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X 1 - ri Job;' Printing,' v. UVlVlUmUl ! tnO.mt 7q r 1 1 l f i. st ". i I : - - ---- , - ' . . r- 11 w mmwiw- - d wall. prT' j- - 6f?i '4Y A -TV O'JkA Sv:.:" '''.';.?:'.".', i w - - . - i - , ., ,: . . 7 : ri " ruts - . BrV "ALL-.: A COMPANY S. - ' 8tnWCRIPT0!r HATES : . . . - ,a. V. - ' 1 t . ' )W,iiimiUlmiHMI; $1.50 -ix montha.. m . - . Aaremonths,,.;;...;.;..'...it- 40 KATl"sub3criptioM accounts inti'stW : aa m lTanc. r E tes" fuiuiahed on p- SHOCK OF TOK KABTHQUAKE. Yesternigkt-white 1 was locking ' ' - the doors that front the street,1 waddenly I fcltarbcking" ' 7h?e 'sound like rumbling thunder .J?rong the keeping town was heard, billing me with snch a wonder That I could not speak a word . " Windows, doors and chairs were shaking, Rocking, rocking, to and fro; . , -iowaid I. "the earth is quaking," And! found, 'twas even so. : gradually that awful rumbling ' ' .Fainter to my hearing grew, " lAnd the earth had ceased its trembling, Though the gusty winds still blew. Never, while life's torch is glowing, Will that sound forgotten be, Jut that low, though awful,, roaring Ever will be heard by me "While that strange, mysterious rocking Of the house, from roof to floor, Will eternally be knocking j ; .? At my mem'ry'a open door. W. A. Matmwb. . - 'Danville, Sept. 1st, 1886. A. Itwrtew oft lie Fiteto. 7 I . m I lA - !. 11 1 ! . v .. .. . fJ- . ; J II- I ' . ......... . . r ',. II I ' ... f. 'Henry W. Grady in the Kew York World, t jLet us discard the fake stories, to 3gin with, There was no cross of 'fire" seen above the ' doomed city. 'That item was answered in Captain Dawson's boast that it Was a devout Irishman whq first saw it.. There v niras no vivid streak of fire that flash . -d like a stroke of lightning down the length of Meeting street. There Tras no atmospheric!; disturbance whatever. The water that issued rfrom the fissures opened by the -shock was not hot as well as sul phurous. 'It was about the usual temperature of artesian ; water. The . fissures did not throw water to the Jieight Of twenty or thirty feet. With these" ycentions I have Keard no xumor . concerning the earthquake that was mt-lrue nri substance.-if oiotj detftil A -fow let us review J nwhat actually did happen. j First The original shock," taking t Charleston as the centre, lasted from 17.to,20 seconds, certainly no long r than 55 seconds. The motion wrs a succession of sharn nlunses to- ards the earth, with sharo and im- mediate recovery, the oscillations be ing -about equal. In changing the imdtion 'frOmeast' to west there was, perhaps, a twisting, as' chimneys and lamps were wrenched "half-way. round after thp 15 seconds of oscilla tion. There were subsiding tremors circulating for; perhaps three min .utes, nothing like "the' first osicilla :tion, however, and no new impulse. Second The shocks have been re nefwed' at intervals for three days longer, with none of the fierce energy .of the first shock. Perhaps there is v -.no more disturbance in the later .tshocks than would result from an enormous mass readjusting itself af fter sudden dislocation! Prof. McGee held that such Tras the) case with the .(later - shocks reported to him at Charlest6h. He ' said, however, if r-tho new shocks at Summerville were aajyiolent as reported they would ibe inexplicable by the theory of set- ?tling or readjustment! of the earth, and - would indicate new disturb -ances Air. Aiaiee nas just wirea thai Je. considers the later shocks at '..Summerville simply the dying out 'tremors of the first displacement. ' Third The earthquake was ac .companied by a diill,f roaring noise which outlasted t0 first shock by a half hourand returned with every uhsequtremdr; The roariug is oinder ground and best : described cs jlong rolls of thunder, deadened. In the cities it is mingled with the rat tle of glass and the rumble of rock ing i houses. -In the country it ' is heard s plainly as a cannonade or thunder. It has never been so loud OrrfB with 'the first shock, but has been eard with every tremor.' Listeners , declare that it had none of the sharp, Hgrtndihg'sound of rough friction, but rather the dull, mellow sound of air or steam thundering1 in cavities FourthThe fissures in the ground ara of irregular shape; Usually they iiarliarce a brackish water, and fine- ,Vand; or water and blue mud, but not aiwajrs.'