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?> - t BT Gl^ESt^LE fj^j_iiji-iy?r ii rrnnir" ? <>' i ? American Powder AJSTf Liquid! , v U aav* sold ihiB valuable Prepai ??ntor severalyeaw, and take great plejjs?: : txr? in offering iV again, this season. The BEpHipSfc adviseour friends tortakaaayan . tage of the abundant crop in prcspect this ;--8eason,;"and:^provide':^;whAt. may be a j ^shorfcrop.'next. -j' . : ??'-Vy With One Dollar's worth of the <Pxepa? ^i?rcnyanffffgreat: deal less^-troable-'thah, ^j^oWlashioned^way of -canning, you can | ^ve^Kiough to' do * large famny the Swhoiei Wintwr, and you can open and use ?nafrof the jar from ?me to time without :&#bt- coarse it'suits some -people to run i?<thtePrepwatdoo; down,: because It inter-; ;>feTesr.wittt ;theit;bhsln?ss, but ask T. D. ?^Sloan, of this'city,'and a thbusanaVothew ? ^throughout the County who have tneait i &%i?fc taboos,- and/you wiU very soon see ?fc^ereishb humbug aboutit. - } \ \ ;JO]EiI)AN; HOUSE. MBS? ".. C J0B0?N, Prppfletress; "i't'fi - ' .Rates.Reasonable, _ ?; ^ TilttYATE and "Transient Board sdidfrk jr* v; -Qfc - Tix3.t?blels supplied wit&^tho| .' best the market affords, and every atten^ "-' ttoa idvsn to guests." ^^r? 35,^1889; 43r ?S SALE OR REIT I "SpifeBiimKS atHoaea.Path, 'S.'jO.? foV-1;. %]aZ:.-a ' merly^belonjrmg, to..Mr^,JV/.G^ Wmltfii -Two; and a hair acres of land,, v^^bundm? thereon. Apply to- ; Charleston,S.C. v '|B^ril;1^188& ? : ;4r -?- ??6m; ,y : :':": ATTORNEY v. ;'. :. and . - .V". " - ^UNSEIitOB AT 3LATT,; & ANDERSON. S. C. LL business - promptly attended.: to? r < j^ Special attention given to coK lections. . " May 9,'188^-: ; U . 4: SmSf OTICE'OF FINAL SETTLMENT... , Noticeis Jiereby given that thenn-: ijrBgden^a^Pplyito theLJudgeof Pro-i? of July, 1889, for ; a Final SettiememV if theEstate ?fHiramB. Majors, deceased^ snd' a discharge .from their office as Att^ ndnistia trixs of said B^tate.. 3; ? .-.MBS.ISALLIE MAJORS,| ^ ? MBS. MOLLIE C. SKELTON, Administratrixa/-;' 7: June 13,1889 '49 h ;" 5-Ton Cotton Gin Scales. $61 BEAM BOX i & BRASS TARE BEAM. | s ? Warranted for 5 .Years .Kraitfrt Paid- . ] for ?era*. ^iefiB8 H? PAY8 THE FREIGHT-" ? For Free Price List, Address >? JONBS pf-BIKCEEAMTOy,Binghainton.y.T^ 1 IfflME-BiLS?I A PURE EXTRACT FROM THE YELLOW PINE TREEJ^ NATURE'S REMEDY. : Ti? Syitra Absorbs it E*aiiily Through the Pores, IT COPIES Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Toothache, Diseases of the Muscles, Nerves, Throat, Chest, Lungs, : V? and Asthma. ? ] the Br st General Reuzdy ever offered^ .':??? 'the public. You cannot afford to be with-?M : pgESr STISGS OR BIfES OF IHSHCTS> I LARGE'BOTTLES, ? fl|?| Olffl.Y 50 CENTS. :;oi.D -DY ALL DEALERS IN MEDICINE^V ASK FOB-TAKE XO OTHEK.{|j ' ; 'S^-Testimonia's and f?ll directions witiht^J x?cli;bottle. ' . '{?M ; SOLE PROPRIETORS, ; FERHBLSHECHEilCILGOi i X 8 BroadwRy, N. Y, & Cnwrlcston, 8i?^ SGSTON. TZ?~ ? mnicat'ons intended for ioiiia be addreesed to D. H. *wol Commissioner, Ander-1 )Y OF ENGLISH. Journal of Education con by .Miss Mary H. Leon Winthrop Training School, Sporne suggestions touching jl?owledge of the English by some pupils in our i; not to mention college je inefficiency ofold meth grammar, so fat.as they pil to apply his knowledge L business of life, is noted, "^expressed that there is a jation to improve. On si Leonard say^: ;few years textbooks in u freed themselves from id the forms of gramma ti ?have lost much of their ichors have learned that i of speech are to be sought 'means than grammatical lave relegated syntax to the higher grades .of od are seeking to apply to methods of instruction, a question whether its ;? higher still, among the oh tschool course. Venture to predict that the g ^Instruction of English ?en i.neverbe eliminated from our >pnblio instruction^ g^rgeography and theyari sciences are the centres of wnost teachers. But we are lat all efforts to displace the ^language study will lead i" in the form of renewed fe structure of the noble l is the ( heritage of oor ig people." attention paid, in col i'as'in schools, to the study ebne evidence of the convic locators that car language jpQrtnnity for quite as much' "? as do the dead languages, ional languages of modern ^jtelnsane notion, rather prev l^ears 8jgo, that the mental jrded by Latin and Greek ^supplied in the study of laa given place to the desire to ?liah high np in the university iThis old. idea was the result of "Philology had confined its the dead languages, and the | ass. other than English but Igr^? their proper place, vas'.deemed to be a subject with Englishman or American conversant. As one result leas,-men left college in igno-. le principles of their mother _#e\ later, efforts to give English ! ^jpia_cV ^have alreajdy improved ship of our country and have to improve the methods of orar language. inject is important to all classes ^ppie?not only to writers, /lawyers and preachers. In the "Hness of life, a knowledge of ling language' is valuable in ~iat must suggest, themselves. _Ijffi^^qimore excuse for bad Sffgiis^when^it come3 from the busi [nl^m^qrthe artisan than when it is found:ini:;the atterances of the profes si?j^hi^ber;;. The inability of a large c||^)^fe;pwi)le to have their children ' l^ny; other language suggests the Bnl'teaching English. The ihopls. should'. pay especial ^n|toA;t6 the matter, though it is now admitted that it should form a feature of ~" 3^a^instruction. The subject may bly studied up to the student's ation .?Columbia Register. HOTELS OF STUDY. umber of hours spent in school J^rald vary with the age of the is, five hours being the maximum, ^eonger the pupils, the more nnmer ^^|the^onger ?honld be the recesses, be well to keep the very yonng Idrec in the school room only so gas^is : necessary for them to recito. ^^^??v^easy-stadieS should alternate !' tw^^iput;: the day. Beceases should O^& Afcblished . Very long sessions are jnj^rious. Siegle sessions, which inter fere,wiih lhe regular meal; hours of the ?M^lsj5'are injurious. Studious pupils ^^"Ofteh^need to be restrained in their ^o|k^andk: urged to -be in the open air ?