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Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, September 10th, 1886.
Number 19.
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vi 1 lo litis sold out his
lc-nse of tlio Kimlmll
fur
fjf Mr. Sc
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]li|US(l< it has hotui prodiotoil lor
J |llP ,’poiitlis that the Kimball un-
• r the clmMK^tl stato of affairs in
Uluntu would not lie able to pay
running expenses. This action of
M| , Scovillt' who lias been the live,
active man of the establishment,
indicate, Hint the “rats are leaving
thP sinking ship.” The Kimbull
thp finest hotel South, and state
, rk |t- alone causes regret when we
w j t is making merely a struggle
existence. We notice that
(lt l,er cities who are making the
8il „,P experiment as Atlanta are
,noetiiig with the same results.
The Xnrrngansett hotel, at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, which was
hunt at a cost of over .$1,000,000,
jplenditlly furnished, with all the
conveniences of modern architec
ture, started out with every pros
pect of being a bonanza to its own
ers, hut the passage of the prohibi
tum law lmve nipped in the bud its
bright prospects, and a few weeks
since it passed into the hands of a re
ceiver and its doors are now closed,
itml its imposing front and magnifi
cent proportions, with its silent
corridors and deserted halls, make
about the same impression as the
funeral cortege of some great man,
the georgeons hoarse, the superb
Mack horses, the waving plume
the solemn stately procession, lead
ing only to silence and the tomb.
Truly the goblet is broken and the
banquet halls deserted.
tw The state of affairs in Bul
garia mid east Rouirrania are all in
|a tangle, a few days since its ruler,
Prince Alexander, was quickly
in the still small hours of the night
(it was thought under the prompt
ing of Russia) spirited away from
his castle and his country, anti
another government set up. The
people were not satisfied with the
charge, and with the encourage
ment of Turkey, England and other
European powers, a demand was
made for Alexander’s return. He
[i> again at home, with the reins of
mvernment in Ids hands. Neither
lussia or Bismark is pleased, and
iurope looks on as thougli she ex
tents a row at any moment.
EARTHQUAKE!!.
iiintouv ok souk oftiik most iikstiut-
T1VK K t IITliqr Ak K SHOCKS.
Curious FurtN Worthy of Our IttMuloni Attention
Com piled from VnrlouK Keltuhle Records—
tirent Lonhcn of Lift* nod Property
OcniHftloncd by Them.
A Wisconsin journal relates that
few days ago fish came down the
iittle Kan Pleinc river by the
liousands. ’They were so thick
hat it seemed as if there was not
■ooin enough for them, and they
rowiled the surface of the water
such an extent that some were
oreed entirely out of the water,
’hey wore of all sizes anil seemed
ra/.y to move on. They soon went
vertlio dam and out into Wiscon-
river. It is supposed they
'ere escaping from the lye with
vhicli the waters of the Kittle Eau
1 had been impregnated. The
narshes on the stream had been
ecently burned over. The recent
■uins created lye, which was carried
ate the stream.
Vincent Penebad, quarantine
eeper, near Brunswick, says that
kings were lively at quarantine
tution last Tuesday night. The
uarsli liens, cranes and other birds
mine up all around the house and
'Tilled to fear the presence of man
cry little. The poultry cackled,
kedogs howled everything was coll
usion and noiso except tho water,
*nd that was as still as death,
ot a fish was to be seen or hoard,
wen tho shrimp had all disap
peared. Tho bird and animal
rout ion seemed to know that some-
king terrible was about to hupnen.
Hwinnott Herald: The causo of
Pinperanee, like religion, will
ueeeed better as long it is kept out
f tko whirlpool of politics. When-
Vt!r it is made a political issue,
ru ni that hour it loses its distinct-
'e feature and will fail to accom-
lish its groat end. This Is the
xperlonoe of the past, and wo can
"ly Judge the future by th.o past.
1‘robably tho largest city on re-
‘s llciulorson, N. C., it was
'tended to extend tho limits 1,000
urds in each direction from the
l 'l'°ti hut tho printer made the
111 read l,uiiu miles, and the bill
ussed tho legislature without the
few being noticed.
