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NEW USES FOR M1IZE. c Indian Corn a More Valaale Plant tl;an a Supposed. ^ Washington Star. ^ The demand for paper in the world s is growing steadily. In order to sup ply it many new vegetable materials 11 have been made to serve as stock, rags " to-day furnishing only a minor frac- ? tion of the raw stuff employed for the . purpose. Among these substances 1 wood pulp stands first. A very im- 0 portant contribution is made also by f xi a the famous esparto grass 01 nonncrn Africa and Soutlnvestern Europe. * But the time is approaching when the leaves of Indian corn will be utilized ' in this way to an enormous extent. c In Vienna the manufacture of paper from maize is already conducted on an extensive scale. ThaAUegemeinc Zeitung, a scientific journal of * importance, is printed on sheets of this product, the yellowish tint of which is restful to the eves. It has a r number of other advantages. Very little sizing is required; it blenches ^ well and it is stronger than rag paper. Iv No machinery is required for tearing 15 up the corn leaves. The latter are merely soaked in hot water for a few days, after which they are easily sep- * arated into three parts?the large veins and ribs, the material between ? the ribs and a coarse paste. The first are utilized for making gunny sacks, cordage and certain kinds of cloth ; the second furi^ehes mate. rial for a peculiar sort of bread, de- ( _ scribed as having an agreeable flavor; 1 the third is employed for paper pulp. ^ All of these uses for maize are new ; as is likewise the process of obtaining a valuable oil from the corn. For --V.., t this last purpose the grain is crusiuu. . and the germs, which contain the oil, 1 are separated by winnowing. The 1 germs are then subjected to hydraulic ^ pressure, yielding 15 per cent, of oil, ^ which is of a pale golden-yellow color and has a pleasant taste and odor. It ' is employed in dressing wool and to lubricate machinery. The yield is sixteen pounds for every one hundred ( bushels of maize. Maize oil is well adapted for illumi- 1 nating purposes, giving a bright, * white flame. It is also good for heat- ( ? ing, developing a high temperature in ( i Tn the West, where the UUH11&1?. AM / supply of coal is often prccarious, corn cobs aro frequently used in J stoves, three tons of them being reckoned as equal to one ton of hard coal. Sometimes, when there has been a fuel famine, the whole ear has been \ employed. In France, the cobs, saturated with resin and tar, are utilized as fire lighters, fetching, when thus . prepared, for $2.00 to $4.00 per thous- j and, according to size. . The husks are used for packing , oranges and cigars, as well as in stuff- f ing pillows, mattresses and loungcsr. j As stoppers for bottles also the cobs ^ are sometimes employed. Toasted x cornmeal is utilized in some parts of this country as a substitute for coffee. Tim vifdd a lame amount of pot ash. A mill shelling 500 bushels an ? hour turns out 7,000 pounds of cobs j every sixty minutes,' or 70,000 pounds rj for each working day. The cobs are ^ consumed as fuel in the mills, and the c refuse ashes are collected for the ex- E traction of the potash. A factory of j the above mentioned capacity will fur- t nish as a by-product 535 pounds of ? potash per diem. x Science has devoted much attention t to finding out where this most valua- e ble of American farm products had its p origin. An overwhelming weight of b testimony goes to show that the earl- e liest home of the maize was the high- g lands of Central Mexico. All of the r plants closely related to Indian corn k are indigeneous to that part of the p world. It is believed that the vegetable originated in some circumscribed t locality, above 4,500 feet elevation, 1 north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec r and south of the twenty-second degree j, of the north lattitude, near the an- t cient seat of the Maya tribes. There u is hardly a doubt that the Mayas were F the first t<) cultivate maize and that ' they distributed it in every direction, j From them the use of the cereal spread s North and South. ? It is considered probable that the ^ plant was known along the Rio Grande t by 700 A. JL>. Three hundred years later it had reached the coast of Maine. In Peru the Incas used it before the year 700. By^the time of Co- ^ lumbus it was found ever}'where. It ^ was one of the products of American 1 soil which the great navigator took 0 back with him to Spain and showed ? to Queen Isabella. From Spain it t soon spread over Europe, and in the j sixteenth century grains of it were u sold in Italian, Frcnch, German and J English gardens. Before long it was cultivated upon a larger scale upon j the fields. It becamc widely known as a 'Turkish wheat," because the new e 7 I world was confused in the popular j inind with the East Indies, the trade j with which was carried on by way of j Tnrkev. t The ancient Mexicans, to whom the J development of the usefulness of In- * dian corn is due, were a a highly civilized people. They were skillful e builders, made utensils of copper and v t::i. worked gold and silver into orna- s r.:( nts, had an elaborate religious sys- * tt in, preserved a large literature on f parchment of the maguey plant, kept s .v . alendar and understood the art of agiculture, raising beans, pepper, gourds ( nd manv other fruits of tillage. .'heir country was so densely populaed that floating gardens were conducted, upon which all products of he soil known to them, particularly aaizc and beans, were sown. There ;ardcns were constructed with logs iverlaid with earth. They have been lescribed by historians as "fairy slets of flowers overshadowed by trees if considerable size." Even to this lay such floating islands are built and nchored in Mexican lakes for pur>oses of pleasure. The ruins of great irrigation works estify to the extent and development if the cultivation of maize by tnc anient Peruvians. Their tombs comnonly contained corn, either in the ;ar or the grain. The bodies of these >eople were buried in a squatting portion. with the knees drawn up bcicath the