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ESTABLISHED IK ISC DEFYING THE LAW. LIQUOR TO BE SOLD IN ATLANTA UNTIL OCTOBER. Prohibition a Dead Letter Already?How the Prohibitionists are "Whlpnawed" at the Kimball?High License Hotter. The Kimball House bar furnishes the sensation here this morning, and pro hibition is a dead letter in Atlanta. At least, this is true until the Oth of Octo ber. 1 wired you Tuesday night that the Kimball House bar bad secured the license of W. S. Mabry to sell liquor and beer by the quart until the 9th of October. Yesterday was election day In Fulton county?for fence or no fence ?and consequently no liquor could be ?Id. This morning the Kimball House \ t is thrown open to the public, and I Pinta can no longer be called a dry town. You have beard of "whipping the devil around the stump" in a great many ways, but for bold, opcu-faced, cold-blooded evasion of the law the pre sent sale of beer and liquor in Atlanta is without a parallel. A door opens out of the Kimball House bar into an adjoining room, which has been stored with a full supply of wine, liquor and ] beer in barrels. The room in turn opens into another, which is stocked with quart bottles and flasks and a large refrigerator holding four kegs of beer. A table runs the length of the refrigerator, serving the place of the customary bar. and behind this two men are kept busy jerking beer. The mode of procedure is this : In the Kim- i ball House bar-room proper half a dozen ! clerks arc kept busy behind the bar, 1 riusing out pitchers ami glassc? These, as fast as prepared, arc placed upon the counter. A man enters with one or two friends, bikes up a pitcher and steps back to the adjoining room and gets a quart of beer for twenty cents. Return ing to the bar be and his friends provide themselves with glasses, and standing in a group they dish it out and make merry. The pitchers used are the ordinary white earthenware straight pitchers used for serving ice water in hotels, and will hold half a gallon. A man can, therefore, regulate his purchase by the number or drinking capacity of bis party. Twenty cents is a good price for a quart of beer, but a man with a monopoly in a dry town needn't be particular. Then, too, a quart tills four of the glasses now used for beer and sold for live cents, so that the beer bibber cannot complain. Frequently a man come in alone and, as be cannot get less than a quart, unless lie is a pretty go id Dutchman, he needs help. It is not hard to find: for men with , nothing else to do arc standing around Veadv>to?'bQ ^bvlted toTjolq^p'upsw to help a man out' who has nfofc than lie" can drink. The drinkers do not confine themselves to beer. Quart flasks of whiskey play a prominent part in the programme, and this is consumed in the j same way, or by parties who slink oil'! into (doscts and fake turn about at the ' /flask. And the drinkers arc not con-1 ' fined to drummers, bummers or any of j that class who usually get the credit for such things. The representative men of Atlanta, bankers and merchants, can be seen armed with pitchers and joining the march to the beer kegs. I stood by the beer jcrkers a few minutes this morning and watched the strange procession. It was not com-| posed alone of pitchers procured at the bar. They came from all points and : every station of life, and the quart! pickle jar. the cut-glass decanter, the ? tin buckets and the old family water pitcher were buried together in one' common beer. To-morrow Philip Breitcnbuchcr, Ken-' ny & Werner and P. J. Kenny's bar j rooms will be opeu for the sale of beer and liquor by the quart, they having bought licenses running to different dates. Men who have been cut oil' from their beer for a week (lock to this naughty place like bald-headed men to a ballet, and the bar has been crowded all the morning. By noon they had emptied twenty-live kegs of beer and the rush was unabated. It cannot be called an evasion of the law, for there is no eva sion and none is attempted. It is a plain and open defiance. The prohibi tionists are chafing under it, and it is not improbable they will attempt to put I a stop to it. The liquor men are con fident of their position, and claim to be \procceding under the law by competent legal advice. It is the talk of the town, sind there is no disguising the fact that if- the present procedure can be kept up as Jong as the license lasts, prohibition 1 is dead ill Atlanta until Octobci . nth. Augusta Chronicle. * A Unseal. A colored preacher named II. II. Wilbtiril. who has bee wanted by lite sheriff at Memphis for some tune, has just been brought in band-cuHcil. The good shepherd was (bund ai Duckbill. Mississippi, where he had organized an association called the I nited order of earnest workers. Ih charged ?.'