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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION*. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY JANUARY
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THE WEATHER BUREAU.
Sow Our Weather Prediction* are Marie—
The Instrument* Used Vml the
Result* Atttaineil.
The United Staton weather manufactory Is con
siderable of an Institution, but it Is a little erratic
at times, The supply of weather In not always reg-
gtlated according to the demand, and, while the
Country is never allowed-to be wholly out of weath
er, frequently a large quantity In piled up for
Which there Is no need. That may be said to have
J*en the case during the past week or more. Gen
eral Iln/en, fhe present head of the bureau, has
many enemies, and various charges involving ln-
Compcter.cy, have been made for the purpose of
encompassing his removal; but if it were generally
known that he is personally rcsjiousiblefor all the
discomfort, trouble and loss caused by the late ex
tensive snowstorm and “cold snap,” a great deal
Of weight would be Added to the pressure Against
him. “Old Probabilities,” a* the weather ofUccr is
familiarly-known, has been the butt of many jokes,
and at one time very little confidence was enter
tained for his prognoMicatious: but since it has
been demonstrated that lie can furnish all kinds of
wen the i*, and plenty of’it, on very short notice, his
proclamations arc treated with marked respect.
Tlie weather Bureau, ns now organized, is a mil
itary Institution, or an appendage of the regular
it in charge- of the agricultural department,
two thermometers we can, by reference to a ‘‘table
?f tell to u nicety the degree of satura
tion ol the air. The anemometer consists of au
THE WKATUEK BUREAU.
ho positive action has been taken and none Is like
ly to Ik-. Tlie service can be performed cheaper
and better under the present system, and, owing to
the*nature of the work, army discipline is not only
advantageous but almost necessary. Throughout
flic United State* there arc three hundred and
seventy-six signal station*. in choree of nineteen
officers and live hundred men of the signal corps
of the army. Each station is provided with the
Lest instruments, including all the late inventions
for olden ing and accurately recording the con
stant vitiations of the weather. From 133 or these
stations telegraphic reports arc scut daily to Wash
ington; (lie others report by mall. Reports are
received from the trained observers at important
stations three times every twenty-four hour*.
There report* contain full particulars of tho weath
er in the different districts. Seventeen stations
Sn Canada, one In St. Johns, Newfoundland,
nnd one in the northwestern part of British Amer
ica send reports, and there arc over :»00 out-
iignres conveying a large
<tliu leans mem oil 10 Vigilt ClCrkr-, vliuil in nmiui
has a special weather map before him on which ho
marks the particular readings he has been In-
atnictcd to take. There eight maps arc afterwards
comhh.c d In one general map. which then fully
freprttents all phases of tho weather throughout
the territory covered. This mnp Is closely studied
by an cx|*rt signal officer, the “storm centre” lo
cated, the probablo course of coming storms de
termined, nnd the complete "Indication*” made
up for the several districts. ,
The first synchronous weather reports in this
country were msde in November, 1H70. and since
then the rervlec has n'aehed a high state of per
fection. It is asserted by the officers in charge that
ninety pe r cent of the advance bulletins issued aro
Hilly verified, with occasional variations of a few
Boms, while very few, If any, aro absolutely
V. 8. NAVAL OBSERVATORY,
axle from which radiate four arms ha\..»
extremities hemispherical cu|»s to catch the wind,
the velocity of which is estimated by tho number of
revolutions per mluute made by the instrument.
The direction of the wind Is shown by an ordinary
weather vane. Itmustnotbc supposed that the
signal officer is perched on his home top to ob
serve the working* of these indicators, lie t ea'
their record below in his sitting-room ns ma
automatically by the agency of electricity on
itrip of paper wrapped about a revolving drum.
Suppose all tlie data in.at thcWashlngtonofllce ..
4:33 p. m., and that it is found that at Nashville,
Teiiji., and a hundred miles nrouutl it in every di
rection there is an “urea of depression.” au area
of low barometer, say 29:2, while around Nashville
as a centre we may draw a line showing a higher
barometer, say, 80:02, at Cincinnnti. Indianapolis.
St. Louis, lfcmphis, Atlanta, Abiogdon, Va.. and
Wheeling? What is the forecast? There will be a
flow of aJr—winds—inward from all points named
toward Nashville. So far as practical effect is con
cemed, low barometer is equivalent to a denres-
lion of the upper surface of the sea of air in which
we live, and high barometer is equivalent to an
elevation, or wave, which will naturally flow
down and fill up tho depression. There will,
therefore, be an iutlow toward Nashville from all
points of the compass. Like water flowing toward
a hole in the bottom of a tub, the current of tho
air will take ou a whirling motion, ami this cy
clonic movemeut. which, in the northern hemis
phere, under the influence of the earth’s rotation,
is always from right to left, will go on increasing
lu intensity. Violent winds whirling about Niuh-
ville at a distance of about soventy-iivo miles, but
a dead calm perhaps at the city itself. In the or
dinary water whirlpool there is suction down ward,
but in our whirlwind the suction is upward, with,
Of course, a lower barometer. Tho warm, damp
air about Nashville being thus carried by the cy
clonic movement into the upper, colder and less
dense regions of the atmosphere, becomes then ex
panded ami chilled go ns to be Incapable of sus
taining longer in Its Burden of moisturei which
falls as rain or snow. ^Continual rains and
varying fierce winds attest the vigor of
tho meteorological catastrophe. Hut cyclones do
not remain stationary. Tlie record shows that the
"area of low barometer" about Nashville, with its
attendant winds and rains, may he expected to
move eastward with a velocity of about thirty
miles an hour. Instances occur in which steamers
bound from New York to Liverpool overtake and
outstrip the eastward moving area of low pressure.
