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?v ... - WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jane, 1868. Aug. 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1883. New Series?Vol. II. No. 52. subserre private for as advertisements, respect will be C^eofitractst for advertising: ^3&*aktwnr or apply at OSTEEN, . Business Manager. dear w lfe stands, Sower of all, slender, snow-white tjf^petaled blossoms fall. jr^gbt pales, in the setting rine-^reathed' porch she when the day is done. love-Ht eyes, :h sordid pelf life's most precious simply for?myself j r lairest flower of"all, ^amxfr'i snow-white blossoms fall. CALAMITY. browned Near . .""-iV ~:r '.s?l llieifej; July?.] . Jjeen visited by an which has caused ap of the some forty years gepGsbion party com ^J^lbe congre ;=*f^?rpus Christi pleasantly Grove, near fourteen miles , and bo leaving the 4*0 hundred people end of the pier wait re <m' the barge to The pier was old ?/aid the weight of some on the outer end way, percipitating persons into the smy-M? were > barge Cockade City bad jm#, and those who the day at tbe man eager de ?*e; J Be* W. E. tbe choreb, and Jacob >ba Connor, tbc gate requested tbe people Lagarn to keep back, but as 'cases their cautious were merrily, happily, and rebodfcgs that death lay throng pressed forward to IpHpnssro, and id an instant fes.ef. the v terrified specta ..-Itf lWre.-pier was seen to -and a wild cry of agony was noforranate persons i into the water with tbe ! It^^7 This wild cry was | relatives and I and wbo j ;*e*eral sports in which j horrified at the j & presented to them. 1 0?' the broken pier were j " A nomber were rcn- i by injuries from tbe i ??^cier, others from fright, B of those thus thrown water struggled desperately lives. Many sank into from, exhaustion ; others were i down by those who were drown- | the efforts of their friends on . were rescued and , ly to land. Herman expert young swimmer, women and children, and ere, whose names are not bard in rescuing the j in bringing in the bodies of j into the grove. As each body j ht to the shore there was a j Strong men were wild j as wife or ebild was bid at j and mothers wept with that i all other earthly j _ Biotber's lament for ber j Women fainted here and i d were ministered to by kindly | d there were children crying j their parents who bad per- | Iteir -sight The exenrsior- | 'irer^^Tonndly affected by the j acones of sorrow pre- j 'hand* and these who j at Hblly Grove yesterday will j efface from their minds tbc rccol- j of *he honors of last night. ! some bright contrasts to ; f scones of grief presented when j sad child who had been rescued | F^ad given op each other as restored safely to each other; scenes were so filled with to intensify tbe feelings the excitement of the -five bodies were within taken from the water, whom were placed on by side, and brought to barge arriving at Hen at.2 a. m., and the spec was a piteous one. men and women, youths rare lying side by side, in ?osotenaoee* exhibiting and their clothing torn a number i i and friends of the io be ^ond-all ot-per mm of the barge, fearing from it not re turning at the usual hoar that some ac cident had occurred. When the fact was known to them a scene of intense excitement followed and the crowd rushed on the boat and eagerly scanned the faces of the dead. Some few recognized the countenance of a friend, but the majority of the relatives and friends of the deceased were waiting at Light Street wharf for the return of the barge, and did not hear of the calamity until morning, when they proceeded to Henderson's wharf and another scene of sorrow and grief commenced, which lasted for some hours, until nearly all j of the drowned had been identified and claimed by their families. Several bun-1 dred excursionists remained at Tivoli j to continue the search for more bodies, j Mr. Frank Debilius, manager of Tivoli, states that the accident was caused by persons crowding too closely toward. the gate at the end of the wharf, although he and his subordi nates had done all in their power to keep them back. He did not think the wharf was weak or rotten, as great crowds had gathered on it before. He was much distressed, and says the scene presented when the people went down with the broken pier to darkness j and to death was too harrowing to be described. There was but little light at the time from the ordinary lamps in use, but immediately large fires were built on the bank, at which the rescued dried their clothing and by the light of which the work of rescoing the living and bringing the dead to the shore went on. Several persons were brought to the land who died shortly after. Mr. W. A. Taylor, who witnessed the accident, says that at 10:30 o'clock the gate nearest the shore was opened and the wharf soon became crowded. The barge was being made fast to the wharf, and gave a jar, which caused the platform to fall. About three hun dred persons feli into the water, which was from 8 to 11 feet deep. The rail ing of the bridge and stools and benches were at once thrown overboard to save J the drowning. The tug attached to the J barge was brought around and rescued most of those who were 8aved. Patrick Bea'ty jumped overboard and saved several persons. "The scene was a terrible one," said another eye-winess. **Wben the pier gave way and the crowd went down the unfortunate peo ple struggled wildly in the water, the strong pushing aside the weak. We