The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, June 20, 1894, Image 1

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S.O.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE20, 1894._VOLUME XXVIII.--NO. 51. BROWNLEE & VAN DIVERS Are determined to put forth every effort in the future to increase their already Large Trade. WE WANT YOU FOR A CUSTOMER, A>d are determined to have you if GOODS AT LOW PRICES are worth any? thing. We can save YOU MONEY on? Shoes, Hats, and Heavy and Staple Dry Goods. We havfc a large and select stock of GROCERIES, which wo will sell Che?!;? Cash. Remember our Specialties : Flour, Coffee and Tobacco. Youcaa do as a favor and save yourself money by seeicg us before buyiDg. Yours truly, BROWNLEE & VANDIVERS M HOT STUFFT Just Get in a Cool Place and Read this Ad. 8-Day Walnut Clocks, warranted 5 years.$2.00 The best Fountain Pen ever made..$1.00 Triple Plated Knives and Forks, per Set.$2.50 Spsial Bargains in Bold id Mm Watts. ENGRAVING FREE 2 PROMPTNESS! in everything. B@? Drop arc und nest to Farmers and Merchants Bank and get a cool drink of Ice Water aud a fan to keep cool with free?no charge. WILL. R. HUBBAKD ? JEWELER. QUALITY WILL TELL." .X MAKE no pretensions to buy cheaper than others, bat confiJeatly claim that when ?QUALITY is desirable my Gootls have few equals, if any?certainly no superior. I eeek to furnish the'VERY BEST at prices consistent. While I was prevented from going to market by sickness, I have succeeded in get? ting a? MAGNMCENT ST00K OF GOODS! Prom Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. We cordially invite all to come aud judge for themselves as to QUALITY, BEAUTY, STYLE, PRICES, &c. J solicit a liberal share of patronage. Thanks for a generous past, with tho hope of a continuance in the future, Res pectfally, MI^S LIZZIE WILLIAMS. IF YOU BELIEVE MONEY SAVED IS MONEY MADE It will pay you to examine the BARGAINS in Coats and Vests! TAYLOR & CRAYTON _Are offering this week ! SPECIAL NOTICE, TV"e beg to call your attention, not exclusively but especially, to onr Fine Brand of | FLOUR?"OniegV?guaranteed to please the irosi fastidious. Also, to our su? perior line of? CANNED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, JELLIES and JAMS, LEWIS' SNOW FLAKE CRACKERS, TEA FL a K BS, Etc BRKD18 STEAM BREAD, HAMS, BREAKFAST BACON, And everything, too numerouK to mention, usually kept at a First Clas.3 Grocery Store. We shall be more than deputed for you to give ub a call, and let us fill your or? ders. Thanking vou in advance, we are. Yours very truly, WEBB & WEBB. P. 8.?Remember, all Good3 delivered FREE. THE BIGGEST LOT OF READY MIXED PAINTS, OILS, COLORS, VARNISHES, STAINS, GLASS AND PUTTY, Ever Brought to this City. GUARANTEED?your house repainted without extra charge if Paint does not give entire satisfaction. TO DD & EVANS, Druggists, ANPEKSQy. S. C. 1845. _ 1893. p1 M u OF NEWARK, N. J. AMZI POPP, President. Assets : Market Values, $51,395,903.59. Paid to Policy Holders since Organization : $124,558,722.56. Surplus : Massachusetts Standard, $3,661,250.01. Policies Absolutely Non-Forfeitable after Second Year. IN case of lapse the Policy is continued in force as long as its value will pay for ; or, if preferred, a Paid-up Policy for iis full ^alue is issued in exchange. After the second year Policies are incontestable, and all restrictions as to if sidence aud occupation are removed Cash Loans are made to the extent of 50 per cent, of the reserve value, where valid assignments of the Policies can be made as collateral security. Losses paid immediately upon completion and approval of proofs. WEBB & MATTISON, Managers for South Carolina, Andereon, S. C. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, FLOUli, HAMS LARD, And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods, For sale at Low Prices by D. S. MAXWELL & SON, J?0. 5 cuiquola place. l?Q-acre Fann to rent. A Trip to Charleston. Editors Intelligencer: I wish to record somewhat of the incidents and pleasures of Mr. L. P. Smith's excursion to Charleston last week. The Nitcs and Courier was compli? mentary of us, justly so of course, and there is no possible reason why we may not treat Charleston with the same courtesy, and at the same time place on file our sense of obligation to Mr. Smith, assisted by Mr. R. T. Smith, himself an experienced rail? road man, for his constant watchful? ness for our comfort and all possible enjoyment, from start to finish. It is a big job to handle successfully a party of five hundred excursionists when it is dry and dusty and hot, es? pecially so when the haul is a long one, but Mr. Smith did it, and this trip adds another and bigger and brighter feather to his cap of popu? larity. While the behavior of some of the men was not the best, still it is not claimed for men that all of them are saints, yet we arc sure that all the ladies who went along are angels. Everything considered, the behavior was very good, and, so far as I know, no arrests were made. These annual excursions arc a boon to the non-trav? elling population in town and country, enabling them to go on a summer out? ing at paltry cost, and they are bound to growiu public favor. Our train was made up of eight coaches and a baggage car, the eighth coach being added at Columbia to clear the aisles. It was found necessary to leave be? hind large parties of volunteers from Greenwood and Newberry. The run from Columbia over the Coast Line as far as Sumter was made in the cool of the evening, and was very pleasant, affording such as had never been over the route the opportunity to enjoy the alternating survey of cypress swamp and well-kept farms, the land? scape being absolutely level for miles and miles. The farm of Mr. J. A. Aycock, at Wedgefield, was indeed an inspiring spectacle. From the road could be seen in one body seven hun? dred acres in the highest state of cul? tivation, and