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Narrow Gauge Roada. As the Southern Stntes become tuore populous they must build thousand* of miles cf railway. Ileiwre the question of gauge, cojupassing, us it docs, the saving or the losing of from a third In it half of the millions which must be invested in 4^^|c#trugture nttd equipment of Railroads is a ' question of supreme moment now. It is an m interesting subject, and it should be discussed calmly and with an corne t desire to nrrivc-at a proper decision. The people want light and they should have it. Evidence is certaiuly cumulative in favor of a narrow, or three feet gauge. A gentleman who is well known in both Augusta au l Atlanta, and who is now a director Of the Host and West road of Alabama, and its chief engineer, has recently spoken emphatically on the subject. He is no other than Capt Jno l'ostcll, of Atlanta, consulting, inspecting and practical engineer, and from whose pamphlet we quote: "There is a growing preference for the narrow gauge system all over thecounlry. The rapidity witli which these roads arc being constructed in . I.~ i T-:4 - i u...-- ?- * ? m?5 umicii oinica is aoaiciiiiiig marvelous.? .Eight thousand miles arc now un?lcr construction, and new enterprises are continually being projected end organized. ? 'Ihc narrow gauge has a great advantage over the standard gauge, in being much cheaper in poiut of construction. They can be operated with case 011 over eighty-throe feet grades and ten degree curves. These would be considered excessive in the standard gauge, nnd to lessen them increases very much the cost of gradation. The narrow gauge ischinpfcr in its innintainnnco. 1'his is obviously so, 11s the materials are lighter and therefore subject to less wear and tear. The replacement is less, and carry | ing loss dead weight, the wear on the superstructure is als 1 less. The ettrri/ini/ capacity is just about equal to that of the standard tjaugc. This may be easily accounted for by the (act that having less dead weight to carry, a proportionate increase may 'be uiadc in .freight. For example., a standard gauge car averages about four tons more in weight than a narrow gauge car. This, in a train of twenty cars, gives eight tons in favor of the narrow gauge. The greater Uurabilily is in favor of the narrow gauge. The trains being lighter, the rails arc subject to less wear, and there being less dead weight, and the wheels near the centre of the axle, the chaticcs of cudurancc and durability arc proportionately increased. The safety of the narrow gauge as compared with the standard is no lontrer an exDorimont. but a fact fully determined and settled. The question of safety, especially in turning short curves, is deciile<lly in favor of the narrow ,gauge system. There being less 1 onded indebtedness to be provided lor, there will be proportionately larger dividends." 1 liwu ?re t'K'uil i.?ii?lii?iijni They nppenl -to oomtnau ueivuo. Uul wUu la tU? %>au?U nf I experience as to narrow gauge roads earning large dividends'? Tnke the earnings :aud expenses of the thirty-seven and a half mileS 'of the East nnd West Hnilroad, of Alabama, now built and running, for the year 1881: Cash roccipts, ?101,21(5,50; cash disbursements?current expenses, ?35,218,78. balances to W and A Hailroad, &c, $29,137,27, and the net cash profit is $30,859,51. "From which it appears," ?ays C'apt l'ostcll, "that the expenses were $35,218.78, and the net profit $30,859,51, thus showing that the expenses were less than 50 per cent of the gross income." Quite a good showing, nnd in the interest of the people, we shall pursue this subject further ut another time.?Augusta Chronicle. ll.\nn to Kill.?A correspondent of the Greenville AVirj writes to that paper as follows; "John Dridgman, who shot himself while on the top of Glassy Mountain on the 2'2d of July, is alive and improving. He went to church intoxicated, and was showing '.lis friends, who were remonstrating with hitr, how lie could handle a pistol. The weapon was loaded and he was waving it around his head when it suddenly tired. The bullet entered under his chin, to the I right and near his throat, ranged through his mouth, and, striking the inside of the skull just above.the left eye, glanced and followed the skull to the top of the head. The skull was fractured from the plaoc where the missile struck it to the top, where it stepped, not having force enough to penetrate the skin. Dr. Mooney, who was immediately sent for, thought the bullet had dropped back into the brain, and went to work to find it. lie removed ten pieces of fractured skull immediately over the brain and probed for the ball, but failed to find it. Itridg .tnan is now ablo to w;nlk about lh? lioust^ although the greater part of his brain is almost exposed, there being no covering over it but the skin. Dridgman's recovery is not so remarkable when the tenacity with which the whole 111idgman family cling to the brittle thread of life is considered. His father had his cranium 'busted' with an axe and survived. His