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*. OL. XI WINNSBORO, S. C.. W EDNESDAY MOR1N1NG JANUA RY 19, 1876. [NO. 32 iTHE 1' I D fli ; Ij tD 11E 111140 1 'u1.ss &"~i.IY flY OY 11 *TL7 i.0 1 9 : G) .4ho 1' 1Sj.o *All i r1'4i,'tlt nlverlI -enient1e to h~e 1I/l/ I.N .4,1/ I':.v'/:. it .imry Nut iu.i nttd TIribuici $1.01) re, i'utre. Flanged by Acaidenlt. ( t: .lheecke, i l'itttelior at 31) Stall oil treet. ceideiitallly hanitged himn es and theIt n l.)al)lO Mallnnr, IN theC (len~ti, it.- 1140lied1( by the police, lire ts; follows :(4tts;ki w~as ILOcr 11,111, l~out twnt years3 VUV of an andttit fond of pracWti(cal jokeoi. le hadIL iting; i pleastant 111110 on New i's~", Day. About 8.15 o'clock last f eve1img there wasi consiclor:tblo dlis c 't1*:iot~l inl the store oif Mr.. Nekko S "' 'ib itt11 th veitltn of the t~uW r e - ';t gi' ; c)11 I oco'ul er 17th. (hi:;ki 5 Iho lwonulcrcd how they felt w heni they wore hiiurel and went ,. ititt the ito uuwliO anid el0o.1 the dor. lie found it short1 piece, of all1tope not, over three. foot long. r .to't ' .4f btleit t9 t} e hooks, Hie 4 .i :trnning loop of this rope :1 slipped1 then )"),e over his heeli. h('icc-~c~ \,:.tiabutsic feot Jtigt dI row o)~5(f 1ho)0ks 'w00 plaLced near to tap. ( iic;ki wats ablout five fee~t x tiie1:(:s t(all, aind imuist ha~ve. risen his tores inl order t. s111) tau to)I (!l" one (of the hooks. HeI fina~lly' ( (Ct:tI(l. hitwiev(,1, to) lot his t ei~.r) t fatl~l iuinni the Utoose. VTe ()e, of the ice-box -its slippery' itgIL tse, 111(1 after h10 had reste;.1 sweight 4,11 his l t(-li coul not tie'himself. His struggles onlly wll thle noose, tigh ter, tand ill a er (j +l tit1f11( 5 oit(,- t 1)( 110 t1 c 5 ( 1)VCVCl: (h~iski from calling br 1he11). Mr. coke0 w~titt (-lUui aIl L))ltt toil s t (ts a fter h(! Ii tcl ell teietl the ev X, ;itil called to hilm to ct)Ili (oit. ('Oe l1y t o) l~ n swier, 11 t ) 11. to the 1 ,lt.)1c~ aidtt throw openl hei dour. c ltt; Hourly l) lralyzeod will l' tirti lit 1 *o1ioIl ling, (lu1ski Iiari1giii flot open.Rcvrn hiprsneo 1Luinl, Mrt. iM'tlii lied tilt. the an \).'' lug lilt)8.ll ad (4l~e Cth lot)i o81' 5 t hoo~kt (lrl('cl itsk ou11).Tti of the e oxtid 1aid ithime 1(. rthyur of t.he w t I . '.1'110 rop , h )ad tihelned 1uISe tirg th ll~s ari d that:L l0lit had1 br : )" l b' 1ti, ielt;1 I ithe)7 deltl. 111 110 otfl~ (u1n(llit mess li'~ cta.e l oite 1 eutil}) . yorth to ghos t~C-a to hi1. asitrl , n Al it No"Vfw \'oarte Dr. 1tvi ,vos c-,p their spot.iiesi wthass irie1 hllesttiti~I to duc it rur of evern.. 1 isyg iii 1 ) .11it. Ellvry youtlirg nIi0 111 W:(t til. l t j int. ii s . t, ieus ito j'n ..,"~ '. vltitll t lb ili~i goi,/v or1 . iler FACIAL EXPRESSION. The Power of the Eye and Face in Con veying Intelligence--A Pathetic Inci. dent of the Franco-Prussian War. Among the numerous incidonts recorded of the startling )lhonomnll:% presented by the facial oxpression of the dead is found in the following, as occurring during the late Franco Prussian war : It seems that one of the red cross nurses, one of those I Mt1ercy Morricks, perha)s, with whom WVilkic Collins has mati us familiar, had among 11r 1patients a young man.111, an oxcooding4ly handsome fel. low, whose Nationality she couli not find out. Ho was in the Prussian uniform, yet not. she thought, a Prussian. Io had been struck by a spot ball, they supposed, and was paralyzed and speechless. Ocea. sionally lie would open his eyes and gazilo at, her with a troubled (exprs sion, and she noticed that the eyes were very h1intiful, black, and soft as velvet. In her ministrationi, she got to tunderstamd the language of these poor eyes, and found out when he was pleased or disappointocl at wlhat she Wis doing. One day she took up his c'oat, and foling in his pocket, she found a letter ; she looked at him, and the eyes said "Read it." It gave her the key to the situation, and she derived the idea that he could hear and under stand her if she talked to him, so she would sit and talk and ask'ques tions, and lhe would answer with his eyes. She got at the the idea that Ie was a young English diplomat, who had been senit down to the scene of war to pro.tct Somle one ; that he had been put into the Prussian army1115 as at favor, to facilitate his work : thatt he was eng;aged~ in this work when he was struck down. Sue had much to do, this Mcv Mor ick with her cross, but she funmid time every few hours to conie back to her patient aund to tell himt]] the story of Saarbuck, of Strasburg, of Sedan, and to find from the shift int- lustre in his eyes if he were pleased or saddeied. One day she to,k up his watch 1a1nd chain and erminiii:d his seal. The eyes grew painfulily bright and nifonus. 