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by clinksgales & langston. Mew Year's Greeting OF THE CO-OPERATIVE STORE I Who are Purchasers of Goods. ' On Christmas Ere oax Dry Goods buyer, Mr. STBADLEY, went North, bo'that ?Iwhile others have been enjoying the Christmas festivities at home, he has been aciively aud profitably at work picking up such BARGAINS as can only be ob? tained in New York just before? the January stock taking. Judging from the number of invoices already received, and the prices, we know that he is meeting with unusual success. So that we will be enabled to offer still greater inducements to the trading public than heretofore. We have a yerv large lot of? \ \ ? ? ? ? ail? (jROCERIES OF ALL KINDS, Plantation Tools, cdr in fact, almost EVERTHlNG that is needed on a Farm. Remember, oaf invariable sxjle-= IS SPOT CASH. AND ONE PRICE TO ALL -, We throw out no baits?everything is a leader with us. We ask not the pa? tronage of aayexcept oa strict business grounds. If we cannot merit the patronage of the people we don't ask it, nor do we expect it., ' AU we ask is a /air and impartial trial. ^ Wilshing all a" happy and prosperous New Year, Very respectfully, R. S. HILL, Manager. HERE IS YOUR MULE! BLECKLEY & FRETWELL' . Exposition Building is now open for the patronage of the Public?we refer to Our Immense Sales Stable, On Corner IcDufile and Benson Streets, SlNOE' our openiDg we have received Three Oar Loads of Fine yjung KVitucky MULES, and a lot of Fioe HORSES. We assure our friends and customers of? FAIR AND SQUARE DEALINGS, As it is Dot our ^lientioo lo misrepresent Slock, bat to sell them just for what they 'are. If you need any Stock at any time, call at .the Stables on MAJ. J. N. VANDIVER, who is in charge of them, and will be pleased to show you around. '^'^ / I' We have nowia good large assortment of? YOUNG MULES AND HORSES ON HAND, And can sell you also? BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, HARNESS, COLLARS, BRIDLES, &c, |QP We do rot propose to deal in old rips?we handle only cloan, nice young :J^nimals, and exce'lent bargains cbu be had at our Stables every day. BLECKLEY & FRETWELL. a: Teja?he)m$'C yJMN, All commnnicationsl intended for thiB Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander son, 8. C. __ The Mountain Creek School is under the charge of Mr. Chas. Dean, but it is most too early in the term to tell what he is going' to make out of it. There is great room for improvement, and he certainly has an opportunity to show his power as an organizer and disciplinarian. This school is io the midsc of a highly moral and religious community, but the school house is very far behind the church-house. It needs to be ceiled and have some win? dows put in to make it comfortable for the children, and should have three or four times the blackboard space, but the teacher informed u? that the people intend at an early day to fix things up in a bg&er manner. We proceeded from this school to the Williford Colored School, taught by Miss Carrie Richie. The school made a fair exhibit, and we were agreeably surprised at what we saw of the methods and man? agement of this teacher. She has her school well in Hand, After a night spent beneath the hospi? table roof of our friend, Dr. Witherspoon, we proceeded the next morning to the Springfield Colored School, in charge of Mr. P. E. Heriot. Although this school does not yet show up as it ought, by reason of previous bad management, yet we think it is in belter hands iban usual, and this opinion is shared by the neigh? bors, both white and black. The lack of proper text books is one of the great hindrances here. m A Shiloh School was next in order, and although we were quite sick, the sight of so many bright eyes and faces brightened us up considerably. Mr. W. R. Earle has charge of the school for a ten months' term, and the zeal and earnestness mani? fested by the teacher approves the choice made by the patrons. There has been no school here for several terms, yet Mr. Earle is rapidly overcoming all this, and placing his school in the first rank, and we expect to see great advances made by the time of our next visit. Still sick, we spent the night with the teacher at the pleasant home of his father > Mr. E. j. Earle, where everything wsb done to make us comfortable, and morning found us not much better, but able to wend our way to the Ruhamah School, taught by Miss Selma Whittaker. We Bpent the forenoon with her and her classes She is an earnest teacher, anxious to know her duty and to do it, and her pupils gi7? evidence of her efforts. We spent an afternoon with the Gene rostee Colored School, taught by Mr. A. Q. Hay nie, who is laboring under great disadvantages for lack of text books, which interferes very much with the ahowup of his school. The teacher is active and earnest, and deserves success. Mis3 Bet'ie Earle has changed her location thiB year, and is now the ruling power at Ridgeway. We found her with a very small school, andin a neighborhood where there are but few children, but she is doing her best with this little handful,, and the careful training they are receiving will eventually tell on them for good. These little children' are in good hands. At Evergreen we found a colored school taught by J. A. Richie. This house is too small for any purpose, and the stove smokes horribly, so that neither teacher nor pupils can give that attention .they ought. The teacher, though, is