The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 18, 1887, Image 2
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T1I17 CliAITSWOKTII I1U|{ltOlt.
Additional Particulars of the
Fright fill l>isastcr.
t'iii< August I'd. A special
to the 77//O.S from Forest, 111., says:
Tlu> coroner's inquest on the bodies
killed in the disaster of Wednesday
night, which began last evening, was
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?!\ ?\? \MI 11117 llijl IH7 ' I l'l 1114* J H I I M I (
house. There were pro cut oul\ tin*
Coroner, the jury, President Leonard
of the Toledo, Peoria and Western
Padroni, Superintendent Armstrong
*?f the same road. Master of Undoes
Markley, .fustieo oT the Peace Kates
and several reporters of Chicago and
l'eoria papers. The first witness
called was Superintendent Arm
stron<>. lie testified that ho was on
the fated train, which consisted of
si\ sleeping cars, two chair cars, live
passcnoer coaches, one special car
and one luiooaoe car, and was drawn
l>v enjrino No. Id, Knoineer Mct'lintock
and I'ireman Appleoreen,
and cnoine No. 21, Knoineer Kd.
Southorland. Knmno No. Id was
next to the haoiraoo ear. The name
of the fireman of ennine No. 21 he
did not recollect. 11 is car was next
in i !>.. I.. .... t--r.
v ,u ' 1 [,l ?* ?i 111 nit
( 'hattswortli about I I: lb Wednesd'i\
niedit. After leaviiio-, ho went into
his own car and sat there for three or
four minutes, when ho felt a fearful
shock to the train. Plio next instant
the car passed over the burning
bridge. I lo was thrown out of
a window into a hedee fence. lie
jrot up and asked one of the tircman
where the hrst engine was, and was
told that lin^inoer Southerland had
jrono to (ailtnan for help. The engineer
came in about three ouarters
of an hour with the doctors. The
wounded were taken out of the
wreck, where possible, amj sent to
( hat tswort h and I'iner City, while
till of the dead were sent to t 'hnttsworth.
The bridge was onlv partially
demolished when witness lirst
saw it, the stringers of both ends
huviiiir mine down. I)irt tind brush
were thrown on the llaines. The rnJ^ine
set lire to nolhino-, and only one!
car and a I'tilhmm <hu>i?<?i?
siiohtly burned. The witness met a
section foreman near the wreck after
the occurrence, and 111? latter said he
went over the section at b:bU I*. M.
Wednesday. and there was no (ire
there then. \\ itness had warned
him tojiave section hands mi over
the section after (jnittino work, know
ino that the excursion train was <o>
ino c>ver the road that nioht. No
train went over the bridge after .V.dO
Wednesday. Witness counted the
tickets before reachine* ( 'hatt.-.worth.
n
and found there wore a few over six
hundred persons on the train. lie
said he believed there were, only
three or four don 1 norsons in I'ioer
1 i " 1
('ity. \\ i11m*ss did not think it possible
that anybody could have been
so fiendish its to I> 11 rn tin* br doe.
Tito train was running, ho judged,
about thirty-live miles tin hour ;it the
timo of the accident. Knadneer
Southerlaud told him that ho saw a
very small bla/.e before reaching tho
bridge, but thought it was froni a
fow loavos on tho sido of tho track.
Tho engineer also told him that ho
did not soo tho liro until ho was directly
over tho bridge, and thou hoi
called for tho brakers, but it was too i
late to avoid tint accident. W itness
remained at tho wreck until 7 o'clock
in tho mornino and saw to tho handling
of tho bodies, lie saw one or
two persons examining' tho pockets
of tho dead. Ho was infortnod by
those tnakino search that they wore
seeking relatives. If he had had any
suspicion that tho bodies wore beino
rilled by those persons they would
have boon averted by tho way in
which the searchers answered hint,
lie saw no one robbing tho daad or
cuttiiiir oiT the* lingers of tlie. dead toi
secure linos. Thero was plenty of
help to oct tho bodies out of the
wreck, valuable assistance beino- rendered
by the ('hattswnrth iires company.
I'll' an r.\t> to ins m t sick v.
In acorn field near the wreck he
heard it man calling "Help! Help!"
W itness wont toward tho place and
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VillMI < I (4 I >MUI HID It'll IITJI l)HM\ril
ul the ankle. The man asked him to
turn his toes down. Witness did so,
and told a farmer's hoy, who caniOj
? alono with a bucket of water, to stay
near tho man while witness went to
the assistance of others. In a few
moments after loavin" him witness!
heard a shot, and turning back found 1
the man had shot himself, producing
instant death. Tho boy had in the
meantime ijone away to jive water j
to another wounded person. Witness
remembered havino noticed the
n
deceased trying to ?jet something
out of his pocket while witness was
turning his toes upward.
