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XVIII?New Sebies. J* ? UNION C. H? SOUTH CAROLINJuLpRlL 1, 1887. NUMBER 13.
Catching thb Octopus.?The United
States Fish Commission print in one of
their recent bulletins an exoellent report
bj Mrs. Emma Metoalf Becklj, Curator of
the Hawaiian National Museoty), on "Hawaiian
Fishing Implements and miothods of
fishing." The writer gives soma curious
details about octopus fishie^^he smaller
kinds of octopus, whiohilive in shallow
water, arc caught by WSmon, who do tbeir
work with remarkable skill. They can
tell whether ap octopus is in a hole whose
entrance.is no larger than a silver dollar,
and, plugging their spears in, they invariably
draw ono out. The larcer kinds of
/Octopus, which are always found in deop
f water, ore caught by moo with cowries,
J generally of the Mauritians, but sometimes
of the tiger species. An octopus will not
rise to a large spotted or ugly cowry, so
thc^ fishermen have to take care that the
spots en the back of the shell are very
small and red, breaking through a reddish
brown ground. Cowries with suitable
spots, but objeotional otherwise, are slightly
steamed ever a fire of sugar cano husks,
a process which gives them the desired
hue. The fisherman, having arrived at
his fishing grounds, first ohews and spits ou
the water a mouthful of candle nut meat,
whioh renders the water glassy and dear';
he then drops the shell with hook and line
into the water, and swings it over a place
1iKr?l? fn Ka inKkKitorl Ko *n a?Ia?mio
?? ? ?? ~J ? ? ? '?
moment an octopus perceives a oowry, it
ahoota an arm oat and olaapa tho shell. If
the shell is of the attractive kind, one arm
after the other oomea out, and finally the
whole body of the octopus ia withdrawn
from the hole, and attaches itself to the
oowry, whioh it closely hags, curling itself
all aroand it: The creature remains very
quiet while being rapidly drawn up
through the water. Just aa it reaches the
surface, the fisherman polls the string so
as to bring its head against the edge of the
eanoe, and it is killed by a blow from a
olub whioh is straok between the eyes.
This mast be done rapidly, before the animal
has time to be come alarmed for if it lets 1
go the cowry it becomes a dangerous antagonist,
and there is a risk of the fisherman beiqg
squeezed to death. The cutting off of ,
one or more of its eight arms does not affect '
the rest in the least.
Trkatmbnt or Hoc Ciiolbra.?For 1
the benefit of all whom it may concern, I i
will give my reesnt experience with hog 1
cholera, how I got the remedy, the oircum- I
stances conneoted with it and the result of i
treatment. About the first of last November
my hogs wore dying daily with cholera.
In faot, up to that timo I had lost every
009 of my young pigs and nearly all or my
younger hoga. I had my meat hoga shut
op and separated entirely from thoso that
were infected with tho disease, but vary
soon those commenced to get siok and die,
not one that was taken sick recovering, but
dying in tho short space of ten hours.
While all of this destruction was goiog^ on,
I received my November number of the
Southern Cultivator, and in searching
through its columns I came upon the fol- i
owing cure for hog cholera: "Tho Dawson,
Goorgia, Journal states that Mr. Bob
Murray, one of tho most relinblo planters
of Calhoun county, told of a euro cure for i
hog colors that ho was usiug. Several i
years ago Mr. Murray's bogs wore dying
in large numbers with cholera, nod he |
oheoked its ravages by mixing with their
food a modorato quantity of soda. A few
days ago cholera ogaio attacked his hogs, |
and he lost twelve in one day. He at once <
began giving soda and ho has not had a !
heg to dio since." j
While reading the above in tho Cultiva.
