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17L. II MANNING CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 1886. NO. 7. Bonnie Stratheyre. There's ruvadows in Lanark and mountains ir Skye. A nd pitstures in Hieland artid Liwltnds forbye: But there's nae greater luck that the heart could desire Than to herd the tine cattle in bonnie Strath eyre. 0. it's up in the morn and awa' to the hill. When the lang simmer days are sac wartn and sac still. 0 Till the peak o' Ben Voirlich is girdled wi' fire. And the evenin' fa's gent. ,n bonnie Strath eyre. Then there's mirth in the sheiling and love iD mr breast. When the sun is gnne doun and the kye are al rest: For there's mony a prince wad be proud to aspire To my winsome wee Maggie, the pride o' Stnitheyre' Her lips are like rowans in ripe simmer seen, And mild as the starlight the glint o' her e i; Far sweeter her breath than the scent o' the briar. And her voice is sweet music in bonnie Strath eyre. Set Flora by Colin and Maggie by me. And we'll dance to the pipes swellin' loudly and free. Till the moon in the heavens climbing higher andt higher Bids us sleep on fresh brackens in bonnie Stratheyre. Though some to gay touns in the Lawlands will roam, And some will gang sodgerin' far from their home Yet I'll aye herd my cattle, and bigg my ain byre. And love my ain Maggie in bonnie Stratheyre. -Harold Boulton in Spectator. "FROM THE HOSPITAL." "Yes," said the Rev. Mr. Dibble, "I know I could depend upon the hospital ity of my flock to entertain this excellent Toung divine,seeing that my own house hold is in so disorganized a condition, owing to the exigencies of cleaning house. It will be only for a night or two, and we all know what is promised to those who receive the angel un awaren!" And Mr. Dibble rubbed his hands and looked smilingly around upon the mem bers of the Young Ladies' Aid Associa tion, while a very preceptible murmur of assent rose up from this aggregate collection of curls. bangs, frizzed hair, and crimped laces. Not a (aimsel in the number but would gladly have extended her, gracious hos gitality to the Rev. Felix Amorv, who -wa to preach a sermon in aid of "Home p:Helps and Missions" at the village ,ehureupon the coming Sunday eve. -:amng.01 I sur" said Miss Lidia Larkspur, y Ivptly.anticiating the crisis, "papa womildeamost happy to receive the gen tlemack' While di the.other -ladies looked in dignantlv first at:AMiss :&idia then at each otfier, an! whispered, "Bold thing!" "Most kind of you to promise it, I am sure," said Mr. Dibble, and so the matter was settled, not at all to the .gen eral satisfaction. And Lidia Larkspur went home, and issued orders that the parlor curtains should be washed and ironed, and a pound-cake of the richest nature con cocted. While Kate Duer, the doctor's sister, .- was as fond.of young clergymen as -Liaia herselftand would in no wise have objected to varying the monotony of her home life with a spice of ecclesiastical novelty, returned to her crochet-work ,with a yawn and a general it -ession .that life was a bore. "We are to have a young lecturer ffrom the city in the church on Sunday wenin'," she said to her brother when e bstd into dinner. "Eha?" said Dr. Duer, swallowing his scalding soalpt "are we? By the way, Eate, thea's nt ew case of small-pox reported among theae hainds on the rail wy enbankment:' "ar me!" said Kate, whvo was com pounding a refreshing salad i4 .a. carved wooden 'bowl: --I hope you keep wgell vaccinated, Hugh." "Oh, there's no trouble about that!" said the doctor: "only the other pa tients in the hospital object to such a "I should think it very likely," said Es4e, with a lit de mnouc. "I must tr'y to isolate him some where," said Dr, Duer thoughtfully. ."In one of those stone houses by the river, perhaps. Old Mrs. Viggers has had the disease, I know." ' And then Dr. Duer tasted the salad and pronounced it first-rate. ' itcherville was all on the qui ViL'5 that 4nay when the double-shotted pieg@e pf tidings flew, on the tongue of popular ggor, through the town. An actuai emn-Ipox case in their midst, and a vouno minister coniing all the way from - okto appeal to their sympathies es. if of home missions." on behs- ~ if it is contagiolJs? said old wonde ',,~ ooking very roisnd. eyed throug hers clNes mn;,i "Contaous! said ' ry ome "it ought to Aind its way into eY? oei our villa'ne.","h "What!" cried Mrs. McAdam' small-pox!" "No; certainly not," said Mrs. Em mons; "the sympathetic movement in fa or of home missions." And then everyone lauo'hed. Mrs. McAdam looked