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YTI'fCUKS AM) i>KVILS. | Queer Stories and Iiieas of Early Times j Concerning Kvil Spirits. (From tlae JX>itor: coiuiii.vrciul Jiulieiiu.) The earliest letter in the blather . ,v.?i ollruloa !>(% f]f>incjr?n nf |JU?n;iD tliU, l U.iUUV. J W ^ witchcraft is "The testimony of William Mors and his wife,"- relating" certain events that occurred at his house in 1079, which were believed to be the result of witchcraft. This testimony was inclosed in a letter from the liev. Joshua Moodey to the Iicv. Increase Maher. "The last thing heard of," says the venerable divine, "was the carrying away of several axes in the night notwithstanding they were laid up, yea, iockt up very safe, as the owner thought, at lea-t, which was done this spring." liie tramp naa evidently notyet'bceix invented for the benefit of the careless. It seems that Master I?Iors and his wife bad but just retired for the night . when they were roused by the violent falling of "Stokes & Slons" on the roof. On opening the door to discover the cause of these nocturnal disturbances both he and his wife were driven back by a volley of stones hurled against them. The pair discreetly returned to bed, locking the door carefully behind them, but at about midnight were again awakened by the loud grunting of a hog which the master of the house was at some trouble to drive out of doors. The powers of darkness did not confine their pranks to the night, but continued their performances in broad daylight. Household goods, hung in the chimney for sal'c keeping, leaped lrom menhooks and took possession of the chairs, and other articles lied from their accustomed places aud fell rattling down the chimney. Among oilier articles, he says: "A basket in the chamber com donn the chimney. I tockc it up myselfc and laide it before me; it was sndinly taken away I know not how and com doun the chimny again. I then took a brick and put into it and said it should carry that it' it did goo up againe. It was taken away I know not how and com doun the chimny and the brick * * * after it.:' The godly man was sorely plagued by the continual falling of stones on the roof and even of lighted firewood down the chimney. Swine invaded - t. * _ r*? his nouse ami it was mapossioie ioi him and his hired boy to keep the cattle fastened in the barn. Tots, kettles and andirons performed a witche's dance around the kitchen, and neither sheets nor blankets would stay upon the bed. Chairs would then perform a polite obeisance and then violently kicked the master and mistress of the house. Finally the writer concludes: "A mate of a ship coming often to me and said lie was much grieved for us, and said the boye was the Cause of oil my trabble and my wife was much Eonged and was no wich, and if I would Let him have the boy but bou ' Day he would warent no more trueel. I being persuaded to it he comet he nex day at tiie break of day andhed boy was with him until night an It had not any trubel since." The second letter vouching for sundry witch-like occurrences was written at Hadley in lGs:), and by no less a worthy than the Eev. John' Russell, the kindly protector ot the regicides. Goffe and Whalley. According to the accounts it seems that an aged mar nfimpfl Xifciiolas Dishorow. of Ilart ford, had at her mother's death, taker charge of his little granddaughter. This little girl at the" tender age oi eight fell into a pond and was drowned. Iler father, John Androsse, witl: whom she had not lived for years, immediately set to his father-in-law. Disborow, for the personal effects oi Mistress Androsse and of his daughter. Disborow, disgusted with his worthless son-in-law, refused, anil straightway "began to be visited with a strange providence, stones and dirt being thrown at him, at first small pieces. * * * This providence become? , amazing; thiugs being thrown at him v and his boy, night a?ul day, in house and field; sometimes in open places, V where one might see a quarter of a mile about and 110 appcarance of hand or person to throw them. The things were stones, dirt, brickbats, cobs ol Indian corn/' Rather substantial effects, these, ot ghostly influence. "Not even the hearthstone was safe from the witchsped missiles, it appears, for the narrator goes on to say: "When in the house, and doors shut, they would come down the chimney, and fall upon +Vi?rr> onrl nnnn n-flro in LLlKsliJ.) UilU ? ? ^ V > A** the house. * * * One stoue that hitfc him on the arm putt him to some little pain. Another on the leg drew a little blood which appeared through his shocking." Thus it continued till November, about which time said Disborow's barn was burnt; "no man knew how, but very strangely; and considerably to his loss.'' This strange pelting with missiles from unknown hands continued until Disborow sent to Androsse the garments in dispute The reverend doctor marvels gready that, although "Stones & brickbatts about a pound waight that fell down by them, yet they received no considerable hurt." "It was a strange & awful Providence," he decides. "More than natural!, which occasioned great thoughts of hart; whether the child's death was merely casuall, or, &c. But how, or what the cause of the motions was, the Lord only knows." This same fall of 16S3 seems to have Deen especially biessea or cursed with all manner of witch work, for late iu August of that year the Jlev. John Iliggiuson, of Salem, writes to bis brother minister, Mr. Increase Mather, the following terrible warning against a too great love of books, which precocious youngsters of to-day would do well to learn by heart: A godly young student, says the account, was bound apprentice to a draper, yet "Notwithstanding, continued a strong inclination & eager affection to books, with a curiosity of hearkening after & reading of' the strangest & oddest books he could get: ^ spending much of his time that way to the neglecting of his business." But, j as the Sunday schools say, mark the I sequel. "At one time there came a j man into the shop ?Jc brought a book j with him sayd to him, here is a book | IUI yvu, avvjj iiiia uiu can IUI 11 again, and so went away. Mr. Sharp, alter bis wonted bookish manner, was eagerly affected to look into that book ?Jc to read in i;, which he did, but as he read in it, he was seized on by a strange horror both of body and mind, the hair of his head standing Tip." The worthy apprentice straightway took counsel with his master, and be- j tween they decided that the volume | was a conjuring book and committed | it to the flames T Thejman who brought j it of course no other than Beelzebub j himself. Then this godly young ap-1 prentice, taking this "As a solemn , warning from God to take heed what j books he did reau, was much taken oil ] r? * /? 