^ r ' W* Lewis, of Green coun-
N, "as iimuilmously nominated for
dilute for his district, compris-
the eountios of Taliaferro, War
111 "nil Oroen, on the 0th Inst.
s AN|ikH8VH,i,k, Ua., Sept. 7.—
Ilr grand Jury to-day return no
the Ullmoro-Boughton case,
"'ait surprise is expressed.
Jll| "i 1), I‘age, of mu reus county,
lelievod of $300 by a burglar a
ni k'hts ago, together with many
•duabli) papers.
Hi
I’r. l'eltou has formally an
"uueed himself as a candidate for ; after
11 h'gislatuit* from Bartow county, doubled force.
In our last issue we promised an
article on earthquakes, together
with the theories of scientific
men of all the calamities to which
man is exposed, there are none of
so fearful a character as earth
quakes; none involye such terrible
and devastating destruction to life
and property. There are none of
the approach of which lie is less
forewarned, and none against which
lie can take fewer precautions.
The very mysteriousness of the
damage oppresses him with terror.
He is ignorant in what form it is
most imminent, or in what direc
tion to seek a way of escape.
In every part ot the world the
surface is subject to be shaken at
times by movements taking place
in the interior and transmitted
somewhat like a wave to distant
regions. No country escapes these
visitations, blit in volcanic dis
tricts they occur more frequently
that elsewhere; and commencing
in these, they lmve been known to
pass beneath the sea and land,
from one hemisphere to another
till full one-eighth of the surface of
the globe has been more or less dis
turbed by the movement. Some
have advanced the theory that the
recent convulsions are due to the
eruption of Vesuvius. Some coun
ties are so subject to these disturb
ance that the habitation of the
people are built low, with broad
bases and substantial walls, with
particuliar reference to their stabil
ity against the shocks. Had this
precaution been practiced in
Charleston there would lmve been
comparatively little damage to its
houses, unfortunately many of its
buildings were very handsomely
finished, with unusually heavy
cornices and ornamental designs.
The approach of earthquakes is
heralded by several preinonetary
symptoms of an unmistakable char
acter. Tile air appears to be affect
ed in some respects, perhaps in its
elastic condition, and tho brute ani
mals shows a sensitiveness to this
by uttering cries of distress and
running wildly about. Men some
times are effected with dizziness
and a sensation like seasickness.
The atmosphere is often hazy for
months, and tlie sun seen through
it appears red and firey. The
weather suddenly changes from
fierce gusts' of wind to dead calms
and rains pour down in torrents at
times, or in places in which they
are of rare occurrence. Immediately
before the shocks occur the air is
generally very still, while the sur
face of tlie ocean or lakes is unusu
ally disturbed. A sound then breaks
upon the stillness like distant thun
der, or like a carriage rumbling
afar off upon a rough pavement;
or it may break at once with an
awful explosion, as when the peal
and the flash conic together from
every part of tho cloud in which
one is enveloped, at the same time
the ground is shaken and lifted
upward, or thrown forward as by
the passage of an irrcsistable wave
beneath it. The shocks may be
repeated several times in quick
succession, or recur after long in
tervals; tlie movements may be so
great as to rend the surface Into
chasms; and these may open and
shut again or remain in fissures of
tho width of a few feet or yards
and extending to unknown depths;
smoke and flames are occasionally
sent forth from them during the
continuance of tlie earthquake,
even if the region l>e not volcanic.
Torrents of water are ejected from
those chasms, and springs of water
are often forced by the convulsion
into now outlets and directions.
Obj ects on t he su r face,as d w el 1 i n gs
trees and animals, are engulfed in
tho chasms, and by subsidence of
the surface, large trees, mountains
even, and whole cities are swallow
ed up, occurring as they do most
frequently along tho seaboard, the
water is observed commonly to re
tire to some distance, leaving tlio
harbors dry and then return In a
great wave ot many feet in height,
which sweeps everything before
it. This may occur by tho pro
gress of the great wave, the reces
sion being occasioned in tlio same
way as tho similar movement
upon a small scale noticed along
tlio surface as a steamboat ap
proaches it, tlio water first receding
and then returning in a great wave;
or it may he owning to a tract
being uplifted in tlio sea at some
distance, towards which the
waters would first he drawn Irom
every direction and immediately
be propelled back with ro-
Taking into account tho whole
surface of the earth, there is proba
bly not a day passes without the oc
currence somewhere of a sensible
disturbance of this kind, and hardly
a month without one or more wor
thy of note. From February, 1783,
to the end of the year 1780, a period
of nearly four years, this country
was almost constantly disturbed.