^Da^'?:Pnpils of a nervous temperament i^Mpt need the stimulus of competition.. Pupils under twelve or thirteen years of ago should not be ti-quir^l ?o-.Mi.ly at ? h?mei "It is a mistake to enter pupils at ?school at too early an age. Healthy children at seven or eight, those not strong'still later. ' '?cjNine months is long enough for any child: nnder sixteen years age to be in I^Opl . ln any one year. The teacher " mUDt not expect so much of his pupils as he himself is able to do. Pupils at the ^present, time are probably being given ||jwp%beyond their years. Experience P^?jleS^?nly with age.?N. Y.SckoolJour nal.; 132 SCHOOL OF THE FUTTJBE, I ^ihe school of the future must do more ifinitt-we have done hitherto in the direc ttipn^.of mental development?must lur nish better training for the hand and for the semes; must do more for the culti? vation of tasto and the love of the beau? tiful; must kindle in children a stronger j iap^petite for reading and personal culti [ vation; and r,t the same time bring them intoW closer,contact with the facts of realities, as well as the world of books. And the public will look to yon and to J-speli as you to fulfill this ideal.. There :are-many grave problems in education . which remain unsolved, and wbicb yet J^wait speedy solution, and the answers fi^iirijjepend largely on the decree in Iwbicb the experience, and judgment of pnr ablest teachers are brought to bear Bpon; them. We are yet only at the beginnings of a true science of education. iSfahyofthe deepest principles and lsws ni*lihat science have yet to be discovered. f$!?in#Be laboratory of theschoolroom, anil in a closer 'study lot child-nature by teachers, that the most fruitful discover fiwvWill be m&?ie.~-Mr, Filch. BILL ABF. The Cook Quits and Your Uncle Will am Got* Bis Own Breakfast. Atlanta Constitution. "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest. not what a day may bring forth." ? No we don't. I dident know last night'th.?t Mrs. Angelina Peacock wouldn't be Ihore this morning. Nobody 1 knew it until there was a tap at the door ; and a voice a aid "Mrs. Peacock Beut me to tell you she sick?can't come do more for to eook till bef got well." David saith, "Weeping may. endure for a Uight, but joy c?meth in the morning." That is so as a general thing, but smart de* pendd bri whether the cook comes in the morning. Kr? cook, no joy. Mrs. Afp wasent well, nohow, and so I persuaded her to be calm and serene, and let me manage the breakfaBt; and so I called Carl and Je8s:e, and we made a regular frolic of it, and bad the best breakfast we have had for a month. Mrs. Angelina Peacock can't compare with us when we take a notion to cook. She does her .best.,. bat she is old and rheumaty, and weighs about 250 pounds, and got fat and greasy while cooking in old Virginny befo' de wah. She is not the. lovely msideh that Goldsmith wrote about in the Hermit,. when he said: 'Turm Angelina?ever dear, My charmer, tarn to see." That was. aether Angelina. I. used to cry over her tad wish that I was Edwin when he clasped her to his breast. But we made a division of labor and got along splendid in preparing the morning meal. Carl fired up the stove and milked the cow and cooked the meat. I toted water and made up the biscuit and sitood around generally and talked while Jessie took charge of the hominy and coffee and milk toast and scrambled eggs and potatoes. They al? ways fatter me up to making the biscuit and they do ssy that I can make better biscuits than anybody, though I never studied a cook book nor attended lectures on the culinary art. You. see I use butter instead of hunt!; I dont rub it in the flour but I melt if in a tin cup and after it cools a little I pour it in the sweet milk. After the hordbrd has been put in the flour, then siiuit twice or three times and pour in the milk and butter and mix thoroughly. Anybody can make good biscuit that way. Every member of a family ought to know how to cook. There is no ether way of feeling indepen pent. Let ths cook quit if she wants to. White folks ought to be ashamed to admit that they can't get along without negroes. It is no discredit to anybody to cook. It is about 83 ho norable a8 it is to eat, and IB more scientific and takes more brains. A hog can oat, but he can't cook. But I want it understood th.it I am not a standing candidate for that business. I just want my family to feel independent, so that when the cook quits it is not a case of utter despair. Our children have never rebelled against these domestic ac? complishment. They can cook and milk the cows and -. nake up the beds and make their own clothes, and are always willing to do it Wlt??u; there is a necessity. I saw Carl milking the other evening, and a sweet, pietty girl; who was no kin to him, was standing close by holding the bucket .for him, and it did look so "confectionary," as Cobe says, that I wanted a photograph of the Iancteah scene., There was a Savannah girl up here not long ago, and she had never seen a cow milked and Carl had to explain to her the process, how that one teat was for sweet milk and one for buttermilk and one for. cream and one for the calf, and the sweet innocent believed it every word. But about this cooking business, I am not uttering the sentiments of Mrs*. Arp. She is constitutionally opposed to getting up early in the morning. She is willing to cook diuirer and supper, but has no liking for cooking breakfast nor washing the dishes. She conspicuously believes that the-darkies were specially created for this business. She is no great admirer of King Solomon, either, and sometimes hints that ?r?s respect for women and children are very limited, for he wanted switches and thresh poles for the boys, and kept thrpq or four hundred wives to wait on him and his definition of a virtur oub woman ras "she riseth while it is yet night and giveth food to her household." He actually wanted his wife to get up be? fore day and go to cooking, while he slept until the bell rang for breakfast. She thinks it enough for a mother to nurse and worry with raising eight or ten children, aoci after the crop