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The Pampero. A 6traugo natural phenomenon Is the pampero, a South American storm wind, which is described by the author of "Hearts of Oak," who first mado its acquaintance during a stay nt Montevideo. A light breeze had been blowing from the northeast, but had steadily increased in force, and brought with it tho heated air of tho tropicb, which, passing over a treeless pampa country, exposed to tho burning sun rays of a clear sky, so warms up tho atmosphere on tho shores of tho Rio do la Plata that its effect upon human beings is exceedingly bad. This state of tilings generally lasts for a week, or longer, until tho stifling heat becomes unbearable and tho inhabitants aro seen resting in grass hamr ^cks or o^Jdng on baro floors, iucapablo t \ exertion. However, relief is closo & tfmnd A littlo cloud "no .bigger than a man's hand" is first seen to riso nbovo tho water, then tho heavens grow black with clouds, and tho battle of opposing winds begins. Tho pampero advances with its artil weu in ironc; loritcd llnslies of vivid lightning, followed by peals of thunder, bear down upon tho foe, who, quite up i to the moment of attack, is fiercely dis- i charging its fiery breath on tho surrounding regions. Tho inhabitants now climb I on the azotcas, or flat roofs, to watch tho l struggle and to bo the first to participate < In tho delicious relief brought by tho j pampero to their fevered bodies. j Fhr o**ton tho rivor a curious sight : may bo seen; tho opposing waves, raised t ^y tho rival winds, meet like a rush of t d&valry in wild career; their white horses r with foaming crests dash themselves s against each other nnd send clouds of j dazzling spray high in tho air; this being h backed by an inky sky renders tho scene v most imposing. iv Gradually tho northeaster gives way, v followed closely by its enemy, the pam- ^ pero, which throws out skirmishing cur- j, rents of Ico cold wind in advance of its 0 final onslaught Then conies tho roar of c tho elements, and a delugo such as no ono would willingly encounter, and J] cooler weather is established for tlio time n t*lng. 0; Heathen Gods in Tier Ear*. ^ A physician of my acquaintance was lt! ~ called in recently to see an old lady who a resides in her own house in the Third a.' ward. It was his first call, and ho had !' never seen tho lady before. Sho lay on a couch, neatly attired, with her gray hair in a cluster of small curls at each side of u. her head. "Doctor," 6ho said, "1 have sent to consultyou on a very serious matter. I have /I1 for a long timo suffered from pains in the head, and hnvo consulted many phvsicians without receiving a bon^hndawtiilo>cmighing it up felt a |a, singular sensation in my left ear. I put hf up my hand and drew this from my ear. be Sho extended toward tho doctor a small leaden statue of Napoleon, such as used to be sold on tho streets years ago in a .' little glass bottle. *?1! "You drew this from your ear?" asked IV tho doctor. ? "Yes, doctor, I did," was tho reply, 0 "and I havo been much easier ever since." c Tho doctor examined her ear and sl ? found it perfectly natural. IIo didn't j1' know what to say, but he thought a good deal. ? \ "I want you to do something for me," ^ J he continued, "for I am satisfied there s another heathen god liko this in the other ear; for it is a heathen god, I have !! po doubt." i "How do yousupposo itgottlioro?" the loctorusked. . \ "I think Ezekielor ono of tho minor 1 ropliets must have put trwo of these J' eathen gods in my ears when 1 was a ' Vild. Now, doctor, I want you to pre- J' ribo something to bring out tho heathen id from tho right car." ''Swallow another fishbone," said tho \;tor, as ho left tho room in high f Igcon.?Brooklyn Citizen. Fortitude Horn of Love. I r was In tho year 1880, In a third rato J called Neufcliateau, in tho dopartt des Vosges, Franco, abont noon, wo woro passing, my fathor and f ?lf, in front of a etoro whero in ad- f tto hardwaro a 6upply of ammuni- j as kept for tho uso of a regiment j b Suddenly wo heard a terriblo ex- j , and being cither thrown havnconsciously ran, I know not ^ wo at any rato found ourselves j twenty yards from whero tho ex- , \ occurred, and could seo part of , \f in tho street. ( 3ad hardly reached tho building 1 man camo out of it covered with . his hair and beard burning, aud V :eces of flesh hanging from his 1 baro arms. Nover will I forget ;or of tho sight; his flesh was _ land his tflotlies partly burned, r I Cached tho sidewalk ho looked ^ * ml called a name I did not S^teceiving no answer ho went *k into that burning .furnace, ?ew seconds camo out bearing jjis his child, a girl of G or 7. 1? 1,1. Iwonl l,i, Cflv< v. J . 