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HAMILTON. GEORGIA.
SLOWN TO FRAGMENTS.
I TUGBOAT'S BOILER EXPLODES
AT NEW YORK.
Everybody on Board the Unfort a nat® Craft
Instantly Willed*
The recent blowing up of Flood Rock at
Hell Gate, New York city, was a terriflo
ipectacle, but an explosion on a tugboat near
the same place the other afternoon was much
more terrible in its effect®. From the metro¬
politan journals we gather th® following par¬
ticulars:
The tug Dorie Emory, of Hoboken, Rondout, began
at dusk to make up a tow to go to
by hauling out from Cur.dee A Smith’s dock
at the foot of East Shity-third street, an
empty brick scow. Half a dozen mon wore
on the scow, and as soon ns the tug headed
down stream, against the tide, sat ho
down in th® hold to eat their supper. '1
tug was to pick up another scow at Fifty
third street, and kept within 40.) feet of the
Now York shore. Hhe had reached Fifty
niut.h street at about 5:35 i\ m., and was off
tho bluff known as Kivervievv Terrace, whan
sho blew up with a report that persons nt the
Charity hospital on Blackwell s Island siy
was much louder than the last Hell Gate ox
plosion. The works of the tug appeared tc
upper her suddenly and the hull spread.
leave
There whs a mom-nun y ginic, a long shock
with a sort of lull in the middle, and up went
a column of smoke and steam 70.) or 8<K) feet
in the air an straight as a rocket. With the
column went nil sorts of wre dc, and some
say they saw one man who moved
his limns in the air. Then a wreckage
began to fall over an area which extended
from First avenue to near Black well s Island,
and for many blocks up and down the river.
Most of the debris was small and pattered
like hailstones in tho streets and on roofs,
but loud thuds and crashes told of largor
pieces falling on houses and pave¬
ments and in yards. The smokestack
and part cf the steam pipes were thrown on
tbo rocks at tho foot of East Fifty-eighth
street and the shore was strewn witli all
sorts of wreckage. Fow windows remained
unbroken on River View terrace, and in now
houses south of it, which are known as River
View, and hundreds of panes of glass wore
broken in the neighborhood of Avenue A
and Fifty-eighth street, which is known as
Button Within place. few minutes 5,00!)
a very persons
were at the river front or on thoir way there,
and within a quarter of an hour four times
that uumber were on the shore or on the ter¬
race in front of which the explosion
took place, peering into the darkness.
Police Captain Gunner and_ a section
of p olicemen went to quick. Fifty-eig nth
street at the double W hen
the the tug steamboat blew up William Pilot McAvoy H. Wickham was steering
across
to the island. He made quickly partly for the keeled scow,
which was drifting helplessly, bows
over, toward Sixtieth street. Her wore
shattered, but those on board cried out to
him that none of thorn were hurt, but that
six ineu on the Dorie Emory had perished.
There was not a trace of the tug to be seen
on tho water except here and there a piece of
timlssr. Making fast to the scow, Captain Crosby
McAvoy waited until tho Cornell tug
came along and took her in tow. The men
on the scow, although she was making water
fast, declined to leave her. with the exception
of one who went in the William H. Wick¬
ham. In the meantime at least thirty craft
had gathered around, and the water was
patrolled in every direction to dis
cover those who were on the
tug when she blew up. No trace was found
except, some receipts and billheads.
When the damage done on shore was in¬
vestigated it was found that, although no one
was hurt, hundreds had bad ’-.'row escapes
in the streets and in houses. A timber which
two men could hardly lift fell at Fifty-eighth
street and First avenue, making a dent in the
pavement. Pieces of iron ana timber were
distributed promiscuously shattered. through the streets,
and many windows wore
Five or six men—the captain, engineer, the
fireman, cook and deck-hands—were on
tugboat at the time of the explosion, and not
a vestige of anj of them, alive or dead, could
be found.
a yginaoie Find.
More than 30,000 fragments of ancient
embalmed during nine centuries, not
very much the worse for their interment,
The history of these venerable documents
is remarkable. I rofessor Karabacek .up
poses that they must at one time have
formed part of the public archives of Ei
Fayoum, and that the bulk of these
archives perished in a great conflagra
tion. such as destroyed the great library
at Alexandria. — fonaon Ttmts.
Very few suits are made entirely or one
fabric: Of all the fancies shown each
has its matching cloth, and tailor-made
suits are of a subdued stripe, plain cloth ot
check in somber colors, with plain checks
matching a one or other of the oi
.
II TENNESSEE TRAGEDY,
A WOMAN KILLS HER III -BAVf)
AND ESCAPES TO THE HILLS.
The A<Iventure« of a C'hnttanong i Grocer
and Ilia Wayward Wife.
The most sensational tragedy thvfc ha, been
recorded in Tennessee m years was enacted
near Chatttnor.ga on Monday. D. D. Lofltnd,
a grocer or' that city, while returning from a
; uruuit afier his fa.lidos, wife and a young
rnan named James Wibon, was shot by th*
woman thro igb the h *,;ul :.nd fataliy wound, I.
