Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"??^^1 ? !^ZZ^!Zr?_^!!r^S!!^?^l!^^^??^^T"1T^''1111!'''**^^ i' in.?I.-MM?-ii .??inuit, II?-MI?-?- in II mi i-a-. BY E. B. MURRAY & CO._ANDERSON. S. C., THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 2. ??sT _ VOLUME XX.-NO. 51. WE liavii't a BAT, but wc have a cariosity ex ceedingly rare. So como around and seo two hearts from ono living animal, which is vouched for by a truthful and responsible party. You will find it at WILHTTE & WILHITE'S, The Acknowledged Headquarters for DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PERFUMERY, EXTRACTS, PATENT MEDICINES AND DYE STUFFS. Linseed, Machine, Sweet and Castor Oils. Combs, Brushes, Hair Oils, Pomades, Bay Rum, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Sponges, Etc. Fine Soaps, Insect Powders, Fly Paper, Indigo, Madder, Etc. Twe Powders, Powder Puffs, Tooth Powders, Tooth Brushes, Ivan's Dentifrice, and Pine Toilet Goods. Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Supporters, Etc. Our CIGARS are of Extra quality. None better in the city. Best Coal Oil, Lamps and Lamp Goods. If you are troubled with Flies or Insects of any kind, come buy some of our Insect Powder and get rid of them. Wilhite's Soda Water is still the favorite beverage. Nothing helps out the Farmer more than a plentiful supply of Turnips. They are good for man and beast. We have a large Stock of TURNIP SEED, Which we guarantee to be fresh and true to name. ?U varie ties, from the most reliable growers, which are sold at lowest prices. July 9. 1885 fl? _ GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS SOLD VERY CHEAP -AT SMITH * CO.'S CLOTHIITG STORE. WK HAVE NOW ON EXHIBITION ONE OF THE Finest Stocks Spring and Summer Clothing in the market. CIOME AND SEE US. Wc will pass you in free, and charge you nothing for look J ing. We have just receivrd from market a beautiful line of MENS' AND BOYS' CLOTHING and IT!'. MASSING GOODS. HAT? for Men and Boys. 1 Come and Bee our SUITS FOE THE LITTLE FELLOWS. The impression has gono out that we wera out of tho market, but we want to in form our old friends that we aro here yet. Como and see us, and we will treat you right. fSf Don't forget the place. SMITH & CO., WHITNER STREET, Opposite Auditor's Office. March 28, 1885 87 BARGAFNS FOR CASH ! I HAVE A FULL LINE OF Boots,,,.Shoe.f^!f?ts and Clothing : j That I will ?oll AT COST^ and LESS THAN DOST for the CASH. - >I afsO bavWAi??JU??> I.INE:?lC*>THER~GOriWthat ? sr?llscll VERY LOW for Cash. Good Bargains can bo found here, ir ybu don't boliovo it call and see, and you will not be disappointed. TAKE WARNING! ? After the 10th day of April next thc Notes and Accounts of tho old Firm of REED ? MOORHEAD will bo found In the bands of an Attorney for collection. Time and money can be saved by calling boforo then and fettling with mo. JT. FINK ?*1?13E>. "QoTeU?l?the^?oplof?r Miles "Around!" -THAT -r JOHN M. HUBBARD ic BRO. ARB PREPARED TO SELL MORE JEWELRY, MORE WAT?H?GS, . , MORES SILVERWARE, MORE CLOCKS, &C, AIT PRICES MORE TO YOUR NOTION. _THAN EVER BEFORE. ; . . J?* EVERYTHING In tho shape of ? Watch, Clock or Jewelry thoroughly repaired, feb 5,1885 80 . ? . . ' ? . THE HANDSOMEST GOODS That hat eyer been -brough t to this market, consist! n/r or STYLISH SILKS, BEAUTIFUL LACES of all descriptions, ' ^ st ? ?J, fefJOTPBBS ?a* tllOBS of every ^ ttaSg0'1 fu*S* to notice onr varied stock of R1IWOK and come ahjUry our stylish ? A*? on befcr? purchasing ebotvhere. We feel assured you can,^**?~L f" j, ," , Our ,pace u {?o limited to exhibit onr Goods. . Awrtttn* ye*.donotsw ?? BM i nave evcrytMn?'that Ladles and Children NEED to maka them happy an* .?na?tra, * Very respectfully. LADIES' STORE. March. 20 1885 87 OUE NEW YORK LETTER. Tko Commercial Depression-linder tho Metropolitan Carrent-A Lucky Boot* black-A Kare old Violin-The Dramatic World. Special Garretpondenee Intelligencer. NEW YOUR, July 21,1885. The w?eat men confess their it ability to discover "a silver lining to the cloud" that overhangs the busineas community and threatens disaster. Down on Wall Street, brokers are standing around with their hands idle waiting for customers who do not como, ur are speculating on each other lo eecuro the picayune profits j that will pay a day's expenses. Tho banks ate flush with money and eager to loan it for one per cent per annum, but there are no borrowers. Railroads and steamships are fighting for travel ; rent? have come down to keep pace with re duced incomes, aud even the favored class who clip coupons fere bowing to "the wind that tempera the shorn lamb. Thc newspapers are full of (he "wants" of the unemployed, and shop-keepers are literally giving away thoir goods. You can buy pawn tickets that represent tho saddest of life histories, for a song, and the streets abound in tramps whose only bedroom is the park or open door way. Nevertheless, there is a brighter side to thc picture. Material being cheap and labor abundant, many local improve ments are in progress. New streets are being cut in the upper part of tho city ; thc wasto places aro filling up ; the j Elevated railroads have given an impetus to speculation in real estate, and the men who used to drop their money iu V/aii Street, aro now investing in eight and ten ?tory apartment houses. THE BROADWAY R. R. After years of turmoil, Broadway bas ] at last uuccumbed to the rails and we are enjoying a new sensation and con venience. Tho withdrawal of the Omnibusses has