
Leave No. 61— No. 63
Savannah...D 8 40am.. D 810 pm
Leave No. li—
D 6 40pm..
Arrive No. 16—
Uilleu D 8 45pm..
Arrive No. 61— No. 68—
4ugnsta....D 346 pm.. D 616 am
Uaoon D 420 pm.. D* 320 am
ktlanta D 9 35pm.. D 782 am
Qolumbus...D 6 23am.. D 216 pm
ferry DEB 8 46pm.. DES 12 00 m
Fort Gaines DES 4 38pm
Blakeley .DES 710 p m
Eufaula D. 4 01pm
Llbany D 10 45 p m.. D 246 p m
Montgomery D 7 26 p m
Uilledgeville DBS 6 49pm
Eatonton .. .DES 740 p m
Connections at Terminal Points.
At Auguata—Trains 61 and 68 connect with
outgoing trains of Georgia Railroad,Columbia,
Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and South
Carolina Railroad. Train 53 connects with
outgoing train of Augusta and Knoxville Rail
road. Train 61 connects with trains fur Syl
rania, Wrightsvilie and Louisville.
At Atlanta—Trains 61 and 63 connect r.’
iir-Line and Kennesaw routes to all pr
North and East, and with all diverging r
for local stations.
COMING SOUTH.
Leave —Nos. Nos.
Iliilen.. .16 D 600 am..
Augusta.lß D 9St a in. .20 D 930 pm
Maoon.. .52 D 940 a m.. 64 D 10 50 p m
Atlanta. .52 D 600 am.. 54 D 6 50pm
Columb’s 20 D 900 pin..6D 11 40 am
Perry.... 24 DES 600 am..22DES 300 pm
Ft. Gaines 28 '* 10 05 am
Slakoley 20 8 15 a m
Eufaula 2D 10 55 am
Albany.. 4 D 4 10am..21D 12 15 pm
Montg'ry 2D 7 40 am
MUlMg’ve 25 DES 687 am
Eatonton 25 DES 515 a m
Arrive—No.
Bavannah 16 D 8 05 am.. No.
Savannahs2 D 407 pm. .54 D 600 a m
Connections at Savannah, with Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway for all points in
Florida.
Trains Nos. 63 and 64 will not stop to take
on or put off passengers between Savannah
and Millen, as trains Noe. 15 and 16 are ex
pected to do the way business between these
points.
Local sleeping oars on all night passenger
tiains between Savannah and Augusta, Savan
nah and Macon, Savannah and Atlanta, Maoon
and Columbus.
Tickets for all points and sleeping car berths
on salo at city offioe, No. 20 Bull street.
G. A. Whitehead, WILLIAM ROGERS,
Gen. Pass. Agt. Gen. Supt., Savannah.
J. O. Shaw, W. F. SHELLMAN,
Gan. Trav. Agt. Trafflo Manager,
Savannah, Ga.
"D." dally, “DES,” dally except Sunday.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS.
GEORGIA.
There were twenty-four vessels in the
port of Brunswick Saturday.
More mules have been scld in Dawson
than any place on the Southwestern road.
The nrtesian well at the Brunswick
and Western shops in Brunswick is now
734 feet deep, at which depth marl iron
was encountered.
All the mechanics in Dawson are en
gaged in erecting new residences and
other buildings. Dawson is progressing
and the progress is on a solid foundation.
A negro was found dead on Mrs.
Peter’s plantation in Terrell county one
day last week. He went out hunting
and it is supposed accidentally shot him
self.
The county commissioners of Dougher
ty county have let the contract for the
erection of a free iron bridge across
Flint river at Albany, for $8,400. The
bridge is to hg completed by the 20th of
July next.
The general expenses for Cherokee
county ior last year were $9,809.40, in
cluding $2,680 for the paupers’ home
and improvements thereon, for the sup
port of the paupers is only s7Bl.o7,while
in 1885 it was $2,707.52.
Minerals of all kinds continue to be
found in Murray county. The people of
Spring Place were shown a tine specimen
of anthracite coal by Mr. F. Vomberg
the other day, who states that he has
large quantities of it.
The steamer Stewart brought to Haw
kinsvillc a very large cargo last Satur
day, consisting of one hundred and nine
ty-tix barrels of rosin, nine barrels spirits
turpentine, forty-three bales cotton, and
one buggy, besides other miscellaneous
freight.
The board of health of Brunswick held
a meeting on Saturday and adopted reso
lutions as follows: “Whereas, smallpox
being now prevalent in Now York city.
Resolved, That all vessels arriving in this
port from New York be required to re
main in quarantine till inspected by the
health officer.
Jesup has a population of 876, twenty
five stores, four hotels, four churches,
two schools, two doctors, two lawyers,
one barber shop, one steam saw mill with
grist mill and cotton gin attached, and
last but not least, one newspaper. The
people are anxiously waiting for the two
railroads, so that they can have a depot.
