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I3 Y E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1885. VOLUME XXL?NO. 4. Albemarle Female Institute, CHARLOTTE SVILLE, VA. "C^U LL corps of superior teachers; course A~ of instruction thorough and exten? sive; location healthful and accessible; scenery beautiful; surroundings most at? tractive , terms verv moderate: order cat? alogue. W. P. DICKINSON^ July 16?1?4_Principal. CARPETS, CARPETS. JUST received a huge assortment of new samples of Tapestry Brussels, 3-Ply, ExtraSrfper. and Extra Super.- O. 0. Car pets at. GREATLY REDU0ED PRICES. Also, Rugs and Door Mats. . If you want j a Carpet, I can sell you at a low price.' _ A, B. TOWERS. For Sash, Blinds, Doors, Plastering Laths, Window Fixtures, Building Material, &c? CHEAP, call on W. B. BEACH AM, . Z ? "Depot Street, Anderson, S. C April 30,1885 S3 3? Gem and Magnet Shirts! MANUFACTURED for me. The best fitting and the best wearing Shirts No better in any market A. B. TOWERS. Sept 27, 1883 1 Vy 11 TRY US. For the Next Sixty Days WE WILL SELL DBY GOODS SO CHEAP That You can't help but Buy. We waut to make room for our Fall stock. CORN, BACON, FLOUR, SUGARt MOLASSES, COFFEE, As CHEAP as can bo bought in the upper part of South Carolina. Give us a call. We arc willing to live and let live. W.S.LIGON&CO. July 16,1885 1 C. A. AGENT, H AS JUST RECEIVED AN EXTRA LARGE INVOICE OF? BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, WAGONTS, HARNESS and WHIPS, And; respectfully requests parties wishing' to. purchase to give him a call and examine his stock. You will certainly? SAVE MONEY by so doing, and wiU have the LARGEST ASSORTMENT in the op-country to select from. 1 SEWING MACHINES. . ?? i Having taken the Agency for several Counties in the upper portion of this State, he is compelled to keep in stock a large number of Machines of various makes to supply the increasing demand from Sub Agents, and it will certainly pay one and ail who contemplate buying a Sewing Ma? chine of any kind to call, and you are re Bperlfitlly invited "taf do so,.and shall re c> ive |H*lite and careful attention. The lAg-lit Running; NEW HOME Is now the favorite, and is certainly above all competition., It is simple and strong, doing th$-.widest range of work, and equipped with-all the late improved Afc tachmentSi-;;Ifci ls the. lightest and easiest j running S|?ttW-Macbine on the market, and'iri face the New Home takes the front rank In Sewing Machines. C. A. REED, Ag't, ANDERSON, S. C. Fcb 19,1885 32 WE hayn't a BAT, hut we have a curiosity ex? ceedingly rare. So come around and see two hearts from one living animal, which is vouched for by a truthful and responsible party. You will find it at WLLHITE & 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, Ply Paper, Indigo, Madder, Etc. Face Powders, Powder Puffs, Tooth Powders, Tooth Brushes, Ivan's Dentifrice, and Fine 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. All varie? ties, from the most reliable growers, which are sold at lowest prices. I July 9,1885 _52_ GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS SOLD VERY CHEAP -AT SMITH * CO.'S OLOTECIITG STORE. . WE HAVE. NOW ON EXHIBITION ONE OP THE Finest Stocks Spring and Summer Olothing in the market. COME AND SEE US. We will pass you in free, and charge you nothing for look? ing. We have just received from market a beautiful line of -MENS' AND BOYS' CXOTHING and FURNISHING GOODS. HATS for Men and Boys. Come and see our SUITS FOR THE LITTLE FELLOWS. The impression has gone out that we wera out of the market, but we want to in? form our old friends that we are here yet. Come and see us, and we will treat you right. ??Lr" Don't forget the place. SMITH & CO., WHITNER STREET, Opposite Auditor's Office. March 26,1885_37_ BARGAINS FOR CASH! I HAVE A FULL LINE OF Boots, Shoes, Hats and Clothing That I will sell AT COST, and LESS 'THAN COST for the CASH. I also have a A'FUXE I.INE OF OTHER GOODS that I will sell VERY LOW for Cash. Good Bargains can be found here. If you don't believe it call and see, and you will not be disappointed. TAKE WARNING! After the 10th day of April next the Notes and Accounts of the old Firm of REED MOORHEAD will be found in the hands of an Attorney for collection. Time and money can be saved by calling before then and settling with me. JT. PIISTK REED. March 20,1S85 _37_ 11 Go Tell all the People for Miles Around!" -THAT JOHN M. HUBBARD * BRO. ARE PREPARED TO SELL MORE JEWELRY, MORE WATCHES, MORE SILVERWARE, MORE CLOCKS, &C, AJT PRICES MORE TO YOUR NOTION, THAN EVER BEFORE. ?Sr EVERYTHING in the shape of a Watch, Clock or Jewelry thoroughly repaired. Feb 5,1885 30 MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS Has Returned from the North, where