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TWO FUNNY MEN. following dispatoh from Vicar General P. DEATH! PESTErCTION The Conductor's Jaw Dropped. PitUburg Commercial Gazette. L.

Uufl: Charleston, 8. September 2. The Catholic churches, schools and pastoral res Columbia, 8. and other points the south. Chablkston, S.

September 2. The last earthquake shock was experienced here at 11:60 liwt night, since whioh time there has been no vibrations. The people tire just beginning to pick up oourage to come out Efforts are being made to clear a path thronch the streets for the passage of CHARLESTON, S. VISITED MY AN idenoes have been seriously damaged. Mir One of those smart Alexanders whe travel on cheek and the inability of the publio to change $20 bills for a glass of soda or four tobies got on a Fenn avenue aculous were the esoaoes of the priests, sis.

EARTHQUAKE. tors and orphans, who are now camping out 1 am ereoting a temporary altar in ine ca car the other day and tendered the afore thedral grounds. Our loss and suffering are Baid $20 for his fare. Of course the conductor could not change it, and so he great. vehioles and pedestrians, and the city once more begins to show signs of life.

For two The City A 1 most Ruined rrexent-- ing Now an Vnexampled Scene of Uesola fhe Examiner has sent an apeal to the tlon Thirty-Three Killed According to olergy anu laity of the New York and brook lvn church to aid in swelling the fund. "Official Figure. long days and nights of horror women and ohildren have been camping out in the parks and squares. The earthquake swept over the city like a beast of destruction, and got his ride free. This was repeated until the conductor got tired of it, and after the fourth or fifth time of its repetition he determined to get even with the From Washington it is announced that A DlntreitHlng Joke on a Native Son of the Golden Went.

Han Jose News, A well-known young man, who is engaged in the real estate and insurance business, took a seat in the barber's chair. For convenience he will je called Joe. lie is very fastidious young man, prominent in exclusive society cir-oles, is a Native Son and has a private cup in the barber shop. Joe laid back in the chair, closed his eyes and dreamed of large stacks of hay he would insure during the day. The barber reached for Joe's private cop, and after considerable effort he got enough lather out of the cup to Bhave once over his face.

The barber made two or three strokes the surgeon general of the marine hospital service has authorized officers of that bureau at Charleston to secure tents to replace tem 'Cincinnati, 0., August 31. A shook snrthquake was felt here. The printers fellow. By visiting the toll-houses, and the Sun ofllce started to run down stairs, porarily the hospital buildings reudred uu- by other means unknown, the manipula Charleston is laid in the du-t. It is impossible to give any correct estimate of the loss of life and property for two days and nights.

The people have done nothing but huddle on the quires, small detached relief parties going to dig out the dead from the debris, or to snooor the wounded. The first mhabitable by the earthquake. Also that tor of the bell-punch managed to scrape hinking the building wag falling. The 3hock was quite perceptible at the telephone sxohange and other buildings, but it was not Chief Clerk Youmans, of the treasury de partment by permission of Acting Seore up ftiy.yo in pennies. uouced much by people on the street.

tary Fairohild, has issued a circular letter Placing these a little bucket he systematic effort to get at the facts to-day, informing employes that the rule quietly awaited the appearance of his Cleveland, 0., August p. m. An earthquake shock, lasting about one miuute now mating. lho list oi tne aead prohibiting the circulation or subscription victim, having posted the driver and has just occurred here. Buildings swayed papers in the department would be suspended a 1 .1 1 i nlint reoognized and reported this morning at this time foots up to sixteen, and the search is only commenced.

The list of peroepubly. No damage is yet reported 1'eopta left the theatres and ran into the of the razor and thought he detected a queer odor on Joe's breath, and he said: wounded will go into the hundreds. About "'streets, and creat excitement prevails. Detboit, August 81 At 9 o'clock iu ine uiiTO ui iiie iiianeHiiuu icntu iu and heads of bureaus would be designated to received subscriptions. Special performances will be given in all the Washington theatres and places of amusement for the benefit of the Bufferers.

