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VOLUME IV.
TEMPERANCE.
A Poem.
Read by Mrs. Bmmel Cloment*, of Phllar
delpbia, at the State Convention of Penn¬
sylvania W. C. T. U.
”The merchandise of soule of men
Rev. xvlll; 12 , 21 .
O, monster ill, whUh fills the land,
And claims its myriad t slain,
A little band of women brave,
’Mid throes of sorest pain
This th night have borne; tby power to sap,
Kneeling, Thy Hydra head to kilL
with outstretched bands they cry,
“Help us, O God! we wilL
Unseat this tyrant of our homes.
Our brother*, sires, aud sons
No more shall drift to ruiu diro,
The hour of rescuo comes.”
Coon other women hear the call,
Town answers town afar.
Till, o’er the land, North, East and T7cr*
The tocsin sounds of war.
And now from o’er the water wide,
Stretch foreign lauds with aid—
‘We, too, O sistei-s, join your baud,
We. mother, wife and maid,
Have wept our dearest, crushed benoafl
This Juggernaut of run,.”
Fall into rank, y.i countless hosts,
With help, with hope, ye come.
Has God not seonf Has He not hoar
He leads the m ghty ho.fc;
He leads to vi tory a! way,
In Him alone wo boast.
We re inarching on from day to day,
Ten “A million million precious mothors”—,<tron^, \
From ruiu sons to save
and from wrong.
God speed the day, when those who now
Ho coldly look aikance,
Crying; ( “Bo moderate, wo pray,”
bhalJ also draw their Innoo,
Fichting with us against tha Prince
W ho rules this world, wo’ro tol 1
Rules it by rum, and lust of ,
And groeiliujss tor gold. power,
O, thrico accursod traffic dire,
God Trading in Ho “souls of meu,”
t;eos. li ’ars the victim’s cry.
Ho will avenge! O, whouf
h en now wo hear tho muttering doom,
Ho I lightning tills fcho sky.
Its ill iul (ladtos show tin pit
Wherein the.se victims lio.
Toor wailing babes, whose fathers maim,
Sad wives, whoso hearts are moved
With angu:nh, mothers smitten, crushed
Souls By the dear sons they love 1.
lost for aye! 8 jo, too, tho band
Of th so who wrought this woe,
lor lust of gold. A band a cursed,
Of God and man tho toi.
It Don't l*ay.
ft don’t pay to hang ono citizen 1)2
cause another citb.ca selli him li |Uoi\
It don't pay to h ive one citizen in tin
lunatic asylum, became another citiren
sold him liquor.
It don't pay to have ono citizen in tho
county jail, because another citi'.en sells
him liquor.
It don’t pay to have fifty workingmen
ragged, to have ono saloon-keeper dressed
in broadcloth, and Hush of money.
It don’t pay to have ten smart, active,
intelligent hoys tramforincd into thieve i,
to enable one man to load an easy life,
by selling them liquor.
It don’t pay to have fifty workingmen
and their families live on bone soup and
half rations, in order that ouc salo >n
keeper may flourish on roast turkey and
champagne.
It don’t piy to havo ope thousand
homes blasted, ruined,defiled and turuel
into a hell of di cord aad misery, in
order that ono wholesalo liquor d nlor
may amass a large fortune.
It don’t pay to give one nun, for $P>
a quarter, a license to sell liquor, and
then spend #5,000 on tho trial of another
ma i for buying that liquor and commit¬
ting murder under its influence.— Union
Si’nnh
Drunkards and Pauper*.
Recently published official statistics
show that cue out of every thirty of the
population of Great Britain is an avowed
pm pc/, in receipt of parish relief. There
arc annually 180,600 apprehension* in the
United Kingdom for drunkenness. There
me. moreover, .>00,0JO drunkards, 3C*(\
OOt) bar-men and bar maids, and 150,00)
saloon keepers and beer-sellers. The an
nual drink bill amounts to $7.50,000 000
Fn.riaml m however, .seek*, i, * to atono for
,
tlus by spending $7,000,050 per annum
in missions to the heathen, tu against
$500,000 similarly employed bv Gcr
many, $80,000 Li„ by France ’ or Jf $1000 !’ 0 0,00) 001
for the w \holo of f Europe. r This wo ild
seem Io boa case where mi sionary work
should begin at home.