puzzled, ana Mrs. Em mnons drew herself up and remarked that "it was very irreverent to laugh at sacred thinrs" But Misslidia Larkspur,whose father did not believe in vaccination, and who had a mortal horror of the disease against which the famous Jenner waged so successful a warfare, was much trou bled in her mind. "I've always had a sort of premonm tion that I should fall a victim to the small-pox," sighed she. "I only wish pa would let me be vaccinated!" It was on a sultry August evening, the syfull of lurid clouds, the air charged with glittering arrows of electricity, and the blo' drops beginning to knock at Miss tidia's door-a most mysterious tap, as she afterwards declared. "Who's t'here?" said Miss Lidia, open ing it sufficiently to obtain a glimpse of a tall pale man with pocket-handker chief folded turbanwise around his . head. ."Excuse me," said this apparition. "but I believe I have lost my way. Might I ask shelter from the shower? I am the young man from the hospital." "Certainly not," said Miss Lidia, clos ing the door abruptly in his face, with a little shriek. "Good gracious! have I stood face to face with the-small-pox ,case?" And then she ran for the servanl and tiie caiplior-bottle. and went into hvsteries. Mrs. Printemps lived in the next house-a picturesque cottage. overhung with Virginia-ereepers, with a little plaste-r cast of Cupid in the garden, and a vreat many bluebells and carnations -a vouig -widow who read all the new est books a nd sometimes wrote gushing poems for the second-rate monthlies. Mrs. Printemps inagined herself like the gifted and unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots. and dressed up to the part, as far as nineteenth-century prejudices would allow her-and she was seated by the casement. trying to find a rhyme to suit a most unacconnodating line of poetry. when the tall pale stranger ap peared under her window, "for all the world." as Mrs. Printemps subsequently expressed it, "like a troubador, or David Rizzio himself." -Excuse me. madame." he began, "but I am from the hospital,and-" My (oodness me!" ejaculated Mrs. Printeips. jumping to her feet: "how dare yon come here and tell me that to ny fice? Why don't they isolate you?" Madame -" said the surprised stranger. --Go awav!" said Mrs. Printemps,. banging down her window and bolting it noisily. --etsy"-to her girl-run across the meadow to Mrs. Underlay's and tell her that the small-pox case is rampaging all over the country. trying to get people to let him in. and she ian't to open the door on any account. And stop at Dr. Duer's and ask him what i sort of sanitary regulation he calls this i kind of thing?" "I'm afraid I'll meet him. mem!" said Betsy. geting .hind ihe side- I board; "and I ain't b'er. v'acciIated f"r < seven years., and "If you go across the past::r. : id .'u'il I get there full five minutes before he does. ake haste now." Kate Duer was standing in her door way watching the storm roll grandly over the mountain-tops. when the weary and bewildered traveller opened the gate and came hesitatingly in. "I beg your pardon," said he meek ly, "but I think there must be some thing singular in my appearance. Peo ple seem to shut their d(ors against me, and shun me as if I had the pestilence. And I cannot find the rowidence of Mr. Dibble, the clergyman. Would it be asking too much if I were to request permission to rest in your porch until the storit is over? I came from the hos pital, and-" "Oh, I understand," said Kate quick ly. "You are the small-pox patient. But I have been vaccinated, and am not afraid of the disease. There is a very comfortable chamber in the second sto ry of the barn, and yon shall be care fully nursed and taken care of there, of "But you are mistaken," cried the young man: "I am not-" "Hush!" said Kate gently. "Do not be afraid to confide in me. I am Dr. Duer's sister, and know the whole story. Sit here and rest a little, and I will bring you some broad and milk until my brother comes." 