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DURISOE, No. 3, ADDISON KOW, EDGEFIELD, - - S. C. OUT-DOOE/ PH0TO6RAPHY. ORDERS SOLICITED FOR Family fraps, Schools, Bitte, Machinery, Animals, Etc. GEO. F. M IMS. JAS. H. TILLMAN, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. EDGEFIELD, S. C. Will practice in State and Federal Courts., Office, Norris building, up stairs. DROPPED DOWN TO DEATH. Blood-curdling: Scences At Detroit Fire. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 23.-By the burniug of the five story iron front brick building Nos 195 to | 202 Jefferson avenne, occupied by EdsoD, Moore & Co., wholesale dry goods, this afternoon, certainly three, and probably seven, employes lost their lives, a fire man was badly injured, and the monetary loss will reach in the neighborhood of $800,000. The dead are : JasMcKay, Bradley A. j Dunning and Ed Genther. The missing are : Edward N. Vort order | clerk; Pat Markey, Daniel A Baker, clerk ; Henry Rider packer. The fire started between the fourth and fifth floors at the rear of the building, aud spread with frightful rapidity. The great | majority of the employes were at j lunch wheo the alarm was giveu, but there were eight or nine of J them left on the upper floors. Those who were first at the scene saw a terrible sight. The whole upper floors were a mass of fi?mes. On the window sill of the fourth wihdow of the fifth floor, fronting on Bates street, stood Bradley Dunning. Two windows south of him stood James McKay. | = "Don't jump; wait for tho hook and ladder," shrieked the crowd. But before the ladders could be raised the flames rolled to the window ledge, where Dunning stood. He bowed his head, grasped the window ledge with his hauds, and then dropped. The people watching him had just time to throw a bale of jute beneath him. and it was no sooner in place than t Dunning struck it. He bounded r np like a rubber ball, and then fell \ to the sidewalk, limp and mangled. [ He was taken to a near-by drug 0 ?tore and afterwards to Harper's x Hospital, where he shortly after wards died from his injuries. The falling of James McKay followed in a few minutes. When he appeared at the window, he made _no_sien that iie_waj?_HLari death in the face. For a few moments he looked over the people ivho appeared at a distance below, j is though wondering what he might t Io to save his life. There were shouts from ' below, but be evidently could not hear what was being <*aid. The roar of the flames drowned all noise that came in from the street. After a short hesitation he threw his feet from the window and slid do.vn until he was holdiug on with only one of his hand? on the sill. He hung this way for several seconds before he released his hold. The blazing fire was bursting out of the window when the terrified man finally gave up all hopes of saving himself, and slipped loose from his hold. He struck on the case ment of the second window and partly turned over. This threw him so far out from the window that part of his body struck on tho eleerie wires below, which partly turned bini over again. He struck on the sidewalk within a few feet of the building. Policemen, fire men and spectators quickly ran to him, and he was carried to the ambulance. He was unconscious when picked up, and it was thought that life was extinct He lived, however, for v copple of hours after j being removed to the Emergency Hospital. The awful spectuole of McKay's and punning-** descent was hardly over when the spectators saw another man creepting toward the upper window nearest the corner. He was on his hands and knees blinded and suffocating in the dense smoke. He reached the sill laid one arm upon it, and as he endeavored to shield his face from the firece heat with his hand tried to drag himself to the open air just beyond. 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Gustavus Steinburg, a Swedish ?oin-dealer, received through the ?ustom house a collection of ixceedingly unique coins, which t was proposed to exhibit at the World's Fair. The coins came from Sweden, where they circulated in he sixteenth century. They beai nore resemblance to pieces of soiler-iron after an explosion than noney. The coins are great flat pieces of copper cut into very poor squares. The smallest coin is four nchessquare, and worth 30 cents; ind the largest over a foot square, svith a face value of $4. Each slab if copper is stampad in Beveral places with an inscription giving its date of issue and its denomino tion. The largest weighed over four pounds. These enormous and cumbersome coins were the result of an absurd craze which prevailed several hundred years ago regarding the exclusive use of copper for money. It carried the coinage of copper to absurd lengths and the people discarded its use. In those dayB of copper coinage wealthy ladies were compelled to have an attendant to accompany them to carry a bucket full of coppers while shopping. Lest history may be perverted and the rising generation be led to think that