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Volume 4.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, January 22d, 1886.
Number 68.
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exploring Alaska.
“Oath" In Cincinnati Enquirer.
The exploration of Alaska by
Lieut. Henry T. Allen, of the Second
cavalry, is calling attention to the
wonders of our continent, in which
somewhere must lie the resources
of future development and wealth.
The accounts say that Lieut. Allen
has put his name among the very
gieatest explorers. He traveled
2000 or 3000 miles in all. He con
nected by an overland route our
settlements on the North Pacific
with those on Behring straits. Be
fore he went over this country we did
not know anything about a great
river in the north of Alaska.
When you go into the North Pa
cific you strike the town of Sitka
comparatively low on the coast,
and the coast above it forms a grand
arch, above which is an unknown
continent. The great mountain of
St. Elias stands up to the height of
some If),000 feet, like a light-house
to the dark and icy world beneath
it. West of this mountain, perhaps
100 miles, is the Copper river, on
which is another mountain called
AVrangel. This river is at one of
the deepest points of indentation on
the coast. Up this river Allen went,
and then he crossed the great Alas
kan mountain range, which is the
termination of our Itoeky moun
tains, that are called the Rockies
till they get to the Yukon river, and
west of that river they continue for
about 000 miles, no longer running
north and south, hut east and west.
Crossing them, the young officer
went clown their northern side till
lie came to the river Tanenah, or
Tennah, which up to 180!) had only
a traditional existence, and is put
on the coast survey maps as a sup
posed river, only reported by Indi
ans. It runs, like the rivers of Ore
gon, between mountainous walls,
and empties into the great river
Yukon, which inis meantime flowed
through the bend of the Rocky
mountains and turned to the south
west. Along this river the oflieer
went 400 to 500 miles, and closed his
journey at Fort St. Michael, which
is on Norton sound, a portion of
Behring’s sea.
The great Yukon river has been
known a little for seventy-five years.
Posts were established on it before
18-10. It may he called the St. Law-
reace river of Alaska, running west
instead of east. It rises behind Sitka,
flows north through lakes and cas
cades, drains a great water-shed,
and then going through the moun
tains turns southward and flows
into Behring sea, some 200 miles
south of Behring straits. The great
stream of Alaska is believed to he
1,800 miles long. Some say it is ful
ly 2,000 miles long and three-fourths
of it navigable for river steamers,
and that on the lower Yukon it is so
wide that one hank is invisible from
the other. At places far up the river
it is twenty miles wide. It is one of
the largest rivers in the world—
larger than the Ganges or the Ori
noco—and equal to the Danbe or La
Plata.
There are some wonderful ocean
currents in Behring sea, which make
this northwestern coast warm and
mild, wldlo all the northeastern
coasts of America about Newfound
land and Labrador is like ice. The
gulf stream of tho Pacific in these
parts is called by the Chinese the
Black Stream; some call it the Ja
pan current. It. brings a warm,
moist atmosphere, which is con
densed on the snow-peaks of the
coast ranges, and causes the won
derful rainfall which extends along
that coast as far south as Oregon.
There is said to he sixty-one vol
canic peaks in Alaska, of which only
ten spit fire now. Mount St. Elias
is put down at 10,000 feet in some of
the reports, Mount Fair Weather at
14,000 feet, and tho Redoubt volcano,
outlie Alaska peninsula, at 11,000
feet. Tho Alaskan mountain range
is really the Rocky mountains join
ed to tho coast range, as wo call it
in California. The two ranges run
Into each other and become identi
cal. North of the great bond of
these mountains tho country seems
to becomo comparatively level, so
that the products of tho Interior can
he taken down the Yukon river. In
tills Yukon valley has been found a
very different class of animals and
birds from what was known to the
south.
Tho superficial area of Alaska is
believed to be about 580,000 square
miles. Fifteen years ago Mr. Doll,
who led the Western Union Tele
graph expedition into Alaska, said:
“The field now opened to America
for exploration and discovery is
grand. The Interior everywhere in
Alaska needs exploration, particu
larly the great plateau north of the
Yukon, tho valley of the Kuskoquin
and that of the Copper river. Tho
Arctic ocean north of Behring strait
bus so far been neglected. WrnngiTs
Island offers to explorers a more
fruitful field than the well-trodden
shores north of Hudson hay.”
