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THE HURRICANE. THE STORY OF THE STORM. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AIjONO THE GULF COAST. The Ijomi Over $1,000,000?The Beau tiful Shell lload at Mobile tea Hope less llutn?Ponsacohi Suffered Much fVom tho Fury of tho Storm. Mobile, Ala.. Oot. 3.?The details of the storm which broke with euch fury on tho Gulf .oast Monday morn ing, and raged with increasing fury for live or six hours, are Just beginning to como In, and, as was feared, indica tions aro that the loss of life in the low lands cast of the city has been very great. There is no doubt that It will be a week or longer beforo the full story of the btorm, with all its atten dant details of death and destruction will bo fully told. Tho sun rose clear and bright, as if ondoavoring by its warm radianco to dispel the gloom cast over the city by tho wind and wavos. The inundatod portion of tho city oarly presented an animated appearance, and the work of clearing out the muddy sedimont from the stores, deposited by the receding wators, and tho debris from the streets was pushed with the vigor and energy whion characterizes tho avorage Mo bilian. The. damaged goods were re moved from the stores and warehouses to places whoro they could be dried out. Bridge gangs and section hands woro busy along Commerce street, re pairing tho damage to the culverts, bridges, and roadbeds of the Louisville and Nashvlllo, which runs along this street for nearly a mile. shell road a ruin. Tho beautiful shollroad which wound along tho western shore of the Mobile bay for a distance of nine milos, through groat rows of moss festooned magnolias, is almost a total wreck, in volving a loss, that If it can be replaced at all, which Is extremely doubtful, will require an outlay of between $10, 000 and $15,000. To-day It Is washed out, and whoro tho road once wound around the bond of the shore aro noth ing but masses of logs and drift wood piled in a most inextricable confusion, whllo across the portion of tho road which tho storm has loft the trees have been blown down In a tangled not work of foliage that makes passing oven on foot very difficult. Communication betwoen Mobile and Now Orleans by rail and wire has been totally cut off and will probably not be resumed for weoks to como. Between Venotia and Scranton thirty or forty houses woro blown down, but no lives have been reported lost. At various towns along tho route twelve churches wore wrecked, five of them being lo catcd at Grand Bay. In Scranton and West Pa8cagoula, four miles distant on tho sound, houses were blown down, stores Hooded and stocks damaged, while at East Pascagoula, which is the port of ontry, tho ontire beach is said to havo been wrcckod. The losses at the two points are said to reach $100, 000. Tho Louisvlllo and Nashville bridgo across the Pascagoula is slight ly damaged. Two or three spans havo boon loosed and badly washed. Be tween Scranton and West Pascagoula, a distance of about live mllos, three miles of the track and road bed have beon washed away. There is a throo mastod schoonor across tho track at West Pascagoula. There aro no authontic reports from points south of Mobile on the Louisville and Nashvlllo road, except that 260 spans of tho Blloxl bridge are washed away. Tho damage to the Louisville and Nashville is beyond computation at this time. Reports from Montgom ery are to the effect that the bridgo across threoMlloCreek is damaged and that a portion of theoTonsas bridge is washed away. There aro 400 trees across the track botwoon Bay Minott and Dyer's creek, a distanco of about ton miles. No trains can get any fur ther south than Bay Mtnott and sev eral washouts aro reported. dead in the marshes. A row boat trip from the marshes made to-day by an experienced news paper reporter reveals a scono of doso lation and doath that will almost equal those sent out a month ago from Savannah and the sea islands. At ovory point touched houses were com pletely gono, while the eastern shore was swept as if by a wostorn cyclono. From Blakoly as far southeast as tho reporter had bcon the natives report only doath and destruction. Pour miles inland tho trees are laid low and much loss of lifo is reported along tho shore. Tho rumore over there would placo tho loss of lifo at 50, but possibly not more than 25 havo porishod. This side of Blakoly in tho marshos whole families have neon swopt away and tho actual loss of lifo will probably never bo known. The roporter who made the trip roscued sovon children and tied up two unknown bodies, ono of a girl aged soventeon, the other of a man aged about 35, both apparently Germans. Five of the children, the oldest not ovor eight years of ago, were found tied together in tho marsh opposite the mouth of Spanish river. They said their father ana mother had gone in a boat after the house. They could give no intelligible account of themselves, being evldontly Germans. A little further up tho river two more children woro rescued. Whore these children camo from could not bo learn ed. Near whore they woro found was Mr. Dcsson, whoso wife wns drowned, who said there was a man and his family living a little distanco up the shore who were roportod drowned and the children aro probably theirs, but speaking no English these children could not make themselves understood. Tho chlldron woro taken to tho houso of a widow on Pole Cat bay whoso house remained intact. will never de found. In tho upper delta of the river, de bouching into Mobilo Bay, tho streams uro reportod to bo full of floating bedding, furniture, and household ef fects, snowing that the reports of suf fering and doath from this quarter are hardly overstated. Owing to tho pnrsoness of tho settlement of thoso marshes, and their inaccessibility ex cept by moans of small sail or row boats, it is probable that many havo sporlshed, whose Identity will novor be revealed. The spots inhabited by the marsh gardenors aro only a few foot abovo mean low water, and tho houses are generally built of pilings as a precaution against high tides. So far only ono family, the Bangles, are known to have escaped death. Their continued absence from their accus tomed places in the market house will probably be the only way in whioh their fate will ever bo ascertained. In this city there was great damago dono to the shado trees, and many valuable trees were blown down and boautiful flowers gardens wrecked. One houso was blown down-?a small ono-story affair, though many were partially or wholly unroofed. An attempt was mado today to gathor ^ from the morchants some approximate estimate of their losses, out it was soon found impossible to get anything like correot estimates In this way, as many of them were unable to form THE HURRICANE. THE STORY OF THE STORM. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION AIjONO THE GULF COAST. The Ijomi Over $1,000,000?The Beau tiful Shell lload at Mobile tea Hope less llutn?Ponsacohi Suffered Much fVom tho Fury of tho Storm. Mobile, Ala.. Oot. 3.?The details of the storm which broke with euch fury on tho Gulf .oast Monday morn ing, and raged with increasing fury for live or six hours, are Just beginning to como In, and, as was feared, indica tions aro that the loss of life in the low lands cast of the city has been very great. There is no doubt that It will be a week or longer beforo the full story of the btorm, with all its atten dant details of death and destruction will bo fully told. Tho sun rose clear and bright, as if ondoavoring by its warm radianco to dispel the gloom cast over the city by tho wind and wavos. The inundatod portion of tho city oarly presented an animated appearance, and the work of clearing out the muddy sedimont from the stores, deposited by the receding wators, and tho debris from the streets was pushed with the vigor and energy whion characterizes tho avorage Mo bilian. The. damaged goods were re moved from the stores and warehouses to places whoro they could be dried out. Bridge gangs and section hands woro busy along Commerce street, re pairing tho damage to the culverts, bridges, and roadbeds of the Louisville and Nashvlllo, which runs along this street for nearly a mile. shell road a ruin. Tho beautiful shollroad which wound along tho western shore of the Mobile bay for a distance of nine milos, through groat rows of moss festooned magnolias, is almost a total wreck, in volving a loss, that If it can be replaced at all, which Is extremely doubtful, will require an outlay of between $10, 000 and $15,000. To-day It Is washed out, and whoro tho road once wound around the bond of the shore aro noth ing but masses of logs and drift wood piled in a most inextricable confusion, whllo across the portion of tho road which tho storm has loft the trees have been blown down In a tangled not work of foliage that makes passing oven on foot very difficult. Communication betwoen Mobile and Now Orleans by rail and wire has been totally cut off and will probably not be resumed for weoks to como. Between Venotia and Scranton thirty or forty houses woro blown down, but no lives have been reported lost. At various towns along tho route twelve churches wore wrecked, five of them being lo catcd at Grand Bay. In Scranton and West Pa8cagoula, four miles distant on tho sound, houses were blown down, stores Hooded and stocks damaged, while at East Pascagoula, which is the port of ontry, tho ontire beach is said to havo been wrcckod. The losses at the two points are said to reach $100, 000. Tho Louisvlllo and Nashville bridgo across the Pascagoula is slight ly damaged. Two or three spans havo boon loosed and badly washed. Be tween Scranton and West Pascagoula, a distance of about live mllos, three miles of the track and road bed have beon washed away. There is a throo mastod schoonor across tho track at West Pascagoula. There aro no authontic reports from points south of Mobile on the Louisville and Nashvlllo road, except that 260 spans of tho Blloxl bridge are washed away. Tho damage to the Louisville and Nashville is beyond computation at this time. Reports from Montgom ery are to the effect that the bridgo across threoMlloCreek is damaged and that a portion of theoTonsas bridge is washed away. There aro 400 trees across the track botwoon Bay Minott and Dyer's creek, a distanco of about ton miles. No trains can get any fur ther south than Bay Mtnott and sev eral washouts aro reported. dead in the marshes. A row boat trip from the marshes made to-day by an experienced news paper reporter reveals a scono of doso lation and doath that will almost equal those sent out a month ago from Savannah and the sea islands. At ovory point touched houses were com pletely gono, while the eastern shore was swept as if by a wostorn cyclono. From Blakoly as far southeast as tho reporter had bcon the natives report only doath and destruction. Pour miles inland tho trees are laid low and much loss of lifo is reported along tho shore. Tho rumore over there would placo tho loss of lifo at 50, but possibly not more than 25 havo porishod. This side of Blakoly in tho marshos whole families have neon swopt away and tho actual loss of lifo will probably never bo known. The roporter who made the trip roscued sovon children and tied up two unknown bodies, ono of a girl aged soventeon, the other of a man aged about 35, both apparently Germans. Five of the children, the oldest not ovor eight years of ago, were found tied together in tho marsh opposite the mouth of Spanish river. They said their father ana mother had gone in a boat after the house. They could give no intelligible account of themselves, being evldontly Germans. A little further up tho river two more children woro rescued. Whore these children camo from could not bo learn ed. Near whore they woro found was Mr. Dcsson, whoso wife wns drowned, who said there was a man and his family living a little distanco up the shore who were roportod drowned and the children aro probably theirs, but speaking no English these children could not make themselves understood. Tho chlldron woro taken to tho houso of a widow on Pole Cat bay whoso house remained intact. will never de found. In tho upper delta of the river, de bouching into Mobilo Bay, tho streams uro reportod to bo full of floating bedding, furniture, and household ef fects, snowing that the reports of suf fering and doath from this quarter are hardly overstated. Owing to tho pnrsoness of tho settlement of thoso marshes, and their inaccessibility ex cept by moans of small sail or row boats, it is probable that many havo sporlshed, whose Identity will novor be revealed. The spots inhabited by the marsh gardenors aro only a few foot abovo mean low water, and tho houses are generally built of pilings as a precaution against high tides. So far only ono family, the Bangles, are known to have escaped death. Their continued absence from their accus tomed places in the market house will probably be the only way in whioh their fate will ever bo ascertained. In this city there was great damago dono to the shado trees, and many valuable trees were blown down and boautiful flowers gardens wrecked. One houso was blown down-?a small ono-story affair, though many were partially or wholly unroofed. An attempt was mado today to gathor ^ from the morchants some approximate estimate of their losses, out it was soon found impossible to get anything like correot estimates In this way, as many of them were unable to form estimate. There is no doubt that the damage will reaoh at least a quarter of a million dollars. This is a very conservative estimate and may be largely exceeded. The Plant Line steamship Florida, and the Fruit Importing Cb.'s steamer, Nicara gua, the former from Tampa, and the latter from Bluefield, arrived today about thirty-.six hours overdue. They report having encountered the storm about thirty miles off Mobile bar, which is said to have been about the centre of tho storm. Thoy roport that tho wind was blowing a hundred miles an hour, and the waves running mountain high. Both steamers rode the storm out with* out damage. AROUND NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, La., Oct. 3.?Though tho wires are still down. newB is trick* ling into tho citv from the surrounding country, but it I.i not possible to givo a fairly accurate e timate of tho damage wrought by the fury of the elements on Sunday night and Monday morning. Tho damage done in this oity and in tho harbor will run considerably ovor $100,000. The extremes of conserva tive estimates and exaggerated opinions uro so wido apart that it is difficult to approximate tho loss in tho country, tho major portion of which is confined to the parishes of Jefferson and Plaquomine, and more particularly tho latter. The upper limit of the storm was not more than a dozen miles above tho city. The storm was not as sovero a that of 1888. Hero the principal suf ferers were of tho shipping interests. Eleotrio wire poles were toppled over, Bhods unroofed, and all eleotrio wiros suffered great damage. At West End tho railroad tracks suffered great damage. Point LaHache, Bohemia and Prescott, small towns in Plaque mine parish, felt tho brunt of the storm. Several houses were blown down, and there was much terror felt by the residents until the storm had spent