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9 I "V H -V ,? > tjy - . ' ' I i , The Pampero. A strange natural phenomenon is the pampero, a South American storm wind, which Is described by the author of "Hearts of Oak," who first made its acquaintance during a stay at Montevideo. A light breeze had been blowing from the northeast, but had steadily increased in force, and brought with it tho heated air of the tropicfc, which, passing over a treeless pntupa country, exposod to the burning sun rays of n clear sky, so wnrma nn thn ?' 1? - ? ???V UVUJVU|'UVIC VU lliu ouui trv of thd Rio de la Plata that its clTcct upon human beings is exceedingly bad. This state of things generally lasts for a week, or longer, until tlio stifling heat becomes unbearable and tho inhabitants are seen resting in grass hammocks or lying on bare floors, incapablo of exertion. However, relief is closo at hand. A little cloud "no .bigger than a man's hand" is first seen to riso above tho water, then tho heavens grow black with clouds, and tho battlo of opposing winds begins. The pampero advances with its artillery well in front; forked flashes of vivid lightning, followed by peals of thunder, bear down upon tho foo, who, quite up to the moment of attack, is fiercely discharging its fiery breath on tho surrounding regions. Tho inlmbita^ts now climb on theazotcas, or flat roofs, to watch tho struggle and to bo the first to participate ( V in tho delicious relief brought by tho \ pampero to their fovored bodies. 1 Far ouUon tho rivor a curious sight I may bo seen; tho opposing waves, raised ~ ^y tho rival winds, meet liko a rush of *1 cavilry in wild career; their white horses ^ y y <oaming crests dash themselves agv <t each other and send clouds of daufing spray high in tho air; this being backed by an inky sky renders tho scene V* ' moet imposing. Oradually tho northeaster gives way, followed closely by its enemy, tho pampero, which throws out skirmishing currenta of ice cold wind in advance of i*s L^^^nltl onslaught. Then conies tho roar the elements, and a delugo such as no one would willingly encounter, and cooler weather is established, or tho time being. II??tTi?n Gods In Her Ears. A physician of my acquaintance was callod in recently to see an old ladv who resides in her own house in tho Third ward. It was his first call, and ho had never seen tho lEdy before. Slio lay on a couch, neatly attired, with her gray hair in a cluster of small curls at each side of her head. l "Doctor," she said, "I have sent to consuit you on a vory serious matter. I have l^^fonadongtimosufTercd from painB in the ^^H^^Ugpd^ltave consulted many physiand drew this from' my ear." ded toward tho doctor a small ' leaden statue of Napoleon, such as used to be sold on tho streets years ago in a little glnss bottlo. "You drew this from your ear?" asked the doctor. ? "YeB, doctor, I did," was tlin reply, "and I Lave 'oeen much easier ever sinco." The doctor examined her ear and ? found it perfectly natural. .lie didn't know what to say, but he thought a good deal. > "I wont you to do something for me," ?he continued, "for I am satisfied there ds another heathen god like this in the pther ear; for it is a heathen god, I have no doubt." ' I "How do you suppose it got there?" the loctor asked. 1 "I think Ezekielor ono of the minor rophets must have put two of these Mthen gods in my ears when I was a Vild. Now, doctor, I want you to prerlbe something to bring out the heathen m from the right ear." ' I'Swaliow another fishbone," said the ptor, as he left tho room in high pgeon.?Brooklyn Citizen. Fortitude Born of Loto. 1 was in the year 1880, in a third rato \ called Neufcliateau, in the dopartrt dps Vosgcs, Franco, about noon, " II 1 wo woro passing, my father and Vlf, in front of a storo where in adr a to hardware a supply of ommunik . Was kept for tho uso of a regiment 1 Suddenly wo heard a terrible exin, and being eitlior thrown or liav\ unconsciously ran, I know not I wo at any rato found oureolves r\ ltwenty yards from whero the exI I occurred, and could seo part of K If In the street. had hardly reached tho building jk 1 man came out of it covered with I his hair and beard burning, aud | leces of ileeh hanging from his I bare arms. Nover will I forget Vor of the sight; his ilesh was H land Ids clothes partly burned. V 1 * richcd tho sidewalk ho looked tnd called a name I did not deceiving no answer ho went jjk into that burning furnace, A ?tew seconds came opt bearing jas ids child, a girl of C or 7. ^er to him heard him say: ving, are you hurt? Oh, you ?\ While tlio poor little thing (J "No, papa, I am not hurt, - "nyou aro burning, think of yhu yet tho blood whs trickling forehead where the flying a deep gash, iioth re?ffogh disfigured for life. At ^bought thero was not only - ?*\t two.?Cor. Philadelphia ill a t+rmez. ' _]q ago a fruit peddler was B KJ^teth BtroetAat, yelling Vat tho top of his voice, MP jdy caught sight of the jH pbirr lwhJ'ctl tignifled that a ji mS5 wat,'? M ?