'The idea struck her that she would take lse inpre.;-ioin in wN.r. She did so andt found the motto and crest of a well no.vn ' En glish fumily. 'hen she sat down and wrote ia letter hoes, for she, too, was English. The patient lingered and listened, but niever spoko. Ie grew better, however, aiid could smile, brilliant, elotenjut *t. amid fascinating. It, went to 0ho heart, of the rod-cross nurse. Perhaps 11-he had surllted, and loved, and waited, andl hoped, and had known the anguish of hope deferred. The poor paualyzed hand 'gaine I finally a little power, and one evening its she took it in! he warn, elergot ie, generous pathn, it gave it feeble pressure. Sympathy is a faioiis physician. H1e has cured mny otherwise mnort:ll,' wounded. But alas hl was not to --ure the young English diploumat. One night, as the red eros num se lay down to her we; I '.arned sleep, the male attend ant who had charge of the paralyzed Engulshman mnU anid knockd at the door. "Heisdying," said he, "and his ('veLs aire veryv wild." *She dressed herself and went tc himii. Them Iuspokenl language be tween these two hiad become i spiritul c omunileaOtion. Shte real hi. 3 thoughits. Did he wish to hiavt a lockI or his hair (cut '? Tes, for her is waitch amid chtain, anid a (-ertit r ing' On it, were to be returnied, wheir she could find the ownier and charg< -the waoik which he laud to do w~hier lie wvas stricken downi-she~ musit fii( cout if it were (lone, and1( if lie wat know~n to have been;t faithful to th< (nd ;ye", she would (do it. And hs *?ave her (one woniderfuil loo0k, a lool w.hic h wasl at carleMs ; oneC smiile lik< suinligrht ;his brigh t eyes said m~or't gratit~ud e in one glance than lipi couildl say ini a month : then enmmii I tihni over thecm and~ they wvent ou forever. 'The net' (lay as the red cross5 nurse stood lookiing at lii dead1' fuce, anl Enis~4h pihysiciania ived. "lamn looking for young Esc'ourt,' said he, "'the man~t of whom you hav< writtenm to England, who owned thi: motto and seail." "Themre lhe is," said she quietly. Poor fellow, poor fellow ; a lar< Sa'se," sail thme phtysician. "'Do yoi know his story ? Smint over to pre teet two emninenit ladies, one0 a pril1 ces (' wh~~o got cauighit in aL countr, hiouse hiero between the two arime 1.m t of thing. li ehihavedl singulari co(urage~v, andi chivalry too, for on1e ( them fell desperately in love wit him. He was taking them towar, tlBeri n, where they wished t o, wheni lhe wa~s struck downu b: at1 French ball(1 ; a party of straggler sturroupjded them, set on1 probabl b ly ai cousin of his, wvho has alway been his foe." DKIid the wvoumen escape ?" saidthi red-cross nur'se. "Yes, and are full of anxiety t hero heir preserver and friend, said the dioctor. TJhie nuriso laid her hand onl thi dead man's forond. "I wish Ii n could have lived to hear it," sai .o she. And as she sid that the deni i mian smiled-that smile which al i) kniew so well-and, st-rong-hiearte and fell on the door. When she came to herself the doctor was hold ing some hartshorn to her nostrils. "It was not imagination 1" said she. "No," said lhe, shaking his head "it was a miracle." THE PALAOIO'F ALADDEN. How a Moneyed Man Makes Himself (Comfortable. One of the most enjoyable days I have spent in Eng land was a visit to Mentmnore, Buckiugham hire, the seat of the late Baron Rothscliild and still the home of his Widow. i had known all my life of the almost fabulous wealth of the Ilothschilds, but had no such vivid ciinceition' of the reality as I brought away with me. The estate comprises 15,000.or 20,000 acres of the finest land of this famous shire. The approach from Cheddington station, from which it is distant about two miles I lies through a magnificent lawn load ing to a wooden acclivity ; upon the summit of which the mansion stands. From the tower tha view is one of the linest in the Midland countioe, embracing on one side the ancient mlanor and village of Wing, on the other the manor of Tring, and on a third the historic site of Ivanhoe. How the course of the world's his tory has been changed by the blow which an ancestor of John Hzunpden struck the Black