1 i i __ _ irom ms loruier uookisuiicss, con mi-, ing himself to reading the liibic ana other known good books of divinitv which were profitable to his soul." Listen to this Messrs. Crawford and you uncanny shades of Fitzgcral, De Quincy and Toe. If the mild horrors of a seventeenth ccnturv tale were judged the inventions of the devil, what is tlie source of your grisly revelations? The second slory which Dr. IIi<rginson tells in all "seriousness would be worthy of a place in the ranks of those innumerable folk lore stories of bargains with the devil, if the explanations were not so patent to all ex cept sage doctors of divinity two centuries ago. It seems that somewhere in Essex, England, a young man agreed with the devil to preach absoI lute atheism, that there was neither i God, devil, heaven nor hell. In exi change for this service he was to attain i wordl}' distinction and a great reputa tton for wisdom. All at first went i swimmingly with this seventeenth ; century Boh In^ersoll until the api proach of death. Then he straight; way avowed bis beiief, not only in ! prradise, but in punishment, and died j miserably 111 instant expection that a j legion of fiends would carry him, ] second or rather a foreshadowed von > Giovanni, to the sulphurous pit. The same J)r. Moodev mentioned ] above can not let the birth of an unj fortunate monstrosity occur without : finding in it something of witchcraft, | and he gravely writes to Boston in ; September, 1GS3, a minute descrip! tion of a poor distorted infant that was i brought forth by an Indian woman, as >a terrrible warning of things present and to come. He concludes: "Doubtless you have liearn how matters are ! with us, I beg your prayers." Poor j maiij lie needed "them not only for his ; credulity but for his misfortunes, for ] he was shortly after imprisoned by ; Urantield "for administering the sacj raments contrary to the laws and statj utcs of England." 1 J. VAliaV/lKillUl T ! were sent to Dr. Mather, as lie was | at thai time compiling a volume, 01 j rather volumes, called "Remarkable : Providences,'' which he published hi | 1GS4. These uncouth and garbled ; talcs were accepted as absolutely cor| rect, not only by superstitious countrj j people, but" by the most learned scholars in America and England. , Such contemporary letters speak, as < no other testimony can, of the horri j bly darkened condition of the humai: '! intellect, even in the days when Franc* I was approaching her zenith undci i Louis XIV., and England was prepar j ing for that glorious revolution which j was to ellace the name of Stuart frotr i the list of European dynasties, anc i give England not only genuine free I dom but"a genuine king. JinirvrrTARTA DRESSES IX STATE. | The Queen's Last Drawing Room Recep tion and the Toilettes of the Occasion. (From a London Letter.) I I had the honor of being presentee ;! to her Iloyal Highness at the las: . drawing room and will give you i j description of her dress. It was o. j the most tender lilac or mauve shade j a waist and petticoat of lilac tern ,; velvet, a train of cream crepe de chine j handsomely embroidered in varioiu j shades of flowers, lined and borderec I with lilac and coral roses. The skir i was looped with tulle and embroidered ! with flowers, the train caught bacl j with lilac feathers. Her headdres: j j was a tiara of diamonds, feathers ant 1 { veil, her ornaments diamonds. Shi , j wore the orders of Victoria and Al ; bert, the Crown of India, St. Catha ;; rine of Itussia, St. John of Jerusalem | the Royal lied Cross and Danism ls.ni . i liv oraer. -\exi ner stooci tne ranees , ; Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, in 5 ; 1 dress and train of black striped velve ' | and satin, the train lined with scarle ' satin and trimmed with jet. It shonk [ be remarked here that people goin< | out of mourning in England alwayi wear scarlet. Her headdress was ; L tiara of diamonds, feathers, veil, am her ornaments, emeralds and dia [ j monds. She wore four orders, th( I Victoria and Albert, the Crown o 11 India, St. John of Jerusalem and th< : Royal lied Cross. The Princess Man ' I of "Cambridge stood next to her, ai ! j immense but rather handsome woman .! Then came a young girl, the Princes ; | Louise of "Wales. An exquisite sliadi i : of blush brocaded si...n, lined witl [! poult dc sole, and trimmed with feath .1 ers and syringa blossoms, joined tin 11 corsage and train, over a tulle petti . i coat looped with bunches of the sam< llowers. Her headdress was of feath I ers and tulle veil. She wore pearls diamonds and rubies. Next to he: |! stood her popular p*pa, the Prince o Wales, in a lull suit of scarlet, th< | uniform of a General. >"ellie Grant and Jler English Husband . j (From a New York Letter.) It is possible Mrs. Nellie Grant Sar toris may visit her mother late in the ! summer. She has now proceeded tc ! her Isle of Wight residence and wil j soon make a visit to the Continent The only daughter of the great chief i tain of the American ami}"desired tc ! pass last winter with her mother to , comfort her, but her husband's fathei rriTifo cnr?li 1 lfivinnr ?mnAtil hf>r tr i return for the winter that Mr?. Sartoj ris at once went back to England. ; There has been such a" amount ol I gossip about Mrs. Sartoris and her ! husband that I feel authorized to say ' that from the best sources I have | heard there is truth in the report oi i Mrs. Sartoris being anxious for a ! divorce. Her husband is gay and j perhaps would not by an American i moralist be considered a model hus band; but after all the model husbands I are few in this world, and if the wives | of ail the husbands who are not : mArl/il;1 tttapa frv cnol* onrl nKfoin , iiivuvio Lvy i*tni *i" j divorces the wives of the models I would be so numerically weak they ; would certainly feel rather lonely. t , t A Lawyer's Contingent Fee. j "What is a contingent fee?7' asked a i litigant of a well-known attorney the other day. "Well," said the legalite, "if I take | your case and lose it I <?et nothing." "Yes, yes; that's all right." "But if I win the case you get nothj ill?