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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 6, 1885. VOLUME XXL - NO. 4. vi_v- ?._t-a. .1 Albemarle ? emaio insimuo, CHAB7.0?TE8 VILLE, VA. MU.L corps of superior teachers ; ccurso I of instruction thorough and oxtcn ??ve; Incition healthful and accessible; Scenery beautiful ; surroundings most af> imctive; terms very moderate: order cat a?ocuo. W. P. DICKINSON, Jilly 10-1-4 Principal. "CARPETS, CARPETS. ll.ST received a large assortment of new ?amples of Tapestry Brussels, 3-Ply, Kitra Kuper, and Extra Super. CO. Cor nets ot GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Also, Rugs and Door Mats. If you want ? Carnet. I can sell you at a low price. _A, B. TOWERS. For Sash, Blinds. Doora, Plastering Laths, Window Fixtures, Building Material, &c" CHEAT, call on W. B. BEACHAM, Depot Street, Anderson, 8. C. April 30, 1885 83 3 ? 0cm and Magnet Shirts! MANUFACTURED for me. Tho bc-?t titting and thc best wearing Shirts Ko better in nny market. A. R. TOWERS. Sept 27, MM_11^ TRY US. For the Next Sixty Days WE WILL SELL DRY GOODS SO CHEAP That You can't help but Buy. We want to make room for our Fall stock. COHN, BACON, FLOUR, SUGAR* 3IO LASSES, COFFEE, As CHEAP ns can bc bought in thc upper purl of South Carolina. Give us a call. Wc arc willing to live and let live. W. S. LIGON ?Sc CO. July 16, 1885 1 C A. REED, AGENT, HAS JUST H IC CEI VED AN EXTRA LARGE INVOICE OF BUGGIES. CARRIAGES, WAGONS, HARNESS and WHIPS, And respect fully ronuesls parties wishing to purchase to gfvo lum a call and examine bis stock. You will certainly SAVE MONEY by so doing, and will havo the LARGEST ASSORTMENT in the up country to select from. SEWING MACHINES. Having taken the Agency for several Conntlea in the upper portion of thia 8tate, no is compelled to keep In stock * large S?*'.0' ^chines of various makes to ?apply the Increasing demand from Sub *f?nts, and It will certainly pay ono and ???W "HOME J ?jow the favorite, and la certainly above fc ANDERSON, ?*. C. WE liavn't a BAT, but we have a curiosity ex ceedingly rare. So come around and see two hearts from ono living animal, which is vouched fop by a truthful and responsible party. You will And it at WILHITE & WILHITE'S, The Acknowledged Headquarters for DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, PERFUMERY, EXTRACTS, PATENT MEDICINES AND DYE STUFFS. Linseed, Machine, Sweat and Castor Oils. Combs, Brashes, Hair Oilsr Pomades, Bay Bum, Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Sponges, Etc. Fine Soaps, Insect Powders, Fly 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. Jilly 9. 1835 52 GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS SOLD VERY CHEAP - AT - SMITH tc CO.'S CLOTHIUG feTOIRJS. WE HAVE NOW ON EXHIBITION ONE OP THE Finest Stocks Spring and Summer Clothing in the market CIOME AND SEE US. Wc will pasa you In free, and charge you nothing for look j hie. We have inst received from market a beautiful line of MENS' AND BOYS' CLOTHING and FURNISHING GOODS. HATS for Men and Boys. Come and seo our SUITS FOR THE LITTLE FELLOWS. The impression hos gono out that we were out of the market, hut we want to in form our old friends that we are here yet. Come and seo us, and we will treat you right Don't forget tho place. SMITH & CO., WHITNER STREET, Opposite Auditor's Office. March 28,1885 87 _ 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. c l also have a A I'UXIi LINE 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 seo, and | you w1H:n'oM#dlMPptyat*tt vi? : 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 banda of on Attornoy for collection. Time and money can be saved by calling before then and settling with me. J March 20,1885 37 Jf. FINK; RS2X1D. jj ?* 116^ fell all the P?ojgh^for ffl?s lrbimT?'r JOHN M. HUBBARD* BRO ARE PREPARED TO SELL \ MORE: JEWELRY, MORE WATCHES, MORE SILVERWARE, MORE CLOCKS, &C, , AIT BRICES MORE TO TOUR NOTION. * 1 THAN EVER BEFORE. /MT EVERYTHING lo the shape of a Watch, Clock or Jewelry thoroughly repaired Feb 5,1885 ? . ? . ? . 