tor, my wife oamo in and told me that two i
V more of my large meat hogs had just died
and throe more were sick. In loss than
fifteen minutes after receiving this information
my hogs were eating ground food
with a liberal quantity of soda and salt
mixed togeihor. The three sick hogs just
meDtionod wero not so bad but that they
eat some and got well. For ten daya following
I gave all my hogs a liberal quantity
of tbo mixture, at first twice a day; I
have continued to giro it occasionally up
to this time, and no# I am able to state,
with pleasure, that I have not bad a siok
hog on my place sinoe giviog t'leui the
first dose of soda and salt mixture; now
over iwo Dion wis ago. x win mriner stale
that having been so fortunate as to see this
cholera oore iu tho Southern Cultivator.
and having tested its virtue full)', 1 do not
heaitato to say that I consider it worth
more to mc than twenty timo tbo subscription
price that I paid for your excellent
farm journal. W. K. Cbosswell:
Mannville, S. C:
The Savannah Newt thinks that the
women who are trying to bring about a
reform in dress will never realise* their
hopes until they succeed in preventing tho
trimmings of a $1 dress from costing 915.
Something Ki.se Comino.?According
to tho Interior, another moral question is
coming into politics, which will undoubtedly
raise a pre' ty stiff "breeze of moral indignation.
S'.ys the Interior:
'A father might to day tramp all orer
Chicago with a son who wanted to learn an
honest trade, so as to bccomo a useful citizen,
and fail, unless ho took him to the
Manual Training School and paid tuition
for him. Hundreds of horn nrn nnw itina
taught'handicraft at the expanse of fathers
who can afford to pay for it. 13ut let a
poor man's son try it, and ho will be met at
the door of the factory or. shop by a walking
delcgato of the Kuighta of Lab^r* and
tamed away. If that docs not do), his
young face will be bruised by brutal fists,
and so will the faces of those who stand by
him. If anyone supposes that there is
any limit to this kind of opposition?any
point at which The would-be monopolists of
labor would draw the line of limitation upon
themselves?he docs uot understand depraved
human nature. If individual liberty
to acquire skill and earn bread and
oontrol earnings is aot protected by law,
and by rcsoluto public sentiment behind
that law, then a region of absolute lawlessness
is visiblo not very far distant in
the future. The disbarred classes on ono
hand and the employing classes on the
other will join hands, and Gght for their
rights. The violence will not very long be
all upoa one side, and the violcnco which i
baa human liberty and rights back of it will <
win. We aro always glad to seo a tyran
nical and hearties? employer forced to do i
right by 'organized labor,' but when or- i
ganized labor determines to rob the American
boy of bis birthright, then it is evoking i
moral and material foroea against itself <
which will not fail to beat it to pieces.
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Preparing and Manuring Land for
Corn and Cotton.?I have thirty-five
aores of what we call in this oouutry hammock
land, lies near the Ocmulgeo river;
it is a deop, coarse aand with pipo clay subsoil,
produces very well without any '
fertilizers, makes tho best peas I ever saw, 1
any and all kinds, the poa vines will grow as 1
tall as tho corn staiks and cover the ground. <
Vh* UiH Jaj }
stand of hog weeds from threo to four feet 1
high. I am breaking his land with a two 1
horse Oliver Chill plow from four to six c
inches deep, will have a good coat of the
hog weeds and will finish breaking about i
first of March. I wish to plant twenty t
acres in corn, peas and ground peas and i
fifteen acres in cotton. What fertilizers :
would you suggest that would givo mo the I
largest yield of tho orops I have mentioned 1
and would bo tho least expensive ? How t
woul i Furman's formula do for both crops ? We
mix it here 1,250 pounds of acid phos 1
pbatc, 500 pounds of cotton seed meal and. 1
250 pounds of kainit. Is this correct ?
What mode of planting is best? IIow I
would opening the furrows, with a fourteen <
inoh straight shovel nine inches wide, do for 1
corn, put in six-foot rows and plant the ]
corn three and three and a half feet apart I
and cover with harrow ? This leaves the <
corn when it come up from four to six i
inches down in the furrow. Then culti- '
vato with twouty-two inch sweep first, last I
and all. Would the acid phosphato iojuro ;
the seed corn to put it in together ? '
Would two hundred pounds of tho formula
per acre make good crop with fair seasons ?
