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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDa Y, SEPTEMBER 18-TWELVE PAGES
THE COTTON CROP.
Department Report of Condi
tion on Sept. i.
THE AVERAGE LOWEST IN TEXAS,
A,Hi Highest In Tennessee—The General
Average Above tile Tenre 1880 and
1887—Condition Seriously Be.
duced In Georgia.
Washington, Sept. 10.—The September
report of the Department of Agriculture
makeis the average condition of cottoa 83.8 a
decline of three and a half pointa since the
last report. The general average is slightly
higher than in 1837 and 1886, when it stood
at 82.8 and 82.1 respectively. The decline,
while slight, has been general throughout
the cotton belt, except in North Carolina and
Tennessee, where more seasonable weather
has resulted in slightly improved condition-
Local damage has resulted in the Carotinas
from both drought and excess of moisture,
the rainfall being unevenly distributed.
Rust is general throughout Gtorgia and
with the drought and shedding of bolls has
seriously reduced the condition.
Alabama has suffered from heat and
drought and in some aecticns the month
closet with apprehensions of damage
from excessive nnd continuous rainfall.
The decline in Louisiana and Mississippi
is the result of a marked excess of moisture
during the last two weeks of August. A se
vere storm swept over these states, which
prostrated plants, and continuous rains have
beaten out the bolls and caused some rot
ting.
The crop in Texas was beginning to suffer
foi moisture, when rains of the latter part of
.the month came seasonably over the greater
part of the state, (breaking the threatened
drought and arresting the loss which had
set in.
In Arkansas the loss has been lowered by
locally unfavorable seasons,drought in some
sections and excessive moisture, especially
toward the close of the month, in others,
causing reduction.
The month was favorable in Tennessee,
with the seasons good and but little com
plaint of rust.
The state averages of condition are: Vir
ginia 84, North Carolina 84, South Carolina
83, Georgia 85, Florida 90, Alabama 87,
M ississippi 88, Louisiana 79, Texas 78, Arkan
sas 87, Tennessee 95. The crop generally is
somewhat late aud picking is delayed by un
favorable weather. Caterpillars and'boll
worms are frequently mentioned, and are
doing damage where not vigorously fought.
OTHER CROPS.
The report of the department of agricul
ture for Sept. 1 makes the average condition
of corn 94.2, wheat 77.3, oats 87.2, rye 92.8,
barley 869, buckwheat 93.7, potatoes 91.6
.and tobacco 8’. The returns show but very
slight filling off from the exceptionally high
August report of maize, the general average
having.declined but one point during the
month. The loss is almost entirely in one
M.ue, Kan-u, where drought ami hot dry
wluilt bstised a decline ’of eleven points since
•the last report. This high average of condi
tion has been exceeded but once daring the
past ten years, in 1835, when it etood at 9%
nd the largest cron ever grown «,«• har-
II the seven corn surplus states the aver
age condition is 95 against 64 for the same
date in 1864. The average in these states ore:
Ohio 99, Indiana 99, Illinois 98, Iowa 99,
Mtasouri 92, Kansas 80 and Nebraska 97.
In other states of large production it is, in
New York 92,1’enntylvania 98, Virginia 92,
Texas 91. Tenuenee 93, Kentucky 95. The
average condition of spring tind winter
wheat when harvested was 77.3 against 82
last year and 87.8 in 1886. In 1885 it was
72, and hi 1884 98. The winter wheat states
show slight improvement over the lait report
of conditions (for July), bat there has
been a serious decline in the spring wheat
region of the northwest. Chinch bugs were
again a serious evil in portions of Wiscon
sin and Minnesota, while unseoaonable rains
at and after harvest materially lowered the
condition in these states and iu portions of
Iowa. Frost between the 16th and 18th. of
the month did some injury in the Red and
Jim river valleys. The averages of the prin-
dal states are: Winter wheat—New Y’ork
86, Pennsylvania 92, Tenneaaee 96, Kentucky
90, Ohio 60, Michigan 78, Indiana 97, Illinois
72, Missouri 75, Kansas 91, California 85,
Oregon 94. Spring wheat—Wisconsin 73,
Minnesota 70, Iowa 73, Nebraska 80, Dakota
80. The general average of oata at the time
of harvest was four points lower than at the
last report. In only one year aince 1881 has
the .September report indicated condition
lower than in 1887, when it
waa 87. The deeline this year
was mainly in the spring wheat region of
the northwest, and on account of rust and
unfavorable meteorological conditions at
the time of harvest. The state averages are:
New York 93, Pennsylvania 96, Ohio 95,
Illinois 92, Indiana 93, Minneaota 80, Iowa
. 73, Dakota 92. Barley haa declined slightly,
White buckwheat ihowa a small improve-
meat. Potatoes have fallen off leas thsn
two points daring the month, and the con
dition is generally high in all sections. Last
year there was a decline of seventeen points
during the month, the September average
being 67.8 Tobacco shows alight improve
ment only in the cigar leaf states.
