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i l ' ; 3/.Jt'.H.vri IK -.'HI *, BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MOURNING, MAY 28, 1885. , 1 ?.>.:[. i. j ,:? li? . ?< ?LL VOLUME XX -NO. 46. ARCTIC SODA WATER : ft* . r ?ON * BETTER THAN EVER ! Twenty-Five Tickets 1 f * For $1.0Q, When you come to the City, and wish a good, cooling, refreshing glass of Soda, Vichy or Congress Water, go to WILHITE * WILHITE And call for Soda Water with "Ked Orange Syrup." Beats the world. Strawberry, Raspberry, Pine Apple, Banana, Sarsaparilla, Vanilla, Orgeat. True to name, and of best quality. 25 TICKETS FOR $1.00 aft . !. ) - , Good for either Soda, Vichy or Congress Water. Congress Water relieves Headache and Dyspepsia, and is one of the best minerai/ gators sold. THE CELEBRATED NEW ORLEANS MEAD SYRUP. Tlio beat Syrup in the City. Call for it nt WILHITE & WILHITE. May 14, 1885 14 11 Go Tell all the People for Miles Around !" - THAT JOHN M. HUBBARD * BRO. ARE PREP ?-itEI) TO SELL AtORE JEWELRY, MORE WATCHES, MORE SILVERWARE, ' MORE CL.OCK9, &C, A4T PRICES MORE TO YO?K NOTION. THAN EVER BEFORE. Mr- EVERYTHING in the shape of a Watch, Clock or jewelry thoroughly repaired. _Feb f>, 188* 30_ WE BOW To our Friends .and Customers ivho have so liberally patronized Us in the past. We desire to return thanks, and offer our usual Spring and Summer Greeting ! WE ARE PREPA'/tED TROFFER' 'BAftGArWs Ii* ALL KlNDS GENERAL MERCHANDISE. PLANTATION SUPPLIES -AND -? FARMING IMPLEMENTS. WK AXfcE AGENTS FOR Daniel Pratt Gin Co.'s Gins, Feeders and Condensers. Harbour Machino Co.'a Cotton Seed and Grain Crusher. , Chan?pion$ 'world-renowncd Harvesting Ma chines, which ha^!^?We^?'naerriri?A?oeVson^nd adjoining Oo?nhefl for tho past kn year*, and for dor iblllty and econoray there is none to comparo with tho Champion. - We would also mention the Coum a home-made 7^Flngered Grain Cradle-a South Carolin? production-of which we sold during tho gaasonoi 1^.8e*eT^0*e"XJ7^ ol.introduction, and have made arrangements to furnish them this season again to all ?no may desire a good home-made Cradle. ,,. _. ? . ... Our "White Hickory" one and two-horse Wagons are well known throughout thia ^Mmm^??Jm^^ mnA p^ted PuIvcrUer is an implement that used for cultivating crops of Oorn and Cotton, d for planting and sowing. Coll and see them, ine-wiaol,.. Patent Meei Sweep is growing in favor jWi^^Jf^Sj manufactured In Georgia. ITaed and recommended by the late J. ?. Forman, thet great intaiisi?e farmer of Georgia. Tho blades being adjustable and easily changed, make It a and desirable Sweep.We ar? toking orders for future delivery, and would aa. We^o*aell^raMUhawaka Sulky and Walking Torn Plowa in all altee. . ? v> The l*Bt Chewing Tobacco In the market, made by 8. W; Venab? of gm??burg v?;. embracing tho celebrated brands of "Bluo Jeans/' *'R?Pid??. 3 B,ae and noriar?llV A trial asked-a good chew guaranteed. Othor niakea and 1 grades also on Andmon, S. C., April 80, 1885 McCULLY, CATHCART ? CO. FISHING TACKLE, OIT ALL KINDS AT SIMPSON, April 2a, 1685 41 MONEY IN SMAtL INDUSTRIES. A Leaton thal the South learns all too 1 Slojrly. thrrtfjiondcnce Ifrut owl Courier. GREENVILLE, June 1.-Tho establish ment of a uew "beatwood furniture" factory ia Columbia recently has given several prominent ?Northern journals a , text for sermons upon the existing ne cessity for the manufacture of "email goods, notions and, knicknacks" by the Southern people foi home consumption. The discussion of thi? subject is, I nm pleased to see, extending in this direc tion, and it is to be hoped practical re sults will ensue. Nowhere are condi tions moro favorable for the cheap pro duction of the hundreds of nrticles that are now imported here from New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston, and from the great manufacturing cities of j the West. The edilor ol a prominent! North Carolina paper says : "We sleep on Northern beds and on woven wire spring? from Connecticut, our eyes open in tho morning upon Yankee bureaus, Yankee carpets, Yan kee wall paper and Yankee paint. We eat from Yankee plates (using Connecti cut made knives and forks) and our food is cooked upoa Cinciarifttietovea. Many of us burn Pennsylvania 'coal. We die between N rthern made sheets, are placed in ' orthern or Western coffins and are d^p iited in a grave dug with a Yankee spaue or shovel. We make for sale-alas ?-only cotton, with which we must pay l?r the one thousand and ono things we buy from the North. Instead of baviDg our own moat and bread stuff | we buy it at high prices from the North and give in exchange the cotton for which we get a low price. To day wo see in our stores Northern apple? ; to-day we buy from bur' provision uteri Ballimore cabbages ; we use oleomargarine and Goshen (New York) butter for which we pay exorbitant prices, although we have fine lands adapted to cattle raising. We build railroads and send North for rails and engines, and although wo have thousands of marble quarries (undevel oped) nearly all our tombstones como from Vermont. lu short, we furnish the money hard-earned by the raising of j cotton, and the shrewd Yankee manufac turers are constantly making a profit." The -writer of this graphic rrsUme might, very truthfully, have added that Just so long as tho people of Dixie sit down and wait, like Micawbcr, for something to turu up, just so long will the condition of nf rai ru described con tinue. It is in the little things that the Yankees excel. For instance, the crop of dried