chin, and were rolled and ied in mats. Heads of corn and cop>er agricultural implements were iniluded in the rolling. With the lorpse were usually placed a water 'essel and a pot with grains of maize Vll along the coast of Peru for 1,200 nilcs are scattered thousands of such jrehistoric tombs. Darwin unearthed iome ears of corn on the seashore, in i stratum which had evidently been aised by geologic action from nearer ,he sea level, and to them he assigned i great <f 111/A4 uit) . In the houses of the ancient cliff Iwellers, in southwest Colorado and lorthern New Mexico, stalks, husks, ;assels, cobs and kernels of corn are 'ound. That some of this material is is old as the buildings is proved by ,he fact that the stalks were used in he construction of the floors, being mbedded in the abode. The cobs vere ajso utilized to fill up chinks in ;he walls. They were about three ,'eet long. These habitations have jeen deserted for at least five hundred rears. Further south is the land of 1 ? A. ihe living cim-aweners, m wc uicua tfadre, between the Mexican States )f Chihuahua and Senora. There reside, on cliffs or in caves, savages ,vho worship the sun and plant a Utile maize on the steep hill sides with)ut cultivation, though otherwise they lo not till the soil at all. During the long winter that followed the landing of the Puritans, in 1620, they subsisted in large measure )n corn purchased from the aborigines [n the next year an Indian named Squant, taught them how to plant it md how to fertilize the soil with fish, rhus they were enabled to grow about A? "nt If Tim Tnrlinns had ./WCIll/jr uuico ui iv. .?.?* ? ? nany ways of preparing maize, mixing t with beans, chestnuts and whortlejerries. They msde a pottage of it >y boiling it with fresh or dried meat md dried pumpkins, sometimes sweetening it with maple sugar. They also >oiled pounded hickory nut kernels vith the meal, and sometimes they nade a bread composed of corn meal nixed with smoked eels and oysters or :lams. Like other vegetables of the garden ind field, Indian corn has been much wproved and altered by cultivation. Dhe form in which it now appears rould soon vanish save for the ageny of man. To preserve it the kernels niict. tip sown, for the latter are too arge to be carried by the winds, and he sheathing husks prevent animals rom getting at the grain and distribLting it. The provision made by naure for the reproduction of maize is ven unusually ample, the number of ?ollen grains furnished by each plant ieing about 18,000,000. Of course, ach kernel must be fertilized by a rain of pollen in order that it may ipen. Avowing two ears of 1,000 firnels to each nlant. there are 9,000 lollen grains for every kernel. A kernel of corn is a wonderful hing in its way. It is a box of starch, ts outer coat being of *a woody mateial and very hard, for the protection f the germ in the middle. The latter s surrounded by grains of starch most ieautifully packed, their arrangement inder the microscope having an ap earance resembling a crystalline tructure. They are the baby food of he future plant, designed to furnish t with nourishment in the earliest tage of its growth. The so-called ;erm is itself merely an oily and highy nutritious envelope for the actual nicroscopic germ of life which it conains. Superstitions Women. Ladies who are afraid to behold the icw moon over the left shoulder are rery numerous in St. Louis, says a ocal paper. An instance is given of me lady who looked at the new moon iver her left shoulder before she i hought of what she was doing, and wo days later her husband lost his >osition and was out of work for six nonths, which, of course, was directly lue to her carelessness. Another St. jouis lady when she sees the new 110011, always shakes her purse at it, hus securing good luck in monetary .ffairs as long as the moon lasts. Oth:rs will not read epitaphs for fear of .! osing their memory; none of them ike to hear dogs howl, and one. at cast, is able to counteract the malign < nfluence of the uncanny sound by aking off her shoe and spitting in it. j jadies who carry slips of paper and ( ?its of parchment which have had cer- | ain characters written upon them by |; ;ypsy women are numerous, these * harms being effective to preserve the rearer from harm when the parchment lips are placed in the bosom or in the locketbook while repeating a formula f gypsy jargon, though, if this be orgottcn, the Lord's Prayer will anwer the purpose. ** . r " ' IT IS TIME TO CALL A HALT, ! I ; a South Carolina Politics Tend to Anarchy J and Bloodshed. r t Columbia, S. C., January 7.?Nothing t could be more interesting than to note tho fluctuations of the poliiical pulse in c South Carolina. Tho patient, the Demo- a oral is nnrtv. is taeffinnine: to cret nervous 1 and fidgety. She does not know how i serious her ailment is going to be, and ^ what is more, what a combination of j. troubles are liable to show themselves, a In the meanwhile she and her friends, j realize that a long siege is ahead, and very * naturally are worried, not as to the ulti- i mate result, but the condition of the j patient during the summer season. t Leaving all medical jurisprudence to t one side, and looking at the situation in a c plain every-day way, one cannot but realize that the political prospects in this i State are anything but pleasant. They t may be encouraging for individual ambi- j tions or factional victories, but to the un- { interested Democrat there are troublous < and stormy time? ahead. There is no use to say, "Oh, that is only newspaper talk," or "Those are the views of an alarmist." It is not so. Anyone who has gone from county to county, through two campaigns, and who keeps his ears open and reaus ariguc me po'iucai move- i ments of the day, must necessarily con- < elude that unless somebody calls a halt, I unless liberality is shown, there is a political tempest ahead. Men are going < into the campaign this year with the expressed intention of allowing no i abusive or insulting language towards i themselves. The political actions of the majority for I the past two years have not been directed towards healing the breach. That would be poor politics in the eyes of the ortho- < dox Reformer. The lines must, they i think, be sharply drawn; their political i success depends upon the life ol the | prejudice now existing. The "country I sentiment" must be rekindled. Call it < Alliance sentiment if you please; any i name will suit; but certain leaders and their men realize that the momeut the < political passions are allowed to smoulder they are without hopo. More liberal ; miDUttU UIIU t'UUsci rauTDuii.u, i. ?