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Shre -k-e-srUebUt DI.VOED TO 'OLITIi:P MO 4Li1Y, EDUctION AN1 TQ T'3E ENER&L INI'ERENr O1 TIE (QUN rY. By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKENS, S. C , TIIURSI)AY, SEPTEMBER 13, 188. OL. XII. NO. 5 GENERAL NEWS. They are making flour out of poanuts in Virginia. The drouth is killing great numbers of cattle in some parts of Texas. Large beds of phosphate have boon discovorod in Dulpin and Pender coun ties, North Carolina. Tho porcelain works in Augusta Coun ty, Va., have commenced operations, and goods equal to any ever mado are turned out in large quantities. 'J.'horo aro now 48,019 post-(flicc' in United States. The number of post offices has increased forty per cent. H11ce 1876. There are eighty-four eigar factories in Key West and all hands couistantly employed. The drouth has about spoiled the cot ton crop of South Carolina. The up land crop is estimated at three-fourths, and the Seat Island at still less. A Northern company is negotisting for t11o purcleso of the Magruder mine in Georgia, which is very rich in copper, lead and silver. A little girl in North Carolina was stung by a hornet just under the eye, and (lied within twenty-1,urs. There are many parts of South Florida yNle1u the crops of guavas are greater than the peopl l can use. I3cing a perish ablo fruit, it can not he shipped. One firm in Gates county, N. C., owns thirty miles of narrow-gauge railway, connetrng five of its saw-mills. It is the largest lumber liusiness in the State. Since the death of Tom Thumb, (en. A be Sawyer, of Key Vest, Florida, claims to be the smallest dwarf in the world, being thirty-two inches high, ninetcen years of age and weigin,1g only thirty-.)evel poulnds. The Georgia match factory limildingc at Gainesville are about finished and C. Van Fleck, the principal owner, is in the Eastern cities and Canada shipping the machinery. North Carolina has two of the largest Vineyasds east of the Ihockty ioun11tuins. The grapes raisec't are coining into great demand even outside of the St:te. The Louisiana I inesteacl and Aid Association have taken in hand a project to purchase 109 cr 50t) acre s of land near New Orleans for establishing a home for some 800 old and infl iu net-rees in the State of Louisiana, W1ho are reported as being in great want.. The citizens of Roie, Ga., are indig nant at the advar.ce in the premium on cotton insurance ill that city and claim that withl Rome's unsuirpassed water works and well equipped and dauintle.s fire department the rate (lght not to be its high as two per cent. A report from Castleburg, Ala., says: "The timber 1 nt te tur"entinc busi ness have bo~(th been dull the greater part of 'Ns seasoni. The saw- mills have a coni %' vacationi. Tulrp)entine is fift y p)er cent. Iow er then'i last year." Honey is llntifuil in Smyvrna, Fl.. Olaf O)leson hams e'xtracited over* forty biarrels of choice honiey, andu was coin ]ielled to stop for wanit (if b(m1rels, and'1 is nowl~ galtheriung it ini Beat one-pound see Lions. 11. S. Eheideni comes niext, while his neighblor, D r. Go odwini, 1has bien busy hiildinig up his apiary for the com11 iiug sensai. IReports fromi the ('ot toin in the Nash ville district, includiung Miiddle Tennes.. seeC, a porition (if W<(st Tennlesse'e and1( North A labamina, show a larger aggregate yiel Ihan last yeair's eropl. )ispiatchecs to thle New Orleans TIimes 3)emocrat from all sections of the cot toni belt shoiw (e<msiderable falling off ill crop prospiects comparlied witIihiat year, ex.. ('(ept inl Tenneii(ssee( and somec portins oif Tlexas, caused by (lrculth, c'aterp)illars5 and boll worms.l) The1 dlecrease is estimated in som11' places at thityv-thyee an(l oe-e third pier (cent.) Manyv ieports fromi Texas also showv a filling ofl ini thle (outlook. The corn11 criop is also reportedl considera lbly damiaged by drouuth. A part oif Hell Hole Swamp, canltain 4ing 17,00) acres, has 1 (en bo(uighit b y Mr. Jo(s. Romnfry, who resides at High Pinit, - N. C., as the repiresentative oif a compilla ny oif Eniglish capitalists. The Coim mfissioniers of the South Carolina Sinking Fund aIre to receive for tihe tract $10,000, payabile in thiree aniiuucl installmoints. It will tako abouiit $100,000 to1 dr'ain the wa ter from this swamup, and its sale is re gar'ded as a good one for the $t ate. A stampede of 'Texiis cattle ('cueated a p~anie Monday ini the si oents of New Orn leans. Thle police for(e andl the eintire town turned (out to hieadl them off. Af ter two mBules, two hioises anud se'verl men werie biadly' g(ired the cattle we're soubduled. It is e'stimiated that thieae were not over tlwenity steers in the stam-. l)ede, yet they scattered over the city so qjuickly andii doubiled uip oni their trac(k so o (ftenl that onie wouild hamve tihoughit that there were iiundrede of the wild ereca tures at large. Washingtoni C. Kerr, State Geologist of North Carolina, says the whole Slite is notably adapited( to the culture oif rrapes4 and the manufacture of wine.' TIu proof oif this is, fist, that a considerab le nm.) her of the pest Americani grapes ornigiait.. c3d withini . territory, such as the (ii tawbha, Liincoln, Isabella, Scuipperniong, etc. ; second(, the testimony of the best observers and( growers of the Ohio Vid Iey, and oft the whlole coiunt.ry, andl( third and1( chiefly, the su1ccess of tihe few intelli gent e'xperimenlts that have bieen made. And this opinion isi confirmied by tIle conuside.rationis of climate, whieh are (10 monstrabhly kun >wn to contr'ol this ind1its try. In the remarks'h( on clima te it wia shiown that the l;arger portion (if thi State corresponids, in this important re speCCt, to Mid dle and Northern Itailt anid to Middleo and Southern Franeo. IVJIEN TllE SEI GI VES UI 11 IEII RIAD. t "is They tell its jillt a quie. voice - Of lierfect faith and lope anl trust, That on the lay when Ch.