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By g. 13. MURKAY & CO. M>r AI IT liri I : fiUDlun - ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1883. VOLUME XVIII. -NO. ?UV HEYN is rc? ?t?'YiM 1 3? THE CITY OF ANDERSON A BOOMING. rtrK besrof th? Cotton Factory, tb? sew Court H.ms,., the Railroad, and other evi U dence* of prosperity, but wc already have established thc important enterar? /BEEP* WfcBB, The Finest Grocery Store in the Up-Country. Tbrr keep everything tho heart could wish to satisfy the inner man. Their enter- 1 ?Jj, a pleasure to all, and their Increasing patronage requires continuous .rivals of ?rdl (?"DDS. They have just received largo lots of lt>b- The finest Patent and Choice Family flours Hot Coffees, Teas and Sugars, Choice Hams. Breakfast Strips. Smoked Beef, Uolotrne S ttisneo Pigs Feet, Pickled Beef. Buckwheat Flours. b ?ausagc, Cholee Syrups, Canned doods of all kinds ..oj!'tup?eteStock of the best FANCY GROCERIES. - Wes?? for Cash at *'"<>rt profits, and deliver everything in the City FREE Respectfully, REED & WEBB, ! Heed's New lilllldluff, near Railroad Kridgc. i toMWM _ g_ an_h ANDREW Sc PREVOST [ Aje Still on the Square, at the same old Stand, and are Sell- i ing Goods as Low as any House in the City. ?TE have s complete line of SPRING (?OOHS on the way. consist inc of CALICOES 1 )) NUTIONS, CASSIM ERES, COTTON A DES, SHOES, HATS, 4? which we 1 I fliill be pleased to show all. ( OUR GROCER I* DEPARTMENT is full. The best Sugars, Coffees, Teas and ! ! fc-Adowls at nil prices, and satisfaction guaranteed. Everything delivered free in- I ?CiK limits. I ' Ttl'FARMERS.-We are still agents for the Celebrated CHAMPION REAPEB AND ! HUB. Testimonials from all over the County that it is thc Machine for farmers ^ fifi'.l take pleasure in showing and explaining our Machine. Terms liberal. ' ? I HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS ON HAND, itiwldlow on Cotton Option. A few tons of KAINIT left. Call early. Expecting to i IcjCottoti'.this Fall, we would respectfully ask one all to give us a showing. ! ANDREW & PREVOST, DEPOT STREET. Much 1.1883 27 wm---" i WHAT IS THIS I HEAR ? i THAT \ CJLiJ&JEUSL &> co. Have the Best Goods for the Least Money ! WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FINE LINE OF- j SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, li;?dtothe wants of all-Boys, Youths, Young Men and Old. Also, a very due as- 1 ntemtof UNDERWEAR-such as Shirts, Drawers, Collars and Cravats. Also, a ] Lt Morlment of WORSTED DIAGONALS, SUITINGS. CLOTHS and CASSI RBES, which we arc prepared to make up in the very latest stvles, and will spare no |ta,either in Cutting or Fitting, that we may thereby please those who will favor tis riltheir patronage. Coll before purchasing elsewhere and be convinced. 1 Pay last year's account and save costs. ' CLARK Sc CO. i JOHN W. DANIELS, Proprietor. i ?uch 22. 1883 .'Ki FERTILIZERS FOR 1883 ! J JAM still selling the well-known brands of Fertilizers and Acid Phosphates, to wit : Eutaw Fertilizer, Excellenza Fertilizer, Temassee Fertilizer and Eutaw and Ashepoo Acid Phosphates. fr CALL AND SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. My Stock of General Merchandise ls Complete ! Such as suits the Wants of thc people generally. ?wys on hand FLOUR, BACON. SUGAR, co^^EE MOLASSES, ?c. FULL STOCK OF DRY GOODS. NOTIONS, SHOES, BOOTS, HATS, CAPS, HARDWARE, CUTLERY. CROCKERY and GLASSWARE, Ac. W Call al No 10 Granite Row. W. IT. BARR. _frb g. 1833_32 TTJVLES OZHZ-A-lSra-IEJ AND MEN CHANCE WITH THEM, ASD that is tho reason we have just laid in A LARGE STOCK OF NEW GOODS, g for we know that all our oustomers desire something that is new sud at the ?ame ?"fcrriceable. Our Stock comprises a fine assortment of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, NOTIONS, HARDWARE, GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC., aoT1.*9 wiU mU at the Lowest Prices. While other things aro changing, we would jutt weare too young to change our plan of offering good and substantial Bargains favor aa with a trial. WE ARE IN THE COTTON MARKET, WWIgive the highest prices. We have a large lot of BAGGING and TIES on wt our prices before closing a trade. _ +im BBpwrr BEOS. E.W. MARSHALL * CO., Greenville, S. C. Greenville, 8- C. -o-' ^WVITE ALL THE ANDERSON PEOPLE TO CALL AND INSPECT THE LARGEST 8T0CK OF Di? HS and Notions, Dry Goods ami Notions, ^?BOWN IN THE UP-COUNTRY, which we offer to the trade and consumers WHOLESALE AND RETAIL., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. fefrct of our soiling Goods both for wholesale and retail will enable us to offer ? maana! low prices to the consumers. Read a few of our prices : i&SSM1? Calicocs, only.$1.00 10 yds. Mattress Tick.?? 00 ffifiS?* Calicoes, only..... 1.00 8 yds. good Tick...... J-Jg .S? CaUcocs, onlyZ 1.00 0 yds. Feather Tick.......... j-OJ B&SS^ Bleaching, only. 1.00 6 yds. extra Feathor Tick. {.00 starch and a full yard wide. 12 yds. Drilling... l w l?5 2rSSr ?"S.* ?P?I?Htles is our Celebrated Troy Clly ?hirto, whichare selb I ?Wn??2d,?" "aeon Is, because thev are 25 per cent, cheaper than Shirts of tbe W??n*?,bo bought elsewhere. ^ worth 75c tsajS'?l'nen-front Unlanndred Shirt for.50c- Zf? ?lB??nen???n* Laundred Shirt for.^J2f? W??2 * nen-h-ont Reinforced Laundred Shirt for.'Sc-, wortb J.w. "?Isllnen-front Reinforced Unlanndred Shirt for.76c., worth 1.00. ^??wDr^?,aood3 wI>1 b0 unusually attractive this 8priW?J???U^hy2? ^r^9. Pekln's Stripes, Lace Goods, Nun's Veiling?, Buntings, ?aa?mer?, *S W0W"nAP- K-'?. ?tc-, o". We have the largest, bestv?f^V*?if?ufa?s thu ?a^SSSS!?* Goods ever shown in the up country, and beg ?ll to call and se? mis *S?lyou ft M*quotation on Dress Goods next month. So don t buy untu ROfrK^?S I-, Ribbons, Buttons, Handkerchief*. White ^^S^^^^^'^onn yo? cn JndWsto?. 