*w the hr.t and pleoed it on k > walked to the next d 3"??, JPPLE SIMULATING DISEASE. STRANGE CASES MET WITH BY PHYSICIANS AND OTHER8. How People Feign Injuries and Other Disabilities?Several Illustrations Taken from Iilfe?now the Deceptions Are Discovered. A man, apparently In great bodily pain, was found lying upon tho sidewalk at i /-it?.?. - >?* ? * uiiu vutrei(iui? BircGU), oy & pOllCO* num. The man had fallen "nil in a and hi%atory wm that ho liad been waylaid rihaT benton. A patrol wagon, was 'summoned, hut when an attempt was made to place him in tho vehicle ho complained of such- exquisite pain it was found necessary to discard the patrol wagon and to carry the man on a stretcher to a hospital. On arriving at tho latter institution he was carefully removed from tho stretcher to a cot in the receiving ward, and, although handled very tenderly, tho change of position soeined to aggravate his suffering. Singularly enough, when the surgeons made an examination, it was found that when a pin was stuck in nnv portion of the man's body below the nock ho apparently failed to feel it, and tho natural conclusion under tho circumstances was that ho had suffered a spinal injury. It was then proposed to place tho patient under nil anaesthetic, with tlio view of performing an operation, but when the man heard this ho jumped off tlio cot mid darted quickly out of ttie hospital gate and woa soon lost to view. lie had been "playing possum," but for what reason will, perhaps, never bo known. TO AVOID THE DUAFT. Such cases are not infrequently met with by physicians in their regular practice and at hospitals and other charitable institutions. Either to excitosympathy, or from other motives, people sometimes cultivato the power of simulating diseases. Theso individuals are known to tho medical profession na "malingerers/ and they become particularly numerous on certAn occasions. During tlio civii war, at the time conscriptions were made, it was surprising to soe tho number ol able bodied men limping along with canes and apparently 6ufforing' with rheumatism or other crippling ailments. While it is not always easy, even for nti expert doctor, to detect between real and simulated disease, yet ho can generally distinguish between the genuine and feigned rheumatism by tho manner in which man plants his cone on the pavement To understand the difference it is only -vrm'l Wtfffsfies ^lUUUg VUO UiOUlUtilQ JJUJlCOlUjr bllllUlated are fainting and epilepsy. Dotb have been so well counterfeited as to have been mistaken for' genuino coses. It ii only when heroic measures aro proposed that the imposition is disclosed. Not long since an up town physician, while passing an open air religious meeting on Broad street, had his attention attracted to a middle aged woman, apparently suffering with an cpileptio attack. Sho w;u si^rounded by a group of sympathetic men and women, and ono of tho lattei had procured from a neighboring residence a pinch of salt. The woman recovered consciousness, however, withoul tho uso of tho latter remedy. On tho following Sunday tho physician noticed the same woman in church, and, thinking she might bo seized with an'otlici spell, took a seat soveral pows from her. Sure enough, on attack came on, to the discomfitures of a number of nervous people." The poor woman was carried out to tho vestibule of tho church, and the physician followed. The seomlng epileptic scizuro passed off in about fivo minutes. FEIGNING DEAFNESS. Tho next Sunday thero was a ropetiAt ? A Al .ii 1_ mi i. ? lion oi uio uuauit. aiio wuuiun, wnw was a stranger to the congregation, was again taken to the vestibulo, and the physician who had previously attended. her was again called upon. Thinking that the attack was simulated, ho proposed that a settoe should bo procured and tho woman carried through the street to a polico station. In a twinkling tho woman sprang from the chall in which sho had been placed, hurried from tho building and has not since appeared at tho church. Ono of the methods adopted to mislead is to feign deafness. This is ono oi tho tricks resorted to by men who desire to nvoid being placed upon juries. Generally, however, the judges are able to fathom the deception, and, by tho use oi a little stratagem, it is easily exposed. Men who simulate deafness will clasp an ear in the palm of the hand and lea# forward as though tho auditory nervei were strained to catch what was said. In an unguarded moment tne suppose* deaf man is asked a question in an ordinary tone, to which he generally replicf and his deception is unmasked. As a rule, however, illness and othes physical disabilities aro simulated by peoplo who wish tto avoid work or whii desire to obtain, admission to some institution where tiiey may live without cost to themselves, nnd sometimes by convicts with the hope of bettering then condition. In fact very many discuses are feigned, but in the hands of a skillful physician they aro soon exposed. A common method of simulating npoplexy is by falling down asJf doprlved of sensation and consciousness. Powerful stimulants, an electrio shock, the application of hot water or an irritation of ?e nostrils, quickly detect the impoelin.?Philadelphia Ledger. UUpOTBVU Itj lucir vicuuuin A fearful riot of tho students arises In a Gorman town, and no one, not evon tho best liked tutor, is able to .nocify them, till a professor, hiring a barouche, takes in all the master tailors of the city and drives them through the campus, when tho mob disperses as by magic.?Fliegende Biaexer. I i ^ CMEIST Daniel o-connelu. Two Important Up:to<lo (n the Life ?