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TO THINS OWN 8KLP BK TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANS'T NOT THEN BK PALSH TO ANY MAN. BY JA YNES, SHELOlt, SMITH & STE?K. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FEB. 20, 1001. ._ nwTiK rc Calbayoy, Samar, P. I., Decombor 10, 1900.-I promised some timo nineo to give you a resumo of the ac tions of Company M, 29th U. S. V. Infantry, at an early date, and if I be tardy in so doing plonso accept as an exousc tho fact that I havo been very busy-how busy I will try and provo to you in the following : Juno 26th, 1900, and wo are stowed away on tho United States Trans port Pennsylvania, bound for tho far Southern islands of the Philip pine group, where, if report bo true, the insurgents aro active in their at tacks upon thc slimly garrisoned towns. General McArthur, tho official hoad of military operations on these islands, had for some time past been called upon for reinforcements at theso places. Coming out of tho Bay of Manila, on tho way to this place, a distance of five hundred milos or more, we get out of sight of land but once, so many are the islands, bumps of land, jutting out from the face of "old ocean," and standing in mute appeal, as if calling upon us as representatives of the United States for protection-protection from any and everything from a cholera famine to tho disastrous and destructive ty phoon, which has a birthplace in tho China Sen, an insignificant mill pond at tho southern extremity of .tho Celestial Empire, and which serves no other purposo apparently than to bo a dividing lino between our is land possessions and the Flowery Kingdom. Two days from Manila and wo anchor in the harbor of Masbate, which is the principal city on the Island of Masbate. lt was hero our Colonel with four companies of tho 29th distinguished themselves in May of this year by capturing some hun dreds of armed insurgents, together with their arms and munitions of war. At this place wo took on board Companies "G" and "E" and pro ceeded on our way southward, and on the afternoon of the next day an chored at Lagu?n, where we landed Companies "G" arni "K" and took "A" and "G," or more correctly speaking, the remnants of the two companies of the 43d Infantry, which had been in garrison at this station for tho paBt four months, in which time they bad suffered a loss of fully one-third of tho command by reason Ladies Fi ...a Spe< **A Shoe As Good As Its Name. C. W. & J. E. About Hustling Westminster. [Toccoa ((?a.) Record, Kehruary 8.] The editor spent a few hours in West minster this week. That towt? is grow ing. A new cotton factory, just open ing, brings HM) or more people into the town, and promises to bring moie. Westminster has another enterprise that is one of tho best things in that .State for tho farmers-that is a bobbin and shuttle factory. Tins enterprise is growing every day, and it is turning ont a very high grade of work, .lust think of it-paying per cord for wood. That's what this factory docs, hu? tho wood, hickoiy. ash, willow, tipple, etc., is not burned, but made into polished, beautiful bobbins and shuttles, and as a result prospoiity is among the people about Westminster. This shuttle fac tory is the only ono in South Carolina, there being none at all in Georgia. It is owned by local capital at Westminster, and its products are eagerly sought for throughout tho country, the demand not near hoing filled. ClarkcRville may draw a good lesson from this. Let the moneyed men here gather tho lesson. There is plenty of capital around hero to have a shuttle factory and plenty of material. If there is any ono thing in demand now through out the South moro than another it is pb ult len. Lot's have n factory hero, Wo of wounds and disoneo. Terrible indeed wero tho tales they did un fold to our willing oars of skirmishes with and attacks by tho wily "insur reoto," who, to judge by tho storios told, wero as numerous ns tho trees in tho trnokless forrest and gifted with a keeness of scent nud ability to mnko their "get-n-way" equalod only by tho sly "John Fox" of our nativo country. Some of these nar ratives woro in tho main true, as we afterward found out to our sorrow and chagrin ; but speaking goucrally