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THE MERCURY; Entered a» Second-clot* Hatter at the Sanderavllle Post office April 87, J 980. Sandersvllle, Washington County, 6a. PUBLI8HED BY A. J. JERNIGAN & CO, Proprietors and Editors, Subscription: $1.60 Per Yen. THE MERCURY. A, J, JERNIGAN ,C CO., Proprietor*. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 Per Annum, THE MERCURY. POBUSBED EVER) TDESMT. NOTICE! All Communication» intended fbp ttta Paper must be accompanied bit the fUU name of the ■wt'itcr—nol neeeeea/rily for publication, but os a guarantee of good firtth. ATTORNEY AT LAW, BANDERSVILLB, Oa. B. D. Btam, A EVANS & EVANS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW SANDERViLLE, QA. F.H, SAFFOLD, attorney at law, SANDERSVILLE, OA. Will praotice in all the Court* of tin Middle Circuit nnd in the countin lurronnding Washington. Special at tention given to commercial law. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, SANDERSVILLE, GA. * OIUco next door to Mis. Bayne's Millinory Store, on ITarrli street. J1UY YOUIt LBS nipiu FROM (None genulno without our trade mark.) ON HAND AND FOR SALE Watches, Clocks Consistency, Thou Art a JoytoI. Glii G knt (a warm admirer of youth ful sport).—-“Now, boys, plug up his eye and knock his hat oil. liloss their littlo hearts, how they do enjoy that healthful exerciso1” Ut.n Gent (with opial warmth).— 11 'Od rot those littlo scoundrels. There’s to lie a stop p ,t to this infernal snowballing,”—Life. Sounil-tlio-Alnrm Costume. —Fliegende Blaetter. At the Festive Board. turi; 1- - Petorby, will you pleaso carvo the I thank you. Tho man who i Vl i s ! mist either bo a fool or rascal, , J don’t care to be cithor.” ‘'What do you mean?" . U ho keeps the choicest portions for 1 ') 1 j c '“ l*o is a scoundrel,; if he does ut hcej) them for himself ho is a fool, J !‘ s i.said, 1 don’t care to place my- 111 other category.—Siftings. SPECTACLES, NOSE GLASSES, Etc,, Etc. Street Car Striker* M.bblng tho Police of the Modern Athena A serious riot occurred in East Cam bridge Sunday afternoon as a result of tho recent street car tio up. Shortly after noon a large crowd of strikers and their sympathizers gathered on Main street, Cambridgedort, and as various cars of the Cambridge lino pasted con ductors and drivers were hooted as “scabs.” At 1:30 p. m. there was a great mob at the junction of the Webster street lino with that on Main street, and os a car turned into Webster nvenuo tho mob began hurling bricks and stones at the car and its occupnnts. By tho tiino the car got through the crowd it was a complete wreck, Each succeeding car was similarly treated until no less thnu five cars had boon badly damaged. Then tho police were telephoned for, nnd with in twenty minutes a largo force of officers arrived on tho scone. The mot) had by this time been worked up to n high de gree of excitement, nnd when the officers attempted to disperse tho crowd they met with determined resistance. Bricks nnd stones were thrown at tha police nnd many of tho officers were wounded. They then charged the mob with drawn revolvers, and it instantly scatteiedin ull directions About a dozen of tho strikers were ariestcd and conveyed to the police stntion. A littlo later the mob assem bled again further down tho avenue and wrecked another cnr. The police, rein forced by n mounted sqund, now charged tho crowd on “doublo" quick, and tho mob dispersed alongside the streets after discharging a volley of bricks at the po lice. Theso missiles took effect in a dozen cases, and ns many offirers were more or less seriously injured. Another lot of prisoners was taken and tho station house was filled with those arrested. None of thoso injured nrc thought to be fatally hurt. There was no further trouble after the last dispersion of the mob on Webster avenue. AUSTRALIAN RABBITS. JEWELRY IIEI'AIHBD DT TR3 RUSTICS .A3ST. The Commissioner of A«rirnltiire Appealed lo Prevent Iinporlnll-iii. Tlio Agiicultural Department lias re ceived many letters from dilTcrcnt pnrtr of I lie country witli reference to the in troduction of Australian rabbits into this country. Commissioner Column says: “There is no Australian rabbit, no spe cies being native to that country. J lie rabbit that lias done so much harm in Australia and New Zealand is an intro duced species—namely, the common rab bit of Europe. While there is no posi tive evidence to show that the European rabbit would be the curse in this country that it is in Australia and New Zealand, yet there is no proof to the contrary, and its introduction here would lie, to say the least, unnecessary and hazardous experi ment. As to the power of any ollicer of the country to proven t I he introduction of this post into tho United States, I know of no law conferring any such authority. Congress might enact a law conferring upon the Commissioner of