Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ ^ ^ Ifawt^d to 3ojrittItwn, Sortitultur^, fjom^stu dfronotug, folite literature, Jjolitits, and the Current Ueroa of the j|aij. =? ?=? .,, / . ? * .' '.i ,.i , , vou .*??^-awt,attttfc . - ** " ? union c. h.,south Carolina,Octobers, 1886. numbbiuo. **liniuwinii ** I married twfor* h? MtMa ? ??? ?* ? - ? 0? *?? McKissick Rangers. t a ibmii D?C V ' SO. 6. Wo wfB bow go Wok bo tk? doting oonn 01 Ediote Iilui, on the 19th of Mtnh '82. Bran bob are alwajo tender hearted ; oowardioo b ftp pafiat of owltj. The phlloeophy of the* aa?tfteao bo a? will pinny. oar troop Ml M, mad wort pa?lag the picket poet th Federal* wore holding, whoa do adtanood oi theen that morning, .wo found two Federe oldie? BortoDy wounded. Cel. Stereno had the? plaeed on litten mad brought off. On ooii?>d of die?ouated ? were la the rami M m? rtlmL We etune up with the Uttei btumjuttltor they- ted ??M*d Walt's Cut We roUored Ami and took thaifi of oao ot thf wounded man and carried htm to the boat ?kOup.. Aite?'* rioo mUL John Porter, Gilliam temn Mm fauoott apd mjootf woe in the tret relief. The other wounded mau died ou the litter, and was buried by our men at Genr. Alkea's summer house, on Jehoase Island. His name una John Sow p. He belonged to Co. K. 66th Pean. Regiment, the man we had briunged to the sane oourpaay and regiment. His name was Jonah Rltehey. From theee men we learned a good deal about the ettoers on the Island. The Federals had net lets than 6,000 men there then, and an ad* easts em our line had been contemplated. As W* adraaoed across the field, hi Nae ef battle, that morning the Federal line of two Regiments Ml book to another position, nnder oover of Ihsir hoary guns, leasing but a small foree to Abpute oar adranea, or report the strength of our eolamn. Wa had only about 800 men on the Island, and about the same number, or perhaps 1,000, on Jehosse Island, ready for any omtrgsaoy. We oreeaed with the wounded bum at Gor. Aiken's Hoe mill and plaoed him in an ambnlaaee, and ha was tarried to the hsapital at Adam'a Ron, where he died the Wll day. He was buried at the church below Adsa's Run, oa the road leading to While Point. I mention three Nets for the satisfaction of those who may want to know the fiate af the unfortunate men who fell into our handa that day. I AM . IIMI. -k * -? * ?WM VI my wore. 1 Will gC beek to Mir firat occupancy of JehoM# Island as pickets. Haf of the pioket force was infantry. Our M. dismounted, constituted the other half. Eaeh bad their own non-com missioned offioers. 1 ? lie?a la h.. o, 4k*4 "LW fUtaa. mvaalf and another man?Sergt. MoCreary, I think it wan?took a soout on Edisto Island." This, together with the presence of our picket force of about 30 or 85 men on Jehosse Island, drew out the Federals. Our advanced post was at Watt'eCat, ea which we kept about one-third of our men all the time. The river made a bead here, and we aad the Yankees?both on the same side?had a sheet of wator of 600 or 000 yards between ns. A company of Federals with long range guns, gave us a volley at that distance, knooking the dust up all around us. We returned the Are, but our lead did not reach them?foiling into the water away this Side. We threw tMMlhw acme M?lr? and ll? bn?port of m eld house that bed been standing there?and thin foraed u Improvised breastwork, behind which we 1ay down and walled fer them te adranoe within range of onr guns. This they took care not to do, at that The road we had to travel, to get to ear poet and back from picket headquarter*, ma along the rirer brink fb? nearly half a mile, and In trntHftlbg the same lit daylight we were eapoeed te the sharp dboettrs ef the enemy. We were eenftdsnt that the men we had et the poet brhiad (he embankment and fcreaetwork could Keep the whole ynakeearmy el bey, for n while at leait. They CeoM only adranoe by feore end we eeald kill every man they had before eonld get to us. 8# things remained for that dpg^. f ^ One non-cemmisntoned offioers were Corporal! George ffnikins nod Willinm 11. Jeter ; Gaorgt Watkins was on pest and had been nearly all 4>f. . Prints*, Adolphus K. Fant, Heary C Barrough*, Henry ft- Fowler, R. Gilliam Hm* Wppl^JfeEown and myself repre Whtte'ws MN l)fla| MM Mr br?