is laid by she I is entitled to rest and I think so too. She shan't cook if I can help it. She has made a thousand little garments, and worked ten (thousand button holes in her life, but, thank the good Lord, her eye is not dimmed nor her natural force aba* ted. No; she shan't cook. Our colored nabor, Mrs. Fletcher, always comes when she can, but she is raising a crop herself and can't make a full haod in our kitch? en. But variety is the spice of life, and somehow I like for something to happen that changes the monotony of things and gets.up a commotion and stimulates our energies. I like for the cook to quit and the washerwoman to strike once in a while. I like for the bucket to get into the well or a young cyclone to threaten us. I like for my vest buttons to come off and my under garments to get ragged so that Mrs, Arp will be sorry for me and beg me to buy some new clothes, and I can say r.ith a sigh that I can't afford it, these, will do me very well; it doesn't mafter how I look. I like to work the garden while the son is hot and hear Mrs Arp calling me from the window, "You had better come in the house ; you will make yourself sick again working in that sun." I likes for her to hear mysterious sounds away in the dead of night when deep sleep falleth upon a man but not upon a women, and when she punches me in the side with her elbow I get up and meander bravely all through and around the house hunting for robbers and ghosts just to show her what a protector she has got. She is going to St. Simons next week. And I am going to stay at home. Soms of her married children are going with her and she is to chaperone the chaps or matronizs the party or whatever you call it. I don't know whether she is going to lave in the salt ea wave or not, but I can see her now ANDEKSON, S. C standing upon the beach and with extend? ed arms repeating the speech of her school days: "Roil on, thon deop and dark bluo ocean, roll? "Ten thousand fleets bweep over theo In vain. ? * * * '?Thou glorious mirror whero tho Almighty's form Glasses itself on tempests. ? * * Ob, she was a Bpeaker, she was, and she is a speaker vet. She speaks to me some times. I wish that every aspiring soul could go to St. Simons, or somewhere and look upon the sea?the ocean. If a man has a soul how it expands it I How diminu? tive he feels in the presence of this mightjr work of God ( Bat hundreds go ?there jnst like they go to a circusj They have no new emotions, no increase of reverence and no decrease in their own conceit. "A primrose by the water's brim X yellow primrose was to him, And It was nothing more.'* Some people go through this world jnst like they were sticks?no love nor hate nor emotion nor ambition nor aim in life ?^no nothing but to live and eat and sleep and hear the news?and as I pass them I can't help thinking of a stick, They had jnst as well never been born. They never reflect that the snn shines for them by day and the stars by night, and for them the moon gives her holy light. For them there is seed time and harvest, and the birds sing and the flowers bloom, and the earth is clothed in beanty. Why, even the dog that lies at their door was created for their comfort and protection. Let a man commune ! with natnre and cultivate those affections and emotions and aspirations that lead him to a higher life.. St. Paul says that man was made in. the image of his Maker and but little lower than the angels,. And Shakespeare says of him i "How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable. ?in action how like' an angel?in appre? hension how like a god." But those kind of men are scarce. They don't go about in droves. There are jnst enough to prove what a man can be if he will. Young man think of that and don't be a clam nor a stick. If yon can't be great, he good. Bill Arp. A Dog's Gratituie. It remains for Col. Bill Brittian to come to Augusta and pick up the best dog story of the day. He found it in the "flotsam," as it were, of .what some people call Augusta's great flood, and it is really one of the best things of the kind afloat. Col. Brittian happened in at Lan dram & Butler's on Saturday, and be noticed a fine Colly rush in the store, and, passing all the clerks unnoticed, made for Mr. Landram back in the of? fice, whom he saluted with a regular dog smile and a bow as unmistakable as "Denver's" best salute on mnle pa? rade. The delight of the dog was evident, and the polite attention at? tracted Col. Brittian's acute eye for any? thing special in dog manners. "Hello, is that your dog?" he asked of Mr. Landram. "No, but he claims me," replied the senior member of the popular dry goods firm. Mr. Landram then told the story which Col. Brittian gave to the Evening News. It appears that the dog in question, a handsome and intelligent Golly, be? longs to Mr. John Bones Moore, ? and makes his home with him for the most part. During the September freshet the dog was caught by the high tide in Broad street, and although a good swim? mer could cot make headway against the swift current surging down Broadway. He was caught in some brash or timbers near Landram & Bntler's store, and while there in durance, and in consider? able peril, be was rescued by Mr. Land ram, taken to the second floor and fed for two or three days nntil the water snbsided. Colly then went on his way rejoicing. So far the honors are in favor of Mr. Landram, and now comes tho story of a dog's appreciation and rare intelligence, Every day Bince the flood that dog has trotted around from Greene street, in fact, twice each day; and rushing past1 clerks and customers, he calls on Mr. Landram and salutes him with grinning teeth and bowing head and a wagging tail. He then curls up at his feet, goes to Bleep and after his nap bows again and returns homo. The interchange of civil ties between man and dog is always in? teresting. And the interesting story does not stop hers. Last fall Mr. Landram went North to purchase his regular stock of dry goods, and as Boon as the dog noticed his absence from the store he sought some other way of showing his gratitude. And here is the strangest part of