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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. WE GIVE YOU, ONE AND ALL, A;Cordial Invitation to come and inspect our SPRING, 1890, Will ng be remembered for its Pretty Goods, and we have used every means to select for you only the Choicest things of. the Season! Our Millinery Department We are Proud Of! EaOH day brings orders from the neighboring Towns of Greenville, Seneca, Belton, Spartaoburg and other Towns. Several orders have been received from other States. Why is this? Simply because we carry the largest Stock of Milli ry in Upper Carolina. We can fit you up with as stylish a HAT as can be built in any of the larger cities. Trimmed Hats from 25c up. Flowers, Ribbons and Laces in endless variety. Leghorn and Lace Flats are favorites for the little ones. The Famous Ribbon Hat?New York's latest fad?is our specialty. Be sure and Bee our French Pattern Hats. In thiB Department you will find always on hand a complete stock of Butte rick's Patterns. We are Butterick's agent for Anderson, and you can't buy them except through us. O-OOIDS. This Department is replete with all the choice things-of the Season. ' French Pattern Suits at $8.50, $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00. A Lady buying one of these will have the only one of tbe kind, as they are all different. Trimmings to match all shades. Mohairs in all the popular shades, Half wool Dress Goods at 7J?c. WHITE O-OOIDS This Department is our pet?we are always tempted to buy pretty White Goods whenever we see them. We bought a Tremendous Stock, but they are pretty and cheap. India Lawn at 5c, 10c, 15c, 20c, up to 50c. Plain India Linen at 5c, 9c, 10c, 12ic, 15c, 19c, 20c, 22c, 25c, 30c and 50c. Full stock of the New Hemstitched Lawns. Novelties in Bordered Lawns, 42 inches wide. This makes a big saving in making a dress. VanDyke Flounciogs and Edges are tbe correct thing for the season. Laces of all kinds. Drapery Neta 50c, 75c, up to $2.00. Parasols from 25c to $10.00. Our Puritan Silk Sun Umbrella is warranted by tho manufacturers not to split Gloria Parasols at 95c. Mourning Parasols. Full line of Low Cut Shoes. Our Hue of Oxford Ties is complete?75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.00 Patent Lsather Dongola. Glace, Kid, Goat in Common' Sod lie and Opera Toe. We ha7e scarcely commenced to tell you of our Stock, but our space is already taken up, so we will have to finish next week. Yours truly, Manager. THE NEW BLOOD MEDICINE. Compound Syrup of Red Clover ! WE wish especially to call the attention of Physicians . to the above remedy, and ask that they examine into its merits before making their prescriptions for tbe usual Spring disorders. We would be glad to furnish the for mala for this preparation to any Physician who will call at our Store. This Syrup combines, in an agreeable form, the medicinal properties of the more recently dis- _ covered and most approved Alterative, Tonic and Blood Purifying remedies of the vegetable kingdom. It will be found much superior to tbe Blood Purifiers usually sold, and very much cheaper. ORR & SLOAN , anderson, s.c. sullivan1wanuf??ng coT NEW MACHINERY, NEW PLANT THROUGHOUT, A FULL STOCK OF LUMBER, dressed or undressed, SHINGLES, LATHS, WOOD-WORK, and BUILDING MATERIAL of all kinds. ALL ORDERS EXECUTED PROMPTLY. A CAR LOAD OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS, To t>o sold at Bottom Eig-ures. #a?" Our Works are conveniently located near the C. & G. Depot, with Mr. J. H. WREN, Superintendent. ASTONISHING, BUT ACCURATE, Are the following Low Prices at the LADIES' STORE. Come and Investigate matters in the Millinery Line. HaTS from 20c up to $2.50?untrimmed. No. 12 RIBBON only 10c. FLOWERS and PLUMES at all prices. GAUZE and TULLE in solid and fancy colors. Now go to the other side, where you will find ROBES, SUITINGS and DRESS GOODS in all the new shades and designs. SILKS ! SILKS! CHINA SURA HS and BROCADES from 50c to $2.50 per yard. VELVETS at 20c and upwards. Jnst step around to our WHITE GOODS counter and examine these CHECKED MUSLINS, varying from 5c to 35c. APRONETTE! APJlONETTE! with fancy bor? ders, in various designs, from 12Jc to 30c. NECESSARY NOVELTIES JUST LI STEIN : Ready-made TENNIS SUITS from 50c to $2.00. JERSEYS, BLOUSES and Chil? dren's KILT SUITS in all sizes, colors and qualities, from 50c to $2.50. Misaea' and Ladies' CORSETS as low as 25c?also look at our Special Ventilating. Latest stylos in PARASOLS! THREAD GLOVES at 10c. Ladie3' Hemstitched HANDKER? CHIEFS only 5c, leading to our specialties at 25c and 30c. LACE and EMBROIDERY beginning at 2c and running to $1.25 per yard. ??t- I have just returned from the Northern Markets, and carry? NOTHING BUT STYLISH GOODS. ??- All orders promptly filled. Miss JLiizzie Williams. Tlj??HE^'CoLUMN, All communications: intended for this Column should be addressed to D. H. RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander? son, S. C. The 10th of May is the time set apart in this State for decorating tbe graves of the soldiers of "tbe lost cause," and we pen this to suggest to those teachers whose schools will then be in session> tbe propriety of observing the day by some sort of exercises. If there are no soldiers' graves near by to be decorated, let some sort of exercises, such as recita? tions of some of Father Ryan's war lyr? ics, be prepared for tbe occasion, and if the teacher cannot do it, let some one be invited to pay a tribute to the memory of the dead Confederate soldiers. The boys and girls who are now in our schools are the children and grand-children of Confederate soldiers, living or dead, and we ought to be quick to impress upon their minds the great historical fact that these