^?twork?, hsMiag the* ?k*k jrukn MVJ kt bW, M W( >|nwi^MWi* w?a%.#ehtag Mr then to com WW oa- the rirei MM. On ten side ww the shror, on the asaM^rrr ? HUWdthki* We WW* la pffeta view of th< , ganboai alt the Urn*. Henry Burroughs, think Sh? eesld nake the ferry sooner, plunged Un narish, si nest disappearing at every p. Oreatly astonished, an old negro, body ysenl at Ka-Oov. Aiken, exolainsd ; Look a ' lit elite nan, hoes. He make de nod flj tfkab* 'gates (attgator). What an be nonet* fWl l%a?teM Ma Me mm was 'Cdptaii *"*Btadh Bagge." The negro exetstned "Leer* ()mssy, bowl I heara ole nassa read abon t dM tmm leag tiaw ego." Vron this olroum staaee Beery Burroughs nan dubbed "Capt d'tl Bpggp," which lasted si leag as he llwd. '** 4 Hoaigr Bbrrovgb, wm ? ninn md ??bl< 1 '1*tu* mm, m4 imii tbMgbt or b/ tw *bo know kill, fib rfoo mortally wraodw tfjftp 4*J ibbidMOnU Uo anrroitdorod. BL ?M MMOg tho tart livoo giraa to (bo "loo OrtMi." Aa tb? Confodorato li|WMidivBi ^jfypoaaattox C. H? V*., lb# immortal opirU o Htory c. Burroughs took ilo flight to the Qo< irho fOTt it. CortptmU?oly a jooag m; Jna 1 ?u? ??iu?j ; sou naT- ( endured the hardships of army life fbr I a nearly four yeera, his case was the more to be t regretted. Should theee lines fell under the I a eyee of his widow, family or friends, they will t please accept the assuraoee of one who knows 1 that Henry C. Burroughs died a soldier, a gentle- p man, and, T trust, a christian. He was lored s and respected by all who knew him. t I Corporal George Watkins was a brave man c , and.made a splendid executive non-commisB stoned officsr. His health was bad and he was b , not able for active service long. He was a n , member of the first 8. C. Regiment, under C i Col. Maxy Gregg, and joined the I'MeKissiok * 1 Rangers" afterwards. <1 I A laughable incident oocurred at Camp Tayp lor. We reached there about dark. It was in 81 a grove of large trees^ mostly water oaks. Next ? r morning we cleared oJf the ground and arranged " our tents. Quite a number of squirrels were P r up the trees, and t>e?*n to get restless and u hungry. Joeiah Thomas had a ncgio boy, John T . ?no one ever knew where he got liim, but most of us thought he was stolen?who was r making every effort to show a squirrel to George D (pup) Rochester, without avail. At last he said, with great earnestness, "Mas. pup, look 81 on yon limb." George sprang upon the inno- 01 I, osnt negro, exolaiming, "dad burn you, sir," who are you oalling pup." The boy begged 8< pitifully, exolaiming, "oh ! pray I Mas pup 1" " "Please Mas pup" "Please Mas pup" and so 81 on. At last Dolph Fant got George to deaist. The boy had only been in camp a few days 01 and never heard Rochester called by any other " name than "pup," ooasequently no disrespeot was Intended. At this same oamp Jimmy Heron was made 0 Corporal of the guarJ, pro ttm. The privates ?' concluded to hsve some fua out of Jimmy that C( night. Dolph Fant posted the rest and made Vl known tbo plan, to which they all readily 8( agreed. Is was this: They were to call for 81 the "oorporal of the guard" at eueli a number, and juat before Jimmy got there another guard was to oall, and so on indefinitely. It was one w of those dark. <lri??lv i: / ?5?* pv?uil*l Ml IUQ ooast region. Soon the fun begnn by tho guard ^ catling at Post No. 1. The call was extended Tl all around the camp?a continuous call from " poet to post far a considerable length of time, 01 Jimmy could be heard falling over stamps and r' other obstaoles. At last he fell flat over a P stamp and exclaimed in a load, listiact Toioe, Ul "Dora the ooorpooral of tho giard," and im- w mediately offered hie resignation to tho proper authorities. oi Before Joe Iawsou brought hie alligator into * camp a number of dogs had been collected '' tl O ..I U. .L. k.l. Ik. 