Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^ 1 '' ~ OimrerUlfiu>$o^th? Day. ~ ' VOL. XXIII.?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH cailoijaw^rmn a v. OCTOBER 7, 1802. ' NUMBER I). HHHStfflBflBEt&pfe 'oT a philanthropist at HF<?wtu, Oa., should be imitated by other (pi < P? - wealthy gentlemen. He has built several v\- houses which he permits poor widows to occupy free of rent." Another royat personage has written a Ibook. The King of 8iam, after a trip ground the Malay Poniniula, has given [to the world au account of his trip, illustrated by the best map of the i ipeninsula that has ever been publisheJ. | The postal telegraph system of Great [Britain and Ireland is now the moat < [gigantic and complete organisation for Itha trunimiuinn nt 41? * world, says the New York Commercial iAdvert!ler. The staff numbers 3453; j tthe annual amount expended in salaries laud wages is $322,960, and the total j rnumbcr of telegrams passing through the ' office per annum, 32,537,779. "Verv ennnurtiorintr mnnrla n? - - ?0?0 1'"? ? V VVIU JI I (received from the various dairy sc'ncA. ' ^ (held in different parts of Europe," an- J W Inouncea the American Dairyman. "The t idairy districts that produced a poor ' (quality of butter previous to the holding .of these schools are now sending butter |to market much improved in quality, ai 1 iwell as producing a much larger quantity (from the same amount of milk. We ' .should like to hear from some of our .readers in this country as to the benefits ] ( ;derived from dairy schools or farm institutes that hare been held throughout ] |the dairy districts during the last two ' lyeart." ? 1 Man's best friend among animals, the i * dog, is to hare his devotion put to * another teat, states the Chicago Ilerald. He has frequently died while fighting j for his master; ho will now be asked to , give up his life as the victim of disease. t Superstition has long attributed to the ' dog the power of curing consumption, and many people have eaten the animal's meat with that end in view. Learned ' doctors of this city now propose to have ' healthy dogs live and sleep with con- | sumptive patients, believing thut the i germs of tbe malady will be absorbed by ,|he lower animal. It is claimed, that the ' only confirm the public Impression that j consumption is a ruthless and unmanagaable disease, and one that drives science ] to it* wit's ends. i The feat accomplished by the Penn* J sylvania Railroad Company some weeks 1 ago in ruuniug a train laden with grain through from Chicago to Jersey City, ' without breaking link or changing locomotives, attracted great- interest at the < time, as nothing like it had ever been 3 undertaken before in this country. The ! transportation department of the com- t pany has compiled the following facta f and figures: 4?A distance of 824 miles was tra7ersed, during which time the locomotive was not uncoupled from the < train. The total length of the train was t 1802 feet and it carried 2,640,000 pounds of grain, an average of 60,000 pounds to each car. Tho locomotive and cars were equipped throughout with Westinghouse brakes. The locomotive and tender weighed 88,500 pounds. The forty thirty-four-foot bor cars, with loads, weighed 3,821,000 pounds, and the caboose 18,000 pounds. The total weight of the train was 4,030,0OG pounds." No stronger evidence of the safety ol ' electric lighting installations can be , afforded than the fact that a great man; explosives factories are now being lit by electricity. It is obvious that a building wherein the preparation of indanmablo or highly explosive substaocei i? Carrie 1 on very special care should bo taken in order to avoid even the smallest risk, and powder manufactuiers now And that the electric light addf a considerable percentage over gas to tho chances of safe operation. While olec tricity increases the surety or tnu oraaca , of Industry in one way it lessens it in i another. Thero is a great deal of freo 1 electricity thrown off in various stages of manufacture, and tho disposition of this, so far as it can be removed out of harm's way, is a serious question. The oharge of a powder cake press with ebonite platee may practically be considered as an electric plie, and a large amount of friction or electrio influence I from outside may cause a sufficient electrio oaarge to givn off sparks. Several undisputed oases of this kind have been known. Another source of danger from friotion occurs during the glasing, rounding and sieving off gunpowder. The powder is subjected to a constant nibbing of its particles against eaoh Other, and during the glasing especially there is danger of electricity accumulating. Therefore precautions should bt taken In order to convey away any charge that may accu mulate in the gla? , {03 barrels. LUUJU?j OiAIJiO' MlfiHS. Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points of Interest The Fields of Virgina, North and South Carolina Carefully Cleaned For News. VIRGINIA. Richmond has arranged for a big tournament on October 17tb. Captain John J. Gibbs, a prominent citizen of Norfolk, is dead. Two floe deer were shot at Warm Springs by a Richmoud sportsman. Booth Boston has completed and in operation a f20,000 roller" flour mill. Large crowds attended the Northern Neck Fair ct Ileathsvillc October 4. Peyton Cochran, superintendent of the public schools of Charlottesville, died in Btaunton. , A syndics*c of Boston capitalists have purchased property in Rockingham :ounty, where onyx wns recently dis covered in abundance aud of valuable ]ualitr. The Roanoke Iron Co put its rolling nill in operation on Mouday morning nst, starting three furnaces. The plant contains thir y-two furnaces in all, with r capacity of forty-five tons per turn, nnd he remainder of them will be started as loon as workmen can be obtained. NOBTH CAROLINA. Winston has a ladj in the iusurancc business. The capacity of the new compress at Hamlet is 75 bales per hour. The town of Elkin will open a big to bacco warehouse for the sale ol leaf od October 20th. Another cotton mill is to be built at Durham right away, and it wdl make four for that place. The Asheville Street Railway Company ias brought 6uit against each individual >n the aldermanic and advisory boards, lb well as tho city fir damages for the -ailway on Patton avenue. Rev. H D. Lcqncux, late pastor of the 3 iptist church of Morg niton, who has :onnected himself within the past few vceks with the Presbyterian Church, has tcceptcd a call to the pastorate of Pop ar Tent church, Cnbarrus county. SOUTH CAROLINA. At Martins Pinckney Brown is estab ishiug a plant for making rope and plow Tines from cotton. The Charleston brewery has rebuilt its brewery, ice plant and bottling works ind resumed operations. Rico and Cummings have incorporated ,he Southern Co-opc.ativc Steam L^un iry Co^with a capital stock of $10,000 mucu """ '! " " M'l'y'^TTOjTuiBSSS throat wi h a n\zor. Blji mind lsSaicTTo lave been unbalanced.' Some owners of land in Port Royal lave filed suits against the United Btutps which will amount to nearly a auaitcr of i million dollar*. It is claimca that the rovernmcnt has taken land for. the coal ng station and dry-dock which belongs :o the complainants. While South Carolina does not now igure among the iron-pvoducing States it the South, it was once the scat of couliderable iron industry, nearly all traces if wh'ch have now passed nwny. Forty fears ago there were eight blast furnaces aid three rolling mills in the State, the ast of which was abandoned about wenty years ago. The decliuc aud disippcarance of the industry is not d ie to ack of the ncccssaiy natural conditions, 'or an abundance of iron ore of high trade eiists, and will doubtless some lay form the basis of a new aud iutporant iron making industry. OTHER STATES. The grand jury ef Anderson county, Tenn.. has found two iiidiclmentsagaiust ). B. Monroe, the a'ieged leader of the uincrs in the Coal Creek insurrection. Hamilton llioolnn in -f - ^r.wW?WM| Ml U|>vnni|l^ Ul III') and in Florida, sujs during this year hey will raise 6,000 O'lO pounds of sugar ind draw a bounty of $120,000. Besides his they have 1,500 acres in rice. Of heir original holding of 6.000,000 ncrcs hey have disposed of about 20l'0000 and till retain nearly 4,000,0 '0. DROWNED WHILE DUCK SHOOTING % rhe Recoil of a Oun Upset the Boat and One of the Sportsmen Was Lost. LvNCHBUno, Va. - - J. E. TYnnyson, who was until rcceolly manager of the Lynchburg opera house, accompanied by IS. B. Emerson, secured a sail boat yesterday afternoon and went duck shooting on the James river. Mr. Tennyson shot lit a stump on the opposite sirle of the bank, and his gun being h avily loaded, Iho force of the discharge made hint lose his balance, throwing him into th^ water and cnusing the boat to upret. Mr. Emerson bcir.g the better 6wiin mer, succeeded in getting Mr. Tenny sun on one end of the boat and then st rted for the shore, swimming nnd pushing the boat nt the same time, lie had on y gone n short distance when he was horrified to hear Tennyson say: "Oood