Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"1o o to donoupce,to you as . you haveins lt my friend, M. 10 Lieutenant Foulon. Ho.demand zo satisfabtion," said Dr. Vicaire, particularly address ing Colonel Skerrott. "tou have kick his dog. You write apology, ver goot. You write no apology, you choose zo zo-h! vat you call' rme-ze." "'Woepons," said Mijor Marsh. iom ing to his assistance. Dr. Vicairo bowed. . "Apologizo for kicking his -..darned cur!" shouted theolonel. "What did it coni snapping and barklno- at my heels for? I would kick Mr. lfoolong himself if he dic that." "Ahl" r '. uthe doctor, "vor goot! Insult additionl;" and he blow his nose like _aflourish of.trun)pots. Colonel Skerrett was'as bravo a man as "ever stood ,in boots,,but besides his on, scientious objections to a duel, the cause of quarrel was so ludicrous that o only answered with a burst of lughter., "Ah!" said the Doctor, calmly, but reddening. "Insult tree." And lie took a prodigious pinch of snuff. The three friends looked at each other. Major Marsh took the word. "My frieni' gill allow me to act for him.. We hayc the choice of weapons?" "Yes."I - "Then* I 'choose the'm that nature provided. Fists?" "Feest!" said the doctor, pondering. "You mean zo-zo Major Marsh explained in panto mime. "Sir!" cried the fiery doctor, "you make zo game of me! I see you after my friend have ze satisisction." n! t-got So 'rd o safy 4 etu adtil In a ttkenod roomP It took a long time to make the doc tor- understand this proposition, but when he did he rejected it with con-. stantly increasing wrath. Captain Pickerisg suggested a rouo-h-and tumble in a pit-kick, scratchi, bite, claw, and gouge. Major Marsh thought an excellent way of settling the diffi culty would be for the tivo adversaries to go into shallow water and see which could draw the other. Finally, Colo nel Skorrett suggested that they should bring a keg of powder on the field;cast' lots; and whichever lost should sit up on the keg and-apply the cigar he had just boer} smoking to a hole in the keg. Dr. Vicafr? tof-e'his hair and rejected one and all. "Wy'.said the Major, "It ''pears to me that we haven't got the choice of weep~Ons at all.'' "O(f z(o weaponl, yes5! Iht this is no wopn Swords, dag'cer, p)oestol, gun-zey all weaponui. lifut zo gouge, ze feest, zot'chiy i!empll. or vat you call z.. ,0t1 cllup.s-eb. monsieur!'' and thio' 'w.rt.y Doc)itor slaipedi with rage. - ')octor."' safd the Major quietly, ni he lyn suygegtion1 of Colonel Sker - rott is one that has been acted on, in at least one case in one of the Southern States of Amorica. If your friend wants an out and out dooel, ho will ac Oept the ofler of a barrel of powdor un-. dor then? b Iditions. 'If ho don't ho is. only foolin' 'vlth the matter. People blaze away at each other bore for half an hour and shoot noti;ing but the pigs. When wa. dui a thinig in tho States wo du it. . 'MSirl" shiried Vicaire with eon con trated rage. "You coward, you pol troon, socirat! I pbst y'ou in zo cafe, zo hotel. I and msy friend wvhip you with me-ohl--ze wvhiip of za horse!" an ho rushed from the room, swinging his hat frantically in one hand and plucking at his hair.withs the other. Loft to themselves, the three friends laughed heartily. As for the dloctor's threat of personal chastisement, Major Marshr ali looked strgpg enough to horsowl. j ho National Guard if It Were oalled- out. For'thie posting in the cafos they cared exactly nothing. 'They chatted and smoked andI wero Lagin ningtO (qrgot the whole affair. But aid houif later the writer an nounced "M. Lieutenant F'ouilon!" M., Foulan advanced into the room, bowed courteously to the two, and ad -dressing Colonel Skrrt,aiinp fot E ngish:sad nl)r . "I[ have just sedn my friend Vicaire. 1'osphbt ho mihulnderstood . .From wh1tm, n told me, I understand that you made pr opNdsti ons which no gen tle inan would nmake. 'Theo-ofrdre 'ou are .no gontlemian. It remains to be seen if you are a coward as we'll. 1 am -rware that your last proposition is a mode of the duello praoticed in some - parts of your coun11try. O1 th t m - friend Vicairo was ignarants Alt oug~ the practice Is irregular, I waive that consideration, and personally accept yourpropsalof a keg of powder under hesecified conditions, You will oblige me 15y naming the time and place." ."Say to-morrow at 3 o'clock in the af't - T:.'. I reckon the little wood of Pied/o.