she purchased au ELEGANT STOCK of THE HANDSOMEST GOODS That has ever been brought to this market, consisting of STYLISH SILKS, BEAUTIFUL LACES of all descriptions, EMBROIDERIES, JETS and PARSEMENTRIES, LOVELY EMBROIDERY ROBES in the newest shades. Our FRENCH AND WHITE DRESS GOODS cannot be surpassed. We have GLOVES, HOSE, SUPPERS and SHOES of every quality. Don't forget to notice our varied stock of RIBBON, and come and try our stylish II ATS on before purchasing elsewhere. We feel assured you can be pleased. Our space is too limited to exhibit our Goods. Anything you do not see call for it, and our accommodating Clerks will take pleasure in waiting on you, even if you do not buy. We have everything tlint Ladies and Children NEED to make them happy and attractive. Very respectfully, LADIES' STORE. March 26 1885 37 AN OLD SETTLEMENT. Mr. Editor : PerhapB it may not be known to you or to many of your readers that one among the first, if not the first, Church built in Anderson County, was known as Carrael. There is no authentic record in existence at this day showing just when the Church was built, but from the best evidence attainable it is thought that it must have been about one hundred years ago. There is not a vestige of the building left to-day, for not many years after its erection the location was re? moved to its present site on the Fickens side of the line. The original location was in Brushy Creek Township, in the Northwestern portion of the County. The Church was Presbyterian at first, and the founders of it were the Pickens, Hamiltans, Watsons, &c. Shortly after the organization of the Church, the Methodist circuit riders began to pass through the country, and they got per mission to preach at the house of Maj. Robert Pickens, the grandfather of Col. W. S. Pickens. His little daughter Annie became anxious to unite with the Church, and preferred the Methodist, but they were all such good blue-stocking Presbyterians that they insisted she should go before the session of the Church for examination, and, being of tender years, her mother went with her. Not answering satisfactorily the questions on the doctrines of predestination, election, &c, the session advised her to wait and reflect. Her mother, being vexed with their proceedings, turned and said: "Now, Annie, you are at liberty to do as you please." She did do as she pleased?joined the Methodist Church? and from that dates the connection of the Pickens and Smith families with the Methodist Church, and resulted finally in the removal of Carmel to the present location, and the organization and build? ing of a Church one-half mile farther up the road, and this was known as long as it stood as Pickens Meeting House. The original graveyard is still kept up and used as a bnryiag-ground by the neighborhood. A visit to it is full of interest, especially when accompanied, as I was, by Col. W. S. Pickens, near whose residence the gaveyard is, and who is more familiar with the facts than any person now living in the community. There are sixteen Revolutionary soldiers buried there, but I could not find ont the name of the sixteenth. The names of the fifteen are as follows: Alexander Oliver, Job Smith, John Wilson, Charles Wilson, Capt. James Anderson, Micajah Hughes, Charles Smith, Wm. Waddle, Hampton Smith, Maj. Barr, Michal Smith, Maj. John Ariol, Maj. James Watson, Wm. Wilson, Lt. Robert Pickens. Capt. James Anderson was the father of the late Dr. Wm. Anderson and grandfather of R. H. Anderson, and has numerous descendants in this and adjoin? ing Counties and in Georgia and Alabama. Maj. Barr was the grandfather of your fellow-townsman, W. F. Barr, who gallantly served bis country as his ances? tors did before him. Maj. Jame;: Watson was the father of the late A. P. Watson. Lt. Robert Pickens was the grandfather of Col. W. S. Pickens and of other Pickens families living near. His defendants can be counted by the score. He came with bis father, Robert Pickens, from Maryland, and the father settled with his family on Long Cane, in Abbe* ville. He bad a son Robert Pickens, and as far back as known there has always been a Robert Pickens. Lt. Robert Pickens was brevetted on the field for gallant conduct in action at the battle of CowpenB, and after the war settled on the land still owned by his descendants. There is now in the possession of Col. W. S. Pickens the original grant of the land with the Great Seal made of wax attached and bearing date May 2d, 1784, and having the signature of Bcnj. Guerard as Governor. During the war Robert Pickens' wife worked the farm and clothed ber family of seven children herself, living in a log cabin with only one door and no window to it. On one occasion he returned home to visit his family and was seen