Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Th? peace of Europe v, in the opinion of the New York Herald, threatened by Italy, which, practically bankrupt, her people poverty stricken ^ and discontented, might find at least temporary salvation in war. , A closed bank in Arizona has issued the following notice: "This bank has not busted; it owes the people $36,000; P people owe it?$55,000; it is the pie a ho arc buBted ; when they pay 11 pay. ** "Fpr what ie the greatest amount of . .. Tho railroads, farmers and miscollanootis purposes take about forty per > oenk., aad the other tiretttj-flva per ... ~ Cent. goes into bores." . ' - A "massage stone" is ooming Into 1 j". ^muu mm. u made of onglased-china and provided with 4 sort < of dorsal lump for holding in the I h??^^\n<l has the rubbing surface < \ndnlatod, not to say ridged. * ^ is white and even when nsed * y s washed akin it jaoon be- " \ \ ^ed, showing that it ' ^ \deal of material from * I *\ yyV drew tEa .loniirr 'c.\ in the French n ^\ ^ver Bkod it. but ^ j^JJHpgjjJJ^^^^dor,; with o A C ^>0'n'>0U t*OB^n ^a* L ^ockishod iu favor of the kepi, -f LirtSlflfiiiw iv flat oir^ilar top and a ^ ?P0 ^l'-i? .... I] Now Zealand is the first of English o colonics to give women equal political d rights with moil. A hill giving them d such rights has just become law. It b gives to all women, married or single, q the same right to vote as is now pos- i< sossod by men. The first election un- ? der the new law will be held in De- R cember. The only other State in the w world iu which men and women havt 11 Doctor Baker, Secretary of tlic ci Michigan Stat- Board of Health, has 01 ...Vini-a thorough examination T been maimo , , \ stud consumption and has n <> the couolnsion that it is n ?? >.cal*, disease. lie accord- B eor , _ _aglTruc<"Jl"lt'u"ou lu a meeting oune jj.<rd that it ho placed upon tho list Ci si communicable discuses and trontod as such. This tho Board decreed, and 1 hereafter consumption will bo knowi n.' as a communicablo disease. Bi report BrigibUerrGea-jhh t m M^HHP?rlin, commanding the Depart- ()t JJ^HToi i'ue Columbia, says that the tj H^^Kerimout of making the Indian a PBwldier is a decided failure so far as hie Y| WF experience goes, ond ho has recommended tho discharge of the few Indian ^ soldiers now in his department, less ^ than a company. Qenoral Carlin reports that tliero lias been a decided c; incroaso in desertions during tho past C( year, due, in a great, measure, to th* unpopularity of tho ten year service a law, and he rocommends tho ropeal of 0 that law. He also recommends that t the small posts in ms uepm vmuut u? g abandoned and tho troops concentrated d at a general post at the principal rail- n road center. Says the Now York Tribuno: "Juvenile blackguardism constitutes the 1 principal theme of discussion in the ( new annual report of the Howard s Prison Association, which contains a good deal of interesting information concerning those organized gangs of f young delinquents, which arc among the greatest curses of all great oities. The 'toughs' of Now York havo Uioir ( counterpart in the 'corner-boys' of Dublin, tho 'scuttles' of Manchester. ( the 'hoodlums' of San Francisco, tho ?Klr?rwl t.ni in' nf Baltimore, and the 'larrikins' of Australia and New Zea- ^ land, who in certain cities in New j South Wales and of Victoria oven sue- ( coed in terrorizing tho police. Many methods liavo been suggested for deal- , ing with the problem, the most satis- , factory and efficacious of which seems . to be that adopted by tho Canadians, which is locally described as the 'curfew bell' plan. Privon thereto by tho intolerable behavior of the young rowdies, the Canadian police now look up in jail for the night all disorderly or j loafing Udn found in the streets after ; the ringing of the bell at nino