Prince, the victor of Crecy and Poictiors, for whick "Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe" were forfeited ! in the distance is the value of Aylesbury, and far away on the right of the Chiltorn hills the nnulcnt of thDuke of Bridge water bounds the range of vision. Tring Park, owned by another of the Rothschild family, is said to be second in the beauty of its garden only 1o Mentmore ; but this I had no time to see. Subtropical gar dens, vegetable gardens, the Foun tain garden, and the Italian garden' (WCipied us for hours. The 'first is second, I suppose, only to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew; the second enbraces, with the fruit gardon3 about twenty acres, the whole pro. eceds of which are consuned.in the nansion. In one of the numerous grapories, arranged so as to furnish fruit every month in the year, I saw a single cluster of grapes which would weigh six pounds, the berries on which I wero about the size of good, largo plums and the most luscious I over tasted. Oranges, figs, pineappleH, bainnas. and other tropical fruito coluliimed in the mansion, are all grow n in the cons*.rvatories of Afentmnore. When the Baroness is absent yachting in the Channel, or at her London house, orders by tele graph are sont to Mentmnore daily for the supplies required. The vases in the Fountain and Italian Gardens cost each ?1,000.| The statuary is all of the most costly kind, executed by the first masters, mniy of tl:om copies of originals I which I saw in the Louvre or in the British Museum. The great hall, which from the entrance scomed to mie about 20 by 30 feet, is filled with vases and statuary. Its contents mkus!t represent a value Of not less tnian ?800,000. We were not lessi than three hours passing through the roomts. 'rho finish is c::quiisite, and the furnishing of each sumpltu (o1s. Some~i idea may be formed of the wholei from the~ furniture of a single bedroom, one0 of the inany groat chiamnbcrs costing ?25,000 or ?30,000. In the dining room andl haronial hall are furnishing ex.. ceedinig ?200,000 each. Costly cabi nets of the tiene of XIV. of ebony inlaid with ivory or gold ; jewelled blocks, made of solid gold, dia mnonds, rubios aind all sorts of pro cion:< s tones ; walls hung with the costliest tapestry of Louis XIV., or covered with the riicet needle em broidered satin may givesome idea of thme wvealth lavished on this mfore than princely mimnaion. The cost liest paintings adorn the walls, and the most skillful and expensive workmanship is displayed upon the ceilings. The idea of the Baron seems to have b~een to build and furnish a mansion such as no other p~erson inl En4aland, except perhaps the Duk~e o. WVestministor, could hopo to rival. TJ'1he studl is sidi to contain more 'high bred horses than any in pho world. It embraces thirty-five hun -tera and amnyracers. None of whic I hardwere less in value than ?(000, while many, of them run up into the thousands. Favonous, Maccaroni, and1 Old T1om, the, last patriarch of high bred raicers we saw all winners of fanmousn races. For Favonious ?12,000 were refused, and IIfor Maccaroni ?7,100, were but re ccn fly paid.--St. Louis lBepublican. I No matter what comes upon yelu, a don't give up to it. Look it square Y in the eye. Don't let it see you Sflinch. If sorrow has entered your life, andl has rendered it b~leak and a cheorless, don't bow down before it like "a reed shaken in the wind," but S drive it out of your existence-cut "it up root and branch. D n't let it put you down under its feet. e "Now my little boys and girls,' d said a teacher. "I want you to be d very still--so that you- can hoog n o pin drop." In p pnpmerit all was d ~silent, when a little boy cried out d 1 "Let her drona !" OENk GRANT'S S0HOOL DAYS: BeminiscenOesof th'0Old Log 8ohool House in Olermont Counby, Ohio. Away up in a small hollow, just this side of Amelia, in Clermont county, there stood, a few years ago, an old country school house, yeather beaton, tumbled down and disused, which the old inhabitant pointed out as the place where 'Ulysses S. Grant received his early education. Tho building has since been torn down, we believe, but -there ore recollections connected with it which have become 9f historic interest since Headley'a "Hero Boy" has flgiaueld sb largely 1n the history of hits country. "Nobody thought when - Grant was a boy,' said au old citizen of Clermont county who. 