Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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rp +. tc I " - DLYDVOTED TO rOLITIC14, MORAL1IY, EDUC1 TION AND TO TME GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNT;tY; 3y i F. ARADLEY & PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1883, VOL. X iIl. NO ' . 4IO D&AIlLIB B asoenger Department. and after pt. 16th, 1888 Pass a ger TraIn servlce on the A. & d. Air ]Division will be as follows: NORTHWARD. ai t"a al No. 51 No.58 Daily. Daily. lav Atlanta.......... 2 55pm 4 20am Ar Gainesville ...... 5 05 " 6 28 " " Lula.........A.. 5 84 " 6 50" " Rabun Gap Jn B.. 6 07 " 7 84" " Toccoa .......0.. 6 47-" 8 11 "Sneca.....D.. 8 20 " 9 24" " Greenville... E.. I1) 15 " 11 10 " Spartanburg. .F.. 11 34 " 12 25pm " Gastonia ... ...1 1 49am 2 30 " " Charlotte ....H..1 2 5' " 3 40 " SOUTHWARD. Express Mail. No. 50 No. 52 Daily. Daily. Lv( 'harlotte........I 30am 1 4 pm Ar Gastonia ........ 2 25 " 2 38" "Spartanburg-..... 4 31) " 4 30 r Greenville ....... 5 48 " 5 38 " "Seneca........... 7 47 " 7 15 " Tocoa ........... 9 17 " 8 43 " Rabun Gap Junct. 10 00 " 9 27 " Lula............. 10 33 " 10 05" Gainesville ...... 11 (13 " 10 39 " Atlanta..........I 3Opm 12 50pm Accommodation 7rain,-Air.Linc Belle. Going North. Leave At'anta.............5 00 pm Arrive Gainesville............7 08 pm Accommodation Train,--Ar-Line Belle. Going South. Leave Gainesville.............6 35 am Arrive A tlanta................8 40 am Sunday Schedle,--Air-Line Bollc. Going North. Leave Atlanta..............5 00 pm Arrive Gainesville............7 (8 pm Sunday Schedule,--Air-Line Belle. . Going South. Leave Gainesville. ...... 8 CO am Arrive Atlanta............10 30 am N o. 18-Local 'reight, Going Soutk. eltve Charlotte............. 6 10 am Arrive Gaffney's.............11 25 am ". Spartanburg.......... 1 30 pm " Greenville ........... 4 55 pm " Central.............. 8 05 pn .No. 17-Local Frehht, Going North. Leave Central............... 4 50 am Arrive Greenville............ 7 17 am " Spartanburg..........10 48 am " Gaffaey'.s............ 1 40 pm Charlotte ............ 7 30 pm All freight trains on this' road carry passengers. All passenger trains run through to Danville and Richmond without change, connecting at Danville with Va. Midland Railway, to all east ern cities, and at Atlanta with all lines diverging. No. 5) leaves P.ichmond at 12 50 pm, and 51 arrives there at 3 33 pm. 52 leaves Richmnnd 1 20 am. 53 arrives there 5 30 am. The local freidh ts stop at above Etation3 20 to 30 minutes. Pullman Slctrying Cars Without ('hange. On trains Nos. 50 and 51, New York & Montgomery, via Washington and Dan ville, Raleigh and Old Fort. On trains Nos. 52 and 53, Richmond egid Danville, and Washington and A u gusta, and Charhtte and Montgomnery. BllirThrough tickets on sale at Char lotte, Greenville, Senees, Spartanburg and Gainesville to all important points South, Southwest, North and East. A-with N E R R, to and from Athi ens. B-with N E R R, to and fr<.m Tal lulah Falls. C--with El Air-Line, to and from Elberton and Bowersvllle. 1)-with Blue Ridge R R, to and fa> Walhalla. &e. Fr--with C & G R R, ton d from Newberry, Alst<n and Columbia. F"-with A and S, and S U andl C R , to and from H[endersonville, Aiston, &e.* G--with Chester, Lenoir R R, to and from Chester, Yorkville ar.d Dallas. Hl-with N C Division c id C, C and A R RI, to and from Greensboro, Raleigh &e. I. Y. SAG E, Superintendent T. M. R. T \L'~ OTT Gen. Manager. M. SL AUG HTER, Gen. Patss. A gent, WATr lE EARNED.-im Smtn, wiia was released from tha~ Tennessee State prison the other day, is a master me chanie and toolmaker, who can earn $4 per day. He worked in the machine shop 2,836 days, and his good behavior eut two years and eleven months off his term of ten years for robbery on the highway. Deducting the cost of his support, ea'.imatedl at eighteen centsper day, lhe earned 610-746.94 net for the state. DRFEnuiNcE is the most delicate, th' most indirect, and the most elc'gantof al "nmplimentai CHARLESTO1N ) c -. o S PLAIN SLIDE VALVEI an, ,~ BOILR, SAW MILLS, GRIST GE A RTG, Steam a,nd Hand P OILS, FILES, and General Mill ILighta and other purposes req