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UNION & RECORDER.
EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
Parnell’s Land Bill.—Mr. Par
nell lias completed his land bill. He
will introduce it on the 9th or 10th
instant
Two Shocks in Augusta.—A dis
patch of the 7th says, two slight
shocks were felt .there to-day, one at
11.30 a. in., the other at 4.30 p. in.
Relief for Charleston.—Contri
butions are flowing into the city from
all sections and there is also a sturdy
self-reliance that is highly encourag
ing* »
Loss of a Costly Bridge.—The
large iron bridge spanning the Mis
souri river at Fort Eeavenworth was
destroyed a few nights since by fire.
The loss is over $400,000.
"Shaking of the Republicans.—
Some think that the earthquake was
an effort of Providence at shaking out
of office the numerous Republicans
who have lingered since 1884. It will
take several more quakes, however,
on a mnch larger scale, to accomplish
that.—Courier-Journal.
It appears that this country was
visited by 3fi4 earthquakes in ten
years from ’73 to’83 and that they
are of frequent occurrence, all of
which will be comforting and reas
suring to the people who were so sha
ken up and scared by the recent con
vulsion.
Death of Mr. John Davison.-
This old an honored citizen of Augus
ta died suddenly on the afternoon of
the 5th Instant.* For 20 years he was
one of the directors of the Georgia
Rail Road Company. At one time he
was a member of the State Senate
from the Augusta District. His es
tate is estimated at several hundred
thousand dollars.
Selling Delegates.—The Courier
Journal says: “Forty Pennsylvanians
are to be arrested for buying and sell
ing delegates in a political conyen
tion." If Pennsylvanians, with a tariff
that makes every other State contrib
ute to their wealth, are not rich
enough to keep out of political com
merce, what hope is there for Amer
ican Industry.
Speaker Carlisle.—The Courier-
Journal says that it is understood
that Speaker Carlisle is preparing an
address to the country, to which duty
he, with others, was assigned by the
Revenue Reformers in the House just
before the adjournment of Congress.
It will explain the failure of reform
measures in the House, through the
treachery of Randall and his follow
ers. and will be issued some time in
September.
Destruction of Professor Ruth
erford's House by Fire.—This seri
ous calamity occurred about 2 o’clock
on the morning of the fourth. We
learn he had between two and three
thousand dollars insurance, and sus
tains a loss of about five thousand
dollars. For the present he has mov
ed his family to the Lucy Cobb Insti
tute until he can secure some other
residence. He has the sympathy of
the entire community of Athens.
The Bulgarian Question.
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jxander presided on the
meeting representing all par-
lulgaria. Tie announces his
ro quit the throne. Before
announced his intention to do so,
received a telegram from Prince
•marck recommending that he ab-
to save Bulgaria. It was
jht that Prince Alexander’s de
cision to abdicate was caused by loss
of vigor of mind and body in conse
quence of the severe trials which he
had lately undergone. Under the
tree tv of Berlin he could not be de
throned without the consent of the
signatory power
to that treaty. Rus
sia has u l wa vs been opposed to Prince
Alexander. Upon his return lie had
no congratulations from the Powers.
Russia was his enemy. Bismarck ad
vised him to resign to save Bulgaria,
what did that mean? It meant that
Germany would not stand by him.
He knew that Austria would go with
Germany. England had no interest
in the matter. France was silent.
What did it all mean? That he would
be left to the mercy of Russia, # r nd
Russia was his enemy. This showed
the Prince that no confidence could
be placed in the signatory powers.
Russia is now arranging to put a Rus
sian Satrap on his throne. If ever
there was an illustration of the truth
■of the advice to put no trust in
Princes, this is one. Alexander saw
that if not betrayed all around, he
was left to the mercy of the Czar.
The whole thing is a disgrace to the
powers, exhibiting a cold blooded de
sertion of a Prince recognized by the
act of the powers, from fear of dis
pleasing the most cold-hearted and
remorseless tyrant of the age in which
we live. In this transaction the "whole
continent of Europe seems incapable
of maintaining its honor by an adher
ence to its own work, at the instiga
tion or from the fear of the most ra
pacious and heartless tyrant that site
upon a throne. Alexander, cruelly
deserted by those who put him on
the throne, is wronged and trampled
uoon without an effort being made to
sustain him by those who virtually
put him upon. & throne. which he
made illustrious by his wisdom and
valor, at the dictation of a despot
with whom nothing is sacred from in
justice, and national safety and honor
is heartlessly profaned, without the
least show of opposition or rebuke.