only oue man from South Carolina did any fighting in the late war, and there was only one patriot in the State during that trying period, it may be well enough to recall the fact that many men from South Carolina did their duty. Stephen D. Lee, R. H. Anderson, M. C. Butler, M. W. Gary, J. B. Kershaw, W: H. Wallace, Sam McGowan, Johnson, Hagood, John Bratton, James Con ner, Micah Jenkins, and others, held commands and were in the front of battle. Besides these 40, 000 privates did all that duty and patriotism required of them. They did it without hope of promotion or reward and in this day they are not claiming any special privileges because they stood by their coun try in her hour of danger. Neither are they going p.round the country nursing a grievance and proclaim ing with tearB in their voices that their old comrades are demagogues and the State disgraced.-Abbe ville Medium. MOSBY AT HAMILTON. Down London Lanes, with swinging reins And clash of spur and sabre, And bugling of the battlehorn, Six score and eight we rode at morn, Six score and eight of Southern born, All tried in love and labor. Full in the sun at Hamilton We met the South's invaders; Who, over fifteen hundred strong, Mid blazing bornes had marched along All night, with Northern shout and song, To crush the rebel raiders. Down London lanes with streaming manes, We spurred in wild March weather; And all along our war-scarred way The graves of Southern heroes lay, . Our guide-posts to revenge that day, As we rode grim together. Old tales still tell some miracle Of saints in holy writing But who shall say while hundreds fled Before the few that Mosby led, Unless the noblest of our dead Charged with us then when fighting! While Yankee cheers still stunned our ears, Of troops at Harper's Ferry, While Sheridan led on his Huns, And Richmond rocked to roaring guns, We felt the South still had some sons She would not scorn to bury. -Fetter's Southern Magazine. HE WAS DISCOUEAGED. The Mule's Continuity Kept Him in a Hopeless State. I was, for the sake of a view, climbing one ot the rough peaks among the mountains of West Virginia one da}', when I came to a very skimpy kind of a cornfield far np the mountain with a log cabin at one side of it. A man and a woman were hoeing corn and four or five children were pulling up the weeds. Work was immediately susponded when I ap peared in sight, and I hailed the man to know the fehort cut to the summit. He came over to the brush fence and after he had given me some instructions I asked him if he owned the farm. "It's nip an' tuck, stranger," he said, "whether I own the farm or hit own1 trHow many acres have you?"' "Wal, thar's 500 in the track, but thar's only erbout forty ez kin be worked, an' that lays right 'round here." "Did you buy it or did somebody leave it to you?" The man's sallow face showed a ? faint blush. , "Stranger," he said sheepishly, , "I buyed it, er leastways I traded a mule fer hit." , "A good mule?" I inquired with , a laugh. "Wal, he wuz good enough fer me to a rid outen this dem country with, if I'd had sense enough." "You didn't livo here, then?" "No, I come from Kentucky." "Why don't you sell the farm if , you don't like it?" "Sell it, stranger?" he asked in open-eyed astonishment. "Wy ther ain't ernuther ez doggoned big fool ez I am in the whole country. "Then trade it for a yellow dog and kill the dog,'? I said, making the old gag. "I ain't got no gun," he said with a short laugh. "I've got a plan, though," he went on more hope fully. "I'm goin' to wait tell that mule I traded fer the place, gets so old he's wurthh ss an' then I'm goin', to trade back." "Can you do that?" "Course I kin," he said confi dently, then dropped back to the hopeless tone again, "but mules is sich continuerin' critters thar ain't no telliu' how long I've got ter wait," and he resumed his hoe and I went on up the mountain. Not Stuck Up. It is always sad to see one who has risen to a high position in society forget the honor due his relatives in a humbler station, or fail to recognize old neighbors, because they are not well-dressed, or so well versed in society man Tiers as himself ; but it is pleasant to meet those who, however exalted and honored, yet retain the frank ness and remember "auld laug syne." The following pretty story is related by The Youth's Com panion of one of the Washington's social leaders; and how muoh more we respect the lady for her kindly act. At one of the receptions of Mrs. Senator-a countryman was shown into her parlor. He was a '.constituent," and was dazed by the lightp, the crowd, and the ele gance about him. He stood help less and awkward, fumbling with his hat and shifting his feet in embarrassment. Mrs. Senator-stepped for. ward, held out both hands, and in her fresh clear voice, cried in the old Kentucky style "Why how do you do? and when did you come?" "Lord, child," he answored, "how'd ye know me? I ain't seed you sence you was a little." "No," she laughingly answered, "the last time you saw me I was up to my elbows in soapsuds, washing my dress to go to a picnic on your farm." The old man smiled. "I declare," he saij, "it does my eyes good to look at ye, an' to find ye ain't a bit stuck up by your fine position." And she made much of the man, introduced him as "an old friend of mine," and made his visit one of the events of his life at only a trifling cost to herself.