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;hii ii%a 4?w^fPtr a is ^ ?Vj ^ Iin? #^irt! Ihf I ll! ;! IS 11/ 0J& iS te ig! B i IB [1/ I IS il i \fk w i m 1 1&5B ft* to l? 11 || ji jl ii 11/ I 1 ji 1 II i VOL. LII. WINNSBOEO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1897, NO. 6. NEVER SAW SUCH COTTON I i I i GEORG'A AMAZED BY A NEW M'D-AFR'CAM P_AN.1T. A Stcry Jrczc Asl:.r.ta that Likf: s Fdi.', acd Whiih V?.. i'ub.:!-h for ^hatIt :? ?Wrth?A Gii"at "hi: g 'f Tru&. Th? AlJarta ccrrcrp-ndent of tl-e New Yo?k Sue : It hs.s hcer. left to Adclph Kyle, sis Er?g-;isb Jc~, "^ho is i?ovr, if aJive. ir> the Klrni- jke re- j 8w806Sik.<?ift? in rf*r*h:;Vr.rs;.ze critcr- 2ro~in?r ||l||ifijn the South., to c'-ff.zge iLc rr:ethcd of ? production of the ?reatesi rr.crey crop 12 the "world, that brings $35,000,000 j arsually tc the producers aside fro^n | T?rhn t accrues to tbe iranspcrtauor J companies, the factors, dealers iu futures, maoufaciurers, and merchants j From a few seed brought from the j heart of Equatorial Africa three jsars j ago enough cotton bus been. ?rown tc! prove beyond a doubt that he has beer, j the means of solving ibe problem oI profitable production, which has Ions puzzled the political economists of the country. In spite c-f all that has beersaid and written the fact is still paters! to the thinking mfa that cotton is k still king in the South, 3nd the com I mercial monarch is more Grmly seatsc j or. his throne than ever before in the \ history of the world. One day in the au-umn of lS9ia traveler, bronzed ar-d bearded from the effects of the tropical sun and s Jong sea voyage, about 45 years old, robust and sinewy, signed "Adolph Kyle, England," on the hotel register at the Kimball House and ordered his somewhat cumbrous 3ugga?e carried j tn hie -v-rv-iro TTa teas snnn surrounded by a crowd of curious co.onels, who were anxious to learn what particular brand of spirits hs affected, and, icci dentally, something of bis antecedents ar.d whether or not he had any spare cash to invest in suburban lots or mining schemes. Piartly through natural garrulity and partly through a desire to gratify the manifest curiosity of the color els, he began to relate scraps of bis adventures among the jungles of Central Africa and ox the remarkable sights onr? s^P7>e<! f.nat rprr.s und??" his C-OSer vaiion. He regaled them with hustia? i stories, tales of the slave trade, which made their mouths run water. and of j the wonderful vegetable productiorsl of that region of eternal summer. ' In December, 1892, I joined a party of prospectors," said he, liand we set cut on a tour of exploration to the country of the Congo. * It was an ard ucus undertaking, full of perils and privations, but we were all young Sn iishmen who had started out to seek cur fcrtures, aud we had ail to win and little to lose,and for many months we wandered about the jusgles of Central Africa, meetissi -with the sav age tribes and passing through strange scenes innumerable, such as may be seen only in that wonderful lard. 4'One day aiorg in 1S93 we pitched cur camp on the outskirts of an ArVI* <VC!T> TrilJooQ + tpanfw mil.SC ! L- , of the jo'jiator and 1,000 miles from \ ||l. the coast. I observed growing near j |||K the camp a thicket of enormous cot- j ton plants, t^eatv 'est and ever in |||r height, and covered from bottom to top with snowy pods and blossoms. It attracted my attention because of ihe abundance of the piant, which was j limbless and bore its pods at the base' of the bi?, broad, fig like leaves and j only a few inches from the stem of j the plant, which shot straight up from i tie ground and appeared like a young tree. "I cried to learn of the satires what use, if any, they made of it, but they seemed utterly ignorant of its utility. I had seen cotton growing in Egypt, and the similarity of the plants caused me to think to myself that if this plant could be introduced into a civilized cotton growing country,?r-d could be made to 2-row ss luxuriantly see fruit .as abundantly ?s it did there in the primeval wilds, it would rr-ake the fortune cf the iran who introduced it. "I cut off a section cf the plant that had more than siz hundred pods on irby actual count, and was more ih^n twenty fret in 'height. The section was about eighteen "isetes lorg, and had sixty five pods open on it. and. I carried it away jjamong my luggage as a curiosity. At first I carefully wrap ped it in a piece of ar.telcpe skin and packed it among other souvenirs of our wanderings. We were then on the return journey to the coast, and on the way up we were upset in a tur bulcst stream by the overturning of a raft, and all our belongings were -1 ?-! j A y inorougmy saiuraiea. ' In drying zny cotton stalk I sraok ed it slightly, but I preserved it in a piece of dressed shark skin to protect it from the salt vrater ard air en tL? j voyage to the Cape. Arriving t^ere I; die; ret like the iuvn aiiiirs bad tak- j en, so 1 resolved to visit America The only relative in the vror Id that I kcc^r of is in ihe service of the Baffin's Bay Company, ar.d I am now on my way to that part the country irsearch of hira. I inherited a iit'.Ie money, and having no horre ties I have resolved to ^r^i'y my taste for travel. "I noticed in travvHir-^ through this country that your principal cropj is coltcn. Now 1 have carried tbapiece of cotion for n^anv months, sadj it has travelled O.CCO miles of land1 and sea, so that}. dcubi if the seed 11 I..4 T 1 Hi ?Tt; iui j. v.sii-. .<> ito seme gcod teilow, vrho ^vlil experimerit v?ith it s:od see if it can be cava?|||gp? rai:z:-d :u acnion growing ccvEtrj% v?here civilized methods of caltivaiiei: are understood. "There is a rrsn living in this cow. ?"c tr-'n"> hf!*; H.' VrltCn Yn^TJT V ? &!*:? t-0 the study of the cotton plant*" ?s,ic one oi' the ol^neis, ^vno had heard the slcry, ' snd he car. tell you in & few minutos whether it can be grows, in ibis country cr not." * Send^or him ara I will make him a present or the cotton,-" said the traveler. A note was dispatched to old Thomas A. Jacket'2, wno :irss r.ct Tc.r iron* the citv. fci.d on the r e^t day ho cul!ed on Kvle at Lis rooms in the Kim - .n -L,-I r? U&ii, i'CSi .