trying, and his patrons seem interested, as a few months ago their former teacher was arrested on a charge of forgery, and they had another teacher inside of three days. Mt. Sinai Colored .School is being taught by Miss Alice M. Smith. Her pupils made a creditable appearance when we called on them last Friday. Her spelling and reading and arithmetic classes were only just begiuners, but they did very well and appeared to be making substantial progress. The colored teach? ers, so far seen, are an improvement on those of last year, and arc putting in time bettet. The Teachers' Association, which met at Belton on the 11th inst., was the lar? gest in attendance that we have ever had, twenty-eight teachers being present, and all expressed themselves as greatly enjoy? ing the meeting and as being greatly profited by the discussions.- It was a matter of regret that Prof. Moore, who was to open the discussion on "What is Teaching?" was too ill to attend, but Dr. Lander came to the rescue and gave an interesting talk on the subject. Another matter of regret was that so many teach? ers who were in reach of Belton were not present. Their reasons for]absence were doubtless good ones, or at leaBt we hope bo, for a teacher who would willingly stay away from a teachers' meeting is in a bad way, and Is losing in professional power and > spirit. A teacher who is in love with his profession will as naturally want to be where teachers congregate as a lover wants to be where his sweetheart is. There is an educational progress abroad in the land, and the teacher who fails to aligr himself with this spirit will soon be relegated to the rear. Don't be afraid you will show your ignorance, for if you feel your lack, then put yourself in posi? tion to have your needs supplied. None of us know.it all, and we meet together there and compare units aud learn from each other. Adjacent to Pendletoh, and lyin3 almost within its shadows, stands the Walker-McElmoyle School, the origin of which is familiar to all our people. Here we spent an afternoon recently, and wit? nessed the methods of Miss Olivia New? ton, the Principal, ably assisted by her assistant, Miss Lncy Ellis. The Princi? pal of this Bchool is determined to build up a school to meet the wants of the far? mers, and has so arranged her sessions as to embrace the most leisure time of the farmers, ond has also arranged a course rjf study altogether embracing a period of NDEESON, S. C, TI seven years. Since our last visit, the people have built an additional room to the house, and the Principal has bought land and built a boarding cottage for the accommodation of pupils from a distance. There are the beat of reasons for hoping that this school, under its present able management, may, from the nucleus of a valuable department, he attached to the Clemaon College when it gets under full headway. Practical Directions for'keeping land from Washing Away. I find that a great many of our farmers mark off their terrace'lines, throw up a bank of some sort, then leave the work as a Snished job, calling it "terraced," when in reality they have merely marked off a pieco of work that ordinarily will Btand ten or fifteen years before the land may be called "terraced." There are but two ways mainly of terracing land. One is artificially, by ploughing -frith hillside plows or working the earth dotfa to a level otherwise; and the other is to throw up a bank or other obstruction to catch the earth as nature moves it down the hill by heaving frosts, washing rains, etc. For just as sure as rain falls upon shallow ploughed land, where clean culture is practiced, on Moping ground, washing will occur ? and no one with a big head and a small pocketbook need undertake to plough these hard hill lands deep enough tc- prevent washing at some time. Therefore, the belter plan in terracing, as well as everything else, is to work with nature; that is, let nature work while you plan and ?eep a good obstruction below to catch the earth asr-'^e moves it down, and thus appropriate her labor. And if your obstruction should break, why, just go and build it up again stronger than ever, the same as you would your water gaps in your fence,,or the breaks in yonr ditches that had blown down. Many years before the war I heart^ a very successful farmer say that the most important and most difficult problems of his life were to know how to make smart men of his boys and to prevent his land from washing away, and the way he hit upon to prevent his .land from washing away was'very simple, viz: On all slop^ ing lands he would rhark off section lines upon a level at intervals of about three feet fall between, much on the same plan as terracing nowadays; but instead of cultivating the whole field in the same crop, he planted one land or section between his marks in small grain, and the other corn or cotton, alternating them every year, which prevented washing in a way satisfactory to him, for he had no dry land ditches on his farm. An idea occurs to me here, that if all our terraced lands were planted in alternate sections of small grain and hoed crops, the terracing plan would work more satisfactory to many. Large stones placed in a line on top of the ground make a first class terrace bank (notwithstanding the opinion of some at the Pendleton meeting to the contrary,) for we can show banks in this county 4 or five feet high in placcB, built with loose stones taken off the land. But these banks