the wonderful story. Although the dog had never been known before to stop at Mr. Landram's bouse, he took up his station that night on the back piazza of the resi? dence and there he remained till the cook came in the morning to open the house. Colly then left, satisfied that all was right; and this nightly visit and guard he maintained nntil his daily visits to the store told him that' Mr. Landratn was back home to protect his own house at night. Now, if any body has a story which better proves the pos? session of intelligence and gratitude in the dog world, let him bring it on !? Augusta News. ? Benj. P. Ware stated at a Massa? chusetts horticultural meeting that the present crop of oranges in Florida is esti? mated at 3,000,000 boxes, about half the consumption of the whole country ; and there are no less than 400,000 acres now devoted' to oranges. Many thousand acres, he remarked, would never produce oranges, for they cannot be successful, as cultivors well know, unless they are well cared for. Nevertheless, the future crop will be immense, for not more than one acre in thirty is now in full develop? ment. ? A Connecticut woman is suing her neighbor for damages for putting up fly screens. She claims that the flies which cannot get into the neighbor's house on this account will come into hers, and she will thereby have double the usual num? ber. ?1^" 1~ fV" -^'-"|-''-^-"-''--"-^-"- mm THURSDAY MOEF. It Is a Yalley or Death. "In Yellowstone Park there Is a ravine that proves aB deadly to animal life as that Valley of Java, where wild beasts perish by the score," Baid Henry W. Mclntyre at the Palace Hotel last night, The gentleman was connected with the party who surveyed the reservation, under the leadership of Arnold Hague, the park geologist. While following the streams to trace the extinct hot springs the explorers reached a ravine in which the bones of many animals, bears, deer, rabbits and squirrels, were found. The presence of the remains caused the party much wonder, and a solution of the strange affair was found only when a crow bad been seen to fly from the aide of the valley to a carcass that was yet fresh light on its prey, and almost imme? diately fall to the ground. "The death of the bird," continued Mr. Mclntyre, "was caused by gaseous exha? lations, whose presence in the park had been before unsuspected. The larger game also met its death by inhaling the ?deadly gas. The ravine is in the north* eastern part of the park, in the vicinity of the mining Camp of Cooke Creek, and not far from the line of the mail route, All about this region gaseous exhalations are given off, whioh form sulphurous de* posits. In the almost extinct hot spring areas of Soda Butte, Lamar river and Cache and Miller creeks the ravine was found. This region is rarely visited, although it is an admirable spot for game, which, however, goes unmolested by man, the laws, against hunting being very severe. The road to the valley has few attractions, and the visitors to the Fossil forests and Hindoo basin seldom make the trip. "In the centre of the meadow, reached by an old elk trail, is a shallow depres? sion that was once the bed of a hot spring pool. This is now dry and covered with a slight deposit of salt, and that is the bait that attracts the elk and other game of the region. The 'lick' extends for seventy-five yards up the ravine and is thicker and more palatable towards the upper end.' The creek runs past along the side of the valley and boih and bubbles as if it was the outlet of a hot spring. But the water is cold and the disturbance in its surfaces is caused by the emissions of gas, mainly carbonic acid. It also contains sulphur, as parti? cles of that are seen on the sides of the ! creek. As we went op the stream the . I odor of sulphur became very strong and caused irritation of the bronchial pss sages. About eight yards above Cache Creek were the bones of a large bear and j near by was a smaller grizzly decom? posed, but with the skin and hair yet fresh. Only a short distance farther on were the skeletons of many more ani? mals, such as elk and deer and other large game. Squirrels, rabbits, birds and insects were lying about in quantities, and the ravine looked as if it had been the 'scoop' of a drive into which the animals of the park had been hunted and had there been left to die of hunger out of mere wantonness. There were no wounds apparent on the bodies before us; all the animals had been asphyxia? ted by the deadly gases that hung a few feet from the surface of the gulch in a dense, palpable curtain. "The firBt bear we saw was a good way down the gulch, where a neck is formed. To that point the gas must have been driven by the wind, and its deadly nature may be easily guessed when ic is remem? bered that the slightest motion causes a diffusion of the ether that would tend to decrease its noxious properties. Here is the explanation of the oft repeated assertion that game was being extermi? nated by hunters in the Yellowstone, notwithstanding the stringent laws that had been passed for the protection of animals there. I had seen it noted that each year bears, deer, mountain tigers and other wild animals were disappear? ing from the reservation, and it was asserted that friends of the people Who had charge of the park were allowed to hunt then in defiance of the law. There were probably 150 bodies of wild ani? mals in the gulch when I was there. But, although there were skeletons entire and single bones, it must not be supposed these were the remains of all the game that had found death in the ravine. They had accumulated only since the last rainstorm. Through this gulch a mountain torrent runs when the snows have melted from the mountains or after a hard rain. Then all things, stones, and bodies, are tumbled together on their way to the mouth of the gulch, whence they are carried away in the creeks or are left to mark the course of the stream and bleach on the table lands. I had noticed near the Mam moth hot springs the bodies of mice and bugs, but had never attributed their presence to the deadly gases that were ho rapidly killing off the large game of the park."