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WooD & GlLLINGHAM.

ever had in the house.
WooD & GILLINGHAM.
The pressure of advertising and
want Of time prevents us from giving
more local matter this week, but
Christmas comes to cheer but once a
year, so we hope the reader will pos.
sess his soul in patience, read the Ads,
the Laws, and the Presidents Mes
.,age--all good readiug-which, TO-
get her with other routine duties, will
keep you tolerably busy for oas
week. If you find you have any spsns
time, tax . your Bible.
"Stop smoking" said Woodstock
doctor to arr ailing patient the other
day, "and it will lengthen your days"
The patient stopped. The doctors
prediction was verified. The first day
the patient declares was as long as his
whole previous life.
The Woodstock Railroad folks will
run Poultry Car via Lowell to Bos-
ton on Monday morning next. This
enable owner poultry to reach d good
market for the Christmas trade.
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Governor It was one Of the first towns In the
SouthGto take q stand for the independence of
the colonies. and during the war of the Revolu-
ton was three times attacked by the British.
Sir Peter Parker and General Clinton made the
first assault, in 1776 and were repulsed with
great loss by the palmetto fort on Sullivan's
island. General Prevost's coup de main in 1779
also failed. Sir Henry Clinton, with twelve
thousand troops at last took it in 1880, after
siege of six weeks The British evacuated it
finally in December. 1882 Charleston led in the
notification movement and was appropriately
called the cradle of secession" It was besieged
and repeatedly attacked by the national troops,
but remained in the hands of the rebels until
very near the end of the war. The hostilities
paralyzed trade and industry of all kinds. and
the city suffered much from bombardment.
Since the war the work of rehabilitation has
been steady and at times rapid, though the place
has not yet fully recovered from the effects of
the blows inflicted upon it.
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announced that he had appointed commit se
to receive contributions for the relief of the
Charleston sufferers.
The charity committee Of the Produce Elk
change, at their meeting to-day, decided to tele-
graph the Mayor of Charleston, asking whether
they are in need of funds. in which event the
exchange would send on sum of money at once
from their funds. Another meeting will be held
tomorrow, by which time 1t is hoped an answer
will have been received.
Mayor OBren, of Boston, has sent the follow
ing to a number of prominent citizens
meeting of citizens will be held at this Office to-
morrow Saturday Sept. q, at II o'clock. for the
purpose of establishing system of relief for the
sufferers by the earthquake at Charleston. You
earnestly requested to attend said meeting.
Mayor O'Brien. also, sent dispatch to the
Mayor of Charleston to ascertain what was
needed, but no reply has yet been received.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 3.-The subscription
started by the American in aid of the sufferers
by the Charleston disaster reached ST. 500. which
amount has been forwarded. Tho fund is grow
ing rapidly. An afternoon ard evening per-
Torrance is to be given on Wednesday at Ford's
Opera house for the benefit of the sufferers.
Mayor Hodges has appointed a committee of
prominent citizens to raise relief fund in case
1t is needed.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Sept 3--The citizens
committee raised another thousand dollars to-
day for the benefit of the Charleston sufferers.
making S. 900 IN two days. The jacksonville g.
Atlantic railroad will give its total gross receipts
next Thursday to the fund, and this is expested
to add another s., 000
WASHINGTON, Sept 3.-CoL R. NJ Batchelder,
depot quartermaster, has been ordered to
Charleston to issue and distribute tents to the
homeless, and to render such aid as it may be
within the power of the department to extend
The following dispatch was received by cable
to-day from Queen Victoria
'BALMoRA1, Sept. 3.
''To the President of the United States:
81 desire to express my profound sympathy
with the sufferers by: the late earthquake, and
await with anxiety further intelligence which
hope may show the effects to have been less dis
astrous than reported. THE QUEEN"
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than elsewhere These regions are usually in
the neighborhood Of ancient cracks or faults in
in the rocky shell of the planet. The Atlantic
edge OF our continent has never. in historic
times at least, been the scene of great and dis
astrous earthquakes, and yet its geological
structure is such that disturbances of this kind
could hardly fail to visit it. The fact is that
many earthquakes do occur in this country but
they are usually so slight that little or no no.
tice is taken of them. In the Charleston earth
quake IL may be that the portion of the rocky
crust concerned in the disturbance, having pre-
sented an unusual resistance to the strain of in
ternal contraction, finally yielded with q pro-
portionately violent result In that case we may
expect that after the present CONFUSION has COM
pleteiy subsidized long time will elapse before
another severe earthquake occurs in the same
region, and such is generally the history of dis
astrous earthquakes.
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A Puzzled seisrnologist.