Temperance Notea.
Thirty-eight new temperance pnpera
were started during 1886.
According to Erlenmycr, a German
physician, there are now “three scourges
of humanity.” Morphia, alcohol and co¬
caine aro the three.
Mr. Maneel Talcott, of Chicago, has
given $350 for the endowment of a
child’s bed in the National Temperance
Hospital.
Rapid as the growth of the liquor
movement has been during the last de
cade or two, the growth of the anti
liquor movement has been still greater.—
**-*■“*
A recent canvass of the schools of
England revealed the the fact that ninety
five per cent, of the young people taking
first rank were members of the Banda of
Hope.
A medical journal states that “the two
elements of highest o .st of humtn life,
as it is lived in the aggregate, are spirits
and tobacco, the one a stimulant narcotic,
the othor a dopressant narcotic, and that
more than one third of the human race
prove by H ing without them that they
arc in no degreo n.<ca?ary or healthful,
but o r . ihe contrary teud to depravity
and destrac.'iou.”
EASTMAN. DODGE COUNTY. GA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2. 1887.
▲ BOSTON BIOT.
8tr?t< Car Strikers Bbtbias the Police ef
the Ate4era Athena
A serious riot occurred in East Cam-
1 bridge Sunday afternoon tie as a result Shortly of
the recent street car up.
after noon a large crowd of strikers and
their sympathizers Gambridgedort, gathered and on Main
street, a “ various
cars of the Cambridge line pasted hooted con¬
ductors and drivers were as
“•cabs.” At 1:80 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 succeeding it was a
complete wreck. Each car
was similarly treated until no less than
five cars haa been badly damaged, Then
the police vrere 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 arrested and conveyed to the police
station. A little later the mob assem¬
bled again further down the avenue aud
wrecked another car. ♦The police, rein¬
forced by a mounted squad, now chnrged
the crowd on “double” quick, and the
mob discharging dispersed alongside of bricks the streets after
a volley at the po¬
lice. These missiles took effect in a dozen
cases, and as many officers were more or
less prisoners seriously injured. Another lo‘ of
was taken and the station house
was filled with those arrested. None of
those injured are thought to he fatally
hnrt. There was no further trouble after
the last dispersion of the mob on Webster
avenue.
AUSTRALIAN RABBITS.
The Commissioner of Auric n't .ire Appealed
lo Prevent Impartnil >».
The Agricultural Department has ro
ceived many letters from different part.
of the country with reference to the in¬
troduction of Australian rabbits into this
country. “There Commissioner Column says:
is no Australian rabbit, no spe
cies being native to that country, 'I he
rabbit that has done so much harm in
Australia and New Zealand is an intro¬
duced species—namely, the coqimon 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 iu 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 has during three centuries
of communication with Europe not been
introduced, or nt least has not become
established, and there would seem to bo
still less danger in future.”
from our capital.
The Hill to Provide for the National Defouoo
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 erectiou and e u*
nient 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
rarri nges; $250,000 for breech-loading
^ e * d £ un ? and their equipment. An
advisory board to have supervision over
tho disbursement of those amounts, is
created, of which the lieutenant general
of the army is ex-officio president This
hill was prepared by Chairman Bragg,
and acceptable to all members of the
committee, which followed although from the discussion
its presentation it ap
peared that several members favored
more liberal appropriation than is carried
by the bill. The speaker will be con
suited by members of the committee as
to the best methods of getting the bill
before the house, but it is believed that a
chance to secure action cau be found only
in the last six suspension days, when
two-thirds vote will be necessary.
DRIED PEOPLE.
Discovery of the Bodiea of a Family Who
Died 2,000 Yearo Ago.
Col. J. II. Wood, of St, Paul Minn.,
has received the bodies of five persons; a
man, woman, and threo children, taken
from a grave in the Bad Lands of Dakota
by a miner. The bodies are simply dried
U P- They are not petrified, and are in a
remarkable state of preservation. Scien
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
buried P°lk», Ala., found ten thousand dollars
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 the 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.
“ Justice to AU, Malice for Hone.”
FRIGHTFUL EARTHQUAKES.
PRANCE AND ITALY FEARFULLY
SHAKEN.