-" "How's that! How's that! I don't think I understand you." The attorney calmly repeated his I statement. The still non-plussed liti gant persisted: "If I understand you, in neither case do I get anything." "Well, you know that's not my fault; but that is the meaning of a contingent fee. Shall 1 .bring suit? What did you say? No? Well, I am very sorry. Good morning." Railroad men say that on July 4th there will be some considerable changing around in railroad circle*. General Manager E. B. Thomas, of the Richmond and Danville, is set down as a mover, and his object seems to be to rob the Atlantic Coast line of as much of the through travel between the Xorth and South as possible. It is said to be a isitivc fact that double daily trains are to be put on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta road, and the track between Charlotte and Augusta is to be put in first class order, new steel rails having been ordered. When the double daily service begins on this road, the trains will be run through from Charlotte to Savannah. It is reported that, a new through fast nail and nassemrer train will be put on the xslied. JSoooay nun. line between Charlotte ancl Washington, making three trains per day on the Richmond "and Danville, two of these to be through passenger and mail and one local, j it will not surprise tip to see all of these I rumors confirmed, for the Richmond and Danville is not only reaching out for busi Hess, but intends to have it. ?Charlotte Ob scrccr. Thomas E. Shannon, charged with the homicide of Mr. Barron, in Clarendon County, has been released from the custody hf the Sheriff on $2,000 bail. Shannon oad been confined in Sumter jail to prevent a threatened lynching in Clarendon. An extra freight train on the S. C. Rail way was wrecked at Granitcville Thursday mo ruin?. Eighteen cars were thrown off the track and some of tliem nearly demol <;E\ERAL \E\V8 ITEMS. I Facta of Interest Gathered from Various , Quartern. The Bank of Monroe, Louisiana, has been closed. Parnell. the great Irish leader, is only 41 years old. A woman died in New York Saturday, it is supposed, from cholera. Unprecedented fruit and wheat crops are reported in Virginia. The apple crop of Connecticut promises to he unusually large this year. Ex-Vice President David Davis is lying critically ill and may die at any moment. Parliament was prorogued on Friday. Tlictailntinn tnnl.- (">ii SfltlirdjlV. Randall says the Administration is not the enemy of tlie silver dollar. Detroit had a case of lynching Thursday, and yet Detroit is not situated in the South. The great strike of nailers at Pittsburg, which has lasted over a year, was settled Thursday. After wasting all the week to obtain a jury to t rv the Chicago anarchists, only one juror has been chosen. Moses A. Dow, the millionaire publisher of the W'aterly Magazine, died in Boston Thursday. lie left $2,000,000. A horse was frightened to death in In dianapolis, Ind., Thursday by a tire steam engine. X H'VmuiiLV, IV. X.J l iiuioumj i the 250th anniversary of the settlement of ; that city. There is considerable grumbling in Ba; van a regarding the treatment of the late t King. The Treasury has issued a call for $4, 000,000 of bonds for redemption. The call ' matures August 1. ! A young girl, under treatment of P;isteur, at Paris, is dead. She was bitten by a mad dog on the 27th of April. A French brigantine sank Saturday on the banks of Newfoundland and nine of her crew drowned. Revivalists Jones and Small arc said to be planning a New England seashore campaign for the summer. An unknown friend of Erin in New 1 l ork lias contributed ^;>,uuu to me rcnci committee in Ireland. The strike in the yarn miU of the Riverside Mills at Augusta is at an end and the mill is in full operation. John Johnson, of Brooklyn, X. Y., committed suicide by pushing a handkerchief down his throat with a long ruler. 1 Jacob Swingley. of Creston, 111., cut the t throats of his two children and committed i suicide on the 19th?insane. f The Board of Trustees of the University j of Alabama conferred the degree of I). I). upon S. llecht, Jewish rabbi of Montgom? cry. s The Xew York Times has determined to 1 make an attempt to find out the sccrets of t Alaska, and has sent an exploring expediI firm i Newsmen in New Jersey, Brooklyn and 5 part of New York commenced to boycott I the World Monday and killed r)0,000 copies 3 in one day. The Tories are in consternation over the - new invasion of Scotland by Irish Protest, ants from Ulster, all pleading for home - rule for Ireland. 5 A three-year-old child was attacked while x playing on the sidewald in Babylon, L. I., t by a Newfoundland dog, which tore the t flesh from one side of its face. 1 "George H. Davis was hanged Friday at ; Scale, Ala. Also, Robert Dillard and Jas. 5 Emmet, both colored, at Greenville, Miss., i for murder. 1 Fifty persons were thrown into Sa/.awa - River, in Bohemia, by the capsizing of a 3 i ferry boat. Twenty-five were taken out. f dead. ; The New England Institute Fair build* ing, Boston, was burned Thursday, and 1 four workmen killed. Loss $250,000; cov. ered by insurance. 