Agriculture power to prevent the landing of any ani mal in the United States which in his opinion would be injurious to agriculture on the same principal that it prevents tho introduction of cattle affected with con tagious diseases. Unless there is pre meditated importation by dealers, there would seem to be no occasion for alarm, ns this rabbit lias during three centuries of communication with Europe not been introduced, or at least lias not become established, nnd there would seem to be still less danger in future.” FROM OUR CAPITAL. The lllll lo Provide Tor the Notional Defense Completed. Tho bouse committee on military af fairs lias completed its bill to provido for the national defense and it will be pre sented to the house us soou as tho report can be prepared. It appropriates $2,500,000 for tho pur chase of rougli finished forgings for steel rifled, high power guns for the coast de fense, of eight, ten nnd twelve-inch cali bre; $080,000 for the erectiou and equip ment of n factory for finishing tho afore said heavy guns; $000,000 for the con struction of twelve-inch rifled mortars; $000,000 for torpedo boats, torpedoes nnd submarine mines; $250,000 for gun carriages; $250,000 for breecli-loading steel field guns and their equipment. An advisory board to luive supervision over tho disbursement of those amounts, is created, of which the lieutenant general of the army is ex-officio president. This bill was prepared by Chairman Bragg, nnd is acceptable to all members of the committee, nlthougli from the discussion which followed its presentation, it ap peared that several members favored more liberal appropriation than is carried by tho bill. Tho speaker will be con sulted by members of the committee as to the best methods of getting the bill before the house, but it is believed that a chance to secure action can be found only in the last six suspension days, when two-thirds vote will bo necessary. DRIED PEOPLE. Discovery of Ihe Docile- of n Family Wlio Died 2,000 Yean Ago. Col. J. n. Wood, of St. Paul Minn,, has received the bodies of five persons; a man, woman, and three children, taken from a grave in the Bad Lands of Dakota by a miner. Tho bodies are simply dried up. They are not petrified, and are in a remarkable stnte of preservation. Scien tific men who have seen them, say they belong to a race which existed two thou sand years ago. The fumily will bo sent to tho Smithsonian Institute. A LARUE FIND, It is reported that some time ago Mr. Titus Wimberly, who resides in a beauti ful inhabitancy two miles from Loacha- polka, Ala., found ten thousand dollars buried under grounds of an old smoke house on the old Wimberly plantation, owned by his father who has been dead for several years. It is not fully ascer tained whether the report is true or false, as Mr Wimberly heeds not to the inter rogation concerning the found silver. lie lias invested a largo amount in Binning- ham’s real cstute. FRIGHTFUL EARTHQUAKES. FRANCE AND ITALY FEARFULLY SHAKEN. Many Uvea Reported Lout.-The Carnival at Nice Ilroken Up.—Extent of the Shock* Severe earthquake shocks were felt throughout Franco nnd Italy Wednesday doing much damago to persons nnd prop erty. Associated press dispatches from Homo says: At Nico houses rocked, walls cracked, and in some cases frail tenements were thrown to the ground. People rushed from their houses and fell upon their knees in the street, praying for deliverance from sudden death. Vis itors to tho city became thoroughly frightened, nnd are leaving the place. Many persons were injured by falling debris. J b The shocks caused nn awful surprise to the crowds of innskers returning home from the carnival festivals in their fancy costumes, worn nnd bedraggled by the night’s exercises, and looking dull nnd dreary under the glare of tlie curly morn- ing sunlight. The first shock created an immediate panic. Many casualties were caused by the shocks. The people arc panic stricken and tho entire population nrc in the streets. The railway station is beseiged with visitors who nre anxious to leave at the first chance that offers. At Marseilles the walls of a number of buildings were crnckcd. Shocks were also felt at Leghorn and Milan and several places in the province of Genoa, Italy. Shocks were felt with great severity nt Savona, near Genoa, nnd a number of houses were wrecked nnd eleven persons killed at that plnce. Two violent shocks were felt at Tntilon. The first shock was of 15 seconds dura tion and the second 12 seconds. At Cannes, three shocks were felt nt the same hour. Many persons nt that place rushed to tho seashore for safety. At Avignon three shocks were exper ienced between six and eight o’clock. The first shock was very severe and awakened everybody in tho place. Sev eral shocks were felt at Genoa nt six o’clock. There nre rumors of enormous damnge in tho mountains, caused