Sn far w e have spoken onlyof such areas. Hut areas
of high barometer will present no great difficulty
with the principles here presented kept well In
view. An area of high barometer ccntcriiigat Nash
ville, with low barometer at all places two him-
dtew miles distant, would, of course, necessitate an
outflow from that point, nnd the currents thus
generated would, under tho influence of tho earth’s
rotation, be deflected to the right. Such an area
does not. however, io often produce rain: it is
rather the condition of our tenure of good weather.
The station on the summit of Pike’s Peak is one
of the moit important, ns well as the highest, in the
country. It is situated 11,157 feet above sea level,
surrounded by perpetual snow, and In a region
where many of our severest storms have their
origin. The cut of it given above I* from a sketch
by M. Seamans, of Colorado springs, nnd is a per
fect representation. Water freeze* on the Peak
every night in the year, and snowstorms lu July
and August aro not au unusual occurrence. It Is
nine miles, over a most difficult trail, from the foot
of the mountain to the summit, apd the two men
in charge "pack” their provisions ami supplies on
horselmck. But they Iiare enough and some to
spare for hundreds of tourists who lunch there, at
a dollar a head, in the summer season. Many stay
over night and "hunk" In the hut. In this way the
signal officers do quite a thriving business, nnd
tho honest pennies thus turned help lo compensate
them for the isolated existence “ ‘ “
• — tatir - **
THE LATER STORM.
A NEW AND COLDER STORM BREW-
1NG.
The Coldest Weather of the Present Winter at I
Paul-A Snow Drift 3,000 Poet Long-Trains
Blockaded-Report* Prom Southern Cali
fornia-Three Days Snow Storm.
_____ top of tho bleak
mountain. The station hi New York is also an
important one. It Is situated in a largo cupola
above the roof of the Equitable building, corner of
Broadway and Cedar streets, ami commands a lino
view of almost tho entire city, tho harlmr aud a
SIGNAL STATION SUMMIT OF PIKE’S PEAK,
wrong, seme account of the system and Instru
me Hi- med may be interesting to tho majority ol
Tenders. The bureau piuscs Its forecasts upon ob
HcrvutUiiii ns to barometer, thermometer, hygro
meter, unanometer, w eather vane, and rain gauge,
made at ihesamo instant three times a clay at all
Ihc stetfot.s. Each ob*wvcr inspects his instru
ment?. at 7.85 a. nn, 4:35 p. in. and 11:35 p. in..
Washington time, and at one e telegraphs his report
to M r-biiiytoti, when- tho bulletins are made up
end itshcd In each ente one hour and twenty-
five minutes after the observations are made—it t»
u. in.. G p. in. and 1 a. in., respectively. Reliable
weather j ropheer requires that at least four things
be known respecting the condition of the atmos
phere over a wide area—its weight as indicated by
; barometer; Jts temperature, os shown by the
sometimes fouudto be of great s
ice is t
Ihl*vary
ing weight of the atinof-phere at any given place Is
Balance n against the w eight of a column of mer
cury contalne * * * ‘ *
Inches in len&._
a column of air one Inch square and extending to
the upj tr limit of the atmosphere weighs fifteen
pound-; a column of mercury of the same section
and thir.y inches high w eighs the same; hence the
power ot the uir under the conditions mentioned to
sustain in a tube containing a vacuum iu its upper
end a column of mercury or the height named. It
follows, c f course, that tlie height of the mercurial
*w»>TTc-u< iliat a falling barometer is an invariable
iUccium : of a storm: the indications of the instru
ment n:<. tobe relied on only In connection with
' those Of other instrument*. The thermometer? em
ployed i.v the signal nn vice differ from those iu
oral mu >’ me only in being self-recording as re-
• Met re iiui ximnm and nrtuturast temperature.
