The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, October 26, 1892, Image 1

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1892._VOLUME XXVII.-NO. 17. 9j n o 03. aj n s ^oe o* *d iuOi cd 'sbl*k 'ti****! ' ?o ?v 0 t --?ei *<i po?<iai?i ^eojq; ?jos pue 'SpjOO '30i0a |0 SSO| 'qSnoo Sujdooi|M 'ejuoiunaud 'dnojo jo j 'suoircxcdsid JCTirajs \\v jo icormoti -ooo isotn oiu e( pun 'uo|iso3tp q^pa ojajjs}. -ui iQii soop 'oisirj oqi 0? OiqeaatfJB '8An00B? s.\f.up; 'Sujrcarj '2a|qj00S Sf Jl -sniqoaojq pui; 'juoaqi 9ios 'qSnoo Saj.tooq.tt *dnoj? 40j S. petita j jsaq oijj 'lejopoj ?M0qO s,ja?v 'aupipam poiunbann aqj mj/a papucud oq p[iux(s 'uojpmp 3uno? ojv djou; q3|i{& u? Pf?lf?SO?|| OUR LEADER FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL OF OTJ? DRESS GOODS AT COST FOR CASH, Including all our Fall Purchases. HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES, . SERGES, BROADCLOTHS, BEDFORD CORDS, /LADIES' CLOTHS, in blacks and colors. -Tht Cashmeres you pay elsewhere 20c. lor we will let you have at 15o. The 35s. line at 20c, the 40c. line at 25c, and the 50c. line at 33}c, the 75c. line for half a dollar, and the dollar line for 75c. You will safe on a $2.40 Dress Pattern 60 cents, on $3 00 Pattern the same amount, but the difference on the finer goods is greater: On $4 SO you save $1.80 on the $6.00 line yon save $2.00, on the $9.00 line yon save $3.00, on $12 00 line yon save $4.00. Eemember, this sale will be only for Thirty Bays LADIES' STORE STILL LEADING IN HANDSOME GOODS! mi O?R Buyer has been in the Northern markets for three weeks, and has bought the HANDSOMEST STOCK OF LADIES QOOD3 that has ever been brought to this market AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL. We have added a new feature in *h,w.J0f- ^ BARGAIN COUNTER. t&~ Don't fail to inspect our entire Stock, for you will SAVE MONEY 1 Thanks for the past and hopes for the future. Respectfully, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. JOHN" T_ BTJRRISS, Successor to Peoples & Burriss, still Headquarters for [suing Goflfls, Fancy Giia, Dii Holiday Goods, &c. The celebrated IRON KING COOK STOVE is much improved over the old pattern. We have a fine Stove, No. 7, for $10 OK with 25 pieces, as ornamental as Any first class housekeeper need want. A big he of Second Hand Stoves must go ui some price, so come in and price them. TINWARE LOW DOWN ! Bring your BAGS, HIDES and BEESWAX to no. Those indebted to the firm of Peoples & BurriBS are respectfully invited to call in as soon as possible and settle their Account at same old stand with JOHN T. BURRISS. 1??. ! SB , ) Having bought the A. G. Means Stock of CLOTHING, SHOES. HATS, &C, And being desirous of closing out the same, we will SELL ALL GOODS at DtTEW YORK COST I $?? When we say New York Cost WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY. Come early and make ycur selections and SECURE BARGAINS. TAYLOR & CR?YTON, ?Iieel Front Granite Row. WHY ORDER IPI-A-HSTOS A.3VD OBGAITS From any other Market when THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Can and will Save you Money by Buying at Home. OUR Goods are bought in large lots from the Manufacturers for CASH. . Our expenses are much lighter than [dealers in larger cities, who sell almost 'exclusively through Sab-Agents, thus adding largely to the prices charged you And besides, we iaave the LARGEST STOCK IN THE STATE to select from, and every Instrument is sold under A POSITIVE GUARANTEE. We respectfully solicit your patronage, which will be highly appreciated. Respectfnlly, C A REED MUSIC HOUSE. ANDERSON, ?. C. MioGree & Diliingliarij. W E are very much obliged to our friends for their liberal patronago for the pas year, and will ssy that we will hav*- on hand at cur Stables? FIRST CLASS MULES AND HORSES, AND WILL GIVE YOU LIVING PRICES. Be sure to sail and sec us if you want a First Class Mule or Horse cheap for cash, or with good security. We also can faruinh yon a first class Turnout at anytime. Our Livery De? partment is equipped with fir-t class Horses aud Buggies. We also have on haud a lot of? PHOTONS, BUGGIES and HARNESS That we will sell at Rock Bottom Prices. J&oGEE & D [LLLNGHAM. BILL ART'S TALK. Arp Writes About What he Sees In the Lone Star (State. Atlanta Constitution. Just think of it?Georgia has been Bet tied over 200 years?has been in the Un? ion 116 years. Texas achieved her in? dependence in 1835 and was admitted into the Union ie 1845 and here ehe is in her fall manhood and abreast with any of her sister States in the East. Her progress has been wonderful for she has no seaoost to speak of and for years sbe was beset with savages and specked with outlaws and desperadoes who had fled irom justice in the older States?where they have all gone to I do not know, but you can't find a more peaceful, law-abid? ing population anywhere than yon now find in Texas. More than that ycu can't find a people more advanced in civilization, more hospitable, more will? ing to give and take. The press and pulpit are the best indexes of a commu? nity, and you can't find better editors or better preachers anywhere. Somebody laid tbe foundations of this common? wealth broad and deep, and I am proud to know tbat Georgians had a good deal to do with it. Mirabeau Lamar and Rusk were both Georgians. Miss Vir? ginia Troutman, of Macon, made the first lone star flag and presented it to the company who came out here to avenge the masaere of Fammin and his com? rades, who were Georgians. From tbat flag Texas took its name as the lone star republic in 1835. . Mirabeau Lamar was the hero of San Jacinto. To him Santa Anna delivered his sword when