brother had the trifling mishap of having a rifle barrel bent by a powerful blow across his skull, and also survives. The only way to kill oro of the family successfully is to cut his bead oil" and then bide it. Three Runaway Ruts.?The Atlanfa Lonxti Hon of Saturday says : "The neighborhood of Mitchell and Markham streets is in a ferment over the mysterious disappearance of three small boys. Their names ore James Wrinkle, Jini Uowen and a little son of a man named Johnson, who resides in that locality. Thcboys left without leave on Wednesday last, nnd no definite information from them has yet been secured. It is said (hat they left by the State road and went as far as Dalton ny arranging a platform under a passenger car and crawling in under the car. If they did it was an exceedingly hazardous journey. The boys all had on their Sunday clothes, which they secured in a very novel way in order to avoid suspicion. Each boy told his mother that he had secured work up town, and, of course, it was the proper thing to look nice, an l the Sunday clothes were handed out without more ado. It was necessary, too, to have a little money on hand, and Jim Wrinkle told his mother of a certain article at an auction house that he was exceedingly anxious to possess and which was going dirt cheap. His mother vlet him have five dollars, and that set him up for thejourney. The other boys also succeeded an scouring funds. Tho mothers of the boys are greatly distressed, and are anxiously await ing any news from the absconders." ? l*at> Rv.routs from Tv.xas Cotton.?St. T.ouis August 8. ? A dispatch from Austin, Texas, says: The reports from the co'ton fields are exceedingly discouraging. During the past three or four days the worms in (lie lower part of this county have completely stripped t ie leaves fr/?m the plants and are attacking the bolls. Not one-fourth of a crop will ho inado, and on some plantations many fields will be almost a total loss. On the Rrnxos, the great river cotton belt, drought is injuring the ? op, and blooms and squares are dropping before maturity. From the indications about one-half of the cotton bell of tho State will entlior n. hn'i' crop. Oilier pointsyicld a qunrter ofan average crop. A Uki'nion ok Oi.i> Soi.dikiis.?Darlington, August 7.?On Saturday last a mooting of ilio survivors of Company I, Eighteenth South Carolina Volunteers, was held at IIte Fair grounds. Tlieto were perhaps about twenty menilteis prce'it, who with their wives anil children met to talk over old times once again. This command at one time had seventy or eighty men on its rolls, hut four years' service during ami twenty years since the war, have made many gaps in the line. The hrtgado to which they belonged w.is at different times under command of N. G. Evins, Stephen Elliott, W. !!. Wnllacc and others. ?7 t4Hr ?7A (*kvtkn \a' a.11.?Mis. Isabella Hilton, who lives near this place, 111 Spartanburg County, is 10^ years old, and still attends to all her house hold duties ?washes, spins, Ko. Her eyesight, strange to say, i* unimpaired.' She is a daughter of llyv. Charles Jones, of l^ncoln, N.C.? (JafTnetf Carolinian. -:j sJIhe IStu'tilg alnion ?imts. 1 It. M. STOKES, Editor. 1 UNION. FRIDAY, AUGUST 17. 1883. ~ , SUBSCRIPTION?82 00 PER ANNUU. i ADVERTISING. ? One square or one inch, first insertion, > - - SI tttr t Ktrh *ul>?c<jftent Insertion, f * ? - - - - 73 Liberal discount iniktu t?> niorrleihis and others adver- ' tUiiiK tor si* iu?nths4>r by the year. ' . Obituary Notices of ten lines or less, inserted free. " " over ten lines, charged as Advertise- t tuents. TAKE XOTICE. Citations, Notices to Creditors and j Notices of Final Discharge must bo j paid for before they will appear in our columns. J9j>~ We tmly sympathise with the farmers ol Goshen e llill Township in tho distressing outlook of their crop. t Thcv have suite red more in that Township front the drought than iu any other |?art of the County. flrSf The bible tells us "it rains on tho t just ar.d the injust." We'l like to know what character of people wo are iu Uuiou. . A very reliable gentleman informed us tho other Q day that he knew many places in this and adjoining j counties, where they would not piek more than one bale of cotton from 8 acres of land, and if we had an early n frost, not that. n 8 Wc are requested to state that Kev. T. J. Tnylor will preach at l'aoolet -church on the ltli Sunday of this month, instead of the 3d, as ' a previously announced. Services will commence at 31 o'clock, 1*. M. The Voting gentlemen who atvokc its c from our slumbers last Friday night with such *a delightful serenade, will please accept the ? thanks of"we, us and family." The music was tho sweetest wo have heard for many a day and lite compliment is highly appreciated. ? ? ? { Our correspondent, T. C. D., whose first t letter, "On the Wing," appears in an dlicr column, promises lo keep our readers pasted on the great Exposition at Louisville, nnd expects to extend his travels to many of the principal Northern Cities and Canada, from whence lie win genu