SAutomatic Engine in the mar] Repairs by Competent VM Write est Prices and mention this p Oolombia & 1roni\Ie B.B. dbLUMBIA, June 25th, 1883. For the Information of the Ivblie. NO. 53 UP I'AMsENUER. Leave Columbia (A) 11 47 am Alston 12 52 pm t Newberry 2 00 pm Ninety Six 3 26 pm Hodges 4 35 pin Belton 5 45 pm Arrive Greenville at 7 15 pm NO. 52 DOWN 'ASENOER. Leave Greenville at 10 50 am Belton 12 15 pm Hodges 1 33 pm Ninety Six 2 28 pm Newbery 4 19 pm Alston 5 25 pm ArrivA Columbia (F) 6 30 pm NO. 4 UP I'ASSEN(EI;. [-ave Newberry 4 48 pm Arrive Helena 4 50 pm NO. DOWN I'ASSENUER. Leave Hielena 12 35 pm Arrive Neivbery 12 40 pm Spartanburg, Union and Co lumbia Railroad. No, 53 UP PASSENUEIt. Leave Alston 12 55 pm Strother 1 34 pm Shelton 2 00 pm Santuc 2 36 pm Union 3 02 pm Spartanh'g S. U. & C depot (B)4 50 pm 3partanb'g R. & D. depot (E) 5 00 pm NO. 52 DOWN PASSENGIEt. Leave S. R. & D. depot (H) 1 00 pm S. U. & C. depot (G) 1 17 pm Union 2 48 pm Arrive Alston 5 20 pm LAURENS RAIILtOAD NO. 1. Leave Helena 4 27 pm Arrive Laurens C H 7 10 pm No. 2. Leave Laurens 9 50 am Arrive Newbery 12 45 pm No. 3. Leave Helena 4 50 pm Arrive Laurens 8 25 pm No. 4. Leave.Laurens 8 55 am Arrive Helena 12 32 pin ARIIE:vII,I BRANCI. Leave Hodges 4 45 pm Arrive Abbeville 5 45 pm Leave Abbeville 12 30 pm Arrive Hodges 1 30 pm BLUE RIDGE PAILROAD AND AN DERSON BRANCH. Leave Blelton 5 49 pm Anderson 6 24 pm Pendleton 7 03 pm Seneca (C) 8 00 pm Arrive Walhalla 8 28 pm DOWN PASSENG:ER. Leave Walhalla 9 30 am Seneca (D) 9 57 am Pendleton 10 47 am Anderson 11 34 am Arrive Belton i 12 13 pm Through coach for Hendersonville will be run from Columbia daily. CONNECTIONS. A-with S C Railroad from Charles ton; with Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad from Wilmington and all points North thereof ; with C C & A Railroad from Charlotte and points North thereof. B.-with Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad for points in Western North Carolina. C-with Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railway for Ajlanta and all points 'ou th and West. 1)-with Atlanta and Charlotte Air. Line Railway from Atlanta and beyon I. E-with Richmond & Danville R. IR. F-with South Carolina Railroad for Charleston; with Wilmington, Co-um bia and Augusta Railroad for Wilmine. ton and the North ; with Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad for Dharlotte and1 the North. G-with Asheville andl Spartanbuirg Llailroa-l from H[endersonvillo, H--with Atlanta and Charlotte Div. It & D Railroad from Charlotte and >eyond. standard Time used in Washing ton D). C3., which is fifteen minutes fast ,han Columbia. J. W. FRY, Superintendent. fI. SLAUIGHTEIi, Gen. P'ass. Agt. D). CARDWVEL L, A ss't Gen. Pass. Agt :oNT WORKS & L U-F NIE,MBN,Bf : .B OTNGN n RSN ePOTABE ORGS nd 50 OUTOF NGUfE8' A IE SU' uirTing steady, reliable and economical ret, orkmen. Charges moderate. GE.ar.IiLx A Ns WAS NOT A Strnoox. A day or two ago a man who was at he Central depot to take a train sud lenly cried out that some one had stolen tie valise, and he began such a hullaba oo that everybody had to be interested. "I sot that 'ere satchel right down har and stepped to the door," he ex >lained to Officer Button, "and when I eturned it was gone." "Well, you should have been careful. Ve are not responsible for such losses." "You ain't, oh? Whar's the Presi lent ?" "Out of the city, sir." "Whar's the Gineral Maragor ?" "He's sick abed." " Whar's the Superintendent ?" "Won't be here till four o'clock." "Wall, now, somebody's got to make rood that loss or about a dozen men vill go to the hospital for six months piece l" "What was the value ?" "Fifty dollars and not a cent less 1" "What were the contents ?" "i had twelve shirts, a now suit of s.othes, an overcoat, and lots of other hings." "Was it a carpet sack?" "She was." "One handle gone and thb look )roken ?" "Yes, one handle was gone, and I had h er tied with a string." "Is this it?" asked the officer, as he ook the baggage off a bench not six eet away. "Great snakes I that's her," chuckled he owner. In handing it to him the string broke. he bag flew open, and out rolled two >ld shirts, a pair of socks, and five or six paper collars--all