they were but tho products of a fertile brain and elastic imaginative power. We left Lngunn tho morning of the '28th and landed in Calbayoy har bor the afternoon of tho same date, unloading by means of "eascoes," a kind of native boat, on tho following day. lloro wo found two companies of tho 43d Infantry, together with more hair-raising tales of hardships and privations which were ns tho others mero fabrications. We relieved two companies and took entire charge of this station June 20th, and for a few days could not have told whether we wero in tho enemy's country or doing garrison duty where everything was quiet. Hut all things, good or bad, have an ending, and 1.30 a. m., July 5th, found us tumbling and rolling from our cots and hastily getting within our outer wearing apparel, for that stirring call "to arms," which causes even the sluggard to bo "up and do ing," is ringing peal after peal in stentorian notts upon the night air, and the boys in "khaki" know some thing is "nj)." What that something is we are soon tn ad o aware of, for no sooner have wo reached tito Btreet in front of quarters than the zip, zip, zip of Hying missiles of destruction and death inform us that tho "gugus" have "opened up" and are trying their hand at target practice, with our men ns targets ; but they are poor gunners and we escaped without injury. Not so tho natives, for after a sharp running fight of some two hours duration, they retired to the mountains near by, leaving upon tho field some fifteen or twenty of their one-time fighting strength, silent now and lying with faces upturned to the starry heavens, mute witnesses to tho fighting ability and fearlessness of | the American soldier, before whom all nations bow with respect and ad miration. ne Shoes :ialty... We sell and recommend JULIA MARLOWE SI IO KS at *8.00, and AMERICAN GIRL at *2.ft0. We carry in stock all the lead ing styles. If your Shoes are not exactly what you want, try one pair of tho above. BAUKNICHT are justas able and more able to start a shuttle factory than was Westminster. Tho people who grasp such propositions as this are the ones who come out ahead in tito race for progress, prosperity and happiness. Persons who can take ordinary pills lind it a pleasure, to take DeWitt's Little Karly Risers. They are the best littlo liver pills ever made. J, W. Hell. The most, radical anti-eigaret'o men suro yid. pi oposod is now under consid eration in the Minnesota Legislature, having been introduced hy .Senator ?lal versen, ono of whose constituents re cently dieil from smoking too many cigarettes. The proposed hiil is modeled on tho Tennessee law, which the Uni tod States Supreme ('oort has held to he constitutional, and makes it a misde meanor to use tobacco in this form, bars merchants from bringing cigarettes into tho State, makes giving away cigarettes an equally grave olTonso, and even pro hibits the salo of the papers used in roll ing cigarettes. vi pis?'s CUR rr QR ? Se CUHtS WHIRL Alt ElSl JAILS, i UcBt Cough Syrup. TMICB OIXMI. Uno Intimo. Hold by (IriiKKlxl*. T CONSUMPTION y> On tho afternoon of July 5tb a detachment under command of our First Lieutenant, while out a mile or more from town, trying to kill a hoof, wore suddenly fired upon by tho enemy, who wore heavily in trenched in our front and for a time had a warm time trying to BIIOW tho followers of Aguinaldo tho error of their ways, succeeding iu so doing only after a sharp engagement, and then not to any groat extent. In this we woro tho losers, two of our comrades suffering injuries, caused by coming in contact with sharpened bamboo poles, placed in such a posi tion that any ono charging their fortifications would run against thom, and as a consequence retiro with a puncture in their auatomy, which, if not fatal, would at least place them on tho list of "sick in quarters," for a time at least. During the next fifteen days we were in a constant state of siege, but tho attacking party "rookoned not their host" and their feeblu attempts wore laughed at, and in reality wo sympathized with them, p;iving them credit for valor, while deploring their discretion, for seldom did a day wane and a morrow como, but was recorded in tho records kept at this placo the death of