'attouded 'thin school at the same time the President did, "that he would ever amount to much. 'The most: prom. ising boy in the hchool at that time was one named Henry Wattey. He was at the head of the claes in mathematics, geography, spelling and all other studies, and every body prophesied' great things of him ; but he is now running a forty acre farm pp it} Warrop coun "How did Grant average in his studios ?" ' "Only middling. He would never be called dull, but he was never brilliant. Ho used to spend a groat deal of his time in reading the life of Napoleon, which inter fored considerably with his school duties, until the teacher destroyed that book by putting it into the stove." "Vas he punctual in his attend ance ?" "Vory. He never stayed away from school unless compelled to by circumstances. He was never late either, but was among the first to reach the school house in the morning." "Was he a noisy boy ?" "No, sir. Although courteous to overybody, he was not loud mouth ed, like the other boys, but spoke in a low and quiet tone of voice, with unusual dignity for one of his yours." "We always called him flira im at school," continued the old stager. Nobody ever thought of calling him Ulysses, and after the capture of Vicksburg, when we had not heard from him for years, a great many of us did not know or even imagine that it was the boy who used to Lo to the ol1 i'g school house in the hollow." "Was Grant a playful boy ?" "Not by any moans. You never could get him to take part in any game or sport except a snow-ball fight. In that ho delighted. But as far as 'bull pen' or ball playing was concernmed, he would never take any part, but would sit on a fence or a stump and look on." . "During his school days did he lver exhibit signs of the persever ing spirit for which he has since become noted ?" "I can remember but one oc casion, and that was when the achool-master flogged him to make him give up a jack knife, with which he had been cutting the side of his (desk. The school-master de manded the knife, but Grant re fused to give it up. The teacher tried to take it away, but could not do it. He then sent out into the woods andl got a long black hickory switch, with which he belabored the future President to make him surrender the knife. But Grant persistenltly declined, and at last the pedadogue was forced to stop from sheer exhaustion. The in cident was forcibly recalled to my mind when lie made the famous remark-'.4 will fight it out on this line if it takes all summner," and by many other similar incidents in his future career." "I saw Grant when he was here at the Burnett House, in 1872,' continued our interviewer, "and lie was the first to recognize me and give me a cordial hand shake. He evenm camne through a large crowd of dignitaries to shako hands wvith an old school-mate." Pullman palace ears have been introduced in England, Belgium, Russa, Germany, -and nowv that turn of France and Italy has come. American inventions are growing fashionable. To extinguish kerosene flame, fling a clo0th over them, or, if the flour barrel is handier, thuiow on flour, which absorbis the fluid, Iklla the flames, and can he readily eared up afterwaras. The Methodist schools in Sali Lake City boast that they hmave on their rolls eight huindred chmil dren from Mornion families. One of the best "confessions o: faith" ever devised, is a straightfor ward, useful, cheery, consisteni Christian life, seven days (in th4 week. "My son," saidl a than of doubtfu morals, putting his hand on thb head of a young urcbin, "I believ4 Satan hs got hold of yon." "I be hoie so too," the urlhin replied. Despisent oenmylmirelybecauseh< seemnsweak i the fly an4 .leusjevi done more harm than bears and lioni ever did. AN INIYENT OF THE WAR. &Remarkable Duel Between the Com :nanders of a Federal and a Rebel scout. {From the Chicago Tribune.] On the 12th day of June, 1863, I witnessedl a duel between a Captain! Jones, commanding a federal scout, and Captain Fry, commanding a, rebel scout, in Green county, East Tennessee. These two men had been fighting each other for six months, with the fortunes of bat tle in the favor of one and then the other. The commands were on camped on either side of Lick Creek, a large and sluggish stream, too deep to ford and too shallow for a ferry boat ; but there a bridge spanned the streamn for the cohven lenco of the - traveling publi. Each of them guarded this bridge, that