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^'^^ ~~^~7\^^ TTTXTC ovi. iftsiv" VOLUME XVIII.-NO. 50. TOXI yj**** JLv*u?M*s.A**ujuJV? JCLUAOHi X" AUA IK ^??tSS ! IIunioH? I BARGAINS in HARNESS for tfiwtSfxKr n ffA Tbeander^^^^ U:,,;t bc now hus in stock the largest and most elegant assortment of Ha! ess ami r?ndj ite., ever dlsplayeu In this city. Nothinn sknriH IAT.. VBrneas anu ??? Wow Collars a specialty, Come and ee n e and ??.^ ?iffS? tb???5 ?' a,"Vyr wi'! bu convinced that f?6 the CHt?p" ??riniosl substantial Harness manufactured in this state ? .?.??# 1. 1 " S^?H"? neatly an,? promptly done. Call o? me?overVd! "e's Dr^rT" ? JAMES M. PAYNK. ' fr! ?. =-P.-rr^^__- _..??_?_ ANDREW * PREVOST ire Still on the Square, at the same old Stand, and are Sell ing Goods as Low as any House in the City. HfE li??? complete line of SP RI NG GOODS on the way. conBistingof CAI iropq % J??^S^hliKS' C?TT?NADE?' 8hJeS- HA?,Ai? OIJBGBOCERV DEPARTMENT |8 full. The best Sugar. Coffees fens and .^eJ OoodJ at all prices, and satisfaction guaranteed. Everytlih deliveredfree h> ^FABMEHS.^ye are still agents for the Celebrated CHAMPION REAPER AND nflB. Testimonials from all over the County that it is the Machine" for- ferme? grill tikepleasure in showing and explaining our Machine. Terms liberal. moni HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS ON HAND, ?dtold low on Cotton Option. A few tons of KAINIT left. Call early. Expecting to jjjCottonitbis J ail, we would respectfully ask one all to give us a showing. ANDREW & PREVOST, . , "- DEPOT STREET. Kirch 1,1W3 SPBING OF 1883. HEW GOODS ! NEW PRICES ! [AUFULLPSTOOK oE? A R0USING TRADE! 1 keep always on band a DRY AND FANCY GOODS, An Immense Stock of Dress Goods of every Description. SILKS, LACE CURTAINS, ?e. Give me a call, and I will convince you that I mean business. My motto : ?iid tales and small profits. I make a Specialty of Zei^lt r Bro?. Fine Shoes. Come one, come all, and examine my stock before buying elsewhere. No MMe to show GocdB. Will compare prices with any house in tho up country. Very respectfully, W. A. CHAPMAN, No. 3 Henson Street, Anderson. S. C. Atril 12,1883 31) WHAT IS THIS I HEAR ? THAT Kiivc tho Best Goods for the Least Money ! WE HAVE JUS"' RECEIVED A FINE LINE OP SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, liiptedto the wants of nil-Boys. Youths, Young M en and Old. Also, a very fine as? misent of UNDERWEAR-such as Shirt*, Drawers, Collars and Cravats. Also, a lae issorlment of WORSTED DIAGONALS, SUITINGS, CLOTHS and CASSI MERE3, which wc are prepared to make up in the very latest styles, and will spare no sins, either in Cutting or Fitting, that we may thereby please those who will favor us nb their patronage. Call before purchasing elsewhere and be convinced. fS- Pay last year's account and save costs. CLARK ?fe CO. JOHN W. DANIELS. Proprietor. Mirch -22,1SS3 80 FERTILIZERS FOR 1883 ! TAM still selling the well-known brands of Fertilizers and Acid Phosphates, to wit Eutaw Fertilizer, Excellenza Fertilizer, Yemassee Fertilizer and Eutaw and Ashepoo Acid Phosphates. fS- CALL AND SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. My Stock of General Merchandise is Complete ! Snell as snits tho Wants of thc people generally? Al?:?v? (in harwl FLOUR, BACON, SUGAR, COFFEE. MOLASSES. Ac. FULL STOCK. OF DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, 8IIOES. BOOTS, HATS, CAPS, HARDWARE, CUTLERY. CROCKERY and GLASSWARE, ?fee. /*" Call at No 10 Granite Row. W. JP. EA-KR. M> 22, 1833 _32_ TIMBS ATV 13 MEN CHANCE WITH THEM, AND that is the reason we have just laid in A LARGE STOCK OF NEW GOODS, for we know that all our customers desire something that ts new and at the same toa* ?erviceable. Our Stock comprises a fine assortment of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, NOTIONS, HARDWARE, GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC., ^kich we will sell at tho Lowest Prices. While other things are changing, wc would JJJthit we are too young to change our plan of offering good aud substantial Bargains ??ll who favor us with a trial. WE ARTE IN THE COTTON MARKET, Kwill rive the highest prices. We have a large lot of BAGGING and TIES on Get oar prices before closing a trade._ __ BBOWH BBOS. r?tpt21.1882 IO HEADQUARTERS FOR STEAM ENGINES, SAW MILLS, THRESHERS, AND ALL KINDS MACHINERY. HAVlii*?e?*?M?Aed tho Southern Branch of the .GRISER^.f?^^; O&L. NJ1*1 at this place,'I will keep constantly on hand a full supply oi m?r ^ Machinery, consisting of their ^.Regulating Grain Separator, Cleaner and Bagger, Serless, Portable, Traction and Domestic Steam Engines, SAW MILLS, &C. ????mk?BP,on ?anda full supply of Gum and Hemp Uncock S . ?S?TS6 Valvves, Glass Water Gauges, Stearn Q?W*?g** J Ut Wh^MHU, rX^jTriamph Injectors, Birling Injectors, Corn and WhMt,.?l",'#?S3 in the Ma ffiSfty* l??bow?. Nippers, Union's Rodocera, in fer* .J^^^^^StT?rA ? KfJ? SHOP.