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--- W N- - ,Lv TABLISHED 18U5. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1889. 0OHNBTOWN NUMBER TWO. iMwster sot to be Compared with the :oror ir Feansylvania, but Mils and en Washed Away and e. Je.3. - ives were Lost. ?ENP YeRK; July 10.-A special from Johnstown, N. Y., says: The water ' h came up over this village last aigh has subsided greatly this morn rg bt has left-sceues of desolation in every direction. The water rose fif teeq feetand over, and flooded every hlig.tha now fallen about eight feet b o v'is highest point. THE DROWNED AND MISSING. ~ Ten persons are reported missing. The bodies of four have been recover ed. Theeoiur are all Johnstown peo ple. Those whose bodies are recovered are Charles Frear and two other men wn as Soadely and Yost and a n-year-old boy named Tread . The drowned and missing peo were among a crowd of from thirty ifty persons who stood on the stone ge crossing the river at Perry street ng the rising waters. They seemed regardless of the danger until the bridge gave away and they were -pecipitated into the flood. The bridge was about twenty feet high and fif teen or twenty feet wide. It was a single arch structure and was crossed byd streetcar track. i estone bridge was swept away at o'doek in the evening. Two ridges of the Johnstown, Fonda and Gloversville Railroad were -wreeked, and even- or eight other F br s re carried away. Two tan nerles,pnedby Simon Schriber were sweptuaway, and the Schriber and Anderson dams were broken down. 'The water in Cayadutta Creek began to rise at 4.30, and the stream was soon eonverted into a raging torrent. RESCUED WITH ROPEs. Of the men, women and children who were thrown into the water by the breaking of the stone bridge the larger number were saved by means of ropes thrown to them from the shore. This mno'itbgt fire department, under directien of-Chief H. A. Thompson, is engsged in the search for more bodies. T1e water is still very rough and dangerous for boats. _FECI OF THE CLOUD-BUEST. Anal and fatal rise in the Cayadut ta was very sudden and is attributed the effects of a cloud-hurst. Besides ee away bridges and tanneries, is much damage to buildings, ich are yet left standing. The elec Iant was washed out, and .wd leg in total darkness for the f. l communication by wire is sae~t Kough the long distance over which this message is sent. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. LBANY, N. Y., June 10.-A special nion from Johnstown, N. Y., says: npersons were carried down utta Creek last night. Four eswere recovered this morning. vy rains last night choked the s and flooded the districts. ~riber's large mills in this place were - daway. Twenty persons were -the Perry street bridge when the &fell into the rushing torrent, hieh was filled with wreckage and dinani&y. Cries for help alarmed the residents. Chief McDonald, with President Nrthrup, of the village police, Justice Anderson and others organized a searching expedition. Lanterns were procured and parties went along the stream with ropes to assTstithe rescue. HEARTRENDING sCENES. A' jerson was seen splashing and plunging in the water near the Johns town;' Fonda and Gloversville Rail road bridge, a quarter of a mile down stream. As, he floated past those on shore he cried: "For God's sake, help me." He was swept by the current so close to shore that a man who was in a boat secured to a pile of wreckage got hold of him, but owing to the swift cThurrent was unable to hold him and he was swept under the floating drift wood. Two other persons came down a moment later clinging to a plank and shouting for help. They were swept out of sight below the railroad bridge. RECOVERING THE BODIES. A 4 a. m. the body of Burt Speedwell, 15 years of age, was recovered from the debris at this place. An hour later Albert Stakely was pulled out from under the driftwood that had lodged back of the Evans mills. Soon. after tbe body of a man named Teadwell was found in the same place. At 9 a. mn. the body of Charles Frear, 5years of age, a carpenter, was uncovered from under the wreck at Evans mills. Thue bodies are badly bruised. They were removed to police headquarters, where they will remain pending a coroner's inquest. Charles Abbott was carried down from the Ferry street bridge to the dam, which he went over, going down a distance of sixteen feet, but he mira culously succeeded in swimming asrnore and escaping without injury. Peter Erin, a stone mason, says he went down with fifteen others and was carried under the Ferry street bridge, but succeeded in getting out below, Hie wa bruised about the face. Purday Case rescued two men named Nellis and Vosburg by means of ropes. The citizens are engaged this morn iemoving the wreckage of Schri Sber's mill, near the depot, where they think other bodies have been lodged. It is believed that thme two men who went down on the plank lost their lives at the dam, and that their bodies were carried down stream and are now floating in Moka'wk