5 The Republican State Convention met in 2 Montgomery, Ala., last week, anil decided 1 to put a ticket in the field. Protection - principles adhered to. 5 The British Museum has recently paid - for a copy of the first edition of the 2 Pilgrim's Progress. Only three copies are - known to be in existence. T"?r. r>f "Pi'tfcO.nv.r orwl Alln_ 7 t x |.'iaciutio wi jl au(i iiiiv r ghcny City, Pa., some 700 in number, lnivc f gone out on another strike, on account of D the bud faith of the contractors. The University at Athens, Ga., gets $8,000 per year from the State. The At lanta UDiversity for the colored people gets the same amount. [ Ten Mexicans attacked 50 Apaches in 5 Tecapodepe Pass, near Sarache. The In} dians were defeated. The Mexicans lost ' three killed and one wounded. Saturday morning J. H. Blackburn, of Atlanta, Ga., died. He overtaxed his brain } in the cause of temperance on the day of ' election in Atlanta, and became insane. The Hebrews who forms such a public ' spirited and wealthy class in every city " number less than 250.000 in the United States. Most people in making a guess f would say a million or two. Young and healthy as the season is, there is already a disposition to get up a yellow fever scare in New Orleans, in consequence of the arrival of a Cuban doctor with some j microbes. *'A meeting of 10,000 peoplewas held Thursday at Zurich, to protest against the Government's action against the strikers. The red flag was unfurled, but the police preserved order. The Prince of Wales, who has decided IU wuuuiu an amuicui pjiisiugiapiiui, uc4o much displeased the English by ordering his first camera from an American firm. Over 200 persons were poisoned at a festival at Petersville, N. J., from eating sandwitches made of canned beef. Later news attributes it to arsenic willfully put in the ice cream. The Lake Shore switchmen employed at j the Union stock yards quit work Thnrs! day, owing to the refusal of the railroad company "to discharge eight non-union men, at Chicago. Judge Ilolman, of Indiana, has just been nominated for Congress, and if elected it win ue ins iou lerra. ne is Known iu Washington as "the watch' dog of the Treasury." A contract was closed Monday for the completion of the Birmingham and Sheffield Railroad and the erection at Sheffield, Ala., of a second iron furnace with 100 tons capacity. Five men have been sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying from four to six months for joining the 400 rioters who felled, kicked and stoned 25 Catholic factory women. Four of the five saloons at Washington, 111., are owned by women. Women are rapidly fitting themselves for political duties iu anticipation of the time "when they shall achieve the ballot. Register Rosecrans says the war of the revolution cost this country ?6,000,000; the war of 1S12, ?113,000,000; tiie Mexican war, ?130,000,000, and the late unpleasantness, $6,189,920,905, The agitation of the question of secession at the polls in Pigby, X. S., has occasioned more frankness of expression by the people in regard to their earnest desire for annexation to the United States. H. M. Hyndman, President of the Social Democratic Federation of London, and leader of the English party of so-called Sr-inntitif Socialism, lias decided to visit the United States on ;i lecturing tour. At the fire of the great exhibition building in Boston one man was roasted in sight of the gazing crowd. Eight charred bodies were taken"from the ruins and more are still in the ashes. A Mississippi court has decided in a case against a colored congregation that the right of freedom of worship does not imply the right to such shouting and singing as disturbs the neighborhood. The whipping-post may be looked upon ! as a relic of barbarism, but its introduction I into Maryland as a punishment for wife- ! | beating has lessened that crime in the State. Bullies and cowards always dread physical min. In Annapolis County, Halifax, N. S., ; where the contest in the recent election was ; [ very close, one or more of the ballot boxes '< ? ggs?n?a??MBM?? are missing. As a result tiie secessionist candidate, Attorney General Longley. may le counted in. The Rev. Charles B. Galloway, of Mis-1 sissippi, who was recently elected to a bisli-1 opric in the Southern Methodist Church, is said to be the youngest man ever elected to such a high position in the councils of his church. His age is 30. The "oldest Mason" has again passed away; this time in California?Captain John Paul Jones Davidson. He -\v;is born in Connecticut in 1T8T and had been a Mason 1G years when the Morgan episode created such a stir in 1S2G. The Presidential vetoes of pension raids upon the Treasury are apparently bearing good results in Congress. Tuesday there were 34 adverse reports of pension bills from the Invalid Pensions Committee, and there are more to come. The Swedes are numerous in Chicago. There are not less than live Odd Fellows' lodges composed of this nationality alone. The lirst Swedish lodge has commenced putting up an Odd Fellows' block. At the laying of the corner stone more than 5,000 were present, and the structure will cost near $40,000. Berlin has abolished the old custom of holdingmarket in squares and public places, and during this month has opened a series of grand and colossal market halls in various parts of (he city. During one year the city consumes 1,02.3,000,000 pounds of food. a., -o. rinM.Mt;nn .all ?.CtH.'51.UllUU > I.UUUU, i ^.|.. - . ing the Lutheran Synods in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee, met Wednesday in St. Mark's Church, Roanoke, Va. Rev. W. S. Bowman, I). I)., of Savannah, Ga., preached the opening sermon. Seventeen years ago Thomas Stewart, of Chicago, was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder of Harry Hulbert. It now appears that Eliza Reillev, a woman for whom he had a boyish devotion, committed the crime, and that lie voluntarily sacrificed himself in her behalf. He was released irom the penitentiary on Tuesday last. There is a veritable war between the Chi o -c ?n:,.u cago eras companies, uireu ui ?hh,-umiu invaded each other's territory, ond the contest has finally become so bitt'jp that one of the companies has offered to supply residents of the West Division with gas on a live years' contract for G3 cents per 1,000 feet, against $2.30, which was the charge two years ago. Last week, after the great