-. xiie uuojgjug "M"' are lisualiy rounueu or oDiong, va , win in size irom a uup-w a wwi) : ' , .-. i . .' l 4-. - ...-.11 k A ndlwavs swollen for several feet ground as if the" earth had been -1 M ) mi Ht'ii nil iiiui 1 ni t mwttnw a a m w mm ' a Mima m m m . m m . m I m w w v v . m mr m r a m r " w m a ....... i ' . - - - Vol. IT.' pushed up from below. A gentle swell of white sand,' perhaps a foot high,. Jn the tentre, glistenrng' witn moisture and crowned just above the crater with a pHeTof bluemuoTBlTap- cd like a bee hive that is the usual appearance of the mound fissure. The water flows regularly from the base of the bine mud and jets of mud arc pushed no' at intervals. Wells have filled to the very tops and are overflowing freely. Every where there appears to have been a bulging - from beneath the ground that lifted it up and forced the .wa ter and mud to the surface. The wa ter did not follow the shock instant ly, but came perhaps a half hour la ter. In an area of ten miles in every direction from Summerville holes and fissures are as burrows in a prairie-dog village. New ones are opening continually. The bottom has been reached in none of them. In Charleston there are many flow ing fissures, though they show less plainly in the paved streets. Fifth Prof. McGee's theory of the eartnquake is generally accepted. Plainly stated it is that the Appa lachian mountains are two great formations, the granite and the frag mental. The first extends from the mountains to about Columbia, and the latter from Columbia to the sea. The first is the piedmont escarpment and the other the coastal plain. The escarpment is granite, the plain is made up of composite rocks and fragments resting on a granite bed about 3000 feet below., The granite bed that holds this mass of earth is inclined towards the sea, and about 100 miles from shore it deepens sud denly. The tendency bf thefrag mental plain is" to slide down 'the granite plain.on which it rests.; This tendency, is increased by the depos its of pand and gravel constantly brought into the fragmental mass by the rivers that flow down from the mountain. Prof. McGee holds that a seaward slip of this coastal plain has taken place, and that the dis turbance results from sudden dislo cation of an area 30,000 miles broad and 3,000 feet thick. His reasons for believing this are that such a seaward movmenthas been taking place steadily in the Middle Atlan tic States and its progress has been accurately noted ; that no volcanic action ever disturbed anything like so great an area or could possibly do so ; that the so-called volcanic mud and sulphurous water are sim ply marls and salts or sulphurets released from the layers of the earth by the tearing motion and forced upward through ' suddenly made rifts : that all the phenomena of this earthquake are explicable by the theory of the landslide, but not by the volcanic theory, and that no vol canic force having operated on this continent in thousands of years, and none being apparent now, volcanic force cannot ber taken as the cause. Going and Coming. From the New Haven Register. . t"Good-bye, father.". "Good-bye, my son God bless vou And th train starts, bearing the boy away to college. f The old man watches it until it is out of sight, and, brushing away the tears, turns to a friend : , : . "There goes my boy to get an ed ucation. I tell you, sir, it's some thing to have a boy like that !" and the happy father turns and, getting into the' wasron which stands near - ;. W by, drives home. , ' 1 - ; A year has gone by and the same wagon is standing in the same place, and the old man, with a radiant face, is waiting for the; train which is brineing his boy home, it comes puffing up to the depot and tho boy steps down. . "Hello, gov'nor." The. old man says nothing; those careless words and that careless tone have struck him to the heart. Again there are tears in his eyes,, but he does not eay, I tell you, sir, it is something to have a boy like that." When . a man wants to find fault he will do sosif he has to spend all his time looking for it. ..!.,.!.: . .. . ..... , . , : : : 11 . 