COKSIDKRABLK IlAM*AOK IN MITCHELL.
Camilla, Sept. 10.—[Speclal.j-There is
csually a calm after a storm. Hence this
morning was clear, representing a settled
condition of the weuther.
For several days, immediately preceding
cloudy weather ana frequent
rains prevailed. On Saturday night a stiff'
rain came on with heavy rains, which con
tinued to inerssse in force mitil Sundsv
morning at 10 o’clock. There was no dam
age done except to the open cotton, but this
damage and loss to the farmers will he con
siderable. We had been informed by Savan
nah, through some channel, that the gale
was on its way to onr section, and would
reach us about the time it did—the 9tb inst.
about 10 o’clock p. m. It is reported thst
the upper part of our county suffered more
thau this.
The wind came during the night and Sun
day, and as long as the storm continued,
almost directly from the north. Tne damage
to a short co’tton crop amounts to very cou
aidcrable.
Il AM AGE IN MARION OOPXTY.
Putnam, Sept. 10.—[Special.]—It has
been raining nearly every day for the past
twelve days and is still cloudy, with little or
no prospect of clearing off. It is causing
corn to apront on the sulk, ripe peas to rot,
and cotton that has fallen on the ground to
eprout end grow, the bolls to rot on the stalk,
asd on old study end gray lands the fruit
has been shedding for tbit past thirty days
aud rusting to such an extent that in many
fields the cotten is all dead, the boils all
open and picked out, causing a lew of at
least twenty per eenL of wbat might have
been expected thirty day* ego. On freeh
lends end new grounda, where the plant has
reu.ned its normal condition, ths caterj.ill
la having Isll sway, as there Is too tuuc—
rain to make poison effectual. Potatoes are
vanning too meeb to vine, also late pe
that, aa yet, are without a bloom, but sngar
cane ana grass are on a boom.
DAMAGE ABOUT MILLBDQRVILLK.
MiLf.KHGEvir.LE, Sept. 10.—[Special.]—
Sunday morning at 6 o'clock the rain be
gan and till night it fell in torrents,
absolutely without intermission. The Oco
nee, already swollen, was quickly raised out
of its banks, and the bottom corn and cotton
were reported ruined to-day. However, the
resulta seem not so diiastrous, and the total
damage may properly be estimated at not
more than 121,000. The mill dam and house
of W. R. Morris is reported destroyed. To
day’s sun was the salvation of the crops. A
few more lours of wet weather would have
soured the corn and rotted the cotton.
ALABAMA’S REPORT.
Auburn, Ala., Sept. 8.—The special crop
bulletin, prepared by P. H. Mell, for the
week ending Sept 8, says: Excessive rains
and the many cloudy days have done much
damage to the cotton, corn and fodder. Some
sections report the cotton as spropting in
the field gnd badly coiled. Very little cotton
has been picked during the week on account
of the continued rains, fn the black belt
and in south Alabama the caterpillars are
stripping the leaves from the plant very rap.
idly. The week closed with a slight fall fn
temperature, although most of the period
was about normal.
ABOUT COCHRAN.
Cochran, Sept. 10.—[Special.]—The Sep
tember storm has visited us. The wind and
rain from the east and northeast prevailed
steadily for four or five hours. This, on top
of the large flood of rain last Thursday eve
ning, has done great damage to the cotton
crop. The pla- ters report the cotton
sprouting in the bolls.
MORGAN PLANTERS COMPLAINING.
Madison, Sept. 10.—[8pecial.]—The farm
ers are complaining of the wet weather, and
say cotton is spronting in the boll and
rotting.
IN TELEAtR.
McRae, Sept. 10.—[Special.]—We have
had heavy rains for the past week, injuring
cotton aud retarding picking.
TUB SOUTH.
Same Strange Misapprehensions Corrected
—A Macon Lntlj’s Letter.
Miss E. F. Andrews of the faculty of
Weyleyan Female College, has been spend
ing her vacation in Maine. She has con
tributed some valuable letters to the
northern press on the condition and re
sources of the south. From one of her
contributions to the Portland Argus, we
make the following extract:
Fryeburo, Aug. 29.—To the Editor of
the Argus: In talking with the people
here I find so great an interest manifested
in the condition and resources*of the south,
that i have thought a few words on the
subject might not be unwelcome to your
readers.