Alaska is not to lie measured only
by its surface. The same range of
Rocky mountains in which the
precious metjils have been lound
passes by a long course through
Alaska, and mining may he one of
tho levers to raise this unknown
country to importance.
Firing the Town.
A Sandersville, Ga., special to the
Atlanta Constitution, dated Jan. 19,
says: Monday night, a few minutes
past 9 o’clock, the usual quiet of this
city was disturbed by the announce
ment that Ed. McCarty, who has a
family grocery store in Col. B. D.
Evans’ storehouse, had made a dia
bolical attempt to burn the town,
and, though unsuccessful, it was the
opinion of many that he would not
rest until lie had succeeded in his
purpose, Men, both old and young,
were wrought uu to the highest
pitch of excitement, and they sepa
rated in squads and instituted a
thorough searcli for tho miscreant
who would so wantonly wreak de
struction of property, and probably
of life, upon the town, as many of
the clerks sleep in the stores. Had
it not been for the timely interven
tion of Messrs. Isadore Newman
and Maurice Cohen in a few minutes
the town would have been in flames
and beyond the control of human
exertions.
These two gentlemen had paused
before McCarty’s store, engaged in
conversation, when Mr. Cohen de
scried through a crack in one of the
window shutters a light within.
This alarmed them, and they ran
up the street inquiring for McCarty
Capt. J. E. Wedden, town marshal,
informed them that McCarty had
entered Walker’s bar a few minutes
previously. They started for that
place in searcli of him, hut just be
fore arriving there they saw Me
Carty issue forth and leisurely saun
ter down the street. They quick
ened their steps and overtook him,
and almost breathlessly told their
fears—that they thought his store
was afire, and they wanted him to
go hack and see about it.
McCarty said in reply, addressing
Mr. Cohen:
“Maurice, you take my key, and
put it out, if there is any lire there
I left there a few minutes since, but
extinguished the fire before leaving
I had been cooking some s:.usages,
and was the last one in the store
Here, take my key.”
Mr. Cohen took the key, and in
company with Capt. Wedden and
Mr. Newman returned to the store
They entered, and at once their eyes
met the most carefully arranged and
cunningly devised plan that a fire
fiend could concoct to make sure of
his villainous work. Just beyond
the hearth, and in close proximity
to the wall, was a quart tin can
The can was full of kerosene oil
with a lighted candle placed in it
This was intended to serve as
slow-match until he could get out of
the way, so that suspicion would not
clasp her perilous clutches upon
him. But his reckoning was at fault
and his crime discovered. Three
large pieces of very, inflammable
lightwood were placed over the
candle and can, one of them being
inserted in the laths, the plastering
having been knocked otf for two or
three feet. It was a cunning device,
and in a fe\V minutes more the re
morseless flames would have re
duced to ashes the entire business
portion of the city.
While Messrs. Weddon, Newman
and Cohen were still in the store
McCarty had the dare-devil impu
dence to return to tho scene and
unconcernedly watch them save the
town.
Captain Wedden and Mr. Novv-
nian stepped aside and had a con
sultation as to* the advisability of
arresting McCarty. They wore un
decided as to the course they should
pursue, and Captain Wedden went
down to Mayor Gilmore’s to get in
structions from him, and left New
man at the store to keep a close
watch of the movements of the
criminal. McCarty left the store
and, being a cripple, proceeded up
tho street in what the school boys
term “a hop, skip and a lump,” New
man following at a short distance.
By running behind tho stores and
dodging through tho alleys, lie es
caped from Newman’s surveilancc
and went homo and retired to bed.
Mayor Gilmore* decided that it
would bo expedient to arrest Mc-
Curty as tho inhabitants would not
feel secure as long as ho was free,
so Captain Wedden summoned a
posse and they searched in every
nook and corner hut could find no
trace of him whatever.
They then went to Ids domicile
and found 1dm in bed. lie was told
to get i.ip as he was wanted. He
stoutly refused, and it was by sheer
force that lie was pulled out and
dressed. His wife took it very hard.
Ho was incarcerated in jail last
night about 11 o’clock.
A Volcano llpnoatli the Sea.