>.?. of what faction, will be given the reins. There is a general belief that the resolutions adopted at Laurens outline the , present policy of the Irby wing ef the Reform Movement. That sufficient pressure will be brought to force a change in i the programme is possible. The clause i that "none but Reformers will participate i in the election of delegates to the July State Convention" has already provoked c msiderable comment and dissatisfaction. Said ? S ato ohiuur tu .;?o last nijjht: "We i have nothing but Democratic clubs in this State. The minority has come in with us, joined our ranks as members of our clubs and submitted to defeat. "We cannot now throw them overboard. I am opposed to a July Convention, such as is proposed, and will use every influence I have to defeat its purposes. There is now no need for such a Convention. There was, I believe, a necessity for a March Convention. We then had a platiorm to adopt and principles to announce; i we cannot consistently hold a factional Convention to nominate or suggest any i candidate. The whole thing is wrong." If the author of this sentiment were known it would occasion no little surDrise. especially as he is totally disinter ested. Senator Irby and others not long ago werd enthusiastically in tavor of a March convention at which to settle the whole trouble and effectually crush the Gubernatorial ambitions of certain of the candidates. For some reason the leaders were afraid of this. It may have been that a combination of Anti-John Gary Evans influence brought thisabout. In a word, if a convention were held within the next few weeks it would be John Gary Evans i against the field. How things may change within a few months no one can i tell. i While on the topic of Senator Irby's July convention scheme it might be interesting to say that there is a strong and growing sentiment against tho junior Sjnator retaining tho leadership of the Democratic Executive Committee. There is talk of putting a young and independent man at the head of the committee. The county pres3 is not demonstratively in favor of the retention of Senator Irby, and it is even suggested that the local organ would not be head-ovor-heels in sorrow if some one else were elected. 1 What has it to say ? It is eyen hinted that one of the questions to be asked Governor Tillman in his candidacy for Senator is whether he expects to have Mr. Irby conduct and be responsible for his campaign. J ust now the all-absorbing topic is who | is to receive the Reformers' nomination for Governor? Will it be John Gary Evans or Comptroller General Ellerbe, who are just now in the lead? Will W. De Witt Evans, of Marlboro, or Secretary , of State Tindal, or Dr. Sampson Pope ' forge ahead? Up to this time there are ' five entries. Whether they will all bo at the finish is not known. With or with- ' out reason, Governor Tillman is supposod J to favor the selection of John Gary Evans ' as his successor. Whether this alleged preference is purely personal, it that^ or whether it will extend to political sup- J Eort, lias not ueun uavoiopeu, mo ui'uttaiuii as not arisen. The Governor's preference, it is argued, is on account of the aggressive, daring tactics of the Senator from Aiken. Mr. Ellerbe is also said to be a favorite. Both are young and aggressive. For a day or two there have been mutterings of a kind of conferenco or confab at Wright's Hotel on Friday n'ght. The information goes that there were about ten good "Reformers" there and that in a general way they talked over the situation and came to some conclusions. One of the topics, so it is said, was this: Governor Tillman, if he is to be a candidate for the United States Senate, ought to bo made to understand tbat he has no right to interfere with or influence State affairs or nominations. He ought to restrict himself to a discussion of National affairs and be "bands off" on Stale politics. He can siana Dy ana iook uu, uut um suggestions are not wanted by the good people or liberal Reformers of the State. The same is applicable to Senator Irby, and especially as he; - in National politics, or supposed to be there. It is further stated that another important question that came up at the conference was: "Should we, as Reformers, assume the responsibility of fathering the dispensary law ?" Some of those present, and they were all invited on account of being thought to be loaders, were afraid of the dispensary law, and especially the new one. It is not a popularscheme and may lose many more votes than it will gain. The fruits of this conference may Boon be shown. The cardinal feature was, so it is said, that Tillman and Irby were not expected to dabble in State politics?if they had the dictation of the Blate it would defeat a number of other would-be Governors. There used to be a good deal said abont slates. Note the views now, ana inose who think they may be chosen in that 1 way do not seriously object, but the raa- t joritj' of the candidates and tbo rank and filo do not want any slates made, and t they have duly announced their intention of breaking any slate made by or with the consent of anybody. The politician who favors slate making, from what can be heard, will not improve his chances r for preferment. ^ But what about the Senatorial race? t Oh, that is to be lively enough. Every- -] bodv uuderstands that the contest will be v between Senator Butler and Governor c Tillman. There may be suggestions or r other candidates and expressions as to r the availability of this or that man, but ^ when the fight is really made it will be t between those two men. llere and theresuggestions' havfr been made of men to make