by nvnlnnches, set in motion by tho shocks. Horses be came restless nnd refused to move hours before tho event. At Cervo, nenr Dinno Mnrina, 800 per sons were killed by being buried in the ruins of falling buildings. Railway traf fic is suspended beyond Lnvona. Prison ers in the government jail nt Finnlborgo, alarmed by the earthquake, attempted to escape, but were overcome by tho guards. The earthquake devastated the whole of Italian Riviera. At Noli, on tho gulf of Genon, and not far from Savona, sev eral liouBes fell nnd fifteen persons were killed. Six persons were killed nnd thirty were injured nt Oncglin, also on tho gulf of Genon. At Dinno Marino, nenr Oncglin, scores of people were killed nnd hundreds were injured. Fully one- third of the town was destroyed. IN CORSICA grent Lisbon earthquake was also felt, though it did no injury. While the center of tho Inst disturb ance was at Nice, the area of the shock was vast in its proportions. It was felt distinctly in Rome nnd westward almost to the Spanish coast of tho Mediternnean, though no serious damnge is reported in any othor locality than in that included in the area of a circle inscribed around Nice, with a radius of about seventy-live miles. TKIKENDOUB STORKS. A Wind Miami of Gnat Hifillals-UrM Last. Two sharp shocks were felt iu Corsica. It is reported that several persons were killed nt Mcntono, where St. Michael’s church was bsdly damnged and the post- office wrecked. An inmate of the con vent of the Holy Sacrament nt Nice died from fright. TIIE EXTENT OF THE SnOCKB. TLc shocks nffcctcd a wide eccentric area. The first shock occurred at 0:80 a. m,, nnd the last nt 10 p. m. Accounts arc vague and conflicting,but there seems to have been no dnmnge done in the in land towns. The earthquake was felt throughout Liguria and Piedmont, but tho wires nrc broken and news travels slowly. Tho people everywhere spent the night in the open nir. The news of the earthquake was at first disbelieved in Paris. When con firmed it caused the greatest sensntion. Anxiety over the fate of friends was gen eral, nnd tho telegraph offices worn soon crowded. Light shocks were felt at Nimes, Privns, Valence, Grenoble nnd Lyons. The gendarmerie barracks at Mentone collapsed, and several persons were killed or injured. Business is sus pended almost everywhere. Reports from various places put the total number killed nt more than fo ir hundred, und many more fatally injured. LATER NEWS. Further dispatches from the earthquak ing district, state that over 2,000 people have been killed. At Nice the panic lias not subsided, and fugitives arc fleeing in every direction. The people are afraid to re-enter their houses and hotels, nnd the heights back of the city are crowded with refugees. Two thousand English, American and Russian visitors were en camped during the night on elevated ground. Six thousand people have left the city nnd started for Paris. Further details received show that the effectB arc far more serious than was at first thought. Tiie loss of life and de struction of property have been terrible. The most startling news comes from Gcnose Riviera. Over FIFTEEN HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE KILLED in that district. At the villnge of Bnjnr- do, situated at the top of n hill, a number of inhabitants took refuge iu a church when the shocks were first felt. A sub sequent and greater shock demolished the church, and three hundred people, who were in it, were killed. The de stination of property in sections of Italy visited by tho earthquakes was immense and widespread. Fifty persons were injured at Mentone and one killed; killed two persons and injured ten at Nice; killed four and in jured two at Bar; killed two nnd injured twelve at Bollene. At Chateau Ncnf many were injured. At Savona two houses fell, killing nine persons and in juring fifteen. The total number of deaths reported up to tho present writing is about two thousand. Shocks were feU at Parma, Turin and Cosenza. Undulations of tho earth were noticed at Clutarin, in Sicily, at tho foot of Mount Etna. The center of the disturbance seems to have been in the province of Nice, on tho southeast coast of France. No severe shock has ever been felt in this immediate section before, though the earthquake in Switzerland in 1801 was slightly felt along tho coast. Tho A tremendous thunder storm paused ovei the north and west on Friday morn ing doing much damage to persons and property. Trains were lifted from the tracks and dashed to pieoos. A Denver, Col., special says: “In this city many buildings were unroofed, smoke stacks, chimneys, nnd telegraph and telephone poles leveled with the ground, nnd plate glass windows broken. The damage will reach several thousand dollars. Outsido of Denver, tho casualties reported lire considerably greater than in the city. On j the Denver and Rio Grande