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The Democrat.
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PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
BY CLEM. C. MOORE.
CBA WFOnnriUE. GEORGIA.
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A rciisuh of Paris irits has been taken,
and as a insult it is . -limated that the
stock of rodents on hand amounts to
about 8,500,000. Ilene : no apprelu n
sion sion net nu d 0 be felt felt of .t 1 ■ 1 .11 m ; tv t> in 111 the t 1 kid K 1
A Dutch syndicate of Amsterdam ,
bankers has bought from the Florida
Land A Mortgage Company nearly nine
hundred aquaro miles of heavy limber
land in west Florida. The syndicate
propose to form a great land and colon.
station company, building a railroad into
the purchase and colonizing from Hd
aDI •
There wtl soon be an end . of f the fit, f
famed redwood forests of California, j
Theft; arc no fewer than nineteen lumber
companies now engaged in cutting down
the “big trees” and all the mills arc in
constant work, as the demand for the i
wood is practically unlimited, The
country will, therefore, he cleared away |
in a very few years, for nobody makes I
even an attempt at replanting.
Electricity lias in its time played many
parts, but to apply it to a conductor’*
baton lin*, at any rate, the superior merit
of novelty. After the recent manoeuvres
of the German army, a serenade was
given in honor of the Emperor, and 1200
executants took part. It was pitch dark,
and, of course, quite impossible for tho
bandsmen to see the conductor’s beat
But scienco suggested an accumulator on -!
ts. —. <■«*, —-1 -at. • 1 - 1
erly covered wire secured along the con
doctor's stick, from the top of which ;
there shone a tiny electric light..
The Philadelphia Ledger publishes
aome Interesting . . statistics .. regarding ..
longevity in that city. During flic year
1880 the total number of deaths of per
sous 80 yours old and over was 883, and
c 5th ire women. Of these 883
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re __ 80 y CJ!i s olUiU were
IMMENSE FLOODS.
The Hirer* nnd ( reek* ol l>»kola Over
flowing.
A Northern Pacific train from the west,
which was delayed seventy hours, by the
floods, reached Bismarck, Oak., Wedne.s.
duv evening. Reports indirate that the
Missouri must break within a week, arid
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Zw'.'To!!"'
nrul Billing.,
have bejen sw<-pt uwhv, and much damage
I,, I.een o. ,-asioned by tle- floods Pan
*jSatnd'within' S the 'lust week"
and a report Bays that the town is again ,
under wat< r. Water flowed in all the
street- and in one street, in rear of the
,
^ eoninell
Uie
home, all ni'dit
vVedora ’ water in the Littlo Mis
pouri has g umnu ,ded the extensive
slaughter houses and rclmgerators of
Mnr<jfiin <!<• Mores; nnd Mandan, five
MJUtl| „ r Mantian, Is now open about
twenty miles above its confluence with
JhoJttJwouri «nd when
will then be inundated Dvaiieshiild ns she is built Is" on
^by , you lb 5K jtlih: comply
will lie u I'd ill blowing out the ice along
lijc niiTB of the nutssivf! iron bridge ’ /lisas- and
cy, •rv preeauUon taken to prevent
ler There c in be bank/ no protection for set
. 1,11 along .1,- for many miles
south. Never in the history of the coun¬
try 1ms there been so much snow, It is
now pouring into the Missouri in immense
torrents, and every creek is swelled to
the dignity of a river.
A TOWN BURNED.
lUnrkviKe i nrollfin I* by n
n Dinirurtive Hr»*.
The entire business portion of the
little town of Blackvillo, 8. C., was
burned Wednesday. The fire originated
in the rear of the general merchandise
store of P. W. Farrell and had gained
considerable headway before it was dis¬
covered and notwithstanding the efforts
el the entire town to check the fire in
£2
than half an hour almost the entire town
was ono mass of tUmos and at night the
other portion of the town cast of the rail
road was one mass of ashes, twenty-seven •'
bol ' ,cs having been consumed.
