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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. To Cleanse the Blood Of Scrofula, ani other poisons, Ayer's Sar ?apaxilla Is the best, the superior medi? cine.- It does what no other blood-purifier to existence can do. It searches out all im? purities in the system and expels them harmlessly through the proper channels. 11 Js the i xcaf- healtli-restorer and health-main talner. Be sore yon get - Scrofula, catarrh, boils, pimples, carbuncles, running chores, eczema. Ayer's SarsaparifEa Prepared by Dr. J.C.Ayer8; Co.. Lowell, Moss, CUTCS OtherS,Wilt CUre yOU SPECIAL ! At C.*A. Reed's Emporium Step in some pleasant day, To see his handsome line of goods, Andjiear the music-play. ' You'll find polite, attentive Clerks To show you all around, ? With J. A. Ruddock in the lead Tu give the tone and sound. Of Harvard, Kimhall, Everett, Pianos of high grade, Of Ivers & Pond and Wheelock, Too much cannot be said. Organs in combination grand, With cases sure to suit; There are parlor styles and chapel styles, And baby Btyles so cute. Some good sheet music then you want For melody and rhyme, A nice assortment here you'll find, 'Twill cost you but a dime. Then if you-wait a new Machine, . Step into No. 1; You'll find a varied stock from which To choose from e'er you are done. There's nothing on the market Can match the famed New Home, Yet others in our stock may suit . The pocket-books of ?ome.. Then we want to show our Buggies, And you know it is but right That we should bave a leader? Well! our leader's "Hug-Me-Tight." The girls I know'll be willing, And their smiles be street, indeed, If you are fortunate in buying From the firm of C. A. REED. BUGGIES, WAGONS AND HARNESS. I N the late sale of the General Stock of Goods to Brown,.Osborne & Co., we regeryed Buggies, Wagons, Harness, &c, which we now offer to the trade at reduced prices, and ask for a call from all wanting such articles. The business of the old concern, and also that of Bleckley & Fretwell, for Mules and Horses, must be wound up, and we beg everybody owing us a cent to come on and pay up at once. We will take Cash or Cotton in excliange for debts. Remember, that settlement must be made^ We want no costs or proceedings in the Courts. We have helped you. Kelp its now by paying your honest debts. Very truly yours, . SYLVESTER BLECKLEY COMPANY. Anderson S. C, Aug. 19,1893. BROWN, OSBORNE & CO. HeREBY respectfully inform the public that they have bought the Stock of Goods of Sylvester Bleckley Company, and will continue the business at the old stand. The new Firm i3 composed of Fred. G. Brown, W. R. Osborne, James T. Pearson and J. H. von Hasseln, who desire to extend thanks to their many friends and customers for the liberal patronage so generously bestowed upon them in the past, whilst connected with the Sylyester Bleckley Company, and to assure them that they will do everything iu their power to merit a continu? ance of the same. Our Mr. F. G. Brown will be found on the Square at all times prepared to give you the highest price for your Cotton. Our Buyer, Mr. W. R. Osborne, has gone North to buy a large and com? plete stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes, &c. &c. ^ BAGGING AND TIES?We have on hand and arriving 1200 Rolls Bagging, 1500 Bundles Ties, and will make it to the interest of Farmers and Ginners to buy their supply from us. Yours very truly. 0 BROWN, OSBORNE & CO. A ENGINES. We have on hand for sale at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES?in fact AT COST, and less than Cost?the following Machinery. They must go : One 25-horse power Erie City Detached Engine. One 20-horse power Erie City Detached Engine. Qne 30-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Steam Boiler. One 20-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Sf,eam Boiler. ^ One 20-horse power Erie City Portable Steam Boiler. Two 15-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Boilers. One 12-horse power Erie City Return Tubular Boilers. . Three 12-horse Nagle Detached Engines. One 12-horse power Nagle Portable Boiler. One second-hand 5-horse power Engine. Several Cotton Gins, Feeders and Condensers, Cane Mills, Evaporators, &c. ES, Now is the time for BARGAINS. If you mean business get our SULL1VAJN H/ ?ELBERTQN, GA._ THE s SROLLER TRAY TRUNK G THE MOST CONVENIENT TRUNK EVER DEVISED. -* rJPHE TRAT Is arranged to roll back, leav log the bottom of the Trank easy of ao Nothing to break or get out of order. The Tray can bo lifted oat if desired, and to bay this Rtyle is a guarantee that you will got the strongest Trank made. lKUWAK?. lu, _ANDERSON, S. C. 1 BOTTOM PRICES. Buckeye Milk Churn! Oh the Concussion principle?a boy 8 years old can churn 8 to 10 gallons easily. Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Fly Fans, Fly Traps, At Cost. MASON'S FRUIT JARS Oae quart 85c. per dozen, two quarts $110 per dozen. JOHN K. HOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW. An Interesting Letter From Cherokee Falls: Blacksburg, S. C, Sept. 11. Editors Intelligencer : Since my last communication from this place we have had a very destructive storm and rain. Two weeks ago on this Monday the rain fell in torrents and the wind blew a regular gale and did a great deal of damage to the crops ; I believe more so than it did in our own country, as there was a good deal more rain here than there, destroying considerable of the corn, which, in most places, was very fine, and on Saturday and Saturday night last we had another big raiaj raising the Broad River as high as the other rain. Both corn and cotton are con? siderably damaged throughout the State as far as' I have been (that is from Piedmont to this place, some eighty miles.) With as favorable Fail as we had last year, I don't think there will be over a half of a full crop of cotton made?certainly not more than two-thirds of an average crop