U3 ins "joltings by the way." lie will no doubt, return by Murfrccsboro and then, what will be Dun can anybody tell? fifeS" Ouco for all, we say to the Vr'.nci* Dais of the institutions of learning in this State and othftt parlies wishing to ndvortiso in this paper, that we will not accept their advertisements through Northern Newspaper Agents, to be first shaved hy those agents out of a just allowanco for such services and then have to submit to another shave of 25 per cent for agent's fees. Why certain Colleges in this State want to take 25 per cent of their advertising patronage out of Newspaper publishers' hands to put into Northern Advertising Agents pockets is a complete mystery to us, and we don't intend to submit to it. That Canvased Shoulder. Our esteemed and enterprising young Merchants, Messrs Fant, McKi-sick & Fant presented us last week with a splendid can. vassed shoulder, and we could not discover the difference in taste between it and the finest ham. There are more of the same sort we ndviso^nir friends to try ' them. ' Fine Bains. . 'Die best ruins we have had since the lttli of May fell on Wednesday afternoon ami between 2 and I o'clock Thursday morning. With the latter there was territlc : thunderand ]ii^ht ning. It isgencrally believed, however' that it came too late to benefit tlio cotton to any extent I if at all. It will ) ')j> the bottom corn to "till out" some, | nml do much good to the sweet 1'otatoe crop. The next morning the plows were put to work preparing the ? ground for turnips when it was found that the rain had ^ not penetrated over three inches, and in most places not that deep. While writing this?10 o'clock, Thursday ?clouds shut out the sun, and give hopes of more rain, r "So mote it tie." i Death of Mi33 Nettie Bourne. i Died, in Calloway County, Missouri, nt the ' residence of her adopted Father, Mr. Y. 1'. 1 Hobards, on Saturday. August 4th, 1883, Miss Nettie J. 0. Bourne, ngod 19 years. Miss Bourne spent some months in this town , this year, on a visit to her Uncle, J. M. Gibhs, and family, and had left hero only a few days beforo the announcement of her death was re- 1 ceieved. Although not entirely unexpected, the sad news sent a thrill of grief through the hear' ( of many friends who had made her acquaintance while she was with us. Heforo leaving us it was evident that that insidious and never erring destroyer, consumption, had set the seal ofdeath upon her young life, and that only a few brief days would elapse before it would claim her as its victin. Patiently and submissively she awaited tho inevitable summons, and when it < came, calmly and serenely her pure young spirit ( let": its earthly homo?so brief in time and in joys so few to her?and ascended to eternal joys above. ! ?- . A Fatal Accident. On Saturday last Horace Ifopson, a colored man. met with a fatal accident while cleaning 1 out a well on tho premises wlicro ho lived, I belonging to the estate of lion. T. II. deter. It appears that Horace had drawn the water from the wollnnd had gone dosvn to clean out the dirt and wash the sides. His wife and sister-in-law were at tho windlas above, and heard something heavy fall in the well. On calling to Horace, lie snid something about bis heid hurting: on calling the second time lie did not answer, when the women raised an alarm and called for assistance. A colored man | was let down in the bucket and found that a rock from the aide of the well hn<l fallen upon Horace'a head crushing in the skull and affecting the brain. Atfera severe tustle the unfortunate man was tied in the bucket and drawn to the top. He spoke only a few words and was taken to the House. On examination it was found that the crushed skull was resting heavily upon tho brain and his nervous system had recoived a terrible shock. He remained unconscious until Monday night, when he died. Horace was an industrious, honest man, a quiet and orderly citizen, and much respected by both white and colored. He was a member of the colored Lodge of Odd Fellows at this place and was buried by the Lodge on Tuesday, the members turning out in full foreo, and presenting as respectable and fine an appearance as any body of col ired men wo ever saw. The funeral procession wss I he largest and most orderly of ar.y colored funeral ever Seen in this town. . f ? - *? ' ' 1 "? 