AIIOUT 'I I IK UK I l)CI K.
J. 11. Markley, Master of Bridges!
and Buildings of tho Toledo, l'eoria
and Western Jiailroad, testified that
he inspected the bridge in May last.
B was made of two pile bents, four
pilings to each bent. It was fifteen
feet lon?j and six feet hijjh. The
stringers were seven by sixteen inches,
two of them beinjj under each
rail. Tho ties were six by eitfht
inches and nine feet lonjj. '1 licw
stringers, ties and {juard rails were |
putin fourteen months a<'o. The.
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piling \% ,ia ipHxl for altout two years.
l'Jiero wn< a wall of ol<l timbers at i
each end to keep up tlm embank- <
ment. Its condition was jrood. it- (
ness examined the bridtfe yesterday (
and found nothing loft but part <>1
I ho partially burned Curb and i few ;
pieces of small timber. The piles
were burned <>1T close to the oround. i
'I'llroo or four of litem wore stiokiuu >
up two feet above llie oround. Wit
ness thought it wouhl take about two
hours for such a bridoo to burn.
< >ther bridges on the road luul been
oil lire this year, but had been seen '
in time to prevent accident. The
bridge is about two miles and a half
east of ( linttsworth.
At this point the impicst was adjourned
until tomorrow, when Knoineer
Southerland and fireman \ppleoreen,
several section men and
some passengers on the train will be
examined.
K \ I I.1U I A I? (U'l'U I.VI.S 1 \ I. K .
< '11 \ i i i ii, I i.i.., Aumist l!?.
At 7 o'clock tliis inorniii?r Master
Mechanic Warren, with a wrecking
I train ami a biroo force of men, worn
i at work. Mr. Warren was cot.fulfill
i 111:it tin* track w >uhl be cleared f >r
I trains by noon. Thoy wore certain
. that all tho I todies had been removed
Iroin the wreck. A special car with
j officials of the Wabn*-h road readied
the wreck early this inornintr and
tendered the use of their wrecking
outfit., and olTercd to be of any serv ice
possible. Ihe Illinois t'ontral
! also olTercd an v required assistance,)
but Mr. Warren said he thought his
presen' eipiipment would enable him
to clear the track.
I'resident Leonard, Siiperintcn ,
dent Armstrong and other Toledo,
1 Voria and Western ollicials, were
seen this mornino. They have {riven ,
devoted attention to the relief of injured
and the care of the dead. Both ,
show sums of the terrible shock (
j which the accident has been to tlieni.
I'resident Leonard said that, as near
j as lie could, the train was making
about thirty miles an hour at the j
I tin.e of the accident not an exces- L
sivo rate of speed, as the track was
no.... '
! '?' fVW ' * I Ml "1^' J ill! i
ordinary fifteen-foot wooden structjure,
was all rioht at b o'clock in the (
afternoon when a train passed over ,
it, and half an hour later section men
inspected it, under orders in advance
of the excursion train, and it was all
rioht then. As to the liability of the
j company or the future of the road,
the 1 'resident could not. say. The
first tiiino the ollieers will do will he
to devote their attention <o the care
of the unfortunate victims. It was
a blow which would of course he!
most serious to them, but that w as as
nothing compared with death and in
jur\ to human heines, Mr. Leonard
said he could in all conscience say lie
believed the roar had provided every
reasonable and customary safe- !
o'uard.
stokiks i'oi.d liv i-:vi: w it \ ks>i:s.
('uu auo, August i'J. \ dispatch
from Forest, 111., says: News of
the disaster arrived at I'hattsworth
about forty minutes after its occurrence.
l ie j eacetible residents of
the little town were suddenly awaj
Uened by the alarm hell, which was
I ruin' simulateous)v from all the. i
alarm boxes in the town. After a
' Tew minutes everbody was on his or
her feet, sold people wen) runtime
throuoh the streets from all direc-|
jtions, all inquiring where the lire
was. When tin* actual facts were
! learned, another alarm followed,
which was soon vigorously re-echoed
j by the bells of all the churches in j
I town. The people made a rush for
the roads to I'iper City. Mr.
I \ amdin of t'hattsworth was the lirst
to appear at the scene. lie was
I wiwmi 1?\' i rnnorbu' niwl Kt'ioll o
what ho saw. "When I arrived I
found the greatest confusion," lie
said. 441 loll itself could not present
a more horrible picture. Men and
women wore li<rhtin<r with death.
.
()ne man held his dead wife and a
dead child in his arms, |
while his own feet were bro* i
ken and ean?dit in the wreck. 1 re*
lieved the unfortunate man of his
burden and helped to dracr him out
land brino him to a sleeper. One of
the <nentost misfortunes was the fact
that the wreck took place almost in it
I desert. It was impossible to ate
' cord the wounded sullicient assistance.