~$n the road to Versailles, is a quiet enough plAi0o, I will supply the of powdor for' your use and you .upply he one fo l m ." * w~e ell; sir,% spid la~i2 bow be. " shli&bPe. . - o tormie to be igdlyadoted .M .o Ta y the olgat *hfoh osih.atliw* b9 loking to the eponi hle Ia the keg" "Precsel," answored .ho. Colopol. "I presume," sMd -the Li'outenant, with a sinister gwilo,- "that in any ebent the'sorvieo .of' a doctor or sur goon will be unnecessary:. "I adneure ofrthst," said-thoColonel, with a grin. Folulon left the room, and when he had <one CoQne. Skorrott said.. "I'll figid this hor.'dovil, but I'iin't gwine to do blowed 'to atoms, nor 1. ain't gwlde.tolttthat there fool blow him self to atoni$." The three friends took measurps-'accordingly. Tho next day, at the appointed time, the live men, all smoking vigorously, wore on the ground.. Each party htd brought its' powder-keg along. The Major and Dr. Vicaire tossed up. The MajQr. won. ' 'oulon turned ghastly pale, but walked firily to the keg which the Americans had brought and sat down on It. It Was a4. qrinary c cer kog, And MaajotM "M44knocked ou tthe "bng. All-thdn ird: to a Fafe dis tance except thekColonol, who lemained standing by Foulon's sido. The latter, down whose livid-faao the sweat was rolling, took his cigar from his m9uth and advanced it, still glowing, to the open bung-holo.. "Hold on there," said the Colonel, "that ere cigar is lit." "Certainly it is," gasped Foulon, his lips quivering in spite of himself. "Well," said the Colonel with a grin, "you be'nt such a darned- fool as to.put a.lighted cigar into a keo of powder, be you? hECn was you born?' "Sir," replied the lioutonant, vainly endeavoring to hold the cigar motion less in his shaking and. "I have given my word that if I - lost the toss-up I should put this lit cigar " "Hold on;- you didn't say lit." "Well, tlio cigar I was smoking." "Put it out.then." "Sir, you have run the risk that I ran. I have lost,*and I but do as you would have done. I will put this lighted cigar into this bung-hole--" "Put in'the chawed-up end, then." "You insult me again, sir!" "Bless your hiort! You fire pp a darned sight "esier than this ere pow der over will' Do' you think that I would put the burning end of a cigar into thO bung-hole of a keg full of pow der? Great Jerusalem?" "I have told'you again; and I repeat it, that you are no gentleman. But I I am a man of honor. Bah! You shall seo me die as one; I keep my prom ise. Foulon slowly advanced the burning cigar toward the opening in the keg beneath. "Go away hei-o, you shall be kill!" shouteji Vicairo to the Colo:'el; but the latter remained quietly boside ' vic tim. - Vicaire covered his -face with his hantia,' and waited for- the awiul mo ment-wiich' was to blow his friend to atoms. There was a (lead silence, and then a slight hiss was board. Vic'iire looked up. Fouloit; his faco purple with rage, was holding his cigar, after repeatedly poking it into the bung-holo. The Colonel "ias one broad grin. "Is this powderP" asked Foulon. "Tooth powder," answered the Co lonel; "cost almighty." "But," said Foulon, shaking with rage instead of fear, "if you had lost the toss-up our keg was full of gun powder. What then?" "I'd have put the ciar out before I put it in," said the Colonel. "Ah!" murmured "oulon. "Or stuck in the chewed-up end. fold on to the terms you know.' Foulon calmly walked to his carriage. He and Vicaire hoisted in their ke( of gunpowder and follgwcd it themseYvcs. ''Sir!'' shouted Foulon to the Colo nel, "I said you were no gentleman. I say now you are a cowardi." Thle Colonel smiled. For three days the friends walked about Pdris and sawv both Foulon and Vicairo several times. Trhey wero not postedi in the cafes, for the Prouchmn feared the .storm of ridicule which a knowledge of the grotosque ducl would bring upon them. Neither were they horsewhi pped, for Vicaire argued. that they wonuld probably retaliate, and in such a ease the whipping would be on ly a modified form of the duel a la clup rempli. On the-fourth day after this "duel" the three friends happened to be on one of the large and beautiful steamboats carrying excursions down tho Seine. Colonel Skerrett, like a consistent Yan kee, was in tihe p)ilot house, - watching the working of the wheel, lie came down afterwvard andi saunterod back to where his two friends wvere standtin g. Near thenm were no less' individuals than Foulon ahd V'icaire. Neither par ty addressed the other. Th'le boat was in the middle of the river. For a long dlistance on either side the banks were straight, and the tidle was flowing di rectly down the middle channel. Sud denly arose a cry of lire. A wild stamn pede of passengers in the bow of the boat was made-toward the stern, and Foulon, who was standing near an opening in the railing was thrown from his balance. As lie wvas falling dver b)oard the (clonel stretched out, his long arm, grasp.d him by the collar and pmlied him In again. 