Tire!.! irljltyoftheniri* uot(ascertained abso
lute Is— tl.nt i- to say. bv nn estimate of the jar-
ccntfcccof weight of im l-iuro toweightof air—but
vr J tli reft re nee to the degree of saturation. Tlie
quantity of reointim-the afrwiii hold depend.- upon
Umi nature, nnd al-o upou its density, or pres,
feu re. A t UbiC root of air having a temperature ot
EOdegree . and under a uniform barometric pres-
fenre of.’-O inches, will hohl 4.2$ grain* of water. If.
under tf-.i ic condition 6 , the temperature or the
priMi.u < ril.c airi> iu< rtua-d, it becomes capable
«jf held it g in suspension an increased quantity of
water; 11: if temperature or pressure be lowered,
there- v 1*1 result a deposition of a portion of
the water in the form of a fog, dew, rain,
frost, Mi»w or hoi!. There is then a point of
feat mat on for each degree of temperature, a- well
os for each variation or pressure indicated by,tlie
Barometer. If thenir be chilled artificially it can lie
made to dt j*»!t its mol-tnre—a* is seen to happen
on the exterior of anunifier containing ice water.
The len't chilling will bring tally saturate*! air to
the "dev. jKilnt,’ 7 while a very dry air would need
tobe I,rot yht almost to the freezing point before it
■would give up its burden of water. Evidently ex-
pored water would not evaporate la a fully satur
ated air. nnd will evaporate more or le*- freely in
>poition to the degree of drynew. As ail
s;x
_ __ ‘'nt.
Which i 1 JRB R.. r l|MpnM|i ..1
Gon»M>ot two ordinary thermometers, oue of
which has Its bulb enveloped lu lamptrir k kept
moist v ith water. In a dty atmosphere this water
—-* *-“** “ - fc, UUr-
"bliz-
goed part of the Atlantic ocean. Tlie late
zard” which swept over tlie entire region oast of
the Rocky mountains was the severest experienced
in many yean*, yet was not predicted or forecast
by tlie weather bureau beyond the mere announce
ment that a cold w ave was .approaching. It is
doubtful If the claims of the institution for the
perfection of its work can be much better sus-
tallied now than in the daysof General Meyer, who
became to cautious at one time that he put out the
SIGNAL STATION, NEW' YORK,
dguals only after his corns advised him the storm
was coming. The coldest point during the late
“snap” wa> in northern Dakota, where the ther-
fanners in that region were out chopping woo l all
day iu their shirt sleeves.
If I Should Die Tonight,
Ik-fore they laid it in Its resting place,
And deem that death had left It almost fair.
And. laying snow-white flowers against my hair.
Would smooth it down with tearful tenderness,
And fold my bands with lingering caress.
Poor lianas, to empty and so cold tonight.
If I should die tonight,
SHU
Errands on which the willing feet had sped.
Tlie memory of my selfishness and pride,
My hasty words, would all be put a-Ide,
And so I should be loved and mom jed tonight.
If I should die tonight,
Even hearts e-dranged would turn once more to me,
Recalling other days remorsefully;
The eve* that chill me with averted glance
Would look upon me a. 1 - of yore, perchance,
And soften, iu the old. familiar way,
For w ho could w ar w ith dumb, unconscious clay ?
.S) I lniuht rest, forgiven of all tonight.
Oh, friend*! I pray tonight.
Keep not your kikes for xny dead, coM brow;
The way h lonely; let me feel them now;
Think gently of me: I am travel-worn;
My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn;
forgive, oh, heart*citrongr»i, forgive, 1 plead,
. «—|* sbali not need
ring tonight.
>AqOU Favorite.
It looks as if we were to have more trou
ble with the weather. A new storm is
brewing in the northwest anti it is already
colder there titan it was last week. The
south has escaped thus far, but may catch
the blizzard during the present week. Tho
signal officers think we will, 'llelow will
he found some adventures of the storm that
will prove interesting.
Washington, January &L—Tho reports to
the chief signal officer show that the antiei
pnted blizzard has at last gotten under way and
is playing havoc in the northwest. From St.
Fanl it is repotted as the coldest of the present
season. The mercury early this morning
ranged from Sr* to .‘15 below zero, and at noon
marked 20 to 25 degrees below, with a high
wind blowing, making it exceedingly disagree-
able. The railways are experiencing serious
difficulty from the drifting snow. The greatest
trouble is on the Pacific and St. Paul
line, near Lake Pepin, where tlie wind is
blowing the snow oil’ the icc on the lake into
the cuts along the road, formiug a heavy block*
ade mid greatly delaying trains. Four en
gines have been at work since daylight “buck
ing’’ the snow and endeavoring to clear tho
track. In Dubuque, Iowa, the mercury is 12
to 15 degrees below zero, and still falling. The
railroads are luidly blockaded. No trains on
tlie Illinois Central, west of Dubuque, aro
moving today. Tho passenger train
leaving Sioux City Thursday evening was
caught near Ccmsou in
A DRIFT 3,000 FEET LONG
and 20 feet deep. The engines arc dead nnd
no provisions nrc obtainable. The thormome-
tens 23 to 20 below. Superintendent Gilloas
says it wi.'I take three to four days to open tho
road. On tho Chicago, Milwaukee atul St.
Paul the north bound passenger train and three
freights nrc in the snow near Winona. Tiio
trains from the north arc moving, but not on
time. West of McGregor the trains are in the
drift nnd everything h at a standstill. Two
passenger trains aro blockaded at Colmar. A
negro in instrcl company is snowed in licar
Marcus and are giving performances on tho
train.
