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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. P 4th H i- Gica: thougi Ah n !- itiou 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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