In Philadelphia subscriptions amounting "What kind of liquor you drink this seven-eighths of the houses and public buildiugs in the city are either damaged or wrecked. Even the historic St. Michael's i to-night a shock of earthquaKe caused con morning already iderable excitement in this city. It was of some other intimate friends who happened to be on board. When the unsuspecting young man with the plethorio pocketbook put in an appearance and promptly produced the "20" with many apologies the conductor pocketed bill and produced his little bucket, and amid the grins of the spectators presented it to his customer.

The young man and St. Phillip's churches are so badly "I don't drmk, air." After a few more strokes under the hort daration but was distinctly felt in the Free Press building. The editorial force wrecked it is feared they will have to be taken down. The waves from 9:65 clock to nearly $4,000 are announcing, headed by George W. Childs and A.

J. Drexel for $1,000 chin the barber said made a stampede for the street. Indianapolis, August 31. An earth Tuesday night have bean coming in about each. quake shock was distinctly felt here about once every nve or six hours.

1 here has been none now for twelve hou-s, and strong hopes GOVERNMENT aid. Washington, September 3. Colonel R. You vas had a barty last night, no?" "No, sir." The whiskers were then scraped from are entertained that the horror is about over. :52 o'clock.

A portion of the cornice of thb Denison hotel was displaced, falling to the pavement, and the tower of the oourt house SDeoials from points in South Carolina, W. Balchilder, department quartermaster, has been ordered to Charleston to issue and the other cheek, and the barber said. ranging from the extreme northwest to the sea coast, report severe shocks, with fmore or less damage to property, though without looked pretty cheap, and, after feeling the heft of the bucket, thoughtfully got off the car and disappeared around a corner. Then the conductor took the bill from his pocket and proceeded to fold it up nicely, so that it would fit into rocked to such an extent that the tire watch' man on duty fled down stairs. St.

Louis, Mo August 31. A very dis distribute tents to the homeless, and to render such aid as it may be within the power of the department to extend. "Your stomach is out of order some?" "What's that?" The odor was verv strong by this time, loss of life, so far as known. In Orange tinct earthquake shock was experienced in burg the people became so much alarmed and finally the barber said: that many moved to Columbia. DISPATCH FROM THE QUEEN.

The following dispatch was received by this city this eveuing at 8:53 o'clock. The shock was not at all violent, and resembled the motion of a series of water waves. The As the det ils of the calamity in this city "I can shave you until you take cable to day Irom Queen Victoria, from something for your brath. It smells Balmoral, addressed to the president of the a convenient corner of his pocketbook. Something in the appearance of the bill caught his eye, and as he examined it a little closer, his jaw dropped about a guests occupying the upper floors of the Southern and Lindell hotels rushed down like a sewer." stairs.

At the Masonio hall, where a com Joe jumped eleven inches out of the United States: ''I desire to express my profound sympathy with the sufferers by the late earthquakes, and await with anxiety further intelligence, which I hope may show of Knight Templar were drilling, the are gathered, its effects become more and more alarming. Ir. is feared also much distress will prevail as by far ihe larger part of those whose property has been wreckel or seriously damaged belong to the poorer olasses. People are as oheerful as possible under the terrible circumsttmces, and are trying to restore order out of choas. The pictures swung inward from the walls.

chair, and said foot. The bill was of the genus denominated by the sporting fraternity as It also touohed Chicago, New York, Mil the effects to have been less disastrous than "What's the matter with your own waukee, Culnmbus, Memphis, Nashville, "queer." The young man had also been reported." breath. It would stain furniture. I Charleston, W. Richmond, Washington laying for the conductor.

aggregate loss is expected to reach millions. nearly had the cholera while you have EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, September 3. At Grass been shaving me! And the young man Ihe wha-ves, warehouses and the business facilities of the city generally are unaffected THE ENGLISH SPARROWS. Valley, a sharp earthquake Bhock was felt at 12 o'clock last night.

by the catastrophe, and Charleston is as ready as ever for the transaction of business. Mkbced, Cal September 3. A slight Their Rapid Growth iu This Country. earthquake was experienced here last night. Ihe onicial total or deaths is thirty-three- started for the washstand, while the barber stood with the cup in his hand wrapped in thought.

He placed the cup mechanically to his nose, and a stench struck him that would cause the blush New York Tribune. Reno. September At 9:50 this It is twenty years since the English morning a slight earthquake, passing from Business is still suspended, the whole attention of the people being given to providing for refuge and to making their residences south to north, was felt here. Twenty second later a second Bhock, almost imperceptible, occurred. of shame to mantle the cheek of the open sewer ditch.