o'clock, j The effect of this stringont regulation ' is shown to have beou highly satisfac- J toi v in Canada, but it is doubtful j whothor it would bo possible to carry j out any such drastic measures in so j large a city as New York, where moreover the juvenile criminals are far more wideawake than their 'pals' across tho border." PITHY NEWS ITEMS. There are now 179 students at the Agricultural and Mechanical College. Raleigh, N. C. A million tax tags for commercial fertilizers were delivered at the department of Agriculture. Raleigh N. C. At Greenville, 8. C., the grand jury of the county has sd far thrown out every iodictmont under the new dispensary law, although some of the cases were vory strongly supported by evidence. Secretary lloko Smith has withdrawu from a t Ga., it* an uif tficial trial over 'the meis ired course between Capo Ann and C-po Porpoise, a distance of a fraction Jtvs KWw ii Vnnt. iMHiMfl ltl?l...4~ ?*' - ? w ?'--J ? Ul|>UCI iU Ull precedenJad apeed of 23.87 knot* an MIL*> * ' """ V"" -j;> .' > la Ca'avba county, N. C , last 8udlajJohoWacaster, a lad of 12 -ye n?v iNyfuUy r appa lbs pistol at his little*1 sous n, Priscilla Hudson, age 1 I) year^. Jbo said, "Don'tdo that." "SccI'^saicJ i% "ll'a n ?t I-aded," aud ho snapped ig%in. But it?vas, and was discharged, ,nd"the bi'l entered ibo little gill's train and killed her. , Senators J one* Z. X^oVge of ft?si';sfppl, and A. H. Colquith- of GePrgis, j nd rx-Benator 8 Bp Maxey of Texns, II of whom were officers in the Coufed rate army, arc on the Mexican pent ion oil. Gen. J. B. Kershaw, of South Cur linn, was a veteran of the Mexican war Ladies of the. Pope HuudrttTJ"^ Baltt- , loco,O VC*n on W*U?&? , !lub?" Tboj-urpoie of its members; ^tlflr i*dud? neVly AlT ttfo young 1 idles of he most tris'ocr.ric society of Baltilore, is to supply tho poor with articles f woar of canton lluincl. The elder laies orgaoiz-d the club, and their nughkrs do tho work. Each member rings with her to tho meeting place n unn'iiy of canton flannel, which is fash?ned into underwear, right garments, ud other things for children as well cs ; rluUs. It is found that there is an nl- | ny: cxisi'."g ucumiia lor canton Uftncl. and that it is impossible to supply >g of wool on the free list are being irculated auti signed by almost every c in west Texas regardless of party, wo thousand people are interested in ool in we:t Texas. Two centenarians, Mary Page, 104,and [arry Mordccai, 101, died in the Ralsgh, N. C., peor house within a day of ich other last week. Lumpkin county, Ga., is having an xciting gold mining boom. The mines re not new discoveries, but since the lver trouble bey on attention has been directed to old diggings and grid debits known to exist there. Colorado iniug capitalists ami cspitaubw nom jji?r regions have been looking over ie Lumpkin gold fields during the past to or three months, with a view to in eatment. Florida and California fruit is competig successfu'ly with Mediterranean proucts in F,uropcau markets this year, ..I.. LI LA llic puijuuvuia niitauj mv j ju tcess of those of p-cvious years. Suceasful experiments have a'so been made nib year with shipments of Californian d Washington fruits to Japan and ther couutries of the Orient. From a weniy acre prune ranch a Washington rower ob'aincd this year forty tons of Iricd fruit, which he sold in Portland t $150 a ton. A man in America*, Qa., is playing he bus:neRs of peddler under a free icons" grantcl by tire Sta'c to wouuded Confederate soldiers, nnd eking out a ubsistcnce with a pension he drnws ns in e\-Ui<ion soldi-.r. T o M rioa Street Methodist church it Colum' in, 8. ('., was sust lined by the Conference last week in expelling Walt r Klrkland bceau =c he was employed as a jieik in the co-.mty dispensary. There is 10 nppe 1 for an individual member from