were not made in one year; they were raised higher as the earth filled in above, or the water washed around the ends, with atones that continue to appear on the surface after each season's plough? ing. About twenty years ago I saw a terrace bank about three feet high, on the lower side of a garden that belonged to Judge Norton's mother, that was built up by sowing a row of what she called "border grass," which caught the earl h as it worked down by catching new roots and climbing to the top of the earth as fast as it accumulate. At intervals since then I have made good terrace banks by sow? ing rows of this border grass after the fashion of laying out terrace banks, which I found proved good banks, and in addi? tion gave fine crops of early gras3, which have been cut in the latter part of March, where fertilized, for calves and colts. This plan of terracing is the only system that has no loss of land space, in trying to prevent land from washing by either ditching or throwing up banks of the richest earth in fields growing noxious weed seeds that will in feat the crops. The best system of ditching uplands prevents a small amount of land from washing away at the expense of a large amount of waste space of land and a yearly expenditure that is nearly equal to that which is required to keep up ter? race banks, and at the same time these ditches do not entirely prevent the land washing. To prove this assertion, look at the accumulated sand in the streams, highways, and at the outlets of these ditches. Until the land is washed down to a level, washings may occur at limes, but when the land is terraced, brought up to a level?it will not wash, even when half ploughed.?Farmer's Son, in Southern Outlivator, ? Capt. R. W. Andrew^ the old pedestrian who walked a few years ago from this point to Boston, was in Sumter on Saturday last and paid us a visit. He says he intends celebrating his one hundredth birthday on Fourth of July in Sumter, and that on that day he wantB all of his friends to assemble on court house square, where he will promise them entertainment. He expects to fire 100 rounds on that day, and shortly afterward he will undertake another long journey. He is very erect and would be taken for a man not more than GO. He ran the first stage route through Sumter years ago.? Sumter Advance. ? ? "Do you ever accept contributions written on both sides of the paper V a visitor to the sanctum asked the editor. "Never," ho replied with a bcowI. "Well," Baid the visitor with a beautiiul smile, "I was going to endorse this check to your order, but I wouldn't have you break your rule for my sake, you know." Then he went out, and the editor saw him skipping gaily up the street, and heaved a sigh. ? "Give us a rest," cried a bootblack, from Ihe gallery of the Opera House, to a party who had been constantly cough? ing during the performance. Use Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup chimed in another. ? At this Reason of fast driving and accidents to man and beast keep Ralva? tian Oil on hand. [TJESDAY MOKNXN< BILL A HP. Old-Time Doctor* who 2JIe?U their Pa? tients to Core them. Atlanta Constitution, ?There is an awful mystery about these doctors. They know bo much that com? mon people don't know. When I was a child I had profound reverence for them. Our family doctor was a three-hundred pounder, and was gruff and short in his ?peech, and not very fond of children. And yet he seemed to hav*? --great many hid out somewhere; ac*^ was always giving them away. Whenever a new child came into the family or the neigh? borhood it was said that the doctor brought it, I UBed to wonder where he kept them. I asked my mother once, and Bhe said, "in Heaven, maybe," and this increased my veneration. Our big, fat doctor had a shop?we didn't call it an office?and I UBed to peep in at the door sometimes and look at his little bottles on the shelves. I Was sent there DnCe for ??m'e medicine, and he gave me some licorice root and Some cinamon bark. There was a mysterious box stand? ing up in the corner, a long narrow box about big enough to hold an old-fashion? ed clock?a grandfather's clock?and the door was open a little and I saw an awful thing in there, a skeleton suspend? ed from a screw in the skull. There was dark caveffcoUB holes for the eyes, and a hole for the nose, ?nd thefo were jaws with teeth in them and they looked fierce and malicious. I had a little primmer at home, and it had pictures in it. One was a picture of a skeleton with a scythe in bis hand and I bad learned the lines: '?Time cuts down all, Both great and small;" and I thought I had discovered where this old rascal was kept hid. He was in that box. It was a long time before I recovered from those childish supersti? tions. Onetime I bad a long spell.of fever, and that old doctor bled me till I fainted, and he wouldn't let me have any water, and when I got delirious I thought that behad that skeleton on his back, and I was to be cut down with a scythe blade. He bled me several times?five little Bears are on my arm yet. Bleeding was a big thing then. Mark Harding says bi3 arms are just tattooed with scars. I reckon they bled more in Mark's day than in mine, for the older'a man is the more scars be has; and Mark says he has got forty. I can tell how old a man is by bis scars. Mark says that "bleeding was a good thing and ought not to have been abolished. That these modern doctors are always talking about blood poison, blood