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Jackson, August 22.—[Special.]—Last
night at 12 o’clock the alarm of fire was
given by the night watch and in ten min
utes almost the entire town was out. The
fire broke out in the store of Mr. Flem H.
Weaver, who had a $700 or $800 stock of
f&ncr and family groceries. The building
was a frame and adjoining it was the liv
ery stable of Boon & Spencer, also a frame
building. These buildings were both
owned by our townsman, Mr. R. T. Wat
kins. They were a total loss, ub was the
stock of Mr. Weaver. Both, however,
were insured, Mr. Weaver carrying about
five hundred dollars.
Boon& Spencer’s loss was small, losing a
little forage.
To the west of the burning building
and acrcss a little alley was the two story
brick and rock building of It. T. Watkins,
which it took almost superhuman efiorts
to save. The upper story of the building
was used by the Good Templars and other
societies. The lower story was occupied
by Captain A. G Hitcbins as a carriage
and buggy repository. He moved his en
tire stock into the street and on the court
house Bquare, injuring much of it pretty
badly in the removal.
The fire is supposed to be of incendiary
origin.
A SPLIT IN THE ELEVENTH.
Capt. Howards Nominated by Clay and Ter
rell, ltnudolpU Delegates Withdrawing.
Cuthbbrt, Ga., August ?2.—[Special.]
—Capt. M. C. Edwards, of this county,was
nominated for Senator at Fort Gaines to
day by the Cliy and Terrell delegates,
those from Randolph having balked the
the convention.
THE SITUATION EXPLAINED.
Cutubxrt, MiguBt 22.—[Special.]—'To
day the convention of the Eleventh Sena
torial District met at Fort Gaines, to nom
inate a candidate for the Senate. A special
train carried the Terrell nnd Randolph
delegates down this morning. According
to tho rotation system it is Rondolph's
time to name the Senator, and
at a very large mass meeting she de
clared for Dr. M. A. Baldwin, and if the
custom of taking the choice of the county
entitled to furnish the nominee was kept
up in this meetiug, Dr. M. A. Baldwin
would have been elected on first ballot.
Clay and Terrell both agreed that it is
Randolph’s time, but elected delegates op
posed to Dr. Baldwin and in favor of
Captain M. C. Edwards, also of this
county.
It was argued that while Clay and Ter
rell were for Edwards, it was so as op
posed to Baldwin, for there are men in the
county who would be more acceptable. It
was thought possible that in some way the
convention would make a bolt, and in that
event it was rumored that Mr. Tobe Stev
ens, of Terrell, would be a prominent dark
horse ank would like to have the nomina
tion.
The greatest and most objectionable
feature of the whole affair is that they
let the race for solicitor-general creep into
the Senatorial race. Terrell has one can
didate, and of course would want the nom
inee for the Senate from Randolph to sup
port him; Clay countv has two candidates,
and of course the delegates selected fa-
vsred one of them and would want the
Senatorial candidate to support him. The
candidate, therefore, who makes the best
combination with these counties offering
candidates for solicitor-general, naturally
had tho better chances.
It was rumored that Clay’s delegation
was in favor of Edwards as opposed to
Baldwin, but were at liberty to vote for
any other man. Baldwin, however, claimed
some of the delegation, as they claim not
to bo instructed positively against him
POLITICS IN MITCHELL.
The Republican. Preparing to Pnt Oat a
Fail Lino of Korainnea.
Camilla,August 22.—[Special.]—There
may be opposition to Mr. Clifton, nomin
ated for Senator to-day, from the ranks of
the Republicans, as they seem to be active
ly at work in organizing their forces,
which have been for a time like sheep
having no shepherd. The negroes of our
county are quite taciturn us to what they
are doing and expect to do, but it is under
stood that they and the few white Repub
licans of the county will nut out a man
for the lower House, and will unite witii
the Senatorial and Congressional district
Republicans and support a man pretty
unanimously for Congress and the State
Senate.
So far as their effort goes to defeat the
lion. H. G. Turner is concerned, they
know, as well as the Democrats of the dis
trict know, tiiat they will not, neither do
they expect to succeed. The candidate for
the Senate is not so secure, and
hence vigilance and work are necessary.
