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All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? A very few people in this life know the advantage of keeping troubles to themselves. ? It is said that one-eighth of the wine produced in California last year came from a single vineyard. ? Umbrellas are now made of paper in France. They are made waterproof by gelatined bichromate of potassium. ? When a Frenchman marries, under the law he becomes responsible for the support of his wife's father and mother. ? The crops are on the move, and it is a grand sigDU uuriug August mo 10ceipts in Chicago amounted to 7,900,000 bushels of wheat, against 1,095,000 bushels In 1690. ? An egg, the shape of a small clay jug, with mouth and handle all complete, has been received at the office of the Atlanta Constitution. ? The national committee of the World's Fair have arrived In New York. They report that every country in Europe, with the exception of Italy, will be represented. ? Caterpillars;from ten to twelve Inohes long are said not to be uncommon in Australia, while species which vary in length from six to eight inches are stated to be numerous. ? A curious story from Oregon relates that a yonng child in Eugene City is growing faster on one side than on the other without any apparent cause. ? At Aden, in Arabia, rain has fallen only twloo in twenty-nine years. Besides fVio otpahqI rtrnn trhfc. thft nlnofl Is known as one of the hottest in the world. ? "We return thanks," writes a Georgia editor, "for a box of paper collars; but as we hare no shirt to woar with them, we are now offering them cheap for cash. Call earlj and avoid the rush." x? The question of drunkenness and its cure is one of absorbing interest that seems to concern the press of the North and West. It is one that applies itself to good morals and Bound government everywhere. ? One of thequeerest names for a street is that borne by a public thoroughfare In the annexed district of Now York called Featherbed lane. It is supposed to have been so christened because it is full of rocks. The name occurs in the city directory. ? The dry goods trade of the United States has mere money invested in it than any other Interest in the country?estimated at the enormous sum of $20,000,000,000, while the next In order, the railroads, has only between $10,000,000,000 and $12,000,000,000. TKo PinKmrvn/1 Tov?a?n nnn at fhfl oldest landmarks in Augusta, is to be torn down. Th6 date of its erection is not within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Many interesting incidents are associated with the old hostlery that was very popular in its day. ? The largest oil well struck in this country was opened last week 18 miles west of Pittsburg. The well started off at the rate of 500 barrels an hour, and is now estimated to be doing 10,000 barrels a day. The well is owned by Greenlee and Forst. ? "Of course it hurts, Josiah," said Mrs. Chugwater, as she applied the liniment and rubbed it in vigorously. "Rheumatism always hurts. You must mtn an/1 KoipU " T'm willlnff tn hoar it, Samantha," groaned Mr. Chugwater, "bat darn ine if I'm going to arrln." ? In the cemetery: I'Pa, some of these people who are bnried here liavent gone to heaven." "HuBb, Tommy! how do you know they liavent?" "Because I read it on the tombstones." "Read what on the tombstones ?" "On ever so many of them I read, 'Peace to bis ashes.' There ain't any ashes except where it is very hot, is there?" ? The official physicians in charge of the executions by electricity at Auburn, N. Y., prison on July 7th, have j ust made their report to the press. They say that death came painlessly to the four aan^nmnfl/1 man fKat. fhorA ivqq nA burning, and that everything went off smoothly. ? A young man, recently married, suggested to bis wife that they should argue some question frankly and fully every morning. The first question happened to be "whether a woman could be expected to get along without a hat." He took the affirmative, and when last seen he had climbed into the hayloit and was pulling the ladder after him. ?"Whar yer goin' wid dat man?" (yjked a negro of his daughter, "He air not to ooi^p'ny^ yer.