No fewer than fill) shocks were ex
perienced in the first of these years,
of which oOl shocks were shocks of
tho first degree of force.
The ancient city of Antioch, in
Syria, in the year 520, says Gibbon,
the historian, was visited by an
earthquake which destroyed 250,000
people, the population of the city at
that time being increased by a
large number of strangers attending
the festival of the Ascention. The
great earthquake of Lisbon, com
menced Nov. 1st, 1755. The rumbling
sound below the surface was im
mediately followed by the shock,
which threw down the principal
portion of tiie city. In the short
space of six minutes 60,000 persons
perished. The sea retired leaving
tho bar dry, and returned in a
great wave fifty feet or more in
height. Tho mountains around
were shaken with great violence
and wore rent and thrown in frag
ments into the valleys below. Mul
titudes of people sought safety from
tlio falling buildings by crowding
upon tho marble quay which had
been constructed at a great expense.
It suddenly sank with them like a
ship foundering at sea; hut when
the waters closed over the place, no
fragments of the wreck, none of tlio
boats or vessels near by that were
drawn into the whirlpool and not
one of the thousands of boilies car
ried down, reappeared on the sur
face. Over the spot the water stood
(!()() feet deep; and beneath this,
locked in the fissured rocks, in
chasms of unknown depth, lie the
relics of what was the life and
wealth of this portion of the earth’s
surface in the middle of the 18th
century. When in some future
epoch they are raised again to the
surface by the convulsion of the
same nature with that which en
gulfed them, the vestiges they con
tain may re-appear, converted in
part or wholly into stone, like fos
sils where the strata was deposited.
The portions of the earth’s surface
shaken by this convulsion, was es
timated by Ilumbolt as four times
the extent of Europe. Even the
distant waters of lake Ontario were
disturbed, and the shock was sensi
bly felt in Massachusetts. The sea
raared with unusual commotion,
and with tho rumbling of tlio earth
tlio noise was more appalling than I
tiie loudest thunder. Water-spouts '
hursts forth and springs opened ■
which continue to flow to tills day. I
The earthquake in 1811 at New
Madrid, Missouri, is the most im
portant which lias occurred in this
country of which we have any
record. Jt occurred far from any
volcano and lasted several months,
over an extent of 300 miles, the
ground rose and sank in great un
dulations and lakes were formed
and were again drained. Tlio sur
face burst open in fissures from
which mud and water were thrown
as high as tlio tops of tho trees.
Tho course of these fissures were in
one direction and tlio people notic
ing this, felled the tallest trees at
right angles to this line and
stationing themselves upon them
escaped being engulpluid. They
continued until the destruction of
the city of Caracas with 12,000 in
habitants. In 1822 at the earth
quake of Chili it was estimated that
100,000 square miles of land was
raised from two to seven feet.
In 1002, in the island of Jamaica,
a thousand acres sank in less than
ono minute on which stood tiie
city of Port Royal, the sea rolling
in and driving the vessels in tiie
harbors over tlio tops of tiie houses.
In 1857 tlio earthquake of naples
destroyed some 40,000 lives. In
1858 an earthquake in Mexico de
stroyed many lives and much
property. The recent earthquake
which culminated at Charleston
does not compare with many that
luivo occurred in other countries.
The destruction of property was
great, but very few lives were lost.
The (lliostly Tenant.
A Column of Smoke.
Smithvri.r.K, Tf.nn., Sept. 5.—
The quiet little town of Smithvillo
is rife with excitement over tlio
discovery of a horrible crime com
mitted many years in the past.
The circumstances surrounding the
discovery are as mysterious as the
crime and all are shocked that
such a crime should lay undiscover
ed at their very door. Tiie perpe
trators are unknown and unsus
pected. The facts are about as
follows:
One half mile northeast from
town stands an old brick house
of two stories, almost in ruins, that
has been untenanted for tiie past
twenty-five years. It is situated
on a slight eminence and in front
is a beautiful grove of tall and im
posing oaks, at the root of which is
a spring of clear freestone water.
