The field and fireside. (Marietta, Ga.) 1877-18??, November 13, 1877, Image 2

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A' l< '|il tli.il. ainl Ihr |||Hn is • >pru 1 11 ( 'in|* 1 • t!• i• 1 11;1 1 1*• i 1 lirou legislalivi* re pro |H[at ion. sl&Hv'- \\ i' hi \i- i' ' i-i \l' I 'li'' Ii i 1 Ki 111 I III' (' I I ■ ( I | ii11111 11' • i mi BWBri Monday in i-ii' li month. lilt* allspices it! I In* < ' lllio j^Eiii Sooii‘l v <<l tin- Muriel t a I* >1 |,.n,. \| | -'.ill If I .I'll" lilHkl''i! ‘•‘I' 1 " 1 '- Sll ’ Kcii pt inn, pi * r .iiiiiiiiii. jUMp I If.l I (I" 'll Imu ;i' fniii |mi f l l with lii'l PPir nf over tioo.oiio liah-s. IVi oes would rapidly advance, •mt tor tin- statement that lit* 1 maun tacture of cotton food' lias ox ceeded the demand. 1 his may be speculation, Init it cannot hold long. Colili Superior!’mi rl. The tall term opened yesterday his Honor.)ttdgo Lesterpresiding The following are tin- (iraml du rots for the present week : K. N. Cowan. Foreman ; \\ A Arnold, T. .1. Atkinson. A. M Benson. S. ,1. Bingham, .1. Carnes .1. D. Carrnth. .1. A. Bold,ins, \\ K. (Iramling, .1. M.tiaddy, I. I Cilore, A. Haves, L. (J. II ay good 11. M. Hutchins, F. B. Meadows, /.. B. Moon, K. Moore. .1. B. Math is. W. A. McDonald. W. K. M. Cord, 11. S. ()w on, .1. T M. Spink W. B. Turner. I COM Ml NIC \ 1 Kit. | To the ( undulates. . The meeting of the citizen o| Idili county determined on ki't Lesday to turn tin- candidates SMlc fastest nag to hike I lie Kie. In view of the fact that me session of the meeting was vii short t< admit of candidates the jirogramme upon HHBiiey relied fill Liu- -11 ll I II well :'!'<• . on Thursday of the tifst Vek oft'ourt. (day after to mor so that none will be slight I'll I lie pel || lie v\ 111 lui \ e ..n units el select III” the Cell W 111 isc \ ieW - I If- 1 - lilt i ill'll ■•'< I llele , , l.il I liilic- till-. I.ici-lu , . 1 11 • 1 1 up t ,n In - -..it": K : Ht H Ur 1 >1 eel ill". to a call a niiiss meet ing of the citizens of ('old> conn ty assembled at llie Court House, to <letermine the method of >e lectin" candidates to rejiresent the Democratic party in the elec lion for memhers of llie Legisla lure under the new <'on-l it lit ion. and organized ly select ing Judge I . M. Kirkpatrick. Chairman, and rci|iies| ina T. H. Irwin. Ksq. to act a- Secretary. .liidae T. 11. Moore introduced tlie^ollowina resolution, which w Believing it to he more satisfac tor.V to I lie people of ( add) to have no nomination for |{epresenl lives, Iherefore /<* .ve/cci/.Tlnit there lie lio IIOUI illations lor candidates for the I louse, and let any of oureitixens run that wants to. and the two getting the highest votes he our Representatives for the ensuing Legislature. •fudge A. V Simpson introdiic ed the following resolution.which w as carried: Whereas, a call for a district convention to nominate a siiita hie candidate lor Senator to rep resent the 35th senatorial district in I lie next Legislature, has not yet heen formally made ; the day of election being near at hand, and we being unwilling that the unit ter should go by default. it is llrsnl)•<</, Ist, That we,the Dc Itinerary of the county of ('ohh in mass meet ing assentlded, do here hy call a convention for the doth senatorial district, to meet a! the senate chamber in the city of At -hot4a—a4—lm 4-0 ■ cb-n-'-k, si., no on Sa turday. the KMh inst., to nomin ate a candidate to represent lisas Senator in the next Legislature. 2d. That the counties of Pulton and Clayton he and they are here hy requested to send up delegates to meet with ours at the t into and place specified, and make the no minnt ion. .‘ld, That we do respectfully but earnestly suggest to our sister counties that, in this instance, Cobb is entitled to have the Sena tor, and we ask that they eo ope rate w ith us to t hat end. 4th. That the Secretary of this meeting do at once send to the chairman of the Democratic Kx ecutive Committees of the conn lies of Pulton and Clayton a copy of t hese resolut ions. At lanta and Marietta papers are requested to publish lliese pro ceedings. On motion of Judge Tims. 11. Moore, the following gentlemen were selected as delegates to rep resent Cobh county in the sena torial convention for this district: C. D. Phillips, W. P. Harden, T. .1, Atkinson, and 1. lb Kendrick. The meeting then adjourned. T. M. Kiiikca thick. Ch’n. Tims. H. |kw i\, Sec'v. The War. I .on [min, Nov. A speeiul dispatch to the V it'll mi /V(,s\v ( reports that a Hussmn force from Ardahun lias entered the West