Among the builainffs consumed were:
,, w Kurr ,. H ’ H tin d Marlin & Son’s gen
ersi merchandise store; J. L. Husekj large
brick grocery house; 1). If. Brigg's Simon v lrug
store; W. A. Jarrell’s general store; Mattia
nt!W brick F' nor ? 1 store;
Koclors [X, i(roc«r M, store and bar; Br -own*
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FROZEN NORTHWEST.
SSOiV MULTI SO AM) FLOODING
THE HIV Ell VAEEETS.
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Terrible in Dakota— k ml*™ out la
Ilia snow—A Brave Rescue.
.i,W \ dispatch from Bismarck Dakota
KUiil*ZZUS‘t£?*-SS ‘ CT '“V ™ l"tr'
r,»7i< < m w t - IVU < ;!iw* bar k this after
oneR-it minging “Dutch Mike"
^ 11 ! ^thcv'in'neS’ for'’nSy
.■ 1 ,.... 1 . 1 ,,. V awl brinirimr Beal? H
yi f:( utv arid v. ife iiiiii C. A. found
.. j:,,j r . , flollrj( i ,,nnosite ’-’t / Fort 1 I 1,1 is -pin
Zl • : : ■ , ■ "t'onn theTtuS , r , 1 Xhe 1 ,
'. blinding V °loo
1><, . Uh littitt , tsh«Mt. . of r rmra-eu • 1 ous. - / T <:
V, otthTifandan side'cfcaot comluni
veri { . ( | h cre) lls there is no
^tLon. There is no ice running imftti I <
ri ^l b ldica % tba t the . ,
tlSty^Tannotget J , ^from hwe before tomor
ro . v q-j,,. train the east to day
brought more emigrants aad ?«;
! ,ow <,v< ^ r b '' rc - F to Northern
returning . east passengers, who desire
^ w , vffIEK GR0VvmG ! rou „ .
* il(i published , , statement . , that fTie
Northern i'aeitie river warehouse m IBs
!" i * r,:1; was lul of gooua for the ii| river
<-a m.dake H,e goods b.m.ig b*u re
moved in anticipation of tbe higHbiter.
I he. high, trestle of the NoithernHK.eific
bridge will require but three or fflff days
to repair. Word reached Bismarck to
night that a whole held family had pflbably
perished, or above. m still captive afrfjaunt minted
20 miles allies at
Woods have been telegraphed t<flgo to
the rescue. It is getting colder.
The Missouri river is still on therein
page. The Buford rise reached Bismarck
to-day, and the water is flowing over the
prairie at a greater depth and more ter¬
rible speed than ever. The stream has
risen a foot here to-day, which is equal
to rise of over twenty feet in the upper
river, as the water is spread wide. out over a
stretch of country six miles
The fearful blizzard has abated and
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I the Northwest. This will add to the
flood, and as the sun lias come out w arm,
the tributaries of the Missouri
„ row } n ” , r j rora the melting snow.
1 THE PK.IUL OK THE „ PKOK
‘ The rescuing parties ^ that n the
j | wonderful terduy, and journey saved into the the lives lowl of yes
jnen
and one woman who were pcrc »n
the tops of houses and in trc/i ithe
heroes of the day. A telegromJ 'ort the
LihloIh Tflgerday ann
POST-OFFICE BURGLARIZED,
The Albany, CJa., Po«t-ofHce Robbpd of
Money and Mlainp*,
A special to tbc Atlanta Constitution
Albany, On., Tuesday says: Our |
fty wa8C ? nsK cralj! > ex cit w ' I’d morn- :
when it reported , that , bold i end i
ing was a
daring burglary had been perpetrated at
«*««**» b“bJiiig "”T.....’Jr |,h,«TiV.«*h 1 . “VP
. »»«» » to l,r»k .1. «.».««,
? n< * thediaweis neie riiled of then ? on
c Jri e VTwVwilh "the slLnmHmJ
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registered letters Six hundred or $700
ID money and $800 or $1,000 tn stamps
w « Besides c V* kwl these, j''' tll<! about thl, ^ ves thirty - registered
otters, the exact value of which is not
*—.* I-esent. were stolen. An m
trance into the post-ofliee was effected
through barred the back door, which was locked
and securel y wllen tbe office was
closed for the night. Early this morning
the broken vault and the papers l 1 were
found * v the .. , banks of ^ the .. river, . where ,
on
lfley they had Da ^ been „ een left Jeu by „ y the inc thieves t after
nAing them of their contents, The work
is 18 cvldentl evidently >' that that of of profes-siou professionals, who go
prepared SffoHs for will KndTS’hriS their work, and strenu
then, to
justice j thc and retribution. Captain Y. G.
