Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The State Supreme Court has decided that chain gangs are unconstitutional. Judge Pope rendered a dissenting opinion. The same Court also decided that a jury composed of six men is legal jury in Trial Justice Court. To the latter decision the entire Court agreed. ? mm The President has appointed Johu T. Hunter, of Lancaster county, to bo United States Marshal for the District of South Carolina. This is regarded as a Butler appointment. Mr. Hunter is Sheriff of Lancaster county, and is said to be one of the most popular men of bis section, and well qualified to fill his new position. ^ 9 ^ . A. II. Mowry has been reappointed D/vn^mnal'AM nf PKa^loefAn TTfl WOQ an. f voiiuioatui ob vuoiiv>)wu? -**.v ?t ? ? pointed under Cleveland's first administration, and managed to hold on to the office under Harrison, although Theodore S. Gailliard, chief constable at Charleston under our present State administration, wanted the place and claimed to be a Republican who had been deprived of his vote. , _ It is said that the Louisiana lottery, under a now name, is now located at Tampa City, Florida. The drawings are made in Honduras, but every other detail of the business is transacted in this country. It is an evasion of the law, bht enough to keep the demoralizing nuisance going. People should not be taken in by it, for it is purely a scheme of robbery. It seems that the Rev. Dr. T. Do Witt Talmage is determined to leave the Brooklyn Tabernacle., He announces that he will preach his farewell sermon next Sunday. He Intends to start with his family on April 1 on a tour around the world. The party will be gone several months, and will visit California, - New Zflaland. Australia and other nlacoa of interest. ?. General JubalA. Early, who lives at Lynchburg, Va., was severoly hurt a few days ago by a fall on the ice near the post office of that place. No bones were broken, but the old roan was severely bruised and his friends fear the consequence of the accident. General Early is 78 years of age. He has been in feeble health for some time past, and it is not thought that he can live a great while longer. Among the decisions handed down in the Court of Appeals of Missouri recen tly was one declaring that a debt contracted in an option deal cannot be collected by law, as such speculative dealing is gambling and illegal. The points sustained were that the debtor was not a bona fide purchaser; was not prepared to receive and did not expect to receive the actual grain, and that if in a contract for future delivery the only purpose is to speculate on the difference between buying aod selling prices, such a contract is a wager and therefore null and void. The days of the popularity of football are evidently numbered. The University Athletic club has taken it in band, and means to reform the brutality out of it. Representatives of Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and Yale met in New York the other day to discuss the matter and adopt regulations which shall abolish the brnises and broken bones from the field. That will end the business as far as the great masses of the spectators are concerned. When the excitemeift of danger is gone the interest of the game will go with it, and it will b6 no more attractive than baseball. On December 1st, 1SS8, an order was made placing the railway mail service under civil service regulations after March 15th, 1889. One week after be became President, Mr. Harrison postponed tbe date of tbe previous order's taking effect on May 1st. Thereupon a thousand skilled clerks were put out of the service and Republican incompetents substituted for them. It has been decided by the House Judiciary Committee to Report favorably a bill giving the Postmaster-General the right to restore the thousand victims of the Harrison ax. Such a simple act of justice ought not to be opposed, but every Republican in the committee voted against it. Says the New York Advertiser: "The outlook for Southern cotton factories is not good, as the negroes are the only people in that section who will work, and outside operatives cannot be induced to go to a section in which labor is not respected and the common rights of man are ignored. When free trade is made possible perhaps some way will be found of utilizing the cheap negro labor of the South. One great Southern gentleman has testified that negroes cannot be utilized in factories because the hum and drone of machinery causes them to fall asleep. This is a scientific side to the question, it seems." And yet the owners of the cotton mills in New England recently admitted that the Southern millB are making more money than they make. It is very evident that somebody is at work down this way. The South's progress since the war is the result of hard work. m The statement is frequently made that nine-tenths of the farms are mortgaged for all they are worth, and before the reports of our last census were analyzed it was generally believed that the amount of farm mortgage indebtedness was simply appalling. Fortunately, the facts of the case show a very different state of affairs. According to a special article in a recent number of the American Agriculturist, the census reports show that three-quarters of all the farms in the United States are owned free of incumbrance. Only one-fourth of the American farms are mortgaged, and the average mortgage represents only one-third of the value of the farms on which it is secured. Tho total amount of all our farm mortgages is hardly one-tenth of the value of the farms. Tbe Agriculturist says : "Out of every 100 families on American farms in 1890 forty-seven owned their farms free of mortgage, twenty owned, but with incumbrance, and thirty-lwo hired the farms they lived on and worked. Of those who cultivated their own farms, 70 percent, owned without incumbrance, and only 30 per cent, had mortgages. Of the farms occupicd by tenants less than 10 per cent, were incumbered. Four-fifths of the amount of >M>t on farms and homes were incurred f.i 11 io commendable purposoof buying and improving the proporty, and a like proportion