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SUBSCRIPTION. Tub Oourant American is Published Weekly is the Interest of Bartow County, Devoted Mainly to Local News, and Thinks it has a Right to Exi’Ect an Undivided County Patron- A(IB. VOL. S—NO 50] ' '"'""lli: IS] DRUGS! DRUGS! 1. R. WIKLE & CO., (SUCCESSORS TO D. W. CURRY.) Hv now in store Iho bet selected, most complete and varied stock of Drugs, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Perfumes, Etc. IN NORTH GEORGIA. h, examir • P k>-. riiyiciaua rre.-criptiona filled With tbe greetest cart day and bight by a lioen.-e 1 pharmacist. AGENT STANTDAIiD OIL OOMPN’Y Ch.as. A. Wilslo, Manager. f.bO-iy —:GO TO:- RICHARD L. JONES FOB, Fresh Groceries, An I mi i vtliiii;' x'ril for tin* table. lUK-'II F.GGS ami CIIK'KENS, •! Flt■> K \ Uf I 1 Fit, < UK am OtIEKSK, VEGETA ULUS, GARDEN SEEDS, TENNESSEE SAUSAGES I ItESII MEAL au I the I elebmted V EACH'S FLOUR. 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Can build any style of vehicle desired; only the very best material used. lebs-iy __jESGE3BL 4 y About twenty yeun ago I discovered a little lore on my cheek, and th-i doatora ffl •onneed it cancer. I have tried a number of physicians, out without receiving any perma nent benefit. Among the number were one or two specialist*. The medicine tney applied was like fire to the sore, causing intense pain. I saw a statement in the papers telling what 8. S. 8. had done for others similarly afflicted. I procured some at once. Before ( had used the second bottle the neighbors could notice that tny cancer was healing up. My general health had been bad for two or three years—l haa a hacking cougn and spit blood contin ually. I had a severe pain in my breast. After taking six bottle* of S. 3. S. my cough left me and I grew stouter than I had been for several years. My cancer haa healed over all but u little spot about the size of a half dime, and it is rapidly disappearing. I would ad via* every one with cancer to give S. S. S. a fair trial. Mas. NANCY J. McCONAUUIIEY, Ashe Orove, Tippecanoe Cos., Ind. Fob. li, 1886. Swift's S|iecifie it entirely vegetable, and seems to cure cancers by forcing out tbe imp* 'ties from the blood. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. * THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer S, Atlanta, Ga. sl. sl. sl. $l - bue-nkut (TEIST" PAGES.) ST E DOLLAR A TEA The following: comparative statement of a number of the most prominent Weeklies published in the United States show s conclu sively tlmt the WEEKLY GLOBE-DEMOCItAT is from 25 to 50 i*i;h cent the cheapest. Weekly Globa Democrat, St. Louis, Mo; 10 Pages. 70 Columns. $1 Per Year. WEEKLY REPUBLICAN, St. Louta, Mo * I'rnon 58 Columns 1 00 l*er Year WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Chicago. 11l 8 I’iirw* 58 Columns 1 00 I*er Year WEEKLY TIMES. 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Its Grand Single Number Drawings take place monthly, and tbe Grand Semi-Annual Drawings regularly ev ery six months (J une and December). “We do hereby certify that we supervise tlie arrangements for all the Monthly and Sem-An iiual Drawings of The T.ouisiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and control Ihe Drawings themselves, and that tlie same are conducted with honesty, fairness, and In good faith toward all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this certificate, witli fac-similes of our signature attached, in its advertisements.” Commissioners. We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will pav all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our coun ters. J. H. OGLESBY, Pres. LouisanaNat. Bk P. LANAUX, Pres. State Nat’l Bank. A. BALDWIN, Pres. N, O. Nat’l Bk. CARL KOHN, Pres. Union Nat. Bank. Grand Semi-Annual Drawing In the Academy of Music, New Or leans, Tuesday, June 14, 1887, CAPITAL PRIZE, $300,000. 100,000 Tickets at Twenty Dollars each. Halves $10; Quarters S3; Tenths $2; Twentieths sl. LIST OF I'HIZES. 1 PRIZE OF $3110,000 is $300,000 1 PRIZE OF 100,000 is 100,000 1 PRIZE OF 50,000 is 50,000 1 PRIZE OF 25,000 is 25,000 2 PRIZES OF 10,000 are 20,000 5 PRIZES OF 5,000 are 25,000 25 PRIZES OF 1,000 are 25,000 100 PRIZES OF 500 are 50,000 200 PRIZES OF 300 are 00,000 500 PRIZES OF 200 are 100,000 APPROXIMATION PHIZES. 100 Prizes of SSOO approximating to $300,000 Prize are 50,000 100 Prizes of S3OO approximating to SIOO,OOO Prize are 30,000 100 Prizes of S2OO approximating to $50,000 Prize are 20,000 TERMINAL PRIZES. 