! down, aud S7 lobe paid next .September, ami had Initialed nearly iloo members. Ib was using the most of Ins collections on himself, holding that much was due him for hiscmnicnt services as head center. i The white citizens of Duckbill were re joiced to see him removed, as they allege tha t outside of the sly rubberry of his aacc his icllucucc on them was altogeth er unhealthy. A Town Knvnged by Typhoid frVver. Milwaukkk. duly s.?The villageol Waterford in Racine County is terribly stricken with typhoid lever. Fifty people are down with the disease. Four death have occurred thus far. < lue family ot eleven persons and another of nine are all ill their beds. Great excite ment exist in the village, and the Stale Hoard of Health will be asked to inves tigate the cause of the disease. < ol M Glover Jau 1. 'N? >?). 01 the crops of the state. Cotton, Corn und Kirr till Damaged by the Kuins und Fretdiets. The State Department of Agriculture lias received 188 reports on the condition of the crop of an average dale W'July 1st, and furnished the following summa ry of these returns for publication: * Cotton.?The June 1st reports to the Department of Agriculture showed that the Spring opened late and heavy rams followed planting. The nights. were cool and the ground damp, prevent ing the early germination of seed. The rains during the past months have been almost unprecedented, producing a vig orous growth of grass, which retarded the development of the cotton plant. The stands were injured in removing the grass. On account of the excessive rains the crop could not be properly worked. A large part of the crop on bottom lands lias been washed away by the tloods. In some sections small patches planted by tenants have been abandoned. Dam age to the crop by rust, shedding and lice is reported by several correspon dents. In localities the plant is said tobe turning yellow and dying from the sup posed exhaustion of fertilizers. Some of the correspondents report that where the crop has been well worked it is look ing well, with prospects of a fair average crop, but the great majority of the re- i ports are unfavorable. The condition is reported in Upper Carolina at 7."?, Middle Carolina 7<> and Lower Carolina 85. Average for the State 78, against Ofi at the same time last year. This is lower lhau any report made by the National Department of Agriculture on the condition of the crop at the same time in the past seventeen years. Con>"?The correspondents estimate that 30 per cent, of the entire corn crop j of the State is planted on bottom lands ! and lully three-fourths of this part of the crop was destroyed bv tloods in May, I replanted over again and destroyed in j J June. In some sections corn has been planted and destroyed four times on these lands. The upland corn is reported in fine condition with prospect of a full average yield. The condition of the en tire crop, including that portion not de stroyed on bottoms, and that replanted is reported at 71 in Upper Carolina, S5 in Middle Carolina and91 in Lower Car olina; an average for the State of S2. Rice?The Counties of Beaufort. Berkeley. Charleston, Collctoi), George town. Hampton. Ilorry. Marion, Orange burg and Williamsburg produce 9"> per cent. of. the Bice crop of the State. The average condition of the crop in those Counties is reported at 91. A Berkeley correspondent says that the freshet In J May destroyed all of the old rice on the upper aud middle plantations, and seri ously injured that on the loner ones. The'June, freshetis.uctwia^i?g^andi'-tll* damage it has done cannot now be esti mated. Between the June freshets j planters got in most of their June rice, but the crop cannot be an average one I either in quantity or quality. Upland rice, is in line condition. A Collcton correspondent says. ''Much of the inland rice has been covered by water for at least ten days, and the general opinion is that 2.r) per cent, loss has already been sustained." In Williamsburg the crop is said tobe in line condition. The average condition ot the crop, including that planted in the upper and middle Counties, is reported tit S'J. Otiikic Ckoi*s.?The condition of the smaller crops is reported as follows:; Sugar. 91; sugar cane. 92; sweet pota-l toes, 9C; Irish potatoes. 