First of all, 1 would like to do away
with theopinion so industriously circulated
,bv politicians in journals of the “bloody
skirt’’ stripe, to the effect that northern
men are given the cold shoulder at the
south. An old union soldier said to me
the other day that he had long desired to
go south on 'account of his health, but was
afraid of being boycotted by the people if
he went; and he was greatly surprised
hen told that the very town in which lie
proposed settling .[Chattanooga, Tenn.,)f
contained more northern people than
southern, and that the city government
is republican.
Wc quarrel with no man on account of
his politics; he can vote as he pleases;
think as he pleases; live as he pleases—
provided he lives decently—and nobody
urill mnlirat litm Tlin ^Klruvlv akiH** Kiisi.
A CLOSE CALL.
COSTA RICA NOTES.
I Manners of the Native*, Ancient
31 uilmi.
One Engineer Takes a Shot Letter to Philadelphia Record.
The Costa Rica Indians are unlike any
at Another
AND NARROWLY MISSES HIS HEART,
Then Skips Out of the Way of the Officers
—One Version of the Affair—A
Lady’s Remarkable Cool-
lies* and Nerve.
will molest hint. The “bloody shirt” busi
ness is so completely played out with us
that a record of a brave old Union soldier
commends him as heartily at the south as
at the north. We honor our dead and the
cause for which they died, as you do yours,
but no generous man will think less of us
for that. We feel that the triumph of the
war belongs to you, the pathos to oa, and
the glory to both. On our decoration days
the graves of union soldiers, where there
happen to be any,are equally adorned with
those of our own dead, nnd “Yankee Doo
dle” .wakens as much enthusiasm
every audience as "Dixie” itself. So
far from turning the cold shoulder
to our northern brethren, I would
say to all who wish to cast their
lot among us, we are only too glad to have
:rou come, and will receive with open
! marts every honest Man that Maine or
New Hampshire, or any other northern
state, can spare us. The laxy, the shift
less, the vicious are not wanted at the
south—nor anywhere else on God’s earth,
that I know of. But to every man and
woman who is willing to work, we say
from our hearts "Come and help us.” We
have the finest lsnd upon earth, aud need
only hands to work it, in order to make it
the richest and most prosperous.
Another mistaken idea that I find preva
lent in New England is that southerners
are used to having everything done for
them by negroes, and look with contempt
upon people of small means who do their
own work. A good woman whose husband
contemplates moving to the west met my
recommendation to go south instead with
the objection that she and her daughter
would have no associates there, because
she had heard that southern women would
have nothing to do with poor people who
did their own cooking and wishing.
Now, I do not mean to say that people
of narrow meant—small farmers, mechan
ics and the like, can go south and be re.
ceived into rich and fashionable society
any more than they can here. The rich
and poor have different ways everywhere,
Mr, L. B. Moody, an engineer on the
Covington and Macon railroad, had a
closer call Monday on terra finna than
he ever did on liis locomotive. »
About 5 o’clock in the afternoon Officer
Faletharpe, who was on duty on Fourth
street, received word that two white men
were shooting at each other at the Coving
ton and Macon depot. He jumped into a
hack, and picking up Officer Jones on
Walnut street, went down to the depot at
once. Arriving there it was found that a
difficulty had occurred between Mr. Moody
and Mr. D. D. Davidson, another engineer
on the same road, and that Mr. Davidson
had fled.
On being questioned Mr. Moody gave
this statement of the affair:
Moody is the engineer of the passenger
train and Mr. Davidson runs the local-
freight. On Sunday afternoon whetr
Moody came in, and Davidson was going
out, and while the locomotive,was passing
Moody, Davidson
8qUIRTED HOT WATER
on him, scalding him rather badly. Yes
terday afternoon Moody came in as usual,
and seeing Davidson standing near the
blacksmith shop, he went to him and spoke
about beingscafded by him. This brought
about some words which resalted in David
son drawing his pistol. Moody was un
armed and picked up a piece of iron spring,
but Davidson fired one shot. Moody then
ran into the Bhop and picked up a nick
handle. Before he could use it Davidson
fired another shot, and by this time the
crowd gathered and tried to stop the diffi
culty. A numberof men gathered David
son and tried to wrench his pistol from
him, but did not succeed. A lady who was
at the depot, seeing that a serious diffi
culty was imminent, quietly walked up to
Davidson and in a mild but firm voice
Baid, “Hand me that pistol.” Davidson
immediately complied, hut remained
around the depot for a few minutes and
then left, saying he was going to get more
loads for his pistol, it having been returned
to him with the loads drawn. Moodr had
been taken care of amt carried away into
another portion of the depot.