Many Idves Reported Lost.-The Carnival
at Nice Broken Up.—Extent
of the Shocks.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt
throughout doing France and Italy Wednesday
much damsge 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 their rushed from their houses and fell
upon 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, night’s worn and bedraggled by the
dreary exercises, and looking dull and
under the glare of the early nmrn
ing immediate sunlight. The first shock created an
Many panic.
casualties were caused bv the
shocks. The people are panic stricken
and the entire population arc in the
streets. The railway station is be«eiged
with visitors who are anxious to leave nt
the first chance that offers.
At Marseilles the walls of a number of
also buildings felt were cracked. Shocks were
places in at the Leghorn and Milan and several
Shocks province of Genoa Italy
were felt with great severity at
Savona, near Genoa, aud a number of
houses were wrecked and eleven persons
killed at that place.
Two violent shocks were felt at Tnulon
The first shock 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 safetv.
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 Marina, 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
I of Italian Riviera. At Noli, on the gulf
of Genoa, and not far from Bavona, 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 One 2 glia, scores of people were killed
and hun dreds 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.
I m., and the last at 10 p. m. Accounts
; sre 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
slowly. 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 ivers soon
crowded. Light shocks were felt at
Nimes, Privas, Valence, Grenoble and
Lyons. The gendarmerie barracks at
Mentone collapsed, and several persons
1 were killed or injured. Business is
sus¬
pended almost everywhere.
Reports from various plncas put the
total number killed at more than fo ir
hundred, and many more fatally injured.
laier atfk news. new*
„ * urtker , dispatches from the earthquak
. district,
> D g state that over 2,000 people
bnve been killed. At Nice the panic has
n °t subsided, and fugitives are fleeing in
direction. The people are afraid
tbc ^ re-enter heights their back houses of the city and hotels, crowded and
are
with refugees. Two thousand English,
American and Russian visitors were en
cara ped during the night on elevated
ground. Six thousand people have left
city* and started for Paris,
Further details received show that the
c ffect8 «re far more serious than was at
thought. The loss of life and (le
struction of property have been terrible.
The most startling news comes from
Genose Riviera. Over
fifteen hcnprkd people were killed
in that district. At the village of Bajnr
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 three hundred people,
who were in it, were killed. The de
stiuction of property in sections of Italy
visited by the earthquakes was immense
and widespread.
Fifty persons were injured at Mentone
and one killed; krllcd 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
houses many were injured. At Savona two
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 Coseuza. Undulations 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 the province of Nice, ou the
southeast coast of France.
No severe shock has ever been felt iu
this immediate section before, though
the earthquake in Switzerland iu 1861
was slightly felt along the coast. The
great Lisbon earthquake was also felt,
though it did no injury.
While the center of the last disturb¬
ance was in at its Nice, the area of the shock
was vast proportions, It was felt
distinctly in Rome and westward almost
to the Spanish coast of thoMediteranean,
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.
TEHCBHSOVS STORKS.
A Wind Star* of Groat iUa*oItaJo-Llvtt
Loot.
A . ™Mndoiia * thunder . storm . passed
? ve *. nor ^ west on Fnday morn
l P n n r ro g Pfrty. ^ . ng “^.damage Trains were to lifted persons from and the
tracks Col special and dashed MJ*: to> “In pieces. this city A Denver,
b ildin « unroofed, many
« «® smoke stacks,
le ] ed telvgraph th the an d telephone
p , las 8 windows . ve w broken. » ground, and plate
g * The damage will
n ' a< 1 8evera * thousand dollars. Outside
of l?e nve *« the casualties reported are
considerably greater than in the city. On
the Denver and Rio Grande railway, four
miles north of Colored# Springs, every
coach of the north bound Balt Lake cit y
cx P r ess, consisting of two sleeping cars,
two paeeenger coaches and a bag
^ a 8 c and maxl car » was blown from
the track > and tbe maJ l C" ft u d its con
ients were burned, Had the accident
ba PP en ed when the train was on a high
embankment, a short distance further,
* be ^ 08S wou l d have been gre at.
Fortunately, however, the ground was
P erf e ctl y level and no one was injured,
A revenger train of three coaches, on
tbc Denver and South Park road was
lifted from the track by a terrific blast
and burled down an embankment. One
passenger had his leg broken and several
olhcrs were bad, J bruised. Near Como,
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
oa various roads were from five to ten
hours latR on account of the storm.”