from this seven hundred acres Mr. Aycock has in one year gathered seven hundred bales of cot? ton. He is a North Carolinian, and bought this land just after the war at four dollars per acre, and by the in? tensive system of fertilization he has made it worth fifty dollars an acre. One rarely sees a horse hitched to a plow down there, the rule being mules and steers. On one farm just below Columbia ten convicts, in a bunch, were seen ploughing, each driving a mule. Just before reaching Charleston at 11 o'clock at night ouc of the passen? gers, Jim Broyles, of the Fork, I think it was, stuck his head out and yelled "here's the ocean," and in? stantly, since old ocean was what many were "a gwine fer to see," the windows of that coach were filled with eager eyes peering into nothing but the ghostliness of interminable woods. They were sold. The time in the city was fully occu? pied with going to Sullivan's Island, the excursion around the harbor, strolling through the market, the big game of baseball, which was some? thing of a revelation to the amateurs in the crowd, and a ride to Magnolia Cemetery. Then, too, crowds would gather about and discuss places of Co? lonial and Revolutionary interest. The numerous points all around, made memorable for all time by Carolina's sons in the magnificent defense of the old "city by the sea" in the late war, were reverently gazed upon. Charles? ton is rich in ennobling memories all the way from the humble beginning at Oyster Point, and though she is pos? sibly behind her sister cities of the South in matters of commercial enter? prise, yet what with the devastations of storms, of wars, and winds, and waves, and earthquakes and flames, she holds, and is destined to hold her prestige as the metropolis of the South Atlantic States. D. Oconee County. Children'* Day at Deulah. "Children's Day" was duly observed at Bi'ulati on Saturday before the second Sunday in May. The programme had been well arrtuigtd by Bro. J. F. Barnes, our i llieient Superintendent, together with Bro B. C. Kay'a family, Bro. Watson and others in tbe immediate community This day was anticipated with a great deal of plt-asiire. For heveral weeks di 1 we meet to practice singing and to rehearse, having bteu so mue? tavored by having Mi-a Janie 1 UorJou, of Anderson, au teacher lor two years. She very kindly omenled to 6lill act as org*ui?t and assist in training the children iur this occasion The time ca e, an-l nt 10 a til we had a line congregation. Tne serviced were opened in the Ustial way, and ei.cb mem? ber of the m-'ux'I w h i t-.?ik part acquitted them*.lv?*a Midi hecotuibg niodeaiy aud profit Wall. Kt)V J.D Crout, of Lowudea ville, Uicde I lie hddros, whica was lull of thought and vi??? wry heartily received. The n eelitig was also addresr-ed by Mr. Spear ami Uro Walter Spear, who pre r-ontfd some line thoughts that will bring forth Irnit in the near luture A very line instructive and beautifully presented paper wan read by Miss Iva Cook, daughter of Dr. A <i. Cook, who had been solicited by the P. C. From the favorable remarks made llpjti it the im preBsi.jii must have been very forcible The whole choir, composed ot'tho differ? ent denominations, performed their part in a most excellent nunner, out all join in the statement tint the organist, Miss Gordon, ha?, atid that very desorvingly, the "well done" ol ail who were present, and that -he is a young lady of superla? tive wortt none vwll driiy. The occasion passed oil'nicely, entiiug up wi:h aline dinner, after which very appropriate re marks were made by the Superintendent, who can scarcely be excelled Ibr that ( like. This closed a very pleasant and profitable day at Beulah Mrs Kiil'us Sadler, formerly of Ander? son, now of Carttreville, tjo., and dnugh ter, Miss Maile, who ate spending some time with brother Kay. cotiliihuted largely to our sucees, Miss Marie being so we 1 up in in uMc and ha Vint; such a fine alto voice. W. M. UabDIN. Rudy's Pile Suppository is guar? anteed to cure Piles and Constipation, or money refunded. 50 cents per box. Send stamp fur circular and Free Sam? ple to Martin RUDY, Lancaster. Pa. For Sale by Wilhitc & Wilhitc, drug? gists Anderson. S. C, SARGE PLUXKKTT. Visiting Around on the Farms and Talk? ing with Farmers. Atlanta Constitution. Instead of going to the X-roads to listen to candidates, Brown and I de? voted the week seeking out the good things of rural life. The lawyer, the doctor, the preach? er, the merchant, the banker, as well as the mechanic?every one who has ever tasted of country life is proud to own that they were born in the coun? try, and that their father was a far? mer. Childhood can never be com? plete without a romp in the wildwoods, a stroll in the fields, a rest in the shades and a mingling with the good country people. I pity the man or the woman who has missed the sweets of living in the country. But there is a very great difference in country homes. Brown has raised a large family of children, and it is from him that I have drawn the most of my conclu? sions of child life on the farm. It won't do to take one old rough fellow like Brown and size up the perplexi? ties and pleasures as pictured by him. but for all the fact that this old friend of mine rises from his bed with a loud voice and a hurrying mood, there is not a child of all his thirteen but what is proud of its daddy, and all of the 148 grandchildren with the multi? plied number of great-grandchildren think he is just as smart as I am, if not a little smarter. I know Brown's home life, and sometimes I think to myself that it is a wonder his children are so badly "stuck" on him and arc, withall, such nice folks, for it has been the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night for them to hear some complaint or some dark forebodings of hard times ahead. He has always hustled them out of bed with the unpleasant reminders that grass was whooping