proved a blessing, and that tho business of the merchants along the street will be increased is doubtless true ; but after all, the old New Yorker can't help exclaiming poor Broadway ! What with the tearing up of her pave ment avery month or two, the laying" of | pipes for.gas, steam and water, and, the EroBpect of a tunnel at no distant day, er old-time glory has departed. The wago workers have taken possession below 14th street, and fashionable society now plants its furbelows above Union and Madison Squares. A DEATH TRAP. There is ono feature of the new road which bids fair to prove dangerous. In the baste of laying the tracks, they were El aced so near each other that the space et ween, passing cars is less than .the diameter of a stout persons body; and whoever carelessly gets off on the wrong side is liable to be caught, twisted around, and thrown under the wheels. There is a probability that heavy damages will be paid to some sufferer in the near future, and thal tho Courts will order a wider interval between the rails, which will require the tearing up of half the struct ure. AN OiiD SOLDIER'S 8TOBY. The undercurrents of life in the Metrop olis frequently afford strange incidents. One of these como to my notice the other j day while sitting in a restaurant. An old gentleman entered and occupied a vacant seat opposite. After giving bis order he entered into conversation with the ease and grace of a well travelled man of th? world. His hair waa white and his moustache and imperial trimmed a la militaire. The Sguro waa small, but compact and Bopple, and be looked what be was; every inch an old soldier. . It turned out that he was a Frenchman who haa passed the seventy-eighth year | of his age, and the greater part of wheeo life bau been spent in the army. A graduate of the military school of St. Cyr. he was sent as a young lieutenant to Africa, where he engagea in the cam Eaign against Ab del Kadei. On the reaking out of the Crimean War he went with his regiment of Zouaves to Sebastopol, and was one of the daring band wno scaled tho wall of the Mala koff. Here he was wounded, but made a ! captain for bis gallantry, and at tho close of war, transferred to another department of the army. Here again, at Solferino, Sadowa, and other great battles, and still later in the Franco-Prussian War, he followed tho tri-color, and was with that portion of the French columns which marched to the defence, of Paris, and wrested tho city from the hands of I the Commune. Franco having become quiet, he followed his son to America, ? and in 1861, threw down his pen as a journalist, and offered bis sword to the land of his adoption. He was appointed to assist in the organization and drilling of the new regiments and subsequently was ordered to the field, where ne was promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy of a Pennsylvania regiment. He fought until the end, was wounded three or four times, and after the var was honorably discharged but, like many another brave fellow, without a so!Mary resource for a livelihood. Meanwhile, his son hsd been killed in battle, bis wlfo bad died, and to cap tbe climax of his misfortunes, a Becend wife, young and attractive, "skipped his ranche" and loft him home less. In this predicament, he managed to secure a small news route in the upper portion of the city, sold papers and magazines, and gradually enlarging his business, now employa a number of car riers, and has un income, he avers, of from $2500 to *300C ? year. The old gentleman Was as chirpy as a boy, and no one would suspect that he had passed through half a dosen wara, been scarred by bullets and bayonets, and had enough romance in hie career to make a book. AN ENTERPRISING BOOT-BLACK. A brother journalist yesterday related the following incident which Is worth publishing as a leaton to boya. Ten years ago, ho picker! up in tbs vestibule of tbeNei York Her?l? officp" on a stormy Winter night, a little six year'old Child who waa fast asleep behind the stairway. He bad failed to- sell bia newspapers, lost one of his shoes and was afraid to go, hou>o lo a cruel ate*mother. The Editor wrapped his overcoat around the waif, and carried him to a neighbor* lng News boy's Lodging house, fife waa quito small for hla age and ao handsome that the author! ties of the place expressed a desire to adopt him. but it seems that tho little chap wanted to "boo bia own ?OW." The journalist waa surprised a reek or two later to receive * visit from his young protege. 'Tvo come to thank you, air," said be, bat I don't want to be a newsboy any more; I want to be a boot black ; there's lota Itt it." As tbe suggestion appeared to bo a good one, an outfit was ourchaaed, and the benefactor accompanied the lad to Wall Street, where bo r/aa introduced to a number of broker?, and hi? brief story rehV.od. Since then, the incident had not occurred to tho Editor's mind, until the other day when durirn xlzlt to the exchange, he waa accosted with the usual cry '"Black your boots, sir ?" Looking io the face of the tall, manly looking boy who had spoken, he recognised in the blue eyes and curly hair, his little friend of ten years before. In the conversation which followed, he learned that the lad bad steadily pursued bis chosen vocation, made many friends, and by bia industry saved nearly three hundred dollars which be now has in bank. As soon as the present bard times are over, a clerkship in a broker's office awaita him, as a re ward for his