'I am a thousand times obliged to you," said the stranger, "and the bread and milk will taste delicious after my lon' walk. But I do not know what leat s you to think that I am a victim to varioloid. I have lost my hat in the wind, to be sure, and am compelled to! wear this Syrian-looking drapery on my head, but I never had small-pox, and hope never to encounter its horrors." nate Duer turned red first, then pale. "Then," said she, "if von are not the small-pox case, who are you?" "I am Felix Amuory," said the young' stranger, "the chaplain of St. Lucetta' Hospital in New York. I anm to preach in aid of the home mission on Sunday next.'' Kate Duer burst out laughing. I "And everyone has been mistaking' you for the small-pox case!" said sh "Oh, Mfr. Amory, do come in. How could we all have been so stupid? But I you see, the minute you began to speak of the' hospital-" "I dare say it was very awkward of m," said M1r. Amorv. "But it's the wyI have always mentioemslft< strangers. St. Lucetta's, von know- " "Yes, I know," said kate. "But to< the good folks here, there is only onef< hospit.l in the world, and that is the : Mi-. Amory enjoyed his tea, sliced - peaches, and delicate "angel cake" very much, as he sat tete-a-tete withi Kat~et Duer, by the soft light of the shaded lamp, while the rain pattered without. - And when the doctor came in it was 4 cosier yet. "The small-pox case?" said he. "Oh, that is safely isolated at Hope's Quarr sine this morning. And doing yer Sell, too, [ am happy to say. Upon my word, Mr. Amory', I an;~ sorry that yout have had such a disastrous exo rience." "All's well that end's well," said th e oung clergyman, leaning' back in hi snug' earner with an expression of inef -lfe content on his face. 3ii&s Lidia Larkspuir was quite indig nant when she heard that M~r, Amoryj was staying at Dr. Duer's residence. "Just like Kate Duer," said shte. "To 1 man're to get that poor young inan into har hands, after all. But if aman rushes around the counttryv. telliing every body that lie comy fromi a hospital,what can'he expect?" "The most awkward thig I ever heard of in myv life," said Mrs. ]frm temps vinidictivelv. But this was not Mr. Felix Amuorvy I last visit to Pitcherville. He came in autumn when-the leaves were red-;!?iu then in the frozezn beauty of winter. And the ha~t time, he asked Kate Duer1 "if shte was willing t~o encounter the trials of a minister' wife.?" And Kate, after a little hesitajon, said tg .she was willing to try. And Miss L~idia Larkspur declared that "anyonie could get married if they were as bold about i ;s Kate Duer." Mr. TIhomans A. Ball. the sculpto-, who~4 has recently finished a laroe statue of Daniel Wobxtr for Concord. N. H.. is no"' at work 00 a por'trait of P. T. Bar num. Thie tigure is in a Sitiis p'$iilu It will not be put up during his lifetlgoe, but his family pr'efer to have the por' trait from life instead of waiting to have it done from phlotograptlh5. Both thieGo statues re to be east in bronze in Nat urs Ieaun a: ;a.: the Coming of: : .rmn. The wind r . t-iling a storm. It crido ata mu at lim wnov as if it lae h -:;, ! ;t w powerless to provemz. It is : n _-hich trie-s thle stna :i wtlrenf om. airi. T'he low ri., we are ua to aeounkt for are. often- c 1)dbytn useso of the br:in-(1. i,.:v electrie cuorr n: during a 4changeo of w-hrtot) Slight," per Ihp for - to itwie. This sinking of -su i: had snsitve pCO ple to ir' i of the wvi:l a. a 4ort of hnC- w:::-ni of ita-ter atd wre- k. T n of thest super I ' , v r btf.efore the timCe ,f Vr'l n Th'-or' i[: .' whn to Greek Indl I aur'im an !*-e wa- the frown f:mom.:h l :t :t1 a ciitmt was :a .- .f .rat, the Si-h of the h',i va. ful; f Iunuttrable portents. in :ltn *:tv. when wintdow frames we*re not n ;'.- :s o1r and eliiiney -rnies oltt-red ;>!pe for :ily tuie the xwin chose o -,,daly upoin it, ima.:inative ott rs wv omy a1 lemind of demons if the air :and wit(cIes slri:king discord Intl horror. :t- if imt rwIiir cits :nnt wottui, waiiin:z plaints :-coun~itry tradition is full of such *tle'S, antd we are all primitive exnough 0 fel a' touch of ereeping dreatd at tie drich vo(t" of the. wind. forgctful that ht. claim r anl wailing is oinly the wind Ioreing itself througli a crevice too small or it. The world is full of superstitions which i:ve irisen as naturally as the childish iread of the wailing of the wind. But ot ust be sure that these well-worn deats have neither meaning nor worth efore you throw fliteii r wav. A super tition' is not always a thing to be aughed at, a truth which 1e latest re ;earch of science strikingy ziCilustrates. In places on the west coast of Eng and. on the calest, quietest of days, a trange, hollow moian is heard from a stance at sea. although the waves lie deeping at one's feet. Fifty years ago he coast folk believed it the voice of a irit, by the old heathen Saxon name >f Bucea, wihieh foretold tempost and ,voe. You hear the voice now, ominous is of yore, but you know tbi 't is the oise of a storm'so far ofl' on the Atlantic hat its swell has not even reached :hcre. Sound travels so much faster han currents of air that the tempest -caches the