How would 200 pounds of the formula
por acre do for tho cotton ? Would four
feet bo too wido for tho cotton rows and |
shop it one foot to fifteen inches in drill ? ,
I am not able to tro cxtonsivolv into fartil
iaers, but oxpsot to cultivate thoroughly.
Plesso advise me best way possible, aud any ,
puggcslious will be thankfully received.? .
\V. H. H., Jiullards, Ga. ,
Answer.?Tbo plans you havo outlined ,
for corn and cotton are very good. The |
fex tilixor you suggest is also good, but for ,
cotton, especially it would probably be bet
ter to decrease the ootton seed meal a litt le-- |
ay to 350 pounds in placo of 500 pounds. .
We should rather fear too much weed oa
uoh land as you describo, and cotton seed (
meal tends to make weed. For corn, your
proportions would do well. We do not
know an; better manure than tho mixturo
rofcrrcd to, or any equally good, which is
as choap. It is vory complete manure, and
with slight variations is adapted to most
crops and most soils. Tho only objection
to plauting corn in deep furrow (water farrow)
is tho liability of its being drowned
out by heavy rains, or of having a crust
formed over it before it comes np. It is
probably teller to cover with double-foot
plow instead of harrow, but in either case
bo sura to cover vory shallow. Would not
pat acid phosphate directly in contact with
grain. Two hundred pounds of tho fertiliser
por aero in drill is very good manuring.
Four feet rows would bo none too wide for
catton ou such land.?Southern Cultivator.
\ Gang Or Female Horse Thieves.
I ?Aurora, Iod., March 22.?Mr. Britten,
of the Indiana Horso Thief Detective Secret
Service Force, spent a few hoars in
the city yesterday on official business, and
among other matters, related briofly the
history of a horse thief rendoivous just
across the border, on the Illinois side, that
be had assisted in breaking np. Ths placo
was run by a wouian and her two daughtnra
In ?f ?J. J-.1I!
?u *uu iviii vi moil mvao unvhiujj
was a dense thicket ,covering many acres
of ground. In this thick copse the animals
that wero stolen from timo to time
werosecretcd.
The absenoo of any men folka aided in
throwing suspicion from the lono women
and tboir humble home was never believed
to bo tho resort of some of tho worst horse
thieves in the country, and only through
the confession of a convicted membor of
the gaug woro the officers mado awars of
the character of tho unsuspected place.
When a descent was made on the bouse the
girls were there alone, and were placed under
arrest, but one of them succeeded in
discharging a gun, and soon thereafter the
mother emmerged from the thicket
near tho house, but on discovering
the officers sho fled back into the copse,
and although the officers gave chase, she
eluded thorn, and by fireing several shots
from her retroat, checked their continued
pursuit. Determined to capture her, the
arresting party spread out along tho edgo
of tho wooded tract and cautiously essayed
to penetrate from different directions. Suddenly
the woman dashed out along a narrow
path on horsebaok, riding man fashion.
As quick as the men coald mount their
animals they followed the fugitive female,
who rode as fearlessly as a vetoran trooper.
Failing to cateh , her, the offioers openod
Sre upon her, and not until they had galloped
scvoral miles and wounded her so
badly that sho fell from her panting horse,
were they able to effect her capture.
Then, as soon us she recovered sufficiently
to speak, sho swore at them and offered
resistance until handouffed and tied to a
mat in a wagon. A revolver with its
jonquer her, and she was lauded in jail as
lefiant as an Indian.
A physician pronounced her iujuries
lot serious, and sho may live to serve out
i good sentence. The animal sho was riding
had keen stolen from Marion County,
ind in the thicket when investigated, thirteen
horses were found secreted, all of
which wero believed to have been stolen,
iwners having been found for five of them.
D? J P J 1 *' * *
l'wuu was iouuu storca la mo wooas, and
:wo buggies that had boon taken to pieces
and covered up.