River. No one k.mo-s how- many people were drowned )r who is missing. The flood was so ,reat and the current so swift that no 2elp could be rendered without great langer. The State street iron bridge and the -ailroad bridge were both swept away. rhey were large structures. THE DAMAGE AT GLOVEiSv IL 1-:. Yesterday, during the heaviest part )f the storm, Main and Bleeker streets n Gloversville were flooded with vater. The new pavenient in Beeker itreet was torn up for several blocks. . number of pavements in the upper >art of the town are entirely surround xd by water. The foundation walls of a new build ng being constructed on Main street, Jloversville, were partly carried away. rhe iron bridges on the Central and on he Fonda, Johnstown and Glovers ille Railroad at Fonda are gone. The pecuniary loss will not be so very reat. The railroad and street bridges u Johnstown were large first-class ;tructures. The Ferry street bridge onsisted of an arcn spanning the en ire width of the streiu. It was upon me of the plank walks that the peo >le were standing when the arch was :arried away. Schriber's large mill is ,ntirely wrecked and will entail a loss )f about $1n,O0H. There are several ;imall buildings in the village which tre partially ruined, their foundations eing undermined. Many of the )ridges on the country roads along the -alley are gone and some of the fields )f grain are partially covered with xater. The loss of property at Glovers ille will probably be covered by$3,(100. [t is quite likely that, including the oss of the bridges in the Mohawk Valley at Fonda, $20,000 will cover the lamage wrought by yesterday's storm. WAS IT A CLOUD-BURST? JoHNSTOWN, N. Y., .July 10.-Caya lutta Creek was never before so high. the creek rose from twelve to fifteen 'eet in thirty minutes. The general be ief is that the flood was caused by a ,loud-burst near Johnstown. This heory is confirmed by the fact that at aale's mills, three miles and a half up ,reek, no damage was done, and the lain there is all right. Room for Canning Factories. [Cotton Plant.] At the present time we are in the rnidst of the harvest of the peach crop. the city of Greenville is overwhelmed with wagon loads, cart loads and buggy loads of the luscious fruit, while the negro women and little darkies are to be seen on every street with baskets Ind buckets and tubs and bags filled with the rich products of the orchards. So numerous are the calls at every door that housekeepers are not only fully upplied at begging prices, but are an noyed to the point of exasperation with unceasing door-rapping aind sing-song ruery :"Want to buy sonme nice peaches?" The daily scene is doubt less a familiar one to the people of most >f the cities, towns and villages of the State. The shipment of peaches to the Northern cities from many points in Ai ken, Barn well, Edgefield, Newberry, Greenville, A bbeville and other couties have been qjuite heavy, and prices at the beginning of the season aftorded a fair margin of protit..- But these mar kets are now too well supphied for prices to remain rem unerative, and the bulk of the crop is yet on hand. Here and there, in some sections. the brandy distillery is quite aictive; but the con sumiption in this line is very small. Fruit evaporators are few and far be tween; sun-drying is generally de layed for the later.varieties, because of the general belief that these are the best for the purpose, and withal thous nds of bushels of choice, nutritious, health-giving fruit rot under the trees ain which it grew. In this state of afihirs, is not the can ning factory a much needled institu tion in almost every township in the State? Perhaps thme word "factory" sounds too, pretentious for some p)eol, and the question should be p)ut difler ently: Why do not enterprising busi ness men-Iarmners as well as others go) into the canning business? To some people the fruit cropi is ap parently of little value, and it is re' garded as- a kind of volunteer growth that conies and goes with the season, costing next to nothing and can only mmount to a passing dlelicacy to be en joyed only once in tihe year. The logic of the imatter, however, is this: The fruit crop has cost mionecy, pains and( labor, year by year. Muclh of lhe growver's time, brain wvork, capital and the energies of his land and money have been expended in its productioni. All our fruits contain mucli tnmat is nourishing~ timte body: besides. they imp)art health to the systemi and are the easiest to take of all medicines. They are nature's remedy for many hu man diseases. Properly used in th'e domestic economy,. they are valuable as food, being far more wholesome and nutritious than much else that we cat, such as the maeat (of thle hog. TIhe mans of preserving fruits and vegetables by canning seems to be simple aind easy, once a few uinimuportant pioinit% are uni derstood. It is (done with but little machinery, and an outtit for the biusi ness5 is not neeessarily cos5th;:, as a small plant can be suc-cessfully opera tedl as welt