It has been reported as haunted.
A lady fair and beautiful lias often
been seen gliding among tiie oaks
and reclining at case near the
spring, guitar in hand, and many a
small boy has hurried by the house
and gloomy oaks in the shades of
night. The lower rooms are in a
very good condition, but the doors
are gone, and all the panes of glass
are out of tiie windows. One side
of the root is demolished; in all
a fit habitation for ghosts and hob
goblins.
The house was last inhabited by
a gentleman from Arkansas by the
name of Italand, a widower with
three children. He was very re
tired and allowed no visitors. His
visits to town were always on bus
iness, which he transacted and
returned immediately. Ilisstrange
action caused some comment, but
gradually lie was understood, and
no communications were had with
anyone in Smitliville.
Occasionally two men would
come in a covered wagon, drive
straight through town to tiie house
of Mr. Italand, spend a day or two
anil return. No one knew whence
they came or where they went.
Nothing was thought of their v isits
at the time, hut since the discovery
they have been associated with the
crime.
Day before yesterday a tall, ugly
tramp with a carpet-bag on his
back came through town and in
quired the way to Sparta, saying
he was going to North Carolina.
He went on his way toward Sparta,
but it lias come out that late yes
terday evening lie was seen near
the old brick. Nothing was
thought of it at tiie time, but his
being seen there has associated
him with the dark crime that has
just come to light.
This morning Mr. Green and bis
son returning from hunting came
to tiie spring to get water and a
shower of rain coming up they
repaired to the house for shelter.
Wandering around the house they
were surprised to find muddy
tracks leading from the cellar to
the back door and a grubbing hoe
which proved to be Mr. Green’s.
All this seemed strange and they
proceeded to make a torch and go
down in the cellar where they soon
saw that something unusual had
been going on.
It is about!) feet from tiie floor to
the bottom of tlio cellar, and going
down they discovered that a bank
of earth had been thrown against
tho steps compelling them to walk
over it. It was damp and sticky,
hence tlio muddy tracks.
Throwing tiie light around they
saw a worm-eaten oak door, from
which tlio dirt hail lately been
thrown, making the bank over
which they had just passed. It
was about three feet in height and
two across. After pulling tiie door
open their courage failed them, and
they went for help and got an old
negro, who in spite of his supersti
tions, declared lie was ready and
willing to fathom tlio mystery and
relieve the ghost, who, lie declared,
was In some way concerned.
Again going down the cellar and
crawling through tho door, they
were surprised to find themselves
In a room walled up with brick and
floored with oaken plank, the coil
ing being of the same material.
The ceiling was three feet high
and some dirt was on tlio floor,
caused by tlio planks being rotten
and hrouking, lotting the dirt fall
a conjecture to who and what stie
was, and why she should suffer
such horrible punishment.
The remains will he intered
to-morrow. The country is being
scoured for tho tramp, but as yet
with no success.
FllttiiiK SlitulowN.
Atlanta Const!tlon.
Cla iiks v i IjTjE, G a., Sept. 0.—Tues
day August 31, when the moon
had sunk to rest, tlio night had
become dark and tho earth had
been shaken to its center; then it
was that your correspondent and a
friend saw what perhaps man never
saw before and what no man may
ever understand.
We had been to the depot of tiie
Northeast railroad for the purpose
of sending a dispatch concerning
the earthquake. After getting
some one hundred yards from tiie
railroad building, and in the woods,
where no natural or artificial light
was to be seen, my companion was
observed looking back at times.
Then tiie writer would look back,
and when he could see nothing on
the earth or in the heavens but dark
ness and a few dim stars, he asked:
Do you not see our shadows before
us on tiie ground ? The reply was,
I do, and was just looking back to
ascertain the cause. I replied that
there is nothing to give light,save tiie
milky way, and that is so dim that
we can scarcely see it, nor can we
scarcely see to walk; still, those
shadows arc plainly visible.
