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I VOL.XLIV. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1887. NO, 5. { ?MWI""1 ll-wiii-.wnfwr.^a mem . ? MYSTERIOUS SOUNDS. Ls ! i< r f Tn>: CURIOUS EFFECTS THEY HAVE I ^ U ' . X THE MIN OS OF SOME PERSONS. ^ C Groundless Fear Experienced by the a taring of Apparently Inexplicable ^ Noises--'The Origin of Midnight Sonnds qGenerally to be Traced to Atmospheric i? Influences. tl Anw^nin c.-\-nv\rlc n?AT^ 4" ^ > O ^ A-UC Vi vcxutiii c*.?s\S?J. i,4*v , ^ mind is often very curious. We do not ^ jr allude to the ordinary phenomena of t * speech, singing and music, where the a1 sound-producing apparatus is tolerably ^ familiar, and its distance from the hearer j estimated with a near approach to accn- oj ?racy. The effect is only "mysterious'' when there is any doubt as to where the sound comes from, and how it was v ^ originated; the imagination then begins, and works itself up to very singular hal lucinations. >> ight, or darkness without night, has much to do with this mat- w Si"* ter. "When we cannct see the sound| producing agent, conjecture is apt to ran yf wild. Ghost stories often depend on no ej better foundation than this. For in be heard at night coming from the air ! above, but from a_L invisible source?a j rJ kind of whistling or prolonged cry, the . producers of which are known in certain V parts of England as "whistlers." Some * legends make it out that these whistlers 71 are ghosts, some evil spirits, some "Wan- , K dering Jews. But the truth is that the N sounds proceed from birds, such as wild geese or plovers, -which are in the habit of flying in flocks by night, either for j, he purpose of reaching distant feeding Tgrounds or during their annual migra- , tions. The cry which is usually uttered by the "leader" during these nocturnal ' bird-flights has, from ignorance of its ^ cause, been regarded as weird and mys- Ui terious by superstitious folks, who sssociate it with impending evil. ot" Many a supposed "man iu the house" ^ turns but to be only the noise of some door, possibly affected by gradual changes of temperature, forcing itself open. Many a ghost story would receive its solution by a little attention to the sounds resulting from the expansion and contraction of wood-work, such as V panels, wainscoting and articles of fumi- CD ture. Heard at night, when all is still, ; the sudden creaking of furniture in a j; room is act to be somewhat startling, [ until one comes to know that it is simply % due to the "weather." ^ Sound, being geneially more audible f at night than in the daytime, is often exaggerated by those who overlook this fact. Humboldt specially noted this when listening to the cataracts of the Orinoco, and traced it to differences in . the humiuity of the air. A little mystery is also due to the fact that we some- j times know that an object visible to us < is producing sound and yet we cannot hear it The chirp of the sparrow is inaudible to some persons; others, who can hep this sound, cannot hear the , gqueak^of a bat; and all j$? as are at the A_ - o a?"r/N-no /icdfn'oca fCLT.hl r>- ! w XUdVJ V* ? ninu v* ?vuv uvuwvuu ~ j gous in some' degree to Dr. Dal ton's ?o color blindness) in regard to sounds of f acute pitch. A singular case of visible ? but inaudible drumming occurred during j \ the American War of Independence, i ""Snf 1;sh and American troops -were drawn \ up .. ' opposite sides of the river; the j ? o \ cs were mutually visible; and the h could see an American drummer f, .g his tattoo, although no sound Jo. be heard. This is attributed to a _ -ind of tone., opacity which affected the , air over the'river in a particular state of , W temperature and humidity. There is, to most of us, much mystery In sounds when louder than -we expected ^ to find them. A -well at Carisbrooke ^ Castle, Isle of Wight, has water at the ^ bottom, and when so small an object as - ?'.x &/} irt+A +V??i trot/ir +]T,D I a AO lUV^yWl AiLl/V/ tuv .. , sound can be heard above, although the well is more than two hundred feet deep. , At St. Albau's Cathedral, it used to be ?said, the tick of a watch could be heard from end to end of that very long build- I; ing. "Whether the recent restorations ,L have interfered with jthis phenomenon, ^ we do not know. It is a weli-?nown _ fact that sounds can be heard over water J j at a greater distance than over land. ' X)r. ELatton heard a person reading at a distance of one hundred and forty feet I on the Thames, whereas he could only hear him seventy feet away when on +1. the shore. Sound can be "heard over , ice, also, more easily than over land. When Lieutenant Foster was wintering in the arctic regions, he found he could ^ ?i->r>Tra-rcA urifh a man a mile and a ciu&r- A kr ter distant, both beicg on the ice. "The u f human voice, it is asserted, has been heard ten miles off by persons at Gibraltar?over the water of the strait, we pre same. The whispering gallery at St. 7s Paul's is always a mystery to visitors; a whisper often becomes audible at the opposite side oi the gallery, but not at intermediate positions. The late Charles Wheatstone once made a curious observa-- , tion on sound at the Colosseum m the ~ , Regent's Park, recently pulled down. S1 i Placing himself close to the upper part P I of the interior wall?a circle one hun- 0 I dred and thirty feet in diameter?he ^ ft found that a spoken word was repeated e A . many times; that an exclamation ap- ~ K jk peared like a peal of laughter, and that ^ B ibu&the tearing of a piece of paper was like jpattericg of hail. Iu the Cathedral C: ti Sicily, a whisper can be ? heard the~?rtK>ie iengta 01 vie oanamg Ml if the -whisperer places himself in the a ?p? focus of the serai-circular apse at one 5 end. A story is told that long ago a ^ confessional-boxwasinadvertentlyplaced 2 ^ -i nwir +hfx finfranftft to the a just, an -f1" ? . church, and tha; the authorities first be- , came cognisant of this awkward fact by | a ferment arising out of one particular ? fc^^*^confession. ^ There ?s no doubt 01 it, the fear expe- ^ ^ ^rfiensed uy many persons, especially ? ^ iFomen, on hearing some of these "mys- ^ terious sounds'' is groundless, and exam- ? ination nearly always troves it. This r ' ' 1 t. *-\r. , je&r is largely yrt;>?ie.ui/ ttiuuxjjj uig x^- | male sex. " When alone they are apt to , attribute each creak of the door to some t midnight assassin, each rattle of the x window-pane to an incautious burglar. j This fear is greatly augmented by the "? imagination, which makes murderers of ( rats and ghosts of cockroaches as they ( ^ glide about during tho silent watches of 1 ?he night. Again, some persons have < $n incessant horror of "being c3?.tehe<2 in the dark by some cold, clammy being who has the remarkable, superhuman r?o\rer of coming in u"-x>n them through 2 the keyhole. They live in constant j dreH, they toss upon their couches, and j sK. they awake in the