LONDON, Sept 3.--The Cable News CORE
spondent obtained an interview with Professor
Dawson, principal Of McGill College, Montreal
whose exhaustive paper on the geological forma-
ton of the bed Of the Atlantic,
read before the meeting of the, British
Association at Birmingham. Wednesday,
is attracting wide attention Prof.
Dawson said: 1.-THE phenomena of the present
earthquake commissions in America and else
where. but particularly in America. are extreme
~ puzzling, and completely upset some of the
conclusions set forth in the address read last
evening Therefore, decline to express further
opinions or state my views until l hear from
Professor Powell, of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey. at Washington"
The score of other eminent biologists now at
Birmingham are unanimously of the opinion
that the wide area over which the shocks extend
ed points to deep focus of the disturbance, for
the deeper the focus the more extensive the vi
bratlons. 1t will be impossible to gauge their
real significance until number of accurate OBJ
servations have been made of the present dis
turbances similar TO those made ten years ago.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The will Of the late Joseph E. Temple. of
Philadelphia, probated yesterday, bequeaths
over 5000, 600 to public institutions.
A L. Perkins, book keeper for j. W. Pew, of
San Francisco, was arrested on Thursday
charged with embezzleing 81, 900. The money
was lost in gambling
The Standard Oil Company will build large
refinery at Lima, o., where it has struck both
oil and gas. The works will be on the line of
the New York, Lake Erie g. Western railway.
The importations of dry goods at the port of
New York for the week ending Sept were H.
O25 packages valued at So. 937 036, against 9.503
packages valued at So, 857, 1885, for the preceding
week.
Mrs Elizabeth Bunnell, of Pittsbure, was ar
rested yesterday a charge of administering
poison to Edward S. Thaw, nephew of William
Thaw, the railroad magnate Mrs. Bunnell
strongly protests her innocence
An accident occurred on the Portland g. Og-
densburg railroad last night The through ex-
press for Portland was deralled at East Bald
win, Me-, by an open switch. Engineer Chandler
was killed and fireman Costello fatally mi lred
John Walsh, aged seventeen. was instantly
killed in the Union Foundry and Machine Com
pany's works, Allegheny, shortly before noon
yesterday. He was caught in the betting and
his body was terribly mangled, nearly every
bone being broken.
Early yesterday morning a freight train and
wildcat train collided near Marcellus station on
the Auburn branch of the New York Central &
Hudson River railroad. Both locomotives were
wrecked, as were also ten carloads of merchan-
disc. The loss is upwards of $150000
Robert A. Todd, aged seventy-two, a promi-
nent builder of Milwaukee, was vlciously as
saulted yesterday morning by an insane son
named Robert, aged thirty-eight and so badly
injured internally that his recovery is doubtful.
The Infatuated young man was formerly rail
road engineer and was incarcerated in an asy-
lum in an interior Illinois town, from which he
escaped several days ago.
The Philadelphia mint is now overwhelmed
with work. In addition to cleaning up the mi
nor base coins at the rate of $50, 900 each week.
and keeping up with the demand for Dimes the
regular monthly purchase of silver bullion must
be coined 1t is estimated that So 900, 900 worth
of bullion will coin $780, 900 silver dollars. The
employees at the mint are now working from
o'clock A. NJ. to midnight every week day.
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Extent and Force of the shoclx.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8-Professor Powell re-
ce!ved by cable, to-day, request from Secretary
Top!ey, of the British Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, 'to wire the chief facts of
the earthquake" The following was sent in
reply:
1.-THE earthquake was the most severe on
record in the United States and affected the
greatest area. The origin was along the line of
the post-quaterpary dislocation on the eastern
flank of the Appalachians especially where it
crosses central North Carolina. Slight Fremont
tory shocks were felt in the Carolinas for sew
eral days, moderately severe shocks occurring
near Charleston on Aug. 81 and %. The princi-
pal shocks, causing great destruction in Charles
ton. originated in central North Carolina, Aug
81, at $50 P. NJ, 10Th meridian time. Thence
the shocks spread with great rapidity in all
directions with velocity varying from twenty
five to sixty miles a minute over an area Of
100000 square miles one-Quarter of the
United States, embracing twenty-eight States,
from the Gulf of Mexico to the great
lakes and Southern New England, and from the
Atlantic seaboard to the central Mississippi val
ley In the Carolinas it WAS accompanied by
laRd-slides, crevasses and great destruction of
property. Hall of Charleston is in ruins, and
more than forty lives were lost No sea wave
yet reported. A second moderately severe
shock was felt at Charleston as 8:25 A. NJ, Sept.
l. and minor shocks followed at increasing inter-
walls. The principal shock was felt over this
vast area within fifteen minutes, and may be
recorded at some of the principal points on
scale of intensity of FIVE as follows Raleigh,
4. at $50 p. NJ; Charleston, 5. at @54; Cedar
Keys, Fla, 2. at 1905; Knoxville, 3, at 9:55;
Memphis, 4, at $50; St. Louis, 2, at 10; Milwau-
kee. 3, at 1906; Pittsburg, 3, at 10; Albany, 2,
at 10; Springfield, Mass, l, at 10; New York, 2,
at 9:53"
Professor Powell has already received about
one hundred reports from observers in various
directions respecting the earthquake, and sew
eral hundred more expected. Their sub
stance is to be recorded maps, which, when
completed, expected to show with close
approach to absolute accuracy the points Of orr
gin, elimination and greatest intensity, and the
direction of the several earth movements. as
well as the boundary line of the affected area.
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Losses by Tire.