The murder of Susan Hill, for which
John Arthur was hanged, is again being
examined iuto by the grand jury of Jack
son county. The people have never been
supplied with a satisfactory motive to
prompt Arthur to do that bloody deed,
and it seems that someone else must be
implicated before a consistent story of
the murder can be had. New evidence,
it is said, has been brought to light.
On last Friday night burglars entered
the house of Samuel Pasco, at McConnell,
in Cherokee county, and took from a
chest SI,OOO or more. Mr. Pasco, wife
and daughter were sleeping in the room,
and had left a light burning. They think
chloroform must have been used, for Mr.
Pasco, who is very feeble, slept soundly,
something unusual for him. The chest
containing the money was locked.
(The Penis and ifarmre
A BOSTON BIOT.
Street Our Strikers M.bbln* the Police of
the Modern Athene
A serious riot occurred in East Cam
bridge Sunday afternoon as a result of
the recent street car tie up. Shortly
after noon a large crowd of strikers and
their sympathizers gathered on Main
street, Cambridgedort, and as various
cars of the Cambridge line passed con
ductors and drivers were hooted as
‘ ‘scabs.” At 1:30 p. m. there was a
great mob at the junction of the Webster
street line with that on Main street, and
as a car turned into Webster avenue the
mob began hurling bricks and stones at
the car and its occupants. By the time
the car got through the crowd it was a
complete wreck. Each succeeding car
was similarly treated until no less than
five cars had been badly damaged. Then
the police were telephoned for, and with
in twenty minutes a large force of officers
arrived on the scene. The mob had by
this time been worked up to a high de
gree of excitement, and when the officers
attempted to disperse the crowd they
met with determined resistance. Bricks
and stones were thrown at tha police and
many of the officers were wounded.
They then charged the mob with drawn
revolvers, and it instantly scattered in all
directions About a dozen of the strikers
were ariested and conveyed to the police
station. A little later the mob assem
bled again further down the nvenue and
wrecked another car. The police, rein
forced by a mounted squad, now charged
the crowd on “double” quick, and the
mob dispersed alongside the streets after
discharging a volley of bricks at the po
lice. These missiles took effect in a dozeD
cases, and as many officers were more or
less seriously injured. Another lot of
prisoners was taken and the station house
was filled with those arrested. None of
those injured are thought to he fatally
hurt. There was no further trouble after
the last dispersion of the mob on Webster
avenue.
AUSTRALIAN RABBITS.
The Commissioner of Agriculture Appealed
fo Prevent Importation.
The Agricultural Department has re
ceived many letters from different parts
of the country with reference to the in
troduction of Australian rabbits into this
country. Commissioner Colman says:
“There is no Australian rabbit, no spe
cies being native to that country. '1 lie
rabbit that has done so much harm in
Australia and New Zealand is an intro
duced species—namely, the common rab
bit of Europe. While there is no posi
tive evidence to show that the European
rabbit would be the curse in this country
that it is in Australia and New Zealand
yet there is no proof to the contrary, and
its introduction here would be, to say the
least, unnecessary and hazardous experi
ment. As to the power of any officer of
the country to prevent the introduction
of this pest into the United States, I know
of no law conferring any such authority.
Congress might enact a law conferring
upon the Commissioner of Agriculture
power to prevent the landing of any ani
mal in the United States which in his
opinion would be injurious to agriculture
on the same principal that it prevents the
introduction of cattle affected with con
tagious diseases. Unless there is pre
meditated importation by dealers, there
would seem to be no occasion for alarm,
as this rabbit lias during three centuries
of communication with Europe not been
introduced, or at least has not become
established, and there would seem to be
still less danger in future.”
FROM OUR CAPITAL.
The Bill to Provide for the National Dtfuu
Completed.
The house committee on military af
fairs has completed its bill to provide for
the national defense and it will be pre
sented to the house as soon as the report
can be prepared.
It appropriates $2,500,000 for the pur
chase of rough finished forgings for steel
rifled, high power guns for the coast de
fense, of eight, ten and twelve-inch cali
bre; $680,000 for the ercctiou and equip
ment of a factory for finishing the afore
said heavy guns; $500,000 for the con
struction of twelve-inch rifled mortars;
$600,000 for torpedo boats, torpedoes
and submarine mines; $250,000 for gun
carriages; $250,000 for breech-loading
steel field guns and their equipment. An
advisory board to have supervision over
the disbursement of those amounts, is
created, of which the lieutenant general
of the army is ex-officio president. This
bill was prepared by Chairman Bragg,
and is acceptable to all members of the
committee, although from the discussion
which followed its presentation, it ap
peared that several members favored
more liberal appropriation than is carried
by the bill. The speaker will be con
sulted by members of the committee as
to the best methods of getting (ho bill
before the house, but it is believed that a
chance to secure action can be found only
in the last six suspension days, when
two-thirds vote will be necessary.
DRIED PEOPLE.
Discovery of the Bodies of a Family Who
Died 2,000 Years Ago.