We still move onward, with tiie
mystic forms before us; and to
prove that they were there, we
would nod our heads anil lift our
feet, which would be repeated by
the dark and strange shadows.
Now, tiie above is not exag
gerated, and there is no possible
ground for mistake, so let tlio Con
stitution, or those scientists who
have advenced new theories for
causing the earthquake, give a
theory for shadows being formed
in absence of light.
W. F. Laurence.
qi mil.lAN SKH1XK.
Till- Drill li olii Per ii I! nr mill lipimirkiililf Man.
A SolilU-r In Stain.
Nasiivillk, Tenn., Sept. 5.—All
day a seemingly unending train
of people have passed through the
capital, where tho remains of Gen
eral B. Frank Cheatham lay in
state in the chamber. Tiie floral
decorations were most profuse and
elegant in character, including ono
large piece from Geo. II. Thomas
post G. A. It. Tlio local military,
the Hermitage Guards, the Burns
Artillery and the Harding Artillery
were on guard” during the day.
Tho surviving Mexican veterans
of this vicinity visited tho capitol in
a body to view tlio remains of their
comrade, as did tiie surviving
members of his staff during the
late war. There will be almost a
total suspension of business Muring
the hours of the funeral to-morrow,
[’lie funeral will be the largest ever
n the history of the city. Very
many soldiers from a distance have
arrived, and will arrive to-morrow,
to attend the funeral services.
Savannah, September 8.—Tlio
keeper at Tybee island light. at
tiie mouth of tlio Savannah river,
reports this afternoon between
1 and 2 o’clock a column, at first
believed to be u water spout appear
ed at sea twenty miles northeast
of tiie light, but as it remained
stationary it was later believed to
be a column of smoko from a vol
canic eruption or ship on fire.
Tonight, however, Tybee reports
belief that the smoke comes from
St. Helena island, and is probably
from a fire in tho woods there,
though It is not definitely settled
yet.
on the floor. Surprised as they
were at this discovery they wero
more so to find a sofa near tlio cen
ter and tiie skeleton of a woman
witli a silk dress fastened duwn
by chains around her ankles and
wrists.
She was in a reclining posture,
and a silk dress of tine texture cov
ered tiie ghastly skeleton. A ring
was on her finger, and engraven in
it“AlUe.” This was all. No clue.
Nothing to trace her persecutors.
She was doubtless starved to^eatli.
Large crowds from town veiwed
tlio remains as they lay in tiie hare
rooms of tho old brick, and many
(uiiturc iil'ii YYIIil Family.
Topeka, Sept. 4.—.For several
days parties have been searching
on Parson’s Creek, Washington
county, for lour persons known as the
“wild” family, consisting of a man,
a woman, a girl aged about 15, and
a child. The search has just ended
in the capture of the entire family.
The man, woman anil girl have
black hair on their faces, and the
man much hair on tiie body. That
on the girls face is very fine. The
color of tlio faces of all is ashy gray.
They cannot talk, but tiie woman
makes a peculiar noise, something
like a grunt or a groan, which the
girl seems to understand. On tiie
top of the heads of tiie man and
woman are slight evidences that
they have been, scalped. The
opinion prevails that they were
scalped by Indians years ago be
came insane, and have wandered
in tiie woods ever since.
A Fit-nil Father.
Monthomkry, Ala., September
7.—A special to the Advertiser from
Gadsden, Ala., gives an account
of a horrible crime by a negro
parent. Gabo Watts lived ten
miles in the country in a cabin
witli bis three children, tiie eldest
being 10 years of ago. Recently lie
expressed a wish to get rid of them,
and a few nights since, just before
day, knocked them all in tiie head
with a stick, lie piled qull s auii
bedding on the floor, set tire to the
house, fastened it and left. The tire
was discovered, but when taken out
tiie eldest child was dead. The
other two Yvere barely ulive, the
skull of both being cracked. Gabe
has been arrested. Hu confessed
the crime and said lie did not want
the children to fall into tlio hands
of white folks.
—Subscriptions are always cash
Augusta Chronicle. •
Mr. Quintilian Skrine is dead. On
yesterday morning, at his summer
home, near Bath, in this county,
lie breathed his last. At the time
of his death ho was In his 78th year.
