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AIKEN S. C., TUESDAY, GtMOBER 5, !8S6. Lhijchest tensiou, tict-; ciamnie au - (Opposite Masoaic T^mp O Pieces of Eogrers A. A. Silve Plated Flat^\tae. &c.,&c. :0: '‘pieces of Ropers A. A. SILVER-PLATED FLATWARE, bought at an immense reduction from regular prices, to < l-*-e out certain pattern which they are not going to make again, and which I am gelling at the following prices; My Price. i sets leaspoong $1:25 125 seta Tablespoons 2 50 I50sets Table Forks 2 50 75 “ Dessert Forks 2 25 75 Dessert .Spoons 2 25 100Soup Ladles, each 2 00 100 Oyster Ladles 1 50 |100,Gravv Ladles DO >s 2 00 ,’es 2 00 ‘Pie Knives 2 00 Regular Price. $2 00 4 0-;) 4 00 3 75 3 75 i 4 00 My Price. lOOOrnnib Scrapers 2 00 2'0 Sucar Slielis 500 Butter Knives ;l'»0 1’ickic J orks ilO^i Oyster Forks 250 Salt Spoons 3 45 45 45 iwMjravy i.uuu 100T^sh Knives IQfCakcKnives 3 001 250 Mustard Spoons 35 2 00 1500 Nut Picks 18 4 00: '500 Fruit Knives 25 4 00 ! 50 do/, t’ble k’ves.doz 3 50 Regular Price. 4 50 1 00 1 Oo 1 00 1 0. 50 75 3-5 50 600 3 75 4 00| 1150 do/ TTde K’ves 2 00 above Goods are the very best quality of Silver, plated on Xiekle Silver, and are perfect in every respect, and only sold at these Low Prices in order to close the entire lot out quickly. Every piece is warranted to wear from live to ten years constant use in any family, ii properly used. Hg*Send for Catalogue, giving prices of Watches, Jewelry and other rware, and buy where you get the best value for the Cash Money. "JNO. frlcELKEE, Proprietor. ias. L. Quxnby. H. C. Bardin. READY FOR ACTION! JAS. I. QUINBY & CO. Successor to JAMES E. COOK. -DEALERS IN Csneral Ellsrchandis r» GRANITEVILLE, SO. CA. T he fall and winter campaigns are upon us, and we are prepared to meet them with the most complete Stock of General Merchandise ever brought to Aiken County. fg'OUR PRICES will be so Reasonable that none can complain^ hoes! Are of the Best Brands in the Market—Satisfaction Gaurant © u r SI Alon«c the Hallway — Summerville— The Panorama ol Devastation—St. Mlchacl*M Church—An Old Printer's hfnry—John Ow ens’ Wit—Curious j Experienees — What Caused . it— Itreams on the Battery—She will l\i»e Again! AityuHla Chronicle. It was very early in the morning when Conductor D’.scher, the veteran pilot of the South Carolina railway, summoned u.s“all aboard” forCliarles- ton. The stars still shone in the heavens which began to glow beam ingly at the approach of the sun, still some distance away, but marching unopposed by any barrier of cloud. As we drew slow ty through the city the celestial lamps went out one b}* one, almost the last to expire being a singularly bright constellation that seemed to linger upon the gilt cross of the church. The engine that pulled us was the same that had been un tracked. but not overthrown, at the Langley deluge, on the aoemorable earthquake night, and the bojd, cdol man who directed the loooiuoUve was the engineer who escaped death nar rowly on that awful occasion. The schedule from Augusta to Charleston i» a livtdy one. There are numerous stops, so that the run be tween stations must be exceedingly rapid- The dash froin Branchville to Charleston is particularly dpo and fast. At one side-track in the woods, we waited for the special train that carries the newspaper mail over Raoul's Carolina system. It was fif teen minutes lute and rushed by us like a cyclone on wheels. The immense morasses at Bath and Langley, with shattered dams and a forest of black fangs, are melancholy tokens of the seismic disturbance and the first of any consequence to be nu t with on this trip until the approach to Summerville. Nearing that once beautiful and happy settlement, evi dences multiply of disaster. Few of the outlaying houses on the route have escaped the loss of chimneys. At .Summerville there are no instant im pressions of wholesale demolition. The white-washed fences remain. There is still an air of jauntiness around the depot, and, except the dis location of chimneys, many of the pretty dwellings seem undisturbed. Much of the actual wreck is unob closed umbrvtla or a giga.utic T'feact* Tfte reifaer to imagine the scenes of partial displacement, of complete wreck, of riven walls, of twisted spires, of yawning fissures, of