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m •ffc... % *■' DARLINGTON HERALD, VOL. IV. NO. 19. DARLINGTON, S. C.. FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1894. By Turbevillc & Williams. THE JOKER’S BUDGET: 4KSTS AkD VARNS BY FUMHY iMCN OF THE PRESS. to Bftln Bettor Than Elao- M«#t . Bnitto — Earlj Ete., ato. READY TO REOIN. a«r rUrl. Hniry—Thank hmdiaa»l ' pU i^WYotk weikir.' wsraav 4 .y ti -aatoBa MODEST WUXIE. said. WiHle Wlbhjes, ‘T ►k ii'bit afra i of a bicycle.”' m not ‘Xou are quite brare^* 'said the youn* woman. 1 . ‘Oh, not necessarily, Goodman, after an ominous pause, rejoined Willie modestly.. ‘‘You see, I nevah wide one. : •\i J&XHVi depravity. “Papa,” asked Tommy Goodman,. '■ wJ»cjfag Cain’s wifef” “Caroline,” said the Her. Dr. »r ^ ... ► Wife, “Will you please my heaviest slipper and leave the room 7 There Is going to be aVwiI ‘fbi* heresy right here and right now.”—[Chicago Tribune. AN IDIOTIC BIRD. “ T have a parrot at home that re peats every word I utter,” said Jar- ley. “What an idiot of a bln},” ejacu lated Cyril cui—[Harper’s Bazar. Jjfet, A CONDITIONAL POP. “Then you are engaged T” “Conditionally. 1 ” “WMdhde yon mean?” “Why, George put the hypotheti cal question to me last night and I said yes.”—[Judge. SIGNS OP THE SEASONS. The earth exhibits signs of spring And brighter grow the days; A sign that birds will shortly sing For us their merry lays. Each season hjjls'Jtoasigna—the fall, Spring, wir$j> ad tfeey paes, \ And that of auramer is for all The sign, “Keep off the grass.” - —[New York Press. CODED DO WITHOUT IT. ’.'i 41.■' O’Jones—I don’t object to a man blowing his own horn if he wants to, do you? MbSmltb—Not at all; still, I have very litti* ear for that kind of music. w . TO STRENGTHEN IT. ^rs. Wreckhard (the landlady)—Is thiSre^ahythlrig I can help you to, Slimmer—Yes, ma’am. Can I have some milk put in this cream?— [Puck. . ' . ' / y : .ANSWERED. :V;WliatI” cried the orate* - , fiercely, “ddmt-, bask, causes poverty?” And from the brick or: the hail a Koarae voice .aiisriered “Lack of cash. ” ? .» .OMPROPEY SRAcnONS. Mamma'(ak she is serving the pie at ^*We>^WhptTg : an improper frac- tiori; JiAttnyr; - ' ! • Johnny. V Anything less than a quariA^wawme,—{NewportNews. ;; A PR^CiTCAL VltiW OF tr. “They say .the wolf, is continually at4h«to#«w.*’r... “Wen I don’t know what he is there fop-^tiiriy never have anything ,n .. OVT OP SIGHT, InvestritMt'See.-you have a milroad mapped out tore, but where’s your town? Land BooWef^-Well,” to' ‘tell you the fcjfwtbt ih'MiB’b‘bullt yet; but * v —candidates foe «wrl® in bushes, one moonlight thrise PWbJWUonlsts and a m,—(New York PrsM. iic.” •■uai« .flo i^ . t nayo -lust been jilted by * girl worth half b million.” -[Lift.^:f ‘ • - : i'blALOGLE PROM LIPe/ ro theehemiet’s.”, « “Is it forjroursejfJ” • “Oh, no, foftojiaiWy—it’s for my wife.”—[Le Soft. ^ABBENt.'itiNDKD."- -I have a Hterary friend absent-minded that when to London recently he teie- bimseJf ahead to wait for ? 0 a certain place. Smith—Did the telegram have the desired Jesuit? BenjjqD—No. He gpt it aO right, but he had forgotten to sign his name, and not knowlng who it was frcjit, be paid, no attention to it — [P^i|m»Vweekly. v'; ^ . PEELING is beueving, too. Teacher—*1 do'n’t. suppose any one •I the little boys heif has ever e%«n * Boy (at the foot of the class)—No, mm • money at a bank. Tried to get good sash, my dear, with my name on • Check. Ha, ha!” — [Philadelphia Life. SOCIETY ORNAMENTS. De Snapp—I congratulate you, old fellow. Miss Purkey’s face is rather plain, but she is worth 1200,000. De Muttlnedd—Thanks, dear boy. You are right. It was horfigun that attracted me.—[Chicago Tribune. - HER SOCIAL TRIUMPH. Mrs. Gossip—I hear you attracted much notice on your appearance in the social world abroad, hfrs. Nymoney—I should sa^eo. I it wopt “Bcmember, witness,” sharply ex claimed the attorney for the defence, “you are oh oath.” There ain’t no danger of my tor- it,* replied the witness sul lenly. “ I’m teliln’ the trnth fur nothin’ when I could have made $1 by lyin' fur your side of the* eave, ah’ .you know it.”—[Chicago Tribune. ground foe disbelief. Mrs. Mullins ^reading th» news paper)—A Philadelphia man rejoices in the name of Medyeynv Garezyn- sklego. Mr. Mullins—l don’t .Relieve it. “You don't believe that is his right name?” “No; I don't believe ife rejoices in it.”