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? BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1894. VOLUME XXIX. -NO. 8. SUMMER RESORT STORE-ROOM! J. P. SULLIVAN & CO. Have moved their Stock of Goods in Store-room on Whitner Street, jundar Intelligencer Office, and Opposite Post Office. get a cool breeze from the Blue Ridge Mountains and have an elegant well of water *a rear of our Store, so we will be able to entertain our friend? and customers during the hot Summer months comfortably. Oar old Store-room wilH be torn down and rebuilt in modern style, which we will occupy again about the 15th of September/ We are going to offer Bargains to Cash Buyers ! And to those who buy on time and pay promptly! If yon want the BEST COFFEE, come to see us. If you want DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, Et?., for LESS MONEY than anywhere else, come to see us. Respectfully, Jl. P. SULLIVAN & CO. SULLIVAN HARDWARE 00. MACHINERY SPECIAL. The Celebrated Improved Ismith. Gin and the New Lum musGrln. Cotton Presses and Suction Cotton Elevators?ot the latest; and-most improved designs. Wagon Scales, Rubber & Leather Belting, Shafting, Pulleys, &c. All Kinds of Machinery. Great Seduction in Prices, especially on Steam Engines. Now is the the Time to Strike Bottom. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. STRIKE WHILE THE ?ROM IS HOT ! AT THE BOYS' STORE TOU wiU find some rare Bargains in Til* WAKE until their stock la closed out. P:r the want of time and space we cannot mention everything, but will give a few prices: Three Quart Dairy Pans at..-..5c . , Eight Quart Dish Pans at.15c. TEkht Quart.Milk Bucket...;.-....................13c. PIS PANS, DIPPERS, fclSCUIT CUTTERS, and other things too numer? ous to mention. . And don't forget that we carry.a full line oLConfectioaeries and Cigars. A bi? lot of Fancy Cakes and Crackers just received. We wunt money, and if yon want Bargains bring us yonr money and we will give them.toyou. Very respectfully, ??the botp st?be," {RUSSELL & B RE Ail'ALE. FREE CITY DELIYEEY. - . - . 66 QUALITY WILL TELL. 19 J_ MAKE no pretensions to buy cheaper than others, but couidently claim that when QUALITY is .desirable my QooCis have few equals, if any?certainly no superior,. I seek 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? * ? - MAGNMOENT STOCK OF GOODS I From Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and! Baltimore. We cordially invite all to command judge for themselves as to QUALITY, BEAUTY, STYLE, PRICES, <fec. 1 solicit a liberal share of patronage. Thanks for a generous pas i. with the hope of a continuance in the fa tire, Respectfully, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS? - SPECIAL NOTICE. E be - to call your attention, not exclusively but especially, to our Fine Brand of ?XOUR?**Omega"?guaranteed to please the most fastidious. Also, to our su eriorlineof? CANNED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, JELLIE3 and JAMS, LEv7I8' SNOW FLAKE CRACKERS, TEA FLAKES, Etc. BREDIS STEAM BREAD, HAMS, BREAKFAST BACON, And everything, too numerous to mention, usually kept at a First Class Grocery Store. We snail be more than delighted for you to give us a call, and let us fill your or? ders. Thanking you in advance, we are. Yours very truly, WEBB & WEBB. P. 8.?Remember, all Goods delivered FREE. JEWELRY STORE JOMM IM. HUBBARD, IN HIS NEW STORl^^^...IN HOTEL BLOCK. 1LOTS OF NEW GOODS>~- . a NOVE&TIES IN PROFUSION. JUST WHAT YGITTVANT. ?r lc. TO $100.00. j&r No Charge for Engraving, The Prettiest Goods in the Town, and it's a pleasure to show them. P.S.?If you have Accounts with J. M. HUBBARD & BRO. make settlement <rith meat above place. ? JOHN M. HUBBARD. A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES! I DESIHE to inform the trading public that I am now reducing my Stock for the Fall season, and for the next few weeks will offer great inducements to Cash buyers. Come and see my Stock of Family and Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods, Confectioneries, Tobacco, Cigars, Etc., And I will please you in prices and goods. ^ Gr. F. BIOBY. HIGH GRADE GROCERIES! Everything we have is ?s FBBSIdE,! We Guarantee Quality! \ want your regular-all-the-year-round trade! Let us sclh you all you can eat! If you find anyone who will appreciate your trade rnWe than we do, please bring them around, as we want to see what kind of Iookir?g object they are.- Yours for something to eat, \ J. At A?STIX & CO. SARGE PLUKKETT. Taking In the Conventions and Listening to the Speakers, Atlanta Constitution. Last week was a day of contentions and rains and Brown and I nave b?eh discussing the effects of both upon the country. From a district convention of third party advocates, we went next day to the DeKalb Sunday schooloonvention, thence to the great democratic State com ention at Atlanta. This was va? riety enough, to satisfy even Brown j and was "wet" fctiough, too. tt is the first time I ever heard Brown complain of too much "wetness," and I think the prohibitionists could have got him to sign most anything if they had struck him. From the third party convention we Were belated on a road we had never traveled before. Being a-foofc, we tar? ried till tbo cool of the evening at a good old third party friend's} who has a fine vineyard and makes ifi?Ctt fvine Which is red in the cup, and slips up on a