-Ex. Bill Arp "Visits Newberry and Writes About the Dispen sary Law. Last week I visited the good old Dutch town of Newberry, in South Carolina. It was a delightful trip of snnny days and moonlight nights and over one of the best roads in the South. People used to to say that the Georgia, Cai ol ina and Northern was just one to many but they don't say so now. Its traffic is increasing all the time and its service is first class. From Athens to Newberry is a bright and pro ductive country, and the people seem happy over their abundant 3rops. Newberry expects tc handle her usual allowance of 25,000 bales sf cotton. There is a mill there that consumes 7,000 bales, ind an oil mill that works up the seed. The town is solid and pros perous. The new public school building that cost $17,000 is com pleted and occupied. The Lutheren ?ollege adorns a distant hill, and the beautiful homes of the people ire embowered among shade trees md flowers all around in -the suburbs. The mayor took me wound to the dispensary-not sf it, but because it was now a part of Newberry ,and must be exhibited to strangers. Some said it was a degradation. Some said lt was better than saloons, but all admitted that it lessened drunken ness and would bring iu a reveuue. The whiskey was on the shelves in pints and quarts. Its price and quality were on the labels and the palmetto tree was blown in the glass. Every man who buys signs an application, pays his money, gets his bottle or his jug and de parts. No loafing round is per mitted. The negroes who haul m the cotton are the best customers. The price is high but they must have it. The profit is divided equally between the town and the county. In August the profit was only $25. In September it was $250 and the estimate for October was $400. The State had already got its share when the goods were invoiced to this dispensary. So it seems that the State and the towns and the counties are all to fatten on this business and this will make it popular with the tax payers. Whether it is constitu tional for a state to run a business for a revenue is to be tested by the courts but they say that Georgia used to run the Stato railroad and that France buys and sells all the tobacco. When South Carolina does anything it is done by whole sale. The fences were all cleaned up at one session but here in Georgia we have a vote in every district, and some have fenoes and some have none. In Carolina everybody approves the stock law and the people would in Georgia if it was passed. I wish that our legislature had the nerve to do it. BILL ARP. Horse-Power of a Whale. An interesting study of the horsepower of the whale has been made by the eminent anatcmist. Sir William Turner, of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in conjunctiou with Mr. John Henderson, the equally eminent Glasgow ship-builder. The size and dimensions of a great whale stranded several years ago on the shore of Longriddy furnished the necessary date for a computation of the power necessary to propel it at the rate of twelve miles an hour. This whale measured 80 feet in length, 20 feet across the flanges of the tail and weighed 74 tons. It was calculated that 145 horse power was necessary to attain the speed mentioned. FORTHE.THOUGHTFUL. SELECTED. Culture never made a saint. God's mercy is as unfailing as his love. In the arithmetic of heaven nothing counts but love. A Goliath in brains is sometimes not over knee high in grace. The man who sells Christ cannot buy anything but his own grave. The devil's money cannot buy anything that a Christian ought to have. &Love is the most precious of all thing^ because it can only come from God. God sometimes keeps a Caleb and a Joshua waiting, but he always gets them into the Promised Land. Faith without love is omnipo tence without a heart. It is the power of love with the blindness sf a bat. Call the devil by his right name ' and there are men in every crowd (vho will claim that you have in sulted them. The rich man in hell never wa- j tered anybody during his life, and j 30 in death, he hacT to go when the i pumps wouldn't work. j God said to tho house of Bour- 5 son, "Remodel France and estab ish equity." House of Bourbon would not do lt Down it went. { God said to the house of Stuart, ' 'Make the English people free. { jod fearing, and happy." Hou-ie of Stuart would not do it. * Down it went. 1 God says to the political party * n this day, "by the principles of Christianity, remodel, govern, edu- 1 ;ate, and save the people." 1 Failing to do that down they go, \ mrying in their ruins their dis- ; iiples and advocates. God can ! ipare all the political intriguers 4 )ther generation who 1 ;ice and love mercy. 