94, and garden products, 99. A Dynamiter. When the freight train from Charlotte j to Atlanta, on the Air Line, reached Spartanburg, on Monday last, the con ductor opened a box car to put oil'some freight, when he observed a stalwart nc-j gro crouching behind the packages of) freight. Mr. Irwin, the depot agent, ! was present and they demanded the nc-! groe's arrest, but lie picked up two large I stones and delicti the authorities. 'Two j colored railroad bauds came up in the 1 meantime aud he was arrested and sent! to jail. Deputy Sherilf Camp examined 1 his carpetbag and found a half pound of! dynamite and a brace and some line drills. The negro gave his name as Alec Sampson, and said ho was from j Alexandria. Virginia. He said a gentle- [ man had given him the dynamite, but he did not know what it was for. In the ; search Mr. (.'amp found the dynamite eap secreted in his ve>t lining. Out Again. There is a peculiar significance in the fact that Gen. James |{, Chalmers has anouueed himself as an independent can didate for Congress in the Second dis trict of Mississippi. II is onlj; two years since lie was defeated for (he same place by a majority of over four thous and votes and if the district has cheered itself hoarse for him in the meantime it is more than evident thai the district has not found ii mil. IStil a canvass, when it results adversely, ran readily be turned into a contest, and a contest means more notoriety und a snug mud from the trcasuty to defrav the con testant's cxi ' iisi s. These are bill slight considerations to I ho statesman, but the elements nfstatcsmanhnod had been exhausted betbre (Jen Chalmcr's political make-up was completed and the deficiency was made up in some other Wi i y. ('?mir l<> <.rii-:. The Cincinnati Kuquircr is authority lor the statcinen that ol Marshal Lot Wright's deputy marshals who were ap pointed to preserve the purity id the ballot box in Ohio during the president ial election of |-s} |\y,, lmve been banged, ten are in (he penitentiaries of i various Sial? s. ami a number of others are badly wanted by !he police for one i crime or another. It will lie remember 1 ed that a number of these men were llc : publican roughs imported from Kentucky, i Indiana and adjoining States. JAKG-EBURGr, S. C, TH GAVE HIS WIFE AWAY. A Husband Makes u Present ?if His Spouse to tlie Man Whom She Preferred. A singular affair, in which an injured husband, instead of punishing the de stoyer of his home, gives him the beau tiful wife of his youth, has just trans pired through the friends of the injured man. Four years ago Harry Dorsey. a traveling salesman, when stopping at the village of Oneonta. X. Y.. met pretty ? Maud Baker on the evening of her graduation from the local academy. They became deeply enamored with each other : but her father, a prominent citizen of the town, objecting to the suit, Miss Maud ran away, met and married Dorsey at Sedalin, Mo. The escapade being forgiven, the couple re turned to Oncouta and lived very happi ly until the unsuspecting husband intro duced into the family circle his hand som traveling companion, Tom C. Sor relle. who requiltcd the kindness by endeavoring to win the affection of the young wife. Dorsey. to escape the wiles of the oilytongued rascal, fled two years ago to Wichita, and by bis industry had had soon accumulated enough to pur chase a little home. Here they lived happy and contented until Sorrelle, much reduced in circumstances, appcard in the city as an actor with a small show found his old friend and immedi ately renewed his gallantry with great persistance. This continued until Sun day evening, when the irate husbaud, driven to desperation, liied several shots as the rascal was slinking away from Iiis bouse. Sorrelle, now thoroughly frightened, remained in his room for some time and could be induced to grant Dorsey an interview only upon the as surance of being unharmed. When the latter did come to his quarters, he in- j quired: "Do you love my wife?" "Yes." was the reply. "Take her, then, and go away from j here to where I may never see you. You have stolen her love from me. Now take her. but 1 warn you if you abuse or ill-treat her I will kill you if I must go to the end of the world to do so. After this strange speech he returned to bis house, told his wile what he had done commanded her to pack her trunk, bade her farewell and sent her to Sor relle. When these circumstances be came known the friends of Dorsey be came very indignant, and if Sorrelle had been found he might have fared ill iu their hands : but before anything could be done he had tied with the erring wo man.? Cincinnati Enquirer. Packed in lee Alive. ttEADixo, Mich., July (J ? Mrs. I Lucinda Faste of Woodbridge '.ownship | while on her way to the Fourth of July | ^le1)rWi6lFhci'e';TOStSatiir(lay