fidelity, and the same enter prise that has so successfully carried him thus far, may one day make him the bead of a great firm. At any rate, the boy bax a bright future before him and ix au example of what may be accom plished hy a lad who "paddles his own canoe." POLITENESS THAT DID'NT TAY. There is an old saying that "politeness is like an air cushion ; though there's nothing in it, it eases our jolts wonder fully." Recently, it did not prove true. In a crowded Sixth Avenue car last week, an old gentleman gallantly rose to give hU seat to a lady. As he did so, a rude but well dressed fellow took it. Think ing there was some misunderstanding, the old gentleman explained matters. Tho other surlily replied, "I found the seat empty, and I'm going to keep it." "Then you are not fit for decent socie ty ; you're a blackguard ; you respect neither woman, nor the gray hairs of your seniors." "Old man, if it was'nt for your years, I'd smash you !" "Waive the years, and get right out . here," ex claimed the now enraged grandeire, "and I'll teach you that you are not only a blackguard, but a coward and a pup py." But the younger man did'nt budgo until Beveral blocks were passed, when he pulled the strap, alighted and said, "Now I'm ready for you," but before the old man could turn around, the fellow darted to an opposite corner, brought a Coliceman, ano the gentleman was ustled off to Court. One or two of the Eassengere went along and testified in his efalf hut tho brute and the officer were chumo, and both being in the same polit ical "ring" wif'i the "Justice" the cul prit was fined tun dollars. It was paid on the upot, boc the fiery veteran as he left tho court room could not refrain from saying that he would give a hun dred dollars more for the privilege of a conversation with the scoundrel just three minutes long, and if he did'nt polish him off in.that time, it would be because his right hand lind forgotten its cunning." BEHIND THE SCENES. How few people recognize the distress ing circumstances under which actors and other public servants aro sometimes com pelled to keep their engagements or dis appoint tho multitude. Just before the dramatio season closed, a prominent commedian was forced to leave bin dying wife and go upon the stage to make the people laugh. On reaching home, he found her a corpse. Last Sunday I visited Manhattan Beach to listen to the music of Qilmore'e Band. It waa gener ally observed that the famous leader was greatly depressed, and that the last piece on the programme, "Nearer my God, to Thee," was played with more than ordi nary fervor, the band standing, and the immense audience joining in singing the grand old hymn. I inquired of Mr. Gilmore a few minutes later the causo of this unusual solemnity. "My dear old mother died two days ago, and at the moment her favorite hvmn was being played, she was being laid to rest." was the sad reply. "To tell the truth." he added, "I was almost obliged to leave the stand, for I was blind with tears, and only thc censo of duty prevailed." . A RARE OLD VIOLIN. Some meu aro born to good luck and others have it thrust upon them. Just before ho .sailed for Eurone, M. Ravin d'Elpeux, the husband or Murio-Celli, a' celebrated operatic teacher, while attending an auction, purchased a ven erable looking violin. It waa guiltless of Strings, and to a casual observer seemed like an estray from some hospital for infirm fiddles. His friends laughed at him because he had bought a "pig in a bag," hut be sentimentally answered that it was a relie of an old estate, and he wanted it r n souvenir. A few days later, while examining the instrument under a strong light, he was astonished to find within the shell, tho nama of the great "Gu. i nar i us .fecit." Here was a prize indeed. Showing it to an artistic friend, he was promptly offered a hun dred dollars. Since then, Mr;. d'Elpcus bas refused fivo times that oom from those who recognize that he b thepoesea sor of ono of the rarest genia extant, and it is now on its travels in a styl? befitting its rank and lineage. ACTORS IN THEIR SUMMER* HOMES. In the theatrical world, roost of thc leading professionals aro enjoying a Seriod of rest. Edwin Booth ir at hi: 'ow port cottage, and since'the -marriage of his daughter is apparently more sensi tive to the pleasures of life than-' he ba: been for roany years. Poor Joht McCullough is in the BloomJngdaU Asylum, hopelessly insane; not wild but weak, and liable to die at any mo ment. Ho will leave a property wort! between sixty and seventy thousand dol lars. Maggie Mitchell is at her cottage in Long Branch, where also reside the Ohanfraus. Henderson, Theodore Mosi of Wallack's, John Albaugb. the propii (nor of the Washington and Baitimor? theaters and Oliver Doud Byron. Al these own handsome places and enter tain royally. Mary Anderson's house yact and bones, with which abe was won to enjoy herself at the Branch.have beei sold, and she will hoi return to th< United Sutes until about the first o October. During the recent visit of he step-father, Dr. Hamilton Griffin, for thi purpose of superintending the ahovi M?osacuotiB, he showed me a malaca cane which she had purchased for hin for $260. It was an unusually long am aged stick with a plain gold head 01 which was inscribed "Presented to Davh Garrick by his friends, Stratford on-the Aron."