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BW?LESreSCALES & LANGSTON. E GHINA ?ND GLASSWARE, ; . BOTH GERMAlN. and.FRENCH IMPORTATIONS.:,.,. / . ^alK?g Ganes, a hundred styles, ^^?SMei^Walniit and Enameled Clocks, ^Sterling and Silver Haled Ware, li ^JilveM^ ^^^Bm^bu^cc^'e^Sia see^e beautiful lines of new anduseful Novelties we haveadded to our already Attractive Stock. Our desire Is to make .our stock com '- Sete bTthe ahove lirfes. and supply a demand that has long existed for these goods. -vw1^-t^:??a:in:.view^onr' l?r:-J.-M;Hubbaia has spent several weeksi in New Yorlc, ( ^seekm'gfirstliands, aadperfec?ngarrangements that enable us to compete with any <0-^V^i^^S-HlMl?*'^tm-Bnpplj. of W, G. B. Bings. . . JOHN M. HUBBARD & BRO. i;soq Barrels of flour ! fee sold TrttMn the next 30 days at the following lH)wMces: 2?01)arrelfii:at$4.?O--guaranteed. 5.00 5.50 :$25 : - ? " 6.50. ? ALSO, ? - JE?ST STQCIfOF TOB&CGO ighfrto; this -marketby any one. Prices running from 25c to 50c per pound etox leaa. Call and see. ^SPECIAL GROCERY STORE McGEE & LIGON. THE OLD STORY. Delicious ^sdities ^ BeUgM Patrons and pay Dividends to Consumers, I P. SULLIVAN & GO'S. C0KSTAHT AHI IS TO BELL THE JBest Hio Coffee They Can FixiAv ?PATENT FLiOTJR, And all other Choice grades. They keep a close watch after, and are prepared to give bottom prices, notwith? standing the advance. Tlie Glof}fiingv Business. They have a nice stock of MEN'S,; YOUTH'S and BOYS' CLOTH r.Xfl cheaper than ybq can imagine.. They have taken time and pains to get op tbif stock, and are ready to offer good Bargains. KENTUCKY A WD ATHENS JEANS, DRY GOODS OF ALL KINDS, - < From the cheapest Prints to fine Cashmeres. ?. BOOTS AND SHOES, : ' . The best stock they have ever bad. EVERYTEIING?THEIR STOCK IS GENERAL. J. J?. ?nllivan & Co. ?^rOTICB TO CREDITORS. . '{j2\:- :. All persons baviog demands against the Estate of Miles Durban?, deceased, are hereby notified to present tbrm, prop? erly proven, to the undersigned within the time prescribed by law, and those indebted to make payment. W. S. MURPHY, E'x'r. Nov 1,1888 V ' 17 , 3 ?: "OBGINS its Fourth Session Oct. 29. f:fjy: ,;::1888; ?Tnltion JlO, $12.50, $15 and i'"^i8Jper:ae8sion of ten months. No deduc ?^i^n^lo^'lWicti??^?r-;xnoiitb, unless ou.ac p><*onn$ofillness/!: Those who begin ;with xVithe Opening of the School,' and send rrgn ' " i? nave decidedly the advantage. V ; Jchool: is. nnder., the contrbl of a FI Alf Ol Grand Summer Sale. Ol?l. CASH PRICES. Pay when Cotton it . sold. Grand offer of ?00 Pianos and Organs to be sold in September and Octobei at Rock Bottom Cash Prices, payable . Pi? anos only $25 cash, Organs only ?10 cash, und balance December 1, without interest or advance on- lowest cash price/ Buy now and .pav- when cotton is sold. [GREAT BARGAINS?PJsnoa $200, $225, $25p; ; Organs $24, $35,^ $50, ^00. ;10.makers. 'sue'rig ley tnV^rflr;cnnHf!ie^ TEjA?H^'CoifUMN. SSF" All communications intended for thhrColumn should he addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C SALUTATORY. With this iesno of the Intelligencer I assume editorial control of the Teach? ers' Column, and enter upon the dis? charge of the duties of the office of School Commissioner for the unexpired term of Mr. Clinkscales. And in parting from him I feel that I. but voice the sen? timent of the teachers and school patrons of the County, when I Bay that we part from him with feelings of lasting regret, with sentiments of the highest regard, and With the beat wishes for bis greatest success in tbe higher field of usefulness to which be has been called?a field in which be is fitted to shine with brighter lustre by reason of his eminent fitness for tbe position. As teachers, we feel that not only has an accomplished school officer been removed from us, but a true : and tried friend?a friend ever ready to counsel us in our. difficulties?to cheer ua in oar work, and to rejoice with us in our success. For four years be has " stood at the helm, and to day by reason ? of his tireless energy and undaunted courage, the school system of the County is on a higher plane thaD ever before, and Anderson County occupies an- envi? able position, among her sister Counties. . And now upon me falls his mantle, and I come to the discharge of the duties of this office with many doubts and mis* giviogs. I take from, bis band the ban? ner upon which he has written "Excel? sior," and with face steadily to the front let us, as teachers,- march forward to the assault upon tbe strongholds of vice and ignorance. Let us take up the work where he has Iaid.it down, and, if possi bl e, reach forward to higher' and grand? eur achievements. Let us remember, in the language of quaint old Geb. Herbert, "he shoots higher much who aims at a Btar than: he who aims at a tree/' and j haying a high aim and a steady gaze, let us forget some of "the things behind us," and "press forward to the mark for the prize" of a grand and noble success. "England expects every man to do bis duty," was grandly said at Trafalgar by Britain's most illustrious sea captain; so the County expects every teacher to do his or her whole duty, remembering that oar. own immortal Lee has said that "duty is the sublimest word in tbe i English language."., And, in conclusion, I would bespeak from the people of the County that cor? dial co-operation in, and sympathy with, my efforts for the promotion of the best interests of the common schools, which her generous people know so well how to bestow. That I shall make mistakes, I do not doubt, but they will always be "of the head and: not of, the heart." And how I turn to my work with a deep sense of its great responsibilities, and with a firm reliance upon Divine Providence for guidance and direction, I shall ever keep before my eyes the great troth that "public office is a public trust." D. JET. Bussell. . 