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THE WEEKLY IH DHI0I TIMES. gijrolnd lo ^grirulturi;, horticulture, gonujfitic (Btononry, polite htyrature, politics, and the Current Jhves of the gag. VOL. XVII.?NEW Sirim. UNION C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 8, 188C. NUMBER 40. " KBCULLECTION8 or TIIR McKissick Rangers. ItY A II KM 11RR. *<>. 5. Wc will now go back to the closing scenes on Edisto Island, on the 19lh of March 'G'2. Brave men are always tender hearted ; cowardice is the parent of cruelty. The philosophy of these assertions no one will gainsay. As our troops fell back, and were passing the picket post the Federals were holding, when wo advanced on them that morning, we found two Federal soldiers mortally wounded. Col. Stevens had them placed on litters and brought off. Our command of dismounted men were in the rs&r on the retreat. We cmnc up with the litter bearers just after thoy had crossed Watt's Cut. We relieved them and took charge of one of the wounded men nnd carried him to the boat at Gov. Aiken's rice mill. John Porter, GilHam Thomas, John Faucett and myself were in the first relief. The other wounded man died on the litter, and was buriod by our men at Gov. Aiken's summer house, on Jehos.se Island. His name was John Sowp. lie belonged to Co. K. 55th Penn. Regiment. The man we had belonged to the same company and regiment. His name was Jonah Ititchey. From these men we learned a good deal about the ofheors on the Island. The Federals had < not less than 5,000 men there then, and an advance on our line had been contemplated. As i we advanced across the field, in line of battlo, i that morning tho Federal line of two Regiments fell hack to another position, under cover of their heavy guns, leaving but a small force to < dispute our advance, or report the strength of ? our column. We had only about 800 men on i the Island, and about the same number, or per- 1 haps 1,000, on Jehossc Island, ready for any i emergency. Wc crossed with tho wounded 1 man at Gov. Aiken's rice mill and placed him ? in an ambulance, and he was carried to the t hospital ut Adam's Hun, whero he died the ( next day. He was buried at tlie church below < Adam's Hun, on the road leading to White ( Point. 1 mention these facts for tho satisfac- t tion of those who may want to know the fate \ of the unfortunate men who fell into our hands i that day. c 1 am a little ahead of my work. I will go e back to our first occupancy of Jchosse Island ' as pickets. t Haf of the picket force was infantry. Our ? men, dismounted, constituted the other half. Each hail their own non-commissioned offie.m-q I mentioned i?? H?. o, ,t.?? jWp, mvfu,lf . and another man?Scrgt. McCrcary, I think it was?took n scout on Kdisto Island." This. , together with the presence of our picket force j of about d<) or 03 men on Jchosse Island, drew out the Federals. Our advanced post was nt Watt's (hit, on which wc kept about one-third of our inen all tho lime. The river made a bend here, and wo and the Yankees?both on the same side?had a sheet of water of 500 or ' tlOO yards between us. A company of Federals j with long range guns, gave us a volley nt that | distance, knocking the dust up all around us. | We returned the fire, but our lead did not ^ reach them?falling into the water away this side. We threw together some bricks and timbers?part of an old houso that hail been j standing there?and this formed an improvised breastwork, behind which we lay down and waited for them to advance within range of our guns. This they took care not to do, at that time. The road wc had to travel, to get to our post and back from picket headquarters, run along the river brink for nearly half a mile, and in travelling the same in daylight wo were exposed to the sharp-shooters of the onemy. We were confident that the men we had nt the post behind tho emhankmont and broaatwork could keep the whole yankeearmy at hay, for a while at least. They could only advance by fours and we could kill every man they had before