-JUwi O .NUfl Iv-'il siiu Tennessecar, v;as an aid de csinp to a Confederate general in. the war cr-c left his native J&t-d occau-e of the hostility of the Brcwniow faction imxnecii&tely afitr the He is a man of terge experience i? cotton ?ro?rirg ar-d has a liberal education ar.d as e:iqu*ring turn cf mh.d. He rsisbeon sludyirs: the history of the cotton for vcarr. and ?s soo-i ;'s he laid eyts cn the withered sta-k thai had been carried so many miks he that it vras of & diix'erent genus from the shrub cotton of South America or ihe arnyal plant of Australia He br.d a lorg talk *civh IZyle ar.d. ?hille the ether colcr.eis rc-ade light of the story, Jacks'n listened very at tentivCij s:,d finally carricd ctfihedilapidated specimen ?c t'ris p- .r.r littis I farm ?? the reddest of the rsd! ! Vi;U a? -o )- "U^, "? *< 1^.'. ?'i : i the Jeavcs from . tie si.Ikc u 1 el's of coUon, observing that isasv o? tr.e I reds or boils ccnisised nvc c-.-Jis e-ca insit&d of four, which the ru-e vrjth | i the ordinary cotton. Out of the 2G5 j stcd .?c rur;-'i fi'tj ssvt ii ^errrJnsfed is | the .i-ard-n r-Iot wher* I?c- iskctei mere i in the of 1805. The sturdy plaits ?re~ rapidlr,; each pjiiir.-r forth, at first, an ordinsi- ; ry pijr of leave:--, ?su immediatelyabo?e them a second lea", vhich z?cv? ! cut /roTi *he s^in about two inches.; ; The a followed a joint, at ~-L:ch a cluster of 4'squares'" or buds appeared, i the leuf ?-ajkccn:i-*uinp-av.d terminat ! in? in a broad, thick Trhile the ! portion between tha c-aste^ of buc's lard the stalk thickens d to Iks si2.3of I a lead pe.ncii, foriritig a support for j tte re:.vj bo; Is. T;;e plants grs-x to j a height' of t*-?lvc- to fourue-i f^t, I putting fo? tb. ailcrre.trly the gc-ncrii I leaf and the f. uit bcurin^ leaf all Lh^ j ?a? tc the top, and continuing in fad j fc-JIsge till the frc-si; exes pi thstS ice lower leaves cropped as ihebci's] matured, ?o that by the t?rr.n the cotton was open aj:d rt&dy to pick the leaves had disappeared, isavic# only j the sr.cwv bails ready to be ?aih2?ec>, ! fre?j from trash cr plant sfains j The discovery became raised abror.d ; and cotton rueu from a '} " ? distance ' carv-e to see it. E-cry seed vras c^e fully picked out by hacd, and in iS9o there were enough to plaat half an ^cre, less thirteen square fei% as measured by a cotton, expert from Baltimore. The laud composic-g J*ck- j sons little farm is not at all adapted j to cotton culture, ana the farm had j been cocducted as a grain growing | and dairy establishments for jears ] But from that fca if acre Jickscn pick | ed a little ovrr 2 000 pounds of s?sd cotton. It v?ss rot carefully ginned but it yielded $0^ pounds of the finest lint ccttoa ever grr.?:a j- Georgia, giving 40 instead of the usual S3 1-3 j tjcuegs of lint to the 100 oi seed. * ? . - - -ii ^ t? J Experts ssia toat it rivalled j Snesi'of Egyptian cotton, and v?as su- j p&rior in many respects to the farfamed sea Island product. The Clark j Spool Cotton Company sent an agent \ hero and cf^red to ,<rin the cotton ] on the special maenir ery operated by the company, so as t? >?iTQ the fibre a thorough test, but Farmer Jscksoe d-ciined the offer, and saved the seed carefully, selling a few at the enormous price of 5 cants apiece in pack sges of one hundred to some enthusi V.To TT-l^rs TPlfi.* Of? f/> D 7 t.HP vv, J^. ^ 5 seed a fair trial. Ke sold the list for j 15 cents a pound when other cotton ] was seiiissr at 5 and 5 1-3 cants a j pound. This year^he planted six 2 acres, and he has to day the most map;-* niScsnt Seld of cotton ever s^sn in) Georgia. On account of the absence; Oi limbs the cotton can be planted j very closely, and the crop now gro?7-1 ing is on poor land, with a stiff clay I soil, thirty-icch. rows and the sf.aJks j thirty inches apart. It stood a pro j tracted drought of eight weeks, and ; the hard clods iurrsd up by the plough \ crs-.iir 5 ill. a/.g ^uuavAww. ^ < the crater furrows. Bat ia spite or i all thai the stalks will average about six feet in height, and are heavily fruited from the ground up. Oa one were sixty fine boils, of which fortyseven haa five c-jlis each. Three rows seitclrd at rando-Jiin; different parts of she patch s'-o .ved jj fifty three plants in the three sections j of ten feet each on an average of ] eighteen to ihe ten feet in distance, j Tie fruit on one of these sections j - - * - . ? : l snowea mat mere are neariy iuur iiiiu * a half bales cf cotton to the acre no~ j on the ground, and the crop is not { nearly made, it is still growing vi.r- 5 orously. The best stalk in a fiuld of j common cotton, growing nearby, wis p) icked up by the roots and set in a roTr with the mid-African exotic. The comparison was ridiculous, and the disparity in the appearance of the two plants was enough to dishearten the most inveterate mortgage broker is j Georgia. \ The cotton is creating a greit sensa- j Jon, and planters and mill men are! coming from miles around to view the j T-.-y,.-1.1 fi.olri r.f fnt.trsr) that has the? appearnce of a bit of jimde trass- ^ planted from sorce tropical clime lc 5 its present location among the red ? hills of G-ecrgia. It is probable that I the Lowell mills in 2se^v England will a purchase the entire crop and give it a | thorough test in the manfacture of s the finer grades of goods for which v j seems pre eminently adopted. Farmer Jackson planted wish the expectation of gathering eighteen baic-s, and his neighbors laughed at : hiaa. It no^ locks as if he were good for twenty-four bales, and if the cres-1 ent crop at harvest time fulfills half the promise of the growing plants and turns out half v?}jat its admirers nope for, this legacy of th? vracdering Jot? vrili revolutionize cotton growing in ! the South. Adolph Kyis left here v;i-h the ex f pressed intention of visiting Biffin's! 3,-i.j and Alaska. He lias not bees! j beard of for more than a year, al- j [ though during .bis st^j here he made | the acquaintance of many icfiueniial j Iciti.zcics, to whom he promised to! vrrite. | Farmer J.,ck?cn is not spying much j about his future intentions, buL i>- j erpys a rush o; distinguished -hi to:s, cotton irroTtr*, expert cnttoc; buyers aud mil men from s.!i over the j country curios: ihtse su;ritr:cr d<*ys.! and more than one eshausu"? maga j zise aricle is in lhe course cf preoa | rali.'Jii. V7iih eiabrita illustrations, discussiag the peculiarities of the r on ftt-rui cotton uliaS from the Cozgo i angles. I Scire idea of this proliGc cotton, a?j cop:: pared vrith the cid scr\ may be j had from the fact th:.t ten bolls to the i .stalk 5"? regarded as a i%dr crop of the | old cotton. on the GeorciA uplands I acu these yijld 1.100 pounds c-fj seed cotton to the acre, general]v tv?o j asd a half to three acres being r:a lir-1 ??d to produced ?. 