THE CUTS ALL SNOWED IN.
The blizzard struck Marslialtown, Iowa,
this morning, aud everything is snowed in.
The barometer today was 21 below. Tho cuts
nrc all snow packed. No trains can reach
Marslialtown for 2-i to 48 hours. EUendale,
Dakota, reports that with last night enmo tire*
coldest weather of tho winter. It snowed all
night and a strong northerly wind drifted the
snow badly. Tho thermometer this morning
was 40 degrees below zero. The storm has
passed. For suddenness and severity, tho
present blizzard has no superior in Minnesota,
nnd few equals within tho memory of tho old
est inhabitants. At sunrise today
tho mercury stood 331 degrees lower
than at 10 o’clock last night,
or 23.5 degrees below zero; at 0 a. in. it reach
ed its minimum, 20 below and at noon was 22
below, making tho extreme, for 21 hours, en
ded at noon today, at 35 degrees. The protec
tion afforded by the buildings of Minneapolis,
reduced the scusible force of the blizzard con
siderably, but the few farmers who fought
their way in from tho country reported tho
stonn of torriblo severity.
From St. Paul, Minn., it is loarncd that tho
blizzard, which has been raging sinco last
night, is the worst known among tho railroads
for years. In ©very direction it is very cold
and blowing at a terrific rate, filling tho entt,
and lu tho southern part of tho country making
it impossible to keep them clear long oiiougu
to run trains. Tho trains on tho Southern
Minnesota division of tho Milwaukee road
have been abandoned. A heavy freight train
is stuck in tho snow drift* near Lako City. Tho
through train from tho east is now about nine
hours late. The north trains are practically on
time, though exjicriencing rough weather.
FIFTY-BKVEN DEGREES MELOW.
It is 57 degrees iiolow zero at Fort Vincent.
On the western division of the Milwaukee and
St. l’nul everything is all right, though thoro
is more or less drifting.
The weather is intensely cold north
and west, but no blockades. At Mediclno
Fort, Manitoba, last night at D o’clock tho
mercury was 40degrees below, and at Foit
AHsioailioiiio 40 degrees l>elow. There is no
blocadc. Tlie weather is cold today.
The present cxpcricnco
worst tho western road- have known for
years.
REPORTS PROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
The steamer Orizaba, which arrived hero to
day from Los Angeles, brings tho details of tho
devastation produced by the storm in that olty
and vicinity. Tho rains of Sunday and Mon
day and Tuesday wore supplemented by a
c loud burst in San nornurdiiio valley, on tho
last named day, and the Los Angeles river,
almost without warning, became n raging tor
rent and soon flooded tho southern central part
of tho town. Tho water also covered 2.000
acres of orchards and vineyards. Tho river
rc so two feet higher than tlie flood of Febru
ary, 1884. Over fifty houses were washed
awny or completely wrecked. Every bridge
acrcss tiio Los Angeles river was swept away,
also 100 feet of truck of tho Southern Pacific,
and tlie local roads telegraph poles, were in
cluded in the general destruc
tion, nnd for three days the cits
was cut off from railroad communication wit!
the rest of tho world. Mrs. Kato Lytollo and
Theresa Whitney were drowned while being
taken from a partially wrecked house. It is
thought a number of other lives have hron
lost. A large quantity of live stock perished.
The dainnge to property iu the city and county
of Los Angeles is estimated .-it $500,000.
Bismarck, D. T., January 23.—On last even
ing’s last hound train was a party of hunters
who have keen in the Bock mountains several
weeks in Fcarehof game. They reported that
iu many of tho valleys the snow is over
twenty-live feet deep, nnd trappers nnd hun
ters who have been in the mountains for years,
say that they have never seen as much snow
(here before. They predict heavy floods in
the spring aud an immense June rUo in tho
Missouri when the snow melts.
struck the place at midnight Tuesday. Clay
ton Gannott, Sol Camp, Charles Tuttle, Mar
tin Riley, Jay Farris, August Goodwin, A!
Soma and Martin PAttorsou were asleep in a
cabiu whicli was supposed to
be safe as it was built in a grove
of heavy timber, but when tlie slide came
down it snapped tho treos us though they were
pipe stems, hurling them ngaiust the cabiu,
crushing everything. Martin Riley and Au
gust Goodwin had tlieir backs broken. Riley
was suflbeated. When tho slide struck
timber it divided, a part rushing across
the gulch, burying a cabin on tho opposite
side, occupied by threo men, without
injuring them. The men worked their way
out at noon and started to rescue their friends.
On Wednesday evening, after cutting through
numberless fallen trees they effected an en
trance to tlie cabin nnd found three dead and
the other five suffering terribly from suffix*
tion. Sol Camp lay on his face, dead. Tho
body of Jap Farris was pinned across tho buck
by heavy timlicrs. Riley died in five
minutes afterwards. His dying convulsions
nearly caused the death of a man underneath
him. Camp had sustained a terrible cut on
tho head, from which the blood flowed pro
fusely. He became terribly thirsty and, be-
Ing in a position where ho could hold his
hands under his bleeding head nnd life thorn
to his mouth, he quenched his thirst with his
own blood. All tho men found alive were
nearly crazy when discovered. All were un
dressed and had bitten themselves on the
hands and arms in thoir delirium and present
ed a sickening spectacle. They may all re
cover, but iu tlie case of one or two it is ex
tremely doubtful.