'gator by instinct?after him and caused the whole or nearly the entire regiment of horses to stampede. \ ? We had a Frenchman (Capt. Duboae) to 11 drill us io the aabre exercise. We had a great 01 deal of fun out of him. He rode a little pony, ? and the men would ride all over him and his ^ peny on drill, and oomplain that their horses were unmanagable. The dexterity with which 11 he could use a sabre or bayonet was surprising. * It-was a long time before we could understand ^ his commands. He would do all the talking ^ (what little was done), which ran about this way: "Ten ehaun gompany. Yen I says ^ dhraw sahe, you doo dees. Und yen I xays, , Pee-saunt xabe, you doo dees. Den you gount de motions dees say?yon, doo, dhree, Tore. t New ten : Ten ehaua company. Pee taunt xabe, ' on, doo, dhree. Garry tabs, Ton. Aganst enfantree, ride, parry, Ton, doo, dhree, yore. ((c Dat ish not ride. ?fe you do decs, und dees, 0 you yill gut you 'oraes 'cad, und efe you doo dees, yen Till gut hees dail. You must parry * mit te pack ot your tabo, dees ray?tod, doo, ^ dhree, Tore," and so on al infinitum. I was , a?mA .i Ti? %r.n..ii....k ?J-- w- " MHW Vim MVUU1IUUUH UUQ ubjt iiu wan drilling on horseback. Jim oouldu't understand the command, ar did not want to. The l' Frenchman told him he would drill him for a half an hour, or melee him perform a certain *' evolution. Jim told him if he did he would ^ have te get eomebodj to tell him what to do, for he oould not understand a d?n word he 1' ' said. e We had several sham battle* with the infantry. 1 1 Ws were supplied with blank cartridges and they weuld firs at us when our caralry would J 1 oharge on tham. This part of the drill was for t " the benefit of onr horses, which it was desired ? ' to make familiar with the rattle of muskotry. 1 Few people, only those who have seen U tried, 3 , have any idea w hat pride a horse has for mill- 0 ? tary life. After one er two charges our horses d ? had a desire to rath through the lines of the in- t I fantry, and many riders came near being bayo- 1 ; netted by the horse's desire to charge through 1 > the line. i I will go bask to Jehosse Ieiaod and finish I * 1 my narrative. Whea ws west there on pioket ' ws arranged to stay, at least a week, it was ' ' not often that a soldier oould pnt up a week's d rations and make it last him that long, so we * ' were often without, or had to got them the 1 1 hoot way ws eoold. I will say here that the 1 issue waa sufficient to bovo dose us, but wo 6 I .. ... - - ? woma 11 oi (axe proper oire, and consequently * got out sometimes. Ono Sunday, David Orr ^ and iuyself undertook to provide for our piok- ' etc, who were eat ef something to eat. We found an old negro on the leland, who let us * have about a peek of Qorn?hard, flinty core, ? such as is raised in that section. We took it to a a hand mill, the upper stone ef whioh was about 1 the eixe of a common grindstone, the nether 1 was confined in a bench made fer the purpose. 1 The upper stone was Qotoontyed in sny wsy, 1 only by s rim to keep it in plsee. Near the I s periphery of this uppar etons was a hols in which a long stick was inserted, the end of i k which wes in a hois in * beam ererhesd. i s Oraeping the stick near the mill stone with ene i { hand we turned it, and with the other fed t k the adil. In this wey we ground ear oorn ] f late grMs, thet many experienced millers l 1 couldn't best. We got some milk from an eld i I negro woman and returned to oar picket head* inarfers. We pat oar grits oa to oook, at the atne time we pat aboat a gallon of rioe oa la he same way. Before the rice got done it had welled so that we had to take some