Col. J. 11. Wood, of St. Paul Minn.,
has received the bodies of five persons; a
man, woman, and three children, taken
from a grave in the Bad Lands of Dakota
by a miner. Tho bodies are simply dried
up. They are not petrified, and are in a
remarkable state of preservation. Scien
tific men who have seen them, say they
belong to a race which existed two thou
sand years ago. The family will be sent
to the Smithsonian Institute.
A LARGE FIND.
It is reported that some time ago Mr.
Titus Wimberly, who resides in a beauti
ful inhabitancy two miles from Loacha-
Eolka, Ada., found ten thousand dollars
uricil under grounds of an old smoke
house on the old Wimberly plantation,
owned by his father who has been dead
for several years. It is not fully -ascer
tained whether tho report is true or false,
as Mr. Wimberly heeds not to the inter
rogation concerning the found silver. He
has invested a large amount in Birming
ham’s real estate.
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INrELLEOTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF OUR COUNTY.
LOUISVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MARCH 3.1887.
FRIGHTFUL EARTHQUAKES.
FRANCE AND ITALY FEARFULLY
SHAKEN.
Many Lives Reported Lost.—The Carnival
Nice Broken Up.—Extent
of the Shocks.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt
throughout France and Italy Wednesday
doing much damage to persons and prop
erty. Associated press dispatches from
Rome says: At Nice houses rocked,
walls cracked, and in some cases frail
tenements were thrown to the ground.
People rushed from their houses and fell
upon their knees in the street, praying
for deliverance from sudden death. Vis
itors to the city became thoroughly
frightened, and are leaving the place.
Many persons were injured by falling
debris.
The shocks caused an awful surprise to
the crowds of maskers returning home
from the carnival festivals in their fancy
costumes, worn and bedraggled by the
night’s exercises, and looking dull and
dreary under the glare of the early morn
ing sunlight. The first shock created an
immediate panic.
Many casualties were caused by the
shocks. The people are panic stricken
and the entire population are in the
streets. The railway station is besciged
with visitors who are anxious to leave at
the first chance that offers.
At Marseilles the walls of a number of
buildings were cracked. Shocks were
also felt at Leghorn and Milan and several
places in the province of Genoa, Italy.
Shocks were felt with great severity at
Savona, near Genoa, and a number of
houses were wrecked and eleven persons
kilted at that place.
Two violent shocks were felt at Tnulon.
The first 6hock was of 15 seconds dura
tion and the second 12 seconds.
At Cannes, three shocks were felt at
the same hour. Many persons at that
place rushed to the seashore for safety.
At Avignon three shocks were exper
ienced between six and eight o’clock.
The first shock was very severe and
awakened everybody in the place. Sev
eral shocks were felt at Genoa at six
o’clock.
There are rumors of enormous damage
in the mountains, caused by avalanches,
set in motion by the shocks. Horses be
came restless and refused to move hours
before the event.
At Cervo, near Diano Mariija, 300 per
sons were killed by being buried in the
ruins of falling buildings. - Railway traf
fic is suspended beyond Lavona. Prison
ers in the government jail at Finalborgo,
alarmed by the earthquake, attempted to
escape, but were overcome by the guards.
The earthquake devastated the whole
of Italian Riviera. At Noli, on the gulf
of Genoa, and not far from Savona, sev
eral houses fell and fifteen persons were
killed. Six persons were killed and
thirty were injured at Oneglia, also on
the gulf of Genoa. At Diano Marino,
near Oneglia, scores of people were killed
and hundreds were injured. Fully one
third of the town was destroyed.
IN CORSICA.
Two sharp shocks were felt in Corsica.
It is reported that several persons were
killed at Mentone, where St. Michael's
church was badly damaged and the post
office wrecked. An inmate of the con
vent of the Holy Sacrament at Nice died
from fright.
THE EXTENT OF THE SHOCKS.
The shocks affected a wide eccentric
area. The first shock occurred at 6:30 a.
m., and the last at 10 p. m. Accounts
are vague and conflicting, but there seems
to have been no damage done in the in
land towns. The earthquake was felt
throughout Liguria and Piedmont, but
the wires are broken and news travels
9lowly. The people everywhere spent
the night in the open air.
The news of the earthquake was at
first disbelieved in Paris. When con
firmed it caused the greatest sensation.
Anxiety over the fate of friends was gen
eral, and the telegraph offices wers soon
crowded. Light shocks were felt at
Nimes, Privas, Valence, Grenoble and
Lyons. The gendarmerie barracks at
Mentone collapsed, and several persons
were killed or injured. Business is sus
pended almost everywhere.
Reports from various placos put the
total number killed at more than four
hundred, and many more fatally injured.
LATER NEWS.
Further dispatches from the earthquak
ing district, state that over 2,000 people
have been killed. At Nice the panic has
not subsided, and fugitives are fleeing in
every direction. The people are afraid
to re-enter their houses and hotels, nnd
the heights back of the city are crowded
with refugees. Two thousand English,
American and Russian visitors were en
camped during the night on clevuted
ground. Six thousand people have left
tho city and started for Paris.
Further details received show that the
effects arc far more serious than was at
first thought. The loss of life and de
struction of property have been terrible.