-ist shall nom li l'o bid His chosen ones rejo!ee, t To breathe new life in death's dark duct, s To givo new speceh where death sttick dumb Fromt out the sad r,ea's rstless bc Shall rise once more the hidden dead. They tell us this with upraised eyes, That gaze beyond the present's woe, And whisper of a heaven and God, Draw pictures of star laden skies, Where angels winder to and fro. * When those now 'neath the churchyard sod Will riso from out their dreary bed, Iho day the sea gives up her dead. Yet will they rise once moro the past, Or give me back the faith that died, Or breathe new breath inl love's d1eadl breast? What for the love that didl not last? t What for the davs, when side by side We wandered on, nor thought of rest, Will these arise and leave their bed The (lay the sea gives up her dead? Oh, nevermore ! dead joy is dead, l'he suiihino deal ne'er smiles again. 'is evening gathers on the shore, Ounr kiss was kissed, our words were said. Nanght lasts for o'er save sin and pain, Love dead is dead for evermore. ;ilent he lies in his cold bed. Though all life's bias give up their dead I CIlE BA'TLE OF AR)MlOB]E. i)EING A GIAPITIC AC0'OUNT OF A FIERCE DOMEsTIC wAR, t The sunshine never kissed a lovelier t lay nor blessed a fairer scene. All the 1 and, and the sky and the clouds were < -lad in the beauty of June. The lanes 1 cere fringed with emerald ; the round- i -yfd daisies peeped out 110111 the billowy elds of grass, and daintier wild flowers I ,f the woods nestled like gems in the d : elvet moss. Down in the meadows the aut tereups gleamed like buttons of gold. )ver the low hills the soft winds whi-- a ,ered to the leaves about other sum mers, and down through the shadowy woods the little brook laughed and sung ad babliued like a child playing by it self. Hero and there a e;)ttago nestled among the trees. The distant calls of ( rhildren Cam1e rippling across the fields. 'he long road wound away, Yellow and luiet.uutii it turned out of sight I'evond the little church with its snowy walls and slender spire. How qluie:. and peaceful all the world lay before the window of my prison that rlay in June I Far away the note of t meadow-lark came, and was heard no I more. Now and then the whistle of a t robin ; at times the twitter of a blue bird. It was such an afternoon as you would wish to eniure forever. White winged peace smiled in the sunshine, and sang with the zephyrs and the brook, and the far-away calls and searcely heard langhter of the chiidren i playing somewhero unseen. Its nusic in tie crown of the lays' beauty and as tranquility. TIIE BUGLE CALL. Clear, mellow, distant, four or live ' notes of a bugle ring out over th:' low s Iills, and colo elhoilig down the forest l aisles. How my heart leaped at the sound of the bugle call I IIow my blood t went surging through my veins like a 1 tide of lava I Out of my prison window I look with straining eyes. In the flut- s tering leaves I can see no glitter of bay- i onets. I listen, but down the road or across the meadow I can hear not the t rumbnile of a battery hurrying into posi-t tion, Hlow silent is all this ! And yet not ailent enough. I want tile wind to c hush, and the leavecs to keep still, and < the brook to stifle its hlabblle and laugh ter. I am listeuiing for a foot-fall, ther crackling of a twvig, the muflied tr:Inp) of a column of men stealing through the woods under leafy cover. I am l.istening i for the neigh of a horse, a clatter o1 rythmric hoof-beats, a ringing carbinle-I shot. Peerinig out of the window of my loniely cell, I am listeninig- ever since that first bugle-call camne winding over t lie hill I have been lis tening-for sterner music than1 the robin's noto and the woodI brook"s mIurmlur. "March 1'" There it is at last ? I can see nothing from this window. Thle voice come, like a far-away echo of the bugle-a boy ish voice, softened into music by the day anid the distance. I picture toI mysech the fair haired Lieutenant whoii com mands thli skirmiishecrs. All t hose ciany maRde men of t ho boys; the slcool1-bi lughlt biesidle the veteran, and ihe Adi pitanit (of 20 messed with the Colonel of It. Will the line never come ini my ,ighit? "'I alt !'" S)ilenlce algain, and once more the bni gle calls down the uniseeni line. Now 1 cain hear thle trampli of feet amid all thi terr ile hush of preparation. All i abu: me thle tid1O of battle will sweep, saill mnly where I cnn see it; and I -ienined al this prisonl like