ais a large one. We have heretofore urged thme im'm portancee of the can ning business, andc we repea:t it now in an oppo'rtunme time to impress the subject uponi the pedle of every- sectioni of the State. W\e in dulge the hope that thme caninimg bumsi ness will comle to the rescue (If thme far mmers and avoid thle wamste olf future crop (If valnalle fruit. WOMAN'S HONOR. Ia Shotgun Law ita Rest Pr tectione. [Atlanta Constitution.] When Sam Jones told a Mississippi congregation that it was all right to shoot the destroyer of a woman's honor, some people were shocked, and an in dignant writer in the New Orleans Times Democrat declared that Southern women did not need the protection of the shotgun. The Memphis Avalanche sides with Sam Jones. In a rocent issue it said: "The practice of retailing scandalous gossip is becoming entirely too common in Merrphis, and if it is not stopped somebody is going to get badly hurt. The time was here when men would have been ashamed to indulge in such talk, and when a breach in a women's character was usually patched with death-dealing lead. It seems that in getting from traditional Southern customs we are also laying aside the Southern ideas of honor and respect for woman. A harmless word or act of a woman may easily be reported on the street corners in such away as to cast suspicion upon her, and a woman once suspected is half-damned. The outlook at present promises a first-class killing or two in the near future, and when the time comes and and the blood is spilt every right-minded man and wo mon in the community will say it was well split. Notwithstanding our "pro gress," the punishment for a slanderer of women in this country is still death. A number of more or less prominent men and dudes will do well to make a note of the fact." Our cotemporary's bold talk will no doubt be endorsed by many of its read ers. It is an unpleasant fact that as people learn to value life more they learn to value honor less. Before the war in this section men had to control their tongues or suffer the penalty. In those days we had no mashers, and the slanderous fieedom of speech now oc casionally tolerated was almost entirely unkoow i. The old-fashioned Southerner never thought of appealing tolhe uncertain methods of the law when a man dealt a deadly blow at the honor of a female member of his family.. Something of the old spirit still survives, but there is a difl'erence, and the Memphis paper sadly recognizes it. Despite all the talk of the Northern press abouL South ern lawlessness, the shot-gun is rarely appealed to these days. Men conceal their grievances or go to law. It may be doubted whether we have made any substantial gain by this change. We have made human life more secure, but we have also thrown a safeguard around every scoundrel who feels disposed to become a scandal monger. The subject is. a difficult one to deal with. One thing, however, is certain we need a public opinion that will be as powerful a moral regulator as the shotgun was a gene'ration ago. If we must suppress dsadly weapons, we must find a way of suppressing deadly tongues. D)eath of Mrs. Tyler. RmI'JmrOxo, Va., July 10.-Mrs John Tyler, wife of E x-President Tyler, died at the Exebange Hotel thlis evening from a congestive chlill. Mrs. Tyler had only been at the hotel since Sunday evening, having comne from a visit to her sort, Lyonl G. Tyler, at Williams burg, and was to have left here Monday on a visit to anothler son on the James River, but feeling unwell she kept her room. Tuesday at 11 o'clock she was taken with a chill. D)r. Edward Mc Giuire was sent for, and hle was soon joilned by D)r. Hunter McGuire; but medical skill proved of no avail, and she died at 10:1.5 o'clock this p. m1. Mrs. Tyvler leaves four children Lyon G.',Tyler, President of ;William and Mary College, Virginia; Gardine G. Tyler, who lives in Chlarles County, Va.; D)r. Lacklan Tyler, of Washington city, and Mrs. William Ellis of Mont gomery County, Md. Her children have been telegraphed for, but' it is doubtful ifany of them will b)eable to reachn the city to-night. The~ Cotton seed Oil Indlustry. B.u:~rio'n E, July 10.-The Manufac turers' Record says: There has lately been unp)recedented activity inl tile building of new cotton seed oil mills, most of'which are independent of the ('otton Oil Trust, thoughl the Trust has, it is generally reported, recently virtu ally securedl control of the Southern Oil C'onipany, with its eight large mills. The Record published this wcek a coml plete list of all the cotton seed oil mills ini the Soth, showing 2l:3 mills, with an aggregalte capital of about 82,000, 4)10, against forty mills, with a capital of $1,00,00 in 1880. You We~re Onice lieautifuxl, Maam but your glass tells vou that you arc no longer so. Why is this? It is because you are2 suil'erinig from functional de ralngremelnt. You may "'paint an inch thick," as liamlet says, but you can not conceal the ralvages of disease. No wonder~ you are low-spirited. B~ut why s a111 r any longer? I