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BT CLTNKSCALES & LANGSTON. WE THANK OUR PATRONS Tor their Liberal Patronage, and assure You there is a Treat in Store at our Place of Business. WE will quote you some.prices that you have been made to believe would tend to make ua restless at night, and some articles you can buy 10 to 15 cents cheaper from us than you have paid for the same article that you are not familiar with. : We are not asking you more than they are worth 2 quart Oil Cans. 10c 4 quart Oil Cans. 15c 1 quart Dairy PanB. 3c 2 quart Dairy Pans. 5c 3 quart Dairy Pans. 6c 4 quart Dairy Pans. 7c 6 quart Dairy PanB. 8c 2 quart deep Dairy Pans. 5c 3 quart deep Dairy Pans. 7c 4 quart deep Dairy PanB. 8c 6 quart deep Dairy Pans.10c Gem Toilet Sets.1 10 3 piece Toilet Sets.1 35 i bushel Barn Basket.'.. 4c Flower Pots cheap. 2 quart Cofree Pota.;.10c 8 quart Coffee Pota.11c Z%?4 quart Coffee Pota....,. 13c '?'\ 2 quart Covered Bucket. 8c 3 quart Covered, Bucket. 9c 4 quart Covered Bucket..12c 6 quart Covered Bucket.15c ?iv'8 q?irt Dieh Pans....,. 10c 10 quart Dish Pans.....14c 14 quart Dish Pans.;..,..20c ? lO quait pressed Dish PanB. 15c 17 quart pressed Dish Pans.... 25c No. 6 Waab>Pans........... 5c No. T^Wash Pans. 6c No.4'W?hrPans.....v.?. 7c .g-^ASSWARE, CROCKERY, V";'And^^^|^?i^9i^^t>lu> ? a~?ron8eiFarnisliiog Store can be bought from ua at rea $ vtwn*bje^#^;^- - ^^pFO|75C00E STOVE FOR $10.00. No#l&k^oar t0 do? sell you good-G^iods CHEAP. Booflng, Gutteriiigvaiid Felt Roofing done yery Low. We have Mr. JOHN Q. DONALD with us, who has had several years expe .. rience in roofing, and he knows the importance of putting on a roof that will not ;; leak/ .Give him a trial. . Don't forget we sell more Stove3 than any one when you want to buy. PEOPLES & B?RRISS. THAT'S THE WAY WE ARE SELLING, SHORT PROFITS NOW ALL WE EXPECT. ALL WE WANT. IN CAR LOTS We will give you lowest WHOLESALE PEICES on FLOUR, TI0RN, HAY, BRAN, OATS, &c, &c. AEM0UB. & CO'S. WHOLESALE AGENTS FOE HAMS, MEAT, LARD, CANNED MEATS. 8?* LOWEST CEICAQO PRICES made on Cases and lota weighing one hundred pounds and over. PARENT FLOURS. Our BALLARD'S BLUE BIRD FLOUR the best in America for the price. Try a Barrel. m H? Firm Can Sell you TOBACCO as Low as we Can. HEN. the rain stops you will have to do about to get ready for planting; so to ' ? get a good start buy one of these Crystal Metal Bells to wake yourself and neigh? bors up at four o'clock in the morning and make up for lost time. Cunningham Bros, will sell you one of these Bells low down. Come and see them, and you will !*?'. find lots of other things you need? . I' Hames, Traces, Backbands, Plow Stocks, Singletrees, Plows, Hoes, Rakes, Porks, Spades, III ? Shovels, Briar Hooks, Bush Blades, Heel Bolts, Log Chains, Cow Chains, . pprse and Mule Shoes, Blacksmith Tools, t>..:i j_> tt_j_ ? Builders' Hardware. tt?.r We have-a few SHOES and HATS that we are selling: at COST. Come aod aee us. Yours truly, CUNNINGHAM BROS. S??To those who owe us past due Accounts: We will be compelled to collect unless they are paid in the next thirty days. - C. B. HARD TIME PRICES. Kerosene Oil... 14c 2 quart Cofiee Pots.? 10c 3 qoart Coffee Pots. ltc A quart Coffee Pote. 13c 2 quart Covered Bucket.? 8c 3 qufifrfc.Covered Bucket. 9c 4 quart Covered Bucket.~ 121 10 quart Dish Pan, pieced. He 14 quart Dish Pan, pieced. 20c 10 quart Dish Pan, pressed. 15c 17 qusrt Dish Pan, pressed.25c No. 0 Wash Pans,. 5c No. 7 Wash Pans..:. 6c No. 8 Wash Pans.J 7c j inch Pie Plates.2Jc 2 quart Oil Cans. 10c '4 quart Oil Cans............ 14c quart Dairy'Pans. 3c 2 quart Dairy Pans. 5c 3 quart Dairy Pan. 6c 4 quart Dairy Pan. 7c G quart Dairy Pan._ 8c 8 quart Dairy Pan. 9c 1 quart Deep PuddiDg Pans. 4c 2 quart Deep Pudding Pans... 5c 3 quart Deep Pudding Pans. 6c 4 quart Deep Pudding Pans. 7c 6 quart Deep Puddint: Pan. 8c 1 quart Graduated Measure. 5c 2 quart Graduated Measure. 9c 6 quart Milk Bucket.10c 8 quart Milk Bucket.. 15c Gem Toilet Setts.1 15 Gem Toilet Setts.1 40 1 gallon Glass Oil Can, best. 33J Best Rat and Mouse Traps. 15c PISTOLS, GUMS and RIFLES AT COST. ROOFING and GUTTERING promptly done, and. warranted first class. Also, Roofs Painted. STOVES low down. Come and see us before yon buy, and we will SAVE YOU MONEY. SEEL & A.RC1TER. ANOTHER CUTTING SCRAPE. the "prices oj\ j uiuuuuuij j UlKUXJX JJUUilUj PICTURE FRAMES, NOVELS, And all the rest of our Stock haa been dangerously stabbed. Come at once and veoure bargains, for we are offering real bargains in our line. WATKINS' BOOK STORE. J. N. WATKINS, Proprietor. T^??HW??Ly?MN, -^a All communications intended for thisvolumn should be addressed to C. WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, S. C. MEMOBY GEMS. No mere business failure Is so cruel or unkind, Though sealed with smoke and cinders, As that which wrecks or hinders The fortune of a mind." "The highest use of education, Of Btudy and of cultivation, Is not to furnish clothes and rations, Nor to lead in taste and fashions, But to rule the life and passions." The Memory GemB above are by Judge Logan Bleckley, of the Supreme Oourt of Georgia. Judge Bleckley is a brother to Mr. S. Bleckley, of Anderson. QUESTION ANSWERED. "Jasper Spring," so called in honor of and to commemorate one of- Sergeant Jasper's daring deeds. Assisted by Ser? geant Newton, Jasper rescued from a British guard Mr. Jones, an American ?prisoner, who ? was being carried to Sa? vannah for trial, and probably execution, This historical fact is what makes the spring of interest to visitors. Answered by Eula Morgan, Jennie Griffin and Jno. Ballard, the last a pupil of Miss