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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. PUBLISHED EVERT TUESDAY NOTICE. hit '"** lltMM tor toll mast IM MMipuM Witt th* toll Btmiot tt« wTlttr, not dnmuUi tor pabU- mUob. Mmiguarantor oI good Mth. W* art la bo war responsible tor tta rtowi „ opinion! ol eorreepondenle THE MERCURY. A. J. JEBNIGAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE $1.(0 par Ann. VOLUME VI. SANDERSVILLE. GA„ TUESDAY, DECEMBER ]5, 1885. NUMBER 34. THE MERCURY.' ■atom Iiwal an mattes altos — ■nwrllla imitou.Apf », nto flaalenvilto, WmWh<h Of—p» lh A. J. JEBNIGAN, .(MlptfVttt Sity of SandoravMlo. Mayor. J, N. On.MOKit, Aldermen. W. R. Thigpen. B. K. Houghton. J. B. liolIKRTS. A M. Mats. B. G. Lang. Clerk. 0. C. Brown. Treasurer, j. A. Irwin, Marshal. 3. E. Wrddon. Town of Tannllla. Intendant. John C, Harman, Alderman. J. F. Mrrkkon, J, D. Pranklim. J. M. Brown. J, R. Pritchard. CUrh. B. H. B, Mamnt. Marshall, J. C. Hamilton. A. C. WRI8HT ATTOnida&Y AT LAW, 105 Bay St., Sauaaah, da. KaTWill practice in all th* Courts* R. I. HAnWft. JIMMER ANDBMON, Late of Macon. HARRIS A ANDERSON, Attorney* At Law, 8ANDEUSVILLE, OA. Will practiro In the Middle Circuit, aud in tlio eountirw nurrminding WaHhington. 8pt‘dal attrition givon to CoinmoicUl Law. [jmi2IMy E. S. LANGMADE; Sttoi^ey kt I(kw 8ANDEH8 VILLE, OA; S. D. KTAJil. B. D. BVANB, EVANS A EVANS, Attorneys At Law, BANDEIISVILLE, GA. F. H. SAFFOLD, ATTORNEY AT I,AW, ® SANDEUSVILLE, GA. Will prsetics In til the Court, of th« Middle Cirrnit end in tlio countie, •lu-rouiiillng Wiihingt n. Special attention given to coru- nierc tl lav. & C BB0WN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ■andersvlllt, da. o. H. IVoobbj HINES & ROGERS, Attorneys at Law, 8ANDKRSV1LLB, OA„ win praotloa In .ho counties of Washington, Jeffonton, Johm-un, Emnnuel and Wllklnaon, • on In Hie u H. Court! for thaBontbarn Dla- trlotof Georgin. Will ect us ii.enta In baying, aaUlng or reining Urn I Eetuta. Offlce nu Waat aid# of PnbUt Bonoro. Oot u-tr H. N. flOLLIFIELD, Physician and Surgeon, nail door to M i Harris streak TNAaC MANN A NEW TREATMENT Eor Oonmmptlon, Aatlima, Dronohltli, Dye- pop,la, Catarrh. Headaoho, Debility, Rhen- matiam, Neuralgia, and all Obronlo and Nervous Disorders. A CARD. ETxJKkR 1 „ b *""“t'jroru lb# ne•'^'•MtofipOt^B ’! m e*tloal MtoBM, and all that la iaimtd for it, coniitler it a tint/wbkfft „„ w »„ n ?!"?, * ro auffarinf from chronic ,* ncur £ bl " ‘liscMmto do all that wcca conflilEnrc TtU "* kn<mn andi0 fnaplro the pullioi h< \™ personal knowhd«e of Drt. Starkey and | , »hlaioianR" , toh^n^uoa-ed, Intelligent, conenientiotie staw star*!, Bw’ftwj pub inti any teetknoniila not genuine. a. . WM. I>. KRfrLKV. Member of Uoiigreaa from Pliiladelphie. ow or believe to be truen ‘ reporte of ceeee which a hlladelphia. Philadelphia, Pa., Jane 1, 1883. In order to meet a natural hit, promotional anil personal atanil..,., /rcaaml confidence in our etatemente prlmX'tb?" 0 ’“*~ -ecanl from genii i and of the hlgheet imrsonal character. » on Corn | qulry In regard to out ding, and to give In* tnenta and In Ihe geu* rta of caeca, we well and widely »r. containing a Our 1 reetiae on Oouinound Oaygcn. ” nUtnrjr of the dlaoovory of aud m<xf« of < remarkable curative agent, and a large i priHinc curee In Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Brtinu11111a. Aathma^ ate,, end a wide range of ohronie liwiMCN, will be eent free. Addreee mill. ATAKKKY 4k PALIN, IIOO nnd 1111 Ulrard Nt. t Philadelphia, Pa. MUSIC, MUSIC GO TO— MMI MDIH1 REPORTS. ANNUAL NTATEMENTN W MEM EH. ■NtolCOTT AND WHITNEY. JEBNIGAN Bows.'Strings, Rosin Boxes, Etc. Machine Needles, Oil and Shuttles, POB ALL KIND* OF MACHINES, tor sale, I will also ordar pula of Machine* that gat brokan, tor wblob saw plaoaa ara wan tod. A.. J. JEBNIGAN. V Year's Oparatieaa In tba Army ail Navy UrpartmxaU. The llrat half of the first annual report of William C, Whitney, secretary of Ihe navy, comprises briefly the usual routine of the department bureaus for the fiscal year end' lng June 110, 1885. Af tor describing the loca* tlon of the different squadrons, he draw's a doleful picture of our navy yards. It appears that this property, “aggregating In value sjmsIHty million dollars," is falling rapidly Into a condition of extreme decay. The re port* from the yards make frequent com plaint of buildings falling or about to fall; roofs leaking to such nil oxtent as to Involve the destruction ef proporty stored under neath; wharves so rotten Hint persons cannot welk over them in snfety; stone dry-docks which nre required to be shored up with 11 In is'!' ; bat l-oadwayr, defective water pipes, an I in general such nn extent of decay ami dilapidation as to imply a general destruction. The report says: “If It It the policy of Congress to maintain the navy, var.l, a, shlpyar.fi, w n-kshops, or depots of supply, I' it manifest that tho work of put ting th • InilMInpi. what res and nlhsr up puruHiaiuos In proper repair should be un dertaken at once, and should he kapt up from year to year, ns tho only alternative must lie the abandonment of all this property to wasto and ruin.” In behalf of the Bureau of Navigation he recommends increased appropriations to se cure a bolter system of coast surveys, which are urgently needed. He concurs in the view of Constructor Wilson that It should lie th* policy of the government to maintain one large navy yard, combining in Iteelf the advantages and lucilitlus of all tho others, and advocates Longue Island us the most advantageous tits tor this pul-pose. Ilo believes that In this ease at loa<t one-half our steel ships could be built In our navy ynrds in competition with outaido establishments. Mention li made of the successful opening of the Naval Wnr college at Annapolis un der direction of Hear-Admiral Luc*. Th* instruction consists of lectures on military science, the nrt of naval warfaro and marine International law. This meets a serious want The net amount drawn by the department on warrants during the Inst fiscal year was llU,83f,8U7.i3, having a balance of $1,088,- 075.00, which with tho amouut unexpended In the hands of pay ofllcers, leaves an aggro- gate unexpendod balanoeof $3,858,045.75. The monoy spent this year is 1007,755.54 less than the net amount drawn In the fiscal year end ing June 80, 