? San Francisco Chi onicle. Five Poisons In the Cigarette. To he healthy, the cigarette must be thrown away. It is very injurious, and sure death to the person who smokes it habitually. Whv? Tobacco in any form iB bad; but in a cigarette there are fire poisons, while in a good cigar there is only one. In a cigarette there is the oil in the paper, the oil of nicotine, saltpetre to preserve the tobacco, opium to make it mild, and the oil in the flavoring. The trouble with the cigarette is the inhaling of the Bmoke. If you blow a mouthful of emoke through a handker? chief, it will leave a brown stain. Inhale the smoke and blow it through the nos? trils and no stain will appear. The oil and poison remain in the head or body. Cigarettes create a thirst for strong drink; and there should be anti cigarette societies, as there are temperance socie? ties. Teachers ought to watch and see that their pupils do not smoke. In 1879 there were 900,000 cigaretteB manufac? tured. Last year there were 1,200,000,000. ? From Paris comes the report that Edison has invented a clock photograph, which strikes 1 o'clock and then calls out "Dinner time"-10 o'clock "Bed time," and so on, Fathers of marriageable families will do well in to inquire into this. ENG, JULY 11, 1889 A Remarkable L'rlmc. Atlanta, June 20.?One of the most remarkable cases ever tried in a Georgia court was before Judge Van Epps yes? terday in the city court. The case ia probably without a pre? cedent in the history of crime. The of? fense charged has extended over a period of twenty years, here in Atlanta, and no notice of it was ever taken by the police or courts before. As the case was called yesterday the defendant was a white woman named Nora Herron. She is 40 years of age, but seems several year's younger, quiet, intelligent and well dressed. She wore a white summer dress and white straw hat/and everything about the woman was quietly preposessing. Twenty years ?go Nora Herron came to Atlanta. She had one Child with her." One of her first acquaintances here was Ashley Creech, a machinist. She applied at his home for work, stating that she was a young widow from South Carolina, with one child and nothing but her own labor between them and starvation. Creech's wife was an invalid, the mother of two children. Under these Circumstances Mrs. Her? ron was taken into the family, arid there she remained. Mrs. Creech has been an invalid these twenty years. Soon after Nora Herron came into the Creech family there was a very quiet but radical reorganization of the family circle. Creech adopted Mrs. Herron as his wife, and his real wife became a servant in her own household. Creech, it seems, had always treated her cruelly. She was naturally a weak minded woman and the change was made without a serious protest from her. Nora Herron was the acknowledged. mistress of the house, and until the matter was brought before the last grand jury hot half a dozen people, living knew that she was not Herron's real wife, or that the real wife was not a servant." Creech has bad five children by his adopted wife, the last one-two years old. The two children by the first wife were brought up in the same house. Both were old enough to remember when and how the'Herron woman came, bnt were frightened into s ilence when they were children, and have tolerated it since, through a horrror of the scandal that wonld follow its disclosure. So twenty years have passed. Creech's neighbors were told that the real Mrs. Creech was an idiot and de? pendent relative, kept through charity, and that Nora Herron was Mrs. Creech. Not long ago the daughter of the real wife was married to a man named Drew. She told him, after they werr married, of her mother's real position, and Drew carried the matter before the grand j?"7 This daughter was the main witness before the grand jury. She swore that for years after Nora Herron first came into the family there was only one room to their house. After Mrs. Herron waB adopted as Mrs. Creech, the wife slept upon a pallet at the foot of their bed, Afterwards a partition was built, making two rooms of one, and the real wife was sent into a separate room. It was the real wife that did all the servant's work, cooked, nursed, washed and ironed. The Herron woman contributed to? wards the support of the family by work? ing in Selig's pants factory. She has been there for years?one of the best and most industrious workwomen in the fac? tory. An incident of the trial yesterday was the introduction of the real wife as a witness for the defense. She is much older than the Herron woman and an imbecile. She shielded her husband and the other woman as best she could. She de? nied all that her children bad testified,, bnt her statements were weak and con? tradictory. The testimony was simply overwhelming against the adopted wife and Creech, and the jury were out not exceeding two minutes. There is a true bill against Creech, and he will be tried if he can be found. He learned of the grand jury's investi? gation, and it is said left immediately. The woman's sentence was $100 and costs or sis months in the penitentiary. A collection was taken up in the court room aod over $70 was raised. Solicitor Frank O'Bryan, who bad prosecuted and convicted her, contributed $20, and several of the jurymen contributed. The entire amount was not raised, how? ever, and the woman went to jail yester? day afternoon. The balance of the fine will probably be raised to-day and the woman released. Taking a lady's Am. "The question is often put to me," said a lady whose opinion in matters of eti? quette is wholly competent, "whether it is ever permissible to take a young lady's arm in acting as her escort on a prome? nade after nightfall. Unhesitatingly and peremptorily, no. Not after night? fall, nor by daylight, nor at any other time. An invalid may lean upon a young woman's arm; a grandfather, if he is infirm, may avail himself of a simi? lar support, and a Broadway policeman seems to have acquired the right to pro? pel his charges across that thoroughfare by a grasp upon the arm, but those are the only male persons so privileged. For an acquaintance, a friend, or one who aspires to a still nearer place, to take the arm of a young woman when walking with her on a public highway is inexcus? able. You may be sure nothing will so quickly offend her good taste, although she may lack the social skill to resent and avoid it. And the spectacle in itself is most unpleasing. To see a young woman pushed along, a little in front of her escort by his clutch upon her arm is neither suitable nor pictur? esque. It reverses all preconceived ideas of gallantry. The fair should lean upon the brave. Virile strength ought ever to support feminine frailness. Offer her your arm, young man, ever time, and never under any .circumstances commit the familiarity and offense of taking hers."