80 MISS LIZZIE WSLLS?f?lS i ?here aka parchase* an ELEGANT STOCK Thai haB over been brought to this market, eonaisUng or STYLISH SILKS, BEAUTIFUL LACES of all descriptions, EMBROIDERIES, JETS and PAR8EMENTRIES, EMBROIDERY ROBES lo tbs newest shados. WHITE |mESS GOODS cannot be surpassed. We rPBRS anjjjfrHOBS of every quality. Ci H ?Er^rieaU CTmlti? iVeThibUonr Gooda. Anything you do not f co ?ll for A 0ori??,mn,orl?tInc Clerko will take pleasure in waiting on yon, even if you do ^t?C^S^" m?k? ,b"u b"w - frtoiaaOftA ; VM,~mi>aii?' 8TOXUD. March 20 1885 S7 AN OLD SETTLEMENT. MR. EDITOR : Perhaps it may Dot be known to you or to many of your readers that one among tho first, if not tho firat, Church built in Andoraon County, waa koowa ao Carmel. There ia no authentic record in ozistoncc at this day showing ju ;t when the Church was built, but from the best evidence attainable it is thought that it roust have been about one hundred years ago. There ht not a veatige of tho building left to-day, for not many yean after its erection the location waa re* moved to its present situ on the Pickens sido of tho lino. The original location waa in Brushy Creek Township, in the Northwestern portion of the County. The Church was Presbyterian at first, and the founders of it were the PickenB, HamiltanB, Watsons, &c. Shortly after the organisation of the Church, the Methodist circuit ridera began to pass through tho country, and they got per mission to preach at tho house of Maj. Robert PickonB, the grandfather of Col. W. S. Pickens. Hi? little daughter Anuio became anxious to unite with the Church, and preferred the Methodist, but they were ull such good blue-stocking Presbyterians that they insisted she should go bc foro the seeaion of the Church for examination, and, being of tender years, her mother went with ber. 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 aro at liberty to do aa you please." She did do as she pleased-joined the Methodist Church and from that dates tho connection of the Picken? 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 aa long aa it (stood aa Pickens Meeting House. The original graveyard is still kept up and used aa a bnrying-ground by the neighborhood. A visit to it is full of interest, especially when accompanied, aa I "?a?, by Col. W. S. Pickens, near whose residence the gav ey a rd is, aud who ?B more familiar with the facta than any person now living in the community. There are sixteen Revolutionary soldiers buried there, but I could not find oat the name of the aixteenth. The names of the fifteen are as follows: Alexander Oliver, Job Smith, John Wilson, Charlea Wilaon, Capt. Jamea Anderson, Micajah Hughes, Charles Smith, Wm. Waddle, Hampton Smith, Maj. Barr, Michal Smith, Maj. John Ariol, Maj. Jamea Watson, Wm. Wilson, Lt. Robert Pickena. Capt. James Anderson was the father of the late Dr. Wm. Anderson and grandfather Of R. H. Anderson, and has numerous descendants in thia and adjoin ing Counties and in Georgia and Alabama. Maj. Barr waa tho grandfather of your fellow-townsman, W. F. Barr, who gallantly served bis country aa bia ances tors did before him. Maj. Jamea Watson waa the father of the late A. P. Watson. Lt. Robert Pickens waa tho grandfather of Col. W. 8. Pickens and of other Pickena families living near. His desendanta can be counted by the score. He came with bis father, Robert PickenB, from Maryland, and the father settled with his family on Long Cane, in Abbe ville. He had a eon Robert Pickena, and aa far back as known there has always been a Robert Pickena. Lt. Robert Pickens waa brevetted on the field for gallant conduct in action at the battle of Cowpens, and aller the war settled on the land still owned by his descendante. There ia 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 Be nj. Guerard aa Governor. Daring the war Robert Pickena' wife worked the farm and olothed her family of coven children herself, living in a log cabin with only one door and no window to it. On one occasion he returned home to visit bia family and waa seen by the Torlea, who were watching, to enter the door. Bat the watchful wife waa too quick for them, and as they rushed for the door ah? abut it in their faces. To their de mands abe replied that Pickena was not in the house, (be having climbed up the chimney), and that they could only enter over her de? j body. She held the door until her husband waa wei) up to the top and then threw it open. Io their eagerness to search they forgot lo place a senUbel, and Pickena jumped to the ground and made hie escape. Another time he waa chased by the Tories and the woods being clear of undergrowth he waa very much winded by the long chase, when, in jumping a large pine log, jost over the torn of the hill, the bark slipped off entire, very much In the sh ap o of an i a verted trough, and be crawled ut der lt and thoa escaped again. Dr. James Oliver Ilea here, the father in-law of Col. R. E. Bowen, John W. Rosamond and Col. W. 