poison. Well, if the blood is poisoned, why not take it out ? Bleed a man until he can hardly wag, and let new blood form that is not poisoned." But we lived?blood or no blood-water or no water?doctors or no doctors. The Baptists lived, and the Presbyterians lived, for they say that Baptists don't die until their time comes, and predes? tination Baves^the Presbyterians; but it is a wonder that any Methodist were ever raided in theee phlebotomy days. We never had any medicine except cas? tor oil and calomel, and epsom salts and jalap, and number six and sheep saffron tea, and some jaw-breaking tooth pullers that were made just like these crowbar hooks that you turn over a log with at a sawmill. There were some patent medi? cines, like paragoric and Bateman's drops, and Godfrey's cordial and opeldoc, that were kept in the store, and they were good, too. But the noble science has made progresB, wonderful progress, and I like it because it offers such a wide field for a smart man, and such a slim chance for a fool. We're gota boy study? ing medicine, and are hopeful of him? of course we are. His mother thinks he will be a great surgeon, for he is the seventh son, and when he was a lad our peacock got his leg broke, and I was about to kill him to put the poor thing out of mi?ery, but Ralph begged me to give the bird to him ; and he made some splints out of a big cane and fixed him up in a Bwing, and he got well; and another time be sewed up a bad cut on one of our mules; and he just loved to pick out splinters or get a cinder out of your eye; and so we con? sented to his being a doctor, and he is attending lectures in Atlanta, and the other day I called to see bim at the college. It was a kind of recess when I got there. I was introduced to Dr. Ken drick, and he was mighty kind and said they were just about to perform on a clinik, and invited me in. I thought that it was some kind of electric machine, but when I got in the room there were 125 young doctors sitting all around on tiers of seats that got' higher and higher so that all of them could look down on the little circular pit at the bottom?a little pit about ten feet across and looked like it was built to fight chickens in. I heard that the boys did fight chickens there, on the sly, sometimes. The clinik was a revolving table that had a cot on it, and was placed in the middle of the pit. Dr. Kendrick went in first and I followed along with a sick ? white man and two sick darkies. All of a sudden the young doctors commenced cheering and so I took a cheer and eat down. 1 didn't know whether they were cheering the professor or the sick men, and for fear they would think I was sick I rose forward and took another cheer and they cheered again. The professor then introduced me to the audience and I came to a pcrpindicular attitude, and they cheered again and again and I took, my cheer. After this little episode was over the professor asked one of the dar? kies what was the matter with him and he said he didn't have breath enough?he was short of breath, he couldn't walk ten steps and his heart went like a kittle drum. So the professor thumped on him and put his ear to his left breast and began to ask the young doctor's questions about diseases of the heart, and they seemed to know right smart. One said the heart had two beats to the bar, and another -Baid the heart had two oracles and two ventriloquists, and another said the reason the darkey wsb short of breath was because he didn't have enough of it, and another said the valves were out uf order, and another thought that the clavicles of the Fternum were contracted, but a knowing young man said there wfta not enough oiygen la hii!" blood: I noticed that *?hen r Gr, JANUARY 30, 18 young man hesitated and got things mixed, the professor was very kind and helped him along just like Dr. Waddell used to help us boys along in Latin when w<3 were in college. "Quidara is a pronoun, is it not, Mr. Jones?" Yes, sir." "Well, quidem is what 7 an adverb, is it not ?" "Yes, sir; yes, sir. Quidam is a pronoun and quidem is an adverb'" "Correct, Mr. Jones." And Mr. Jones thought he bad done wonders until his report came out and he was put down 45 in Latin? "Well, what is the remedy for that," said the professor, If his blood lacks oxygen how can oxygen be supplied 1" "Give him a donic, sir," said a young man with a bad cold, an iron donic." Then the bookkeeper wrote a prescription. Good gracious, thoUgt't I, has that darkey got to eat a whole donic. A donic is a lump of iron as big as a water pail. But maybe he is not to eat it, but is to handle it. Maybe he is to dig in the mines. It doesreake a man strong to dig up donics in the mine's. It is like swinging a pair of d?mbells to get strong. But our boy told me after? wards that it was not a donic but a tonic. I wish that Ik?ew as much about the human frame as Dr. ?endrick knows. He put a little glass quill in the other darkie's mouth and when he took it out and looked at it, he told the young doc? tors all about his disease and how it came and what must be done for him ; and then he begun on the white man and asked him what was the matter, and the man pulled up the leg of his pants and showed an awful ease of big leg, and the doctor said something abodt an ele? phant, and told him he bad come the wrong day, and belonged to Dr. West? moreland's clinik. Poor fellow, thought I, you are gone up. Dr. Westmoreland will cut that leg off in ten