tte decision of the Conference. T. K. Bruner, who was connected with the exhibit at Chicago, says that the North Carolina agricultural exhibit had received 1)7 awards up to the time of his leaving Chicago, while that of South Dakota, which was considered one of the finest agricultural displays, had only 18 O. P. Ransom, grocer,' olumbin.S. C., was closed out Friday hy the Loan & Exchange Rank. John M. Lnngsicn. the cn'tured Virginia mulatto, and fotmc-rly minister to llayti, in a recent Ic lure 03 the emancipation of the negro in tie Latin countries of America, said that "'the brave deeds of the slavrs who won Hayiien independence were a monument, to tbr ability of the colored man to better bis own condition. Revolutions were frequent in Hay);, but in n.*g?o would evt i el! ?lie independent" cf the country. The disturbance in the government uevci went farther than the disposition of iln iuIcis. The negro in llajti and bni pom in go had emancipated himself, bu the Government of the United 8'etee had irsu'ted colored intelligence bj sending Virginia white m-n to them to reprrcent the nation. The regro held the government of the world in the hollow of his hand lie multipli d rapidly and scattered abroad, and was increasing in education and wealth s> that the time ? ;is cuniog when he would rule." Judge R chard Parker, died at hi* residence in Winch -s'-or, Va., last Ftiday ni^ht. He was 83 ~ years old. H? was a son of the late Diehard E. Parker of the Court of A w^grtduttod in law it tlu Uniuriitv r^Th It -w A V pfMiaea at the trials of Joha^Bwrtfa it ('h irlt* town, no*? in WHf;Yfc$tai? and ficptoucod Brown to b? hanged. A thr(w?.y??r zCZ, v' 77. MltOA ell, of Bavifison county, "N. C.,' im. burnod to death while hie parents wul flFH from borne. T. j. Luody, clnrk of tha aupario* Start of Oraynoli county, Va , becatnr suddenly iosaffe last Sunday wbilsfeafcv ing hia Sunday school. The Biptist General Assembly Jfe V, giuia... met at Roanoke, Va. ^rancis^Thurber, tha big wholes^grocer^Sf Naw York City, haa made an ' WILL STOP THE PIQBT' The ^ovaray^kaya Oodtett and __3[AcAaoTTYif i a fftra. Tallahassee brought the f?UQSiAftj?sfcl but significant ]$tt*r trSSlS^m^^ the Chief Execu'irc of Florida: * V* v Talt.ahabsbb, Fla. To N. B. Broward, Sheriff of Duval County: Dar Sir?The Governor directs that you will tako all pioper precautions to prevent any "prize fight" or so called "glovecontears" in Duval county. [8igned] D. Lano, Private Secretary. The sporting men rlaim that tbe statute does not contemplate a fight like this one arranged between C>rbett and Mitchell, duelling being the offence ? ' 1- -Mny as ever that the fight will come off here. TKoir niinruRV nrlviooa fkom fn rrn a ?*><wi Preacher Fined for Cruelty to a Skunk. (From the Phil .<1 Iphi i P.ess.) Okohgbtowk, M\ss.?R. Mc^nr'ney, a Congregational minister of this town, who hns made hiins If dee'd dly obnoxious to the liquor 'de lc s her about by his efforts iu the iutetesv < f morality, was fined $15 in the polite court for un due cruelty in the killing of a skunk. It app ars that one day last week Mr. McCartney was attracted to his back yard bv an evil s nell. In the yard was an oict dry go mm new straw. When Mr. M 'Cartncy came on the tceno he w. s nearly suit. ca^cd by the fumes, and noticed a little white and black animal gamboling in the straw. He tipped the b x oyer and lifting it touched a in it h to tfie straw, cremating the sku ?k. A tender hearted neighbor, Lemuel B Rurrell,who is an agent for theMasruc' usptta flnciety for tliC PrtVSutiou of Cruolty to Animals, made a coinpln:nt to the authorities, and the Rev. Henry McCartney was brought up in court. He acknowledged his guilt and paid the fine. Two Big Families. The following two families make a showing which is difficult to find excelled, even in the prolific mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. The Her. A a Houth ia a Baptist preacher residing nt Piny Flats, Sullivan county, Tenn. He is a apry old gentleman, about 70 years old, and still fills his regular appointments at several preaching places. He is the father ol thirty-three children, all of them living. Mr. Houth his been married twice, and his second wife is still living and help ing take care of the family. Mr. Routl is almost deaf, but otherwise, shows nr signs of old age or decay. His family it nearly equally divided as to sex, then being seventeen boys and sixteen girls The other family is that of Mo<cs Wll liains, colored, who lives on a farm ncai Fayelteville, N. C. He is a lively youni chap of sixty-five, but doesn't look like it He is also living with his seconc wife. There have been born to him for ty-five children?forty of them girls B; his first wife there were twenty girl and three boys, and by the aecon< twenty girls and two boys. Nearly al of them are living. TSa amrarnm*nt T1? f? * f ?rl London, Eno.?The pirish council! i bill beintj under consideration, th' Hons* of Comraons divided on Mr. w?! i trr McLnuren's motion to sllow *omr to vote in lorai government and pnrltn siviiinry eiou'ioiis. The motion w?? r*> ried 147 to 126 ntni 1 gr nt ex itemrn i md cots 'hit th^ govcrnmen* res'gn. Sir Ulnrles Jus.in 'fr.Ct" hv ?m t otht r former Glnditnn it i to! ?>.\ers v t < i against tl?e government IN OUTRAQfi^ WT^BAMAH, Put Off* rr?!n,H? it X tud Dok? m 8?t^hum. A-uetillb, N. C^Hn from Paint Rock reveal a eftfl^KlDjo that g nay ciuae comipoadf^HM more, ( betwejn Unc'e Sam .liflPftii gov- p ornment. Several djfl^^Bae Quo, a t| -.'binapiao, left AQjMHBr ^obndoa w Cil<-,*Tenn ,via PalBS^e The China- c? n m had |$30 UtfM^^^H?ock*t At Paint Rock thq iSHj^^Hare changed ''Corgi.atrainn\"A?^^^^KMa" through p to Kn^zvUl<vA9j^^^^H*Itfh- Paint i Ling aa t, ys^ud^gMBHWR',' ^dcra'and the u KM^HP61!1 -attempts to I Tj 1 GyyJ|lnipvtient and , ** * 1^* ~ ^ wr w*h'z~'c bjn^i^^to ,ct 00 him. \tt ti a lnt*?od the men I y, into the *<"9* whore jftvmv nod over t, flight, day he tflKfcen by i*ople j living In the neigh>?*W? who s?y hli tegs and trow vyre mHTtoru bJ' dogs B white more wounds oouie body were made by an axe wed jjjB. When seen .< he seemed to be in eSij&pto I c mditlon and rfm'tfom thosoJK tried to ap- I j8 proach-htu. Om h-a not t4 been he h been Bhg*^Ti * tJtniia- * man and placed fh Rail jail, Jonas 0 Arrowood and W1il?wHhtchcH are to be ^ arrested on the wnicy^gs. Ling Gun's ?, countrymen hero herrwetainod Messrs. Qudger & Pritchard JKully inve tigntc the matter. The fao'4Hn the case will be laid keforo Sccrctn Or ahara in a let'er from the at'oroeJind the Chinese minister will also b^ypued. CLEMSON CjfjLEGE. There are 426 Pi eatiM and 900 More Desiro Adraittftnco. Coi.i miha, b. c\?T*t> first report of 11 ~i>l* jVTffU'jUJ College siare *' log.- nnd nearly nv& * fur t xc cds wlmt wo* expected and tbc t buildings arc, at pres^n', too small to in ct the demand, GOO being tho limit of he capui'y by crowding. The manual labor fffttu e of the collego is a grand success, the students doing good work willingly. Theio arc 163 students in the mechanical department, and nearly 100 :n tho agricultural department. The merhani- al deportment is too small to accommodate more workers. Students do form work and garden work, building homes nnd other necessary work. M,JeS.S?tk in- *?. lb^lSB6BlWl4arttf and the future of the tftdirge is bright The college is now onewf the best institutions of its kind in the country and ilready has passed the experimental stage, and the wis lom of its founders has bee i fully justified. A DEBT OF VIRGINIA. A Petty Subscription to the Oowpena Muonxnent Cannot be Collected. Ricumoni>, Va.? Governor McKiar.cy has received a letter