—[Life. DIRECT PROM THE MUSEUM. “1 see that the ihdia rubber man and the oasiiisd man are to have a walking match.” . “Then I bet on the India rubber roan.” “Why?” “Well he may not do much on the first half, but he is sure to show him self on the homestretch.” “That's all very true, but at the snine time he’ll find the ossified man a hard man to beat,”—[New York Press. tHfc BETTER WAY. ' Chollie—I was so angry at my man this tnawnin’ that I kicked him. Chappie—Deah mo! How could you do such a thing? Chollie—Why, what do you do when you get angwy at youah man? -Chappie—1 make him kick him- 8Slf.”-^Harper’s Bazar. QUEER, VERY! Yan Amdt—Funny thing ufeout so ciety. Miss Whirlsfair—Wliat is? Van Arndt—A girl is not “in” it until she has “come out.”—[Truth, A CASE IN POINT. “Jones says the ocean is a living thing and that it has intelligence. Tjis idea of water having intelli gence!”— “I don’t know about that. I’ve seen the rain pouring over a book.” —[New York Press. Fium’.it priced. Mrs. Sik mpa—How much do you charge fo* - onvmg rag carpet? Old M j. Loomis (the weaver)— Fifteen cents a yard, mum. Mrs. Skimps—iOh, that’s loo high. I will give you twelve and a half. Old Mrs. Loomis (with dignity)— I’m a carpet weaver, mum, not a spring poet.—[Philadelphia Life. NERVOUS. ^Spectator—Doesn’t it require a good deal of courage to go up in a balloon* Aeronaut—Not a bit, ma’am. •It’t the coming down id ft. HER WISH SET FORTH. She—You arc getting angry now; you know you are. He—I am doing nothing of the sort. I can get angry if you wish me to. She—But I don’t wish you to get angry except when I don’t wish you to.-rflndianapolls. J ournal. those them dial m elass) t I’ve felt one,—'{Brooklyn poet. Sj. • THE GENIAL POET. “Ha, hm” laughed the “Hesri’a a good joke. ” “What *i It?'' asked his wife. returned the genial hard, rirotc to me' for my anto- r day and 1 sent it to grapl Win. phi A Wonderful Cliff.. Jeffrey’s Cliff, located four miles east of Hawesvillei Is a natural - curiosity and a winder. It consists of a huge cliff from 200 to 400 feet high all around, tuid looks as if Providence had set a hjjgo boulder down on. the face of fjio earth. There' is a soil ori- fhe t * of it,from ton to thirty feet deep, .and before It was .partially cleared off a heavy growth of timber Adorned it. There is probably more than a hundred acres of good land on top of It. Nature left no way for a man with modern vehicle to go up it, but at an expense of hundreds of (IoIIms-a. wagon-way has been cut' through 'the solid rock and tho dirt graded up to meet it. In two other places footpaths have been provided for the lone trav eler. On this wonderful natural produc tion the towns of Cloverport, Cannel- ton, Hawesville and probably othem can be plainly seen, us well as a large scope of surrounding country. Cattle in tbs bottom look like mere midgets, and one’s head swims with the dizzi ness of the height when buzzards, which make the cliff their roosting place, sail hajf way down tho sides of “Salt Peter Cave.” and other points of interest make up its pecu liar froaders. There is an aperture in the cliff on one side, about a foot wide, that sends out the year round a cold breeze. The warmest, sultriest day that can be imagined in August, this constant flow of cold .air greets the sightseer. It sits in the middle of the upper bottom, and the Ohio river curves more than half way round it at a distance of a mile and a half away. Truly this is a home wonder.—[Hancock (Ky.) Clarion. Boston lias 440,500 population and fffifl poiloe, who last year made :W,996 Arrest*. iiOLSLHOLD AFFAIRS. HOMEMADE CELERY SALT. A woman who likes the flavoring was wondering what were the eompm nents of “oelery salt” and found that she oonld make a better article herself than she oonld bay. Go to a large seed store and buy yonr oelery seed. Examine it carefully for foreign par ticles, then wash in oold water and dry qniokly in the open air. When perfectly dry grind to a floe pojrder. Add three parts of fine dry salt to one of celery, sift the mixture several times, then cork in wide-montked bot tle and keep cool arid dry.