men fought for a principle, and illustrated upon the battlefield, in camp and in prison, the highest type of sol? dierly manhood, and that they were in no sense traitors to their country. As our school histories are now being writ? ten and taught to our children, there is danger that they may grow up with the feeling that there was something about it of which they need to be ashamed. Let us, as teachers, bear some humble part in teaching tbe children of the State that they have a priceless heritage of glory in the undying fame of the men who marched beneath tbe folds of tbe "conquered banner." Their names appear upon but few sculptured shafts, and they are not the recipients of the pensioned bounty of a paternal Govern? ment, then let us do something to for? ever enstrioe them in the hearts of their living and loving children, and make them feel proud to kuoiv that they are the children of Confederate soldiers. One of tbe most pitiable objects in a school room is the drudge, the teacher who feels that she has no heart in the work, and who feels that she is simply paid so many dollars for so much time, and aims to put in the time so as to draw the money at the end of tbe month, and who day by day does nothing but hear classes recite. Hour after hour the call is heard "come aud spell," "come and read," and wheu the recitation is ended no pupil in the class has taken in an idea, there has been no step forward in the process of mental development and growth, in fact, the pupil has been rather hindered than helped, and as between such a school and such a teacher, we should prefer to leave him alone to the teachings of nature. Frum such teachers may tbe good Lord deliver us. Now th'it the work of tbe school is about over, it is a good time for teachers to ask themselves what they have accom plished. Let us look back over the work done, and scan it closely and see if it is all just as we would have it. Let us put ourselves through a close self-examina tion, and ask ourselves some searching questions. It will do us good and will stimulate us for future work. We may not find everything just to our satisfac? tion, we may not be altogether pleased with the examination, but we will be the better for it, and we will be helped by it. "He does not know very much, but our children are very much behind and, therefore, he will suit us," said a school patron to us this winter. But will he suit if, and because, he does not know much ? Is it true that because a man does not know much, therefore, he is a suitable instructor for children who are just beginning? And by "not knowing much," we mean one who is deficient, not simply in his knowledge of books, but also.in his knowledge of methods, one who is lacking both in experience and teaching power. These little minds are like the little tendrils of tender plauts, they are just reaching out to find the great fountains of knowledge, their little minds, like flowers, are just opening up to tbe great world of life. Sensitive, cling? ing things that they are, bow important that the hand to lead and the head to direct them in their first efforts should be thoroughly skilled and cultivated. He is laying the foundation upon which the superstructure is to be reared, and a failure here means failure all along tbe line, for a structure, like a chain, is no stronger than its weakest part. A boy or girl started wrong may take years of pa? tient endeaver to get them upon the right track, with the probabilities strongly against success. We always employ the best lawyer, the best physi? cian, tbe best mechanic, the best of everything that our means will com? mand, and how much more important it is that those who are to train our chil? dren during tbe formative years of their lives shall be the best. Let us give a wide berth to quack teachers, as well as quack doctors or lawyers. Let us give to our "little ones" the best teachers we can find, for by as much as this class of work is tbe more difficult and delicate, requir? ing tbe best of skill, by so much the more should we give to them the best teaching talent we can find. Why should we put an incompetent teacher oyer the children who, at best, can only remain at school for two or three years or, in some cases, only a few months? Give the best teachers to the youngest children, and let their interests, take pre? cedence over all others. After pupils have somewhat developed in methods of thought aud study, after their minds have been trained somewhat they are able, in a measure, to take care of them? selves, but the "little ones" are as plastic in the hands of the teacher, as clay in the hands of the potter. ? Abraham Montgomery, a farmer, is under arrest at Martinsburg, W. Va., for bigamy. The testimony discloses a pe? culiar condiliou of affairs. Montgomery married one wife and in a few years mar? ried another living only a lew milcH away. The wives were kept in ignorance of each other and Montgomery divided his time between them, staying a few weeks with each one. He kept up this double life for several years, and was only detected through an accident. ANDERSON, S.C, T BILL ARP'S PHILOSOPHY. Atlanta Constitution. There ia auother crisis on hand in our domestic affairs. The maternal ancestor is going away, and I don't know what will become of us. When one of the children misses a meal or stays some? where all night, it is bad enough; but when the head of the house, the regulator, the director general, is gone, it looks like we had just as well shut up and go to the hotel. Who will strain the milk and look after the milk pans and see to the churning? Who will give out the sup? plies to the cook, and feed the chickens and get tho children up in time for breakfast ? Who will find their umbrel? las and rubbers