he sur rendered. He gave it to his nephew Larvissier Lamar, who lived at Cedar town and whom I often saw in Borne. He died in the house of Judge Borders, at Cedartowu, and through gratitude for his kindness gave him the sword. Judge Borders refused to part with.it, thongh often importuned, bnt now be is dead and-as some of his sons settled in Texas it is believed that the sword of Santa Anna will be presented to the State by them. That is right. They ought to do it and I believe they will. Of course eastern Texas became set? tled first, for it was more like Georgia and Alabama and Tennessee. There were woods and running water and the soil was mixed with sand and clay, but in later years the settlers ventured into the prairies and railroads followed them and more immigrants followed the rail? roads. Tbe cry is still they come. Every train brings them, but the broad acres seem boundless and the inflex of thou? sands seem to make but small impres? sion. The capabilities of a siagle Coun? ty are just immense, for there are no mountains, no hill sides, no poor lands, no waste. At Mexia they market 80,000 bales of cotton and it ia all made in Limestone County. At Ennis they market 60,000 bales and it is made in Ellis County. A cotton man told me that nobody need depend on a short crop in that region, for it .never happened. For fear somebody may be deceived let me say that Mexia is pronounced Ma hayer, with accent on the second sylla? ble?and Bexar is pronounced Bayer? and Slaeo is pronounced Yanno?Mexia has only 3,000 people, bot you would think ft had 10,000 from the sigos. The town is covered with wagons aud the coltou bales cover acres of ground. The railroad can't take it away as fast as it comes. Every store is occupied and everybody at work. They have tbe best of schools and teachers, and don't owe their preachers a dollar. Their ceme? tery is adorned with gravel walks and flowers and evergreens. Trinity college is not far away and I met about fifty of the young men and their honored Presi? dent. Dr. Cockerel!. Ik alarms me and humbles my pride to stand up before each cultured audiences as I find in Texas. But cotton is uot ?11 that you find in these cotton regions. There was a Coun? ty fair in full blast at Minneapolis, and the exhibits of corn and oats and hay and potatoes were Bplendid. Tbe horti? cultural display surpassed anything that we can show in the East, and as for pol? itics it is as thick as the leaves ob the trees or the grass on the plains. Every? body reads it and talks it, but nobody gets mad. The Dallas Neios and the Fort Worth Gazette and the Houston Post are everywhere. I heard Farmer Shaw speak at Athens to a large crowd of Hoggites. I don't think (here were a dozen Clark men present. They won't go unless there is a joint discussion. Farmer Shaw mado a capital speech and I congratulated him and said it was the best spseob I bad heard since I had been in Texas. He thanked me?aad then aske! who else I had heard and I said "nobody." Next day I heard a negro preacher talk for Clark. He said he was born in Scotland, educated in Canada and naturalized in Texas. Ho tore his hair and cavorted around smartly and used big words like Sheckana and Cher abin and Seraphio and said that anybody who said he was speaking for revenue only was a liar. One thing he said was impressive. "I thank God," said ho, "that the time has come, the long expected time, the first time in the history of oar race where the negroes vote will be counted. Whether we vote for Hogg or for Clark or for Nugent our vote will be counted. Where a Sonthern negro votes for a Republican it is not worth a notch on a stick, for it will not be counted, but now we negroes have no Bepublican candidate in Texas, we have met in convention and resolved to support Judge Clark and our votes will be counted. Then let us stand by our Southern friends hereafter and hold the balance between them. The North has never done anything for us and never will." This reminds me of the quarrel I over? heard iu the cars between two darkies. One was a Methodist and he Haid "tbe Mefodist was de oldest religion in Amer? ica and Mr. Wesley brought it over here in a ship and scattered it all over de country." The other was a Baptist and he Baid, "I say de oldest religion?God sakes man you don't know what you are talking about. De Baptist religion is de oldest in de world. Old Noah was de fust Faptist. He had water all over him and all under him and all around him for forty days and nights, and he were a Baptist afore be struck de ground when he come outende ark?dar no??." "Yes," eaid tbe other, "and he kept on bein' a Baptist, for when be couldn't get water he took to whiskey and got drunk and cussed one of his boys until he was black in de face and dats whar all we niggers come from, de white folks say?dar now." Politics is speckled just like it was a few years ago in Georgia when General Gordan ran against Major Bacon for Governor. The small towns and the country people are generally for Hog. The cities and the railroads and the great newspapers are all for Olark. But the comfort of it all is that both parties, negroes and all are for Cleveland, and so Mr. Cleveland and I have concluded to keep hands off of the fight and let the procession proceed. Bill Arp. Why Ha is a Democrat. In the last issue of the Marion, N. 0., Free Lance is the following communica? tion, which should receive a close pe? rusal from every third party man in the South: Some weeks ago tho People's party of Cleveland County, in convention assem? bled, did rre the honor to name me as their csindidate for Sheriff. I feel deeply the honor that