'in}?, are you hurt? Oh, you uI10 , a Whilo the poor littlo thing * ; "No, papa, I am not hurt, Uin\ you nro burning, think of or If >'\h1 yet the blood was trickling I). ? t^,3H y ore head whero tho flying a deep gash. Both rein oTr> cSigh disfigured for lifo. At b? 8e* "Miought thero was not only , .. ' ovl.t two.?Cor. Philadelphia On* Pr of ona with't everrnto tlin Px... ^''o ago a fruit peddler was p P^V-abetli street east, yelling ."'it tho top of his voice, Nov w \nly caught sight of tho t Cvof!,r which signified that a ,,n tho l;ousc. . j j j^Ba-nan-oes! Ba" ! A '1 is w-rda as ho saw the ?fc set tit hi" hiH hrt nml Placod Jt on smlcxp Mll.' walked to tho next the <hil nm* silcnt>?Detroit tions cH| \ r. * 5 / I SIMULATING DISEASE. STRANGE CASES MET WITH BY PHYSICIANS AND OTHER8. I How People Feign Injuries and Other Ul? btllt lea?Several Illustrations Taken front Llfo?flow the Dceeptlona Are Dliicorered. A man. apparently lu great bodily pain, was found lying upon tho sidewalk at Front and Chestnut streets, by a policeman. The man had fallen "a and bi%atory woa that Ho had been waylaid iSa beaten. A i>atrol wagon was summoned, but when an attempt was made to place him in tho vehicle ho complained of suclr exquisite pain it was found necessary to discard tlio nntrnt wagon and to carry (ho man 011 a stretcher to a hospital. On arriving nt tho latter institution he was carefully removed from tho stretcher to a cot in the receiving ward, and, although handled very tenderly, tho chango of position seemed to aggravate his sulTering. Singularly enough, when the surgeons made an examination, it was found that when a pin was stuck in any portion of the man's body below tho neck ho apparently failed to feel it, and tho natural conclusion unler tho circumstances was that ho had suffered a spinal injury. It was then proposed to place tho patient under nn insesthetic, with tho view of performing in operation, but when the man heard his ho jumped off tho cot and darted [uickly out of the hospital gate and was 0011 lost to view. Ho had been "playing iossuiu," but for what reason will, perlaps, never bo known. TO AVOID THE DUAFT. Such cases are not infrequently met ! pith l?y physicians In their regular prac- ! ice and at hospitals and other charitable ! ustitutions. Either to excite sympathy, ' r from other motives, people sometime* ' ultivato the power of simulating dis- ( ascs. These individuals are known to ( ao medical profession as "malingerers/ j nd they become particularly numerous . 11 certJln occasions. During tho civii | ar, at tho time conscriptions wero made, r was surprising to seo tho number ol ^ iilo bodied men limping along with canes 1 upiKireiiLiy suuermg with rheurna- c Bin or otlicr crippling ailments. While 1 is not always easy, even for an expert I >ctor, to detect between real and siui- v ated disease, yet he can generally dis- v aguish between the genuine and feigned ? leumatism by tho manner in which a t nn plants ids cane on tho pavement. ' ) understand tho difference it isoulsT-n scessary to watcli Ac^ltin on< T j iW flourishes a eanc for pleasure. Among tho disorders generally siinuted arc fainting and epilepsy. Uotli s ive been so well counterfeited as to have ^ en mistaken for genuino cases. It ii dy when heroic measures aro proposed J at the imposition is disclosed. Not long f nee an up town physician, whilo pass- 1 g an open air religious meeting on < road street, had his attention attracted t i a middle aged woman, apparently Biif- c ring with an epileptic attack. Showa* Grounded by a group c>f sympathetic ( icn and women, and ono of the lattei < id procured from a neighboring resl- < ence a pinch of salt. Tho woman re ivered consciousness, however, without ' 10 use of tho latter remedy. On tho following Sunday the physician < oticcd the same woman in church, and, linking she might bo seized with ariothei , pell, took a seat several pews from her. ure enough, nn attack camo on, to tin , Isnnmk .uro of a number of nervous peo lo.' Tlio poor woman was carried out 3 tlio vestibulo of the church, and the hysicinn followed. Tho seeming epileplo seizure passed oft in about fivo mlntcs. ' FEIGNING DEAFNESS. The next Sunday thero was a ropetiion of tho attack. The woman, who ras a stranger to tho congregation, wae .gain taken to tho vestibulo, and the ihysician who had previously attended icr was again called upon. Thinking hat tho attack was simulated, ho pro)oscd that a set too should bo procured md tho woman carried through the itreet to a police station. In a twlnking tho woman sprang from tho chaii n which sho had been placed, hurried from tho building and has not sinco appeared at tho church. Ono of tho methods adopted to mislead is to feign deafness. This is ono oi tho tricks resorted to by men who desire to avoid being placed upon juries. Generally, however, tho judges aro ablo to fathom tho deception, nnd, by tho uso of a little stratagem, it is easily exposed. Men who simulato deafness will clasp an ear in tho palm of tho hand and lea? forward as though tho auditory nervea wero strained to catch what was said. - A In an unguarded moment tuu denf man is asked a question in an ordinary tone, to which ho generally replioi and his deception is unmasked. As a ruin, however, illness and othet physical disabilities aro simulated by peoplo who wish to avoid work or wlw desire to obtain admission to some