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Hamilton Journal.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
’Tennrsscp, Illinois and Alabama Get a Hc
vi re Mlialting I'p.
Nashville was visited by an earthquake and
shock which lasted six seconds
passed from south to north. Fourteen
vibrations were felt and the rumbling in
noise was distinctly heard. Houses
all parts of the city were perceptibly
shaken and hundreds of people rushed were
awakened from their deep ana
into the streets. The plastering and articles in in
signal office was cracked
the room were misplaced. Clarksville, An
quake shock was felt at
Tenn. The direction seemed from
southwest to northeast and the duration
was forty or sixty seconds. I here
seemed to be only one shock and a sue
cession of waves. It was the severest
ever felt there and created much alarm;
from some buildings the ladies ran
screaming into the streets and many
others vacated their houses for the time
being. The shocks were felt at
hi a, Murfreesboro, Franklin, Gallatin,
Tullahoma and other places m Tennes
see. A slight earthquake shock was felt
at St. Louis, Mo. It woke up the occu
pants of houses, but no damage south is re
ported. The movement was from
to north, and the vibrations lasted from
five to eight seconds. News from Jack
sonville, Centralia and Jonesboro, Ill.,
indicate that the early earthquake shocks
noted at Nashville, Tenn., St. Louis and
Evansville, Ind., were general through
out southern and central Illinois, At
‘Jacksonville the vibrations seemed to be
from the east to the west, but at Jones-
1 ro from the northwest to south. A
rumbling noise was heard, and the
shocks were of sufficient force to
cause picture frames to fall from
tie walls. The time was 12.40 a. m.
A severe shock of earthquake was felt at
Cairo, Ill, in the morning at 12:30,
producing nausea with several per
ins. A distinct earthquake shock
.is felt m Huntsville, Ala., arousing
eepers by the noise and motion. The
bration was from south to north, and
v as followed by a protracted tremor,
aving a duration of about twelve sec
nds.
A CRAZY MOTHER.
Mrs. W. IT. Lisle, of Lansingburg, for N.
Y., with two small children, left
Glen’s Falls. The train stopped occurred at Fort
Edward, and something to ex¬
cite the lady, and she attempted to jump She
from the coach to the platform. and then
threw one of the children first
sprang after it with the other child. She
fell under the cars and was killed, with
the child she had in her arms. The other
child was hauled out from under the mov¬
ing cars just ahead of the wheels.
A JUG FRAUD.
Recently a man went among the negroes
nml 'vht^ey canvassed them ^“ch. for
of at
lie arranged to meet them at night and m a
wagon yard on Decatur street, on ac
count of the vigilance of the police-At- city—he
lanta being a strict prohibition through hole
arranged to pass 1 the jugs a of the
at the end of a stall, After many
negroes had paid for and taken the jugs
home, they found the liquor was muddy
water instead of whiskey.
A BISHOP'S TROUBLES.
............. explain why
has been ordered to Rome to
he has disobeyed a papal mandate. The
trouble was caused by the removal of
Father Crimmins from the pastorate of a
Williamsburg church several years Loughlin ago,
and the disobedience of Bishop
consisted in his refusal to reinstate him
when oidered to do so by the Vatican.
ingenious swindle.
The police of New York discovered
that counterfeiters of silver dollars in
corporate glass ring in the composition, so
that the true is given to the false
pieces; the coin is very brittle, however,
and a smart blow with a hammer frac
tures it.
NATIONAL,CAPITAL DOTS.
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is doing at tfje YvHltij
HOUSE AND DEPARTMENTS.
Presides^ illereland Busy Coinintssiou—Gov¬ ItecelylnK lnvi
t?.Vlon»—Interstate
ernment Affairs Going Well,
WATERWORKS DEFALCATION.
At a meeting of citizens resolutions
were adopted asking the President to re
move the District Commissioners for re
fusing to make public, information about
the admitted defalcation in the water
department, and for using public funds
for private purposes. The committee of
one hundred of the District also adopted
resolutions calling on the President t >
investigate the reported water depart
ment defalcation, and to remove the
engineer officers in charge of the water
works.
appointments.
The Pre9 ident has appointed the fol
the lowing named persons special agents allot- of
Interior Department to make
men t s 0 * lands in severalty to the In
dians: James R. Howard, of Washing
ton, D. C., to the Crow Indians on the
Crow reservation in Montana; for’the Henry R.
West, of Woodsfiekl, 0„ Indians
on the Yankton reservation in Dakota;
Miss Alice C. Fletcher, in-the of Washington, WiSaetago D.
0 for the InJi * ns
reservation in Nebraska; Michael C.
Connelly, of Petersburg, Ill., for the
Indians on the Siletz reservation in Ore
gon . M Indians aj. Isaiah Lightner, Sisseton of Nebraska,
for the on the reserva
tion in Dak ota.
ikpi.oving southern n.v.ns.
Col. A. Gilmore, United States en
gineers, in his annual report says of the
work of improving the entrance to
Charleston, S. C., harbor, that the ap
proportions have been inadequate to an
absurd degree, for the successful prosecu-.
tion of operations, having in view the
completion of the project within the
present century. He recommends an
appropriation for the next year of $7o0,
di)0. He asks for $10,000 for M appoo
Cut, 8. C., $10,000 for Ed^to river, S.