of the number of farms and . ^ : ' ' ' homes were mortgaged for the same purpose." Between 1880 and 1890 no less than 600,000 new farms were occupied in the South and West. Still, agriculture is not overcrowded, and it is evident that if three-fourths of our 4,500,000 farms are i free of debt that this industry must be a safe one to follow. This should draw the attention of thousands of young men in the cities to tho possibilities of farming, and it should induce them to give up the uncertain and hard conditions of city life for independence and comfort on a farm. "With patience, industry and economy, the only thing the tarmors of the South need is to give more attention to raising their own supplies, and then all the cotton they can cultivate. This would make them independent of the world. a The Philadelphia Record, an originator of centennial celebrations, and pioposer of a religious parliament in Jerusalem in 1900, wants to establish an international religious university in tho holy city. Exponents of every religious belief are to have representation in the faculty. The school or college will be open to representatives of every creed, the only qualification being that the teacber shall be supported by the nationality or denomination so appointing him. Every government will be expected to help support such an institution. Contributions are to be in the form of annual donations or the sending of teachers, who are to be furnished with every facility for the propagation of their peculiar tenets and supported in a manner in keeping with the government or creed represented. The city council of Atlanta has voted aid to the proposed Cotton States and International Exposition to be held in Atlanta in 1895 to the extent of cash assistance to the sum of $75,000. The clearing house banks of Atlanta have contributed $10,000, and while the directors of the company have not yet made a call for funds, more than $50,000 additional has already been voluntarily subscribed. A preliminary fund of $200,000 will be asked for from the citizens of Atlanta next week, and so enthusiastic are the business meu of the city for the success of the exposition that already more than that amount is guaranteed. It is confidently expected that a preliminary sum of $300,000 will be raised with which, by the assistance of bonds and other steps, the exposition will be at once placed on a million dollar basis. Representatives will be sent at once to the South American Republics, Mexico aud Cuba, and before another week the movement will be under full headway. . ~ ~ A. txauaai mrimuiuu* This affair happened in the fall of 1863 when my regiment (the 1st South Carolina cavalry) was stationed at Culpepper Court House. It strikes me as being a signal instance of bravery and daring from among the many instances of that character which a long campaign is sure to bring forth, and I am not alone in considering it worthy of mention. The incident formed the subject of a commendatory dispatch on the part of Gen. Lee himself, and was the first occasion to my knowledge that a private was singled out bv the commander in chief for this distinction. Private Wm. R. Bolick was the recipient of this honor, and the deod that brought him to Gen. Lee's notice was briefly narrated as follows: It was indispensable that our commander should have exact information as to the whereabouts of Gen. Reade's quarters. Gen. Lee accordingly sent to Gen. Wade Hampton with the request to have the enemy's quarters located. General Hampton, who was then my immediate commander, transferred the order to me. Having bad occasion to commend Bolick for his bravery and daring in difficult undertakings previously, I selected him for the task. Bolick and a comrade of his, a Virginian named Curtis, who always accompanied him on dangerous missions, set oufe upon the expedition.. They successfully located the quarters of the Union general towards evening of that day, but Bolick was not satisfied with having run the danger they bad already encountered. He was determined to ascertain everything about the interior of the camp. The two men crept stealthily past the outposts, shielded by the darkness. Thoy crept ap to within a few hundred feet of the general's tent, when they came upon a guard of seven men. The men were all asleep and had piled their arms together. These were carefully removed to a distance. Then Bolick and Curtis drew their revolvers and awoke the sleepers. "If you move or say a word you are dead men." said Bolick pointing his weapon. The solHiora InnlraH fnrthnir arrnn in vainlinrt saw that resistance meant death. They decided to give in feeling sure that aid would be forthcoming. Bolick calmly ordered the men to rise and march, telling them to be silent. He and Curtis guided tbe guard with pointed pistols. As they were passing a fence two of tho prisoners suddenly jumped over it and made their escape. Bolick did not fire, neither did Curtis. They knew that it would bring the whole Federal camp about their ears if they did. So they quietly proceeded with the five remaining prisoners and safely reached our quarters. Gen. Lee personally wrote to me to thank Bolick for his bravery in executing the dangerous task entrusted to him. Thb information he had obtained proved of the greatest importance to the movements of our army at that time.?John L. Black, in Wil*on Syndicate Letter. A Revenue Puzzle. Knoxy r i. let Tenn., Feb. 20.?Whenever a new deputy enters the revenue service in this section of Tennessee, he is generally assigned to the task of arresting Madame Betsy Brewer, who, as is well known to all of the revenue officials about here, runs a jug house in open defiance of the laws. The assignment seetns a simple one, and tbe unsophisticated deputy has no suspicion of the work cut out for him, as it is easy to find the place and Madame Betsy may always be found at liom?. The question is not in arresting her but Sn Koinnrinnp hnr fn iliQtipA The Kraa-cr cabin is situated at some distance off the road in a most inaccessible part of the mountain. To approach it it is necessary to dismount and walk for a considerable