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J N~7~ ~ . '7, VIII 1 111111 AI'1m4 ~44 A4~i4I Af~,~44,4~ - I -- I (sb. - ESTABLISHEI) IN 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1887. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR SHAKEN OUT OF EXISTENCE. DeStruction of a Mexican Town at th. Birth of a Volcano. Special to the New York Herl.. EL PAso, July 12, 1887.-I hav just returned from the scene of th< only active volcano in North Ameri .ca. The trip was one of extraordi nary hardship, accomplished in th, face of obstacles of which the entir absence of any road, an arid deser of over one hundred miles across ant the blazing sun of a tropical zoni were conspicuous features. The vol cano lies twelve miles, as the cro' flies, from Bavispe, in the State o Sonora, in the extreme northwes corner of the Mexican Republic. A rough estimate will place the dis tance from El Paso at four hundred miles, calculating on a bee line. BAVISPE SHAKEN OUT OF EXISTENCE The eighth day brought the Ierlz explorers into the vicinity of Bavispe but a little prior to this we had th< first intimation of cosmic disturbanc< in the shape of a fluttering tremor o the earth. These shocks, which wer slight and undulating increased ir frequency as we drew near the town until scarcely an hour elapsed withou1 a repetition of them. We came ir sight of Bavispe at about ten o'clocI in the morning, and the first thins that met our sight was a huddled en campment ot several hundred peopl on the broad mesa that flanks th< g-town. Bavispe itself may be spoke! of in the past tense-it no longer ex ists. On the 1st of last May, just a the gray of dawn, the villagers wer awakened by a sickening shudder o the earth, followed by a quick tremo that reduced half of the abodes of th place to ruins. Creeping out fron the wreck of their dwellings thej sought safety on the level ground where a sort of encampment wa: formed, and thence in time the entirE village has migrated. Since thal morning of desolation and terroi there has been no day unaccompaniec by an earthquake. Sometimes it ha: been so violent as to loosen masses of rock and c pen vast fissures in thE mountain side, and sometimes it is an almost imperceptible vibration but never has it entirely ceased, and the superstitious Mexicans havE given themselves up to the apathy o despair. Our appearance, which it ther times would have convulsed the -llage with excitement, scarcely at cted attention. A few half-naked Sand haggard women straggled ftheir tenements of brush tc but many merely glanced open doorways and madE ~ALYZED B~Y MIS the following toy vil "The R~ev. Mas house rold, and soi where he ree4ge SeminaSF I y$ ~urces, ~',y have hfie wreck o1 *rifte and pathetic 6r&-The mortality which oRdhis (disaster must have beer 'W a but it was almost impossible to draw any of them into conversa. tion and quite so to obtain any~ ac curate information. Over twenty sunken places in the mesa marked recent graves, and as many more dead are probably lyin~g in the ruins. It may be well to note in passing that the miserable condition of these people and their unparalleled misfor tune have excited general commise ration throughout the Republic of Mexico. Subscriptions have beer raised for them at different points, notably among the ladies of Pasc del Norte, where $500 or $600 were subscribed ror their relief: but so in accessible is the spot that but little could be done in this direction. Ir the coirsc of time they will probably b.e aided in moving south amnong their people, but at present their con dition is one that appeals strongly to humanity. TH E VOLCANO A T wVORK. From Bavispe we had our finst sight Qf Qmur objective point-the volcano. A pennant of smoke, trailed by the wind from a low, square topped peak to the southwest, defined its location; while a dull and muttering roar, almost incessant, told that the forces of nature were at work. The volcano lies about twelve miles from the site of the town, but over such an extraordinarily broker tract of country that we realized at once that it would require two days jouney to reach it, and pushed straight ahead without delay. The phenomena which we had observed at Bavispe increased in volume as we approached the mountain. We fol lowed the dry bed of a stream which at some forgotten period had worn a causeway through the granite. It was broken by fissures of evident re cent origin, from north to south, and in some cases four or five feet broad and of unknown depth. Springing from one of these, about four miles out, we encountered a geyser rivalling any of those in the National Park. It is in the centre of a circular basin, with sides of sand and mud, - and about forty feet in diame ter. At intervals of fifteen minutes I an immense stream of hoiling water - leaps out and up to a heighth of. I should judge, sixty feet. Its ap pearance is unaccompained by any special demontratin-, hut the enor mous volume