1 . tLLluii; .RLJWI. (hall the Factory be Abandoned ! | -J If Without any information diroct from 4. com- 1 nlltee on subscriptions to build a FaotoryaCT0 LJniun. we coupes llmt we can neither see ori'n icar any life in (lie effort. We are tkld that Ihev inscription lias not beeu increased oke dollar in ' hejj^a^^t>o.l weel^j that persons^^oaui^o ^ ife, no spirit in the movement. We elnoerely (] egret to any thnt an ominous apathy pt mules ? he community, foreboding no good, and itlooka q is if our chnrgs of a few weeka ago, that this ia a deadjown," that therein "nobusincaa enter- ? >riac aulong our merchant a" and buaineaa men ^ a to be fully verified. l' All acknowledge that aomclhing jiuat be a lone to keep tho grass from monopolizing our f, itreeta and to retain what little buaineaa 0 tow comes to the town, but few will leave heir buaineaa long enough to take an active >art, or riaktho lcaat sacrifice of time or money r o dispel tho present gloom and avert tho des- ^ ruction that threatens all interests in the iiturc. Kven with tlie experience of all around us that 11 'otton Factories yield suro and profitable divi- i' lends, enhance the value <f real estate for miles C round them, increase the population, introduce a . diversity ot employments and givo lifo and j tiraulus to business of all kinds, our citizens (| cem to keep aloof from it with as much caution a iliey vroutd to avoid the oho^era or .a book ^ gent. I We have too -ninny doubting Thomases among h is. There is too much "I don't think it wil' ? iver be built"I don't know whether it will icnefit me;" "I want to see whether they can ;ct up the amount before I subscribe;" "I want o know who is going to manage itI don't ^ mow whether I can meet the instalments ? 'when this or that man subcribes more I will iut my name down ," "I don't want to sec this own any larger than it is," and so on to the :nd of along chapter of doubts and suspicions. Gentlemen, away with such quibbling. Go to >ne of the committee at onco and place your c lames on the subscription list for every dollar o hat you.think you can possibly meet by install- 8 ncnts, and don't let it be said thnt after a 0 R itrangcr came and offered to invest one-sixth of r he capital necessary to commence on, the whole tl own of Union cither would not or coul l not aise the other five-sixth to establish an enter n s >rian thai would. nf tlPrcisily, <>ni\^t. upnrly , ^ iltogethor to tlie benefit of themselves and the d sominunity in which they live, besides bringing be capital of the other one sixth from another a icction to be operated here. . g *" "* a K Broom Drill. 0 The officers of the County Agricultural h \fsocinticn are determined Jo give to the r lext Fair all the attraction and interest that F -an be gathered around it. Among the ^ lovcllies they arc anxious to introduce is i Broom Drill. This is simply a company y >f young La lies, who will go through the p Manual of arms," with brooms instead of ?i nuskcts, and perform all the the evolutions )f a well drilled and regular officered miliary company. Exhibitions of the Broom Drill in Sumter t ind other place-* in this State have been i eceivcd with great favor and satisfaction, F ind they ore becoming very popular in ct"S g<ff!en up fot tho 6tn?flt ftfcwohdreh, * iharitable and local public enterprises. We t ihould like to see the young Ladies take R his feature of tho Fair attractions in hand. .1 n nue it is quite a novel exhibition, there ' a nothing unbecoming or at all objcctiona- h )le in it; Ladies alone control it from b l 1 ^ icginniiig to end?organize the company, v slcct all the officers from among themselves, u md select their own drill master. Where t bese drills have been exhibited the most a espectablo Ladies in the communities have 11 aken active parts in them, and the Captain \ s always a Lady of high social standing. There is but little difference between the * llroom Drill and the Calisthenics taught i:i ' ichools. It is equally as good exorcises. ? The Southern Dry Oooda Paiaca. ^ Wo invite special attention to tho adver- t tisemont of Messrs Wittkowsky & Baruch, 1 (ho exteneivo Wholesale and Kcftfil "incr? | chants of Charlotte. ] Wo know this Ifousi well; wo know , much of its business facilities, and we know further that its business character stands as ' nigh as any Imuso in the country. 1 Tlic business of this firm has so greatly increased that they have been compelled to ( enlarge their store room by adding two large ? stores to their already capacious establish* ! rnent, in order to accommodate the immense Mocks of good? which that incroaso of business requires them to carry. Its business is conducted upon the highest standard of business principles and wo have no hesitancy in commending Messrs. Witt- | kowsky & Harucli as being most reliable , gentlemen in every respect. I Head their advertisement carefully and act upon its suggestions. Tho Base Ball Match Game. The game of base ball between tho i Mechanics Club, of Cclumbia, and the Uniou Club, came off at Henderson last a. a J ? - ouvumay, according 10 previous arrangement. Wo nro told that our boys wero whip* pod pretty badly from the start, but not ono of them showed tho "hack," fighting bravely on till the game was called at tho sixth inning, making so much improvement in playing that it was predicted by spectators 'hat ifoino innings had been phyd Union might have won. The Union "boys" aro delighted with the courteous treatment they rocoivcd from the Columbians, and Sell us (hat a more pleasant ' . _ I time wus nevor experienced. Wo hear tho Union Club is not satisfied with it* work in the last game and cl^eTu) tffTt again soon. Hotter luck next time, young gent lemon. ?