-I am always ready, with first-class tools, to repair all kind, finery entrusted to me. ^ F. pIVVEB? April'i2 SS10'8 HBW BUILDIHO, M BAB RAILROAD BBIDOB, ABDBBIOB, t^C. THE BATTLE OF SAILOR'S CREEK. A Dlsastrmu Day i"r tho Confederate ', Arum. Hy the lia. John Ker thaw, of Beaufort, & C. j These recollections of a youth of eigh- I teen aro given, not as containing any thing particularly valuable or interesting except that they touch upon incidents that occurred just at the close of the great drama of the war, when from a more mature mind the overwhelming catastrophe of Lee's surrender naturally crowded out all other topics of minor in terest. SAILOR'? CREEK. Kershaw's Division, together with that of Custis Lee, were ordered on tho after noon of April G, 1865, to go to the sup port of Gen. Dick Anderson, who with his corpa w?rj endeavoring to clear the road iu his front so that ho might con tinue his retreat. We crossed Sailor'u Creek and formed lino of battle along the crest of tho hills, where, after a furi ous cannonade, we were assaulted three times by the Federal troops largely out numbering ours. The first two assault* were met and parried, but at tho third our men, seeing that the euemy's lines extended beyond ours on both flanks, gave away after a desperate struggle and lied in confusion. Meanwhile a similar fate had befallen Anderson's corps, and this brought the force that he hnd been fighting immediately in out lear, HO that when our linc; fell back il was only to run into the very arm of these troops, who were quietly waiting fbi us to come, knowing that it was impossible for us to escape with foes in front of us and foes behind us, and on both the other sides of us. Very few escaped capture, there being about 6,000 of us altogether made prisoners. Next morning we were all put together in a large field, awaiting the orders to move towards Petersburg and City Point. While waiting we witnessed the follow ing spectacle-a terrible aud trying expe rience to us : A GBAKD DISPLAY. First came a General of cavalry-Mer ritt or Custer, I forget which-surround ed by a brilliant staff. After these came a splendid brass band mounted, and playing tho stirring ur "Cheer, boys, cheer, as wc match away to battle," aud they teere cheering their very best. Then followed thirty-two men each one bearing a Confederate battle-flag tattered and torn, the trophies of the fight of the evening before. Then came the mag nificcutly equipped divisions of Sheri Jan's cavalry sweeping past at a trot, thc men's faces all flushed with the light ol victory and pressing on eargerly to the front, whence in the distance we could bear the sounds of hattie as Lee made kia last despairing stand, and urged hie grim veterans, nothing loth, once more to do and die. THE J?ARCli TO PETERSBURG was marked by nothing worthy of cora memoration. It was a sad and heart breaking time, and we were very sore md sullen. Wo passed many thousands )f troops marching towards Appomat :ox, and their bands would soothe oui "eelings by playing "Johnnie com? mme" as they went by. At Petersburp vo were greeted as we marched along bj he ladies, who ever faithful and true itood on their piazzas and at their win lows weeping while they waved theil landkerchief-*, ?\nd wringing their handi is they Baw us, tho sad reminders of t ailing flag, on our way to prison. A mung and noble looking stall* ollicer gol eave to step out of the line and speal or a inoin?:?JL to bis mother and Bister vhom he saw standing iu one of tin linzzas. Thc steps led down to the gate ind, as he opened it and ran up th teps, his old mother saw and recognize! lim. Sho threw up her hands cryiiij 'My son ! my son !" and fell faintlo] nto his outstretched arms. Somethinj lown many a soldier's cheek, "washei iff the stains of powder" as they witness d this little scene, and ono of our guards , bronzed old Zouave, bearded like tb >ard, looked at us who stood near hir nth tears in his ves, and swore nighty oath to take off the tension of hi eelings, so deeply it affected him. FROM (TTY POINT. We embarked on steamers for Wast upton. The beautiful scenery along tb ames, the strange quiet of the spark lin iver and its wooded banks, seemed t ar removed from war and bloodshot hat we could scarcely realize how all u nd down this historic stream thc sou nc f hattie had raged and swelled. One n Washington, we were marched to tb thee of the provost marshal general, an erved with refreshments which wei cry grateful to us. That afternoon ; unset we look the train for New Yoi nd Boston, our destination being Fo Yarren in Boston harbor. The part onaisted of ten Confederate General mong whom I remember Gens. Ewel Justis Lee. Kershaw, Coree of Virgini iemmes of Alabama-not the Admiral )uBose cf Georgia, Maj. Brown, Ewell tepson, and myself. While waiting fi he train to move an amusing incidei iccurred. A tail, gawky, long-nosi pecimen of tho Downeaster class pok< tis proboscis into the car window at agerly said to Gen. Semrae?,| "whit s Semmes?" The General very modest .cknowledged himself to be "Semmes .-hereupon the tall man, with a look tarted horror, hastily withdrew bis clo ated nasal organ from the window, ai n tones of almost dramatic ferver, n inmixed with fright, ejaculated, "Wba be Pirate 1" There was a general ro i laughter from our party, while a viv ?lush overspread the General's expn ive features. THE NEXT MORNING, bout sunrise, just as were shaking ot elves together after the disturbed rest he night, the captain who had us barge burst into the car where we wei dB eyes starting from their sockets, 1 ace as pale as death, clutching in 1 xtended band a telegram. He coi tot speak, when some one asked wi ras the matter, but banded the dispat o the inquirer who read the utterly j oundlng and incredible words: "Pre tent Lincoln waa assassinated last nip it Ford's Theatre, Washington, D. ( Accustomed as nil present were to sen lons the most vivid, it is not going I ar to say that for the moment we m laralyzed and speechless. But our fe ngs were far different to those of I Northern people, naturally aud necea ily. We all felt that Mr. Lincol leath was a disaster, but t/?ry idoli: lim, and an angry and deep indign?t hat amounted in many cases to vindi veness and in some to blind rage, U possession of the North imm?diat! Knowing that a large number of Conl irate prisoners had passed tnrot Washington the day before, one of lolutions leaped at was that the