minutes and smile. Next I was invited in the dis? secting room. Yes, t was Invited, and the big fat, black janitor who steals all the stiffs opened the door, but I didn't get in. I saw enough, and one whiff of the odoriferous atmosphere satisfied me, and I departed those coasts. The young doctors laughed at me lumultuously. There were ten tables in there, and a cadaver on every table, and some of them were split in two, and some dismember? ed, and there were arms and legs hanging about on the walls, and from some all the nerves had been taken out like a bundle of strings, and from some all the muscles had been taken out. And there were backbones, and haslets, and spare ribs, just like you see at hog killing time. And all this is to teach the doc? tors anatomy, and it is all right, and if a man has any genius at all it does look like he ought to know how to treat a disease, and what to do for every wound that humanity is liable to, Those 125 doctors seem to be in earnest, and some of them will make their mark. Our boy came home the other day and had a dar? key's ear wrapped up in his pocket, and wanted to tell his mother all about its anatomy. For a minute she didn't un? derstand what it was, and asked him in amazement if he had got to chewing tobacco. He said, "Why, no; this is not tobacco, this is a darkey's ear." She rose forward and then backward and was more indignant than when I had that mole in the sugar dish. Ralph had to leave the room and hide out the ear,and she wouldn't let. him eat dinner until be had washed his bands with lye soap, and colone two or three times. But still she is prond of that boy, and tells how he used to speak a speech, and say : "Friends, Romans, countrymen ; lend me your ears." "Little did I think," she said, "that he would some day go about cutting them off from dead negros." Bill arp. Tho Immortal Lee. Richmond, January 20?The Rich? mond State sent requests to a number of prominent men all over the country for some sentiment appropriate to Lee's birthday, which it publishes this after? noon. Among those who responded are the following : Gen Schofield says: "I will say that it was the well known character of the Southern soldiers, of which that of Gen. Robert ?. Lee was the hightest typ^, which made it possible for the Union army to regard the Confederates not as rebels to be either punished or pardoned, but as honorable antagonists worthy to become trusted friends when they had laid down their arms. Thus this high character became of inestimable value to the Southern people, and hence to the whole country." Admiral Porler writes: "No man should hesitate to bear testimony to the reputation of Gen. Robert E. Lee as one of the greatest Boldiers of the civil war. But ror his generalship the Southern Confederacy would no doubt have sooner broken up, and he kept his army togeth? er under circumstances that would have appalled almost any other leader. Gen. Lee accepted the situation after Appo mattox in the true tpirit which charac? terized all his actions, and I feel sure that when he died he had the respect of every Northern soldier and sailor, to say nothing of tho thousands of citizens who admired bis private character." Governor Campbell, of Ohio, says: "As a Northern man and a member of that wing of the Democratic party which readily conceded anything to prevent war, yet cheerfully risked everything to preserve the Union after war had come, I pay my modest tribute to Robert E. Lee, the Christian gentleman, the fearless BOldier, the upright citizen, the model husband, son and father." Cardinal Gibbons says: "Gen. Lee was a hero of whom tho whole nation i3 proud." Charles A. Dana eays: ''Robert E. Lee was a man of ideal personal charac? ter. He was always a gentleman, always sincere, always true, always considerate of others. His moral elevation was es? pecially manifest in the readiness and calmness with which he bore disaster. Defeat never shook h:3 equilibrium. Misfortune was never followed by any relaxation of his principlis. His intel? lectual resources were prompt, broad, comprehensive, admirable : In his dig nity there was no affectation, iu his self respecL no petty egotifm, in his judgment n > unjust depreciation of others. He w.is great ^iu^tho noblest qualities of human nntMrei" 90. Extraordinary Achievement of Modern Surgery. In^tlie Lancet for December 25, 1884, Dr. Bennett>nd Mr, Godlee published an article which startled - the surgical world. Dr. Bennett bad diagnosticated not only the existence, but the exact locality of a tumor in the brain, of which not the least visible evidence existed on the exterior of the skull, and asked Mr. Godlee to attempt its removal. The head was opened and the brain exposed, No tumor was seen, but so certain were they of the diagnosis chat Mr. Godlee boldly cut open the healthy braic and discov? ered a tumor the size of a walnut and removed it. After doing well for; three weeks inflammation set in. and the patient died on ihr. twenty-sixth day. But, like the failurelof the first Atlantic cable, it pointed the way to success, and now there b&ve been twenty tumors removed from the brain, of which seven? teen have been removed from the cere? brum with thirteen recoveries, and three from the more dangerous region of the cerebellum, all of which proved fatal. Until this recent innovation every case of tumor of the brain was absolutely hopeless. The size of the tumors suc? cessfully removed has added to