At Rochester New York the wind blew
down Court stTeet bridge and a young
,nan an <i young lady went down with the
wreck aud were lost. Others are missing
but the exact number of lives lost cannot
yet be ascertained.
Trains on most all lines North West
ftnd South of Minneapolis were aban
d oned.
CAVING INTO THE RIVER.
The Hlanlulppi River Banb at Leota Rives
Away.
From Greenville to the “Commercial
Herald” says: The river bank at Leota,
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.
The Anchor Line steamer City of Vicks¬
burg, this which lay at the distressed village
at time remained there for several
hours, aud 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 Frank el &
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 levee at the north end
of the new Reid levee gave w ay 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 be
closed. The rapid caving of the river
bank at Refuge mill endangers the rail¬
road track in that vivinity.
A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.
A Matrimonial 8rnsatlon lit ported from
Chattanooga, Tenti.
A decidedly romantic marriage occurr¬
ed at Chattanooga, a f:.w nights since,
which has just leaked out. Miss Minnie
George is the pretty daughter of Captain
J. F. George, and she has for a long time
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 seat in
front of the couple and driving to a
neighboring lamp post in order that he
might them see to read the license, lie made
man and wife.
THE OLD JOKE.
Prisoner* In Texas Lock Their Keeper l T p
and Escape With tbe Keys.
Tuesday evening a daring jail delivery
occurred at Belton, Texas. The jailer
was about with to place others, a prisoner arrested in
a cage seven 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 the jailer to stands gain entrance good to the
jail, and a 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
the 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 will is fill thought the position that the senator elected
the but during not the merely during
recess, next congress.
A MURDERER ARRESTED.
OATES, THE QUINTUPLE MUR -
MERER, TAKEN IN.
4 Fall Account hi n • D..U.-«. „ ,
A special to the Atlanta Constitution
says: Doubtless the most desperate crim
inal that lives in the south was captured
at fin, Lipscomb’s camp, on the edge of Grif
’ on the Georgia Midland 7 r i railroad auruuu
Monday „ , night. . ,, A , full
account of the
danng mitted deeds by and bloody murders com
this man, if fully written out
facts. This man is named Andrew Oates,
and his hands have been dyed in human
blood five times. He is a spare made i
rrf, and weighs about v ™,J e 140 1 c i n Mven pounds, „ i ” ch< and f is high not ’ ■
over thirty-three years old. ■ , 1
The crime that has led to liis arrest
w.. committed Christmas day iu Walker
county, Ala., Andrew Oates was working
at Puckett’s camp on the Kansas City
railroad. On Christmas dav a crowd of
negroe. assembled at a grocery, and after
toking on a good supply of liquor got
mto for a gambling time dispute game. After playing
some a arose and pistols
were drawn and Andrew Oateasucceeded
in with bringing pistol his man ball to through the ground his heart, dead,
a
Andrew Oates, Ed. Moore, George plai Tools
and Jim Troup left the of the
shooting and started away. In about
one hundred yards they met Mr. Pope
Wooten, who formerly lived at Stone
faring the firing,
had started down to see about it, with a
pistol in his hand. He met these negroes
the m a pistol narrow path. Andrew Oates jerked
from hie hand and fired at him,
the 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 hi.
body. lhe negroes then made their
escape.
captured captured a^X^TnwTin and lodged in jail in 'wST Walker
county. Ed Moore, or “Jack the Rab
bit,” as he is called, was captured about
two weeks 4. ago iu Birmingham lltteT'from Ala On
hi, pereon found a An
drew Oates, wntten from Cartcrsville,
Ga. Mr. Til Long, who captured “Jack
crsville. Here sorted to seveial means to
come up with Oates, but failed to get
any clue. Finally he learned that Oates
had "“Tl been Ja in Cartcrsville ,1 A atavinc with « A
negro named Allen i On, but had left.
Mr. Walker then began working on Orr,
and finally succeeded in getting a letter
w„?k?/ Walker, r i in ' Vr company ‘“" 1 by ° with at :? fr f, the n ' deputy
sheriff of Bartow county, proceeded to
Griffin and went immediately lo Lips¬
comb’s camp and succeeded iu bagging
Andrew Oates.
OTHER MURDERS.
Andrew Oates killed man at High
Bridge, Ky., one at Inman, Tenn., 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 with deputy sheriff of Bartow county left
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 sly¬
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 liis brother in that
city. As soon ns the truth flashed upon
him he exclaimed, “My God,” and fell
back dead.