Los Angeles, Cal., January 23.—Our tlrut
wire communication with the outside world
sinco Monday has just been established. A
severe rain storm commenced Sunday And las
ted till Wednesday, 4.55 inches fulling. On
Tuesday morning there was a cloudburst
in the mountains and tho Los Angeles river
rose with frightful rapidity, going two feet
hove flood of lh84.
Dawson,Pa.,January 21.—Last uiglit a party
of young folks were enjoying themselves on
tho icc in Voughinghcny river, wkon n young
lady named Riser foil into nil air-liolo. Her
escort, James Marshall, rushed to her roscuo,
but the ico broke letting him into tiio water.
Before aid could reach them tho current swept
them under tho ice, and both were drowned.
The bodies have not yet been recovered.
Salt Lake City, January 21.—At Park
( ity last night a suowslidc overwhelmed a miner,
named Thorstrom. Early this morning a slide
higher up the gulch wrecked the cabin of A. U.
i’Allcrton. i’attcrton nnd his wife were killed.
Nf.w York, January 22.—Health Officer
Faison today seized several hundred boros of
frozen oranges, poured carbolic acid over them
aud dumped them at tho offal dock. They
hud boon frozen in transit from Florida. Frozen
oranges arc dangerous to health bocauso of the
mould between the segments of the pulp after
tho oranges are frozen, nnd because of tho im
pregnation of the wliolo fruit with the essen
tial oil of tho skin.
Victoria, B. t’., January 22.—The distress
among tho Chinese is appalling. Many of
them aro begging, but most of them aro steal
ing and housebreaking. Tho mayor has in
formed the Chinese merchants bore that thoy
must contribute to tlie support of their starv
ing countrymen. It has been proposed to es
tablish soup kitchens to relieve the prevailing
distress.
Dks MOINEs. Iown, January 21.—Tho Iowa
Stnto Register thinks tho present will bo the
severest winter ever known. The following
from tho Register will show what aort of
weather Iowa has had:
This looks like
Iowa winters, in i
In northern Iowa at least. Snow tlmn was four feet
on the level, and even the wagon ways were block-
The writer of this remembers two months
Jme when lu Grundy county, the farmers
could not tako their horses out of tho barn, and
when the only way to get mail was to go on snow
shoes for it to the imstotuco six miles away. That
was a blockade absolute. Home times, when tho
snow was level with the fences, there would be a
across a frozen creek, between Dalton and
Spring Place, when the horso slipped ou tho
glassy hurface, aud fell in auch a manner that
his neck was broken. Mr. Holland’s loss is
about $150.
The cold wave In tho Cohuttahs drove many
of tho wild animals Inhabiting those moun
tains to the vallies below in reach of better
protection and more food than could bo found
in the rocky heights. In aomo instances the
deer, driven desperate by the pangs of hunger,
would approach near enough to the farm houses
to he captured with but little difficulty.
During tho recent severe cold spoil, as the
dated swamps, embargoed, ti
high land by ice. Captain Charlie Philips,
taking in the situation at a glance, went to tho
rescue nnd safely transported the cattle to tho
hills.
The Athens Banner says: Mr. M. B. Me
Ginty comes up with the most marvelous talc
of this century. Mr. M., like every other
man in Atlicus that can afford it, hua a flue
Jersey cow with a pedigree running back to
the isle of Jersey. On tho Hth of this month,
during tho first part of the cold wave, this
now famous eow gave birth to a calf which
froze to death. Yesterday this mi mo cow gave
birth to another calf, that is alivo nnd doing
well. It was ten days !>etw’ecn the birth of
tho first mll'nnd the last one. Thisought cer
tainly to increase tlie valuo of Jersoyi and
especially Mr. McGinty'scow.
A General Justice of the fence.
From tho Monte/mini, Ga,, Record.
It is said that in the neighboring county of
Taylor there is a justice of tho pence who acta
as judge, jury and administrator. Not long
ago he tried a case of divorce between two
colored |»eople. He put tho case to trial as a
judge nud decided that both parties were enti
tled ton divorce, ns a jury and then proceeded
to administer on the effects of tho parties, giv
ing the wonmn her share and tiio man his.
It is presumed also that his littlo feo camo in
nloinf towards the last. Whcthor short divi
sion or long division wo cannot say.
A Good Hal tbit Hunt.
From tlie Griffin, Ga., New*.
A few days ago Uncle Jeff Ellis discovered
sixteen rabbits in Ids well as lie was clounlug
it out.