darkness of < at anfi hear the sighing of the i pagination weaves the sound into ' :eathing cf "-ome ghoulish visitor, drawing the covering over their _aads, they await with bated breath and list'ning Jar their coming doom. It is a silly fancy, an unnatural composition, that produces such dread. We are not living among vipers, whose poi- j sOnous fangs are drawn to strike upon ^yery side; nor are we surrounded by I icpojs, "whose dark scowl and murderous ier are indicative of the trade of death, hose dirks are ever clutched to plunge hem into the liesh cf brothers, whose ngers are aching to clutch some urisueecting victim. Nor is this a Nihilistic ; ountry, where treason lurks in the very ir, Where brother suspects brother, here to-day you are breathing in seurity and to-morrow the seal of death ; uncn you. Such, thank God. is not I 13 case. Civilization is at its grandest eight, tlie world is becoming socialized, ad the influences of the law are tending > remove tlie dread of man for mankind, nemies are not going to pounce upon you t every turn, nor assassins hover over our slumber. So, ye fearful anticiatcrs, go to your rest, unmindful of j etriment, undisturbed bv the moaning | I the wind. m Q i-, >i 'IHLY LEFT THE BABY. Hold Case of Heartless Desertion by Two Unknown Women. (From the Atlanta Constitution.) Mai or Jackson and Mary Jackson, his ife, live at 1C4 Mangum street. They :e both almost jet black negroes, but ito their home camc a white baby early jsterday morning, a beautiful, bluered, golden-haired boy. The parents of the child are unknown. Soon after Jackson left his home for I 5 day s work his wife began cleaning s 3 the dishes, and as she was in the j iast of the -work a loud knock on the J ont door attracted her attention. At j :e door she noticed two white women j; ?tly dressed. One of them carried a j aali bundle in her arms, and as she en- j red the house the negro woman saw j at it was a baby. One of the women , etended to be sick, and gave her ill- , ;ss, which she claimed was very sud ?n. as an excuse for entering the house. !, tie old woman quickly provided them ; )th with chairs, and as they sat down, le of them said: "Auntie, please take the baby a . in ute." i The old woman took the child and be- .n caressing it. "Sit down, please," said one of the 1 Dmen. - , The old negro sat down. , "That is the sweetest, prettiest baby ] the world," remarked the woman who ] id been doing all the talking. " , "Yes, ma'am, he certainly looks dat : nr " said the neirress. danein^ at the v 7 O ' U VP ilu's face, which she had uncovered. t "He certainly is, and he is just as < >od and sweet as he Is pretty. Yon ( ust take mighty good c ire of him while j >u have him, for yon w.11 be well paid j r your trouble." i "Oh, dis ain't no irztbble," answered , e old woman. \ "Oh, sister, please get me a drink of j iter," remarked the woman who had < ?t spoken. = "Can yon get me a glass of water, ? mtie," said the other woman. \ "Sartinly," said the negress, arising j th the baby in her arms and advancing t wards the woman. ( "Just lav it on the bed there," said , e woman pointing towards the bed. j The old negro laid the child on the I :d tenderly, and started jivfo tbo t^y! j & -bucket ^^w2vvrTShe was ^ me three or four minutes, and as she i -entered the room, was surprised to < id the two women *gone. Glancing < wards the bed, however, she noticed < e child lying as she had placed it. 5 ie old woman could net understand < 8 situation, ana hurried towards the ] ont door to ask it from the women, i 5 she reached the door she saw one of < em enter a carriage, in which the ] her was sitting, just as the driver ( uched his horses with the whip. The , .1 woman called upon them to stop, j it the horses sprang away swiftly, and < id were soon out of sight around the irner. The carriage was the one in , iiich the women came with the baby. had been left beside the sidewalk ' ben they entered the house, but the ' U. wum&li LLiXKJ. ULLb 1J.IUU ucu^Liuu ( it. After the carriage Lad driven away the , d woman re-entered the house, and, eking up the babe, began looking at ; , A glance showed that it -was pretty. ' s clothing was neat, though not fine, ! it there was no mark about it to indi ' ite whence they came. The old woman as considerably muddled, and in her lemma sent for an officer. Ed Cason, : the mounted department, responded, id from the old woman heard the ory. The two women were described > the officer. Both were apparently drtv veai-s of aere. and both were ressed in black. One of them?the one ho asked for the water?was closely siled, while the other had no veil at ail. he carriage was not a street hack, and ffieer Coscn could not trace it far. The old woman manifested a reluctace to give np the child when the officer iggested taking charge of it, and promed to care for it and give it up when eeded. The Pleasures of Hanging. If those are to be believed who, having een more or less hanged, have been relscitated and have narrated their exeriences, the mnch-cora m i.serated victim f the law's extreme penalty is not holly miserable. It would seem that ven death "sus. per coil." has its meliorating conditions or circumstances. )ne sufferer in the religious cause in 'ranee is said to have "complained" beanse he was called back to consciousess from an experience of surpassing elights, in wiueii iie enjoyed tne pieasre of gazing upon the most beautiful eenery. The immediate sensation of iain is momentary; and it would appear or unlikely that, in our anxiety for tlie voidance of needless annoyance to hose we put to death judicially, we may e actually increasing their suffering and iminishing their pleasure. The instananeous deaths have all the pain and litle or none of the pleasure. Slowly inluced congestion of the brain may be he least painful; and if only the blood >reisure be effectually raised at the :entre that sees, the beautiful light and harming scenery are enjoyed in the lighest perfection. The subject is a jrirn one, and we are not sure that the lew view of hanging experience tends to nake the death penalty increasingly deerrent; but it is right that both sides of i question which the late Mr. Whalley >nce excited the merriment of the House >f Commons by describing as "a poor . nau's question" should be conjidered ** all costs.?London Lancet. - - <?