and gossamers when it rains ? Who will look after the washing aud sew on the missing buttons and take care of the dog aud the cat and the kittens? Who will scold us all round and keep things lively? But, she is going?thp.t is, if I will fix her up ; for she has nothing to wear and no trunk to put it in. "If I go to Americus," said Bhe, "you must fix me up nice. You have made me so notorious that folks will ex? pect to see a very extraordinary woman; and so if I have to play circus you must fix me up." Of course I will. She went over to Rome last week to see a brand new grand child and it was just tbe sweetest and prettiest little thing in tbe world and had the brightest eyes and the blackest hair and tbe tiniest little feet and bands, and she was so glad it was a girl, and so forth and so on. And now she is going a long journey to see another one, and it takes all hands to fix her. She makes me buy her dresses. She always did, for she knows that I will buy finer goods than she would. Tbe price is of no consequence, when I am fixing her up, for she takes care of her things. She always did. The giils will spoil a new dress in a month, if there is a picnic or a frolic on hand, and they will break up parasols and fans, and lose gloves and handkerchiefs and gossa mers, but their maternal ancestors never loses anything. She says they take all their de?tructiveness from me, and I reckon they do. I see them searching in the bottom of their mother's trunk some times, when she is away. They are hunting for something nice that she has hidden away. Yesterday, they wanted a clean, linen buggy robe, and found it bid out, and they used it and got back from tbe ride just in time to slip it back again, and they made Carl promise not to tell. I They steal her cologne and handkerchiefs, and hairpins and collars, and cuffs and stockings, and she don't find it out until I Bhe tvants to give them something, and looks for it and it is gone. They have done bad it and worn it out. Of course sbe raises a racket, but they smile and sing, "What is Home Without Mother," and in due time everything is calm and serene. She is hunting up things now to take to tbe mother and child in Americus and sbe will find something. The big trunk is not tbe only hiding place she has got. I lost my hatchet and found it un? der her bureau where she had put it away for me. She found it out in the yard where I had left it. It takes half her time to pick up and put away for the family and we let her do it and never complain. "I've been at work this week. It was my spring opening," she said, for the flowers had to be brought out of the pit ?one hundred and forty-four pots and boxes, and some of them big heavy ones, and I had tbem all to lift and carry up the steps with my back?my lame old back?but she said it was good for me to take exercise. I bad to fix up a frame to put tbem on, but tbe large rose bushes and gerauiums had to go on the ground and holes had to be dug large enough to bury a dog in and theu I had to haul sand, rich loam and some fertilizer from the barn yard and mix it all up and fill up the holes sgain and then brin^ water and plant out the things aud then split up some stakes and tie the roses to the stakes, and I don't know whether that is all or not. If they don't 3eem to be do ing well I'll have to move them some of these days just for exercise. "What are you going to do with all those plants in the pots," said I. "Put them in the ground, of course," she said. "You can work a little while every day while I am gone. The girls will help you. It will keep your mind employed and keep you from grieving after me, but, of course, I know that you aie glad I am going. There are two large circular beds that have to be bordered with them. I will tell you all about it before I go." Oh, my country ! Eleven dozen holes to dig. There are the geraniums and fuschias and verbenas and carnations and dingnations and high biscus and low biscus and bego? nias and little noniasaud heliotropes and cenerarius and cataplasms and camelias and tube roses, aud ever so many more juv> breaking things, and all this comes from my digging that flower pit and put? ting a glass cover over it. I thought the pit was to keep them in, but I suppose I will have to take them out every spring and plant tbem and take them up every fall and put them back in the pit. But it is all right, I reckon. Flowers are a good thing and everything costs labor and care. I found two ripe strawberries in my gar? den to day and gave them to her with conscious pride in my success as a gar? dener, but she made no demonstration, aud remarked that she would fiud plenty of them in Americus. She will come back in love with Americus, I know, and will want to move there. Everybody does. Well, I have bought ;the dress?some? thing to wear?I've forgotten the new name, but we used to call it bombazine, and she likes it. It is as fine and soft as camel's hair and never goes out of fash? ion. It becomes the stately matron or tbe stylish maid, or the rich widow or the mourner at a funeral. It is at the milli? ner's" right now, and is to be made up in style a la mode, according Urlloyle, with epaulettes on the shoulders and none on the back, and be trimmed with lace cur? tains and lambrequins and decolletle et ceteras. I like this. Our grandmothers wore them that way and I'm glad the fashion has come luick. I wish the old style trunks would come back?the small sole leather trunks about half as large as the one 1 bought to day. Women had something to wear then, and tho little H?KSDAY M0KNI1 trunk held it, but now they have nothing to wear and the big trunk won't hold it. This maternal journey is a big thing. The inertia of a woman, a grandmother, is hard to overcome. It is