distance over a rough bridle path. Aud herein lies the rub. Madame Betsy weighs 580 pounds and is almost helpless, lying as she does on her cabin bed all the time. As she cannot escape, her arrest can be easily accomplished, but it is absolutely impossible to bring the prisoner away. To do so it would require a skillful engineer, several months of road building, a railroad and a derrick. So Mrs. Brewer pursues her chosen occupation serenely, dispensing the forbidden juice from ajugkeptat her bedside, and all the young deputy marshals who are taken into the revenue service in this section are given as an initatory assignment the arrest of Madame Betsy Brewer. Nothing can ever accomplish her being brought to trial but a railroad through an inaccessible part cf the mountains or copious doses of anti-fat, and it is not probable that either of these two uicans will be employed by Uncle Sam to accomplish the ends of justice. m ? The management of the Stato dispensary claims that the total profits for the Stato since the dispensary's establishment amounts to very nearly ?100,- , 000. . ^ 1 Hope for the White Metal. Washington, Feb. 25.?Important and Interesting information as to the present financial monetary question is derived < from Signor Romero, the Mexican min- j ister to the United States. In response to enquiries from a rep- ] resentative of the Southern Associa- j ted Press, who called his attention to the i published statements that England, j France and Germany were about to take the initiative in calling a new monetary i conference to consider the silver question, Mr. Romero said: "The Secretary of the Treasury of the Mexican Govern- i ment informed me by a personal letter, dated January 19,1894, that according to private advices the German Government was leaning towards a policy regarding silver which would prove favorable to that metal, and that it was almost sure that the international conference would convene again with better chances of favomhlfl rfisnlLs. As lone as the United States or any of the commercial nations of Europe take steps to promote the interests of silver, it becomes the LatinAmerican nations using that metal as money to keep iu the back ground and follow the lead of others. "But if the information should prove incorrect, the situation of States using silver as money becomes so difficult that they will have to take the question into their own hands ana come to some conclusion as far as they are able to do so, with a view to prevent further decline in the price of silver and to awaken the interest of the financial world on the subsubject. It is likely that some of these nations will convene a conference of the States using silver as a money, among which all the Latin-American States will be included as well as some of the Eastern nations, in order to study the question and come to an agreement with a view to attaining the result. "This is a burning question, not only to Mexico, but to all the silver couutries of the world, ft is impossible for Mexico to demonetize silver, because that would bring universal ruin to us, and rather than accept such an extra measure, we would make up our minds to depend upon our own resources. Fortunately we can produce enough agricultural articles of all the zones to supply our wants, and although our manufactures are yet crude, they would receive great impulse by the high rates of exchange. "Thfi mmnifimul nations of EurODe are more particularly concerned iu the question by the high prices of exchange, lor the difference between the price ol gold and silver constitutes such a great bounty to exports for the commodity of silver countries, which are produced At silver prices and sold on the old markets at gok' prices, and this so increases the price of foreign manufactures, that it creates a great incentive to develop home industries, so that while increasing the exports of silver countries to gold markets, the deprecation of silver very seriously cripples the exports of Europe into the silver countries." Mr. Romero's views on this matter are shared by the diplomatic representatives of other Latin-American countries. It is pointed out as a hopeful sign that the German Government already has a commission considering the subject, over which the Secretary of the Imperial Treasury presides. Among the questions presented to that commission were those of keeping stable the price of silver, and the best basis for au agreement of nations "n the subject. The changed attitude of European nations, it is sugeested. mav be due to the discoverv that the Latin-American nations are seriously considering the probable effect of concerted efforts on their part for the purpose of defending silver. It has been pointed out that these countries are getting tired of paying twelve pence interest on their bonds instead of six pence, and that they were determined to resist absolutely a further increase in the rate of interest, whicn would be caused by a further fall in silver. Negroes In Conference. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 21.?About 600 black belt negro farmers camo together to-day in the third annual Tuskegee, Ala., negro conference. Prof Booker, the president of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School, presided. Many distinguished people were present from the North and elsewhere and letters of regret were received from such men as C. P. Huntington, Dr. Lyman Abbott and Bishop Potter, of New York city, Robert C. "VVlntbrop, of Boston, and President Oilman, of John Hopkins University. The most of the people were from the counties where the negroes were in the majority, but nearly every portion of Alabama and many other Southern States were represented. The farmers occupied the time of the conference and gave, in their own way, an account of their condition and what * a i.