The most startling news comes from
Genose Riviera. Over
FIFTEEN nUNDRKD PEOPLE WERE KILLED
in that district. At the village of Bajar
do, situated at the top of a hill, a number
of inhabitants took refuge in a church
when the shocks were first felt. A sub
sequent and greater shock demolished'
the church, and thfee hundred people,
who were in it, were killed. The de
struction of property in sections of Italy
visited by the earthquakes was immense
and widespread.
Fifty persons were injured at Mentone
and one killed; killed two persons and
injured ten at Nice; killed four and in
jured two at Bar; killed two and injured
twelve at Bollene. At Chateau Nenf
many were injured. At Savona two
houses fell, killing nine persons and in
juring fifteen.
The total number of deaths reported
up to the present writing is about two
thousand. Shocks were felt at Parma,
Turin and Cosenza. L T ndu!ations of the
earth were noticed at Clataria, in Sicily,
at the foot of Mount Etna.
The center of the disturbance seems to
have been in tho province of Nice, on the
southeast coast of France.
No severe shock has ever been felt in
this immediate section before, though
the earthquake in Switzerland in 1861
was slightly felt along the coast. Tho
great Lisbon earthquake was also felt,
though it did no injury.
While the center of the last disturb
ance was at Nice, the area of the shock
was vast in its proportions. It was felt
distinctly in Rome and westward nlmost
to the Spanish coast of tho Mediteranean,
though no serious damage is reported in
any othor locality than in that included
in the area of a circle inscribed around
Nice, with a radius of about seventy-five
miles.
TREMENDOUS STORMS.
A Wind Storm of Groat Magnitude--Urn
Loot.
A tremendous thunder storm passed
ovei the north and west on Friday morn
ing doing much damage to persons and
property. Trains were lifted from the
tracks and dashed to pieces. A Denver,
Col., special says: “In this city many
buildings were uproofed, smoke stacks,
chimneys, and telegraph and telephone
poles leveled with the ground, and plate
glass windows broken. The damage will
reach several thousand dollars. Outside
of Denver, the casualties reported are
considerably greater than in the city. On
the Denver and Rio Grande railway, four
miles north of Colorado Springs, every
coach of the north bound Salt Lake city
express, consisting of two sleeping cars,
two passenger coaches and a bag
gage and mail car, was blown from
the track, and the mail car and its con
tents were burned. Had the accident
happened when the train was on a high
embankment, a short distance further,
the loss of life would have been great.
Fortunately, however, the ground was
perfectly level and no one was injured.
A passenger train of three coaches, on
the Denver and South Park road was
lifted from the track by a terrific blast
and hurled down an embankment. One
passenger had his leg broken and several
others were badly bruised. Near Como,
on the same road, the Leadville express
was blown over a bridge and nearly all
of the passengers and train men were
severely injured and the coaches were
badly wrecked. All the incoming trains
on various roads were from five to ten
hours late on account of the storm.”
At Rochester New York the wind blew
down Court street bridge and a young
man and young lady went down with the
wreck and were lost. Others are missing
but the exact number of lives lost cannot
yet be ascertained.
Trains on most all lines North West
and South of Minneapolis were aban
doned.
CAVING INTO THE RIVER.
The Mississippi River Bauk at liCoia Ciives
Away.
From Greenville to the “Commercial
Ilerald” says: The liver bank at Lcota,
Miss., suddenly commenced caving Wed
nesday, and made such rapid headway
that the warehouse and office at the land
ing, with their contents, including a
large quantity of corn, hay, pork and
other merchandise, went into the river.
Ufo Anchor Line steamer City of Vicks
lffirg, which lay at the distressed village
at this time remained there for several
hours, and with the aid of the entire
crew, succeeded in moving a large quan
tity of cotton from the bank, which oth
erwise would have been a prey to the
roaring Mississippi. A special messenger
came here on the City of Vicksburg, to
secure house movers, as a good many
stores and dwellings are in immediate
danger.
The latest reports from Leota are very
gloomy. The caving has not yet stopped,
and the large storehouse of Frankel &
Elkaf is expected to go into the river at
any moment. A number of residences
also are in danger and their furniture has
been moved out.
The Protection at the north end
of the new Reid levee gave way Thursday
morning. An opening about sixty feet
wide and two feet was made. Thousands
of sacks were sent to the scene of the
disaster, were filled with earth, and put
in the opening. A later telegram states
that it is believed the break will bo
closed. The rapid caving of the river
bank at Refuge mill endangers the rail
road track in that vivinity.
A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.
A Matrimonial Srniatlon Reported from
Chattanooga, Tenn.
A decidedly romantic marriage occurr
ed at Chattanooga, a few nights since,
which has just leaked out. Miss Minnie
George is the pretty daughter of Captain
J. F. George, and she has for a longtime
been engaged to John L. Jones, a well
known youth of that city. They wished
to get married, but being afraid to ask
consent, concluded to elope. They secur
ed a carriage at a late hour at night, and
a friend having procured a license they
started out to be married. They saw
Pastor Wambald as he was leaving his
church, and he was called to perform the
ceremony. The pastor took his scat in
front of the couple and driving to a
neighboring lamp post in order that he
might see to read the license, he made
them man and wife.