Alexander does right to abdicate for
cannot resist Russia and would
not see a people exterminated who
would vainly sacrifice life to uphold
and defend him. The whole thing is
an ineradicable stain upon the chris-
4ion civilization of Europe.
More of the Earthquake.
The shocks of the earthquake were
experienced all over the continent
east of the Rocky Mountains, and for
aught we know they may have ex
tended to the Pacific coast. We hav*
accounts from far distant cities to
that chain of mountains, and in some
of those far distant cities buildings,
with their fixtures, were shaken, and
persons on their feet" were nearly
thrown down. People of any pur
suits in those far distant cities and
compositors on newspapers, left their
houses and rooms in quick time. And
the earthshake traveled almost with
the rapidity of light. It is won
derful that the whole continent, for
thousands of miles, should have been
shuddering almost at the same mo
ment; this shows the rapidity of the
Earthquake wave, or that the bowels
of the earth over the whole continent
were in a convulsive movement of
their own action. It mav be that
there is a combination of *gases and
fluids under our continent which, set
in motion, produce the startling re
sults we have experienced, and if that
may be so, we are in the very nature
of things, liable to such convulsions
as we have experienced, and the sci-
entic investigations that are being
made are full of interest to all sections
of our country.
earthquakes in this country.
Earthquakes have always been
rather common occurrences on the
Pacific coast. In California in 1852 a
violent shock destroyed one of the old
Spanish mission stations in the south
ern part of the state. In 1872 San
Francisco was visited by several very
severe shocks, and the walls of many
of the finest and most substantial
public buildings were seriously crack
ed and damaged. At various other
times the State has suffered similar
visitations, but they were generally of
a light character. Other parts of the
West have had their share of seismic
disturbances. In Nevada, in 1871,
Lone Pine and several other settle
ments were destroyed. The mines
were shaken up, and for a time a
general exodus seemed imminent. *
In 1811 occurred the most famous of
all the American earthquakes, with
the exception of the Charleston calam
ity. This great natural convulsion
kept the Mississippi valley there for
hundred miles South of the mouth of
the Ohio river in an upheaval for
manymonths. Humboldt in hisworks
calls attention to it as one of the very
few instances on record where the
ground was incessantly quaking for
several months at a great distance
from any volcano. The ground
ROSE AND SANK,
undulating like the waves of the sea.
Men and cattle were furiously dashed
to the earth, houses were wrecked
and the town of New Madrid in Mis
souri was entirely destroyed.
Great fissures appeared in the
ground running from the northeast to
the southwest. Some of these were
more than half a mile long. They
seemed to be bottomless and emitted
hot steam. Sometimes mud and wa
ter were thrown from them as high as
the neighboring tree tops. The wells
and springs dried up, streams chang
ed their course, and grea t lakes were
formed only to disappear in the course
of a few weeks.
For fully six months the lower Mis
sissippi vailed was in constant move
inent, and chaos seemed to have
come again. The inhabitants fled
in every direction, and the few
who remained gave up all hope. In
those perilous days it was a common
tiling for a farmer who had camped
in the open air all night to rise in the
morning to find a lake where his dwell
ing had stood the night before, and
an immense sink occupying the place
of a hill that had been regarded as a
landmark. Finally the shocks ceased,
but it is a noteworthy fact that they
did not ’stop until the great earth
quake at Caracas occurred.
THE EXPLANATION.
From the beginning of the world all
sorts of earthquake theories have been
advanced. The prevailing one strip
ped of all technical jargon is simply
this: The interior of the globe is li
quid fire. Somewhere water perco-
lotes through the earth's crust and
reaches the interior molten mass.
This generates steam and the expand
ing vapor escapes, either through
such safety valves as volcanoes offer,
or lifts the crust and passes off through
the fissures. When the upward pres
sure of the vapor cracks through the
; olid crust there is a concussion giving
rise to waves of shock and sound.
Mallet, one of the best authorities,
believes in the theory that the sudden
expansion of steam under pressure is.
the immediate cause of the earth
quake, and this explanation has been
more favorably received than any
other.
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