fellow with a subtleness to make wet roads heavy to footmen a heap younger and stronger than Brown and myself. Our tongues were already lolling out, bo tired We wefe, when bight come upon us with a cloud as dark as Egypt. It seemed that we slipped back as far as we stepped up the slick hills, till almost fain ting, we threw ourselves upon a grassy sward to rest. I might have known that Brown would fall to sleep at oncc> which he did, and the quiet that reigned got me drowsy and I dozed a little myself. This caused trouble, for when we arose from our grassy bed Brown swore that home was one way and I was confident it was just the reverse. The darkness ! was so- intense that we could hardly tell when we got in the middle of the road, but when We.did get there Brown said, "Follow me and keep in the mid? dle of the road." I tried to keep as near up with my friend as possible, and here we went, sliding with a left foot, then with a right, and every now and then Brown would let both hia feet take a skate and he would hit the ground and flounder in the wetness. We were pretty soon down one hill and pulling up grade worse than if the traok had been greased. Brown had on his best suit, and as he would go down upon his knees I could hear him say something about the slickness and thet darkness that would not have done for the Sunday school convention that we had attended later. So it was we went?down hill. A slight hold back sent our feet flying from under us, while uphill a "pull1 carried us for? ward upon our stomachs to flounder in the mud. After so long a time, I don't know how long, we discovered that we.were traveling in the wrong direction. When we arose from our little sleep above mentioned, we had started on the back track, and the feelings I had and the remarks of Brown upon the situation would tnot do to relate, in a Christian paper. Anyhow, we were compelled to feel our way out to the side of the road and rest some more, and for fear that we might fall asleep and lose our direotion again, Brown hung his hat upon a bush in the direc? tion we should go when we started once more. I suppose itfwas the wind that carried Brown's Sunday hat off of that bush before we arose.from anoth? er little sleep we had taken. It was a circus to hear Brown crawling around feeling for his hat, too full for utter? ance, and it was distressing to think that the hat's' change of position forced us to stay right where we were until daylight or take chances of go? ing the wrong end of the road if we started; Daylight revealed the most disfigur? ed individual in the person of Brown that it has ever been my lot to look upon, and I was in no condition to en? ter a ring myself. We were in 200 yards of the little town where the con? vention was held the day before, and which we left at 3 o'clock sharp on. the previous day. ? We held a conven? tion .of our own, and resolved never to appear in the presence of our loved ones in our then present state. We made a mortgage, got clothes and some money, found a bathhouse, and were pretty .nicely fixed up, but we felt just humble enough in 'spirits to take in a Sunday school convention, which we proceeded to do by taking the train for Decatur. The songs of the chil? dren made us forget our troubles, and nerved us to the point of venturing home. We managed to arrive at home just at dusk, and slipped into the chimney corner and listened a while before entering in. We knew our folks would be talking about us and we wanted to find the trend of their feelings. "You reckon they won't come home again to-night?" We heard this from our place in the chimney corner?it was Mrs. Brown to Mrs. Plunkett. "Crazy, crazy," sighed Mrs. Plun? kett. "Crazy on politics," echoed Mrs. Brown. "And," said Mrs. Plunkett, "they have got my old man so addled till he hardly knows the way home." Brown hunched me at this, and it caused me to thiak painfully of the night before. "My old man has hardly sense enough to hang his hat up," said Mrs. Brown. Then I hunched my friend, and to? gether we tiptoed to the gate, slammed it as if we had just entered, and knocked at the front door. Our folks were easy on us when we told our story. They sorter pity us both as crazy on politics, and Brown and I a:re willing for it to go that way, for it might have taken a more unpleasant turn. If we had known that the great State Democratic Convention, which met in Atlanta, was in session, I don't think we would havgaJWentured there, but we had forg&cten about it somehow and slipped up on it. We just arrived in the capitol building as Steve Clay walked up to take the gavel as perma? nent chairman, and it didn't take him long to show that the third party con? vention we had just attended was mis? taken in all its notions. In about five minutes Mr. Clay showed us that there was not a thing the matter with the country. All a mistake about hard time3 or any other times. Me arid Brown left just as 'quick as we found this out?that is all we want to know. Browu is hitching up his mule as I write, to plow a turnip patch, and I see him shaking his head?he is afraid that maybe he is mistaken in his notion about turnips?maybe we don't need them. Brown and I have been mistaken about the weather also. A short while ago Brown was ready to swear that no cane would be made in our settlement. It is the first year of our liyea that ever a dry May and a dry June