Tho<murder ss escap e! n the in mn'ains. D.
D. Lofland met his bride at Brist >i, Tcnn., five
years ago. Her name was Rom Smith ; she
was from N*rth Caro it a,—a dashing girl of
able great beauty at and 1'ris‘ol brilliancy. and three He made consider¬ th*
money years ago
couple mov : I to Chat nooga where the hus¬
band ambarked in bu-uue «. A few months ago
Jann s Wils m, a young blond from !Socia‘ Circle,
Ga., made t K-i;cq m m an.•< of the young wife
and she sce ne l tomplct 1 fascia it d by ids
charms. Font that lime ■ ated tin unhap¬
piness of the couple. Their d mastic bli-s was
rudely ended and Bcrious quarreis were of con¬
stant occurrence. In oruer to take her from
the city Lofland purchased a farm in an ad¬
join ng county, but she became dissatisfied
and he sold it. Short y aftei wards she applied
for a divorce and claimed #1 500 of the money
realized from the farm as alimony. She se¬
cured possession of the money by some means,
and on Friday night eloped with Wilson.
They first fled to Fort Payne, Ala., where the
woman has a sister, and then took the overland
trip to Seottsboro, Ala., to take tin train for
the west. Lofland followed them, and they
fled fiom Scottsboro into the mountains. He
overtook them, and the woman plead so pite¬
ously that ho was turned into her power, and
he promised to forgive her. She said she
wou Id return with him, and they began the
journey home. At an unfrequented from t-pot in
the road she suddenly drew a pistol her
pocket and shot him through the head, put
■purs to her horse and escaped. The bullet
paBRed entirely through Lolland’s skull, and
he died that night.
FOltEST FIHE8 IN KANSAS.
Destruction of Life ami Valuable Property
by Wind and Fire.
During the high wind Friday a prairie fire
broke out seven miles north of Burton, Kansas,
which swept over an area of about thirty miles,
destroying about one thousand stacks of hay
and grain and a number of sheep, hogs and
cattle sheds. It is n d stated how far east the
fire extended. Further and more definite re¬
ports of prairie fires in Silver Lake township,
that county, Fridav. bring advices of terrible
loss to property, but the amount cannot be
estimated. On Edwards’ ranche 5,800 tons of
hay were burned: Johnson A Williams lost 500
tons of hay, besides fences, sheds and shops;
Patrick McNeery was entirely burned out, los¬
ing everything but the clothing on his family.
Edward Countryman and was fatally burned, and
John Leeper The fire is John supposed Berry to are have not originated expected
to live.
in Pottowattimie Indian reservation. It will
be several days before the full loss can be
given. reported from Winfield,
Terrific fires are
Kansas, as the result of Friday’s gale. The
most destructive and continuous northeast
wind ever experienced in that section prevailed.
Cowley county was swept by fire with great
destruction to property of all kinds. The cat¬
tle rancho of Tomiin and Webb, thirty miles
below Winfield, in the Indian territory, was
entirely destroyed with from four to six hun¬
dred head of cattle that were caught in the
track of tho flames with no means of escape.
The ranches of Hill and Allen, Beach and
Pickens, Dick Best, Betts and others also, were
entirely destroyed, It was the most disastrous
prairie fire ever experienced in that country.
Much damage other than by fire resulted from
the sale.
A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Lieutenant Harding, of th® Louisville Po¬
lice, and a Negro, Killed.
Edward Harding, second lieutenant of police,
was shot and almost instantly killed Sunday
night at Louisville, Kv., by a negro rough,
William Courtney, who was himself shot and
instantly killed a minute later by officer Len
Ferguson. Ccurtney and another negro, Pete
polk, were fighting in Shader’s saloon about a
woman that Courtney struck. Hearing the
shot passed through the shoulder aud the
second through the back cf his he*d. Tlis
officer fell a:most the wall, and Courtney fired
j JOU ,. t all .} l iiU* i itn. Courtney then tan out
t0 e8l . ap ., i.„ t .»> seeing Officer Ftrgusoa com
j ng mining to learn the cause of the shootiug,
lie opened fire. Ferguson dodged, and before
Hardin* „ a(i about fifty years of age. He wa
eapum cf the secoud* confederate infantry,
which leiouged to the celebrated Orphan
brigade. Ho surrendered at Fort Done son.
For twenty years he h*d been eonnseted wittv
the poiice'force of Louisville,
— —“
A pumpkin vine near Fort 31
Savannah, measures with its branem
»nd runners H miles long.
, PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Some natures are so sour and un¬
grateful that they are never to bo
obliged.
Avoid greatness; In a cottage (here
may be more real happiness than kings
or their favorites enjoy.
Let friendship gently creep to a
height; if it rush to it, it may soon
run itself out of breath.
It is no help to a sailor to see a flash
of light across a darkness, if he does
not instantly steer accordingly.
It is a masterpiece to draw good out
of evil, and by the help of virtue to
improve misfortunes into blessings.
In studying character, do not be
blind to the shortcomings of a warm
friend or the virtues of a bitter enemy.
Words are spiritual forces, angels of
blessing or cursing. Unuttered, we
control them; uttered, they control us.
