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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MAY 15, 18T9._VOL. XIV-NO. 44. HA TRS OF SUBSCRIPTIOR.-Okk Dollab *? d FiFtrCKSTS per annum. In advsnco. Two Dollars st end of year. SKVBXtx?FlVlbCKST3 * for six months. Subscriptions are not taken for a less period than six months. BATES OF ADVERTISING.?One Dollar per aqua-e ol one inch for the ?ret insertion,and Fifty Cents per Miim for subsequent Insertlonslcss that throo months. No advertisements counted less than a square Liberal contracts will be made with those wishing to advertise for three, six or ?wcIto months. Ad vertblng 9f contract most be tsnfined to the Im? mediate business of the arm or individual contrac? ting. ? Ob tuary Notices exceeding five lines. Tributes of Respect, and all personal communications or mutters of individual Interest, will be charged for at advertising rates. Announcements of murrlagcs and deaths, and notices of a religious character, arc respectfully solicited, and will bo insert*! gratis. BUKIED IX A COAL MINE. "They Arc AU Alive"?Prayers, Hymns und Hole Meat. From the New York Herald. The following is an account of the caving in of a port;on of the Lehigb and Wilkesbarre Colliery, Pennsylvania, on the 23d ult, in which seven miners were buried alive, but who were, by herculean efforts by their friends, rescued safe and sound at the end of six days: WlLKESBABBE, Pa., April 28,1879. Since Wednesday morning, when the imprisonment of the miners took place in consequenco of a fall of several acres of roofing, up to the moment the final stroke was made this morning for their release, the populace of the Wyoming Valley has been kept on the tiptoe of ex? pectation, but as the hours sped by and the proclamation of success was delayed day after day the most sanguine spirits Kveway to a sense of despondency, ist night word came that the mine was flooding despite the constant use of the {ramps; also that the presence of gas in arge bodies was apparent, and the knowledge that the mine had been on fire on Thursday at the west end of the fall created a melancholy impression. Last night during the long and tedious hon? the friends of the seven men kept their vigils upon the surface, near the new entrance to the mine. The Herald repor? ter passed around the camp fires at about three o'clock, an hour before daylight. The numbers present were not great at that hour, but there were hearts burdened with great sorrow. - watching relatives. The sire bowed down with years, sat close to a few half-burned faggots, whose dying embers cast a sickly glow upon the silver head. His chin rested upon his breast and his hands were clasped about bis knees. From his trembling lips came now and then a low moan, a deep drawn sigh. He paid no heed to his surround insra. The forms that hty stretched out upon the green award about him had no interest-lor him. Now and then he would cast a glance toward the mouth of the pit, where I wearied but hopeful watchers kept an ear open for tidings of cheer. But he slept not. He had two sons in the underground dungeon. His heax,t was bursting with unutterable emo? tions. Near him was the father of an only sou and he also was entombed. Reason threatened to vacate its throne. "Barney I whero are ye, Barney ? My God, spa're my child!" The bosses were anathema? tized for what he felt was an unpardona? ble sin in letting men enter a mine that had been pronounced so dangerous. BROTHERS AND SISTERS. A sister and some companions were huddled together at a short distance in the back ground. The tearstained cheeks and swollen eyelids told a story more impressive than the pen of the most gifted writer could describe. A brother sat silently at the threshhold of what to even him seemed to be a sepulchre. They might be found, but the fearful impression that they had met and suc? cumbed to the overpowering influence of the angel of death was burning into his very heart DEATH DEFERRED. The night shift was down. They had expected tc make the' breach into the lower gangway which was being driven by the men previous to their imprison? ment by midnight, but that hour came and passed, and the knells of receding hours were repeated, and still no joyous messenger came. The gray streaks of dawn fired the eastern sky and the sun came ever the hilltops and gilded the western horizon, but it brought no cheer to the hearts of the mourners. At length at half-past seven o'clock the shift came up with the news that but a few more inches of the coal block remained to be pierced. The crowd was growing now. A hundred warm hearts throbbed quickly at this information. An hour passed. People were coming on foot and by every vehicle that could Depressed into service. Representatives of the best society, gen? tlemen with their families and miners and laborers in their dusky suits. The throng was very large, but orderly. Conversation was conducted in a low tone of voice. "they are all alive." It was just four minutes to nine o'clock when strong knocks in rapid succession were heard upon the trap door that leads to the dismal abyss. The utmost silence prevailed. Men with bated breath awaited the opening of the mouth of the messenger. It might be a voice freigh? ted with excessive joy; it might be weighted down with the bitterest woe. The familiar bend garb of a miner ap? peared at the hole. It was Daniel Lewis, and he cried out, "They are all alive I" Never have the rock-ribbed bills of Sugar Notch echoed with joy as they did in response to this intelligence. Huzzah after huzzah was wafted out on the at? mosphere, and the people in the valley came out of their houses and gazed up (o the place where the devoted men had been laboring upward of six days in suc? cession without stoppage for the rescue of their fellow men. Speedy messengers were despatched to Ashley for physicians and restoratives. Miss Riley, sister of one of the rescued men, fainted. While men raised their voices in exultation, women cried with joy and thanked God for the blessing. Old Mr. Green, upward of seventy years of age, started off at once for bis home with the glad tidings. Despite his old age and infirmities he bounded over the hills with a step as light as a youth's. There was rejoicing all around, and all gave expression to their feelings and congratulated one an? other upon the result of their protracted search. "here they come." Hardly had the cheers died away be? fore another rap was heard at the trap door, and another miner came out with the shout upon his tongue, "Here they come I" Twas true, one after another of the imprisoned men was helped through the trap. A3 fast as they came up they fell into the hands of friends with unal? loyed pleasure. The meeting was oue of those scenes that cannot be faithfully portrayed. To the friends who had wait? ed so long for their return ic seemed