'I.huo French man s hat had fallon off. The Colonel picked it up, anti with a friendly smile hiandlod it to his late adversary. ~lFou lon colored up and saidi eagerly: Colonel Skorrott, I beg your pardon. You are a gentleman.'' in the meantime the panic inereasedi. All the bow of tihe boat wvas in a bright blaze, and the lire reached the pilot house. 'The pilot rushedi otit with singed bcard andt eyebrows, and the b)oat slowly driftetd down the stream. Thle colonel caumght holtd of thie pilot anti draggecd hiim to Foutlonm. "Sr, said lie, "a.sk this here fellow which baink is the safest to land on, and tell nyu." "lie says the righit one," answvered .ioulon- "liut the boat can not bo managetd. Tfh whool musnt be on fire." Without a w'ord of reply the Colonel plowed his way ~loughi the shrieking crowd, leaped up the steps of the pilot houte and seizett the whool. There lie stood, the flame. roaring about him, thme crowd shrieking beneath him, steadily steering toward the right bank. Foui Ion ahtfddered at the axibilloti of sim ple, superhuman courage. .The bank was reached. The6 orowd, solfish and qazed with fear, rushod to lad. Ti M4or%id, the Oapin. gMrggled up the burning stops of the pilot-house, followed by. Fouloq,and Vivaire. They dragged the Colonel out.through the flames, bore him to the bank, and ap plied restoratives.. He was less injured than might have been supposed, and at length opened his eyes. "Oh, Colonel Skerrett!" cried Fou lon, with tears in his eyes, "your par don, your pardon! You are a brave mtn and aMan'of honor.". "Thi, nel," said Csptain Picker n m like an otter. He could hafb* ~d the creek a hundred' times without stopping." "Fists," said Major Marsh, "are no weapons, perhaps. Well, pisto.ls ar6 The Colonel can knock the center of a live-cent piece spun in the air at fifty yards." "I will nev r fight a duel again," murmured aoulon. "And I never call one man zo cow rak not fight of zo duol," said; 'y 4 l be wopen. 4afoP" $s4 e .Colonel--Frede,tk W. Avory, e Inter Ocean. how to Induce Steep. Until;roently I hav< not been able to secure much sloop on the first night of a railway journey, and it may be aQ advantage to many travelere to know how tho.:.iiability was overcome. An excess of"blood in the brain prevents sleep. How to remove the surplus is the problem'for the unfortunates who wish to sleep but cannot. A. pump is needed for the purpose, and it may easily be provided as follows: .Having assumed the usual position of repose, inhale and exhale slowly and steadily long breaths, devoting the whole at tention to makin~g the inhalation and exhalation of exactly the samo-length. Tho length should be much greater than that of ordinary breathing, al though not sufficient to disturb the cir culation by working the lungs to their utmost capacity. Any person who has force of will enough to concentrate his whole attention on the maintenance of this style of breathing can compel sleep in very. unfavorable circum stances, and victims of insomnia should knew it. The value of the method is not solely in its holding the mind to one object of thought, but the process of breath ing here described is really equivalent to the insertion of a pump to draw off its excess of blood. To convince your self that this is so, fill your lungs with all the air that they will hold, and then expel it, repeating the operation three or four times as rapidly as possible, the result will be a feeling of faintness, unless you are other than an ordinary mortal, and its cause will be a defi ciency of blood in the brain, produced by the pumping process. Such vi olent breathing will not induce sleep, however, as there is a reaction which sends tho,lifc current r'i..hiug back to the seat ot' thu mindj. a.eee. that thb reason why fear,surprise or any other sudden emotion, often causes faintness is because it rapidly drives the blood from the brain, and the fact is significant for those who wish to un dorstatnd how to induce sloop, whether on the railway train or in their beds at home, by pumifping the excess of blood from their brains by at peculiar method of breathing.-Xew York Mail and Ex press. An Old-'I me School-Mnster. A hundred and lifty yerr.s ago. among the German settlers of Pennsylvania, there was a remarkable old school master, whose name was Christopher Dock. For three days ho taught school at a little place called Skippack. and t.hen for the thurec next days he taught at Salford. Whenever one of his younuger schol ars sucee in learniing his A B C, the good Chri.stophuer D)ock required tho father of his pupil to give his son a penny, and also ask ed his miot her to cook two eggs for him as a treat in hoiior of his dliligenice. T1o poor chii dren in a now country these were line rewards. At various other p)oints in his progress, an indhfstrious child in one of Dock's schools receivedl a penny froni his father and two eggs cooked by his mother. All this time lie was not counted a member of the school, but only as on p)robation. The (lay on which a boy or girl began to rend was the great dlay. If the pupil had b--en diligent in spelling, the master, on the morning after the first reading (lay, would give a ticket carefully written or illuminated with his own hand. Th'lis read: "Industrious-one penny.'' This showed that the scholar was iiow really received into the school. Thiere were no clocks or wvatchios; the chiildron came to school one after another, taking their places near the master, who sat writing. 