There are now five candidates in our
county asking for legislative honors and
emoluments. The Hons. J. 8. Hand and
Isreal Maples and Messr>. Jasper Griner,
an ‘‘Alliance’’ gentleman, Alexander
Curls, justice of thepeace, of east Mitchell,
and James Johnson, of the Eleventh dis
trict, Evergreen neighborhood. It is
understood that there will be no conven
tion called for the purpose of nomination.
If not, the chance tor a Republican to slip
in might be good. It would be certainly
so, if such of the present Democratic can
didates is just as strong as he thinks he is.
It might be well, gentlemen, to advise the
Democratic executive committee to con
sider the matter.
Hr. .1. \V. UpsIv was made cliaiiman and
Robert R. Moyesecretory of me meeting.
The chair appointed a committee of five
to select delegates, and the committee re
ported the nauiis of Messrs. W. D. Kiddoo,
General McDonald, J. M. Rawls, J. IV.
Scaly, L. E. Key. Terrell Moody, J. A.
Rogers and G. IV. Edwards. Their re
port was unanimously adopted.
It is known that these delegates arc fa
vorable to the nomination of Mr. J. B.
Bussey, the polite and efficient steno
grapher of our judicial circuit, for the
lower house. The Ninth district, it is re
ported, has also elected delegates favora
ble to Mr. Bussy.
OVEIt THE STATE.
Yesterday’s Look Through the Telegraph's
Correspondence and Exchanges.
Tennille is to have a newspaper.
Camilla stores have abandoned the early
closing programme by general consent.
A visitor to Brunswick writeB: Bruns
wick no is doubt the prettiest and cleanest
city in Georgia, except Macon.
Misses Mattie and Pearl Lewis are at
home again in Hawkinsville after spend
ing sevei al weeks in New York, Saratoga
amt Chicago.
Mr. T. W. Fleetwood, of Hawkinsville,
lias been enjoying the sea breezes at
Brunswick, and goes thence to Savannah
to-day.
Mr. Tom Palmer, of Florida, is visiting
his father. at Camilla. Miss Icy Turner,of
tin- same State, is also in Camilla,the guest
of Mrs. E. II. Shackleford.
Milledgeville Recorder: There are more
“sweethearts” and more courting in this
town, with fewer marriages, than any other
of its size in Georgia. This ought not to
be so.
Mr. R. H. Cochran, of Camilla, has gone
to Decatur county. He will bring Mrs.
Cochran back with him from a visit to her
father, Mr. Haile’s, whero she has been
spending some weeks.
Butler Hernld: Mr. George J. Willis
was bitten on the arm by a dog belonging
to Mrs. Millirons last Wednesday. The
dog was not rabid and the bite is not
thought to be serious.
Covington Star: Mr, James P. Simms is
going to erect several tenement houses on
the line of the street railroad, between
Rivers’s Hill and Oxford. Thus the good
effects of the stieet railroad are already
becoming manifest.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Dixon, of the Ever
green neighborhood, in Mitchell county,
after having been married several years,
were made happier and their pathway
brighter by an event at their home on last
Saturday night. It is a girl.
The Teieobaph’s Midville correspon
dent writes: Your correspondent noticed,
in mentioning the names of the three nom
inees for the lower house from Burke
county, that yon stated that J. C. Cleve
land ’■ •* ore of the nomine.a. It should
have been J. C. Chew.
A Camilla correspondent wriies: The
health of our county has been good up to
this date, noti iths'an-linp the many ponds
and lakes were well filled in the spring
when the amount of rainfall was very con
siderable, a-.d many, including the doctors,
apprehended a greater prevalence of mala
rial fever than we have vet had.
the scene, and it was some time before
quiet was restored. We (.imply mention
this to show that a little indiscrete act like
this might cause our streets to How with
blood.
Crop Notes.
Dalilonega Signal: Prof. William T.
Swanson drooped in to ere us on Wednes
day last, and he reports crops as good as
the world ever produced over in the moun
tain counties.
Covinvton Star: The late dronght and
hot wave have both injured the cotton
crop very materially in inis section. S me
eftima'c'hedamage at from oue-third to
half the crop However thi- may he, we
do not believe i' i- quia- Bo bad, ..ltd think
the injury wili ua .mount u* -e.ie : an
20 to 2') per cunt. raven tuis 1, .» vwy
unfoituatie.