the race instead of- Senator Butler, yet when itcomes to the pinch the genoral *! opinion is that if Senator Butler cannot i rlnfaat- Governor Tillman no one can do 0 so. The friends of Senator Butler say ? that he has developed great strength and ? Lhat he is going to win the race. His 1 friends say that they are willing to lay a tho bridle on his neck and tell him to 1 run. Of course Senator Butler will make a bis campaign on purely national issues, n if he is allowed to do so, and thinks that a 10 has a record on which he can stand ,nd win before the people of his State. Is a matter of fact when the campaign eally opens this will be the all-impor ant and interesting race and there will >e some highly lively developments. While the Reformers are holding their ionferences and making and breaking nates, wnai are tuu sunset viuivcouumg rhev are keeping rather quiet. Holding io caucuses, making no slates, butsimply vaiting. Such they think the best policy. \.fter awhile a consultation may be had ls how to act, but for the present the jolicy seems to be to do nothing radical. There is plenty of time to decide whether i State ticket ought to be run or what )lan should be pursued. The Conservaives may have a great deal more to say ban is expected, although they are to be >stracised in the Irby July Convention, rhere may be more sulking and less subnission than anticipated. Altogether :here is a very merry and go-as-youplease song and dance time ahead of ui in - ' ^ * south Carolma.?uorrcspanuence ivavo ind Courier. m Illegal Juries, Columbia Siatc, January 7. There was quite a rattling of the dry bones about the State Capitol yesterday, accasioned by the discovery of the fact ihat all juries jlrawn in the State since December 1.S by a jury commissioner, according to the cusroin of several years, ivere illegally drawn, and their verdicts :onsequently are void in law. Any that may bo drawn hereafter in accordance with the law in force for several years will be equally as illegal aud their verdicts worthless. The matter was brought to light yesterday by Sheriff Daniel J. Bradbam, of Clarendon. He had heard that the Legislature had recently passed a new law governing the drawing of juries, and knowing something of its nature, he same here to sea the governor about it, and the new law was looked up. It was found that the act was approved on December 18, and it was one of those acts providing that its provisions became law immediately. The law is entitled, "An act to amend Chapter LXXXYII of the General Statutes relating to juries and entitled 'Of Juries.'" It reads as follows: Section 1. That chapter eighty-seven, section 2234, of the General Statutes be amended by striking out said section 2234 and inserting instead thereof the following : Section 2234. The county auditor, the county treasurer, and the clerk of tho court of common pleas and general sosBions of each county, shall constitute the board of jury commissioners for their respective coufltics. Section 2. That section 2235 of the said chapter be repealed and the following Inserted instead thereof: Section 2235. rnu??t "on*-?ftt aiirlioniint.xr t.ppnsn xuat oaiu wuuwj ?uv>4w<} ?j rer, and clerk of the court of common picas and general sessions, shall perform the duties required of them as jury commissioners without Compensation. Section 3. That section 2255 of the said chapter be repealed and the following I e inserted thereof: Section 2255. Whenever it shall be necessary to supply any deficiency In the number of grand or petit jurors duly drawn, whether caused by challenge or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the jury commissioners under the directions of the court to draw from the special department in tbe jury box known as the tales box, such numoer of fit and competent persons to serve as jurors as the court shall deem necessary to fill such deficiency. That it sball be the duty of tbe clorK of court to keep such jury box in his custody. Section 4. Tnejury box shall bo provided with three locks, each different. Tho key to one shall be kept by the clerk of court, one t>y me auauor anu ono uy the treasurer, so that no two of taid commissioners shall hold keys to tho aame lock. Section 5. This act shall go into effect immediately upon its approval by the Governor. 1'ulliiJg Together The Manufacturers' Record, of Baltimore. has this strong and suggestive editorial : "The thousands of Southern people who went to the World's Jb'air thought !t a wonder, thought Chicago a great city, and most of them may have thought the Chicago people above the ordinary plane of humanity. A few hundred studied out the real cause of it all. The fact is that in all the glitter and glare aud splendor and interost of such an exposition we are lost in admiration of the outside, and cannot coolly analyze the forces that have produced such a marvelous conception of man's ingenuity. "A Chicago correspondent of the Now York Timet has been making just such an analysis. In spite of all that has been heard of Chicago in the last ten years, he argnes that until the World's Fair it was known to the people across the water as ane might regard a "pull'of smoke in a r:loudy sky"?to be thought of for the instant. But the European visitors to this country in 1893 will never forget the miniature city nor the people who created it, while to Americans Chicago has become a household word which will be perpetual, ".MOW Uld IUB peufjio avcuiuplish it all ? By unanimity ol action. By pulling together.' "The project* which have resulted successfully in Chicago have been carried jut by pulling together. People haven't ;ime for much discussion out there. If i shrewd business* man or capitalist has i nlan which he thinks is irood. his friends rely a good deal ou bis judgment and what he has done in the past, they help him, and the object Is accomplished. "When the gates were first >pened to the White City the idea of laving a "Chicago Day" was scarcely thought of. Most of the residents were for the time content with the other remits of the exposition. Some one finaly conceived it. Chicago thought it prac,ical. Everyone who could