—Washing ton Star. There is not enough attention given by some to oftanlinees in cooking sad preparing forida. Cooking is a dainty art and call* for the utmost neatness. Spinach u * wholesome and appetis ing vegetable stewed, minced, and served with hard eggs. It Is pretty to look at and good to eat, but so very many eooks serve it unwashed that people are shy of it. The same care lessness has bronght garden lettuce and water ctoesee under suspicion. Some of the very best hostesses allow speckled apples end oranges to go on the table. . In the orange ekin these russet and biaok specks are Hie shells of minnta insects, and the only way to get them off is to use a stiff veg etable brush. Drop the fruit in oold water; brush it piece by piece until it is clean, and keep in a cool place. Green grapes are woody with saw dust, and require a oold bath just be fore going to the table.—Detroit Free Press. SOME THINGS WORTH KNOWING. When parsley cannot be had, hne celery tops make a pretty garnish for meat. Grated rnd squeezed lemon skins are excellent to clean brass and copper with. Bub the skin thoroughly with soap, then dip in hath brick, or finely- sifted coal ashes. Polish with a dry woolen cloth or ohamois. Burning oyster and clam shells in the kitchen stove will prevent the for mation of clinkers. Use the covers of tin lard and cot- tolene pails to place under pots itnl pans when the stove is too hot When soup stock is at a discount becanse of the large amonut of meat used, put up a supply for warm weather emergency dinners by sealing in air-tight glass fruit jars when it is boiling hot. It need not be a whit inferior to that bought at the grocers or cost a penny. Boil rice in a double boiler; add » few drops of lemon juice to the water, and do not stir until it is sufficiently cooked. The grains will then separate readily and be beautifully white. A novel and delicious flevor maj be imparted to cake by placing bite of rose geraninm leaves under the greeted psper with which the baking tin is lined. RECIPES FOB COOKING CODFISH. Creamed Codfish—Pick into small pieces, after soaking till soft enough to handle, enough codfish to fill a pint bowl. Po’ur cold water over it and heat alowly to boiling; then pour off the water and replace with enough fresh, boiling water to cover it; cook slowly for a half hour or till tender, then if any water remains pour it off. Season with a spoonful of butter, a bit of pepper and a thiekening of one tablespoon of flour mixed to a paste iu one pint of riob, sweet milk. If more salt than remains in the fish is neces sary, add it, after tasting. Boil till it thickens slightly. This is nicely dipped over toast or served with pota toes cooked dry and mealy, and salted only. Potatoes may be cooked with the codfish, and the whole seasoned as above. Peed the potatoes and slice into thick slices and add them to the fish after the flret water is drained "l and it is put to cook in the boiling water. _ Codfish Balls—Soak the fish till soft and pick into fine ahreds; have a quantity of cold mashed potatoes or cold boiled rice. Mix the fieh thor oughly with either, using half thj quantity of fish that you <’*' of pots- toaa or rjoe, and make or. into little round flat cakes Dip them an beaten egg and roll in flour, tilted meal or finely powdered cracker crumbs and fry in hot butter or drippings Codfish Loaf—Prepare the fish as for balls, mix with the potatoes or rioe, or both may be used; add pepper and a dust of powdered aage, or celery salt; mix with beaten egg, and if tha matrdoes not seem rather moist add a little eweet milk. Pour into a pan or pudding dish and bake done end brown. Broiled end Fried Codfish—Soak the fish in large pieces; remove ell outside bones end any thet mey be removed without tearing the pieces apart. When freshened sufficiently fold in a napkin to dry and broil over a clear fire. Drop bits of batter over the pieces while not. Fish prepared for broiling may be floured or dipped in Crumbs and fried in butter. Boiled Codfish—Select the largest and thickest pieces; after freshening tie in a cheese-cloth napkin and boil till teedar. Make e eeuce by melting e spoonful of Butter, and while hot, stirring lb to it e scant toaspoonful ol sweet o^l k and a pinch of salt and bringing all to a boil. Bemove the fieh from the nepkin, piece them on a platter and dip the sauce over them, sprinkle lightly with pepper. —Farm, Field and Fireaida. Nero had bulging eyes and, was yeri near-sighted. 