A Cam ids correspondent Vriles: The
i turn a complete somersault. , He
i lauded on his feel as pretty AS ar y circu
I performer could dare to do,
ce Wury j
. eruptions _ 4 6 ^ Q
r , and as lit-' just ’ reported. Asamayaina ■!
The news reached Macon yesterday ol a 1 raised to the perpendicular lie fired anotlr- j volcano about sixty miles to t j le _ >cl *'t
or less hurt- V
From a gentliya;
ground at the time, and from passengers
from Monticello who came in on the Cov
ington and Macon railroad, and from the
Telegraph's correspondent at Monticello,
the following particulars arc obtained:
At Bethel church, about five miles north
west of Monticello, and near Winifred, in
Jasper county, the Central Baptist Associa
tion has been in session for several days.
The association held its business meetings
cottou ■ r-'p of our county has klien -.!! in the church building, while the services
terrible tragedy in Jasper countv in which ' er shot. The negro by this time had
two men were -killed outright, another i Ponged into a thicket of weeds, and was
" ,, -A , , ’ ; fnBt being lost to sight but the Captain ful-
mortally wounded and several others more - , d t 6 ; t tliat catlBe d j lis n f g i lt s hirt
probably 25 ptr cent since the July report,
The highest report that can be made on
were held daily under an arbor erected
for the purpose and situated a short dis-
the 1st of September will .not possibly ex- I tance away. Beyond this arbor, on a hill-
ceed 75 per cent, and popular opinion docs ! side, the horses, mules, wagons, buggies,
not put it above GG§ per cent of last, year’s ""“ rB kent.
crop. The cotton is being rapidly picked
out and put on the market. Up to Satur
day night the two warehouses here had
received 350 hales, and eouuting the re
ceipts at Pelham, Baconton. etc., would
make some 500 bates in the county. The
market ha* for the most part been firm,
ranging from nine to.ten cents. At this
writing the market i 1 ! tolerably firm at
nine cents; notwithstanding, the reported
decline would hardly seem to authorize
this price. The farmers have been anxi us
oil account of the price for September
futures, to sell all they can at present
prices. It ia thought that the merchants
are a little anxious also to buy even at
nine to nine aud a quarter cents, although
they say the margin will hardly authorize
it. A short cotton crop means slow collec
tions. There are some redeeming features,
however. 'J here has been less bacon, corn,
etc., bought by the farmers than usual this
Bummer. The corn crop of this year is
abundant, at least 110. The hog crop is
also good. The can l potato and peacrops
will be 100, especially if the rainfall
should be equal to the demand from this
time pn.
YELLOW JACK
Progenl.
A WINTER HOTEL.
Negotiations In Progress for n Hundred
Thousand Dollar Mouse at Amerlcus.
Americus, August 22. — [Special]. —
Your correspondent was furnished relia
ble information to-day that the proposi
tion of the CGunty commissioners to donate
the old court house square property,
worth $20,000, to any corporal ion or com-
p*ny thst will agree to ba:!d a hotel any
where in Americus to coot not less than
$100,000, has resulted in negotiations now
pending that promise the early building
<if a winter resort hotel in our city.
The serious need of such a hotel prompt
ed our conmy commissioners to make the
Jcsup Sentinel: Jesup has quarantined
against Jacksonville, although it was an
unnecess'-ry precaution, for yellow fever
Could luiroly lipcomo nn epidemic in th’s
section. Still, it is best to be on the safe
side. Sorno of our worthy citizens ore
wearing on their necks little pouches of
disinfectants, the odor from which strong
ly resemb'es that of an onion patch and a
drug store combined.
The Dalilonega Signal, noticing tho
statement made in an adjoining town that
an epidemic prevailed in Dalilonega, twelvo
persons dying in one day from it, says
There is not a healthier place than Dali
lonega on the globe, and a citizenship more
noted for their hospitalities. There is no
epidemic, and Dalilonega and Porter
Springs have wide open doors for those
who desire to recuperate their health in
this section.