New Orleans Picayune.
Capt. Robert M: Lavender, of the
schooner Alice Montgomery, which
arrived at this port on Friday with
a cargo of ice from Kennebec, Me.,
reported an interesting incident.
He states that on Oct. 19, four days
before arriving at New Orleans and
southward of Rebecca Shoals, in the
xtreme eastern portion of the Gulf
of Mexico, lie passed through an ex
tensive track of floating fish, dead
and dying. As far as the eye could
reacli this spectacle met the gaze,
and the vessel sailed through it for
twenty miles. The fish were of
great varieties; and another curi
ous feature of the phenomenon was
that the sea was yellowish and
streaked on the surface with a yel
lowish scum.
The supposition that these fishes
were destroyed by some sudden
visitation of an epidemic disease is
scarcely reasonable. Of a variety
of theories tho most plausible ap
pears to he that which attributes
the destruction of the fishes to the
breaking out beneath the sea of vol
canic matter and poisonous gases
destructive to the lives of marine
animals exposed to them. Sub
marine volcanoes are by no means
unknown. The fact of their exist
ence lias often been attested in dis
turbances of the ocean bottom, cases
of sinking of coasts and islands into
the sea or of their elevation out of
it being on record.
The opening of rifts in submarine
rocks through which poisonous sul
phurous or art seniureted vapors
are driven into tho waters above,
would lie entirely in accord with the
rules of volcanic action.
How Slip llppame »n Heiress.
Pass Him Around.
Tho Atlanta Journal says M. J.
Hoven, an alderman of Madison,
Wis., leaves the following descrip
tion with Farrell’s detective agency
of a burglar and safe blower who
was traced to Atlanta some two
weeks ago, and who may he the one
who went through Cohen & Co.’s
safe. At any rate it will pay sher
iffs, marshals and police generally
to be on tho look-out for him, as
there is $750 reward offered for him
in Madison, Wis., where his com
panion, a woman, is held by the
authorities. We don’t want any
such men loafing around “down
South:”
DESCRIPTION.
F. W. Stewart, 2K years old, weight
135 to 140 pounds, 5 feet 0 or 7 inches
tall, light complected, smooth face,
sharp features, first joint of thumb
on left hand gone, right shoulder
lower than left, light hair (close
cut), dresses neatly (checkered suit),
sharp card player, burglar and safe
blower; has killed two men and
wounded two.
For further points address Matt
O’Brien, Supt. F. C. D. A., Atlanta,
or A. B. Connally, chief police, At
lanta.
A Toledo, ()., dispatch, to the New
York Herald, dated Jan. 14, says:
A most remarkable case of good tor-
tune comes to light to-day, by which
a servant girl at one of the hotels
here becomes heiress to one of the
largest estates in England. Nearly
twenty years ago the only daughter
of Gen. Rutledge Greg, o^f the
British army, eloped from her home
in Sunderland, Eng., with Charles
O’Connor, one of her father’s hos
tlers. He was a handsome young
fellow, and Annie Greg had as
pretty a face as could he found in
all England. Furious at his daugh
ter’s disgrace, the old general disin
herited her, and until a few months
ago would have no communication
with her, the letters which she wrote
home a year or two after her mar
riage being all returned unopened.
Young O’Connor and his bride set
tled in the county Sligo, Ireland,
where he led a precarious existence.
Six children were born to them, one
of whom, Annie O’Connor, now
about 18 years old, came to this
country about a year ago. Her only
relative was a paternal uncle. She
got work as chambermaid at the
New York house, one of the cheap
hotels here. Last summer Gen.
Greg’s wife was taken ill and he
sought her husband to send for their
daughter. He finally relented, an if
wrote for her to come home, and to
bring her husband and children
with her. They sailed on a Glas
gow steamer last September, hut the
boat was overtaken by a terrible
storm and foundered, many on
hoard being lost, among the number
the entire O’Connor family. The
old general subsequently learned
the address of the grandchild who
had come to Toledo, and lie wrote
to her to come to him at once. The
letter received to-day gives the
above particulars, and w r as the first
intimation Miss O’Connor had of
her parents’ fate and of her own
good fortune.
