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roaxnuoxioN op sew Madrid.
During the year 1811 ocourred
whatit known as the "Great Shako/’
which destroyed New Madrid, in
Missouri, and effected the whole
Mississippi Valley. The center of
its violence was thought to be near
Little Prairie, twenty-flve miles be
low New Madrid, the vibrations
from which were leltover the Val
ley oi the Ohio, as high up as Pitts
hurg. New Madrid having suf-
- fcrcd more than any other town on
the Mississippi from its effects, was
considered as _ situated near the
fbcus from whence the undulation
proceeded. At this period there
was danger apprehended from the
Southern Indians, and r or safety
the persons engaged in carrying
their produce in boats to New Or
leans kept in company for mutual
defense. In the middle of the
night of the IGtb of December there
was a terrible shock and jarring of
the boats so that the crews were
all awakened, and hurried on deck
with the weapons of defense in their
bands, thinking the Indians were
rushing ou board. The ducks,
geese and other aquatic birds on
the river were thrown into the great
est tumult, and with ioud screams
expressed their alarm. The noise
and commotion soon became hush
ed, and nothing oould be discover
ed to excite apprehension, so that
the boatmen concluded that the
shock was occasioned by the falling
in of a large mass of the bank near
them. In the morning loud roar
ing and hissing was heard, like the
escape of steam from a boiler, and
a tremendous boiling up of the
waters of the Mississippi, in huge
swells, tossing the boats about so
violently that the men with difficul
ty kept off their feet. The water
of the river, which the day before
was tolerably clear changed to a
reddish hue, and became thick with
mud thrown up from its bottom;
while the surface, lashed by the
agitation of the earth beneath, was
covered with foam, which, gather
ing into masses the size of a bar
rel, floated along on the trembling
surface. The earth opened in wide
fissures, and closing again, threw
the water, sand and mud in huge
jets higher than the tops of tho
trees. The atmosphere was filled
with a thick vapor or gas, to which
tho light imparted a purpie tinge.
At New Madrid several boats
wero carried by the refinx oi the
current into a small stream that
puts into the river just above town,
and were left on the ground by the
returning water, a considerable dis
tance from tho river. Numerous
boats wero wrecked on the snags,
while others wero sunk or stranded
on the sand-bars or islands. A
man who belonged to one of the
company boats was left for several
hoars on the upright trunk of an
old snag in the middle of the river,
against which bis boat bad been
wrecked and sunk. It stood with
the roots a few feet above the water
and to these be contrived to attach
himself; whieh every fresh shook
gradually settled the tree deeper in
the mud at tho bottom, bringing
him nearer and nearer to the water,
which seemed desirous of swallow
ing him up. While banging there,
several boats passed by without
being able to relieve him, until a
skiff, well manned, was rowed a
short distance shove him, and drop
ped close to the snag, from which
he tumbled into tho boat as it pass
Bed by.
The ecenea which occurred for
several days during the repeated
shocks were horrible. The sul
phurated gasses discharged during
the shocks tainted the air with
their noxions effluvia, and so
strongly impregnated the water of
the river for 150 miles below that
it could hardly be used for sny
purpose for a number of days. New
Madrid, which stood on & bluff
bank fifteen or twenty feet above
tho summer floods, sunk so iow
that the next rise covered it to a
depth oi five feet. The bottoms of
several takes in ibe vicinity were
elevated so as to become dry, sud
have since been planted with corn.
The walls of several bnildings in
Cape Girardeau were cracked, in
some instances from the ground to
the top, and wide fissures left. The
shock was so Bevere in this country,
that the fowls fell from tfco trees as
dead; crockery fell from the shelves
said was broken, and many families
left their cabins from fear of being
Croaked beneath tbeir ruins.
BELLE FMI.VS GEYSER.
Bells Plain, Iowa, Sept. 1.—An
expert civil engineer from Chicago
has been here to day endeavoring
to devise some means of abating
the terrific flow of water from the
new artesian well. Thus far be has
been unablo to suggest any mode
of relief. The well is surrounded
by strangers who have journeyed
long distances to witness the won
derful phenomenon. The probable
source of the immense flow of
water is undetermined. It is
mineral water. Large pieces of
wood and cannel coal, charcoal,
together with iron pyrites and all
varities of stone are thrown out by
the flood. The damage direct to
tbe adjacent property is not large,
the entire surroundings are
about on a level. After the first
flood levees were built along the
streets and the water was led off.
The indirect damages are, however,
incalculable at this time.