at best, and if we don't get ten oents for that we are gone up?that is I am. I have had the pleasure of meeting and forming the acquaintance of Col. John Logan Black, a veteran Colonel of G-en. Hampton's Confederate Cav? alry, and of course a great admirer of Gen. Hampton and his worth to Caro? lina. Col. Black is a. welHirfornied man of considerable intellect, and altogether a genial, whole-souled gen? tleman of the old school Carolina planter. He is well-informed as to the geological formations of this State? and especially of this locality, and of the various deposits of the several met? als and ores which abound in such great abundance near this place. Col. Black was born on this hill, he tells me, sixty-three years ago, and was tho son of Mr. James Black, who was one of the pioneer iron manufacturers of this country. He can tell a great many amusing incidents that.happen? ed around here in his boyhood days. Among them was a story about the election of an Elder in a Presbyterian Church near here. It seems that they had elected several who had refused to serve. Among the Church mem? bers was a Mr. Mc-, who run a distillery and was said to make a first class quality of whiskey?so to speak* So on a certain occasion the members had met to transact the business of the Church, and among other things was to elect an Elder. One old broth? er arose and said : "I move we elect brother Mc-, for he makes the best whiskey of any man in the coun? try," and he was elected without a dis? senting rote. He can both amuse and instruct you all the time, for he never I stops talking on./ when he goes to sleep, and he generally goes to sleep a talking. Col. B., with others, owns sev? eral thousand acres of fine lands around Cherokee Ford, which have a never failing supply of the finest ores in the world, and I would not be surprised (that if this present money panic gets over) to see furnaces and iron working machinery established at old Cherokee Ford in less than two years from now, There is certainly oae of the most magnificent water powers at Cherokee Ford to be found in the South. There is ample fall, with a never failing sup? ply of water to produce several thou? sand (not hundreds) horse power, which can be improved for a trifle. Just what will keep capital off of such money-producing property I can't see. Aside from any iron interest at all, it is one of the best, if not the best, lo? cation for a cotton or woolen mill, that is a mill of very considerable propor? tions, to be found on the Piedmont belt, and as healthy a place as can be found in the world. If we ever get confidence restored and peace and har? mony and good and wise and economi? cal government again in this State, which we certainly will, such oppor? tunities for investing capital will be taken up by monied men from abroad as well as at home. Some poor men seem to ignore capitalists?I do not. In fact, I have always had a sort of liking for rich men?they are the men who give me employment, thereby en? abling me to make a living for my family and to acquire a home to call my own, which is one of the most comforting things next to religion to be had in this world, and I wish everybody could got onc^.even if it was ever so small. Yes, I like rich men, foMhcy are nearly all gentlemen, and are generally charitable and sympa? thising, using a little money along with tlujir sympathy, which makes it go further when a poof''fellow is in need. I wish we had more of them? millionaires and thousand-dollar-aires too?then .we could build more facto? ries, which would give more employ? ment and better and more comfortable living to the la1 oring poor and better markets for the "poor" farmer. Let us all strive for this end with an abid? ing faith in an ever merciful Provi? dence, and we will certainly win in the end. uIf the wicked rule the people suffer," which seems to be as true now as it ever was. Surely an intelligent people will not submit to such a prod? igal waste and intolerable despotism many more years?I don't think they will. If we can't do any better we had better send for some more Yankee carpet-baggers to come back and take command again?it certainly would be no worse. From present indications wc will have to be taxed to pay the expense of the State bur-rooms. If so, I move and second they be forth? with closed and stand closed for all time to come. That's my notion, fel? low-citizens, what say you ? Squire Fewell. ? ? ? n ..... ANDEKSON, S. C BILL ARP. Doos not Agree with Bishop Keener in Every Particular. Atlanta Constitution. Let us tote fair with the figures. Bishop Keener says in the Nashville Christian Advocate that "the mercan? tile world in the South is now con? trolled by the wholesale gambling and massive frauds of cotton futures; that the centres of New York, Liverpool and New Orleans have yielded to this colossal scheme of hazzard until the production of the staple has no effect upon its market value." He says that "during the past three months there have been sold in New York and elsewhere 56,000,000 bales of cotton." This would be 224,000, 000 bales for the year's crop. All of this," he says, "is purely imaginary value except the 8,000,000 bales that were raised and this ideal cotton that was not made would yield $7,840,000, 000, and this is the figuring against which the planter has to make head? way. All the gambling dens in this country and in the Baden-Baden's of Europe are child's play compared with this huge monster that envelopes in its coils the fortunes and even the lives of myriads." Gambling in futures is a sin. Bet? ting on anything is a sin, for it is a mode of getting something for nothing. JEt is demoralizing in the extreme and results in ruin to thousands of those ?who engage in it, but I cannot see how dealing in futures affects the price of cotton, for in its analysis it "i? betfci?g whether it will go up or down.. There were ?no 56,000,000 bales bought