by, Ed," and of seeing him sink The body was found. Mr. Tennyson leaves a widow nnd two children. Two Innocent Victims of a Feud. IIuntikoton, W. Va.?On Fudg. Creek, this county, the eight and t n year-old daughters of Charles Billups were shot while sitting in the door of their home and the older one is not ei peeled to live. The shooting was done by Mrs. James Pike, an aunt of the children, and she was incited to commit the deed by an attack made on her husband I...a uM n:M nu*~? i ? I HBI? OUUIIIIJ UJ uiiiupv. J UCIQ UII9 Iiecn bad blood between the Pikes and Bitlu[? for several years sod numerous shootings have occuricd. Three years ago Billups and Mrs. Pike's father-in-law had a terrible encounter with axes in the woods and Billups killed his opponent and alleged self-defenso wt the trial, where be was acquitted. Mrs. Pike is now under 'rrest, awaiting the results of the wounds Inflicted on the girls. WAYLAID AND KILLED. A Cowardly Murder in Ocala, Fla., That May be Followed by a Lynching. Ocala, Fla.?Thero are fears of a lynchiug here. Charles Shafer, an old aod much respected resident, was shot and killed by York Ballard. Ballard aod his younger brother lay in wait for Shafer, and when ho came up in his wagon Ballard sprang upon him and killed him in a most cowaraly manner. Several years ago Ballard and Bhafer's stepson loved the sutnc girl. Sho favored young Shafer. Ballard began writing scurrilous postal cards to hor. Ho was discovered and convicted. When tho sentence, si* months in the county jail, was pronounced, bo said it was only a short time to serve, and threatened to kill Shaft r. The Judge then gave him eighteen months in the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary. Ballard returned. He gave himself up after the murder, but says that when they met, Shafer attempted to cowhide him and he shot him in self-defence, but the body of tho dead man, found in the bed of his wsgon, contra diets this assertion. Shafer was about fifty yctrs of age. Ballard is only twenty-five years old. Cotton Planters Despondent. Siirkveport, La.?About Bhrevcport the people who raise cotton are despondent. All this Red river valley was ovi rflowed late in the spring and the rcplautcd crops have not done well at all. I met Dr. Dixon, a large planter, who lives about twenty miles north of Shrevcport, on the Red river, and he 6ays that ii n 9iu|)? i i country in which he lives there is ordinarily ninde about 15,000 bales of cotton. This yenr he says there will not be 5,000 bales made on the same land. Coming up from New Orleans, I noticed that the cotton plant was small and not well fruited It seemed dull in New Orleans, but in 8hreyeport it is worse. I am told that west of here in the black lauds of Texas the crops are good. Fighting the Tobacco Truat. [New Orleans Times-Democrat.] The Farmers and Shippers' Tobacco Warehouse Company is a strong concern just started In Cincinnati as a rival to the tobacco "combine." The company has a capital of $1,000,0(0. The new compony owes its origiu to the disaflec tion among tobacco men in Ohio and Kentucky with "the combine." It was understood by them that "the combine" nimcd at controlling prices and othei matters connected with the business, to a.degree that would be very troublesome day night by a notorious colored criminal named Pierson. The negro met little Charlie Smith, brother of Henby, and after some words with the child slapped him. Later Henby met the negro and accused him of imposing on his little brother. when Pierson drew a revolv?.r and shot Smith through the bead and fled. Diligent search is bciug made for the murderer. Deposed for Hugging the Organist. Owosso, Micu. ?The Rev. It. D. Robinson, formerly of the Methodist Episcopal church at Clarkston. is a minister of the gospel no longer. The select committee cf fifteen appointed at the first day's session of the Detroit conference has found him guilty of immorality and has deposed him from the ministry and the church. The specific charge was that he hugged and kissed the organist. Mr. Rqbinson is about 75 yea?s of age. and is sold to be dying of consumption. ji Wife and Mother Elopes. * At Charlotte, N. C., Mrs. Mattie Wilson, wife of Mr. Vann Wilson, eloped with a man named Mcrvii Ferguson. All three worked at the Charlotte cotton mills. While Mr. Wilson was in the mills somebody brought him news that his wife had gone. He went to his home in tho brick row and found that Mrs. Wilson had really eloped, leaving their two sick children alone and unattended at home. A Boy