a caged rat, withi ring mtg bugle and clanking saber cal linig me au1f, shouting my name iln words that burn and ring and ring again--and I anm hero. THE I MARlCHING HOSTS. Away off' tho tap of a dirum, the flam, lhin, 1lam, cadencing the stop of the mrchm(lllg collun. Nearer it comes, and urnther away it sweeps, faints into quiet it hist. T1ramnp, tramp, t ramip. Mulflled, yet listiet, andic steppinig nearer with every 'oot-faill. '"here tboey come ?'" shouts ,omel4 01ne. I ho111ld my breath; I press miy hand1( to m~y hearit, andh wait for the 'lrst shot fr'oml tho skirmlishers. "RleadyI~ I". Thei c,lick of a musket so close it seems in the room wher'c I am11. Clods 1 .1 his tell for the sound of tho boyish voice again. It seems to me, in miy excited condicition, thlere is a childish treble to it. I wonder if "Fire r" Hlow the cheers, pealing up in waves of sonnd, dIrowned the crash I waalhisten! img for I Again the bnyisih voice calls, "'Fire !" and again thel shrill cheers fol lo.w. Th'ey htwsh as the buglc-nodtes cioe mahu Anrn the um i.a -r car the wheels as a battery is hnrying orward. I hear a drum beat. I hear he tramup of hurrying feet. Some one s calling for "the flag," Once I heard -so lose the tide of battle swept to my risou--a saber spring froi fts aenb ard with an angry sweep. And all this imo I could only see tho golden sun hine-only the fluttering levea iand the laying shadows lengthening into the 'aniug day; :ind floating in at my win ow came the mellow whistle of the obin. The cheers are fainter now, as the hadows grow longer. The robin's note ins ceased. Mellow, clear, and beauti ully imperious as ever, the bugle calls gain. A pall of silence falls upon the lImor and din of the battle. I try the loor of my prison. It yields to my ouch. Down a stairway, with a nois. ess tread, I hasten. I step through a lurtained door. I stand on the field vhere the waves of contention have hlundered and dashed. The level rays f the setting sun drift over tho helpless Igures stretched about me liko a bless ng upon the (lead. At my feet theoverturned cannon lies. ['here are its shattered wheels. Lying tcross the brazen muzzlo. "his back to he field and his feet to the foe," is tretched an artillery sergeant, still rasping the broken saber in his nerve ess hand. Here is a group of infantry oldiers; they will never stand upon their eet agnin. Here is a trooper; headless to lies under the horse that, with two egs torn away, has fallen upon him. THE DEAD. *A little drummer-boy--how came such 6 child here whiu-re the fierce maelstrom f war circled and eddied in fire and car 'age and fury ?-lies by his drum. I >end above him, and in face and form here is nothing human left. Red are he stains about it, and the broken little mand hangs stiff an(d rigid on the edge 1f the shattered 'rnm. It is terrible. Tere, ghastly an horrible, lies a head. lie blue cap with its searh-t and white iompon still resting jauntily over the srow; but nowhere can I see the sol lier's bcdy. Here is a salber bent and wisted in the fury of hand-to-hand con at. I walk among the headless trunks, rms and legs without bodies, erippled orses lie prone on their sides, or stand rearily, and with dupb patience, upon hree legs. I tread carefully over and round the broken, shattered bodies of he fallen men. IHere is the flag, tat ered and unfurled, just as it dropped :om the hands of the sergeant; here an paulet. glittering in crimson and gold: ere is the gilded belt of a General; here, tarred, bent and dented, lies the bugle hmse silver voice called into play this reck and carnage. And here, away T on the edge of the field, away where tst the spray of this angry sea of strife ould have reached, my foot. anlost falls u u child lying prostrate, halt turned n her face. ''he dainty feet peep out f a cloud of silk and lace; tlhe tangled air of gold. a skein of sunshine, half ides the brow and cheek. 'Fhere is no ign of life in the beautiful face. Killed y the terror and fear horn of the hattle ? hend to lift the little form, and tlearin pon which 1 thought the child wav.s ing is gone; a horrible gash reaches ron the temple to the base of the brain id the left eye is crushed in its socket. 'lie child-the dear, sweet little girl: omebody's darling, fair sacrifice to tho ideous Moloch of war, how could "Robbie! " I hear the voice of her lit o screne highness. "Robbie! come, ow, and pick up your tops, dear. on've left vourdolly and all your sold iers cattered about over the floor, so that apa can scarceiy walk across the room. Mnd somebody has stepped on poor lit Ie Bessie's head. I'm afrait sno'll have o go to the surgical institute." A patter of flying feet, and the blue yed commander (of thie troops, aged 6, omes char-ging init' the roomi. and, re olving himself into an amuhuili'e 'orpis, ollects the dead and wounded with both ands, scoops thiem into a 1big oox, ex mines the fracture in the woiunde'd olly's head for sawv-dust, and appears uirprised to find the skull lined with1 a (ole. ''Papal" he er-los ''did you hear 'e attle zis alppernloon ?"' ''Yes, IAlajor, I beard it.'' "W~e ighted awful,'' the Mlajor says, 'an' I fell down on my drum and bireked ny cannon, but gr-apa will get me Lnuzzer one.'"