or sold, neither real nor ideal. The spec? ulator says to the bucket shop, "I'll bet you that cotton will go up within thirty days and I will put up a margin on 250 baleB," . "All right," says the bucket shop, "put up $500 and I'll take the bet.'' Cotton drops instead of rising and the $500 goes up the spout and the specu? lator is a sadder if not a wiser man. Another speculator bet the other way, perhaps, and won, and of course he tries it again. The shop will bet cither way, and like the dealer in a faro bank} always come out ahead in the end. The shop has no interest to bull or bear the cotton. The shop knows its consumers and the average of all the bets, and can hedge to suit it. Now that is the way I understand it. It is no getting up a corner on cotton; It is simply backing a man's judgment with his money. That ?500 was the stake,t anil while it represented 250 bales it was really the value of only fifteen bales. This reduction would reduce the bishop's figureB from 56, 000,000 to 3,400,060 bales ?s 'the amount lost or won in three months. What it has to do with fixing the price 1 cannot see. Liverpool still fixes the price and has the India crop to help fix it and it seems to be uniformly fixed every year in proportion. It is the farmers really who fix the price when they fix the acreage to the crop. England-America agents still examine carefully and cautiously into the crop condition of every country in the South. England knows the condition and extent of the crop in Bartow coun? ty to-day better than any farmer in it, for she does not rely upon one source oi information, but on several. There is not a buyer or dealer in Georgia who does not rely upon the last reports sent him from some great house in New York that is connected with Eng? lish or New England Mills. I cannot see where the bucket shops come in or how they can influence the price. Mil? lionaires like the Inmans put large moneys in cotton every year and make money, for it is their business, and they understand it, but they run no bucket shops, nor do they make colos? sal fortunes by speculation. They back their judgment with their money and aro able to hold their purchases until there is a profit. I remember a Charleston coffee merchant by the name of Samuel Farrar who made ill thirty years a million dollars by deal? ing in coffee. He had a laige map in his private office, and it was checked off in years and months and days, and the price of coffee for every day was marked, and a green line marked the ups and. downs, the rise and fall, and it was a very crooked line. Then there was a straight red line that split the difference and showed the average price for the year. Brazil was the market where he bought. If the crop was short he made allowances for it and raised the red line according to his best judgment and his most relia? ble information. "I buy," said he, when the price is below that line. I sell when it is above." Just so it is with shrewd men everywhere. I believe there is too much odium heaped upon rich men, too much ma? lignant abuse of money kings and millionaires. I reckon we would all get rich if we could?even the preach? ers. It grieves me to hear some of these politicians trying to array the poor against the rich and to stir up strife and bitterness among the people. It did not use to be that way. Men who prospered were respected in my young days?respected by everybody. Riches were not considered a sin. The scriptures speak approvingly of Abraham and Job and Solomon, and of how the Lord blessed thorn. I believe that there are good men now who arc rich and they do good with their mon? ey. If they did not I don't know what would become of the poor and suffering when pestilence or famine or storms afflict them. But there seems to be a feeling of unrest and bitterness among certain classes all over the country. Some? body is making the working people believe that they ar<finiposcd upon by the rich and by the government. I see in a Rome paper that they have organ? ized in Chulis district, in Floyd coun? ty, "a bread brigade," and have 400 members and they have signs and grips and passwords, and have sworn that they "will have 10 cents a pound for their cotton, debt or no debt, and that they will hold it at the muzzle of a Winchester." Surely that can't be so. Is it possible that the spirit of anarchy and communism is taking hold of our people? Bread brigade! Why there is not a farmer in Floyd county who is suffering for bread. There is none in this county. Corn is abundant everywhere. It used to roll in here from the west by the carload, but it don't come now. There are hundreds of farmers in Bartow county who will have corn and fodder and meat to sell. Our farmers are better off to-day than any other class in the community. They come and go when they please. They have health and strength and good water and arc never visited by sturms or pestilences, such as have lately come upon our seaQoast. They have cattle and hogs and chickens and eggs and "garden sass," and the school ? WEDNESDAY MC gratitude that they live in this blessed land. Labor is too hard upon capital ?too threatening?toe exacting. These may seem strange words forme to use, but they are true. I am as hostile to monopolies and trusts and combines as anybody, but when I read of these great strikes in times like these, it shocks my sympathy. What are these organizations anyhow, but monopolies? The watchword of mostof them is, "if you don't pay so much, we will quit and when we quit nobody else shall take our places. That did not use to be the law and how it ever oome to be the law, I cannot understand very well. But we are gratified to see such kind relations between Mr'. Thomas and his employees on our road from Atlanta to Nashville. That is all right and we hope it will continue. The myste? ry is how a railroad can pay its men at all While our whole financial system is paralyzed. There is hardly enough freight business now to pay for the axle grease. One day last week there were only seven loaded cars going north over this great road, so I was told. Below Atlanta there is nothing to load and yet the lease of the West? ern and Atlantic costs $120 a day. Railroads and factories have their troubles, and but few make a fair rate of interest on their cost. 