there was in it. "Then these are the duds you wanted 050 for?' queried the officer. "No, sir I" was the indignant reply. "I should have taken the money for lose Af time and damage to my feelings. ('m no Shylock, sir "-Dctroit .re* Press. HiS EDUCATION WAS ifEOLECTED. The street lamps had just been lighted as they emerged from the ball ground, Clinging closely to his arm she said: "Darling, do you love me?" "Yes, Elnora, you ure my only com. fort and joy. The thoughts that are ever uppermost in my mind at home and in the office, are that some day you'll be my bride." "How kind of you, Rickey, to talk thus; would that it were in my power to speak the came way of you." "Then you do not love me, Elnora, and wherein have I offended ?" "Your education, Rick, has been sadly neglected." "In what respect, may I ask, Elie; did I not carry off high honors at the high school ?" "You did, indeed, my faithful chaper an, and can make out an insurance re ceipt as prettily and in as rapid a man aer as any clerk in town." "Thauk you for as much as that, Elle, but what other accomplishment must I edd to call you my own ?" "Learn to play base-ball, Rickey, and become a good catcher, then the town will ring with praises of you, and my mup of happiness will be full." "By jove, darling, I'll do it. These foft hands will learn to catch balls hot rrom the cannon's mouth, even if every ~aper finger becomes a thumb, and every ~humb and each palm is split in twain n the attempt. i'll raise a nine which hall electrify the town,' yea, the whole 3ountry." With tearful eyes she looked up into lis face and said: "Now, darling, you ire my only joy," and they chose a quiet 200k and sat down to rest. ~ALES ROOLS. '2OAT aad 'kORTAELE SHAFTING, PULLEYS, 00OG WER8, BELTING, PAONINiG, - r- OfP ENGINES, for Electric power. This is the simplest aIs & so-rr, Charleton- a. n. )itIVINU PILES FORt FOUNDATIONS. I Why and Where They Are Used-PIles Thai Cost $50 Apiece. A few sharp, asthmatic puffs of team, followed by a heavy thud as the Ai >lock of iron, a ton weight; falls on the ong spruce pile, driving it a foot into he solid earth! In this manner the oundations of many New York build ngs are laid-not exactly on a rock, but ?ractically as nearly so as if a solid itone wall was built tip from the gravel in )r the hardpan to nwhich the pile has I t enetrated, and at each succetsivo blow he pile-often sixty or seventy feet inf ength-sinks deeper, and when it has, it last touched the hard bottom, the ti eavy iron block rebourds with a ring, to is if it had struck an anvil. From that t 3oint there is no more driving, or the to ile would be splintered as easily as a cl to natch. In those portions of the city t where the original hollows in the land gc tave been filled to the surrounding " ,rade, a pile foundation is always driven. when the building is of any considerable r weight; or the filling is carted away and lie foundation wall started on the bed rock. In the lower portions of the city, which were once swamp bottoms, and " where the rock-stratum is far beneathl ,he surface, piles also must be used, and s hey are frequently driven through a oot or more of water. For a building s .ow going ip in Spruce street, a six itoried brick structure, the piles are iriven to a depth ranging from twenty- t Ive to forty feet; the longest of them f vould make very respectable telegraph o Doles. When the ma-sive abutment of he Brooklyn Bridge, opposite the a spruco street building, was constructed, t t was considered best to begin at the fc ravel bottom, and the foundation t tones were laid fifty feet below the li4 treet. Under the Spruce street struc ure 500 of these piles have been placed, of with a calculation that each pile will sus lain a weight of six tons. though the at upporting capacity of each is much ;rentcr. They are arranged in sections, t double row in each section, with m nathematical accuracy ; the surface is tli illed in with concrete, and a floor of ti ieavy planks, spiked on the piles, pre- th pares them to receive the -stone layers. h< Pho woodwork is so covered with earth Wi hat it is impervious to the air, al] it will last till long after the walls above cC lave crumbled. In another