The officers arrived after Davidson had
gone away and Officer Paletharpe set out
to hunt for him.
It was found that
DAVIDSON’S BALL
struck the iniide of Moody’s coat at the
lower part of the side pocket, just grazing
the vest and going through a lot of letters
in the pocket. An inch more to the right
would have sent the ball into the heart.
Mr. Moody will take out a warrant against
Davidson for assault with intent to murder,
and also one for shooting :U another.
Mr. Miaiilv say* hnin had ms/i-C sppLp
tion for membership to the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, nnd bis applica
tion had been been passed upon, but
Davidson’s had not. lie thinks Davidson
was somewhat sore over this fact.
The police went to Mrs. Fletcher’s board
ing house, where Davidson boarded, but
failed to find him. They say they will
have him if he is in the ciiy.
MORGAN’S COLT SUOtV.
Some Fine Stock Exhibited—Who Won the
Several Frizes.
Madison, Sept 10.—[Special.]—The
colt exhibit was a success and but for the
rain would have been more so. It was
under the direction of Col. J. H. Holland,
secretary of the Morgan county farmers’
club. Three prizes were offered for the
three best colts under eight months old,
raised in the county. Seven colts were en
tered. The first prize was awarded to Mr.
L. M. Simms for a five months-old mare
colt of Mr. C. F. Bishop’s Hamiltonian
horse “Charley B.,” which was afterwards
sold at auction for $310. The second prize
was won by J. W. Stovall for a four
months-old mare colt of Mr. J. Brice’s
“Red Jacket,” and sold for $145. Mr. P.
G. Walker got the third prize for a five
months-old horse colt of Mr. I.. H. Walk
er’s Wilke* home, “Sidney Wilkes. This
colt was not offered for sale.
Besides the seven which contended for
the prizes there were some twenty-fiv
other*, mo*t of them over the age to' con
tend for the prize*.
Mr. C. F. Bishop, who has two stallions,
a Percheron, ‘ Victor,” 4164, nnd Charley
B, a trotter, announced that in September
or October, 1889,-he would give three pre
miums to the third be-t colt* of either of
hi* hones, regardless of age, $50 for th
best; the use of either horse free for the
second best and a bridle for the third best.
After the show was over Col. Holland
was presented with a fine hat, as he was
the originator of the exhibition and it was
through his efiorta that it was made a suc-
poor have difierent ways
but the difference Is far lea
here, for the eimple reason that nobody
there is very rich. In my state, Georgia,
we have but one tingle man who is said to
be worth as much as $1,000,000, and from
$40,000 to $50,000 is considered quite a
handsome fortune. The bulk of the popu
lation consists of what one of your New
England fanners expressively described to
me as “susll men,” such ns independent
farmers and mechanics, worth from $1,000
to $5,000, and though not the leaders of
fashionable society, they are by no means
the least powerful or the least reflected
of our citizens.
This class, which constitutes the most
valuable part of our population, is less
numerous in what is known aa the “cotton
bell” than in the mountain regions of
north Georgia and east Tennessee, because
the great cotton plantations, cultivated be
fore the war entirely by negro labor, left
no place for them. These are becoming
gradually broken up into small farms, but
the large b dies of land that still remain
are, from the necessities of the esse, rented
mostly to negro tenants, whose prenin-e as
neighbors seems, for some reason that I
never could understand, much more ob
jectionable to northern thsn to southern
people. .
Advice to Mothers.
Nr-.. Winslow’s -k.i1.1uv Syrup nhouM always
** ussO lor children lecthlng. It soothes toe
« : k.;> - - ■ V’ilT... ill T.ft CCS*
• lid cot!" ...: u .he '
Us. s Souls,
...j n This is the first exhibit of farm stock in
there than tinty ;:acc the war, aud, had the
roads not been so muddy, instead of
thirty colts, there would have been fifty.
Mr. J. H. Houghton had a celt only six
days old which had come over two miles.
Capt. J. K. Wright had three or four fine
Jersey cows and Col. DeWall a herd of
Holstein cattle. Morgan county will send
a good delegation to Macon to the state
fair.
s Lest remedy lot dtsrrh n
•tpeeod-awly
others I have seen, many of them being
poor and miserable to a degree, yet in
tensely religious and scrupulously honest.