The appearance of tbo place indicated
that it had probably been used a number
>f years aaadopot for atolon animals, bo to
kept until they could bo successfully disposed
'f, tbo women taking care of the
beast::, a ;J receiviug a share of the prooeeds,
as something over 9800 was found
in tho houso and a numbor of stolen articles.
This, said tho detective, was one of the
best captures wo mado during the past
year and broke up a gang that beat the
Tom Foster forces for daring outlawry.
A Young Lady Assabsinated.?
Youogstowu, 0., March 25.?Miss A.
Hancock, aged 17, was shot dead last night
by Ebenozcr Stnnyard, a neighbor. Stan?j
? - a -
j usva la u nvituivN *?liun, RUU ID DUiU III !>
weak-minded. Ha was in love with Miss
Hancock, but eho bad repulsed his adranoes
and refused to seo him. Last evening,
as she waa passing Stanyard's gate, in
company with Wilbur Knox, a rival of
9tanyard, the latter, who was concealed
behind a gato, fired upon them without
warniug. He fired six tiuics in rapid succession.
Tho girl was shot through the
bead. One bullet narrowly missed Knox,
cod another struck his hand. Knox struck
end pursued Stanyard, but the assassin
escaped.
A Boom In Augusta.? Augusta
March 24.?A party of capitalist* bent on
business havo arrived in tho city and succeeded
in purchasing ono of the finest
tracts of land near the city, and intend to
improve it and build up a second 'magio
city' along tho banks of the groat Augusta
oanal. The old Warren tract is tho place,
and they propose to run dummy engines
from this city to it. It comprises 2,000
aoros, and the prioe paid is $37,000. The
land will be divided into town lots, and a
handsome hotel is contemplated. Augusta
is proud of having a small town situated
on its limits, and real estate ownors say it
i? a 'deal.' The city is experiencing something
liko a 'Birmiogbrm boom,'? Col,
Regitter.
To J/1teraky Aspirants.?Literature)
likAhiftfcinistrj, medicine, the law tDd all
othtflHttpntions, is cramped and hindered
for waitof men to do the work, not want
of wdnfiido. When people tell you the
reveH^Bey speak that which is not true.
If yoJ* ire to test this you need only
hunt vp? first-class editor, reporter, business
HMfthger, foreman of a shop, mechanic
or mi*; in any branch of iuduetry and
try to fct^phim. You will find that ho is
alresdf hired. lie is sober, industrious,
oapsbwj|?| reliable and always in demand.
lie oMnotfget a day's holiday except by I
coaristfy m his emyloyer, or or his oily, or
of general public. Bat if yon
neeiflt^rs, shirkers, tfsTf-instniqted, un->^
ambitions and comfort-seeking editors, reported,
lawyers, doctors sod mechanic^
apply anywhoro. There are millioDS of
them to be had at llio dropping of a handkerchief.
The young literary aspirant is a Tory
curiooe oreature. IIo knows that if he
wished to becomo a tinner the master
smith wonld require him to prove the possesion
of a good character and would require
him to promise to stay in the shop
three years?possibly four--and would make
him sweep out and bring water and build
fires all the first year, and let him learn to
black stoves in tho intervals. If he wanted
to beoome a mechanic of any other kind,
he would have to uudergo the same tedions,"ill-paid
apprenticeship. If he
wanted to become a lawyer or a doctor, he
would have fifty times worse, fur he wonld
get nothing at all daring bis long appren
ticeabip, and in additou would have to pay
a larga sum for tuition and have tbo privilege
of boarding and clothing himself.
The literary aspirant knows all this, and
yet belies the hardihood to proscnt himself
for inception into the literary guild and
ask ]U> eharo its high honors and emoluments
vithout a single twelvemonth's apprentioe*hip
to show in ezcuso for his presumption.