Customs are even stronger than
laws, and yet the most of them are
observed in defiance of common sense
and truth.
The inequalities of life are irrem.
ediably based on four pillars, which
stands as firm as the perpetual hills—
strength, talent, wealth, and rank.
If you were willing to be as pleas¬
ant and as anxious to please in your
own home as you are in the company
of your neighbors, you would have the
happiest home in the world.
Soutli Carolina’s Phosphate Deposits.
A member of a New York firm who
has received an order for dredges for
use in excavating phosphate in South
Carolina reports that industry as es¬
pecially prosperous, and that 500,000
tons of this material is now being dug
up as against 350,000 tons in 1883
The phosphate rock bed of South Car¬
olina now supplies the world with the
chief part of all the phosphate of lime
used in the manufacture of commer¬
cial fertilizers, and this industry was
unknown there until 1868. The great¬
est length of this phosphate bed is
about seventy miles, the city of
Charleston being about the center of
the most accessible deposits.—It crops
out at the surface in many places and
is found distributed over large areas
at the bottom of many of the rivers.
It is mined in three ways—by open
quarrying and digging in the land; by
dredging and grappling with powerful
steam machines in deep water; by
hand picking and with tongs in shal¬
low streams. Its average price is
about $6 a ton, and the State levies a
tax of one dollar a ton on all that is
shipped, making it an important item
of revenue. These phosphates are the
remains of ancient animal life, and
fragments are brought up not only
representing the tapir, horse, elephant,
and mastodon, but amphibious ones,
such as the seal, dugong, walrus, etc.
A Mighty Sentence.
The opening sentence cf tl
“in the beginning God created the
Heaven and the earth,” contains five
as many boundless r *---? totalities lioci,
Heaven, earth, creation and the begin
It is, perhaps, the most weigh¬
ty sentence ever uttered, having the
most gigantic members. In its compre¬
hensive sweep it takes in all past time,
all conceivable space, all known
things, all power and intelligence, and
the most comprehensive act of that
intelligence and power. This sentence
is a declaration on nearly all the great
problems now exercising scientists and
i >phers .—Tht Independent.
When Day Meets Sight.
Out to the we3t the spent day kisses'night,
And with one parting glow of passion dies
In gold and red; a woman’s wistful eves
Look out across the hills, a b.md of light
Plays on her parted hair, there softly dwells,
And throws a glory o’er her girlish dream;
The sheep slow nestle down beside the
stream,
And cattle wander with their tinkling bells.
The clouds, sun-flushed, cling ’round the day’s
decline;
The woman’s eves grow tender; shadows
creep;
Gold turns to gray; a sharp dividing line
Parts earth and heaven. Adown the western
height
The calm cold dark has kisse 1 the day to
sleep;
The wistful eyes look out across the night.
— Charles W. Coleman, in Harper’s.
HUMOROUS.
“If the heart of a man is opprest with ca
It won’t help him any to go on a tear.
Proud flesh—The haughty aristo¬
crat.
The bird for literary men—The reed
bird.
One of the starting points—The
point of a bent pin.
It is the man who cannot write hi3
name who makes his mark in the
world.
All communications with spirits
ought to be sent through the dead-let¬
ter office.
The woman question: “Now isn’t
this a pretty time of night for you to
get home?”
“Good gracious !” said the hen, when
she discovered porcelain eggs in her
nest, “I shall be a bricklayer next.”
“The battle is not always to the
strong,” said the judge as he awarded
the butter premium at a county fair.
An organist who advertised for vo¬
calists for a church choir, headed his
advertisement: “Good chants for the
right parties.” *
She was plump and beau' llul and
he was wildly fond of her; she hated
him, but, woman-like, she strove to
catch him. He was a 11/.
The forty-two inmates cf the Clark
County, Ind., poorhouse are fed at a
cost of two cents a meal. There is
very little inducement offered to a
man to become an Indiana pauper.
Gay old gentleman to boy on twelfth
birthday: “I hope you \s.ll improve in
wisdom, knowledge and virtue.” Boy,
politely returning compliment, totally
unconscious of sarcasm: “The same to
you sir!”
Mrs. Montague: “Bo you sing, Mr.
De Lyle ?” Mr. De Lyle (with a supe¬
rior smile): “I belong to the college
glee club.” Mrs. Montague (disap¬
pointed): “Oh, I’m so sorry. 1 hoped
that you sang.”
“They have discovered footprints
three feet long in the sands of Oregon,
supposed to belong to a lost race.” It
is impossible to conceive how a race
that made footprints three feet long
could get lost.
Dude—“You love me, then, Miss
Lydia?” Lydia—“Love is perhaps
somewhat too much to say. At least
1 have sympathy for you, because your
face resembles so much that of my
poor dead Fido.”
“He’s not what you call strictly
handsome,” said the major, beaming
through his glasses on a homely baby
that lay howling in his mother’s arms,
“but it’s the kind of face that grows
on you.” “It’s not the kind of face
that ever grew on you,” was the in
dignant and unexpected reply of th
maternal being ; “you’d be better lv|
ing if it had I”