'They spent their time readling out of the TLesta mont until all were there. But every one who succeeded in reading his verse without mistake stopped reading, and came and sat at the writing-table to write. 'The poor fellow who remained last on the bench wvas called a lazy sch'olar. The funniest of Dock's rewards Was that which lie gave to those who made no mistake in their lessoiis. lie marked a largo O with chalk on the hand 'of the perfect scholar. Fancy what a time the boys andi girls must have hiad trying to go hionm withouit rubbing out this O!-Edward Eggleston, in St. Nicholas for July. The superst.ition which associates the (log's howl with thle approach of death is p)robably derived from the Aryan mythology, which represents a dog as summnoning the departing soul. Throughout allI Aryan miythiology the souls of tihe diad are supposed to ride ou the night wvind( with their howling dogs, gathering into their throng the souls of those just dying as they pass by their hioijss. I know an old fellow out West who hadl mortgages oii a whole town-a small towvn - who made it a condi tion oif his loan that the bulildinigs shiouldi be pafinited redi. That was a funny-lookinr' village. There wero about thirty iSousos a~nd stores and a large factory and a bridge.--all red. Tliko peoll in neighboring towns made lots of fun over it and the place was finally known as Redtown LITERARY LIi1FL. Donditlons of Literary Life In Bngland and Amerle. The conditions of the literary life In &morlca'are less determined than they are in England. The only organization within which authorship may be said to find substantial shelter'is journalism, and this profession is so exacting and so inimical to most forms of literature, that those who have most serious thoughts of the literary life are rather losirous of escaping from journalism than of using it as a vantage-ground. it might seem at first blush as if the universities and collegos would offer a desirable fastness from which to send out ventures in literature; but the academic life is a somewhat sterile one; it is with us so identified with the poda gogic that the energies of thg profes sor, if they move the production of books, are most likely td be occupied. with the tools of the profession. 'lext books in abundance isuo every year from college faculties, but very few contributions to humane literature. The academic life again Is so special. ized that even the professor of English literature rarely produces work upon whieh his successor or associate may comment. His attitude toward the subject of his teaching is too ciitical to allow him much freedom of mind, and he is besides so conscious of his posi tion that he is undermined in his reso lution, and rendered-abnormally sensi tive to the criticism of others as well as of himself. The constitution of the English uni versities, on the other hand, directly encourages and sustains the literary life. This is not to say that literaturo in its freest expression is not there, as here, outside the wails of the college, but that a man of literary taste and ambition may deliberately possess him self of academic situations which will make it possible for - him to lead a literary life, free from fret and carking care; and also that the prizes for scholarship offered by the universities distinctly suggest to"the student liter ary occupation. A man, in other words, with fortune enough to secure him a university education, may hope to win Fellowship which will demand only slight aca eimic duties, leaving him free to devote himself to literature; and a student devoted to learning who falls into such a place will, by the very force of his own nature, be urged into literary production. Thus the univer sity, by a provision which enlarges the scope of university life, is more than a training-school for immature minds; it is a society of scholars, and as such, directly encourages and sustains the literary life. The university, however, is not the only English organization which fosters literature and makes a vantage-ground for the man of letters. As it is demon strably more elicient in this respect than its American congener, so the1 cviit serrioo of i..g1and -laasiaua more convenient shelter for the