orn Euphrates Valley. This would cut the line of coinmtiiii cation lietweon Batoum and Er /.oiuiii. and endanger that be tween Erzeroum and Trebizond. By cutting the latter line the Hussians might easily make the evacuation of Krzeroum absolute I v necessary. Ilie Doily Mat's' correspond •■lit with tin* Turks in Asia, after showing from personal observa tion tluii Mukhtar lhislia's retreat on Kars was tht* wildest rout, says tne condition of Kars is al most hopeless, There are few provisions -t,OOO sick and wound ed,and absolutely no firewood. l.o\lM<\. Nov. tl. The Tintin' \ ienna correspocdent sa\ > by the occupation of the heights near Dubnik tin* Hussians t'oimnaud tin* I urkisli //• <ft pout over the \ id, which is the only means of egress front Plevna on the south anti west. The investment of Plevna is now complete. The correspondent thinks Osman Pa sha, engirded by the vastly supe rior artillery which the Hussians can now bring to bear from all sides, will s,on find his position untenable. Meantime the Hits sians are clearing not only the Sofia road, but all approaches TII hi P I ELD AND P I I! KSI D K. from the Balkans. The occupa tion of the Teteven Pass deprived the Turks of the means by which they might have operated on the think of the Rus-inn detachment' advancing from Telisheho and Lovatz towards Orchanie. A Turkish relieving army would have to tight its way up to Plev na step by step. A Turkish force, numbering between three thousand and four thousand men, from south of the Balkans, .attacked a Russian force at Mahrea, south of Plena. After three hours lighting llie Turks retreated, leaving 100 dead and wounded. The Times Vicuna correspond ent, comment ing on the rumors that llie Russians are going to attempt to cross the Balkans this year , says it is a fact that large bodies of troops are being massed at Tirnova, and reinforce ments which arc constantly ar riving are heimji (■ehelmnieil on the Sistova. Biela and Tirnova line. There is much discontent in Roumania concerning the war. There is hardly a family in Mol da via which has not lost a rela tive. After the engagement o! the P.ttli the Roumanians tlircal cued to mutiny if any further at tempts were made to lead them to certain death. Vjknna, Nov. (>.—'The /‘o/lti en! C'oi'i'espoiii/eiiee publishes a special dispatch from t'onstanti nople which says that many prom incut dignitaries have been ar rested by order of tbe Drand Vi zier. It is said that a conspiracy on the part of the party of ex Sultan Murad has been discov ered. Lo.xnox, Nov. 10 —The convic tion is strong that Plevna can not holdout many days. Osman Pasha's men are deserting in large numbers on account of pri vations and hardships. file Rlis sinus have a held telegraph line completely around Plevna, so they can concentrate immedi- TTtvh-on an\ |Tnhn—rrt ruHrerl’. Tt is expected combined operations will be attempted bv Osman Me hemetAliand Chevket Pashas, on which the fate of Plevna will depend. The portejias determ ined to light to the bitter end.— Mahoumed Dalimed Pasha is ill. The l urks yesterday attempted to cross near Oltenitza, but weie repulsed with great loss. Lonhon, Nov. 10.— Dispatches deny the report that Muklilar Pasha was wounded in the light ing near Krzeroum on Mondav last. They aI so ment ion an en gagement at Baiburt, which may account for Muklilar Pasha's de termination to defend Krzeroum, as Baiburt is on his shortest line of retreat to Trebizond, or it may be the Russians unsuccessfully attempted to prevent reinforce ments going to Krzeroum. The latter is the most probable, as further Turkish dispatches reite rate the accounts of the Russian defeat in the last attack, which would be hardly possible had not reinforcements arrived. The Standard's Alexandrianople spe cial correspondent telegraphs as follows: The Ardahau column joined Lien. Ueimaun after the battle ol Rove Bonn. The Turks lost 2,500 killed, wounded and prisoners, and a great part of their artillery. PoNSTANTiNoiu.K, Nov. 10. —For ty eight persons in the service of the ex Sultan Murad have been arrested in consequence of the recent conspiracy. Murad and his mother remain at Tche rago palace, but have been warn ed that it might be neeessarx to remove them to another resi deuce. Montreal Shaken I p. \ KAKTHtJI'AKK IN t ANAD.A, NKW KNOLANP \NO NOKIIIKKN NKW \ OKK. Montkk.u., Nov. 4. -The citi zens of Montreal were frightened out of their beds and some al most out of their wits 1..V1 this morning by the most severe shock of an eartlh|tiake that theeddest