1,000 Prizes of SIOO decided by $300,000 Prize are 100,000 1,000 Prizes of SIOO decided by SIOO,OOO Prize are 100,000 3,131! Prizes amounting to $1,055,000 For Hub Rates, or any other information ap ply to the undersigned. Your handwriting must be distiuct and Signature plain. More rapid re turn mall delivery will be assured by your enclos ing an Envelope bearing your full address. Send POSTAL NOT ES, Express Money Or ders, or New York Exchange in ordinary letter. Currency by Express (at our expense) addressed to M A. DAUPHIN, New Orle.-ns, La., or M. A. DAUPHIN, Washington, D. C. Address Registered Letters to HEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La. REMEMBER ISySJSS Beauregaid and Early, ah are in charge of tbs diawingi, is a guarantee of absolute luirncss and integrity, that the chances are all equal, and that no one can possibly divine wliut number will draw a prize. kkmkhkfr that the payment of all Prizes is GUAKANTKKD MY KOUK NA TIONAL HANKS of New Orleans, and the Tickets are signed by the President of an In stitution, whose chartered rights are recog nized in the highest c ourts; th refore. beware of any imitatious or anonymous schemes. 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EDITORIAL NOTES A Baptist church will soon be built in Philadelphia which will neat 4,800 !#*<>■ l*ie. ___ Steve Brodie, the New York City briilge junqier, jumped from the su*]*cu sion bridge int > the Ohio at Cincinnati Monday. He suffered no iiyury and pocketed #2OO. The oyster industry in annum ing mam moth proportioua. Ten million dollars a'e in vented in the industry, which gives employment to 52,000 persona, produc ing annually over $18.000,000. West Virginia sends a stout protec tionist to the senate in the person of Judge Faulkner. He is as pronounced for protretion as Brown, of Georgia, and one of the ablest men in his state. The Chicago Times is responsible for the following: “Mr. Howells has prejstred a story of his boyhood days in Ohio. Every boy in the country that wants to know how not to become a novelist should read this book.” Col. Milton Hamilton, of George town, Ky., has purchased the beautiful blue grass “June Ward” farm and resi lience, near that city, owned by the late Col. Vic. Glass. Colonel Hamilton paid $36,000 cash for the place, which has once brought $50,000. A noted apostle of polygamy, in Utah, has 175 grandchildren under twenty-nine years of age. The Biblical injunction, “l>e fruitful,” is about the only unbroken commandment that old sinner can plead in mitigation of the just sentence under the violated law of right. The Queen of Sweden has been opera ted upon surgically for internal cancer. The work was done at Stockholm by a Swedish surgeon who ranks among the ablest in Europe. It is reported that the oiteration was as successful as possible, but the dreadful disease is certain, soon or late, to break out again. Formerly American competion in the lock trade was the great bug-bear of English manufacturers; now German competition appears to be what they fear most. There is this difference: Amer ican manufacturers worked on new de signs, while the Germans appear to make their points on copying and cheap labor. Mr. Henry I’robasco, of Cincinnati, is shortly to marry Miss Grace Sherlock, daughter of Thomas Sherlock, Esq., of that city. The wedding, it is expected, will take place the first of June, after which the couple will go abroad. Mr. Probasco’s palatial residence has been recently refitted by a New York decora tor. The export movement of wheat mid wheat flour from the United States At lantic and Pacific ports, is now nearly equal to 3,000,0000 bushels weekly. Of the quantity of wheat and wheat flour “on passage for the United Kingdom” more than 70 per cent, is from the United States, indicating moderate supplies from other quarters of the globe. Says an exchange: The number of English sparrows are constantly increas ing and no provision is being made to slaughter them. In s]>eaking of the sparrows one of the most cheering items of news that have appeared for months conies from Westchester, Pa., where a physician has found that his patients, when unable to take any other nourish ment, partake with relish of brotli made from the Englisji sparrow. The Nashville American reports a sen sational wedding at Haley, Tenn. The case is that a man named Janies Smith, who some months ago married the daughter of a widow near that place. Domestic troubles occurring the couple separated and a divorce was obtained. Saturday last the young man and the widow, his mother-in-law, were united in wedlock. The affair, as may well be im agined has created quite a sensation. Philadelphia, through the exertions of the consul for Nicaragua, is about to move in the matter of establishing a line between that city and Aspinwall. The consul, Mr. Potter, thinks that Pennsyl vania ought to