7 In 1633 the site of the city of Boston, -Mass., wm void for $150, PITHY NEWS ITEMS In and around Fort Mill, S. C., all the cotton mills are running full blast Burkeville, Vs., is to hare a canning factory. A $20;000 peanut cleaning associa tion has been established at Norfolk, Va New ice making plant* have been finished at Norfolk, Va., and Charlotte^ N. C. ^ Hug West Nor \’e. ax ton, N. • ' The new Tail building at C., burned down. Funds are being raised to build a Presbyterian academy at Blackstone, Ta The Raleigh, N. C., local cotton re ceipts this season are 23,420'bales, against 20,713 to the same date last year. A two-year-old child in Lincolnton, N. C., knows the entire alphabet. Marcus Gentry committed seicide in Ashe county, N. C., by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. The steamer Wilmingtuu, which has loug plied between Wilmington and Southport, is to rnn hereafter between Savannah nncl Brunswick,Capt Hsrper goes along. Two of the three men who drank oil of mebaoe at Reves tobacco factory, Wilkes county, N. C..have died. They thought it was peach braudy. Col. Jullsii S. Carr, of Durham, N. C., bus sold $200,000 worth of to bacco to bo delivered by May 1st. That is a big order. The Virgiuja Silk Mills Co., at Fredricksburg, Va., will build an ad dition, which will be a two-story brick building, 60x120 feet, and will put in 10,000 spindles. Water is the power. The Union (8. C.) Cotton Mills, a new company which will operate a plant of 390 looms and 12,500 spindles, has increased its capita),stock to $125,- 000. The Velasco Oil Mill will add carding gins to its plant for handling Sea Island cotton grown by the Barry settlement of Georgians and Carolin ians on Bastrop creek. Some of those farmers have forty or fifty acres in Rea Island, last year’s experimental crops having, it is said, proved the Texas "staple w> equal any in'Smerica. The Newton (N. C.) Cotton Mills were sold by the receiver last Monday, and was purchased by B. D. Heath of Charlotte for $31,000. Col. B. B. Moore, solicitor of the New Hanover Criminal Court, died Monday afternoon in the 60th year of his age. Judge Meares boa appointed Col. A. M. Waddell to fill out the un expired term of Col. Moore, and he has accepted. The Supreme Court of North Caro lina has affirmed the decision that Cashier Faust, the Salisbury bank em bezzler, must serve bis sentence. The Western Union office in Char lotte, N. C., o» the nights of April 1st ami 2nd, sent out 46,666 words. They, of course, were the Tillman specials. Lttt Cotton and Horn Food prodjeto. The Manufacturers’ Record,of Balti more, publishes this week letters from SO large fertilizer dealers in Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina, whieh show that less cotton is being planted this year and more attention in being given to food products. Sixteen ofthe firms estimate that the area ol cotton planted this year will be from 6 to 30 per cent., less thin last year; J8 note an im- prevemeut >a the general condition of busioess. The report to the Record of the Charlotte Oil and Fertilizer Company is as follows: “The decrease iu ferti lizer used will be 25 per cedt, and the farmers will raise less cotton and more corn and hoes.” 4 B: d Deed. Raleigh, N, C., correspondence of ( ihe Charlotte Observer: A very repre hensible act was committed here by a Georgia detective. He brought a ne gro named Bill Lee to the penitentiary, under the belief that Lee was an es caped convict. When he found that Lee was not the man and was not want ed, he took tbs first train for Georgia, leaving the poor negro here, pennilesj and in a strange place. The detective told Lee, with great coolness, that the latter must look out for himself. Lee went to the exeentive office and. got as sistance which enabled him to return ic his home and family in Georgia. He was in his working clothes, as he was ploughing when arrested. Tho Afreets Ban With Wino. A Lubeck wine merchant has pre sented Prince Bismarck with some cen tenarian Madeira in memory of the Emperor William's recent visit of re conciliation. One good thing general ly leads to another. Had tberEmper or of Germany been at Anderson, S. C., at the close of the late war he might have outrivalled King Gambrinus, for the streets all the while ran wine, the priceless Maderia which Charlestou gourmets had sent there for safe-keep ing.—Charleston News and Courier. Madolino't Fathor. Raleigh, N. C.