The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-20
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Lookout for more earthquakes. An
examination Of the history of these sub
terranean disturbances shows that each
great earthquake--say Of the dimensions
Of the recent one at Cucuta, in which ten
tn cusand lives were lost--has been fol-
lowed for certain period by innumera.
BILE lesser ones. In the summer of 1858,
the coasts of Chilli and Peru were shaken
by terrible earthquakes, in which many
lives and a vast amount Of property were
lost, and just two months later, on Octo-
Der 2lst, San francisco was shaken SO
violently that buildings cracked from top
to foundation, and assures throwing forth
lets of water opened in the streets. In
the, seme year the Hawaiian volcanoes
had violent eruptions, and the subjects
Of Kamehameha were made sea-sick by
the continued swaying of their islands
In the same year, Vesuvius opened out
with a fresh eruption. The great earth
quakes oft~Caracas, in Venezuela, and
New Madrid, in the United States, &C.
cured just six months apart. 1t we are
toregard these precedents, another great
upheaval may be expected somewhere on
the American continent between this
time and the LIST Of January. lice has
booked us for cataclysms, cyclones and
earthquakes, and similar lively occur
rences during the month of October.
Taking it altogether, the prospect for the
remainder of 1875 is decidedly uncom.
Portable for everybody except Elder
Thurman and his followers.
Horrible suicide--W Whisky Insanity
The New York Herald relates the fol.
lowing horrible incident: "A most ghast-
~ sight was presented yesterday after
noon in the squalid tenement house, No.
$50 Third street. Frederick Alderman.
living at the above place, committed sui.
eide by shooting himself with a musket.
About 2 o'clock the people of the neigh
borhood were startled by the report of
gun coming from small room in the
rear house, and on going to ascertain the
cause, found Ackcrman's body reclining
against the door leading to an adjoining
room. The head was entirely gone. and
brains, pieces of bone, and flesh lay scat.
tered all over the apartment. The un-
fortunate man had taken an old army
musket, loaded it with a quadruple
charge Of powder and two leaden bullets,
placed the muzzle in his mouth. and with
his toes pulled the trigger. He was sit.
ting at the time on pillow and was
leaning against the door above alluded
to. Nothing whatever was left
Of his head save portion
of the lower jaw. Part of the skull was
driven entirely through the door, the nose
and the upper lip were found ON the bed
at a distance of six or eight feet from the
body, and handful of brains lay on the
floor beside the BODY in as perfect state
as though they had been taken out by
the most skilliul surgeon. Portions of
the skull and scalp were found in every
part Of the room, and an ear hung sus-
pended from nail in the wall over the
bed. The charge with which the gun
had been loaded was so great that the
stock was broken off and the hammer re-
cooked by the explosion. The right hand
was also terribly lacerated by the action
Of the musket in recoling. Alderman
has been hard drnker for the last three
years, and has several times had the de-
lirium tremens. 1t is supposed that he
committed self destruction while laboring
under one Of these attacks. He leaves a
wife and four children, the eldest II and
the youngest three years Of age.
Ltncoln's Portrait for the ALBANY
Capitol.
The full length portrait of Abraham
Lincoln that was ordered by the New
York Legislature two years ago from
Francis B. Carpenter has been completed
and prepared fer the inspection Of Speak
er Mcclure and Lieut.. Gov. Dorsheimer.
1t is of life.size. painted on a canvas six
feet wide and nine feet high. The studies
for the picture were made in Mr. Carmen.