'Have yon looked about for a teacher for your school ? Or are you waiting for a good teacher to "torn up," or some? thing to "turn up" one for you ? If you are, you will be deceived. It is not done that way. Good teachers are in demand and have their market value just as every thing else has, and before yon know it, the pick and choice will be employed and at work. / Rev. Hugh MfcLees has been employed to teach a ten months' school two miles South of Anderson. The people of that community are to be congratulated on securing the services of a teacher of fine character and ability, and learning of a high order. It is a pointer in the right direction, and shows a spirit for which that community is to be commended.. May it encourage others to do likewise. Mr. John W.' Gaines, recently a slu dent of Furman University, is to take charge of the New Prospect school the ensuing year. Mr. Gaines is a young man of fine parts and bright promise, and, although his first rchool, we expect to bear a good report from bim, provided always, that he is properly sustained and his bands held up. by tbe people. Neither he nor any other man can succeed with? out tbe nnited support of the people. The Teachers' Column is set apart spe? cially for the teachers. It is their medi? um of communication, where they can ventilate their own views, and a place from which they can draw upon the ideas of others. Although edited by the School Commissioner, it is in no sense Im ppecial property, and be ought not to bd expected to fill it from week to week with his own productions. And it is expected that every teacher in this County will have-something to say here. State your difficulties to yonr fellow teachers?perhaps some of us may be in position co help you. Perhaps the very difficulty that confronts you like a lion in your pathway, may have been met and overcome by some one else. Tell' us about your successes and how you managed to achieve them; it may encourage some weary teacher, faint and and almost despairing, to renewed effort. A Great Cargo of Cotton, Charleston, Oct. 31.?An ocean tramp, the steamship Glengoil, went to sea to-day, crossing the bar with a cargo of 8,000 bales of cotton, which it is claimed is the largest cargo of cotton ever stowed on an ocean steamship in any port in America. The ship only drew seventeen feet of water aftet being load? ed. Her cago is valued at $400,000, and tbe freight list at ?8,000. The incident is important, for the reason that it proves that deep water at the bar is not an abso? lute essential for Charleston's importance as a seaport. The tendency of wooden ship building is to build vessels of light draught and at tbe same time a heavy carrying capacity, and a good many peo? ple in Charleston are of tbe opinion that it would be a wise thing for the million aires of the city not to wait for the tardy and niggardly appropriations of Congress to complete the:jetties, but that they ww~ Z~ --??--??- ----- ----| TOERSON, S.C., TB Ad Interesting Letter from ffew Jersey. ?^ew Brunswick, New Jersey, October 27,1888. Mr. Editor: Having become ac? quainted witb some of Prof. E. A. Bow? ser's mathematical works while at Fur man University, and having been impressed witb bis clearness and ezact I ness, I determined to come here to com? plete my course in Civil Engineering ander him. 1 Burger's College is at New Brunswick, New Jersey, which is thirty miles from New York, on the Pennsylvania Rail? road. It is in communication with the Delaware River by the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and also with New York by the Raritan River, on which it ia situated, fifteen miles above its mouth. The population of the city ia 20,000. The city is largely engaged in the manu? facture of wall paper, rubber goods, shoes, etc., one-tenth of the wall paper and one sixth ot the robber goods manufactured in the-United States being made here. ' Rutger'a College was fonoded in 1770. "The Scientific Department has been designated by the Legislature, in accord? ance with the law of Congress, the State College for the promotion of Agri? culture and the Mechanical Arts." The College has twenty Professors in all its Departments, and is well abreast with all the leading Colleges and Uni? versities of the country. We have over 200 students. All sections of the Union are represented. Among our number we have one negro, three Japanese and one Mexican. For your readers who like to pronounce proper names/ we. give the Mexican's?Ignacio Ermocillo Gar? cia Rebello Marquez. - - Probably the Professor of the widest reputation in the educational world is Prof. E. A. Bowser, Professor of Mathe? matics and Engineering. He is the author of a series of text books, which, though they have been out but a short time, are used in some fifty or sixty Col? leges, West Point and Annapolis being among the number. This being au old institution, it neces? sarily has some old and peculiar customs, especially among the students; for in? stance, no Freshman is allowed to carry a walking cane. If any one.of these has a propensity for acting the "dude" and ventures out with a cane, he is immedi? ately seized by the Sophomores, loses his cane, and is glad not to make the adven? ture again. Foot ball is the great game with the students?its amounts almost to a ''craze" with some of them. Our boys are play? ing about two match games a week now with other Colleges. Among those they have played with are, Yale, Princetown and Lebigh. We need to object to ba?e ball because it is too violent exercise, but it is moderate as compared with the way they play foot ball up here. The object of each side ia to carry the ball to their goal. So it becomes a game of physical strength. When a boy geta possession of the ball he runs with all his might for his goal. Some other boy intercepts him and throws himself upon the boy with the ball. They are thrown some ten feet by tho violence of the shock and roll over together, while the other players (some twelve or more) pile on indiscriminately, each side endeavoring to get possession of the ball. The players emerge from the confusion, some' with bleeding nose, some with hurt limbs, etc. Although it is a very rough game, the Bide that wins the. victory considers that the honor outweighs the bruises, &c. We are in the midst of a hot political campaign. Among the Republican speakers that have been here is Governor Foraker, of Ohio. He could not finish speaking without falling into his old way?abusing the S.iutb. W. E. B. What Will wc do In Heaven. What shall we do in Heaven ? That is the question which a reporter put to some of our clergymen yesterday, and the answers will be found elsewhere. Dr. Armitage, who is a Baptist veteran ?a landmark in the history of his de? nomination?seemed to think that it will be time enough to know about heaven when we get there, and frankly admitted that since do definite