victory by the Liberals on the question at issue, a wealthy old sea captain at Dlgliy, X. S., took a hatchet, stripped the limbs from the highest spruce tree on his farm, near the town, and nailed the Stars and Stripes there. Then, pointing to the flag, he shouted: "That is our next question to vote on, and you will find before long two-thirds of us that way of thinking." The Government at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon issued a decree expelling the French Princes from France. Count Tou-i .1. rt ?..1 Anctmn Ciier ue VyilllUl, Iiiuuasjimui iu iuu Court, has resigned iu protest against the action of the Government in expelling the French Princes. It is believed that M. Waddington, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James, will also resign. The Count and Countess of Paris and their son, Prince Louis Philippe, after receiving their friends, will embark at Treport. rrince Napoleon (Plon-Plon) is going to Geneva, and his son, Prince Victor, to Brussels. A .\ew Revelation. The Interior, published at Chicago, gives the followingdiscription of the recent utter ance of the Augusta General Assembly: "The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly has riven the scientific and religious ' - ? - - - - 1 J5. world uenmte miormauon xu rei;;uu iu mu process by which God created man?an important matter of knowledge unknown to mankind up to the moment when it was revealed in the city of Augusta, State of Georgia, United States of America, anno 18S6. The purpose of this revelation was, as our correspondent sbows, to produce harmony and peace in the Southern Presbytc rian Church. The scientific and religious' world have, however, a just cause of complaint for that, whereas the Augusta Assembly knew so much, it told so little. Inquirers after knowledge desire definiteness and particularity. In these qualities we j we must say, with all deference, that the I Rmitliprn Hardshell Bnotist colored I preacher was the letter revelator. lie an! nounced that 'I)e Lawd made Adam outen j ob de dust ob de yearth, and stood him up i agin de fence to dry.' 'Hoi' on dar!' exclaimed a deacon from his pew, 'Who built dat fence?' Notwithstanding the serious difficulty which so promptly met the 'fence theory,' we regard it as, on the whole, more'explicit than the theory propounded, in the interest of pcace and harmony, by I the Southern Assembly." The same journal says respecting the hy| pothesis that the Augusta Assembly has | given peace to the Church: ! "Our Southern Presbyterian exchanges j are congratulating their readers that now, | and at last, the question of how Adam was 1 created will no longer tear up the ground on their Mount Zion. Now that their Assembly has full}* explained the process, if i any man shall say that the Assembly did not know, he can be taken by his back collar with the ecclesiastical left hand, and seized with the right hand by the rudimentary integument of any other part of his garmcntsVhich may seem best located for lifting purposes, and tossed out of the semitropical sheep-fold." >Ir. Hardin'ii Affliction. Another one of Mr. Hardin's children died last Saturday, the sixth that has been . * /? -- 1 -a *? 1ir.. taKen on m uie iasi iwo wubks. jh. xa;wdin seems to be improving, but one of the two remaining children is not expected to recover. Mrs. Hardin is prostrated with a complication of diseases and is in a very critical condition. Last Saturday Dr. P. A. Whilhite, of Anderson, a member of the State Board of Health, went up to make an investigation of the premises. He procured a reliable well digger and sent him down in the well to make a careful examination. His report shewed that there was nothing in the well, except three feet of pure, clear, cold water | ?not even a frog. This completely upsets j the sensational stories concerning the two clogs, cat ana rauiesnaKe, wmcn -were saiu to have been found in there. After a thorough and careful examination and diligent inquiry Dr. Wilhite in substance says: The sickness of the family was not caused by using the water from the well. The disease from which the children have died is ordinary dysentery aggravated by the following causes: The patients had just a shoit time before they were attacked recovered from measles; a family of ten in one close room, neglect, and consequent accumulation of filth. From what he observed in their surroundings the greater wonder is that any of the family have sur vived. He says no amount of medical skill could make up for the want of proper care and nursing. Mr. Hardin has but few white neighbors and one or two of these have almost worn themselves out in looking ! after bis family. Dr. YVilhite :ind those with him hist Saturday moved the surviving^patients out of , the house into an adjoining cabin, where ( the}' will remain until the house is thor- 1 oughly cleansed and fumigated.?Picken* t Sentinel. j Xew. Hebrides. , The Islands of Xcw Hebrides and Santa I Cruz, over which France and England are ^ now squabbling, form part of the long chain t of groups in the West Pacific known as Ma Ianesia, about ^00 miles from Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. Nearly all the islands are of volcanic, formation. The largest of them is allied "Espiritu Santo, and T is seventy-five miles by forty miles in extent. The population is about 50.000, most- 1 ly savages, very cruel and uu;irrelsome, and v inveterate cannibals. The islands have an t unpleasant notoriety from the fact of the e murder of Bishop Pattison, Capt. Good- i; enough and several missionaries during ? their" efforts to evangelize the natives. a r 1 r-orrovi 1 *vl lw uicy uiive uu,u vjuv, English as forming part of the dominion of New South Whales. Four prisoners are now con fined in Richland jail at Lexingtons expense. One I serving unexpired sentence from Court of Sessions, two under Trial Justice sentence I ind the fourth for next term of court, 1 bOLTH CAROLINA NEWS. The Greenville and Laurens Railroad will be completed, barring accidents, on the loth of August. An agent with quack medicines" has been humbugging the people in the lower part of Lexington County. Amos White, colored, is the only prisoner now in Abbeville jail. While on a spree. Pies Miles killed Wm. Wilks at Scranton?his best friend. A colored child was severely burned on Ladies' Island recently while trying to start a tire with kerosene. Groceries can be bought in Greenwood and delivered at McCormick cheaper than from Augusta. Lowndesville Las been isolated for the past two weeks on account of washouts from the recent heavy rains. Mills ?fc McCaslin's store at Ninety-Six was broken into and robbed, Monday night, ? ? /-.