fell ftTieon 8cious from her seat in the carriage and '< was to all indications dead. Medical j assistance was called, but ail etlbrts to i restore her proved futile, and she was I given up, although not having every ap-j pcarance of being dead. The body was I laid out and taken back home for burial. Arriving there ice was procured in which to pack the remains and they were so packed for more than thirty minutes, when an old physician. Dr. Xcclich. called on the bereaved family. He was so struck witii the life-like look of the "corpse" that he expressed doubts of her death. The body was quickly taken from the ice and the doctor went to work lo establish the fact of her living. He opened a vein in Mrs. Fastc's arm this morning and the blood llowcd freely. In a short time the lungs began to work, and the funeral preparations were aban doned. The patient now lies apparently asleep, tier house is tilled with curious neighbors, and the local physicians arc much puzzled over the case. It is said by the neighbors that Mrs. Faste's moth er once had a similar experience; that she lay in a trance lor many days, and when she came to evinced a lull knowl edge of everything which had gone on around her. A Ghost in Possession. LouxsviLliK, Ivy,. July (J.?The fe male inmates of a house on Green street between Sixth and Seventh, had a dread ful experience about 1 o'clock this morn ing. About that time, iu the midst of the 5th of July revels all the lights in the house were suddenly extinguished. The women were tossed about with un seen hands, missiles of every kind began to 11 v about the rooms, unearthly .yells were heard iu every part of the house and for some time the whole bouse was a veritable pandemonium. The women tied in frigid, declaring that a ghost had taken possession of the. house. Some time alter the noises had eeasd one of the women returned and lighted the gas throughout the house. The furniture hi three rooms w i? ? ! smashed to pieces, the bed el cut to shreds and general havoc and confusion ever where. A curious crowd SOOII lillt'd the place, and the premiers were searched, bill m> trace <>! the mysterious visitors could be lulllltl. The women lirmly believe thai the work was of preternatural agency, and claim that Ihe house has been haunted fur a number of \ ears. Tin re is a story current in the vicinity that a double murder was committed in the house years ago. and that the bodies n| two murdered nu n lie buried in an abandoned well beneath the house. MNsiiuiarv Work. The Woman's Missionary Sueu ly ol the M. K. ('hurch South closed is annul meeting at (.'hosier on Monday last. The old oll'lCOrS were re-elected US fol lows: Mrs. Wigbtmau. President : Mrs. Humbert. ('nrrespondhigSecretary: Mrs. Chreit/.bepg. Kecording Secretary. Miss Martin was elected the del-gate to the next meeting of the Women's Mis sionary Society of the Methodist Church ; South. The Women's Missionary So ciety will hold it- next meeting at ; Charleston. LTRSDAY, JULY 15, 188 THE WAGES OF SIX THE ONCE FAMOUS CORA PEARL CAR RIED OFF BY A CANCER. She IJles Wretched, Poor and Uesplsed? Some Incident h of Her Adventurous Life ?How She Spurned u Man Who Hud Squandered Millions Upon Her. Paris,* France. July 9.?Cora Pearl died here last night of cancer. She was in dire povert}', and was attended duriug her illness by an official of the bureau for the Medical Relief of the Poor. 'It is now many years since Cora Pearl took Paris by storm. She ap peared one morning in the Champs Elysees, mounted on a licry horse, with her long, red hair hanging down her back and glistening in the sunlight. She had a voluptuous ligure, and man aged her horse with admirable skill. She became the rage, and young men of fishion lavished their gold on her and were -rained with rapidity. Her career was remarkable, and she was the heroine of not a few tragedies. So long as the money ^f her admirers lasted every tiling was smooth, but when they came to the end ofjfhcir tether they received a rude dismissal. Some of them, after being cast off, ended their sorrows in the Seine. In*lier palmv days Cora lived in a beautiful villa on the Loirel, near Orleans, given to her by a baron. The villa bore the name of Bcausejour, and for many years Cora and her successive victimS dwelt there in licentious splen dor. In her decline she got a young parvenu, son of the founder of the Bouil lons Duval, to spend 17.000,000f. on her. When he thus got through his fortune he appealed to her tenderness for a small loan, which she dryly refus ed. He called again to renew his "instances," and failing to soften her, tricrt*Sjto blow his