THE OLD JOKE.
Prisoner* In Texas I.ock Their Keeper I7p
and Escape With tho Key*.
Tuesday evening a daring jail delivery
occurred at Belton, Texas. The jailer
was about to place a prisoner arrested in
a cage with seven others, when a blanket
was thrown over his head and his keys
taken from him. The prisoners then
threw him in the cage and locked the
door upon him and escaped, carrying the
keys with them. Up to midnight it had
been impossible to gain entrance to the
jail, and the jailer stands a good chance
of passing a day or two in confinement.
SHERMAN’S SUCCESSOR.
There is an impression abroad that
Senators Hoar or Ingalls will be selected
to succeed Senator Sherman as president
of the senate. It is not known that
either is a candidate for the honor, and
tho impression has for a basis only in
formal preliminary talks of this afternoon
among the senators. In addition to their
well known standing and long experi
ence both are expert parliamentarians.
It is thought that the senator elected
will fill the position not merely during
the recess, but during the ne*t congress.
A MURDERER ARRESTED,
OATES, THE QUINTUPLE MUR
DERER, TAKEN IN.
A Full Account or Ilia Ilnrln* Dcciln-Tlie
Slayer of I*ope Woolen.
A special to the Atlanta Constitution
says: Doubtless the most desperate crim
inal that lives in the south wa3 captured
at Lipscomb’s camp, on the edge of Grif
fin, on the Georgia Midland railroad
Monday night. A full account of the
daring deeds and bloody murders com
mitted by this man, if fully written out,
would read mote like fiction than real
facts. This man is named Andrew Oates,
and hit hands have been dyed in human
blood five times. Ho is a spare made
man, about five feet seven inches high,
and weighs about 140 pounds, and is not
over thirty-three years old;
The crime that has led to liis' arrest
was committed Christmas day in Walker
county, Ala., Andrew Oates was working
at Pucke.tt’s camp on the Kansas City
railroad. On Christmas day a crowd of
negroes assembled at a grocery, and after
taking on a good supply of liquor got
into a gambling game. After playing
for some time a dispute arose and pistols
were drawn, and Andrew Oates succeeded
in bringing his man to the ground dead,
with a pistol ball through his heart.
Andrew Oates, Ed. Moore, George Tools
and Jim Troup left the place of the
shooting and started away. In about
one hundred yards they met Mr. Pope
Wooten, who formerly lived at Stone
Mountain, Ga., who, hearing the firing,
had started down to see about it, with a
pistol in his hand. He met these negroes
in a narrow path. Andrew Oates jerked
the pistol from his hand and fired at him,
tha ball going clear through him. The
other three negroes opened fire also, and
Pope Wooten was stretched out on the
ground with four pistol balls through his
body. The negroes then made their
escape.
George Toole and Jim Troup were soon
captured and lodged in jail in Walker
county. Ed Moore, or “Jack the Rab
bit,” as he is called, was captured about
two weeks ago in Birmingham, Ala. On
his person was found a letter from An
drew Oates, written from Cartersville,
Ga. Mr. Til Long, who captured “Jack
the Rabbit,” came immediately to Cart
ersville. He resorted to several means to
come up with Oates, hut failed to get
any clue. Finally he learned that Oates
had been in Cartersville staying with a
negro named Allen Ori, but had left.
Mr. Walker then began working on Orr,
and finally succeeded in getting a letter
from Orr, written by Oates from Griffin.
Walker, in company with the deputy
sheriff of Bartow county, proceeded to
Griffin and went immediately to Lips
comb’s camp and succeeded in bagging
Andrew Oates.
OTHER MURDERS.
Andrew Oates killed a man at High
Bridge, Ky., one at Inman, Teun., one
at Salby, N. C., and had a hand in the
killing of the negroes in the grocery on
the Kansas City railroad, in Walker
county, Ala., and in killing Mr. Pope
Wooten at the same time. Mr. Til Long
and deputy sheriff of Bartow county left
with Oates for Walker county, securely
ironed. Mr. Long says that Oates is the
last of the four who are wanted for the
two murders; that the evidence is suffi
cient to convict them, and they will cer
tainly suffer the penalty of their foul
crime. He says that Oates is the most
desperate of the gang, and that they
have had a good deal of trouble in ef
fecting his capture.
A sad incident is connected with the
murder of young Wooten. His father,
Dr. Wooten, was a respected merchant of
Stone Mountain. On the morning of his
son’s murder he received a telegram say
ing simply “Pope Wooten is dead.” As
he had a brother living in Birmingham,
he supposed that it was he who was dead.
He did not know to the contrary until he
reached the home of his brother in that
city. As soon as the truth flashed upon
him he exclaimed, “My God,” and fell
back dead.
ANOTHER RAILROAD.