revelation has been made we most be satisfied with the sim? ple statement that we Bball find all the happiness we have dreamed of and a good deal more. Dr. Scudder followed in the same vein of thought. Since we can't conceive of ourselves as clothed opon with a spirit? ual body and freed from the temptations which tbis fleshly tabernacle imposes, he ventored no further .than the asse"Jion that our pleasures will be commensu.ate with our deserts, and that souls will be graded, like the rungs of a ladder, from the highest to the lowest. .Dr. Paxton, however, was willing to dr'aw on bis imagination much more ex? tensively^ He believed that we Bball be fully occupied, that heaven is by no means a place for "eternal loafing," where we shall "do nothing but Bing and take things easy." He added, "St. Paol may now nein the Milky Way working hard' to soften the hearts of sinners nf another type, and "if God has a few out? lying planets where there is a little good to do, He will send us there." Dr. Talmage felt reasonably certain that the finer taste3 which circumstances have repressed will there be gratified. The man who is fond of music, for in? stance, but who has been doomed to car? ry coal for a living, will have all the inosic he wants'. He illostrated his state? ment by citing the case of the astronomer. "He will have a better observatory, a further reach of exploration." "In other words, he is going to be furnished with celestial rapid transit.. He will be able to visit Jupiter before breakfast; after tea go to Mercury, having spent the day with a few friends in Mars." All that makes very interesting reading. Ab Dr. Armitage remarked, it is "specu? lative," but since the scientific imagina? tion has led to a great many practical discoveries, why is it not equally profita? ble to use the spiritual imagination ? At any rate, no man can by any possibility help thinking about these things, and therefore the opinions of our reverend clergy will at least have a suggestive value.?New York Herald. ? The Rev. F. L. H. Pott, a young Episcopalian clergyman of Greenwich, Conn., who went out to China about a a year ago, has married Miss S. N. Wong, whose father was tho first Chinese convert to Christianity. ; ? A single bottle of Ayer's Sarsapa rilla will establish the merits of this .?vj.'-'v.? - ? ?"?- - 33?^ MHIIlM^lM UKSDAY MOKNING A ROBBER BOOST RAIDED. An Organized Band; of Plunderers Pound t and-Broken Up. Greenville News, October 31. A story smacking strongly of tbe law? less border legends of tbe wild West and tinged with the nncomfortable realism of the "bushwhacking" days just after the war, comes from the ordinarily quiet and peaceful section about Looper's, Pickens county. It is nothing less than the tale of a veritable band of robbers organized for the purpose of systematic plunder and for months carrying on their operation in Pickens with occasional inroads into other sections, Suspicion had many weeks ago located the gang and quiet but brave and determined law abiding citi? zens had been carefully following up the thieves, but the full extent of their oper? ations had not been revealed until the capture of two of the band at tbe bouse of Sebe Pinson, near Looper's, Pickens county. Monday night. The captured ontlaws were Fayette Pel fry, who was brought here yesterday and put- in jail, and Drayton Medlin, who was seriously shot while resisting capture and is lying at death's door at the place where he and his companion were surprised. From the captors ofPelfry and from Pelfry himself, a'News reporter learned the story of the robber gang. The relation is strikingly like the lurid dime novel fiction, stripped of some of its blood. Along abont tbe first of last Jone Robt. Trotter, a well-to-do old man, living near Looper's, was robbed of three hundred dollars in money. The robbery was a particularly mean and bold one. The money had been hoarded up by tbe honest old farmer and was the hardly won fruit of much and sore labor. The old man had stored it away in a trunk hidden in his house, where he in his aim plicity believed it perfectly safe. One evening about dark, while tbe old man and his granddaughter were at the cow pen milking tbe cows, thieves entered the house, stole the trunk, and carrying it off to a little mountain near by, broke it open and took out the money. No trace was left by. the robbers; About the first of September the house of Albert Tony, an old man living near Columbus, Polk county, North Carolina, was entered while the old man was away, and about $400 concealed in tbe i house was stolen. The circumstances were similiar to those of the Trotter robbery, and suspicion noised it that they were the work of one and the same gang. Soon after this detectives appeared in the Looper neighborhood where they had tracked tbe robbers of old man To hey. About this time, Fayette or "Fate" Pelfry, who was a man of bad reputation and who had served a term in the peni-* tenliary for stealing a mule, began to bandle.more money than bis observing neighbors could account for.. He was a renter on Dr. J. T. Anderson's place, and soon after his crop bad been laid by, be bought a cow, a new suit of clothes, a fine pistol and other articles andv still appeared to have plenty of money. After tbe appearance of detectives on the scene,' Pelfry and Drayton Medlin, who lived in the same. settlement, left their homes and began to lead a roving kind of existence, spending most of the time at the homes of Jason Medlin and James Medlin, brothers of Drayton, and of Joe Medlin,.a nephew, in the upper sections of Greenville county. These movements excited tbe suspicion of tbe order-loving men in the Looper's section, and beaded by George W. Griffin and Wm. N. Hughes, they determined to rnn down tha rascals. By means of Borne clever detective work they learned that the gang had spotted old man Ford Cox, of the Marietta section, of this coun? ty, as their next victim, believing that he had much money about bis bouse. The house of Mr. Cox was to be attacked Wednesday night, two weeks ago. On Tuesday night Griffin and Hughes went to the neighborhood and securing the assistance of R. Mays Cleveland and R. F. Holcombe with one or two others, they concealed themselves in Mr. Cox's house, remaining there all day Wednes? day and until Thursday morning. But the trap failed, not because it was not well set, but