ANOTHER RAILROAD.
Birmingham Ala., and Tallahassee Fla.,
to be Connected.
The Birmingham, t Georgia and Honda
railroad company, through their chosen
representative, have secretly purchased
of the 1 allahassee, Bambndgc and Wes
tern company, the old road bed known
as the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Colum-
bus roau, and propose building a through
line to be completed this year, from Bir
mingham, Ala., to Tallahassee, Fla., via
Opehka, Horence, 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 City as a road, connecting line for the
Kansas now nearing comple
tion to Birmingham, and will give s
through line to the Atlantic and gull
ports. Parties who have just left Cuth¬
bert for the 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 a*
these are completed. These gentlemer
give every assurance of the ability of the
corporation build in whose the interest and they already are al
work, to line, have
paid a large cash sum for the old roac
bed.
MALE OF THE BARNETT SHOALS.
Mr. James M. Yeal, executor, has sold
the estate’s interest in the Barnett shoals
to Mr. R v L. Bloomfield for $10,000.
The deeds were passed and the 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 spindles in a dozen large cotton
mills.
A TERRIBLE WINTER.
Fearful Safferla* and Hardship* from Cold
Weather la the Northwest.
The winter of 1886-87 will long be remem
bered throughout the Northwest for the ex
treme sev *ri fc 7 of the temperature and the
muM.ld.pth Of .now. Old-tim.n .W.
referred to former years as “high-water
marks,” but this year eclipses all previous rec
ords - Thesevere weather started in soon after
often^congealed the holidays. Mercury thermometers were
and spirit thermometers
^ k ®F t ? U8 ^ j ura P^ f «*om 40 toW) below
aero. Half 1 a dozen tunes has the 60 notch
been touched, and once this season 62 1-2 be
low 261-0 has been scored on the Saskatche
wan P^ina. This year the snowfall is unpre
throughout itisfrom eight the National Park and elsewhere
to twelve feet deep, aud on the
dead-level P rairie {lom eighteen to forty
must
from Already cold this have winter occurred a number in Dakota. of deaths Not
\? D J? 61 Charles Schroeder, SfcjSBTiS living near
blowing below. and Not the thermometer registered 35
neighbors turned reaching out home, with his lanterns, family and
££4 fol
stack and then tai”down ^taWriKU
gone on. The next day the
body he was ^ found twelve miles away on
£ ^y F l r “ta, ri ?’ „ "roJ lyin 5 r °iSto on < ’'S it8 aU face > where T
ice. A few days chunck of
ago Miss Maggie Bunn, a
school-teacher at Highmore, while going
fr°m the school to her house, was frozen to
£& S^iSSSt
frozen near Ashland. Several more have
been missing since Christina , an 1 they must
haV cau sht out. Their bodies will
u . •ing.’ , "in ItatinaTnuK
of casualties have already occurred,
Tony Wise and a Swede named Martin
' v er £, at wo ^ on ? n ! uin S property on the side
,
men into eternity without a moment's warn
in T°m 8 . burying Williams, them thousands of feet below.
a sheep herder near Mossgale
aimlessly was dead, but the sheep were wandering
about Many had been stampeded
America Ore. Indian,
came across the line last fall and while the
weather was fine camped in the mountains
between the forks of Sun River. An unusual
Bnow followed and the wretched creatures be
ffffiKfSfrTS&KI; ESSTg
starvation, and brought when white men hunted them up
relief. During the latter part of
perish, life by but eating the majority the cattle managed that died to sustain
in the
snowdrifts.
Twelve hundred outof a herd of fifteen
hundred sheep were lost in one locality, and
the survivors were so badly mutilated by
coyotes and wolves that they died. Borne
sheepmen iu Western Montana have lost
rSfSd‘1 Sot'blow* <!attl,S
A WICKED WOMAN.
A Worthies* Woman Arrested In Mobile,Ala.
—SensaHonal Development*.
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 lleitz, by the police
of Montgomery Saturday night, and the
subsequent arrest of the woman and otliei
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
ers at all hazards. The woman gives her
name as Grace Gardiner, and claims to
live in Houston, Texas, but the tickets
ficials were only to New Orleans, and the of¬
are of opinion that she only meant
to take the girls to that city where they
would have been in her clutches. Miss
lleitz, who was detained here, tells a sad
story of how she and her companion were
persuaded to leave home and made the
victims to a wicked scheme. She savs
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, ed will be prosecuted and punish¬
as far as possible.