as if the dead nad risen. The rescued felt then, if never before, the blessings of friends and the gloriousness of God's sunlight. They were all strong and healthy notwithstanding their long im? prisonment. They had heard the efforts of their comrades on Thursday while hinting the block of coal, and on that day killed the mule, and prepared some of it to be eaten. The air in the mine was good, and the men were enabled to cook their mule meat by a fire. When they came up they brought eome pieces of the meat and the stones upon which it was cooked. In my last dispatch to the Herald I foreshadowed a probability of the finding of the entombed miners as early as Mon? day. They were actually reached this morning, about eight o'clock. The sto? ries of their trials are most interesting. This afternoon the Herald correspondent called upou Patrick and John Green. Patrick was resting himself in a chair, with his feet on the rounds and his back against the wail, with a Saturday's Her- \ aid in his hands. John was sitting in a chair also. About them were several friends, who had called to express con- : f;ratulations over the fortunate end of: ast week's terrible explosion. The res? cued men welcomed your correspondent, I and said that they would give any infor? mation they had. The interview was conducted mostly with John Green. A VIVID DESCRIPTION. "When did you first know of the fall and who told you first" "It was SVeanesday morniDg, at about two o'clock, I should think, when John Clark, the doortender, came running back and told us of the falling roof. It was, you may well imagine, startling intelligence. "We did not hesitate long what to do. Grabbing what was next to us we made a hasty exit from the heading and ran back through the gang? way for half a mile I suppose. Here we met the fall. It seemed as if the whole thing from the .surface bad come down. It- looked pretty blue. Then we tried another way. We thought of several routes, but every time we found the way closed up. We finally concluded that if we coula get to the foot of the mainway which leads from the Fulton gangway up the Davis gangway perhaps we could get out. We feared that we could not get to the foot, but we did, and felt first rate until we found, as we went up hill, that it was closed. It was on Wednes? day when it fell in. We had no time? piece with us and could only guess tbe time. Every minute seemed an hour. We would get sleepy and then we thought it might be the regular sleeping hour. Well, we tried to dig out the mainway. We dug and dug on our hands and knees for hours, and perhaps had got through fifty feet of it, but there seemed to be no end to it and we were becoming exhausted. To add to this, in our weakened condi? tion, was the fact that the roof kept fall? ing all around us. We did the best we could by propping, but it came down all the time, ana we were in tbe danger of getting caught in the place and crush? ed to death. We held consultations, and the only conclusion we could arrive at for a long time was that we were lost. Then we would hear a noise and balloo, but soon discovered that instead of friends coming to find us that it was the falling of the roof and perhaps the dropping of water. We found au old vest near tbe branches of the road where the air was good, where we stayed. Tbe air was good then until about an hour before we were found this morning, when it became light and clear, because of a broken down air conductor. When we were found we were putting up the brac? ing so as to conduct the air again in its regular channel. We bad safety lamps to prospect about the mines with, and could have built a fire. Where we stayed we were not troubled with gas at all, although we knew it had accumulated in some places. We heard noises when the miners began to work upon the coal. Again and again we heard it, and it sounded like an explosion, and then we made up our mind that tbe men were trying to find us. We could also hear the men at work in the old slope and we rapped to them. Our courage stiffened up and we felt first rate. Then the noise stopped and we did not hear them for a long time. We got disheartened again. We thought, may be, they had become discouraged and bad given us up. It was pretty tough to believe, but what else could we do. We knew they had been working for us, and when we didn't hear them any more we had to believe that something was the matter and that they were giving up. On Friday I felt the worst. I had not thought before this that I was going to die, but it came over me that day. We all thought before this that we were lost, but it did not seem to be so bad to me as on Friday. When I began to think about it I tell you the tears were not far from my eyes." THE BRAVEST OF THE LOT. "How did the door boy, Johnny Clark, stand it?" "He was the best of the lot. He's a brave, good-hearted boy. We all felt well of Johnny. He's as good a man as any of us. He never whimpered, only wheujhe'd think of his mother his spirits would get cown and he'd feel bad. I tell you it's a pretty hard place to be in, and most anybody would feel glum under such circumstances." ALL THE FOOD GONE. We ate up all our food on Tuesday night, expecting, of course, to get our breakfast at home <n the morning, but it was a long time till that morning. All day Wednesday we worked and tried every way to get out and didn't think much of eating, but on Thursday we be? gan to get pretty huDgry. KILLING THE MULE. "What was to be done, was the ques? tion. We held a consultation and it was unanimously agreed that the mule most supply our food. We bad tied the old fellow up, for he was getting hungry, too, and eating the props and timbers. Besides, when a mule gets mad be will attack a man. We led the poor old fellow out and I knocked him down with a hammer, and Billy Kinney, bis driver, cut his neck with an axe. We did not skin the carcass all at once, but peeled it off as we required it. We bad no salt, but it was a Godsend that we had the mule. We would have starved if he had not been there, and they eat horse meat in France, you know. The water was first rate. It came to us through the roof, and it was as pure as we could ask it. By a fire we cooked the mule meat in our dinner buckets. Tbis morning, when we could hear no blasting, we thought it was Sun? day and the men had stopped working, but we found out since that it was be? cause they dared not fire for fear of set? ting the gas on fire and burning us. They did not come out where we expec? ted they would strike, and it frightened us, because we knew where they touched it was full of gas. If we had not left our regular stopping place in the old breast to go and fix up the broken down airway they would have had a hard time finding us. PBAYER MEETINGS. "Yes, we bad prayer meetings. Some prayed and some sang hymns. We had plenty of time to think of such