Hurtboldl nnd HJsStntuo,
A little five-year old, who was traveling to
California with her parents, astonished thorn
by saying ns the train passed through a canyon
in tho Rocky Mountains: "Why, mn, look at
the picture on the rock,—n monk holding up a
buttle with an electric light around it. Nowl
know where Bartholdi got hi* idea of the
statue of liberty.” Her father laughed: "Very
likely,” he said, “but that picture stands for St.
Jacobs Oil, which cured you of rheumatism
last winter.”
We respectfully call the attention of every
stihfCTibcr to tho seed advertisement of .Tamos
.MI. Gregory, Marblehead. Mass. His largo
and complcto catalogue is sent freo.
dated ychtorday says: Snow ha* l»cen rallingcon-
timiosly for three days and covers the ground
to a depth of almost three feet. This after-
noon as tho four o’clock shift was waiting to
go on at Aspen mine, the men heard a noise,
and looking up, saw a snow slide coming down
the mountain. They made a rush for the
dump nnd got under it, thus saving their
lives. The slide struck the shaft and engine
houses, completely demolishing them and
killing John Rose, n mine carpenter. The
engine and boiler were badly damaged. The
engineer was thrown nnder tho boiler, which
\vn» buried under ten feet of snow. Ho was
afterwards recovered alive. John Leonard,
one of flic owners of the Conemara mine, nnd
several other men were near the shaft house
but cm aped with only a few bruises. At fivo
o’clock tho fire bell announced
flic occurrence of another slide. This
time nt Washington mountain. Investigation
febowed that two drivers, with their mules and
wagons, hud been buried under fifteen feet of
mew near Aquisition mine. Seven men, who
fetarlcd from here this morning for Maroon
pass to return nt noon, have not sinco been
tcard from. It is supposed that they were
buried under a third elido, reported to have
orcurred on the pass nt about noon. There was
another slide near Gamp Bird mine, but no
demoge is rejKirtcd. Ail tho avalanches fol
low rd in the track of one three years ago that
killed five men at Vallejo mine.
AfePEK, Cob. January 23.—Republican Ma
roon pass rood has l**en the scene of a fearful
loss of iifeduring the recent storm. While
men were hunting yesterday for the bodfei in
Thursday’s snowsildc word was ^pceived of an
other further up the cintu. Anavalauch
be <1 riven 'everywhere, across the country un<1 over
the topsot life fences.
This threaten* to bo a winter or deep snow. Old
settlers in Iowa iomember winters when tho snow
was four feet deep on tho level, nnd when every
lime nod highway that was fenced was filled level
with snow, and hor** remained useless in tho sta
bles, and snow shoes were tho only methods of
getting back and forth to town. This may bo such
n winter again. It has a temperature and
like they lipd—"a feeling” that there Is
deal in tho air that ha* to come down.
blockade is raised, it ia the duty of every ouc that
has a family lu f •——•—- •-
, bo htopped, If the snow shall come ns deep as
itjefid, any in the winter of iHtfl-fl.*.
WRAPPED IN A~STORM.
The Element* Heading Down from the
Northwest,
Ran Francisco, January 21.—Ono of tho
severest storms that has over occurred on this
coast began on Sunday and reached Its height
shortly afternoon today. It extended from the
northern boundary of Washington territory to the
aoutlicm boundary of California, and from the
Rocky mountains to tho I’acifle ocean. There was
an almost continuous fall of rain and snow,
accompanied by wind, whl'di, from
miles an hour, gradually
incicarcd until about half part ono o’clock this af
ternoon, when it blew elglrty-two miles au hour.
The norm was predicted by the signal service, aud
the cautionary storm signal was displayed by order
of Lieutenant Glaaaford, from tlie flag staff of tho
merchants' exchange building.* owing to this
timely notice, many vessels remained iu port and
thus escaped tho Airy of the storm.
TIIF. SCENE ON THE BAY.
Although the bay, inahlo the liarlmr, was very
rough, the passenger* on tiio ferry IxMt- lieing
made tca-slck, the shipping did not suffer. Con
siderable damage, however, was dono throughout
the city by wind nnd rain, Houses were unroofed,
sheds, fences, trees, awnings, signs, church spires
and many smokestacks were blown down, huge
late glass window* were shattered, basements
.. Hided and shutters broken. The car* were lifted
from their tracks by tho force, of the wind, and n
covered wagon was caught up and carried some
distance. No loss of life, however, has been
L Al)OUt 1JJ0 p. m:, wheg the wind was at
fit. tho west wall of the Mechanics' pavll-
tun nua blown in, and n few minutes after about
hi feet of the roorof the building was carried across
the street, damaging the buildinrr- on the opposite
side. The damage to the pavllllon amounts to
several thousand dollars. One of tho ino-t unfor
tunate disasters caused by the storm was the col
lapse of a two story building at MUdon and Thir
tieth streeta. At the time of tho collapse Mr*.
Annie Itumlolt, Miss Coyle and John Carroll were
in the building. Carroll cscstud, but the women
were burled tiuder the falling walls, and severely,
perhaps fatally, injured.