Nettie Hall. ; MEANP EBINGS. The Calhoun school, under the man? agement of Miss Mary E. Anderson, is in first rate condition. Miss Mary is brim full of energy and enthusiasm. She is doing a thorough work. However, we did not find the houBe as comfortably furnished as it should be. That vicinity is one of the best in the County, and can afford to have as good a school house, as well furnished, as any rural district. The teacher and children would all be encouraged and helped by such an im? provement. We should be glad to assist the patrons in a work of this.kind. Miss Lizzie Brock is in charge of "Woodland" school, in Belton Town? ship. Her patrons should be entirely pleased with her work, judging from What we saw of it while in her school. Her pupils are learning their lessons, not just simply memorizing them. This is a very interesting school, located among a people that are well able to run it for a full school year. The pupils in this and the Oalhoun school, and, in fact, in all the schools, should memorize and recite to their parents the two Memorj Gems at the head of this column. SENTENCE FABSED. The sentence, "John said that that that, that I wrote was a pronoun," is parsed as follows: "John" ib a proper noun, masculine gender, third person, singular number, nominative case, sub? ject of said. "Said" is an irregular, ac? tive, transitive verb, third person, singu? lar number, and agrees with its subject, John. First that is an introductory con? junction. Second' that is an adjective pronoun. Third that is a common noun, third person, singular number, neuter gender, nominative case, and subject of was. Fourth that is a demonstrative pronoun, and agrees with third that as its antecedent, and is the object of the verb wrote. "I" is a . personal pronoun, first person, singular number,' nomina? tive case, and subject of verb wrote. Wrote is an irregular, active, transitive verb, and agrees with its subject I in number and person. WaB is an irregu? lar verb, and agrees with third that as its Bubject. A . is an adjective. Pro? noun is a common noun, third person, singular number, and subject after was. Parsed by Jennie Griffin of Bethany school, Eula Morgan of Fellowship school, Willie E. Eskew of New Pros? pect school. _ STUDIES IN ETYMOLOGY. /. Lewd. This word now means vile, licentious. Originally it did not have a bad meaning, being derived from the Anglo-Saxon verb laewan, one meaning of which is to weaken, enfeeble; hence the word originally meant weak, feeble and ignorant. The "lewd folk" meant the lay people, the laity, untaught and ignorant, as opposed to the clergy, in? structed and learned. The more com? mon meaniug, however, of the Anglo Saxon verb laewan was to betray, and hence lewd meant an opportunity to bo* tray. (Matt. 26: 16.) Skeat says, "the train of thought can be deduced in the order following, viz: opportunity, op? portunity to betray, betrayal, enfeeble ment, ignorance, baseness, vileness, licen? tiousness." II. Mere. From the Latin merus, pun, unmixed, used especially of wines; from this it soon came to mean whole, com? plete, absolute. Only in this sense did the Elizabethan writers use the word, and not at all as we now use it. Bacon says : "Wo may affirm most truly that' it U a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends," meaning an absolute soli? tude. It is now used in a different sense altogether as when we say, "that's a mere trifle," meaning it is simply a trifle; "he merely mentioned it," meaning be barely mentioned it. Its most original meaning is bright, from the stem mar, to gleam ; marble is from the same stem. III. Ambitious. From ambi, around, ire, to go. Among the old Romans one who went around among the populace begging votes waB ambitious. Ambition, then, at first meant merely a great desire for office. Now it is used in a good sense, meaning an eager desire to succeed, and to excel, if possible, in any vocation. It has come to mean, also, "an inordinate desire for power or eminence, often accompanied with the use of illegal means to obtain the object." IV. Melancholy. From a Greek word mclanycholas, (?Mc/an?Btem of melas, black, and cliotc, bile) filled with black bile. A sad and gloomy stale of the mind supposed to be caused by a supera? bundance of black bile in the system. R. A. Few. Patrick Military Institute. ? "Science" takes some wild flights sometimes. A crauky Chicago physician publishes a theory to the effect that the grip is due to microbes that emanate from "star duet." ANDEKSON, S. C. BILL ARP'S CHAT. Bill Arp Makes Public a Biguly Sensation? al Interview with the late Genoral John, ston. Atlanta Constitution. The volunteer soldiers of the army, of Northern Virginia knew but little of General Johnston until after the first bat? tle of Alanassas. Why should they? War had not been much of a business for many years and our-people knew no great warriors except Scott and Taylor and Jefferson Davis. We dident take much stock in military men, especially the lieutenants and captains and majors. We had majors and colonels all over the State. They were as common as pig tracks. I was a colonel myself?a peace colonel. But Old Joe had been fighting Indians and Mexicans for nineteen years, and badent got any higher than lieuten? ant-colonel. He started out in 1829 a lieutenant and fought all over the South and West, and was wounded ten times and had thirty bullets boles in his clothes in one battle; but promotion was slow then, for there was no room at the. top no vacancies?no resignations, and but few deaths. Jeff Davis knew all about these men, for he had been Secretary of War, and bad fought with