because the rain made the ground bo soft abont the house that tbe robbers, who lay out in an old field all day long, were afraid.their tracks would give them away. They bad come pre pared to enter tbe house disgnised, with uniforms picturesquely constructed out of guano sacks and with blacking for their faces and red pepper ground fine to sprinkle in their tracks to prevent the dogs following them. With tbe came effective detective methods used before, the "regulators" learned that tbe thieves bad singled out for tbeir next raid, the house of Norman Clardy, in Anderson county, two miles from-^frechrr?Bt7~^Ord~Mr. Clardy was said to have gold in his house, it was said as much as $2,000, and the thieves yearn? ed for tbe yellow wealth. It was arrang? ed that they should surround his house Sunday night, overpower him if neceesa ry, and rob him of his supposed board. The details of the trip were all planned and everything worked smoothly up to Sunday night. To frustrate the robbery and catch tbe outlaws, Hughes ana Griffin, accompanied by R. F. Holcombe, went to Piedmont Sunday aud getting up a select crowd of volunters, went to the Clardy homestead and secreted them? selves to await tbe oncoming of tbe rob? bers. At the same time Pelfry and tbe Medlin gang were lying in the woods near by.the house awaiting the quiet of midnight, unconscious of the enemy concealed in the house. Here again everything was frustrated by an accident. A section of the party started from Pied? mont had been delayed and getting up to Clardy'a after night, ran up on the concealed thieves and scattered, them. When this became known, Griffin and his party, spending the night at Mr. Simpson's near by, left early in the morning with tbe hope of catching the robber gang on their return home. Reaching home as tbey knew before the robbers had a chance to get that far. Griffin and Hughes proceeded, to set a net that would not fail to - bag the game. They put a guard to watch Hagood's bridge over the Saluda which tbey knew the robbers would cross on their retreat from the Piedmont raid. Then a party was organized to watch the bouse of Sebe Pinson, where they had reason to believe the robbers would stop. Monday night, Pinson' shouse was surrounded by a party j fully armed and consisting of G. W. Griffin, Wm. Hughes, H. Hunt, Tyre Looper and J. P. Robinson. They lay in ambush and waiting. About 12 o'clock Pelfry and Drayton Medlin entered the house where Steve Pinson Bat alone. They were hospitably received, coffee and biscuits for two were ordered and the three men chatted by the fireside. George Griffin, peeping through a crack in tbe cabin wall, beard Pelfry and-Medlin relate tbe story of their Piedmont adventure to Pinson, which tbey did in detail, telling how tbey had laid in wait in the woods by old man Olardy's house, how tbey had prepared for the attack and how tbey had been sud? denly frightened off by the appearance of the tsrange men. It was in tbe midst of this recital that the front door of the small house, against which a chair stood, was thrown violent? ly open, the muzzles of four double-bar? reled shot guns protruded threateningly out of the darkness and a stentorian voice cried to the startled men inside, "Surren .,?-.!lMl,L _IILL_V,J^ }, NOVEMBER 8, 18 and fired at the men in the open door. The shot failed of effect, but it was as 3uickly answered from the guns at the oor. One shot struck Medlin's hand, aa he held his pistol in both hands, cat off both thumbs, and lodged in the abdo? men. The wounded man started towards the back room, fell and crawled within its door. Felfry had preceeded him there and was crouched behind a table awaiting developments. A few moments later Felfry came oat to the front room, holding two pistols in his left hand, dropped them on a chair and held, up his bands. He was taken in charge and the wounded Medlin looked after. His wounds were found to be serious, and Dr. Morgan was sent for at once. When the party, consisting of Griffin, Hughes'and another man, left to bring Pelfry to Greenville jail yester? day morning, Medlin's condition was considered extremely serious, and it was thought probable he would die. These are the exploits of the robber band. The Medlin brothers and Felfry, who were ringleaders, were men of little character, desperate, fighting fellows, of the stuff that renegades, bushwhackers and road agents are made of. Their operations, nipped almost in the bud as they have been, were bold in conception but evidently executed with reckless lack of caution. They had in a manner ter? rorized the section of Pickens county where they lived and had bidden defi nance to law and order. A certain system seemed to pervade'the operations of the gang, old men with alleged large wealth being selected as the victim of each of their expeditions. They were a set of cosmopolitan thieves, distributing their offences in Pickens, Anderson ana Greenville couaties and North Carolina. Talking to a reporter for the News through a hole in the batten door of bis cell up stairs in the county jail yesterday, Pelfry said he had been induced to join the gang by .Drayton Medlin, after they had robbed old man Trotter. He pro? fessed cot to have been concerned in the North Carolina robbery, but cheerfully acknowledged to an active part in the expedition to rob old man Clardy, near Piedmont. "I was glad we got ran away frum thar," Pelfry said to the reporter, "for I knowed old man Clardy and liked him and I bated to rob the old fellow." He described their surprise and capture at Pinson'a house in graphic terms.- He ['talked of the whole affair with perfect coolness and as if it were an ordinary matter of business. Sebe Pinson, the man at whose house Medlin and Pelfry were captured, was bronght here and pat in jail last night by a posse of men consisting ofB. Maya Cleveland, Brown Foster and H. Hunt. The same posse brought along for use as evidence the gaano sack "uniforms," the blacking and red peper prepared by the gang for use in the attack on Ford Cox's house, in upper Greenville. As soon as Pinson had .been safely in? stalled in a cell at the jail, a cooflict be? tween the State and United States au? thorities-was inaugurated. United States Deputy Marshal Good entered the jail and served a warrant on the newly arrived prisoner for counterfeiting money. Sheriff Gilreath refuses to recognize the warrant, asserting that the prisoner was in his custody and would not beJrans ferred to the custody of any other offi? cial. Search is being made for the other members of Ibe thieving organization. It is confidently expected that the entire robber clan will be caged in a few days. In the mean time the people may breath freer with the assurance that the only and organized wild western desperadoes of Pickens county, have been checked in their wild career. LA TEST DEVELOPMENTS. Another of the Pickens robber gang was brought in yesterday and lodged in the county jail, making three of the band now in prison with a fourth badly wound? ed and lying in danger of death. The last prize was James Medlin and he waa captured near McHugh's store, upper Greenville, Tuesday night by M. M.