* " Robson and Crane, Lawrence Barret? Alice Booth and the voteran John Gil bert are Summering io cottages at Man cheater-by-the Sea, and at Oobaasel Mass. ; and pretty Estelle Clayton find her home in Madison Avenue, New York more attractive than any other waterlnj place. Perhaps it ia because sba I writing another play as a companioi piece to her "Favettc" George Ed ga who* King Lear and Othello made hin (amona, and who unearthed Margaro and made ber what she ls, has discovers another "coming actress," whom he I coaching for a dtbut in a year or two He baa also found in'a young lawyoi who Ia one of his pupila, a comic genia and burlasquo performer, who can bur tesaba ava* Henry A. Dixey, the Adonh ami give him pointa besides. Mr. Edgs very wisely refuses to permit his frail; i be plucked by. managen until it is ripe The coming Mason, from all a?oounu promises to bo much mor? aatiafactor both to tho public and to the performer than tho last. THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN. Au Interesting Talk AUont that Couutry. News and Guttier. On Wednesday last a representative of the Ne tva and Courier had a very pleasant interview with Mr. Jokicbi Takamine, the Japaneso Commissioner to the New Orleans Exposition, who bas been in Charleston for several day?, and who bas been inspecting the phosphate industries of South Carolina. Mr. Takamine was found at the New Brighton Hotel, and the Reporter and the Commissioner had quito a long talk, during which many things wore said which will doubtless be of iuterest to the public. Mr. Takamiue seated himself at the table in tho reading room of tho hotel, and took from bis pocket a queer-looking little book which contained the statistics of the Empire of Japan, but which was totally unlike any hook that bas ever been printed in this country. It had two backs aud one leaf, the one leaf being folded like a fan. The printing was in Japanese characters, ana was unintelli gible, of courte, to anybody but a Japa nese er a graduate of Vassar College. The convenience of it? arrangement was proved by the rapidity with which the Commissioner answered the questions that were addressed to him After referring to the book. Mr. Takamine said that he is a gradu ate of the Imperial College of Engineer ing at Tokio. PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN JAPAN. "Freee college ?" inquired the Re porter. "Ob, yes, it is supported by tho Gov ernment and is under the direction of the public works department. I learued to speak English at college, as tho pro fessors aro au Engl iah. After gradu?t! ng I spent two years in Eogland, and on my way home to Japan crossed the American Continent, thus. Uko Mr. Ph:r. eas Fogg, making a complete tour of the world. There are about 80,000 schools in Japan, public and private. The pub lic schools are supported by tbe local government from the procoeds of taxa tion just as the public schools in this State are supported." HOW THE COUNTRY IS GOVERNED. "Elections? No, we don't have any elections to speak of. The various towna and cities are governed by a Cbiji, 01 local governor, who is appointed by the Emperor. There is a representative body elected by the people, corresponding to your board of aldermen, but their acte are subject to the approval of the Chiji, In Tokio the council consists of seventy five repreaentatives-^quite a large body.' "Our Emperor ia named SfuUuhiio He has reigned for eighteen years, and ii still under 40 years of age. He car trace his descent back two thousand five hundred yearn, during all of which time his family have been on the throne There are three classes of the poople The Kuwazoku, or nobility, the title: being hereditary ; the Shizoku, or soldivi class, and the Haimin, or common peo pie. "Tho population of the Empire is 37, 000,000, of which about seven thousam are foreigners. The stsndiug army nura bera about 100,000 men, and tho Imperta navy consists of thirty men-oi-war am seven thousand men. The three princi pal cities are : Tokio (formerly Jedda, with a population of 1,000,000 ; Osaka with a population of 800,000, and Kiota with a population of 250.000. "No, there is no Legislature or Con gress. In five years time there will be i House of Representatives to be electee from the different parts of the Empire and which will be, I suppose, in its chai acter something like the English Hous of Commons. The Emperor has said i shall be so. None but those who ow: property will be allowed to vote. N< lhere are no slaves or serfs in Japan, don't think there ever was. We are a' freemen. The agricultural lands ai firetty well dividea op and there are n arge holdings worth mentioning, j great many of the common people ow their own farms, others rent them." TH** RBLIGION OF JAPAN. "What is the religion of the Empire That is a subject upon which I bat some hesitation in speaking. Buddhisi j is the State religion. I should say it the religion of the uneducated. Tb educated classes r.ro generally followe ! of the philosophy of Confucius. Thei are som? Christians in the Empire." I "What do the Buddhists worship? don't know as they worship any particuli deity (with some hesitation). I thin they go by the moral law to do no wron to any man, and to live out your life ti beet you can according to your lights, am confident that yonr Seven Commam menti?r-" "Ten," suggested the Reporter. ."Yes, I moan your Ten Cominan 'menta"ar? embodied in substance in tl moral law which prevails in Japan ai w$Icb |s inculcated as a part of the J tpt?w?jrajgion/' 1* The Commissioner did not seem -have very dear convictions on this sn ?cct, although ho answered very