them in Mex? ico ; but we dident know Joe Johnston from Sam or Andy or any other Johnston. It didn't take long to find him out, and then the boys began to call him "Old Joe," and to love him. "He is the gamest looking man I ever saw," said one. "My rooster always crows when Old Joe is a walking by," said another. "But can't he ride though, and can't he mount a horse easy," said a third. While in winter quarters at Centerville the boys saw him every day, for he was most always on the go, and they got to idolizing him and would have followed him to the jaws of death. It is a great thing in war for the soldiers to worship their general, and that is where the mistake come in when Old Joe was removed and Hood put in his place. The talisman was gone. It is astonishing now to think what low rank these great men had. General Lee was only a lieutenant colonel when the war began. Albert Sidney Johnston was the colonel of the regiment that Bob Lee and George H. Thomas and Hardee were in. When the war with Mexico was declared, civilians were made gene? rals for political reasons- and nothing else. President Polk made Franklin Pierce a .brigadier, notwithstanding he had never been educated at West Point, and that appointment made Pierce a president. I remember when he was nominated at Baltimore in 1S52. The news came by stage to our little town, and a strong Democratic partisan threw up bis hat to the ceiling and shouted: "Hurrah for him I hurrah for him. He is the very man?the best man of them all." Then leaning over to a friend,in the post office, he said: "And what did you say his name was?" The common people had never heard of Franklin Pierce. He reached Mexico with his regiment just in time to fight a little in the last battle, and his horse fell down and broke his leg?the horse's leg?and the rider hurt, his knee?:the rider's''knee?and it disa-, bled him enough for politicians to'take him up and make him president. That's all. But he made a good president, and so can most anybody who has good sense and good principles. Sometimes I think that I could run the machine for four years and nobody be hurt. But if military heroism is the best presidential timber, just think how Al? bert Sydney Johnston and Joe Johnston and Robert E. Lee were defrauded. When the last war broke out these men ; were wanted and were wanted bad, and they rose rapidly in rank. Those three and Beauregaid were soon made full generals, which was a step higher than the rank of major general. Their calvary regiments in the old army had fifty-one officers; thirty-six of these were from the South, and twenty-six of the thirty-one resigned, and cast their fortunes with their States and their people. George H. Thomas was a comrade of Joe John? ston, and was a major in his regiment, and was a Virginian, and it was expected that be, too, would go with his people, but unfortunately he wasent offered a good place, for there wasent room at the top for everybody, and so he took his chances on the other side. There is a great deal of unwritten history that would be intensely interesting if it could be re? vealed. I was talking one night at my own bouse in August '66, with General Joe Johnston and he spoke of Thomas as a very able soldier and said he tried very hard to get bim a good position on our side but failed and hence we lost him. "Of course," said he, "southern West Pointers naturally sided with their sec? tion, but a soldier is a soldier?war is his profession and promotion his highest am? bition. Most of the professional soldiers will fight anywhere if the inducements are inviting. In this respect they are like lawyers who will take either side of a lawsuit for pay. In all war the profes? sional soldiers are more or less merce naiy. Baron Steuben and LaFayette and many othors came over here and fought for us in the old revolution, but patriot? ism was not the motive. But General Thomas did not do right. He should have waited, but he was restless and ambitious and punctilious. I know whereof I speak?that he never would have left ub if the Confederacy had offered him the position he wanted and deserved." This was a revelation to me and I was shocked, for it seemed like a slander upon patriotism and upon principle, and so I expressed myself, and read him a letter that I received from General Thomas, in which he lectured me severely for per miting the young people of our town to use an old Confederate flag in a tableau at the city hall. I was the mayor in 186G, and the young people got up a show to raise some money to get new pows for the churches. Gen. Sherman's forces had taken all the pews to make troughs for their horse3 to eat out of, and so these young people were all arrested and put under guard, and I wrote a very touching letter to Thomas for their release. His reply was long and bitter and revengeful, and he closed by saying that he had very reluctautly ordered their release, but would warn thom and me that if we ever dared to repeat Buch an insult and indig , THURSDAY MOE] nity he would visit upon us the uttermost penalty of the law. The last sentence was: "Traitors shall be punished and treason made odious." "How could a gentleman write such a letter as that af? ter the war was over?" said I. Genp.al Johnston smiled and said: "Well, I do not know; I could not have written it, and my opinion is thai be did not, and that he never saw it. He referred your letter to some subordinate or secretary, and told him to order the release and give you a proper lecture, and that is all he knew about it. But still, it is a fact that the longer a soldier fights for a peo? ple or a cause the deeper are his sympa? thies