Covington Star: The work of grading
the street railroad to Oxford wus com
mcnced on last Monday ^afternoon. Cap
tain Bob Lemmons, the veteran railroader,
with a strong force of hands, broke dirt at
the depot, and the work is now being
pushed with ail possible speed. In a few
weeks more, if tho weather is favorable,
the road bed will be ready for the iron,
and the cars will be running by the time
the school opens at Emory College—the
1st of October. Thus we are progressing.
Americus Republican: The senior left
for Atlanta yesterday and will bo absent
two or three days. Our city editor has
been confined to his room for a week or
two, and the duty of getting out the Re
publican once a day falls ou the manager,
who is suffering from disease and old
wounds to such an extent that he has but
little patience, and he throws himself upon
the kindly sympathies of a generous pub
lic, asking that they will throw the veil of
charity over the deficits that may bo in the
present numbers of the paper.
Athens Graphic: There is a disease in
the city known as “bleeders.” Mr. Mc
Gregor’s family is subject to it. The other
day one of his children had the misfortune
to stick a fork into the upper part of its
mouth, when it commenced bleeding and
could not be stopped for nearly two days.
On last Friday another one of his children
palled a loose tooth from the gum, and as
soon as it came out bleeding commenced,
and after trying every means in his power
and that of the doctors, it was thought the
child would bleed to death, but after work
ing Friday, Saturday and Sunday it was
stopped, the little fellow having lost almost
all the blood in his veins, and was ex
tremely weak. Mr. McGregor says in Scot
land people frequently die from this cause.
The blood just comes out in a solid stream
and nothing can stop it. It is peculiar.
Athens Graphic: A few Sunday nights
ago there appeared on one of our streets a
scene not frequently 6een in this city, and
which came near being serious. A young
lady and her little brother were going
horn- from Astrk mA i> „ 2
Authentic Microbe
tor.
Prom the New York Medical Record.
Dr. Puil Gibier, who was deputed by the
French government to investigate the
whole question of yellow fever, has just
delivered a lecture before the Academy of
Science in Havana, embodying the results
at which he has at present arrived. Before
leaving Paris lie felt so convinced of the
truth of Dr. Freire’s views that he got
himself inoculated with some of the cul
tures which that distingtii hed Brazilian
physician had brought. The first in
sertion-made with a lancet with great
care—was followed by no result whatever.
A week later some of the attenuated virus
was injected subcutaneously, and this pro
duced such violent effects that Dr. Gibier
declares nothing in the world would in
duce him to submit to a repetition of it.
SiDce his arrival in Cuba, he lias made
post mortem examinstions of a number of
persons who have died of yellow fever,
some of the examinations taking place
only two hours after death, and ona of
them within fifteen minutes from the mo
ment life became extinct. The examina-
nation of the blood taken from the heart
these cases, as well as the in-
spertiun of the urine, .the bile, the
pericardial fluid, the liver, the
spleen, and tho mesenteric glands, con
vinced him that none of tiiese organs con
tain any microbe. He, however, discovered
in the black matter always found in the
intestines a baciltqs presenting many
points of resemblance to the so-called
comma bacilli of cholera, being sometimes
curved, and occurring in some cultures in
a spiral form, |iu-, -.-ii.g r.lsoGio jirupcrty
- -iqucfylug geiaiiue. Tuui oaciiius.
when cultivated in peptonized broth,
blackened the sides of the tnbes; and when
* few drops of the culture were injected
into the intestine of guinea pies it some
times proved fatal, the intestinal contents
then showing a great resemblance to
those found in yellow fever patients. In
dogs, the injection of a few drops into the
small intestine rapidly produced violent
effects—vomiting, diarrhcca, and, tlienight
following, pyrexia. Cultures of this bacil
lus had a smell resembling that of the
black vomit. A moist heat of 60 s C, de
stroyed the bacillus in a few minutes; de
siccation also proved fatal to it in less
than twenty-four hours. This last obser
vation led Dr. Gibier to suggest that if
this bacillus was really the cause
of yeliow fever the immunity of
inland districts might ' thus
bo explained, the comparative
dryness of tbe air destroying the virus. It
developed extremely well in sea water
charged witii organic matter; living, too,
for a long time side by side with the or
dinary microbes of putrefaction, so long at
least as the medium did not become acid,
for even a very slight degree of acidity
destroyed the organism in a few hours. In
confirmation of observations made at the
laboratory, Dr Gilder mentions that he has
several times had an opportunity of dem
onstrating the same circumstance in the
dead house, the contents of. the intestines,
when they have become acid some hours
after death, ceasing to show tbe presence
of the bacillus Since writing on this sub
ject previously Dr. Gibier has had oppor
tunities of examining the bodies of foreign
sailors who have died in the civil hospi
tal of Havana, and he has been able to
demonstrate the presence of the bacillus in
those who had suffered from vellow lever,
and its absence in those who had died
from other diseases. His opinion is that
yellow.fever is due to the development of
the microbe in th- intestines, the affec
tion being therefore e&entially a local one.