itself. Tho loss will bo heavy. MOTHER AND MA HI". KILLED. Mrs. LaFranco and her babo wore both killed in escaping from their homo, which was shivered by tho storm. At tho Empire Mill, near Point LaHache, a young mulatto wo man was killed by falling timbers. Many persons were bruised, but the dead list is confined, as far as known, to tho throe mentionod. Most of tho {dan tat ion houses, barns, sheds and encos suffered, and many thousand dollars will havo to bo spent repairing them. The orage crop of Plaquemino runs from 200,000 to 400,000 boxes. A con servative estimate puts tho erop this year at 300,000. This was before tho storm. It is foared that these figures will bo cut down 60 por cent., making a money loss of a quarter of a million dollars. From Poydras plantation south most of tho cane was blown down. No plantations escaped. What tho loss will be depends on future con ditions. If there is a period of favor able weather and a late frost the cane will have timo to recover and tho loss will be comparatively small. Rice in Plaquemino has suffered great damage, much of it having been blown away and moro or loss damaged. L. & N. DAMAGED. The Louisville and Nashville is tied up. A mile of its track at English is w recked. The pier head of Pearl river bridge is badly injured and the road bed generally washed out, tho wind having blown the water of Lake Borgne across tho landing in great volumo and velocity. No trains havo arrived since Sunday. Wrecking trains are at work at tho scene of trouble. Tho company posted a bulle tin this morning, saying it would havo no trains today. Efforts are to bo made to transfer the government mail by boat. It will bo two or three days before tho trains can bo gotten through and a week before the road will bo in running order, and a month before tho roud can bo made as solid as it was before the storm. Tho Shell Beach railroad expects trains up from Plaquemino to-night and the Grand Island road also expects to move trains tonight. The morning train on tho latter road did not materialize this morning. ThoQueon and Crescent suf fered but little and all thoir trains aro running as usual. Many prominent residents of the city including business men, wore caught in tho storm at the fishing camps at English, and had a night of terror. All tho huts weathered tho storm except one. Thoro was no loss of lifo but tho citizens who had boen caught at tho point could not got homo, owing to tho washout on tho Louisville and Nashville, and were brought to town this morning on Captain Provont's tug, which crossed tho lake. On the way ovor tho tug on countered a schooner bottom up and two others dismantled and wrecked. It was impossible to learn if there had been any loss of life, but it is foared that thoro was. A largo number of people of this city wore quartored at tho resorts on Mississippi sound. Thoy aro unable to got to town owing to tho damago to tho bridge and Louisville and Nash ville washouts. Communication with thin city is some what difficult on account of fallen troes. BLEW EIGHTY MILLES AN HOUR. News roaches horo this ovening from Port Eads that tho wind blew eighty miles an hour there on Sunday night; that at tho mouth of tho river John Ca sey, tho night watchman of tho Jotty Company, was drowned while attempt ing I o cross tho pass. It is thought his boat was shattered by the Morgan steamer El Cid, which loft horo Sun day. A cry was heard, but it was im possible to sond a boat to him. The steamer Kl Cid went to sea in tho gale carrying with hor tho bar pilot Wil liams, as no boat could venture along side to take him off. Tho signal service station and apparatus were blown down, but tho wind instrument of the United States onginoors weath ered the storm. At shell Boach tho club houso was wrecked and fishing camps dsmagod. Grand isle, a summer resort lying in the gulf directly in tho path of tho storm, is said to havo been utterly de stroyed and it is known that tho loss of lifo at that point is largo. Many poo plo wero spending the delightful early autumn season and numbers of thoso who had spont the last summer month in thoir cottages had not yet startod for their homo. Tho hotels and two long rows of cottages whioh constituted tho resort are said to be gono and it is feared that the loss of lifo will be very great. In the parish of Plaquomino tho vlllagos of Bohomia, on the Missis sippi ana Shell Beach on Lake Borgne, were flooded out and four lives lost in each place. On the east side of tho river rice, augar and orange orops suffered a great deal of damage and on the west side the loss of life is re ported to have been very great. HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST. It will be somo days beforo tho full I extent of tho damago will bo known, al though it is thought here tho total will palo into insignificance tho num ber of deaths roportod from tho storm whioh recently devastated tho Atlan tic coast. Yeatorduy a lono and rugged ' fisherman who bad been a member of a Ashing party at Bayou Cook, where all the oysters bearing that namo are furn ished, and which is located about seven miles back of Burma' settlement, came to the canal, which is located on the west bank of the Mississippi opposite Point LaHanoe. and roported to the keeper of the looks of the canal that of three hundred people who composed the colony but thirty had escaped the fury of the elements. He described the violence as in the nature of a ter rible wave, which swept everything before it. While nothing definite was reported from Grand Islo, there is a general im pression at Point La Hache yesterday that groat disaster had occurred there and it was oven said that water hadswept over the island, carrying everything be fore it in its awful fury, and much anxiety was felt for tho safety of the two or three hundred inhabitants who were known to have been there. The report also said that tho hotel had been blown away. While this has not been confirmed, suoh a calamity was possible, in view of the terrible vio lence of the storm at Bayou Cook, as reported by the Lone Fisherman. The report also had it that tho set tlement at Amanda, which is directly across the bay from Grand Isle, had been the scene of a terrible loss of life, but this also lacked confirmation. No communication was possible with this point, and it will doubtless be several .days before the extent of tho damago is mado known. worst in twenty years. Pensacola, Fla., Oct. 3.?The most destructive storm that Pensacola has experienced in twenty years began at 6 o olock yesterday morning, and ragod with groat fury until a late hour yes terday evening. Tho nearest approach to yesterday's gale was the storm of 1881. The storm had been brewing since Saturday afternoon and Sunday, but a storm of such great fnry was not oxpected by anyono. At 4 a. m. yester day tho wind freshened and the rain increased in force. By 5 a. m. a ter rific southeast gale was blowing, which continued at the rate of fifty miles an hour until noon when tho wind shifted to the South and increased to GO miles. Botweon 2 and 3 p. m., it began to shift to the southwest, and at 2:45 p. m. the storm had reached its climax, tho wind at this timo having roached a volocity of sixty-six miles an hour. The rain fell in torronts and was swept in blinding sheets through the streets. At the bay front people stood in a drenching rain Watching the mighty elements iu their work of des truction. No loss of lifo has boon reported, but upon every street upi-ooted treos, broken fences and roofless buildings tostify to tho storm's force. On Bay street wharf tho largo building used by Warren & Co., for smoking