one or moro of the attacking parties. July '25th, four months after the insurgents had evacuated this town, and as on previous dates as the months glidod by, our copper-colored friend, with the desire to annihilate any and all Americans to be found on these islands, again hopped nim bly to tho front of tho ourtain with Iiis bamboo shot-gun and hoop-iron bale, and declared in terms om phatio, if untruthful, that "todos Ameri cano" must go, and stand not upon the order of their going, but go and go at once, "fronto"-quickly. Amis take, and a costly one, this blow and bluster proved to be, for we never once thought of going, besides which it is a long swim to tho next landing place, and wo staid just where it was < intended we should, and gave to "John Gugu" such a threshing asp never was administered to an erring comparable in stubbornness lo our long-eared friend, tho mule, and continued their attacks by night and day for at least ton days more. A detachment composed of fifty infantry men and ton marines from tho gunboat "Islo De Cuba" gave Handsomest and Fastest Train Ever Run to the North and Northwost. Leaving St. Augustine, Fla., ovory day oxcept ?Sunday, at 12 o'clock high noon, tho handsomest mid fastest train over operated between Florida and tho North and Northwest makes a smooth, quick run for Chicago, passing .Jacksonville nt 1.05 p. m., Macon at 8.20 p. m., Atlanta at 10.35 p. m., arriving nt Cincinnati nt 12 o'clock noon and Chicago at H.'.IO p. m. 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Respectfully, I Hom y Jeffords, 1,400 Market St. tho enemy a surprise at ono of their strongholds north of town at 6.00 a. m., August 1st, and succeeded in capturing tho saino, sending a small number to the "happy hunting grounds" and the remainder on a "hot foot" chase to tho mountains. During the remaining days bf Au gust we had frequent skirmishes with the enemy, eaoh timo hoing the winners. In this timo wo killed quito a number of private soldiers and two officers, besides capturing quite a quantity of ammunition and commissary supplies belonging to thc insurgents. September proved to bo a rather quiet month on both sides, though small detachments of "gugus" con stantly fired upon tho town, doing no damage, except it be to them selves. Octobor was a repetition of Sep tember, nothing unusual happening. In tho early part of November tho insurgents planted some brass can non on tho hills surrounding tho town and after loading thora with every "old thing" that could be pushed down tho muzzle, fired them at the city. This seemed to amuse them very much, though it was try ing on tho nerves for a short tinto, but we soon discovered thom to bo yet poorer marksmen with cannons than thoy were with small arms, and it was a common expression among the men : "Tho niggers firod a junk shop at No. G outpost this morning. Hero is a cow horn and tin can that came my way." It was amusing to pick up tho dif ferent things contained in a charge fired from one of these old brass guns-bits of nails, taps, carrab?u horns, and oven chunks of wood helping to fill out tho load. One day, while lying on our bunks in quarters, wo were startled by a louder report than usual, followed by a great rumpus at tho foot of the f stairs. Tho funny man of tho com pany was first on the scene, and samo hounding back with this start ling bit of information : "By George, one before. But the insurgents are here it is at last ; just as 1 expected all thc time. Tho cussed niggers have run out of railroad spikes and have shot a carrabou bull at us, and the old iellow wants to do as it was intended he should do, and wants a bold Amciican to show up so ho can 2jet a reputation as a killer." This Paragraph;, un Mrs. Nation. Kansas should either license saloons ar lioottSO somo ono to demolish thom. Tho Houston Post. Tho rumor that Mrs. Nation is on tho pay-roll of tho glass trust is doniod. Tho Minneapolis Times. It is now up to Mr. Markham to write * poom about "Tho Woman with tho Ax."-Tho IUil?alo Expross. Hor platform is "Freo and unlimited carnage without tho aid or consent of ?my othor Nation."-Tho Chicago Trib uno. If Hoyt wero writing a Kansas play ono of tho characters would certainly bo Carrio Consternation.