import all of the f8,000,- 000 of coffee it consumes annually from Nicaragua and send out in return manu factured goods. Mr. Potter has nineteen boys from Nicaragua studying in the University of Pennsylvania, and prides himself upon the success attained by those students who have graduated from Phil adelphia colleges and returned to their native country. The Inter-State Commerce Commission is an interesting body. Little Judge Cooley sits at the head of the table and presides with calm dignity. He is a small man physically, with gray hair and beard, and wears gold-rimmed spectacles. Morrison and Walker cannot sit still for any great length of time. They are the humorists of the body. They have struck up a great friendship. * Bragg and Schoonmaker are solemn and stately, and remain quietly seated opposite Judge Cooley for hours without stirring. The commissioners have so far shown not a great capacity for hard work, and do not hurry over details. The Verdict Unanimous. W. D. Suit, Druggist, Ilippus, Ind., tes tifies: “I can recomend Electric Bit ters as the very best remedy. Every bot tle sold has given relief in every case. One man took six bottles, and was cured of Rheumatism of 10 years’ stand ing." Abraham Hare, druggist. Bellville, Ohio, affirms: “The best selling medi cine I have ever handled in my 20 years’ experience, is Electric Bitters.” Thou sands of others have added their testi mony, so that the verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all diseases of the Liver Kidneys or Blood. Only a half dollar a bottle at David W. Curry's Drug Store. The Brilliant Beauties of modern colors far surpasses the noted productions of the ancients. The Dia mond Dyes show the latest advance of science in this direction. For durability and economy they are unequalled. 82 Colors. Colors. Each 10c. .Sold every where. MOSBY S WAR REMINISCENCES. How Rubsrtson's Disobedience Prec'pl tssted Gettysburg. Boston Herald.] Col. Jno. S. Mosby, the noted Confed erate cavalry commander, whose dash and dan made his name so famous du ring the w ar. and whose literary ability in recounting his exploits and experiences has since given to their recital such vivid interest, has put his war reminiscences iuto book form, and the volume, of over 250 pages, w ill be issued by Messrs. Geo. A. Jones & Cos., of this city, on May sth. As the first complete account ever print ed of Mosby's dashing career, it will be eagerly read, and the following extracts dealing with the movements which pre cipitated the collision at Gettysburg— where neither side had premeditated fight ing—of the two great armies of the Po tomac and Northern Virginia, cannot fail to prove especially interesting: Stuart had now’ received his final in structions from Gen. Lee, authorizing him to move into Maryland, around the enemy and between him and Washing ton. He was likewise instructed to do them all the damage he could on his way. With his transportation destroyed and communication broken, Hooker would be seriously embarrassed in pursuiug Gen. Lee, or probably forced to foil back for supplies, or to defend the capital against this demonstration. In the meantine, while Hooker was thus de layed, tne Confederates would have been levying contributions on the farmers in Pennsylvania. His original plan, which was bold in conception and ]>er feet Im practical in execution, was thwarted by an event which he could not control. It was obvious now that Hooker would not initiate any movement, but would con fine himself to covering the capital and observing his adversary. It was equally plain that when the Confederate army made a move west of the Blue Ridge, Hooker would make a corresponding one in the east. It was, therefore, all im portant for the success of Stuart’s move ment that the status quo of the two armies should lie preserved until he could get through Hooker’s army to the river, when it would lie too late for Hooker to take any step to defeat it. The distance was not more than 20 miles to the Po tomac from the point where he would en ter Hooker’s lines; and this could be got over between sunrise and sundown, as he intended to march in three parrallel colums. He knew the country well, and the position of each corps; and it would have been easy enough for him to flank them. Before Pleasanton could have got ready to follow the blazing meteor it would have been out of sight. The three brigades that was to accompany Stuart was quietly withdrawn from Pleasonton’s front on the evening of June 24th and marchul in a southerly direction to their rendezvous at Salem. Those of Jones and Robestson were put in the position they had held about Middlebnrg, and, of course, were charged with the