apples in Pennsylvania in 1884 was valued at over $330,000 ; the dried blackberry and raspberry crop of New York State exceeded in value half a million dollars. This is but ouo small item, and yet who would think, hero in South Carolina, of drying berries or fruit for the market? "No," the farm ers Bay, "it ain't worth while ; th' crops 'll be good this year, I reckon," and so it goes. The total valuation, estimated by H. K. & F. ii. Thurber, of New York, of dried fruits in Now England and the Middle States last year ivas a little over $0,000,000. About one third ol this fruit was shipped South. FRUIT IN THE PIEDMONT BELT. All through the Piedmont belt the country is especially adapted to the growing of fruit, ana practical demon strations of what can be done in this line were given at the Agricultural Fair held in this city last year. Peaches, pear?, apricots, cherries and luscious fruit of all kinda, nearly all of perfect growth, were exhibited, and yet not a single person has attempted to can this fruit and put it on the market for home consumption in competition with the Pennsylvanie, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and California canning com pames, all of whom are making money. Over 20,000,000 cans of vegotablea and fruit were consumed in the South At 'antic States during the ?ant twelve months. At Tryon City, on the Ashe ville and til ar tan bu rp; Railroad, at Gail' ney'fl, Spartanburg and Seneca, and at Greenwood, canning factories would un doubtedly pay. The machinery is not very expensive and the work can all be done by women and girls, with a few male inspectors. WHAT CAN BE DONE. In Bordentown, N. J., one firm clears $20,000 a year canning nothing but to matoes ; the work only lasts a few months and the profits are about twelve and a half per cent, on the capital in vested. The Beck Fruit Canning Com pany or;Qalifpr?ls, with a^eftafjMty of peaches and pears, pays a dividend of sixteen per cent, a year on a capital of $<300,000 invested. Seveial factories in Baltimore earn ten per cent., and none in the country fall under eight and a half. If four or five men with $5,000 each: to dnvestfjwould'get'together and erect a canning-factory-in every large | city io the Carolinas where there is a good, constant supply of fruit and vege tables, tho industry would pay handsome ly, since labor here is so cheap. Aspar agus can be canned first; then come peas and beans, cherries and plums, tomr.to:;!, corn, peaches1 rind Other fru? ta and vegetables, so that from May first to October first the machinery could be kept going constantly. Farmers would be induced to give more attention to fruit growing and to ''truck gardening," and the Botith would begin to become more self sustaining. PATENT EVAPORATORS. Since tbe invention of patent evapo rators, whereby fruit can be thoroughly dried in s few hours, there is no reason why apples, berries and the like cannot I be dried for the market at a profit to the 1 farmer. A company has been formed In Greenville for the manufacture of evap orators, and this may be some aid toward preventing the great waste offrait which occurs in the Piedmont Belt every year. There is always a market for every pound of dried fruit 'he farmer can make. A MODEtt FARM. Here are <.orae figures made by a roan ?u Sulltvpri County,IN. Y. He writes: "I have ten acres* of apple trees, all bearing. I can make each year, by means of patent fruit dryers, about 80.000 pounds of drifd apple* from the tcn^emrvr* mn ww ima Ul ?re, core and slice the3 fruit. MT wife, daughters and I do this work at night. I get Tour cents a pound cash for my dried fruit, in all about $3S50 from ten acres or $825 an acre. Thin I have the land planted in turnips fol roy cattle and in timothy and clover, so that I get some nice hay and a good neal of good fodder for the cows, in addi15 sn to my $325 per ?ere. On peaches I do better. I have now 200 odd bearing trees and about 600 young ones just set out From these I get about 700 bushels of peaches. These We dry snd they make about 1,200 pounds of fruit, for which I get ten con ts a pound at the village store. The trees need but little care, especially the ap ples. I prone them and trim them up twice a year and keep an eye out for borers nod insects. We keep twenty four cows, have a barn 132 by 80 feet, Ja ll tight and nice, and clear about $1,000 a year from our bolter." - In another portion of lbi? aime letter the writer says : "We have about half au acre enclosed, with a very high fence, and in this we keep our chickens-from 2,000 to 3,000 in nil. We batch them all with incuba tors, and do not allow the beus to set. * * * My farm consists of about forty-eight acres, all told ; nearly all is in pasture land, with a few acres of corn. We live quite expensively, but I lay by about $800 to fl,OOO a year, clear money -but we all work." WHAT IT ALI. MEANS. I have been led to quote very fully from this letter, because it contains a point that is worthy the consideration of) all wide awake farmers, viet that the beat results can be reached when- but lit tie land is cultivated and the work done thoroughly. If every farmer in upper South Carolina to-day would grow fruit more extensively it would be found to pay well. Take, if you please, tho following table, prepared at my request by a well-known fruit-grower in Orango County, N. Y. : 1,000 peach trees.$ 600 1,000 apple trees. 500 Labor in planting. 50 Manure, work, ?cc, until the trees yield, say. 200 Three patentovaporatorsfordrying fruit. 