itself and that they dident half work on the day before ; that his family eat more and worked less, and "here the sun will be rising before we get to the field." Such as this, and more,,is the music that his children have grown up un? der, and yet they are happy and bright, and sometimes I think that it is only the beauties of nature, the cheer of the birds, the ripple of the waters?such as this, and a contact with it, that makes them capable of being so pleasant and cheerful as they are. Brown sees his mistake. It im? pressed us both as we visited round last week. At one place Brown could see himself?a howl after the children in the morning, a hurrying through the day?a fret and fume at every? thing. At another place we could see the workings of an even temper? a house in accord. The children took time to be neat, took time to exhibit nice courtesies, took time to be affec? tionate, and these worked together to have the labors performed in a smooth but solid way which fills the home with comforts as substantial as life, with joys as sweet as the laugh of childhood. Brown says now that if he had his life to live over that he would never scar the heart of a child and never wrong an innocent wife by a fume and fury which brings no more of prosperity and much less of the joys of a country life. But he adds in the wind up that there is a great big difference in visiting round and in coming right down to the real thing of keeping the sifter going at your own home when a poor devil has been "blessed" with twelve daughters and one boy?and the boy born with the notion that he should ornament some one of the professions, and all the daughters and the old 'oman stick up to him on it. But I did not start out to drift into Brown's family affairs. Wherever we heard of an extra prosperous far? mer, it was there we headed. Wc avoided all X-road stores that we could, and thus kept out of politics. Only once did we pass a store?that was Panthersville. I can remember the time when a fellow would have had to pass this place in a run to keep from having a tight there, but there is nothing of that kind now? politics has took the place of fighting, and no horse is fleet enough to get by without hearing the voice of Mr. White, backed up by a stalwart black? smith whom they call "Big Rile." Brown and I had heard of these two Panthcrvillians, and had also heard that they had talked a venerable friend of ours?Dr. Hitchcock?pretty nigh to death on the silver question, and that Dr. Goss feigned the deaf and dumb racket whenever he was com? pelled to meet them and listen to their tariff talk. We discussed this as wc rode along studying how to avoid the contact. We knew that it was somewhat of a job to prostrate our venerable friend Hitchcock in a silver discussion, but when we thought of any calamity that would silence Dr. Goss on tariff we felt it a duty to our families to escape it. To make the story short, wc did not escape?no one can escape?but the good Dr. Brant Icy from Atlanta happened to be present, and gave itas his professional opinion that Brown would be a dead man in five minutes if a turn was not given to the conversation. "Big Kile" was generous enough to clap 'tis hand over White's mouth and hold him till wc got away. But for this, wc should never have arrived at the pretty country home of one Mr. Keller. This Mr. Keller is a little sawed-off Switzerlander who has settled in Geor? gia to honor the old State and to reprove Georgians who would seek for better lands or happier homes in other climes. It suits my purpose to praise this brainy aud clever Switzerlander as showing what Georgia can do, and, besides, he deserves all praise for his character as a gentleman and his friendship as a neighbor. His farm is a thing of beauty. lie is just now ready to harvest a field of oats that every one estimates will yield fifty bushels to the acre. All the farm of 400 acres is in keeping with his oat field. Ho studies every device to save labor in making the crops, and then turns them to the best advantage in marketing. He makes but little cot? ton, but instead turns his crops into butter, colts, cows and hogs. He, too, says that the "unknown pea" is to the South what clover is to tho North. Peas and pigs have caught his attention. In returning from the home of Mr. Keller, in order to avoid politics, wc were compelled to go some five miles out of our way, which wc thought a hardship at first, but which proved to be a pleasant and profitable journey for our purpose. Night overtook us as wc arrived at the "dairy home" of Mr. Dorn, and there wo spent, the night and a good part of next day. If there bo a thing needed to stimulate young Georgians to action and to soothe them to rest cn the hills of the jt ctin be found in the cheerful home and prosperous farm of this young New Yorker. Only five years ago this young man left "York" State and settled where ho is. He lacked a irre.it sight of being an ''eastern gold bug,'' but he knew a good thing when ho saw it, till now all his neighbors arc willing that he should be dubbed a "Southern gentleman," and his cir? cumstances arc such that he can well sustain the honor?though he still prides on being a considerable of a yankec. Mr. Dorn has terraced his place and cut it into twenty-acre fields. On every twenty-acre lot he began three years ago to plan for a wooded place. The most suitable place for building was where he set aside four acres of each twenty to raise a clump of trees. At first he thought he would have to set trees, but now he knows that it is easy to have any old hill grow up into pines and other growth if you will only leave it alone. I don't guess there is any other country that will reclaim itself in so short a time as will the old fields of the South if let alone. Mr. J)orn has now over a hundred fine cows, and he says that it is only a matter of a short time till every twenty-acre lot that he