'I'hc wonder is that any sane man will invest in them where strikes and violence pre? vail. JT Now, I do not wish to be misunder? stood. I have respect for all these Organizations where, they respect the rights bf other people, but when tliose employed on one road say to their employers you shall not carry any freight that comes over another road where there is a strike, their demands shock the judgment and the common sense of mankjnd. When the strikers assault dnu intimidate others who would gladly work, or when they allow violence to be done and the track torn up and the locomotives disabled, it is simply an outrage upon the law of the land, and if persisted in, will surely bring this government into a monarchy like those of Europe, where it takes a Btanding army of half a million sol? diers to protect citizens and their property. The very class who are nbw ihiport?nate for the government Own? ership of railroads should remember that strikes are not tolerated among government employees, neither in the army or naval or public works or the railway mail service. Strikers do not dare now to stop the locomotives and the car that carries the United States mail. Well, of course these brotherhoods have an answer to oil this, arid I li?ve read it all; Papers and periodicals come to me weekly that breathe out enmity to capital and are tainted with communistic principles and in my opinion these publications are doing a world of harm. They aro educating the working people io the idea that there should be a division?a division. In the awful days of the French revo? lution three communists went into the Bank of Rothschilds and cried "liber? ty, equality, fraternity?we have come for our m?neyV' The Jew said "all right. I have 60,500,000 francs in the bank. There are 60,000,000 people in France; here are yours," andhethrew three francs upon the counter. "Now go tell the rest to come get their's," said he. But we have not come to that, and I h?pe we never will. It becomes all our considerate people, whether poor or rich, whether employers or employ? ed, to be reasonable and tolerant, and to respect the rights of others, and to teach others to do so. . Bill Ar?. Grading up a Dairy Herd. There are a great many farmers who , would like to own a herd of thorough? bred cows, and have it said that they owned a good dairy herd ; yet they do not feel able to invest the money that would be uecessary to buy a good herd of cows and a bull worthy to head this herd. Those farmers who cannot buy thoroughbreds to start With, can, by good judgment and care, with a herd of native cows and a thoroughbred Jersey or Guernsey bull, grade up a herd that will be a credit to himself and his farm. Of course this will take time and care, and you may feel disappointed when your half-breed heifers come in, if they do not show an improvement in the production of milk and butter over their dams. If, however, this half-breed cow be bred back to a pure-bred bull, you will sec a great improvement on the native cow. The reason for this is easily explained. The native cow may be inclined to use the fat in her food to- make flesh rather than butter. She may be a cow of the beef type, instead of the dairy type, and when she is bred to the dai? ry-bred bull, you may not see much effect in the first cross, but as the dairy blood is increased, you will see an increase in the production of milk and butter also. In selecting a bull, remember that he is half the herd, and that he will show his good or bad qualities as a sire upon all your calves. The great dairy list at the World's Fair has proved the Jerseys to be the best dairy breed known to the world, and if you want a good herd, select a Jersey bull to head your cows, and see that he has a good but? ter pedigree, for there are good and poor Jorseys and Gumseys, just as there are good and poor natives. There is one thing which should be kept in mind, and that is, that you can make a great improvement by se? lecting cows that are good milkers to start with?Yorhville Enquirer. How's This ! We offer One Hundred Dollars Re? ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O., Walding, Kinnan & Mar? vin, Wholesale Druggists Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter? nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. "Price, 75c. per bottle. Suld by all Druggists. Testimonials free. ? If celery were eaten freely, suf? ferers from rheumatism would be com? paratively fcAV. It is a mistaken idea that cold and damp produce the dis? ease?they simply develop it. Acid blood is the primary and sustaining cause. If celery is eaten largely, an -"iL-Ii-? i.i-1 ii._u . _l ?ENING, SEPTEMBI Mrs. Marilia Bratton, Among the names Of South Carolina women who became famous during the Revolution, that of Mrs. Martha Brat ton stands out in prominence. Mrs. Bratton's home was in York County, ten miles south of Yorkville. Her husband, "Win. Bratton, was a Colonel in Sum tor's army. In June, ?1780, Colonel Bratton defeated a Brit? ish troop at Mobley's Meeting house, in Fairfield County. To avenge this defeat, Captain Huyck was sent out at the head of 400 British calvary and a large band of Tories. On the 11th of July they reached Colonel Bratton's house. Soon after his arrial, Captain Huyck entered the house and asked Mrs. Bratton where her husband Was. "He is in Sumter's army, where he ought to be," she replied. ? Captain Huyck then told Mrs. Brat? ton that if her husband would give up the cause of his country and join the Royalists, he should have a commis? sion in the Royal