railway, four i miles north of Colorado Springs, every j coach of tho north bound Salt Lake city express, consisting of two sleeping cars, two passenger coaches and a bag gage and mail car, was blown from the track, nnd the mail car and its con tents were burned. nnd the accident happened when tho train was on a high embankment, a short distanco further, tho loss of life would have been groat. Fortunately, however, the ground was [icrfectly level nnd no ono was injured. A passenger train of throe coaches, on the Denver nnd South Park road was lifted from the track by a terrific blast nnd hurled down an embankment. One (mseeiiger bad his leg broken and several others were bndly bruised. Near Como, on tho same rond, tho Leadville express was blown over a bridgo nnd nearly all of the passengers nnd train men were severely injured nnd the coaches were badly wrecked. All tho incoming trains on vnrious roads were from five to ten hoars late on nccount of tho storm.” At Rochester New York the wind blew down Court street bridge and a young man nnd young Indy went down with the wreck nml were lost. Others are missing but the exact number of lives lost esnnot yet be ascertained. Trains on most all lines North West nnd South of Minneapolis were aban doned. CAVING INTO THE RIVER. The Rliilnlppl River Hank nt l.cotn Gives A way. From Greenville to the “Commercial Herald” says; The river bank nt I.cotn, Miss., suddenly commenced caving Wed nesday, nnd made such rapid headway that the warehouse and office at (belaud ing, with their contents, including a large qunntity of corn, hay, pork and other merchandise, went into the river. The Anchor Line steamer City of Vicks burg, which lay nt tho distressed village nt this time remained there for several hours, nnd with the aid of tho entire crew, succeeded in moving a large quan tity of cotton from the bank, which oth erwise would have been a prey to the roaring Mississippi. A special messenger came hero on the City of Vicksburg, to secure house movers, ns a good many stores and dwellings nre in immediate danger. The latest reports from Lcota are very gloomy. The caving lias not yet stopped, nnd tho large storehouse of Frnnkel <fc Elkaf is expected to go into the river at nny moment. A number of residences also arc in danger and their furniture has been moved out. The Protection lcveo at the north end of the new Reid levee gave way Thursday morning. All opening about sixty feet wide nnd two feet was made. Thousands of sacks were sent to the scene of tho disaster, were filled with earth, nnd put in the opening. A later telegram states that it is believed the break will lie closed. The rapid caving of tho river bank at Refuge mill eiulnngers the rail road track in that vivinity. A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE. A Mntrlmoiilnl Hr illation It r ported from Chattnuoog;n, Trim. A decidedly romantic marringo occurr ed at Clmttnnooga, a few nights since, which lias just leaked out. Miss Minnie George is tho pretty dnughter of Captain J. F. George, nnd she has for a longtimo been engaged to John L. Jones, a well known youth of thnt city. They wished to get married, but being afraid to ask consent, concluded to elope. They secur ed a carriage at a late hour nt night, and a friend having procured a license they started out to lie married. They saw Pastor Wambald ns he was leaving his church, nnd lie was called to perform the ceremony. The pastor took his seat in front of the couple and driving to a neighboring lamp post in order thnt ho might see to read tho license, lie made them man and wife. THE OLD JOKE. Prisoner* In Texiu Dock Their Keener Up nml Escape Willi the Keys. Tuesday evening a dnring jail delivery occurred nt Belton, Texas. The jailer was about to place n prisoner arrested in a cage with seven otiiers, when a blanket was thrown over his head and his keys taken from him. The prisoners then threw him in the cage and locked the door upon him and esenped, carrying the keys with them. Up to midnight it had been impossible to gain entrance to the jail, and the jailer stands a good chance of passing a day or two in confinement. 