by the Tories, who were watchiug, to enter the door. But the watchful wife was too quick for them, and as they rushed for the door she shut it in their faces. To their de? mands she replied that Pickens was not in the house, (he having climbed up the chimney), and that they could only enter over her dead body. She held the door until her husband was well up to the top and then threw it open. In their eagerness to search they forgot to place a sentinel, and Pickens jumped to the ground and made his escape. Another time he was chased by the Tories and the woods being clear of undergrowth he was very much winded by the long chase, when, in jumping a large pine log, just over the turn of the hill, the bark slipped off entire, very much in the shape of an inverted trough, and be crawled under it and thus escaped again. Dr. James Oliver lies here, the father in law of Col. R. E. Bowen, John W. Rosemond and Col. W. S. Pickens. Some of the Hamlins are buried bere, the ancestors of Hamlin Beattie of Greenville. The Rev. John Burdiue, the most famous preacher of the Protest? ant Methodist Church, lies here also. Here also lies Robert McCano, who emigrated to this county from Ireland Bhortly after the Revolution. He was a teacher and also a surveyor, and settled on the tract of land owned by the late Ezekiel Long, Sr. He was the father of Maj. T. H. McCann, now of Greenville, and grandfather of the late Gov. Orr. Col. Pickens has in bis possession a relic in the shape of a copy of The Philadelphia Pachct and Advertiser, bearing date September 19th, 1787?two day after the signing of the present Constitution, It is filled with tbe Con stitution and is very faded and yellow with _age and somewhat m?theaten. I think it would be well to send it to ? Museum for preservation. All the links connecting us with the past aie rapidly being broken, and I have jotted down from the lips of Col. Pickens, the items herein contained that they may be preserved in a more enduring form, for when he passes away I know of no one who will be left who can repeat the tale. * Small Farms. There are many material advantages in small farms. We are not as liable to overlook or hurry over small details that very often could be made to be of im? mense advantages to a growing Crop if we had done the work properly. There is always more to look after than one man can possibly attend to. The small details of a farm are what constitute and make a thrifty farmer. It is better to cultivate ten acres and make five bales of cotton, than to cultivate twenty-five and make the same amount. We do not be? lieve that one horse can tend more than twenty acres of cotton effectually, and make a fair crop of corn in connection therewith. We believe in small farms. How much prouder a farmer would be with a neat little farm, fences and out houses in good repair, the stock well cared for, a nice vegetable and flower {;arden and a good orchard, than with a arge farm, badly in wreck and cultiva? ted for benefit of some merchant or fac? tor. Go into the thickly populated countries of the North and West and see how much easier and how much better off are the farmers, who though they own but a email tract are making more money than most of our large cotton planters. Small farms mean prosperity and a happy life, free from the cares of having more to do than we possibly can. To make I any business a success we must study it, and it is the same with farming. If we wish to succeed we must study our lands and take into consideration our ability, energy and capability of managing a large farm. We had better make $300 a year and save $50 than to make $1,500 and have nothing after we have paid for guano, supplies, &c. Do not try to cul? tivate too much, and especially if your land has to be highly manured. It will pay better to put five sacks of guano on an acre than on five, for the five sacks on an acre would build it up, whereas scat? tered on the five the productive qualities would not be enhanced for more than one year. The Maryland Advocate wisely says: "Large farms usually mean large tax bills, poor crops, poor horses and stock, broken down farmers, sparsely settled districts, old and dilapidated farm build? ings, poor fences, and things have a kind of rundown and worn-out aspect all around. Small farms mean well-tilled land, good crops, neat farm buildings, healthy and intelligent farmers, good roads, pleasant and thickly settled neigh? borhoods, plenty of good schools, good fences and well-fed stock, and signs of prosperity everywhere.? Cotton Plant. Before Prohibition?Grass in his Emu. A Boston man was driving along a forest road in Alabama, when he came to a C03y log cabin, in whose door sat a plump and hearty darkey. Around the cabin there was growing, in