pleasai y and courteously tbe somewhat person questions that were addressed to him. THE POSTAL SYSTEM. Mr. Takamine went on to give a vi fund of information abont Japan. Ti postal system, be said. Ls very compte There are six thousand po:tornees in t Empire, the rates of postage being abo tbe same as in this country. The poi masters are appointed by the Emperi their tenure of office being at tho Em| tor's pleasure. "would offensive partisanship be co aidered a cause for removal," asked t Reporter. "I understand," replied the Comm nioner, with a smile which evinced 1 appreciation of the joke. "We have such offence in Japan. "Telegraphs? Ob, yes ; the telegra wires extend all through the Empi and railroads are being constructed every direction. Lighthouses, too, i kept ap around the entire coast." ?EXPORTS AND IM TORTS. "Oar exports are annually $36,000,0 or nearly $1 for each person on t island. Our imports are $25,000,000 i nnaliy. Newspapers? Ob, yes, th are plenty of newspapers. In To! there are seven large and five or small papers. By a Targe paper we rat a daily. Thc circulation of the lal papers is about 7,000 each. There i also 1,000 banks in the Empire 1 tax is 2 per cent, on tho value of i estate. The annual income of the O ernment Ia about $76400,000, the put debt abont $300.000,000, on which inl ext is paid at different rateejaoging fr five to eight per cent. The debt \ greatly increased by the revolution ab twenty yeera ago." Tins revolution, Mr. Takamine si waa headed by the Emperor against military chiefs who bad usurped the 1 perlai poners, and who had greatly t pressed the people. It wu success and the growth of Japan dated from day of the restoration of the Empero] A KINGPOM OP ISLANDS. The Empire Of Japan cona Uta ? long chain of ielanda; the principal c being Hondo, on which the capital is u&tod, Kiushiu, Shikoku and Yeaao. Them ore in addition one hundred and eevon smaller islands, so that it is liter ally a kingdom of islands, covering an area of about 167,648 square milos. The temperature is, of course, very variable, tho lowest tbormometrical record heine two degrees above zero at Sappero and the highest being ninety-five degrees at Nugate. The principal crops and their annual products are as follows : Bice, 196.000,000 bushels; wheat, 11,600,000 bushels; barley, 49,421,000 bushels; millet, 18,890,000 bushels; maize, 1,882, 000 bushels; soy beans, 11,556.000 buBb els ; buckwheat, 3,367,000 bushels ; raw cotton, 10,261,000 cwt. ; hemp fibre, 133, 700 cwt. ; tea, 394,048 cwt. ; tobacco, 332,441 cwt. ; sugar cano, 7,149,000 cwt. ; potatoes, 17,980,000 cwt. ; bark of paper mulberry, 327,000 cwt. ; Indigo leaves, dried, 880,000 cwt. The Japanese exhibit at the Now Or leans Exposition was said to be oue of the finest. There were fourteen jr ou pa exhibited by the varioua Governmental departments and exhibit? from sixty-one different private exhibitora, all of which were classified and grouped, and of which an able, intelligent and exhaustive de scriptive catalogue was prepared by Mr, Takamine and Mr. K. Tamari, the Com missioners, and printed in English. Mr. Takamiue visited the Charleston Phosphate Company's mines and works on Wednesday, and those of the Atlantic, Edisio and Ashley companies yesterday. He inspocted minutely tho process of washing and cruthing and preparing the rock, and alBO vinitcd tho mines. To day he will probably pay a visit to some of the marine works. "I have been very much pleased with my visit here," he aaid, in closiug the interview, "and have beeu very much astonished and delighted at all that I have seen. I trust that tho object for which I came here will be found to be practicable nod auewwful, and that it will result in tho establishment of a trade between the two countriea which will be profitable to both." From Charlestou Mr. Takamico will go to Washington, where he will remain some time. Ho expects to return to Japan about the beginning of Sop tomber. Fighting Ancient and Modern. Tho only difference between ancient and modern armies is in the application of steam, gunpowder, and dynamite-a very great one in appearance, but not so much in reality. Modern armiea do not need to be so large in the field as ancient armies ; yet it is questionable whether fewer people aro required for an affective war in modern times than of old. TL men who make the powder and dynamite and the girla who fill the cartridges are quite aa much part and parcel of a mod ern army aa the oldieT who fire them off, and run pretty nearly aimilar risk. The methods of modern warfare are exactly tho same as of ancient warfare, and relatively not much more effective, 1 though just as coarse and brutal. The i long DOW was quite as effective a weapon as the rifle, and modern cannon do not eeem to be any great advantage on the balistm and battering rams of the an cients. In naval warfare we have actu ally gone back again to ono of the most ancient naval manoovers, that of, ram ming. The siege trains of the precent day aro just nu cumbersome aa sitjTC traine in times when aa the Bible tells ?B, "Mountain? and hills were made low and valleys exalted ; when rough places were made plain and the crooked atraight." Science baa not yet Baid its laat word on the adaptation of nature's secrets to r?sistance against rapine, car nage, and wrong, whether exeroised by nation or nations against individuals. Even now substances are known to chem ists which it only needs finer mechanical skill to make into efficient