they did me, and am grateful for it. But a careful study of the politi? cal situation leads me to withdraw from the race, and to return to the Democratic party. It is but just to those who hon* ored me with the nomination that I should state frankly my reasons for this action, and I do so as briefly as possible, as follows: First. I remember the condition of North Carolina and her people in the darks days from '68 to '76; how the State's credit was bankrupted; her treas? ury plundered; the rights of her citizens shamelessly and wantonly trampled un? der foot; capital driven from her bor? ders ,* her matchless resources locked up; the school fund taken to pay tbe per diem "f ignorant and vicions men who loaded down the statute books with scan? dalous laws. I remember how in these dark days no man's life, liberty or prop? erty was safe and tbe re were no public schools for tbe education of our people. When I contrast this with the wise, pure, economical, and beneficent rule of the Democrats since '78, and Bee tbat the Bepublicans are en deavoring to take ad? vantage of the People's party movement and regain control of the State govern? ment, I fell that it is my duty as a North Carolinian and a white man to withdraw from tbe movement and join the Demo? cratic party in its fight for the salvation of the State. 2nd. I see clearly tbat the fight is be? tween the Democratic and tbe Republi? can parties. The People's Party cannot hope to carry either the State or the na? tional election. It might help tbe Be? publicans win and in that event I see a continuance of the ills from which the agricultural classes are now so grievously suffering; I see the force bill menacing the liberties of my people; I Bee the shadow of centralization threatening; I Bee among the evils sure to follow, in the nation, laws permitting tbe intermar? riage of the races, mixed schools in this State, a repeal of the County govern? ment system and thirty-two of the best Counties in the State surrendered to ne? gro domination and the horrors that will follow inevitablv. 3rd. I have evidence of the unholy trade that has been made by Butler and Exum to sell the State to the Bepubli? cans for $50,000. I have the best reason to believe that a corrupt bargain exists between tbe leaders of the People's Par? ty and tbe Bepublicans whereby tbe rank and file of the People's Party is be? trayed into furthering the plane of the Bepublican party. My heart revolts against sueh treachery and corruption, and I will not allow myself to be made a party to any such movement. 4th. I am a white man. I love my race, I believe in white supremacy, and interests of my State and my people are far dearer to me than the office of sheriff, therefore I withdraw from tbe People's Party and am no longer to be considered a candidate for the office of sheriff. I desire before I cIobo to appeal to the good men who have allowed themselves to be persuaded into the People's Party movement to join me in this action. A thoughtful and painstaking review of the political situation has convinced me of the fact that by independent political action at the present we ean expect noth? ing but a continuance of Bepublican rule and tbat character of legislation of which we bo justly complain. Let us then, as true Nortk Carolinians, join the Democrats in fighting our common ene? my the Bepublican party. As for myself I propose to vote the en? tire Democratic ticket from Grover Cleveland down, and I hope that my friends will join ma in it. Bespectfully, A. B. Peeler. October 10, 1892. ? ? ? Deafness Cannot be Cured I By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and tbat is by constitutional remedies. j Deafness is caused by an inflamed con? dition of the mucojs lining of the Eustn chian Tube. When this tube gets in? flamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entire? ly closed Deafness is the result, and unless tbe inflammation can be taken ont and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed for? ever ; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O |??Sold by all Druggists, 75c. ~_ William Meyers, a Baltimore man who recently committed suicide, loft a request that hiB body be buruv? and the aBhes scattered to the four winds on the Atlantic ocean. His friends complied with his request and on Tuesday bis ash es were carried to Atlantic City, N. J, in a box and scattered from a pier, TJXDEE KIKE'S HALTER, True Btory of Adventure Wltk Mountain Bushwhackers. From the Greenville News. Nearly every old Confederate soldier knows of the depredations and atrocities of Kirk's command of bushwhackers, which operated in Tennessee and North Carolina daring the war. Kirk and his men committed all kinds of crimes, and murder was frequent with them, Many a tired and weary Confederate, on his way home with a furlough, his mind full of Bweet memories and his heart full of hope at meeting a wife or sinter or father or brother, was captured by the baud and shot or hung. Every Confederate hated Kirk and his men. Throughout Ten? nessee and North Carolina the name of Kirk was a terror. Women were beaten, assaulted and robbed and men were tor? tured in every conceivable way. Chief of Police Ligon, of this cliy, and two comrades were captured by Kirk's men but he and one comrade escaped. The other was shot. Chief Ligon has often been asked to tell the story and consent? ed to give a history of his capture and escape to a News reporter. The story is given word for word as told by him. It is not only a thrilling story but gives some important history never published ?of how and who supported Kirk and j his lawless gang and how the