8o?j? ?. Col,? ri"ember. we sell strictly for Cash, and are next to Ferguson <s Miller, just. ?w Court House. - ri rt E. W. 1SABSHAIX & CO., I****,ia* . " Greenville, 8,Q. A TEXAS SCRAPE. BY SANDY HIUGINS, Vi lille 1 wa? a young man, I wai once Belied with a strong desire to see some Hiing of the great West, like a great many other youngsters who have wild oats to sow. Accordingly, I scraped up wnat I thought was money enough to last a man around the earth, and to texas I went, feeling as huge a? Bona parte dui before the battle of Waterloo out u wasu't long till I felt like the same gentleman after ?aid battle, for 1 spent my money like it grew on trees and in a month after I got ibero I had but one dollar :n my pocket. Hero was a bx that I didn't exactly ?ec tnv way out ot without going to work, aud you all know I was never fond of that busi ness, as long as there waa any other chance to keep from starving or stealing. After studying the matter in all its points, I went to au old friend from the States, who had been in Texas for a num- ! ber of years, and stated the caso to him. "Do you want to make some money easy ?" aaid ile. .'Do I look much liko a fool ?" was the reply. "Perhaps the les* said about that, the better," he replied, "but no matter. If you'll gather upadrovo of beeves and drivo them to New Orleans you can double your money on them without much trouble." "That's good advice to a youug mau ! who basr.'l got money enough to buy a lick puppy," said I, for 1 thought he ' was making sport of my troubles, aud : that didn't suit my taste much better than going to work ; but he explained that he would furnish tho cattle and two ! [hovers, and give me a sharo of the profits. I took up that oller without j any more argument, and told him to trot DUI his cows and I was ready. Getting ; , jp a drove of beeves was a small job in j i that country, and in two or three days lie had a hundred as fine ones as were j ? i-ver butchered. Myoid friend provided j me with a mustang puny, a pair of Span ish spurs, and a whip with a thong fif teen or twenty feet long, with which a i Texan drover could play Yankee Doodle around a cow's head, but which ^as as i strange to me as an Australian boome- i rang. 1 knew the blamed thing would be i as much trouble to mc as a young ele phaut, but it wouldn't do to confess any ignorance in the matter, so we set off iii i liigh spirits, I feeling like I was on the I road to fortune, and bound to make the i moat of it. Well, we progressed finely for a few i miles, and then one of the best steers i look it iuto Iiis fool head to go lo the j woods, and to the woods he went, like the t ?ld boy was at his tail. I thought htre < waa a good c'.ance to show my skill, so I 1 turned my pony's head in that direction ] md away we went, leaving the two drovers i to manage tba herd. My mustang, ] Icnowiug what was required of Lim, soon j >vertook the brute, aud if I had known t bow to use my whip there could have I been no difficulty in getting him back, ? jut a pop gun would have been of more t use to me than that thing was. Some- f low I couldn't get it off of me. Every time I tried to hit the Bteer, two or three i ?..ards of the thing would wind around i my neck while the lash was all the time tryiDg to play the devil's jig in my eyes. 1 finding, after a few effort*, that I waa i nore likely to choke myself io death < han to accomplish anything else, I gave ?j t up for a bad job, and devoted my whole ? mention to staying in the saddle, and t hat kept me ns busy aa a blind mule in t i yellow-jacket's neat, for the pony kept i lodging ab out after the steer and it re- t [iiired a neat job of balancing to stay -, in him. i suppose the race lasted four 1 ir five miles, and then I politely con- < igued the brute to old Nick, and gave i ip the chase. But in the meantime wo < tad wound about till I knew no more < tbout tbe way back than I did to the . ? i Ly of Timbuctoo, and rambled about t br two or three hours without getting i iny nearer out of the wood?, apparently, i han I was at first. i At length, tired, hungry and co ;dcr- i tbly demoralized, I saw smoke rising at < i distance, and mado a bee line for it, f [bough I didn't know whether it was | nade by white folks or Indians, but I I thought i had as well be crippled as i starved. I soon came to a little log cab o, and when I called at the gate, a good : ookiog woman came to the door and in? , rited me in. In I went, hoping to get lomething to eat, and directions back to he road at least. Almost the first thing , [ saw was a baked chicken and a loaf of ?read in a plate on the table, and while , [ was telling ber all I knew, and several hiugs that I didn't know, I kept my eye >D the plate, like a cat watching a mouse. The more I looked at it the hungrier I jecame, until I'll be hanged if I couldn't ictually taste it. I was hungry, and no liscount about it, and after standing it. is long as I could I proposed to buy the irovender, but she said it was all she lad, and Bhe couldn't part with it. I old her that all the money I bad in the world was one Mexican dollar, which I ihowed ber, and that I would freely give t for tbe fowl and bread, but I might as well have been whistling at a spot on a ay-bird's tail for all I made by-it. lindie? tbsre was nothing to be made in thal~way, I asked her to direct me to themain road, and got up to take my leave, but before I reached the door, abo Inquired : "Stranger, can you jump?" "Like a bull-frog," said I. "Well," she replied, "I'll bet you the victuals against the dollar that I can out ?ump you." .... "At it we go !" said I, going to the door. "Stop," said she, "and put your money on the plate." "Good for you," sam I, and laying the dollar alongside the rations, I went to the door, made a big effort and lumped about a rod. By the time I struck the ground the door was closed, and I found myself out of doors, without supper or dollar ""Here's the devil 