500 cour.d bivo. i'hv i : >*- cotton, on the oib.ee haud, prtrai- j ses to yield irczn IbiM-e to fear bales io the acre with careful cultivation. and i a very simple calculation will sbow j ihe difference bet-veen slanting: 22,000,000 acres to get a 9,000.000 bale; crcpandthe pianlirg of 4.000,000 to; secure the same resuit. Oae of the stalks grotfn in 1SS5 ~*s founeca and a half feet high, a~d bore ISO bolls. ^ a., ... CpSSUi&UJli ?5 V.'xiU III IV^Oivi * _> tut. porsibilities of the ne w cotton, arid Jackson's little patcb of srroasd is the tr.cst fascinating spot in Gscrgia these summer dA~s. Til 3 COTTON IX SOUTH CAROLINA A feK dajs a<^o The Ne ^rs and Cou rier i*rcc)ved a. letter from 31 r. A. T^{ Pnro*CvC < rkVA^",l^arvt ^y%.%ct -- -o^> w' Jr* ->-? ? ** * ?? ' ;.ist, of SummertGa. 3. C., I-Ir. Bar gess ssia: J. 33. Fur S3, Jiving vriihirj t-.rc. mile s cf th .3 place, has seme of the famous Jackson African cotton. The s?ed ^#>.s si'-'fii hiai br his brother, Mr. W. G. F'urse, of Appleton, 8 C , \>ho cot ir. i:.i person, from Air. Jacksod, of At-anta. So the pedigree is ?.11 righi, arid the Tocds are straight.' I vreiit out to seP it ^esierday, nnd iudese you 2. sample of the staple. T'\e coiton is iiovv in pretty cttfcdUion, isr^^irfria Fursc's rarden. On cr.e si&ik, which :s row ci~ht feet H?h asd has cevt:ri r>i:r limbs at the bouom, '.here aro r.o * biaci? sii developed bolls, and enough voire-? bolls and shapes io make vith a J ale frost 150 boils. Oa another stalk, with t^o brar.cbir:^ limbs, there are seventy grown bolls. A stalk -iot so vrell developed has r-o branching: limb.; at aii. The lissbs are all ri>hs at ihe b-r.iom and are several feti ion.?: ihey revm to be very easily d: t2c'ri6d from th" parent stem, as r^as sbotrs ^here one bad be-on. knocked : ..13' rri..J? ? L.JV Mr 'nirMtMa \JLL* WvU.li, vcrowding or Is.is ploughing. The rest of the stalk has no limbs as such, but bc-lls are on Iit.'% stems from one to three inchcs lens, threa and four boas paiiirg cut frosi the end of this st?m. "The brills of average sizo, and to all appearances are similar to the usual cotton. I'hjre is noihias r.e*7 : or unu~usl in either stalk or foliage. ! The habit of growing iirublesa virif s , '.7ita kind of cultivation. Goo stalk : havic-g gotten in the gr?s1 having no limbs at ail. It seems that if give a i j - _iir ? *_ ; room a no. jrooa cuiiivauu!! iv v. ;u j threw cut several limbs, and degeaer | ate into a usual iimb cotton. "The test m?.d3 this year is nol a I fair one for farming purposes, as :i i must be gro??n m large quantities and | with some fertile ;rs t,o prove i.'s qualiitics, compared with our Fete: kin ! cottoa. The idea that it will do tetter |in proportion. on poor land seem-: dis| pel lei, as the stains gettiag the best : cultivation, and in a bette part of the garden srj much belter fruited and | devjiopsd than the so nearer the edge, | where it is always poorer." WEATHER AND CROPS. The Corvi'tScos of the 5?acf>''J ITarxaing Interests. The following Treekjy statement o! the crop ar:d weather conditions for this section has been ssrred by Director Sauer: TE31PERATTRE, The temperature conditions during r<r?>dlr ixr*T>P> el7chf.1V P-hfiV^ tllfi normal, bit the departures were small on any day. The normal rr-ean temperature for the State will decline during the present month at the rate of 2 decrees a week, caused, chiefly, by cooler nigh is. The mean temperalure for the week was 78. and the normal is about 76. The highest reported ^as 100 cn the 29 th of August at Beaufort, and the lowest 59 on 1he 30th of August at Cheraw. Ai a few erafinric *>>? moYirinrr? t<*roTja?atures reaches to c-r above 30 en several days and the minimum temperatures ranged generally bst<?een sixty and seventy. Tae rainfall for the week was {ran erally light and confined to scattered showers over various portions of the Scats during the first pari of the week, the latter portion being without rain, ^cept a light shower on the coast. i-t-.iiii is needed over me ^reaier portion c? the State. Twenty-one places reported measurements of less than 1 inch, ten of from 1 to 3 inches, and one more than two inches, the latter beingr Kingstree with 2 43. The approximate normal for the wesk is 1.30, and t'r.e can of all measurements 0.69. The greater portion cf the State reccivsd no rain w rr.curp ]v ii<rht and insufficient amounts. scccmDani^d the rains of tlie 20".h ovfr much of Berkeley, Colleton, Charleston, Hampton and Beaufort counties, doing considerable i.cjary to cotton and rice. On August 30ik hail ?e:I at Biaekville, Greenville, Hope Station and Liberly; en tine 3Lstat Camden. There occurred fevr hi^h. 7;inds, but they did ro material or vside-spread 15 jury. xhe sunshine was generally in excess of normal anci averaged S2 per cc-nt. of the possible, but cloudiness increased ever the eastern portions ox che State during the iatter portion of the w^ck. CROPS. It is the unanimous opinion of ail correspondents that the cotton crop -rill b-jj much smaller than the condi /->? <-v.q tiiitt tvlft u: Ui 'wUC yL<z LA u uu; U first two weeks of August promised. The loss in condition is greatest over tbe central and easteiii counties where the August squares and young bolls nearly ail dropped oil, and ^here tbe | plant is. for the most part, apparently dying, with no appc&rarca of atop ! crop, and -where ru?t w.is most nrevaieni. There is, however, less shedjding and rust this week than last. : Orw thft wrst^f-rs counties, the iniarv | to the crop vras act so marked and | many fields continue to bloom and | put on fruit to a limited extent, esp.?c jialiy on late cotton. Cotton is opening rapidiy and picking is general, ; vriih labor enough available, gcnerall iy, to keep c )t*on picked out as it | opens, except in places vrhere laborers j are scarce, and the lint ii liable to | damage from storms should any oc ;car. A te^vy run :a cj^lv | damaged open coUon loateriaL'y. Xiie September picking be iar;;a a:id is places i^c'.uie about half the crop cd. the sislss. Sea island cotton continues to look very promising vrilh I comparatively iitlio siedding daring ! the last vreek. ' TY>c<r??iflp TOiv-ilu or:fl 1 r>^ corn is turning on-, better than anticipated. As jet no corn has been housed t'Vdder puJIi::g is about finished ex cept frotn very late coru. The weaih! or favored curing and housing the j fodder in the very brst condition. Cutting p?a-vins hay made favorable progress and the crop is a heavv one gene-rally, although in places the leaves are falling ofT excessively. Cutting grass for hay is also well un , der vrar ana large yieios are rcpor:ea : of coca quality and nie?iy cured. ! The rice harvest is bsi-flg pushed \ aiid much of the eariy crop is cut ! and st::.;.ck:cd. Some report rice ripen[ir-g irregular!? "with many unfilled 5 /.o; a.