8I1ER»IAN’S SUCCESSOR. There is nn impression nbroad that Senators Hoar or Ingalls will be selected to succeed Senator Sherman ns president of the senate. It is not known that cither is a candidate for the honor, and the impression has for a basis only in formal preliminary talks of this afternoon among tho senators. In addition to their well known stnnding and long experi ence both are expert parliamentarians. It is thought that the senator elected will fill tho position not merely during the recess, but during tho next congress. A MURDERER ARRESTED. OATES, THE QUINTUPLE MUR. MERER, TAKEN IN. A Full Account of III* During Dccita-Tke Slnycr *r Pope Woolen, A special to tho Atlanta Constitution says: Doubtless tho most desperate crim inal that lives in tho south was captured nt Lipscomb’s camp, on the edge of Grif fin, on tho Georgia Midland railroad Monday night. A full account of the dnring deeds nnd bloody murders com mitted by this man, if fully written out, would read more like fiction than real facts. This man is named Andrew Oates, and hia hands have been dyed in human blood five times. Ho is a spare made man, about fivo feet seven inches high, and weighs about 140 pounds, nud is not over thirty-three years old. The crime that has led to his arrest was committed Christmas day in Wulkor county, Ala., Andrew Oates was working at Puckett’s camp on tho Kansas City railroad. On Christmas day a crowd of negroes assembled at a grocery, nnd after taking on a good supply of‘liquor got into u gambling game. After plnying for some timo a dispute arose and pistols were drawn, nnd Andrew Oates succeeded in bringing his mnn to tho ground dead, with a pistol bnll through his heart. Andrew Oates, Ed. Moore, George Tools nnd Jiiq Troup left tho plnco of tho shooting nud started nway. In about ono hundred yards they met Mr. Pope Wooten, who formerly lived at Stone Mountnin, On., who, bearing the tiring, had started down to see about it, with a pistol in his hand. He met these negroes in a narrow path. Andrew Oates jerked the pistol from his hand and fired ntliiin, ths ball going clear through him. Tho other threo negroes opened fire also, and Pope Wooten was stretcliod out on tho ground with four pistol balls through his body. Tho negroes then made their escape. George Toole aud Jim Troup were soon captured nnd lodged in jnil in Wulker county. Ed Moore, or “Jack the Rab bit,” as ho is called, was captured about two weeks ago iu Birmingham, Ala, On his person was found a letter from An drew Oates, written from Cartersvillo, Qa. Mr. Til Long, who captured “Jack the Rabbit,” came immediately to Cart- crsvillo. Ho resorted to several means to come up with Oates, but failed to get any clue. Finally he learned that Oates had been in Cartersvillo staying with a negro named Allen Ori, but had left. Mr. Walker then began working on Orr, nnd finally succeeded in getting a letter from Orr, written by Oates from Griffin. Walker, in^compnny with tho deputy reeded to sheriff of Burtow county, proi Griffin nnd weut immediately to Lips comb’s camp and succeeded in bnmrintr Andrew Oates. OTHER MURDERS. Andrew Oates killed u man at High Bridge, Ky., one at Inman, Tcnn., one nt Salby, N. O., and had a hind in the killing of the negroes in the grocery on tho Kansas City railroad, iu Walker county, Ala., and in killing Mr. Pope Wooten at tho same time. Mr. Til Long and deputy sheriff of Bartow county left with Oates for Walker county, securely ironed. Mr. Long snys that Oates is tiie last of tho four who nre wanted for the two murders; that, the evidence is suffi cient to convict them, nnd they will cer tainly suffer the penalty of their foul prime, lie says that Oates itf the most desperate of the gang, and thnt they have had a good deal of trouble in ef fecting his capture, A sad incident is connected with tho murder of young Wooten. His father, Dr. Wooten, was a respected merchant of Stone Mountnin. On the morning of his son s murder he received a telegram spy ing simply “Pope Wooten is dead.” As he had n brother living in Birmingham, lie supposed thnt it was he who was dead. He did not know to the contrary until ha reached the home of his brother in that eity. As soon as the truth flashed upon him lie exclaimed, “My God,” «ud fell buck dead. ANOTHER RAILROAD. IlirmiiiKbaiii Ain*, nnd Tnllabntace Fin., to be Connected. The Birmingham, Georgia nnd Florida railroad company, through their chosen representative, have secretly purchased of tho Tallahassee, Bninbridge and Wes tern company, the old road bed known as tho Bninbridge, Cuthbcrt and Colum bus road, and propose building a through line to be completed this year, from Bir mingham, Ala., to Tallahassee, Fin., via Opelikn, Florence, Cuthbcrt and Bain- bridge. The conditions prescribed me donations of the stipulated sums from the countries through which it will run from this place to Bninbridge. The money is to be given to tho company in considera tion of the enhanced value which will nccruc from the building of suid line to the real estate of the parties donating, nnd nothing else is asked in return. These sums will aggregate one hundred thousand dollars along the old road bed nlone, and linvc already been obligated iu notes, to be void if not built by tho first of 1888. The road is to be built and operated as a connecting line for the Kansas City road, now nearing comple tion to Birmingham, nnd will give a through line to the Atlantic nnd gull ports. Parties who have just left G'uth- bert for the lower counties are arranging the preliminaries, which have been con ducted in the quietest manner, nnd