go, went? irst, because he wanted to see the fair igain ; sco md, because he felt he was a part of Chicago and he wanted to help inake it a success. On that day 716,881 >eoplepaid admissions to it. Just think >1? it a moment. t' iri'nti' ?.irir -in/1 Inwii in thn Sniilli ran mitate Chicago. We don't mean on the same scale nor anything approaching it, jut by folllowing the same principle?by nulling together. Ifatownof 1,000 people wants a store or factory, which is the jest way to get it?let twenty, or thirty ffork for the enterprise which will beneit all and the rest do nothing, or have til work for tt ? The question answers (self. "The Chicago fair is a good thing to hink over, especially the reasons for its luccess. Augusta people have tnougut >ver it, and the exposition is one of the esults. Atlanta people are thinking of t, and 1895 will show the brilliant conception of this thought. "No, tho Chicago people are no higher, 10 brighter and bave no more ability ban the people of any Southern city. "Pull together and see if this is not rue." A Drnnknrd's Awful Fate, Tuscumma. Ala.. January 4.?Last light Jake Kilroj', residing near here, vent homo drunk. lie early retired to ted with his lighted pipe in his mouth. Phe bed clothing-took tire and the honse vas burned. Kilrov endeavored toesape but was overcome by smoko and oasted alive. His wife in an adjoining ootn escaped and rescued one child, but woothers, aged .'5 and 5 years were burned o death. ? Martin Hack us, of Stillwater, Wis., 3 said to be the most absent-minded man .. n . xr.^n ? A. rni,A ^ f k ?/!???, hn n iuu nuriuwosu IUU wiuti u?j uw iw*;ot an engagement to marry until throe tours after the appointed time, and then i?? remembered it, but the name of his ffianced bride wholly escaped his mind. Jy the aid of the young woman's father nd two brothers and a shotgun bis ciemory was refreshed and a tragedy verted. A Fearfal Descent. ^ ? A a 'I1 n v a a Ton 7 \f !au lUii IA y X?AaO| van, A>X oo Stella Robbins, the widely known woman aeronaut, inet with a probably fatal accident here to-day. She has been giving Sunday afternoon ascensions here for the past few weeks and this afternoon started on her usual voyage from San Pedro Park. The balloon arose to a height of about two thousand feet, when Miss Robbins let herself drop with the parachute. Tho parachute opened but the wind carried it downward with great rapidity and it struck a large tree with its burden with terrific force. Miss Kohbins' right leg was broken and she re- | ceived internal injuries, which willprobebly result fatally. Ad Enraged Dull Louisville, Ivy., January 5.?A fine Holstein bull broke away to day while being led along the street and played havoc before being captured. The bull attacked Mrs. Anna Goldstein, sixty years of age, aud tossed her into the air several tunes and trampled her beneath its feet. The woman was instantly killed. Leaving the woman the bull dashed up Floyd street and at Green street tossed Charles Green into the air bruising him very badly. Half a block lurther George Watson crossed the bull's path and met with a similar reception. Ho was severely hurt. Will Denham, a one-arm man, at this point caine up aud seized the rope which was tied about the bull's horns. The enraged animal turned upon him, but Denham dodged around a tree when he tied the rope. Wheu the charging bull reached the end of the rope he was burled to the ground. A parly of men were sent lor and the angry animal was taken away. Manslicld and Jeffries, who own the bull, will be sued by the dead woman's husband, and also by the men who were injured. A Wonderful Dwr. Gen. Hampton is in the city, having iust returned from a Christmas deer hunt in the low country. General Hampton relates the following incident, which occurred on the hunt: He and a friend were od a stand together and could plainly bear the deep mouthed pack as it drove the deer in their direction. Nearer and nearer it came until a tine buck bounded into view and into shooting distance. The general fired and it fell. Both hunters saw thai the animal was badly wounded and to prevent its escape cut its throat from ear to ear. At an unexpected moment the deer struggled to its feet and into the cane brake but not before its hind leg was broken by another shot. The dogs were quickly called and put on its trail. They rau the deer to the Savannah river, not fardistant. It crossed, but could not get up the high bank od the other aide, and when the hunters came up it was standing in the water at bay, and fighting the dogs with desperation. No boats were available and the dter was left alone with a load of buckshot in its side, one leg broken and its throat cut irom ear to ear, but stilf alive and fighting.?Columbia Journal, Jan. 5. Appn-clatrd too Late. The alligator was never beloved by the people liviog in the regions where it abounded ; the farmers anathematized it as a destroyer of young pigs, while everyone agreed it was an ugly, useless animal. But since the demand for its skin for valises, pocketbooks, and a thousand and one such uses, has resulted in the almost entire destruction of LOU aiiiguiur, Llio iraiviumn vi mo imj uuu bayou regions of Louisiana and Florida have discovered tbo huge smirhin's value. With its disappearant-o there has been a great increase in the iiu::>berof muskrats, rabbits, raccoons and other mischievous animals, and in some parts of Louisiana, since the disappearance of the alligator, these animals have lately become a dangerous pest. The rats burrow through the levees built to keep the water on the rice fields during the growing season, and do immense damage. Constant watchfulness and much hard work is required to keep up the levees, and oftentimes are so honeycombed as to need entire reconstruction. The rabbits and raccoons make great havoc on the truck farms, destroying lettuce, cauliflower and cabbage wholesale. Some farmers have bad to build wire fences about their fields, whileothers have abandoned the raisingof these vegetables. Several years ago a law was made in Plaquemine Parish forhirMinc kniintrof nlliirAtors. and with tboir increase the destructive vermin decreased. But that law has siuce been repealed. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 6.?A. W. Bowen Moore, the most extensive pension agent in Western Now York, with his son, Allen, and tivo clerks, wore arrested this afternoon by United States officers on the charge of defrauding the government, and extorting money from pensioners. Col. Moore, since 1889, has secured over 0,000 claims, of which, it is said, over. 4,500 at least are fraudulent. According to Special Examiner Ay res, the government estimates the amount he has fraudulently obtained for pensioners at about one million dollars. Already the examiners have found whero ?150,000 has been secured by fraud. It is also said that others are implicated, among them several well known local attorneys, and that more arrests will soon bo made. Manning, January 7.?The first trial in the county for violating the dispensary law was commenced last night at G o'clock and ended at 10 o'clock, the verdict being not guilty. The party tried was Jacob Plowden, colored, who was arrested upon affidavit made by Mr. S. A. Nettlea, member of the Legislature. The witnesses were II. L. Tobias and?T. A.Johnson. The .State was represented by John S. Wilson, solicitor, and the defence by Messrs. Barron & Levi. The State at one time seemed to have a clear case, but the attorneys for the defence soon caused the witnesses for the State to get mixed. The jury remained in the room a very short time before they rcached a verdict. As soon as the verdict was rendered every negro in the Court House began to yell. No attempt to stop them was made by the trial justice. Mr. Nettles promisessome more fun in the near future and it is very likely that more arrests will bo made in the morning. He is no doubt actiug upon the superior judgment "of that good man" in Columbia. sumtkr, January G.?Information was received in Sumter this morning about 12 o'clock that the boiler used in the lumbor mill of J. E. Law, at Elliott's, had exploded >vith terrible effects. Your correspondent proceeded to the scene of tbo disaster, and there found one man dead, two men seriously wounded and the mill badly torn up. The brains of t hr>. tnn.11 were be?uattered over tliu timber thereabout. It appears that Mr. Law, the owner of the mill, was standing with his hand up m tho throttle giving some directions when, from some canst* which will never bj learned, there was a terrible explosion, and M*. Liw was hurled thirty feet distant, hi? body going j through the top of tho shed and leaving his brains upon the boards. Tho killed and wounded aro: John E. , Law, killed; J. J. Luekey, seriously! wounded ; llenry Monohan, very badly i wounded; J. C. Bullock, badly burnod. ' Coroner Commander was soon upon j the scene and viewed the body of the dn- ' coaxed, alter which it was rouioveu 10 nis residence. Tho body of Mr. Law was badly manpled, both legs and arms being broken. | Ilia head ha t been blown oil' mul there was a holo through his b dv. No cause has beou assigned for the accident. ? Tho directors of the Newberry cotton ! mills have decided to increase the capital stock from 5250,000 to ?400,000 tnd to greatly enlarge the building. j ? Each year the people of Paris eat an average of 21,000 horses, 300 donkeys and 40 mules. ? In South America they botst of a beetle that averages a foot ia length, and butterflies 14 inches from ''tip tc tip." ? It is estimated that on our globe which is inhabited by 1,500,000,000 human beings, there are 33,033,000 deaths everj year. ? The late Mrs. Oliver Ames, whose will was probated at Taunton, Mass., a tew days ago, left $1,000,000 to each ot hei five grand-children. ? It is computed that the death rate o the world is 67 a minute, and the birti rate 70 a minute, and this seemingly light percentage of gain is sufficient t( give a net increase of population eacl year of almost 1,200,000 souls. ? Trees are felled by electricity in tlx 1. e ?j great rorests ui vranma. j.-ui uuiuu) comparatively soft wood tho tool is iu fh< form of an auger, which is mounted on t carriage and is tnoved to and fro and re volved at tho same time by a small elec trie motor. ? Mr. Nathan Strauss, of New York whoso beoevolence to the poor is well known, proposes to establish a baker; to supply bread to the needy at cost. I will be sold at from two to five cents loaf. Mr Strauss expects to have daily supply of 25,000 loaves inside of i week. ? Ex-President Harrison was still al flicted, a few years ago. with an annuall, recurring attack of ivy poisoning. H< was inoculated with tho poisou in th Smith durincr the war. Owine to thet attacks bis face is swollen and"he suffer ed from pains akin to those of neuralgii ? Young men who were exploring a immense cavern in Harding conntj Kentucky, a few days ago, found in on room five human skeletons and In anoth ,er place a.decayed box containingtw diamond rings, three pistols and a lot c earrings and bracelets. W'th the skeh tons were two watches marked re.-peel ively, "It. C. A.," and "S. J. McK." ? At Yorkville, S. (J., a few days ag< a huge joko was perpetrated. Five thou sand people lined the sidewalks to se Signor Gander leap from the top of th stand-pipe to the ground. At the ap pointed hour a crier announced thi Signor Gander had broke his leg, an mat 1'roi. xurwey wouiu muu uia piaw whereupon a turkey How from tho lop c the stand-pipe to the grounl. ? State Constablo Bladou who killed man in Spartanburg aud was shot him self seems to have a reputation at hi home in Edgffield. Tho Chronicle says "The man who would appoint blood Jack Bladou a State constable?unde any circumstances whatsoever, evon j it were in the midst of the millenniar " ?is a very bad and a very wicked mar That man is Ben Tillman. Wild, bruta ferocious, unreasoning, irresponsible a Jack Bladou is, he hap, however, a kind er heart than Ben Tillman. ? The Shiloh Battlefield Associate has secured options ou 2,000 acres of lane including that on which the battle c Shiloh was l'ought in 1862, the purpoa being to purchase this battlefield and coc vert it iuto a national park. Congres will be asked to purchaso the site. Ther are buried there about 4,000 Coufedcrat and a large number of Federal soldien The association will bold a two days' re union on the battlefield on theOtft una 7t of next April. ? There are 25,530 negro schools no' in the South, where 2,250,000 negrut have learned to read, and most of them 1 writo. Iu the colored schools are 230,0( pupils and 20,000 negro teachers. Tuer are 150 schools lor advanced educaiioi and 7 colleges administered by negi presidents and faculties, and of the* presidents three wero formerly slave There ar 15?1 negro editors, 250 lawyer 740 physicians, and there are now educi ting themsolvos in European university 247 negroes iroui the Soutn. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan nary 8.?D George Center, a prominent physician < this county, committed suicide at o'clock this morning at_ his home o Cedar Creek, six miles from the citj Dr. Center had been a practicing phys nan in this county (or several yean His office was in the city up to a fe' months ago. Business became so du that he determined to move ont to th country pla- o of his wile and raise tobai co His crops were not a success, and 1 became involved in debt and discouraget The worry drove him to suicide. Aft< eating breakfast ihedoctor walked out o the front porch of his residence, and few minutes alter reaching thero ble1 out his brains. The doctor's first wife died and fc married within three months, a Mr King, who, at the time of her marriag lo Dr. Center, bad been out of the Ueoi gia Lunatic Asylum only a low month: Soon after Iter release Irom the as-ylut the unfortunate woman gave a long stor to the press, relatfvo to the unjustuess < her incarceration and the horrible wa she was treated there. The story wa reproduced in tho Georgia papers an resulted in an investigation by Governc Northen, the resuitof which investing tion was substantially a denial that Mr King had been treated badly. Mrs. Center is very eccentriu in mannc and speech, and her story of thesuicid and the events immediately preceding woul-1 be laughable but for the traged involved. She says that the doctor aros in a cheerful mood and aided her to mak her toilet. Tho following letter was left by th doctor for his wife: "January 8, 1891.?M3' own Lula: Thi farm life in Florida is too much of a dra for me, hence I leave you to get a bette man for yourself. You aro the besl purest and most noblo woman I eve knew, aod lam doing you a favor ii going to the unknown, so that you wil be free t> enjoy life as you should. I) not shed a tear over mo, for I am unwoi thy of your future attention. Do not ex poet to rovivo mo by getting meatca help, for I will take enough opium t allay all pain and George's pistol will d the final work. "Adieu my Lest and only friend. "Geokgk F. Oester." Recently the Legislature changed thi law which has heretofore made it a peni tentiary crime to steal iiye stock, ant thero will doubtless soon bo an epidemii of thefts of cheap cows. The first appli cation of this ne/v Jaw was made in thi: city yesterday. Charles George Washington Williams the negro cow thief whoso arrest by th< police was mentioned, was yesterday morning taken before a trial juslce. Th< cow ho stole was valuod at iua.i than ?'J0 and the new law says tliat the stealing o live stock valued at less than ?20 shall be considered petty larceny only. Accord' ingly nothing could be done with the ne^ gro except to convict and punish hiiu for petty larceny, and he went to jail foi I thirty days instead nl gning to the penitentiary.?Culuuibiu Mute, Jan 0. Senator Voorhees, tho Chairtmn of the Senate Finmce Committee, looks for ;i long session of 0 ingress. Tf?.? s-.i^s t'a' the l?st Congress di.i i>*>t adjttirn u? firsl session until August and i! at, t"o, at a time when a general revisio i of tlx t:iri(J' wan not an issue. Whi'e ho is ol the opinion that the IIouko taiitt hill will pass the Sena'.e within a months or six wce!<s at the outride, after is getsin'r into lha Senate, ho believes that a date fully as late, if not later than August win 0(> neiore v."ongresi adjourn*. Tnero are oilier Senators, mem hers ol the Finunco Committee, vvao think this Connn'M will bo in session until late in September, jf, indeed, ii doe* not run into October, as did tlio Fi.'cy-Iir.->t Cougre* It is :i good time now to eamp.iro tax receipts, says t ho Now berry Ubxei'vcr. Got your receipt of J.SU2, and see if it isn't smaller than that of 1S93. If so, where, oh, where is that promised "retrenchment and reform" wo heard so much about in the last few campaigns. anioirial Tin on I o 5= rannrtarl In ho increasing all over tbo oountry. It is better tor crankism to manifest itself in that way thau in killing other people. ' i r 1 ' ? Dimples examing fcer new Christ mas doll: -Buddy, how do you s pose 1 Santy Claus got pieces just like >1^ \ mamma's wrapper to make dollie's dress? Buddy: I don't know, 'less [ maybe Mrs. Santa Claus buys remr nanfcs. ? When an old black Walnut tree . > I l 23 feet in circumference was cut down at Flatbush, L. I., the other day a f four-foot hole was found in its center i from its roots to its branches. At . the first branch a red currant bush had . ... i thrived for years, and this, it is b thought, sapped the life from the r tree's heart. ; . Port Royal & Western GaroHna ;v Railway. J. B. CLEVELAND, Receiver. , IN EFFECT DEC. 31. 1898. (Trains run by 75th Merldsatime.) I BETWEEN AUGUSTA AND ANDERsON. 1 . .v.: a 1 TC-? ? ! No.* a Extern Time. Sunday. I * - /1 SSL :M t Lv A Loerso 7 50 am { 9 20am " L.v Lowcdt^vilV 8 55am ,.05iam - ' V Lv Callioon Fa'.l? 9 15 am '11 50am 3 Ar MoCorniicK.?...... 10 S3 am i iSOpm e Ar I 3 oo pml I 3 3">m e i NO. 8 1N0.21 " . Lv Anpruatx. 9 00 am 9 00**1 I* Lv McUorniick.~ ? 00 pm 3 ii pm . ; q Lv Calhoun Falls f.10 pm 5 00 pm Lv T.owndcbvillr 3 40 pm 5 57 pm , ^ Ar Anderson 4 4a pm 730 pm . BETWEEN' AUGUSTA. GA , AND SPABTANo BUBG.&C. >f >- Eastern Time. Dai/y Dally except Sun. L* 1 . Lv Augusta ? 9 00 ami 5 00 pm j Lv McCormicir 10 45 am' 7 57 pm * Lv Greenwood.- 1143am 9 CO pm 640am l" Lv Laureus 12 47p n 8 86 am 6 Ar Spartanburg.... l2 43piu 1125 am : e Ar Greenville' 1 2 30 pm ' iy ?