The mistake made by the con
tractors was in their efforts to force
three-inch tube into a two-
inch hole. The water, of. coune,
broke loose, sufficient space was
worn away outside tbe tubing to
allow water to boil out around tbe
tubing at tbe surface and the de
moralization began. Frantic efforts
wero then made to get the casing
down, but after prying away at it
the contractors only succeeded in
getting about 120 feet down and
not in shutting off the outside flow
The amruntof water and sand
thrown out was immense. Men
were employed to shovel out the
gutters to allow the water to run
off but tbe sand filled them up as
fast as they were opened. Every
minute tbe situation was becoming
more desperate. At sundowu Fri
day a stream of water a foot in
diameter was pouring out. Tbe at
tempts to check the flow bad so far
been of no more effect than pouring
water on a duck’s back. Tbe city
authorities were fioally appealed
to take control and afford re
lief from impending danger. Al
ready rrany lots and houses
tyere more or less flooded. A
gang of men was then set at work,
the Mayorand Gouneil personally
superintending them. By this
time the hole had become as large
as a barrel and tbe emissions
were'torriflo. The casing already
in was pulled out and two bushel
sacks filled .with sand were thrown
into the seething caldron. It may
seem incredible,'but it ie true, that
tbeee heavy sacks were tossed out
as easily as If they were corks.
Until nearly morning all expedi
ents that oould be devised wore
tried, but tbe elephant oould not
be controlled. The holo grew lar
ger every honr, and men and wo
men looked at the awful situation
with blanched faces. It was worse
than a fire. Tbe latter would in
time barn oat an I die for want of
tuel, but this flood was gaining
strength with no prospects of an
exhaustion.- Tbe mind eonld not
grasp tbe extent of the direful pos
elbllitlos of tbe continuance of that
awful flood. After passing through
the upper crust about 12 feet there
is a stratum of quicksand 40 feet
thick, beneath which there are lay
ers of blue clay and sand down to
the water, which is found in a stra
tum of sand. There was reason to
fear that the ground would cave in,
but that fear has not yet been real
ized. Over 500 earloads of sand
has been thrown out. On Sunday
85 feet oi boiler fines, ‘16 inches in
diameter, was sunk in the hole, but
without effect. The forco of the
water was so strong as to make a
1,600-pouud hammer reooil when
dropped irom a pile-driver. An
immense cone made of heavy boiler
iron ie now being made to sink in
tbe hole in hopes to check the flow.
There are carious happenings on
ocean steamers. A Countess, a
day or two ago, met on tbe French
steamer Bourgogne, an old sweet
heart in the steward. Tbe Coun
tess had been a Boston girl and
tbe steward belonged to a very re
spectable and once wealthy Boston
family. He explaini d that poverty
bad placed him in his present posi
tion. He bad this in his favor:
Ho was too proud to bog lot not
too proud to work. KS
AN ARTESIAN BURST.
Water Spontloar Prom the Ground
Sixteen lnehce In I'lemeter, llim
drede of Feet In the Air—Two
Large Hirers Formed—
Ilona.a Weabed Away
end People Drowned.
Chicago, September 1.—A dis
patch was received at the city ball
this afternoon from the mayor of
Belle Plain, Iowa, which stated that
an artesian well, 6 inches In dl
ameter, burst when a depth of 180
feet bad been reached In boring
and instantly a volume of water was
forced into the air to a distance ot
several hundred feet. Tbis gradu
ally increased in size and volume
until a stream of water fully 16
inches in diameter was formed, and
tbe upward force of this stream is
equal to the power of powder or
dynamite.
WATER IN HUGE VOLUMES
is spouting high in the air and the
supply seems inexhaustible. Two
gigantic rivers have been formed
by this phenomenal water burst
which are running through the
town at the rate of twelve miles an
hour and carrying everything be
fore them. Houses and lives are
threatened by this peculiar freak of
nature and citizens are appalled at
tbeir impending danger, which, at
present, they are powerless to
overcome, finding it impossible to
divert-this damaging flood. An
attempt was made to ineert sixteen
inch boiler iron tubes into the well,
but these were instantly blown out
and forced high into the air. Find
ing this plan useless, the terrified
people attempted to fill up the
aperture through which this terri
ble geyser was spouting its deluge.
Fifteen carloads ot stone were
emptied into tbe well, but these
were forced upward as though pro
pelled by the
FORCE OF GIANT POWDER.
Bags of sand wero tbeh quickly
constructed and cast into the well,
but these, too. were hurled into the
air. The Chicago and Northwes
tern railroad was called upon for
assistance and instantly sent an
alarm gang ot ten to the rescue.
The bridge gang of the county was
also called upon, but up to this
evening no abatement in the flow
of water was perceptible and the
rushing rivers formed by it were
washing tbe channel it bad made,
deeper and wider, while the basin
termed by this immense volume of
water was spreading over tbe low
lands in tbe vicinity. The mayor
of Belle Plaine in his last extrem
ity, telegraphed to Chicago for the
best engineers that oould be secur
ed to como immediately and ufce
their skill and energy in attempting
to stop this
PERILOUS CONDITION OF AFFAIRS.