littora teur than the same service in America. Our government, indeed, has not been slow to recognize authors, but It has boon chiefly in the way of rewards in diplomatic service for those who have already won a certain distinction. Now and then, notably in the case of the Now York Custom House, government offices have served as mean's to hard working literary men, but the general insecurity which has hitherto attached to this employment and the peril to one's self-respect in sucking appoint ments have hindered such mon from ^ounting upon this resource. One of the probable results of a service organ ized upon the merit system is the at traction to it of men capable of clerkly labor, but chiefly ambitious of literary famiio. T1he freedom from concern which enables onc to lay aside his busi wess mind, like an oilico coat, when the clock strikes three, and dIon the literary habit, is us pecially necessary to th,ecalms and 0heerful pursuit of literatuare. Such am state of things ex its in Lonmdoni to-dlay, andi miay be eon lliently pred ietd of Washington, New York, and other cities, in the near fu . D)onkey Goes Up Withs a Balloon. "if I were to tell you that I saw an mmecnso balloon oiice go up on Chest aut street, with a live donkey hiangine below the car and a man Od the bacR >f the animal, you would probably think I wvas yarniuig it,'' said a bald Iseadedi friend to me yesterday. "Tell it to me for the p)resenlt generation," I replied. "It was nearly thirty years ago. Balloon ascensions were quiito common t,hon in Philadelphia. We had a number of local oronauts-tho Wisos, Puseys, Kings and Donaldsons -and every once in a while a foreign professor would arrive in town and make things lively. Where Frank Siddal now haes his oflice on Chestnut street, above Tenith, was located Park inson's famous gardens, and it was from there that the balloon ascended with a live donkey attachment. TIhio long-oared little fellow never kicked as the ba.lloon slowly ascenided. lie was strapped around the body very secure ly and as he arose the band played,l the.poop1)1e shouted and laughed, and the man on his back, who, I think, was one of the Puseys, took off his cap and waved it to the crowd a thousand feet below. .His donkeyship was evidently frightened almost to death. lie arched his hieadi and neck to one side anid look odt downward while lhe went heaven ward. Hie sailed away to West P?hiia dol phia somewhere and came down all right with his rider after reaching an altitude of 8,000 fcot."-Pladeliphia Times. Thle New York Times says that (Gon. Sheridan's little accident while out driving lately rocaills another narrow escapo he had dutrin g the later days of the War, when suddenly trip)ped upi one day he stumbled and fell beneath a stallion's feet in camp and was fiercely kicked, narrowly escaping death. The~ horse's hoof scraped his coat and rip ped the.cloth. It was a decidedly in formal rolling over the ground in a hurry that he saved his life, so his sol diers say, for the kick was viciously re peated1. T1here wasn't anything very h ero Ic in the Geiieral's retreat, but that other experience w ith hiorseticsh which Biuchianan Read~ has mung to such pur pose was scarcely of more consequence to Phillin hunmtlf German Cust,oum. A correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle, traveling in Germany, Nwrites: It was a warn, still, sumtuer Sun day-IL often seems as though nature was more peacefully disposed on that day than on others---when we sallied forth to scale the Appolinarisborg. This hill is crowned with a four-tow ore d Gothic church adorned with fres cocs. Some sort of religious feast day was being observed on iCe Appoliuaris berg. Pilgrims, who haunt the place and have done so since Appolinaris's hoid was buried hero, were ascending the road in their best attire, and bow ing and kieoling at the stations of the cross placed beside the way. Flags fluttered about the terrace that the church stands on, and crowds were entering the edifice. We stopped in, glanced at the fine frescoes, heard the organ, and would have attended a little of the service if a man had not crept up to us aid expressod a determination to have fees. We concluded then that the Rhino was better worthy of our atton tion. Fees everywhere. Oh, the curso of them! In churches, in galleries, in palaces, in mueums, in railroad sta tions, in restaurants-fees fees! fees! You pay themu to the army and the navy, the clergy reach for them, no bility and even royalty sends its lack eys after them; guides, porters, clerks, landlords, loungers, train hands, po Iicemen, drivers, custons ollicors confound the beggars! Peasants were gossiping about the terrace, looking so picturesque and so like ilgures out of the grand opera in their. Sunday