things. I only slept about three hours, I guess, all the time." "Did yon see any rats ?" "Well, I should say so. They started out of the mine when the roof fell, but many were caught. Then they smelt our rare steaks and sweet joints of mule meat, and surrounded us in droves. Why, Rome of them were as big as dogs, I believe. I never saw sush big rats in all my life. It was quite a boarding house. For feather beds we had the soft side of a plank. Such meat was never better relished. We were hungry, you will bear in mind. Our air came directly from the fan, and it was our salvation. How inspiringly we felt when we thought of the fortune of good air. Without it we could not have stood it all. So lone; as it lasted wo might have hope of holding out." "To what do yoli attribute this acci? dent?" ''Well, of my own knowledge, I cau't say what was the.cause." "Do you know the pillars have beeu robbed behind you ?" "No, I can't say so. I have not been working there, but from what I know of Hoskius & Tiffany I have always consid? ered them pretty good men. I don't think they would take desperate chances with the men. Of course, I did not know that the pillars were robbed." AN INVESTIGATION. "Do you know that the miners pro? pose to subscribe to a fund for the pur? pose of seeing that a full investigation is made of this matter and the blame laid where it should be put?" "No; I have not heard of it." Many Voices?We have heard of it and we will subscribe our share at any time. The miners outside don't want to get caught themselves for sombody's carelessness. "Had any of you messages to leave to your friends?" "No; I think not." "Who did you see first to-day?" "We thought we heard somebody talk? ing. We bad been fooled so many times before when we hallooed, but we thought we would try it once again, and we cried halloo, and then we heard Mr. Smith say to Nick.; Bapson, 'We have found them and they are alive.' He came right out to us; and wasn't we glad. We then went back and put out our fire and closed ow boarding house for the season. The rats will have a feast from the old uiulo ; they are in sole possession now." WILLIAM KENNEY'S STORY. The Herald reporter found William Kenney at bis home in Sugar Notch at a late hour, surrounded by a numerous crowd of sympathetic associates. He was in good spirits generally, notwith? standing a griping pain he complained of, consequent upon too much indulgence in agood supper. He was the driver boy whom Dennis Gallagher, the last miner who left the mine, had warned to leave the mine. He relates the story as fol? lows : As I was coming out along the lower level gangway, about 500 yards from the facing where the men were driving with six loaded cars, I was stopped by Mar? tin Lee and Pat Devany, who had gone out to clear the track of a fall that had occurred before. This was about two o'clock Wednesday morning. I went ahead and saw that the track was ob? structed by about twenty carloads of roofing. I walked back and met Dennis Gallagher and Bill Seece and another man. Gallagher told the doortender to "run back and tell the gangway men to come out, that the mine was caving in." I told the men for a "cod" to kneel down and Bay their prayers, that they were all Eonc up. They frightened me and I ave been scared worse since. I turned back and took the mule where it was solid. Thea 1 went back to where we kept our dinner pails, some way out. of the gangway. The men came up to me. We agreed that we'ed better hurry up and get out, and made haste and ran. While we were running toward the slope it was falling before us and behind us, so we turned back. One said, 'What are we going to do ?' One of the Green boys said there must be an opening on the back branch, and we started for that place. We found that that was full and we retraced our steps back to the main gangway and tried to root our way through the fall. We booked our way through that about fifteen yards, and gave it up. Little pieces were falling all around us. Then Ned Price hollered out to us to go and kill the mule. NO LAUGHING. "You had{to laugh atthat.didn'tyou?" "There was no laughing then, I tell you. Then me and Johnny Green and Char? ley Hawkins and Johnny Clark went to kill the mule while Barney Riley, Edward Price and Pat Green went for oil. John Green struck the mule with a hammer and I cut his head off with an axe. Then we cut a leg off and cut out a piece and fried it. It was savory that way, and so we boiled a piece. We ate it with good relish. %VhiIe we were eaung we prayed to God that we might get out. Then we went on a back bench and laid down on an old door. We had a little camp meet? ing there. We first tried to fry with one lamp, but that wouldn't go, so we started a fire with a very little wood, for fear that it would injure the men that might be trying to get us out. PRAYERS ANSWERED. "On Thursday, just after we had eaten the first mule meat and bad declared it was good, as if in answer to our prayers, we heard a shot fired. Then we heard other sounds, and we sometimes thought it was the fall of the roof, and we all got down and prayed that it was the rescu? ing men. Charley Hawkins sang some hymns. Again we tried to make our way through the lower gangway, but had to give that up again and come back again. Saturday night we all felt in good cheer, but on Sunday there was no shoot? ing, and we gave up all for lost. Char? ley Hawkins, the cook, then reduced our rations so that our food would last longer. Between ten and eleven o'clock on Sunday night we heard another shot. We laid down and slept until this morn-' ing, when Hawkins went to try the gas and he found the gas was coming on us, and the air was getting worse. Then we went along the gangway to where the cave bad broken down, an old breaking, to look for the course of the first air. "WE ARE SAVED." "Riley started to do something to the air passage when we beard a voice, and we gave a jolly yell for we knew it was help ; aud the answer came back, and we knew we were saved. Then the rescuing men came and saw what we were doing and how we lived. We had our mule meat ou cooking. Wo put out our fire, and brought the pail with the meat in it up to the opening. I learn that Charley Parrish wanted to take it home with him." A PRESENT TO THE MEN. Mr. Parrish presented each one of the seven rescued men with $100, jokingly re? marking, "this is for your good sense in killing the mule." SLOW AND CAREFUL WORK FOR FEAR OF GAS EXFLOSION. Yesterday the rescuing party succeeded in drilling a hole through to the lower part of the mine, thus showiug that it was only necessary to drive a few lcet further to effect an opening into the gangway. The work was then necessari? ly performed slowly and carefully, as there were indications of fire damp, which necessitated the driving and cut? ting of the coal with the pick alone. Mine