>< (ho Lrlah Liberator. Daniel O'Conncll was born in 1775, and was sent to Franco to bo educated, as was the custom at Iho timo among Catholic Irish families. At tho age ot 20 ho wroto to a relativo concerning his futuro plans: "I have now fwo objects to pursue?tho ono the attainmont of knowledge; tho other quisition of all i4^'so tjualitics which ct>?M^?tcr-tno^polite gentleman, i airt couvinccd that the former, besides the .immediate pleasure which it yields, is calculated to raise mo to honors, rank and fortune, and I know that the lattnr serves as a pencral noss port or first recommendation: and as for the motives of ambition which you suggest, I assure you that no 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 an amusement. Though nature may htivo given mo subordinate talents, I nover will bo satisfied with a subordinate situation in my profession. No man is able, 1 am aware, to supply tho total deficiency of abilities, out everybody is capabloof improving and enlarging a stock, however-* small, and in its beginning, contemptiblo. It is this reflection Uiat affords mo most consolation. If I do not riso at tho bar I will not liavo to meet tho reproaches of-my own conscience." The young;man understood himself well, llis success as a lawyor was extraordinary. Before he.hau been practicing flvo years lie had within his reach a law business that would have brought him an income of $50,000 or $100,000 a year. But ho had not foreseen that ho was a bom political gladiator, and that tho oppression of Irishmen and tho miseries of Ireland would constituto the ono great causo of his career. When O'Connell took up tho Irish question many of his fellow Irishmen, like himself, were under a religious and legislative yoke. They were forbidden even to hold real property. Tho agitator lived lo.seo koiuo of tho worst disabilities removed, and this largely through his own incessant efforts. His parliamentary tactics were nnipll llin comn nc vmv 'iuiiv. no a hi rivti D? IIV may bo said (o have invented thom. fife was elected to Parliament in 1828, and was the first Catholic Irish member after tho revolution. Tlio emancipation act received tho royal signature ill 1820. ^ ^ of commons is thus described: "Tho excitement ,\vas "intense; . breathless silclico prevailed in that crowded assembly when O'Oonncll was introduced by Sir EL Burdett and Lord Duncannon. The speaker then Informed. him of tho resolution of the houso on tho previous night?that he could not tako his scat unless ho took the cath prescribed at tho timo lie was elected. The liberator then said: "May I ask *to sco tho oath?" The clerk was directed to hand him the oath, which was printed on a large card. O'Connell put oil his spectacles ontl perused tiio oath with deepest attention. One would supposo lio had noVer seen tho oath before; during the few minutes ho was so perusing it the smallest pin could he licftrd drop. TT it. ... J.I hT !.. .1-1 -Al. iii; uiun wiu: l M'o 111 una uaui ciiiu nssortion as to n matter of fact which I know to bo false, I see in it another assertion as to a matter of opinion which I believo to be untrue. I therefore rcfuso to take that oath," and, with an expression of J ho most profound con tern nt, ho flung tho card from him on tno tablo of tho house. Tho liouso was literally struck of a heap. No other phrase that I know of but that quaint, old fashioned one can accurately describe ^no feeling of amazement that pervajfed parliament for some minutes after tho cord was thus contemptuously fluntr on tho tablo. Tho speaker then said: "Tho honorablo and learned gentleman having refused to tako tho oath, will Eleaso rctiro below tho bar," and the ibcrator, again leaning on Burdett and Duncannon, camo below tho bar and sat near mo under tho gallery. In tho debato that ensued tho shakers on all sides paid him tho highest compliments, but it ended in tho issuing of a new writ for Clare.?Detroit Free rrr?t Trlrkft In Pliotoiptplijr. Thero aro various ways for providing surprising results in photography, things that in ono ago would nave boon called magic, but in ours recognized as scientific tricks. Tho ghost picture, for. instanco, in Which fl shadowy ghost?through which material objects aro visible?is seen between natural attitudes and occupations. This is produced by an almosl instantaneous exposure of the figure that is to do duty as tho ghost, fol lowed by a full exposure of tho figures and properties that nro to appear natu ral. Another novel trick was shown recently in a photograph roproducct by a-prominent trauo journal, whici presented the