Birmingham Ala., and Tallahaaace Fla.,
to be Connected.
The Birmingham, Georgia and Florida
railroad company, through their chosen
representative, have secretly purchased
of the Tallahassee, Bainbridge and Wes
tern company, the old road bed known
as the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Colum
bus road, and propose building a through
line to be completed this year, from Bir
mingham, Ala., to Tallahajpe, Fla., via
Opelika, Florence, Cuthhert and Bain
bridge. The conditions prescribed me
donations of the stipulated sums from the
countries through which it will run from
this place to Bainbridge. The money is
to be given to the company in considera
tion of the enhanced value which will
accrue from the building of said line to
the real estate of the parties donating,
and nothing else is asked in return.
These sums will aggregate one hundred
thousand dollars along the old road bed
alone, and have already been obligated
in notes, to be void if not built by the
first of 1888. The road is to be built and
operated as a connecting line for the
Kansas City road, now nearing comple
tion to Birmingham, and will give a
through line to the Atlantic and gull
ports. Parties who have just left Cuth
bert for (he lower counties are arranging
the preliminaries, which have been con
ducted in the quietest manner, and the
hands will be put to work as soon ai
these are completed. These gentlcmer
give every assurance of the ability of the
corporation in whose interest they are al
work, to build the line, and have already
jjaid a large cash sum for the old roac
SALK OF THE BARNETT HIIOALH,
Mr. James M. Veal, executor, has sold
the estate’s interest in tho Barnett shoals
to Mr. It. L. Bloomfield for SIO,OOO.
Tho deeds were passed and tho money
paid Tuesday. Mr. Bloomfield made the
purchase for a Boston matting manufac
turing company, who will at once go to
work and build several large cotton mills.
This is the finest set of shoals in Georgia,
and will furnish enongh water power to
turn the spiudles in a dozen large cotton
mills.
A TERRIBLE WINTER.
Fenrfut Sli fieri n a and Hardship. from Cold
Weather In the Northwest.
The winter of 1886-87 will long be remem
bered throughout tho Northwest for the ex
treme severity of the temperature and tho
unusual depth of snow. Old-timers always
referred to former years as “liigh-water
marks,” butthis year eclipses all previous rec
ords. The severe weather started in soon after
the holidays. Mercury thermometers were
often congealed and spirit thermometers
were kept busy jumping from 40 to 60 below
zero. Half a dozen times has the 00 notch
been touched, and once this season 62 1-2 bo
low zero has been scored on the Saskatche
wan plains. This year the snowfall is unpre
cedented. In some localities it is anywbero
from ten to fifty feet deep. On the level,
throughout the National Park and elsewhere,
itis from eight to twelve feet deep, and on tho
dead-level prairie from eighteen to forty
inches. Of course, such a hoavy fall must
bring more or less suffering and death.
Already this winter a number of deaths
from cold have occurred in Dakota. Not
long since Charles Schroeder, living near
Valley City, started from his house for
one 600 feet distant. A blizzard was
blowing and the thermometer registered 35
below. Not reaching home, his family aud
neighbors turned out with lanterns, fol
lowed his tracks in the snow all night and
found where he had lain down in a straw
stack and then gone od. The next day the
body was found twelve miles away on
the prairie, lying on its face, where
he had fallen from exhaustion. The
body 'was frozen into a ehunek of
ice. A few days ago Miss Maggie Bunn, a
school-teacher at Highmore, while going
from the school to her house, was frozen to
death. The bodies of three Indians who be
longed to Berthold Agency, were found
frozen near Ashland. Several more have
been missing since Christina-, ami they must
have been caught out. Their bodies will
probably be found when the snow
melts in the spring, in Montana a number
of casualities have already occurred.
Tony Wise and a Swede named Martin
were at work on mining property on the side
of Sheep Mountain. A huge avalanche
swept down the mountainside and hurled the
men into eternity without a moment's warn
ing, burying them thousands of feet below.
Tom Williams, a sheep herder near Mossgale
Springs, about sixty years old, was discov
ered lying face downward in the snow. He
was dead, but the sheep were wandering
aimlessly about. Many had been stampeded
by packs of wolves.
A band of British America Cree Indians
came across the line last fall and while the
weather was fine camped in the mountains
between the forks of Sun River. An unusual
snow followed and the wretched creatures be
came penned in by an icy wall. From seventy
the number was reduced to fifty-one by
starvation, when white men hunted them up
and brought relief. During the latter part of
January fifty lodges i a Crow Indians, camped
on Clark’s Fork, came near dying. Many did
perish, but the majority managed to sustain
life by eating the cattle that died in the
snowdrifts.
Twelve hundred out of a herd of fifteen
hundred sheep were lost in one locality, aud
the survivors were so badly mutilated by
coyotes and wolves that they died. Some
sheepmen in Western Montana have lost
entire herds. There is no doubt the cattlo
industry has received a serious blow.
A WICKED WOMAN.
A Worthless Woman Arrested Id Mobile, Ala.
—Sensational Developments.