1" thought I, as I beard ber making the door fast inside. Then she came to a little window about the size of my bat and began laughing at "Hand out my money, madam," said I "or jump." ' "Not if I know it," said she ; I'm not a good band at jumping anyway." "What in the dingnation did you bet for?" I asked. "To win," said abe. "I'll have my dollar or the victuals, said I, for I was getting mad. "You'll get neither,'rsaid, she, but if you don't clear out from here you ll catch worse-that'a all." When she said that, I deliberately went to the fence, put a Btout rail on my ahoulder, and started back. "What are you up to now 7 sne en quired. J "I'll turn that domed cabin over, said I, "if sou don't give me back my money." "Il you don't clear out from here, I II make Bull bite yon," said she. "Brast Bull and you too," I roared, for I kept on getting madder. When I said ?bat she called 6uT, "Here, Bull," and from under the house crept a dog aa big as a year old calf, evidently half wolf and tho other half hyena, grinning; like ? he'd found an old friend and looking j very much as if he'd like to eat up some i gentleman. I confesa that i'm not much at lighting dogs and the next thing I did was to throw down my rail and get on my pony as soon as possible. When she ! saw me start off she called out. "Come back, my friend, if you please." Thinking she had been poking fun at j me, and wa* now going to give me back my money, I bitched my mustang and ! started back to the house, stepping tall | and fait, but just ns 1 got to the rail I . had thrown down she ordered me to 1 halt : "What in thunder do von want now?" I a>ked. "Just pick up thc rail and put it righi back where you found it !" said she. "I'll see you in-first, and the in fernal rail on top of you," was my an swer. "Take hold of him, Hull?" said she, and out caine the dog again, happy to see mc I've no doubt. ? iooked nt the rail ; then at my horse, and then at Bull, and the result of my investigations was that I picked up the rail and laid it on the fence in thc most orderly manner possible. "Now, Mr. Cow-driver," said she, 'you bad better get that mustang bet ween your leg>. ami travel, or you'll hear bad news," Not thinking of any suitable answer lo thal remark, I took her advice, cussing the steer, and the woman, and Texas, and everybody else. If any of you think I wasn't mad, you'd better go and try it yourself. Hy this time the sun was down, and before I got a half a mile from tho house, I heard n wolf howl, and presently another. That helped my feeling a great deal-in ii horn-aud I commenced thinking us fast as a buck could run down hill, and the result of mv thinking was that I'd put myself to a heap of trouble, and traveled a long ways to die a fool's death in the woods. I had sense enough to know that it wouldn't do to ride in that country after dark, and while 1 was wandering how lo get out of the scrape, I came to au old mill, that the woman had told me about. Thinking that would bo a good place to make a stand, I tied my pouy in au old stable, and went into the house. It was a shabby looking adair, without >tny door shutter, but it was better than being jut in the woods, so I looked Mound for a ?afe place to sleep. I finally decided to go up and get into tho hopper, which was nearly as large as i wagon body, and was some eight feet from the lower floor, so I crawled into it, ipread my blanket over me, and prepar ed to make the best of it. If I had just liad some whisky-and supper, I felt like [ could have done finely, but as I bad neither, I felt like one of the lost sheep ['ve heard of. Well dark came on, and I was nearly asleep, when I heard a whis le, in the direction I had come, and ooking out, 1 saw a light coming slowly lowu the hill. Presently there was mother whistle, which was answered rom nu opposite direction. "Now, I'd bet a dollar, if I had one," laid I, "that the old tumble down house s haunted, and they'll have me, sure." If I had known anything about ku tlux, I would have sworn I bad stumbled uto a den of them. As it was. I thought >i Alonzo and Melissa, and the three Spaniards, and Rinaldo, and Blue Beard, iud Beveral other pleasant subjects, till I :ould feel the hopper shake like it had aken a buck ague, and I was really ifraid I would shake it down. While bis was going on, in came the woman vho had seen my skill at jumping and Kindling fence rai h., with a candle in ; >ne hand and a plate in the other, and n thc plate was thc same fowl and bread, ind my dollar, all of which she put down in the floor. While I was wondering if ihe was going to feed Ibo devil or bait he old mill to catch ghosts, in came a ? nan who looked like a second edition of , sampson, und took a seat by ber. For- , u nntely for me she put the candi? behind i box, which left me completely in the . lark and I began to think lhere was a mall chance for me after all. The first i hing the man saw was the dollar, and , ie inquired how she came by it, when ihe told the story und such a laugh I lever heard. It fairly shook tho house, ind I would have given my blanket for a matice to lam their two heads together a ew timen. When he had laughed his fill, they :ommenccd talking very low, but I could lear enough to know that he wo? hiding ?ut for some crime or other, and that she i ed bim regularly. That didn't make ne feel any safer, but I might have got >fl' very well, if I hadn't been a natural ? bol, as everybody knows. I waa so inxious to know what they were talking 1 ibout that I forgot the sense I was born vi th, and peeped over the edge of the lopper, to hear what they said. The lext thing I knew, over went me and i he hopper ia a pile, coming down on .he floor with a noise like the house had urned over, nearly knocking out my fool Hains in the opctation. It would have jeen rich to an outsider, but we three .vere not prepared to enjoy it just then. The man took