ominous patch-work to rcsisd; if possible, the equinoctial gales that are foretold to begin this very day. The reader has had already sufficient de tails of the battered, bruised or mor tally wounded Medical College, Cus tom House, Post Office, Rojxer Hos pital, Confederate Home, and other well-known establishments. I mav pause for a moment to say that the News and Courier office, where I found Capt. Dawson and his staff hard at work, is seriously crippled in front and rear, while a new middle building containing the immense press afhd other property, valued at $50,000, is not damaged at all. “We saved that, thank God!” said Daw son. “It was our stomach, and con- Our Ladies Dress Goods Are Selected Specially with a view to the market \yhich we su .we ask is au inspection of Material and Prices. Our Clothing ! ' Is one pf the most complete stocks ever seen in Graniteville, Prices^ irked L> suit, the times. Our Groceries! We keop/tione but first quality, and we sell as cheap as pny ^louse ilktiiTg section. Save Your Hie nay ! By calling on us, as our facilities for purchasing enable us to sell at such prices that all our customers realize the economy of dealing with us. SW“OUR WAGON YARD is free to ail our customers and provided with good stalls and other conveniences. TAS. L. QUINBY & GO. ^ WM^rimoTco” -r-OZILS-:- lF’ m WINDOW GLASS, ETO. HOWE’S STANDARD SCALES MAH YIN’S SAFES. fat 175 East Bay, - - - CITRLESTON, S. C. INI) . V. RHODES (Successor to RHODES & SCOTT.) (Wholesale and Retail Grocer, id Street, - - - Augusta, Ga. received a large and well selected Stock of Choice F*mily Gro- •h I am offering at the very lowest figures, ry Specialty kr PauFy" Melon Seed. 1 have been particular in sorting m the finest Richmond County Melons a large lot of Choice Seed and offei meat a Low Figure. I al-o handle in large quantities Garden Seeds from [dram Sib!ev& Co. and D. M. Ferry & Cp. My stock of Seed Potatoes are the finest ever brought South. To the trade sell close. Nonpareil Flour High Patent Guaranteed to Satisfy the most Fastidious. I keep the Best Selected Stock of Fi lling Tackles in Augusta. T V RHODES. hicl drinking, ague. He for the family p ‘ 4 Piedmont* been extensively Advertised by of our scientific and journalistic lumi naries tinues to be, in a materia] sense, the citadel of character. You can imag ine my delight, when promptly mak ing steam, I found that the press started off like a thing of Jife. The core of our newspaper establishment was sound and unharmed.” I asked Capt. Dawson what he thought of the local nature of the dis turbance. He said it was, at his house, a combination of all the motions. “It was wavelike, vertical and whirling, ft nicked my solid dwelling to and fro, it exploded under it, and spun the chandeliers round and round. I can safely say that my earthquake expe rience embraced all the recorded form alities.” Capt. Dawson does not lay much strass upon the excessive bael- ness of the mortar as"a determining quality of the wreckage. “Why look,” he said, “at the Custom House. That was staunchly constructed, and yet it did not come out seathless,” On the other hand, Mr. George W. Williams attributes the complete, or virtually complete salvation of his magnificent residence largely to the fact that it was composed of the best materials, the finest cement, and built by day work. My friend Mr. Topper’s house, except in the chim neys and plastering, sustained no in jury. It is built like a fortress. Ido not know that Mr. Williams or Mr. Top per endured all the phenomenal pulsa tions that Capt. Dawson did, but the latter told me that he was turned completely round. Of all those attractive houses on the Battery, the envy of every beholder, but one, I think, has eluded vast dis comfiture. That was a new edifice, compactly built of tile-like brie.b. und and about it I noticed the principal bosi- xehouses of Bird thoroughly ravaged the new establlsh- rgener is innocent of however strange 9 gome of the frailest Beared to escape entirely le some of the firmest founded, in me vicinity, went to pieces. I pose this is to be attributed to the ual distribution of the explosive Rons. With an irony of fate pn to many earthquake exper’r is,some of the most uncanny bulld- were left in peace, while some of most