-Griffin, one of the men from the Looper neighborhood who have been devoting their.time and efforts for the last three or four weeks to tracing oat the thieves. Griffin was on the hunt for the Medlins, and about dark Tuesday, be met Jim Medlin in the road. He order? ed him to throw up his bands, and the order being supplemented by the presen? tation of a loaded gun, Medlin went up with bis hands. Griffin turned his prize over into safe hands and theo laid for Jason Medlin, hiding near his house all night. Noth? ing turned up, and when morning came Griffin approached the house and was met by Jason's wife and daughter, who. gave him a warm reception. He was told in hot terms that "they wouldn't kill Jason as they bad Drayton," and one of the women drew an axe and ordered him away. A search of the house proved fruitless; It is said that Jason Medlin has gone to North Carolina and it is probable he has escaped. James Medlin, who was brought in yesterday, has. retained ex Judge T. H. Cooke to defend him. Officers are in pursuit of Joe Medlin, alleged to be an? other one of the gang, and a nephew of Drayton, Jason and James. Dr. Morgan, who has been attending Drayton Medlin, was in the city yester? day, and reported his patient doing as weil as could have been expected. Gaffney, S. G, November 1.? Deputy Sheriff Gilreath, accompanied by Marshal Stevens, of this place, succeeded in arresting Joe Medlin in Union county this morning. When approached Medlin drew his knife, bat, being covered with a pistol in the hands of Marshal Stevens, be promptly threw up his dands and dropped bis knife, ana Sheriff Gilreath handcuffed him. A woman named McJunkin was also arrested as a witness against Medlin. They were brought here and puc in the guard bouse this evening and will be carried to Greenville in tbe morning in charge of tbe sheriff. Others of the gang are supposed to be in tbe same neighborhood. ? A Mistaken Chicken. "Speaking of chickens," remarked a gentleman, "I used to have a cream col? ored bantam that waa gamer than any of your game chickens. He would fight anything on earth. I have seen him stampede a drove of cattle going along the road by flying in a cow's face. I have Been him tackle a horse. He never was whipped. Bigger chickens always flew over him, but be never failed to bit. He's dead now. He killed himself." "How was that?" some one asked.. "Well, jou know when Barnum's show came through here it had wagons with large mirrors on tueir sides. One of these wagons passed my bouse and the little bantam was sitting on the fence. He saw his reflection in the wagon and flew at it, striking the glass like a bullet. He must have broken every bone in his game little body."?Atlanta Constitution. ? Philadelphia boasts more .women dentists than any other city in America, and those whose experience enables them to speak by the yard conscientiously af? firm that even the fatal forceps lose somewhat of their grim terror when wielded by the soft hands of lovely wom? an. Eczema, Itchy, Soaly, Skin Tortures. The simple application of "Swayne's 88. THROUGH MISSISSIPPI. BUI Arp srcl 8 his Health Certificate and goes West. Atlanta Constitution /Get your health certificate before yon goweat." That was the placard at the ticket office. It seemed very like the old war times, when we had to get passports and papers to go anywhere. Bat there was quite a difference so far as the doctors were concerned, for they gave a sick" cer? tificate then, and a soldier couldn't travel without one, unless he was going to the front. So I interviewed the doctor and got my papers, and set out for Mississippi. Be? fore I got to Birmingham another doctor waked me up and put me through a coro? ner's inquest and let me go on. Just before I got to the State line another one boarded the train, and I had to satisfy him that I was well, and hoped that he was enjoying the same blessing. But I reached Macon all right, and took refuge with another doctor, an old schoolmate, whom I had not seen for 48 years. Good . gracious I what a time?nearly half a centuary?and yet his youthful- image bad been all these years before me. His | ruddy face and pleasant countenance and > unselfish disposition was photographed | upon my memory. But anno domini will tell upon us all. I would not have known him nor would he have known me. I am not ashamed of the havoc that old Father Time has made upon me, but still I almost wished that we could meet again as boys with the same bright laughing faces and glossy hair and active limbs, and for awhile could run, and jump, and wrestle, and play ball, and climb trees as we used to. How easily and stealthily does old age encroach upon us, and bow gradually do we get recon? ciled to that approach. Providence is very kind in letting it come without a stock. Dr. Hendricks met me at the gate and by the moonlight we looked into each other's faces for some faint shadows of our youth, and of course were disappointed, and of course told a little fib in each pretending that the other did not look so old as was expected. I was soon at home in his household, and it was late when we ceased to talk about tbe old school days at the Gwinnett in? stitute and to refresh each other with delightful memories. But few, very few of those boys are left now, and they are widely scattered. Our teachers are all dead. The institute is dead. The na boring farmers are all dead. The land is there and not far away is the same old mill pond where we. used to go in swim? ming and jump from the spring board, and the water as it falls over the dam still sings the same old song, "For