The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, September 13, 1883, Image 1

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\\\ E. B. MURRAY & CO. A Vmri?^? iM O n TiinDon* v TIT/'\I>TVTTTVT^X ??T?iyiH?An)T?D IO lU?'l \mT TTTVTT7 VT Y .-."Mn Q JAMES iVL. PAYNE IS COMING TO THE FRO??T WITH A TREMENDOUS STOCK OF MUESS, BRIDLES, COLLfiRS, SADDLES, WHIPS,&C. *iur>K (.la have been in? le np AT HOME, j |mvo \in.lM" .. , P,BE LCM material nuil workmanship whit li I will als" . tier , I OWEli PUWvi ." ,e bough? anywhere m thr Slate. ! dmi'l keen ?il .,i i .,, i . ? 1 ,s ^npl?not tn bc underioUf by any one. J>ri<i>N. I u,n tiet(.r. ? BIllSVe thelamest stock of Horse Oooils tbut ever was ii, Anderson M I r WA VT i;fjrilio 1'nl.to call HIHI exim.! be oro bovin-' ami i dev ?. IIt ii i H AM ; .*.' amis-tylcs of one and two horse Wagon Harness. ?I?eciaHy. I have ail Uwillpayany ono to uhe me a trial before buying elsewhere, and satisfaction muir olfidoii ail Goods ?old in my Shop. IVBIBWIOB guar JAME8 M. PAYNF \ng30, 1SS3 WiIll7i,?' * Wil?lt?.-? ?rug ?lort ?in A BEAUTIFUL PARLOR OR HANDSOME ROOM HAN only be had with thc aid ol FINE FURNITUBE, but either mav be Ij n:?.'!e comfortable by the outlay of a little money in good Furniture Y?u will .ind any style, from the finest S300.00 Suites down to Suiten that tr!v coat ?17.00. Voa will find EVERYTHHING usually li IN I FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE WAREHOUSE, Isl thc same Goods can be bought CHEAPER of me than any other houBe in ?.?iate. SEEING IS BELIEVING, that you .viii, cull, see my immense .Stock Gr. ?H\ TOLLY ililli that I ask is that you .viii, call, see my immense .Stock of Furniture and pt BJ prices. Oct 19,1882 HEADQUARTERS FOR CHEAP GOODS. N. O. FARMER, & BRO., -DEALERS lit DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, LADIES' CLOAKS and SHAWLS, BACON, FLOUR and MOLASSES, SUGAR and COFFEE. ti in fact, everything generally kept in a lirst-otass general store. We are offering u;ra inducements td cash buyers, and those wishing tu hoy trill do well to call on nv before buying elsewhere. Weare j j? Agents for thc best Standard Fertilizers mid Acid Phosphates, lad parties in need ol' either should nut fail tu see us before they buy. We will sell it ?hw er lower than any one for cash, <>r on time to good parties. * fir Those indebted to us must come forward and settle at once, or we will put our tims in an Olliccr's bands for collection. IV. O. FARMER & URO. F<bs, iss.'i :io tl ti iHTTMXrTM?^TI A M ?T HA I? J. \JT. UUJNJNUNVJTJLIAM CC ^\J.. ? ia AGENCY FOR 11 I ci OLD HICKORY WAGON, ROLLER BREAST COTTON GIN, HIGGINS' SULKY PLOW. STARKE'S DIXIE, SYRACUSE CHILLED-and other PLOWS, PULL LINE Builders' and Mechanics' Hardware, Nails, Butts, Knob Locks, Sash Fast, Frame Pulleys, Files, Rasps, Saws, (Ham! ami X Cut,J Iiarriug Machines, Hench Planes, Bailey's Pat. Planes, Flam- Irons, (all s?7<;s.) Foot Adze and Handles. Bench Axes, Hatchets, Nippers, Fivers, Trowels, (Jauges, Spo.*** "J,*ayes, Saw Setts, (Hand and X Cut.) Wrenches, Brace and Bits, And EVERYTHING needed by Builders, Mechanics and Farmers. -ALSO, Groceries, Staple Dry Goods, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes. br 17, 1SS:< 41 WANTED ! ? SETTLEMENT with all parties indebted to the timi or REED, MOORHEAD <fc j to- Their Notes and Accounts are still iii mir hands f;>r collection, and parties owciug ko would do well to call and settle promptly, as wc aro determined to close out their hausa. WE KEEP CONSTANTLY ON ll AND A FULL LINE OF Farmers' Supplies and General Merchandise, *hicb wo will sell as low for Cash as they can bi- bought anywhere, and on timo to Jfttapt paying customers till 1st November nest. Wc also keep on hand a stock of the g known brand of KU'S GUANO and EDISTO ACID PHOSPHATE. The patronage of the public respectfully solicited. Il KED & MOORHEAD, No. T Granite Row, Anderson, S. C. , We still keen the BALDWIN 1<'EE1> CUTTER. Get one, and you will .^economy in lt. K- & M "?ch 15, 1883 . .'!.') COTTON GINS. ll : 1 and beat- , t THE COTTON BLOOM COTTON GIN P?R J?J?J?? of Draft, quality of Lint turned out, and Durability, cannot be sur i?&t^Monl?lr Beater, a new invention lor straightening thc lint ^?d. Sof ,h,fl Gin are securely fixed ?>n ibe steel *haR with a scrcv. ai . We ?!*?i8aw can bo replace?! nt the PtjnJ>9JJ*e?M ???.??* .nd Ll'^IRLS ^ftw0^8010 Agents for UULLKTT .STEEL BRLSH ,5 Mac*mer^Co" ?i?tlc^ OIKS. All our Gins are manufactured by thc Standard Machinery KA,., mSli"^*T* ??. o' -a? a?<1 c",">ine SHl&S? T^THaF^TTOnV?nCed ?*? we say, toat our a,'Mf.? now improved, stand FIRST IN THL Ll?i. Agenta for the Best Cotton Presses in the Market. SORGHUMIOACHINERY. ^ Cane Mills and Evaporators for Jaie. v?4. ENGINES, SAW MI LAS* &C. and Leather Belting, Packing, Lace Leather, &c. ? SULLIVAN * BRO. JAVA'S CANOPY OF Lil K. A Deadly Ruin Froiu Two-Tbirdt) of H?r Forty.Five Volcanoes. LONDON. August 28.-The Inlest ad fices Irom dataria, tho capital of Java, MIOW that the volcanic eruptions in that island are much more serious than ut first indicated. Little alarm was felt at Hist, but wi!hiti a few Imtirx shower.- O? stone?) la gan to lall at Jogjakarta, Soura haya and Sainaran;.'