Hanliiit; In 1IU Ilorns.
From the New Yoi W *\\u il>em.).
Mr. Blaine H i.tuied in his horns a
little since In l.fi New York, and h»
etc., were kept,
THE TROUBLE BEOINS.
Yesterday morning there were between
eight hundred and a thousand people on
the grounds. Just a few minutes before
the services began, and while the associa
tion was in session, it was seen that a fight
between the Malone brothers and the Ty
ler brothers, young farmers, was imminent,
and Rev. Mr. Burton, who conducted the
meeting, and some other gentlemen, too*
the noisiest of the Malone brothers away
and were proceeding with him to the stand
erected for the minister, followed by the
other Malones and their friends, and while
going through the place where all the
teams were hitched, were met by some of
the Tylers and their friends. Instantly
pistols wire whipped out and a general
firing took place, it beieg estimated that
no 4 Iess than thirty shots were fired in less
than a minute. There was a general stam
pede among the men and a frightful
screaming among the ladies, each one fear
ing that some relative was hurt in the gen
eral fray. The large crowd became com
pletely demoralized, some of the men flying
to the woods and some gathering around.
THE WOUNDED MEN.
As soon as these men could be looked
after, it was found that
James Malone was shot through the head,
body and heart and died instantly.
Sam Tyler was struck in three places,
and either one of his wounds would have
proved fatal. He died instantly.
Eddie Tyler was shot twice in the bow
el- and once in the leg. He was expected
to die at any moment.
Walker Malone received a shot in the
shoulder, inflicting a severe wound
It was also known that several others
were more or less wounded, but they ran
away from tho grounds immediately after
the shooting to prevent arrest.
A brill struck tho watch of Frank Mid-
dlehrorks and thus saved his life,
The sheriff arrested a few of the parties
and lodged them in jail.
THE CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
There are conflicting statements as to
the cause of the difficulty. It is said that
there has long existed a feud between the
MaloneB and the Tylers, and there have
been frequent collisions, but without fatal
results until yesterday. This was revived
by a dispute a few days ago over the erec
tion of the arbor under which the religious
services were held, and which culminated
ju the av-ful tragedy.
Another statement is that the old feud
was revived on Sunday afternoon when a
young boy of the Malone family was slap
ped in the face by nn older Tyler. This
Sunday quarrel would have had a serious
ending hut for the intervention of friends.
AH during the week efforts were made by
the two set of brothers to raise a disturb
ance, but the peace-loving men in the
crowd always succeeded in a separation
before they came to blows or drew weapons.
Tho Malones and Tylers were young farm
ers nnd each had quite a large following
of friends.
WHAT MR. GOLDEN SAYS.
rr ifinoE in ■H^nd'inC? 02 til© 11250“
elation wer Prof. J. E. Willet, of Macon,
and Rev. E. Z. C. Golden, of Savannah,
Both of these gentlemen came away yes
terday. Mr. Golden says tho association
would have ended its labors in about fif.
teen minutes. When the shots were fired
they sounded as if some one had set fire to
& pack of firecrackers^ and no attention
would have been paid to it by the mem
bers but for the screaming of tho women
and children which followed. The church
was then soon emptied, and when it was
found that murder had been committed <
the grounds, and that everybody was in
state of confusion, six members returned
to the church and adjourned the assoc ia,
tion.
THE CROWD S NARROW ESCAPE.
Mr. Golden says that the shooting oc-
curred in the midst of the large crowd,
and among the large number of teams,
making it difficult tor the innocent people
to get out of the way, and how so many
iieoplc escaped boifig struck by the thirty
bullets is exceedingly strange.