300 Six machines for paring, coring and slicing. 180 , One extra man for 60 days. 60 Total.$1,890 The result will be about as follows : 10,000 pounds dried peaches.$ $00 20,000 pounds dried apples. 800 Total.fl ,600 lu other words nn investment of less than $2,000 will, in the course of three [ to six years, yield a regular revenue of about $1,500 per annum. lu estimating thc amount of dried fruit produced about one-half the usual yield of young trees is taken as a basis of calculation. The land can be used to good advantage, as the trees should be planted at least forty feet apart. M THE CULTIVATION OF ONIONS. Another point for the consideration of farmers is onion growing. The soil of j I South Carolina is well adapted to this purpose, but as yet none of the farmers nave seen fit to experiment on a large seale. At Chester, N. Y., are several farms where nothing hut obtoha are grown, while in New Jersey Mr. Joseph Van Auken has gained the sobriquet "Onion Joe," from the fact that he raises about 60,000 bushels of onions for market each year. Ile gets about $2.50 a barrel for them in New York City, pays seventy-five cents freight, and clears about $12,000 every year. Ho grows nothing but the yellow onions. From the village of Chester last year there were shipped via the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad to Now York, 137,226 barrels of onions. From this State, tbe railroad men tell me, onions could be put into New York at about one dollar a barrel-which would leave-taking the market price at $2.50 and $3.25, a good profit for the farmer about 20 per cent, better than cotton where the yield does not exceed ono bale to the acre. OTHER VEGETABLES. And still another point-the cultiva tion of horse radish. This will at first | blush seem absurd, but there are used in this country nearly 1,000,000 bottles of horse radish every year, and no less than six firms in New York City are buying the root, which they grind and put into bottles for table ase. Ono bar ren bill Bide planted in horse radish, which needs no cultivation, pays the Connecticut.farmer about $300 per acre every year. Tho cultivation of horse radish is most extensive in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. These "little things" are mentioned just to show the secret of Yankee success. A great many people here speculate upon how the Yankees manage to get rich ; it is because they "savo at the spiggot'* and do not waste anything. A CHANCE TO O ET RICH. It has beon demonstrated very con clusively in the last few yeani that peo ple in luis country cannot get rich from cotton-planting. _ It is a bard and unprofitable business except in certain favored communities where the yield of | cotton is large. A little travel, consid erable observation and the exercise of a moderate amount of common sense will soon show the farmers that there ere hundreds of methods for winning bread outside the old rut of cotton planting, where all the profite aie gobbled np by the factors and fertilizer dealers, ana the farmer grubs aod grubs from year's end to year's end while those who "handle" ! bis cotton succeed in laying by comfor table competencies. Pratt Eaters Need no Doctors. We wera struck recently by the re marka of a doctor friend of oars, who said no one thing will do so much to make people independent of the medical profession as the daily free use of fruit, tlc bad noticed that those farmers in whose families fruit was regularly and largely consumed seldom needed his .ser vices. We thought what a pity that overy farmer in the land could not be convinced of these truths. It ia a deplo rable fact that farmers' families do not enjoy that robust health that country air I and out-door life, with plenty of exercise, abould give. It is also a fact that living on farms, whose rich acres are aching to ?traduce abundant crops of the varied raits, but very few bavs plenty, and many never have any fruit, except it limsy be sn occasional apple. The stand ard food in a majority of farmers' houses consist largely of bread, batter and meal (.mostly pork) fried in grease, sud where pastry or cake is used, it bas lard i proportions in its composition : and this food is eaten at least twice, ana, in many families, three timea'a day, year in and J year oct.1 Is it any -ender thai they ar? | not more healthy, and that their prevail ing diseases are auch aa indicate an over consumption of greasy foodT If fruits were expansive or difficult to raise, there would bo some excuse ; but there is no part of the country without plenty of varieties adapted to its soil sod climate, and just such as sra fitted by nature to both nourish sud cleanse the tody, and no more skill is required to grow them than to grow corn or wheat. : Why ls it that so few farmers make any attempt to provide sn adequate sup ply of what would.add mach to their 5leseare sod save many times its cost in oe tors' bills, to say nothing of the Buflbringa, and loss, ef their dear ones ? .We entreat you, decide lust now not to let the Spring pass without planting ? fruit yard. Sorely it Is better to grow fruit than io be continually doting with medicine. - The rain falls not "like on the just and unjust, for the simple reason that the unjust usually has the umbrella belong' ing to the josi. A man io Upson County, Georgie, twenty-two years ago buried three thou j sand si vcr half-dollars, and . did not i unearth them again until last; week, when they were exhumed aod put into ? I circulation. I 1) Alt I NU UNION OFFICERS. Kntering n