-Tho Philadelphia Lodger. It is presumed that somo poor man in Kansas will bo known hereafter as "Mrs. Nation's husband."-Tho Baltimore American. Tho herculean task of smashing tho trusts might with groat proprioty bo roforrcd to Mrs. Nation.-Tho St. Louis Olobc-Domoorat. Mrs. Nation ovidently docs not sharo tho popular superstition regarding tho ill-luck that follows tho breaking of a mirror.-Tho Peoria Herald-Transcript. Mrs. Nation bas declined to act in 'Tell Nights in a barroom," but sho might consent to bo tho star for one night in ton barrooms.-Tho Chicago Record. Tho Kansas saloonkeeper who has bis fortuno told in these troublous times will doubtless bo informen that ho must bowaro of a tall, dark woman with a brick in ono band.-Tho Donvor Repub lican. For tho weakness and prostration fol- I lowing grip tlioro is nothing so prompt and offootivo as One Minute Cough ('uro. This preparation is highly endorsed an an unfailing remedy for all throat and lung troubles and its early uso prevents consumption. lt wa? made to euro quickly. J, W. Boll. Dr? E, C. Priorson, a woll known phy sician of Anderson, S. C., accidentally shot and killed himself while cleaning his gun preparatory to a hunt. Tho ao cidont occui rod athis home about two o'clock n. m. on Friday, February 8th. Tho vordiot of tho Coronor's jury was that death resulted from wounds caused by tho accidental discharge of Ins gun. Ho was a son of tho lato Kev. I). E. Frl erson, who was pastor of tho First Pres byterian church at Anderson for twenty three years. Ho was born in Marion county in 1857, but went to Anderson when a boy. Ho married Miss Mattie Towers, who died sovmal months ago. There aro four small orphan boys loft. Like bad dollars, all counterfeits of Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salvo, aro worth less. Tho original quickly cures piles, sores and all skin diseases, J. W. Hell. A negro attempted to rob a prominent dressmaker on Main streot In (iroonvillo last Saturday evening. Ho grabbed her and almost throw her into tho ditch in tho offort to soi/.o her pocketbook. was a mistake- ; his carrabouship had been struck with a flying bit of traoe chain, and, for tho time being, was the wildest and most furious animal possible. It failed to kill him, how ever, .and to-day he may bo seen hitched to a cart hauling water to tho oook houses. Two of these can non wo oaptured, and they now stand in front of the headquarters' building and look anything but dan gerous, yot somo four or five hun dred years ago they would no doubt have been considered terrible imple ments of war. lu tho early part of Novombcr wo wore reinforced by Companies B and C of our regiment, whioh meant wo wore to go out and got tho enemy instead of waiting for him to como in. If the mountain will not como to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. On the 25th of this month we started inland with ono hundred and fifty infantrymen, ono picco of light artillery and fifty or sixty Chinamen to be used as packers to take along our provisions. We had scarcely reached the outside of tho city when wo were fired upon and had a lively little engagement with tho enemy, but wc were going to tho interior and to tho town supposed to contain the headquarters of Gen. Lukcbnnn, tho leader of the robel forces on this island, and did not :ntcnd to lose time on a few stubborn cranks, con sequently wo put them to Hight quickly, and proceeded on our way. Books written about this country state that there are roads and trails throughout tho islands. Possibly there are, but they aro as difficult to locate as Aguinaldo, the swift-footed. Wc had three native guides, selected with great care, and after much diffi cult search, if they found a road at any time while we were aoouring the mountains, wc were heartily thank ful. Any and all who try to travel without first finding a road, have our deepest sympathy. It was a good day's work done when we covered a distance of five miles or more. In most instances our path lay through a wild, mountainous country, and we toiled half a day going up one side of a mountain and fifteen minutes to reach the lowlands on the other side. Possibly we would find some two miles of fair traveling in this valley, wading in mud