(< flGjwme ter de Bhow," theg|rlreplied, ".pat'sallright, fought yer was going to church. A loman ken go wid most any man ter a show, but she's got ter be mighty pertic'lar who goes ter Church wid her." cr "W^y, how ft f ^m? U crying Very Iwtfj g#ye yot*' ye been pinching him and pushing him aH aroqnd the yard." "Well, mamma, X should think I had good cause." "Pray, what was that?" "Why, be said that he liked you a great deal better than I did ; and I liked you two years before he was ever thought of." rt Crops this year have been made at greasy redttofctf expenses, ' prices" for foodstuffs aro good! Mow money will go into the hands of farmers this winter than ever before. Next year will be a great debt-paying year in the United States. The release of money from Inyestnjent }n fijrm mortgages will have an immpQSfc mflue^qo qpb# fye qiar^et yaf: UP of securities. The wonderful crops and the abundance of general products in the United States this year, BayB the New York Sun, seem to be a family blessing, bestowed without regard to where the individual members may be located, from the Arctic Circle to the gulf, and covering b^lf the tyorltf in longitude, Q-his is r&aily noteworthy,'considering th<^ hard time afflicting the rest of the world with equal impartiality. ? At Birmingham, Ala., some boys saturated a cat with coal oil, set fire to it and turned it loose. The cat ran into the Tl residenco of a man named Lindsay, and on v set fire to that, the house being burned to Mai< the ground. A. M. Rydol's house caught n and that was burned too. The total loss was about tlirco thousand dollars. tivel ? Jim Murphy, an old line whig, famil- lniqi iarly known as "Big Foot Jim," livingon j9 Bridge Creek, in Colquitt County, is cer- , tainly the biggest and strongest man in Georgia. He weighs zsu pounus ; Nutuu? ??. ... seven feet high in his stockings, and imp< wears a number fifteen shoe. His strength 8j|v_ is almost phenomenal. ? A marvelous illustration of the pa- met tience of the Chinese is found in the salt the ] mines In Central China. Holes about six 80tU( feet in diameter are bored in the rock by f means of a primitive form of iron drill and sometimes a period of forty years ed w elapses before the coveted brine is reach- to w ed, so that the work is carried on from jecte one generation to another. 4<r ? The phrase, "Worth its weight in A f old," no longer expresses the idea which ?Pen t was intended to convey. For there Pres< are at least twenty substances worth more moP than gold. Berylium, for instance, is RarCj worth ten times its weight in pure gold, .wor' and venadium is five times as costly as lDS the precious metal. Iridium, also, is ??'ni more than twice as costly as gold. The inYu text books used to say that platinum was 8Plei the only metal more valuable than gold, r?r? but it now costs about the same. e~ " ? There is now a bright prospect of the establishment at Washington of a great Dr^j University that shall be all that the name implies, of which the chief promotor is gorr,, Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist Episcopal Dr Churcn. Ten million dollars will bo needed, and an appeal has been made to the Church to subscribe that amount. 0fa Bishop Hurafc expresses confidence that vinc, the sum can be obtained without difflcul- rea]j ty,and when the large numerical strengiu Rep, of the Church 1b considered, the faith of from the Bishop appears to be well founded. coui( ? S. V. White, who failed in Wall conn Street the other any, came near being weal successful in his attempt to corner corn, adde A Chicago paper states that if he tad had in at sufficient mouey to purchase" 500,000 Ht bushels more, ho would have had the stag< whole visible supply of corn in the coun- met! try, and could have dictated his own high price for it. He held 7,000,000 bushels, pure for which he paid 54,200,000. The com- The paratively small sum of ?200,000 more be$3 would have made him master of the Bit- by t uation, and enabled him to add several was million dollars to his fortune. For the char; want of that amount the price dropped, that and his fortune was swept away. duty ? Rock Hill has set an example that every town and city in South Carolina did i could follow with great advantago. The enterprising people of that progressive Last little city are determined to have the plate trade of country friends if good roads will good bring it. The roads loading out of town 'ber< in all directions will be thoroughly ma- mor< cadamized for four miles at the expense of the town, then the county commis- lish i sioners will take hold and continue the Pay I work for six miles more. Rock crush- Chic era have been bought and the work is ^8? now in progress. It is one of the most butt< important movements that has been stated in this State, and it will be watched with ?Y?r keen interest by all the towns that want Did I the trade of the farmers. No town can $300C spend money to betteradvautage than in butt< the improvement of its