-" W-.n*" .->r> tVi a r ?*.?? v-/?i /o - -?> ? I approximates a. f ull avisrace. First I ii;,t milled rice rec5iv:d al Charleston I on Sepsezsber 21 from the Georgetown ? district. ? Much rje is being so-n in Chester I for winter pasture. j ~ OUR SOUTHERN DEAD"" l!n northern prison cemeteries j not FORGOTTEN. i ; TMrieon Klonumente 'Vcill Ii? Erected, ! E.ioh C-i Gray Grfisitc, a^a It Esti- ; rti*ts& That tha 'Work v?i5i Cr.-st Four ' 5Tfious&Jid Doil&rsc [ A increment has been started in i Richmond, Va., to erect m02iumeets ; jover the graves of tne southern sol\ dk-rs ?;ho died in northern prisons. Strange u> suj', the suygsstion came j from a northern man. a veteran of the ' Federal army. Col William II. Knauss, of Col urn 1 bus, 0.. .last S?sv directed an appeal to 1 the United Confederate Veterans, ask- 1 : ir.u: that the graves of the Confederate : /-11 u, prisoners I' j ^assu u;* icuitub'cred. This appeal had iaitr.cdla.le ef feet an;] resulted in eelling attention to the. iact that the resting' places of 29.000 southern dead above'M?.scn. and Dixon's line are unmarked. The records in the archives at Washingion v?ere searched, and it was leund that there are 2r',126 Confederate graves distributed amorii* thirteen northern prisons as follows: Camp Butler, I;1 644 Camp Chase, C 2,106 ? C.<tznp Douglass, III 4,039 i Can;o Morton. lad 2.125 iKiraii-a, N. Y . . 2.M0 '(Fori Delaware, Dd.?..*.*......2,513 | Fv-rt ilcHeary, ted... 0 jJohZSOh'alila.X-O, 0 ?<>?.. . 14$ :F.:rt Lifayelte, N. Y. Larb.r.'..., 2 Hari Island, N. Y. harbor 229 Puiat Lookout, l*id. 3,44(5; Rock Island.... 1,960 j Fort Warren, Mass.............. 12 P It ?ras decided to erect a monument ' ; of granite?Confederate .array in color i? at each of thete cemeteries. The | monuments vriil be of uniform design, | plain shafts, v?ith appropriate iuscrip lions. It is estimated that about s-i.uuu j will cover the cost of this work ana a joint committee from the Lae Camp Confederate vegans, the Daughters of the Confederacy and ihe Sc>ns of the Confederacy, has undertaken the task oi raising that sum. This committee | has issued an appeal to the people of } the south for contributions and their \ hope is that the responses -*il] be so j liberal as to permit the completion of j all the monuments before the next an\ nual meeting of the United Confederate Veterans in ^Juiy, 189S. All conS tributior.s are to be sent to the treasurer, Colonel James T. Gray, post commander of R E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Uoiied Confederate Veterans. The text of the address is as follows: "Confederate Veterans, Sans of Veterans, Daughters of the Confederacy: There lie in prison cemeteries throughf.-.tt this north 30 000 of ''Our Dead." jj With two exceptions (Camp Chase and sCamp Douglass), no stone marks their res Ling place. 'Xis true they sleep well, "for all the world is native land to the brave." but soon even the localities will be forgotten. 'Died in pris on,' these boys ox ours, many from the far south, in their 'blue jians and brown cotton clothss,' shivering from the cold blasts of the north even before the icy hand of Death touched them. Who has reminded us of our duty to the memory of these dead heroes? A p generous Federal officer, bearing the still .wft'ftrin.? from the jj -? ?<3 ? , ? wounds won honorably in battle with 2 ; ihsse men. 5 "All honor to Colonel William H. j jjKna^s?, of Columbus, 0., v?ho inj | May, 1897, sent out an appeal to the j ! United Confederate Veterans, asking? | tliat the graves of the Confederate pris j i oners buried at Camp Chase should be j 1 U ? T-rrt(s /Javi o f I rememuareu. aius wasui/uc, uuu ^; aro still 30,000 ?rho rest in unmarked graves. Have we forgotten, 'our dead V No; but the cry of the needy wives j and children o. these dead have been t ever at our dcor, and we could not j! reach beyond. | | "The time has now come when these | graves must be marked. To accom-j | plish this object it will be necessary to j I raise about $1,000. We only ask for a j {simple shaft at these places, erected: 5 before the next annual meeting of the j | United Confederate Veterans in July, ijlSOS. Whatever sum-this committee j | has in hand by next spring will be di- j | vided equally oetween the prison cem- j ? eicriss. I "This fund is to be kno?7n as the! I 'monument fund of Confederate pris i 5 oners buried in northern graves,' and j | a]' contributions are to be sent to the j j treasurer, Colonel James T. Gray, | s past commacder R. E. Lee Camp No. s i 1 miis Richmond. I [ Va., ana notiiing can be drawn from f this fund, exceps ever his signature. | ''These dead heroes of curs from | every southern slate appeal to their ! survivors throughout our land. Re | member their sacrifices and suffering, s&li should feel it their privilege to contribute to this cause. Tnose who fcave relatives or friends still '?round- [ cd and missing' may join in these j monuments, and ftel that their lovid ! | ones will now oe recognized. j l'Xi is such a modest sum that is tasked, it ought to be readily goiten at |onc3 from our camps and Confederate 1 organizations alone; but to insure suej o%ss we cordially invite every one wiio I is interested in the Confederate cause I \ to contribute their mite towards tha accomplishment of this noble object." j | The committee in charge of the work Sis composed as follows: Messrs. Wil | liana P. Smila, Jamf-s T. Gray and lOorbia W. Mercer, L:3 camp: Mrs. ,N. V. Randolph, Mrs, Dabaey Carr pr>d Mrs Kite J. Wina, Daughters cf j Coufedtracj; -Mr. J. E. B. Sluart, Jr., | Riv. Ja:_2fs E. Cook and Hr. E. L-isj lie Spsuce, Jr., rious of Veterans. ? n:<r railroads. I Vzry St.vlstic* Concern- | I * I } ins TJitm. ! I For year's Poor's Manual lias been a standard authority on. railroad statistics The value of this publicities, increases every year, and its thir tsf-,nth annual number just issued is i e~en lar^erand more completethan any of its predecessors. It contains l,3Si ps.sres and. .9;ires a detailed statement of the mileage, earnings ana usances r-.f all the railroads in the Uuited States. C-nada. and Mesies, besides full facts concerning street railways, directory c-f railway officials, master mechanics and purchasing agents and. adequate statements of its finances asd resources of the United States asd of the- csveral states and municipalities. Av the close of IS36 there vrere in. the United States, according to Pool's Manual, 182,600 miles or railroad, ?n increase of 1,CS7 miles over 1S05. The V if All*, imwanco Milwflt; < iV \S I VIXi xmLU.