photographer, seated s a tabid, playing chess with himseli seated on tho opposito sido of tho ta ble, while ho himself Stood up in th< background looking at his two selvei playing. The figures were all on tho negative which was produced by thro? uucccs sivo oxposuresof tho plate, parts there of being masked cacli time by a blacl nnlnnt nltnSAv fiUill DnAtllAP fWplr f . VUI WW OilllVWH N/Via? v* that by which a person who liked tha sort or tiling may appear to bo photo graphed riding upon a dying gooso o a fish, or any other desired stylo o Eldiculous locomotion. This is don y tlio subject holding upon his lap i hugo nieco of whito or sky tinted card witli tliofanoiful figuro drawn upon i< His fftco appears abovo tho upper odg of tho card, nnd seems, in tho picture joined to tho funny littlo body mounte on tlm goose or flsh. Tlio statuo r?i< turo is mado by about tho same dovic< ?Photographic Review. r to * i ' ?? * Inaoitbl* ! ??. Newspapers at ^Lo jut??ent '.inu- :on ' tain many interesting stories of ol< people who aro hearty, but it is d<jubt ful.if a more curious fnso than the on' reported by Tlio Full Hiver Globe ha ever been published. It is that of 't Dartmouth farmer named VViU***" Bcnnott, who is nearly inyears of ago IIo was born at Tiverton, It T., ?n< lived for many yei?rs in a comfortabl* farmhouse on the tannin road to New ~~~ \Vlicn of ?g> t4V ?' * \?,,I,V4 " Ul.T. tiHI for whieb Dr. West was engaged t< [irescribo. TUo Dr. West mcntionec ived 1n a large mansion below Bridge port..and was an ancestor of tho pros cnt family which resides in that vi einity. At tho timo of Mr. Bennctt'i illness, salivation was a favorite forir of treatment. Calomel was tho druj ordered and administered to the.pa tiont. Either from ' carelessness .01 other causo tho mercurial prepanitior lodged in tho boy's jaws, and a can ccrous soro was developed. For many weeks his lifo was do rpaircd of. Finally tho growth wai killed, hut when it "had disappeared i was found that the muscles of tin child's jaws were ruined, and. like tin upper tho lower jaw would always re maiirfixcd. To regain strength it wtti necessary to have all his food specially nreparcu beforo it was given to him When placed before him ho manngct to squcezo it in between tho lips wlncl wcro"slowly recovering from tho al most fatal work done by tho deadly drug. Tho salivary glands were no injured by tho burning of the calomel Bennett recovered uftcr a long illncs; and grew up as most Rhode Ishuu boys do who spend a life on a farm Ilo pn3'8 visits to the Fall River rrtar kotiuen, with whom he has done busi ness for nearly fifty years. Ho is i ruddy featured, portly man of genia temperament, and with tlnT ^xceptioi of a slight facial defect ho shows n< signs or tho accident which has kep his jaws immovable for 60 many years < One Tear'* Track Uylu^. Notwitliptanding the widespread im pression that tlio additions to tho rail way system of tho Unftftl Stales dur ing 1888 would l^conr[farativcly in significant, tho ovWencc is now befon lis tlint tlin rnilivnv ?! < country was increased during the yeai , by no .less than 7,lUt). miles of mnii track. -While this -Ts^.mueh less thai tho phenomenal increaso >Ui ?lho yea; 1887, 1886,. 188^aW5^1,. sfficn -tin , now mileage mis resnBctivelydlU^? miles tforo added.- :i fcfe* ^ *,' * f New track vaslaid ii^all but two ol , the thirty-seven states nrid territories, tho executions being for Nevada. Kan sas still leads tho list in tho extent ol new mileage, and sho 1ms dono so foi several of the years. California coine: , next. Tho most striking charnctoristi< of tho year's work is tlic largo numbci of separato lines of tvhieh it is com , posed and tho correspondingly smal average?less than twenty utiles?foi , each lino. Only about twelve built , more than 100 miles each; thoso doing , tho largest, "mount of work lv^ng thi Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska, lit miles; St. Paul, Minneapolis and Mani toba, 371 miles, and Southern Pacific, , through various subsidiary companies, , a littlo over 800 miles. These facts arc important ns sliowfng ho\V the nature , of tho Work of railway cmAtructioii ehnnrrod in n Kintrlo venr. alio Imilri. ing of great competitive lilies practically ceased foi* tho immediate present, and tho year's work was chiefly dovoted to tho construction of short independent lines or branches.?Railway A.crr> Not m Matter of Choice. . - Aunty?I cannot understand how girl act tho way they do nowadays. It'ssim ply awfuL You spent two months a Newport last summer, and during thai tlmo you were engaged to half a dozer different men.* Sweet Girl?But, aunty, what ela could I do? I'd hardly get engagod t< ono young man bofore his vacation won't bo over, and he'd have to go back to tlx city, and that's tho way it went. It wm horrid.?New York Weekly:* Pom polity. ''I boo some men in the world holding themselves mighty .high. On what? ! can't tell! They are only men. G?