1884. The navy estimates to bo presented to Con- gross for the noxt fiscal year amount to $05,101,003.15, In which aura are embraced es timates for new onjecte, not those ordinarily for tho service, amounting to (10,000,050.84, leaving for the customary purposes of the sorvic* (10,034,741.01. They embrace: For Increase of the navy (10,503,770; for the com pletion and arm iment of the double-turretod monitors, (4,300,050, and for publiu works aud improvements at the yards and stations, (4.308,837.41. Mr. Whitney dovotes considerable space to a history of Ills controversy with John Roach, already familiar to the public. The secretary favors changing the whole system so long In vogue and compelling the department here after to mature all plans and specifications thoroughly before advertising for contracts. Ho has adopted this plan already In prepar ing for the construction of the two additional cruisers and two gunboat*, at a cost of nearly (3,00(1,1)00, authorised by the last session of l'op,yr»«s. At tuition Is drawn to the Importance other countries attach to the torpedo-boat as a branch of naval warfare by a tabular atatoment of those possessed and in process of construction. The United States have none; England has 130, and 53 more ordered; Russia has 131, and 14 ordered; France has 83, and 87 ordered; Germany has 11, and 111 BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS. A T(THROAT'D MOILED EXPLODES AT NEW TUB. Everybody en Board tbo Uatortaeato Craft Iaaiaally Klllod. The recent blowing up of Flood Rook Al Hell Gate, New York city, we* • terrfflo spectacle, but an explosion on a tugboat Bear the same place the other afternoon was much more terrible In It* offoct*. From the metro politan Journals we gather th* following par ticulars: Th* tug Dorie Emory, of Hoboken, began at dusk to make up a tow to go to Itondont, by hauling out from Cat.dee & Smith's dock at th* foot of East Sl::ty-thlrd street, an empty brick scow. Half a dozen men were on the soow, and as soon as the tug headed down stream, against the tide, sat down in the hold to eat their supper. 1 he tug was to pick up another scow at Fiftr- thlrd street, and kept, within 400 feat of tne New York shore. She had reached Fifty- ninth street at about 5:35 P. M., and was off the bluff known as lllvervlew Terrace, when site blew up with a report that poisons at the Charity hospital on IllackwelPs Island iay was much louder than the last llell (lata ex plosion. The upper works of t'le tug apneered to leave her .uddoidy and tho bull spread, tlieis ski a motiPMUn, y giaie, a lung shock with a sort of lull In the middle, and up went a column of smoke and steam 700 or 8810 feat in the air as straight as a rocket. With tha column went all sort* of wreck, and some say they saw one man who moved his limbs in the air. Then a wreckage began to fall over an area which extendM from First avenue to near Blaokweirs Island, and for many blocks up nnd down tba river. Most of the debris was small and pattered like hailstones in the stroots and on roofs, hut loud thuds and crashes told of larger pieces falling on houses aud pave ments and In yards. Tho smokestack and part cf the steam pipes were thrown on the rocks at the foot of East Fifty-eighth street and tbs shore was strewn with all sorts of wreckage. Few windows remained unbroken on River View torrace, and In new houses south of It, which are known as River View, ami hundreds of panes of glass were broken In tho neighborhood of Avenue A end Fifty-eighth struct, which is known aa ace. a very few minutes 6,003 persons were at the rtror front or on their way there, and within a quarter of an hour four times that number were on the shore or on the ter race in front of which the explosion took place, peering Into the darkness Police Captain Gunner aod a section of policemen went to Fifty-eighth street at tba double quick. When the tug blew up Pilot McAvqj- was steering the steamboat William H. Wickham across to the Island. He made quickly for the scow, which was drifting helplessly, ■ Or. II. B. Hollifield, mucus in imm, II ‘vliw receutly graduated at tha Dnlv«r- >’U “l .'I’uyUiid and returned horns, n uT->* Ills pruiessioiml service* to the oltla w '-Audcievlll* ~ Ur n N llolllfii millinery (tor*. O. w H- WHITAKER. DENTIST, ■andsrsvtlls, Oa DR. J. H. MAY, SANDEB8VILLI, GA Offers his services to the oiHiene of Banders- rille and adjaoent oountry. All oalla, day or night, will be promptly responded to. OWce his residence on Mrs. Pittman's lot, corner Harris and Ohuroh streets. Janl6-1884tf. BUY YOUR mmm, spectacles, FROM JERNIGAM, R *ke genuine without our Trad* Mark On hand and for sale, SPECTACLE, NOSE.GLASSES. 1TC. VemirliM’ Wrnth. A Naploa (jtally) letter to tho Phila delphia /Yen says: Tho thousands of people who uso theaimilo “standing oyer a volcano" can never appreciate its full meaning unless they havo actually stood as we stood that dark night, looking down into tho lingo cauldron of boiling | ordered, and even Ulilim has 5, and 10 more lava, watching the fiery mass as it seethe. 0I “, t of Mr . whltneyl , t „ d „ and steams and nlsses through the Assures ; voted ton review of what be cAlls long- in tho mountain s sides. Until far in | standing abusos In the navy, and to suggeat- the night wo watched that terrible sight i lag remedies. He reviews the history of our • - - ’ " 1 naval construction since the war. From 1868 to the present time over seventy-five millions have been spent on construction, re- E alr und ordnance of veeeels, for which we ave practically nothing to show. We have not a single vessel afloat that could en counter the shipe of any important power. This, the report says, lias been chiefly becauee wo Imve "not availed ouroclvet of the scien tific Improvements of the age In ship-building and armoring. A naval vessel now Is a product of science. Each part of her is absorbing the exclusive study of sclenttflo men. We have mado no provision for keep ing paoe with thie march of science, and bence can show nothing of power in modern naval warfare. Our educational ground work Is years behind the age. The secretary adds: | |"I find myself forced, therefore, to the conviction that everything connected with the construction nnd i is ilono with too little .................. -.......... under the present organization of the depart ment this cannot be otherwise. 