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, Sept 3.-Twelve houses,
owned by the Lehieh Valley Railroad Company
and occupied by twenty four families, were de-
stroyed by fire this morning. woman and
child are missing, and it is believed were burned
in the building Loss, $l2, 900; no insurance.
The fire originated from defective fue.
BALTIMORE Sept. 3-Firs this morning de-
stroyed the fourth foer No 16l West Pratt
street, occupied by John NJ. Hartel paper-box
manufacturer. The lower floors were occu-
pied by different parties, whose stocks were
damaged by water The damage is estimated at
$4,000.
CAIRO, Sept 3-The Illinois Central depot. at
the corner of Second street and the levee burned
20 the ground at P. NJ to-day The fire spread
SO rapidly that there was time to save bag
gage or tickets. The cause is supposed to be
spontaneous combustion.
EAST SAGINAW, Sept. 3-Fire broke out in
the saw mill of A t. Bliss 81 Bro, eight miles
below here at midnight and is now burning,
with every indication of the total destruction of
the property. The loss will be heavy.
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An Editorial Scientist,

New York SUM-
We must remember that we are dwelling upon
the surface Of little extingushed sum- which
ages upon ages ago became covered with rocky
crust through the gradual loss of temperature,
but which still retains in its interior remnant
of the pristine heat that is slowly leaking out.
Every school-boy understands that when heated
body cools it shrinks in size The earth does
the same, and as the interior mass thus slowly
contracts the hardened crust settles upon it, But
the crust cannot thus settle without breaking
Far back in geological time, when the cooling
process was much more rapid than it is now, the
settling of the crust broke and contorted it
with tremendous power and the edges and
sides of the cracked strata of rock were
thrust mp into mountain chains. Now. when
the cooling is very slow and the consequent con-
traction comparatively slight, mountains are no
longer created by the stress upon the settling
crust but slow, almost imperceptible, changes
of level in different parts of the earth's surface
result from it. So slowly, iE fact, does the in
terror of the earth contract at present that the
settling of the crust is accomplished for the most
part without the knowledge of its inhabitants.
Yet it does contract and the careful observa-
tons Of earth tremors which have been con-
Quoted of late years show that if a complete rec
ord OF the motions of the earthis crust could be
obtained. it would hs shown TO be slightly trem-
bling in some part of its extent most of the time.
There are certain regions where the earth's
crust yields to this internal strain more readily
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-04

CHICAGO Sept 3.-An event occurred to-day,
which causes much surprise among the Germans
here. Richard Michaelis, editor and proprietor
of the Freie Presse sent to DR.. Ernest Schmidt,
treasurer Of the fund for the Anarchists, a check
for $l2027, accompanied by letter in which he
said he noticed that Thousand men at the Aurora
Turner Hall meeting had contributed 1920 o.
He desired TO contribute as much indi-
vidually, and he could do the same
repeatedly, if he chose. DIR. Schmidt
returned the check to Mr.. Michaelis, saying that
he declined it, because he did not think the mo-
Give in contribution was an honest one During
and after the trial the Freie Presse was out
spoken in denouneing the Anarchists.
aud friends of the latter were very
bitter in feeling towards the paper
OF late the Freie Presse has been much more
moderate, and it has been noticed that the Ar
better Zeitung, the Anarchist organ, has CORE
spondingly ceased to denounce the Freie Presse.
The latter paper, many Germans now think,
contemplates change of policy, by which it
will receive the support of the Socialists and
Anarchists, and possibly absorb the Arbeiter
zeituug.
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Racing at brooklyn.