> o ? it be tifiioraliy Kno?a That the multitude cf diseases of a scrofulous nature generally proceed from a torrid condition of the liver. The blood becomes impure because the liver does not ict properly and work of! the poison from the system, and the certain results are blotches, pimples, eruptions, swellings, tumors, nicer- and the kindred affections, or settling upon the lungs and poisoning their delicate tissues, until ulceration, breaking down, and consumption is established. Dr. Pierce's ''Golden Medical Discovery" will, by acting upon the liver and purify ing the blood, cure all these diseases. A suit of male?Will you marry me'/ * HE WAS ONCE HANGED. Marvelous Escape of a Negro From a Death 011 the Gallows. (From tlie Worcester Telegram.) Yesterday afternoon a colored man was taken ill on the common, and would have fallen but for the timely assistance of two bystanders. The man had been wandering about the common since morning, and had been noticed on account of the peculiar way in which he carried ids head. It hung toward his right shoulder, and he seemed to take no pains to pull it into the position in which people commonly carry their heads. He was respectably dressed in clothes that had evidently not been made for him, and his boots looked as u he had walked a considerable distance. When he had been assisted to a seat he fainted, and when he regained con- ; sciousness lie ciutciied at in is tiiroat, tore away liis collar and said appeal in gly, "No, No! My God! Not again!" His embarrassment when he looked about him was marked. One of the gentlemen who had assisted him to a seat left when the colored man had recovered, but the other remained and questioned him as soon as he had recovered his composure. He did not belong in Worcester he said, and he had never been here beforo. He had walked from New Haveu, begging shelter and food as he went, and had nrtlv <?ot to this citv in the earlv morning. He bad no friends and he < said he was not able to work. The man seemed weak and Hurried by his faintness and the humane person who had < remained by his side took him to a res- < taurant and saw him properly fed. It \ was in a''burst of gratitude and confidence at being so well treated that the j 3olored man told a tale so utterly mar- r velous as to be utterly unworthy of { sredence were it not corroborated by ( known facts. j It was sitting in the common after he ^ iiad dined that he said: "I have had ? trouble with my neck and been subject j to fainting spells ever since I was hanged in Arkansas." 5 ^ Ax-iwAff^Ar* -n rr c*r\ ah rrl"i 1 Jl. JJLC c*. ?,*-?. j to make anyone think the man was ] ;razy; but he was circumstantial as to t letaiis of time and place, and it is a well ^ inown fact that a negro was legally x iianged three years ago in Arkansas for \ issault on a white woman and afterwards g ;ecovered consciousness. t The case attracted much attention at s ite time. As published the negro was ] "T.^f OA TY>TT>T*f/JO QffftV fllA } *Ui. ? V fc?-*. VVA tiiv v**vjk' )f the old-fashioned platform gallows s 'ell ana the body was given by the sheriff c :o the father of the young man who, i. :vith some friends, was waiting near by j vith the wagon. It was the intention to r :ake him to the settlement where he c iormerly lived ^nd buiy him there. This settlement was 14 miles from the county \ >eat, at which the hanging took place, md was through a lonely piece of coun- t :rv. When the wagon was nearly at f lome the father of the supposed corpse s md his friends were startled by groans a nnrlflr fVio fovronliTi fnrr.trn ^uaujjg iiuui uuu^* uu^v^ U )ver the supposed dead man, and his t struggles to get from under it. As soon t is they had recovered from their fright 2*ey went bach to Uu>?from c xhltsll Lacr^M. and - a egally deacl man up, gave him a drink ? 'rom the omnipresent jug oi whisky and v :ook him home. Instead of leaving the 1 settlement at once, the hanged man j stayed around his old home, and the c superstitious colored people demanded s lis rearrest and the completion of the s ~ TT>/? TTOe foV?>T> f.A +VlA I 4 I'WO t governor, and pending discussion as to -v :he right of the authorities to take i cognizance of the existence of a convict s ?rho had been pronounced legally dead, T ;he man fled and has been a wanderer * iver since. c The story of the negro coincided with I the case as recalled, and there was no 2 room to doubt that he really was the c Arkansas culprit. 2 It was only after repeated urging, t sweetened with promises of help to leave 1 the city in comfort, that he told his ? -X ?IL ?^1,1 1 5tOry Ui LiitJ uicu^cc ui a uuuuiuu jul^av*. band, somewhat tempered by residence i in the Xorth. Divested of its quaint ( iialect, his tale is weirdly and perhaps s morbidly interesting. c "I was locked up," he said, "more ( khan six months, but I never thought I ? was going to be hanged until the night * before. Then I knew the gallows was up and I got scared. They prayed with ? me all the time and tried to keep me ( from thinking of it, but I didn't hear what * they prayed about. I was too excited. \ I didn't go to sleep ail the night before, J and when they came to fetch me I was j so weak I couldn't stand up. The ' sheriff gave me a drink of whisky and 1 then tied my elbows behind my back ' onri ta/VL- dinner T know there was J crowds around when I went to the gallows, but I didn't seem to see 'em. I heard somebody singing and I joined in. Then they pushed me up on the gallows, and I saw the rope and got scared again ( and tried to hang back, but they pushed , me along and made me stand up | straight. I recollect their putting the noose on my neck and drawing it up tight, but I was thinking of whether | they were going to hurt me and all at , once I dropped. I had shut my eyes ! when they pulled a piece of clotli over , my face, but I opened them then and ] tried to get my hands up to tsar the cloth off so I could see; but all at once I ; thought some one hit me a terrible blow on the head and I lost my senses. When I woke up I thought some one was choking me and tried to get loose, bnt I couldn't. Then it seemed as if my head was bursting and I saw awful lights before my eyes, and my feet and hands seemed to be so heavy I couldn't stir ' them. Then great rings of all sorts of bright colors began at my eyes and went further and further o?f, growing bigger and fainter until I lost them. 5ly head felt prickly all over and' so did my hands and "feet, and I couldn't breathe and then I fainted. Once I knew I was ber 1-r.rr lion orocl Vvnf. if, was rmlv for a second. ?LU? UUU^vvi, .. y "When I woke up in the wagon I was worse scared than before, and when I got out from tinder the tarpaulin I thought I had been dreaming. Then, when my neck got to hurting me so, I knew what was the matter. For weeks afterwards I could hardly swallow, and I couldn't turn my head, and I can't now very much. The cords aje alJ, (Stiff on one side and drawn <IC'wn.iJ TIlC man told his story in almost common place fashion, but when he spoke of his life since it affected him, | lil can never go home again,'' he said, 3 *- c I t i'suu X can never see or iiear ui mv iuin.a j again. They -were going to catch me and do it all over again, so I ran away. I've been knocking around ever since, principally in Canada, New Jersey, }?ew Yerk and Pennsylvania, but now^I thought I'd oome up here wiiere I roignt get some light work I could do." The mail did not seem like the brute he must have been, and. in fact, he had the appearance