—Very few peeple now recall the fact that J. D. Pollard, the father ol the now famous Madeline, was once iu business here, in 1872-4. He was in an insurance agency, his partner being the late Basil C. Manly. Pollard was quite an old gentleman and a capital talker, D/CO OF HYDROPHOBIA. Wise Annie Laurie Canada/, a Beautiful Vir ginia Oiri, Dios an Awful Booth. Roanoke, Va.—Some time ago a large Mack dog belonging to Mr. G. L. Canaday, who lives on Craig road, near Salem, bit two or three children slightly, and his daughter, Miss Annie Laurie, a beautiful girl, aged 20, was also bitten in several places by the same doc, which was then killed, with out any one cnqniriac *» to whether ids were , so that itter un- Dr. O. v-Ahday. —- - ——-o —- —aseerifti n pd that since Monday Miss Ahnie Laurie had been unaMe to sleep; that jihe was despondent and nervous, something unusual with her, and on that very morning, when her father had bronght a bowl of water to her bedside, she had been seized with a terrible paroxysm. After rallying she rested somewhat and then asked for a toothbrush and mug to rinse her month, which were hardly brought in sight ere she was again seized with violent convulsions, this time requiring to bo held, and so on throngbout the day these paroxysms, fearful to behold, kept recurring, dur ing which her strength bec.im i won derful and it required strong bauds to hold her. Nor could she swallow, though her thirst was excessive. In her calmer moments she was re signed to her fearful fate, and touching the wounds on her arm exclaimed: “Perhaps it is for the best; these will be the means by which I will soon be in heaven." Dr. Wiley and Dr. Shanks did all that their skill could suggest to relieve her sufferings, but she herself knew that her case was hopeless, and on Fri day morning in answer to her question, Dr. Wiley told her there was no hope and she teemed resigned. A little later she prayed with her pastor, and then remarked to some friends that ahe had only a few hours to live. Just before her death, which occurred at 1:20 Friday afternoon, the family assembled around her bedside, while her brother, Prof. C. B. Canadsv, of Roanoke College, led in prayer. Her death occurred in one of the terrible •pagras of pain, and when Doctors Wi ley, Shanks and Killeti retnrned from the house they said that she seemed as one who had been asidiyxiated. A subscription is being taken up at Salem to send the children who were bitten by the same dog to the Pasteur Institute, New York, for treatment. A Valuable Tom tile Fhnt. Interest in the cultivation of the ramie plant in this country has beej. increased by the statement that at English concern known ss the Textil- Syudicate has secured 25,000 acres o' land in Mexico and intends devoting it to the raising of these plan 4 ?. Mr. Felix Fremerey, who has given much time and labor to their growth, writes to tbe Manufacturers’ Record from Ar cadia, Texas, as follows regarding tbe English people: “They are negotiat.ng for a big ha cienda in the State of Vera Cruz, where ramie is already grown to a cer tain extent. Those gentlemen wrote me several weeks ago: “We shall be glad to know it any ramie ribbons can he obtained from the United States, as we are buyers of all that can be shipped in goo condition. We would arrange banket- credit for the ship ments, to be drawn against, accom panied by shipping documents snd policy of insurance.’ “This company has its textile works at Carpenter's Road, Stratford E, London, where the ribbons are de- gummed and bleached ready for comb and card. “There are two A No. 1 houses in Newark, N. J,, which together would take not less thsn thirty or forty tons of bleached ramie fibres per month at at most renumerative prices. A first- class house in Patterson also is in need of ramie material. The latter named furnished the United States Depsrt- ment of Agriculture with that fine col lection of self-manufactured ramie fab rics which were exhibited st the World’s Fair. Ramie ribbons or fibres can be sold in New York city and the New England States in any quantity at the highest figures known, but seem ingly there sre no means to induce our 'planter* to undeetake tbis culture, of which one acre after tbe first year of planting yields better profits than fifty nctas of cotton at actual prices. ” Experts in textiles consider the ramie product to