the astonishment with which surgeons view the fact of their ability to remove them at all. Tumore measuring as much as three and four inches in diame? ter, and weighing from a quarter to over a third of a p mod, have been removed, and the patients have recovered. Another disease formerly almost in? variably fatal is abscess of the brain. In the majority of cases this comes as a result of long-standing disease of the ear, which after awhile involves the bone and finally the brain. So long ago as 1879 Mr. Macewen, of Glasgow, diagnosticated an abucess in the brain, and wished to operate upon it. The parents declined the operation, and the patient died. After death Macewen operated precisely as he would have done during life, found the abscess, and evacu? ated the pus, thus showing how he could probably have saved the child's life. Since then the cases treated in such a manner amount to scores, and more than half of them have recovered with? out a bad symptom, In injuries of the skull involving the brain the larger arteries are sometimes wounded, and the blood that is poured out between the skull and the brain produces such pressure as to be speedily fatal. Ih some cases, even without any wound, the large arteries are ruptured by a blow or fall, and a similar result fol? lows. Nowadays, in both of these injuries, any well instructed surgeon will open the head, secure the bleeding vessel, and turn out the clot, with a good chance of recovery in a large number of cases. Even gunshot wounds of the brain are no longer necessarily fatal. Among a number of other successful cases one has been recently reported in which the ball went all the way from the forehead to the back of the head, and after striking the bone rebouuded into the brain. The back of the skull was open? ed, tho ball removed, and a rubber drain-' age tube of the calibre of a lead pencil passed in tho track of the ball complete? ly through the head, and the patient recovered.- So little danger now attaches to opening the skul', with antiseptic precautions similar to those already described, that the btest writer on trephining (Seydel) estimates that treph? ining per se is fatal only in 1.5 per cent, of the cases. Mr. Horsely has recently published a most remarkable paper, in? cluding ten operations on the brain, in which, without anything on the exterior to indicate its situation, the site of the disease was correctly located in all, and nine of them recovered after operation.? Dr. W. W. JTecne, in Harper's Magazine. Blown iirto Eternity. Charlotte, N. C, Jan. 23.?News is received here to-day ot a fatal explosion in Wilkes County, yesterday, in which five men were killed and a dozen wound? ed. A squad of railroad bands were working on an extension of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad, in the lower portion of that county. They were preparing to make a heavy blast, which was expected to lear up a big rock in a twenty foot cut. A tremendous hole had been driven in the rock, and two kegs of dynamite had been packed into it. George Hendly, a laborer, was prepar? ing to adjust the fuse, at the same time smoking a cigarette from which a spark accidentally dropped in and fired off the powder. It was all done in an instant and no one had time to escape. The ex? plosion roared like a dozen cannons and not only burst up the big rock but also tore up fifteen feet of the deep cut. Five unfortunate workmen were sent whirling into the air, riding on large pieces of the broken rock. Among the flying earth, a dozen others were knocked about and partially buried under the falling dirt. When the smoke of the blast cleared away it was found that five bad beer killed, as follows: George Hendly Samuel Culls, Thomas Emery, Josepb Falls and Eugene Moore. Twelve other) were more or less wounded but only thre< very seriously.?Special to the Greenvill News. ? A man who has practiced medicim for 40 years ought to know salt from su gar; read what he says: Toledo, 0., Jan. 10,1887. Messrs. F. J. Cheney & Co.?Gentle men':?I have been in the general prac tice of medicine for most 40 years, act would say -that in all my practice an< experience have never seen a preparatioi that I could prescribe with as much con fidence of success as I can Hall's Catarrl Cure, manufactured by you. Have pre scribed it a great many times and its ef feet is wonderful, and would say in con elusion that I have yet to find a case o Catarrh that it would not cure, if the would take it according to directions. Yours Truly, L. L. Gorsuch, M. D. Office, 215 Summit St. Wo will give ?100 for any case of Ca arrh that can not be cured with Hall'; Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. VOLUM A Professional Engineer. , "I don't want to pass through another such a season as the one through which I have just passed," said Dan Pankright, the actor. "Have had a hard time ?" some one replied, "Yes; about as tough a time as a white mau cares to see. Our company went to pieces in Texarkana, Having done some little work in a newspaper way, I decided to play journalist until times got better; but, air, I couldn't get a place, I offered to work for my board; but no, I couldn't get in. After awhile, giving up the journalistic idea, I struck out afoot. I wanted to avoid the regular lines of trav? el, so that my chances of getting some? thing to eat would be better, consequently I went through the country. Houses were few, and I came very nearly starv? ing to death. One day I came upon a saw-mill, situated in a dense forest. I stopped, and just as I was about to ask for something to eat, a man?who I soon discovered owned the mill?turned to me and asked: "Do you understand this business ?" "Ahl a chance for work. 