He would smile pleasantly if ho were
asked o\bu to make so simple a thing as a
lOrUSgltip dipper without pre*igus iostrucmenfJRw
,ho world, acquired in a baok
countryVillage, he will serenoly tako up so
dangerous a weapon a^a pen and attack
the moat formidable subject that finance,
oommerce, war or politics can furnish him
withal. It would be laughablo if it wore
not so sad and so pitiablo. Tho poor fellow
would not intrude upon '.the tin-shop
without an apprenticeship, but is willing to
seise and wield with unpracticod hand an
instrument whieh is able to overthrow dynasties,
change religions and decree the
weal or, woo of nations.?Mark Twain.
A COTTON FACTORY FOR JUAUREN8.?
The Laurens correspondent of tbc Augusta
Chronicle says that*a schcmc|has been set
on foot for building a first class cotton factory.
In a few days a meeting will be
called to make arrangements for the organisation
and to prepare a ohartcr for passago
at the next meeting of the Legislature. It
is designed to secure a capital stock of
about two hundred thousand ($200,000)
dollars, upon tho assuracco that a factory
of that amount of capital will pay a far
greater dividend than ono of half that
amount. A member of the firm of F. W.
Wegener & Co., of Charleston, announced
to day that if Laurens would raise a hundred
thousand, Charleston would come to
her rescno and supplement the amount with
another hundred thousand. We believo
that tho town and county of Laurens can
raise the desired amount of money, and can
well spare the same from tho ruonioc of
her agricultural interests. A great many
of our farmers, it is true, aro poor, but, on
the other band, thcro aro a groat maoy who
have a little money to put in a safo invest
ment.
Tnrr Love PniL Armour Now.?
The nozt time Mr. Phil Armour goes
through Atlanta his company will bo cheerfully
and earnestly sought. When ho was
here the last time he said to a few friends:
"Pork is a very good thing to tackle about
now." These friends quietly tackled pork,
and the result is they havo made small
fortunes. Tho day Mr. Armour was here
pork was about $13 50 a barrel. It is now
something over $20 a barrel. It could
have been bought then on a margin of 50
cants a barrel. A deposit of 81,000 would
k... 1 o nnn u I. - r ?_w ?
UllfO BUUUICU i,VUV UUIIUIO ui purs, uu
which a speculator could havo drawn ou
$14,000 clear pro6t. A number of Allanliana
have mado from $2,000 to $12,000 on
the corner on poik that Mr. Armour bad
at the triggers for before he left Chicago
' and the pointer on which he distributed to
' his friends in Atlanta, while munching
' crackers and drinking champagne.?Atlanta
CoHitilution. .
Anarchy and Hmwdsiikd.?Chicago,
III., March 21.?Eastern people will get
some idoa of the feeling that obtains hero
in regard to the Anarchists from some remarks
mado to-day by Mayor Harrison.
The Mayor was explaining to an interviewer
his roasons for refusing a renomination.
I am sixiy-lwo years old' ho said. 'A
isp- -p p. p - ? -
u? vi ijuivir ivi a iow years may givo lua
a happy and vigorous old age. A terrible
strain during the u.'xt two years may make
me a decrepit valetudinarian. I cannot
get any more honor in this office. My fear
is that we will have somo terriblo trouble
in this city in the next two ycais, if the
Supreme Court gives the Aasrohists a new
trial. Judge Qarry has told me they oould
never havo another trial; they eould not
get a jury. The men would givo out that
they were vindicated, and, on the othor
hand, if thoy wcro hung, we may stave
conclusions. I havo bcon successful in
being able to quell all disturbances with
tbo police. The future may develop something
different. If I should bo elected
Mayor again I should feel that I would not
dare to be away from Chicago where a half
day's ride could not luring me home.'
A Strono Man.?There is a man on
lhe Dawson llivcr, named Angela Cordelia,
who claims to bo the strongest man in the
world. He is an Italian, aged twentyeight,
and stands 5 feet^^inchcs, weighing
198 ponuds. His strength was born
with him, for he hal no athletic trainiog.