There were no ambulances, nolhinoI
to carry them on. They were drajjp
ocd and pushed, and this accounts
for the oreiit number of people who
I succumbed to their wounds."
hire Marshal llenrv II (bone
<>f ('Imttsworth says ho was tho lirst
to arrive at the scene. "I had no
time t<? observe anything that transpired
around 1110, uho said. "Myself
and my entire force wore working
like beavers all the time, and in tin;
| course of half a hour we had thirtythree
people, killed and wounded,
dni^red out of tho debris. Four
cars were standing on the track, and
the only thing I know about them is
that I carried the wounded men and
women there."
IIGIiltOWS Ol?" '1 11 ] ; wukck .
The borrows of the wreck seemed
deepening. Added to the pitiable h
spectaclo of tho dead and the misor i
ies of the dying, a stench, sickening- 1
ly foul, was issuing from all the nu- i
melons places wiierO the corpses ofh
tho victims yet remained. .NO pict- (
uro of Hie horrible or.cnny'.jos iiti; l
mcdialoly succeeding the accident i
could equal in terrible details the |
scene at the Toledo. Peoria and 0
Western depot here toVSiy. Tho ^
west end of tho little sln?Muro is a (j
coal h :m.so and lumber r?v>tn, whore ,1,
promiscuously stretched '-n \tlio floor [|
in oonl and rubbish, were dven unidentified
bodies. Klo>d stained,
bod railed sheets aid/ blankets on
were thrown loosly overall, but nf- ha
- ; J
forded but little protection fr>>in the
s\\ arm - of flies wliicii wore e uitiuc
ously hovering over them. The
ndot cinuuutiui/ from the bodies
effectually kept the mrin clear of all
luit the hardiest of t o still kneeling
anxious or curious crowds. Two ?>
the victims were women, an I th
sioht of tneir faces was one novn
or to l> ' f irootten. The d started fea
lures, wide staring eyes and putrifvilio
wounds were jpi/.od at but an
instant, even by those looking for
hathe r or daughter. In a few hours
one of them, a yoiine woman with
light reddish hair, would he absolutely
11iiI'eeogiiizablo from the elfeets of
the heat, ('lose by her, raised l?\
the other corpses, was the dead body
of a portly man, supported on a couple
of old boxes. lie was in his
stocking feet and coat less, and was
rapidly decaying. The other dead
men on the Hour were in nearly us
bad a condition. Outside on the
platforn of the depot were several
collins filled with those itidenliliod
iluring the night and now awaiting
shipment.
The east end of the depot was in
even worse confusion than the west
end. Tint floor continued strewn
with unclaimed baggage and an in
extriculde mixture. Little knots of
people were poring over broken
satchels and masses of soiled and
torn linen and trumpery, biinging to
light here a little infant's garment
and then* the crumpled remains of a
withiw's bonnet.
A little way down the road is a
large vacant fnrniti.ro store, in which
thirteen corpses were festering.
Only six of them were men; the
others wore women and children.
Most of the thirteen had not yet been
recognized by friends, and their
countenances were so mutilated and
their clothing so bed-draggled with
dirt to id blood I hilt it is doubt fill if t he v
ever can he identified.
One pretty little woman, lerriblv
mangled, lav motionless beside a'
babe, toward which she was partly I
turned. Across the room was a
still wart iminon his back, dead, but
with his right arm raised in agony
and his fist tightly (douched. Over
in a big school house two more;
r apses were -till uncollincd, waiting
claimants.
Wounded to the number of forty
filled the engine house up stairs and
down, and the same faithful ladies
and girls who had scarcely slept since
the wreck were by their bedsides.:
In addition to these there were at
least a score of injured distributed
among the private residenet s of the
town, too badly hurt to bo moved.
"I'lIK WoKlv oK 1' It A I \ WKKCKKItS.
Sensutional features were developed
this morning as to the cause of
the wrack. (tumors were allout hist
niolit that it was due to robbers who
tired the bridoe, luit little credence
was oiven them this mornum". New
facts, apparent I v showing (he cat-j
astrophe to l>e tin work of an orjnini 1
zed hand, came io lieht, and the
company find tlicin worthy of serious
investigation. Superintendent Armstrong'"
said to an Associated i'ross
reporter than the more he investigated
the more it appeared to him that
11 io bridge had been sot on lire. |
The hurncd orass in its immediate
locality was not of a nature that
seemed likely to admit of the bridge
eatehino from it. lie had observed
many thieves about, and had stopped
them while despoiling the wreck of
property and money. .Many instances
of the robbing of the dead were
beino brought to his attention.
The excursion had been extensively
advertised, and the time it would
pass over the bridge was well-known. !
('iti/.ens sav that a irnnif of susoi
j r? " r\ - - - |
eious follows liavo hoen loitenii?r
around ('hattsworth for some days.