{ (;levcr an( , tfiic i en t.pastma t£o authori’- S ter,
telegraphed immediately to
ties Booth, at of Washington Atlanta, notifying and to Inspector
them of the
robbery.
BEEGHERa SUCCESSOR
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))r j ogep |, Parker, of i.oudon. T»ikeii «f
, for Plymouth.
Th( . ‘ cstion of who is t0 succeed Mr.
Beecher in th( . p|y lno uth church pulpit
hM alrc:l(lv obtru ,i«d itself upon the
m i nt j g 0 f the congregation, and 111 many
j nsta „ces given rise to conjectures upon The
the ultimate selection of the trustees.
ma j J or j^ preferences at present seem to he
I)r sef>h Park( . r , of London. Dr.
Parker was a friend and admirer of Mr.
Beecher, and for years there was the
strongest bond of sympathy between the
two, who in many ways resembled each
other. During his visit to England Mr.
Beeclier was the guest of Dr. Parker,
andjiireached iu his church, the City
Teihple, in Holborn. Four years ago Dr.
Parker come over to tiffs country and de¬
livered a few of his sermons in Plymouth
church. Those who heard him were
much impressed by' bis brilliant oratory.
It is said that General Horatio King
lias a liking for Dr. Parker, while John
T. Howard, one of the founders of the
church, would be pleased to see Dr. Ly
nan Abbott in the Plymouth pulpit. would Mr. be
Thomas G. Shetwood thinks it
a wise plan to select a minister who is to¬
tally different from Mr. Beecher, so that
no disparaging comparisons can he
,wn-
THE FLAMES, t
IN
APPAEIAXG SCENES AT A EIRE IS
Ill'EE A LO, X. E. !
Over Thirty I.tveo l.o«t in the Flre-TIte i
»ia, t-h im!* Fan the MadI'lanic*
Fire was discovered at 3:30 o'clock
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i.'.u'.T'it t'iiu'w.nicr >e
,x,»,«».. ttae* » WM*«- ■
fon. Fhe origm of the lire is not as yet
1™T' Wm * ’
' parted in the cloak
The fire room
under the main stainvuy at 3:50 o clock,
There was nobody up but myself, Joe,
the mg.it porter, and 1 iuninier, and bell
bov. 1 Afferent pulled all four of the fire alarms
on' the floor, and the people
clothes! came living down stairs in their night
The fire followed the stairways
and elevator, and inside of live minutes
l eached the toop floor. I rushed out of
door-after doing all I could.”
The spread of tbe ., . said • ri to .^-i nave
names IS
been frightful " ‘ ’ * * in * its *' rapidity. -I*.- rT The ' 1 ele- - 1 '
vat or shaft served as a flue for the flames
and they rushed up it to the top floor,
The house contained a large number of
gut ts, and their heartrending shrieks
could plainly be heard. Ladders were
raised and as many as Lore possible saved.
A large number of guests unable to
effect their escape. At 4 o’clock the en
tire Richmond hotel, St. James hall and
other property in the block were doomed
to speedy destruction. The whole place
burned like a tinder box, the corridor in
greatfunnelandtheflamesstreamedup- tbe center of the building acting us a
wards. The guests found themselves
IMPRISONED BY A WALL OF FIIIE.