brains out. In doing^iis lie wounded himself severely. CoTft, on seeing him fall and the blood streaming from bis wound, cried out. "You low, coarse fellow ; do vou take my house for your father's butchery? Don't you see that you have filthied my new carpet'/" > Among her admirers was an imperial prince, who encouraged her in,her desire to appear on -the stage as Cupid in a part in winch there w:is a good deal to say. Her vaulting ambition on this oc casion overleaped itsclt. TJie footlights are cruel to, reveal vulgarity and plastic defects. An Englsh accent is unendura ble in a French role played in a Paris theatre. So^he siren was damned, and her imperial admirer took her on a tour round Europe, beginning at Bristol, Clifton an 1 Bath, where he passed her off as. his iAustrious wile, who was repu ted 'jo haj^e reddish hair. She even wer^toV jgofatas the Princess in ques tion. Lainf won the. adimration-of the held. A correspondent who met her in the early days thus describes her: "Cora had a line, though perhaps too stocky figure, but she did not seem to weigh a leather on her thoroughbred steed. She was vulgar impudence person lied, and not young. It was the. excess to which fascinated those who gazed on her. Her hair was exactly the shade of a deep tinted carrot. There was, lintil she came to Pans, a strong prejudice against a carroty bead. Instead of trying to hide her locks she combed them out and brazenly let them fall in a frizzled mass down to the very saddle. With the setting sun striking on tlicm they were a superb advertisement. The face was very plain. It bad the freckled, pasty complexion which goes generally with her shade of hair, and which added to the vulgarity of features. The nose was a snub; the mouth was wide, being formed evidently to say harsh and shameless ilimgs ; the chin was narrow, the check bones were prominent and the eyes small. She understood dogs and horses and was abashed at nothing. Not long ago she published her me moirs, giving rather interesting details of her experiences. She claimed to be ; the daughter of Prof. Crouch, author of "Kathleen Mavournccn," and as the Professor nas never authoritatively de nied it, it was probably the truth. It is certain that Crouch married Cora's i mother, Lydia Pearson, whose history j was not unlike that of Cora herself. I The memoirs ou which Cora Pearl \ depended for ready cash fell Hat. aud as I Cora had always been remarkable for extravagance, she became poor as her admirers fell Off. Hci last years have been passed in misery. Deserted by all of her former associates and universally despised, she has existed upon charity, and her end was as remarkable for its squalor as her rise was for its splendor. In Line Willi the Detiioemey. The farmers' Convention ofSuinter County, which assembled on Saturday. .July 3d, unanimously adopted the fol lowing : ??Whereas it has come to the cars id' this meeting that in the opinion of ??ine the Organization of farmers throughout tiieState is antagonistic to the Democrat ic parly: therefore heil resolved. "I. Thai the Democratic party has in the past proved itself worthy of our confi dence, and that we are nmv in lull ac cord with the sai*! party. "J. That it is the seiise of Ibis meeting that llic organization of farmers in this State is lor their mutual beuelil and im provement and the promotion ol agri culture generally, and that it lias no political significance." Itlnody 'IV\:i-- Tragedy. 11 km; i Kita. Tk.xas. July s.? Three brothers named Lewis, Klmcr ami.lames Smith were killed yesterday morning in Clay County. They attempted to stop the erection nf a fence on propcrM claimed by them. The fence builder.* resisted, and in the light that followed James and Himer Smith were each shot through the heart, and Lewis Smith wat shot iu the spinal column. The party o fence builders surrendered. prig: CHANGE OF GOVERNORS. Httgh S.Thompson Resigns ami J. C. .Shen mini Takes his Place. Columbia, July 10.?The following ure the ollicial papers connected with the transfer of the Governors's otlicc. The resignation of Governor Thompson was filed with the secretary of State at a j quarter to 12 o'clock to-day: the resignation*. State op South Carolina, ) Executive Chamber, > Columbia. S. C, July 10, 188G. ) Having been appointed by the Presi dent of the United States an assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and having accepted" said ollicc, 1 do hereby resign the office ot "The Governor of the State of South Carolina." Hugh S. Thompson. the farewell LETTEIt. Columbia, S. C, July 10.?My Dear Sir: It becomes my duty to inform you that