. Ail thrungli the night (-howers of nd hot rocks and ashes full, making complete darkness in ?11 these towns. In Batavia there was au occasional tall, and il was diihcult to keep tho street lights huming in thc European quarter. Uv tin- ?ext morning all communication with Anjir was eut ??II, a!! the bridges having been dwdroved hy the descending rocks and ashes and the road rendered impassable. The lint eruptions were on Saturday tudu. (Ju .Sunday morning the distur bances bad extendeii beneath the waters ol the strait, and they were soon boiling and hissing violently, while great waves dashed upon the Javaneso shores, am' the tempi rature ol' thc sea went up nearly twenty ?legr?is. Kven as lar away (rom the original point of distur bance aa Mildura, more than live hundred miles, the furious waves were lashed into mountains of foam us they came tolling in. The threatening rumblings gradual ly became mure and more distinct, and hy noon the Maha Meru, the largest of lue volcanoes of Java, wu's belching lorlh Haines at an alarming rate. This erup tion soon spread to the Gunung, the crater of which is the largest in tho world, being nearly four miles in diame ter, the Gunning Guntur, and many oilier minor mountains, until moro than ii third of the forty-live craters of Java iveru either in active eruption or serious ly threatening it. Just before dusk a great luminous cloud formed over the (.tinting Guntur, iud the crater of that volcano hegati to vomit up enormous .streams ol white acid, sulphurous mud, and smaller quan tities of lava. Tliero were rapidly suc ceeding explosions, followed hy tremeti Jous showers of cinders and enormous praginents, which were hurled high into ho air and scattered in ull directions, to all after the force was spent upon the alleys below, carrying death and de duction. With these terrible eruptions raine sympathetic demonstrations from he sea. The overhanging clouds were 0 surcharged with electricity that al one ?me more than fifteen huge water spouts vere seen. These have continued at omewhat long intervals ever since, den, women and children rushed in error from their tottering dwelling daces, filling the air with their shrieks if horror. Hundreds were unable to ?et out before the houses fell, and were mried beneath the great masses of rocks nd mud which were piled up where a cw hours before all had been peace, mopiness and fancied security. The Gunung Tengger baa not had au rtiptiou before siuce the year LSOU, when n extent of land seventeen miles long ml seven broad was completely covered .Uh the white sulphurous mud so peen ?ar to the eruptions of Java. The peak 1 Gunung Tengger is 6,000 feet above be sea, and the monument of Hame on ip of this made a scene of wotiderlul randeur. Every moment a huge bottl er al a red or white heat w ould he hurled um '1 digger's crater with terrific force, ml, aller going hundreds of feet into ie air, would fall back with a whirr, rashing through the thatched roof ot mic Chinese fisherman's but, or crush ig beneath its huge mas'; the body ol ?nie native peasant. Fissure after I'M ire appeared iu the sides of tho moult tins, ami here and therein tho valleys ?ere came great yawning chasms. Un leelevatcd plains of Kcdiri and Bandung .e showers of stones, mud and la vu ere not so frequent as in the lower por ous of the islam), but were still distruc ve. Much of the northcru portion of thc lund, which was covered with tracts ol ircsls, was soon in one great blaze be red-hot vomitings from the crater; ad Bet the trees on fire, and the giants o te wood fell ono ufter another, like st lany sheaves of wheat before a gale s the eruptions increased in frequency nd violence thc disturbance of th< aters surrounding the barren coast be tmc more and moro violent. Here tin aves rushed in terrific force up tin eep, rocky incline, breaking up ou tb< verbanging crags and receding rapidly .aving a lava flow cooled just at tin lomeut when it was about to fall ovci precipice, and there remaining, quick f hardened by contact with the waters nd forming distinct strata of black am right red, purple and brown, all tbrowt bout in the most eccentric masses, wit ?li tige peaks of basnlt rose at frcquen iterval?. There the waves came whelm ig over a marshy plain along the shore uddenly engulfing a hamlet of Gsher ion's rude houses, and, turning sudden!; ack, swept away almost every vestige o ?hat a moment before had been a seen f bustling activity. What a few hour efore were fertilo valleys, covered wit! ourishing plantations of coffee, rice ugar, indigo or tobacco, the staples r he island, were now but mud, stone an iva-covered fields of destruction an um. Probably not a single crop i ava will be saved. At the entrance to Batavia was a larg roup of bouses extending along th hore and occupied by Chinamen. Th ortion of the city was entirely swot, way and of the 20,000 Chinese wh ?ved on this swampy plain it is hardl robable that more than 0,000 manage u save their lives. They stuck to the ornes till waves came that washed thet way, fearing the torrents of the flan: nd lava of the interior more than th orrenta of water. Of the 8,500 Euri leans and Americans in Batavia perhai 00 perished. It ia impossible to mal ny estimate of the great pecuniary lon lany of tho bazaars in the higher par if the city were demolished. Tho Iv bange and the military hospitals stifle id great damage. At Anjer the European and Amener |tiarter was first overwhelmed by rock uud and lava from the crater, and tin he waters came np and swallowed tl uins, leaving nothing to mark the sit ind causing the loss of somewhere in tl leigbhorhood ot 200 lives of the inhal ants and those who had tried to find efuge there. Bantam, once a prosperous nntive eil mt practically abandoned by Europea nany years ago, was entirely covered I be water, and there must have be rom 1,200 to 1,500 people drowned thei The island of Serang, just off the coa ?as completely inundated, and not oui remains on it to tell tho tnle l.BRBter and death. At Cheribon there was no great flo >f waters, but the loss of life and prc irty by the falling of rocks and the U it lava must have been considerable. Bnltenzorg Buffered very *eriously, lid Samarang, Jogjakarta, Souraker md Sourabaya, while the reports fri ho lesser towns indicate that t hoir I ?as ns great in proportion. 