roadways. ? An unknown negro man was killed near Seneca river last Saturday night. " t He was stealing a ride on the North bound Air Line passenger train, having got on at Seneca as the conductor, W. T. , A? " RIooney, supposed. He was found on "?u the platform by tho conductor just after ".P0? leaving Seneca, who asked, him to come in the coach and pay his fare. The con- |J? ductor passed on through the car, and on {on.?' returning to the platform he found one shoe but the negro was gone. It is supposed that be either trieato climb on top .?, the coach and fell, or jumped olF. The 1 s train was running fast makiug about for- SL a ty miles an hour, and he was hurled KePl headlong to the ground. When found his head was crushed and one log broke. ta*,e Part or his skull was found imbedded in the end of a cross-tie which was struck by rr . his head. An inquest was held over tho body by Coroner Craig and a jury, the reSy verdict being death by misadventure in J falling from tho train.? Walhalla Courier. ? The Supreme Court of Minnesota jq jia has filed a decision finding the dealings Ther in grain futures illegal and void. The told finding is one of ultra importance, as two \yor of the largest boards of trade in the coun- xis^i try are now located at Minneapolis and was, Duluth, the operators of which may now the repudiate their contracts with impunity ba(jg when on the wrong side of the market caiif unless they deal in real wheat, oats, and ~ other commodities. The case is that of Oscar Mohr and Anton Meisen, dealers of I on the Milwaukee board. The Supreme syst< Court finds as follows : "Contracts for DOO the sale and delivery of grain or other f commodities to bo delivered at a future tabh day are not per se unlawful when parties men in good faith intend to perform them ac- than coraing to their terms. Butcontraots in tj form ftr future delivery not intended to p represent actual |transactlona,but merely Tb to pay and receiye the difference be- j seivi tween the agreed price and the market ery price at a future price of the commodity, are void." 80Ur ? Mrs. R. J. Gaines had a very pecul- "ena iar experience at her home below Roop- tous ville, Ga., the other night. She said that peop she had noticed a cat's peculiar actions around a certain bureau all the afternoon, and she thought that a mouse was in the bureau and that was the reason the cat kept a continual watch at the bureau. A Just about dusk Mrs. Gaines had occasion to go into $e bqreau and opened a * . , drawer. Just as she did this ghethqught r^m of the cat's str&flge'actlons and, being like ?d h all ladies, having a deadly dread for a ??J mouse, she went for a lamp and looked <tj into the bureau drawer, and to her astonishment there lay a la^e rattlesnake coiled up fo draper sleeping as sweet- yest ly as a queen. Mrs. Qaines says if she just had put'her hand into the drawer, and she woulcl hay'e dqi}e sq h^4 8^9 flot } thought q( the pflt'a actions that evening, yest it would nave hit the rough snake the first thing. The question is how that ije?s snake got in the bureau. It must have crawled in when the drawer was open for can it could not have got in otherwise. han< ? ing New Farmer?' Moxemect. shal - ' eho\ S, C., October 9.? cite< Another movement among the farmers, saw this time in the right direotlon, we be- i?j lleve. One of the prominent men this in time is Col. Lewis E. Campbell, of Ander- jjim son (one of the twenty-one conference.) hun Another one is Capt. S. J. Duckworth, of Williamston. The movement on foot is wa8 to bring their land up to such a high state wa3 of cultivation that tney cap niiakd a living witj on'a fe^' acres.' Colonel Campbell will e(j ? get this year a very largo yield of cotton an(j and corn. (Japtam Duckworth will cet at huu least twenty-live bushels or corn per acre from the same land where be raised fifteen bushels of wheat per acre. Hurrah ? for this movement. If the people gener- ing ally would fall into line with this move- wal ment it would do more good than all the an < "Tillman ahd ?olk movement?.'' Their nut, raoyement i3 for individuals.' Tho Camp gun bell and Puckworth -movement would be gar* fo^ the benefit bf alt the tieople. Fall into groi line, gentlemen, and let us all move on thai to prosperity.?Correspondence Greenville mai Wwt, I at o THE OHIO CAMPAIGN. ?; 10 campaign in Ohio is being carried igorously. Governor Campbell and ~ >r McKinley are ideal exponents of locracy and Republicanism, respec- m y. Gov. Campbell insists that the v aitous tariff law, of which McKinley te: ithor, is the overshadowing question