1 ; .... p. . "rmin thk nniPiTii.H . i From the Washington Critic, i ' ; "Yes," said the Rev. Mr. Dibble, MI knew I could depend upon the hospitality of my flock to entertain' this excellent young divine, seeing that my own household is in so dis organized a condition, owing to the xigencies of cleaning house. It will only be for a night or two: and we alVknow what ia promised to. those who receive the, angel unawaresl" I Mr. Dibble rubbed his hands! and looked smilingly i around upon the members of the Young Ladies' Aid Association, while a very percepti ble murmur of assent rose up irom this aggregated collection of curls, bangs, frizzed hair and crimped laces. Not a damsel in the number but would "gladly have extended her gra cious hospitality to the Rev; Felix Armory, who was to preach a ser mon in aid of "Home Helps jand Missions" at the village church upon the. coming Sunday evening,; i ; "I'm sure,", said Miss LydiatEJrk spur, promptly" anticipating the cri- sb, "papa would bo most happy to receive the gentleman 1" V, While all the other ladies looked indignantly first at MissLydia, then at each other, and whispered : "Bold thing!" ! ; "Most kind of you to propose it, I am sure," said Mr. Dibble, and so the matter was settled, not at all to he general satisfaction. 't And. Lydia Larkspur went home and issued orders that the parlor curtains should bo washed and iron ed, and a pound cake otf the richest nature concocted. ' - j ! 1 7 j While Kate Duer, the.doctor's sis ter, who was as fond of young cler- jmeriTas Lydia herself, and would in no .wise have objected to varying tlie monotony of her homo life jvith a spice of ecclesiastical novelty, i-e.- turned to her crochet work with a yawn and a general impression that life was a bore. j ; "We are to have a young lecturer from the city in the church on Sun day evening," she said to her broth er, when he hustled in to dinner. "Eh ?i' said Mr. Duer, swallowing his scalding soup ; "are we ? ; By the way. Kate, there's a new case of small-pox reported among those hands on the railway embankment.'' "Dear me!' said Kate, who was compounding a refreshing salad in a carved wooden bowl. "I hope you will keep well vaccinated, Hugh." "Oh, there's V no trouble about that I" said the doctor; "only the other patients in the hospital object to such a case." . ; i "I should think it very likely," said Kate. j "I must try to isolate him some where," said Dr. Duer, thoughtfully. "In one of those old stone houses by the riverperhaps. Old Mrs. Viggers has had the disease, I know. " j And then Dr. Duer tasted the sal ad and pronounced it first rate. 1 Fitcherville was all on the qui vive that day when the double shot ted niece of tidinsrs flew, on the tongue of popular rumor, through the town. An actual small-pox case in their midst, and a ytKrn&romistej coming all the way from New York to appeal to their sympathies on be halt of home missions ; - Miss Lydia Larkspur, whose fath er dia not Deneve in fvaccinauuu, and Who had a mortal horror of the disease azainst . which the famous ' w i ..... Jeriner waged so successful a war fnr tffis much troubled in her mind. - . "I've always had a sort of premo nition that I should fall a victim to the small-pox," sighed she. v "I only wish pa would let me be vaccinated 1" ; It was on a sultry August even ing, the sky full of lurid cloifds, the air charged with glittering arrows o electricity and the big