the hands will lie put to work as soon ns these are completed. These gcntleraer give every assurance of the ability of the corporation in whose interest they are al work, to build the line, and have already paid a large cash sum for the old roac bed. SALE OF TIIE HARNETT BIIOALN, Mr. James M. Veal, executor, has sold the estate’s interest in tho Barnett shoals to Mr. It. L. Bloomfield for $10,000. The deeds were passed and the money paid Tuesday. Mr. Bloomfield made the purchase for a Boston matting manufac turing company, who will at once go to work and build several large cotton mills. This is the finest set of shoals in Georgia, and will furnish enough water power to turn the spindles iu a dozen large cotton mills. A TERRIBLE WHITER. Fcnrfnl Suffering nn* Hardship* from Oolil Weather In the Northwest. Tlio winter of 1886-87 will long be remem bered throughout the Northwost for tho ex treme severity ot tho temporature and the unusual depth of snow. Old-timers always referred to former yoars os “high-water marks,” butthis veer eclipses all previous rec ords. The so ven ■ weather started i n soon after tho _ Moo. ury thermometers wore often congc-aled non spirit thermometers wore kept busy jumping from 40 to 00 below zero. Half a dozou times has tho 00 notch boon touched, and once this season 02 1-8 be low zero has beou scored on tho Saskatche wan plains. This year the snowfall is unpre cedented. In some localities it is nuywhoro from ten to fifty feet deep. On tho love!, throughout the National Park and elscwhoro, it fi frqm eight to twelvo foot deep, and on tho dead-level prairie from etghtoon to forty inches. Of courso, such a heavy fall must bring more or loss sulToring and death. Already this winter n number of deaths I from cold have occurred in Dakota. Not lonir since Charles Bchroeder, living near \ alloy City, Btartcd from bis house for one u<K) feet distant. A blizzard was blowing and tlio thermometer registered ill below. Not reaching homo, his family ami neighbors turned out with lanterns, fol lowed his tracks iu tho snow all night nnd found where ho hail lain down in a strnw- stack and then gono on. Tho next day tho body was found twelyo miles away on tho prairie, lying on its face, where ho had fallen from oxhaustion. The body was frozen into a chunck of c ?* A days Miss Maggio Butin, a Rohool-toarher nt Highmore, while going front the school to her house, was frozon to death. Tho bodies of ttiree Indians who be longed to Berthold Agoncy, wore found frozon noar Ashland. Her oral more Imvo Imjoii missing since Christina-, nud they must have been caught out. Their bodies will probably bo found when tho snow melts iu tlio spring, iu MotPnun a number of casualltlcs liavo already occurred. Tony Wiso and a Swede named Martin wore nt #orl< on mfulng property on tlio sido of Slump Mountain. A huge avalanche swept down themountainsidonud burled tho men into oternity without a moment's warn ing, burying thorn thousands of foet below. Pom Williams, a slioop herder near Mossgalo Springs, about sixty yoars old, was discov ered lying fnco downward in tho snow. Ho was dead, but tlio shoep were wandering aimlessly about. Many bad boon stamiieded by packs of wolves. A band of British America Creo Ind inns rnino across tho line last fall and whilo the weather was line camped in the mountains betwoon tho forks of Nun Kiver. An unusual snow followed and the wretchod creatures be came penned in by an Icy wall. From sovouty the number was reduced to flfty-ono by starvation, when whtto men hunted them up nnd brought relief. During tho latter port of January fifty lodgesCrow Indians, catnimd on Clark’B Fork, camonear dying. Many did perish, hut tho majority managed to sustain life by oatlng tho cattle that died in the snowdrifts. Twelvo hundred ontof a herd of fifteen hundred shoep were lost in ono locality, and tlio survivors wore so badly mutilated by coyotes nnd wolvos thnt they dlod. Nome shooptnen In Western Montana have lost entire herds. There is no doubt tiie cnttlo industry bos rooelvod a serious blow. A WICKED WOMAN. A Worthless Woman Arrested In Mobile, Ala. —HrnmUoiml Devidniiuienis. The escapade of tlio wicked woman who enticed two young girls to leave their homos in Cincinnati to follow her to New Orleans, the detention of one of tho girls, Miss Lillie Hcitz, by the police of Montgomery Saturday night, nnd the subsequent arrest of tho woman niul olhei girl, Lizzie Walters, in Mobile, has proved a highly sensational affair. Chief Gerald, of tne Montgomery police, wired the Mobile authorities-to hold tho prison ers at ull hazards. Tho woman gives her name as Grace Gardiner, nnd claims to livo in Houston, Texas, but tho tickets were only to New Orleans, nnd the of ficials nre of opinion that she only meant to take tho girls to that city where they would have been in her clutches. Miss Ileitz, who was detained here, tells a snd story of how she nnd her companion were persuaded to leave homo nud mado the victims to a wicked scheme. She says she is willing and glad to return homo. An officer from Cincinnati will tnko charge of the girls and tho woman and carry them back. The woman, Grace Gardiner, will lie prosecuted and punish ed ns far as possible. 