< made us all. And we're all mighty sm|d creatures when It comes down to indi vldualu Individual!v n? don't <v->itr?' much (n the world. No man amolfrw* i ft prent deal by himself. H? 1? dependent on tho others. Therefore ho has no occa sion to feel better than any one else."? Detroit Free Press. . Lucky JckV. Tho French author, Martainville who began his career toward tho clow of tho last century, is said to hav< owed tho preservation of his lifo to I witty picco of audacity. Ho was i Royalist, vnd did not hesitate toattac) tho French revolution and its authori ties. Presently, of courso, ho wa summoned to appear before tho revo > lutiouary tribunal, with tho terribl C Fouquicr at its head. Tho revolutionary tribunals at tha timo did not licsitato to send ovcry body to tho guillotino who had von turcd to attack them. Martainvill expected to go with tho rest of th ' victims. "Wlint ia vniir nnmp!" ftfllrfwl th " revolutionary iudgo. _ "Martainvilfe," said the youn, t author. * "Martainrillo I" exclaimed the judg< "You aro deceiving us, aud trying t i hido your rank. You are an anst< n crat, and your name is De Martaii I villo."* i "Citizen President," exclaimed tli young man, "I am hero to bo shor q ened, not to be lengthened 1 Leav me uiy name 1" (1 A true Frenchman loves a a itticisi abovo all things, and tbo tribunal wo J so much pleased by Martainvillo grim respouso that it spared his life.Youth's Companion. y\ % UNION What was tuat Explosion??Will some ecieutifio gentleman rise up with his broad t J knowledge of scienio and pour forth a reasonr> able excuse why the Piedmont section of the ' State should have been selected for ?i 9 air explosion ? ^ i8 jttll tho subject X ^r^^clTcomroent and guess-work in the r county, and.it is hard to coutinco a great t many from the country that there was not a < ' tremendous boiler explosion at Piedmont or I " | reixer, oy wntcn irom nt? m "ii?j men | ' *i Trrrn hi"?** ?n,i wounded. The story is out i nrat ft piece of the flying boiler bored through I 2 a three-foot brick wall and slaughtered with- I t out compunction a peaceful I'cidmnnt black- ? 5 smith who was standing at his anvil making t 1 shoes for a kicking Anderson County mule. I; The remnants of the poor blacksmith, ac- h r* cording to the story, were scattered to the t four winds of the earth and the only port of n a the Anderson mule afterward discovered !i ! was the tail, still wagging and the left hind I T leg, raised in an attitude that is not popular with timid village blacksmiths. The thirty > who were killed witboutone word of warning a all left large families to mourn their uotime- a ly end and to drop tears over the few pieces I "f flesh that wcro gathered together. The <! terrible accident is attributed to tlio engineer .an 1 fireman who were raortiso on account of a * .not getting to come to Greenvillo to see the a 1 cirrus and drowned their sullcness in il 5 "mountain dew'' and let the water get out ti J of the boiler. s New boilers in place of the ones that caused h 9 such terrible destruction have not been or- it 7 dered, but will be in a short time. The'ncw ii engineer antl fireman will tako a cast-iron w 1 oath never to look at, touch or condescend in g i any shape, form or fashion to imbibe any tl spirituous or malt 1-quors, wine or cider. w j and besides must swea* tlint tliey have seen o (. every circus that ever exhibited and would p put go to see one if the tent was pitched in h I, the cngina room and the elephant chained d j to the engineer's tool chest. The engineer w and fireman must also swear before the next* d ' explosion lakes place they will notify the h village blacksmith, remote the kicking mule tl lo n placo of safety and if possible take the a | roof ofTthc engine room and let the boiler go f, out at the top without spreading itself nnd h 1 wreck ing the sides of the structure. I! 5 , The engineer must also he n uian of im- a t mt'nse wealth so that he tuny be able to Btnnd a $100,000 suit for damages instituted by each of the widows who might be left home- \ .leas and husbandlcss by his carelessness ji - and intemperate habits. The company |. must be remunerated for lost time whilo ' >- the boiler is at the machine shops. ? 1'ending the arrival of non-authentic, iu- [ 3 formation on the origin of the mysterious ( 3 mid-air exolosion, the subject is left in the u r hands of aciantieta or the Washington wenth- v 1 er bureau for solution and the consequent j enlightenment of a benighted and mystified r ?Ublt?