large ware- in liouse now going up in Greenwich fa street, near )eshrosses street, a yet fi ,reater number of piles were used, and re heir average length was fifty fcet. $F When the piles do not exceed fifty o leet in length, the cost is comparatively fa imall for such a foundation. An inferior 'ei grado of spruce is used, such as is not do leemed straight enough, or that is too tull of knots for ship-spars. Thi cost te is placed at about $10 a pile, exelusivo >f the stonework. There are many cc buildings in the city where the piles w have cost much more. In the founda- 'Tl tion of the Vanderbilt Elevator, the In large elevator in Jersey City and that re- to rent;y erected at the mouth of the Wee- to hawken Tunnel, none of the piles were tu ess than seventy feet long. They had be to be specially relected in Michigan if forests, and the first cost was $50 each. sa Under the Weehawken Elevator 15,000 M piles were driven, and many of them wi were over fifty feet long. sa "It is a curious thing," said Robert lit Brown, an old pile-driver, "how these go piles behave. We start them in with a wi i)lunt end, and if you should pull one of di them up you would find the point gharpened like a lead-pencil. And there th is no wear out, to thent when they get into the mud. I pulled one old snag out fo if the East River in 1863 that had been th Iriven in 1811, and, where the mud coy- gi r'red it, there were green leaves sticking et to it yet. They are solid, too, as any fc foundation. Whten I was doing some q woerk for the Government in the htarbor t few years ago, the engineer made a fic rnlculation on some piles I had dr-iven ribout for-ty feet, and lhe said they would ca sustain a wseight of 180 tonts each."~-N, 0 Y.~ 2h-bune. se en The Skeleton or a Giant. gi thr DISCOVEnY IN INDIANA OF THE BONES OF N A MAN OF oIGANTIO SIZE. P George Arnold, a farm hand in the a! employ of Franklin Boots, whto lives F i aibotut fifteen miles w(st of Shelbyvile, hi lInd., madle a discovery which has ex- ti' rited widespread interest in that cotunty. The object of this interest is the skeleton rf wvhat once was a man of gigantic pro- a portions, which was uncovered mi a is gravel pit on Mr. Boot's farm. Th'Ie skeleton was found in a sitting postuire facing lie east, anid about six feet be teath thte surface. Some of the bones were badly broken by a caving of thte bank, bttt the skull and some of the larger bontes were taken out intact, and from them may be easily realized the gi gantic statue of thte being to whom they Ce once gave supiport. A mneasuremnent of fa the skuill from front to rear, tha rule a passing from the eye-socket to the back cl of the head, shows it to have been about l) sixteen inches, while the breadth of the tI: inferior maxillary was eight and one-half gi inches, shtowing that the brain must have in4 weighed from four and one-half to five ei pounds. Carefutl measurement of the other bones establish the fact that the en man, when alive, was not less than nine A feet in height and large in prop)ortion. ha From the appearance of the teeth, whieh tei are very large aind do not show the slightest sign of decay, although they . are worn down almost to the bones of the oh jaw, the man could ntot have been less <h than 100 years old when hte died, and of course he may have been mutch older.T The bones of the lower jaw are very large ni rind thick, bhowina an exten tof nruu- . itilar development in that organ which N is far beyond any thinig of the presen t day. i s Flew long ago the body of this gliant was - nterred where it was unearthed, or to what tribe or nation Ito belonged whend te trod the eartht in all the majesty of his 'n itrength, it is imposse.ile to say, butt it nust have beeni ages ago, as all the indi ations show that thte soil where the re- sti nains were discovered had tnt been dis- to urbed for many generations. Steps have hi )CCii taken to havo ecasts made of the eol ones, and they will be placed either in he State eolletiort or son1e of our oo) J no mnaunon A DETECTING FORGERIES. SEXPERltT TE.g, 11()W FOt(E:ltM 0VEItIHEAl'1 TIIIE{E.V1Et. SIntecreNting It serview Iictiveen n. lie horoer nnd n Irei ctive la VN'hlicIh re' Intelcr Exisninn