1 he in? .ami Temples" at Brarabamau were vi nuch damaged, and some of them ( ?I roy od. Some of tho dome? of the not ed temple ot* Borobodo were crushed in by huge tailing rocka. While there eau l>e no accurate eui male formed at present of the. loss of life, it must be apparent, ?hen it is con ttidered thal thc island has u populatioi bf more than 10,000,000, thal the death list will ?<pwt fai up into Ibu thousand;. Al the la>t advices the eruptions were continuing, although their violence had abated some what, ami it is feared that, the end of the di>a?ter will show it to . have been one ol' the most frightful over known in the history of ?is kind. BATAVIA, August 31.-The captain of! a steamer which was in the Straits ol' Sunda during the recent volcanic crup- j li? ns reports that ashes fell on the ?leek , of his vessel to the d< pth of eighteen iiieht s, and that be passed masses ol Holding pumice atone seyeu feel in depth. ? lt is estimated that 10,000 persons lost : their lives at Tjirillgitl and the total ! number ol' persons killed by the orup- j tions and tidal waves was 30,000. Another S vt iud le. The ?talement sent nul from Charleston lo thc effect that the JVVHV and Cour?r h as information from private Miurcos in Washington in regard to ti grand coloni zation movement on foot among the negro leaders of the North need surprise no one who is ti witness to the restless ness among the negro politicians, the half-educated aud would-be leaders who, when they are not eugaged in licking the boots ol the white Republicans, are preaching lo the more ignorant of their race, of imaginary wrongs and rights. Our Charleston contemporary suya thal Frederick Douglass has approved thc colonization scheme, and is lending it the aid of his influence. A secret organ ization has been formed lor the purpose of furthering the scheme, and tho meet ings arc held and the plans discussed in regular dark-lantern style. Aller awhile, when everything is ripe and mellow, as it were, everything is lo be made public, ami thc negroes are to discuss thc matter in publie mass meet ings. Tho object of tho league-tor it seems to have assumed that shape-is to colouize the negroes at some point in the South and in the West-thal portion of South Carolina lyiug between theKdisto to thc Savannah and from tho sea to Aiken County. The Western part of Indian Territory is also favorably re garded by thc leaders. The whole scheme, from beginning to end, is part and parcel of a desperate scheme to swindle the ignorant blacks who look upon a "spelling book nigger" ai a bigger man than General George Washington and all his armies. It is a scheme engineered partly by negroes who profited hy the Freedman's Bank swindle. The plan of colonizing the negroes in the South is in the very na ture of things impracticable, and nobody 1 knows it biller than the negro politi- | ciaos who are at the head of the move- 1 meut. Their sole purpose i.- to swindle the mass of ignorant negroes out of their hard earnings. And thc difficulty is that no warning will ?lo any good. One of these negro swindlers can cut thia article from thc Constitution, read it to a crowd of igno rant blacks, tell them where it came from and wini! up by i n form i og them that that i" the way the Democratic pa- i pers insist on treating every movement for the bent-fit of the colored race. He can then bleed the .sympathetic crowd of every cent it lias, and those who discover I long afterwards that they are the victims I of a swindle will maintain to the last that tin y were swindled in a good cause. I The great question now is, how eau thc- I ignorant negroes be protected against swindler?, of their own race and color ?- I Atlanta ( battitntion. How Much Wheat Sceil Ter Aere? j Where wheat is not tit all crowded, in ' a rich mellow soil, and the tillering is 1 not impeded, thc average number of 1 stems for each plant is about sixteen. ' Each one produces a lu ?id or ear, con tuiuiug on an average, under reasonably favorable conditions, fifty grains. Thus 1 one grain yields eight hundred grains. 1 At this rate, the mun who sows two 1 bushels to the acre would harvest sixteen hundred bushels per acre, or else uiiich ' of the seed is lost. The average yield of the country, however, ia less than 1 fifteen bushels per acre. A bushel of ! wheat contains, ordinarily, seven hun dred and til ty thousand grains; two ' bushels, one million five hundred thou- 1 sand grains. Au acre of land contains 1 slightly above six million square inches. 1 So that each plant bus four square indies ; from which lo derive sustenance. Meas uro that on tho ground, and see bow miall il is. Can you expect tho plant to make a vigorous growth on four square inches? Can you expect it to tiller and produce sixteen stems? Can you exjieot lt to mature sixteen full beads? The result of thia crowding is plain. The plnntu can not gain nutriment when growing so densely. Some must die that the others may live. The strong triumph and the weak succum This struggle for lifo begins as soon as ne plants appear above the ground. As the plants grow larger, they require more room, and others must give way, and only few, if any, attain a full growth. All are cramped aud ntarved. Tillering is itu peded ; many plants do not tiller at all, und those that do, tiller imperfectly. The same is true of ear'ng. Full ears can not be expected. An acre of wheat contains about eight hundred thousand beads. It is safe to ray that, on account ol tillering, these are produced hy three hundred thousand plants. Consequently, only one-fifth of the grains sown pro duce maturo plants; these plants pro duce less than one-fifth of tbe proper number of stems by tillering, and these produce imperfect beat's. This is al most entirely caused by crowding. Two quarts of Heed sown on an acre have produced fifty bushels of wheat. Where all the conditions are favorable, the American farmer should not sow more than half a bushel per ucre. But agricultural reforms are never sweeping ; therefore let the wheat-grower try one bushel per acre.