?New York Sun. ? New York will spend $11,631,000 this year for paving and repaving Btreets. Rah" Into a Washout. Lynchbueg, Va., July 2.?A special from Liberty to the Advance says: "A fearful catasthrophe occurred about a mile We3t of Thacton's, about thirty miles above this city, at 1 o'clock this morning, on the Norfolk end Western Railroad, by which forty passengers were killed. The accident was caused by a washout on a high filling. It is said that there were only about seven of the crew and passenger's saved. All of the cars were burned. Capt. Rowland Johnston was in charge of the. train, and is mortally wounded. Baggage master Ford is said to be very badly hurt. Major J. C. Oaasell, superintendent of the Lynchburg division, was on the train and was seriously injured. L. B. ? Summers of Abingdon, postal clerk, was bruised up considerably. -The other postal clerk, J. J. Kose, of Abingdon, was killed. Ail of the physicians and many of the citizens of Liberty went to the wreck as soon as information reached here and did all they conld for the wounded. Fat Donovan, the engineer, was burned up, as was also a fireman named Bruce. The train dispatcher was also burned. Several of the wounded were brought here and taken to a sani? tarium. W. 0. Head olf Cleveland, Tenn., is among the dead. These, are all the particulars obtainable as yet. Philadelphia, July 2.?PresidentF. J. Kimball, of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, who has headquarters in this city, when seen this afternoon in relation to the accident on his road this morn? ing said that while the wreck is a serious one and has resulted in loss of life, the report telegraphed from Lynchburg that 40 persons were killed is exaggerated. Mr. Kimball is in direct telegraphic com-, municatioc w'th ib: general manager of the road. The information furnished him up to one o'clock this afternoon is that five persons were killed, nearly all of whom were train bands, and quite a number of persons were injured. The train wrecked was known as No 2, which left Roancke a few minutes before mid? night. A heavy rainstorm had prevailed throughout Virginia for about forty-eight hours, and the train was moving slowly and behind schedule time when it ran into a washout about 1:30 this morning near, Thacton's. The locomotive and several cars were thrown into the ditch, but the sleeper remained on the track. The cars caught fire after falling into the ditch, und quite a number of passen? gers were ueverely burned, in addition to those injured by the wreck, Telegrams were at once sent to Boanoke for assist? ance, and in short time a special train arrived from that, city, bearing a fire company and a number of physicians..; Lynchiitrg, Va., July 3.?The Bcene of the terrible disaster near Thacton's on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, .is beyond description. There is hardly enough left of the train of eight cars that took the leap to the bottom of the awful pit to make one car. As soon as the boiler of the engine exploded the entire mass of debris took fire, and those who went down who were not killed outright were burned to death. Portions of eight bodies have been taken out, and it is be-' lieved that fully fifteen others were entirely consumed. A survivor of the wreck says cries for help could be heard from all portions of the wreck, and those unhurt were powerless to render assis? tance. Women who managed to escape lay about on the damp ground, suOering from their injuries until day-break, and many walked long distances to farm houses. The few passengers left unin? jured did all in their power for the un? fortunates. The charred remains of what are sup? posed to be eight bodies were found in very minute, particles. The body of Engineer Pat Donovan was dug out badly mutilated, and identified by his watch. Superintendent of Railway Mail Ser? vice has received information from Postal Clerk Summers, who was on the train wrecked on the Norfolk and Western Railroad yesterday morning, that the postal car was burned and all mail mat? ter, including three registered pouches, destroyed, Mr. Rose, who was assisting Summers, was killed. He was not an employee of the government. Summers was severely injured. roanoke, Va,, July 3.?The debris at the wreck on the Norfolk and Western Railroad has been removed and a num? ber of charred bodies have been found, j Seventeen persons were killed. I There were about thirty people who I escaped with only slight injuries, and ten who are seriously injured, The list of dead will be increased as friends of miss ' ing people come forward in search of j them. There is no way at present to ascertain the exact number of dead, ow? ing to the fact that the train was destroy? ed by fire. That Mar tie of Charity. And the Good Book said in speaking of many virtues, "but the greatest of these is charity."' When a man is rich and successful in business, he can afford to curse the man "who won't pay his debts." Debts should be paid, and if a man can and will not pay his honest debts he is a dishonest man. But to the prosperous rich man, let us say, put yourself in your brother's place, who has been unfortu? nate. Everything you touched seemed to turn to gold?everything be touched seemed to turn to sand. He is a public man, perhaps, with thousands of charita? ble demands made upon 'him daily, and he is unable to pay his bills at the instant they are presented. But don't say he is dishonorable. The world is too harsh in its criticisms of men. An editor onco came outand published Webster as u man who would uot pay his debts, and Webster sat down and enclosed his father's note which had been given Webster's father for the editor's schooling. Ths,t silenced the editor. What a good world this would be if Charity, with her beautiful folds, were thrown arounds our fellowmen when the harsh words of criticism are so unstint ingly used.?Augusta Evening News. ? A fellow out West who bit ofT half a man's nose, was bound over to keep the piece. VOLUl Tabor and Dayrson, The tragic fate of Capt. Dawson recalhi the end of William Taber, of Charleston.