ear long before the first -ipple of wind touches the cheek. Sound i air travels about thirteen miles a ninute: in water four times as fast, out tripping the speed of any tornado niown. The shore at these places rathers the sound as in the drum of the ar. and currents striking eastward arry the roar of storms which are weeping m idotcan I hundreds of leagues twar, not a blast of which may ever ex the shore. It is wonderful what arriers of sound and motion the great qmpty spaces of the ocean are. Before gal'e is felt in the British isles a lIeavy well sets the lightship swinging at the tation of the Kish and Cockle Gat, vhile at Valentia the surf rises twenty our hours before the storn reaches that >rojecting point. In the bay of Mon erev, California, the billows come tear ng in from the Paitfie while the dav is. >erfectlv calin. A eyelone oif days at ea has sent these surges to tell the hore of its work. When distant hil]s look clear, sailors orbode storm. W Iwi :Instead of its sual haze. Bluae hill. as seen from Ded iam, invites the e to pierce its dells md wootdy paths~ in sintgular clearness, ve know it is th (uIf our good i'ather for awh uile.Iao is this? A rreat Germaan obsrve thsle nmoistture n the air was~hes it 'hist aind impurl1ities war, leaving this heamiiul clearness. 3ut'tthis reaston fails t-> be satisfactory. X'hr isn't it as ceanr after a rain ais well Ls bfItfor it. witwn we know the. woods old their blue.,t mist about them, as if okeep thteir rece"'ses tresh? I prefer, he theory that the air btefotre a storm uas a refracting quality whzeihnbings listanes near, like the gla:sses of ate cope. How does it gain this qutality at ne time and niot at another? Perhaps > the diili-rent arrangement of its mole-] ues by the alteration of the electric 1 urrent'so that varion4 h:tvers of the air et like lenses in a degree. One lindls he saime le~s -like quality in the air of drizna plinsit when muiragei is visible, mxd nl the nothweiX(st praiie~s, when at i imes it is like looking through a great 1 >ismn, and the slopes are outlined with urple and lhid with roseate tinges of mehainting harmony. Yon have heard of the old signs and ayings about the rigrht time of the moon o' sowing seeds1 and expectimg raim at 4 uha quart tr, and you Itave laughed I it the idea that the moon01 hatd anything I ,o do with the atihirs of the earth beyond 4 iving light like a big lantern. 'In act," writes one English scientist, "the I niluence of the moon on the weather is s nythical as its inthuence over human ife." Presently the samne writer speaks f "the powerful agency of the moon in asintg tides of otcan and of air, sub et to the samte tidal influences.' 'arther he declares that "changes of4 he wether' are amssociated( with various ispects of the moon." Mr. Park Harri so, one of the closest observers ofI nodern times, after sttudying a mass of >bsevattions, concludes that there is a :endenev in the mooni to warm the yarth at' her first jua'ter andl cool it at the third, slightly but pterceptibly. Mr. 3lisher, theL 1;-h-bra;tedl meteorologist, ns tha t there are moure north winds n onte-half of the moon's period and llore. -tuth w'indtl in the othetr--eauses gitet sutlicent to affect auch stusceptible 'hingrs e', te germs of seed.1 But leavintg the -sight ad~iional heat riven by the moont out of the questloon, eseahel brings a new and serious phase ,f thie moon' s influence before us. The inoiu i-, L .a:tiAor and reflector of the un's heat, which p~ourC iso her' for a period fourteen times the length of our' dat', part of which tIows into spa~ce and ptrt comews to e'arth. In this period of iaoh~ion the moon receives not only eat, btut a pu':tV!n of that intense vital and electric' force of w idh tha sun is the center' and source. At her thirti -arter the moon has been exposed to & unnfteirupted heat~ of the sun for 265> 'ours, absorbing qutantities of Vitai he2.t and electricity as well' Why may n~ot it be also reetor anid radiator of this electric energy', which we fid diffused tmhan~htt nature, quickening the seed in the ground. the leaf in its sheaf, the blood within our veins, the tissues which verlay our frame. Science detects a tide of nervous electric force at its fullest :tbout 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and from 3 to 4 in the afternoon, when hiuman strength and life are at their best. in the hours opposite which they are at their lowest, when the sick feel feeblest. and when the dying find re ease. The hours of its ebb and flow are as well known as the tide of ocean, :nd beyond