Among the various tribes perhaps the most
interesting arc the Talamancas and the
Guatusos. The former are confined to the
Atlantic slope, inhabiting the lowland.-
between the Matina river and the Rio Es
trella, “River of the Star.” which Hows
into El Baco del Torro. This region is
one of great historical interest, ns it com
prises those lands granted by the Spanish
crown to Christopher Columbus soon after
the famous discoverer entered the Boco in
1602.
It is in this regien that those famous
gold and silver mines, from which the
country was named, are supposed to be
situated. More than three centuries ago
two galloons, laden with precious dust and
ore, sailed every year from this Rio
Estrella to Cadiz. After the Indian mas
sacre of 1807 all traces ot these mines were
lost, and iu course of time impenetrable
forests sprang up in the footprints of the
greedy Spaniards, blotting them out
forever. To-day nothing is known either
in Spain or Costa Rica concerning the
wonderful El Dorado of Estrella and
Tisingaj beyond the vague traditions of
the Indians.
About thirty years ago it was reported
that some documents proving the exact
whereabouts of the lost treasure had been
discovered in the archives at Havana.
Immediately President Mora dispatched
secret agents to secure the papers; but it
was never known whether the coveted in
formation was gained, for, if so, interested
parties secretly availed themselves if it.
From time immemorial theTaiamancas
have been considered the most warlike and
unmanageable race on the continent. In
the summer of 1010, when the rapacity of
the {Spaniards became unbearable, they
uprose one day and massacred all .the
inhabitants of the city called San Jago
do Talamnnca, which stood on the left
bank of the Estrella. In their savage thirst
for vengeance some dreadful atrocities were
committed, such os pouring melted gold
down tho throats of their hated op
pressors and butchering men, women,
priests and children in one wild’ car
nage. Half a century lrter they were
partly subdued by Don Roderigo]..Maldo
nado, who fitted out nil armed expedition
against them and rebuilt the city of San
Jago in greater splendor than before. But
in 1707 the unconquerable Indians again
arose, and, with knife, melted ore and
devouring torch, exterminated the usur
pers. So complete was the annihilation
that to-day not only the gold mines of the
Estrella are faint traditions, but fen-
traces can be found of the once famous
castle of San Ildefonso, or the proud city
of Han Jago. No subsequent attempts
have ever been made to control the In
dians of that section, who, so say the mis
sionaries, “relapsed into a state of total
heathenism.” However that may have
been, the Talamancas of to-day are peace
able and industrious, in noway unfriendly
to anr stranger who may enter their terri
tory and obey the laws of the land like
other citizens.
Sill! mere interesting arc the Cuatosos,
white Indians - ’ of the river Frio. This
stream—so named because of its extreme
coldness—rises in the northern mountains,
and 1 isos itself in Lake Nicaragua, oppo
site Fort Carlos. For 350 years the valley
of the Frio has been a literal terra incog
nita. What manner of people inhabit it,
how tiiey live, what their blood, language,
customs and religion may be, none can
tell. From the Dcginning they seem to
have sworn that no strangers shall set
foqt within their domain, and fiercely
have they repelled all who sought admis
sion. Even powerful expeditions, such
as that of 1< 83. projected and led by
Tristan, bishop of Nicaragua, and another
in 1849, have been boldly met atd driven
back. Catholic missionaries, who went on
peaceful errands, appeared to have fared
no better, for not one of them returned to
tell the story of his adventure.
The latest information, concerning this
singular tribe was found in the Carpnista
ne Costa Rica, and waa furnished by an
officer in the Costa Ricin service. Said lie:
“Between the peaks of the lofty volcanoes,
Orosi and Miravalles and the river of San
Carlos, extends a vast plain, inhabited by
the Guatusos. It is pretended tint this
tribe is descended from the colonists who
fled from Espasza when that city waa
taken by the filibusters of antiquity. Such
as have’chanced to see any of them affirm
that they nre white, have beards anil are
practiced in a certain system of military
discipline. Foreign to Costa Rica, yet in
habiting the richest zone of its territory,
this people greatly piqued our curiosity
when we accompanied the expedition
against the modern filibusters, on the San
Juan river, but though we went a long
distance up the Frio we never found any
of them.”
More fortunate was a colonel of the
Costa Rican division unuer Gen. George
Canty, who descended the northern mourn
tains' and entered the San Juan at the time
when forts, steamboats and everything else
in possession of Walker’s forces were so
brilliantly taken, nnd who related that, as
the rear guard of the division was passin;
a dense forest, it was struck by a shower o:
arrows from the thickets. Quickly reply
ing with snnzketz and minnic halts, a
piercing shriek was heard within the forest,
and the branches crackled as though a mul
titude were rushing through them. Cut
ting a path witn their mediates through
thick underwood the soldien found the
body of a beamiful young woman, almost
naked and perfectly white, who had been
mortally wounded and who died as they
gently lifted her.