institution whero they may live without cost to themselves, and sometimes by convicts with the hopo of bettering theii condition. In fact very many discusei are feigned, but in the hands of a skillful physician they aro soon exposed. A common method of simulating apoplexy is by falling down as if deprived of sensation and consciousness. Powerful stimulants, an electric shock, tho application of hot water or an irritation of the nostrils, quickly detect tho imposition.?Philadelphia Ledger. Ci?pcrseti l>y Their Creditors. A fearful riot of tho students arises in a German town, and no one, not oven tho best liked tutor, is ablo to .mcify them, till a professor, hiring a barouche, takes in all tho master tailors of tho city and drives tliem through tho campus, when tho mot disperses as by magic.?Flicgcndt Inaorablc Hwi. Newspapers at the jiiescnt time :on- ' tain many interesting stories of old 1 nconle who am hearty, but it is dc?ubt-. lul.u a more curious j*aso than the 0116 fc reported by Tlio Kali Hiver Globe has * ever been published. It is that of 'a. Dartmouth farmor named <> Bcnnott, who is nearlyWyrarsiif ago. ? lie was born at Tiverton, It. T-, and tl lived for many ye^rs in a comfortable j farmhouse on the main road to New- * % " \Vhcn ?ge T lio \iQ3$ttxicked-^th n ctiilu ft ciiso;tsf di for i/nlcb Dr. West was engaged to .-i nrescribo. The Dr. West mentioned si lived In a large mansion below Bridge- T port .and was on ancestor of tho pros-* cc ent tamil^ which resides In that vi- r? cinity. 'At tho timo of Mr. Bennett's ,h illness, salivation was a favorite form w of treatment Calomel was tho drug Ie ordered and administered to tho.pa- *' tiont Either from ' carelessness .or w; other eauso tho mercurial preparation lodged in the boy's jaws, and n can- * cerous snm ?m? 1 OANIEL O'CONNELC. Two Important Ep:imlei In the Life o? tlio Irish Liberator. Daniel O'Conncll was born in 1775. and was sent to Franco to be educated, as was the custom at the time among Catholic Irish families. At the ago of 20 ho wroto to a relativo concerning liis futuro plans: "I have now fwo objects to pursue?tho ono the attain'juisition of nil -ilTiiWfyhullllesicli Lll? t pol ito gentleman. I am convinced that tho former, besides the .imincdiato pleasure which it yields, is calculated to raise tno to honors, rank and fortune, and I know that the latter serves as a general passport or first recommendation: and as for the motives of ambition which you suggest, I assure you that no i man can possess more of it than I do. I have, indeed, a glowing and, if I may uso tho expression, an enthusiastic ambition, which converts every toil into a pleasure and every study into nil amusement. Though naturo may have given mo subordinate talents, I novcr will bo satisfied with a subordinate situation in my profession. No man is able, I am aware, to supply tho total dciicicney of abilities, out everybody is capable of improving and enlarging a stock, howeve* smaH, nnd in its beginning, contemptiblo. It is this rofiection Unit afFords mo most consolation. If I do not riso at tho bar I will not havo to meet tho reproaches of-my own conscience." The young^man understood himself well. His success as a lawyer was extraordinary. J3cforo he.hau been practicing fivo years he had within his reach a law business that would havo brought him an income of $50,000 or $100,000 a year. But ho had not foreseen that ho was a born political gladiitor, nnd that tho oppression of Irishmen nnd tho miseries of Ireland would xmstituto the ono great causo of his :arcer. 1 When O'Conncll took up tho Irish piestion many of his fellow Irishmen, ike himself, were under a religious uul legislative yoke. They were formlden even to hold real property. I L'ho agitator lived to.seo sonio of tho vorst disabilities removed, and this 1 argely through his own incessant f 'U orts. His parliamentary tactics were ' nucli tho same as Darnell's?he may j >o said to have invented them, ite vas elected to Parliament in 1828, nnd J vas the first Catholic Irish member . C4 <1-- r : rov?"iiio;i. -I lie emancina- I ' i?SM "CCC,VC'1 "'O p?JTl signiit.no I I Piinl .. -- ^xwrn obliga:ry1 Hv'il11 all members at the time, lis first appearance in the house of n amnions is thus described: "The exilement was intense; breathless l; ilcncc prevailed in that crowded as- ^ cnibly when O'Connell was intro- s need by Sir E. Burdett and I^ord 11 )uncannon. The speaker then in- s ornicd. hitn of the resolution of the 1 louse on the previous night?that he 1 ould not take his seat unless he took ( he oath prescribed ut tho time lie was 1 lected. Tlie liberator then said: !: 'May I ask to SCO tho oath?" The 1 lerk was directed to hand him the 1 >nlh, which was printed on a large j ai d. O'Connell put oil his spectacles * uid perused tho oath with deepest atcntion. One would suppose lio hnd ' lever seen tho oath before; during the ' few minutes lio was so perusing it tho { anal lest pin couhl ho hc&rd drop. 1 lie then said: "1 see in thisoathono ' Assertion as to a matter of fact which ! - ' - :i <1 | L know to Do laise, i sou in iv unuuivi assertion ns to n matter of opinion 1 which I believe to be untrue. I there- 1 foro rcfuso to take that oath," and, with an expression of the most pro- 1 found contempt, ho (lung tho card from him on tnc tablo of tho house. Tho house was literally struck of a heap. No other phraso that I know of but that quaint, old 1'a.sbioncd one can accurately dcscribo tho feeling of amazement that pervaded parliament for soino minutes after tho card was thus contemptuously (lung on tho table. Tho speaker then said: "Tho honorablo and learned gentleman having refused to take tho oath, will please retire below tho bar," and tho Liberator, again leaning on Burdett and Duneannon, cntno below tho bar and sat near mo under tho gallery. In tho debate that ensued tho speakers on all sides paid him the highest compliments, but it ended in tho issuing of a now writ for Clare.? Detroit Free rrr?* _ Trick* In Photography. Thcro arc various ways for provid ing surprising results in photography, things that in one ngc would havo been called magic, hut in ours recognized as scientific tricks. Tho ghost picturo, for instanco, in Vrhich a shadowy ghost?through which material objects are visible?is seen between natural attitudes and occupations. This is produced bv an almost instantaneous oxposuro of the tlguro that is to do duty ns tho ghost, followed by a full exposure of tno figures and properties that are to appear natu ral. Another novel trick was Known recently in a photograph reproduced by a prominent trade journal, which presented the photographer, seated ut a table, playing chess with himself seated on tho opposito side of the table, whilo ho himself stood up in tho background looking at his two selves playing. The ligurcs wore all on tho negative, which was produced by three successive exposures of thonlato, parta tlicroof being masked eacu time by a black velvet shutter. Still apother trick is that by which a person who liked that sort of thing inny appear to bo photographed nding upon a llying goose or a lish, or any other desired stylo of ridiculous locomotion. This is'done by tho subject holding upon his lap a huge nieco of whito or sky tinted card, with tlio fanciful tlguro drawn upon it. His face appears abovo tho upper edge | of the card, and seems, in tho picture joined to the funny little body mounted . on llio goose or flsh. Tho statuo pic ture is made by about the same dovice ?Photographic Roviow. ?u, v.v.ptu. te] For many weeks liis lifo was de- K0 rpaired of. Finally tlio growth was niJ killed, but when it liad disappeared it 'ci, was found that the muscles of tho child's jaws wcro ruined, and. like the 0f upper, tho lower jaw would always rcniaiirfixed. To regain strength it was mh necessary to have all his foot! specially de prepared before it was given to him. en; When placed before him ho managed 0*1 to squcczo it in between tho lips which ?? . wcro "slowly recovering from tho al- ?P? most fntal work dono by tho deadly ,lD< drug. Tho salivary glands were not cvc injured by tho burning of the calomel, l1"' 13ennctt recovered uftcr a long illness J ' and giew up as most Rhode Island 101 boys do who spend a life on u farm. IIo pays visits to tho Fall River marketmen, with whom ho has dono busi- * ( ncss for nearly fifty years. Ho is a roo ruddy featured, portly man of genial 0IIt temperament, and with tho exception wpt of a slight facial defect ho shows no i signs or tho accident which has kept miM his jaws immovable for so many years. 5; rncl One Year'* Track L-aylui;. |eKS Notwithstanding the widespread im- *ud [iression that tho additions to tho rail- mus way system of tho United States dur* would bo comparatively in- 1? li lho?v.dencc is now beforo forn is lliat t?io railway mileage of the m'd .ountry was increased during the year bani raek? wVl| !! -7,1?0 mi,cs of main er b mck. While this is much less tluui en 'I ^7 iRR?tmio2l iuc,rcaso 1,1 lhc J^ar Publ Izl' ' 2 1X11(1 1881' w,1Pn Uifi Vr?* 10w mileage was respcctirclv i?*,kV iT lilcs were added. ihe C Now track was laid in nil but two of ?.i tt lie thirty-seven states and territories, ?oJa ho exceptions being for Nevada. Kan- pnnj as still leads the list in tho extent of u? hi tew mileage, and sho has dono so for cus*< everal of the years. California comes d'sm text. The most striking characteristic into if tho year's work is the largo number lle,i >f scparuto lines of which it is com- * J? Hired and the correspondingly small bcb' tveragc?less than twenty miles?for acli line. Only about twclvo built pu' nore than 100 iniles each; thoso dping an he largest amount of work being tho Jliicago, Kansas and Nebraska, 412 U|rj, niles; St. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani- jj oba, 37-1 miles, and Southern I'acitic, hrough various subsidiary companies, pi8t i little over S00 miles. These facts arc n0? important as showhig how the nature the if tho work of railway construction dir< changed in a singlo year. The build- out ing of groat competitive lines practi- him rally ccasod fof tho immediate present, got and tho year's work was chielly do- ed i voted to tho construction of short in- noit [lepcudent lines or branches.?Railway -j.ee H Not a Matter of Cliotce. , ( ""j Aunty?I cannot understand bowgirls ton, act the way they do nowadays. It's aim- ton' ply awfuL You spent two months at of c Newport last summer, and during that timo you wero engaged to half a dozen Qle different men.* . I1?* Sweet Qlrl?But, aunty, what else '"K could I do? I'd hardly get engaged to ^ one young man bofore his vacation would cjie bo over, and he'd have to go back to the the city, and that's tho way it went. It was jus' horrid.?Now York Weekly." ike ? .lot Pomposity. lied MI seo some men in (he world holding rec thomselves mighty .high. On what? I co' can't tell! They arc only men. Qo<f 8t0 mado us all. And we'ro all mighty small creatures when it comes down to indi- ^ viduals. Individually we don't count 0?? much in the world. No man amount. to a great deal by himself. U? U dependent j on tho others. Therefore he has no occa-' bei sion to feel better than anyone else."? ssj Detroit Free Press. . i?hi Jgoi Lucky Jct'b wl Tho French author, Mnrtaiuvillo, ?k who began his career toward tho closo ?d of tho last century, is said to havo st owed tho preservation of his lifo to a Is witty picco of audacity. IIo was a Li Royalist. Mid did not hesitato toattack 01 tho French revolution und its nuthorities. Presently, of course, ho was n summoned to nppear beforo tho revo- fl lutionary tribunal, with the terriblo a Fouquicr at its head. ? Tho revolutionary tribunals at that timo did not hesitato to send everybody to tho guillotine who had von- . turcd to attack them. Martainvillo , expected to go with tho rest of the ^ victims. l "Wlint is vour name?" asked the , revolutionary judge. -"Martainvilfe," said the young | author. "Martainvillofexclaimcd the judge. , "You arc deceiving us, and trying to i hido your rank. You are an aristocrat, and your name is Do Martain' villc.% "Citizen President," exclaimed the b young man, "I am here to bo short) ened, not to l>o lengthened 1 Leave uie my name I" j A true Frenchman loves a witticism ahovo all things, and the tribunal was so much pleased by Martainvillo's grim respouso that it spared his life.? Youth's Companion. V ' What was tuat Explosion ??Will some 'Cieotifio gentleman rise up with his broad tnowledge of soienso and pour forth a reasonable excuse why the Piedmont seotion of the hate ehould hare been gelwteiLin* -??' ir iploeionj^^-trr^"irftni the subject i fcfi "comment and gutsi-werk in the ountj, and^it is hard to conrince a great lanj from the country that tliere was n it a reraendoos boiler explosion at Piedmont or elier, by which front flea to thirty men Mi hilled i The story is out rata pioce of the flying boiler bored through three-foot (trick wall and slaughtered with-' til Compunction a peaceful PcAlmnnt blacknith who was standing at his anril making toes for a kicking Anderson County inulo. r.e remnants of the poor blacksmith, ac>rJing to the story, were scattered to the ur winds of the earth and tho only purt of e Anderson mule afterward disoorered as tho tail, still wagging and the left hind g, raised in an attitude that is not popular ith timid Tillage blacksmiths. Tho thirty ho were killed without 0110 word of warning I left large familiea to mourn their uniitueend and to drop tears over the few pieces flesh that were gathered together. Tha> rrible accident is attributed to tlio eugineer J fireman who ware raoruso on account of t getting to come to Greenville to see the iui and drowned their sullcness in nountain dew" and let tho water get out the boiler. New boilersin place of the ones that caused ch terrible destruction hare not boon orred, but will be in a short time. The now giiicer and fireman wilLtaku a cast-iron .h never to look at, touch or condescend in | j: eliape, form cr fashion to imbibe any i rituous or malt l quors. wine or cider. < i besides must sweaa that they have seen ? >ry circus that ever exhibited and would | go to see one if the tent was pitched in I engine room and the elephant chained i he engineer's tool chest. Tho engioecr \ I fireman must also swear before I lie next. ?i ilosion takes place they will notify the I age blacksmith, remove the kit king mule i i place of safety and if possible take the s f off the engine room and let the boiler go f Ht the top without spreading itself and )i cuing the Bides of the structure. I lie engineer must also be n man of im- a ise wealth so that he may he able to stand 100,000 suit for damages instituted by ? of the widows who might be left home- ^ and huabandlcss by bis carelessness jj intemperate habits. The company j. it be remunerated for lost time while n boiler is at the machine shops. vv ending the arrival of non-authentic iu- jj laiion on the origiu of the mysterious (j -air exolosion, the subject is left in the (J| ds of scientists or the Washington weath- w ureau for solution and the consequent ghtenment of a benighted Qud unos"'? jlic. ?MTTn"Tr"sn ?As an nj-jnialb* jjjjiea ?n<V"bewis :jx5Ti1iu" ST 'which ha place last Saturday week. Tuey were oc iK up different reads tnat u.ct ? ? t(l Irauite depot. As the two men approachie junction of the roads Jenkins halloed v. oes and asked if he did not want com- ,x - up the road. Jones said he wanted a? nob company as Jenkins's, Thou, thoy od one auotliortill thoy met, when Jones ,|r louuted, hitched his mule, coming out , the road said the matter had to be setthen aud there, nkins got off his hotse, too, aud getting u nd it for breastwork, began shooting at js. Jones whipped out his pistol tlreu and od the trigger, but lite old tiling snapped the cylinder got stubborn and wouldn't " k. Jones coolly set to work to fix it, 11 did get it so it would revolver whon he ted it with his hand. y this time JeDkins, who had been blnz- s< away at Jones while he was fixing his '.l: ol, had emptied his revolver, aud it was ? ' Jones's innings. He went smiling to bat aud sent hot balls spinning in the M iction of Jenkins, who male a short stop ? of his borjtc and wsute l to he a fielder self, as far out as possible. When Jones ^ through, the horse was mortal iy wound- 1 tnd Jenkins was hitting the grit.?Le- " Topics. " [klton Men in tub Toii.s.?A decided . sation was caueed on Tuesday liy the ar, here of two young white men from Kel- " , in Union County, on the charge of cotatealing. On Tuesdny morning a bale totton was missed at l^nncaster's gin, r Rich Hill. Parties went at once to S UUB1U iuu I u iuia j?ir?v;v. auiuu^ iuc u rly bought cotlon bales iu Walker Fletn- a k Sloan's warehouse, Mr. Lancaster In ud, and easily identified the cotton. They p Tied to the bank to stop payment of the t< ck, but it had already been cashed. Then <J y looTtcd for the men, and found them w t going out of town, They had given ti ir names aa L. M. Parsons and J. C. c inson.bul later Mr. Parsons was identi- 1 I as John Johnson. All the money was c ovcred. Tbey had already sold a bale of 1 ton at I'acolet, whether their own or h len is not known. They hare confessed a i ltich Hill thoft. When arrested John inson had on a clasp koife over a foot v g, and will be indicted also fur carrying r iceated weapons.?Spartanburg llerald. 1 - \ Fin* in PnTEitsnuRo.?Richmond, No^em- ? s morning in Geo, II. DaviB & Co a dry t ads house, on Sycamore street, and spread I th incredible rapidity, burning down in a ort time the whole iron-frout block and i ;?inir,?r nroDerlies. The flames leaped ^w??o r ~ ~ r roes the street and destroyed the Odd heirs' Hall and five or six oilier builduigs. iaul Criehtoo, of the police force, was in le of the burning buildings when the wall >11 in on him. 11c was burned to death, alfablockon each side of Sycumore street, om Tabb street west, is gone. The estitated loss is $750,000. The insurance has ot yet been ascertained. Ma. T. F. Dayari> Married.?Washingon, D. C., Nov. 7.?The lion. Thomas F. layard, ex-Secretary of State, and Miss dary Milling Clytner were married at one I'clook this afternoon at the bride's resilence, 1G\7 11. Street, in the presence of a nefst distinguished oompany. The intention 4as to have the wedding as quiet as possible, and the invitations, numbering about 16CC were confined to the relatives of the contracting parlies and a few personal frieuols. Among the latter were ex-President aV>d Mrs. Cleveland, ex-Secretary and Mrs. p'airchild and Mrs. Dickinson an exAssistant Secretary and Mrs. Hives, wht ggme '<o Washington for the express pur le of attending the wedding. o, j w J Taxation or Immigrants.?New York /November 1.?The emigration commissioner tta-day notified all steamship companies thi \ head tax of fifty cents each will he col lei t?d from them for every nlieu they brin b\tr?. This will inolude ohildren. f 1Mai>k M*u by Starvation.?New Yo Octoberdl.?While crazed by hunger M Mary Bnru tried t? kilL ?r~\r?~"" J nil "I'1 daybreak this mot lug. Intervention of neighbors alone pi vrnted a tragedy. For three weeks ps the woman lias been ill. Sho was too po to engage a physician, and too busy to spa time to go to the free dispensary, havit three children and their grandmother provide for. She na'urally gro v weak' and vatloir ?? > ??* ~M j iui nant hi propi food. To add (o her misery Mrs. Barn husband is at present at Bollevue Hospita suffering from incurable disease, and it lw* been necessary part with many nocassar household goods in order to slay the tide < adversity. The plucky little woman's 001 tinned fasting soon Showed itself in herfac and form, although tho children, throng her solf-dej rival ion, were kept plump am bright. {Shortly before G o'cloak this mornin] Mrs. Horn Free. IIor mother was ownki at tho limo and raw her go to tho room dooi and lock it and put tho key in her pocket Then she took up Iter youngest child luiii down on the bed and began to nureo it Suddenly she was aiczed with convulsion; and began to cliokc tho infint until it had almost ceased to breath. A struggle witli the grandmother ensued, in which tho latter finally obtained possession of the bube. No sooner bad alio done so than Jlio crazed woman sprang nt her throw and grasped it in a grip of iron. The old woman struggled in vain to be free, nnd ihechi dren shrieked with fright, "Mamma, yoitr'e hurting grandma. Don't hold her that way." When the mother reloasetl her grasp the old lady was almost past aid. A great black streak in her (h?