Many of these woro round earlv at
the wrocU, paying iiiiiit attention to
relievin?r tlio bodies of valuui Ics
than to earino for tliem. Train-men
and passengers had frequent conleution
with I ho vandals. In ono in-,
stance Superintendent Armstrong
found a well-known 111i? f in tlio depol
room, w hore property taken |
from tlio wreck was stored. While
the people of the town have done j
all in their power for the sutl'erers,
there is a horde of tramps and thieves
in this vicinity who do nothing
hut carry oil" anything tliev can la\
their hands on.
OA KINO I'lilt 1 11 1: Wili s OKI).
As fast as the wounded were
brought into t'hattsworth from tiie
wreck they were taken directly to
the town hall, which luul hecn turned
into a hospital. It is a two-story
frame huildino, the lower lloor of
which is used as quarters for th In( I.l
?t.;t.. -i
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liall entertainments aro given. I Jot Is
and cots wore brought in from
neighboring houses, together with
the necessary bedding, and the sufferers
were eared for by loving
hands. The floor ??f the hall greatly
resembled that of the drill room of
Desplains street police station in
I 'hieago on tin? night of the ll.iymurkct
riot. l orn and bleedinif luj- !
? 1
man beings, in all i! ditYerent stages
of suffering, lay around the
rooms moanin < and erviiif, while
n / , n',
doctors and Mirscs were binding up
their woiu: is. 1 floody clothing, torn
nul covered wit!; mud, lay around
tho floors in heaps together, with
3an '-yei; his, mattresses and blanv^Courso
I had been brought from
"dyer \vt*. wreck. Many pa
. I.. ' V Mffrfctho influence of j
HMIVV// ovWjiccs, ghastly
ther, while their ??0l, 1, showed
diite, teeth tightly cloncTa |5 -e mi><
sufferings which they \vV ^ to'
ci'irMjntr while partially oMivhmV
to fact. " s??
rs
lU.ool) \v.\B KVBItVWHBKK. p!
i 'he fl<i.>rt?, walls, the clothing ami I tl,
nils of the wounded, as well as i<?
r
those who were fining for thorn.
\s the day wore .1 way and the afternoon
shadows lengthened into ovonino,
the scenes changed somewhat.
The bounded had been dressed
and most of them rested quietly,
overcome l*y mental and physical
sn (Torino. uesiino on comfortable
beds, watched by tender-hearted women,
a majority or whom hud never
seen their patients until yesterday,
tlioy sl?*pt, <>1 >!ivio'is t<? the slaughter
w 11 i 4 * 11 find taken place. Coal nil
lamps were planed around the hall,
their litrht carefully shaded, and the
scene was stronid\ su^oe.-?tivo of the
entrance of a hospital on the Held of
lmttlo.
In o e corner of the lower hall lav
.John tStieti, a president of .lers *v
City, a laroe ami powerful man.
lioth of his lees were broken, and he
had received such internal injures as
rendered his recovery doubtful.
Adam Shoeboroer of IVoria lay
near, him, seini-conscious, slowly
bieathinm his life aw ay. ( Ine of his
I ems was broken and In* was injured
internally.
( >n the upper floor a handsome
woman, about 'JU years of ame, splendidly
dressed, lav extended on a
couch. She was Miss llattio lirenner
of Karmington, III., and was on
her way to Niagara Kails with several
relatives. In the party was a
youno man named Walters4 also of
Kanninoton, aid t(? whom she was
encraoed to 1 x? married. lie had
been badly injured and lay near her
on a bed, attended by a couple of
surgeons. \\ lile Miss Ib'enner was
physically unlu.rt, yet the friirht and
knowledge of Ikt lover's injures has
rendered her iisane.
In the depo. at ('hatswoot til ami
in an unoccupied store used sis a
inorone the scene was
n
KUUOKSTIVK oi .\ k, l\ is. 11 I I; i; llol/SK.
Stretched out en |lio floors in different
directions were the corpses of
men, woman and children, drc -ed in
t e clothine* in w^liie!) tliev had met
their death In , an empty store,;
some twenty feet wide and forty
feet lone, were counted twenlv-se\.mi
corpses. At one time their clothing
was torn and dishevelled and their
stiffened h nds and arms in auiajorit\
ol case , were crossed over their
breasts. I he heads of the dead were
generally maujdod in a most frightful
manner and were always covered
l?v some articles of clothinc. The
face of a youi o woman who was lyino
on the floor of the depot had
been so beaten in that recognition
was entirely out of the ouestion, and
her brains and the llesh of her face
were a i,,'pulpy mass, which dabbled
her lone- red hair. Hie was identified.