they could get to us. So things remained for that day. Our non-commissioned ofliccrs were Corporals (leorgc Wat kins and William II. Jeter ; George Watkins was on post an l had been nearly all day. Privates, Adolphus K. Fant, Henry (\ burroughs, Henry It. Fowler, It. Gilliam Thomas, J. Wesley McKown and myself represented the "MoKissick Hangers" nt tho time wc speak of. While we were lying behind our breastwork?, holding the wholo yankec army at bay, as we thought, and were itching for them to come within range of our guns, wc saw a gunboat coming. Things took a change. Something must be done and that soon- To retreat would expose us to the onoiuy'9 sharp-shooters, which was more to be dreaded than the gunboat. The road, as I have already said, was on the river brink. On one side was the river, on the other was a marsh. Our retreat began, and not in the best of order. The road bent with the river and wc were in plain view of the gunboat all the lime. Henry llurrotighs, thinking be could make tho ferry sooner, plunged into the marsh, almost disappearing at every jump. Groatly astonished, an old negro, body servant at Kx-Gov. Aiken, exclaimed : "Look at dat white man, boss. He make do mud fly like a 'gator (alligator). What am he name ?" Dolph Cant told him hi9 name was "Captain Simon Suggs."' The nogro exclaimed "Law*. - ......... i.... i i....... ..i. ........ i dat man long time ago."' From th'n cireurnRtanco Henry Burroughs was duhhod "('apt. Suggs," which lasted ai long as lie lire I. Henry Bnrrough, was a generous an<l noble hearted man, and well thought of by those who knew him. He was mortally wounded the day that General Lee surrendered. Ilia was among the lost lives givon to the "lost cause." Aa the Confederate flag wont d >wn at Appomattox C, H., Va., the immortal spirit of Henry ('. Burroughs took its flight to the (Sod who gave it. ('omparnlitely n young man ; juat married before lie entered the army; and baring endured the hardships of army life for nearly four years, his case was the more to bo regretted. Should theso lines fall under the i yes of his wido-v, family or friends, they will please accept the assurance of 0110 who knows that Henry P. Burroughs died a soldier, a gentleman, and, I trust, a christian. He was lorcd i and respected by all who knew him. Corporal George Watkins was a brare man 1 and made a splendid executire non-commis- ' sioned officer. His health was bad and he was ' not ablo for actire service long. He was a 1 member of tbo first S. C. Regiment, under I Col. Maxy Gregg, and joined the "McKissick 1 Rangers" afterwards. A laughable incident occurred at Camp Taylor. We reached there about dark. It was in ! a grove of large trees, mostly water oaks. Next ' morning wo cleared off the ground and arranged our tents. Quite n number of squirrels were ' up the trees, and began to get restless and ' hungry. Josiah Thomas had u negtohoy, John ?no one ever knew where ho got hitn, but ' most of us thought he was stolen?who was making every effort to show a squirrel to George ' (pup) Rochester, without avail. At last he said, with grsat earnestness, "Mis. pup, look ! on yon limb." George sprang upon the innocent negro, exclaiming, "dad burn you, sir," who aro you calling pup." The boy begged pitifully, exclaiming, "oh ! pray! Mas pup!" "Please Mas pup" "Please Mas pup" and so on. At last Dolph Fant g >t Gorge to desist. ' The boy had only been in camp a few days 4 and never heard Rochester called by any other name than "pup," consequently no disrespect ' was intended. At this same camp Jimmy Heron was mado ' ?u i - vi iiiv K'inrj, pro t?m. i no privates soncluded to have some fun out of Jimmy that oight. Dolph Fant posted the rest and made known the plan, to which they all readily igrecd. Is was this: They were to call for he "corporal of the guard" nt such a number, Hid just before Jimmy got there another guard was to call, and so on indefinitely. It was one if thoso dark, drizzly night* peculiar to the joast region. Soon the fun began by the guard tailing