C., and $8,000 for balkahatelue ri\er, a_.
C. lieasks for $78,000 for next years
the expenditures in Savannah harbor. Of
nah projected improvements of Savan
river between Augusta and Savan
nah, the original estimate of $91 000 will
have to be increased to $1,6,000. This
w owing to meagre appropriations in the
past He is confident that if the pros
pect be now carried out, a channel ot five
feet depth at low* water wdl be secured,
He asks $21,000 for next year. He esti
mates that $4,033 can be profitably ex-
13,000 pended in next Althamaha year at Romney river, Ga Marsh, $75,000 Ga.;
;
in Brunswick harbor, Ga., and $600,000
on entrance to Cumberland sound, Fla.
Capt. W. M. Black, United States en
gineer, submits the following estimates
for expenditures during the next $10,- fiscal
year: Upper St. Johns river, Fla.,
000; Kev West, Fla., $30,000; Caloosa
hatchie river, Fla., $13,000; Manatee
river, Fla., $15,000; Tampa Bay, Fla.,
$73,000; Withlacoochee river, Fla., $20,
000; Cedar Kev, Fla., $15,000: Suvva
nee river Fin $20 000
NOTES.
Cleveland has gone to Marion,
Ma 'S., where she is the guest of the fam
of Gen. A. IV. Greely.
It is estimated tlut the leauction of
the public debt dui ing the month of July
will amount to $5,000,600.
E. W. Warfield, division superintend
cut of the Railway Mail Service, sta
tinned at St. Louis, Mo., has resigned.
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pointed Manshekl b. McClyllau «u iC to be
I mted States gauger at Lexington. Mo.
P uir * Ji l ' ana i. naxlone. ->• v .
ihe 0 Secretary of the Treasury . lias
ap
;o:ut.d William B. Jarrett to be store
keeper m Harford county, Md., and
James J. Barry to be storekeeper and
gauger at Black water,
Mrs. John A. Logan has anived at her
home. She is reported to be in a serious
C'C 'iidition. It is said that her shoulder
blade, which was dislocated, will have to
be reset, as the first operation was some
w hat of a failure.
The Interior Department has inform i
t j ou that the law of February 5, 1885, to
prevent the maintenance of illegal fences
on public lands has been generally com
plied with throughout the West, espe
dally Arizona and New Mexico.
THE STORM.
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faany Brbigcs Washed A tray With* and Kail toad
Travel Interfered
Middle Georgia has been damaged to
the extent of a million dollars by the
1 ome of them had their less. furniture I he ruined,
and all lost more or Cm Dank
ment at either approach of tne Covington
& Macon Railroad bri Ige nave been badly
washed and broken, and the track is
ing on the trestlingat this end. The damage,
iron bridge has sustained serious
Details from Tallapoosa county
which the Tallapoosa river, in Alabama,
rises, are fearful in the damages to
ing, and all business in reach of
raging waters between Jackson
i and Goodwater, a distance of about
miles. The Columbus & Western Rail
road is so badly broken that the
* a y they will have to abandon the
course and remove what is left to an old
surveyed route. All the bottom
around Monroe, Ga., is injured . at
half its value. The damage to There mills
bridges will be fearful.
been 1)0 suc h freshet since 1840.
The Pridge bridge at Social Circle
the one below the railroad are both gone.
An embankment across Garnish Creek,
the Georgia railroad between
and Covington, washed out, which
probably cause confusion of schedule
trains for several days. The
River at Milledgeville, Ga., is at the
est point ever known there before.- It
rapidly, and is ten feet higher than
high ^ water mark of the great freshet
All the bridges over
River in Putnam county are gone. Col
Humber’s fine grist mill, together
several other mills on that stream
-washed away. Farmers along the
mendous scope of country now
b y water are ruined, and depiession
victims. painted upon the face and of the Phenix
The Eagle mills
Columbus, Ga., have not been able
resume operations. Trains are
0V(?r a jj tbe roa d s except the
Midland, but under considerable
Thousands of acres of corn and
ton are under water, and it is
at this time to even estimate the damage.
High Shoals and Trimble’s bridge, has
the Appalache at Athens, Ga, been
washed away. The farmers report their
bott om corn from five to six feet under
wat prospects and cottoa badly damaged. The
fine ^ / of a week ago Sundreds have been
gerio sl blighted and of
thousands of dollars have been swept
• th fc pt5 T T1 • at
there’is ver "of Lalv but
^ no gj? armrehen^ion a freshet ;
United si al offlce at Atlanta
a fall’since : t1 fi „ nrp „ of t he rain
^86 1879 as follows- 'March 1879 Decern
be r inches* 1880 1187
i ncbe s- 1881 1o’ March 10.98 •*” inches-1882 Tanuarv’
Fphmarv iifehes- 20 inches 1883 inches’
1884 Tune inch’e«= 10 73
* januarv 16"’inches- 8 44 1887* • 1886 ’l3 Feb
’ 11 ' ’ 5 Tulv 19
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An invitation has boon issued to ali
German-American Catholics to meet at
Chicago, September 6th. National Cath
olic conventions are an old custom
in Germany, but the one held next
^ptcmbei the United ^aas. be I the ne object first.one of in
convention xvrtl be, it u said, the consid
craUon o* dtlferences existing between
German and Irish Catholics, It lias often
beci1 the complaint of German Catholics
in this country that they are neglected or
even intentionally slighted l,v the highest
dignitaries ° of the diurch.* 1
,
of the convention is to demonstrate the
strengih , . ot . German Catholics A and , take
steps that to secure lecognitloa. It is claimed
there arc abo .t 2.000,000 German
Catholics in the United States.