fish, was blown into tho bay. It was storod with fl6h, and their loss will bo great. On tho same wharf a dwelling and its contents was lifted from foundation and dropped into the bay. damage to shipping. The greatest damage was on tho bay. Tho Portuguese bark Josephino and the Norwegian bark Witholma, were blown on tho beach. One of tho vessels is in a dangerous position, but it is thought that both can bo flout cd. The fishing smack Isabella is also on tho beach. Beforo tho storm reached its height several steamships that wore taking on cargoes raised steam and ran down to the lower bay where thev had plen ty of sea room. Every stick of timber in tho bay was cast adrift, and is now strownjalong the beach for miles. Rail road communication is cut off. Tho mail train on the Pensacola and Atlan tic road which loft hero for Jackson ville at 0:30 could not go further than Bohemia on the bay shore and was compelled to roturu. The 1:35 p. m. train on the Louisville and Nash ville also oncountorod washouts and was compelled to return to the city. Tho only train reaching tho city during tho day was from the North at 4:35 p. m. Ail telegraphic communi cation was cut off boforo 10 o'clock yes terday with this city, wires boing down in every direction, and no news of tho storm could bo sont out last night. THE NEWS J?B0WS WORSE. NEARLY TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE DROWNED. Tho Damage Estimated at Five Mil lion Dollars?The Greatest Disaster Ever Known on the Shores of Our Country?A Repetition of Johns town. Special to the Atlanta Constitution. New Orleans, Octobor 4.?Nearly 2,000 killed and five million dollars' worth of property annihilated is tho record of trie great gulf storm in Louisi ana. There has never boon anything approaching It slnco tho country was settled. More than half the population in the region over which tho hurricane swept are dead. Everything is wreok od. Ono house in ton Is standing, and tho surviving population is left in the most destitute condition, without food or even clothing, for most of them were sleeping in their beds whon their houses were crushed by tho wind oi the waves. More than a dozen relief expeditions went down from Now Or leans to-day to distribute food among tho survivors. Some of thorn had had nothing to eat slnco Monday and to day an appeal was mado to Colloctor of I Customs Wilkinson to let tho rovonuo vessels pick up tho survivors or carry aid to them. Tho death list is already abovo 1,800 ' and we have hoard from only a portion of the devastated country. It is such a network of islands, bayous, lakes and swamps that it will bo a weok boforo the rollof boats can traverse all tho waterway's and dlscovor tho full oxtont of tho damage dono. The worst, how evor, is known, for all the large settle meats have boon hoard from and it is only the smaller ones scatterod along tho bayous and Interior lakos that will have to be visited. the water rose fifteen feet. Tho loss of lifo in the parish of Pla quomino, lying on both sides of tho Mississippi, has boon heavy in property and 123 are dead. But tho great loss was in tho interior settlements on tho gulf coast and the bayous loading to it. Tho country there is mainly sea marsh, almost destitute of trees. The highost fiolnt is only seven foot abovo tho sea ovol and tho groater portion only threo feet above. Thorbfore, when the storm piled tho waves up fifteen foot they swept over the islands and ridges, carrying everything before them. There have been sevoral simi lar disasters on tho coast?at Lost island, whero 286 people lost their lives J* at Johnston's bayous, six yours ago. when the loss was 220?but Mon day s disaster far surpassed these in horror. Tho news has come in slowly. Monday it was known that the storm hod been very destructivo In Plaquo raine parish and the loss of life was estlmatod as high as thirty-five. Tuos day tho news camo of tho destruction of tho Bayou Cook settlement and tho deaths were thought to be as many as 250. To-day news oame in quick, suc cession of tho disasters at Chomoio ? Caminsda. the largest fishing settle ment on the coast, at Grande isle and other points, and the mortality la esti mated between 1,800 and 2,000. The loss of life will probably exceed the latter figure when the full record is made up. The deaths are confined to two parishes, Plaquemlne and Jeffer son, and are more than one-fourth of the total white population. The seriously wounded are few In number. In fact, the severity of the Btorm was such that it required a man of the finest phsiquo and in perfect condition to live through It. The weak and in jured were all killed, and In the settle ments where the etorm was worst not a single child survived and very few women. The survivors are the young men in the vigor of manhood Not one of them but what has a terrible story to tell. Not ono but what is badly bruised and injured. They escaped mainly on rafts or logs, floating for twenty to ninety hours in tho water, with the wind at 115 miles an hour howl ing around them. ALONG THE GULF COA8T. Those towns and settlements extend along tho Mississippi from Point a la Haches, forty-five miles below New Or leans to the gulf on Bayou Baratara and tho oyster reofs between there and the mouth of the Mississippi, and on tho islands stretching from tho Missis sippi to tho main land at Chomele Camlnada. Bay St. Louis and Pearl rlvor aro in Mississippi. The great majority of tho people are whites and not over ono hundrod are colored. At Chomele Camlnada was a largo Chinese colony engaged in proparing and exporting shrimp to China. St. Maleo was settled by Malays or Man illamon, all of whom woro fishormen. A majority of the population In the fishing town woro Creoles, Italians, Spaniards and so-called AuBtrians or Dalmatians. A largo proportion of thorn wero engaged in fishing and owned boats. At tho time tho storm visited Chomoie Camlnada, 120 fishing vessels wei'o In tho gulf fishing. Not a word has sinco boon hoard of them or tholr occupants. Along the Mississippi tho loss of lifo Is to some extent duo to falling build ings. On Baratara bay it was caused wholly by drowning. Tho Mississippi roso nine foot and poured ovor tho lovces. Tho gulf r*oso fifteen foot, and botwoen thoso two floods ovory thing was washed away or destroyed. Chomoio Camlnada, whoro tho groatcst loss of lifo [occurred, is a Ashing town of 1.640 people, situated on tho mainland of Louisiana opposite Crando isle. It was supposed to bo the safest place on tho gulf coast, but tho fury of tho storm raised tho water in the bay back of it. Early Monday morning, tho water had risen fifteen feet and poured ovor the island eight feetdoop. With a current of oight to ton miles an hour, it swept everything before it aud of tho 310 houses In tho settlement, only three wore standing at sunrise. Tho survi vors wero saved by clinging to trees or Kolos In the few houses which escaped, lost of tho bodies woro carriod to soa, but those that woro found In the wrecks woro burled in trenches, it be ing impossible to And cofllns. TERRORS OF THE NIGHT. Throughout all tho storm-visited section, the majority of tho people are in great destitution, muny of thorn be ing without clothing. Tho storm camo upon them in tho night when they woro disrobed and they havo boen in that condition ovor since. It had rain ed all Sunday, and tho wind was quito strong, but no ono anticipated a seri ous storm. It was after midnight when tho fury of tho storm broko out and it was so sudden that tho people were unable to got anything. It was Impossible to see or hear a distanco of ton feet away and husbands and wives stood up