nt Post No. 1. The call was extended ill around the camp?a continuous call from lost to post for a considerable length of time, limmy could be heard falling over 8tnmps and >ther obstacles. At last ho fell tlat over a itump and exclaimed in a loud, distinct voice, 'Dom the coorpooral of the giard," and iiunediately offered his resignation to the proper inthorities. Ituforc Joe I,awson brought his alligator into samp a iiumbor of dogs had been collected ?. O ..I It. . .1..., |,,|A ll,. gator by instinct?after him and caused the whole or nearly Die entire regiment of horses ,o s'uinpelo. Wo ha I a Frenchman (Capt. Duhose) to 1 1 rill us iii the sabre exercise. We h i t a great ' leal of fun out of him. He roilc a little pony, Rnd the nen would ride all over him and his pony on drill, and complain that their horses ' were utininnagablc. The dexterity with which le could u?e a sahrc or bayonet was surprising. It was a long time before we could understand lis commands, lie would do nil the talking [what little was done), which ran about this ivay: "Ten chaun gompanv. Ven I zays lliraw zabe, you doo dees. Un I ven 1 zays, Pee-zaunt zabe, you doo dees. Den you gount lo niozions dees vuy?von, doo, dliree, vore. Now ten : Ten chaun company, l'eo zauiil zshc, von, doo, dhrec. (tarry zabe, von. Aganst enfanlrce, ride, parry, von, doo, dliree, vore. Dat ish not rido. Hfc you do dees, und dees, you vill gut you orscs 'cad, und cfc you doo dees, you vill gut lices dail. Vou must parry mit tc pack ov your zsbo, dees vny ? von, doo, dliree, vore," and so on a I infinitum. 1 was amused at Jim McCullouch one day. We were drilling on horseback, .lim couldn't understand the command, or did not want to. The CtAnnliinon .,,1,1 I>i,? 1.* ......1.1 .l.'.M l.i? half an hour, or make liiin perforin a certain evolution. Jim t->l<i him if lie ?1 i-1 he would have to get somebody to tell him what to do, for he could not undcrstan I ad?n word he said. We had several sham battle* with tlie infantry. We were supplied with blank cartridges tin 1 they would fire at us when our cavalry would charge on litem. This part of the drill was for the benefit of our horses, which it was desired to make familiar with tlio rattle of musketry. Few people, only thoso who have seen it tried, have any idea what pride a horse has for military life. After one or two charges our horses had a desire to rush through the lines of the infantry. and many riders came near being Inyo netted by the horse's desire to charge through the line. I will go back to Jehosso Island and finish my narrative. When wc went there on picket we arranged to stay, at least a week. It was not often that a soldier could put up a week's rations and make it last him that long, so we wore often without, or had to get them the best way we could. 1 will say here that the issue was sufficient to have done n*. hut we would not take proper c ire, and c ?n?e<piently got out s onetimes. One Siindir. I?> v i I <>rr and myself undertook >.o provi lo for our pickets, who wero out of something to cat. Wc foun I an old negro on tho Island, who let us ha?o about a peck of corn?hard, flinty corn, such as is raised in that section. We took it to a ban I mill, the upper stouc of which was about the si/8 of a contra on grin 1st. >ne. the nether was confined in a bench ma lo for the purpose. The upper Mone was not confined in any way, only by a rim to keep it in plaoo. Near the periphery of this upper stone was a hole in which a long stick was inserted, the end of which was in a hole in a beam overhead. Grasping the slick near the mill stone with one hand we turucd it, and with the other fed the mill, hi this way wo ground our corn into griti, ilint mmy experienced millers couldn't Ke.it. We got ? >mo milk from nn old negro woman nnd returned ? > otr pickot lie id quarters. We put our grits on to cook. at the same time wo put about a gallon of rics on in the samo way. Before the rice got done it had swelled so that we had to take some of it out of the vessel in which we were