the loveliest profusion, a quantity of mint. The Bos? ton man was in the habit of carrying moist refreshments with him, and the sight of the nodding paradise of mint suggested beautiful thoughts. "Would you like to take a drink with me ?" said the Boston man. "Boss, I don't kyah ef I dew," said the darkey. "What's your name, my man ? Julius. Well, Julius, why don't you make a mint julep?" said the white man. "Wot mought dat be, boss?" asked the negro. "Pick me some nice, tender sprigs of that mint and bring me some cola water, and I'll show you." The negro brought about a half a bushel of beautiful mint and a bucket of cool water from his well. The white man mixed two drinks in two big tin cups and tenderly interspersed a -little of the mint in them. Then the two dis? cussed the beverages, and the darkey's eyes gleamed as he drank. After a while be came back by the same cabin. He noticed with tender concern that the mint seemed to have been stripped from the darkey's yard as by a tornado, and I the place looked forlorn and gloomy. In the door sat a negro, but not his negro. It was a dejected and tattered old man I who answered the white man's call. I "Ah 1 where is my friend Julius, who lived in this cabin three months ago?" "Po' Juhus am gone, sab," said the ' old negro, rolling his eyes. "What! not dead ?" "Yes, sah." "What was the matter with him ?" "Oh, dat's.the sorrowful part of it sah. Dere was a white man come along here 'bout free months ago. Seems like he was from the norf; and he larn't Julius how to drink grass in his rum?an', an', an',?now he's gone, po' Julius!"? Boston Record. How Prohibition Works iu Georgia. Athens, Ga., July 21.?It is now ten days since the liquor saloons in Athens closed their doors, and, although we have gone through commencement, not one arrest has been made by the police. This is an unprecedented record. Our people seem well satisfied with the change, and thus far the experiment works like a charm. Tho barrooms have all turned their attention to the sale of non-intoxicating drinks and cigars, but their receipts are vwy small aua will not pay for keeping open doors. If there have been any attempts at violating the prohibition law, we have received no intimation of the fact. The city officers are very vigilant and will use every effort to ferret out offenders. One house is under the ban of suspicion, but if they sell at all it is to a chosen few, as no signs of the traffic are seen upon the streets. There are plenty of jugs and bottles kept in private rooms, but these are fast running dry, and men who have heretofore taken their drink regularly are now doiog without. But little liquor is shipped to Athens by express. There" are two barrooms within five miles of Athens that expect to do a fine trade, but thU3 far they have not received much Eatronage. Prohibition has no percepti le effect upon the trade of Athens, either one way or the other. But the best sign is a disposition of that band of negro loafers who blockaded Jackson street, being attracted by whiskey and billiards. They have either gone to work or sought other fields. Our liquor ! dealers are all hunting up other business. They will either move the remnants of their stocks to wet counties or engage in another avocation in Athens. They accept the result like good citizens, anu i express a determination to obey the law. Pay for your paper. A Natural Stream of Tar, la a rugged, almost mountainous, portion of Kentucky, embraced in the County of Breckinridge, in that State, will be found unmistakable evidences of | a great upheaval of the earth, in the long distant past, in the prehistoric age. So great was this convulsion of mother earth that beds of rock miles in breadth and from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet in thickness were forcibly torn apart and separated at varying dis? tances of a quarter to a half mile. In the valley made by the rent in the solid rock small rivers or creeks run their tortuous course, some of them of suffi? cient size to afford water power to turn the wheels of various mills situated at eligible sites along the streams, the banks of which are skirted by narrow strips of fertile land level enough for cultivation and very productive, while on either side of the stream the riven rocks will be seen to rise as towering, majestic cliffs. So uniformly similar in outline are these opposing cliffs that, should the hills be forced together, the edges would interlock and fit together like the two halves of an apple which had been torn apart. Ascending to the top of the cliff, the table lands which spread out for many miles are heavily timbered, and when cleared make pro? ductive farms, the houses of prosperous farmers. An interesting feature of these