of it oat of he vessel ia which we were oookiag it, and we :ept taking it oat antil we bad filled all the dates and oups we had, and then had to throw ome out to make room for the rest to oook. I hink we had a bushel of rise when we got done ooking It. Some of the men said they didn't iko mash and sweet milk to some of as ad to "worry" down the grits and sweet lilk, while others took the rioe and Nassau rary. This was a Sunday's work. We oonidered it the work of neoessity and oonseluently no disrespect for the Sabbath. It was perhaps that same evening that three souls oame to us and took rooms in the upper art of Gov. Aiken's summer house, la whichre were quartered. We didn't like their apearanoe, and ooneiudcd they were spies. The pper part of the building was looked up. hey had a key, and this was conclusive evience that they were "all right." They were Uher a "dandy" set, and, of course, we had ot muoh time for them. They had a spy glass, fa would go up stairs and through this glass se tho yankees drilling on big Edisto. We suld see the stripes on their uniforms.. Other roops flirther awsy on the Island we couldn't ee so plainly. We counted rixatands of colors dthin two miles of us. As I have already lid, thoso men occupied the upstairs in Gov. liken's summer house while our picked ooipiod the lower part. They had just retired 'hen the relief rem* In r-?? " < s Henry Ellis Fowler set his gun down the ammer struck something end sent tho Whole , ad of fifteen buckshot through the ceiling rerhead, and some of them stuok fast in the tiling over the upper room. This aroused our sitors who came down stairs in a hurry to ;e what it meant. Everything was explained id they retired again. As our shotguns were not sufficient to reach 10 Federals, who were in the habit of coming itliin range of us with their improved guns and eeping us hugging the ground for hours at me, we concluded to turn the tubles on them. he shotguns were the vory things we wanted, they would attempt to cross Watt's Cut. From ir infantry we got a lot of the best Enfield ties they had, and kept them on tho picket ost, and when the Federals camo up to annoy i again, we drove them off in a hurry. This as on the 18th day or April '62, and we never id any more trouble with them while we stayed l Jehosse Island. Soon after this our men ere withdrawn, and for the remainder of the me that we stayed on the coast we had peace, tcept on the 1st and .Id of Juno '62 which I in Ten you aoout nere*i,.w On the 3d day of April, '02, Gov. F, W. i ickens reviewed our command. Early that lorning we were ordered to prepare for a 'genral review by the Governor,' and by 10 o'clock ' v? j wuu HUU 1IUIOU OUIO IU1 Od VlViVs n IMS IU no, armed and equipped, and marched to the rill grounds of the infantry. Our cavalry, ifantry and artillery were all in line by 1*2 m., hen the Governor, with hi-t aids and General vans, rode up. Gov. Pickens was a man of ne personal appearanoe. They came np on le right of the command. The cavalry were tt tho right of the line; then the infantry and le artillery on the left. In line there was bout 1,G00 men. The commands were in two inks. As they approached, the command >resent sabre' was given, and the samo was secuted as if by automatic force. Then the lear voice of Col. Stevens, that prince of offers, rang out in front of the infantry, 'present rms.' I could not hear the command on the xtreme left. The Governor and his attondants ben rode down the line, his hat in his handle eyed every man so closely that some thought e knew how many buttons were on our coats, 'hey rode down in front and baok in rear of be line. He then took a position and the comsand marched 'in review ' by platoous. Then he command was brought up in front of him y companies, and he spoke as follows .