an the barge threw overboard chairs, stools, planks, buckets, Hfc-preservers, ind everything we could lift or tear . away from the boat. Several of those who fell through the wharf had their beads cut and their limbs injured by the broken boards, and were dead be fore they reached the water. The wharf was said to be weak, and it could be felt shaking as a person walked over it." The Eastern police force removed .he bodies from the barge to a ware house on the wharf, and the work of dentification proceeded amidst much sdSgment^At ^n^if^XtrW^Sn^hn^ lie ose crowa^t^persens were present looking for their loved and missing Mies. Terrible .scenes of grief fol lowed, and one lady who became frantic on recognizing the body of her shiid, who started like the others hap pily from home yesterday in expecta tion of a day of picture, was placed in a carriage and driven to her home. Most of the victims were women, and in nearly every case young girls iu the lush of maidenhood. But in their gip pearance there was ample evidence the death in horrid shape which they bad endured. In many instances their Paces were discolored, bruised and blocdy, and clotted blood oozed from j mouth, nose and cars. When carried off the boat the bodies j were laid side by fide in the shed to the j left of the warf at the entrance, which is known as the storehouse. The faces were covered with cloths and the hands were crossed on the breast and tied together. The feet were also tied. Heartrending scenes were enacted by the score in the dead-room, where the bodies jay wet and sodden. One of the xaddest things was the recognition of Wdj. Garmer, of No. G5 Strasburg street. His aged father came in eariy this morning and inquired for him say ing that his son had gone on- the Cock ade City aud had not returned. The faces of the dead who still remained were uncovered, and the first face he gazed upon was that of his son. The corpse was that of a young aud hand Bome man. Kis face was discolored and blood was oozing from his mouth, while his cheeks were bruised and his nose swollen, as though a heavy piece of timber had struck him. Every few moments this forenoon anxious inquiries were made of the officer at the door of the dead-room. Two young women with streaming eyes asked for their father who had gone down alone on the excursion. No one could tell them anything, aud they turned away sad enough. The Cockade City left at 4 30 a. m. for thrt scene of the disaster again. It had left many bodies there and about 200 of the excursionists. Those left be hind were io large part women and children, and they passed a terrible night mostly in the open air. A large b're was built, and around this the shivering ones gathered to dry their clothes. The scene was a weird one, | and boats around the peir were flitting i to and fro with laterrs io the search for the dead yet uorecovered. Many of the men were busy in this work, .insist ed by people living near and the em ployees of the barge and the resort. h seemed as though the number of the dead would never atop swelling a3 the search continued through the night of horror.' Thirty one bodies were brought up by the night boat, and by 8 o'clock this morning thirty one more lay side by side on the pier. The boat left there at 8.30 o'clock this morning, bringing the 32 dead bodies'and 200 of the passengers who bad been left at-the place all night. Itarrived at Henderson's wharf at 9.30. Women were weeping, and friends who met them joined in their waiting and lamentations. The bodies were first removed to the lead-house. Deputy Marshall Frey baking charge, aud were sent away as fast as conveyances could be secured. ?^jOritwasdono as quietly as possi ble, bat amid violent expressions of grief, j The bodies lay in two rows upon the j floor, and as fast as one was identified a note bearing name and address was pinned to the wet clothing. The streets leading to the wharf, upon the arrival of the boat at 9.30 were thronged with an excited crowd. The police officers of the Eastern, North eastern and Middle districts were sta tioned at the entrance of the wharf, and were required to use considerable force to keep baok the crowd of curiosi ty seekers, who had assembled to wit ness the arrival of the bodie?. At the dead-house the scene was beyond j description?fathers, mothers, sisters j and brothers were assembled in large numbers, anxiously inquiring for their friends and relatives who had gone on the excursion. One gentleman recog nized his child and immediately took it from one of (he o?cers in charge and carried it out to a wagon. One woman had been in the neigh borhood* since 7 o'clock this morning j inquiring for a relative who was sup posed to have been missing, but the body had not been recovered at 12 o'clock. A number of gentlemen were waiting to identify the bodies of persons supposed to be have been drowned. The parties resided in almost every section of the city being members of Catholic churches in different localities. Coroner Merfit began an inquest this evening. Jacob Sonnet, a policeman, testified that the crowd on the wharf numbered at least seven hundred per sons and that three hundred persons fell into the water. He had seen larger crowds on the wharf. The flooring had been repaired this spring. He ex amined the place where the break oc curred, and found the timbers pretty rotten. The Rev. Mr. Starr testified that the wharf was a mass of patching from one end to the other. John