A man with a heavy moustache,
and who was apparently db years of
aoo, had been struck iu tin* face by
some substance which had torn his
jaw <iii(i in*' ski" oi in-; lace, leaving
the throat ami t 1m; lower part of ill"
face exposed.
A live-year-old l>oy, with a elnib1
>v face and curly hair, looked eontented
and smiling. I lis lees were
hroketi, hut the llesh was so mangled
that it bore the appearance of raw
heef. I lis chest was crushed in and
his little hotly* was covered with
hruises.
Nearly every corpse was mangled
<?r disfigured. I lie faces of souit; of
the dead were as black as though
they had died from snlfocalion, while
others were deadly white.
I'll K St UN K t II A Nts Kl?.
A few hours had scarcely elapsed,
however, when die aspect of the depot
and other morgues were coinpletely
transformed. A large force
of men were set to work luinoiior un
?**> I
the dead, forwarding t litem to I'curia
and clearing out generally. They
succeeded admirably, and long before
il > 1
........ > ! < in- < | |?-iii ii iia; >> > i 11 ;iiig'ii
that visiiors in ("hat t-ovoit h could
scaredv believe it the city of horrors
it was last night and this morning.
TIIK DKAI'tl 1.1ST.
The list of killed, so far as is
known, up to noon to-dav, foots nj>
loth of whom sixty-live are fron
1 Voria.
V 11 old Time Southern Orator.
' William (J. I 'reston of South Carolina
was," said lien: I'orley Pooro in
the I lost on "the most !inislied
orator that 1 have ever heard.
Feeble in frame, and suffering under
an affection of -his lungs, his voice,
weak at first, won d gradually boeome
stronger as lie proceeded, and
rising with his subject from one
clo<|ueticp to another, still higher and
higher, he enchained and fascinated
his vast audiences by glowing and
r>
fervid eloquence. I remeinbor on
one occasion, when he was called on
to sneak at a Whig convention, he
was at lirst almost inaudible, except
to those immediately around him.
Some one, eager to catch his glowing
words, then inconsiderately asked
him to raise his voice a little higher:
then the mighty spirit of oratory
burst the shackles which restrained it
as he exclaimed. 'Would to god
my voice could be heard to the uttermost
confines of tho Republic; it is
my voice, my friends, not my heart,
that fails ino., Torrents of the
noblest elonuenee flowed fr??m hi< !>>
spired tonepio. Watched with tho
most anxious solicitude hy his attentive
auditory, they several times hoirired
him to forhoar. '()no word
more,' and tho li<rhtninir flashes of
his {renins hut preceded tho thundorino
of his oloqueiioo: would space
permit, I would despair of convoying
an idea of this soul-stirrinjr triumph
of mind over matter. Ho concluded
no an earnest appeal to heaven for,
y\fnay(>S(>l'vali<)M ?f f'10 American I n10
h?
ii.
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These arc l-'it Ornani 'ills l-'oi
Virginia's Crack flown.
Win< iiksi ku, Au?j. ! {. A moh
sa?o> from Winchester, Va., says 1 lift
I'ni'od Stall's Senator lviddleburtfer
wlu? was yesterday sentenced l>\
Judoc Newman, of the County Court
to pay a linn of and be impris
oned for live days for contempt o!
court, was released from jail lasl
uiolit by a mob. Tim jailor tnaib
I>111 slight resistenee.
Tim circumstances leading u 1? t<
tlio arrest of l{iddleber?*er are relu
ted as follows by an eye-witness:
()n Thursday, \V. W. Jones wa>
tried for larceny, and the jur\ found
dial lie was insane. Jones was a
client of Kiddleberoer's, and t!i verdict
made the. Senator an^ry. lb
was accused of writing it olaeard and
oivino a boy to haul .lone.s up
and down the town, the latt t dis
playing the plnyenrd meanwhile,
which the latter had written on it:
* *
U\'KI? I >l( T!
; Ilill Jones not guiltv, |
; hut insane; .fury in- !
; sane, lawyers insane; ;
; (\>urt insane in tlio I
; main."'
The noise oeeasioneil by this display
disturbed tlie proei edings of
the Court and ( 'ommon wealths at
torney, J. < Baker, had the Judge
: to issue an order for the arrest of
|(.f I tiddlebui'ger, to appear before
Judge Newman and show cause why
he (I fiddleberger) >hou!d not he lined
and imprisoned for ridiculing the
Judge an I j trv, and disturbing the
, t 'out t.
.Vt o'clock Iliddleherger appeared
before the Court and deb-mlcd
j himself, lie said that Judge Newman
had no jurisdiction in the ease,
which the Judge denied, and asked
Senator liiddleborger to it down
nntii evidence could he taken to
prove that he (the Senator) was the
one who instigated the ridicule, and
then he said the Court would hear urj
guujent.