Confederate Camp to Wltnets nattery Firing. Last February while io Virginia, I met with a gentleman who was in the artillery service during almost the whole of the war. being at first In field service and then shut up in mortar batteries at different places. When Petersburg was invested, ne, a sergeant, and bis brother a lieutenant, were in a mortar battery situated near the old Blanford cemetery, his brother being in charge. Their principal duty was to fire at the Federal batteries and draw their il ie. When the Confederates mado a demon stration they had bombproof:; to run into, of course, but at tbo same time, and, as might be supposed, they became more familiar with pyrotechnic displays than they cared for. There was ono Union battery in particular that always gave them double whenever they fired at it. It waa known as the "railroad-iron" bat tery, and was very heavily armed. More over, the gocaers therein bad the exact range of the Blanford battery, which WM twice too large> and lt rarely re quired more than ten minutes to run tho Confederates into their bombproof. It was in luis Blanford battery that one of the most curious) and, at the time, myste rious events of the war occurred. "One night." says Sergeant Egcleston, "wo were working there in thetiattery firing away in difierent directions, but taking caro to keep our hands off the railroad iron battery, and watching tho shelli! as they (lew around, occasionally jumping into the bombproof when ono would fight, io our place, when two fine looking men, whom we all took for gen eral oiiicera, suddenly walked into the works. Wo could not tell their exact rank, because they wore white waistcoats and coats, but they looked as though they were rank officers. They walked gp to George, addressed him as Xileutcnnnt, as though they knew him, aud said that they Ima como out to seo some mortar firing, and he hoped that he would ac commodate them if it was not inconve nient. George replied that he would be happy to show them anything in that line, and turning to me, said, 'Touch up the railroad iron battery, Joe.' "Well, I Wished these chaps had stayed in the tents, but I thought that it would not be very long bf oro they would be glad to get into tbe '_? ambproof, and that the rest of us could go in also. So I commenced to touch up that railroad iron place. In leas than three minutes we had waked up tho hornet's uest, and they were raining shells into us at a ter rific rate. "Those fellows over there ace med to know that the occasion was an unusual one, and they were determined to give us all that we could aa.'t for. The shells were dropped into our battery like hail stones, bursting all around us, and roll ing around like footballs, but there stood tbote two officers and George, leaning up against a piece of timber and talking as coolly as if they were leaning OD a fence a thousand miles away from a piece of artillery. A shell came along and cut that piece of timber in two rind scattered splinters all ovrjr the pidce j bbt dil that they did was to lean against a fresh place and go on talking. I don't believe that either one of tho three even winked. I enme to the conclusion that they liked that thing better than I did, and I told one of toe gunners to shift his gun around and play on something else, and Sretty soon I shifted another, and the re gradually died down. I knew that George would stand thcro and be shot at till the crack of doom before he would suggest anything about bombproof*, and the other chaps didn't want to say any thing unless be did. Well, they talked on for ten or fifteen minutes after tho fire bad died down, and then naid they would like to go on to the skirmish line, and see what was going on there, if ho would show them the way. Ho told them to go out of the battery on a certain side ana fol low the path, they could not miss the skirmish line. They left, after express ing their thanks for our kindness, but they did not say what their names were, and George was too polite to ask thom. "Now the funny part of it comet in The next day George tried to find out who they were, but none of our officers bad baen out there. The fact is. I doo' believe that any of our officers had any white clothes to wear, and if George had thought a minute he might have known that none of them would be roaming about at night to seo mortar firing. They could stay in camp and get enough of that But be could not find out who those men were, though every effort waa made, as the thing began to get mysterious. "A bou*, two years ago or longer Georg waa on an Ohio river steamboat talking to a man in the saloon when a gentleman i came np and said, 'are you not the lieu ! tenant who was in command .pf a moria i battery near Blanford cemetery at Peters burg?' 'Yes,'he answered. 'And don i you remember two officers coming to your battery one night and saying that they had come out to see some mortar firing?' 'Yes, and I have been looking for them ever since.' 'Well, I am one of them, and my companion was General --, also of the Union army/ 'I am very glad to meet you,' said Lieutenant Eggleeton, 'but if I had known who you were at that time you would not be talk log to me now.'. 'So I.'knew then,' ?ss the reply. 