oooking it, and we kept taking it out until we had filled all the plates and cups we had, and then had to throw some out to make room for the rest to cook. I think wc had a bushel of rice when wo got done cooking it. Some of the men said they didn't like mush and sweet milk so some of ue had to "worry" down the grits aud sweet milk, while others took the rice and Nassau gravy. This was ft Sunday's work. Wc considered it the work of necessity and consequently no disrespect for tho Sabbath. It was perhaps that same evening that three jcouia came to us and took rooms in the upper part of Gov. Aiken's summer house, in which wo were quartered. We didn't like their ..p. pearance, and concluded they were spies. The upper part of the building was locked up. l'liey had a key, and this wns conclusive evidence that they were "all right." Thoy were rather a "dandy" set, and, of course, we had not much time for them. They had a spy glass. IVc would go up stairs and through this glass tee the ynnkocs drilling on big Kdisto. We :ould sec the 6tripcs on their uniforms. Other roops further away ou the Island we couldu't ice so plainly. Wo counted rix stands of colors within two miles of us. As I have already laid, these men occupied the upstairs in Gov. Aiken's summer house while our pickets oc:upicd the lower part. They had just retired when the relief canic in from tho picket post. Is llenry Ellis Fowler set his gun down the lammer struck something and sent the whole oad of fifteen buckshot through the ceiling ivcrhead, and some of them stuck fast in the toiling over tlie upper room. This aroused our ,-isitors who came down stairs in a hurry to sec what it meant. Everything was explained md they retired again. as our shotguns wore not sufficient to reach lie Federals, who wore in the habit of coining within range of us with their improved guns and seeping us hugging the ground for hours at a ime, we concluded to turn tho tables on them. Die shotguns were the very things we wanted, f they would attempt to cross Watt's Cut. From )ur infantry wo got a lot of the best KnfieM ritles they had, and kept tlicm on the picket lost, and when the Federals came up to annoy is again, we drove tlieni off in a hurry. This vas on the 13th dny of April '02, and we never iad any more trouble with them while wo stayed m Jehosse Island. Soon after this our men were withdrawn, and for the remainder of the ime that we stayed on tho coast we had peace, :xcept on the 1st and 3d of June "G2 which 1 win ken you utioui neriv. (hi the 3d day of April, '02, Gov. F W n i'ickcus reviewed our command. Marly tli ;t morning we were ordered to prepare f >r a 'general review by the Governor,' and by 10 o clock every man and horse able for service was in line, armed and equipped, and marched to the mil grounds of tlie infantry. Our cavalry, infantry and artillery were all in line by 12 in., when llie Governor, with bis aids and General Rvaus, ro lo up. Gov. Pickens was a man of fine personal appenrnnce. They came up ou the right of tho command. The cavalry were on the right of the lino ; then the infantiy and the artillery on the left. In line there was about 1,000 men. The commands were in two ranks. As they approached, tho command 'present sabre' was given, and the same was executed as if by automatic force. Then the clear voice of Col. Stevens, that prince of otlicors, rang out in front of the infantry, 'present arms.' 1 could not hear the command on the extreme left. The Governor and his attendants then rode down the line, his hat in his hand. He eyed every man so closely that some thought he knew how many buttons were on our coats. They rode down in front and back in rear of ii.? I:..A ifA II.a? <AAI. a ?A..:?:.A 1 <I.A i ui; iiiiv. in- iiiuii iuuk jtu.ntitui mm uit' I'ihiimaud marched 'in review ' by platoons. Then the command was brought up in front of him by companies, ami lie spoke as follows : Fellow-soldiers, nml citizens of South Caro lina and the Confederate States of America: I congratulate you, ofTiecrs and soldiers