^si^ A. Uii. ?T mm J | ?sjst3En Tras $5,290,730,567; the funded i s debt, $5,416,074,269, unfunded debt,] ; $339,502,302: current debt, $535.S53,-j SOS, the total liabilities beinc $11,963, ! S44,0S6. The passenger mileage ^as | 13,05-i S40,243 miles; the freight mile- j age, 93,8S5,853,634 miles. Earnings; r:ere, from passengers, $265,313,258; j frnrrt froiont: S770 424. 013: fmm ! other sources, ?S9,S04.754. Deducting operating expenses the net earnings are found to have been ?332,333,756 *nd total revenue $43o,341,29S. The average receipts per passenger j per mile "^ere 2 032 cents; the average I distance traveled by each passenger! 24.4 miles, and the average number of j passengers carried to e?cb mile o? road ! Was 3S.SS, The funded indebtedness | of the railroads decreased, in conse- j quence of reorganizations, as much asj r.or nac\ ^ ir 4. I pj.< \'L O i.1 l-'Ci ^Ci-1- uasic capital for like reason, in part, in creased 3.7 per eont. The averag* cost of roads per rc-iie, as measured by sleeks and bonds. was ?59,733. or ?456 less than in 1885. Net earnir?3 ^ere 3 22 per cent belter in I SOS than in the previous year, though the earnings per ten per mile vers 2.15 per cent. less. The tenna^o moved ana number of passengers carried ^ereappreciately greater ihart in 1SG3, the in- j crease of the former being 0 per cent: j of the latter 3 46 per cent. CrcrSSj ner cent of our railway mileage is no?7 j : i-.l ?:i~ " { ill SIWJ. XUiiS. J The manual shcvs thai the nerr; railway construction in tbe south dur-i ins 1S96 was greater than that in any! other part of the country. The in j crease in ndiway building in the i south since 1S70 has been phenomena]. | It was never equalled in any region of > equal extent man equal period and is an the more remarkable that this development should have taken place in a section so recently devastated by T79.T. The total railroad mileage of the south in 1870 was only 14,730. By the r\? 1 Q.Qf\ if I.Vlft OTldT mous 'Jgures of 57,279. The prospects j of railway construction in ibe south > for the next year or t?ro arc fine ard \ the condition, both financial and phy- i sical, of the railroads in this scction, I has be?ninuch improved daring the; past yt-ar. Poor's Manual is a vllua- j ble publication, net only to railroad? men, but to all who -want to keep up \ with the material progress and develop - j men tof the country. A BRAVE PREACHER B . i - 0 I Hae a R.-iraaricabia Xxo-^rleace With aj jj Highwayman. Rev. Sam Jones, tells the following \ story in the Atlanta- Journal: w hen I was in Texas a few months j ago I heard a well authenticated case) of this kind which happened in that jj community. A local Methodist! preacher?a plain, unassuming man j ?was riding into town cn horseback. { Passing one of his neighbor's homes ] p-roTT r.oiarViV>r>T> Rtertnwi nut ? <-'ii I..14W r-i 5 of his gate and asked the preacher if i he would take a check to town and j bring back ?5,000 in cash for him;j that he had bought a piece of land jj and the man was there with the deed j to deliver and he wanted to pay him I the money. The preacher ^replied he j would certainly do him the kindness j to bring him the money. He rode | on into to vvz and when through with his business --rent to the bank, got the money, put it in his socket, got : on his horse and started home. He hadn't ridden more than three or four i miles from town before a man stepped 1 out frGm behind seme bushes with a \ > -L--I - +1 ,3 arawn pisioi, saying: crivt: j-^c i fire thousand dollars." Tie local preacher replied: I won't do it, sir." "Weil, if you don't I will kill you," j reglitd tha highwayman. "All right," said the preasher "you 5 can get the money after 1 am dead, but not while I am alive." "What do you mean?" said the! highwayman, "don't you know that I j will kill you fo? that money if I must j kill you 10 ges in "Yes," said ihe prcacher, "I think! you will, but you will have to kill me jj to get it." The highwayman ihsn said to the j preacher: "What do you mean by f this? Do you tbink more of thatj man's five thousand dollars than you j thick of your life?" "No," replied the preacher, "but I j do think more of my character than j I do of my life. I hava a wife and j several boys and girls at home. Their j husband and father is kno^vn as an j honest. ur?ri?ht man. Ir 1 give you j this money and then go to the man \ whose money it is and tell him that I j was robbed on the highway, he would \ never believe me. My character? would be gone snd my children dis- j graced. So I affirm to you sir, that I j think mere of my character than j I do of my life. If you will j have the money, whack away with j your gun." The high way man looked at him and j said: "I haven't it in my hpart to shoot a \ ?"" Cl.r\ />n ttt* \ Vi Trr?)T>* UlAfl IXiiU. iiS-C j UU. \s \JJJ. It J \JVLK J- . W 3 and money too." A few months afterward this bigh-j wayman did kill a man, was convict j ed and sentenced to by hanged. To a visiting preacher he confessed, among other things, these facts in reference, to the local preacher. T;ie visiting pastor went to Lhe local preacher and asked him if it was tru?. ''Yes," said he, "it cccurcd jast as the highwayman has related it to you." "Why," said the visiting pastor, "you never ssid anything about it." "No," said the local prescher. "I never have said anything about it. I j never told my wife about it." ' why?" "Because I didn't think it was anv- i ' *% ' c 1 *1^1 tiling co i&:? arxr-u;. isoii;? peuyit: might have thought that I was telling a faLsshocd cr trying to give an illu3 tration o: my bravery cr something of that kind ;-but thelthing occurred just as related." "Oil. if we had a citizenship like this, where every man and boy thought more of his character than he did of his life, and would die before he'd brirg reproach upon himself or his family. Then we would have a world worth living in. But chatties are put above character no vv and men ruin their character?, kill his conscience and damn their souls 'or dollars and j cents. And in the erd they realize] that they made a bargain that bank- i rupisd thorn here and ruined them j hereafter. Let every man be true to j his own character and honest with all! those with whom he has dealings. j Foil 2 com the Porcli. Cel. Liaac W. Avery, at one time editor ci ine Atlanta Constitution, former minister to Hcsico and com- \ missioner of Scu'h American repub-j lies for the Cotton States and Interna j tional exposition of 1S95, fell from the j porch of his residence in Kirkvrood, a j suburb of Atlanta Wednesday nignt. 