>nnfr*t?AtMCiAnc? "Vrv Ui U IJUUULlbJ KJX pi V * lOiUJUO. JLW ViUV. There is a movement afoot in Spartanburg to organize farm laborers against their employers. Preparations are being made by the contractor to resume the boring of the new artesian well in Charleston this week. The boiler of the engine Jof Dobson & Rent/'s saw mill at Cumming's Station exploded on the 7th, killing the fireman. There seems to be no doubt now but what the Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad will be open for travel by July 10th. John Williams struck Lewis Maize with a hoc in Newberry Tuesday, from the effects of which he died. Williams has tied. It is rumored that the farmers of Spar tanburg will nominate a full legislative ticket to be supported at the primary election. The first new freight cars for the Savannah Valley Railroad have been placed upon the road. They are nicely and substantially made. The Methodists of the State are taking steps towards tbc erection of an Episcopal residence on the Wofford College campus in Spartanburg. There will be a reunion pf Company F, 5th S. C. Cavalry at Tarrer's Spring, near Lexington, on the first Saturday in August next. Geo. Ellis and Jim Goaty had a difficulty on the loth near Folk's Store, Barnwell, in which a pocket knife and pistol were used. A notorious colored woman in Laurens named Mary Mack cut a colored man named Mat Sullivan with a razor in several places Monday. Tbe Greenville post office has been restored to the rank of second class, wbich makes a considerable difference in the post master's salary. The assessment in Pickens County for 18S6 is as follows: Real property, $961,687; personal, $322,922; railroad, $342,350. Total, *1,626,959. The Abbeville Pre** and Banner says the flio T?crnpncAn.]^/in<v1^l trinl hflVA Hp. J"* J *"-* VlglUV.1 ./VUVU.VV ...... ? ~ clared that, it was no harm at all to "kill the damned Jew." Additional force has been put to work on the Savannah Valley Railroad, and it is believed the road will be completed to Anderson by the 15th of July. E. Edwards, of Branchville, while out getting a load of wood, came upon a complete male outfit spread out on the ground on the edge of a thick pond?mysterious. The dwelling of James II. Dunn, near Hodges, was destroyed by lire Saturday night. A portion of the household goods were saved. Loss about $2,000; insurance $(500. Marshall Dunlap, of Honea Path, succeeded in relieving the stomach of one of his mules of about half a peck of sand a few days ago, and the animal is all right again. The railroad elections in Cane Creek, Gill's Creek and Pleasant Hill township, in Lancaster County, occur to-day. The re suit in Cane Creek and Pleasant Hill is thought to be in doubt. Mr. Hezekiah Ellis, of Sumter, who has been spending some time with his brother in Florence, died from an overdose of morphine Thursday, which he administered.to himself while suffering pain. During a game of ball at Jonesville, Union, between two colored clubs, a difficulty arose between B. Rice and S. Palmer, in which Rice struck Palmer in the back of the head with a bat, from which he died. A negro from Atlanta, claiming to be a doctor, is now practicing medicine about Laurens. Many of his patients have not survived his treatment. He examines his patients in the palm of their hands for all diseases. An infant child of John Williams, colored, of Ladies' Island, came to its death on Saturday by eating concentrated lye which was left within its reach. Death from concentrated lye is of the most excruciating character. In the case of James Gathers, colored, charged with outrageous assault upon a five-year-old daughter of Mrs. A. Hodges, of Charleston, in January last, he was found guilty and recommended to mercy, which rcduccs the punishment of death to life imprisonment. In resoonse to a recent nomination for Governor by the Sumter Adcance, ex-Governor B. Y. Perry writes a letter to the editor of that paper in which lie thanks him for the honor and says: "I have been Governor once, and have had enough of it." A bill restoring Capt. K. G. Billings, a well known Mexican war veteran of ban caster, to the pension roll, from which he was dropped at the outbreak of the late war, has finally passed l>oth houses of Congress. The Captain's pension amounts to $17 per month. A story comes from Oconee that on Tuesday a colored man named Bill Boston grossly insulted an elderly and respectable white" woman while she was alone. On the return of her son, Mat Scurry, a youth, he informed of the farts, and he sought the negro and attacked him with a knife,! cutting his jugular vein in twain. The Greenwood Board of Trade has passed a resolution urging the members of the Legislature from Abbeville to use their influence to secure the enactment of the law entitled "An Act to aid and encourage manufactures in this State," which was repealed at the last session of the Legislature. John A. Studly, of Midway, who was cowhided recently by W. T. Connelly and A. L. Ott, says "time will tell" whether he is reconciled to the indignity or not. In a card he says: "And now, since the lady and her friends have taken the steps they have, in justice to myself. I must say that her mother knows the whole truth, and knows that I have not lied. Every one can see that the correspondent was not disposed to do me justice in that report." Several months aco the Town Council of Laurens arrested, tried and convicted Col. J. L. M. Irby, as be thought, in a harsh, lrbitrary and unjust manner, and be promptly announced his intention to appeal, which right they denied him. lie lsed what knowledge he bad of law, and lid appeal to the Circuit Court. Judge Hudson sustained him, and ordered a new rial on the following grounds: 1. That before any man can be tried before the Council le must be served with a summons setting 'orth the time, the place and the nature of he offence, at least five days before trial. !. That the defendant was entitled to a trial >y jury. The Trouble Safely OTer. Stomach trouble is serious business i-bilft it lasts: but what a blessed relief 1 0 have it depart! Mrs. F. G. Wells, of ! 