Mr. Skrine was born in Washing
ton coiyity, Georgia. He was the
son of an eminent physician who
moved to that county in the first
part of this century from-Charles
ton. His father was a man of let
ters, and of great prominence in
liis profession, and of considerable
wealth in those days. Quintilian
Skrine was a classmate of Robert
Toombs and Alexander II.
Stephens, and graduated with high
honors. By all who knew him he
was considered the best scholar of
bis class,especially in mathematics.
Mr. Toombs said that Mr. Skrine
had as fine .-in analytical mind as lie
had ever seen. After leaving col
lege he commenced the practice of
law in Sandersville, Ga., and was
considered in a short time one of
tiie most erudite young lawyers in
Georgia, and did a fine practice in
that circuit. He then entered poli
tics and considered Mr. Calhoun
the greatest statesman and
certainly the greatest logician of
the nineteenth century. He was
an intense admirer of Mr. Calhoun
and followed him in his politics,
being an extreme nullifier, which
was unpopular in Georgia at the
time. Mr. Skrine became disgus
ted with politics, left tho bar, re
tired to private life, purchased a
plantation in Burke county, Ga.,
where he remove his negroes and
became a recluse and bookworm.
He amassed around him a mag
nificent library of mathematical,
scientific and literary works, and
up to the day of his death was per
fectly familiar with the classics,
reading Greek, Latin and French
with as much ease as English.
I’rior to the late war he spent
his winters in Burke county on his
plantation and his summers at Bath,
and made botany and minerology
his constant study. He collected
a very valuable mineral and
conchological cabinet, and since
1885 he purchased a very valuable
microscope in London for the pur
pose of pursuing his botanical or
other studies. He had few intimate
friends, was rather cynical in his
character, though possessing all the
gallantry and polish of an old
Southern gentleman, whose type is
about extinct in this country. He
was never married, though always
a great admirer of ladies, and was
considered the toast in that coterie
of refinement that inhabited Bath
prior to tiie war.
He had the most delicate idea of
honor, and while totally void of all
religious sentiment was always just
anil fair in his dealings with his
fellow men. In fact, he was the
most learned man that has lived in
tliis section of Georgia for fifty
years at least. He was a splendid
mathematician, a good historian,
a deep thinker, and perfectly fa
miliar with the political history
of this country, from the formation
of the constitution to the present
day. He has left behind a well
selected library and cabinet, hut
through some fatality of iiliosynrasy
his vast accumulation of learning
has been of no service to the
country. He left some means
which, it is said, will be distributed
very equally among his relatives
resident in South Carollnia and
Georgia. He lias had a vault built
at Bath for the interment of his
remains, and has been looking
calmly forward to his death for
sometime. He died from a cancer
on ids hand.
Making mi Hour Inn Second.
81. Paul Globe
There seems to be no settled
standard of time in Pittsburg. A
man when invited to attend a
dinner party at a certain hour,
doesn’t know when to go, as there
are two standards of time, and they
are just ono hour apart. It is con
fusing to a fellow, and lie requires a
good deal of experience to put him
straight with himself and tho
world.
For Instance, on the Pennsylvania
Central road the Now York time is
the standard. On the Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne roail the Chicago time
is the standard, and they are just
about one hour apart. Tiie twin on
the Pennsylvania Central arrives in
Pittsburg from the East at 6 o’clock
in evening. Tiie Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne leaves for Chicago at
a few minutes after o o’clock in the
afternoon, and yet the two trains
connect, and passengers who arrive
at the union depot at 6 o’clock get
on to a train that pulls out a little
after 5 o’clock. In other words, in
about a second an hour is gained.
A Car’s Wild Hun.
Grayling, Mich., Sept. 2.—On
Blodgett AByrne’s logging railroad
eight miles from here, yesterday,
an engine left a train at the top
of a grade, took one bakeinan and
went a short distance to take on
wood. While tiie cars at the top
of the grade were being loaded
one car got away from the men
and ran down tiie grade into the
engine. The engineer, fireman
and breakman had just finished
loading the tender and got into
the engine to start back, when the
car struck them. The engine and
tender were almost instantly de
stroyed, and Ernest Wilcox, fire
man, and James Mossyer, break-
man, were killed instantly. Tho
engineer escaped, with serious but
not fatal injuries. The breakman
was found some distance from the
engine in a hole dug beside the
track, with a log lying on him and
the hole filled with water. The
fireman was putting wood into the
fire box and was crushed against
it and horribly burned.