1 have oc casion to know that the amounts found to havo been expended upon the ' ‘Omaha" and upon the “Mohican” surprised no persons more than the bureau officers who had boon en gaged upon tbo work. Seeing the ill advised and inconsiderate manner in which Import ant steps are necessarily taken by me under the present system, 1 feel certain that a similar record of mismanagement, of waste ful ex|ienditure, of Injudicious and Ill-ad vised disposition of public moneys might be made by any secretary under tlio present system." To this he adds that whatever changes of organization may be desired, “it is of tho first necessity to separato, at much ns prac ticable, the work of direction and delinera tlon from the details of execution,” in other words that there should be in thecoistm tlon of a navy, as In o .ory other kind of business, “a proper distribution of labor." Tha War Department In submitting his uiiminl report to tho President Secretary Endioott states the ex penditures for the year ending Juno §0, 1885, at (45,850,009.54. Ho rsiiinato-i the noxt fiscal year at $48,204,1-13. reiu’-eil from n schedule presented to lion which called for nearly double the amount. At last reports from the lieutenant-general the army consisted of 2,15! officer, nnd 24,705 enlisted men. He then gives in detail the operations of the troops on the frontier. Tlio Oklahoma country was freed from Invaders without bloodshed, nnd the effect has boon to restore quiot among the Indians. Other slight disturbances among the Indian tribes of Ari zona and Now Mexico were easily quelled by th© pr©8enco of troopi. Ho commends to the Watches, Clocks Ail JEWELRY XTXCA2T. and intoned to the groaning and gurgling that seemed to como forth from the very bowels of tho earth. Wc gazed into that burning crater, fas cinated ns a bird is fascinated by a snake. And tbe danger, as deadly as tho snake’s fascination, was soon real ized. While gazing into tho fiery sea below ub, them was a terrific rumbling, followed, nftor an interval that gavo us barely time to rotrent forty paces, by a showor of red-hot stones, which flew in every direction, and only spared us, as it seemed, by a miracle. To no man, I believe, could a more appalling o.xperionco be allotted than that during the ten minutes that succeed ed the first oniptlon. An impenetrable taist was on one side und t mountain of fire on the other. In much less time than it tnkes to write these words wo had descended, running, rolling, and falling, several hundred feet, but even during those few moments there were suvornl erruptions, nnd fiorv messes, sorno as large as a beer keg, fell dangerously near. For several minutes the eruptions con tinued, showers of red-hot lava shooting up in quick succession, but with ono of us nlrcady soverely wounded and the other in momentary fear of receiving his quietus, tho grand display of fire-works was not appreciated. Out of reach of the fiery hail, our course was still by no means clear. An Electrified Crowd. A broken' electric light wire at Stt and Harrison streets, Chicago, bccan connected one night recently with at. iron pillar. This passed the electric current along a hand railing, nnd it re turning by another rniling made a com plete circuit. A negro came along and leaned wearily against the railing. Then ho bristled up with energy, llis arms were closed around tho railing and bis body was baut like a letter S. He had no idea what was tho matter with him, and being unable to let go his hold, cried out loudly that he was dying. A dozen men ran to bis assistance and wore soon experiencing the tingling effect of the olectricity. Some laughed, others cried and many called for help. A crowd soon gathered and a few addi tional victims were hanging to the rail ing.' Finally the crowd numbored near ly 500. Curs were stopped and no ono could get past. A police wagon arrived just ub an enterprising man had discov ered the cause of tho trouble and released the victisjN htV disconnecting tho wire. Using tho Eni'th’M Heat. There is abundant reason for believing that tue earth’s crust is very thin, assorts Mr. J. Btarkie Gardner, and it seems not impossible that some means may bo de vised for utilizing tho intense heat of the molten mass below. This is already being done, in fact, to Borne extern, an artesian woll having been bored at I’ostta to obtain warm water for public baths, etc. From a depth of about 3,000 feel a large quantity of water heated to till degrees Fahrenheit pours fortti, and the boring is to be coutinued until water at 178 degrees is yielded. It takes about 250 bushels of potatoes ,to make one ton of starch. From nearly 400 singers, including no Germans or Italians, Dr. Lennox Browne has secured testimony that the use^ of alcohol and tobacco injures tbe singing voice. consideration of tlio Preiident the policy of concentrating troops aud putting large garri sons In the vicinity of large cities as a meas ure of economy, the present railroad facili ties being ample to transport them to th* frontier speedily when needed. Mr. Endtcott refers to the question of de sertions and says it Is difficult to adjudge an adequate punishment where a man has de serted several times. One recent recruit proved to Imve been a six times deserter, and Congreis Is asked to provide a proper pun ishinent in cases of this kind. Mention is made of the adjutant general’s report on the militia, and the secretary thinks that additional legislation would raise this Important arm of national defence to a higher plane. At present it Is defective in armament, using nil obsolete rifled musket, for which no ammmnttion is made. It should have the same Improved arms as the regular troops with whom the militia may be called to serve. , The acting judge-advocate-general reports 2,838 courts-martial during the year and 874 convictions for desertion. A TBIUBOI* FIDO. More than 30,000 fragment* of aacient records have been dug up from the sands of Egypt, where they have rested embalmed during nine centuriei, not vory much the worse for their interment. The history of these venerable documents ie remarkable. Professor Karabacek sup poses that they must at ono time have formed part of the public archives of El Fnyoum, and that the hulk of these archives perished in a great conflagra tion. such as destroyed the great library at Alexandria.