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■rar?" ir-nrrr.^^rrr * 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. -r~----...... ** ■***—•.. .JAM* - ■■ . — — - 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. .... f 0 8c eta . fi .. ., . r , " * 7 r S f ?' 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. •* * > '' -■ - %a ~ 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 • pbp 81 IIA ^ L „ Ki rpnr e ogmtun. , T -r, n v 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. / "safceesaF** 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 ’ lamentation were fusing. ie un le that had . _ rela ives an riea 8 ported scene or , e <- i -j • fb f , , direc ion crying or 1 , . , s \ caa ® ,. , es s 1 w e ’ ' uVnth . , ■ * , ^ ^ ir< lf 00 J? an 0 tl * Ahnost . the entire f . city •. i, - one smoom tb but pre y expanse o - b ^ 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..