of ordinary intelligence at least. According to his cvm story, he has done little work in his -wanderings, acd has begged both food and shelter and clothing. "Sometimes,'"' he said, "I have wished that I had never come to life again. That's been when I've been nearly frozen ' and starved. I never go rear colored 1 people, for it was my own color that tried to have me hanged over, and I hate a black face." Asked if-he wasn't afraid of being arrested for the old crime, he said: "Xo, boss; I don't think they'll c ever look for me as long as I stay away c from there, and I'll never go buck to s Arkansas." c m v TI e Cotton Movement. i tu. "VT _liiu iu'w iuia jl' iiiaiiuitu. m its review of the movement of the cotton I crop for the week ending on the night t of August 17, says that the total receipts c have reached 9,G*S bales, against 7,270 a bales last week, 1,499 bales the pre- c vious week, and 2,581 bales three weeks n since; making the total receipts since the 1st September, 18SG, 5,223,097 bales, b against 5,337,618 bales for the same S period of 1SS5-6, showing a decrease since y beptemoer jl, jlsss, ot twues. o The old interior stocks have decreased tl during the week 1,61S bales, and were, 1< Friday night, 22,(561 bales less than at the same period last year. The receipts h at the same towns have been 805 bales s< Less than the same week last year, and 1< since September 1 the receipts at all the C towns are 73,25S bales less than for the sj same time in 1SS5-6. h The total sales for forward delivery & for the week are 312,000 bales. For im- ii mediate delivery the total sales foot up ? 3,259 bales, including 4,185 for export, w 5,074 fcr home consumption. h The exports for the week reach a total w )f 27,171 bales, of which 24,050 were to ii areat Britain, 150 to France, and 2,371 k the rest of the continent. a The imports into continental ports :'or the week have been 10,000 bales, st rhese figures indicate an increase in li| he cotton in sight of 72,796 bales as si sompared with ti'.e same aate 01 it>Sb, la m increase of 53,027 bales as compared se vith the corresponding date of 1885, tl md a decrease of 317,S00 bales as com- a )ared vith 1SS4. it The total receipts from the plantations since September 1, ISS6, are 5,198,023 cs jales; in 1885-6 were 5,369,310 bales; in vr .884 5 were 4,746,090 bales. Although ft he receipts at the outports the past oi veek were 9,649 bales, the actual move- hi nent from plantations was only 8,668 in ;ales, the balance being taken from the at tocks at the interior tov.-ns. Last year in he receipts from the plantations for the ame week were 7,814 bales, and for fo .885 they were 3,5S0 bales. la The foregoing shows the weekly con- ra umption in Europe is now 140,000 bales th >f 400 pounds each, against 138,000 as >ales of the same weight at the corres- or >onding time last year. The total spin- ar iers' stocks in Great Britain and on the fii :ontinent have decreased 133,000 bales th luring the month, and are now 47,000 T] >ales in excess of last season. w] The Chronicle says that cotton for fur sa ore delivery at New York has been quiet ar or the week under review. The ab- lu ence of active inlluences?or rather with to ctive influences nearly balancing each te: >ther?has pi evented any wide fluctua- gc ions. The dominant spirit of the coton exchange has been bearish; and yet 01 >ut a small impulse was required 40 ausc^lie 'Vhorfo" frt QrtVCT enfp cq^o^J...? .ppcsrsirce ~oT^2"gcrtress. It "was not, so -nnfil TV*o/)ri(3<;r]Qv sffprnnnn. lo lyncYCXj UUVAJ. n vvmwv?%.^ ?... ?, .... rhen the full business for export and se tome consumption on that day was re>orted, that the bulls showed any degree ?f confidence. Then the continued j mail receipts at interior towns, the' mall stocks South, and the rapid reduc- j ion of supplies in New York, together j ^ rith the growing belief that New Eng- n< and spinners are carrying but small or tccks o.? cotton, caused a quick advance, tr rith comparatively free buying for Sep- P( ember. Thursday there was very little :iiange; the speculation was sluggish, | >ut the distant options attracted more bf .ttention. Friday the market opened va lull, but soon became active and buoy- tr int on a better closing at Liverpo jl and 38 he strong statistical position of our lome markets. Cotton on the spot has e3 hown a good degree ox activity, the )uying having been quite free for exports as well as for home consumption. Quotations were rcduced Jc. on Monday ^ md advanced 1-16c. on Thursday. Fri- ^ lay there was again a liberal busines for c ;xport, wiih steady buying for spinners, ^ md the market closed firm at 9 ll-16c. 'or middhng uplands. _j The Chronicle's weather reports, which f. ~ ?? *?11 *v?i/l 4lVlQf. lire y wirjr iuh unu o^^uxai^, ?***?.* ^ >ver a very large portion of Texas drouth ^ las caused considerable damage, and ja ;hat in some sections of other States in- *a nry is resulting through worms, rust and fc shedding. Iu the remaining districts, C( lowever. and in the Atlantic States in ^ particular, the crop condition continues ai }uite satisfactory. Picking is making jood progress. w ci Triumph of a Widow. a <?; " ' > 1 ?1- - 1. - j a A pretty JNeorasKa widow wnu uau * ensnared the affections of many respeot- b able farmers living near "Wyman was re- P. cently ordered to leave the county by a band of "regulators" under penalty of a jc eoat of tar and feathers. Nothing daunted by the threat, the widow bought a double barrel shotgun and awaited de- 0 velopments. When the - regulators" e; approached the house to carry out their n threats the sight of a loaded shotgun ? pointing from one of the windows de- . terred them, and one of the number, in ? admiration of the woman's pluck, ad- 1 vanced under a flag ot truce, proposed marriage and was accepted on the spot. 6< Then a parson was called in, the mar- ^ riage was celebrated and the night wound * up with a round of festivities.?Boston ^ Herald. ? S{ A Squirrel Story. 