Breaks the Bicycle Recor d. Independence, Ia.?Accompanied by tworuuniug horses as pace makers, John Johns n, the hoy bicyclist, broke the bicycle record for one mile this afternoon, making the phenomenal time of 1.59 8-5. He passed the first nuartcr in 99$, the half mile in 58), and tho three quarter post in 1.281. Hayes Calls on Harrison. Washington, D. C. - Gen. Rutherford D. Hnycs, ex-president of the United States; wearing his Grand Army uniform, called at the White House in the morning, and President Harrison, who it denying himself to visitors during the illness of Mrs. Harrison, made an ex teptiou in favor of his predecessor, and received him. Gen. Hayes spent a short time with tho President. Workingmen's Homes Burned. Nbw Ori.bans, La.?Tuesday night Arc was discovered among the working men's cottages on St. Andrew's street near iteusscau, and twenty-four of them wprc destroyed before the flames were sii dued. The loss wi:| aggregate $75, uuu, parity covered by tnaurance. A strong wind and p"*or water supply as siste(l the blan. Mad* Vary Xieh Suddenly. Ci.ARKftviLLR, Tbw*.?W. A. Frcemno, a farmer in very moderate circumstances, ia in the city and haa received a letter from Wm. Moore, a lawyer in London, informing him that a auit had been decided in hn ??> > ? ?? v '* ??VU wvuku net him $3,000,000. Cigar Maker's Body Found Richmond, Vv?The body of Robert Melton, a cigar maker about 34 yeara of age, waa found by Joe Edwarda in the dock between 17th and 18th atresia, He wm addicted to atrong drink. POLITICAL ^WORLD. ! Candidates, Convention*, Nomina 1 tions, Elections.* All the News of Political Movements of the Four Partie^ Geo. D. Bowdcn was nominated at Norfolk by tho Hcpublican coi^ention, for Congress. i i Albert ft. Berry, of Ncwp< rt, was nominated by the Democrats on i lie 372d ballot at Warsaw, Ky., as Congi 'ssinau. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has bee i nominated unanimously for Congress for the seventh timo at Decatur by thr Democrats of the Eighth Alabama disti ct. Nkw York City.?C. F. H >dsdon will furnish the Board of Polioc with 3,000 folding ballot booths for thu turn of $6.25 each, such booths to be^madc wBk North. l'l"? * ciravas panels, and siuiihir to WWW I ui nished by him for tho election of 1800 This item of election ?'expense will be , $12,5)0 this year. The ballot cages differ from the O'Brien Association iu this: The O'Briens would neither bend , nor break; the ballot Cages don't bend, K..t <1 A- t 1- 1 * - w?.i uicj *iu KrvtiK. Aunui one quarter of those u oil Inst year are unfit for use this, and have to bo replaced at a cost of , $0.2) each. , RKrUBMCANS OK booth CAROL'na. Columbia, S. C.?The State Republican convention which met here adopted 1 a platform in patt as follows: "We, the Union Republican party of South Carolina, in convention assembled, 1 do hereby re-affirm our allegiance to the principles of the national Union Republican party as set fi rth ia the platform ndoptcJ at the Minneapolis convention; we most hcnitily endorse and ratify the nominees of that convention, Bcnj. Harrison and Whitelaw Rcid, and pledge to them our unswerving fidelity and support, nnd wo hereby declare that with a 'free ballot nnd a fair count* the State of S uth Carolina would bcjsjjlaced in the column pf Republican Stau$ by a majority oMfl.OOO votes; the Democratic party of tfoinfi Carolina, by its infamous action in derailing the will of the people by forco^ud fraud, descrvts ana must receive the condemnation of all just minded pooplc; we hereby tender our most since c sympathies to President Harrison because of the illness of Mrs. Harrison and our hopes for her speedy restoration to health " The followiog presidential electors ( were choseu: State i t large, John It. Talbert, W. D. Crum; first district; Bruce II. Williams; second, .patriot. James Po.vcrs; third Adiotricf^J. VUl Morris; fourth district, effect that in ^iciv KNOCKED OUT BY \ NEGRO. " Joe Goddard, the Australian Pugilist "Gets It- in the Neck." Philadelphia, Pa.?Joe Goddard, the Austra'ian champion pugilist, met his Waterloo at toe Ariel Athletic Club, in the presence of 2,000 pers >ns, at the liAnds oi Joe Butler, a Philadelphia colored fighter. Tlio negro did not weigh 165 pouuds, while Goddard was at least thirty pounds heavier. The bout begau 10:45 o'clock, and Butler had Iww-.r. K . * . ugo > o unu ntlj 1U UIU UlSt IWO rounds, knocking Ooddard down clcnnly by right swiugs on the jaw in each round. In the third, when Qoddard was groggy, the mill was (topped, after