the lcnnn of Detetion. "Beyond cases in court an expert is t > dnubt often called in by business f Oin im instances of doubt about a signa- 1 re, I suppse ?" asked a reporter of t ettetive Ales of Boston. "Yea, many times. I was lately sent r by a bank cashier and informe'd that I y services were needed. I arrived at 1 e bank just as he was leaving. Ho 1 ok me into his office, however, and I ok from a drawer about forty different I ecks, which he handed to me and Id me to look them over while he was t >no, to see if there was anything the 1 atter with them. I at once settled I >wn to a study of them, and on pass. g them through my hands rapidly the 'at time picked out about fifteen about ich I had the least suspicion. Con ling myself to these, I found two with tnatures of the same person so exactly ike that I was convinced there was nething wrong." "Why should that circumstance be spicious ?" "Because a man never writes his name ico exactly alike. I felt sure that tese names were forged, and that the rgery was done by tracing over the iginal signature and then retracing eso two. I held them to the light, d on placing one over the other found at they coincided exactly, the size and rm of the letters, length of the signa res and everything common to them .ing exactly alike. I was certain then at they were forgeries and wero the es suspected. When the cashier re rued I handed him the two checks id said: "'Here are your two forged c"ccks.' "He looked at me in wonder and ad Itted that they were. It seems that e only cause he had for suspicion was at one of them overdrew the amount e party had in the hank and couldn't cashed. The first one was cashed thout sul1spiciol). "A very interesting case," Mr. Ames ntinued, ''occurred a few years ago, volving the amount received by a rmer for the sale of his farm. The rmer claimed that only $300 had been ieived, but the purchaser claimed that i ,000 more had been paid by him, and < looking at the bond kept by the r roer it was seen that the words I ghty-three hundred dollars' 'lid ap. r ar." "How could that happen ?" the repor, r inquired. "It seems that upon writing the re. i ipt for 'three hundred dollars' a spacc is left in front to put in the figures. to farmer neglected to do this, and, ssing it to the other, requested him add the figures. which he pretended do, and, after folding the bond, re rued it, and it was laid away withiout I ing opened. It was my duty to see the word 'eighty' was written at the t me time as the rest of the receipt. y examination convinced me that. it 1 is not. The pen presure was not the i me; it was also written above the base I e of the rest of the writing and the I neral indications were that it was itten by a different hand and at a ibrent time from the rest." "How did the case come off?" asked e reporter. "At the first tr:al there were eleven r guilty and one for acquittal, and on e second his coun.sel, waiving the. testionl of his making the writing, < timed that the indictment should b11 0 r fraud. He was consequently ac iitted of forgery in this wvay." "Where do you find the greatest dif- I ulty in detecting forgery ?" '"Probably the most diflhculty is in the so of a skillfully exected signatulre. ten these forgeries are made by p)er ns as skillful as the expert. In many ses it is well nigh imptossible for the i ast skillful expert to determine beyond l ave doubts as to the genuineness of e writing. Yet it is rare that ever a illful forger will not overlook some I >int or habit in the genuine. When a amber of pages are written you will ways find that as you read1 further antd rther yon1 find( the writer forgetting mself and allowing his ow'n peculiari--I a of penmanship to creep in as be be mesa absorbed more in the compositiorn d less in the hand writing. You will d( the first > art a elever Imitation. rn over to il e last page and you will 'tiee ai vast dlifference. His own per nality has creptt in and betrayed him." NAUTT!OAT ELOQURNCE. A speaker who attempts~ to use nauti. I mtetaph!ors should b)e thloroulghly miiliar wit.h the sea and tile working of shiip, or 1h0 will strand 1hi8 speech. A argyman was once supplying a pulpit the seasidle. T.hintkintg to impresr 0 truth more distincetly upon01 the cotn 'egation, many of whiom were seamen, d trew thle figure of a ship trying to ter a harbor against a head wind. Unfortunately for the success of his etaphor, lie knew little of seamanship. rter putting the shIip) into severtal stingu r positions, lie cried ont in a tone in ndled to be0 emphatic: "'What shall We dSo next ?" "The LJordi only knows," exclaimed at Htgusted old tar, 'unless y'Ou let hler ift slarn-foremost !" 