has set aside will be settled by some friends from the east, and that it is his ambi? tion to manufacture enough cheese right here to supply all of Georgia. He is much enthused on the idea of turning his place into a cheese manu? factory, as lie knew much of cheese making at his old home in the east. For the present, he devotes his atten? tion to milk, butter, peas and pigs. He is rich and growing richer, and so -will many grow if they will let so much cotton alone and turn to peas and pigs. I wiah that some sweet poet Would write me out a song That Brown could sing me slowly Just as we ride along ; The meter may be long or short, We would en t care a fis? Just fill it with swoet sentiments About the pea and pig. Peas can't be had for less than $2 per bushel in our settlement, and pigs can't be had at all. Sarqe Plunkett. Locusts Board a Trala New York, June 11.?Incoming passengers report that a swarm of seventeen-ycar locusts took possession of a Long Branch train this morning, and for a time there was every pros? pect of the passengers having to aban? don the train and leave it to the lo? custs. The train which experienced this unusual trouble was No. 987, of the Pennsylvania railroad. It left Jersey City at 10 o'clock. The warm weather tempted hundreds to the coast towns and the train was heavily laden. Everything went well until near here. The station is in a wood. The vicintity has been a favorite stamping ground for the pests since they began to make jtheir appearance above ground this year. The ground is honey? combed where they have forced their way through, and driving over the roads is dangerous as the earth is apt to sink beneath the weight of a'horse. The locusts have attacked the trees and for acres there is hardly a green leaf except on certain trees which the locusts do not seem to favor. They have at times been seen four deep on the bark. On the grounds are thousands of the winged pests, and old residents aver some of them know enough to get out of the way when a train approaches, so as to avoid being crushed. The locusts up to yesterday stuck pretty close to the trees and to the ground beneath them. Either because the available green stuff had been used up or that it was time for them to do so, the locusts on Saturday began to migrate. They followed no general direction, but the railroad track seemed to be? come the general meeting place for them. The little station was soon covered with them. The trains crush? ed hundreds and every engineer open? ed his sand box when he struck the locust zone. To have made the driv? ing wheels catch without sand would have been impossible. When the train in question drew up at Avencl station this morning there were a few locusts aboard. They had been coming into the train for five minutes, but not in such numbers as to cause any inconvenience, except to the more timid. Those who had no fear of them enjoyed catching them and examing their wings and wonder? ing at the glaring, red eyes. The heat had caused almost every window in the train to be opened. When the train came to a stop the passengers leaned out to look at the hundreds of thousands of the locusts on the ground. They would have been satisfied with this, but the locusts were not. Be? fore the passengers were aware what was happening the pests had swarmed up the sides of the cars, over the platforms and through the windows and doors into the cars. They flew about iu the cars, rested on the scats, which were res^.icd to them, and crawled along the floor. An invasion of mice into a female seminary would be nothing to the scene which follow? ed. Women screamed and stood on the scats with their skirts drawn up so as to avoid immediate contact with the crawling objects. They soon had to let go their skirts and payattention to keeping the locusts from their hats and faces. The more timid passen? gers started for the doors, but at this moment the car started. The rush of wind seemed to disconcert the pests. Those on the autside of the cars drop? ped off, and those inside clung closely to the seats or floors, and were soon thrown out of the windows by the train hands, who started through the cars. All the way to Point Pleasant the locusts were being dropped along the track as the cars sped on. An old railroader on the train said he had been in half a dozen wrecks, had been held up twice in the west and thought he had had about every other experi? ence a railroader was exposed to. but this event was a new one to him. Iincklcns Arnlea Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Klicuin, Fever Sores. Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund? ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. Hall's Catarrh Cure for sale by Wilhitc & Wilhitc. ? The woolen carpet which has covered the coiners' room in the San Francisco mint for several years was recently cremated. By refining the ashes the government recovered 2Jfl ounces of uolil, worth $4.('P0: A WonderfHl Anctfon. opctrfanhurg Spartan. Mil. KiijToH : As 1*01? noticed in the Spartan that 1 had gone to Nash ville, Tcnn., along with several other gentlemen, to attend the executor's sale of the live stock of the late Mr. Campbell Brown, T have thought it not out of place to let your readers know something about the sale, and what we brought back. Ewell Farm, where wc went, is 33 miles south of Nashville, on the road to Birming? ham, Ala., and is one of the finest and largest farms I have ever visited. It consists of some 2.000 to 15,000 acres of the finest sort of limestone land, and is devoted to raising grain, trotting and pacing horses, Shetland ponies. Creole and Morgan ponies crossed, and Jersey cattle. It would do the cotton farmers of our State good to sec such a farm. The wheat looked as if it might make 20 to 30 bushels per acre, with all other crops on a par with it. The whole farm was under cultivation, with no woods, no old fields, or gullied, or