- J? u rru?? inay uupeu iu uu iu vow ui it. xuoy spent do time in looking to the past or in fault-finding, but agreed that the thing for them to do was to lend every energy in receiving education, property and practical religion. They resolved to lengthen their school subscription, to provide better teachers and school houses and to get the best educated men to come to their relief, instead of remaining in the cities. They admitted the almost universal mortgage Bystem and the evil influence of the one-room cabin, but they said great changes for the better had been wrought since the beginning of these conferences and they expressed their purpose to go home and buy land, raise their owu food, work winters as well as summers, practice economy and cultivate the good will of their white neighbors. Great plainness was used in speaking of their moral and religious condition ana all agreed to draw sharp lines between tho virtuous and the immoral and to tolerate no wrong doing on the part of the leaders, especially ministers and teachers. A larce number of women held a meeting of their own. Many noted Southern educators are present, who will hold a conference tomorrow. Mistaken for Burglars. Little Rock, Ark., February 25.? One of the saddest occurrences ever reported in the history of Arkansas County happened at St. Charles on Saturday morning, and resulted in the death of Walter A. Ballard, a young business man of St. Charles, and William Farrar, at the hands of Wilbur Parker. "William Farrer, with several friends from St. Louis, has been in the neighborhood of St. Chaileson White River for several days on a hunting and fishing expedition, and for tho past two weeks Farrar has been on a continuous drunk and bordering on delirium tremens. Farly yesterday morning Farrar in his drunken condition and bordering almost on insanity, broke down the doors of two or three stores, and was proceeding to demolish the door of the store belonging to young Parker when the alarm of burglars was raised. Mr. Ballard, who slept in an adjoining store, heard the noise and ran to see what it meant. Just as he reached the front door, Parker, who slept in the back room of the store, rushed out with i.1 ] n ~ l ,3 u i_ n t;uu iu liit> uauu auu iuyu a. luau ui uuuk shot into Ballard's breast, from the effects of wbich he died last night. Parker then turned the other barrel of bis gun on Farrar, fired, killing him instantly. The coroner's jury exonerated Parker from all blame. ? A woman went iuto a jewelry store in New York and asked to see some diamond rings. As she was looking at them she directed the clerk's attention another way for a moment, and popped one of the rings into her mouth. She did not notice before hand that the ring had a tag attached to it by a long string, and when the clerk turned to her ho was surprised to find the tag hanging out of her mcuth by the Btring, which she was making the most extraordinary faces in her efforts to swallow. The string had gotten I tangled in her front teeth, and refused ! to go either way. The clerk disentan- 1 gled it for her and also disentangled sev- | eral pocketbooks which were found in her I pocket. J [From the Anderson Intelligencer.] Clemson College Happenings. Perhaps the readers of the Intelligencer would be glad to have a few items from Clemson occasionally. The College has opened with over five hundred young men, and others are coming in on every train. The boyB are a zood looking set, and seem to be well-behaved. Everybody on tbe Hill is looking Forward to a pleasant and profitable session. Tbe Cadets are going down to hard work in tbe various departments. Tbey will soon don their new uniforms, as the measures of nearly all have been taken. With few exceptions, they seem well satisfied, though four or five have given up tbe struggle against student blues and gone borne. One "rat," as the new boys are called, said he bad to go home because he couldn't sleep; another said he wanted to "see mama." Two others left because tbey could not 6nter as high as they expected to enter. It is a fact worthy of mention that the College opened with more of tbe old students present than were here at tbe close of last, sesfion Every member of the 8ophomore class returned, except tbe son " ^ TTU In 01 UUI? IN ewmau. mo nuocugo id icgiowted?he is a most excellent youDg man, Anderson County has a large representation among the Cadets. As a general thing, her representatives are first-class men. She sends very few triflers to Clemson. The fact is, triflers are not wanted here, aud they soon find it on'. Work is the watch word here. Any day when the weather is fit one may see (quads of fifty boys each at work under the supervision of the Professors. The labor is all done in the afternoons, the recitations being completed in the mornings. Last Friday, one squad, under the supervision of Prof. Morrison, was piling and burniDg corn stalks in the bottoms; Prof. Clinkscales had another rolliog logs at the same lime; Professor Harrison and Moncreiff, with their respective charges, were clearing and grubbing; while ProfessorB Welch and Shaoklin were arranging the parade ground more to the notion of Commandant Donaldson. , Notwithstanding the weather has been disagreeable, pio nlc parties have begun their vUits to the College campus. With Bix hundred Cadets at Clemson, the temptation to visit the plcue will be greater even than last year. We are not surprised that the people like to visit Clemson. Those of us who live here and are familiar with the bistorio old place, never grow tired of seeing tbe boys drill and work and play. Last year tbe presence of so many visitors Interfered not a little with tbe working of College plans. This year tbe matter will be regulated by tbe authorities. Tbe bitching posts have all been removed from the campas by order of the President, and, before Spring, a flrst-class pic nio ground will be provided between the College and the river. There is a good joke on the Board of Truste?s that has not found its way into tbe paper*. Oil the evening of tbe 14th inst., President Craighead sent a baok to Cherry's to meet the Trustees expected to come on that Road, Tbe train was more than an hour late. The road between Clemson and Cherry's was fearfully muddy and badly cut up About three hundred Cadets, old and now, got off tbe train. The driver of the back sent for tbe Trustees could not find those gentlemen in tbe darkness and