'Thlat prtintce of sailor- p)reachlers, Father yhor, was once silenced by a compli exnt to htis eloquence, lHe had de rted1 the impenitenit sinner under the nire of a storm-tossed1 ship, with her Is split, and driven by the gale towardl rock-hound coast of Capoe Ann. "'Oh, ho(w," ho exclaimed in tones of sptair, "'shall this poor sin-tossed Siln r be saved ?" [ntstanitly an old salt in tile gallery, 10 had listened with opeIn motth and ttaiing eyes to the preacher, juimped y his feet, and in a voice that woutld vo sounde(ld abovo a hutrricaine shot. 'Let him putt his helm hard downa 1 bear away for S3quam l"--Ch'rlatiad f tunt-aee Why the Prairies are 'Treeleys. The salvation of the great new prairie inpiro of America depends in great neasure on the feasibility of cultivating orests to serve tit farmers as windbreaks. L'he potency of a grove of leafless trees n shielding one from the winter wind is iardly crediible. Its influence on the 1pen prairie reaches houses a mile (is ant. The laws of all the Northwestern states favor the planting of forest trees, md the subject employs not i little of he rattling rietorie of their nune rous orators. The expedieney of these laws ras never questioned untii recn'itily. A ew months sinco ai professor of 11;:rvard Jniversity, after ten years of study, pro oluced those laws useless and unscien ife. The learned professor announced hat trees will grow where they ought, to ;row and will no% grow where they might not to grow; that the great inland irairie lacks trees hecause it has not a argo enough rainfall to support them, mid that the laws encouraging arboricul nre will be futile. In traveling through Western Minnesota we explained this thcory with no little pride to our fellow traveler, a teamster. The teamster mnado no reply except to (uicken the pulse of his pipe. At length. having iad(( sute that he had smoked it to the bottom of its socket,. he drew the pipe from his mouth an:d pointed its handle toward a clmp of native trees that skirted e side of a large mud lake. "Do you notice," he asked, "on which side of the lake those trees stand ? The southeast. ? Well, that settles it.' There are, as lie afterward explained, hundreds of these lakes dotting the prairie land of Minnesota. Most of tVe lakes on the southeastern shores have clusters of fore,t trees. The reason of this is not" far to seek. There are twc winds there prevalent-the north western rnd southeastern. The southeast wind is the rain-brin er. The north west is cold and dry. The prairie fires ire spread by the north vest, never by lie southeast wind. When the prairie lires swept over the prairie they burned he young trees on all sides of the lake xcept the southeastern, which was sheltered by the water. There could be 1o more conclusive proof of the power )( the prairie fires to destroy the growth >f forests than in soil favorable to their produtiua "IIERE, TARES THE oUN.' Just before the battle of Mark's Mill, n Bradley county, Arkansaw, an inei lent occurred which has since been told t all re-unions to the amusement of all earers. Just before the battle opened, federal scout, while riding through the voods, discovered a confederate scout itting under a tree. The fcderal dis nounted and approached cautionsly rom behind. The confederate's gun vas leaning against the tree, and the ederal reached around and removed it, tepped forward and exclaimed: "Oh, yes, I've got you I" "That's a fact." "Come, get on your horse, and I'll Ake you in I" The two men mounted and started on brough the woods in a direction which lie federal supposed to be the Union ines, but which the confederate soon liseovored was his own conmand. They mad not got far when a slow fire of mus ,et ry caused the federal to ask: "You know