8. Pickena. Soma of the Hemline are burled hero, the an ces to ra of Hamlin Beattie of Green ville. The- Rev. John Bardino, the roost famous preacher of the Protest Ant Methodist Church, lies here also. Here also lies Robert McCaon, who emigrated to this cou dy from Ireland shortly after the Involution. He waa a teacher and also a surveyor, and settled on Ihe tract of land owned by the late Ezekiel Long, Sr. Ho was the father ot Moj. T. H. McCvin, now of Greenville, and grandfather cf the late Gov.. Orr. Col. Pickena hui in bis possession a relic lu the shape of a co pf of Thc Philadelphia PaclH and Advertiser, bearing date September 19th, 1787-two day after Iba aign^g of tho passent CoasUl-dOqa^ 1> J? rJUeVwIth\? Uta, Catv nutation and is very faded and yellow with ago and somewhat motbeatcn. I think it would bo well to send it to ri htusetlm for preservation. All tbe links connecting us with the past aie rapidly being broken, and I have jotted down from tho lips of Col. Pickens, tho items herein contained that thoy may be preserved iu a more enduring form, for when he passes away I know of no one who will be loft who can repeat tbe talo. * Small Farms. There aro raauy material advantages in small farms. Wo aro not as liable to overlook or hurry over small details that very often could be mado to be of im mense advantages to a growing crop if wo had doue tho work properly. There is always more to look after than ono 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 ..ul make five bales of cotton, than to cultivate twenty-li ve 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 bo with a neat ?ittlo farm, fences and out houses in good repair, the Btock well cared for, a nico vegetable and flower fprdeu 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 pupulatod countries of the North and West and see bow much easier and how much better off are tbe farmers, who though they own but a small 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 mako any business a success wo must study it, and it is tho same with farming. If wo 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 01,GOO and have nothing after we have paid for guano, supplies, &c. Do not try to cul tivate too much, and especially if your laud hos 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 wi ?; el y says : "Large farms usually mean largo tax bill?, poor crops, poor horses ana 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? borboods, plenty of good schools, good fences and well-fed stock, and signs of prosperity everywhere.- Cotton Plant. Before Prohibition-Grass In his Kum. A Boston man was driving along a forest road in Alabama, when he came to a cosy log cabin, in whose door sat a plump and hearty darkey. Around the cabin thero was growing, in the loveliest profusion, a quantity of mint. Tbe Bos ton man waa 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 tbe Boston man. "Boss, I don't kyah ef I dew," said tho darkey. "What's your name, my man ? Julius. Well, Jul lus. why don't you mako u mint julep?" sala tho white man. "Wot mougbt dat be, boss?" asked tho negro. "Pick me some nice, tender sprigs of that mint and bring mo Borne colo 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 bevorages, and the darkey's eyes gleamed as he drank. After a while be came back by tho 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 bis negro. It was a dejected and tattered old mau who answered the white man's call. "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. "WhatI not dead?" "Yea sab." "What was the matter with him ?" "Ob, dat's.tke sorrowful part of lt sah. Dare was a white man come along here 'bout free months ago. Seems like ho was from the norf; and he larn't Julius how to drink grass in his rum-an', - an', an',-now he's gono, po' Julius 1" Boston Record* Hoir Prohibition Works In Georgia. ATHENS, GA., July 21.