—London Tims*. FAKIR AMD UOROO. Chaiaeterlatlea ot Nlaiaa Md Woo len WaoOlraota. Along the varioui roads which lead to a great city, the Mohammednn begum- lakes up bis abode. Generally he selects for his residence tome deserted tomb, which, built upon n crag or some emi nence, commands n good view of the road. Agra is the great Mohammedan city oi tbe Northwest. With its multi tude of mosques and glittering minarets, it is a city to which thousands of Mo hammedans from all parta of the Moslem world make pilgrimage. The roads and by-roads which lead to tho city are many, and along their sides hive boon built in first born, (o give him strength to fulfil tbe vow he made to Insure his happiness in the hereafter, fa not unheeded. Timid children bring him food, their fathers give him aid, and the women, with curi ous, fearful eyes, watch him with the up lifted arms as he wanders forth from out their village. Tho range of the Hima laya* it bofore him. Huge, stern and snow-covered, up the mountain-sides, over rocks nnd craggy placet, along the beds of itreama, through gloomy ravines, past dismal caves, thehome of ihe wolf, the hyena, the mountain beti' and tha tiger.' No fear deter* him, no danger daunts this Hindoo ascetic. The shrine in Its snowy altitude has at Inst been reached. The altar on which ROMANCE OF A CLAIM. Unileons tar War Parpose*. ] M. Renard’a aerostat is intended tat * Yams* Dakota itetllev l.acsa am war purposes. Balloons have played a Faeat-Hotv ho Itagalaod ta I part in war for a century. In the French A Bully (Dakota) letter to tho New revolution thoy were used with success; York Bun, tells this romnntlo story: A ! General Jourdea is said to have won the rear ago last spring a you g man named ^ • °/ Fleurus by observation* taksn llelden came to this county, took up 1U0 ! from * balloon, which, after surveying sores of land, and built himself a snack. U>® Austrian line*, was brought down Two waeks later a girl named Helen ' by means of a windlass. Balloons wore Chapman took up the claim adjoining by the French in the Italian cam- his on the west, aud also built a cabin. »»<? »“ ascension at Sol ferine The neighbors became slightly no- K»» e Napoleon in insight into the Aua- quntntcd, but both wore too busy to do Jr**® line* that enabled him to win the much visiting. Balden was an easy-go-j battle. During our civil war McClellan - 1 had a balloon corps which did good ser- long gone days of Mohammedan power i lie has to lty his offering is at laat before many a grave containing the remains of j uim. There, In the dismal gloom, alone soma noted warrior or chief. Beveral of these graves have been kept white ae when llrat made; several are still adorned every moaning with fresh garlands of the golden-colored marigold, and the trees that have been planted around thorn are still watered. But these evidences ot a watchful care are only bettowod when descendant* of tho deceased still revere hls-spetnory, but most of these tombs are forlorn and deserted- a general tumbling down of brick nnd mortar, It I* when a building has fallen into complete ruin, that the Mohammedan beggar takes defends possession. lie generally him- by himself, with the twinkling holy light before him, which has burned steadily in this mountain receia for thou sands of years, in anguish and in grief he throws himself down before the altar, and thna praya: "Oh, Mystio Light, am bient of the universal, of the nope, of peace; you who irrediate this gloom with vour rays, Irradiate now, I beseech you, by your light, my heart with hope. In spire me with courage, and if tnou who represents the eternal wilt show to mo in this my sorrow, the fnco of one whom my heart loveth, and let me hear the voice of him for whom I suffer—then /, partly over, toward Hlxtisth street Her bows were shattered, but those on hoard cried out to him that nnnn or them were hurt, but that six man on the Dorie Emory had perished. There was not a trace of tlw lug to be seen on the water exoopt here and there a pleco of timber. Making fast to the scow, Captain MoAvor waited until tlio Cornell tug Crosby came along and took her In tew. The men on the scow, although she was making water fast, declined to leave her, with the exception of one who went in the William H. Wick ham. In tha meantime at least thirty craft had gathered around, and tbs water was patrolled in every direction to dis cover thos# who were on the tug when she blew up. No trace was found except some receipts and billheads. When the damage done on shore was in vestigated It was frond tlnd. although no one was hurt, hundreds had had eecsnss in the streets and In houses. A timber which two men could hardly lilt fell at Fifty-eighth street and First avenue, making a dent In the ■lavement. Piecesoflron and timber were distributed promiscuously through the streets, and many windows were shattered. Five or six men—tlio captain, engineer, fireman, cook and deck-hands—were on the tugboat at the time of the explosion, and not a vestige of any ot them, alive or dead, could be found. A TENNESSEE TRAGEDY. WOMAN KIM.H IIKR IIUNHAND AND KSCAPEN TO THIS HILLS. The AdvcRturea of n Ciinitnnnng.t <*r»r©r anil IIIm Wayward Wife. Tlio most HoiiHRtionnt iragody that hai boeu recorded in TeiineB'ioit in yoarn was enacted noar Chattanooga on Monday. D. D. Lolland, a grocor o! that city, while returning from a I ursuit after hi** faithlm* wife and a young man named .TamoH Wilson, wan idiot by tho woman through tho h»d nnd fatally wound© J. Tho murdori w* OHcapcd in tho mountain*. D. D. Lofland met IiIh bride at UriHt il. Tenn., live yearn ago. Her name was Hosa Smith; aho waa from Ntrth Caro iua,—a dashing girl of great beauty and brillii.uoy. Ho made consider* able monoy .'ll Briwlol and three yearn ago tho couple mow I to Chattanooga where tho hu«- bnnd ambiirkctl in buxine-f. A few montha ago Janu a WiUou, a young blood from Social Circle, Oa., made t le acq tarn'mu-? of tbo young wife aud aho hug mol . omplet 1/ fascinat'd by Ida clinriiiH. Frcm tliai time < ated tin uuhap* pinoMH of the couple. Their d> meatus blim wax rudely ended mid serioua quarrels were of con stant occurrence. In orucr to take her from tho city Lolland purchased a farm in an ad join ng county, but abc became diaaatiatied aud lio aold it. Hliort'y afterwarda she applied for a divorce and claimed 91,500 of the money realized from tho