He differs from other men ohiofly in the
osseous structure. Although not of unusual
size, his spinal column is much beyond
the ordinary width, and his bones
and joints are made on a similarly large
scale. He has lifted a man of 200 pounds
with the middle finger of his right hand.
The man stood with one foot on the floor,
his arms outstretched, his hands grasped
by two persons to balance his body. Cordelia
then stooped and placed the third
finger under tho man's foot, and, with
scarcely any perceptible effort, raised him
to bhe height of four feet and deposited
him on a table noar at ban 1. Ooca two
powarfal men waylaid Cordollo, with intont
yvmfi Ffriifri'i IT y&y.y.'r i
life was nearly knocked out of them.? Pin
Fool light.
Snowbound New England.?Hartford,
Conn., March 23.?The snow is from
oi&ioou iu inaui)-iuur luetics aecp la toe
Western part of the State. Tho Connectiout
Western Railroad will not get trains
through to day. Thero is a drift from
Boston Corners to Mount Riga over a mile
long and from fifteen to twenty five feet
deep.
St. Johnsbury, Vt., March 23.?A
severe snow and wind storm prevailed in
this section of tho State lost night. Three
trains on the Passumpsio Railroad are fast
in the drifts, and two trains and a snow
plow on the St. Johnsbury and Lake Cham*
plain Road aro blockaded at different
points.
Kaston, Pa., March 23.?Three Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western passenger
trains arc suowbound on tho Poconce
Mountains, and tho snow is five foot deep.
Conservative Spirit In the West.
?The ntjble art of journalism seems to be
on the declino in Oregan. One bncolio
editor has had his rival arrested for libel.
If the resources oi the Eoglish language
have failed thero is a dark day ahead for
the Web foot press. Any attempt to abans
don tho time-honored method of crushing I
tho contemporary worm by calling him a
liar and horsethicf, whoso progonitor was
should bo depreoated by every lover of the
country press. If journalistic quarrels are
to be brought down to tho lovel of the
Polios Court they might as well close up
at once.
Exterminator Jones. ? Edgcfiold,
March 24.?Court adjourned to day tir.e
die. Judge Norton refused to hear the argument
of counsel for the reloaso of Jones
on bail, but postponed it until noxt woek,
when it will como up in Columbia. Jones
was disoharged on tho two indictments for
the killing of the young Prosslcys, having
been convicted of manslaughter as to the
old man. Tho case will go to tho Supreme
Court on appeal for a now trial.
Shocking Domestic ^Tragedy.?Cincinnati,
March 24.?At Nowark, Ohio,
Jatncs Brood died last evening from the
effects of a pan of scalding water thrown
apon hint by his wife on Sunday last. Tho
couple had frequently quarrelled, and on
this occasion Mrs. Brend threw a pan ol
boiling water in his face. Sho kept everybody
out of the bouso after tho scalding, but
since his death sh 3 has becomo a raving
maniao.
South run Xegroks Organizing.?Richmond,
March 14.?A movement, one of tho most significant
ever started among Southern negroes,
is being organized in this State, tho leader in
which is E. A. Randolph, a prominent colored
lawyer of this city. In education, intelligence
and sociul standing, Mr. Randolph is far above
the avorags of bis race. Ho announces that a
convention of colorod men from all parts of
the Stalo will be held in Danville the first week
in May. The objoct of this convention is to
organize the colored men as independents, po
litioallyf upon tho principle of voting with tits
party only that will agree to advance the industrial
interests of the negro, llo says in ^
his announcement :
'We JiriTc dealt too extensively in politics.
Had wd paid more attention to business end
less to politics, to-day wo would bo ten thousand
times better off. In States where we have
paid mire attention to business than to politics
our malcrinl wealth is muoh greater. The timo
has corae when no one party, State or national,
can ever sgsin claim the solid coiorod vote.
Mr. Cleveland's Administration has put more
real vajluc on our citizenship than all of tho
preceding Administrations sinco the war. Wo
have a jlnrge number of intelligent voters who
are really and willing to cast their lot with any
party ih order to accomplish the mission referred
jo.'