mur lad been done by an escaped priam ind some accordingly wished to v their rage on us. AN UNEASY RIDE. Riding on a rail (fence rail) is | ierbially uncomfortable, but the disc Tort is not necessarily confined to l .ort of ride, as will VW' -ftVfJ itation Immense crowds had collecte very large number of wwi especially, and there were various propositions and sug- .? gestions throivu out relative to tho pro- !1 priety and eminent fitness of stringing up the "Hebel Generals" to the nearest ! lamp-post. Only the tapid movements und short stoppages of thc train prevent- , cd this, iu all probability, for our guards, two in number besides the captain, would have been powerless to protect us in case the mob had made the attempt ?n carry their threats ?uto execution. At , oue placo "three groans" were proposed for that "d-d old rebel scoundrel, lt. 8. Ewell !" and tho sound that issued in response froru thousands of throats was , simply indescribable. Gen. Ewell smiled grimly, and pulled his beard ! About live o'clock we reached Boston, and be tween doublo ranks of the Veteran l?o serves we were hurried into carriage? in waiting anti driven rapidly through the city, all shrouded in the habiliments of mourning, ono vast pall of blackness covering block after block of buildings. It was a sight never to bo forgotten. Arrived at the wharf, we were immedi ately transferred to tho boat that was to carry us down tho bay, and her hues beiug cast off before a crowd could gather, thc captain in charge of us drew a loug breath of relief, and said how glad ho was that he had brought us through in safety. There were some others present who had similar sensations of joy and relief. In a few moments we entered the sal lyport of Fort Warr n, and the great gate clanged after us with impetus recoil as we were marched to tho casemates of thc fort, our homes for many weary weeks. A VISIT FROM DIGNITARIKS. One day we saw such preparations goiug on that ws concluded something uncommon was about to occur, and hence we were on the lookout. About midway the members of the Massachusetts Legis ?aturo wero ushered in. Aller pausing for a moment they came towards our places of confinement across the parado ground, hut before they got near enough to seo distinctly, every prisoner betook himeelf to his quarters, and we shut the doors to keep out inquisitive eyes. Tho visitors could not approach nearer than the "dead line," and along tim they ranged themselves, stuck their eye-glasse? on, and diligently peered nt the doors and windows of our cells. Pres ently the very smallest man among the prisoners, arrayed in Maj. Harry Gil mor's coat which reached almost to bis heels, his hat with a large ostrich plume trailiug gracefully behind, and his great cavalry boots which reached to his thigh -this monstrous object, armed with a pair of opera-glasses sallied lortb aloue and marching as close the dead line as was permitted, took his stand, with easy gesture adjusted his glasses, and, striking an attitude, endeavored to stare the visi tors out of countenance, which indeed he did, nided no doubt by the jeer laugh ter of tbo prisoners. The generals were leas fortunate, for the visitors invaded their quarters and submitted them to a close and curious scrutiny, greatly to their disgust, no lim ht, siuce it was by no meana agreea ble to be examined and criticised aa if Lliey had heeu animals in a menagerie. Peter Cooper, When Peter Cooper was buried a . month ago the streetB were full of a < bushed crowd blessing bis memory. The ( lld man leaves nobody behind him in , this community who inherits the uni ver- j ml public regard that was folt for bim. , While his quaint and venerable figure \ n'as still a familiar object on tho streets, \ he Cooper Union was his monument as . f ho 1.id been dead for a hundred years ; j md in a city of great fortunes it would ( ie a curious inquiry whether rich men- , ind rich is hut a comparative term- ( perceived the meaning of the public ( "eeling that followed bis death. There is > )ften a kind of jealousy of rich men, and if late there are men noted for great wealth who have been so held up to public reprobation that it is becoming ilmost neccRsary for a man to explain ind justify his riches as if they were a public wrong. But Peter Cooper was a rich man, and nobody had any unkiudly feeling toward him. Jealousy of riches is due either to a belief that the money waa acquired unjustly, or that it is spent selfishly. Tho latter we suspect to be the more general feeling. Ill-gotten gain is tole -ated more readily than ill-spent gain. iVhen Tweed laid out flowerbeds in the lark, and mended the paths in the quares, and sent coal to the poor, it waa lot the poor alone who condoned tho lotorioiu methods by which he had ibtained the money, but prosperoua tax layers also remarked, as they shrugged heir shoulders, that at least he returned o the public in that way some of the noney that he stole. But for Peter Jooper there was nothing to be condoned, ind co kind of sophistry waa necessary. \ poor boy. with scarcely a year's school ng, he worked industriously . ' several rades, until his sagacity, temperance, toneaty and thrift had amassed a fortune. ia he bad made it by the practice of imple virtues, he apent it generously for lumane purposes io the eyes of all men. X waa not by tho scope of va.it enterpris is, the exercise of practically despotic tower, splendor of equi page and of living, bat he was known, but by his patient ?are to provide for the leas fortunate, for boee who were poor, as he bad been, ind who desired opportunity aa he bau iesired it ; and for them he provided echnical schools and lectures and read ng rooms and libraries, and these were he activities of a rich man which the thole world saw. There is not an owner of "great pos assions," liko the young man in the ?ble story, who may not learn from >eter Cooper's life the secret of turning he jealous feeling with which great loasessioDs are sometimes viewed into me of regard and admiration. No in estmentof money is comparable to that rbicb. is made in the kindly feeling and lympatby of others. There are men in sew York who would gladly give what vculd be a fortune to many other men or the ?imple and hearty good feeling . fi ttl which Peter Cooper was regarded, j They have only to remember that the old ixbortation ia still as appropriate aa ever -"Go thou and do likewise." And the opportunities of such doing in this great omni uni ty aro various as they are con taot.