Dr. Pierce's Favor ite Prescription will restore the bloom to your cheek, the sparkle to youireyes, ifhe old-time lightness to your step. It will make a happy womani of you again. ~ It cures all thlose .weaknlesses, bactkaching, heiaring-down paiins pecu liar toa your sex. The only medicine sold lby dIruggists, uinder a positive iuarantee from the mnanutfacturers, that it will give satisfaction ini every case or imon,ey refunded. See guarantee on HIE'S A TRUMP ANY WAY. Why a Western Democratic Editor Doesn't Want to be Postmaster Any More. The following document has been received at Washington from the edi tor-postuiaster at Mount Carmel, Ill.: MOUNT CARMEL, June 7, 1889. To Hon. B. Harrison, President, Etc. SIR: By the grace of God and Grover Cleveland I am postmaster at Mount Carmel. My official term will expire January 20th, 1890. In addition to ed iting the mails of this city I ant also the editor of the Mount Carmel Regis ter, a live, local Democratic new rpaper, established in 1839, and published at $1.25 a year, cmsh in advance : discount of twenty per cent. to ministers and Presidents. While the office has agreed with me, and I have in the main agreed with the office, and while I might reasonably entertain the hope of holding on for eight months longer, yet I feel it my duty to tender you my resignation. Being a Deinocrat, I have preached that "to the victors belong the spoils." I feel disposed to practice that which I preach. Your immediate predecessor hoped to build up his party by keeping the opposition in office. You are proba bly aware, if you are at all familliar with the vocabulary of true and trite sayings, that his name is now Dennis. I am moved further to tender you my resignation because of the anxiety of a barnyard full of patriots to succeed me. I believe that a tariff is a tax. They do not. Therefore they are of your own kith and kindred, and he who provides not for his own household is worse than an infidel. I am told that you are not built that way. But to resume the thread of my dis course : The boys who are anxious to be my successor are very hungry ; they have been feeding on shucks and icicles for four long, weary years ; the official calf is fat and they yearn to taste its tender joints. They fought (among themselves,) bred (at the nose,) and are willing to die for the G. 0. P. When I asserted that you were the Chinaman's candidate and ate rat tail soup with chopsticks, they swore by Dudley and Foster that it was a cam paign canard, and threatened to detail blocks of five to fry the fat out of me. Fortunately for me their threats were never carried into execution. They carried torches, drank with the coons, "Granpa's hat will just fit Benny," and did divers and many foolish things, none of which would they have been guilty of doing had they not scented an aroma of postoffice on the crisp norn ing air. And the picans of praise whieh they sounded when it became evident that you "had got there, Eli," will never be a Sahara in my iemory. For these and other reasons unneces sary to mention, I tender you my resig nation, with the hope that my suo cessor will be animated by a similar spirit in 1873. If he is, your Demo cratic successor will be spared the pain ful necessity of "turning the rascal out." I am respectfully yours, FRANK W. Havitt, P. M. N. B.-I would rather be right thtan be postmaster. A STRANGE RtELIGIOU;S OlDERi The Sabbath Set Asilde, and Think,. In fants Go to Hell. CottMarA, S. C., July 9.-The cor respondent of the Southern Christian Advocate gives the following particu lars of a new religious commmunity de veloping in the eastern p)art of South Carolina : "It may not be entirely uninteresting to hear something of a new sect that has sprung up in Sumter and some of the adjoining counties. Some years ago a man named Boyle, who had been a Methodist, and who resided nearLynchburg, in Sumter county, con ceived the idea of founding a newv sect. His follow6rs were at first called "True Light Baptists," but they are comn monly known as "Boyhists." Thley have spread up both sides of Lynch's river through Sumter, Dar lington, Kershaw and Chesterfield counties, and perhap)s farther, taking hold of the lowest and most ignorant classes. "It is not a large denmination, and, thanks to the intelligence of our land, never can be, but its followers are very stubborn in their belief, so that it is al most impossible to reclaim one of thenm. THEIR D)oCTRINEs. "There most prominment and pop ular doctrine is that it is an unpard onable sin for a preacher to receive pay for his work, and this closes their ears to the efforts of the regular miinistry. They have no regular ministers, hut glaimi that every niembher of their church is inspired of God to interpret the Scriptures,.thus makinzg every one, of both sexes, miinisters of thec Gospel. THEn wVoMEN PREACH. "Their most promintent and( poplular doctrine .is that it is anm unp)ardonlable sin for a preacher to receive pay for~ his work, and this closes their ears to the efforts of