from Cxpt. William A. Courtenav, ex-captain of the Washington L<ght Infant! y, calling his attention in a rlnim nf *9r,0 which VircriniA is """ ' o said to have made for a subsc ription th Cowpcus, S. t\, monumoDt. This subscription was nitric, it is alleged, la 1880. The matter was called to the attention of Governor Cameron, who did not respond. It was afterwards mentioned to Governor Lee, but he replied that Virginia would Iiavo to pay its debt to England before it would pay its debt to the victorious monument, but the claim wi:l not die, and now comes before Governor McK uney oa the eve of his retirement. He will refer it to the Legislature, and if not dispose 1 of by tlint body it will probably be passed on ns ?n interesting legacy of office to Govern' r O'Fcr > li. ??? ' Incomo Tax Assured. Wabiiinoton, *). C.?That an income tax shall be a part of this Administra. t ion's financial plan has been m good I us agreed up >n by ths Comor.ttee of Ways and Means This is conceded by ^ men speaking for the committee and the g Administration. 3 The rate of the tax on incomes and I what incomes shall be exempted form the only question. It is understood that the favorite idea is to exempt incomes under $<"?,000, and tax^ stiffly all over t that figure. . Data to show what sum could reasonably bo counted on ?t certain different 0 ra'es of taxation arc now getting worked up in Mr. Carlisle's department. On the oucstion of am mint ?nH TC.U, a t radical difference of opinion is found to xist among the committee. 1 Ju go Edwin d. Keide, president o( > the Nations' Birk of Bal.igh, N C, eel brat <) Ma 82nd Monday. a "PAPA IS. DEAD." ookvha Pretty Organist With Him to His Living Orave. Baltimore, Md.?Rev. Uu. M. ragg, pattor of the Calvary Methodist piscopil church, South,and Mias Ianthe help*, organist of the church, have diaipcared, leaving let'ars saying that the; ill aot return to Btllemoro The inferice is that the parton and orgrniat have ken flight together. The former leave* wife and five young children. Mr. Bragg ii about 43 years of age. or a number of jenra ho had charge of country newspap r in West Virginia, la native Sta'e. Te 1 j ears ago ho onre i the ministry. He cm mo to Calvary lurch In M-rrh, 1804, from Roucevert, r Va., auco cdiog Uov. J. W Qrubb c wis a forv-lb'e preach r and by hid Igor un stylo and |?eraonal popularity .r-tj'fl Imri?n rnncrrei/atinna. He urcarh i wicc list Sunday. Miss Puelps, the mi-sing organist, is > ?ut 17 years of ag , of medium height t ' good figure ltichnrd Phelps, tho mi g girl's father, who is a well-known Mumisdnn merchant,declines to discu-s it subject < f the disappearance of his Slighter. ' Do yon think alio has gone with M: ragg?" he was asked. "I have nothing to Bay," was hia reply, no atati meat to make." Mrs Btagg is prostrated with grief It i stated th>.t she found & letter carefully >aled and add.cased to her, lying upon er husband's desk. Its contents have ot b-.en made public other than it contincd the statement that the writer "Is ruined man," adding: "I am going way and will not return. Tell the chilTtiu ..The _l_0-year-old sou f tho ab<cot pas'or, when asked wmrro is f.ther was, promptly responded with cars in his eves: "Puna is dead." Made a Cat False Teeth. The oat that ownod tho falso tooth ad loet hia own, and had hia jaw broken eaidea by a drunken wretch who boat im with a oobble-stono. Hrtm?thincr must bo done for liim. for Ife supported on "spoon vittles" was burden, and a young dentist in the ieighborhood, who had become greatly n teres ted iu the unfortunate eat, reolved to try the experiment of makerrible piece of work, as'l?aptain oneoted to it with all his might, but it ras nothing to what followed when the eeth were fairly iu. If the animal tad plunged and scratched while the date was being fitted, ho acted like