be as tine as cotton, almost as glossy as silk, while it is cheaper than linen and stronger than hemp. From two to three crops of stalks can be raised from one plant in a season, and it is said to be hardy enough to withstand extreme moisture and drought, though liable to suffer from heavy frosts. The roots will like from fifteen to twenty years, and as high ss $4.00 per pound has been paid for tbe seed in America. China ex ports over 500,000,000 pounds of it yearly. * Among the widely diversified pro ducts made of ramie are ropes and cables that exceed the strength of manilla hemp, tablecloths that excel the glass of Irish linen, lace that equals the delicacy o! cotton and surpasses its durability; also plushes, velvets, damasks and brocades. Ramie is com bined with cotton, linen,wool and silk, snd it_always adds to the mixed texture an element of greater usefulness or beauty. la handkerchiefs,cravats and hosiery, in cambrics, camlets and shawls, in alpacas, carpets and drap eries, it isconsidered.with the possible exception of silk,superior to the fibres with which it is interwoven. A physician of South Haven, Mich., will make a voyage around tho world in a schooner 125 feet long, with t beam of about twenty-five feet. An Old Wason in Distress. Raleigh, N. C.—Mr. Allen, tbe superintendent of the Wake county home, found by the wayside a poor old white-haired man and brought him into the city. This afternoon the man, whose name is Vinton, was placed in the county homo. Vinton haa a history. He is an educated man, and talks interestingly. He is 75 years old, dirty, badly clothed, with one hand injured and his feet so sore he cur barely walk. He tells me he was born in New York, but has liyed in Wisconsin. He watcolonej on the stall of a Goverupr there; was colonel of a regiment in an Indian war ; was s friend of Abraham Lutooln at Bpringfinld, Ills.; in 1858 a member of the Legisla ture of Wisconsin; was grand worthy chief Templar of that State and has papers which show him to have been a prominent temperance lecturer. Dur ing the war he was colonel of tbe elev enth Wisconsin Regiment. He was in 1864 consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He says he came into this State from Tennessee, and has been here five or six weeks. HeJias a son in a bank at Big Springs, Nevada, whose name is Russeil Vinton. Hew enterprises. Columbia, 8. C.—The Secretary of State has issued a commission to John H. Hurit. of Batesburg, and Willie Jones, of Columbia, as corporators of tbe Exchange Bank of Batesburg. Tbe capita! stock of the new bank will be 330,000 divided into shares of $100 each. Col. Jones is the cashier of the Carolina National Bank of this city. A charter was granted to the Sumter Track and Park Association,of Sumter. All the capital stock has been sub scribed. The directors and offices sre Abo Byttenlmrg, president; C. S. Martin, vice-president; I. H. Moses, Jr., secretary and treasurer; H. B. Bloom snd R. H. Baker. A commission was issued to George DressC?!, John B. While and H. D. Butt as corporators of tbe Charleston Provision and Commission Company, of Charleston. Tbe capital stock is $2,500, divided into shares of $50 each. The work of constructing the new Electric Railway evtention toShandon, the now suburban town, is progessing rapidly. Operations have been com menced at the town with a view to de veloping it. Crscutirs Clemency. CoLUlfAlA, S. C.—Governor Tillman commuted the sentence of Cnsar Sweet- wine, who was convicted at the Febru ary term last of Court for Berkeley Connty of burglary and larceny and sentenced by Judge Townsend to a life term in the State prison. The com mutation reduces bis sentence to five years in the penitentiary at hard labor. Governor Tillman has also granted a full pardon to John Martin and Sweet Edwards, alias Sweet Martin, who were convicted at the fall term of Court for Horry County of adultery and sentenced by Judge Witherspoon to a term o 4 six months in the peniten tiary each and a fine of $100 each. In a Rxliter's Hands. Gen. John Gill, of Baltimore, has been appointed receiver of the Cape Fear k Yadkin Valley road until the exact financial condition of the com pany operating can be ascertained. The action w&e taken at the instance of bondholders reprcsentingS2,000,000 i m securities. It is understood that Iff? the present no changes will be 4'a le in the management. The railroun has only a small debt, and under ordinary circumstances it is believed can easily cam enough to poy its fixed charges and running expenses. Tuo Children Burned to Death. Lynchburg, Va.