came together. We had always heard that a dry May for good crops was the rule, cut when June came and the drought continued Wcgive up and expected to make nothing. But the rain did come at last, and now it keeps on coming .till lields of corn we thought would hake oHthing will make the finest yield ever known before. Surely the corn crop is the finest ever known. Cotton seems to be suffering from too much rain, but we may be mistaken about that. I am sure we can not bo mistaken on the prosperity of the pea crop and grass also. Some in ouf Set? tlement replanted their cotton in skip? ping pla?es, ?atl?edby the cold spring, in peas, and such are more than pleas? ed with the result. The peas are worth more than the cotton would have been, and it toll tend to stimu? late many to planting more peas and raising hogs next yeaf. ( Ali in all the people are in high spirits at the crop outlook and there is mighty little talk of "going; West." Big meetings are booming, thq young folks are courting who are to marry soon after fodder pulling time. Some circulars have been circulated inviting our people to some plac^ in New Mexico, but not a one will be affected. I thought that maybe Steve Clay might have been mistaken when he pronounced the country entirely all right?"nothing the mattev"?but I am sure he said a smart thing when he advised the con? vention to tp.lk confidently of success. Talk confidently of old Georgia. It has its effect with the young mind and their staying here is of more impor? tance than the casting of a vote. Let us keep the Georgia boys at home. There are several close around us who are getting enthused on the pros? pect of making cheese in Georgia. This is the result of Mr. Bedding's good work, and I mehtion it for his encouragement. If a man holding an office does anything bad there is always wings to scatter the news. When one is doing good in his place the news should be scattered?though it is sel? dom the case. I seldom deal in per? sonalities, but I wish some one given to that line would go to work to find the good and tell it to the world that is being accomplished by faithful office holders. If Pat Walsh should do no more than his effort to secure a pension for General Longstreet, it would be enough to endear him to every old soldier of the Army of Virginia. When a man drops from sheer ex? haustion or illness promptly seize an end-board or a cart-stake, and pound him on the head and on the ribs. If this does not recuperate him, kick him violently in the belly. This treatment will restore him if persis? tently administered. If a man finds his load too heavy, and feels that it will seriously Btrain him to proceed, kick off a Bhaft or foot-board and knock him down?and hammer him thoroughly with the board. This will give renewed energy, and he will make no more fuss. But do not on any account reduce the load. That would look too much like common sense, or humanity, and he will probably never balk again when over-loaded. ' If a man refuses to drink when you offer him water don't give him any for two days. That will "teach him" to be thirsty at any time you find it con? venient to attend to him. It is a good plan to ply the whip frequently on a man who is at work. No matter if he is doing his best, hit him now and then on '"general principles," and to prevent him taking any comfort. If his load is not heavy oblige him to go enough faster to make up for it. Work him hard enough to bring down the average life of man one half, as is done with us?the unfortunate horses. If no whip is handy, use a club. Tie your man's head back in an un? natural position, with his eyes up to? wards the sun. This will give him a "fine appearance," and prevent him from stumbling. Of course he will be able to do much work in this position, but it makes him lcok smart, so it's all right. In winter remove his clothing to "prevent him taking cold." He will also "dry quicker," when you overwork him. You must hang a blanket on his back?but leave his neck and limbs exposed?when he is not at work. Men thus treated are "much healthier" than when allowed winter clothing. If it is not perfectly convenient to feed a man who h; working for you at noon, let him go without, and by ac? tive use of the whip, secure as much work as the food would have secured. Of course it wears out his vitality and distresses him, but that is no matter. Put tight shoes ou your man and keep them there until he is very lame with corns. To change his shoes often cost money; not much, but some, and lame? ness are of no account if you can get a few shillings' worth of shoes in the year. When you hire a man do not be hampered by any silly humane notions. Get all you can out of him. True no? bility consists in getting money, not in decency or kindness, or what some noodles term "character." Get mon? ey, even if it is all blood-stained. These are correct principles, I am sure, for I learned whea acoltfroinmy mas? ter who treated all his horses on this plan. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science bus been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca? tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de? stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and as? sisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollr.rs for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list jf testimo? nials. Address F. J. CHENEY &CO., Props., Toledo, 0. ?STSold by Druggist, 75c. ? Ten presidents of the United States were farmers. They were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madi? son Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler and Polk. ? Never mind people who are al? ways telling you that you are doing too much. In all probability they don't mean it; they are only trying to oxcuse their own indolence, Sarge Pltjnkett. Man, and How to Treat Him. by a horse. WHEEE DEATH If AS SURE, In the Rifle Pits In Front ot Petersburg. Detroit Free Pre*9, Name the fiercest batde of the war, and yet the loss of human life in the rifiepits in front of Petersburg ex? ceeded it by c?fii??rl??fl. Loo hung to Petersburg as a last hope. Driven to bay there every Confederate soldier fought with desperation. Up to that time picket-firing was looked upon by both sides as little short of murder, and by tsto.it agreement Was suspended except at iong intervals, when it was ordered to cover some movement by one side or the other. Along the front of what is known as "The Cra? ter" the main defenses were only a musket-shot apart. In advance of these were trenches and covered ways, and still further in advance the rifle pits. The distance between Federal and Confederate pits was not above 300 feet in any case, and here and there, owing to the lay of the ground, they Were only thirty or forty. Cer? tain of the pits were reached by cover? ed ways from the rear?otheis by natural ditches. Some were connected ?Others isolated. In all cases two men were detailed to a pit, and when the siege had fairly begun they might be relieved at the end of two hours or held prisoners, as it were; for eight or ten. On a moonlight night, as well as during all the hours of daylight, the firing Was continuous and venge? ful. If the night was a dark one, it slackened off after 10 o'clock, though a person exposing himself anywhere within range was liable to be struck. From daybreak to darkness the men in the rifle-pits had no other thought except to kill. No mercy was shown on either side, while every trick and deVi?e was resorted to that a man might be lured to- his death. The rifle-pit was only hip deep, and neither wide nor long. Two men not only occupied every inch of room, but were obliged to assume such positions that to be penned up there for two long hours was enough to Use one up for the rest of the day, to say nothing of the dauirer. Each man must "squat" instead of sit or kneel, and ten min? utes in that position puts a dozen kinks into the spinal column. From the day those pits were occupied to the hour the soldiers left them it was kill, kill, kill. Many of the men de? tailed were armed with Lae rifles or shotguns. If the latter arm was used it was loaded with coarse buckshot, and its contents were almost certain to wound or kill. To fire with any accuracy . one had to raise his head until the eye could glance along the sights. If he had his head up and was ready to pull the trigger when one of the men in the opposite pit started to do the same thing, the latter got a bullet in the forehead, or had the top of his head blown off. The advantage was of course with the one who was in tho position first. When the occupants of a pit suspected that it was "held up" by tho other side, one of the pair got his rifle all ready for a quick shot and the other resorted to trickery to draw the fire of the enemy. There were a dozen arti? fices practiced. A hat or a cap might be slowly and cautiously elevated on a stick, a hand thrown into the air or a "dummy" head exposed. This "dummy" was made of wood and shaped and painted to closely resem? ble a human head. In some cases glass eyes and false hair were used to make the deception more complete. Some would last a week, but most of them not over two days. One of them used in front of Fort Hell had sixty two bullets sent into it in one day. If a man was killed in one of the exposed pits at sunrise there was no way of removing the body before night, and sometimes not then. I knew three or four case3 where the survivor had to remain with a body for from twenty to thirty hours. If one of the pair was wounded little or nothing could be done, and within two hours he would have emptied both canteens of their contents. I was in a pit one day when my comrade received a bullet in the left shoulder. We were both crouched down and supposed ourselves perfectly safe. The bullet struck a small stone in the loose dirt heaped around the edge of our pit and was deflected downwards. It was a severe wound, and within sixty minutes we hadn't a drop of water left. To stand up meant death as sure as death can be, and yet after suffering for another half hour my comrade determined to leave the pit and make a break for the rear, several hundred feei; away. He realized the danger, but all my entrea? ties were useless. He simply replied that he would rather be killed than suffer any longer. He had to stand up, thus exposing head and breast, before he could scramble out of the pit, and it did not seem to me that he had been on his feet five seconds when j he sank down agffin. To show you how vigilant the enemy were, and how rapidly the hands of death move, I will state that the poor fellow was struck by five bullets in the head and neck. He was not only fired on from the pit opposite, but from those to right and left. Had he got out