3 v A fanner named Corner, of Rcane coun- 7 ty, West Virginia, has invented a new plan to catch squirrels, which has proven a great success. He has a large cora-tleld which J. borders on the woods and which the squir- t ic!.s have almost devastated during the t nn scnt season. Ilavins hit upon a plan, v he lirst watched the animals and found ? that when he made a raid they retreated to I the woods almost invariabh" along one par- 0 licular line of fence. Having laarned this 1 fact, Corner covered the top rails of thftt lin? of ieaee with tar. puUinp; on a heavy coat. Th:.s Jie eh'1 in tne evening, and in morning when he went to tfe? fipiu h{. saw a long iine of squincis running along ] the fence* towards the woods. They sue j ceedul in clearing the fenee, but whet: ( they struck the woods the leaves and- sucks 1 stuck to their feet so badly that they cc?ulc. j net. climb the trees nor run very far evsc ^ on the leaves. The first capture amounted to twenty-seven squirrels, and. within t. ! week Corner had killed and captured over , ICO squirrels oy his unique device. ? j Pianos and Organs. ( * 11 ? ? v\a(4 rrtovac coc}") ot?rl ?U_L UA UU.C UMV muiiui. v? . balance November 1, at SDot cash prices on a Piano. $10 cash ancl balance November 1, at spot cash prices oil an Organ. Delivered, freight free, at you;: ( nearest depot. Fifteen dajs test trial and freight both -ways if not satisfactory. Write for circulars. Iff. W. TRUMP, * Columbia, S. C. , (VHTTE SLAVES IX MASSACHUSETTS. ! lov Ignorant Foreigners arc Caj>tnred, j ' Sold and Starved. i (From he New* York Herald.) Ul in Massachusetts, ia the confines )f thj beautiful Connecticut Valley and ( >n tfe slopes of the green hills that < heltc it, many farms of fifty, sixty or f i >ne hmdred acres each are now being 11 sorted by a strange people?uncouth j i migrants, ignorant ot tno Jbngusii ona^ and strange to Yankee ways. c T.ey are Poles, Hungarians, Magyars, f )aos and Swedes, with whose ignorance t heiarraers put up because they are 1: hep, strong and capable of doing Lard c ncteteady work on little food of the e oaKst quality and used to living in the a aossqualid quarters. si Sine run away, leaving their scanty G ag?ge, all they brought from Europe, h >oni are wise enough to stick out the ti eara1!-they can and maks their ir ink grinding ia the prison houses." b: Airraid reporter heard eorr.eof them oj ist fe? in the Uonnecricuii v an ay, nuu <,? jt do; to investigate the stories, to w jar," how the immigrants fresh from 3r last Garden get so speedily into Mas- oi ichsetts, two hundred miles away, and ti owiese individual farmers who "never st iw.Vew York get these men under such tl oiclad contracts. He found that the ri nt old city of Northampton, Mass... ti hce philanthropy and education walk tl an', in hand under the giant elm trees, a] asi?e place where the largest jobber b 1 it-ntract immigration farm labor o: non to Cattle Garden had his ' 'office," g: sc called intelligence office. _ tl ip is Cliarles T. Parsons, a Maple o: ret farmer, a large, stout man, with si gh, brown hair and beard, and an overlnwd. even foxy, face of a New Eng- G ,n< type. He went into the business ti ;va or eight years ago, at the time of legreat floods in Hungary, when so e: .aiy men left that desolate region for ircountry. P fei the authorities of the Garden be- si me distrustful of his methods and crii, and for two years they have re- E Lseid to have anything to do with him a : t> allow him within the Garden. He a: is in consequence of late secured his p migrants in 1 'Little Castle-Garden," Ni>. 32 Greenwich street,'Fitzpatrick's h teligence office. w Fizpatrick secures his customers by b ret, one might say. His henchmen, zyf tonguey immigrants who would I titer live by tneir unscrupulous w-u-a a& by labor, hang around the .Battery ike newly arrived immigrants stroll it cf Castle Garden. These new comers ^ e too impatient after their forced continent at sea to wait a day or two till e' Labor Bureau finds them work. ley fall a ready prey to these runners, 20* volubly claim to come from the ^ me province or even the Si?me tillage, id overflow with the milk of human ?, ndness as they steer them straightway } Greenwich street and land them dexrously in the dismal looking intelli- ^ ;nce office. 1 Oat comes the contract?it is filled a it; the hapless immigrant half dazed , oujffcthe pen"j)r makes,his-miri, ? l^o^Rngiirto" Sus"''fobber m human 1 ' V ' ' -1 A- LI IT i \ oor, to oe trjmsierreu iu uie jAuweavuutfcs farms. ^ This is the kbor contract they sign: t. York, , 1S8?. (] In consideration of the employment e rnished us by Charles T. Parsons, of a orthampton, Mass., not over hours' e ie distant, we agree to work tor aim, y where he places us under tlis con- g act, for months, at $ , less ex- ? mses, $ , payment to be made at d id of time, excepting what we need for i icessaries. Understanding ::urther, a iggo Ao bo holden for all money ad- v meed, and if we fail to fulfill tlds con- r act we do not expect our wages. The I id employer also agrees, if we do well, ? the expiration of the time to give us f ;tra . 1 Signed, . g Witness Interpreter, t On the back is printed blank for in- a )rsement of the transfer of the con- n act to the effect that "Mr. ac- j spts the within contract as made by the ' id Parsons, his agent." When twenty or thirty people are j. icked up and the contracts are squeezed . wArr^Vvln o>*n TIT* , ) JLU ? a*3 ? id shipped to Northampton. Then the ? ,rmers call and make selections. The borers are sold to any purchaser. The .rmer pays generally a fee of $10 a head >r his help. The agent in this city reiives $2, and Mr. Parsons p:*ys the borer's fare and pockets the balance, DOTit . $!, as his fee. The farmer, by his mtract, can make the laborer pay in ? ork for the cost of his transportation, i The prices at which able-bodisd men I in be secured vary, but do not exceed c 100 a year. Women need be paid but ? 50 a year, while children work for their c oard and clothes. As farmers have to 1 ay American hands $18 or $20 a month, ] ley are glad to get strong and healthy < >reigners inured to hard work for $8 or i ;ss a month. i In the circular which Parsons sends J at to the farmers in search of customrs are these statements: "Patience is j ecessary, especially when you want to ; se them (the green hands) alone. Oar 1 est help has been Danes. W8, from | hoice, mis the different nationalties. j !eing poor and ignorant of our language < ad ways, they expect to work cheap; to ; Dme this is no disadvantage; in fact, we ; ould rather have them ignoran t of the ] nowledge of our laborers, rome of j aem, for such wisdom often proves \ 1' 1 -I -Li. 1 DOlls&ness to meir empiuveis. , "Price of the help, about $10 or $12 : 5r the season, $15 for June ar.d July, 6 for fall and winter, $75 to S125 a , ear, depending upon capacity. Some . sarn very quiok. "If you have a tenement?two rooms ; rill generally answer?a family ris much he cheapest, as you can pay them from he farm; they are more apt to stay; rife and children will work hi; price rom $15 to $25; board themselves. If Louse servant is wanted man and wife i-e the cheapest if you have work for iim," An Aero of r\*na r\f f"hA TPiis -i/UOU Yf wa w- - ale citizens of Morgan, came to town Jtie other day. En route Mr. Bostwick mcountered a lay out of frogs before ivhich the Egyptian plague pales into nsignificance. Mr. Bostwick"estimated ;lmt there was an acre of frogs, and that ?a.ch square inch contained six frogs, rhey were all hopping in one direction, ro Harden Camp we are indebted for a calculation which showed up ; frogs for the single acre. Truly Walton county has become a great frog" stool, so to speak.?Walton, Ga., News. Tennyson's '\Mny Queen." Who knows but if the beautiful girl who died so young had been blessed with Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription" she might have reigned on many another bright -Mayday. The ''Favorite"Prescription' Is a certain cuje for all those disorders to which females) are liable. I I . iior.d vein gkound:" The Last Onler Given by General .Stonewall Jackson. (i t. A'i'jaolus for August.) After nightfall Stonewall Jackson rode >5 with his stall to reconnoiter in front )f the liae he had gained. It war his ,1 ?. i J.