GRAvEsEND, N. Y, Sept 3.-The first race at
the Brooklyn Jockey Club course, for AL ages,
seven furlongs, was won by Ferensi, by a
length and a half, Burch second Pearl Jen-
nings third. Time 1282
Second race-one mile and quarter Ten
Strike won by neck; Lizzie Dwyer second,
Barnum third. Time, 2:11.
Third race-one mile. MARYLAND and Hare
foot ran dead heat for first place; Florence NJ.
third. Time, 1:42. In the run-off M&rkland
won by length. Time. 1:43.
Fourth race--for three year olds; one and one
fourth mile. Peekskill won by a length
O'Fallon second, Pontiac third Time. 2:124.
Fifth race-for two-year- olds; threequarters
of a mile Ititilla won by two lengths; Bed.
ford second, Milton third. Time, 1:164.
Sixth race-one mile. Frank Ward won by
two lengths; Hermitage second, Weasel third.
Time, LA.
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Gable Notes.

The British man-ofwar Aeamemnou, convey
ing surgeons. food and tents, has gone to the re-
lief of the sufferers by the recent earthquakes in
the Morea.
The Queensland Assembly by vote of 40 to g.,
has rejected the motion favoring division of the
colony into two separate portions, to be called
North and South Queensland.
A violent outbreak of cholera Is reported at
Terre Dell Annunzata near Naples, in conse-
quence of which religious festival has been pro-
hibited by the town authorities
Mrs T. D. Sullivan, wife Of the Lord Mayor
of Dublin, and deputation of Irish ladies, will
go to Hawarden on Sept. 81 to present to Mr.
Gladstone a mammoth declaration in favor of
home rule in Ireland The document bears the
signatures of SOC, 600 Irish women.
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Action by Organized Bodies.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept Sat a joint meet
ing of the Charleston Exchange and Merchants
Exchange, to-day, the following was unani-
mously adopted:
To all Exchanges and Commercial Bodies:
Our banks warehouses, cotton presses, wharves
railroads rice mills and everything else necessary for
handling business, though damaged in working
order. We fear further disturbance. The destruc-
ton of property will great distress and suffer
ing, but will not interfere with the dispatch of bust
ness. A. W. TAFT, Pres Charleston Exchange
B. BOLIVIAN, Pres. Merchants Exchange.
A joint meeting also adopted resolutions to
apply to the President and Congress for a ma
tiona loan to aid the citizens of Charleston in re-
building their city.
The City Council to-day adopted the following
Resolved, That in response to the numerous offers
of assistance and sympathy from sister cities and
from citizens Of this and other States the Mayor is
authorized to state that great distress exists among
our citizens in consequence of the earthquake and
that we gratefully accept the aid thus rendered
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CAUSES OF THE EARTHQUAKE.
Views of Prof j. W. McGee-There Was a
Tidal Wave, but 1t Went Seward.

Views of Prof. j. W. McGee-There Was q
Tidal Wave, but 1t Went Seward.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 3-Prof W. J. MCGEE. of
the United States geological survey arrived this
morning from Washington. II came" said he
to a reporter, ''to ascertain the origin Of the
earthquake. The effect of it is of little moment
to science, but its origin is of great interat to
the entire scientific world. People wat to
know the condition of the earth under Which
earthquakes occur. It seems to be a settling of
the earth
ment that there an atmospheric disturbance
at thesstime of the first shock?' was asked
II take no stock in such report" was the
quick reply; sit imagination. OF course,
there would. naturally, be great deal of smoke
and dust in such commotion as that created by
the earthquake, and, with the terrific shaking,
this would produce sensation which would very
naturally be taken for atmospheric affection"
"How do you account for the absence of
tidal wave?"
"By the fact that the movement was from
west to east thus carrying the wave out to sea,
Had the movement been in an opposite direction
ttloTo WOulO, udF0 Uoeu d N0aVy LlQaI
wave to the land. AS it was there was moth
ing to shore but the rebound, or relapse
of the outward tidal wave This
rebound was caught by the broad shoals for over
hundred miles along the Atlantic In this re-
gion there is a shoal land half a mile in width.
This would break a tremendous tidal wave but
hardly as heavy the which went to sea
when the heaviest shock came on Tuesday night
Tidal waves likely to come at any time, in
this region, from this settling of the earth and
there is danger of submersion In New Jersey
whole forests have been sunk beneath the waters
along the coast, and small trees are yet growing
beneath it at this time"
Professor MCGEE, as we'll as local scientists,
discredit all statements about atmospheric pres
sure of any character, and also reports of boiling
water or sulphuric discoveries at points where
assures appear in the earth. It was reported
this afternoon that at one place in the city hot
water had gushed from the ground, scalding peo-
pie who were compelled to rush through it.
There is but one theory advanced by scientists
as to the cause of the phenomenon, and that is
some kind of settling in the earth There were
no upheavals At all places where surface ndi-
For several miles Immediately outside of this
city the railroad tracks were thrown out of level
and section hands have been at work putting in
new railroad ties raising old ones and reballast-
ing the roads In a number of instances Gull
verts and bridges were thrown out of plumb and
had to be repaired.