of the pit he would have been struck by twenty balls before he could make a step. One could never tell whether a cap was on a soldier's head or a Btick. Four times out of five it was hoisted on a stick, but we were ready to take the one chance in five of hitting a head. Old caps were gathered up by the bushel for use in the pits. After being "plunked" about five times there was only a handful of rags and batting left. The stick on which it was hoisted would be hit about once out of five shots. I once held a silver three-cent piece aloft on a cleft stick when in a pit sixty feet from the nearest of the enemy. At the second shot, which was doubtless from a hun? ter's rifle, the top of the stick and the coin were carried away. On another occasion I tied a blouse-button to a string and held it up. It was a new button and the sun was shining brightly, and it drew thefircof a dozen men. Some twenty shots were fired before the button was hit. Then the bullet which struck it cut it in two, and one of the halves was deflected into the pit and gave my comrade a severe wound on the chin. Before Lee's lines were broken no man went into the rifle-pits without bidding Iiis friends good bye. It was considered that the chances of his being killed were five to three. Hun? dreds and hundreds of men were killed in going to and returning from the pits, and out of eight men who might occupy a pit in rotation for twenty four hours the loss would sometimes be as high as six and seldom less than two. I do not mean that all were killed, but a wounded man was a little better than a dead one for thirty days after being hit. I am sure the Con? federates suffered as severely as we did on the average, though they did the finest shooting. Sonic of them had fine hunting rifles, and the end of a finger held above cover was a target they-could not miss. I believe that from'8,000 to 10,000 men were killed in the rifle-pits ?n otif side alone while Grant was hammering away, and these figures were equaled on the other side. In no single instance could I make out the slightest benefit from this loss of life, and I do not believe it prolonged or shortened the war by an hour. It waa useless and cold? blooded slaughter, and to most sol? diers Was the darkest picture of the whole war. SEIiOEAKT II. A CougTeiisraan's Cott Trade. Representative O'Neill, of Missouri, is a veritable son of the soil. Among his constituents he is a granger him? self. His district lifts in the upper part of St. Louis, but as it embraces the billy goat and garden-truck su? burbs of the metropolis of the Missis? sippi, his constituency is somewhat rural. To this elcnlent O'Neill has long been a walking encyclopedia of information concerning crops and live stock. During the last campaign, while visiting, he met one of his far? mer constituents driving a cow. He at once began CO air his knowledge of bovine breeds. In the height of his enthusiasm he offered to buy the cow. The farmer was not anxious to sell, but said he would take $615 cash for the cow. "Drive her ap to my house," said O'Neill, "and I'll be there to pay.you the money." The farmer regretted that he had. consented to part with his favorite cow, and said: "Let me toll you, Mr. O'Neill, the cow is a gentle creature and a good milker, but she has no up? per teeth." "Of course that alters the trade," said Mr. O'Neill. "You wouldn't ex? pect mc to take a cow with such a de? fect as that, but bring me a good milker, with sound upper teeth and I will buy her." "When the story got out there was great excitement in the cabbage end of his district. The grangers swore they wouldn't have a congressman who was "blamed fool enough to believe that cows had upper teeth." As a result, O'Neill was only re-elected by the skin of his own upper teeth. Why Bees Work in the Dark. A lifetime might be spent in inves? tigating the mysteries hidden in a bee hive, and still half of the secrets would be undiscovered. The formation of the cell has long been a problem for the mathematician, while the changes which the honey undergoes offer at least an equal interest to the chemist. Everyone knows what honey fresh from the comb is like. It is a clear yellow syrup, without a trace of solid sugar in it. Upon straining, however, it gradually assumes a crystalline ap? pearance?it candies, as the saying is, and ultimately becomes a solid mass of sugar. It has not been suspected that this change is due to a photographic action; that the same agent which de? termines the formation of camphor and iodine crystals in a bottle causes the syrup heney to assume a crystal? line form. This, however, is the case. M. Schiebler, an eminent chemist, has inclosed honey in stoppered flasks, some of which he has kept in perfect darkness, while others have been ex? posed to the perfect light. The inva? riable result has been that the sunned portion rapidly crystallizes, while that kept in the dark has remained perfect? ly liquid. And this is why bees work in per? fect darkness, and why they are- so careful to obscure the glass windows which are sometimes placed in their hives. The existence of their young depends upon the liquidity of the sac? charine food presented to them, and if light were allowed access to this, the syrup would gradually acquire a more or less solid consistency; it would seal up the cells, and in all probability prove fatal to all the inmates