A little time ago in clearing the
foundations for some military works
at Sherslial, in Algeria, a fine mar
ble. statue of Jupiter, two metres
high, in thorough preservation, was
fomd. Sherslial is believed to he
the site of the Numidian Jol, the
name of which the younger Juba
changed to Caesarea in honor of Au
gustus. All the ground around the
port has been a mine for archaeolo
gical inquirers.
TO HORSEMEN
I have just received and am
now prepared to supply the
trade with the best Horseshoe
made. The celebrated Trotting
Plates are pronounced by horse
men as the best, enabling their
horses to make better time, both
on the track and road. Call at
my shop and inspect these best
of shoes, and I am sure of your
satisfaction. Racers shod with
skill. A trial asked.
JT. O’BY RNS,
WAYNESBORO, : GA.
lnn2.T8.jtf
Sour Stomach ami Foul Ilrcath
Arc caused by indigestion, nnd are Immedi
ately eared by n dose of M. A. Simmon's
Liver Medicine. Sold everywhere.
Trying a Case Under Dlflleiiltles.
Judge E. B. Mrrell lias been hold
ing a preliminary investigation in
the case of the Mtate vs. Turner and
Raines’s charged with the burning
of J. W. Burns’ mill-house on the
24th of December last.
During the progress of the trial,
which begun on the 11th, the wives
of both defendants have'given birth
to children, one lias lost a child by
death, the wife of one of the defen
dants attorneys also gave birth to a
child, the magistrate presiding came
near dying from an attack of cramp
colic and the case is not half through
yet.
DRUGS!
Tlio undersigned lins opened u DRUG
STORE lit this plucu, and expeets to KEEP
PURE DRUGS
In fact, everything usually kept In a First-
Class Drug Store, will ho found In Stock.
The public generally are invited to give them
a trial. Best goods
AT BOTTOM PRICES.
E. A. Perkins L Co.
MILL EM,
Mlllen, Ga., May 28, 188ft.
GA.
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Steam Saw
MUNNERLYN, - GA.
JOHN D. MUNNERLYN, Prop
Uhlllarlne
Is the only guaranteed vegetable cure for
fever and ague, chills and fever, dumb ague,
remittent and intermittent fevers, billions fe
ver, neuralgia, and all malarial diseases. It
Is sold by all druggists, who will refund the
purchase money if It falls when taken as di
rected.
Oscar Wilde knew the late Mias
Ilayard very well. He was a great
admirer of her wit and power of
repartee, and lost no opportunity to
fleet her during his stay in Wash
ington. One fine day the capital
society people found themselves
interested in two events which were
to take place in the ovning. One
was a lecturo by the champion of
the sunflower and the other was a
brilliant reception. Oscar Wilde
met Miss Bayard during the after
noon of that eventful day, and she
asked him:
“Mr. Wilde, will you go to the re
ception to-night?”
“Well,” he replied, “if I am not
too much fatigued after my lec
ture.”
A short pause followed, and then
he said:
“Miss Bayard, of course you will
he at the reception ?”
“Well,” came the answer, “if I am
not too much fatigued after your
lecture.”
C. 0. o. readily cures chronic sores, scrofu
lous ulcers, discharging wounds, bruises
scalds, blotches, burns, Dimples and all skin
eruptions caused and fed by tainted or Impure
blood.
It is said that glyccriuo in its
pure state should not he used for
chapped hands, as it absorbs moist
tire from tho skin, thus leaving it
dry and liable to crack. When mod
erately diluted with water, how
ever, glycerine is an excellent ap
plication.
The above Saw Mill Is now In full operation
nnd all orders will he filled witiiout a mo
meats delay.
Lumber sawed to order on short notice at
liberal prices.
Orders can be loft at my office at Waynes
boro. All bills will be payable to the under
signed. I solicit a slinre of the public patron
uge. Respectfully,
JOHN D. illTNNERLYN,
JanlO’Sotf Waynesboro, cia.
MONEY.
In Abundance.
I am now prepared to Negotiate Loans on
Improved Farms on shorter time and more
Reasonable Terms than ever.
Loans Mads for Anv Amount
A Perfect substitute for calomel, mercury,
blue mass, etc. can be found In M. A. Sim
mons’ Liver Medicine.