fired at *-- the jt t dge. *
While Associate Judge Woodward, of
wife, Wilkesbarre, Pa., accompanied by his
Delaware, was returning Lackawanna in a parlor car on the
A Western Rail
road, from Lake Hoptacon, some mis
creant fired a rifle at the train a few miles
above there, the bullet of which broke
the large plate glass window of the coach
UIit I just grazed the judge's head-
A CITY’S PERIL.
AUGUSTA GEORGIA, FIVE FEET
UNDER HA cilNG WATERS.
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Never in the history of Augusta, Ga.,
as P , b excited than
1 Big the Q
® + cuucklv ' thirty i (JO
^ • i n+ - ((( , r and rouses
For several days the heavy
^ . troiible at l ake Oimstcad a
water about a mile long and half
a ® ~ 1 ^ wide on the giving’way canal and a portion
0 , canal banks j ® the water
rUS , ‘ tb f a ted city. Every
mere i< nT . f • tbp pbv t bpn rushed to their
S v, d Lives t t WO rk
.5? 8 0 „ and in
» T be water rushed
t’fortunately ^ ^ b at
ver „ rapid rate bu all the oc
cupants ^ 0 f the houses nearby have been
,y The water rose in Green, Tel
‘ Walker and Fenwick streets, and
r usbed down below McIntosh. It is
f “ pflrpd that “ heavv ^v“c™s rains which are report
iroi £ “J e another
th ith the break in
^ ; bp ' a , wil f cause Xfiars a Iosg 0 f man v hun
? re ^ ^ perhaps millions
u°wil?take Streets are washed so badly
^at \tv t six months 1 work to acmin °
P“* “ e ° con dition Nearly
e ;*ry„terrible b rst ami , all in all, affairs
ar ® 1 a condition ’
Jwei » ? and chil dren thronged
f!? ets “ d , 5™?°/ • f nZ f Tit
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lamentation were
fusing. ie un le that had . _
rela ives an riea 8
ported scene or , e <- i -j • fb f
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direc ion crying or 1
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s \ caa ®
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e ’ ' uVnth
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Ahnost . the entire f . city •. i, - one smoom tb
but pre y expanse o
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^ oa ° e y^ eSC I 1 ’ 4 ^
. + + e 1 i pcf . nnp T> oat
y ac °
drawing fi ve , ee o TC .,+ pr f -o n be earned
^ vel re 6-oui s .. wbbou t
w
dan f e r ?£ running aground People
pded m . the boats pell mell from seeding
places of safety from the y } 'Pf nse of
^ waters, and then boats Mere so scarce
^ ? to at 7 0 \ ^ eir . had to S H Dams " v eie Sn built
“ fr ont ot
the doors , and windows and piazzas hut but
J iese ": ere q«i ckl y overflowed hen
those whose houses had tv o stories, fled
*° ,he secoad ’ but thoso who "“ re not S0
fortunate were compelled to the mount arri
chairs and beds awmting
val of boats * Man y floated out on
hastily constructed rafts. A number of
those who own boats have a ted very
badl y> charging as much as a dollar
a pi ece to remove people from their
houses that were ra P icil J filling. Of
course, poor people had to pay this ex
tortionate rate, as they feared drowning,
and each and every boatman made from
to five hundred dollars.
The last S eneral D-eshet in
was in 1865. The rise then would aver
“S e “h 01 ? 4 thrcc fc et ‘> ve .I ,b °
though in some places . .t a as vej 7 much
befng'reatly »een greatly lessened lessened from .rom sevefalCauses se\er« tau.e.
“““rfiluT tS' S
and draining of the surrounding country,
and the estimated”that clearino-out of the river It has
been where a rise of 81
feet wft8 sufficient to flood the city in
18oo > 38 3S is 18 now uow reou re T u ; ' r°d recl -
A DAM BREAKS.
A dam burst on the side of the moun
A little girl Lamed Annie Quinn was
caught in the current and drowned and
her body was found five miles away
Four bridges were washed awav and 500
feet of the Jersey Central Railroad track
off. The Melrose House was car
r:ed down stream, but the inmates were
rescued by a party of men in boats. At
Laurel Run the mad waters caught fifty
loaded coal cars on a side track and
dashed them down the mountain like
kindling wood. The loss to the railroad
company is about $95,000; to town prop
ert 3b abou t $60,000. The waters of Coal
Brook carried off two bridges in the
D °rthern part of the town, between
Wilkesbarre and Parsons..