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Huxthr, Local Editor.
W. T. CONN & CO.,
W HOLESALE DEALERS in Sta
ple and Fancy Groceries, Tobac
cos. Cigars, &c.
Milledgeville, Ga., Feb. 20th, 1869. 5 Gra
The Edwards House,
O FFERS the best accommodations
for Transient and Regular Board
ers. Special inducements for College
students.
WARREN EDWARDS.
Milledgeville, Ga., Jan. 1, ’86. 26 ly
WOOD YARD!
W°OD ^'iv^TSER.
Milledgeville, August 3rd, 1886. [4 tf
THE EARTHQUAKE.
On Thursday, 31st August, the res
idents of this city were made to expe
rience the startling sensations attend
ant upon a veritable earthquake and
one which, for its intensity and alarm
ing manifestations, has never been
equalled in this region in all its past
historv. since its settlement by white
people. The writer was sitting quiet-
lv reading at home, at the time men
tioned, no one else being on the prem
ises except the cook in the kitchen,
when the windows began to rattle
and the floor to move apparently with
an up and down motion and at the
same time there was a dull roaring to
be heard almost like a coal burning
locomotive at a distance. The idea at
once occurred to us that it was an
earthquake and we went to the door
in a short time to hear more distinct-
lv the roaring sound mentioned above.
The violence of the shaking still con
tinuing, we went out into the street,
when we heard loud screaming in one
direction and shouts and cries in va
rious directions. All the people of
the town were evidently aroused and
greatly excited and alarmed—very
manv being out in the streets.
The first shock occurred at about
9.25 o'clock, sun time, and lasted we
thought, nearly, if not quite a minute.
After going to* a neighboring house
to try and quiet the fears of some la
dies who we feared would be greatly
frightened, we returned home, resum
ed our reading and took notes of suc
ceeding shocks, which occurred as
follows: as above stated the first
shock, by sun time, occurred at 9.25
o'clock, at 9.40 there was another not
nearlv so severe, at 9.50 there was an
other* then at 10 o’clock another, at
10.20 another, at 10.28 another, and at
12.45 another. All these -were noted
by the writer w ho then retired to bed
and went to sleep. A member ot our
family noticed another shock at 4.20
o’clock, and another shock was ob
served in various places in tow r n at 8
o’clock Wednesday morning, and at
ten minutes before 5 o clock in the
afternoon still another slight shock
was noticed. Other shocks were no
ticed at about 11 o'clock Wednesday
night, Thursday morning at 4 o'clock
and Friday night at 104 o'clock, the
latter being a more notable one than
the others. On Saturday night an
other shock occurred at 9 o’clock and
till another on Sunday night at 10:30.
The earthquake while doing no
great damage, left its marks in va
rious parts of our city. At the old
McComb Hotel, the top of one chimney
Fell off and a good many brick fell off
several other chimneys. In the Oco
nee house the plaster ing fell in a num-
Miss Rosa Mapp, the eldest daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mapp, of
this city, has been visiting the family
of Gen. C. Irvine Walker, relatives of
theirs, at Summerville, S. C., twenty-
two miles North-West of Charleston
When it was ascertained that no com
munication with that city could be
obtained, Miss Rosa’s parents were
greatly concerned about their daught
er’s safety. They were finally howev
er greatly relieved by a telegram from
Columbia, S. C., saying that she and
Gen. Walker’s family had reached
that city in safety, but that the house
in which they had lived in Summer
ville had been destroyed. On Satur
day morning last, Miss Rosa, accom
panied by her cousin, young Mr.
Wilson Walker, arrived in this city
and in a short time the writer had the
pleasure of an interview with them
Miss Rosa, when the great shock
came, ran hastily from her room and
thereby her life was probably saved
for in a few moments the house was so
complete a wreck, although not
wholly shaken to pieces, that every
body feared to enter it, as there still
remained a continuous shaking of the
j clothing, provisions,
bedding, furniture and other property
of the family were covered up in the
ruins of the dwelling and probably at
this writing, (Saturday,) it so remains.
At the time of our visit, Mrs. Mapp
was gening material to supply the
loss of her daughter’s wardrobe.
The young refugees related many
interesting incidents of the earth
quake in Summerville, which, it seems
well settled, was about the very cen
tral point of the disturbance. Many
cracks in the earth was observed,
mostly running nearly North and
South, from which after a time water
began and continued to run, bringing
with it a blueish mud mixed with
gravel. The young lady informed us
that the water was warm, showing
that it must have come from a depth
of two, three or four thousand feet;
calculating by the known increase of
the temperature of the earth, as we
penetrate into its depths. The house
of Gen. Walker was removed bodily
two or three feet, there being that
space between it and the steps at the
front door, which remained unmoved.
The general wreckage of all the dwell
ings at Sunnnersville is the more re
markable, as they were all frame
buildings, the town being largely
composed of summer residences of the
wealthier citizens of Charleston, who
availed themselves of the railroad to
pass to and from that city, where
they still attended to their business
during the summer. If they had
been built of brick, the loss of life
would inevitably have been fearful.