consequent confusion. Six or eight of tbe old Cadets, bearing tbe driver enquire for bis men, appreciated tbe situation, and persuaded tbe darkey tbat tbe honorable gentlemen of the Board of Trustees would arrive later, possibly on the next train, and assured bim tbat tbe best tbing be could do would be to drive them to tbe College. This he did, saving the boys a long walk through tbe mud and leaving tbe Governor ana other members of tbe Board to make their way 88 be?t they could. An open wagon witb piaOKS acroaa lue uuuy waa mo ucoi wuveyance the Trustees found at baud. L. D. C. Wants a Comfortable Coffin. Crawfordsville, Jnd., Fob. 21.? There is a man living nine miles south of this city who, though in the beat of health, has given his orders for his coffin. His name is Drake Brookshire. He is the father of Hon. E. ,V. Brookshire, the Domocratic Congressman from this, the Eighth district. Mr. Brookshire weighs 280 pounds, has always lived upon a farm, enjoyed the best of health, haviog never been sick a day in bis life, and is now 07 years of age. The other day he came to town and went to an undertaking establishment, and informed the proprietor that he wanted to purchase a coffin. The proprietor, after asking who wa9 dead, was greatly astonished on being tolu that it was for the live man stauding before him. Mr. Brookshire, however, quieted him by saying that he did not iutend to die until be had to, but that he wanted to die with the knowledge that thore was a coffin already made for K5.V> in urhli.h ho wnnld hftVA nlonfcv of room. The undertaker did not seem to know just what to do, and Mr. Brooksbire, seeing his embarrassment, laid down upon tbe floor and ordered his measurement taken. The coffin will be made oi 2-inch oak, firmly bolted together, and will be 6 feet 6 iuches long, 3 feet wide and 2J feet deep. After the coffin is made Mr. Brookshire will try it and Bee iflt fits him. He also says that he desires to be takon to the graveyard in his farm wagon, drawn by his team of favorite mules. A Civilized Alligator. Waycross, Ga., February 24.?"Wbile traveling from house to house in Charlton couuty last January," said a well known canvasser this iriorning, "I heard a strange story about an alligator. A farmer who lives in close proximity to an alligator pond was at work on the plantation and his family were at a neighbor's house. "Returning home about sundown they board a strange noise in one of the living rooms. The farmer supposed that a burglar was in the house and quietly ? ' 1 t. - ^? A /IrviiTn Villi UUtJUOU but) 1IUUI UUUI auu wua uunu uia shotgun. He went in the room where the noise was. and lying restlessly upon the bed with nis head on the pillow was a medium-sized alligator. The man was surprised and frightened. The alligator heard a noise, ana looking around, saw the gun pointed toward him. The man banged away with his gun and a dozen buckshot entered the alligator's head. Another load of shot; was sent whizzing at the reptile, causing death instantly. Tne dishes and tables of the dining room were broken and the psntry was robbed of its victuals. Having satisfied his appetite, the reptile crawled upon the bed and prepared to take a nap. The alligator, was, with difficulty, removed from the house. She lilt too Hard. Triplet, \V. Va., Feb. 2(3.?At the close of a prayer meeting held in- a schoolhouse here, Miss Lottie Gibson, a visitor from Elkins, denounced "Pet" Horrock, her affianced lover, as a slanderer. He denied his guilt, and she called witnesses to convict him. Then she produced a loaded stick, and wbilo bystanders prevented him from defending himself she beat him savagely about the bead and face. While tbe affair created a great sensation, no thought was given to tbe young man's condition. Now tbe affair takes on the character of a tragedy, as the doctors who called to atteud Iiorrock say he will die from injuries received in the attack on him, bis bruin being injured. ? Last Saturday morning on the plantation of A. P. lioukuight, in Edgefield county. Joseph Guff's daughter about sixteen, was knocking cotton stalks in the field aud her little brother unthinkingly set fire to a bunch of grass near by. Iier clothes caught on fire and she run to where her father was plowing; but before the flames could be extinguished, she was burned fatally. She walked to the bouse and told her mother that she was , burned to death hut ijot to grieve about j tier. If it was the Lord's will for her to ?o that way she was willing and ready :o go. Saturday evening her spirit de- , parted. I News Paragraphs. ? Chicago has instituted a "Modern Church" In which people of all the faiths are to have an opportunity to worship. ? Florida strawberries are already on sale in Philadelphia. Dealers ask $1 per box for them, equal to about 3 cents apiece. ? Nat Wright, a fourteen-year-old boy of Greenville, Texas, has been sentenced to four years in the Texas reformatory for forgery. ? A man, sixty-fi,ve years old, living in Mississippi, saw a railroad train for the first time recently. He had not been away from home since the war. ? L. B. Barton, eighty years of age, was married last week at Kossee, Texas, to Mrs. F. E. McKissick. They were lovers forty years ago. ? Florida has a curiosity in the shape of a woman who goes hunting dressed in men's clothes. She enjoys the sport and is not at all bashful about her strange attire. ? Near Winston, N. C., a man who had been missing from home several days was discovered in the top of a tree in the woods. He had divested him self of his clothing and was found 10 be insane. ? A Florida hunter reports the discovery of a reptile?closely resembling a snake, which climbs trees and feasts on oranges. Small and sharp claws, scarcely visible were discovered along its skin. ? There is still burning in India a sacred fire that was lighted by the Parsees twelve centuries ago. The lire is fed with sandal and other fragrant woods and is replenished five times a day. ? The thirty Bible societies in existence have issued over 240,000,000 Bibles. English and American societies claim four-fifths of the output. This makes one