- ^ ^ ? ispstff9ll 1ft(V'il/rrM:ir r'- y between ^ ? TolHf If? Jones and Lewis Jenkins, which ** took place last Saturday week. They were 0 ' rid trig up different roads tuat tin t n a ( the Grauitedepot. Aa the two men upproaohf -oil the junction of the roods Jenkins halloed \ , >o Jones and asked if he did not want company up the road. Jones said ho wanted k r uo such company as Jenkins's, Then, ihey r cuseod one auollior till they met, w hen Jones ,j ? dismounted, hitched his mule, coming out ,| ? into the road said the matter had to be sot- , - tied then and there. ? . * Jenkins got off his hoise, too, aud getting y | behind it for breast work,'bogan shooting a; . Janes. Jones whipped out his pistol tlrcu and l pulleu the trigger, but the old i lung snapped r and the cylinder got stubborn and wouldn't work Jones coolly set to work to fix it, 1 | and did get it so it would revolver when he ' turned it with his hand. " By this time Jenkins, who had been blaz- s< ing away at Jones while he was fixing his '.u > pistol, had emptied his revolver, aud it was ol ! now Jones's innings. He went smiling to ! the bat and sent hot balls spinning in the w > direction of Jenkins, who trade a short stop out of his horse and wsute t to be a fielder himself, as far out as possible. When Joues V got through, the horse was mortally wound- tl ed and Jenkins was hitting the grit.?Lc- 11 . noir Topics. "J Kklton Men in tus Toils.?A decided .. sensation was caused on Tuesday by the ar- !11 rest here of two young white men from Kcl- 111 > ton, in Union County, on the charge of cot ton stealing. On Tuesday roorniDg a bale t of cotton was missed at Lancaster's gin, t near Rich Hill. Parties went at once to S] j uicuaaic ana to inis place. AmoDg the Ik newly bought cotton bales in Walker Flem- ai ing & Sloan's warehouse, Mr. Lancaster la found, and easily identified the cotton. They pi hurried to the bank to stop payment of the to check, but it had already been cashed. Then Oi ihey loo"ked for the men, and found them w just going out of town, Tbey had given tii their names aa L. M. Parsons and J. C. cl Johnson, but later Mr. Parsons was identi- Tl tied as John Johnson. All the money was ci j recovered. Tbey had already sold a bale of II [. cotton at Facolet, whether their own or he f stolen is not known. They hare confessed hi I the Hioh llill theft. When arrested John Johnson had on a clasp knife over a foot wi * long, and will ba indioiod also for carrying in eoao^Wea weapons.?Spartanburg llerald. hi ^ Fin* in Pnr*BSBURO.?Richmond, Novem- L *1 ber 7.?A dispatch A-om j^er*ranu?e^ y- - -I says thai a terrible fire started at 3 o clock w this morning in Geo. II. Davis & Co's dry tit goods house, on Syoamore street, aud spread lb Erith inoredible rapidity, burning down in a , Yhort time the whole iron-frout block and ci 5 fajoining properties. The flames leaped hi i Jhross the street and destroyed the Odd Fcl- si X la-s' Hall and five or six other buildings, ft X Laut Criobton, of the police force, was in C oqe of the burning buildings when the wall a - fail in on bin. lie was burned to (loath, h B Half a block on each si do of Sycutnore street, I v r from Tabb street wv*t, is gone. The esti- n g mated loaa is $760,000. The insurance has I a#i yet been asoertainod. t * ? .. k Me. T. F. Dayard Married.?Washing- ( ^ tan, D. C., Not. 7.?-The lion. Thomas F. | 0 Bayard, ex-Secretary of State, and Miss Mary Milling Ciymer were uwiTied at one 1 o'oloek -this afternoon' at the bride's rest- < denee, 11H7 If. Street, in the presence of a t SfTdistinguished oompany. The intention j ' ^?s to bare the wedding as quiet as possi- ( & L, and the invitations, numbering about were confined to the relatives of the ' oonlraoting parties and a few personal 1 O friends. Among the latter wero ex-Presi- i >" dent and Mrs. Cleveland, ex-Secretary and I* Mrs. Fairohild and Mrs. Dickinson an exAasistafrt Secretary and Mrs. Hives, who .0 qanrio t# Washington for the sxpress purt>[v^|e of attending the wedding. o ?.?7 yT Taxation o? Immigrants.?New York, n /November 1.-?The emigration commissioners ua uo-day notiAed all steamship companies that W head tax of Afiy cents each will he collec_ uid from them for every alien they bring Aere. Thia will iaolude obildren. I Manic Mai? by Starvatioji. ? New York, Dctober 31.?\\ Ini* crazed by hunger Mrs. Mary Burn ined ti kid her ?r? ??"?ut year old *??.'eueci at daybreak this morning. Intervention of neighbors alone prevented a trngedy. For three weeks past the woman has been ill. She was too poor .0 engage a physician, and too busy to spare tme to go to (he freo dispensary, having hree children and their grandmother to provide for. She na'irrally grc v weaker ind wenkor encli day for want of proper rood. To add (o her misery Mrs. Barn's tusband is at present at Bcllevuo Hospital, luffering from incurable disease, and it lw*d iccii necessary (b part with many necessary louschoid goods in order to stay the tide of idversity. The pluoky little woman's couinued fasting soon showed itself in her face nd form, although the chiidrcu, tlirough icr eelf-dej rivaliou, were kept plump and Tight. Shortly bef.no 0 o'cloak this morning drs. Barn rro'e. Her motiier was awake t the time and raw her go to the room door nd lock it and put the key in her pocket, 'hen she took up her youngest child laid lown on the bed and began to nurse it. hiddenly she was siczed with convulsions nd began to choke the infint until it hml 1 most ceased to breath. A struggle with lie grandmother ensued, in which the latter nnl'y obtained possession of the babe. No ooner had sho done so than -the crazed roman sprang at her thro it and grasped it a a grip of iron. The old woman struggled a vain to be free, and thcchi dren shrieked ritli fright, "Mamma, yonr'o hurting randma. Don't hold her that way." When lie mother released her grasp the old lady ras almost past aid. A great black streak ti her (h**oat is still visible. 