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AN INDIAN FIGHT.
I Between the Bluffs.
-New York Sun.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon
this was the situation of affairs
on the sterile plain south of Fort
Chadbourne, Tex. There were six
teen army wagons loaded with
supplies for the fort. The cavalry
escort numbered only thirty-eight
men. Counting ehe teamsters, we
had fifty-four. Tfie Indians had
closed in on both sides and in the
rear, and no one estimated their
number at less than 350, all mount
od. There was this in our favor
-only a few had rifles. At least
200 were armed with lances, and
30 long as we .could hold them off
with our carbines we need not fear
them. Our route was a narrow
valley bluffed on each side, and
these bluffs were impassable for
horses. Here and there the val
ley spread out until it was half a
mile wide, and again it contracted
until only two wagons could move
abreast. Our safety was to keep
moving "Tand count on the rear
guard to fight them back.
That valley was three miles
long. When we had debouched
on the plain beyond, the Indians
would charge us. We figured our
chance as one in five. The team
sters might or might not fight.
They were all Mexicans, and they
might even be suspected of being
the allies of the.redskins. Thirty
eight men, a dozen of whom were
just out of hospital and #in poor
shape for a fight, seemed' a mere
nothing compared to the masses
of horsemen closing in. The last
half mile of this route was not
over twenty feet wide from the
bluff. When we struck that spot,
the wagons were sent on ahead.
From the rearmost one we took
ten large percussion shells destin
ed for the cannon at the fort.
These shells were rapidly filled
with powder,- bullets, and shot,
the primers inserted, and while a
dozen men held the Indians at
bay we dug holes in the ground
and set each'shell on end with its
cap ju ft level with the roadbed.
We planted two small kegs, of
powder as well, and over the
gravel we scattered the contents of
a third.
When all was ready the rear
guard was called in and we re
treated for about thirty rods. We
only made a pretence of fighting
now, as if our object was to let
the wagons get a long start up the
main valley. At the end of a
quarter of an hour. the Indian
. lancers formed for a charge up the
/"*" narrow way and we retreated in
seeming confusion to draw them
on. The lancers formed in ranks
_of six or seven front and running
back further that we cou&l see. At
a given signal this great mass set
up a yell and charged. Ino first
twelve or fourteen safely passed
the shells. Then came a series of
explosions which made the earth
heave and shot a great black cloud
half a mile high into the sky. It
rolled down upon us and envelop
. ed'us for Ji time in midnight dark
ness, and with it was an odor to
' nauseate every man. We heard
shrieks of pain and. yells of ter
ror, and now and then that strange
sound uttered by a wounded horse
A dozen of us kept firing into the
cloud, but after five or six minutes
it thinned out, and, we stood and
leaned on our carbines and were
almost affrighted at the spectacle
Tho narrow way, was literally
choked with the dead and dying.
Fragments of men and horses had
fallen all about us. .
N ? man cared to go pearer. -it
won'd have been safe, for the In
dians who escaped^ dft?ster were
galloping away in a state of ab
ject-terror, but the spectacle would
hfivo been in one's dreams forever
after. We hurried on out of the
narrow valley, overtook the fast
moving wagons and the pale-faced
teamsters, and thence to the fort
the sharpest eye could not detect
the presence of an Indian any
where on the wide sweep of plain.
So-called humanitarians called it
a cruel, cold-blooded slaughter;
army records referred to it as a
merciful salvation of a troop and
train.
A PLUCKY WOMAN.
Snoots Uer Assailant in Appling
County.
WATCBOSS, May 30.-A Mrs
Crosby, wife of a prominent citizen
of Appliug county shot and fatally
wounded a white tramp last oven
ing b9cause he attempted to as
sault her. The man entered the
house during her husband's ab
sence and attempted to assault her,
but beforo he could accomplish his
purpose Mrs. Crosby drew her pistol
from her pocket and shot him
He wandered off and was soon
followed by a score of citizens, who
found' him lying 'dead near the
road with ,a bullet hole in his
head. The affair created "a sensa
tion.
,Soino grumbler rises to "say.
that, as a rule, home-made tea
?bu'iscuit would be much lighter
if iihoy were stuffed with feath
IN ms GRAVE ALIVE.
T?e Body Turned Over and
Coffin Lid Open.
STROUDSBURG, PA.,-May 30.
The. citizens of Paradise, this coun
ty, are greatly excited over the
alleged burial of Stewart Steamer
before he was dead. He seemed to
have expired suddenly of heart
disease, a few months ago. Stear
oer's body was taken out of his
grave to be reinterred yesterday
and it was discovered that he had
turned over ?D the coffin. The lid
of the coffin was also broken open
Mrs. Steamer, it is claimed, fee
lievos her boy was buiied alive.