to their necks in the water all night, cTinging to treos only a few feet apart not Knowing whoro each other was until daylight. Nino feet of tho Aood swept ovor the loveos. When tho sea backed up Aftoon foot, it rush ed ovor Into tho river and continued to do so until tho water had gono down. Tho tide then started out like a mill race, carrying most of tho bodies to sea. The pocuniary damago while heavy is not as large aa might havo been ex pected as tho sugar plantations and tho richer portions of Plaquemlne parish wero not worsted by tho storm, and it was the smaller farms and Ashing set tlements which suffered most. Between hero and Mobile the dam ago done is placod at $500,000, and in and around Mobile at $300,000, tho total damage amounting to $4,390,000 Tho loss of tho crop of Plaquomino parish is estimated at 25 per cent, tho loss in oranges is 75 per cont., while about 20 per cont. of tno orange trees wero killed or blown down. The oys ter and Ashing Aeetis almost complete ly destroyed and tho levess badly wash ed and will have to bo rebuilt. Tho shipping suffered severely, but princi pally the smaller vessels. Tho duo Wobro, Asninwall, Chamborlano and two other steamers aro supposed to bo in tho wreck. Ono of them was blown into a rico field. Ono hundred and twenty schooners and bragos and 265 luggors are sunk, In most casos accom panied with heavy loss of life. Some 150 small vessels are missing and aro supposed to be lost. The ontiro gulf coast of Mississippi and Louisiana west of Atchafalaya is strewn with wreck age KAIL.ROADS WASHED OUT. Of tho railroads, tho Louisvillo and Nashville is the heaviest sufforer and tho damago inflicted will run from $500,000 to $600,000. Tho greater portion of tho lino bo twoen hero and Mobilo, 142 miles, is more or less dama;od. Nino thousand foet of tho Bay St. Louis bridgo is com pletely swept away, 3,000 foot of tho. Btloxi bridgo Is gono, whllo tho Scran ton and Jackson brldgos are all badly injurod and cannot bo used. About five miles of embankment and trostlo work and fifteen miles of track aro washed away. Tho amount of work to bo dono before tho road can bo put in ordor ngaln Is so groat that tho gen oral superlntondont is coming South to tako command, and besides all tho local force from tho southern divisions a largo body of men aro on thoir way bore from Evansvlllc, Ind., with pile drivers, otc., to expedite tho work. The northern and eastern mail, which formerly went, by this road, had gOUO by tho New Orloans and Northeastern. Tho Louisville and Nashville runs close, to the gulf betwoon hero and Mobile, and, thereforo, caught all the fury of the storm. All tho towns of tho railroad suffered, but the loss of lifo was small. Thoro is not a wharf botwoen hero and Mobile and betwoon sixty and eighty small vessels aro wrecked. This is in addition to thoso in Louisiana. The quarantine station Is badly damaged, but not sufficient to interrupt business. At Port St. Philip tho guns wore dismantled. Fort Livingston, in Baratara, one of the most hoavlly con structed forts In tho South, is complete ly dostroyod, nothing boing left but tue lighthouse. Only two nouses aro standing at Bonas settlement and nono at Bohemia. Of the 300 pooplo living in or around Bayou Cook only twenty three are accounted for or have re ported. ^ MOBILE'S MISFORTUNE. Later Report? Increase the Amount of Damage from the Storm. Mobile, A a., Oct. 4.?The tale of the storm has not been half told ; not only daily but hourly reports reaoh here of additional disasters, and with them come the said tidings of more lives sacrificed upon the altar of the storm king. From Baldwin County, which skirts the oastorn shore of Mobile Bay. to Mullet Point, a distance of forty miles, and the shores of Bon Bocour Bay to Fort Morgan, a distanco of twenty miles, come reports of great des true tum to property, but thus far, there has been no news of other human sacrifice from this direction. At Blakely, the destruction wrought among tho foroets and turpentine orchards is reported to have been very groat and many fenoes wore swopt away and gardens damaged. All re ports are unanimous that forty miles along this shore forests have been de vastated to an extent unknown in the history of this soction. Every steamboat wharf, privato wharf and bath house along this ontiro stretell of coast, which are numerous summer resorts, to which the citizens of Mobile flock to spend the heated term, have succumbed, partially or wholly, to tho devastating powers of the winds and tho wavos. Parties who witnossod tho storm from somo of tho summer resorts give graphic descrip tions of how tho wavos ripped tho planks up from tho wharves with much more ease than a lady rips thread from a scam, and when the waves had dono their part in the work of destruction, tho wind took up the broken debris and dashed it away as if to glvo vent to its fury. ? Some idea of tho devastation wro- ,ght in the forests of Baldwin County may bo gleamed from tho fact that there aro 1,500 trees across tho public road from Daphne, tho county seat, to tho Loxley logging camp, a distanco of fifteen miles. In a distanco of two miles, 240 trees wore counted across tho logging road of the Loxloys, who also had their boom and warehouse at Spanish Fort swept away. At Howard's tho hotel pavilion and magniflcont grove of oaks and hickory escaped injury, but the ontiro wharf is swopt away, while water was six foot deep at tho foot of tho bluffs, and when it subsided it was discovered that a new beach had been made. A quarter of a milo bolow Howard's, at Daphne, t he county seat, about half of tho fino wharf which extends from tho high bluffs fully half a milo into tho bay has boon swept away. Tho pior head and several spans of tho seaward end are gone and about twenty-flvo feet or more of tho Jshoro end. The wharf at Montroso is also gone, as are all tho fino private wharves and bath houses, while many of tho summer homes have boon damaged, and the little Catholic Church that stood on tho summit of tho bluffs 200 yards from tho water was completely wrecked. This is said to bo tho highest point on tho Atlantic coast from Tam pico, Moxico, to Montroso. Further South at Battle's tho wharf was demo lished and somo thirty or forty yards of tho bluff and roadway wore washed away. A half milo further South Point Cloar, tho Long Branch of tho South, extends Westward into tho bay. On this point stands a grand hotel facing South, while in tho rear of tho hotol tho North wharf extends into the bay nearly half a mile. Tho storm scorns to have taken special delight in demolishing this wharf, for the waves even dashed away tho strong pieces and cross-beams, leaving nothing but the gaunt pilings to stand sentinel ovor the ruins. Around in front of tho hotol was tho short wharf, which was also demolish ed, and tho wrcckago deposited on tho sandy beach and grassy lawn in front of tho hotol with its broad gallories, Sresented a splendid target for the I emon of tho storm, and tho wondor is that a plank of tho structure stands to tell tho story. As it was, tho wavos ; which usually lave tho beach in quiet i ripplos, ono hundrod yards away from the front of tho hotel, dashed with ! surly roar ovor tho verandas and beat against tho doors like a howling mob, at tho barred entry to somo jail, de manding the life of some prisonor with in. Evor and anon, huge' timbers and pieces of wrockago would bo dushed up to bo used as a battering'ram by tho waves. Tho wreckage and debris is piled high in front of the hotol, and tho West ond of tho front has been washed away. Somo of tho gallories of tho outbuildings wore swept