hard to get her away from the chimney corner, away from her accustomed seat by the window, away from needle and thread, but she is going. There may be as many perils by the way as ever St. Paul encountered, but she is going. She will leave here at noon and get there before bedtime, but it requires nerve and heroism. She is so afraid something will happen to some of us children while she is gone. "They are so careless and thoughtless and so impru? dent, and their father just lets them do as they please. The calf eat up the madeira vines last spring, and now there is another calf just big enough to eat up the flowers; do please watch that Mare chal Neil Rose, and don't let anything happen to it. If anybody's gets sick or hurt you must telegraph me." The children look solemn and sad as their mother gives her last warning and entreaties, but I see them winking and blinking and hear them plotting and planning what a big time they are going to have. They think that I will surren? der to anything, and take a hand in the insurrection, but I won't. I will keep them within the bounds of propriety. I'm going to be an austere man if I can. When will this thing stop ? When will the maternal ancestor have rest from her labors and be free from anxiety about her offspring ? Never! no, never! while she lives, nor after she dies, I reckon. It is hard, very hard on these mothers who have so many children?scattered children?liable to sickness and distress. The children go off and marry and settle down and take on new loveB that smoth? ers the love of childhood, but there is no change in the mother. Hera never grows cold or lukewarm. She would follow her child to the end of the world if she could, and if she can't her heart reaches there. Blessed is that mother whose children's love continues with her age, whose affec? tion grows stronger and purer as the years roll on. Bill Ar?. A Cigarette Smoker. New York, April 20.?"Let any boy who smokes cigarettoslook at me now and know how I have suffered, and he will never put another in his mouth." These were almost the last words of Samuel Kimball, sixteen years of age, who died in a ward at St. John's hospital, Brook? lyn, Friday. As he lay upon his cot he was indeed a sad spectacle, and a glance at him undoubtedly would have been a forcible warning to millions of youthful cigarette smokers. His body was of a deadly yellowish hue, the face, arm, and trunk were emaciated, and his legs were swollen to twice their normal size. His sunken, cheeks, livid lips, dull eyes gave a ghastly appearance to his face, more like the face of the dead than the living. The fresh air came through the hospital window and played around his head, but every breath that he took cost an effort, and at times it seemed as if he would strangle to death. No nourishment had passed his lips for hours, and bis life was rapid? ly ebbing away. A faithful nurse sat beside him chafing his hands and trying to cheer his last hours. His case at first puzzled the physicians, but an examina? tion showed that he was suffering from a dropsical condition of the legs. He experienced great difficulty in breathing and the action of the heart was extremely weak, though there seemed to be no structural break. His system seemed completely filled with nicotine. He experienced great difficulty in taking nourishment, saying that it burned him like Are. From the first his case was considered a hopeless one by the physicians, and he was kept alive only by the inhalation of oxygen. The boy realized his condi? tion, and until within a short time of his death retained his consciousness. "YouDg Kimball, perhaps, smoked no more than many other boys who were not so serious? ly injured as he was," said Dr. Royce, the home surgeon of the hospital. "But he was naturally nervous and delicate, and ehould not have smoked at all. The simple smoking of cigarettes deposits a greater or less quantity of nicotine in the throat or mouth, but when the smoke iB inhaled into the lungs it is deposited on a surface that is seperated from the blood only by a single membrance and admits of a more rapid and complete absorption. It is therefore especially injurious to per? sons of nervous temperaments and dan-1 gerous to those whose hearts are weak." Young Kimball's case is rather an inter esting one, and it will no doubt attract much attention from the medical profes? sion. _ An Accommodating Husband Fort Smith Ark., April 7.?j. S. Skidmore, a well known architect and engineer, was found dead in his office this morning. A letter was found on his desk explaining that he had taken his life because his wife had frequently wished he was dead and he did it to grat? ify her. He had taken twelve grains of morphine. Skidmore was given to drink? ing at times and was intoxicated when he took his life. He was man of consid? erable means and his wife is a most esti? mable woman.?New York World. Dcftrncss Can't be Cured by local applications, as they cannot roach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafuess is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Euitachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will bo de? stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous sur? faces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that we cannot cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0, JG, MAY 1, 1890. JACKSOiVS BAGGING. Cotton Stalks Yiold tlio Koyal Material. Augusta, Ga., April 21.?Mr. Wil? liam E. Jackson, a young lawyer of this city, to-day finds himself the center of the gaze of every cotton planter in the union. He has solved the" jute bagging problem that has been a sore contention with the southern planter. Mr. Jackson will furnish a covering for cotton made from the cotton