gang was at last broken up. Kirk, the leader, is said to be living in New York. Chief Ligon said: "In 1864 while Longetreet was en? camped near Ball's Gap, some distance east of Knoxville, in the mountains of Tennessee, his army was being furlough ed 20 per cent. I sent iu an application which was soon returned approved. I had not been home iu two years, but Lieut. Wm. Jones, of our company, re? ceived intelligence that his wife was l lying at the point of death. He had I already been home on furlough, conse? quently could not get another. I made him a present of mine. At this he was overjoyed, and I felt repaid. General Gary, on hearing of the circumstance, ordered me another iurlough without my knowledge of it, and I recei?ed it the next day. We could have gone by rail? road by the way of Bristol, Richmond and Columbia, which would have taken too much of our thirty days, and we thought we wuuld walk through. We knew it was a dangerous undertaking. We Bet out on foot, mysclfand one of my comrades, Tyler Mouchett, (Mooahat,) who also had ti furlough. We were making good progress, but pu the second day we were advised by citizens to turn back as that section was full of bush? whackers. We were told also that a force of our men, under Colonel Wood fin, had attacked the bushwhackers and succeeded ,in driving them off the field, but were still fighting ahead of us, and continued until late in the evening, when our force withdrew for the night. My? self and comrade kept on, however. Toward night we passed through the battle field. Dead horses and blood marked it, with many other battle signs, Buch as blankets, hats, scarred trees, etc. Just at sunset we were at the old Alex? ander stock Btation, on tho French Broad. I suggested to Tyler (as 1 called him) that we go a little further aurl sleep in the ciifl's. 'No,' said he, 'it is getting so cold that it may rain or snow on us.' 1 told him that I did not think it prudent to stay iu a house, but to please him we went to a house and asked a man who was in one room if he would grant us permission to stay in the house. Ho consented. I believe he was the man that reported us. Wo soon had a good fire and the snow bogan to fall. We ate our supper and spread out onr blankets for our beds. Theu tome one knocked at the door. It was James M. Brock, who had served over a year in our company, but had been transferred to Earle's com? pany, in TapBCOlt's cavalry. He had a furlough and was on bis way home. His meeting us there was a pleasant sur? prise to all of us. When we bad passed a happy hour asking after all the boys, we lay down and were all soon sound asleep. But our slumbers were rudely broken. Oi a sudden the doors and windows were burst open and heavily armed ruffians rushed in demanding our surrender in the most insolent terms. Fifteen or twenty guns and pistols were drawn on us. I told them that we would submit, that their number and advan? tage required it, but nothing else. As soon as we surrendered they crowded down on us and took possession of every? thing we had, knapsacks, haversacks, blankets, canteens, money, everything. I had a collection of trophies which I prized very highly. I remember that I had eleven book?, which I had gotten off different battle fields. Among them was Banyan's Pilgrim's Progre3?. My pocket bookj which was a very long one, con tained $260 aud my mother'a gold rim: (which she accidentally dropped into a box of provisions which she hs'i sent me some months before.) This tho captain of the party (Hack Norton) put in his trouser's pocket. "As soon as they took us out of the house I said to them : 'Now, boys, you have taken all we have. Let us go.' 'No,' was the reply, 'you will die ou the gallows before to-morrow night. You have killed thirteen of the best boys that ever lived and you shall die. Now march on, you-?-rebals,' I soon learned from tbera that Colonel Wood fin's men had killed tbo thirteen referred to and that the Colonel was killed him? self. Hack Norton &howed nie some photogrepbs of children and relatives that I suppose that he bad taken out of Woodfin'a pockets. The country was en? tirely new tome. They carried us alone a path by a church (Jewel Hill church,) through the cliffs and caves to an old lady's house on the aide of a hill. The route had been a very rough one, a?d must have covered four miles. The snow and darkness rendered travelling so disagreeable that the party concluded to stay over till day light as they had us safe inside of Major Kirk's picket line. I found that they had a regularly estab? lished picket line, and that wo were not a great way from Kirk's headquarters. While in tb~ house wn could hear them passing and repassiog. I think they caught ub about 10 o'clock. ''I never shall forget the sound of their signal, It was a soft, load whistle. I believe that I could have gotten away from tbem before we reached the old lady's house (her name was Mrs. Dudley,) but they had all my possessions and I wanted them back and was determined to get them some way, I did'nt know how. We went in Mrs. Dudley's. It was a Bmall, one room log cabin, resting one side on very short and tbe other side on long pillows because of the steepness of tbe bill. The steps ran up on the lower side to a small platform in front of the door, which was about four feet from the ground. There was only one door and one window to the house. The old lady made on a fire of rich pine which only gave ua a good light, for the house was so open that wo could not keep warm. They were all pushing and crowding around the fire. I did'nt know anything else to do, so I went to singing comic songs and cracking