as ocn the parties. Major McKinley ches off to a side issue (though an ^ irtant one) and prefers to discuss the 1 ir question. These two champions in joint debate on last Thursday, and Democratic leader gave his opponent s hard nuts to crack. We will quote c? f of his utterances, which were greet- ? ith applause, showing to some extent hat enormous taxation we are sub- 0r d on nearly every article we use: ^ regret," said Governor Campbell, in .. ing, "that I have not time to properly 3nt the indictment of that overgrown Pe ster, which, masquerading in the M of protection, subsists on the wageter and agriculturist. Yearlv, farmis growing more unprofitable, our Wi merce is swept from the seas and that of stry is abandoned. Under protection, idid palaces of protected manufactuare crowning the hills, while import[uns, Italians and Bohemians are disng American citizens. We are rap- si( reaching the condition which was ha icted by Abraham Lincoln when he gt ed these words, 'As a result of war-, . . orations.have been enthroned, an era 101 igh prices will follow, the money th ar will endeavor to prolong its reigu eo i all wealth is aggregated in the hands b0 few and the republic is lost.' To cone you that that prediction is being 861 zed, I cite you to the utterance of a N< iblican Congressman (Butterworth) i Ohio, who Rflid in f!nni?rf?Hs that he i 3, upon ten fingers of his hands, ,t men who had added more to their th in the last ten years than had been of d to the wealth of all the agriculturists ga ly State of the Union. tQ sre a board was hoisted upon the . >, upon which was demonstrated by or lods of bookkeeping the injustice of M tariff. A man goes to England and 6v hases goods to the amount of $5000. 0 average duty on these goods would 000, making J8000 the total sum paid w he importer. Here another board N: hoisted on which the $3000 was ac ged up to profit and loss, indicating if the importers did not charge the , to the consumers he would lose the I paid in duties. Thus the foreigner so lot nay that tax. . la: he duty on plate-glass is 140 per cent. m, year we imported $160,000 worth of ' i-glass. That was the value of the *rJ s in England; yet upon that glass tic ) was paid $223,000 duties, or 963,000 co 3 than the cost of the glass in Eng- , . Who paid that tax? Did the Eng- nL manufacturers give us the glass and va J63,000 beside to get us to take it ? A p? ago paper says that last week a Chi- be firm received ?1400 worth of pearl >ns from Austria, and the duty on ut } buttons was just ?3000, or a trifle tai 200 per cent. Who paid that duty ? ex the foreign manufacturer pay nearly r I for the privilege of sending pearl jnstous? na here were manufactured in this counast year $5,500,000,000 worth of goods. < e tariff on dutiable goods is 60 per it is fair to presume, taking pro- m' A An/) in/ltiafvSoa fAr?nHi_ f/\ u QUU uupvkoi/wu iUUUOliICO bUKQbU1' lat at least J of that sum is paid in f0j of duties to manufacturers at home i the American product. It is said I" his is done for the upbuilding and So itonance of manufacturers! 'How thi , O Lord, how long, shall this upling and maintenance go on ? he Major has not pointed out one tu iworker, as I requested him, in all wi broad land, who had his wages raised an ccount of the McKinloy bill. The ot] lblican song this year is s "With r and tin we are sure to win." They ac* the tariff off sugar to make it cheap m they put a tariff on tin to make it pu p! But no acrobat was ever yet able ie two horses going in different di- 101 ons without failing to the ground. W 3 are paying about $16,000,000 duty cri l tin, an increase of jl,000,000 under dcKinley bill. Finally, they claim ive established the industry in Piqua. co o is a man in this audience who was wl by the proprietor of the Piqua Iron W( ks that he had spent ?100 in estabDg that industry. The one hundred 3pent in establishing the industry in purchase of a stamp to make this br ;e inscribed, 'Made out of steel and ?t ornia tin.' " d0 iv. Campbell fairly exposoa the evils tepublican protection. Under this 3m the rich become richer and the ^ poorer. Under a normal and eqai) condition of affairs, how could ten accumulate in ten years more wealth w. all the farmers of any State . together? ie facts and figures quoted abovo de- 1 b closo study, and must prove to evthinklng man that the tariff iB the ? ce of the most of our heaviest buri, and therefore is the most momen- ? subject confronting the American Ie to-day. a3 sa an He Lored His Teacher. vi schoolboy, about 10 yeay-a old, was 00 id Ihe other day by a benevolent