-Editor's Easy Chair, in Harper's Magazinefor June. - When a girl talks about two strings o her beau, does she mean to his sus pe n lera? SCIPIO, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1879. lam the Pastor of the Baptist Church tere, and an educated physician. I am tot in practice, but am sole family phy sician, and advise in many chronic cases. )ver a year ago I recommended your lop Bitters to roy invalid .wife, who has >een under medical treatment of Alba ny's bett physicians several years. She tat become thoroughly cured of her va ioui complicated diseases by their use. Wo both recommend them to our friends, nany of whom have also been cured of .heir various ailments by them. STEALING TO HAVE FUN. Something About Thone Who Itob mid l,t ail a Fast I.tfi-. Thc disaster that overtook Albert Evan?, the youth whose escapades were detailed in Sunday's New? and Journal, . recalls the fact that Cincinnati ia I thronged with young men who aro lead- I lng exactly the same sort of a lifo the ! buy in question indulged iu so far ns dis- j sipation is concerned. Tho others, like > Evan?, are of excellent families, and like Evans, the ones that are rapidly racing to prison or a suicide's grave, or dreaif exposure by tho press. They know that anybody with common sense realizes the fact that it is impossible for a person tc live at the rato of $400 or JsOuO a month on a salary of $20 or $25 a week. Yet each of these fast young men fondly imagines that lie will not be caught, or if caughat, will not bo prose cuted, and if prosecuted not published. Tho gambler is a more Philosophien) fellow than tho amateur thief and em bezzler. When thc professional gambler lays down a bet on a card he considers that that amount of money is gone even before he gets action. If the turn bo against him, ho feels that the bank has won something that ho, tho player, had previously given to the dealer. If the result of tho turn bo different, and the player wins, be considers that ho has won the money ho bade good-bye to aud also aa much mor- as tho bet represents. Tho high-toned thief and embezziei shouid educate himself tu realise that the minute be steals anything ho must some day pay for that act with his repu tation and liberty. Nobody commits one theft and quits stealing. He is hound to repeat tho olTenso, and it is only a question of time when ho must ho brought up with a painful suddenness. Therefore, if tho thief who robs his em ployer or benefactor or anybody else would train his mind to expect detection in tho end, and school himself to bo prepared for it at any minute, nt the Bame time determining to stand the brunt when it came, instead of pleading for a suppleasion of the facts in the case, he would save himself a deal of anxiety. The first thing one of these giltedged thieves does when ho is faced with bis crime is to whine for mercy at the hands of the newspapers on account of his family. He suddenly becomes crammed with au overwhelming respect for his relatives. He pleads that an exposure of his rascality will break his father's aud mother's hearts. For that reason he asks that thore should be nothing sah5 the papers about his case. Ho diu., t think or care about his parents while he waa stealing. He didn't have Bufhcicnt respect for their sensibilities before lie robbed to induce him not to steal or swindle. Then ia tho proper time for the youngster to think of such things. The fact that many young men are not versed in human nature makes thieves of thousands of them. They imagino that cy m pa thy is the predominating character istic of mankind. Thinking this, they believe tlcy can steal with impunity md that sympathy will shield them* when detected. So, when they get :aught, th '_v innocently demand sympa thy for theta families' sake. "But wiij should there bo any more sympathy >i one thief thau for anoth sr?" asks the practical reporter, who :omes in contact with these seekers for sympathy about fifteen times a month. I'he thief, doubtless, studied out the fu ture when ho began to steal, and the newspaper man has also beeu doiug a little studying. But the two have looked it the matter in different lights and have irrived at different conclusions. The hief built up an utopian theory that n'as to keep him from being bold up be fore the world in his true positiou when ?Bcovcred in his thefts. The thief's nain argument to himself was that an exception would be made in his Bingle :ase out of tho thousands of othent. The practical newspaper man could have old him that each of the other? of the housands consoled himself exactly with he same thought. To make the matter vorse, it ?si not the man who steala tho OL? of bread to keep his loved ones rom starving that makes the cowardly ilea that bo shall be permitted to allow lis father to spend his last dollar to com iromise a felony in order to keep him rat