a doubt such a current ?xists in lower forms of organic life. ll things point to tho sun as the royal 'oure. the moon as the dispenser and re(lator, of this magnetic life. Ad iiral Fitzroy. founder of the weather ;ervice of Great Britain, fairest and most xact of observers, writes in his weather book that all the phenomena agree with he idea of such an electric influence on he part of the moon, and farther that t explains all unreconciled facts in eteorology. This being true, it re leems from absurdity the dependence of mankind for centuries On the aspects of he moon for signs of weather, for times >f sowing and reaping, for weaning of Ihildren and young animals, in short, he most delicate operations of nature, ensitive to influences we duly feel and listantly perceive. When all scientific cuen agrree that, whatever the reason, ertain changes of the weather and cer Ain changes of the moon happen to Zether. we have not far to look for a ode of weather signals available by and or sea. The old superstition was hat the moon caused the change of Neather, in which lies the mistake, just is if we believed that the cautionary ignals of the weather bureau caused trms. That the moon's changes agree xith the changes of weather as with the ides is a belief on which we want the -xperience of twenty thousand strict )bserXers.-. Y Mail and Express. Natural Gas in Dwellings. The necessary danger attending the se of natural gas may not be greater Ihan that encountered in places where the manufactured article is commonly riployed for purposes of light and fuel. but it is certain that since it was utilized in western Pennsylvania and southwest ern New York more accidents have re sulted than can be charged up to artifi ia'l gas the world over. Two of the rnost serious of these casualities have taken place in Pittsburg, where not long ago a main exploded, wrccking several buildings and killing four or five people, and where. within a week, the explosion f another pipe has resulted in the de ;truction of a steamboat and the loss of )ne life. If natural gas may be utilized in the iomes and the business of the people with safety a very important problem will have been solved. Where so em ployed fur domestic purposes the econ >niv of the household has been revolu ioized. Tho pipes are run into ordi ary cooking and heating stoves, as well as grates, and, besides saving the abor of carrying in coal and removing shes, as well as the cleaning and dust ng made imperative under the old sys em, the new device obviates the neces tity of kindling fires ard of watching hem, and at the same time reduces the xpense on account of the fuel and light >v more than one-half. When a fire is ranted in every room in the house a natch for each'room will supply the de nand. If the fire becomes too strong it mav be checked by turning a lever, and >n the other hand by a similarly easy novement every stove in the house may >e made red hot at a moment's notice. The only drawback to all this is the election that one's house is connected m direct pipes with the infernal regions, vith the devil knows who in charge of le generating process. If all goes well elow the little thames so successfully in roduced ini the houses above will be cx ~edingly enjoyable, but in the event of isturbanees in the dlepths, or of some light defect in the means employed to ~ontrol the supply, there is no telling hat might become of the dwellings andl heir inmates. If the natural gas wells an be controlled and regulated as sue ~essfully as the reservoirs of the artificial rticle are, there appears to be no ex use for the dreadful explosions which iave taken place from time to time. On he other hand, if these explosions are to e set down as unavoidable, the natural ~as enterprise, becomes a dangerous one, ot only to the pecople who avail thiem elves of its seeming oonveiniences, but o the public at large, which may be >lown to kingdom come at any time when it least expects it. Washington Correspondents, A number of Washington correspond nts dictate their dispatches to short and men, andI these transcribe them or the press. Stenographers are very heap here, and in ordinary times you an find one who will take down and ewrite a column letter for a dollar. his is much cheaper than doing the criting yourself, as the greatest expen Iitre of energy in writing is in the ushing of the pen. Some correspond nts dictate their letters to the typewrit r and several I know have wives who an run the typewriter as well as the nost experienced professionals. A lead ng correspondent of a New York