Con ner, a policeman said the timber of the j wharf appeared to be very good, though there was some dry rot. Frank Deb lins, proprietor of Tivoli, said he had the wharf examined every year before the excursion season, and he supposed that it was in good condition. The Coroner's jury brought in the following verdict: We find that Louisa Swearer and others came down to thier deaths by drowning by the breaking of the bridge at Tivoli, and that the authorities of the place did not- use proper care and pre caution to prevent the occurrence. THRILLING SCBXKS. Mr. James Roach, who resides on Biddlc near Cathedral street, stated this morning that he had gone down cn the 2 o'clock boat yesterday afternoon in company with Miss Mary Hamill, aud that between 10 and li o'clock last i eight had left the grove, and was upon the broken pier. Mr. Roach states 1 that he had hold of Miss Hamill, but ! the crowd was so great that he had to : release his hold and she was lost. When within about forty feet of the end of the pier and while engaged in talk in^to the young lady he was horrified toseelh^ftf^essaiiu^ and a struggling mass of human beings hurled into the water. The scene he ! states was beyond description, men, ' women and children were clinging to 1 each other and no doubt added to the * list of drownings by their wild excite- ' ment. When the peir gave way he and the young lady went down with the j: rest of the large crowd. He used i 1 every effort to su*ve himself and Miss ; j Hamill, but the excitement was so in- j 1 tense at the time that women and chil-! \ dren grabbed hold of him, and it was ' with force that he freed himself and 1 succeeded in getting out of the water, j 1 Among those who were saved were j Misses Ma. and Ida Miller, sisters |5 residing at . William street; ?uiss is Maggie Sheeman of 2sro. C Gimstead j lane, and Miss Bridget Sheen, residing ! on York sreet, near William street. These four ladies, accompanied by 1 some gentlemen friends, formed a party 1 together. When the time for the \ departure of the boat drew near t::ev j; hastened down the pier, and took their I stand near the edge to get aboard ear- js \j, so as to secure seats. Jliss Mary i' Miller thus continues the story : 'Pco- j pie were standing all around us, and, j i like ourselves, seemed to be enjoying themselves in laughing and talking. < I noticed, now that I think of it, that 1 there were quite a number of mothers ! with their babies in the arms and chil- 1 dren at their sides, on the pier, and ! what became of the poor things the Lord only kuows. All at once I felt the pier 1 shake, and before I could give it a 1 second thought there was a crash. The ' next thing I remember is that I was 1 struggling in the water. ! 'Very fortunately I felt a log, and on top of this I managed to scramble j1 in some way. There I stayed until a J young gentleman came to ir.y rescue and carried me ashore. Ti.e time seems ' an indefinite period while I was holding ' on that log. Every minute l ean recall some event?seeing somebody go down, ! my helplessness to save them, hearing some familiar voice crying out in dis tress. I shall never forget that night. Sometimes it seems that I can hear some of the shrieks and moans resound ing in my cars/ The experiences of the other mem- : bers of the narty were similar to those i of Mary Miller. Her sister Ada, struggled in the water for some time, . and was carried under by some one falling on her shoulders. She had be gun to give up all hope of rescue when she saw a boat approaching, aud was picked up by it and earned to the shore in an exhausted condition. She is still quite sick, an-'i yet scarcely able to comprehend her narrow escape. Miss Maggie Shoenan was the most unfortunate of the party. She sank twice and was unable to help herself as the water was so filled with struggling people. Her clothing was torn frum her, and some valuable jewelry was lost. A young man by the name of Joseph Don rescued her. All these young ladies relate the awful and horrifying experience they endured while on their return to the city. They were obliged to stand du ring the whole trip w!:hin a few feet of the pile of dead bodies. At 51 Hamburg Street lay the corpse of Miss Jessie Sum wait. Her body i was received last night and conveyed to her late residence. She was 21 years of age, and her appearance in the coffin leads to the belief that she was a beau tiful woman. She was accompanied by her father, John Sum wait; her sisters, Misses Venia and Nellie, and Mrs. Skull and her husband and infant two years old. All escaped but Miss Jessie and the little baby. The house was filled with friends and relatives of tbe family, all of whom were overcome by grief. Many stood on the sidewalk and were unable to gain adenssiou. The father Lad retired to an upper room, where he sat with bowed head and apparently unconscious that such a terrible tra^cdv had been enacted. In a back room sat Mrs. Skull, tbe i young mother, bitter!? moaning her I harsh fate. She at length partially I composed herself, and between her uu- j controllable sobs she related an account of the disaster. "We were standing," she said, "near the centre of the pier waiting the boat. I had my child in ray arms and she was quietly sleep ing." Eere the mcther could no longer restrain herself, and barst forth into an uncontrollable fit of weeping. Again composing herself, she continued: "I beard something breaking under my feet