Superintendent Smith was the first to enter the gangway. He found a por? tion of the men cooking a breakfast of mule steaks. The remainder of the par? ty weie engaged in changing the direc? tion of an air course. Very little was said, but the entire party used all possi? ble despatch in getting out of the mine, reaching the surface shortly after nine o'clock. The crowd which had assem? bled was very enthusiastic and repeated? ly cheered tho rescued men ntid their plucky deliverers. The men were then sent to their homes. During Saturday and Sunday they could hear the rescuing party firing blasts, and when the blast? ing ceased they believed the work had been stopped and they were abandoned to their fate. They say they could have subsisted at least two weeks longer, had it been necessary, upon their supply of mule meat. digging twelve HUNDRED feet. Too much praise cannot be awarded to the brave men who accomplished the great work of driving and timbering a passage way of 1,200 feet through rock and slate and coal in the space of four days and nights, to the bosses directing work and to the engineering skill dis? played in locating and directing the open? ings. The men stood the long imprison? ment very well. The boy upon reach? ing the surface leaped over the enclosure at the mouth of the opening and ran rap? idly homeward. a benefit entertainment. A concert for the benefit of the men will be given at Music Hall to-morrow. Charles Hawkins, one of their number, will relate the storv of their captivity. The total receipts will be given to them, as all expenses have been paid. The Last of John Patterson. Our esteemed contemporary, the Times, published the other day a remarkable statement about Honest John Patterson, of Juniata county, Pa., who tarried in South Carolina as long as there was good stealing in that State. The Times nays that Honest John signalized his last days in the character of a mock Senator, by uniting with six others, morally like him? self, in stealing from the United States the greater part of $17,000. We consider the story remarkable, not to say unde? serving of trust, because we can hardly believe that Honest John would stoop to a larceny of such contemptible propor? tions. It seems altogether unworthy of his well earned reputation, and the pub? lic will be slow to credit it, unless sus? tained by clear and conclusive evidence. It appears, then, that the Senate or? dered an inquiry as to the condition of things in the Indian Territory, and the alleged fraudulent issue of bonds by cer? tain land-grant railroads there. It was long previously known that Mr. Patter? son could never return to the State of South Carolina, on account of certain un Eleasant proceedings in the Courts; and e was probably made Chairman of the Committee on Territories by his sympa? thetic associates in order that he might make the acquaintance of some of the inhabitants of those distant parts, and prepare himself a refuge somewhere to? ward the setting sun. At all events, when the order was passed, it found John in position and eager for work. He had been so frequently investigated himself that the Senate had a right to presume that he fully understood the business. As to the fraudulent bonds, Honest John had enjoyed a remarkable and instruc? tive experience during his brief sojourn in South Carolina. It was probably owing to these considerations more than to the heat of the weather or distance to be travelled, that the other members of the Committee left the whole matter to Honest John, relying upon his well known character and abilities for a proper result. And now Patterson set to work in earnest. Realizing that his sham Sena? torial career was rapidly drawing to a close, he determined to get in his harvest while the sun was hot. He made his dutiful son clerk of the Committee, and paid him only the paltry sum of $1,300 for that dreadful trip in a palace car all the way to Dennison, Texas, and back, occupying," with harassing stops for sight? seeing, nearly an entire month. He also took with him a deputy Sergeant-at-Arms and four Washington bummers for com? pany, making a select party of seven. They must, however, have been in the last stages of starvation when Honest John picked them up, for their voracity, as exhibited by tbe vouchers, was some? thing tremendous. They ate in less than a month about $5,000 worth of solid pro? visions, and this fact probably explains their enormous weight and the startling cost of transporting them. It is known that they travelled on free passes, as such high-toned persons generally do, and yet Honest John and his deputy Sergeant-at Arms found it necessary to disburse an additional $5,000 or thereabouts for "fares." Honest John also appropriated $300 in cash, of which no account what? ever is rendered, but it must have been used to enable him to appear with Sena? torial dignity among the Indians. Altogether, Patterson spent $17,000 out of the contingent fund of the Senate, and, considering the opportunity and the temptation, the country ought to be very thankful that it was no more. Whcu Honest John was in his prime, when he looked upon the prostrate State of South Carolina and chuckled audibly over the prospect of "five years' good stealing still left in her," he would have scorned such paltry pickings as these, especially where they had to be divided among six of his hungry followers. So passes John Patterson. He was almost the last of the carpet-baggers. Now, if Mr. Kellogg would only steal the furniture out of his committee room, and go packing ofT to Illinois, where he came from, or follow Patterson toward the setting sun, we should be clear of the whole race, thank heaven, and take heart. It is strange how naturally the thieves disappear from public life with the disappearance of the bayonet from the polls.?New York Sun. A Curiosity for the Children.? On the mantelpiece of my graudmothcr's best parlor, among other marvels, was an apple iu a vial and it quite filled up the bottle. Childish wondermentconstantly was, "How could it have got there ?" By stealth I climbed a chair to see if the bottle would unscrew, or if there had been a joint in the glass throughout the vial. I was satisfied by careful observa? tion that neither of these theories could be supported ; and the apple remained to to me an enigma and a mystery. One day, walking in the garden I saw it all. There, on a tree, was a vial tied ; and within it a tiny apple which was growing within the crystal. The apple was put into the bottle while it was little, and it grew there. More than thirty years ago we tried this experiment with a cucum? ber. We laid a bottle on the ground by a hill of cucumbers, and placed a tiny cucumber in the bottle to see what would be the result. It grew till it filled the bottle when wc cut it frmn the stem, and then filled the bottle with alcohol and