9 Atlantic street, Hartford, Conn., J rrites that she tried Brown's Iron Bit- < ers for stomach trouble, and that she i xperienced snch relief that the trouble < 1 now entirely over. She recommends i his great iron medicine to all who are t filicted. It cures liver and kidney com- t ilaint. j - m m t re swung with her till the hour was late ( And when he went home, said he, ler father had painted the garden gate And my pants are a sight to see. t [ereafter, he said to himself, I'll wait j 'ill the paint has dried on the garden gate, i BRIC-A-BRAC. There is a guest that I detest, Forever at my side: He clings to me more fondly Than a bridegroom to bis bride. I bate bim and berate liim. But when I cross bis will He glares at me sardonically And clasps me closer still. He's a beggar and a ranger, He was present?not a stranger? At the birth of the Messiah T? it. - ..1.1 T.. ,1 m iuu cum ouutsiu uiuugu. Ee strolls along the path Of the tempest in its wrath; 's found among the ruins 'f the moulder'd aftermath. He's a prince of empty pockets, Out at elbow and at knee: He's the king of countless millions, And his name is Poverty. Upside down?A feather bed. A capital fellow?The millionaire. Glaziers take pleasure in the thought that tliic ic o TvnrlH nf nnnp Uniform prices?Wliat the tailor charges for soldier's clothes. You can always get a bottle of perfumery for a scent. The fisheries question?Is there anything left in the pocket flash? If you find you cannot succeed?suc! cumb. One need not be a brilliant writer to express himself in glowing terms. Young man, never say to your sire: "You might go, father, and fare worse." Perhaps the music of Thomas and Maria may not inaptly be called eat-chy. The tramp who entered a baker}* and stole a loaf of ginger-bread took the cake. Nature's most becoming dress?the close of the day. Effectual destruction of weeds?marrying a widow. Man proposes, woman accepts, if the col1^4 | ;aieiai? ait; jjuiju It is not believed that the President will i veto his wedding bills. No chicken pie blooms on the ccholess banks of Salt River. Country cousins are beginning to receive letters from their city relatives. Better to have loved a short girl than never to have loved a tall. Every nice young lady who has a bachelor guardian should feel encouraged now. If you want to communicate with the finny tribes of the sea first drop them a line. When one splits his side with laughter he should run until he gets a stitch in them. In answer to the question, "Is life worth living?" we reply that it all depends on the liver. It is between the acts at the theater that I a man is most liable to have an attack of the g'out. Buy bar soap by the quantity. Keep it where it will dry, and it will go much : farther in using. * It is a sure sign that the fools are not all dead when a fat man tries to be a dude and wear tight pantaloons. "Letter go!" exclaimed Flippant-talker, dropping a missive into the box on the street near Dr. Miot's drug store. Maine seems quite willing to go over and thrash Canada, provided some one will hold the Canadians till she does it. We always knew this administration would get itself into trouble before it finished its term. Brother Blaine is everything and everywhere in these days. Jsn't he a little too previous for the summer of 1888? If the poets can only be kept quiet the country may yet recover from the excitement attending the President's marriage. With what fiendish glee the Frenchman will greet the news that the bicycle has been introduced into the German army. "Yes," said Podger's wife, "the devil has a cloven foot, and the man who has a I cloven breath is on the way to him." There is a "goneness" about the girl's feelings who has been lavishing her smiles exclusively on students. "Come, swallow, come, for thee I wait," sings a poet, for whom, apparently, the saloon keeper will put nothing more on the slate. What is home without a paper, what are all the joys we meet, when we're ignorant of the topics that are talked of on the street? A Haxiem girl wants to knew "if it is true that kissing cures freckles." Wouldn't say positively, but a simple recipe like tins is worth trying. A Western journal heads an article, "A lunatic escapes and marries a -widow." Escaped, eh? We should say he ??ot caught. "I dolove dress!" exclaimed a young society belle. "Then I should thick you would wear more of it," replied a cynical bachelor. A contemporary says Miss Folsom's photograph has been copyrighted. Her newspaper pictures appear to have been all copywronged. The blockade against Greecc has just been raised in Europe, while on this side of the water Congress is legislating against oleomargarine. If the railroads continue to water their stocks in the future as they have done in the past a locomotive that can't swim won't be worth a cent. The Capitol says that interest in base ball in Atlanta is waning. . The crowds are very light aiid there are not more than a dozen ladies in attendance. Now that the funnyisms of the Lord High Executioner in "The Mikado" are becoming stale don't style them chestnuts. Call 'em Ko ko-nuts. Senator Edmunds approves the President's marriage in good round terms. After that there could be no possible objection to it even if it were not too late. That genial brute, John L. Sulivan, threatens to write a book. He evidently wants to fight a three-round match with the helpless English language. Ingersoll's sweeping assertion "that notli fng is ever lost" staggers our faith in him. If he