-It is now ten days since the liquor caloona ia Athens closed their doors, and, although we have gone through commencement, not on? arrest has been made by tho 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 very small and will not Say for keeping open doora. If there are been any attempts at violating the firohibition law, wo hare received no ntlmation of the fact. The city officers are very vigilant and will use every effort to ferret oat offenders. One house is nader the ban of suspicion, bat if tbey sell at all it is to a chosen few, as no signa of the traffic are seen upon tbe streets. There are plenty of jags and bottles kept In private rooms, bat these are ffut mooing dry, and nen who have heretofore taken their drink regularly are now doing without. But little liquor is shipped to Athens by expresa. There' are two barrooms within five miler? of Athens that expect to do a fine trade, bat thoa far they hare not received much patronage. Prohibition bas no percepti bio effect upon ibo trade of Athena, citbe? ono way or tho other. Bat the best elga is a disposition of that band of [negro loafers who blockaded Jackson street, being attracted by whiskey and bUIiarda. They bare either gono to work or sought other fields. Oar liquor dealers ?re nil bu n tl ag np other business. They will cither more the rem can ts of their Stocks to wet coon tics or engage la another avocation In Athens. They rcoopt tho result Uko good citizens, and express ? detarmlnatioo to obey th? law. - Pay for your paper. A Natural Stream or Tar, ID a rugged1, almost mountaiuous, portion of Kentucky, embraced in tbe County of Breckinriage, in that State, will be found unmistakable evidences of a great upheaval of the earth, in the long distant past, in the prehistoric ago. 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 wero forcibly torn apart and separated at varying dis tances of a quarter to a half mile. In the valley mudo by the rent in the solid rock small rivers or creeks run their tortuous course, some of them of suffi cient siro to ellon! water power to turn the wheels of various mills situated at eligiblo sites along tia streams, the banks of which are skated by narrow strips of fertile land level enough for cultivation and very productive, while on either side of the stream tho riven rocks will be seen to else os towering, majestic cliffs. 80 uniformly similar in outlino are theso opposing clifls that, should the hills bo forced together, the edges would interlock and nt together like the two halves of an apple which had been torn apart. Aecendiog to th? top of tho cliff, tho table lands which spread out for many miles are heavily timbered, and when cleared make pro ductive farms, tho houses of prosperous farmers, An interesting feature of tbeso roman tic clifls will bo found in tho 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 tho surface, and, when ozposed to the atmosphere, crumbled and fell out in piles below, leaving the surfaco or top of the rock overhanging and forming great rooms, como 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 largo nrmies 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. Theso commodious rooms under the overhanging clifls made comfortable bornes for the Indians who inhabited this country before its discovery by the whiten, as evinced by the discovery of large numbers of their flint arrowheads and other implements of savage life. Another notable evidence of their occu pancy of these natural retreats from in clement weather is that after tho softer Cortions of the rock nearer the ground ad fallen out and crumbled to duBt 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, ana, being of a much barder 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 mado 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 thin as it may, the mortars remain lhere 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 this great upheaval is shown by largo forest trees growing on the mounds made by the crumbling and falling out of rocks, which no doubt at first presented a clean break 01 perpendicular wall. In some places saltpeter is found exuding in its natural state from the rock ono hundred feet from its top. The most notable features of interest are tho springs which flow from beneath these projecting clifls. Among them are the tar and white sulphur springs, situ ated seven miles from the Ohio River, near Clove ?-port, Ky. Theso springs flow from the base of a cliff which is one hundred and fifty feet high, and Ur top projects two hundred feet over the source of the spring, which is situated at the extreme back part of a commodions room rando by the overhang ing rock, This room ia always dry, cool and shady. The water is beautifully clear and cold, and the sides and bottom of the channel along which it flows aro lined with a velvety coating of soft, snowy white sulphur which adds to the crystal clearness ot the water; but the most remarkable feature of theso springs is a stream of liquid tar, the size of a small etraw. continually running on the surface of toe 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 cf pitch ten feet in thickness and a huudred feet in width made by this sm^.l stream flowing off and evaporating tl.o T.uid portion, leaving a hard, dry, pitch 7 residue of the magni tude above mont' jned.