a running start on bis all Tours and run over the candle, while tho woman hung to him, screaming that '.be thing bad her and out of the house they event white I groaned and grunted like a nan with the tooth-ache determined to y i v o them a good scare while I was at it. I ?ould hear them going up the bill, mak ing as much noise as a drove of buffaloes, ind as soon as I found out that I wasn't more than half killed, I took charge of the victuals and money, and got out of the place as fast as possible. I reflected that the man might raise a crowd of out laws and come back and hang me sure snougb, so I decided that I bad rather risk the wolves, and accordingly I got on my mustang, and made tracks. By good hick I soon found the main road and hadn't gone but a little ways till I found the drovers, who had penned the cattle, and were waiting for me. I had no other particular nd venture during the trip, but i've bad many a good laugh over tba icare I gave the "ghosts." A Soft Answer Turueth Away Wrath. On the Greenville train coming into Columbia the other day was a newly married couple, the bride appearing to be about twenty-five years old and the groom being a drapper little chap a year or two younger. A lady who came aboard at Newberry took a seat just ahead, and after a few minutes she heard the pair criticising her bonnet and cloak and general style. Without showing the least resentment in her countenance, she turned around in her seat and said : "Madam, will you have your son close the window bohind you ?" The "son" closed his mouth instead and the "madam" didn't giggle for sixteen m il es.- Columbia Register. - The first discoverer of dynamite was Ascagne Sobrero. Nitric and sulphuric acid, mixed in certain proportions witb glycerine, make nitro-glycerine, which, put with some absorbent material-full* er's earth or rotten stone-makes dyna mite. STICKING TO THE OM). Couple Who Cannot Hoop Step to th? Music of Timo. Ait tho world grows older maukind be- ! comes more liberal in opinion and less wedded to prejudice and superstition. We rub against ono another so close nowadays, and talk to much and read so much that our conceit is weakening, and we think more and think deeper than we used to, and are more ready to absorb knowledge. A man don't dare nowa days to say anything is impossible, for many impossibilities have already been performed, and we now live in a state of anxious expectation as to what big thing will come next. Still, there are some folks who stubbornly refuse to fall into line, and they stand by tho old land marks. Not long ago I passed by a blacksmith shop away nfl' in tho country and there was a horse doctor cutting the hooks out of a horse's eyes to keep him from going blind, and he got very indig nant when I told him that tho horse books were all against it, and said it ought to be prohibited by law. I heard an old hardshell arguing against this idea tit?, the world turned over every day, and he declared it was against com mon sense and Scripture, and ne wouldnt let his children go to achoo] ?-o lon rn auy Buch nonsense, for he knowed that the water would all split out if you turned it upside down, and the Scripters said that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and it stood still, and he asked me how I was going to get over the like of that. I saw that the crowd was against mo and so I replied: "Jesso. Jesso, my friend. And right then the wonderful change took place. The sun used to go around the earth, of course, but Joshua stopped it and he never set it to going again and it is there yet." This weakened the old man a little and unsettled tho crowd, and I got away from there prematurely for fear the old man would send for Iiis Bible. Answer a fool according to his folly is a good way sometimes. Dr. Harden told me about bia father raising a rumpus a long time ago in old Watkiusville by asserting that all horses had botts in 'em, and it was according to naturo and the botts were not a disease, and a horse never died on account of 'em. Old man Moore kept the tr.vern there and ho swore that Har den waa a luniack and so one day when they wero playing checkers in the tavern a storm carno up and a terrible crash was heard, and pretty soon a darkey came running in the house and told his mas ter that the lightning had struck his iron grey horse and killed him. Old man Moore thought an much of that horse ns be did of bis wife, and the crowd all hurried out to the lot to see him. Moore was greatly distressed and used bad language about thc catastrophe, and after he subsided a little, "Harden," says be, "now Moore if you say no I'll cut open that horse aud show you 'the botts, and I reckon that will settle it." So Moore agreed to it, and when be was open ed, and the botts bogit. to cut their way out and worm around, Harden looked at Moore with triumphant satisfaction and paused for a reply. M . ure had his hands crossed behind his back und was gazing intently at the ugly varmints, when sud denly he exclaimed. "Harden, I was powerfully mad with the lightning for killing old Selim, but I ain't now, for if the lightning hadent struck bim I'll be damned if them infernal botts wouldnt have killed him in thirty minutes." Moore had a ?big fighting stump tail dog by the name of Ratler and one day a little Italian come along with au organ and a monkey and as the crowd gathered around he asked the man i/ bis monkey could fight. "Ob, yes; he fight," said the Italian. "Will be fight a dog?" said Moore. "Oh, yes; he fight dog-be whip dog quick," Baid the Italian. Moore pulled out a five dollar bill and said, "I'll bet you this that I've got a dog he can't whip." The little fellow covered it with another five and the money was handed over ts r. stakeholder' and they went through to the back yard, . followed by half the folks in the little town. There lay the dog on the grass < asleep, and at the word