The good people of Jasper county are
very indignant over the allair, especially
as it occurred during a religious meetiug,
The Telegraph’s corres;>ondent tele
graphs that the people will put a stop to
such lawlessness. They will make every
effort to bring the guilty parties connected
with the ^codetta to justice.
It is probable that os the request was
held last night additional particulars will
be gathered to-day,
to rise upward and with its amplitude pre-
ho was on the , sent the appearance of a gospel tent. De
termined to get the negro, the Captain
again fired but the smoke was so dense
that he did not 6ee a deep gulley in front
of him, and into this he rolled. But he
did not lose hispresenceof mind, and when
he stopped rolling and found himself
on his back he pulled trigger and fired
again at the stars. The Captain then con
cluded that a big fat man had no business
nohow in trying to outrun a thief, and,
after remaining on his back for some time
in the gully to blow aud rest, he picked
himself up leisurely and started for home,
but was greatly astonished to find that in
what seemed to be less than a minute ho
had run nearly a mile from home.
When daylight appeared an inventory of
his earthly possessions was taken and it
was then fouud that nothing had been
stolen.
PRESENTS l’O MB. THURM %N.
The MaDy nnd Curious Articles Sent by Ad.
mlrersto the Old Roman.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Judge Thurman’s moil brings to him
daily dozens of curious presents and me
mentoes from all parts of the country. He
takes great interest re opening his mail
and critically examining everything. Ho
began to place them together on a large,
old fashioned tabic in his library, which
had surface large enough to admit at first
of an orderly arrangement of the articles
for exhibition to his intimate friends, but
the constant accumulation has thrown the
whole into a confused heap. Bandannas
and pictures of Mr. Cleveland and Mr.
Thurman make up two-thirds of the lot.
There are bandanas of all shapes, styles
and sizes, ages and conditions, from the
elaborate silk one sent him by Congress
man S. 8. Cox to the faded and dingy
specimen sent him by an old Ross county
friend, to whom it was presented many
years ago and who was keeping it as a
memento 1 he pictures are mostly photo
graphs, sent by artists all over the coun
try, made by them from “favorite nega
tives.” The next article most numerously
represented in the collection is the saue
box. One wonders where the senders were
able to find an article now almost entirely
discarded from use. There are thirteen of
these box- s. The most costly, probably, is
small affair ofju capacity that would cer
tainly not last such a rapid consumer as
Mr. Thurman is said to be very long. The
box itself is made of a piece of deer’s sut
ler, beautifully polished, with a spring lid
of gold, so arranged that all the possessor
has to do is to touch a little knob at the
side aud the snuff is nt hand. It is appa
rently intended, from the shape, to be car
ried in the vest pocket, and came from an
admirer of the old Roman up iu the Wol
verine State. A novel article in thin same
line is a home-made snuff box, which came
from a gentleman from North Carolina. It
is m .dc from the sap wood of tho white
hickory, beautifully polished. The send
er evidently made It himself. It is closed
with a sliding lid, and at one end is in
scribed “Old Hickory,” and on the other
"'Old Roman.”
BLAINE’S DEFENSE OK TRUSTS.
of the capital, sent forth i n
stream the course of which * L ll, ‘
lowed for many miles. It ,1°% b *!ol.
famous ancient forest and overwtlf" 1 ‘
number of villagts. A larg- .
tile land was converted into' a Si . ot
thousands of people perished !®«i:
catastrophe itself or from m
vation, the ground for mile, arnnr5V , >
covered to a depth of several f« t H
scorne, which buried all vemati!!? 1 *"»
male were killed in large niiniu", A ti-
rain or red-hot stones ana ashes t * tk «
it is stated that 53,000 persons'' - li? 17si
lives by an eruption of OnleiieiiJV* ****
But the mostfacnousof aU
came eruptions was that of tlJ i.H
Fujii in 1807, which lasted for
during which a new crater was
the symmetrical conical shanT
mountain altered by the fornia,io n °
new peak near the summit, near!. , ‘
meters in height. Eye-witnesses, wllf*
left accounts of this appalling eventT
scribe the fields, houses anil temulw ’ S' -
ing completely covered with uhreri
discharges from the crater were J\ Jhe
and continuous that diy was t n ,„J, V
night. Even in Yeddo, the capital t!” 10
fifty miles off as the crow flies 1 thi
ness was intense, and everythin.
covered with the ashes, a ml thero Ala 6
mountain was distinctly heard Tn
the horror, violent earthquakes prevail.!?
and enormous waves wrought dettm.V; ’
along the coastB. Of the nambef^p 1
lost no account could be taken I) •
the present century Japan ha.' been',”*
markably free from such disturbances u
present one being by f ar n ,l6e
destructive recorded.