'Yes sir,' I replied; 'I am well acquainted with it.' " 'Know anything about running an engine ?' " 'Oh, yes; it's my business.' '"Well, Pm devilish glad to see you. My engineer quit me yesterday, and I can give you regular employment. What will you work for?" " 'Two dollars a day.' " 'That's pretty steep, but as you are a professional engineer, I reckon you are worth it. Come in and have some dinner, and then you may go to work.' "I went in and proceeded to devour his dinner. I was a trifle nervous in view of my coming responsibility, and I tried to think of everything I had read applicable to machinery. I knew bow to start the thing and how to stop it, but that was about all. After dinner I boldly walked up, and when everything was in readiness turned the little hot wheel. Away she went, One of the hands, an old negro, remarked to some one who stood near him: 'Dat white man un'erstan's his bus'ness, 3ho's jai bornd, he do.' I was getting along finely, and saw that the proprietor was pleased. A spring of cold water gushed out of the ground a short distance from the mill. I went down to get a drink. Just as I stooped down an awful jar shook the earth. My gracious I the mill's boiler bad exploded. The pro? prietor, who escaped unhurt, rushed at me with dangerous fury. I thought that I would cool him off with a pleasant re? mark, and I said to him: " 'Hold on,'cap'n, why didn't you tell me the thing was loaded ?' "The pleasant remark was a failure, for I saw that he could not take a joke. He rushed into a shanty, bronght out a Winchester rifle and shot at me as long as I was in the neighborhood. The firing, I think, stopped about sundown that evening. I was glad when I came to the mill, but I was a devilish sight gladder when I got away." What Is Heart Failure? Every day we hear of deaths from heart failure. Strong men in the prime of life, whose expectancy is naturally many years, drop like they had been shot at the first approach of disease. The show? ing is startling. Physicians are point? ing thoughtfully to overworking of mind and body. A professor in the University of Pennsylvania has been asked to give bis views. Nearly one-half of the deaths that now occur are ascribed to heart failure. The thing is a fad, and instead of diagnosing fatal diseases, physicians take the direct result and ascribe death to heart failure. A man may have typhoid fever or congestion of the lungs and die of heart failure. A man may suffer a long time from a complication of diseases and the heart, driven to do more work than it should, suddenly gives out. The heart is teased and fretted by disease or too much activity beyond its powers, and suddenly gives out. Heart failure is said to be the cause of death, but intense nervous strain or long disease has caused the heart to cease. Heart failure causes no more deaths now than before. Of course the rapid rush for wealth which characterizes the life of the American of the present day, is likely to increase the prevalence of heart disease, as it consumes the nervous force of the body at a rapid rate, and it is the nerves which have a direct action on the heart. A Beauty at the Lathe. New Haven, January IG.? Miss Nel? lie Paterson, one of the prettiest girls in the village of Mount Carmel, a few miles north of this city, has just completed a four years' snprenticeship to the machin? ist's trade. To day she is working at her lathe and vise in the factory of the Mount Carmel Belt Company, and there isn't a mechanic in the whole shop who can do a better job or in less time than the fair young work-woman. Four years ago, when Miss Nellie began to think of the means whereby she must earn her living, she looked over the whole field of woman's work. Among the trades or occupations which the pushing women of this country bad made their own there was none she especially liked. She was a bright girl, with a great deal of Yankee cleverness, and considerable ingenuity and inventiveness. The remark was made by a friend that she waa so fond of inven? tions she ought to become a machinist. The seed thus idly sown took root, and s'ao applied for a place as apprentice. For the past four years she worked faith? fully, and a few days ago her time ex? pired, and she is now a full-Hedged machinist. She is able to block up a piece of work on the planer or turn up an arbor on the lathe. She uses the drill or handles a file as well as any man in the shop. Her specialty, however, is tool making, and to this she proposes to devote herself. She can also draw plans, figure out dimensions, and from the working drawings she can make anything. She is not afraid of tho grease and grime of the shop, and her beauty is not in the least marred by a long swipe of dirt across bei dimpled cheek, nor a spot of oil on bei nose. Her hands are not as white as ilnse of some of her sisters, but they are by no means large, though they are strong She is a great favorite with her felloe workmen, and is the pride of the littl? E XXIV.?NO. 30. ALL SOitTS OP PARAGRAPHS, h _ ? Kerosene was first used for lighting:;^ purpoFas in 1862. ? The Bible was translated into six new languages last year. ? Don't growl at this world, until you ; are sure of a better