from one to four feet deep, and then go into camp for tho Big Money Combination. Perhaps tho largest deal on record was made a few days ago by J. Pierpont Morgan and John 1). Rockefeller in the purchase of An drew Carnegie's vast steel interests and those of the other groat steel makers of tho country. Tho com bine thus formed is by far thc largcHt business organization in the world. Tho companies whioh Morgan and Rockefeller have gained control of represents a total capital of $1,094, 000,000. This gigantic deal throws Mr. Andrew Carnegie out of busi ness and leaves him, perhaps, the richest man in tho world. Ile dic tated his own terms to Morgan and I Rockefeller, forcing them to pay $135,000,000 for his $80,000,000 of stock and to guarantee 5 por cent on the $100,000,000 of bonds which he retains under an agreement never to sell thom. Mr. Cnrnegio is thus tho possessor of $235,000,000, but this is by no moans nil he owns. Ile has several million dollars' worth of real estate in Now York and Pittsburg, probably a few million dollars' worth of other stocks and bonds, and valuable interests in Scotland and England. He has shown a disposition to use somo of his money in philantrophio enterprises and it is hoped, now that he has freed himself of many busi ness cares, ho may bo able to devote moro entirely his timo and money to benevolence. Reports show a greatly decreased death rate from throat and laug troubles, duo to tho prevalence of croup, pneumo nia and grip. Wo adviso tho uso of Ono Minuto Cough (hire in all of those difll oultios, It is tho only harmless remedy that gives immediate results. Children liko it. J. W. Holl. A now railroad is in prospect from Spartan burg to Kuthorfordton, N. C., thirty milos distant. Tho city of Spar enburg has voted $26,000 in bonds for this project and two towns in Ruther ford county, North Carolina, havo voted to issue a similar amount for tho same purpose A company is already inexist ence to build this road. Mayor A. ll. Calvert, of this city, is president of tho company. hast week ihn Cuban constitutional convention voted hy a Inigo majority in favor of universal suffrngo. Tho dis path announcing this fact stated further that business in Cuba was in a panicky condition in cniiHcquoiico of tho rumor that tho United States would soon turn tho Covernmont over to tho Cubans. nw J ?rM night at tho baso of to-morrow's work-ono moro mountain. This going into camp was camping in name only-our oots, in moat instanooe, consisting of mother earth, and our covering tbo canopy of hoavon, mos quitos and saud flies. Coupled with those daily ocourronces was the in cessant rain, for tho rainy season is on with a vengeanoo in this "neok o' tho woods." Seven days from Ca?bayoy, forty inileB from transportation, unless we1 go the Bamc way we came ; out of anything to eat except what wo cap ture, such aB swoot potatoes, rico and carrabou-not a very choice bill of fare, and much loss ohoioe when it is known that wc did not havo either salt or popper with which to season I We had boon out seven days, and had three days moro to travel before we reach Montogenon, tho reputed abiding placo of tho official hoad of tho insurgent forces on this island. Wo were then at Tagnau, on tho banks of the G?ndara river, a noblo stream, and ono can but feel as he gazes upon its broad bosom what a blessing it would bo if wo could but transplant such waterways as these and drop them down on Columbia's shores, for such as these could not but bo of benefit to us, both as food producers and in a com mercial sonso. There is but ono objectionable feature in connection with such rivers as these and that is tho vast number of fierce crocodiles which abound, making it exceedingly dangerous to haunt the shores. Of these crocodiles there aro two varieties, one which grows to a great size, tho other, smaller, yet quito ferocious. Besides these may be found tho panican, or tortoise whoso shell is very valuable. Fish abound, almost every known kind being found in great numbers. On the mountain sido to our front, and in plain view of camp there aro chat tering hordes of monkeys, of all the species known or imagined. Hero oan bo seen thc ring-tailed monkey, the bald-headed monkey, and the brothers