corked it up tight. We have it now, all us fresh, with the little pickers on it, as it was when first corked up. A High Reputation.?For years tbe firm of Steele & Price have deservedly had a high reputation for the excellence of their Dr. Price's Cream Baking Pow? der and Special Flavoring Extracts. They have now added a line of strictly Unique Perfumes, rivalling in excel? lence the perfumes of this or any other country. ? The average priue of ir ileh cows in the United States is $2C41. COL. ALSTON'S MURDERER FOUND GUILTY. Cox round Guilty of Murder nml the Deutli Penalty Abated to Life Imprison? ment. Atlanta, May 7,1879. The jury in the Cox case were out all night and came in at noon to-day to be recharged in full. At a quarter to 4 p. m. they came in and announced that they had agreed upon a verdict. It was detained to correct an informality and was then read as follows: "We, the jury, find the prisoner guilt)', and recommend that he be punished by imprisonment for life." Cox received "the verdict with calmness and stoicism, having evidently nerved himself for the worst. His wife, on hearing the words so fatn.l to her hopes, sat for a moment trembling and then rushed for the open window near by for the purpose of throwing herself to the ground below. She was wild with grief. As she reached the window she was caught by Cox who held her fast. She threw her arms around his neck and clung to him, wildly exclaiming, "Oh ! my God! oh! my poor darling." Her shrieks were heart-rending and the occu? pants of the crowded room could not re? strain their tears of pity. Cos used all his power to calm her, and finally soothed her grief until only her deep moans broke upon the solemn stillness. Judge Hillyer sentenced Cox to "be confined in the penitentiary, or such other place as the Governor may direct, at hard labor, for and during his natural life." General Gartrell gave notice that the defense would make a motion for a new trial, and praying a writ of super scdeas. The execution of sentence was thereupon stayed twenty days. This penalty is virtually the extreme of the law in this State, as a law passed with Alston's aid, at the last session of the Legislature, giving juries the right to recommend the life imprisonment in all cases of murder, as they see fit, in effect abolishes the death penalty. Cox is the first man convicted of murder who re? ceives the benefit of that law. The ver? dict is received with general approval. Tea in South Carolina. Editor Columbia Register: That the cultivation of tea in this State is both practicable and profitable there can be no doubt. The fact has been proven most incontrovertibly. I am pressed with conviction that the reluctance of our people to embark (except sporadical? ly) in this enterprise arises more from the want of practical information than indisposition. Your writer appends a few remarks in relation thereto. Proba? bly few readers are aware that there is annually imported into the United States ?20,000,000 worth of tea, and as thisis to be paid for in coin it can readily be seen what a harvest of gold the producers reap, and what an enormous sum is taken out of this country each year. The lati? tudes of the chief tea districts of China and Japan correspond geographically with that of South Carolina, the soil, temperature, &c, are about the same, and by reference to the observation of Dr. Merriweather, of Columbia, Colonel James H. Rion, of Winnsboro, Wm. Summers, of Poraaria, and others, it will be seen that this climate is as favorable to its propagation and culture as the heart of the Pekin province. The plant is hardy and vigorous, withstanding the extreme heat of 102 degrees and the frig? id degrees of 32 with equal immunity from hurt or impairment of health. Easy of cultivation, perennial, more and more prolific each succeeding year, there is no reason why we should not turn our atten? tion to this most valuable product. A little calculation will show the prof? its which may be derived from an acre of 2,000 plants. In the first place, howev? er, the plants (obtained at the depart? ment in Washington) require shading the first year, but afterwards shade their own roots. The second year they are trimmed from the top to obtain a good bush. The third year the acre of 2,000 plants yield 187 pounds ; the fourth year 312 pounds; the fifth year 500 pounds, and the sixth year 750 pounds of dry tea. This tea finding a ready sale, will bring from 50c. to $1.75 per pound. Where can the farmer make so much? Certain? ly not on cotton. Three crops are gath? ered each year, between the months of March and September. A family of four persons could gather the first crop in two days, and the same number could pick the two other crops in three days. These pickings, coming at a time not to inter? fere with the other crops, could be cured by a family of the above number with no more trouble than would be paid to their "garden patch." The best tea is never shipped to us, nor is it sent out of the country in which it is grown, but brings (and such tea can be grown here) from $5 to $14 a pound on the spot. Though not a horny-handed tiller of the soil, your writer is in full accord and sympa? thy with anything which will aid in building up the wealth and influence of South Carolina, and he will be glad to refer to this subject again, if it prove of sufficient interest to our farmers. The foregoing remarks, it must be remember? ed, are not chimercial, but are based on facts which admit of uo dispute, and are collated from actual experiments. Thea Vit.idis. Who are Gentry??The other evening at a little dinner party up town, one of the guests, the younger brother of an English nobleman, expressed with commendable freedom his opinion of America and its people. "I do not alto? gether like the country," said the young gentleman, "for one reason?because you have no gentry here." "What do you mean by gentry ?" asked another of the company. "Well, you know," replied the Englishman, "Well?oh, gentry arc those who never do any work themselves and whose father before them never did any." "Ah !" exclaimed his interlocu? tor, "then we have, plenty of gentry in America, but we don't call them gentry ; we call them tramps." A laugh went round the table, and the young English? man turned his conversation into another channel.? Graphic. A Remarkable Counterfeit.?Th e United States Secret Service officials have come into possession of a most re? markable counterfeit. It is a counterfeit $20 United States legal-teuder note, and is calculated to deceive persons accustom? ed to handling notesof that denomination. What makes it more remarkable is the fact that the work on the note was ex? ecuted with a pen and ink. All tlie intricate figures and curves, all the heads, the seal, the fine engraving work, and even the fiber in the paper, are al? most perfectly counterfeited