OVERFLOWED.
The Savannah River at Au
gusta Up 38 Feet. .
with life, to the astonishment of
assembled about mv coffin -nd il W
my relatives. But' I was 0 „i,
conscious of happiness, being uLnWl
jni-’-’l. My .--lii, 11111.T-111;,.|,- 1
side was broken badly, as was a uL l,!i |
lar-bune, and mt the I,-ft 1
were broken and the hip-ball socuV',1
THE CITY IN TOTAL DARKNESS.
~~ ' ! whereas I left an unbeliever, I earn, t
Water Several Feet High tn liroml Street firmly conscious that there is a h ”
that there are two parts of humtnit,
spirit or true man and the phvsici 1
apparent one.” 11
Mr. Prigel’s story was told in .-i
concise manner, nnd ns though
convinced of his theory and exn.,1
Although the severe injuries w”ul
. some traces on his once stalwart trim. ?*
• | has a strong, intellectual cast of conns
Stores and «m the Lower Floors of
Dwellings, and lSrea*t*II!gh
In Some of the Streets.
on account of high water. At noon the
river is 36 feet 5H inches and is still rising
Blowly. In 1865 the river was 37 feet above
low-water mark, in 1872 it was 33 feet and in
1840 was 36 feet 6 inches. The grades of
the streets have been raised several feet. It
is thought the present freshet will do no
serious damage to property. The weather
is now clear and the waid is from the north
west.
highest since ’40.
The Savannah river has flooded this city
Heavy rains have brought the river up to.
the highest register since 1840. The water
rose rapidly and at 9 o'clock p. m. is still
rising, having stopped cotton factories in 1
the western end of the city, and transform
ing the business and residence portion into
islands. Broad street, four mites long, is in
fair boating condition. Currents are run
ning through cross streets from Broad to
Green. Stores are flooded from one to two
feet, but the merchants generally have
moved their goods to shelves and counters.
Many persons are sitting to-night at their
doors wat filing the tawny tide. Wires are
down in many directions, and not, a single
train will leave the city to-night.
The belief is general that the hightest point
has been reached, and In spite of the general
inconvenience, the people are patient and
good-natured.
DROWNED ON THE STREET.
In the upper and outer edge of the city
the sufferings among families in low build
ings will be considerable, but steps will soon
be taken to relieve them. One man is
reported dead from fright, and an old colored
fishmonger was drowned to-day on Ellis
street
The buildings of the great national exposi
tion to open here next month are high and
undamaged, and work .... them is uninter
rupted. The last great freshet was just at
the close of the war iu 1865, when the river
registered 36 feet 11 inches. To-night it is
37 feet 6 inches. Ia 1872 the river rose to
37 feet 5 ioches, aud in 1840 the water was
37 feet 10 inches. The latter figures may be
reached to-night before the water recedes.
The weather Is clear and a moonlight night
makes the city sparkle in the presence ot a
flood, the eqaal of wliicfii lias been witnessed
by few citizens of the present generation.
AT .MIDNIGHT.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 10.—[Special.] -Augusta
is entirely covered ivitli'.water to-night. The
river measures 38 feet nnd is still rising.
Ills bcnU the highest record known since
1810. The water is several feet in all the
stores on Broad and on the lower floors of
residences. It it in the telegraph office, and
this may be seat from the ticker on the
water level.
It Is simply impossible to go out for news,
for there Is no gas and no electric lights, and
boats will not run in the dark. The few men
who go out wade waist-deep ia water In the
streets.
IIE SAW HEAVEN.
A Murderous Assault.
Atlanta, Sept. 10.—Sunday morning
a hi m 3 o’clock three mep waylaid Charles
Berry, a colored man, dear the corner of
Elliott and Magnolia streets. The men
used knives and sticks. Iierrv waa badly
injured. One of his arms waa nearly sev
ered from his body at the shoulder, and
several gashes were cut in his left side,
breast and hip*. Berry, in this condition,
ran to the gas works, where be is em
ployed. He does not know who the men
are who ent him. His condition is re
garded os critical.
Cheaper Clothing for Hdnitsf Children.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“If sheep could be seen through n spy-
S lu* grating on the gnus of the planet
lars the protectionist* would wish to
heaven they could get ’em for the take of
their wooL But over in Australia—which
might as well be a continent of Man as
far aa we are eanrernad—there is plenty of
cheap wool, which, ta they aay, it would a
sin to buy even to put on the hacks of little
children whofeel the ocld.”