ordinary duty of cavalry on a post of observation. As Gen. Stuart says is his report, “Rob ertson’s and Jones’ brigades, under com mand of the former, were left in observa tion of the enemy, on the usual front (about Middlebnrg), with full instructions as to following the enemy in case of with drawal, and joining our main army.” An order to a cavalry officer to “observe” an enemy of course implies that he is to report wnat Re sees; otnenvise there is no use in his observing. Stuart left be hind. A FORCE OF OVER 3,000 CAVALRY, which was amply sufficient for every pur pose. By daybreak, on the morning of 25th his column debouched through Glasscock’s Gap, in the Bull Run, and proceeded toward Haymarket. It seems that when Stuart got then* he found the roads on which he intended to march that day occupied by Hancock's corps that had broken up camp that morning, and was moving towards the Potomac. 1 could not find out where Stuart was, nor he where I was. So I retraced my steps and went on to Pennsylvania through the Shenandoah valley, passing General Robertson’s command, that was quietly resting in Ashby’s and Snicker’s gaps, in the Blue Ridge, after the enemy retired on the 26th. Pleasontou that day had moved by his flank, across Gen. Robertson’s front, to I-eesburg, to cover the crossing of Hooker’s army. Why he should have halted and remained idle three days in the gaps of the Blue Ridge in Virginia after both armies had march ed into Pennsylvania is a mystery that has never been satisfactorily explained. If there were any sound military reasons for his staying there three days, there were equally as sound ones for his not leaving at all. His proper position was on Gen. Lee's Hank, next to the enemy, in order to protect his rear and keep him informed of their movement. If Gen. Robertson had then, in obedi ence to Gen. ls*e’s and Stuart’s instruc tions, promptly followed the enemy along the base of South Mountain through Boonsboro, the Confederate cavalry might easily have reached Gettysburg in advance of the Federal troops. In this event, there would not have been the ac cidental collision of the armies. General would not have fought a defensive battle, and Gettysburg might have been to southern hearts something more than “a glorious field of grief.” Even as it was, Stuart's movement around his rear had so confused Gen. Meade that his army was more scattered than ours, and two of his corps, in the first day’s fight, were caught in delicto and crushed. He was looking for Lee on the Susquehanna, when, in fact, he was concentrating on Gettysburg. On account of Hancock’s unexpected movement Stuart had been conq>elled to make a wider circuit than he had intend ed, and did not cross the Potomac until the night of the 27th, the day after Hooker got over. He thence moved northerly toward the Susquehanna to put himself on Ewell’s fiank, in accordance with the instructions of Gen. Lee. But, owing to THE DERANGEMENT OF HIS PLANS, by the advance of the Union army, with out Gen. Rotiertson having given him notice of it. Ewell had been recalled, and Stuart did not join the army until the 2d of July, at Gettysburg, when the bat tle was raging. But Robertson’s com mand had not even then come up. This movement of Stuart’s around the rear of Hooker’s army has been condemned by Gen. Long, the military secretary and biographer of Gen. Lee, as having been undertaken either “from misaprehension of his instructions, or-love of the eclat of a bold raid” (which, of course, implies disobedience of orders); and Gen. Long street says that as he was leaving the Blue Ridge he instructed Stuart to follow him down the valley and cross the Po tomac at Shepherdstown, but that Stuart replied that he had discretionary powers from Gen. Lee where to cross the Poto mac. When this charge was made against Stuart both the critics were viewing his movement in the light of the disaster to ours at Gettysburg, and it was more agreeable to put the blame on a dead man than a living one. Gen. Long, who had access to the Confederate archives, may plead the blindness with which he is afflicted as an excuse for his error, and I have no doubt that Gen. Longstreet has forgotten that his own letter to Stuart contradicts his statement. Among the Confederate archives in Washington I have at last found in Gen. Lee’s confidential letter-book his final instructions to Stuart, which have never been published, which must set this con troverted question at rest forever. At the time they were written Gen. Lee’s head quarters were at BerryviUe. They ai'e dated June 23d. 1863, sp. in. In them Gen. Lee presents to Stuart the alterna tive of crossing the Potomac west of the Blue Ridge at