-American Agriculturist. Tut lt Thor. When the stranger remarked thal be was from Arkansas, one of the passengers suddenly turned and asked : "You'are, eh? Maybe you arc from Crittenden county?" "I am that." J, "Perhaps from James Landing?" "That's it exactly." "Then, maybe, you know my brother, William Henry Jones, from Fenn Yan, this State?" "Stranger, put it thar !" exclaimed the Arkansas traveller, as he extended his hand and emited all over. "Bust'my buttons if I didn't help hang your brother for cattle stealing, jist before I left home."- Wallstreet Nev?. AU iron preparationa blacken the teeth, constipate the bowels, and give headache with one exception, that is Brown's Iron Bitters. BILL AUF In tho Kitchen-Mr?. Ari? ns n llou?pkc??p Cull ?tutor uml Dixie Farmer. "How do you get along at your bouse?" I uevcr meet u nabor or an <>U1 friend now a days but what 1 want to ask lt i tn tli.it question. I dont mean to ask it like 1 ask "ar? your folks all well," but I can't help thinking about the cooking and washing and domestic affairs. The field and thc farm are all right. We can net plenty of labor at fair prices, but there are a few problems right round a man's house that bavo not been solved yet. They arc mighty big problems too, tor tho women are concerned in 'em our wives and our daughters,aud i would like to tee (bis cooking and washing business settled down on some subslan* tial basis. Tberc is nothing settled at my bouse. How do you gel ulong at yours? We don't care so much about the cook ing, for my daughters can do that and do it with alacrity um! do it nice, and nobody has better eating than when they turn loose with plenty of supplies. If they have plenty ul" butter, and sugar, and eggs, and lemons, and lard, and chickens, and all thu vegetables, and good dry wood for the stove, the dinner will be all right and uo mi luke, but then they don't want to cook all the time. Sometimes a fellow ur two comes crisis ?Hg around and the girls can't leave 'em prematurely, and so my wile ?he thinks she must cook supper and I don't wnn't her lo. ir lie bus tit enough. Old man Colder joined the army at ibo Grat of tho war. lin wa* old but be was a red-hot rebel, and said he wanted to fight some, t?o he fought all over the first battle of Mantissas, aud toro round furiously and hollered to tho boys to como on, and thal night he laid down and thought bo was going to die. Ho sent for Dr. Miller, and say? be, "Doctor, if I am well enough to travel, I want to go borne in the morning, please give me a discharge. I've tit enough." Just so my wife bas tit enough. I don't want her lo have to work any more. I want her to have A carriage and a Uno pair of gentle horso* and when she wants to ride let her ride. I want ber to have a good time tho rest of ber days. She in entitled to it a? much as any soldier was ever enti tied to a pension, t?o of course 1 don't want her to have to cook. Now, if we lived in town and could get fresh bresd every day it wouldn't make so much difference, but we don't. Somebody ha? got to make the biscuit or the egg-bread, and get up a little something und so among us all we do get up a little supper and get along. But what I mean to sny is, there is nothing regular, nothing on ti rock foundation. Some days we have lunch and late dinner, nnd no supper and some other days wo have fhrer regular meals, und some other days we don't have much of anything, and so il goes on year after year, ai?d not h i UL nettled, for the girls are gone a good dea and they bavo right smart company when at home, and sometimes we car hire a darkey for a day or two, and tho) waut big pay nnd lots of scraps to takt home to their young ones. Hui after all, tho cooking don't bolhei us much, and we can always get along i wo bavf something to cook. There uri more folks tbut want vittels than cooks and I am thankful we have always but moro than our ?bare. There is uuotbe little problem right along hero and tba is tho cleaning up and scouring tbe floor md the piazzers, and tho brass kettle and the water buckets, and the cool vessels, and making lye soap, and doir.j aheap of little things that the darkey always did and the white folks neve would do if they could help it. Hut th biggest trouble at my house is this ever lasting washing business. I don't reek un there is u wnamn in tho world tba loves cl eau things and clean clothes an; better than my wife. She is bound t liave clean sheets and clean curtains, an clean pillow cases, and deua garment af all torts, and it just tukes more towel Lo do ber tban a Corsican. And so tb wash woman is everlastingly a grumt ling about tbe big pile of clothes, an liol long ago when abe took tho bnsiu sut of the buggy she asked me if I wt ?boro that ono of tho children hadn't gt lied up in tbe bundle, for it wse powerfi heavy. Well, we begun at ono dollar week, and then abe raised o.i us to or tlollar und a quarter, and now Bho saj >he must have one dollar