* 'Fellow-soldiers, and citiieos of South Caroina and the Confederate 8tates of America : I ongratulate you, officers and soldiers of the loleombe Legion, upon your effoiency in tho everal branches of the military service which 'eu represent. The perfeotion of your alignnent and the celerity with which tho several ommands of your officers are executed, is satsffietory evidenoe to me that those to whom 'our instruction in the military art and science f war has keen committed, have done their luty. Your command is endeared to me by a I le that is as 4**r to me as life itself, and I rnst a glorious fstnre is in reserve for it. War n alt ill riililin ia niwn ita mi) aa mn?l m"l t or disgrace our day and generation. Your acampment le within sound of the enemy's ^uns, And almost within range of their shells, is the Chief Kxeoutivo of your State, it is my luty to suggest to you the propriety of your mlistment for and during the war. Our comoon enemy has intrenched himself upon the il of our sistor State, Virginia, and you are adled upon to aid in driving him off. Will 'on do it T Fellow-soldiers, and sons of South Carolina, I feel assured that in every bosom beore lae, thai oall will find a responsive heart," During his speech the Governor was ohoered A almost every sentence. He was plainly and isatly dressed in oitisen's clothing. As be ipoke he swayed beak and forth addressing limself to the diflTerent oommandx. He rode a large dark bay horse. There was nothing in lis specoh or in his actions to indicate that ho ess of that 'blood and thunder' stamp, ehataoteristio of the Southern speakers in those days. After this the work of reorganising began, which, practically, amounted to nothing with u, except the change in officers. Hut few en who were ever the age took advantage of ike 'Conscript act' and went home. Some, however, whose business demanded their attention, did not re-enlist. We got about as many en bank as we lost. Our eld company eemntssioned officers were: I. 0. MoKissick, Captain ; Mabry Thomas, lot Lieutenant; John W. Crlde, 2d Liiatmit, and John W. Palmer, 3d Lientenant. Non-commissioned offioers were: John R. Smith, Orderly (1st) Sergeant; E. L. Ninter, 2d Sergeant ; G. II. Jeter, 3d Sergeant; Wee. Long, 4th Sergeant; O. G. Rodger*, 6th Sergeant. Corporals?William H. Jeter, 1st; Geo; Watkins, 2d; Robt. Little, 3d; T. T. Black, 4th. At tho reorganization the following is the list of offioers: I. O. McKISSICK, Captain. Jno. W. Palmer, 1st lieutenant. - G. H. Jeter, 2<1 Lieutenant. O. G. Rodgers, 3d Lieutenant. R. C. Farr, 1st (orderly) 8ergeant. Joseph W. Leech, 2d Sergeant. M. S. Porter, 3d Sergeant. H. C. Kenner, 4th Sergeant. y Wm. K. Thomas, 5th Sergeant. Corporals?W. J. Crocker, 1st; J. McKissiok J. Going, 2d ; Gideon Keaslsr, 3d ; C. M. Whitlock, 4th. As casualties occurred there were changes made in the above list, but this is as it was at our reorganization in 18G2. The following is a list of tho namss of members of the company, from first to last : Abrams, W G Kennedy, Win M Abrams, Jerry Kelly, J G Atchison, Jas L Leech, E Morgan ""Burroughs, Henry C Little, II C Dlack, T T Little, Wm Blake John Little, Thomas Brannon. John 11 Hrannon, Wm Long, JaoM lilackwell, Wm Lawson, Robt Bailey, Wm McQ Lawaon, Joseph Bailey, George Lynn, Matthew 8 Brown, James Lee, D Shelton Briggs, Lafayette MitoheU, Lock art Bell, Joseph MitoheU, Andrew Chnndlor, Goorgo Mitchell, John W Chandler, Sam'l McDowell, D II Comer, George. McKown, J Wealey Col ton, John E McKown, James Camp, Jas J McKown, Sam'l Dean, Job Millwood, Franklin Dcas, Robt W Millwood, Tillman Donald, James A Miller, Jones Dew. Robt Mobley, I M Fowler, Wm. Good, MoDaniel, Sims Fowler, Charles X Nance, Jesse Fowler, Jr, Thos Nance, John Fowler, Shelton Orr, David Fowler, John Odell, John Fowler, Henry R Palmer, Jr., John W Fowler, Goorge Torter, J Simpson FmoI, Adolphus E Porter, H Sylvanus Fant, Napoleon Park, Jefferson Fant, Jos Robinson, Benj Fact, George Robinson, David Fauoetf, John . Rochester, George Going, Wm