Shepherdstown and mov ing over to Frederick, Md., or “you will, however, be able to judge whether you can pass around their army without hin drance, doing them all the damage you can, and cross the river east of the mountains. In either case, after you cross the river you must move on and feel the right of Ewell’s troops, collecting information, provisions, etc.” In a let ter to Stuart, dated June 22, lie had said: “If you find that he is moving northward, and that two brigades can guard the Blue Ridge and take care of your rear, you can move with the other three into Maryland and take position on Gen. Ewell’s right, place yourself in com munication with him, guard his flank and keep him informed of the enemy’s movements and collect all the supplies you can for the use of the army. One column of Gen. Ewell’s army will prob ably move toward the Susquehanna by the Emmettsburg route, another by Chambersburg.” THE INTENTION OF GEN. LEE clearly was that Stuart, with one ]iortion of the cavalry was to guard Ewell's flank and give him information of the enemy. The other was to be left behind, as he sa.ys in his report, “to hold the mountain passes as long the enemy remained south of the Potomac.” To suppose that Gen. Lee intended them to remain their after the enemy had gone is to suppose that he was not only unfit to command an army, but even a corporal’s guard. He would not have eommitted the blunder of marching all his infantry into Penn sylvania knowing that his cavalry was in Virginia. He must, therefore, have expected Stuart to cross the Potomac on the same day to the east of the ridge, which he would have done but for Han cock's movement. Since the above was written, I have found in the archives of the war office a copy of Stuart’s orders to Gen. Robert son when leaving Virginia; Jiut he does not appear to have been in the least governed by them. He was instructed to watch the enemy and report their movements through a line of iclav cou riers to Gen. Longstreet, and when the enemy withdrew, to harrass his rear and impede his march, and follow on the right of our army. There seems to have been no effort made to execute these or ders; for both Gens. Lee and Longstreet say that no intelligence having been re ceived through the cavalry of Hooker’s crossing the Potomac, it was supposed that was still south of it ; while Pleas iton says that he never had a skirmish in retiring. If the pressure of the column of 3,000 cavalry with two batteries un der Robertson had been brought to bear on the flank of the Union army, its ad vance into Pennsylvania would have been less rapid, and Meade could not have spared two-thirds of his cavalry to semi after Stuart to embarrass his march. If the force of cavalry which Stuart left behind him had promptly moved in obedience to his orders on the 26th to place itself in position on the right of the army, then it could easily have occupied Gettysburg in advance of the enemy. It did nothing of the kind, but quietly rested three days at Ashby’s gap to learn through Gen. Lee where the enemy had gone. The professed histori ans of the war make no mention of these fni-ts Stuart is dead “O! for one hour of Dundee. A MAN OF INTEGRITY. How a Southern Business Man Fulda Debt of Honor of 1650,000. New Haven, May 6.—The Register to night prints a remarkable story of finan cial integrity on the part of a southern capitalist which stands without parallel in the commercial history of the country. The names of the principals are withheld, but the the eminent resi>ectabiiity of counsel in the case, ex-Judge Luzon B. Morris, of this city, is sufficient guaran tee of its truthfulness. The Register says that at the beginning of the civil war a wealthy southern grocer, who had re cently taken his young bookkeeper into partnership, fearing that his property would be confiscated, decided to go north. He told the bookkeeper to use the prop erty, valued at about $400,000, as he thought best, and that he, the merchant, would rely upon the bookkeeper’s honor for a settlement at some future time. The merchant then came north, and settled in New Haven six years ago. Wonder ing what had become of his estate in the south, the merchant placed the matter in the hands of Judge Morris, with instruc tions to investigate and collect, if there was anything to collect. After some cor respondence with the bookkeeper at the south, the latter forwarded an acknowl edgement of the claim and an inventory showing his indebtedness to his former employer to be $048,000, and expressed his desire to return the property, but re quested time to perfect this arrangement. He began remitting several years ago, and last week forwarded the last pay ment, including