of prison and tho papers, but it ia ?variably the rash fool who uses bis itealings to gratify a passion for riotous i vi ng. His wages of crime have gone br all-night hack rides in the company >f fast women, for wine, for fine clothes, br presents for the prostitute population, br gambling debts, for extravagant Bup ?era at midnight and for all of the other binga that money must be paid for on a lurrab. While he is whirling through his short tut rapid life the young idiot makes nu nernus friends by bis prodigality and iberaiity. But they are not friends that rill do anything more for him when he 'eta into tho prison cell than to say, "I bought it was only a matter of time then that chump would land where he B," Another thing that the extravagant rouog man on a low salary fails to realize s the fact all of his movemements while io is having bis fun on stolen money are loticed by the newspaper reporters, who re not dead. Therefore it ia rarely the ase that one of these trusted but un ruatwortby young fellows is landed in he station-house that his history is not t the immediate command of the press. Consequently it is not surprising that be capers of a brilliant dandy, who ruos gainst a rock in the shape of an arrest, re described with mortifying elaborate less in the columna of tho enterprising lewspapers. Reporters don't grope round the street with a cork in each ear nd an ulster coat over their eyes. At east some do not. Hundreds and thou ands of aesthetic thieves have been en ered in note books long before their etention and apprehension, to be writ en up when the cell door closed on them, nd thousands more will be ticketed as hose who have goue before them. They re ripening all the time. There always rill be temptations for young men to pend money for a high old time, and nd there always will be those who will all into the traps set for them. Some eople never will learn anything, 'hose who have not been through the [lill don't learn ?bat tbe very men who lelp the dishonest clerk to enjoy his noney will laugh at him when he ia mind out ; that the lewd women who, rhile inmates of houses of ill-fame, tretend to be devoted to, are only play Dg them for flats, and aa soon as their noney is gone they will not recognize hem ; that the stories invented by them o account for the possession of tho mon ly they show un are not believed, and hat they are objects of ridicule to their om pan io ns; that the possibility of oncealing their crime is all bosh, when hey rush Into the most publie places of he olty and render themselves conspicu ius by their loud action. It is said that her* is only one way on earth to beat aro. That is not to play it. It nay .k o be said that there is only ona snre ray of guarding against detection and ixpofture when it cornea to stealing and kindling. That is, don't steal and lon't err ?nd I e.-Cincinnati Newt-Journal. THROUGH THE TUBE. Pneumatic I'lpo Uno (mm New York to Chi caso. Cil ICA (?O, June 17.-A novel and in teresting enterprise was this week brought to light through thc medium of a New York civil engineer, who is here in connection with ?lie establishment of a pneumatic pipe lino between New York and Chiengo. The plans, as partly developed, aro to lay a four-inch iron pipe for the purpose o? transmitting let ters, messages, grain samples, jewelry and other light parcels nt a maximum tarill' of ten cents for packuges and five cents for letters, &c. Way stations will be established at Cleveland, Buffalo and possibly one other point. The pipe will bo the ordinary tubular kind in com mon usc, and thc entire Hoe will bc mad? perfectly air tight, willi brass sta tions at the points named. Tho boxes for thc conveyance of messages will be made from sole leather, with wool air r?siliera, ns used in short pneumatic tubes. Kngines of tweuty-fivc horse power to urivo the air pumps will be placed at thc termini and smaller ones at tho way stations. Seventeen patents for various devices have been secured hy the originators of thc scheme, and no doubt some of them will be made avail able to working the lino. Tho plan of opernting, as far as re vealed at present, will bo about as fol lows: Comtnsucing at 6 o'clock ;.>. m., Washington lime, the boxes containing through packages will be fed into ihe tube at Chiengo and blown toward New Yolk, while tho Chicago pump is filliug the tube atr.l tho New York pump is ex hausting the air. Tho last box started at Chicago at G:30, will have a patent sig nal attachment, which, at Cleveland, automatically announces its arrival. Tho local boxes are those inserted Iber-, and later on, at Buffalo. The last box will arrive at New York at 10 o'clock, the trip being made in about four hours. Then the line is cleared for West bound traffic for thc following four hour.*, and so on, alternately, day and night. It is expected tbnt during each period of four boura a thousand boxes can bc trans mitted, each earning about $2 in freights, or $12 du.iug tho twenty-four hours, being nn aggregate $12,000 per day for the line. The cost of operating is esti mated at only $1,125 daily, which in cludes three hundred pipo section men (repairers!, fifty station operators and one hundred delivery and collection messengers, hence the net earning? can reach tue enormous aggregate of $3,000, 000 annually-at. least it is thus figured out on paper. B.it even allowing a very wide margin for errors and omissions, the profit of operating tho Pneumatic Pine Line promises to be very largo. The cost of luying the line will be something leas than $4,000 per mile, .nd the cntiro plant will not exceed $4,250 000. The projectors confidently antici pate an immediate profit of 20 per cent, upon