I have this day resigned as Governor of South Carolina. Permit mc to express the hope that your administration of the ollice of Gov- 1 emor, which thus devolves upon you. will meet fully your desires and the ex pectations of the people of the State. In severing the ollicial relations which I for nearly four years have brought mc into constant intercourse with the other State officers, I desire to express my J high appreciation of their uniform cour tesy to mc, and of the zeal, intelligence and fidelity with which they have dis charged their duties. To them is largely due what ever measure of success has been attained in the effort to secure a wise, just and efficient administration of the State Government. With profound gratitude to the peo ple of South Carolina for the confidence they have reposed in me, and for the honors they have conferred upon mc; With the earnest hope that harmony may prevail in all the councils of the State, and that peace, prosperity and happiness may abound throughout this Common wealth, I have the honor to be, very respect fully yonr obedient servant, Hugh S. Thompson. To his Excellency, John C. Shcppard, Governor of South Carolina. Governor Shcppard upon assuming ollice, issued the following ? proclamation. State ok South Carolina, / Executive Department. ) Whereas, the Honorable Hugh S. j Thompson has vacated and resigned the j oflicc of "the Governor of the State of South Carolina," as appears by Ids j resignation now on file in the ollice of secretary of State. Now, therefore, I, John C. Shcppard, do proclaim, that, by virtue of the provisions of Article III. Section 0, of I the Constitution of the Stale, I have 1 this day taken the oath of ollicc as "the I Governor of the State of South C'oroll na."nnd have entered upon the discharge of the duties thereof. In testimony whereof, I have herc ' unto set my hand and caused the great j seal of the State tg be axfficd. at Colum bia, this tenth day of July. A. D. 1880, i and in the one hundred and eleventh : year of the Indipcndcncc of the United j States of America. J. ('. SirElTARP. i 15y the < fovernor: Jas. X. Lri'SCOMit. Secretary of State. In addition to taking the oath verbal ly. Governor Shcppard subscribed to it in a printed form, and it was attested by the Chief Justice. Rig Cave-in Near Wilkesbarro. WlEKESRAKKE, P.V.. JtlUC 30.?llc : tween "> and 0 o'clock this morning an immense cave-in, about 300 feet long and 150 broad, occurred on the Lchigh Valley Railroad at No. 8 Stockton Mine, J near Hazleton. There was a terrible ! crash, and the shock was leiL tor some ' distance. Three tracks, on one of which I were three trucks loaded with lumber, were swallowed up, and two large build 1 iugs used as storehouses totaly disup : pcared. The cavc-iu presents the ap ; pcarancc of the crater of a volcano, the huge hole over luO feet deep, having : sloping sides like a tunnel. Hail the ac 1 cident occurred an hour later a frightful calamity would have happened, as an excursion train crowded with passengers was due at that lime. Work was at once commenced laying new (racks around the hole. The cavc-ln was caused by the giving way of the roof in some old abandoned workings 300 feet below the surface. Served them Itlght. A squad of female base ball players perfected arrangements for a game of ball in Atlanta several days ago. and a large number of men and 1k?vs. aboul :.'.oon. paid the;'.- entrance fee and waited anxiously for 111?- game to commence. Aller a lime three '?sluggesses" made their appearance, gail\ attired in shorl frocks and black blouses, and one of them stepped to the |jro base AU,] slated lo the audience that owing tu a delayed train tin: balance of the club had failed to arrive, but as the crowd was present tin' three girl.- <".'. hand would atli mpl the game. There was a genera! rush for the ticket shed, a!! demanded their money in be returned. I ii.- Work <>l Natural Ha-. Pittsi;rms. P.\.. July S.- The use of natural gas in the manufactories id'ibis city has done awav ?villi the consump tion of I V'.v,o bushels of coal a day. In the -J'io working days, which i- con sidered a year by manufacturers, the whole amount of coal displaced would run up to 17.4"??.?.*.??Ml bushels. Calcula ting loo bushels to be an average day's output for a coal miner, it would lake l.'