communication should go neither north nor south, as the rail road track had been broken up months before. After fighting. each other for several months, and contesting the point as to which should hold the bridge, they agreed to fight a duel, the conqueror to hold the bridge undisputed for the time being. Jones gave the chal lenge, and. Fry accepted. The terms were that they should fight with navy pistols at twenty yards apart, deliberately walking toward. each other, and firing until the last chamber of their pistols was discharged, unless one or the other fell before all the discharges wore made. They chose their seconds and agreed upon a rebel surgeon (as he was the only one in either command) to attend them in case, of danger. Jones was certainly a fine-looking fellow, with light hair and blue oyes, five feet ten inches in height, I I looking every inch the military chieftain. He was a man that sol- a diers would admire and ladies re-! gard with admiration. I never saw a m.mn m,>re scoal, deonnud, and heroic under such circum stances. I havo read of the deeds of chivalry and knight errantry in I the Middle Ages, and of brave men embalmed in modern poesy ; but when I saw this man Jones come to the duellist's scratch, not for real or supposed wrongs to himself but, as lie thought, for his country and the glory of the flag, I could not help admiring the man, not withstanding lie fought for the free domn of the negro, which I was op posed to. b'ry wa a nan full six feet high, slender, with long, wavy, co-ling hair, jet black eyes, wearing a slouch hat and gray suit. and look ing rather the dlemoni than- the man. There was nothing ferocious about him ; but he had that self sufficient nonchalance that said, "I| will kill you." Without a doubt, he was brave, cool, and colloctel, and although suffering from a terrible , flesh wound in his left arms, received 1 a week before, he manifested no symptoms of distress, but seemed ready for the fight. The ground was stepped off by the seconds, pistols loaded and exchanged, and the principals brpought face to face. I shall never forget that meeting. Jones, in his militrary boyish mood, as they shook A soldier braves death for n fancifulI When in glory'si romantic enireer. Fry caught up the rest of the] sentence, and answered by say ing: Yet lhe bendR o'er the foo when in battle laid low, And bathes every wound with a tear. They turned around and wvalked back to the point designated. 'Jones' second had the wvord "Fire ;" and, as lie slowvly said, "One-two three-lire 1" they simultaneously turned at the word "One," and in stantly walked toward each other firing as they went. At the fifth shot Jones threw- up his right hand, and, firing his pistol in the air, s~mk down. ' Fry was in the act of liring his last shot ; but, seeing Joneti fall, silently lowered his pistol dropped it to the ground, and sprang to Jones' side, taking his head into his lap he sat dowvn, and asked himi if lie wvas hurt. I discovered that Jones was shot through the region of the stomach, the bullet glancing around that organ and comning out to thme left of the spinal column ; besides, he had received three other fright ful flesh wounds in other portions of his body> I dressed his wounds and gave him such stimulants as' I had. He afterwafrdn got well. Fry received three wounds -one breaking his left arm, one in the left, and the other in the right sido. After months of suffering he got well. Neither of them asked for a discharge, but both resumed their commnandls when they got well, and fought the war to the bitter end, and to-dlay are partner's in a wvhole sale grocery business, anmd verifying the sentiment of Byron that "A soldier braves death," etc., etc., Trtissing thait the above truthful narrative will be a lesson to some people North and South, that stayedl on the outsidlo and yelled "Seek .dog 1" and are still not satisfied m ,wiqp the~ resi19ts of the war, let me . subscrib, myself a reconstructed (inawaRrT 8uRmmn. Why and When Lamps Explodo. All esplosions of coal-oil lamps are caused by the vapor of gas that collects in the space above the oil. When full of oil of course a lamp contains :no gas ; but immediately on lighting the lamp consumption of oil begins, soon leaving a space for gas, which com mences to form as the lamp warms up, and after burning a short time, sufficient gas will accumulate to form an explosion. The gas in a lamp will