enlisted on that side. No doubt but that General Thomas had come to the conclusion that our separation was rebel? lion and rebellion was treason, and your little tableau was a great indignity." During the evening the general alluded to his removal from command by Mr. Davis. He showed no resentment, and remarked that Mr. Davis was sorely beset by civilians who knew nothing of the arts of war, and that his removal was forced by two prominent gentlemen in Georgia who demanded it of Mr. Davis. He named the men, and then said: "But Mr. Davis is a soldier, a very superior one, and should not have submitted to the pressure. It was suicidal. I have differed with Mr. Davis and suffered hu? miliation from him, but he is a true man notwithstanding his conceit and preju? dices." I thought of all this when I read what Colonel Livingston Mims said?"Davis was a great man, and a good man, and so waB General Johnston, and the proof of it is they both had mutual friends notwith? standing their differences." Yes, they were both great and noble mea. I have some letters from Old Joe that I get out aome times and read for comfort. I have one before me now that was written in 1866, about the death of his friend, General Martin Luther Smith, who died in Eome. It is as tender and loving as if a woman had written it. A father could not have written more lovingly about the death of an only son. Martin Luther was his pet, his fondling, his protege. Old Joe had a great heart and strong emotions. There is no stain upon hia honor, his humanity or his patriotism. He c?me of proud old Virginia stock. Patrick Henry's father was hiB great? grandfather, and he married a noble woman, the daughter of Louis McLane, who was United Statea Senator for many years, and also our minister to England. What a pity that such an union has left no issue. But this is a common, misfor? tune to the great. It takes us common folks to keep the world agoing. Johnston was a Virginian of the Virginians, He would not have accepted the supreme command of the northern army if ten* dered him at the beginning of the war. But Thomas had no such ancestry; no such State pride. He was a cross from Welch and French parents, and hia face in Appleton is as hard aa a flint rock. He was a great soldier, and that was all. Just as General Loring went over to Egypt and fought for the Khedive's money, so would Thomas have fought anywhere. But they are all congregating on the other Bide of the dark river?Davia and Grant and Sherman and Lee and Lincoln and the Johnstons. It is a curious thought. What are they doing, and how are they getting along. If there is an in? termediate state one can imagine that all the great and good men have made friends and would send an angel back to us if they could, and say, "Be loving, be kind, be forgiving, for there is no good in war." ' .'' Bill Abp. Something About Salt. Sometimes we are very much surprised to discover that we know nothing about the thing we use most constantly; what raw materials are in it, if it is a manufac? tured article; where it comes from, if a raw material; or anything about the processes through which it must pass before it becomes valuable. What do you know about Bait ? And yet, is there any one thing more necessary to our daily life than salt ? What do you know about its manufacture ? That it is manufac? tured you know, for it comes in several grades that show the various stages in the process of manufacture. It may sur? prise you to know that salt is manufac? tured to-day by the same process used when salt was first made?by evaporation. No other successful method ban ever been found. The pans are made of wrought iron, and cover an area of from si:: hundred to a thousand feet, and have a varying depth of from twelve to sixteen inches. Large fires are kept under these pans, and the salt, as it is deposited on the bottom, is Bcraped off and removed for drying and moulding. The average deposit of salt is about eleven to fourteen ounces per gallon of brine. An Austrian scientist has studied to make the salt industry more profitable and less harmful to the men employed in making it. By the present process a gas is generated that is very harmful. This inventor has succeeded in securing a greater amount of salt from the Bame quantity of brine, and with leas consumption of fuel. The brine is boiled in closed chambers instead of open pans, and the salt can be dried by the same fire that boils it, and remov? ed without stopping the procesa of evap? oration. The salt industry wa3 dying out in England, but this invention has been found so successful that it promises fair profitB for the capital invested when the new plant is in operation. In Australia the salt industry has been greatly strengthened by this invention. ? A strange story, in which a cat is a pathetic character, has come to light at Paoli, Ga. A little boy of that village owned a cat that was a great pet in the family. But the cat would have nothing to do with any one except the boy. The latter died, and for two weeks the cat would come as usual every morning to the door, and, going in the room, would cry mournfully and walk over the child's bed hunting for its lost friend. Finally the cat disappeared, only returning occasion? ally. At last one of the child'd Bisters saw the cat in the graveyard, where it remains, only returning for food. It keep's guard at the boy's grave, and can be heard at night, crying pitifully. SING, APEIL 9, 189 HAVE MADE PEACE. The Alliance and the Jute Trust Shake Hands. The Alliance and the Jute Truot have made peace and agreed upon the oanis of future transactions in bagging. The visiting