1 He Barked Too Soon. A boy was going up Third street 1 vith a rope over his shoulder and * i dog at the far end of it when a * oedestrian hailed him and in- ( mired : 1 "Boy, do you know you're chok ing that dog?" "Yes, sir," was the prompt re- 1 ply, "but he's hanging back on i me." ] "He is evidently afraid of you." 1 "Yes, sir." "Doesn't want to go home with 1 you?" "No, sir. He knows he'll git an 1 awful wollopin' when I git him ! there." "It's your dog, is it?" "Of course; owned him over two years. Got away two or three days ago and run off, but I found him on Jones Street. Come along here or I'll pull y er head off!" "You seem to be a very heartless boy," observed the pedestrian as he stooped down to give the dog a pat. "Taint me, but dad." "What's your father got against a little innocent dog like this?" "House got afire the other night and he barked and woke every body up too soon." "How too soon?" "Too soon fur it to burn up so we could git $2,000 insurance on the furniture 1 Dad's got it in fur him, and if you pass this way this afternoon you'll likely see a dead dog lyiu' on the corner 1" Harper's Magazine is at once the oldest and the newest of illustrated periodicals. It is the aim of its publishers to give its readers the best literature and the best art, aud to meet the needs of the peo ple in the line of their aspirations. It is conservative in the sense that it never appeals to partisan or sec tarian prejudice?, or to any tran sient caprice ; but it is quick to catch the new thought and the fresh impulse of the progressive age, and has no routine to follow, nor any alliances or associations binding it to a fixed course. Free handed and unembarrassed by cliques of any sort, it maintains its own freshness, and the direct ness of its appeal to a wholesome popular sentiment. It is there fore confessedly the best magazine for the home ; and this homely ac cord has been the secret of its hold upon the English-speaking public and of its pre-eminence as an in ternational magazine, A POINTEE ON SNAKES. Rattlesnakes are Cranks-Toa I Can't Miss One With a Gun. A writer in the Carson (Nev.) Appeal gives a very curious fact | about the natural history of the rattlesnake. He says that he came across an Indian who was aiming a gun at a rattler, and he noticed that whenever the Indian moved the gun the snake would move around and get exactly in line with it. He asked the Indian why he did so, and the other replied that he did not know, but as a mat ter of fact the snake would keep himself in line with the gun, and to prove it he walked around the snake in a circle, and the rattler followed his motions, turning so as to keep his head and body in line with the gun. The Indian then offered to bet that he could shoot the snake in the mc ith blindfolded. The bet was taken and a bandage tied over his eyes. He pointed the gun towards the 3nake, and, holding it for a mo ment, fired. The ball entered the snake's mouth and Learly traversed the whole length of the body. How lid you take aim? the Indian was isked. "The snake, he take aim," ?vas the reply. Au old hunter of :he Sierras, on being asked about ;he matter, said that a rattlesnake ?viii always range himself exactly in line of a gun or stick pointed ? it it. Goods Times Then. Bob Ingersol says: "I am as .atisfied as I am that I live that the few-who control the debts, the :urrency,the money of the world lave combined, either conscien iously or unconscientiously, to nake the debtor pay more than he creditor has a right to ask. The tendency has always been n this world to put the burdens on hose least able to bear them. In larbarian countries the women ?a&ySo tb-8 work simply because ?tggare the weaker-that is all. Vnd the men,, being the stronger, to-mrb-r^qi??d- tbeir strength in n making the weaker do xnerr york. This is precisely the condition n our civilized society to-day. Between thu rich and the poor, if he burden is to be borne in this :ountry, it is borne by the poor ilways. They are the first to suffer. Let ;he blast of war blow in this coun ty, who goes to the war? Who *oes to the front? The millionaires? Sot one. Who goes? The great Dresidents of the corporations? No rhe bankers? No. The men who Dreside over great vaults of gold? Not much. The poor go because nine times out of ten the poorer man is the most patriotic. The poor bear the burde'ns of this country and of this world. Only a few years ago money was gold and silver-money that had been the money of man for thous ands of years. Our silver was demonetized and gold made the standard. There is no man in the United States with ingenuity enough to account for the demonetization of silver in 1873. There is not one. Wo need altogether more money than we have. How much have we got? Four or five million in Bilver ; four, five or six in gold six hundred millions altogether, maybe. Let me show you ! . Last year the farmers of America raised of com. wheat and oats, over $1,600,000,000 