8ALVATION ARMY. Their Attack on th* “Tar Heel*”—A* Inter- eailug Ncundal. Some weeks ago the Salvation Army mado its first appearance in North Caro lina, and made n concerted attack at several points—at Raleigh and Charlotte in particular—upon the forces of the devil. In Ruleigh they created very lit tlo sonsation and made few converts. Quite tho contrary was Ihe case in Char lotte, where they took the town by storm. They made converts by scores, nnd their performances have boon of the most sen sational character. But the greatest sen sation in connection with the matter has just been made public by charges pre ferred against a member of the army known as “White Cross.” The complain ant is Lieu’t. Alexander Cliapin, und hs there is a woman in the case tlio affair b of a scandalous nature. Tae offender i to bo regularly court martialed, a detail from the army having been made for the purpose. AN ENGINE1R LOST. An Alabama River Engineer Dl**appear*~ Nuppoaed to have Drowned. J. R. Moffit, engineer on the steamer Alabama, running between Mobile and Montgomery, is missing, and was prob ably drowned in tho Alabama river Wed nesday night. The boat was coming up the river to Montgomery and when seven teen miles above Selma, Moffit took a lantern and oil can, and went to the ex treme rear end of the boat to oil some machinery. He did not return, and when the search was instituted, could not be found on deck. The conclusion is that ho fell or was knocked overboard by the lever, and drowned. The boat was lnnded, and a yawl manned nnd sent back to search for him. The captain has re ceived a telegram from the searching party, who went back to Selma, bring ing information that tho missing engin eer had not been found. Moffit was about 05 yean old. IIIHMINGIIAM’M NEW PAPER. Th5 first issue of the Daily Evening News, a new afternoon paper, will appear at Birmingham, Ala., next week. It will be a seven-column quarto, aud will have full telegraph news service. The paper is owned by a strong stock company of prominent citizens, and stnrts with every prospect of success. VAR IMPENDING. GERMANY ALARMED AT THE PROSPECT. Th* French linlldlnar Hut* for One Hundred Tbnun ml .Mon on the Frontier. The Berlin Nachrlch ten says: "Thothrent- ening character of tlio situation across tho western frontier Is bo oming much more acute. 9 In view of tho fact that huts hnvo al ready been constructed to shelter 100,000 mon, and that preparations havo boon mado to ihelfer a similar number around Belfort, wo hnvo, boyond doubt, to deal with nothing less than tho .strengthening of tho French line, to onnble them nt the beginning of hos tilities to throw a largo fur o hoars tho frontier, and thus transfer o; orations to German Toiritory.” Herr Tisscndorf, Chief Procurator of the Imperial Tribunal nt ImlpBic; Commissary Tausch of the Criminal Inquiry Depart ment., nnd Public Prosecutor Vacnno have held n long ronfcronco ot Ntrnsburg. Horr Tissomiorf afterward started for Mulbauscu nnd Herr Tausch for Molz, It is supposed tho object of their jour ney is to innko inquiries respecting secret communications betwoen Gorman and French Anarchists, and concerning n reported con spiracy betwoon tho French Patriotic 1-eague aud its adherents in Alsace. Continued arrests of Socialists nt Magde burg hnvo paraly/ed the electoral agitation thoro. Thirty-eight Socialists were taken Into custody, including nn st of tho numbers of the local doctoral committee. > i’rineo Hohenloh", (lovornor of Alsnce- Lorralno issuod an election manifesto. Ho said: “Tlio Government lias asked for tlio p is- sago of a Soptonnnto Army bill because it is porsunded that Germany will bo threatened with the danger of war ns soon ns that part of the French nation which longs for war regards the military strength of France siq orlur to thnt.of Germany. If Alsace-Lor raine v islies not to bo exposed to tbo terrors of another wnr, let pencenblo nnd concilia tory Doputies bo elected to the now Reich stag—Deputies who accept tho peace of 1871, Tho«o who vote to return membe sot the protesting inntl-Gormnny) party, or enemies of tlio Government’s Noptonunto bill, will be responsible for tlio continuance of disquiot and the resultant injury to trade nnd com merce. “If in Homo electoral districts tho friend* of peace find thoinsclvos unable, became of the pressure of former political leaders, to put forward the candidates they would Ilka to have oloctod to the now Helahstag, they inay deposit blank voting papers, nnd in tills