of water falling sheer back into the basin is a spectacle as impressive as it is startling. The geyser spouts four or five minutes and then subsides as quickly as it came, disappearing with a mutter that re verberates far down into the bowels of the troubled earth. It is impos sible to approach very close while it is in action, but an idea of its heat as it emerges can be formed from the fact that a pocket thermometer dipped into the basin before the water oozed away marked within two degrees of the Loiling point. The Mexicans say that three other geysers exist in the southwest, but we were unable, for reasons that will appear further on, to investigate the statement. A RED LIPPED LIVING C'RATER. When our party came witl'in four or five miles of the volcano we real ized that it would be impracticable to approach it in a direct line. A river of lava pouring down the moun tain side some weeks ago,. and not yet cool, effectually barred the way, so we turned to the south and began the ascent of an adjacent peak for the purpose of obtaining a view from its superior elevation. It is unneessary to detail the ascent, It was like all other mountain climbing, except more so. But when we reached the top a spectacle of tremendous con vulsion met our view. Below us, at a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, was the red lipped mouth of a living volcano. Heretofore no one has approached within one-fourth of that distance. The crater forms a rude oval, depressed at the northern side, and rising in a series of ragged peaks at the south, A strong wind blowing northward favored our view, for it swept away the smoke and steam of the eruption and left the actual mouth comp)aratively clear. It is a lurid funnel, incessantly changing in hue from the inconceiv able heat which must exist in its midst. The bottom was veiled by a blinding mist, but up the sides played bright hands of crimson, varying into green andi blue, with that incandes cent shifting of color that one ob serves in white hot steel. At inter hvals the lambent surfane quivered and an upheaval of fiery matter, of or what seemed to be such,gave the crater the appearance of a lake of liquie flame, During our first view of it there was no eruption in the common acceptance of the term, that is to say nothing was thrown out; bat the vast cauldron seemed seething and boiling to its edges. Had it not been for tbe wind before alluded to, our position would have been unten able from the be,at. At the far side, where the depression existed, there were plain evidences of a gap formed by the egress of the lava. RIvERlS OF MOLTEN LAVA. Later on we were enabled to trace the course of this molten river. It had poured straight downward over a steep declivity for about an eighth of a mile, where, checked by a gulch of gigantic proportions, it had swerved to the north in the direction of the mesa on which was Bavisze. About two miles from the engter the storm stopped and spread itself over a cansiderable area, where it has cooled in wild aud fantastic for mation. Those who have seen the lava beds, where the renegade Mo doe, Captain Jack, made his last stand, can form a pretty accurate idea of the scene. It calls to mind nvoluntarily the fan glar photograph. ic maps of lunar landscapes, It is as it some sea lashed into a thousand waves and eddies and ragged whirl pools had been arrested and frozen by some necromancy into stone, In color if is dark gray, and so much heat is still retained that it is im possible to approach nearer than to within one hundred yards of its edge. It must have been a thick and pasty mass even at its hottest, for at one point where it has slightly overflowed Ia rocky promontory.it did not fall to the bottom, but hangs in a fringe g like stalactites over the edge. d AN E67r-TION DESCRIBED. p The elevation on which we stood ic was separated from the volcanic 0 peak by a chasm of considerable e depth, yet there was a continuous s humming vibration of the solid rock e beneath our feet, and the air was h filled with a grinding noise, as though the universe were rended at its foun- e dations. The fiery convulsions of I which I have spoken were accompa- r panied by dull detonations, proceed ing apparently from far in the inte- d rior of the mour.tain, and flakes of t gray ashes and fragments of vol- t canic stone lying all about warned a us that when in active operation the t crater would render our position de- t cidedly unsafe. The table-land from t whieh we obtained our view sweeps C westward with a gentle curve, and at a distance of about a mile we found t a favorable camping place. From there, at about dusk on the second n day, we had a fine view of a short but violent eruption. Warned by a e succession of dull reports we hurried to the highest elevation, and a mo ment or two later saw a vivid column of flame shoot upward to an immense height. The top broke and fell back, exactly as some clever piece of