drops begin ning to patter on the maple leaves when there sounded a knock at Miss Lydia's door a most mysterious tap, as she afterward declared. i : "Who's there ?" said Miss ' Lydia, opening it' sufficiently to obtain a glimpse of a tall pale man; with' a pocket handkerchief folded tuiban- wise around his head. ."Excuse me" said this apparition, "but. I believe I have lost my way. Might I ask shelter from the show er? I am a young man from the hospital." . ' ' ; ' ;; : ; "Certainly not," said Iiss Lydia, closing the door abruptly in his face, with a little shriek. "Good gracious f have I stood faco to face with the small-pox case?" . - ' And then she ran forHhe servant and ; the camphor botti and then went into " hysterics. Kate Duer was - standing in her door-way, watching the storm roll grandly over the mountain ( tops, when the weary and bewildered traveler opened- the gate and came hesitatingly in. v i !"I beg your pardon," said he meekly, "but j think there must be something singular r in jay. appear ance. People seemed to shut their doors against me, and shun me as if I had the pestilence. And I cannot find the residence of Mr. Dibble, the clergyman. Would it bo asking too much if I were to ask permission to rest in your porch until the storm is over ? I came from the hospital, and" . "Ob, I understand," said Kate quickly ; "you are the small-pox pa-: tient. But I 1 have been vaccinated and am not afraid of the disease. There is a very comfortable chamber in-the second story of the barn," arid you shall be caremny nursea and aken care of there, of " But you are mistaken," cried the . -v J . .. .. young man ; "l am not "Hush P said Kate gently. "Do not be afraid to confide ia me. ' I a,m Dr. Duer's sister, and know the- whole story; Sit here, rest anittle and I will brins you some bread and.4nHk.pnUUny "I am a thousand .times obliged to you, ' saiu tno stranger, "ana tne bread and milk will taste delicious after my long walk. But I do not know what leads you to think that I . m 1 v a am a victim oi .varioloid. 1 have ost my hat in the wind, to be sure, and am compelled to wear this Syr ian-looking drapery on my head. but I never had small-pox, and hope never to encounter its horrors." Kate Duer turned red first, then pale. "Then," said she, "if you are not tho small-pox case, who are you?" "I am Felix Armory," said the young stranger, "the young chaplain of St. Lucetta's hospital in New York. am to preach in aid of the home and mission on Sunday next." " Kate Duer burst out laughing. "And every one has been mistak ing you for tho small-pox case 1" said she. "Oh. Mr. Armory do come in. How could you have been so stupid! But you see, the minute you began to speak of the hospital "I; dare say it was very awkward of me," said Mr. Armory. ''But it's the way I have always mentioned myself to strangers. St. Lucetta's you know- - . 'Yps. I know." said Xato. "But l . J l w fctlc one hospital in the wofla, and that is the Pitcherville Institute. Mr. Armory enjoyed his tea, sliced peaches and delicate "angel cake" very much as he I sat tete-a-tete with Kate Duer, by the soft light of the shaded lamp, while the rain patter ed without And when the doctor came in it was cozier yet. "The small -pox case I ' said he. ''Oh, that is safely isolated at Hope's quarry since this morning, ana ao- ing very well, too. Upon my word, Mr. Armory, I am sorry that you have had such a disastrous experi ence." ' "All's well that ends well," said the young clergyman, leaning back in his snug corner, with an expres pffjibie content on his face. Diva w j i Miss Lydia Larkspur was quite in- digaant when she heard that Mr. 'Armory was stay ing at Dr. Duer's residence. r ' ; "Just like-Kate Duer," said she-, "to maneuver to get that poor young man into her hand after all. : But if a man rushes around the country telling everybody ... that ne; comes from a '.hospital., what cah' lie ex- September 161886; pect?" v ;' : : But this was not Mr. Felix" Armo ry's last visit to Pitcherville. . He came in autumn, when the leaves were red, and then in the frozen beauty of winter. ; And the last time he asked Kate Duer ."if she Was will ing to encounter the trials of a tniri ister's. wife.! ! And Kate after :a lit tle hesitation, said that she was will ing to try.