the Italian tossed the monkey upon him. In ?ess than a j i Hey the little brute bad bis teeth and his claws fastened like a vice in the stump of that dog's tail and was screeching like i a hyena. The dog gave but. one aston ished look behind as he bounced to his feet and made tracks for another country. Tho monkey held on until Rattler i sprung over a ten-rail fence at tho back of the garden when he suddenly quit his hold and set on thc top rail, ana matched the dog's flight with a chatter ot' perfect , satisfaction and danced along too rail with delight. The crowd was convulsed. They laughed and roared and hollered tumultuously, all but old man Moore whose voice could be beard above *dl i others as he stood upon the fence and shouted, "Here Ratler here, here; Here Rs'.'er, here ; Here Ratler, here." But Kat.er wouldnt hear. Baller rattled on and on, across field after field, until be got to the woods and was gone, from hu man sight. The little Italian shouldered his monkey affectionately, and walking up to Moore said : "Your dog not well to-day ; maybe your dog gone to bum r/.bbect. Your dog no like roy monkey -be not acquaint. Maybe ven I amo again next year he come back and fight some more. Ven you look for heem to come back ?" Moore gave up the wager, but he asserted solemnly that Battler would have whipped the fight if he hadn't have run. "The surprise was what done it," ssid he, "for that dog hss whipped wild cats and a bear and a ehe wolf and every dog in ten mites of Wat kinsville." And sll thst evening and sway in the night and early next morn ing an inviting mournful voice could be beard at the back of the garden calling "Ratler, Here, Ratler, here," and three days after a man brought Ratler home, but be bad lost his integrity, and never could be induced to fight anything more. Some men never give up a thing, and some give up too much. Judge Bleckley saya that he is in the cautious, credulous ?tate about everything, and j uni! ?ve? .long serenely and waits for events. He aays that if a maa can hear the voice of a friend from New York to Boston by the aid of a telephone, why shouldn't ali the other senses be aided in like manner by norna invention, and bints thst he wouldn't be surprised at an invention that would enable a man to kiss his wife across the Atlantic ocean. I don't think that follows to reason, for bearing and aeeing are both for distance and so is smelling, but feeling is a very different thing. It never was intended to feel afar off, and so I don't believe that any good would have come of a mao kissing his wife through a machine a tbouaand miles long. It would be very dangerous, for it might encourage folks to be kissing other people's wives, and the machine would be kept busy sll tbe time, for there are tome men who couldn't be choked off, and by and by the whole world would be kissing one another, snd business would be neglected snd mankind would come to want. Bnt I do believe that everything will come that ought to come. Nature nas a mighty big storehouse, and she always Atlanta Qmttitution. u'.?ockH it al the right time. She is very economical of her treasures, and keeps 'em from us until she sees that we are obliged to have 'em. Cotton didn't come, nor cotton machinery, until the world was had off for clothing. The scwiug machine come along just ns the poor women were about worn out and Tom Hood bsd written his sad, sweet "Song of the Shirt." Coal was found when wood got scarce in thc old world. Rail roads and steamship? were invented as \ population increased, and now we couldnt possibly do without em. Old Peter Cooper said that a million of people would perish in New York city in ono j month if the cars were to atop running that long. Then came tho telegraph, and now the telephone, and I don't think j any other very big thing will happen roon, for mankind is very comfortable, I and don't need it, so !et us all rest awhile , and let Darno Nature rest. She hos been very kind to lier creatures and we ?ll ought to be thankful. DIM. A nr. Incombustible Wood. Many attempts havo recently been made to deprive wood of one of iu most dungcrous properties, ila too great liabil ity to completo destruction by fire. To this end firo-proof paints, artificial petri fication and filling of the pores of the wood with Incombustible substances have been employed ; none of theso attempts have so fur, however, had a satisfactory result, and r.'l hopos had nearly bf*en given up of ever producing incombustible wood. Thc high price of the material employed was likewise a reason for de sisting from further attempts. (See Hol ley's Technology of Wood and Gollge trew's Building Materials.) Mr. II. Hoff, Professor of Chemistry at tho Stale College in Jaroslaw in Galicia, hos occupied himself since 1878 with the production of incombustible ..nod, aud his unceasing trials have resulted in ena bling him to produce in a cheap and easy manner a wood not only uninflammable but even iucomhustible. We enumerate in the following the excellent qualities of luis wood : Incom bustibility at high degrees of heat (tem perature when glass uieltB), whereby it neither burns with a flame nor brightly glows, generates no suffocating gases or smoke, and gives out but little neat ; a glow on the surface in the open air, os well as in a strong current, without burn ing or -' 'ing thereby, but extinguish ing nu.