-, once the brilliant and handsome young editor of the Charleston Mercury, thee, and for some years after one of thu most aggressive of southern newspapers. Sometime in the late summer of 1S07, I think, Charleston was shocked by tho death of Taber, as she was shocked recently, at the sudden and sad killing of Dawson. In the years just preceding the war, political excitement ran high in the South, and especially in South Carolina, and the Mercury "was a political journal that daily added to its warmth. It wai owned and controlled by the Bhett fami? ly, noted in South Carolina, and young Taber, a relative of the family, was on its editorial staff, He was young, bril? liant and popular, a magnificent speci? men of handsome manhood and bad troops of friends. He was quite as amia? ble and gentle in manner as was Dawson when the writer first saw him, and though a man of coun.ge, was not aggressive in manners or disposition. But in those daya the duello was a recognized institution among the young men of the Sooth, and nowhere more strongly than in South Carolina. At the date referred to there appeared some caustic communications in tho Mercary, aimed at Judge Magratb, who still enjoys a robust and honorable old age, and who was then a candidate fo r Congress from the Charleston district. These were supposed to have been writ? ten by Edmund Bhett. They provoked \ replies, and finally Edward Magrath, a a brother of the Judge, became involved I in a hostile correspondence with Taber who, through a punctilio of the code, became the avowed sponsor of the article complained of. A meeting was held at the usual place, near the old Washington race course. Despite the efforts of mu? tual friends and the active and indignant protests of Dr. Bellinger, a distinguished, physician, the combat was forced to ths third exchange of fire, at which the hand? some and gifted young Taber fell with a bulletin his brain,"and Edward Magratb, went from what was called the field of ! honorable combat to a wrecked and wretched life. Charleston and the South were shocked by the tragedy, but those were days in which they were not uncom? mon. Subsequent to the terrible war which followed young Dawson found his first employment on .coming to South Carolina on the Charleston Mercury over which Taber had presided. Stranger still, when at the bead of the News and Courier he became re? nowned and received a guerdon from the pope for his refusal to engage in a duel with Col. Alfred Bhett and his earnest and successful attack upon the practice. Taber, young, handsome and brave, fell upon what was called the field of honor in a quarrel not of his own seeking and making. Years after Dawson, who bad so powerfully aided in destroying the so-called field of honor, met his fate in Charleston, in attempting to defend ths sanctity of his home. Jude Magratb, ths innocent author of the Taber tragedy, lives, full of honors, and is the advocats to defend the slayer of Dawson. What a strange thing is life. How many start lingevente are embraced within its bounds that make the solid truth cast into shade all the efforts of fiction I Which was the sadder fate, that of Taber or Daw? son ??Exchange. Charmed By a Snake. - Denniston, Texas, June 21.?Mr. E. P. Hedden, who resides Southwest of Denniston, brought to the city this morn? ing his little child Sallie to be treated for a snake bite. About .9 o'clock this morning the little giri left the house with a pail on her arm to gather blackberries near Stone Spring. The child was ex? pected to return home soon, as the family was to leave early to pass the day with a 1 neighbor. The child being absent some? thing over an honr, Mrs. Hedden pro? ceeded to the spring. The child was not there, and the mother called her name loudly several times, Receiving no re? sponse, she left the spring and walked into the blackberry patch to hunt up tho child. Passing through the patch she saw a scene which made her almost faint with horror. The child was seated on a rock and in her lap was a large rattlesnake*. The child was carrying the snake, whosa head was slightly elevated and moving to and fro. Sometimes the snake head would almost touch the lips of the child, who pushed it away without appearing to anger the snake. The child was so completely under the spell of the serpent that it paid no attention to the mother, who screamed so loudly that her husband heard her'a quarter of a mile distant, and hurried to the scene. When Mr. Hedden appeared, the snake placed itself in an attitude of battle, and the air vibrated with the noise of the rattles. Mr. Hedden advanced upon the Bnake, the child fell back as if in a swoon, and the snake struck it on the thumb of the right hand and then sprang at Hed? den, who killed it with a stone. Hedden sucked the wound, which, he is confident saved the life of the little girl, Salaratus was also applied to the wound. The hand and arm of the little girl were but very little swollen when she was brought to the city for treatment. The child says that ehe was sitting on the rock picking berries when the snake appeared, and that she was unable to move when she looked at it,- that she wkb not afraid of it, and that when it waved its head to and fro in her face she felt like going to sleep. Tho Southern Situation,. Has been a puzzle to the President, and many would-be statesmen have aired their petty opinions through the press and on the stump. A question of still greater moment is how shall I rid myself of malaria. The question is easily an? swered if you will only take one bottle of Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic, the greatest anti-periodic and stimulant of the age. It will purify your blocd, give you an appetite and make you feel like yourself again. This remedy is sold by all of ycur druggist. LE XXIV.?NO. M ? ALL SORTS OP PABAGBAPHS,%% ? The American silver dollar first ?made its appearance in 1794. ? Kind words never die; hut they - frequently Btay a long time from home. ? An earthly treasure?A rich hus? band, whom his widow has just buried. ? The flood damaged the property of. Pennsylvania to the extent of $44,250,-? 