paper ias ~ wife who can take down a column >f correspondence from his dictation in ialf an hour. This colmn contains Lbout 1 ,500 words, and she must write Lt the rate of tifty words a minute. This s very fast typewriter work, and its ped will be appreciated when it is re nebered that th e ordinary longhand riter who composes does remarkably ell if he writes fifteen words a minute. . few newspapers keep men at the Capi tl who are expected to devote them elves to letter-writing exclusively. Checze are few, however and their letters are devoted to erlitorials, dceriptive natter, anid gossip about men and neasures. The field. of Washingon orrespondents seems t me to be widen ~g overy year, There are plenty of righit iienf in the business, anid of the~ andreds here thme ~get majority are rained men The dissipatednmen iong themi can be counte upon your ingers: and as a rule they are hard ,voriin. keen-witted, snob-hating. gen :lemaniN fe'llows A traveler in Mexico writes that he wras recently in a city of 12,000 poptily :ion where niot am sincre copy of a~ daily aewnaner was t-iken. 31ADSTONFS FOR JY~t~1~A North Caroliaa Takes a 14)1me Tre:. Instead of Going to laris. North Carolina boasts of no l : than four madstones, each of which ir alleged to have certain specitic virtm, making each the great and only mad- 1 stone. Wonderful apparent curtesv have been effected by the use of these I madstones during the past half centii ry. Some of them are even older than: that, but faith in their eiliacy his never diminished. There is a famous r one in Halifax county, and people I bitten by rabid dogs have been taken to the stone or the stone h:a- ben i taken to them for years. Last year.v two cases were treated by it and one i is now under treatment. Another stone is known fr iad near as the Painter mabtone, :ud i owned by Mr. Painter, oh P. county. It is in demand by bo h Vir ginians and North Car oliti nian, ad I there are cases known of persons inz cases known of persons haing been taken hundreds of imile, to be touched by this stone. On Christmas eve R. I White, of J Halifax county, Va., was hitten by a h1 mad dog. le went to Pinter' soon as possible for treatment. Pain-: ter applied the stone sixteen tineS to the wound. It adhered fitteen ile, im but at the sixteenth application thev stone would not adhere. White wa- I given immediate relief. Last week negro woman living near I)anville wa i bitten. Saturday she was taken to J Painter for treatment, and this is noW a in progress. The people of that sec- h tion claim that this is the only -en uine madstone in the .State. None o y these madstones have ever been sold 4 By some persons they are rezarded a, b giving luck to their possessors. KILLED HIS OWN SON. A Kentucky Farmer Biows His Boy's Ha d: Off, Calling Him Lazy. News has just been brought to Owensburg, Ky., by a geatleman trom Muhlenberg county, this State, of :a1 unnatural murder, that of a son by hi, father, near the Mud River coal mini in that county. G. L. Hpkins, thI t< father, is a farmer, and is about tilty years old. He has an ungovernabel k emper at times, and has been the e dread of the neighborhood. In hi< C fanily lie has been quite severe, and i at times even cruel, and then for a d season, over-indulgent. Last week ie was ont a spree and in one of hi i savage moods, finding fault with every-| thing at home. He charg-ed his son Willie with laziness and worthle;ssness, t< altho igh the neighbors looked onl him i as a patie-it, much abused and over- i worked boy. On Saturday morning, about 5 o'clock Willie. who i- nealy nineteen years b old, get up and began putting on is; best clothes. G. L. Hopkins, tle father, who was standing with his back to the fire, seeing this, exclaim- I ed: "You lazy whelp, take otT them breeches and put on your working h trouers." Willie nettled up and re plied: "Pap, I've had enough of that," ud wet on dres-ine. "I'll show you how to talk to me," and grasping bj the shotgun from the hooks on the joist, fired as, he spoke the last word h and blew the whole top of Willie's if head off. lie hastily pied up his tc hat and coat and fled, and has so far ti escaped arrest. w Robbed of 81.500 and hi Watch. Phil Cox, a fine-looking man, who R hails from Yazoo City, Miss., paraded the streets of New Orleans for a week with a big dog at his heels anid a thous and-dollar silver certificate pinined to his waistccat. lie has beeni a regularr attendant at the Expositioni race, br sometimes oetting heavily, atnd wa b usually in the comyany of sportin d mni. lie drank a great deal