^ontarily. When exposed to great heat for a length of limo thero re main no ashes, hut a compact coal which does not burn. At the same degree of beat wherein the incombustible wood shows the above mentioned properties zinc sheets meit in seven seconds ; slate breaks into pieces,* tiles become glazed, and felt for roofs burns with a bright flame. Besides this tho lost mentioued roofing materials offer no protection whatever in case of fire breaking out from the iniide, because they arc fasten ed upon boards. The chemicals necessary for the pro duction of the ?incombustible wood con sists of the cheapest refuse of industrial establishments, which the present indus try absorbs. The process of manufactur ing is simple and cheap, whereby the price of a cubic meter of incombustible wood will be raised only a small uart nf a fraction, and may be produced in all dimensions. This makes it accessible to all classes of tho population. Tho shingles made from this incom bustible wood have a pleasing appear ance, resembles tiles, are cheaper and safer against fire than felt, zinc sheela, eke, and since the process preserves the wood, last from twenty five to thirty years. On considering the qualities of Huffs incombustible wood and ita beneficial re sults for the safety of life, property, buildings, manufactories, ships, furniture and instruments, the invention may justly be regarded as one of the most use ful of our century, and we can only hope that incombustible) wood will soon he rendered accessible to us in any desired quantity. In another article it is said : Tho arti cle which appeared iu No. 14 of our pa per, headed "Incombustible Wood," gave us occasion to have a specimen of this wood, which waa sent UB, examined by an authority and the following was the opinion which we received : _ "I bave made trials to day with tho 'incombustible wood,' and must confess that it answers the purpose in every re spect. When exposed to tho flame of a blowpipe it proved to bo uninflammable, and it was only with difficulty that the edges could for a time be brought lo a glow. The production of smoke is ex ceedingly small, and the turfing to coal takes place very slowly. It is greatly to be desired that this excellent invention, in the interest of life and property, should find its way into the widest cir cles.-O. B." We were also present at au examina' tion of Hoff's wood made by an expert of European fame in the presence of lead ing engineers, and must own that the results obtained regarding incombusti bility and power of resisting heat Bur passed our expectations, especially when we saw that this wood, when exposed to s heat wherein glass melts, generated scarcely any combustible or suffocating gases. In spite of all exertions it could not be brought to a flame, and the beat which it gave out waa so lillie that we were able to bold our finger close to the spot exposed to the flame. It surpasses in this respect, althongb an organic body, several metals, the melting, temperature of which is from 600 degrees to 800 degrees. Comparative trials with other roofing materials employed until now, as for in stance zinc, slste, felt snd tiles, confirm the destruction of the materials by tbe beat, and in s time when Hoff's wood showed but slight changes and remained aa hard coal after exposure to a long glow. The various consequences which the application of Hoirs wood will have upon building in general space forbids us to enumerate, but we hope sincerely thst since Hoff's wood bss psssed the ordeal by fire so well, showing itself to be an [ inestimable and indispensable building material, public authorities will have their attention drawn towards it and make ita adoption s law wherever securi ty of life and property appear threatened by wood. After the day a labor we may then sleep without fear.- - Translation of an article appearing in the Oerwrbe Zei tung of Henna, dated July 16, 1882. - "Uncle John," said little Emily, "do you know thst s baby that wss fed ! on elephant's milk gained twenty pound , in one week?" "Nonsense I impossible 1'' exclaimed Uncle John, and then he ask ed, "Whose baby wes it?" "The ele phant's," said '.be little girl. IIAYEBVII.LT;, OHIO, Feb. ll, 1880. . I am very glad to ssy I bsve tried Hop Bitters, snd never took anything that did me as much good. I only took two bot tles and I would not take $100 for the good they did me. I recommend them to roy patients, and get the best results from their use. O. B. Blncotft, M. D. Tl io Rosto? Exposition. Cvrreipvwlence of the Xcw* und CutirU r. COI.UMWA, April 25.-At the ^ugges tion of Commissioner Butler Coi. S.A. Pearce, tho president of the Columbia Hoard of Trade, nonie time ago addressed the secretary of tho New England Man ufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute of Boston in relation to the spiicc which it was thought that South Carolina would require in thu Exposition building for her display. A letter has been received from Mr. V. \V. Griffin, secretary of the Instituto, in which bc says : "When tho committee from tho Insti tute, of which I was one, stopped in Co lumbia last November wo considered tho matter of thc acceptance of tho invita tion as definitely settled, aud picked up an impression Honiewherc that what re mained to be done was ?imply tn carry out tho details of tho collecting anil arranging ol the exhibit. Accordingly we rated South Carolina ns representing so much work done which would, in time, enure to the benefit of tho people of the State and -of Now England. Il would bo a very great disappointment to tho neoplo of this part of the world if Suntu Carolina should not put in an ap pearance and, therefore, 1 can promise you every assistance which I am cnpable of achieving, lu response lo your sug. gestion that I should write to Col. Huller concerning space, I would say timi tho matter wa? so talked while we were in Columbia, and, nuder dato of February 9lh Inst, I wrote bim among other things in thc following words : Our proposition to the South in a business point of view is briefly to furnish tho soveral StnteB constituting it ample space in tho most desirable location possible in this build ing. Il is proposed to reserve entirely for tho use of tho Southern States the central portion of the main floor, as ia tho judgment of the management thc most desirablo portion of the building, though if any Stute should entertain v different opinion