- , J - . c .? - i And Miss Lydia1 Larkspur' declar ed that , "anyone could get married if they were as bold about it as. Kate Duer." ' - s - ' - ? BUlklng Cows.' ; - From the Pittsburg Stockman. l . v : Milking is nothing short of a fine art, and the farm hand . who knows how to" milk properly.' is more valua? ble to the careful dairyman .than any help. Some can ; milk. a dozen cows while others would milk half that number, but the careful mana ger is not so anxious for fast help as he is to employ those who are care ful. The operation should never be hurried, " but the milk should " be drawn steadily as it flows. Some cows have tender teats and udders, and the rapid milker forgets this in his effort to make speed. - A cow that is naturally impatient and fret ful does not like to submit to rough handling, and her disposition is soon ruined by such treatment. As the udder becomes distended with milk the cow readily submits to milking for the relief it brings. The constant practice, of being milked at stated in tervals impresses itself strongly up on her, and she .will seldom resist without cause. . : If a'cow thathas I oeen paiieni aim UKing ppcomes iracr . tious the fault can always betraced ti4fcilkr..iiThtf ftreisa'iiialyf man is the only ofie who complains of his cows to keep up the flow, and bloody milk, garget and other evils aro almost always the result of his own mismanagement. Another point demanding attention is allow ing cews to stand a ,long time wait- in to he miiKed. witn cows that milk large it is painful when the ud ders are filled to the utmost and the milker is not on hand to "relieve them, and they become at once ex ceedingly nervous and restless. This causes a cow to dry up prematurely,' because nature revolts at her suffer: mg. lhe cow should also , pe milk ed to the, last drop ; if the): las por tion of the milk, as.. claimed, , is the best, the udder should be left with nothing in it With regularity in feeding, milking and caring for the cows., and kind .treatment . at all times, the cows, will not only be come gentle and stay so, but - will give milk longer and' her season's product will be much larger. -If a cow begins to give trouble ininilk- ing, proper attention in handling and management will mostly cure the evil. : Some of our newspaper friends, who favor Cleveland's Civil-Service Rules, ask the question, if Gen. Cox in the Raleigh District, was beaten because he favored the Civil-Service Law, why was Judge Bennett in the Charlotte District,' " beaten,' as1 ho was' opposed to the Civil-Service law ? The question is easily answered! Judge Bennett was. not a candidate for re-nomiriationj ' and was hot, therefore, beaten, lie had, two years 1 aso. declared that he would not be candidate this year for the nomina-1 lion, ana ne stooa oy nis wora. uen. vox was oeaien, aim ne was 1 .' ' 11 - ' I ' Cleveland's chief bugleman in the nouse in me vivn-oervice quarrei, Judge, Bennett was not beaten, be- cause he was not a candidate. vhanotte Mome-Lemocrat. , "Aurelia, darling ?" "Yes, Arthur." . -" Ypu know we are soon to be married?' ' ;"Yes." ' ' :' ; "And we should learn to be ecoh- omical in small things ?'' ' : "Yes." : "Hadn't you better turn" down the little 9" , ' " . For r- ffood fare and comfortable roo ms, stop at the P. D. House. No. 37. ' our inssissipri itteb. Tli Whites knd BlaeluTUe BartliquKe ' The Crop,'e. ' : ! Special Correspondence of the Jtocket. ' ' -: Dear Rocket heRuction on Yalleri Crick," published In the- At-: lanta.Wfekly; Constitution1 eight or tep: days ago tvas ' asv fine a bit of burlesque of the; hgrb,.lnsurrecti6hs tlat cscasionally Jfeafc otif in Sonth era ,'iconlm-u'nitfes ;'aa: could '.Well 'be writtenand it did much allay the H rt Tt W 'trJl 1rh thtf ifiVvf a ron4 J n addressed to 3ol. Steele and publish ed in your columns, might naturally arouse : in the emotional 1 bosom ' of jour . correspondent Still, I was noi enureiy relieved oi an apprenen sionj that- something might happen toi disturb the peace.of the good peo ple of Richmond, until I received my copy, of 'the Spirit 'of the South by last night's maiL, It is gratifying td find it pronouncing the report as destitute of foundation, as must ,be the originator Of it of discernment concerning the purposes of Jhe col ored brethren. . ; "The , Yaller. Crick Ruction" turned out to have been a secret meeting of them to purchase from . a Yankee slick a preparation- for taking the kmks out of their wool, the said Yankee slick persuad- mg tnem that it would not do lor the whites to know it as they wanted them to day in4he kinks. May hot t$e ihsurreCti6n:"in the Tipper end" have i been : merely a dark-lanterh meeting where an Independent dis-1 persed that oleomargarine democra cy that enables a white' Democrat to swallow a nigger ' Republican and -a nigger Republican to swillow a white DemocratT The performahce'eith'er by tha 6m ft the other is painfully offensive to gen teetwhtte ' folks y Ou knowiiJifla'4ibg8a any irate, are hot uncommon here,-though' they have .ceased to create any alarm of insurrection. Indeed, we . are now much of the opinion that it will re quire great' provocation ever to : oc casion any-body of : negroes to raise arms against any oooy j oi white folks. They are a peaceable, docile ! race, with reference to superiors, and will remain so, no doubt, forever, notwithstanding the efforts of - am bitious and unprincipled white poli ticians i often to Array them against qs. One of the most remarkable ih, stances of the growing disposition of the '"white i people to - protect them against the violence of injustice,' 1 think, i occurred ah ' Hernando Wt many nights ago. - A knob of suffi cient force to entirely overpower the 'officers went to -oulf jail to ; take out a negro man that had recently been committed on ' the'., charge' of, that crime for which . men always take the law in their own hands and . in flict summary pnnishiment, but the jailor assuring them that the prison er was where, no could.' not ; escape from, and, reminding them that Cir cuit Court and a trial were near at hand, prevailed on them to desist and leave him. I doubt if any mob; ih any country, entirely : able to car ry out- their , purposes; ever.wentfoi; a prisoner snpposcd to be guilt v of doncluded to let the -law:'take' iU , y .... i-. J ;. v ' PXi Msippi ; de- tnroning:juage iyncn.: Halloo I- what m- the thunder is the matter? - I am being all un t ; The' huusG is rockinsr i V Awav back in lanj ye; at Pompey, Ilill, b6 stin ' Vis nothing- but a hiie'e, but here nd how andTshakiriir as I am. I . . . . . ...... .. ; ' t vril v h ivo there' ia an earth quakt5 somewhere."' Ali. it's all set- tied now 'twas but a moment ; -tih firnt. hf Spntemher dawns hs.a jay fit for October . so cool'it is. ' We k,VA w mini) clurin the Tast A T W UMVl aw -w Q - r week. and crops hold up to their good reputation.' Cotton has . not onened much yet and .very little picking being done. t Hernando , is being religiously re freshed by a big Baptist; meeting, and all nature hereabout seems to denote a ' coming Fall abundant in blessings. ' : . 7 ' . Hernando, Sept, 1, '86.. ..' Tel lrour neighbors about; TnE I ETYfcheap campaign rates ROCKE' Having recently purchased a;first " class outfit, we are prepared to do . all kinds of - .,-t , .v ) - j - J . j PLAIN" AND : FANCY . JiOBX PRIfVlTIWG THE BEST OF STYLE nfljat, Liying, Prices Kates of Travel. " ' t- '' ' i . Ccjrrespondence of The Rocket. -' . -.