Alliancemen, and memberti of the Board of Directors of the exchange, have adjourned and most of them left for their homes yesterday morning. A maximum scale of prices has been fixed, and, with free competition below the scale, the business agents of the Alliance have accepted the proposition of the Cordage Bagging Company, repre? senting all but one of the factories that were formerly included in the trust. The regulations began with the Na? tional Bagging Committee, composed of Oswald Wilson, manager of the Florida State Exchange; M. L. Donaldson, Manager of the South Carolina Ex? change, and W. L. Peck, Manager of the Georgia Exchange. At the recent meet? ing of the Alliance State Business Agents at Birmingham, all the cotton States were represented except Georgia and North Carolina. Colonel W. L. Peck, of the Georgia Exchange, could not go be? cause of the serious illness of Mrs. Peck. There Mr. Oswald Wilson, the Chair? man of the National Cotton Committee, submitted the proposition of the Cordage Bagging Company and it was adopted by all the States represented. The Cordage Bagging Company propose to guarantee a maximum price of 6J cents per yard for one and a half pound, 0:] cents for one and three quarter pound, 1\ cents for two pound, and 7$ cents for two and a half pound jute bagging, and agrees to meet competition below this scale. They agree to supply all the jute bagging the Alliancemen want. The Alliance business agents, in ac? cepting this proposition, agree to take what jute bagging they need from this source, always provided that it meets competition and supplies the goods promptly. As Georgia was not represented in the Birmingham meeting, the same proposi? tion was submitted to the Directors of the Georgia State Exchange at their meeting here Tuesday, and it was unani? mously accepted. Among those present were : President L. F. Livingston, of the State Alliance, W. L. Peek, President of the Exchange, and Directors Broughton, Wilson, Pearce, T. J. Barrett, T. M. Ledbetter, S. Maxwell, E. M. Brown and two others, whose names could not be ascertained. Although the proposition was finally accepted there was some hesitations at first, because the names of the jute bag? ging people were not forthcoming, but it was represented that if the proposition should be accepted, responsible names would be affixed to the contract. If the proposition should not be accepted, the parties did not wish to disclose their identity. Hon. W. L. Broughton, one of the Di? rectors, says the proposition came from the Cordage Bagging Company, and it is his impression that this concern includes all but one of the factories which com? posed the Jute Trust of two years ago. The exception is the Charleston factory, As to the exact nature of the proposi? tion, the memories of several Directors differed somewhat, and the document wsb not accessible, as the Secretary, Mr. T. M. Ledbetter, had left the city, taking with him the record of both the proposi? tions and the resolution accepting it. The above version was given by Mr. Broughton. Another gentleman whp was present stated it as his recollection of the resolution of acceptance that it bound the Alliance to nothing, but sim? ply recommended the State Business Agent to trade with these parties if they could offer better prices. The same gentleman said that the par? ties whose proposition was submitted by Mr. Oswald Wilson, Chairman of the National Cotton Committee, offered to furnish the Alliance with "everything it needed, from a knitting needle to an elephant." When it is remembered that tbe Alliance embraces nearly half the farming class of the cotton States, this proposition is seen to be one of prodigi? ous size. This gentleman went on to say that the concern proposed to put up $3,000,000 to start on, and $100,000,000 if necessary. In turn they expected the Alliances to put up something. Each sub-Alliance that wanted to buy goods to the amount of $10,000, was to put up $10,000. "It was all to be cash," said he, "and on that basis the sellers could do an im? mense business on no very great capital." Mr. Broughton remarked, "They claim that they are whipped and want to bo friendly. I am like the man who said he was 'afraid of the Greeks bearing gifts.' It looks like the proposition is a safe one. We did not want to deal with parties who would begin to put the price up, so we insisted on a maximum price, which is reasonable, with all tbe advan? tage of competition below that." The importance of this action by all tbe State Agents of the cotton belt but one is very great. Even if the action does not bind the fib-Alliances, the recommendation cat; -s great weight. When the Alliance passed resolutions boycotting jute bagging, there were few Alliancemen who did not stand up to the fiat of the order, though it cost them over a dollar a bale. When they make a fiat which relieves them of this extra cost, there is every reason to believe that they will all stick. It simply means that, by one clever stroke, half the bagging for the coming years has been Bold in advance, on terms naturally advantageous to maker and consnmer. The recommendation of the business agents leaves the farmers free to buy cot? ton bagging if they prefer, but as the jute is cheaper, it is not likely that many will now buy cotton bagging. One of the Directors was asked how this would leave the Southern factories which put in machinery to make cotton bagging. "Their machinery was bought with a view to converting it to other purposes," said he, "and they can do that now. They have had a large Bale at good prices, and they are not hurt."