of the hive. God Is NIcer'n Peoplo. A few weeks ago, in this city, a poor widow died, leaving one child, a little lame boy, to the cold charities of the world. After his mother's funeral the little fellow was taken ill from the combined results of grief and neglect, and itwas then evident that he would soon be united to his only friend. He was left alone much of the day, there being no one who could spare the time to stay With him. It was of? ten noticed that the voices of two persons could be heard in his little room. But when those in charge en? tered he would be alone and appa? rently asleep. One day they listened, being quite sure that no one was with the child, and they overheard this strange mon? ologue : "Is you right there, mamma ?" "Yes, my little boy, I is right here !" ? "Was you went away yet ?" "I went back to Heaven to tell God about my little boy." "Did you was afraid, mamma ?" "No, my little boy, because God is nicer'n peoples." "Did you tell God about nie, mam "I told him I had a little boy named Harry?an'?an'?'' There was a loud noise of sobbing then, and then the listener without cried, too. Presently the child's voice resumed : "Did you told God to let me come up there, mamma ?" "Yes, my boy, au' He said 'bimeby, bimeby.' " "Mamma, I'se?so?tired?an'? sleepy?an'?I want to come an' stay with?you?au' God." There was a long silence then, bro? ken by no cry or sob. The listeners went in after resolving in their hearts to be thereafter very patient with the motherless one. But death had been kinder than they.?Selected. ? My boy was taken with a disease resembling bloody flux. The first thing I thought of was Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Two doses of it settled the matter and cured him sound and well. I heartily recommend this remedy ao all persons suffering from a like complaint. I will answer any inquiries regarding it when stamp is inclosed. I refer to any County official as to my reliabil? ity. Wm. Roach, J. P., Primroy, Campbell Co., Tcnn. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Some people say their prayers without taking trouble to thini&what they are saying, and console /hem selves with the thought that the Lord knows their aeutimento, A DIKING EXPLOTI'. How Ittoaby Cap4 ircl Z, Union General at Fatrfr* 'onrthous?. Richmond Dispatch. To those who kiidw' nothing of the hardships of war, there ever hangfl over a battlefield a mist of romance, shrouding its most hideous details in the poetry of fiction. And even those who have felt the shock of charging men, and heard the cannon's roar that seemed to shake the very founda? tion of earth, in after years look back with a certain tenderness upon those "days that are no more"?even though those days were passed in the cramp? ed bed of a dirty prison hospital, or on the long; hot marches of midsum? mer. But bravery commands o?r ad4 miration, and the deeds of the men who fought in the Civil War often ri? val the dauntless courage of Charle mange and arc as exciting asi the ex? ploits of Richard on the sdnny plains of Palestine. Perhaps one of the most unique ad? ventures of the war was the capture of General Stoughton by Mosby, and the affair reads more like the raids of Bob in Hood than an event in the prosaic times of the present. In the spring of 1863 General Stoughton was encamped at Fairfax Co?rtho?sc with a large body of men, and the doughty warrior hail deter? mined to put a stop to the depreda? tions of Mosby. who kept the Federal troops in Northern Virginia in a con? tinual state of fierror by his numerous and sudden raids. All this part of Virginia was known as "Mosby's Confederacy.'' Here the ranger chief gave the enemy some unpleasant sur? prises in the shape of raids on sleep? ing encampments, the capture of their wagons and the destruction of their railroads, used in supplying them with men and food. Stoughton had grown weary of the fruitless efforts of others to capture the swift-moving rebel, and he was decided that he would bag Mosby or lose every man he had in the attempt. One night, early in March, Stough? ton had a little supper at his head? quarters?a neat little supper that sent the gallant Greneral to bed in an excellent humor, and made him quick? ly forget that war's alarms were ever likely to disturb the slumbers of a votary of the laughing, vine-crowned god. It was a cold night, and the rain that had set in early in the day continued to come down in a ceaseless pour that made the world one dreary, watery waste. The Union men never dreamed that any one would venture out after setting the usual sentinels t.o plod through the mud at their posts about town. By 11 o'clock the, little village was silent and the Federal camp wrapped in slumber, but down the road near the famous field of Chantilly a party of men on horseback were stealing through the woods. No one spoke a word, and the-only-sound in the dark? ness was the splashing of the horses' hoofs in the soft mud and the sweep of the pelting rain through the toss? ing trees. And as they stole along in in the night, wrapped in heavy cloaks, and with their hats pulled low over their brows, they looked like some band of conspirators creeping on their way to assassinate some sleeping foe. On nearing the town one of them cut the wire that ran to the station near by, and thus the Union troops were severed from all communication with their