farm ax alimony. Hhe no- cured poHaoaaiou of tho money by Home mcaua and on Friday night eloped with Wilson. They Hrat fled to Fort Payne, Ala., whero the woman has a nister, and then took tne overland trip to Scottf boro, Ala., to take tho train for the west. Lofland followed them, and they fled fi cm Bdotteboro iuto the mountains, lie overtook them, and the woman plead so pite ously that ho was turned iuto her power, and he promitsed to forgive her. Sbe said she would return with him, end they began the tourney home. At an unfrequented spot in the road she suddenly drew a pistol from her pocket and shot him through the head, put spurs to her horse and escaped. The bullet passed entirely through Lolland's skull, and be died that night. FORKftT FIRE* IN KANSAN. nnd thus hnving secured Accommodation > nscend to the shrine that is across these begins his livelihood. mountains, and pray there nnd live there At first he presents a pitiable object, as Raid's fervAnt.” Emncinted And dirty, his hnir long And Hnlf demented from the danger of matted, hit eyes wild and staring, and his travel, overcome with joy that the his boay given over to vermin, end his shrine hss been reached, can it be won- terriblo rasping cry or “AlInh-il-AllshV” dered at that this poor fsnatical creature wailing by night aud day for food and sees in his imagination the face of hit money, he is not only a loathsome but a son and hears bis voice? In an ecstasy fear-inspiring monster. This is his cry. of joy he again proclaims his intention “Behold, yc who walk by the road- of still pursuing his vow, till, perhaps, side, arrayed in your white and golden the strength of tho troubled frame has colored clothes and scarlet trappings, been exhausted and the bravo heart sobs with your bespangled, shoe-covered feet, out its life. your linen covered head, your eves full And the end. Down in the ravine is of pride and heart lull of wickedness. Iii* body thrown by tho hearties* prieete, your minds bent on money-making; and to serve as food to tho yelping jackal ye also who go by on the trotting camel nnd snarling hyaga.-Ban Franeueo Call. and th* fleet horse, and In tho eun and . dust shaded carriage, boware of tho _ „ ... power of the gonil of thti place, beware Beleaguered Lhnttauooga. of his wrath and hie enger, for I, hie ser- From General Grant s paper In the vant, am here through hie bidding to NoTember Contury, describing th* cam- light here a flame made from oil and Rn( j battle of Chattanooga, w# wick, to appease tho evil on* who is ' 10te the following account of the con senting hie spirit torment, and driving dition of the euppUcs that reached th* It abroad by night and by day; and if boeleged city: Alt supplies for llote- ve sppeeta not thie spirit by money and cr „ns had to be brought from Naahvllle. by flame, he will cause unto you evil. The ral | ro »d between thie base and the and if I, his servant, am not supplied grm ywas in possession of the govern- with tho thlnge which ho most craves, , nen ‘t U p to Bridgeport, tho point at then will he at nighttime and at daytime which t ' h8 rold crouu , t0 the south side cast hit eye*, glaring with wrath nnd of t ho Tennessee river; but Bragg, hold- enger, upon you, and you shall »ot | ng Look outand Raccoon mountains weet proeper, neither in your butinest, nor in of Chattanooga, commanded tho rail- your fantlliei, and his curse shell b# on road the rWeri , nd tho shortest and vou. and that which you esteem the lMllt wtgon r0 adt both south and north highest ahall aoon die. Hear and trem- 0 f the Tennaeeee, between Chattanooga ble,you wicked, for such is the order ot tnd Br |a g onort. Thu distance between God,” these two placet it but twenty-six milee Now, the Mohammedan, patting by by rail; hut owing to this position of the deserted tomb, seeing it suddenly oc- liragg all supplies for Hosectans had to cupied, and by to distressful and miter- be hauled by a circuitous route, north of able an object, is touched with compns- the river, and over a mountainous coun- sion; nnd when ho hears the terriblo do- try, increasing tbe distance to over sixty nunoiation that it to follow, ahould he miles. This country afforded but little not subscribe toward aiding a suffering food for his animals, near ten thousand and departed countryman'a soul, whose of which had already starved, and none hovering spirit might, peradventure, do wore left to draw a single piece of him some harm, he, in fear and tremb- artillery or even tho ambulances ling, drops into the extended gourd his to convey the tiok. Tho men had farthing, and hurries away, tearful lest been on half ratlous of hard brend for a bo should lie overtaken by some mishap, considorablo lime, with hut fow other Buppose that self-same Mohammedan, supplies, oxcept bcof driven from Nash- hurrying away from the dreadful tomb, villo across tne country. Tlio region with’oyee blinded by foar, should stum- along the road bees me so exhausted of ble on a stone, and hurt himself; ho food for the osttle that by the time they would certainly exclaim thst Allah was reached Chattanooga they were much in the cause of tbo trouble. Hit donation tho condition of tho few animals left was too small. He generally would re alive there, 'on the lift.’ Indoed, the turn and increase It, and thus by his wll- beef was so poor that the soldiers were lingness and contrition propitiate the in the habit of saying, with a faint deity. Should good fortune attend him facetiousnoss, that they were living on through the day, and in his every enre half rations of linrd broad and ’beef he bu genotally tuuccssful, tho poor wit- dried oa the hoof. Nothing could be less fellow would assuredly escribe his transported hut food, and tho troops luck to th* aoMon of an over-pleated were without sufficient shoes or othor god; end he would most assuredly pay clothing suitsldo for tho advancing soa- another toll when repassing the tomb. son. What they had was well worn. Boon the devotee makes no pretence of The fuel within the Federal lines was hard living. He explains away this by exhausted, oven to the stumps of treos. stating that the appeased spirit wishes Tliaro wore no teams to draw it from tho no lunger that Iris attendant should wear opposite bnnk, where it was abundant, the garb of a miserable mendicant; but The only means for supplying fuel, for that he