copy to every six of the inhabitants of the globe. ? The speculators who moved John Brown's Harper's Ferry fort to Chicago have lost money. They are out about 960,000 and will be glad to sell it to the citizens of Harper's Ferry for a few thousand dollars. ? A lady in Chicago has just received a legacy of $1,000,000 from an old lovet who deserted her many years ago and married another woman. She received the bulk of the man's fortune, and his wife was led on a competency. ? Near Vickaburg, Miss., resides an old negro?said to be over eiuhty?who is gradually turning white. His left leg from the knee to the ankle is said to be perfectly white. He is the greatesi curiosity in that section and say* that be will be a whiteman before he dies. ? A correspondent to the Charlotte Observer writes : "Amoni; other prolific crops North Carolina has long beer noted for prducing a marvellous oneoi little big men, more noted in this respeel perhaps than any other State in the Union, except South Carolina, whict leads the world in this specialty." ? A peculiar monstrosity was born or the farm of Adam Domer, a few milec south of Goshen, Ind., in the shape of s pig, or, rather, three pigs, with one head three bodies and twelve legs. The bodies are all separate and distinct, but unite ic one neck and one head. The animal survived its birth but a few hours. ? Mrs. A. Dillon, of Houston, Texas left her two-jear-old baby alone iu i room tied in a high chair in front of i stove. During her absence the chaii toppled over, throwing the child face forward upon the stove, and he was terribly burned when discovered. ? Wheat may not be a paying orop ai present prices, but Kansas farmers hav< planted 4,ouy,uw acres idis year, n iar ger crop than ever before. No crop is sc certain in its cash return as wheat, an<i while the profit on the crop is small tb< reduction in freights leaves to the farmei much more or nearly the saine profit as he received in the VVest thirtv-fivo years ago than any one imagines?Philadc/phii Press. ? A dispatch from Chicago nays: Tw< guests at Potter Palmer's big State streei hotel were discussing hotnw Biblica points one day this week and in order t< decide it they called for a Bible. Then was not such a book in the house. Pot ter Palmer beard itimd be immediate!} placed an order for 700 Bibles. One wif be placed in each room and guests wil have an 'opportunity to settle Biblica discussions without having to call iu out side aid. ? The will for the largest estate sinc< the days of slavery was proved in Colum bia on the 14th inst. Mrs. Henry P Clarke, who died in that pity on the Sat urday before, left an nstate valued a $600,000 to ?700,000. She was a grand daughter of the great showman, P. T Barnum, from whom she received tin oroatfir nart: of hnr nronertv. Two nhil 3reo, one an infant a few weeks old, and her husband inherit her estate, excepting a few legacies. ? The recent unparalleled blizzard ii Kansas and tbe adjacent Territories which are devoted largely to cattle grazing, Las resulted disastrously to the liv< stock exposed to its pitiless fury. Thou sands of caltle have perished from th< intense cold, and many additional thou sands, it is feared, will die of starvation unless an early and warm spring shal mitigate tbe climatic conditions of tbi snow clad ranges. ? James R. Owens, Jr., aged 25, em ployed as engineer at the Cbieora Phos phate Works, Charleston, was caught bj tbe sleeve in a cogwheel. His rigbi arm wus torn from tbe socket, his rigb 'ear toru off and his chest frightfully lac eratfcd. Dre. Lockwood and Edwardj were summoned and were with theunfor tunate man at bis bome in Cannon street near Felix, nearly all of yesterday There is but a slight chance of his recov ery. ? The charitable institutions of Chica go have not been sufficiently large t< I erive refuse to all the Doverty-strickeu applicants this winter. So the city ha: been forced to open its churches as t place of refuge. This is in practical harmony with the teachings of Christ. Ac exchange says with reference to it: 'Ml is time the poor, the ignorant, the sicb and the afflicted should have some benefit from these untaxed institutions buili in God's name, but until now, with tb< exception of the Catholic Churches, given over to those who can wear good clothes and help pay the minister." ? The Virginia House of Delegates is discussing the calling of a constitutional convention. Delegate Patterson advocates a Constitution similar to the Mississippi Constitution. Said he, "I wanl Virginia to follow the lead of Mississippi. I wauta Constitution passed which will allow no man in the State of Virginia tc vote unless be can road tbe Virginia Constitution or understand it when read." He slid that tho State could be redistrlcted so as to give one representative to every thirty thousand voters and assure the supremacy of the white race iu Virginia. Djnaniite In the Grave. Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. 24.?Herman Spiro, a large manufacturer of cider, who was killed by a railroad a few days ago, all bis life bad a groat fear of body snatchers. Some exploits of medical students herein the past added to his fears and time and again he has expressed detestation for resurrectionists and a fear that his body would find its way to a disI secting room, llespecting his wellknown views, when be was buried the other day, his brother took steps to preserve the grave against desecration. One night after the fuueral the grave was guarded and the next day the brother planted the grave with dynamite and advertised that fact. In an interyiew today he said: "I believed they would attempt to get brother's body because he died from an accident and so I decided to preveut this by putting dynamite in tho grave. I did not put dynamite in tho coffin, but placed it outside so it will explode as soon as a spt.de is put in the ground." j Hard Times and the BemedK E There is now, as well as for sevend years past, a spirit of discontent and" restlessness among'our farmers caused by a lack of prosperity. A casting about for some change more profitable; something that will give more ready