sacred and memorable and • best beloved wepo s^Dered beyond .recovery. Mr. Hemphill kindly took the whole line with Superintendent Averill, and pointed out to me several houses that had utterly collapsed, and fissures innumerable. These “fissures” are generally mere mani festations of flue white sand that bub bled to the surface, but here and there, were large basins of a crater-form, with holes in the middle from which water had gushed. They are now spherical puddles, with an occasional fence rail stuck in the orifice. No “geysers” were visible from the car window. These fissures were very abundant near the Ten Mile Post, which shares with Summerville ami Charleston the volcanic honor of be ing a possible centre of disturbance, caused, perchance, by the Prince of the Powers of the Air crawling into a hole and making as much miscniel underground as above it. In the ab sence of a fixed scientific theory, this suggestion is made for what it is worth. In the environs of ChuTle.-ton the same local displacements occur, on a somewhat larger scale, as at the Summerville contiguitj\ The great phosphate works, however, do not ap pear to be in the least injured, and the vast fields of market gardening smile in tranquil abundance in an at mosphere of summer. The prodigi ous cataclysm is just beyond where the noble “City by the Sea,” emerg ing from war, fire, tempest and the angry tide, presents a picture of ruin that might have made-the Musa ol Fattier Ryan weep tears of blood, while his harp would have sent a me lodious wail over all the earth, touch ing the hearts of men and women in every clime. And how would Hayne have thrilled into sorrowful music could he but nave seen his mndre ini- pcr '.alc in her direst day of desolation. From the station to the rim of the encircling rivers and the eternal main, Charleston is a prodigious mo notony of ruin. I do not mean to say that she is wholly demolished. Far ! from that. Many buildings stand erect. With little or no injury. Many can be repaired with ease atid lie stronger than before. But the thous ands of shattered edifices in all sec tions of the city make such a calami tous panorama that no one who has seen it not can form an adequate idea of the gaping, dishevelled and tre mendous tragedy. A bombardment from a hostile fleet could nqt have done half the damage to residences or public structures. All manner of dis- 185 and ISi Meetiu? and 117 Market Streets, CHARLESTON S. C. ' nierubernieut is visible, s cue of it rPric® LUts and all imfonnatlon cheerfully and promptly furnished on most grotesque. One church steeple, {for example, stands up like a half-' ny little ones to the interior ol This clerical brother had been over gfc rubbish ii pews remai tablets are but where tlj chasm, “w quenched li: meat is a 1: •A all:, of the s-ife, but til ehimes, wil moval. it Cure, as in t ;nd guard l Bondurant, Jop!ing & Co, -Manufacturers or- ALL KINDS OF DRIOKSI Proprietors of tiie Old and Popular—— DeLAIGLE aND AUGUSTA BRICK YARDS, establish ' .1 in 1S20! Esti mated production sinc$ tlu-.i 250,000,000 Uriel;! Quality and color unsur passed North -r South. Large stock always on hand. For information address t.Kh’s DURANT, JOPLTXO & CO., Augusta, Gn. You Can Save Money, Time ami Trouble By Sending ; ' • Your ORDERS FOR FAMILY GROCERIES, \ TO WELCH & EASON, application. 'V.V.. convulsions old sexten, custodian t touched th panile with caressing, a is safe. It Hemphill ’ Just here significant printer, wl thetic strai that has nc public. T positor sai “At thejtime the quake happen we were all at our post, unconscious of the frightful monster approaching. W eu it came the men (twenty me i and two boys,) were dashed in every direction about the room, horror- stricken and paral3’aed. Our escape through iheoiily door was cut off by a shower of bricks from the chimney in .rear of the front office, and three ol those who ventured to go down tin steps were wounded by the falling missiles. Another jumped from a window to the ground, and was badly injured. As soon as the quake was over, and feeling that our first duty was to look after our wives and chil dreu, I told the men to hasten tc their homes, and if none of their people were killed or wonded, to come back and finished the work. In from one