the regular ministry. They have nlo regular ministry. They have no regular minilsters, b,ut claim that every member of their church is inspired of God to interpret the Scrip tures, thus making every one, of boith sexes, miinisters of the Gospel. THE wOMEN PREACil. "It is not unconunon for women to preach among thenm. Another favorite dogma is that they constitute the true followers of God, and that all other dle niominatlons are heading straight for the devil. They believe in immersion. that it must be administered by one o1 their communion to be of any avail. They reject the Old Testament entirely, and receive only such portions of th( New Testament as suit their purpose, rejecting any passages that are opposed to their pecuiiar beliefs as uninspired. TILE SABBATH DAY. "They claim that the observance of the Sabbath was abrogated along with the Levitical law, and hence reject Sunday as the day to be observed in the worship of God. They perform ordinary workon Sunday or engage is any sports that they desire, and havt been seen dancing on that day. They believe in the damnation of the infanh of unbelieving (non-Boylite) parents who die in infancy. They believe in the social equality of the races. Just what else they believe in I am unable to say. They flourish around Marshall's church in east Kershaw circuit and churches of their own in some portions of Kershaw county. IGNORANCE WHERE THEY RULE. "As a rule dense ignorance prevails where they flourish. I heard a man say not long since that he once taught school in the neighborhood where they now claim a majority of the people as their adherents, and that only two out of sixty pupils in his school knew their letters when they first came to him. Generally they will not permit a minister of the Gospel to read the Scriptures or engage in prayer in their houses, and if they concede that much to him they laugh and talk while he prays and pay no attention whatever to him." Crop Report. The estimates given below are based upon replies received from 212 special correspondents of the Department of Agriculture, covering every County in the State. One hundred and two cor respondents report the weather favor able and nineteen unfavorable: COTTON, There has been a decided improve ment in the 'condition of cotton since June 1st, the seasons having been very favorable,throughout the month. Seve ral correspondents report the crop "grassy" on account of excessive rain fill, but generally the crop has been well worked and is "clean." The Con dition on July 1st is: In tipper Carolina 9W; middle Carolina 84; lower Carolina 91. Average for the State 88, against 84 at th sanie date in 1888, and 76 on the 1st of last month. CORN. The reports show good prospects for an average crop, though in some sec tions crops on bottom lands have been damaged by freshets and in other sec tions the bill bug and bud worm have caused slight damage. The condition of upper Carolina is reported at 100; middle Carolina 96, and lower Carolina 95. Average for the State 97, against 81 at the same date last year and 84 on the ]st of last month. RICE. There has been a slight improvement in condition of rice since the 1st of last mont h, and it is reported in good condi tion. It is estimated that there has been a decrease since last year of 3 per cent. in the area of the rice crop. The conditioni on July 1 is: Upper Carolina 95, middle Carolina 96, and lower Caro lina 96-average for the State 90, against 93 at the same date in 1888, and 89 on the 1st of last month. WHEAT AND OATS. The small grain crop was harvested in fine condition. Wheat was slightly injured by rust. The yield is estimated at 8 bushels, or very nearly an average. The product is reported as being 1 per cent. greater than last year. The qua lity is reported as being better by 91 correspondents, same by 33 and iferior by 11. The yield of oats is estimated at 11 bushels per acre. Fall so.wn yielded 15, and spring 7 bushels per acre. The total product is estimated at 15 per cent. less than last year. The quality is reported better by 41 corrmspondents, same by 73 andl inferior by 80. SMALLER CROPS. The smaller crops are reported in good condition-Sorghumi at 93; sugar cane, 94; sweet p)otatoes, 89; Irish pota. toes, S2; gardlen products, 85; peaches, 109; apples, 79; pears, 84; grapes, 98; berries, 97; wvatermiolons, 93. New Proesa for Iron and Steel. A revolution in the iron and stee imi:king industry seems at hand. Mr, John WV. Bookwalter has made some important imIorovemrenits in a French process for preparing iron and steel, The new method is a long step in ad vance of even the Bessemer steel.pro cess. One great advantage is that Mr. Bookwalter's plan can be applied tc the produictioin of both iron and steel, Its essenitial feature is a powerful blasi of air across the horizontal surfaoe of r mss of molten iron. The metal is kepi constantly in a swift rotary motion. The last of air thus blowvs the impu rities in the metal to the farther side 01 the "converter." By Mr. Bookwalter' inventionl can be produced at pleasure purec iron,. low or high steel, and every grede of this metal used in the arts and idustrics. Earthq(uaike Aagain. [Special to The Register.) UnAnIIEs-roN, .July 11.