and used to display the silver certificate without any fear of the consequences. Last Thursday night Cox was takein to his L rooms initoxicated, by three mieni, named Waddle, Costello aid Faulk nr, who put him to bed. Wihen he awoke the next morning his silver cer tificate, $500 in bills, two diamond cluster pilns and a gold watch and S chain, valued at $490, were miissingii~ It was found that the hiniges had been removed from the door leading into f the back yard, but it is thought th t t the presenico of the big dog would have prevented a robber from entering. The police were informed late Satur-I day night and they arrested Waddle, d but the other two men who tosk Cox u ome have not been found. Predicted His Own Deathl. Daniel G. Sperry, of South Win~d- y sor, Coinn., who early in Dece:-nher" predicted his death in thee weels thereafter, died on Tuesday afternoon ,~ ii within a month of the (late he pre dicted. lie had already settled hi' i business affairs and had boaght a mas- it ive oak coffin, which lie kept in his house. The fai!tnre of his prediction e, that he wor" pass away in December ad no c t upon him other titan to make hiimt more depressed in spirits. j He said nothing further regarding his. presentment, but it was evidenit to his friends that he had not abandoned it, for he showed no interest in daily affairs or itn the future. lie was well r advanced in years, but was in ordinary good health unltil this stranige piresenlt ment began to prey upo)01 himn. A Railroad Wrtek. A disastrous wreck occurred iist II Wednesday ntight on the St. Joseph and Des MIoines branch of the Chica- j go, Burlingtoin and Quitey sys~teml, about four miles east of Albany. Al passenger train bound for St. .Joseph encountered a broken rail, when the whole trait', except the engine, wvas thrown from the track and down an embanktment fitteeni feet. There were fifteen passangers on the traini and not one escaped injury. An old man named Miller, from Palmnyra, !owa, was instantly killed, his neck beitng broken. Several were seriously hurt. --The health of Ex-President Arthur I has caused some anixiet y during thei last few weeks, le hatr been under treatmntt for severe inieturm an: his diet has been restricted to hI simlest articles of food, pri"n iyI\ milk and piepsin, lie he~ I.ut~treid much from insomntia and theated nervou exitment and depression.i "In i:2 - itr we nr.umerous >Iw-esw~wr iimh-rfot was beguiiled 21rb of hi;- a1ll. The mlost noto ion pha, ,:1 - :4 1iTs , i9. ro run byi Bill n1d Iv y Ford. TI- uiiin't run anvthino tiut pkr-roI. h-'o many a poor devil rith :: t ae f. mgame wa enticed in "-llow wva-. ihat dn? -I will tell you. One of the lihang(wrs i I*OlndI the roois was a gambler m med Jerry L-wI!. Jerry was crooked buut'He couhdn't play a fair -ame if hI w:nted to. Ile had his eap ra 'und towi gatlriling up the uni :V. H. ilwi ,ys had his particular :at %: toe. aild Iwie mani1 who sat op) IOi:;- to him wvas hvars Ileceed before ""A lit). "Evrything a:pp:rnfly was on the l:arI. b:it w:n'. Jrry hail a win ill wa aom him in iore1 than one. ite ne'~i ver nt for :mything but big -amie. He would t around a fellow, repose a qjuit game of draw. take him Iii is rolmi. :,I tile two would sit down :t aethbl in a room by themselves. errv hl bi< tonti-derate, however, and :a h'im .itai'nel in a loft immediately hvt 1!w t.1be. Thier was a small hole ! Che i vihere tile fellow could sec hnd. Then there was an -.reios sV tem of wires arranged by :hi( si0al could Ie iven. Tile inas w.re 'il giveni on the oh. of Jrry's foot. There was a hole a tihit lloor as well as in the ceiling. (rY Vuld plve his foot over the hole. Id hi pal .oul work tll wires. They ad t teleg raph svste'm. One ti) would lii -':m! Ieh lig. two sollethinl.g else, so oil st th: the watcher could keep 1rrT inform as to what the other fel nv'heid. It was a dead-sure thing, and 11ir 1 ria n hint of mouler. -11W., ..ai the trick discovered?" nani-d Sam Reid struck h-v.e wii t . 