and a half to two hours the.mrn cam back an 1 resumed t'eirv,ork. And this, too, after going through all tin horrors of meeting a violent death an ; not knowing but. fearing that ti e next shock would bring down the massive brick- walls ami heavy roof upon us and crush us all to atoflis. Besides this, the printers had left their families in a half-crazed Condi tion in the open streets of the city, homeless for the time being, without protection, and going through all the tortures of terror at their perilous con dition. “The hoys being reduced in num ber by the loss of four of their breth ren wounded, und with their nerves ally worko<TfoUh ve long hours, and set up one page - of minion type, fin- l isbing up by 5 o’clock on Wednesday morning. Every Item tl t was fur nished by our reportorial staff was put in type, read and corrected before one typo left the office. And this, too, in an office whose north and south walls were cracked in several places and with one corner sunk from two to three inches by the tremend ous upheaval. Now, did they not di- serve at least the thanks of those who were thus furnished the means f conveying Ihe particulars of the greatest catastrophe of It’s kind that has ever taken place on this con tinent to the local and outside world? You can judge of what stuff men are made of thut could go through this living death. Well, Wednesday came and the boys wore again at their post, with the simple request that the work should be closed up early so as they could be with their families, who were still homeless (erery printer’s house having been badly shaken) and sorely in need of comfort and protec tion. After thinking over the mat ter and inspecting the means»of exit and the surroundings we came to tlie the conclusion that the bulling would be not only' unsafe on the reoccurrence of a shock as heavy as the first one, but that \ye would be completely hemmed inbythe adjoiningcrumbliug walls,which would place usall like rats in a trap. We so notified the proprie tors,but told them that we were willing and ready to do Rieir work in any frame building which they might des ignate. “Thursday came and we worked and got out the paper of Friday. Did the same on Friday, and on Saturday September 4, moved the material to a structure on Queen street, near King, removeing and getting out the paper m Sunday morning and not missing tn issue since. Removed from there back to the old building in Broad street, the material being bandied and placed in its old shape by the printers themselves without one dollar of dam age to it. The famous Charleston Hotel, so admirably administered by Mr. Jack- son for many years, is running as usual. Beyond the fall'of chimneys and loss of plastering, it is unharmed. It has been proved a harbor of refuge and in a few weeks, no vestige of the shake will remain, except that the “earthquake rooms,” as Mr. Jack- son calls them, will be the most beati- ful in the house. I trust that the prosperity of this winter will more than make amends to the courteous and popular -proprietor for any ex pense incurred in repairs. I noted that the strong wirefencing in the In ner quadrangle had been prostrated only on the eastern aide by some blow in that direction!!. This seemed a positive demonstratioij. that the disturbance came from the east. The Bath and Langley dams and the crirm bied parapets of the Arsenal quarters evidence the same thing. But Mr, Jackson said that his western chim ney’s were tumbled down from a blow in that direction. “The fact is” he added, “in Charleston the earthquake boxed the compass.” At the Charleston Hotel I met the famous oomedian, John E. Owens, who is arranging a benefit, for the suf ferers. He is entirely recovered from ess that threatened his bright as a diamond t a wag off the stage made us laugh at his ani#l W ebster and other He olden times. I have wens since my boyhood, he has renewed hisyouth. e lie became serious was ing how he had saved sically and mentally, by a specialist, at the recom- f an old physician. “He mistook my case,” saM “and was killing me with Strange to say, lie is df of the same disease he Id kill me in two weeks ed his. narcotic poisons, that he shbuld bo elimi- own malpractice, while I of life that oven these that touch my heart can y