Two comedians had put up a job on MORE HORROR IN STORE. New York, September 4. A special fron safe. Brick layers have advanced their rates to a day. The city council will probably meet to-morrow to provide measures for re-1 eviug the poor.

Expressions of gratitude are heard on all sides for the asssitance offered Charleston, of which the suffering people will gladly avail themselves. him, but did not anticipate the result. Yesterday morning they had cut a piece Charleston to the Times says in addition to the material losses, there are sentimental lses, which aie bejond nil estimate. There were shocks last nii at eidO, 11:00 out of a turnip in the form of a cake of soap and placed it in his shaving cup. p.

and 5 a. m. All were light. Conn- He did not come to the Bhop yesterday, den is gradually returning, but much apprehension is still felt. nd other points.

AT CHARLESTON. VJhablebton, S. September 1, 11 a. in. An earthquake, euch as was nover before known in the his ory of the city, swept over Charleston last night, causing more loss ind injury to property, and far more loss of life, than the cyclone of the year before.

The city is wrecked. The streets are encumbered with masses of fallen brick and tangled telegraph and telephone wires, and up to an early hour it was almost impossible to pas from one part of the city to another. The first shock was by far most severe. Most of the people with their families, passed the night in the streets, which, even this morning, are crowded with peo-'. pie afraid to re-enter their homes.

More than sixty persons were killed and wounded, chiefly oolored. Among the 'whites killed and fatally injured are: M. J. Lynch, Dr. R.

Alexander, Hammon Ainsley and Robinson. Fires roke oat in different parts of the city immediately after the earthquake, and some are still burning, but there is no danger of spreading. There is no way of leaving the city at present. It is impossible to give a correct estimate of 'the casualties. It is expected that between 'fifty and one hundred persons have been killed and several hundred wounded.

At the time of the first shook fires broke out in five different parts of the city. About twenty houses were destroyed by fire and scarcely one hundred houses in the city are occupied at this time. The people are all encamped in open places. All the stores are closed and a scarcity of provisions is feared, not from jBRut nf nrovision. hnt because no one can aiid the vegetable became sickly.

Enough other had remained in the brush to save him once and the joke was to be on the Charleston set groat store on the house in which Mackey was born and all of its associations. An Episcopalian lady whose husband is certainly ruined by the catastrophe, said: "I could stand it all if St. Michael's had been spared. My grandparents were both baptized and married there, and within its whLb too, was married." This feeling for old St. Michael's is quite general.

Even aiding the sufferers. Baltimore, September 2. The American has opened a subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the Charleston dis barber, when he would break his arm trying to raise a lather out of a piece of aster, and headed it with $500. A telegram turnip. No clew.

was sent to the mayor of that city, assuring him of substantial sympathy. Mannger among those not Episcopalians the building was a part of family traditions, and of the state, and as such was claimed by everybody. Ford, of the Grand opera house, has begun The Word, Obey. The word was introduced into the Great dread is apprehended of the equi preparations for a mammoth beueht for the same cause. nox.

in three weens the equator will balance the sun and we will be in the midst of Chicago, September 2. The jewelers the great storm era. The equinoctial gales of Chicago circulated a subscription list today for the sufferers by the Charleston earthqnuke. Thi3 evening the paper footed up Augusta, bep'embpr 2. Tne exuite- have always been disastrous in Charleston.

In fact, lant year's disaster was so great as to attract national a'tention. It is estimated that every house in the city has had its foundation shaken by the earthquake. Walls have been rent, chimneys and steeples are off their square, and there is nothing ment about the earthquake has subsided here, and apprehensions have ceased. Lib eral contributions were made to-day for the Charleston sufferers. plumb about the city.

If an eqninoctial gale New York, September 2. Dispatches of the usual severity strikes the city beiore considerable repair is made, nearly every from all quarters announce the opening of house in the city will be blown down. Ihe iSe got to open the stores to sell them. Charleston, S. September, 1, p.

m. Two slight shocks of earthquake have been felt here since the first at 9:25 this morning, and one at about 1:30 p. neither doing any further destruction. Not even feince subscription lists for the benefit of the Charleston sufferers, and the generous responses to the appeals. gale comes sometimes as late as the first week in October, but last year it came in the last week of August.