who that is over there?" "Who is it ?" "Joe Shelby." "The deuce it is I" They went on a little further, the fed ral all the time keeping the confeder 4te's gun lying across the horse, in front. If him11, whlen the erash (of sall arms, mid tile boom, 15oom1 of cannont, caused he two men to stop. "Do you know who that is ?" asked lie federal. "Yes." "WVho is it-?" "Marnmaduiko." "'The deuce it is I'" They wvent on again, the federal growv ngmore and1( more nervous. Pretty 001n heavy firing, and the awful rebel 'eil told that the hattie wasq opened. "Do you know who that is up there ?" sked the federal. "Yes." "Who is it ?" "Maxey with his Ingins.' "'The thtunder- it is I Here, you take he gun,"' and by the time the exchange was made the men were in the confeder ito lines.-Arkansaw' TIravclcr. A Slight Mistake. Hie stopped into a canoe store in 125th treet, near Third avenue, Now York ity, and said to the proprietor: "'You are just the manm I've 1been look nug for, antd your bunsinless oulght to be ood." "'It is fair," rep)li(ed the proprietor. "'If you were near a cliurch your biusi ness would be rushing." ''What (10 youl me~an ?" asked the cant mterchanlt. '"Why, I lost n.ine inl a church last week a'ul I wanlt to get it back." "'Get what bac1k ?" ''My umibrella." "W~hat have I got to do witht lost um "'Every'thinig; don't your sign say so ? [-Ie is may addiress, send( it to me whenh y'ou find it..'' "'JUnt I doni't utnderstand1. I-"' "DJon't you. Well theni look here," mad tile man pinlted to a sign outisido. 'Umbrellas recovered." Explanations. UNAPPnIUiIATzV, "I fough t for your freedoua," said a eontlemani whom a negro po 1c'man was ondueting to ttheel>ciiu. "You needn't try ter fight fur yourn, ap)'n, far if yer does5 I'll hit yer" "' Ain't yon got n1o resplet for a man rho hielped1 to free you 2" "I ain't steadyin' 'bout dat, cap'n. f or had enmIff sense ter fight fur my reedlom yer aughiter halb ennff ter 'hmabe erscl'f airter I'se freed. D)oani lil ack dat way. I'll gin yer a1 liuk fint hing yer know lat.'llI ring so) 10ond.(dat des "'1 enlgineos will como1 (oit. Yer own Kodom scomis ter bIoddelr y(-r mtuch 10r(. den minn."'-rkanasaw Triaveler. A RATTLESNAKE.STORY: Tile FATAL ODOR WIHOl INTHROWE' - OUT BY IIATTLMESAKg. How the Presence af a Rattlesmake seai ' Cost Two Lives. It has always been said by old hunter and woodsmen that under certain oonfr. tions a rattlesnake exudes an odor which is not only unbearably offensive to the sense of smell, but that if a person should be sub'e,ted to its presence for any length of the in a'elose room the result would be fatal to him. This has generally been looked upon as one of the many superstitions that prevail among the residents of the backwoods, but a case is reported from the Pocono region, in Pennsylvania, which, if true, and it seems to be well substantiated, would indicate that the belief is founded on fact. The story is that two men from New Jersey- B. T. Altemus and Samuel S. Roy--while spending a few days in that vicinity, looking over some limber land with a view to purchasing a tract, concluded, for the novelty of the thing, to spend one night in the woods. It was one of the recent very cold nights. The intention of tho men was to sleep in the open air by a camp-fire, but the cold was so intense that they were driven to enter an old cabin on the head water.i of the Little B3ushkill creek, which is used by the hunters il fall and winter. They started a fire in the fire place, and, stretching themselves in front of it, went to sleep. Some time in the night Roy awoke. There was a feel ing of- great oppression on his chest and he was breathing with difficulty. There was a peculiarly sickening smell in the cabin. Altemus was breathing heavily and his breath cable nt long intervals. Roy had diliculty in awakening him, but fin ally arose him, and both struggled to their feet. The fire had ceased blazing, but the room was very hot, a bed of red hot coal remaining on the hearth. When the men arose to their feet they were seized with adizziness and sickness at the stomach. They succeeded in get ting to the door, which they had much diflicustlt"y in opening, but finally stag gered into the open