-A slight shock of earthquake was felt here a; 9:47 to-night. Tile durationl of the shoek was ab)out three secoudls, the movemen North to South and the miotion vibra, tory, accompanied by slight noise. THE SHOCK FELT AT KINGvILLE. KINGvuLLE, July 11.--A slight shod of earthquake was felt here this even ngat 9:4 o-1-'clock. Talking Sense. [Durham Sun.] The Charlottte Chronicle, in a most sensible article, has this to say con cerning "Write-ups of towns," which t1 we commend to the people of Durham. i It is wholesome advice. It contains b the germ and policy of having first- ti class papers. Durham will be stand- t; iug very much in her own light if she tc does not heed the advice-indeed, she . will throw a very great shadow across p her pathway. Read these words, fel- a: low citizens, and then hie you to the 'I Sun office with a liberal advertise- c; mieut: "Blowing helps a town, if it o, has anything to blow about; but the -s best advertisement any town can have, S is a live thriving paper, crowded with sE well-written advertisements of every al business in the place, from doctor to ai blacksmith. The reason advertise- t< ments in the local paper make a good advertisement of the town is that the n: world knows that advertising pays; st and people know that where all the cc business men of a town advertise, they u: must be prosperous, because prosperity al is the inevitable result of liberal ad- fr vertising. 13 "There are some towns whose citi zens will give liberal amo tnts to see g, the town written up glowingly in a n< paper in a larger town, while the home cl .paper inevitably and unanswerably tl 'gives the lie to the fulsome and paid- " for puff by its own ineagrely patronized ti advertising columns. of "Advertising in the home paper r< brings immediate results from home di patrons, and it brings collateral profits ti from the benefits that every town vj derives from a local paper crowded with le home advertisements. ti A column putt in a foreign paper ai does not equal a ont-.nchi advertise- al mnent in the poor at home weekly, in ti immediate or in collateral results. If uj you'want to build up your own trade, a advertise in youi h.ome p)aper; if you ju want to build up your town, build up your town paper." She Wanted Her Heel . C [From the Detroit Free Press.1 A dapper little man stepped into a Woodward avenne car, and as he did T so picked up a tiny pyramid of brown T leather. "Now, look at that," he said, $1 with several inflections'to his voice, as at he showed his treasure trove to the 1 gentleman next to him. "It's the heel m from some fool woman's shoe. Now si< try to think how she must have wob- w bled-for she could not have walked- til on that French heel. I'd give some- ti thing to see her getting home without p< it." in "I suppose the effeet depends on the C size of the foot," said the other, hand- p< ig it back; "that looks as if it came off tl: a pretty neat shoe, hey, old follow?" ci "It's a barbarism-a wicked shame $4 to wear such a thing!" retorted the hi other, indignatly. "Why, the doctors sp say that more cases of curvature of the pi spine are oc-" he "If you have no further use for it ca I'll thank you for my heel,"' said a be sweet voiced, pretty little lady op posite at this moment. The indignant individual had just dropped it in his pocket, but he plunged in after it and gave it up, and talked to hi his companion about the weather. ar The Experiment Farm Banlding Burned. l [Register, July 13th.] |c A t a little after one o'clock yesterdlay i morning the farm buildings at the - State Experimental Station, about a n mile and a quarter from the city, were al discovered to be on fire, and with the fi most of their contents were soon de- r~ stroyed. Captain Gaillard, the super intendent of the station, was notified of the fire, but at his arrival on the scene found the fire under too great head way to be checked. The tire was evidently of inicendiary e origin, and as it had been started at a " point directly in front of the stalls X where the stock was tied, it was found s] impossible to save any of the animals, e and a horse, a cow and two mules 0 perished in the flames. The total loss l is about $4,000, on which, for some un-i accountable reason, there wvas no insur- 0 ance. The large barn and scale build- F ing, both of which were burned, were 5: valued at $1,200; the machinery and I farm implements destroyed amount to ii $1,800 in value, besides $2i60 worth of e fertilizers in the barn, 2.50 bushels of is corn and a large lot of foraige was con- o sumned. Only a mowing machine and fe one cart were saved. Suspicion 0 as to the parties wvho set the fire is un derstood to rest on two negroes, who ti have beeni employed on the farm, but tl there is no positive evidence as yet as to their guilt. Death of a Prominent Railroad Mamn. T WILMn;aTox, N. C., July li.