worth and got the money. Sixteen hundred million dollars just in corn, wheat and oats-over $300,000,000 in corn, over $500.000,000 in wheat. Just think of it! Sixteen hundred million dollars, not counting beef, or pork, or petroleum, or cotton, or any of the manufactured articles of this country. Sixty-five millions of people, the most active, the most energetic, the most progressive of the world -on the face of the globe ! We need twice as much money per capita to do the business of this country as is needed to do the business of any other country. There is always somebody crazy for fear there will be too much currency. We want just all the money we can get. Silver is good enough for me. All I waht of money is to pay my debts, Yes, sir, and I want the law to make the other fellow take what I take. That is good enough _for me. ?pP Now they talk about hard tint?s. Well we nev?ir have had enough money as a matter of fact. But in prosperous times eveiy pros perous man inflates the currency. He goes down to the grocer and says, "I want $5 worth of tea, or sugar ; charge it*1' f?e has inflated the currency $5. He buys a horse of a neighbor and gives him? a note for $100. He has established a lptterof credit and inflated the currency that much. When properous every mau is a mint just coining money. Then we had good times. Then these bankers get together, and the money you deposit, they loan it yonr money, not theirs. They never loan out ?their own. Then comes a panic. Then you go to the grocer and say "charge it," and he says he won't. Then there comes what is called hard hard times. There is as much money as before, but there never was eneugh money; and I do think the less money the more misery. In this . country, as in every other, it is the medium of exchange. I believe that every ounce of silver that is dug under the Amer ican flag should be coined free un der the American flag. In my country they aro mostly on the other side. They are with the bankers, with the rich fellows. They get together and say we want sold. A man makes a contract to pay certain money in five years. I want a low rate of interest so that beean pay the money when the contract is due, with the money - that was money when he made the contract. I do not think the few should have the right to combine to in crease the value of what people call money, against the debtor and in favor of the creditor. I tvant free coinage of all the silver pou can mine from the mines of America, and there are those, who ire not willing to take silver we viii not trade them." The Right Boy in tho Wrong Place. 1 American Punch relates, the following anecdote, which, M says, ?viii made even a. Sunday School Five Points Missions School, in New York, many years ago a class }f street gamins had been tutored to answer a sort of catechism. The first question was," 'tWho made you?" and the answer was "God." The second, "Out of what are you made?"-and the answer, "Out of dust of the earth." But the teacher failed to notice the absei.ee of the little fellow at the head of the class and so the first question naturally came to the boy whose place was next to the head, and upon an nouncing the question : Who made you?" the ansver came, "I was made out cf the dust of the earth-the other feller, what God made, has got the measles and couldn't come 1" A Queer Decision. The full bench of the Boston Supreme Court has decided chat a . man is justified in preventing ? ? dog fight, and that if in doing such a thing he gets bitten the owner of the dog must pay damages. The decision is given in a case in which Daniel B. Mattesou was plaintiff and Homer C. Strong the defend- - ant. The jury awarded th?1 plain tiffs verdict of $375 and the de fendant excepted. GOOD LIQUOR. SINCE the passage and enforcement of the Dispensary law in this State . many of our "best citizens" have suf fered for want of good pure liquor, which they have been unable to get even at enormous prices. This long felt want can be fully supplied by THK HAYNER DISTILLING Co., of Spring field, Ohio, in their "Harvest Home Rye" a pure double copper distilled ? year old Rye Whiskey, at the extremely low price of ?3.00 per gallon, all ex press charges pre-paid. It is put up in a box wired and sealed with no marks or brands so no ono can know what the box contains. In no case do we ship less than two gallons, but you can divide the order in two one gallon packages if desired, which allows you two different kinds ol* goods in a two gallon shipment. It is always best to buy any class of goods direct from the manufacturers and save the jobbers profit. If you need anything in this line write LOCK Box 290, Springfield, Ohio, for price list. _ GIN AND MILL. MY Gin and Grist Mill are now in op?ration. For ginning, my charges are 25 cents a hundred. Will furnish bagging and ties, full weights, at 60 cents ptr bale. Will GRIND CORN any day of the week, except Sunday. Bring along you*, cotton and your corn. Plant, at forks of Tren ton and Columbia streets. G. G. LEWIS.