bare hillsides. Every acre was in grass or grain, which presented a charming prospect to a cotton farmer's eye. The first thing that I saw, on getting out of the cars at Ewell Station, was a large two story barn with "Ewell Farm Barn" printed on the roof, with the whole face of the country beyond it, covered with the finest herd of Jerseys on the continent, looking as fat and as slick, and as beautiful as could be. The same evening I -aw around this barn, sixty head ot milch cows, forty of which had tested records of from 14 to 21 pounds of butter per week. Every animal seemed to be perfect. At last the gate of the barn was open? ed, and these sixty head of cows marched in, and arranged themselves in the stalls in four parallel rows the length of the barn; row one facing row two, but, with a pass way between the heads of the cows, 5 or 0 feet wide, down which was laid a track, upon which ran a feed car. Bows three and four were arranged in the same way. Every cow was haltered to her manger in front by a rope around the neck. Four men com? menced to milk?one to each row, and in a short time the job was done, and the cows unloosed and turned out. This was done by moving a lever at the end of the row, when every halter simultaneously dropped off, and the cows marched out into the yard. The calves were not allowed to suck the cows, but were cared for at a different barn. A short walk carried me to another barn, where the horses were kept; but of these barns there were several?one for stallions?one for marcs?one for yearling colts, and so on. My first day was spent in examining the barns, fa*rm and animals generally. The next day was the horse sales day, and upon getting on the grounds, I found 05 horses in the stables, or tied along the fences with each num? ber in large figures posted on his rump corresponding to the catalogue which every one was supposed to have. The sale was conducted in a large wooden structure made just like a cir? cus tent, open over the center, how? ever, with a circular pit in the middle, through which ran a wide road. The auctioneer mounted his box and the sale commenced with two-year-old fil? lies, followed by 1 year old and these by brood marcs and colts. I had been sent out there to buy a two-year-old stallion, Calypso, which was the next animal sold, but I did not buy him, as the executor announced that he had the bog spavin. I will add in this connection, that I never saw a fairer sale, as any defect known was pub? licly declared. Calypso went for about $80, and so on with two or three others, until they came to another that I had selected, which also had a defect, aud I did not get a two-year old colt at all. I finally bought a yearling colt, No. 21, by the celebra? ted horse, McEwen, which last after? wards sold for $280. I thought I would buy some one-year-old fillies and selected four. They went for $500, 8490, $380, and so I did not buy any fillies. I then thought I would buy some brood marcs and went through the list and made my selec? tion?Mcteora, Lizzie Moore and Mar cola. Lizzie Moore was 14 years old, and would have brought about $15 if put up to public sale in Spartauburg. Marcola had a broken tail and I thought surely I can buy old Lizzie Moore and the broken tail mare. Well, here is -how they went: Mcte? ora, $825 ; Lizzie Moore, $1150 ; Mar cola, $090, and so I did not buy any brood mares. Maj. Frank Anderson, however, let into bidding on a two-year-old filly by Brown Hal, who stands at the head of pacing stallions, and for which $30, 000 was refused, and he got her, too, to my astonishment. Her name was Ycnora. Her dam Yilette was after? wards sold for $800. ( The Major then got his "dander up." And Amulet, four years old, was brought into the ring with a beautiful colt by her side, it was too much for the Major and he scooped her in. Her dam was put up afterwards and brought $1,000. The Major took in another mare and colt, while I contented myself with buying five yearling horse colts, some of which are magnificent. Mr. J. F. Floyd bought two yearling horse colts, Mr. Tom White bought a yearling stallion. The second day Shetland ponies and Creole ponies crossed on Morgan and Welsh ponies were sold. 1 bought one, a one-year-old Shetland, for a friend, and Mr. W. P. Irwin, a Creole cross. The Shetlands brought for 1 and 2 years old about $37J to $5!); for mares with a colt by their sides and in foal again $125 to $135. The Creole bred ponies brought about $50 to $00 for marcs with colts, and young animals $?2' to $30, with occasional $50 to $l!0 animal. When speaking of mares I ought to have said that Kate Bradcn, a pacer, brought $3.100. the highest price ever paid for a pacing brood mare. After the sale Mr. Tom White bought a two year-old filly and a two-year-old stal? lion from another party. These horses all arrived in Spartauburg to-day and were on the public square at once, the finest lot <>f trotters and pacers ever brought into the country. The trotters were by McEwen and Tennessee Wilkes. McEwen by Har? old, the sire of Maud S. Tennessee Wilkes by Gco. Corckcs got a large number of trotters and was sire of more than 1,000 horses in the 2.30 list. Most of the colts I bought were the property of a son of Campbell Brown who had failed. They were by Parkvillc, which had a record of 2.27, and was . the sire of Albert 2.10: Flowing Tide 2.11; ; High Tide 2.174 and three others in the 2.30 list. Parkvillc was by Electioneer, which stood at the head of Lcl.uid Stanford's great Palo Alto farm of 700 brood innres jij California. Electioneer sireij Arion, 2.07$ : Sttndl, J.OS] ; Palo Air to, 2.08J, and 133 others in the 2.30 list, and 34 in the 2.2(1 list. The sire of Electioneer, George WilkcM ond Hamid, the sire of >Ie Kwen, tf?s tile nclehratcd Hamilton ian, Xo. It), the great irrogenitor of trotters, he having sired 41 2.3? trot? ters, and 112 sires of 2.HO trotters. To cut a