people remember to have been felt here. It was preceded by a rumbling noise something like that made by a train of ears pas, ing over a bridge. The shock was from the northwest, and it began with only a slight vihra tion, but increased until build ings shook w ith an intensity that caused inside doors w hich were well fas I*ill ** .1 ti f! v 11 _ (! lljkn and chinaware on shelves were thrown down and machinery was set in motion The people in St. Lawrence Hall and the Ottawa Hotel thought the walls and root w ere coming down, and for amo meat the ladies were panic stricken. In the northern parts of the city, close to the moun tain, the shock was more severe than in the lower parts. In ihe poorer localities.’ especially a uiong the French Paiiadian jiojj nlation ofthe east end. the con 'ternalion and terror were very great. Many rushed out in their night clothes, thinking the hous es were tumbling about their ears. The fears of these super stitious people were intensiiied by their recollection of a tradi tion that exists here that a cele brated monk, who lived in the seventeenth century, prophesied that the island of Montreal would be swallowed up in an earth quake in the nineteenth century. The night was line, clear and cold, and no atmospheric change look place before or after the earthquake, except that it left theairstrongly impregnated with electricity and sulphurous vapor. In an experience often years in California the writer experienced only one shock there equal to that of this morning. Reports by telegraph say that ii extend ed to St. Albans on the east and < 'obourg in the west but in a ve ry' mild form. No damage or loss of life is so far reported. Treed by a Big Bear. Ill) CK.U AKKAUI.K sTol'.V ill \TCO.MKS in I S lltoM TIIK I’KNNSVI.VA NIA MOUNTAINS. I'oiitkk's Lakk, I* \< tel. 2b. — Last spring, Kit tie Wagner, aged thirteen years, of Pittsburg, l*a„ came to spend the summer and winter with an unde residing six miles southeast of this place, in a wild and almost unbroken wild ernes-. Last Sunday afternoon, Kittie was sent to drive home her uncle's cattle, which were out in the woods grazing. It was near ly sundown when she left the house, and not returning at the usual time, her relatives became uneasy, and her uncle started out hoping to meet her. Having gone about half a mile, be heard a cow hell which he at once re cognized as one worn by one of his cows. From the direction of the sound it was evident the cat tle were moving towards home.— Thinking, of course, that Kittie was with then), be retraced bis steps. The cattle were in the yard, but Kittie had not returned with them. Her absence caused alarm, for it was feared -lie bad met wit li some accident or bad become lost. Three of the family w ith lanterns started to search for her. They travelled through the swamjis and over high mountains until alter midnight, when, find ing no trace, they returned home. At daybreak the next morning, several of the adjoining neighbors were notified, and about 7 o'clock the party, numbering ten. started to renew the search. The conn try for a radius of several miles was thoroughly scoured but at the close of a long day's search, they returned to their homes with no more of a clue than when they lirst set out. Another night pass ed with no tidings of the little one. Six miles south from hero, is a w ild and rocky gully, known to hunters as " Bruin's Resort," so called owing to the large mini her of bears killed in that imme diate vicinity during the ] ast few years. It was thought that Kittie might have wandered off in that direction. Three ofthe party re solved to visit the Resort, and early on Tuesday morning, each, with a rillcin hand, they started. In about two hours the northwest end of the gully was reached.— Here the searchers sat down to rest. While resting, they tired oil their guns, thinking, perhajis. Kittie might be within bearing •distance, and would, if alive, re- sj,ond. dust as the sound was dying aw ay a voice like that of someone in distress was heard in the distance. One of llte party thought he recognized it as the voice of the missing one. They proceeded on down the gully,and after going a short distance again discharged their guns. Another response came, this time so dis tinct that there w as no longer any doubt as to its being the missing girl's cry. A lew stcj,s further, and a steep declivity was reach ed. lb-re the searchers again halted. Looking about them, they saw nothing mni-ual. and tlu-y were about to proceed when a faint cry