by pen and ink. The signature of John Allison formerly Register of the Treasury, it almost exact, while that of John C. New formerly Treasurer, is perfect. Th< whole bill, back and face, is a wonder ful piece of pen work. The bill was detec? ted at the sub-Treasury in New Orleans A neighbor informs us that his wife never knew a quiet night until the doc tor prescribed Dr. Hull's. Baby Syrup foi her little one, INSTRUCTIVE DYNAMITE. A Canada City Shaken n? >f hy im Kurth qunke. Stratford, Ontario, May 5. This morning the whole town was sha? ken as if by the shock of an earthquake. Windows were blown in, and even the sidewalk upon which people were walk? ing was shaken so as to cause pedes? trians to fall. The cause was soon made apparent. A car laden with dynamite had exploded at the Grand Trunk freight yard. The wreck make by the explosion beggars description. Underneath the dynamite car a hole several feet deep had been scooped out. The end of the brick freight shed and a portion of its roof were blown down. Several frame build? ings were levelled to the ground, and long lines of freight cars lying in the yard were utterly wrecked. The busi? ness part of the town was nearly a mile from the scene of the explosion, but it shared in the disaster. Valuable plate glass windows were blown in, frames and all. The damage done to property is valued at many thousand dollars. Two railway employees were walking in the yard?Frank Lemaine, of Montreal, and Thos. Dolan. of Stratford?who were blowu into fragments, the foot of one of them being found 200 yards off. Others were injured, but the whole ex? tent of the disaster cannot be known for some time yet. Later.?The damage done by the ex? plosion is much greater than was expec? ted. The houses around the freight shed were, nearly all wooden buildings, and several were blown into minute frag? ments. Some fifty cars were blown up into splinters and as many more were damaged. Mr. Flynn, the checker, is among the badly injured. A fragment of iron weighing over n pound was driv? en through the windows of the Crown Hotel, half a mile distant. The shock was felt in all the neighboring towns and it was supposed to be an earthquake. The car upon which the explosion oc? curred was freighted at Montreal lor Amherstburg, and contained thirty packages, which were entered as blast? ing powder. They were on account of Vanderbilt, to be used in blasting at the Detroit tunnel. When the explosion occurred the cars, wore being shunted in the yard. The damage will exceed $25,000. George Hawkins, a car dealer, had both, his eyes put out by splinters and is not expected to live. James Humphreys is badly cut about the head and faee, but may recover. Alfred Lamb was badly injured. Ax Engineer's Need of Nerve.? Unquestionably the bravest men in America are those who can stand upon the foot-boards of the locomotives which draw the fast express traius. But few persons are aware of it, but on the lead? ing railways, where connections must be made if possible, only engineers known to be brave and daring are given engines or express trains, and as soon as an en? gineer shows the least timidity about running fast he is taken from bis engine and given one on a freight train to run. Two such cases have occurred recently on Indianapolis roads. Railroad officers state that the first sign that an engineer is becoming timid is that he will be five to ten minutes late, possibly a half hour, for some days or nights in succession. He is then called to an account, and un? less his reasons are convincing another engineer is given his engine to run for a few times, and should he bring the train in promptly on time, the first-named en? gineer gets a freight train engine to run until he braces up. It is stated, how? ever, that after an engineer allows his timidity to get a fair bold he seldom so far overcomes it as to have the bravery to step on to an express train engine and run it at the speed necessary to make the time. Quite recently an engineer of one of the roads running west from here got an impression that some accident was to happen to him, and one night, when run? ning a fast express, he constantly lost time. At the first station where the train stopped the conductor berated him for running so slow. The engineer actually shed tears, and owned that fears had overcome him, and that he daro not run fast, and at his own request an engineer of a freight train which stood at this meeting point wa3 given the train to run through that night, the conductor tele? graphing the train-master, asking that the request be granted. The timid en? gineer has since run a freight on the road.?Indianapolis Journal. A Recitation in History.?It was our pleasure some time ago to hear a class recite on a plan quite new to us. It was a class in history. The lesson was read in an ordinary reading class, the reader standing. When the one reading made a mistake, the one next below, on correcting it, took his place. The read? ing finished, the hardest words were given to the class to be spelled, and all misspelling noticed and corrected by a pupil gave him the next higher place. The teacher did not notice any mistakes, but left them all to be corrected by the pupils. The questions were asked by the pupils, beginning at the foot of the class. If the pupil questioned could not answer his place was taken by the questioner, on giving a correct answer. The pupils did all the work except giving out words to be spelled. It was well and quickly done. What class would like to try it? ?Ex. An Ancient Nation.?At the de? parture of the children of Israel from Egypt, China was seven hundred years old ; and when Isaiah prophesied of her she had existed fifteen centuries. She has seen the rise and decline of all the great nations of antiquity. Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome have long since followed each other to the dust; but China still remains, a solitary and woudcrfu! monument of patriarchal times. Then look at the population of the country, roughly estimated at four hundred millions?ten times the popula? tion of the United States, more than thir? teen times the population of Great Brit tain and Ireland. Every third person that lives and breathes upon this earth and beneath these heavens is a Chinese; every third grave that is dug is for a Chiuese.?Ree. fylccsler Whitchcad. Sunless London.?The records of registered sunshine at the Royal Ob? servatory, Greenwich, only extend as far back as February, 1877. It will not be without interest to note a few facts from the records of sunshine since that date. Both in 1877 and 1878 June was the sun? niest month, the number of hours of re? corded sunshine being respectively 267.1 and 183.4. After June the monthly amount of sunshine declined steadily in each year to 27.0 and 16.3 hours respec? tively, in December, 1877 and 1878. In