jokes. Pres? ently, to my surprise, I discovered that I was gaining their confidence, for I heard one of their number say 'I'd not be af feerd to resk that feller much.' I kept on making myself as much of a clown as possible. After a while I got a glimpse of one corner of my pocket book in Hack Norton's pocket. I pushed up against him. There were at least twenty around tbe fire. Finally I succeeded in getting my hand on my pocket book, and in two more minutes my money and ring were in my boots and tbe pocket book under the table in the dark, all unknown to the captain. The old lady was sitting near the corner. I Bat down close to her and noticed tbat she was crying. I asked her what was the matter, bhe said she knew my doom. I would be sure to be hanged, and that she could uot bear the thought of such a nice, lively fellow being killed, 'though I reckon it's right.' she said. This made me think and think fast, for I knew tbey would hang me, and to escape was my only chance. I now moved around to tbe other corner where Tyler was crouched down and whispered telling him tbat I intended to get away from there. He said that be would give all that he possessed in the world if he could escape. I told him that my plan was to take au axe that was sitting by ua and u ie it on them with all my strength and that be must get a gun as soon as I started in so he could help me. I thought I could have killed three or four before they could have doue anything. To this plan he objected and said he could not help me in that. I could not get to talk to Brock, and all I said to Mouchett was iu a low whisper. Brock seemed to have given up all hope from tbe beginning. There was an impudent negro with them, whom tbey all seemed to worship. He came to me several times end caught me by my ears and pulled my hair and almost raised mo from the floor. He would curao and abuse me for being a'd?d rebel.' and said he was 'gwine ter skin er cat twix my legs while I was er swinging on de line.' He did Jim Brock the same way. He was so bad that tho captain begged him to desist, which he did. I had de? termined to use the axe and split this negro's head open the first man. But Providence directed a better plan than this for me, The fire wan low, the wind blew the snow in through tho cracks in tho house. Most of the men were aalcep, sorao lying serosa the beds, some on the floor and some in chairs, J axked tbe captain, for he and a tew hers were awake, how many men the; n ?.? and bow they got their supplies. He hesitated awhile and finally said : 'You will never get to tell the secret. I will tell you.' He told me that Major Kirk had two companies of regularly organized United States troops and between five and six hundred picked up men, bushwhackers, deserters, ne? groes and all tbat they could get to join them, and that the United States fur? nished their supplies by a route which lay through tbe Black Walnut foun? tains. He told me where Major Kirk's headquarters were. "There were two guards at the door, one just inside and the other just out on the platform. They were relieved every half hour. I took my blanket, which the captain claimed, spread it on the floor back near the beds and lay down on it, but got so cold I had to get up. As soon as I got up a bush whacker lay down on it. "I was trying to plan a way to escape. I went to my knapsack, which had not been opened, and laid my head on it. Then I slyly buckled it on my back. Just then I saw the rascal I most dreaded (not the negro) lie down on the floor and run bis feet through the bottom part of a chair, on which another sat asleep, to warm them. Only two were awake now, beside the captain and tho guards. The fire was still very low. The captain looked a: Tyler and said to him : 'Gee that axe, d?n you, and go out the door ahead of me and get some wood.' I lis? tened to see in what direction they were. Soon I heard the sound of the axe. In an instant I was on my feet, rolled tbe rascal off my blanket and threw it on my left arm, reached over on the nearest bed and got a gun, picked up my haver? sack and canteen from a chair and Bpraug for the door. Tho guard on the inside saw me coming and ran out. Tho one on the outside did not see mo. I knocked him off the platform, which was full four feet high, and jumped on him with my feet. I ran dowu the hill a short distance, jumped off a high bank and dazed myself by lighting on a large flat rock which I thought was ?and. I expected a shot every moment. I clam? bered up a bank and sat down. I could aee Tyler and the captain getting wood. I had forty two rounds of cartridges iu my knapsack. I found they exactly j fitted my captured gun, which was a splendid Sharp's rifle. My first inten? tion was co kill Norton, but the snow was falling ho thick I could not distinguish him from Tyler. The captain made him take up his wood. At that moment the alarm was given at the house. The cap? tain went hurriedly in advance of Tyler and entered. Tyler, in the great commo? tion, threw down his wood and came running by mo like a wild deer. I called to him, but thai only made him run fas? ter, as ho did not know I was out. Ho was more unfortunate than I was, as he bad had to give up bis coat, bat and shoes. I saw the captain burn his fur? lough. "When I ran out of tho house James Brock was standing by the fire, and with three stops he could have been free and why he did not make them I do not know. That was the last I ever saw of poor Jim Brock. "Tyler and myself made our eacape about five minutes before the appearance of day. Had we remained there ten minutes more our fate would have been as Brock's. Though free