incorrigible pnmencdty be merry. I told him he t up a play found- s sickness. His jaw re- th ati air of horror, here- “Good Lord! Oh no! gedy, and I am a come dian!” At the hotel, too, X encountered my dear old friend. Dr. Chazal, who, in spite of his seventy years, has a boy's faith in all eood and holy things, and to whom loving and being loved is not a second but a first nature. God bless him always? Of coarse* everybody has a theory of the .earthquake. The majority agree that somewhere between Sum merville and.Charleston the primal disturbance-originated, projecting it self in many directions I believe —which may be foolishness-that somewhere under Charleston the ocean found an entrance to the fiery bowels of the earth and created the internal commotion. .The element? of destructive power were varied ae- “ording to circumstance, whether by a thin or thick crust or frustrating ob- •tacltfs. The landslide was a necessa ry Consequence, resulting from the leak in the earth and a providential effort to plug the hole, just as sailors •stuff salutary materials in the side oi a pierced ship to save the vessel. This is au unscientific gness or surmise, and may answer, like all other i?pecu- iations. until the experts cense contra dicting each other. I hone mean while that the fl.s?t*re lies l*e?u plug ged and the landslide adjusted. Mayor Courtenay la eniphaticnUy Ahe man of desti ny—right man in the right place, He has done mnch ft> of execution. He [ fe%istT 1 Is me Kim: ly trust their affairs to in times of j>eril. He is worthy of all confidence. Under his vigorous system, relief is being extended, houses are being re built or patched, nerves are being quieted, and business swelling to nor mal proportions. The" rubbish is rapidly disappearing from the streets and the tents and crowds have about vanished from the squares. Men who know how to work are employed at good wages. Masons and carpenters white and black, command 'and ob tain temporarily big prices. I saw several Augusta mechanics who, with asigifleant enunciation, assured me that they are satisfied with their pay, but would not name it. Luckily for Charleston its business is intact. The tide of Iratilc flows on unhalted. The roar of the moving vehicles is almost incessant. The banks arc safe and sound. Buyers and sellers abound, and the wharves are busy with accustomed shipping. While the churches can only be re built by outside aid, and it is impor tant that charity shall be instant!; extended to sorn<J men and women too proud to subscribe to a printed con fession of pauperism, because they on ly suffer from suspension oi professional or ordinary avo cations. It is a grand comfort to know that the power of wealth-creation sur vives and that the mean of energy and enterprise and opulence remain to make assurance doublysure. One ofm? iittle children,who had been saddened by the spectacle of demolishment, brightened up as we went from end to end of the principal mart and said: “Why, wiiat a busy place. It is busier than Augusta!” The whole country should combine to increase that traffic and help the unvanquished city redeem herself as she proudly de sires to do. She still needs money, en couragement, interchange of com merce and every comfort. Let hei have them without stint. I stood with inv little flock, upon the Battery, under the blue sky and sunshine. A long line of smitten palaces faced the water, but the gran ite rails stood like'a rampart of Gi braltar. Midway the harbflr another ruin rose—historic gumter, with a trim lighthouse near by. The rivers put theiu arms about the afflicted city, whiled-he stray gulls screamed above her. The islands to right and left ran serpentine on the flanks of the chan nels. Here was Morris’ Island, with a memory of grim bombardment. There Sullivan’s Island, with Moul trie and the village in the distance. Sail boats skimmed the water and. black hulls of steamers lay like re cumbent mammoths on the briny \vaHd. The glorious Atlantic »tratali=- ed inimitably beyond and sent its surges and breezes to the people who suffer and are strong. I held the hand of one of Hit 1 youngest of my children, but for a moment my thoughts were to ipisquote Buchanan Read— “Far away Sailing that imperial bay.” I went back to the time when Charleston