interest, thus wiping out his debt of honor. Judge Morris declines to give the details, further than that his client is a gentleman listed as a million aire and that the southern gentleman is now a wealthy banker. The Gamut of Theft. Washington Post.] Taking $1,000,000 is called genius. Taking SIOO,OOO is called shortage. Taking $50,000 is called litigation. Taking $25,000 is called insolvency. Taking SIO,OOO is called irregularity. Taking $5,000 is called defalcation. Taking SI,OOO is called corruption. Taking SSOO is called embezzlement. Taking SIOO is called dishonesty. Taking SSO is called stealing. Taking $25 is called total depravity. Taking one ham war on society. “As Good as New,” are the words used by a lady, who was at one time given up by the most eminent physicians, and left to die. Reduced to a mere skeleton, pale and haggard, not able to leave her bed, from all those dis tressing diseases jieculi&r to suffering females, such as displacement, leucor rhoea, inliamation, etc., etc. She began taking l)r. Fierce’s “Favorite Prescrip tion,” and also using the local treat ments recommended by him, and is now, she says, “as good as new.” Price re duced to one dollar. By druggists. Rhuinatiiim and Nuraltfia Curd la 3 Uayg, The Indiana Chemical Cos. have discover ed a compound which acts with truly mar velous rapidity in the cure of Rheumatism and Neuralgia. We guarantee it to cure any and every case of acute Inflammatory Rheumatism and Neuralgia in 2 Days, and to give immediate relief in chronic cases and effect a speedy cure. No receipt of 30 cents, in two cent stamps, we will send to any address the prescription for this wonderful compound, which can be fil'ed by your home druggist at smad cost. We take this means of put ting it out as a patent medicine, it being much less expensive. We will gladly refund money if satisfaction is not given. The Indiana Chemical Cos., feb lj Crawfordsville, Ind. MEXICO HOCKED IN THE BOSOM OF A VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE. On* Hundred and Fifty Lives Lost in One I’laee—The Latest News From the Scene of the IMsaster—The Whole Coun try on the Verge of a Shaking Cp. —Gold Mines Exposed. Sax Francisco, Cal., May B.—The earthquake of the 3d inst, was accompa nied by a terrible volcanic eruption at Batrispe, which destroyed Moctexuma, kilting one hundred and fifty persons and igniting the woods in the vicinity. Twen ty-seven persons were also killed at Ox utu by the falling buildings. Many |>er sons were injured in (Irenana and Gusa- Lar, which towns were almost complete ly destroyed. The Mexican government has received its first information regarding the disas trous earthquake on the 3d inst. at lia trispe, in the district of Montezuma, So nora, by which one hundred and fifty per sons lost their lives. The earthquake oc curred at 3:50 p. m. At the same time volcanic eruptions began in the neighbor ing mountains, lighting up the summits for a long distance. The same afternoon earthquake shocks were felt throughout the state. The prediction is made by Mexican scientists that Mexico is about to undergo a general seismic convulsion, and the recent record of earthquake shocks show that there is a widesjead volcanic activity from one end of Mexico to the other. Volcanic outbreaks are oc curring nearthe Guaytamalian border as well as in th • state of Sonora. ANOTHER VIOLENT SHOCK. Tl’hcon, Arizona, May B.—Another vio lent earthquake is reported in San Jose mountains, forty miles south of Fort Huachuca, in Sonora. General Forsyth has sent an exploration party to investi gate. A party just returned from Santa Galina mountains report that the canons are full of water, which was brought to the surface by the earthquake. This is a great boone for that region, as there are thousands of acres of good farming lands at the base of these mountains, which only needed water to make them valua ble. Another good effect of the earth quake is the owning of two large gold veins, which were discovered in Santa Ga lina mountains, at a point where the whole side of the mountain slid down. Several prospecting parties have left to locate claims. A REMARKABLE STORY. Albuquerque. N. M., May H. —Cumbers Mesa, seventy-five miles west of Albu querque, on the Atlantic and Pacific rail way, is a rugged upland occupied by countless flocks of sheep, which are cared for by herders who follow’their flocks day and night unseen by the owners for weeks at a stretch. On Tuesday Cubert Gon zales, a large sheep raiser, rode over the range to iusi>ect his flocks, reaching Mesa at 3:10 p. m., and climbed to the top of a high rock to scan the country in search of his herders. At that moment the sky became