CUT OFV FROM Till: WORLD,
The most serious rc suits of the storm was to cut
off Fan; FrandfCO entirely, for the first tlmo
iu it* history from telegraphic communication with
tlie outside world. The wires began going down
yesterday, one after another, until the final break
< ( i um d about 12:30 this afternoon. For a short
time the city wires were rendered useless. A lsn»
for» e of men Is now repairing them, but up to mid
uight no connection has been made. This dispatch
i» sent from here by mail to 8acramcnto,wlience U
will be forwarded to Its destination. Washout 1
have occurred on the Hoiithcm Pacific road at sev
eral places between Majuvc ami Ynmn. They’aro
not considered serious, and the road will lai repair
ed in three or four daya at furthest.
TIIE EXTENT OF THE DISASTER.
Exact information cannot Ik- obtained. Little or
i delay lias occurred on thr Central Pacific, al
though there has been a snow AU between Triickee,
allfornla. and Iteno, Nevada. No lu formation
Wood Polnou.
Three years ago I contracted blootl poison.
I took mercury nnd imtash for six months
without any henoflt. 1 then took Swift's Hpo-
ific nud it soon drove awny every symptom of
the disease. 1 recommend S. S. 8. on ovory
occasion, as it is really a boon to humanity,
nnd every one suffering with blood poison can
tako it with great confidence.
Frof. Edwin Baar,
234 East 32d street.
New York, January 13,188«.
Eczema.
1 have had salt rlioutn for a long time and
have su fie red much from the offccts of moroury
which J have taken for its rcllof, L have
tmvo/feri all over tho United States and Europe
nnd have nover found anything to bonoflt me
ns S. 8.8. lias done. My mercurial rheumatism
is all gono and my salt rlioutu is uoarly so.
was also affected with malaria, and 8. 8. 8. has
relieved me of it, aftor having tried qiiiuino
and every thing else I could hoar of with no
pcrmauciit benefit, 8. E. Kelsey, .
Box iff, Baloui, Mans.
January 11,1880.
M t — II
BLOOD HUMORS 11
H t SM!H, ATI ,M° ERUPTIONS, ITCHING AND
a"!*™'i 18 kkln tortures, loathsome sore* and erl
P>“P>T. iuborttell
Ik I? . .TA L. ii of [bn Muort
skin and *calp, W'ithlossof hair, from infancy lo
iSV u ffiSSSS5? 1 i8fc^“ B “ Kc ” lTen '' ,to
COVERED WITM SOUKS.
1 h*y e been afflicted since last |March with a
Ddn disease tho. doctors colled eczema. My am
MRS. CLARA A. FREDERICK,
Broad Brook, Conn.
SCALP, FACE, KARS AND NECK.
I was afflicted with eczema on the scalp, fare
ears and neck, which the druggist, where ! got
your remedies, pronounced one of the worst ease*
that had come under his notice. He advised inn
to try your Cutieura remedies, and after five days’
me my scalp and part of my fare were entirely
cured, and I hope in another week to have my
ears, ucek, and the other part of my face cured.
HERMAN SLADE,
120 E. -Ith Street, New York.
ITCHING DISEASES CURED.
Cutieura stands at the head of Its claw, espeo
tally is this the care with the Cutieura Soap. Have
* na au unusually good safe this summer, owing to
o prevalence or an aggravated form or Itch
through some localities in tlie country. In which
the l utlcura Remedies proved sal i-factory.
W. L. HAKDK2G, Druggist,
Fnlontown, Ky.
CCTICUItAlttMEDIKS.
Are told by all druggists. Price: Cuticura 50
cents: Resolvent. 91;Soap,25cents. Potter Dboo
Weakness. For Aching Hide* and
Back, Kidney Pains, Sciatica, Ghost
Pains, Weakness and Inflammation,
tho Cuticrna Anti-Pain Plaster Is Infallible. 25c.
sun wed wk
MM
•£5lood Re n ewer -
Farewell to tlie Excruciating Fains of Itheu-
tlani.
I write to state my opinion of Guinn's Pioneer
Blood Rkmewkr ns a blood mediclno and tho
effect It has had on myself snd others. Words can
hartlJy express all 1 would like to say, but for years
I suffered tho most rxcrntlatlng pain from rheu
matism and pain* arising from disordered conat
ion of blood before using tho Blood Itciiewer, lie-
ng for months unablo to walk or move my lower
General Walter C. Newberry, formerly
mayor of Petersburg, lms fallcn heir to 9500,000.
MRS. WlN8LOW'B SOOTHING BYRUP tor Ohll-
dreu teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma
tion, allays all pain and cures wind oolkL ttoents
a bottle.
Jamkm Smith, of Fayettovillo, North Caroli
na, attempted to set lire to the bridge over Capo
Fear river a short litno ago. He has been scutlto
the insane asylum,
Tlie Combination off ngrodlont* used In mak
ing Hiiown’n Bronchial Trocuka 1* such a* to give
the bc»tpq**lblo effect with safely. They aro tho
l*-st remedy iu use for Coughs, Colds, and Throat
Diseases.