was in its glory and I ii mere youth, with all the world before me. And, thinking thus, a moisture came into my eyes as the recollection of times and changes forced me back to actual life again. But ere the vis ion past I saw Charleston rise from her discomfiture more beautiful, mure glorious, more powerful, more secure, more opulent than ever. And thus victoriously dreaming, the bronze eyes of Simms seemed to glow with life and light, while the sword of Jasper leaped aloft wilh a new vehemence and his flag streamed in triumphant sorcery about that tragic and incomparable scene! - J. R R S. <J. MUATARV ACADEMY. HOW TO LIVE 1 William Falk Criticizes the Pres ' idcist. , Boston Journal. William Falk, a prominent merchant of Charleston passing through Washington-on his way baok to the stricken city, is not pleased with the President, although! he claims to be a life-long Demoerat. He says: “One thing seems also to have been pretty well demonstrated by the recent calamity, and that our President was not equal to the exi gencies of the situation. It was re served for Queen Victoria to set him the example which common humani ty should have dictated, and while our people did not particularly desire pecuniary aid, they thought the Pres ident of the United States might have telegraphed his sympathy for their a. Action. South Carolinians, will noe forget this slight in a hurry, ami it would not surprise me' to see a Cleveland delegation defeated at the primaries before the big convention takes place in 1888.” Sumter Timmerman, who lives in the Meeting Street section of Edge- field County, delivered himself to the Sheriff of the County, Wednesday 22d for the killing of Dick Forest, colore I. About a month ago Forrest went to Mr. Timmerman’s house and insulted Mrs. Timmerman while her husband was away. Mr. Timmerman return?- e lashort time afterward? and immodi ate’y started to arrest the negro, and 000on st finding him several miies from hi-- home, arre-ted him and started to Mr. E. Skill’s, a Trial Justice; but be fore reaching there the negro atta^k- hini with a knife, cuttinghiseoat and vest, whereupon Mr. Timmerman shot him. The negro lived until last Monday, when he died. Mr. Timmer man delivered himself up to the Sher iff before a warrant was issued or the inquest was determined. He will make application for bail before Judge Pressley at Lexington. . bring order out of chaos by precept, The Cleveland bpdfn < is said that me Indes. It Kotl Call on the Fourth—The Citadel tm Ready cod the Cadets will be there. Neic* and Courier. Sept. 30. Gen George D Johnston, sunerlnten dent of the South Carolina Military Academy, who has sjKMit his summer vacation in travelling through Geor gia, Florida and Alabama in the inter est of the Citadel, has returned to the city, and yesterday assumed charge of the building. Gen. Johnston, stated to a Reporter yesterday that he found the Citadel in "better condition than when he left it, A few days after the earthquake Governor Shepnard came to Charles ton, and, after a hasty consnltutiou with Ex Governor Hagood and tlm board of visitors, decided to place the buildings in good order at once. The work was entrusted to Col. C. 8. Gads den and Gen. T. A. Huguenin, the io- •*al members o,f the board of visitors, md could not have been placed in % bet ter hands. Owing to the indefatiga ble energy ofthe.se twogentlemen the institution Lnow ready for the recep tion of the cadets. Tiie main building, in which lln- cadets and corns of instructors live, was comparatively uninjured by the earthquake, the damage being confin ed to the parapets ar,c] the plastering in the galleries and in some of the rooms. The board of Government en gineers reported that the walls of the main building wereentirely uninjured and tnat the only damage sustained • > the wails was confined to the east wing, which is used for section-rooms, chapel and dining-rooms. This sec tion of the building has been strength- aied by iron-rods and gibpiates,accord big to the recommendations of the engineers. The plastering in the main building has beeu restored, and the entire building is now ready lor die reception of the cadets, quite a number of whom h'-.vo already arriv ed in the city. It is due to Quarter master White to state that he