money than the farm, with its short crops and shorter prices, and the little demand for the little that is to sell from the farm. There are only two courses open to us. The one to leave the farm and go to the town and seek a better paying business. The other is to stick to the farm and change methods, and add new lines and more intelligent mcth ods until the farm will pay. Now which will you choose? It must be the one or the other. There is no escape from making the choice ; there is is no way out of it. We have gone on with poor farming from year to year until we have gone about as far as we can go. Our lands are impoverished, many are in debt, and the general condition of many of our farms are pitiful to behold. We spoke lapt week of the increase of population in the towns at the expense of the rural districts, as shown by the United States census. This is due to the causes above spoken of. These farmers who are abandoning i the farm for the town, will tell you that they are making the change in ' order to educate their children, and to give them social advantages. But the real cause is that they have failed ?^ Atr ]inrn lonlrofl U1 SUCUCOSi XIICJ uftyc ciuugi mvAvu 1 the energy, intelligence or business 1 habits necessary to success in any business requiring these quali fiI cations. i So far as educating their children is concerned, in the cases of most of ' those who desert the farm for the town for this purpose, the expense of I house rent and the increased post of I the necessaries of life, as well as . t iL.i. 1 J x many otncr expenses mat wuuiu nui be incurred in a life upon the farm, would hire a good teacher in the country ; and as far as society is concerned, it is a matter of grave doubt whether or not any advantage that might result from association with this so-called town society, might not be overbalanced by other disadvantages. If you want your boy to learn how to tie his cravat in the latest , style, to gracefully handle the seductive cigarette, or to do many othei things more ornamental than useful or manly, he will get this kind of education faster, and more perfectly in the town, than he would in the country. My opinion is that in a majority ol cases the reasons above given are not the true ones. The farmer has tried one way of farming and has found that it does not pay. He has not had the vim, energy and perseverence, if h( had the intelligence, to start out aright in the right way to success on the farm. There is*a way to farm and farn successfully. We have examples be fore our eyes in every community. Il is of no use to say that poor labor auc poor prices prohibit successful farm ing. It has been done and is now be ing done. There is no royal path t< success in any pursuit. Success ii 1 ^? fAil r?oi*n on/i I liiti rewaru ui pmicuvc, i/un, ?uv 1 the employment of intelligent meth } ods. There are no remedies pleasanl l to the taste of the ills that our faim 1 ers are now suffering from. The med > icine is unpalatable, but it must b< 5 swallowed regularly and continued fo ] a long time before we recover from ou: 1 diseases. 1 The quack doctors will be aroum ' this summer. I mean the politicians They are going to many of your hou 3 ses to see you and to tell you wh; - you are not prospering, and those the; do not visit they will invite to conn [ out to public meetings, and they wil fpt, unon a stumn and tell you exactly O r ? # . what is the matter with you, and i 9 you will some out and vote for then " ?that is put your case in their hand." 5 for treatment?they will remove al your diseases; that the doctors yoi i have had in the past did not under , stand your case, and some of thesi " quacks will tell you that the doctor I you have had in the past wanted ti 3 keep you sick so they could make mon - ey out of you. If you want a day's amusement, i j is well enough to go and listen to thes< fellows; but the world over, thesi quacks are a bad lot, and it won't d< I for you farmers to take too much o: r their medicine. t I believe in our own home-mad* * 1 * ? i* ^ lllo T ni r*WAVi remedies ior must ui uui mo. mpvu j the farm, make home attractive so th< . boys will not want to leave it, gel , good stock and keep them nice anc comfortable, and, above all, make farn life enjoyable and abandon the prac . tice of loafing at the stores and talking > hard times, and keep out of debt i If you can't pay for a thing; don't buj I ifc' The farmer who has a good hom< i and plenty to eat for man and beast t should be happy without money ir : these days when he knows that mil [ lions of his fellow creatures in the j cities are destitute of food. How much work has been done on our farms 1 since last July except sowing a few acres of small grain and gathering n 1 small crop? Idleness has been the rule [ among our farmers?work the excep. tion. ; Those who have worked the least complain the loudest of the hard 1 times. But when the fanner, like the | mechanic and business man, is found i with his business every day in the ? year, he is succeeding and is satisfied ?:.n -a,,,,!!., Vim nppil not sav there WILII Itnuno. v/% .. is nothing to do. Every farmer worthy of the name and of his high and honorable calling, has so much to do that he wishes that there were more than :*65 days in a year. Don't forget what I told you about those quacks that will be around this summer. They can't cure you; you must apply the remedy yoruself.?Soland Black, in Yor/erillc Enquirer. ? In France the doctor's claim on the estate of a deceased patient has precedence over all others. ? Wo endorse all the proprietors say about the merits of Salvation Oil. It is the greatest cure on earth for pain. 25 cts. ? Do not let your dealer palm off on you any new remedy for colds. Insist on having Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. - . ' ' : ??????m>+ Cold Waves. Cold waves are those sudden changes from high to very low temperature which constitute the most noteworthy feature of the United States. They are produced by the flow of masses of cold, dry air from the regions east of the Rocky Mountains in British America, toward the south and southeast. During the