1 and died Thursday from the effects of j the fall. J MASSACRE OF MINESS | I ? i 7ERRI3LE CfiiSiS !N THE COAL j J strike Situation. j j Bloodthirsty Eepu'cias 5b.oct lata a Mob of | Miner?, Apparently Without JastJficatlos j F-ftean or Twenty and Wousd- j log Forty or More. I The strike situation reached a terrible crisis r,:i the outskirts of Latimer, Pa., Frlafteraoon, when a band cf depui v sheriffs nred into an iniuri a ted mob of miners. The men fell like so many shesp, and the excite ment sines has been so intense that no accurate ngurcs Cl u-jhu auu j wounded can 22 obtained. Reports J run from fiftee", to twenty odd killed : a^d forty or mere wounded. Many of these "will die. One man who reached the scene Friday night counted thirteen eorpsen. Four otter dead! Jie in the mountains between Latimer and Harleigh. Those who were not injured carried their dead and wound- j ed frisndsinio the woods, and estimate is balEUd. The strikers left ni?3clton at 3:30 o'clcch Friday afternoon, announcing their intention to go to L?.timer. As scon as this became known, a band of j deputies was loaded on a trollcj car | and sent whirling across ihe mountain to the scene of the bloody conflict j Tfbich. followed. After reaching Lati- i mer, they left the car and formed into j three companies, under Thomas Hall, j S. A. Hefcsel and Samuel B. Price, j Tricy dre^r up in li":e at the ed/jeofj the village, with a fence arid a line 0*"? houses in their rear. j iiiicnil Suirlia was m commas a ana > stood in. the front of the liuo until the j strikers apprcachcd They were seen) coming across the v:d?e, and ilarlm 9."eat out to meet them. The men drew up sullenly and lis- j tened in silence until he had once more read the riot act. This finished, a low muttering srose among the foreigners, asd there was a slight move ment forward. Perceivi. ^ this, the sheriti stepped toward then, and, in a +/^v>/> InnKo/ta Ci/lrrorr'P Some one struck the sheriff, and thej nest moment there was a command to j the deputies to fire. The guns of the! deputies instantly sent forth a terrible volley. The strikers were takes entirely by! surprise, and as the me a toppled and] , feil over each other, those who re-1 mained unhurt stampeded. The men J went down before the storm of bullets j like ten-pins, and the groans of the] dying and wounded filled the air. The j ezcit<srnent that followed was simply j indescribable. The deputies seemed to 1 > ^ i 1?? j ? 5 D8 terror-sT-ruuK me ueatu.y cawu- 5 tion of their guns, and seeing the living strikers fleeing and the ethers i dropping to the earth, they Trent to 5 the aid of the unfortunates whom j they had brought down. The people of Latimer rushed pell 3 mell to the scene, bat the shrieks of j the wounded drowned the cries of the i sympathizing and half crsz?d inh&bi-! tants. The reporter who soon after- j wards reached the place found tbej road leading to Latimer filled with ] groups cf frightened Hungarians, j Some surrounded dying companions, [ and otheis, fearful of pursuit, clung j to the new comer and begged his pro tection. Ar Farley's there were two men lying on the porch- Both had been shot in the head. One had three bullets in him. His groans and appeals for a doctor or death were heart-rend*{ ing. Ail along the road the wounded i men who were able to leave the fiald of battle scattered and sought the shade of the trees for protection, but there was no need of that then. Approaching the place where the] shooting occurred, people were met! wringing their hands and bemoaning j the catastrophe. They could not talk: intelligently, and it was with the j greatest difficulty that information j could be learned. Along the bank of the trolley road men lay in every posi- i tion, some dead, others djing. Tnre3 j bodies, face downward, lay along the incline, and three others were but a short distance away. On the other j side of the road, as many more bodies j lay. Tiie school house was trans*} formed into a temporary hospital, and { some of the wounded were taken! there. The colliery ambulance wasj summoned to the place as soon as pos- j sible, and immediately upon its ar- j rival, two men, both shot through the legs, were loaded into the wagon. All along the hillside wounded men were found. Slany others who had been carried to a distance could not be As soon as the news of the shooting 5 reached Haselton there was consterna-1 tion. Wiihia ten minutes the streets | were blocked with excited people. j The Lehigh fraction company imme diately placed a number of cars on the Latimer iiue and doctors and clergymen responded promptly. Amid the excitement the deputies turned their j attention to the wounded and carried j many of them to places where they I could be more comfortably treated, j Mariin Boski,an intelligent Hunga ] rian from Mt. Pleasant, who was shot j in tho orm -772S ssen bv a. rs Dorter on! the ci-r coming ever, and gav9 this j version of the affair: "We were go-j ing along the road to Latimer, andj the deputies were lined across the] road, barring our progress. We tried j to go through them, and did not at- j tempt to hit or molest them until they iircd upon us. We ran, but they kept! on shooting on us while we ran. Il | is all their fault." STaraian'a Nsrr President. The board of trustees of Furmanj ViTc/Jr-?acrlo-cr -if ; \JUlYZ'Ct?iy lXlrJu ?T the Columbia Baptist church, and unanimously elected P.-ofessor A. P. Montague, of Washington, D. C., president of Far man University of Greenville vice Dr. Charles Manlev, who resigned several months ago. Professor Montagus is a Virginian by 5 birth but is no 77 a resident of the na-! tional capital. He is a celebrated} educator and a schoiary gentleman, and the university has added 1 ustre tc the time-honored institution by the I addition of Professor Montague to its j . faculty. Professor ilentague vras I born in Virginia, and is a graduate of j [the University of Virginia and the] |Columbian University of Washing-j j ton. He is 43 years old. ! iJiiirx?c to Da&zh. nt T.