1 lie insane areut next seized one of the boys, Johnnie < y the throat, and would surely have tiiurercd him but for the screams of his brother rbicli aroused the neighbors and after a csperatc struggle she was lalfcn in an amulauce to Bellevuo. The surgeon there says hat Mrs. Barn became a maniac through beer lack of food. The agent of the Society or the Prevention .of Cruelty to Children, as taken care of the little onus. Mrs. tarn is 57 years old. Her husband, who is Frenchman, is 72. An Infant Mmtor.n.?Charlotte, X. C., iov. 7.?A fearful tragedy was enacted ot li'ldlesville, in the western suburbs of Cliar)tte, at. about half past, ton o'clock this lorning. Wesley Hunter is a colored man rho lives with his wife ami two children io tiddlisvillc. The oldest child is -a hov of hrce yours and the win only a b ibe f six months. This morning Hunter's wife veilt into the yard to get sonic wood and eft the babe-propped' tin > > * il ire k-i.-iy M A It ICKTS, L Sl'w 1 ^v"?...rTiir TSrnF rlien she hc.trd the gun fire mid rushiogi*> j 11 ud the babe dead upon the tloor tL* .w alf of its head entirely slu.t oir. The! 3d ceupied its same position in the corner! fcv lie three-year-old lad stood in tlio floor! 9 aim and cool as if nothing hud been dol.5 is his nioOicr came in lie ran tip to her ( <? xclaiined ; "Oh ! mother, gnu fell doB ud killed sinter!'' ? Although it is a plain case of child roiME t>r, the little fcliow stands firm to liis stow, tit the gun fell down and sivs he set it A gain. On aocunt of the boys cxtrciH outh it was not deemed necessary to hoWi a inquest.?C'ur. (Jrernville jfctcs. Examination foh Wkst Point.?Mr. EJiir?1'lease let me say through your paper lal un examination wijl he held at Kock [ill, S. C., on Friday, the 20th of Nor. IV't A II t Q 1 11 A* a],>a1s n %*? ni' I MAa* ? ?. *v u viwva a. in., ui iilUBU pfl" mis who desire to compete for the nppointeut to the U. S. Military Academy from It Congressional District ofS. C. The examination will include reading, riting, orthography, arithmetic, grammar, Jography and history of the U. S. Applicants must be between 17 and 122 ears of age when they enter the academy, vo feet high, physically robust, bona fide tsidents of the Congressional District, and ust appear at West l'oint on Juno 17th, *JU. All applicants should report at the Corona Hotel, Rock iiill, by 1) a. m. of the 2'Jth istant. 'A*. Jxo. J. 11 km r ii i V /\ - Women Rami and Rvin a Cii b.?Hlue mugs, Mo., Nov. 1.?John Haley came re a week or two ago from Argentine. Kan., id opened a quiet club room. The local ws of Blue Springs arc of the strictest issiblc kind, but as Haley kept a higlined place no one interferred with him. n Saturday night, however, twenty-five omen belonging to the temperance orgunizain of the town, masked and armed with ubs, inside an attack upon (he club room, icy broke in the doors nud found seven or glit old soaks engaged in a game of csirds. ley ordered them out of the room ami then igan knocking the bungs out of beer kegs id whiskey barrels. Haley made a shmv ^of resistance,' but lie its hit on the head with clubs, and finally ,11 down the street with four women after ni. lie escaped in the roller mill. The mnen smashed ail the bottles and glasses idtill lilt si lealk appealed to the wfhncn not to destroy ic whiskey but to take it home and keep it r medicinal purposes. "That's mighty good whiskey, ladies," lie ied, "and the Lord didn't intend it should s"dumped in the gutter while there were > many poor sick people around. 1 am not seling well myself." This remark' was a signal for an attack, nd the man was compelled to take to his eels. The clul) room and all its attractions cere destroyed. The women are the leading natrons of the town. Short Crops in Oconee;.?Seneca, 3coueo County, November 7.?A goodly number of ouj citizens are enjoying .he many attractions offered by your jity this weok. Cram rending the Nrws ind Courier wo learn ti nt your people aave made amusement enough to last icveral weeks. Your correspondent took a ride ot teveral miles in the country a few days ago, and is convinced from observation that the cotton crop is far short of what was expected two months ago. In the first placo there was inoro weed than fruit and then tho early frost cut off all the late cotton. Some of tho best in formed farmers are el mo opinion mai tbero will not be more than two-thirds ol au average crop made- this jear, Hut thocorn crop is good so wo will not starve.?News and Courier. terrific t nuu*an'htt<7 Snjlrrttt Dollars a 7V/i //'/^V!^^|^^0H|BHHM!H1 Dbn vkii, t'oi.o , n '^^brbbsbminitfl publican'* special from Dr^^BffBiKfBp^rrm i i j ^^BiM8?>BUjjUWf^Sg says; iiiess uiu snow has been raging Tor cizht an eud soon, next summer will country covered with d ;a< 1 vfc animals as tliickly as was the Fo trail in the six'ios. The depth^K ' 'ttffiffi. suow is now not lees than lwenty-3??