should appear as thu servant of u some lime bofore my arrival, bad been prosperous and ploused god. Aa tiino to cut trees from the north bank of tho grows,the tomb nnd the mendicaut be river, at a considerable distance up the come holy. Valuable cures are said Io stream, form rafts of it, and float it down bo effected by thoso who have paid lib- with the current, effecting r landing on orally to tho kcaper of the shrine, and tho south tide, within our lines, by tho loon, from being a wretched beggar, this use of paddles or poles. It would then astute individual has risen to a powerful lie carried on tho shoulders of tho men lng follow, none too fond of w«rk, and Helen was an active, aggressive, good- looking, and ambitious young woman. Bho did two day* work to his one, and had a better farm at the i ml of sixty days than ho would havo had at the eoa ot a year if he had kept on in the way that he was going. After Bolden had been on his place about three months he became Deary of tho monotonous life, and, going to town lo have soma fun, found so mnoh enjoy ment that he came prettv near forget ting to go home. when he had been gone longer than the time permitted by the land law, Helen, who hat! been watching her opportunity, jumped hi* claim, and in loss than ton hours had a aback of her own standing on hit farm. Bolden re turned at last, and, finding that a woman had jumiied hie claim, he said nothing. If it had been a man it would have been hie duty to go out and fight him to the death, but as it was a women, and a rather comely one at that, he thought he would say nothing? and trust to luck to get rid of hor. Occupying his own shaok, ho was not more than 1)00 foot from her new habitation. She held hor ground wolt, treating him as an In terloper, and never acting at though she had any idea that ha belonged there. Uelden’s wrnth begin to rise finally, and when he reflected on the comments that would be made if ha permitted a girl to jump hi* claim he grew . furious. Knowing tnst the temper of most settlers would brook no interference with a girl furmor, lie went to town for consultation. First he talked with some of his friends. They shook their head* and said it was a mighty bad job. Then he consulted a lawyer, who gave him some hope. In the course of a day or two he got two ot his friends and the lawyer to go out to his place with him to see what thoy could do toward patching up a act- Dement. Onco on tho ground it was agreed that the lawyer ahould go and see the girl. He was absent an hour and vice. On one occasion General Fitijoha Porter's balloon, from which lio waa taking a bird's-eye view of the Confed erate troop*, broke its cable and went •ailing inside the enemy’s lines. Luckily for him, in descending he struck an nlr current that drifted the balloon back into the Union lines. It was from eat of tho latte machine* that Mr. Low* •ent the first serial telegram from* point 800 feet above the earth. He also watched the two days’ fight at Fair Oaks from an aerostat that hung 9,000 feet above the battle ground. During the siege of Parle sev enty balloons were scut adrift. Of these only three were lost. Of the other slaty- seven tho majority landed in France, but one or two, starting at night, lost their bearings and driltod into Norway and Bweden. When Winfield Boott lay be fore Vera Cruz, John Wise, the father of aeronautics in this country, offered to capture the city by dropping shells into it from balloons. The Idea of loading shells in a balloon, which, as Titssndler says, will tip over if n chlckon bona Is thrown from it, was tho cause of much morriincnt at tho tima. The idon, however, has lately boon re-ndopted by a Mr. Gow er, of London, who? proposes to build torpedo balloons, and by Genornl Rus sell Thayer, of tho United Btatce army, whose plan is to fit out a balloon in much tbe same style ns a modern frigate, and station It over a city to drop snoils nnd dynamite on the garrison until they sur render. That theso plaui will never be carried out, who can say 7 But wilt it be in our time? Bhall wo ovor get into our special balloon at Ban Francisco one evening and land in New York tho uext morning?—Ban Francisco Argonaut. From Coach-Box to Pnlplt. Tho ltev. and Mrs. SwatiCarl Franxeno havo loft Ardmuro ter thoir new homo in Minnesota, where Mr, Franzene Will labor as a missionary among tho Swedish a half, and when he returned he said it "outers. Thoir recent woddiug has Tho girl was posted, ami ,nndo publio tho history of a romantic Deatructls* *r Life aud Valuable Prapsrl? by Wlad and Fire. During tho high wind Friday a prairie fire broke out seven miles north of Burton, Kansas, which ewept ovor an ares of about thirty milee, destroying about one thousand stacks of hay and grain and a number of sheep, bogs and eattle sheds.. It is not stated how far east the fire extended. Further and more dofinlte re ports of preirie fires in Silver Lake township, that oounty, Friday, bring advices of tori- iblo loss to property, hut the amount oanuot be estimated. On Edwards' rancho 6,800 tons of hay were burned; Johnson A Williams lost 600 tons of hay, besides fences, sheds aud shops; Patrick MoNeery was entirely burned out, los ing everything bnt the clothing on h's family. Edward Countryman was fatally burned, and John Leeper and John Berry aro not expected to live. 'Die fire ie supposed to have originated in Pottowattimie Indian reservation. It will be several days before tbe full loss cen be given. Terrifio firea are reported from Winfield, Kansas, as tbe result of Friday’s gale. The moat destructive and contlnuona northeast wind ever experienced in that section prevailed. Cowley county was ewept by fire with great deatruotion to property or all kinds. The cat tle ranehe of Tomiin and Webb, thirty milee below Winfield, in the Indian territory, was entirely destroyed with from four to eix hun dred bead of cattle that were caught in tbo trsok of the flames with no means oil escape. The ranches of Hill and Allen, Beach and Pioksns, Dick Beet, Bolts and others also, were entirely destroyed. It wes the most disastrous preirio fire ever experienced In that country. Mnoh damage other than by fire resulted from tbeaale. healer, saint, prophet and fakir. The Hindoo religious begger, or (<o- roo, is a fanatic of tho worst type; a fanatic who puys no rcgaid to puin when once imbued