from the house we were still inside of their line of pickets. After Tyler passed me I fol? lowed in the same direction for Borne time. I saw that he was making back the route we came. His tracks were far apart after he bad run a mile. For fear that he might be captured and myself alao if I followed bim, I filed square to the left. (We were then on the north side of the French Broad.) I went down a little mountain to a creek, and in the laurel and ivy just ahead of me I saw a light. I crept up to eee what was there. My foot slipped and threw me in full view of two of their pickets. They ran up the bill and I passed just below them, within twenty yards of them I could hear them talking and giving signals. I went on my way unmolested and after three hours travel got in open fields. It ceased enowing about sun up. Iu going along the edge of a field I espied a man run? ning toward me. Tyler had made a cir? cuit and got ahead of me. This man had seen him and knew that something was wrong and was running back per? haps to get help or find out what was wrong. I hid behind some young bal? sams which were bowed over with snow. When he came up I had my gun at aim. He had no gun. I asked him no ques? tions, but made him about face and double quick over a mile. He got so tired he could not lift bis feet. He sank down. I then told him he could go back and report when he got ready. "I went on and soon came to a road, the first one I had seen since I left the French Broad. Here I found Tyler's tracks. Every foot print was marked with blood. The snow aud rocks had worn out his Bocks and lacerated and almost ruined his feet. I followed this road and soon I heard the roar of the river. When I got to it my route lay up the river. All of a sudden I ran into thirty or forty of the roughest smoked up men I thought that I had ever seen, gome were on guard and some were stauding under a large shelving rock by a fire. I thought then my work was over ss I was tired aud worn out, and there was no chance of escape. As I advanced the guard halted me and de? manded my furlough. How happy that made me, for I saw then they were home guards and thought they were fine look? ing fellows. When wo left camp I cut a hole through the bottom of my pocket and put my furlough in under the lining of my coat for fear of some accident. It was there s*fe. When the guard asked for it I produced it. 'All right, pass in,' said he. 'I thought you were like a d?d deserter we caught hero about two hours ago, who said the bushwhackers had him last night and took hia furlough and everything else he had. But his plan wouldn't work here. He is now up yon? der in the guard house.' I went to see him. It was Tyler. " When ho saw me he forgot all about the guards and sprang out at the door exclaiming: 'Lieutenant 1 Lieutenant'I how did you get here ? How did you get your baggage and that gun ? Did they give them to you and turn you loose?' All the while ho was holding my right hand with both hia. He was so happy to see me, for iu a little while, half an hour, he would have been en route for Castle Thunder, aud perhaps it would have been several weeks before he could have been liberated if I had not happened up. We went to the captain and recited our story. I asked him to write Tyler a furlough. He refused to do so. I demanded it. He asked for my authority. I told him I was an offi? cer of the line, and that he was only a home guard. I then showed him my papers. He wrote the furlough and signed it. I also Bigoed it. This was iu the lower end of Marshal, a very small town on the French Broad. "I think I had ran, walked aud scram bled over a distanco of ten miles, from a few minutes before day till half-past nine iu the morning, and Tyler beat me by two hours. We went from the cap? tain's tent up to the hotel. A Mr. Saw? yer was the landlord. He treated me very kindly. He gave me a room, and I went to bed without breakfast. At 3 o'clock the bell woke me for dinner. I During my nap Tyler wa3 out nmongat I the guard and elevens testing their hos i pitality. Ho succeeded in getting a hat, j coat and psir of shoes. I called him iu to dinner, 1 had told Mr. Sawyer my atory. I thought he seemed to doubt it somewhat. After dinner we went into hia office to pay him. I drew out quite a roll of money. He looked amazed at me and said, 'I believe every word you told me.' He would not take one cent pay, and told us he was glad ho could feed us. He offered me three hundred dollars for my gun, but I told him that getting it aa I did I would keep it all my lifo. I atill havo the gun. Wo bade Mr. Sawyer farewell, and marched ten tn?ea to a Parson Thomas' and staid with him till morning. Ho also treated na kindly and would not take pay. "The next day we reached Asheville. I stopped at tho Eagle hotel to await the stage for Greenville. There I parted with Tyler as he preferred to walk. I let him have enough money to do him home. Colonol Palmer was in command of the We3tern North Carolina post aud had his headquntters iu Ashevilie. I reported to him. He received mt very kindly, and waa giad to know the head quartera of Kirk and hia position, also the rou e by which they received their auppliefi. He said he would require roe to take a company and guide him to Kirk's camps, as he was a terror to that section. He was killing, stealing aud destroying everything in his path. I told the Colonel that I could do but little as a guide; that I bad only seen the country once, and that a cold snowy windy night, but would delight iu going with him as oae of the boys. He said that being the case be would excuse me. "The next day he took his whole com? mand and marched against them. He killed and captured a great many, and routed Kirk and destroyed bis line of communication and restored quiet for quite awhile in that section. I took stage on the second day after arriving in Asheville for home. John Tyler Mouch ett U now iiving in Anderson County, 8. 