way express thoir views nnd record tho real opinion of tho country. “The re-union of Alsuco-Lorraine to Ger many is irrevocable as long ns tho German Empire oxists. Theso days nro pregnant with decisive Issu. s. Liston only to wlmt your conscience nnd good sense and your, love of home nnd your family and your property dictate.” (Tho “Honlouimto Army bill” referred to in 1 * 111 tho foregoing is the recent measure intro-! ducod in tho German lieii h.tng and advo cated Btrongly by l'rineo Bismarck nnd Gen eral Von Multko. Tlio bill provided for nd-1 ditional army supplies nnd organization, the! appropriations to run for seven years Its! opponents, liowovor, carried an amendment making tlio a; preprint,Ions and provisions of tbo bill to rim for only threo years, whore-> upon Emperor William dissolved the liolcli- stng and ordered now oloetions, hoping to get a majority of now members iu lavorof! tho sovou-year measure.—Up.) A WONDERFUL GORMANDIZER. A Small Boy, Ihit nBI| Kator— ** *iifi M Hqtiaro ' Henry Flowers, a fourteen-yoar-old boy of Jefferson Township, Ind., is one of the most peculiar spedmonsof humanity that however come to light in that section. Ho cams to Martinsville lost Baturday, as Is his usual custom, and was taken to the Mansion Houso of that city by two prominent clti/ons, who bargained with the landlord to furnish the hoy a square meal for fifty-five cents, thoy wishing to satisfy their curiosity ns to his abilities as an cater. Thoy did not have long to wait until their fondest hojios of get ting (he jokoupon tho landlord was realized. He ate six pieces of light bread, two pieces of corn bread, two largo slices of beef, roasted with gravy; two largo slices of roasted pork, four large potatoes, one dish of beans, one dish of slaw, two dishes of hominy, one dish of parsnips and two pieces of pio. After eat ing his pie he (ailed for a bowl of oysters, and was Informed that they wore not on tha bill of fare for that day. He then weut to Dr. Blaekstone's to eat again, and his meal there consisted of soven potatoes, three slices of brood, each six by eight inches; two siicos of roost beef, two cups of coffoe, ona dish of tomatoes, ono dish of butter bcaua nnd two pieces of pie. As is usual with him, his hunger was not yet satisfied. Ho went from Dr. Blaekstone’s to one of the city bakeries, there purchased ton cents’ worth of cheese and crackers and ato them, and at last accounts he was In his usual condition. The boy is very lean and of less than tho average height for bis age, beiDg only ubout threo foot high, and weighing hut forty pounds. His skin is thick and yollow, hi* cheeks hollow and sunken, and his eyes givo nn unmistnknb'e proof of bis constant nun- gor, which he evinces on all occasions. Nol- dom, if over, does one encounter such an np- etito, and it is a wonder where he stows away go much food. No physician at Mm tiusvllle can satisfactorily diagnose Ids case. BOOTHS SLAYER CRAZY. Ctrbtlt’* I***ne Prank* In th* Kansas H*n*e of Representatives. Boston Corbett, the slayer of John Wilkes Booth, created a sensation in tho Kansas House of Representatives a fow days ago. At the commencement ot the sesssion of the Legislature, Corbett was appointed Assistant Doorkeeper. Tuesday he strapped on two revolvers, and took with him a box of car tridges. Then, with a drawn weapon, he drove a negro attendant from tho Hall of Representatives. Sergeant-at-Arms Norton attempted to expostulate with him, when Corbett cocked one of his revolvers, and, pointing it directly at the officer, told him to travel. Corbett then looked for Speaker Smith, and on meeting a member who some what i'osembled him, was about to fire when the member threw up his hands and said ho was not the Speaker. The member was then permitted to move on. Corbett took posse- Biou of the Speaker’s gallery, and, walking in front of the doors, held it during the entire morning session, refusing to allow any ono to come near him. Three policemen were called, but they would not venture into the dark corridor, and the slayer of Booth hold possession. At 12 o’clock he sent word down to the House to adjourn or lie would come down and adjourn it himself. The Houso ad journed. Corbett was afterward captured iu tho lower corridor, disarmed, and taken to tlio police station. He was adjudged insane and confined in an asylum. FIFTEEN OF THEM BAGGED, About 4 o’clock Sunday morning, while Lieutenant Kilgore and a squad of. police were seizing a negro gambling den m Chattanooga, Officer Mitchell attempt ed to burst in the door. As ho did so the door was opened nnd one of the no- groes split his head with a hatchet. Ho was removed home and it is feared his injuries will prove fatal. Fifteen negroes were arrested aud nre in jail to await tlio result of the officer’s injuries. J. p. Mays, proprietor of the den, is said to havo iuflicted the blow.