away, and, according to some, the dining hull has beon completely turned around. Tho summer residoncos owned by prominent und wealthy Mobilians und loeuted along the curvo of tho shoro South of tho hotol, aro said not to have suffered any damage further than tbo loss of all of tho small crafts, wharves and bath housos. Cive Us Moke of the Same Sort. ?Wo heard two furmors talking u fow duys since, and ono wus bragging on what fine hogs ho had?stating that ho had the finest lot now he evor owned, and that he had to quit fooding somo of them during the summer months for four t hey could not stund tho beut and would die, thoy were so fat. Ho wont on to state that what his mules and cows wasted from tho food trough would keop two or three hogs fat. In reply to this tho other farmer stated that ho would kill flvo or six hogs this winter that would net from 250 to 350 pounds each, also that ho hud not bought meat but ono yoar in twolvo or fourteen yoars?and that year the cholora killed all his hogs. This is what wo need in this country ?hog and hominy raised at homo? seven cents cotton and oleven and a half cents moat won't do.?Nowberry Observer. Suffering in Midway Plaisance. ?Chill autumn winds havo brought much sickness and caused many deaths as well as untold suffering among tho Orientals on Midway. Stoves Tiavo lioon put up and ovory effort mado to alleviate their misery. Hot beef tea. quinino and whiskoy aro tho principal articles of diet. Tho Egyptians und tho llttlo pooplo from Java suffer most, and go about arrayed in tho most fun tustlo combinations. A physloian is in constant attend ance in tho South Soa Island vlllago and each dusky warrior is as carofully attended as tho highostpriced thorough brod. Dancing girls wear a far-away look as they huddlo togother and talk of their sunny homos in tho East. Even t>he animals in Hagonbeck's aro a li cet cd and ono particulary sad caso is a monster lion that is slowly dy ing of consumption. The spirit of the beast is broken, and ho longs for a caress or kind words while waiting the ond he appears to realizo. ?That irroprossiblo son of Ham, Bishop Turner, insist that Adam and Evo woro negroos. Tho Albany News remarks that tho fact that tho offense for which they were banished from Eden was eating an apple, not stealing chickens and watermelons, is enough to refute all the Bishop's arguments. BUTLER TO THE FRONT. AN OPEN APPEAL FOR COMPRO MISE. Senator Butler Does Not Believe the President l las Used His Office to In fluence Legislation?Ho Is Cheered to the Echo from Floor and Gal lerte?. Washington, Oct. 4.?Two of the most eloquent and exciting speeches that have been made in the Sonato chamber slnco tho debate on the silver purchase bill began were delivered to day by Democratic Southern Senators, Mr. Butler of South Carolina and Mr. Blackburn of Kentucky. Each speech lasted about two hours, and each speaker had large and sympathetic au diences both on tho floor and in the galleries. They wore both against tho repeal bill, and In favor of such a com promise as would result in the perma nent establishment of bimetallism. Tho silver purchase repeal bill was taken up at 11.30 a. m., and Mr. Butler addressed the Senate In opposition. Ho began by criticising somo of Mr. Palmor's statement slast ovening, par ticularly that insisting that tho Sonate should bo put in a position to govorn itsolf. Ho would say to that Sou'ator that tho minority was not attempting to coerce any ono, but ho thought ho might safoly say that tho minority did not intend to bo coerced by anybody. Tho Sonato was not a town meeting, it was a great deliberative body, in tended to put a veto upon hasty, un wise, and improper legislation. Tho Senator from Indiana (Turpio) had spokon of tho Sonato as being tho re fuge of minorities. In his, Butler's, judgment, it was the last refuge of minorities in this country. This was not a govcrnmont of majorities?unre strained majorities?it was a? govern ment of written law, to which tho ma jority in tho Senato was as amenable as the minority was, to which the President of tho United States was as amonablo as tho humblest citizen of tho Republic. Tho Sonato was not a body where tho political "hustler" could crack his whip and compel tho minority to con form to tho will of the majority. It was a body in which tho minority could protect Itself in pursuance and by virtuo of tho constitution and laws. Tho minority in tho Senato on the pending bill represented millions of Amorican citizens, and billions of American property; and were thoy to bo told that the minority must yield to tho demands of the majority, be causo tho majority had concluded that tho tinio for debate had ended, and that tho time for a vote had arrived? Ho hoard it often askod : " What is to bo done ?" " I reply, Mr. President," ho said, with strong emphasis. " compromise is tho solution of the struggle here to day. But," ho added, R wo are told that compromise means defeat, means surrender to the majority. Why, Mr. Presidont, tho very government under which wo livo, is the result of compro mise Thoro is not a contested meas ure in this House, which does not bo como law (if at all) as tho result of a compromise. And so I fool inclined to protest against tho assumption of Son ators who have said that the minority is defying tho majority, obstructing legislation and causing delay unnec essarily." Mr. Butler spoko of the supposed in terference of tho President with legis lation, and said : " I am not here to defend that great American citizen, but I think I may bo permitted to say that I believe that great injustice has been done to him. I cannot conceivo that a man who has such an exalted opinion of his high office, who has such a correct conception of the rotations which should oxist between tho differ ent dopartmonts of the government would permit himself to interforo with an independent, co-ordinate de partment by an improper oxerciso of his official position. The President of tho i United States has tho snmc right to his opinion about tho legislation of this body that any private citizen has. But it has been whispered around, when a suggestion of compromise has boon made, that tho President will not ac cept a compromise. Whoever states that, does tho high official great injus tice, because it is nono of his business what tho Sonato does. I do not be lieve that he has attempted to uso his high office to influenco tho legislation of this body. But nono of us can shut his eyes or eloso his ears to what is going on, to the statoments that the President will not accept a compro mise; and that compromise is defeat, and a surrender to a minority." Mr. Butler came back to tho merits of tho question, and declared that if ho believed that silver money was an in jury to the country, he could voto for tho bill. If ho believed that if the purchuso of four and a half million ounces of silver per month, under the Shorman act, had brought about the panic, or had jeopardized tho credit of tho government, ho should find no trouble in voting for tho unconditional ropeal of tho Sherman act. But as he entertained a different view on this point, ho would not voto for its repeal, unless tho repeal wero accompanied by a proposition to continue the coinage of silver in somo form and to make silver a permanent part of the finan cial policy of the country. Ho chal lenged proof of tho assertion that the credit of the government has beon im paired by tho Sherman act. Such an assertion, he said, was but idlo talk. If ho wished to pay $10 to the presid ing officer it would ho taken as roadily in silver as in gold, as readily in silver certificates as in gold