I?iddleiicrirer would not -it down,
and th" Court lined him twenty-live
J dollars. lie (lien delied th" Court
and said: "This Court shall not
send n\e to i: 11! " .hnln-n Yi.vvn, ii.
.1" '' t t r>* '
then t<>l<{ 111<' ShirilV l<> take iii?' Senator
to jail for live days. Senator
Ifiddloherjrer said lie would like to
sco tin* mail who could take him to
jail, and at once arrested the Senator
land locked him up. This action
caused much excitement,: ml tins
I mornintf, at tvo o'clock, a mol) of
lone hundred nun, supposed to lie
from Ivlmolu-ro, iu this county,
settled the Will U of the jail yard and
j took the Senatoi out on ladders
I{iddleboroor is on the streets at
| this writ in of.
The I*o\\ of 11 nl>it.
The passers liy or, a country road
used to pan -e sometimes and wonder
why an old white horse in the pasture
traveled round p.nd round in a
circle. I lour after hour he kept up
this tramp, though entirely free to
?n> ami come as he pleased. This
shows the power of haliit. 1'or
twenty years he has heen dail\ harnessed
to the end of a lone* sweep,
I and travelled in just such a circle,
until too stilT and hlind for further
^service; then a master cavr him his
time ami a jrood jiasturo. Twenty
years of steady industry had made
work a necessity. When life was all
holiday, then* was no holiday, so
kept on, from choice at his old
round.
Ilabits, oootl or had, elmo to us.
1 remeinher what a blustering win
iter mornino- it was when Allen resolutely
buttoned his overcoat up to
his chin, and drew on his lleoev
i trloves.
"You are not o-oine to church such
a mornino at this, Allen?" said a
brother medical student.
"To be sure I am," said the other
I decidedly. "1 was brought up to attend
church, and I should as soon
think of ooino without my breakfast
as of stavino at homo. It is one of
the best habits a youth can form, and
ifreato.st safeguard amidst the teino
p
i j it at ions of a city, to attend the house
of (J oil*
The habit of patient industry is a
rood one to form very earl\ for all
o! (tint's ?ll (? ( << III 111'.. 11.11. I I . I . . . .
| 4 ..Mi ..MI 'I HIIIW,
upon it. Tii" j<11? soul shall sulfur
hunger/'
There are had habits, too, which
seom'to ?blend into another as naturally
a . tli" waters of llu> brook
ninode with those of the river.
n
I idlers love the saloons and the shadv
porches of old tavern st inds, and the
company thev meet there. Thoy fall
an easy prey to the rumsellor: and
when the habit of tasting his samples
is once formed, it is not often broken.
All manhood ones down with it as
into awful whirlpool.
I low happv a hoy should ho who
linds a good habit of any kind grow
ing stronger every day! It is easy
for one to tell for himself just how
he stands, if ho will only look sharply
at his goings and comings, and
see with what feelings ho goes
about his daily duties. Hie that
hatli clean hand shall be stronger."
One cannot have his hands clean
front sin unless the thoughts How in
' the right channels. They do make
channels for thenselves, in which
tliev habitually llow just as surely as
the waiter courses.
Mrs. Hot ay Fairfield, of Ilavden,
Mitss., is It), years of age, her mother
liveil to be ninety-eight, ji sisto.*
iiinct y-two,n brother eighty eight, and
another brother living is eighty-seven,
She was a regular correspondent with
friends of her early days until she
was ninety-five.
d A
r With Tin Foil Hullot.s.
M<i\ i i:i;ai,, August 7. The cause
of the duel on Mount IJoval on Fri(
day and reported in to il iv'^ popers,
lis said to he that tlio Viscount I >ai<{nant
had railed M. Iloivin, newspa'
per man, a prevaricator to |>at il
mildly. Thou thorn was a chalion^w?
^ seconds were named and the <jiot
' aoroed on. i'he seconds selected a
' vorv romantic spot on the s(?uth wide
i of Mouth Ifoval. Tiio last duel
' foucrht in Montreal was thirty years
ai'o, when l)anton and Sir (Jeor^j'
t 'arbier sent bullets at each other.
" The ocea-ion was happily bloodless.
' Two ( ;i!?> (Irovo Up to tlio foot of
1 mountain Frid.iv, e ich eontaininij
one nriucin.i! a id s aid. A third
contained it11 embryo 'physician. I he
' second > li t ! n^'i ' ; t Mat li\ " shot re1
volvors should hii itstiil, tluit the distance
should !?' t > 4111 \ paces and
that shots should lu4 exchanged until
somebody was hurt, When the principals
wore phi *d things looked serious
to ovurytaodv except the seconds.
Ileadv, < centlumen V"
" Ves.!"
I ?Kiru!"
Tiie reports niiff out .simultaneously.
Ih.t', men still stood up and
said to themselves that they were
very had shots. The \ iseount
thought his honor v. u - ;11isIi? 11, hut
the newspaper man not want , i quit.