'We did start out to see mor tar firing, just as I told you ; and we alvo intended to go on to tbs skirmish lit But we got Into the wrong battery. You i remember that our skirmish line ran up to what was a marsh when vre first got to Petersburg, sod that it really pointed behind your line. Well, we got to the end pf our line at the marsh, but it had dried up, and alter we had wandered round there for awhile, confused by the j shells flying in different directions, we soddenly found ourselves at your battery We sat there in the ditch for almost two hours, wondering what TTS cou 1.1 do We could bear every word that your men said. Had we been in uniform we should have went right In and surrendered ; but we knew that oar white clothes would be taken as disguises, and that we would have been arrested as spies.' 'Undoubt edly,' said Lieutenant E. 'So we con eluded togo in and pretend that WS were all right, but without our names. After we got out of your battery we went . act to our linea easily enough. While we were standing there talking to yon we were getting our bearings so as to get back.' Nev York Telegram. ?- atlas Frances E. Willard says that "whee the ideal woman comes no hus band will dare register as 'John Smith and wife.'" Whereupon the Nashville Union says : "We do not know what tbs 'ideal woman' bi expected to db, bat we humbly trust that ff she expects to be registered ss 'John Smith and lady,' she will never come. The name of wife, like that of home and mother, ls too' scored to be sacrificed to any mistaken ideal." We sro satisfied - that our con temporary doesn't take in the sitaation. Tbe new style will be apt to bo : "Mri. Smith and John."- Christian Advocate. - The empresa of Austria has a pri vate circus. Many American ladies hayo them too on lodge nights. A SINGULAR COMBAT. A filujruUr Combat nt Sabine Ftu In 1803. One of tho most singular combats of the civil vrar was the affair nt Sabine P??-. In September, 1803, the govern ment determined to possess itself of Sabine City, situated on the river of that name, about fifty miles from Galveston. great importance to the Union forces, and so carefully were all the plans laid and matured that Gen. Franklin's Nineteenth Corps, accompanied by four gunboat*, left New Orleans without half a dozen pefsonf! having the least suspicion of their destination. Information had been received by tho government that the Confederate defenses were of little account, and it was confi dently expected to take them by surpriao and come into possession without much of a fight. The defenses consisted of a single dirt fort, mounting six guns, with riflo-pita on the flanks. Tho garrison had at no time numbered over sixty men, and when the advance of the Federals was first sighted there were only forty four men, including offlcero, in the works. The ofbeors numbered but Ino, nnd both were lieutenants. Gunboats and transports reached Beveral shells baa been fired into the fort without provoking an answer arrange! ment? were entered into for disembarking the troops. It was decided that while this was occurring the four gunboats should move up and pound away at the fort, ir lt was garrisoned tho garrison would be driven out. If it had been abandoned, as somo of the officers seem ed to believe, the heavy missiles of the gunboats would knock it to pieces. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon the Clifton, Sachem and Arizona steamed forward to engage the fort at short range, and they had only fired one shot each when the Confederates returned an answer. Tho Sachem had tho lead, and as sho steamed on BIIO used evBfy glin which could be brought to boar, and her protected sharpshooters kept up a con stant lire at the embrasures of the fort. Tho fourth ?hot fired at tho Sachem struck her amid ships with terrible force, tearing off ber planting and crashing her timbero into splinters. Her steam pipe was CUt rd' broken! and in ten secando her erew were fighting an enemy there Cruel than shot or shell. The escaping steam blistered, burned, killed. Inside of two minutes ber flag was hauled down and the Sachem lay a wreck on the water. The Arizona drew too much water to run in close, but as it was econ that the Saohem had been disabled the Clifton steamed lu to take lifer place. It was believed that so long as she kept moving any shot which struck her would be an accident, but she had scarcely reached close-range position when she grounded on the bar and swung into such a posi tion that the Confederates could bring four out of the six guns to bear on her. , For ten minutes it was give and take. Realising that he was on the bar hard and strong, the captain of the Clifton : turned all his attention to the fort, \ changing bis abell for grape and cannis ter whenever Confederate sharpshooters , showed their heads above the parapet. The gunboat was frequently struck, but bad sustained no great damage up to the instant the great calamity befel her. A ponderous iron bolt struck ber almost whore tho Sachom was bit, crashed through her side in the same manner, and again it was the hot stesm from the boil ers which furnished the work of wreck and surrender. The Clifton baulcd down her flag, and the transports, which had been following ber in to disembark the troops, lost no time in getting out of range. The gallant action of the captain of the Clifton in steaming up within such close range, and of giving battle while hard and fast aground, was tarnished by bis later conduct. After a white flag had been run up and tho Confederates bad ceased firing, be ordered all the guns spiked, and with his own hands fired a solid shot through the center of the craft, rendering her machinery entirely useless. Nearly the entire crews, together with over 100 sharpshooters, were made pris oners by the Confederates, and most of the