—The following ad vice was received here: Two little children of Mr. and Mrs. Clark, who reside near Glade Springs, Va., were burned to death. The father and moth er were at the barn when they heard the screaming, and when they reached the bonse they discovered the youngest child lying on the floor, its clothing burned off and its body cooked into s crisp. Standing over the corpse wai the older child with the cruel flames playing over the body. In a very few seconds it, too, lay dead. It is thought that the older child met its death in an effort to save the younger. ,»• How Sugar is Refined. The method used by the best sugar refineries is substantially as follows: The raw sugar is dissolved iu large oisternr on the ground floor, enough hot water being added to produce a specific gravity of 1.25. The solution is then drawn through a connecting pipe having a coarse wire strainer in to large pumps, by which it is pumped into the highest story of the building, usually tbe seventh c ;ightb. It there passes into vessels heated by steam coils to a temperature of about 210 degrees. Milk of lime is added to tbe solution in these pans for tbe purpose of neutralizing any acid which it may contain. From these pans the liquid paases down to the next floor, where it is filtered through a series of bags, each made of two thicknesses of cloth, an outer one of coarse and an inner one of fine cotton.’ The bags are en closed in boxes to prevent cooling. After leaving these the syrup is ruu through filters of bono black, which absorb all the coloring matter left in it After leaving these, it is pumped into vacuum pans, large vessels heated by steam and exhausted by air pumps. The pressure being thus reduced the liquid is boiled nt a lower tempera ture, until, at 140 degrees, evapora tion is completed and the syrup rapidly crystallizes into sugar. This is the process by whieh the best white sugar is made, while poorer qualities are prepared by a method less complete. —Boiton Cultivate^ War in Africa. A Whenever we were on the march id Africa we always had vedettes and scouts out to right, left, front, and rear guard; thus if we saw a party of horsemen rushing toward ue at break neck speed it was a signal to laager np, which wo had to do so often that it could be done in twenty minutes— which is saying a great deal—the rear wagon being a long distance astern, each wagon being almost locked in with the one ahead of it, with tha deasel-boom (or shaft) outside, so that all wagons could inspan together. The wagons, aa described in the London telegraph, were made into a square, long or abort, according to’the qua- her of vehicles. j We made two laagers—the Victoria one, the Salisbury another—and be tween the two laagers the cattle (300 head trnck oxen) and loot were driven. Then bush was cut and put outside,' thus everything was as compact as possible, and we mounted on top of the wagons and defended the laager. This continued day after day, the monotony being only broken by burn ing nncl looting kraals of the enemy and shooting game, till we came to a river called Sbangani, where we laag ered up for the night. Of course, every night we had a main guard and a picket out all night, the main guard being 100, the picket 300 yards from the camp, and a lot of Makalakas (a tribe which stood in deadly fear of the Matabele) to the north of the camp. 1 On the morning of October 25tb, at 8.30 o’clock, wo were awakened by hearing shots fired. Immediately we stood to arms, and looking through the darkness saw thousands rushing toward us. When the Maxim guns Started firing there was a sudden check. They could not believe it, made another rush, and were cheeked again, and so on until morning, till daylight broke, and some of the most ghastly objects it has ever been my lot to see—and I was in Egypt—were bodies literally torn in pieces and lay ing as near as ten or twelve yards from camp. ‘ "v Killing Porpoises hy E’cclricily. Electricity has recently been util ized for purposes of fishing. A net of silYdinnl, as it in called, which was nearly 1300 feet long, and is used for catching sardines, was taken, and au electric