*oat is still visible. The insane parent next seized one of tho boys, Johnnie iy the throat, aud would surely have tnitrlercd him but for the screams of his brother vhich moused tho neighbors and after a lesperate struggle she was talfen in an nmlulauco to Bellevuo. Tlic surgeon there says hat Mrs. llarn became a maniac through liecr lack of food. Tho agent of the Society or the Prevention of Cruelly to Children i-as taken care of tho little ones. Mrs. tarn is ;">7 years old. llrr husband, who is Frenchman, is 72. An Infant Muuhkk.?Charlotte, X. C., iov. 7.?A fearful tragedy was enacted nt tiddlesvillc, in the western suhitrbs ofCliar)tte, at. about half past ten o'clock this lorning. Wesley Hunter is n colored until 'ho lives wHh his wife nnd two children iu i'ldlesville. The eldest child is n boy of iree yenrsnud the oilier was only a bibo r six mouths. This -morning Hunter's wife out into the yard to get soma wood w ?i?o a, 'IVi|v h-i 'ni,, i , ? *w?{l--nraav. itiii I lie Ultbe dead upon ibo floor with If of its heiul entirely shf.t oir. The gun copied ils sninc position in tho corner and a ibrce-year-old bid stood 111 tho floor as lm and cool n* if nothing hud been dono. i bis mother came in he ran up to her and claimed ; "Oh ! mother, gun fell down d killed sister !" Although it is a plain case of child murx, the little fellow stands tirm to hia Btory at ihe gun fell down and a ivs he ??( it up ;ain. On accunt of the boys extreme mill it was not doeired necessary to hold i impiest.?Cur. (irmiville A'eict. Examination for Wkst Point.?Mr. Edir?Please let ine say through your paper iat an examination \vi|l he held at Hook ill, 8. C., on Friday, tho 2'Jtli of Nor. istont, at 10 o'clock a. in., of those perms who desire to compete for the appointicut to tho U. 8. Military Academy from iii Congressional District of S. C. The examination will include reading, 'riling, orthography, arithmetic, grammar, eography ami history of the U. 8. Applicants must be between 17 and 22 ears of age when I bey enter the academy, vo feel high, physically robust, bona fide esidents ?f the Congressional District, and lust appear at West Point on Juno 17th, 8 JO. All applicants should roport at the Caro.... II-...I O..L till! 1... it ? ... ?r i i,., V'lil. iiiii nuici) nuwa ii in, ifj ?/ u, in. vi iuv mviu istunt. Jxo. J. IIkmpiiii.0. WoMKX It A11? AMI Ki'lX A t'l.1 II.?IlllIC prings, Mo., Nov. I.?John Haley came ere a week or two ngo from Argentine, Kan., ml opened a quiet club room. The local iws of Blue Springs arc of I lie strictest ossiblo kind, hut as Haley kept, a higlijiied ]?lace no one interferred with him. 'n Saturday night, however, twenty-five milieu belonging to the temperance orgunizuion of the town, masked and armed with lubs, made an attack upon the club room, 'hey broke in the doors and found seven or iglit old soaks engaged in a game of cards, 'hey ordered them out of the room and then icgun knocking the bungs out of beer kegs ml whiskey barrels. Haley made a show of resistance,' but he ras hit on the head with clubs, and finally an down the street with four women after lint, lie escaped in the roller mill. The milieu smashed all the bottles and yho'v-mil inri-iJ l^iii?uiiMaf-reTlnTrHCn Oil Hie sidtvalk appealed to the women not to destroy lie whiskey but to take it home and keep it for medicinal purposes. "That's mighty good whiskey, ladies, lie cried, "and the Lord didn't intend it should he dumped in the gutter while there wen so many poor sick people arouml. 1 am not feeling well myself. ' This remark' was a signal for an attack and the man was compelled to take to In heels. The cluh room and all its attraction were destroyed. The women are the Icadin matrons of the town. Shout Cu<>i'? in Oconkk.?Seneci Ocouco County, November 7. ? A gooi lj number of ou[ citizens aro enjoyiij who many attractions offered by yot city this week. Fraui rending the iVci ami Courier wo learn tl at your peop nave made amusement enough to )i several weeks. Your correspondint took a ride several uiilcs iu the country n Tew dr ago, and is convinced from obscrvati that the cotton crop is far short of wl was expected two'months ago. In t _ Grst placo there was more weed tl fruit and then the early frost cut off the Ute cotton. Sotnn of the best formed farmers are of the opinion t " there will not be more than two-third an nverago crop made this year, ,g | the corn crop is good so wo will starve.?News an<l Courier. XA- ? nutttniulL oT >r~ .q. t'nl Stiff rinjs^ <>/' publican 's special (rum jg says: "Unless the nuow^tET*^ >v l~*' to has been -raging for ei*ht d*WK^^ ^ er an end sunn, next summer wilPBion^^^^Egi . oountry covered with dead bodivft^of " animals as thickly