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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.