-Romnt d. lauirr. A Geuieral and IIia Men. General cr, piromnoted for his valor a thle afTaiir of the Sapun redoubt, but till commanding his zouaves, distini nmished himself in the battle of T-aktir. ni their crushing charge lhe advanced oo far, and would have been killed or aken prisoner if there had been any ally by the Russians. His mcen made desperate plunge into the enemy's unks1( andl brought him back in triumph. hie of their biuglers was then ordered >y General cer to sound the retreat. \ t tho moment when lie put his bugle oi his mouth a round shiot broke his -ight arn. With his left hand lhe quiek y picked up his instrument, which had 'al len, and sounded the retreat, "Well done, my bravo boy I" said leneral 01cr. "Ahi, General," replied the bugler, "is it niot lucky that it was not the vio in which I hana to play?" At the attack of the Sapun redoubt, when lie could not keep back b;e zouaves, lie had called out to thenm: "'My children, if you will not bec good, [ shall never again lecad you into action." He praised them after the battle of I'raktir for charging to bring him out of lie crowd of enemies. "My Geneal,'' answered one of them, "if you will L.ot be good we shall never Igain follow you into action." Heo laughed heartily at this retort to his threat on a previous occasion. Those terms existing betwee-n French comt imamnding officers and their men seemed st range to Brit ih oflicors, but their re 'ipetivo duties were inot the worse fl tilled on that account.- Te1mpIc Bar-. Hlow wIOKED the people are getting, to be sure. Parties are goimg around with English sparrows painted yelw, and selling themi for canar-y birds. 'They have a Io .v genuine canaries alongf (0 *ine, and tell the anarrows. TIHE TKOUILE WITH PORK. Are Trichtnw Killed by Fnttt-What I C1uthiitt by Ekpert, In the Mu1ntler. The prohibition of the ituportation of American pork by the %ertnan Govern montt oh account of the alleged presence of the microscopic worm known a tri chintb, has awakened alarge degree of in terest among pork riisers am shippers in this cottntry. That triohintg are sotnthmes fotihd in pork (and in some othet' food flesh) is not to be doubted. That proper cooking of meats for food destroys them is unquestionable. That all authenticated cases of injury to health arising from the presence of this micro scopio tvorm were traced to the eating of uncooked, or half raw meat is a fact. But that the salting of meat destroyed the parasito is still a matter of doubt, or, at least, it is a subject of dispute. On this point United States Consul .John Wilson, stationed at Brussels, makes some statements, based on his own observations. He says: "I have myself been present when of ficially appointed miersocopists at some of the abattoirs of this country have been engaged in examining Anerlean pork for trichiuo, and have been invited by these gentlemen to see for myself, through their microscopes, the peculiai cell and spiral coil of the animal; but on carefully examining them I have only observed, blended with the tissue an'l minuto salt crystals, the entombed ani nial, evidently as destitute of life as the structure in which it was embedded. "It is claimed by most trichinie ob servers that the process of generation and birth of this little animal invaria bly takes place in the stomach and in testinal canal, and that within a few days from its birth it has so matured as to penetrato the walls of the intestines and rapidly make its way through the various intervening structures to the re mote muscular tissue of the animal it in fects, there to be speedily encysted and endowed with a subsequent dormant ex istence of several years, during which time its reseuco occasions little or no inconveience. Of this theorv of the life and mevements <' this little worm I can only say that it involves an almost unparralleled excep reption to the law generally regarded as determining animal life, and ought not to be a;cepted but upon the most posi tive proof. The law governing parasit ic existence in living tissue usually in volves the speedy death of the parasite after the pabilum upon which it feeds has passed from under the domain of vital force; hence, unless this tiny worm ronstitutes an exception to this law, its life must be short after the organic strue ture upon which it feeds has ceased to live." Consul Wilson very pertinently adds that "if salt really kills trichinm, and of 't I have scarcely a doubt, it is evidently a great injustice on the part of foreign governments to lay an embargo on our pork produet, which of all others, in rder to secure it against decomposition n a long journey to foreign markets, is better salted than that of any other ,ountry. "-Acienific Am rican.. Barb-Wire for Fences. For many years the manufactme of blrb-wire for tfenees has been controlled by one firm. Favored 1 its wealth and materprise, it taiinc'd possession of m1or.' than one lundra'd difWlerent patents cover ing the making of this nrticle and has reap ed a handsome profit inl royalties by elling the privilege of using these patenits. Sone idea of the importance of this maanufactiure mny be gained