of the Holcombc Legion, upon your efficiency in the several branches of the military service which you represent. The perfection of your alignment and the celerity with which the several commands of your officers are executed, is satisfactory evidonco to me that those to whom your instruction in the military art and science of war has been committed, have done their duty. Your command is endoared to me by a tic that is as dear to me as life itself, and 1 trust a glorious future is ir. -eservc for it. IVar in all its realities is upon us and wo must meet it or disgrace our day and t -ncration. Y'our encampment is within sound 'f tho enemy's puns, and almost within range f their shells. As the Chief I'.xccutive of your State, it is my duly to suggest to you the propriety of your enlistment for and during the war. Our common enemy has intrenched himself upon the soil of our sister State, Virginia, and you are called upon to aid in driving him oil'. Will you do it ? Fellow-soldiers, and sons of South Carolina, 1 feel assured that in every bosom hefore me, that call will find a responsive heart,' During his speech the Governor was cheered at almost every sentence, lie was plainly and neatly dressed in citizen s clothing. As he spouc nc nwayeu nactc ami i>>tih uu'ires-mg himself lo (lie different commands. lie rode ft largo dark bay horse. There was nothing in his speech or in his actions to indicate that lie was of tlint 'blood and thunder' stamp, eliaincteristic of the Southern speakers in those days. After this the work of reorganizing began, which, practically, amounted to nothing with us, except tSio change in officers. Hut few men who were over the ftgc look advantage id the 'Conscript act and went home. Sonic, however, whose business demanded their attention, did iu?t re-enlist. We got at out as i.nny j men hack as we lo-t. Our oi l company commissioned olliccrs were: I. G. .McKissick. Captain ; Mabry Thomas, 1st Lieutenant ; John W. Cride, 2d Lieutenant, and John W. Palmer, 3d Lieutenant. Non-commissioned officers were: John R. Smith, Orderly (1st) Sergeant; E. L. Minter, 2d Scrgeaut ; (1. II. Jeter, 3d Sergeant; Win. Long, 4th Sergeant; (>. O. Rodgers, 6th Sergeant. Corporals?William II. Jeter, let; Geo; Watkius. 2d; Robt. Little. 3d; T. T. Black, 4th. At (tie reorganization the following is tho list of ofliccrs : 1. U. MeKlSSICK, Captain. Jno. W. l'almer, 1st Lieutenant. O. II. Jeter, 21 Lieutenant. 0. G. Rodgevs, 3d Lieutenant. R. C. Fair, 1st (orderly) Sergeant. Joseph W. Lcocli, 2d Sergeant. M. S. Porter, 3d Sergeant. 11. C. Kenncr, 4th Sergeant. W \1 Wm, K. Thomas, 5th Sergeant. Corporals?W. J. Crocker, 1st; J. McKisaick J. doing, 2d : Gideon Keasler, 3d ; C. M. Whiti"ck. 4th. As casualties occurred there were changes tna le in the above list, hut this is as it was at our reorganization in 18(12. The following is a list of the namss of members of the company, fr ni first to last : Ahrams, IV (} i Kennedy, Wm M A brains, Jerry Kelly, J G Atchison, Jas L Lcocli, K Morgan ilurroughs, Henry C Little, II C I Iback, T T Little, Win lllakc John Little, Thomas llrannou, John i Long, Charles llrantion, Wm Long, Jauies ItLwkunll vv... I ...?vn?v> , " ui uanauu, i\uut ( llailcy, Wm McG L&wson, Joseph itailey, George Lynn, Matthew S I Grown, James ; Lee, 1> Shelton Griggs, Lafayette Mitchell, Lockart Hell, Joseph Mitchell, Andrew l Chandler, George Mitchell, John \V Chandler, Sam'l McDowell, D IT Comer, George McKowu, J Wesley Collon, John II | McKowu, James Camp, Jas J McKown, Sani l Dean, Job Millwood, Franklin i I)eas, llobt W Millwood, Tillman Donald, James A Miller, Jones Dew. Koht IMohley, 1 M Fowler, Win. Good, j.McDaniel, Sims Fowler, Charles N I Nance, Jesse Fowler, Jr, Thus jNnnce, John Fowler, Shelton jOrr, David i Fowler, John Odell, John Fowler, Henry K ,l'almer, Jr., John W Fowler, George Porter, J Simpson ' '..lit, Adolphus 11 |Porter, II Sylvanns Fant, Napoleon Park, Jcllerson Fant, Jos llobinson, Hetij I Faut, George llobinson, David Faucet!, John ; Rochester, George Going, Win G \V lleynolds, Wm Gore, Thompson llodgors, Thos J Garner, Asbury |Scales, Thos II Gregory Win (Scales, Sam'l Gregory, Gerard (Strain. James L Gaull, Thos G lavage, William CiiU.iam, Thomas !