was heard to come from the thicket just below. Peering through the bushes, they diseov J’iu 1 <•I i |i ti-j nu tn 1 jii Inn k! -i 1 the object of their search. The overjoyed uncle hastened to the loot of tin- tree and hade Kiltie come down. She endeavored to descend, but so w eak had 'he be come that she lost her hold and fell, but landed safely in her tin ele's arms. She said that the cows not being where she usually found them, she wandered otf. and go ing further than she meant, she became lost. She travelled until late into the night, when becom ing exhausted she -at down by a tree and fell asleep. When she awoke the sun was shining bright ly. She again set out, thinking she w ould find her way home, but she had become so frightened and bewildered that, after walking all day, she found herself in about the same place a> she was the pre vious night. .Vs the shades of night began to fall the little wan derer began to realize her situa tion. and cried bitterly. Being almost starved, and her feet hav ing become sore from walking, she gathered some dried leaves and making a bed laid herself up on it, and was soon fast asleep.— She said her sleep was interrupt ed by the most horrible dreams, and several times she was awak ened by strange noises, which she thought must have been made by wild animals. When she awoke in the morning, it was just get ting light, and brushing the leaves off her clothing she again started. She had gone only a short dis tance w hen she heard a noise in the bushes behind her, and look ing back discovered a huge black bear following in her trail. She screamed at the top of her voice, and ran with all hermight. But the bear rapidly gained on her, and knowing she must soon be o vertaken, she resolved to climb a tree. The bear reached the tree as the frightened girl was ascend ing it, and standing upon its hind feet made a blow at her, fasten ing its daws into her skirts. She maintained her hold, and after re peated efforts, succeeded in free ing herself and climbing beyond the reach of the animal. The bear remained about the tree for some little time, vainly endeavor ing to ascend it ow ing to its small circumference.and had disappear ed into the thicket only a short time before her rescuers arrived. -Shr-was carried hmnr; —and—lter narrow escape has ever since been the talk of the neighborhood. The same day a party of hunters from Milford, I'a.. were limiting in the vicinity for deer. John Hans, a noted bear and deer hunter, be came separated from his compan ions, and when passing through the woods near the Dingman turnpike, discovered a monster black bear coming directly to wards him. lie waited until the animal got within shooting dis tance, and then fired a ball at it, but missed. The bear, instead of retreating, as is their custom, con tinned coining towards Mr. Hans, shaking his head at every step. The plucky hunter never weaken ed, but awaited his antagonist's nearer approach. When within about twenty five yards of him, the bear raised himself upon his hind feet, and while in that alti tude, Hans took aim and fired.— The animal gave an upward spring and fell dead, it is believ ed to have been the same bear that pursued the lost Kittie Wag ner. The animal was taken to Milford. It weighed nearly three hundred pounds. Over *250 Lives Lost. IIK TKKKIULK MIMCG DISASTER IN XUK GLASGOW COAL KKGION. The little colliery village of High Blantyre, near Hamilton, to day was the scene of a most terrible colliery disaster. By this catastrophe, unparalleled in the history of Scotch mining, it is reckoned that fully two him died lives have been lost, though the number who have perished can only he approximately* de termined. This morning, about t> o'clock, the men employed at Messrs. Dixon's collieries. High Blantyre. departed to their usu al work. 12<i men descending the shaft of the pit known pit No. 2, while 107 entered pit No. 3. Statutory communication exists between these pits. and. it seems that Indore the disaster oeeured a number of men were engaged removing stoops in the splint of the lower seam of No. 2 pit.— This operation i' al wa.vs regarded as hazardous, and it appears that, with culpable and almost inex plieable recklessness, the hands employed to day made use of na ked lamps. While the men were engaged in blasting in the splint of No. 2 pit. about 9 o'clock an appalling explosion of fire damp occurred which spout it sell'in the shaft of No. 3 jut.