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Restores hair
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The County Dispensary
ACCORDING to a call of the Board
of Control for Edgefield County,
a meeting of said Board was he'd in
the County Commissioners office OD
Monday, the 29th inst.
One application for the appointment
of County Dispenser presented his pe
tition, which was put on file with no
tice that a true copy therepf has been
placed on file in the office of the Clerk
of Court.
On motion it was resolved, that said
petition remain on file for the inspec
tion of all concerned until the next
meeting of the Board of Control, on
Saturday, the 10th of June next, at 10
o'clock-A. M. in the County Commis
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petition will be duly considered and
acted upon.
At the same meeting, in the event
that a County Dispenser be appointed,
bids will be received by the Board for
;he rental of a suitable place in which
to open the Dispensary.
J. D. FRASER,
Cl'k Board Control E. C.
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Mr. J. C. Jones, of Fulton, Ark., says o?
EEEffl "About ten years ago I coa
Kffjff?r?j tracted a severe case of blood
poison. Leading physicians prescribed
medicine after medicine, which I took
without any relief. I also tried mercu
rial and potash remedies, with un sue
RHEUMATISM
oessf ol results, but which brought on an
attack of mercurial rheumatism that
made my life one of agony. After suf
oring four years I gave up all remedies
and commenced using S. S. S. After
taking several bottles, I waa entirely
cured and able to resumo work.
RRKI is the greatest medicine for
IKS?eS blood poisoning to-day on
the market."
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
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November last, will only make known
0 his father his whereabouts and con
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iuspense and anxiety about him, and
ie will not be interfered with.
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Trains ran by 75th Meridian Time.
SOUTHBOUND.
Ves.Lim
No. 37.
Daily
No. 9.
Daily.
No. II.
Daily.
Lv New York.. 4.30PM 12.1 ont 4.30PM
" Philadelphia 6.57 " 3.50AM 6.57 "
Baltimore... 9.45 " 6.50" 9.45 "
" Washington.12.00 " 11.10 " 11.20 "
Richmond... 3.20AM 3.00PM 3.00AM
? Greensboro.. 7.09 " 10.25 " 10.20. M
" Salisbury... 8.28 " 12.28AM 12.05PM
Lr ^",_^ , no.? 2.00" 1.30
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? Rock Hill... 3.03 "
? Chester. 3.44 "
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Ar nnUltnWia < 6.07 "
Lv Columbia j . 6i?5?
" Johnston. 8.12 "
" Trenton. 8.28 "
" Graniteville . 8.56 "
lr Augusta. 9.30"
" Charleston.. 11.20"
"Savannah. 6.30"
1.60
2.43
3.28
4.20
5.50
6.05
7.63
8.08
3.36
9.15
10.05
6.30
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Daily.
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Daily.
Ves.Lim.
No. 38.
Daily.
Lv Savannah..
" Charleston.
" Augusta.. .
" Graniteville
" Trenton'
" Johnston...
8.00AM
6.00-u
1.00PM
1.32 "
2.00 "
2.13 "
Ar T..T,K,?. I 4.00 "
LvColumbia.. J410M
" Winnsboro. 5.37 "
"Chester.... 6.30"
"Rock Hill.. 8.07"
Ar T?*.wr0 S 8.00 ?
L, Charlotte.. j gi,0 ?
" Salisbury... 9.55 -
" Greensboro. 11.38AM
Ar Richmond.. 7.40"
* Washington 10.26 "
" Baltimore. .-12.05PM
" Philadelphia 2.20AM
" New York.. 4.50 u
6.40PM
6.00 "
7.00 "
7.55 "
8.38 "
8.52 "
10.40 "
1050 "
12.26AM
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9.46 " 8.38AM
11.35 "10.08"
3.00 " 12.35"
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P* O. Box 403. WASHINGTON, D. C.
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PMS ON PATENTS.
How to Get 2,500 Dollars
for Nothing.
The Winner Has a Clear Gift of
a Small Fortune, and thc Losers
Have Patents that may Bring
Them In Still more.
Would you like to make twenty-five
hundred dollars? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may
see a way to do it.
The Press Clams Company devotes
much attention to patents. It has
bandied thousands of applications for
inventions,, but it would like to handle
thousands more. There ls plenty of
inventive talent,at large in this coun
try, needing nothing but encourage
ment to produce pratical results. That
encourgement the Press claims
Company proposes to give.