The screams of the guests could be
heard for blocks. At many windows
could be seen the guests in their night
clothes, calling loudly for help. At third |
story window two guests were seen by :
the crowd to fall back into the flames. !
One man jumped from the fifth floor to
the roof of a two story wooden building ; j
adjoining. He was seriously injured.
The wife and daughter of Mr. Mann,
one of the proprietors, were badly burned ;
but are in private quarters. A number
of other injured persons are also being
cared for at private houses. There were
many narrow escapes and a number of
instances of personal bravery and self
sacrifice by both inmates of the hotel and
firemen rescuers.
The following is a list of those known
to have perished in the flames:
Katie Kent, servant; Minnie
servant; Katie Pierce, servant; Wilson
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Purcell, of R. G. Dun & Co.; Mark Os
borne, day clerk at the hotel; Johnson,
a Toronto, railway man; Kate Wolf, of
Lock port, servant.
The dying are: York; Henry B.
Jacob Kahn, New Mulilach.
Rumsey, New York; Maggie Edward
LTi’ ■ Mary Nolan, Buffalo;
AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER.
To All Wanting Employment.
We want Live, Energetic United and Stales Capable Agents Caoa
n every county ia tbe and
da, to sell a patent article of great merit, on
its merits. An article having a large sale, pay¬
ing over ioo per cent profit, haring is protected n* compe¬ in
tition, and on which the agent
the exclusive sale by a deed given for each and
every county he may' secure from us. With all
these advantages to our agents and the fact that
it is an irticle that can be sold to every house
owner, it might not be necessary to make an
‘•extraordinary offer” concluded to secure good make agents ic
at mce, but we have to to
show c, not only our confidence in the merits of
vusr invention, but iu its salability by Our any agent
that will handle it with energy, agents
now at work are making from $150 to $600 a
month clear and this fact makes it safe for us to
make our offer to all who are out of business employ¬
ment. Any agent that will give our .
ihirty days’ trial and fail to clear at least Sioc
ia this time, above all and expenses, will can refund return the
all goods unsold to us we general
money paid for them. Any agent or
agent who would like ten or more counties a nu
work them through sub-agents for nine; y days
and fail to clear at least $750 above all their ex¬
penses, can return all unsold and get
money back. No other employer of agents ever
dared to make such offers, nor would we it we
did not know that we have agents now m iking
more than double the amount we guaranteed profit of ;
and but two sales a d day would give a
over $125 a month, and that one of our agents
'criptVve ^ () 1 d
circulars explain our offer fully, of ar.d
these we wish to «nd to everyone out
plovment who will send Send us tnree and one cent
stamps lor onstage. at once secure
the agency ill time for the boom, and go to work.
on the terms named in our extraordinary otter.
We would like to have the address of ail the
agents, sewing machine solicitors and carpen
Lers in the country, and ask any reader of this
r who reads this offer, to ser/d us at once
name and address of all suck they know.
Address at once, or you will lose the best chance
ever otfered to loose out of employment to make
money. Renner Masuvactl'HIng Co.,
u6 Smithfield St., Pittsburg, Pa.
Mme, DEFORESTS
K opt SARI E RATTEENS
fitting s.-arment.
MME, DEFORESTS
System of Dress Cutting.
Chari, sm’ Book of nm dirvctt^t-naWing anyone to
Feice, ST.OC, Sent by mail, post paid, oa receipt
efprfcc.
MIME. DEMQRESre
PORTFOLIO OF FASHIONS
AND WHAT TO WEAR
J ; a large Styles, Magazine illustrated of S’7 with pages of Fashion Notes and
about 1,000 Cuts.
Sent post-paid, for 'Zo cents.
THE
Denresi Sewing Machine s
Tills. STVI.E ONLY
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