service. Mrs. Bratton answered thai she would far rather see him remain true to his country even though he should perish in Sumter's array. Her answer very much infumted Captain Huyflk, and his men who stood near. Captain Huyck gave her little s?n, whom he wrs fondling ou his knee, such a sucl?e'ii and violent push that the ?hild was hurt by the fall it caused him. One of the men, a Scotchman, seized a reaping-hook which hung near, and brought it to Mrs. Brattqn's throat, snyiug he would kill her if she did not iinmedi-: ately tell where lier husband eotfld be found. But even then she refused to tell. Captain Huyck did not inter? fere, but the officer second in command compelled the brutal man to release her. Captain Huyck then ordered Mrs; Bratton to prepare supper for himself and for his men; Mrs. Brat? ton's feelings, as she prepared the meal for her uninvited and unwelcome guests, was shown by the desperate idea that occurred to her, to put poison in the food. But she shrank from such an act, and after reflection she gave up the plan. Then, tob, she remembered that her husband and his irien might even then be near at hand, ?nd thus she might deprive them of a victory. After supper, Captain Huyck and his officers went about half a mile away to spend the night in ? house owned by Mr. Williamson. There, with their men encamped around them, they slept in fancied se? curity. In the meanwhile, Colonel Bratton, with about seventy-five men, came iiito the neighborhood from North Carolina and marched within a short distance of the British encampment. While the enemy was sleeping sound? ly, they began an attack. Captain Huyck rallied his men as quickly as possible^ but early in the fight he and one of his officers were killed. Then the men threw down their arms and fled In the pursuit the conflict raged around Colonel.Bratton's house. Mrs. Bratton and her children were in great clanger of being shot. She made her little son sit within the chimney. While he sat there a bombshell fell through the roof on the floor. Imme? diately the boy ran to it, picked it up and began a critical examination of its character and object. He continued the examination until he was again brought Witliln the line df fortifica? tion. About daylight the firing ceas? ed. The early morning light displayed a terrible scene. Scattered over the ground lay the dead, the dying and the wounded. The spring near by, once so clear and pure, was red with the mingled blood of friend and foe. As soon as possible, Mrs. Bratton went out upon the battle-ground. When she found that all of her own dear ones were spared, she began to attend the wants of the wounded. She threw open her house to all, and ten dorly ministered to friend and foe alike. As she leaned over one dying man, he opened his eyes and looked at her. He was the Scotchman who had attempted to take her life the evening before. With his dying breath he mur? mured, "Madam, forgive me." She answered, "If God will forgive you, I most assuredly will." Aniung the prisoners was the officer who took command when Captain Huyck fell. He was sentenced to im? mediate death, but as a last favor he was allowed to see Mrs. Bratton. She at once recognized him as the man who had rescued her from the Scotch? man. She begged that he might be spared. Her request was granted. He was given into her charge, and she entertained him in her own home un? til he was exchanged. Another time during the war, Mrs. Bratton displayed her determined spirit. Governor Rutledge sent some ammunition to Colonel Bratton, but, he being absent, his wife took charge of it. Some Royalists, hearing of it, determined to secure it for them? selves. Mrs. Bratton determined that they should- not do so. She laid a train of powder from the place where it was- deposited to the place where she stood. When the detachment came in sight, she set fire to it and blew it up. The officer was enraged and swore vengeance upon the person who had outwitted him in such a man? ner. "It was I who did it," said Mrs. Bratton. "Let the consequence be what it will, I glory in having pre? vented the mischief contemplated by the cruel enemies of my country." During the remainder of the war, Colonel Bratton was away from home almost constantly. His wife devoted herself to her home and to her children, but ever ready to aid and en? courage her neighbors. When the war was ended, Colonel Bratton continued the cultivation of his farm. There he and his wife lived to a ripe old age. They died within a year of each other and now lie side by side in the old Bethcsda graveyard. Their descendants are numerous. Many of them live in the vicinity of the old homstcad, which was made fa? mous by "Huyck's Defeat." The battle ground, which is still marked by Captain Huyck's grave, and the old house itself, are owned by one of their granddaughters, Mrs. A. B. Harris, of Columbia, S. C. The little boy who sat within the chimney during the battle?afterwards Dr. John S. Bratton?was the first of three generations of physicians. His son, Dr. J. R. Bratton, of Yorkville, (to whom I am indebted for some of the facts of this sketch,) is widely known as a skillful physician and sur? geon. Two of his sons have adopted the profession. One of them, Dr. Sumtcr Bratton, has recently settled in Columbia. On July 12, 182g. at the suggestion of Dr. John S. B?tton, the fifty-ninth IE 20, 1893. blood, was the only beverage itsed cm the occasion. With it the following toast was drunk : The memory of Mrs. 3Iartha Brat ton'. In the hands of an infuriated monster, with tho instrument of death around her neck, she" flobly refused to betray her husband. In the' hour of victory she remembered mercy, and as a guardian angel interposed in bo*half of her inhuman enemies. Throughout the Revolution she encouraged the Whigs to fight on to the end.- Honor and gratitude to the woman who prov? ed herself so faithful a wife, so firm a friend to liberty."