0. le played bank 4esA and won Q101.00 more. Jerry ICtel* d him for :i 'ne of draw. an'd aill cntiid. Tih lirst ilit Jerry St 11 c. mugh to make the Texain Ink t!it I-- was- thke bozs poker-plaver I w.. The ncxt nihit they quit en The night after Jerry started in > wi the pi!. but luck was against im. He couhin't hold anything. He n Vi-, l-aIt-s< to try and stack the rd,"' ba:ms. e Reid would have dis iverei that :iad there would have been hotin-rap. In spite of signals "Tir 'uit loser that ilht, but lie didn't ive up. He triekled Reid again the et nih, w %von i git along. -- had won '-1'i.0 4)of the souther vr's money. and was loving himself out Swill the ret of it. He raked in a pot i IG.l. an had dealt the cards him .If. ed hlid oil about i4.000 left. ''le eot a full I:ind on the draw, and eriy rot a full hond :ilso, his full hand en1 1: la . The betting n n :i d tid h1adA every cent of i. mom-v i on the call. Before the ir* er !own ei-d told Jerry to )141 on :no' '. lie drew a revolver mi al w tn the table. still retaining bHl 1Of ihowverVIT. -oit .thow your hand vet.' he said. :1rv CtW I Lave in the world is on the i e' I dolt kiow whih one has the but I do koiw there has been ea.:ting donte. ,-mh;, has gyivenl myI id awy Tait sonmebody is over us. everyh i' , 1'a:re vou woit object my Shootini tdhiriouh the ceiling. If ere is anything crooked of course you ll object.' ''Rid raisld his pistol and cocked it. rry didn't say anything but grabbed Vid'S arM. but it was too late. The gur. ent off. There wa~s a howl and a 'amperinig heard, and a fall in the next "Thee.' said Reid. 'Li knewv you were ibbinig me. I didn't kill that fellow, at I wishi I had. Now. you just hand ick every cenit of that nmonev. If you m't I will putt a hiole through you big moughi for a dog to erawvl through.' --.Jerry was tgamei. but Reid had the -op on hIm.o amd lie was forced to giye tek every cient he had won."'-Denm'er A Goo Itemedy. IIostle' Mlcnnis mt Dr.~Perkins joniover a fewxy' oago :ion Austin av, ''I am mouch obig.;d to vou, doctor, r thamt toie vou' '-'ve me," said Hos 'tter. taikinmg' th' l''arnedt physician -arld by the~ had ''So'it iilele vtu, id it?" ''lt mie?!iw' Welli I should say it itd. I never4'i h:.d anything br'iace me lilow. many' bottles- did youi take?" "'I din't 'tIake "oy myslf. Catch wI putt i' '0h iimii down my ll thiroat. hlun I wantl U toiommit suicidV i'll go) need beneti''d e!teets.i frm It." ''1'o I l~d. m tgave tie stai to my, eni un10h-. 'ho hadi ju t mae hit wvill un favor. :bldi now hie is noi more. nIllotIl tofxvon' tone knot'ked' him y1 . 1 - '|', r' Si;'i':|rs. Th Ire t Yua rig atoss lther ng f:-i .-rei l :md .nt ftorwar'd at is' ne o'ar:.in.. ir'on .>A to 7.>) iles. hs ii u I;' be the uik-t time on CAWT BE BEATS Ir t'IRIVEN wVELL MAKES 1T EASY to get Wa:er. > Well (Cleaniung. ('heap ! Durable l CALL 0ON T.~ C. Scane, SUMTER, S. 0. JACOBI HOUSE, FLORENCE, S. C. M. JACOBIL AGT, i'ROPRtIETORi. O''Liverys stab:e in coanectioin, Feb 25 iMLANLE AGENT, MWANNING, S. C. De Shepherd & Co., 128 MEETING STREET, CHARLESTON, SO. CA. STOVES, STOVES STOVES -AT WHO LESALE AND RETAIL! -o - Tinwares, House Furnishing Goods, Potware, Kitchen and Stove Utensils. g Send for Price List and Ciren Jars. iC. H. CLAUSSEN & CO., Stoa1 B8][81' cul CRdy FacIal CHARLESTON, B. C. W. A. Reckling, .ART1I ST, 110i MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. Portraits, Photographs, Stc reoscopes, Etc. OLD PICTURES COPIED AND ENLARGED. Sept16 EDEL BROS., RICHMOND, VA., Manufacturers of Tobacco & Cigars, And Wholesale Liquor DeaIers. GRAND GENTRAL HOTEL, Cliimbia, S. C. U. H. FISHER, Prop'r. NOTICE TO FARMERS. I respectfully call to the attention of t19, Farmers of Clarendon the fact that I have secured the Agenenv for the Corbin Dis.k Harrow, Planet Jr. Horse Hoe and Culti vator, Johnson Harvester and the Cotiti nental Reaper. I have one of each of the'. instruments for disnlay at my stables, and. will take pleasure in showing and explai - ing their utility. No progressive farnier can afford to do without these implements. WV. K. BELL, Agt., Apr15 Manning, S. 4C. Notice ! I desire to call to the attention of the Mill Men and Cotton Planters of Clarendon, that I have secured the agency for this County. for the DANIEL PRATT RE VOLVING HEAD GIN. Having usea this Gin for several years I can recommene it as the best Gin now in use. Any infor mation in regard to the Gin will be cheer fully given. I can also supply the people of Clarendon with any other machine-ry which they may need, at the lowest pric,... Parties wishing to purchase gins will firal it to their interest to give theirorders early. W. SCOTT HARVIN, Mtay 5 Manning, o. C. w. F. B. HvsswoarT, Suter S. C. HAYNSWORTH & DINKINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, MANVNING, B, C, ja2l 3. E.. SCOTT', Attorney and Counsellor at Law, MANNG.o s. c. feb.20 E~WSPAR Te et bok ~k1VERTI BINQ suithohepr ofth costsof advtsing he ada rtiservh rmationberquires whleforhi Who will inves tone hundred thusand dollr in d meet his every reuirement or ecab.fe St, post-aid to ayaddres for 10 cent. EW'SPAPEREODD RTIfl BREAU.