-, Mt. Gilead, N. C, Sept. 1, '86. : Editor Rocket :Having occa- ; sipn to visit friends and relatives in :: Rchmohd and ' Marlboro counties, accompanied by my relative, Mrs. Bj D.j we left our homes in Mont- : gcjmery cmthe'SoMiultand wehded: ' our, way ttor Wolf Ht iownship ' hv -: mchmoiw csrutity.. . In. .passing th.e t Grassy J Islands1 nd rascending xth- lchgMrDsr&ps X pointed 7?; out the beamntuL scenery to -Mrs. 1 Jj.., at that place, at which she was great- , , Ijf delighted' and longed for a photo-j r graphic view of it ; and on returning V home we passed this point near sun- , set, and, the shadow orbld Sol being reflected brUliantly fii the Pee Dee,- the scenery was still more beautiful,, v : pointed, out to Mrs. D. the little , ; oak irom: which the noted Lee was hanged and , whe'fe; he ws buried,, and,; further? down! thetroad, where , Lee : had murdered poor Solomon. . W!eh:.rand. Mrs. :D.;eciared sho woulc not return onat.'..,':'.. f W visited-'Messrs':-' Jhe i and Torn-! DiggSj in the soujthwest partiof jflicli- 1 mond, whose; hospitality and kindt ness we greatly enjoyed.. They ;are..0 niodel ! farmers, and haye .beautiful farms in fine culture, and I am glad ; . to say their cotton. crops are , very gppd, . though they ..lost, their corn . , ; crops on the river. - i lr, ..; , Mr. Crosland's farm is adjoining, v and T learn that his corn, and cotton : crops are splendid. Mi. Crosland, is i. also an , enterprising v"and; ' model -n farmer.. , , ...... i , ' )Ve next went in the vicinity. of -f jGroodwin'sr store, in .Marlboro, coun-.. t jn 3 G-j and visitedj our -f relatives,. Jpe Lile8 and Thorougood Stubbs, who- eordially received and bospit-r aui v, entercainea us. we rei uctant- ly lefi these kino! and "clever gentle-' ' men and their, families. Mr, Liles is the treasurer and tax collector of Marlboro, county, and is a very pop- hlar .and. competent officer. j j Ou Monday we visited Mr. J. P.. Gibson and family at Gibson's Sta tion. We passed .: Boykin church. -. which is an ornament to that neigh-. borhood. , Here we saw the grave of r an old and respected friend, Martin, llunsuQicer, tormeny oi JWLontgomery cbuniy, .whose - memory carried me pacK to taft scenes pi, my- younger . I found. . Gibson s . Station, quite a ; Jwpj :witlj .elegant dwellings, ,gopd . . stores, two good churches Method ist and Baptist-4-a flourishing school Pjresided ver by an old jicquaint-; ; ance, ,Prof. R. B. Clark, a very wor-. th'y. gentleman. r Around Gibson's" Station ' is certainly the prettiest farming country I ever saw, and the corn, cotton and: pea crops were just splendid, and the dwellings and iha- r' pro vements" were handsome , and showed thrift and culture. ; It seem I ed to me that everybody in that cbmm unity was named Gibson. - J . J. P. Gibson and family made us feel perfectly at home. We. never were more , cordially received and hospitably entertained', and liis wife " is one of the sweetest ladies we ever r5iT1 rtv, ' I little boys. ;. On leaving txibson s UQ-r - wtwUni -asfaf - ' . n;. - ,1- r , - - v r 'bU 'ui u - - irom tue ouiuuuT wjicic icsii ; iuo dead of the Gibson Jim ilyj among . them his father' and his own sweet-1 1 " - 1 . i-. - - - . little Blanche. 1 Here.-also rest '. tho remains ofAVade Hurley,- whose pa rents live in Montgomery, i . ;t We then wjith regret bade fare wel I ; toPres and. madeioiir way back to . Montgomery, and that night reach- , ed Uhe. 'Grassy Islands. About. 10 o'clock pm., being i asleep, we r were : awakened by the shaking and tremb- t ling of the house. .We all aroused 1 Up and at intervals" ;ofabout twenty : minutes we felt our other. .-shocks,:. accompanied by ; a roaring .noise.-!; The excitement in the neighborhood' was immense; , we 'could heat lamenVv tatiohs for miles, in every direction We reached home next morfiihg at" 11 o'clock and found that the shocks and noise were heard in every direc-. v tion, both far -and near. C. w. w. Subscribe? for The Rett. vv- f ' ' -V -I -V V...... - ! It:.-''. :'' 1 ,'l A " - V .... ; : i- i ... : .- -I I A .1 li 4:
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