stalk, thus, verifying the prediction of Edward Atkinson that every part of the cotton plant would be used. The cotton planters have been so bitter against the jute bagging trust, that they have been sending their cotton to market covered with burlaps and eheet ing at a net loss of about a dollar a bale. the saving made. To-day the Alliance men are jubilant. By the making of bagging of the cotton stalk it is estimated that about shree million dollars are put in the planters' pockets, and the gross savings to the country are about three million dollars. The stalks have been a nuisance iu the field, and much labor is required to remove them. Now the planter will receive about two dollars and a half per ton for them, delivered at the depots. The annual cotton crop produces stalks enough to bale three yearly crops. mr. jacksons work. Mr. Jackson has been working for months with the idea of discovering a fibre that for bagging would compete with the jute article. This, by treatraeut iu his machine, he discovered most ap? propriately in the stalk of the cotton plant. The stalk, is cut and housed when mature. It is run through corru? gated rollers under heavy pressure, with an eccentric attachment. Water is all the while carrying off the foul residue of gum, pulp and skin. Carding machines then prepare the yarn for the weaving machine, and Mr. Jackson, keeping bis labors a secret, worked until he bad a suiiicient quantity and then went north to experiment on the looms at the jute bagging foctory of J. C. Todd, in Patter? son, N. J. the test made. That gentleman assisted him, and for three days they worked. The result is a roll of bagging that it puzzles experts to detect among the jute rolls. One of the members of the exporting cotton house of Doughty & Co., says it would not be pronounced other than jute bagging by one man in bundreds. It is proven to be uninfiameble. Mr. Todd, an expert in bagging, says, it is all the southern plan? ter could desire in bagging. The jute people have eyed askance the new candi? date. It is a shade darker, but will not stain cotton. It runs about two and one quarter pounds to the yard, but can bo made lighter. Seven and eight yards are required for a bale. Mr. Jackson was not satisfied to trust to sentiment in giving his product to the market. Only when he demonstrated that be could make bagging at seven and one half cents a yard, less than which jute people lose mouey, would he go into the euterprise. This he can do. He will make Augusta .his general headquarters for the offices and factories of the new company, though each State will have a factory, with fibre machines scattered about to produce and bale the crude material. Six-Mile Fishlines. They fish with fishlines six miles long in Winnebago Lake, Wisconsin, and use 20,000 hooks on every line. If they don't haul up 2,000 fish every time they lift a line they don't think they are hav? ing very good luck. And every fish will weigh from tweoty to seventy pounds. That's the way they fish for sturgeon out there. One of these fishlines will reach half way across the lake. It is a rope an inch in diamteer. It is stretched out into the lake by means of boats, large buoys being attached to it at intervals to keep it on the surface. The 20,000 hooks, baited with pieces of meat or fish, are lowered to the bottom of the lake by Btiood8 of the proper length which are fastened to the main line. It takes twenty boats, whh two men iu each, to look after this fishlinc. Each boat has 1,000 of the snoodB in its charge. These are tied to the main line IS inches apart, and to bait all the hooks once requires not less than 1,000 pounds of bait. It takes the forty men and twenty boats ten hours to set the lias for the first time. After that the fishermen are employed iu going over tke line, hauliug in the stur? geon that have hreen caught on the hooks, and rebating where it is accessary. To haul in a seventy-pound sturgeou from the bottom of the lake is an excit? ing piece of work; but it requires more strength than skill, as the fish always has the hook several iuches down his throat, having sucked the bait and all down with? out any regard to consequences, There is no danger of losing the fish unless the hook breaks. When the fish is hauled to the surface a gait' as big as a meat hock is thrust into the boat and knocked in the head with a heavy maul. The hook that captured it iH cut out of its throat, rebailed, and thrown back into the lake. The average catch of sturgeon is one to every ten hooks. When a boat is loaded with all it can carry of sturgeon the fishermen row back to shore, where others take the fish and dispose of them The fishermen know the particular sec? tions of the line on which they work by the arrangement of the buoys. These are placed ten feet apart, and oue in 15C of them is painted red. The space be? tween the red buoys contains 1,000 hooks. The sections are numbered and the boats are numbered. The boats work the sections, as their numbers cor? respond with the section numbers. While the average catch is one sturgeon to ten hooks, it is no uncommou thing for the fishermen to find but oue or two on an entire section of J ,000 hooks. The very next section may contaiu the full average of 100 and perhaps more. The Lake Winnebago sturgeon is highly prized among the lumbermen and others in the region. Its flesh is finer and of belter flavor thau the river or salt water sturgeon of the East. The fish sells at 10 cents per pound retail. Large quantities are salted and ^smoked for use iu the lumber camps:?JSrew York,Suit. ? What we ought not to do, we should not ever think of doi;ag. The JIcCormick Riot, McOokmick, April 22.?Yesterday afternoon for six hours this town was in a fever of excitement, the