G W Reynolds, Wm Gore, Thompson Rodgers, Thos J Garner, Asbury Scales, Thos II Gregory Wm Soales, Sam'l Gregory. Gerard Strain. James L Gault, Thos G Savage, William (UUjam, Thomaa Knith, James A tfWirrAt, Penn' '* ' steen, Thomas -Harrij, George Steen, Wm Heron, Jas G Tlioma?, Josiah Hughes, T Jeflf Thomas, John Hughes, Wm R Thomas, R Gilliam Holder, James Taylor, John Harlan, Wm Thompson, Riohard C Billiard, Tinsley, James Ison, Charlie Tinsley, Ransom Ison, MoSwain Vaoghan, Wm J Ison.TJaok Woolbright, Seaberry Jeter, Singleton Wicker, Wm M Jeter, John R Wil'ard, C J Jeter, James B Wood, Thomas t u;_. - * " ?i)ui?^niii | tiooa, r.rrin Johnson, Calvin Wood, T J Jenkins, Robt Uses. ? An Anory Carolinian.?Washington, Sopt, 21.?A funny scene wu9 witnessed on Pennsylvania avenuo last night. A seedy looking individual, tail, firey eyed, keen and interesting, was talking in a most demonstrative manner to a friend. 'To-day, sir,' said the tall man, 'I sold all uiy law books for $16. By , sir, sold them to a niggor, sir. Sold $100 worth of law books to a nigger. Isn't that humiliation for a South Carolina democrat ? 1 have spent a year and four months here. I camo hero toon after 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 in the State, ilis father was equally highly honored. Our family is ono of tho oldest in the South, and hero 1 am to-diy, sir, with $16 in my poekct and vengeance in my heart. I came here a year and four months ago with the prouiiso of a good place. I was tokl to wail. Again and again I was told to wait only a few days or a week! I have been waiting all theso wceki and months. A it M- T ujuuui u^'j fir. ijimar pent me a note paying that he had a position For mo in the interior department. I presented myself and learned that I was temporarily to be put on the labor roll, with the prospeet of a two thousand dollar place in the oonrso of a few months. Well, that was not particularly inviting to me, a professional man, and a man from a family which had never stooped to menial labor, but I took the place. What do you suppoao they set me to doing ? Washing spittoons, air, in the basement? just like a nigger. By , sir, I worked for a month like a nigger cleaning epittoous, and that for 950 a month. Yesterday my soul revolted against the nauseating work for onco and for all, and I determined that I would not aubmit to such an outrage. To-day I resigned and to-morrow I go home. May God strike me dead if I ever set foot in this town sgain.' This inoidnot, dramatic and tanoiful as it my appear, is one that actually occurred.?Stray Special. Tincture of iodine is good to put on oorns to rolievo the soreness and to keep them front forming if put on in time. Se A Grkat Storm in Tkxas.?Si. Louis, September 29.?Adviees from the south- 1 western coast of Texas, particularly in tbe i region south of the Rio Grande, and from i some interior points, giro accounts of i great rain storm and much destruction of i property during the past week. From Soptember 21 to 23 a tremendous rain storm i and hurricane swept over the vieinity of i Brownavillo, Texas, including Matamoraa. i Twenty-six inobes of rain fell up to the i night of the 23d, and the wind is said to I have reached a velocity of nearly one hundred miles per hour. Over two hundred houses in Brownsville were blown down and a large number dam* aged, renderingiiomeless some three hnn-* dred families. In Matamoras over three i hundred houses wero levelled and many 1 were injured. The entire rear part of the t city, embracing over thirty blooks, was ) flooded to a depth of from three to eight < feet, and tho peoplo living there were ; resouod only with tho greatest difficulty. 