The escapade of the wicked woman
who enticed two young girls to leave
their homes in Cincinnati to follow her
to New Orleans, the detention of one of
the girls, Miss Lillie Heitz, by the police
of Montgomery Saturday night, and the
subsequent arrest of the woman and othei
girl, Lizzie Walters, in Mobile, has
proved a highly sensational affair. Chief
Gerald, of the Montgomery police, wired
the Mobile authorities to hold the prison
era at all hazards. The woman gives her
name as Grace Gardiner, and claims to
live in Houston, Texas, but the tickets
were only to New Orleans, and the of
ficials are of opinion that she only meant
to take the girls to that city where they
would have been in her clutches. Miss
Heitz, who was detained here, tells a sad
story of how she and her companion were
persuaded to leave homo and made the
victims to a wicked scheme. She says
she is willing and glad to return home.
An officer from Cincinnati will take
charge of the girls and the woman and
carry them back. The woman, Grace
Gardiner, will be prosecuted and punish
ed as far as possible.
SALVATION ARMY.
Their Attack on the “Tar Heel.”—An Inter
esting Scandal.
Some weeks ago the Salvation Army
made its first appearance in North Caro
lina, and made a concerted attack at
several points—at Raleigh and Charlotte
in particular—upon the forces of the
devil. In Raleigh they created very lit
tle sensation and made few converts.
Quite the contrary was the case in Char
lotte, where they took tho town by storm.
They made converts by scores, and their
performances have been of the most sen
sational character. But the greatest sen
sation in connection with the matter has
just been made public by charges pre
ferred against a member of the army
known as “White Cross.” The complain
ant is Lieu’t. Alexander Chapin, and as
there is a woman in the case tho affair is
of a scandalous nature. Tne offender is
to be regularly court martialed, a detail
from the army having been made for the
purpose.
AN ENGINEER LOST.
An Alabama Klver Engineer Dlsaappeara-
Suppoaod to hare Drowned.
J. R. Mofflt, engineer on the steamer
Alabama, running between Mobile and
Montgomery, is missing, and was prob
ably drowned in the Alabama river Wed
nesday night. The boat was coming up
the river to Montgomery and when seven
teen miles above Selma, Mofflt took a
lantern and oil can, and went to the ex
treme rear end of the boat to oil some
machinery. He did not return, and when
the search was instituted, could not be
found on deck. The conclusion is that
he fell or was knocked overboard by the
lever, and drowned. The boat was
landed, and a yawl manned and sent back
to search for him. The captain has re
ceived a telegram from the searching
party, who went back to Selma, bring
ing information that the missing engin
eer had not been found. Mofflt was about
65 yean old.
BIRMINGHAM’A NEW PAPEIt.
The first issue of the Daily Evening
News, anew afternoon paper, will appear
at Birmingham, Ala., next week. It will
be a seven-columu quarto, and will
full telegraph new r s service. The papci
is owned by a strong stock company of
prominent citizens, and starts with every
prospect of success.
Subscription $1.50 in Advance
NUMBER 0.
WAR IMPENDING.
GERMANY ALARMED AT THE
PROSPECT .
The French Fniltlinar nuts for One Hundred
Timet* ml .Men on the Frontier.
The Berlin Naclirich ton says: “Thethreat
ening character of tho situation across tho
western frontier is bo *oming much moro
acute. £ln view of thefa t that h it > have al
ready been constructed to shelter Id*,* l :i) men,
and that preparations have been made to
iheltor a similar number around B*lfort, wo
have, boyond doubt, to deal with nothing
le<s than tho strengthening o:‘ the French
line, to enable them at the begin'ting of hos
tilities to throw a large fu* e ac ss tho
frontier, and thus transfer operations to
German Teiritory.”
Herr Tissendorf, Chief Procurator of the
Imperial Tribunal nt Lcipsic; Commissary
Tauseh of the Criminal Inquiry Depart
ment, and Public Prosecutor Yacauo have
held a long conference at Strasburg.
Herr Tissendorf afterward started for
Mulhausen and Herr Tauseh for
Motz. It is supposed the object of their jour
ney is to make in quiries respecting secret
com;nuuications between German and French
Anarchists, and concerning a reported con
spiracy between the French Patriotic Leaguo
and its adherents in Alsace.
Continued arrests • f Socialists at Magde
burg have paralv. ed the electoral agitation
there. Thirty-eight Socialists were taken into
custody, including m st of the members of
the local electoral committea
Prince Hohenk h . Governor of Alsace-
Lorraine issued an election manifesto. 110
said:
“The Government has asked for the pas
sage of a Septennatc Army l id because it is
persuaded that Germany will bo threatened
with the danger of war as soon as that part
of the French nation which longs for war
regards the military strengtli of France
buj erior to that of Germany. If Alsace-Lor
raine wishes not to be exposed to the terrors
of another war, let peaceable and concilia
tory Deputies bo elected to the new Reich
stagl—Deputies who accept the peace of I'd 1,
Those who vote to return members of the
protesting 'anti-Germany) party, or enemies
of the Government's Septenuate bill, will bo
responsible for the continuance of disquiet
and the resultant injury to trade and com
merce.