a nal thing whon it wan firmly attached ,o his jaw?although it was well made ?nd fitted perfectly. He could not understand that it vould enable him to continue the uxurious feasts to which he had been accustomed, and for several days he ind impossible scheme was tried to got he uncomfortable thing out of his nonth; he tore at it with his claws, !ie shook his head violently to make it Irop out, ho butted against heavy pieces of furniture, ami if any one came near him ho growled and scratched at them. There seemed to be danger of l?i? go ing mad, and his friends were sorely puzzled to know what to do with him, when, greatly to their relief, ho ealmet dov;n and appeared to have como t< the conclusion that liis new possessioi was after all a bh ?i**k >n disguise. hi was once rnoro gentle and affectionate as he ha<l been previous to his mil fortune ; and the plate wan now oftei taken out between meals and put bac again. In this way it was worn con fortably for over a ydtl.?San Frai cisco Chronicle. A Corpse in tho River. Richmond, Va.?The body of n ma supposed to be that of W. II. Simpson < Harris, was found ia ihc river her There were no marts of violence npn his person. The man has been missin from his bosrding house since the thii of the month. He bail ort'y heen in tl city about a month r.nd it is believed thi he came from York, I'a. A Prer?.ch&r Kil n a Man. Ashevii.lr, N. C. ? N' Ws uacht here that Rev. Jack N< rt>n, of Rico Creek, Union county, Toou., killel man named Mahaffey 01 Sheltmi Laure vfl .*1 to ? aaiir.i \!ai" rlftv a t 1 jiii f in count* Sheriff Wt.il ? n?l x >lu to uric Norton. A Bishop's Wife Dead. RlcnMOKn Va.? Mrs. Vio'et Pa Jackson, wife of Bishop H. Mcllvi Jack-on, of Alabama, died here Thui daj at the residence of her father, Jam B Pace. Herat, in Afghanistan, is tho c which h?? been moat often Fifty six iimes riuvo as walls been 1 in ruins, and the same number limes have they been sru'tud a^ain Tho Gridiion Club of Wa hino;toD, C., visited Asheville, N. C., last Frid where they were wiped and dined. AUGUSTA EXPOSITION, Governor Northen Delivers an Ad ? dress. The Georgia Stat* Fair Combined With the Expoeition. be Aooi'm, Ga.?For the third time ?u grand txposition has been hold. On thi? ha occasion, however, there la joined wit) tic this enterprise tho Georgia State Fai th under the management of (he Georgi* en State Agricultural Society, the two com th bincd forming an exposition %tha* lh equals in its scope and magnitude an> similar enterprise ever attempted in th* no history of the South. an In the building is tho finest agrhul- br tural display of Southern products evoi nv si on, fifteen counties of Georgia and ha South Carolina and the collective ex di hlbit of the State of South Carolina, par ac tiriiintinir In t~?S???trt?' Uir,juni in cal nnd electrical departments nearly nl Is the States nnd eight nations aro repre- d< tented, while among the attiaction* sii are many of the best features from the b Midway Plaisaoce at the World Fair. cr Gov. Northon in his speech said: "This ca 'is an auspicious day, not for Augusts th only, but for Georgia and the South. til ' Willi cheap material, cheap lubor tc nnd no strikes, the South can claim the w entire contract of the manufacture ol ms cotton goods at no distant day. Noth di ing but ouiselves can hinder the growth of our section and the wealth of out m people. We do not need to cultivate tc our farms less but more, while we invitt fc capital to develop our mines, utilize out ol forests, manufacture our cotton, broaden ol our agriculture, and open our ports to 01 the commsne of the world. h "Tho South, under the diversification p ??f ere; s ,in,i diversification of industries, w is thrilling with T1PW lite. As this now \\ pr? sperity comes to us it will bring no f< sweeter thought than that it adds noi o only to the comfort ant happinosi of II inrtSnn Imf flint it. mnk ? hrnmlm a (he glory and decp-r the majfH'y and *.