from the fact that upwarl of twelve hundred mile: of wire arc made daily. In soene of thle Western States, where t imber is scarce, wire is almost whoilly used, and lhe laws even comphel a man to surround his land with such a fence, prescribinig the height and the number of strands. Uinluiekily for the conitiinuaniei of this moiiopoly, its conditions have 1beeni ab used, and thIiis has raised a strong feeliog against it amonig farmers whli usMe thle wire and manufactuirersi wh'o aire fo rced to pay thle royalty. These lat ter thave cominued their forces aind are (d? mandinig a reduoct ion of at least one-lnil in the royalty, and iare likelv to obtain it. Theire is, however, no reason to lie lieve that this will result ini any benefIit to) the farnwr, to whom the fencing hias bieen iso hl at hiighier prices t ium i were de inumided of thle foreign onisilume. A recenlt decision of thle Uiuted State.~ Circunit Court has st ruck a 1blow att thi h moopoly, and iuder it any one has th<( right to nunmfiiactuire the wire and alsi the machinery used in mikiing it. miilla sprinig uil Prices must conio down anod then the firmer, too, will gain hhi poiint. After- hIs Idberty. TIhue milit ary c opany w-h i< h recently Nortliwr citie haMls a publdic attractioi in its armo,ry, says %T. Quad;o, ii a lettel fro ui ew Orleanihcus. Th'e men hav< gathered together maniiy interestiint rlies of warli, ince in g hattlhe tIage documien ts anid photioraphis, and oni enni fill ini a long Ionur wit hout xhuaust ing the museum. Doiri ;g t Ihe w.r, at while a large niumb'e: of Coifedlerat ofliceers werei coonline<d in ,Johi.son' island, a " reh"1 whiit1! cut a wcxde musket, got possessioi (of a blue ";ei coat, and 0ono nigh't when the guar c'ame aloiig he( fe~ili in1 an archied alon with the squiai, iiieindinig to raako b reaik whleni ebanie ioffered. T1hie oppor I oiiity did niot (come1, andl whein the coi poiril found lie had one ma:n too mai; Ihis susp1 iiou(Is wire arouisedl and th rick (I isco veredl. Thie b ogus muiis.e used 01pon1 that oci('ois one11 of t .i reliesM to lie fiumnd in the museum. A (Arersiu (CAusaa TI1Ouvarm. -F severa2l days th lie k Tslaiid water-worki hi:.v been pral iict icalhly uiseless. The i au thiii ties telegrap~hued to Ira H1o1lly, a heihvinta couic'iihl ani exm nail li I iial' a seial report to the Ciiy Coiui (it lb found0 tha2t the I umps1) wcr woirk in g with Ipo wer that21 should prochte 27,000,00)0 galon pe115 4r day, but t hit thI .:Ions5. Taingi the 1inunp) apart hi huiid mi th, mi a citIish 3 teet 9 inlch( remoirving the i hii, whiilh lyd to 1e dli 1i sctionis. thei t2umps' wVorked( all right Itemarkable Volcante Freaks. ana Pouring fYom thce Volcano o'Ouanrtep4 -Villaies and Islands Esgulfit. The Star and Hcrald of Panama give4 the following description of some recent remarkable seismio commotions: "The volcano of Onetego, in Lake Nicaragua, Is at present in eruption, much to the alarm of the residents on the Island, which Is formed by the mottutain. On May 1, at 10 a. in., a frightful subterranean rumbling was heard, which lasted between two and three minutes, but no outbreak was visible. On the following (lay a number of people climbed to the summit of the volcano, and found that the crater had increaned in size, and was about thirty five yards in length and three in width, but its depth could not be calculated. Around it were strown large quantities of stones and rocks covered with slate colored mud. Masses of the same ma. terials had poutred down in a sourth westerly direction, forming a bed 300 or 400 yards in length, and ashes were scattered in all directions. Two days afterward a series of terrifying eruptions, accompanied by prolonged rumblings, occurred. At about 2} p. m. on May 4, the earth and rock in the vicinity of the crater were seen to break, lava flowed forth, and from it there burst upward a thick column of lead-colored smoke of awe-inspiring magnitude, which sent the terrified villagers flying to the churches in the belief that the whole island was about to be destroyed. For tunately, however, no damage was done, as the lava flowed in a direction where there are no inhabitants and the ground is not cultivated. "The valley of the Atrato, situated in the 8tato of Cauca, in this .-epublic, con tinues to be a centre of that volcanic ac tivity which was first evinced there in September of last year. On several oc casions we have called attention to the disappearance of islands in that vicinity, and the recent sudden changes the top'o graphy of the country has undergone, but really no full and authentic deserip tions from private or public sources have as yet seen the light. That remarkable phenomena are being presented there, no one can doubt, from what is already kuo.