and Bisters of tho measley scamp that collects your small change, while tho "dago" and tho hand-organ do thc rest. Tho forests abound in wild boar, bear and doer, and by night or day, when the minuto hand points to tho hour thc air is made hideous by tho cries of a The United Slates Soldior. Each man in our army costs us moro than ten times as much annu ally as the German or F renell sol dier costs his country. Tho average cost of a French soldier is $232, and of a German soldier $227, while the average United States soldier costs thc country the enormous sum of $2,828. These startling figures were brought out in thc debate in Con gress on the army appropriation bill by , Mr. McClellan, of Now York. Tho bill passed. The Congressional report of haz ing at West Point reveals a fearful state of depravity among tho young men of that institution. Tho treat ment of the fourth-class boys was simply brutal-moro than barbarous. Some of their ideas they evidently got from English schools, whore tho upper men each had a small boy ns a "fag;" but in imitating England in this they have gone far beyond any thing over read about in tho old country. Starved Hair Slow growth of hair comes from _ lack of hair food. The hair has no life. It ls starved. It keeps coming out, gets thinner and thinner, bald spots appear, then actual baldness. The only good hnir food you can buy is - It feeds the roots, stops starva tion, and the bair grows thick and long. I teures d a n d r u ff Also, Keep a bottle of lt on your dressing table. It's a splendid dressing. It always restores color to faded or grsy hair. Mind, we say " al ways." $1.00 ? bottle. All dniftlifi. " I Imvo found your Hair Vigor to be tho bimi roinedy I havo ovor trloil for tho hair. My hair wa? falling emt vory bad, no I thought 1 would try a hut tin of lt. I had unou only ono hottlo. nod my hair Mopped falling out, nod lt la now real thick and long/' NANCY J. IfOVlrTOASTtB, July 2?, 1808. Yonkom, N. Y. Wrltm tho Oooior, Un will nomi you lila lu.ok on Tho Hair and Scalp. Adc IIIMI any iiuoitlon yuu wUh aliunt your hair. You will rocolvo a prompt aniwor frog. AiltlroM, lin J. O. AY Eh, Ixmoll, Mat?. w---~ By Quartcrm G>mpa groat bird, the oalao, a kind of wild peaoook. Leaving Tagnau, we travel in a northerly direction upward toward tho mountain top, our path being the bed of a email, swift, run ning stream, a tributary of tho Gan dara. This may appear on the faoo of it to be a "hard road to tr a vol," but our experience has proved it to bo far ahead of outting our way through tho woods. In tho oarly afternoon wo reaoh tho headquarters1 of Captain Bouki's, ono of the most stubborn and unrelenting of all tho insurgent officers, but ho has flown, leaving behind the smoking remains of a onoe quiet, inland town. Hore, buried in a deep ravine, we found vast quantities of supplies, consist ing of rico, tobacco, cigarettes, and matches, tho matches being used by tho wily nativo as powder. Wo pass this by, neglecting to destroy it in our haste, as wo now know tho rebels aro just ahead, and we desire to oatoh up with thom if possible, lloro wo place our ono Mold-piece of artillery on board a largo casoo and send a strong guard to proceed up stream with tho same, hoping thereby to travel tho faster, as this same pieoo of ordnance has been a con stant source of trouble to us, it tak ing fifty men at times to got it up tho mountain sido, and then only af ter hours of wearying labor. From this plaoo on wo havo to keep a sharp lookout for tho enemy and , their man-traps, whioh are holes of all sizes dug in tho ground, generally in a path and filled with sharpened sticks so placod and concoalcd that ' tho unwary in walking along will ? step therein, at whioh, if they do 1 not sustain a mortal injury, they aro ' at least left in such condition as to 1 be of no further uso for several days, j Some half-dozen of our mon were < thus injured, and tho thump, thump, thump of the crutohes, as they amble slowly around quarters, testify to tho efficiency of this method of warfare At Tibcran wo aro informed by two natives, whom we capture, that Lukebann and his insurgent crowd havo loft there two days previous, going down on tho other sido of the river, and as wo rest a