-J. IV. Crompton, in The Outrent. How an Old Man May Prolong His . Life. An old man must clothe warmly. After the age of sixty, any idea of hard ihood and of facing weather must be laid aside; neither the skin nor the longs bear cold. Cold is, in fact, the great enemy of our old people, and it is a fact, If a man of sixty or sixty-five goes to a warmer climate than tba." to which he bas been accustomed, bia lifo is prolonged. Warm flannel cloth's should be worn next to the skin day and night, and there should be plenty of 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 heat in the man past seventy is often deficient, and in very old people even drinks should be taken warm, as the sources of animal beat are being dried up. Old people will often like rooms koot at a temperature of seventy degrees or nigher, when younger people ere half stifled in them.-lie raid o/BealtA. - A mink's nett was discovered last .seek a,v.G=g ?se brush in Mr. H. L. Cross* gorden In Union, and around lt wera sixteen chickens with their throats cut. Mr. Goss sod his neighbors have neon losing fowls for some tim?, and bad charged it to two-legged robbers. - The Oxford (Miss.) Eagle ls slowly reforming, but as yet is not a reform glutton. It declares that there mott be no moro ballot box stuffing except la oases of absolute necessity,"-Boda Alf INCIDENT AT CEDAR HILL. How General Manigault Might llave Hade Il la to ry. Among tho incidents of blt recent trip through the South, Gencin" Br?nkerolT relates the story of the battlss about Chattanooga, which just now, while the attention of the nation is concentrated on the man who at that time directed tbe armies of the Union side, may be inter* eating : "On my way from Charleston to Co* lumbla," said General BrlnkerotT, "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 roe that ho was in those battles and com manded a brigade near the centre of the Rebel lino at Missionary Ridge. "He said the finest thing he ever saw was the advance of the Union army, with 1)0,000 men in line. "Tho day before the fight at Missionary Ridge, General Manigault had his head* quarters cn an elevated point known aa Cedar 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 tue Union army advanced General Mani gault observed that Cedar Hill, the poa!* tion vacated by bim the day before, was now occupied by some ono, evidently of high rank. He could seo through his glass that orderlies on horseback were coming and going in such numbers as to make it very certain that some person of importance was then on Cedar Hill, acd ono who must at least rank as high as a division 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 mako sure work, and as Genoral Manigault had soveral batteries of rifled guns be felt sure that he could kill or cripple tho officer on Cedar Hill, but as ho had or ders not to waste any ammunition until ordered from headquarters, he sent for bia division commander and suggested the propriety of sweeping Cedar Hill. He was told that the orders of General Rr?gg were imperative, on account of the scarcity of ammunition, to reservo fire for close quarters. However, he said ho would see General Bragg and ask his consent. General Bragg declined, 'and BO,' said General Manigault, 'I lost an opportunity of changing the currents of history, for a weok or two afterwards my pickets brought me a Cincinnati news* Eaper with General Grant's report of the attics of Miaaicuary Ridge, 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 tefl General Grant this story, if by chanco I should meet him, but it is not likely now I will over have an opportunity.' "-Mans field (0.) Herald. Mullein Lei:vc.n, In Consumption. Dr. Quinlan, of Dublin, read before the International Medical Congress at Copenbageu last year ar> interesting pa per on the medicinal qualities of the mullein. It hos attracted widespread attention, and among the more recent articles confirmatory of Dr, Quinlan's statements ia one by Dr. Wilfert, of Cin cinnati, which appears in the last num ber of the Lancet and Clinic of that city. From the resulta obtained in 127 cases of pulmonary consumption treated by Dr. aululan with mullein alone, he draws e following conclusions, which are condensed from his original article, viz. : 1. In the earlier and pr et uh ere ular stage of pulmonary consuii-tlon, mullein bas a weight-increasing and curative power greater than that of cod liver oil, and equal to that of Russian koumiss. 