*?uilh, James A '--.rrd-.l, I enn IStecn, Thomas IlnrrL-, (Jeorgc iSiocn, Win llcr.ni, Jus O Tlinma*, Josiah Hughes, T.lefl" [Thomas, John Hughes, Win It ll'lionm*., I, (iilliain Hol ler, .1 nines | Taylor, John llui'lan, Wm Thompson, Kichar.l C lliliinnl, ,'l'inslty. Joiner, I sou, Charlie Tinsley, Hansom Ison, McSwaiu iViinghnn, Wm J lson, T Jock ! Woolbright, Scaberry Jeter. Singleton | Wicker, Win M Jeter, John It jWil'nr.l.CJ Jeter, James B Woo.l, Thomas Jones,.Win (Wood, Krviu Johnson, Calvin i Woo.l, T J Jenkins, Hobt UsL'B. A n Ami ry Ca ho li n i a n .?Washington, Sept. 21. ? A funny scene was witnessed on Pennsylvania avenue last night. A seedy looking individual, tall, liroy eyed, keen and interesting, was talking in a most demonstrative manner to a friend. 'To-day, sir,' said the tall man,'I sold all my law books for SIC. Hy , sir, sold them to a nigger, sir. Sold 8100 worth of law books to a nigger. Isu't that humiliation for a South Carolina democrat ? 1 have suent a vear ami four months I J here. 1 came here soon alter Cleveland's inauguration under promise of all the leading men of the South that I should be taken care of. You know my father was one of the highest and best known men iu the State. His father was equally highly honored. Our family is one of the oldest iu the South, and here 1 am to-diy, sir, with SIC in my pocket and vengeance in my heart. I came here a year and four months ago with the promise of a good place. I was told to wai' Again and again 1 was told to wait only a few days or a week! I have been waiting all these weeks and months. A month ago Mr. Lamar sent me a note saying that ho had a position for me in the interior department. 1 presented myself and learned that I was temporarily to be put on the labor roll, with the prospect of a two thousand dollar place in tho course of a lew months. Well, that was not particularly inviting to nie, a professional man, and a man from a family which had never stooped to menial labor, but I took the place. What d) you suppose they set mc to doing ? Washing spittoons, sir, in the basement? ju t like a nigger. Hy , sir, I worked for a month iike a nigger clenning spittoons, and that for ?.">!) a month. Yesterday my -oul revolted against the nauseating work for once and for all, and I determined that I would not submit to such an outrage. To-dav 1 resigned and to-morrow I go homo. May ? d strike me dead il I ever sot foot in this town agtin.' This incident, dramatic and tauciful as it my appear, is one that actually occurred.?Shu// Special. Tiucturo of iodine is good to put on cornR to iclicv the s irenoss and to keep them from IVTilling if put on in timo. A Great Storm in Texas.?St. Louis, September 29.?Advices from the southwestern coast or Texas, particularly in the regiou south of the Rio Grande, and from some interior points, give accounts of great rain storm and much destruction of property during the past woek. From September 21 to 29 a tremendous rain storm and hurricane swept over the vicinity of Iirowusvillo, Texas, including Matamoras. Twenty-six inches of rain fell up to tbo night of tho 23d, and tho wiud is said to have reached a velocity of nearly ono hundred miles per hour. Over two hundred brume* in ltrnnrn??i1l? were blown down and a larg6 nunibor damaged, rendering homeless some three ban- i dred families. In Matamorns over threo hundred houses were levelled and many were injured. The entire roar part of the city, embracing over thirty bloolcs, was flooded to a depth of from three to eight feet, and the peoplo living there were rescued only with (ho greatest difficulty. All telegraph lines wore blown down, and the Rio Grande and Matnmoras and Monterey Railroads were washed out, and traffie has not yet been restored. All the surrounding country was inundated, many houses were blowu down and