guns were soon made available. Either crew outnumbered the men in the fort, but upon the return of the expedi tion the flowery correspondents wrote of ' "8,000 rebels behind the works," and added that "the loss of the enemy was without precedent In war." As a point of fact that can be proved to day, not one single man in the fort was even wounded. For more tbao an hour and a half the forty-two men were nnder a fire which never entirely ceased, and were given solid shot, monster snells and liberal doses of grape and cannister, and yet not so much as a drop of blood was drawn. At no time could all the guns ba worked, a od the crew at auch as were being used were more or less targets for the sharp shooters abroad the ' gunboats. While the pstapet was dug full of holes deep enough to bary a horse, nut one of the guns was dismounted. After the loss of the two gunboats the others maintained a long-range fire for half an hoar or so ana then drew ofl*. The force of infantry aboard the tran sports was large enough to bave taken possession of the entire district, and had come ' .'ly supplied for permanent occu pation, bot a council of war determined on the abandonment of the expedition and a return to New Orleans. It eeenfed rank cowardice to retreat from a fort mounting bul six old-fashioned cannon and already knocked into a dirt-heap, but that was the resalt. The Arizona out matched tbe fort in the weight and range of her guns, and could have taken such position at would have kept the Confed erates under fire with no chance to return it. But no such movement was made. Sbe could have prevented the Confeder ates from possessing themselves of the two gunboats, bat the Idea was to get back to New Orleans. Sbe withdrew, followed by tho well-armed . Granite State, and a couple of Confederate steam ers came down the river and took possess ion of the surrendered crafts. They secured 150 prisoners, sixteen fine cannon, a large quantity of stores and ammuni tion, and the Sachem was soon repaired and added to their strength. There were three prisoners to one guard, and had there been any one to lead a break for liberty most of them would have made their escape. Here were from 12,000 to 15,000 infan try, four gunboats and twenty or thirty transports driven off by less than fifty men. An expedition costing hundreds of tbousaudt of dollars and weeks of hard work was rendered a burlesque A lodgment at Sabine would have given tho Union forces the key of half of two Confederate States. Taken in s 11 particulars, a stranger engagement never occured in war. The defender? of the fort were called the Jeff. Davis .Guards, and their bravery ' was eventually rewarded by a silver medal to each man, suitably inscribed, and many of the rank and fife were promoted from the ranks.-Detroit Free Freu. - A wealthy mao who obtains his [ wealth honestly and uses it rightly is * 1 great blessing to the community. It was considered Sabine A Strange but True Story. Many decades ago a vessel from Boston arrived at a dock ia London. Amona the hands on board was one named Tudor, a steady, well-looking young man, who acted as a sailor. Very early oue morniug a young, beautiful and decently dressed woman came tripping down io tho vessel aud inquired ol Tudor for tho captain. She was told he was not risen, but she insisted on seeing him without delay. Tudor called him up, aud she addressed him with : "Good morning, captain I I have called to see if you will marry me I" "Marry yo? V'-believing her to be a suspicious character-"leavo my vessel instantly, if you know what is for your good 1" She noxt went to tho mate and received a similar answer ; she then went to whore Tudor was, being engaged in handliug ship-tacks, and put tue same question to him. "With all ray heart,'' answered Tudor, in a Jocular manner. "Then," said she, "come along with ino." Tudor left his work and followed her. By the time the principal shops were oponed the lady entered a barber's shop followed by Tudor. She ordered a knight of the razor to clip his beard and bair, both of which he stood in need. Sho paid the bills and entered a bat Btere. She requested the best of beavers in the store, and told Tudor to select one, and ho did so, tho price being paid by the lady. Tudor threw his ola tarpaulin aside. They next visited a shoe store and selected a pair of boots, the lady also paying for them. Tudor by thin '-?nu') waa puazled to devise the object tho lady had lu View. He solicibxi an explanation, but she told him to be Bilent. She led the way into a clothing Dtore. Hero Tudor was told to get the best suit of clothes in the store The man of tar bedaubed panta and check ered shirt was in a few minutes meta morphosed into aa fine a gentleman as walkB the streets, the bill, as before being paid by the lady. Tudor's amazement was now complete. He again and again earnestly insisted on nn explanation ; the only answer lie received was : "Fol low mo and be not afraid ; ali will be explained to your satisfaction." Ho, therefore, resolved to ask no more ques tions. Next sho conducted him into a raagiatrato's office and politely requested the minister of tho law to anita her and her companion In matrimony. This was rather a damper to Tudor, but he yielded. The ceremony over/ the couple were pronounced man and wife. Without uttering a wore) or exchanging a kids, Tudor and his wife left the office, not however, until she had paid tho magis trate his fee. The couple walked in silence. Tudor hardly knowing what he was doing or what