-t and from information col.aine'l in a letter written to the President of the State of Cauca in the last week of April, which is now made public, and whiel: states that at Rio Suejo, about forty miles from the Atlantic, the earth cracked and opened ini many places, throwing out very fine sand in a heated state, while a subterranean noise was heard resembling that made by boiling water. At 'urho which is on the Gulf of Uraha, the earth opened and water flowed out, flooding the streets to a depth of tw< feet. Many houses were shaken down. The small villages of Bujies and Nicurio have been eompletely engulfed. The mouth of the river Leon, which emptied into the Atlantic, has completely closed up, and all over the district th' move ment of the earth is so continuous that the inhabitants are emigrating. "On May 21, at 7a. in., a slight earth quake was felt at Mompos, on the river Magdalena in the State of Bolivar, which was followed by a sharper one at 2 a. in., on the 22d, on which day shocks were also felt at San Salvador and Guayaquil." Picking up Broken Cables. The laying of telegraphic cables is now so common that the description of th. nmachinery for picking up a broken ono will be read with interest. It, consist; of a rope about an inch and a quarter in dimeter, made from the strongest hemp, with intcrwoven wires of fine steel. Thlle grapnel at the endl is merely a solid shaft of iron some two feet long, andl weighing about 100 poun11ds, and pro loniged into six blunt hooks, whicb much resembil e the partly closed fingers of the hiumani hand. In licking up theo cable ini deep water the Minia, after reaching lie waters near the break, lets out her rope and( grapnel, then takes a course at right angles to theo cable and at some~ distance from the fracture, so flhat thle b roIken crads may not slip through thle grapniel. The grapnel rope is attached to a dynamometer, which exaictly .meas iiri.s thle st rauin (n thle roi)e. and shows un ierinigly when the cable lhas b eein cauight. If the grapnel fouls a rock the at rain rises ve(ry suiddenlhy to a high 1 oint buiit the exact wveight. ef the cale bewing kn owvn, lie dyiinimometer signial by thle st edy rate of iincreasne its hol oin lie *;ible far 1below. A while ago one of thle linies of the Anglo-Ameie Conmany was caught w ihout t roule at a dep thI oif I we and a, quarter miles near the muidd le of the Atlanitie. Captain Trott, of the .\iniia, who has won great fame for his .,kill and inigeniuit y ini cable matters, but a, cently piete up1 il the French cal e 180(' rmiles ofif St P irri, aid ini four homrs romi the tune thle grapneil was let go - iod the enh!,e spliced andii ini workinig E!dit ion. Thle spluiciig is a worek of rient ih-liency an sk,1 hl, andl wihenii -iinplihed by irained iuwers the, Splic44u p art cani scircely he Id~'ist igiuishied from S Why lie had the VIctoria Cross, - Maebecan, one of thle ofTibers, foun d 1him isel f ini the b r(eh at Luckno f w, al mo4 st iilone( and( suirrouindeld by enemciiesI~. lIe kilied eleveni of them, ai (ine off lie re4ceivedh thle ictoria Cro ss at a p)ahade;( iad, asM th IGenerical piinnid thio er 1eli on his breiast, lie wound (upl i h)iis I bre addlress with:i * Anid ai good4( diay's work it was, sir," 'Tufts,"' said ouri y.'lbiot iund simplle frieiid, gnite forgetti- g thait lie was on hiis pierforniinec henmng spoke 1141of as a lav's work. "'Tufts, it dlidnal fak' me "H(iiowr Aniour FAcII "-On one occa *.a.eon Paul, while reviewing a regiment which (til not please lhin, gave the wordl of commaiid: ''Right about face I \farebh I To Siberia !"' And the wvholo regiment, officers and men, were obliged i4 set off by forced marches, for Biberia. It was on ly when they got half-way there that Count Rostopchine obtained their recall.-LoQndon 80cietu led Ks,e, fnd 1ise c'ecitir annnner in hIhlh lt' 1.66krl Aller in Kid' Iuster eats. A Texcn corrosponldent tells tha fol ciwing story of .% Wes'et-n deserado, nown fa ' (Old h ne," who had killed is score of men, and was known as a Icspler(o. The writer says : Sturgis t a gambler, and when lie first. came tero everybody was afraid of him, and to sorter rutn the settlement. Old leese was away then. lto carne back lere about two months ago. Tho day te returued he was passing along when te met a little boy Crying. Old Reeso s very fond of children, and they all Ike 1im. Ho picked the little follow up, iried his tears, and inlquired the cause of his Iroul lo. Between his sobs the boy told his story. He was the only son of ia poor widow womlanll who lives down by thio river, and does w::shing for the r.ambllers. Early in the spring Sam Sturgis emploVed hinm to attond to his horse promising to pay himn two dollars it week for his services. Glad to be able to Pelp his mother, the little fellow took charge of the gamnbler's calhlo, and roonmed anti fed him for sixteen weelks. Then Sturgis sold the anuimal, and the 'oy's servicee were no longer required. lie had just been in to ask Sturgis for us paly, and the gambler had not only lot pmid him, but had kicked him out of he easino. "He kicked you, did he ?" said Reese, Imd those llnuo eves of his snapped. "Yes. sir," faltered the boy. "A ud he won't pay you your money ?" "No, sir," whimpered the boy ; ''and notlher needs it." "i think he'll pay," answered Reese. 