-icenh H-sorv a } j X YV N> V V*.vv*. J 5 *- j boy aud a girl, aged, respectively, len | arsd twelve years, vrerc; burned to death i j Wednesday afternoon at Fairmont, a j I suburb of Richmond, Ya. They were j 1 ' -? ? ?t _,*! | paying m an ou mouse, wu>-re a. iui- ui j | Lay and shucks were stored In some j i manner this became ignited and death j i ensued before assistance cuuld reach 5 1 them. / EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS. j Nnv 2ali!iT"-s; are Xcr &pplicable Per i First Time. j Th3 examinations of applicants for j teachers' county certificate will be! held ihrougcut the Slate c-n Friday, j Stp':eraber 2i. The following rules] adopted by the Siate boa-el of" educa-! tioaare applicable for the first! time: I Every applicant for a county certifi- j cate shall stand a s^tisfac^-ry \rritten j examination before the ccucty beard j of education. cr:: u?if.*?ra questions prepared and furnished. by the State: board, the examination to ba held in ] all the counties cn :hc same day, or he j shall present to the county boavda] full cti'.Ioma from some reputable] chartered c:;2Kg.; or university of this j Stat?. V-20~n to h-: of good st an diner. ! No c-.r.'.iiici-e sh.-.ii be issued on a ci I plctr chat the hcJiisr has i only coir-.pIjrUt! the cowrie of seme] pgi-:i;;::li,r dtp irtrr-on c of a school; the dipiova ihnx v.;e full col- | Jeg-e ccvs.'i;s ii5S hses complied. Only t?vo gr:.d-.s of ex^rt:h:n-!cr? j questions shall b;* pr^p-.i'- d an-i fa? j nis'ied for the county examiiis^OLS,! There stall he out t?ro jiw-s 01 ! teachers' county certificates?a first grade arda second grace, hei&ue? being divided into ci&is A end class B ?this not lo\&iJeet any certificate now j out-itandins;. To obtain a first grade leacners ] county certificate, the sppjicani sbal; j stand a vrriitea examination on firsgrade questions, prepared an) farmsh cd to the county board m **?v?v?ca by the yiate board, and shaii mVre j. gvnarsl average of no: less than 80 per cent, and not less thin 50 per c-:at. on ?.ny one branch. The county boari may also impose o.-al tef-ts in reading and language. T;.,. ftWtain 9 <sj>rv>ri rl crfln?? county certifies;?, ths applicant shall staad a written, ezaminauoa on qu?s- j ticus prepared and furnished to the! couaty board of education by the State ! board" and also such oral tests in read 1 ing and language as trie county ooaru j may impose. To an applicant stand- j ing an examination on firs: grade! questions and failing to obtain a' first j grade certificate, a second grade car ! tificate class A, shall be issued if the j applicant makes a general average of j 70 percent., and rot less than 45 per cent, on any branch; and, if theap-l plicant makes a general average of not j less than 60 per cent, and not less than j 4U per cent. 022 any ona oranca, a ssc i end grade certificate, class B, shall be j issued. In estimating for a second grade certificate on first grade questions, Algebra need nGt be included; if it would be to the applicant's advantage, it may be included. To an ap plicant standing an examination on second grade questions, a second grade certificate, class A, shall be issued if the applicant makes a general average of not less than SO per cent, and not less than 50 per cent, on any one Viponp>i snrf if thA flirtn!v?ant msires S WlUMViX, ^ ~?~r ? I general average of noi leas than 70 per j os at. and net less than 40 per cent 022! any one branch., a second grade certifi-1 cate, class B, shall be issued. No person shall be permitted to take I an examination who is not at least IS j years of age, and before taking an ex- ] aminatioa each applicant shall pass! such oral tests in reading and iangu-! ase as the board may impose. i A first grade certificate may b2 re- i newed by .the county board from which j it was issued. If, however, a teachers7 institute or su aimer school is held in I the county, a first-class certificate shall j not be renewed unless tha holder at i tends the institute or summer school, or shows some satisfactory reason for not doing so. A second grade certificate, Class B. shall not be rewarded unless the holder attends a teachers' institute or summer school, and in such case it may be renewed. A o m<>?! T-i i Q. ACVuiiU fJ,Uw?AJV^ V^i^Wv' *-** j shall not be renewed. Tiie county board shall issue to each applicant making the required per cent, a certificate signed by each member cf the bo?.rd and uader the seal of the cilice of the county superintendent of education of the county, and shoTing on its tacs the per cent, m4.de on each branch ana the general average. The certificate shall run for two yesrs JTOIU ItS aiie, SHU tU" suau Mi j deemed competent to teach, in the pub- j lie schools of the county. No certifi j cats of qualification shall 02 granted by j any ccunty board under any circum stances to any person who is under 18 years of age." The county board of one county I may recognizi a certificate issued by ! the county b:ard of another county, j but in such case they shall register the name of the holder, county from 1 vrhich issued, date and number of the csrtiilcate, and ?rhen so registered it -11 enwia if i.j-nof} i &LUULJI iiftvc (tuC/ aaxiw *\j? u.o ji-sovtw** iii that c :-unty. E.ich county board shall keep a register, in which shall be recorded the nam?, age, sex and postoiii:e of each person to whom a certificate is granted, and also the date and grade of the certificate. VFbisliey Still Esidod. The Columbia Register, of Tuesday, says that Revenue OScer Hal Richardson returr-e.l t3 Columbia Monday night from Swansea on the South bouLd Railroad where he mads a successful raid of an illicit whiskey dis j tillery. The Register goes on to say that at the last term of the United States court, a party living eight miles west of Swansea was indicted for run .,.'1! v..* T mng as uumi suu, uut, us j* ted cf the change. OfEccr RIcharisos went to Swansea, and proceeding to| the place where it was aliened that an j illicit distillery wss in full blast. It'j wss soon discovered ihat the still wasj in complete operation. The owners of j the illicit still were not present when j Msj. Richardson made his appearance.! Investigation developed the faci that new tanks and copper lined vats were largely in evidence, and tne revenue ~ A i-Vs/i f * >?r? urnc^r uruuccucu iu outfit. The distillery had been in operation for some time, and iTsntj gallons o: apple ana peach brandy were distilled every day. Ready customers in Lexington were patrons of the illicit concern, and the evidence is that steady sales have been mace. Xh.2 Fries to be Xeducsd. The statement is made that the State Board of Control intends to reduce the price of liquor to a minimum with as small a proat as is consistent with the management of the business, and operate aifairs on this basis for awhile, ana il iae sales 01 me origiaju