dress that we half unconsciously ptt onr hands in our pockets to. pay for ths.t exhibition, too, but we vero not as sessed. On the contrary, they made way for us beside them on the wall that pro vented visitors from rolling down the steep hill into town, and then stared at our modern clothes as curiously we looked at their quaint, unhandsome costumes. There was a spring up there, too, and nobody on hand to col lect fees from the drinkers, so the Un daunted who thought It Appolinaris water, and who surmised that the bar keeper in attendance had stopped In to hear m.ss and was liable to emerge at any moment and charge him half a dollar, drank himself almost into an illness. There was a reason, nowovor, for this seeming abnormal thirst. In Europo the water is generally bad, and ice is to be had by none except the rich, so that beor and wine, being good, and cheap, are common drinks, as tea is with us; but for real thirst there is no such pallativo as water, and beer and wine seemed only to augment our drouthy condition. Whenever we found water that was not green with stagnation, yellow with drainage, or gray with mud, we im bibed It with the tremulous eagerness vJ yra There is good watnr in the D te hilis, ebo WoechI -mountains, thi English lake district, some of th< Khe- sh highlands and the Alps. We found it bad elsewhere, and no troubl< seems to be taken to purify the supply of the towns. Among the things that we tenderly dwelt upon when, far from home and friends, we talked of joys that awaited our return, were ice water and pie. Water is regarded by the European-not every European, eithdr as good for washing purposes, while as to pies, lie is as ignorant of that so ductive viand as he is of buckwheat cakes, sherry cobblers, or political lib erty. The tuso Of a Ti e. Well, it is undeniable that women are mighty deceptive. Thecy had an adventunress hi the Tombts. Shne had robbed a iman of his pocket-hook. 11er lawyer told her of his fearn that her rec ord as a professional thief wvould be produced in court, by the police, in which ease it would go hard with her, although the direct evidene against her in the p)resent ease was slight, the loser of the money having been so be fogged by intoxicatioii at the time of the robbery that he could r-emember nothing distinctly. Tfho thief took the hint. She sent away the fashiionablo clothes in wvhich she had been arrtested, and pult on the cheap) andi( p)lain cos tume of a working gir-l. She knew the habit of magistrates in Nowv York, he ginning with the once famous ,Justico Joe Dowling, of looking at the hiands of p)risoniers for marks of honest toil by whlich they might, profess to get a li v ing. So she obtained sonme fresh lceaves of tobacco, stained her Roft, white hands withI the juice, anid also imp!art ed to her clothes the aroma of theo weed!. '"This gentleman is mistaken," she whimnppored whien alrrined; "I amn an honest, hard-working girl.'" "Comoi uip hero!'" commanded ,Justico Dl'y severely. Showv me your hands." She oboyed, with a manner of being astonished by the p)roceding. Her yellowed hands were reluctantly ox tendied across the desk. TJhre scent of tobacco arow. "I work: uvery day rolling cigars," she *".rnted. '-Prisoner discharged!" wvas the dec ci sion.--N. Y., CJor. )Ju/filo Etxpres. The light of the sun is estimated to equal ini quantity 1,575,000,000, 000, 000,000,00,000,000) candlos, the light's intensity at the sun's sur-face beingv 180,000) that of candtle iiamio, 6,300 times that of metal in a liessemer Coin vorter, 141 times that of a calcium light, or 314 times that of an electric arc. '[he tonmper-aturo, according to Rosotti, is about 18,000 doegreos Fahr. The mechanical oquivalont of the solar radiation, continually acting, is noar-ly 10,000 horse-power per square foot of solar surf ace. As Sam ,Jordan, a color-ed man, was ex ploring around the foundation of the ol dSpanish lighthouse on Anatasia Island, near St. Augustine, Fla., a few days ago, he discovered, while digging away some rocks and earth, the skele toni of a main, app)arently well-p)resorr e(d, and standing in an upright posi tion', looking seawarrd. As this light house was erected by the Spaniards about 1730, and this maun's bones woro found sono twetenty or more feet below the &urfaecc, or directly under the foun dat ion, the question is, howv did it gel there and in this erect pnioemn VOODOOISM IN GEORGIA. A Witch Doctress Called In to a Dying Colored Man, Who Le. The ,whole population of Carlisle, Ga., is excited over the death of a ro s lectahlc colored mant named Iillyard Walker, aged forty-five. Walker had no family except a wife. Since last fall he has been confined to his house with pulmonary consumption. About a week ago his increasing illness great ly