there in no objection to its being gratified in some other plact deemed more desirable. It is proper foi mo to add that tho Instituto charge: nothing for Bpace, and that in the no improbable event of its being necessary to erect annexes, thia will not fall to in vitcd States, for whose accommodation, i necessary, tho whole building is reserved But though this language would seem t< bo explicit, I think thal il may be well nevtbeless. again to suggest tho idea, as ii may not have been kept in mind. Wt certainly shall not fail to reserve a spaci for South Carolina's exhibit until tin very laBt hope of it is destroyed." Cul. 1'earco has received, since th Board of Agriculture decided not t< make i ? exhibit, another letter from Mr (?riiliii which indicates that the Institut has not yet lost hope of South Carolina und which suggests a mode of actio which will be resorted to rather than thu the State should bo unrepresented. Mi (lrillin Hays : "The extraordinary action ul the boar of agriculture, iu declining to make a exhibit with us contrasts KO strange! with that of the neighboring State c North Carolina, which has appropriate $10,000 for that purpose, ns to induce u here to believe that the board must b laboring under some fatal error in til i regard. On Wednesday next I leave fe St. Louis to attend to sonic burliness, an on fiuishing it it hus occurred to me th; I, accompanied perhaps by an associa t< would make it in my way to come to Ct lumbia if I could be of any possibl assistance. It seems lo me that the luci organisations-particularly the Hoard < Trade of South Carolina-might inuugi rate on their own account som elli in which would have thu effect of citht stimulating tho State tu exertion, or i doing what the State should do. Tl fact is we ari vory much disappoint ed nt Iming Smith Carolina." I think these letters show the siluntir. in Boston, and that tho New Enghtndc aro in earnest in their invitation nu don't gi ve us up yet. Tho Act creatir the department of agriculture express! authorized it to make exhibits al Sta aud National expositions, but ono mer ber of the board waa deterred by th very authorization, for he contended tb the New England Exposition was neilh State nor National. If it is not tecun cally a State fair nor a National one, tl people of South Carolina, at leant, nred rect and untechnical enough to consid it an exhibition partaking of the natu of both. Thc Legislature in creating tl board surely did not anticipate nor i tend that by its own words tho Sta should be debarred from participation the benefit.", of mich an exposition as thi which is infinitely greater than any Sta fair. The people, after all, will have act for themselves. (Jetting Ready for (?lory. NEW ORLEANS, April 28.-Tho rece terrible cyclone in Mississippi bas bs taken advantage of by a shrewd i negro woman named Martha Hugos, w aays she is called by the Lord to i nounce the coming of the end of I world in the wreck of mutter and loss souls not enrolled in the churches of I Lord, lo all of which tho Wes? cyclone WSB a forerunner. The coloi fireachers have closed their churches 1er, and she delivers ber harangues the open air by tho side of camp fit where she is surrounded by thousands followers. All the negroes around Jackson i demoralized. They aro quitting wt and getting ready the garments wh they are to ascend to glory, under I pilotage of the dusky Martha. T prophetess of evil IR about 60 years ano weighs about fifteen stone. She c ries a huge shepherd's staff* and nc omits taking up a collection. The ret lar colored clergy are greatly scandali and are talking about causing the ? man's arrest. Released After Eight Years. ST. LOUIH, April 26.-Charles P. Kri the prisoner who has been in jail el years aud three months and bas b tried five times for the murder of sweetheart, Dora Broemser, on Janu 4, 1875, was released to-day on bal $3,000. When Kring was committed jail he was a stout and handsome fel of nearly 200 pounds weight. He i weighs 120, ano is so weak that he ( not wal'- 100 yards without sicking fi exhaustion. He has been outside of jail only three times since he was c milted-once to have his photogr taken for a book he had published i loss of $1,200, and twice to see his <3 Bittier and to attend her funeral. Sr* tag to-day of his first visit to the oi world, be said : "The sensation was i peculiar. It was very like that of a pe who is swinging high. I experience light, fluttering feeling about the b and a certain giddiness. This wai 1881, and was tue first time I had i earth or sky, grass or trees or housi six years. The only changes I have periencod have been from one ce another." Kring*s lungs aro sev? affected, and it ts doubtful wbetho will survive hb changed conditio Hie many weeks. Is ft Cold ft Fever? Tho theory that colds aro tho result of exposure to cold or damp air is generally accepted. Indeed, most persons afnicted with this disorder aro ablo to trace its origin, satisfactorily to themselves at lea?t, to some undue or unusual contact with outside air. They seek no other ex planation. In the colums of the Popu la,- Science Newt Dr. Page, of Biddeford, Me., undertakes to show tho fallacy of such a courso of reasoning. That his theory is now to most people is no proof thal it will not hold good. Having made thc subject of cobbi a special study for ten years, he concludes that tho ailment which is universally called A cold is in reality a fever, and is directly caused by indigestion or impure uir. Ho says : "Foul air prevents the purification of tho blood ; hence tho accumulation of impu rities which in their exit gave rise to the symptoms popularly supposed to indi cate cold. Hot living-rooms render im possible the digestion of moro than a little food, and that of the plainest sort, by mnking only a little necessary.. Indi gestion result? from eating improper food or some degree ot excess, tho