havi'ig lasted but half a minute. No degfeisiou was rendered. Godd ?rd's right Rve wits blackened and he was cut in the "face, while Butler was only slightly scratched in the face. Goddard made no pretense vyha ever of being able to avoid puuishmcut, aud made a sorry exh bitiou for a champ'on. He was very weak after the first knock down. The crowd went wild aud lustily cheered But'cr. AN INJURED HUSBAND'S ~WRATH He Publicly Denounces Hie Enemy in a Circular as a Heartless Villain. Nasrvilt.b, Tbnn. ?Nashville is great ly cxcrciscu over ascanunl newly developed. Theprincipalaarc John P. Williams, Vice-President of the Fourth National Bank. and Mrs. V. Booren, wife of a prominent citizen. Mr. Booren has issued a circular, in wh eh he says: But for the pleading of the invalid mother of John P. Williams I would have blowu his brains out long ago. He his been very intimate with my wife for the last six months, and as tho papers will not pnb'ish the facts, this is the only way I nave of putting the ease to the public. Williams is a noartless villain and I am not afraid to say so." It is runt'nrcd that Williams and Boeren will fight a duel Mrs. Booren, who s a beautiful woman, came here recently f.oin Dallas. NANCY HANKS IN 2:04. "Lowers the Trotting Time by Three Seconds. Terrs Hautk, Imd.?The world's record for the light harness horse, either trotting or pacing, was lowered when Nancy Hanks trotted the mile in 2:04. The ten thousand neonle who saw It. ??t breathless for a moincut after the little mare passed under the wire, and even Doble, always modest of speech, declared when crrrleu to the judges' stand on the shoulders of .the crowd and callod upon for a speech,that he was hoarse and "Nancy Hanks wont so fast it took my breath away. Satate of the Late Gen. Anderson. RiciimsnO, Va ?It now transpires that the late Joseph It. Anderson had written out a full outline of a will, but never signed it. The estate, it is now thought will prove to be werth much IAAM iKsa "* 1 fdoo GOO Twvjvwwj soracimng line t ? '" 1-SBBfe"'*"r ' ALLIANCE COLUMN. Gfood and Late Reading For the Or , der of Orders. The New York State Alliance Denoun- | ces the Coal Trust and Declaring for 6 Per Cent. Interest. Rociiksteii, N. Y.?At the concluding session of the New York State Council Funnels' Alliance this morning the following delegates were chosen to attend | the Nutionnl Convention in November, | cither in Georgia or California: E F. | Dibble of Iloneove Falls and F. II. Purdy , of Bluff Point, Yates county. The mem- , bcrsbip of the State was leportcd as 15,- \ 005. Among the lesolutio s adopted was the following: I Resolved, That the strike made by the consolidated coal railroads against society by atbitrarily advancing the price of coal ton to the consumer, pilule reducing the cost of production at the lirn# by reducing the price of laboi, demonstrates a power of taxation stronger thnn the robber barons of olden times, nnd 1 more danccrous to a free republic than \ standing armies ovcrawing the people; j more threatening as to inevitable results than war, pestilence, or famine. The advance of the pi ice of coal $1 | cr ton and the advance of the price of sugar to six cents a (round, not withstanding that \ both of these nrliclis arc on the free list, illustrate the dangerous power of trusts, and demonstrate that the time lias come when the neoplo despair of relief from i reduction in tariff alone, anil itisdeman- I ded that the people should band togeth- | ur iur uio cxiincuoii 01 uusts aua Kinurcu concentrations. Resolutions were adopted declaring that th\! legal rate of interest should be 5 per cent., and that real estate mortgages should be assessed U3 real estate, so that the holders of said mortgages shall pay tax where the realty lies. Edward F Dibble was elected President. ****** GOOD ItOADS. The fiist question to be determined in road construction is the proper kind of , roadway and the depth of the material. Roads mado only of small stone, however carefully laid and compacted together, are found no-, to be so durable in this country as they arc in Europe. In this country the power of the frost is so destructive every wint r, aud the road bed becomes so spougv each spring as the frost thaws out, that a pavement of small stones only has li tic houd. The small stones sink too readily into the soft subsoil under heavy loads, aud a corresponding rut is at once made on the sur VI<ri IUMII ui paving- sromj . I)y JUUICIOUS breaking, the better tlic work. Blocks averaging 0 inches in thickness