alarmed his relatives. After a con sultation it was decided that the physicians who had been attending him should be dismissed and a witch doctress called in to exercise her art. This wonan-Nan Cryder--has for some time past been an object of awe to the colored people of the town, whom she has convinced of her un natural powers. Their fears were augmentod by her fantastic dress and weird appearance. Her gowns were of gaudy colors and her face was paint ed. Walker's malady, at the time of the woman's arrival, had been aggra, vated by a violent hemorrhage which had utterly prostrated him. He was very weak and breathed with difficul ty. The first move of the sorceress was to close every aperture of the sick room by which air might enter. She then left, informing Mrs. Walker that she would procc(d to ascertain the real cause of the ailliction. She re turned, and, after expelling every one from the sick rnan's room, was left alone with him for about ten minntes, when she suddenly opened the door, called for Mrs. Walker, and then, with out stopping to say a word ran away as fast as possible. Mrs. Walker hur ried into the room to find her husband breathing his last. le died in less than five minutes. The witch scattered salt on the sick room and stuck pins in the door in some queer way. and passed a white string around them. Then she tore up the front steps of the house and put more pins under it and a stick with marks on it, and told Mrs. Walker that the first who came would be the one that bewitched her husband. The au., thorities will investigate the matter at once, and the Voodoo woman will probably be frrested for murder. The Old Mullein Mtalk. The mullein plant of the old field is too well-known for an introduction as to what it is, but aside from the fact that our old grandmothers used to m+hke a tea out of it for the cure of coughs and all other inflamed surfaces, very few of us at this day realize the fact that there is in this old plant a mucilaginous principle so very healing to the lungs, extracted as it Is in the manufacture of TAYLOR'S CHEnOKEE titibnoY oF SWEET GUM AND MULLEIN, -and combined with that stimulating expectorant principle in the Sweet Gum as taken from the tree growing along the swamps of the Southern tatcs, pInesiila in this simple remedy a pleasant and effective cure for Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, Con; sumption, all affections of the throat and lungs, and an undoubted pre ventive for that night fiend to children and horror to parents-Croup. Price 25 cents and $1.00 per bottle. * -J. C. Fitzgerald, of Greenville, is accumulating a cabinet of curiosities which is weli worth inspection and is now very valuable. The gem of his collection is an ancient book bound in parchment and printed in Latin, "Commentarius do Anima," by Philip Melancthon. It bears the date 1550, and is therefore three hundred and thirty years old. It came into Mr. Fitzgerald's hands fronm Enmland, and was obviously at some timne'In its his tory the property of one Thomas Roer~its, whose name is liberally dis tributed over it in ink. The b6ok Is remarkably well preserved and the type andI wood cuts are as clear as if they had come from the press last week. Mr. Fitzgerald has among his coins one of Constantine thme Ib'irst, about A. D). 300, and onme of Augustus Czesar, both copper. --Samuel L. McCreery, aged 48, a prosperous farmer, committed suicide at White Pond, Aikeni county, en the 31st ult. with a pistol. lie had gone to putrchase a bottle of castor oil for onc of his children ad stopped on his way back to get his old army p)istol which a neighbor had borrowed. With this wVeapon lhe killed himself, Hie had beenm a dyspeptic for a long time, and this must have induced the dleedI, as his home was a happy one. iIe rode wvithm Hamiptonm's Legion in the Confederate --Last wveek a dog tell init' a gentle man's well ini Spartanb)urg, and( eflorts were mnado to save the well. A rope was lowed with a nmoose at the 01nd, with the hope that it might catch arondn him. Butt he was a plucky little fellow and (ldin't want any fool ing around him, ie went for the rope ait once, ''seized tIhe bit," and clung to it like grim dleath till lhe was dirawnm to the top. That (log was never mlade to be drownued. -Th'lere is no longer any doubt that Abbeville will have a bank. More thanm the requisIte amount of money has beeni subscribed, including all thec subscriptions at Due WVest. Mr. Barn well has returned from Charleston, where lhe secured $10,000 in subscrip-, tionis, Mr. George WV. Williams alone taking $5,000. It is thought the band will be organized and in running ordler by December. -While thme Rev. J. F. Shultz, of Shrewsburg, Pa., was preaching a memorial sermon on General Grant a resident of