package agents increase to such an. extent as will materially interfere ^iih the conduct of the business, then the boar j vrill recommend to the nest legisia(i'M Sri elimination o? the traSS fea tare of the la tt. r HMPSSDS MAY PERISH >N THE MAD RUSH TO THE KLONDIKE GOLD FIELDS. f ' Great Scffariac-. Starvation and Death In| evltable If tho Present] Bate ol Influx Continues any nonpar?The Situation Described ae -^pp-slllng. The United States Treasury Depart! merit has made public the following ! letter from a government official now i at Dyea, on the way to the gold fields, stating at the same time that the I writer *w?C us. me is withheld, had been twelve vears in the service and ; was thoroughly reliable. The letter lays: I deem it my duty to write you on a subject that dries net come strictly witting: ray line cf duty, as it trenches scme?;hat upon the functions of ibe treasury department I have had 2. locg talk with Mr. Ivey, collector of ru atoms for Alaska, who is at present at Ska^uay, three miles below here. | "die Skssuay trail is the moat largely i Lv^ r.- cvtrland route (though by no | r.s the best) to the Klondike. Mr. jlvny informs me that there are now tid* wster ana tne lake someLbi.5?* like 4,000 people and about 2,000 h-:.r. e*. Th-s ccoimander of one of the vost-'h lo v7 ut Skaguay states that i sixteen vessel are chartered to land c* \'C?S at that place between now and the ioth of September and that rb?J?-imber of passengers will average each vessel, mating 3,200 more 3-?cpie who will attempt to go in this -J.. I save talked with some of the Tr.cst exoerisncei traders and miners in this vicinity, and they are unanimous in the prediction that net over 20 per cent, of this vast number, will ??t through to Davrson before winter sets in. The other 80 per cent, will be caught on the trail, aad those who j survive and get back to tidewater will | iaave to winter at Siaguay or return I South. If the rush, continues two weeks longer, hundreds will inevita' bly perish on the trail, which is extremely dangerous after the fir3t of October. The postmaster and Indian trader at this place (Sir. Heron) states that more than 5,000 niea have gone up the Chiiecotpass during the past thirty days, and that 700 of them are still ; this side of the lake (2i miles from here.) Vessels are arriving every day oi' two, and at the present rate of influx another thousand -will enter the trail by September 10. Mr. Heron is of the opinion that not more than 20 out of 100 vrili get through, and he says this trail is far more dangerous than the Skaguay after the snows set in. Hs says "if the rush continues another week the resultant loss of life _ will b3 appalling. I attach the greatest importance to what he says, for the reason that it is to his pecuniary interest to have as many as possible | come this way; yet he advises an imj mediate stoppage of the stampede. i Ti- ic fn sno-o-Ast a wav to I ? * ' " 1 ' -> ? ?- ? / stop this in-rash of p3ople, but Mr. I vey intimates that if the inspection rules of the treasury department were properly enforced it would materially decrease the number of passengers on the incoming vessels. Nearly every vessel that arrives here brings twice j as many passengers as the law allows it to carry, and many of them are condemned craft which have been fitted up for this trade. Mr. Ivey will no doubt at once present the facts outlined above to the proper authorities, and I merely give them to you for jour information. The situation is appalling, and it i9 impossible for me adequately to describe the mad rush for the gold field. I had no conception of its immensity until I savr it. I have talked with several men who have recently arrived here from the Klondike, twc of whom ielt there less than thirty days ago. Thev unanimously agree that while ihere is a rich gold field there, the facts do not justify the present stamD2de, and they say there is bound to be much suffering and actual starvation. Provisions are alreadv scarc3 and the prices of many articles absolutely prohibitory in the case of a man i of nrdinsrv means. My usual good luck has attended me iiere. Mr. Heron, the postmaster, _ is au old Montana friend, and he has " Zmade it possible for me to go forward by Indian carriers at the prevailing rate (37 cents par pound), taking precedence over hundeds, many of whom have been here two or three weeks, awaitir-g their turn. He assui-es me he can make the way easy for me at the lake in securing a boat, etc. So I feel comfortably sure of going right through. Tne mail facilities are very bad j hers, as the p jstoffiee department has I not znace any ano wanes ior tuc rawu i growth of postal business. The postal authorities here are powerless to cope with the mass of mail matter, and I have doubts as to whether this letter will reach its destination. I am fore! ed to close this letter to catch a boat j which is about to leave, I am leaving unsaid some things which I shall have to include in my nest letter. I i 1 The Deadly Crossing. A Philadelphia and Reading wreck| ing engine crashed into a wagon at a i' grade crossing at Frush Valley, a few iiiles abovs Reading, Pa., Tuesday nigh?, and three lives were lost. The .dead a^e: Evans Heister, aged 45 |years; Warren Faust, aged 10; Lson j Faust, aged 7. All were instantly billed. The hoys were sons of Allen ; Faust, a miller of Berkely, this coun [ sy, sni dsisser, wxi:j wits iu ius ciuploy, v7as driving them in ?. covered ,v3gcn, with a load of flour for delivery. Tie presumption is that he did j :iot hear the approach of the engine. ] The bodies wer* horribly mangled. e ?? T3 t. n.-afch'h.wl. J WA* ? v-.??| A special from Bancroft, Mich.., J says that Harry F- L^adley, of Rjchte?:er, N. Y., died there Wednesday, j Before his demise he stated that he j had been guilty of killing a Miss Em| erson in Rochester, and of embezzlement from a Rochester fire insurance urm. A correspondent in Rochester interviewed Charles T. L-^adley^ father of the deceased. He acknowledged that the man was his son, but knew nothing about the crimes committed. "Wild fiorssa a XaLaanca. ] Wild horses have become so much ? of 2 nuisance in Northern Arizona | that Attorney General Francier has j been asked if they cannot legally be 5 slaughtered. That vicinity has been I overrun by several largs bands, hun| dreds in number, unbrandsd and un -- m 1 claimed oy any one. xaeynave rapj idly increased in nmnbsr and hava ! become wilder than deer and vicioiis I as well- The matter has been referred i to the iive stock board.