?Fanny Moore in Yorhcille Enquirer. Robbers Secure $19,400. Chicago, Sept. 12.?Twenty mask? ed men held up a Lake Shore train 120 miles from Chicago, near midnight, and after wounding the Engineer, blew open the safe in the express car and stole its contents. The train was the one which drew out of the Twelfth street depot of the Illinois Central Railroad at 7.45 last evening. It reached Kendalville, a small station in Indiana, little short of four hours late. It tverit past the town, and had hardly gone a mile through a .stretch of timber land when the engineer slowed up near a curve. As the engine rattled around the turn the engineer saw a red light ahead. When the trifi? flame to a stop a dozen men sprang into the cab1, shot the en? gineer, seriously wounding him/ and then blew open the express car with dynamite and drilled open one of the safes, getting safely away with their i booty, The Car dynamited belonged to the United States Express Company, and General Superintendent Cro'sby of that company declared this afternoon that the total loss by the robbers is way below .150,000. He says the robbers thought they were carrying away na tioual bank notes, but secured mostly papers worthless to them, and they overlooked $15,000of gold bullion. In the safe blown open was a sealed bag full of packages done up abo?t the size and shape of a package of bank notes. These packages were marked $1,000, $2,000, and so on. These fig? ures indicate the value that the packet was listed at, but practically they were worth nothing more to the rob? bers than the paper they contained. Their contents consisted of settle? ments with agents, receipts for money, legal papers, etc., which can allbedu? plicated after a time. It was a load of this nature and very little actual money which the robbers secured. Only five or six men, he says, were concerned in the robbery. The rumor that the safe contained a shipment of $250,000 from a Chicago to a New York bank could not be con? firmed, the only fact lending any cre? dence to the story being the recent rise In the Yalue of New York ex? change. None of the bank officials admitted having made a shipment, and the express company's officers denied that there was any such amount on the trairi. President NetfeL, elf the Lake Shore road, this afternoon offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture and conviction of the robbers. Later?A tramp who was stealing a ride on the train claims to have seen the whole occurrence. He says there were at least twenty men in the gang, and some of the train men put the number as high as twenty-five. The dynamite having wrecked only the ex? press car, the robbers contented them? selves with letting this alone, and made no effort to force an entrance to other cars. The passenger cars were not molest? ed. When the robbers climbed on the engine, Engineer Knapp had one hand on the throttle, and he attempted to start the train. One of the despera? does pushed a big revolver against his shoulder and fired. The bullet passed through, tearing a hole in which a lead pencil could be laid. The noise caused by the crashing of the express door when the dynamite bomb was hurled against it was the first intimation the passengers had that the train Was in the hands of robbers. There was a lively scramble among the passengers to crawl under seats and secrete valuables they had in sight, but their precautions were not necessary. Chicago, Sept. 12.?Tne amount stolen by the train robbers is $19,400. Within two hours of the commission of the crime, Capt. Byrne was on his way to the scene with a detachment; of detectives from his Buffalo district. The first trains out of Pittsburg, Cin? cinnati, Toledo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis carried squads of detectives in the employ of the United States Express Company and the confederated companies. Tb Lake Shore threw a force of men on work from its Cleveland* office; so that, in the opinion of Secretary Hen? ry, not less than 100 trained detectives are already on the track of the rob? bers. He did not believe any gang of crooks could escape the force.put after them. The express company's officers are perfectly well satisfied that the rob? bery was committed by expert safe blowers, who know the use or dyna? mite and just how to get at the vul? nerable spots in the safe. This, in their opinion, ought to make the chase more certain to end in the capture of the robbers and the recovery of the money than otherwise would have been the case. Detective Molanney, chief of the secret service men of the Lake Shore, believes the robbers are concealed in the swamps of Northern Indiana, and has several sheriils' posses scouring the country on all sides of the scene of the robbery. Caking Bricks by Electricity. A western inventor has designed an ingenious method for baking bricks by electricity, which is described in the Industrial World as follows : "The machine is a simple contri? vance, consisting of a table covered with iron brick molds, to which the electric current is applied. The table is 14 by 8 feet and holds 1,000 molds, which are joined together like a lot of 'pigeon holes." Each mold is the size of a brick which has been pressed but not baked, and each has a loose cover so fitted as to follow the brick as it shrinks. The bricks are taken from the presses and placed in the molds, the covers ' 'usicd and the current turned on. The iron sides of the mold form the "resistance," and thus the bricks are virtually in? closed by walk of fire. When the 1 "icks have shrunk to the right size, tl jinking covers of the molds break .nection and thus au? tomatically t off the current when the baking i' ic, and the bricks are dumped. I' claimed that only VOLUME A Striking Idea. To the Editor of the State i In the matter of the 30,000 homeless, famine stricken and pestilence-threatened ne? groes of the sea coast, cannot some of the numerous