The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-09
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Charleston had another earthquake
shock on the evening of the 4th inst, though
less severe than that of the preceding night
Its direction was southeast to northwest and
it was accompanied by wave of wind which
seemed TO recede after tho shock had passed.
OF course il intensified the feeling of terror
among the people. %The day had passed in
comparative quiet, says Charleston dispatch,
sand people who had homes to go to had in
great part returned 10 them, while others had
determined to do likewise, when the
fearful subterranean thunder and the
dread shaking of the earth which within the
last four days has so often startled the inhab-
itants again raised their fears and drove them
back detected to their open places of refuge.
Upon the negroes the effect of this shock was
simply appalling. Their shrieks and yells, their
lamentations and wailings, the shrill voices of
the women, mingling with the peculiar gut
tural notes of the men, constituted chorus
internally hideous. 1t sounded as if all the
maniacs of an insane asylum had been let loose.
Gradually the paroxysms became less violent
and then were heard the wailing monotones in
which the Southern negro chants hymns and
applications Thus the night wore on, and
blessed indeed was the dawn, which brought
new hopes to faint hearts. Showers of pebbles
fell in the lower part of the city. They APP
peared to fall in slanting direction from
south to north There were morsels of
flint among thom, and all were plainly
abraded and worn by the action of the water.
Some few had sharp fractures, and had evil
experienced still another shock on the night of
Sunday, the 9Th. 1t was not very severe, last
ing but two seconds, yet it raised the widest
alarm in the citizens. They were hoping the
worst was over, and the visitation
dashed their hopes AT Macon and Sa-
vannah the shocks were quite severe,
and caused much alarm. AT Savannah,
as in Charleston, hundreds of people spend
the nights in the open air, being afraid to go
to sleep in their houses. Material aid for the
stricken Charlestonans is going forward lib
orally. Mayor O'Brien, of Boston, telegraphed
to @draw on us for $1,000" w. W. Cor
coran, the Washington banker, sent
his individual check for $1,000.
subscriptions were invited, and literally
responded to at New York, Philadelphia, st
Louis, Chicago, Baltimore, and other cities
@The great dread now" says a Charleston dis
patch, "is the approach Of the autumnal
equinoctial gale, which is usually disastrous
in Charleston. 1t is estimated that every
house in the city has had its foundation
shaken by the earthquake. Walls have been
rent, chmneys and steeples are off their
square, and there is nothing plumb about
the city. If an equinoctal gale of the
usual severity should strike the city before
considerable repairs can be made nearly every
house in the city would be blown down. "
Great alarm in regard to earthquakes is nightly
manifested by the convicts in the State Prison
at Columbia, South Carolina Some of the
leaders in the movement had to be ironed and
logged 1t was discove red Sunday that the
tower Of the First Methodist Church at Wilkes
barre, Pa, had settled This is attributed to
the earthquake shocks The building was
closed to the congregation. The church was
recently built and cost sS0,0o0
The eastern end of the Northern Pa
cfc Railroad tunnel, Under construction
through the Cascade Mountains, in Oregon,
caved in and nine white laborers were buried
under the stones and earth.
Congressional nominations Twenty
fifth Pennsylvania District, J. F. Maffett, Re-
publican; Tenth Kentucky, W. p. Taulbee,
Democrat; Fifth Alabama, James E. Cobb,
Democrat
A report is sent out from Pittsburgh
that I. V. Powderly will not only retire from
Office but also sever his connection with the
Knights of Labor
Silver, the principal export of Next
co, has so deprecated in value that all foreign
merchandise in that country has advanced so