long matter short, I will just add that Spartanburg now has in her as fine trotting and pacing blood as can be found any where, and I would not be doing the County proper jus? tice not to let the people know what she has in her. Three of my colts, two of which were bought for a com? pany on Tygcr. will be kept for breed? ers. I cannot close this letter without telling you about the Jersey sale. The first bull brought-$300 : the next $100 ; the next $1(55. Then came the cows. The first brought $550, and he twin calves $40 and $45. The next cow $700, and so they continued to be knocked off to the tune of $300, $100, $500, $000 and $700 until 40 or 50 were sold. One old Jersey cow, 20 years old was brought in and the statement made that for the last year she had failed to get with calf and it was supposed she would not breed again, but she went for $50 all the same. Then another old cow 14 years old that had lost her entire bag and did not give a particle of milk with her last calf and would not probably ever give any moro, some blockhead started her at $30 ; the last I reinem ber she was going at $75 or $50. The heifers went from $100 to $r.00. Yearling bulls at $75 to $150 and lit? tle bits of calves that had to be hrought into the ring in the attend? ants' arms went off readily at $00 to $75. Well, I am tired and so are you and vour readers, I suspect. T. J. Moore. PouHry Fattening. A large party of ladies and gentle? men interested in the poultry industry lately visited the Ivillc Poultry Farm, at Baynards, near Horsham, Eng., the property of Mr. C. E. Brooke, Alaster of the Poulterers' Company. The business of rearing and fattening chickens has been carried on for a considerable time in various parts ?f Sussex and Surrey, and notably in the districts around Hcathfield and Uckfield. In some of the largest es? tablishments as many as 0,000 chick? ens may be undergoing the fattening process at one time ; at the other ex? treme we find small farmers or cottag? ers who only prepare a few birds at once. The district is scoured by hig? glers, who buy chickens from the breeders, often giving as much as 3s. Od. to 4s. in the spring for well grown birds nine or ten weeks old. Quite recently a demand has sprung up for birds of only a month old, at which age they can be served up as great delicacies at the table. As seen re? cently, the establishment was in full working order, and the various pro? cesses of rearing, fattening,cramming, killing, shaping and dressing fowls were illustrated and described. The Indian game and the Dorking cross is found to be the best for producing birds for the table, as they readily lay on flesh at the parts where it is most desired. The cramming house is capable of accomodating a total of 632 fowls, and the birds enter upon this, the last stage of their career, at ages ranging from four to seven months. The pens or cages are ar? ranged in horizontal ticrS, one above the other, all round the house, which is kept scrupulously clean. Each pen holds one bird, an arrangement which prevents any waste of energy in un? seemly quarrels. For two weeks be? fore killing the birds are fed solely by cramming. The food consists of a mixture of barley meal, oatmeal and skim milk, together with the best beef and mutton fat obtainable, the propor? tion of fat being increased day by day. The cramming machine is a light con? trivance which the attendant can wheel along in front of the pens. To feed a bird he takes it out of the pen and places his left hand on the crop, into which with Iiis right hand he guides an India rubber tube from the machine. By pressing a treadle with his foot, he forces food into the bird's crop, the contact of his left hand with which enables him to judge as to the amount which should be allowed. A careless or inexperienced attendant might easily burst the crop by sur charging-it, but a smart man will safely feed 100 birds from the machine in the space of twenty minutes. Feed? ing in the cramming house takes place twice a day, at 7 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. The birds show no aversion to the cramming operation ; indeed, the clamor that is raised as soon as the machine appears and the number of hungry fowls to be seen stretching their necks beyond the bars of their pens raise in the mind of the onlook? er a suspicion that just once in a gen? eration a bird may lose its meal unless it enters upon an audible remon? strance with the attendant. As soon as the feeding is over the blinds of the skylight arc drawn down, and the birds are left in quiet and semi-dark? ness to digest the meal they have re? ceived and to acquire an appetite for the next. The pens arc only large enough to permit the birds to turn round, so the wear and tear of muscle which would be involved in running about arc avoided. Besides the plump young birds which arc thus fed up, old and qurrrclsome fowls are fat? ted and soid for making soup. The output of birds from this farm is about 5,000 a year.?Scientific American. Deafness Cannot bo Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the car. There is only one way to cure Deaf? ness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin? ing of the Kustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely (dosed Deaf? ness is the result, and unless the in? flammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal conditio.!, hcarin g will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten arc caused by catarrh, which i.-: nothing but an in? flamed condition of the mucous sur? faces. 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. 0. ?Sold by Druggist, 75c. ? A Paris physician who lived to the age of 107 ascribed h\< longevity to placing his bed so that i.( stood north and south in the direction "f the irrcnt jiMu-i'.'.