detachment proceeds forward to his old-time place of residence, tboro to find nothing but smoking ruins to gaze upon, tho rebel crowd having disap Short Nows Paragraphs. Andorson is figuring on paving tho stroots with Roldan blocks. Tho unveiling of tho ITonry Ti unod monument will bo bold in Charleston on May 1st. No young man over climbed tho ladder of succoss with a whiskey llask in his pocket. To-morrow is tho timo when tho fool is going to bo wise and tho lazy man in dustrious. Tho cotton palaco of tho Charleston Ex posit ion is to bo ono of tho finest of tho buildings. Tboro is over a battlo going on hotwecn tho idlo man and timo, tho object being to kill each other. Help from without is often enfeebling in its offects, but help from within in variably invigorates. Tho latest reports from Manila aro to tho effect that Uonoial Voracity has not yot assumed command.-Tho Commoner. Tho Stato colored collogo at Orange burg has boon ro-oponod after a suspen sion on account of smallpox. Tboro aro 500 students. Tho pooplo of Anderson aro much encouraged in tho hope and belief that tho city will soon bo provided with a union depot. "I should think McKinley would in suro his lifo." "Ho can't." "Why ?" "No ono can make out bis policy."-Tito Harvard Lr.?.poon. (Jen. Nelson A. Milos bas at last bad greatness thrust upon bim by hoing nominated a Lieutenant General by | Prosidont MoKinloy. Robbers broko opon a safo in Duke's Store, in Branchville Inst Friday night and secured about $100 in cash and damaged tho safo $150. Tho population of Maoon county, N. C., by tho cousus of 1000 is 12,104. In I Hi?) it was 10,102, and tho increase is 2,002 for tho intervening tot) years. Androw Carnegie announces that wal is foolish. Wo might go oven furthor and say that in many cases it is actually dangerous.-Tho Chicago Timos Herald. It is said that Mrs. Carrie Nation was born in Kentucky. Wc don't beliovo it, No nativo of tho Bourbon .Stato would wasto good liquor like tho Kansas wo man docs. The ground hog was out on last Satur day, but ho saw his shadow and went back into his bolo with tho blizzard close behind him. Out wost tho trains wore blocked with snow. Not so bad here, but cool enough. Darlington, S. C., bad a sevoro all night fight Inst Saturday night to savo tho town from n general conflagration. Ton stores and a hotol were burned, inflicting a loss of $2r>,000 or over, all of which was fairly covorod by insurance. Tho Ono Hund? cd Yonr Club of Now York thinks it has discovorcd the oldest man and woman in tho world. Tho man is Izal Itodofsty, of Moscow, Russia, agod 180, and the woman is Mrs. Nancy Holiiflold, of Hattie Crook, Michigan, aged 117. Postmaster Honorai Smith says that for an additional outlay of $14,000,000 rural freo delivery can bo extended i practically ovor tho wbolo country. This moans for such an ex pondit uro tho mails could bo taken every day to ovory door in tho land. This amount should bo forthcoming. aster Sergt, John F* Tatham, my M., 29th U. S, V, I, pearod. Two days we stop hore and then start on our return journey, going in a baokward direction over a known road in ono day what had required tin co days of travel to ac complish and Hud a trail. At Captain Bouki's headquarters four privates and a second lieutenant of our company under cover of dark ness proceedod down tho river, a dis tance of some fifty miles, for the purpose of scouring supplies and moans of transportation. Tho following day wo proceeded across tho mountain to Tagnau, whore tho column waa to await news from General Hare, IT. S. A. This morning wo met with our first casualty, one man dotaohod as guard on the boat which oarriod the oannon being shot and instantly killed by a volley from tho rebels concealed in tho brush alongside tho river. Twenty-four hours after roaching Tagnau and after anxiously waiting and watching wo wore rewarded by tho sight of a steamboat coming to our assistance, and despite the faot of our being half sick and starved, a shout went up which I am sure startled the nativos for miles around. Tho camp cooks hurriedly made a cup of- coffee, something wo had been without for seven or eight days, hurried orders to get on board wore priv?n and at dark wo wero on our way to tho home