and invincible agents for defending civilization againsl barbarism and savagery. What aecretf may be, and no doubt are hid in the womb of nature, and are waiting to bc revealed by the hand of acieuce, can on!; be conjectured. But we may be sure o' thia much-that the higher the civiliza' tion and the moro developed the intellect of the future, the more hopeless - will become the attempts of needy and adven< tu rou fi barbarians aga! nat the well-beini of rich and highly civilized natious. ?: the rich BomanB had left to Britain wi tl their civilization a body of physics knowledge oimih.r to (bat even of to-day the Saxon conquest would have beer impossible. Hary Ann at Long Branch. A woman who by her own effort: carves out a great fortune in this work of strife ia alwaya an interesting specta cle. Such a woman is Mrs. Dr. B. Led dy, known in commerce throughout thi United States and in a large part of Eu rope as plain Mary Ann Connolly, thi New York dressmaker and importer She is jus' now a familiar figuro at Loni Branch. She owns eight of the hand somest cottages at that fashionable re sort, representing in the aggregate a thin of a million of dollars. The last tha she has erected is a magnificent structure near Mr. Child'a villa at Elberon. It i splendidly decorated, the dining roon being panelled in porcelain. It Ia wortl $80,000. Ail of the cottages are rent? this season, and Mme. Connolly, as th woman is commonly called, resides in i modest hotel. She ia a tall, robust high-shouldered woman of extraordiusr energy and executive ability.. Her ow! toilets can hardly be said to be beautiful or even io the beat taste, though sh dresses the most fashionable belles o New York and bsa fitted out numberlet wealthy belles. Starting as a working woman in a dressmakers shop, she ha by skill and push succeeded in eatab Hobing a business worth $25,000 a yeai and ia thought to be worth consideran] more than $1,000,000. Her husband is New York lawyer of small practice. H is undersized and elender, and baa noticeable brogue. He acts as a mans ger for bis wife, as well as pleads in th courts. Tho two seem to got along U ?ether happily and without a jar. 'nUadelphta Pre*?. - The Tampa O'la.) Tribune ls to b credited with this: "Wo learn from gentleman just from un the country, thi on June 24 the mosquitoes were so tb ic at Waldo that they completely envelope a locomotive on tb J Florida Railway an Navigation Company's road. The engli eer could cot soe ten steps before bin and, in consequence, the train wi delayed several hours. Clouds of th insects were floating around in the a thicker than the locusta in Kansas i 1877. and completely obscured tho ra; of the sun. It was so dark that tri lamps bad to be lit, and Ii was som throe hours before the mosquitos* clears away sufficiently for the train to moi on.* - Mrs; J. E. B. Stuart? tho aldo Of the dashing Confederate ca val i general, ia visiting her- lather, Gei Phillip St. George Cooke, of Detrol lan. duart married six months bolo, tho war broke out and the father ao son-in-law cn to ved tho opposing annlo Goa, Cook? waa opposed to Gen. Sinai on?y once o? the battlcJcld. THE ?BEAT: PULPIT COMMONER, j Ham Joncs'? Wonderful Success a? a Revivalist. Carretjiondtnce Nashville American. I freely confess myself much less at a loss to make up my mind as to whether Brother Jones is a great preacher than I have been to finally determine whether Grant is a great general. If he were not thoroughly earnest and honest in his professions he could |not deceive not only the people ' where he has preached abroad, but those at home wno have known him (as saint and sinner) from infancy--au a minister for twelve or thirteen years. I have just conversed with a gentlemau who was long a resi dent of the county in which Carterville (Joues's home) is situated. He thinks very much of this modern Jonah : says every word is true of tho story he himself tells of his former revelry and rapscal Monism. That he drank, drank, drank, and wont down, down, down, until be got to driving a dray for a living. This may be truo or not ; if not, I hope Brother Jones, in bis next reference to the press, will candidly admit that not the newspapers, but the people, aro tho champion liars of the age. Newspapers are always honest, truth-telling Interpre ters. Indeed, they could not be other wise. They reflect, just as a mirror does, that portion of the world held before it, and il' liars are abroi*!, or lies, like lousy bats, encircle the air. they must be rep resented in tho faithful newsgatherer. Papers are invariably truthful ; it is you, sir, and you, and you, who are the liars. No ordinary Georgia scrub could come to Tennessee and take possession as Brother Jones has done. Ho io either the greatest revivalist of the United States to-day or Tennesseeans are tho most con summate assea living. So, indeed, are the Texans, Mississippians and others, for he has aroused the same excitement everywhere. Co!. B. F. Liilard, of ~u?