explode only when ignited. In this respect it is like gunpowder. Cheap or inferior oil is always the most dangerous. The flame is communicated to the as in the following manner : The wick tube in all lalpburners is nade larger than the wick which is to pass through it. It would not do to have the wick tightly in the burner ; on the contrary, it is es. iontial that it move up and down with perfect ease. In this way it is tnavoidable that space in the tube is left along the side of the wick suffi Iiont for the flame from the burner to pass Idown into the lamp and ex plode the gas. Many things may occur to cause the flame to pass down the wick and )xplode the lamp. The Scientific imerican says : 1. A lamp may be standing on a table or mantel, and a slight puff of tir from the open window, or sudden opening of a door, may cause an ox plosion. 2. A lamp may be taken up quick ly from a table or mantel, and in stantly explode. . A L:unp is taken into an entry where thero is a strong draught, or out of doors, and- an explosion en 1ues. L. A lighted lamp is taken up a flight >f stairs, or is raised quickly to ?lace it on the mantel, resulting in in explosion. In all these cases the uischief is done by the air move nont-either by suddenly checking he draught or forcing air down the hiimney against the flame. S. Blowing down the chimney to ex inguish the light is a frequent -ause of explosion. 6. Lamp explosions have been :aused by using a chimney broken >dr at the top, or one that has a >iece Lroken out, whereby the iraught is variable and the flame un steady 7. Sometimes a thoughtless per on puts a small sized wick in a arge burner, thus leaving a consider idlo space along the edges of the Niclr. 8. An old burner, with the air lraughts clogged up, which by right should be thrown away, is'sonetiies .ontinued in use, and the fiual result s an explosion. Dynamite, or Giant Powder. Dynamite, or "giant powder," vhich caused the sad disaster and oss of life at Bremerhaven, was in vented by M. Noble, a Swedish theinist, in 1866-67. It consists of litro-glycerino absorbed by some orous inert solid. The best mate "ial for an absorbent is a silicious nfusoiial earth found in Hanover, Grermnany, and known as kiessol, ~uhr. It will absorb and retain bout three times its weight of nitro glycerine, and ha~s the appearance of lamp Grahamu four T1his form ?revents the transmnission of ordi aiary suddeni shocks, except under )ressure of a confined teco. The presenco of the inort mineral con 4titue'nts serves also to absorb heat, so that a high temperature cannot be easily imparted to the whole ut when imparted this temperature affects a great exp~ansion of the gasses and increased effectivenoss of ixplosion- Ignited in the open air lynamito burns quietly with nitrous [lames. Exp)lodled (usually by mneans >f fulminating fuse or cap), it gives .!arbonic acid, nitrogen and hydro gen, andl leaves a wvhite ash, with little or no0 smoke. It has been re garded as theosafest of all explosives, riot being affected by a prolonged temperature of one hundred degrees sent.Igrad1e, nior is it as dangerous is ni tro-glycerine when it solidifies at sighut degrees centrigade. Neither!' light nor electricity nor shocks eause it to decompose or ex plode. The pinmcipal dangers I connmectod with its use aro those of I the strong fulminating powders usedI in the percussion fuses to explode it. D~ynamuite, if carelessly madle, con taining an excess of nitro-glycorine, may, by the latter overcoming the capillary fore of the mineral parti. ales, collect in dross and settle from tihe mass, and become a source of serious accidents. Moreover, it may be that freezing, or thawing after freezing, has a tendency to segre gate tihe oil. P~rofessor Draper, in one of his wvorks on pop~ular sciehee, has it that Noble was led to the experimente from which resulted dynamite by the feairful explosions of nitro glycoritto at Aspinwall, San Francia co, Sydney and elsewhere years ago. After reference to the usual means of exp)loding, Professor Draper adds that M Guyot, a French Chemist, has she wn that tihe nitro-glycomino may soak out from tile mixture with sand, and saturating the paper of the cartridges and boxes, reassumne the state in which it is readily ex ploded by a slight blow. Dynamite was used for a time at the United States overnment works at Hell Gate, but the detonation w as found to be too great and it was