William Robertson, who died nt Magnolia,
N. C„ the other day, left 205 descendants.
Catarrh and Ilroncliltis Cured.
A clergyman, after years of suffering from that
loathsome dlsca**, Catarrh, and vainly trying every
known remedy, nt last found n prescription which
completely cured and saved him from death. Any
sufferer from this dretdfu 1 disease sending a aeft
Rddrrwcd stamped envelope to Dr. J. Flynn di (Jo.,
117 East 15th st., New York, will receive tho receipt
free of charge. declflwkoow
, -tberpoi
received,owfog to the lack of w ireVommimiration.
GEORGIA OU ICE.
riions o
: the
The largest Icicle ever seen in Taliaferro
•ourity community was re|#>rtp«l at Mr. W. IL
Kendrick’s mill duriifg tho recent cold spell.
15 feet long and 3 feet thick.
A Bartow fanner’s pet heifer dropped a fine
half Jerrey calf during the blizzard. The little
rreuturc was about to freeze when found, but
the little mother had Jain down behide It, plac
ing her body in line with the bleak north wind,
and ns nearly as possible encircling tlie baby
calf.
Mr. George C. Davis, of Taliaferro, says he
raw some trees that would measure II inches
in diameter that were spilt like you had driven
an iron wedge in it.
Jeree Holland, of Dalton, lost one of ItU
most valuable dri ring hone* one day hit
week in rather a singular manner. A com*
rnercifeltnan attempted to drive tho anirual
Prophylactic In Hlckness*
‘•Tho Typhoid Fever baa broken out bore
again, hut wherever Darbys Prophylactic Fluid
lias been freely used there lias been no Fever.
—M. B. Lancahteb, 1*. M„ Kd. ‘(’sntral Ala-
bemian.'”
"Tho Fluid is not a deodorizer, merely, but
b disinfectant—a destroyer of tho insalubrious
element in an atmosphere which cannot bo
breathed without danger.—New York ‘Evening
Post.’ w
Jostab Davis's Trouble.
Josish Davis, North Middletown, Ky.,
writes: “I am now using a box of your
Henry's C'arboltc fislvo upon an ulcer which,
for tho past ten days, has givon me great
pain. This salve is tho only remedy I have
found that 1ms given me any casp. My ulcer
was caused by varicose veins snd was pro
nounced incurable by the medical advisers. I
find, however, that Henry’s Carbolic Salve it
effecting a cure." Beware of imitations.
Dolan’ Sure Core KoolhWuh Dtntifrire.
pared
Ga. 1
For sale by all DroggUts and Dentlsta
taken ilioiit one-half gallon; and it has
now been two year* or mom Mnce Ihavo used It,
snd have sinco suffered very little—nothing, com
paratively speaking. I have also fUrnlsbod several
persont* with tho Blood Kenower, and each of them
experienced great relief Bom the use of It.
Rockmart, Ga. g. h. CHERRY.
Tho above Certificates are but a few Instanoes of
thousands in our powemion, allowing sufferers who
have been relieved of every form of Blood and 8kln
diseases. Femalo Complaints, Dyspopsla. Byphills,
Mercurial Rheumatism, Blood poison and Malaria!
ForfUllinfoi-mstUm our free namphloi on Blood
and Bkln Diseases will bo furnished on application
to iho
MACON MEDICINE CO., Mnoon , Ga.
Bold'ln powdered form
trftn or witnopt spirits; i
Whwi
HENRY’S
Carbolic Salve
The most Powerful Healing Ointmont
ever Discovered.
Ucnrj’i Ctrbollc Noire cares Sores.
Hcnrjr’, Carbolic Nulrc alia,, Ilunu.
Henry', Carbolic Nairn care* llralrc.
Henry', Carbolic Sal re heal, PlmplM.
Henry', Carbolic Nalro cures I'llcs.
Henry’s Carbolic Nalrc lical, Cut,.
Ask for Henry's, and Tako No Other,
wnmvAR* or coroTEnram-t»
nov2£-1p son lues wed Urn wky
UNIVERSAL GRAVITY LEYEL.
The Greutnt nnd Grandest Dlmveryofthe Age.
NO HILL 81DB.MTCUK8, ETC.
Detached from tabla;
Cin usa ai two foot-
measure, trUquarco, or
any dctlrod angle.
All ‘ on ' scientific
principle*. No in?re
Actual Certainty
by gravity register.
Farmer* and o'.h^rs
can use with accuracy
aud
1)3 Effective Work,
9 rhtl
handling.
Tlmoilnlltn* cost
Eight Tlmo* at m tots
mi T nu expert to UAui*
pulato.
Our Level with Patented Target $5.00,
We place It in the reach of all.
Manufacturers East aud our Hardware Arms
fndotre it.
Literal Discount to tho Trade.
l'.c>(Miiu*ble agents with s-ma.ll capital aud team
in make from 15 lo 910 per day.
References and circulars on application.
THE UNIVERSAL GRAVITY LEVEL CO..
JJ7 ti. Broad St., Atlanta. Ga.
Mention this paper, wky
TO ALL LOVERS
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