certificates. Would somo Senator then toll him in what respect a silver dollar was dis bonest, or silver currency not a sound currency. Mr. Butler got into a colloquy with Mr. Gray and Mr. White as to tho proper definition of credit, and ho told thoso Senators, with warmth, that they might havo got their views from bank ors, and that tho most unsafo tulviser to Congross on the financial quostion was a bankor of Now York, or a bank er of Boston, | A11pi;i use in the galle ries.) In the vory nature of things, the ownors of largo capital bocamo solfish and sorbid, and wcro not only unpa triotic, but unsafo advisors on goneral questions of legislation. Mr. Butlor Spoko of tho amount of curroncy in circulation as ono billion six hundred million, and asked who had tho power to shut up that much curroncy in a night. lie thought ho could answor that question, but It was not incumbent on him to do so now. He would state, howovor, that whorc ever the power existed, it was tho duty of Cougross to ferret it out and de throne it. " You may," ho continued, " strike down haboas corpus ; you may destroy the bill of rights; you may abolish trial by jury, and other monu monts of Amorican liborty, and a poc plo accustomod to freedom would get along somohow, and aftor somo fash Ion, out If you placo tho pooplo of this or any othor country at tho mercy of a prlvilogcd raonoy class, you had better take the hot winds of tho dosort and lot i in in sweep over tho country ; for destruction will follow as surely as the day follows the night. England has destroyed the people of Ireland tn that way. Russia has destroyed the people of Poland. Turkey has de stroyed the people of the Danubian provinces, and the same power will do stroy the mass of the American people if that power is not sought out and de stroyed. "I have no sympathy with commu nistic views or with anarchism. I be hove in the right of person and prop erty, but, Mr. President, when you glvo control such as has been exer cised, to bring on this panic, to any set of people, you approach the conditions brought about In Franco by Napoleon tho Third, who established, under tho rule of universal suffrago, the direst despotism of modern times. He said : "The Empire is peace," and ho formed his battalions to enforce peace. Ho issued his plebiscite- for tho exercise of the right of Buffrago, and tho voters marched up to the ballot box botweon an avenue of bayonets, and when the result was announced, he said : " I am tho Emporor of tho French by virtue of tho universul exorcise of the privi lege of univorsalsuffrago of tho French people." Tho Empire was poaco. Tho empire of monoy in this country, they will toll us, is peaco. But it is the peace under and by virtue of the shackles of depondoncy and slavery, which will bo forged for tho great silent masses of the country. After some further remarks Mr. Butlor pleaded fatigue, and said that ho would now yield tho tloor to tho Senator from Kentucky (Blackburn), although there were some othor points which ho wished to discuss. Mr. Blackburn addressed tho Sonate in opposition to tho repeal bill. Ho of the Sherman act, but, bad as the measure was, unfair aud uncandid as ho believed it to bo, ho did not believo that it had been tho causo of tho finan cial woo which tho country has Buffer* ed, nor did ho believe its repeal would prove the panacea for all tho financial ills undor which tho country was strug gling. He did not favor eithor tho bill passed by tho House of Representatives or tho substitute reported from tho fi nance committee, but he thought a bet ter bill than either could be devised and passed. Ho declared that an in ternational standard of value was a myth. There never has been, never would bo and never needed to bo an in ternational standard of value. The trouble lay farther back than tho Sherman law. Tho tariff system of the country needed revision and the financial system needed overhauling. Ho stood hero to-day to advocato both these necessary works. Ho made an eloquent nppeal on be half of silvor. Ho said : "Silver has not lost any of its intrinsic valuo. If it be a debased monoy to-day, it is only when compared with gold. Subject to it any other i,?st, however crucial or severe, and it stands, us it has ever stood, tho fairest und most honest of all tho standards of value which the peoplo have over known. I pray you not to strike it down. 1 appeal to Sen ators now as did tho Senator from South Carolina (Butlor) this morning. Lot us look and see if there bo no basis of ad justment on which this issue may be determined. There are those who sit on this side of tho chamber who know with what persistency and earnestness I have strugglod from tho day that Congross met, down to now, to find a busis of compromise. I will myself to-morrow submit to tho consideration of tho Sonato an amendment which I propose ,to offer, looking in that dir ection. I am a compromise man ; I will go as far as tho farthest and then I will go farther still, to adjust tho issue which wo are now considering." Senator Itlnokburn's Strong and Forcible Speech?He is Heady to Make Concessions. Special to the Atlanta Constitution. Washington, October 4.?Senator Joo Blackburn, of Kentucky, delivered today the clearost, the strongest, tho most forcible and the most logical speech that has yet bcon heard since tho opening of tho silver debate in tho Senate. It was a model of eloquence, force and logic. The Senators crowded to their seats, the galleries woro filled, and from his opening sentence to his close ho was given tho most perfect attontion. The Kontuekian excelled himself. Ho spoke two hours and a half. Ho had neither a written speech nor notes, but hud he spent months in its preparation and read it, ho could not have been clearer, stronger or more logical. He declared that cloturo and the previous question had been strangers in the Sonate and would over be strangers to tho Senate. Ho argued for free coinage, for bimetallism in its truest and sttricest (.sense. He argued for tho repeal of the State bunk tux and for ovory declaration of tho Demo cratic platform as construod by tho groat mass of the people of this coun try. He declared against uncondi tional repeal and eloquently demanded u compromise in tho name of the peo ple. "They demand their faith and wish to know their creed," he said. "The question," he repeated, "could only be settled by a compromise and such should be dono without delay. But us much us ho dotosted tho Sherman law ho would never see it unconditionally repealed. It should not bo. The grout mass of tho people of this country should be protected." Senator Blackburn's speech hud much effect in pacifying the rabid Senators on both sides. lie wus reudy to make concessions, ho was reudy to do anything consistent with justice to silvor to settle the ponding question. What offect it will have on tho Pre sident und Secretury Curl isle is un known, but it lias added to the feoling on the part of the grout mass of Sena tors in favor of u just and fair com* promise for tho solution of tho complex and annoying problem which is keep ing tho country in such weary suspense. It was the most effective speech de livered in the Sonato for many years. It has started compromise talk afresh and unloss somo great change comes about within the next fow days, it will havo tho effect of bringing tho Sonato together and solving tho pro blem Bomotinio next week. Another brilliant spocch on tho silvor sido wus made by Senator Butler, of South Carolinu, in tho opening of tho dobato in tho Senate today. It had been advertised that ho would speak and tho galleries woro crowdo?. Tho Carolina