NOT SO HARD AS IT SK K.MS.
A patent strikes most people as an
appallingly formidable thing. The idea
is that an fnyentor must be a natural
genius, like Edison or Bell; that he
must devote years to delving in
complicated mechancial problems and
that he must spend a fortune on
delicate experiments before he can
get a new device to a patentable de
gree of perfection. This delusion the
company desires to dispel. It desires to
get into the head, of the public a clear
comprehension of the fact that it is
not the great, complex, and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns
to their authors, but the little, simple,
and cheap ones-the things that seem
so absurdly trivial that the average
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed
of bringing them to the attention of
the Patent.Oftice.
Edison says that the profits he has
received from the patents on all his
marvelous inventions have not been
sufficient to pay the cost ol his ex
periments But the man who conceived
the idea of fastening a bit of rubber
cord to a childes ball, so that it would
come back to the baud when thrown
made a fortune out of his scheme. The
modern sewing machine is"a miracle
of ingenuity-the product of the toil
of hundreds of busy brains through a
hundred and fifty years, but the whole
brilliant result rests upon the simple
device of putting the eye of the needle
at the point instead of at the other end.
TnE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALU
ABLE.
Comparatively lew people regard
themselves as inventors, but'almost
everybody has been struck, at one
time or another, with ideas that seemed
calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually such are ideas
dismissed without further thought.
"Wliy don't the railroad company
make its car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
the passengers' backs?" exclaims the
traveler. "If I were running the road
I would make them in such a way."
,'What was the man that made this
?saucepan thinking of?" grumbles the
cook. "He never had to work over a
stove, or he would have known how it
ought to have been fixed."
"Hang such a collar button !" growls
the man who is late for breakfast "If I
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, or break off, or
gouge out the back of my neck."
And then the various sufferers for
get about their grievancet and begin
to think of som.'thing else. If they
would sit down at the next convenient
opportuni.y, put their ideas about car
windows, saucepans,and collar buttons
into practical shape, and then apply
for patents, they might find themselves
as independently wealthy as the man,
who invented the iron umbrella ring
or the one who patented the fifteen
puzzle.
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track of
their bright ideas and see what there
is in them, the Press. Claims Company
has resolved to offer a prize.
To the person whs submits to it the
simplest and most promising inven
tion, from a commercial point of view,
the company will give twenty-five
hundred dollars in cash, addition to
refunding the fees for securing the
patent.
It will also ?advertise the invention
free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions :
Every competitor must obtain a
patent for his invention through the
company. He must first apply for a
preliminary search, the cost of which
will be five dollars. Should this search
show his invention to be unpatentable
he can withdraw without further ex
pense. Otherwise he will be expected
to complete his application and take
out a patent in the regular way. The
total expense, including Government
and Bureau fees,will be seventy dollars.
For this, whether he secures the prize
or not, the inventor will have a patent
that ought to be a valuable property
to him. The prize will be awarded by
a jury consisting of three reputable
patent attorneys of Washington. In
tending competitors should fill out the
following blank, and forward it with
their application :
"-,-, 1892.
"I submit the within described in
vention, in competition for the
Twenty-five hundred Dollar Prize
offered by the Press Claims Company.
NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION.
This is a competition of rather an
unusual nature. It is common to offer
prizes for the best story, or picture, or
architectural plan, all the competitors
risking the loss of their labor and the
successful one merely 'selling his for
the amount of the prize. But the Press
Claims Company's offer is something
entirely different. Each person is
asked merely to help himself, and the
one who helps himself to the best ad
vantage is to be rewarded for doing it.
The prize is only a stimulus to do
something that would be well worth
doing without it. The architect whose
competitive plan fora club house
on a certain corner is not accepted has
spent his labor on something of very
little use to him. But the person who
patents a simple and useful device in
the Press Claims Companj s competi
tion' need not worry if he fail to secure
the prize. He has a substantial result
to show for Li? work-one that will
command its value in the market at
any time.
The plain man who uses any article
in his daily work ought to know bet
ter how to improve it than the
mechanizal expert who studies it only
from the theoretical point of view.
Get rid of the idea that an improve
ment can be too simple to be worth
patenting. The simpler the better. The
person who best succeeds in combining
simplicity and popularity, will get the
Press Claims Compay's twenty-five
hundred dollars.
The responsibility of this company
may be judged from the fact that its
stock isjield by about three hundred
of the ""leading newspapers of the
United States.
Address the Press Claims Company,
John Wedderburn, managa attorney,
918 E street, W. Washington, D.C.
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