pyro- p technics, but it had scarcely fallen c before another and another column of fire leaped toward the heavens. s From this point we could not see the crater itself, but a tremendus sizzing sI and hissing noise reached our ears and dominated over even the louder P crashes of the eruption. The skies, e beautifully clear, and with that im mense appearance of depth charac teristic of the altitude, caught the re flection and turned to a ruddy dome, while the refracted light outlined our shadows as sharply as an electric c lamp. During the eruption, which lasted about fifteen minutes, there was no distinct earthquake shock, but the incessant tremor and vibration ti materially increased. A tin cup of ti water on the ground was half emptied of its contents, and our effects, which had been placed in a general heap, were scattered about promisc'iously. By reason of our elevation we had t no fear of an overflow of lava, but d we - learned by investigaton next day that none had made its ap- h pearance. The only trace, in fact, C that remained of the convulsion at daylight were the numerous blocks r of stone which had been loosened b from the mountain side and burled d into the gulches and gorges. d TIIE DEsTRUCTIoN OF BAYIsPE. As our purpose was simply to ob- ua tain definite assurance that a volcano it really did exist, we made prepara- tt tions for our return on the day fol- r: lowing the eruption. Thle trip back F to Bavispe was unaccompanied by , special incident, but there, by a fortu- ri nate accident, we learned something l( of the history of the phenomena. b On last April a German named ~ Schutz and a half-cast Mexican g named Alvarez came to Bavispe fore the purpose of prospecting for miner als. They were in B3avispe at the tl time of the first eruption, saw the de- 1: struction of the town, and remained a for some days afterward; but when a: wepassed throughon ourway to thevol r, cano they were both at Bacarac, a little tl town lying some distance southward. v, During our absencc Alvarez had re- it turned and he was the first person we fr met coming in. iIe is a rather intel- t' ligent man, has lived for eight or ten b; years past in the United States and e: talks English fluently. It was from a him that we obtained an account of ir the extraordinary changes the con- n vulsion has wrought in the topog- g raphy of the country. When he tirst v came to Bavispe a ragged spur of the e range which now appears extending northward from the erater was not visible, but hidden by an elevation b thickly covered with brush and pin- ci iou trees. On the morning succeed- c< ing the first tremendous shock~ he was bi amazed to tind that the woods had is disappeared and in their place this d: section of the range. The place si intervening had become a depression, o, across a portion of which we had ai passedl. This accounted for the fis- f~ sures and chasms which had so i-o peded our progress. For two <lay8 al following this tipheavaI the shocks og were violent and practically continu- Oj ous. 0j .3I0UNTAINs PLAYING $EE sAW. c: ilis i>scription of one of the ac- is companying p)henomena was weird ri and eerie to a degree. Back of the et range which so suddenly and mys- ri teriously mnade its appearance is an- ei other spur of about the same height ti and dimensions, but of' course not tc visible from Bavispe. During one o1 of the most violent shocks this range it was lifted upward into plain view, ranite monsters see-saw up and - tain own a half dozen times. The peo- can' le of the town, not unnaturally, be- coui eved that the earth was about to hea verwhelm them, and the terror which tity asued is easier imagined than de- wer ribed. Before they could fly, how- dire ver, the shock was over and things we: ad resumed their former appearance. at t .lvarez fixes the mortality at thirty- I ju ight, exclusive of those who must and ave been caught and buried in the of t lins, and it is a curious circumstance If s iat some days later several women froi ied of symptoms identical with of t dose of seasickness. He stated alsb pro aat at Bacarac changes in the form- mal tion of the country were reported val1 have taken place to the south, and the; iat all through the intervening terri- and >ry old springs had dried up, new mo nes appeared and geysers spurted ent >rth. Without exception the water or I ras boiling hot. iIe assured us that '1 Lie geyser we encountered was of whi )ore recent origin than the others tior nd had only been spouting from rea ight to ten days. Its appearance the; ras heralded by a crash that was dis- and inctly audible at Bavispe, and it was of t ome days before the inhabitants abl entured out to ascertain the cause twe f the new disturbance. He and his tric artner had located some promising qul laims, showing gold in decomposed the uartz, in the vicinity and were not on isposd to abandon them unless actu- out Ily driven away. Schutz was at the wer >wer town laying in