A MOONLIGHT CHASE
namw^idewalk'thpv'were 5 i'T^V I *creaBy "gVve.i ',H,V ( .Ve to "undereiandthM j night‘"shirt!
P ZY, i !!‘. C £ Republican canvass is to ; ue}_ro was
After a Supposed Negro llurglar— 1 The Mis
haps of Capt. Giles.
About one o’clock Thursday morning.
Capt. John Giles, of Gilesville, was aroused
from deep sleep by a loud single yelp of
his best dog. Instantly the Captain’s head
was thrust out the window anu he saw the
dusky form of a duskier person moving out
of the yard bearing something bulky in
his hand. It was the work of a short min
ute for the big Captain—you know he
weighs considerably over two hundred—to
bounce out of hed and take down from the
mantel the old-fashioned family persuader
I rush ont rtf the hnu«p in Ills amnia
As lie reached the yard the
of the
People’s Foes.
From the Sunday Union nnd Catholic Times.
Blaine has revealed the eleven loot.
The Republican party is the party of the
capitalists, monopolists and corporations.
That party never was, is not now and
never will It.- the p;irtv t.i ilie people. Its
claim to represent the interests of the
working masses is false and foul. Blaine
himself admits it. In his I’ortiaud speech,
August 16, he championed the infamous
trust svstem; he said:
“I shill! not discuss trusts this afternoon,
I shall not venture to say that they are
altogether advantageous* or diiuulvanta-
genus. They are largely private affairs,
with which 'neither 1’re-sident Cleveland
nor any private citizen has any particular
right to mterfere.’ 1
Now what are trusts? They are combi,
nations of capitalists, criminal conspira
cies, in fact, to control the maiktts, fix an
arbitrary rate on tho necessaries of life,
nnd levy cruel blackmail upon the mass of
the people.
Tnu conspiracy laws directed against
workingmen’s combinations, against op
pressions, should he applied rigorously to
these grinding, oppressive, blighting trusts
that are as a danger and a plague upon
tbe country,
And Blaine says they are private affairs,
and that it is none of our business to med
dle with them!
Here is a challenge to the workingmen
of America. Here is a public hid for the
support of the capitalists.
Blaine knew what he was doing. He
appealed to the aggregated capital of
America to help the Republican party
with large subscriptions, guaranteeing pro
tection to them in their extortion and op
pressions of the people.
Blaine is the brains of the party. The
country is fairly covered with these trusts.
Their [tower is enormous. The sugar trust,
tbe whisky trust, the flour tru<-t, the cloth
ing trust, the meat trust, the oil trust, the
gas trust—every article we need to eat or
wear is controlled by these extortionate
combinations, instituted to raise prices
and exploit the suffering people.
As the spokesman of the Republican
party he has received notice that the
friends of the corporate conspiracies called
trusts belong in its ranks and the friends
of the people, the victims of the trusts,
uiust go to the Democratic party for protec
tion, defense and sustenance agaLst their
avaricious oppressors.
The die is cast. Ifarrisou stands for the
money kings; Cleveland for the people.
Let the people rally around their cham
pion and down the money tyrants, whose
behests the Republicans are pledged to
carry out to the impoverishment of the
honest families, the men, women and chil
dren of our land.
Machine Telegraph; of To.dat.
From the New York Sun.
Mr. D. H. Craig, formerly maein, ot
the Associated Press, 1ms devoted ninetwn
yean to the development of machine tel?
graphy, and claims to be able to teleermt
2.000 words per minute from each end
the wire—total, 4,000 words in sixty iZ
onds. 1 MC *
The niessnges or reports are legibly and
uniformly recorded in ordinary telegranh
characters, which can be read by clerb
familiar with them at the rate of about
100 words per minute.