2. In oases where tubercles are well established or cavities exists, the mullein hos great power in relieving cough-a great boon to consumptives, whose weak stomachs too frequently cannot tolerate tbo usual cough remedies. 8. Phthistical diarrhoea ia completely obviated by the mullein. 4. Mullein has co power or effect on the night sweats of consumption, which should bo combated by atropia sulphate. The method of using the mullein, which originated among the Irish peas* entry, and was adopted by Dr. Quinlan just os he found it, Ia as follows : Three ounces of the fresh green leaves, or about ten times that much bf the dried, are bolled la a pint of fresh cow's milk. After boiling a moment tho infusion is allowed to stand and "cipo" for ten min utes, when it is strained, sweetened, and drunk while warm. Thia quantity fa taken twice or three times a day. It ia generally much relished by the patients, wbo regard it as a pleasant article of diet rather than as a medici oe. The amok? of the mullein leaves inhaled into thc respiratory passages relieves irritation and spasmodic cough. Dr. Wilfert states that bo fias followed Dr. Quinlan's method in twenty cases ol undoubted pulmonary phthisis, all ol them more or leas advanced, ana all im proved ' during the administration ol mullein, no other drugs being used. These results are certainly very, encour aging, and should be followed op. Not Mach of a Fool After AU. . Sam Wednesday, an impecunious citi zen of Austin, was supposed to bo crazy, and hut relatives brought bim before thc county court to have A lun?tico de in Su i rendo jury par, j on his mental eondi on, bis delusion being that he was vcr) rich. A lawyer proceeded to ask UM crazy man questions to test his sanity. "I bear you are going to build a $50,00( residence." "It ia going to cost 160,000." "You don.t say BO?" "Yea, and I am going to start a dsilj paper with $250,000 capital. That's i mere trifle for a man of my means." "Yon seem to bare so much money perhaps you would not object to lending me a thousand dollars." "I'd Uko to do it, judge, but that wonk be auch a risky investment, every bod] would suspect me of being crazy." The r?futai of the supposed iutmtlo to seriously entertain the idea of landina money to an Austin lawyer caused th< jury to decide that Sam was in ral! possession - of his reasoning faculties. Texas Siftings. ~~ In Texas and other S ta tea tho liquoi mee, as soon as they are defeated, begin to annoy their opponents by moving tc enforce tho Sunday laws. They attact tho running of trains on Sunday,, thc sale of Ice, cigars, soda water, newspa pers, etc. A o th ay are working ngalnsl their own com fart and pleasure they will soon get tired ot their crusade. \ - The Ber. Charles A. Stakely, o) Charleston, has boen called to the pasto roto of tho Marcy Av^nuo Baptist church of Brooklyn, and baa accepted. Tnt salary is $4,000 a year. Tho Storr or a False Exe. BRIDOEPOBT, July 27.-A yoong En* SUgh lady has been visiting at the reel? euee of a prominent widow in Bridge* port. The widow has a handsome BOO. He and the English belle have become great friends, ehe ia the possessor of a glass eye. and so perfect hut in fae simile of a real one that none bnt the young gentleman of the house had discovered his young lady friend's misfortune. Knowing what a mortification auch a blemish must naturally be to ita 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 ber foot, she having injured it while playing lawn tennis. For fear the ono* ration would give pain it waa decided that she should be placed under the in* fluence of ether. The doctor arrived, proceeded upstairs to the yonng lady's apartments, accompanied by the widow aud several assistants. The yoong gen* i tleman remained swinging lazily tn 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 nu io J the tic the oyo vas often touch* od to ascertain unconsciousness." He rushed frantically up the stairs and bunt into tho room. To his dismay he observ ed the doctor already trying the expori* 1 ment of touching the glans eye and about to commence tho 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. Thia waa dono and the patient jumper?, with such force that the false eye fell ou?. This catastrophe so alarmed tue 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. Thoyoung mau groped around on tho Persian rug for the lest eye while the doctor complot* 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 tba fact that ber misfortune ever became known. Baining Bocks. 