and all at once I -as thrown into the water. My husband was at- my side in an instant, and together we struggled. He got me out some way. When I first went down my baby was washed out of my arms. I recovered her when I came up, and my husband began to pull me toward the shore. I went down again, and my baby was again washed awav. but I found her. I don't remember much else. Some how our little baby was again washed out of my arms, and I could not find her. I" was then completely exhausted." At this point of the interview some one came in from the street and said that a man was coming with the baby. The mother caught the subdued words, and the scene that followed defies descrip tion. "Oh ! my baby, my baby, my baby V she frantically screamed and rushed from the room. Her moans and sighs were piteous in the extreme, and many a mother present burst into tears. No arrangements have yet been made in regard to their funeral, but the services will probably take place from the residence to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. At 206 at Montgomery street were the bodies of three of the victims of the disaster, and one has not yet been re covered. They are Miss Laviuia Crouch, aged 40; Thomas and Al baughina Crouch, brother and sister, aged respectfully 5 and 8 years, and their mother, Mrs. Kate Crouch. The little parlor in which the bodies lay was almost filled with the coinns, and every available foot was occupied by the friends und neighbors of the deceased. A po liceman was stationed iu front of the residence to keep back the crowds that gathered on the si Je walk. No particu lars of the disaster could be learned With one exception the whole family is gone. The aged grandfather of the two lit Lle children is left, childless and alone, to bemoan his harsh fate. He sat in a baclrmtrr^eei?^^ his surroundings, and of the roany^syl?. pathizers who vainly sought to con sole him. The little companions >f Tommy and his .?ister entered the room and would gaze upon the l:feic.~c forms of their playmates who so lately shared their trials and partook of their pleasures, and would be overcome by ;rief. Hourly the arrival of the other Dody was expected, and it seemed al ready that the fountains of tears of that household were dried up. The inter ment will take place probably to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. George Skull, of No. 54 Etamburg ?treet. who lost a daughter, Olivia, j 2 2[ed 10, was found sitting on the wharf ! ;his rooming awaiting the arrival of the J soat bearing the body of his lost child, j With tears in bis eyes lie told a Day reporter the story of the accident. '1 tveni down.' said he, 'to spend the day t?uh my wife and child. There were i -even other relatives in onr narty. ! When the boat arrived and lay along-! side the pier, wo all crowded forward i :nd were talking about the place, and | wondering why they did not op-: n the j rite and let us in. There were proba- ; ;!y 2?0 people on the pier, all trying tu *et on the boat first, and I was one of ;he head ones. I stood close to the }dge of the warf and had* the empty iunoh-baskc' in my hand, and my wife md child were clo3s behind. Suddenly iho whole thing gave way beneath our Feet with a crash and we all went down together, frightened screams drowning the crash of timbers as they broke, I jannot describe what followed. My .vife clung to me ami let the child go in Eier terror, but she did not get hold of me until she had sank twice, and after | that I, who had been under two times, | was dragged under again by the crowd | of terrified and sir:;;- gitng people. Ij anally swam with her to the boat, and j was pulled cn board by a rope. I was much exhausted and my wife was nearly dead.' 'Did you notice anything like a jar when the boat struck the wharf?' asked i the reporter. 'Some people say that J was what started the pier to full.' No, I noticed tiothiog of the kind; there was no jar; the whole thing just gave way.' Mr. Richard Ticrney, living at 141 Preston street, who was reported drowned, gives a thrilling account of the disaster. Mr. Ticrney says the people crowded on the warf, where they were unnecessarily detained by the gate keepers, when, without the slightest warning, the warf gave way and the' douse mass was precipitated imo the I water. The evening was very dark, J and there we:-1, he say:;, but two dim j lights on the pier. The shrieks "f the j victims were awful aud the most de termined efforts on the part of those in the water who could swim to save the drowning persons proved in nearly every case unavailing. Parties on the boat threw boards, pieces of wood and any thing that could be gotton hold of in j the water, but he did not see a single life preserved, and, as everything was j thrown at random, he is confident that j some lost their lives by being struck by I pieces of plank aud timber. 31 ins Mag- i gie Burns, No. 143 Preston street, was j rescued by Mr. Ticrney, but in the panic she was carried from him by oth ers, and before he could again catch her she was drowned. r The Bad Boy a Druggist. HIS EXPERIENCE WITH VARIOUS CUSTOM ERS, INCLUDING THE OLD MAN?THE JOKE THE DRUGGIST 1'LAYED UN HIM. 'Whew ! What is it that smells so about this store ? It 6eems as though everything had turned frowsy/ said the grocery man to his clerk, in the presence of the bad boy, who was standing with his back to the -stove, his coat tails parted, and cigarette in j his mouth. 