-'tit: currents. SOUTH CAROLINA INDIANS. A I'leaaant Trip to the Reservation. Sttmtcr Watchn'cn und (Southron. Mr. KniTOR: One day, not a fort? night ago, I rambled with an Indian man over a beautiful piece of woods, which had here and there a settlement ?the homes of Indians, for the land on which I walked belongs to the red race. Surprising as it may seem to my readers, this Indian hind is in South Carolina. It is the Ca tawba reservation in York Coutny and this was my first visit to the tribe. On Monday afternoon, May 14. I left the pretty little city of Rock Hill on horseback, and after a ride of nine or ten miles over a pleasant road, J reached the Catawba nation. The first house I visited was that of Jim Harris, who was elected chief of the tribe a year ago last November. Some account of the chief will be of inter? est to your readers. He is a pleasant, intelligent looking Indian, with a mustache, and was born on the reser? vation 35 years ago last March. He has traveled some, having been to Washington once and to Columbia several times. He is a widower now. I called twice at his house, and al? though he was suffering- from rheu? matism, he talked readily with me. Ho said, among other things, that he didn't think a South Carolina statute could show where a Catawba had been in the penitentiary. Jim's brother, David Harris?a clean shaved rather striking looking red man. not quite 22 ?is the largest fanner among the Ca tawbas. I called at the house of Billy George, or "Uncle Billy," as he seems to be called by the nation. He looks like a genuine Indian, and is about the old? est of the Catawbas, being probably in the neighborhood of 85 or 00 years. As "Captain George" he signed the last treaty made between South Carolina and the Catawbas, and he claims to be the only Indian now living who signed it. There are 120 Catawbas in all; 67 arc on the reservation, 28 are in far away Colorado, and the others are in different places. There arc two white women living in the nation, one of whom is the wife and the other the widow of an Indian. I asked the lat? ter (who I met at Jim Harris') how she came to marry an Indian, and she answered, "'cause I loved them." About seven on the reservation can read and write. I am inclined to think from what I could learn, that the Catawba language is not used much on the reservation now; even Jim Harris, the chief, can speak it very little. "Uncle Bill" George told me that yam-ma-rar-her was Catawba for chief. This word is not used now. This has become a mixed nation ; Epps Harris, a Catawba, who claimed to be about 00 years old, mentioned to me seven Indians who he said arc about all that are full blooded. Lew? is Gordon, who went about with me over the reservation more than any other Indian, looked far more like a white man than an Indian. The Ca? tawbas don't walk in Indian file now, and none of the children ever practice with bows and arrows. There was nothing of the Indian in the dress of those that I met. There are 732 acres, more or less, in the reservation, of which not over 200 acres are cleared, some is rented out to the whites. There seemed to be a number of paths on the reservation, and in my walks I noticed some hills and small streams. As I said before, the woods are beautiful. I think any one who enjoys walking about in the forests, would be fully repaid for visiting the reservation, especially at this time, when spring is in all its beauty and glory and everything looks so green and pretty. There arc about eighteen settle? ments on the reservation, most of which are built of plank and outhous? es. There arc patches around most of the settlements. The laws of land? ed property among these Indians are interesting. Whenever one of them cleans up land, it becomes his, and if he dies it belongs to his family. I visited nine of the settlements, and from what I saw I should judge that the homes of these people are about like those of small white farmers who rent land. I suppose the best house in the nation, by all odds, is the home of Rhoda Harris, the widow of Chief Allen Harris. I called at this house which has been built three years. It has a piazza and four rooms, is sur? rounded by fruit trees and several out? houses, and has a very nice looking garden at its back, indeed it is just such ahomcas any small and industri? ous white farmer would be proud to own. This was the most intelligent house? hold that I visited among the Indians. Rhoda is a dignified, pleasant old lady who is something over 00, and who shows the white blood strongly. She has two granddaughters in the Carlisle Indian .School in Pennsylvania ; one of these, Cammic Owl, lives with the Cnerokces in North Carolina. Three of the young Indian men, Bob and Ben Harris and Lewis Gor? don, took me in a boat over to the Lancaster side of the Catawba river, where I was shown some Indian springs an old Indian burying-ground, and the place where an old Indian town once stood. A boat ride with Catawba In? dians on the yellow waters of the river bearing the name of this tribe, was to me a new and pleasant experi? ence. At one house the Indians pave me dinner, at another supper. As well as 1 remember coffee, syrup and biscuit were given me for dinner, and coffe, fried meat and biscuit fur supper. Both of these meals were given me by the Indians without any suggestion or request on my part, and it was very thoughtful in the red people to show this kindness to a stran? ger. I I bought some Indian wares and I also had some given me ; among which is the most singular-looking pipe I have ever seen?it is the shape of a cooter. These wares are real curi? osities, and show careful and nice work. My walks over the reservation must have amounted to several miles. One (sometimes more) of the red men kindly showed me around. I talked a great deal with tin- Catawbas. and took a good many notes on what I heard. ; There was some talk of electing a new chief that night, so I remained a ? while to see the election, which, how ! ever, did not come oil'. Before I left ' f,.;- Hock Hill 1 had quite a plcas I ant talk with a number of these j men, who had assembled at the house whore the election Was expected tooc j cur. I could write more about my visit , (.. the L'utawba Indians, but will 4 i !???'