Jed citizen on Second street, and ask- ^ lm if ho likorl fn em onliool ? fo, sir," was the prompt reply, hep yop dop't loye your teacher?" fo?yes, sjr. <phat is, I didn't until j" erday \ bpt now I do. I think she is tally," ? Vhy have you only loved her since srday ?" M Veil, you know Jack Cain? Well, jVj the worst fighter in our room. Ho lick me and two other boys with ope V I tied behind him. Well, he was go- jl to lick me last pight, and he was :ing his fist at me in school, and "r ving his teeth qnd getting mo all ex1 When the teacher turned round and 80 him. p{ )id, eh?" M fou bet she did, and the way she took oi out of that and wollopoa him, and ^ ibled him down, made mo feel as if f were a mother to me. Whep school K opt, Jack d*se$t tqocp anybody.' He g> wilted do^n, and whep I Ip1 It 1 abuniH of dlrt'hB payor even lookiroupd l X guess I'm try ljcl( him beTore he gets over feeling P1 ableDetroit Free Press. a* ? t? Tho old Southern black gum is com- ol into favor as a substitute for hlaok fa nut. It cap ho |Q stained that only jjfpev.t can detect it from the real wal- 1 . Our Carolina swamps is fUll or.blacjc C n tioes that have hitherto ' been reied as piere epcumbrapce3 oi the and. Farmers should romember i. ithey will soonhavo a well defined rket value and be slow in selling them " ord wood prices. ft XTRACTS FROM THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER. The South has never oncountorcd a ore trying period in its industrial dodopment than that of the last nine or n month?, but she has suffered as little any other section. In addition to the other requirements the rocent Constitution, the November action in Mississippi will bo held under e Australian ballot sj'stem, and the icretary of Stale is now sending out pies of the ordinance to the election Beers of the various counties. Charles Stewart Parnoll, the Irish teadand statesman, died suddenly at his >me on Tuesday evening of last week, t one time he was the idol of the Irish !ople, but by his infamous conduct with rs. O'Shea he lost the respect and confimce of many of his old friends. lie *s buried last Sabbath in the presence a largo crowd of friends and admirers. It is said that there will bo an extra ssion of the Legislature called to con3er the report of Judge Maher, who s charge of the revision of the General atutes of the State. This revision kos place every ten years, and it is ought that three or four weeks will be nsumed in the reading of Judge Mar's report. If there is to be an extra ssion it will likely bo called early in Dvember. rhe Ecumenical Methodist Council et in Washington City on Wednesday last week with a large number of deletes present. There has been much talk the sessions of the distinguished body uuiwy uuu tu*upciuuuu amuui; an iuu ethodist Churches, and the idea .has idently been popular in the Council, lr loved and honored Dr. Carlisle, of ofiford College, and Dr. Coke Smith, of ashville, have both been prominent and tive members of the Council. The Executive Committee of the Clemn College Trustees have issued a circur stating that it has been determined to ake exhibits of the products and induses of the State at the Augusta Exposi>n. The committee asks the earnest -operation of our farmers toward furshina the agricultural exhibits. The lue of such exhibits depends upon the irity and quality of the article J?nd its ing displayed in aliberal way. Contribors are requested to notify the Secrery of State at once. If the article to be hibited is bought, only the name of the >unty will appear. If contributed, the ,me of the donor will bo placed upon it. Giov. Tillman has called a convention to eet in Columbia during tho State fair devise a plan for securing an exhibit r South Carolina at the World's Fair in licago in '93. Such action is timely, uth Carolina should have an exhibit at is great fair that will show to the na. >ns of the world the wealth and magni de of her natural resources, together ith a grand display of her agricultural d manufacturing products ana sucu her exhibits as will give evidenco of the vancoment and prosperity of the faous Palm etto State in all the useful irsnits and occupations and industries at may be found within her borders, e insist that we should have a full and aditable display at this inter-national r, or that South Carolina should be nspicuous only by her absence from lat promises to be the grandest fair tho jrld has ever witnessed. The Michigan Alliance has mado a bad eak. It has passed a resolution saying, Ve are unyielding in favor of indepennt political action as outlined