-V l-J.-.'l? 1 T_ 11. u.cu (. < scxeLuu urouiiu. iii. lilt* ear of Hooker and cut him off from the iver. The night was dark and Jackson soon , ame upon the Union lines. Their in- , an try drove him back, and as he re- , urned ii the darkness his own soldiers *( iegan tiring at their commander, of ^ ourse mistakicg his party for the < nemy. Jackson was shot in the hand J cd wrist and in the upper arm at the 1 ime time. Jtii-s horse turned and the ^ reneral lost his hold of the bridle rein; is cap was brushed from his head by r iB >5^ cMsglii- > the arms 0: an officer. After a mo- I yh^aggigtefi to dismount, his f rought. pened again, and a rj nae down upon the party through the ^ nnrl<z ?nr1 fcWi (l&f]vIlCSS. OllG 01 tl!6 A tter bearers stumbled and fell, and the ? thers were frightened; they laid the tter down on the ground, the furious T oxm of shot and shell sweeping over lem like haiL Jackson attempted to < so, but his aide-de-camp hold him down ~ 11 the tempest of fire was lulled. Then j'. le wounded General was helped to rise, c' ad walked a few steps in the forest; v at he became faint, and was kid again ] n the litter. Ones he rolled to the 1 round, when an assistant was shot, and j le litter fell. Just then General Pender, v ae of his subordinates, passed. He ; opped and said: t "I hope you are not seriously hurt, ^ reneral. I fear I shall have to retire my j. oops, they are so much broken." v But Jackson looked up at once and (sclaimed: -j "You must hold your ground, General ^ ender; you must hold your ground, t Xj" ^ This was the List order he ever gave. s [e was bome some distance to the near- , ;t house and examined by the surgeon; * cd after midnight his left arm was am- j utated at the shoulder. When Lee was told that his most ^ usted lieutenant had been grounded, he as greatly distressed, for the relations etween them were almost tender. "Jacks-jit has lost his left srm," raid iee, "but I Lave lost my right ami." ' m rj o i? \ A NOTExj LADY GO.Ni:. 1 Irs. Andrew JaeJtsnn, <Tr., Once ?"i?.tress 1 of the White House, Urw.'ats ilor JL;tst j at the Aqc of Kighty-o#:e. I 5 Nashville, Ter.u., August 23.?Mrs. j arah Jackson died at riie Hermitage 3-day, aged eighty-one, leaving two ? hildren, Colonel Andrew Jackson, of [ Vest Point, who was an artillery o^icor i the late war on the Southern side and i lade reputation, and Mrs. Dr. John ] jawrence. One sou. Samuel, was killed t Chickamauga. ! Mrs. Sarah Vaokson, new remembered 1 >j few people, was for four years?or 1 2""?tire r^vct- *.-imminent 1 idy of the tilt? mifrcresn ui Hie ~t Vrliite House. About the commencelencernent ol' General Jack-en's second erm, his adopted con, Andrew Jackson, rn married Alias Sarah York, of Pbilaelphia, a young iaciy of accomplishments, of good family and great person- 1 1 beauty. The adopted son. who w*ui a \ :ephew of Airs. Jackson, brought his : oung bride to the White House, where he was received by the President, who : ras a widower, Airs. Jackson having ! led after his first election and before ie became President. She proved to be , most devoted daughter and loving rue. orenerai uac&stm a, nan. The loss of ids wife four years tefore had changed liis whole life. All lis letters?letters to members of the amily and friends?showing that during lis first term he was grieviug over his < jreat loss. But when the time expired, he old General came back to the hermit- 1 ge- . ! In time he died, leaving to his son ; ,nd the family a fine estate. This was | ost and the family were in straitened j ircumstances. The son died in 18(57, ( .nd. yesterday tne once ueauuiui unae, , he mistress of the White House?the ! ?ld hero's greatest comfort and solace in lis old age?passed away at the age of . sighty-one. KEXUiiK Of A LO.NG-I.OSX SOX. L Young: 3Ian "Who TVent tc "War Found Alter Being Mourned as De*<Iv Toledo, Ohio, August 23.?Hugh Chompsciij of the Fifteenth Ohio, was a esident of Van Vy'ert county, near here, ^r\$s\-uru tt-qy Af nf n]v!/?L" ?r AiV VMV f/UWWV V* W ** >>-.kA. imauga he was struck on the head by a jrapeshot and seriously wounded?his :omrades thought mortally. They laid lim under a tree, and a few minutes ater were forced to fall back. Thompson fell into fhe hands of the enemy, ind was never heard from until a few veeks ago. During all these years he ias been mourned as dead. He is married, is living in Kansas, and c +li? -f-L+lior r?t' u. Tinm'npr of Ee remembers that lie was? in the army, but from the battle of Chickomauga to ;he great fire in Chicago, ail is a blank x> him. He does not know where he ifas or what he did during all that time, tn the exciteraoiit of the fire he partially regained his senses, but could not locate iiis old home. He went to Minnesota ind was married there, and went thence to Kansas, where he took up a claim md is fanning for a living; and he remembers the death of his mother, which took place when he was thirteen years old; that his captain's name was Updegrove, and that he was in a Confederate prison. The remainder of his early life : is a blank. But his comrades, many of [ whom live in Van Wert, recognize mm. The scar made by the grapeshot is on his head. A scar on his right log, made by a severe cut by an axe when h$ was a' boy, is anotherjstrong voint in. proving his identity, ile v.'ent away a black haired bo?' aiid returns a cray haired iaifc. but ilia father, who is tottering under the weight of nearly four score years, says it is Eugh Thompson, his long lost son. Money was raised hers and sent to Kansas to bear the expense of Thompson's trip to this place to attend a regimental reunion next week, but before the remittance arrived his Kansas neighbors had donated to the same purpose, and by tiieir generosity he is at his old home, which he left during the war. An insurance man happened into the house of a cewly-masried couple, a few days since, and during the conversation urged the husband to take out a policy. But when he heard the fresh and fair younr- -wife say to her husband, ''Yes, do ; so, Walter, and I Jl bake you some nice I biscuits for your supper,*' lie closed liis | book and tied. The risks were becoming hazardous. If some men knew as much as they talk there would be so sale for the cncyclo' picdia. COXGO PIGMIES. | The Cunning- Liliputians Living In the ' . Heart of Africa. (From the San Francisco Examiner.) 