senior Senator can always draw a crowd, and ho is one of the fow mon who recoivod prolonged applause fuora the galleries in that chamber. Today ovory olfort tost"j> applause was futilo and tho crowd remained enthu siastic in spite of the capitol police and Vice ProsidontStovonson's hammering. Sonator Butlor declared oponly that whon Mr. Cleveland aont his moBsage to Congross his duty was dono, and Ins had no business Whatever to attempt to coerco legislation according to his individual policy. Ho suid that com promise vas inevitable, und us much as ho despised tho Sherman act, ho would never veto for its unconditional ropeul, as it meant the demonetization of silver. After two hours Bpeaking he was forced to stop from sheor ex haustion, and yielded tho floor to tho Kentuoky orator. was not, ho said, u friend AFTER TWENTY YEARS. A Sensational Trial for Marder tu North Georgia?The Slayer of a Prominent Liawyer Still a Mystery. Special to tho Atlanta Constitution. H1AWA88EE, Ga., October 1.?This has been one of tho most exciting weeks in tho history of our county. The superior court has boon in session aud Marcus Vandlver is being tried for the murder of M. K. Palmer, whloh took placo on tho 6th of June, 1872. Palmer was an able lawyer, of great magno t ism, zoal and personal courage. He resided in Cleveland, and praticod in our county. Ho had been attending our superior court, and loft Hiawassee on tho evening of tho 4th of Juno, 1872, and stayed all night with M. V. Eng land, the present representative In tho legislature, and left his bouso at 7 o'clock in tho morning of the 5th of Juno for his home, and whon about flvo miles from England's house, whilo rid ing his mule along tho turnpiko road, about 8 o'clock in the morning, a shot was fired from ambush, on tho point of tho ridgo near-by, ontoring Palmor's body from bohind, ranging toward tho front, through his hoart, passing out of his body, going through a fence rail and striking a rock, whore the trace of the ball was loBt. Mr. Palmor's mulo rau with him about sixty yards, when ho fell off dead in the road. His doad body was immediately discovered and the alarm given. Runners were sent horo, whore court was still in session, and whon tho nows came Judge Knight immediately adjourned court, and everybody went to thoBcono. Tho ambush was discovored. Tho assassin stood bohind a stump at tho root of a large tree, which commanded a full view of tho road for a quarter of a milo the way Palmer was expected to como, and tho path which he was oxpooted to tako was cleared out, so as to mako his aim certain. Tho placo showed that tho dastard had remained there for quito awhile. His tracks were plainly visible und they were zealously guarded, whilo a runner was sent to the camp of Thomas Alexander, who was then engaged In building tho Air-Line railway, for bloodhounds with which to track tho usssassin. He returned next day with out tho dogs and then the parties set out to follow the trail ; this they did liko sleuth hounds. The murdorcr at. times ran, sometimes bar footed, then ho would stop and put on his shoes, which had peculiar tack marks, that made them easily distinguishable. No one except tho man who fired the fatal shot had boon along. The tracks camo to and from the ambush. When tho night of tho 6th camo tho pursuers were on top of tho Blue Ridgo, at tho Tndian Gravo gap, with out food or sholtor, but nothing daunt ed. They lay down on the tracks and, whon morning came, pursued tho trail and followed tho track to within 150 yards of Vandivor's houso, where it entered a branch, and all furthor trace was impossible. Vandivor was not at homo and suspicion strongly pointed towards him as tho guilty party. Tho friends of Palmer never lost their norgy and kept pursuing their investigation. About two years ago Marcus Vandiver, v?ith his two boys, went to tho homo of a Mr. Wilkins, who married his niece, and gavo Wil kins and his father a terrible boating in tho presence of his (Wilkins) wife. Mrs. Wilkins then and there accused Vandiver of tho murder of Palmer, and threatened to tell what she know about tho killing, which took placo when sho was only ten yoars old, and tho over alert friends of Palmer saw their opportunity, and upon investiga tion secured a long missing link in tho chain of evidence. Tho secret was carefully guarded. The witnesses sub poenaed, and at the September term, 1892, twenty years after tho crime was committed, an indictment was found and the defendant arrested. Palmer was the inveterate enemy of a certain crowd of informers, go-be tweens, spies and blackmailers that woro then engaged in a protended en forcement of the internal revenue laws. Ho defended tho victims, prosecuted the rascals, brought suit to recover the money unlawfully filched from innocent men, and wrote somo of the most caus tic letters ever written to The Atlanta Sun, exposing tho whole rotten crowd. It has always been supposed that these parties, whom Ins bearded in their dens, hired the cowardly deed done, and that through their instrumentality Mr. Palmer was assassinated. Neman had more friends among the law and order poople than Mr. Palmer, and tho law less feared him and desired him out of the way. The scene in tho eourthouse was no ordinary one. The widow of Mr. Pal mer and two daughters were hero to aid by their presence and testimony in the vindication of their deceased loved one. Ono of them, now a beautiful and accomplished young lady, was then an infant. Sho has no personal knowl edge nor recollection of her father, and has learned more of him during tho progress of tho trial than she ever knew of him. Tho Other was put upon tho stand and told of the death of her father and told how, as a small child, the same was indelibly impressed upon her mind. The scene at tins point was highly dramatic. From this point on tho dull details of circumstantial evidence were presented. The State was represented by Solici tor General Howard Thompson, M. G. Boyd and J, J. Kimsoy. It is a battle to the death and every inch is being contested. When Solicitor General Thompson camo into ofllco, soven years ago, he immediately sot about to find tho murder of Palmer, and has novor relaxed his zeal. Mr. Boyd was with Mr. Palmer on the circuit, when ho was assassinated, and it has been tho work of his legal life to ascertain the gulity parties. Mr. Kimsev lives near the widow and orphans of Mr. Palmer and is familiar with their toils and hardships, and became their fast friend and has always boon ardont in trying to forret out tho porpetrator. It is a strong team and worthy of tho cause they represented. Bach and all the attorneys made able and exhaustive speeches, and after an impartial chargo by the court tho jury retired, and at 10 o'clock returned with a verdict of not guilty. ?Juan Burger, tho lil-year old son of a citizen of Kokonio, Ind., died from tho direct ofTccts of cigarette smoking. In his room were found 988 empty cigarette boxes ho was saving up to send to tho manufacturers for a prize, lie had como within twelvo of tho prize whon invotable death stopped In and claimed tho victim?of narcotic poisoning?and yot, with those fatal results constantly reported, thoro are thousands of parents who are so unwise as to off or no objection or to mako no effort to prevent their children from continuing a habit which, if it does not soon kill them, dwarfs and wrecks them for lifo. And in the face of this cigarette murdering there arc manu facturers sordid nnd reckless enough to offer a premium for the murder of children. ?It is vory foolish to give your chil dren good advice,while you are setting them a bad example.