result of a dif? ficulty between Town Marshal J. M. Jennings and his assistant, M. L. B. j Sturkey, on one side, and P. B. Calhoun, a druggist, on the other. Calhoun had been charged with sell* ing liquor and was fined one hundred dollars by the town council. He refused at first to pay the fine, but afterwards complied. According to Jenning's story Calhoun stepped out of his store with a gun in one hand and a pistol in the other, and said : "Now, JenniDgs, if you want anything yon can get it," where? upon Jennings told him to consider him? self under arrest. Calhoun at this junct? ure blazed away at Jennings twice, the balls glancing by his legs. Jennings returned the fusilade, wounding Calhoun slightly in the head and other parts of his body. His wounds were painful but not dangerous, and Calhoun hobbled about seventy-five yards from the main street and opened a general bombard? ment with his Winchester rifle upon the stores of J. B. Harmon, M. L. B. Sturkey & Co., and Jenning and Sturkey, all of whom, from their doors and windows, returned the fire with their shot guns, Calhoun eventually took refuge in the woods, where he remained until an hour before sunset. Upon his return he was taken into custody by J. P. Black and is now under arrest. It is a marvel that no one was seriously hurt, tor balls and shot were as thick as Brobdignag'bees for half an hour, and the excitement among the townspeople was intense. another account. Augusta, Ga,, April 22.?The fol? lowing account of yesterday's riot up at McGormlck, S. C, was received here to? day. The row was opened up about 2 o'clock, when the town marshall went to arrest Mr. Prestou B. Calhoun, a druggist in the town, upon the charge of selling Whiskey on Sunday. Mr. Calhoun was greatlj excited at the presence of the officer, and the two began firing at one another. It is then said that outsiders all began firing on Calhoun. Calhoun was the first mau shot by M. L. Sturkey, who claimed that Calhoun opened fire on him first. Calhoun'q friends say they have sufficient proof that Sturkey shot at Calhoun with a gun loaded with buck? shot before Calhoun fired at him. Cal? houn was all shot up and is seriously wounded from head to foot. After Cal? houn was shot he went into his store and came out with a 44 calibre Winchester and stood in the middle of the streets, and openly defied any of the crowd of his opposers to come at him. The offer for a fight was not accepted, but the outsid? ers stood beeind stroug door3 of houses and shot at Calhoun. Calhoun was so badly wounded in the hands that he could not fire his rifle rapid, but the crowd did not repel him. Calhoun is improving to day, and some of the balls that lodged in his body have been extracted by his physician, but the doctor has not been able to remove all of the bullets yet. Calhoun is said to have a great many enemies in McCormick. The town marshal was shot in the leg by Calhoun, but the wound is very slight. Calhoun has been arrested, and the case will uow go the Courts for final adjust? ment.? Special to News and Courier. A Coined Romance. Charleston, S. C, April 20.?Deputy United States Marshal W. T. Roark has brought to the city a somewhat famous man in Pickens County, Asa Patterson, who for years has basked in the moon? shine of the Blue Ridge. He was not a bandit by profession, but he was a most daring mountaineer who flouted the Federal laws and sold mountain dew by the gallon or gill just as he desired. He did more than that. He took the moun? tain dew around from door to door, and but for the fact that people called him a peddler be might have gone into history as an Ernani or a Fra Diavolo. He, however, never killed a friend, or even an enemy, as his whiskey was said to be exceedingly good. It had not the brand of Cain on it. Mr. Roark says that Patterson was a brave fellow and a perfect gentleman in his way, with a warm welcome at his fireside far all, except deputy marshals. After his arrival here, this Blue Ridge whiskey bandit was taken out on the east porch of the custom house, where be was shown the sea for the first time in all his thirty-five years of royal freedom. "Do you think you could nwini across that?" asked Mr. Roark. The bandit shook his head mournfully, as it recalled to him a thrilling episode in his lifo when he was once hunted to death almost by the deputy marshals. Asa Patterson was convicted of the great whiskey crime about eighteen months ago at Greenville, and in a most discourteous way, in his absence. Since then he Las had the officers on his track. He slept out at nights, and never in the same place ony two nights in suc? cession. He owned a cabin on the Tox away River, near the North Carolina line. Early on a very frosty morning the deputy marshals made a descent on this cabin, in which lived the young wife and children. While he was eating a very frugal breakfast of potatoes one of the children shouted "Marshals !" and Pat? terson endeavored to escape. There was only one way not invented by the enemy, and that was the icy river. Patterson, like Julius Crcssrat the Rubicon, pulled out his dice box, made a throw of three aces and a pair of jacks and plunged into the roariug Toxaway. The marshals saw they were foiled. The current swept Patterson diagoually over to the left bank of the Toxaway, where he clamber? ed up the escarpment of a rock. He quietely sat down acid raised his right hand, which contained a baked sweef potato, to his mouth and ate it in derision of his pursuers. Since this thrilling adventure Aar Patterson has been a fugitive, until h( he was quietly captured recently, beinf surprised alone in a house by two mar .