agricultural organiza? tions, the Farmers' Alliance, agrlc?i' fcural departments and" societies, &C, take steps towards moving these people from their mined homes ? I In the territory' adjacent to this storm-swept section a million and a half bales of cotton should be picked 1 in the next six weeks. That means nine million dollars to be paid in Wages for work in which all may engage, Women and children from eight years to extreme old age. The corn crop is to be pulled, and a large pea crop (much of which will shatter out and waste) is to be gathered. If the ag? ricultural authorities would ascertain approximately the number of hands that might be absorbed by each of the miiior civil divisions, not twenty thousand but one hundred thousand workers could find remunerative em? ployment at this season in the middle and upper sections of the three States visited by the recent storm. The relief funds will be expended in part for the rations-immediately needed, and the bulk of it in railroad fares to move the people. The tents furnished by the United States gov? ernment might be pitched where shel? ter was scarce in the middle and up? per part of Georgia and North and South Carolina. Such a migration is not Uncommon. The peasantry of France follow the vintage from com? mune to commune, the dates on which it is to commence in each locality being officially announced. The dweller on the Appenines and the Abruzzi descend into the plain of Tuscany the Campagna and Apulia, to camp o?t, during the work of har? vest. Ship loads of harvesters cross the Irish sea to gather the grain crops of England. Italians come to New Jersey to pick berries and return to their native land when the season is over. It is said these people must be fed by charity or government- aid until next April, and that even then their lands, impregnated by salts from the sea water, may refuse to produce a crop. It looks as if the peasant pro? priety of the Sea Islands had reached the end of their career. No peasant propriety ever had a fairer showing; in a genial climate to which they were adapted; with abundant sup? plies of fish and fruit for food; on fertile soil, their lands almost a free gift to them; aided by government largesses and magnificent charities from other surces; the building of a new railroad, the foundation of a new town, and the development of the ex? tensive phose works opening fresh sources of remunerative employment for them; protected from any un? friendly outside influence; for a third of a century they have been free to establish themselves in permanency. T?he result ? One thousand perish in a catastrophe that destroys only three of their white neighbors! What promise is there that any outside help can enable them to build up their waste places. They are a folk not lacking in many of the amiable and gentle virtues. If spread out among the white population they will in the future, as" they did in the past, assist in the industrial develop? ment of the country. Mobilize this perishing population. Harry Hammond. Beech Island, S. C, 8th Sept. 1803. Bine Show For Phosphates. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 9?The phosphate outlook in this State is blue, consequent upon the damage done by the recent tornado. Govern? or Tillman stated to-day that the phosphate men proposed to the State ?that they be allowed to go v ck to work at a rate of royalty of 50 cents per ton instead of one dollar for a term of years without limit to the amount of rock to be mined by them during that period. He statcpl to them that he was not willing to ac? cede to such an agreement, for it would be unfair to the State, even if he had a right to make such an agree? ment or contract. Governor Tillman said: "I am afraid that they imagine that wcare so poor that we are compell? ed to let them move on their own terms, but we have not got there yet.". A clause in the act concerning the new issue of State bonds requires that quires that $75.000 per year of the phosphate royalty shall go#in the sink? ing fund for the redemption of the bonds. The governor says that he is willing to make some equitable-agree? ment upon which the mining compa? nies may resume operations, but rather than make an agreement that would probably reduce the royalty below the $75,000 he will allow, the phosphate beds to lie idle. It is said that the companies will refuse to go to work unless the royalty is reduced to 50 cents. The State commission will confer .with the phospate men atBcau fort next week. Alfred the Great's Last Words to His Son. Alfred the Great was fifty-two years of age when he died. His body was interred in the great cathedral at Win? chester, and the kingdom passed peacefully to his son. His own dying farewell to his son Edward is the best memorial encomium which can be passed upon his life, and ha most truly earned the title of Alfred the Great? great in wisdom, greai; in power, and, best of all, great in goodness ; and his purified spirit passed :'rom earth with these truly great words upon his dying lips: "Thou, my dear son, sit thee now beside me, and I cviil deliver thee true instruction. I feel that my hour is coming. My strength is gone ; my countenance is wasted and pale; my days are almost ended. We must now part. I go to another world, and thou art left alone in possession of all that I have thus far held. I pray thee, child, to be a father to thy people. Be the children's father and the wid? ow's friend. Comfort the poor, pro? tect and shelter the weak, and, with all thy might, right that which is wrong. And, my son, govern thyself by law. Then shall the Lord love thee, and God himself shall be thy reward. Call upon him to advise thee in all thy need, and he shall help thee to compass all thy desires." Bucklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Kheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup? tions and positively cures Piles, or no "i" rnnnirod lt. i<3 nriiflrrtnt.Aod tocive XXVIII.