I tot h were so nervous that they could
iiit nothing hut atmosphere anvhow.
The shades of Mount Koynl made
everythino look olooniy as the prin
eipals faced each other for the see i
ond shot, hut the seconds did not
seem to mind it. I'lie ward was!
oiyen, and two -hots ran?r out. No.
body was hurt this time. The prin*
eipals wore octtin^ more tieryous. [
The nobleman . :ill wanted to quit; |
1 i honor was sati-l'n d, and he seemed
to think he im^ht oe" hurl. Itut
the now-paper mail's second would
not hear <>f it.
The principals took their places j
a'onn, 111111 mo worn was epvcn. < ino
pi dol wciil oft; tii" otli i" missed lire.
The seconds agreed that the honor ol
Iioi !i men was sati lie i.
I he bollmeronts had chosen experienced
men as seconds, and the latter
knew better than to load the pistols
with hail cartridges. bullets j
Were imitated with tinfoil, which
served t i" purpose harmlessly, or
somehod\ mi dit have been hurt. A
{reutlcmaulv, but very cool salute
finished matters s,, far as the prineipills
arc concerned, but tlio seconds
and the whole town are enjoyino* the
joke, and the I loulaoifer- Fern affair
is nowhere.
r.\|MiMire to rouAi -vcather, irettimr t
living in damp loenlitios, are favorable t<?
tin* contraction of dlsi tises of tlio kidneys
and bladder. A a pre\< ntive, and fertile
i lire ol all kidney and liver trouble, use
that valuable remedy, Dr. .1. II. McLean's
Liver and Kidney balm, sl.on per b ?ttle
??C. c
iilnine An 1 S'lerinnii Scored
I.orisvii.i.K, K\\, Auifusl It).
The colored journalists to-day dismissed
the rotation of tlio Afro-Amor
cau to existing political parties. A
liveh tilt occurred, in which IMuine
anil Sherman were both denouneed,
and u strong Democratic sentiment
was shown. Alexander ('lark of the
I Baltimore ( 'ommon tr* ulth upheld the
IRcpuhlican party, ami I' retold thai,
purged of liluine an dishonest moth
ods, it would rise triumphant over
niuowumpory in INS^S.
I Resolutions were adopted favoring
the I'lair Kill, deplorir.o the necessity
which brought the convention
together, (lenouncino tin* acts of the
legislatures of Indiana, \ iroinia, Tennessee
and other Slates inakino inter- j
niarriaee of nejfroes with whites a
penal offense, while crimes committed
hv white men aoainst colored women
are overlooked, tlenounciu<r the
(Jeoroia enaetment making it fclonv,
punishable hv fine an imprisonment,
, for any person to teach a colored
! child in a white school or vice versa,
as the work of unprincipled men who
are a disc-race the to positions they occupy
and to the country, and finally
recommending a bureau of fnformation
for the benefit of the colored
race.
The purpose of the bureau is to ascertain
the extent and nature of lnwle
11ess and violence against colored
men, and adopt means for tho betterment
of the present unfortunate state
oT affair.
.1 ust Li be a ule*
"You can't kill a mule.*' This sayino
was demonstrated almost to a
mathematical certainty near ('enter's
shop one day last. week. A colored
bov was ploughing "goobers" for
Mr. Center. In the corner of the
goober patch was an old well at
least thirty feet deep, covered with
briars, hi turning, the mule slipped
in and went to the bottom lie took
his position in a silting posture and was
the unwilling" monarch of all he survoved"
until his excited owner summoned
a posse to his aid. A rope
was tied around the body of the
nude and he was drawn to the top of
the well. The rope broke and tho mule
again went to the other end of the
I 11
well. A second attempt was successful.
The mule was safely lauded on
tho outside of the well, and, contrary
to the expectation of his rescuers,
leaped to his ft et and without giving
tho slightest expression of grattitudo
commenced feeding on grass as
though nothing had happened. The
plow gear was demolished and the
old well was slightly damaged.
/ *'{/byc7/<, (' </ , M(>v< ,///< /'.
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If you sutler pricking pains on moving
the eyes, or cannot boar bright light, ami
find your sight weak and failing, you
should promptly use Dr J. II, Me beans
'strengthening bye Si' e. a box.
A .A
A (diva l-'in.im i.il Crush on
Wall Slici'l.
N'kw York, August II.- The
firm of Henry S. Ives & |i?s
n >tified th? Stock Kxchun^o of its
suspension. There was intense e\
eitemetit in the Hoard as soon as tli ?
announcement was made. Cromwell,
,,f Sniiivan A: Cromwell, Uas been
mad the assignee. It is stated that
tin liabilities are about *\i<?,iKK).Ouu
with assets somewhat, is excess of
that amount. The announcement
was made just before the close of
tin Stock h'xehanoo, and it caused
stoek to make slioht advaneea.