.oo eoal miners to dig (his coal. ISul altogether, the use i t natural ".a- has thrown about 5.000 men out of work in this region, it required the use ol i'3'l railroad cars to transport the black dia monds. FEARFUL FI! K A KS. I SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKES AND I SCORCHED WITH VOLCANOES. New Zealand Converted into a Mass of Mini and Fiery I.iivn? Karthqunkv Schocks Follow in Quick Succession? the Desolation and Despair. San Francisco, July 12.?Further details of earthquakes In New Zealand state that most violent disturbances were felt in the neighborhood of Hotona. The severity of the shocks led many of the people to believe that the island would sink into the sea. The sensation experienced is said to have been fearful, beyond description. Immediately afte: the .first shock the inhabitants rushed frantically in all directions. When the second shock came the entire country for miles around was lit up by a glare from the volcano, which had suddenty burst into activity. The scene was as grand as it way awful. Huge volumes of smoke, illuminated with names, sim; ultaneously burst forth from a range of mountains over GO miles in length, and above the smoke could be seen huge masses of fire, resembling meteors rnsh j mg through the sky. The natives who had escaped death gathered in groups and, Idled with abject terror, held re ligious services, bill when another : shock would cause, the earth to tremble they would fall with their faces to the j ground, quivering with fear. As soon ? as the news of the fearful occurrence was received at liuckland a government agent made immediate preparations to go to the relief of the sutlcring. Wagons were chartered and filled with provisions and clothes. Johnson, the government j agent, on his arrival at Rotoun scut hack the following accounts: The Scene i among the mountains as viewed from j the Wairoa road is terribly grand, j Flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and shocks of earthquakes are incessant, while dust is falling in heavy showers. In addition to these conveniences the roads throughout the entire country are covercrcd with several loot of blue clay mud ejected from the volcanoes. All vcgltation is destroyed and the aspect of the country is entirely changed. Blue lake and Lake Botakakahi have been ! transformed into mud baths. The out ! let of the latter lake is blocked up. The I bridges which cross the lower end are 'covered with mud. Xcarly all the I buildings that I have noticed are crush ed iu by the falling mud. At this place Snow's temperance hall and the two principal hotels, as arc nearly all the other buildings in the I >wn. arc com pletely wrecked. The house occupied by ilrs. Hazard and her family was borne down by the weight of the debris. Mrs. Hazard was dug out alive, but four of her children were dead. Hazard is missing. Detailed reports of the foreign residents at other ports who were killed have not yet been received. 'The captain of the steamship Southern Cross, which arrived at Itucklaud on the. 18th, reports having lelt at sea the effect of the disturbances. On the morning of June Huh. the day following the earth quake ho experienced a downfall of dust. I From ? to 10 a. m. there was complete ; darkness and halls of lire continually ' played uroutfd the masthead. A terrible ; gale sprang up and carried al! bis can vass away before it could be taken in. ; The men were unable to stand the blind* ! ing showers of dust, put about and stood away to the north, but it was not until . eleven o'clocK of the day following that , the dust was left behind. Reports show that earthquakes prevailed at all points in Xcw Zealand during the same period. Murder and Suicide. A farmer named Widman, residing in Unity township. Monticcllo, III., on Sunday murdered his wife and then tried to commit suicide. He made several ' gashes iu Ins throat, narrowly missing ? The arteries, and Unding himself still ! alive, he forced the knife upward into I bis mouth, splitting Ids tongue. Some ' time since Mrs. Widman. by the death of a relative fell heir to $12,000. She did not regard Inn- husband us the proper custodian, and so willed it to their chil dren. The murder grew out of these facts. After the murder be sent one of his small children to a neighbor with a message that his mother was dead, and that he could be found al the barn. Thou he began butchering himself in the manner above stated. The murderer ' has since died. [.ocatin;; Ilm Moitinimiil tul.ee. The Hoard of Managers of the pro posed monument to Ocnerul Itobcrl E. Lee have selected as the site a space al I he intersection of Franklin and Lombard streets. This is a part of the. farm of ()| way s. Allen, who lias agreed to deed rortv-iive feet square for the purpose, and oilier properly owner- in the vicini ty have agreed to ^ivo a- much ground as may be wattled. 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