* Lv Greenville 10 00 am 4 00 nw it Lv Spartanburg 1015 am ';25pm d Lv Laurens 1150 am 8 00 pm , Ev Green *ond 12 52 pm 10 00 pm 7 00tm < Lv McCorinic':? 1 40 pu< 8 37 am " Ar Augusta 3 95 fm! 1130 am Ar Savannah i iOOaia, i 6 20 pm a ^'<1 P.isspn<7<?rfi Inutlnff An^Arc/tn ?t Q 90 n m rpfl.?h Charleston at 8 35 p in. and Savannah at 6 20. ~ 8 Close connection made at Calhoun Falls with : Seaboard Air Line going north. y Through Palace Sleeping Cars on trains Nos. J ,r aw'4 between Augusta and Savinoah, Ga. , " !, Close connections at Augusta for all Florid* ' 11 points. Q For any other Information write or call on 1. W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pa?. Agt, Augasta, ** . 1, R. L. Todd, Pass. Agt. ^ J. R. FANT, Agent. l" COLUMBIA & GREENVILLE R. R. CO. n Samukl Sbeucer, F W. Hcidhkop*r abb Bn> ), BEX Foster, Receivers. L. CoXDKKSKD SCHEDULE ib EFFECT AUG. 18, 1898. IS r ^ Trains run by 75th Meridian Time. _ 0 BETWEEN CHARLESTON. COLMBtA, 8ENECA l. AND WALHALLA. - h STATIONS. ^rj2 V0S W 7 30 am Lr..._Charle?ton....Ar 8 45 pm ) yj&Sj )S 1120 am " Columbia " 415 pm ,'-u .JiiC 12 03 pm " Alston " 8 30 pm -t- ^ ^ 112 18 pm u ...... Pomarla....... * 8 14 pm >''568863 12 85 pm " .....t'rosperliy...... 2 ? pm - e 150 pm "......Newberry " 2 39pm ^ 3, '154 pm " Helena....... " 2 85 pm o 1 30 pm " Cbappells " 1 66 pm 2 t8 pm " .....NIoety-Six .... " ]*2pm 2 37 pm " ..?Greenwood" 1265 pm . : 8* too um " ... Hod pes.. " 12 35*pm : S, 520 pra " DoD?ld>...^.." ]2l6pm l- ' 135 jim " ....HoneaPath.?." 12 08pm ~ i8 535 pm Ar Bel ton....... Lv 1145 am '.00 pm Lt Belton Ar 11.40 am (24 pm " .... Anderson " 1118 am r. 4 58 pm " Pendleton...-" 10 36am ^ jf 5 30 pm Ar ./...^eoeca Lt 10 00 am o 5 35pmLT Seneca Ar 10 00am . 0 bOipmlAr Walballa.?LTi 9 30am ? l~5 15 pm11 r Greenvnie...LTll015 ami V ===== ======== 1 BETWEEN ANDERSON. BELTON AND 8- GBEENN1LLE. jj y;, stations. > 3 8 pm Lt Anderson?Ar 12 07pm 16 3 40 pm Ar ..Belton .Xt 1145 pm j. 4 00 pm Lt.... Belton -A 11180pm . , 4 20 pm Ar...WlJllamston.~. " 11 09 pm 4 26 pm " Pelzer "Ill 03pm n 440pm| "?...Piedmont......" 10 48pm a I 5 15 pm'Ar? ..GreenTllle LT|1015pm W ~ ?=: BETWEEN HODGES AND ABBEVILL ? /V ? ^o',. Ki STATIONS. M!JT. EI.8? e Mixed. r- ' _ 9. 12 40pm| 3 05pm I It...Hodges... ar 2 55pm 1225pm 1 00pm f3 25pmjlvDarraugh'sar 12 35pm 12 06pm 1 )5pm' 3 40pm'ar..Abb?;T lle..Iv 2 20pm 1160am , V -v CONNECTIONS VIA SOUTH BOUND BAIL I KOAD. t II | N&! CENTRAL TIME. I ^ l* ; 3 2>pra;Lv Columbia- Ar|10 20ami j, '8 00pmiAr Savannah... Lti SOOaml Kos. 1.5 ana u are sotia trams oeiween v^oarioo* ,r ton "nd Aahevlile. . , ? 6 Through coach between Savannah and AxhevOto it on 14 and 13. y Trains leave Spartanburg, 8. C.. A- 4 C. Division i Northbound, 1 43 a. m., 5.05 p. ra., 6.12p. m. (Ves" buled Limited; Southbound, 12 25a. ra., 2.51 p. at, 6 11.37 a. m. (Vestibuled Limited): Westbound; W.. ? N. C. Division, 6.20 p. m. and 3 10 p. m., for 6 flendersonville, Asheville and Hot Springs. Trains leave Greenville, S. C., A. A C. Dirlalon, ' . H Northbound 12.42 a. m. 4 00 p. ro., 5.23 p. m (Ve?tibuled Limited); Southbound, 120a. m.,4.00p. m., 'T- ' & 12.28 p.m. (Yestibuled Limited). s r Trains leave Seneca, S. C., A. A C. Division, t Northbound, 11.30 p. m? 2 37 p. m. and 4.10 p. m. r Southbound, 2 32 a. m.; 5.S5 p. m. and 1.37 p. m. .. POLDMAN OAK SERVICE. , Pullman Sleeper on 13 and 14 between Charlesli ton aud Asheville, via Columbia and Spartanbuiy. 0 Pullman PaUce Sleeping Car on Trains 85 aoa . 36, 67 and 33 on A A C. Division. W. A.TUBK, S. H. HABDWICK, . Gea'l Pa?. Agt., Ass't. Gen'l. Pass. Agt., f Wasiiivcjtox, D. C. Atlanta. Ga. 0 V. E. JIcBEE, SOL. HAAS. O ucn'l Supt., '-'raffic Mer., Columbia, S. C. Washikqtos, D. C. W. H. GREEN, Gen'i Mg'r, Washisoton, D. C. ' SEABOARD AIR-LINE SCHEDULE. IN EFFECT AUG. 27, 1893. D NORTHBOUND. SOUTHBOUND j No. 38. No. 134.1 Eastern Time, No. 117. No. 41. ' Daily. Daily. Except Atlanta. Daily I'aily. c 6S0am 5 05pm.It...Atlanta...ar' 7 3 ami 6 48pm j, ' 10 05am 8 ISpinlv... Athens....ar 6 16am | ldp 3 1113am 9 llpm,ar...Elberton..lv 5 22am 5 08pm ar.CalhounF.lv I 4 08pm 12 15pm 10 00pm [ar..Abbeville. It 4 27am I 3 09pm ' 12 46pm 10 25pmlar Greenwo'd It 402aml 2 41pm 3 1 40pm 1112pm!ar...Clinton ...lr 3 17am, 145pm , I 5 OOpml 12 23am |&r...Chester ...It 2 00am. 9 42am 8 05pm 1 50am;ar...Monro?... It 12 50am! 6 45am I 6 15araiar...Ral<>lgh...lT 815pm ; 7 39am ar..Henders'n.lT 6 53pm , 9 0i>am'ar...Weldon ...It 5 35pm 11 07am|ar Petersburg It 3 43pm 11 45am ar Kichmond It 310pm 3 40pm:ar Wash'gton lv! 10 57am 5 24pm Jar Baltimore It 9 42am ............ f 7 49pmiar Phii'delp'a 1t| 7 20am ............ 10 35pm lar New York lT|1215am ..... [ 5 CO.-m ar..CharlottP.. IvIlO OOpra j ...... ( I 9 fOam'ar Wilmi'gt'n l*i 5 OOpml 3 ;Kipiui |.v...rin<fon... arl I 1 30pm .1 ie 1?I I in iO.~ . | -* icm?ui |ai i^rwugn/ i? j ..? topux ; I 4 34pm j iar Prospprilf lv 11? 29pm ' 5 S'pin iar Columbia lvj 1115am ! 7 '.?5[>m' !ar....Surater....lv 9 50am . 10 15pm ar (hardtop lr: 7 15am f> ?* 1r -t* 00am j ! 051ni lv WeliWh ari !i 3?pm ill ISani ar Portsm'th arl 3 20pn) j 11 30am ar Norfolk lvj > 00pm Iffi 15 <in>lv Xorfolk (b) arj 8 00am I 7 0)nn ar Baltimore lv 530pm! |lo Wam 'ar Phil;?fU'l'iaM 4 41pm1. . i 20pm,ar New York lvifilOj.iu I . -5pm llv P t.sm'th(n)ar| 9 10an>l _ i 5.0am ar r liHa?lrI*la Iv f J1 1Gpm I S 00am,'ar New York lr, SOOptn1 | 6 00pm|lv P'm'th(w)ar: SOOaml i i 6 30am ar Wasbinjc'n lv. 7 00f.mi t Haiiv except Sunday. fb) Via Bav Lire, fn) Via New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk ft R. (w) Via Norfolk an*? Washington Steamboat Co. Trains Nos. 134 am? 117 run solid with Pullman Buffet sleeping cars b< twoen Atlanta ami wastuojrton. ana ruiiiran Jtsurfet parlor cars between Washington and New i York. Parlor ear Weldon and Portsmouth : sleeping car Hamlet and Wilmington. Trains JJom. 88 and 41 carry through coachen between Atlanta and 0 i Charleston ,"s. C. Tickets at P R. A W. C. depo ( O.V.Smith, John C. Winch*, Traffic Manager. General Manager. H. W. B. Glover, T>!v. Pass, Agt., Atlanta, Ga. i Cbu.,J. Heard, 3. P. A., AuguBta,JGa. 4 - . * W