It will thus be seen Washington, D. September 3. At hat the city is in imminent danger at any moment. This would cause such a crashing of timber, brick and mortar as was never heard of. The temperature has changed so as to warn the people that the storm is at The effect of a week's storm and pelting rains upon hous'-less women and children would be appalling.

Six ladies are reported as dytng in tents from fright. Ef forts made early in the day to clear away ihe aeons has been abandoned, and the poe- are settling back into the melancholy of yesterday. ceremony by men to express and emphasize the view of men that the man is the head of the woman. Indeed, the interested inquirer will find that most of the traditional theories of the relations of the sexes which are often quoted as indisputable and conclusive arguments represent merely the views of men. The laws which regulated these relations the laws of divorce, of the rights and control of property, of the disposition and care of children are the work of men, and simply express their will.

More than a quarter of a century ago Mr. Gladstone said the divorce laws in England were a shame to civilization and humanity. The ladies, therefore, who suppose that these laws and traditions and ceremonial vows rest upon a divine sanction, and who are, consequently, solicitous of wearing the yoke of unquestioning subjugation, not of choice, but as a religious duty, need bend no longer for that reason. If they prefer to obey, indeed, they are not restrained by any religious obligation, nor if they prefer to command. "But," interposes at this point the youthiul casuist of the other sex, "surely the exigencies of difference arise when there must be decisive will, and, of course, that must be the old man's." Yes; so men have generally said, and their views have generally prevailed.

But the general prevalence of ignorance was not a sound argument against the introduction of general education, and in the republic of reason and matrimony the general assent of husbands can't conclude the rights ofwives. The Queen's Herd. Prom tlio London World. The Queen has sanctioned the circulation of a private catalogue of the purebred cattle which are kept on her Majesty's Flemish and Shaw farms, near Wind (Jhableston. S.

September i Prof. W. T. McGee, oi the United States 'Ologi-cal survey, went to Summerville on Friday pbout 11 o'clock to-night another sho of earthquake was It all i long the southern Atlautic coast. It was not attended by any damage, bo far as can be learned, but it was -trong enough to erase a stampede from the instruments of the telearaph operators in Charleston, Augusta and Columbia, aud perhaps other places.

They soon returned however, and resumed business. The shake was felt from Jasksouville to Washington. It percoptible in Washington, but not so strongly as on Tuesday night. AT CHARLESTON. Charleston, S.

September 3. At one minute to 11 o'clock to-night, another terrific shock passed over the city. Consternation again prevails. The people camping in the public squares are singing and praying. Charleston, S.

September 3. A sharp shock of earthquake was felt just before 11 o'clock to-night. Two buildings fell. A white woman, name unknown, was killed by a falling wall this evening. AT RALEIGH.

Raleigh, N. September S. Kt 11:02 to-night a well defined shock of earthquake was felt here. It was proceeded by a light rumbling noise. The oscillation of buildings was marked on the upper floors.

General Gilmore's bombardment of the city has there ever been such a deplorable state of affairs here. The city is literally in ruins -and the people are living in the open squares -and public parks. There is a great rush to the railroad depots to get away, but owing to the earthquakes no tiains have been able to be dispatched for the city. Telegraphic sommunication is also cut off, save one wire of the Southern telegraph company, which i3 crowded with anxious private messages. It is impossible to depict the ruin and desolation that prevails here.

Not a single place of business in the city is open except one drug store, which is busy preparing prescriptions for the wounded. It is impossible also to give any correct esti mate of the killed and wounded, as bodies are constantly being disinterred from the debris of wrecked houses One undertaker, who was interviewed, stated that he had fur wished eight coffins up to noon to-day. Many of the dead are ljing unbnried, these being of the poorer classes of colored people, who rft burial by the county. There are not a half a dozen tents in the city, and thejwomen and children are experiencinggreat privation t'a: consequence. As night approaches most leads of families are trying to construct tents out of bed sheets, spare 'awning and other material that comes to their hand.