crops were destroyed. There is great sifloriug in both Matauioras and Brownsville. In the latter place fully one hundred and fifty families arc destitute, and in the former two hundrod families are homeless and in want. Relief incisures havo been adopted, and a Inrgo amount of food and money has been raised aud is boing distributed. At Point Isabel the quarantine station was swept away and other damage dons. A four-masted steamer was wrecked fifty miles 6011th of the mouth of the Rio Grande, aud is said to be a total loss. Iler captain and crew were saved. At Colorado, Texas, the river has risen twenty-live feet, and at last accounts was still rising. All tributory creeks are overflowing, and largo sections of country are submerged. Very heavy rains have fallon in other sections, and much npprchonsion is felt for the safety of property. IIauiior Island Slumkiiurd.?Galtion from Harbor Isl <nd since the gale of last Tuesday was i :,-"l list night. Tho island was entirely iuowd.' 'V hut tho inhabitants escaped. Capt. Newman, of the schooner Coquet with three men was thrown into the water by tho capsizing of their yawl boat, and the captain and one other man wore drowned. A special to the Xcirs from San Antonio says : A train was wrecked on the Southern Pacific west of here yesterday. I lor ace Daniels, engineer, was killed and a fireman and a brcakctnan were badly injured. Nitko-(J i< vc Ell i N K.?Chicago, September 21).?The Kocniwj Journal to-day publishes u caS3 of remarkable resuscitation from supposed death of a young married woman, named Mrs. Frazor. On July 20 last Mrs. Frazcr gave birth to a child, and in August, after soveral diys' illness, was pronounced dead by the attending physician. Dr. Mark II. Jjackcrstecu, who was also attending Mrs. Frazcr. says : 'I did everything I could think of io restore life, without effect. Ten minutes must have elapsed, although at tho time I was not in a position to watch the passage ti..... :* .. i ~? 1. - * ui uiiiu i nun iv duu>iciii) hirucK uiuwiit L would iikc to try ;i hypoJcrtnic injection of this solution of nitro glycerine. I took up ten drops of it and let the supposod corpse have the full benefit of it. The first minute there was not a pulsation, but just a gasp, that was all. I looked at my watch and there were four such gasps in nlmost sixty seconds, but there was no life. In the. second minute there were six respirations and a slight heart pulse could be heard, but no pulse could be felt. In th? third minute there were eighteen respirations, and the pulse became distinctly perceptible at the wrist. In the fourth min ute it was 180 and upward, so that it could not be counted. Ilcr face flushed, IIci eyes began to roll in their sockets, all tin muscles relaxed from the extreme stiflfnesi of death, all contractions of the limb gradually relaxed and she becaino con scious In my opinion in all case? of shocl or collaps this tiling ought to bo trice before they are g:ven over for lost. Then is n ithing peculiar or sensational about i at all. The only thing is I have boon tlx first person to try it. One point is that so lutioo ul' alcohol and nitro-glycorino is i remedy which for some latlo timo lias bcei used for epilepsy and things of that sort an l lor some forms of kidney trouble also It ha" eff.'ct on the blood vessels. \Vc givi it in doses of one drop, drop and a ball two drop?, or may be three drops in sonn ca"Os. We give it through the mouth It was never before given hypodormically so far as I am aware, until [ made tbo tria with success.' A Beautiful Tribute.?Captain Jack Crawford, one of the boldest mod bravest scouts that ever traveled the plains, pays tbo following eloquent tribute to bis mother, and notwithstanding its age it will bear reproducing : '1 had a Christian mother, my earliest recollections of whom was kneeling at her sido praying God to save a wayward father and husband. The mother taught me to speak tho truth when a ehild, and I have tried to follow her early teaohings in that respect. It would require a