1 All telegraph linos were blown down, and the Rio Grande and Matamoras and Monterey Railroads wero washed out, and traffie < has notyot been restored. All the surround- ' tog country was inundated, many houses < were blown down and crops were destroyed. There is great suffering in both Matsmorst and Brownsville. In the latter place fully one hundred and fifty families are destitute, and in tho former two hundred families are j homeless and in want. Rolief measures < have been adopted, and a largo amount ef < food and money has been raised and is being | distributed. I At Point Isabel tho quarantine station | was swept away and other damage dons, j A four-masted steamer was wrecked fifty , miles south of the mouth of the Rio { Grande, and is said to be a total loss. Her < captain and crew wero saved. At Colorado, Texas, the river has risen twenty-fiva feet, and at last ncoounts was i still rising. All tributory creeks are over- | flowing, aud largo sections of eonntry are submerged. -Very heavy rains have fallen in other sections, and much apprehension is felt for the safety of property. Harbor Island Submerged.?Galtion from Harbor Isliud sinco the galo of last Tuesday was r.-e last night. The island was entirely iu.iuJ .* V hut the inhabitants escaped. Capt. Newman, of the schooner Coquette, with three men was thrown into tho water by the eapsising of their yawl boat, and the captain and one other man wore drownod. A special to the News from San Antonio says : A train was wrcokod on tho Southern Pacific west of hore yesterday. Horace Daniels, engineer, was killed and a ! fireman and a breakeman wero badly injured. Nitro-Glyckrine.?Chicago, September 29.?Tho Eocnimj Journal to-day publishes a cass of romarkable resuscitation from supposed death of a young married woman, named Mrs. Frasor. On July 20 last Mrs. Frazor cave birth to ?hil<l ?/> in August, after soveral d iys' illoess, was pronounced dead by tbo attending physician. Dr. Mark H. Lackersteeu, who was also attending Mrs. Fraser, says : I did everything I could think of to restore life, without effect. Ten minutes must have elapsed, although at the tims I was not in a position to watch the passage of time. Then it suddenly struck me tint [ would like to try a hypoiermic injection of this solution of nitro-glycerioo. I took up ton drops of it and let the supposed corpse have tho full benefit of it. Tho 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 almost 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 pulso could be felt. In the , third minute there wero eighteen respirations, and tho pulse booame distinctly perceptible at the wrist. In the fourth minute it was 180 and upward, so that it oould not be counted. Her face flashed. Her eyes began to roll in their sockets, all the muscles relaxed from the extreme stiffaess of death, all contractions of the litnbs gradually relaxed and she beoame conscious. In my opinion io all oas^s of shock or collaps this thing ought to be tried beforo they are given over for lost. There is nothing peculiar or sensational about it at all. The only thing ia I have been the first person to try it. One point is that solution of aloobol and nitro-giycerino Is a remedy which Tor some little time has been used for epilepsy and things of that sort, and for some forms of kidoey trouble also. It has effect on the blood rcsseU. We give it in doses of ono drop, drop aod a half, two drops, or may be three drops ia seaae eases. We give it through the* mouth. It was never before given hypodermics My, so for as I am aware, until I made the trial with sucoess.' A Beautiful Tribute.?Captain Jack Crawford, one of tbe boMal and bravest coats that mr traveled tbe plains, pays the following eloqaent tribute to bis Bother, and nothwithstanding its age it will bear reprodneing: 'I had a Christian mother, my earliest rcoollectione of whom was kneeling at her tide praying God to save a wayward Mier and husband. The mother taaght me to peak the truth when a child, and I hate tried to follow her early teaehiogs in that respect. It would require a much larger book than this to tell the story of my life and the