?j\tlanta Constitution, April % .i .w ? j.i ggwggggggg;. 1. _ A Terrible Stampede. Cattlemen in Nevada will remember this year as the worst they ever experi? enced in their business, says the San Francisco Examiner. They were so badly crippled by the havoc wrought by last winter's storms among their herds that they have not yet recovered from the loss, and the business activity of the entire State has been somewhat hamper? ed thereby. More on his account than any other several purchasers of land from the Central Pacific have been given a year's extension on their payments. Of some 4,000 of these purchasers only half a dozen made their usual annual pay? ments. Recent estimates of the loss of cattle last winter run the number up to 250,000, and examples are numerous where out of a herd of 2,000r three score or less were alive in the Spring. This was L. M. Strawbridge's experience, while Q. W. Crumbs saved but 1,750 out of 10,000. S. C. Denson and Frank* Miller, of Sacra? mento, lost between 6,000 and 7,000, valued at $100,000, while others lost so many breeding animals that this summer some ranchers branded 1,000 to 1,500 calves where for several seasons past they were in the habit of branding from 20,000 to 26,000. John Bradley was another heavy loser, and he had an experience with some of his cattle that he will never forget. One night in January last 5,000 of his choicest, which had been driven in close to the headquarters of the ranch, where there were between 500 and 1,000 bales of hay stacked together in one huge pile, and enclosed by a high and strong board fence, made a wild stampede, and took complete possession of the hay. During the day they were given a Bmall quantity of it, the idea being to keep them from utter starvation and make the hay last as long as possible. Men armed with sticks and pitchforks were stationed alongside of the fence to more completely guard the provender, it being anticipated that in their hunger the animals would make an onslaught on the fence to get at the coveted food. Darkness came on, and it was bitter cold. The night was clear and the snow deep on the ground, and ever and anon sharp, piercing winds would mercilessly lash the poor dumb beasts, who in solid phalanx on all four sides of the fenced hay stood a short distance away, shiver? ing in their plight, looking at the hay and watching the men on guard. Two hours before midnight the wind increased in fury. It became a hurri? cane, with the thermometer below zero. The men on guard in their bundle of clothes were painfully cold ,* the cattle presented grim aspects, in one great shiv? ering mass, surging to and fro, restless with pain and hunger, but with their eyes ?till fixed on the big pile of hay. Their restlessness increased, the sway? ing movement of the big mass became more noticeable. The cattle in the rear, in a vain attempt to get away from the cruel wind, struggled wildly, rushing for? ward and fighting to oust those in front, until the whole herd took alarm and began moving toward the bay. Sudden? ly with one accord they bellowed loud and long, as if instinct told them death was near, and then in a mad career rush ad blindly and furiously toward the fence. The guards, having no avenue of escape but on top of the pile of hay, swiftly climbed the fence and scrambled on top just as the hungry herd made its mad charge. It was a grand and terrible scene as the cattle rushed up to the fence, those in the front having their brains dashed out and others being trampled to death by those charging on behind. The fence gave way, and around and up the pile of hay the herd moved on, so closely packed together that some behind were forced upon the backs of those in front, while here and there were large piles of dead animals, from the top of which cattle stood frantically grabbing their food, only the next moment to be savagely attacked by others for a favored place. For an hour the guards on top, with bated breath and frightened looks, watch? ed this weird sight, and then yells for help, as the cattle pushed another close up to the top, made Bradley and others, who had run out of the bouse when the cattle bellowed, think that the guards were being mangled beneath the hoofs of the enraged beasts. For two hours they labored to drive the cattle back to rescue the guards and finally succeeded in get? ting an opening for them to escape, but the cattle finished the hay pile, and a week later all were dead from cold and hunger._ ? Ex-Speaker Reed will visit Italy, and it is worth while to notify the Mafia that if he is held for ransom they won't get a red cent. ? James Robinson, of Phoenix, Ariz., attends school, and is a model pupil, un? less the teacher begins to imagine that he knows more than James does. When this happens there is trouble, and the teacher has to sing small, for James is no chicken. He is an elderly man and a strong one, and not only owns the school and all its surroundings, but has $1,000, 000 salted down against the coming time when education will have made bim into a gentleman and a scholar. ? "Golden Medical Discovery" cures those diseases which come from blood impurities?scrofula and skin diseases, sores and swellings. But does it ? It's put up by the thousands of gallons, and sold to hundreds of thousands. Can it cure as well as though it had been com? pounded just for you ? Its makers say that thousands of people who have had Tetter and Salt rheum, Eczema, and Erysipelas, Carbuncles and Sore Eyes, Thick Neck and Enlarged Glands, are well to-day because they used it. Sup? pose that this is so. Suppose that a quick-witted man was far-seeiog enough to know that to cleanse the blood