?, as T ijviti t ivisli ['f make this nr ticle too long. This visit and the kindness shown me by the Catawbas will always bo remembered with feel? ings of pleasure and interest. McDonald Fcrman. Ramsey. Sumtcr Count;/. Hay, 1804. AH Sorts of Faragrapbi. ? William Dunlop, a voting man not 23 years old, who died a few days ago at Tippccanoe, 0., weighed over 5(H) pounds. ? German courts have been ankcd to decide whether a tooth after being drawn is the property of the dentist or his victim. ? A Merman statistician says that his latest discovery is that3,000 years hence there will be one man to every 220 women. ? The first furrow plowed by elec? tric plows in America was on March 30, 1802, at the Kansas Sorghum Ex? periment Station. ? Itcosts Uncle Sam $1,000,000 a year to pension the naval officers who have grown old or who have become disabled in his service. ? Venus and the moon arc exactly alike in one respect at least, each revolving on its axis in the same space of time taken to complete its orbit. ? A noted botanist is authority for the statement that among all the leaves of meadow, field and forest there are no two that arc exactly alike. ? Over 4,000,000 in this country live upon the wages paid by railroad companies. Four million good reasons why railroads should be treated fairly. ? lie : A penny for your thoughts, Miss Sterling?but I suppose you value them at more than that ? She : Oh, no?the fact is, I was thinking of you. ? About a year ago, in Hanover, Pa., a Mr. Smith and a Miss Hoke were married. The lad that arrived recently has been christened Hoke Smith. ? A lawyer said to a witness? "You're a nice fellow, ain't you ?" Witness replied?"I am, sir, and if I was not on my oath I'd say the 3ame of you." ? The expressions "Hallelujah" and "Amen" are said to have been introduced into Christian worship by St. Jerome, some time about the year A. D. 300. ? He?"But couldn't you learn to love me, Ida?" She?"I don't think I could, George." He (reaching for his hat)?"It is as I feared ! You arc too old to learn '." ? Xo receptacle has ever been made strong enough to resist the bursting power of freezing water. Twenty pound shells have been burst asunder as though made of pottery. ? Quito, Ecuador, is the only city in the world in which the sun rises and sets at U o'clock the year round. The reason of this is that it is situa? ted exactly ou the equator. ? Bees arc said to have such an antipathy to dark-colored objects that black chickens have been stung to death, while white ones of the same brood were left untouched. ? The freight service performed by the railroads of the United States in 1802 was equivalent to moving 88,241, 050,225 ton one mile. The compensa? tion therefor was $700,310,042. ? Leuenhoek says that 4,000,000 webs spun by young spiders when they first becrin to use the spinners are not, if twisted together, as great in diameter as a hair from a human head. ? A Liberty (Me.) man has a 12 years' growth of beard which is be? tween six and seven feet ISlength. He wears it plaited in a pigtail re? sembling a Chinaman's cue (queue.) -- On Anniversary Day the Chinese place food on the graves of their an? cestors. In a day or two it always disappears, and, of course, the spirits of the deceased must have devoured it. ? The Russians arc the most religi? ous persons on the face of the globe, never touching food or drink without making the sign of the cross and never starting upon or returning from a journey without giving thanks. ? When mails arc distributed at the postoffice in the City of Mexico the names of receivers of letters are posted on a bulletin board. When a person calls for his mail his first act is to consult this board. ? A little three-year-old girl, while her mother was trying to get her to sleep, became interested in some noise. She was told that it was caused by a cricket, when she sagely observed : "Mamma, I think he ought to be oil? ed." ? In the treasure room of the Ma? harajah of Barnda is stored a carpet which cost $1,000,000. It is only 10 by 0 feet, with a center and comer circle of diamonds. It took three years to make it, and was intended as a gift to a Mahometan beauty. ? Since the death of Lucia Zarate the "Mexican midget," the title . being the smallest we man on earth has fallen to Mile. Paulina, a native' of Holland. She is now nearly 18 years of age. is but 20 inches high and weighs a few ounces less than U pounds. Unlike most midgets (who are usually hideous monstrosities) she is remarkably pretty and accomplish? ed, speaking four different languages 11 uently. ? '"What will we do with our girls ?"' is a question asked by a late magazine. At present, the answer is easy, for they may be disposed of in the good, old way ; but after a time, the daughter of the modern mother will be so mannish that a man will not want her. The problem of what to do with the girls will always be easy of settlement if the girls are but reared into the womanly womanhood that manly manhood likes. ? I have no faith in that woman who talk- of grace ami glory abroad, and uses no soap at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the chil? dren's seeks be mended, let the roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as happy as a Imme can he. Kven then there will be room for those little deeds of love and faith which, in my Master's name. I seek of you. Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, till in the cracks and crevices of time with the holy service. ? ''. //. Sjnir gcon \Wn Baby was tick, we gare bor Castnrla, When was a CbilJ, sbe cried for Castoria, "When she became S?ss, che clung to Castoria. V?hec s-'ft c!,i,,lrr'1!sho E*vc l-i0rn Castoria.