friends at a distance. It was midnight when the cavalcade en? tered the village, and as they tramped down the muddy road no one saw them or heard a sound from the foes thus daring to ride into the very face of the slumbering enemy. There was no light in the town streets, and only now and then a faint gleam from a half shut window would tremble for a moment on the smoking sides of the rangers' horses, or be reflected back from the pistols in their belts. On reaching the center of the vil? lage Mosby halted his men, and di? viding them into two detachments, sent one to quietly secure the horses, while with six men he took his way to the headquarters of the Commanding General. This house was an old-fash? ioned Southern mansion, about 100 yards from the road, and set back in a pretty grove of trees. The rangers quietly opened the gate, and, trotting up to the house, dismounted and ran up on the porch. With a fierce jerk Mosby rang the belL^ A window in a room above flew up and a sleepy voice demanded who was below. "A courier with dispatches for General Stoughton," replied Mosby. as he motioned to the men not to move. The window fell, the officer ran down, and in a moment the door stood open. "You are my prisoner," whispered Mosby to the astonished Federal, who, being unarmed, dared not make any resistance. Then, leaving one man to guard the captive, the ranger dashed upstairs and strode into the room where the General lay sleeping. With a rough shake Mosby aroused him. "What in the devil is the matter ?" inquired Stoughton, as he sprang up in bed. ;Stuart's cavalry is in possession of the town," Mosby quietly replied. "Stuart in town," Stoughton ex? claimed in astonishment, still mistak? ing the men about his bed for his own troops. "Why, I thoughtyou had cap? tured Mosby." "Oh, no; you have not captured Mosby," coolly remarked the Chief, "but Mosby has captured you; you had best get up quietly and come with me." Finding himself a prisoner in the hands of the very man to whose cap? ture he was sworn, and believing that Stuart's troops had the town the Union General made no attempt to resist, but dressed quietly. In a few minutes he and Mosby descended the steps, and, mounting horses that stood outside, they soon joined the rest of the rangers, who were awaiting Mosby's arrival at the meet? ing place in the center of the town. Here it was found that the night's work had secured 58 horses and 32 prisoners?and all this had been ac? complished without a blow being struck, a shot fired or any alarm being given to the rest of the camp. In fact, the rangers pushed noiselessly out of town with their prisoners and their horses, not a soul dreamed that the guerrilla chief was stealing away with their comrades from beneath their very noses. By daybreak the troop was miles away. In passing the enemy's last outpost they mounted a bluff that overlooked the road and gazed anxiously in the direction of Fairfax. But not a foe was in sight?there was nothing in sight, except the water-soaked hills and the gray light creeping down into the brown valleys below. And with r sigh of relief the troop again took up its march to the South. No pursuit was made, and by noon the next day the men and horses were turned over to General Fitzhugh Lee, who was then stationed at Bran? dy Station. And so closed one of the nrfost amusing incidents and daring ex? ploits of the Civil "War. A Mt mor.ifole Night It was a rnemorj ble night that suc? ceeded the day of November 13, 1893*. It is consequently a little over sixty years ago that the night came with falling stars, and while the phenome? non had no connection" whatever with the orbs of stellar space, it was still an unrivalled celestial exhibition. Back in the centuries are records of similar scenes on the sky, but events that come with intervening generations most always appear to the new obser? vers. Sixty years ago astronomy was still vague ifi the general mind; there were no great observatories as at the pres- j cnt time, and such as there were had a very inferior telescopic equipment. The great meteoric night came unan? nounced. It was not anticipated by astronomers, and even if it had been, there was no such way of disseminat? ing intelligence as now to reach the masses. The press itself was not yet a power and the fulcrum of general I education, on which it exerts its lever- I age. People and print had not yet I come into conjunction. The day pre? ceding was just moderately cool, I somewhat cloudy, with occasional sun-1 shine. With the approach of evening j the sky cleared, and a breeze that had prevailed during the day subsided. The lunar orb showed a slender silver sickle in the earlier evening, but the j crescent retired before 8 o'clock. Before this, while the dim light still remained, there were noticed peculiar I and phosphorescent-like trailing lines I in the heavens, as if great matches had been struck, leaving fo:: a while a slow vanishing pathway. This grew in fre? quency and intensity as the twilight deepened, when the new moon sank below the horizon. Night had now fully set in, and the stellar concave was a scene of meteoric splendor such as all the historic ages hayenot excell? ed. The sky was literally bespangled as if with starry paths, hundreds crowding other hundreds in view all the time, a most extensive assortment of sizes, in blue, green, red and yel? low, all