he sun is about to set upon another night to investigate the immediate or remote sparrow was taken from his home in London and turned loose in "Free America." Probably the original colonists have gone the way of all flesh, but if they had the good fortune to survive for ten years, they must have revelled in their own pratical demonstration of the multiplication table and felt as much pride in viewing their offspring as any of the ancient partriarcbs, No English sparrow now calls himself English. He has as much right to American citizenship as the descendant of any Puritan of the Mayflower; his right extends back through as many generations. Superintendent Conklin, who has charge of the met agerie in Central park, liberated fifty pairs of the English sparrows in Central park in the summer of 1866, and from these nearly all the English sparrows that can be found in every city, village and town of the United States are descended. "I have no doubt," observed Mr. Conklin the other day, "that if anything like an accurate census could be taken of the English sparrows in this country to-day, there would be a pair of them for every man, woman and child in the United States.

I am not wholly responsible for this affliction, for I acted under orders, but I did not think at the time what an affliction they were to become, nor did any one else." Mr. Conklin's estimate of the present sparrow census as reaching the hundreds of millions is based on the fact that these birds breed several times in a season, frequently three times and sometimes four, each time hatching out a brood of four young sparrows. Allowing for all casualties, destruction of nests and an excessive mortality, it would not require more than two breeding season's a year, in the twenty years since the original fifty pairs were liberated in Central park, to bring the number of their descendants far above They are daring colonists, and as soon as the young sparrows find there numbers in a locality inconviently large, a detachment will hunt up new foraging grounds. The rate of increase is not as great now, Mr. Conklin considers, as it was ten years ago.

Their great unmbers and the real character of the bird have changed public sentiment and placed the sparrow on the defensive. Within a year or two the English sparrow has made his appearance in the restaurants in the place of the red bird, and he has been found so good a substitute that the price of red birds has declined in the market. There are, it is said, several persons in the city who make a business of supplying sparrows for the market, and hundreds are eaten daily by New Yorkers. The Chinese colony have also found a source of amusement in training the sparrows for fighting purposes. Their bills are rubbed down with fine sand-paper, until they are as sharp as needles, and every stroke draws blood and feathers.

The birds will fight as long as any breath remains in them, and the profits of a whole week's laundry business are often staked and lost on a single bird. With these new dangers to combat it is probable that the limit of the sparrow population has been nearly reached. The chances are that they never will be exterminated, but without a check to their increase a few years more would probably have brought about a plague of sparrows, as formidable as one of Kansas grasshoppers. causes of the recent earthquake. He stop ped at leu Mile llill station, around which the earthquake was particularly active, and paid special attention to the matter which was thrown up from the craters, which are numerous through the belt of country ex tending from sher's about four miles from Ten Mile Hill, north and south and likewise east and west, for an indefinite distance along the seacoast.

Prof. McGee collected specimens of the soil and mud which had been thrown up, and samples of the waters which flowed from the fissures, taking particular note of the cavities on the farm of Charles Lee, the largest of which is about sixteen feet square and sixteen feet deep. At Summerville 10:40 The Hrof. McGee continued his investigations and talked freely with the gentlemen there. AT AUGUSTA, GA.

Augusta, September 3. At another shock was di-tinctly felt, streets are again filled with people. AT WILMINGTON, N. C. Wilmington, N.

September 3. One of these gives the News and Courier a sketch of Prof. McGee's statements. Prof. McGee said that the ornamental work and -An- 'gingerbread" work in Charl-ston was other distinct, but not severe earthquake many instances out of proportion to the size of the buildings, and these parts would fcnows'what it may bring forth.

Without aDy further violent shocks of earthquake, it is calculated that at least three-fourths of the city will have to be rebuilt entirely, y-it -the houses are to be inhabited. city is wrapped in gloom and business is suspended. People generally remain in streets, or in tents and under improvised skelters, and will camp out to-night, fearing another shock. The gas works are damaged, and probably the city will be without light -to-night. St.

Michael's church is shattered steeple will come done. Likewise the steeple of St. Fhillipa. The steeple of the Unitarian church has fallen. Theporti- joes of the Hibernian hall and the Mansion house are demolished.

There is much in-. iury done to the mansions of the eaBt and rath battery. The portico of the Ravenal is down. Hardly a house in the be apt to fall and carry away portions or the general structure. He said that when he left Washington he thought that he would have very little difficulty in determining the approximate course of the earthquake, but confessed to have been much puzzled by his observations.