long winter nights of the Arctic region, dry, clear air. accumulates in deep layers which is cooled by radiation to a temperature many degrees below zero; and then commences to flow towards any place where warm air is ascending, as it docs in the low pressure areas or storms which constantly pass from west to east across the United States. A "low area" is produced by the air, somewhere becoming heated from unknown causes, above the surrounding atmosphere. This excessively Tiflnf-.ftH air asnpnrls and air is drawn in below from all sides to replace it. That drawn 'in on the south to east side is warm and moist; that drawn from the north to west side is dry and cold. The cold wave follows after the low area as it moves eastward. The severer and prolonged cold waves are associated with extensive areas of high pressure. Their rate of progress averages 1,800 miles in twenty four hours. It is of great advantage to many business and agricultural interests to know in advance when the temperature will fall quickly and decidedly, besides affecting the comfort and health of thousands of people.?C. F. von Herrman, Meteorologist, M: C. Experiment Station. Cariosities of the Calendar. TVio vrmr IQOfl will nnf. Via a lpnn vpar simply because, being a hundredth year, although it is divisible by four, it is not divisible by 400 without a i remainder. This is not the real reai son, but the result of it; the real reason being the establishment of the i Gregorian rule, made in 1582. The Nineteeth Century will not end , until midnight of Monday, December i 31, 1900, although the old quarrelwill probably again be renewed as toi. what constitutes a century and when it winds up, and thousands will insist i on a premature burial of December 31, > 1899. But as a century means 100 years, and as the first century could not end I until a full 100 years had passed, nor the second until 200 years had passed, r etc., it is not logically clear why the ! Nineteenth Century should be curtailed and broken off before we have : the full 1,900 years. : April 1 and July 1 in any year, and I in' leap year January 1, fall on the I same day of the week. [ September 1 and December 1 in any i year fall on the same week day. t January 1 and October 1 in any year i fall on the same week day, except it be a leap year. l February 1, March 1 and November 1 of any year fall on the same day of t the week, unless it be a leap yearr 1 when January 1, April 1 and July 1 - fall on the same week day. May 1, June 1 and August 1 in any, ) year never fall on the same week day, i nor does any one of the three ever fall I on the same week day on which any - other month in the same year begins, t except in leap year, when February 1 - and August 1 fall on the same week day. j To find out on what day of the week r any day of this century fell divide the r year by 4 and let the remainder go. Add the quotient and year together, 1 then add H more. Divide the result . by 7 and if the remainder is 0 March 1 - of that year was Sunday ; if 1, Mon7 day ; if 2, Tuesday, and so on. Ir For the last century, do the same e thing, but add 4 instead of 3. For 1 the next century add 2 instead. r It is needless to go beyond the next f century, because its survivors will i probably have ^ some shorter method, 3 and find out by simply touching a 1 knob or letting a knob touch them. 1 Christmas of any year always falls on the same day of the week as Jans uary 2 of that year, unless it be a leap s year, when it is the same week day as ! 3 January 3 of that year. Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon that happens on t or next after March 21. It is not 2 easy to see how it can occur earlier 2 than March 22 or later than April 26 j in any year. f New Year (January 1) will happen on Sunday but once more during this 2 century ; that will be in 1899. In the 2 next century it will occur 14' times > onlv. as follows: 1905, 1911, 1922, k 1928, 1939, 1930, 1956,' 1961, 1967, [ 1978, 1984, 1989 and 1995. The inl tcrvals are regular?6-5-6-11, 6-5-6-11 - ?except the interval which includes j the hundredth year that is not a cen. tury, when there is a break?as 1893, i 1899, 1905, 1911?when three intervals of six years come together ; after } .that plain sailing till 2001, when the , old intervals will occur in regular ori der. ' , ? The following interesting story of r how a canary was cured of homesickness I was told by a well-known gentleman : r "Not long ago my wife purchased a cat nary at a bird store. It had been accus, tomed to companions of its kind at the 9tore, but at our honse it was entirely alone. The pretty little songster was evidently home-sick. It would not sing, it i would not eat, but just drooped and seemed to be pining away. We talked to it, and tiiea by every means in our power to cheer the bird up, but all in vain. My wife was on the point of carrying the'bird back to the store when one day a friend said: "Give him a piece of looking glass." Acting on this suggestion, she tied a piece of a broken mirror about the size of a man's hand on the outside cf the cage. The little fellow hopped down from his perch almost im ?n*\ <"?! rton 1 IlJeUlitlUljr? auu, \A tr VIwo*-, 4UV/UVV4 in, seeming delighted. He chirped and hopped about, singing all the pretty aire he was master of. He never was homesick after that. He spends the most of his time before the glass, and when he goes to sleep at night he will cuddle down as close to the glass as he .can, thinking, very jikely, that he is getting near to the pretty bird that he sees so often." ? Some say there is no money in farming, others prove that there is. Among ibe latter is Mr. I. It. Kountree, of I)unbiirton. After paying his subscription Monday he told us ho did not owe a cent in the world. .Besides, he has two crops of cotton and enough homemade provisions to last his fdtnilj' two years. Last winter he cured enough bacon to feed thirty people. He keeps all bis farming lands under fence and gives bis hogs the run of the fields from the first ot September up to new year. So they thrive and cost him but little. Cotton is a surplus crop with hiui,? JJamwell People.