he had done. Turn ing tho Coiner, be saw a splendid house, toward which the wife directed her steps and into which they entered, passing into a room that was furnished in a mag nificent style. She told him to sit down and make himself contented while she went into another room. The first one who addressed her was her uncle, who asked how she escaped from her room and where she hau been. Her only answer was: "Thou fiend in human shape ; I allow you just ono hour to re move your effects from this house. You have long deprived me of my property, and meant to through life ; but you are frustrated. I am mistress of my own house. I am married, and my husband is here I" Wc must leavo the newly married couple for the purpose of giving the his tory of Mrs. Tudor. She was the only child of a wealthy gentleman, Mr. A -?, his daughter's name being Eliza. He bad been at great expense in her education, ahe being the only object, of bis care, his wife dying when she was Suite young. A short time before his calli he made a will by which his brother was to have all his property until his daughter was married, when it was to bo given up to her husband, but ii she died without marrying, the property was to go to her uncle and bis family. After the death of Mr. A., his brother removed into his house and Eliza board ed in his family. She soon discovered that her uncle did not intend she should ever marry. He shut her up in one of the centre rooms in the third story and refused her associates by telling them when they called that she had gone on a journey. The unfortunate girl was thus shut off from the world for three years. Her scanty breakfast happened to be carried to ber one morning by her old servant, Juan. Seeing the face of her old friend and servant, Eliza burst into tears. Juan well understood tl. o mean ing. T,Husb. Eliza I Some of your old servants nave long been planning moans for your escape." "What I" exclaimed Eliza, "if it pos sible that I am to be delivered from this vile place?" It is unnecessary to detail all the minutia o? tba escape. Suffice it to say tbat on the morning of the fourth day after the interview she made her escape. This was about daylight, She Immedi ately bent ber steps to the wharf where the Boston vessel lay. The amazement of Tudor and trans fiort of his wife at the sudden change of ortune may possibly be conceived but cannot be expressed. One pleasant morning some days after the marriage the crew of the Boston vessel's attention was drawn to a splendid carriego approaching the wharf. Tho driver let down the steps and a gentleman and lady elegantly dressed alighted. The gentleman asked the captain what port he was from, and many other ques tions-all the time avoiding bis scrutiny. At lsst, turning to the captain and call ing him by name, ho asid : "C?ptalo, bo! ['oro leaving i JUT vessel, permit me to make you acquainted with Mrs. Tudor." The captain and those about' bim had not recognized bim to be their old friend and shipmate Tudor, shorn they sap posed some fatal ncc ide nt had befallen. You may judge of the congratulations that followed. Tin captain regretted the harsh judg ment be had at first passed upon the young lady, b?t unlike the mate, being a married man he waa spared the added mortification of the latter that he had spurned even to consider so fortunate an offer or marriage. ? This remarkable marriage, the bride being snatched from prison walls, as lt ?era. and tho groom called from the hard and bumble lot of a common sailor both brought suddenly and unexpected ly to KitTons of freedom aud affluence-has dly a parallel lu. all history. The union thus formed proved to be a very happy one. The large fortune that thea fell under the activa management of Frederick Tudor visa wisely, han ul ed and largely Increased. In duo time Mr. nod Mrs. Tudor transferred their reside nco to Boston. With shrewd foresight Mr. Tudor en? tared hugely In .the ice business, being the first parson to make shipments of lea by sea. His ventare was mada in 1805. when be sailed himself with a cargo of 130 tons, In his cwn brig to Martinqne, Weat Indies., Ia. 1815 Mr. Tiidorob tain cd tba monopoly of tba Havana ice business, and important privileges from the Cuban government. Io 1817 ina in* traduced tbo business in Charleston. S. C., tbo next year in Savannah, and in 1820 into Nerf Orleans. In May, 1833, he sent the first cargo of ice to the East Indies, which wasdeUvered in the autumn of that year. Of the 180 tons, nearly one-half was wasted in the voyage and in going up the Ganges. The ico was sold immediately, at no more than half tho coat of that prepared by the natives. In 1884 tho first cargo of ice was shipped to Brazil by Mr. Tudor, and until 1836 he had a monopoly of the shipment of ico, but it finally became so large and Eron table that others entered into the uainess from various ports. . Mr. Tudor's foresight secured to Bos ton the chief position of the Calcutta trade, and gave her ships cargoes for Southern ports, thus reducing the cost of freighting Southern producta to the North. The extensivo and vaidsbls Tudor estates in Boston and vicinity y where representatives of tho family still reside, are well known. The Tudors have always been noted for public spirit* intelligence and re?nemuut. - liotion OomtnomceaUh. Indian Cotton-Effect of Abundant La? bor and Cheap Transportation. "The opening up of railways in India/' says Consul Shaw, in his latest report to the State Department, "has enabled growers of cotton as well as of wheat to cheaply transport their crop to the prin cipal shipping port.'