City Engineer Arlingetroll, to
whom’ the matter was referred, at
once started out to find an engin
eer who would supply the demand,
and succeeded in inducing Engineer
Morgan to undertake the mission.
Messrs. Arlinstroli and Morgan are,
however, both of tbe opinion that
bat little, if anything, can be done
to stop the flow of water, but that
it may be possible to direot tbe
rivers into a less dangerous direc
tion, and confine them to tbeir
ohannels. Mr. Morgan left for
Belle Plaine to-nigbt, and if more
assistance is necessary, Mr. Arling-
stoll will send all that is needed.
Ibis is regarded as one of the
most phenomenal freaks of nature
which has yet been known, and the
threatened danger to tbe people
and property of Belle Plaine de
mand instant and energetfo efforts
to stop the ruinous deluge of water.
Attention Farmers.
Having been identified with the dried friiit business in Ameri
cas for the past fifteen years, I have again, like former years
received orders from Eastern buyers and exporters, for all good
and nice dried peeled peaches. The profit of handling them
since the prices have ruled so low is too small to handle them,
and in order to give the farmer a good market and their full
value for them, I have concluded tooffer the highest market value
for them in exchange for Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes or any
goods in my line, or I will pay part cash and part in trade.
Money has been too scarce and business in consequence too
dull and quiet, that 1 am anxious to sell goods at the closest
possible prices, hence-you need not fear that in the exchange
you will be made to pay higher for your goods.
Whether for the cash or in exchange tor fruit or bees wax,
I will sell you any and all goods in my line af prices that other
merchants are unable to duplicate.
IJiave a fair line of summer goods left in all departments,
which I am very anxious to close out The prices for them
hereafter will be a second consideration.
S. JVC- COKCE33ST,
THE BARGAIN MAN.
Cotton Avenue, Sign of Red Flag, opposite Bank of America
AMBRIOUS. GA.
CAPITAL PRIZE,$I50, 000
Ikt arrangement) for all the s,onL,
(faarterty Drawing, of
State Lottery C ompany, and in pf .
age and control the braving, ti—,’,
arul that the tame are conducted km*!
Cityjhxmeu, and in good faith thZJ"
parties, and tee authorize the
use thie certificate, with
mature, attached, in ic» adverts
««mmii!u,, w I
S* the undersigned Bank, and Banl
W fS,F. a L^.S nU i - d l" m in 1he bmuL
State Lotteries nhwh may be vreietEs.1
our counters.
.1. H. OOLKSBT, Pres Louisiana
J. W. KlLBKETn, Pres. Slate Kat'l Bkf
A. Baldwin, Pre ? . New OrleansX M ' 1B J
Lonisiana State lottery (oiopaiijJ
Incorporated »• ISM Tor yenrg by the I *
tur» for Educational an » Charitable » ari ^
with a capita* of |t,000,000—to which * Jnu
fttDd of over *550.000 ha.* since been added W
By an overwhelm!.:* poplar vote if* J
mado a part «*f tho present State Com ^
adopted December 24, /. D.. 1879.
Hi Grand Single Number Draui..,
Will take pfrtCO mortllty. /> never toilet or
porut. Look at the jollowiug Diatiibntion:
lOOth Grand Monthly
AND TH*
Extraordinary Quarterly Draiving l!
In tho Academy of Music, Newrir I
leans,Tuesday, (September 14 f igg 0< f
Under tho pereonal napi rvlirinn at.d manumw
CAPITAL PRIZE, *190,000. |
£9*Notfee—Tickets are Ten Dollar
only. Halves |5. Fifths}!). Ttuthi )
LIST OK PftlZE*.
$150
1.GRAND TRIZK OF
2 LARGE PHIZES OF
4 LABOR PRIZES OF
20 PRIZES OF-
20 OOfe..,.
10. C00....
6,000....
1,00*)....
Daniel Pratt’s Cotton Gin, Feeder and Condenser
noo “ lot
1,000 “ 5(
AKf’RGXIMSTION FRIZES.
100 Approximation Prize* of 200....II
100 “ “ 100.,.. lii
lOQ u " 7.5.... 7,Vi
2,279 Prize*, amounting to
Applfcwffon for rate* to dabs should hp n
Mate P.O.ffoiy Orta pa?2l
This gin with Its Improvement* U ahead of all others. Its re»ol £ng head in the ends of the oct*
ton box prevents friction. It dooe not choke or break the rolls. It .doeslnot Injure the staple, but
savew all of the lint cotton. For speed (tcannot be excelled. The (cotton box can'be opened and
cleaned without trouble. These woo lerful lmpraremcnt* are onnoctal only with their fin. This to*
tbe Fifty-Third year of thto fin, and to that time twenty-three thonund havo boon mado and told.