'May be it is mo thai I smells frowsy/ sa:d the boy as he put his thumbs in the armholes of his! vest, aud spit at the key-hole in the ! d?or. 'I havp gone into business/ 'l3y thunder I believe it is you/ said the grocery man as he went up to the i boy, snuffed a couple of times, and I then held his hand to his nose. 'The j board of health will kerosene you j if they ever smeli that smell, and .--end ! you to the glue factery. What busi- j ness have you gone into to make you j emel! so rank V 'Well, you see pari begun to think it was time I learned ! a trade or a profession, and he saw a sign in a drug store window,, 'boy wanted/ and as he had a boy he didn't want, he went to the druggist and got i a job for me. This smell on me will! go off in a few weeks. You know I j wanted to try all the perfumoiy in the store, and after I had got about forty different extracts on my clothes, another boy in the store he fixed up a bottle of benzine and assalety and brimstone and a whole lot of other horrid stuff and labeled it'rose gera nium/arid I guess I just wallered in it. It is awful, ain't it? It ker flummixed ma when I went into the dining room the first night I went home from, the store, and broke pa all up. He said j reminded him of the time when they had a litter of skunks under the barn. The air seems fixed around where I am, and everybody seems to know who fixed it. A giri came into the store yesterday to buy a satchet, and there wasn't anybody there but me, aud I didn't know what it was, and I took down everything in the store pretty near, before I found it, and then I wouldn't have found it only the proprietor came in. The girl asked the proprietor if there wasr/t a good deal ofsewergasin the store, and then he told me to go out and shake mvself. I think the girl was mad at me because 1 got a nurs ing buttle out of the show case with a rubber muzzle and asked her if that was what she wanted. Well, she told me that a satciiet was something for the stummick, aud I thought a nursing bottle was the nearest thing to it.' 'I should think you would drive all the customers away from the store/ said the grocery man, as he opened the door to let the fresh air in. '1 don't know but I will, but I am hired for a month on trial and I shall stay. You see I shall practice on nobody but pa for a spell. I made up my mind to that when I gave a woman some salt instead of powdered borax, and she came back mad. Pa seems to want to encourage me, and is willing n?- take anything I ask him to. Ho had Oofc-T^uoafcand wanted something for % and the L^^ugdst iold me io put some tai!uT?r^ay i chlorote of potash in a mortar and j grind it, and I let pa pound it with a j mortar, aud while he was pounding it I I put in a couple of drops of sulphuric i acid, and it exploded and bio wed pa's hat clear across the store, aud pa. v.-as j vhiter than a sheet. lie said he guessed his throat was all right, and he wouldn't come near me again that day. The next day he came in and I was-laying for him. 1 tcok a white eedletz powder and a blue one, and dissolved them in separate glasses, and when pa came in I asked him if he didn't want some lemonade, and he said he did, and I gave him the I sour one and he drank it. He said it |; was too sour, and then I gave him ; the other glass that looked like water, j to take the taste out of hi-; mouth, j and he drank it. Well, sir., when j these two powders got together in j, pa's stummick and began to sis and ;; steam and foam, pa pretty near I. clicked to death, and the suds came j out of his nostrils, and his eyes stuck j out, and as soon as he could get his , breath he yelled'lire/ and said he j, was poisoned, and called for a doctor, but 1 thought as long as wc had a doctor right, in the family there was no use of hiring one, so I got a stomach pump, and 1 would have had him bailed out in less than no time only the proprietor came in and told rnc to go and wash some bottles, and he gave pa a drink of brandy, and pa said he felt better. Pa has learned where we keep the liquor, and he comes in two or three times a day with a pain in his stomach. They play awful moan tricksen a boy in a drugstore. The first day the}'put a chunk of something blue into a mor tar and told me to pulverize it, and ihen make it up into two grain pills. Well, air, 1 pounded that chunk all the forenoon, and it never pulverized at all, and the boss fold me to harry up, as the woman was waiting for the pills, and I mauled it till I was nearly dead, and when it was time to go to supper the boss came and looked into the mortar and took out a chunk, and said, 'Von dumb fool yoti have been pounding oM <\:\y on a chunk of India rubber instead of blue mass I' Wei!, how did I know? But 1 will get even with them if I stay there long! enough, and don't you forget it. If I von have a prescription von want filled you come down t-? the store and j V\\ put it up myself, and then you will be sure to get what von pay for/ ' Yes/ said the grocery man, as he cut off a piece of limburger cheese and put it on the stove to purify the air of the room,'! should laugh to sen myself taking any medicine you put up. You will kill some one yet, by giving them poison instead ol quinine. But what has your pa got his nose tied up for? He looks as though he had had a fight/ '0, that was from my treatment. He had u wart on his nose. You know that wart. You remember how the minister told him ifothei eople's business had a but ton-hole in it, pa could button the wart into the buttou-hole, as he al ways had his nose there. Well, I told pa I could cure that wart with caustic, aud lie said he wouid give me $5 if I could cure it, so I took a slick of caustic and burned the wart off, but I guess 1 burned down into the nose a little, for it swelled up as big as a j lob-tor. Pa says he had rather have a whole nest of warts than such a nose, but it will be all right in a year or so. Summer Sesort Quotations. 