?*?
Sick lieadaelic, v.itul on the stum;c!i
hilllotHnbas, nausea, nro promntlv ami
.1 rr ably buuUlted by l>r. J. II. M.'i. '.i.r
Little biviTan l Kidney IVIlet '.'jr. pot
\ i ill . A
Far belter than the harsh treatment o|
iik'i i ici ii.'s \v liii'li I:i ii": i 1 il v ?ri11.? t in. n.ii! ...
"I ,..l. 4 III
;t1111 destroy the routing of the stomach
Dr. II. McLeans t'iiiil and l'< vrr eur<.
S? ill I ;it f>0 i outs a Ik tlk\
A I >\ KHTISKMKNTS
Notice of Final Discharge.
Notice is hereby given that ! will apply
to tin* Probate .1 udge of I lorry County on
Satui?lay, 10th d y <>f September, Ibs'i, at
1J o'cloeU M., I?r :i linnl discharge a(innrdiau
of the Instate of Kmmn l>\ l)ur
ham, now I'age. Al.vyt L.v/.ou,
t <>uardiin.
Aug. Iltli :? It
IPl^xita/tiori. Per Salo.
v) 11 iiudrcd acres of laud in llayboro
,-u Township, near the line of tlie W.
('. iV ('. Htulrottd, hounded hy lauds of
Inane Mishotve, ('. llolmes and W. 11.
1 latuiUon;being the resilience of 1 le/ckiah
I>. Holmes. ( heap and tci ins easy.
Apply to Johnson A*, l^c.xi ri.i-:it.\i m. .
Attys. for Talhott end Sons.
A ug. 11th It tt
I'O THE FRONT AGAIN.
O
\\ is!? (o inform lh<v IVo|>lr
of liorn that I Innc
opened n SACK, LIVlJtV,
AM) FK!;i) STAULH
<?|[- OKI)A N .V KVAN'S>iuiv, one
door South ol tho itAlljliOAl), whore I
kf> |> < !i liatul, at all tinia-,
\i tf ()i:SK^ /i i n t\ I LK/Tl
Si okskS &
j
A'" !) 11 1 r K () 1; V
\J Li) 11 i (; k (> i i J
WAGONS,
()
( lOl.l ' Mill's AND 11A V i ><?(' s r
V^OUMIU'S AND IIAYDOciV
BUGGIES,
- -O
'nil line ?.i IIAUNKSS, and srtl vV'
?m at!l 1 i'OSM I'.Li: pris.-s.
All sales giiiiniuv. i as resentVdl ?r
y?uir money n tutided. i , , v ,
TArKlUU
M arii >n S. <
November 1, 1SSC. 1 y
FAi li F.ldJFF
Mai.m a.m> fiaial$T
JU
INSTITUTE
With Military Department lor ^
Roys and Calisthenics and
Fine Arts for Girls.
REV. J. A. SMITH (iitun v.i; ok
I)avii?o.\ ('oi.lk?;k, 1'itoK. ok Latin and
<!i:i.iu, Mono. .M? >! .mai, Philosophy.
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CAPT. Y,r. L. f'LOYD, Oiivdi m: ok
S. i . Mii.mauv Acadi my, Piiok. MatiikMATK <
V,NI? M l ; 1 l!Y TACTICS.
MISS LOU . vYVi ^ i;A 1)1*ATK
OK ( IIowan l'l I.M.I. P. ill ; I., TkaI'IIKH
or Cai.i i hi i s, Iii' iii.ii i \<.i ii, Mi
SIC AND FHK.M II.
MRS. MARIA LOUISA SMITH,
Say anna ii, (?\. II ion S< iiooi,, Ti. veil Kit
oi Vocai, AND I NM'IU'M KNTAL Ml'siC.
Tl . HON AND HOAIID Ii AM IN AII ^
ClTADI-.l.t \I' \.M> (. Nil OIIM A'i.Ul.
I
Session (>pi.\.? on tiik Kiiist Monday
I N SKPTI-.M1H.II 1 ss . ! "< .|> - '
< 11;< i i.\ u, Annul.>s M
CAl'T. \V. !i. FM>Y1), 1
faih i'm kt, n. ('. .juiy
.'1 r?2 ;5m. ^1
Wanted?Sheep !!' V I
| > KIN'CDKSIKOI S^F E*TAI}*Hm J
i f ins.; Sheep Ihutth, tho underslgne I V
will purchase a large lot of sheep fro 1 T
parties wishing to soil, paying cash for ;%
they purchase. Semi y our name,
the number of sheep you havo^jr jr# 1
price, to jtr fir J
1?\ Itil I'.NL. fit |
july 28 1^ ? 0. Upl
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