with the idea tlint it ie nec essary for him to undertake some cruel mortification, in order to gain the de lights of paradise, or to save from pun ishment some beloved relative. He has no compunction* of couscience, no fear, no trembling, when lie once undertakes a self-sacrifice. He will burn off his hand without moving a muscle of his fsce; and lie is of so determined a na ture, when he fnncics he is iu the right, that no danger and no prayer will turu him from ins purpose. A man’s son is dying; all hope that the life will be to their camps. spared ha, gone Appeal, are made to radowea for thc Tnterm.Uon of both An Art of Shallowing. “Shadowing," eays a Chicago detec tive, “is the moat difficult nnd the most scientific work in my nrofession. If a man is well shadowed for two weeks eo much can be discovered concerning hit habits, his associates, his inclinations, scoret acts, in short, of his inner life, that almost a perfect biography of him cau be written. Every man docs many characteristic thing* when ho thinks he is alone that he never would do in com pany, nnd the shadow learns a man’s true character by witnessing his natural life. More people than you imagine have been thogoroo, or priest in attendance. ‘If you perforin some terrible self friends and enemies. Nearly every man ,1, ! in Chicago prominent in bujiness, poll- sacrifice and become a goron God will, ti „, or ha , beon sh adowed. and perhaps, spare to you tins life, ho says. The wretched father runs ovor several tormenis and finally elects that of hold ing up his right arm forever should he survive, and should he die, to visit the most sacred shrine in the High Hima laya. “You must begin now," says the goroo; “show your zeal at once; nor must you in anger drop your arm should your son die.” “Never," groans the uuhappy man, and forthwith holds up his arm. The sun sets, tho night comes on, and there in the dnrkneBs und in solitude, with his dying boy before him, nnd sleep and fatigue weighing heavily oa him, watches thnt man—watches the ebb of life, watches the death, the mourners aud funeral pyre, with his arm high over his bead, pointing his fingers to the sky. he gazes on the smoke, from tho burning body of his son, floating heavenward, and with tearless eyes he breathes the prayer that it is but the will of God. His bread can no longer bo earned, no longer can be follow the bullocks to the plow, no longer continue tho duties of tho mechanic; eo without adieu, without tears on either side, he leaves bis family to finish the vow by a long pilgrimage. He passes from one village to another, from ouo province to another. Winter storms ana summer heats do not dissuade him from persevering in his attempt- to reach the sacred shrine perched on Him alaya’s highest peak. Everywhere lie goes the men. the women und the chil dren respect him. llis cry to the great god, Ram, who has taken from him his tics, or religion has been shadowed, and there is somewhere filed away a document ' signaled for her to come to him. that would make the eyes of the subject open could he read it. “Every man connected with a bnnk, from the president down, is shadowed. Large business firms get periodical re ports on the private lives of trusted em ployes. I suppose Marshall Field can telfanyof the heads of departments in his store whether they drink binndy or mead, smoke cigarettes or opium, play penny ante in a friend’s parlor or faro in a gambling house. “I know that the head of a well-known detective agency in Chicago has been shadowed bv nearly every other agency, and they all have his record. “It is hard work to shndow a man. You have to get up an hour earlier thnu he does in order to get your breakfast and lay for him at his home. You follow him to his office, to lunch, on his business rounds—everywhere. When he is on the street you never take your eyes off him, and I tell you this makes your head swim. You follow him home to supper, aud down town again in the evening. You note everybody he speaks with and every lady to whom ho bows. You mutt stay with him till he goes to bed, and then write out your report before you get to ileep. “Men are oftenest shadowed when they are in trouble, and they rush here and there, talk to scores of men, cntci scores of places, and get up early and go ■o bed late. A good lively subject will lead the shadow a wild and merry dance, and two weeks of it will wear a good man out.”—Chicago Nous, wns no use. he didn't son tyhat could be done about it. “If it was a man,’ ho said, "we could go over there and tnrow him by the heels into the next county, but it won't do to harm a woman. The four talked the matter over, nnd it was finally agreed that the lawyer should cell again in the morning, and represent to her that Belden'a friends were uomlng to his assistance, and that if ihe wanted to avoid scrioua troublo ■he had tetter abandon her ehack and leave hie claim alone. Tho lawyer started out on tbi* errand the next dlyptrat~1i’r was back again in fifteen minutes with a lump on his hoad tho size of n horse chestnut, where he said she hit him with an axe handlo. After talking the matter over, every body being mad, it was decided thnt they would give hor a scare as soon as it became dark. At about 0 o’clock all bands weut over to Ihe girl’s new shack snd surrounded it. At a given signal hey yelled and fired theTr revolvers n the air. The reports had hardly died away when a shotgun was dis charged from one window of tbe shack, nnd a raomout later another shot was fired from tho other side of tbo house. The men waited in silence for a fow minutes, when two more berrels were fired. This convinced them that tho girl waa not to be frightened, and they crawled away as stealthily os they could. All that night the girl's shot gun thundered at regular intervals, un til her adversaries, who wore vtlnly try lug to sleep, wished that it would ex plode, and blow her and her Bhack to kingdom come. In tho morning Helden’s lawyor and two friends started for town, leaving the jumped farmer alone in bis misery. After their departure Beldcn did eomc work on the place, taking care not to run across the girl, and though they saw eaeh other frequently they both avoided a meeting. Things wont along iu this Jway until fall. Helen worked on her own‘farm u good part of the time, and Bclden passed many days in hunting. Ho had made up