-dials, nno of whom was Mr. Roark. Pa'.tcrson was sentenced by Judge Simnnlou to throe months in the Pickem County Jail, and to pay a line af $100. Keu: York Star. The Freeze of !Si9. To the Editor of the News and Courier : There were peach blooms in our vicinity on the last days of January, and all the indications pointed to an extra early spring, but the cold snaps of early spring have set the erop3 back, so that but few corn crops are above the ground, and what is looks as if it would die. The small grain was growing prematurely, but it was also serious by injured by frosit and freezes. What will be the outcome of the present cold, rainy weather remains to be seen, though it reminds me of what is indellibly impressed upon my memory of the same dates forty-one years ago, in 1849. It was an unusually early spring, and farmers conforming to the usual indica? tions of spring planted their crops early. About the 8th or 9th of April I left home for Charleston in company with my brother-in-law, the late Major Stewart A. Godman, and drove to Columbia, the nearest point to a railroad. We had a delightful trip. I had on a spring suit of clothes and failed to carry an overcost? On Saturday night we were back in Co? lumbia, and during the night it turned cold. We left next morning for Newber ry, and about 10 o'clock it began to suow rapidly and continued pretty much dur? ing the day. It was a beautiful sight to see the oak leaves (for they were grown) with snow piled upon them as high as it would stick. The cotton was up to a full stand from Columbia to Newberry. Above here there was but little up. We rested for the night at my uncle's, the late Drayton Nance. When we arose iu the morning we found a heavy freeze, which killed all the vegetation that was not frost proof. This was on the 16th. I arrived at home, in the lower part of this County, that day finding my beautiful crop of corn bitten down by the frost. I at once resolved to plant the cora over, and began on a fresh field that seemed to be killed beyond hope of re? covery. By the time we finished this field we could see the green appearing above the earth on the rest of the crop, so we planted over no more, but left it to come out, which it did, and made a fair crop. This taught me what I did not know before, that it injures my young corn very little to be bitten down, either by frost or animals, unless the freeze be a very deep one. Our cotton was up in a few days, while the low-country had to plant over. For the first time in my life we got ahead of them in getting a stand of cotton. About all the forward small grain crops were killed. The present small grain crops were very promising at one time, but I fear but little wheat will be made in this sec? tion, though it shows a good deal of im? provement lately. Oats are sorry. Our farmers have gone to work with a will, and I predict the best crops ever made in Laurens, if the seasons are fav? orable. We give the Alliance credit for this new life. The members are doing their duty by helping each other in a pecuniary way, and many of them are paying cash for their purchases. This is in accordance with the principles of our Order, and if we will only cling together, as I believe we will, the farmers will have a bright future ahead. J. Washington Watts. April 17,1S90. rrofKablo Farming. The Atlanta Journal mentions Mr. James B. Hunnicutt,of Coweta County, as one of the champion farmers of Geor? gia, and the figures produced seem to warrant the designation. Mr. Hunnicutt farms on an intensive plan, and last year his clear profits from fifty acres of land worked with two mules were $2,000. The figures are a3 follows: 500 bushels of corn, 28 bales of cotton, 700 bushels of oats, 62 bushels of wheat, 50 bushels of barley, 800 bushels of rutabaga turnips, 12 tons of clover hay, and a little of everything else. For instance, from a half acre be made 205 gallons of ribbon cane syrup, sold $20 worth of cane and put 5,000 stalks away for seed. On five acres in cotton he used four tons of commer? cial fertilizers and gathered seven bales (although the crop was considerably in? jured by a bail storm) and made a clear profit of $122?land and mule, rent and wear of machinery being counted in the expenses. Altogether be had thirty acres in cotton. He gathered the 500 bush? els of corn from seven acres of thin land, heavily fertilized with compost. For the last seven years Mr. Hunnicutt has farm* ed on the intensive system, and during that time he has never made less than iorty bushels of corn to the acre. This is certainly a good showing for a two mule farru. Col. Thomas Williams, of Elmore County, Ala., also comes forward as a successful farmer. On 500 acres of land he raised last year 500 bales of cotton. His other crops were in like j proportion, and he raised "hog and hominy" enough for home consumption and had some to sell. Became a Hcuveir for Love. Baltimoee, Md? April 13.?The Hebrew circles of this city arc considera? bly agitated by the announcement of the marriage of Emanuel Straus and Miss Williams. The young lady was in the employ of Straus Brothers, a l?ge whole? sale dry goods concern, of which the groom's father is a partner. Young Straus met Miss Williams and it was a case of'love at first sight, but the groom belonged to oue of the strictest of the orthodox families and the bride was a Methodist. To overcome the obstacle the young lady entered a long probation to become a convert to the Isrealitish reli? gion. She studied Hebrew for six months. After the usual demands "The House of Judgment" admitted her to the faith. She then underwent the ceremony of passing through the "Miboah" or bath, and her name was changed from Lillie to Rebecca. Then they were secretly mar? ried. The marriage was not announced until last week, and the parents in the case refused their blessings. The couple, however, went away on a bridal tour and are now in Chicago. It is the first case of its kind ever known in Baltimore. ? A clock over a century old is owned in Waterbtiry, Conn., and still keeps good time. ) XXIV.