roman? tic cliffs will be found in the fact that when the rock beds of which they were formed were torn asunder and separated, the bottom portion was much softer than that nearer the surface, and, when exposed to the atmosphere, crumbled and fell out in piles below, leaving the surface or top of the rock overhanging and forming great rooms, some of them half a mile in length, protected by the overhanging rocks, and perfectly dry at all seasons and sufficient in size to amply accommodate large armies with complete shelter from storm and rain. They became resorts for stock in winter. So partial are the various kinds of animals to these comfortable retreats that some of them, particularly hogs, will remain under this shelter during long continued cold weather with snow, and, if not fed or driven out, will remain there and starve. These commodious rooms under the overhanging cliffs made comfortable homes for the Indians who inhabited this country before its discovery by the whites, as evinced by the discovery of | large numbers of their flint arrowheads ana other implements of savage life. Another notable evidence of their occu? pancy of these natural retreats from in? clement weather is that after the softer portions of the rock nearer the ground had fallen out and crumbled to dust or sand, large portions of rock, ten or fifteen feet in length and several feet in thickness, would fall out from a position high up toward the surface, and, being of a much harder substance, would remain lying where they fell, and on the top of these the natives constructed or sank mortars to a depth of twelve or sixteen inches and about six inches at the top, gradually lessening toward the bottom. They manifested much skill in making these rock mortars exceedingly uniform and smooth in all their parts. What use they made of them is purely a matter of conjecture. Some thought they pounded their corn to hominy, others* that they pulverized their mate? rial for making powder in them. Be this as it may, the mortars remain there in the rocks as inverted monuments to the skill of the red man. Many features of interest will reward the visitor to these scenes of a once violent convulsion in this part of the earth. The antiquity of j this great upheaval is shown by large forest trees growing on the mounds made by the crumbling and falling out of rocks, which no doubt at first presented a clean break ot perpendicular wall. In some places saltpeter is found exuding in its natural state from the rock one hundred feet from its top. The most notable features of interest are the springs which flow from beneath these projecting cliffs. Among them are the tar and white sulphur springs, situ? ated seven miles from the Ohio Kiver, near Cloverport, Ky. These springs flow from the base of a cliff which is one hundred and fifty feet high, and its top projects two hundred feet over the source of the spring, which is situated at the extreme back part of a commodious room made by the overhang? ing rock, This room is always dry, cool and shady. The water is beautifully clear and cold, and the sides and bottom of the channel along which it flows are lined with a velvety coating of soft, snowy white sulphur, which adds to the crystal clearness of the water; but the most remarkable feature of these springs is a stream of liquid tar, the size of a small straw, continually running on the surface of the stream of water and flow? ing off into the reservoir provided for its reception. There may be a break in this stream of tar at times, but it is only momentary, when it is succeeded by an? other stream, and flows on and on as if it would flow forever. The supply would seem to be inexhaustible. For thousands of years this stream has continued to flow, night and day without interruption, as shown by banks of pitch ten feet in thickness and a hundred feet in width made by this small stream flowing off] and evaporating the fluid portion, leaving a hard, dry, pitchy residue of the magni? tude above mentioned.?./. W. Crompton, in The Current. How an Old Man May Prolong His Life. Au old man must clotbo warmly. After the age of sixty, any idea of hard? ihood and of facing weather must be laid aside; neither the skin nor the lungs bear cold. Cold is, in fact, the great euemy of our old people, and it is a fact, if a man of sixty or sixty-five goes to a warmer climate than that to which he ha9 been accustomed, his life is prolonged. Warm flannel clothes Bhould be worn next to the skin day and night, and there should be plenty of I winter garments. If there is the least | tendency to asthma or attacks of bron? chitis, two or three folds of silk or wool? en handkerchief should he worn over the mouth, and if the weather be very cold, over the nose also. Rooms also