his mind that he could Ure the girl out, and ho believed that uftor she found that he was not to bo got rid of, she would voluntarily abandon the claim. In this be was mistaken. Ono day, while out on a hunting expedition, he dis charged ills gun accidentally, and re ceived sevciul shot in his arm and side. He got homo without difficulty, and, examining the wounds, made up his mind thut ho would go to town in tlio morning to havo them attended to. The next day he was iu no condition to move and was obliged to keep his bed. Growing rapidly worse nnd fearing that his injuries would result seriously If not attended to, he watched for his noxt door neighbor, and when he saw her he signaled for her to como to him. The girl came up and heard his story, and volunteered to ao to town for a doctor. When the physician arrived and dressed Belden's wounds Helen told them that she would look in occasionally and at tend to the sick man's wants, snd she kept her promise religiously. For noar- ly a month she visited the Bolden shack regularly, cooked and served Belden's meals,dressed hisjwounds.and helped him as tenderly as a relative could. When he got so that he could sit up and help himself,her visits became shorter and nt longer intervals, and at length they ceased altogether. This last spring it became necessary for somebody to put in the crops if any thing was to be done, llelden bad had no settlement with the girl, and she ap peared to be makinq preparations to work his farm as well as her own. He didn't want to give up beaten, and ho could not quarrel with a woman, espec ially one to whom he wns under so many obligations. Finding that things wure becoming intolerable as they were, he called on her one evening in May, and they had a long talk, the result of which has just been discovered. After that con sultation thoy were frequently together. They worked both farms this year and made big crojis, and last week they were married. courtship. Tho brido is the daughter of the late Charles Kugler, of Ardmore, for many years State senator from Mont gomery'county and long identified with tlio I,utheran Church nnd Publication •ocicty. Her sister is Dr. Annie Kugler, now a'mieiionary in India and recently assistant resident physician in the femala department of the Norristown Inssne asylum. While Miss Florcnco was atili a schoolgirl (pupil of the Frionds' school, at Fifteenth ana Race streets) she formed the acquaintance of the conchmsn cf Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, who spends his sum mers at hia country place, near Ardmore. This coachman was a Bwcdo of ordinary education, not at all, in (ho eyes of the world, the proper mate for a yotmg lady of Misa Kugleri position, education ana prospective forluno. Nevertheless, she declared her determination either to marry the coachman or go with her sister as a missionary to India. The young lady’s relatives nnd friends, of course, opposed the match. The coachman w*t too sensible to imitate Hultcamp and resolved that if tho girl could not come down to his level ha would rite to hors. Accordingly ha re signed hit situation at Dr. Agnew’■ coachman and entered upon tho studies required for the Lutheran ministry. Dur ing his theological course Mist Florenoa patiently waited. At last the young Bwode's efforts were crowned with suo- He was ordained, all opposition gave way and Ardmore was entertained with a pretty wedding in tho Lutheran church. As tho demand for Lutheran ministers to labor among tho Swedish emigrants in the West is largely in ex cess of tho supply, tho young missionary has every opportunity to keep ills present position and become useful if not also eminent.—Philadelphia Times. A Study or a Hocking Bird. The first time the mocking-bird's door wus opened be was not in the least sur prised; no doubt, seciug others at liberty, he had expected it. At any rntc, whatever his emotions, ho instantly ran out ou the parch placed in his door way, and surveyed his new world from this position. Me was in no panic, not oven in haste. When fully ready, ht begins his tour of inspection. First, to seo if he really could reach the tree* without, through those large, clear open ings, ho tried the windows', .each of the three, but gently, not bouncing against them so violently as to fall to the floor as more impetuous or le«e intelligent birds invariably do. Having proved each to be impassnble, he wns satisfied, and never tried again. Next, the ceiling interested him, and he flew all around thu room, touching it gontly everywhere, to assure himself of its nature. Convinced thus in a short time, that his bonds were only widened, not removed, he went on to investigate closely what he had looked at from a distance; every bird cage, insido ns well as outside, if tho owner happened to be away, evory piece of furniture, pictures, books, ana tbe pincushion—where he was detained some time trying to carry off tbe large black heads of shawl pias. Tho locking glass absorbed him most completely on tbe first day; he flew against it, he hovered before it, slowly passing from bottom to top, alighted on top nnd looked over behind. T think ha never solved that mystery to his own satisfaction, as he did that of the win dow gloss, which must have been quit* as inexplicable, a*d it was nover with out a certain chnrin for him. He had no tr mhle in findiug his way homo; stand ing on n cage next to his, he saw his own door-pereb, recognized it instantly (though ho had been upon it only once), and, being hungry, dropped to it and ran into the enge.—At antic Monthly. Using the Earth’s Heat There is abundant reason for believing that the earth's crust is very thin, asserts Mr. J. Starkic Gardner, and it seems not impossible that some means may be de vised for utilizing the intense heat of the molten moss below. This is already being done, in fact, to some extent, an artesian well having been bored at Pesth to obtain warm water for public baths, etc. From a depth of about 8,000 feet The total number of cattle aent out; a i arg[e quantity of water heated to 161 from Ireland last year was about 834,000 degrees Fahrenheit pours forth, and the head, some 700,000 of which went to bor ing ia to be continued until water at England, and tho rest to Scotland, | j7g degrees is yielded,

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, December 15, 1885, Image 1