A Mystery of the Si-u,
New* York, .September 2.—Cap
tain E. T. Page, master of the brig
Munson, of this city, lias addressed
a communication to tlio hydro-
graphic office in this city, giving an
account of a phenomena which he
encountered In a recent voyage to
the west coast of Africa. He
states that from longitude 21
degrees 5 minutes north latitude
21 degrees west, to longitude 17
degrees 41 minutes north lit degrees
44 minutes west, thorn stretched
an area of pale green water indicat
tug shallow soundings. Thinking
lie was approaching a reef lie con
suited tiie sailing charts and found
the depth given as 274 fathoms
without touching bottom.
The peculiarity of this is tho fact
that tiie light simile of water is
never seen except where the water
is shallow, the usual color being tiie
deep blue. The captain reports
that at night tiie phosphorescent
light was so brigtit ns to enable him
to read by it. Tho mystery is un
solved as yet.
Phosphate rocks are being discov
ered around Brunswick.
The Harnett House.
Jacksonville (Fla.) Herald.
Tiie wonder of those who go to the Harnett
House, In Savannah, Is that so excellent u
table and such comfortable rooms enn be of
fered to the public at such minimum rates.—
Without exaggeration, the table of the Hur-
nett Is as good as that of the Screven House,
and the rates Just one-half as large. Courte
ous treatment makes up the sum of Its attrac
tions. The public largely testified their ap
preciation.
CHILL AND FEVER
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FOR EVERY FORM OF
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OUR GUARANTEE.—^{®"
taken and fall to break up the CH 11.LS, the
merchant who made the sale will refund
money.
FOR S ATjF. At WaynoslK.ro, by .1. A.
I vMV O.Yijrj, ( j rU y. prone, by W. I,.
Mims; at Uroen'sCut, by A. Chance and 1*.
11. Reese.
BEALL Oo.,
WIIOLESALE DEPOT,
AUGUSTA, : : GEORGIA.
npr30,’8t)-am
I will be at the precincts of tho eountJl for
thepurpose of collecting taxi* as follows for
FIRST ROUND.
Alexander,(tkl ills.
Lively’s Store, Mill dlst. -
Sept. 27.
28,
Liberty lllll, UHth dlst. -
Mrs. MoNorrlll’s Store, With dlst. - •*
Lawtonvlllc, (list dlst. ... Oct.
Hlrdsvllle, 76th dlst. - - - . "
Mldville, 7!td dlst. .... ••
llark Camp Cross Roads, 71th dlst. “
Uraneh's Store, 71st dlst. . “
Green's Cut, U7th dlst. ... ••
Tarver's School House, Hath dlst. . “
Kilpatrick's Cross Roads,(19th dlst. “
Gough’s Cross Roads, 7Jd dlst. • - “
SECOND ROUND,
Alexander, 03d dlst. ... Oet.
Lively’s store Oil h dlst. - - - "
Liberty lllll, IWtli dlst. ... "
Mrs. MoNnrrtll’s Store, With dlst. - ••
I.awlonvllle, Ulsl dlst. . . . ••
llli-dsvllle, Tfith dlst. ... ••
Mldville, 7.kl dlst. ....
llark Camp Cross Roads, 7Uhdlst. “
Uraneh's Store, 7lsl dlst. ..." an.
Greens’ Cut, 1171b dlst. - - - Nov. 1
Tarver's School I louse, U-'ith dlst. - “ 2.
Keysvllle,tilth dlst. ... •• J.
Kllpiitrlc k'sCross Roads, ■ • " 4,
Gough's 'loss Roads, 72d dlst. . " 5.
Milieu. Illst illsl. ... . “ U.
1 will he lu WayneslMiro every Saturday,
mill during Superior Court. Rooks will posi
tively rlosi December -jntli.
sop.ll,'SI-1f G A. WARD, T. C, II. O.
AU vert Iso in The Citizen.
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