supplies. moa )ME EFFECTS OF THE EARTIIQUAKE. witI We were not supplicd with the oth, roper instruments for measuring the pro xact altitude, but at a rough guess acti would estimate it to be between acci ixty-five hundred and seven thou and feet. A reference to the map -ill show that the range in which the olcano is located is located is not A ntinuous. Fifty or sixty miles has >uth it dwindles into a succession of yea )othills, and finally disappears in cha ne of those vast and rolling plains Ths iat we crossed in our journey from but ie State of Chihuahua. It is not, is t< roperly speaking, a part of the con- our nental divide, and neither is it one hun f those ribs thrown off from the ing reat backbone which cuts the coun. car( y toward the north. It is rather a pref istinct and separate mountainous sue )rmation. The true range lies two feel undred miles east and traverses Sou hihuahua toward the Isthmus. Vol- bra inic in its origin, history is simply the: speating itself. Here seems to have resi een the centre of the recent seismic it is isturbance, the effects of which were rela istinctly felt at El P'aso and as far will est as San Diego and north to the so 1I pper confines of California. I think sen1 will be found that the violence ol amc ie shock decreased in mathematical was tio according to the distance from gini avispe. At the Briton Davis ranch, not here we stayed several days on our .the ~turn, the shock was extremely vio our nt and its effects are distinctly visi- in 1: le over the adjacent cattle range, our is as ill wind that blows nobody On ood, and the same maxim applies to arthquakes, for, while heretofore ater has been extremely scarce and .A ie scanty supply very precarious, a Ti?, arge new spring has been opened cou bout half a mile from the hacienda old. rid furnishes an abundance of water The r all the cattle. Ujnlike those in ren ie immediate neighborhood of the dier lcano the water is cool and refresh. tiox: ig. It pours in an immense volume old -om a short fissure which appeared wh( re morning following the shock. A lie asin of large dimensions has been the scavated below the spring and forms wh( pretty miniature lake, while the Cr rigation from the overflow has sur: ade its effects visible by luxuriant Bill rass on its edges. Lieutenant Da. that s has no objection to a few more lina irthquakes of the same style. whi, YAQUIRBIVERl LOST. poS I should not omit mentioning that has etween the ranch and Bavispe we the rossed the Yaqui River, whose his >gree almost defines the boundary To etween Chihuahua and Sonora. It yet, a sluggish stream, about two hun- win red feet broad and navigable for a inte ingle of light draught. It finds its last igin in the mountains to the north groi 3d empties into the Gulf of Cali- the rnia at the lower part of the state mor SSonom. There is rehiable inform- k-no ion of a temporary disappearance Isuit 1this river near the coal fields in and naga. It does not sink Into beds firei Squicksand, as is frequently the hea< ise with these Mexican streams, but whia said to flow directly into a deep che< ft, broken across its bed during the rthquake. The point at which it the appears is not exactly ple but of f ~hty p; ninety miles to the south e samestream is sleepily creeping iward the Gulf, and gives no sign~ :the strange subterranean journey fo must have made in its course. fo The government expedition sent' no it by the Stte of Chihnahua to ob- jdrut accurate information of the vol- E > ought to be heard from in the rse of ten days. They carried Two vy pack trains and a large quan of scientific instruments, and Cot e, therefore, unable to take ab morni et a route as the one by which Caldm proceed. We crossed their track and S be beginning of the journey, but were [ dge that they circled to the south umns probably approached the scene the h he eruption from the other side. thirty uc.h is the case I very much doubt, were n what I observed of the neture acros! he country, whether they can ap- broke ach near enough to the crater to floor ce observations of any permanent son w le. If they find this to be true a hole V will have to try another route and the report may be delayed for a the er 3th. That it will be of great sci- his he ific interest admits of no question Jacks loubt. lande, 'he numerous conflicting reports arm a ch have been sent -.broad in rela- ceivet i to this disturbanci can be in his lily accounted for by the fact that after y have emanated from Magdalena shake other points on the northern end he Sonora Railway. An impass- Cunni a mountain barrier intervenes be- sprair en this road and the Bavispe dis- decla t. To pass around it would re- their ce months of travel over one of' sec urc most terrible stretches of country built this hemisphere. So it goes with- Bartb saying that none of these reports conir e direct., but rather rumors of ru -s from the far South. I can say :out fear of contradiction that no ,r exploring