Contrary to expectations he found that the fissures were not uniform in shock was ten here at 11 p. m. Much larm was created, and many people rushed from their houses to the streets. AT JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Jacksonville, September 3.

At 11 :02 to-night a distinct shock of earthquake was felt here lasting five seconds. It caused great excitement. AT RICHMOND. Richmond, September 3 At 11:03 to-night a shock of earthquake was felt here. In some plaoes in the u.iper part of the city it was as severe as that of Tuesday, the people in some cases leaving their homes and rushing into the streets.

The oscillation is said to have been very perceptible from southeast to northwest. No noise accom-anied the shock. at savannah, oa. Savannah September 3 At 10:30 o'clock to-night another shock was felt here. It was more severe than any save the first one of Tuesday night, and people were again thoroughly terrified.

All the buildings were deserted and everybody will sleep in the streets to-night. belief measures. New York, September 3. The stock produce, mining and cotton exchanges have appointed committees to solicit subscrip tions for the relief of the Charleston sufferers. The total contributed in the cotton exchange to-day is $3 375.

It is announced that the Southern Express company will forward contributions for the relief of the earthquake sufferers free of charge. The Brooklyn Examiner has receive! the sor. Tne bnortnorns ana Jerseys are kept on the Shaw farm, which is within a short distance of the castle. There are thirty-seven cows and heifers and eight bulls in the Shorthorn herd which was established by the Prince Consort, and the knightly blood predomi inates. The young herd consists of twenty-two animals, the foundation stock having been carefully selected from the best herds in Jersey it has just recently been started.

The Devon herd (also esS tablished by the Prince Consort) is a very fine OQe, and no collection in the country is better known in the show yards. There are only seventeen cows and two bulls, several of them being prize winners, and Baron Golsencott, the principal bull, was first at Norwich last month. The Hereford herd of thirty-one cows and heifers and three bulls are also at the Flemish farm, and the beasts have been chosen with great care. It includes several prize winners, and the Lord Wilton blood is very prominent. The Queen takes keen interest in these farms, and often visits them when she is at Windsor.

They are admirably managed by Mr. TaU, who is an excellent judge of stock. their direction. Some extended from north to south, others from east to west, and on this account he would hesitate to give any scientific declaration. He did, however, give the opinion that the shocks were the result of local land slides.

By the term "local" he does not mean that the shocks can be traced to any particular place, at Summerville, Charleston, or elsewhere, and remarks that there was no connection between the shocks and the supposed volcanio action. His impression is that the area covered by the land slide theory has been from forty to one hundred miles under the bed of the sea. He was confideut, moreover, that the worst was passed. This statement, however, wa made prior to the shocK at 11 o'clock last night. He left Summerville this evening for the phosphate district, where he will continue his observations.

Prof. McGee's remarks have had an excellent effect. Up to yesterday about 1,000 persons, or one-third of the whole population, had left Summerville, and it is expect that Prof. McGee's statement will stop any further exodus. A camp of the Sods of Veterans been organized in Fall Rivr township Greenwood county.

It started out quite a large membership. city escapeu injury, auu ninny are suaiieu and cracked that a hard blow would bring them to the ground. The shock was severe at Sammerville, and at Pleasant and Sulli- van's islands, but no loss of life is reportel there. Fissures in the earth are noticed, from which fine sand, apparently from a great depth, exudes. A sulphurous smell is ery noticeable.

Chableston, S. September 1, 11:45 p. 3X. Repeated earthqvake shocks of a mild -character have been heard and felt within the last hour. Owing to the demoralized condition of everything here is impossible to give the correct facts, further than that the number of casualties has not yet been ascertained.

Probably thirty to forty killed and 190 injured, and the Joss of property will probably reach $10,000,000. Three-foartbs of the buildings in the city will have to be rebuilt. There was very little shipping -js port, and none of it was injured. 11:50 p. m.

Another shock has just occurred, more severe than any since last night at to5, knocking down several houses. In addition to Charleston shocks were felt Raleigh, Augusta, Smyrna, Mongolian hop-pickers in the vicinity of Sacramento, have just been successful in a long strike against the 70-cent rate.