tho investment. The next serious obstacle to the pres ent consummation of the singular scheme is the right of way, but it is said the parties interested have been secretly ob taining this at little cost. The pipe will be placed under ground in the cities, but the bulk of tho liues will extend along tracks of certain railroads, the pipe in most instnnccs being attached to and swung from the ends of the ties. For certain short distances for connecting liuks, thu pipe will pass through fields and alone country roads, where it will be placed on short "jacks" or pedestals, or swung along thc base of fences. In crossing country roads it will be swung on short poles. Three telegraph wires will be attached to and extended along tho pipe, to bc used for electric signal ling between stations. At least oue engineer believes the scheme, a feasible ono, and, if it proves a success, it is thought another pipe line will be added for tue transfer exclusively of grain from Chicago to New York, by which method 50,000 bushels could be carried daily for ten cents per bushel, at a proSt of $2,500. Grain placed in the tube here would arrive in New York in about five boura, the transfer time be ing somewhat longer than by tho mes sage line. Appliances are now being experimented with by which, with the aid of automatic attachments, the grain pipe line would be continually charged from the bins of the principal elevators here and delivered at a general central elevator at New York. The grain, ii is claimed, would be improved in transit, as it would pass through a patent dust fan upon ila discharge into tbo New York elevator. The capacity of the line being only about 18,000,000 bushels an nually, it would not seriously interfere with railway traffic. The projectors of tho enterprise state that the monty necessary to carry out thc plans expeditiously is pledged, and, ita conference to bo held on the 2Gth instant, the full details will be made public. Hendricks and McDonald. INMAN Aro UH, IND., June H.-An in cident which may have some political liguificance, inasmuch as it pretty con clusively proves that ox-Senator Mc Donald and Thomas A. Hendricks are personally as well as politically at swords' points, occurred this evening at a ban Suet tendered the Macon Volunteers, a leorgia military organization. The jampuet took place at the Bates House, ind was attended by Governor Porter, Mr. Hendricks, Mr. McDonald and a lumber of other Indiana notables and joliticians of diff?rent complexions. When the banquet ball was thrown >pen and tho guests assembled the mas er of ceremonies, either designedly or iccidcntally, conducted the two Demo :ratic leaders to adjoining scats near the lead of the banqueting board. It was .vident from the first that the situation iras a very delicate one, but an attempt o rectify matters by changing their seats would have only added to the embarrass nent of each, and they were compelled o sit side by side for two mortal hours, luring which time they occupied them iel ves in conversing very glibly with tho gentlemen next to them and across thu able, neither, however, addressing a word to the otber or appearing to notice lis presence. The affair bas caused no little talk imong the faithful, by whom i tis regard ;d as conclusive evidence that the recent ?r published interview with Mr. Hen ricks, ii; which he expressed so keen in appreciation of Mr. Tilden's worth ind a desire to see the old ticket of 1876 enominated, has been resented by Mr. McDonald to tbo extent of his refusal to ecognixe his former colleague. Certain t is that tho split bctwr.cn them is re garded as beyond hope of healing. - Life is a tiresome journey, and when i man arrives at the end he ia all out of neath. Colds yield to onions like magic but Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is a still better ind by far more agreeable means of cur ing a Cold or Cough. You can buy a ?ottle for 25 cents at any drug store and ive aro sure it will do the work every time. SLUGGING MATCH ABOUT A GIRL, ltcinitrkublc Combat Itclweon Tiro Young Mon, amt m?i for ....... Last Monday morning an extraordi nary encounter between two young men took place at Harrisburg a short distance from this city, on tho Richmond and Danville Railroad, and the presence in tho city vesterday of ono or the com batants with his second is how the par ticulars of tho "affair of honor" leaked out. The meeting ut Harrisburg of thc two young mea was premeditated and the parties como to an agreement ns to the time and place of meeting by corres pondence. One of tho parties was a Mr. Meares of Wilmington, thin State, and tho oilier a Mr. Hoffmnu of South C*iro> lin? but who lins been going to Behool at ?v MI, , a Mountain. The cause of tho difficulty ?B simply that both of the young men were iu love with tho same young lady, and the green eyed monster got in his work on them. They cut at each other for a timo and finally their cnemity became so great that they decided to tight it out accord ing to tho code. No weapons were to be used according to tho agreement, but they were to have a simple but genuine slugging match, such as tho iroD-fistod gladiators of old indulged in to the do light of tho Romans. Tho two young men, accompanied by their friends, or seconds, met at Harrisburg promptly on Monday morning, as ngrecd upon, and prepared for tho fray. They were placed in position and at tho word fell upon each other with all the fierceness born of madness. They pummeled each other Houndly for about (ive minutes, when tho North Carolinian was knocked to the ground, but got up aud resumed the fight. They fought for exactly six teen minutes by thu watch, when both gladiators, bloody