Randolph has visited every Southern Stnte.
The nolv organization proposes to bo secondarily
political, its first object being to adranco
the business interests of the negro.
A Chicago Grand Jury has found tbitytwo
bills for indictment against corrupt
oity oficials. It may be remarked that
this proceduro is tho result of a series of
newspaper exposures of the methods
through which the city has been systematically
robbed. The newspapers arc nearly
alway i up to this sort of business. Through
their ulcrtncss and devotion to public interest:
i a groat many rascals arc brought to
Look, and out of tho thieves thus arraigned
the criminal lawyers secure big fees.
And yet some of the cr/uiiuui lawyers pretond
that they would confine tho functions
of the newspapers to simply mentioning
oases in court by their docket numbers and
recording verdicts as n mero matter of
news.
Livixo Witnesses.?Rev. Joseph Longaton
|is a well known minister and member of tho
South Georgia Conference of the M. E. Church
South, elatloned at Brownwood, Ga., on the
Seuth-weaiara- railroad, and is esteemed by all
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Gentlemen?I Tery cheorfolly snd grate folly
certify to the efficacy of Swift's Specifio in
curing uic of a severe case of dyspepsia, which
had horrasscd mc for about two years. I had
it so bad that I could not sleep.- Night after
night I lay awnke, unable to got an hour's
sleep. My friends who had known mo before
I bad the dyspepsia hardly recognized tbo
same man in me when the disease hold mo in
its tightest giip. I may truthfully ray that I
had dyspepsia about as bad as a man could
have it, not to die. It was so severe that I
t felt, as I supposo other dyspeptics do, as if I
bad several different fatal diseases, ranging
from heart diseaso to consumption. Indeed,
one physioian stood roe out that one of my
lungs was affeoted.
After svoral months of taking S. S. S. I was
cured, and am entirely well lo-day, cot having
lost a single day (his year in my pastoral duties.
This was lost year. I keep S. S. S. as a
household medioino, and there nro few ailmonts
whioh, by purifying the blood, aro not benefit
ted, And many cured, by the use of Swift's
Specific. Joskpii 0. Lancston.
6iiop Girls Must IIave Seats.?
Ilarrisburg, Pn. March 22.?A billot State
importance was passed io the lower branch
of tho Pennsylvania Legislature to day. It
provides that every person or corporation
employiog females in any manufacturing,
meccbnnicul or mercantile establishment in
this St&to shall provide suitable seats for
use, and shall permit tho use of such by
them whou they arc not necessarily engaged
in activo duties. Any firm or corporation
violating any of tho provisions of this act
I?>1 tu ^fbtwl by Ana ofaortna than
825 nor more than 850 for each ofTonse*
a ?
Catcuino a Plate op Oysters.?
Capt. Louis Voglesang, while drdeging with
his oyster schooner on Bodkin Bar, at the
mouth of tho Palapsco ltiver recently,
brought up a stono china plato on which
wcro three oystors as if ready to bo eaten. f
The oysters bad attached themselves to the
plate, as had also an unwholesome quantity
oftmud. Tho Captain brought tho plate to
tho Sun office to show what ho thoucht
might bo a marine curiosity.?Baltimore
Sun.
Eiuuty-Eive Miners Entombed.?
Lydncy, Wales, March 24.?Eighty-fivo
in :n were entombed by the explosion in tho
Bull's Colliery yesterday. Tho accident
occurcd in a tunnel a mile and a half from
the mouth of tho piU Seven bodies lt&vo
been recovered. Tho tunnol is blocked
by debris caused by tho explosion.
unouAi.llES JUUKI.INO.?1< riCIlli (10
Robiuson:) 'I've just heard that Mrs.
Robinson met with a runaway accident
this morniug, but didn't learn the particu;
lara. Anybody injured ?'
; Robinson (obcerfully :) 'Nobody but the
fellow who ran away with her,'