party has thus far ap ched near enough to the scene of All on to carry away anything like and irate information. contr. S-.... - miles What We Need. with Newberry Obsercer. & II , great deal is being said now and Moore been said for the past twenty has t] rs about "bridging the bloody is uni 5m" between North and South. White .t is all very well as far as it goes; The what we need far more than that tween > bridge the bloody cl asms among finish own people-the protection of the w ian life in our own State. Leav. place the dead issues of the war to take W of tbemselves, our urgent and Is sus ising duty is to settle this live is- ing t of to-day. The "era of good On D ing" all good citizens want in force th Carolina is that which will em- will i ,e our own citizens and will make the ti n peaceable, lawabiding, law- will b ecting and harmonious. While tween desirable to cultivate friendly It wil tions with our former foes, yet it 96 fee do us very little practical good creek. ng as we cherish malice and re- about mnent and the spirit of revenge tons c ng ourselves. The blood that wilI shed on the battle fields of Vir- recuoi a a quarter of a century ago need Capt. concern us beyor(cgasure it is scnvE bloodthat is bei.4ned now, of own citizens by our own citizens, rivate brawls, in every portion of .1Th own State. gia s ___ ._-- Ya'Od Capt. Hundred and Twent.y Yer l.arrive From the Raleijk News.te correspondent of the Concord Nw es has found a man in Stanly ont that 1 nty one hundred and twelve years to,. His name is Billy Whitley. Xui correspondent says of him: "lie l embers distinctly seeing the sol- o o s coming home from the revolu ary war. H e married at 33 years Ti and lived with his wife '73 years ls died at the age of 101, in 1881. Cl has in his possession a gun used in fight at Yorktown by a gentleman tra heard the conversation between ler nwallis and Washington at the Jon ender. With this gun uncle thn y has probably killed more deer telC 1 any other man in North Caro- work .lHe has also a pocketbook ta ch belonged to his father, and is ibly 125 or 150 years old. Hie Th his third set of teeth-nQt from shaw dentist. but from God. He cut that ti last set at the youthful age of 109. aid of show the strength of his manhood pletei it is enough to state that last cated ter he cut wood, cut up and split which fine wood a large dead tree and Kersb year sprouted fourteen acres of tion 0 2nd. lie has lived a naember of 0 ~ old aghool ]Uaptist church for iaoET e than sis;ty years. Never was wn to tell a lie, never had a law .never took a dose of medicine. It never paid a doctors bill. He Three I off the old musket over the constr s of the immense crowd, after rectt h a tremendous shout of three Chroni rs was given him. Col, )ne felt like taking ofT his hat in the T presence nf this venerable man corps ur generations back." work A Sober Idea from ral re Detroit Free Press- in forn is used as an argument, either route temlerance or the bicycle, thatco 1 bicycle rider ever comes home marke FROM THE SCAFFOLDING. len Killed and Several Others Badly Wounded .UMBIA, S. C., July 14.-This ng, abous 9 o'clock, George -eli, S. Jackson, William Oliver am Cunningham, all negroes, ngaged at work on some col that jutted out from the wall of >use of representatives, about feet from the floor. They standing on a plank stretched the scaffolding, when the plank and precipitated them to the beneath. Caldwell and Jack ere sitting on the plank drilling in a piece of iron, and Oliver ,unningham were standing at ds. Caldwell fell squarely on ad, and died almost instantly. on fell among some lumber, c on his side, and had his right nd left leg crushed. He re I internal injuries that resulted death, three and a half hours the accident. Oliver,is badly n up and bruised, though there visible signs of serious injury. ngham came out with only a ed ankle. The coroner's jury ed that the deceased came to leath from falling from an in scaffold. The scaffold was by Benjamin Roe, employed by Att, Howard & Co., of Baltimore, zctors. Work on the Three V's. Yorkeille Enquirer, 61k. the ground between Rock Hill Corkville is now occupied by Letors. Mr. Thomas has two west of Mr. Adams, connecting the work completed by Moore )rne, and the nExt between & HIorne and Mr. Ross, who ie first five miles east of town ler contract - with Ferguson & who are now at work. locating of the entire line ba Black's and Camden has been ,d, Capt. Ramasaur completing ork last week at the rhornwell in Lancaster County. rk on the Fishing Creek trestle pended for the present, await ie completion of the masonry. fonday Capt. Lewis sent- his to Kings Creek, where work mmediately be commenced on -estle over that stream. This e the most extensive trestle be. Catawba River and Black's. 1 be 1020 feet in length and t in height above the bed of the Its construction wiul require 600,000 feet of timber and six f iron. Twenty or thirty hands e