suffirrings of one of God's angels?my mother. Te her I owe everything?troth, boner and my very 1Mb. Her spirit seems to linger near me always ; she has been my guardian angvl. In the eamp, the cabin, the field and the hospital, on the lonely trail hundreds of miles from oiviiisa lion, io the pale-olad hilb and lonely eanjrooi, I have beard in the moaning night winds and in the mnrmnring streamlets, The roiee of ay angel mother whispering soft and low. ind these saered thoughts hare made me forget at times that there was no daoger io my pathway. Nor will I ever forget The day that we parted, mother and I, Never te meet om earth again ; She to a happier hemeoa high, la a poor waaderor en the plain. That day waa perhapa the greatest epoch in my life. Kneeling by her bedside, with sne hand clasped in mine, the other resting >n my head, she whispered, *My boy, yon know your mother lores yon.' Will yon give me one promise, that I may take it op to hearen ?' 'Yea, yes, mother, I will promise yon anything.' 'Johnny, my son, I am lying,' aaid she, 'promise me you will never drink intexioants, and then it will not be so hard to leave this world.' Dear reader, need I tell yon that I promised 'yes,' and whenever I am asked to drink, that seene comes ?p before me and I am safe.' Mark Twain Translator WiaaiNs. ?Washington, September 29.?'Mark Twain' has entered the fteld of prediction, and publishes in the New York Sun to-day careful obser^JA' ^"wnltof the moat fixed stars during the past two months, as affected by the remarkable change* bow going on io tho great nebnhi ia k Cassiopeia, I am able to state with absolute oertaioty that by far the moat awfol disaster that has ever befallen the globe since the oreation will oeenr on the third of October at 6.42 in tha evening. The agent will bo a meteoric atone, a meteoric world indeed, since its mass will be ooo-eighth as great as that of our own sphere. It will first come in sight about half-way between the constellation of the great Bear and the North Star, and will make a oirole of the southern skies, and will then sweep northward with immeasurable rapidity, turning the night of this whole oontinent into a red glare of the most blinding intensity. As it approaches Canada it will make a majestic downward sweep in the direction of Ottawa, affording a speotacle resembling a million inverted rainbows woven together, and will take the prophet Wiggins right in the seat of his inspiration and lift him straight up ioto the back yard of the planot Mars and leave him permanently there in an inconoeivably mashed and unpleasant condition. This can be depended on.' A Strickk* ViLt.aoa.?Galena, 111., September 13.?An epidemie prevails among the inhabitants of Avena, Iowa County, Wis., whioh has resultod fatally in many oases. The disease is of the nature of dysentery, ending, in the ease of children, in spinal meningitis and death. Thus far it has been confined to the limits of the village and has necessitated the eloeing of the schools and the abandonment of all publio meetings. The diseea; is similar to that which prevailed with sueh fatal effect in Galena a few years ago, and at 8priog Green, Wis., in 1884. Muoh alarm is felt. Earthquake 8fiocks ik PeitfiavLVAnia.?Philadelphia. September 21*.?A special from Lancaster, Pa., says: 'The people of the borough of Elisabethtown wero badly frightened last night. About 11 o'olook two distinct shocks of earth quake were felt. The eboeks followed in quiek succession, and eearoely had the sound died a way when the bniMiags swayed suffinisntly to cause doors and windows to rat tie.' A pitch of thistlos cat when la full bloom ind ju?t before a nin waa completely destroyed, according to a writer in an exchange. The hollow etalka SIM with water and decayed. Nearly 30,000 bushels of spflw were sold in Caatow, Conn., last fall for 30 cents a bushel or leas. Moat of thcai were I shipped to Kagtaad.