< inoro unduring the strength of tho union of States. In t'lis lb-pub io of ours it 'odgod tlio hope of fnc govnrnmeat on the enrtb. Here God hna tested the ark ^ <f the covenant with tin sons of men. () I.ct us s< nr ah no all provincial pride () and fi'.d our deeper aspirations in g.lh <ciing the fullest sheaves into the hnrvest snd s'unding the stnunchest and which a'l the peo}do of tlifs,*e,!n?h'csdA\T c .me in Qod's appoin'cd into." ^ TO COIN $4,000,000 A MONTH. Colonel Oates Says that M?\ Carl ole * Intimated to Him His Po'icy. \ Montgomkiiy, Ai.a ? Congr s man Oates has ar.ivcd in this eity diivot from u Washington. In ao into.view he add f he hud rccmtly cilhd on Mr. Carl'sle ^ and the Beet of my gave him to uiuhr- ^ stand it would b tho policy of the ad- , lu'inu TTrmnTy; nr nuuui (OUT mt'lions monthly. At this rate, wlrch is the ^ capacity of the mints, it would require four years lo coin nil tl c bullion on h nd . That would bo at the cad of Mr. ( levelaud terra. The succeeding admin at a tiou would piovide for ndd tionul cur ' rency and relief 11 the po pi for incrcns * irig the circulating nndi'.m. lie say- 1 he thinks the lull r- paling the tope B f cent, tax on Statu hinks will i p.ssel. 1 , give a sufficient do lies':c curr ncy and * 1 relief to the people, bu . ho it not sur ^ j tho Ihoiicnt fuv rs it The I'rc-idrn* ? i ia r.ou committal. * > A Crew Rescued. i- Nom-oi.k, Va ?Tuo berk 8. S. u Hoii.k rlaud, Otpl.iu Brined, ftoui k Char o.-doa or Bremen, width put in h re i* f. r coal, Lr.,u ,l?t to this city Copta't i- McDonal 1 a,d cre.vo'idx men belonging to the ecLoout-r Piter II. Crewel', of Dennis, M?>?. The Cruwoll sailed from No: folk on November 3d, for Fa1' river with a cargo of coal. She encountered b.i i weather from the first and cj )r November 5ih there wna five feet of water in bhold, and it steadi'y in creased notwithstanding all effoit* to ^ e'ear her. When sighted by the Sonde* crlnnii 8V urdny morning sbo was 1ft mil h o!T B >(lv Isliid. 11 r decks had at *?:??! heen swejit ashore, sails lost and n'l tier bo rs cur.iod away. Tb3 men wc.e in an < xh imle I conditio ? aod had to br .<] hauled on board with Hues. 'fi ?~^rnarnmm? a Nine Feet of Water in her Hold. I, Wilmington, N. C.?The sch jono;* c- Douglas Gregory, Captain L. S. Stillit well, hailing from Pert Dennesville, N. -I . from Savin mdi to Baltimore, with cargo of lumber, wan towed into South- ' port in distress. The captain repoits ce that she wan struck by a northeast storm lie on the 10th, in latitude 33 deg. 85 min. g. north, and longitude 78 deg. west, dur >es ing which the vessel lost her rudder and sustained s?rcral leaks. At preseut there is n?ne feet of water in her hold, ily Vi\\z th3 Sheriff. Murray, Kv ?J. M. Urccdflfec,sheriff ul of Henry county, Tenn., was shot and instantly killed by a negro named Cole() man. The nigro was in ambush and ueed a shot gun, blowing the top of th< sheriff's bead oil. A n CAW TOO LAT2. ^ * >e Death of Diroot Tax OlolMWp^ Before his Claim wu Tali* Beavpomt, 8. C.?Ai a time liko thl?r ' * len loft-budtd charity U pouring ita efactiona upon the distressed aid >rm stricken sections with bounteous nd, it is a base and additional rcflee?n upon a common sense of justice thai is latter should be withheld from thoso titled to its rewards and that, tso, 5?j great QoTernment under which re. Edwin 0. McTureoue, respectably COO* ctod and said to hare been a faithful . ,3 d gallant Confederate of Kershaw*s igado, an heir to a moderato sum of - ? ? ? at Ji a A # J la _*dH oney irum mo direct tax iuuu ?u i? . ^ >uda of the United States GovernmenVjfi^ cd hero last night in extreme provtifjp* id destitution, while th* lun* om hia paternal cstato on 9t. lnnd confiscated by the TTntl??fl$tdlW ' uring thd war, and from which he tea^^t"*"1 nco ahould have recolvod his quote, htef^j en withheld in accordanco with the, | uol and inexorable rulo of dolay in thest u < ses for longjmonths of poatponemenl 0$ ti . 