^raWK inches on a level, an i in many places ^Hn it lias drifted seven feet higher. When "^jj the storm sliuck this section seven large herds of eittlo uumberiug from lour hundred to two thousand, were being held near this pltce awaiting shipment to eastern markets. The rain of a week aeo was followed Thursday morning by blizzards oI'mjow and sleet which sent the he ids in a southerly direction. It vain did the hall' frozen cowboys try to cheek the m arch of the herds, hut on they went through the increasing storm until, liudin ; it u'terly impossiblo to hold the cattle, the cowboys rode aside .let them pass and when in. a ly dc id, rode their exhausted 1 or-s into canyons or partially sheltered places where they passed many hours of misery without food or lire. Twx) cowboys drifted in'o a canyon where they fot'id a c?dar tree wit'-* a rat's nest in'it. They uiai^igt-d to ligb* afire with this., l)uriug the second night oce of their horses di<-d from cold and having ^lotHing,to eat the men cut pieces of flesh ' from tho deadpan i ma I which' they warmed . and ate*^g$tliuut salt. Alter being there'oWr'stxtjfl^or.ra-s.? . they st-rted out aud aftef 'mariydfthlsWifiH^ v?jfe front their weakened Ci(tidition" od to reach a ranch thirty tuijas atva'y ? j? ighcro they were cared for Five cow-bit*-" are known to be fr'RCii t>k death*. ' Mexican sheep herders 1 avebaen f to death. Two men .coming in tb' s ^ iug rcport'drifts in some p'accs savca pa L ei ht feet high in which tlieie a ;r j*j drcds of de'id,stook. pletely wiped put of cxiatonfti^A -fh range lor tbjrtv uiiifSLjro.ii totfu - wr**-' TtttojStf.ea7n^v j?3 TfinTZUjJWI s 'oep hnvo perished tu ''*STip, part of the Territory^ Th<? h.v, is nearly exhausted, and lud..j, di "> pur ton .was offered by stockmen. At I line, ten miles below Clayton, tw > p Isenger trains have been snow-bound fi **' ""v< Aa woek. Provisions arc running nurnnu - j*" Aiasscngors arc compelled to venture ofit*An the storm and kill cattle, quarters'""**""* which arc taken into the cars and * ^lasted for food. It }s thought a snow F "31'tigh will reach tho imprisoned trains IC*'-morrow and release, them, aud tint I Kie road will 60 opened in a day or two. The storm is by far the the worst ever known in New Mexico, and tho exact Joss of life and property cannot at present bo estimated." Help the Little Mills. ?Laurens, Nov. 9.?That the Farmers Alliance will finally break the jute (ru-t and ot!.crwiso accomplish givut good, is a thing to bo nop d for, but there are other trusts which the farmers might look to inthe meantime, for instance tho Standard oil trust. Heretofore ilia farmers have never received at this place more than 16 or 18 cents per bushel for their cotton seod, because there was only one parly or corporation t<> whom they could be sold, but this year s one of our enterprising citizens have buiit an oil mill, 1 thereby raised the : rieo of seed to per bit-he 1. Now the Standard oil company by reason of its strength may cruih this little infant industry of ours out of existence, and thereby reduce the price of seed attain to 16 cents. Would it uot be well for the farmers throughout the cotton States to sell their little factories that d > not belong to tbo trust all their seed so long as they nro willinc to n:iv n. irnml r.rien Tip fhni4 r? ? i --J ? ^ ? - | v. and thereby assure themselves a contin ual good market for that product?? Special to Greenville Aews. A Shooting Affray near Cj.ifton. ?Clifton, Nov. 8.?A lively row oecurrcd noar hero | nf "jfr1" ? - L' * tfcry seriously wounded by Munro White at whose house the shooting took pi tec. From what can be gathered it seems that there was an old feud between the men on account of White having a lit natcd tlio affections of Tumor's wife. The attending surgeon, Dr. O. G. Falls, considers Turner's recovtry doubtful. Munro White was at a late hour last night committed to J til l>v Trial .Justice VYardlaw.? (JreenvUte News. One of tlie "poor, persecuted negroes of tho Southern States," for whom toe Ohio fools and fanatics bad a "ilay of prayer" last week, boughtat Newberry Court House, Sown Carolina, on sVesday, tbo 4th instant, a tract of land for !?*2,o'25, paying one-third cash therefor. And he alieady owned a good deal of valuable land. A writer in tho medical classics looked through a microscope at a closo'y shav.d face and he reports the skin resembled a piece of raw beef. "To make the skin perfectiy smooth requires." he Bays, ' not only the removal of the hair, but also a portion of tho cruticle, and a c ose shave tueans the removal of a skin all arouud. The blood vessels thus exposed arc not visible to the < eye, but under the microscope each little quivering mouth holding a minute blopd drop protests against aucn treatment. The nerve tips are also uncovered and tho pores are left unprotected,' which makes the skin tender and unhealthy. This sudden expos | ure of the inner layor of the skin ren ters a , I person lisb'o to hate colds, hoarseness and ?jro tlrjot."