One remarkable fact was mentioned
by young Mr. Walker, to the effect
that the colored people were attend
ing services in one of their churches,
near where he lived, at the time of
the earthquake, and that amid the
general destruction of houses, that
building was almost without a sign of
injury. He did not visit the church
himself but saw some of the white cit
izens coming out of it who had been
making an investigation and they as
sured him that it was so. Our limited
space compels us to refrain from re
lating other interesting facts and expe-
; riences "which we gathered in our pleas
ant and instructive interview.
IPiiM
P. J. CLINE & CO
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Have been opening and marking new goods for the past week.
Messrs. Cline and Goodman have returned from New York where
they have visited all the Eastern factories, and they have bought a
Tremendous Stock of DRY GOODS,
‘‘Conservative Methods.”—-Our
neighbor of the “Chronicle” takes a
short paragraph, which -we copied
from an exchange and endorsed by
placing it among our local items, as a
text for a sermon on the duties and
responsibilities of the press. We take
it, our young friend intended, not so
much to lecture us, as to lay down a
ber of the up stairs’ rooms, and the ; platform for his own future guidance;
plastering was cracked in nearly all a11 wj»<* w f wl8 J h , h ™ Godspeed.-
he other rooms and passages. The : We will simply add, that in a long
himneys of the Edwards’ house were : connection w ith the press, we have
nuch shattered for a distance below
he tops; the building known as the
>ld Darien Bank showed the effects of j
he shaking up by the walls cracking j
nd bulging slightly out of line; the i
&
esidence of Mr. Bagley suffered a
ood deal by the fall of plastering and
ricks from* the chimneys, and some
f the bricks fell on a box of matches
n an upstairs mantlepiece and set
-lein on fire, but they fortunately
urned up without setting the house
n fire. The walls of the old State
ouse were cracked and it will re-
bi r e an examination by an expert to
^ .vhat amount of damage it suffer-
j».nd what repairs are needed. Be
es these few buildings that were
kaaged there are doubtless quite a
-.Juiber of others in various parts of
M if city of which we have heard no
' iort,* which suffered in a similar
inner.
3rreat alarm and even extreme ter-
: was experienced by many per
is, and some remained in the
eets, for quite a length of time,
er the first shock, fearing to go
ck into their houses lest another
d worse one should follow. Among
many incidents of the occasion,
»re were doubtless many more or less
r'icrous that will furnish laughter to
lise who participated in or witness-
Mthem.
^■he inmates of the old McComb
el were loudly called upon by a
■fileman to come out at once in the
^ et, while the shock was in full
e . ’ The call was promptly obeyed
one spirited little lady, as she was
ung quick time down the stairs,
reminded by a friend that she had
closed her door. “Oh gracious!”
cried “no human being would
1 anything at such a time as this,”
she lost no time in getting out
oors.
any persons experienced nausea
he stomach who were otherwise
ood health and the fright was
Rless injurious to those who were
ned to their beds by sickness,
-entleman living some ten miles
of here informed us that his wife
verv seriously effected by the
|i'iqua‘ke; so much so that he had
^minister stimulants and use hot
cations freely to keep her from
,; an( i he is persuaded she had a
narrow escape.
always brought into the discharge of
our duty a conscientious regard for
the best interests of the community,
and while we have many times been
betrayed into the use of harsh lan
guage in heated contests, which real
ly added nothing to the success of the
cause and would have been better un
written, we have never regretted the
use of kind and soft words; and as
we muse in the mellowing twilight of
approaching age, we feel more inclin
ed than ever before to use persuasion
instead of force. Young men for war,
old men for counsel.
and they will be able to give the people
Meat,
Avant’s.
salt and lard, cheap at
Wanted.
PLANTATION near Milledgeville.
jl Three to five hundred acres—state
price and mention improvements, if
any. Address
CASH,
Care of this office.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sept. 7, ’80. 9 it
this Fall. Messrs. Lyons and Bannon from the Macon store, left last
Saturday, for New York where they will remain several weeks, and
whenever there is anything in the way of
New
and
for nnnwTY tpparttppp to be had, we will be certain to get them. Now is the time to
l at the New York GroceryiStore,
S ee T. L. Avant’s New Stock.
We are authorized to announce the
name of Arthur I. Butts for County
Treasurer, at the ensuing election in
January next.
J*if 26,1886. 3 tde
n
OR TAX COLLECTOR.
:0:
I HEREBY announce myself as a
candidate for Tax Collector at the
election next January. As I have
nothing to fall back upon but my
friends I think it best to let them
know it in time
J. W. BUTTS.
Aug. 8th, 1886. [5 t de
FOR COUNTtTtREASURER.
We are authorized to announce the
name of John M. Edwards for Coun
ty Treasurer. Election, in January
next. *
COMMENCE BUYING YOUR FALL GOODS;
You can make them up at your leisure. Don't wait until cold weather, and you will not
be so pressed to get them ready. We can’t mention all the pretty things we have opened,
but we promise to keep you posted. Come and see us, we will take pleasure in showing.
you
through,
O
Aug. 4th, 1886.
4 tde
To theVoters of Baldwin County.
A T the solicitation of many friends I
hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the Legislature.
T. H. KENAN.
July 27th, 1886. 3 tde.
Milledgeville, Ga., Aug. 24, 1886.
PETER J, CLINE & C0„
Milledgeville, Macon and Griffin...
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