air and fell to the ground. After a violent spell of vomit ing and half an hour in the open air the strange feeling passed off, but left them weak and nervous. They remained out doors until broad daylight. Upon en tering the cabin in the morning, what was their horror to see stretched on the hearth not ten feet from where they had been sleeping flive large rattlesnakes, which crawled away at the approach of the men and disappeared in chinks In the chimney and cracks and holes in the floor. The peculiar odor was still ap parent in the cabin, but the pure air that had entered at the open door had dissipated it to a great degree. The men associated their strange sickness in some way with the snakes, and at first thought they must have been1 bitten. They did not stay at the cabin to rout out aind kill the snakes, but lost no time in reaching the nearest settlement, where they werec enlightened as to the theory of the woodmon's rattlesnake skin p)oison. These snakes frequent do erted cabins ini the fall, and it is not an uniconmmoni thing to see them crawling from their hiding places even in winter after a fire has been built in the cabiu long enough to warm them up. Dirt Eaters of the Amazon. "You say thley are dirt eaters ?" "Yes, sir; and I mean it in its literal sense. You know the French traveler, Macroix, who explored the sources of the River Amazon, found a tribe of In dliansi so infernally lazy that, naving eaten up all the four-footed animals in their reach, including parroats and mon keys, sniakesa and creeping things, wero rednieedl to live solely on bugs andl in ace'ts. Th'ese Ottomacs as fully as bad They live upon mud-balls when the river is high andl fishing ceases. It is a sort of unctuous clay of a peculiar kind, which he Iinds upon01 banks of streams. It is soft to the touc~h, like pntty. In its naturllal state it is of a yellowish-gray color, but whenoi hardened before the tire it assumes a tinge of red, owing to the oxide of Iron that it contains." "'Is it nourishing ?"' "Not in the least, It merely fills up -produces a satiety ando satisfies thme pangs of hunger, I have been told by chemists anid medlical men who have ani-lyzed the little balls into which they roil it to store away that it contained nothing nourishing, simphly silex and alumina, with 3 or 4 perV ceiit.. of lime. IHe calls these halls poya, and stores them upl into little pyramids, just as cann on balla are pit ted in a fo.rt. Each ballI is three or four iniches ini diaj1acter. When hungry, lie takes a ball and soft ens a t lay wettinig, anld eats abiout a p)ound a day. There is somnethinag in the dirt eat in g habit whilh p)roduc(es a sort ot craving for it. I do not think that the hiabii; is conafbue exclusively to the Ot toaics, but be(lieve that i~t is generally known among the Iiidiaiis of the trop)ics. I have heard (of a poor class of whites livinag in North Carolina who, when pressed by hunger, eat the mud daub ings that hide the chinks in their cabins,." - ('incinnati Enquirecr. A New Use of the ElectrIc Motor. Thuad of experiments are no0W undelar way to develop the capabailities of electraicity as a miotive po(wer. Its latest app l ication is on a pleasnre launch oin thle River Thames, in Englanid. The baoaat is forty feet long ad of good hbeam. It is prope(lled b)y screw driven lby a Sic mn s motor and t he SeIIon- Volckmar accumnulators. There were twenty-one p)ersons on the boat, and abaout eight miles an hour wvas 1iaido. The Iepeso is about the same as thait of steam, and lhe weight oaf the muachiniery is about the same, but the advantage is in the very small space' takena up b)y the accumula torms. A twenty-foot electrical launch wmill allow as 15neh1 room for piassengers or freight a.s a thirty--foot steam launch. Tfhen it is the very perfection of a p)leasure bioat. There is no heat, smoke, ana, steam, no smell of oil, and no noise of iiy kind. This Thiames launch will rin for six hours, when the accumula toas must be charged1 afresh for a further journey.-Demrorcat's Monthldy. A MINIsTEni once asked a condeme crimiinal in a Paris jail, "What kind of a coanscience have you ?" "'It's as good as new," repled the prisoner, "for i b ve neyer q3o4 it,"