— The explosion was attended by a sound resembling the loudest thunder, tlames burst forth at the head of the shaft of No. 3 and douse volumes of smoke roll ed up from the entrance to pit No. 2. fragments of coal and timber and clouds of dust were then scattered around the heads of the shafts, large quantities of debris being shot for a great height into the air. The deafening sound of the explosion immediately attracted a large crowd to the scene of the calamity, and with all possible celerity relief gangs were organ ized. and every effort was made to restore ventilation to the mines. An hour, however, elaps ed before air could again be ad milled to the pits, and all efforts to descend the shaft of No. 3 were found to be impracticable. Four men then strove to enter No 2 pit, but were unable to pro ceed along the splint seam from the damp, and after perse vering at the imminent risk of their lives, were brought up in a fainting condition to the surface, one of them, named-Thomas Laidlaw.being.it is seriously injured. Notwithstand ing thi* howeveHuiother relief gang was immediately formed, and the new party of volunteers, after advancing a short way from the foot of the shaft, found the bodies of six men, dreadfully charred and disfigured, which were at once mournfully drawn up the bank. Although a constant stream of water was poured down the shaft that the re serve party might in a measure be relieved from the noxious effects of the damp, the new’ relief gang were finally forced to desist from their perilous mission, and so se riously were several of them at' fected by the deadly atmosphere which they had been inhaling that they had, on returning to the surface, to be covered with earth to free them from the in tluence ofthe choke damp. Fresh bands of volunteers at once took up the task of exploring the workings, and several other bod ies, mostly mutilated beyond re cognition, were recovered. The black cloud of smoke w hich at first floated over the scene of the -vatastTophe-efeared— away, and as the news of the disaster spread like wildfire through the sur rounding districts a vast con course gathered round the jut heads, the wives and children of the men who were in the pits exhibiting heartrending emo tion. Very faint hopes are en tertained that any ofthe men in the juts have escaped, and the choke dam j) was at first so strong that it is feared that all the 233 men who descended the shafts in the morning must have jierished. In spite ofthe great exertions made by large bodies of willing workers the men imprisoned in No. 3 j>ii have not been reached, and there is not the slightest ltojie of their being got at for a consid erable time. Although their fore knot-kings and shoutings were in the afternoon heard from below, it is not exjtected that a single man in that jut of the 107 miners who entered it in the morning can be got out alive.— From N't. 2 pit twenty of the 12ti miners employed in it have been saved, but all the rest have j>er ished, so tlmt altogether upwards of 200 men and boys have met their death. As already men tinned, thirteen dead bodies have been taken to the surface, and further explorations have reveal ed a fearful spectacle at the hot tom of the shaft. No fewer than forty corpses still lie there, strewn in all directions within a short space, burned and mutilated be vond recognition. It was deemed advisable not to take these bodies to the pit-head, although that might have been done, but rath er to continue the exertions be ing made to reach No. 3 pit. Photograph Gallery ! Met I.A< IIEY’S nrn.nixti, sitfa Public Square i llarirtta. - (irorgia. rptfF. Mibscriber, thankful for the pa- JL trnnage heretofore extended to hiiu, I >egs leave to state tliat he is better pre pared than ever to execute IMiotngropliv and Ferotviiea in the best style of ttic art. Also, old Pictures copied and enlarged in the best manner, and at the lowest prices. no\ 13-ly OE< >. .1. OABt.E. LOOK HDKF.! LAM) BUYERS. I AM offering for sale, a near little Karin, containing 70 acres of good red land, newly settled, with a good framed dwelling, kitchen, stables,cribs, and all iiece.-ary nut-houses, all built in die last three years: a young orchard of 1 "Sl choice iVoit trees This laud pro duce- everything raised in thiseountry. There will tie no repairing needed for several years: twenty-live acres of open land, nearly half fresh land, none worn our. For further particulars, applv to the undersigned on the place, six mile-, west of Marietta, on the Sandtown road. tiov 13-tt ASA DARBY". iir PKIXTfXfr,of all kinds, neatly and cheaply done at this office.