and a half, an L reckon its right, for tho darkeys tbi drip her have struck for higher wage md the good old BOUI is doing the be die can. She i? one of the old-tin iarkeys, aud when they are gone I don know what will become of tbe problet Tho old stock ?tili wash, and scour ar cook, and make baskets, and shuck co lars, and fool mats and broome, but wb< they are all deud and gone that is the er nf all that sort uf business, for this ne generation wont do it. I'll bet thc [liu't a new nigger in thc State who w ever make a split basket. They dot Ituow bow, aud they don't intend learn. But after all, there is some kind comfort for most everybody. If t washing is a bullier we musn't forget lb it alwayB was a bother eveu io slave Limes. The washing and tho ironi was a bother then, for the rain won come and the winds would blow, a: there was too much starch or too litt and if there is anything in this life tl gets along smoothly all the time I dot know it. We old folds can weather t norm I reckon, for we have got used trouble, but the young set haven't. > bor Freeman and bis good wife amt me; they haven't got used to it yet, a when the cook leaves or tbe wash worn gets on a strike they just pack up a go to "ma." What a blessed thing it to have a ma to gu to-a good old fa ioned ma, who will lighten the burdt ;>t life and give aid and comfort to th children. "I'm going lo ma." liq is tbe child who can say that. It mighty nice to get married and set house-keeping, aud give a big din occasionally, but when the young mot gets fretted and tired and the baby tick, it is a world of comfort to say, ". going to pack up and go to tua?" Fe never pet too old to bc careless of a gi lather's and a good mother's cares Fond parents arc about tbe grea treasure in this life, and it bumbles to lose them. I never like, to seo . c tiren leave them and go away oil' to '1 ss, or Arkansas or California. I wo rather stay by the old folks and com them and let them comfort me. I wc rather live hard and bo near them t to go afar off and get rich. ? BILL. AU; - To make a successful run for o a man must imitate snow. Ue i come down occasionally. - When a man reaches the lop Rtajrwajk a.nd_aM.cynLitj lo make ouc higher, the sensation is as perple: as if. ha bad attempted lo kick i dog wasnH-Thtere. - "I always have sense enougl know when to stop drinking,"?roma Sandy. "I thought you genet stopped because you hadn't cents en? to keep on," said Zenas. HOW UOULD UOT HIS (JOLI). Tho (iront ({peculator Gives u sketch of hin Carver. NEW YORK, September ."?.- Mr. Jay Gould was thc? principal witness to day before the sub-committee of the Senate committee of education and labor. There was a large attendance of persons curious to see and hear bim, and his ex ami nation occupied ncnrly the whole day, covering a great variety of topics more or less closely relating to the labor question. He was first asked to give a sketch of his life and business enter prises, and be complied, giving au out line of bis business life from boyhood from his first start tending cattle on his father's farm, through several experien ces aB J? maker of sun d?als for farmers, as surveyor, tanner, railroad superinten dent, speculator and director. His first railroad connection, bo said, was as superintendent of what is now uart of tho Keunselaer and Saratoga Railroad during the panie of 18?0. Ho bought in a largo amount of tho slock of ibis railroad nt a low figure, and after wards sold it nt n handsome profit. Ile next interested himself in the Cleveland and Pittsburg, which he afterwards leased to ibo Pennsylvania Railroad, ile told of bis connection with tho Union Pacific, which he bad taken un when it was on the point of being placed iu thc bands of a receiver. He after wards sob! the stock of this railroad, aud it was now in tito bands of moro than 7,000 investors nnd represented tho capital of many widows and orphans. It was now higher than when ho sold il. His next venture was tho building up of the Gould Railroad system in the South and West, beginning with the purchase of the Missouri and Pacific. Al ibis time, be said, be had passed the poiut where money-making wnB au object, and his idea in carrying out tho system was to see what could be done by combination. His system was now ex tended, be said, through Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Indian Territory and Mexico, and its construction was com pleted last year. It embraced 10,000 miles of road. When ho took possession of these lines their earnings aggregated about $70,000 a month. The earnings for tho past month were $5,600,000. He said he was now a director in the Chicago and Northwest, Chicago and Rock Island, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, New York and New England and sev eral smalle- companies. His telegraph connection, ho said, was incidental to his railroad interests, tho two being intimately related. He bad been instrumental in starting the Amer ican Union to competo willi tho Western Union, but finding this impossible bad turned bis attention to getting bold of tho Western Union. His object in HO curing control of the Western Union was to make his friend, (?cn. Eckert, business manager of the Western Union Company. He said its value was nearly equal to its capitalization. Ho thought 7 per cent was a fair estimate of the earning power of the company. The value of ils franchises could not he esti mated by any known means. Its con tracts with railroads had been mndo un der varying circumstances. Its stock was distributed nil over (bo country, $<10, 000,000 of it being held by investors, and be thought that within two yours