(ln to tho Virginia Sforc tor bargains in Dry , Hoods. r i > ?i. .11. ? arrow Gauge RailroadsWo ask our roaders?particularly thorc pposed to "narrow gauge" railroads?to jad the 6no nrtiolc upon that suhjeet to be mod in another coluuiu, taken from the lUgusta Chronicle. -Some time sinco (ho war we heard one ol >10 best business and Railroad men in the tuto say : "If all the railroads in South lurolinn had been built upon tho narrow nuge plan they would have been ablo tc o oil the carrying business requirod ; saved ho State from a heavy endorsement debt, nd the roads, instead of being sold out to jroign capitalists, would now bo owned b) ur people. It was the debt abuve tho cost f tho narrow gaugo that swamped oui uilroad property." ho BitrGrcon Front. Mrs. SUopraul has uiovod back into hci armor store, and you can hardly recognize t as the old place, so splendidly has Mr, Irani fitted it up ; and Mrs. Shnppaul look; s happy in it as a clam at high tide.? hit what bothers us is, that it also has r Green Front/' and wc don't really know ion to designate it frotn tho "Laittlo Groon front" where our friend \V. 31. Gibbs lolds forth. We shall call it tho "Bij Irccn Front" until a better nauio is uggcst2d. In the mean time we invite vcrybody to call on widow Shoppaul in ler neat and pretty new quarters larlington Cotton Faotory. The Darlington Corespondent of tho Charlestor /etc* and Courier thus writes of the prospects ol lie cotton Factories to he built at that place nd Florence. The enterprise, both at this place and at Flor nee, bids fair to be a success. Not only have tner f means gone into tho venture but. what is bcttei till, clerks on small salaries have invested in ne or two shares. This of itself shows that tlx pirit of progress is abroad, and that our pcoplt ecognire the improvement in tlie condition ol lie country. With the mills and the cottor elds near to each other, with us it will not be question of tariff or no tariff, hard money or oft, but we will only ask to be let alone in tlx work b?fora u? ?.that of our material ovelopment. The fact that young men with "small salaries' re investing in these interprises shows tlx reat interest that all classes of the people then re Inking in it. When wc soe the young met f a community coming forward to do what lie a their prwer to establish enterprises for tin irosperity of all around thorn, we can safeb redid for that community a thriving and pros erotn future. Such young men have the true spirit of enter rise in them, and it will grow as they grow it ears; and their reward will come when tlie^ 'anticipate in the grand results of their first avestments. We enre not how small the amoun nvested by n young man may ho, he will fee s great an intcrevt in the success of the enter wise as those of -inoro abundant means wh nvest large amounts, and he is realty entitle' o more credit, for, iu nine cases out often t will demand greater sacrifices to meet th mytnents. It ^nvinnl kn rlnnwxl tv? tliinlr liint tli? nroanti njsincss outloum^r the young men of this conaunity?at least those not now in business fo liemsclvcs?is very discouraging, and it wil ;et more gloomy every year, if somothing is nc one to create and attract business at this poin tfter all, it is thoyoung men who will be mostl encfitod by the success of the enterprses no eing established in the South, and tho younj :ien should actively encourage them; in ever vay doing what they can toward building thct ip. Lei the clerks and other young men in tlii own do as the clerks of Darlington havo don< nd the proposed cotton Factory at Union vti 10 longer be a matter of doubt. Vherc the Cold of Last Week Came From. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of lat reek were uncommonly cold in this rcigion, ft lugust weather, and the following despatches i he daily papers explains how it came and whet from : A Tkrriblk Storm in Iowa.?Des Moinet low#, August 9.?A terrible hail storm passe lown the Nashnabotna Valley Tuesday nigh resulting in great destruction to growing crop ?nd farms. Near Adebolt Mrs. Larson wt tilled and several persons were wounded. Th liail fell to the depot of five feet in places.l'rain8 o<. the brauch of tho ltock Island and o [ho main lino of the Chicago and Milwaukt Itoad were blocked. The path of the storm wt four miles wide. Everything was litcrall destroyed, The loss will jtrobably c*oee 5500 600. Chicago, August 9.?Special dispatches repo lhat a severe stcrm prevailed in Shelby, Cai and l'otiawattomie counties, Iowa, last night. urowing crops were icveucu 10 me grounu an considerable damage to olhrr property wasdon 'I'lie track of the storm was five miles wide. Net Drayton tweuty-two head of eattle were killc by being stampeded and running down an en bankment. At Loran nine freight cars wei blown from the track. ? ? # Baptist Ministers' Instituto. The Baptist Ministers of Union County wi hold their next Institute at Mount JoyCbuicI commencing on Tuesday night nfter the thii Sunday in September 1883. 4 PROGRAMME. 1. Sermon by Ilev. A. J. Hires, for oritl cism. 