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 paro to the rain of rocka which is now creating such a sensation in this County. In tenant houses on the plantation of Mr. B. T. Dunlap, about six miles from town, lives Quarter Beese and Beeso Posey. They are ouiet, good negroes, and nave never, so tar as known, done anything to provoke the Almighty's wrath?or the wrath of their neighbors ; but, nevertheless, the very rocka of tho earth seem to rise up to foll on them and their houses. This wonderful phonomo I non of rocks falling has been going on in that locality at interval? tor more than ton days, and people from five, ton. I and fifteen miles around gather there to witness it. Tho rocks are flint and vary from the s izo of au egg to the size of one's head. A peculiarity about them ls that they have fallen on several persona 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 rocka do fall. At first the negroes thought it waa , somebody rocking their houses and would i run to a thicket near by, but they could see no one. At last they concluded to Sut out sentinels, but finding tho rocks topped all the same, they reported ii to ! people in the neighborhood, and now most any time you go to tho place yon can find a large crowd of negroes and a ? few whites gathered to seo tho rooks foll. A nunb?r of gentlemen of our town rode out oti Monday to witness tho phenome non. They found ahont thirty or forty negroes assembled * near the house, . wonder-stricken at what they had feen. They were not there long before a sound QB the shingles notified them that a rook ? had fallen. It was picked up and found tc be quito hot. It resembled flint and had something on it which resembled soot. The people marveled mach. A very honest looking old darkey told the \ party that he saw a rook .rise ap from ., near a peach tree and. go straight up in the air, so they muss go tm and fall down. They are taken away by visitors about as fast as they fall. The negroes ?ot them and will not part with thom, 'he matter should be investigated. Lancaster Ledger. The Confederate Cabinet. The recent appointment of B, M. T. Hunter, of Virginia; to be Collector ox Customs at the port of Tappahannock, at a paiufully email calory, calla atten tion to the whereabouts and condition of . the few remaining members of the Con federate Cabinet. There were fourteen of thom-Benjamin, Bragg, Brocken* ridge, Mallory, Men:minger, Randolph, Sodden. Trenhclm, Walker, Davis, Bea" San, Toomba, Watta and Hunter. Of tieso only five now remain-Davis, Beagan, Toomba, Watts and Hunter. Of these five only two, Beagan and Toomba, were members of the original Cabinet. Hunter is not only on old man now, but very much reduced in circum stances, as is shown by his willingness ta V: accept a position which paye but about $600 a year. There are few members of the Confederate Cabinet who are wealthy. Bob Toomba, who lives near Atlanta, is wealthy. Beagan is worth, something, but not very much. Watts, of Alabama, and Davie, of North Carolina, though Ere tty old. continue in the, practice,of-, iw at their respective homer. Hunter, as indicated above, ia poor. : Of those now dead, none except Ben jamin died .wealthy. He m?do a mag* nlfieent fortuno, aa is well known, in the practice of i aw abroad. Of the few members stiU living each, resides now-In the State from which ho was chosod for bis Cabinet position. Began in loxa*. Hanter in Virginia, Watta in Alabam?)?#^; Davis in North Carolina and Toomba in Georgia. Only the civil brancncs of -".ho . Confederate Government are new repre sented, all tho Secretaries of War and Navy having passed away, vHunter end Toomba were Secretaries of State, Davia and Watts Attorneys General and Bea gan Po3tmaEtor General. Pvcagaa ia probably the most active, physically and mentally, of any of thoao remaining. He is strong and vigorous, though he wes et death's door a year, ago, when, an operation by- some skillful physician saved him. - An exp?dition of Americans will dig up the ground on the bank; of tho Euphrates, So the hope of regaining tho records of the antediluvian world, which, according to tho Chaldean bietory, Noah buried ther? previous to eabarkmg in the,ark. The walt of their r?warehes. witt doubtless be awaited wita much ia* .t?rest by the B?bMcan party, ia tho hope (bat ti tiley contribute a campaign Issue for the next Presiden'*** caatts?. - Themars who will toiler apriv&te Isalnd