Augusta, Sept. 10.—Heavy rains Sunday
along the Savannah valley caused the river
to rise rapidly lost night and this morning.
Three inches of rain fell from 1 o’clock Sun-, 0I c
day morning until laat night. Tho city is I ? 8n ^ e ; his blue eyes being deep !!j
covered with water in manv places to a ! intelligent. 11 is complexion is sal| 0 »,.,
d.p.1, „f Ail milli aro
though slightly reserved and quiet rel
his religious views arc strongly ezpr^JJI
MY It ON BANGS GIVES 810.000.
Ho Is a “Protected” Manufacturer, but b, I
lleves in Tartu lleform. 1
From the New York World.
Ten thousand dollars for the nstiomil
democratic campaign fund from a repnbli
can of 20 years’ standing! Ten thouaoj
dollars from suuh a man, because he hop
for the success of a principle, means som*.
thing.
Everybody who lives in Senator His-
cock’s district knows Myron Bangs, the
millionaire manufacturer ol a well ’’pro.
tected” industry. He lives at Fairviev
five miles from Syracuse. Mr. Bangs his
always been consistent in his politics in
deed, it may be said that he has been t psni.
san, for when Folger ran against Clevelul
in this state and Mr. Bangs had with hia
as a guest the sister of Grover Clevelul
he permitted no feeling of friendship to in
terfere with his inditical convictions. He
voted, and as tar in his power lay he in-
duced his friends and relatives to vote, for
the Republican candidate. Foiger’a over
whelming defeat followed, and following
it, but not because of it, came Mr. Bangs
change of heart. He became a Democrat
This is a matter of history ia Syracuse sol
thereabous, but it was not until yesterday
that the complete and thorough conversios
wss made manifest.
“It is true,” said Mr. Bangs to a World
reporter in the Hoffman house last night,
“that I have given $10,000 to the cam
paign fund of the national democratic
committee. I did it because I thought it
was proper to do so—b-esa:e my convic
tions tend that way. You cannot, norcsi
anyone, say that I had nny selfish end to
gam by doing what I did. My opinion
nre my own. They have never been for
sale, nor os long as I live will they ever
he bartered for place, power or money. 1
believe that the present administratis
represents what is best for
the couutry at large, and, representing
that, it should be sustained. For twenty
years 1 was a consistent republican. For
twenty years there was no man in tlw _]>■
publican party in tho state of New York
who believed more thoroughly in its prin
ciples, or stood more firmly by its utter
ances and principles than myself. Iio««-
Conkling was the grandest exponent ol
those principles who ever lived—the
grandest nnd most magnificent specimen of
honest, earnest manhood who ever enunci
ated a political principle. He was my
ideal of a state •■man, my conception of >
pure politician. There is no need of my
going over the old history of the troubles
over the eolb-clor of the port, and the purl
that Mr. Conkling took in that meniorabls
event. People who have followed up
New York citr politics understand it
thorough and they under# ood, too,
that Mr. Conkling stood <*
the highest pedes: al of integrity iu all his
actions, connected with the administrations
of Presidents Uurfield and Arthur. I, is
common with oth-r men, iinder-und lhe.-e
things, and, 1* si 'es that, I know the mas
personally. Yon can unclHetsad. then,
Unit my change in politics must be pil'd/
(iota a (lersonal conviction. My business,
that of cement manufacturing, is one that
has received special attention at the hinds
of republican politicians, I employ 300
men, mostly Irishmen. Ask them, it yon
please, whether a democratic employer u
of less benefit to them than a republican
employer. All of them have hom*», sod
all of them, so far aa I know, *r* «° B *
tented.” , .
“Then you don’t take much slock in the
tariff and free trade question?"
“No. It is simply a lot of talk. Mr.
Cleveland represents the correct pnnciP'I*
nnd that la why I heve signified my belisl
that Mr. Cleveland should be re-elected.