'J. Exegesis, by Rev. C T. Scaife, on Matt. 161 Chapter, 15, Ifi, 17, 1 Hik verses, for criticisri 3. Are not Itaptist churches too indepe den To bo discussod by Revs. W. P. Smith, I. ' Jeter and others. 4. The anxious seat measure; and win should the doors of the churoh be opened dui ing a protracted meeting. To ho diseusscd 1 Hers. J. II. Tucket, J T. Gwin And others. 5. Sermon, Wednesday night, by Rev. C. Hcnifo, on the rotations thnt should exist hotww n pastor and his church. T. J. TAYLOR,) W. P. SMITH, I Committee. V. C. JETER, ) Litter. Wbavrr's Ai'poi.wtmknt.?Washingtn August 9.?The President has detailed Secoi Lieut. Erasmus M. Wearer, Jr., Second Artiller as professor of military science and (actios of the South Carolina Military Academy Charleston. This order will take effect Octob 1, 1883, and Lieut. Wearer has been ordered report for duty on thnt date. i^I Failcrk or as English Cotton Factory.London, Argust 10.?The Exchange Telegraf Company roporls that D. W. k A. I).. DeWhurs Option sptnners, of Manchester, hare failed.Liabilities .C7S.COO. * . / \ % / For the Times. A Delightful Besort. ( All IIkalino, Aug, G, 1833. Editor Times :?This is the third soason that 1 the "AH Healing Springs" have been open to ' the public ns a health resort. Thcso Springs aro situated in Qaston County, North Carolina, r at the eas'ern base of Crowdor's Mountain, off , tho Piedmont Air Line railroad about two and | half miles, and five miles South-cast from th0 King's Mountain Station, on the same road, and sevon and a half inileB from King s Mountain, ' where Ferguson encamped with his fifteen I hundred men to be attacked by Colonel Campbell , on the 7th day of Oct. 1780, with one thousand volunteers. Ilero the victory was complete for tho Americans, they liaving lost onlv 20 men whilo the British loss was 800 prisoners nnd 500 killed nnd wounded. Colonels Cleveland" Shelby, Sevier and Williams commanded with distinction in this b&ttlo also. There are ten or eleven springs in all, which contain Iron, Sulphur, &c. The springs and a largo tract of land surrouuding them are owned hj a company i n. ?? \r n > : * - ' * VI nuviii 1/1 . I-. HA. Uill roii> 19 UIIV U1 1I1W IVirgCHV , stockholders, and are managed by him 1 , understand that the Cosscns, of West Point, N. V., are to take charge of the Springs some time this Fall, when a great many improvements arc to be made with a view to making them a winter r resort for Northern invalids. The property will > bo controlled as before by the "All Healing I Springs Company." The hotel accommodations , are not first class, but good enough for oomfort and enjoyment. The parlor and oRico are entirely too small for tho many guests of the place. The hotel is built across the branch, 1 from hill to hill, running from the Springs' about 120 or 180 feet below them. It is a twostory building, and you can w.ilk into tho upper story from the streot, or roid, without ascending ' any steps. The upper story is divided by an ^ aisle extending clear through the building. On ! either side are bed robms. The dining room is in the lower story, where you are fanned while oating ny large wheel fans, extending over the . entire room, run by water from the acquarium above. Then to tho main building is an "L" i on the Southern end, extending 100 or 120 feet 1 upwards, nearly to the Springs, and divided by i a partition, with bed rooms on each side and i entered from the outside. Sevoral persons have ' I boueht lots and built cottaces nnon tlinm Snmo ^ nro rented and some ire occupied by the owners themselves; the company ntso have several cot tages. The rooms, both in the cottages and B hotel, arc spacious enough to afford comfort.? u Nearly all the space from the main building to j the Springs and between the "L" and the street s or road running nearly parallel with it on B the opposite side, is taken up by the acquarium, y whiok is about 120 x 80 feet, fn the contrc it . is 15 feet deep and in which Dr. Qarrclt has quite a variety of fish. During my stay here, one duy a young lady saw a carp swimming in B the wnter and she ran nnd borrowed a pistol, camo back, took deliberate aim, and hit it just behind the gills, bringing it quickly to the sur^ face, a dead fish ! Nearly every morning, Sun, day not excepted, a party is made up, sometime8 of hotli Sexes, but often only of gentlemeq, to 0 ftssend one of the peaks ofCrowder's Mountain ,1 which tower several hundred feet above the'sur rounding country. Your correspondent made e two trips to the highest* peak during his stay^ The first time with a party of gentlemen frorr t I'ineville, N. C. We killed a rattlesnake with ^our rnitic*, and tt was itienrst ofHYe PfclUeenatce r family I ever saw. Tho second trip was on II Sunday morning. On this trip I was accom panied by a young lawyer, Mr. Claude E. Saw 1 yer, of Aiken, S. G\, Dr. Davis, of Munroc, N* y 0. and Mr. J. W. Cannon, a merchant of Concord ? N. C. You see, Mr. Editor?to use the parlance 2 of All Healing?1 was healed on this trip, for y I had with mo a Dr., a Lawyer, and a Cunnon. n Both trips were extremely pleasant,so far as the ;8 pcrsonel of them were concerned. The guests ? while away the time here very pleasantly, play11 ing cards, 1 illiards, pool, rolling at ten pins, promenading, &o. The mornings and evenings arc very cool, but during the middle of the day the sun nl<iu(s with a vim. it The water acts quickly and efficaciously upon >r some, while upon others it takes more time.? n The fare is good enough for the moBt fastidious, o and very cheap indeed??1 50 per day, $7 per week or $30 per month, with careful and i, attentivo servants to wait upon you. In short, the "All Healing Springs" is a nice place to spend a few days very pleasantly. While there is I made some pleasant acquaintances and long to e be remembered. Among the visitors here from ~ South Carolina are : Old Mr. Wheeler, Misses ,Q Rose Lindsay, Fannie Moaoham, Susie Metftsnd is Mftstcr Mcfz, of Yorkville, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Y Barron, of Columbia, Miss Mollie W. Hoffman, ' of Fairfield, Mr. Claudo E. Sawyer of Aiken and Mr, Jas. II. Bryce of Spartanburg. An important enterprise has been started by _ two industrious Germans, Fr. Kramer and 1'. id JacobscD, under tho firm name of Kmraer & Jocobsen, who manufacture Carpets?ingrain, 'l rA8 ttD(* cloth?and it is hoped that they may j. receive the patronage and encouragement then rfl so richly deserve. Both of these men were at their looms weaving. Their carpeting is as beautifully flowered as any I ever saw, while the linsey is just splend d. J. 8. C. ill Destruction op tiik Kimiiai.i, House.?Allan I, ta, August 12.?The Kimball House was diS' j ' covered cn fire this morning at 5 o'clock, nnd ( the flames soon getting boyond control, Mr. Scovillo, tho proprietor, ordered the guests to be awakened. The guards went through the hall i_ ways breaking open doors where necessary tc insure the safety of the guests. The fire having originated in the rear of the building was favor able to tho escape of all. Within twenty %inn. ulcs the hotel was emptied of its guests and I? within one hour the structure was raxed to th< ground. The hotel was built by II. I, Kimball anc owned by Robert Toombs, John Rice, Josepl sn I'. Thompson and others. It cost $000,000 anc f_ the furniture was valued at $125,000, insurance only $80,000, scattered among many companies ^ the names of which cannot be ascertained owinj to tho absence from the city of parties win T. are informed thereon. Tho (late City Nntionn au tiank, Haralson & Hro., tobacconists, John It Daniel, druggist, nnd others are among th< losers. The total loss is a million dollars an< the insurance is not over $200,000. The fire is claimed by Mr. Culberson, ngen of the company, to be of incendiary origin. It the vaults of the tiate City Uanu m a hair i n> million dollnrs, and its safety is yet n mutter o "d doubt. J. of One op tup. Poisoners Consensus.?The (w nt negro men nnd the colored girl under arrest fo cr attempt to poison tho family of Mr. Daniel hac to n preliminary hearing before Justioe Klford, am in default of bail were recommitted for trail.? Tho girl, a delicate bright mulatto of about 1' ? years, who made the arsenic coffee on thn >h critical morning, confessed that she was bribet it, by oneof the prisoners (osteal the vial ofarsonic ?. ( ft?r which she was promised a calico dress, will a threat of death if she divulged.? Col. Iltgii(tr % \ For iho Ttmjs. On the Wing to tho Exposition. Nasiivillr, Aug. 9. 1885. Mr. Editor:?To night, nfior a day of good ' exercise and no little sightseeing, it is impossible for mo to resitt the temptation of giving yourself and readers a few notes and some random thoughts on what your correspondent has seen within the lost few days. Leaving Union on the afternoon of the 7th, on an unoomfortably crowded train, with tho thermometer up in the ninctys, to whioh the crying of Infants and the constant running about of small children lent no charm, yet in the faoe of all theso difficulties we arrived in Spartanburg on time. As is well known tho crop prospects all between Spartanburg and Union tire very gloomy and discouraging. After leaving Spartanburg n bLabI /iSainti t%t% ilia nnnnornnpn nf ifitntrft change consi lerably. The corn has that heatthy dark green colour 80 prevalent in well watered countries, and the cotton looks as though it wero intended for come other purpose than for the bumble bee, sporting in the morning or evening breeie, to rest his weary limbs upon while he draws forth the lifo blood of the plant through the small white bloom just budding forth on its topmost limb. .. . The Georgians seem to understand the cultivation of the soil much better than we do ; this may be 9een very easily by one as he hurries through their fields of waving grain and grow ing cotton at the rate of forty miles an hour. On all sides one may see the buggy plow and the huge suesoiler busily doing their worlr.One of our old fashion plow stocks is a rarecuriosity in some sections of the Empire State r and is spoken of only as a relic of days long gone and to be hoped never to return again. All along f.