as was the old Saoti d Fo trail in the six'ios. The depth of y snow is now not less than twenty-six ?f inches on a level, an 1 in many places '* it has drifted seven feet higher. When V 4 ,? the storm sttuok this section seven.lafge \. [1 herds of cntlo numbering from-four hundred to two thousand, wore being S held ucnr this pi u-o awaiting shipment N e to eastern markets. The rain of a week aeo was followed Thursday tnoruiug by 1 blizzards of snow nud sleet which scut . the heids in a southerly direct ion. In ' vain did the hall* frozen cowboys try to check the march of tho hords, hut on , they went through tho increasing storm , until, finding it utterly impossible to hold tho cattle, the cowboys rode aside .let thorn pass and whon iualy dcid, rode their exhausted Lorsis into canyons or partially sheltered places where they passed many hours of misery Without food or lire. Two cowboy? drifted into a canyon where they found n cedar tree with a rat s nest in it.. They uiat^igcd to light a lire with this. lhiriug tho second night one of their horses died from cold and having nothing to cut tho luou cut pieces ol flesh Irom tho dead aniuial which they warmed and ate without salt. A(t?r being there ovor sixty hours they started out and after many hardships (mtu (heir weakened condition managed lo reach a ranc \ thirty miles away \ylicru they wore cared l?.r Five cowboys arc known to be fr zen to death. Tw ) Mexican sheep herders 1 ave been f.ozon " to death. Two li en coin ng iu this morning report di ifis in soniep'acos seven on 1 ei lit feet high in which iheio a o I u idrcds of dead stock. Some oftlteso Were * alive but unable to uiaia. r i **rrlf ?l* I " . ' t'rlls of sber o a j o enniAuJS'Xitr* Sr*r*t0?iw;vLv*h is nearly exhausted, and today $100 per ton .was offered by stockmen. At 'lex-*, lino, tcu miles below Clayton, two passenger trains have been snow-bound for a week, l'rovisious arc runi'iugout and pnsscngers aro compelled to venture out in the storm and kill cattle, quarters of which aro taken into tho cars and roasted for iood. It js thought a snow plough will reaoh tho imprisoned traius to-morrow and release. -theui, and that ?? tho road will bo opened in a day or two. The storm is by far tbo the worst over known in New Mexico, and tho exact loss of life and property cannot at present bo estimated " IIef.p the Little Mills. ? Laurens, Nov. 0.?That tho Farmers Alliance will finally break ttic jute (ru-t and ot!.erwiso accomplish great good, is a thing to bo hoped for, but there aro other trnsti ivluMi tho farmers inioht look to iutho meantime, lor instance tho Standard oil trust, Heretofore tho fanners liavo never received at this placo more then lf? or 18 cents per bushel for their cotton ficod, because there was only ono parly or corporation to whom they could be 6old, but this year soine of our enterprising citizens have buiit an oil mill, and thereby raised the i rice of seed tn 22 cents per bushel. Now the Standard oil company by reason of its strongth may cru-di this little infant industry of ours out of existence, and thereby reduce the price of seed at/a in to 1G cents. Would it uot he well for tho farmers throughout the cotton States to sell their littlu factories that d > not belong to tho trust all their s-cd ho long as thev aro willing to pay a good prico for thoitf, and thereby assure ihetnsolvos a contin ual good market for that product?? S/icciul to Greenville News. A Siiootino Akfiiay near Clifton. ?Clifton, Nov. 8.?A lively row occur; ? J5*,'SI8?2S j >? MuQrcfwilito aL whose house the shooting took pi ice. From what can be gathered it seems that there was tin old feud between tho men on account ol' White having nlii n. atcd tho aflfeotions of Tumor's wife, i Tho attending 6urgcon, l>r. (). (/. Falls, considers Turner's recovery doubtful. ' Monro White was at a late hour, last " night committed to jail bv Trial Justice j, Wardlaw.? (Jrccnvi/fc New*. One of the "poor, persecute ! negroes of the Southern Stiles," for whom toe Ohio k fools and fanatics had n "day of prayer" last week, boughtat Newborry Court House, Sown Carolina, on Hi'esday, tl.e 1th instant, a tract of land for ?2,o'Jo, paying one-third ir cash therefor. And lie already owned a (iX good deal of valuable lend. le ? l8^ A writer in tho inedioai classics lookeil through a microscope at a closely shaved face and he reports the skin resembled a piece ?? of raw beef. "To make tho skin perfectly *' " Iim h.ivs. 'not only the ?ys emomu rvuunw. ... ? ion removal of ihe hoir, but also a portion of tho iat cruticle, and a c om shave means the rc.. moval of a skin all around. The blood ves0 sels thus e?posed arc not visible to the * lan. eye, but under the microscope each little all quivering mouth holding a minute blopd in- drop protests against aucn treatment. The hat ner,ro l'Ps *re uncovered and tho pores . are left unprotected,' which makes the skin ? tender and unhealthy. This sudden exposl>ut ure o( tho innor layor of the skin renders a not person lisb'e to have colds, hoarseness and jro tlrjat." v;i