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m ffiA; he flute * ! m o ^w- i] ■'‘ril * - A C*|k ;Va k i . t t \ V<M r - «. : . I u h. ♦ 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