by 12 inches in depth will make ttrong work, however rough their gent ml shape. They should bo placed 011 edge, with the largest edges down, and be set as closely and firmly together as their rough shape will permit. Where the jagged upper edges project too high for the established thickness of the layer, they should be broken off, and all low places should bo filled with suitable chips well packed into place. The whole course should be gone over, and all open spaces be filled by rAmtning stones of suitable sizes into nil interstices with pouuders or heavy hammers. When the surface is level enough for rolling, the heaviest roller obtainable should be used, and the rolling be continued until the whole foundation course is perfectly solid and of the right shape and height to receive the Macadam course; that is, the couisc of smill stone, * * A common error iu ro id making is to have the pavement too sha'low. It must he strong enough to withstand the heaviest traffic to which it may he subject, without yielding when the frost thaws out iu the spring. Where the subsoil is exceptionally sandy or gravelly a depth of from 6 to 9 inches might answer fairly well, but under ordinary c mditions a 12 to 18-iuch depth is necessary for a cemetery road subject to much Iravc', while public highways should ordinarily he still thicker. Few arc aware of the great difference in power to support a load he twecn n fiitn layer 0 inches in depth and a compact mass 18 inches deep. * * The proper catc of the road under or dinnry wear and tear is as important as its thorough construction. 'I he old adage of the thrifty housewife, thnt * n stitch in time saves nine." amy he applied to s Macadam road without any great wrench of metaphor. ?From A Talk on Road Making, in American Gardening for September. Uronze Cast in jr. According to It. H. Park, of Florence, s sculptor, the art of casting largo statues in one piece, as practiced hy Benvenuto Cellini in casting the Perseus, which has been a lost art, has been rediscovered. The process is callel ccrra perduce; it ia a wax process. The clay model is made, and the plaster reproduction is taken from it. From this the matrix is made, and the matrix is furnished with a core. The matrix is coated with wax the thickness of the bronze. The mould is then heated and the wax runs out of a hole in tho bottom, ik.. >k. i?-? i- -? mi ucu iuc WIUH/.U ii |iounri in. I lie remits are superior, but (he coat is increased by atjout $1000 per statue.? New York Observer. ? I The bodies of the spiders of Ceylon are very handsomely decorated, being bright gold or scarlet underneath, while the upper part is covered with the most delicate slate-colored lur. Ho strong nro the webs that birds the size of larks aro frequently caught therein, and even the small but powerful scaly lizard falls its victim. ^ An automatic slot machine for matches for forgetful smokers is a late invention. ME TALE OF A PETCROW" St) MADE HIMSELF USEFUL ABOUT THE FARM. EJLls Conversational Abilities Wore Truly Marvelous ? His Strange Birth and Pathetic Death. "IT<TT~HEN I was living at the \/\ / f001 ?' Pinxster Peak I ^ ^ had a tamo crow that was worth considerable to me," said a Loyalsock mnn to the 3c ran tori (Penn.) correspondent of the New York Bun. 4'The way I came to get the crow was a little singular. One of my boys was flying his kite early in the summer, and when it hadsailel high up over a piece of woods on my place the string broke and tho kito lodged in the top of a hemlock tree. Tho boy bawled about the loss of his kite, nud I bad to climb the tree and get it for him. A frrrw'flew off her neat aaar. the 4op-?f the tree while I was climbing up, and when I reached tho nest I found ono egg in it. After I had unloosened the kite and let it drop, I placed the crow's egg in my mouth and kept it thcro till I hid backed down the tree, and then I ran to the barn and put the egg under a hen that had been sitting lor a day or so. The old hen offered no objections, and several days before she came off with her chickens she hatched out tho liveliest little crow 1 ever snw Wo Kniron tr? rniso the baby crow in tho house; when bo was big enough to run around on tli 3 floor I named him Kilo. "Ho learned to say a good many words by the timo ho was a year old, and ono morning that summer I heard him yelling down an unused chimney at a lot of swallows that were nesting iu it. Tho swallows were making a great racket, and Kite was singing out, 'Hold your tongue I' as loud as he could yell. Tho crow had heard that command in tho family, and ho used it on tho swallows because their noiso annoyed him. At first the swallows paid no attention to tho crow, and Kite yelled, 'Stop your cussed noise! Stop your cussed noise!' till tho swallows twittered all the harder. Then Kite dived down the chimney, and the swallows poured out in a stream nud circled around it, squalliug violently at the crow when he flew up and perched himself on the top of tho chimney. 