<* city, pronounces bim the great rmi pit commoner, as Pitt, Clay and Johnson were the great commoners of the politi cal world. Pick out from the list of the converts the nainea of the fow "hardened sinncre" at the head of this letter. They are men of brains and courage and convictions; men whom no ordinary breoze could move from any position. Bead his sermons. Are they not, for tho most part, fell of plain, practical sense and theological orthodoxy? If the Ghriation's Bible is the foundation of hope, who could better testify to the common people (or the uncommon people either) his faith in tho divinity of the written word than when ho saya : "I believe the whale swallowed Jonah ; believe lt literally. I only'do not believe that Jonah swallowed tho whale Blmply becaueo the Bible doesn't say ho did." To the sinner who hesitates, who waits for his "feelings" to* move him, who wanta to "feel" that he ia good enough to go bofo zo he mokes any change ia his conduct, waa there ever a more homely or moro convincing illustration presented than the anecdote- of tho man who Bat down, axe in hand, at the root of a tree ono cold, frosty morning, waiting for tho invent to break out before he went to work? Brother Jones admits his natural weakness. He has the appearance of a man of a hasty and once viol?, nt tem per. It must have been diificult at first to keep a lock upon his lips ; ho IB no doubt a man, brave, impulsive, courage ous-the very sort open to temptation. Was there ever a better illustration of one liable to fall, yet determined to stand, th"-: that made yesterday of himself: "I d'jtt'fc care how often one errs, if he'll honestly strive to restrain himself and recover his proper balance when he docs err. All along the way we meet with con'tliots and temptations. When I etumblo end fall, thank God I always fall liku an India rubber ball, I fall bouncing 1 God will put his angels on half rationB to keep an honest mau and li i 3 family from starving." Withal, he reaches men of le? impos ible sympathies by mixing horse sense logio with horse sense anecdotes end illustrations, for no one can more clearly establish to the multitude his proposi tion that "religion is a matter of princi ple and conviction." But the best answer to all his critics is to point to results. What if Brother Jones's words are plain and blunt? What though he prefers to call the devil the devil rather than "His satanio excel lency from the burned district?" Or likes unshirted "hell" better than "ahoel" in purple and fine linen ? He moves his hearers. He holds In his hand the assembled thousands; and whether he Ereach forty minutes or two hours they aug on, obedient to bis willi Let resulta decide the issue. Men of nil grades and classes enjoy his sermons olike. They rise at 5 in the morning to prepare for his 6 o'clock service-men, women and children, who, perhaps, have never seen the sun rise till now. And when the exhortation ia delivered and "Pfalms of Victory" sung, they move forward from all parts of the tent, and "those who came to scoff remain to pray." The barkeeper and Lia patron, the gambler and his victim, the doctor and nts patient, men and women, lawyer and client, good and bad, hardened age and tender childhood, till within tho past three days, at this meeting alone, three or four hundred have either pro fessed religion or declared themselves penitent. It is the proud boast of Brother Jones's friends and admirers that in a single re vival at Knoxville he closed twenty-seven barrooms, and thus redeemed two hun dred and seventy drunkards. How poor and insignificant seem all the results of the Mame liquor and bleeding Kansas prohibition laws, in comparison with a work like that? A Queer Freak of Lightning. Dr. Beid tells of a very strange freak of electricity on the person of Robert Burdett, colored, Sunday afternoon. He and tho family were seated in the house when a bolt descended tho chimney, struck him fair In the forehead, then Slancing, burnt his arm, and running own his legs, tore his pantaloons in ?trips, and after demolishing his great toe, passed ont of the bottom of bia shoe, leaving a hole as if made by a bullet. A portion of lt then passed through the floor, splitting it, and the rest taking! effect on A large dog near by laid him ont ! forever. A negro Io the same house WM knocked senseless. The. boy remained ns if dead for awhile, but recovered, and when the doctor called to seo him he was able to go about, though complaining some of numbness. It ia one of tho most wonderful coses ever known, old gWes additional proof to the already well firmed belief that If you want to kill a negro never strike him on the head.-Staniford In lc nor Jo u ma!. , - "Ho." oaid "Irttse Spinster. "1 wouldn*fcn*ve any fool of a man.* ''And OB you can't got any other Mod." re marked Anni Boson, "yon prefer, to romain single. Well, I don't know as I blame you."-Boston Transcript. ?~ In Hfe'a doings there ore circuitous paths ; when a moa seems to b* doing ooo thin;;, he la doing ano th er. Tbe Big and Little Corporal*. Being, aa I am, a man of no education never having been given a fair show in my younger days-the reader is e?ked to excuse my plain language and bad gram* mar. You must know that I belonged to the Fifteenth Alabama infantry, and that we went to the front pretty early in the war. We thus had our pick of good men. Ia my company the third corporal waa a powerful big chap named Sam Chopin, who had been overseer on a plantation near Huntsvilla. He was nos only big and powerful, but his nigger driving habits bad made a selfish, overbearing and cruel man of him. He hadn't been in the company a week before half the mon were down on him for his meanness. " Big Sam also had bia dislikes, bat there was one man he bated in particu lar. I shouldn't have said man, for he was only a boy seventeen y otra old slim, pale faced and as timid In look ss a girl. Sam took a hatred of this boy on sight, and he let no occasion pass to nag