has nev er left the building, but has been in it all the time and has devoted his atten tion and energies to superintendin the work of restoration, in order to be ready for the cadets when they repo”t for duty. Gen. Johnston stated 3'esterday that the entire academic board and the whole corps of cadets would report for duty on Tuesday next, the 4th of Oc tober. He expects from twenty to thirty cadets from oilier States and thinks that the corps will number from one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty cadets the coming session. The corps will “troop” promptly at 8:30 A. M., on the 4th of October, at which tiuo the first guard mount will take place and the colors will be raised on the flag staff of the building. He says that he has receiv ed letters from many of the cadets, not only signifying their intention to return and resume their stndies on ihe 4th, but also conveying tb© infor mation in many instances that addi tional cadets from their respective counties had signified their intention of “falling in.” The fresh class will therefore, probably number nearly omV hundred cadets. There are forly- iliree beneficiaries who have already passed, their examinations, and there will probably be ns many, if not more, pay cadet?, who will report for duty on Tuesday next. The acaden i • board of the Institu tion is one of unusual excellence, and Gen. Johnston thinks that it will be ». credit to th^Siate and Citadel. It will be remembered that the Citadel Cadets on one memorable occasion laid aside tlK ir books and should oed their mus kets at the call o; their State. It is not probable that the-Cadets of I860 will be deterred from their duty even by an earthquake, and “bur boys in gbey” may be expected to put in an appear ance promptly at the first guard rnount on Tuesday next. Affairs in Atiffustet. . Augusta, Ga., September 28.—This morning the twenty-five Patterson, N. J. operatives who came South to work in the Aug4j->ta Factory, and . refused to tro to work when they arrived here and viewed the sit nation, called on the mayor to ask for passes- homo. Presi dent Phinizy, of the Augusta Factory was present at the conference and rep resented to the mayor that the men ame South fully apprised of the situ ation. and not under misapprehen sions as they claim. The president was willing to stand by the contract made by the agent of the Augusta Factory while in Patterson. The Jer sey operatives' maintained that they were betrayed into coming to Augusta. The mayor declined to interfere, and did not see how the city could furnish passage money. Legal aid has been •called in by the Knights and proceed ings will be instituted to force the Au gusta Factory to refund the prssagp money. This morning at 2.15 a fire of un known origin gutted Rufus. Carter & Co.’s tobacco Factory, on 8th aqd Ellis streets, and damaged adjacent property. Including the Knights of Pythias Hall, to the-extent of $5,000 on the buHding and $500 o Knights’ paraiihernalia^iTTTJam age to th© tobivecoJ^aLr^iauioySit* to $22, and building-insured ful ly JL-A sSsasi ,t» ; >iV*S mis y J. ySgdlhjg- ji ' ,v clan Hm From the Jjondon The secret of lone life has once, been discovered, this time in a tiers; and, if we read aright the m< ing of the announcement now there is nothing to prevent any on# from becoming npeqtennrian, prpvRL ed lie will do as he ia told by V erudite Dr. Ba^ggrave, who professes *. physic in the University of Ghent. , ... . Not only does tiie Flemish professof v proclaim long life to be & thine attain' able in certain circumstances, but bn offers it at a rate so cheap that to M>y one ambitious of outliving his wel come in the world, it would be thnv veriest follv not to accept the gilt. The medicine is not protected by # / patent, though the fortunate proprie*? f , tor might, by selling what most mej^ wish to buy, have grown rich be the dreams of avarice. It.id of life, no Cagiiostro’s drops, W tain of perpetual youth, such as that which Ponce de Leon sought In Flori- (S3BQ da, and Sir John Mandeville drank of 1 * on the shores of M^dbgr, albeit he died of arthritic gout, the mlracplQit* draught notwithstanding. Mr. Baigr grave’s iqedicing is nothing more recondite than poipmou salt. Bs| salt in sufficient quantity, ami, ao far as