must be kept warm, for the animal bent in the mau past seventy is often deficient, and in very old people even drinks should be taken warm, as the sources of animal heat are being dried up. Old people will often like rooms kept at a temperature of I seventy degrees or higher, when younger people are half stifled in them.?Herald of Health. ? A mink's nest was discovered last week among some brush in Mr. H. L. Goss' garden in Union, and around it were sixteen chickens with their throats cut. Mr. Goss and his neighbors have been losing fowls for some time, and had charged it to two-legged robbers. ? The Oxford (Miss.) Eagle is slowly reforming, but as yet is not a reform glutton. It declares that there must be "no more ballot-box stuffing except in cases of absolute necessity."?Boston Post. AN INCIDENT AT CEDAR HILL. flow General Manigault Slight Have Made History. Among the incidents of his recent trip through the South, General Brinkeroff relates the -story of the battles about Chattanooga, which just now, while the attention of the nation is concentrated 01 the man who at that time directed the armip- of the Union side, may be inter entin^: "On my way from Charleston to Co? lumbia," eaid General Brinkeroff, "I fell into conversation with General A. M. Manigault, the present Adjutant General of South Carolina. Finding that I had recently been at Chattanooga, he told me that he was in those battles and com? manded a brigade near the centre of the Bebel line at Missionary Ridge. "He said the finest thing he ever saw was the advance of the Union army, with 60,000 men in line. "The day before the fight at Missionary Ridge, General Manigault had his head* quarters on an elevated point known as C;dar Hill, but on the advance of the Union army the Confederates fell back about three-quarters of a mile and took up a position ou Missionary Ridge. As tbe Union army advanced General Mani gt.ult observed that Cedar Hill, the posi? tion vacated by him the day before, was now occupied by some one, evidently of high rank. He could see through his gloss that orderlies on horseback were coming and going in such numbers as to m ike it very certain that some person of importance was then on Cedar Hill, and ooo who must at least rank as high as a di vision or corps commander. "As he watched the hill the maxim of Napoleon in regard to destroying or dis? abling the guiding mind of an opposing army occurred to him. Napoleon under such circumstances advised the concen? tration of a number of batteries and a whole broadside in order to make sure work, and as General Manigault had several batteries of rifled guns he felt sure that he could kill or cripple the officer on Cedar Hill, but as he had or? ders not to waste any ammunition until ordered from headquarters, he sent for hid division commander and suggested the propriety of sweeping Cedar Hill. Ho was told that the orders of General Bragg were imperative, on account of the scarcity of ammunition, to reserve fir 3 for close quarters. However, he said be would see General Bragg and ask his consent. General Bragg declined, 'and so,1 said General Manigault, 'I lost an opportunity of changing the currents of hifitory, for a week or two afterwards my pickets brought me a Cincinnati news? paper with General Grant's report of the bai;tles of Missionary Bidge, from which I learned that the man on Cedar Hill was General Grant himself, and I am very sure that with the batteries at my command I could have killed or crippled him.' " 'I have had it in my mind for many years.' said General Manigault, "to tell General Grant this story, if by chance I should meet him, but it is not likely now I will ever havean opportunity.'"?Mam field {0.) Herald. Mullein Leaves in Consumption. Dr. Quinlan, of Dublin, read before the International Medical Congress at Copenhagen last year an interesting pa? per on the medicinal qualities of the mullein. It has attracted widespread attention, and among the more recent articles confirmatory of Dr. Quinlan's statements is one by Dr. Wilfert, of Cin? cinnati, which appears in the last num? ber of the Lancet and Clinic of that city. From the results obtained in 127 cases of pulmonary consumption treated by Dr. Quinlan with mullein alone, he draws the following conclusions, which are con densed from his original article, viz.: 1. In the earlier and pretubercular stage of pulmonary consumption, mullein bag a weight-increasing and curative power greater than that of cod liver oil, and equal to that of Russian koumiss. % In cases where tubercles are well established or cavities exists, the mullein has great power in relieving cough?a great boon to consumptives, whose weak stomachs too frequently cannot tolerate the usual cough remedies. 