Stricken Down With Heart Disease.
Dr. Thomas W. Keen, a member
ot the house of delegates, from Dan
ville, fell dead on the floor of the
house, at Richmond, Va., a few min
utes before 1 o’clock, on tho 10th
inst., from heart disease. He had
first taken his seat after addressing
the house on a measure before that
body. He was about 05 years old.
Both houses of the general assembly
immediately adjourned after ap
pointing a joint committee to escort
the remains to Danville. The house
also appointed a committee to dralt
suitable resolutions, etc.
Simmons’ Iron Cordial Invigorates and re
cuperates the muscles and limbs.
Merritt's Dill.
The hill of Undertaker Merritt for
the Grant funeral expenses lias at
last been paid, a requisition for tho
amount, $14,1G3 75, having been sent
him. The requisition was upon the
secretary of the treasury, and was
paid out of the available appropri
ation for this year. This leaves a
deficit, which will ho covered out of
the special appropriation provided
for in the bill now before congress
to pay tho expenses of the Grant
funeral.
A Young Trapper.
Ah, llow Nile SutTereil.
This ludy bad been married thirteen years,
and during at. least one-ball of that time had
beau a sufferer from the effects of loueorrhieu,
or whites, and Its many attendants. She was
very much reduced In strength and llesli, be
ing unable to take any uultvo exercise. The
Mexicali Female Ucmudy was at last given a
careful trial, and an Improvement was noted
from the start. She Is now a perfectly healthy
woman, and owes tier restoration to this
remedy.
The little son of T. I*. Bray, about
two miles from Lexington, hits al
most supplied ills family itt meat
during this winter. He made
trap out of an old hollow log, by
placing a trigger about the center
of it, which, when a rabbit runs in
throws tho trigger, and thereby
causing the two drop doors at tho
ends to fall, and secure the prize
The little iellow by this means has
caught over seventy rabbits and two
o’possums.
4y
orold. herpes, mid all sores mused by poisoned
blood, by limitrall/.liig and totully destroying
the specific poison which produces and tends
tlm dls
Tho taxable property of Handers
vllle has been increased by the city
council $00,000 over what it wits
given in for.
Call and sec me.
E3. IE 71 . Lawson, xn
WAYNESBORO. GA.
june27,’84.11-m
C. S. ANNIS,
Contracting Millwright.
And agent for E
Van Winkle & Co’
Cotton Gins an
Brosses, Iluvl
Double Turbin
Water Wheel, man
ufaetured at Rome,
Ga., and for all
kinds of Milling
Machinery. Best of
references furnish
ed If desired. All
work guaranteed to
give satisfaction. Blaus and estimates fur
nished on short notice. Address at Waynes
boro, Ga. sept25’8ft
PEACE STREET,
Waynesboro, - - - G
Is now receiving one of the prettiest lines of
SEASONABLE
-MILLINERY:-
OOOns ever exhibited In the eltv. The
ladles are respectfully Invited to call and ex
amine my stock. Ladies from the country
ure always InvIlcM to call when in the city.
my&’BShm
Jno. D. Munnerlyn
IS STILL AGENT FOR J
Reliable Fire, Life and Accidental Insurance
GIN HOUSES, GRIST MILLS. STORES
AND DWELLINGS, AS WELL AS
BARNS, STABLES and COHN CRIBS
INSURED AT FqlUTABLE
RATES.
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—ARLINGTON H0TEL-
Barber -:- Shop.
pared than ever to
Shampooing, trlm-
1ml r, hy
Will call
We are now better prepared than over to
do work In our line. Shampooing, tr'
mi ig bangs and rutting ladles' Imlr,
an experienced and skillful barber,
at residences when desired. Anything In
our line, sneli us Shaving, llalr Cutting, Dye
ing, etc., done In the latest fashions unit i .
A new pair of Hue Imlr clippers Just received
for use In clipping children's Imlr for the
Mummer season. upr2l'8ft
JACKSON BLANCHARD.
Capers D. Perkins.
—DENTIST.—
012 Rrotul Street, Augusta, Ga.
—OVER IIFALL'S DRUG STORE.—
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V T land Dental Department, has opened
tils office at the above earned place, where he
will be pleased to meet any who limy need
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