Jaty ldAwim TOOLE, McGARRAII & TO S DEE, Agents.
Tbe sbsm battle ot tbe Knights
oi Pythias at New Albany, lad.,
tbe other day did not go off as
nicely as was expected. It was
arranged that tbe ‘‘Union” forces
should attack a "Confederate” bat
tery, and, after a desperate resis
tance, capture it in a gallant charge.
The Confederates, however, got
warmed up id the fight and forgot
to be defeated. They drove the
Federal veterans from the field and
came very near capturing their
oolors, much to the discomfiture of
the. managers and tbe truly loyal
spectators. The Confederates'were
commanded by a Federal veteran,
a Major of an Indiana regiment.
LEMON ELIXIR!!
Editorial.
Omcit or SoxDAr Tklegbam I
Atlanta, U a . Oct. p, 1695. f
Du. Mozlrt:—Allow utc to thank you moot
kindly for tbs bottle of Lemon Elixir, lam not
much of a believer In medicine, but beintr over*
taxed by excessive office work, j concluded to try
your Lemon Klixih It proved all and more than
you chin c4 for it. It acts like a charm on tho
liver, stomach and bowels, alre* a check to nerv
ousness and produces what I er*TeJ most,namely,
pleasant and rcrresblmr rest a f -nfgbt. I ordlaliv
recommend your remedy a delightful tonic in all
caaw of indigestion, btllomt.cn and nervous pros
tration CHAS. T. LOuAN.
Bold by draggists. 60 cents nn<l $l.(h per bel
le. Prepared by 11.-Mosley, Af. I)., Atlanta, Us.
aug lull '
Buggy and Harness.
As good £S now, tor aslo cheap.
Junel5tf W. H. TONDEE. .
General Agency.
(1) REAL ESTATE,
Renting Department, Conveyancing, Examination of Titles, etc.
(2) COLLECTION.
Claims adjusted generally without suit of law.
(3) FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE.
(*) COMMERCIAL BROKERAGE.
Produce, Staple Cotton, Woolen and Leather Fabrics, Coal,
Carpetings, Furniture, etc.
FELDER & CALLAWAY,
may23tf Office adjoining Bank of J. W. Wheat’ey A Co.,.‘Cotton Avenur.
■■sSsHSflHi
C. W. FELDER,
Mouse and Commission lercftant,
AMBKIOTTS. GKdL-
Tho undersigned, profoundly grateful for tho ve-y liberal patronage extended
bimintho post, take plcasn re-in again tendering his services to tho planters of Senth
west Georgia; and, nicer an experience of twelve continuous yeara in the same line
flatten himself that be fa fatty prepared' to nubaervj the interest ot all who wilt on
treat tbeir bnafnraa to his bands. With renewed energy be proposes again to enter
the Itata where not only inclination bat business interests will induce promptness
and integrity in representing there who who ask hia services.
Mr. ST, XT. Sm3FEII3HX>,
no atraig trin this section, will represent him as scslesman. He ctrnesfy solicits
a liberal patronage.
O. W.-PELDSH,
- * . ■ I , " '
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK
R«w OtUani, Lr.
A neat residence of Fiv<
Rooms, with good con venieno
g'ood outhouses, good well
water, half acre of gron
within a-block and a half C
Public Square, is offered foij
sale at a bargain, if sold i
For terms and further partici
lars enquire at
Recorder Office.
May 16, 1886. tf
Good Sugar Cane Mil
FOR SAXiB-
I.bive a second-hand Sngnr Mill, •
;ood na new, which I will a* II cheep,
a an Eighteen Inch tnrned Roller* ®
tho aegmenta twelve inehia »!>•'« 1
rollers, three inch Iron sxUa, «»rrU t *
to be tbe best o«ne mill - vor run in BM
ter county. It is c*«e-h»rdened,
will wear a otntury. It will P r “*
cane so thoroughly that it "!U hnmP
the furnace after, being ground, llj 01
is with it a Ono Hundred Gallon Bjt
Kettle. Any one wanting a brrgstes
get it by callfog early on inr.
P E WILLIAMS,
aug28tf Cotton Avenue, Americas, &
PENNYROYAL PIUS
■ 'CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH* I
The Orl^Jtinl it ml Only
(stamp*) m ns for particular* in Utltr JT raid C*.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given to all
to bny or trade for s note given or®
the Mutnral Treat Fund Life
of New York, to the amount ot rn
Doi'ara, as I shall contest payments,
same. Wit i. FA®
ang24 SOd.
Edgar L. Gtt
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE*.
Special attention given to
olaims placed in my hands, ana -
pn aptly remitted. OflSoo rim «
, t Sen, over Ps ipleV Nations! D*®"
may 18 it
House For Rent.
A go id honsc. covet ie it
part of tho city, for rent, dnolf'
aug27tf \Y. h- 1