was to cleanse the life. Suppose that by many experiments, and after many failures, he discovered this golden key to health and that his faith in it for you is so strong that you can go to your druggist, buy a bottle, and if it doesn't help you, you can get your money returned? cheerfully. Will you try it? The rem? edy to have faith in, is the remedy the makera themselves have faith in. _YOLTOi Rosecrans oil Johnston. The followiDg is from an interview with Gen. Rosecrans, published in the Baltimore American by D. E. Sickles: It took Sherman eighty-four days to drive Johnston eighty-four miles, from Resaca to Atlanta. About a mile a day was the average rate of movement dur? ing this famous engagement. Johnson no sooner left one good position than be gained another. This was, by all means, the most beautiful strategic work shown in the war. When I beard that John? ston had been relieved by Hood I turned to my brother officers with the remark: "That finishes the business. Hood will surely fight openly, and he will be de? feated in a day." I will not say that Johnston was Hood's superior as a boI dier, but he certainly was as a strategist. Hood was more rash and heady, and felt it a point of honor to fight, no matter what the odds. Johnston was of different fiber, and while on occasions he could fight as bravely and as gamely as Hood, he held fighting to be subordinate to the business in hand. The two men may be compared to two chess players?the one a skillful student of tbe royal game, playing for position,, and tbe other playing only for pieces and throwing strategic positions to the winds. Spontaneously I made the remark quoted to my brother officers, for I felt that it was true, and future events justified my prophecy. I hold that as a strategist, Johnston was second to no man in the Confederate service. Johnston seriously impeded Sherman on his march to tbe sea, and at Bentonville he struck him a blow that came near being the death blow of bis undertaking. Afteward Johnston sur? rendered to Sherman, and a strong friendship sprang up between the two men. So strongly cemented became this friendahip that the two brave generals pledged themselves to remain true com? rades during life, the survivor to attend the funeral of the one who should die first. La3t new year's day Gen. Sherman was in this city and called on Gen. John? ston. "Joe, do you still stick to your prom? ise?" he asked during hi3 visit. "Will you attend my funeral ?" Johnston hur? riedly strove to dismiss from bis old friend's mind the gloomy forebodings that seem to possess it, but he was un? successful. The premonition of the advance of death W8*s too strong to be disregarded. It was but a short while after thaf death did come to Gen. Sher? man, and Johnston, true to his word, and against the entreaties of his brother-in law, Governor McLane, of Baltimore, attended the funeral of his old friend. "I, myself, have spent many pleasant days with Gen. Joe," said Gen. Rose? crans, sadly. "During the time I have lived here I have been with him a great deal, and always have found him the' same perfect, whole souled gentleman in all tbe significance the word contains." Here is a telegram I have just received from Gen. Dan Sickles that may interest you in this regard, said the general, tak? ing from his coat a familiar-looking yel? low envelope. The telegram is as fol? lows : "Kindly conyey to Governor McLane and the family my most sincere sympa? thy in this hour of trouble. Major Gen? eral Howard will serve as pall-bearer on any day except Wednesday and Thurs? day, these days being engaged beyond recall._ Wouldn't Let Him Suffer. A man sat at a desk, busily writing. A young fellow entered and handed him a paper. "What's this, young man ?" "That bill from Wesley & Co." "Oh! yes. Won't you ait down ?" "Haven't time. I want the money on this bill." "But I have no money." "That's what you always say." "Yes, and I am always truthful." "Can't you pay some on it ?" "If I haven't any money how am I going to pay any on it ?" "I tell you it's getting pretty tiresome coming up here." "I have found it so, young fellow." "Can't you tell me when you will pay?" "I can't promise that, but I'll promise to tell you when I do pay." "Well, the firm has about decided to do something." "Glad to know it, and I will help them all I can." "You shouldn't expect me to keep on running after you." "I don't expect it of you. In fact, I wishjou wouldn't." "I have worn out my shoes nearly, and all on your account." "Nearly worn out your shoes. Well, I declare that's too bad. Let me see, what number do you wear?" "About a seven." "All right," said the man, reaching under his desk and drawing out a pair of shoes, "here is a pair that I think will just fit you. Take them and wear them iu remembrance of me, and when I have caused you to wear out another pair, I will let you have the ones I now have on. It has been my rule never to let the in? nocent suffer on my account. Good bye." Hotv's This ? ? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be I cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. I F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. ? We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable iu all business transactions and financially able to carry outany obligations made by their firm. West & Txuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Waldixg, Kessas .t Marvin*, Whole? sale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly*, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi? monials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. ?Charleston is 1^3,600 bales of cofton ahead of last year's receipts, 'fjjat is ftp increase of about 43 per cent. [E XXV.