'You run right, home. now. and 1'll be ight down to see you presetily, and ,ring the money." Sturgis was pretty flush then and xsas riuining a big game. Old Reese vent down to seo him. Well. sir it's )Illy about a week ago that he rceovered 'r(ni that interview and was able to be h on t. Old Reese walked into the saloon, 'ailled for pen and paper, and made out ie fi,llowing hill "A)1 SS riat(i : To - THE WnoOw Wn rTi'; K11n, Dr. ro ben1"linsg pony 16 wees, at p per wek..........................32 00 rIo iing sai<l Khd win lit aslkcl for 1ik m 1i-(.. ...................... 50 00 l'o coast of collection ................. ..5 5 )0 $1.12 (10 Rtec'd payment. He walked up to the table where hturgis was dealing mottto and laid this b)il Iefore hum. "Sturgis," he sasid, "pay this little hill. aind I'll receipt it."' h'ie gambler gIlaneed at the paper, jmluped to 1is h-eti, j rked out his six shttottr, :md s;aid1: "I'll be hanged if T do!" "I think you will," said Rleese, and hie knocked the fellow down. Befsre he could regait his feet old Reese was upon hims. lie jerkel th six shooter out of Sturgis's hinsl, and heat himt over the head with it until be aried for mercy. "Will you p.ay the bill ?" askced Reese, ralising the six-shooter to hit htimt agatin. "Y( s." Amdilhe paid it. But Reese was not through with him yet. There was a Justice of the Peace In Laredo at the time, a recent institu tion. Old Reese knew that the gambler woutld have hit arrested for the assault, and compel himu to pay a fine. lie told t wo mn(si f Cole forwisld its wit nsesses and, its tlheir 1preseneo made Stlurgis swear that hto (leesse) had never strukel him. HIls TrIple Wilvess. A mnormaon elder who had been osn a nissisin int Eursope, was encountertoed oti iis wayv west ward wiith fhre'e niewly aIil mtieed wives, Hie r'eadilv in sitrouce them o a reorster. Enwhn' sie wias a Ibra;wny, gntoranst, hardl-htandsed widowv of fority ',r over, ansd her lot was to lbe ths.:t of l rudge isn thle well-balitaneds famsily whichs Ito elder costem'tsplatedi. She wacs to 'look after tihe domestic economy,'" as ts expressed it. Sarah wats a netithser Itnsomtse ntor yo uing w'omsan, buso ssme' eltemnt wass dlisceriblehsi, an hei tt said lust sIhe had bseten a scshosum tc'ami in W\ahu s. She wass for Ipraetl 1use, too, Isis lan Ibeisng to nitke list a goveness for Isis childsren. 'l'he thsird, Lottis', wvas a h!s oinisg Lansshssire lass sof t westy or so, quito prett y its hser cosarse way , sandc thle rportir 5's'id nost deem~5f it. mee (ssary'3 to ask thes slder s why hI hatd chiss't ose'e. 'T'hey were eosviden't ly itsns lv' w it s each sother, whicth was ntot srprisinsg in hsinm, thosusgh nmarvillsus isn Isir, costisdetittg thast het wais sixty~ iad utgly. SIte was tos Isi thle qsuesn of I th rersgantiz.-sl <t;tsh Ilismett. "W\Xill ther't' hse a tiriple wed's dIing W" wa inqu1sired. 'Yes,''" t' shitr rei- Iel; ''we caill the ceremonyi; 'a sitling andci it is pss'fosrmeds it seceut. 'Theres isfters I shll hsohl' a smort's approtiveds piost tiin lh< foti' the Churteb,i fors we uhhl t hat ipoly"gamys~ is nuit onisly a prsivi lege Ibut a lso s dluy', u bsich Ins s:sint. s'n bie sentirelsy 'escusd ftsiom fusIfillbsng. Tlher't' wa's some hsesitatton abosutt sendssing mue out as mis ssionarys', h es'ansso 1 hail tasken buit one w'ife, asnds I sdons 't. supose 5 I shoussld have t' euivs'd itth appoitttent if I hadi riot givenu tasssurance's oif may isntention to b,ring bac'k two or more wives." Saved By a "Mastone."P William Pyle, a book ageunt reaiding with Isis wife a'id t wo chihtiren at D)ela' wasrs, Ohio, was buitten by ai masd dog on Saturd'say last. HIe waus soon aufter taken with hydr'ophobia anti was kept unsder :stntrol only by the usne of strong opiautes. Snday he grew worse rapuidly, and it was fetared ho would dime. Monsday a madstone was applied. This pecu liar atsine wvas found in the pos5session of a stan namedl Lepp, whtose father brought it from Virgitum seventy yeasrs ago. 'i'he stone is of a head-color andss is sht aped like a houney comb. It gave the aftltieteud uman instant relief. The1 attenuinisg phy-V sicians, while placineg very litts cotnfi dlenen ini ths efli'cacy of thes msashtoneO, nsow declare that I here is stronig hope of the man's reoovery. BON DHOTLDERsE.-iM' .s. A',r. Stewa'itt is reputtetd to thse .sconds lstrge"it Un5ited States bonidhtolder, She las $30,000,000 inlvested. WIT AND WISDUM. W1En a man can make right ohf wrong he will be able to breed coltsfrom horse chestnuts. TT is the Mobile Register wbieh se ibly think. that if there was no nos. pnper notice of duels, duelling would come to an end. TuH "assisted" omigrant is one that fS sent to this country as a pauper, with passage paid. The "assisted" tramp is one that is urged out of your yard with a boot. THiEnE are only two classes of unmar ried women in society, "scrawny old maids" and young "chits of girls." You learn this by hearing each of these de icribe the other. A NE wJEsEY young man, who tackled Professor Sullivan in a friendly bout, xow w"irs the belt. He wears it just wer the left eye r.id feeds it on raw )cef. -- Exchange. IT takes a good deal of courage to writo out the announcement: "Gone lown into the country to sponge off my rather-in-law. I away all summer." Uicago Intrr Occan. TiE Keeper of the Lime-Kiln museum 'eports that ho has received from Mis. ouri the skull of a farner's hired man vho had never yelled at a yoke of oxen >r wanted to kill a mule. "WHAT is true bravery?" asks a New 1'ork paper. It is going to the door courself when you don't know whether he caller is a (lear friend, a book agent ir a roan with a bill.