1 called him away, and tho swallows soon quieted down. When they came home at night the crow sat on the edge of the chimney and yelled, 'Clear out I'at them for half an hour, nnd lie made it so unpleasant for them inside of a fortnight, that they deserted the chimney. "When Kite was two years old a pair of eoglea nested in au inaccessible dill' 00 the side of Piuxster Peak. I had Jtorty young lruubs iu a pasture, and on a xn'co MayTnornin^ of the eag^eL for fear of killingthe crow> Kite ycllcr and clawed at the eagle till he made i drop tho lamb, and then ho peckel a the eagle's head till the big bird shoo! him off away toward the cliff. Tholamt was killed by the fall, and the crow tle.v back, settloil down by the lamb, and was saying: 'Too bad I Too bad!'when I reached the spot. When I picked up the lamb I heard Kite say: 'I'll kill that eagle some time.' Tho useful crow took it upon himself to protect the lambs from tho eagles, aud all day long he flew fro^ one part of the pasture to another, perched on trees and fences, and kept an eye out for the voracious birds. Whenever he saw an eagle soaring in the sky |he would fly to where I was working, jsiDg out: 'John, look out for thocaglcl' [and then sail back to the pasture and watch over the lambs.- He would caw like everything as long as the eagle was in sight, and wheu it disappeared he would sit in silence on a limb or stake and gaze iuto the sky. The presence of the crow kept off the eagles, and 1 didn't lose another lamb. "In tho fall I had a sow and litter of young pigs running iu the roa 1. One afternoon one of the eagles plunged aud icaught a pig just as the crow had alightled on a post near the mud puddle where the pigs were wallowing. The eagle struck into the pig so hard that it drove the little fellow into the mud, and while the bird was trying to claw it out, Kite yelled, 'John, come and shoot the eagle.' I was in a little r<iop near by, and when I ran out the crow was pecking at the eagle's head and the old sow was doing her best to push off the caglo. The other pigs were squealing and running about in tho puddle, and Kite was yell ing, 4Get off I get off! get offt' at the top of his voice, and beating the eaglo over the head with his wings. The old sow was snorting aud grunting and striking at tho eagle as though her life was at stake; tho littlo pig was struggling and squealing in tbe mud, and when I got to tho noisy crowd the eagle tumbled over on its side and began to strike viciously at tho crow and the sow with its bill. Kite (lew around and yelled, 'John, ring its neck!' and when I caught the eagle by oue of its wings and flung it into the road I'saw that it wa? gasping and dying. A pointed wire that I had put on the sow's uose tc keep her from rooting had pierce I the eagle's luugs, and the big bird died in a minute or two. Kite alighted on ths eagle as soon as ho saw it was IiTeles", flapped his wing?, and sang out, 'John we got him this time.' "Kite could tell the time of day by the clock, and when tho weather was cloudy I used to send him to tho house from tho field to see what time it was. Instead of asking ray wife tho crow would look at the clock without saying a word to her, and thca sail back to the lot and sing it out to me. When th.* sky was clear I could toll by tho tu<: within ten minutes what time it was, an i the crow got so that he could guess almost as close as I could. One sunshiny forenoon I told Kite to fly to the house and bring me the time. The crow cockcc ;? his Lead to one side, glanced up at th? sun, amd said: 'It's five minutes tc eleven, John!' I told him it was latei than that, and he flew to the house and back and said: 'It's two minutes tc eleven,' and lie was right. "The crow got feeble the winter after he wu9 five years old. Lie couldu'tstand the cold, and I kept hiui iu a box half full of shavings behind the stove. He lost his appetite soon after New Year's, and one night, when I got ready to go to bed ho called me to him and said: 'John, Kite'll bo dead in the morning! I fussed over him, and told him he was good for another year, but I couldn'* make him believe it. My bed was near tho stovo, and in the night the crow crawled out of his box aud askctl mo to take him in bed with mc. 