in tho ncinnati Conference," (the third party nvention.) If this Alliance expects to id allies among tho Alliances of tho mthern States, it has surely reckoned ithout its hosts. The Southorn people every walk in life have an abiding ith In the integrity and usefulness of the smocratic party, and will not desert its ne honored principles for the ignis fans of a third party. A few may allow emselves to bo misguided, but the men this State who wore the red shirts in 3 and their sons stand as ready to-day then to risk life and property for the ke of the Democracy?for home rule id economy and integrity and the alleating of the burdens laid upon us by rrupt and extravagant Republican imJnofiAn Cnnfh ^oivkUna will n nf <UlIUai>4Vil| UV/UbU M >sert the ranka of solid Southern Deocracy, Mark that. Tho Charleston Daily World suspended ablication on Wednesday of last woek, iving beon in existence about three and half years at the time of its collapse, he paper was not paying expenses and t. F. S. Rodgers, who owned tho paper, id furnished money to decided iat he was pqyiqg t(*0 ^oar for bis whists so, ^llo^yed to. suspend publication, be World espoused tho causo of Captain illman during his campaign of last year, id ^s said to have mado somo money bj ils{ diroke. However, this friendshii on turned into bitter hatrod, and th( iper has beon on the decline ever since. '.r. Octavus Cohen was managing oditoj ' the paper. The IFcWd wJH hardly be lissed from Siouth Carolina journalism aritnover seemed to comprehend ant ;asp the possibilities that surrounded it, , did po^ pursue a settled and well defmi policy that so much commends a paor to tho public, but seemed ready tc lopt any course that promised ovei: imporary favor with some party or class f people, U'o one at this distance, tin illuro of the World seems due to Its maufjement, for sqrely tharo \s room ir harloston for two first^cluss dally papers Tho wldesprcading influence of vicious jgislation, says tho St. Louis Republic, is jrcibly illustrated in tho effects of lh< tcKinley tariff directly upon the cottor trade and indircctlv upon other branches of business. By increasing the tax upon foreign cotton goods brought to this country, and by helping to unsettle business in Europe, one of the first cflccts of the new tariff was to start a decline in cotton that has only lately been arrested. The protected manufacturers, in faco of the decline in tho price of raw cotton, advanced the prices of staplo bleached and unbleached cotton goods proportionately with the increased protection. But tho .Southerners being short of money, reduced their purchases, not only of ootton goods, but of all other manufactured articles ; and it is a fact of the business situation to-day in St. Louis, continues the Republic, and every other commercial centre, that sales to tho South aro markedly smaller than in ordinary seasons. The vicious economic legislation of the Billion Dollar Congress, as it aficcts cotton, therofore, hurts not only the South, but the manufacturing and business interests of the whole country. III. HI M?MClggrMWO flonca rath. The people of Honea Path spent a very pleasant evening at the Academy on Monday of last week. The Pierian Literary Society, instead of a debate, bad toasts and responses, and invited the people to attend. Tbe exercises were as follows : Reading?P. A Rico. Declamation?S. A. Guy. Declamation?J. C. Harper. t. v \f UlttUWII JUT. X. UiUVIC. Toast?The United Stat^i, the greatest nation in the world. Responded to by W. L. Taylor. Toast?South Carolina, (he best State in the Union. Responded to by J. D. Culbertson. Toast?Anderson, the best County in the State. Responded to by M. A. McGee. Toast?Honea Path, the best Town in the County. Responded to by B. Y. Culbertson. The exercises of the Society were followed by an address from the Rev. A. CStepp. Several former students of the Honea Path High School have been on a visit here recently, viz: Misses ICittie Thomas, Clatie McDaniel, Mertie Culbertson, and Messrs. J. L. Eskew, B. M. Cheatham, W. R. Earle and Dr. C. L. West. Dr. J. F. Wilson has arranged everything for tho successful practice of his profession. He has a sitting-room nicely furnished, a ladies' toilet-room, an operating room and a labratory. He has games for children and for visitors. That in which children are most interested is a railroad track, with an engine and a train of cars. He says he is going to stay in Honea Path, and do such work a3 will deserve custom and will bring it. T. H. Brock and J. C. Milford have been paying as much for cotton tho last week as it has been bringing anywhere in the upper part oT the State. T. J. Clatworthy has opened a racket ana grocery store ai w. a. omrieya oiu stand. % The merchants of Honea Path are selling goods cheapor than ever before. Mr. J. M. Dunlap had two of his fingers badly cnt in a cotton gin last week. Mrs. Dr. Shirley and the baby are visiting at her father's this week. Miss Mary J. Erwin, after several months visit in Ireland, and a few days visit in New York and Boston, has returned home. Mr. W. P. Culbertsou gave us a short visit last Saturday. Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Seneca, who has been elected pastor of the Presbyterian Church here, will prcacli here tb?fourih Sunday in this month, morning and night. The weather has been cloudy and cold for several days, and cotton is opening very slowly. Unless we have some days of warm sunshine before long the cotton crop will be almost a failure. Rev. A. C. Stepp has been attending the North Greenville Association at Marietta. ?Correspondence Anderson Intelligencer. A Word From an Old Carolinian. Winnsboro, Texas, Oct. 7th, 1891. Mb. Editor : Being a constant reador of your valuable paper, and seeing you V)?pa cpworn! nnrrpsrinnrlpnfs T thrmrrhfc it not amiss to give you a few dots from the "Lone Star State." Wo havo line crop3 out here of every kind?wheat, oats, corn, cotton, ribbon cane and potatoes?in fact, nearly everything that can be raised by the farmer is good. Now is the time to come to Texas, everything is plentiful and cheap, health is good, and weather fine. I might tell you of several mairiages and accidents, but it would not interest your readers, as all are strangers. I notice with particular interest your correspondents from HoneaPath and lielton, as I have many relatives and old schoolmates at and around those places. I was born in South Carolina, and raised in Abbeville and Anderson Counties (then Districts); got my little education mostly in Anderson, south of Belton three or lour miles, and when I was back in the old State las6 winter I met many that I never expected to see again, which was a great pleasure to me. I visited your city ou 1 Salesday in January last, and I must say i I was surprised. I saw more pistols sold that day tban I ever saw in Texas all put together. I began to think that wo wero more oivilized than you were in that good nlH Skatn T think thfire wp.ro Lwo or ; tl**e thousand people there that day, and half of them were black. I am glad to note you have good crops, and that you are having some good revival meetings. I am also glad to see that Gov. Tiljman is [ standing square to the Democrats and down on the sub-Treasirty. Mr. Editors, I might write more but I 1 will wait and see what becomes of this. Texas. t Shook the Earth, ^ Butte, Mont., October 3.?A terriblo explosion of giant powder occurred at 7 . o'clock last evening in tho shaft house of i the grand squirrel mine. About 500 pounds of tho stuff went off. It was stor1 ed in tho houso and an incipient lire, which was being extinguished at the i time, exploded it. All tho buildings, ( boilers, hoisting machinery, etc., about the iniuo woro completely wrecked and all houses in tho vicinity, which nreoccu" pled by tho laboring classes, were more j or less damaged. Tho shock produced an effect like that of an earthquake, stop| ping clocks, closing doors, and was lblt ' all over tho city. That any one about the . mine or near tho explosion escaped with . their lives seems miraculous. MikoiScpt, j a miner at work in tho bottom of tho shaft, 170 feet, was struck by tho buckct ' which fell from tho surface and sustained \ probably fatal injuries. Mrs. Dovish \va3 hurt about the head and hori;;-months-?!d babe was also struck by tho llying wreck5 age. Miko Smith .suffered a concussion j of tUo brain from tho shock. ? On cach ballot to bo cast. according ! to tho provisions of tho now elertion law 3 in Ohio, are to bo these distinguishing , devices that havo been adopted by tlio parties ; Republican, caglo ; Democr.itio, 3 rooster; Prohibition, rose; People's, t plough and hammer. ' j TIio Gospel of Good Eating-. Since eating is the only eubjcct on earth, or in the heavens above the earth, or in the water3 under the earth, which engeges tho thought of every human being, daily at least, it is not surprising that wise men havo said many notable things about it. Robert B. Roosevelt, es-Minister to the Hague, who is known a3 the successor of Sam Ward, the most famo?3 bon vivant of America, i3 perhaps as notable an example as can be nUpfl (o dftv r.f