0 check,and he hai died just about tho"'/j mo that it ahould have arrived,and now ?j 10 late for hitn to onjoy its benefits, > hich might have smoothed the rough '' .purities for his lifo or lightened up hh Jm j ?rk pathway to tho gravo. <^v W llo sought not the general charity that **?3 ight havo been obtainod, but preferred M j 1 abide the sickening pang of hope do- * ' rred, and so groaned and diodl We had ? 1 trained for him a judgment in the Court * f Claims for his portion of piojter,which ur paternal Government had^atlCTrud m to expcc', but the usual formaltty of rocrastiunttng payment for ninety daya as required by tho Government, and < hen it comes it will como too late to af? ird hiin the little comfort and pleasure f its receipt. It is a aad irony of fate. 10 ma never melons aomo mna menus ho shw that ho wax not entirely neglset11 and saw him decently interred. Age of Trees. klm, 300 yearn; ivy, 886yoars; ma< le, 810 yearn; larch, 676 years; range, 630 yearn; cypress, 800 years ; live, 800 yearn; walnut, 000 years; iriental plane, 1000 yearn ; lime, 11001 earn; npruce, 1200 yearn; oak, 15001 earn; cedar, 2000 years; yew, 82CKM io doubt of ri8~cofr^fi^n^ArftcKfci9flniMH ew canes the data ban boon furnished y hintorical reoordnaudby traditions, >ut the botanical archoologists have a eaource independent of either, and,I fl| ill en carefully uned, infallible. Of all tho forms of nature, tree* |B lone disoloso their agon oandidly and B rcely. In tho stems of trees which' E lavo brunchen and loaves with netted!' g cinn?in all exogons, as the botanist irnill/1 wuv Hia 1 > . \ prcad in an even layer upon the supkJjP aco of tho proceding one. In tho earlier periods of life tlree# i noroano much faster than when adult! J -tho oak, for instanoe, grows more ' apidly between tho twentieth and hirtieth yoarn?and when old the ah^H tual doponitn considerably diminish, <^IB io that iiio strata arc thinner ana the w 'iugH proportionality closer. Some ret'H alack eu iu rate of growth at ai sfc ,cry early period of life, and layors ot J >ak become thinnor after forty, thoeei >f the olm after fifty, those of the yewi L ifter sixty. ?New York Times. Cleveland Appoints Ha. riaon'e Dem*Mal ocratic Brother. m Washington, D. C.?Tho Preslden^Hj appointed a number of collectors of cue* 7 toms of internal revenue and other oUft* ' cers und r the Treasury Department, all 7! far Northwestern and Southwestern oeo? tions. Among them was J. Scott Har? rison, to be surveyor of customs for the port of Kansas City. He Is the Demo' cratic brother of ex-President Harrison, ' and an active Democratic politician. Picking Cotton by Xaohinery. New York.?The United States Cob ^ ton Picking Company, which was re? ccntly formed in New York with Jacob Jj Schwed en president, has been told out ^ .o the Weller Cotton Picking Oompyy, with a capital of $1,000,000, of wmcl|j|H Mr. Schwed is also president. The ms^'V I chine acquired by the Weller Company fl from the United States' Company ha* K been in operation in the cotton fieldaBj near Anniston, Ala. ||| Two Lawyers Fight. A Cot.umbia, S. C.?Burrell Miles, n.an GO pears of age, working in jUte dispensary, fell down the eleyalo<fl| opening, and he was rendered uncea-fl^ scions, and is thoug'ut to be eeriouslt^E injured. He was sent to the hoas*tt?! treatment. John Bausket and J. 3. Verner, twjB prominent iawjers of this .city, hiiBJJ personal encounter on the str6*t, wero separated without being t *.i L The Americana are generally ^ I to have surpassed all o|her KstJ I the invention and use of M