muoh larger book than this to tell the story of my lifo and the Bufferings of one of God's good angels?my mother. To her I owe everything?truth, honor and my very life. Her spirit seems to lingor near mo always ; she has been my guardian ang?l. In the eamp, tho cabin, tho field and the hospital, on tbo lonely trail hundreds of miles from civilization, in the pale-olad hills and lonely canyons. I have heard in the moaninv niorht winds and in the murmuring streamlets, The voice of my angel mother whispering soft and low. and these snored thoughts have nudo mo forgot at times that thero was no danger in my pathway. Nor will I ever forget The dav that we parted, mother and I, Never to meet on earth again ; fcdio to a happier home on high, In n poor wanderer on the plain. That day was perhaps the greatest epoch in my life. Kneeling by her bedside, with one hand clasped in tnino, tho other resting on my head, sho whispered, 'My boy, you know your mother lores you. Will you give me one promise, that I may take it up to heaven ?' 'Yes, yes, mother, I will promise you anything.' 'Johnny, my son, 1 aui dying,' said she, 'promise me you will never drink intoxicants, and then it will not bo to hard to leave this world.' Dear reader, need I tell you that I promisod 'yes,' and whenover I am asked to drink, that sceno ootnes up before me and I am safe.' Mark Twain Translates Wiohins. ?Washington, September 29.?'Mark Twain' has ontcrod the field of prediction, and publishes in the New York Sun to-day careful observe: A- result of the moat fixed stars during tho past two months, as affectod by the remarkable changes now going on in tho groat nebula in O. Cassiopeia, I am able to stAte with absoluto certainty thai by far the most awful disaster that has ever befallen tho globe since me creation win occur on toe third of Uctobcr at 6.42 in tho evening. The agent will be a meteoric stone, a meteoric world indeed, finco its muss will bo one-eighth as great as that of our own sphere. It will first come in sight abcut half-way between the constellation of the great Bear and the North Star, and will mako a circle of tho southern skies, and will then sweep northward with immeasurable rapidity, turning tho night of this whole continent into a red glaro of the most blinding intensity. As it approaches Canada it will make a majestic downward sweep in the direction of Ottawa, affording a spectaclo resembling a million inverted rainbows wovon together, and will take tho prophet Wiggins right in tlf scat of his inspiration and lift him straight up into the back yard of tho planot Mars and leave him permanently there in an inconceivably mashed and unpleasant condition. This can be depended on.' A Stiuckkn Vitit<aor.?(lalena, 111., September 111.?An epidemic prevails among the inhabitants of Avena, Iowa County, Wis., which has rosultod fatally in many cases. Tho disease is of tho nature r i . _ J! _ .L. J oi dysentery, cnaing, in mo cane 01 cmiaren, in spinal meningitis and death. Thus far it h is been confined to tho limits of the village and has necessitated the closing of the schools and tho abandonment of all public meetings. Tho diseaa: is similar to that which provailcd with such fatal effect in Galena a few years ago, and at Spring Green, Wis., iu 1881. Much alarm is felt. ?. Earthquake Shocks in Pennsylvania.?Philadelphia. September 29.?A sp. cial from Lancaster, Pa., says: 'The people of the borough of Elizabothtown wore badly frightened last night. About 11 o'clock two distinct shocks of earthquake woro felt. The shocks followed in quick succession, and scaroely had the sound died away when tho buildings swayed suflioi;ntly to cause doors and windows to rattle.' ? * A - r ...? I / II /v paicu oi imsucs cut wnen in iuii bio un and just before .1 rain was completely destroyed, according to a writer in an oxchange. The hollow stalks filled with ' water and decayed. Nearly HO,000 bushels of npplos were , sold in Canton, Conn., last fall for 30 cents I a bushel or less. Moat of thcui were shipped to England.