fh? nnirl-pninfr. enneroua - - ? j O impulses which good living gives to a broad nature. H9 has said : "More divorcc-i are due to an ill-regalated kitchen, when the trouble arises with ths ma:;, thnn from an ill regulated morality. No husband ever abused or deserted a wife who always gave him a perfcct dinner unless driven to it by dire force. Good cookiDg is at the foundation of all happiness, for there can be none without it, and it should be taught in our public schools before oven the'three RV" Jay Gould says: "I do not myself believe that any man can stand the strain of a large business unless he lives on the simplest food he can get." But Richard A. McCurdy, President of the Mutual Life Iusurancc Company, declares emphatically in favor of French cookery, and says: "An American salad to a person just home from the other side looks absolutely naked. It is almost indecent." E. B. Harper says: "The gospel of good living is the most important of all things earthly." Dr. Talmage s3ys: "No man can be a christian if his stomach is out of order." And again : "One great cause of evil m tius wonu is irrcgmuruy ui meals." Henry Ward Beecher before he bad dis* pepsia himself spoke in a similar straio, denouncing sickness as criminal. Dr. Robert Collyer said : "I think the American people, take them all in all,. are the bast livers of any people in the world. I waa only too glad when I got to a land where I could live twice ?S well a31 couid in my native country." Charles A. Dana was_ seventy-two years old last week. When he was asked some time ago how he preserved his youthful vigor as marvellously as he haa done, he said : "I live well and takerational exercise. I have no hobbies about plain and simple food, but eat everything that I can get that is good aud that I know by experience agrees with me. Theories about eating are all nonsense. Experience mu3t govern every sensible man's selection of hi* food." Such savings could be quoted by col umnn and would only emphasize the importance which every intelligent man appreciates, if he steps to think of it, of care and discrimination in the use of food. It was almost for a century a standing reproach to this nation that its people, richer in food than any other people on earth, were almost tbe worst cooks, and altogether the most foolish feeders in tbe world. It is lo the iufinite credit cf the present generation that 6uch a thing can ro longer he justly said. Babies in China. Among tha sweltering millions cf China there ia c. practico which seems to have a curious result. The mother carries her infant in a kind of bag or pan nier on her back, aad not?as in other counties .vhcre the dorsal carriage is sfleeted?with the face tur..ed outwards, but?a?, probably, we onght to .expect in (Jijinr-, wf.ere everyunng rectus logo ai;u come by tbe rule of contraries?with the f?.ca turr.cil inwards. Tho result of that 13 that the baby'd uose is of necessity pressed against its mothers back, whence, no doubt, say the teamed if; these matters, has beeij <-v.:lved, ia th?* the course of age3, the peculiarly flat toned or blunted uoso, characteristic tho Chinaman. Furthermoie, Chines* girls, even when allowed to iive, are litH<> tVinnohf nf Tn thfl f'unilv irenerai'r.' they-bear no names; they are known as Number One and Number Two. like convicts, and they are no mure reokontd members of the family than the cat or the dog. So when a Chinaman ia asked i what family he has, he counts on!y hi.-* boy*. And a boy is treated with great i honor and ceremony by the women. When he h four months old he ia set for the firot tii?is in a chair, and his mother'# mother sends or brings him many presents. notably among which is sugar candy. The candy is emblematic of the sweet things of life, and it is sduck to this chair to signify the hope that he may never lack such things. Mis first birthday u his sreund j-ro.it day of rejoicing. He ii then si5! upon n table in front of n,i;:iy things, >u?:h as ink, bo.jLs. too!-, etc., and whiyhovor ho by* bis hand o.<. doc hie- hi' future i-ccupatiou. ? Thfj Alliance farmers r.f Karcs?-i ::r.V: no'. tsLcn advice that was <?i7p;i to iYpu.iia'o t'.uir mortgage iadobtedt:*-*-* but a-o pay log it r.p rs test as they can get tha int-ruy for iht-ir crops. The sta ti-:ics )tftv:.liy cnlhc'.ed on ill? stsbjw* art- encouraging ! >' all hohhra of farm tn irlgsgo*, and pva-'?ing to c veryborl-.why beivv-H in th<- hnin-sty and ho?,n:,of of :L; c> il:.:ry. f? ;4 svj.'.d p?:ii-v t .Mii v.'.! IC fariis-; arc pursuing in tni* re-sjioct, and ic wi:i redound to their advanlag-? one? and hereafter.