abandoned. The effect was to start the seams in the river bed above and threaten the flooding of the mine. Thexorionceo in this country of accidental explosions of dynu.nite are very rare, and the ago of the compound when nitro glycarinie will oxuclo from it and in confined places igniteby spontaneous combustion is a matter of speculation. State News. The legislature re assembles on the 18th nstant. Thbmunieipal tax about to be col lected in Columbia is twenty mills. Economy I The loud praying of some one in the vicinity of Aiken, last Tuesday night, caused an alarm of fire. Mr. Henry Elliott, aged seventy seven, and Mr. William Suggs, aged seventy-five years, died recently in Horry county. The old Episcopal church at Goose Creek, near Charleston, was reopened, with appropriate and im pressive ceremonies, on Sunday the 3rd instant. It had been closed for nearly a century. Many farmers in the stato fear that the warm weather recently pre valent will damage the wheat and oats crops. We trust they will be agreeably disappointed. The endowment of $200,000 for Furman University, located at Greenville, has been raised, and the institution is now open for ten years, free to all duly qualified ap, plicants. The Erskine College near Duo West, in Abbobille county, is finan cially straitened, and an appeal is made in the columns of the Mevdium, for aid. We trust it will be prompt ly and liberally given. Charleston, Sumter, ]Edlgefield, Spartanburg, Clhesterlield, Marion, York. Barnwell, Orangeburg, Wil lianmsburg and Laurens have had public meetings, to denounce the election of Moses, Whipper and Wiggin. So far, so good. The Secretary of the Navy has ordered a concentration of war-ves sels at Port Royal- This is in pur suance of the general plan of the Secretary to make that port tho headquarters of the North Atlantic Squadron. Among its advantages are the healthful climate, and harbor capacity for drills. At a recent tern of the circuit court for Aiken county, it was shown that the juries were impro perly and fraudulently made up. Judge Mahor at once set aside the entire panel, issued bunch-warrants for the arrest of the jury commis sioners, and ordered an extra terma of his court to be held in March. At the public nooting held in Barnwell, to protest against the election of Whipper, Moses and Wiggin, the usual enthusiasm pre vailed, and it was unmistakably ex. pressod in a series of resolutions. In one of those Wig-gin is requested to resign forthwith, and a memorial ordered to be presented to the legislature, urging the re-election of Judge J. J. Maher. ~In the York meeting to dis-. cuss the judlicial election HIemni bal White, the black senator, openly defendled and ap)plauidedl Whipper. Under his influneo, nine-tenths of the colored i e l present voted against the resolutions approving Gov. Chamberlain's action, but they were passed by a considerable ma jority. Only one white man voted against them. ML\r. Ira iA Hill, of Darlington, diet some days ago. At the age of sixteon years he entered the Con fed erate army, and served gallantly till the loss of an arm unfitted hiimi for active service. Entering the state universityr after the wvar, he took a high stanid and obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His literary essay, p~ronouicedI upon the occasion of his receiving hiis diploma, was considered among the best. He entered upon the practice of law, but his ill health soon compelled him to abandon it. He died of consump tion The State seal of Indiana, which represents "a full grown buffalo bull deliberately rushing up to a granger, who is chopping down a tree at suir rise," is net by any means the most remarkable of the devices employed for that purpose. Ooorgia ofi'ers something more astonishmng in a picture of an absurd sumimer-hd6yme-, - supported by three p~illars and guarded by a Continental soldier 4 with wveak legs ; and Kentucky ac tually presents a figure of Ucer. Washingt on in the act of holding ip an intoxicated friend, in order to keep him from falling against a book case in the back-ground. A fter this California's dlevice of Minerve, sitting on a stone, while a cinnatuoni bear nibbles her left leg, seems air tistic and nice. ban woman, who, with her son of fourteen years, com.mfugdN a detach. ment of the rebel arany, She leads. the insurgonts in pers~on, dressed in a riding habit and mounted on a Ainn hos and is at hbrave as n, lion.