- -NO. 40. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? The only way to get more frcm God is to enjoy what he hath already given. ? The government paid $22,610,128.31 to railroads for carrying mails daring 1S90. ? More than two million dozen of eggs were received in New York City in eight days. ? More than sixty companies for the manufacture of cotton goods have been organized in the South during the last eight months. ? The man who spends his life in "getting even" for real or supposed inju? ries, is a torment to himself, and general? ly a bore to his friends. ? There iB a tract of forest trees in Southern Oregon, embracing about 16,000 square miles, which, if cut and sold at $10 per 1,000 feet, would pay our nation? al debt twice over. ? Virginia, North Carolina and Ten? nessee raise an average of 2,970,000 bushels of peanuts a year. The annual value of the crop averaged $2,500,000 for the last four years. ? Earthquakes are more frequent at the periods of new and full moon, and also when the moon is nearest the earth. French scientists assert that earthquakes are caused by the moon. ? The first gun made for the Confed? eracy is now in the possession of Mrs. H. I. Miller, of Chattanooga, whose fath? er made it at Holly Springs, Miss., in 1861. It originally had a rifled barrel, and is still in good condition. ? Col. Ben. Terrell, of Texas, the \ Farmers' Alliance orator, is booked for a large number of speeches before the County Alliances in North Carolina. The president of the State Alliance in? vites the public "to turn out at these meetings and learn what Alliance doc? trines are." ? He who goes to God for help will not leave the work for God to do, bnt is more likely to work for what he prays.. In short, we must be in earnest, having on the whole armor or God, and show by our daily walks that we believe what we practice, and practice what we believe. ? In looking idly over the lien boilj in the Clerk's office the other day, we came across a mortgage given lately upon "two unborn calves," to secure the purchase money for five window shades ^ and a baby carriage. The baby had evi- \. dently been born, if the calves had not.? Edgefield Chronicle. ? A whole family, consisting of Adam Barley, aged sixty-four; his wife, aged forty-two; sister, sixty-eight, and daugh? ter, twenty, have died within the past' week, after a few days' illness of grippe; followed by pneumonia. They lived near Stephens City, Va., in Winchester County. ?? A Mrs. Williams, of Valley City., Dak., wagered that she could put the slips on five pillows while any man pres- ? ent at a church fair could encase one, and seven different men took ber up and suf? fered defeat. No man can ever acquire the knack of holding a pillow in his teeth to work with both hands.' ? There are over 1,000 grip cases in Dubuque, Iowa. In many business houses half of the employees are down with the disease and almost every household has one or more victims. Physicians state that the grip this year often develops into pneumonia, although the fatalities are not alarmingly frequent. ? A pretty Englishwoman has been arrested in Paris for marrying forty-three gentlemen aud invariably skipping on the wedding night with all the presents. Her companion, a Mrs. Haba, believed to hail from New Orleans, attended to the selection of the victims, She made her escape, leaving her principal to suffer the penalty of the law. ? To a Polish wedding at Hurley, Wis., the guestB brought no conventional presents. When the feast was over all the plates were washed and placed up? right against the wall, to be pelted with silver dollars until every plate was bro? ken. The ammunition thereby accrning to the happy couple reached a total of nearly $700. ? More than ten thousand medical students have graduated during the past two years in the United States, and are now looking for business in that line The number seems out of all proportion,' but a medical journal declares that seven thousand graduates per year can be turn? ed out to make a fair living, as the population advances in the same ratio. ? A little girl went shopping the oth? er day with her mother, who, making purchases at various stores, gave as the parting word, "Please charge them to my husband, 26-street." At night the little girl, half sleeping and tired out, said, in conclusion, "I pray God to bless my mother and my father and my little brother, and send bill to papa, 26 - street." ? Married women will do w .1 to paste in their scrap books, if the Gosnen Dem ocrat is to be believed, the fohowing sta? tistics relative to a woman's work: In one year a woman gets dinner 365 times, washes dishes 1,005 times, gets the chil? dren ready for school twice a day for lCT days, gets the baby to sleep 1,460 times and makes about 906 calls. Who say? that a woman has nothing to do? ? Ex Senator Ingalls said the other - day: "Lincoln, Grant, Hays,Garfield and Harrison, all read their inaugurals Cleveland" spoke this. It shows how thoroughly he had his intellect discip? lined. There, before, 50,000 people| where the slightest mistake would be held up to the country, with a piece of paper no larger than a visiting card to guide him, he spoke to the world. It was the ihost remarkable exhibit of nerve and control ever given by a president on his inaugural day." Cleveland is a coming. Gratify lng 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 laxatives known, illustrate the value of the quarr?* ties on which its success are based, and are abundantly gratifying to the Oalifor--. nia Fig Syrup Company,;