every share of (hit, stock uow upon the market would bo absorbed. There might bc water in thc Western Union, but Ibo sume, could be said of all kinds of prop erty which bad increased in value. In reply to a question of Senator Blair, wit ti ci-s said it would be impossible for him to give an approximate estimate of the valuo of the Western Union Com pany's property. He judged of the value of properly by its earning power. Mr. Gould disapproved of tho postal telegraph system on the ground that tel egraphing required experts, and Govern ment control hi subordinate efficiency to parlisan considerations. He believed that labor got its fair share of the product of labor and capi tal, and that returns for capital were constantly growing less. The cause of the present discontent of the laboring classes was that there waa a surplus of labor in this country o wi og to the large immigration and the stoppage of railroad building. Tho surplus immigration was, 1 however, placing itself in the Northwest on government und railroad lands. It was to the interest of the railroads to get ? ?mall farmers on these landa. It would be contrary to the interests of railroads to sell largo tracks of land to private speculators. He thought tho animosi ties and grievances of the laboring class es bad been fostered und exaggerated by tho societies to which they belonged. The only safeguard for society WOB the education of the masaos, and any legisla tion in the interests of labor should have this in view. Thc legitimate field of trade organizations was, bo thought, confined to benevolent iuatitutious. in answer to questions presented by .Senator Call, Mr. Uould said ho did not think it just for the Government to at tempt to limit ia any way a man's capa city to acquire wealth, and that wealth should certainly not be limited by the amount lo he obtained in farming. Breaking Up an Elopement. A young fellow from the eountiy, whose manhood is a wreck and whose finances are more dilapidated, all from dissipation, bod won the affections of a pretty country maiden, and insisted on meeting ber against a stern father's will. A few nights ago they met and were ar ranging an elopement. The spot they had selected for their tryat was near au old fa M i il y burying ground, and the hour was near midnight. They bad made no definite plan, owing to the girl's perverseness, and the fellow was suing earnestly, when a groan was heard in among the graves aud a white form rose up and advanced toward tho couple. Neither of them oould speak or move. The figure moved slowly for ward, the eye seemingly blazing and the bones clanking as it stepped. When within a few feet of tho lovers it spoke in a scarcely articulate tone, telling the youth to "Begone 1" as "his object was to destroy the girPa happiness after getting her money." The. young fellow slid on his knees and promised to go if he was allowed. He was granted ten seconds to get out of sight, when the girl keeled over in a faint, aod the young man started ou a run for home. Then the old man threw down a sheet on which some phosphor ous bad been rubbed and some old dead cow bones he bad picked up, took bis girl into bis arms, and carried her into the house. The young fellow has left tho country, and the girl is as quiet and gentle as a dove. . The old mao is happy, and gi vea bis daughter all the presents. aod atten tion he cao, but baa never told bis part in the transaction, and ene, has never spoken her lover's name, nor said g word of the terror that drove bim from ber side. - AD Ohio Congressman predicts that the Republicans will carry Ohio by a majority of at least 20,000. DEVILISH OKED OE A DARKEY. A nina Thrown Into ? Writ uu<l n Itali road Tlc Pitched In After Ultu. Tile Wilmington Star of Sunday says : Mr. A. Swinson ofSwinsuu's (Jut, on the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Uailroad, about neveuteen <>r eighteen mi lee above Wilmington, was tin.? victim ?if a deliberate attempt at murder on Thursday lust. 1!J was digging a well on his premises, and had reached a HU f li - tient depth to admit of tho curb. A colored man, a stranger to Mr. Swinson, came up and engaged in conversation with him, iiml he, not the least auspi cious of any treachery, was alooning over tho mouth of tho wo'l, with a chisel in his baud, when the negro came up heh iud hiui aiii? gave bim a sudden ami violent shove, which sent him head foremost into the yawning depths before him. There was about two feet of water in tho well, and Mr. Swinson i'm lunately fell in stieb a way as not to causo him serious injury, ami he could easily raise his bend above the water. Having ?lone so. allowing himself lo breathe, he natu rally came to tho conclusion that his only safety lay in making tho villian be liove that ho was already deud. Ile, therefore, lay perfectly quiet in the bot tom of tho well, and in tho courso of a lew minutes he heard the mau walk oil" and enter tho house, which was close by. Which bc commenced ransacking for whatever of value he could find. ?Ie uoxt heard him in tho postofiice (Mr. S. beiug postmaster at that point), and it afterwards transpired that about ouo hundred ami twenty live pennies were missing from thc drawer. Ho next heard, with a shiver of apprehension, tho footsteps of thu would-be murderer again approaching tho mouth of the well, reaching which, to his unspeakable hor ror, he ?aw that ho had hauled a heavy crosstio to the spot and was about push ing it in upon him, fearing that there might be a spark of lifo left in him. In another ; aslant it came tumbling down into tho well, but, providentially, one cud of tho tie struck the side of