'I believe you advertise ?ood fish icg V .rr % 'ics, sir. 'Where is it ?' 'Over in the lake. Wc never fish j on dry land here.' 'But. I have been over there all day j and never had a bite/ 'Of course not. If you want to fish j com here in Jrme. This is July, and | the fish wont bite. Sorry but you are a month too late.' at t3e nearest railroad station. 'How far is it over to Kosebush Lake V 'Sixteen miles, sir.' 'Why, I was toid that it was only half a mile from this station ! This is a pretty state of affairs, I declare ! How do you get over there. 'I have never been there, sir. I pre sume ycu can hire a farmer's team or walk it.' 'It's a dead swindle !' Well ?' 'And Pm a fool for leaving home!' 'Yes.' 'And FJ1 take the down train.' 'Certainly. Only sixteen hours to wait for it. Sit down in the freight house and make yourself comfortable.' too previous. 'See here, landlord, didn't you ad vertise an entire absence of flies and musquitoes at this place?' 'Certainly, sir ; but those advertise ments were prepared in March, and I assure you in the most solemn manner that we weren't troubled in the least until the last of May. If you had only come up here in April you would have had a glorious time.' an off year. * 'Hot! Why, it's five degrees hotter here than at home ! I thought this was one of the coolest places in the coun try ?' 'My dear sir, this is an off year, you know ! IS very year but this we have had to keep up fires in July, and we shall probably have to next year again. | ? It in a sort of an extra season, you j rj see.' * L But where are these cool breeds you } advertised ?' 'Oh,- they are over on the other side of the lake to-day. You see, this is only one side of the lake, and we can't expect to monopolize all the breeze there is. We must divide up and give the other resorts some of it.* c If h a came in handy. 'See here, landlord, you advertised a big, four-story hotel, with a grove, IJ fountains, bathing, boating, etc., and I j g arrive here to find a shanty stuck in the pine wood? and the nearest lake a mile away. Explain yourself, sir !' 'With the greatest pleasure. The ^?* -/ tue ju'-tej. wag^orjQ-^Tv^^-rrr? printer's hands, and he worked it in to fili out the column. I ought to have mentioned in the advertisement that it w.-i2 a cut of a hotel at Long Brach, j but T neglected to. Come right in? j beautifn! scenery, weeds full of snakes, j? rates down to ?4 per day and children charged fell prices.' dog cheap. 'Landlord, this bill is downright ex tortion !' How is that? 'Why, I can stop at the Grand Pa- j cific for loss than yoa have charged j lT me V j C 'Yes, sir. but is the Grand Pacific I y among the hills? L* it surrounded by i > pines? Has it a boiling spring? Can i o you wait over a precipice within ?00 j 7 feet of the Grand Pacific ? I charge X two dollars a dry for tho precipice, an- j d other for tue h?ls and the spring, and if twelve shillings a day for hotel rates are not dog cheap then I don't know how to please you. Why, sir, if the Fifth Avenue Hotel was on the brink : : a precipice 200 feet high, you couldn't stop there for ?8 a day !' Ii Wonderful Progross of a Hu-ja ral Legislator. c The following is an. extinct from a I letter written by a rural legislator and addressed to a friend: 'Well, j I'm gcltiii' pretty well broke in, but j f I ain't reached a pint yit whar I can I ' take the bit be! ween my teeth au* j iump the fence. 1 am gettin' nseter j1 the ways of the city an' can cuss a i * nigger at the hotel with the best of i1 fem, let me tell you. 1 have got so I can eat oysters. Didn't like 'em at first, they was so slimy., but I soon saw that it was expected of me, so I put one in my mouth, shut my eyes and sent her home. She didn't want J t to stay, for the blamed thing was | f alive, but I hilt her down an' didn't j v wink. I tried to cat some lumber j I cheese, but it wouldn't go. You i f can smell the stuff as far as you can I e stand fl;it footed and fling a rock. I ; a went to a show the other night, 1 1 expected to see horses and a trick a mule, hut when they pulled up a I s groat painted wagon Iciver thar stood 1 two well dressed fellows. They g commenced to <alk an' I never see ; 1 men cany on so in my lile. Putty j * soon a gal come in an' then they j c bad a devil <>f a time. Well, they j i jawed around awhile an' then some j 1 fellow let down the wag-on kivor. j t .After the kivor went up again, two j 1 fellows got to fightitr, an' while they I 1 tit, the gal hopped in an' downed one ^ of'em. They kep'er goin' ou this j j way till I thought somebody was j i goin' to git hurt, but finally every thing came out all right except they didn't have no horses.'