- -NO. 12 All Sor's or Paragraphs. ? The King of Siam wears a golde hat which weighs twenty-seven pound ? People who blow their own ho seldom furnish good music for oth folks. The greater your troubles th greater your opportunities to sho yourself a man* ? There are forty-three mountai 6,000 feet and upwards in height North Carolina. ? The body of a dead Chinaman often kept in his late home for thre or four years before burial. ? Hattie?"Is Miss Greatlei much of a society girl ?" Carrie-r should say so. She weighs 20 pounds." ? A government check for 1 cent given during the war to correct an error, is still in the possession of a New York man. ? The ground in an open lot at East Great Plains, Conn., has been struck by lightning uine different times in the past seven years. ? Paper making ranks among the industries of the United States. Lasif year there were about 1100 mills in operation in this country. ? "Do you take this man for better or for worse?" asked the minister. "I can't tell until I have had him for a little while," returned the bride. ? New York has 3,498 policeman,' and they make an average of 90.000 arrests each year. About one-fifth or the whole number of Gotham's crimi? nals are women. ? "The whole world loves a lover," said he. "Yes, so I've heard," she I said. "But then, you know I'm not the whole world. "You are to me," said he. And then she gave in. ? She: If there is anything I dp detest it's a flirty woman. Be) Humph ! why not a flirty man ? She : Oh, well, a man has some excuse. Women are so attractive, you know. ? The first appearance of peanuts in mercantile history was a consign? ment of ten bags sent from Virginia to New York for sale in 1794. In 1892 the product was 2,600,000 bush? els. ? Some idea of the slaughter of elephants can be secured from the fact that in Zanzibar alone some 500, 000 pounds of ivory are marketed every SCaSOn irom me lUbivs ui iv,vuy sre-; phants. ? Mr. and Mrs. C. Fennett of Sterling, Conn., are belioved tobe the youngest married couple in the Unitcji jj States. He is 14 years and 7 months old and his wife is nine months youn gCr' ' ? That is a cheap i'^vice that is worth only one cent to a man. Yet this is the estimate many place upon church services. The church gets more pennies than any other institu? tion, save the organ-grinder. ? Sir James Crichton"3rown?,.tho^ English specialist, is a believer in the - theory that the coming man will be toothless, fie declares that over 10; 000,000 false teeth are annually fitted into the mouths of Britishers. ? A camel has twice the carrying* power of an ox. "With an ordinary load of 400 pounds he can travel twelve or fourteen days without water, going forty miles a day. They are fit to. work at 4 years old, but their strength begins to decline at 25. ? If j*ou have sick or nervous head? ache, take Ayer's Cathartic Pills. They will cleanse the stomach, restore healthy action to the digestive organs," remove effete matter (the presence, of which depresses the nerves and brain,) and thus give speedy relief. - ? Centenarians are almost invaria-: bly lean people, of spare habit and" great moderation in eating and drink? ing. Of 37- investigated 3 took no. animal food, 4 took very little, 20 a little, 10 a moderate amount and_l_ acknowledged taking much. : ? The inhabi tants of Thibet arekthe dirtiest people on therface of the earth. Not only do they never wash, * but when once full growth has been; attained, they never take their clothes off. When the garments they wear become old, others are put over them. ? No person should travel without a box of Ayer's Pills. As a safe and;; speed y remedy for constipation and all irregularities of the stomach and bowels, they have no equal, and, being skillfully sugar-coated, are picas ant to take,-and lo* retain, their vir? tues. " 9 '. ? Mrs. Emeline Best, of Kansas City. Kan., is a wonderfully active woman considering her age. She is ninety years old, weighs 200 pounds and is the mother of twenty-two.chil? dren, all of whom are dead but two. She remembers the names of all her daughters, but can recollect the names of only seven of her sons. ? A curious will is to be placed on record in Louisville. It was written by a young woman, who recently com? mitted suicide by taking poison. In the last agonies of death she had scrawled parting injunctions to her friends in her this world on the pillow with a dull pencil. This pillow case is to be regu? larly recorded and filed.* ? A cunning young man, unmar? ried, attended a wedding in the coun? try the other evening; and, after the ceremony was over, he suggested to.a young lady present that ho and she sing "More to follow." . The young lady, however, said she preferred to sing "Just as I am." The young man remained cuict the rest of the evening. ? Chemists :aow turn scrap iron into ink, old bones into Iucifer matches, the shavings of the black? smith shop iuto Prussian blue, fusel oil into oil of apples and pears, the drainings of cow-houses into fashiona? ble perfumery, beggar's rags into new."; pilot coats, cesspool filth into am? monia and tar waste into aniline dyes, and saccharine. ? There are over 80,000 stuttering children in the schools of Germany. The1 increase has been so great during the past four years that the defect is considered contagious. The famous Dr. Gutzman is authority for the statement that the increase is due to mimicry?that the young mimics who imitate stutterers soon become invol? untary stutterers. The schools of the City of Breslau have a total of 2,400 .uttering children. ? In ? private boarding house- m_, Cincinnati live two small families cu^ three people each, two grown persons and one child in eachfamily, yet these two families of six people are so con? nected that there is among them one father, three mothers (two are widows,) one mother-in-law, one grandmother, ?mn oiintf nnA ini/ilo Ana nanliAm Ani