these colors in many shades and the heavens a perfect mass of ir? idescent light. Some of these meteors were unusu? ally large, and had nuclei of such in? candescent brightness as to cast shad? ows, and the effect of these flying torches in the varied colors was to cast a weirdly singular glow over the land senpe. The display ksted from 8 o'clock to 2 o'clock, with the maximum intensity shortly before midnight, and as the observer in these six hours would be carried along the earth's or? bit 408,000 miles, some conception may be formed of the immensity of this meteoric field. Whether the orbital path of the earth crosses the path of the meteors, cross-roads fashion; whether the two paths intersect obliquely and the earth and the meteors for a while in a man? ner travel together, until at length the denser earth at length speeds away from them, or whether there is still some other explanation, are matters full of interest, but cannot now receive notice. But what are these meteors? Nu? merous hypotheses are advanced to ex? plain this and other questions that arise pertaining to these luminous bodies. They are probably a gaseous substance too tenuous to readily yield to attraction, and thus float in a some? what erratic orbit around the sun, and presumably their orbit is intersected by that of the earth. The chance of a meeting at this intersection, in the night, when there is no moon and the sky clear, must be indeed a remote one, but, nevertheless, sometimes oc? curs. The earth's path around the sun is 530,000,000 of miles, and the meteoric path is also immense, and it will at once be seen that a cross-roads meeting must hinge on some of the conditions mentioned. Long may be the time and unborn generations may come and go before another such event takes place on so grand a scale. No one sees them if they cover the polar regions. Of course the ignition takes place when the matter strikes into the earth's atmosphere, the residuum be? ing a thin and almost imperceptible vapor.?Pittsburg Dispatch, -? m m . The Lover's Trick. That all is gair in love and war was recently exemplified in the case of an up-town young man who had a falling out with his best girl, all on account of another fair charmer. Girl No. 1 heard of the existence of Girl No. 2, and immediately became as cool toward the unfortunate young man as one well can be in this kind of weather. The swain in question was most anxious to be restored to the good graces of his best girl, but all his advances met with a frigid reception. For several days he was in despair, thoroughly convinced that there was no balm in Gilead. Inditing a letter to Girl No. 2. in which he requested her to cease annoying him with her unwelcome attentions, he placed it in an envelope and carefully addressed it to Girl No. 1. The next day he sent her a telegram saying that he had made a mistake in placing two letters in their envelopes, and that she had probably received a letter not intended for her? Would she please return it to him? The scheme worked like a charm. The foxy epistle was returned with a very gracious note, and now everything is moving along smoothly once more. ?Philadelphia Record. ? Kenneth Bazemore had the good fortune to receive a small -bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy when three mem? bers of his family were sick with dys? entery. 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The way in which we do our work may not be of much consequence to the world, but it is of the gravest con? sequence to ourselves. ? Energy will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstance, no opportunities will make a man without it. ? England has won eighty-two per cent, of the wars she has engaged in ; but in over a century she has defeated no white nation single handed. ? Families have collective duties - which are for the benefit of all its members. A neglect of these duties may be to the harm of all. ? In Sidney, Australia, it is the fashion to keep the bodies of the dead till Sunday in order to insure a large attendance at the funeral. ? Many people are going on pic nie excursions now to get "a day of rest." But still the man who ever got rested at a pic nie has not yet been discover? ed. ? Powdered charcoal, if laid thick on a burn, causes the immediate abate? ment of the pain. A superficial burn can thus be healed in about an hour.. ? Some people have yet to learn that there is a wide difference between making a business of one's religion and making a religion of one's busi? ness. ? God knows what we need * we only know what we would like to have. That is why your prayer and its an? swer did not seem to fit like a ball in its socket. ? Some things remain settled in this life in spite of the critics. It is still true, for instance, that the man who faces the sun keeps his shadow behind him. ? Mrs. Browm?"Since they have become engaged they just sit in the parlor and not a word passes between them." Brown?"Perhaps there is no room for it to do so." . ? No one should attempt to do more than one thing at a time. When you have finished slandering your neighbors, go and say your prayers ; but don't attempt both at once. ? A log of wood about 10 feet in diameter, in the center of which was imbedded a stone weighing nearly four pounds, was found the other day in a sawmill at Reading, Mich. 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