--Col. L. C. Jones, Superintendent of the Carolina Cenitral Railroad, died here of heart failure to-night, after a sickness t4 of four days. lHe was an accompllished p civil engineer andi one of the imiost fi pop)ular imen in LIhe State. The Sewersi of Paris n are one of the modern wonders of the r< world. That* marvelous network ofun- t< derground streams, over which the i tourist can travel by rail and in b,oats, constitutes the bowles of the gay capi- 'e tad. This labyrinth of streams is kept p~ with scrupulous care; for any obstrue- it tion in the flow of the sewage would lbet attended with serious results to thme health of the inhabitants of the city I above. The sewers Of tihe hunman sys- al tem are the liver and bowels, and in e"I order to keep disease out of t lhe wvondelr-. ful city of which they are a part, they , amust b>e kept always free and unob- ( tive Pellets are the best laxative and C cathartic kuown for the purpose. Tiny, sugar-coated granules, in vials, always., fresh. HE FELL 1,200 FEET. he Terrible Drop of an 1Eronaut W Lives to Tell His Experience. PROviDENC., R. 1., July 4.-One le most frightful experiences ever h y an :eronaut was that of Prof W: orne Allen this afternoon. Allen t ially dropped from the clouds a d imce of 1,200 feet, but to-night he liv tell the tale of the remarkable fa [is air ship What Cheer, a new balloo roved to be a treacherous carrier. TJ 3cension was made about 4:30 o'cloc 'he balloon rose 300 feet, when it w iught in a current of air going direct pposite from the way in which it h: t out. This surprised the s>ectato3 uddenly the balloon veered again ai -t off to the North. Then reaching i titude of about 1,200 feet, a current 'r from the West swept the ballo< >wards East Providence and over i ards the big Willesbaire pier. Foi ioment the airship seemed to stai ill and waver. Suddenly the ballo< )llapsed. It reeled and turned botto p and then it rolled around once no id the basket lay out horizontal omn the envelope. Then it fell rapi The terrified spectators next saw tl is bag on top once more, and fa earing the earth. They saw a for: amber up into the ropes and towarc le big letters which made the wor What Cheer." This form was that ie youthful professor. Only for a se ad did the bottom stand erect. died completely over again, and ti rag rope made a complete circuit le air ship, and was whipped abol iolently. Whipping out his knife, A n pierced a rent in the canvas, an ie balloon spread out like a parachut id shot downward like a disabled bii id landed in a lot. The concussic irew the w ronaut out. He was pick( p semi-unconscious, badly shaken : id very pale, but was not seriously ii red. UNNING UP THE PENSION LIST. orporal Tanner'S Effort at Reducing tl Surplus. WASHINGToN; July 4. -Corpor anner presented a demand to ti reasury Department yesterday F 6,000,000 out of the amount appropl ed for pensions for the fiscal ye< 90. It is understood that most of th oney will go to the payment of pel r>ns due in June, but for which the: as no money available. Tanner has i tree months managed to get ahead ie appropriations by his generoi )licy to this extent, and it is not ata riprobable that before the Fifty-fir :ngress is assembled he will have di >sed of the appropriation so rapid] at he will see his way clear to a del eney appropriation of $30,000,000 < :0,000,000. All he wants, according is own talk, is a ghost of areason f iending more money than any of h~ -edecessors. Wherever there is a doul Swill settle it on the side of the appi .nt, and pension the soldier on ti meficence of the governmr?ent. A Teoe Destroyed. oLLsBU ,W. T1., July 5.-Ti ocsof the best portion of this cil 'e in ashes. Nearly one hundred faml ~s are homeless, and what was yeste ~y a thriving and imposing busine ntre is now a mass of ashes and bura gcinders. It is believed that the fi: as the res' it of the celebration of t] >itional holiday, as it wa sarted soc 'er the inauguration of a display reworks last evening. The loss wj im up to many hundredsof thousand Melons by Lightning. [News and Courier.] Ongf the fastest" runs" yet recor I in railroad circles of a melon tra as made last week by a special fro: aldosta, Ga, to Boston, Mass. Tl >ecial train was made up of tweni irs loaded with watermelons. At 2. clock on Tuesday morning the tras ft Valdosta over the Savannah, Flo la and Western Railway. It passe ver the Charleston and Savannm .ailway and tile Atlantie Coast Li: tfely and very rapidly, and reacht oston at 12.25 o'clock on Friday nmor ig. It was a very rapid "run." T. atire distance from Valdosta to Bost< .1,325 miles, and the special travell< ver the route in fifty-eight hours. Tl Lstest time made during the trip wa ver the Atlantic Coast Line betwe< filmington and1( Weldon, when tl ain went at the same rate of speed ie regular p)assenger trainis. A FURLNITURIE FACTORY. he Lategt Enterprise Inaugurated at I Capital of South Carolina. ColxnuuA, S. C., July 5.