put on this trestle under di 'u of Mr. John A. Hudson, Lewis' superintendent. YoRS FROM NE WBERRY REACH YORK. Enquirer, 13th. engineering corps of the Geor id Carolina Midland survey, W. C. Whitner, Chief Engineer, d here yesterday, having comn a preliminary survey from erry to Smyrna Church, where, lands of Mr. John L. Rainey, ne connects with the Charles incinati and Chicago. Capt. er and his crops will remain or a few days for the purpose -king up their notes. IN TENNEssEE. Johnson City, Ten n., Comnet of hursday says: T. E Matson returned yester morning from South Carolina. ports everything fav'orable for on city and says there is n to fear any longer. He can't actly how soon, but thinks will be commenced here in less 0 days. A HITCH IN A(ERS1lAW. county commissioners of Ker iave firmly taken the position iey will not sign the bonds in the railroad until it is com to Sumter, and the shops lo at Camden-conditions upon the county subscription of aw and the township subscrip f Camden, aggregating $140,. re made. 3 TO C11ARILOTTE TO BE sUR VEYED. Lancaster Le@ger, 13th. eems to be a certainty that the C's. Railway Company will ut a road from Charlotte di. o this place. The Charlotte icle of Monday last, states that Iohnson, General Manager of ree C's. road; says, that- a of surveyors will be put to next week surveying the.route Charlotte to Lancaster. Seve utes will be surveyed for the. ation of the company. , his. will give. the Three C's direct anication with the Northern t. A meeting in the interest of Id will bh ldl in tharlotte on the 28th instant and the knowing ones say that the building of this road i3 a certainty as well as a ne cessity. The People of Dalton, Ga., Deny hav ing Hung Governor Gordon in Effigy. ATLANTA, GA., July 14.-A large public meeting of the leading citizens of Dalton. Ga., denounced as a slan der the report sent out about the hanging of Governor Gordon in effigy by a mob and a disturbance in the city. The meeting passed a series of resolutions, in which they declare but three men were engaged in the effigy hanging and that these three men were all intoxicated and deeply regret their thoughtless conduct; but five policemen were on duty and that there was no disturbance in the city. The resolutions close with these words: "Our confidence in the jus tice, fairness, firmness and ability of the honored chief magistrate of Geor gia remain unshaken." Governor Gordon said to-day. that his only regret was the foolish and false dis patches which had been sent over the country had done the grievous wrong to the people of Dalton and the sur rounding country. That so far as the commutation of Holman's sentence is concerned, he could not have done otherwise. The witnesses who testi fied in the case against Holman had since sworn that they had perjured themselves on his trial. Thurman Declines to Enter the Race for Governor of Ohio. CHICAGo, July 14.-A Daily News special, from Columbus, Ohio, says: A. V. .Thurman, son of Judge Allen G. Thurman, this evening received Aletter from his father, who is now in Boston, in which he says in rela tion to the Democratic State Conven tion to be held at Cleveland next week: "A 'word about politics. I am firmly resolved not to accept the nomination for the Governorship, and I look to you, Outhwaite and other friends, to prevent my name fronf going before the convention. The nomination,would place me in a very awkward.position and would compel me to disappoint many well meaning and. true friends. For, notwithstand ing ^ay warm appreciation of their friendship and kind expressions of confidence and good will frout all, I should, in my present health, be com pelled to decline, and that would in jure mne, and perhaps the. party. Therefore, I repeat, do not let my name be brought before the conven tion." Dr. Burkhead at Montgomery. Soecial to Atlanta C'onstiution. MONTGOMERY,- Ala., July il.-The officers of the Presbyterian church called on Dr. J. D. Burkhead, pastor, this evening and presented the reso lutions adopted at the meeting of r,he congregation, urging him not to ac cept the call to Anniston, and ex pressing their love and appreciation for him. This church numbers a membership of five hundred, and is probably the wealthiest in the city. They pay the pastor $2,000 yearly. and give him a residence: The An niston church has a membership of only fifty, but, offers the same com pensation. Both the Episcopal and F'irst Baptist churches here give their preachers a thousand dollars more than. Dr. Burkhead-receives, and un less the congregation increases the salary it is probable that he will ac eept the call to Anniston. Dr. Burkhead Is a most eloqueut divine, and the entire community regret his leaving. His congregation will prob ably offer a sufficient inducement to him to remain. Late to-night Dr. Burk head noti fied the committee that he would de eline the call to Anniston. A Philadelphia -Nbewspaper Cashier Joins the Great Army of Defaulters. PuiLA DELPIA, July ~14.