one. _ ? Mrs. Charlotte Smith is urging Congress to tax cigarettes a dollar a pack. > ? -\'Jr ? Belva A. Lockwood has announced . > that she will again run for President in 1892. ? The Winter wheat in Kansas'is in splendid condition, and a great crop is indicated. . ,.:r ?i^iEm ? There is a factory in England which V makes 5,000,000 tiu soldiers yearly ouE of sardine cans. ? Wallis Fletcher, a Ixmisville, Ken? tucky, boy smoked fifty.cigarettes a day. .':f He is now dead. ? Brazil has a law for the medical" examination of persons about to marry to | determine their fitness. ? The largest lemon orchard in the world is in process of planting at San > Diego, Cal. It will comprise three hun? dred acres. ? A crazy quilt just finished by Miss ;| Lizzie Weaver, of Bridgeton, Penn., , , contains 30,075 pieces and has been in. the. works forty-seven years. ? The youngest couple ever married in North Carolina is said to be a lad of 13 and a girl of 12 years, who have jusCh ^ been united in Davife county. ? Recently compiled statistics show that during the last ten years, to every -: forty-nine marriages performed in New. '. Jersey there has been one divorce. ? Miss Caroline Cammerer obtained a vedrict of $12,000, in the New York court last week for a breach of promise of Clemens Mailer ? to marry? her. ? Aman who bad been told that lie was about to die asked the doctor for his bill, saying that he did not wish to depnrt from his lifelong rule, * "Pay as you? go." ~ The snow-storms have been so heavy ' in Austria this winter that in the rural section bears have been driven by hanger; to the villages, where they were killed and eaten. , ? Sympathy is one of the great secrets of our lives. It can overcome evil: quicker than the harshest treatment It strengthens good, bringing forth more help to bear the hardest trials .that come . to us all from time to time. ? The other day an account appeared in the newspapers concerning a native off * the chief city of Hungary, who had reached his 84th year, and then attempted ? to commit suicide because he was unable '-'-i >?; any longer to support his father and mother. ? In Bussia women are not allowed to practice medicine before reaching the age:'; V of forty years. In free America, every woman feels herself fully qualified to praetice medicine so soon as she owns a baby or can borrow one of a neighbor to ?;.v practice on. ? A strange operation was performed in a hospital at Chicago on Thursday < upon a six-year-old boy who was paralyz- I;I'J ed so that he could not move a muscle. The spinal column was laid bare, and a ' clot of blood was .removed. It is said that ". he will recover. ? Young Widow?"Mr, Preachly, ' . will you marry me?" Mr. Preachly? , "Well, really this is so sudden, and.?" Young Widow?"Oh,- well, take your, time to think it over. Mr. Harkins and I thought we'd like to have you perform the ceremony for us." ? "Do you keep stationery here?" asked a young woman of a clerk in a va? riety store. "Not much 1" replied theo<;;; young man, rubbing his blue hands^j together. "The old man's so stingy of his coal we have to hustle round to keep -V^ v warm." ? Mr. H. J. Wallace, of Lancaster County, has bought no provisions, except ^ coffee and salt, and a little corn about fiyeT^p years ago, in about twenty-five years. He makes all" his provisions at home and raises cotton only as a surplus. He andj|^ his boys all wear home-made clothes, and ' they can always pay cash for what' they get. ? The postage stamp, though now^S^ universally used throughout the civilized world, was unknown fifty years ago. K?*j|S was invented by a printer named Clial-X^ raers in Dundee, Scotland, and the first \ stamps ever used were those issued, by ' England on May 6; 1840. The Uni ted : . States adopted the invention next yjar. ? It was an American genius who invectede> the perforated margins between thel&lj stamps, by which their use is so greatly , <> facilitated. ? John Hill, living just north of Al-}.QfJ bany, Ga., has a wonderful hen. It lays lf" every day regularly a couple of eggs. ' ? When it leaves the nest it looks back, ? counts the eggs therein, and if it finds that it has only added one egg to the ? ? number that was in the nest when she first took her seat, she returns and adds her Becond to the number to keep up with : her daily task. She was set on 12 eggs recently, and to the astonishment of her."" owner, she hatched out fourteen chickB, ?' from the dozen eggs. Many of her eggs '; % are double yolked, and that is the only explanation. ? Mrs. Jessie Haine, wife of a stone? cutter living at Stone Mountain, Ga., died last Tuesday night under peculiarly dis? tressing circumstances. She sent to her daughter, Mrs. Mary Hill, for a dose, of calomel. Mrs. Hill sent her what she supposed to be calomel, and soon after tak-. i i icg it Mrs. Haine began suffering greatly. A physician was sent for, and as soon as he arrived he recognized the ? symptoms of poisoning. Investigation showed that strychnine had been sent and ;.? taken for calomel. Mrs. Haine died and her daughter is completely prostrated with grief at her terrible mistake. Progress. It is very important in this age^of vast material progress that a remedy be pleas ng to the taste and to the eye, easily tu- ? ken, acceptable to the stomach and * 1 healthy in its nature and effects. Pos-.' ;.'; sessing these qualities Syrap of Figs is the one perfect laxative and mart gS?tto dlttf fen'.'Jtnaff"., .'