Winter' , vn, J. H. P. 1/ul toll, rushed into the uniplt and knocks. ed the minister (10 vnm. There was much excitement anc several persons who went to the ussistanco of the preacher were badly hurt. -Little Billy Mahone is said to weigh only ninety pounds, and by a recent combination of circumstances beyond his control lhe has even less weight than that in Virginia p)oltics just now, especially in referenicO to ap polntments to Federal efmces. --The Governor has accepted the resignation of Mr. L. J. Wallker as a miember of the Railroad Commissionl. L .. THE iEW some of the Latest sout4 -The Augusta five miles of the tow -A chicken with is put forward as a ity. -The loss floin ton cyclone is ney r t 000. -The United 8tate ld wUt ting li Grenvillf, if igos siderable busine. -Mr. J. M. very ill, and but little talned of his recoveor" -Mr. Willie Gre g, 0% thrown from a stumbling is thought, fatally inJur. w ':! -The cotton receipts it 4" last year were 17,86 17,695 bales the year --Opportune rains'. county have gladdend - larmers and.itnprovet tp pects. -Pink Smith and his tiit arrested in Spartanbirg, ohei causing the death of thefr pio neglect. -The supply of tinners dfdltdIa ters in Charleston is not egual to' tb t demand. Good workmen eerstga fancy prices. -Miss Agnes Milligan of broke one arm last year by a last week she .broke the o r roller skating. -Captain Hury Saly town, Aik'3n county, owns ( months old that has Seeno for several-months. ; . -Chesterfield conty ja single prisoner awAi ting' tei Sheriff will have to inoe d, white gloves for the JfC1i -"Col. II. C. O'Neill,Ot1 bought a cottage on 1ttiy the day before $he storC after it was in ruins on the'O -The wooden waret .lu . the freight depot in ewbo'*, burnt Sunday. Loss on b 141I.. c contents about $1,O001 noi1~Ifo -Colonel Jouett P. Smithbi af tho McCormick tp&nganef tb has got an order for 6,000 tocns t" ore. The next shipmen$ goes l and.= -Captain Andrew Wilson gunsmith, died at his res14e n : Stump Creek, Oconee dounty 31st August, at the advanced, go 103 years. - -A remarkable revi1ftl going on in Shady Grove B&plt . church, Anderson county, d ninety converts have been seventeen days. + -The Anderson necllig4 t lengthened its columnw Af column to each page on 'account itS increased advertising patr6nage. now a 36-column paper. -The municipal election in 1 ville, which occurs next week, pro : .. , es to be hotly contested. Mr, A: Williams, eitor of the News, is no t ' ' nated for aldermiang honors. -Louis Varner, a flagman employed by the South Carolina Railwa Com. pany, fell from a train ner rleqtt( .t last Thursday, and receive' from which lie has since died. 74, -John and Sherman' Brd ma Benny Emory, three young r Greenyille county, have undpr cultivation five acres of tobacco. yield promises to be abundant.. -Mr. John W. Hamel, of Lanpat. has a Cochin China roosterfive n has to squat down in order togt" bill to the ground when .ple1k corn. -Mr. William Sullivan, of Lanos ter, while on his way to church *. days ago, saw an owl completejybl ~ bled by a small black g~ak- be~t~& around it in several no . - o patched both the owl and the snke. -About one month ago )Mrs4 C#1- " purnia Finch, out towards WJnitt Grove, Spartanburg countyp. Soon after that her tianghter Nora, dhiedl also. Sunday 'Miss Lizea '' another (laughter, died,' tMd shm 'WsO buii ed Monday. There is, another danghter quite sick. -. -Some of tihe farmers of -A are letting the fodder dry upon tO~ stalk, contendinmg that it is not 'ryd~~ the price paid for pulling It, a~tu ' the corn and lnd is much benenl letting it remain oni the stalk./ northwvest such a thing agulf; der is unknown.' '. . --That trestle at Saluda 't ceived that tYmo dirt hadi from und1(er some of the a Ifl. it was not risky to c'oss ~ it# better to clean out thq dk-. foundation and crect a, This work will begin atflo -Dr. Poole, of Crosa SQO? par= , tanburg county, says if ish 4~ raise large potatoes and a heajpOf them, go into your patoh.with' iMd~ pole and raise up the' vines and 0a~'. their takig root. If you have' tried tils plan give it a trisi tht~7 If you doubt It try a portion ,o6 p)atch and leave the othmers to g they lease. ngolv -ohn Price, a ngol upper part of York count, ing with an old musket, side of his head shot aw clan put th e p)arts togeth sive p)laster' and lad Jo tree, expecting his death ml0 Strange to say, about drk. b questced to be carried heIr~14 adhered and he is gettig W~, ~p.nnanent. * There are'medicines Wl temporary relief andt sufferer wvorse off t cily ini cases of dys ber that this is not Brown's Iron Bitters. J. M. Gaines, of Gai1~, about this prlin1ce of tohmQ has been greatly ben4 hadI been troubled witl years, and now Ibq6 nently cured." IW kidney complidfS.Y