-The dir< >rs of. the ColumbIia Furniture coi aniy miet to-nighlt anid received a repi -om1 the commlittee appoinited to sect iformiation with reference to the bus ess proposed to be carried on. A. sult of the report, it was determini >immediately inaugurate operatio) y the erection of a saw mill, the p~ base of machinery, therefore, and; resentto c.ourine the business to prepl ig lumber for the miarket. The inte: onl is to) estab'lish a furniture factor ter. The capIlital stock of $30,000 h: .1 been subscribed and the followir Mheers elected: Directors - WV.. lark, Dr. .Jamies Woodrow, W. I ibbs, WV. H. Lyles, A ndrew Crawfor f'. Ii. Lowrance, WV. G. Chiis, at harles Hooper. Mr. (lark is presidetl ol. John T. Sloan, Jr. solicitor, ar har,. Ho.mor suneintenldent. Apology for Woman. ho [From the Chicago News.] We 'low that woman war make from arib of Of Adam's, but shucks! Her brains ad Air higglety-picklety; odds and e-ends ,- Fixed up from his remains; t wrBut-the Lord made 'em. is- It war by accident, though we air es thinkin'; 11 He can't be proud of the job, With sech tongues as they have been n, given le Ter gossip an' scold an' sob; k. But-the Lord made 'em. as It war a woman, we know, who gos ly sijed ad. In Eden With Satan hisse'f; . They're jes' plumb sure to spread all the news, id An' make it 'fore they're lef'; L But-the Lord made 'em. of 'Tain't safe to treat wimmin with )n nuthin'; ;o- Tell everythin' they know; a For they hain't got no sense fer reason, d An' do change their minds so; .But-the Lord made 'em. m They sets theirselyes up on principle. re Frustrating of the men, 'Gainst jestice and enny enjyment, ly Nine of 'em out of ten; d- But- the Lord made 'em. They're so onreasonable thar answer is ie "Because 'tis" to every why, st Some acts one way an' some another; M We'uns can't track 'em; don't try; isBut-the Lord made 'em. is They gives thar addce ez confident of Ez if nothin' here on yearth War half ez precious, an' think is c- s'prisin' It That we'unsshake with mirth: ie But-the Lord made 'em. of Yet, talk of foolin' why, a spindlin it snip I. O' a gal will fool a man d That's six feet high an' two hundred poun e, About ennythin'. She can; d. For-the Lord made 'em. >n Israel Putnam and his Plough. lp [Wide Awake-j a- The old story-books made us believe that on the twentieth of April, 177.5, Israel Putnam was ploughing in his field, when a messenger in hot haste with news of the battle of Lexington, e* and that the hero-farmer unyoked his, oxen and left them to their faie, mount ed a horse and was off to the north , 31 without so much as saying "Good-by" Le those of his house. >r And were not we brought up in the '- belief that this line "They left the ploughshare in the mould." is was inspired especially by hisease? And have not we,. all of us evet since our childhood been familiar with pie- - tures representing him ploughing, clad in a frock as long as a nightgown, m which no farmer could wear at any 11 kind of work without im st unescapable peril ofbeing tripped up at every step he took-to say nothing y of.turning a furrow, when he would be indeed'fortunate if he did not find a himself under the ploughshare? And to know after many years that r there was no plough in the case-to s~ find out that that, too, is a myth! .Ii was, indeed, the day after the Sfight at Lexington, in the morning; eC and Israel Putman was at woi-k on his farrfi in Pomfret Connecticut. But he was building a , stone wall, with his hired men ;and he had on a leather frock and apron-the frock must have ~n been a short one; fancy one of that :y material coming to his heels! He took j -i off the apron, but did not wait. to r- change the check shirt he had worn in ss the field, and was off without delay. t-He rode the same horse one hundred re miles in eighteen hours and reached ie Cambridge at sunrise the next morn in ing. _ of .2 11The current number of The Eclectic comes to us with various taking and timely articles-"The Prototypes of Thackeray's Characters" throws light on matters interesting to all of the great novelist's readers. The artist d- author, WV. WV. Story, qontributes a invery suggestive discussion of art prob m~ lems in his "Conversation in a Studio." 2e "The Poet of Portugal" is a paper on~ ty Camoens, the national poet of Portugalr y and the author of "The Lusiad." The, in Countess of Jersey tells us about the r. every-day life of Hindostan in a bright d and entertaining way. Lord Justice h Fry discusses the value of imitation, sone of the main primitive instincts, as da force in civilization. Professor Hux n- ley has another p)owerful paper on :. a"Agnosticism." E. Strachan Morgan >n discusses "The Roman Family" and ~the conditions of social life in Latin ie times, and Senora Bazan tells about a "The Women of Spain." WV. T. Stead m has a reliable article on Boulanger Le under the title of "Madame France and as her Brave General." Apropos of the centenary of the French Revolution, there is a striking contribution from ~Blackwood's. 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