overcast, a low rumbling sound seemed to approach from the southwest, and then a slight tremble shook the rock upon which he was perched, followed im mediately by a loud report and severe shocks which made the rock sway to and fro like a ship at sea. He was overcome by a deadly sickness, which almost caused mm to ran rrum tne rocK. Recovering, he started by the path he had climbed, but found the rock had been lent in twain, leaving a fissure ten feet wide, which accounted for the report he had heard. He managed to regain the ground and remounting his horse rode rapidly in search of his herders. He found some of the sheep scattered and bleating with fright, but no herders were in sight. A short distance further on he was horri fied by finding the body of one of the men stretched upon the ground dead. Insti tuting a search for the other two, he found them a mile away, both dead, but the bodies bore no marks of violence or injury of any kind, and they were scarcely cold, the flexibility of their limbs indi cating that death had overtaken them all within the time that Mr. Gonzales had been in Mesa. The only plausible theory that could be formed as to the cause of their death was that the extreme fright caused by the terrible convulsions of the elements which he himself had witnessed had killed the three men at the same moment. The expressions of their features, which bore the impression of fright and terror, sus tained this theory, and it is believed that these three men were, perhaps, the only human victims of the great southwestern earthquake. SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION. Washington, May B.—The United States geological survey has taken im mediate action for the purpose of col lecting reliable information in regard to the recent earthquakes in Arizona. The plan is to send letters of inquiry, with printed questions relative to the exact time the shocks were felt, the duration aud other particulars which will give ah idea of the intensity of the shock, the ap parent direction in which the w ave trav eled, the accompanying sounds, the effect on springs and wells, the contour of the mountain ranges, etc. Great reliance had to be placed upon the voluntary assistance of correspond ents, newspapers, etc., in the disturbed area, which assistance resulted in the case of the Charleston earthquake in the accumulation of an immense amount of valuable data. 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Its Cir culation IS SECOND TO NONE OF ITS CLASS Reasonable Rates on Ai’l'Lication. $1.50 Per Annum.—sc. a Copy. DUN’S BUSINESS REVIEW. AN ENORMOUS INCREASE IN EX CHANGES IN THE WEST. The Inter-State Commerce Law Salt! to Have Produced Feeling of Extra ordinary Contidence in the West It. G. I>nn A Co.'s review of trade for the week ending Saturday, May 7th. says: The feature of business reports for the past week is the increased business at many western points, and the inter state act, though checking trade at some important points, seems to have produced a feeling of extraordinary con fidence in a much larger number of towns. Other causes, particularly simulation iu real ret ate and activity in building, contribute to swell transactions sur prisingly. At Cincinnati the clearings show an increase of 32 js r rent, over last year, at St. Louis 1(5 |>er ceut. and at Chicago 14. But St.jPaul and San Fran cisco re|*ort gaiure of 43 jter rent., St. Joseph and Peoria gains exceeding 50 percent., Indiana|Kdis and Denver gains of nearly 80 per cent., Omaha a gain of 110 per cent., a part from laud trading and new building. Other business has been remarkably active throughout that, region. The supply of money seems everywhere ample. About Atlanta dull ness is rej>orted and at Memphis the ac tivity noted is mainly iu renl estate aud building. The Eastern cities, however, do not find corresponding improvement iu trade. The dry goods market is quiet, although prices are well maintained. In the grocery trade there is much com plaint of dullness. The railroads for April so far show an average increase of 7 per cent, in gross earnings over last year. Ocean freights are 1 %i\ to Liverpool, with chartering. These figures do not indicate great ac tivity from the movement as yet, but wheat exporting is cheeked by the corner in near options, which has advanced prices 3% cents, with sales of (50,000,(KM) bushels here and one considerable failure. Gotton futures for June are also corner ed and have advanced a quarter, The sales of imaginary cotton have reached a large amount. It is significant that with money largely increasing iu volume and abundance iron grows weaker. Bessemer iron is 50 to 70 cents lower at Pittsburg, Sules of bar