men may come and men may go," I ? "But I go on forever." Macon is the county seat of one of the richest counties in Mississippi, a county that presents some very remarkable fea? tures. There has been less change in Noxubee county than in any I have found , in all my travels. Tbe sons of the old patriarchs are more like .their fathers. They are proud and well mannered, courteous and kind and are still the mon archs of tbe rich and fertile soil that their fathers owned. The war left them poor in everything 'but land and self respect and State pride. The freedowm of their slaves has made bnt little change, for the negroes still do all the work and seem as docile and contented as tbey used to be. Now just think of a black laud country of 900 square miles, where there are thirty-five thousand negroes and only six thousand whites?and all working harmoniously together, without ajar or a strike or any outrage; where there is no clash or disturbance, either in politics or religion; where labor is at perfect peace with capital; where there are over thirty thousand bales of cotton made annually, besides corn and hay in great abundance, and an increasing sup? ply of cattle and bogs; where there are large creameries that market butter at Mobile and New Orleans; where there are good schools for white and for black ?where the entire white population is native to the manorborn and have assim? ilated in thought and manners and prin? ciples, 'and where about five hundred whites own all the acrego of rich land that produces easily without fertilizing an average of one thousand pounds of cotton and fifty bushels.of corn to the acre?no wonder that I found a contented and prosperous people. Now, General Sherman, what do yon think of that? What do you think of thirty five thou? sand black people living under tbe political dominion of six thousand whites? What could they not do if they wanted to, and yet the whites hold every office and manage these negroes as easily as a parent controls bis child. It proves that the white race is the superior race and was born to command, and tbe negro when let alone to pursue the natural instincts and inclination of his race are content to live and labor in a Bubordinate condition. It proves that your threaten? ed second war with torch and dagger would not avail you if you expect the negroes of the south to use those horrible weapons against us. Why not let the negro alone?why seek to destroy his happiness? What have we done to you and your people that so provokes your veugeoance ? Suppose there W8S a wall around Noxubee county where these few whites are living in peace with that army of negroes, and both races are content, would you break down the wall and go in with torch and dagger and incite a war ? I believe you would, but it would be from hatred to tbe whites, and not from love or pity for the negro. You made him a citizen, and are mad because be prefers a southern to a northern mas? ter. Now let me undeceive yon about tbe negro. If your people get up another war with us you will find the negro on our side. As the years roll on he is bet? ter content with his relation to our peo? ple. He is not longing or languishing. He is happier than you are and has a more reasonable hope of heaven. From Macon I journeyed to the thriv? ing town of Hope in Arkansas, to g?eet tbe good people at another fair. This' was their first venture in that line, and was a great success. I stood up before four thousand people who were arrayed in their best clothes and on their best behavior. About one-tenth of them were native Georgians. I saw here tbe best exhibit of fruits and flowers that I have seen in a long time?old Georgia conld not excel in this lino. The ladies' depart? ment was the best for* farmers did not seem to have been awakened to taking much interest in the fair. I met an old, well preserved gentleman, Captain Kyle, who told me he built tbe first bouse that was ever put up in Atlanta. He said it was in 1836 and way before the place had a name. I met here another old school? mate. My hostess, Mrs. Taylor told me that be was to dine with me at her house, but she was enjoined not to tell me his name. She happened to mention that his sou was a preacher in that town, and so as I rode out with a friend I pointed to a church and asked who preached there, and he told me. That settled it for tbe name was familiar. So when the old man came to dine and took my band and called me by my first name and said, "Now look at me and see if you know me," I pretended to be bewildered for a while and said, "Well, I am not sure, but there is a twinkle in that eye and a curve in that upper lip tb'ft somehow reminds mo of John L. Cheathnm." Well, u astonished him, of course, but if it hadn't slipped up on him, I wouldn't have ? ; r- J-.-li? ,_ 1\T~ VOLUM you came \to school. Youjalways had your dinner bucket and bad something good to eat?fried sausage and boiled eggs, and a little bottle of molasses, and some cheese and cake. Do you remem the three Lintons, and three Kendricks boys, and two Gouldings, and two Holts, and two Harris boys, and two Allans ? Are they all dead?" I could hardly answer him fast enough. "Don't you remember that hickory tree that had such great big nuts and how you was un ; der it one day hulling out some and one ( of the boys threw a rock up in the tree, [ and it came down on your bare head and laid open tbe skull and yon ran yelling : to my room and we fixed you up. Yes, I see tbe same old scar?its mighty plain now since that new ground has been cleared. And Old Pat is dead. He was the best old man in the world?don't yon remember how he used to preach out of one side of his month when bis heart got overly, tender. And Jim Baldwin 1 is be dead too ? You know he made a bet of five dollars that he would go down in the rocky field that night by himself and stick a stick in that old grave that the sassafras bushes had grown up around, and Thad Holt was going to slip down there first and hide the rock pile and say "that's my grave," and scare Jim and see him run, and Jim Linton slipped around another way and hid in the sassafras bushes to scare Thad and just as Tbad had sqnatted behind the rock pile Linton groaned and flashed some powder with a sulpher match and Tbad liked to have killed himself getting away. Jim Bald? win was coming just then, but he turned tail and run back with