-Jos. M. White, who has been cashier of the Times newspaper office for about ten years, is said to be a defaulter to the amount of at least $20,000. An ex amin ation of White's books was made a short time ago, and as a conse quence he was asked to tender his resignation, which he did. The mon ey taken by him was squandered in a lavish way in maintaining a posi tion in society which his salary of $2,500 per year would not warrant. A curio~us overs4ight. New York Sun. Husband (full of fine humor) there is something very curious about Haenry Geor ge. Wife--What's curious about him? Husband-Why, he hasn't got any Last name Kind Words for the South. From the New York Herald. It is very clear that the South has recognized the value of its natural resources and proposes to make the most of them. Old King Cotton, who for three generations ruled with undisputed sway, has found a mighty rival in the immense beds of iron ore which have been unearthed in Ala bama, Georgia, North Carolina, Mis souri and a half dozen other locali ties. In 1880 Alabama had a capaci ty for producing one hundred and thirty thousand tons of pig iron, bt last year she ran the figures up 'o nearly four hundred thousand. Ten nessee gave a jump from one hundred and thirty-one thousand to three hun. dred and fifty thousand, and Virginia emulated her example by leaping from one hundred and twenty-nine thousand to two hundred and seventy eight thousand. It is closely esti mated that in the next ten years the Southern States will be able to turn into the market something like two millions tons of pig iron annually. There are also foundries, steel rall mills, carriage and wagon factories, lumber mills, agricultural implement factories, cotton mills, in a word, every kind of enterprise which draws capital and invites immigration. All this constitutes one of the hap piest omens of our national future. The old feud which had its origin in slave labor and made it impossible for North and South to shake hands with anything like genuine cordiality has died out. It was the sole cause of the thousand misunderstandings which fretted and teased every patriot, and were the dismay of every statesman. The firebrand has been thrown into the Atlantic. Every possibility of sectional disagreement, was extinguished at the same time. Now the South has joined us. It has- w. ., up to a recognition of the facts of the case. It has iron, coal. limestone, mill streams, a rich soil everything that a great people need to make them prosperous and happy. And hereafter there is to be a tre mendous rivalry between two sections of our common country. It will not be political, as heretofore, but com mercial. It will not drag us apart, but draw us together. Southern cap ital will find its way into Northern enterprises, and northern capital will fine safe investment in Southern4 mills and manufactures. It is a new epoch mn our history upon whichi we have just entered, and our childrens children will reap the benefits of it. A Queer Case o? Duality Which is Ex * citing Justice in Iowa. From the Omaha Repul>lican. Anamosa, Ia., has a case of.- twins that is exciting a good deal of inter-. est. A man is confined in the peni tentiary for the crime of bigamy, who claims that he is the victim of cir cumstances. He says that the cf fence was not committed by him, but by bis twin brother, who looks so much like him that they were always compelleai to go about labelled so that each could tell himself from the other. The women in the case think they know what they are talking about, but a great many people thin~k they do not, and that really some one has "mixed those babies up." A number of letters has been writ ten to the warden from parties who plead for the twin, as they say, who is unlawfully confined, and condemn the heartlessness of the other twin, who has escaped. Some letters pur portinig to be from the missing bro ther have also been received at tLe penitentiary, but experts say that they are all in the same handwriting. An appeal was made to Governor Larrabee in behalf of the prisoner, but after considering the case he re. fused to interfere, although ad mit ting there are circumstances which cast doubt on the justice of the pun ishment. Of the Old School. New York Adrertiser. A Tennessee newspaper rises on a great occasion to pay a tribute to 3 citizen as follows: "We are rejoiced to know that J. C. Rockbelt, that prince of gentlemen and czar of cr.1 t.ure, has secured the contract for building the plank sidewalk in front of the Gibbons block. He is a gen tieman of the old school and knows a - good piece of plank when he sees Accidentaily Correct. Portland Arque. "Thought," says Dr. Munger, "may stay behind silent lips, but when it becomes feeling it runs to expres sion." We have noticed this in the cases of men who thought they were hitting a nail, but who felt that they had mashed their fingers.