-Philadelphia V ce'. A "suowun of stonca" is reported from -'eil county, Md. If a young man was inging at midnight and accompanying iimself on an acordeon, a shower of tones was what might have been ex >ected. IT seems that the TcxaR St,iflings man vent to Tex:.s to die of consumption md lived to become a humorist. Yon an form your own estimate of whether tie climate is to be praised or not. Hoston Post. A Nuw ENor.AM) physician says that if every fauily would keep a box of mustard in the house one-half of the doctOrs woul1 starve. We suggest that .very family keep two bores in the house. -T he Judyc. "AiRE angels over sleepy ?" is a qu stion which an English psychological socty s trying to solve. We hardly know whther our angel is ever sleepy or not. We've never st ayed late enough to find tit. -Lowell C:'ilizcn. A cer,mnATE) circus manager .s on he hiunt for a now curiosity for his show. fle is seeking to fin(] a young married nan whose wife eali cook as well as his nother dlid. Twenty-six States have ien exp)lored thus far without success. 'IRIEN apples, green apples, the grass grows so Y111t the boys in the orchard can hardly be Reen;. %).. mother, oh, miother, your boy is in bed It the doctorx don' hurry, he'll surely be dend. AN n'stliet ic writer predicts that if we were to ieisit this country one hundred sears hence we should see men wearing kne"1-reeches and slashed doublets. 'hat settles it. We shall not come 'ack. The number of bow-legged men s inerensing too rapidly. -r is said that the minher of women tho reach one hlundred years and up 'ard is nearly double that of long-lived nen. Women don't invenit patent fire 'seap~es andil exhiblit thieir workinigs. And hey dLon't staiy (out s(o late 0' night, -tiher, inhaliing the miasma of tho ighit. Hn had been waltzing wvith his host's ugly, elderly (daughlter, andi( was ini a iorner repoirmg daagins. Here lie was 'spied by~ hiis would-be papa-in-law. '"She's thne thowver of my fiimily, sir," aid the.lat ter. ''So it seems," answered thle young man. ''Pity she comes oft oe, ain't it ?'' lie centinii. as lie essayed moothier vigorous ruhi at the wihito spots mhi his coat- sleeve. ''Do you want to see seime funu ?" said1 1 snu1111 bov to his fathter. ''Don't aare if I (10,'' ho replied. "'Well, let's ~o and listen to D)eacon Dumply tiack town his carpets." "'I don't t.hink therce'll bue ainythling funn.y ini that,' scornfulhly snorted th e piarent. "D]oin't, rh ? Youi seem t o' frget iat the deacon sIttters."' "Ah,' said the old man Then they went over to harken. Slavery in HolivIa.' [NDIANs9 OPENLY aOLD) TNTO SERvITUDE FoR IBRAzILIAN (ornD. A let ter from the Isthmu.i of Panama ways :- -( rent lawlessness prevails in the Benii, altlhough thiere is a prefect and( other authoriities ini the departmeut who are ippoinited by the Bolhiviain governiment, and the hIndians are openly captured and forced to wvork or sold into slavery ini othier districts. A coJrrespond(enIt wri tinig from teni says: "Th'le mainer in which thle Indians are disa ppeinig from the depart men t i. trnlyhfrtifin~ g. It is hieart-b nriking to hiear the aIiIcer)amts g,iveni by3 tiradersl and iravele'rs. 'Thle sentiidlouls sale and traf tie ini lhese unifortiiates continue ilnd will always conuttinue, and there is no hu.. mauni powert' to correct tis~ terrible ahne. Altln ih decires iindi etfforts of the anthor it is are powerless b efore Bralitani gold, which u c ne easily obtained in return for mn amid woimani who are stolen from their famlieis." Tlheise Inodians when not employed in the iiii nemdiae cnmity, a e sold off in droves to work omi thieplantiations in the heart of Brazil. It is ia fact that regular slavinig expeditions visit many of the uni expilored tributaries of the A.mazoii, and that cruelties as horrible as were over per petrated during the days oIf the African shave trd ar(1 e of comnmon.oecurrence ini the inlanid waters of the South American conutinenit. T1hie rubiber fields of the Beni, are ra pily hang destroyed, and it is antici pated that very shioirtly there will lie no more trees to chop down. Campero, the Bolivian President, hau p)uniisheCd Senor Iraiz.os. editor of Lm Patria, for having wvritten several arti oles on behalf of peace. The modo(1 of piuniishmrent was worthy of Melgarej. D)aza or the others who have sinignalizel themselves by their bruitality. Senor Iraizos was seized by the police, his ears were bored and lhe wvas thea dressed ii ai suit oif coarse cloth woven by the Indhianis for their use. WEsTERN PAPERs.--In an address read infore the Kansas Editorial Association the othier day Mr. F. 0. Adams, its hlistorical Secretary, said that State has mlone newspapers to the population than any State east of the Mississippi river, but not as many as some States west of thiat river. For, while Kansas faas a newspaper to every 8,000 persons, Ko. br.1aska has one to every '2,400; Cp50rado one to every 1,900; Dakota, one.t every t,800, adArzonaoWe toevery1O0,