station, which point wo reached shortly after midnight, and at breakfast timo next morning wero treated to tho first half-way de cent meal in fourteen days. All in all there wore fourteen days of extreme hardships, but tho end in view was accomplished by our men alone, as there were to be three other commands to start for tho same place fit tho time wo did, but ono and all became discouraged and turned back before going any distance in tho interior, and such praise as will be given to this expedition will bo given to tlie men of tho 29th, and Company "M", is listed for the lion's share of the compliments. As a whole the expedition was a success, for despite the fact of our failure to capture the insurgent chief tain, we did put a quietus to some of his soldiers, having killed or captured upward of a hundred of his follow ers and proved our ability to track him to his don. One old soldier of the other side aptly describes the soldier men as follows : "Amorioano soldado cell same caballic, all same, piscowo." Moaning we can carry the load of a horse and swim rivers like a fish. Respectfully, JOHN P. TATHAM, Quartermaster Sergeant, Company "M", 29th Infantry. Tho Harris I .it Ilia Springs Hotol prop erty lins been sold again, and this timo it was bongilt by Messrs. Alexander and Johnson, of Augusta, Ga. These gontlo men will improve tho proporty and en deavor to incrcaso tho salo of water. Tho price paid was $100,000. An effort is hoing mado to build au enormous hotol on East Battery, Charles ton, to bo open by January 1, 1002, early in tho days of tho Exposition. Tho capital stock is to bo $225,000. Somo of tito richest men of tho city proposo to take stock heavily and to buy tho bonds. Mr. Dean introduced a bill in tho North Carolina Legislature to incorpo r?t o tho Blue Ridge and Atlantic Bail way Company, on tho 20th ultimo. Also on tho same day a bill to authorize Macon county to subscribo to tho capital stock of tim Blue Kidgo and Atlantic Railway Company. Three cotton mills aro now hoing built near Spartanburg. They aro tho ?Saxon, in tho suburbs of Spartanburg, John A. Law, president, capital $200,000: tho Woodruff mill, A. W. Smith, president, $226,000 capital J Inman mill, Joseph A. Chapman, president, $200,000 capital. This will givo tho county 27 mills with a capital of about $12,000,000. At Collinsville, Alabama, February 8, a bloody murder occurred. Wright Her ber and Wallace Hex, brotbors-in-law, wero lighting ovor somo mattors and Herber was beating Box. Nick Petty, an onlooker, interfered and told I La bor that ho ought not. td 'lo Hint lierber turned on Petty, shooting bim and killing him instantly. No arrests havo boon mado. Wo aro glad that tho Legislature has seen fit to doublo tho appropriation for tho old voterans. They aro fast passing away. Tho scythe of time is moro deadly than Yankee bullets and their ranks are rapidly thinning out. It is meet and proper that thoso who survive should be to sumo extent cared for by tho State in whose service thoy fought for four long years.-Kingstreo Record. Every column in a newspaper contains from ten to twenty-two thousand distinct pieces of meta), tho displacement of ono of willoh would cause a typographical orror, and yet some pcoplo think it Strange when they find an error in tho newspaper. When they seo a word with a wrong letter in it. or a misplaced ono thoy are sure they could have spelled tho word right, and they aro happy for a wliolo week and go around tolling how the printer or editor made a mistake --. - How's This ? Wo offer Ono Hundred Dollars Howard for any case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Curo. F. J. (/'heney vv Co., Props., Toledo, (). We, the undersigned, havo known F. J. Cheney for tho last. IA years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all busi ness transactions and financially ablo to carry out any obligations mado by thoir firm. West A Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Wabling, Kinnan A Marvin, Wliolo salo Druggists, Toledo, (). Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken inter nally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Prico, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimoni?is freo. Hall's Family Pills aro tho host.