?Albany Ex press. Fashionable belle wants to know a what shade will be the most preferred 11 thip summer. Well, the shade of a big c elm tree will bo very popular, but at j < the seaside the shade of a big umbrella j s wili be much fought after. I < News and Gossip. Maurice- Sullivan, of New York, 23 years old and weighing 129 pounds, is trying to ha7e annulled his marriage with Mary ITealy, who was a widow, with five grown children, 44 years old, md fighting at 200 pounds. He says she got him drunk and married bim against his will. The only lady of the White House R-ho entered it *as a bride was Mrs. Tyler. Her maiden name was Gardner, ind she first met the President at Wash ington in the third year of his term. The marriage was performed in New York a few months before the Presi les. t*s term expired. It is announced that the recent at tempt to 'buH' the Confederate bonds has collapsed. There was never any basis for the attempt for the Confede rate seeuriiies are absolutely as dead as Ihotmes or Scsostris, who have been mummies for three or four thousand years. Enthusiastic Professor of Pysics. dis cussing the organic and inorganic king-, iom : 'Now, if I should shut my eyes? so?and drop my head?so?and not move, you would say I was a clod ! But [ move, I leap, I run, then what do pou call me:' Voice from the rear : ! A clod hopper. Class is dismissed. j A fellow of the Royal College of Sur- ; ?eons was lately Seed ?10 and costs for 'furiously riding a tricycle.' He was Iravelling so rapidly that a constable on horseback had great difficulty in catch ng him, though it was shown in court ;hat the surgeon had already travelled sixty miles that day on his machine. Dr. Neale was once strongly urged to icrform some service, but he objected, heading a prior engagement. This: ,urned out to be to have several teeth extracted. Finally the doctor said, re erring to the person who desired his 3resence, "Tell him I'll go if he'll take ny place at the dentist's." A little girl saw an old drunken man ying on a door-step, the perspiration )ouring off his face and a crowd of chil- 1 Iren preparing to make fun of him. 3he took her little apron and wiped his ace, and then looked up pitifully to the est and made this remark: '0, don't mrt him ! He is somebody's grandpa.' Was not that the better way ? Twenty-five years ago a youDg lady if this town had a singular dream. She consulted a dream book, andlearn ;d that she would have four husbands >efore she reached the age of thirty. Phis made her rather independent, and he is now an old maid of forty-two, md has never had a beau. Some Iream book3 are not as reliable as they aight be.?Korristoic:i Herald. The report of the United States Fish Commission for the distribution season >f 1882, just made out, show's that .0,331 German leather carp were sent o applicants from South Carolina rom the commencement of the season q October until the close, Jane 1. i'ive hundred applicants were sent into .73 Congressional districts and.twenty ine of the counties in the State. The Rock Hill Herald cays: On iaturday last Dr. W. B. Fewoil, of ibenezer, seined his fish pond and j aught Ir^^Ka^J^rvjH orty German carp measuring from welvc to twenty-two inches in length, i'his pond was started two years ago nd was made on land previously lanted in cotton. Dr. Feweli is so ncoui*3ged by his two years' experi nce that he stocked another pond with his "catch." There were 140 failures in the Joited States reported to Bradstreet's uring the past week, four more than he preceding week, IG more than the or responding week of 1882, and 50 lore than the same week of 1881. Compared with the previous week, the riddle States had 32, an increase of 2 ; Jew England States 27, an increase of :1; Southern States 24, an increase of : Western States 44. a decrease of 9; 5aei?c States and Territories 13, a eerease of 18 ; Canada and the Prov nccs 26, an increase of 10. Two notable conventions of colored cople have been held lately ; one, the ress convention at St. Louis; the ther, the State Convention of Texas, n the former convention, by resclu ion, they asked for co-education, a air chance in ail the higher industries nd pursuits: political recognition ac ording to voting strength, and that le^ro hereafter be spelled with a big N.M The Texas Convention con ratulated both races on the harmony nd geueral improvement prevailing, nd advised their race to cut loose r?m immoral teachers aud preachers, .hey consider the whites with whom hey live their best friends. They are vowed Republicans when it comes to ?olitics. - mm a n ?~q? Converted by Lightning. I Up in Houston County there is a oung man who has heretofore borne he reputation of being the wickedest cllow iu the section where he lived. A ery interesting revival took place not ong ago and much iuterest was mani ested. One of the miuisters approach d the young man and asked if he had ? . Bible, and he replied negatively. Che good man advised him to buy one ,ud take it home and read it. He aid he had no money to throw away on >ibles. Then the minister offered to ;ivc him one and he refused to take it. lc went home and repaired to his farm. ,Vhcn in the field an :;ngry -rain cloud j ame, and soon vivid flashes of light- | ling began to play around in the neigh borhood of the wiche?! young man. iooa a bolt came along and knocked tim winding over the cotton rows, [he failing rain drops in his face re rived him after a few minutes, and he jrocceded toward the house, but just )cfore entering the gate he received mother shock which laid him prostrate md helpless on the ground. Reviving igain, he went into the house and re nted to hi? wife the ordeal bt '-ad just )assed through, and how rear he had ipproached death. Next day he went j o town, bought