1 IlOIIZO de TiftO- TpVin trsv&lorl rnnnTr ! years in Africa with Dr. Living tone, was one who almost stood out alone in . the assertion that a race of dwarfs lived * ia Central Africa. In his lectures in + America he told of a little people who i tied to the clefts of the rocks when the : xplorers approached. C. Engene Wolfi', t xho traveled many years with Stanley, c md who is now in the city, gives Eorue ^ lueer accounts of these dwarfs. "On he southern branches of the Cos go," aid he to an Examiner reporter, "I iave seen whole villages of these Lilipu- * ians. They are a generous little people <. riio live ia rude huts and clear ground, ^ ngsging in varied sorts -of agriculture, i Chey are also skilled hunters and they | ' aake palm wine. They are as lithe ana I ^ uuple in climbing trees as monkeys; or ! Z and'tfcey know as m-oca. "he men are not over four fee? ana a e: LfUf high, while tiie women are a gooa :eal smaller. These tinv little men are ^ oth brave and cunning. They are ei- ^ ?crts with the bow and arrow, and ^ eadily bring down the African biwoa, ^ ntelope and even elephaDts with them. ~ ls trappers of small animals thej are na- ^ urpassed. In a closc pmcii tliey use tne mcc with astonishing dexterity, and an rdinary sling in their hands is wielded I, pith wonderful skill. The dwarfs col- V( ect the sap of the palm, witli wliich {i hey make soap. The men are smoothaced and of "a rich mahogany color, ^ i-'oile the hair is short, kinky and as ^ ilack as night. Tens of thousands of ? hem live on the south branch of the ion go. They are an affable, kind- * iearted people, of simple ways and de oid of vicious tendencies to a greater Isgree than most semi-barbaric races, ihe women are industrious and amiable. "? "I - -T- .1 A . sry queer rnose people loot aiuugsiue he great swarthy blacks further up on ? he Congo. The latter are of prodigious j ize, uncouth, rude to the remotest de- ^ :ree and cannibalistically inclined. The ^ iwarfs stand in awe of them, but- are so >rave and cunning that, with all the ;clds of physique against them, the pignies are masters of the situation." A Noted Blockade Merchant. >] ii Charles K. Prioleau has just died in c Zagland, aged sixty-one years. Prioleau ij > as a resident partner in Liverpool of +] ;he firm of Frazer, Trenholm <fc Co., who r; v-re largely interested in blockade ran- -0 iing tiie during war 01 reuemen uuu v,iu ^ iuown as the friend of the Confederacy, fc iarly in the war he fitted out a steam- 0 ;Vip and loaded it with one Whitworth ^ rilled gui>, two Blakely rifled guns, the ^ argest piece of ordnance in the world j, it that time, and a lot of Enfield rifles n md ammunition and presented them to :Le Confederate government. The ^ steamer was known as the Sumter, and r] ran through the blockading feet into [} ;be port of Wilmington, X. C., in broad t i^yhght and landed her stores. The Whitworth gun was used in the earlj v battles of Virginia and did great esecu- t; :ion, its range being greater thaa asy C, in the United States^. The Blakely y zuas were mounted in* the city of (Jiiarletton during the siege, but never t, iired a shot at the besiegers. They were j, i>lown up at the evacuation. The Enfield s rities seat by him were the first ever j, ised by the Confederates. Prioleau was c ilso on board the yacht Deerhound dur- t i:;g the light between the Alabama and jPTnorco-rrro r\?F C*.V?rrr irnrl "wlii/Vh I i. V/?. N.X? ? ^ rescued the Alabama's crew after the sinking of the vessel.?New York Sun. f Can'i Keep AH Hand* So:>rr. General Master Workman Powderly issued several circulars to the order yesterday :i: rough the Knights' official organ. One a ;reats of invitations to picnics and demon- t ?;rations and explains his inabilitj* to be t present. Toe second treats of order in lo- 1 : lis as follows: 4 "Notwithstanding all 1 have said and t written on this subject I am forced to re- v mind secretaiies and members of the order :hat they must rely upon their own efforts \ :o keep their respective organizations in ' 5 b'ood working order. You should not com- ~ plain to me it a member, while intoxicated, iisturb the meeting. Your Master Workman should have him ejccted from the t1 room and the court oi' the local should deal j with bur. for the offense. I cannot pre- * :s:rve order in ten thousand assemblies; the I I 1 -^32 ^4. U-,4. ? C u.uu uiucers must uu uiau c The last circular is on reviewing book?, < find 3Ir. Powderly informs the order that he cannot act as reviewer and will lake no 1 noticc of pooks or pamphlets whicli desire i ii's opinion. ] A Mexican Outrage. c Galveston, Texas, August 23.?Infor- ] mation was received here tc-day from an ' entirely authenticated source that Richard ' Stewart, living in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, and having large interests in 3Iex- ' ieo and Texas, has been immured duriag 1 t.*ie past lour months in a dungeon in Oje- 3 nija upon a trumped charge of fraud. Dur- J i::^ that time he has been unable to com- municate with his friends or the officials of 1 this government, but within the past ten i days, it appears, he smuggled out letters, i lie is a brother of Assistant United States District Attorney Solon Stewart, cousin oi Colonel Joseph H. Stewart, of Austin. His ] p-operty is going to ruin in the hands of , M-.-xicans, aud he sees no hope of obtain- iug a fair trial from Mexican courts. It is , believed that the object of bis incarccra i tion was to obtain his property. He appeals for government protection in his be- ' half, representing his condition as deplora ble in the extreme. The Woolfolk Well Cleaned Out. 3Lvcox, Ga., August 24.?Yesterday Mr. Chambless decided to oican out tne well on the Wool folk piace, tlie residence of the 1-tte Captain Woolfolk who was so brutally murdered with his family on the Dooming of August Gth. After goin^ down pretty deep the hands found a piur of socks, all blood stained, wiiic-i were identified as the socks com- ' monly worn by Tom W oolfolk. This add.? another link to the chain which is already drawing about the neck of the murderer. \ His lawyer has not yet appeared in Macon, i iml fA- TVVSIIH V iir.ru.iAi.c h/? 1 r\ UUU AX*? kVV .IVIV, IV j come here. i or.r r^rrespondeiit saw the vi-?l of medI ic:ne found on bis person placed side by >ide with a bottle o: real tincture of eautuurldes. and it showed conclusively that iltf bottle in his possession was diluted with wine or whisky or some othe liquid The contents smelt of flies, but ;he odor of rye whisky was very strong. The searchers ii'oped to find his pistol in the wo!:, bu? i bey failed. as it bad been either sold or pawned in Macon before the deed v.