tho well and mudo mich a deep fissure thal it broke the. loree, af tho fall to such an extent that it produced very littlo injury to Mr. Swinson. Ho could hear tho man walking about for mme little while after wards, when he finally came back and threw a board into tho well, and then walked oil". Mr. Swinson listened intently for HOIUO minutes afterwards, but henr ing nothing, and his situation becoming almost insupportable, ho finally deter mined ii possible tn ii tied his exit from the well. This, after much difiiculty, ho at last succeeded in accomplishing, the crosstio being of annie servier, to him, while tho chisel, which he held in his hand nt the time he was assaulted, and which was precipitated into tho well with him, was used lo some purpose in making fissures in the side of thc well into which he could pince his feet. .Mr. S. has no definite clue to the per petrator of the millage and robbery. m The thief and would be murderer only "cur ried oir a double-barrel gun, two fancy billions, a few articles of wearing appa rel und tho pen ii irs referred to elsewhere. Sunshiny Husbands. ??i Sirs. Margaret E. Sangrtcr. We read so much about the obligation laid upon the .vito to bu a perpetual -un beam in thc house that ii word to hus bands on thc samo topic muy not be amiss. A cheerful atmosphere is important to happy homo lifo, lt is very hard for children lu be gouil, when they aro ex posed to an incessant hailstorm of fault finding from their parents. It is very difficult for u wife to maintain a calm and charmingly mveet demeanor when 1 her husband is critical, cynical, or sullen, and lukes nil her tender efforts willi in different appreciation. I know full well the air of polite ainuzemcnt, ur amiable incredulity, with , which men receive the statement, of a i woman's opinion, that, in tho homo < partnership, wife mid not husband pulls ? tho laboring oar. Still it ia true that, let e. man's business bo ever BO engross- i ing, ever so weantioine, ever so laborious, ; the mero fact that ho goes to it in the morning, and returns from it at night, sets him above his wife in case and com- . fort. For him, thu slavery of routine , bas ita intervals and its brenkc-. He j gets a breath of the world outside; be | has change of scene daily ; ho sccs peo- , plo and heara them talk, ami his hume is , distinctly Iiis refuge and shelter. ? Let u wife and mother love her home , and ber children with the most absoluto, ? unswerving devotion and serve them with the most unselfish fidelity, there are nevertheless time* when abo is very weary. Shu knows, better than any one else, 1 tho steps and tho stitches, the same things done over and over, and the pettiness of the trials ihut como to nursery and kitchen. They arc so insignificant that she is ashamed to bilk about them, and I fear alie sometimes forgets to tull her Saviour how hurd they press her ; and so bearing her cross all alone, its weight becomes crushing. A sunshiny husband makes a merry, beautiful home, worth having, worth working in and for. If the man is breezy, cheery, considerate, and sympa thetic, his wifo sings in uer heart over her puddings nail ber m ending-basket, counts tbo hours till ho returnB at night, and renews her youth in the security sho feels of his approbation and admiration. You may think it weak or childish, if you please ; but it is the admired wife, the wifo who h en? words of praise and receives smiles of commendation, who ia capable, discreet, and executive. I have seen a timid, meek, self-distrusting little body fairly bloom into strong,'self-reli ant womanhood, under tho tonic and tho cordial of companionship with a hus band who really sent out of bia way to find occasions for showing her how fully be trusted her judgment, and how ten derly he deferred to her opinion. In home life ibero should be no jar, no striving for place, no insisting on Prerogatives, or division of interests, he husband and the wife are each the complement of the other. And it is just aa much his duty lo be cheerful, as it is hers to bo patient; bia right to bring joy into the door as it ia hers to sweep ana garnish tho pleatwnt interior. A family whero the daily walk of the father makes lifo a festival is Glied with something like a heavenly benediction.- Congrega tionalist. A SH nun NH AM, MASS., Jan. li, 1880. I have been very sick over two years. They all gave tod up aa"past'cure. I tried tho most skillful physicians, but they did not reach the.worst part. Tho lungs and heart would fill upovory night and distress me, and my throat was very' bad. I told my children I never should die in peace until I had tried Hop Bit ters. I have token two bottle*. They buv'j helped me very much indeed. ?I; nm now well. There wa? a lot of nick fol ka hero who bave seen how they help ed me, and they used them and 'are cured, and feel as thankful as I do that I there is so valuable a medicine made, i I Mr.?. JULIA O. Cue III NO. AU Sorts of Paragraphs. - A 400 pound'saw fish, 1G feet loner, has been recently caught on Florida gulf coast. - A handsome statue is lo be erected over the grave of General Stouewall Jack son, at Lexington, Va. - M. A. Mill, has growing on his place in Orlando, Fla., a gourd vino which measures 192 feet in leugth. - The Southern Stales havo 101 cot ton factories, 27 more than all of .v'ew England-leaving out Massachusetts. - The attendance at the Louisville Exposition for the first month, which closed last week, was a little ovor 150, 000. - It is said, by those who profess to know, that William II. Vanderbilt has given three million dollars in charities within a lew years. - B iston has more taxable