-om Atlanta to Chattanooga large fields of clover may be seen growing in the very place whore the grain has but recently been harvested, and as for corn, they say that tliey have enough from lAst year's crop left to run them another year without touohing the growing one. To what can we attribute our present position on the crop question? True the drought may and doubtless did effect it some, still that does ^ not relieve us from our embarrassing position, and nothing ean do so save a straightout honest confession that we were too negligent with regard to the breaking up of our lands. Since leaving home I have travelled and conversed with farmers and men interested in agri" culture and tho entire secret of their success may be summed up in (he short sentence?in the early Spring break up your 'and deep and well,, by so doing the roots have a good opportunity of spreading out, gaining a strong foothold, and thus withstand droughts. Our method is to rarely break up the ground deeper than six inches, while they stir it up by means of a subsoil process to the depth of from 12 to 18 Inches, Having an acquaintance in Murfrcesboro, (who by the way, I met in tno "Ould Country" boyond the water,) I left my travelling companion in the care of an old acquaintance of his for safe keeping, while I made a visit there. While in Murfrocsboro my young friend above referred to had her, I mean a vehicle gotten out and showed me round the town and neighboring country.? ' The land in that section lies beautifully, aud no one ever saw finer corn grow than that now fast maturing ; cotton is grown only to fc very limited extent, and I think grows moNao each year. In fact I was so well pleased with the general surroundings of the'place, and then the temptations and inducements are so great, that I almost felt like driving down ray pegs and staying. However, I satisfied them by telling them no one knew what a day might bring forth. Land here is at a high premium, ranging from ^ $25 to $45 per acre. The old marks of the battle of Murfrecsboro and Stono Creek may still be seen, though the ravages of timo are fast destroying them, and doubtless in a few years they will be known only by tradition. I finally succeeded in tearing myself away from Murfrcesboro and am now safe back in \ Nashville. Much might be written about this beautiful city, its fine location, magnificent buildings and far fumed schools of learning ; but I know the patience of my readers has long since grown weary with this dull recital, so I will draw in my thoughts for fear that they may be carried off on a more distant flight than the one just terminated. T. C. D. For thoTfracs foaoh Children to nae their own language with Precision and Force. Mr. Editor:?I submit to the grave con- * sidoration of tho patrons and readers cf jour paper, especially that portion of them who oc<jq.i py the responsible relation, of parent, the follow<ing brief article by Prof. Iluxley, a name not entirely unknown to fame. It will be seen at % glance that the question presented by the art!ole referred to, although embraced in the nar' rowest conceivable limits, is, nevertheless, one ' of rooro than ordinary magnitude, namely, . whether, in the education of your offspring, by pursuing (he course indicated hy the author.*, their success will not be greatly facilitated la acquiring "the habit of using their own languago with precision and force," thereby fitting them for greater practical usefulness in this. utilitanan age than by pursuing the hackneyed* system of juvenile culture, in the vain attempt; to acquire even a superficial knowledge?the, utmost limit to the most sanguine?of the hid-, den mysteries, enshrouded for centuries in the. dead languages of Homer and Cicero. PROGRESSION:. "I have said before, and I repeat it here, that if a man cannot get literary culture of the highest kind out of his Bibl6, and Chaucer, and Shakespeare, and Milton, and Hobbes, and Bishop Berkeley?to mention only a few of our illustrious writers?I say if he cannot get it out of these writers, he cannot get it out of anything; and I would assurodly devote a large portion of the time of every English child to the careful study ot the models of English writing of such variod and wonderful kind as we possess, and, what is still more important and still more neglect* d, the habit of using that language with precision, and with force and with art. I fancy we are almost the only nation in the world who seem to think that composition comes by natnre. The French attend to their own language, the' q Germans study theirs; but Englishmen do not r seem to think it worth their while." ' 1 -7I MuRnKar.1) by Nkoroks. ? Danville, Va , - August 10.?William Shepherd of this city was 4 to-day shot dead by three negroes on the publio" t. highwiy, about about five miles from this plaotf 1 while returning home from town in a wagon :, with his little son. Robbery is supposed to >1 llfiVfi hffin (liA Tho mnrilaraee l>aaa has* " I "" * " ** ? " ...? v.y?V., > ...M.'.VVIO IIBTC lirCH . ' arretted. " " ?