3. Phthistical diarrhoea is completely obviated by the mullein. 4. Mullein has no power or effect on the night sweats of consumption, which aho aid be combated by atropia sulphate. The method of using the mullein, which originated among the Irish peas? antry, and was adopted by Dr. Quinlan just, as he found it, is as follows: Three ounces of the fresh green leaves, or abcut ten times that much of the dried, are boiled in a pint of fresh cow's milk. After boiling a moment the infusion is allowed to stand and "sipp" for ten min uten, when it is strained, sweetened, and dm ok while warm. This quantity is taken twice or three times a day. It is generally much relished by the patients, who regard it as a pleasant article of diet rather than as a mediciae. The smoke of tbe mullein leaves inhaled into the respiratory passages relieves irritation and spasmodic cough. Dr. Wilfert states that he has followed Dr. Quinlan's method iu twenty cases of undoubted pulmonary phthisis, all of then more or less advanced, and all im? proved during tbe administration of mullein, no other drugs being used. Those results are certainly very encour? aging, and should be followed up. Not Much of a Fool After All. S.iui Wednesday, an impecunious citi? zen of Austin, was supposed to be crazy, and his relatives brought him before the county court to have a lunatico de in quiiendojury ^ass on his mental condi? tion, his delusion being that he was very rich. A lawyer proceeded to ask the crazy man questions to test his sanity. "t hear you are going to build a $50,000 residence." "It is going to cost $(50,000." "You aou.t say so?" "Yes, and I am going to start a daily paper with $250,000 capital. That's a mere trifle for a man of my means." "You seem to have so much money, pert.aps you would not object to lending me a thousand dollars." "I 'd like to do it, judge, but that would be nuch a risky investment, everybody would suspect me of being crazy." The refusal of tbe supposed lunatic to seriously entertain the idea of lending money to an Austin lawyer caused the jury to decide that Sam was in full possession of his reasoning faculties.? Tcxcs Siftings, ? In Texas and other States the liquor men, as soon as they are defeated, begin to annoy their opponents by moving to enforce tbe Sunday laws. They attack the running of trains on Sunday, the sale of ice, cigars, soda water, newspa? pers, etc. As they are working against their own comfort and pleasure they will soon get tired of their crusade. ? The Rev. Charles A. Stakely, of Chaileston, has been called to the pasto? rate of the Marcy Avenue Baptist church, of Brooklyn, and has accepted. The salary is $1,000 a year. TIic Story of a False Eye. Bmdgepout, July 27.?A young En? glish lady has been visiting at the resi? dence of a prominent widow in Bridge? port. The widow has a handsome son. He and the English belle have become great friends. She is the possessor of a glass eye, and so perfect is it in fac simile of a real one that none but the young gentleman of the house had discovered is young lady friend's misfortune. Knowing what a mortification such a blemish must naturally be to its owner, he kept his own counsel, with a manly determination never to let her or any one else suspect his knowledge. A few days ago it became necessary for the young lady to submit to an operation on her foot, she having injured it while playing lawn tennis. For fear the one* ration would give pain it was decided that she should be placed under the in? fluence of ether. The doctor arrived, proceeded upstairs to the young lady's apartments, accompanied by the widow and several assistants. The young gen* tleman remained swinging lazily in a hammock stretched across the broad veranda, and as he swung and dreamed remembered having read somewhere "that when a patient was under the influence of an ana)3thetic the eye was often touch* ed to ascertain unconsciousness." He rushed frantically up the stairs and burst into the room. To his dismay he observ? ed the doctor already trying the experi? ment of touching the glass eye and about to commence the operation on the foot. By wild gesticulations he called the at* tention of the doctor away and in whis* pers begged him to touch the other eye. This was done and the patient jumped with such force that the false eye fell out. This catastrophe so alarmed the widow and the assistants that they all ran away. The doctor at once took in the situation, and after administering more ether, his patient became unconscious. The young man groped around on the Persian rug for the lost eye while the doctor complet? ed the operation on the foot. Before the patient became conscious the false eye was restored to its former position and the young English belle has returned to Great