January, 1S7S, the hours of registered sunshine were 3-~>.0 and in February 32.9; whereas in January of this year only 14.8 hours of sunshine wero measured, the smallest monthly amount on record, During January last only eight of the thirty-one days was any sunshine re? corded; indeed during the fourteen dayi ending 5lh February no sunshine was registered.? London Lancet. The Hospitality of Kansas. The persecuted colored people whom the murderous Ku Klux have driven out of Louisiana and Mississippi are not wel? comed with much enthusiasm by the Kansans. In fact, they are not welcomed at all. In some chics they are endured as an evil, until they can bo shipped to some other point, while in other places every means short of actual force has been employed to keep them away. The story that the militia were called out to keep steamboats loaded with colored immigrants from landing is undoubtedly an exaggeration, but the most stringent measures have been adopted to keep the exodusters off the sacred soil of Kansris. At Wyandotte the feeling seems to be the strongest. Several hundred penni? less negroes?men, women and children ?were dumped Upon that town, and the citizens were put to great expense to keep their unwelcome visitors from starv? ing. Others followed and there was a rumor that selfiah cities were paying steamboat captains to unload on Wyan? dotte. The City Council passed ordi? nances forbidding captains to land their living freight under penalty of a a heavy fine, and at a public meeting the committeeon resolutions reported in favor of appointing a committee of public safety with unlimited power, and declared that the people would resist "peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must, the landing of any more of the refugees on our shores." At Leavcnworth the colored man and brother was equally unwelcome and the people of that city made great haste to get rid of him. There comes a wail from Atchison that there are three hun? dred refugees there who are utterly des? titute, and who cannot obtain employ? ment because of the limited demand for labor. The leading newspaper of the State?the Leavenworth Times?tells the negroes the people of Kansas will grow tired of giving after awhile; that if a col? ored man in the South can gather up money to pay his way to Kansas, and have enough left to support bis family for one year after he gets there it would advise him to come, but if lie is not able to command that much money he had better wait. He might just as well stay at home and suffer, as to go "out west" and suffer among strangers. This is good advice, but.is'given too late to ben? efit the five or six thousand dupes of Radicalism who have sought Kansas as a land of plenty, but have found only suffering and destitution, and have been passed from place to place with the rap? idity of a bad shilling. The hospitality of Kansas is not peculiar. It is the hos? pitality of every State. When immi? grants come who are able to support themselves they are welcome, but when they come with the expectation of being supported by others they receive anything but a cordial greeting.?Augusta Chroni? cle and Constitutionalist. Equality of Arms.?After the de? cline of chivalry, when duels were no longer fought in the lists, or in the pres? ence of judges of the field, but in lonely and sequestered places, inequality of arms were not regarded, however great might be the superiority of one side. "Thou hast both a sword and a dagger," said Quelus to Antragues, as they were about to fight, "and I have only a sword." "The more the folly," was the answer, "to leave thy dagger at home ; we came here to fight, not to adjust weapons." The duel accordingly went forward, and Quelus was slain ; his left hand (in which he should have had his dagger) beingshockinglycut inattempting to par? ry his antagonists blows with that weap? on. The challenged person, having a right to choose his weapons, often en? deavored to devise such as should give him a decidedly unfair advantage Bran tome records with applause the ingenui? ty of a little man who being challenged by a tall Gascon, made choice of a gor? get, so constructed that his gigantic ad? versary could not stoop his neck so as to aim his blows right. Another had two swords forged of a temper so extremely brittle that unless used with particular caution, and in a manner he daily exer? cised himself, the blade must necessarily fly in pieces. Both these ingenious per? sons killed their man with very little risk or trouble, and with no less applause, it would seem, than if they had fought without any rule; such was the degener? ate spirit of the tiroes. ? Extract from Gen. Lee's memorial day speech in Atlanta: Once more the scene is changed, and this time the tramp of phantom cavalry is heard. So solid, so stiff, so spectral, as in column of fours, foot to foot, with cold hands clasping rigid sabres, they ride noiselessly. At their head proudly steps the splendid black horse of their leader, with arched neck and proud bearing, for he carries on his back the prince of cavaliers?the boldest and the bravest of all the brave troopers. Notice the heavy Mexican spurs that jingle upon the long riding boots, the French sabre swinging so quietly by his side, the "fighting-jacket" buttoned back, the drooping hat and black feather, the strong figure and big, brown beard, the piercing, laughing, blue eye?for before you rides dashing J. E. B. Stuart, the commander of the Confederate cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia. The soldier who rode round McClellan's army on the Richmond lines to blaze the way for Jackson. The man who went behind Pope at Catletts and who rode from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, to Lees burg, Virginia, a distance of ninety miles in thirty-six hours. Can I tell you of his behavior on the night at Fredericks burg, or at Chancellorsville, where an eye witness asserts he could not get rid of the idea that "Harry of Navarre" was present, except that Stuart's Slume was black, for everywhere, like favarrc, he was in front and the men followed "the feather," and when riding at the head of and in command of Jack? son's veterans his ringing voice could be heard high, high "above the thunder of artillery and the ceaseless roar of musketry, singing "Old Joe Hooker must come out of the wilderness." Judge Houk, who is the only Repub? lican member of Congress from Tennes? see, says that ninety percent, of the col? ored voters in his district vote the Radi? cal ticket, and asks why should it not be so in the adjacent State of Georgia? We can tell the honorable gentleman. It is because ninety per cent, of the few black voters in the mountainous district of the Judge arc either in the employ of Radi? cals or surrounded by Radical influences. The facts are the other way in Georgin. Let the negro alone and he is almost cer? tain to vote with the man who feeds him. REWARD Of M kbit.?The U. S. Gov? ernment has given not only to Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder, but to bis Spec : ial Flavoring Extracts, the preference, ! and large quantities arc shipped to its ' military posts. ? Robeson, Grant's old sea-dog, who expended several hundred millions of dollars in dwarfing our navy and crip I pling its efficiency, has become a Radi | cal lion in the House of Representatives! 