and bruised, fell to the ground. The seconds rushed to the side of ?each of tho fallen "slugs" and endeavored to raiso them for a renewal of tho contest, but without success. Both were finished and each one un mindful of the celebrated MeDmTs invo cation cried "enough." Tho seconds insisted on tho fight proceeding, but each combatant declarer) himself satis fied. They were assisted to rise and then, in the prcjenco of the second, they shook hands and declared tho matter settled. The combatant? were washed and cleaned up, when they took the train for their homes, Mr. Hoffman coming through Charlotte and spending a day boro. Tho North Carolinian suffered most. His nose was broken and he bad a pain ful cut behind one of hi? ears. The South Carolinian was pretty badly bruised and scratched about the face, hut thia wan the extent of his injuries. Our in formant tells us that tue young lady about whom the difficulty occurred lives at King's Mountain, and whether or not she knew of the desperate proceedisga of her lovers he could not Bay. The young men wero merely zealous, and each was desirous of pummeling tbs other, nnd hence the meeting. It was a ?trange and unusual way cf settling a lovo affair, and wu are not advised as to the good it bas done either of the partic ipants. Their pluck is to be admired, however much the affair is to be depre cated, and it is a pity that it cannot he arranged BO that both could win the fair hand for which each ono underwent such punishment.-Charlotte Journal-Observer June 20. ; Nearly 200 Children Killed In a Panic. A ii accident from a crush occurred at a children's entertainmentat Sunderland, England, Saturday evening, in which 178 children were killed. From the detail? thus far received, it appears that an en tertainment bad beeu given in Victoria ll di by a conjurer, which was attended almost altogether by children, to the number of several thousand. The ncc' dent occurred at tbe close of the nerf . manee. The body of the ball had been entirely cleared of its occupants, when Bomo 1,200 of the little ones come rush ing down the stairs from the gallery. At tho top cf tho first flight of st?i?? there was a door which opened only twenty inches, and thus but one child could pass through nt a time. At this point wbile a mass of children were pushing forward one of them foll and was unable to rise, owing to the othora crowding on. The result was that a great number were pushed down, trampled on and suffoca ted. The scene was terrible, and no effort could stop the mad mah of the affrighted children. They came on pell mell, though strangely quiet, without much shouting. The bodies, which were badly mangled from tramping, laid seven or eight deep. Many of the victims and others who were not killed had their clothing torn from their bodies. The ages of 178 children known to have been killed range from four to fourteen years. The excitement in the town when tho news ol the disaster spread waa terrific. Great crowds of people rushed to tho scene, until at !ea?t 20,000 persons sur- i rounded the hall. The feeling was so intense that the authorities ordered out the Sixty-eighth Infantry to preserve order. The work of getting out the bod ies of the victima was begun immediately. They were laid in the hall and the pa rents of those killed were admitted for the purpose of identifying the bodies of their chi'dren. Most heartrending scenes transpired while the work of iden tification was in progress. Reclaimed Land. "Walter," said Miss Bubler to the ar dent suitor who kneeled at her feet, "I cannot marry you ; for some time I have smelled whiskey on your breath. I can never marry a man who drinks, for I bm secretary of a temperance organisation." Tho young mun rolled his eyes in an ag ony of matrimonial despair and solemnly hiccoughed : "Then you do not love me," he said. "Oh, do not tsar my heart. I do love fou with condensed affection, but you are a drunkard, and I cannot marry you this evening." "Melvina, you want mo to say some other evening, so you can accuse me of revamping an old gag." "You lacerate me. It is the drinking that I want you to stop. My decision ia final. I cannot marry you unless yon reform. Promise me that you will awear off." "I will," exclaimed the yoong man, arising. "For bow long?" "Whatis to day?" .Tuesday." "I will awear off until Wednesday." "Ob, Walter. I bave reclaimed you" and she threw her arms around his neck. They were married. - "No kiss," he said pleadingly, "no kiss from my darling to-night ?" "No 1" she said emphatically, "no kiss-I hear there ara mumps in your family." - 'The best conductor of electricity at present known is silver." Tba best conductor into "society" at present known is gold. It used to be brains. Norristown Herald. Tho Ghost of Greystone. NEW YORK, June 12.-The Hon. Henry Watterson, who has been spend ing some days with Mr. Tilden, has writ ten the following account of his visit for the Courier-Journal, in which paper it will appear to-morrow morning: I have been spending a few days nt Greystone with Governor Tilden, and, not merely because bis old friends in the West and South have an ever present personal interest in him, but because his name nt the moment is upon the lips of politician:! of every class ali over thc country, I propoyo to give the readers of the Courier-Journal tome particular ac count of him. When I parted with him a year ago I did not expect to seo him again. Indeed, I was so skeptical of florina concerning his restoration to health as to feel a delicacy about intruding upon bis priva cy. He was good enough to send for mo and I went over to Graraercy Park in a somewhat sorrowful, sympathetic stale ot mied. My