SALVATION ARMY.
Their Attack on tbe “Tar Heel*”—An Inter¬
esting Mcandal.
Some weeks ago the Salvation Army
made its first appearance in North Caro¬
lina, and made a conceited attack at
several points—at Raleigh aud Charlotte
in particular—upon the forces of the
devil. In Raleigh thev created very lit
tic sensation and made few converts,
Quite the contrary was the case in Char
lotte, where they took the 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 urmy
known as “White Cross.” The complain¬
ant is Lieu’t. Alexander Chapin, and ns
there is a woman in the cave the affair is
of a scandalous nature, Toe offender is
to be regularly court rnarlinlcd, a detail
from the army having been made for the
purpose.
AN ENGINEER LOST.
An Alabama ttlver Engineer Dlneappenre
Huppeeed te have Dreweed.
J. R. Moffit, 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 and was when coming up
the river to Montgomery Selma, Moffit took seven¬
teen miles above 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. Hie captain has re¬
ceived a telegram from the searching
party, who went back to Selma, bring¬
ing information that the missing engin- about
cer had not been found. Moffit was
65 years old.
BIRMINGHAM’* NEW PAPER.
The first issue of the Daily Evening
News, a new afternoon paper, will appear
be at Birmingham, Ala., next week. It will
a seven-column quarto, and will have
is full owned telegraph news service. The paper
prominent by a strong stock company of
prospect of citizens, and starts with every
success.
MBER 40.
—
VAR IMPENDING.
GERMANY ALARMED AT TUB
PROSPECT.
The French Fftlldlna Hats for One Hundred
Tlions ltd .Hen on the Frontier.
The Berlin Nachrich ten says: “Thethreat¬
ening character of the situation across tho
western frontier is bosoming much more
acuta. 11 n view of tho fact that huts have al¬
ready boon constructed to shelter 100,000 men,
and that preparations have been made to
theltor a similar number around Belfort, wo
have, beyond doubt, to deal with nothing
Jess than the strengthening of the French
lina, tilities to enable to throw them at largo the beginning for. of hos¬
frontier, aud thus a o ac csa the
Germun trausfer oi orations to
Herr Tissendorl, Teirilory.” Chief
Imperial Tribunal Procurator of the
Tausch of tho Criminal at Lclpsic: Commissary
ment, and Public Prosecutor Inquiry Vacano Depart¬
held long nav*
Herr a Tissendorf conference at Btrasburg.
Alulhausen afterward started for
and Herr Tausrh for
Metz. It is supposed the object of the.r jour¬
ney is ti make inquiries respecting secret
communications between German and French
spiracy Anarchists, and concerning a reportod con¬
between tho French Patriotic League
and its adherents iu Alsace.
Continued arrests of Socialists at Magde¬
there. burg have paralysed tho electoral agitation
custody, Thirty-eight including Socialists were taken into
tho lo?al im st of the members of
electoral commit tea
Prince liohenl h Governor of Alsace
Lorraine issued an election manifesto. He
said;
“Tho Government has asked for tbe pas¬
sage persuaded of a Septennate that Army bill because it is
with the danger Germany will be threatened
of war as soon as that part
of the French nation which longs for war
towards the military strength ef France
superior to tlmtof Germany. If Alsace-Lor¬
raine wishes not to be exposed to the terrors
of another war, let peaceable and concilia¬
stag—Deputies tory Deputies bo elected to the new Reich¬
who who accept tho pcaceM§Sp7I.
Those vote to return members Ofcthe
of protesting the ^anti-Germany) party, ornttin wilt
Government’s Beptenuate bill, bo
and responsible for the continuance of disquiet
the resultant injury to trade and com¬
merce.