cable with dynamite cartridges at intervals of fifty feet, was placed upon the edge of it. The cable was connected with an electric battery up on the torpedo boat in such a way that all tho cartridges might bn fired simultaneously. The net was let down at five iu the morning in very deep water, and before this was done the neighboring fishermen had been asked not to go out, in order that there might be nothing to disturb the por poises. About an hour after the net had been let down, tho pospoises came up in large numbers, and when a good many fish had been got int > the net, there were about eighty just around it. The cartridges were then tired, and the explosion was so effective that one only of the eighty porp sise.'i escaped, while the boats iu the vicinity felt no shock, and th.: water was very liltle disturbed. —Invention. riFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. ( The Senate. 68tb Day.—The Bering Sea hill was re jected. Mr. Voorhees opened the tariff debate in a set speech of three hours. 6»th Day.—Mr. Allison replied to Mr. Voorhees’s tariff sp «ih. Mr. Harris has taken control ot the bill and has given notice that he will press the bill datlv. The Senate passedtheBeringdea bill. A num ber ot committee amendments to the tariff bill were submitted. 70th Dai.—The third day's debate on the tariff bill was carried on, Mr. Allison, ol Iowa, speaking against the bill for two and a Quarter hours, and Mr. Mills, of Texas, mak ing a brief dolcnce of it as a compromise meisure. 71st Day. —Mr. George introduced a bill to reduce official incomes twenty per cent.-— Mr. Mills opposed au appropriation to to- terminate the Russian thistle.—^Tariff de bate was prevented by an executive session devoted to an unimportant Florida appoint- , ment. ( 72n Day.—Tho Senate adopted a resolu tion calling for information in regard to Samoa. The proposition to coin Mexican silver dollars was debated. Mr. Teller spoke for two hours on tbe tariff. , Tho House. j HSth Day. —The House made reoogn i tion ot j Speaker Crisp's declination ot the Georgia 1 Senatorship by a round of applause as ha ascended the steps to bis desk. By unani mous consent the CNellf-Joy contested elee- | tlou case was postponed. Mr. Catching* introduced the Itlver and Harbor Appropria tion bill. The House then proceeded to hear eulogies upon the life, character and services of the late Representative Charles O'Neill, of Pennsylvania. 90th Day.—Mr. Boatner introduced resolu tions asking Attorney-General Olney what has been done to protect Uncle Sam in the Union Pacific receivership proceedings.— Another day was wasted In the attempt to secure a quorum on the election contests. 9!st Day.—A quorum haring been secured tho coutesti-d election case of O’Nelll-Joy from Missouri was decided in favor of Mr.' O’Neill, Democrat, by a vote of 155 to 23, no'. Republicans voting. Upon an attempt to: unseat Mr. Hlllborn, of California, and seat' M-. English the Democratic quorum failed. 1 The House adopted a resolution, pre sented by Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, looking to; a special investigation ot Governor Tillman's action in interfering with the railways and 1 telegraph in South Carolina, 92i> Day.—The attempt to pass the Bland bill over the Presideni’s veto failed. The; contest from the Third California District j was decided in favor of W. D. English, 1 Democrat. 93d Day.—The House approved the jour nal without filibustering or objection.—-J. > F. Isiar, the newly-elected member from South Carolina, to succeed Representative; Brawlev vas sworn In and routine batistes was taken up. The Bering Baa bill wae' passed, as were also the Urgent Deficiency nlllund Mr. Boatner's resolutions calling Uf>- ou Attorney-Genera! Olney for information 1 regarding the uc;lon taken by the Depart ment of Justice to protect the interests of tbe United States in tbe Union Paoiflc re ceivership. 94th Day.—The hill was passed authorizing the Becretnry of (he Interior to lease hotel sllis in Yellowstone Park. Mr. Dunphy began a fight to deprive the Bureau of En graving of the postage stamp contract.—. Mr. Livingston introduced n hill fOrnu Ifi- teruntlonal Exposition to be held nt Atlanta, On., next year.— The Post office Anproprta- ' tion bill occupied the attention ot the House until recess for an evening seMlon to con sider pensions, 1 -