years are concerned, there i» noth* ing to prevent any one from beepDkn, ing a Sir Moses Monteflore or an Old Parr, or even from reaching the age of Ttiomas Damme, who is said to kave died at the age of 1-54, or of Peter for ton, who declared, 1 hough he did not produce a parish register, the* he •» -,i was close on 184 the year before he j U made up his mind to go over to the majority. Sait, the Ghentish doctor affirms, is the great panacea for every ill that flesh is Leif fo. Good health, in ills opinion, is not a matter of chance or constitution; ' the laws which regulate human life are very simple, all that wo have to do U to take care that they shall develop themselves without obstruction. Salt will euable them tq do this. If the blood is too rich salt will clarity H. If tiie blood is too poor, salt will thicken it. Culprits who have been punished^ by being forced to eat unsalted btea have almost invariably died. fto want of salt caused the outbreak ol terrible epidemic in Baxouy,-and sjan peasants, when threatened by-the plague, have saved themeelves putting salt in thetr milk. Choler^ will flee before sal*. Consumption* - ’ ‘ can be mastered by it.' Old age ie .yi$ SH; he face . , * S comparatively powerless in t of two-thirds of an ounce of sodfo chloride a day. Therefore be invitee all of us to swallow this frugal physio, and, if not tired of the world at three ‘ score and ten, go on living until cen tenarians are as common as fools and insurance company^ are threatened with insolvency j^uJMfeantswbo i tunic on the funflaj BM tee- 1 the actuaries of th$JgflHteve made uc^ provision. A VIOLENT CURB It Sent the Fatieut , Overheard mid Then to an Insane Asyl From the New York Sun. Iq Bellevue Hospital lies Aibei Wade, slowly recovering from nerv ous prostration. For a month he wa» in the insane asylum on Ward's Is land, but* ho has regained mental health, ariffis nqw getting back some physical strength. He was a circus performer in Eng'anfl until two yvars ago, when increasing fat unfitted him for agile feats, and he h$d to become a humbler attache of the show in which he had figured. This grayed him, and st length he determined to reduce his weight by a novel means. Desiring to come to America to get an engage ment as an athlete, and believing that hard exercise in a high tempsh would rid him of flesh, he dec! make the ocean passage qs a in a steamship. He got the desired job. room on a steamer is a vcritableroa ing place. It is away below the wa ter tine, where ventilation is impossi ble, or at least uqattempted. The l.temperatqre ranges from 135 deg. to 175 deg., ailil in that atmosphere the men are required to shovel coal eight hours in every day-^twp stretches of • unceasing and heavy work of four hours each In the twenty-four. .Wade had reasoned thqt no course of physi cal training, intended to clear a hui man body of superfluous adipose sue, could be more thorough than thl experienea of a week. He weighed 205 pounds at the start, and he i lated that be might laud ii at about 185, at which to go into the rh Brothers’ circus soon America. He was adi could not stand the but he wasjiot to bedlsst oral times lie /ell of the ^ 'Tslsted on resum it within a day of tl: madly from tl deck, and .Ufwija 7tf.fi . r»i iri'. » “Wiggins is more of a charlatan than a crank” said Major Powell, di rector of the United States GeologjcHi Survey to a reporter yesterday. “Hi! prophecies a:*e nonsense and entitled to no credit whatever. He talks from no knowledge and no data. Earth quakes are of frequent occurence; they com© and go, and we cannot an ticipate them. We may expect but we cannot time llierfi. There is no special cause for apprehension at the present time. It is consoling to think too, that though earthquakes are fre- luent, not more than one in a tlious- de it motive. alters rescued him, kept under, restrain the trip. •scapt-d fir -.m the IsiUoml that his captors meant to to the fiery torment. On la! wfcs sent to the hospital. Tiie American Seaman’s F: eie.y a ill us© his case as an II tion, and try to bring about mitigation qf steamer Uromen’i ferings. Ther te sol connection witK I tnent which will public, before sprliij that some of the l go into court to comj make air account of ment of the >u sf* & m • SWii ■M