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The world is full of men who have sufficient talent to get married, without possessing genius enough to support a family. ? A Sunday School hoy, ou being asked what made the tower of Pisa lean, replied, "Because of the famine in the land." ? "When shall we eat?" asks a medi? cal journal. Same as you drink, doctor, same as you drink?every time anybody asks you. ? An Oxford (Alabama) man is so close fisted that he will not advertise in the papers, but ties his card to a pig's tail and turns the grunter loose. ? It takes a pretty smart womau to do the spanking, when triplets strike up an anvil chorus about midnight, and don't you forget it.?Owego Record. ? "What grain ranks highest in your market?" a Minnesota man asked an Iowan. "Corn," replied the Jfawleyc, "nothing ranks above a kernel." ? If you were to offer $10,000 for a sewing machine that didn't take the ''first premium" at the Paris exposition, we don't suppose you could get one. ? 'Tis old but true: "Trying to do business without advertising is like wink? ing at a pretty girl in the dark?you may know what you are doing, but nobody else does." ? Jeannette?"Ma, are you going to give me another piece of pie? Ma? "What do you want to know for ?" Jean? nette?"Because if you ain't I want to cat this piece slowly." ? An editor with nine unmarried daughters was recently made justly indig? nant by the misconstruction his contem? poraries put upon his able leader on "The demand for nicu." ? "I know I am a perfect bear in my manners," said a young furmer to his sweetheart. "No indeed, you are not, John ; you have never hugged me yet ; you are more sheep than bear." ? "Little boy," said a woman to a boy who had been impudent to her, the other day, "have you a mother?" "No; but pap wouldn't marry you if there wasn't a house-keeper in the whole dogged land." ? He was about to kiss her, when sud? denly he drew back in evident alarm. "Oh, George, what is it?" said she anx? iously. "Onions," was all the reply he made as he glided on in the moonlight.? Providence Press. ? Tender-hearted mothers should give their little childen kittens to play with. It pleases the child, and then it is so nice to see a young kitten choked until its eyes bulge out like minie balls.?Slillwaler (Minn.) Gazette. ? Nothing is so painful at this season of the year, as the aisheartning spectacle of a nine-year-old hen, looking through the fence at a man digging a garden, while she exercises her rugged legs and incisive claws on the walk, just keeping in practice until the garden is ready. ? A fashionable visitor thus addressed a little girl: "How do you do, my little dear?" "Very well, I thank you," she replied. The visitor then added, "Now, my dear, you must ask me how I do." The child honestly replied, "I don't want to know." ? "Do hogs pay ?" asks an agricultu? ral correspondent. We know of some that don't. They subscribe for a paper, read it a few weeks for nothing, and then send it back to the publisher inscribed "refused." Such hogs as that pay no? body if they can help it. ? A family is like unto an equipage. First, the father, the draught horse, next, the boys, the wheels, for they are always running around; then the girls, they are surrounded by fellows; the baby ecu pies the lap-board; and the mother? well, what's a wagon without a tongue, anyhow ? ? Did you ever notice the poor chap that stands in the first picture of the al? manac, with the fish and sheep and scor Eions and bulls and twins, etc., around im? Did you ever notice that he was naked and had nothing in his stomach ? Well, that poor fellow used to edit a paper, and take his pay in "I'll pay my subscription next week." ? "For what am I," he said, in a con? versational way to his Sunday school class of little boys?"What am I but a something filled with a little air? With? out it I could, not be?would collapse in short, I'm only-" "A bladder!" was what the good little boy said. The class adjourned sine die. ? "No man shall ever kiss me except my future husband," she said, as he was about leaving her at the gate. "Suppose I agree to be your future?" "Why, then I'll kiss you," she replied, eagerly, and she did. Her mother was informed that he had proposed, and the old lady called around next day to fasten matters, and before he knew it he was eternally hook? ed. It was a mean advantage, but a bird in the hand is worth two on a frout gate. ?Binghampton Republican. For Better or Worse. The old man Bendigo keeps a pretty sharp eye on his daughter Mary, and many a would-be lover has taken a walk after a few minutes' conversation with the hard-hearted parient. The old chap is stuck this time, however, and cards arc out for a wedding. After the lucky young man had been sparking Mary for six months, the old gentleman stepped in as usual, requested a private.confab, and led off with: "You seem like a nice young man,a perhaps you are in love with Mary ?" "Yes, I am," was the honest reply. "Haven't said anything to her yet, have you?" "Well, no; but I think she reciprocates my affection." "Does, eh ? Well, let me tell you something. Her mother died a lunatic, and there is no doubt that Mary has in? herited her insanity." "I'm willing to take the chances," re? plied the lover. "Yes, but you see Mary bos a terrible temper. She has twice drawn a knife on me with intent to commit murder." "I'm used to that?got a sister just like her," wastheaDswer. "And you should know that I have sworn a solemn oath not to give Mary a cent of my property," continued the fa? ther. "Well, I'd rather start in poor and build up. There's more romance in it." The old man had one more shot in his carbine, and he said : "Perhaps I ought to tell you that Ma? ry's mother ran away from my home with a butcher, aud that all her rela? tions died in the poor house. These things might be thrown up in after years, and I now warn you." "Mr. Bendigo," replied the lover, "I've heard all this before, and also that you were on trial for forgery, had to jump Chicago for bigamy, and served a year in State prison for cattle stealing. I'm going to marry into your family to give you a decent reputation! There?no thanks?good-bye!" Mr. Bendigo looked after the young man with his mouth wide open, and when he could get his jaws together he said: "Some infernal hyena has gone and given me away ou my dodge!"