--NO. 43. ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS, ? A girl in West Virginia, by trapping muskrats, saved enough money to buy a gold watch. ? It is estimated] that 110,000,000 European eggs were eaten in the United States last year. ?The Japanese Christians contributed ?41,000 last year lor religious and educa? tional objects. ? Torn Tucker: "Why is a kiss like a sermon?" Jack Homer: "Because it requires two heads and aa applica? tion." ? Generous George W. Childs has raised a purse of $50,000 for Mrs. Samuel J. Randall. This is better than a noble obituary. ? When you have a cold you do net know how to cure it. And your friends know, and they tell you. but it does not affect the cold. ? The Cincinnati Price Current esti? mates that the winter pack of 1889-90 will show an increase of 1,000,000 hogs over the year preceding. ? Chicago boasts of the most econom? ical young lady in the west. When she washes her face she always laughs so na not to have so much face to wash. ? The carpenters' strike in Chicago continues and thousands of workmen in other building trades are now out of work because they^cannot go on^without the carpenters. ? A man near Washington, Va., has the coat he was married in twenty-five years ago, and says it is his mascot, as when he puts it on good luck attends all he sets his hand to. ? The Grand canyon of the Colorado is simply the channel worn by the action of the water to a depth of five or six thousand feet; the sides are pendicular cliffs fifteen miles apart. ? The two wealthiest, women in Phila? delphia, both widows, are said to be Mrs. Thomas H. Powers and Mrs. Thomas A. Scott. They are worth between $6,000,-' 000 and $8,000,000 each. ? Near Cold Springs, N. C, lives a remarkable old lady. Her name is Mrs. Phc:be Wilson, but far and wide she is known as "Granny Wilson." She is one hundred and nine years old and has beon twice married. ? Eiffell and Edison have proposed to build for the Chicago World's fair a tower 500 feet higher than the one in Paris, to be lighted by 1,000,000 of Edison's incan? descent lamps. They will furnish all the capital, and merely wait for the world to go ahead. ? A hill 400 feet high, composed of copper, silver and gold, has been discov ed in the Mexican State of Cbipias. A river flowing on one side of the mound has largely, uncovered the deposit, and many hundred thousand tons of ore are in sight. ? Experts now place the actual wealth of the United States at $01,459,000,000. Its property assessed for taxation upon the duplicates is $23,719,000,000. Some idea of this amount can be had by remem-v being the fact that it is greater than the wealth of the entire world one hundred and fifty years ago. ? From coal is obtained the means of producing over four hundred shades of colors, a great variety of perfumes, two explosive agents, various acids and medicines, insecticides, salts, saccharine, fruit flavors, the bitter taste of beer, asphaltum, lubricating oils, and good varnish. ? They tell of a petty king on one of the South Sea Islands who had 23 wives, whose duty it was to smoke his pipe for him and breathe the smoke into his mouth. Although the personification of laziness, he seems to have had a tender heart. A less considerate heathen would have compelled one wife to do that work. ? A New York paper recently gave an exemplification of the proverb "a rich man for luck and a poor man for children" by publishing a census showing that only six children had been born among three hundred rich Fifth avenue families dur? ing the past twelve months to one hun? dred and eleven born in three hundred poor Cherry Hill families for the same period. ? A St. Louis dentist says there ia wholesale destruction lurking in the ma? jority of dentrificeB offered for sale. Cold water and a hard brush ought to be suffi? cient in cleaning the teeth, but if an added preparation is desired, prepared chalk is the best and simplest in the world. The chalk will whiten the teeth better than any dentrifice, and is more cleansing. ? Miss Ella Ewing, living near Rainbow, Mo., eighteen years old, is new seven feet eight inches high, weighs 225 pounds, wears a number fifteen shoe, which, of course, she has to have made to order, and her shoemaker had to order a special last. The girl's parents are about the usual size, the father being possibly a little taller than the average man. ? A last will and testament, 5,000 years old, was found recently in Egypt. ' The testator, Sekiah, executed it with his own hand in favor of his owu brother, a priest of Osiris. The property disposed of in the will was to go at the brother's death to Sekiah's daughter, who, the in? ternal evidence of the document shows, had the same legal right as a man to own and administer and dispose of the property. ? A citizen of Calhoun County, Illi? nois, boasts that there is not a railroad, a telegraph, au express office or a bank in his county. The county jail has not had a criminal inmate in the last five years. The grand jury of the county has found only three indictments within the last two years, and those were against persons - who had illegally sold liquor. The county has only two terms of court a year, and a terra never lasts over three days. Gratifying to All. The high position attained and the universal acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, as the most excellent laxative known illustrate the value of the qualities on which its success is based and areabun-^ dantly gratifying to the California Fig Syrup Company. 4