000. ? Man, with all his wisdom, never.; knows who is his best friend as well as a : baby. ? Four new comets have been discov? ered by the astronomers. This means a'.' good crop year. It takes three hundred men to har? vest the wheat crop of one ranch in Com . sa county, Cal. ??John Lawe3, the heaviest man 'in America, died in Elmira, N. Y., las c week. - He weighed 640. ? An English syndicate, it is said, has made an offer to buy the Elgin Watch factory for about $10,000,000. ? Norway is the most thoroughly :';/ Protestant country in the world. Out of , . a population of 1,802,172. by the census of 1886,1,794,934 are Lutherans. ?? Pittsburg and Cincinnati now"filter and boil their drinking water. It would be well for-the dwellere in cities every? where to follow their example/ : The legislature of Missouri at it* . recent session passed a bill which prohi bits the marriage of first cousins, and '-; declares such marriages absolutely void. , . ? Mr. Wm. Throckmorton has a farm near Griffin, Ga., called the MLine Creek^ Possum farm." Here he raises 'possums for sale. He has eight, bundred-~all't;: sizes. '?* ?".::;] ? Since 1850 the Roman Catholic ' Churches have increased 12 per cent ir. ' the United States, while the Protestant; ; Churches have increased eigbty:seyen pei cent. ? An old gentleman in the' 'Cleveland ': section, Oconee County, has a relic in the - shape of an iron wedge, that has been in. v his family two hundred and twenty-five years. ''::'^v*?b ? James Edwin Vardeman, -who died near Sparta, Ga., could repeat the namet, - : of all the senators and representatives in ;." Congress from the beginning of the gov? ernment. ? The New York Ifornwg-, 'jwrnai^ijl 8peak8.of a graduating dress which cost $500. Extravagance - may sometimes help the poor, but this is plainly carrying . " it too far. ?Nicotine, the principle of tobacco,'is"? ^ one of the most powerful of the known ?? nerve poisons. It is virtulent as prussic.'-.. acid. ? No known substance'ean counter '. ;, act its effects. ? A lady in Santa. Barbara,. Cal, . wrote to Cleveland end Harrison asking. ?"? contributions for a new Methodist church;;^;; Cleveland sent $5, and. Mrs. Harrison sent ten cents. ? There were manufactured in thr United States last year, in round numberr . 14,000,000 pounds of tobacco, 400,000 -; pounds of snuff, 4,000,000,000 cigars, 1,- $ 500,000,000 cigarettes. ? Alfred 8. Kidder, of Portland, Ore., ? ', inherited ?50,000 fonr years ago. He lost it at poker, and when his last $500 went that way last week in Richmond, Va., he blew out his brainB. ? Mr. Anthony Eilenburg, a reliable citizen of Cedar Creek, Pickens County, S. C/, reports killing a rattlesnake nine feet . : long. The snake bit a valuable dog.of Mr. '0 Ellenburg and killed it. ?\ ? A negro boy near Camden, S. C, lost a dollar that belonged to his mother. ?.' He felt so badly about it that he.begaa i;, crying bitterly, and did not stop for 25. hours, and then he died from ejihau? tion. ? Elberton, Ga., has a curiosity in the form of a colored boy. Eis advantage lies./;*' in the unusual Bize of his .mouth.., Hf? can put a large baseball in this organs ?; and then have room for bis hands i;o pult"^:; it out. ?- J. H. Lipscomb, of Sparenburg ; . had a double-headed chichen hatched re \ -> cently. It had two well formed beaks and three eyes. One- of the eyes was central ^ between the two beaks. Such chickens never live. ? The first official act of a woman mayor in Kansas is reported no have been fining a man "$5 for a plain drunk. On the same day she made two gingham aprons, set a hen and returned five calls." Could a man do better. ? In Leavenwortb, Kansas, a man mastBign a certificate setting forth that "a he is sick before he can get a drink at a drug store. The highest record of sickness % in any one month was reached in June " 1888, and the number of Bick men was _v 22,000. ? It is said of a kind and conscientious . farmer that he always, sent the laziest man he had after the cows, and when he .: had none lazy enough to suit he went-5 himself. He knew the folly and loss from^l worrying and hurrying cowi. with udders^ full of milk. "?J1H ? A sharp fakir is making a godi% income by advertising a sure method oL?: killing all insects. . When you send him' fifty cents you will receive a printed card?;: on which are these words: "Get youxln^ sects to smoke cigarettes, and they will die within an hour. So long." ? In China one can always boabw?| on the strength of having a son, but no? body would advance him a cent if ho had a dozen daughters. The former is re*S aponsible for the debt of his father for three generation. The latter is only re? sponsible for the debts of her own hoa-v* band. ?'.".^ ? A Washington special to the Louis? ville Courier- Journal sayu: The sugar, trust cleared fourteen million dollars ia - 188S, and in the five months preceding June in this year, $6,230,000, The pricaT of sugar has been made so much higher )i that profits during the rest of the year wilts] be larger. Progress. It is very important in this age of.vast-.-| material progress that ;i reme^^'lia*. pleasing to the taste acid to the eye^ easily taken, acceptable, to the stomach and healthy in its nature and effects.! Possessing these qualities, Syrup of . Figs is the one perfect laxative and most gene? tic diuretic knowm