excess being either positive or relative, accord ing (1) us the skin is moro or less swel tered with clotting, (2) tho lungs more or less outraged hy bad air, and (?) tho entire organism less or more invigorated by fresh and cold air. lt is unquestion ably true that when, by reason of wrong conditions, tho system has become ill conditioned-when, that is, there are impuro matters to eliminate-some chance exposure to a bracing atmosphere may so invigorate the organism by the presence of fresh air in tho lungs and ita touch upon the skin, that the process of elimination begins, and but for the return to thc close, over heated atmosphere of thc home this process would often he completed all unconsciously to the indi vidual, who now makes tho grc&t mistake of'confounding tho causo of his recovery with the cause of his disease.' " Dr. Page is not in favor of wearing more clothing than is consistent with physical comfort. Is it not evident, he asks, that the less clothing we wear and the more wo aro exposed to cold the nearer wo are carried, metaphorically speaking, to the polar regions, where "surfeit fever" is unknown ? And are not these the conor.ions, ho adds, which stimulate the digestive system by creat ing a legitimate demand for a greater portion of the excess which we are always under temptation to swallow? Ho notes instances where his own pa tients have "taken cold" by "putting on their winter flannels," ana sarcastically remarks that the idea never occurred to them to euro the "cold" by leaving off tho undergarments which were the real cause of the disorder, and adds : "Tho last time (two years ago) that I wore flannel drawers I removed them for this very purpose-to aid in relieving roy system, which was oppressed by what is called a cold. I awoke with an increase of my disorder-sore throat, hoarseness, pr?vinrent the lungs, chilliness ; dressed without my drawers ; 'skipped' my breakfast, though my appetite was more than usuully imperative in demanding its accustomed' treat ; went directly out (ou a cold, snowy day), and, spending most of tho day in the open air. actively engaged meantime, by night I found 'my pipes' pretty clear ; in fact, removing the flannels and fasting the entire day, meeting thirst and a 'gnawing' stomach with hot water, with an extra sponge bath nt bed time-taking an air bath, with considerable friction, on top of the quick Bponge bath, both morning und night, in this emergency-proved a raro and speedy cure." In conclusion, Dr. Page remarks that if it could become popularly known that the symptoms observed in coses of "cold" were evide. "es of an effort on the part of the organism to eliminate impurities which have been collecting perhaps for month!?, and that "fasting, fresh air, and exerciso ure nature's tripple panacea" for thc disorder, a very great proportion of all severe sicknesses would ha prevented. Without presuming to question the effi cacy of the doctor's remedies for colds, wo think there are comparatively few people possessed of Hufficier.t temerity to discard the winter flaune's with pneu- " monia or a kindred disenso staring them in the face. Thc King or thc King. An article in tho April number of tho Gazette des Beaux Arts remind* tho \rorld of the fato of Cardinal Richelieu's re mains. "The King of the King,'' as the people bad nicknamed him, rrhen he had crushed the noblesse, disarmed the Pro testants, humbled the house of Austria, founded the French Academy, built the Palace of the Cardinal and the Chateau Richelieu, the two first museums of the seventeenth century ; when be had put French finance on a sound basis, created the navy, given to France Canada, St. Domingo, Guiana and Senegal, was en tombed in tho fullness of bis glory in the vaults of the Sorbonne Church. One day, some sixteen years ago, the mayor of a little village in Brittany pre sented himself before the Emperor Napo leon III. He opened a small box which ha brought under bis arm, unwrapped the parcel which it contained and drew from it a human mask. The skin waa dried up and wrinkled, the eyes deeply buried in their sockets, the mouth con tracted, the teeth perfect. The beard, moustache aud eyebrows wero still in their places, and the whole was covered with a yellow varnish like an anatomical specimen. "Sire," said thc mayor, "you behold all that remains of Cardinal Richelieu." The article, which is accompanied by an excellent reproduction of a sketch of the mask taken at a time to which we refer, goes on to stats that in the meath of December, 1793, when a Revolutionary party pillaged the tombs of Sorbonne, one of the soldiers entered the vault which contained the body of the Cardi nal and, finding that the mask of the face, doubtless in order to facilitate some process of embalming, had been sawn off from the rest of the head, possessed him self of it and dio pl ny cd it in triumph to the spectators, wno thought that he had himself cut off the great man's bead. Subsequent a hatter named Obeval pos sessed himself of the trophy and hid it in a cupboard at the back of his shop. Tho 9th Thermidor came, the hatter, in alarm, gave the mask in charge to one of his customer*, the Abbe Armes, who car ried it with him to Brittany and gave it to his brother. The brother, finding that insects were attacking the relio, consult ed the village apothecary, by whose ad vice it was varnished. It was thia gen tleman's son who brought it to Paris ta 1866, and in December of that year it was restored with preat ceremony to its place under tho monument of the Cardi nal, in the presence of the Archbishop of Paria, Monsignor Darboy, the Duke of Richelieu, and a great gathering of no* tsbilitiee. Since that day tho Emperor has died in exile, the Archbishop of Par is has been abo*,, and the last of tho name of Richelieu has died without issue. Vigor, strength and health all found in one bottle of Brown'n Iron Bitters,