him and render his hard lot still harder. Jimmie, aa the boy was called, had no complaints to make. Ho waa of a forgiv ing disposition, and no matter what ho felt or thought, we never heard him con demning anybody by word of month. Some of us would have killed Big Sam had we been in Jimmie's place, but such a thing as striking back seemed never to have occurred to the boy. Well, one day when a part of our regi ment was cut off from the brigade by a flank movement of the union troops, and our situation was desperate, our captain steps out and alyn : "Boys, I want to send word to Colonel -. Where's the man who'll take it?" He waa looking right at Big Sam all the time, but that individual turned two shades whiter and hid himself in the rear ranks, muttering that nobody but a fool i would try to puah past 8,000 yankee mus kets with tho message. The first thing we knew Jimmie had mounted a horco from which some office bad been shot and was riding away. How he ever ran that gauntlet with bia life was more than we could tell, bat he did get through and down came enough of our forcea to help us oat of the box. There was new cause for Big Sam to hate Jimmie. The boy had not only exhibited greater courage in tho faco of danger ana right before as al), but he was promoted to be third corporal. Thia was a promotion right over the head of Big Sam, and he felt it to the ends of his fingers. He couldn't nu^ tho boy any more, and I have no doubt ho swore a solemn oath to kill him at the first op portunity. Indeed he hinted sa muon, audbocameso ugly and abusive to all that como of us wanted to kill him. Wei), in about six weeks wo .bad another tussle with the yanks. We got into it hot and heavy, and as we were driving them for tho moment I found myself alongside of Big Som. We wera disputing fo? a rise of ground, and for in advance of us, carrying the flag which tho color-bearor had dropped os a bullet had hit him, was Corporal Jimmie. I " was feeling proud to see him there, when, as heaven is my judge, I saw Big Sam raise bin musket, take deliberate aim at the boy, and next moment Corporal Jim mie went down. It was a hurlyburly time, with grape and lead cutting all around us, and I lot the incident pass for tho time, determin ed, though, that Big Sam should pay tho forfeit after tho battle. We kept on and on. bat os we rose tho hill we were checked. In five min?tes more we were being driven, an i that was how it came about that Corporal Jimmie, with his left arm broken by Big Sam's ! bullet, found himself lying beside the ex overseer who had a Yankee bullet in bia ?g. There were plenty of other wound? , and some dean ones, too. bot oar two men lay almost side by side. Big Sam was groaning, cursing and whining like the coward he was, when a canteen waa held within reach and a volee said : "Take ii; comrade-a^ drink will ease . your pain." "W-whatlla it you?" exclaimed the overseer as he rose ap on bis elbow and gazed at Jimmie. "Yes ; bot'ii of us are down, bat you are hit tho wo^si. Can I help voa?" "You help nw?" "Of course." It paralyzed Big Sam to meet with such words from the man be had tried to kill. After a time he groaned out : "Say, Jimmie, voa otter shoot me through the head 1" "What for?" "Cauto, I'm the man as fired that foal let Into youl" "Well, I don't want revenge. I'm now able to crawl away, but I wont leave ; youl" The yanks were massing artillery to play on that rise of ground, and ?bat ) does Corporal Jimmie do but get up in the face of all the sharpshooters and wounded and f"int as be was, half drag, half carry Big Sam down into a sheltered ravine. More'a that, he binds up his wound, and makes him pretty comfort* ble, and there we found 'eta along towards night, when a grand charge finally gave us the ground. You remember, I bad seen Big Sam draw a bead on tlc-boy,'but whoo I went to make a stir ever ft Corporal Jim mie said : '.'Please, dont* He Pias been punished: enough. I think he will , be a changed man." And so he waa. They took to. each other Uko twin ducks, and were tho fast est, firmest friends you ever saw. Big Sam dropped all moan ways, and within. a year was orderly sergeant of tbe com pany, while Corpora ' ?Immie was a lieu tenant.-Detroit x?t~ JtYett. Hiss or Hrs? ? ?orrr es pondent p^ounda the fol lowiog question to tho Nov/ York World : There baa arisen wnaidsrable discus sion between myself and others regard ing the propriety of using Hiss) or Mra. bofo M the maiden nam? cf a grace widow who has dropped tho name of her divorced husband. Tho World answeis : The title "mistress" (abbreviated Mrs,) bas no connection with, marriage. It is the rightful ti^e of any woman , who S?verna a horue, and ia properly applied courtesy to all women, married or ogle. Missis tho diminutive of mia tresa and is applied properly only to little girls under ten years old. Girls over that age are Mrs. by courtesy, if not by right. Mr. means master, Mra. msaos mistress. As a young gentleman . a afr. by courtesy, oven ti not masted of ? house, so tho young lady ia Mnv *" courtesy, If not by right. lu the nrtfen? case, tba woman, having bee? , the mis tress of a hoax* nos being or? 'ten ytera olo\ cannot shed her title of Mr*. - A pious old woman brought up fct the Calvinistic feiOj, was **kcd what sh? thought of au Artoen?ao terroon. She shook her head vigorously. "I doo^t be lieve, a word. onV said a)*; .?at *UV events, I know tho Lord obx** mo. tote? Ho ever saw nw ; for Ko hover WOKW ha* cbosoA mc artetwuro/'