property than the entire Stale of Missouri, or elso the assessors and tax payers in Missouri do some tall lying. - Wilson, N. C. has not only a femalo barber, bul a female blacksmith, and a postmistress, and living ono mile from town is n femalo shoemaker. - Jay Gould is having an $50,000 tomb built to retiro to when bo "shuflles of ibis mortal coil." But the worms will ?cast on bia marrow all the same. - North Carolina baa two of tho lar gest vineyards east of thu Rocky moun tains. Tho grapes raised are coming into groat demand even outside of the State. - Blind Tom now Uvea in New York, and music lina become a mania with bim. Ho ia taken every morning to Steinway Hall, where he practices for hours on a piano. - Josiah T. Wall, Florida's colored ex-Congressman, now farming in Ala chua county, will realize between $7,000 and $8,000 net from his vegetable crop thia year. - Two thousand Smiths met in New Jersey tho other day. A Brown, who had got among them by m intake, barely escaped with his life. The Jonesees staid away. - A water drinkiug match occurred at die Iron Springs, near Iuka, last week, between Mr. John Haya, of Memphis, and a drummer. Tho drummer won, drinking iwo and a half gallons. - A man hoarded a train nt Ogden, Utaii, Sunday night, and covering eight passengers and two train men with his revolver, robbed them of their watches nnd money and made his escapo. - The goldeu spike which ia to bo driven on tho laat rail of the completed Northern Pacific Ko ul will be geutly persuaded i uto its cavity by a sledge made of silver, with an ebony bandle. - Leonard Ullum and Mary Gathrop were recently inn med in Tyler county, Ohio. After a hilarious wedding feast Ullum bade his friends good night, picked up his hat, and left tho house, and has not been seen since. - Mr. Surrency, living a few miles from Waldo, last week, killed thirty rat tlesnakes at ono killing, the largest being five feet aud eight inches in length, aud the shortest two feet. Thia is vouched for by the Waldo Advertiser. - Those who have been figuring on the wheat crop say that there ia a shortage in this season's orop in thia country of seventy million bushels. There ia plenty of wheat, however, to furnish oread for all, bul thc price may he a lit tle higher. - An apple treo in Mercer county Ky., is believed to bo ninety years old, and has not failed to bear fruit every season for sixty years. Five feet from the ground it measures around tho trunk ten feet nine inches, and is believed to be tho largest applo tree in the world. - io Fairfield, Meine, isa manufacto ry of ready made buildings, which ia said lo bu the largest in the world. It turna nut dwellings ia many sizes and ahapes, as boots and shoes are turned out in other parla of New England. The capabilities of the factory range from a shanty to a $50,000 hotel, with overy room fronting towards the sea. - Ifs lady who ci oatca c B6ns&tion sA a fashionable summer resort ia happy, then Mrs. Rich, a handBomo California bride, st present at Saratoga, ought to be happy. She bas a little black .and tan dog that coat her $400, and she hos adorned it with a pair of earrings worth $2,000 and a gold collar with emeralds worth $3,000. She is the talk of the town. - John C. Flynn, a Cincinnati news boy, 22 years old, sold out his stand on Thursday and started for Denver to en gage in the hotel business. Young Flynn baa been a newsboy for thirteen years, during which time he has accumu lated $22,000. Hia profits ranged from $5 to $12 a day, and his money was reg ularly deposited in bank. He lived at the Bethel, where he paid regular rates for board and lodging. . - Judge Blaok waa told one day that he had more friends among the Republi cans than among the Democrats, and that he ought to join the former. He retorted, saying that "the Republicans were good fellows; he would like to belong to them, and there was only one thing in the way. ''If," he said, 'thero was no hereafter,"I would join the Re publican party at once. Nothing deters me but tho fear of hell." - Besidea being remarkable for its nome Buncombe county, N. C., is cele brated for its crops of cabbages (singlo heads weighing as much as 20 pounds, it ia alleged), watermelons, apples and rat tlesnakes. The vivid correspondent oi the Augusta Chronicle says its natives aeldom die, and that in traveling all over ita mountains be aaw but one grave -that of a man who waa accidentally killed at the age of 70 years. - Judge Rogers, of Kingston, Tenn., was in a hurry to impanel the jury, and thoughtlessly selected 18 from the num ber in the court room. The law require! a small child to draw the names from t box, and when Judge Rogers' mistake waa discovered the next day (be entire bocinera of the grand jury WOB set aside and a new panel was ordered. Wheo the names wero drawn from a lot of 20C they were precisely the same as bad beer chosen by the Judge when court fire convened. < - Mr. James E. Calhoun is eighty seven years old and lives in Abbevill county, South Carolina. He o wo 3 thou sands of acres of land on both ?idea? the Savannah river in Carolina nu< Georgia, and his possessions include* th Trotter shoals on that river, which Is ou of Uta largest and most magnificent wi tara in tho South. He ia.?very wealthy yet live* in . the plainest,, simplest waj When a young man, ho Aaa married an kook his Wife to his present homo, bu aha soon died, and the1'room In whle eba died remains to this day. more tba half a century, just as sha left it. Man things in lt have ?lien into decay, as everything (a completely enveloped In i thick layer of dost. Jue saver marrie ' again, and has no children.