'Kite's al most gone!' ho whispered, and when 1 awoke he lay dead on my breast." v SELECT SIFT1NUS. One ostrich egg is a raoal. Birds will not cat fireflies. There are 140,000 Chinese in the United States. Tho royal standard of Persia is i blacksmith's apron. England has not been eugaged in war duriug Lord Salisbury's administration. Tho "monkey-wrench," so called. *T l?v> IKlUiVU (tlbVI 1VO lUTUUVUI | H&ll Muncky. At the age of forty a man usually attains his highest weight; a woman at fifty. Men with gray or blue eyes arc usually better marksmen than those with dark eyes. Paper from rags was mado in 1000 A. D., the first linen paper in 1319 and paper from straw in 1800. The shortest street in the world is Mansion House street, Loudon, which is only a few yards in length. May aud April of this year were tho wettest months of their names in tho history of Kansas for twenty-live years. London's six principal railway lines carry annually over 200,000,000 people, aud tho tramways about 160,000,000. It is just 100 years siucc tho Cornishman, William Murdock. discovered tha1 coal gas might be used as an illumicant Three weeks after a tree ucar Jackson Miss., was used as a gallows it sliowei signs of decay, and a month later it wa dead. The first book in which the word America appears was printed in the little mountain monastic town, St. Die, in 1507. French chemists claim they are able to pcoducg the finest genu by artificial processe;, "and expect soon to hare them 01 ^LwejWaWP^fnestreets of the city foi rep 3rtpd that tharfirat Chiuaman t TOjfc itwSup^ Sing (NJT.) Prison durj ingxhc j^nttreMraty years of that instituI tion's imtory diMithe'ovher day. t The little !town of Ce nberlsnd, in i Rhode Island, boasts at a meeting house ) which was built iu 1740. The lat< President Garfield's mother worshiped > in it in her youth. During a recent storm at Ilopkinton, N. H., au elm tree, under which Lafayette and his party stood at a reception given them in 1825, was struck bj lightning and demolished. There are now over 250,000 words io the English language acknowledged by the best authorities, or about 7t>,00J more tliau in the German, French, Span ish and Italian languages combined. The famous Khajah tunnel of Indii pierces the Khwaja Auirau Mountain; about sixty mites north of Inetta at an elevation of 6400 feet. It is 12,800 feet long and was constructed broad enough to carry a double line of rails. Justus Lipsius, an eminent man of th^ Sixteenth Century, made bold to recite Tacitus from beginning to en I with ona of his audience placed before him with a drawn dagger, with whioh he was to bo stabbed if he missed one single word. Wonders or Physical Energy. Tho physical energy ol force sometimes exerted by the human body hai long boon kuown to be of the mo9) astounding nature, but no one, prior t< the tabulations made by Dr. Bucheister in 1890, ever took the trouble to pu that exerted force before the people it figures that can bo understood. Tin doctor ''supposes" things in this way Supposing a mountaineer weighing 163 pounds is making the ascent of a peal 7000 feet high. To begin with, h* must expend an amount of physica force equal to that found by multiplying his weight by the height to be ascended In the case assumed, a weight of 16i pounds, multiplied by a height of 700C leet, equals 1,176,000 foot-pounds; or in other words, 1,176,000 foot-poundi hare to be lifted one foot. But thii is not all. The contractions of thr muscles of the heart have to b takci into account, which is rep resented by lour foot-pounds of worL with each contraction, the pulsations a an adult heart being about aevonty-twr per minute; in ascending heigh La it i. much greater. But, assuming 100 beat of the pulse per minute, for simplieitj of calculation, this would give 400 foot pounds per minute, or 21,000 foot pounds per hour, or 120,000 foot-pouudt for the tiro hours supposed to be re quired for ascending the 7000 feet For expansion and contraction of chest and other muscles a farther item of 30 000 foot-pounds must be added. Tliu we find the total work per formed durini five hour* >f mountain-climbing to b\ equal to 1,326,000 foot pounds, no counting other forces exerted, whicl Dr. Uuciieister says will run the grant total up to 1,380,000 foot-pounds.?St Louis Kepublic. Doctors vsy a healthy adult should cat nt least ten ounce* of meat eac'.i daj. * i