Britain ignorant of the fact that her misfortune ever became known. Raining Kocks. The rumbling sounds in the earth and the rising of hot steam from crevices in the earth over in Chester and Fairfield Counties about a year ago will not com* pare to the rain of rocks which is now creating such a sensation in this County. In tenant houses on the plantation of Mr. R. T. Dunlap, about six miles from town, lives Quarter Reese and Reese Posey. They are quiet, good negroes, and have never, so far as known, done anything to provoke the Almighty's wrath?or the wrath of their neighbors; but, nevertheless, the very rocks of the earth seem to rise up to fall on them and their houses. This wonderful phenome? non of rocks falling has been going on in that locality at intervals for more than ten days, and people from five, ten and fifteen miles around gather there to witness it. The rocks are flint and vary from the size of an egg to the size of one's head. A peculiarity about them is that they have fallen on several persons without giving any hurt or pain to them. Numbers of white men who have hooted at the idea have visited the place and come away convinced that the rocks do fall. At first the negroes thought it was somebody rocking their houses and would run to a thicket near by, but they could see no one. At last they concluded to put out sentinels, but finding the rocks dropped all the same, they reported it to people in the neighborhood, and now most any time you go to the place you can find a large crowd of negroes and a few whites gathered to see the rocks fall. A number of gentlemen of our town rode out on Monday to witness the phenome? non. They found about thirty or forty negroes assembled near the house, wonder-stricken at what they had seen. They were not there long before a sound on the shingles notified them that a rock had fallen. It was picked up and found to be quite hot. It resembled flint and had something on it which resembled soot. Tbe people marveled much. A very honest looking old darkey told the party that he saw a rock rise up from near a peach tree and go straight up in the air, so they must go up and fall down. They are taken away by visitors about as fast as they fall. The negroes get them and will not part with them. The matter should be investigated.? Lancaster Ledger. The Confederate Cabinet The recent appointment of R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, to be Collector of Customs at the port of Tappahannock, at a painfully small salary, calls atten? tion to the whereabouts and condition of the few remaining members of the Con? federate Cabinet. There were fourteen of them?Benjamin, Bragg, Brecken ridge, Mallory, Memminger, Randolph, Sedden, Trenholm, Walker, Davis, Rea? gan, Toombs, Watts and Hunter. Of these only five now remain?Davis, Reagan, Toombs, Watts and Hunter. Of these five only two, Reagan and Toombs, were members of the original Cabinet. Hunter is not only an old man now, but very much reduced in circum? stances, as is shown by his willingness to accept a position which pays but about $600 a year. There are few membera of tbe Confederate Cabinet who are wealthy. Bob Toombs, who lives near Atlanta, is wealthy. Reagan is worth something, but not very much. Watts, of Alabama, and Davis, of North Carolina, though pretty old, continue in the practice of law at their respective homes. Hunter, as indicated above, is poor. Of those now dead, none except Ben? jamin died wealthy. He made a mag? nificent fortune, as is well known, in the practice of law abroad. Of the few members still living each resides now in the State from which he was chosen for bis Cabinet position, Regan in Texas, Hunter in Virginia, Watts in Alabama, Davis in North Carolina and Toombs in Georgia. Only the civil branches of the Confederate Government are now repre? sented, all the Secretaries of War and Navy having passed away. Hunter and Toombs were Secretaries of State, Davis and Watts Attorneys General and Rea gau Postmaster General. Reagan is probably the most active, physically and mentally, of any of those remaining. He is strong and vigorous, though he was at death's door a year ago, when an operation by some skillful physician saved him. ? An expedition of Americans will dig up the ground on the bank of the Euphrates, in the hope of regaining the records of the antediluvian world, which, according to the Chaldean history, Noah buried there previous to embarking in tbe ark. The result of their researches will doubtless be awaited with much in? terest by the Republican party, in the hope that it may contribute a campaign issue for the next Presidential canvass. ? Tbe man who will suffer a private grudge to lead him into a breach of faith is a man not to be trusted by anybody.