“If in some electoral districts the friends
of peace find themselves unable, because of
the pressure of former political leaders, to
put to have forward elected the candidates to the they Reichstag, would they like
new
may deposit blank voting papers, und in this
way express their views and record the real
opinion of the country. ,
“The re-union of Alsace-Lorraine to Ger-,
many is Irrevocable as long as tho German
Empire with exists. Those days are pregnant
decisivo issues. Listen only to what,
your love of conscience home and and good family sense and and your!
dictate.” your your,
property I 1
[The “Septonuate Army bill’’ referred to in!
the foregoing is the recent measure intro,
diu-cd in tho Gorman lleich-.tag and advo¬
cated strongly by Prince Bismarck and Gen¬
eral Von Moitko. Tiie bill provided for ad¬
ditional army supplies aud organization, the
appropriations however, to run carried for seven years. Its
opponents, propriations an amendment i
making tho a; three and provisions of -1 1
the bill to run for only years, where
upon and Emperor ordered William dissolved the Heich-; to!
stag majority now members elections, hoping
get a of now iu favor of I
the soven-year measure. —Ed. ] j
A WONDERFUL GORMANDIZER,
4 Small Boy, But a Big Rater—An ATcrnct
“Sqanre Meal.”
Henry Flowers, a fourteen-year-old boy of
Jeflerson Township, Ind., is one of the most
peculiar spedinonsof humanity that however
'mine to light in that section. He came to
Martiusville 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
they the boy wishing a square meul for fifty-five cents,
his abilities to satisfy their curiosity os to
long to wait as until an eater. their fondest They did not havo
ting the joke tho landlord hopes of get¬
He ate six pieces upon of light bread, was realized.
bread, two pieces of
corn two large slices of beef, roasted
with gravy; two largo slices of roasted pork,
four large potatoes, one dish of beans, one
dish of slaw, two dishes of hominy, one dish
of parsnips and two pieces of pie. After eat¬
ing his pie he (ailed for a bowl of oysters,
and was informed that they were not on the
bill of faro for that day. He then went to
Dr. Blackstone’s to eat again, and his meal
there consisted of seven potatoes, three
slices of broad, each six by eight inches; two
slices of roast beef, two cups of coffee, one
dish of tomatoes, one dish of butter beano
snd two pieces of pie. As is usual with him,
his hunger was not yet satisfied. Ho went
from Dr. Blackstone’s to one of tho city*
bakeries, cheese there purchased ton cents’ worth of
and crackers aud 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 bis age. boiDg only about
three feet high, and weighing but forty
pounds. hollow His skin is thick ana yellow, his
cheeks and sunken, and his eyes give
an unndstakab’e proof of his consiant hun¬
ger, which he evinces on all occasions. Eel
dom, if ever, do ©3 one encounter su :h an ar>
etite, and it is a wonder whore he stows
a«ay so much food. Ko physician at Mai
tinsville can sati-factorily diagnose his rnsei,
BOOTHS SLAYER CRAZY.
Cerbatt’s Insane Pranks In tho Knn»an
Heane of Uepreoontatlvr*.
Boston Corbett, tbe slayer of John Wilkes
Booth, created a sensation in tho Kansas
House of Representatives a few days a go.
At the commencement of the sesssion of the
Legislature, Corbett was appointed Assistant
Doorkeeper. Tueeday he strapped on two
revolvers, and took with him a box of car¬
drove tridges. Then, attendant with a drawn weapon, he
a negro from the Hall of
Representatives. Sergeant-at-Arms Norton
attempted Corbett cocked to expostulate of with him, when
one his revolvers, and,
travel. pointing it Corbett directly then at the looked officer, for told him to
Smith, and meeting member who Speaker
on a some¬
what resembled him, was about to fire whoa
the member threw- up his hands and said he
permitted was not tbe Speaker. The Corbett member was then
to move on. took posse <
sion of the Speaker’s gallery, and, walking in
front of the doors, held it during tho entire
morning session, him. refusing Three to allow any une to
come called, near but they would policemen into were
not venture the
dark corridor, and the slayer of Booth held
possession. At 12 o’clock he sent word down
to the and House to adjourn it himself. or he would come
down journed. adjourn The House ad¬
Corbett was afterward captured in the
lower corridor, disarmed, ana 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 Chattanooga, were seizing Officer a negro Mitchell gambling attempt- doa
in
ed to burst in the door. As he did so
the door was opened and one of the mi”
groes split his head with a hatchet.
was removed home and it is feared uegrj j
injuries will prove fatal. Fifteen await
were arrested and are in jail to .1
result Mays, proprietor of the officer’s of the injuries. den, is said" J>.^
have inflicted the blow, ; m