at 2 cents are not uusnul at Philadelphia and there are reports of large sales of pig iron at a concession, while some rail mills are open for orders at S3B. Already 0(57 miles of railroad have l>een completed, against <552 to date last year, and new securities are offered in great variety and large amount. The business failures throughout the country for the last seven days numlter for the United States 153 and for Canada 29, or a total of 182, as compared with a total of 191 last week and 192 for the corresponding week of last year. BILL NY FAS BLASTED PASS. The War Between the Press and the Kail ways. Hudson, Wih., April 4. —I arrived here last week just a little ahead of the biting tiftwitn trTfr.. i, —. i., j iT t. u. ii, rnit-rtn to imply the inter-state commerce bill. I noticed while en route that the new law' had stimulated travel to a wonderfu extent. On my way from the South, where I was during the winter, I noticed that the sluggish artries of trade hail already begun to palpitate, and crowds of jieople filled the ears on every train. I said to myself, congi'ess had at last solved this great question of financial stringency and broken the great dam that held capital captive. On the Pied mont Air-Line people crushed each other together in a mad attempt to travel. On the Richmond and Danville aud East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, as well as the Louisville and Nashville, Immunity crowded day coaches and sleepers until the walls cracked. At Cincinnati I could not get a sleeping ear at all, and I had to telegraph twenty-four hours ahead to get one from Chicago. Everywhere as far as the eye could reach, there sremed to be a wild restless desire to get somewhere else. Several companies had to put on extra coaches to carry the eager tourists. I arrived here just in time to witness the last moments of a* northwestern pass as its spirit took its flight. Hail I post poned my journey for a single day I would have been to late. It was still young. Life was before it. Barely a quarter of the spau of its life had been passed when it curled up and expired. It wan a cute little thing, with an olive complexion and large, mournful, upper case eyes. A few weeks ago I noticed that it did not look well. It did not complain of illness or pain, but I thought I detected a condition on its back, and so I hurried home in order to be here in case it should expire. As soon as the conductor looked at it aud felt its pulse he said that he could do nothing for it. The ii.t T-state commerce law is one of those things that will have to be tried before he can pass upon it, I presume though some claim that is going to lie very difficult to puss upon it even then. The thought oc cured to me just after the gate keeper pushed me back yesterday and told me to go and get my ticket. I then first rea lized what it was to be rudely ground under the heel of a cold corporation that it is devoid of heart, devoid of soul, de void of noble thoughts, devoid of refined instincts, devoid of kind impulses, devoid of milk of human kindness, devoid of bowels of compassion. From force of habit I walked up to the gate with a joyous nod and the old pass word, only to be repulsed by the hired bouncer of this heartless, soulless, im pulseless, milkless and bowelless corpor ation. But the railroads will get the worst of it, for I know that travel on some of the lines has falen off since April 1. I can see it already. I have fallen off myself since the first of the month and others will do the same. This is not all. A friend of mine who runs a pajier, and whose pass got the hollow horn on Friday last, says that his columns are now ojen to those who wish to complain of the management of this road. He states that the first hot box will be duly chronicled, and that ho will no longer close his eyes to the wrongs we have heretofore suffered at the hands of the unjust and ruthless vampire that has been sapping the very foundation of our institutions and smearing its long, durk trail with the remnants of our best milch cows, reluctantly paying for them the price set at the tail of an unjust and enervating trial i>y a coimpt, venal and driveling jury. He says that “the time has come for the press to arise and assert itself,” aud w hen the train runs off the track and kill a lot of jieople who have led exem plary lives, his pajier will hereafter tell why and how it was done. Heretofore he has not had sufficient help in the office, he claims,, and he frequently ran short of type, but now he is going to give all the jiorticulars of the first smash-up that ; occurs on the road if the pajter falls into | the relentless maw of a sheriffs sale ou the following week.