0, "I have never heard from James Mat tison Brock since tbat eventful night. "His widow married T. J. Hunt, a brother of Pinckney Hunt, of this city. His sons are E. H. Brock and H. M. Brock, who are well known here." Blue Stone to Prevent Smut. Editor Tennessee Farmer: My experi? ence in using bluestone as a preventive of smut in wheat has been limited but very gratifying. I began its use two years ago in the fall of '90; the wheat harvested tho next summer was free from umut, but my near neighbors all had more or le?3 of it in their fields. A good friend of mine commenced to use blue stone on his seed when he began sowing, bu: failed to carry out bis good in? tentions and toward the end of the seed? ing season be sowed his wheat without bluestoning. When he harvested this wheat there was no smut to be found where bluestone bad been used, but where he bad failed to bluestone the seed there was smut enough to satisfy the most fastidious. To me this was good evidence that there is some virtue in bluestone. Now for tbe season just past. In most of the seed sown last fall blue stone was used, and for the sake of ex? periment I sowed about thirty acres without treating the seed in any way, except to clean it thoroughly. Tbe whole crop was in one field so that each kind of seed had tho same kind of ground, and the same conditions existed during the growing season.. This wheat was thresh? ed separately, and is now in my granary. That which grew from the bluestoned seed is perfectly free from smut, but an occasional grain of smut is to be found where I failed to use the bluestone. Right across the road, not more than twenty five feet from my field, there was a fifty acre patch of wheat belonging to a neigh? bor. No bluestone was used on the seed in tbat field and tbe percentage of smut in the wheat was enormous, in fact some of this wheat was fed to hoge. as it would bring but little in the mar? ket. I am convinced tbat there is something in the bluestone theory, and think some of my neighbors have come to the same conclusion, for three of them?all expe? rienced and succesful farmers?have call? ed at my place during the past week seeking information as to my method of applying the bluestone. The operation is simple enough. In about a gallon of hot water dissolve one pound of bluestone, then increaase the quantity of water to about four gal? lons?using cold water?and then sprink? le all of this on ten bushels of wheat. Have your wheat on a tight floor and keep turning it while tho solution is be? ing applied in order to get every grain wot. In a short time the fluid will be taken up so that tbe grain will not stick together and it will then run freely from the wheat drill. Every morning I blue stone the seed I expect to sow that day. The cu3t of material and labor to blue stone seed enough for one hundred acres does not amount to a two dollar note, and it strikes me that one is justified in making tho expenditure, even if the chances of preventing smut by bluestone are much smaller than I think they are judging from my experience. I believe a stronger solution might be used with perfect safety. I have tried to err on tbe safe side so as to run no risk of injuring the seed germ, but expect this season to increage the strength of the bath, say about fifty per cent. Heney Haedie. Old Hickory, Tenn. Six Cent Cotton Better Than Twelve Cent Cotton. Some timu ago a two-horse tenant said: "I tell you, I believe that 6-cent cotton is better for tbe farmer than 12 cent cotton." We asked him to explain himeelf. He said: "You see when cotton is 12 cents tbe farmer, especially if be is a poor sort of one, will plant all of his best land in cot? ton. He will put tho poor edges in corn and not manure it as if be is pushed, as be always is with a big cotton crop, be will neglect his corn crop. When fall comes it takes all of his 12 cents cotton to pay for guano, clothing and supplies. Tho first of Jauuary finds him with about corn enough to last till the first of March, a few half starved cattle around the lot, a sack of western flour in the pantry and a little piece of white western meat hang? ing up in tho kitchen. When cotton is six cents, if the farmer has any sense at all, he will raise corn, sorghum syrap, potatoes, oats, wheat, bay, fodder, and garden truck in abundance with some to spare. When bis 6-cent cotton ia gathered and his guano biii paid, the bal? ance of the money is clear. He can then lay in clothing, sugar, coffee and farming utensils for another year and be inde? pendent of lions and mortgages." Do the farmers who read the Spartan agree with this tenant? Do they believe he is correct with his conclusions? He has surplus syrup to hire forty days hoe? ing next summer. His surplus corn will help buy clothing, cugar and coffee. Now, if you i .. :Iioe to the opinion that it is better to rai e your supplies than buy them, or do without, begin at once to plan for your small grain crop. Oats, especially the hardy varieties, may be sown up to the first of November. Sow for an abundant wheat crop. Raise ev? erything you need. Do not depend on the siore for everything. Be indepen? dent and self-Bupportiug and then you will prosper.? Carolina Spartan. -? ? mm - - - Invalids should remember that the causes of sick and nervous headaches may bo promptly removed by taking Ayer's Pills. These Pills speedily cor? rect irregularities of tho stomach, liver and bowels, and are the mildest and most reliable cathartic in use. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? Of the public school teachers in th United States more thau 65 per cent, an women. ?In the United States there are abou sixteen million cows?one for every fou pereons. ? Among Queen Victoria's choin china is a Sevres desert service valued a $200,000. ? A corncob in Georgia is shaped lik a human hand, having four well define* fingers and a thumb. ? In a corn busking contest in Aus tralia the winner busked 500 ears iu 2; minutes and 10 seconds. ? Chronic coughers are stupid bore and should be forced to use Dr. Bull' Cough Syrup, the only infallible remedj ? Statistics show that 7,000 person are murdered in this country ever year, aud only one murderer iu fifty pun ished. ? Near Leavenwortb, Kan., a mai gulped down 21 glasses of whiskey am died within fifteen minutes, his brain be ing cooked. ? A dish-washing machine has bee: for some time in use in a London hotel With two persons to attend to it, it wash es 1,000 dishes in an hour. ? All our city fathers say: Use Sal va tion Oil, the greatest cure on earth fo pain, for rheumatism aud neuralgia. 2 cts. ? If we could penetrate the earth' surface to a distance of two miles, w would find the place where water conic not exist except in the state of steam. r \ ? "How shall I tike my medidn doctor ?" asked Miss Augusta. "Take i my dear young lady, as you would tak a husband?for better or worse." ? In this country 37,000 women fin employment as telegraph operator! And they generally have the last wor when they are talking to somebody ove the wire. ? A curious superstition is alleged t exist among the Hindoo sentries of.Bon bay. Whenever a bleck cat passes the salute it iu the belief that u contains th soul of an English officer. ? A young man named M. W. Smitl arrived at the mining town of Gripp! Creek, Col., with $37 in his pocket. H began peddling peanuts and popcorn an in sixty days cleared $3,000 i ?Mrs. Broughne: Isn't it sad? Mr Rubric, our young minister, is dead. Mn Smythe: How shocking 1 Did he Ieav any property? "Thirty-seven pair of embroidered suspenders, I believe." ! ? Invalid Wife: John, dear, I hop | if you should ever marry again you wil find a better wife than I have beer John : There, there my love, don't wor ry; there will be no trouble about that ? Visiting Friend: How are you an your husband coming on ? Mrs. Hopeful Ob, he is a model husband. There is n species of vice from which he has nc sworn oft several times. I feel much en cour8ged. ? In the United Slates there are foi ty-four people in every one hundred wh are engaged in agriculture, as comparct with fifty six in Canada, seven iu Enj land, sixteen in Germany, and fortyeigb in France. ? One million and a half men wor* iu the coal mines of the world. Of the? Eoland has 535,000; United States, 800, 000; Germany, 285,000; Belgium, 100, 000; Russia, 44,000. The world's min ers of metal number 4,000,000. . _ ? There is no better medicine for fans ily use than Ayer's Cathartic Pilh Their sugar-coating makes them eas and even agreeable to take, and as the contain no calomel or other injuriou drug, they are perfectly safe for patient of any age. ? The leading theologians of th world, who have been figuring fror scriptural and other data for some time have come to the conclusion that Chrii was i.rucified shortly after 9 o'cloc on the morning of Friday, April 10, i D. SO. ? Mrs. Newly wed: If I were to di I suppose you would never think or spea of me again. Mr. Newlywed: That where you are doing me a grievous wron] I'd be always holding you up to my sec ond wife as as a luminous example I what a wife should be. _ _ _ . _^ ? A resident of Columbus, Ind., hi a gamecock which was recently attacke by a bull, but in a very lerf minutes tt bull was minus an eye. About a yet ago the gamecock killed in one day seve geese, eleven turkeys, aud three roos ers. ? A statistical item of interest to w< men is that women to-day are two inch I taller, on an average, than they wei twenty-five years ago. This cause, avel the Chicago Times, is found in the chand of the embroidery needle for the tennl racket, oar and the gymnastic spparati of the school and college. ? A papyrus manuscript found in tt den of an old hermit in a cave near J rusalem in the year 18S0 and which e ports have all along believed to have be< the handiwork of St. Pete lie friend Christ," was suomitted to a comiltee tho Biblical Society of London in 189 They have arrived at the conclusion th the work is in rea'Uy exactly what purports to be, the last literary work the great apostle. It is said that a "si ciety of British literary voluptuaries have offered ?20,000 for the documec --There are some patent medicin that are more marvelous thau a doz doctors' prescriptions, but they're n those that profess to cure everythic Everybody, no?/ and then, feels "ri down." "played out." They've the wi but no power to generate vitalil They're not tick enough to call a doctt but just too sick to bo well. Tha where the right kind of a patent mec cine comes in, aud dees for a dollar wb the doctor wouldn't do for less thau fi or ten. We put in our claim for I Pierco's Golden Medical Discovery. \ claim it to be an unequaled remedy purify the blood and invigorate the liv We claim it to be lastiug in its effec creating an appetite, purifying the blo< and prevent^ Bilious, Typhoid a Malarial 'evera if taken in Um?, 1 lime to fake it is whea you first feel signs of icearineas and weakness. 1 tin^e to take it, on general principles /<low?