surprise almost exceeded my gratification. The old house ?B undergoing reconstruction and enlarge ment on a magnificent scale, but the old library is still the ?ame, being held from the bond of despoiling splendor for the lat?, I take it, as a trbuto of eflcctionato remembrance of old times, old friends and old books. There I found the Gov ernor. If an apparition had stood before me I could not have been more astonish ed, The days of '75-76-77 seemed to have come back. Pis lew voies was found again. His eyes were bright and bis cheoks rosy. His intellect is aa sinewy and clear, and his wit as inclusivo as they were when bc made nothing of riding from Greystone to Harlem and back, or driving the Kentucky bays from Gramercy Park to Greystone. He took me all over bis new bouse, pointing out various changes, explaining his general design and discussing architecture and architect* with characteristic intelli gence. He quite tired me ont, a favorito and malevolent way he has of punish ing his friends, climbing long stairs, meandering through labyrinths of deco rative nrt and threading tapestries and frescoed maxes of corridor and chamber. On current affairs be talked with his usual pungency and candor. When endurance had ceased to be a virtue, I said : "Governor, don't you think wo have bad enough of this ?" He smiled, and in his dry, halt-pitying, half-sarcas tic w?y, replied : "If you are tired we will go down stairs." At Greystone his life is of the simplest and busiest. He bad a farm hard by and no end of pigs, Eon lt ry and blooded stock. Of course I ad to bo dragged over this farm, and the devices which tho old gentleman put slyly forth to trnp me into some unguar ded tieason to the butter and eggs of my bluegrass country were many and ingenious. I stood my ground like a hero, but it mu&t be owned that the Governor's farming la like everything he undertakes, thoroughly well done. I asked bim whether he tried to make any money out of it. "Ob, no," be said. "It is easier made some other way." While at Greystone not so much as a shadow or ghost of a politician crossed the threshold or appeared upon the grounds. Surrounded oy his nieces and his booka, the old statesmsn and philos opher was aa unreserved in his conversa tion as be always is Bimple end cordial in bis hospitality. One of the young ladies told me that the little household had got through over 200 volumes last winter. The Governor is a voracious and versatile reader no lesa than on attentive and wise observer of affairs, and we talked of everything, from Thomas a Kempis to Thomas A. Hendricks. He playfully observed that tba chief objec tion ho had heard to the election of Mr. Carlisle to the speakership waa that in some recent volumes published by one Mr. Froude there was a suspicion that ho had mistreated his wife. Here I must stop. I know that the public is most curious to learn what are Mr. Tilden'a views of political "flairs current and pro spective. I have little doubt that If I bad the right to spesk I could by faith fully reporting him make myself at once entertaining and instructive, but the opinions of every man are his own and bis house is sacred. I never knew a man mora entirely frank in his inter couse with his friends than this Sage of Greystone; out I am not his mouthpiece, and it is no'> for me to come all the way from Kentucky to New York to do that which he i i so much better able to do for himself. "f can say, however, for myself that nothing passed which leads me to modify the opinion r have so often ex Stressed, that nc po-?.,ron earth could in uce hi-, to accept fae Presidency. A Barefooted Groom. About twenty years ago a young fellow named Johnson, in ?ne wilds of the ?beat Mountains in West Virginia, made np bis mind to be marred. "But yea have not a penny," remon strated hi; friends, "I have my hands. A man waa given bands-one to scratch for himself, the other fox bis wife," be said. On the day of the wedding, Johnson appeared in a whole coat ano: trowsers, but bare footed. "This is hardly decent," said the der vg man. "I will lend you a pail of ihoes." "No," Baid Johnson, "when I can buy shoes I will wear them-not before." And he stood up to be married without any thought of his feet. The same sturdy conduct showed itself in bis future course. What he had not mouey to pay for, he did without He hired hinuelf to a farmer for & year's work. With the money be saved he bought a couple of acres of timber land, a pair of sheep built himself a hut, andweut ness they play the latter with their feet instead of their hands. In China, women do the men's wo?k, and men are the milliners, dressmakers and washerwomen. With us the right hand ia the place of honor ; with them it is the left hand. In dating letters we place the yevr last ; they write the year first They always speak of the mariner's compass (their own invention) as point i ng to the South. we pay oar physicians when we are tick ; they pay while they are well, and as soon aa they get sick the pay stops. Hera men kill their enemies, but tba Chinaman gets even by killing himself. We use a soft pillow; they a block of wood. They lau o uh ships sideways, ring bolls from the outside, and actually turn their ?crewe In the opposite direction from ours. fi- A French chemist reporta that water made slightly salt *nd to which, when boiling, bran In the proportion of one inert to every gallon has been added, baa buen found in a series of experimente to Increase tho yield of milk twenty-five per cent, if given to tba cowa in their Mdlnary drink. . Aro you troubled with inch symptoms >f dyspepsia aa belching, tasting of the bod, heart-burn eta.? Brown's Uta Bitters will euro you.