!, and the improved prices which have followed better means of transportation and of cultivation have led to a large inerease in the production. Much attention has been given to thi? staple crop by thc Indian authorities, and special legislation has been passed to compel inspection of ail cotton baled for - export. This action, however, did not practically meet tbr approval ot those who wore actively engaged in the cotton trade. It was found tobe expen sive, and that even when officially 'in spected' the grade was uneven and tbo colton inferior in quality. The rivalries of business houses engaged iu the cotton trade in India have led to a system of doing the work of collecting t*1 ? cotton from the interior in a fashion t i;eeures perfect grading and careful a'isortlng before it is finally baled at tbe ocean ports. The choap and abundant labor of India onablea those who raise cotton to produce it at very low cost Not only docs this apply to the inland points, where tann bands or laborers are employed, but it? large seaboard towna also. Coolie labor era will work for from* $3.89 to $4.88 n month and provide their own food and lodging. In remote agricultural districts good labor ia obtainable as low as ?2.50 per month, including food, or a little over 8 cents a day. Ono of the principal arti? cles of diet consista of rice, which is very cheap all over India. The following data will show the steady growth of the os por ta of Indian cotton since 1878, and it should be borne lu mind also that an increased native consumption has taken placo during the same period : Number of cwt. 1888-79. 2,960,000 1870-'80 . 8,048,476 1880- '81. 4,541,539 1881- '82. 5,627,453 1882- '83." 0,168,278 The largest proportion of this.Indian cotton is used on tho Europoau continent, where, owing to its cheapness, an increas ing yearly consumption is taking place. When tho cheap rate of wages in India is considered, and the further fact that there are still vast tracts of land suited to tho cultivation of cotton to be devel oped, the outlook is very promising for a S;reatly increased supply in the near uture from this source. The ease with which the cotton crop is. cul tl vated, and the abundance and low cost of labor for its manipulation, combine to render the crop profitable to the natives, although the yield per acre is often as low as 60 or GO pounds. Indian cotton ia in much' favor on the continent, especially on account (1 ) of ita cheapness, add (2) be cause the thread spun from lt will take on a high polish, thus enabling silk man ufacturers to largely use it in imitation of pure silk; Ip fact, so closely can the thread spun from Indian cotton be made to resemble silk that it sometimes takes a good judge to tell the difference. The value of last year's exports of cot ton from all Indian ports was, in round numbers, $78,102,691." Not What ho JTetonds to Bc. The Chicago Tribune says : I know a woman in Chicago of more than com monly heroic stuff. In the late war she rode through shot and shell to succor the dying. She has all the graces that be come a woman and moro of moral cour age than many men. She bas long beeti the associate of men high in the Nation's counsels, and recently accepted a position of public responsibility. "No," 6aid she, "I do not believe any man was ever an atheist in the full sense of the word. I crossed the ocean with Bob Ingersoll once, and I asked , him about it. 'No,' said he, 'I have been all over the ground. I have dreamed myeelf into every conceivable frame ot* mind have scaled the heigh ta and looked beyond into the impenetrable mystery of infinity ; I have passed dowu through the vale of despair and hava wandered on the edgo of the abyss, and I do not. believe thai conscientious and lasting atheism ia. a condition possiblo to the human mind.* 'In evidence of this let me tell you, con tinued she, 'that I saw and heard Colo nel Ingersoll myself once on the field of battle"-she named the battle, but I cannot recall lt-"when ho was gallantly rallying a regiment of broken and re treating soldiers. He used no godless arguments, then, but. waving his sword aloft, swore with all the vigor of an excited man, and called upon the mon with such eloquence and force In the name of their altars and sires and the God that watches above them to turn back again into the fight that with one accord they accepted his leadership and turned with a shout again to the charge." - On the 2d instant Mrs. Jacob Dukes of Orangeburg County and several negro women and their children were poisoned' by eating honey impregnated with "tho yellow jessamine juices. Almost as soon as lt was eaten two of the colored chil dren began to complain of blindness and dizziness and within au hour died,. The lives Of tho other two children wore saved by their vomiting. Mrs. Dukes and tho i others wert , relieved by emetics.^ Th? ! sudden death th? week previous of Mrs. Duke's older* sou, whoso illness waa accompanied by similar symp?oms, U now accounted for ss he had catea some, Of the honey. * The boney of the low coun try is aald to co a tain poison, owing to the bees extracting from th? wild Sowers, and. persona have frequently been mads sick by eating honsy, but these Geom to be th fe first cases af death from the u&a of lt.- ; ., ... f;r::{.\ ? ? . -- Th a latest aty?e of bustle is made of watch spring steal wire, and may be uacd for a colander, a rat trap, a por tallo r, or a base-ball catcli rbtning conductor.