excepts umbrellas he can restore the religious harmony between us. Rip Van Winkle was foolish to go out and sleep on a damp mountain for twenty years. He might just as well have clerked in a store that did not advertise. An Atlanta man is dying from the bite of a mule. When a mule becomes dangerous at lx)th ends it is time to propound the conundrum: "Whither are we drifting?" If mystic signs are in vogue among the drummers' associations, it may safely l>e assumed that the new member experiences little difficulty in "catching on" to the grip. The question which seems to be troubling some members 01 the House is whether butter or butterine would be the cheapest to * v; c grease tne political macuinerv ux tuc? tuatrict with. It always surprises a man when he discovers that a woman is not a coward. But it never surprises a woman when she finds that am an is. Do not laugh at the gentleman with a bare poll, my son. It is not nearly so bad to have a head that is bald on the outside as to have a head that is bald on the inside. J. W. Martin, Intendant of Woodruff, has resigned in consequence of the five Wardens clamoring for the sale of whisky. He says: "I use J every argument available, but all to no purpose, so I became disgusted and have resigned." Origin of the Word "Boodle." The origin of the word "boodle," which * lias obtained such notoriety of late, is 0 jiving rise to a considerable amount of dis- & ;ussion, but there is little doubt that it is a simply a slang "Western term, implying money in bulb. The Chicago New sug- ^ 4- -4 ?VIA A Af ''lirt/lln 99 P ^CSIS liim II Jllttjr U\; &\AJl L \S*. h/v/ltis., ? i small Scotch coin, in value about one E bird of a penny. In New England the e: erm "boodle" is in common use, signifying c. he whole or all?the entirety of anything, tl [ngenious philologists might speculate on w he connection between "boodle" and the tl Gothic botan, meaning plunder or profit. General Green has been advancing dur'ng | he last four or five days, but will l>e com- I Killed to retreat if old "Sol's face continues I a sight a few more days,?jLeiciedale Sew. J mm wna?stuuhemmmmmm ttipi mmmm i mw* f* every cne needs to use eome sort or ionic. uwauBusti o?wj ncton's intmi^tkin fog tiicso who Hi. LXjEST TONIC For Woakr.psn, L&MSt?de< Lack of Energy. &c., it HAS NO EQUAL, and is the o:il v Iron medicine that is not injurious. It Enriches the Blood, Invigorates the System, Restores Appetite. Aids Digestion It doe3 not blacken or injure the teeth, cause headache or produce constipation?other Iron medicines do Dr.. G. H. Bd.-ei.ey, a leading physician of Springfield. O., says: "Brown's Ircn Bitters is a thoroughly good modicine. I use it in my practice, and find its action excels all other forms of iron. In weakness. or a low condition of the system. Brown's Iron Bitters is usually a positive necessity. It is all that is claimed for it/' Genuine has trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by BROWN CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, XI>. Ladies' Ha>t> Boos?useful and attractive, containing list of prizeo for recipes, information about coins, etc., given away by all dealers in medicine, cxr mailed to any address on roceipi 01 sc. swsmD. FOR COUGHS AND CROUP U32 ||B|' M-CTzIf-.ES IKT. The it eft gum, u gathered from atrtt of the same nana, . growing along the small itrcuu in the Southern State*, contain! a stimulating expecterani principle that loosens the phlegm producing the early mon.'cg cough, and stimulate* the child to throw off the false mec^rane In croup and whooping-cough. When combined with tne healing mucilaginous principle In the mullein plant of the old fltlds, preseats In Tatlo*'? Chxeojcii Rxmidy o? Swirr Got xso McLLztx the finest known remedy for Courhs, Croup, Whooping-Cough. and Consumption; and so palatable, any child Is pleased to take It. Ask your druggist for it. Price, 25c. and 31. "WALTER A. TAYLOR, Atlanta, Ga. Use DR. 3IGGERS' HCCKLEBERRV COBDUL lot Bjirrhcea, Dysentery and Children Toe thing. Tot sale by t-druggists. Most of the diseases which afflict mankind are originally caused by a disordered condition of the LIV E R For all complaint3 of this kind, such as Torpidity of the Liver, Biliousness. Nervous Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Irregularity of the Bowels. Constipation, Flatulency. Eructations and Burning of the Stomach (sometimes called Heartburn), Miasma, Malaria, Bloody Flax, Chills and Fever, Breakbone Fever, Exhaustion before or after Fevers, Chronic Diarrhoea, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Foul Breath, Irrejralarities incidental to Females, Bearing-down Pains, Back- QTflnJfiFR'Q fillRRNTIi ache,<Sc.,ic, mwumcii v wunwnn; is invaluable. It is not a panacea for all diseases, bnt^asragr al! diseases of the LIVER, xrOl^HUS STOMACH and BOWELS. It changes the complexion from a war?, yellow tinge, to a ruddy, healthy color. It entirely removes low. gloomy spirits. It is one of the BEST AL" TERATIVES and PURIFIERS OF THE BLOOD, and Is A VALUABLE TONIC. STADICER'S AURANTII For sale by all Druggists. 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Bradiield's Female Regulator is strictly a vegetable compound, and is the product of medical science and practical experience directed towards the benefit of Suffering' Woman! ill 10 iuc oiuuicu yigovui/tivu vi <* itaniuu ^physician whose specialty was WOMAN, and whose fame became enviable and boundless because of his wonderful success in the treatment and cure of female complaints. THE REGULATOR is the GRANDEST REMEDY known, and richly deserves its name: ^ WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND! Because it controls a class of functions the various derangements of which cause more i ill health than all other causes combined. and thus rescues her from a long train of afflictions which sorely embitter her life and prematurely end her existence. - Oh ! what a multitude of living witnesses can testify to its charming effects! Wojiax ! take to your confidence this Precious Boon of Health! 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