Mr. Bangs is a hale old gentleman ot
about sixty. He has closely cropped gray
whiskers and a rubicund face, whose strut*
ing characteristics nre iu firm meuth zoo
■„ . . ... , , w " 1, ‘ expressive eyes. A broad, high forehead,
ling, but immediate v regained it at the square c .in and straight Grecian now m-
ccwation of motion and was surprised to see ,h c force and determination of >»
my body lying dead, surrounded by the 1 nitt „ , m | |,j* ,W’i! (etBit ’ utterance* hespe* 1 ;
workmen of thenlaceandcrowdsofcurion* hi, c aud . notion Mr. Bangs is one el
strangers. I felt my spirit dapsri, and t i, e w.-althieHt men in Ids part of the
lmmedsately questioned the people about, • anil hi, opinions are generally respecreb
a* I felt I had power to voice my thoughts,' --
MnEnttudeot the Indiana Campaign,
Indianapolis, Sept. 7.—The outside
public may gain some faint idea of the
magnitude of the great political battle
that ia just getting fairly und-r way in
every township and county of Indiana
when it is learned that the democ
racy has 2,500 local speakers through
out the state who have already
canvassed their own counties and
are now exchanging with adjoining
counties. The majoritv of this army o l
orators are assigned for speeches eve*r
night in the week for two or three wcelu
ahead, when a new assignment will lie
made. The democratic state committee
.acilitates the work by arranging aasign-
menta for local speaker* through district
and county committee*.
The list of local speaker* on the books
of the republican state committee is not
complete as yet, but 1,660 names arc listed
which is an average of nearly fifteen t
•■a. Ii ..f the ninety.two ...untie*. The
work of wlmiTu date* and places to* thin
host of »|>#ai:ers is largely done through
Strange Experience or n Man Onee Prepar
ed tor Burial.
From tbeBt. Louis G:obe*l>emocrat.
Mr. John G. Priegel, formerly a decora
tive arlitt of Germany, but now of this
city, is the subject of a very remarkable
experience which he believes to illustrate
forcibly the subtle but powerful influence
of the soul over the body. Until now he
has been reticent in allowing his extraor
dinary adventure to be published but a
Globe-Democrat reporter, learning of bin
place of business, on Second nnd Washing
ton avenue, prevailed on him to give the
truth of the etory. He finally consented
to have the facts of his case made public.
“It is true, as you have heard,” h« said,
“I was dead, some years since, for three
days, and whilst my body was prepared for
burial my soul was in heaven, until the
attraction b tween the spirit and clay be
came so great that my sould was drawn
perforce into its earthly form again. This
is how it happened. 1 waa in Germany
then at work in decorating the ceiling of
the Dammthor theater at Hamburg, when
one day while working I, with three other
men, was accidentally precipitated from
the scaffolding to the ground, a distance of
eighty feet. I lost consci.nisu
falling,
but to my surprise they did not reply or
even seemed conscious that I was about,
or if my words reached them at all, but
continued in their efforts to find a spark
life in rr.y body. Then I felt Jr*wu
from earth and' up into vast space. Before
my death I had been an unbeliever in God
or heaven, but now l became conscience of
sweet strains of music. I heard what I am
sure now were the heavenly choirs, and
while 1 was not yet admitted in the gates,
I wss welcomed by my relatives who had
previously died, who came to greet me.
Three days I spent pleasantly with them,.
when the craving for earth came
to me, and 1 longed irresistibly. (•>]<’-•>
for my soul again to enter iriu.nt m, -mix
iu earthly form. The desire suwasssjsiiils
Lor cabins have bec< "“ e *
thing ”( the past
Aihsm have come great .«
ll-rale, statesmen, U*/ers«'
of those who wereboraia
the purple of Eaj»P*r
courts. No tetter remedy
for purifying the hlnnd was ever made
Warner 1 ; Log Cabin Sarsaparilla. Try
Warner*# “Tippecanoe” to-day.
I
f
ifeMBigU
IW cmtguMj MVtUM. AUU uvmirc f
grew stronger till I became conscious of a I rfm/tnooifbumsd'r"
great pain. This seemed, strange, fori u-C.ltooT.Jl. J..183FcarlM..Newie
knew it was a physical feeling, not of the “oru-
soul. Then again came > blank, and
finally * great and wonderful pain, with ^ttKBKSSBSt Q fj*
WAGON SCALES,
which 1 woke to enter life. 8o much for
my spiritual flight. And now to return to
where my very death occurred. Aa it waa
afterwards told to me, my body was car
ried out with the three men who had died
with me (and who have remained always
dead) aud borne to PL George’s hospital,
where it was prepared for bnrial. My rel
ative* and friend* sobbed their farewells j
over me and I waa placed in a coffin, when j
at ihal moment the physician evinced
some doubt as to life being quite extincl,
or rather as though it waa entering the
form again. The eyelids were found
to be ’qni'ir,’ and tha funeral
therefore indefinitely | .-stpotied Kleetrie
i.attssri. sere at once applied, anil tlie
strongest stimulants a!*.., which . ......1
$60
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