a Bible, attended :hurch during the gracious revival, and mbraced religion. This is one in itance where a man got religion by dectricity.?Montezuma (Ga.) Recofd. A SAGACIOUS URN. "How d'ye do?" he asked, with a grin of familiar recognition. ** Don't seem to know me, do ye ? X wasin here last fall and give yer some anecdotes about some snakes down in my parts. Remember ? " "Yes," growled the city editor, "I recollect yon. All your snake stories were lies, and we got letters from all over saying so. "What do yon want now?" " You don't tell me/' nrminated the snake man, smoothing his hat softly. "Lies, was they? Mebbe the parties as writ to yer knowed more about them snakes than me. P'rhaps what I come j to toll yer about my speckled hen with ! a blue hackle is all lies too." "What has she done?" " She's done mor'n the snakes, and if the snakes war lies that hen'3 a whop per, that's all I can say," and he looked deeply injured. "Tell us about her, anyway,*' said the city editor. " Yer hearn about the cat that hatched chickens, I reckon. Well, my old speckled hen's been dicountin' that cat. She's hatched four brood of kittens; one in each brood." " Oh, go home and sleep it off 1" rec ommended the indignant city editor. "Pact! Four brood, and one to the brood. I seen her gettin' restless and setten around on things, and tried fer to knock her out o' the idee. No use. She'd set onto a hot fiatiron but what she'd set. -Fust she hatched an qldmilt pail into tin cups, and then she sauatted on some dough that was sot to rise, and I'm slugged if she didn't hatch out a dozen biscuit and then try to learn 'em to swim. I seen she was gittin' right broody, and I says to the old woman, j says I, ' Mar, sumpin' must be done fer the speckled hen with the blue hackle.' Mar tumbled to the idee, and says she, 'Yer bet yer life!' so with that we fig gered what we'd best do. While we was ?ggerin' she sot on a load o' cord wood, and 111 eat a grind stun if it didn't come out all sawed and split. Tin teHin'yer this so yer won't think the kittens was unnat'ral. Well, Mar and me figgere% snd figgered, and while we was figgerin* the speckled hen was figgerin' too. She hopped on to bar'l o' scrap iron, and Fm drunk if she didn't whack out 200papers o' tacks. We seen that sumpin' had got fer to be done right off, but before we hit onto the scheme, ye can lick me if a tornado didn't take the roof right ofTn my house. Of course, yer know, we fergot the old hen fer a few days. Dog my skin if she didn't set on the pump handle and hatch it into toothpicks. Sure's yer born. Somehow my reapin* machine got under her one night, and the next mornin' it was railroad spikes. Yer never seen nothin' like it. She. was bent fer ter set. Til tell yer. There was three hard-shell clams out in the yard, and she sot on 'em and hatched out lobsters. If she didn't, Fm a nar." "No doubt of it. Bnt how about the kittens?" " Well the men came to put a new roof on the house; got there just be-.^? fore- dinner, andledTtheir tools into the yard. I seen the old hen vatchin' them tools, but I didn't think no harm. Just before that?" "Never mind anything else. Come down to the cats." "Just so. While we was at dinner I seen her explorin' around, aud I didn't know what had happened the day be fore?" "Drop that!" said the city editor, sternly. " Give us the four broods of cat, one in a brood." " WeH, the four workmen was at din ner, and the old speckled hen with a blue hackle was nosin' round, and says I to mar, ?Mar?'" " Out with those cats quick," and the city editor took down a scythe. "Certainly. The tools was outside* you know, four sets on 'cm, in?what's this riiey carry their tools in ?" "Akit?" ** And the old speckled hen had sot on them four hits, and if she didn't hatch out four brood o'?" Parties desiring to exchange a new scythe for a second-hand one, somewhat out of repair, will please apply at tiie Eagle office for two days.?Brooklyn Eagle. STEEL KAILS, That the hardest steel is not the most durable for railroads appears from an examination of the wear of some of the steel rail* on the Great Northern line, England. Seven of the rails, which lay ride by side on this road, were taken up and tested, and it was found in one in stance that a hard rail had been worn away one-sixteenth of an iuch by traffic amounting to 5,251,030 tons, while a soft rail for the same amount of wear had withstood 8,402,000 tons. In another instance the total was 15,531,000 tons for the hard rail and 33,061,000 tons for the soft rail, the wear being the same?one sixtoenth of an inch. Analysis showed this last rail to consist of 90.475per cent* of iron and minute quantities of carbqn, phosphorus, silicon, manganese, sul phur, and copper. TOO ISDEPEXDEKT. There is one boy in Galvesica who will never be a musician. He is too independent. Eis teacher was trying td make him play the right notes, and ke said to him: " You mu.-.t not roach way over there on the treble. That's not right." " I guess I'il reach whore I please, on this piano. We own this piano, I reckoj ni put my feet upon it if I see fit. ?Galveston News. L M THAT SyOB, WHITE. Kichard Grant White has coined "edi torling, " which moves the Indianapolis Journal to say that he is a carping, pre tentious, snobbish fraud. " He assumes to be the highest living authority in re gard to style and the correct use of words, and yet his writsngs abound witia loose, inexact and ungrammatioal ex pressions,"