Thad and it was nip and tuck between them, and the other boys jumped up out of the corners of the fence as they passed and yelled and laughed so load that old Pat and all his family came running ont to see what was the matter. And where is Davy Jones and old friend Mathews. Davy used to go to see the girls and play grin? ning Jake, and how they did wallop him. And don't you remember Cannady Jar rett and Pete Poyle and Bob Hender? son." My friend has a good memory and got warmed up in bis talk and oar chairs got closer together, and nothing stopped us but the dinner bell. They are good solid, unpretending people in and around Hope. Unlike Ma con there are five times as many white as negroes, and they want it to stay so. Blessed are tbe people who-are content with their land, their region and their surroundings. On my return I came through Decatur, that ill-starred town that has been so rudely nipped in tbe bud, and all her bright prospects laid low. It looked like a city of the dead for the living were not to be seen. Before we reached the su? burbs the car windows were all closed and the doors locked and we glided through noiseless and still and solemn as a funeral. I saw two negroes and. one white man digging a grave in the ceme? tery.. I saw some little darkies sitting on the steps of a cabin. I saw one man approach the train and throw a letter on the platform and the conductor shoved a newspaper oat of tbe window and shut down the sash quickly. What an awful thing it is to be imprisoned with the plague in a town or city?no where to go and find a welcome; no friends to come and minister to yon and comfort you; no letters with kind words and tender mes? sages. No nothing, but to be face to face by day and by night with the pitiless angel of death. The conductor -told me that one of their engineers had lost a brother and a sister, and he had passed in Bight of their dwelling almost every day, bat was not allowed to visit them nor shed a tear at their graves. This is the dark side of our humanity. But there is a brighter one, thank the good Lord for bis mercies. Bill Arp. A Strange Story. . Owensboeo, Ky;, Oct. 20.?A Bensa tion was created here to-dav by tbe an? nouncement of tbe arrival of a former citizen, Be/a Spurrier, of whom nothing has been beard for thirty-two years, Spurrier was the son of a noted Methodist of the olden time, had a splendid educa? tion. At an early age he married well, and life was very bright for him. He developed a passion for gambling, how? ever, and before long had lost everything he had, reducing himself and family almost to starvation. One morning he left home to go to a neighboring town, promising to be back at night. He did not return. A week later his coat was found torn to pieces, and it was noised about that he had been murdered by. a yellow gambler. Two weeks later the suspected man was seen riding tbe horse that Spurrer had ridden away. Tbe body was not found, however, and no arrests were made. The gambler died a few months later under suspicion, and it was said made a confession of murder to his physician. Twenty years later a brother of the missing man re? ceived a letter from him. The brother tried to keep the receipt of the letter a secret, bat a boy caught Bight of it and walked twenty milea to inform the desert? ed wife and children of the matter. The brother was immediately beseiged about it, bnt he denied the letter or that he knew anything of the wanderer. A year later on a bed of sickness he confessed that he knew of his whereabouts. He said that Spurrier made a great stake in St. Louis and had finally settled down in Hickory county, Mo., subsequently re? moving to St. Joseph, where he embarked in business under an assumed name. He was highly successful and was wealthy at the time of tbe writing of tbe letter, by which the clue was obtained by bis fami? ly. His oldest son at that time set on foot an investigation of the matter, but being apprised of the search be suddenly cioeed out his business and disappeared. This was twelve years ago. People were found in St. Joseph who kew a portion of his history, but all traces of him were lost, and never a word was heard from him until his arrival at home. He brings with him evidences of wealth, and says he has come back to redress, as far as possible, the wrong inflicted by his I heartless desertion. His wife, left with a family of small children, struggled along and brought them up respectably, though always poor. They are now good citi? zens, and the wife, nearly 70 years of age, has been tenderly cared for by - ber chil? dren. The meeting between tbe couple was somewhat strained at first, but soon the warmth of tbe old years took posses? sion of them, and tbe reconciliation is said to be perfect, A reunion of their children, six in number, was held to night and the seqnel of the unhappy story promises to be as pleasant as if it bad been so ordered by the veriest,writer of fiction in tbe land. ? Bill Bluster, while in a temper, in? sulted rich old Stronger. A lew days af? ter happening to meet him he apologized. "Mr. Stronger," said he, "the other day, when I was angry, I'm told I insulted you. I'm sorry for it, and beg your pardon." "0, that's all right, William," was the re? sponse. "We are all liable to do wrong, occasionally. That's all right." "Yes, but look here. You mustn't feel proud over it because I'm honest enough to ask yer pardon, for understand you, I'd ask the pardon of a dug if I'd insulted him. It's the principle of the thing I'm after. I know ycr an old hypocrite, but at the same time I've insulted you, and I'll ask yer pardon." ? Avoid the harsb, irritating, griping E XXIV.- -NO. 18. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Life is too short to dwell on failures ?posh on to a new success. ? Disappointment often does a person more real good than success. ? Charles King, of Middle ton Mass., is 107 years old and has over 600 descend*, .ants. ? We have heard of men sowing wild - oats, but a woman's mission is to sew tares. ? The chesnut can be grafted on tbe oak, and this has been done in. Cali? fornia. ? Savannah is now the largest cotton port in the United States and Norfolk; second, A horse thief, arrested at Mexico, Mo', boasts that he has cut his way oat of seventeen jails. ? Tbe man who pleads poverty as an excuse for sinfulness thinks a poor excuse \ is better than none. ? ;0_ ? Woman is a subject never mentioned in Morocco. It would be a terrible breach of etiquette to ask a man after bis wife or wives. ? It is estimated that in England- one man in fOO gets a college education. In this glorious country one man in every 200 takes a college course. ? Gold dollars are used for bangles' : and trinkets to such aa extent that] they have become scarce and command a; premium of twenty-five cents, ? One of the latest books is devoted to "Fools." How any ^one man could condense all tbe lore on that subject with? in tbe limits of an ordinary volume .is a mystery. . . ? The best recipe for goiDg through '?; life in a commendable way is to feel that everybody, no matter how rich or poor,?| needs all the kindness.tbey can get from others in the world. ? A scientist says: "If the land were; flattened out the sea wonld be two miles deep all over tbe world." If any man is caught flattening ont the land shoot him on the spot. A great many of us can't j swim. r- The American people sit more.thi the inhabitants of any other country in tbe world," said a prominent physician. "Perhaps they do, doctor," replied his; friend, "but I'll bet tbey- stand more treats than any other nation." ' ? Vassar college hereafter will alw?yr; have among its pupils one of the name of " Huntington, a Kansas man oy that name having bequeathed some thousands of dollars to provide a scholarship for tbe; education continually of one young lady v of bis name. ? It is said that a wealthy, lady of New York has discarded the customary ;'_? knife and fork from the'table and eubs?^j*!! tuted in the place of those necessamg^g dining implements fanciful daggers'?ndl^^ miniature swords, enriched with jewels and fine art work.' ~- ^ ? The editor of a Kentucky paper is. advocating an amendment to the Ctons?turE^g tion of the United States, "by which tbe? >| names of men could be changed to those . of the women they marry in those instan-V.. - % ces in which women are much more im-: / r portant than their husbands." - ? North Carolina alone'is caring foc^SN 1,000 colored people afflicted with insani*&9S ty, and every other Southern State has jam its hands full. In almost every case it is the light hearted, lazy negro who loses, '/^ his mind, while the hard workers growijgffl brighter each year.?Detroit Free Press' y^. ?The daily output of 7,500,000 tooth-\:?' picks, by'a mill at Harfor Springs, Mich.^S^ seems enormous. Butthis is exceeded bvffial he manufacture of Mr. Charles Foster ataH B?ckfield, Me. The product of his mill . nearly 35,000,000 picks per - day. Employment is given to over 100 'people,. and 2,500 cords of wood are consnmed||H yearly. ?The manager of a detective agency injfi| New York says it is a very difficult thingffijH for a woman to become.a good detective; v'-:H> Women generally are too fl'ghty or - too^H nervous, or too something else, but wheh^fl one of them is found to combine the^WJ qualities needed for a good detective Pin^?j kerton's whole force put together couldh'fcjffl| get ahead of her. ? A North Georgia man who came in - possession of a cooking stove by marriage.^H sold it last fall for enough money to take^SH his family to a circus. When oce of bis. friends remonstrated him he said: "We had no use for the stove; bad nothing toUfig cook." "But why didn't you bay someO,.^: thing to eat with the money you g?tifo^H the stovo?" "Then we should have nothing to cook it on.' Don't talk to me'. 7m a philosopher." ? "No girl gets along well without a mother," says a moralist. Very true; so ??'5 they don't. See what a mesa Ere made of it by not having a mother. If she had^S been under the restraining influence of al|9 mother's counsel and love, she would not^aH have listened to the advice of the eaake/Jjffl and the apple wonld not have been 5?^ marked by her pearly teeth. A girl tbatvi^p can't get a mother should do the next.3a?| best thing?get a mother-iu-law. .3? ? A firm of San Francisco grocers has been accustomed to put at night ther^ffl money from the day's sales in a sack anrl'aH hide it in the oatmeal barrel. The otberJBS day a small boy called early for some^H oatmeal, and one of the firm served bim/^H giving him along with the meal about/.' Vi $140. Since that time the San Francisco M newspapers have been printing advertise^jH ments offering a liberal reward to the boyJjSH if he would call at the sterc. ?t last i accounts tbe boy bad not called. aSflM ? An experienced shoemaker says that ' ^ blacking greatly shortens the life of shoes^B As blacking"can't very well be dispensedjM with, though, he advises that the Bhoea.^M rather those parts which are polished,"bej|$3n liberally rubbed with oil. Such treaty ment, about once every two weeks,~or -1 thereabouts, but after, tbe blacking-Ihss___^] first been scraped off, will, be says, not only make tbe leather more pliable, and consequently easier on the foot, but ma? terially curtail the shoemaker's bill. ? Dr. Price of Oconee connty, Ga.', 3| suffered for years the pangs of rheuma? tism, vainly trying all remedies. Six ^ years ago ono of his sons in Texas4ieard~-'l7 that a hairless Mexican dog if allowed to ^ ileep at the feet of a sufferer from rheuma? tism, was a sure cure. He bought a dog: and took it home to his father. The old.' gentleman laughed at tbe idea, of such a: cure, but to please his son tried tbe dog. Tbe account says that as soon as the doc tor lay down in bed the dog "sprang in M and coiled itself around his feet. Sh;, less than hour the dog gave him evident relief, and in a short time effected a cure. . Wherever the pain struck him he madef the dog lie against tbe place, and thev-Jj] heat from the'animal's body drew it out' like a mustard plaster. Every night for x years the doctor has slept with his hairier bedfellow who now begins ' show the effects of age, and Dr. Pric says that after his death, if the rheumat ic pains return, he will at once sent off for another Mexican dog."?New York) Herald. The Tmo Method- 'I Of curing habitual constipation. *ndlll| liver and kidney ills, is to avoid the nse; ; | of the bitter drastic liver medicines fluaigf cathartics, and to take only tbe pleasant.< liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, 'Kg cleanses as well as strengthens the syP-r tern, and does not leave the bbw% ? tive, so that regular habits may be, <y1 anil tliA inpnlid normonnnflp m&