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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1886
Page
8
Two young men at a Macon boarding house staged a mock earthquake for amusement. They lit a candle, used eight pound dumb bells, and hurled bric a brac as a staged tremor plus a dramatic Venus apparition at the stair. The ruse terrified guests, but the jokers finally admitted no real quake occurred.
After a blast at the tunnel on the Georgia Midland convicts were warned to clear the area. One white prisoner did not appear after the explosion and vanished as the search began. A blood hound tracked him but he was found manacled to a tree with his shackles. Two more dogs joined the pursuit but the fugitive befriended them and traded for dinner with a Negro woman. He remained at large as reports ended, and his name was not learned.
Treasurer Hardeman returned from New York and Philadelphia as a trustee of the Savannah Dublin and Western railroad bands to inspect the company. He found the finances solid and said complications in Georgia will amount to nothing. President Linderman will arrive tomorrow.
A. B. Eldridge offers the Dr King's New Discovery for consumption with a positive guarantee. Call to obtain a trial bottle free and experience relief for throat, lungs, and chest. The note promotes reliability, extensive stock, and agency rights for popular, merit-worthy articles.
Hon R F Watts wins the Stewart county nomination in the Friday primary defeating Col James A Fort and Rev W D Joiner. Watts has already served one term and helped establish the School of Technology. Also mentions Lyons New York peppermint oil market reopening and people unaware of its existence.
The U S revenue steamer Ewing under First Lieut Brann anchored at Cornfield harbor near the Potomac after a night of eerie signs. A gale from the north near Smiths Point produced a phosphorus glow and moving stars, with hazy atmosphere typical of quake regions, recalled by Brann to the 1868 Arica event.
W D Hoyt & Co Rome Ga report two years of selling Dr Kings New Discovery Electric Bitters and Bucklen Amnica Salve with universal satisfaction. Remarkable cures in Rome cited including several consumption cases treated with New Discovery and Bitters. Guaranteed and sold by E J Eldridge.
Captain Joseph Whitridge, age 83, died near Springfield, Ohio. For thirty years he stored a burr oak plank for a coffin, bought a winding sheet, and had the coffin hidden in a dark room. Twelve years earlier he dug a field vault, sealed it, and placed a heavy headstone boulder. He was buried in the prepared coffin and grave.
Capt Steelman of the schooner M Kerlin at Brunswick reports encountering an earthquake off Charleston last Thursday night. Though in thirty five fathoms of water his vessel seemed to pound on rocks after a severe gale two days earlier. English papers note the death of a man known as the Sussex giant aged 86 who weighed 646 pounds and died of heart disease during an interval at a performance while asleep in his chair.
EB Alexander of Henry County saved fifty wagon loads of corn erage from three-fourths of an acre this year and fed his mules on it while green. Authorities recently collected $600 for barroom license.
Historic earthquake devastates Charleston South Carolina with shocks felt from British America to Missouri. The center appears near Summerville with waves buckling rails and wrecking St Philip's Church while residents flee and aid pours in from across the area.
A careful description by Capt. Robert Brash of the schooner Mary Ann enables an engraving of the sea serpent seen near Had-Sota in NS Sones ue on several occasions, presenting readers with a detailed depiction from historical shipboard observations.
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