Messages, to be sent over the Morse line*
must first be written or printed- but a
message to be telegraphed by the new its-
tem must first be perforated, for which Mr
Craig has a beautiful little machine, 8x10
inches, with two banks of keys, called a
"composer,” which even a child can opente
reliably and quite expertly after an hour’s
practice, and after a reasonable amount of
practice fifteen to thirty words per minute
can be perforated. Simultaneously with
the perforations the machine print*, in
plain Roman, every word of the me sage
which is retained, while the perlo ateii
message is sent to the telegraph office tbe
same as a message is 6ent in manuscript to
be telegraphed over a Morse line, with
this difference—the machine message will
be transmitted to destination at the rate
of 1,000 or 2,000 words per minute, and
be legibly and accurately recorded in tele
graph character**, and the Morse message
will be telegraphed by the hand-key sys
tem at the rate of fifteen to iwenvy-live
words per minute and be recorded by
“sound” reading in ordinary manuscript.
Itisciaimrd mat the machine record is
three times more accurate than “sound'’
recording
With the regular office periorator ex
perts do, reliably, fifty words per minute,
or 3,000 per hour; anu it is claimed by Mr.
Craig that the actual cost of transmitting
1,000 words 1,000 miles is not orsr t«o
cents.
The cost of paper to perforate 1,000
words is one cent, and two cents for re
cording paper. Experts, young men or
young ladies, do perforating for ten cents
per 1,000 words, and the same for copying
on the type writer—total, twenty-fire reals
for completing 5.000 words! Oa this bads
it would cost For labor and ;iaper less than
$30 to telegraph and com let* forty-eight
columns ot this newspaper from New York
to Chicago.
Mr. Craig has also devised a new tele
graph wire, made of pure copper with t
slight mixture of silica, which is said to
increase the tensile strength to twice tbe
strength of steel of equal size, the exact
tensile strength being reported u 133,000
pounds to the square inch.
No. 4 gauge wire weighs over 900 pounds
to the mile, and has about one ohm ot
electrical resistance per mile. With sacs
a wire, extending from New York to San
Francisco, the electrical resistance would
be about 3,000 ohms, while * majority ot
tho telegraph wires between New tori
and Wrsnington show an electrical resist
ance of more than 4,000 ohms—tho* w
new siliconized copper wire will bring "»a
Francisco nearer to New York, electrically,
than New York is to Washington.
Mr. Craig’s apparatus is now on exaiw*
tion at Washington, in a room in the capi
tal near the Senate chamber.
of colored I l,,c ou J ecl OI tn«KvpuDllcan canvass is to ; negro was going out of the gate
, fro ” tll 1 eu ' try to elect Harris m President rather' win -h he pushed wide open and
swung bark in time to catch
iu on the shins. He acknowl-
hurt by a snort, and then down
Trial b; Jury Abolished In Austria.
From the Fall Mall Gaaette.
A very severe measure was promulgated
at Vienna ytsterday, and there is “
question as to the motives which at re .
spired it. Trial by jury
crimes and offenses committed byeoc
or Anarchists has been suspeadeil DJ mi
isterial decree for the duration of on J
in fifteen district* in Austria, non
Moravia, Blyria and Csrinthia, include
til of the large cities. The approval
Parliament will ot course have to w
tained. One of tho offenses unJe '.
act is the possession of eI l '
materials.* In order to fully
ciate tbe significance *
matter, says the Standard correspo .
must he re membered that the uecf? •
give the government power m the
named, without judicial order or w
to arrest aud imprison oreipel, , •
suspected pc’sons, but a! who
them; to forbid the manufactu ,. w
possession of arms ami ammu V,
"rehibit sot only public meetings,
the assembling of crowds, ani | J®
most stringent regulations concerning! ^
.... ports, and arrivals and dep
fellow-citizen Mr. Sol Lawrence and Mrs. foreigners. The police will »e a* w
Sallie Moye, one of the most amiable, to make domiciliary visits, no mir y
. ladies of our town. They repaired im-; search newspaper offices and take s ^
the street the race began, the Captain fir- mediately to the home of the groom. proceedings against publishers anu
Marriage at Harriuon.
JIAkiuson, Auguttt 23.—[.Special.]—A
happy marriajre was that of our esteemed
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