“If in some electoral districts the friends
of peace find themselves unable, became of
the pressure of former political leaders, to
put forward the candidates they would like
to have elected to the now Reichstag, they
may deposit blank voting papers, and iu this
way express their views and record the real
opinion of tho country.
“The re-union of Alsace-Lorraine to Ger
many is irrevocable as long as the Gorman
Empire exists. These days are pregnant
with decisive issues. Listen only to what
Jrour conscience and good sense and your
ove of homo and your family and your
property dictate.”
[The “Septeuuato Army bill” referred to in
tho foregoing is the recent measure intro*
duCed in the German Reichstag and advo
cated strongly by Prince Bismarck and Gen-1
eral Von Moltke. Tho bill provided for ad-'
ditioual army supplies and organization, the!
appropriations to run for seven years. Its :
opponents, however, carried an amendment
making the a; propriations and provisions of
tho bill to run for only three years, where
upon Enij eror William dissolved the Reich
stag and ordered new elections, hoping to
got a majority of new members in favor of
tho seven-year measure.—Ed.]
A WONDERFUL GORMANDIZER.
A Small Bor, But a Big Hater—An Averego
‘‘Square Meal.”
Henry Flowers, a fourteen-year-old boy of
Jefferson Township, Ind., is one of the most
peculiar specimens of humanity that has ever
'■ome to light in that section. He came to
Martinsville last Saturday, as is his usual
custom, and was taken to the Mansion
House of that city by two prominent citizens,
who bargained with the landlord to furnish
the boy a square meal for fifty-five cents,
they wishing to satisfy their curiosity as to
his abilities as an eater. They did not have
long to wait until their fondest hopes of get
ting the joke upon the landlord was realized.
He ate six pieces of light bread, two pieces of
corn bread, two large slices of beef, roasted
with gravy; two large slices of roasted pork,
four large potatoes, one dish of beans, one
dish of sJaw, two dishes of hominy, one dish
of pnrsnips and two pieces of pie. After eat
ing his pie he t ailed for a bowl of oysters,
and was informed that they were not on the
bill of fare for that day. He then went to
Dr. Blaelcstone’s to eat again, and his meal
there consisted of seven potatoes, three
slices of bread, each six by eight inches; two
slices of roast beef, two cups of coffee, one
dish of tomatoes, one dish of butter beaus
and two pieces of pie. As is usual with him,
his hunger was not yet satisfied. He went
from Dr. Blackstone’s to one of tho city
bakeries, there purchased ten cents’ worth of
cheese and crackers and ate them, and at
last accounts he was in his usual condition.
The boy is very lean and of less than the
average height for his age, being only about
three feet high, and weighing but forty
pounds. His skin is thick and yellow, his
cheeks hollow and sunken, and his eyes givo
an unmistakab e proof of his constant hun
ger, which he evinces on all occasions. Sel
dom, if ever, does one encounter such an ap
etite, and it is a wonder where he stows
away so much food. No physician at Mai
tiusville enn sati-factorily diagnose his case.
BOOTHS SLAYER CRAZY.
Corbett’s Inane Franks In tho Kansas
House of Representatives.
Boston Corbett, the slayer of John Wilkes
Booth, created a sensation in tho Kansas
House of Representatives a few days ago.
At the commencement of the sesssion of tho
Legislature, Corbett was appointed Assistant
Doorkeeper. Tuesday be strapped on two
revolvers, and took with him a box of car
tridges. Then, with a drawn weapon, he
drove a negro attendant from the Hall of
Representatives. Sergeant-at-Arms Norton
attempted to expostulate with him, when
Corbett cocked one of his revolvers, and,
pointing it directly at the officer, told him to
travel. Corbett then looked for Speaker
Smith, and on meeting a member who some
what resembled him, was about to fire when
the member threw up bis hands and said he
was not the Speaker,' The member was then
permitted to move on. Corbett took posse -
sion of the Speaker’s gallery, and, walking in
front of the doors, held it during the entire
morning session, refusing to allow any one to
come near him. Three policemen were
called, but they would not venture into the
dark corridor, and the slayer of Booth held
possession. At 12 o’clock he sent word down
to the House to adjourn or he would come
down and adjourn it himself. The House ad
journed.
Corbett was afterward captured in tho
lower corridor, disarmed, and taken to the
police station. He was adjudged insane and
confined in an asylum.
FIFTEEN OF THEM BAGGED,
About 4 o’clock Sunday morning,
while Lieutenant Kilgore and a squad of
police were seizing a negro gambling den
in Chattanooga, Officer Mitchell attempt
ed to burst in the door As he did so
the door was opened and one of the ne
groes split his head with a hatchet. 110
was removed home and it is feared bis
injuries will prove fatal. Fifteen negroes
were arrested and are in jail to await tho
result of tho officer’s injuries. J. I*.
Mays, proprietor of the den, is said to
have inflicted the blow.