-as committed.?fecial Atlanta Constitution. Burned to Death in a Bam. Topeka, August 24.?About 3.30 o'clock this morning the barn in which the horses t? 1 owj l?Ant iUCUUUSilUJ^ lliC \,icjr Xvnv,v. ?avih ? was set on lire and a man and four horses I burned to death. Shortly after the uames j I were put out the charred remains were i : tA Kri f1/\l C (\ rirovAC lifwtanaTit ] colonel of the Second Iowa Cavalry, and j brigadier general of the Kansas 2N"atioral! Guards under Glick's administration. He j had taken lodging in the barn for the night j and was burned to death. SAPELO AXD BLACKBOARD. X Graphic Description of a Veritable H untsman's Paradise. (From the Daricu, Ga., Gazette.) The island of Sapelo, lying just withYnf. TY>nrt+V? /% ? A ? WAAV VA UJJLW -TV. 1 I j-vi LUUia ivc-r, on the Georgia coast, is :ertainly one of the most beautiful in he whole coast chain of islands from the ?ajof the Chesapeake to the Florida apes. It occupation and settlement by he French nobility date back to that of >t. Augustine. The lineal descendants re still in direct possession o: ihc island nd its oral history. An old iurt at its uter extremity, the ruins of which aro till conspicuous, bears witness to the haracjter and pre<jau.tionary and foreight of its first settlers. Twelve miles i length by three in width, it reaches \o.T)<T f.TiA /*nncf*. A -ro * *? /%.-n? a/vf A1-? ""^5 "VI** ff OiXiXL Ui ^ ^__ :a_civiaes it on the north from Georgia ? |B itui. w^ile its southern shote stretches ^ m coast, save - that at Fernandina, in , :fent. Here a most beautiful picture resents itself. On -the one hand, the road Atlantic, sweeping far out to meet re sky; on the other, huge live oak * ees, gray with age and hanging moss? tany a giant among them stands, whose :ms, outstretched low, marks a circumsrcnce of two hundred feet and more? stween them, as if to guard against ?| leir nearer approach, lies the glistening and of sand. Here the "league-long >iier thundering on the beach," and the moving whisper of huge trees" is never iding. Here the deep sea turtle conies ) deposit her eggs, and here, then, lere is rare sport for the vigilant on the ark of the moon. The diamond-back irrapin is here, and to be had for the itching?less than with Delmonico, at iteen dollars a dozen. Beyond, close in, but separated by a arrow channel, lies Blackbeard. This :1 nn r? nAKfirves more tlmn passing men on. Once the rendezvous of l31ackeard, the pirate, (a contemporary of [obert Eidd), here he is supposed to ave buried his ill-gotten booty, and ere, even here, the deluded treasure;ekers have been with pick and spade; ieir reward was as empty as the holes iey dug. This island has been the property of le government for some years past, and i the time of wooden naval ships was considered especially valuable for its ve oak, groves of which extend . iroughout its length on sandy ridges turning through it, once surely sand K ars of the ocean. Shallow lagoons ave formed between these ridges, and .ere at night fall, ducks, in season, and cean fowl of every description, gather 0 rest on the sheltered waters. Here Iso is the home and retreat of the sea 1 i a c i. A t<coTrr5> y*a1 SiiiUCi CifcJfcll" it! i uie a.n ^iu lettoes and along these ridges, close with I reen briers and hanging vines, almost npenetrable, they rear their young. .'he quarantine station for ships* entering Dcloy is on this island. But ?o re- J urn. ' ' ^ a Sapelo Light, on the island "shore, oposite Doboy, guards the entrance to his, the pert of Darien. Ships of all ations piiss in and out by this ligM. reorgia yellow pine to all parts of the rorld. Coastwise vessels are also here 2 numbers, particularly three-masted -w chooners, the last of their race, and ^ appily, the most graceful commercial rafts afloat; models of symmetry, fiting testimonials to the now idle, but iimitable skill of the American shipmilder. The interior of Sapelo presents one mmense plantation interspersed with ive oak groves and palmetto brakes, and >rcken at regular intervals by broad venues and sideways, lined with tall owland pine or live oak trees. They lone remain to break the sauic-n^ss of < k/-v n-rt/3 1 A-nrl o r\lcitl Am* M LLC JJJLtiULL CUAU. XWUVl c* Q o the scene; they tell of the piauration " ife once here. A crumbling wall of 'tabby" grown about with rote?, mark he spue where once was the "memorial vail," while around and about ill k the ine forest. Once peopled and cultivated ).v-eleven hundred slaves, its rich, dark oil yielded untold wealth in sea island - ,?? M| '1 iotton, and all of the coarser products lecessary to life arid living in abund.nce. Almost deserted these years past, t has turned back upon itself and reapsed into solitude?an island park," -nz-v mor> hnt.witlvwiM jame. Both sea island and mainland ieer abound. ^ Sapelo is the stepping-stone between Blackboard and the main for the ever nigrsting deer. In the winter of 1883 a Darty of six of us, with eleven dogs, ifter a three days' - hunt, brought in even fine deer; and here let me add, ;hat during four nights out, we all slept 3y the camp fire without covering of - ^ my sort?this of itself speaks well for:he mildness of the winter season. A. lescrted plantation is the natural home 'or quail; here they gather in great lumbers. The "rice bird of the Caroinas" is at hand in the ricefieldS around Darien, while the challenge of the 'wild ;urkey echoes unheeded through the river swanks bordering the Altamaha? aexfc to deer, the keenest shooting South. Itfany varieties of fish frequent the waters about the island, while oyster ueds of great value line every creek and estuary leading out of the Altamaha. i'he Chesapeake cystermaHj in the rentable pungy, should not longer delay ais coming to tliese shores where he may reap abundantly and with easy toil. What a Utopia for many of those who, freeing our rigorous Northern climate, seek restful homes or a winter's sport in the Sunny South. Surely this beautiful island so easy of approach, presenting such a panorama of ocean and landscape, with its "waters and woods abounding in iish and wild game, with its genial climate, its hospitable shores and people cannot longer remain unnoticed and unsought. - _ , ni^ Biw Dead Indian's Debts. "The debts of dead Indians are paia by their relatives," said an ex-merchant on 3Iain street, ilonday. "When Anderson and Bernhardt," he continued, 'killed an Indian several years age he owed me $345. Since that time $330 of this amount has been paid by his relatives. Kentucky died the other day ovring me $30. " Already his relatives have approached me on tne subject aad made arrangements to pay the amount, it ic a laxc unf-.l-i tiif-m to t>av the d^bts of their dead relatives, and they never vreak it. I ara sure of getting my ?money if an Indian dies owing me, but when a white man dies leaving no prop- ^ erty, no matter now rich ids relatives are, I never expect to get a cert. Xnere is a great deal o:' good about a dead Indian, anyhotv," said the ex-merchant, as he closed his conversation and walked T> i. away.? A grammarian gives the conjugation of I the verb kiss as I'ollows: "Bu-.y, to kiss; i rebuss, to kiss again; piuribus, 10 give a number of kisses; siiij buss, 10 ki&s the hand instead of the lips; blunderbuss, to kiss the v.-rong person; onm'?'s. to kiss everybody in the room; erelus, to kiss in the dark."